Colonial Genealogy 



sengers yt [[that] dyed by ye way. Ye rest having yr lives 

 given yne for a prey. But ye James and wee yt were therein 

 with cattell and goodes were all preserved alive. The Lord's 

 name be blessed forever! 



Cogswell's daughter Hannah married Deacon COR- 

 NELIUS WALDO of Ipswich, a native of Berwick, Wilt- 

 shire. Cornelius was a descendant of Thomas Waldo, 

 brother of Peter, the religious reformer who died in 1 179. 

 To WILLIAM SPOWELL of Boston was assigned the duty 

 "to see that all ye hogs were yoked and ringed," and 

 later he was paid "for looking at ye boyes in ye meeting 

 house." SAMUEL ALLEN was a partner of Miles Standish. 



JOSEPH MORSE is described as a public-spirited citizen: 



Also from the uncommon education in his family, and the 

 references in his will to copies of precious religious books, it is 

 inferred that he was a person of standing and piety, and that 

 by his prayers and godly examples, as well as by his sacri- 

 fices and enterprizes, he has imposed obligations on his race 

 which it is hoped they will acknowledge by a monument to 

 his memory. 



Sergeant WILLIAM FOSTER of Canterbury, Connecticut, 

 was "specially zealous in defending the Church against 

 minesterial usurpation." In fact, he openly declared 

 that the minister (Mr. Moseley) "had lied" and that he 

 "could prove it" also that he "saw the pope's horns 

 begin to bud some years ago and now they were growing 

 out." In April, 1775, Foster was one of those "who 

 marched from Connecticut towns to the relief of Boston 

 in the Lexington Alarm," when Paul Revere made his 

 noted midnight ride. 



Captain JOHN HOLLY, a judge in New Haven, grand- 

 son of Samuel Holly of Cambridge, spent his life in the 

 public service. His son, another Samuel Holly, 1 estab- 



1 As already explained (Chapter I, page 5), in or about the year 1815 some of 

 the great-great-grandchildren of this Samuel Holly namely, the sons of (the 

 Reverend) Sylvanus Holly, Jr., and Huldah Lake, Sylvanus' first wife, my 

 great-grandmother changed the surname to Hawley. 





