Ui liiHllliill lyuuHwrniuiJiumimmiiuiuu^^ Class. Book r> 'c^ H. roc^ \ Ciopyii^htN"^ ' \Qoq f I COPYRIGHT DEPOStr. iUillllllllililllllilUlllllllllllllllllllllllllillilillilllilW^ THE RISLEY FAMILY HISTORY Jt. Ifeff^O. \1 Richard (W) Risley ■ Erected i;\ the Citizens of Hartfuku, Conn., in Memorn' of the Founders OF THE Commonwealth of Connecticut, 1836. THE RISLEY FAMILY HISTORY INCLUDING RECORDS OF SOME OF THE EARLY ENGLISH RISLEYS; A GENEALOGY OF THE DE- SCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY, OF NEWTOWN (CAMBRIDGE), MASSACHUSETTS (1633), AND OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT (1636); AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY REUNION AT HARTFORD, AU- GUST 3, 1904, AND A LIST OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF CONNECTICUT BY EDWIN H. RISLEY OF UTICA, NEW YORK ^yyvl ' ^hHq ^ ^^ -.--^" THE GRAFTON PRESS GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHERS NEW YORK MCMIX COPYRIGHT, 1909, By EDWIN H. RISLEY All Rights Reserved ©CI. A 253058 This Book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of the Bisleys who endured much both in England and America, and who have bequeathed to us a heritage of which we are justly proud and which should be an inspiration in the coming years to our descendants. CONTENTS PAGE Preface xi The English Risleys 1 The Risleys of Buckinghamshire 2 Risley of Chetwood 2 Temple of Stowe 7 Risley of Risleys, Lancastershire 8 Other Risleys of Lancastershire 17 Risleys of Middlesexshire 26 Risleys of Northamptonshire 29 The Descendants of Richard Risley 31 First Generation 33 Second Generation 38 Third Generation 43 Fourth Generation 61 Fifth Generation 67 Sixth Generation 79 Seventh Generation 97 Eighth Generation 126 Ninth Generation 162 Tenth Generation 182 Names of the Founders of the Commonwealth or Connecticut 189 CONTENTS PAGE The Risley Reunion 195 The Family Reunion 197 The Story of the Reunion 199 Address of Hon, John E. Risley 200 Address of Edwin H. Risley 201 Address of Adna Wood Risley 222 Address of Henry L. Love 236 Address of Leslie L. Brewer 250 Address of Mrs. Zada Risley Smith .... 254 Appendix 259 Letter from Hon. Hansom A. Risley .... 261 Index 271 ILLUSTRATIONS Monument erected by the citizens of Hartford, Connecti- cut ; in memory of the Founders of the Common- wealth of Connecticut, 1836 .... Frontispiece ^ PAGE Arms of Temple of Stowe 8 Arms of Risley of Risley 9 Seal of Richard Risley of Risley 12 Inscription on monument of John Risley of Risley . 14 Arms 15 Arms of Culchit 18 Chetwood Risley Chapel 27 Church at Tilton and Warfield, England; where Hooker was baptized Facing 190-^ First Church of East Hartford, Connecticut ; as it ap- peared in 1904 Facing 198 ^ Plan of Seats in East Hartford Church; organized in 1710 221 First Church of Hartford, Connecticut, established by Rev. Thomas Hooker in 1633 . . . Facing 236 ^ Map of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1640 250 5 PREFACE It is not claimed that the record contained in this work is complete. We have aimed to continue at least one line of descent from each of the 3rd generation from Richard Rislej (1.) We do not wish to be held responsible for the accuracy of names, dates of births, marriages and deaths. It has been our endeavor to collect and tabulate accurately, so far as we could learn, the dates contained in this work. Those in the family who have erroneously spelled the name " Wrisley," we have corrected by using the original spelling " Risley." The erroneous spelling of this name began with one of Samuel Risley's^ sons, while the father and remaining sons spelled the name " Risley " as originally used. Those wishing to connect themselves with the family lines should correspond with Mrs. Alfred C. Clapp, East Windsor Hill, Conn., as she is corresponding secretary of the Associa- tion of " The Descendants of Richard Risley, (Inc.)" We wish to recognize the able assistance given by Mr. Albert E. Risley, Hartford, Conn. ; Mrs. Zada Risley Smith, Hamil- ton, N. Y. ; Mrs. Edwin H. Risley and Mrs. Everett E. Risley. Utica, N. Y., 1908. Edwin H. Risley. THE ENGLISH RISLEYS The Descendants of Richard Risley THE ENGLISH RISLEYS THE RISLEYS OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE From " The Visitation of the County of Buckingham " by William Harvey, Clarencentx Rex Armorum A 8 Eliz., 1566 (Harl M. S., 5867). Edited by Walter E. Metcalfe. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. RISLEY OF CHETWOOD Armes: Quarterly of 12, 1, argent, a fess azure between three crescents Gules ; 2, ermine on a chief sable a talbat passant argent (Modern) ; 3, chequy argent and Gules, on a bend sable, three mullets of the first (Bekering) ; 4, argent, a lion ram- pant, tail forked Gules ; 5, azure two bars and a chief argent (Newbold) ; 6, argent, three pellets (De La Lune) ; 7, argent on a bend cotised sable three mullets or (Hawten) ; 8, quar- terly ermine and azure, over all a cross engrailed or (Osborne) ; 9, argent, a bend cotised sable three mullets or (Derehurst) ; 10, argent three eagles displayed Gules a label azure (Newn- ham) ; 11, argent three torbeaux (Halipberk) ; 12, azure ten billets, four, three, two, one and a canton or charged with a raven proper (Blondell). Crest: A talbat statant Ermine colored Azure charged with bezants supporting with the dester pan an eschucheon. ROBERT RYSLEY of Hillesdon, County of Buckingham, Esq., mar . . . , eldest da, and one of the heirs of John Haw- ten of Pytsford County Northampton, Gent., and by her hath issue, William his eldest son and heir ; and John, second son. 4 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY JOHN RYSLEY of Wyttleberye, County Northampton, Esq., second son to Robert, mar. Johan, da. of Richard Osborne of Kelmarsh, County Northampton; esq. late wife of Thomas Clarell of Lyttlestone (Lillingstone) Lovell County Oxon., esq., and by her hath issue. . . William his eldest son ; Marye, Margarett, and Jane. WILLIAM RYSLEY of Chetwood, County Buckingham, esq., son and heir to John, mar. Alyce, da. of and heir of John Newham of Staunton, County Northampton ; esq., and by her hath issue . . . William his eldest son and heir apparent, Margarett, mar. to Christopher Catelyn of Harrowlde, County Bed., Esq. WILLIAM RYSLEY of Chetwood, Esq., eldest son and heir to William mar. Johan, da. of Foulke Buttery of Lawrence Marston, County Northampton; Gent., and by her hath issue . . . Powle his eldest son and heir apparent; George, second son ; Elizabeth ; Mabel ; and Anne ; all three unmarried. RISLEY OF CHETWOOD (Apparently an addition to the M. S.) SIR RAULFE RISLEY, Kt. lived in the 32 yeare (i. e. 1247 A. D.) of the reign of King Henry HI from 1216 to 1273 and had issue .... Henry. HENRY RISLEY, son and heir to Sir Raulfe, mar. and had issue . . . Sir Henry. SIR HENRY RISLEY Kt. hved in Edward the Second's tyme and some part of Edward the Third's tyme (from 1307 to 1327, and from 1327 to 1377.) .... and had issue .... Raulfe. RAULFE RISLEY, son and heir to Sir Henry, mar. the da. of Meryfelds (Argent a chevron sable between three Cornish choughs) and had issue . . . Thomas. THOMAS RISLEY, son and heir to Raulfe, mar. the da. THE ENGLISH RISLEYS O of Langley (poly of six Argent and Vert.) and had issue . . . John. JOHN RISLEY, son and heir to Thomas, mar. Julyan, da. and heir of Richard Morden. ROBERT RISLEY, son and heir of John, mar. Margaret da. and heir to Thomas Beckeringe and of Mary his wife da. of Richard Langforde (poly of six Or and Gules a bend Ar- gent), who was son and heir of Raulfe Bekeringe and of his wife, da. of John Cawton (Gules two bars and in chief as many mullets Argent), which Raulfe Bekeringe was son and heir to John Bekeringe and of Maude his wife, da. and one of the heirs of Raulfe Haveringe, and of Julyan his wife, da. and heir of Henry Newbolde: which Raulfe was son and heir to John Haveringe who was the son and heir unto Robert Haveringe, son and heir to Sir John Haveringe, Kt. ; which John Bekeringe aforesaid was son and heir to Sir Thomas Bekeringe, Kt., and of his wife, da. of Emeford; which Sir Thomas was son and heir to Sir John Bekeringe of Norton County, Noting- ham, Kt. : who was son and heir of Sir Thomas Bekeringe Kt., that lived in Edward the First's tyme; Bekeringe (chequy Ar- gent and Gules a bend sable for the younger house upon the bend three mullets argent ; Emeford beareth Or three bars sable, a border Ermines). Note that Raulfe Bekeringe afore- said had an elder brother whose name was Sir Thomas Bekeringe who mar. the da. and heir of Sir John Lowdham, Kt. (argent, a bend azure Crusily Or) which Sir Thomas Bekeringe had issue . . . Alyce his da. and heir mar. to Sir Thomas Rempston, Kt. of whom Sir Richard Stapleton is descended: Rempton (Argent a chevron and cinquefoil sable; Haveringe Argent a lion rampant the tail forked. Gules armed and languid azure.) JOHN RISLEY, son and heir of Robert Risley aforesaid, mar. Jane, da. and heir of DeLaLune, and had issue .... John, his eldest son, and Robert, second son. SIR JOHN RISLEY, Kt., died without issue male. 6 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY ROBERT RISLEY, second son of John and brother and heir male to Sir John Risley, mar. Eleanor, da. and one of the heirs of Hawten, lord of Pytsford County, Northamp- ton, and had issue .... William, his eldest son ; John, sec- ond son. WILLIAM RISLEY, son and heir to Robert, mar. Agnes, dafl. to Thomas Bradshaw (argent two bars sable), and had issue .... Margarett, mar. to John Chauncye of Edgecolt County, Northampton, esq. Jane, second da., mar. to John Gatton. Note that Chauncye quartereth hereby, Risley, Mor- don, Bekeringe, Haveringe, Newbolde, Delabome, and Haw- ten, besides others. JOHN RISLEY, second son to Robert, and brother and heir male to the said William Risley, mar. Johan, da. of Rich- ard Osborne and one of the heirs of her mother, and had issue .... William, his eldest son, which Richard Osborne was of Klmesley County, Northmpton, esq., who mar. Jane, the da. and heir of Thomas Derehurst, who mar. Jane, da. of Coryle (azure, a lion rampant Argent over all a bend Gules), who was the son and heir of John Derehurst of Hoylecourt, County Gloucester, esq. WILLIAM RISLEY, of Chetwood, County Buckingham, esq,, son and heir to John, mar. Alyce, da. and one of the heirs of John Newnham of Staunton, County Northampton, esq., and of Mabel his wife, da, and heir of Robert Halisberke and of Alyce his wife, da. of Martin Ellys (on a cross sable, fire crescents Argent), which Robert was son and heir to Thomas Hallesberke and of his wife, the da. and heir of Oding- selles (Argent a fess and in chief two mullets Gules), son and heir to Richard Hallesberke and of Katherine his wife, the da. and heir to Hengher Blondell, son and heir to Henry Halles- berke and of his wife, the da. of Sherdelowe, son and heir to Thomas Hallesberke and of his wife, the da. of I^^g" worthe, son and heir of William Hallesberke, who mar. and had issue .... THE ENGLISH RISLEYS I William, his eldest son, died sans issue. Henry, second son, was a man of religion. Thomas was a Knight of the Rodes. John, Dean of Wells and brother to the said Richard. Which William Hallesberke was the son and heir. ' WILLIAM HALLESBERKE, that lived in the reign of King Edward the III (from 1327 to 1377). Note also that Anne, the second da. and one of the heirs of John Newnham, mar. to Thomas Malorye and had issue .... Robert Mal- orye. WILLIAM RISLEY of Chetwood, County Buckingham, esq., son and heir to William aforesaid, mar, Johan, da. of Foulke Buttery, alias Matanye, of County Northampton, gent., and had issue .... Pawle, his eldest son; George, sec- ond son ; Thomas, third son ; Elizabeth mar. to Thopye Chaun- cye of Edgecolt, County of Northampton, esq. ; Isabell, mar. to Thomas Heath of Shellesworth, County Oxford, esq. ; Anne, Frances, and Jane unmarried. PAUL RISLEY of Chetwoode, mar. Dorothy Temple, da. of John Temple of Stowe. TEMPLE OF STOWE. Apparently an addition to M. S. ROBERT TEMPLE of Temple Hall, in the parish of Sybs- den, near Wellesborough, County Leicester, lived in the reign of Henry III (from 1216 to 1273), and had issue .... William. After several generations : JOHN TEMPLE of Stowe, County Buckingham, esq., son and heir to Peter, mar. Susan, da. of and heir to Thomas Spencer of Everton, County Northampton, esq., and by her had issue .... Thomas, his eldest son; George, second son, died young ; John, third son ; Alexander, fourth son ; William, 8 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY fifth son ; Peter, sixth son ; Myljcent, mar. to Edward Saunders of Brycksworth, County Northampton, esq. ; Dorothy, mar. to Pawle Ryse- ley of Chetwood, County Buckingham, esq. ; Catherine, mar. to Sir Nicholas Parker of Ratton, County Sussex, Kt. ; Suzan, mar. to Thomas Denton of Hillesdon, County Buckingham, esq. ; Mary, mar. to John Farmer of Marlow, County Buckingham, esq. Authority : The " Gene- alogist," Vol. VII, pp. 116, 245, 250, 251, edited by Ge.orge W. Marshall, LL. D., Fellow of the Society of Anti- quaries. Publishers : George Bell and Sons, York Street, Co- vent Garden. London, 1883. RISLEY OF RISLEY, COUNTY LANCASTER CoTurmmicated by J. Paul Rylands, Esq., F. S. A. Arms: Quarterly 1 and 4, Argent an eagle sable preying upon an infant swaddled, Gules, banded Argent 2 and 3 [Ar- gent] three birds volant [Gules]. Crest: An oak tree sable, thereon a raven perched proper. Motto: Fato Prudentia Major. (Translation: "Fate is greater than Prudence.") In the visitation of Lancaster, 1665, Sir William Dugdale gives for arms : " Arg. a tree sa. with a raven perched thereon." This was the crest. ROBERT FITZ HUGH DE HIND- LEY, called also RoberiJ de Rysley, mar. Ellen, one of the da.'s and co- heirs of Gilbert de Culcheth by his wife. Lady Cecilia de Lathom. She had the Risley estates as her dowry. HENRY DE RYSLEY, eldest son of Robert de Rysley, liv- ing 1326, mar. Margery. RICHARD DE RYSLEY, second son of Robert de Rysley, mar. . JOHN FITZ RICHARD DE RISLEY (1321), son of Richard de Rysley. ^ ROBERT DE RYSLEY (son of Henry de Rysley), 1346. Heir to the estates of Rysley. HENRY DE RISLEY, son of Robert de Risley, died 1397. Mar. Margaret, a widow, in 1397. 10 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY WILLIAM FITZ HENRY DE RYSLEY, eldest son of Henry de Rysley. In 1397 he released to his brother Nicholas and his heirs, all his rights to his father's lands in Risley, Cul- cheth, Kenyon, Croft, Lawton, Weryngton, and Penketh, ex- cept a messuage and 20 acres of land in Culcheth. His father was then living. NICHOLAS FITZ HENRY DE RISLEY, second son and heir of Henry de Risley. In 1397, his father being dead, he assigned to Margaret, his father's widow, as her dower, one third of all his lands. ELLEN, daughter of Henry de Risley, married to Thurstan de Penketh. KATHERINE RISLEY, daughter of William Fitz Henry de Risley, released to her uncle Nicholas all her right to the above lands. She seals with a double headed eagle displayed. GYBONE or GILBERT DE RISLEY, son and heir of Nicholas, 1454, married daughter of Richard Bold. (Perkin Warbeck in his proclamation against Henry VII, (1485) stigmatises a " Risley " as one of the King's creatures.) RICHARD RISLEY, son and heir of Gilbert, 1463, dead in 1494. Married Alice, daughter of John Byrom. She remar- ried to Sotheworth before 1494. MARGARET, daughter of Gilbert, wife of John Mascy of Sale. HENRY RISLEY of Risley, oldest son and heir of Rich- ard Risley, 1463 to 1509. Married Margery, daughter of Hamon Mascy of Rixton. NICHOLAS, second son of Richard Risley, 1494 to 1536. GRACE, daughter of Richard Risley, 1480. Married to John Rotour. . ROBERT RISLEY of Risley, oldest son and heir of Henry THE EN GUSH RISLEYS 11 Risley, 1494. Married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Hol- land of Denton. RANDAL, second son of Henry Risley, a clerk 1494 to 1536. ALICE, daughter of Henry Risley, married to John, son of John Boydell of Lymm, County Chester. This marriage was confirmed by Robert Cliff, official to the Archdeacon of Chester, 15 February, 1504. At the time of the marriage the parties were aged respectively 7 and 8 years. RICHARD RISLEY of Risley, oldest son and heir of Rob- ert Risley. His guardian, Sir Thomas Botcher, granted the guardianship to Sir John Ireland, 20 May, 9, Henry VIII. Richard married Alicia, daughter and heir of Sir John Ire- land. She was divorced 17 June, 1536, having herself bought the divorce on the plea that she had married Risley during the lifetime of her husband, Thomas Stanley. JOHN RISLEY, second son of Robert Risley, brother and heir to Richard, died 24 April, 14 Jac. 1.: buried at Eccles. Married Margaret, daughter and heir to Robert Radcliffe. She remarried to Richard Byrom, who with her was sued by John, son and heir of John Risley of Eliz. THOMAS RISLEY, oldest son of Richard Risley, 4 Feb- ruary, 34 Henry VIII. Letters Patent of Inspexiums under the duchy seal, reciting that upon a trial in court it was found that John Risley, brother and heir to Richard Risley, and cousin and heir male of the Lady of Nicholas, son of Henry Risley, was the right- ful owner of the family estates, and that Thomas Risley was base born. JOHN RISLEY, oldest son of John Risley of Risley, heir to the estates, married Magdalene, daughter of John Grims- ditch, before 1571. RICHARD, second son of John Risley. Daughters : Lucy, Anne, Margaret, Frances and Alice. 12 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY RICHARD RISLEY of Risley, oldest son of John Risley, married at Stockport, 11 September, 1593, to Anne, daughter of Robert Hyde of Norbury, County Chester. Died about 1637. HENRY, second son of John Risley, baptized at Wimoick, Nov. 18, 1577; buried at Wimoick, 11 Dec, 1623. GEORGE, third son of John Risley. MARY, eldest daughter of John Risley. Married to Ed- ward Swansey. ELIZABETH, second daughter of John Risley. Married to John Valentine of BentclifFe. JOHN RISLEY of Risley, son of Richard Risley, married 1st Elizabeth, daughter of Scrimshire of Norbury, County Stafford, 2d wife Eleanor, daughter of Humphreys, County Derby. " Mrs. Risley " buried at Wimoick, Feb. 1, 1661-2. BEATRIX, oldest daughter of Richard Risley, married to Robert Browne of Inskip. MARY, second daughter of Richard Risley, married to Richard Whitehead of Astley. RICHARD, only son of John Risley and 1st wife Elizabeth, " or infans." (Seal with edge cracked.) JOHN RISLEY of Risley, esq., son of John Risley and second wife Eleanor, aged 35 in 1665. Buried in linen at Wi- moick, July 19, 1682, as " John Risley, esq." Married Mar- garet, daughter of John Holcroft of Holcroft, at Newchurch, May 15, 1647 ; buried at Wimoick, March 23, 1675-6. JANE, oldest daughter of John Risley and wife Eleanor. ELEANOR, second daughter of John Risley and wife Elea- nor, baptized at Newchurch, July 7, 1631. THE ENGLISH RISUEYS 13 MARTHA, third daughter of John Risley and wife Elea- nor, baptized at Newchurch, Jan. 22, IGS'l-S, ob. infans. JOHN RISLEY of Risley, esq., son of John Risley, bap- tized at Newchurch, Feb. 7, 1648, aged 8, at visitation in 1665 [ :18] ; buried at Wimoick, March 30, 1676 (vitapatris), as " John, son of John Risley, esq." Married . Remarried to a daughter of Ashton, esq., before 1702. ^ CAPTAIN JOHN RISLEY of Risley, oldest son of John Risley and first wife. Baptized at Knowsley, October 26, 1675. Died at Ormskirk, Nov. 1, and buried at Wimoick, Nov. 13, 1702, aged 27. O. S. P. His funeral sermon, preached by the Rev. Zach. Taylor, was printed in 1703, and is dedicated to " The Virtuous Madam Ashton, Mother to the late Worshipped John Risley of Risley, esq." MARGARET, oldest daughter of John Risley and first wife. Baptized at Newchurch, Apr. 11, 1673. SHARLOTTA or SHERLOCK, second daughter of John Risley and first wife. Baptized at Newchurch, March 17, 1674. Buried at Wimoick, Jan. 15, 1674-5. RICHARD, second son of John Risley and second wife, baptized at Newchurch, Feb. 18, 1651. JAMES, third son of John Risley and second wife. Bap- tized at Newchurch, Mar. 2, 1653. Buried at Wimoick, Jan. 16, 1654-5. JAMES, son of John Risley and second wife, buried at Wimoick, June 16, 1653. THOMAS, son of John Risley and second wife. Baptized at Newchurch, Mar. 4, 1652. " Thomas Risley of Culcheth, gent." Buried at Wimoick, May 21, 1716. ELIZABETH, daughter of John Risley and second wife. Married at Wimoick, May 23, 1678, to Hamlet Wood of Risley, gent. She died at Chester and was buried at Wimoick, May 26, 1736. 14 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Children : Henry Wood (ob. infans) ; Thomas Wood, bom 1686; Hamblet Wood, born 1688; Henry Wood, born 1690; Richard Risley, born 1692 ; Margaret, bom 1683. INSCRIPTION ON MONUMENT Arms: Quarterly 1 and 4. An eagle preying upon a child. 2 and 3. Three birds. THE ENGUSH KISLEYS 15 Crest: Upon an esquire's helmet a tree thereon a raven. THOMAS RISLEY, gentleman of Poulton Feamhead. Born 1588; buried at Warrington, Oct. 14, 1670, aged 82. [Possibly a son of Thomas, son of Richard Risley and Alicia Ireland.] Married Thomasin, daughter of Henry Lathom of Whiston, County Lancaster. Buried at Warrington, July 26, 1681, aged 82. His tombstone reads: HERE LYETH THE BODY OF THOMAS RISLEY, WHO WAS BURIED THE 14 DAY OF OCT. 1670 AGED 82, AND OF THOMASIN HIS WIFE WHO WAS BURIED THE 26 DAY OF JULY. AGED 82 ; WANTING THREE WEEKS 1631. 16 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY JOHN RISLEY, oldest, son of Thomas Risley and Thom- asin Lathom. Born 1628, of Pembroke Coll. Oxon. Died Jan. 14, 1661. THE REV. THOMAS RISLEY, A. M., second son of Thomas Risley and Thomasin. Born Aug. 27, 1630. Fel- low of Pembroke College, Oxford, Deacon and Priest, Nov. 10, 1662. Compelled to surrender his fellowship on account of non-conformity, Aug. 24, 1662. Built Risley chapel about 1707, and performed service there. Author of the " Cursed Family," founded upon Prov. iii :33 and Jer. 10: last verse. Died 1716. Buried at Risley Chapel. Married Catharine. THOMAS RISLEY, son and heir of the Rev. Thomas Ris- ley and wife Catharine. THE REV. JOHN RISLEY, M. A., of Glascow College, second son of the Rev. Thomas Risley and wife Catharine. Minister at Risley Chapel. Born Jan. 29, 1690. Died Sept. 3, 1743. Buried at Risley Chapel. Married Hannah , who died May 29, 1730, aged 35. Buried at Risley Chapel. HANNAH, daughter of Rev. John Risley and wife Han- nah. Died Nov. 12, 1723. Buried at Risley Chapel. RISLEY MEMORANDA JOAN, widow of Sir John Risley, married Sir Chris. Ga- meys, Knt., before 1418. " Writ to sheriff of Landan to sum- mon John Rysley of Broseley in the parish of Wimoick, Gen- tleman, to render to Richard Broke, sergeant-at-law, John Roper, Edward O'Reren, Will Mariner, and John Browne, ex- ecutors of John Rysley, Knt., and Chris. Gameys, Knt., and Joan his wife, late the wife of the said Sir John Rysley, 100 shilHngs. Sept. 12 [6 Henry V], ad 1418. SIR JOHN RISLEY, Knt., 7 Henry VII, 1491, was one of the King's feoffees in the trust of Duchy of Lancaster on his intending to go abroad; and in the Act of Resumption, 2 Henry VII, chapt. 48, 1495, there is a promise that it should THE ENGLISH RISL£YS 17 not prejudice Sir John Risley's grant from the King of part of the lands of John, Lord Zanche. ROBERT RISLEY of Wimoick, County Lancaster, men- tioned in a charter of Henry Risley " Late of " Risley, esq., Feb. 26, 1509. HENRY RISLEY, esq., of Tottenham, mentioned in one of the Lancaster Risley charters with reference to land in County Middlesex, 20 May, 1510, 25 July, M Henry VHL Bond from John Rysley of Warrington, Gent., and Walter Barnard of Est. Hatley, County Cambridge, to Symon Rys- ley, clerk, conditioned to be void on the surrendering a lease of the parsonage of Crawden which had been made to Symon's use. RICHARD RYSELEY, clerk, mentioned in a deed (3 and 4 Ph. and M.) of John Risley of Risley, esq. 1716 — 21 May. Thos. Risley, Culcheth, gent., buried at Wimoick. No date. John Risley of Risley gave 60 pounds to the poor of Colchete which no [no date] lyeth on the work house in Culcheth. John Risley of Risley left that an almshouse should be built for the poor of Risley Lordship, which was builded ac- cordingly. Vol. 2. New Series. Miscellane Oenealogica et Heraldica. J. J. Howard, page 27. OTHER RISLEYS OF LANCASTERSHIRE, ENGLAND From " Culcheth of Culcheth, County Lancaster." By J. Paul Rylands, F. S. A. Arms: 1 and 4, argent (or, or) an eagle sable preying upon an infant swaddled gules, banded or (Culcheth) 2 argent a griffin segreant azure (or sable) armed or (Culcheth) 3 azure a hind statant (gy. lodged?) argent (Hindley). Some- times the griffin is borne in the 2d and 3d quarters. Crest: On a Cap of Maintenance a naked blackamoor standing, hold- ing in his dexter hand a dart all proper. Culcheth in Cheshire bore sable a griffin, saliant or, some- times argent (Edmondson). HENRY DE CULCHIT with Alan de Rixton and Simon de Bede- ford gave pledges to stand their trial for the murder of G. de Spondum, A. D. 1200 (Rot de Oblatis 98). NORMAN DE CULCHIT, son of Henry de Culchit. GILBERT DE CULCHIT, son of Henry de Culchit of Culchethe, County Lancaster, Military Tenant of Sir Wm. de Botiller, Baron of Warrington. Dead in 1275. His four daughters were married to the four sons of Hugh de Hindley and gave to their husbands the estates of Risley, Cul- Culcfjctf). THE ENGUSH RISLEYS 19 chethe Holycroft and Peasfalong. Gilbert married Lady Ce- cilia de Lathom, living and a widow in 1275. It was from this marriage that the Culchethe, Risley and Holycroft families adopted the eagle and child as their arms, this quarter being common to all three families. Note: Saturday the morrow of the invention of the Holy Cross 1275, at Thornton. D'na Cecilia de Laton demises to Ric. de Culchit, her son- in-law ("generum summ" her one third of Culchit Mill which she held in dower for her life. And grants that her tenants should grind there as in Gilt, de Culchits life. Witnesses: Rot. de Presalmaric de Thornton, Will de Northmelis, Rott. de Yudelea, Ric. the clerk. Lord Rott. de Lartrom witnesses a grant from Rot. f. Rot. de Wirwlck to Ric. de Hindelegh (temp. Henry III or Ed.) of two borates in Lawton. The grantee to render homage and a pair of lion spurs or two pence. HUGH DE HINDLEY of Hindley, County Lancaster, had grants of lands in Hindley from Robt. Banastre, Lord of Makerfield, to whom he was military tenant ; from Wm. de Wythenbache, Ric. Fitz Wyon, Wm. Fitz Roger de Yues (Ince), and from Robt. I. Robt. de Wimoick. He married Beatrix . His four sons married the four daughters of Gilb. de Culcheth. Note: William de Botiller grants to Hugh de Hindley the marriage of the heirs of Gilbert de Culcheth. Witnesses: Lord Radulf, the chap- lain, Roger de Opton, Hen. Pincerua, Hen. de Lildeslay, Roger de Lonky, Thurston de Holland Adam de Holland, Gilt, de Sutheworth, John de Adsurgham, Robt. de Lawton and Robt. de Whitfield clerk. ROBERT FITZ HUGH DE HINDLEY, son of Hugh de Hindley, took the name and lands of Risley. Married Ellen daughter and co-heir of Gilbert de Culcheth. RICHARD FITZ HUGH DE HINDLEY, son of Hugh de Hindley, took the name and lands of Culcheth. Called " Ric. Culcheth the elder " in some charters. Married Mar- garet, daughter and co-heir of Gilbert de Culcheth. [Baine's Hist. Lane, says that Margaret was married to Wm. de Rad- cliff, who in her right was seized by Culcheth. 20 Ed. 1.] THOMAS FITZ HUGH DE HINDLEY, son of Hugh de 20 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Hindley, took the name and lands of Holycroft. Married Joan, daughter and co-heir of Gilbert de Culcheth. ADAM FITZ HUGH DE HINDLEY, son of Hugh de Hindley, took the lands of Peasfalong, and is called Adam de Peasfalong in some charters. Married Beatrix, daughter and co-heir of Gilbert de Culcheth. RICHARD CULCHETH, the younger, son and heir of Richard Fitz Hugh de Hindley and Margaret Culcheth, mar- ried Cecilia, daughter of Hugh de Hindley. 21 Ed. 1. JOHN, son of Adam Fitz Hugh de Hindley, from whom whom descended as is supposed Hindley of Hindley. A seal of Hugh de Hindley, 6 Henry VII, exhibits a " Hind lodged " with foliage behind it. Married Beatrix, daughter of Adam Fitz Hugh de Hindley. GILBERT J. RIC. DE CULCHETH, son of Richard Cul- cheth and Cecilia de Hindley of Culcheth and Hindley. Dead m 1358. Married first Alice, daughter of Sir Geoff de War- burton, Count}' Chester. Married second, Cecilia, daughter of Ric. Brashaigh. Remarried to Hugh de Workesley before 1358. Living 1369. RICHARD, son of Richard Culcheth and wife Cecilia, 1360. ROBERT J. RIC. DE CULCHETH, son of Richard Cul- cheth and wife Cecilia. Married Ellen, daughter of John de Sale, 1355. HUGH DE CULCHETH, son of Richard Culcheth and wife Cecilia. (A quo. Culcheth of Abram.'') GILBERT DE CULCHETH, son and heir of Gilbert and his wife Alice, married Joan, daughter of Adam de Ken^'on, 1345. JOHN FITZ GILBERT, son of Gilbert and second wife Cecilia. 1345. WILLIAM J. GILBERT, son of Gilbert and CeciHa. 1345. THE ENGLISH BISLEYS 21 GILBERT J. GILBERT DE CULCHETH, son of Gilbert and Joan, aged 19 in 1365, when he publicly acknowledges his marriage in the church at Manchester. Dead in 1402. Mar- ried Katherine, daughter of Tho. de Bothe of Barton. Living 1420. THURSTAN FITZ GILBERT DE CULCHETH, 1373, 1420, son of Gilbert J. Gilbert de Culcheth and wife Kather- ine. Had lands in Culcheth from his father, 47 Ed. III. Mar- ried first Elizabeth, daughter of John de Holycroft ; marriage settlement dated 47 Ed. III. Married second wife, Kate, daughter of John Borth of Barton, his cousin. Living 3 Henry IV, s. p. THOMAS FITZ GILBERT, son of Gilbert J. Gilbert de Culcheth and Katherine de Culcheth, 1420. Heir to his father. Married Alice, daughter of Adam Hulton, 8 Hen. V. He mar- ried secondly Katherine (Anderton), 9 Hen. VI. NICHOLAS, son of Gilbert, 1420. HENRY, son of Gilbert, 1420. NCHOLAS DE CULCHETH, Rector of Est. Bridge ford, 1476, son of Thomas Fitz Gilbert de Culcheth and wife Alice. OLIVER CULCHETH, ESQ., brother and heir of Nich- olas and heir to his nephew Randolph. Died before 1512. Son of Thomas Fitz Gilbert and Alice de Culcheth. Married Douce, daughter of Gilbert Langton, esq. Afterwards mar- ried to James Strangewaies. Both living in 1531. GILBERT, son of Thos. de Culcheth. Dead in 1495. Mar- ried Agnes . Remarried to Ralph Langton before 1495. GEOFFREY CULCHETH, 1477, son of Thomas Fitz Gil- bert and Alice de Culcheth. Married Jennet, daughter of Robert Hindley. VIOLENTIA, daughter of Thomas Fitz Gilbert and Alice de Culcheth, ^2 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY GILBERT CULCHETH, ESQ., son and heir of Oliver and Douce Culcheth, born circa. 1495. On Sept. 5, 1515, he gave bond with Robert Langley and Robert Lang-ton of Lowe Es- quires, to Sir Wm. Leyland, Knt., to perform the covenants of marriage in an indenture between himself and Sir William. Married first wife Margaret, daughter of John Holy croft. She was his wife in 1526. Married second wife Jane, daughter and co-heir of Guy Green of Naburn, County York. She was dead in 1533. By her he had lands in Naburn and in the city of York. She does not appear to have left issue by him. GEORGE, son of Oliver and Douce Culcheth, 1572. JOHN CULCHETH of Culcheth, gent. Dead in 1476. Son of Gilbert and Agnes de Culcheth. Married Parnell or Petronilla, daughter of Hammond Mascy of Rixton, County Lancaster. She remarried to Robert Kirkham. RANDOLPH CULCHETH, son of Gilbert and Agnes de Culcheth, heir to Oliver Anderton, 1476, ob. s. p., his uncle Oliver Culcheth succeeding as his heir. ELLEN, daughter of Geoffrey and Jennet and wife of Ed- ward Lever. ISABELLA, daughter of John and Parnell Culcheth. AGNES, 1499, daughter of John and Parnell Culcheth. JOHN CULCHETH of Culcheth, esq., son and heir of Gil- bert and Jane. Died 1594. Married Cecilia, daughter of Sir Thomas Southeworth of Samlesbury, Knt. Remarried to Thomas Chfton of Westby, esq. MARGARET, daughter of Gilbert Culcheth and Margaret. Married to Geoffrey Zolybrande of Peele, gent. ELIZABETH, daughter of Gilbert Culcheth and Margaret. Married to Roger Leber of Bolton, gent. HELEN, daughter of Gilbert Culcheth and Margaret. ALICE, daughter of Gilbert Culcheth and Margaret. THE ENGLISH RISLEYS 23 ANNE, daughter of Gilbert Culcheth and Margaret. CLEMENCE, daughter of Gilbert Culcheth and Margaret. GILBERT, second son of Gilbert Culcheth and Margaret, The Wimoick reg. records in 1604 the burial of a wife of Mr. Gilbert Culcheth, and his own burial in 1605. JOHN CULCHETH of Culcheth, esq., son of John and Cecilia Culcheth. Died 24 Sept. 1 Car. I, 1624. Married Maude, daughter of John Poole of Poole, in Wirrall, County Chester, esq. THOMAS, son of John and Cecilia Culcheth. Ob. s. p. GILBERT, son of John and Ceciha Culcheth. Ob. s. p. MARY, daughter of John and Cecilia Culcheth. Married to John Wrineston of West Leigh, County Lancaster. He died 1632. JOHN CULCHETH of Culcheth, esq., son of John and Maude Culcheth. Baptized at Newchurch, Dec. 10, 1599. Died July 17, 1640. * Seized in tail male of the manors of Culcheth and Hindley and of lands there and in Ince. Ing. p. m. 17, Cor. I. Married Jane or Christian, daughter of John Hawarden of Fennel St. in Farnworth, County Lancaster, in 1618. Marriage agreement in which she is called Christian dated 8 Aug., 2 Jac. I. , JOHN CULCHETH, ESQ., son of John and Jane or Chris- tian, died of the wounds which he received in the wars fighting on the side of the King, 1647. THOMAS CULCHETH of Culcheth, esq., second son of John and Jane or Christian, baptized at Newchurch, May 5, 1628. Aged 36 in 1664. Will dated Feb., 1683. Buried in his chapel at Wimoick in linen, Dec. 20, 1683. Married Anne, *"The family was much harrassed and severely fined by the Republican party during the Rebellion and for some years reduced to dependency upon their friends but recovered some of their property at the Restora- tion." 24 THE DESCENDANTS OE RICHARD RISLEY daughter of James Bradshaigh of Haigh, esq., and sister of Sir Roger Bradshaigh, Knt. Buried at Wimoick, March 17, 1707. CHARLES, third son of John and Jane or Christian Cul- cheth, a priest, baptized at Newchurch, April 11, 1631. GILBERT, fourth son of John and Jane or Christian Cul- cheth. Ob. infans. WILLIAJNl, fifth son of John and Jane or Christian Cul- cheth, a priest. MARY, daughter of John and Jane or Christian Culcheth, baptized at New Church, April 23, 1633. Died unmarried. Buried at Wimoick, Feb. 20, 1660. CATHERINE, daughter of John and Jane or Christian Culcheth, wife of Wm. Chorley of Chorley. He died, 1661. FRANCISCA, daughter of Thomas and Anne Culcheth, baptized at Wimoick, Jan, 12, 1657-8. "A Nun at Pontoise.'* Died, 1717, aged 59. ANNIE, second daughter of Thomas and Anne Culcheth. Baptized at Wimoick, April 6, 1661. Married to Richard Stanley of Eccleston, esq. CATHARINE, third daughter of Thomas and Anne Cul- cheth. Baptized at Wimock, Aug. 19, 1663. Married in 1688 to John Trefford, of Croston, esq. She inherited the estate on the death of lier nephew, Thomas, and conveyed them to her husband. The estates are now the property of Thomas El- lames Withington, esq., having been purchased by his father. JOHN CULCHETH esq., oldest son of Thomas and Anne Culcheth. Baptized at Wimoick, Oct. 8, 1650, aged 13, in 1664. Buried at Wimoick, Feb. 4, 1681-2. Married Mary, daughter of Hugh Dicconson of Wrightington, esq. Buried at Wimoick, Dec. 9, 1741. THOMAS, second son of Thomas and Anne Culcheth, a priest. Baptizd at Wimoick, April 15, 1654. THE ENGLISH RISLEYS 25 JAMES, third son of Thomas and Anne Culcheth, a priest. Baptized at Wimoick, Dec. 3, 1665. JANE, daughter of Thomas and Anne Culcheth. Bap- tized at Wimoick, Oct. 26, 1652. MARY STANISBAW, daughter of Thomas and Anne Culcheth. Baptized at Wimoick, Dec. 8, 1654. A Nun at Pontoise. Died, 1704. THOMAS CULCHETH, ESQ., living 1725, son of John and Mary Culcheth. Died s. p. and buried at Wimoick, Oct. 8, 1747, when the estate passed to his aunt, Catherine. His seal has upon it the arms. Quarterly 1 and 4, A. Griffin Segreant 2 and 3, an eagle preying upon a child. Married Mrs. Ann, wife of Mr. Thos. Culcheth, esq., of Cul- cheth. Buried July 16, 1747 (Wimoick register). JOHN, son of John and Mary Culcheth. ANNE, daughter of John and Mary Culcheth. MRS. MARY CULCHETH of Hindley, buried at Wimoick, April 7, 1659. GEOFFREY CULCHETH witnesses the signatures to a deed, Dec. 16, 1700. In the cemetery at Bruges is a grey marble monument hav- ing the following inscriptions : " This stone was erected by Mary Ann Culcheth as a tribute of respect and esteem to the memory of her late husband, John Culcheth, esq., late of Liver- pool, who departed this life at Bruges the 29th of January, 1845, aged 44 years." This entry and several others of the Culcheth family are not entered as baptisms in the Wimoick re<^ister, but as " Births under the Newe Act." Vol. II. New Series. Miscellane Oenealogica et Heraldica. J. J. Howard, pages 209 to 213. RISLEYS OF MIDDLESEXSHIRE, ENGLAND From " Genealogical Gleanings in England " by Waters (Vol. I, p. 761): Will of John DeRisley of Stepney, Middlesex, Shipwright, 2 June, 1634, proved 19 January, 1634. And my will and mind is that the assurance of my said free hold lands etc, which are to be made upon the said composition shall be taken in the names of my son. Ting, and of Mr. Syse and Gibbs and others according to a book and directions already drawn by my counsel to the uses specified in this, my will, I make the said Frances, my wife, sole executrix, and my friends, Thomas Wright of Ipswich and my brother, Robert Risley, overseer. From Vol. II, page 1428, of " Genealogical Gleanings in England " : Will of William Burrowes of High Holborne, Middlesex, Yoeman, 1 August, 1620, proved 27th January, 1620. Threescore pounds now remaining in the hands of Thomas Risley and Arthur Bromfield, esq., being steward to the Right Honorable Henry, Earl of Southampton. From a " History and Antiquities of the County of Buck- ingham," compiled by George Lipscourt in 1847, Vol. Ill: " In an inquest taken at Aylesbury, 2 Aug., 1603, it is Btated (page 1) that William Risley esq., died, seized of the manor of Barton Hartshorn, the Rectory of the church ; the Manor of Chetwood the advowson of Vicarage and the Rectory of the church of Chetwood and so forth; till these tenures THE ENGLISH RISLEYS 27 being holden of the King in Capite by the fourth part of a Kings fee." In another inquest at Aylsbury, 28 August, (4 Car I) it is stated that Paul Risley, esq., died seized of the Manor of Chetwood and Barton Hartshorn and the Rectory and advow- Chetwood Risley Chapel; erected 1100 a. d. son of the same which was holden by the King in Capite by the twentieth part of a King's fee. A RECORD OF MARRIAGES "Mr. Tobias Chancey and Mrs. Ehzabeth Risley, 1587." " William OfFey and Jane Risley, 1602." " Mr. George Pudsey and Ane Risley, 1624." " Ralph Holt esq., and Susan Risley, 1659." " Margaret, daughter of John and Christine Risley," 1662. " lonchet Chetwood esq., eldest son of John Chetwood and the Lady Mary, his wife, baptized at Wimoick, in Berks, 6th Aug., 1700." BIRTHS AND BAPTISMS " Ehzabeth, daughter of Mr. Ric. Chetwood, 11 Sept., 1583. Ann, daughter of Paul Risley, 1598. Peter, son of Paul Risley, 1607. John, son of Mr. Rev. Chetwood, 1615. Thomas, son of Mr. Rev. Chetwood, 1620. John, son of Mr. Thomas Risley, 1636. 28 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Knight, son of Mr, Valentine Chetwood and Mary, his wife, 28th Oct., 1650." BURIALS " Jane, wife of WilHam Rislej, 1584. Mr. John Chetwood, 17 Aug., 1586. Mr. Wm. Risley, 4 Feb. 1602. The Lady Chetwood, M Feb., 1618. Mr. Paul Risley, 7 April, 1626. Mrs. Susan (Risley) Holt, 21 March, 1660. Thomas Risley, esq., 22 April, 1671. John Risley, esq., 27 March, 1672." The record states that in the " old church " the " South Cross Aisle " was "taken into the adjoining house of Mr. Risley the patron, 1582." RISLEYS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, ENGLAND From " Bakers History of Northamptonshire," 1822 : On page 62 is a genealogy of " Risleys " as recorded in "Pitsford" in the Doomsday Book." (1083). It is stated that " Pitsford " is a Saxon word derived from " pitt " and " pong." The title is : "Hanton Risley and Shucksburg of Pitsford" (1345). The estate was divided in 1552 by act of Parliament YI Ed- ward 6." Arm: Hanton or on a bend sable: Cotized gules; three Mullets Argent : Arms: Risley Argent a fess azure between Crescent gules. Arms: Shucksburg sable, a Cheveron betAveen three Mul- lets Argent. " John Risley is first in this genealogical line " and " Will- iam Risley is the last in this line and is the William Risley in the Chetwood line in Buckinghamshire." For "Risley of Chetwood" see Volume VII of "The Genealogist " pp 245-246. " Miscellanea Genealogica Heraldica," by J. J. Howard, Vol. Ill New Series : " Risleys of Risley, Co. Lancaster, pp. 273 to 277. (" This list is very complete and shows a seal of " Richard " a minor. The Risleys belong to the Nobility in England. Every Knight was required to be a Lord.) THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY FIRST GENERATION 1 RICHARD RISLEY is believed to have descended from the Lancastershire, England, Risleys previously mentioned in this work. All the evidence now at hand indicates Norse origin of the name Risley. They were lords and knights in the 12th Century in England; the early name in English Genealogy of " Rolf " is a distinctive Norse name. They no doubt emigrated from Norway into Normandy, France, in the 8th century. The name " Risle " indicated a creek in Normandy, near where the Monastery of Bech was located; there the Normans established a great seat of learning, where the Duke of Normandy was first to be touched by the new faith. Every approach to the monastery was crowded with pilgrims ; monasteries multiplied in the forest glades. Kings sought shelter from the turmoil of the times in a little valley surrounded with woods of ash and elm through which a brook or brooklet runs down to the " Risle." By adding the final " y " to this name we have Risley, The appearance of the name Risley in the early years of the 12th century in England, in which titles of distinction were borne by members of the Risley family, is indisputable evidence that they found their way from Normandy, France, to England with, or fol- lowed William the Conqueror, who vacated and set aside nearly all landed titles granted by Saxon and Danish kings and gave their estates to his " Norman " followers. The Risleys are of Norman descent. In the Colonial records the name is erroneously spelled. Rest- ley, Rysley, Rissley, Rizley, Risla, Wisla, Wisley. These var- ious modes of spelling related to the same person whose name is spelled in the inventory of his estate, Risele}'^ and Risley, 34 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY and the last spelling of this name was used by three generations of his descendants with a single exception. In lineage he was a Norman. In religion a Puritan. Born probably in Oxon, County Lancastershire, England, prior to 1615, he emigrated to Massachussetts Bay Colony, Boston, sailing from Downs in the ship " Griffin " July 15th, 1633, in company with Rev. Thomas Hooker, Rev. Wm. Stone, Rev. John Cotton and the Hon. John Haynes. The latter Gov- ernor of Massachussetts Bay Colony in the years 163475, and of the Connecticut Colony in 1639-1641, 1643, 1645', 1649 and 1653. The ship " Griffin " brought from England many of Hooker's church in Braintree, numbering more than a hun- dred persons. The vessel landed in Boston Harbor, Sept. 4, 1633. Hooker and his associates located in Newtown (now Cambridge,) Mass., where a church had been previously erected to accomodate the new comers. Hooker was ordained pastor of the new church and Wm. Stone as teacher Oct. 25, 1633. The little colony thus planted was surrounded by the trouble- some conditions which seriously aflTected the entire population of Massachusetts Bay and Salem Colonies, there being a struggle between the church and Civil Magistrates and the people which resulted in the election of John Haynes as Governor, in 1634. Hooker and his parishioners seemed not to have taken part in the struggle; his followers obtained permission of the Gen- eral Court to remove to the Connecticut Valley in the winter of 1636. On May 31, 1636, the entire company turned their backs on the Massachusetts Bay Colony, leaving behind nothing to be desired and betook themselves through a trackless wilder- ness, on foot to the locality now occupied by the city of Hart- ford, reaching their destination in about a month. A treaty was consummated with the Indians for a tract of land em- braced in the present city of Hartford and the adjoining towns of East Manchester and East and West Hartford. The title of this land was taken by Mr. Samuel Stone and Mr. Wm. Goodwin as trustees for this Colony. THE DESCENDANTS OF KICHARD RISLEY 35 Richard Risley, with the Hooker Company, was one of the original founders of the Commonwealth of Connecticut. Each male member of the Colony was given about two and one-half acres of the above tract of land and the balance was held in common. This division was made in what is now the center of Hartford city. By the terms of the division each man was required to build a house on his land within a year or forfeit his portion of the land to the colony. In the book of distribution of property in Hartford it is stated: " Samuel Wrislea, son of Richard Wrislea, bap. Nov. 1, 1645. Richard Risla bap. Aug. 2, 1648." These baptisms occurred in the First Church of Hartford. Richard and Mary, his wife, lived on the east of the " Great River." October, 1648, Richard, sr., died at Hockanum, leaving his wife and three children surviving. December 7, 1648, an in- ventory of his estate, amounting to 135£ 5s. lOd., was filed in court. The land allotted to Richard Risley, on which he built a house, was located on the south side of the Little River, on the westerly side of a road running from George Steele's Mill on Little River south to the Great Swamp. This is supposed to be the street, which now runs through the park, east of the present Capitol of Connecticut and forms Lafayette Street, south of the Capitol grounds. At the first angle in that street is believed to be the location of Richard Risley's house and lot. In May, 1637, Richard with the other ablebodied men of the Colony, forty in number, under the command of Major John Mason of Windsor, accompanied by men from Wethersfield and Massachusetts Bay Colony, were forced to make war on the Pequot Indians at Groton, where the tribe was substantially annihilated. On January 14, 1638 (O. S.), Richard participated in the adoption of the " Fundamental Order," the first written Con- stitution known to history. He is known to have owned his share of the undivided lands of the Colony and also the following lands, which had been di- vided and set apart to him, viz : 36 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY " One parcell, on which his dwelling house now standeth with yards and gardens beinge, contayninge by estimacon two acres and three rods (more or less) abbuttinge on the highway lead- inge from Georg Steels to the Great Swampe on the East and on Wm. Holtons land on the west and on Will. Andrews land on the south and on John Pierces land on the north. " One parcell of upland contayneing by estimacon two acres and three rods (more or less) abbuttinge on the highway lead- ing from Georg Steels to the Great Swampe on the east, and on the land now common called Rocky Hill on the west, and on the highway leading from the Towne over Rocky Hill toward the west, on the north and on Giles Smiths land on the south. " One parcell lyeing on the east side of the Great River con- tayneing by estimation four acres (more or less) abuttinge on the Great River on the west, and on Thomas Alcots land on the east and on Thomas Bunses land on the north and on John Moris' land on the south. (A parcell stricken out here Transcriber). " One parcell, which he received of William Holton, con- tayneing by estimation four acres be it more or less abutting on (sic) land belongeing to ye sayde Richard Rislea for a house lot on the east and on Wm. Blumfieldes land on the west and on the south and on John Bamides land on the north. " One parcell of upland contayneing by estimation two acres and one roode (be it more or less) which he received in ex- change for a psill contayneing by estimation two acres and three roodes which psill now so exchanged abutteth on Georg Steeles land on the east and on John Bayses land on the west and on the highway leadding frome the Towne to Rock Hill on the north." Richard Risley was married about 1640 to Mary , who was probably born in England. After the death of her husband, Richard, she became the second or third wife of Will Hill (Hills), who was also one of the landed proprietors of Hartford. He lived at Hockanum, on the east side of the " Great River," and was possessed of some military talent. On May 28, 1653, the General Court THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 37 passed the following act, which constitutes the first corporate recognition of the territory east of the Great River. It reads as follows : " The inhabitants on the east side of the Great River are exempt from training with the towns on the west side this pres- ent time and are to meet on the east side as Will Hill (Hills) shall appoint, and train there together, and so continue on their training day until the court takes further order; and Will Hill (Hills) is to return the names of those who do not meet according appointment, as notice shall be given them." This act of the General Court was never repealed until the incorporation of the town of Glastonbury in 1690, and the town of East Hartford in 1794. The date of the death of Mary Risley Hill is probably prior to 1680. The proof of the marriage of Mary with Mr. Hill (Hills) is found in the inventory of Richard Risley's estate and the book of distribution in the Hartford clerk's office, p. 219, it is recorded that on Feb. 26, 1680, Thomas Bunse bought land of Wm. Hill in Podunk Swamp, which formerly belonged to Richard Risley and came to said Hill by right of his wife Mary, " relict of said Risley." The land was a part of the early undivided lands belonging to Richard Risley and others of Hartford. Richard and Mary Risley had three children: 2 Sarah. 3 Samuei.. 4 Richard. Who after Richard's death were reared in the family of Wm. Hill, who married Mary Risley. SECOND GENERATION 2 SARAH RISLEY (Richard^), born 1641. Nothing positive is known of Sarah. It is supposed, how- ever, that she married a Haynes of East Hartford. 3 SAMUEL RISLEY (Richard'), born Nov. 1, 1645, died July 8, 1670. At the time of his death he was a resident of the northerly portion of Glastonbury known then, as now, as Naubuck. It is supposed that Samuel never married. The General Court made him a freeman in 1668. Inventory of his estate filed show- ing 29£. 4s. lOd. taken by Nathaniel Willet and Niccols Si- born. Court Records page 102, 1st Sept., 1670. Creditors to meet 2nd Wednesday in Nov. next. Nov. 9th, 1670, court granted Thomas Edwards administration on the estate and he was directed to pay debts so far as the estate would go. In the inventory it appears that Samuel owed his brother Richard a debt. No mention is made of a widow or children. The court granted Thomas Edwards a discharge. (See Court Records Hartford pages 102-104). 4 RICHARD RISLEY (Richard'), born August 2, 1648. Married prior to 1668 probably when he and his wife were " admitted to full communion in the First Church of Hart- ford." In 1683 there is a record there, that three of their chil- dren were baptized in this church. Under date of May, 1687, it appears they had children baptized whose names are obli- terated. The following appears in the bapismal record: " Child to Richard Risley : Mary daughter to Richard Risley baptized April 23rd, 1693: Hannah (Anna or Anner), baptized April 12th, 1695." The defective church record and the interim of time between marriage and birth and baptism records may be explained by THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 39 the fact that Richard and wife lived on the east side of the " Great River," south of the Hockanum river both of which rivers must be crossed by boats. The Highway between Hart- ford and East Hartford had not been constructed and the roadway parallel to the east side of the river was hardly opened. Richard was a man of some prominence in Hockanum for more than three quarters of a century, owing a large amount of real estate on which houses and farm buildings were erected. He was made a freeman by the General Court in 1669. He was elected " fence viewer " for the east side December 31st, 1687, again Dec. 21st, 1692; Dec. 27th, 1694; Dec. 26th, 1695, Dec. 23rd, 1697. In the Connecticut town records the name is spelled in various ways. Richard was a descendant of one of the original proprietors of the undivided lands east of the Great River. On July 5th, 1731, the grant contained 4,428 acres; commissioners were chosen to make division of 1305 acres of this land. Richard was granted in this division lot No. 78 in the second tier of lots beginning at Windsor. Following are the bounds of this lot : " 77 to George Knight bounded * * * south upon Richai'd Risley." " 78 to Richard Risley, bounded north upon George Knight and south upon Arthur Smith." " 79 to Arthur Smith bounded north upon Richard Risley." The land records of Hartford show that Richard owned the following other real estate east of the River: " One parcell of land, which he bought of Mr. John Crow, being upland lyeing on the east side of Connecticut River and contains about 330 acres be it more or less. It being one mile and a half in length and 110 rods in breadth and is abutted east on the Comons, and west on the sd. Mr. Crowes land and north on land belonging to Mr. Wm. Westwoods heirs, and south on land belonging to Mr. Giles Hamlin as appears by his deed dated the 6th day of June, 1682, and the 14th of Janu- ary, 1683, acknowledged before John Allen. Assist." " One parcell of land, which he bought of Nathaniel Willet as administrator to the estate of Jeremy Adams lyeing on the 40 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY east side of Connecticut river, which is all that piece or parcell of land, which did belong to the said Jeremy Adams, lyeing at a place comonlj called Hockanum (except 10 acres of the west end of the said land, which was by the sayd Jeremy Ad- ams engaged unto his late wife, Rebekah Adams, her natural life) and after her decease, during the reversion thereof to be and belong to the sayd Richard Risley, the whole containing by estimation 252 acres be it more or less abutting on Hoc- kanum meadow on the west, on the Comons on the east, and is three miles in length on Mr. Tho. Wells his land on the north and on land now belonging to Joseph Hills on the south, which formerly was Gregory Wintertons as appears by his deed dated 29th of Feb., 1683, and acknowledged the 8th of March, 1683-4, before John Tallcot, Assist." The two parcells above are recorded Jan. 14, 1684. " Whereas their hath been a controversy between Samuel Wells and Richard Risley both of Hartford in the Colony of Connecticut respecting a dividing line between the lands of said Wells and Risley on which their dwelling houses now stand at Hockanum in said Hartford." " One parcell of upland partt whereof he bought of Richard Wrislea and another part he bought of Wm. Holton and an- other part he bought of Ralph Keeler and another part of Hinnery Wackla containing by estimation 41 acres be it more or less abutting on John Halles land sinor. on the south and on George Hubberds land on the north and on the hyway on the east and on the west." " One parcell land of which he bought of Richard Rizley, lyeing on the east side of Connecticut River, containing by estimation 31 acres and 1 rod, and is 100 rod north and south and fifty rod east and west, and the east lyne runs north and south 100 rods from the east end of sayd Gaines cowyard or stak yard, and abuts on the sayd Rizleys land on the east, and on the south and on the west, and on land sometimes Mr. West- woods on the north as appears by his deed, dated Feb. 11th, 1687, signed and sealed by said Richard Rizley and acknowl- THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 41 edged before John Allyn one of the Councill the same day, and recorded Feb. 14th, 1687." (Page 275). " One parcell Ijeing by Hockanum river, containing by esti- mation 30 acres, be it more or less, pt. whereof he bought of John Moda and another pt. of John Halles and another pt. of Richard Wrisla and another pt. of James Coll, abutting on a hyway on the east, and on Hockanum river on the west, and on the devident lyne between the south and north side on the north." " One certain piece or parcell of upland situate lying and being within the township of Hartford and on the east side of the Great River and is 6 acres by measure, which six acres of upland lyeth on the west side of a parcell of upland that the sayd John Bidwell bought of Edmund Oneal and joyneth to it and abutts east upon it and the abovesayd. Six acres of up- land abutts south on land of Phillip Smith, north upon land belonging to heirs of John Forbs, and west upon my own land and shall go so far west from the lands of John Bidwell that he bought of Edmund Oneal as shall make six acres and no more." " One measure or tract of land situate lyeing and being in Hartford on ye east side of Connecticut river butted and bounded as followeth : North on James Forbs, south on land belonging to Phillip Smith and John Dixsen, and partly on my own land, and east on land belonging to Thomas Spencer and Daniel Bigelow and west on Dan'l Gaines being 120 rods from west to east at least, and being 61 rods from north to south." " One certain piece or parcell of land lyeing and Being in the town of Hartford aforesayd being 13 Rodds in breadth from north to south and 11 on the east side of the Great River butting on Daniel Gaines his land west north and east, on sayd James Forbs own land and south on sayd Richard Risley's land for him the sayd James Forbs." Richard is named in the Will of Thomas Burnham Oct. 11th, 1688, (Vol. v., p. 87-8). 42 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Richard was named as one of the overseers in the will of Wilham Hills Dec, 1693, (Vol. V., p. 168-170). Richard was a witness to the will of Phillip Moore, sr., 16th of April, 1693, (Vol. V, p. 207-8). Richard gave a mortgage to Sarah Haynes, widow and gave a deed of the same property to Mary Haynes who was the wife of Deacon John Haynes of the First Church of East Hartford. Richard on March 16th, 1716, gave a deed to Jeremiah Risley, in which he describes himself as " senior." (Sec. 1 Hartford Probate Record (Mannwaring) p. 70- 81). The name of Richard's wife has not been discovered. Their children were, dates and order of births being un- known. 5. John. 6. Samuel. 7. Thomas ; d. in New Jersey ; no issue, sec. will. 8. Nathaniel. 9. Jonathan. 10. Richard, Jr. 11. Jeremiah. 12. Charles; no children known. 13. Mary; baptized April 23, 1693 (nothing known). 14. Hannah (Anna or Anner), baptized April 12th, 1695. THIRD GENERATION 5 JOHN RISLEY {Richardr, Richard'), married Mary Arnold, who survived him. He was made a freeman and became a fence viewer in Hockanum in 1698 ; he was rate collector for the First Church of East Hartford for several years and oper- ated a ferry, which took members of the church, living east of the Hockanum river to the house of worship, for which the church at different intervals paid him sums of money. Richard^ deeded lands in East Hartford to his son John Risley as follows : " One certain piece of parcell of land situate lying and being in the limits of the town of Hartford aforesaid on the east side of the great river at a place commonly called Hoccanum and is sixteen rods in width next the highway and so to run east that width to the three mile End, which parcell of land is bounded east the undivided land west on a highway south on land belonging to the said Richard Risley north with land of Mr. Samuel Wells." (Entered Hartford Land Records Apr. 13th, 1713, Vol. 2, p. 195). John died November, 1755, leaving a will, dated January, 1753, which was admitted to Probate in Hartford September 2nd, 1755. Timothy was appointed his father's executor. This will was witnessed by Jonathan Hills, his brother, Jonathan Risley, and Richard Risley, son of Samuel. In November, 1755, an inventory of this estate was recorded in Book 17, p. 198, of the Hartford Probate Records. The following is a copy of his will : " I, John Risley, of Hartford, in the County of Hartford, and Colony of Connecticut in New England, being well in health and of sound mind and memory, make and ordain this instrument to be my Last Will, Revoking all former Wills by 44 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY me made. My will is that my just debts and funeral Expenses be well and truly paid and discharged by my Executor here- after mentioned. Item — I will give unto Mary my Well Beloved Wife the one third part of all my Moveable Estate to be her own forever and at her Dispose and the one Third Part of all my Real Estate during her life. Item — I give unto my Son John Risley the sum of Ten Pounds old Tennor Money to be Paid by my Executor. Item — I give unto my daughter Elizabeth the sum of Ten Pounds old Tennor Money to be paid by my Executor. Item — I give unto my Daughter Hannah the sum of Ten Pounds old Tennor Money to be paid by my Executor. Item — I give unto my daughter Mabel the sum of Ten Pounds old Tennor Money to be paid by my Executor. Item — I give unto my Daughter Thankful the sum of Ten Pounds old Tenor Money to be paid by my Executor. Item — I give unto my Daughter Martha the sum of Ten Pounds old Tennor Money to be paid by my Executor. Item — I give unto my Son Timothy all the remainder of my estate both Real and Personal wheresoever and whatsoever to be his own forever and at his own Dispose. I do hereby appoint my Son Timothy to be my Executor to this my last will. Dated in Hartford January the A. D. 1753. Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared to be my Will : ' In the Presents of us Jonathan Hills, Jonathan Risley, John Risley (seal). Richard Risley. He left the following children : 15 John, jr., m. Hannah Keeney. 16 Elizabeth, m. McCleve. 17 Hannah, m. Van Sant. 18 Mabel, m. Webster. 19 Thankful, m. Deming. 20 Martha, m. Eelmore. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 45 21 Timothy, died about 1777, and left his estate to his brother and sisters. e SAMUEL RISLEY {Richardr, Richard^), married Re- becca Gaines August 1, 1704 (Hartford Book of Distributions). Died 1756 in Glastonbury. His will was admitted to Probate April 6, 1756. He was made a " Freeman " prior to Decem- ber 23, 1703. He was chosen a Fenceviewer for the Hocka- num district of Hartford at the election of December 23, 1703 ; again on December 16, 1707, and again on December 16, 1712. In 1713 he moved into the town of Glastonbury where he lived and died. He deeded land in this town to his son Samuel. The Glastonbury historian says : " Risley," " Wrisley " this name is a contraction of " Wriothesley " a name in the English peerage also pronounced " Risley." Thomas was named as Executor of his father's will. Richard deeded lands to his " son Samuel " as follows : " Two pieces or parcells of land situate lying and being on the east side of Connecticut River in the town of Hartford aforesaid. One parcell of said land is lying at a place commonly called Hoccanum containing by estimation eleven acres be the land more or less founded east on the street or high- way west on the meadow north with the land of Mr. Samuel Wells south on my own land to be fifteen rods at the east end next to the street in width and so to continue that width to the west end of said lott with a dwelling house erected upon the said land also more, one parcell of land lying or being part of the land that I bought of John Crow deceased ; butted north on land of Jeremiah Risley as may apear by a deed from his father and to begin as far west as the said Jeremiah Risley's land and there butts west on my own land south on land of Thomas Spencer, east on common or undivided land." Deed dated March 3, 1716-7. Recorded March 28, 1719. Vol. 3, p. 228. Following is a copy of Samuel Risley's will : " In the name of God Amen this 9th day of May, 1752, I, Samuel Risley of Glastonbury being, of a disposing mind and memory (thro* 46 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY God's Goodness) do make and ordain this to be my last will and Testament as follows: My mind and will is that my just debts and funeral charges be first paid out of my moveable Estate. I give and bequeath to my Beloved Wife Rebecca one hun- dred and fifty pounds out of my moveable Estate old Tennor and also ye free use and improvement of ye one half of my dwelling house and cellar and three acres of land by said house as long as she shall Remain my widow. I give and bequeaith to my son Samuel Risley ye sum of ten pounds old Tennor out of my moveable Estate. I give and bequeath to my 2nd son Richard Risley one hun- dred and fifty pounds old Tennor money. I give and bequeath to my 4th son Job Risley the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds old Tennor Money. I give and bequeath to my 3rd son David Risley his heirs and assigns forever the one half of the Lott of land whereon he now dwells in Hartford on the south side including in ye five acres of land and dwelling house, which I gave him before, the said David paying to my Executors hereafter mentioned ye sum of one hunderd and fifty pounds old Tennor. I give and bequeath to my son Oliver Risley his heirs and assigns forever the other half of my Lott of land, lying in Hartford aforesaid on the south side being about fifty acres, he paying to my said Executors ye sum of one hundred pounds old Tennor money. I give and bequeath to my youngest son Thomas Risley and to his heirs and assigns forever all that Lott of land and build- ings whereon I now dwell and all the rest of my Estate both real and personal whatsoever, he paying to my daughter Re- becca Loveland ye sum of fifty pounds old Tennor money and also to my daughter Ruth Hollister the sum of fifty pounds old Tennor money and also to my daughter Sarah Risley the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds old Tennor money, and also to my grand daughter Abigal Risley ye sum of fifty pounds old Tennor money. And I do ordain and appoint my said son Thomas Risley to be sole Executor to this my Last Will and THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 47 Testament and do publish, pronounce and declare this instru- ment to be my Last Will and Testament. Samuel Risley (seal). In presence of X John Wells. His mark. Jonathan Wells. Mary Wells." Samuel and Rebecca's children were: 22 Samuel, jr. 23 Richard. 24 David. 25 Job, mar. 1st Mary, dau. of Ephraim Bidwell, Oct. 17, 1741, d. April 15, 1742; mar. 2d Beriah, dau. of Jos. Fox, July 8, 1742, and had 11 children. 26 Oliver. 27 Thomas, mar. Elizabeth, dau. of Wm. Burnham, July 15, 1749; had 5 children. 28 Rebecca, mar. Loveland. 29 Ruth, mar. Hollister. 30 Sarah. 7 THOMAS RISLEY (Richard\ Richard^) Prior to December 19, 1710, he was made a " Freeman " at the same time he was chosen " Hay-ward " for Hoccanum Meadows, these meadows being common property and the hay was distributed to the land proprietors. He was also Col- lector for East Hartford Church 1706. (Established 1700.) Prior to 1726 he went with his brothers Richard, jr., and Jere- miah, to Gloucester Co., N. J. He purchased land with his brother Richard, jr., and others, June 9, 1726. On December 5, 1740, Thomas made a will which was ad- mitted to probate and recorded in the office of Secretary of State, New Jersey, June 4, 1746. No evidence of his marriage He willed to his " brother John Risley of Hartford in Xew England five shillings, current lawful money of America." He then bequeathed to his " Brother Richard Risley's son, Rich- ^8 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY ard Risley," and to his " Brother Richard Risley's son Peter Risley." Particular attention is called to the remainder of the bequests in this will. The following is a copy of Thomas Risley's will: " I, Thomas Risley of Great Eggharbour, in the County of Gloucester, in the western division of the Province of New Jersey, yeoman, do make and declare this my last will and Testament, in manner and form following, that is to say touch- ing my worldly estate after my just debts and funeral expenses are paid out of my Personal estate, I Give and Bequeath to my Brother John Risley of Hartford in New England five shillings current lawful money of America. Item — I give and bequeath to my Brother Richard Risley's son Richard Risley and to his heirs and assigns forever all that part of my Tract of land that lyes between John Coven- hoven and my brother Richard Risley's land, to be bounded as follows : Beginning at John Covenhoven south eastermost comer by the Bay and to Run Thence by the Bay northeast- erly bounding on the Bay twenty one chains and then from the first mentioned John Covenhoven south eastermost corner by the Bay it runs then North Westerly Bounding on the said John Covenhoven's meadow and upland one hundred chains to a little creek called the Back Creek that runs into Absequan Creek, then it is bounded by the several courses of the said Back Creek North Easterly and on a strait line nine chains and then to run in a Strait line to the end of the Twenty one chains first extended by the Bay containing one hundred and fifty acres of land and meadow be the same more or less. Item — I give and bequeath to my Brother Richard Risley's son Peter Risley and to his heirs and assigns forever one moyety and half part of the Remaining part of my land and Meadow and is Situated and bounded as follows : Beginning at the end of the Twenty one chains from the said John Covenhoven South Eastermost Corner on the Bay which is the front of the Meadow that I give your Brother Richard Risley and from his Corner along the Bay north east- THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 49 erlj bounding on the Bay so far as then Running a Strait Line up to the Edge of the upland and then along the Edge of the upland to the land given to his Brother Richard Risley then Bounding by the Same to ye place of Beginning excluding half of the aforesaid remaining part of my meadow and the upland is lying on the north east side of the land that I give your brother Richard Risley and adjoining to it and Begin- ning where his line enters into the woods and then to bound by the same line up into the woods so far as then Running a strait line across that Part of my land to my Brother Richard Risleys land Then to Bound by the same down to the edge of the meadow and then along the edge of the meadow to the first place of Beginning to Enclude half of the aforesaid re- ra'xining part of my land. Item — I give and bequeath to my Brother Richard Risleys son Thomas Risley and to his heirs and assigns forever all the Residue of my aforesaid tract of land and my further Will and mind is that I doe hereby Give, order and appoint that my Brother Richard Risleys Sons Peter and Thomas Risley in Consideration of my said land so as aforesaid to them Given and Bequeathed shall each and every of them well and Truly pay or cause to be payed to my Brother Richard Ris- leys Daughter Sarah Risley the Sum of two pounds and ten shillings lawful current money of America and that at or be- fore such time as she shall attain to the age of twenty one years. Item — 1 give and Bequeath to my Brother Richard Risleys youngest Daughter Rebecca Risley my bed and furniture. Item — I Give and Bequeath to my aforesaid Brother Rich- ard Risley's son Richard Risley all the Residue of my estate and I do nominate and appoint my Brother Richard Risleys son Richard Risley Executor of this my Last Will and Tes- tament hereby revoking and making null and void all other wills and bequeaths heretofore made Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal 50 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY this twenty-fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Forty. Thomas Risley (seal). Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared by the Testator in the presence of us Japhet Leeds Richard Philpotts Japhet Leeds Jr." Be it Remembered that on the fourth day of June Ano Dom. 1746 Before me John Ladd Surrogate of the County of Gloucester Japhet Leeds one of the witnesses to the within written Will who on his Solemn affirmation according to Law did declare and affirm that he Saw Thomas Risley the testator therein named Sign and Seal the same and heard him pro- nounce, publish and Declare the within written instrument to be his last Will and Testament and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of sound and Disposing Mind, Memory and understanding to the Best of his knowledge and Belief and that at the same time Richard Philpotts and Japhet Leeds Junr. the other Subscribing Witnesses were present and Subscribed their names as Witnesses to the within Will together with this Deponent in presence of the Said Testator. Japhet Leeds. Affirmed at Great Eggharbour in the County of Glouces- ter the day and year aforesaid Before me John Ladd Surrogate. 'to" Be it Remembered that the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Risley being duly proved as abovesaid Probate and Letters Testamentary were granted by his Excellency Jona- than Belcher Esq. Governor of the Province of New Jersey Etc. unto Richard Risley the Executor in the said Will Named he being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God well and Truly to Perform the Said Will and Exhibit a true and Perfect Inventory and Render a Just account when THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 51 thereunto Lawfully required. Given under the Prerogative Seal of the said Province at Burlington the twenty seventh day of May A. D. 1748. Chas. Read Regr. Thomas apparently died without issue. 8 NATHANIEL RISLEY, M. D. {Richardr, Richard^), married Elizabeth . Richard' deeded lands to his " son Nathaniel " as follows : " One piece of upland with a Dwelling House and Orchard and Abutts South and West on the lands of David Hills, north with land of Jonathan Risley, east upon ye Countrey Highway be it more or less as to number of acres, Also one piece of upland that Lyeth on ye east side of ye Countrey Highway over against ye school house and Abutts south upon land belonging to the heirs of the late Jonathan Hills dec'd. North with ye land of Jonathan Risley, west upon ye Coun- trey Highway east upon common or undivided lands be it more or less as to number of acres. Also one piece of upland and in part of a lotte that was formerly Mr. Crows and which I bought of him and Abutts west with Mr. Crows Land or ye land belonging to his heirs North upon Forbes his lands east with ye lands of John Bidwell and South with land belonging to ye heirs of Phillip Smith De- ceased, that is to say all my interest in ye last mentioned pieces of land that I have not disposed of also one Fourth part of my interest in the undivided lands." (Deed dated Oct. 19, 1728. Recorded Oct. 1, 1730. Book 5, p. 246.) Richard' deeded lands to his " son Nathaniel " as follows : " One piece or parcell of land Situate lying and being on the east side of Connecticut River in the Township of Hart- ford aforesaid. Which parcell of land is lying at a place Commonly called Hoccanum. Bounded West on the mead- ows North on land of my Son John Risley South on my own land East on Common or undivided land to be 10 rods in 52 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY width at the West End and to continue that width forty rods and then to be 15 rods in width and so to continue that width to the highway or country road and on the East Side of the highway to be fourteen rods and a half in width and so to continue that width to the East End of the Three Mile Lotts for him my Son Jonathan Risley." (Deed dated 21 November, 1732.) Richard Risley granter and Subscriber hereof personally appeared in Wethersfield Jan'y 12th day 1720-21 and ac- knowledged ye above written Instrument to be his free act and deed before me. David Goodwin, Justice Peace. Richard signed his name by a " X." (Recorded Nov. 23, 1741, Vol. 6, p. 448.) Nathaniel made a will dated Sept. 8, 1741, which was ad- mitted to Probate Dec. 1, 1741 (Book 13, p. 103 Probate Record). The witnesses to the will were Jonathan Hills, Joseph Bidwell and his brother Jonathan Risley. The Pro- bate records describe him as " Doctor." The Inventory shows he left a considerable estate to his wife and children. The following is a copy of Nathaniel Risley's M. D. will: " In the Name of God Amen this twenty eighth day of Sepetmber, 1741 — I, Nathaniel Risley of Hartford and Col- ony of Connecticut, New England being sick but through Gods goodness of sound mind and memory taking to mind that it is appointed for all men once to die — do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament: — Hereby Revoking all former Wills by me heretofore made — That is to Say I resine my Sole into the hands of God that gave it to me and my Body to the earth in Hopes of a Glo- rious Resurrection at the Last day through Merits of the Lord Jesus Christ My Redeemer and as Touching such worldly goods where with it hath pleased God to Bless me with in this my last Will I give and dispose of in the follow- ing manner: THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 53 My Will is that my just debts and funeral expenses be well and Truly paid and Discharged by my Executor hereafter mentioned. I give unto my well beloved wife fifty pounds as money out of my monable estate at Inventory prisce to be her own for- ever and at her own dispose and all so the improvement of one third part of all my Real and personal estate so long as re- maining my widdo and in case my three daughters hereafter mentioned Depart this life before they arrive to the age of Eighteen years my Will is that my well Beloved Wife Eliza- beth Risley have the use and improvement of all my Estate both Real and personal so long as remaining my widdo. My Will is I leave in the hands of my well Beloved wife twenty pounds personal estate to be disposed of and to Eliza- beth Bigallow now living with me if she faithfully serves out her time and my said wife See cause to dispose of the same to her. My Will is that my Executor here after mentioned shall carefully dispose of fifty pounds of my Estate in Schooling my three daughters here after mentioned in instructing them in Reading and Righting. I give and confirm all my remaining Estate boath Real and personal to my three Daughters Elizabeth, Zervia, and De- borah to be Equally divided between them to be their own forever and at their own dispose and lastly I doe hereby ap- point and ordain my well beloved wife Elizabeth Risley to be my Executor to this my Last Will and Testament. In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this day year above mentioned. Nathaniel Risley (seal). In the presence of us Jonathan Hills Jonathan Risley Joseph Bidwell." Their children were : 31 Elizabeth. 54? the descendants of richard risley 32 Zervia. 33 Deborah. 9 JONATHAN RISLEY (Richard^ Richard^), married Dorothy , and died August, 1762. He was school commissioner several years. He died intes- tate. Administration Proceedings were taken in Probate Court. An Inventory of his estate was filed in Probate Court showing he left considerable property. (Book 19, p. 35, Probate Records.) " At a Court of Probate held at Hartford for the district of Hartford, January 21, 1763, on account of the adminis- tration of the estate of Jonathan Risley late of Hartford, deceased, was now exhibited in Court, Moses Risley adminis- trator by which account he had paid in debts and charges the sum of £8, 18s. which amount the Court allows Also that said Administrator now moves this Court for an order of distri- bution whereupon this Court appointed Sam'l Wells, David Hills and Jonathan Wells of Hartford or any two of them to make a disposition of said estate viz: Dorothy, widow of the said deceased, one third part of the estate when the debts and charges are subtracted therefrom, to be her own property and one third of the lands and buildings of the said deceased for her during life, and to Moses Risley, eldest son of the de- ceased, a double share of the remaining estate, and to Na- thaniel, Richard, Joshua and Rebecca Risley children of the said deceased to such of them as such estate allows after tak- ing what they have been already paid as part of their pro- portion and share of said estate and make returns thereof to this Court." (Book 19, p. 491.) Afterwards other proceedings were had in Probate Court, February 9, 1765. It was decreed as follows : " After amount of debts and charges the estate of Jona- than Risley late of Hartford deceased, exhibited by Moses and Nathaniel Risley, Administrators by which they had been paid £8, 8s, 3d. which is allowed: Also that said adminis- THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 56 trators now exhibit a description of said estate under the hands of David Hills, Samuel Wells and John Wells distrib- uted by this Court which distribution this Court agrees and orders is to be kept on file." (Book 19, p. 128.) Deeds of conveyance of the real estate were made between the mother and the children with the exception of Richard, who does not appear to have joined in the conveyances. Dor- othy may have been the second wife of Jonathan. In the East Hartford Cemetery (estabhshed in 1710) there is a headstone which states : " Abigail wife of Jonathan Risley died May 13th 1750 in her forty seventh year." (The ear- liest church records now extant in the First Church of East Hartford is 1745.) Their children were: 34 MosEs. 35 Nathaniel. 36 Richard (a soldier of the Revolutionary War in Col. Jemson's Dragoons of N. Y., who captured Major Andre.) 37 Joshua (or Jerusha). 38 Rebecca (married Caleb Benjamin). 10 RICHARD RISLEY, JR. {Richard-, Richard^), mar- ried Esther, of East Hartford. He emigrated from Hartford with his brothers Thomas and Jeremiah to the township of Eggharbour, County of Gloucester, on the Sound or Bay of Absecon Creek, N. J. John Rudd deeded lands in Gloucester Co., N. J., to Rich- ard and Thomas Risley and others as follows : " Whereas there is a certain tract or parcell of land Situ- ate in the county of Gloucester in New Jersey on the sea coast on a certain island called Absecon Beach surveyed by John Worlidge for Thomas Rudd and duly Returned and Recorded in the Surveyor Generals office by Thomas Gardi- ner Surveyor General being four hundred acres and something more as by draught and Certificate thereof appears and lyes on the north east end of said Beach by the sea the Sound and 56 THE DESCENDAKTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Absecon Inlet and being about seven hundred perches in length more or less." " Richard Risley eleven eighty third parts, Thomas Risley six eighty third parts and two-third parts of one eighty-third part." " Note, Richard Risley hath eleven parts." (Recorded in office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J., in Liber P. W. J. Deeds— p. 29.) He made his will dated May 2, 1737. He died prior to June 17, 1740. On that date his will was admitted to probate and is now on record in the Secretary of the State's office, Trenton, N. J. The following is a copy of Richard's will : " In the name of God amen, the second day of May, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and thirty- seven, I Richard Risley, senior, of the township of Egghar- bour, in the County of Gloucester, in the Province of New Jersey, Yoeman being of perfect mind and memory, thanks be given unto God, therefore calling unto mind the mortahty of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testa- ment that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend to God that give it, and my body I recommend to the Earth, to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executrix. Nothing doubting, but at the General Ressurrection I shall receive the same again by the Mighty power of God, and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me with this life, I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. Imprimis — I give and bequeath unto my two sons, Peter Risley and Thomas Risley, the land whereon I now live con- taining three hundred acres of up land and meadow. Begin- ing at the line that divides my son Richard's plantation and so from thence down to the Sound or Bay of Absecon THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 57 Creek to be equally divided between them, both the upland meadow shall be so equally divided that the one half shall be equal to the other half, both in quantity and value, only that my son, Thos. Risley, shall have that part joining to the house together with the dwelling house and other improve- ments about it as far as the Kings road and then as much of the remainder of that tract as will make it equal in value and quantity and each of the said divisions so made as afore- said, I do give unto them severally (viz) the one Equal to my son Peter Risley and the Equal half to my son Thomas Ris- ley by them freely to be possessed and enjoyed by them and their heirs forever. Item — I give and bequeath all the rest of my land such as Cedar Swamps and Beeches (except a piece of land con- taining about Ten acres lying at the head of Absecon Creek, which I give to my son, Peter, and to my son, Thomas, to be Equally divided between them and their heirs forever and all other out lands, I give and bequeath unto my three sons, Peter Risley and Thomas Risley to be equally divided among them to be freely possessed and enjoyed by them and their heirs forever. Item — I give and bequeath unto my five daughters, Mary, Jemimah, Esther, Sarah and Rebecca (viz) after all my just Debts are paid to be Equally divided among them two thirds of all my moveable estate Equally divided in value. Item — I give Will and Bequeath unto My Beloved Wife Esther Risley the use of all my movable estate during Widow Hood, but if she shall marry that then she shall have one third part of my movable estate to her own proper use and behoof and the other two thirds shall be equally divided amongst my Daughters as aforesaid and lastly I constitute, make and ordain My Dearl}^ Beloved Wife to be my Execu- trix of this my Last Will and Testament and hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannull all and every other Testaments, 58 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Wills, Legacies and Bequests and Executors by me in any trays before named, Ratifying and Confirming this to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness Whereof I hereto set my hand and Seal this day and year above written. Richard Risley (Seal). Signed, Sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Richard Risley at his last Will and Testament in the presence of the Subscribers. Frederick Steelman, John Conover. David Lindsey." Be it Remembered that on the 17th June A. D., 1740, per- sonally came and appeared before me, Joseph Rose, Surro- gate, John Conover one of the Witnesses to the Within Written Will being sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God did depose that he was present and saw the Avithin named Richard Risley sign and seal and heard him publish, pro- nounce and declare the within written instrument to be his Last Will and Testament and that at the same time the Testator was of sound mind memory and understanding to the best of his knowledge and belief and that at the same time Frederick Steelman and David Lindsley the two other subscribing witnesses as witnesses to the same in the presence of the Testator. Sworn before me the day and year abovesaid. Joseph Rose, Surrogate. Be It Remembered that the last Will and Testament of Richard Risley deceased having been proved as aforesaid Probate and Letters Testamentary were granted by his Ex- cellency Lewis Morris esq. Governor of New Jersey etc. unto Esther Risley sole Executrix in the said Testament named being duly affirmed well and truly to perform the said Will, to exhibit a true and perfect inventory and render a just account when lawfully required. Given under the prerogative Seal of THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 59 the said province at Burin the seventeenth day of June, A. D., 1740." Archd. Horne, Regr. Ac. Their children were : 39 Richard, Jr. 40 Thomas. 41 Peter. 42 Mary. 43 Jemima. 44 Esther.' 45 Sarah. 46 Rebecca. 11 JEREMIAH RISLEY (Richard', Bichard^) It is not certain that Jeremiah is a son of Richard. He may have been a son of Samuel Risley. Richard Risley" on March 16, 1716, executed a deed in which he described himself as " Richard Risley Senior " to Jeremiah Risley deeding lands as follows : — " One messuage or tract of land situate lying and being in Hartford, on the East Side of the Connecticut River, butted and bounded as follows, west on Richard Risley Senior, or the North Curt path that goes across Stony Brook and on James Forbes land North and East on the Common land and South on Richard Risley, being fortj^-three rods in width." (The Deed is dated Mar. 16, 1716-17 and signed " Rich- ard Wrisle." Recorded April 25, 1717, in Vol. 3, p. 107.) No mention is made in the deed of the relationship of these parties. Richard's name is signed to this deed " Wrisle," probably the copyists error in recording as the usual spelling is maintained through the body of the deed " Risley." Jeremiah emigrated to Gloucester Co., N. J., where he died prior to 1796. Sept. 3, 1796, letters of Administration were issued on his estate to Nathaniel Risley. These letters re- main on record in Secretary of State's office in Trenton, N. J. 60 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY It would appear from the letters that they were issued some years after his death or he lived to a great age. It is probable that Nathaniel was his son. Between August 17, 1760 and 1772 lands were conveyed in Gloucester County, N. J., to Richard and Samuel. Grants of land were made between 1765 and 1774 by Peter, Richard and wife, Richard Jr., Richard Sr., Richard and wife and Samuel. These deeds remain of record in Trenton, N. J., The Risleys in New Jersey, Southern Pennsylvania and Maryland are descendants of Richard and Jeremiah. Possibly some of them descended from Samuel a later generation of Hartford Risleys. Jeremiah Risley m. Dinah Gale, of New Jersey. Their children: 47 Samuel. 48 Sarah, b. Mar. 3, 1734 ; m. Read, d. June 4, 1796. 49 Jeremiah, Jr., b. Dec. 14; m. Margaret Doughty. 12 CHARLES RISLEY {Richard\ Richard\) In the church records of East Hartford and in the History of East Hartford by Hon. J. O. Goodwin it is stated that Charles was Collector in 1710. If this is true he must have been a son of Richard or of Samuel. No grandson of Richard could have been of proper age for the office of Collector in 1710. Charles Risley took and gave title of lands in Glastonbury, in 1758. (Glastonbury Land Records, Vol. HI.) 13 MARY RISLEY (Richard^ Richard\) Nothing definitely is known of her except her baptismal record in the First Church of Hartford. 14 HANNAH RISLEY (Anna or Anner) {Richard-, Rich- ard^), baptized April 12, 1695; married Sargt. James Brainerd Dec. 23, 1717 ; died May 7, 1772, aged 77 years. Sargt. James Brainerd was a son of Deacon James Brain- erd and Deborah Dudley. He was born in Haddam, Conn., THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 61 March, 1696-7. His wife's name is spelt " Anner Risley." There is little or no doubt that she was the daughter of Rich- ard Risley. Their children were: 50 Benjamin, b. April 19, 1718. 51 Jedediah, b. August 9, 1720. 52 Rebecca, b. August 15, 1722. 53 James, b. July 9, 1725. 54 Hannah, b. Sept. 3, 1728. 55 Dudley, b. Nov. 4, 1732. 56 OziAs, b. Feb. 16, 1735 ; d. April 22, 1739. 57 Jonathan, b. Dec. 16, 1736. 58 OziAs, b. Feb. 22, 1739; d. Sept. 19, 1743. (See Brainerd Genealogy). FOURTH GENERATION 15 JOHN RISLEY, JR. {John\ Richard\ Richard^), b. ; d. ; m. Hannah Keeney, daughter of Joseph Keeney and wife Hannah, who was daughter of Joseph Hills, Glaston- bury. John Risley's will was presented for Probate Dec. 2, 1777, dated Nov. 7, 1777, and mentioned wife (not named) and children. Children : 59 John 3rd, m. Anna Burnham; d. Feb. 4, 1810 wife, April, 1806. 60 Benjamin. 61 Jonathan, m. Sarah McLeod; b. 1741; d. 1776. 62 Sarah, m. Roberts. 63 Mary, m. Abbey. 64 Hannah, m. Deming. 65 Joshua. 16 ELIZABETH {John\ Richard\ Richard^), married McCleve. 17 HANNAH {John^, Richard', Richard^), married Mr. Van Sant. 18 MABEL {Jo}in\ Richard', Richard^), married Mr. Web- ster a descendant of John Webster, who was Lieutenant Gov- ernor and Governor in 1655, 1656, 1657. 19 THANKFUL (John\ Richard-, Richard^), married Mr. Deming, a descendant of John Deming of Weathersfield. m MARTHA {John\ Richardr, Richard'), married Mr. Elmore. 21 TIMOTHY {John% Richard-, Richard'), died 1777. V THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 63 22 SAMUEL RISLEY (SamueP, Richard', Richard^), b. April 29, 1705; died Glastonbury; buried Eastbury; m. Children : 66 Job. 67 Thomas. 68 Abigail, m. Edward Churchill. 69 Sarah, m. Nathaniel Loomis. 70 Jonathan (?) 71 Charles (?) 23 RICHARD RISLEY {Samuel\ Richard\ Richard^), b. Glastonbury, Ct. ; d. Bolton, Conn. ; m. Hannah Smith, Sept. 24, 1729, Glasonbury, Conn. Children : 72 Gresham. 73 Benjamin, b. Feb. 29, 1744; m. Sally Smith; 2nd Mrs. Eunice Grant Pomeroy. May have been other children. 25 JOB RISLEY {Samuel\ Richard', Richard^), b. , 1714, Glastonbury, Conn. ; d. , 1798 ; m. 1st, Mary Bid- well; d. Apr. 15', 1742; m. 2nd, Beriah Fox; b. , 1721; d. July 9, 1811. Children 2nd marriage: 74 Job, jr., b. Mar. 3, 1743. 75 Reuben, b. June 5, 1745. 76 Benjamin, b. Sept. 26, 1747. 77 Beriah, b. Nov. 21, 1749. 78 Noah, b. Nov. 21, 1752. 79 Mary, b. June 30, 1754. 80 Esther, b. Mar. 5, 1756. 81 Samuel, b. Oct. 21, 1759. 82 George, b. Mar. 21, 1762. 83 Joseph, b. July 30, 1765. 84 Abigail, b. . Dates from Glastonbury book of births, marriages and deaths, page 37. For distribution of estate see Hartford Pro- bate records, 1797, Book 25, p. 202. 64 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Job Risley was a soldier of the American Revolution 1777. Born, lived, died and was buried in Glastonbury, Conn. Job Rislej received deeds of land from his brother Thos. Risley, 1758, Vol. VI, p. 177, Glastonbury Records. Job Risley deeded lands to I. Mosely 1758, Vol. VI, p. 112. Job Risley received deed of lands from Richard Chamberlain 1758, Vol. VI, p. 177. 34 MOSES RISLEY (Jonathan^ Richarcf, Richard'), b. , 1727; d. April 1, 1748; m. Mary Fox (?), b. , 1728; d. Nov. 14, 1808. Both buried in Hockanum Cemetery E. Hartford, Conn. Children : 85 Mary, b. Feb. 5, 1749 ; m. Mr. Hills. 86 Thankful, b. May 6, 1750; m. Joseph Smith. 87 Moses, b. Dec. 28, 1751 ; died young. 88 Moses 2nd, b. Nov. 26, 1752. 89 Abigail, b. Jan. 19, 1755; m, Daniel Brewer. 90 Elijah, b. Dec. 25, 1756. 91 Elisha, b. Jan. 20, 1760. 92 Allen, b. Feb. 6, 1763. 93 MiNDWELL, b. Nov. 23, 1764; m. Eli Risley, living 1739. 94 David, b. Nov. 23, 1766. 35 NATHANIEL RISLEY (Jonathan^ Richard-, Rich- ard'), b. , 1729(?) ; d. ; m. Dorothy. Children : 95 Jonathan, b. Oct. 17, 1749. 96 Nathaniel, b. Jan. 19, 1752. 97 Unmarried son, b. Nov. 3, 1754. 98 Ruth, b. Jan. 22, 1754. 99 Jerusha, b. Apr. 27, 1760. 100 HuLDAH, b. May 19, 1762. 101 Ward, b. July 8, 1764. 102 Jeremy, b. Nov. 30, 1766. 103 George, b. May 28, 1769. THE DESCENDAKTS OF RICHARD RISLEIC 65 36 RICHARD RISLEY (Jonathan^ Richard', Richard^), b. , 1731 ( ?) ; soldier of American Revolution ; m. . Children : 104 Richard, jr., b. Aug. 4, 1754; soldier of Revolu- tion. 105 Solomon (.?), b. July 27, 1779. 37 JOSHUA RISLEY (Jonathan^ Richard\ Richard^), b. ; m. . Children, baptized in East Hartford church: 106 Hannah, baptized Oct. 16, 1768. 107 Comfort, baptized Dec. 10, 1769. 108 Joshua, baptized Aug. 16, 1772. 109 Timothy, baptized Aug. 3, 1777. 110 Anne, baptized May 14, 1779. 111 Mills, baptized May 25, 1784. 112 Normand, baptized June 25, 1786. 38 REBECCA RISLEY {Jonathan^ Richard-, Richard'), b. ; d. ; m. Caleb Benjamin. 44 ESTHER RISLEY (Richard', Richard-, Richard'), m. John Somers Feb. 9, 1747; b. Dec. 30, 1723, Atlantic City, N. J. He was a Revolutionary soldier. Children : 113 Thomas Somers, m. Alice. 114 James Somers, b. Jan. 25, 1745; m. Hannah; d. , 1781. 115 John Somers, b. Aug. 27, 1759; m. Hannah Mc- Lean, b. June 29, 1789, Phila. ; d. June 10, 1816. 116 David Somers, m. 1st Judith Scull, 2nd Rebecca. 117 Esther Somers, b. Oct. 23, 1770; d. Sept. 9, 1846, Ohio; m. John Roberts Sept. 25, 1789; b. May 5, 1767. 118 Abigail Somers, m. Samuel Risley. 119 Polly Somers, m. March, 1779, Joseph Ireland. 120 Druzella Somers, m. Apr. 4, 1784, Elijah Smith. 66 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 49 JEREMIAH RISLEY {Jeremiah\ Richard\ Richard^), b. ; m. Margaret Doughty. Married, lived and died in New Jersey. Children : 121 Nathaniel, b. Mar. 18, 1759; d. , 1796. 122 MiLLicENT, b. , 1761 ; d. — — , 1769. 123 Mary, b. , 1766 ; d. — — , 1766. 124 Samuel, b. , 1764 ; d. , 1764. 125 Edward, b. July 19, 1769; d. Sept. 22, 1841. 126 Sarah, b. Dec. 25, 1771 ; m. Thos. Stedman. 127 (Probably) Joab, b. about 1779. Yl J- 4 FIFTH GENERATION 59 JOHN RISLEY (John% John\ Richard-, Richard'), b. ; d. Feb. 44, 1810; m. Anna Burnham March 8, 1751 (?), daughter of Charles Burnham and wife, Dorothy, who was daughter of Joseph Keeney and wife, Hannah. His wife, -cA-^:' ff\-C^-.. Anna, was baptized Mar. 4, 1733, and died Apr., 1806. He ^^■ lived in East Hartford and the distribution of his estate was dated April 6, 1811. X ,-? r Children : 128 Anne, baptized June 29, 1749( .'') ; m. Jones. 129 Dorothy, baptized Oct. 17, 1749(?); m. Stephen Porter. /^ , , . iQ.,. .^-, _ ^y^.,/ 130 John, baptized Mar. 2, 1752. / / 131 AsAXD, baptized Sept. 15, 1754 ; m. ; had issue. 132 Martha, baptized May 8, 1756; m. James Morris. 133 Tryphena, baptized Aug. 12, 1758; m. Mathew or Matthias Treat. 134 Violet, baptized Feb. 14, 1761 ; m. Daniel Dem- ing. 135 Lucy, baptized May 20, 1764; m. Elijah Deming. 136 Elizabeth, baptized June 11, 1767; m. Theophilus Crane. 137 Comfort, baptized 1769 ; m. James Porter. 138 Russell(?), baptized July 23, 1773. 60 BENJAMIN RISLEY {John, jr.\ John\ Richard-, Rich- ard'), b. — — , East Hartford, Ct. ; m. . Children : 139 Timothy 1st, baptized May 3, 1752. 140 Mary, baptized May 8, 1757. 141 Timothy 2nd, baptized Apr. 30, 1758. 142 Levi, baptized July 19, 1760. 68 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 143 Nehemiah, baptized Oct. S, 1762. 144 Sarah, baptized Sept. 30, 1764. 145 Chloe, baptized Jan. 18, 1767. 146 Allen, baptized July 30, 1769. 147 Michael, baptized Aug. 12, 1771. 148 Theodore, baptized Oct. 10, 1773; d. Dec. 14, 1855. 67 THOMAS RISLEY {Samuel\ Samuel^ Richard-, Rich- ard^), b. , 1729(?) ; d. ; m. Elizabeth Burnham (dau. Wm. B. Hartford), July 15, 1749. Child : 149 Thomas, jr. (Said to have had 5 children). It is also stated that he had in addition, Abigal, m. Churchill Edwards; Sarah m. Nathaniel Loomis» Jonathan and Charles (?). See "Glastonbury Centennial," 1853, p. 99-200. Thomas Risley was a soldier of the American Revolution m 1779. (Was it Thos., sr., or Thos., jr..?). Thomas Risley deeded lands to Job Risley 1758, Vol. VI, p. 177, Glastonbury records. Charles Risley (?) deeded land to I. Mosely 1758, Vol. VI, p. Ill ib. 72 GRESHAM RISLEY (Richard', Samuel\ Richard', Richard^), b. , 1742, Glastonbury, Conn.; m. Esther Smith ; removed to Hanover, New Hampshire. Children : 150 Asa. 151 Hannah. 152 Esther. 153 Anne. 154 Huldah. 155 Elijah. 156 Martha. 73 BENJAMIN RISLEY (Richard', Samuel\ Richard\ THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 69 Richard^), b. Feb. 29, 1744, Glastonbury, Conn.; d. May 12, 1813. Buried in Oakwood Cem., Warren, Ohio, Pease lot; m. 1st Sally Smith, Glastonbury, Conn. Prior to 1800, Benjamin removed to Rutland, Vt., where he resided for a time. In 1801 he removed to Saratoga Springs, Here, in company with his son-in-law, Gideon Putnam, they developed Congress and other Springs and built Congress Hall. Later he removed to Warren, Ohio. Children of 1st wife: 157 Sally, m. Wells. 158 Doanda, m. Gideon Putnam. 159 Endocia, m. Dr. Clement Blakesley. 160 Polly, m. Isham Taylor. 161 Betsey, m. Dr. John Cleveland. M. 2nd, Mrs. Eunice G. Pomeroy, widow of Daniel Pomeroy, b. April 5, 1754; d. Mar. 14, 1828. Buried in Oakwood Cem., Warren, Ohio. Children of 2nd wife: 162 Phila, b. June 4, 1780; m. James Lyon, Dec. 25, 1794; 11 children, 5 sons and 6 daughters. 163 Laura Grant, b. Nov. 30, 1786, Rutland, Vt. 164 Nancy Pomeroy, b. ; m. Dr. Wm. Lawrence; 10 children. 74 JOB RISLEY, jr. {Joh\ Samuel\ Richard^ Richard^), b. 1743 Glastonbury, Conn.; d. May 23, 1786; m. 1st, Miss Arnold; 2nd, Mary Webster; b. 1744; d. Dec. 7, 1784. Job, jr., was a soldier of the American Revolution. Lived, died in Glastonbury ; buried Hockanum, Ct. Children of Job Risley, jr., and Mary Webster: 165 Russell. 166 Jehiel ("Hiel"), Sea Captain. 167 Elihu (Elisha), died in infancy. 168 Honour (" Onner ") ; m. Elisha Beach, Hartford, Conn., Probate Book 25, p. 202. 169 LucRETiA (" LusRETiA "), m. John Allyn (Allen). 170 Betsey (m. Smith A. INIiller), m. Ebenezer Smith 70 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY (See E. Hartford L. D. Rec. 1803, Vol. 11, p. 28). 171 Polly ("Molly"), m. Benj. Roberts. 172 Prudence, m. Elisha Sage ; mother of Russell Sage, N. Y. 173 Ann, m. Vibberts. 75 ^REUBEN RISLEY {Job\ Samuel^ Richard-, Richard'), b. June 5, 1745; d. , 1811; m. Mercy Miller Apr. 14, 1768, b. , 1735 ; d. June 23, 1817 age 82. Children : 174 Reuben, jr., b. 1769. 175 Mercy, b. 1771 ; m. Mr. Turner. 176 Susie, b. 1773. 177 Waite, b. 1775. 178 Jemima,- b. 1777. 179 RoxiE, b. 1779. 180 Noah, b. 1781. 181 Roger E., b. 1784. 182 Content, b. 1786. 183 Truman (1), b. 1788; d. , 1790. 184 Truman (2), b. 1790 Sept. Reuben Risley was a soldier of the American Revolution in 1777; third corporal under Lieut. Andrus, 6th Co. Conn. Mihtia, 6th Regt. 76 BENJAMIN RISLEY (Job\ Samuel, Richard\ Rich- ard'), b. Sept. 26, 1747; d. June 13, 1822; m. Ann Kil- born Nov. 16, 1768 ; d. Nov. 28, 1819. Children : 185 Elisha, b. Sept. 24, 1770; d. Jan. 21, 1831. 186 Isaac, b. Oct. 10, 1777. 187 Chester, b. June 5, 1774. Benjamin Risley was a soldier of the American Revolution in 1777. 77 BERIAH RISLEY {Job\ Samuel\ Richard', Richard'), THE DESCENDANTS OF EICHARD RISLEY 71 b. Nov. 21, 171^9, Glastonbury, Conn. ; m. Nov. 3, 1772, Joshua Webster. 78 NOAH RISLEY {Joh\ Samuel\ Richard-, Richard^), b. Nov. 21, 1752; d. Dec. 17, 1800; m. Mary, b. , 1754; d. Dec. 1, 1802, aged 48. Child : 188 Lydia, b. , 1787 ; m. Horatio Fish, b. Dec. 26, 1811. 80 ESTHER RISLEY {Joh\ Samuel\ Richard', Richard"), b. March 5, 1756 ; m. Oct. 24, 1777, Samuel Price, jr. 81 SAMUEL RISLEY {Joh\ Samuef, Richard^ Rich- ard"), b. Oct. 21, 1759, Glastonbury; d. April 24, 1837; m. Mary (Polly) Huxford May 13, 1781 ; d. May 6, 1832. Children : 189 Florinda, b. Nov. 7, 1782. 190 Job, b. May 10, 1784. 191 Lydia, b. Feb. 1, 1786. 192 Chester, b. Dec. 4, 1787. 193 Samuel, b. Sept. 7, 1789. 194 Peter Huxford, b. Dec. 29, 1793. 195 HoPESTiLL, b. Dec. 17, 1795. 196 PoELY, b. Sept. 20, 1797. 197 Bathsheba Brewster, b. Sept. 20, 1799. The above data taken from an old bible in the possession of Napoleon Jerome " Wrisley " of Marlborough, Conn. ; the spelling of surname being " Wrisle." There is no authority for changing the spelling as above mentioned, or excuse for it. 82 GEORGE RISLEY {Job\ Samuel, Richard', Richard'), b. Mar. 21, 1762; d. ; m. Anna, b. 1769; d. June 14, 1793, aged 24. He was a representative in the lower house of the Legisla- ture of Conn, from Glastonbury in 1809, 1820, 1821. 72 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 83 JOSEPH RISLEY {Joh\ Samuel\ Richard\ Richard^), b. July 30, 1765, Glastonbury; d. -; m. Anna Smith, 1787. Children : 198 Abigail, m. Seth Deming. (?) 199 Joseph, Jr., m. Horatio's widow. 200 Horatio, m. Miss Lathrop, died at sea, widow m. Joseph, Jr. 201 Titus, unmarried. 202 Beriah, unmarried. 203 TiRZAH, m. Williams. 204< Ann, m. Geo. Hale. 85 MARY RISLEY {Moses\ Jonathan^ Richard\ Rich- ard^), b. Feb. 5, 1749; m. Mr. Hills, East Hartford, Conn. Children : 205 Nancy, m, Williams. 206 Leonard. 207 William H. 208 Abigail, m. Geo. Burnham. 209 Caroline, m. Sylvester Havens. 210 Hepzibah, m. Hosea Howard. 211 Finela, m. Webster, d. — ; left dau. Finela, wife of Edrid B. Augustus, his son, Loren W. Augustus. 88 MOSES RISLEY {Moses*, Jonathan\ Richard-, Rich- ard^), b. Nov. 26, 1752; d. Vienna, N. Y., 1837; m. Ruth , E. Hartford, Conn. ; d. Vienna, N. Y., 1804. Children : 212 Ruth, m. John Abbey. 213 Sally, m. David Loomis, b. Sept. 16, 1783, East Hartford, Conn. 214 Elisha, b. Mar. 24, 1787. 215 Phila, d. young. 216 Mary, m. Simeon Fox, sailor, family not known. 217 Anna. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 73 Lands were deeded to Moses Risley In East Hartford by his brothers, Ehjah, Allen and David, in 1810. The land was a portion of land willed by Moses, sr., to his wife. The deed was acknowledged before Kellogg Hurlburt, Justice of the Peace, Whitestown, N. Y., Oct. 11, 1810. The deed recites the receipt of one hundred dollars from Moses Risley of East Hartford, Conn. It describes the grantors as formerly of East Hartford. The will of Moses Risley is dated June 26, 1821, and witnessed by Allen and David Risley, his brothers. In this will he mentions the names of his " four beloved chil- dren " as given above. The deed and will were never recorded or probated. Moses Risley served in the Revolutionary War. He moved to Vienna, Oneida Co., N. Y., where he died. 89 ABIGAIL RISLEY {Moses\ Jonathan^ Richard\ Rich- ard^) (sister of Elijah, Moses, David and Allen Risley), b. Jan. 19, 1755 ; m. Daniel Brewer, soldier of the Revolution ; lived and died East Hartford, Conn. Children : 218 Samuel Brewer. 219 Reuben Brewer. 220 Abigail Brewer, m. James Hills, E. Hartford, Conn. 221 Allen Brewer. 222 Betsey Brewer, m. Russell Ta34or. 223 Daniel Brewer, Jr. 224 George Brewer. 225 Emily Brewer, m. Alvin Vibbert. 226 Lucy Brewer, m. Bethias Treat, 227 Thankful Brewer, m. Joseph Smith, Sr. 90 ELIJAH RISLEY {Moses\ Jonathan^ Richard-, Rich- ard'), b. Dec. 25, 1756; d. 1841; m. Phoebe Bills, b. July 24, 1761, Hartford, Conn. Elijah was administrator of his father's, Moses, estate. He was a soldier of the Revolution and Sept. 28, 1819, he \ 74 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY was enrolled as pensioner, in the New York agency, at the rate of $8.00 per month to commence May 16, 1818. He re- moved from East Hartford to Whitestown, (now New Hart- ford, N. Y.,) in 1788. In the Federal census of 1790 the name of Elijah and Allen Risley, his brother, appear in this census in Whitestown, N. Y. Whitestown at this time embraced all territory west of a line drawn from Ogdensburg to Pennsylvania line passing through the fort at Fort Schuyler, now Utica. In this terri- tory the census showed 48 families. On July 11, 1793, Elijah Risley, Jedediah Sanger and Samuel Wells commenced the publication of the Whitestown Gazette; it being the first newspaper printed in New York State west of Albany. This paper has continued its publi- cation until the present time being now (1908) known as the Utica Herald Dispatch. The first issue was printed in a barn which stood back of the present Presbyterian Church in New Hartford, N. Y. A copy of this paper is in the pos- session of the Oneida Historical Society at Utica. Elijah Risley moved from New Hartford to Cazenovia, N. Y. He acquired a tract of land in Cox's patent. He erected a brick house in the forks of the road from Cazenovia to Morrisville, N. Y. He contracted to build the Cherry Valley turnpike from Cherry Valley to Cazenovia. Failure was the result of this enterprise due to a quick-sand swamp. From Cazenovia he moved to Fredonia, Chautauqua County, N. Y., where he died in 1841. Their children were : 228 Betsey, m. Seth Risley. 229 Horace, m. Harmony Root and moved to Illinois. 230 Elijah, Jr. 231 Philena, m. Thomas Warren, both deceased. 232 Fanny, m. James Brigham, both deceased. 233 Phoebe, m. Philip Fellows, both deceased. 234 Sophia, m. Geo.' A. French, merchant, Dunkirk, both deceased. 235 William. y THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 75 236 Levi, m. Sophia A. Darling, moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 92 ALLEN RISLEY (Moses\ Jonathan^ Richard\ Rich- ard^), b. Jan. 20, 1760; d. Feb. 17, 1838; m. Lucy, d. April 3, 1832. Allen immigrated from East Hartford, Conn., to Whits- town, N. Y. He was appointed lieutenant in New York State militia, March 25, 1797. He was a member of the first com- mon law jury impanelled in Oneida County, the Court being held in a barn at Fort Stanwix (now Rome.) He acquired title to a farm located on the Chuckery Road, New Hartford, N. Y. The land was deeded to him by George Washington. The deed is now in possession of the New York City Historical Society ; placed there by Samuel Kirkland. The law firm of Kirkland & Bacon partitioned this land after Allen's death. The decree in petition is now on file with the clerk of the Court of Appeals in Albany. Allen Risley died without issue. He was a brother of Moses Jr., David and Elijah, all of whom settled in New York State. 93 MINDWELL RISLEY {Moses\ Jonathan^ Richard-, Richard^), b. Nov. 23, 1764; living Mar. 6, 1839; m. Eli Risley. They resided in Vienna, N. Y., in 1810. 94 DAVID RISLEY (Moses*, Jonathan^ Richard-, Rich- ard\ b. Nov. 23, 1766 ; d. Aug. 24, 1834 ; m. Cynthia Gillette, b. , 1769 ; d. Aug. 26, 1845. Both are buried in the old New Hartford cemetery beside his brother, Allen and wife. David was appointed Ensign in State militia, April 8, 1795, and made Adjutant, April 14, 1800. Was promoted to captain, June 8, 1802. He was engaged as a merchant dur- ing life. He owned and used the first carriage in Oneida County, which caused his neighbors to prophesy disaster^ which never overtook him. 76 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Their children were: 237 Electa, m. David Randall. 238 Cynthia, m. Peter Clark, New Jersey, eminent lawyer. No children. 239 Lucy, m. James S. Foster, New Hartford, N. Y. 240 Hamilton D., m. Mary Blakely. 241 George, m. Sarah Dakin, dau. of Samuel Dakin, Utica, N. Y. 95 JONATHAN RISLEY {Nathaniel', Jonathan^ Rich- ard\ Richard^), b. Oct. 17, 1749; d. April 4, 1813; m. Phoebe Deming, 1773; b. 1753; d. Oct. 10, 1833. Phoebe Deming was a lineal descendant of John Deming, who was one of the persons named in the Connecticut charter of Chas. n. of England. Jonathan and Phoebe and family emigrated from E. Hart- ford, Conn., and settled in the 19th township, now called Brookfield, Madison Co., N. Y., between 1792 and 1797. All of their children were baptized in the First Cong. Church of E. Hartford, Conn., except Sylvester, who was born in Brook- field, N. Y. Jonathan obtained title to a large tract of land from the state. At this time the land was located in an unbroken forest, 25 miles from nearest grist-mill. Here he built a log house, which was soon afterwards replaced by a large frame house, which is now a barn still standing on the Winthrop Allen farm in the north-western portion of the town of Brookfield. The farm remained in the family for more than a century. Two brothers. Ward and Jerry, located in the immediate neigbor- hood of Jonathan. Ward erected a frame house, in which he lived a few years and then returned to Conn. Jeremiah lived and died in the township of Brookfield. Jonathan and Phoebe and their son Jonathan and dau. Louisa are buried in the Terrytown Cemetery, Sangerfield, N. Y. Children : 242 Benjamin, b. Nov. 22, 1774, E. Hartford, Conn. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY T7 243 Jonathan, b. Jan. 9, 1777, E. Hartford, Conn. 244 Elisha, b. Dec. 22, 1779, E. Hartford, Conn. 245 Elizur, b. Dec. 22, 1779, E. Hartford, Conn. 246 Hannah, b. Apr. 5, 1783; m. John Chambers. 247 Eleazur, b. Sept. 17, 1787, E. Hartford, Conn. 248 LovisA, b. Nov. 11, 1789; d. Sept. 1, 1801. 249 Chauncey, b. Sept. 3, 1792. 250 Sylvester, b. Jan. 12, 1797, Brookfield, Mad. Co., N. Y. 96 NATHANIEL RISLEY {Nathaniel*, Jonathan'', Rich- ard^, Richard^), b. Jan. 19, 1752; m. 1st, Hannah Cadwell, 1779, b. Oct. 26, 1760; m. 2nd, Susannah Cadwell (sisters), , b. Sept. 1, , daughters of John and Anna Cadwell. Children 1st wife: 251 Clarke, b. July 27, 1780. 252 Nathaniel Hart, b. Aug. 20, 1783. 253 Eunice, b. Jan. 15, 1788. 254 Esther, b. July 8, 1791. 255 Chester, b. Nov. 6, 1793. 256 Susanna, b. Mar. 24, 1796. 257 Carolina, b. July 20, 1798. 2nd wife: 258 Eliza, b. Mar. 23, 1810. 104 RICHARD RISLEY, JR. (Richard', Jonathan^ Rich- ard', Richard^), b. Aug. 4, 1754 (soldier in the Revolution; m. . Children : 259 Solomon, b. June 27, 1779. 260 Jameson, b. Feb. 18, 1787. 261 Charlotte, b. May 10, 1789. 117 ESTHER SOMERS (Esther Risle?/, Richard^ Rich- ard', Richard'), h. Oct. 23, 1770; d. Sept. 9, 1846, Ohio; m. John Roberts, Sept. 25, 1789. 78 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Children : 262 John Somers Roberts, b. Mar. 8, 1796 ; m. Mar- tha Hooper Rhodes. 125 EDWARD RISLEY (Jeremiah, Jr.\ Jeremiah^, Rich- ard', Richard^), b. July 19, 1769; m. 1st, Jemima; d. Feb. 16, 1814 ; m. 2nd, Phoebe Price ; b. June 21, 1793 ; d. April 6, 1872. Children of first wife: 263 Margaret Doughty, b. Sept. 18, 1801; d. , 1801. 264 Jeremiah, b. Oct. 6, 1804. 265 Jonathan, b. Nov. 27, 1806; had children. 266 Hannah, b. Aug. 26, 1809. 267 John, b. Oct. 15, 1811 ; d. Aug. 27, 1813. 268 Sophia, b. Jan. 22, 1814; d. Jan. 26, 1814. Children of 2nd wife, Phoebe Price : 269 JosiAH P., b. Nov. 27, 1818; had 4 children; m. Mary J. Lake, d. Sept. 11, 1883. 270 Rebecca, b. Mar. 3, 1821. 271 Caroline, b. Sept. 19, 1823. 272 Caleb, b. Mar. 5, 1829; had 1 child. 273 Nathaniel, b. Mar. 22, 1826; had 9 children. 274 Job, b. Feb. 3, 1832 ; had 8 children. 275 Mary Ann, b. Sept. 15, 1834; had 5 children. 276 John S. (eldest), b. May 12, 1812; d. Iowa. 127 JOAB RISLEY (probably Jeremiah, Jr.\ Jeremiah^, Richard"^, Richard^), b. about 1779, probably at Abse- con. New Jersey ; m. , Elizabeth Sampson, He was a descendant of Richard or Jeremiah, both of whom emigrated from Hartford into New Jersey 1726. SIXTH GENERATION 136 ELIZABETH RISLEY {John 3rd', John, Jr.\ John\ Richard', Richard^), b. ; bap. June 11, 1767; m. The- ophilus Crane, 148 THEODORE RISLEY (Benjamin^ John, Jr.\ John% Richard', Richard^), bapt. Oct. 10, 1773, Manchester, Conn.; d. Dec. 14, 1855; m. Patience Carpenter, b. 1770; d. June 4, I860, Buckland Cemetery. Children : 277 Adatia, m. Darda Bidwell, East Hartford, Conn. 278 Theodore, Jr., m. Clarissa Johnson, Manchester, Conn. 279 Harvey, b. March 18, 1792, (Coventry) ; m. Minerva Loomis, June 23, 1825, Windsor, Conn. 280 Clarissa, d. young. 281 Sanford, m. Sarah Kenney. 282 Elijah, m. Nancy Cowles. 283 Martin, m. Mary (Skinner) Goodale. 284 Emmeline, b. Oct. 25, 1807 ; m. Symons Cody, 1832. 150 ASA RISLEY {Gresham^, Richard^, Samuel^, Richard', Richard^), b. , 1754, Glastonbury, Conn.; m. Ruth Badger, Coventry, Conn. Moved to Hanover, N. H., 1789. Children : 285 Lewis, b. — — , Greenfield, Mass., 1777. 286 Ruth, b. , Bolton, Conn., 1781. 287 Lucy, b. , Bolton, Conn., 1786. 288 Asa, b. , Hanover, N. H., 1790; m. Leviah Kendrick. 158 DOANDA RISLEY {Benjamin^ Richard*, Samuel^ Richard'-, Richard^), b. ; m. Gideon Putnam, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., one of Putnam family, Conn. 80 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY He was grandfather of Judge John Risley Putnam, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of State of New York, and one of the Associate Judges of the Appellate division of the Supreme Court. He was a jurist of acknowledged ability. He died at sea, returning from a visit to his son at Manila, Phillipine Islands. He left three sons. Children of John Risley Putnam: 289 John R., Jr., P. O. address : Imperial Customs Service, Hong Kong, China. 290 Israel Putnam, P. O. address : Manila, P. I. 291 Hon. R. M. S. Putnam, P. O. address : 206 Broad- way, N. Y. 161 BETSEY RISLEY (Benjamin^ Richard*, Samuel\ Richard', Richard^), b. ; m. Dr. John Cleveland; b. Mar. 3, 1779, Salem, N. Y. ; d. Sept. 3, 1854, Warren, Ohio. Child: 292 Elizabeth, b. , 1816; m. Benj. Hoffman; d. , 1869. 162 PHILA RISLEY (Benjamin^, Richard*, SamueP, Rich- ard-, Richard'), b. June 4, 1780; d. ; m. Dec. 27, 1794, James Lyon, son of Col. Matthew Lyon, soldier of Revolution (Col. M. L.). (See Appleton's Enclopedia and Harper's Ma- gazine, Dec. 1875, pp. 30-33. Also U. S. History by John B. McMasters 3 vols.). Buried in Eddyville, Lyon Co., Ken- tucky. James Lyon b. April 15, 1776; d. April 13, 1824, Cheraw, S. C. Children : 293 Laura Matilda, b. , 1796 ; m. Wood Furman ; 6 children ; d. , 1843. 294 Mason Risley, b. — — , 1798 ; m. Margaret King ; 11 children; d. , 1882. 295 Eliza Jane, b. , 1801 ; m. 1st, E. J. Cotton, 2nd, S. J. Mitchell; no offspring; still Hving. 296 Phila Ann, b. — — , 1806 ; d. , 1807. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 81 297 Jas. Lawrence, b. , 1808 ; d. , 1820. 298 Matthew Bradley (twin), b. , 1810; d. in two months. 299 Nancy Pomeroy (twin), b. — — , 1810; m. Rev. J. M. D. Cater. 300 Matthew, b. , 1812; m. Susan M. Compere. 301 Adolphus Grant (twin), b. , 1815; d. aged 14 years. 302 EuDociA Ellen (twin), b. , 1815; d. aged 7 years. 303 Mary, b. , 1817 ; d. , 1820. Additional details can be had from Mr. James Lyon Fur- man, New Orleans, a grandson of Phila (Risley) Lyon. He is well acquainted with the genealogical details. 163 LAURA G. RISLEY (Benjamin^ Richard', Samuel^ Richard', Richard'), b. Nov. 30, 1786, Rutland, Vt. ; d. Apr. 6, 1872, Warren, O. ; m. June 22, 1804, Hon. Calvin Pease, b. Suffield, Conn. ; d. Sept. 17 1839. He was one of the most eminent jurists on the Western Reserve and took a prominent part in shaping its legal and political affairs during its earliest years. Lived in Warren, Ohio (see " Magazine of Western History " for June, 1885 ; biographical sketch and portrait). While on the bench as Judge he held a statute passed by Legislature of Ohio to be unconstitutional, which very much offended the Legislature, which instituted impeachment proceedings. The Judge was acquitted. (See " Bryce's American Commonwealth," Vol. I, p. 533). Children : 304 Calvin Pease, Jr., b. June 4, 1805, Warren, O. ; unm. ; d. April 28, 1880, Warren, O. 305 Laura Maria, b. ; m. 1st, Geo. W. Tallmadge; 2nd, Judge Van Rensselear Humphrey. 306 Lawrence, b. , 1814; d. , 1815. 307 Charles Pease, m. Mary Kirtland ; 4 children. 82 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 308 Nancy Pease, m. John Erwin ; 10 children. 309 Cornelia Granger, b. — — , 1820; m. Frederick Kinsman ; 5 sons ; d. — — , 1873. 310 Benjamin R., b. , 1814; d. , 1815. Geo. W. Tallmadge, first husband of Laura Maria Pease, b. Sept. 13, 1800; d. Sept. 8, 1835, son of Benj. Talhnage, of Long Island, who was a distinguished Revolutionary Colonel and afterwards Congressman from Littlefield, Conn. (See Thompson's Hist., Long Island, 2nd Edition, Vol. II. pp. 482- 487). 164 NANCY P. RISLEY (Benjamin^ Richard\ Samuel\ Richard-, Richard^), b. , 17 — ; m. Dr. Wm. Lawrence. Children : 311 Phila Ann, b. — — ; m. Stockley Donaldson. 312 Mary Sophia, b. ; m. Robert Cain. 313 Charles. 314 Laura (twin), m. John Donaldson. 315 Minerva (twin), m. Rev. Stevens. 316 Benjamin, d. unmarried. 317 RiSLEY, d. unmarried. 318 John Marshall (M. D.), m. Rachael Jackson. 319 William, m. — — Hays; son died very young. The descendants of these are living; in the southern states. 170 BETSEY RISLEY {Job, Jr.\ Joh\ Saumel\ Richard', Richard^), b. ; d. ; m. Sept. 26, 1791, Ebenezer Smith. 172 PRUDENCE RISLEY {Job, Jr.\ Job\ SamueV, Rich- ard', Richard^), b. Dec. 9, 1778, East Hartford, Conn.; d. Sept. 26, 1865, in Oneida, N. Y. ; m. Elisha Sage, Nov. 27, 1802, b. Jan. 12, 1779; d. Apr. 28, 1854; buried in Durham- ville, N. Y. Children : 320 Henry Risley Sage, b. E. Hartford, April 27, 1805; d. in Troy, N. Y., Feb. 16, 1850. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 83 321 Sally Sage, b. Jan. 26, 1807, E. Hartford, Conn. ; d. June 1, 1818, Lenox, N. Y. 322 Fannie Sage, b. Feb. 14, 1809, E. Hartford ; d. Feb. 29, 1904, Oneida, N. Y. 323 Elisha Montague Sage, b. Apr. 13, 1812, Bruns- wick, N. Y.; d. , 187—, Troy, N. Y. 324 Elizur Webster Sage, b. Apr. 13, 1812, Bruns- wick, N. Y. ; d. Clamahon, 111., Feb. 9, 1884. 325 William Sage, b. July 25, 1814 ; d. Dec. — , 1888, Troy, N. Y. 326 Russell Sage, b. Aug. 4, 1816, Verona, N. Y. ; d. July 22, 1906, New York. 174 REUBEN RISLEY, JR. (Reuben', Job\ Samuel^ Rich- ard-, Richard^), b. , 1769; d. Dec. 17, 1850; m. Sabra Webster, Glastonbury, Conn. Children : 327 Minerva, b. Dec. 19, 1795. 328 Alvah, b. Oct. 26, 1800. 329 Ruth, b. Oct. 25, 1804. 175 MERCY RISLEY (Reuben', Job\ Samuel\ Richard', Richard^), b. , 1771, Glastonbury, Conn.; d. Mar. 26, 1830; m. Capt. William H. Turner. Children : 330 William H., b. July 22, 1788. 331 James, b. . V, 332 Chauncey, b. -. 333 Alanson, b. — ■—. 334 Robert, b. July 22, 1803. 335 Sanford, b. -. 336 George, b. . 337 Marcia, b. Sept. 5, 1824; m. Hezekiah Hale. 338 Mary, b. , 1799; d. , 1818. Mercy Risley Turner was the grandmother of Hon. Henry E. Turner, Lowville, N. Y. H. E. Turner was a Union sol- dier in the Civil War; assistant Adjutant General of the Dept. 84 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY of New York G. A. R. For more than twenty years County Judge of Lewis Co. One of the Regents of the University of the State of New York. 176 SUSANNA (SUSIE) RISLEY (Reuben% Job\ Sam- uel', Richard-, Richard^), b. , 1773; d. , 1848; m. Jerijah Loomis. Children : 339 Hannah. 340 Sophronia, m. Judah Strong. 341 Electa, 342 TiRZA, m. De Loss Sanders. 343 Mercy, m. Lyman. 344 Jerijah. 345 Fidelia. 177 WAITE RISLEY (Reuben', Job\ Samuel', Richard\ Richard^), b. 1775; m. . Children : 346 Reuben 3rd, b. , 1809; m. Harriet M. An- drews. 347 Sabra, b. , 1825 ; m. De Witt M. Patrick. Possibly other children. 178 JEMIMA RISLEY (Reuben', Job\ Samuel', Rich- ard^, Richard^), h. , 1777; d. , 1860; m. Jacob Loomis. (Not a brother of Jerijah). Children : 348 Martha Ann, b. — — , 1812; d. , 1904; un- married. 349 MiLo Monroe, b. , 1816; unm. ; killed R. R. accident Jan. 24, 1907. 350 Nathaniel, b. . 351 Mary Peters, b. ; m. Comstock. 352 Norman, b. Aug. 1, 1812; m. Rose Bunce. 353 OswiN Jacobs, b. . 179 ROXANNA RISLEY (Reuben', Job\ Samuel', Rich- THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 85 ard\ Richard"), h. , 1779 ; d. , 1829 ; m. Simon Ather- ton, Nov. 25, 1798, Glastonbury, Conn. Children : 354 Truman. 355 Savina, m. Horton. 356 Royal. 357 Ad ALINE. 358 Cornelius, m, Josephine Treat. 359 Cornelia. 360 Seabury. 180 NOAH RISLEY^ {Reuhen\ Joh\ Samuel\ Richard\ Richard"), b. , 1781; d. Surinan, Dutch Guinea, Feb. 2, 1805 ; m. Charlotte Russell. No record of children. 181 ROGER E.(?) RISLEY (Reuben\ Job\ Samuel^ Richard-, Richard"), b. , 1784; d. , 1865; m. Elsie Bissell. Children : 361 Alonzo B., b. , 1811. 362 Wells N., b. Oct. 14, 1814. 363 Franklin B., b. . 364 Marl'^, b. , 1796. 365 Eliza, b. Aug. , 1813 ; m. Francis Wilson ; 5 children. 182 CONTENT RISLEY (Reuben', Job\ Samuel, Rich- ard^, Richard"), b. — — , 1786; d. , 1871; m. Isaac Rowley. Children : 366 Alvah, b. . 367 Almira, b. . 368 WlLLL^M, b. . 369 Zervia, b. . 370 Harriet, b. . 371 Truman, b. . 86 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 184 TRUMAN RISLEY* (Reuben\ Job\ Samuel\ Rich- ard-, Richard^), b. , 1790; m. Elizabeth Keeney, 1824(?). Cliildren : 372 Alphonzo, b. , 1825 ; m. Mary J. Keeney, San Diego, Cal., 1908. 373 Lorenzo, b. July 10, 1827 ; d. June 14, 1881 ; m. Abigail Beasley. 374 Elizabeth, b. , 1829; m. Carlos Sadd, Jan. 13, 1861 ; 5 children. Truman was a soldier of the War of 1812. Served under Capt. Strong from Aug. 1812 to Oct. 1814. 185 ELISHA RISLEY (Benjamin^ Job\ Samuel', Rich- ard^, Richard^), b. Sept. 24, 1770; d. June 21, 1831; m. Dolly Ann Roberts 1790, b. May 24, 1769 ; d. Dec. 24, 1825. Elisha was born, lived and died in Glastonbury. Children : 375 Chester, b. Oct. 15, 1793; d. Nov. 12, 1835. 376 Shubal, b. Dec. 17, 1795. 377 Ralph, b. Jan. 12, 1799; d. Nov. 3, 1849. 378 Elisha, Jr., b. Feb. 21, 1803; d. Aug. 20, 1829. 379 Luke, b. May 18, 1805 ; d. Oct. 6, 1849. 212 RUTH RISLEY (Moses% Moses\ Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. ; m. John Abbey, Sangerfeld, N. Y. Children : 380 Mary, m. David Loomis ; 7 children. 381 Allen, m. Lovisa Loomis ; 2 children. 382 Henry, m. Hubbard ; 4 children. 383 Warren, deceased. 384 Edwin, m. Susan Cowan ; 4 children. 385 Ira, m. Rhoda Rhodes ; 7 children. 386 Maria, b. May 17, 1819; m. Leander Terry; 3 children. 387 George, m. Jane Cowan ; 4 children. John Abbey was a farmer occupying a large farm in the western part of Sangerfield, Oneida Co., N. Y. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISIlEY 87 He descended from the Abbeys of E. Windsor, Conn. 213 SALLY RISLEY {Moses\ Moses\ Jonathan^ Richard^ Richard^), b. Sept. 17, 1783; d. Phoenix, N. Y., July 29, 1878 ; m. Hiram Barney. Children unknown. 214 ELISHA RISLEY {Moses\ Moses\ Jonathan^ Rich- ard', Richard^), b. Hartford, Conn., March 24, 1787; d. Vi- enna, N. Y., Mar. 20, 1853; m. Anna Ripley, b. Hartford, Conn., Feb. 6, 1789; d. Vienna, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1873; m. E. Hartford, Conn., Feb 16, 1806. Elisha Risley served in the war of 1812. Child: 388 LuciNDA, m. Aug. 24, 1856; b. Jan. 22, 1825; d. Vienna, May 21, 1906. 389 Jane, b. E. Hartford, Ct., Jan. 25, 1810; d. Apr. 13, 1892, Vienna, N. Y. 390 Edwin, b. Vienna, N. Y., Apr. 4, 1812; d. Apr. 13, 1851, Vienna, N. Y. Left no family. 391 William, b. Vienna, N. Y., May 4, 1814; d. Oct. 13, 1871, Vienna, N. Y. 392 Louisa, b. Vienna, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1818 ; d. Feb. 6, 1900, Vienna, N. Y. 393 Liman, b. Vienna, N. Y., May 17, 1820; d. May 13, 1847, Vienna, N. Y. ; no family. 394 JuLLv Ann, b. Vienna, N. Y., July 16, 1822; d. , 1839, Vienna, N. Y. ; no family. 395 Philo and Phila, b. Vienna, N. Y., July 14, 1830; d. Philo, , 1837, Phila, , 1839, Vienna, N. Y. ; no family. 396 Harriet, b. Vienna, N. Y., Oct. 11, 1833 ; d. , 1839, Vienna N. Y. ; no family. 216 IMARY RISLEY (Moses\ Moses\ Jonathan^ Rich- ard"^, Richard^), b. ; m. Simeon Fox, sailor. Family un- known. 88 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 227 THANKFUL BREWER {Abigail R.\ Moses\ Jon- athan^, Richard', Richard^), b. ; m. Joseph Smith, sr., E. Hartford, Ct. Children : 397 Harriet, m. Joseph Roberts. 398 Freelove S., m. Ebenezer Bryant. 399 Gordon. 400 Delight, m. Wm. Stevens, North Brookfield, N. Y. 401 Thankful, m. Sylvester Risley, North Brookfield, N. Y. 402 Aurora ("Orra"), d. unmarried. 403 Joseph, Jr. 404 AuRELiA, m. L. J. Converse. 405 Anna, husband or son, Reuben Smith. (There appears to be in Anna's line the following: Perry Liman, Andrew, d. leaving Anna, George, Andrew, Jr., Eliza and Martha. This is taken from a decree in chancery brought by Mrs. James S. Foster, jr., and Hamilton D. Risley in a partition suit in which the heirs-at-law of Allen Risley, de- ceased, were made defendants. Docketed in Oneida Co., Mar. 6, 1839. Now on file in Clerk's Office of the Court of Appeals in Albany, N. Y.) 230 ELIJAH RISLEY, JR. (Elijah\ Moses\ Jonathan^ Richard-, Richard^), b. May 7, 1887, East Hartford, Ct. ; d. Jan. 10, 1870; m. Nabby Brigham, Pomfret, Chatauqua Co., N. Y. He moved with his father from Cazenovia, N. Y., to Fredo- nia in 1807. A very interesting paper was written by his brother, Wil- liam Risley, and printed in Young's History of Chatauqua Co. in (Buffalo) 1875, p. 470-477. Elijah, sr., built the first bridge across the Canadaway Creek. Elijah, jr., was the first merchant in Chatauqua Co. He was elected supervisor of his town in 1835 ; was elected Sheriff^ in 1824 ; and member of Congress, 1848. He joined the State Militia and arose to rank of Major-general. He accompanied with his staif Gen. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 89 La Fayette on his trip via Erie Canal to Buffalo. He was interested in the organization and operation of the Erie R. R. He began, with his brothers, the cultivation of garden seeds, which became a large business. Their children : 406 Flarilla C, m. Chauncey Tucker, lawyer, Buf- falo, N. Y., both deceased. 407 Hanson A., m. twice, now deceased. 408 Sophronia, m. Chas. F. Matterson, Fredonia. She died 1875. 409 Laurens G., m. Henrietta Houghton, Dunkirk, N. Y. 410 Delia, m. Theo. P. Grosvenor, Buffalo, N. Y. 411 Minerva, m. Frank Gushing, son of Zattu Gush- ing, Pomfret, N. Y. S35 WILLIAM RISLEY (Elijah\ Moses\ Jonathan^ Richard-, Richard^), b. Dec. 15, 1802, Cazenovia, N. Y. ; d. ; m. Caroline Patrick, Jan. 28, 1828, Attica, N. Y. His business was milling, farming and horticulture. Children, five in number, three of whom unknown: 412 Sarah C, m. Rev. Chas. Arey, former rector of St. John's Church, Buffalo, N. Y. 413 Julia C, m. Edward H. Lord, banker. New York, N. Y. 237 ELECTA RISLEY (David\ Moses\ Jonathan^ Rich- ard\ Richard^), b. , 1794; d. , 1869; buried old New Hartford cemetery ; m. David W. Randall, New Hartford, N. Y. ; d. , 1839, aged 61. Children : 414 David Risley Randall, d. , 1843, aged 21. 415 Eliza E., m. Chester Bartles, Flemington, N. J. 240 HAMILTON D. RISLEY (David', Moses*, Jonathan^ Richard^, Richard^), b. , New Hartford, N, Y. ; m. Mary Blakely. 241 GEORGE RISLEY {Da-vid\ Moses\ Jonathan^ Rich- 90 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY ard^, Richard^), b. , Saquoit, N. Y., Farmer; m. Sarah Dakin, dau. Samuel Dakin, Utica, N. Y. He moved from Oneida Co. to Shenandoa Valley, Va., after- wards to Kansas, where he died. Children : 416 Mary, m. Judge Randall. 417 Willis F., m. Eliza McReady; no children. 418 Cynthia, m. John Risley. 419 Mary, b. , 1843 ; unmarried ; lives at New Hart- ford, N. Y. 420 Sarah, m. Frank Calais. 421 Sophia H., m. — — , Joliet, 111. 422 Dakin S. m. -. 242 BENJAMIN RISLEY (Jonathan^ Nathaniel^ Jona- than\ Richard-, Richard^), b. Nov. 22, 1774; d. , 1833; m. Ann Benton Mar. 12, 1795, b. 17 — ; d. . Benjamin was born in E. Hartford. Lived for many years in Glastonbury. Ann Benton, his wife, was the dau. of Ebenezer Benton, a soldier of the Revolution, and Ruth Talcott his wife. She was lineal descendant of Edward Benton of Wetherfield, John Talcott of Hartford, and Samuel Hale of Glastonbury, Conn. Her sister, Lucy, married Jonathan Risley, a brother of her husband. Benjamin was a ship carpenter and remained in Glastonbury when his father and brother moved into New York state. Children : 423 AsHBELL, b. May 3, 1796. 424 Benjamin, b. Oct. 16, 1797. 425 Polly, b. Feb. 19, 1799; m. Shubal Smith, Glas- tonbury. 426 Jared, b. Feb. 2, 1801. 427 Elizur, b. Jan. 20, 1803. 428 LovisA, b. Feb. 14, 1805; d. unmarried. 429 William, b. April 19, 1808; m. Susan; d. without issue. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 91 430 Ann, b. Aug. 15, 1810. 431 Julia, b. Feb. 10, 1813; m. James Bulkley. 432 Chauncey, b. Feb. 9, 1814. 433 Sylvester, b. Apr. 15, 1818. 243 JONATHAN RISLEY, JR. (Jonathan', Nathaniel^ Jonathan^, Richard-, Richard}), b. Jan. 9, 1777; d. Apr. 4, 1827; m. Lucy Benton 1802, b. Glastonbury, sister of Ann, wife of his brother, Benjamin. They moved to Saquoit, N. Y., soon after marriage. He was buried in Tarrytown cemetery, Sangerfield, N. Y., in his fa- ther's lot. She was buried in the old cemetery at Saquoit, many years later. Children : 434 Lucy, b. Apr. 6, 1803; d. May 28, 1830. 435 Hiram, b. May 28, 1804; m. Betsey Greenleaf; d. Feb. 1, 1862, Columbus, N. Y. 436 Phoebe, b. Oct. 28, 1805 ; m. John Wilcox ; 3 chil- dren ; d. Apr. 22, 1844. 437 Mary, b. Dec. 28, 1806 ; d. Dec. 2, 1852. 438 Ansel, b. May 17, 1809 ; d. Oct. 22, 1830. 439 Caroline, b. Sept. 5, 1810; m. Samuel Dexter; d. Jan. 18, 1855. 440 Malinda, b. July 3, 1812; m. , Whipple; d. Apr. 25, 1873. 441 Diana, b. Apr. 26, 1815; m. Alonzo Abbey; no issue; d. July 13, 1886. 442 Jonathan, b. May 4, 1818 ; m. Jan. 20, 1842 ; no issue; d. Nov. 5, 1860. 443 Eliza, b. Aug. 14, 1822; d. May 14, 1851. Record in possession of Freeman D. Dexter, Earlville, N. Y. 244 ELISHA RISLEY {Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^ Richard^), b. Dec. 22, 1779, East Hartford, Ct. ; m. Betsey Smith, E. Hartford. They moved with Jonathan Risley, his fatlier, into Whites- town just prior to 1800, now known as Brookfield, Mad. Co., 92 THE DESCENDANTS OF EICHARD RISL,EY N. Y. Both were buried in the northwest comer of the town- ship of Brookfield, N. Y., in the old cemetery, A portion of his father's farm came to him, as his share, after his father's death. Children : 444 Abigail, b. ; m. Chester Crowfoot and moved to Chatauqua Co., Ellington, N. Y. 445 William, b. , Chautauqua, Ellington, N. Y. 446 Lyman, b. — — . 447 Alzina, b. ; married Andrew Head; no issue. Moved to Michigan. 448 Betsey, b. ; m. Andrew Head as 2nd wife. 449 Elisha, Jr., b. Aug. 15, 1815. 245 ELIZUR RISLEY {Jonathan^, Nathaniel^, Jonathan^, Richard^ Richard^), b. Dec. 22, 1779, East Hartford, Conn.; d. Sept. 13, 1841 ; m. Amelia Mattison, Oct. 21, 1880, b. Jan. 6, 1781 ; d. Mar. 17, 1868. EHzur followed his father, Jonathan, into Whitestown, now Brookfield. They settled on a farm in the south-eastern corner of the present township of Madison, N. Y. They were buried in the cemetery, which joined their farm. Children : 450 Caroline L., b. Mar. 21, 1802; m. cousin EHzur ■ Risley, son of Benj. 451 Fanny E., b. Nov. 3, 1803; d. unmarried. 452 Sherman B., b. July 18, 1805; m. Susan; no issue; d. at Buffalo. 453 Susan A., b. Aug. 7, 1807 ; m. Chapman, Utah. 454 Ruby S., b. June 3, 1809; m. Ebenezer Talcott; moved to lona, Mich. (See Talcott Genealogy.) 455 Franklin, b. Oct. 5, 1811 ; d. Sept. 27, 1822. , 456 Allen, b. Sept. 4, 1813; m. Adeha Crowfoot. 457 Clarinda C, b. April 27, 1816 ; m. Leonard Abbert. 458 Harriet P., b. April 18, 1819; m. Samuel Niles. Moved to lona, Mich. ' 459 Laura A., b. Mar. 12, 1821 ; unmarried. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISL.EY 93 460 E. Goodrich, b. Oct. 4, 1822; d. July 3, 1823. 461 Charles F., b. Sept. 26, 1824; m. Ann Eliza Thurston. ■246 HANNAH RISLEY (Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^ Richard-, Richard^), b. April 5, 1783, East Hartford, Ct. ; d. Oct. 30, 1872, Madison, N. Y. Buried northwest corner of Brookfield; m. John Chambers, , 1800, of Jefferson Co., N. Y. Children : 462 Chester, b. Aug. 9, 1802. 463 Almira, b. Feb. 9, 1805 ; d. June 10, 1830. 464 RoxANNA, b. Feb. 11, 1807; m. John Wallace. 465 MiLEssA, b. Nov. 29, 1809 ; m. Oct. 22, 1836. 466 Ira, b. July 31, 1810; d. Aug. 30, 1810. 467 Washington, b. Aug. 13, 1812 ; d. Oct. 16, 1812. 468 John M., b. Oct. 11, 1813; d. Feb. 18, 1838. 469 Chauncey R., b. June 10, 1816 ; d. Sept., 1837. 470 Margaret, b. Sept. 12, 1818 ; d. April 19, 1847. 471 Charles, b. May 22, 1821; d. in California; no issue. 472 Adelia G., b. Nov. 29, 1823; d. Aug. 22, 1842. 473 Theodore D., b. Aug. 4, 1826; d. Nov. 19, 1852. Death due to consumption. 247 ELEAZUR RISLEY (Jonathan^ Nathaniel', Jona- than^, Richard-, Richard^), b. Sept. 17, 1787, East Hartford, Conn. ; m. . Moved to Genesee Co., N. Y. 248 LOVISA RISLEY (Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard-, Richard"), b. Nov. 11, 1789; d. Sept. 1, 1801; un- married. 249 CHAUNCEY RISLEY (Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jona- than\ Richard-, Richard^), b. Sept. 3, 1792, East Hartford, Conn.; m. May, , 1812, Lucinda Fuller. She married again and died in Vernon, N. Y., May 12, 1879. Chauncey Risley was a soldier in War of 1812; buried near Stone school-house at Sackett's Harbor. 94 THE DESCENDANTS OF KICHARD RISLEY Child: 474* Hannah Almira, b. Aug. 3, 1813 ; m, Walter Todd, Vernon, N. Y. 250 SYLVESTER RISLEY (Jonathan^ Nathaniel^ Jona- than^, Richard-, Richard^), b. Jan. 12, 1797, Brookfield, Mad. Co., N. Y.; d. Sept. 16, 1855; m. Thankful Smith Oct. 28^ 1817, b. July 24, 1799; d. Apr. 18, 1885 Children : 475 Henry, b. Aug. 10, 1818; d. June 27, 1849. 476 Julius Caesar, b. June 10, 1821 ; d. Sept. 12, 1884. 477 Perry Smith, b. Dec. 14, 1822; d. Jan. 18, 1904. 478 Christopher Columbus, b. May 10, 1825. 479 Louisa, b. Aug. 23, 1827. 480 Gordon Fox, b. Sept. 28, 1829. 481 Daniel Brewer (twin), b. July 6, 1831. 482 Smith (twin), b. July 6, 1831; d. July 18, 1831. 483 Chester Chambers, b. Feb. 1, 1834; d. Dec. 20, 1882. 484 Byron, b. June 27, 1836; d. Sept. 25, 1836. 485 Marion Francis, b. Mar. 12, 1837; d. Jan. 23, 1887. 486 Mary Ann, b. Apr., 1842; d. Dec. 25, 1893. 487 John Milton, b. June 16, 1845. Their children were all born in the old homestead of their grandparents Jonathan and Phoebe (Deming) Risley in the north west comer of the town of Brookfield, N. Y., one-half mile north of the crossing of swamp at N. Brookfield. 262 JOHN SOMERS ROBERTS (Esther Somers\ Esther Risley^, Richard^, Richard', Richard^), b. Mar. 8, 1796; m. Feb., 1819, Martha H. Rhodes, b. Dec. 22, 1799; d. Oct. 18, 1860. Children : 488 Mary Ann Roberts, b. Oct. 24, 1820; d. Feb. 12, 1863, Fort Wayne, Ind. 489 Sarah. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 95 264 JEREMIAH RISLEY (Edward^ Jeremiah", Jeremiah^ Richard', Richard^), b. Oct. 6, 1804, Gloucester Co., New Jersey ; m. 1st, Experience Jeffreys, Dec. 13, 1827. Children : 490 Evan J., b. Nov. 9, 1838; m. Emily Frambes ; b'. Nov. 22, 1843. 491 Conrad, b. , 1841 ; m. Mary Sampson ; 3 chil- dren. 492 Jeremiah, b. Mar. 13, 1844; m. Mary Connelly; 4 children. 493 Edward, b. Sept. 19, 1846 ; m. Adeline Connelly, 7 children. 494 Allen, b. May 1, 1849; d. May 7, 1849. 495 Jeremiah M. C, Sept. 12, 1852 ; m. Somers Steel- man ; no children. 496 Experience, b. Jan. 1, 1854; m. Joseph South- ' Avood; 5 children. 497 AssoNNETTE, b. July 19, 1857; d. July 21, 1861. Child of 2nd wife: 498 Mary Barnes, b. 1862 ; no children. 269 JOSIAH P. RISLEY (Edward Rlsley\ Jeremiah, Jr.\ Jeremiah^, Richard-, Richard^), b. Nov. 27, 1818; m. April 1, 1858, Mary J. Lake, b. Mar. 14, 1831 ; d. Nov. 28, 1889. Children : 499 Isaac, b. Dec. 22, 1858; m. Nettie Lake; 3 children. 500 Daniel L., b. June 25, 1860; m. 1st, Annie Eng- lish, who d. , 1904; 2nd, Annie L. Ober- tuefFer; 1 child. 501 Sarah, b. June 23, 1862; unm. 502 JosL^H E., b. Dec. 24, 1863; m. Millie Collins; no issue; d. May, 1895. 503 Jessie L., b. June 25, 1866; unm. 273 NATHANIEL RISLEY (Edward Risley\ Jeremiah\ Jeremiah^, Richard-, Richard^), b. Mar. 22, 1826; m. June 22, 1854, Asenath C. Enghsh, b. Feb. 28, 1838. 96 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHAED RISLEY Children : 504 Melvetta, b. Sept. 6, 1855 ; m. John Rogers. 505 Edgar L., b. Nov. 1, 1857. 506 Flora E. (twin), b. Jan. 23, 1860; m. . 507 Alvin p. (twin), b. Jan. 23, 1860; m. . 508 Gideon A., b. Oct. 12, 1862; m. ; 2 children. 509 TiLLEY M., b. Jan. 16, 1865 ; d. Sept. 14, 1865. 510 Harriet W., b. Sept. 26, 1866; m. ; 1 child. 511 Nathaniel Elton, b. April 6, 1871. 512 Freeman H., b. Sept. 6, 1873; m. ; 1 child. S76 JOHN S. RISLEY {Joab\ Jeremiah*l?], Jeremiah\ Richard\ Richard^), b. May 12, 1812; d., Iowa, May 15, 1903; m. Feb. 22, 1833, Mary EHzabeth Parker, d. Iowa, Mar. 10, 1892. Children : 513 Julia Ann, b. Mar. 31, 1834. 514 Charles P., b. Mar. 14, 1836. 515 Joseph P., b. Aug. 28, 1838. 516 Elizabeth A., b. Jan. 5, 1841 ; d. Nov. 6, 1842. 517 Samuel D., b. Jan. 16, 1845. 518 John P. and Mary E. (twins), b. Aug. 30, 1846. 519 Parker, b. Sept. 30, 1849; d. Sept. 1, 1850. 520 Absalom S., b. Sept. 20, 1851. SEVENTH GENERATION 279 HARVEY RISLEY (Theodore^ Benjamin^ John, Jr.\ John^, Richard'^, Richard^), b. Mar. 18, 1792, Coventry, Conn.; d. Mar. 20, 1869 ; m. Minerva Loomis, June 23, 1825, Wind- sor, Conn. ; b. Mar. — , 1799 ; d. Apr. 14, 1852. Children : Unmarried infant, b. Mar. 5, 1827- 521 Almira, b. June 9, 1829 ; m. G, Curtis Austin War- ren. 522 Ann, b. Nov. 9, 1834; m. Seth Vinton. J 288 ASA RISLEY {Asa\ Gresham\ Richard\ SamueV Richard-, Richard^), b. , 1790, at Hanover, N. H. ; m. Leviah Kendrick, Hanover, N. H., , 1820. Child: 523 Lewis E., b. , 1824. 292 ELIZABETH CLEVELAND (Betsey Risley^ Cleve- land, Benjamin^ Risley, Richard^, Samuel^, Richard-, Rich- ard^), b. , 1816; d. , 1869; m. Benjamin F. HofF- man, Pasadena, Cal. Children : 524 John C, b. , 1839; d. , 1861. 525 KiTTiE, b. , 1842; m. Henry L. Burnett, d. , 1864. Oakwood cem., Warren O. 308 NANCY PEASE {Laura G." Risley, Benjamin^ Rich- ard*, Samuel^, Richard-, Richard^), m, , John Erwin. Children (ten in all) : 526 Mary P. Erwin, b. Jan. 29, 1850, Cleveland, 0. ; m. Cyrus E. Johnston. 98 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 322 FANNIE SAGE (Prudence Risley" Sage, Job, jr.\ Joh.^ Sam.uel\ Richard^, Richard^), b. Feb. 14, 1809, East Hart- ford, Conn; d. Feb. 29, 1904, Oneida, N. Y. ; m. 1830, Samuel Chapin, Oneida, N. Y. Children : 527 Samuel Chapin, Jr., m. Carrie De Pledge; one son, Stewart Lyle. 528 Earx, m. Celia Yale ; children : Charles, Frank, Fred, Fannie, Minnie. Fannie m. Skinner; dau. Ruth. 529 Helen, unm. 530 Dwight, m. Hannah Dyer ; children : May, Julia, Bouncy, 1 son Theodore, Samuel D. Wilkin ; dau. Esther. 531 Angeline, m, Wm. Lyle; 1 dau., Jessie Lyle Faulkner. 532 Jennie, m. Ivers Monroe ; no children. 533 Henry, unm. 534 Frank, m. Ada Hitchcock; an adopted dau. 535 Charles, d. in infancy. 536 Homer, m. Lilie Monroe; no children. 537 Taylor, m. Flora Ella Coe; 1 dau. Flora Chapin- Rogers. 538 Fremont, m. Ella Teller; no children. 326 RUSSELL SAGE (Prudence Rislef Sage (m. Elisha Sage), Job, jr.^, Jgb^, Samuel^, Richard-, Richard^), b. Aug. 4, 1816, Scanondoah, Verona township, Oneida Co., N. Y. ; d. July 22, 1906; m. 1st, Maria Winnie, , 1841, Troy, N. Y., dau. Moses J. Winnie. She died , 1867 ; m. 2nd, Margaret Olivia Slocum, Nov. 24, 1869. No children. Margaret O. Slocum, born Sept. 8, 1828, daughter of Jo- seph Slocum, Syracuse, N. Y. She survives in 1909. Mrs. Sage was descended on her father's side from Capt. Miles Standish; the Mayflower pilgrim. " Her father, Joseph Slocum, m. Margaret Pierson Jer- c c t THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 99 main ; son of William Brown Slocum and Olivia Standish Jose- lyn, daughter of Stockbridge Joselyn and Olivia Standish, who was daughter of David Standish and Hannah Magonn, who was the son of Thomas Standish and Mary Carver; son of Alexander Standish and Desire (Doty) (Sherman) Holmes; son of Capt. Myles Standish and wife, Barbara." Mrs. Sage has presented to the Emma Willard Seminary, Troy, N. Y., where she was graduated, a handsome dormitory, called Russell Sage ]\Iemorial Hall. The marriage with Miss Slocum was a very happy one ; his friends declaring it was his best bargain and Russell's maxim was " The tender care of a good wife is the finest thing in the world." Sage line: Russell Sage, son of Elisha Sage and Prudence Risley; EHsha, jr., son of EHsha, 1755-1801, m. Martha Mon- tague; Elisha, sr., son of Amos 1722-1759, m. Rebecca Wilcox ; Amos, son of Timothy, 1678-1725, m. Margaret Holibert. Timothy, son of David Sage and 2nd wife, Mary Wilcox. David Sage came to America from Wales. An original set- tler in Middletown, Conn., 1852. Prudence Risley Sage, mother of Russell Sage, was born Dec. 9, 1778, daughter of Job Risley, jr., Hockanum, Conn., and Mary Webster, who was son of Job, sr. and Beriah Fox; son of Samuel Risley and Rebecca Gaines of Glastonbury; son of Richard, Jr. ; Richard, son of Richard Risley, Sr., East Hartford, Conn. Richard, Sr., was one of the Hooker party, which came from Mass., into Conn., and became one of the founders of the Commonwealth of Connecticut. The Risley line extends back into the English peerage: (See Risley English Genealogy). Prudence Risley's mother, Mary Webster, was a lineal des- cendant from John Webster of the Hooker party. John Web- ster was deputy governor of Conn., 1655-56, and Gov. from 1656-57. She was a cousin, once removed, of Noah Webster, the lexicographer. Russell Sage left home at the age of 14 to engage in busi- ness ; realizing his need of education he studied evenings and 100 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY attended night school. His industry being great he soon suc- ceeded in business and kept his mind nourished by much read- ing and study. Beginning in mercantile lines he soon became interested in transportation by water and railroad, succeed- ing so well that he abandoned mercantile pursuits in Troy. He took a prominent part in public affairs and became Al- derman in Troy, treasurer of Rensslaer County for seven years. In 1848 was a delegate to Whig National Convention. He was once defeated and twice elected to Congress ; held important places on committees and caused the appointment of a com- mittee which formed the Association of Mount Vernon and secured the purchase of the estate of Washington, which was made a memorial of the Father of his Country. Upon expiration of the second term in Congress, Russell Sage determined to forsake politics and devote himself to busi- ness alone. During the financial crisis of 1857 he was able to save him- self and others from ruin, and immediately engaged exten- sively in railroad transportation, becoming director of more than twenty corporations. 1863 he removed from Troy to New York in order to promote his own and other railroad in- terests and operate in stock. Here he became the greatest financial factor of his time, with a high standard for honorable, accurate and punctual service in his department. His great energy and faithfulness were his marked characteristics. " He stood firm and true for nearly half a century at the very center of trust in the financial world and in the fierce and sometimes unfriendly light of publicity." (See N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record, Oct., 1906). Many of the distinctive characteristics of Russell Sage can be traced to his maternal ancestors. 327 MINERVA RISLEY (Reuben\ Ruehen\ Job\ Sam^ uel\ Richard', Richard^), b. Dec. 19, 1795; d. June 10, 1850;. m. Joseph Harrington, 1815. Children : THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 101 ^39 Sabra, b. Oct. 20, 1816. 540 Alvah, b. Mar. 19, 1822. 541 Charles, b. May 15, . 328 ALVAH RISLEY (Reuben\ Reuben\ Joh\ Samuel^ Richard-^ Richard^), b. Oct. 28, 1800, Bolton, Conn.; d. Nov. 22, 1886, Truxton, N. Y. ; m. Dorinda Brown Dec. 31, 1838, Truxton, N. Y. Child : 542 Mary D., b. Sept. 20, 1847, Truxton, N. Y. ; m. Peter D. Miiller, Truxton, N. Y. 329 RUTH RISLEY (Reuben^ Reuben\ Job\ Samuel\ Richard-, Richard^), b. Oct. 25, 1804; d. Apr. 23, 1858; m. Feb. 5, 1826, Luke Stewart. Child 543 Reuben R. Stewart, b. Mar. 31, 1832. 334 ROBERT TURNER {Mercy Rislef Turner (m. Capt. Wm. H. Turner), Reuben^, Job*, Samuel^, Richard', Richard^), b. July 22, 1803, Glastonbury Conn.; d. May 20, 1893, Sagi- naw, Mich. ; m. Mar. 12, 1829, Caroline Ellis, Orange Mass. Children : 544 Henry Ellis, b. Apr. 1, 1830; 4 children. 545 Helen Mar, b. Sept. 15, 1831; m. W. W. Whe- don Sept. 10, 1851, Munsville. Now living Ann Arbor. 546 Susannah Mercy, b. Oct. 11, 1835; m. 1st, Noah Richardson, 4 children ; 2nd E. A. Spence, 2 children. 547 Sarah Caroline, b. Jan. 21, 1842, West Vienna, N. Y. ; m. Chas. Holland, East Saginaw, Mich. ; 4 children d. infancy. 337 MARCIA M. TURNER (Wm. H. Turner' (m. INIercy Risley), Reuben Risley^, Job*, Samuel^, Richard', Richard^), 102 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY b. Sept, 5, 1824, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Conn. ; m. Heze- kiah Hale, Jan. 19, 1856, Glastonbury, Conn. Children : 548 William T. Hale, b. Nov. 4, 1856 ; m. Addie P. S., Oct. 27, 1880. 549 Wallace L. Hale, b. Feb. 6, 1866; m. Grace G. Griswold, Apr. 17, 1901. 346 REUBEN RISLEY 3rd {Waite\ Reuben\ Joh\ Sam- uel^ y Richard^, Richard^), b. , 1809, Glastonbury, Conn.; m. Harriet M. Andrews Nov. 30, 1837. Children : 550 Esther Ann, b. Aug. 15, 1838. 551 Emily Madora, b. Sept. 27, 1840. 552 Henry A., b. May 30, 1841. 553 Fannie R., b. Mar. 5, 1848. 554 James Hollis, b. Feb. 12, 1855. 347 SABRA RISLEY {Waite Risley\ Reuben\ Joh\ Sam- uel', Richard% Richard^), b. Mar. 20, 1825; m. De Witt M. Patrick, Mar. 27, 1844, Cortland, N. Y. Children : 555 Alletta, b. May 20, 1851. 556 Otis Dwight, b. Dec. 5, 1855. 351 MARY P. LOOMIS (Jemima Risley^, Reuben\ Job Samuel', Richard', Richard^), b. ; m. Comstock. Children : 557 Jane, b. ; m. Root. 558 Addie, b. ; m. Hosea Covill. 559 Helen, unm. 361 ALONZO B. RISLEY (Roger E.' ( ?) Risley, Reuben', Job*, Samuel', Richard^, Richard^), b. , 1811; drowned June 26, 1864; m. Julia Parkhurst. Children : unknown. THE DESCENDANTS OP KICHARD K.IS1.EY 103 362 WELLS N. RISLEY (Roger E." (?) Risley, Reuben\ Job*, SamuePy Richard^, Richard^), b. Oct. 14!, 1814; d. Dec. 6, 1896 ; m. Lucy Lee Strong. Children : 560 John Strong, b. June 19, 1860; m. Clara Car- penter. 561 Mary E., m. Warren Thompson. 562 Elsa L. 363 FRANKLIN B. RISLEY (Roger E.« (?) Rislei/, Reu- ben^, Job*, Samuel^, Richard', Richard^), b. ; (living 1908) ; m. Sarah Gray. Children : 563 Sarah Maria, m. Robert Walker, Vernon, Conn. 564 William F,, m. Nellie Talcott, Vernon, Conn. S64! MARIA RISLEY (Roger E.« (?) Risley, Reuben\ Job*, Samuel^, Richard'^, Richard^), b. , 1796; m. Edwin Foster. Children : 565 Ellen M., 566 Frank. 365 ELIZA RISLEY (Roger E.^ ( ?) Risley, Reuben^ Job*, Samuel^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Aug. — , 1813; m. Francis Wilson. Children : 567 John W., b. ; m. Frances Strong. 568 Maria A., b. ; m. W. B. Sparks. 569 Albert F. 570 Frank B. 571 Alice. 372 ALPHONZO RISLEY (Truman\ Reuhen", Job*, Sam- uel^, Richard-, Richard^), b. Sept. — , 1825; m. Mary Jane Keeney. Living in San Diego, Cal., 1908. 104 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Child: 572 Adon Alphonzo, b. May 8, 1850. Unm. Living with parents. 373 LORENZO RISLEY (Truman^ Reuben\ Joh\ Sam- uel\ Richard-, Richard}), b. July 10, 1827; d. Apr 8, 1900, Hartford, Conn. ; m. 1st, April 25, 1852, Abigail Beasley^ Ellington, Conn. ; m. 2nd, June 26, 1862, Amelia A. Allen, Melrose, Conn. Children, 1st mariage: 573 Albert Earxe, b. Feb. 6, 1853. 2nd marriage : 574 George Lorenzo, b. Oct. 15, 1867. 575 Edith Lidora, b. Feb. 7, 1875; m. Clement Hyde, July 9, 1908. Lorenzo Risley was a builder and contractor; lived and died in Hartford, Conn. 374 ELIZABETH RISLEY {Truman\ Reuben\ Job\ Sam- ueP, Richard', Richard^), b. 1829; m. Carlos R. Sadd, Jan. 13, 1861. Living in Ellington, Conn., 1908. Children : 576 Alice Emma, b. Aug. 30, 1863 ; m. Daggett. 577 Truman R., b. Dec. 24, 1864. 578 Elizabeth, b. Feb. 15, 1867 ; m. Tomlinson, d. June 15, 1905. 579 Clarence R., b. Apr. 11, 1870. 580 Ellen May, b. May 14, 1874. 375 CHESTER RISLEY {Elisha\ Benjamin^ Job\ Sam- uel^, Richard-, Richard^), b. Oct. 15, 1793, Glastonbury,. Conn.; d. Nov. 11, 1835; m. . Children : 581 WiLLL^M H., b. Feb. 1, 1817. 582 Benjamin. 583 Chester. 584 Henry. the descendants of kichard risley 105 585 Chester. 586 Dolly Ann (?), b. May 24, 1769; m. , 1790, Elisha R. ; d. Dec. 4, 1825. 587 Isabella. 876 SHUBAL RISLEY (Elisha% Benjamin^ Job, Sr.\ Sam- uel\ Richard-, Richard}), b. Dec. 17, 1795; d. Oct. 29, 1852, Glastonbury, Conn. ; m. Anna Hollister Feb. 2, 1819, b. Jan. 23, 1801 ; d. Dec. 18, 1854. Both buried in Glastonbury. Children : 588 WiLLM.M Hollister Risley, b. Sept. 8, 1823 ; d. Jan. 17, 1897. 589 Abel, b. Nov. 24, 1819; d. Sept. 15, 1824. 590 Oren Hollister, b. Oct. 22, 1820; d. Sept. 15, 1847. 591 Dolly, b. Oct. 31, 1825; d. Sept. 14, 1828. 380 MARY ABBEY {Ruth Risley^ Abbey, Moses\ Moses\ Jonathan^, Richard^ Richard}), b. ; m. David Loomis, North Brookfield, N. Y. David Loomis and wife buried in Cole Hill cemetery north- west corner Brookfield, N. Y. Children : 592 Lucy Ann, deceased. 593 Russell, m. Lavema Lawson ; 6 children. 594 David, m. Martha Chesbro ; 3 children. 595 Warren, m. Mandana Dix ; 4 children. 596 Phila, m. Chester C. Risley ; 3 children. 597 Orange, m. Jennie Lawson ; 4 children. 598 Hiram, m. 1st, Amelia Ferris ; 2nd, Lydia A. Ferris Knowles ; 8 children. 381 ALLEN ABBEY {Ruth Risley^ Abbey, Moses\ Moses\ Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. ; m. Lovisa Loomis. Children : 599 Moses, m. 1st, Charlotte Dennison ; 2nd, Amelia Barber. 600 Israel, unm. 106 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 382 HENRY ABBEY (Ruth Risley^ Ahhey, Moses\ Mo- ses^, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard}), b. , Sangerfield, N. Y. ; d. , Sangerfield ; m. , Hubbard. Children : 601 Hubbard, m. ; 3 children. 602 Martin (twin). 603 Martha (twin). 604 Lucy, deceased. « 384 EDWIN ABBEY {Ruth Risley^ Ahhey, Moses\ Moses\ Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), h. ; m. Susan Cowan. Children : 605 Mary, deceased; 1 son, m. ; 2 children. 606 Maria, deceased. 607 Caroline, m. Charles Goff; 5 sons. 608 Edwin, m. ; 2 daughters, deceased. Edwin Abbey was a large farmer and hop grower and dealer, in Sangerfield. Died at Waterville; buried in that cemetery. 385 IRA ABBEY (Ruth Risley^ Ahhey, Moses\ Moses\ Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. , Sangerfield, N. Y. ; m. , Rhoda Rhodes, North Brookfield, N. Y. Late in life moved to Battle Creek, Mich., where he died. Lived many years before in N. Brookfield. Children : 609 LuciNDA Abbey, m. William Hall. 610 Amelia Abbey, m. Nathan Wheeler; 3 children. 611 Eleanor Abbey, m. Manthus Satterlee; 6 chil- dren. 612 Samuel Abbey, m. Mary Smith ; 2 adopted chil- dren. 613 RosETTA Abbey, m. J. Arthur Perry ; 3 children. 614 LiLLiE Abbey, m. C. Walter Carruth ; 3 children. 386 MARIA ABBEY (Ruth Risley'' Ahhey, Moses\ Moses\ Jonathan^, Richard^ , Richard^), b. May 17, 1819, Vienna, THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 107 N. Y.; d. Sept. 29, 1891, Waterville, N. Y. ; m. Aug. 2, 1841, Leander Terry; b. Mar. 23, 1818, Sangerfield, N. Y. ; d. June 6, 1862. Children : 615 John Gilbert, b. June 10, 1843; m. June 8, 1868, Mason ; 1 son. 616 Everett Lee, b. Feb. 25, 1846; m. E. Knapp, Feb. 13, 1868, Manlius, N. Y. ; children. 617 Alice Marl^, b. Jan. 21, 1854, Waterville, N. Y. 387 GEORGE ABBEY (Ruth Risley^ Ahhey, Moses\ Mo- ses^i Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. , Sangerfield, N. Y. ; m. Jane Cowan, Sangerfield, N. Y. Children : 618 Isabella, m. Otis McCartney. 619 Hattie, m. ; 1 daughter. 620 George, m. Cory ; 2 children. 621 Allen, m. Wheat ; 4 daughters. 388 LUCINDA RISLEY (EUsha\ Moses\ Moses*, Jon- athan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Jan. 22, 1825; d. May 1, 1906, Vienna, N. Y. ; m. Aug. 24, 1856, Isaac Kent of Schuy- ler, N. Y., b. May 16, 1835. Living in Vienna, N. Y., 1908. Children : 622 Louisa Kent, b. Sept. 13, 1857 ; d. . 623 Albert Kent, b. Aug. 10, 1861. 624 Alice Kent, b. Aug. 10, 1861 ; d. Jan. 5, 1901. 625 Julia Kent, b. Oct. 6, 1863. 389 JANE RISLEY {Elisha\ Moses\ Moses\ Jonathan^ Richard'^, Richard^), b. Jan. 25, 1810, Vienna, N. Y. ; d. April 13, 1892; m. Nov. 27, 1830, Lothrop Forbes. Children : 626 Lucy, b. April 3, 1834; m. Horace Kent, Vienna, N. Y., May 30, 1860. 627 George, b. Feb. — , 1836; d. Feb. 8, 1884. 628 Andrew, b. Feb. — , 1832; d. Feb. 12, 1886. 108 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 391 WILLIAM RISLEY {Elisha\ Moses', Moses\ Jona- than\ Richard^, Richard^), b. July 11, 1814; d. Oct. 13, 1871; m. , 1854, Anna Bagan, b. Mar. 21, 1838; d. Jan. 30, 1886. Children : 629 Lucy, b. Aug. 27, 1855; m. Geo. Taylor, Oneida, N. Y., 1879; one son George. 630 Martha, b. July 23, 1858; m. James Taylor, Oneida, N. Y., Mar. 13, 1877; one dau. Eva; m. H. West. 631 Annie, b. Oct. 19, 1860; m. Peter Fox, Vienna, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1876; two children, dau. m. 1st Dixon, 2nd Rill. ; son. 632 Edwin, b. April 15, 1863; ra. Nettie Kellie, Feb. 9, 1904; son William. 633 Jesse, b. Aug. 6, 1865. 634 Mary, b. Mar. 14, 1868; m. David Bailey, Ta- berg, Jan. 10, 1889; one son Wm. Bailey, b. July 17, 1890; d. April 20, 1899. 392 LOUISA RISLEY {Elisha\ Moses\ Moses\ Jona- than^, Richard', Richard^), b. Jan. 5, 1818, Vienna, N. Y. ; d. Feb. 5, 1900; m. Mar. 4, 1849, RoUin Brigham, Vienna, N. Y., b. , 1810; d. Jan. 2, 1855. Child: 635 Harriet, b. Jan. 12, 1852; m. John Waffle, Feb. 15, 1872, Camden, N. Y. 398 FREELOVE SMITH {Thankful B. Snuth\ Abigail R.^, Hoses'^, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. July 27, 1795, East Hartford, Conn.; d. Dec. 9, 1869, East Hartford; m. May 9, 1816, East Hartford, Conn., Ebenezer Bryant. Children : 636 William B. Bryant, b. ; d. July 2, 1867, East Hartford, Conn. (Other children.) 407 HANSON A. RISLEY {Elijah, Jr.\ Elijah,^ Mo- THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 109 ses*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. June 16, 1814, Fre- donia, N. Y. ; d. , Colorado Springs ; m. 1st, Harriet Crosby, dau. of Dr. Oris Crosby, Fredonia, N. Y. ; d. Sept. 28, 1868, Washington, D. C. ; m. 2nd, ; living (1908) at Colorado Springs. By profession, a lawyer; was appointed INIaster in Chancery by Gov. Wm. H. Seward. He was elected Clerk of Chautauqua Co. in 1854, and Clerk of the Assembly, N. Y., in 1861. He was appointed supervising special agent of U. S. Treasury dep't, by President Lincoln, and continued in the office during President Johnson's administration. He was one of the pro- moters and first treasurer of the Lake Shore R. R. Children : 637 Olive F. 638 Harriet D., m. Alfred Rodman, a contractor and banker of Boston, Mass. Both of whom accompanied Wm. H. Seward in his travels around the world. Olive was adopted as W. H. Seward's daughter, and was made co-executor of his estate. Died, 1908. Hanson Risley had three other children ; record unknown. (See Young's Hist. Chautauqua Co., p. 490-492.) 415 ELIZA E. RANDALL (Electa'' Risley, David\ Moses\ Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. — — , New Hartford, N. Y.; d. March 19, 1877; m. Chester Bartles, Sept. 16, 1846, of Flemington, New Jersey. Children : 639 Joseph Bartles. 640 Margaret R. Bartles. 423 ASHBELL RISLEY {Benjamin", Jonathan^ Nathan- iel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. May 3, 1796; d. , E. Hartford, Ct. Buried Hockanum, Ct. ; m. Lucinda Good- ale, d. , 1891, E. Hartford, Ct. Children : 641 Delia, m. Wm. Judson. 642 WlLLL^M. 110 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 643 Philander. 644 Lyman (living E. Hartford, Ct., 1908) 645 Benton, m. — — . 646 Lucius. 647 Maria. 648 George. 649 Robert. 424 BENJAMIN RISLEY (Benjamin^ Jonathan^ Nathan- iel, Jonathan^, Richard, jr.'^, Richard, sr}), b. October 16, 1797, Glastonbury. Lived and died East Hartford, Ct. ; m. Penelope Cooley, Glastonbury, Conn. Children : 650 Francis. 651 Mary. 652 Ann. 653 Elizabeth. 654 Leverett. 655 Lorenzo. 656 Andrew. 657 Frederick ; moved to San Luis Obispo, Cal. 658 DwiGHT. 425 POLLY RISLEY (Benjamin", Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^,), b. Feb. 19, 1799; d. ; m. , Shubal Smith, Glastonbury, Ct. Children : 659 Eliztjr. (Others not known). 426 JARED RISLEY (Benjamin\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel\ Jonathan^ Richard'', Richard^), b. Feb. 2, 1801; d. Nov. 23, 1874; m. , Harriet Strickland, b. Sept. 3, 1802; d. Jan. 23, 1880. Was a carpenter and builder. Lived and died E. Hartford, Conn. Children : 660 Jared M., b. Feb. 13, 1827 ; d. May 9, 1835. THE DESCENDANTS OF EICHARD MS LEY 111 661 Harriet M., b. Jan. 10, 1831 ; d. Apr. 3, 1832. 662 Marion C, b. Jan. 19, 1838; d. Apr 14, 1859 unm. 663 Henry, b. ; d. — — ; two children ; one dead. 664! Selden, m. , East Hartford, Ct. 427 ELIZUR RISLEY (Benjamin", Jonathan^ Nathaniel^ Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Jan. 20, 1803, Glaston- bury, Conn.; d. Jan. 11, 1872, Hubbardville, N. Y. ; m. 1st, Carolina Lovisa Risley, Nov. 18, 1823, b. Mar. 1, 1802; d. Jan. 19, 1845. Elizur Risley was fifth child of Benjamin and Ann Risley, Glastonbury, Conn., and brother of Chauncey, son of Ben- jamin. His wife was first cousin; dau. of Elizur Risley and Amelia Mattison. He imigrated from Glastonbury, Conn., to Hamilton township, Madison Co., N. Y., in 1823. He located one mile north of Hubbardville, where he lived and died. He was buried with his wives in the cemetery located in north-west comer of the town of Brookfield, N. Y. His occupation was carpenter, contractor and builder. He was a member of East Hamilton M. E. Church. He was a man of great probity, coupled with great energy and activity in business. Children : 665 Cyrus, b. June 28, 1824; d. Nov. 17, 1842; un- married. 666 George. 667 Jerome, b. Apr. 30, 1828; d. Dec. 9, 1849; unm. 668 James Monroe. 669 Goodrich. 670 Matilda. 671 Albert. 672 LuMAN, b. Apr. 28, 1823; d. Feb. 3, 1864; un- married. M. 2nd wife, Amanda P. Allen, Jan. 4, 1847, d. May 11, 1884. 112 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Children : 673 James Allen. 674 David Romaine. 430 ANN RISLEY (Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel^, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^) , b. Aug. 15, 1810; d. Jan. 23, 1863 ; m. Austin Hurlburt, Dec. 3, 1829, Glastonbury Ct. ; d. Nov. 9, 1869. By occupation a shoemaker. Children : 675 Julia Ann, b. Mar. 26, 1831 ; m. George Clinton Brewer. 676 Edward C, b. Aug. 8, 1833; m. — — ; no issue; d. . 677 Charles E., b. Oct. 18, 1835; m. Sophia Brewer; no issue. 678 Joseph Henry, b. Oct. 11, 1837. 679 Mary, b. July 20, 1839 ; m. Philo Brewer, E. Hart- ford. 680 Caroline, b. Sept. 27, 1841; d. Nov. 17, 1863; unmarried. 681 Charlotte, b. Sept. 27, 1841 ; d. Jan. 15, 1843. 682 Melissa, b. Jan. 3, 1847; m. 1st, Eugene Risley; m. 2nd, Robert Hills ; m. 3d, L. Lewis. 2 children. 431 JULIA RISLEY (Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Feb. 10, 1813; d. — — ; m. James Bulkley, East Hartford, Ct. Children : 683 Henry (or Edward), left children. 684 Ralph. 432 CHAUNCEY RISLEY {Benjamin\ Jonathan^ Na- thaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Feb. 9, 1814; d. April 11, 1893; m. Sophia Brewer, Sept. 8, 1833, b. July 11, 1816; d. Nov. 6, 1906. She was a dau. of David and Fanny Hills Brewer, E. Hart- ford, Ct. They were married in the First Cong. Church, E. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 113 Hartford. In 1833 Chauncey removed to Hamilton, Madison Co., N. Y. His wife and eldest dau., Ellen, followed a year later. Their residence for several years was Talcott Hill in the southeast comer of the township of Madison, N. Y. In 1849 they moved to the north-east corner of the town- ship of Hamilton, N. Y. In 1870 they moved to Clinton, N. Y., where both died and are buried in Clinton Rural Cemetery. Chauncey Risley began Hfe as carpenter and builder, subse- quently taking up farming in N. Y. state. Sophia Brewer was a descendant of Thos. Brewer, Glastonbury, and Wm. Hills of E. Hartford. Children : 685 Ellen Elizabeth, b. June 28, 1834, Glastonbury, Conn. 686 Fannie Ann, b. Aug. 9, 1836, Hamilton, N. Y. 687 Chauncey, b. Jan. 24, 1838, Brookfield, N. Y. 688 Jane Marlv, b. Nov. 2, 1839, Brookfield, N. Y. 689 Edwin Hills, b. Feb. 5, 1842, Madison, N. Y. 690 Sylvester, b. Jan. 8, 1844; died young. 691 Sylvester, 2nd, b. Mar. 2, 1847, Madison, N. Y. 692 Adelbert David, b. Aug. 22, 1848, Hamilton, N. Y. 693 Orville Wallace, b. Oct. 9, 1850, Hamilton, N. Y. 694 JuLL^ Ada, b. Apr. 12, 1853 ; " d. Nov.", 1893. 695 AsHTON Fremont, b. Aug. 13, 1855, Hamilton, N. Y. ; unm., 1908. 696 Leonetta, b. Sept. 17, 1858, Hamilton, N. Y. 433 SYLVESTER RISLEY {Benjamin^ Jonathan^ Na- thaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Sept. 15, 1818; d. Aug. 29, 1847; m. Martha Allen, Dec. 1st, 1840, b. Dec. 24, 1817. A descendant of Matthew Allen, a founder of Connecticut Colony, Hartford, Ct. Sylvester was a carpenter and builder. Both are buried near Windsorville, Ct. Children : 697 Martha Elvira, m. Wm. McLean. 698 Benj. Allen, b. Nov. 30, 1843; d. Apr. 4, 1844. 114 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 699 Sylvester Wm., b. Jan. 15, 1846; d. Feb. 4, 1877. 700 Ellena Anne, b. Sept. 22, 1847; m. J. Gardiner Haines, Trenton, N. J., June 26, 1879. 435 HIRAM RISLEY {Jonathan^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. May 28, 1804; d. Feb. 1, 1862; m. Betsey Greenleaf, Columbus, Chenango Co., N. Y. He was a fine mechanical engineer. He was foreman at Philo Curtiss' machine shop in Utica, N. Y., in 1840. He was employed in Remington's manufactory in Ilion, N. Y., and at Maydole Hammer Factory in Norwich, N. Y. In the latter years of his life he was a gun-maker, establishment in Oriskany Falls, N. Y., and later at his home in Columbus, N. Y. He died at Columbus and was buried beside his wife in the cemetery at Columbus Center, Chenango Co., N. Y. Children : 701 Mary Ann, b. Aug. 7, 1829. 702 Hiram G., b. April 18, 1833. 703 Alvira (twin), m. Wm. T. Ferrell, Brookfield, N. Y. 704 Alva (twin), d. in infancy. 705 Caroline, unm. 706 Joshua, enlisted Civil War, 76 Regt. N. Y. S. V. ; died Libby prison, Va. 439 CAROLINE RISLEY (Jonathan^ Jonathan^ Na- thaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Sept. 5, 1810, Saquoit, N. Y. ; d. Jan. 18, 1855; m. Samuel Dexter of Utica, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1827, b. Aug. 13, 1806, Paris, N. Y. ; d. Aug. 21, 1897, Delhi, N. Y. Children : 708 Daniel, b. Dec. 23, 1832; moved to Covington, Gen. Co., N. Y. ; d. Jan. 27, 1855. 709 Lucy Ann, b. Dec. 21, 1831 ; d. Jan. 1, 1839, Au- burn, N. Y. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 115 710 Henry D., b. Mar. 24, 1837; d. , Clinton, N. Y. ; left children. 711 Lucy Ann 2nd, b. Apr. 28, 1842; d. , Paris, N. Y. 712 Emmett, b. Dec. 1845; d. Mar. 17, 1886. 713 James, b. Nov. 15, 1847 ; d. Feb. 17, 1855. 714 Freeman D., b. July 16, 1852. Living, Earlville, N. Y., 1908. 449 ELISHA RISLEY, JR. {Elisha\ Jonathan^ Nathan- iel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^) , b. Aug. 15, 1815, Brook- field, N. Y. ; d. Nov. 30, 1861 ; m. Maria Arnold, Edmeston, N. Y. Children : 715 George, b. Nov. 5, 1842; d. Sept. 1, 1843. 716 Mortimer C, b. June 30, 1844. 717 Harriet M., b. Sept. 1, 1845. / 718 Theressa L., b. Aug. 19, 1847. 719 Mary Alice, b. Dec. 6, 1848; d. Jan. — , 1852. 720 Henry De Elton, b. June 28, 1851. ' 721 Elwin L., b. Nov. 22, 1852 ; d. Dec. 25, 1899. 722 Herbert J., b. June 4, 1854. 723 Carl D., b. Nov. 11, 1855; d. , 1895. 724 Pearl M., b. Jan. 24, 1858. 725 Lilly May, b. May 24, 1859. 726 Clifton, b. June 28, 1861. 454 RUBY S. RISLEY {Elizur\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel^ Jonathan^, Richard", Richard^), b. Madison, N. Y., June 3, 1809 ; d. Ronald, Mich., April 12, 1861 ; m. June 13, 1827, Ebenezer Talcott, son of Joseph Talcott and Anna Boardman of Wethersfield, Conn. He was bom July 20, 1804 ; died Oct. 16, 1865, at Ronald, Mich. They emigrated from Madison, N. Y., to Ionia County, Michigan, with their family about 1850. Ebenezer was a lineal descendant of John Talcott, one of the 116 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Hooker party, who was a very forceful man in the Connecticut Colony. He was a graduate of Oxford University and prior to his emigration to America was in the employment of the Duke of Warwick ; he was treasurer of the Connecticut Colony from 1652 to 1678 covering a period of twenty-six years. Ebenezer was a descendant of Joseph Talcott, who was probate judge of Hartford; Lieutenant-Governor in 1724-25, and Governor of the Connecticut Colony in 1756-59, covering the period of the Indian wars which preceded the Revolution. John Talcott was a member of the Mass. General Court prior to his removal to Hartford. He was named one of seven- teen men who were granted the power of government in the charter of the Connecticut Colony granted by Charles the Second of England in 1662. This charter was hid in the famous Charter Oak of Hartford when attempt was made by the Crown to obtain possession of the same. When the effort was made to obtain this charter from the Colonies John Talcott and James Wadsworth produced it, when the candle was blown out and the charter was hidden in the Charter Oak. Children : 727 Nelson John Talcott, b. May 12, 1833 ; d. Oct. 19, 1865, Ronald, Mich. 728 Cornelia Talcott, b. Feb. 25, 1835. 729 Oscar Talcott, b. April 12, 1836. 730 Chauncey Chambers Talcott, b. Feb. 9, 1838. 731 Irving Ebenezer Talcott, b. Sept. 19, 1841 ; d. June 16, 1844. 732 George Irving Talcott, b. Nov. 16, 1845. 733 Ann Amelia Talcott, b. Aug. 22, 1850, at Ron- ald, Mich. 4>56 ALLEN RISLEY {Elizur\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel", Jonathan^, Richardr, Richard^), b. Sept. 4, 1813, Madison, N. Y. ; d. Aug. 19, 1893; m. Adelia J. Crowfoot 1835, b. Oct. — , 1818 ; d. Aug. 5, 1893. Farmer and a man of fine character. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 117 Children : 734 Chester Chambers, b. May 18, 1836. Soldier in Civil War. 735 Flora Ann, b. Feb. 21, 1841 ; m. Melvin Snow, N. Brookfield. 457 CLARINDA RISLEY {Elizur\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel\ Jonathan^, Richard'^, Richard^), b. Apr. 27, 1816; d. , 1888; m. Leonard Abbert , 1840, Hubbardville, N. Y. (Madison). Children : 736 Elizabeth, b. , 1841 ; m. La Mott Stebbins. 737 Martin B., b. , 1844. 458 HARRIET P. RISLEY {Elizur\ Jonathan^ Nathan^ iel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. April 18, 1819, Ham- ilton, N. Y. ; d. Mar. 7, 1884; m. Samuel Niles, — 1834, b. Oct. 14, 1810. They emi^ated to Michigan, Ionia Co. Children : 738 Andrew J. Niles, b. Nov. 19, 1835, Madison, N. Y. ; d. Sept. 25, 1899, Michigan. 739 Phoebe J. Niles, b. Nov. 18, 1837, Madison, N. Y. 740 Henry J. Niles, b. May 3, 1839, Madison, N. Y. 741 Eliza J. Niles, b. Mar. 11, 1841, Madison, N. Y. 742 Walter J. Niles, b. Aug. 3, 1842, Madison, N. Y. 461 CHARLES F. RISLEY {EUzur\ Jonathan^ Nathan- iel^, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Sept. 26, 1824, d. Feb. 19, 1896; m. Dec. 7, 1844, EHza Ann Thurston, b. Sept. 28, 1826; d. Jan. 11, 1902, Hamilton, N. Y. Children : 743 Reuben Augustine, b. Sept. 26, 1845. 744 Rosaltha Dett, b. Aug. 22, 1847. 745 Viola Elizabeth, b. Oct. 4, 1850; d. Dec. 15, 1850. 746 Ida Belle, b. July 18, 1854. 118 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 462 CHESTER CHAMBERS (Hannah R.\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Aug. 9, 1802; d. , 1894(?), Hubbardsville, N. Y. ; m. Ann Risley (only child of Geo. Rislej, youngest son of Nathaniel*). Children : 747 Melissa M., b. Jan. — , 1839; d. Feb. 14, 1841. 748 Martha A., b. Oct. — , 1841 ; d. Oct. 7, 1842. 464 ROXANNA CHAMBERS (Hannah Rislef C, Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Feb. 11, 1807; d. Jan. 23, 1852; m. 1st, John Wallace, , 1825: d. , 1828; m. 2nd, Nathan Lampson. Children (Wallace) : 749 Melissa, b. , 1826. 750 Orville J., b. Aug., 1828. 2nd marriage (Lampson) : 751 Chauncey. 752 Nathan, Jr. 753 Martha. 754 Marshall. 755 Adelia. 756 Res—. 757 Margaret. 758 Nelson. 759 Bernia, m. Geo. Stevens ; no children. 474 HANNAH A. RISLEY (Chauncey\ Jonathan^ Na- thaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Aug. 3, 1813. Lived and died Vernon, N. Y. ; m. Walter Todd , 1834, Vernon, N. Y. Children : 760 D. Pulaski, b. Dec. 5, 1835. 761 Chauncey R., b. Feb. 16, 1838. 762 J. Ormond, b. Sept. 5, 1841. 475 HENRY RISLEY (Sylvester^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^ Richard', Richard'), b. Aug. 10, 1818; d. June 27, 1849, Clinton, N. Y. ; m. Eleanor Cowles, Nov. 27, 1841. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 119 Children : 763 Rosalia. 764 Byron Palmer. 765 Henry D. 476 JULIUS CAESAR RISLEY {Sylvester^ Jonathan^ NatJianieV, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Jan. 10, 1821; d. Dec. 12, 1884, Hamilton, Madison Co., N. Y. ; m. Miss Dix, of Oriskany Falls. Children : 766 Mercell De Ette. 767 Emma. 768 Katharine. 769 Clarence. 770 Clinton Eugene. 477 PERRY SMITH RISLEY (Sylvester^ Jonathan', Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard-, Richard^), b. Dec. 14, 1822; d. Jan. 18, 1904, Waterville, N. Y. ; m. Jan. 16, 1849, Eliza Smith. Children : 771 Henry Clayton, b. Feb. 17, 1850; d. Sept. 3, 1870, Cornell University. 772 WiLLETT Perry. 773 Frank Eugene, M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. ; unm. 774 Mary Eliza, unm., Brooklyn, N. Y., Am. Surety Co. 478 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS RISLEY (Sylvester^ Jonathan', Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. May 10, 1825 ; d. May 30, 1895 ; m. 1st, Sarah Colson, Jan. 17, 1840, granddaughter of soldier of American Revolution ; 2nd, Delia Wightman, Oct. 26, 1851. Children : 775 Gertrude (1st marriage). 776 De Forest (2nd marriage) ; d. without issue. 777 Arthur Wightman (2nd marriage), b. Apr. 18, 1859; d. May 31, 1862. 120 THE DESCENDANTS OE RICHARD RISLEY 778 Charles Caroll (2nd marriage), b. Aug. 23, 1861 ; d. Mar. 4, 1894. 779 Harriet Eliza (2nd marriage). 479 LOUISA RISLEY {Sylvester^ Jonathan^ Nathaniel\ Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Aug. 23, 1827; m. Den- slow Welch, July 1, 1845. Children : 780 Iantha Welch, b. Mar. — , 1846. 781 Nettie Welch, b. July 8, 1851. 782 Amos Welch, b. May 9, 1855. 783 Mary Louisa Welch, b. July 25, 1858. 784 Adolphus Welch, b. Dec. 11, 1861. 785 Edith Thankful Welch, b. May 6, 1870. 480 GORDON FOX RISLEY (Sylvester^ Jonathan^ Na- thaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard), b. Sept. 28, 1829; d. Aug. 11, 1893, Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. Eve Ann Green, June 26, 1852. Children : 786 Orson C. 787 Genevieve. 788 Evangeline. 789 Ernest Sylvester. 483 CHESTER CHAMBERS RISLEY (Sylvester^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), h. Feb. 1, 1834; d. Dec. 20, 1882; m. Phila Loomis, Nov. 9, 1876. Children : 790 Mary Louise. 791 NoRVA Chester. 792 John Milton. 485 MARION FRANCIS RISLEY (Sylvester^ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard'^, Richard^), b. Mar. 12, 1837 ; d. Jan. 23, 1887 ; m. Helen M. Beebe Nov. 9, 1865. Children : 793 Zada Marion. the descendants of richard risley 121 794 Marguerite Beebe. Marion F. Risley was a large farmer and hop grower Madi- son, N. Y. 486 MARY ANN RISLEY (Sylvester^ Jonathan^ Nath- anieV, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Apr. 30, 1842; d. Dec. 25, 1893; m. Alfred Thompson, Dec. 18, 1861, Madi- son, N. Y. 487 JOHN MILTON RISLEY (Stjlvester\ Jonathan^ Na- thaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. June 1, 1845; m. Susan R. Proctor Oct. 16, 1873, Smyrna, N. Y. Have two adopted daughters Bertha and Edna. Is a prominent farmer at Cassville, N. Y. (1908). 488 MARY ANN ROBERTS (John ^.« Roberts, Esther'' Somers, Esther* Risley, Richard^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Oct. 24, 1820; d. Feb. 12, 1863; m. Alfred Dixon BrandrifF, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1842, b. Mar. 4, 1819; d. June 17, 1900, Fort Wayne, Ind. Children : 795 Martha, b. Aug. 23, 1843. 796 Mary, b. May 3, 1852. 489 SARAH ROBERTS {John Somers'' Roberts, Esther Somers^ Roberts, Esther Risley* Somers, Richard^, Richard'^, Richard^), b. ; m. Sept. 16, 1867, Robert G. Rhodes, Battle Creek, Mich.; d. Nov. 15, 1907; b. St. Paris, Ohio. Children : 797 Mary Eliza Rhodes, b. Cleveland, Minn. 798 Jessie Virginia Rhodes, b. St. Peter, Minn. 490 EVAN J. RISLEY {Jeremiah^ Edward^, Jeremiah*, Jeremiah^, Richard', Richard^), h. Nov. 9, 1838, Gloucester Co., New Jersey; m. Emily Frambes, 1860 (?). Children : 799 AssoNNETTE, b. July 14, 1863; m. Preston B. Adams ; 2 children. 122 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 800 Ida J., b. Jan. 6, 1861. 801 Harry S., b. July 15, 1866; m. Sallie Barnstead; 2 children. 802 Kate H., b. Sept. 7, 1868; m. George Adams; 5 children. 803 Charles E., b. Feb. 8, 1871; m. Lillian Blake; 5 children. 804 Ida M., b. July 12, 1873; m. Howard Harris; 2 children. 805 Gertrude, b. June 3, 1876 ; m. Logan McConnell ;. 1 child. 806 Edna, b. Oct. 30, 1878; m. Clarence Nicholson. 807 Minnie, b. Mar. 12, 1881 ; d. Sept. 12, 1881. 808 Warner, b. May 18, 1883; m. Beulah Ferguson; 1 child. 809 Reynold, b. Mar. 8, 1886 ; m. Winnie Fahy. 511 N. ELTON RISLEY {Nathaniel^ Risley, Edward^ Jer- emiah, jr.*, Jeremiah^, Richard-, Richard^), b. April 6, 1871, Pleasantville, N. J. Unmarried (1908). 517 SAMUEL DOTY RISLEY {John S.\ Joah\ Jere- miah*(?), Jeremiah^, Richard', Richard^), b. Jan. 16, 1845, Cincinnati, O. ; m. 1st, March 11, 1871, Emma D. Thompson, b. June — , 1845; d. Aug. 23, 1904; m. 2nd, Julia Louise Robinson, Jan. 16, 1907. Children : 810 Arthur Doty, b. Dec. 14, 1871. 811 Florence Gienlia, b. June — , 1873; d. Mar. 11, 1896. 812 Helen Irma, b. Oct. — , 1874. 813 John Norman, b. April 9, 1876; m. Mary Hal- bert, Nov. 11, 1903; 1908, no issue. 814 Rebekah Hildegarde, b. March — , 1883. The following is taken from " Universities and Their Sons, Vol. 1, p. 361: jy THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 123 RisLEY, Samuel Doty, 1845, Professor of Ophthamology, and Manager University Hos- pital since 1896, was bom in Cincinnati, O., 1845 ; early edu- cation in schools of Ohio and Iowa ; served through Civil War with 20th Reg. Iowa Volunteers ; graduated M. D. Univ. of Pa., 1870; Chief of Eye Clinic, Univ. Hospital, 1872-90 ; Lect. on Ophthalmoscopy, and Asst. Ophthalmic Surgeon ; Prof. Astronomy at Wagner's Free Inst, of Science, 1871-74 ; Ph. D. Wagner's Inst., 1874 ; Visiting Surgeon Dispensary Staff of Protestant Episcopal, 1873-76; Out-Door Physician to North- ern Dispensary, 1871-74; Ophthalmologist and Otologist Protestant Episcopal Hospital, 1877-83; A. M. Univ. of Iowa, 1883; Prof. Ophthalmology Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine and Alumni Manager Univ. Hospital since 1896; holds many professional offices. Samuel Doty Risley, A. M., M. D., Ph. D., was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 16, 1845, descended from a very old English family. Richard Risley arrived in America with Cotton and Hooker in 1633, locating in Newtown (now Cam- bridge), and moved into the Connecticut valley with Hooker's party, their names being commemorated on a shaft which stands in the Central Presbyterian Churchyard Cemetery in Hartford. (Rev.) Dr. Risley was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati and later at Davenport, Iowa, whither his parents had emigrated in 1857. When but seventeen years of age, stirred by patriotic impulses of the period, he enlisted with the Twentieth Regiment of Iowa Volunteers, serving his country until the close of the Civil War. In the autumn of 1865 he entered the Iowa State University, at Iowa City, but broke off his College course in April, 1867, in order to take up medical studies in the office of Dr. Lucius French of Daven- port. Here he remained until the following year, matriculat- ing in 1868 in the Medical Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1870> and remained in Philadelphia, making himself a specialist on eye diseases. In 1871 he was appointed Clinical Assistant at 124 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Wills Eye Hospital, and in the following year was made Chief of the Eye Clinic at the Hospital of the University of Penn- sylvania, a position which he held until 1890. He early be- came a Lecturer Ophthalmoscopy in the University and As- sistant Ophthalmic Surgeon to the University Hospital. At the present time he is an Alumni Manager of the University Hospital. Dr. Risley's outside interests as a medical practi- tioner have been very large. For three years he was Visiting Surgeon on the Dispensary Staff of the Protestant Episcopal Hospital, and later served as Ophthalmologist and Otologist to that Hospital. He is now Attending Surgeon at the Wills Eye Hospital, Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Training School for the Feeble Minded at Vineland, N. J., and Ophthalmolo- gist on the Medical Board of the Pennsylvania Training School for the Feeble Minded until elected to the Board of Managers in 1897. He is also Professor of Diseases of the Eye at the Philadelphia Polyclinic, and Fellow of the College of Physicians, and served for two years as chairman of the section on Diseases of the Eye. Dr. Risley has several times gone abroad for study and observation, and was a member of the International Ophthahnic Congress at Edinburgh in 1894, and at Utrecht in 1899. He is a member of the Ameri- can Ophthalmological Society, and served as its President in 1908, the Climatological Society, the American Academy of Medicine, of which he was elected President in 1900, and the American Medical Association, and was Chairman of the Sec- tion in Ophthalmology of the last named society in 1893. For a few years in his younger life Dr. Risley was Professor of Astronomy in Wagner's Free Institute of Science in Phila- delphia, this teaching body having conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1874. In 1883 he received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa, where he had been a student in his youth. From early life Dr. Ris- ley has been active in religious and philanthropic work, his interest in the Young Men's Christian Association having been continuous for many years. For a long time he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Society THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 125 of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and is at present Vice-President of the society, and he has been the Alumni Manager of the University Hospital from 1896 to this date. Dr. Risley is a member of the Art Club, the Union League, and the University Club of Philadelphia. He was married in 1870 to Emma D. Thompson, and has his offices at 1728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, having a country house at Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. For years Dr. Risley has been a frequent and industrious contrib- utor to the literature of his special branch of medical science. His pubhcations number upwards of two hundred papers and articles. The work upon which he personally sets the most value is that relating to the hygiene of vision in the schools. This is a subject to which he has given his uninterrupted study since 1878, and his investigations have been productive of much good in improving the hygienic conditions in our public and private schools. He was the first to point out the relation existing between certain congenital defects in the eyes of children and the increasing percentage of near sight in the schools — hence the necessity for an examination of the children's eyes as a preliminary to their admission to the schools. He is one of the directors of the Descendants of Richard Risley, Incorporated. EIGHTH GENERATION 521 ALMIRA RISLEY {Harvey' Risley, T}ieodore\ Ben- jamin^, John, jr.'*', John^, Richard^, Richard^), b. June 9, 1829; m. Nov. — , 1854, George Austin Warren, b. Oct. 27, 1827; d. Sept. 6, 1898. Children : 815 Ella Minerva, b. Mar. 17, 1856; m. Nov. 19, 1879, H. I. Peary, Byron, Ga. 816 Harvey Risley, b. Mar. 29, 1862; m. Harriet B. Latz, Jan. 14, 1892, Los Angeles, Cal. 817 Louis Newton, b. Feb. 16, 1864; m. 1st, Annie M. Minor, Sept. 13, 1891; 2nd, Lillie E. Oliver,. Nov. 25, 1897, Silver Lane, Conn. 818 Sarah Ann, b. Aug. 20, 1866. 522 ANNE RISLEY {Harvey' Risley, Theodore\ Benja- min^, John, Jr.*, John^, Richard-, Richard^), b. Nov. 9, 1834,. Buckland, Conn. ; m. Seth Vinton, May 2, I860. Children : 819 Anne Risley Vinton. 820 Esther Minerva Vinton, m. Clinton Williams.- 821 John Randolph Vinton, unm. 822 Mary Brewster Vinton. 823 Annie Louise Vinton, m. Edward P. Collins. 523 LEWIS E. RISLEY {Asa\ Asa\ Gresham\ Richard\. Samuel^, Richard-, Richard^), b. , 1824, New Hampshire; m. Emily Evans, Piermont, N. H. Children : 824 Robert Lewis, b. , 1851, Piermont, N. H. 825 Charles Asa, b. , 1852, Hanover, N. H. 526 MARY P. ERWIN {Nancy' Pease, Laura G.^ Risley, THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 127 Benjamin^, Richard* {?), Samuel^, Richard", Richard^), b. Jan. 29, 1850, Cleveland, O. ; m. Cyrus E. Johnston, Nov. 20, 1870, Cleveland, O., b. Nov. 22, 1841, Berlin, Vt. 542 MARY D. RISLEY (Alvah' Risley, Reuben, Jr.\ Reu- hen\ Joh\ Samuel^, Richard", Richard^), b. Sept. 20, 1847, Truxton, Cortland Co., N. Y. ; m. Peter D. Miiller Feb. 15, 1871, Truxton, N. Y., b. June 29, 1848. Children : 826 Alvah Risley Muller, b. Dec. 6, 1871, Truxton, N. Y. ; m. J. G. Warrington, Syracuse, May 29, 1894. 827 Jennie Louise Muller, b. Sept. 12, 1875. 544 HENRY E. TURNER {Roberf Turner, Mary Risley^ (Turner), Reuben^, Job*, Samuel^, Richard", Richard^), b. April 1, 1830; m. . He is a Union Veteran of the Civil War and late County Judge of Lewis Co., N. Y. ; lives at Low- ville, N. Y. Was a member of the Board of Regents of New York. Children : 828 Wm. Henry Allison. 829 Edith. 830 Cornelia. 831 Louise. 545 HELEN MAR TURNER (Roberf Turner, Mercy Ris- ley^ (Turner), Reuben^, Job*, Samuel^, Richard", Richard^), b. Sept. 15, 1831, Claremont, N. H. ; m. Sept. 10, 1851, W. W. Whedon, Munsville, N. Y. Resides Ann Arbor, Mich. Children : 832 Helen Margaret, b. Oct. 3, 1852, Ann Arbor; m. Rev. Wm. J. Wibb, Nov. 30, 1881. 833 William Turner, b. July 20, 1859, Norwood, Mass., 1904; m. 1st, Mildred Knowlton, June 20, 1889, d. Apr. 9, 1897 ; m. 2nd, Florence Loomis, June 23, 1898; 2 children 1st wife: Helen K. Whe- don, Florence Mildred. 128 THE DESCENDANTS OF EICHARD UISLEY 834 May, b. May 31, 1863, Chelsea, Mich.; m. Dr. T. C. Phillips, 352 Juneau Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.; 1 child, Helen. 835 SusA (twin), b. Jan. 18, 1868, Ann Arbor; unm. ; teaching in N. Y., 1904. 836 Sara (twin), b. Jan. 18, 1868, Ann Arbor, unm.; living 314 N. State St., Ann Arbor, Mich. 837 Caroline Frances, b. Dec. , 1854; d. Mar. , 1860. 546 SUSANNAH MERCY TURNER (Roberf Turner, Mercy Risley^ {Turner), Reuben^, Joh^, SamueV, Richard"^, Richard}), b. Oct. 11, 1835, Brewer, Maine; m. 1st, Noah Richardson; 4 children (one dead) ; m. 2nd, E. A. Spence; 2 children; 531 Jefferson St., Ann Arbor, Mich. Children, first marriage : 838 Mrs. C. M. Hill, 523 Jefferson Ave., Saginaw, Mich, , 1904. 839 Mrs. Cyrus Yankey, Wansan, Wis. 840 Mrs. H. B. Wyeth, Evanston, 111. 841 Jessie Richardson, Ann Arbor. Children, second marriage : 842 Florence Spence, Morgantown, W. Va. 843 Ross Spence, Morgantown, W. Va. 548 WILLIAM T. HALE {Marcia M.' Turner, Mercy Risley^ Turner, Reuben^ Risley, Job^, Samuel^, Richard^, Rich- ard"), b. Nov. 4, 1856; m. Addie, Oct. 27, 1880. Child: 844 Pearl Esther, b. Sept. 23, 1883. 549 WALLACE L. HALE (Marcia MJ Turner, Mercy Ris- ley^ Turner, Reuben^ Risley, Job, Sr^, Samuel^, Richard', Rich- ard"), b. Feb. 6, 1866; m. Grace Gertrude Griswold, April 17, 1901. Child: THE DESCENDANTS OP RICHARD RISLEY 129 845 Wallace Griswold Hale, b. Feb. 24, 1902. 552 HENRY A. RISLEY (Reuben\ Waite\ Reuben\ Joh\ Samuel^, Richard'^, Richard^), b. May 30, 1841; m. Laura A. Keeney, Dec. 24, 1873. Resides in Camden, Ind. Children : 846 Hattie M., b. Oct. 30, 1878. 847 Clyde H., b. Mar. 17, 1881. 848 Ray Reuben, b. May 9, 1884. 849 Clarice L., b. July 9, 1886. 850 EsTELLA May, b. Dec. 27, 1889. 554 JAMES HOLLIS RISLEY (Reuben', Waited Reuben', Job*, Samuef, Richard'-, Richard^), b. Feb. 12, 1855; m. Liz- zie Nixon, Sept. 3, 1874. Resides South Bend, Ind., 1908. Children : 851 Blanche H., b. Sept. 3, 1875. 852 Herbert R., b. Oct. 27, 1877. 853 Hazel Grace, b. Dec. 12, 1894. 560 JOHN STRONG RISLEY (Wells N.' Risley, Roger E.^, Reuben^, Job*, Samuel^, Richard', Richard}), b. July 19, 1860. Resides Manchester Green, Conn. ; m. Clara Carpenter. (Dead). Children : 854 John S., Jr., b. Aug. 18, 1894. 855 Gladys, b. Dec. 5, 1896. 562 ELSA L. RISLEY (Wells NJ Risley, Roger E.\ Reu- ben', Job*, Samuel^, Richard'^, Richard^), b. ; m. H. S. Keeney. Children : 856 Mabel L. 857 Ruby. 573 ALBERT EARL RISLEY (Lorenzo\ Truman\ Reu- ben', Job, sr.*, Samuel^, Richard", Richard^), b. Feb. 6, 1853; m. Nellie Augusta Lombard, July 26, 1876. 130 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Albert Earl Risley is paying teller in .^tna National Bank, Hartford, Conn. He is treasurer of the incorporation of "The Descendants of Richard Risley," and with great in- terest has devoted much time to its advancement. Children : 858 Louis Albert, b. Dec. 14, 1877; d. Feb. 23, 1878. 859 Mabel Earl, b. Oct. 3, 1879; d. Feb. 18, 1884. 860 Nellie Allen, b. June 8, 1882. 861 Augustus Lombard, b. Feb. 25', 1884. Albert E. Risley, born in Hartford, Conn., where his mother died in 1857, and he was taken to his grandparents in El- lington, Conn., until the second marriage of his father in 1862, when he again returned to Hartford, his present resi- dence. He was educated in Edwin Hall's Classical School in Ellington and the Hartford Public High School. In 1871, at the age of 18, he entered the employment of the ^tna National Bank, Hartford, as junior clerk, having served continuously in that employment, he is serving as pay- ing teller since 1890. He married in 1876, Nellie Augusta Lombard, daughter of Augustus Lombard of Boston. He died when his daughter was very young, in Central America whither he had gone to purchase a coffee plantation. Mr. Risley, in connection with Mr. Edwin H. Risley of Utica and others, was largely instrumental in the promotion and incorporation of the " Descendants of Richard Risley of Hartford, Conn." He is a 32nd Degree Freemason. 575 EDITH LIDORA RISLEY (Lorenzo' ^nd marriage, Truman^, Reuben^, Joh^, Samuel^, Richard', Richard^), b. Feb. 7, 1857; m. Clement C. Hyde, July 9, 1908. Edith L. Risley was educated in Hartford Public and High Schools ; New Britain Normal School, and graduated in Wesleyan College, Middletown, Conn. Afterwards taught in the New Britain Normal and the Public High School until her marriage. Mr. Hyde is a member of the High School Faculty. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 131 581 WILLIAM H. RISLEY {Chester', Elisha% Benjamin^ Joh\ Samuel\ Richard^ Richard^), b. Feb. 1, 1817, Glaston- bury, Conn.; d. Feb. 23, 1870; m. Delia Ann Hills, b. Sept. 15, 1817; d. Oct. 28, 1902. Children : 862 Adela, b. Dec. 15, 1840 ; trustee Risley Incorpora- tion. 863 Alice Hills, b. Sept. 3, 1842. 864 William E., b. April 30, 1844. 865 Edward. 866 Augusta {?). 588 WILLIAM HOLLISTER RISLEY {ShubaV, Elisha\ Benjamin^, Job, sr^, Samuel^, Richard', Richard^), b. Sept. 8, 1823; d. Jan. 17, 1897, Berlin, Ct. ; m. 1st, Mirinda Wilcox, Nov. 20, 1844; 2nd, Miss Hooker; 3rd, Frances E. Miles, Sept. 19, 1855. Mr. Risley was engaged in commercial pursuits in the town of Berlin. Child by 2nd marriage: 867 Chester Hooker. Children by 3rd marriage : 868 Jennie, m. Chaffee. 869 Kate, b. . 870 William Miles. 871 Leonie, m. Eddy. Mr. Wm. M. is Vice-President ; Miss Kate is Recording Sec- retary of " The Descendants of Richard Risley." William H. represented the town of Berlin in the Legisla- ture for two terms and held many town offices at various times. 593 RUSSELL LOOMIS {Mary Abbey' Loomis, Ruth Ris- ley^ Abbey, Moses^, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. , North Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. Laverna Lawson, Smyrna, N. Y. Both buried in Cole Hill Cemetery, Brookfield, N. Y. 132 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Children : 872 Carrie, m. George Kelterer, Penn Yan, N. Y. ; 2 daughters. 873 Emogene, m. John Roshford, Waterville. N. Y. ; 2 daughters. 874 Minnie, unmarried. 875 Eunice, m. Geo. Isaacs. 594 DAVID LOOMIS (Mary Abbey' Loomis, Ruth Risley^ Abbey, Moses^ Uisley, Moses*', Jonathan^, Richard' , Rich- ard^), b. , North Brookfield, N. Y. ; d. same place; m. , Martha Chesbro. Children : 876 Ella, m. Adalbert Rice, Hamilton, N. Y. 877 Emma, m. Fay Sawdy, Earlville, N. Y. 878 Calista, unmarried. David Loomis served in the 114th Regt., N. Y. S. V., for three years in the Civil War. Was a wagon maker. 595 WARREN LOOMIS {Mary Abbey' Loomis, Ruth Ris- ley^ Abbey, Moses^ Risley, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Rich- ard^), b. , North Brookfield, N. Y. ; m, , Mandana Dix. Children : 879 Elmer, deceased. 880 Lena, m. ; 1 daughter. 881 Emerson, m. May Miller; 3 or 4 children. 882 Mary, m. Gaylord Butler; 2 children, son, dau. 596 PHILA LOOMIS (Mary' Abbey Loomis, Ruth Risley'' Abbey, Moses^ Risley, Moses*', Jonathan^ Richard\ Rich- ard^), b. , North Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. , Chester C. Risley. Children : (See descendants of Chester C Risley, No. 483.) 697 ORANGE E. LOOMIS (Mary Abbey' Loomis, Ruth THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 133 Risley^ Ahhey, Moses^ Risley, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard'), b. Nov. 14, 1840, North Brookfield, N. Y. ; d. June 10, 1907, Hubbardsville, N. Y. ; m. Nov. 17, 1868, Jennie Lawson, Smyrna, N. Y., d. Oct. 22, 1907. Children : 883 Walter O., b. Oct. 21, 1870, Hubbardsville, N. Y. 884 Fred H., b. April 8, 1873, Hubbardsville, N. Y. 885 David S., b. Dec. 16, 1875', Hubbardsville, N. Y. ; d. Mar. 2, 1891. 886 Jennie A., b. Dec. 28, 1885; teacher. 887 Edwin L., b. July 2, 1882. Orange Loomis was a farmer, Hubbardsville, N. Y. Served three years in the Civil War with the 114th Regt., N. Y. S. V., Co. G. He was a man of great probity of character. 598 HIRAM LOOMIS (Mary Abbey' Loomis, Ruth Risley^ Abbey, Moses^ Risley, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard^l Rich- ard'), b. Jan. 14, 1842, North Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. 1st., Ame- lia Ferris; 2nd, May 17, 1873, Lydia A. Ferris Knowles, Waterville, N. Y., b. July 7, 1850; d. May 12, 1902. Children, all born in North Brookfield, N. Y. : 888 Jesse M., b. Nov. 2, 1874; m. Alma M. Austin, July 4, 1895, d. May 27, 1905. 889 Frank H., b. July 15, 1876; deceased, Jan. 10, 1889. 890 L. May, b. May 7, 1878; m. Albert Ogden, Oct. 25, 1894, Hubbardsville, N. Y. 891 Adna R., b. July 28, 1880. 892 Hattie a., b. Feb. 5, 1882 ; m. Walter Bush, Feb. 27, 1903. 893 Willie F., b. May 7, 1883; m. Elsa Van De Boe July 21, 1903. 894 Carrie, b. May 5, 1885; m. D. J. Ross, May 9, 1903. 895 Fannie, b. Oct. 22, 1886; unmarried. Hiram was a farmer and hotel-keeper at Nortli Brookfield R. R. Station. 134 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 599 MOSES ABBEY (Allen'' Abbey, Ruth Rislef Abbey, Moses^ Risley, Hoses'^, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. , Brookfield, Mad. Co., N. Y. ; m. 1st, Charlotte Denni- son ; m. 2nd, Amelia Barber. Children : None. Moses Abbey was twice married. When a young man he moved to Preston, Can., where he was a magistrate of the town several years. His death occurred at the Pan American Exhibition, 1902, at Buffalo, where he was drowned by acci- dentally falling into one of the lagoons in the evening. His only brother, Israel, lives at Eaton, Mad. Co., N. Y. 610 AMELIA ABBEY (Ira' Abbey, Ruth Risley^ Abbey, Moses^ Risley, Moses^^ Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. , North Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. , Nathan Wheeler, North Brookfield, N. Y. Children : 896 Ira Wheeler, m. Emma Bond; 2 children, son and dau. 897 Willie Wheeler. 898 LiLLiE Wheeler. 611 ELEANOR ABBEY (Ira' Abbey, Ruth Risley'' Abbey, Moses^ Risley, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. ; m. , Manthus Satterlee. Children : 899 Mamie Satterlee, m. Herbert Babcock. 900 Nelson Satterlee. 901 Willie Satterlee. 902 Buta Satterlee. 903 Walter Satterlee. 904 Edith Satterlee. 612 SAMUEL ABBEY (Ira' Abbey, Ruth Risley"" Abbey, Moses^ Risley, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. ; m. , Mary Smith. Children, 2 adopted: ,|! the descendants of eichard bisley 135 905 Mabel Abbey. 906 Lynn Abbey. ■613 ROSETTA ABBEY {Ira' Abbey, Ruth Risley'' Abbey, Moses^ Risley, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richardr, Richard^), b. ; m. , J. Arthur Perry. Children : 907 Lulu Enoch Perry. 908 LiLLA May Perry (twin). 909 Rosa Maud Perry (twin). 614 LILLIE ABBEY (/m^ Abbey, Ruth Risley'' Abbey, Moses^ Risley, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. ; m. , C. Walter Carruth. Children : 910 Irma Carruth. 911 William Carruth. 912 Ethel Rose Carruth. 621 ALLEN ABBEY {George' Abbey, Ruth Risley^ Abbey, Moses^ Risley, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. ; m. , Wheat. Children : 913 Edith Abbey. 914 Ada Abbey. Two more dau : Abbey. Abbey. m^ LOUISA KENT {Lucinda'; Elisha\ Moses\ Moses*, ■Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Sept. 13, 1857; d. ; m. Silas Mott, West Camden, N. Y., Mteir. 17, 1881. Child : Elvira Mott (adopted), b. July 8, 1893. 623 ALBERT KENT {Lucinda\ EUsha\ Moses\ Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Aug. 10, 1861; m. Mary Abel, Vienna, N. Y., Nov. 13, 1884. 136 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Children : 915 Earl, b. Jan. 17, 1886. 916 Vera, b. May 10, 1888. 917 Leonard, b. June 30, 1890. 918 LuMAN, b. July 19, 1893; d. Oct. — , 1896. 6M ALICE KENT {Lucinda\ EUsha% Moses\ Moses\ Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Aug. 10, 1861; d. Jan. 5, 1901; m. Oscar Vunk, Vienna, Nov. 12, 1885, d. July 2, 1891. Children : 919 IvA, b. Mar. 30, 1888 ? d. Oct. 19, 1903. 920 Hattie, b. Mar. 5, 1890; m. Walter Chipman, Aug. 1, 1907, Cortland, N. Y. Oscar Vunk died July 2, 1891. Alice m. 2nd, Samuel Belknap, Camden, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1§97. Child: 921 Leonard K. B., b. Mar. 15, 1899. 625 JULIA KENT (Lucinda\ Elisha\ Moses\ Moses\ Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Oct. 6, 1863; m. John Cook, Vienna, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1886. Children : 922 Alta M., b. Nov. 30, 1886. 923 RoLLiN J., b. Aug. 19, 1897; d. in infancy. 626 LUCY FORBES RISLEY {Jane' Risley, Elisha\ Mo- ses^, Moses^, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard}), b. April 3, 1834, Vienna, N. Y. ; m. May 30, 1860, Horace Kent, Vienna, N. Y. Children : 924 Frank, b. Jan. 30, 1867; m. Georgia Dean Spald- ing. 925 George, b. Jan. 16, 1874; m. Cora Fydinger, Clarence, N. Y., d. Sept. 1, 1901; 6 children. 629 LUCY RISLEY (William' Risley, EUsha\ Moses\ Mo- THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 137 ses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard}), h. Aug. 27, 1855, Vi- enna, N. Y.; m. Dec. 11, 1877, George Taylor, Oneida, N. Y. Child: 926 George, Jr., b. July 5, 1882. 630 MARTHA RISLEY (William' Risleij, Elisha\ Moses\ Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. July 23, 1858, Vienna, N. Y. ; m. Mar. 13, 1877, James Taylor, Oneida, N. Y. Child: 927 Eva, b. May 21, 1879; m. Herbert V^est, Nov. 23, 1899. 631 ANNIE RISLEY (William' Risley, Elisha% Moses\ Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Oct. 9, 1868, Vi- enna, N. Y. ; m. Feb. 8, 1876, Peter Fox, Vienna, N. Y. Children : 928 Clara, b. Jan. 2, 1877. 929 Fred, b. Aug. 3, 1875. 632 EDWIN RISLEY (William' Risley, Elisha\ Moses\ Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. April 15, 1863; m. Feb. 9, 1904, Nettie Kellie. Child : 930 William, b. July 11, 1905. 635 HARRIET BRIGHAM (Louisa/ Risley, Elisha\ Mo- ses^, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Jan. 12, 1852, Vienna, N. Y. ; m. Feb. 15, 1872, John Waffle, Vienna, N. Y. Children : 931 Carrie. 932 Charlie. 636 WILLIAM BRYANT (Freelove' Smith, Thankful^ Smith, Abigail^ Risley, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Rich- ard^), b. Nov. 20, 1827, East Hartford, Conn.; d. May 9, 138 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 1875, East Hartford, Conn.; m. May 14, 1850, Sarah E, Harding, b. Aug. 13, 1829, Manchester, Conn. Children : 933 Hannah Ward, b. Nov. 18, 1852, East Hart- ford, Conn. (Other children unknown.) 639 JOSEPH BARTLES {Eliza E.' Randall, Electa'' Ris- ley, David^, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. , Flemington, N. J. ; d. ; m. . Children : 934 Charles. 935 Elizabeth, m. Dr. W. W. Hawbe; 2 children. 936 Lucy. 640 MARGARET R. BARTLES (Eliza E.' Randall, Electa^ Risley, David^, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Rich- ard^), b. , 332 Joinville Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.; m. Ste- phen C. McCandless. Children : 937 Sarah Collins McCandless, unmarried. 938 Margaret Emerson McCandless, unmarried. 939 Eliza Bartles McCandless, m. R. Nelson, 332 Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. 644 LYMAN RISLEY {AshheV, Benjamin^ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Feb. 5, 1820, East Hartford, Conn.; m. July 11, 1841, Betsey M. Lewis, East Hartford, Conn., b. Aug. 17, 1820; d. Dec. 14, 1891. Lumber merchant, East Hartford, many years. Children : 940 Elizabeth Ann, b. Nov. 29, 1842; d. Dec. 25, 1842. 941 Caroline Gertrude, b. Feb. 29, 1844. 942 Irving Lewis, b. Mar. 25, 1846. 650 FRANCIS RISLEY {Benjamin', Benjamin^ Jona- THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 139 than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. ; m. 1st, Sarah Tryon ; 2nd, Lois Thayer. Children 1st marriage: 943 Elizabeth, d. . 944 Charles H. 945 Mary. 2nd marriage : 946 Frederick. 947 Augusta. 948 Cellv. 949 John. 950 Frank. 951 Elizabeth. 952 Eva. 666 GEORGE RISLEY (EUsur\ Benjamin", Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. May 14,. 1820; deaf mute; d. May 18, 1872; m. June 26, 1862, Elea- nor Foster, d. Sela, N. Y., , 1907. Children : 953 Charles Seward, b. June 30, 1864 (mute)'; m;. . Living at Dalton, Mass. 954 Clarissa Parker, b. June 17, 1879; m.. Davis, Butte, Mont. ; has children. 668 JAMES MONROE RISLEY {Elizur\ Benjamin^ Jon- athan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. INIar. 29, 1830; d. May 11, 1860; m. Oct. 5, 1853, Ellen Stev^is, b. ; d. May 26, 1903. Child : 955 Ann Eliza, b. ; m. Cook ; children. 669 GOODRICH RISLEY {Elizur\ Benjamin^ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Jan. 5, 1832 (deaf mute) ; d. May 29, 1895 ; cremated at Waterville, N. Y. ; m. Feb. 27, 1861, Jane Simons (mute), resides Syracuse., N. Y. 140 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Goodrich was carpenter, builder and inventor. Maintained himself and family with credit and was an upright citizen. 956 Eunice Amanda, b. July 21, 1862; m., July 21, 1881, Frank Cole, Syracuse, N. Y. 957 Lincoln Simons, b. May 4, 1864; m.. May 4, 1891, Hart, New Britain, Conn. 958 Goodrich Elizur, b. April 10, 1872; m., Oct. 15, 1901. 670 MATILDA RISLEY (Elizur\ Benjamin\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan/^, Richard', Richard^), b. July 8, 1833; d. July 12, 1898; m. June — , 1863, John Mattison, b. , South Hamilton, N. Y. Children : 959 Amy. 960 Ira, b. Nov. 3, 1868; unm. 1904. 961 Nora. 671 ALBERT RISLEY, {Elizur\ Benjamin\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. July 28, 1842; d. , 1907, Brockport, N. Y. ; m. Oct. 29, 1869, Kate Horey, b. , Brockport, N. Y. Farmer and market gardener. Child: 962 Eva Adell, m. , Brockport, N. Y. 673 JAMES ALLEN RISLEY (Elizur\ Benjamin^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Mar. 14, 1848, Hubbardsville, N. Y. ; m. Oct. 9, 1875, NeUie Keeney, dau. Edwin Keeney, Hamilton, N. Y. James lives at father's homestead, farmer, a man of probity, assessor of town of Hamilton, N. Y., for more than ten years, member of East Hamilton M. E. Church. Child: 963 Allen Clark, b. Aug. 7, 1879, Hubbardsville, N. Y. ; m. Stella Stebbins, East Hamilton, N. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 141 Y. ; cashier of American Express Co., Schenec- tady, N. Y., 1908. 674 D. ROMAINE RISLEY (EUzur\ Benjamin", Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, f Jonathan^, Richardr, Richard^), b. Nov. 22, 1857, Hubbardsville, N. Y. ; m. Feb. 12, 1879, Ada Cran- dall, Brookfield, N. Y. Farmer and excellent citizen ; member of Board of Health, Hamilton, N. Y. Member of East Hamilton, N. Y., M. E. Church. Children : 964 Clella S., b. Nov. 11, 1884, Hubbardsville, N. Y. Teacher. 965 Austin Clark, b. Aug. 11, 1887, Hubbardsville, N. Y. 675 JULIA A. HURLBURT (Ann' Risley, Benjamin^ Jonathan^, NathanieV, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Mar. 26, 1831, East Hartford, Conn.; m. George Clinton Brewer, May 1, 1849. Both buried in Hockanum Cemetery. Children : 966 Isabelle, b. Jan. 9, 1856; m. Zopher Hills, Hills- town, Conn. 967 Louis, b. Mar. 2, 1861 ; d. Feb. 18, 1862. 968 Carrie L., b. Mar. 22, 1863; m. John L. Jencks (2nd cousin). 678 J. HENRY HURLBURT {Ann' Risley, Benjamin"), Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Oct. 11, 1837, East Hartford, Conn.; d. Dec. 2, 1873; m. Oct. 27, 1856, Lucy M. Brewer, East Hartford, Conn., b. Apr. 26, 1839. Merchant. Child: 969 Ruby, b. July 25, 1870, East Hartford, Conn. 679 MARY HURLBURT {Ann' Risley, Benjamin\ Jona- than^, Nathlaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. July 142 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 20, 1839, Silver Lane, Conn.; m. Philo Brewer, Sept. 29^ 1857, b. Jan. 27, 1836. Children : 970 Fannie A., b. Sept. 16, 1859; d. Sept. 3, 1861. 971 Herbert E., b. Aug. 27, 1861 ; d. June 8, 1862. 972 Katb H., b. Apr. 16, 1863; d. Nov. 26, 1863. 973 Minnie N., b. Apr. 10, 1865; d. Sept. 14, 1865. 974 Everett P., b. Jan. 18, 1869. 975 Ellena H., b. Sept. 29, 1874. 976 Leslie L., b. Apr. 21, 1879. 682 MELISSA HURLBURT {Ann' Risley, Benjamin\. Jonathan^, Nathaniel^, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Jan. 3, 1847, East Hartford, Conn.; m. 1st, Eugene Risley (Wrisley), Mar. — , 1865; d. , 1868; m. 2nd, Robert Hills, , 1870, Hillstown, Conn., d. , 1876; m. 3rd,. L. Lewis . Child, 1st marriage : 977 Clarence Risley, b. May — , 1867. Child, 2nd marriage: 978 Lulu, b. April 7, 1874. 3rd marriage, no children. 685 ELLEN E. RISLEY {Chauncei^\ Benjamin^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. June 28, 1834, Glastonbury, Conn.; d. Jan. 6, 1906; m. Isaac I. Olcott, Oct. 29, 1858, b. Sept. 11, 1831 ; d. July 20, 1899. Children : 979 George Chauncey, b. June 6, 1863, Glastonbury, Conn. 980 Elmer Isaac, b. Oct. 7, 1871, Glastonbury, Conn. 981 Herbert Ashton, b. Aug. 5, 1874, Glastonbury,, Conn. ; m. . 686 FANNIE A. RISLEY {Chauncey\ Benjamin^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel^, Jonathan^, Richard"^, Richard^), b. Aug. 9, 1836; d. ; m. 1st, Sullivan E. Sabin, Lebanon, N. Y.,, THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 14S Nov. 5, 1859; m. 2nd, De Forest Wilbur, Otselic, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1878. Sabin children : 982 Nellie Sabin, b. Oct. — , 1860; d. , 1864. 983 Jennie Sabin, b. May 4, 1865; m. . 984 Walter Sullivan Sabin, b. Sept. 29, 1868 ; m. 985 Chauncey Risley Sabin, b. ; d. in infancy. 688 JANE M. RISLEY {Chauncey\ Benjamin^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^) ^ h. Nov. 2,. 1839; d. Feb. 12, 1868; m. Oct. 29, 1866, Dwight E. Risley (first cousin), d. May 12, 1875. Child : 986 Jennie Ellen, b. Feb. 5, 1868 ; d. Nov. 23, 1889. 689 EDWIN HILLS RISLEY {Chauncey\ Benjamin\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard", Richard^), b. Feb. 5, 1842, Talcott Hill, Madison, Mad. Co. ; m. June 20, 1866, Harriet A. Metcalf, Westmoreland, N. Y. ; b., Vernon, N. Y., Jan. 18, 1841. They now reside in Utica, N. Y. President of " The Richard Risley Association " ; a trustee of Colgate University, and a member of the Oneida County Court House Commission. Edwin H. Risley, admitted to practice law at Watertown, N. Y., October, 1864. Enlisted as a private soldier August 13, 1862. Mustered as first lieutenant August 21, 1862. Served in Co. D, 117th Regt., N. Y. V. Harriet A. Metcalf is a lineal descendant of Michael Met- calf of Dedham, Mass. First in America, 1636; also of James E. Fitch, first minister of Norwich, Conn. ; and Priscilla Ma- son, his wife, who was a daughter of Capt. John Mason of Pequot War fame, and Lieutenant Governor of the Common- wealth of Connecticut. She was likewise a descendant on her maternal side of Daniel Clark of Windsor, Conn., Secretary for nine years of the colonial government of Connecticut. 144 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY John Mason and Daniel Clark were named in the Connecti- cut charter of Charles II of England in 1662. Children : 987 Jessie Adelaide, b. June 20, 1869, Utica, N. Y. 988 Everett Edwin, b. May 31, 1877, Utica, N. Y. 691 SYLVESTER RISLEY, 2ND {Chauncey\ Benjamin^ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard-, Richard^), b. Mar. 2, 1847 ; living Hubbardsville, N. Y. ; m. 1st, Mary Ann Mawers, Sangerfield, N. Y., Sept. 1, 1868, d. Apr. — , 1893; m. 2nd, Mrs. Mary Wilcox, Utica, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1897, b. May 31, 1853, d. . 1903; m. 3rd, Jan. 2, 1907, Mrs. Symonds, Utica, N. Y. Mawers children: 989 Minnie Blanch, b. Aug. 29, 1869, Hamilton, N. Y. ; m. Wm. Odell. 990 Mina Julia, b. Oct. 3, 1870, Hamilton, N. Y. 991 Florence Mabel, b. June 3, 1872, Hamilton, N. Y. Adopted son : Howard Sturdevant Risley. 692 ADELBERT D. RISLEY (Chauncey\ Benjamin\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Aug. 22, 1848; living at Clinton, N. Y., 1908; m. Sarah Jane De Grath, Henderson, N. Y., Apr. 1, 1884, b. Dec. 16, 1860. An attorney-at-law. Children : 992 Don Chauncey, b. Apr. 12, 1886, N. Y. Mills, N. Y. Colgate, Class of 1908. 993 Maud, b. May 15, 1891 ; d. , 1893. 994 Ada Violet, b. June 2, 1895. 995 Adelbert, jr., b. , 1902. 693 ORVILLE W. RISLEY {Chawncey', Benjamin\ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Oct. 9, 1850, Hamilton, N. Y. ; living at N. Y. Mills 1908; m. Ada THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 145 Belle Perkins, Otselic, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1874, b. Oct. 9, 1850. Children : 996 Fennimore Cltrtiss, b. Oct. 1, 1875, New Hart- ford, N. Y. 997 Walter Clifford, b. Dec. 29, 1879, New Hart- ford, N. Y. 998 Floyd Fremont, b. June 5, 1884, New Hartford, N. Y. 999 Ellena Sophia, b. Feb. 22, 1888, New Hartford, N. Y. 694 JULIA A. RISLEY {Chauncey\ Benjamin\ Jona- than^, NathanieV, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. April 12, 1853, Hamilton, N. Y. ; d. Nov. — , 1893; m. 1st, John Griffin, Apr. 16, 1873, Kirkland, N. Y., d. , 1886; 2nd, Andrew Williams, Aug. 29, 1889, CHnton, N. Y. Griffin children : 1000 Herbert Risley Griffin, b. Mar. 29, 1874; d. , 1882. 1001 'Robert Adair Griffin, b. June 9, 1884; d. Dec. 4, 1907. Graduated Colgate University, 1907. 1002 Isaac Maynard Willlvms, b. June 29, 1892, Clinton, N. Y. 697 MARTHA E. RISLEY (Sylvester', Benjamin^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Sept. 17, 1858, Hamilton or Hubbardsville, N. Y. ; m. Edward H. Waters, Clinton, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1881. Child : 1003 Leslie Amos, b. Nov. 26, 1891 ; d. May 24, 1900. 697 MARTHA E. RISLEY (Sylvester', Benjamin^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Aug. 6, 1842; m. Wm. S. McLean, Union soldier in Civil War, b. June 7, 1843. Living in Andover, Conn. Children : 146 the descendants of richard risley 1004 Clarence Sylvester. 1005 William Allen, b. May 1, 1875. Living New- Haven, Conn., 1908. 1006 Ellena R., graduated Mt. Holyoke College, 1905. Teacher. 1007 Anna L., graduated Niormal College, 1907u Teacher, Conn. 1008 Mary Elvira, b. Mar. 4, 1877 ; d. Dec. — , 1877. 700 ELLENA A. RISLEY (Sylvester', Benjamin^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), h. Sept. :S2, 1847, Ellington, Conn. ; later home at Windsorville, Conn. ; m. June 26, 1879, J. Gardiner Haines, Trenton, N. J., b. Aug. 30, 1846, Camden, N. J. They took up a residence in Omaha, Neb. She was a teacher at Manchester, Conn., Canandaigua Seminary, and Trenton Normal School, New Jersey. Graduated at Mrs. Sigourney's Seminary at Hartford, Conn. Children : 1009 Marion Elvira, b. Mar. 14, 1881 ; graduated from Vassar, 1905. 1010 Gladys Priscilla, b. Feb. 19, 1885; graduated from Bryn Mawr, 1907. 1011 RisLEY Gardiner, b. Jan. 16, 1887; Senior 1909, Harvard University. 701 MARY ANN RISLEY (Hiram' Risley, Jona- than, jr.^, Jonathan^, NathanieP, Jonathan^, Richard, jr.^, Richard, sr.^), b. Aug. 7, 1829, Columbus, Chenango Co., N. Y. ; lives at Norwich, N. Y. ; m. Daniel House, Brookfield, N. Y., b. , 1815; d. July 6, 1898. A soldier in Civil War with 76th Regt., N. Y. S. V. Children : 1012 Charles E. House, b. June 18, 1846. 1013 Alvira E. House, b. July 30, 1847 ; m. Welling- ton Bingham ; 2 daughters. 1014 Sarah C. House, b. June 26, 1849; m. Geo. Wa- ters ; 1 son, 3 daughters. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 147 1015 Almeda E. House, b. Aug. 25, 1852; m. Matte- son Hart ; 2 sons, 1 daughter. 1016 Mary E. House, b. Aug. 9, 1855; d. childhood. 1017 LuELLA D. House, b. Feb. 16, 1861 ; d. Infancy. 1018 Elmer A. House, b. Sept. 24, 1867; m. Deborah Frye, Shamokin, Pa. ; 2 daughters. 702 HIRAM G. RISLEY (Hirani, Jonathan, jr.\ Jona- than^, NathanieV, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard}), b. April 18, 1833, Sanquoit, Oneida Co., N. Y. ; m. Feb. 2, 1854, Julia Ette Van Swall, b. Aug. 30, 1840 ; d. July 7, 1862 ; m. 2nd, ; no issue. Hiram G. Risley enlisted Aug., 1864, at Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y., Co. H, 76th Regt., N. Y. S. V.. Transferred to 147th Regt., Co. E. Transferred 191st Regt, Co. B, Albany, N. Y. Discharged from that Co. in August, 1865. Lives Rural Hill, JefFerson Co., N. Y., 1909. Children : 1019 Mary E., b. Nov. 24, 1854. 1020 John R., b. June 4, 1856. 1021 Lucinda a., b. Feb. 18, 1860 ; m. Hume R. Currie, 1879, Oriskany Falls, N. Y. 714 FREEMAN D. -DEXTER {Caroline', Jonathan"", Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. July 16, 1852, Paris, N. Y. ; living at Earlville, N. Y., 1908; m. Susan A. Smith, Apr. 30, 1874, North Pharsalia, N. Y., b. Apr. 19, 1853; died March 25, 1906. Manufacturer of (church) pipe organs ; tuner of pianos. Children : 1022 Inez May, b. Feb. 3, 1880 ; d. Aug., 1888. 1023 Henry D., Jr., b. Nov 11, 1886: d. Aug. , 1887. 1024 Clara Belle, b. Mar. 7, 1888. 1025 Mabel Ellen, b. Jan. 10, 1892. 1026 Otto Freeman, b. May 30, 1895. Living with father at Earlville, N. Y., 1908. 148 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 718 THERESSA L. RISLEY (EUsha, jr.\ EUsha\ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Aug. 19, 1847, Clayville, N. Y. ; m. E. D. Arnold, , 1866. Children : 1027 Nettie Maria Arnold, b. , 1870. 1028 Wilfred Arnold, b. — — , 1878. 1029 Harriet Theresa Arnold, b. , 1880. 1030 Marion Alice Arnold, b. , 1882. 720 HENRY DE ELTON RISLEY (EUsha, Jr.\ Elisha\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan?, Richard-, Richard^), b. June 28, 1851 ; m. Mrs. Emma C. Talbot (widow of Henry Talbot). Children : 1031 Ella C, b. — — \ m. De Forest Manchester, Earl- ville, N. Y. 1032 Frank David, b. ; m. , Erieville, N. Y. 1033 Emma M., b. — — ; unm., Burlington, N. Y. 1034 Arthur D., b. ; m. . 1035 Floyd De F., b. Mar. 20, 1884; soldier in Phillip- pines. 1036 Alvin Henry, b. July 24, 1885; m. Eda Gibbsj Canada; now hving 204 Irving Ave., Syracuse, N. Y. Son: Cecil Alvin Risley, b. Dec. 30, 1905. 1037 Allen Robert, m. ; now living Randalls- ville, N. Y. ; no children. 721 ELWIN RISLEY {EUsha, jr.\ EUsha\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Nov. 22, 1852; d. Dec. 25, 1895; m. June 20, 1878, Wilhelmenia Brown, Hubbardsville, N. Y. Children : 1038 William, b. Sept. 16, 1879, Hubbardsville, N. Y. 1039 Frank M., b. July 7, 1881, South Brookfield, N. Y. 1040 Hiram J., b. June 10, 1886, South Brookfield, N. Y. 1041 Clifton C, b. Mar. 5, 1893, South Brookfield, N. Y. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 149 723 CARL D. RISLEY (EUsha, jr.\ Elisha\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Nov. 11, 1855, North Brookfield; d. , 1895; m. , Risley, daughter of Ansel Risley, Sanquoit, N. Y., now at Richfield Springs. Children : 1042 Arthur De Forest, 1043 Alice M. 1044 Rose. 1045 Clara E. 1046 Albert M. 727 NELSON J. TALCOTT (Ruhij Risley' Talcott, Eli- zur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. May 12, 1833, Madison, N. Y. ; d. Oct. 19, 1865, Ronald, Mich. ; m. Feb. 7, 1858, Elizabeth Carpenter, b. Feb. 8, 1837. Children : 1047 Alice Elizabeth Talcott, b. Feb. 22, 1859.. Ronald, Mich. 1048 Delbert (twin), b. Aug. 22, 1863. 1049 Herbert (twin), b. Aug. 22, 1863. 728 CORNELIA TALCOTT (Rubi^ Risley' Talcott, Eli- zur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^),, h. Feb. 25, 1835, Madison, N. Y. ; m. May 14, 1857, Andrew Merrills Goodwin, Ronald, Mich. Children : 1050 Charles Irving Goodwin, b. Feb. 3, 1859; m. S'.. U. Ferguson. 1051 Ida May Goodwin, b. July 15, 1860; m. Roberta B. Colt. 1052 Andrew Brace, b. Jan. 11, 1865. 729 OSCAR TALCOTT (Ruby Risley' Talcott, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard*), b. April 12, 1836, Madison, N. Y. ; m. Mar. 4, 1861, Mary Amanda Ackles, b. Tully, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1869. Died at. Woodstock, 111., Feb. 22, 1908. 150 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Oscar Talcott resides at Woodstock, 111., Feb. 10, 1909. Children : 1053 Ettie May Talcott, b. Apr. 11, 1863, Ronald, Mich. 1054 Julia Harriet Talcott, b. Dec. 12, 1866, Ron- ald, Mich. j 1055 Bertha Belle Talcott, b. Jan. 4, 1869, Ron- ald, Mich. 730 CHAUNCEY C. TALCOTT {RuUj Rislef Talcott, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Rich- ard^), b. Feb. 9, 1838, Madison, N. Y. ; m. July 12, 1865, Emily J. White, Lyons, Mich, b. May 7, 1843. Children : 1056 ExiE Talcott, b. Nov. 11, 1866, Ronald, Mich. 1057 Effie Adell, b. Sept. 11, 1868, Ronald, Mich. 732 GEORGE IRVING TALCOTT {Ruhy Rislef Talcott, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Rich- ard^), b. Nov. 16, 1845, Madison, N. Y. ; m. Sept. 19, 1867, Ida M. Holmes, b. June 25, 1848. Children : 1058 Minnie A. Talcott, b. Apr. 9, 1869, Ronald, Mich. George Irving Talcott died at Ionia, Mich., June 11, 1879. Mrs. Ida. M. Talcott and daughter Minnie A. Talcott reside at Grand Rapids, Mich., 1909. 733 ANN AMELIA TALCOTT {Ruby Risky' Talcott, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Rich- ard'), b. Aug. 22, 1850, Ronald, Mich.; m. Oct. 9, 1867, Charles Howard Burke, b. July 23, 1837. Children : 1059 EsTELLA Burke, b. July 4, 1868; d. May 2, 1890, Ronald, Mich. 1060 Florence Edna Burke, b. May 24, 1870, Ron- ald, Mich. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 151 1061 Maggie Burke, b. May 15, 1872 ; d. Oct. 3, 1872, Ronald, Mich. 1062 Imogene Burke, b. Sept. 15, 1873. 1063 Ruby Burke, b. Nov. 10, 1876. Charles Howard Burke and family reside at Greenville, Mich., 1909. 734 CHESTER C. RISLEY {Allen\ Elizur\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. May 18, 1836, Madison, N. Y. ; d. June 13, 1866 ; m. Sarah Bennett, July 12, 1857, N. Brookfield, N. Y., b. Aug. 11, 1838; d. May 8, 1867. He was a Union soldier in Civil War, 189 Regt., N. Y. S. V. Children : 1064 Frank Chester, b. Dec. 20, 1863, Earlville, N. Y. 1065 Eva, b. Dec. 21, 1866. 1066 Nora, b. May 1, 1858; d. May 16, 1872. 1067 Willie, b. Sept. — , 1860; d. Aug. — , 1862. 735 FLORA A. RISLEY {Allen\ EUzur\ Jo7iathan\ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Feb. 11, 1841, Madison, N. Y. ; m. June 22, 1864, Melvin Snow, N. Brook- field, N. Y. Children : 1068 Jay Allen, b. April 27, 1865; unm. 1069 NoRVA Chester, b. Dec. 31, 1866; m. ; lives at Hubbardville, N. Y. 1070 M. Eugene, b. Aug. 3, 1870. 1071 L. Adelia, b. Mar. 23, 1872. 1072 Lynn Risley, b. June 12, 1867. 736 ELIZABETH ABBERT (Clarinda R.\ Elizur\ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. -, 1841 ; m. La Mott Stebbins, Poolville, N. Y. Children : 1073 Fred L. Stebbins, Poolville, N. Y., Cornell U. 1073a Mame 737 MARTIN B. ABBERT {Clarinda RJ Abbert, Elizur\ 152 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), h, , 1844; d. , 1907, HubbardviUe, N. Y. ; m. . 1074 Pearl, b. , 1876; d. ; son. 1075 Beatrice, b. — — , 1902. 738 ANDREW J. NILES (Harriet P: Risley, Elizur\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^) ^ b. Nov. 19, 1835, Madison, N. Y. ; d. Sept. 25, 1899, Crosswell, Mich.; m. July 7, 1860, Crosswell, Mich. Children : 1076 Ruby, b. Mar. 8, 1862; d. Dec. 19, 1865. 1077 Irving S., b. . 1078 Andrew J, Jr., b. . 1079 Alla M., b. — — . 1080 Allen Risley, b. . 740 HENRY NILES (Harriet P. Risley' Niles, Elizur\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard"^, Richard^), b. May 3, 1839, Madison, N. Y. ; m. Jane Palmer, Mar. 14, 1868, Crosswell, Mich. ; d. Mar. 22, 1894. Children : 1081 Harriet E., b. July 18, 1869. 1082 Maud, b. July 29, 1873; m. Frank Nelson, Cross- well, Mich. 1083 Henry, b. Oct. 7, 1881 ; m. Jennie Hutchinson Jan. — , 1903, Crosswell, Mich. 741 ELIZA NILES (Harriet P. Risley' N., Elizur\ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Mar. 11, 1841, Madison, N. Y. ; m. Thomas Robb, Crosswell, Mich., Feb. 15, 1860. Children : 1084 Charles, b. June 23, 1866, Buel, Mich. 1085 Henry H., b. . 1086 Elmer E., b. Mar. 2, 1870. 1087 WiLLL^M, b. Dec. 5, 1871; d. Sept. 16, 1893, Crosswell, Mich. 1088 Leonard, b. . THE DESCENDANTS OP RICHARD RISLEY 153 742 WALTER NILES (Harriet P. Risley\ EUzur\ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Aug. 6, 1842, Madison, N. Y. ; m. 1st, Emily Harmon, Nov. 20, 1870, Mich.; d. Jan. 18, 1872; m. 2nd, Martha Cash, May 4, 1874. Children : 1089 Albert Niles, b. July 19, 1875, Crosswell, Mich. 1090 Mary H. Niles, b. Sept. 16, 1879, Crosswell, Mich. 1091 Vernia L. Niles, b. July 13, 1887, Crosswell, Mich. 1092 Raymond W. Niles, b. Aug. 20, 1893, Crosswell, Mich. 743 REUBEN A. RISLEY {Charles F.\ Elizur\ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Sept. ^6, 1845 ; m. Oct. 16, 1867, Emma Wood, Plainfield, N. Y., b. Mar. 16, 1848. Mr. Risley was for many years employed in a large wagon-making establishment, Syracuse, N. Y., and Jackson, Mich. ; lives in Hamilton, N. Y. Children : 1093 Adna Wood, b. Mar. 27, 1872, Hamilton, N. Y. 1094 Rena Belle, b. June 4, 1876; d. May 8, 1878. 744 ROSALTHA D. RISLEY {Charles F.\ Elizur\ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Aug. ^2, 1847; m. Prof. George B. Turnbull, A. M., Colgate Uni- versity. He died at Colorado Springs. Child : 1095 Belle, Vassar College, Class 1904. 746 IDA BELLE RISLEY {Charles', Elizur\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. July 18, 1854, Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. Aug. 30, 1879, Frank W. Winter, Toronto, Can., b. Oct. 3. 1856. Engaged in mercantile business (pianos). Children : 154 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 1096 Rose Anna, b. Nov. 14, 1880. 1097 Rena Elleon, b. Sept. 7, 1884. 1098 Ada Belle, b. Aug. 25, 1886. 1099 Walter Risley, b. June 13, 1888. 750 J. ORVILLE WALLACE (Roa^anna C Wallace, Han- nah Bisley^ Chambers, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard-, Richard}), b. Aug. 22, 1828 (California, —49); m. Ellen Hunt, May 23, 1860, dau. of Sherebiali Hunt. Children : 1100 Mary, b. , 1861, Hubbardsville, N. Y. 1101 Lew, b. , 1867, Hubbardsville, N. Y. 752 NATHAN LAMPSON, JR. (Roxanna' Chambers, Han- nah^ Risley, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. ; m. Laura Welverton. Children : 1102 Lillian, b. . 1103 Bertha M., b. . 755 ADELIA LAMPSON {Roxanna' Chambers, Hannah^ Risley, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Rich- ard^), b. ; m. John B. French, Oswego Co., N. Y. Children : 1104 Martha. 1105 William. 1106 Margaret, 1107 Lavissa. 1108 Frank. 1109 Nicholas. 1110 Minnie. 1111 Abbey. 1112 Charles. 1113 John. 1114 Orlando. This family belonged in Oswego Co., N. Y. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 155 757 MARGARET LAMPSON {Roxanna' Chambers, Han- nah^ Risley, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, RicharcP, Richard})^ b. ; m. Franklin B. Ide. Children : 1115 Arthur, b. — ^ — . 1116 Alice, b. . 760 D. PULASKI TODD {Hannah A.' Risley, Chauncey\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Dec. 5, 1835; m. Fannie Nichols, Madison, Ind., Dec. 19, I860. Children : 1117 Emma J., b. Oct. 18, 1861, Binghamton, Ind. 1118 Charles W., b. Mar. 19, 1862, Vernon, N. Y. 761 CHAUNCEY R. TODD {Hannah A J Risley, Chaun- cey^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^) ^ b. Feb. 16, 1838 ; m. Feb. 4, 1862, Rebecca E. Loomis, Bing- hamton, Ind. ; d. May — , 1877, at Binghamton, Ind. Children : 1119 WiLLARD v., b. Nov. 3, 1862. 1120 Harry L., b. Dec. 8, 1871, Rochester, N. Y. M. 2nd, Mary Bishop, Dec. 25, 1878, Bridgeport, Conn. 762 J. ORMOND TODD {Hannah A.' Risley, Chauncey\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Sept. 5, 1841 ; d. Nov. , 1908, Vernon, N. Y. ; m. Jose- phine A. Wright Jan. 25, 1871. Children : 1121 Edith W^., b. June 19, 1876, Vernon, N. Y. 1122 Seth 0., b. May 11, 1878, Vernon, N. Y. 1123 Ray A., b. Feb. 18, 1886, Vernon, N. Y. 1124 Robert C, b. Oct. 7, 1889, Vernon, N. Y. 763 ROSALIA RISLEY {Henry, sr.\ Sylvester", Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Sept. 5, 1843, Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. George Barker, Oct. 17, 1876, Madison, N. Y. 156 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 764 BYRON P. RISLEY {Henry, srJ, Sylvester^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Apr. 15, 1845, Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. Lucy Field June 3, 1873, Ham- ilton, N. Y. Children : 1125 John Thompson. 1126 May J., m. John Carpenter, Avon, N, Y. 1127 Field Alanson, Hamilton, N. Y. 765 HENRY D. RISLEY {Henry\ Sylvester^ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Mar. 27, 1848, Clinton, N. Y. ; m. Elizabeth Woodman, Madison, N. Y., Apr. 13, 1880, Earlville, N. Y. Children : 1128 Anna E. 1129 Alice M. 1130 Clara L. 1131 Henrietta. 766 MERCELLE DE ETTE RISLEY (Julius C.\ Syl- vester^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel, Jonathan^, Richard', Rich- ard^), b. Dec. 25, 1844, Madison, N. Y. ; m. Gerritts Sim- mons, Nov. 24, 1863, Madison, N. Y., farmer in Madison, N. Y. Now living in Hamilton, N. Y. Children : 1132 Arthur H. Simmons. 1133 Walter Rose Simmons. 1134 Lelia Ruth Simmons. 1135 Gertrude R. Simmons. 767 EMMA RISLEY (Julia C.\ Sylvester\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. May 1, 1846; d. Mar. 10, 1893; m. La Fount Stebbins, Madison, N. Y., farmer. Children : 1136 Lizzie M. Stebbins. 1137 Louis Stebbins. 1138 Majorie Stebbins. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 157 768 KATHERINE RISLEY (Julius C\ Sylvester^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Sept. 10, 1848; d. Nov. 19, 1896; m. Rudolph Dunbar, Hubbard- ville, N. Y., farmer. Children : 1139 Earl Dunbar, Waterville, N. Y. 1140 Lysle Dunbar, Waterville, N. Y. 769 CLARENCE RISLEY (Julius C.\ Sylvester^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Jan. 15, 1850, Hamilton, N. Y. ; m. May Corey, Dec. 18, 1883. Children : 1141 Clinton, b. ; Colgate University, 1909. 772 WILLETT P. RISLEY (Perry S:, Sylvester^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard'. Richard^), b. Aug. 9, 1851 ; m. Mary Munger, Waterville, N. Y. Children : 1142 Clayton, Binghamton, N. Y. 1143 Perry, died unm. 1144 Sarah. 775 GERTRUDE RISLEY (Christopher C\ Sylvester^ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Oct. 9, 1849; d. , 1907, N. Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. 1st, Samuel L. Ferguson, June 15, 1870, Sangerfield, N. Y. ; d. ; m. 2nd, Will. Roberts, Nov. 13, 1878, Waterville, N. Y. Child, 1st marriage: 1145 Herbert R. Ferguson, b. Jan. 13, 1873. Children, 2nd marriage: 1146 William Roberts. Jr., b. Dec. 11, 1887. 1147 Bertha F. Roberts, b. Sept. 2. 1883. 778 CHARLES CARROLL RISLEY (Christopher C.\ Syh veister^. Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard-, Rich-' ard^), b. Aug. 3, 1861, Waterville, N. Y. ; m. Rena Terry 158 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY June 25, 1883, daughter of Chas. Terry; she married 2nd, Mr, Squires, North Brookfield, N. Y. Children, first marriage : 1148 Ray C, Harvard University 1906; m. ; lived in New Britain, Conn. 1149 Polly, North Brookfield, N. Y. 1150 Charles Carroll, North Brookfield, N. Y. 779 HARRIET E. RISLEY (Christopher C.\ Sylvester\. Jonathan^, Nathaniel*. Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Oct. 21, 1863, Waterville, N. Y. ; m. Rev. Henry L. Foote June 18, 1891, Episcopalian rector near Boston, Mass. Children : names unknown. 780 lANTHA WELCH (Louisa' Risley, Sylvester\ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*. Jonathan^, Richardr, Richard^), b. Mar. , 1846; d. Nov. 22, 1872; m. W. H. Tompkins, Jan. — , 1867. 781 NETTIE WELCH (Louisa' Risley, Sylvester^ Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. July 8, 1851 ; m. Thomas Davis, June 4, 1873. Children : 1151 Fred Denslow. 1152 Mary Louise. 782 AMOS WELCH (Louisa' Risley, Sylvester", Jonathan", Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. May 9, 1855; m. Fannie , Feb. 18, 1878. Children : 1153 Fayette J. Welch. 1154 Denslow Welch. 1155 Floyd E. Welch. 784 ADOLPHUS WELCH (Louisa' Risley. S7jlvester\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Dec. 11, 1861; m. Kate All, Dec. 25, 1883. THt DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 159 Children : 1156 Ray Welch. 1157 Clayton Welch. 1158 GoLDiE Welch. 1159 Grace Welch. 6 785 EDITH THANKFUL WELCH (Louisa', Sylvester' Jonathan^, Nathaniel^, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard})^ b May 6, 1870; m. Edwin Starkweather, Oct. 9, 1892. Children : 1160 Ethel Luella Starkweather. 1161 Earl Dewey Starkweather. 786 ORSON C. RISLEY {Gordon F: Risley. Sylvester^. Jonathan^. Nathaniel^. Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Sept. 29, 1860; m. Jennie Babcock, , 1884. Children : 1162 Marlon Shirby, b. Nov. 1, 1886. 1163 Evangeline, b. Feb. 3, 1888; d. Mar. 23, 1888. 1164 Dana G., b. May 4, 1890. 1165 Helen Evangeline, b. Apr. 29, 1892. 1166 Gordon Bennett, b. May 9, 1894; d. Apr. 27^ 1895. 1167 Marjorie Genevieve, b. June 9, 1897. 787 GENEVIEVE RISLEY (Gordon FJ Risley, Sylvester^. Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^. Richard', Richard^), b^ Jan. 24, 1862; m. Bonton Dorsey, Nov. 2, 1887. Children : names unknown, Hubbardsville, N. Y. 789 ERNEST SYLVESTER RISLEY (Gordon F. Risley\ Sylvester^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard Richard^), b. June 5, 1868; m. Olive Walker. Children : 1168 Paul. 1169 Ruth Elizabeth. 12 160 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 793 ZADA M. RISLEY (Marion F.\ Sylvester\ Jonathan^ Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richardr, Richard^), b. Mar. 19, 1876, Hamilton, N. Y. ; m. Arthur Whipple Smith, July 1, 1902, A. M. and Ph. D. of Chicago University, Professor Mathematics Colgate University. Child: 1170 Marion Risley, b. May , 1906, Hamilton, N. Y. A paper was written and read by Mrs. Zada (Risley) Smith at the E. Hartford, Conn., re-union Aug. 3, 1904!. 794 MARGUERITE B. RISLEY (Marion F.\ Sylvester^ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Jan. 21, 1881, Hamilton, N. Y. ; m. June , 1906, Barden, Penn Yan, N. Y. She graduated from Syracuse University. He was graduated from Colgate University, 1905. Child: 1171 George Bruce Barden, b. April 8, 1907. 795 MARTHA BRANDRIFF (Mary Ann' Roberts, John Somers^ Roberts, Esther Somers^ Roberts, Esther* Risley, Richard^, Richard', Richard^), b. Aug. 25, 1843; m. Jan. 12, 1865, Samuel Telford Hanna, b. Aug. 22, 1834; d. Nov. 8, 1887, Fort Wayne, Ind. Children : 1172 Mary Hanna, b. Sept. 29, 1865; unm. 1173 John Louie Hanna, b. Sept. 22, 1867; m. Edna Grimd. 1174 , m. Oct. 25, 1894; no children (1908). 1175 Margaret Clara Hanna, b. Sept. 5, 1870; m. J. Frederick Rensch, Ionia, Mich. 796 MARY BRANDRIFF (Mary Ann' Roberts, John Som- ers^ Roberts, Esther^ Somers, Esther* Risley, Richard^, Rich- ard', Richard^), b. May 3, 1852; m. June 5, 1873, Alfred Thomas Lukens, Fort Wayne, Ind. THE DESCENDANTS OP RICHARD RISLEY 161 Children : 1176 Clara Maria Lukens, b. Apr. 13, 1874. 1177 Alfred Brandriff Lukens, b. July 14, 1876. 1178 Grace Emma Lukens, b. Feb. 23, 1879. 1179 Edward French Lukens, b. June 3, 1884. 1180 Lydia Moore Lukens, b. June 20, 1886. 1181 Martha Lukens, b. Jan. 25, 1891. All unmarried (1908). 810 ARTHUR DOTY RISLEY (Samuel d:, John S.\ Joab^, Jeremiah* (?), Jeremiah^, Richard', Richard^), b. Dec. 14, 1871, Philadelphia, Penn. ; m. May 2, 1896, Emma Schimmel. Children : 1182 Samuel Doty Risley, jr., b. Mar. 27, 1897. 1183 Florence Caroline Risley, b. July 3, 1898; d. Sept. 20, 1898. 1184 Raymond Schimmel Risley, b. Dec. 7, 1899. 1185 Emma Carmalita Risley, b. Nov. 6, 1900. 1186 Kenneth Risley, b. June 17, 1902; d. Sept. 5, 1902. 1187 Ernest Risley, b. May 22, 1905. 812 HELEN IRMA RISLEY (Samuel D.\ John S.\ Joah\ Jeremiah*' (?), Jeremiah^, Richard', Richard^), b. Oct. — , 1874, Philadelphia, Penn.; m. April 19, 1900, John Stokes Ensor. Children : 1188 John S. Ensor, b. Nov. 2, 1901. 1189 Albert R. Ensor, b. Sept. 21, 1904. 814 REBEKAH HILDEGARDE RISLEY (Samuel D.\ John S.^, Joah^, Jeremiah* (?), Jeremiah^, Richard', Rich- ard^), h. Mar. — , 1883, Philadelphia, Pa.; m. May 27, 1904, Westcott W, Price. Children : 1190 Sterling Price, b. June — , 1905. 1191 Priscilla Price, b. Oct. — , 1907. NINTH GENERATION 825 CHARLES ASA RISLEY (Lezds E.\ Asa\ Asa\ Gresham^, Richard*, Samuel^, Richard', Richard^), h. , 1852, Hanover, N. H. ; m. Clara Thompson, Winchester, Mass. Children : 1192 Charles Harold, b. , 1891. 1193 Maurice Thompson, b. , 1894. 826 ALVAH RISLEY MULLER (Manj D} Risley, Alvan' Risley, Reuben^, Reuben^, Job*, Samuel^, Richard', Richard^), b. Dec. 6, 1871, Truxton, Cortland Co., N. Y. ; m. Jennie Gray Warrington, May 29, 1894, Syracuse, N. Y., b. Feb. 4, 1870. Children : 1194 Risley Warrington Muller, b. Jan. 24, 1896. 1195 Karl Peter Muller, b. Apr. 10, 1901. 860 NELLIE A. RISLEY {Albert^ Earl, Lorenzo', Tru- man^, Reuben^, Job, sr.*, Samuel^, Richard^, Richard^), b. June 8, 1882; m. George Nye Finlay, Apr. 25, 1906, Hartford, Conn. Child: 1196 Allan Risley, b. May 6, 1907. 864 WILLIAM E. RISLEY (William H.\ Chester', Eli- sha*^, Benjamin^, Job*, Samuel^, Richard'-, Richard^), h. Apr. 30, 1844, Glastonbury, Conn.; m. Louise King, Silver Lane, Conn. Children : 1197 Edward Howard, b. Oct. 15, 1878. 1198 Arthur LeRoy, b. Oct. 3, 1883. 925 GEORGE KENT (Lucy^ Forbes, Jane' Risley, Eli- THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 163 sha^, Moses^, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard}), b. Jan. 16, 1874; d. Sept. 1, 1901; m. July 25, 1893, Cora Fydinger, Clarence, N. Y. Children : 1199 Edward, b. June 17, 1894. 1200 Floyd, b. Oct. 28, 1895. 1201 Howard, b. Mar. 11, 1896. 1202 May, b. July 7, 1898. 1203 Harold, b. Mar. 16, 1900. 1204 Marguerite, b. Mar. — , 1902. After father's death, 928 CLARA FOX (Annie^ Risley, William} Risley, Elisha\ Moses^, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Jan. 2, 1877; m. 1st, Frank Dixon, Sept. 17, 1894, d. Oct. 15, 1901; m. 2nd, Frank Rill, Dec. 24, 1904. Child 1st marriage: 1205 Florence Dixon, b. Nov. 11, 1895. 931 CARRIE WAFFLE {Harriet^ Brigham, Louisa' Ris- ley, Elisha^, Moses^, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard"^, Richard^), b. May 30, 1876, Vienna, N. Y. ; d. Oct. 5, 1902, Vienna, N. Y. ; m. Aug. 15, 1897, Mark Stone, Vienna, N. Y. Children : 1206 LiNDON, b. Apr. 1, 1900. 1207 Anna, b. Dec. 9, 1901 ; d. Jan. 10, 1903. 932 CHARLES WAFFLE {Harriet^ Brigham, Louisa'' Risley, Elisha^, Moses^, Moses*, Jonathan}, Richard', Rich- ard^), b. July 3, 1879, Vienna, N. Y. ; m. Dec. 4, 1901, Blanch Christian, Vienna, N. Y. Children : 1208 Alfred, b. June 21, 1902. 1209 RoLLiN, b. Dec. 14, 1906. 934 CHARLES BARTLES (Joseph^ Bartles, Eliza E? Randall, Electa'' Risley, David\ Moses*, Jonathan^ Richardr, 164 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Richard^), b. , Grand Rapids, Mich.; m. ; no chil- dren (1903). 936 LUCY BARTLES {Joseph^ Bartles, Eliza E: Ran- dall, Electa^ Risley, David^, Moses*, Jonathan^, Richard^y Richard^), b. ; m. — — , Manton W. Sheppard, Hins- dale, Mont. Children: names unknown. 941 CAROLINE G. RISLEY {Lyman\ AshheV, Benja- min^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel^, Jonathan^, Richard^, Rich- ard^), b. Feb. 29, 1844, East Hartford, Conn.; m. 1st, John H. Jencks, Jan. 17, 1863; m. 2nd, Augustus W. Babcock, Aug. 22, 1875; m. 3rd, George E. Strance. Children 1st marriage: 1210 Charles Lyman Jencks, b. Aug. 18, 1864. 1211 John L. Jencks, b. Aug. 2, 1866. 1212 Carrie L. Jencks, b. Oct. 27, 1868. 2nd marriage: 1213 Florence May Babcock, b. June 23, 1876. 3rd marriage: 1214 Frank Strance, b. , 1900. All above children East Hartford, Conn. 942 IRVING L. RISLEY {Lyman\ AshbeV, Benjamin\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard-, Richard^), b. Mar. 25, 1846, East Hartford, Conn. ; m. Georgiana Allen, May 13, 1876. Children : 1215 Daisy May, b. Apr. 21, 1877. 1216 Frederick Irving, b. July 3, 1878. 944 CHARLES H. RISLEY (Francis^ Risley, Benjamin\ Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard-, Rich- ard^), b. ; m. Hattie Brewer, Bristol, Maine. Children : 1217 Olive Nettie. the descendants of richard risley 165 1218 Charles Henry. 1219 Fred H. 1220 Herbert W. 1221 Edward Francis. 953 CHARLES S. RISLEY (George\ Elizur\ Benjamin^ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard"^, Richard^), b. June 30, 1864; m. Nellie Loucks, Sept. 8, 1891, Dolgeville, N. Y., now lives Dalton, Mass. Children : names unknown. 954 CLARISSA P. RISLEY (George', Elizur\ Benjamin", Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard", Richard^), b. June 17, 1869, Hamilton, N. Y. ; m. June 15, 1890, John A. Davis, Syracuse, N. Y. Reside No. 40 West Iron St., Butte, Mont. Children : 1222 Mary Alice Juanita, b. Feb. 21, 1891, Syracuse, N. Y. 1223 Anna Eleanor Margaret, b. Dec. 15, 1894, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1224 John Durston, b. Oct. 13, 1896, Anaconda, Mont. 955 ANN ELIZA RISLEY (J. Monroe', EUzur\ Benja- min'^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard'^, Richard^), b. Jan. 3, 1858, Brookfield N. Y. ; m. George Cook, Oct. 2, 1876, b. Apr. 8, 1856, Brookfield, N. Y. Children : 1225 Clarence, b. June 26, 1880. 1226 Geneva, b. Jan. 12, 1883. 1227 Myron, b. Oct. 16, 1886; d. Oct. 31, 1886. 1228 Leon, b. June 5, 1888. 1229 Floyd, b. Nov. 13, 1890. 1230 Estelle, b. Sept. 21, 1893. 956 EUNICE A. RISLEY (Goodrich', Elizur\ Benjamin\ 166 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. July 21, 1862; m. Frank De Loss Cole, July 21, 1881, Syra- cuse, N. Y. Children : 1231 Florence Barber, b. Mar. 30, 1883. 1232 Raymond Risley, b. Aug. 14, 1885; m. Dec. 30, 1907, Ida May Cooper, Lyons, N. Y. 1233 Austin Allen, b. Dec. 22, 1893. 1234 Irma Elizabeth, b. Mar. 7, 1901. 1235 Mildred Risley, b. Dec. 3, 1895. 957 LINCOLN S. RISLEY (Goodrich', EUzur\ Benjamin\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. May 4, 1864, Hubbardsville, N. Y. ; m. Florence Leonella Hart, May 4, 1891, New Britain, Conn. Lincoln S. Risley was educated in Waterville Hrgh School, 1887. Went to New York and taught one year in New York Institution for Deaf and Dumb. Resigned position and went to New Britain, Conn., 1888, and entered the employ of N. Y. & N. E. R. R. Co., freight dept. In 1893 entered the employ- ment of the New Britain Electric Light Co., which later was consolidated with the New Britain Tramway Co., which after- wards became the " Connecticut Co.," which operates electric lighting and trolley system. Became sup't of electric lighting in 1893; became sup't of the lighting and trolley system 1904, where he is now (1908) employed. Has been a member of the City Council for six years, and the Republican Town Com- mittee. He is one of the Trustees of " The Descendants of Richard Risley, Inc." Mrs. Risley was a lineal descendant of Steven Hart, who came into Conn, with the Hooker party, 1636. 958 GOODRICH E. RISLEY (Goodrich^ Elizur\ Benja- min^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Apr. 10, 1872, Waterville, N. Y. ; m. Emma Fancett, Oct. 15, 1901, Stamford, Conn. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 167 He is assistant manager and electrician of the New Eng- land Engineering Co., 1908. 959 AMY MATTISON (Matilda R.\ EUzur\ Benjamin^ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Dec. 19, 1866, Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. Chas. Eisinger, Hub- bardsville, N. Y., b. July — , 1867. Child: 1236 Charles. 961 NORA MATTISON (Matilda R.\ Elizur\ Benjamin\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Sept. 11, 1872, Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. Chas. E. Stapleton, b. Apr. 11, 1868, Hubbardsville, N. Y. Children : 1237 Nora E., b. Oct. 17, 1892. 1238 Edith M., b. Feb. 22, 1897. 966 ISABELLE BREWER (Julia A.^ Hurlhurt, Ann' Ris- ley, Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^y Richard^), b. Jan. 9, 1856, East Hartford, Conn.; m. Zopher F. Hills, Hillstown, Conn., May 2, 1876. Children : 1239 George F., b. July 4, 1879; d. Dec. — , 1879. 1240 Harry, b. Feb. 22, 1882. 969 RUBY HURLBURT (J. Henry^ Hurlhurt, Ann' Ris- ley, Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. July 25, 1870, East Hartford, Conn.; m. Fred- erick Montague Hills, Hillstown, Conn. Children : names unknown. 974 EVERETT P. BREWER (Mary^ Hurlhurt, Ann' Ris- ley, Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Jan. 18, 1869, Silver Lane, Conn.; m. Sept. 25, 1896, Grace G. Burt, Longmeadow, Mass. Hardware merchant, Hartford, Conn. 168 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Child: 1241 Wendell Herbert, b. June 25, 1900. 975 ELLENA H. BREWER {Mary^ Hurlburt, Ann' Ris- ley, Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel^, Jonathan^, RicharcP,. Richard^), b. Sept. 29, 1874, Hartford, Conn. (Silver Lane,. Conn.) ; m. Albert A. Francis, Hartford, Conn. Children: names unknown. 976 LESLIE L. BREWER {Mary Hurlburt^ Brewer, Ann^ Risley, Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Rich- ard^, Richard^), b. April 21, 1879, Silver Lane, Conn. ; m. Oct. 19, 1904, Ruth Brewster Foss, Norwich, Conn., b. Dec. 14,. 1878, Bay City, IVIjch. Graduated from Yale Law, 1903, L.L. B. Admitted to the Bar, Sept., 1903. Located at Hartford, Conn. (1908). Elected Probate Judge of East Hartford district (now serving) . Trustee of the Richard Risley Association. Child: name unknown. 977 CLARENCE RISLEY (WRISLEY) (Melissa^ Hurl- burt, Ann' Risley, Benjamin'^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jona- than^, Richard'^, Richard^), b. May — , 1867, East Hartford,, Conn. ; m. June 17, 1899, NelHe Whiting. Children : 1242 Edith, b. Apr. 16, 1890. 1243 Marion, b. Dec. 21, 1893. 978 LULU HILLS {Melissa^ Hurlburt, Ann' Risley, Ben- jamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Rich- ard^), b. Apr. 7, 1874, East Hartford, Conn.; m. Clarence Hills, Feb. 20, 1900. Child: name unknown. 979 GEORGE C. OLCOTT (Ellen R.\ Chauncey'', Benja- min^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Rich- THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 169 ^rd^), b. June 6, 1863; m. Lulu A. Taber, June M, 1885, Richville, N. Y., b. June 5, 1853. Children : 1244 Annie E., b. June 18, 1887, Glastonbury, Conn. 1245 Grace A., b. Dec. 28, 1888 ; d. Mar. 8, 1890. 1246 Gladys L., b. Apr. 5, 1894, Glastonbury, Conn. 980 ELMER I. OLCOTT {Ellen R.% Chauncey\ Benja- miif, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Rich- ard^), b. Oct. 7, 1871; in. 1st, Nellie E. Brewer, d. July 15, 1899 ; m. 2nd, . 983 JENNIE SABIN {Fannie A.\ Chauncey', Benjamin", Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. May 4, 1865; m. Elmer E. Tuttle, Otselic, N. Y., Mar. 24, 1885, b. Apr. 26, 1864. Children : 1247 Eldred Eugene, b. May 18, 1887; d. Feb. 20, 1889. 1248 Howard De Elton, b. Feb. 11, 1889. 1249 IvAH May, b. Aug. 18, 1890, Otselic, N. Y. 1250 Albert Ellsworth, b. June 10, 1893, Otselic, N. Y. 1251 Babe, unnamed, b. Oct. 10, 1894, Otselic, N. Y.; d. Nov. 7, 1894. 1252 Ruby Frances, b. Apr. 22, 1899. 984 WALTER S. SABIN {Fannie A.\ Chauncef, Benja- min^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richardr^ Rich- ard"), b. Sept. 29, 1868; m. Lena May Wordley, May 30, 1889, Lebanon, N. Y. ; b. Apr., 1874. Children : 1253 Edwin Risley, b. July 23, 1891, Otselic, N .Y. 1254 Eva May, b. July 11, 1890, Otselic, N. Y. 1255 Ellena Ruth, b. Oct. 2, 1892, Otselic, N. Y. 1256 Grover Cleveland, b. Oct. 23, 1893, Otselic, N. Y.; d. Apr. 3, 1894. 170 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 1257 Ada May, b. May 1, 1895, Otselic, N. Y. 1258 Walter Irving, b. Feb. 23, 1896, Otselic, .N. Y, 1259 Minnie Blanch, b. July 17, 1898, Otselic, N. Y. 987 JESSIE ADELAIDE RISLEY (Edwin H.\ Chaun- cey^, Benjamirf, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Rich- ard^, Richard^), h. June 20, 1869, Utica, N. Y. ; m. Henry Morris Love, Dec. 29, 1891, b. Oct. 17, 1861, at Milwaukee; son of Rev. Wm. Deloss Love and Matilda Wallace his wife. Graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and en- tered Hamilton College; graduated in 1883; and from New York Law School, 1885. They resided in Utica in 1908. No children. Jessie A. Risley was educated in Utica schools and Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. She Is a lineal descend- ant of the five following persons named in the charter of Charles II granting the power of government to the Com- monwealth of Conn. : John Deming, Wethersfield, Conn. Samuel Hale, Hartford, Conn. John Talcott, Hartford, Conn. John Mason, Windsor, Conn. Daniel Clark, Windsor, Conn. 988 EVERETT EDWIN RISLEY (Edwin H.\ Chaun- cey\ Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Rich- ard\ Richard'), b. May 31, 1877, Utica, N. Y. ; m. Winnlfred Fitch Sackett at Summit, New Jersey, Oct. 12, 1901, only daughter of Darius P. Sackett and Emma Chittenden Fitch his wife. Winnifred b. Jan. 5, 1876, Berkeley, Cal. Everett E. Risley was educated In Utica schools, PhllHps Academy, Andover, Mass., class '96; and graduated from Wil- liams College,,' 1900. Admitted to the practice of law at Rochester, N. Y., Oct., 1905. He Is a member of the firm of Risley & Love, Utica, N. Y. Resided at New Hartford, N. Y., in 1908. Appointed Deputy Attorney General for N. Y. State, Jan. 1, 1909. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISL.EY 171 He Is a lineal descendant of five of the persons named in the charter of Charles II granting the power of govern- ment to the Commonwealth of Conn. Everett and Winnifred both descended from Rev. James E. Fitch and Priscilla Mason, Norwich, Conn. No children. 989 MINNIE B. RISLEY (Sylvester, ^nd% Chauncey\ Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Aug. 29, 1869, Madison, N. .Y ; m. WilHam Odell, Nov. 1, 1891, Otselic, N. Y. ; b. Mar. 19, 1872; no children; living in Utica, N. Y., 1908. 990 MINA J. RISLEY {Sylvester^, Chauncey\ Benjamin\ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Oct. 3, 1870; m. Morris Odell, b. Mar. 19, 1870. Children : 1260 Walter Sylvester, b. Apr. 19, 1897, East Hamilton, N. Y. 1261 Earl Duane, b. Aug. 8, 1903. Above lived at Utica, N. Y., 1908. 991 FLORENCE M. RISLEY (Sylvester^ Chauncey\ Ben- jamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Rich- ard^), b. June 3, 1872; m. James Wratten, Feb. 22, 1888, Waterville, N. Y., b. Sept. 1, 1866, Hubbardsville, N. Y. Children : 1262 Eva May, b. July 11, 1890. 1263 Ellena Ruth, b. Oct. 2, 1891. 1264 Mary Ann, b. June 23, 1894. 1265 Minnie Blanch, b. July 17, 1899. 1266 Sylvester Risley, b. , 1902. 1267 Alice Marie, b. Jan. — , 1906. Other children. 996 FENIMORE C. RISLEY (Orville W.\ Chaunceif,. Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard'y 112 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Richard^), b. Oct. 1, 1875; m. Mary Frances Wellar, June 8, 1898, N. Y. Mills. 997 WALTER C. RISLEY (OrvUle\ Chauncey\ Benja- min^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richardr, Rich- ard^), b. Dec. 29, 1879; m. Marian K. Bayne, June 6, 1900, N. Y. Mills, N. Y. Child: 1268 Roger Alexander, b. — — , 1904. 1004 CLARENCE S. McLEAN (M. Elvira R.\ Sylvester', Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Jan. 8, 1870, Westford, Conn.; m. April 16, 1901, Zue Hunter Brockett, Washington, D. C, b. Feb. 7, 1869. Teacher; now agent for Am. Book Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Children : 1269 Carolyne, b. Jan. 6, 1902, Rochester, N. Y. ; d. May 30, 1903. 1270 Ruth, b. May 29, 1903, New York, N. Y. 1271 Dorothy Elvira, b. Jan. 20, 1906, Syracuse, N. Y. 1005 WILLIAM A. McLEAN (M. Elvira R.\ Sylvester', Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), h. May 1, 1875; living in New Haven, Conn.; m. Oct. 12, 1904, Sarah Isabella Bassett, b. Oct. 16, 1875. Child: 1272 Isabella B., b. June 26, 1907 ; d. June 26, 1907. 1012 CHARLES E. HOUSE (Mary An/n^ Risley House, Hiram', Jonathan, jr.^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan', Richard', Richard^), b. June 18, 1846; living at Norwich, N. Y., 1908; m. 1st, Esther Palmer, Brookfield, N. Y. ; m. 5nd, Mary Benedict, Norwich, N. Y. Children : THE DESCENDANTS OF EICHARD RISLEY 173 1273 Hiram La]Mott House, d. in infancy. 1274 Alvira House, b. ; m. Theodore Ferrell! served in the 114th Regt., N. Y. S. V. ; now de- ceased; no children. 1275 Eva House, b. ; m. and moved to Nebraska; one daughter. 1276 Ellen, m. Wm. M. Hart; 2 daughters. 1014 SARAH C. HOUSE (Mary A.^ Risley House, Hiram\ Jonathan, jr.^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel, Jonathan^, Richard"^, Richard}), b. June 26, 1849; m. , George Waters, Nor- wich, N. Y. Children : 1277 Charles, 1278 Mabel, m. Robert Hart, Norwich, N. Y. 1019 MARY E. RISLEY {Hiram G.' Risley, Hiram' , Jon- athan, jr.^, Jonathan^, NathanieP, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard'), b. Nov. 24, 1854; m. Dec. 9, 1874, Lewis C. Porte, Children : 1279 Eva M. Porte, b. Aug. 21, 1876; m. Martin Slachla, Nov. 2, 1898. 1280 Fred L. Porte, b. June 16, 1880; m. Blanche Rhodes, June 12, 1907. 1020 JOHN R. RISLEY (Hiram G.^ Risley, Hiram\ Jon- athan, jr.®, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonatharf, Richard^, Richard'), b. June 4, 1856; m. Jan. 26, 1887, Estella Klock. Child: 1281 Laurence G., b. Apr. 12, 1889. *1027 NETTIE M. ARNOLD {Theressa L.^ Risley, Elisha, jrJ, Elisha^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard'), b. , 1870; m. Joseph White, , 1889, Clay- ville, N. Y. Children : 1282 LoRENA J., b. , 1893. 1283 Marjorie M., b. — — , 1894. 1284 Howard E. A., b. , 1900. 174! THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 1028 WILFRED ARNOLD {Theressa L.' Risky, Elisha, jr.% Elisha^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, RicharcPy Richard}), b. , 1878; m. , Jones, Rome, N. Y. 1029 HARRIET T. ARNOLD {Theressa L.' Risley, Elisha, jr.\ Elisha^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. , 1880; m. William T. Croak; 226 Lansing St., Utica, N. Y. Child : 1285 George A., b. , 1902. 1050 CHARLES I. GOODWIN (Cornelia Talcotf Good- win, Ruhy S. R.^ Talcott, Elizur^ Risley, Jonathan^, Nathan- iel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Feb. 3, 1859, Ronald, Mich. ; m. Dec. 20, 1882, Sophia U. Ferguson, Orange, Ionia Co., Mich., b. Feb. 24, 1859. Children : 1286 Mary Theo. Goodwin, b. Mar. 5, 1885 ; m. Jacob Moore, July 3, 1907. 1287 LoRA Cornelia Goodwin. 1288 OziAs Talcott Goodwin. Mr. C. I. Goodwin has been Supervisor five years and Regis- ter of Deeds for Ionia County four years. He is a farmer. 1052 ANDREW B. GOODWIN (Cornelia Talcott^ Good- win, Ruby S. Risley"^ Talcott, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Jan. 11, 1865, Ronald, Ionia Co., Mich. ; m. Sept. 4, 1882, Nellie Rose Klotz, b. Jan. 9, 1867, Orange, Ionia Co., Mich.; m. 2nd, Mar. 17, 1906, Addie L. Wheeler, Carson City, Mich. 1053 ETTIE M. TALCOTT (Oscar' Talcott, Ruhy Risley' Talcott, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. April 11, 1863, Ronald, Mich.; m. July 25, 1883, Rev. Alexander T. Luther, b. Oct. 31, 1854, Wayne, Mich. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 175 Children : 1289 Mary Blanch Luther, b. Nov. 28, 1884, Evans- ton, 111. 1290 Edward Talcott Luther, b. Dec. 8, 1886, Chicago, 111. 1291 Earl O. Luther, b. Oct. 21, 1888, Lowell, Mich. 1292 Clara Louise Luther, b. July 30, 1890, Lowell, Mich. 1293 Olin Cady Luther, b. July 21, 1893, Lansing, Mich. Rev. Alexander T. Luther and family now reside at Lake Odessa, Mich., Feb., 1909. 1054 JULIA H. TALCOTT (Oscar^ Talcott, Ruby Risley' Talcott, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Dec. 12, 1866, Ronald, Mich.; m. at Ionia, May 16, 1888, A. Wellington Chandler, b. Oct. 12, 1860, Walnut, 111. Child : 1294 Elliot Talcott Chandler, b. Jan. 20, 1892, Compton, 111. 1055 BERTHA BELLE TALCOTT {Oscar^ Talcott, Ruby Risleif Talcott, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Jan. 4, 1869, Ronald, Mich.; m. July 15, 1896, at Lansing, Mich., Horace Hesper Goodwin, b. at Ronald, Mich., June 7, 1867. Children : 1295 Dorothy Amanda Goodwin, b. Sept. 14, 1898, Walloon Lake, Mich. 1296 Keith Eugene Goodwin, b. Jan. 26, 1902, Wal- loon Lake, Mich. Residence of family, Walloon Lake, Mich., 1909. 1062 IMOGENS BURKE (Ann Amelia Talcott' Burl-e, Ruby Risley^ Talcott, Elizur^, Jonathan'^, Nathaniel*, Jona- than^, Richard-, Richard}), b, Sept. 15, 1873, Ronald, Mich.; 176 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY m. Oct. 19, 1902, Albert Oversmith, b. Manchester, Mich., Feb. 11, 1870. Reside at MiUington, Mich., 1909. Children: names unknown. 1063 RUBIE BURKE (Ann A. Talcott^ Burke, Ruby Ris- ley'^ Talcott, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Rich- ard', Richard"), b. Nov. 10, 1876, Ronald, Mich.; d. April 8, 1902; m. July 3, 1900, George Hearing, b. Nov. 2, 1874. Geo. Hoaring and daughter reside in Detroit, Mich. Child : 1297 Vivian Hoaring, b. April 6, 1902. 1065 EVA RISLEY (Chester C.^ Allen\ Elizur\ Jona- than^, Nathaniel, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard"), b. Dec. 21, 1866, Earlville, N. Y. ; m. Kirk A. Stetson, Aug. 23, 1894, Stockwell, N. Y., b. Nov. 27, 1867. Children : 1298 Paul C. (twin), b. Dec. 6, 1896. 1299 Leon A. (twin), b. Dec. 6, 1896. 1078 ANDREW J. NILES, JR. (Andrew J.^ Niles, Harriet P.^ Risley, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Rich- ard', Richard"), b. Oct. 14, 1872, Crosswell, Mich.; m. Sept. 23, 1869, Carrie M. Cook, Crosswell, Mich. Children : 1300 Vere Irene, b. Sept. 10, 1897, Crosswell, Mich. 1301 Reva Lenora, b. Nov. 21, 1901, Crosswell, Mich. 1079 ALLA M. NILES (Andrew J.^ Niles, Harriet P: Ris- ley, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard"), b. Oct. 26, 1874, Crosswell, Mich.; d. Mar. 30, 1902, Detroit Hospital; m. Gertrude M. Kerr, Carsonville, Mich., June 10, 1869. Children : names unknown. 1080 ALLEN R. NILES (Andrew J.^ Niles, Harriet P.' Ris- ley, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 177 Richard^), b. Oct. 26, 1874, Crosswell, Mich.; m. Muriel B. Kerr, Mar. 5, 1898, Carsonville, Mich. Children : names unknown. 1085 HENRY H. ROBB {Eliza N.^ Robh, Harriet P: Ris- ley, Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richardr^ Richard'), b. Apr. 17, 1868, Crosswell, Mich.; m. Dec, 1896, Ida M. Coleman, Crosswell, Mich. Child : 1302 Alda B., b. Feb. 21, 1898. 1088 LEONARD ROBB (Eliza Niles^ Robh, Harriet P.\ Elizur*^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Rich- ard'), h. Feb. 17, 1874, Crosswell, Mich.; m. Jan. 1, 1900,, Bertha Allen, Cass City, Mich. Child: 1303 Irene S., b. , 1901. 1096 ROSE ANNA WINTER (Ida B.' Risley, Charles F.\ Elizur^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Rich- ard'), b. Nov. 14, 1880, Toronto, Ontario, Can.; m. May 18, 1904, David Alexander Bean, Berlin, Ontario, Can., editor and proprietor of Daily Telegraph, Berlin, Ont. Children : 1304 Dorothy Beele, b. Feb. — , 1905 ; d. Apr. — , 1905. 1305 Frances Marion, b. Apr. 25, 1906. 1100 MARY M. WALLACE (J. Orville^ Wallace, Roxanna Chambers^ Wallace, Hannah^ Risley, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard'), h. , 1861, Hubbards- ville, N. Y. ; m. James Condon, 1884. Child: 1306 Grace Lorena, b. , 1890. 1101 LEW WALLACE (J. Orzrille^ Wallace, Roxanna' Chambers, Hannah^ Risley, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^y 178 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Richard\ Richard^), b. , 1867, Hubbardsville, N. Y. ; m. Lorena Dart, 1891. Child: 1307 Paul Dart, b. — — , 1894; d. , 1895. 1119 WILLARD V. TODD {Chauncey R.^ Todd, Hannah A.^ Risley, Chauncey^ ^ Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard"^, Richard^), b. Nov. 3, 1862; m. Louisa Kowhogen, Nov. 15, 1883, Rochester, N. Y. Child: 1308 Walter Sidney, b. Aug. — , 1885. 1132 ARTHUR H. SIMMONS (Mercelle D.« Risley, Julius CJ', Sylvester^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), h. Sept. 23, 1866, Madison, N. Y. ; m. Lida Pres- ton, Oct. 10, 1891. Child: 1309 Gerritt Wayne Simmons. 1133 WALTER R. SIMMONS {Marcell D} Risley, Julius C^, Sylvester^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard"), b. Feb. 14, 1869; m. Elizabeth Pullen, July 5, 1890. Child : 1310 Walter R. Simmons, Jr. 1134 LELIA RUTH SIMMONS {Mercelle D.^ Risley, Jul- ius C.\ Sylvester^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Rich- ard^, Richard^), b. Dec. 24, 1876; m. Arthur J. Evans, Dec. 24, 1902. 1135 GERTRUDE R. SIMMONS (Mercelle D.^ Risley, Jul- ius C.^, Sylvester^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Rich- ard', Richard"), b. Dec. 4, 1878. 1136 LIZZIE M. STEBBINS (Emma^ Risley, Julius CJ, JSylvester^ , Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Rich- THE DESCENDANTS OF EICHARD RISLEY 179 ard^), b. May 1, 1846, Brookfield, N. Y. ; d. Dec. 21, 1891; m. Joseph Bostwick, Feb. 25, 1891, Hubbardsville, N. Y. Child: 1311 Marjorie S. Bostwick, b. Nov. 26, 1898, Ham- ilton, N. Y. 1145 HERBERT R. FERGUSON (Gertrude^ Risley, Chris- topher Columbus C\ Sylvester^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel^, Jon- athan^, Richard?, Richard^), b. Jan. 13, 1873, Waterville, N. Y. ; m. Letta Morse, Feb. 26, 1895, Waterville, N. Y. Children : names unknown. 1153 FAYETTE J. WELCH {Amos^ Welch, Louisa', Syl- vester^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Rich- urd"), b. Dec. 30, 1878; m. Mary Abbey, July 30, 1902. 1175 MARGARET CLARA HANNA {Martha B.^ Hanna, Mary Ann' Roberts Brandriff, John S.^ Roberts, Esther^ Somers, Esther* Risley, Richard^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Sept. 5, 1870 ; m. June 6, 1900, J. Frederick Rensch, Ionia, Mich. Child: 1312 Elizabeth Lillian, b. Mar. 19, 1901. John Somers, emigrant ancestor, married Hannah Hodgkins. Their first child was born 1685. Their second son was Richard Somers and married Judith Setart. Their daughter, Judith Somers, b. Apr. 5, 1743; mar- ried Risley. John Somers, grandson of John and Hannah H. Somers, married Esther* Risley, Feb. 9, 1744 (4th generation). (The name is sometimes spelled Hester and often used, one for the other; Esther is the proper name; Hester, a nickname). Polly Somers, daughter of Isaac, married Risley. Frederick Somers married Sophia Risley. Abigail Somei's (sister of Esther R. Somers Roberts) mar- ried Samuel Risley. Mary Somers, married Baker Risley. 180 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Joseph Risley Somers, b. Nov. 29, 1803. Sarah Somers b. Feb. 2, 1817, m. Samuel Risley, b. June 11, 1817. ' The above are among Somers records (relation to each other not known). New Jersey. Following from N. J. marriages : Margaret Doughty and John Risley, m. May 4, 1758. James Holmes and Leah Risley, m. July 5*, 1744. George Haw^kins and Jemima Risley, m. July 31, 1758. Anna Parman and Peter Risley, m. Jan. 22, 1736. John Somers and Esther* Risley (see above), m. Feb. 9, 1744. Edward Higbe and Jemima Risley, m. May 4, 1738. By a Somers record, John Somers m. Hannah McLean. They had a son, Joseph Risley McLean, b. Nov. 29, 1802. They had four children. (If you want the children of John* Somers (and Hannah McLean), son of John and Esther Ris- ley, refer to Mrs. Samuel T. Hanna, 1128 West Berry St., Fort Wayne, Indiana.) Among Quaker records. New Jersey, is frequently seen the name of Esther Haines, and as Esther R.(?) Somers was a Friend, it is strong evidence that Esther Risley's mother's name may have been Esther Haines. Miss Mary S. Allen, Deputy Custodian (1908) of Friends Records at Friends Li- brary at 142 North 16th St., Philadelphia, is very reasonable in her charges, and for a small fee, say one dollar, she will look up a name and send copy. Mrs. S. T. Hanna. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHAED RISLEY 181 LINEAGE Mrs. S. T. Hanna Martha Brandriff married Samuel Telford Hanna. Martha BrandrifF Hanna, dau. of Alfred Dixon Brandriff, son of Jesse (and Rhoda Garrison) Brandriff, son of Timothy (and Elizabeth Hughes) Brandriff, son of Timothy Bran- dreth (name changed in spelling) and Sarah , of Cape May, N. J. Alfred D. Brandriff married Mary A. Roberts, dau. of John Somers Roberts, son of John Roberts, jr. (and Esther Somers, son of John Roberts, sr. (and Elizabeth Haines), son of John Roberts, the Huguenot immigrant. Esther Somers, dau. of John Somers (and Esther Risley, dau. of Richard^ Risley, son of Richard" Risley, son of Rich- ard^ Risley of Hartford, Conn., Founder of Commonwealth of Conn.), son of John Somers and Hannah Hodgkins of Wor- cester, England, and Somers Point, N. J. John Somers Roberts married Martha Hooper Rhodes, dau. of Stephen Rhodes, son of John Rhodes and Elizabeth Stuart, a lineal descendant of Robert Stuart, Steward of Scotland, and brother of the King. Stephen Rhodes married Elizabeth Hooper, dau. of Isaac Hooper, son of William Hooper and Margaret French, dau. of Thomas French. Isaac Hooper married Martha Tice, dau. of John Tice of Holland, and Elizabeth Pease of Somers, Conn., dau. of James Pease and Abigail Ford, dau. of Joseph Ford of Windham, James Pease, son of James Pease and Mary Abbe, dau. of Thomas and Sarah Fairfield Abbe, dau. of Ensigh Walter (and Sarah Skipper, dau, Wm. Skipper of Lynne) Fairfield, son of John Fairfield of Salem and Wenham, Mass. TENTH GENERATION 1210 CHARLES L. JENCKS (Caroline^ Risley, Lyman E.\ AshheV , Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel^, Jonathan^, Rich- ards, Richard}), b. Aug. 18, 1864, East Hartford, Conn.; m. 1st, Carrie Rislej, dau. of Robert Risley, East Hartford; m. 2nd, Mary Mecklesen. Children 1st marriage: 1313 Harold, b. Mar. 12, 1884. 1314 Herbert, b. Oct. 7, 1886. 1315 Marion, b. May 20, 1889. 1316 Lillian, b. Apr. 6, 1894. 2nd marriage: 1317 Dorothy, b. Apr. 6, 1898. 1318 Mildred, b. Feb. 26, 1900. 1319 Charles, b. Dec. 27, 1903. 1211 JOHN L. JENCKS {Caroline G.' Risley, Lyman\ Ash- heV, Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard^), h. Aug. 2, 1866, East Hartford, Conn.; m. Carrie L. Brewer (2nd cousin), Oct. 7, 1885, b. Mar. 22, 1863. Lumber merchant at Manchester and East Hartford. Children : 1320 Ethel M., b. Sept. 9, 1888. 1321 Percy, b. Oct. 13, 1889. 1322 Glendon L., b. Nov. 14, 1901. 1215 DAISY M. RISLEY (Irving L.\ Lyman\ AshheV, Benjamin^, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard^, Richard.^), b. Apr. 21, 1877, East Hartford, Conn.; m. Guy Bunce, , 1897, East Hartford, Conn. Child : 1323 Raymond, b. . THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 183 1240 HARRY HILLS {Isahelle'> Brewer, Julia A.^ Hurlbiirt, Anri' Risley, Benjamirf, Jonathan^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard-, Richard'), h. Feb. 22, 1882; m. Apr. 15, 1903, South Manchester, Conn. 8 1276 ELLEN HOUSE HART (Chas. E.^ House, Mary A Risley House, Hirairi' Risley, Jonathan, Jr.^, Jonathan^, Na- thaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard*), b. ; m. — — , Wni. Matteson Hart. Children : 1324 Rose, b.. ; m. Morris Hoke, Oswego, N. Y. 1325 Burt, b. ; m. Mabel Waters, Norwich, N. Y. INCOMPLETE LIST. Although the unbroken line of descent from Richard^ is indicated in most of the following records, sufficient data as to some of the ancestors have been lacking to make it possible to place them in their proper generations and to give them distinctive numbers in the body of the book. When possible reference is made to the nearest ancestor who carries a number so that from that point back to Richard^ the records may be readily followed. STELLA ROBERTS (RANKIN) {Josiah A.' Roberts, John S.^ Roberts [No. 262], Esther Somers^ Roberts, Esther Ris- ley* Somers, Richard^ Risley, Richard', Richard*), h. Oct. 10, 1860, Lytle, Warren Co., Ohio; m. Mar. 31, 1885, David A. Rankin, St. Peter, Minn. Children : Clifford A. Rankin, b. June 20, 1886; d. Sept. 24, 1886. Maud A. Rankin, b. Aug. 31, 1888. Renneville S. Rankin, b. Sept. 19, 1891. Eva L. Rankin, b. Aug. 28, 1894. HELEN ROBERTS (LATIMER) (Josiah A J Roberts, John Somers^ Roberts [N. 262], Esther Somers^ Roberts, Esther 184 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Risley* Somers, Richard^ Risley, Richard'^, Richard^), b. Feb. 16, 1869, Kasotatown, Le Suen Co., Minn. ; m. 1st, Oct. 9, 1895, Manton Campion, d. May 4, 1899; m. 2nd, Dec. 11, 1901, Rev. Claire B. Latimer, St. Peter, Minn.; Graduate Princeton College, Presbyterian, b. Springfield, Ohio. Children, 1st marriage: LoRNA Ruth Campion, b. Dec. 19, 1896. 2nd marriage: Donald Roberts Latimer, b. Oct. 29, 1902, Moorhead, Minn. Dorothy Latimer, b. Nov. 23, 1905, Moorhead, Minn. Paul Somers Latimer, b. Sept. 26, 1908, Moorhead, Minn. ALICE ROBERTS (STARK) (Josiah A J Roberts, John Som- ers^ Roberts [No. 262], Esther Somers^ Roberts, Esther Ris- ley^ Somers, Richard^, Richard", Richard^), b. , Waynes- ville, Ohio ; m. June 6, 1878, Hugo L. Stark, St. Peter, Minn. Children : names unknown. JOHN PERCY CONKLING {Julia Roberts' ConUing, John Somers^ Roberts [No. 262], Esther Somers^ Roberts, Esther Risley^ Somers, Richard Risley, Richard^, Richard^), b. March 2, 1887, Chicago, 111. ; m. . EDWARD LA GRANGE {Martha Roberts' La Grange, John Somers*"' Roberts [No. 262], Esther Som-ers^ Roberts, Esther Risley"^ Somers, Richard^ Risley, Richard', Richard^), b. May 9, 1874, Dakota; m. April — , 1900. Children : names unknown. CLARENCE HOMER ROBERTS {Charles W^ Roberts, Joseph OJ Roberts, John Somers"^ Roberts [No. 262], Esther Somers^ Roberts, Esther Risley* Somers, Richard^ Risley, Richard^, Richard'^), b. May 19, 1882, Oskaloosa, Jefferson Co., Kan., now Perry, Kan.; m. . WILLIAM OSMAN ROBERTS {Charles W.^ Roberts, Jo- THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 185 seph OJ Roberts, John Somers^ Roberts [No. 262], Esther Somers^ Roberts, Esther Risley* Somers, Richard^ Risley, Richard^, Richard^), b. Sept. 6, 1876, Gardner, Johnson Co., Kansas ; now Portland, Oregon ; m. July 16, 1905, Carrie Ward, Lewiston, Idaho. Children : names unknown. EMILY RISLEY {Daniel B.' [No. 481], Sylvester", Jona- than^, Nathaniel*, Jonathan^, Richard', Richard^), b. Aug. 23, 1865, Deansboro, N. Y. ; d. Feb. 10, 1903 ; m. Rev. John Lang. Children : Carson. Donald ; live with grandfather, D. B. Risley, Hamilton, N. Y. HENRY STUART HOUSE (Wm. Watson^ House, William^ House, Elizabeth* Risley (m. House), John^ Risley [No. 5], Richard:", Richard^), b. Mar. 15, 1851, 138 Washington St., Hartford, Conn. ; m. June 25, 1879, Alice Jennett Whiting. Child: Henry Clarence, b. July 7, 1885. Both the father and mother of Henry S. House have Risley ancestors ; the record given below : Henry Stuart House (Elizabeth^ Abbey (House), (m. Wm. Watson), Tryphena^ Treat (m. Abby), Tryphena^ Ris- ley [No. 133] (m. Treat), John^ Risley (m. Burnham), John*^ Risley, jr. (m. Hannah Keeney), John^, Richard', Richard^). EMINIA SOPHIA FORBES {Giles^ Forbes, Elizabeth' Treat, Tryphena^ Risley [No. 133], John^, John*, John^, Richard^, Richard^), b. Feb. 23, 1840, East Hartford, Conn. One of the trustees of the association of " The Descendants of Richard Risley." CHARLES RICHARD RISLEY {Charles B.' Risley, Timo- thy", Joshua^ [No. 65], John*, John^, Richard', Richard^), 186 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY b. Sept. 21, 1854, East Hartford, Conn.; m. Adaline Bum- ham, April 24, 1902, Hartford, Conn. ; b. East Hartford, Nov. 2, 1845. One of the trustees of the association of " The Descendants of Richard Risley." BENNET TYLER RISLEY (Joshua' Risley, Timothy\ Joshua^ [No. 65], John, jr.*, John?, Richard^, Richard^), b. Sept. 23, 1855, South Windsor, Conn. EVELYN W. RISLEY (Joshua', Timothy\ Joshua"" [No. 65], John, jr.\ John\ Richard^, Richard^), b. Aug. 5, 1849, South Windsor, Conn. MARY DUNHAM (TRACY) (Dunham', Mary^ Risley, Sam- uel^ [No. 81], Joh\ Samuel^, Richard^, Richard^), b. April 7, 1832, Glastonbury; m. Selden H. Tracy, Oct. 13, 1873, b. Nov. 10, 1876; d. April 12, 1897. Child: Selden E. Tracy, b. Sept. 15, 1896, Bridgeport, Conn. JOHN HENRY HOUSE (Henry Risley House, Sophia Ris- ley, Cyprian House), b. Sept. 20, 1860, Turin, Lewis Co., N. Y. ; m. Wilhelminia Ameha Archdikin, Oct. 12, 1882, Mar- tinsburg, N. Y. (No connection known of previous genera- tions.) Children : Minnie Louise House, b. Nov. 17, 1883. Mary Beatrice House, b. Oct. 5, 1886. John Lansing House, b. Mar. 15, 1895. D. A. RISLEY, bom near Hartford, Ct., 1748. His son, Asa Risley (grandfather of A. T. Risley, Decatur, 111.), born in 1775. Jesse Risley (son of Asa) born at Long Meadow, Mass., Dec. 28, 1797. This Asa Risley kept the Ferry on the Vermont side of Lake Champlain opposite Fort Ticonderoga. THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY 187 A. T. Risley, Decatur, 111., bom at Canton, N. Y., St. Law- rence Co., Risleys in 111. Grant Risley, Decatur, 111., 124 E. Orchard St. G. V. Loring and wife (Risley) 801 E. Wood St. T. H. Terhune, Decatur, 111., 910 E. William St. Albert T. Risley, Streator, 111., 707 Shalbona St. Edwin Risley, Streator, 111., 707 Shalbona St. Eva Risley, Streator, 111., 707 Shalbona St. A. P. Risley, Greenville, 111. A. P. Risley and three grown sons, Mechanicsburg, Iowa. Albert A. Risley, Canton, N. Y. Cynthia Risley, Canton, N. Y. NINA GREGORY PROCTOR (Josephine S. Risley [m. Wm. Gregory Jones], Ezra B. Risley [m. Charlotte — — ], David, Samuel), b. March 6, 1843, Richmond, King William Co., Va.; m. Jan. 16, 1901, Charles E. Proctor, b. Dec. 16, 1865, Yonkers, N. Y. Children : names unknown. NAMES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF CONNECTICUT Church at Th/fon and Marfikld, England, Where Hooker Was r.Ai'iizED. THE NAMES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE COM- MONWEALTH OF CONNECTICUT Following are the names of those male members composing the " Hooker Party " that in June, 1636, emigrated from Newtown (now Cambridge), Mass., to Connecticut and founded that Commonwealth. *Mr. Matthew Allyn *Mk. Wm. Andrews *Mr. John Ajinold Mr. Francis Andrews *Mr. Jeramy Addams *Mr. Wm. Butler *Mr. Richard Butler *Mr. Wm. Blumfield Mr. Andrew Bacon Mr. John Bernard Mr. Thomas Birchwood Mr. Thomas Bull Mr. Robert Bartlett Mr. John Baysey *Mr. John Clarke Mr. John Crow Mr. James Coale Mr. Nicholas Clarke Mr. Richard Church INIr. Robert Daye *Mr. James Ensigne *Mr. Joseph Easton Mr. Nathaniel Elly Mr. Edward Elmer Mr. Zachary Feild *Mr. Wm. Goodwine *Mr. Richard Goodman *Mr. Seth Grant Mr. Wm. Gibbons Mr. George Grave *Mr. John Haynes *Mr. Edward Hopkins *Mr. Thomas Hooker *Mr. Thomas Hofmer *Mr. Steven Heart *Mr. John Hopkins Mr. Wm. Heyden Mr. Thomas Hales Mr. Samuel Hales Mr. Wm. Hide Mr. Wm. Holton Mr. John Higginson Mr. Wm. Hill Mr. Jonathan Ince Names marked with a * were land owners in Newtown prior to their emigration into Connecticut. I 19S THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY *Mr. Thomas Judd *Mr. Wm. Kelsey *Mr. Wm. Lewes Mr. Richard Lord Mr. Thomas Lord, Sen'r Mr. Richard Lyman *Mr. John Maynard *Mr. Joseph Mygatt Mr. John Moody Mr. Math. Marvih Mr. John Marsh *Mr. Thomas Olcot *Mr. James Olmsteed Mr. Richard Olmsteed *Mr. John Pratt *Mr. Steven Post *Mr. Wm. Parker Mr. Wm. Pantrey Mr. Wm. Pratt *Mr. Nathaniel Richard Mr. Wm. Ruscoe Mr. Thomas Roote Mr. Richard Risley (Wrisley) *Mr. John Steele *Mr. Wm. Spencer *Mr. Edward Stebbing *Mr. George Steele *Mr. George Stocking *Mr. Thomas Spencer Mr. Thomas Standley Mr. Thomas Stanton Mr. Thomas Selden Mr. Timothy Standley Mr. John Skinner Mr. Arthur Smith *Mr. Thomas Scott *Mr. Samuel Stone *Mr. John Tallcott *Mr. Thomas Wells *Mr. Andrew Warner *Mr. Wm. Westwood Mr. John White *Mr. Wm. Wadsworth Mr. George Willis Mr. John Webster Mr. Wm. Whittinge Mr. Nathaniel Warde Mr. Gregory Winterton Mr. Samuel Wakeman Mr. John Wilcox Mr. Richard Wrisley (Risley) *Mr. Richard Webb I Names marked with a * were land owners in Newtown prior to their emigration into Connecticut. Mr. Samuel Stone and Mr. Wm. Goodwin, two of the Hooker Company, in 1636 negotiated a treaty with and pur- FOUNDERS OF COMMONWEALTH OF CONNECTICUT 193 chased lands from Snuckquasson, the Sachem ; and the sale of lands was confirmed by Joshua his successor, which included all lands on both sides of the Connecticut River within the boundry of the town of Hartford, between the towns of Wethersfield and Glastonbury and Windsor, extending easterly three miles and six miles westerly from the River. (Manwaring's Hartford Probate Records, Vol. 1, 65 to 68.) THE RISLEY REUNION THE FAMILY REUNION The following invitations were mailed to all known de- scendants of Richard Risley. The Risley Family Reunion. As a Descendant of Richard Risley Yourself and Family are Cordially Invited to attend the Two Hundred and Seventy-first Anniversary To be held August 3, 19Q4 at the East Hartford, Connecticut, First Congregational Church. The programme of the occasion read as follows : ENTERTAINMENT Commencing at 10 a. m. Address of Welcome and Response. Music. " Our Kinsmen in England " Hon. John E. Risley, New York City Music. The Early Risleys in New England Edwin H. Risley, Utica, N. Y. Music. First Written Constitution Adna W. Risley, A. M., Ph.D., Denver, Col. LUNCHEON 198 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY " The First Church " Henry M. Love, Utica, N. Y. Music. The Location of the Early Risleys in Hartford, Leslie L. Brewer, L.L.B., Hartford Music. The New Jersey Risleys Samuel D. Risley, M.D., Ph.D., Philadelphia Music. The Western New York Risleys Miss Olive Risley Seward, Washington, D. C. Music. The Central New York Risleys Mrs Whipple Smith, Hamilton, N. Y. Music. OFFICERS. President, Edwin H. Risley, Utica, N. Y. Vice-President, Albert E. Risley, Hartford, Conn. Vice-President, William M. Risley, Hartford, Conn. Treasurer, Albert E. Risley, Hartford, Conn. Secretary, Lincoln S. Risley, New Britian, Conn. J COMMITTEES. Arrangements Reception Chas. R. Risley Wm. M. Risley George Olcott Albert E. Risley L. L. Brewer L. V. Lester Miss Adela Risley Rollin Risley Miss Kate Risley Mrs. Alfred S. Clapp Miss Belle Burney Mrs. Elisha Risley Mrs. Leonie R. Eddy ENTERTAINMENT. Edwin H. Risley. On arrival at Union Station, Hartford, take any trolley E»fi :ri^£;r.'j.i::-P^r First Ciirkcii of East Hartfokd, Ciinn, Ai>i'I-:akki) in 1904. As I- THE RISLEY REUNION 199 car for City Hall (take a transfer), change to any east side car, all of which pass the church. THE STORY OF THE REUNION August 3rd, 1904, in East Hartford, Conn., was an ideal day and the auditorium of the East Hartford Congregational Church was well filled at the opening of the morning meeting, representatives from sixteen states being present. The meet- ing was promptly called to order by Edwin H. Risley of Utica, N. Y., the President of the Risley association. Rev. Francis P. Bachelor, pastor of the Hockanum Con- gregational church, opened the meeting by invoking the Divine Blessing. C. Henry Olmsted of East Hartford delivered an ad- dress of welcome on behalf of the citizens of East Hart- ford and of the members of the Congregational church. He referred in his remarks to his ancester, James Olmsted, who left England and sailed to America in 1633 in company with Richard Risley, and extended the hospitality of the occasion in the name of his ancestor and his descendants. Edwin H. Risley responded to the address of welcome. He referred to the feeling of kinship which should bind to- gether the descendants of the noble band that sailed from England for America in the " Good Ship Griffin " in the sum- mer of 1633. Included among the number were such eminent divines as Rev. John Cotton, Rev. Thomas Hooker and Hon. John Haynes, afterward Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the first Governor of the Colony of Connecticut. He stated that he felt at home in this church where his father and mother were married in 1833 and where hundreds of his kinsmen had been baptized, who had lived and died in the faith of the Gospel here proclaimed. From this church many of his ancestors have been borne to their last resting places. He expressed the hearty thanks of the members of the as- sociation to the generous people who had extended their hos- pitality to the gathering. 200 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY The musical program, in charge of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cornish of Naubuc, Mrs. Holt and Mrs. E. Bowdin of Hart- ford, was greatly enjoyed by all. Hon. John E. Risley of New York, former United States minister to the Court of Denmark from 1893 to 1898, de- livered a short address on " Our Kinsmen in England." He referred to a personal acquaintance with Halford C. Risley, the present head of the Risley family in England, and the pleasant visit he had at his home in Didington, Oxford- shire. He is about 69 years of age and is a fellow of New College, Oxford University. The speaker described his visit to the old " Risley " chapel or church at Chetwood erected in the eleventh century — with the " Risley " coat of arms emblazoned on the walls of the building. He stated that the Risley family came into England from Normandy and that it was probable that they came into Normandy from the Juteland. He called attention to the structure of the Risley name. The word " Risle " in Norse language means creek or stream, and the English added the final " y " which formed our name. He referred in an interesting manner to the honorable history of the family in England during a period of more than eight hundred years and said we could be proud of our complete genealogy. ADDRESS OF EDWIN H. RISLEY Kinsmen and Friends : In the early days of June, 1636, the pioneers, less than one hundred in number, of different ages and of both sexes, rested at the end of a toilsome journey through a trackless wilderness on the elevated tongue of land formed by the junction of Little River with the Great River on the westerly bank of the Connecticut at a point which later bore the name of " Sentinel Hill " in the central portion of what is now the city of Hart- ford. Isolated from danger of attack by Indians, they lighted their camp-fires, pitched their tents, erected bark shanties, tethered their herds, posted sentinels and rested. This colony in the early days of May, 1636, sold their landed possessions in Newtown (now Cambridge) in the Massachu- setts Bay Colony to a new colony of settlers under the leader- ship of Rev. Mr. Shepard, and determined to make the journey into the Valley of Connecticut and to establish their future homes outside of the territory embraced within royal grants. They turned their backs on the old homes which had sheltered them for three or four years and turned their faces resolutely toward the Connecticut Valley, leaving behind them nothing to be desired, looking forward with high hopes to the establish- ment of new homes, a new church and new civil government. On this journey of over a hundred miles the sturdy men guarded their wives and families from the hostile attacks of the Indians, clearing a track in the forest for their passage, floundering through marshes and streams and crossing the Great River upon rafts. The obstacles and perplexities encountered were known only to the pioneers and totally unknown to the present generations. It is not easy for us to understand all of the causes that oper- ated upon the minds of the men and women composing this com- pany, which prompted them to leave their native land three thousand miles away and seek new homes in this Valley of the 202 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Connecticut. They were all Englishmen and Puritans in re- ligious faith. The seeds of the Protestant Reformation sown in the reign Henry VIII had germinated and were bearing fruit. The Protestant Reformation in England substituted the ruling Monarch for the Pope as the head of the church, and a few changes in doctrines and forms of worship. Those who doubted or refused to conform to these changes subjected their property, liberty and lives to the peril of destruction. The leaven of unrest had entered the minds of thousands of home loving Englishmen. Some were not satisfied w'.ih tho doctrines, forms of worship and practices of the Church of England; others wished for greater simplicity; many disliked the formal- ism in worship ; a very large number wished to purify the whole ministration of the church, and correct the lives and habits of the clergy and the church communicants. This class came in time to be known as " Puritans." In 1567 a number of devout ministers of the English church despairing of securing the correction of the grievous errors then existing in the church, separated themselves from the church and held religious services in private houses. Robert Bonn, a clergyman of the English church in 1580, publicly advocated a separation from the church for those who felt they could not secure a proper hearing in the church. This body of men and women came in time to be known as " Separatists " : the former were Conservatists and the latter Radicals. The " Puritans " and " Separatists " were jailed, whipped, hung, quartered and drawn in a manner too shocking to be written about. Other people who were considered ob- jectionable to those in authority were falsely accused and visited with the severe penalties of the law; life, liberty and property were alike insecure in every part of the British Em- pire. For more than thirty years a reign of terror held the minds of Englishmen, not unlike the reign of terror during the French revolution. In Nottinghamshire, a small religious congregation listened to the preaching of John Robinson. They incurred the dis- pleasure of their neighbors and the officers of the law and THE RISLEY REUNION 203 in 1608 they fled in a body to Holland to escape the venge- ance of their persecutors. They founded an English colony at Leyden and were joined from time to time by others. Hol- land for years had been engaged in a deadly struggle with Spain for liberty of thought and speech. In this struggle, modern historians say, more than eight millions of men and women suffered martyrdom for opinion's sake. The Dutch treated the English emigrants with respect and courtesy, but the English saw that their native tongue would be soon lost and that their children and grandchildren would be merged into the Dutch, which was somewhat deprecated by the English. They determined to emigrate from Leyden to America. After delays and difficulties they set sail from Southampton on the 16th of September in the " Mayflower " and after a stormy passage came to anchor off* Plymouth, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 21st, 1620. The volition of the little band of Pilgrims at Leyden was not alone the determining factor that decided them to emigrate to America. In 1606 James (VI of Scotland) I of England granted a royal charter to a company of London merchants and cap- italists to a tract of land from Nova Scotia to Long Island, to a corporation afterwards known as the Plymouth Company. Lands from Cape Fear to the Potomac River to another band of capitalists afterwards known as the London Company. The grants were to run in strips across the continent from east to west in the same parallels. The strip of land between the Potomac and Long Island was open to both companies by the terms of their charters, with the restriction that if either com- pany planted a colony first, the other colony should not plant another colony within one hundred miles of the first one. The Pilgrims intended to locate on this middle strip and sailed under the auspices of the Plymouth Company and with their aid financially, promised to repay the Company with high usury in three ^^ears. They landed not at the point of destina- tion, but at Plymouth Rock on the Massachusetts coast. The London Company had established a colony at Jamestown in the year 1609. The most that can be said of these colonists 204) THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY is that they were composed of the waifs of society brought by stress of great perplexities to America, to satisfy the greed of two commercial companies. James I was dead. In 1625 his son, Charles I, assumed the purple toga and wore the crown. The royal charters granted by his father were under one pretext or another revoked or annulled by the king's courts. King Charles hated an independent legislature. He was an imperialist with a sublime faith in the right of " Kings to Rule." The colonies, however, had different opinions, so they appointed their own governors and chose their own legislative bodies. This nettled and stirred the ire of Charles, so he sent governors of his own selection and issued his royal decrees and undertook to enforce them. He granted new charters under restricted governors. Beckley in Jamestown ruled the colony for more than a quarter of a century with a spirit of despot- ism unequaled in colonial history. When Charles I ascended the throne the Puritans had be- come very strong ; to check their growth and curb their haughty spirit Charles dismissed his parliament in March, 1629, and closed its doors until 1640 and undertook to rule England according to his royal will. In 1630 the Plymouth Colony numbered less than three hundred. Matters in England grew rapidly worse; Charles had an intense hatred of the Puritans and set out to curb and degrade them and to establish the supremacy of the church as interpreted by Bishops and Arch- bishops of his choice. As the acts of gross usurpation and tyranny grew, the emi- gration to New England increased. In 1628 John Endicott of Dorchester, England, took a com- pany to Salem (or Peace). The Plymouth Company, whose charter was supposed to have been annulled, granted a strip of land between the Charles and Merrimac rivers, stretching westward without limit, and Charles I incorporated the Com- pany by Royal grant under the name of " Massachusetts Bay." 1629-1630 were the darkest days in history for the " Puri- tans " and " Separatists." The king had elevated a narrow THE RISLEY REUNION 205 minded bigot (whose head came off later) to the office of Bishop and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury ; to carry into effect the " boiling zeal " of this monarch against the *' Puritans " and " Separatists " he by royal sanction organ- ized a court composed of the tools of the King and Archbishop. They were granted power, or assumed it, to imprison, scourge, murder, hang, quarter and draw those who were accused right- fully or wrongfully with being either " non-conformist," " Puri- tan " or " Separatist " ; armed with this extraordinary power they proceeded to dispose of their hated victims. John Winthrop, a man of singularly refined nature, judge of a London court, becoming alarmed at the evil tendency of the times, in 1630 took a colony of about one thousand persons of both sexes — some domestic animals, money and provisions, to America ; they reached Massachusetts Bay and located in smaller groups in Watertown, Dorchester and Dedham. Win- trop was a man of fine character and habits with only one vice, which was a strong belief in the divine right of the " classes " to govern the " masses." The church established by this settlement was the center of all temporal and spiritual interests of the colony ; only those upon whom the pastor and governor saw fit to confer the rights of a " freeman " might participate in the conduct of its affairs which related to the whole body of citizens ; and those selected as magistrates and members of the General Court were those whom the governor and pastor approved. Those who aspired to either office could find favor only as they were willing to execute the wishes of these tyrants in their systems of restraint upon the individual liberty of thought and expressions of the citizens as effectually as it had been in England. CONNECTICUT COLONY The colony that lighted its camp fires on the summit of *' Sentinel Hill " in the Valley of the Connecticut, June, 1636, was not a part of the Salem or Bay Colonies, but was entirely distinct from either of them. This colony's great leader. Rev. Thomas Hooker, was a 206 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHAED RISLEY graduate of and a teacher in Emanuel College, Cambridge. He was a moderate " Puritan " in faith and the greatest preacher and statesman of his time. In 1629-30 he was preaching in a private chapel in Exetershire at " Braintree " to throngs of people that flocked to his parish to hear him. He was a man marked by Charles I and Archbishop Laud for treatment at the hands of their Ecclesiastical Court. To avoid the blow aimed at his life he secretly went to Holland and taught and preached at Antwerp, where he was engaged to write the preface to a book written by Archbishop Ames of the Roman church. He did his work so well that Charles I, then in alliance with the Duke of Orange in resisting the claims of his Catholic Majesty, Phillip II of Spain, demanded that Hooker be extradited to England for trial before Laud's Ec- clesiastical Court for heresy. The Duke of Orange was re- luctantly compelled to grant Charles I's claim. Rev, Thomas Hooker, then in exile in Holland, voluntarily returned to England to prevent being extradited for trial ; he remained in concealment a short time, awaiting an opportunity to escape to America. In July, 1633, he took passage at Downs, on the ship " Grif- fin " for the New World. John Haynes, and Rev. John Cotton, the former afterwards governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1635 and deputy governor in 1636, and the latter the most forceful of the early New England divines, sailed for Boston, reaching there in September of that year. Rev. Thomas Hooker, while in exile in Holland, saw the impending blow which was preparing for him for some time prior to 1633 ; he had corresponded with many of his old parish- ioners and friends at " Braintree," and they had prepared to remove to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Prior to their departure they had sent a few trusted friends as advance agents to look up a site for their future homes, and to clear up portions of the land and erect a church preparatory to their arrival. The general court of the Bay Colony had granted them the land embraced in " Newtown " (now Cam- THE RISLEY REUNION 207 bridge) ; here their agents had erected as early as 1632 a httle church, which later was furnished with a bell. Rev. Thomas Hooker, their future minister, in boarding the ship " Griffin " at Downs, was in disguise amongst his own people, about one hundred in number of both sexes. This band of emigrants were all from the thrifty middle classes of EngHsh society, above any of the previous colonists who had settled, in educa- tion and wealth and general acquirements. Hooker brought with him his college friend " William Stone." They were both installed, the first as pastor and the second as teacher in the Newtown church, on October 11th, 1633, and here in Newtown (Cambridge) the Colony cleared their lands, erected fortifications and stockades, built houses, established schools and carried forward the incipient steps of an organized town, by appointing constables, magistrates, fence viewers, and tax gatherers, and established pounds, organized militia, drilled and disciplined the organized military companies, estab- lished sentinels and mounted guards to defend the colonists. Thomas Hooker at once became a commanding personality in the New England plantations and divided honors with Rev. John Cotton of the Bay Colony and Rev. Roger Williams of the Salem Colony, all star men of equal magnitude in the con- stellation of the great men in New England. The Massachusetts Bay Colony under the paternal govern- ment of Winthrop and Dudley was bearing legitimate fruits; the whole colony was in a state bordering on anarchy ; rank busi- ness and religious dissenters had gone from bad to worse and every man's hand had been moved by hatred to clutch the throat of his neighbor if he differed in opinion with him: these dis- sensions were rife when Hooker's "Braintree " Company an'ived in Boston, and these evils rapidly grew worse till the spring of 1636. Rev. Roger Williams, a logically conservative man, who advocated the doctrine that no man should be obliged to pav taxes to support a ministry; held that magistrates had no right to punish Sabbath breaking or blasphemy, and that a man is responsible for his opinions only to God and his own conscience. He contended that the King could not grant them 208 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY lands, because they were not his to grant ; revolutionary heresies like these were not to be tolerated by Winthrop. Williams was banished in mid-winter from the Colony and later founded the State of Rhode Island. Mrs. Anne Hutch- inson, a well educated, refined woman, was likewise banished from the Bay Colony in mid-winter. Her sins, if sins they were, seemed to be in placing too much emphasis on " grace " and " good works " and too little on " faith." Governor Dudley was in litigation with Governor Winthrop on a breach of an agreement to locate the government of the Colony in Newtown, where Dudley with his usual greed had bought up a large tract of land in order to get the increased value due to the location of the seat of government at New- town. The case was settled by Winthrop giving Dudley a " dressed pig." Charles I was moved to revoke the charter of the Bay Colony. In the early part of the year 1636 a request was made by the Newtown settlers of the Hooker Company for permission to move to the Connecticut Valley, on the plea that they needed more land for their stock; this application was refused by the general court. The disordered condition of the affairs of the Bay and Salem Colonies was such that the Newtown (Baintree) Company closed an agreement to sell all of their landed property in New- town to a new Colony which had lately landed under the lead- ership of Mr. Shepherd, who became shortly one of the founders of Harvard College. The Hooker party thus relieved by the sale of their lands, which included most, if not all, of the land in Newtown, were, as they thought, free to take up their journey into the Valley of the Connecticut beyond the territory embraced in the Royal grant to the Bay Company. This move had been secretly anticipated for some time prior to its occurrence. The trusted agents of the church and company, William Stone and William Goodwin, had previously negotiated and THE RISJLEY REUNION 209 taken title to a strip of land from the Indians in the Valley of the Connecticut, which extended from Windsor to Wethers- field on both sides of the Great River, about eleven miles east and west in the valley. No efforts had been made to occupy any part of this land by the Hooker company prior to June, 1636. This point of land at the junction of the Little with the Great River, where this band of settlers lighted their camp fires, was then in possession of " Dutch " traders from New Amsterdam (New York). This band of traders had erected a small fort and had a couple of small cannon and were on friendly terms with the minor tribes of Algonquin Indians of the Mohegan family then living in great numbers near the Dutch trading fort. A fort had been erected at the mouth of the Connecticut River by the Massachusetts Bay Colony which cut the Dutch traders off from intercourse with New Amsterdam, and shortly after the settlement of the English in the Connecticut Val- ley, the Dutch traders disappeared. The weary campers on " Sentinel Hill " in the early days of June, 1636, were impelled to take this heroic step for two main reasons : first, to escape the anarchy existing in the Bay Colony, in which they never participated, and second, to locate their homes outside of the jurisdiction of the Bay Colony's Royal Grant, The sound mind of Rev. Thomas Hooker under the guiding spirit of Divine Providence led this band of heroes into a better land than they knew. No body of emigrants to any country were ever blessed with an abler or wiser leader than Hooker, a scholar, preacher, orator and statesman who has failed to receive the full share of credit with those public bene- factors who conceived and put in practical form our democratic institutions. The final analysis of Anglo-Saxon history will we are sure accord to Thomas Hooker and Oliver Cromwell the first places in our history as the two men who in the arduous field of things 210 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY accomplished, gave a new impetus to liberty and did most to enlarge the liberties of the English speaking race. Their lives and labors mark a new and distinct epoch in history. In this epoch is to be found the germ of democratic insti- tutions, when government was first wrested from the hands of the " classes " and, forever, we hope, placed in the keeping of the " masses." Here the subject grows, the fight is still on. Let no one rest with the idea that we are safe ; " Eternal Vigil- ance is the price of Liberty " and will be ever to the end of time. The band of sturdy warriors must ever be recruited from the worthy men and women who are prepared for the conflict. We have said this much in order that you might form a just conception of the inestimable value of the life and character of the men and women composing the Colony that lighted their campfires in the early days of June, 1636, on " Sentinel Hill " in Hartford, and who there formed the sturdy Commonwealth of Connecticut, and who gave not only to America, but to the world the first written form of federated constitutional govern- ment in history, and secured to their posterity the inestimable blessings of liberty under written laws, made by the people and for the people. RICHARD RISLEY Richard Risley was with this Hooker Company. We, his descendants, gather in this church to-day to do honor to his name and memory, and to inspire in the hearts of thousands of his descendants a just pride, and to kindle in their hearts a more just and lasting appreciation of the wealth of our in- heritance. We are thrice fortunate that through his efforts and self-denial we can justly claim to have our inheritance with those that created the germ of constitutional government, guided and controlled by laws made by the people and for the people, by which alone liberty can be secured and perpetuated to those who may come after. To Thomas Hooker without doubt belongs the credit of framing the first confederated constitutional form of govern- THE RISLEY REUNION 211 ment known to history, and to this band of emigrants the first to adopt and practice its precepts. Richard Risley, of Hartford, the founder of the name in America, was a Hneal descendant from a long line of distin- guished men and women in England, most of whose descendants have continued to live in our beautiful home country, England. The early history of our English Ancestry is shrouded in more or less obscurity. Their early home, without doubt, was in Norway. They emigrated into Normandy, France, thence with " William the Conquerer " or at later time found their way with this warrior, statesman and prince, into England, where the Crown was wrested from " Harold," last of the Danish Monarchs, and placed on the head of this renowned prince, who became King of England. To those deeply interested in genealogical research, no field of investigation is more enticing or yields so much pleasure as that of looking up our family history in the Mother Country. The Risleys in England are numerous. The first record of the Risley name is in the eleventh century. At least one estate is now intact and in the possession of a Risley. The place and time where Richard was born is not known, nor has his connection with the English family been distinctly traced, but there is no doubt that he was a descendant of some one of several English families whose name he bore. The evi- dence seems to point to his connection with the Oxford or Lan- castershire families. It may be assumed, I think, that Richard had come under the influence of the preaching of Rev. Thomas Hooker in " Braintree " and formed a component part of the " Hooker Company " that sailed in the ship Griffin from Downs July, 1633. The coat of arms printed at the head of the invitations to this gathering belongs to the Oxford and Lancaster Risleys. That the different branches of the family in England all spring from one source, cannot, I think, be doubted. The name " Risley " has not been found in the Newtown records or in any Massachusetts early history. The first ap- pearance of the name in New England is found in the Hartford 212 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY >» town records on page twelve, under date of " September, 1639, where it is recorded " of ye owld townesmans years Restly be- hind for 2 rates 00 05 9." This entry shows that " Restly " had failed to pay his taxes to the town for the years 1637-1638. The second appearance of the name in the early Hartford records will be found on page 57 of the division of land amongst the early settlers composing the Hooker Company, entered under date of January 14, 1639, where the record enters the name " Richard Wrisley." On Porter's map of the allotment of lands in Hartford (city in 1640) " Richard Risley " was allot- ted about two acres, about the same quantity allotted to the other settlers, and is lot No. 131, on the road leading from " Steele's Mill " to the " Great Swamp." The land division between the settlers, the record of which appears in 1640, was located in the central portion of what is now the center of the City of Hartford. Richard was probably not married until about 1639-40 and the name of his wife is unknown. The colony after its settlement in Hartford erected a small church on Main Street in the vicinity of the present " First Church " of Hartford. Richard's home lot was located south of Little River, on the road from "Steele's Mill " to the " Great Swamp " where the highway makes an obtuse angle. The entire colony during the first few years was daily and nightly in deadly peril ; within a radius of a score of miles of their camp were several thousand Indians of the Algonquin nation who were then friendly to the settlers, because they were in fear of the fierce Iroquois to whom they were under tribute, which remained unpaid for some time ; the white men in their location were a buffer between these warring Indian nations and by being friendly with the whites they would se- cure their protection and aid. The friendly Algonquins were possessed of great curiosity and a malicious spirit, that under small provocation might lead them to go on the war path at any moment. The settlers had to guard their homes night and day and tether their herds at night. They carried their guns with THE RISUEY REUNION 213 them everywhere, to church as well as into the fields and forests. They treated these Indian neighbors with scrupulous honor in every way, to avoid their enmity. The settlers reached the valley too late in the season to clear the forest land and plant and harvest a crop that season. They subsisted mainly on provisions brought with them or secured from the Indians in barter and by hunting and fishing. Their first effort was to erect log houses and prepare for the coming winter. PEQUOT WAR The spring of 1637 ushered in the horrors of an Indian war. The Pequots killed a number of white settlers in Wethersfied, carried two young women into captivit}^ killed the settlers' cattle and burned their log houses, inaugurating a reign of ter- ror in the colonies. Historians fail to account for this burst of savage rage, but the real cause of the outbreak was due to the disordered condition of public affairs in the Massachu- setts Bay Colony. The Valley colonies were not left free to settle these grievances, but were forced to take up arms against the Pequots. The Hartford Colony furnished forty-two sol- diers, Windsor thirty-six, Wethersfield eighteen ; this body of soldiers was joined by twenty more from the Massachusetts Bay Colony under command of Captain Underhill. The whole body of troops was placed under command of Major John Mason, a thorough soldier, who had fought in the English army in the lowlands of Holland under Lord Thomas Fairfax. The- troops were accompanied by a few cowardly Indians who ren- dered no assistance in the engagements which followed. The troops proceeded to the Pequot camp on the right bank of the Connecticut near its mouth, where they were entrenched by stockades. A fierce battle ensued which resulted in killino: six hundred men, women and children. Only five or six of the Pequot warriors escaped and these were followed into the Hudson River Valley where they were captured and killed. The colonial soldiers returned to their homes rejoicing that the war was over. This war prevented the planting and raising- 214 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY of crops In the summer of 1637 to meet the needs of the coming winter. During the winter of 1637-38 starvation was in every household in the colony, the death rate was more than forty per cent, of the population ; hunger and disorder, then as now, went hand in hand; the strong took from the weak and the whole colony was brought to the verge of ruin and were only relieved by the friendly aid rendered by neighboring Indians and a shipment of corn from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This deplorable condition of affairs made the colonists realize the necessity for some form of government. It was at this time Rev. Thomas Hooker preached the sermon from Deuteronomy 1st chapter, 13th verse, which contained a true prophecy for the future and inspired the first written constitution known to history. This " fundamental order " was adopted by popular vote in Hooker's church January 14th, 1638 (O. S.). Our ancestor, Richard Risley, was of the voting age then and was a partici- pant in the adoption of this constitution. At some time prior to 1648, Richard established his home within the present bounds of East Hartford, east of the Great River. The exact location is unknown, but it was probably adjacent to the river below the ford across Hockanum river near the point where it enters the Connecticut. In October, 1648, Richard died in Hockanum, without a will, survived by a wife and three children. An inventory of his estate will be found in the Colonial Probate Records, where under date December 7th, 1648, his inventory was filed under the name " Richard Risley." According to this his estate amounted to £135 5s. 16d. In the decree settling his estate the following is recorded: *' There are three children, viz. One daughter by name Sarah Risley between 7 and 8 years, one sonne by name Samuel Risley about 2 years old, and one sonne by name Richard Risley about ihree months old." The Decree of Distribution of his estate entered in the Pro- bate records on December 7th, 1648, is as follows : " To the THE RISLEY REUNION 215 children £16 apiece to be paid to the daughter at the age of 18 years, and to the sonnes at the age of 21 years, Will. Hill bringing them up to write and read and giving security to the Court for the payment of the several childrens portions." If the record stopped here, it would indicate that Richard's wife died prior to his decease, but there is a record of a con- veyance of lands made in Farmington by William Hill (Hills) by virtue of his marital relation with the " relict " of " Richard Risley." The fact stated in the decree of distribution that Will. Hill gave bonds to bring up the children to " write and read " and gave security for the performance of these conditions would indicate that he married or expected to marry the widow very near the time this decree was entered. It is fair to assume that the three children were brought up in the family of Will. Hill and that the " relict " of Richard Risley became Hill's second wife. William Hill, sr. (second husband of Mrs. Risley), died July, 1683, leaving an estate £274 60s. 2d. At the time of his death or at least at the time of the execution of the will, Feb. 22, 1680-1, he describes himself as William Hills of Hockanum within the township of Hartford. By his will he makes Jona- than, his eldest son, his executor and imposed obligations upon his wife " Mary Hills " which indicates that Mary (Risley) Hills was living at the date of his death. The children men- tioned in his will are Jonathan, Mary, Hannah Hills Kilbourn, Benjamin, Joseph, William, jr., John, Sarah Hills Ward. William Hills, jr., died in Hockanum prior to the 8th of De- cember, 1693; his will was witnessed by Siborn Nickols, James Steele, sen., Tho. Dickerson. His children were Ebenezer, age 17, John 14, Joseph 10, Mary 26, Files 24 (Phillis), Hannah 21, Esther 12. The will of William Hills, jr., was estabhshed by the evidence of Thomas Kilbourn and " Richard Risley, jr., age 45 years." Administration was granted to the " widow." Richard Risley and Scrgt. Kilbourn to be overseers. Richard Risle}'^, jr., son of Richard, sr., lived to be very old. He was alive in 1732. He was bom and lived in East 216 THE DESCENDANTS OF EICHARD EISLEY Hartford and had a numerous family. He left no will nor are there any proceedings in the Probate Records showing the dis- position of his property. I think it is safe to say from all evidence at hand that the children of Richard Risley, jr., were: John, Samuel, Thomas, Nathaniel, Jonathan, Richard, jr., Jeremiah, Mary and Han- nah (Anna or Anner.) The baptismal records of the First Church of Hartford show that Mary was baptised April 23, 1693, and Hannah April 12, 1695. THE THIRD GENERATION The third generation of Risleys in Hartford became quite numerous ; John was made a freeman and became a fence viewer in Hockanum in 1698, he was rate collector for the First Church of East Hartford for several years and operated a ferry, which took members of the church living east of the Hockanum River to the house of worship, for which the church at different in- tervals paid him sums of money. His will was probated 1755 ; the witnesses were Jonathan Hills, Jonathan and Richard Risley; the children named in the will were John, jr., Elizabeth, Anna, Mabel, Thankful, Martha, and Timothy, the latter be- ing named executor. The name of his wife was Mary maiden name unknown. Samuel married Rebecca Gaines, August 1st, 1704 ; he was made a freeman December 23d, 1703, was also elected a fence viewer of Hockanum December 23d, 1703; December 16, 1707; December 16th, 1712. He died in Gl?stonbury and was interred in the old cemetery. He left a will dated the 9th of May, 1752. In this will his children are named as follows: Samuel, jr., Richard, David, Job, Oliver, Thomas, Rebecca (married Loveland), Ruth (married Hollister), and Sarah. His son Thomas was named as executor. Thomas, sr., son of Richard, after living in East Hartford, emigrated to Egg Harbor, Glouster Co., New Jersey, with his brothers Richard, jr., and Jeremiah, and was in New Jersey June, 1726. He left a will dated December 5th, 1740, which was admitted to probate and recorded in the State Department at THE KISI.EY REUNION 217 Trenton, New Jersey, June 4th, 1746. His property was willed to the children of his brother Richard, jr., (3). Thomas died unmarried. Nathaniel Risley, M. D., died in November, 1742, and was buried in East Hartford. He left a will dated December 8th, 1741, which was probated December 1st, 1742; the witnesses were Jonathan Hills, Josiah Bidwell, and his brother Jonathan Risley. The children named in the will were : Elizabeth, Zerviah, Deborah, who was born 1742 and died December 23d, 1765, aged 23. The maiden name of his wife is unknown. Jonathan Risley (son of Richard jr.) died August, 1762. He was a freeman of Hartford and had charge of the schools there at different intervals. He left no will. Administration was granted upon his estate to his sons Moses and Nathaniel. The children named in the Probate Proceedings are Moses, Nathan- iel, Richard, Joshua and Rebecca (married Caleb Benjamin). Jonathan was twice married. Richard Risley, jr. (2), son of Richard, jr. (1), married a wife whose name was Esther. He emigrated from Hartford to Egg Harbor, Glouster Co., New Jersey. He left a will dated May 2d, 1736, which was probated June 26th, 1740, and is recorded in the state department of New Jersey. His children were Richard, jr. (3), Peter, Mary, Jemima, Esther, Sarah and Rebecca. Jeremiah Risley, born Dec. 14th, 1734 ; his children are stated to have been as follows : Nathaniel, Millicent, Samuel, Mary, Edward and Sarah. If this birth record is correct, it is believed that the Jeremiah here mentioned was a son of Richard, jr. (3), and not a son of Richard, jr. (2). This record should be taken with some degree of allowance. Mary Risley, daughter of Richard, jr., was baptised in the First Church August 23d, 1693. She is supposed to have mar- ried a great grandson of John Haynes, who was a member of the First Church of East Hartford, November 19th, 1702. Hannah (Anna or Anner), daughter of Richard, jr. (2), was baptised in the First Church of Hartford April 12, 1695; she married Sergt. James Brainerd, December 23d, 1717, and 218 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY died May 7th, 1772, aged 77 years. Her children were Ben- jamin, Jedediah, Rebecca, James, Hannah, Dudley, Ozias, Jonathan and Ozias, Charles is supposed to be a son of Richard jr. (2). He was a freeman and collector of the First Church of East Hartford in 1710. No further record of him has been found. The Risleys may fairly lay claim to be among the first resi- dent settlers of East Hartford. Between the years 1749 and 1851 the baptismal records of the first church of East Hartford show that there were baptised into this church 135 people bearing the name Risley. (See diagram of seats.) There were probably an equal number of children baptised whose mothers were Risleys. There was but little emigration out of Hartford county prior to the revolution ; the little that took place was into Ulster Co., New York, and Long Island, New Jersey, the east- em part of Pennsylvania and into Westmoreland Co. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR The military records of the state of Connecticut show that the following named Risleys served either in the militia or troops of the line of the Commonwealth of Connecticut: Elijah, Eli, George, Job, Levi, Richard, jr., Stephen, Timothy, Reu- ben and Samuel. The following named Risleys served in the Naval service during the Revolution : James, Levi, Richard and Richard, jr. RISLEY EMIGRATION OUT OF CONNECTICUT In 1663 there was a William Risley and wife living in Dover, N. H. William's wife was ordered to leave the town, her of- fence beinff unknown. Benjamin Risley, son of Richard*, moved early to Han- over, N. H., afterwards to Vermont, from there to Saratoga Springs, where in company with his son-in-law, Gideon Putnam, he piped Congress, Washington and Hamilton Springs in the village of Saratoga, and afterwards erected Congress Hall and the Grand Union Hotels. Benjamin moved to Warren, Ohio, where he was buried. He left a number of descendants who are scattered through the Middle and Southwest West. THE RISIiEY REUNION 219 In 1788, Allen, David and Elijah Risley, sons of Moses, emigrated with their families to the territory embraced in the town of New Hartford, Oneida Co., N. Y., and settled there. James settled in Jefferson Co., and another of the family went to St. Lawrence Co. My great-grandfather settled in Brookfield, Madison Co., N. Y., in 1792. There are very few States in the Union that have not among their citizens the name Risley. From the period of time immediately following the revolution to the present, they have been constantly and persistently emigrants crowding on the front verffe of civilization. RISLEY CHARACTERISTICS It has been my pleasure during the investigation of our family history, covering a period of more than thirty years, to have known several hundred Risleys and their direct and colateral descendants. With a very few exceptions they have been among the best citizens in whatever community they lived ; vigorous in their activities, aggressive in disposition, peace lovers and peacemakers, thrifty in their habits of life, devoted to their homes and families, temperate in habits and honorable in all things. My kinsmen of the eighth, ninth and tenth generations, you are the possessors of a royal heritage, equalled by few and surpassed by none. Your ancestors assisted in blazing the trail from Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut; they here assisted in establishing the first permanent form of constitutional gov- ernment ; they assisted in blazing the trails through the wilder- ness west, north and south, into every State within our great Republic; they were constructors of many of the highways, canals, railroads, and assisted in building churches, school houses, eleemosynary institutions, and have been lovers and promoters of all that is best in our civilization ; they stood with the colonies against the savage Indian warfares, fought with the colonies against the Crown of England from Bunker Hill to Yorktown ; they marshalled under the banner of our common country at Lundy's Lane and New Orleans. 220 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY The ancestors of our honored guest and kinsman, John E. Risley, were among the pioneers who blazed the trail across the Allegheny into Kentucky and established their homes on the Wabash. Our kinsmen were on both sides of the great civil struggle from Bull's Run to Appomattox; they were in the conflict at Fredericksburg Heights ; they were in the charge at Devil's Den at Gettysburg; they stood with Hancock at the Bloody Angle at Spottsylvania ; they were humiliated at Cold Har- bor ; they assisted in battering down the walls of Sumter. Numbered among their members are some of the great finan- ciers and statesmen of the country, for who can say that it was not the Risley blood in Russell Sage that made him a potent factor in the active field of finance? They have held the scales of justice upon the bench and have advocated the claims of litigants in court ; they stand in the front ranks of the medical profession ; their voice is potent in the mechanical, industrial and educational world. There are no longer trails to be blazed through a new con- tinent ; the pent-up energy in the race will in the near future make its influence felt in the wider and more difl^cult fields of conquests. After two hundred and seventy-one years of residence in America, they have contributed in the many fields of endeavor to human progress and welfare. Elijah Risley, jr., was the promoter and active factor in the establishment of the great seed industry of this continent; the promoter in building the New York and Erie Railway across two states ; and his honored son continued this enter- prise by financing the construction of the Great Lake Shore System of railroads which open up the arteries of traffic be- tween the seaboard and the middle West, and their kinsman Russell Sage has continued this artery of traffic through to the Pacific Slope. The first English newspaper in Manila is under the control of the great-grandson of Benjamin Risley of Hartford, and THE BISLEY REUNION 221 the chief of the Revenue Service of Hong Kong is a descend- ant from the same source. We are entitled to congratulate ourselves upon the achieve- ments of our ancestors, and we shall be doubly fortunate if we bequeath to our posterity unimpaired the priceless heritage which we have received from the past. If this gathering is of any service, it must be a service to Inspire in the hearts and lives of our kinsmen a nobler purpose to do in their respective places that which shall be conducive to the welfare of the people. We are to love our neighbors as ourselves, and in this we fulfill in large measure the office of good citizenship. Those who may gather at the old fireside in East Hartford in the year 2175 to commemorate the 542d anniversary of the landing of Richard Risley in Newtown, will have reason to remember with pleasure this gathering at the old hearthstone and at the grave of the founder of the Risley name in America. •<...i^ Mi- -'^r^»/ /HiC /S-O. 1 T'/- fe±^rfei^ ^ ::2r/t../.J ^^/O^jtA. J/<,.*. — t'/7i^.. ^r,^Tfr.Aue ■ iifr rTi I'- ^ lo^" -*fi^' ?'tiJ^>fcA 4^ nrr\.i>*'^ "X 'A-t-t Names of Occupants of Pews in the "Old First" Church of East Hartford, Conn., 1740. 1 John Risley. 4 Timothy Risley. 8 Elisha Risley. 2 Nathaniel Risley. 5 George Risley. M John Risley, Jr. 3 Moses Risley. 6 Noah Risley. 10 Joshua Risley. 7 Jehiel Risley. ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR ADNA WOOD RISLEY The First Written Constitution. Professor of History in Colgate University, N. Y. Travelers neglect their own Niagara and the Yosemite for the Rhine and Alps of distant scene. Just so historians have studied foreign dynasties and customs to the neglect of local institutions and origins. But now there is a revival in history purely local and American. There have been two pioneers in this field, Francis Parkman and John Fiske, as unlike in style and treatment as in physical characteristics, yet alike in the prime respect, fidelity to things American. F. J. Turner and R. S. Thwaites of the middle west are later apostles of this same creed. To John Fiske is due that no knowledge of local government in this country is complete without recognition of the town meeting, and to this great pioneer in history may also be cred- ited the apotheosis of Massachusetts. For the Massachusetts town meeting is always used as a model. In his later works he gave tardy recognition to the worth of Connecticut as a model, and was directing his clear vision to the importance of the early institutions of that state. If we follow in his footsteps we cannot roam far afield. {Historical Essays, II, John Fiske.) It is a twice-told tale to relate that the New England colo- nies were settled by church congregations. It follows, there- fore, as day follows the dawn that the colonial minister, as director of the congregation, was not only spiritual adviser but the greatest man in the community, both social luminary and political genius, in short, adviser in chief to his majesty the American citizen in embryo. Hartford, Connecticut, was blessed with one of the greatest of these God-given directors. For Thomas Hooker, massive, stately, judicious, cast out of an English pulpit by Laud, after various vicissitudes, had assisted in founding Hartford and the self-governing common- THE RISLEY REUNION 223 wealth of Connecticut, a community that seemed to the people of Boston so close to the western verge of the world that the last great conflict with anti-Christ would certainly take place there. Thomas Hooker so stamped Hartford and the Com- monwealth of Connecticut with his personality that it is a mat- ter of interest to know more about him. How did his contemporaries regard him? Edward Johnson knew him, says Moses Coit Tyler (American Literature, Moses Coit Tyler), and while in his history of New England he styled John Cotton as " the reverend and much desired " and speaks of the " rhetorical Mr. Stone " and also " the holy, heavenly, sweet aff^ecting, and soul nourishing minister Mr. Shepard," he reserved for Mr. Hooker his most temperate admiration, styling him " the grave, godly and judicious Hooker." In the living presence of Hooker there appears to have been some sin- gular personal force, an air both of saintliness and kingliness, that lofty and invincible moral genius which the Hebrew proph- ets had, and with which they captivated or smote down human resistance. Even during his lifetime and shortly afterward, there gathered about him the halo of spiritual mystery, a sort of supernatural prestige, anecdotes of weird achievement that in a darker age would have blossomed into frank and vivid legends of miraculous power. In his youth there was noticed in liim " a grandeur of mind " that marked him out for something uncommon. As he came into manhood his person and bearing partook of peculiar majesty; the imperial dignity of his office made him imperial : " He was a person," they said, " who when doing his Master's work would put a king into his pocket." People seeing how fiery was his temper, marvelled at his perfect command of it; he governed as a man governs a mastiff with a chain ; " he could let out his dog," they said, " and pull in his dog as he pleased." As he ruled himself, so he ruled other men, easily ; they felt his right to command them. In his school, a word or a look from him was all the discipline that was needed. His real throne was the pulpit. There he swayed men with a power that was more than regal. His face had authority and utterance in it ; his voice was rich, 224 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY of great compass and flexibility ; every motion spoke. The impressiveness of his preaching began in his vivacity ; he flashed life into any subject no matter how dead before. He so grap- pled the minds of his hearers that they could not get away from him. While he preached at Chelmsford an ungodly per- son once said to his companion, " Come, let us go hear what the bawling Hooker will say to us." The mocker went, but he was no longer a mocker; Hooker had that to say to him which subdued him ; he became a penitent and devout man and followed his conqueror to America. Once Hooker was to preach in the great church at Leicester. A leading burgess of the town, hating the preacher and thinking to suppress him, hired fiddlers to stand near the church door and fiddle while Hooker should preach; but somehow Hooker's exhortations were mightier and more musical than the fiddlers' fiddling. The burgess, astonished at such power, then went nearer to the door to hear for himself what sort of talking that was which kept people from noticing his fiddlers ; soon even he was clutched by the magnetism of the orator, sucked in through the door in spite of himself, smitten down by stroke after stroke of eloquent truth, and converted. Such was the man who preached to the Hartford congre- gation. He had a copious and racy vocabulary, an aptitude for strong verbal combinations ; dramatic spirit ; the gift of translating arguments into pictures ; cumulative energy ; ora- torical verve. This orator is dead ; his words are living. Note simply a sentence from one of his famous sermons. I don't know how long this particular discourse was. John Winthrop mentions another sermon preached at Cambridge when Mr. Hooker was ill ; he at first proceeded for fifteen minutes, then stopped and rested half an hour, then resumed and preached two hours. Of course, this was not the best he could do, for he was ill at the time. This remarkable sermon we want to notice was a political tract and contained one sentence that must have rung in the ears of his hearers. After he had refuted John Cotton's idea that democracy had no Scriptural foundation, and that kings were natural rulers, he thundered out : " The foun- THE EISLEY EEUNION 225 datlon of authority is laid in the consent of the people." It was this sermon whose spirit is breathed in this sentence that stirred his hearers to the formation of that first written consti- tution to form a real government; the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. " It is on the banks of the Connecticut under the mighty preaching of Thomas Hooker, and in the consti- tution to which he gave life, if not form, that we draw the first breath of that atmosphere which is now so familiar to us. The birthplace of American democracy is Hartford." Ambassador Bryce, famous for his American Commonwealth and his com- prehensive essay on The Holy Roman Empire, says of the Fundamental Orders : " The first truly political written con- stitution." Certainly there was in this early Connecticut form of government no humble mention of King. Moreover, it pro- vided for a custom whose importance to American institutions developed later. Article eight of these Fundamental Orders reads : " It is ordered and decreed that Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, shall have power, each town to send four of their freeman as their deputies to every general Court; that what- soever other towns shall be hereafter added to this jurisdic- tion shall send a reasonable proportion of the number of free- man that are in said town." Note carefully that provision. While the document provides in another place for the election of Governor and magistrates by plurality vote of all inhabi- tants of all the towns, in this eighth article the importance of the three towns is completely recognized by allowing each town regarded as a community to send four deputies to represent it. This is not the first colonial instance of representation by towns. The Wtatertown Protest had secured it a half dozen years before in Massachusetts ; hence Connecticut, a dissenting fragment of the Bay State, used a means to which her people were fairly well accustomed. The novelty of it lay in its un- qualified acceptance by fixing it as a rigid institution in her written constitution. This event of 1639 is isolated in the world's history of that epoch. It stands by itself as a golden achievement of a people thrust back by hardship into the pioneer conditions of a prime- 226 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY val ancestry ; reverting to the ideas of their Teutonic fore- bears, they raised into world prominence that democratic gov- ernment made familiar in German forests when the clang of spear and shield rang out the assent of a gathered community. Yet the formation of this first written consitution was not a reversion to a former type. It was another stride in the prog- ress of that democratic spirit, which has always marked the Teutonic race, whether in gloomy Gennan grove; in the shire- mote of Alfred, England's " morning star ; " in the shout of barons at Runnymede when Magna Charta was wrested from groaning and cursing John Lackland ; in England's model par- liament at the end of the thirteenth century; in the uprising of Wat Tyler and of Jack Cade ; in the hundred years' war when the sturdy yeoman with his long bow twanged at Crecy and at Poitiers the death knell of the feudal knight; in the struggle of the seventeenth century in England. But though its roots are grounded deep in the character of a people, the triumph of democracy in the Fundamental Orders was no less an isolated event. For what does 1639 mean in the world's history? Spain had already promenaded her weakness in the defeat of her so-called Invincible Armada. Italy was both the ambition and the grave of France and Germany. France was building that wonderful royal power, a centraliza- tion to concentrate in Louis XIV's masterful " I am the state." In France popular will was represented only in the States Gen- eral that met in 1614 and then rested till one hundred and seventy-five years had rolled away. While common consent was regulating government in Connecticut, France was erecting a magnificent royal structure on a volcano of popular disap- proval, that was to burst into destructive flame five generations later. Germany was determining to settle its religious question which Martin Luther had raised a century before, and not till ten years after the Fundamental Orders did the Peace of West- phalia produce a measure of toleration and give Germany a breathing space, with time to recuperate from the horrors of a Thirty Years' War, a war which had pushed her generations behind in achievement. Germany had been a camping ground THE RISLEY REUNION 227 of nations for more than a score of years. That soldier of for- tune, Wallenstein, had preyed on her. Four years before our ancestors had listened to Thomas Hooker and had voted for Connecticut's and the world's first constitution, Gustavus Adol- phus had died at Lutzen and verily the " Snow King of the North" had melted on his southern journey. In the mother country, England, Charles I, aping his father, the first James, *' the wisest fool in Christendom," was testing to the uttermost the divine right of kings to rule. Ten years after the Funda- mental Orders, dynasties shuddered as Charles I's head rolled from the block and the experiment began under Cromwell, of the divine right of the people to rule. But both ideas were ex- treme. The Stuart Restoration followed in 1660 and the Merry Monarch who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one, plunged England into twenty-five years of trouble. Spain, France, Germany, England make a sad background, but its melancholy brings out into glorious relief this deed of the Hart- ford pioneers. Even though we may not be intensely inter- ested in a review of the world's history at or about the time when the Fundamental Orders were adopted, yet it is of para- mount interest to us at present to know that when the Rev. Thomas Hooker was inspiring his audience with a desire for a government lodged in the consent of the people, amid the audience that listened breathlessly to his thunderings, sat our common ancestor, Richard Risley. No less interesting is it to note that in the list of those illustrious names that voted for the first constitution to make a government we find written " Richard Risley." This action of a few Connecticut pioneers has influenced our national government. There came a time when men were needed with just the training that Connecticut institutions gave. A National Convention had been called in order that some kind of organic law might be drafted. The pressure of events had gradually urged the colonists together until the need of union became apparent. This need had been felt before. As early as 1643 New England had her plan of confederacy. About a century later, Franklin proposed what was known as the Albany 228 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY Plan of Union. The French and Indian war disclosed their separate weakness, a lesson well learned. Committees of cor- respondence had done their work. Patrick Henry's speech on the Parson's Cause had declared ideas common to many. But yet when Patrick Henry said later, " I am not a Virginian, I am an American," he was putting aside love for his own native state, and voicing national sentiment felt by few and absent from his own declining years. Even in the Federal Convention Gouvemeur Morris found that the states had many representa- tives on the floor ; few he feared were to be deemed the repre- sentatives of America. In fact the sentiment of particularism was much stronger than that of nationalism. Even the day before the important battle of Trenton a number of Washing- ton's troops marched away because their time of service had expired. It was natural enough ; that long narrow coast line hardly two hundred miles wide at its widest point, extending northeast and southwest along the Atlantic seaboard, with its defective means of communication and the consequent unfamil- iarity between sections was not conducive to a sentiment of union. In fact the reason for the calling of the convention of 1787 was cormnercial jealousy between states. Called to rem- edy trouble between states, and composed of men from widely diff'erent sections of the country, it is not strange that this convention was marked by discussion and indecision. It seemed impossible to come to a conclusion even upon the simplest ques- tion. On Thursday, June 28, 1787, the venerable Dr. Benja- min Franklin rose feebly and said in part: "Mr. President, the small progress we have made, after four or five weeks of close attendance and continued reasoning with each other, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. Groping in the dark to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not once thought of humbly ap- plying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understand- ings? I have lived a long time and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth ' That God Governs in the affairs of Men.' " (EUofs Debates, V. Supplement, Madison THE RISLEY REUNION 229 Papers, for reference here and later.) Therefore the good old diplomat moved that the clergy of the city be invited to open deliberations with prayer, Connecticut rose to the situation and the motion was seconded by Mr, Sherman, who together with Dr. Johnson and Oliver Ellsworth formed the Connecticut delegation. Was this motion carried unanimously and without discussion? Mr. Madison, in his notes on the Federal Conven- tion, gives a totally different idea, for Alexander Hamilton and several others express their apprehension that such a motion might be misunderstood by those outside the convention hall, and instead of agreeing to this harmless proposition of Dr. Franklin's the convention adjourned for the day without taking action upon it. This is not an example of the irreligion of the period, nor of the backsliding of these particular men of the convention. But this little side glimpse does make us wonder how any motion could be passed and particularly, how the con- vention could settle that question, to which it gave the great part of its consideration, namely, the adjustment of differences between the large and small states. This was the rock on which the convention almost split. If there ever was any need for prayer, for calm deliberation, for cool judgment and sane de- cision, it was whenever the thoughts of rivalry between large and small states filled the minds of the delegates, and this it must be said, was during no small part of the meeting. It was on the 28th of June that Dr. Franklin's motion failed of pass- age. What conferences had the Connecticut delegates held, what midnight sessions? From this time on, these three dele- gates worked together for common end — compromise between the large and small states. It was tacitly agreed that Congress should be composed of two houses, but membership in these houses was a problem ap- parently capable of many different solutions. On Friday, June 29th, the day following Dr. Franklin's salutary motion, Dr. Johnson of Connecticut opened the convention with a statement of the compromise that covered the situation and ended by say- ing, " In one branch the people ought to be represented, in the other the States," (Eliot's Debates, V, p. 255.) How simple 230 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY a solution ! Anyone could have said that. Why grant special praise to Connecticut or her institutions that brought up men with such an idea? Then forget that Alexander cut the Gor- dian Knot; it was so simple that anyone could have done it, a mere slash of the sword. Columbus stood the egg upright by lightly crushing one end. Solutions are always simple when you know how. The hardest thing to do is the simple right thing at the right time. And this was what Connecticut did. But she could not have suggested an easy road around an ap- parently insuperable obstacle, if she had not had behind her the Fundamental Orders and the training they gave in the compromise form of government. This is the importance of the eighth article of the Fundamental Orders. A people used to the double relation of people as a whole on the one hand, with towns as a community on the other, were trained rightly to suggest a compromise between the people of the nation on the one hand, and the states on the other. Thus the Federal idea, which in Connecticut was wisely mixed with the popular idea, was retained in the constitution. On this same day, Mr. Ells- worth of Connecticut moved that, " the rule of suffrage in the second branch be the same with that established by the articles of confederation" (Eliot's Debates, V, p. 260), which, inter- preted, means that there be equal state representation in the senate. Was there objection to this plan or did this wonderful compromise settle all difficulties? Gunning Bedford, of Dela- ware, a small state then, as always, contended that there was no middle way between a perfect consolidation and a mere con- federacy of states. In conclusion he says, " we have been told with a dictatorial air that this is the last moment for a fair trial in favor of a good government." It will be the last in- deed, if the propositions reported from the committee go forth to the people. He was under no apprehension. The large states dare not dissolve the Confederation. If they do, the small ones will find some foreign ally, of more honor and good faith, who will take them by the hand and do them justice." But Ellsworth rises and pours oil on the troubled waters. Not only had divers kinds of plans been proposed for membership THE RISLEY REUNION 231 and qualifications in the two houses, but finally, when the Con- necticut idea obtained and the compromise bridge was built, Mr. Madison summed up the objections against the equaHty of votes in the senate, notwithstanding the proportional repre- sentation in the house of representatives. They are so purely theoretical and show so clearly the dangers imagined by these most astute men that I quote: " I. The minority could negative the will of the majority of the people. " II. They could extort measures by making them the con- sideration of their assent to other necessary measures. " III. They could obtrude measures on the majority, by vir- tue of the peculiar powers which would be vested in the senate. " IV. The evil instead of being cured by time, would increase with every new state that should be admitted, as they must all be admitted on the principle of equality. " V. The perpetuity it would give to the preponderance of the northern against the southern scale was a serious considera- tion." On the 16th of July, the famous compromise, the Connecticut Compromise now styled, bom of the Connecticut idea, was passed. It has lately become the style to omit the qualification *' Connecticut " from accounts of this compromise. Mr. Mc- Laughlin, in his Confederation and Constitution, does this, but includes the name in the index. I am not ready to abandon it. The name not only shows the origin in the early law of Con- necticut, and in the practice of its later state constitution, but it raises a fitting memorial to the labors of Connecticut's trio in the Federal Convention. The records of the proceedings of this Convention are meagre enough, and we are largely dependent for our knowledge on the account of Mr. Madison, an opponent to the compromise, but even here the influence of the Connec- ticut delegation is most apparent. Their work fairly shouts for recognition. Cleverly, tact- fully, a speech here, a motion there, they opposed the two giants of the Convention, Madison and Wilson, against their opposi- tion securing on motion by Mr. Sherman the reference of the 232 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY whole matter to a grand committee. Neither of the two oppo- nents was on this committee, which reported the compromise that was adopted. No chronicler states in so many words the influence of the Connecticut statesmen, but the policy adopted was their policy, fought for in the open and gained in clear parliamentary battle. The influence of an obscure continental geographer is considered to be decisive respecting the name of America, but the progressive weight of a century and a half of state practice and of the state's delegates in the convention is calmly ignored to-day. The name of Connecticut should still be prefixed to the compromise. In conclusion, a few facts in later American development will show how strikingly important was the adoption of a state's rights compromise, for even, after the adoption of the Consti- tution in 1789, the idea of particularism, of state against state, of section against section, as opposed to the more lofty idea of nationalism or union, gives proof of its root in American soil. Nullification was breathed in both north and south ; in 1798 in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, in 1814 when the Hart- ford convention made itself ridiculous by objections that were, fortunately, too late to have any weight. The Webster-Hayne debate in 1830, opened on the question of land, but inevitably developed into a memorable discussion of states' rights. In fact it was a problem of such deadly importance, that no nulli- fication, no debate, no threats of secession could settle it, noth- ing short of the sorrow and reality of civil war. But surely the compromise was a clear-sighted step in the right direction. The question is now so far a dead issue that election of state sena- tors by the people has been suggested, is accomplished through primary laws, and has even been advocated as part of a politi- cal platform by one of the two great parties of the country. Notice that the main objection to such popular election is not that the states will lose representation ; in fact, when such argu- ment is presented, a complete historical preface is necessary in order that an audience may understand the argument. We have seen the importance of the principles of the Fun- damental Orders of Connecticut when applied to the solution of THE EISLEY REUNION 233 national difficulties. Naturally, one wonders what value there is in a constitution drawn up in a period of such stress and strain. It is hard for a contemporary to judge the comparative value of its own institutions. I shall not attempt to decide what the adoption of the constitution means to us now. That it hved during the first ten years is, to my mind, the greatest proof of its powerful vitality. That a document drawn up for a few people, is fitted for an immense people, seems strange, but it is proving itself yearly, at the same time showing the wisdom of those illustrious framers of the constitution. The national troubles of to-day, are present, insistent, seri- ous. But in the solution of all such problems, the element of time is all important. The Constitutional Convention of 1787, with its compromise constitution, placed the United States nearly one hundred years of time ahead of other nations. What this means to our generation may be adduced from a slight con- sideration of the time element in countries other than our own. Among other nations the Spain of to-day is hardly a factor ; her course has been downward from 1588 and before, till the decisive defeat of ten years ago. Turkey is still sick ; 1856 and 1878, Crimea and Berlin have not been potent remedies. China is a bone of contention. Russia is big and spectacular, from the dress reforms of Peter the Great to the chimerical dream of universal rule by Christian pretensions, voiced in the Holy Alliance of 1815, a dream that found its awakening in the reactionary policy of that evil genius, Mettemich ; Russia is an overgrown boy, huge with pretensions, delighting in emanci- pation of serf and Red Cross reform, as well as in that other later dream of universal disarmament. But the boy grinds down Finland, justifies himself in it, and has only lately de- stroyed the censor's blue pencil. We gave up this censorship of the press shortly after our alien and sedition laws of 1798. Russia's progress is too jerky to arrive in time. Japan, slow but adaptive, will bear watching. Italy cannes her future in her own hands, but it was not till 1870, when the French troops abandoned Rome, and the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, dating back as far as 754, was given up, that Italy could face 234 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY the world with a united front. The reckless courage of a Gari- baldi and the prudent diplomacy of a Cavour are fair to look upon, but 1870 is a far cry from 1789. And 1870 is almost the common continental starting point. Not till then did the blood and iron of Bismarck unite Germany under the headship of Prussia and give to the two hundred and more sovereign states, ladened with the heavy legacy of the past, the coveted opportunity of a united Germany. Austria, thrust out of the union by the six weeks' defeat of 1866, has a vast task imposed on her by her composite, disjointed population and by the other half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 1870 also witnessed the third attempt at a republic in France within a century. Events of the last few years show us that her army is a menace to the institutions of France. Only lately is the church question ar- riving at a doubtful settlement. What of England? We have always been fighting England's battles. In spite of the Town- shend and the Quebec Act and the Repressive Acts, the colonies stood firmly for representation, and thus fought for what Eng- land's better judgment approved and approves to this day. England's political progress during the nineteenth century has been along the line of representation for the masses, and not till 1884, after previous partial successes, was the whole desire of her people gratified. When we fought the battles of the Revolution we were fighting battles of England's better judg- ment against a king and a majority that did not represent her. Future years will reveal to us, who see dimly now, the paramount advantage of this start of a century in political practice. Do these facts become wearisome? Then why re- view them? Because I believe Benjamin Franklin was right when he said, " God rules in the aflfairs of men," and, further, that God's rule is not capricious. There is a line of progress discernible in every nation, and that line is constant. We be- gan early with the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut and are still pushing on. And just because I believe all this and because I am proud that Richard Risley sat in the assembly, which aided so greatly in giving us a right start, do I want other Risleys to con- THE EISLEY REUNION 285 tribute to the sanity, and aid in the progress of our great Constitutional Government. THE NOON HOUR Under the efficient leadership of Charles R. Risley, of Silver Lane, and his able committee, at the noon hour a most bounti- ful repast was provided for the several hundred guests. The spacious dining room of the church was filled, and a long table was spread in the church yard under the shade of the New England elms. ADDRESS OF HENRY M. LOVE The New England Church of Utica, N. Y. The Church was the original New England community. Re- ligious freedom was the quest on which the fathers set sail, on an untried sea, for a land almost unknown. Nearly three hun- dred years have passed since the footstep of civilization was set on the New England shore and from the free church there established, free government has developed. So frequently is the attention called to the men and events of the Revolutionary period, that we perhaps overlook the history of times, earlier but none the less important because formative of principles which survive to this day. It is over one hundred and twenty-five years since our fathers bore arms for Independence, but it was much longer than that before the Revolution, that our father's fathers, persecuted in a holier cause, driven from their fatherland, planted the Church of God in this wilderness. Let us not forget that religious liberty was before civil liberty, and question whether the latter would have been possible, save for the spirit that descended, pure and virile, to the Revolutionary heroes through the gener- ations that had lived, wrought and died since the days of Ply- mouth Rock. It is meet that we, heirs of this blood, should, on this spot, and after the lapse of years, pay reverent tribute to them and to Him, who, through a quarter of a millenium, hath brought us hither. The causes of the establishment of the New England church are historic. Henry VIII, it will be remembered, severed all ties with the church of Rome, and made himself the head of the Church as well as the State. This was no betterment in the minds of the Reformers. Some of these, while willing to acknow- ledge and sustain the church of the King, desired changes in matter of creed and practice. There were others whose views First Church of Hartford. C'oxx. Establislicd by Rev. Thomas Hooker, in i')33. THE RISLEY REUNION 237 could scarce be reconciled with any elements of the old system. About 1550, in the short reign of Edward VI conditions were bettered, but the improvement was as short lived as the King himself, who died before manhood. Then came Mary who mar- ried Philip II of Spain and who re-established Romanism, cloaked with many sombre vestments of the Inquisition. Of course, persecution was the lot of all who dared to protest, and many such hied themselves to foreign lands. In 1558 Elizabeth came to the throne. Whatever her way was, she was bound to have it. She was the head of the church, and there was to be but one church in all her realm. Many of her subjects, and whose number was growing, still believed that many reforms should be made, at least in the practices of the church. These were called Puritans. Again there were others who would have nothing of the established church, and such were called Separatists. They who were satisfied with the existing order of religious affairs were known as Conformists, and were the chosen of her Majesty Elizabeth. To make all men conform was her will and to accomplish this she bent her energies. She established a New Court where offenders in matters of religion were tried by commissioners of her own choosing, not by jury. The offences were for breach of re- quirements which are seemingly trivial but the principles were important. The wearing of vestments, the use of the ring in marriage, and the sign of the cross, for instance, were remnants of Popery and obnoxious to many. Punishment was given with- out stint to all who refused to observe the prescribed forms, and was particularly visited upon the clergy inclusive of many of the most intelligent and influential of these. In 1603, James became King and he also made both law and gospel to suit himself. Meanwhile hundreds and thousands fled the country to escape persecution. Naturally, such as worshipped together went together into exile, the pastor, teacher and congregation casting their all into a common lot. One such church people removed to Amsterdam, then to Leyden, and from that body, a number voyaged to the New World and landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Charles I came next to the throne but the same 238 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY abuses continued, until they eventually culminated in the up- rising of Cromwell's day. In 1629 a royal charter was granted to the governor and company of Massachusetts Bay in New England which was an invitation for all the disaffected to seek a home across the sea. In 1633 a company of people from several towns in the county of Essex, England, located in America at Newtown or Cam- bridge. They were known as the Braintree Company. They had in England become attached to a certain prominent preacher and were willing to emigrate to the New World for the sake of having Mr, Hooker for their minister. The his- tory of this church has been set forth by one of its late Pastors, Rev. George L. Walker, and it will of course be understood that no results of original research are here recorded. So, too, the early history of our country is easily accessible. The re- lation of the New England church to the Civil goveimment of the time is, however, a subject of such interest that a few words may be given it. The early settlers of New England came to this country with their ties and affiliations already established. They were con- gregations of worshippers seeking a home where they could worship in freedom. The church organization was the center of their life and activity. They were not individual adven- turers, seeking such fortunes as they might wrest from a New World, . . . they were rather like the children of Israel making a hegira to serve their God in a promised land. They fled from a place where the church and the state were one. Yet the very conditions of their coming seems to have created just such a union. The church being their chief est concern, extended its control to all their affairs. Such a union was not tolerable to a congregation of Puritans whose power was ex- hausted by a protest, but no iniquity was seen when the church included all members of the community and all were under its rule. The theory that the religious community was paramount and the civil subservient, executive only of the will of God as given out by the church, seems to have been accepted as un- THE RISLEY REUNION 239 written law. And so it was said that whatever John Cotton preached at Boston the General Council enacted into law. On the other hand, the churches were, like individuals, under the charter government from which sprang all civil rights, and the General Court or Assembly exercised a supervisory power in the temporalities of the church. The relationship is perhaps difficult to state exactly, but it arose because the church peo- ple were able to have their own exclusive way, for which indeed they migrated, and it ended only with their power to work their will. While it survived, the power was as tyrannous as any, made no allowance for variations of belief, and bowels of compassion it had none. But as the tide of immigration waxed great and religious and temporal interests became more diverse, the authority of the church fell into its own proper channel, k few instances will illustrate the relationship of which we have spoken. In 1634 Mr. Hooker, with others, was called on to reprove John Eliot for some pulpit utterances relating to the peace made with the Pequots. We have seen that Mr. Hooker's church applied to the General Court for leave to move from Newtown. Again, Mr. Hooker was appointed to deal with Roger Williams who, among other offences, had ad- vised his church to renounce communion with other churches. Arguments were ineffective, however, save the final one ad- vanced by the Court, ordering him to leave the jurisdiction. Mr. Endicott of Salem cut the cross out of the flag seeing it as an idolatrous symbol. Town Commissioners took up the matter and gave him a light sentence, as he did it " out of tenderness of conscience." Mr. Hooker was involved in the controversy. Other illustrations will come to mind and some be mentioned hereafter. This coincidence between the civil and the religious organi- zations suggests, however, what may have been the preponder- ating reason for the migration to Connecticut. The settlers came in communities each with its head. The New England clergy were quite generally men of strong character and marked ability. Each community was, in a sense, distinctive, with its peculiarities and ideals. It was natural that they 240 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY should seek a field in which to develop in their own way, un- trammeled by close neighborhood to others who might, singly or in combinations, exert an undesirable influence or authority. Each church body was sufficient unto itself, for its concerns, and for all those of each of its members. And when we con- sider that the men of that day were vigorous in mind and body, were not without means, and were pioneers who had set their hearts on freedom, we see how natural it was that they should not pause in the shadow of the Boston churches but go fur- ther and in the wilderness seek freedom which was perfect. Thomas Hooker the first pastor was a man of great en- dowments and much learning. He had the benefit of a uni- versity education and of association with many prominent and learned men, by whom he was held in high esteem, both for his exalted Christian character and intellectual attain- ments. Shortl}^ before his exile from England he was invited to give a series of lectures in the church of St. Marys, at Chelms- ford, not far from London. Such lectures afforded an op- portunity for teaching Puritanism, and were attended by many of the best people of the time and neighborhood, among whom was the Earl of Warwick. These labors resulted in great betterment, rousing and con- solidating the interest of the people and also exciting anew the attention of Bishop Laud, who was determined to crush Hooker, of whom it was reported to Laud that he "surpasses them all for learning, and some other considerable parts, and gains more and far greater followers than all before him." The result was that Mr. Hooker was driven to Holland, after- ward barely escaping from England, whither he had come to take ship to America. The Rev. Samuel Stone, a man of fine education and many graces of mind and heart, was asociated with Mr. Hooker as Teacher of the church; with these two was associated Mr. William Goodwin, the Ruling Elder. The office of ruling elder was a nuisance and some of the brethern completely filled the office. The title and place soon fell into disuse, this church THE RISLEY REUNION 241 having but the one such officer and he removed to Hadley in 1660 with other aggrieved members. On arriving at Connecticut, land was purchased from the Indians, and village lots laid out and apportioned. One of the holders, as shown on the map of 1640, was Richard Risley, the name on the list of original proprietors being spelled with a W. His lot was near the southwesterly bound of the village. A meeting house was built on a tract of land including the present State House Square. This building was soon replaced by one on the Meeting House Yard and near the present comer of State St. A burial ground was first made in Meeting House Square, but was soon disused in favor of that adjacent to the church buildings on Main Street. While the Connecticut settlement had at first been under the rule of Commissioners appointed by the Massachusetts Court, in 1638 a General Court was constituted in the Colony. About the same time was the Hutchinson controversy, Mrs. Anne Hutchinson advancing certain doctrines which were dis- approved by the churches, and the outcome of which affair was her excommunication and banishment. This dissention particularly affected the churches of Boston and vicinity but it was treated in a Synod of the Churches in the entire Colony, of which Mr. Hooker was one of the moderators. That body formulated a statement, expressive of doctrines which it deemed erroneous. From time to time, by the wisdom of such repre- sentative bodies, questions of doctrine were clarified and the conclusions expressed in definite form. And such was the sincere piety, the exhaustive study and intellectual acumen with which these matters were addressed, that the fathers may well, even to this day, be deemed to have spoken with authority. The influence of Thomas Hooker being so great in the church and the civil interests being so intimately joined with those which pertained to religion, it would be surprising had he not made his genius felt in aff^airs of state. Connecticut claims the " first written constitution," pro- mulgated in Hooker's day. In May, 1638, he preached a sermon before the General Court, then recently organized to 242 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY formulate a local government, in which he stated the doc- trines that choice of magistrates belongs to the people, by God's own allowance, that the privilege of election must be exercised under the will and law of God and that they who appoint officers must have the power to fix their bounds, all because the basis of authority is in the free consent of the people, by which they are the more inclined to obedience. It seems inconceivable that to that day, doctrines should have been unuttered, which to us seem so elementary and well set. There were before Hooker's day men of greater statesman- ship and genius. But Constitutions are results, not causes. These principles were not hewn freehand out of the solid rock of human thought, they were the product of experience. The church was practicaly the first form of local govern- ment. It was the expression of the will of God, by the com- munity of the members, through a common covenant, inclusive of all individuals and working out its own ends. Such was the organization with which Mr. Hooker was familiar and which, in fact, had the power of civil government until non-church members became so numerous as to have common interests and power too strong for the church to supervise and control. Too great a credit cannot be given to Mr. Hooker, but we must not overlook the fact that our present theory of government was very largely the evolution of the New England churches. As it was, years and years passed before the mixed relation- ship of the spiritual and the temporal power was finally solved. It is curious to note for instance, that in 1657, the General Court ordered that, being sensible of the dangers to the Com- monwealth, from heretics, Quakers, Adamites and the like, no town or person should harbor any such, under certain penalties. That was a great and present peril, the coming of settlers who were not in full harmony with the church and its rule, because thereby that rule must suffer. To preserve the integrity of Its sway, the church was obliged to assert and even enforce its dominion over all in the community. And it was not until later on that it was fully appreciated that Hooker's doctrines THE RISLEY REUNION ' 24i3 were applicable to civil government entirely dissociated from the church rule, as they had been from the first the only basis of such sovereignty. July 7, 1647, at the age of 61 and after a pastorate of over 13 years, Thomas Hooker died and was buried in the church yard, a monument being placed in 1818 to mark the supposed tomb. Rev. Samuel Stone his former associate suc- ceeded to the charge. He died July 20, 1663, having served 13 years and 9 months with Hooker, 13 years alone and about 3 years with his associate and successor. Rev. John Whiting. Mr. Stone's time was largely spent in a church quarrel. Cotton Mather said that the cause of it was as obscure as the source of the Connecticut river. Its history is almost as long as the river and will not be traced. During the quarrel a number, including brother Goodwin, withdrew and, about 1659 made a settlement at Hadley, with- in the " pious and Godly government " of Massachusetts. Rev. John Whiting was associated with Mr. Stone in 1660 and succeeded him in 1663, continuing till 1670 when he be- came pastor of the Second Church of Hartford. Shortly after Mr. Stone's death, Rev. Joseph Haynes be- came associated with Mr. Whiting, remaining associate pas- tor till 1670, and the sole pastor till his death, 1679. It was to be expected that the question as to who were en- titled to the full rights of church membership would soon de- mand attention. Distinct from full communicants were half- way covenanters, as they were termed, who subscribed to the doctrines of the church and were in form members and, in fact, supporters of it, but professed no such Christian experience as to entitle them to full Communion. It seems that originally only communicants had a voice, for instance, in choosing a pastor, though all were obligated to his support. It was like taxation without representation, to be obliged to support a church in which one had no voice. It was both a political question and one of church government. About 1664, William Pitkin and others of Hartford peti- tioned the General Court, requesting that for the future no law 244* THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY may be " of any force to make us pay or contribute to the main- tenance of any minister or officer of the church that will ne- glect .... to take care of us as of such members of the church as are under his or their charge or care." A difference of opinion between the two pastors, Mr. Whiting and Mr. Haynes, as to the right to baptism brought the con- troversy of the day into the First Church. The idea of Hooker's day was that only visible saints were proper to compose the visible church and they only who could respond to certain tests of Christian experience were visible saints. Under the parish system across the seas, baptism of itself made one a member of the church. Mr. Whiting was for the limited mem- bership plan and Mr. Haynes for extending the right to bap- tism. Finally, in 1670, Mr. Whiting and his party, by the advice of a church council, and with the consent of the General Court, withdrew and formed the Second Church. About this time it became the law that where there should be more than one religious body in a town, they should severally fix a sum for maintenance of each, to one of which each person should contribute. Such charges were collectible as were other town rates. About 1680, Isaac Foster was ordained to the pastorate and died in 1682 at the age of 30. So early summoned to full day by the inexorable watch, his remains lie in the same hallowed precincts as do Hooker's, suggesting the wide difference in the two lives. The absence of church records forbids an ac- count of the young pastor's work. He was, however, highly esteemed by the prominent men of his time, and was eminent for piety. How bright his day might have been, who can tell. Next came Timothy Woodbridge who had charge of the church for about two years before he was ordained in 1685. He continued in the service in all about 49 years, next to the longest term of any of the ministers, dying in 1732. Throughout these many years he was a foremost figure in the Connecticut Colony, and there were several matters of pub- lic concern which invoked his good offices. The state of religion had languished for some years before THE RISLEY REUNION 245 he began his ministry. The half way covenant was largely responsible for this. It was one of the untoward consequences of the organization of society, seeming a necessary expedient for including in the church those who professed no religious experience. It illustrates the vacuity of the idea that the church is benefitted by the mere accession of numbers and is not de- pendent solely upon the spiritual strength of its membership. This period also witnessed the re-establishment of the Eng- lish Monarchy and the attempted seizure of the original charter which was spirited away in the darkness. Yale College was founded about the beginning of the Cen- tury which dawned during this ministry, Mr. Woodbridge taking a prominent part in the work, and being very strenuous and persistent to secure its location at Hartford. The East Hartford Church was founded about this time. The consent of the Hartford societies was first had, with the proviso that all west side land and such on the east side as was owned by west-siders should contribute to the Hartford churches, but the court in 1702, ordered that all persons on the east side should pay to the society there. Mr. Woodbridge was followed by Daniel Wadsworth who served until his death in 1747. It was in his time that a new meeting house was built and the preaching of Rev. George Whitfield made him famous throughout New England. The building project was launched about 1727 and the edi- fice was dedicated December 30, 1739. The intervening time was largely spent in disputing about its location. The As- sembly was petitioned, giving approval to one and to another place, as pleased the majority of the church people, its final sanction being given in May, 1737 to a location covering part of the burial plot. The occupancy of the new church gave occasion for further dissatisfaction in the seating of members, which was done by committee without regard to the comparative dignity and importance of the several families. The work of Mr. Whitfield in 1740 had a deep effect. None 246 THE DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD RISLEY can question that the personal and close attention that had been given to the subject of religion in the few preceeding years liad produced its natural beneficient result. There came a season known as the " Great Awakening " dating from about 1735. Whitfield's success must have been enlarged by such a con- dition. But there were some other reasons for the attention he received. He was a young and elegant Episcopal clergyman of England, who had already become famous both at home and in the colonies. It may be that his fiery appeals were necessary to disturb the quiet of some souls, as it undoubtedly did. But his fanciful and extravagant utterances roused the emulation of many who were less enlightened and whose zeal carried them far beyond the limits of common sense and embroiled the people and churches. To quell this the Assembly made an effort, which was quite an extreme, and brought its attendant train of dis- cord. The Hartford Association, as did others, declined to open its pulpits to Mr. Whitfield on a second visit which was projected about 1745. Mr. Wadsworth died November 12, 1747, and was succeeded by Edward Dorr early in the following year, and whose pastor- ate extended until his death in 1772. From 1748 until 1795, has been called the period of the " Great Decline " in religion. Mr. Dorr's ministry was measurably successful, but there were many church people who were content to be of the covenant but not solicitious of a spiritual regeneration. Many influences conduced to this, as may be seen in the history of that time. Among the causes was the spirit of controversy, which still survived the Whitfield days, and also the fact that the French and English war demanded so much of time and cost. About 1762 an attempt was made to estabhsh an Episcopal church in Hartford and the foundation of a building was laid. Episcopacy was the established religion of England and our fathers looked with concern upon the attempt to plant it in New England. It was feared as an encroachment which would in time imperil if not destroy religious and civil freedom in the colonies, being as it was the child of a foreign state owning THE RISLEY REUNION 247 a monarch as its head. The fear was perhaps exaggerated as there were among the 4,881 people of Hartford in 1774, but 111 Episcopahans. We now come to the pastorate of Nathan Strong from 1774 to 1816 one of the most important in its influences for the cause of liberty and the spiritual growth of the church. Mr. Strong was graduated at Yale in the same class with Timothy Dwight and of equal class standing with him. Of him it was said by president Stiles that he was the most universal scholar that he ever knew. His varied and ample talents, gracing him as the vestments of a prince, made him a conspicuous figure among the men of his time. He was able, with ease and force, to occupy a sphere which was not limited by the duties of a pastorate. The formative period following the successful issue of the Revolution was perhaps as perilous as the war itself. Had the Federal Constitution not been adopted as it was, the several interests which were then united might have diverged further and further, each gaining force until a union had become, well- nigh impossible. But at this time he published a series of articles which, coming from a man of such influence, must have exerted a tremendous power for the adoption of the Con- stitution, which occurred in his church in 1788. He also published sermons and articles and with others prepared the Hartford Selection of Hymns, which had a wide circulation and extensive use. In 1797 he was active in form- ing a Missionary Society, which was merged in the Missionary Society of Connecticut, and in connection with which he estab- lished a magazine which was published for several years. He was for a time engaged in the distilling business with a man named Smith. In this he was unsuccessful and by the offices of the sheriff was relieved from further care in that di- rection. The work of the church most deeply concerns us now, and in that there was a great vintage. At Dr. Strong's ac- cession there were but 15 male communicants. In the early years of his ministry there was no great growth, but later on, under his kindly, earnest and judicious devotion, there were 248 THE DESCENDANTS OF EICHARD EISLEY repeated awakenings and many were added to the church. A new edifice was erected in 1807 followed by an additional so- ciety building in 1814. This interesting and successful ministry ended with the death of Dr. Strong on Christmas day, 1816. He was followed by Joel Howes who was active pastor from 1818 to 1864 and pastor emeritus until his death in 1867, con- cluding thus a term of over 49 years, the longest of any of the ministers of that church. His pastorate was not an incident of his career but his life itself. As his service stands out thus unique, so does the man. He is not to be likened to his pred- ecessors who were born and reared under auspicious influences. His life and work illustrates the possibilities of good timber and the figure is not inappropriate, for his early years, devoid of religious training and surroundings, were much spent in the pastimes of the forest and unconventional life. Quite sud- denly he came to his religious and intellectual awakening. His success proves that he had a mind and character of great native worth. He might well be taken as a type of rugged American manhood, the product of the Revolutionary days. He was a man of one purpose. Apparently void of the dis- coursive talents of his predecessor, all his efforts were given directly to the work of his pastorate. Yet his influence was not less than earlier pastors, but was deep, strong and lasting. Under his care the records of the church were more correctly kept and pains were taken in the matter of gospel discipline. Among the first efforts was the organization of Sunday School work and in 1819 came an important revival which was followed by many others throughout his life. He had a special interest in young men and delivered a series of lectures ad- dressed to them. These were published in successive editions. He published other writings each of which had the same definite purpose. The great upbuilding of the church under his min- istry enabled it to survive successive migrations at the found- ing of new churches. In 1824, about 100 left to organize the North Church; in 1832 others went to form the Free or Fourth Church ; October, THE RISLEY REUNION 249 1852, a party went to establish the Pearl Street Church and in 1865, some took part in starting the Asylum Hill Church. Rev. Wolcott Calkins was associated with Dr. Howes for about two years, until 1864. He was succeeded by Rev. George H. Gould, who continued after the death of Dr. Howes until 1870. Rev. Elias H. Richardson was next, serving from 1872 until 1879. After him came Rev. George Leon Walker whose work has included an extended history of the church, to which credit is due for the particulars here given. The details of recent years we leave to the chronicler of the future. Here ends our story of a venerable institution, the type of many another tabernacle set up by our fathers in the New England wilder- ness. They were men of faith, were our fathers. Their religion was a hardy growth touching every concern of life. It had peculiarities of color and form, natural and perhaps necessary in their day, and possibly unnecessary in our present mode. But all harshness is redeemed by their sincere piety. They were possessed of reverence for God, believed His word and acknowledged His rightful dominion. In their lives was a deep and vibrant undertone of spiritual vigor. They built a theo- logy deep and strong. Religion can not survive creeds, and well would it be for us to lay hold of the doctrines which made our fathers' lives what they were. By these the church survived its days of travail, even those of the half-way covenant. Reli- gion pure and undefiled, the men of the world respect and to such will they cleave, if to any. By such alone can the church do its work, nor will the tink- ling of cymbals, the herding of the curious, nor imitation fleshpots, nor costly attire avail it aught. ADDRESS OF LESLIE L. BREWER The Location of the Early Risleys in Hartford Relatives and Friends: I have been requested to say a few words about the location of the early Risleys in Hartford ; to tell you something about the kind and character of the men and women through whom you may trace your origin. I may say without seeming to boast that they are such that no one need feel ashamed: in^ deed! they have cause to feel justly proud. This statement is not my own personal opinion. History to-day lies an open book so that he who runs may read : in it you will find recorded the noble deeds performed by the bravest and most progressive men of all ages, and here you will find that the name of Risley is not wanting. Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg address said : " Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal." About three centuries ago our common ancestor, Richard Risley and less than one hundred other brave souls under the leadership of Rev. Thomas Hooker emigrated from the Mas- sachusetts Bay Colony because of oppression: journeyed through the wilderness, enduring the greatest hardships : and finally settled in the Connecticut Valley at Hartford, forming the first permanent white settlement within the limits of the Commonwealth of Connecticut. Most of us to-day, in reading history and tracing the beginning and growth of our country, fall short of giving to the sturdy pioneer who settled this wilderness his just measure of credit. To us the early struggles, hardships and growth from settlements to colonies and thence to states, furnish interesting reading: to them the danger and privations were all too real. Starting in oppression they were obliged to encounter every species of danger, even to famine. si^mi^iFDmi in. I1(B4(D by I'ote of f.ht 7(n*"i , am^ di'atvn, ly William S forU-r Pnrt of Ox P 121 Francis, Albert A., 168 Ellena H. (Brewer 975), 168 French, Abby (1111), 154 Adelia (Lampson 755), 154 Charles (1112), 154 Frank (1108), 154 George A., 74 John (1113). 154 John B.. 154 Lavissa (1107), 154 Lucius, Dr., 123 Margaret, 181 Margaret (1106), 154 Martha (1104), 154 Minnie (1110), 154 Nicholas (1109), 154 Orlando (1114), 154 Sophia (Risley 234), 74 Thomas, 181 William (1105), 154 INDEX 281 Frye, Deborah, 147 Fuller, Lucinda, 93 Furman, James Lyon. 81 Laura M. (Lyon 293), 80 Wood, 80 Fydinger, Cora, 136, 163 G Gaines, Daniel, 41 Rebecca, 45, 99, 216 Gale, Dinah, 60 Gameys, Sir Christopher, 16 Gardiner, Thomas, 55 Garrison, Rhoda, 181 Gatton, Jane (Risley). 6 John, 6 Gibbons, William, 191 Gibbs, Eda, 148 Gilbert, Alice (Hutton), 21 John Fitz, 20 Katherine (Anderton), 21 Thomas Fitz, 21 William J., 20 Gillette, Cynthia, 75 Goff, Caroline (Abbey 607), 106 Charles, 106 Goodale, Lucinda, 109 Mary, 79 Goodman, Richard, 191 Goodwin, Addie L. (Wheeler), 174 Andrew Brace (1052), 149, 174 Andrew Merrills, 149 Bertha B. (Talcott 1055), 175 Charles Irving (1050), 149, 174 Cornelia (Talcott 728), 149 David, 52 Dorothy Amanda (1295), 175 Horace Hesper, 175 Ida May (1051), 149 J. O., 60 Keith Eugene (1296), 175 Lora Cornelia (1287), 174 Mary Theo (1286), 174 Nellie Rose (Klotz), 174 Ozias Talcott (1288), 174 Sophia U. (Ferguson), 149, 174 William. 34, 191, 208, 251 Grant, vSeth, 191 Grave, George, 191 Gray, Sarah, 103 Greenleaf, Betsey, 91, 114 Griffin, Herbert Risley (1000), 145 John, 145 Julia A. (Risley 694), 145 Robert Adair (1001), 145 Grimd, Edna, 160 Grimsditch, John, 11 Magdalene, 11 Griswold, Grace, 102 Grace G., 128 Grosvenor, Delia (Risley 410), 89 Theo, P., 89 H Haines, Elizabeth, 181 Ellena A. (Risley 700), 114, 146 Esther, 180 Gladys Friscilla (1010), 146 J. Gardiner, 114, 146 Marion Elvira (1009), 146 Risley Gardiner (1011), 146 Halbert, Mary, 122 Hale, Addie P. S., 102, 128 Ann (Risley 204), 72 George, 72 Grace (Griswold), 102, 128 Hezekiah, 83, 102 Marcia (Turner 337), 83, 101 Pearl Esther (844), 128 Samuel, 90, 170 Wallace Griswold (845), 129 Wallace L. (549), 102, 128 William T. (548), 102, 128 Hales, Samuel, 191 Thomas, 191 Halisberke, Alyce (Eilys), 6 Mabel, 6 Robert, 6 Hall, John, 40 Lucinda (Abbey 609), 106 William, 106 Hallesberke, Henry, 6, 7 John, 7 Katherine (Blondell), 6 Richard, 6 Thomas, 6, 7 William, 6, 7 Hamlin, Giles. 39 Hanna, Edna (Grimd), 160 John Lourie (1173), 160 Margaret Clara (1175), 160, 179 282 INDEX Hanna — Continued Martha Brandriff, 181 Martha (Brandriff 795), 160, 180, 181 Mary (1172) 160 Samuel Telford, 160, 181 Harding, Sarah E., 138 Harmon, Emily, 153 Harrington, Alvah (540), 101 Charles (541), 101 Joseph, 101 Minerva (Risley 327), 100 Sabra (539), 101 Harris, Howard, 122 Ida M. (Risley 804), 122 Hart, Almeda E. (House 1015), 147 Burt (1325), 183 Ellen (House 1276), 173, 183 Florence Leonella, 166 Mabel (Waters 1278), 173 Matteson, 147 Robert, 173 Rose (1324), 183 Stevens, 166 William M., 173, 183 Hartford, Wm. B., 68 Havens, Caroline (Hills 209), 72 Sylvester, 72 Haveringe, John, 5 Julyan (Newbolde), 5 Maude, 5 Raulfe, 5 Robert, 5 Sir John, 5 Hawarden, Christian, 23 Jane, 23 John, 23 Hawbe. Elizabeth (Bartles 935)," 138 W. W., Dr., 138 Hawkins, George, 180 Jemima (Risley), 180 Hawten, John, 3 Eleanor, 6 Haynes, John, Rev., 34, 42, 191, 199, 206, 207 Mary, 42 Sarah, 42 Sarah (Risley. 4), 38 Head, Alzina (Risley 447), 92 Andrew, 92 Betsey (Risley 448), 92 Heart, Steven, 191 Heath, Isabell (Risley), 7 Thomas, 7 Hevden, William, 191 Hide, William, 191 Higginson, John, 191 Hill, C. M., Mrs. (838), 138 William, 191 Hills, Abigail (208), 72 Abigail (Brewer 220), 73 Benjamin, 215 Caroline (209), 72 Clarence, 168 David, 51, 54 Delia Ann, 131 Ebenezer, 215 Esther, 215 Fanny, 112 Files, 215 Finela (211), 72 Frederick Montague, 167 George F. (1239), 167 Hannah, 62, 215 Harry (1240), 167, 183 Hepzibah (210), 72 Isabelle (Brewer 966), 141, 167 James, 73 John, 215 Jonathan, 43, 51, 53, 215 Joseph, 40, 63, 215 Leonard (206), 72 Lulu (978), 142, 168 Mary, 215 Mary (Risley 85), 36, 64, 72 Melissa (Hurlburt 682), 112, 142 Nancy (205), 72 Phillis, 215 Robert, 112, 142 Ruby (Hurlburt 969), 167 Sarah, 215 Will, 36 William, 42, 113, 215 William H. (207), 72 Zopher F., 141, 167 Hindley, Jennet, 21 Robert, 21 Robert Fitz Hugh de, 9 Hitchcock, Ada, 98 Hoaring, George, 176 Ruby (Burke 1063), 176 Vivian (1297), 176 Hodgkins, Hannah, 179, 181 INDEX 283 Hoffman, Benjamin F., 80, 97 Elizabeth (Cleveland 292), 80, 97 John C. (524), 97 Kittie (525), 97 Hofmer, Thomas, 191 Holcroft, John, 12 Margaret, 12 Holibert, Margaret, 99 Holland, Charles, 101 Elizabeth, 11 Richard, 11 Sarah C. (Turner 547), 101 HoUister, Anna, 105 Ruth (Risley 29), 47 Holmes, Desire (Sherman), 99 Ida M., 150 James, 180 Leah (Risley), 180 Holt. Ralph. 27 Susan (Risley), 28 Holton, William, 36, 40, 191 Holycroft, Elizabeth, 20 John, 22 John de, 21 Margaret, 22 Hooker, Miss , 131 Thomas. Rev., 34, 191, 199, 205, 209, 210, 211, 222-225, 240-243 Hooper, Elizabeth, 181 Isaac, 181 Margaret (French), 181 Martha (Tice), 181 William, 181 Hopkins, Edward, 191 John. 191 Horey, Kate. 140 Home, Archibald, 59 Horton. Savina (Atherton 355), 85 House, Alice Jennett (Whiting), 185 Almeda E. (1015), 147 Alvira (1274), 173 Alvira E. (1013), 146 Charles E. (1012), 146. 172 Daniel. 146 Deborah (Frye), 147 Elizabeth (Abbey), 185 Ellen (1276). 173, 183 Elmer A. (1018), 147 Esther (Palmer), 172 Eva (1275), 173 House — Continued Henry Clarence, 185 Henry Stuart, 185 Hiram La Mott (1273), 173 John Henry, 186 John Lansing, 186 Luella D. (1017), 147 Mary Ann (Risley 701), 146 Mary Beatrice, 186 Mary Benedict. 172 Mary E. (1016), 147 Minnie Louise, 186 Sarah C. (1014), 146, 173 Wilhelminia Amelia (Arch- dikin), 186 Howard, Hepzibah (Hills 210), 72 Hosea, 72 Howes, Joel, Rev., 248 Hubbard, Miss , 86 Hubberd, George, 40 Hughes, Elizabeth, 181 Hulton, Adam, 21 Alice, 21 Humphrey, Laura M. (Pease 305), 81 Van Rensslaer, Judge, 81 Hunt, Ellen, 154 Sherebiah, 154 Hurlburt. Ann (Risley 430), 112 Austin, 112 Caroline (680), 112 Charles E. (677), 112 Charlotte (681), 112 Edward C. (676), 112 Joseph Henry (678), 112, 141 Julia Ann (675). 112, 140 Kellogg, 73 Lucy M. (Brewer). 141 Mary (679), 112. 141 Melissa (682), 112, 142 Ruby (969), 141, 167 Sophia (Brewer), 112 Hutchinson. Ann, 208 Jennie, 152 Huxford. Mary. 71 Hyde, Anne, 12 Clement, 104 Clement C, 130 Edith L. (Risley 575), 104, 130 Robert, 12 I Ide, Alice (1113), 155 284 INDEX Ide — Continued Arthur (1115), 155 Franklin B., 155 Margaret (Lampson 757), 155 Ince, Jonathan, 191 Ireland, Joseph, 65 Polly (Somers 119), 65 Sir John, 11 Isaacs, Eunice (Loomis 875), 132 George, 132 J Jackson, Harriet, 268 Rachel, 82 Jetfreys, Experience, 95 Jencks, Caroline G. (Risley 941), 164 Carrie (Risley), 182 Carrie L. (1212), 164 Carrie L. (Brewer 968), 141, 182 Charles (1319), 182 Charles Lyman (1210), 164, 182 Dorothy (1317), 182 Ethel M. (13;:^"0), 182 Glendon L. (1322), 182 Harold (1313), 182 Herbert (1314), 182 John H., 164 John L., 141 John L. (1311), 164, 182 IJllian (1316), 182 Marion (1315), 183 Mary (Mecklesen), 182 Mildred (1318), 182 Percy (1321), 182 .Termain, Margaret Pierson, 98 Johnson, Clarissa, 79 Johnston, Cyrus E., 97, 127 Mary P. (Erwin 526), 97 Jones, Anne (Risley 128), 67 Josephine (Risley), 187 Miss , 174 Wm. Gregory, 187 Joselyn, Olivia (Standish), 99 Olivia Standish, 99 Stockbridge, 99 Judd, Thomas, 192 Judson, Delia (Risley 641), 109 William, 109 K Keeler, Ralph, 40 Keeney, Dorothy, 67 Keeney — Continued Edwin, 140 Elizabeth, 86 Elsa L. (Risley 562), 129 H. S., 129 Hannah, 44, 62, 67 Hannah (Hills), 62 Joseph, 62, 67 Laura A., 129 Mabel L. (856), 129 Mary J., 86, 103 Nellie, 140 Ruby (857), 129 Kellie, Nettie, 108. 137 Kelsey, William, 192 Kelterer, Carrie (Loomis 872), 132 George, 132 Kendrick, Leviah, 79, 97 Kennev, Sarah, 79 Kent, Albert (623), 107. 135 Alice (624), 107, 136 Cora (Fydinger), 136 Earl (915), 136 Edward (1199), 163 Floyd (1200), 163 Frank (924), 136 George (925), 136, 162 Georgia Dean (Spalding), 136 Harold (1203), 163 Horace, 107, 136 Howard (1201), 163 Isaac, 107 Julia (625), 107, 136 Leonard (917), 136 Louisa (622), 107, 135 Lucinda (Risley 388), 107 Lucy (Forbes 626), 107, 136 Luman (918), 136 Marguerite (1204), 163 Mary (Abel), 135 May (1202), 163 Vera (916), 136 Kenyon, Adam de, 20 Joan, 20 Kerr, Gertrude M., 176 Muriel B., 177 Kilborn, Ann, 70 Kilbourn, Hannah (Hills), 215 Thomas, 215 King, Louise, 162 Margaret, 80 Kinsman, Cornelia G. (Pease 309), 82 Frederick, 82 INDEX 285 Kirkham, Robert, 22 Kirkland, Charles P.. 268 Samuel, 75 Kirtland, Mary, 82 Klock, Estella,' 173 Klotz, Nellie Rose, 174 Knapp. E., 107 Knight, George, 39 Knowles, Lydia A. Ferris, 105, 133 Knowlton, Mildred, 127 Kowhogen, Louisa, 178 Ladd, John, 50 La Grange, Edward, 184 Lake, Mary J., 78, 95 Nettie, 95 Lampson. Adelia (755), 118, 154 Bernia (759), 118 Bertha M. (1103), 154 Chauncey (751), 118 Laura (Welverton), 154 Lillian (1102), 154 Margaret (757), 118, 155 Marshall (754), 118 Martha (753), 118 Nathan, 118 Nathan, Jr. (752), 118, 154 Nelson (758), 118 Res. (756), 118 Roxanna (Wallace 464), 118 Lang, Carson, 185 Donald, 185 Emily (Risley), 185 John, Rev., 185 Langforde, Mary, 5 Richard, 5 Langley, Robert, 22 Langton, Douce, 21 Gilbert, 21 Ralph, 21 Robert, 22 Lathom, Henry. 15 Lady Cecilia de, 9 Thomasin, 15 Latimer, Claire B., Rev., 184 Donald Roberts, 184 Dorothy, 184 Helen (Roberts), 183, 184 Paul Somers, 184 Latz, Harriet B., 126 Lawrence, Benjamin (316), 82 Charles (313), 82 John Marshall (318), 82 Laura (314), 82 Mary Sophia (312), 82 Minerva (315), 82 Nancy (Risley 164), 69, 82 Phila Ann (311), 82 Rachel (Jackson), 82 Risley (317), 82 William (319), 82 William, Dr., 69, 82 Lawson, Jennie, 105, 133 Laverna, 105, 131 Leber, Elizabeth (Culcheth), 2^ Roger, 22 Ledyard, J. D., 267 Leeds, Japhet. 50 Japhet, Jr., 50 Lester, L. V., 198 Lever, Edward, 22 Ellen (Culcheth), 22 Lewes, William, 192 Lewis. Betsey M., 138 L., 112, 142 Melissa (Hurlburt 682), 112, 142 Leyland, Sir William, 22 Lindsey. David, 58 Lombard, Nellie Augusta, 129 Loomis, Calista (878), 132 Alma M. (Austin). 133 Adna R. (891), 133 Amelia (Barber), 105, 134 Amelia (Ferris), 105, 133 Carrie (872), 132 Carrie (894), 133 Charlotte (Dennison), 105, 134 David. 72, 86, 105 David (594), 105, 132 David S. (885), 133 Edwin L. (887), 133 Electa (341), 84 Ella (876). 132 Elmer (879), 132 Elsa Van De Boe, 133 Emma (877). 132 Emerson (881), 132 Emogene (873), 132 Eunice (875), 132 Fannie (895), 133 Fidelia (345). 84 Florence, 127 286 INDEX Loomis — Continued Frank H. (889), 133 Fred H. (884), 133 Hannah (339), 84 Hattle A. (893), 133 Hiram (598), 105, 133 Israel (600), 134 Jacob, 84 Jemima (Risley 178), 84 Jennie A. (886), 133 Jennie (Lawson), 105, 133 Jerijah (344), 84 Jesse M. (888), 133 L. May (890), 133 Laverna (Lawson), 105, 131 Lena (880), 132 Lovisa, 86, 105 Lucy Ann (592), 105 Lydia A. F. (Knowles), 105, 133 Mandana (Dix), 105, 132 Martha Ann (348), 84 Martha (Chesbro), 105, 132 Mary (883), 132 Mary (Abbey 380), 86, 105 Mary Peters (351), 84, 102 May (Miller), 132 Mercy (343), 84 Minerva, 79, 97 Minnie (874), 132 Milo Monroe (349), 84 Nathaniel, 63, 68 Nathaniel (350), 84 Norman (352), 84 Orange (597), 105, 132 Oswin Jacobs (353), 84 Phila, 120 Phila (596), 105, 132 Russell (593), 105, 131 Rebecca E., 155 Rose (Bunce), 84 Sally (Risley 213), 72 Sarah (Risley 69), 63, 68 Sophronia (340), 84 Susie (Risley 176), 84 Tirza (342), 84 Walter O. (883). 133 Warren (595), 105, 132 Willie F. (893). 133 Lord, Edward H., 89 Julia C. (Risley 413), 89 Richard, 192 Thomas, 192 Loring, G. V., 187 Loucks, Nellie, 165 Love, Henry Morris, 170, 198, 235 Jessie Adelaide (Risley 987), 170 Matilda (Wallace), 170 William Deloss, Rev., 170 Loveland, Rebecca (Risley 28), 47 Lowdham, Sir John, 5 Lukens, Alfred Thomas, 160 Alfred Brandrilf (1177). 161 Clara Maria (1176), 161 Edward French (1179). 161 Grace Emma (1178), 161 Lydia Moore (1180), 161 Martha (1181), 161 Mary (Brandriff 796), 160 Luther, Alexander T., Rev., 174 Clara Louise (1292), 175 Earl O. (1291), 175 Edward Talcott (1290), 175 Ettie M. (Talcott 1053), 174 Mary Blanch (1289), 175 Olin Cady (1293), 175 Lyle, Angeline (Chapin 531), 98 Jessie, 98 William, 98 Lyman, Delia, 267 Henrietta, 267 Martha, 267 Mary, 267 Mercy (Loomis 343), 84 Richard, 192 Lyon, Adolphus Grant (301), 81 Eliza Jane (295), 80 Eudocia Ellen (302), 81 James, 69, 80 James Lawrence (297), 81 Laura Matilda (293), 80 Margaret (King), 80 Mary (303), 81 Mason (Risley (294), 80 Matthew (300), 81 Matthew, Col, 80 Matthew Bradley (298), 81 Nancy Pomeroy (299), 81 Phila Ann (296), 80 Phila (Risley 162), 69. 80 Susan M. (Compere). 81 M McCandless, Eliza Bartles (939), 138 INDEX 287 McCandless — Continued Margaret Emerson (938), 138 Margaret R. (Bartles 640), 138 Sarah Collins (937), 138 Stephen C, 138 McCartney, Isabella (Abbey 618), 107 Otis, 107 McCleve, Elizabeth (Risley 16), 44, 62 McConnell, Gertrude (Risley 805), 123 Logan, 122 McLean, Anna L. (1007), 146 Carolyn (1269), 172 Clarence Sylvester (1004), 146, 172 Dorothy Elvira (1271), 172 EllenaR. (1006), 146 Hannah. 65, 180 Isabella B. (1372), 172 Joseph Risley, 180 Martha E. (Risley 697), 113, 145 Mary Elvira (1008), 146 Ruth (1270), 172 Sarah Isabella (Bassett), 172 William, 113, 145 William Allen (1005), 146. 172 Zue Hunter (Brockett), 172 McLeod, Sarah, 62 McReady, Eliza, 90 Magonn, Hannah. 99 Malory e, Anne (Newnham), 7 Robert. 7 Thomas, 7 Manchester, Ella C. (Risley 1031), 148 De Forest, 148 Mariner. Will, 16 Marsh. John. 192 Marvill, Mathew, 192 Mascy, Hammond, 22 Hamon, 10 John, 10 Margaret (Risley), 10 Margery, 10 Petroniila, 22 Mason, John, 170, 213 John, Capt., 143 John, Maj., 35 Priscilla, 171 Matterson, Charles F., 89 Matterson — Continued Sophronia (Risley 408), 89 Mattison, Amelia, 92 Amy (959), 140, 167 Ira (960), 140 John, 140 Matilda (Risley 670), 140 Nora (961), 140, 167 Mawers, Mary Ann, 144 Maynard, John, 192 Mecklesen, Mary, 182 Metcalf, Harriet A., 143 Michael, 143 Meyers, Michael, 256 Miles, Frances E., 131 Miller, Betsey (Risley 170), 69 May, 132 Mercy, 70 Smith A., 69 Milton, J., 257 Minor, Harriet M., 126 Mitchell, Eliza J. (Lyon 295), 80 S. J.. 80 Moda, John, 41 Monroe, Ivers, 98 Jennie (Chapin 532), 98 Lilie, 98 Montague, Martha, 99 Moody, John, 192 Moore, Phillip, 42 Morden, Julyan, 5 Richard, 5 Morgan, John I., 256 Morris, James, 67 John, 36 Lewis, 58 Martha (Risley 132), 67 Morse, Letta, 179 Mosely, I., 68 Mott,' Elvira, 135 Louisa (Kent mSl), 135 Silas, 135 Muller. Alvah Risley (826), 127- 162 Jennie Gray Warrington, 162 Jennie Louise (827), 127 Karl Peter (1195), 162 Mary D. (Risley 542), 101, 127 Peter D., 101. 127 Risley Warrington (1194), 162 Hunger, Mary. 157 Mygatt, Joseph, 192 288 INDEX N Nelson, Eliza B. (McCandless 939), 138 Frank, 152 Maud (Niles 1082), 152 R., 138 Newbolde, Henry, 5 Julyan, 5 Newnham, Alyce, 4, 6 Anne, 7 John, 4, 6, 7 Mabel (Halisberke), 6 Nichols, Fannie, 155 Siborn. 215 Nicholson, Clarence, 122 Edna (Risley 806), 122 Niles, Albert (1089), 153 Alia M. (1079), 152, 176 Allen Risley (1080), 152, 176 Andrew J." (738), 117, 152 Andrew J., Jr. (1078), 152, 176 Carrie M. (Cook), 176 Eliza J. (741). 117, 152 Emily (Harmon), 153 . Gertrude M. (Kerr), 176 Harriet E. (1081), 152 Harriet (Risley 458), 92, 117 Henry (1083 J, 152 Henry J. (740), 117, 152 Irving S. (1077), 152 Jane (Palmer), 152 Jennie (Hutchinson), 152 Martha (Cash), 153 Mary H. (1090), 153 Maud (1082), 152 Muriel B. (Kerr), 177 Phoebe J. (739), 117 Raymond W. (1092). 153 Ruby (1076), 152 Samuel, 92, 117 Vernia L. (1091), 153 Walter J. (742), 117, 153 Nixon, Lizzie, 129 Nye, James W., 266 O Obertueffer. Annie L.. 95 Odell, Earl Duane (1261), 171 Mina J. (Risley 990), 171 Minnie B. (Risley 989), 171 Morris, 171 Odell — Continued Walter Sylvester (1260), 171 WlUiam, 171 Offey, George, 27 Ogden, Albert, 133 L. May (Loomis 890), 133 Olcott, Annie E. (1244), 169 Ellen E. (Risley 685), 142 Elmer Isaac (980), 142, 169 George, 198 George Chauncey (979), 142, 168 Gladys L. (1246), 169 Grace A. (1245), 169 Herbert Ashton (981), 142 Isaac I., 142 Lulu A. (Taber), 169 Nellie (Brewer), 169 Thomas. 192 Oliver, Lillie E., 126 Olmsted, C. Henry, 199 James. 199 Olmsteed. James, 192 Richard, 192 O'Neal, Edmund, 41 O'Reren, Edward, 16 Osborne, Jane (Derehurst), 6 Johan, 4, 6 Richard, 6 Oversmith, Albert, 176 Imogene (Burke 1062), 176 Palmer, Esther, 172 Jane, 152 Pantrey, William, 192 Parker, Catherine (Temple), 8 Mary Elizabeth. 96 Sir Nicholas, 8 William. 192 Parkhurst. Julia, 102 Parkman, Francis, 222 Parman. Anna. 180 Patrick, Alletta (555), 102 Caroline, 89 De Witt M., 84, 102 Otis Dwight (556). 102 Sabra (Risley 347), 84, 102 Peary, Ella M. (Warren 815), 126 H. I., 126 Pease, Abigail (Ford), 181 Benjamin R. (310), 82 INDEX 289 Pease — Continued Calvin, 81 Calvin, Jr. (304), 81 Charles (307), 83 Cornelia Granger (309), 82 Elizabeth, 181 James, 181 Laura G. (Risley 163). 81 Laura Maria (305), 81 Lawrence (306), 81 Mary (Abbe), 181 Mary (Kirtland), 83 Nancy (308), 83, 97 Perkins, Ada Belle, 145 Warbeck, 10 Perry, J. Arthur. 106, 135 Lilla May (908), 135 Lulu Enoch (907), 135 Rosa Maud (909), 135 Rosetta (Abbey 613), 106, 135 Phillips, Helen, 138 May (Whedon 834), 138 T. C, Dr., 138 Philpotts, Richard, 50 Pierce. John, 36 Pitkin, William, 343 Pomeroy, Daniel, 69 Eunice Grant, 63, 69 Poole, John, 33 Maude, 33 Porte. Blanche (Rhodes). 173 Eva M. (1379), 173 Fred L. (1380), 173 Lewis C, 173 Mary E. (Risley 1019), 173 Porter, Comfort (Risley 137), 67 Dorothy (Risley 139), 67 James, 67 Stephen, 67 Post, Steven, 193 Pratt. John. 193 William, 193 Preston, Lida, 178 Price. Esther (Risley 80), 71 Phoebe, 78 Priscilla (1191), 161 Rebekah H. (Risley 814), 161 Samuel, 71 Sterling (1190), 161 Westcott W., 161 Proctor, Charles E., 187 Nina Gregory, 187 Susan R., \2\ Pudsey, George, 27 Pullen, Elizabeth, 178 Putnam, Doanda (Risley 158), 69, 79 Gideon, 69, 79, 318 Hon. R. M. S. (391), 80 Israel (390), 80 John R., Jr. (389), 80 R Radcliffe, Margaret, 11 Robert, 11 Randall, David, 76 David Risley (414), 89 David W., 89 Electa (Risley 337), 76, 89, 354 Eliza E. (415), 89, 109 Mary (Risley 416), 90 Rankin, Clifford A., 183 David A., 183 Eva L., 183 Maud A., 183 Renneville. 183 Stella (Roberts), 183 Read, Charles, 51 Sarah (Risley 48), 60 Rempston, Alyce (Bekeringe). 5 Sir Thomas, 5 Rensch, Elizabeth Lillian (1313), 179 J. Frederick, 160, 179 Margaret C. (Hanna 1175), 160, 179 Rhodes, Blanche, 173 Elizabeth (Hooper), 181 Elizabeth (Stuart), 181 Jessie Virginia (798), 131 John, 181 Rhoda, 86, 106 Robert G., 131 Martha Hooper, 78, 94, 181 Mary Eliza (797), 131 Sarah (Roberts 489), 131 Stephen, 181 Rice, Adelbert, 132 Ella (Loomis 876). 133 Richard, Nathaniel, 193 Richardson, Elias H., Rev., 249 Jessie (841), 138 Noah, 101, 138 Susannah M. (Turner 546), 101, 138 290 INDEX Rill, Clara (Fox 938), 163 Frank, 163 Ripley, Anna, 87 Risley, A. P., 187 A. T., 186, 187 Abel (589), 105 Abigail, 55, 68 Abigail (68), 46, 63 Abigail (84), 63 Abigail (89). 64, 73 Abigail (198), 72 Abigail (444), 92 Abigail (Beasley), 86, 104 Abigail (Brigham), 265 Abigail (Somers 118), 65, 179 Absalom S. (520), 96 Ada Belle (Perkins), 145 Ada (Crandall), 141 Ada Violet (994), 144 Adaline (Biirnham), 186 Adatia (277), 79 Adela (862), 131, 198 Adelbert (995), 144 Adelbert David (692), 113 Adelia (Crowfoot), 92, 116 Adeline (Connelly), 95 Adna Wood (1093), 153, 197, 222 Adon Alphonzo (572), 104 Agnes (Bradshaw), 6 Albert (671), 111, 140 Albert A., 187 Albert Earl (573), 104. 129, 189 Albert M. (1046), 149 Albert T., 187 Allen, 88 Allen (92), 64, 73, 74, 75, 219, 255, 261, 266 Allen (146), 68 Allen (456), 9^, 116 Allen (494), 95 Allen Clark (963), 140 Allen Robert (1037), 148 Alice, 11 Alice (Byrom), 10 Alice Hills (863), 131 Alice M. (1043), 149 Alice M. (1129), 156 Alicia (Ireland), 11, 15 Almira (521), 97, 126 Alonzo B. (361), 85, 102 Alphonzo (372), 86, 103 Risley — Continued Alva (704), 114 Alvah (328), 83, 101 Alvin Henry (1036), 148 Alvira (703), 114 Alyce (Newnham), 6 Alzina (447), 92 Amanda P. (Allen), 111 Amelia A. (Allen), 104 Amelia (Mattison), 92 Andrew (656), 110 Ane, 27 Ann, 118 Ann (173), 70 Ann (204), 72 Ann (430), 91, 112 Ann (522), 97, 126 Ann (652), 110 Ann (Benton), 90 Ann Eliza (955), 139, 165 Ann Eliza (Thurston), 93 Ann (Kilborn), 70 Anna, 71 Anna (217), 72 Anna (Bagan), 108 Anna (Burnham), 62, 67 Anna E. (1128), 156 Anna (Hollister), 105 Anna (Parman), 180 Anna (Ripley), 87 Anna (Smith), 72 Anne, 7, 11 Anne (110), 65 Anne (128), 67 Anne (153), 68 Anne (Hyde), 12 Annie (631), 108 Annie (English), 95 Annie L. (Obertueffer), 95 Ansel (438), 91, 149 Arthur D. (1034), 148 Arthur De Forest (1042), 149 Arthur Doty (810), 122, 160 Arthur LeRoy (1198), 162 Arthur Wightman (777), 119 Asa, 186 . Asa (150), 68, 79 Asa (288), 79, 97 Asald (131). 67 Asenath C. (English), 95 Aslibell (423), 90, 109 Ashton Fremont (695), 113 Assonette (799), 121 INDEX 291 Risley — Continued Assonnette (497), 95 Augusta (866), 131 Augusta (947), 139 Augustus Lombard (861), 130 Austin Clark (965), 141 Baker, 179 Bathsheba Brewster (197), 71 Beatrix, 12 Benjamin (60), 62, 67 Benjamin (73), 63. 68, 218 Benjamin (76), 63, 70 Benjamin (242), 76, 90, 111 Benjamin (424), 90, 110 Benjamin (582), 104 Benjamin Allen (698), 113 Bennet Tyler, 186 Benton (645), 110 Beriah (77), 63, 70 Beriah (202), 72 Beriah (Fox), 47, 63, 99 Bertha, 121 Betsey (228), 74 Betsey (161), 69, 80 Betsey (170), 69, 82 Betsey (448), 92 Betsey (Greenleaf), 91, 114 Betsey M. (Lewis), 138 Betsey (Smith), 91 Beulah (Ferguson), 122 Blanche H. (851), 129 Byron (484), 94, 257 Byron Palmer (764), 119, 156 Caleb (272), 78 Carl D. (723), 115, 149 Carolina Lovisa, 111 Caroline (271), 78 Caroline (439), 91, 114 Caroline (705), 114 Caroline Gertrude (941), 138, 164 Caroline L. (450), 92 Caroline (Patrick), 89 Carrie, 182 Catharine, 16 Cecil Alvin, 148 Celia (948), 139 Charles, 68 Charles (12), 42, 60, 216, 218 Charles (71), 63 Charles Asa (825), 126, 162 Charles Carroll (778), 120, 157 Charles Carroll, Jr. (1150), 158 Risley — Continued Charles E. (803), 122 Charles F. (461), 93, 117 Charles H. (944), 139, 164 Charles Harold (1192), 162 Charles Henry (1218), 165 Charles P. (514), 96 Charles R., 198, 235 Charles Richard, 185 Charles Seward (953), 139, 165 Charlotte (261), 77 Charlotte (Russell), 85 Chauncey (249), 77, 93, 257 Chauncey (432), 91, 111, 112 Chauncey (687), 113 Chester "(187), 70 Chester (192), 71 Chester (255), 77 Chester (375), 86, 104 Chester (583), 104 Chester (585), 105 Chester Chambers (483). 94, 105, 120, 132 Chester Chambers (734), 117, 151 Chester Hooker (867), 131 Chloe (145), 68 Christine. 27 Christopher Columbus (478), 94, 119, 257 Clara (Carpenter), 103, 129 Clara E. (1045), 149 Clara L. (1130), 156 Clara (Thompson), 162 Clarence (769). 119, 157 Clarence (977). 142, 168 Clarice L. (849). 129 Clarinda C. (457), 92, 117 Clarissa (280), 79 Clarissa (Johnson), 79 Clarissa Parker (954), 139, 165 Clarke (251). 77 Clayton (1142), 157 Cleila S. (964), 141 Clifton (726). 115 Clifton C. (1041), 148 Clinton (1141), 157 Clinton Eugene (770), 119 Clyde H. (847), 129 Comfort (107), 65 Comfort 0^7), 67 Conrad (491), 95 Content (182), 70, 85 292 INDEX Risley — Continued Cora (Fydinger), 163 Cynthia, 187 Cynthia (238), 76, 254 Cynthia (418), 90 Cynthia (Gillette), 75 Cyrus (665), 111 D. A., 186 D. Brewer, 257 Daisy May (1215), 164, 182 Dakin S. (422), 90 Dana G. (1164), 159 Daniel Brewer (481), 94, 185, 257 Daniel L. (500), 95 David (24), 46, 47, 216 David (94), 64, 73, 75, 219, 254, 261, 266 David Romaine (674), 112, 141 Deborah (33), 52, 53, 217 De Forrest (776), 119 Delia (410), 89 Delia (641), 109 Delia Ann (Hills), 131 Delia (Wightman), 119 Diana (441), 91 Dinah (Gale), 60 Doanda (158), 69, 79 Dolly (591), 105 Dolly Ann (586), 105 Dolly Ann (Roberts), 86 Don Chauncey (992), 144 Dorinda (Brown), 101 Dorothy. 54, 64 Dorothy (129), 67 Dorothy (Temple), 7 Dwight (658), 110 E. Goodrich (460), 93 Eda (Gibbs), 148 Edgar L. (505), 96 Edith (1242), 168 Edith Lidora (575), 104, 130 Edna, 121 Edna (806), 122 Edward (125), 66, 78 Edward (493). 95 Edward (865), 131 Edward Francis (1221), 165 Edward Howard (1197), 162 Edwin, 187 Edwin (390), 87 Edwin (632), 108, 137 Risley — Continued Edwin Hills (689), 113, 130» 143, 197, 199, 201 Eleanor, 12, 13 Eleanor (Cowles), 118 Eleanor (Foster), 139 Eleanor (Hawten), 6 Eleanor (Humphreys), 12 Eleazer (247), 77, 93, 257 Electa (237), 76, 89, 254 Eli, 64, 75, 218 Elihu (167), 69 Elijah, 218 Elijah (90), 64, 73, 74, 254, 261 Elijah (155), 68 Elijah (282), 79 Elijah, Jr. (230), 74, 88, 263 Elisha (91), 64. 319, 255 Elisha (185), 70, 86 Elisha (214), 72, 87 Elisha (244), 77, 91 Elisha (449), 92, 115 Elisha (378), 86 Elisha, Jr., 220 Elisha, Mrs., 198 Eliza (258), 77 Eliza (365), 85, 103 Eliza (443), 91 Eliza Ann (Thurston), 117 Eliza (McReady), 90 Ehza (Smith)," 119 Elizabeth, 7, 12, 13, 27 Elizabeth ( ), 51 Elizabeth (16), 44, 62, 216 Elizabeth (31), 53, 217 Elizabeth (136), 67, 79 Elizabeth (374), 86, 104 Elizabeth (653), 110 Elizabeth (943), 139 Elizabeth (951), 139 Elizabeth A. (516), 96 Elizabeth Ann (940), 138 Elizabeth (Burnham), 47, 68 Elizabeth (Holland), 10 Elizabeth (Keeney), 86 Elizabeth (Sampson), 78 Elizabeth (Scrimshire), 12 Elizabeth (Woodman), 156 Elizur (245), 77, 92, 257 Elizur (427), 90, 92, 111 EUa C. (1031), 148 Ellen Elizabeth (685), 113, 142 INDEX 293 Risley — Continued Ellen (Stevens). 139 Ellena Anne (700), 114, 146 Ellena Sophia (999), 145 Elsa L. (56^), 103, 129 Elsie (Bissell), 85 Elwin L. (721), 115. 148 Emily, 185 Emily (Evans), 126 Emily (Frambes). 95, 121 Emily Madora (551), 102 Emma (767). 119, 156 Emma C. (Talbott), 148 Emma Carmalita (1185), 161 Emma D. (Thompson), 122 Emma (Fancett), 166 Emma M. (10.33), 148 Emma (Schimmel), 161 Emma (Wood). 1.53 Emmeline (284), 79 Endocia (159), 69 Ernest (1187), 161 Ernest Sylvester (789), 120, 159 Estella (Klock), 173 Estella May (850). 129 Esther, 55, 57, 48, 179, 1^0, 181 Esther (80), 63. 71 Esther (44), 57, 59, 65, 217 Esther (152), 68 Esther (254). 77 Esther Ann (550). 102 Esther (Smith), 68 Eugene. 112, 142 Eunice (253), 77 Eunice Amanda (956), 140, 165 Eunice (Pomeroy), 63, 69 Eva, 187 Eva (952), 139 Eva (1065), 151. 176 Eva Adell (962), 140 Evan J. (490), 95, 121 Evangeline (788), 120 Evangeline (1163). 159 Evelyn W., 186 Everett Edwin (988), 144, 170 Experience (496), 95 Experience (Jeffreys), 95 Fannie Ann (686)". 113, 142 Fannie R. (553), 102 Fanny (232). 74 Fanny E. (451), 92 Risley — Continued Fenimore Curtiss (996), 145, 171 Field Alanson (1127), 156 Flarilla C. (406), 89 Flora Ann (735), 117, 151 Flora E. (506). 96 Florence Caroline (1183), 161 Florence Gienlia (811), 122 Florence Leonella (Hart), 166 Florence Mabel (991), 144, 171 Florlnda (189), 71 Floyd De F. (1035), 148 Floyd Fremont (998), 145 Frances, 7, 11 Frances E. (Miles), 131 Francis (650). 110 Frank (950), 139 Frank Chester (1064), 151 Frank David (1032), 148 Frank Eugene (773). 119 Frank M. (1039), 148 Franklin (455). 92 Franklin B. (363), 85. 103 Fred H. (1219), 165 Frederick (657). 110 Frederick (946), 139 Frederick Irving (1216), 164 Freeman H. (512), 96 Genevieve (787). 120. 159 George, 7, 12. 218 George (82). 6.3. 71 George (103), 64, 118 George (241). 76, 89, 254, 207 George (648), 110 George (666), 111, 139 George (715). 115 George I>orenzo (574), 104 Georgianna (Allen), 164 Gertrude (775), 119, 157 Gertrude (805). 122 Gideon A. (508), 96 Gladys (855), 129 Goodrich (669). 111. 139 Goodrich Elizur (9,58), 140. 167 Gordon Bennett (1166), 159 Gordon Fox (480). 94, 120, 257 Grace, 10 Grant, 187 Gresham (72), 63. 68 Halford C, 200 Hamilton D. (240), 76, 88, 89, 254. 266 294 INDEX Risley — Continued Hannah, 16 Hannah (14), 42, 60, 316, 217 Hannah (17), 44, 62, 216 Hannah (64), 62 Hannah (106), 65 Hannah (151), 68 Hannah (246), 77, 93, 257 Hannah (266), 78 Hannah Ahnira (474), 94, 118 Hannah (Cadwell), 77 Hannah (Keeney), 44, 62 Hannah (Smith), 63 Hanson A. (407), 89, 108, 961 Harmony (Root), 74 Harriet (396). 87 Harriet (Crosby), 109 Harriet D. (638), 109 Harriet Eliza (779), 120^ 158 Harriet M. (661), 111 Harriet M. (717). 115 Harriet M. (Andrews), 84, 102 Harriet (Metcalf), 143 Harriet P. (458), 92, 117 Harriet (Strickland). 110 Harriet W. (510), 96 Harry S. (801), 122 Harvey (279), 79, 97 Hattie (Brewer), 164 Hattie M. (846), 129 Hazel Grace (853), 129 Helen Evangeline (1165), 159 Helen Irma (812), 122, 161 Helen M. (Beebe), 120 Henrietta (1131). 156 Henrietta (Houghton), 89 Henry, 4, 10, 11, 12, 17 Henry (475), 94, 118, 257 Henry (584), 104 Henry (663), 111 Henry A. (552), 102, 129 Henry Clayton (771), 119 Henry D. (765), 119, 156 Henry De Elton (720), 115, 148 Herbert J. (722), 115 Herbert R. (852), 129 Herbert W. (1220), 165 Hiram (435), 91. 114 Hiram G. (702), 114 Hiram J. (1040). 148 Honour (168), 69 Hopestill (195), 71 Risley — Continued Horace (229), 74 Horatio (200), 72 Howard Sturdevant, 144 Huldah (100), 64 Huldah (154), 68 Ida Belle (746), 117, 153 Ida J. (800), 122 Ida M. (804), 122 Irving Lewis (942), 138, 164 Isaac (186), 70 Isaac (499), 95 Isabell, 7 Isabella (587), 105 James, 13. 218, 219 James Allen (673), 112, 140 James Hollis (554), 102, 129 James Monroe (668). Ill, 139 Jameson (260), 77 Jane, 6, 7, 12, 27, 28 Jane (389), 87 Jane (De La Lune), 5 Jane Maria (688), 113 Jane (Simons), 139 Jared (426), 90, 110 Jared M. (660). 110 Jehiel (166). 69 Jemima, 78, 180 Jemima (43), 57. 59. 217 Jemima (178), 70, 84 Jemson, 256 Jennie (868), 131 Jennie (Babcock), 159 Jeremiah. 42 Jeremiah (11), 42, 45. 47, 55, 59, 60, 216, 217 Jeremiah (49), 60, 66, 217 Jeremiah (264), 78. 95 Jeremiah (492), 95 Jeremiah M. C. (495), 95 Jeremy (102), 64, 76 Jerome (667), 111 Jerusha (99), 64 Jesse, 186 Jesse (633), 108 Jesse L. (503), 95 Jessie Adelaide (987), 144, 170 Joab (127), 66, 78 Joan. 16 Job, 68, 218 Job (25). 46, 47, 63. 64, 99, 216 Job (66), 63 Job (189), 71 INDEX 295 Risley — Con tinned Job (274), 78 Job, Jr. (74), 63, 69, 99 Johan (Buttery), 7 Johan (Osborne), 6 John, 5, 6, 11. 13, 13, 16, 27, 28, 90, 180 John (5), 42. 43-44. 47,^216 John (15), 44, 6-2, 216 John (59), 62, 67 John (130), 67 John (267), 78 John (949), 139 John E., 197, 200, 220 John Milton (487), 94, 121, 257 John Milton (793), 120 John Norman (813), 122 John P. (518), 96 John R. (1020), 147, 173 John S. (276), 78. 96 John S. (854). 129 John Strong- (560), 103, 129 John Thompson (1125), 156 Jonathan, 68, 256 Jonathan (9), 42, 43, 51, 52, 53. 54, 216. 217 Jonathan (61), 62 Jonathan (70), 63 Jonathan (95), 64, 76, 91, 94, 256 Jonathan (243), 77, 91 Jonathan (265), 78 Jonathan (442), 91 Joseph (83), 63, 72 Joseph, Jr. (199). 72 Joseph P. (515), 96 Josephine C. S., 187 Joshua (37), 54. 55, 65, 217 Joshua (65), 62 Joshua (108), 65 Joshua (706), 114 Josiah E. (502), 95 Josiah P. (269), 78, 95 Judith (Somers), 179 Julia (431), 91, 112 Julia Ada (694), 113, 145 Julia Ann (394), 87 Julia Ann (513). 96 Julia C. (413). 89 Julia Ette (Van Swall), 147 Julia Louise (Robinson), 122 Julia (Parkhurst), 102 Risley — Contimied Julius CiEsar (476), 94, 119. 257 Julyan (Morden), 5 Kate, 198 Kate (869), 131 Kate H. (802), 122 Kate (Horey), 140 Katharine (768), 119, 157 Katherine, 10 Kenneth (1186), 161 L. (Kendrick), 79 Laura A. (459), 92 Laura A. (Keeney), 129 Laura Grant (163), 69, 81 Laurence G. (1281), 173 Laurens G. (409), 89, 266 Leah. 180 Leonetta (696), 113, 145 Leonie (871), 131 Leverett (654), 110 Levi, 218 Levi (142), 67 Levi (236), 75, 265 Leviah (Kendrick), 97 Lewis (285), 79 Lewis E. (523), 97, 126 Liman (393), 87 Lincoln Simons (957), 140, 166, 198 Lillian (Blake), 122 Lilly May (725), 115 Lizzie (Nixon), 129 Lorenzo (373), 86, 104 Lorenzo (655), 110 Louis Albert (858), 130 Louisa (392), 87, 108 Louisa (479). 94. 120, 257 Louise (King), 162 Lovisa (248), 77, 93 Lovisa (428), 90 Lucinda (388), 87, 107 Lucinda A. (1021), 147 Lucinda (Fuller), 93 Lucinda (Goodale), 109 Lucius (646), 110 Lucretia (169), 69 Lucy, 11. 75 Lucy (135), 67 Lucy (239), 76, 254 Lucy (287), 79 Lucy (434), 91 Lucy (629), 108, 136 296 INDEX HI Risley — Continued Lucy (Benton), 91, 256 Lucy (Field), 156 Lucy Lee (Strong), 103 Luke (379), 86 Lu-ran (67-2), 111 Lydia (188), 71 Lydia (191), 71 Lyman (644). 110, 138 Mabel (18), 44, 62, 216 Mabel Earl (859), 130 Magdalene (Grimsditch), 11 Malinda (440), 91 ^-Margaret, 6, 11, 13, 27 Margaret (Beckeringe), 5 Margaret (Doughty), 60, 66, 180 Margaret Doughty (263), 78 Margaret (Holycroft), 12 Margaret (Radcliffe), 11 Margery (Mascy), 10 Marguerite Beebe (794), 121, 160 Maria (364), 85, 103 Maria (647), 110 Maria (Arnold), 115 Marian K. (Bayne), 172 Marian Shirley (1162), 159 Marion (1243), 168 Marion C. (66-2), 111 Marion Francis (485), 94, 120. 257 Marjorie Genevieve (1167). 159 Martha, 13 Martha (20), 44, 62, 216 Martha (132), 67 Martha (156), 68 Martha (6.30), 108, 137 Martha (Allen), 113 Martha Elvira (697), 113, 145 Martin (283), 79 Mary, 12, 71 Mary (13), 42, 60, 216, 217 Mary (42), 57, 59, 217 Mary (63), 62 Mary (79), 63 Mary (85), 64. 72 Mary (123), 66 Mary (140), 67 Mary (216), 72, 87 Mary (416), 90 Mary (419), 90 Mary (437), 91 Risley — Continued Mary (634), 108 Mary (651), 110 Mary (945), 139 Mary Alice (719), 115 Mary Ann (275), 78 Mary Ann (486), 94, 121, 257 Mary Ann (701), 114, 146 Mary Ann (Mawers). 144 Mary (Arnold). 43 Mary Barnes (498), 95 Mary (Bidwell), 47, 63 Mary (Blakely), 76, 89 Mary D. (542), 101, 127 Mary E. (518), 96 Mary E. (561), 103 Mary E. (1019), 147, 173 Mary Eliza (774), 119 Mary Elizabeth (Parker), 96 Mary Frances (Wellar), 172 Mary (Fox), 64 Mary (Goodale), 79 Mary (Halbert), 122 Mary (Huxford), 71 Mary J. (Lake), 78, 95 Mary Jane (Keeney), 86, 103 Mary Louise (790)" 120 Mary (Munger), 157 Mary (Sampson), 95 Mary (Somers), 179 Mary (Webster), 69, 99 Mary (Wilcox), 144 Matilda (670), 111, 140 Maud (993), 144 Maurice Thompson (1193), 162 May (Corey), 157 May J. (1126), 156 Melissa (Hurlburt 682), 112, 142 Melvetta (504), 96 Mercelle De Ette (766), 119, 156 Mercy (175), 70, 83 Mercy (Miller), 70 Michael (147), 68 Millicent (122), 66. 217 Millie (Collins), 95 Mills (111), 65 Mina Julia (990), 144, 171 Mindwell (93), 64, 75 Minerva (327), 83, 100 Minerva (411), 89 Minerva (Loomis), 79. 97 INDEX 297 Risley — Continued Minnie (807), 122 Minnie Blanch (989), 144, 171 Mirinda (Wilcox), 131 Mortimer C. (710). 115 Moses (34), 54, 5a, G4, 73, 217, 219 Moses (87), 64 Moses (88), 64, 72, 73, 261 Nabby (Brigham), 88 \ Nancy (Cowles), 79 •--Nancy Pomeroy (164), 69, 82 Nathaniel, 60, 217 Nathaniel. Dr. (8), 42, 43, 51- 54, 216 Nathaniel (35), 54, 55, 64, 118, 217 Nathaniel (96), 64, 77 Nathaniel (121), m Nathaniel (273), 78, 95 Nathaniel Elton (511), 96, 122 Nathaniel Hart {252), 77 Nehemiah (143), 68 Nellie Allen (860), 130, 162 Nellie Augusta (Lombard), 129 Nellie (Keeney), 140 Nellie (Loucks), 165 Nellie (Talcott), 103 Nellie (Whiting), 168 Nettie (Kellie), 108, 137 Nettie (Lake), 95 Nicholas, 10 Noah (78), 63, 71 Noah (180), 70, 85 Nora (1066), 151 Normand (112), Q5 Norva Chester (791), 120 Olive F. (637), 109 Ohve Nettie (1217), 164 Olive (Walker), 159 Oliver {2G), 46, 47, 216 Oren Hollister (590), 105 Orson C. (786). 120, 159 Orville Wallace (693), 113, 144 Parker (519), 96 Patience (Carpenter), 79 Paul, 7, 27, 28 Paul (1168), 159 Pawle, 7 Pearl M. (724). 115 Penelope (Cooley), 110 Risley — Continued Perry (1143), 157 Perry Smith (477), 94, 119, 257 Peter, 27, 180 Peter (41), 48, 5^, 57, 217 Peter Huxford (194), 71 Phila (162), 69. 80 Phila (215), 72 Phila (395), 87 Phila (Loomis 596), 105, 120 Philander (643), 110 Phllena (231), 74 Philo (395), 87 Phoebe (233), 74 Phoebe (436), 91 Phoebe (Bills), 73 Phoebe (Deming), 76 Phoebe (Price), 78 Pollv (160). 69 Pollv (171), 70 Polly (196), 71 Polly (425), 90. 110 Polly (1149), 158 Polly (Somers), 179 Prudence (172), 70, 82, 99 Ralph (377), 86 Randal, 11 Raulfe, 4 Ray C. (1148), 158 Ray Reuben (848), 129 Raymond Schimmel (1184"), 161 Rebecca (28), 46. 47, 216 Rebecca (38), 54, 55, 65. 217 Rebecca (46), 49, 57, 59, 217 Rebecca (270), 78 Rebecca (Gaines), 45, 99, 216 Rebekah Hildegarde (814), 122, 161 Rena Belle (1094), 153 Rena (Terry), 157 Reuben, 218 Reuben (75), 63. 70 Reuben, 3d (346), 84, 102 Reuben Augustine (743), 117, 153 Reuben, Jr. (174). 70, 83 Reynold (809), 122 Richard (1), 33-37, 99, 181, 210, 211, 214, 251 Richard. 10, 11, 12. 1.3. 192, 256 Richard (4), 37. 38-42, 51. 59, 181 298 INDEX Risley — Continued Richard (10), 42, 47, 56-59, 181, 216, 217 Richard (23), 43, 46, 47, 63, 216, 218 Richard (36), 54, 55, 65, 217 Richard (39), 47, 48, 49, 217 Richard, Jr. (104), 65, 77, 218 Robert, 5, 6, 10, 11, 17, 182 Robert (649), 110 Robert Lewis (824), 126 Roger Alexander (1268), 172 Roger E. (181), 70, 85 Rollin, 198 Rosalia (763), 119, 155 Rosaltha Dett (744), 117, 153 Rose (1044), 149 Roxie (179), 70, 84 Ruby S. (454), 92, 115 Russell (138), 67 Russell (165), 69 Ruth, 72 Ruth (29), 46, 47, 216 Ruth (98), 64 Ruth (212), 72, 86 Ruth (286), 79 Ruth (329), 83, 101 Ruth (Badger), 79 Ruth Elizabeth (1169), 159 Sabra (347). 84, 102 Sabra (Webster), 83 Sallie (Barnstead), 122 Sally (213), 72, 87 Sally (157), 69 Sally (Smith), 63, 69 Samuel, 65. 179, 180, 218 Samuel (3), 37, 38 Samuel (6), 42, 44-47, 99, 216 Samuel (22), 44, 45, 46, 47, 63, 216 Samuel (47), 60, 217 Samuel (81), 63. 71 Samuel (124), 65 Samuel (193), 71 Samuel Doty (517), 96, 122- 125, 198 Samuel Doty, Jr. (1182), 161 Sanford (281), 79 Sarah, 68 Sarah (2), 37, 38 Sarah (30), 46, 47, 216 Sarah (45), 49, 57, 59, 217 Sarah (48), 60, 217 Risley — Continued Sarah (62), 62 Sarah (69), 63 Sarah (126), 66 Sarah (144), 68 Sarah (420), 90 Sarah (501), 95 Sarah (1144). 157 Sarah (Bennett), 151 Sarah C. (412), 89 Sarah (Colson), 119 Sarah (Dakin), 76, 90 Sarah (Gray), 103 Sarah Jane (De Grath), 144 Sarah (Kenney), 79 Sarah (McLeod), 62 Sarah Maria (563), 103 Sarah (Somers), 180 Selden (664), 111 Seth, 74 Sharlotta, 13 Sherman B. (452), 92 Shubal (376), 86, 105 Sir Henry, 4 Sir John, 6 Sir Raulfe, 4 Smith (482). 94, 257 Solomon (105), 65 Solomon (259). 77 Somers (Steelman), 95 Sophia (234). 74 Sophia (268), 78 Sophia (Brewer), 112 Sophia (Darling), 75 Sophia H. (421), 90 Sophronia (408), 89 Stella (Steljbins), 140 Stephen, 218 Stewart, Reuben R. (543), 101 Susan. 27, 90 Susan A. (453), 92 Susan R. (Proctor), 121 Susanna (256), 77 Susannah (Caldwell), 77 Susie (176), 70, 84 Thankful (19), 44, 62, 216 Thankful (86), 64 Thankful (Brewer), 257 Thankful (Smith, 401), 88, 94 Theodore (148), 68, 79 Theodore, Jr. (278). 79 Theressa L. (718). 115, 148 Thomas (7), 42, 55, 216 INDEX 299 Risley — Continmed Thomas, 4, 7, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 26, 28 Thomas (27), 45, 46, 47, 64, 216 Thomas (40), 49, 56, 57 Thomas (67), 63, 68 Thomas (149), 68 Thomasin (Lathoin), 15 Tilley M. (509), 96 Timothy, 218 Timothy (21), 43, 44, 45, 62, 216 Timothy (109), 65 Timothy (139), 67 Timothy (141), 67 Tirzah (203), 72 Titus (201), 72 Truman (183), 70, 86 Tryphena (133), 67, 185 Viola Elizabeth (745), 117 Violet (134), 67 Waite (177), 70, 84 Walter Clifford (997), 145, 172 Ward (101), 64, 76 Warner (808), 122 Wells N. (362), 85, 103 Wilhelmenia (Brown), 148 Willett Perry (772), 119, 157 William, 6, 7, 26, 28, 108, 218 William (235), 74, 88, 89, 265 William (391), 87, 108 William (429), 90 . William (445), 92 William (642), 109 William (930), 137 William (1038), 148 William E. (864), 131, 162 William F. (564). 103 William H. (581), 104, 131 William Hollister (588), 105, 131 William Miles (870), 131, 198 Willie (1067), 151 Willis F. (417), 90 Winnie (Fahy). 122 Winnifred Fitch (Sackett), 170 Zada Marion (793), 120, 160 Zervia (32), 52. 5.3. 217 Robb, Alda B. (1302), 177 Bertha (Allen), 177 Charles (1084), 152 Eliza (Niles, 741), 152 Robb — Continued Elmer E. (1086), 152 Henry H. (1085), 152, 177 Ida M. (Coleman). 177 Irene S. (1033), 177 Leonard (1088), 152, 177 Thomas, 152 William (1087), 152 Roberts, Alice, 184 Benjamin, 70 Bertha F. (1147), 157 Carrie (Ward), 184 Clarence Homer, 184 Dolly Ann, 86 Elizabeth (Haines), 181 Esther (Somers 117), 65, 77, 179, 181 Gertrude (Risley 775). 157 Harriet (Smith 397), 88 Helen, 183. 184 John. 65, 77, 181 John Somers (262), 78, 94, 181 Joseph, 88 Martha (Rhodes), 78, 94, 181 Mary Ann (488), 94, 121, 181 Polly (Risley 171), 70 Sarah (489), 94. 121 Sarah (Risley 62), 62 Stella, 183 Will, 157 ' William (1146), 157 William Osman, 184 ^ Robinson, John, 202 Julia Louise, 122 Rodman, Alfred, 109 Harriet D. (Risley 638). 109 Rogers, Flora (Chapin), 98 John, 96 Melvetta (Risley 504), 96 Root, Harmony, 74 Jane (Comstock 557), 102 Roote, Thomas, 192 Roper, John, 16 Rose, Joseph, 58 Roshford, Emogene (Loomis 973), 132 John. 132 Ross. Carrie (Loomis 894), 133 D. J.. 133 Rotour, Grace (Risley), 10 John, 10 Rowley, Almira (367), 85 Alvah (366), 85 300 INDEX Rowley — Cont inued Content (Risley 182), 85 Harriet (370), 85 Isaac, 85 Truman (371), 85 William (368), 85 Zervia (369), 85 Rudd, John, 55 Thomas, 55 Ruscoe, William, 193 Russell, Charlotte, 85 Ryseley, Richard, 17 Rysley, Alyce (Newham), 4 Anne, 4 Dorothy (Temple), 8 Elizabeth, 4 George, 4 Jane, 4 Johan (Buttery), 4 Johan (Osborne), 4 John, 3, 4, 16, 17 Mabel, 4 Margarett, 4 Ma rye, 4 Pawle, 8 Poule, 4 Robert, 3, 4 William, 3, 4 Sabin, Ada May (1257), 170 Chauncey Risley (985), 143 Edwin Risley (1353), 169 Ellena Ruth (1355), 169 Eva May (1354), 169 Fannie A. (Risley 686), 143 Grover Cleveland (1356), 169 Jennie (983), 143. 169 Lena May (Wordley), 169 Minnie Blanch (1259), 170 Nellie (982), 143 Sullivan E., 143 Walter (984), 143, 169 Walter Irving (1258), 170 Sackett. Darius P., 170 Emma Chittenden (Fitch), 170 Winnifred Fitch, 170 Sadd, Alice Emma (576), 104 Carlos, 86 Carlos R., 86, 104 Clarence R. (579), 104 Elizabeth (578), 104 Sadd — Continued Elizabeth (Risley 374), 86, 104 Ellen May (580), 104 Truman R. (577), 104 Sage, Amos, 99 David, 99 Elisha, 70, 83, 99 Elisha Montague (333), 83 Elizur Webster (334), 83 Fanny (333), 83, 98 Henry Risley (330), 83 Margaret (Holibert), 99 Margaret Olivia (Slocum), 98 Maria (Winnie), 98 Martha (Montague), 99 Mary (Wilcox), 99 Prudence (Risley 172), 70, 82, 99 Rebecca (Wilcox), 99 Russell, 70, 83, 98-100 Sally (321), 83 Timothy, 99 William (325), 83 Sampson, Elizabeth, 78 Mary, 95 Sanders, DeLoss, 84 Tirza (Loomis 342), 84 Sanger, Jedediah, 74, 254, 256 Satterlee, Buta (903), 134 Edith (904), 134 Eleanor (Abbey 611), 106, 134 Mamie (899), i34 Manthus, 106, 134 Nelson (900), 134 Walter (903), 134 Willie (901), 134 Saunders, Edward, 8 Mylycent (Temple), 8 Sawdy, Emma (Loomis 877), 133 Fay, 133 Schimmel, Emma, 161 Scott, Thomas, 193 Scull, Judith, 65 Selden, Thomas, 192 Setart, Judith, 179 Seward, Olive Risley, 198 William H., 109 Sheppard, Lucy (Bartles 936), 164 Manton W., 164 Sherman, Desire, 99 Siborn, Niccols, 38 Simmons, Arthur H. (1132), 156, 178 INDEX 301 Simmons — Continued Elizabeth (Pullea), 178 Gerritt Wayne (1309), 178 Gerritts, 156 Gertrude R. (1135). 156, 178 Lelia Ruth (1134), 156, 178 Lida (Preston), 178 Mercelle De E. (Risley 766), 156 Walter R.. Jr. (1310), 178 Walter Rose (1133), 156, 178 Simons, Jane, 139 Skinner, Fannie (Chapin), 98 John, 199 Ruth, 98 Skipper. Sarah. 181 William, 181 Slachla, Eva M. (Porte 1279), 173 Martin, 173 Slocum. Joseph, 98 Olivia Standish (Joselyn). 99 Margaret Olivia, 98 Margaret P. (Jermain). 98 William Brown, 99 Smith. Andrew, Jr., 88 Anna, 72 Anna (405), 88 Arthur, 39, 192 Arthur WTiipple, 160 Aurelia (404). 88 Aurora (402), 88 Betsey, 91 Betsey (Risley 170), 69 Delight (400)", 88 Druzella (Somers 120), 65 Ebenezer, 69 Elijah, 65 Eliza, 88, 119 Elizur (659), 110 Esther. 68 Freelove S. (398), 88, 108 George, 88 Gerrit. 266 Giles, 36 Gordon (399), 88 Hannah. 63 Harriet (.397). 88 Joseph, 64, 88 Joseph, Jr. (403), 88 Joseph. Sr., 73 Liman. 88 Marion Risley (1170), 160 Martha, 88 Smith — Continued Mary, 106, 134 Perry. 88 Philip, 41, 51 Polly (Risley 425), 90, 110 Reuben. 88 Sally. 63, 69 Shuijal, 90, 110 Susan A., 147 Thankful, 94 Thankful (401), 88 Thankful (Brewer 227), 73, 88 Thankful (Risley 86), 64 Walter. 267 Whipple. Mrs., 198 Znda M. (Risley 793), 160, 254 Snow. Flora Ann (Risley 735), 117, 151 Jay Allen (1068), 151 L.Adelia (1071), 151 Lynn Risley (1072), 151 M. Eugene (1070), 151 Melvin, 117. 151 Norva Chester (1069). 151 Somers, Abigail (118), 65, 179 Alice, 65 David ai6), 65 Druzella (120), 65 Esther (117), 65, 77, 181 Esther (Risley 44), 65, 179, 180. 181 Frederick. 179 Hannah, 65 Hannah (Hodgkins), 179. 181 Hannah (McLean). 65, 180 Isaac. 179 James (114), 65 John, 65. 179, 180, 181 John (115), 65 Joseph Risley, 180 Judith. 179 Judith (Scull), 65 Judith (Setart), 179 Mary, 179 Polly (119). 65, 179 Rebecca. 65 Richard, 179 Sarah, 180 Sophia (Risley), 179 Thomas (113)." 65 Southeworth, Cecilia, 22 Sir Thomas, 22 302 INDEX Southwood, Experience (Risley 496), 95 Joseph, 95 Spalding, Georgia Dean, 136 Sparks, Maria A. (Wilson 568), 103 W. B., 103 Spence, E. A., 101, 128 Florence (842), 128 Ross (843), 128 Susannah M. (Turner 546), 101, 128 Spencer, Joshua A., 266 Susan. 8 Thomas, 8. 41, 45, 192 William, 192 Squires, Rena (Risley), 158 Standish, Alexander, 99 Barbara, 99 David, 99 Desire (Holmes), 99 Hannah (Magonn), 99 Mary (Carver), 99 Myles, 98, 99 Olivia, 99 Thomas, 99, 192 Standley, Timothy, 192 Stanley, Anne (Culcheth), 24 Richard, 24 Thomas, 11 Stanton, Thomas, 192 Stapleton, Charles E., 167 Edith M. (1238), 167 Nora (Mattison 961), 167 Nora E. (1237), 167 Sir Richard, 5 Stark, Alice (Roberts), 184 Hugo L., 184 Starkweather, Edith T. (Welch 785), 159 Edwin, 159 Ethel Luella (1160), 159 Earl Dewey (1161), 159 Stebbing, Edward. 192 Stebbins, Elizabeth (Albert 736), 117, 151 Emma (Risley 767), 156 Fred L. (1073), 151 La Fount, 156 La Mott, 117, 151 Lizzie M. (1136). 156. 17S Louis (1137). 156 Majorie (1138), 156 Stebbins — Conthvued Mame (1073a), 151 Stella, 140 Stedman, Sarah (Risley 126), 66 Thomas, 66 Steel, George, 36 Steele, George, 192 James, 215 John 192 Steelman, Frederick, 58 Somers, 95 Stetson, Eva (Risley 1065), 176 Kirk A., 176 Leon A. (1299), 176 Paul C. (1298), 176 Stevens, Bernia (Lampson 759), 118 Delight (Smith 400), 88 Ellen. 139 George, 118 Minerva (Lawrence 315), 82 William, 88 Stewart, Luke, 101 Ruth (Risley 329), 101 Stocking, George, 192 Stone, Anna (1207), 163 Carrie (Waffle 931), 163 Lindon (1206), 163 Mark, 163 Samuel, 34, 192, 240 William, Rev., 34, 207, 208, 251 Strance, Caroline G. (Risley 941), 164 Frank (1214), 164 George E., 164 Strangwaies, James, 21 Strickland, Harriet, 110 Strong, Frances, 103 Judah, 84 Lucy Lee, 103 Nathan, Rev., 247 Sophronia (Loomis 340), 84 Stuart, Elizabeth, 181 Robert, 181 Swansey, Edward, 12 Mary (Risley), 12 Symonds, Mrs. , 144 Talbott, Emma C, 148 Talcott. Alice Elizabeth (1047), 149 Ann Amelia (733), 116, 150 INDEX 303 Talcott — Continued Anna (Boardman), 115 Bertha Belle (1055), 149, 175 Chauncey Chambers (730), 116, 150 Cornelia (728), 116, 149 Delbert (1048), 149 Ebenezer, 92, 115 Effie Adelle (1057), 150 Elizabeth (Carpenter), 149 Emily J. (White), 150 Ettie May (1053), 150, 174 Exie (1056), 150 George Irving (732), 116, 150 Herbert (1049), 149 Ida M. (Holmes), 150 Irving Ebenezer (731), 116 John, 90, 115, 170 Joseph, 115, 116 Julia Harriet (1054), 150, 175 Mary M. (Ackles), 149 Minnie A. (1050), 150 Nellie, 103 Nelson John (727), 116, 149 Oscar (729), 116, 149 Ruby S. (Risley 454), 92, 115 Ruth, 90 Tallcot, John, 40, 192 Tallmadge, Benj., 82 George W., 81, 82 Laura M. (Pease 305), 81. 82 Taylor, Betsey (Brewer 222). 73 Eva, 108 Eva (927), 137 George, 108, 137 George, Jr. (926), 137 Isham, 69 James, 108, 1*^"; Lucy (Risley 629), 108, 137 Martha (Risley 630), 108, 137 Polly (Risley 160), 69 Russell, 73 Teller, Ella, 98 Temple, Alexander, 8 Catherine, 8 Dorothy, 7, 8 George, 8 John, 7, 8 Mary, 8 Mylycent, 8 Peter, 8 Robert, 8 Susan, 8 Temple — Continued Susan (Spencer), 8 Thomas, 8 William, 8 Ten Eyck, Henry, 267 Jacob, 263, 267 Mary, 263 Terhune. T. H., 187 Terry, Alice Maria (617), 107 Charles, 158 E. (Knapp), 107 Everett Lee (616), 107 John Gilbert (615), 107 Leander, 86, 107 Maria (Abbey 386), 86, 107 Rena, 157 Thompson, Alfred, 121 Clara, 162 Emma D., 122 Mary Ann (Risley 186), 121 Mary E. (Risley 561), 103 Warren, 103 Thurston, Ann Eliza, 93 Eliza Ann, 117 Thwalte, R. S., 222 Tice, Elizabeth (Pease), 181 John, 181 Martha, 181 Todd. Charles W. (1118), 155 Chauncey R. (761), 118, 155 D. Pulaski (760), 118, 155 Edith W. (1121), 155 Emma J. (1117), 155 Fannie (Nichols). 155 Hannah Almira (Risley 474). 94, 118 Harry L. (1120), 155 J. Ormond (762), 118, 155 Josephine A. (Wright). 155 Louisa (Kovvhogen), 178 Mary (Bishop), 155 Ray A. (1123), 1,55 Rebecca E. (Loomis), 155 Robert C. (1124), 155 Seth O. (1122). 155 Walter. 94, 118 Walter Sidney (1308). 178 Willard V. (1119). 155, 178 Tomlinson, Elizabeth (Sadd 578), 104 Tompkins, lantha (Welch 780), 158 W. H., 158 304 INDEX Tracy, Selden E., 186 Selden H., 186 Mary (Dunham), 187 Treat. Bethias, 73 Josephine, 85 Lucy (Brewer 226), 73 Mathew, 67 Matthias, 67 Tryphena, 185 Tr'yphena (Treat 133), 185 Tryphenia (Risley 133), 67 Trefford, Catharine (Culcheth), 24 John, 24 Tucker. Chauncey, 89 Flarilla (Risley 406), 89 Turnbull, Belle (1095), 153 George D., 153 Rosaltha (Risley 744), 153 Turner, Alanson (333), 83 Caroline (Ellis), 101 Chauncey (332). 83 Cornelia (830), 127 Edith (829), 127 F. J., 222 George (336), 83 Henry E., 83 Henry Ellis (544), 101, 127 Helen Mar (545), 101, 127 James (331), 83 Louise (831), 127 Marcia (337), 83, 101 Mary (338). 83 Mercy (Risley, 175), 70, 83 Robert, (334), 83, 101 San ford (335), 83 Sarah Caroline (547), 101 Susannah Mercy (546), 101, 128 William H., 70 William H. (330), 83 William H., Capt., 83 Wm. Henry Allison (828), 127 Tuttle, Albert Ellsworth (1250), 169 Eldred Eugene (1247), 169 Elmer E., 169 Howard De Elton (1248), 169 Jennie (Sabin, 983), 169 Ruby Frances (1252), 169 V Valentine, Elizabeth (Risley), 12 John, 12 Van Buren, James, 267 Van De Boe, Elsa. 133 Van Sant, Hannah (Risley 17), 44. 62 Van Swall, Julia Ette, 147 Vibbert, Alvin, 73 Emily (Brewer 225), 73 Vibberts, Ann (Risley 173), 70 Vinton, Ann (Risley 522), 97, 126 Anne Louise (823), 126 Anne Risley (819), 126 Esther Minerva (820), 126 John Randolph (821), 126 Mary Brewster (822), 126 Seth, 97, 126 Vunk, Alice (Kent 624), 136 Hattie (920), 136 Iva (919), 136 Oscar, 136 W Wackla, Hinner}r, 40 Wadsworth. Daniel, Rev., 245 James, 116 William, 192 Waffle. Alfred (1208), 163 Blanch (Christian). 163 Carrie (931), 137, 163 Charles (932), 137, 163 Harriet (Brigham 635), 108. 137 John, 108, 137 Rollin (1209), 163 Wakeman, Samuel, 192 Walker. George Leon, Rev., 249 Olive. 159 Robert. 103 Sarah Maria (Risley 563), 103 Wallace, Ellen (Hunt), 154 John, 93, 118 Lew (1101), 154, 177 Lorena (Dart), 178 Mary (1100), 154, 177 Matilda. 170 Melissa (749). 118 Orville J. (750). 118. 154 Roxanna (Chambers 464), 93, 118 Warbeck, Perkins, 10 Warburton, Alice, 20 Sir Geoff de, 20 INDEX 305 Ward. Carrie, 184 Sarah (Hills), 315 Warde, Nathaniel, 192 Warner, Andrew, 193 Warren, Almira (Risley 521), 97, 126 Annie M. (Minor), 126 Ella Minerva (815), 126 G. Curtis Austin, 97 George Austin, 126 Harriet B. (Latz), 126 Harvey Risley (816), 126 Lillie E. (Oliver). 126 Louis Newton (817), 126 Philena (Risley 231). 74 Sarah Ann (818), 136 Thomas, 74 Warrington, J. G., 127 Jennie Gray, 162 Washington, George, 75 Waters, Charles (1377), 173 Edward H.. 145 George. 146. 173 Leonetta (Risley 696). 145 Leslie Amos (1003), 145 Mabel (1278), 173 Sarah C. (House, 1014), 146, 173 Watson, AVilliam, 185 Webb, Richard, 192 Webster, Beriah (Risley 77), 70 Finela, 72 Finela (Hills, 211), 72 John, 62. 99, 192 Joshua, 71 Mabel (Risley 18), 44, 62 Mary, 69, 99 Noaii, 99 Sabra, 83 Welch, Adolphus (784), 120. 158 Amos (783), 120, 158 Clayton (1157), 159 Denslow, 120 Den slow (1154), 158 Edith Thankful (785), 120, 159 Fannie, 158 Fayette J. (1153), 158, 179 Floyd E. (1155), 158 Goldie (1158), 159 Grace (1159), 1,59 lantha (780), 120, 158 Kate (All), 158 Louisa (Risley 479), 120 Welch — Continued Mary (Abbey), 179 Mary Louisa (783), 120 Nettie (781), 120, 158 Ray (1156), 159 Theodore, 266 Wellar, Mary Frances, 172 Wells, Jonathan, 47, 54 John, 47 Mary, 47 Sally (Risley 157), 69 Samuel, 40, 43, 54, 74, 254 Thomas, 40. 192 Welverton, Laura, 154 West, Eva (Taylor), 108 H., 108 Westwood, William, 39, 193 Whedon, Caroline Frances (837), 128 Florence (Loomis), 127 Florence Mildred, 127 Helen K., 127 Helen Mar (Turner 545), 101, 127 Helen Margaret (832), 137 May (834), 138 Mildred (Knowlton), 127 Sara (836), 138 Susa (835), 128 W. W., 101, 127 William Turner (833), 127 Wheeler, Addie L., 174 Amelia (Abbey 610), 106, 134 Ira (896). 134 Lillie (898), 134 Nathan, 106, 134 Willie (897), 134 Whipple, Malinda (Risley t40). 91 White, Emily J.. 150 Howard." E. A. (1384), 173 Hugh. 354 John, 193 Joseph, 173 Lorena J. (1382), 173 Marjorie M. (1283), 173 Nettie M. (Arnold 1027), 173 Wliitehead. Mary (Risley), 12 Richard. 12 Whitfield. George, Rev.. 245 Whiting, Alice Jennett. 185 John. Rev.. 243 Nellie. 168 Whittinge, William. 192 306 INDEX Wibb, Helen M. (^Tiedon 832), 127 William J., Rev., 127 Wightman, Delia. 119 Wilbur, De Forrest, 143 Fannie A. (Risley 686), 143 Wilcox, John, 91, 192 Mary, 99, 144 Mirinda, 131 Phoebe (Risley 436), 91 Rebecca, 99 Wilkin, Esther, 98 Samuel D., 98 Willet, Nathaniel, 38, 39 Williams, Andrew, 145 Clinton, 126 Esther M. (Vinton 820), 126 Isaac Maynard (1002), 145 Julia A. (Risley 694), 145 Nancy (Hills, 205), 72 Roger, 207 Tirzah (Risley 203), 72 Willis, George, 192 Wilson, Albert F. (569), 103 Alice (571), 103 Eliza (Risley 365), 85, 103 Frances (Strong), 103 Francis, 85, 103 Frank B. (570), 103 John W. (567), 103 Maria A. (568), 103 Winnie, Maria, 98 Moses J., 98 Winter, Ada Belle (1098), 154 Frank W.. 153 Ida B. (Risley, 746), 153 Rena Elleon (1097), 154 Rose Anna (1096), 154, 177 Walter Risley (1099), 154 Winterton, Gregory, 40, 192 Winthrop, John, 205 Withington, Thomas E., 24 Wood, Elizabeth (Risley), 13 Hamblet, 14 Hamlet, 13 Henry, 14 Margaret, 14 Richard Risley, 14 Thomas, 14 Woodbridge, Timothy, Rev., 244 Woodman, Elizabeth, 156 Wordley, Lena May, 169 Worlidge, John, 55 Wratten, Alice Marie (1267), 171 EUena Ruth (1263), 171 Eva May (1262), 171 Florence M. (Risley 991), 171 James, 171 Mary Ann (1264), 171 Minnie Blanch (1265), 171 Sylvester Risley (1266), 171 Wright, Josephine A., 155 Wrineston, John, 23 Mary (Culcheth), 23 Wrislea, Richard (1), 35 Samuel, 35 Wrisley, Clarence, 142, 168 Eugene, 142 Napoleon Jerome, 71 Richard, 192 Wyeth, H. B., Mrs. (840), 128 Yankey, Cyrus, Mrs. (839), 128 Z Zolybrande, Geoffrey, 22 Margaret (Culcheth), 22 BHS 31 mm One copy del. to Cat. Div. JAN 3 1910 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ^ 021 392 086 8