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Jeffries, Walter Lloyd, "Taxes Under Gov. Andros", NEGHR, vol. XXXII (1878), pp. 81-82.

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TAXES UNDER GOV. ANDROS

Communicated by Walter Lloyd Jeffries, A.B., of Boston.
No. II

The Town Rate of Stow, Mass., 1688.

The following town rate belongs to the series of tax-lists, during Gov. Andros's administration, among the Jeffries MSS., of which the lists for Little Cambridge, now Newton, and Billerica, were printed in the July number of the Register (ante, xxxi. 302-7). For information concerning these lists, the reader is referred to the note introductory to them.

Stow 1688	An Invoice of ye rateable persons & estates of ye Inhabitnts of this Town, taken & determined by ye selectmen & stephen Hall Comissoner of this Town ye 28 of Augst 1688 (to be present {-----} ye sd Commissionr, at ye next meeting of ye Comissinrs at {-----} according to ye Treasurers ordr as follo (vizt.)
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1	[[Family:Whitney, Moses (1655-a1729)|Moses Whetney]]	0 : 4 : 8
1	[[Family:Whitney, Richard (1624-a1691)|Richd Whetney senr]]	0 : 4 : 10
1	Richd Whetney junr	0 : 3 : 6
1	Thomas Whetney	0 : 4 : 0

Index listings: Moses Whitney, Richard Whitney and Thomas Whitney.

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"Notes and Queries", NEHGR, vol. XXXII (1878), pp. 85-98.

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Thurston. Who were the ancestors of David Thurston, who married Eunice Whitney, and lived awhile in Leominster, Mass., thence removed to Marlboro, N. H., about 1767, when that place was a wilderness? He had seven children.

Portland, Me. -- Brown Thurston.

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"Book Notices", NEHGR, vol. XXXII (1878), pp. 109-120.

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The American Library Journal (Monthly). Managing Editor, Melvil Dewey. Bibliography, Charles A. Cutler. Pseudonyms and Anonyms, James L. Whitney. General Editor, R. R. Bowker. Journal of American Library Association. Vol. I. (September, 1876 -- August, 1877). New York: F. Leypoldt, Publisher. 1877 [4to. pp. xv+458.]

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Eustis, Prof. Henry Lawrence, A.M., Harv., "Genealogy of the Eustis Family", NEHGR, vol XXXII (1878), pp. 204-228.

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35. Moses⁵ Eustis ( Thomas⁴, Thomas³, William², William¹ ) was b. Jan. 23, 1771. He m. April 22, 1798, Rebecca Green, by Rev. Peter Thacher. She was b. at Lincoln, and d. Nov. 11, 1859, µt. 84y.5m.2d.; buried at Mt. Auburn. He d. Oct. 28, 1814. Children :

i. William⁶, b. Nov. 12, 1798; d. Sept. 16, 1799.

ii. Abby⁶, b. 1799; d. Aug. 26, 1800.

iii. Becky⁶, b. March 30, 1800; d. Aug. 22, 1800.

iv. Hannah⁶, b. July 2, 1801; m. Jan. 29, 1820, Moses Whitney, of Watertown.

v. George W.⁶, b. Aug. 5, 1802; d. Aug 6, 1802.

vi. Harriett G.⁶, b. Sept. 12, 1803; d. Oct. 9, 1803.

vii. Moses⁶, b. Oct. 18, 1804; d. Aug. 10, 1805.

viii. Harriett G.⁶, b. Nov. 18, 1805; d. Sept. 15, 1806.

ix. Sarah⁶, b. Feb. 14, 1807; m. Feb. 12, 1826, Nahum Whitney; d. Feb. 5, 1860, µt. 52 yrs.11 mos. 21 days.

x. Stillborn⁶, b. Oct. 14, 1809.

xi. Samuel G.⁶, b. Nov. 20, 1810; d. Feb. 16, 1817.

59. xii. George Washington⁶, b. June 17, 1812.

xiii. Eliza⁶, b. Aug. 16, 1814; m. June 2, 1836, Edwin N. Bisbee; d. March 11, 1857, µt.42 yrs. 7 mos.

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"Societies and Their Proceedings", NEHGR, vol. XXXII (1878), pp. 243-245.

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New England Historic, Genealogical Society

Boston, Mass., Wednesday, December 5, 1877. A monthly meeting was held this afternoon, at 3 o'clock, at the Society's House, 18 Somerset Street, the president, the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Ph.D., in the chair. [snip]

The Rev. Samuel Cutler, the historiographer, read memorial sketches of the following deceased members, namely, the Rev. John A. Vinton, Martin Paine, M.D., LL.D., Joseph Ballard, the Rev. Edwin Hall, D.D., John K. Wiggin, Gardner Chilson, Daniel A. Rogers, and Thomas E. Whitney.

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Cutler, Rev. Samuel, Historiographer, "Necrology of Historic, Genealogical Society", NEHGR, vol. XXXII (1878), pp. 349-357.

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Thomas Edwin Whitney, A. M., of Shirley, Mass., a corresponding member, where he was born Nov. 1, 1825, and where he died Oct. 25, 1876, aged 50 years.

His great-grandfather was the Rev. Phineas Whitney, the first settled minister of Shirley, a graduate of H. C. 1759. He died in 1819, after a ministry of fifty-seven years. Thomas, the eldest son of Rev. Phineas, who remained in Shirley during a long life, had three sons, of which the eldest, Thomas Whitney, Jr., who died Dec. 6, 1865, was the father of the subject of this sketch.

Thomas Edwin Whitney was the only child of Thomas and Sally (Barrett) Whitney. His early education was in the common schools of his native town, and one or two terms in a Friends school, under the instruction of Mr. Jonathan Frye, of Bolton. He then entered the Groton Academy, where he was prepared for college. His collegiate course was at Harvard, from which he graduated in 1845. The childhood and early active life of Mr. Whitney were well worthy of imitation in view of his obedience as a child; his gentle social habits as a boy and young man; and his application and proficiency as a student. Returning to his native town, after finishing his collegiate course, he established a select school which he conducted with great ability and success, securing the strong attachment to his pupils for three or four terms. "Those who were well prepared to judge, declared that the teacher's calling was the appropriate sphere for the new graduate." He was led, however, to change the work for which his education had fitted him, and to enter upon the business of a broker, and then in the Nova Scotia trade. In these and other mercantile adventures he was unsuccessful. "Returning to his native town, he continued until his death to cultivate the broad acres which were his patrimonial inheritance." "Mr. Whitney was never married. His remains rest in the ancient cemetery of his native town, almost under the shadow of the church tower where his infant brow received the consecrating waters of baptism, and where he weekly engaged in public worship. The last of the name in the family line to which he belonged has been gathered to his fathers, and the dust of four generations has found one common resting place."

His membership is from June 8, 1846.

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"Recent Publications", NEHGR, vol. XXXII (1878), pp. 369-371.

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The Suffolk Bank. By D. R. Whitney, president of the Suffolk National Bank. [Motto.] Cambridge : Printed at the Riverside Press, for private distribution. 1878 [8vo. pp. 73]

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