ment, and he died with words of kindness on his lips to all that came near his bedside, and with peace in his own soul.

"Who shall live his life again."

"In some accounts which have been printed, errors appear in relation to his family. He was the father of twelve children, six of whom, with a widow of 72 years, survive. Rev. J. E. Tyler, now resident at East Windsor Hill, with whom he has lived since he resigned his place in the Seminary; Mrs. Greely, widow of the late Hon. Philip Greely, Jr., Boston; Mrs. Goddard, widow of Rev. John Goddard; Edward Tyler, Esq., Cashier of the Suffolk Bank, Boston; Mrs. Prof. Gale, and Rev. Josiah Tyler, Missionary in South Africa.”

HON. ISAAC TOUCEY.

Isaac Toucey was the son of Thomas Toucey, one of the founders of the ecclesiastical society of South Britain, in Southbury. He lived in a house a little easterly from the present residence of Bethuel Russell. Thomas Toucey afterwards removed to Newtown, Conn., where the subject of this sketch was born, Nov. 5, 1795; so that he was a grandson of Ancient Woodbury. He studied law with Hon. Asa Chapman, of Newtown, afterwards a Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors of this State. Mr. Toucey commenced the practice of his profession in Hartford, in 1818, and soon obtained a high rank at the bar. He held the office of State Attorney for Hartford County from 1822 to 1836. In the latter year he was elected a representative to Congress, and continued to represent his district in that capacity for four years. In 1846, he was elected Governor of the State. During the latter part of President Polk's administration, Mr. Toucey filled the office of Attorney General of the United States. In 1850, he was a member of the Senate of his native State. In 1851, he was elected to the Senate of the United States, and held that office through his term of six years. When Mr. Buchanan became President of the United States, Mr. Toucey went into his cabinet, and held the office of Secretary of the Navy during that administration, at the close of which he went back to private life. In addition to the public stations which he filled during his long life, there were others which he was offered and declined. Among these was a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States.

From his admission to the bar till his election to U. S. Senate, in 1851, Mr. Toucey was constantly devoted to the duties of his profession, with the exception of the four years during which he represented his distret in the lower house of Congress.1

ARTHUR B. WARNER,

Son of Sherman B. Warner, Esq., of Southbury, where he was born. He was educated in Woodbury; studied law with Hon. James Huntington, and was admitted to the bar of Litchfield County, in the spring of 1872. He continues in the office of Judge Huntington, as his assistant, and is also Clerk of Probate for the District of Woodbury. He thus casts in his lot with us, "for better or for worse."

COL. SETH WARNER.

On page 411 of the last edition, the author criticised the inhabitants of Roxbury, for the shameful neglect in which they had allowed the remains of Col. Warner to lie. It is not to be supposed that that criticism had any effect. But the fact is so, that a movement was soon after set on foot, which resulted in an appropriation by the State of $1,000, on certain conditions to be performed by the inhabitants of Roxbury, which were fulfilled, and a beautiful monument of Quincy granite was erected on the Centre Green, in Roxbury, April 30, 1859, to the memory of the brave deceased. To this place the remains had been removed, from their ancient resting place in the "Old Burying Ground," about a mile from the center, on the 20th of the preceding October. There are historical inscriptions on each of the four raised panels of the die. Some of the dates differ from those given in the former edition of this work, which were those given by Mr. Chip'man, of Vermont, in his work. But the matter of dates was carefully investigated by Ex-Gov. Hiland Hall, of Vermont, George W. Warner, Esq., of Bridgeport, Conn., a descendent of Col. Seth Warner, and the writer, and the dates put upon the monument are believed to be correct.

On the east (front) side is inscribed: -"Col. Seth Warner, of the Army of the Revolution, born in Roxbury, Ct., May 17, 1743,

1 Hon. Wm. D. Shipman, U. S. District Judge.

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a resident of Bennington, Vt., from 1765 to 1784; died in his native parish, Dec. 26, 1784." On the north side appears :- Captor of Crown Point, Commander of the Green Mountain Boys in the repulse of Carleton at Longueil, and at the battle of Hubbardton, and the associate of Stark in the victory at Bennington.' On the south side is inscribed:-"Distinguished as a successful defender of the New Hampshire Grants, and for bravery, sagacity, energy and humanity, as a partisan officer in the War of the Revolution." On the west side appears:-" His remains are deposited under this monument, erected by order of the General Assembly of Connecticut, A. D., 1859."

HON. WARREN W. GUTHRIE.

Mr. Guthrie was born in South Britaia, Southbury. He is a great-grandson of Judge William Edmond, late of Newtown. After receiving an Academic education, he entered the law office of William Cothren, where he pursued his studies with diligence and fidelity for three years, when he was admitted to the Litchfield County bar, in 1855, and immediately opened a law office at Seymour, Conn. He remained there a year, and had more than the ordinary success of a young lawyer. Desiring a wider field, he removed to Kansas, where he has since remained, and is now in a large and lucrative practice, at Atchison, Kansas. Soon after his settlement in Kansas, he was elected to the office of Attorney General, and held it for four years.

Thus the just criticism of the former volume is removed. And here we close our list of the worthy ones whom Woodbury delights to honor.

HE recording of the history

of the generations of men

is always an interesting,

though most laborious work. It recalls us to all that is tender and affecting in the several relations in life. The man who does not care who his father was," and has no curiosity to know from what branch or stock he has derived his existence, in the line back towards Adam, is a confessed boor, who should be closely watched in all the transactions with which he is connected. The views of the writer on this interesting branch of human inquiry, were fully given in the first volume of this work.

Doubtless many, in looking through this part of the work, will wonder why their family histories have not been recorded. The answer is brief. Though the author has importuned them for

sum

eighteen years, they have not furnished the material. Everything has been introduced that could be obtained. But now the " mer is past and the harvest ended." Nobody will ever have the courage to write the history of our town the next two hundred years.

In writing such extended genealogies as were introduced in the first volume, with its myriad of facts and dates, it was to be expected that errors would occur. Where such have been brought to the writer's attention, they are here corrected. But instead of writing the genealogies over again, which would require much space, the writer has simply re-written certain portions of the genealogies in which the corrections occur. So that in giving the account of any particular family, in this volume, it will be understood that where it differs from the former account, the present account is the correct one. Any one interested in a particular family, can, by an examination, make the necessary corrections.

In this part of the author's work, he has been most kindly and effectively aided by Rev. Benjamin L. Swan, of Oyster Bay, N. Y., one of the most careful and laborious historical and genealogical investigators in this country. If anywhere the writer has differed with him, it has been after the most careful investigation of the facts. At the time the former edition was written, little attention had been given this branch of inquiry. But since then, it has engaged the time and attention of multitudes, and a much more just appreciation of the matter has become prevalent. Works of this kind have become numerous, and, it is believed, the new inquiries have been vastly beneficial.

In recording the following families, the author has followed the plan adopted by the several persons who have furnished him the family records, and not that plan which he deems best for all family records, explained on page 484.