The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31

'hOiihS' Nho was Impressed Into serYlc' in King Philips war, was killed fighting the Indians in 1675.
 Thomas. Jr. the second son of Thom- as Sr, married Ruth Porter and had seven children--Christian Samuel whc perlshed in the expedition to Canada, and who has been already. mentioned; Mary sarah, Ruth, Martha and Thomas, some times called John.
 Another founder of the American Baileys met with rough treatment by the sea. This was John Bailey, who died in 1851 at Salisbury. Mass. He sailed in the ship Angel Gabriel, which left Chippen- ham, England, In 1889, and when the ship was off the Maine shore it was wreck ed, and the passengers were forced to land at Pemaquid Me Later John settled st Salisbury and the family he founded is known as the family of John of Sails bury.
 John had one son, named John, who had six children. One of the latter was James, who was graduated from Harvard in 1669, and who in 1872, became the pastor of the first parish church at Salem Mass.
 Goodman John Bailey, who went from Connecticut to Long Island, where he settled a branch of his family, and Will liam Bailey, who married Grace Parsons
 
 were other founders of the Bailey family in America.
 T. NJ, M. J., who asks for information of the first settler of the name Jordan in America:
 MT. Robert Jordan, a minister wch hath bin with vs this three moneths whc is a very honest religious man by any thing as yett I can find in him" These words were written in 1640 by MT. Win ter of Richmond's Hill, near Spurwink Me, concerning the young Oxford grad uate who had lately come out from Eng land to be the chaplain of the new colony incidentally this same MT. Winter had daughter, Sarah, who in two years be- came the wife of Robert Jordan and With him established the Jordan family in America.
 Very little is known of Robert before he came to America. except that his fathers name was Edmund Jordan and that the family resided in Worcester. Eng iahd. Robert was born in 1911 and was educated at Balliol college Oxford. He probably came to this country in one or the regular trading vessels. that piled between England and the colony at Rich monds Island, Me. He is mentioned in an old record as "an orthodox divine of the Church of England, of great parts and estate. The great parts, of course ne owed to his superior inheritance and education;but for his great estate" was indeoted to his wife. who, on the death or her father, was the heress of many thousands of acres besides a very con siderable amount of money for those days.
 It IS said, to the great credit of this iamlly, that 1t was owing to the influ- ence of this enlightened man that the witchcraft madness that was sweenine through the neiehboring colonies at about thls time never penetrated into Maine. oh one occasion, when 8 superstitious servant wished to impute the death of one or the clergyman's cows to a certain woman in tue community, the broad minded clergyman treated the matter With such severe isapproval-showins that the COW had died frcm neglect-that at the idea of witches never came into the community again.
 Unfortunately for the people amonp whom they lived, Mr. Jordan and his family were forced to flee from Maine on the second Indian outbreak. They set tied at Portsmouth, N. H.
 Robert Jordan had six sons. al, horn before 1864. They are as follows: John Robert Dominicus, Jededah. Samuel and Jeremiah. Since the Jordan descendants Tn this country spring from these six mes, It is interesting to trace each one
 To T, T.. who asks whether the Trotter family are of Scotch or English origin:
 In old Scotch dialect "trot" means ar expedition by horsemen, and the family name Trotter is derived from this sense or the word. It was developed as & pa tronymic probably in the north counties of England and the highlands of Scot. land at time of border warfare and pill lage. As one might suppose, the two best known families of Trotter in the cld world, one English and the other Scotch are situated one in the north of Ireland and the other toward the southern part of Scotland, in Perthshre.
 To l.. V. L., who asks for information about the Newport family in Virginia
 Capt. Christopher Newport, admiral ot Virginia, has been called the first req estate speculator in this country, or the colony of the London company. with its 1O5 colonists, which found shelter 301 years ago behind Point Comfort, may fairly bt called real estate speculation. The ac. tual settlement. at Jamestown, dates from April 26. 1907. when the little squad ron of three ships-the Susan Constant the Godspeed, and the Discovery-undel the command of Christopher Newport completed its long voyage. It entered the estuary, between the capes, afterwarc called Charles and Henry, in honor of the two sons of the King. The vessels took shelter behind the promontory, which the weary voyagers called Point Comfort Newport News also owes it's name to tho admiral, or 1t is generally accepted by those who have gone into the local history of Virginia that it was thus named in his honor.
 Captain Newport's wife was Elizabeth and he had two sons. John and Christo pher, and daughters, Elizabeth and Jane To Elizabeth the captain left 400 pound. as her marriage dowry; to Jane only pounds, ''on account of her many ant great disobedience toward me, and hel misdemeanors to my great hearts grief The captain died before his wife, for W, find that Sir Francis Wyatt, in 1921, 'se l off the land given to the widow of Chris l topher Newport
 l Marriage connections of the Newport | include the Carews, Claytons and Bragg the last named tn efaniily of Captail Bragg of the British navy There is sal, ] to be a connection with the family o Washington.
 1 To D. T. DuBois, who asks whether tn
 Dubois family are of French or Englis origin.
 l The family of Dubois, or DuBois, in thi country. traces back to the noble Hugue | not refugees. Louis and Jacques q l Bois, sons of Chretien or Christian d
 Bois of Artois. who was a lineal descend ant of Macquaire du Bois. Count de Ror | soy, living at the beginning of the twelft century.
 The name is one of the oldest in Franc,
 md has more extensive marriage cor
 nections. so the historian of the famil declares, than any other, and he add 1 T have never but in one instance foun ] 1t written in French records otherwis than with the small "d'' and capital "H --du Bois. The prefix de, de la, or du, | contraction of de le, is badge of nob l extraction. The origin of the name | Bois would seem. to be de la bois--of il