that a Holder Slocum, probably a Giles, built this house for his son-like his own house-about a mile further northward. Only, having vowed never to build so large a house again, he made this one a foot smaller each way, so that it measured 40 by 30 feet.

In the olden time this must have been an ideal home, with its great square rooms, with fair prospects from each of the many small-paned windows. The beautiful panelled chimney-pieces and the carved balustrades of the winding staircases are reminders of the days when

"Builders wrought with greatest care,"

Remarkable tales are told of the number of shingles needed to cover the great roof, and especially of the number of barrels of cider in the cellar; for the two have some connection, most assuredly. Great was the hospitality on Slocum's Neck when John Wing and Mercy Almy lived there in the old Dutch Cap house.

In such a land of Slocum's it is not strange that four Slocums married four Wings. Many of their descendants followed the sea, for down there the call of the sea is everywhere. Great ships afar off on the bay, with the sunlight on their sails, are enchanting. A dear old lady who knew, told me the ships always looked better coming into port than going out.

John Wing sat on the "high seat" at the old Friend's Meeting House at Apponegansett, where stood the firist in Dartmouth; and in its quiet "God's Acre", given the Meeting by Peleg Slocum, he rests, with his wife, Mercy Almy, and many of their kin and sect.

These old-time Friends are plainly drawn in the simple words of one like us-a descendant of Rev. Stephen Bachelor, John Greenleaf Whittier, in his Quaker of the Olden Time:

"The Quaker of the Olden Time;
How calm and firm and true,

Unspotted by its wrong and crime,
He walked the dark earth through.

"O spirit of that early day,

So pure and strong and true,

Be with us on the narrow way

Our faithful fathers knew."

tions of Dartmouth

John Wing, son of John and Mercy (Almy) Wing, was one of those who

married a Slocum-Rebecca Slocumand had four children, two sons and two daughters. After her death he married Mehitable Gifford, and had two children, Abner and Rebecca. Something more of this John Wing is told in the March 1909 number, under "Old School Days in Dartmouth."

At the spring town meeting in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-five, John Wing of Slocum's Neck was chosen prudential committee for that school district. He lost no time in assuming the duties of his office, for when he returned to his home at night he already had engaged a teacher for the coming term.

The reason for this unseemly haste, in one of calm and prudent Quaker lineage, occasioned comment, but later it was learned that his action was governed by a desire for peace, which also was his Quaker heritage. The teacher of the previous term had not given satisfaction to the parents of that rural community, and a change was desired; therefore it was a simple solution of the problem to have a new teacher engaged before the old one should have opportunity to make an application.

When John Wing left the town house that day after his election, he drove across the long bridge over the Apponegansett River, past the old salt works, and turned into a "right-of-way" which led to a little old farm house, where lived Samuel Johnson and his wife Sally.

The arrival of the strange visitor excited the lively interest of the younger members of the family, of whom there were not a few; but his business was with the daughter Fidelia, then in her seventeenth year, and already a school teacher of several terms' experience. At the close of the interview she had been engaged to teach the Slocum's Neck school, at a salary of two dollars per

week, and board. In addition to the amount paid by the town the district appropriated a small sum, apportioned according to the number of pupils in a family. In those days the teacher who "boarded round" was accorded the privilege of going home with a different pupil each Monday night, and there being entertained-or endured, as the case might be, and not infrequently the endurance was on the part of the teacher -until the following Friday.

The young teacher entered upon her duties the first of May. Slocum's Neck was about five miles from Johnson Farm, toward the Westport line, and often she walked the distance on her bi-weekly visits to her home, passing on the way the old Apponegansett Meeting House, beyond the double-arched stone bridge, and going through the picturesque little village of Russell's Mills, where the waters of the Paskamansett River turned the grist mill wheel, and then lazily flowed along out to the sea.

Her first boarding place was at the home of the genial prudential committee, John Wing in the old "Dutch Cap" house, which stood high above the surrounding farms and overlooked the Paskamansett River. Both he and his

wife, "Hetty", as she was called by old and young, gave her a cordial welcome, and arranged that she should spend the alternate Saturdays and Sundaysin their home. They had but one son, Abner, to attend the school, but there were older children by a former marriage, two sons and two daughters. Between the younger of these daughters, Sarah Ann, and Fidelia there sprang up an ardent friendship, which did not end with the school term; so that, in the following years, the old house became the scene of much visiting and merrymaking.

Across the fields lived Pardon Wing, brother of John, also with grown-up sons and daughters, and only one little daughter, Rebecca,to be counted among her pupils. Farther down the road was the farm of Otis Slocum, whose wife was a daughter of Pardon Wing. Beyond the school house was Ricketson Slocum's, and he, like his brother Otis, had found his wife at Pardon Wing's. Still farther on lived Howland Russell (father of the (father of the late B. B. Russell of Brockton), himself a Wing descendant. And so it came about that one-half the school belonged to the Wing Family of America-not yet Incorporated, and, doubtless, if the records of the other

families of the neighborhood, the Briggs the Allens, the Manchesters, were searched they, too, would be found to have Wing connections.

The school house stood in an angle made by two roads, not far from the John Wing house. When the teacher arrived on the opening Monday morning she found about thirty boys and girls assembled, their ages ranging from five years old to seventeen. The course of study ranged through all the grades, from teaching the alphabet, then considered the correct method of starting a child on his educational journey, to advanced Arithmetic and Grammar, Much attention was given to reading and recitations among the older pupils, and they were drilled in the selections in Porter's Rhetorical Reader, and Worcester's Fourth Book. An especial favorite was "The Song of Winter," beginning, "I come from the caves of the frozen north", and the story of "John Gilpin's Ride" never failed to entertain both old and young.

Many were the pleasures enjoyed by the teacher outside the school room during the beautiful summer days, and many and varied were her experiences in the homes of her pupils, vividly related to her daughter sixty years later.

After the school term was finished, visiting still went on at the old "Dutch Cap" house. One winter was especially gay, and parties and merrymaking were the order-even for the young people of these staid Quaker families.

At this time, the old grandmother, Mercy (Almy) Wing, and her daughter, Patience, occupied the square front room on the right of the entrance, and also the chamber above. At the left was the family sitting room, back of that John Wing's room, and across the back of the house a living room, from which room stairs went up to the corner chamber, back of Grandmother Mercy's room, which the two girls, Sarah Ann and Ann and Fidelia occupied. Ordinarily to reach their room they would pass through the room at the left, by the father's bedroom door, and up the back stairs, but there were times when this seemed

hazardous! If they judged that the hour of returning from a party might occasion unfavorable comment, their plan was to leave a candle on the front stairs, then, as they could not pass through the grandmother's room, to go up the second flight into the attic, then across the attic and down the back stairs, thus reaching their room undiscovered.

On one memorable occasion Fidelia was the first one home. (How that could have happened must be left to the imagination!) Leaving the candle for the daughter of the house, she attempted to find her way in the dark up the two flights of stairs and across the attic to the third flight downward. The feat was accomplished, but not without some damage to a highly-prized pink silk bonnet-which, however, saved her head-as she bumped against the heavy oaken rafters.

definite details as to family history.

So it was, in all probability, with Phebe (Wing) Foster-born in Harwich, Mass., Jan. 20, 1726, daughter of John and Mrs. Rebecca ((Freeman), Vicary) Wing. The early life of Phebe must have been rather uneventful for I have been told the vicinity is a lonesome place still. I can see little Phebe coming out of the old colonial home, still believed to be standing, and starting on her way to school. She wore a queer little nightcap sort of head-dress, home-spun

dress and a kerchief tied snugly about her neck. She passed the mill pond where her father had a saw-mill and may have picked an apple or two from the good sized orchard around the old homestead.

On Sabbath afternoons, after quietly helping with the usually few duties of the day, she may have strolled through the old burial grounds where the daffodils and violets still grow, but it was probably in the old Harwich church that she finally met "The Foster Boy" and, life in those days being such a serious affair, I can imagine the courtship was extremely formal. However, all of this has been left tc imagination for the records state only that her father, John, lived upon the old original Wing homestead given him by his grandfather, "John of Harwich", on the Sautaucket Creek. He was in the First School Reserve of Harwich, and Phebe went to school with children of the Sears, Winslow, Clark and Dillingham families, as well as of Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of our "Beloved Abraham."

Her father married first, Achsah, supposed widow of Joseph Winslow. She lived but a few months and on March 5, 1712 or 13, John married Bethiah, daughter of Kenelm Winslow (Brother of the Governor. In 1700 Bethiah died leaving four small children and in 1728 John married, as his third wife. Rebecca (Freeman) Vicary, widow of Joseph Vicary. There were no children of the Vicary marriage but the six born after Rebecca's marriage to John Wing, added to those left by the second wife, Bethiah, made a family of ten children in the old Sautaucket home.

John was well off for his time, his real-estate inventorying more than eight hundred pounds. He owned a pew in the First Congregational Church at Harwich and his fellow pew-holders were the Clarks, Fosters, Winslows, Bangs, Mayos, Hopkins, Snows, Halls, Freemans, Dillinghams and Grays. He also owned an interest in the local school house.

But as to Phebe, records are meager. Her marriage intentions to Nathaniel Foster were published in Harwich, Mass, June 21, 1746 and we find the family of Nathaniel Foster in Duchess Co. New York about 1750. There were ten robust children to care for, besides Phebe's fitly occupying the position of wife of one of the most important men of the South East precinct, and evidently she left family data for idler ones to record. In the main this has been well attended to and we are justly proud of our WingFoster line.

Recorded by these interested genealogists and historians and, in "The Owl" especially, we find a great deal about the general Wing Family, but the direct ancestral line of Phebe when shorn of side lines runs thus:

I. Matthew Wing, Tailor of Banbury, England: buried Oct. 19, 1614. Married Mary?, buried July 13, 1613 beside her husband in the Old St. Mary's church yard, Banbury, England. Children:

1. Fulk-No record of birth: buried 22nd of Oct. 1631.

2. Thomas-Christened 21 April, 1578 buried Nov. 2, 1624.

3. Sibill-Christened 26 Jan., 1578: buried Feb. 22, 1578.

4. Elizabeth-Christened 20 March, 1579: buried March 31, 1579.

5. Elizabeth-Christened 8 Oct., 1581: married John Nycholes.

6. John-Christened 12 Jan., 1584: Died about 1630.

10. Jane or Joane Christened 25 Dec. 1592 married Robert Chamberlayne.

Tailoring in Matthew Wing's time was considered quite an honorable trade as clothing outside the home was chiefly made for the gentry, thus bringing a tailor in contact with the wealthy and more learned people. Matthew's legacies in his will show he had been efficient in his trade and money values must be understood to appreciate fully the magnitude of his bequests. On page 1301 of The Owl for March 1914, we find the forty shillings he left his son John, our ancestor, "was more than the Comptroller of King Edward VI paid a year rental for his house in Channel Row", and "The wages of a working man were eight pence a day" and "only four men in all London were rated with an income of more than four hundred pounds (a little less than two thousand dollars) a year in 1586. Matthew also seems to have been a regular communicant at St. Mary's church and he requested that his body should be laid to rest in St. Mary's Church yard.

II. Rev. John (Matthew) Wing. born Jan. 12, 1584: died in London, England in 1630. Children:

1. Deborah, born 1611: was married in 1630 when her father made his will. Lived in England.

2. John, born at Yarmouth, England, 1613: died 1699, in Massachusetts.

3. Daniel, born at Yarmouth, England: died March 1698.

4. Stephen, born 1621: died April 24, 1710.

5. Matthew: Returned Returned to England to England where he died before 1680.

The rapid events of the life of Rev. John have been very fully recorded in "The Owl", but ever in passing, one cannot help but regret the early death of one so well educated and splendidly fitted to help his troublous time. Fearlessly he spoke and wrote his convictions despite all persecution, and a feeling of sadness comes over us as we imagine his sorrow at leaving his young wife and fine family to battle the world alone. After a residence of eighteen years in foreign lands it is thought he had come

back to London to arrange to accompany his father-in-law, Stephen Bachiller tc New England but he "fell sick and died" in London during the summer of 1630. This may have disarranged the plans of Mr. Bachiller to come that year, for it was not until March 1632 that the "William and Francis cut loose from the docks of London, swung into the Thames and down to the sea pointing her prow toward America," and on board was the brave, stout-hearted Deborah Bachiller Wing who, with her four boys, had left the turmoil of the old world, and, after a few years of wandering, we find them settled at Sandwich-in 1637.

III.

John Wing of Harwich

(Rev. John, Matthew) born 1613: died between May and August 1699: married Elizabeth? 1645, of whose birth there is no record but she died Jan. 31, 1691. Children:

1. Susannah, born 1647: died August 2, 1717. Married William Parslow. 2. Ephriam, born May 30, 1648: died young. "Drowned in the snow."

3. Ephriam, born April 4, 1649: died Dec. 11, 1649.

4. Joseph, born Sept. 12, 1650: buried May 31, 1679. Married Jerusha Mayhew.

5. Ananias, born about 1651: died Aug. 31, 1713, married Hannah Free

man.

6. Oseah, born about 1652: married Nathan Turner, 2nd time, Joseph White.

7. John, born about 1653: married 3rd Rebecca (Freeman) Vicary: died 1683.

According to "The Owl" page 1361 "Just where the Wing home was located in Sandwich has been a perplexing problem for the family historians for more than forty years. It is, however, the consensus of opinion that it was in the close vicinity of Wolf Trap Neck, a narrow strip of land about a half mile west of the village of Sandwich."

The first mention of John Wing on the preserved records. of Sandwich, Mass., was in 1641. The death of his father when he was only seventeen years of age left him the practical head of the house. Daniel and Stephen both married, but at 23 years of age we find John still