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Now, the first I.iulovic HMXH- mention* 

 sons; four of them bore the nan>.< 

 Peleg, Abram, and Ludovic. And tin- 

 Vincent Youmans the I hitrhess County Ouak 

 smith from Stonington Zebulon Hoxie, had four 

 Joseph, Abram, IVk'g, and Ltidovic, repetitions of tl 

 Cod Hoxie family names. This hardly ft tal. 



Zebulon Hoxie might easily have been a ^rundxm <>: 

 first Ludovic Hoxie, and Stonington in tho <>f travel 



by water was on the route of migration from Cap. 

 Dutchess County. Besides, the double marriage that oc- 

 curred between the two families from which K. L. Youi: 

 descended, when they were separated many miles by bad 

 roads and primeval forests, indicates family intimacit 

 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 1 ! 

 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. 



