(117) V.

Oliver, b. Feb. 15, 1750.

(118) VI.

Benjamin, b. March 3, 1753, d. Feb. 23, 1773.

MARY, (62) who m. William Baldwin, had,

(119) I.

Sarah, b. July 5, 1742.

(120) II.

John, b. Jan. 13, 1744.

(121) III.

William, b. April 12, 1748.

(122) IV.

Thomas, b. Feb. 27, 1751, d. June 12, 1796.

(123) V.

Micah, b. Oct. 1, 1753.

(127) I.

Edward, b. Nov. 29, 1741, lived in Rindge, N. H.

(128) II.

Sarah, b. May 29, 1744.

(129) III.

Oliver, b. March 24, 1747.

(130) IV.

John, b. Nov. 6, 1749, d. Feb., 1802.

(131) V.

Jesse, b. Nov. 17, 1752.

(132) VI.

Abigail, b. Oct. 11, 1755.

(133) VII.

Isabel,5 b. Sept. 29, 1758.

(166)

(134) VIII. Joseph, b. May 10, 1761, m. Sarah Woods, sister of Rev.

Dr. Woods of Andover. He resided in Ashburnham,
Ms. [See (164) onward.]

BETTY, (64) who m. Zebadiah Rogers, had,

Samuel, b. March 5, 1754, died in Virginia, in the service.

of the U. States, Oct. 18, 1781.

William, b. May 25, 1759.

Thomas, b. Aug. 12, 1762, d. May 1, 1804. a. 41.

Rachel, b. May 23, 1765, m. Samuel Whiting, Esq, Jan. 22, 1789.

Ezra, b. May 9, 1768.

ISABELLA, (67) who m. Benjamin Warren, had,

Isabella, b. Oct. 15, 1754.

(150) II.

Benjamin, b. March 12, 1758.

(151) III.

Tabitha, b. Jan. 2, 1763.

(152) IV.

Abigail, b. May 16, 1765.

(153) V.

Sarah, b. Sept. 28, 1767.

(154) VI.

Rebecca, b. Feb. 14, 1773.

William, b. Dec. 23, 1790.

Jeremiah, b. Oct. 26, 1792.

HANNAH, (80) who m. William Rogers of Billerica, had,

(155) I.

(156) II.

(167) I.

(168) II.

(169) III.

(163) IX. Louisa, b. Aug. 23, 1808.

(164) X. Elvira, b. Aug. 5, 1810.

4

SARAH, (63)-[In giving her children at (126) the following children were accidentally omitted.]

(165) IX. Rachel,5 b. Jan. 8, 1765, d. Feb., 1766.

(166) X. Josiah, b. April, 1767, d. Sept., 1775.

Joseph Jewett, (134) son of Sarah (63) by Edward Jewett, had,

Ivers, of Ashburnham, now [1823] Major General of the

6th division of the Massachusetts militia.

Joseph, of Baltimore, Md.

Milton, who died in 1817.

(170) IV.

(171) V.

Polly G., wife of Rev. Otis C. Whiton.
Merrick A., grad. Dart. Coll. in 1823.

(172) VI.

Sarah Farmer,6 m. Aaron Hobart of Boston

JEREMIAH,5

(82) who m. Clarissa Foster, had,

(173) I.

(174) II.

(175) I.

(176) II.

(180) IV.

SARAH CLARISSA, b. Feb. 27, 1818.
TIMOTHY FOSTER, b. Aug. 10, 1824.

CHARLOTTE, (110) who m. Capt. James Riddle, had,

Charlotte Margaret,' b. Feb. 20, 1817.
Mary Ann Lincoln, b.

EDWARD,5 (83) who m. 1st, Rizpah Baldwin, had,

JOHN, b. July 27, 1786, d. March 6, 1808, a. 22, a worthy

and promising young man.

By his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Brown, he had,

ELIZABETH, b. June 20, 179—.

EDWARD, b. Sept. 26, 1795.

1823.

RIZPAH,6 twin with Edward.

(181) V.

JACOB B., b. Oct. 30, 1801.

JESSE, (87) who m. Margaret Franksford, had,

GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. Sept. 25, 1812.
CATHARINE SMITH,6 b. Jan. 13, 1814.

MILES, (109) who m. Sophia Crooker, had,

CHARLES AUGUSTUS,' b. July 9, 1817, d. June 4, 1818.
SARAH, b. at Salem, Sept. 22, 1820.

MARY JANE, b. at Dover, Ms. Jan. 20, 1823.

CAROLINE VALENTINE, b. at Dover, Feb. 4, 1825.
CHARLOTTE RIDDLE, b. at Boston.

Rachel,' (147) who m. Samuel Whiting, Esq., had,

Harriet, b. Oct. 20, 1789.

Catherine, twin with Ann.

Augustus, b. March 2, 1795, grad. H. C. 1816,

Mary Ann, b. May 25, 1800.

APPENDIX.

Extracts of Letters from Rev. Thomas Farmer, Rector of Aspley-Guise, in Bedfordshire, England, to John Farmer of Concord, N. H. Dated July, 1822.

DEAR SIR, Having lately been to visit my relations at Leicester, my native place, I saw for the first time a letter from you, desiring an account of your Genealogy; and, being satisfied of our consanguinity, you will allow me to hope that you may cross the Atlantic, and visit this village, of which I am the Rector, and which is situated but little more than 40 miles from London, and near the Duke of Bedford's magnificent Park and Palace.

I am possessed of the papers which formerly belonged to my uncle, Dr. Richard Farmer, who certainly was a most ingenious and classical scholar, and perhaps the best annotator on England's immortal bard. You may know that he was Master of Emmanuel College in the University of Cambridge. There I was educated, and there I saw him die, after a very long protracted illness, on the 8th of September, 1797. The loose papers, from which I shall send you extracts, are in Dr. Farmer's hand-writing.

My father, Thomas Farmer, is now at Leicester, and is the only male issue of his generation. He was born on the 10th of May, 1744. I was born on the 21st of August, 1771, and am the only issue left, and I am in possession of land in the vicinity of Nuneaton, sharing it equally with Mr. Arnold of Ashley, no great distance from Daventry, in the County of Northampton.

Of the present owner of Ancely, or Astly, I know nothing; but in the old papers, I find John Farmer of Ancely, in the County of Warwick, passes a time, Sept. 1st, 1604, and that a John Farmer, in 1663, [1633] contracts marriage with Isabel Barbage of Great Packington, in the County of Warwick, and that Isabel, in after marriage articles, is stiled "now of New England;" that John Farmer of Nuneaton married Sarah Daws of Tamworth, and settles the estate at Ancely upon her. Richard F., son of John and Sarah, was baptized at Nuneaton, Sept. 15, 1698, and married Hannah Knibb of Brinklow, in the County of Warwick, Jan. 4, 1732-3. Their eldest son, Richard, born May 4, 1735, was the person whom you have rightly named of such extensive literary fame and acquirements.

I shall seal this with the seal* which Dr. Farmer wore and used, and the Arms I read, "He beareth Sable, Chevron between three Lamps Argent, with Fire Proper, by the name of Farmer." This coat was assigned to George Farmer, Esq., 1663, second son of Bartholomew Farmer, Gent.† of Radcliffe, near Atherstone, Warwickshire. The patent was to alter the Chevron of the family, though it mentions not what anciently were the Arms of the family."

From the same to the same, dated Aspley-Guise, Dec. 1, 1823. Sir, The family of Farmers from which we are descended, were living about the year of our Lord, 1500, at a village called Ratcliffe

The impression of this seal is deposited in the cabinet of the American Antiquarian Society, at Worcester.

† Bartholomew was the son of John Farmer of Leicester, and grandson of Bartholomew of the same place, as appears by the [Herald's] visitation of that county in 1619.

Cuiley, which is in Leicestershire, and adjoining the Counties of Warwick and Stafford. One of them was a Judge in the Court of Common Pleas, and you observe by the scrap enclosed, another of them, Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, which scrap is the hand-writing of the author on the learning of Shakspeare. Most of them are buried in a vault belonging to the family, in the church of Witherly, (near Ratcliffe) in the County of Leicester. My grandfather's name was Richard, who married a Miss Knibb, and their family consisted of Richard, [b. May 4, 1735,] the annotator on our immortal bard, Prebendary of Canterbury, then a Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's, London, the Master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and principal Librarian of that University; John, in holy Orders; Thomas, my father, [b. May 10, 1744,] who married the 3rd dau. of John Andrew, Esq., of Harlestone-Park in the County of Northampton; Joseph, Lieut. Col. of the Royal Leicester volunteers; Hannah, unmarried; Sarah married Allen Brown, Esq., of Cosby, near Leicester, and afterwards Richard Jervis, a surgeon of Latterworth; Mary married [in 1768,] the Hon. Richard Byron, [b. Oct. 28, 1724,] brother of the late Lord [William] Byron."

MEMOIRS OF GRADUATES OF HARVARD COLLEGE.

Commencing with the year 1670.

BY THE LATE JOHN FARMER, ESQ.

NOTE. The year they were graduated is prefixed to the name of each person, in the several Memoirs.

NATHANIEL HIGGINSON.

1670. NATHANIEL HIGGINSON, son of Rev. John Higginson, pastor of the first church in Salem, was born at Guilford, Ct., Oct. 11, 1652. After receiving his second degree in 1673, he made preparation to go to England, where an uncle of his had been settled as a clergyman, and where he had a number of relations. He went thither the following year, and was soon introduced to Lord Wharton, with whom he remained about seven years, in the capacity of steward and tutor to his children. He was employed in the mint of the Tower in 1681, and went in 1683 in the East India Company's service to Fort St. George in the East Indies; was a member and secretary of the council, and afterwards governor of the factory at said fort. He married Elizabeth Richards, 1692; returned to England with his wife and four chil dren in 1700, and established himself as a merchant in London, and did considerable business with his New England friends.

In 1706, we find his name, with 19 others, signed to a petition full of invective against Joseph Dudley, then Governor of Massachusetts, and praying for his removal, which was presented and read to Queen Anne in council. Gov. Dudley, in his answer to the charges contained in this petition, notices several of the peti

tioners, and thus speaks of Mr. H. "Mr. Higginson is a gentleman of good value, born in New England, but has been absent in the East Indies six and twenty years, and so may be presumed to know nothing of the country. To be sure, his father, that has been a minister in the country near sixty years, yet living, and his brother, a member of her Majesty's Council, must know more, his brother having been always assisting the Governor, and consenting in Col. Dudley's justification at this time with the Council, where no man has dissented from the vote sent herewith." The allegations against Gov. Dudley in this petition, were voted by the General Court, or Council and House, to be a "wicked and scandalous accusation;" but some persons of note, considering the high character of Mr. Higginson and his good interest at court, "signified by their letters, that they thought the two Houses impolitic in the severity of their expressions, which, from being their friend, might, at least, cause him to become cool and indifferent." We know not the effect of the language of the General Court on the mind of Mr. Higginson, but we cannot suppose it alienated his affections from his native country. He lived but two years after, to serve the interests of his friends in New England. He died in London of the small pox, in November, 1708, aged 56 years. He had been for several years a member of the Corporation for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians of New England. Judge Sewall says, he had been acquainted with him for forty years, and seems to have had a high opinion of his character and public services. Felt, Annals of Salem, 350. Hutchinson, Hist. Mass. ii. 146, 147. Gov. Dudley's MS. Answer to Mr. H's petition (the original, which escaped, in part, the fury of the mob, when they destroyed Gov. Hutchinson's house.)

AMMI RUHAMAH CORLET.

1670. AMMI RUHAMAH CORLET was son of the celebrated schoolmaster, Elijah Corlet, of whom an early poet sang,

""Tis Corlet's pains, and Cheever's, we must own,
That thou, New England, ar not Scythia grown."

The father was educated at Lincoln College in the University of Oxford, and the son had all the advantages of early preparation, which could be derived from so distinguished a scholar. Having been graduated, he appears to have followed the business of his father, and in 1672 we find him at Plymouth, as the Master of the principal school in that place. After taking his second degree, or about that time, he was a Fellow of the College, in which office, it is presumed, he continued till his death, which occurred Feb. 1,

1679.

THOMAS CLARK.

1670. THOMAS CLARK, son of Jonas Clarke, of Cambridge, a surveyor of some note, was born, March 2, 1653. Rev. Mr. Allen,