My brother, Chris Gore, was Governor of Massachusetts from June 1809 to June 1810.

On Saturday evening Mch 27, 1813, [I] was married to Catherine Hallett, by the Revd. Mr. Miller, at New York. She was daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth IIallett; her mother's maiden name was Hazard.

Mrs Payne was born at New York on 224 Feb. 1768. She had not any brothers; her eldest sisters were twins, Lydia and Elizabeth. Lydia married Mr. IIorlitz, a German; Elizabeth, Mr. Gault; she is now living. Ann, the third daughter married Mr John Delafield. Mrs Payne was 4th daughter. Sarah was the 5th and is not yet married; and Maria, who married Col. Tallmadge, was 6th.

July 29, 1816, Emeline B. Dobell married to F. Carnes.
Aug. 17, 1821, she died and left three children.

[IIere ends the line of autobiographies, though various interesting notes remain to be copied here. William Payne left three sisters and two sons; of these William E. survived the others and made a record as following:-]

"July 21, 1827, William Payne died after an illness of 4 days, leaving a wife, and Edward W. and Wm. E. Payne, twins.

"March 7, 1832. Edward W. Payne died of consumption after an illness of 5 months, borne without a complaint.

"January 22 1833. Sarah Payne died, of an inflammation of the lungs. Sick early in life, and never robust, she was always cheerful, and ever attentive to the comfort and contributing to the pleasures of those about her.

"Rebecca, Gore died April 14, 1834. With a mind above ordinary women, was united a kindness of heart and a disinterestedness, which showed itself in deeds and not in words. Without children she was a mother to those of two families. Fond of retirement and domestic quiet, she loved to have her friends about her. Devoted to the care of a sick husband, she still kept up her intercourse with society and fulfilled her duties to it. An active member of society, none could live within the circle in which she moved without being affected by her influence.

"Mary Payne died Nov. 6, 1834. Always an invalid, she yet always enjoyed life, and from her good temper and ladylike deportment was ever a pleasant and important member of the family circle. She and Sarah were never separated from each other during the life of the latter. They had everything in common, and had always a competence. They lived much in society and did their share in the promotion of sociability and good feeling. In early life they were called to administer to the comfort of a mother who for many years was a source of care, anxiety and attention. They never remitted their attendance. In after life when their brother's estate became insolvent from the mismanagement of several manufacturing establishments in which he had invested the greater part of his property, they submitted to a loss of $50,000 without a murmur." He adds that they continued to assist their brother's widow, &c.

"They were survived by an old and fathful servant, aged 86, and who had lived with them from the time she was sixteen. Her name was Thankful Leeds."

The last survivor of the family in the male line, William Edward Payne, left no autobiography; but instead his intimate friend and executor, the late Edward Blake, wrote in this volume a full record of Payne's life. Much of this tribute relates to personal matters of no interest, except to those connected with him by ties of kindred. We therefore present an abstract of this memoir in place of a copy of it.

William Edward Payne was born 8 April, 1804, and was baptized 25 Nov. following by Rev. Dr. Freeman; his half-sister, Emmeline B. Dobell, being baptized at the same time. IIe was a pupil at the Phillips Academy, Exeter. He entered Harvard College in 1820, and was graduated in 1824. Then, in company with his classmate and biographer, Blake, he studied at the Law School at Northampton, Mass.; in 1826 they became students in the office of Lemuel Shaw and Sidney Bartlett of Boston. In 1827 both were admitted to the bar.

Mr. Payne did not practise law to any extent, his health having been delicate for years; and he was mainly occupied in settling his father's estate. Ilis own property, derived from his grandmother, was seriously diminished by investments in manufacturing corporations.

In 1834, on the death of his aunts, Mrs. Gore and Miss Mary Payne, he succeeded to a large estate, and he promptly availed of it, to pay all the creditors of his father's estate in full with interest, expending in this honorable manner over $25,000.

The state of his health continuing unfavorable, his malady being some unusual form of lung disease, Mr. Payne sailed for Europe Dec. 25, 1834. He spent the next three years and a half abroad in search of health, but without success; and died at Paris, July 5, 1838. His remains were deposited at Père la Chaise in a tomb bearing the following inscription:

William Edward
Payne,

de Boston, Etats Unis,
agé de 3-4 ans.
Decédé à Paris,
5 Juillet, 1838.

Mr. Blake adds as to his character, "To intellectual powers of a high order he united a generosity and kindness of disposition which he possessed to a remarkable degree. Disinterestedness was a prominent trait of his character. lle was very fond of doing good to others." "He was tried in adversity and prosperity," and "alike in both he never lost sight of the claims of others. He was as free from selfishness as the lot of humanity would permit." "IIe had a very strong sense of religion, and an entire conviction and faith in a future state, to which he looked forward with strong hopes."

The only near relatives of Mr. William E. Payne were the descend ants of his half-sister, Miss Dobell.

As already noted, Emmeline B. Dobell married Francis Carnes of Boston, July 29, 1816. Their children were

Francis Carnes died about 1860 at Dayton, Ohio; his wife died Aug. 17, 1821. He m. 2d, in 1828, Emma E. Osgood, who is still living.

Francis J. Carnes, only son, lived at Paris, and 30 June, 1843, there married Laura Cecilia, dau. of Thomas Van Zandt of New York. He died 14 Mch. 1845, without issue, and his widow married secondly 8 May, 1849, Alex. J. P. Garesché, and coming with him to this country, they now (1874) reside in St. Louis, Mo. They have had nine children. Mrs. (Van Zandt) Carnes was b. 15 Mch. 1824. Emmeline Wainwright Carnes married Edward A. Weeks;

their children were

Edward F. born 25 Aug. 1848; a lawyer in New York.
Emmeline C. " 8 Mch. 1851; m. George S. Baxter.

Mrs. Weeks died March 1852.

Lucy Payne Carnes, after the death of her sister, married Edward A. Weeks. He died 16 Nov. 1870, and his widow surviving him still resides in New York.

In regard to the Gores, the following outline of the family history may be acceptable.

The Gore Family.

The first of the name here, as Savage shows, was John1 of Roxbury, who had a wife Rhoda, and d. 2 June, 1657. His will mentions sons John and Samuel2, and two daus. His widow m. John Remington.

John Gore, jr., of Roxbury (b. 23 May, 1634) m. 31 May, 1683, Sarah Gardner and had sons John, b. 27 Feb. 1684; Ebenezer, b. 7 Nov. 1689; and Samuel,3 b. 1 Sept. 1699; as also daughters. He d. 26 June, 1705.

Samuel Gore of Roxbury, carpenter, m. 28 Aug. 1672, Elizabeth, dau. of John Weld. They had sons Samuel, b. 20 Oct. 1681; John, 8 22 June, 1683; and Obadiah,3 b. 13 July, 1688. IIe d. 4 July, 1692; his widow m.

Tucker.

1 Alexander J. P. Garesché m. Laura C. (Van Zandt) Carnes, 8 May, 1849, and had

[It was John, son of Samuel, who was of H. C. 1702, afterwards captain of a vessel, who d. 12 Nov. 1720. This is shown by deeds in Suff. Reg., especially one in Lib. 31, f. 96, in which the three sons ratify sales by their mother Eliz. Tucker, late Gore, and the will of John Gore, mariner (Suff. Wills, xxii. 53), in which he mentions his bros., sister Margaret Heley, mother Eliz. Tucker, wife Rebecca. His wife was Rebecca Smith, m. 12 May, 1713; but he left no children. See Glover Memorials, p. 120.]

Obadiah Gore (son of Samuel 2) was a carpenter in Boston, where he m. 26 Oct. 1710, Sarah Kilby. They had four daughters, Elizabeth, Miriam (wife of Daniel Bell), Sarah, and Katherine, besides a son John, b. 29 Dec. 1718. Obadiah d. in 1721.

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John Gore of Boston, painter and merchant, m. 5 May, 1743, Frances, dau. of John Pinkney, by whom he had fourteen or fifteen children. He was an Addresser of Gage, went to Halifax with the British army in 1778, was banished in 1578, and was pardoned by aet of the Legislature in 1787. He d. in Jan. 1796, aged 77, and his will (Suff. Will-, 94 f. 182) mentions sons Samuel and Christopher, daus. Frances, Elizabeth, Susanna, Rebecca, and Catherine, grandson John, son of John deceased, grandson John Taylor. To each he bequeaths one ninth of his estate.

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Of his children, John, who died in his father's lifetime, m. Sarah Foster 3 Mch. 1768, and had Johu 6, who lived in Park St., Boston. This John had two children, John C. Gore of Roxbury, whose children live in California, and Eliza I. (called Louisa), who m. Horatio Greenough, the sculptor.

Samuel Gore m. Mary Peirce 10 Mch. 1774, and had four sons and five daughters. The sons were John (whose widow m. Samuel Appleton), George (father of Capt. Samuel Gore), and Christopher. Of the daughters, Fanny and Sarah married Johu Bumstead, Rebecca was the wife of Stephen Glover, and Mary married her cousin, Dea. Moses Grant. I am indebted to Mrs. Susan (Grant) Walker, for much information in regard to the later generations of the family.

Professor BOWEN asked to be excused from writing the Memoir of the late Dr. Jeffreys Wyman, which had been assigned to him, as those so admirably prepared by our associate, Dr. Holmes, for the "Daily Advertiser" and for the "Atlantic Monthly," and by Dr. Asa Gray for another magazine, seemed to render it unnecessary that another should be written by him.

Dr. ELLIS stated the rule of the Society, that Memoirs of deccased members should be prepared by associate members; and he suggested that, if Professor Bowen felt that he must decline the appointment, he might secure the consent of Dr. Holmes to substitute his Memoir, or a new draft of it prepared by the writer. Professor Bowen concurred in this view, and the Society voted to excuse him from writing the Memoir of Professor Wyman.

The Secretary read extracts from letters of the President, Mr. Winthrop, in one of which, dated "Cannes, France, 10 Dec., 1874," he speaks of inquiries he had made respecting the picture of Washington at Versailles, which proved to be substantially a repetition of the Albemarle picture. He had been about three weeks at Cannes, and had formed the acquaintance of the rector of a little English church there, the Rev. Neville Rolfe, a lineal descendant of the family of that name, of whom one married the celebrated Pocahontas. "His nephew," he writes, "son of an elder brother, now lives at Heacham Hall, Norfolk County, England, where there is an old portrait, probably the portrait of Pocahontas." A photograph of this picture had been promised to Mr. Winthrop, if it should be found practicable to obtain one.

FEBRUARY MEETING, 1875.

A stated monthly meeting was held on the 11th instant at 11 o'clock A.M.; Vice-President ADAMS in the chair.

The Recording Secretary read the records of the preceding meeting, which were approved.

The Librarian read his monthly list of donors to the Library. The Corresponding Secretary reported a letter of acceptance from Samuel Rawson Gardiner, of London, elected a Corresponding Member.

Agreeably to a vote of the Society at the last meeting, the Council now recommended, through the chairman, the trans ference of the following names from the Corresponding to the Honorary list: the Hon. George P. Marsh, LL.D.; the Rt. Rev. Lord Arthur Hervey, Bishop of Bath and Wells; the Rev. Theodore D. Woolsey, D.D.; and the Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, LL.D., Chancellor of William and Mary College.

The recommendation was unanimously adopted.

Prof. Charles F. Dunbar, of Cambridge, was elected a Resident Member.

Hon. John Bigelow, of New York, was elected a Corresponding Member.

The Chairman then said,

It becomes my painful duty to bring to your notice the losses which have befallen the Society since the day of our last meeting. Of these, three are on the list of our Corresponding