The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-01
DEVON'S SONS IN AMERICA.
LEADING PART THEY'VE PLAYED
As COLOkIZERS.
mr. Roper L~ethbrtdEe. President Of the
Devenshire Association. Points 10 the
influence of Its hinsmca Upon the
Civilization Of America ami Australia.

httNobA MI Wv ~ WIN w NNANA NNNiA
LII. 10 recall tie place ~ their common
origin and chat over tho achievements Of
those Who have come from the same COM
munity or locality A. they themselves
pons perhaps can lie said 'o 20 ahead Of tho
men Of Devonslire. Or II that he too strong
q statement. IL apIeau quite certain that
there are NJ p@ople who. remaining A.
home, love better to 'ell o. and hear
about what their fellow coun;rymen have
dom abrnsd than the people Of nevonshire.
For example. turn 60 the proceedings
Of the Devonshirs Association, tho records
tmmortalix~d In that body's ''Transactions
Or listen 10 one Of tho associations FRESH
dents Addresses.
A. this summers me~ting ~ The Devon
shire Association TIE President, Sir Roper
L~thbridge. chose for the topic ~ III an
nual address. Hands Acro<, the Sea,
and turned his attention 70 emiRrants ~
Drvonshire and IN. descendants of early
wandering DeyoIshircmcn. Who aro now
" lie found H. all quarters of the glohc
where Enslsnd's flag fies ar the tongue
Of England IL spoken They have leen
prolific. these people 81 ~D-vonshirs, and
exp~nsionIsts from the earliest days and
have mad. themselves known among men
far and wide, carrying their names. with
some few notifications, with them. In
deed. after perlsal OF Sir Roper careful
and comprehensive address ~ would he
difficult 20 tell oNhaud Just hOA Bu'l7h
colonization could have gone or Without
Thorn. or how the Cis-Atl1utiC settlements
could have come into helng ADD preserved
their English a~ttihut-S rad there Ten no
men OF Devon to take up thus mighty Work
Of the world. Rare old lleNoniaus t'"y
we're some centuries back whose hostages
to p~osterty testify yot 20 their staying
powers
Quickened pulses. Sir Roper saws. re-
pponded 10 The reports OF the splendid
va or and hardihood ~ brothcrs from
Canada and Aust rata. Tasmania and India.
fighting the old countrys battles IA Sonlh
Afnoa, INC the-e circumstances he vrn-
tured TO believe rendered appropriate
his choice Of a subject.
And when We have reen that through
out the vast and mighty daughtoriand 81
America, too he says, 'th"rc has pas~'d
q sob Of sympathetic anguish when danger
or sorrow seemed TO threaten tho old mother
England, whether In our great war ar IN
our grief for the loss ~ our Queen, We
have felt that blood II indeed thicker thth
water and thanked God for the sympathy
OF men Of English race across the Sras,
Newfoundland, Sir Roper saws, l. prac-
tically a new Devon, and he recites inter-
Getting experiences OF the West Country
men who carly went there. He quotes
one Of their historians who saws Holding
their own az tho fisheries against iortu-
guess, French and Basques, and, W'r-'
than all. the merCpnRrv ga pirates these
West Countrym-n learned lessons IN -"a-
manship ~ which Dcvou's part IN defeating
tho Armada wasn glorious sequel tk'adcrs
OF Westward Hu'" know something of
Devon'. contribution Of ships TO meet
The Spanish Ia thai historic campaign
Moreover, their success gave such m IN
petus to further English enterprises IN
North America that u was OF hsh, not OF
religious freedom, tina the pniitan agents
spoke when they came from boydcn TO beg
James, gracious leave 10 81 To the New
Land
we are all Of US agreed Sir RcT~r
observes. that tho greatest political event
e our timo IL the rallvtng 81 the young Ron
ouls from ovcry cline on .arth around
the rag NJ the Did lion la S'uth Afrioa
NAV not We U~"vonians be- proud 81 the I'M
doubted FAC that this mnNon ent vas com.
mencei ~ long ago a. IA" great p'rI "'
the Spanish Armada ~ -. by cur hIs'
Devon ~colouistS iu N~-NfnuD6lan
lie saws that regarding most events con-
nectel with subsequent Devon enterprise
ia America the Dcvouians at HON" ara
indebtei fnr ful knoNl"dg" 10 ~" clan
collin ~ their DeVouiAu cousins over here
i'm the Unitod States. AID b." turns a-ido
for a r,.msrk or two upon Whist he fnds a
lauiahl. practice, that one, sometimes
commented upon adversely here, with
CONCERNS it-elf With hnesg- and Tho eScet-
tanning % the early history Of one y iam'lN,
Il should like here to point out, b.. says,
"a our American cousins, IN making these
researches into the history 81 their Rrttish
ANCESTOR, cannot Ice susp C'cd - doing -
from any vulgar desire Of constructing an
oatentattous p,Niigtec. or to connect them
selves with furlears more highly placed
than Themselves In the sOCutl scale. For
la IL remembered that many " tho families
Of whom ! am speaking trace hack ul'sr
ancestry in America ~ early as the year
1890 or ltJn-an ~Rht'0uity tiat would To"
rerpected even la the more ancient coun-
tries of Furop. aud there their members
have held high aud honorable positions IN
the Stat. ] think II should he gratifying
90 W. l.von!anS that ~ many OF our cousins
In America, out 81 that pure and simple
sentiment % family affection that II call'-t
'clannishues1, take pleasure In establish
ing the fact - a very real fact In NV opinion
tina. tho hereditary character which has
produced such splendid results In ne New
World wss founded IN the dear o.d hoiue~
81 Devon
To a fortunate accident which was fol-
lowed up by this American public spirit
as Sir Roper aftcrward put u-lc saNs ~
owing tho discovery and publication 81
the freldrney Papers which had lain hd-
den In the family house at Ham for nearly
two and a half centuries. 1huS" papers
belong now " the Maine Historical so
ciety.
The frst Governor o' Massachusetts
Raw, John Endicott, imprsSs- m" - per
hat- the strongest. morally aud int"il~c-
tually Of that hanl Of gants'-th" earliest
New England pioneers and Pilgrims says
Sir Roper and he proceeds q take the
chief giant from among thu Dorset men
where some nave placed him and to put
him down to Devon i believe there can
lie no doubt whatever, Sir RuIsr saNs,
that GOV Endicott came from the we'll
known tin-mining family, Whu-s nam"
wa. varously sp~llcd Endicutt. End~rutt
and fndacott. that owned tin mime snt
other lands m ChAgfori, I~hroVleigh aud
Nor.,onhainpst.ad. and belonged Geo the
stannArv OF ChaFfori They almost Ger
tainly took their origin and name nom the
farm called Endacutt IN the ~ncighbunng
parish % South Tavton.
Sir Rop-r presently comes upon an I'm
m~liatslv interesting name among tho~e
which the world owes tn ncyur-hir" or
ali our pevunshir- fainilic-, I've ravr, then"
ar. thr,~a 81 whom cur oit IeNonsiif"
distich speaks a. N they we're almost al
,o~bthonpus, Children ~ he very 81.
l csI-rt 80 ar. all familiar with The old
saying
N-ro-s.. c-usNs. .nd Oup ssiors
wheu N Conqustoi osus 10 inuut trm 81 hon'
1T would - strange y Ne dad no. tui
th~s. anoa~nt families r~Trrr-ut.t amuHg
the adventurous ok VIII v"rc th' ~ni"neers