. The Tucker genealogy; a record of Gilbert Ruggles and Evelina Christina (Snyder) Tucker, their ancestors and descendants; . as nothing of that kind expressed in Mr. Thorntons note, but in reading thebook, when he got it an hour or so later, the thought struck him for the firsttime that the clew had been found to the precious book which had been lostso long. He at once repaired to Charles Deane, then and ever since, down tohis death, as President Eliot felicitously styled him, the master of historicalinvestigators in this country. Mr. Deane saw the importance of the dis-covery. He communicate
. The Tucker genealogy; a record of Gilbert Ruggles and Evelina Christina (Snyder) Tucker, their ancestors and descendants; . as nothing of that kind expressed in Mr. Thorntons note, but in reading thebook, when he got it an hour or so later, the thought struck him for the firsttime that the clew had been found to the precious book which had been lostso long. He at once repaired to Charles Deane, then and ever since, down tohis death, as President Eliot felicitously styled him, the master of historicalinvestigators in this country. Mr. Deane saw the importance of the dis-covery. He communicated at once with Joseph Hunter, an eminent Englishscholar. Hunter was high authority on all matters connected with the settle-ment of New England. He visited the palace of Fulham, and establishedbeyond question the identity of the manuscript with Governor Bradfordshistory, an original letter of Governor Bradford having been sent over forcomparison of handwriting. t Massachusetts Historical Societys Collection, 1st series, (1794), Vol. Young, Alexander, Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers. Boston (1841),pages 109 to THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 145 Governor Bradford died in Plymouth, Mass., May 19,1657, aged 6j years. His widow died in Plymouth April5, 1670, aged 80 years. Cotton Mather says of Governor Bradford : ■ He was a person for study as well as action, and hencenotwithstanding the difficulties through which he passed in hisyouth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages. TheDutch tongue was become almost as vernacular to him as tlieEnglish; the French tongue he could also manage; the Latinand the Greek he had mastered; but the Hebrew he most ofall studied, because, he said, he would see with his own eyesthe ancient oracles of God in their native beauty. He waswell skilled in history, in antiquity, and in philosophy; andfor theology, he became so versed in it that he was an irre-fragable disputant against the errors, especially those ofAnabaptism, which with trouble
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