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old silver in the house, had it melted into a large, heavy tea-set, which is
now owned by her daughter Mrs. Griffin, whose daughter Sarah owns the
old porringer of her great great great great grandparents William and
Sarah Diodate, marked ^^ At that time none of her family cared for
the marks on the silver, or for the family-history which they might reveal.
Choice Willoughby and Digby-Lynde silver and other reHcs came, through
Nathaniel Lynde's family, to the other branches of his descendants, and
there is every reason to suppose that his granddaughter Mrs. Ann (Lord)
M^ Curdy, Judge M^Curdy's grandmother, had her portion. Whatever
pieces of her silver remained in the old house doubtless shared the fate of
the rest. One of two Diodate diamond-rings, nearly aHke, not mentioned
in the Will, came to Mrs. Ursula (Griswold) M^Curdy, and is now owned
by Mrs. Griffin ;
the other came down through Mrs. Elizabeth (Griswold)
Gurley, and is now owned by her granddaughter Mrs. G. W. Merrow of
Mansfield, Conn. The diamonds extend half around the rings, and are
very handsome for their time. Mrs. Elizabeth Brainerd White now of
Cleveland, Ohio, received through her mother, Mrs. Mary Ann (Griswold)
Clark, the large pair of candlesticks mentioned in the Will, a pair of silver
snuffers, and a diamond-ring (the stone a large brilliant, very bright and
sparkling) marked inside "Elizabeth Gower died 1630 [or 1631]:" she
lost the ring, and does not remember the exact date. In the Mi^ Curdy
house are plates of aunt Scarlett's polychrome porcelain, and others of the
finest and oldest blue porcelain of the Ming period. Among pieces of
silver not mentioned in the Will, one of which the writer has, were spoons
of a dessert-size, marked with the Scarlett crest. At the famous " historical
party " in the Hartford Athenaeum the writer, when a young girl, wore a
white-ground shaded-blue striped brocade, one of two similar dresses sent
by aunt Scarlett to her grandnieces, afterwards Mrs. Elizabeth Brainerd
and Mrs. Sarah Griswold, and fastened the long pointed bodice with aunt
Scarlett's stomacher-pin of brilliants. The family of Stephen Matson, a
great grandson of Mrs. Elizabeth (Diodate) Johnson, have from aunt
Scarlett a very rich mantel-clock of ebony and brass, with a crown upon
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