In 1681, when about 70 years of age, he was appointed Major General of the Colony.*

Chief-Justice Samuel Sewall, in his journal of March 18, 168, says, "I go to Charlestown Lecture, and yn wth Capt. Hutchinson to see dying Major Gookin: He speaks to us, March 19, Saterday ab* 5 or 6 in ye Morn. Major Daniel Gookin dies, a right good man- Tuesday, March 22, 1686-7, Major Gookin buried."

His resting-place, in the south-east corner of the old Cambridge burying-ground, is beneath a brick monument covered with a stone slab, bearing this inscription, thus:

Here lyeth intered

ye body of MAJOR GENEL
DANIEL GOOKINGS, aged
75 yeares, who
departed this life
ye 19th of March,
1686-7

Johnson, who was from the County of Kent, and who knew Gookin, terms him "a Kentish Soldier;" + and the following evidence from the correspondence of Gov. Charles Gookin, the grandson of Sir Vincent Gookin, with a grandson of Gen. Gookin, confirms the presumption of the General's descent from Daniel, the brother of Sir Vincent.

'Philadelphia, Nov. 28, 1709. I assure you that the account you gave me of that part of our family settled in America, was extremely satisfactory... The Spring will be a time of some leisure with me; I mean from the beginning of March to the last of April. I purpose, God willing, to pass one part of that time with you and others, our relations at Boston." And in another letter, dated" 9br. 22d. 1710:" "By letters from Ireland I am informed two of our relatives are lately dead, viz. Robert Gookin, son of my uncle Robert, and Augustine Gookin, eldest son of my uncle Charles." 'By the packet I have letters from the Proprietors, &c.

Dr Coss" y' very affect Kinsman
and Serv't

(To be continued.)

CHARLES GOOKIN.‡

THE FOSTER FAMILY.

1. REGINALD FOSTER was the venerable patriarch of the family in America. He was descended from an ancient and respectable family settled in the west of England, connected with those of the name in the north of England, who wrote their name Forster, and were distinguished for their exploits against the Scots mentioned in "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" and in "Marmion." He came from England at the time so many emigrated to Massachusetts, in 1638, and with his family was on board one of the vessels embargoed by King Charles I. He settled at Ipswich in the county of Essex, with his wife, five sons, and

*Hutchinson's History, pp. 331, 335.

↑ "Wonder Working Providence," Ch. 26.

MS. and p. 113 of the Register.

two daughters; where he lived to extreme old age, with as much peace and happiness as was compatible with his circumstances in the settlement of a new country. The names of his five sons who came with him from England, were 1. Abraham; 2. Reginald; 3. William; 4. Isaac; and 5. Jacob, (ancestor of the Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey Fosters.) One of the daughters who came with him from England married first a Wood, and after his death she married a Peabody. His other daughter married a Story, ancestor of Dr. Story, formerly of Boston, and of the late Judge Story. It is remarkable of this family, that they all lived to extreme old age, all married, and all had large families from whom are descended a very numerous progeny settled in various parts of the United States.

II. ABRAHAM FOSTER, (Son of Reginald,) was born at Exeter in England, in the year 1622, and at sixteen years of age came with his father and settled in Ipswich, where he married and had children as follows: 1. Ephraim, b. Oct. 9, 1657; 2. Abraham, b. Oct. 16, 1659; 3. Benjamin, b. 1670; 4. Ebenezer, born July 15, 1672; 5. Mehetabel, b. Oct. 12, 1675; 6. Caleb, b. Nov. 9, 1677. He lived to old age, dying Jan. 25, 1711, a. 89 years.

III. EPHRAIM FOSTER, (son of Abraham and grandson of Reginald,) b. at Ipswich, Oct. 9, 1657, m. Hannah Eames and settled in Andover, Ms., where he had the following children: 1. Rose, b. May 9, 1678, d. 1692; 2. Hannah, b. May 28, 1682, d. young; 3. Hannah, b. May 15, 1684, m. Timothy Styles of Boxford, and had a very numerous progeny living in 1777; 4. Jemima, b. Feb. 25, 1686, m. Ezekiel Ladd; 5. Ephraim, b. March 12, 1687, m. Jan. 11, 1716, to Abigail Poor of Newbury, and settled at Andover; 6. John, b. March 26, 1690, m. Jan. 17, 1715, to Rebecca Rowland; 7. Gideon, b. May 13, 1692; 8. David, b. April 18, 1694; 9. Moses, b. Sept. 27, 1696; 10. Aaron, b. April 21, 1699; 11. Joshua, b. March 13, 1702.

IV. EPHRAIM FOSTER, (son of Ephraim,) b. in Andover, March 12, 1687. He was a blacksmith and settled at Andover, where he d. April 8, 1738, in the 52nd year of his age. His wife was Abigail Poor of Newbury. They had six children, of whom only one arrived at years of maturity; namely, Jedediah, b. Oct. 10, 1726. The widow Abigail Foster m. Capt. Fry, and d. Aug. 28, 1747.

V. JEDEDIAH FOSTER, (son of Ephraim,) b. at Andover, Oct. 10, 1726, graduated at H. C. 1744. He soon after went to Brookfield in the county of Worcester, and engaged in mercantile pursuits with Brigadier-General Joseph Dwight, whose daughter Dorothy he m. May 18, 1749. He was a man very much trusted and respected. He sustained various offices; was a Deacon of the church in the first parish; Major in the militia; Judge of Probate for the County; Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; a member of the Legislature several times, and of the Convention for framing a Constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He died, Oct. 17, 1779, aged 53. A sermon was preached on the occasion of his death, by Nathan Fiske, D. D., in which he gave him a high character for usefulness in church and state. His children were 1. Pamela, b. Aug. 12, 1750, d. Jan. 19, 1751; 2. Theodore, b. April 29, 1752, O. S., graduated at the College in Rhode Island, (now Brown University,) 1770, (ad eundem, Dartmouth, 1786,) m. 1. Lydia Fenner, daughter of Gov. Fenner; 2. Esther Bowen Millard. He was a lawyer of distinction; was Senator in Congress from Rhode Island thirteen years; was a lover of the

study of antiquities, particularly American; and made considerable collections toward a history of Rhode Island, which he planned, but from habits of procrastination never executed. In the preface to his Life of Roger Williams, Knowles used what he found advantageous to his purpose among Mr. Foster's papers. Mr. Foster died in Providence, at the house of his daughter, Mrs. Stephen Tillinghast, 183-; 3. Theophilus, b. March 16, 1754, d. in Wilmington, Vt., about nine years since, a farmer; 4. Abigail, b. Jan. 10, 1756, d. July 25, 1779, never married; 5. Dwight, b. Dec. 7, 1757, d. April 23, 1823; 6. Peregrine, b. Dec. 28, 1759, m. a Mrs. Bradshaw, settled in Marietta, Ohio, where he d. in 1805, having been a man of great energy. He left a number of children, two of whom are now living in Ohio; 7. Ruth, m. Hon. Thomas Ives, a lawyer and extensive farmer in Great Barrington, Berkshire county, Massachusetts.

VI. DWIGHT FOSTER, (Son of Jedediah,) b. at Brookfield, Ms., Dec. 7, 1757, graduated at the College in Rhode Island, 1774, (M. A. ad eundem, Harvard ;) taught school at several places, studied law partly with his brother Theodore at Providence and partly with the celebrated Major Joseph Hawley at Northampton, commenced the practice of law at Providence, R. I., but, immediately upon the death of his father, Oct. 17, 1779, removed to Brookfield, and was chosen to supply the vacancy from Brookfield in the Convention for forming the Constitution of Massachusetts, created by his father's death. He m. Rebecca Faulkner, May 7, 1783. She was the eldest daughter of Col. Francis Faulkner of Acton, and had two brothers, graduates at Harvard College, namely, Luther, 1802, William Emerson, 1797. Mr. Foster was a lawyer of extensive practice, and sustained many offices of trust and honor, having been High-Sheriff of the County, Representative in Congress, Senator in Congress from Massachusetts, Elector of President, ChiefJustice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Worcester, and member of the Executive Council of Massachusetts. He was a man of very considerable acquirements, of great dignity and suavity of manners, and of unbending integrity. He died in Brookfield, April 23, 1823, having been for some years laid aside from active usefulness, by disease. His children were 1. Pamela, b. March 4, 1784, d. unmarried, Sept. 16, 1807; 2. Algernon Sidney, b. Nov. 22, 1785, d. at Brookfield, July 25, 1823, never married; 3. Sophia Dwight, b. July 30, 1787, m. Samuel M. Burnside, Esq., an attorney of Worcester, Oct. 1816, where she now lives; 4. Alfred Dwight, b. July 26, 1800.

VII. ALFRED DWIGHT, (son of Dwight Foster,) was born at Brookfield, July 26, 1800, received his preparatory education by private instruction and at Leicester Academy, graduated at Harvard College in 1819, and studied law at Worcester with Samuel M. Burnside, Esq. He resides at Worcester, and has represented that town in General Court, and been a member of the Governor's Council. He is a Trustee of Leicester Academy and of Amherst College, has been a Trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital, and its Treasurer ever since its establish

ment.

He married Lydia Stiles, daughter of John W. Stiles, Esq., of Worcester, Feb., 1828, and has three children; Dwight, b. Dec. 13, 1828; Mary Stiles, b. May 23, 1830; and Rebecca Faulkner, b. April 1, 1832. They are all living, and Dwight is a member of the Senior Class in Yale College.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF GENEALOGY.

BY LEMUEL SHATTUCK, ESQ.

NAMES AND DEFINITIONS OF THE DIFFERENT DEGREES OF KINDRED.

The terms used to designate the different degrees of consanguinity and relationship are often indefinitely or erroneously used. For the purpose of defining them accurately, and introducing a more correct use of them, this article, embracing the following diagram, is prepared.*

1. Husband and Wife. A man married to a woman, is the husband of that woman; as in the diagram, the first circle, numbered 1,

*In the diagram, the circles represent males, and the squares represent females. The dotted lines connect blood and marriage relations, and solid lines connect relations by adoption. M signifies married and U unmarried.

represents the husband of square 2, which represents the wife; and circles 3 and 5, are husbands of square 4; and such a woman is the wife of such a man; as 2 is the wife of 1, and 4 is the wife of 3 and 5.

2. Father and Mother. When a child results from the union or marriage of a husband and wife, such husband is the lawful father, and such wife is the lawful mother of such lawful child; as 6, 7, 9, and 10, are the lawful children of 1 and 2. The term parent is synonymous with father and mother. So papa and mamma, in a familiar sense, are used for father and mother. 3. Father-in-law and Mother-in-law. A father is father-in-law to the person whom his child marries; and a mother is mother-in-law to the same person; as 7 marries 8, therefore 1 is father-in-law, and 2 mother-in-law, to 8.

4. Step-father and Step-mother. A man who marries a woman, having children by another man, is step-father to such children; and a woman who marries a man having children by another woman, is step-mother to such children. As the man 3, marrying 4, a widow having three children, 11, 12, and 14, by her former husband 5, is step-father to those children. The woman 28, married two husbands, 27 and 29, both of whom had been married before, and had children, (the former had had by his first wife 26, 34; and the latter had had 36 and 37, by his first wife 30,) and she is step-mother to 34, and 36, and 37. Some define father-inlaw and step-father, as synonymous. This definition seems to be erroneous. Mistakes are also made in defining step-father as the father of an orphan. It may or may not be so; as will appear from the following definitions and illustrations. 5. Step-father-in-law and Step-mother-in-law. A man, whose stepchild marries, is step-father-in-law to the person whom such child marries; and the woman, under the same connections, is step-mother-in-law to such child. As 28 is step-mother-in-law to 35, and 3 is step-father-in-law to 10.

6. Natural father and Natural mother. The father and mother of a child who were not married are called the natural parents of such a child; as 13 and 14 not married had 21 and 22, and are the natural father and natural mother of those children. 7. Putative father. One who is reported, or supposed to be the father. 8. Adoptive father and Adoptive mother. A man who adopts the

children of another, as his own, and makes them heirs with his other children, if he has any, is the adoptive father, and the woman who does the same thing is the adoptive mother of such children. As illustrated by the diagram on the preceding page, the woman 19 adopted 28 as her own child, and thus became her adoptive mother; and the man 12 adopted the orphan 20, and became his adoptive father. A person who takes a child to bring up merely, should not be considered as the adoptive father or mother of such child. In this connection we observe that Foster-father is a term which designates one who takes the place of a father in providing for and educating a child, yet not adopted as his own; and Foster-mother is one who acts as a mother in nursing and educating a child, which is not her own nor adopted as such. From these definitions the meaning of Foster son or daughter, brother or sister, may be ascertained.