Appendix A. 589 



Now, the first Ludovic Hoxie mentioned above had six 

 sons; four of them bore the names respectively of Joseph, 

 Peleg, Abram, and Ludovic. And the great-grandfather of 

 Vincent Youmans — the Dutchess County Quaker and black- 

 smith from Stonington — Zebulon Hoxie, had four sons — 

 Joseph, Abram, Peleg, and Ludovic, repetitions of the Cape 

 Cod Hoxie family names. This hardly seems accidental. 

 Zebulon Hoxie might easily have been a grandson of the 

 first Ludovic Hoxie, and Stonington in those days of travel 

 by water was on the route of migration from Cape Cod to 

 Dutchess County. Besides, the double marriage that oc- 

 curred between the two families from which E. L. Youmans 

 descended, when they were separated many miles by bad 

 roads and primeval forests, indicates family intimacies in 

 earlier times. There are other grounds for this conjecture, 

 but it scarcely seems worth while to present them here. 

 All that is known of the maternal ancestry of Catherine 

 Scofield Youmans is given on page 5. Her father, Gideon 

 Scofield, was born in Connecticut. His mother was a Hoyt, 

 and the Hoyts and Scofields from which he was descended 

 were among the oldest and staunchest families of that fa- 

 mous stronghold of tempered Puritanism. 



