ing the names Slocum and Slocumb with the view of publishing them at an early day. All persons of these names who have not already done so, are advised to furnish him with the records of their own families and other information which they think will be useful. A VALUABLE MS.-Horace G. Barrows, M. D., of Boston, Mass., has recently presented to the Newport Historical Society of Newport, his MS. of "American Annals," compiled from the most authentic sources and from his private diary and papers, employing some forty years in their collection. These annals commence with New England, embracing its earliest records (1620), and are brought down to June, 1880. It is hoped they may be published as a paragraph history. It would fill a place now vacant and serve as a most valuable book of reference. OUR FRENCH ALLIES, 1778-1782.-We take pleasure in copying the following notice from the Providence (R. I.) Bulletin, and congratulate our readers on the prospect of receiving, from so able and faithful a source, a work which will undoubtedly be very useful and entertaining to the public and highly creditable to the bibliography of R. I. :} "A New Work.-Some years ago Rev. Edwin M. Stone, of Providence, prepared a paper on the French Army in America, which was read before the R. I. Historical Society. Following out the request then made by vote of the society, his later researches extended the paper to a desirable volume, which is soon to be printed under the title of 'Our French Allies, 1778-1782,' elaborately illustrated with engravings. The work will have special interest for the citizens of Newport and Providence, where the gaiety of the French officers gave increased vivacity to social life during the season of their sojourn in the State capitals. Mr. Stone will be grateful for any particulars relating to the army and its officers, during the period above referred to, by which his narrative can be made more complete. They may be sent to him at Providence, R. I." THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.— No.2, of Vol. 4, of this magazine if received; as usual its columns are filled with many interesting papers relating to the early history of Penn. It is very handsomely printed and should be in every public and private library. Published by the Historical Society of Penn., 820 Spruce street, Philadelphia, $3 per year. QUERIES. 1.-On Dr. Styles' map of Newport, 1754, and Blaskowitz's, of 1777, a ropewalk, 150 feet long, is laid down near the North Baptist Church on Farewell street. By whom was it built and occupied? MAC. [In 1772, the ropewalk above mentioned was occupied by Lewis Buliod; perhaps some of our readers can tell us who built it.] 2.-Capt. W. Turner, of Swanzey, received a grant of land, in Deerfield, from Mass. Colonial Legislature, about 1740, as grandson of Capt. Wm. Turner, of Boston, who commanded the expedition at Great Falls on the Connecticut river, May 18, 1676, and was killed on the retreat. Can any one give information concerning the generation intervening or any collateral branches and oblige, HENRY E. TURNER. 3. The General Assembly of R. I., at its session in March, 1777, held at Providence passed the following: "Whereas, our relentless enemies have possessed themselves of the towns of Newport, Portsmouth, Middletown, and Jamestown, whereby the freemen of those towns are deprived of the privilege of meeting at their usual places, for the choice of general officers and deputies, to represent them in General Assembly, and such town officers as they have chosen on proxing days; "It is therefore, resolved, that those persons who were known to be freemen, in either of those towns, to the number of seven, at the least, from each town, respectively, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to meet at the places hereafter mentioned," &c., &c., &c. Those of Portsmouth and Middletown voted at the house of W. Durfee, in Tiverton, those of Newport at the State House, Providence, and those of Jamestown, at the house of Matthew Allen in North Kingstown. Was any record of those votes and voters preserved and if so where can it now be found? H. T. 4. Over each of the six windows in the lower tier in the front of the State House, Newport, R. I., are to be seen the following initials, cut into the stone: Beginning at the left we find W. E., J. B., I. H., D. C., I. W., and I. L.; can any one tell the meaning? It has been suggested they represent, 1st. Wm. Ellery; but for J. B., there are 22 names of that period which would suit, for I. H., 13—for D. C., David Cheesborough and Daniel Coggeshall-for I. W., Joseph Whipple and 12 others—for I. L., Josias Lyndon and 4 others. NEWPORT, R. I., June 26, 1880. J. E. M. 5. In the Seventh-day Baptist Memorial, Vol. I., p. 149, mention is made of a journal containing several hundred letters of Samuel Hubbard, of Newport, and also a history of all the principal events of the colonies from 1641 to 1688. This journal is said to have been in existence in 1830. Where is it now? 6. Where can be found the files of the Protestant Sentinel for the year 1830 ? FITCHBURG, MASS., June 30, 1880. RAY GREENE HULING. [Entered at the Post Office at Newport as second-class matter.] VOL. 1. NO. 2, NEWPORT HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, OCT. 1880. CONTENTS. Dr. Solomon Drowne's Journal.. Will of John Rogers, Newport, 1747.. Deed of Sale-Ann Bull to Nicholas Easton, Newport, 1702.. Jeremy Clarke's Family... Newport Town Records, Births and Marriages.. Middletown Records, Births..... Soul Liberty in Rhode Island. Notes and Queries.. COYRIGHT, 1880. BY THE NEWPORT HISTORICAL PUBLISHING CO. NEWPORT: JOHN P. SANBORN, PRINTER. 65 69 74 75 97 .115 .119 122 THE NEWPORT HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. No. 2. OCTOBER, 1880. VOL. 1. DR. SOLOMON DROWNE'S JOURNAL. The following account of a visit to Newport, and the adventurous voyage down the bay in 1767, was written at the time by the late Dr. Solomon Drowne, who afterwards served long and faithfully in the revolutionary army. In 1811 he was Professor of Materia Medica and Botany in Brown University. Dr. Drowne was well known and highly esteemed for his personal character and professional and literary accomplishments. At the date of this visit his age was fourteen years. It is chiefly of interest as a boy's picture of certain phases of colonial life: TUESDAY, June ye 23d, 1767. My Father and I set out [from Providence] for Newport in Rhode Island. We stept aboard the Packet-Boat, Thomas Lynsey, Commander in Chief, at about eight oclock in the morning. We sailed as far as Saxafax [Sassafras] Point, then spoke with a Sloop from Newport bound for Providence, Captain Jackson, Commander. We sailed as far as Bristol. Then with a merry Trumpet spoke with a Schooner from St. Kitts, bound for Providence, Captain Burrough, Commander. We saw William |