The Press., 1921-10-27
Mrs. J. s. -Amidon, Misses s. L. Morse and Lillian Amidon and H. N. Amidon spent last Saturday in Pom fret and Abingdon
Eastern Holland, from 1850 to the
 Civil War.

' Since writing my Holland reminis- cences, have more information and some little earlier For Skunka- maug especially. I have acquired val uable additions from MT. Charles Chism, who with his daughter, Emily, lives next to the Westford Hill church, and who himself has an interesting history. His grandfather was a ship builder at Inverness, on Moray Firth, in the northern Highlands of Scot land; and his property was almost wholly invested in ships already launched; and in a great storm, he, with many others in those parts, lost almost his all, and had to enter the employ of shipbuiIders at Belfast, in the north of Ireland; but as his son had family growing up, of which at least three, namely, Charles Dan, and Marvin, were sons, his ambition for their future determined him on emi- grating to America, the land of OppOr- tunity. This son, with his fam fly landed first on Prince Edwards Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but later proceeded to Boston, and thence to northeastern Connecticut; Charles, at 12 years old landing in Skungamaug, to work for his living, in the family of Mother Lathrop."
 MT. Chism gave me the names of his schOOlmates in Skungamaug school, in the winter of 1850; teacher, Maria, the daughter of Dr. Isham Boys: Edward and Fernando Agard, Henry Benton, William Bracket, Clark, Hen ry, Sylvester and William Bugbee, Charles Chism, Robert Cross, Ransom Finley, Chauncy and William Lathrop, John and Talmon Maine, Francis Pease, Lincoln Robinson, Job Saun- ders, and Hubbard Waldo. Girls: Lu- cinda and Sarah Bugbee, Sarah Chap man, (daughter of Sherman), Annis Finley, Amoret and Ellen Joslin, An geline LOomis, Harriet Slater, Phebe Smith, Charlotte Waldo, and Marcia and Martha, twin daughters of Will liam Webster.
 The next teacher after Maria Isham was a man named Torrey.
 The Bughee children belonged to Alanson Bugbee.
 Sherman Chapman had sons George and Ezra, as we'll as daughter, Sarah. He carried on business in a black smith shop with two forges, opposite his house, (nOw Abiel Metcalf's) James Fisk Brooks of Stafford was one of his apprentices. The west line, of boundary between Skunkamaug dis trict and Holland Street district, ran between Mr. Cobb's house and MT. Jacobs on the main road to the street, now the State road; Jacobs living in the Street district.
 Lathrop's saWmill on Skunkamaug brook, was later replaced by Wales Bugbee's later William LathrOp's; and a small factory also had power from the brook. Moses SeaVer and his brother Aaron lived at the sand drift east, and carried wood to Rock vile by Ox-team. Moses wife was widow Webster, and Webster lived at the Hale place, next east of Seaver. John Cross and a Maine lived on the road running south from the Seaver sand-drift.
 About 1850 William Webster hired the Charter place, then owned by Samuel Charter, next north of the school house. Williams children were all girls. Robert Cross father, Talmon Cross lived in Buffcap district. The family ancestry traces to Robert Cross of Ipswich, Massachusetts. The Bug bees trace to Edward, more correctly spelled Rugby, Roxbury, Mass, 1884, ty way of Woodstock, Conn, a colony from Roxbury in 1886. The Einley's were Scotch. The JOslins were originally NOrmans settled in tine south of England, through Thomas Josselyn, who came from Boston, En- gland, to Bingham, Mass, in 1885. spelled also Jocelyn, which, according to the best English authority, is a more correct form, the diminutive of the name of St. JOsse, or GOce, of France. The full form of Chism is Chisholm, the name of an estate in Inverness and another in ROxburg shire, Scotland, the latter probably be- ing the original.
 LoOmis, Pease, and Webster are Hartford and Windsor names.
 JOEL N. EMO.