time of Stephen ond Osheah. Here are warming pans, leather lanterns, spinning wheels, kitchen utensils, candlesticks, flint-lock guns, and other retired household effects in quantities. The collection is scarcely surpassed by that of the Plymouth Memorial Hall.

The building nestles at the foot of a hill, just across the old road leading up to Spring Hill Meeting House, a half mile away. At the rear of the house are salt marshes stretching away to the waters of Cape Cod Bay, partially covered at high tide."

Prof. Henry N. Hoxie, in a paper read at the Sandwich reunion of 1903, said this: "I have seen and copied the original deed of this farm and place, and now recall how this original Stephen, a wanderer and exile from the old world, within half a mile's ride from his mother's heart, when age and perhaps infirmity had crept upon him, in the remarkable spelling of the period and with endless phraseology of old English law, handed over to his sons full possession of his estate, reserving only for himself his own support from that farm, and a home in his old house." This will was dated Dec. 2, 1700.

Ebenezer Wing, son of Stephen and Sarah (Briggs) Wing, was born in 1671,

and married in 1698-9 to Elizabeth Back

house. The Hoxie manuscripts say that "he lived in the Old Fort House near Spring Hill." As Matthew, the other brother, at the time was living in Dartmouth, Ebenezer evidently continued to reside with his father upon the old home

stead.

The will of Ebenezer give the use and improvement of all his real estate to his wife, and after her gives his house and other buildings to his three sons, Samuel, Joshua and Joseph. At the time of his death in 1738 the three brothers were unmarried, and probably continued to live in the "Old Fort House" with their mother, Elizabeth.

In 1741 Samuel married Hepzibah Hathaway, and the History states that "March 9, 1741, the town of Sandwich granted Samuel Wing the privilege of a water power on the Spring Hill River where the glass factory is now located."

and that is where he lived.

There is very little record of Joseph, except in his father's will of 1731, and he is supposed to have died unmarried, sometime after his father's death in 1738.

Joshua, the third brother, married Mary Hoxie in 1744, and the Hoxie manuscripts say that he "lived where his father did." Joshua had four children Sarah, Joseph, Elizabeth and Presbury. In his will, dated 1779, he gives all hist property, mentioning specifically his Dwelling house, to his son Joseph. In the record Presbury is mentioned as living in North Falmouth, so probably Joseph continued on in the old house

after he married Phebe Shove in 1778. It was the following year that the will was made There is no mention in any record of children born to Joseph and Phebe.

Presbury Wing, of North Falmouth, married Hannah Swift in 1780. Their

children were Joshua, Benjamin, Joseph and Sylvanus. Presbury died in 1807 and Hannah, his wife, in 1816.

The will of his brother Joseph makes provision for his wife, Phebe, by giving her the improvement of all his real and personal estate, and makes bequests to his brother Presbury. The History gives seph, sons of Presbury, but in the "great no further record of Benjamin and Jobible" of their uncle, Joseph, it is recorded that Benjamin Wing was lost at sea in 1805, and that Joseph Wing died in 1811. In this will of Joseph Wing he gives to his nephew, Sylvanus, real estate that he owned in Pocasset, and to his nephew, Joshua, "my burch Desk and book case which is in my east room, and my clock and great bible."-all of which have been viewed by reunionists from all over the country. He further gives to this same Joshua the remainder of his estate, which would include the house.

the children of his sister Elizabeth and

Joshua Wing lived his early life in Falmouth, where he married Beulah Bowerman in 1776. He went to live in the Old Fort House in 1828, three years before the death of his uncle Joseph, which occurred in 1831. His widow died in 1833, when Joshua came

into possession of the estate. The pictures of Joshua and Beulah appear in the Dec. 1920 Owl, at page 2036. Of them it is said, "Both had definite seats in the meeting house at Spring Hill and they were friends of the old type." Of the four sons of Joshua and Beulah the third son, Presbury, seems to have been the one to carry on the traditions in the old home, the older sons, Benjamin and Ezra, having removed, the one to New York and the other to California. Seth B., the youngest son built for himself a house near by. Presbury married Sarah Barker who died in 1874. Presbury died in 1881. It was from his uncle Presbury that Alvin P., son of Seth B. and Cordelia (Phinney Wing, received the house, and here he has lived, with his wife, Elizabeth Chipman, until her death in 1916, and since that time with his daughter Cora..

Many interesting stories and traditions hover about the old home, some of which will be related in future Owls.

No member of the Wing Family but will contemplate with sorrow the possibility of this truly Wing home ever going into the hands of strangers. In the past we have talked much of a Memorial building, and a small sum is in hand toward such a project. What could be more appropriate, satisfactory to Wings all over the land than that some provision should be made whereby this Old Fort House could be secured by the Wing Family of Amerca, Incorporated-a Mecca for coming generations of Wings?

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Mrs. Florence Cross Boughton

A faithful friend of the Owl writes, "If you like to have anything about living members of the family who are doing things a little out of the usual I can suggest a cousin who is a very fine pianist, Florence Cross Boughton. Her maternal grandmother was Ann Theresa Wing (3744), (Abraham, Abraham Thomas, Edward, Edward, Daniel, Daniel, Rev. John, Matthew), the sister of Jonas Wing, of New York. When Florence was three years old she had a toy octave piano, upon which she would

pick out many of the tunes, usually hymns, which she sang with her mother. A little later she had a real piano and lessons. Her teacher was enthusiastic and declared her to be full of music. After graduating from High School she began a more serious study of music in New York City, and later studied in Paris. After her return to this country she taught music at a college in Kansas, and while there she met and became engaged to Arthur Boughton, whose business as exporter and importer kept him much of the time in China. As he was in China at the time they had set to married it was decided that they meet at the home of a friend in Japan where the ceremony could take place. Florence crossed the United States and sailed from San Francisco. After a week together in Japan they were married and spent their honeymoon in the Flowery Kingdom. For three years they lived in Shanghai, when Florence came home for a visit; and then war conditions brought her husband back to America. this their home was in New York City for several years until the birth of their daughter Elizabeth made it seem best to remain through the year at their summer home, Boonton, New Jersey, which is their present address. She is truly an artist whose music music reaches the heart."

Kith and Kin

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Justin Frank Raynes, of Battle Creek, Mich., is a recent subscriber to The Owl. He is the grandson of Loring Wing, of South Leeds, Maine, born in 1815, and Mary A. (Gardiner) Wing, of Kittery, Maine, born in 1817. The June 1905 Owl presents a picture of Mrs. Mary Gardiner Wing, aged eighty-seven years, the widow of Loring Wing, late of Marshall, Mich.

Some one sending the picture writes: "I have personally met Mrs. Wing and find her a charming woman. I have made several very pleasant calls at her home, and wish I had been proficient in short hand so I could have taken down for the benefit of The Owl readers some of her very interesting reminiscences

of her husband's people. Her husband was one who married out of the Quaker sect, and some of her experiences in trying to adjust herself to the Quaker customs and environments of her husband's people were intensely interesting and many times amusing.

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She is quite an enthusiast on the subject of genealogy, and of course at her advanced age has more time to devote to genealogy as well as to reminiscences of our people. She fully intends to make the long journey to Sandwich at the coming reunion, though it will necessarily be quite an undertaking for a woman of her age, but I hope it will be so that she can go, as she would be a valuable addition to our gathering, and would contribute as much to the pleasure of the others there as she would derive personally."

We have no record that Mrs. Wing did attend the reunion of 1905. Doubtless the distance was too great. We have been unable to find the family record of her husband, Loring Wing, of South Leeds, Maine, Perhaps some Owl reader may know and be glad to report.

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The speaker at the noonday Lenten services at Macauley's Theatre, Louisville, Ky., March 30 to April 3 was the Rev. John D. Wing, D.D., Rector of St. Paul's Church, Chattanooga, Tenn. A card of announcement states that "Dr. Wing who comes to us for the first time, is regarded as one of the forcible speakers in the Episcopal Church in the South."

The kinswoman who sends the item wishes that all the Wings interested in the family might have heard him.

Rev. John D. Wing, D. D., is the son of the late John Durham Wing of Atlanta, Ga., and his family line runs, Jehu Lowrey, John, Edward Benjamin, Benjamin, Matthew, Stephen, Rev. John, Matthew. He is a subscriber to The Owl.

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Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wing of South Dartmouth, Mass., left on April 28 for St. Charles, Ill., where they planned to remain several weeks. They were also to visit their son, Professor Herbert Wing, Jr., of Dickenson College, Carlisle, Penna and a director of the Wing Family of

Mr. Merwin C. Lincoln of Washburn, Wis., (whose wife is Elizabeth (Wing) (Briggs) Lincoln) having reached the age limit for employees of the railroad, which he has served for many years, was retired from active service Jan. 31, and placed on the pension role. On Feb. 11th the employees of the road at that station, together with some of the older citizens, tendered him a banquet, at which time they presented him a white gold seal ring with a Masonic emblem cut on it. While Mr. Lincoln greatly appreciated the gift he appreciated even more the spirit of friendship that prompted it, and the kind words from

friends old and new. **** *

Miss Daisy Roberta Wing, Tacoma, Wash., granddaughter of Calvin Wing of Maine and later of Michigan, has recently become a member of the Association and a subscriber to The Owl. At the same time she sent membership dues and Owl subscription for her nephew, Harold R. Wing, Astoria, Oregon. Miss Wing conducts a Circulating Library in Tacoma. Her parents, a brother and a sister died some years ago, and she has known very little about her Wing connection. We are very glad to welcome her and her nephew into the Family circle.

A local paper presents congratulations to Mrs. Margaret Dean of North Marion, Mass., upon the occasion of her ninetieth birthday, and the Owl would present congratulations also. Mrs. Dean (Margaret Look), a daughter of George and

Memories of Alice Wing of
Greenfield, N. Y.

Old letters! What a wealth of memories is hidden within their pages! Letters received during the ten years' secretaryship of the writer, from many of the dear Wing Cousins now gone, are among her treasured possessions.

Here is a package dating back to 1906 -the year of the reunion at Glens Falls, and they are a precious commentary of the value of our Family Association. They are letters of Miss Alice Wing of Greenfield, Saratoga County, N. Y., who with whole-hearted hospitality invited the entire company of reunionists to her home at Greenfield. The Wings accepted the invitation and, although not all could go, a large party left Glens Falls on the day appointed for Saratoga and Greenfield. We quote from an account

of this visit in the Sept., 1906, Owl: "After Saratoga the party proceeded on its way to Greenfield Center-seven miles distant.

"Prince Wing, the son of Jedediah, and his sons, Elihu, William and Daniel, came to this locality previous to 1789. They were prominent in the early settlement of the town and in the early Quaker meetings of the neighborhood, holding many offices of trust. In the same neighborhood, at a later period, settled Nehemiah, son of Benjamin and grandson of old Abraham, the pioneer of Glens Falls.

The cortege of a dozen or more carriages wound down the sandy roads and over the foot-hills of the Adirondacks, with the distant mountains shimmering through a blue vapor. It is a country wonderfully like Prince's boyhood home at Quaker Hill.

To those who appreciate sentiment

and the strange changes and chances of life these pilgrimages of Wings to the old homes of their kindred have a pathetic as well as a pleasurable side. Sometime before 1789 Prince Wing and his family separated from their kindred and came into the wilderness of northern New York. He left a brother, Elihu, and a sister, Abigail, at Quaker Hill. Today, 116 years later, Abram D. Wing of Quaker Hill, a great-grandson of Elihu, and Sarah Gifford Tingue, a greatgranddaughter of Abigail, are of this party, wending its way to the home of Prince and his great-grandchildren.

Some 220 years before, Elisha, the son of Stephen Wing, who built and owned the 'Old Fort House' at Sandwich, Mass., left his ancestral home, and marrying a wife, settled in Wareham. Elisha was the grandfather of Prince. Today, Alvin P. Wing and his daughter, descendants of Stephen, who still live in the 'Old Fort House', are of this party, as are also Wings of Wareham, and from many states in the Union.

Coming up over a hill, the party are in view of a large farm house, with another good-sized frame dwelling in the same enclosure, and numerous buildings and offices around. Back from the road in a grove of immense oak trees stands the smaller of the residence buildings and this is the home occupied by Daniel Wing, son of Prince, and his posterity since 1793. It is now the home of Miss Alice Wing, the granddaughter of Daniel. The first view of this grand old farm with its orchards and hospitable buildings is inviting and reassuring.

Under the trees, out upon the spacious lawn, long tables are bountifully spread with things of good cheer, strawberries fresh from the fields with rich cream, ices, cottage cheese, eatables substantial and luxurious, and Cousin Alice and her sister, Mrs. Darrow, and her nieces and friends there to welcome and serve. It is a merry, albeit, a hungry party, and ample justice is done to the viands prepared. Hospitality and good cheer is in the very air. And now for two hours or more, mirth, joyful family reunion and good-fellowship, run riot in the house of Daniel. The old home is gone over and its evidences of old-time refine

ment and culture examined. The brass nails indicating the hour marks on the kitchen floor, the worn family Bibles, the ancient maps of The Oblong, the quaint furniture of other days are inspected and marvelled about . But all good things must come to an end, and as the entire party gathers in the low-walled parlor about the piano and sings in parting "The Tie That Binds', and 'God Be With You', there is a glistening tear in many an eye. Forty-eight names were written in the guest book, and as the carriages drove swiftly back to Saratoga and separated, the reunionists present united in declaring this one of the most pleasant episodes of the reunion of 1906."

A picture of this home is given at page 530, in the Sept., 1906, Owl. Those who were of that privileged party will never forget the day, and will be interested in knowing what that visit meant to Cousin Alice, as told in one of these old letters.

"I do not think any of you can realize what it meant to me to have you come and visit the old home. And I wish there had been more of you, and that I could have had a little more time so that I could have done more. I had been thinking of it all winter, or since January, when I found out the reunion was to be held so near us (twenty miles)-that I wished those who were going to remain over the fourth day and visit Saratoga could come down here. I was so thankful to Mrs. Lee, for without her assistance in the matter I am afraid but few would have come. I thank you all so much for coming.

If you could send me some of the pictures taken here I should be so glad, for I am going to make a great book. We have lots of pictures of the house and buildings all over the farm, and I am going to put them in a book, with our Wing pictures, the register of the names of those who were here, and the printed account of the reunion. Then in the future years the children of my niece, and of my two nephews who alone will represent the next generation in the name of Wing, can take it to the reunions, and know their great-great-aunt had a reunon of her very own.