COLLECTIONS OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. ABSTRACTS OF WILLS, 1730-1744. VOL. III., WITH Appendix. Large 8vo, cloth, pp. 501. This very valuable book to genealogists is the latest issue of the Publication Fund series of the New York Historical Society. It contains abstracts of wills, letters of administration, and complaints to court of Mayor and Aldermen, recorded in the New York Surrogate's office in Libers 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and Liber 19 B. The work has been most admirably done by Mr. William S. Pelletreau. It is the 27th 27th volume of the series. May the Society continue its splendid work in putting into print such material as is inaccessible to so many in other states but is sought after by all. COLONEL THOMAS DEKAY, A PIONEER OF WESTERN ORANGE COUNTY. By David Barclay. 8vo, pamphlet, pp. 10. Colonel Thomas DeKay, the subject of this sketch, was a grandson of Jacob Theuniszen DeKay, a wealthy burger of New Amsterdam, and an elder of the Dutch Church. His grandson, Thomas, removed to the Wawayanda Patent in Orange County, N. Y., where he became a prominent resident. The author has incorporated in his sketch the results of his researches among acknowledged authoritative works which he quotes at the end of the pamphlet. AMERICAN ANCESTORS OF THE CHILDREN OF JOSEPH AND DANIELLA WHEELER. Compiled by Joseph and Daniella Wheeler, Wheeler, Ala. This is not a biographical sketch of him whom we affectionately call "Fighting Joe Wheeler," as one might expect. Modesty is ever an attribute of the truly brave, and the few pages forming an appendix are all of such personal matter that the hero of three wars would permit to be inserted. The pamphlet of 94 pages gives a record of his ancestors, Wheeler and allied families, and there is also some account of English Hoo and Newdigate Ancestors. Gen. Wheeler has spent much time in the preparation of this pamphlet, and now that he has put it forth, we feel confident that it is as accurate as he can make it. MICHAEL BACON AND HIS DESCENDANTS. By Leon Brooks Bacon, LL. B., of New York City. Boston, David Clapp & Son, 1902. 8vo, pamphlet, pp. 13. This is a reprint from the Oct., 1902 issue of the New England Historical and Genealogial Register. Michael Bacon was born in England, presumably in the County of Suffolk, and was one of the early settlers of Dedham, Mass. The lines are carried four generations from the founder. PROCEEDINGS AND COLLECTIONS OF THE NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Second series, Vol. V. Lincoln, Nebr. Jacob North & Co., 1902. 8vo, cloth, pp. 381. The greater portion of this volume consists of historical papers upon various subjects pertaining to the state of Nebraska. Among the more important of these papers are those upon Territorial Journalism, by Gov. Morton; Thomas Weston Tipton, by Gov. Furnas, and Judge Elmer S. Dundy, by Elmer S. Towl; also those entitled Recollections of Omaha, 1855-61; Pawnee War of 1859, and The Plains War in 1865. The volume is accompanied by a copious index of thirty-two pages. THE ANCESTOR, No. III of this splendid Englsh quarterly Review of Counry and Family History for October, is fully as rich in its luxurant make up as the preceeding numbers, and as interesting in text and illustration. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, is the publisher in this country, and the following is a partial list of its table of contents: Some Portraits at the Society of Antiquaries, illustrated; A Genealogist's Kalendar; Some Extinct Cumberland Families; The Arms of the Sandys of Cumberland; The Evolution of the Combed Helmet, illustrated; Arms and the Inland Revenue; The Huguenot Families in England; The Household Books of Sir Miles Stapleton, Bart; The Garter Plates as a Roll of Arms, illustrated; The Antiquary and the Novelist; A Fifteenth Century Book of Arms, illustrated; Our Oldest Families: The Genealogy of the Giffords; The Percys of Northumberland. GENEALOGICAL DATA RELATING TO THE ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM HILLS, THE ENGLISH EMIGRANT TO NEW ENGLAND IN 1632, AND OF JOSEPH HILLS, THE ENGLISH Emigrant To New England In 1638. Compiled by William Sanford Hills. Edited by Thomas Hills. Publication Committee Hills Family Genealogical and Historical Association. Press of Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, 1902. 8vo, pamphlet, pp. 148. This excellent genealogy, as its title page declares, is the work of the publication committee of the Hills Family Association, which, from the list of corresponding secretaries given in the introduction, seems to have its members in many sections of the country. It gives very fully the descendants of William Hills of Roxbury, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., for five generations, and those of Joseph Hills of Malden and Newbury, Mass., for the same number of generations. Many of the children, however, of those of the fifth generation are also given and the female branches have not been neglected. The printing and paper are excellent and an index accompanies the work. WINDERS OF AMERICA. JOHN WINDER OF NEW YORK, 1674-75. THOMAS WINDER OF NEW JERSEY, 1703-1734. JOHN WINDER OF MARYLAND, 1665-1698. Compiled by R. Winder Johnson. Printed for private circulation by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1902. 8vo, cloth, pp. 112, illustrated. This handsome monograph from the press of J. B. Lippincott is most daintily presented to its readers. It is printed on fine paper with large type and wide margins, and the cover and binding are all that could be desired. Little is said concerning the Maryland family descended from John Winder of Somerset County in that state since a family chart and several articles relating to this branch have already been published. Five charts accompany the volume as well as four choice illustrations. The index is complete. JAMES ROGERS OF NEW London, Ct., and his DESCENDANTS. By James Swift Rogers. Boston. Published by the Compiler, 1902. 8vo, cloth, pp. 514, illustrated. The author of this valuable work is to be commended for his painstaking research and the completeness of his genealogy. Since three families of the name of Rogers settled in New London, great care was necessary in tracing lines of descent, and the constant repetition of Christian names in the families of each line compelled careful study of land and probate records to insure correctness. In the first three or four generations, genealogical tables of the married daughters of the name of Rogers are usually given, and later many of their tables are also recorded. An interesting account is given in the introduction of the John Rogers Bible and the reasons stated why the descendants of James Rogers claim to be descended from the proto-martyr of Queen Mary's persecution; there is another article upon John Rogers and the Rogerenes. The work is from the press of T. R. Marvin & Son, Boston, and is a model of excellence in printing and binding. The index comprises seventy-one pages and there are forty illustrations. CALIFORNIA HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATION, NO. III, San Francisco, 1902. In the first publication of this series, known as the California Register, the Society began its good intention of issuing regularly a quarterly magazine. It is announced in this number that the plan has not been found practicable, yet the Publication Committee has not abandoned the idea entirely, for it is now the intention to publish the matter in hand as often as the circumstances may permit. The contents of the present numberare: Edw. Stephens Clark, M. D., The Spanish Press of Cal., The Boston Nation, The Utility of a Pedigree, Meles of Hawaii, José Francisco de Ortega and his Descendants, Thomas Pope of Plymouth and his Descendants, Notes on the Millikan Family, A Few of the Descendants of John Wilgus, George Hull and some of His Descendants, Editorial, Contributions to the Library, Notes and Queries, Historical Intelligence, Indexes. HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RELATING TO THE POTTS FAMILY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA WITH A HISTORIC-GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF DAVID POTTS, AN EARLY ANGLO-WELSH SETTLER OF PENNSYLVANIA, INCLUding ContriBUTIONS BY THE LATE WILLIAM John Ports. Compiled by Thomas Maxwell Potts. Octavo, half morocco, xxxv., 736. Price, $6.00. Published by the Compiler, Canonsburg, Pa., 1901. A PARTIAL RECORD OF THE MANSUR FAMILY. By John H. Mansur, Royersford, Pa., 1901. 8vo, pamphlet, pp. 59. The original of this pamphlet appeared in the Genealogical Quarterly Magazine of Burlington, Vt., and gives the descendants of Robert Mansur of Charlestown, who married Elizabeth Brooks in 1670. As the title states, it is a partial list gathered mostly by correspondence with various branches of the family. Robert, the founder, had four sons and one daughter, and this pamphlet gives the descendants of the two eldest sons, mostly of the first born, John, carried to the eighth generation. THE ELY ANCESTRY. LINEAGE OF RICHARD ELY OF PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND, WHO CAME TO BOSTON, MASS., ABOUT 1655, AND SETTLED AT LYME, CONN., IN 1660. Collected by the late Moses S. Beach of New York and by the Rev. William Ely, D. D., of Philadelphia. Edited and enlarged by Geo. B. Vanderpoel. The Calumet Press, 139 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1902. Royal octavo, cloth, pp. XLIV., 639, illustrated. It is a pleasure to notice this carefully compiled and well printed volume, and we feel assured that it will be welcomed by the genealogical public as well as by the Ely family of which it is a fitting memorial. The work will be of special interest to the latter on account of the pains the compilers have taken to ascertain the English ancestry of this branch of the family. In a sketch of the origin and history of the Elyes of Utterby and Wonston, England, which embraces the researches of the late Col. Joseph L. Chester, Mr. Wharton Dickinson of New York traces the line of Richard Ely back to Tassilo, the father of Theodoric the Hun who was Duke of the Bavarians in 580. Such painstaking research is praiseworthy, although it usually receives only incredulity, or even scorn, instead of praise for its well-doing. The very elaborate index covers about one hundred pages and there are sixty full-page illustrations besides several wood-cuts. The female lines are carried out in many instances, thus rendering the work of more value to the general public as well as to those of the name of Ely. Among these we find several well-known Connecticut families, such as Avery, Coe, Denison, Elliott, Emmons, Goodrich, Griswold, Hyde, Lord, Marvin, Mather, Pearson, Peck, Rogers, Selden, Sill, Spencer, Stillman and Wolcott. THE CHESEBROUGH FAMILY. A complete genealogy of this numerous family is in press and will appear early in the coming spring. Mrs. A. C. 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