The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . of great and eminent men. BesidesFriar Bacon, the marvel of his day. Sir NicholasBacon, and the great Lord Bacon, there were fiveother extraordinary personagesof the same family. T
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . of great and eminent men. BesidesFriar Bacon, the marvel of his day. Sir NicholasBacon, and the great Lord Bacon, there were fiveother extraordinary personagesof the same family. They havebeen equally distinguished inthis country for their greatlearning and wisdom. Themother of James T. Bacon wasAsenath Delano, daughter ofAmaziah, and a direct descend-ant of Philip Delano, (origi-nally spelled De la Noye), aFrench Huguenot, who fledfrom France to Holland afterthe revocation of the Edict ofNantes; was baptized in theWalloon church at Leyden,and in 1621 took passage onthe good ship Fortune, forNew England, being then butnineteen years of age. He wasmade a freeman, Jan. 1, 1632,and was one of the early set-tlers of Duxbury, Mass., and was one of the orig-inal proprietors in 1645, with John Alden, Standish and others, of Bridgewater, married, in 1734, Hester Dewesbury, and hadchildren, Philip, Thomas, John, Jane, Rebecca, andSamuel. Thomas, the second son, married Mary,. £^9^06 ^ /X*^ OF AMERICAN BLOGRAPHY. 219 the fourth daughter of John and Priscilla (Mullins)Alden before 16e7. Samuel, the youngest son ofPhilip, married Elizaheth, daughter of AlexanderStandlsh (son of Capt. Myles Standish) and SarahAlden. The great-grandmother was Susanna Del-ano, who was a great-granddaughter of Philip Del-ano, the Pilgrim. Amaziah Delano, the maternalgrandfather of Mr. Bacon, served in the war of therevolution, and took part in the battle of BunkerHill. His father, Nathaniel Bacon, took part in thewar of 1813. The Delano farm at Duxbury laybetween th
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