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| PROSPECTUS
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| OF THE
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| NEW ENGLAND
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| HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER.
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| REV. WILLIAM COGSWELL, D. D., EDITOR.
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| The NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC, GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY proposes to
| publish by subscription a Quarterly Journal, to be entitled,
| "THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER." The
| period has arrived in this country, when an awakened and
| a growing interest begins to be felt in the pursuit, and
| especially in the results, of Historical and Genealogical
| Researches; and when the practical value, both to individuals
| and to society, of the knowledge which is obtained by
| investigations of this kind, from the scattered and perishable
| records of local, domestic, and traditionary history, begins
| to be appreciated by increasing numbers. The existence and
| active exertions of Historical, Antiquarian, and Statistical
| Societies, which have sprung up within a few years past in most
| of the older states of the Union, are a sufficient evidence of
| this fact.
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| The formation of the NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC, GENEALOGICAL
| SOCIETY, which has received a Charter from the Massachusetts
| Legislature, and which, as its name imports, proposes to
| direct its attention to the illustration of History in one
| of its most elemental and original departments, has been
| received with a degree of encouragement and favor, which
| leaves no room to doubt that a deep interest is felt by many
| in the community, in subjects of this nature; and that the
| materials exist, in various stages of preparation, as the
| fruit of personal exertions, for enriching the collections of
| a general Depository; and thereby leading to a more extensive
| diffusion of the facts and documents, out of which this
| branch of Literature in our country has yet to be principally
| created. The Periodical to be issued by this Society, will be
| one important means of accomplishing the end in view. It will
| comprehend such materials as the following; namely,
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| 1. Biographical Memoirs, Sketches, and Notices of Persons who
| came to North America, especially to New England, before Anno
| Domini 1700; showing from what places in Europe they came,
| their families there, and their descendants in this country;
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| 2. Full and minute Genealogical Memoirs and Tables, showing
| the lineage and descent of Families, from the earliest dates
| to which they can be authentically traced, down to the present
| time, with their branches and connections;
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| 3. Tables of Longevity, Statistical and Biographical, Accounts
| of Attorneys, Physicians, Ministers and Churches of all
| denominations, of Graduates at Colleges, Governors, Senators
| and Representatives in Congress, Military Officers, Merchants,
| and other persons of distinction; and occasionally entire
| Tracts, which have become rare and of permanent Historical
| value;
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| 4. Lists of Names, found in ancient documents, such especially
| as were engaged in any honorable public service; also the
| documents themselves, when they may contain any important facts
| illustrative of the lives and actions of individuals;
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| 5. Descriptions of the Costumes, Dwellings, and Utensils of
| various kinds, belonging to the earliest times to which the
| Ancestry of Families may be traced; to be accompanied, when
| practicable, with drawings or engravings;
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| 6. Ancient Inscriptions and Epitaphs, with descriptions of
| Cemeteries, Monuments, Tombs, Tablets; also, extracts from the
| Town and Parish Records of New England;
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| 7. Descriptions of Armorial Bearings, and of other Heraldic
| devices, occasionally emblazoned, with sufficient explanations
| of the principles and terms of Heraldry.
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| The Publication will embrace many other materials of a
| Miscellaneous and Statistical character, more or less connected
| with its main design; which, it is believed, will contribute to
| render it interesting to intelligent persons of every class in
| the community.
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| Each Number will be embellished with a Portrait of some
| distinguished individual. There will also occasionally be other
| engravings in the work.
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| CONDITIONS.
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| The Work will be issued Quarterly, each Number containing at
| least ninety-six pages, octavo, upon good paper, and with fair
| type; making annually a volume of about four hundred pages; the
| Numbers to be issued in January, April, July, and October.
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| The price to Subscribers will be TWO DOLLARS a year, payable on
| issuing the first Number. Any person obtaining subscriptions
| and becoming responsible, for six copies of the work, shall be
| entitled to the seventh copy gratis.
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| Subscription Papers to be returned to the address of SAMUEL G.
| DRAKE, Publisher, 56 Cornhill, Boston.
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| NOTICE.
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| All communications, which are designed for insertion in the
| Register, or which respect the editorial department, should be
| addressed to the Editor, at Boston.
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| All orders for the Register, and all communications respecting
| the pecuniary concerns of it, should be directed to Samuel G.
| Drake, 56 Cornhill, Boston.
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| * * * * *
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| ☞In the Press, and will soon be published, the History of
| Shrewsbury, by A. H. Ward, Esq., in which will appear a
| Genealogical Table or Family Register, containing a History of
| the inhabitants from the settlement of Shrewsbury, in 1717, to
| 1829, and of some of them to a later period; so far as regards
| their marriages, children, ages, and deaths; and also their
| ancestors, so far as can be obtained.
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Transcriber's Notes:
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errors.
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