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STICKNEY GENEALOGY.

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��land boreN. E. bj^ E. Cape Ann S. h E. distant six leagues.

Thursday. Feb. 25, 1779. Gentle breezes at North West and pleasant weather. All sails set. At 3 p. m. breeze freshened, took in our studding sails. At sun"s setting. Cape Ann bore X. E. h E.. distant live leagues; Half- waj' rock N. b3' E. Ij_ynn meeting house W. by S., distant four leagues. At one half past 7 anchored in Nantaskst road with best bower in six fathoms water, veered one half a cable. P\)und riding here the continental shijjs of war War- ren and Queen of France. Out boats. At 5 A. M.. Capt. Simpson and the pilot went to Boston in the cutter. Moored ship with small bower, half a cable each way. The head of Long Island bearing W.' i S; Point Atherton E. S. E; Georges Island E. X. E., distant one half mile. Loosed our sails, to-day, and handed them. Emploj'ed about sundry other necessary jobs. Broached a bar- rel of beef. Delivered boatswain one third skein of twine.

Fkiday, Feb. 20. 1779. The first part of this twenty-four liours pleasant weather and fresh breezes from X. W., the middle and latt(U' i)art. strong gales from W. to S. H. W. and snow with rain. Broached a barrel of beef and one of pork. Eeceived on board one hogs- head of water, one bag of shirts, one dozen shoes, a ])arcel of hats, two dozen cod hooks, and tweuiy i)ounds of twine. l)(nvn top liallant yards and masts.

��Veered on the best service, n.nd shoitly Hove in to ye one h; Saturday, Feb.

��l)ower to the long r.fter it moderated. If cable service. 27. 1779. Light

��breezes from IST. E. and mostly cloudy weather. Up top gallant yixrds and masts. Loosed sails to dry. Received on board three hogsheads of water, one barrel of sugar, one hundred pounds of coffee, sixty blankets, fifty pairs of trowsers. Broached two barrels of beef. The remainder of this twenty- four hours fresh breezes with thick fog. Handed our sails, and down top gallant yards.

Sunday, Feb. 28, 1779. Light and variable winds with fog. Up top gallant 3'ards. Keceived on board two hogs- heads of water. The middle and latter part, fi-esh gales from S. S. W. and clear. Delivered the steward eleven and one half yards Tricklingburg for pudding bags, and a cover forlog-bodk, also delivered one skein sewing twine to the sail maker. Cleared hawser and evnploved the people usefully.

MoXDAY, Mar. 1, 1779. The first part of this twent.y- four hours fresh breezes from X. N. W. and fair. Set up stays and top mast rigging. Received on board five hogsheads of watei'. Deliv- ered the sailmaker live yards Trickling- bursr to cover the side ropes. Shook a wooden-bound hogsliead. it being emi)tj' for service. The latter part, nioderate wind comes to the westward.

Tuesday. Mar. 2. 1779. Pleasant breezes from the westward and fair. Loosed sjuls to dry and spread our col- ors to air. Exercised the people alow and aloft. Received on board one hogs- head of rum, one tierce of rice, ten bushels oi peas. Ihirty-five blocks of difi^erent sizes. Cleared hawser and marked a new deep sea line.

��TBE STICKNEY GENEALOGY.

��JOSEPH P. STICKNEY was tenth cousin only to his wife, Lucretia Gibson. Daniel (iale was third cousin to his wife, Ruth Carter. There were only four other intermarriages among Joseph Stickney's one hundred and seventy- four ascendants, one each of first and second cousins, and two of fifth cousins. The absence of insanity was probably largely due to this remarkably small number of intermarriages.

The Peter Ciilman who was in Col. Stickney's regiment, at Bennington, was not Brigadier-Gen. Peter, as Oilman genealogy says. D. G. Hoskings, jr., sec- retary of the Massachusetts Historical Society, thinks that Sergeant Peter of Capt. Wilson's company, was son of Joshua, of (iihnanton.

Wendall P. Garrison, of the New Yo\\. Nation, claims that his father, William Lloyd Garrison, of immortal memory, was descended from William and Eliza- beth Sfickney, the emigrants, and that, therefore, the elder was tenth, and the junior eleventh cousin to Joseph Slickn -v. of Ne^v York city. The Garrisons are also descended from Samuel Brockleboak, the emigrant, who was also a captain and deacon. T'he original Garrison was a N jva Scotia English- man.

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