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days of Shakespeare and Bacon. The son of 

 this clergyman came to the New England 

 colonies and was a prosperous merchant of 

 Hartford, Connecticut, as was his only son, 

 Richard. This Richard's wife was Mary 

 Tuttle, a commanding and brilliant woman. 

 Their only son, Timothy, was a clergyman, a 

 Harvard honor man, the father of eleven 

 children, of whom the fifth was Jonathan. 

 Jonathan's mother as weU as his wife were 

 from fine t5^es of American families. 



The Max- Jukes family originated in Sullivan 

 County, New York, into which isolated region, 

 to quote Dugdale's account, "now within two 

 hours' rail journey of the nation's metropolis, 

 there drifted nearly a century and a half ago 

 a riumber of persons whose constitutions did 

 not fit them for participation in a highly 

 organized society : Max, the hunter and fisher, 

 the jolly, alcoholic ne'er-do-weU; Lem, the 

 stealer of sheep; Lawrence, the licentious, free 

 with his gun; Margaret and DeHa, the wantons, 

 and BeUe who had three children by various 

 negroes." From this bad stock has come the 



