STREET.-Mr. Savage, in his “Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England," Vol. IV., p.2 22, states that "none of the inquisitive scholars of New Haven have ascertained in what place the Rev. Nicholas Street, of Taunton,' was born or taught." Dr. A. H. Street, of New Haven, who is compiling a genealogy of the Street family, reports that from investigations recently made at Oxford University, England, it appears he was born in Taunton, in Somersetshire, in 1603, and entered Oxford at the age of eighteen (in 1621), and graduated in 1625.

VAN BRUG.-Can any of your readers tell me if the Pieter Van Brug, bap. July 14, 1666, son of Johannes Pieterszen ver Brúgge and Catharina Roelofs (N. Y. GENE. AND BIO. REC., vol. vii., p. 71), was the same Pieter Van Brug who was married, Nov. 2, 1688, to Sara, daughter of Hendrik and Anna Cuyler? (N. Y. Gene, and Bio. Rec., vol. iii., pp. 81, 82.

M. C.

WEST.-Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D.D., of Newport, R. I., married for his second wife Miss Elizabeth West, September 14, 1794. She survived him, and died at Taunton, Mass., April 19, 1814, in her seventy-fifth year. Buried in the old graveyard at that place. A substantial tombstone at her grave records the date of her death and the following ungrammatical verse :

Her soul was cheered with pleasing hopes.

Those hopes by God was giv'n,

& though her body sleeps in dust,

Her soul ascends to Heaven.

The writer wishes to ascertain her parentage. Was she related to the Rev. Stephen West, D.D., author of a life of Dr. Hopkins?

L.

NOTES ON BOOKS.

THE ANNALS OF HEMPSTEAD; 1643 to 1832; also the Rise and Growth of the Society of Friends on Long Island and in New York, 1657 to 1826. By HENRY ON. DERDONK, JR. Hempstead, N. Y.: Lott Van de Water, Printer and Publisher, 1878. 8vo, pp. 107.

ANTIQUITIES OF THE PARISH CHURCH, HEMPSTEAD, INCLUDING OYSTERBAY AND THE CHURCHES IN SUFFOLK COUNTY, illustrated from Letters of the Missiona ries and other Authentic Documents. By HENRY ONDERDONK, JR., A.B., University of Cambridge; A.M, Columbia College. Hempstead, N. Y.: Lott Van de Water, Printer and Publisher, 1880. 8vo, pp. 33.

ANTIQUITIES OF THE PARISH CHURCH, JAMAICA, (INCLUDING NEWTOWN AND FLUSHING). Illustrated from Letters of the Missionaries, and other Authentic Documents, with a continuation of the History of Grace Church to the present time. By HENRY ONDERDONK, JR., A.B., University of Cambridge; A. M., Columbia College. Jamaica, N. Y.: Charles Welling, 1880. 8vo, pp. 162.

These are the latest of Mr. Onderdonk's valuable contributions to the local history of Queens County, L. I. The volume first above named gives extracts in the order of time from the original town records of Hempstead of everything of interest which may serve to illustrate the early history of that town. The volumes containing these records are in the custody of the town clerk of North Hempstead. They are much worn, and require close and patient examination to decipher. This labor the student and genealogist will here find faithfully performed and ready at his hands in accessible and readable form. The author has also interspersed his compilation with quotations from the Dutch and English MSS. in the Secretary of State's office, Albany, of events and occurrences coincident in dates with the entries from the town records. Several pages are occupied with an account of the "Quakers at Hempstead" and an interesting account of the "settling of meetings" of that sect in the towns of Gravesend, Jamaica, Rocky. Hill, Newtown and Maspeth Kills, Flushing, Manhasset, Westbury, Matinecock, Oyster Bay, Jericho, Sequetange, Jerusalem, South-Meadow, Rockaway, Huntington, Setauket, Stony Brook, Shelter Island, and New York; also with revolutionary incidents relating particularly to Hempstead.

Of the second compilation we need add nothing to the title-page as above given. It is accompanied with a print of the church, supposed (although not stated by the author) to be the one which was erected in 1734-5, and which was consecrated with great pomp and ceremony on 22d April, 1735, in the presence of Gov. Cosby, with his lady and family, "attended by his son-in-law and lady, Secretary Clarke, Chief Justice de Lancey, the Rev. Mr. Vesey, and a great many of the principal merchants and gentlemen and ladies of the city of New York."

The third publication in the above list, which Mr. Onderdonk has just issued, is a collection and compilation in chronological order of original letters, records, and documents, many of them never before published, elucidating the history of the Episcopal Church at Jamaica from its first beginnings under the auspices of the (London) Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The biographical notices of the early missionaries, Patrick Gordon, William Urquhart, Thomas Poyer, Thomas Colgan, and of others, their successors in the rectorship to the present time, will be found of special interest and value. The work is very handsomely printed and embellished with portraits of Rev. Thomas Poyer, Bishops Seabury, Provost, Moore, and Hobart, and of the Revs. Drs. Sayres and Johnson; also of the Hon. Rufus King and of Lewis E. A. Eigenbrodt, the latter for thirty-one years the well-known principal of Union Hall Academy at Jamaica. The volume also contains an excellent engraving from an ancient drawing of the first stone church at Jamaica, erected in 1699'; likewise of Grace Church, erected in 1734, and of the present modern edifice, erected in 1862. J. J. L.

HISTORY OF THE THOMAS ADAMS AND THOMAS HASTINGS FAMILIES OF AMHERST, MASSACHUSetts. [Adams Arms.] By HERBERT BAXTER ADAMS. Amherst, Mass.: Privately printed, 1880. 12mo, pp. 66.

The author of this very creditable edition to the numerous genealogies yearly issuing from the press is descended on the father's side from Henry Adams, of Braintree (1634), and on the mother's side from Dea. Thomas Hastings, who, with his wife Susanna, settled in Watertown in the same year (1634). The descendants in both lines to the author's father and mother, Nathaniel Dickinson Adams and Harriet Hastings, are traced with much care and with interesting biographical details. The work is accompanied with a reprint of the tabular pedigree of the Adams family, which appeared in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, in January, 1853, which deduces the pedigree of Henry Adams, the Braintree immigrant, from Ap Adam, father of John, Lord Ap Adam, Baron of the Realm from 1296 to 1307. In the introduction credit is given to Mr. N. D. Adams, of Washington, for the aid received from him, and reference is made to the contemplated publication by the latter of the records of the Adams family in America in several large volumes. We shall look with much interest for the appearance of this work.

L.

A COPY OF THE POLL LIST, OF THE ELECTION FOR REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK; which election began on Tuesday the 17th Day of February, and ended on Thursday the 19th Day of the same month, in the year of our Lord, MDCCLXI. Alphabetically made. Small 4to, pp. 42.

A COPY OF THE POLL LIST, of the Election for RepreSENTATIVES FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK; which election began on Monday the 7th Day of March, and ended on Friday the 11th of the same month, in the year of our Lord MDCCLXVIII. Alphabetically made. Small 4to, pp. 56.

A COPY OF THE Poll List, of the Election for RepresentaTIVES FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK; which election began on Monday, the 23d Day of January, and ended on Friday, the 27th of the same month, in the year of our Lord MDCCLXIX. Alphabetically made. Small, 4to, pp. 43.

POLL LISTS are of much value, and frequently of very essential service to the genealogist. Of those before us, that of 1761, and also that of 1768, have heretofore existed only in manuscript. That of 1769 is now reprinted from the original edition. Mr. S. Whitney Phoenix, with commendable zeal, has issued from the press of Francis Hart & Co. of this city, under date of 1880, fifty copies of each of the above lists.

S. S. P.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.-The readers, and Publication Committee, of the RECORD are again greatly indebted to the Hon. Teunis G. Bergen for his self-sacrificing interest in the preparation of the Index to Names of this volume.

Cook, or Cooke, 8, 84, 88, Dale, 104, 106

Cooper, 8, 9, 97, 104, 135 Daniels, 79, 127

Claes, 34, 36, 37, 126, 140, Couch, 100

Cowenhoven, see Cou- De Hardt, 82

Cox, 33, 38, 84, 86, 88, Delafield, 98, 145

Crosby, or Crosbe, 50, Denow, 100

Elsten, or Elston, 38, 44, Francis, 28, 136