Prefatory Hote

The New Haven Colony Historical Society has published seven volumes of its papers; Vol. I, in 1865; Vol. II, in 1877; Vol. III, in 1882; Vol. IV, in 1888; Vol. V, in 1894; Vol. VI, in 1900; and Vol. VII, in 1908.

The Society does not consider itself committed to the support of the positions taken in any of the papers thus published. For the statements or conclusions of each, the author is alone responsible.

WILLISTON WALKER,
HENRY T. BLAKE,
SIMEON E. BALDWIN,
BURTON MANSFIELD,
RUTHERFORD TROWBRIDGE

Publication

Comunittee.

Historical Society

1907-1908

President:
WILLISTON WALKER.

First Vice President:
ELI WHITNEY.

Second Vice President:
CHARLES H. SMITH.

Secretary:
HENRY T. BLAKE.

Assistant Secretary:
AMORY E. ROWLAND.

Treasurer:
GEORGE A. ROOT.

Advisory Committee (Constituting with the above named a Board of Directors) : ARTHUR T. HADLEY, President of Yale University, ex-officio, John P. STUDLEY, Mayor of the City of New Haven, until January ist,

1908; and after that date, JAMES B. MARTIN, his successor in office,

ex-officiis. FREDERICK E. WHITTAKER, Town Clerk of New Haven, ex-officio.

Honorary Directors in Permanency

(With power of voting in Board of Directors): ARTHUR M. WHEELER,

GEORGE B. ADAMS, FRANK E. HOTCHKISS,

HENRY L. HOTCHKISS.

Directors for Three Years:
SIMEON E. BALDWIN,
CORNELIUS S. MOREHOUSE,
HENRY F. ENGLISH,
THOMAS M. PRENTICE,
GEORGE L. DICKERMAN.

Directors for Two Years:
EDWARD E. BRADLEY,
RICHARD F. LYON,
BENJAMIN R. ENGLISH,
GEORGE D. WATROUS,
FRANCIS B. TROWBRIDGE.

EDWARD C. BEECHER,
BURTON MANSFIELD,

Directors for One Year:

CHARLES R. PALMER,

RUTHE RD TROWBRIDGE,
HENRY H. TOWNSHEND.

Librarian and Curator:
FREDERICK BOSTWICK.

Colonial Hall, the building of the Society, is open to the public daily, except holidays, from 9.30 A. M. to 12.30 P. M., and from 2 P. M. to 5 P. M.

Members of the Society

Honorary Members:
WILLIAM L. STONE, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
HENRY F. WATERS, London, England.
EPHER WHITAKER, Southold, N. Y.
WILLIAM C. Winslow, Boston, Mass.
SAMUEL Hart, Middletown, Conn.

Corresponding Member:
L. VERNON Briggs, Hanover, Mass.

Life Members:
William G. Andrews, Guilford. Henry L. Hotchkiss.
Roger S. Baldwin.

Henry Stuart Hotchkiss.
Simeon E. Baldwin.

Miss Susan V. Hotchkiss. L. Wheeler Beecher.

Miss Mary S. Johnstone. Frederick Bostwick.

George H. Larned, Hamilton, R. I. Miss Fannie A. Bowers.

Joseph Parker. Edward E. Bradley.

Joseph Porter. Robert Brown.

Edwin Rowe. Ericsson F. Bushnell, N. Y. City. *Thomas Fitch Rowland, N. Y. City. William H. Carmalt.

Mrs. Joseph B. Sargent. Franklin B. Dexter.

*Thomas Day Seymour. George L. Dickerman.

Joel A. Sperry. Henry F. English.

Mrs. Elizabeth Pratt Stevens. Mrs. Henry F. English.

Henry H. Townshend. Richard M. Everit.

Frank D. Trowbridge. Henry W. Farnam.

Rutherford Trowbridge. Frederick B. Farnsworth.

William R. H. Trowbridge. Franklin Farrel, Jr., Ansonia. Mrs. Robert B. Wade. George H. Ford.

Eli Whitney. Edwin S. Greeley.

Arthur W. Wright. Frank E. Hotchkiss.

*

Annual Members:
George B. Adams.

John C. Anderson.
Nelson Adams, Springfield, Mass. Joseph Anderson, Woodmont.
Frederick M. Adler.

George L. Armstrong.
Max Adler.

William J. Atwater. Arnon A. Alling.

Samuel R. Avis. David R. Alling.

Francis Bacon. John W. Alling.

Leonard W. Bacon. * Deceased.

Frederic W. Bailey, Worcester, Mass. Leverett Candee.
Mrs. Henry Baldwin.

John S. Cannon.
Amos F. Barnes.

Le Grand Cannon. John F. Barnett.

Mrs. Henry Champion. William E. Barnett.

Edwin L. Chapman. Thomas R. Barnum.

Minotte E. Chatfield. George J. Bassett.

Edward M. Clark. Miss Rebecca D. Beach.

Livingston W. Cleaveland. Miss Elizabeth M. Beardsley.

Ward Coe. William A. Beardsley.

Frank Addison Corbin. William Beebe.

Charles E. Curtis. Edward C. Beecher.

George M. Curtis, Meriden. Mrs. Edward C. Beecher.

George W. Curtis. William S. Beecher.

Mrs. T. W. T. Curtis. Frank H. Belden.

John P. Cushing. Mrs. Frank W. Benedict.

Leonard M. Daggett. George W. L. Benedict.

Edward S. Dana. Mrs. Philo S. Bennett.

Harry G. Day. Thomas G. Bennett.

Miss Mary E. Day. Miss Emily Betts.

Charles S. DeForest. Frederick A. Betts.

Eugene DeForest. Frank L. Bigelow.

Clarence Deming. Louis B. Bishop.

William H. Douglass. Mrs. Timothy H. Bishop.

Miss Eliza deForest Downer. Henry T. Blake.

John I. H. Downes. James Kingsley Blake.

Miss Helen R. Dwight. Clarence B. Bolmer.

Timothy Dwight. Edward G. Bourne.

Mrs. Daniel C. Eaton. Mrs. S. Dwight Bowers.

Benjamin R. English. Edward A. Bowers.

Lewis H. English. Andrew R. Bradley.

Alexander W. Evans. Miss E. C. Bradley.

Henry W. Farnam, Jr. Franklin S. Bradley.

Miss Katherine K. Farnam. Frederick T. Bradley.

Miss Louise W. Farnam. Miss S. L. Bradley.

William W. Farnam. William H. Brewer.

Mrs. W. W. Farnam. Frederick F. Brewster.

Bruce Fenn. Eugene S. Bristol.

Wallace B. Fenn. Louis H. Bristol.

William T. Fields. Nathan S. Bronson.

Irving Fisher. Samuel L. Bronson.

Samuel H. Fisher. George J. Brush.

John B. Fitch. Fred B. Bunnell.

Charles J. Foote. George F. Burgess.

Ellsworth I. Foote. Winthrop G. Bushnell.

Pierrepont B. Foster. Timothy E. Byrnes.

John S. Fowler. Walter Camp.

John Currier Gallagher.