BY RALPH STEBBINS GREENLEE AND ROBERT LEMUEL GREENLEE. In two volumes.
Chicago, Illinois. Privately printed, 1904. 4to. 1386 pages.
These two magnificent volumes are devoted to Rowland Stebbins (who died
at Northampton, Mass. December 14, 1671), and his descendants. A study
of the name in England is presented, but no positive connection of the
immigrant is shown. The compilation was made under the direction of a
Chicago genealogist, Mr. Edward A. Claypool, and the work was printed in
Chicago. Both compilation and printing seem to be very well done. One of
the first genealogies printed in New England (1771) was of a branch of
this family. The paper used is of an excellent quality, and, while the
size and weight of these massive volumes is against durability, it is
probable that they will long survive many of the genealogies of recent
years where little or no care has been exercised in the selection of
paper.
All of the descendants of the hardy pioneer settler of the Connecticut
Valley, whose race furnished a pioneer genealogist, have good reasons to
be thankful to the Messrs. Greenlee for their splendid history of the
family.