. Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs. y New Jerseysettlers. Richard Stout, one ofher forebears, was patentee ofthe tract extendmg from SandyHook to the Raritan Stout, a captain m Max-wells brigade, was a soldier ofthe Revolution, and Silas Nor-ris, originally of Hempstead,Long Island, was an early set-tler in Morris county. Her an-cestry is rich, too, with thenames of men prominent in theearlier colonial life of the continent. Thomas Hawley, a
. Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs. y New Jerseysettlers. Richard Stout, one ofher forebears, was patentee ofthe tract extendmg from SandyHook to the Raritan Stout, a captain m Max-wells brigade, was a soldier ofthe Revolution, and Silas Nor-ris, originally of Hempstead,Long Island, was an early set-tler in Morris county. Her an-cestry is rich, too, with thenames of men prominent in theearlier colonial life of the continent. Thomas Hawley, a resident of Rox-bury, Mass., of Captain Crowells Dragoons, was killed in the Sudbury fight,in 1676. Sergeant John Booth, of Stratford, Comi. (), served im-der Captam Seeley in King Philips War, and was afterwards a Trowbridge (1636-1717), of Newton, Mass., was a Lieutenant in KingPhilips War, 1675, and a Deputy from Cambridge, 1700-1703. Major-General Humphrey Atherton (1610-1661), of Dorchester, Mass., was aDeputy in 1638, Speaker in 1653, and the Governors Assistant, Norris was educated at Yassar College, graduating with the A. 378 Norton degree iu 1870. She delivered the amiual address at the commeucemeutexercises in 1872, was President of the New York branch of AssociateAlumnae, and is a member of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Shehas delivered many lectures, three times at Drew Seminary, but chiefly inNew York. Her work hi this respect began with a series of talks on Italyand Greece, as a substitute for Dr. Theodore Irving, a nephew of Wash-ington Irving, who had gathered a circle of his friends at his house to lis-ten to a course he had expected to deliver. Her later lectures at her homein New York made her library a semi-social and literary center for some ofthe most representative women of the city. Miss Norriss Gray House of the Quarries, had just become a bestseller in Boston, and been published in England, when she
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