The Press., 1888-02-16
Volume 3o.. Number 47.
(For The Press.) DOWN-EASTERS IN E4STERN CONN.

] The title down-east, which in northern
 New England is applied to Maine, signifies
 in southern New England Rhode Island
 and the adjacent peninsula of Massachu- Esetts.
 It was Bishop Berkeley, then of New
 port, R. l., who wrote the famous line,
 ''Westward the star of empire takes its
 way ;" and though we believe that in prac-
 tice he went in the opposite direction
 back to England down casters hitch
 ed along into Conn.
 To begin alphabetically, John Alden,
 who was sent by the redoubtable Miles Sfandish to win for him by proxy the Pris- cilla of Longfellow'H poetry, she who was Mullins, "spoke for himself" and they twain set up housekeeping down in Dux- bury, where another John kept up the name, while his sister Elizabeth, to square .hs Standish account married Miles son Alexander. One of the Aldens turus up in he settlement of Stafford The town of Rshoboth, which once formed the whole eastern boundary of Providence County. R. l., with old Snithheld, R. l., formed a halfway stopping pl ,ce for several settlers. The descendants of Roger Ammidown. John Perrin and Stephen Payne or Paine of sRehoboth are we'll known Wiudham County families. Wm. Arnold (of Hing ham 1895, Providence 1637) is apparently sole ancestor originally of the many Ar holds of R. I. and Conn. The Mowrys, though the first settler is snid to have been 'Peleg Mowry near Boston, seem tO be i'm mediately descended from Roger of North stock 1894 Chandlers settled at about the same time in Woodstock,and Oxford, Mass from Plymouth Holmes, Lee, Robins. Washburn, ChapmHn, Dlmock, Clough, Joslyn, Knowlton, Hale. Perry, Fuller, Will lis, Woodward, Deane, Garew, Chaffee, Nichols (of Mansfield), Russell of Thomp- son, Presbury, Swift, Lathrop, Paul, Poole, Buck Bishop, King Sparrow Merrick, Morse of Woodstock, Wright, Underwood, Painter, Bosworth, Cushman, also are old colony families. Burdick, Fairfield, Lilli- bridge, ,s2 Babcock, Stanton Maehewson, sBatfey and most ofethe Greenes are south 'ern Rhode bland families. Some of these families are still so prominent or numerous in Stafford and vicinity aa to deserve furth- CT notice in Staff'rd paper. We include vicinity" for Stafford was largely settled from surrounding towns. Of the "numer- ous" kind of contributors were John Dim- lck, who came from Ashford about 175O, and was father of some 14 children in southwestern Stafford For the previous history back to the origin of the Dimock family in Wales, and the family connections m England and America, we refer to Mir. Addison Dimock of Moose Meadow.) Also the ChaGeeA, Hingham, 1887 the Cranes, among the first settlers of Mansfield the Knowitons of Hingham 1884, from Sutton, l725 to Ashford the. Eatons, Plymouth 1920, or later branch before 1643, to Wood stock in ITO; the Same year the Morses, of Bingham 1884. It is probable that FL dredge is . form of the Plymouth Eldred, 1643 LIllibridge Lily bridge,a place near London, Eng. J at Newport, R. L, 1899, later Richmond R. I. ..'Elder" David Lll, libridge branch has many representatives originating about Stafford. A brother of David has atrepresentative in Mrs. Nelson Enc of Wilmington. Holmes of Plymouth 1633, and Woodstock 1686 JN.E.