The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

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 .u..s.sp.s............. 1 speaker of the lower house of tho South 1 Carolina legislature and finally he was
 made chief justice of South Carolina. l He was a stanch Baptist and temper snce advocate Besides his many other Guties and interests. John Belton | O'Neill found time to become a member | of the militia and he rose to be major | general
 | In Thomaston. Me, there arc some | O'Neills who trace their descent to a ! James ONeill. born in 1766, in Sligo l county, Ireland. He moved to Phi1adel- 1 phia and thence to rhomaston early ! ia the nineteenth century. He became very wealthy and left quarries and valuable estates to his children. | The arms of the O'Neills illustrated are blazoned Per fesse, wavy, the chief argent, the base representing the waves of the sea, in chief a dexter l band. couped at the wrist gules, in base salmon naiant proper. The crest is sn arm in armor endowed. the hand l grasping a sword, all proper. The mot | to is "Lahm Dearg Eiren." To T. P. IT, who asks for the origin
 of the Hunton family:
 The English Huntons, a distinguished family, say that their ancestor was knighted in the time of Queen Eliza beth, and 1t is possible that they are | of the same original stock as the American Hintons.
 | The New England Huntons have | tradition in their family that their | early ancestors fled from France, on l the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, | to the island of Jersey and from Jer- sey came to the New England col | onies.
 However, there is no way of finding l cut, at this date, just what the origin | of the family was. The name is from | Hund, hound or dog. and ton, a gc-
 neric name for a place. Hence, Hun ton meant first place devoted to hunting. The priory of Hunton in Eng land was named because hunting with
 dogs was indulged in there. For this
 same reason several places in Englaud | were named Hunton, and 1t is not at all | improbable that some families of the
 name took 1t because, at the time whe
 last names came into fashion they hap
 pened to be living in parish named
 Hunton. Hanton. Hinton, Henton,
 Iionton, Hynton and Hunton are doutt-
 less all from the same source.
 To L. DuB.. who wishes to know
 something of the first settler, Louis
 DuBois:
 Louis "du Bois.p as he always wrote
 his name, was born in 1626 Whe1 | about S4 years old he arrived in
 America with his wife, Catherine nee E1anshan, whom he had married 3n Germany and their two sons, who re- ioiced in the patriarcha1 names, An raham and Isaac They settled at King ston, N. r, and Abraham was later one of the patentees of New Platz--or lc nouveau palatinate--thus named after the Palatinate, Germany, the house of Abrahams mother. The du Bois' house at Kingston is still in pos session of the family and reunions ! have been held there. Louis was one of tle founders of the church and the \ record of It's building is still preserved Louis always went by the title of the Walloon. By occupation he was "a tii- Ter of the sol' his brother Jacques was silk manufacturer.
 Those were stirring times and the du Bois family had it's share of adveii- lures, and thrilling escapades--very much so indeed, for Louis wife and children-there were three of them j were carried captives by Indians In the raid of 1863 and just about to be "butchered to make an Indian holiday when Louis and his band of men rushed in upon the scene. Tho captives had saved their lives, in the first place, by l singing songs. That music hath charms . 10 soothe the savage breast" was deni- cnstrated in this case. The "Babylonish Captives' was the very appropriate song which Catherine and her children were singing at the moment of their | escue.
 Abranam's wife was Margaret DeJo, and one daughter, Mary. who married
 Philip Ferrie, or Verree, received as | her wedding portion, 1000 acres of land in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania Du Bois, a town in Pennsylyania, possibly is thus named for the pilgrim fath- T CTS.
 Jacques, who left three sons lived | but one year after reaching the nc " world. He settled at Esopus, N. Y. To B. Pa LampraX, who wishes ic- formation concerning the origin o'
 the I.amprey family. with descriptions ! of the coat of arms and crest. Lamprey is the name of a famii, widespread in New England. the soutf ; and the west.
 The first of the name in this country was Henry Lamprey. who came iron X England in 1852 to Boston. afterwars d removing to Hampton, N H. H' < brought a wife, Julien, or Gillyer, b. \ name, and three children, Henry, Dan 6 iel and Elizabeth Henry. the pilgrim served on the grand jury, and was { d a aton.
 The pretty and romantic story abou \ his wife is that she brought him he weight in gold, or 112 pounds of th' \ precious metal. and the chest whlcl held this dowry is still treasured b. N descendants. What would family tradi B tons be worth without some fairy tales interwoveni in them?
 Henry, the second, as, he may b,
 called, married Elizabeth Mitchell. aut
 they lived in Stratham, N. H. Recori preserved show that he was one O
 the signers of the petition to the gov
 ernor in 1709 asking that the place b. II Incorporated as a town.
 Daniel was a large landowner o
 Portsmouth N. II. Benjamin Lamprey'
 house was on Nook Lane, Hampton
 near the road leading to Exeter, am \ the records have it that the road wa ' laid out by bear. Bruin made a nish . laid on the settlement near "Wigwar
 Iow," and the men going in his pur suit the following morning made tha the highway, which accounts for it
 crookedness.
 . The arms from Burke's Peerage. is ol | three cross -crosslets fitchee, in chic