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MEIGS FAMILY RECORD
AN IMPORTANT AND EXTENSIVE
 CATALOGUE
Of Great Interest to the Descendants of Vincent MeiGs, Who Came From Dor sctshtre, England, to America.

| sctshtre, England, to America. The following article from the Balti- more Morning Herald of April Sth last | relates to the volume Record of the | Descendants of Vincent Meigs, who
 came to America from Dorsetshire,
 England, about 1885. A copy of this
 work, which is in handsome binding
 and well Illustrated, is to be presented to the New Haven Colony Historical society by George H. Meigs, of this city,
 who Is with the Chamberlain Furniture and MMantel Co.,, of this city, and by
 George R. Chamberlain, the owner of
 the oak chest referred to on pages 190
 and 191 of this book. The Baltimore
 paper says:
 Some time in the year 1884 or 1885 Vim
 cent Meigs sailed from England, sup
 posedly from the port of Weymouth, to
 make a home for himself and his fam
 fly in the new land. Of the children
 there were three sons-Vincent, Jr
 John and Mark. John was married and
 rad family of his own. In 1889 they
 were living in Weymouth, Mass. With
 in the next fifteen years they lived at
 Rehoboth, Mass, New Haven, Conn.,,
 and East Guilford or Hammonassett, i'll
 the same state. Vincent, the father,
 died in this last home on December l,
 1858. about five years beyond his alot-
 ted threescore and ten. Behind him he
 left the beginning of family which in I, ,t,,,, .t,,-. l1, 1,lltf fnV over the United States, and invariably made itself of influence wherever it has gone. There have been eight towns and one county Gin Tennessee) named after members of the family
 One of the descendants is well known insurance manager in Baltimore and an assiduous student of the family record. Responding to the promptings of the true blood of the New England Puritan in him, he has recognized the duty of gathering the names and ca- reers of the descendants of Vincent MMeigs into permanent form. The re- suit is an extensive catalogue of the Meigs family. The book is called Re cord of the Descendants of Vincent MMeigs, Who Came From Dorsetshire. England to America About 1885, and the author is Captain Henry B. Meigs
 The family began with Vincent Meigs and his wife--tWo. In Captain Meigs' volume there are the names of HAT | persons, who in the time covering near | ly three centuries have been born | Meigs.
 Some of them have been soldiers, some lawyers, some physicians some | some teachers. some mis- some preachers, some engi- neers and some in nearly every honora- ble calling. One and all, they have made themselves useful and more or less distinguished.
 Captain Janna Meigs, a great grand son of the original Vincent, was mem- Der of the Connecticut legislature for several terms and head of the militia of East Gulford. He died in l739. One of his sons -Return-was also an officer of the militi ia and mem per of the legislature Of his four sons, .hree fought in the revolution. The rth--Josiah-was graduate of Yale and later member of the faculty. When the University of Georgia was organized he was made the first presi- lent, and later was commissioners gen sral of the United Statesl and office in 
 Professor Meigs son Henry was q yolunteer in the war of 1S12, then suc- 'essively a New York city magistrate, member of the New York legislature, member of congress from that state md president of the New York broad of t,1 Tho thipd nf HonrufG phi1- lren and the eldest son, also named Henry was president of the New York ;tock Exchange in 1S77-1S7S One of his ,rothers was national bank examiner of New York.
 Charles D., another son of Professor feigs, became a distinguished physi ian. and the father of Montgomery C. deigs, mator-general of the United 'tates army and the builder of the fla C nous Cabin John bridge. near Wash ngton. General Meigs' daughter was he wife of Archibald Forbes, the fa- f lous war correspondent. ,
 From these individual records may be , ad an idea of the eminence which has f cen handed down as an inheritance !; rom generation to generation. 7 The youngest member of the family is !, lso a Baltimorean, Master Return onathan Meigs, who was three i lonths old on Saturady He is a son of . eturn J. Meigs, of the line of John, the on of Vincent, married at the time of le migration from England"
 There are in hand few extra copies I f the work, viz: Meigs' Genealogy, 'ather, $500; Meigs Genealogy, cloth, 500; eigs' Chart of American Ancestry, .Oo Add to remittance thirty-five s ants per volume to cover prepaid ex- | ressage. |