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'". . . the charms of his character were most attractively
unfolded,' " to use words quoted by our memorialist from a contemporary
obituary, " ' in the peaceful and retired scenes of private and social life.'
We must hasten on to close our abstract with brief allusions to some
of his children and grandchildren. To these we are prompted by recollec-
tions of friendly meetings, or correspondence, or by other specially inter-
esting associations.
^° His eldest son is /os/ma Huntington,^ now of Boston, Mass., formerly
a prominent merchant of that city, of the late firm of Amos and Abbot
oi Lawrence ;
whose
son Roger,^ a man of scholarly tastes and acquisitions,
and active public spirit, and a lawyer of prominent position, married a grand-
daughter of our classic historian Prescott. When we saw him Chief Mar-
shal of the lawyer-graduates of Harvard on her two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary in November 1886, we could but think that the mantle of
the old Wolcott leadership had fallen upon him. The son next in age was
62 Frederick Henry ^—now dead—whose many letters on the family-history,
addressed to one of the authors of this volume, are a pleasant and valuable
memorial of his antiquarian enthusiasm, as well as of his modest pride of
ancestry. The second daughter of Frederick Wolcott the elder was Eliza-
63 betli,^ a lady distinguished, as was said of her on her decease, by "sweet-
ness, firmness, warm love for humanity, ardent patriotism and domestic
devotion ;" she married John P. Jackson of Newark, N. J.
These three, with others whose names will be found in our Pedigree,
were the children of the first marriage of Frederick Wolcott, in 1800, to
Betsey daughter of Col. Joshua Huntington of Norwich, Conn. It was at
the expense of these three brothers that the valuable "Memorial" of which
this paper is an abstract, was prepared and printed. A child by the second
marriage of Frederick Wolcott, in 181 5, to Sally Worthington (Goodrich)
64 Cooke, is our friend Charles Moseley^ of Roseneath, Fishkill-on-Hudson,
N. Y., a genial and agreeable gentleman, and much interested in the history
of his family, who himself has been twice married. His present wife, the
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