Isaac Colwell, d. Oct. 3, 1811, aged 11.
Sarah, wife of George Beale, d. Jan. 13, 1790, aged 37 yrs.

(To be continued.)

EDITORIAL.

WITH this volume the price of the RECORD will be raised and its size enlarged according to the announcement made in the last number. We hope that its circulation will not be allowed to fall off in consequence of the increase in the price of subscription. Those who have taken it for the sake of its contents will need no solicitation to renew their subscriptions. Such, however, as may have taken it for the sake of the Society may need to be urged to continue to do so. For unhappily genealogical publications, although they deal with information of first importance to multitudes who should purchase them, are usually issued at a loss to their publishers. Like so many of the best things in the world they need to be offered below cost, or even without money and without price, in order to be accepted. The RECORD is no exception to the general rule. If it is to be enlarged and made worthy of the society whose name it bears, especially if it is to realize the hopes of its founders and properly fulfil its mission, until men come to care as much for the history of their ancestors as they care for that of the aborigines and glory in the classification of their grandmothers as they do in that of the beasts of the field, or the very insects which perish, it will have to be sustained in some way by the Society, and the most direct and gracious way is for the members individually to subscribe for it.

The Society has no more encouraging field of labor than the publication of the RECORD, and none is more worthy of the cordial support of the members. The cost to the Society for the maintenance of this quarterly is not a tithe of what it would require to maintain a complete working library. The latter we shall have in good time, but meanwhile the volumes which are annually received through the book notices in this magazine form a handsome addition to the library. Moreover the RECORD is to be found in almost every public library in the country and so advertises our society and causes it to be widely and favorably known. It is safe to say that whatever dignity and reputation our society may have abroad is mainly due to its publication. Besides it stands for what is most distinctive in our work as a society. Other societies have their biographical addresses and publications, as well as their genealogical libraries, some of them larger than our own. But we alone in this city issue a genealogical publication in which vital statistics, church and family records, some of them of the greatest value, are published to the world and so are preserved from the ravages of time and utilized for the benefit of mankind,-a work for which we as a society have received small meed of thanks, but for which we shall yet obtain the gratitude of later and more appreciative generations.

Therefore, on account of what the RECORD has done for the Society as well as what it has accomplished for the spread of genealogical knowledge, we urge the members who are now subscribers to renew their subscriptions, and those who have not subscribed to begin to do so, that the Publication Committee may be enabled to maintain the advance they have lately made and may plan larger things for the future; that so the RECORD may grow up to the measure of its full stature, and become what it ought to be as the organ of the genealogical society which holds the vantage ground of being established in the metropolis of this country.

THERE is a worthy branch of genealogical work which has not had the attention it should have, and in fact, the crying evidences of its neglect are on every hand. In the preface to a volume of church records which we were examining the other day were these words: "The following records have been copied from the original volume in manuscript in the possession of Mr. -, of This precious volume has come to Mr. by right of his wife's descent from one of the early members of the church."

Could anything be more absurd! The church is still extant. Mr. Blank's wife is the descendant, and he himself lives in a town to the north of the church, ten miles as the crow flies. What right is that which gives Mr. Blank preference over the other descendants of early members? What right is that which grants Mr. Blank the privilege of showing those records or not as his humor dictates-of preempting public property and exhibiting it as a private and exclusive possession? possession? The minister or any other officer of a church is a servant of the corporate congregation; and the records of that church, its vital records, are the property of the church, if anybody's, and certainly belong to no one person. A few years ago one of the members of our Publication Committee drove from one place to another, as he was directed, in search of similar records, from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon. His search finally ended in a soap-box back of the stove in a farmer's house. Think of it; original records nearly two hundred years old! In a town not far from New York a butcher was found a few years ago wrapping his meats in leaves torn from an old volume of records. The book was nearly exhausted when discovered and rescued.

Surely something ought to be done to force the preservation of such records. If the authorities can compel the recording of new vital statistics they can compel the preservation of old ones. These records are as safe in the church as in some deacon's farm-house; and a possible solution of the problem is this:-Churches still extant should be required by law to keep their records in a tin box or safe in the church building under the charge of the clerk; persons possessing records of defunct churches should be required by law to deposit them in the office of the Town Clerk. In either case it will be known where they are.

It is exceedingly gratifying to announce that simultaneous with this issue of the RECORD appears the third volume of the Society's Collections, Vol. II. of Baptisms of the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam and New York, covering the period from 1731 to 1800 inclusive. This volume contains 634 pp., with a complete index of names, and is uniform in size and binding with the first two volumes of the collection. The edition is limited to 100 copies, and the few copies remaining unsubscribed for will be eagerly sought by public libraries and individual collectors. A full description of of the collec

tion will be found on the last page of this magazine.

OBITUARY.

KING, JOHN BOWNE, died at Vevey, Switzerland, Sept. 23, 1902. He was son of the late John Bowne King, of Brooklyn, and Maria Tiebout (Polhemus) King, and grandson of Elisha William and Margaret (Vandevoort) King, formerly of Hawkswood, Pelham, Westchester Co., N. Y.

BISHOP, HEBER REGINALD, life member of this Society, died at his residence in New York City, Dec. 10, 1902, aged sixty-two years. He was born March 11, 1840, in Medford, Mass., and was the son of Nathaniel Holmes, Bishop of Medford, Mass., and Mary S. Farrar. His father was the son of John Bishop, of Medford, and Lydia Holmes, daughter of Nathaniel Holmes, of Boston, Mass.; son of John Bishop, of Medford, aud Abigail Tufts, daughter of Simon Tufts, of Medford; son of Dr. John Bishop, who settled in Medford in 1719, and Sarah Bond. The first member of the family is said to have come from County Sussex, England, to Ipswich, Mass., in 1685.

Mr. Bishop began his business career in Boston, from whence, in 1859, having become familiar with the sugar business, he went to Remedios, on the south coast of Cuba, to engage in the same business there. In 1861, when only twenty-one years of age, he established at Remedios the sugar refining and exporting house of Bishop & Co., and succeeded in building up a large and prosperous business, so that when the insurrection of 1873 had been in progress two or three years he had acquired an ample fortune. He saw, however, that his business was too much exposed to be continued with advantage amid the disorders which attended the insurrection, so, converting what he could into money, and sacrificing his warehouses and permanent investments, he returned to the United States in 1876 and settled in New York City.

Here he soon became interested in railroad, gas, iron and other properties. In connection with Benjamin Brewster and others, he formed a combination for the construction of the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad, and when it was finished thought of taking the control of it. His attention, however, was diverted to Western interests, and he became a director in the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and the Duluth and Iron Range, railroads. His connection with these railroads led him to become familiar with the great opportunities for iron production in the northern part of Minnesota. He became one of the organizers of the iron properties in the vicinity of Duluth, and ultimately a director in the Minnesota Iron, the Chandler Iron, the Lackawanna Iron and Steel, and in the new Lackawanna Steel companies. Meanwhile he was also a director of the Metropoliton Trust Company, and was identified with other corporations in New York City. His high integrity and business sagacity, as well as his attention to business, led to many opportunities and a generally successful career.

The same qualities of mind and character were manifested in his relation to churches, charities and other organizations. He was at one time very active in the reorganization of the Forty-second Street Presbyterian Church, and was interested in the management of the Presbyterian Hospital and other hospitals. He was a member of the Civil Service Reform Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Chamber of Commerce. He became a director of the Metropolitan Museum of Natural History and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was one of the most generous contributors to the latter institution. Before his death he presented it with his collection of jades and other hard stones. This collection, which is specially rich in Chinese and Japanese jades, is valued at more than half a million dollars, and is the largest in the world, surpassing even that in the British Museum. Beginning his collection originally for the gratification merely of his own taste, he finally realized that it was too large and important to be kept from the public. He undertook, therefore, years ago the work of preparing it to be presented properly to the Metropolitan Museum for the benefit of the community, together with a catalogue which should be authoritative and exhaustive. The work upon this catalogue was completed a short time ago, but Mr. Bishop did not live to have the satisfaction of seeing the work published, and of presenting it himself to the important institutions and libraries for which it was intended.

He was a member of the New England Society, and of the Metropolitan, Union, Union League, New York Yacht, Century, Grolier, and many other clubs. He was fond of hunting, and was in the habit of organizing parties each season for hunting big game in the far West. He was also an enthusiastic fisherman and a member of the Restigouche Club.

Mr. Heber R. Bishop married in 1862, Mary Cunningham, daughter of James Cunningham, of Irvington-on-the-Hudson, who came to this country from Scotland in 1822. She survives him, as do all of his children; four sons and four Daughters:-Heber Reginald, unmarried; James Cunningham, who married Abigail Adams Hancock; Francis Cunningham; Ogden Mills; Mary Cunningham; Elizabeth Templeton, wife of James Low Harriman; Harriet Arnold, wife of Jas. F. D. Lanier, and Edith, wife of Moses Taylor; all of New York City.

GUERNSEY, JOSESPH REYNOLDS, life member of this Society, died at his residence in New York City, Dec. 9, 1902, and was buried at Amenia, N. Y. He was born March 8, 1865 in Amenia, Dutchess Co., N. Y., and was the son of Dr. De Sault Guernsey of New York City, and Lydia A. Reynolds, daughter of Joseph Reynolds of Amenia, N. Y.; son of Dr. Peter B. Guernsey of New York City, and Mary A. Thorn; son of Ezekiel Guernsey of Amenia, who was the son of Peter Guernsey and Azubah Buel. Peter Guernsey, b. 1748, came from Litchfield County Conn, to Dutchess County, N. Y., before the Revolution; was a lawyer and an Adjutant of the 17th New York Regt. in the war of the Revolution. The ancestor of this family was one of the first settlers of Milford, Conn., 1639.

He was graduated from Columbia College in the class of 1886, and, after studying law, was admitted to the bar and practised his profession in New York City. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Club and of the Essex County Country Club, of the Loyal Legion, the St. Nicholas Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History, the Columbia University Alumni Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New Qork. He was elected to this Society April 13, 1900.

Mr. Joseph R. Guernsey, married Alice Clark, daughter of William Clark of New York City, and Margaret Hutchings, who survives him. He leaves one child, Alice.

ADAMS, CHARLES HENRY, member of this Society since Dec. 21, 1888, died of heart disease at his residence in New York City, Dec. 15, 1902, aged seventy-eight years. He was born, April 10, 1824, in Coxsackie, Greene County, N. Y., Y., and came of the same New England family as that of the Revolutionary patriot, Samuel Adams, and President John Adams. He was the son of Dr. Henry Adams, of Cohoes, N. Y., a brigade surgeon in the war of 1812, and Agnes Egberts, daughter of Anthony Egberts; grandson of Dr. Peter Charles Adams, of Coxsackie, and Christine Van Bergen; great-grandson of Joshua Adams, who was a descendant, in the fifth generation, of Lieutenant Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass. He was also a lineal descendant of Rip Van Dam, Colonial Governor of New York.

He was educated at the Albany Academy, and, after studying law, was admitted to the bar and practiced his profession in Albany until 1850, when he inherited the Watervliet knitting mills at Cohoes, N. Y. For many years thereafter he was actively engaged in business in that city; was president of one of the banks in that place, and was the first Mayor of Cohoes. He was also prominent in state and national politics; was Aid-de-camp to Governor Hunt in 1851; Member of Assembly, 1857; State Senator, 1872 and 1873; Member of Congress for the Albany district, 1876. He was also Presidential Elector and United States Commissioner to the Vienna Exhibition, 1873.

He afterwards removed to New York City, where he continued to be interested in business; was president of the Mercantile Corporation of the United States and South Africa, and a director of the Bank Clerks Co-operative Building and Loan Association. He was a member of the Metropolitan Club, The Saint Nicholas Society, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Geographical Society, and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

Hon. Charles Adams married, married, Sept. 15, 1853, Elizabeth Platt, daughter of William Barnes Platt, of Rhinebeck, N. Y. She died in 1866, leaving two children, Mary Egbert, who married Robert Johnston, of Cohoes, N. Y., and William Platt Adams, of Cohoes. He married, (2) Judith Crittenden Coleman, daughter of Chapman Coleman, of Louisville, Ky. and Mary Crittenden, daughter of Hon. John Crittenden, of Kentucky, who survives him. By his second marriage he had two children, Agnes Crittenden and Judith.

NOTE.

THE DE RIEMER FAMILY. A biographic Genealogy of the De Riemer family is in preparation. This publication will give as much of personal biography of the prominent persons connected with this pioneer New Amsterdam family as may make it a book of living interest, instead of a barren collection of dates and relationships. The work is well on toward conclusion. This family was allied to the Grevenraets, de Forests, Anthonys, de la Plains, Cressons, Wessels, Steenwycks, Sjoerts, Strykers, Brouwers, Vermilyes, Rooms, le Chevaliers, Turks, Courtens, Gouverneurs, Roosevelts, Leislers, and Staats, and to the Dutch clergy of the Dutch regime, Rev. Samuel Drissius, and Rev. Henricus Selyns, the Dutch poet. Descendants of any of these pioneer families are invited to send facts in their possession to the compiler, at Washington, D. C., No. 1904 6th Street, N. W.

QUERIES.

MERRITT.-Who were the parents and wives of the following Merritts: Abraham of Burlington, N. J., d. 1759; Lovet of Enfield, N. C., 1780, wife Rebecca; Meyer of East Ward, N. Y., 1703; Nathanael of Rowley, Mass., had son Moses, 1773; Nicholas of Lyndeboro, N. H., 1736; Peter of Rye, N. Y., b. 1739; Pheleck of Hopkintown, R. I., 1774; Philip of Boston, b. 1662; d. 1741, wife Mary; Richard of Richmond Co., N. Y., 1701; Robert of New York; went to Nova Scotia, 1780; Samuel of Kent Co., Md., 1708; Samuel of Cortlandt, N. Y., 1774, of Mamaroneck, 1790; wife Mary; Samuel of Scarborough, N. Y., b. 1719; d. 1803; Samuel of Newtown, L. I., 1775; Samuel of Port Chester, N. Y., had son Austin, 1777; Stephen of White Plains, 1757; Stephen of Dutchess Co., 1775; Thomas of Delaware, 1664-76; had ship, Little Baltimore, 1693; Thomas of Rye, 1670-1722: second wife, Abigail Francis; Thomas of Cecil Co., Md., 1701, wife Elizabeth; Thomas of North Castle, N. Y., b. 1731; Thomas of Claverack, N. Y., 1779; William of New York, 1662-1705, Alderman, Mayor, etc.; William, owned land in New York, 1730; William of Westchester Co., N. Y., made his Will, 1762, wife Mary; William of Addison, Me., b. 1750; d. 1848; William of Hartford, Conn., 1780, son William; William of North Carolina, 1790, sons: William, Berry, and Henry; Underhill of White Plains, 1765; Youmans of Rye, b. 1780, wife Rachel.

DOUGLAS MERRITT,

Rhinebeck, N. Y.

ROBBLEE.-Desire information of antecedents of John Robblee. A Will, filed at Annapolis, N. S., about 1791, says: "Thomas Robblee, native of 'Nine Partners,' in the United States, son of John Robblee (Thomas1), was then living in Nova Scotia, where he m. Hannah Delap. John Robblee, m. Susannah Baker. John's brother Thomas, uncle of Thos. m. Aug. 29, 1765, Mary Allen," (recorded in Vol. 9, p. 251). (Records of Marriage Bonds, in office of Secretary of State.) I do not know the present name of the place "Nine Partners." Address KENDALL HALL,

40th Street and Stewart Avenue, Chicago, Ill. RANNEY. Would like information as to Jacob Ranney, b. in New York. Notes say, was a wheelwright on Franklin Street, 5th Ward. Had children: Barbara, m. Miller; Joshua; Lawrence; Eliza, m. Aug. 13, 1823, Benjamin Eldredge.

(Mrs.) NATHAN G. POND.

Milford, Conn.

FULLER.-Who will give me the record of Ebenezer Fuller who m. Martha Jones, names and dates of children, residence, etc.? Ebenezer was a son of Jabez-Jabez, a son Lieut. Samuel Fuller.

Wanted, the name and address of any living descendant of Ebenezer Fuller of Oblong, Dutchess Co., N. Y. Had daughter Phoebe, b. March 2, 1756. Seneca Falls, N. Y.

L. R. SANFORD,

GENUNG.-Information is desired for descendants of the following: Hannah Genung and Joseph Hedger, Susannah Genung and - Louereer, Martha Genung and Jeremiah Post, Jemima Genung and Riggs, Hannah Genung and Magee, Rachel Genung and John Ladner, Hannah Genung and Abraham Burnett, Amelia Genung and Dougherty, Nancy Genung and Geo. W. Waddle, Jesse Genung and Mary Hurin, Abraham Genung and Hannah Johnson, and of Martha, Eunice and Aaron, children of Jonas Genung of Hanover, N. J. The Hedger and Louereer families were of Long Island, the others presumably of New Jersey.

Information also especially desired of Ganongs, Ganungs, Ganoungs, and