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     Susanna Smith was born on 24 December 1729.^2,3 She was the daughter of Judge William Smith and Mary Hett.¹ Susanna Smith married Robert James Livingston, son of James Livingston and Maria Kierstede, on 14 September 1747.⁴ Susanna Smith died on 20 March 1791 at the age of 61.⁴

     Margaret Livingston was born on 4 July 1738.¹ She was the daughter of James Livingston and Maria Kierstede.¹ Margaret Livingston married Peter Robert Livingston, son of Robert Livingston, Jr. "Third Lord of the Manor" and Maria Thong, on 6 June 1758. Margaret Livingston died on 31 July 1809 at the age of 71.¹

     Arthur Walker was born on 15 June 1863 in Australia.² He was the son of Theodore Walker and Anne Marshall.² Arthur Walker married Elizabeth Georgiana Gordon, daughter of George Tindal Gordon and Elizabeth Knevitt, on 11 December 1899 in Richmond, Victoria.^1,2 Arthur Walker died on 16 June 1954 in Victoria, Australia, at the age of 91.²

      Commanding Officer 2/7th Battalion.¹ Col. Theodore Gordon Walker DSO was born on 14 October 1900 in Richmond, Victoria.¹ He was the son of Arthur Walker and Elizabeth Georgiana Gordon.² Col. Theodore Gordon Walker DSO married Ida Fairfax Richardson, daughter of Henry Edmund Richardson and Sarah Jane Shakeshaft, on 27 January 1931 in St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, Victoria.¹ Col. Theodore Gordon Walker DSO died on 25 October 1971 in Kyneton, Victoria, at the age of 71.¹

     Marjorie Gordon Walker was born on 29 June 1902 in Victoria.² She was the daughter of Arthur Walker and Elizabeth Georgiana Gordon.¹ Marjorie Gordon Walker married Albert Syme Collings. Marjorie Gordon Walker died on 21 January 1995 in Mt. Eliza, Australia, at the age of 92.²

     Shirley Gordon Walker was born on 24 August 1905 in Victoria.² She was the daughter of Arthur Walker and Elizabeth Georgiana Gordon.¹ Shirley Gordon Walker died on 6 July 1987 in Victoria at the age of 81.²

     Huntly Gordon Walker was born in 1909 in Victoria.² He was the son of Arthur Walker and Elizabeth Georgiana Gordon.¹ Huntly Gordon Walker married Joyce Kneale.² Huntly Gordon Walker died on 29 August 1985 in Melbourne, Victoria.²

     Bruce Gordon Walker was born in 1914. He was the son of Arthur Walker and Elizabeth Georgiana Gordon.¹ Bruce Gordon Walker died in 1967 in Melbourne, Victoria.²

     Ida Fairfax Richardson was born on 13 November 1904 in 49 Moreland Street, Footscray, Victoria, Australia.² She was the daughter of Henry Edmund Richardson and Sarah Jane Shakeshaft.² Ida Fairfax Richardson married Col. Theodore Gordon Walker DSO, son of Arthur Walker and Elizabeth Georgiana Gordon, on 27 January 1931 in St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, Victoria.² Ida Fairfax Richardson died on 29 October 1998 in Perth, Western Australia, at the age of 93.²

      Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and lived at Springfield.¹ Colonel William Pynchon was born in 1689 in Ipswich.² He was the son of Lt. Col. John Pynchon and Margaret Hubbard. Colonel William Pynchon married Catharine Brewer, daughter of Rev. Daniel Brewer and Catherine Chauncey, on 15 May 1721.¹ Colonel William Pynchon died on 1 January 1741/42.

     Samuel Quincy was born on 13 April 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Josiah /1 Quincy and Hannah Sturgis. Samuel Quincy graduated in 1754 from Harvard studied law, rose to distinction, and succeeded Jonathan Sewall as Solicitor-General of the Province. His father and brothers were Whigs ; and, for a time, his own sympathies seem to have been with the popular party. Influenced by his official duties and connections, he adhered to the Crown. When John Adams heard that Hancock had purchased twenty writs of him, he recorded, — " Oh, the mutability of the legal, commercial, social, political, as well as the material world! For about three or four years I have done all Mr. Hancock's business, and have waded through wearisome, anxious days and nights in his defence; but farewell! " A remark of Mrs. Adams leads to the conclusion that Mrs. Quincy was not pleased with her husband's course in the politics of the time, and that he became a Loyalist against her advice. In 1775 General Burgoyne occupied his house in Boston. "A lady who lived opposite, says she saw raw meat cut and hacked upon the mahogany tables, and the superb damask curtains exposed to the rain, as if they were of no value." Well did Mrs. Adams add, " How much better do the Tories fare than the Whigs ? " On the 25th day of May of the year last mentioned, Mr. Quincy left Boston and went to England; and soon after his arrival he saw the King robe, and from the throne assent to the American Prohibitory Bill. Early in 1776 he was a member of the "Brompton-Row Tory Club," or Loyalist Association in London, for conversation and a weekly dinner. His wife was still in Massachusetts. In a letter to her, January 1, 1777, he said: " The continuance of our unhappy situation has something in it so unexpected, so unprecedented, so complicated with evil and misfortune, it has become almost too burdensome for my spirits, nor have I words that can reach its description." Again, on the 12th of March : " You inquire whether I cannot bear contempt and reproach, rather than remain any longer separated from my family ? . . . You urge, as an inducement to my return, that my countrymen will not deprive me of life. I have never once harboured such an idea. Sure I am I have never merited from them such a punishment. Difference of opinion I have never known to be a capital offence; and were the truth and motives of my conduct justly scrutinized, I am persuaded they would not regard me as an enemy plotting their ruin.'' A year later his name appeared in the Massachusetts Proscription and Confiscation Act. When he embarked for England he designed to be absent for a few months only; but banished by the operation of the law of 1778, he turned his thoughts to official and professional employment in the West Indies ; and, March 15, 1779, he communicated to a friend that, at last, he had " obtained the place of Comptroller of the Customs at the port of Parham, in Antigua."²
He married firstly Hannah Hill, daughter of Thomas Hill, on 16 June 1761 in Boston.¹ Samuel Quincy married secondly M.A. Chadwell (widow Chadwell) in 1787 in St. Croix.³ Samuel Quincy died on 9 August 1789 at the age of 54 on a voyage from Tortola to England. He is buried in Bristol.³

     Sarah Waldo Wetmore was born circa 1784.³ She was the daughter of Judge William Wetmore and Sarah Waldo.^1,2 Sarah Waldo Wetmore married Joseph Story, son of Dr. Elisha Story and Mehitable Pedrick, in 1808.¹ Sarah Waldo Wetmore died on 27 August 1855 in Boston.³

      Jurist. Joseph Story was born on 18 September 1779 in Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts.^3,4 He was the son of Dr. Elisha Story and Mehitable Pedrick.² Graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1798, A.M., 1801; studied law in the office of Samuel Sewall, and later with Judge Putnam of Salem; was admitted to the bar in July, 1801, and established himself in practice in Salem. He declined the appointment of naval officer of the port of Salem in 1803; was a Democratic representative in the state legislature, 1805-07, and was elected a representative in the 10th congress, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Jacob Crowninshield, serving, 1808-09. He was again chosen a representative in the state legislature in 1810 and became speaker of the house. He argued before the U.S. supreme court the great Georgia claim case in 1810, and on Nov. 18, 1811, was appointed associate-justice of the U.S. supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Cushing, and held the office until his death. His circuit took in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and owing to the extreme old age of his predecessor, his labors upon the circuit were multiplied by the immense accumulation of business. He denounced the slave trade, and it was owing to his charges to the grand juries in 1819 that the traffic was brought to a close. He opposed the Missouri compromise and spoke in a public meeting held in Salem against the measure. He was a member of the committee appointed to revise the constitution of Massachusetts in 1820, and opposed the motion that the legislature should have the power to diminish the salaries of the judges of the supreme court. He was Dane professor of law at Harvard, 1829-45, and removed to Cambridge, Mass. In 1831 he declined the office of chief justice of Massachusetts. After the death of John Marshall, he acted as chief justice in the U.S. supreme court until the confirmation of Roger B. Taney, and again in 1844, during the illness of Taney. He was an overseer of Harvard college, 1818-25; a fellow, 1825-45; a member of the Massachusetts Historical society; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical society. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Brown in 1815, by Harvard in 1821, and by Dartmouth in 1824. His name in "Class J, Judges and Lawyers," received sixty-four votes in the consideration of names for a place in the Hall of Fame, New York University, October, 1900, and was accorded a place with those of James Kent and John Marshall. He is the author of: The Power of Solitude, with Fugitive Poems (1804); Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actiones (1805), and numerous text books on jurisprudence, including: Commentaries on the Law of Bailments (1832); Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (3 vols., 1833); Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws (1834); Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence (2 vols., 1835-36); Equity Pleadings (1838); Law of Agency (1839): Law of Partnership (1841); Law of Bills of Exchange (1843), and Law of Promissory Notes (1845). He edited "Chitty on Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes" (1809); "Abbot on Shipping" (1810), and "Laws on Assumpsit" (1811), and contributed to the North American Review, the American Jurist, and the "Encyclopædia Americana." He left unfinished a Digest of Law, which is in the Harvard Law library; and a collection of Miscellaneous Writings was published in 1835, and an enlarged edition edited by his son, William Wetmore Story, appeared after his death (2 vols., 1851).² Joseph Story married firstly Mary Lynde Oliver, daughter of Rev. Thomas Fitch Oliver and Sarah Pynchon.⁵ Joseph Story married secondly Sarah Waldo Wetmore, daughter of Judge William Wetmore and Sarah Waldo, in 1808.¹ Joseph Story was appointed in 1829, the first Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University at Harvard. He died on 10 September 1845 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 65.³

     William Wetmore Story was born on 12 February 1819 in Salem, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo Wetmore.¹ He graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1838, A.M., 1841; studied law under his father, and was admitted to the bar. He prepared "Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First Circuit" (3 vols. 1842-47); "Treatise on the Law of Contracts not under Seal" (1844), and "Treatise on the Law of Sales of Personal Property" (1847). In 1848 he went to Italy, where he studied sculpture, becoming well known for his portrait busts and statues. He was a U.S. commissioner on fine arts to the exposition at Paris in 1879, and held a professorship in the Academy of St. Cecilia, Rome; was a fellow of the American Academy; corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical society; chevalier of the order of Francis L, and an officer of the Legion of Honor. The honorary degree of LL.B. was conferred on him by Harvard in 1840, and that of DCL. by Oxford university in 1887. Among his most noted portrait works are: statue of Joseph Story in Mount Auburn cemetery, statue of Edward Everett in the Boston public garden, busts of James Russell Lowell, Josiah Quincy and Edward Everett; the bronze statue of George Peabody, erected in London in 1869, and the statue of Francis Scott Key, in Golden Gate park, San Francisco, Cal. His other works include: Sappho (1862); Saul (1863); Cleopatra (1864); Delilah (1866); Helen (1869); Judith (1872); Semiramis (1872); Sardanapalus (1878); and Thetis and Achilles (1887-88). He is the author of: Life and Letters of Joseph Story (2 vols., 1851); Poems (1856); The American Question (1862); Roba di Roma (1862); Proportions of the Human Figure, According to a New Canon for Practical Use (1866); Graffiti d'Italia (1869); The Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem (1870); Tragedy of Nero (1875); Castle St. Angelo (1877); He and She, or a Poet's Portfolio (1883); Fiammetta (1885); Poems (2 vols., 1886); Conversations in a Studio (1890); Excursions on Art and Letters (1891); A Poet's Portfolio: Later Reading (1894). See "Life of William Wetmore Story," by Henry James (London, 1903).² William Wetmore Story married Emelyn Eldridge in October 1843.³ William Wetmore Story died on 7 October 1895 in Vallombroso, Italy, at the age of 76.¹

     Julian Story was born in 1857.¹ He was the son of William Wetmore Story and Emelyn Eldridge.^1,2 His boyhood was spent in Rome, Italy, where he met many noted artists, who visited his father's studio. He was educated at Eton college and at Oxford university, studied art under Duveneck, Boulanger and Lefebvre in Paris, where he opened an atelier. In 1896 built a beautiful home on the site of his old studio on the Place des États Unis. He received the 3d class medal and honorable mention from the Paris salon, 1889; gold medal, Berlin, 1891, and silver medal at the Paris exposition in 1900. He was elected a member of the Society of American Artists. His portrait of Emma Eames was exhibited at the Chicago exposition in 1893, and among his other portraits is that of the Prince of Wales, painted for William Waldorf Astor, and its replica, painted for the Prince.² Julian Story married Emma Eames, daughter of Ithama Eames and Emma Hayden, on 1 August 1891.² Julian Story and Emma Eames were divorced in 1907.¹

     Emma Eames was born on 13 August 1867 in Shanghai, China.² She was the daughter of Ithama Eames and Emma Hayden.² Her father was a lawyer in the international courts of Shanghai, and her mother a musician of ability, under whom she began her first vocal training. She subsequently became a pupil of Clara Munger, of Boston, Mass., and of Charles R. Adams, and studied under Madame Marchesi of Paris, 1886-88. She made her triumphant début as Juliette at the Grand Opera house, Paris, March 13, 1889, having rehearsed the rôle under Gounod's direction; originated the part of Colombe in Saint Saëns's "Ascanio," March 21, 1890; on May 28, created the title rôle of Zaire, an opera by Véronge de la Nux, and made her London début at Covent Garden as Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust," April 7, 1891.
Under the management of Abbey, Shoeffel and Grau, she first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera house in New York city in 1891, and at Mechanics Hall, Boston, Mass., as Juliette, March 16, 1892, in both cities winning instantaneous popularity, and subsequently touring both abroad and in the United States in her various operatic rôles. She was decorated by the president of the French republic, an Officer d'Académie and received the English jubilee medal. Her repertory includes: Juliette, Elsa, Desdemona, Marguerite, Carmen, Micaela, Donna Elvira, the countess in Il Nozze di Figaro, and Anna Page in Verdi's Falstaff.² Emma Eames married Julian Story, son of William Wetmore Story and Emelyn Eldridge, on 1 August 1891.² Emma Eames and Julian Story were divorced in 1907.¹

     Ithama Eames married Emma Hayden.¹

     Emma Hayden married Ithama Eames.¹

     Emelyn Eldridge married William Wetmore Story, son of Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo Wetmore, in October 1843.²

     Dr. Elisha Story was born in 1743 in Boston, Massachusetts.² He married firstly Ruth Ruddock, daughter of John Ruddock.² A staunch patriot, active in all the Revolutionary movements, and one of the "Indians" who helped to destroy the tea in the harbour of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1776.¹ Dr. Elisha Story married secondly Mehitable Pedrick in 1778 they had eleven children.² Dr. Elisha Story died in 1805.

     Mehitable Pedrick married Dr. Elisha Story in 1778 they had eleven children.² Mehitable Pedrick died circa 1847.

     Dr. Edward Ellis was born on 23 February 1698/99.¹ He married Mary Willard.²

     Mary Willard married Dr. Edward Ellis.¹

     Maria Ellis was born in May 1730.¹ She was the daughter of Dr. Edward Ellis and Mary Willard.¹ Maria Ellis married Capt. Edmund Watmough on 30 January 1748/49 in Boston, Massachusetts.²

     Sarah Ellis was born on 22 August 1733.¹ She was the daughter of Dr. Edward Ellis and Mary Willard.¹

     Capt. Edmund Watmough married Maria Ellis, daughter of Dr. Edward Ellis and Mary Willard, on 30 January 1748/49 in Boston, Massachusetts.¹

     Elizabeth Saltonstall was born on 17 September 1668.¹ She was the daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Saltonstall and Elizabeth Ward.^2,3 Elizabeth Saltonstall married firstly Rev. John Denison, son of Major-General Daniel Denison, before 1684 at Cambridge.^1,4 Elizabeth Saltonstall married secondly Rev. Roland Cotton, son of Rev. John Cotton and Joanna Rossiter, in 1690.¹ Elizabeth Saltonstall died on 8 July 1726 at the age of 57.¹

     Rev. John Cotton was born on 15 March 1639/40 in Boston.^1,2 He was the son of Rev. John Cotton and Sarah Hankredge.¹ He graduated from Harvard in 1657, studied theology with the Rev. Samuel Stone of Hartford, Conn., and from 1659 to 1663 preached at Wethersfield, Conn. In 1664 he learned the Indian tongue, and preached to the Indians at Martha's Vineyard for two years. In September, 1666, he was invited to become pastor of the church at Plymouth, Mass., and the following year removed thither, being ordained June 30, 1669. He preached at Plymouth until 1697, when a dissension arose between him and his congregation, and on Sept. 30, 1697, after unsuccessful efforts to effect a reconciliation the council "advised the pastor to ask a dismission and the church to grant it." He was dismissed Oct. 5, 1697, and after remaining about a year at Plymouth, accepted in November, 1698, a call to Charleston, S.C., where he preached with great success until he died.¹ Rev. John Cotton married Joanna Rossiter, daughter of Dr. Bray Rossiter and Elizabeth Alsop, on 7 November 1660 in Wethersfield, Connecticut, they had eleven children.¹ Rev. John Cotton died on 18 September 1699 in Charleston, South Carolina, at the age of 59 of yellow fever.¹ He was buried in Plymouth, Massachusetts.²

     Joanna Rossiter is also recorded as Jane. She was born in June 1642. She was the daughter of Dr. Bray Rossiter and Elizabeth Alsop.¹ Joanna Rossiter married Rev. John Cotton, son of Rev. John Cotton and Sarah Hankredge, on 7 November 1660 in Wethersfield, Connecticut, they had eleven children.¹ Joanna Rossiter died on 12 October 1702 at the age of 60.

     Rev. John Denison was born in 1665.³ He was the son of Major-General Daniel Denison.² Rev. John Denison graduated in 1684 from Harvard.¹ He married Elizabeth Saltonstall, daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Saltonstall and Elizabeth Ward, before 1684 in Cambridge.^1,3 Rev. John Denison died in 1689.¹