CONTENTS

THE DIFFICULT LIFE OF DOROTHY (RAWLINSON) TALBY
(1598-1638) OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS: With the Identification
of Anne (Talby) Jennings, wife of Thomas Jennings of Portsmouth,
Rhode Island   Marsha Hoffman Rising and Robert Charles Anderson   1

THE PRICE OF TALKING IN CHURCH   8

THE IDENTIFICATION OF SAMUEL⁵ GILBERT OF BARNSTABLE,
MASSACHUSETTS   Clifford L. Stott   9

FEND FOR YOURSELVES  Leslie Mahler   16

ENIGMAS #16: Who Were the Parents of David Lewis (ca. 1695_¯1779)
of Albermarle County, Virginia?   John Steele Gordon   17

THE COAS[E]/COOS[E] FAMILY OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS 
John Bradley Arthaud   22

BARTHOLOMEW² SMITH OF HUNTINGTON, LONG ISLAND:
A "Smith Number" Update   Frederick C. Hart Jr.   30

WOMEN—OR HOUSEMAIDS—WANTED   36

ENGLISH RELATIVES OF SAMUEL¹ BARRETT OF YONKERS,
NEW YORK, AND HIS SISTER HANNAH (BARRETT) (JENNER),
WIFE OF JOHN¹ COE OF CONNECTICUT AND NEW YORK,
AND MOTHER OF SAMUEL¹ JENNER OF WOODBURY,
CONNECTICUT   Leslie Mahler   37

TOO MANY PARENTS: Camelia (Clark) (McMinn) (Ross) Pope of
Polk and Cedar Counties, Missouri   Marsha Hoffman Rising   42

GENEALOGICAL EVIDENCE (and the Surname's the Same Game)   46

PHILLIP HARRIS OF SIMSBURY, CONNECTICUT: With Notes on
His Humphrey and Hinman Descendants   Gale Ion Harris   47

A HEALTH TO HIS MAJESTY!   54

THE ALANSON CUMMINGSES: Solving the Ancestry of Alanson
Bonapart Cummings (1812-1873?) of Herkimer and Jefferson Counties,
New York   Michael Thomas Meggison   55

EDITORIAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS: Word Meanings l The Geneal-
ogist l Journal Indexes l Speaking of Indexes l Speaking of Schedule l
Mailing Problems   71
 
BOOK REVIEWS  see list inside back cover  73

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