(1) All by the name of Minot in America are supposed to have descended
from George Minot, whose posterity forms the subject of this Memoir.
There was a Thomas Minot, probably a brother, who was a proprietor of
Barbadoes in 1638, but I can neither trace his history, nor ascertain
that he left posterity. None of the name could be found in the New York
or Philadelphia Directories for 1846. The family are all descended from
Thomas Minot, Esq., Secretary to the Abbot of Walden, England, by whom
he was advanced to great possessions.