Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-10

by Colts First Regiment band of Hartford. The local choirs hope for assistance on Monday and Tuesday from Messrs. c. J. and Ericsson F. Ellsworth Elliot, M. D., of New York, will pre- eide on Tuesday.
 THE GUILFORD COMPANY. Interesting Genealogical Notes-Guil- ford's First Sestlers-Recoras Re. vealed by an old Chest in the His- torical Soeiety's Collections. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 After some investigation I am satisfied that the ship which brought the Whitfield Company to Qannipiac (New Havsn) was the St. John, of London. It appears on record in England, I am told by my friend Major George H. Larned of this city, that the City Council of London, Jan. 26, 1889, gave permission for the ship est. John" of 320 tons burthen Richard Russell, Master and partner Stephen Goodyear, merchant, and owner. to transport 25O passengers to New England. The record taken in connection with the fact that Stephen Goodyear, form. erly merchant of London, and Deputy Governor of New Haven Colony (Quinnipiac) leads me to this reference.
 This Captain Richard Russell of the ship St. John was born in Hertford Go. Hertford, England in 1911 and was son of Paul Russell by wife Maud. In the ship, the "St. John, came a passenger William Russell, his kinsmsn, one of the signers of the Cove. nant Agreement June 4th, 1861. His resi- dsnce for time was on the south west corner ofIGsorge and:College streets, this city facing the West Creek. He died Jan. 2nd. 1864.
 His sea cheat, now deposited with the New Haven Historical society, care of Major Larned, bears the following memoranda: This chest was brought from England in 1889 by William Russell, si, who nm mar. sar'h Davis. Noadiah Rus,.ll. mar: Mary Hamlsn. William Russell iafla m.s' soni Mary plerDon.. Their son,
 N0adiAh Russell, mar; esther Talcott. Mather Talcott Russell, mar Mary Huntington. William Huntinsto@ ahest so1s Russell, mar. Mary E. Hubbard. Their soB,
 TalcOtt Huntington Russell, now lives in Esther Russell, daughter of the second Noadiah Russell took the chest when che married Thaddeus Larned. and their son. George Larned. married Harriet Russel, and loaned it on the 250th anniversary of its ar rival to the society.
 In Leschford's MS. Note Book, paps 315,I find the following bill of exchange: Boston in New England Io7 1s4o. Upon dayes after sight of ths, my frat bill of Exchange, my second and third not being payd, l
 in sSe o o1 his signs the value of twelve pounds ia Cattell &o: Sc. The following letter I copied from the original at the British Museum, London, and 1t will interest many:
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 Your Honorable Ladyship's much obliged in tho 10 Lord. .a. p,,,. JOHN pAvaNPoRTE. Present these in Hackney. Sir Roger Townsend, Sd Bart, aud his brother Ho. ! ratio Baron Linn. As Major Larned's genealogy has interest, take the liberty to append another. The Richard Eaton, of Coventry, had son, Gov srnor Theopolus Eaton of the New Haven Francis Higginson of Salem, Mass, whose son, Rev. John Higginson, captain at Say brook fort under Lion Gardiner, time of the Pequot war, 1e37, married at Guilford, Sarah, l daughter of Rev. Henry Whitfield by wife Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Sheaf, D. D., son of Thomas Sheaf, of Cramworth, Kent. I found John Higgins and Sarah who, by wife, Sarah Savage, had daughter, Elizabeth, who married the Roy. Benjamin | Prescott of Salem whose son, Benjamin Prescott, married Rebeooa Minott, whose son, daughter of Rebecca married Hon. Roger Sherman, and son Benjamin Prescott, merchant, of New Haven, who married Hannah Blakesley, and their daughter Elizabeth married Henry Hotch- kiss, whose daughter Mary Ann married Charles Hervey Townshend, whose sons, Henry Hotchkiss Townshend and Raynham Townshend, are ninth in descent from the Rev. Henry Whitfield of the Guilford com pany, 1889.
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