The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-06
ELlHU YALE PORTRAYED
IN MANY NEW AND INTEREST
 ING PHASES,

shend or New haNen-book Nontntas
 Mneh That is Ksw-YaIe msn All Over
 the World HnI be Interested.
 /! Some very interesting facts concern
 ing Eiihu Yale and his ancestors are
 contained in a volume recently com
 piled by Alfred Neabard Palmer, of Wrexham, England. 4 copy of this la test work is in the possession of Cap tain Charles H. Townshend, of Church street and Raynham. this city. Mir. Townshend is personally acquainted
 with MT. Palmer and was assisted by the author materially in securing gene alogical data during several of his many trips to England, and assisted the au- thor in securing data for this new
 book. Captain Townshend is de-
 scendant of Elihu Yale and has always
 been keenly interested in genealogical research. -s.>-.-..- The new volume is entitled, History of the Thirteen Country Townships of the Old Parish of Wrexham." The work was published by Hughes 6 Son, of Wrexham, England, and is nicely
 done. The print is clear and the bind ing is substantial one. .-s,... The chapters in the book which deal with the genealogy of the aseendants
 and descendants of Yale, also with the life of the man whose name has made New Haven known and renowned
 throughout the civilized world, and
 even <. into the jungles of Africa and
 among uncivilized and un- Christianizedi
 parts of the world, are of special inter
 est to New Haven people.
 Beginning with Dr, David Yale, (tne
 name Yale being evolved from Lloydl, who, in 1898, secured possession of lands in Erddig, township which was later
 united to the parish of Wrexhanl, the
 book traces the lineage of Elihu Yale. Dr. David Yale was chancellor of Ches- ter for a long period of time. In 1609
 he leased from one, Peter Warburton, the spacious lands known as .9lyn5
 Park for term of thirty y-nine years.
 This park contained two hundred and
 eighty acres. Dr. Yale was the rector
 of Llandegla Q564-731, prebendary in St. Asoph Cathedral (1578 -1624l, preben-.
 dary of Chester t15S2), chancellor of
 Chester (i5S7-1624), and justice of the
 peace (16Ot and 162Q) and of the quo-
 rum, for the county of Chester (160S.)
 How. this Dr. David Yale was related
 to the Yales of Plas yn Yale is still an
 open question. But that he was related
 to them is beyond all question. He was the ''Davy Yale' mentioned in the will of Dr. Thomas Yale, chancellor of Cam
 terbury. In this will Dr. Thomas Yale
 alludes to 'Davy Yale'' as his kinsman.
 This Dr. Thomas Yale was second son
 of David Lloyd ap Ellsse of Plas yn
 Ial, his elder brother being John Wyn (tfe son of whom was Thomas Yale,
 who continued the line of Plas yn lab. and his younger brothers, Alderman
 Hugh Yale, of Oswestay, and Roger
 Lloyd. the ancestor cf the Lloyds of
 Plas Einiori.
 In foot-note inSthe$ book the author, MT Palmer. says: | owe my knoWl- edge of this will to Charles Hervey
 Townshend, Esq, of New Haven, Con- necticut.'
 According to the book the John Wyll, above mentioned, had another son, Da vid Lloyd, D. c. L.. Tt matters not q bit, 7, says the author, that he was first
 called David Lloyd instead Of David
 Yale. for it is notorious how unsettled
 surnames were in Wales. " E."
 Continuing, MT. Palmer says: T must apologize for writing at length upon this point, but 1t seemed neeessa- | ry to put in evidence what appear to be 1 the facts concerning a man, famous in himself, and famous in his connections
 and descendants, not the least of whom was Elihu Yale, the founder of Yale college in New England.' *@5 Returning to the history of Dr. Da-. ] vid Yale, it appears that he later con- veyed to Richard Davies, vintuer, of
 London, his right i'll a leasehold prop erty in Sontley and then in 1919 he, to-. gether with his wife Frances, and el-
 dest son and heir apparent, Thomas Yale, sold for twenty-three hundred pounds, to the came Richard Davies. l the Erddig estate. This eldest son and
 heir apparent, Thomas Yale, was the grandfather of Elihu Yale. Concerning this Richard Davies, MT.
 Palmer expresses the belief that Da- vies son. Samuel, settled m Chelsea,
 Mass, in 16s1 or 1632.
 MT. Palmer gives the names of six sons of Dr. David Yale, but later in his book adds: "But in August, 1898, my friend MT. Charles Hervey Town shend, of New-haven, U. s. A., was so fortunate as to unearth, at Chester, Dr.
 David Yale's will, dated August 90, 1925, proved by two eodicils thereto, June 16, 1626, and herein are named two other sons, Simon Yale and Samuel Yale, and several daughters, namely, Ellen, Kath- erine, Frances, Devereux, also two married daughters.
 It is needless to say in a review of the book that the discovery of this will by MT. Townshend, of this city, fur nished @ most important clue to Elfliu Yale's ancestry.
 The author in speaking of this will says: "This will and the pedigree, printed by MT. Townshend, (who is de- scended from Dr. David Yale) together with the careful researches made by Dr. Franklin B. Dexter of Yale univer-
 sity, enable me to present the pedigree of the Yales of Plas Grono. Dr. David Yale, of Chester, then was Elihu Yales great grandfather, while Thamas Yale of Chester, and not David Yale, as has
 been asserted, was Elihu's grandfather.