suitable individuals to represent this precinct in General Convention; whereupon the following gentlemen were appointed: David G. Burnet, David B. Macomb.

On motion it was

Resolved, That a copy of these proceedings with the preamble and resolutions be transmitted to the Political Chief of the Department, and also to the Editor of the Texas Republican, with a request that they be published in that paper. WM. SCOTT, Chairman.

DAVID B. MACOMB, Secretary."

MEXICAN VIEWS.

[As so often with those in authority at the approach of a crisis, the Mexican ruler does not seem to realize the fermentation going on under the surface. He can think of nothing but flat denials and contemptuous comments and smooth generalities.]

COS TO THE POLITICAL CHIEFS OF TEXAS.

GENERAL COM MANDANCY AND GENERAL

INSPECTION OF THE INTERIOR OF THE EAST.

Under this date I have to say to the Political Chiefs of the Departments of Bexar, Brazos, and Nacogdoches, the following:

The entire want of police for sometime past in Texas has necessarily contributed to the introduction of many men without country, morality, or any employment to gain a subsistence; who having nothing to venture in a revolution are continually occupied in fighting the flame of discord and endeavoring to persuade the honest people of Texas that the Supreme National Government entertain views and intentions hostile and fatally prejudicial to their interests.

As this unheard of falsehood might precipitate good citizens to confound themselves with the perverse, I believe it

From The Texas Republican, September 19, 1835.

to be my duty to save them; appealing to their.... judgment for the rejection of those vile suggestions, and entreating them to think only of the augmenting of their property, respecting always the Laws of the Land; in this case they always have the support of the General Government and every kind of guarantee which the General Commandancy can give.

I have been informed that creditious [seditious?] persons in order to gain their [ends] endeavor to make the entrance of Troops from the President of the Republic thither to be looked upon as the commencement of military subjection.

If this extravagant idea has blinded the incautious, the sound part of the people must have rejected it as it deserves, because it is not credible that assent can be given to an imputation so unjust.

As the principles are well known which guided the march of the Mexican Government, and their desire for the prosperity of Texas, to whose inhabitants it has made every kind of concession, and if it be necessary in order to establish the Custom Houses, to station military detachments among us: this should in no wise alarm the people of Texas; since far from being prejudicial to their interests they will serve as a support and the people will have a guard more in favor of than against their security.

On the other hand it is evident that some badly disposed persons have been able to induce the belief that the Mexican Government has no right to send its troops to those places where they think it necessary.

Texas is an integrant part of the Republic and as the troops are ordered For example to garrison the state of Oaxaca or Vera Cruz, tomorrow they may be necessary in Galveston, or some other port and there they will be received without any resistance, as it would be very approbious to the Mexicans for the new inhabitants of Texas to contem

plate the national army in the same way as the Egyptians looked upon the Mamelukes, their continual depredators.

You will please make the honest residents of this department understand that so long as they remain attached to the Government and the Laws they have nothing to fear; as an armed force is sent to no part of the Republic with any other object than to maintain the peace and security of the citizens.

Whatever pretensions the inhabitants may have they will please manifest them by legal means to the Government, and I offer to support them, provided they be such as can be realized, as to me is entrusted the tranquility of the States of the East.

I cannot fail to stimulate your patriotism and your zeal to prevent your influence and your persuasion to any alteration whatever as this General Commandancy feeling very sensible the neglect of its indicating, will be obliged to proceed against those who overturn the peace which is now fortunately enjoyed in every part of the nation.

You will please proceed as I have indicated, and be assured of the particular consideration and esteem which I profess.

Circulated to you for your knowledge.

God and liberty.

Matamoras, July 12th, 1835.

MARTIN PERFECTO DE Cos.

To the Illustrious Ayuntamiento of Brazoria.

The Editor remarks that: "Though the literal translation

may be given, it contains some very awkward sentences."

THE QUAKER JANNEYS OF CHESHIRE AND

THEIR PROGENITORS.

BY MILES WHITE, JR.., Baltimore, Md.

(To Be Continued.)

[In 1878 the late Samuel M. Janney, of Loudoun county, Virginia, published a Chart or Family Tree of the descendants of two of the sons of Thomas Janney, who with his wife Margery and their four sons, in 1683, removed from Cheshire, England, and settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Several years ago I began to collect data that would fill out and bring to a later date this genealogy. In doing which I ascertained that other members of the Janney family, of Cheshire, also came to America in colonial days and settled in Pennsylvania_and Maryland; that all the surviving children of the youngest of Thomas and Margery Janney's sons settled in Virginia after their father's death; and that several of the children of two of the other sons also moved to Virginia, though all of these last mentioned children did not permanently settle there.

As a result of this investigation genealogical articles concerning several of the families with which the early American Janneys intermarried, have been published;' and in the following article is presented an account of some of the English ancestors of the various early Janney colonists; and also some facts about these colonists themselves, the descendants of whom are now very numerous, and many are at present living in Maryland and Virginia, and various Southern States.-MILES WHITE, JR.]

Whence the Cheshire Janneys originally came, or when and in what part of the county they first settled, I believe to be unknown at present. The first mention of any of the name in this county, which I have seen, was during the XIVth Century; and in the XVIth Century they were widely scattered throughout the Palatinate. When the family ceased to reside in Cheshire I know not, but it appears that at the present day there are no persons living there who

"William Haige," Penna. Mag. Hist. and Biog., Vol. XXIV; "Some Colonial Ancestors of Johns Hopkins," PUBLICATIONS, So. Hist. Assoc., Vol. IV; "Henry Baker and Some of His Descendants," Ibid, Vol. V; "William Biles," Penna. Mag. Hist. and Biog., Vol. XXVI; "Thomas Janney, Provincial Councillor," Ibid, Vol.

spell their names Janney, though some claim that the Jennings of the present time are descendants of the ancient family of Janney: and in New England, in 1623, in a division of lands, in Plymouth, the name Jenny reads Jenings, apparently supporting this claim. 1a

The name of Janney or Jenney has been spelled in many ways at different times and places, Thomas Jenye, the rebel and poet, who flourished 1565-1583, and seems to have been a native of York, and whose name also appears as2 Jeny, Jenny, Jenninges, Genys and Genynges being a good example; and in Lancashire and Cheshire the following names have been found, most, if not all of which, are forms of the same family name, viz., Janion, Janney, Janny, Jannye, Jannyon, Jannyne, Jannys, Jenion, Jenney, Jenny, Jennys, Jenyngs, Jenyus, Jenys, Guynes, Gynes, Gynney, Gynny, Yannes and Yannis.

Lower's Patronymica Britanica states that "The family of Jenney of Bredfield, co. Suffolk, are supposed to be of French extraction, and the name to be derived from Guisnes near Calais. The name of this family was originally spelt Gyney."

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It appears from Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men of England, Burke's Landed Gentry, and Blomefield's History of Norfolk, that the Jenneys of Bredfield, co. Suffolk; Drayton Beauchamp, co. Bucks; Great Cressingham, co. Norfolk; and Knodeshall, co. Suffolk, are all branches of the same family, and that they as well as all the other Jenneys of Norfolk are "supposed to be" or "considered to be” a branch of the House of De Gisneto, De Gisne or Gyney of Heverland, Norfolk, though a complete line of descent therefrom, is not, in all cases, given, and none apparently show a continuous line back to the time of the Conquest, when the first of the

1a Savage's Genealog. Diet. See Chetham Soc. Publications, Vol. LIX, p. 34.

Dict. of Nat. Biog., Vol. XXIX, p. 331.