588 Edivard Livingston Yoiimans. 



sembled this ancestor. As Vincent Youmans was reared 

 in his family, we have from him more details of Vincent 

 than of Youmans history. Levi Vincent wore the garb, 

 attended the meetings, and held to the principles of the 

 Quaker society, of which his wife was a member, but he 

 never joined them nor used their form of speech. He had 

 six sons, tall, finely developed men. The Vincents were 

 usually large men, standmg six feet in their stockings, and 

 in this respect the Hoxies were like them. There was a 

 double marriage between Zebulon Hoxie's family and that 

 of Leonard Vincent. The Vincents were Tories. And 

 here authentic early history of these Vincent and Hoxie 

 families ends. 



But there is a field of conjecture that seems plausible. 

 Vincents and Hoxies are both Cape Cod families. The 

 Hoxies were first heard of in this country at Sandwich 

 about the time the Quakers appeared there, and were 

 themselves Quakers. Their relations with the Vincents in 

 town concerns is matter of history, as follows : There was 

 a family of Vincents livmg at Plymouth in 1639, and that 

 very year John Vincent was one of a committee of ten men 

 sent from Plymouth to found the town of Sandwich in 

 Cape C(jd. He was also one of the two first representa- 

 tives of the town of Sandwich in 1639 at the Colonial As- 

 sembly in New Plymouth. Later he was placed on a com- 

 mittee appointed to lay out the true boundaries of lands in 

 Sandwich, and Ludovic and Edward Hoxie were among 

 the owners whose lands the committee adjusted. It seems 

 fair to infer from this that John Vincent was a resident of 

 Sandwich ; that these Vincents and Hoxies knew each 

 other and were neighbours. The Vincents were freemen 

 and of the dominant faith. Both the families of Vincents 

 and Hoxies that we know of in later times opposed our 

 revolutionary war with England — the Hoxies on religious 

 grounds, and the Vincents from loyalty to the Crown. 



