The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24

in 17O5. He married Hannah Clarke and had seven children, one of whom was Hezekiah of Middetown, who died in Otis, Mass. He married Desire Higgins and had nine children Their son Daniel, born in 1759. was one of the pioneers of Otis Mass. He served in the War of 1912. He married Lucy Cook and had five children. He married, second, Hannah Watson and was blessed with seven more children. One of the children by the second wife was Increase Sumner, of Great Burlington. Mass, the Massachu- setts senator He married Puma Amee, daughter of the Hon. Samuel Barstow and sister of the Hon. Charles B. Bar stow. of Oswega whose daughter, Ellen Barstow married Thomas c. Platt, Unit ed States senator. Another distinguished descendant of the senior branch of the family is David Sumner of Hartland, Vt
 Charles Sumner was member of the seventh generation from William and Mary West Sumner. This great states man of the family was a man of rare qualities of mind as well as great abil- ity 1t is said that his various accom- plishments were rivaled among Ameri- can public men only by those of John Quincy Adams. Also, be it said to the credit of the name and family. that how ever great opposition he may have had there was never whisper against his political honesty or personal integrity
 The arms of the Summers are blazoned. Ermine two chevrons or. The crest is lions head erased, ducally gored, or
 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
 To P. J. B., who asks for the arms for the Bailey family:
 The arms for the Bailey family are de- scribed: Argent on a fesse between three martlets gules as many plates. The crest is griffin sejant ermine winged and armed or.
 To Interested who asks for the names of the founders of the colonial family of Myers, and a description of the family coat-of-arms:
 One of the first settlers of the Meyer family in America was Dutch, and came from Amsterdam, and another was Ger man, and came from Westphalia-which goes to show that very often many per sons of the same name-and name not common, either-cannot by any reasoning or research find any remote relationship existing among their ancestors.
 The progenitor of the Myer family of Harlem was Adolph Meyer-from Ulsen, parish of Bentheim, German province of Westphala. In the beginning this fami- ly spelled the name Mayer, and so pro- nounced it, but later on the descendants of Adolph called themselves Myer.
 Adolph arrived in Harlem, New Meth erlands in 1861, and soon made place for himself as an industrious, God-fear- ing man. He married Maria, a daughter of Johannes Verveelen, in 1671 and three years later united with the church in Harlem. It is probable that Marie in fluenced her husband in this step, for 1t Is recorded that she became church member several months before he did. A Dutch progenitor of part of the Co, ttxr To trol of New Amsterdam, who came from Am sterdam with his wife Tryntje Andriesse i Grevenraet before 1852. They settled In New Amsterdam, where their names are recorded in list of the members of the old Dutch church. They had a son, An dries Jansen Meyer, of New Amsterdam, who was born in Amsterdam, and was brought to the new world by his parents. On November 5. 1871, he married Vrontje Idens Van Worst. daughter of Ide Cor neliszen Van Worst and his wife, Hilletje Jans, of what Is now part of Jersey City. It is said that Ide Van Worst was the | first white male child born and married | in New Netherlands.
 | The Meyer arms are from a German l shield. They are described: Gules, a 1 feur de lis argent.
 1 To "American," who asks for the an cestry of the American Astor family. 1 Though the Astor family was presur- ably long established in the town Of Wal dorf, In the valley of the Neckar river 1 in what was then the duchy of Baden ] in Germany, the first member of the l family whose record is kept was Jacot I Astor, who lived 200 years ago. He wa.
 the father of at least two sons, tne eide | of whom was in the German militar, | service in North America during the Rev olution in the service of George III, ant the younger of whom was John, born fl 1763. Evidently inspired by his eide brothers accounts of the new world h. turned his back on his native countr,
 when he was barely 20 and sailed fo the west, reaching Baltimore and sooi
 making his way to New York, wi,h noth ing in the way of capital but perfec health and his ready wit Two years lat
 CT he married Sarah Todd, of Scotcl
 origin, and had the following children
 Magdalen, Sarah, William Backhouse
 Henry, Eliza and John Jacob, Jr. William Backhouse, the only one O
 the boys of the family who left issue
 further increased the Scotch blood of tn
 family by marrying Margaret Arm
 strong, so that in the early records ther
 was goodly share of Scotch cunning
 mingled with German thrift in the vein
 of the Astors.
 The coat -of-arms of the continental AS
 tor family is blazoned de gules troi
 esperviers dor "a bord comp des deu
 emaux"