accompanied by package containing 4 of your speeches. My son, Judge Barton Bates, (a man of cool, clear, sound judgment) pronounces them very good, & appropriate to our cause. My health is very bad, in so much that I am confined to the house, can do nothing that requires activity or locomotion—nothing, in fact, which may not be accomplished by short & intermittent mental labor at my own desk. Therefore, I handed over your excellent speeches, to my friend, Sam'l T. Glover (a man full of zeal & talent) who promises to give them the best publicity in his power. Most respectfully, EDW. BATES. St. Louis, Feb. 17, /66. U. S. Senate. Hon. J. R. Doolittle, Dear Sir: With pleasure and profit, I have read your great speech, & thank you for it. How does it happen that, notwithstanding all the fierce debates, in both houses, about the legal & political condition of the "rebel states," as regards the Union, no mention has ever been made of the written opinions of the Heads of Departments, given to Pres't Lincoln, on the occasion of the Act for the Admission of West Virginia? They must be on file, either in the State Dep't or in the President's own office. I have the only copy I know of, outside. I saw the importance of those documents, at the time; and I foresaw the valuable uses that might be made of them, in certain political contingencies, then deemed hardly probable, but now, actually come to pass. They are worth your reading, & when you have read them, you will know better than I can tell you, how to use them. My own, of course, was recorded in the Atty Genl's office. Mr. Chase's I consider of particular value, and could not fail to have effect upon some of his ultra-radical following in the two houses. In former times, there was an instance of the mysterious disappearance of similar documents; and Mr. Benton, (a fierce opponent & "a good hater,") did not scruple to accuse Mr. Calhoun, Sec'y of State under Monroe, of, surreptitiously, contriving their destruction or embezzlement. I never believed the charge-it was too heinous to be believed, upon evidence merely presumptive; but so it is, the originals were never produced, & it seems, nobody had copy, as I have in this instance. I do not know that Mr. Chase, even now, denies the entity of the rebel states, like Wade, & Stevens, & Howe, & Ashley, & such like; but if he do, his written opinion then, will be a flat bar to his new doctrine. I am horror-struck at the late act about the Freedmen's bureau (called Trumbull's bill) and am anxious to have an exact copy, not knowing precisely, what changes were made by the House's amendments. Can you not cause a copy to be sent me? Most respectfully, Your friend & serv't, EDW. BATES. LEWIS JONES, OF ROXBURY AND WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, 1640-1684, AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS IN THE SOUTH. BY A. S. SALLEY, JR. (To Be Continued.) Among the early settlers of Roxbury, Massachusetts, was LEWIS JONES, who, with his wife, Ann, joined Rev. John Eliot's church in Roxbury about 1640,' their names being recorded on the church book in the handwriting of the "Apostle to the Indians" himself. He is said to have been a planter, and the locality of his home in Roxbury was called "The Nooks" and was about on the present site of Nooks Corner, or perhaps nearer the present site of Jamaica Plains, on the extreme edge of Dorchester. He was one of the sixty-four donors to the Free School in Roxbury, known to-day as the Roxbury Latin School, he agreeing, on August 31, 1645, to pay the Feofees of the school four shillings annually. The maiden name of Lewis Jones's wife, Ann, is not positively known, but she is supposed to have been a daugh 1 'On John Camden Hotten's List of Emigrants to America, 16001700, page 135, appears the name of "Lewes Jones," aged 20, who embarked at London, October 13, 1635, on the Amitie bound for St. Christopher's. It is possible that this is the same Lewis Jones whose name appears on the Roxbury records of 1640. 2 Statements of Henry Dutch Lord, of Boston, Massachusetts (1895). 3 ter of Simon Stone, as Simon Stone had a daughter named Ann, and Lewis Jones, in his will, named his "brother John Stone" as overseer of his will, and, by a codicil to the same, made Simon and John Stone guardians of his son Shubael Jones. Simon Stone did not mention his daughter Ann in his will, but he might have provided for her at an earlier date. From Roxbury Lewis Jones moved with his family to Watertown, Massachusetts, about 1650 and resided there until his death. Mrs. Ann Jones died May 1, 1680. Lewis Jones died April 11, 1684." 3 "Ann Stone, b. England 1624, dau. of Deacon Simon and Joan or Jane."-Dr. Henry Bond's History of Watertown. "Simon and his family disappear from the registers after the birth of his daughter Mary Oct. 1. 1621. He must have removed to Boxted bet. that date and the birth of his dau. Ann, who was born abt. 1624, since she was eleven years old in 1635."-—English Ancestry of Simon and Gregory Stone. *"Ap. 23, 1679, Lewis Jones, of Wat., planter, for 12 cords of wood sold to Justinian Holden, about 3 acres, bounded with the farmland of Holden, and the Great Fresh Pond surrounding the same. Wit. John Eames, and John Coller."-Bond's History of Watertown. August 31, 1645, he subscribed to the Free School fund in Roxbury and his son Shubael was born in Watertown, Oct. 14, 1651. His daughter Phoebe was born in Roxbury in 1645. 5 "He probably moved to Watertown about this date, just before the birth of his son Shubael."-Bond's History of Watertown. Judge Sherman W. Adams, in his sketch of Wethersfield, in the second volume of the Memorial History of Hartford County, page 435, says: "In 1635 there was a considerable accession to the new settlement. Those whose names are given below also came from Watertown, a part arriving in 1635, and others in the year following." On this list is the name of Lewis Jones. It is possible that this is our man; that he came from St. Christopher's in 1635 to Watertown and shortly afterwards went to Wethersfield; that he removed from Wethersfield to Roxbury before 1740 and in 1750 moved back to Watertown. "Here lyeth the Body of Ann Jones, aged 78 years, dyed the I of May, 1680.-Upon ye death of that pious Matron: She lived a pious, holy, godly life,-being now escaped free from hate and strife."-Grave stone, Watertown, ancient burying ground. This record does not harmonize, however, with the records of the birth of Ann Stone given in note 3. 7 Nathaniel Goodwin's Genealogical Notes, p. 129. "In the Name of God, Amen. I, Lewis Jones, in Watertown, in New-England, being at this present of perfect understanding and memory, though weak in body,-committing my soul unto the hands of Almighty God, and my body to decent burial, in hope of a resurrection unto eternal life through the merits and power of Jesus Christ my most gracious Saviour and Redeemer; do thus dispose of that estate which God math graciously given unto me: Considering the weak and helpless condition of my dear wife Ann Jones and of my son Shubael Jones, my will and pleasure is, that the whole of my estate, (after the discharge of my debts and my burial,) be improved for their supply, the benefit of it, and also, the principal, if they stand in need thereof. And further, my will and pleasure is, that when the Lord shall please to remove either of them by death, that then that which remaineth shall be wholly entitled to the use of the other so long as either of them shall live; and if the Lord shall so dispose that anything remaineth after their death, that then what remaineth be divided, two parts to my daughter Lydia Whitney, if she be then living, and one to my son Josiah; but if Lydia be dead, that then what remaineth be divided equally to my son Josiah, if living, or such of his children as shall be living, and the children of my daughter Lydia that shall be then living. And of this my last will, I do constitute my son Josiah Jones, my sole Executor, and do earnestly desire my loving friend and brother John Stone to be overseer to assist my son in the managing of the estate so as may be best for the comfort of my poor wife and child aforesaid. And in confirmation hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal. Simeon Stone, The mark T & seal of this 7th of the 11th, 1678. [January 7, 1679]. A Codicil annexed to the above will, 10, 2, 1682. [April 9, 1852.] The wife of the Testator being then deceased. As a further addition to my last will and testament, I do nominate and appoint my assured friends Simon Stone and John Stone, of Watertown, to be guardians unto my son Shubael Jones, to whose wisdom and prudence and wisdom, I do commit and send the government of my said son, and the disposal of all that estate as well as real and personal to my said son bequeathed: and I do hereby authorize and empower said guardians or the longest liver of them, to make sale of any part of my house and land, as there shall appear to them needful, for the relief of my said son Shubael Jones. his mark. Lewis T Jones. Middlesex County Land Records, Book 9, page 168, December 29, 1684. By deed of this date, Josiah Jones, executor of the last will and testament of his father, Lewis Jones, late of Watertown, deceased, John Stone, overseer to said will, and Simon Stone and John Stone, guardians to Shubael Jones, as appeareth in the last will of the father of said Josiah, for valuable consideration sell and convey to Sargeant John Coolidge, of said town of Watertown, a convenient dwelling house, an orchard, and by estimation, ten acres of land, (being estate of said deceased,) bounded south with the county road, west with Deacon Dwight, north with Joseph Mason, and east with a highway."-Goodwin's Genealogical Notes, p. 129. |