could do; but few ever heard him allude to his ancestry. He thought more of character than of heraldry. At the time of his death he could trace his ancestors for five hundred and thirty-seven years, through seventeen generations, not one missing, to Henry Bullman of the County of Somerset, England. This Bullman was a practical miner among the Mendippa Hills. As King Edward III. and his son, the Black Prince, were passing with their army through Somersetshire in 1346, on his fourth expedition against France, Henry Bullman offered the King his services, with a hundred of his miners and servants, who became a part of the military force. For this act the King knighted him, giving him his occupation as a surname, and he was known thereafter as Sir Henry Miner, knight. He was given a coat-of-arms of which a facsimile is given.

"Dr. Miner was of the eighth generation from Thomas Miner, his immigrant ancestor, who came from the County of Somerset, England, in Gov. John Winthrop's company. They left the port of Yarmouth in the 'Good Ship Arbella,' April 8, 1630, arriving at Salem, Mass. (then Pequot), the 12th day of June. He settled in Charlestown, and was one of the leading men of the colony. He was the foremost in establishing the first church there, and appears as 'No. 34' on the first roll of the church. He thence moved to New London, Conn., and afterwards settled in Stonington in the same State. There in the old burying ground, almost imbedded in the turf, at his grave is a long rough granite stone, bearing this inscription, rudely cut:

"Here lieth the body of Lieutenant Thomas Miner, aged 83 years, departed 1690.'

"It is a tradition that he had selected this stone from his field, and often pointed it out to his family with the request: 'Lay this on my grave.'

"After three generations from Thomas Miner we come to

Ebenezer and Charles Miner, father and son, both born in Connecticut. Both came to Lempster and are buried in the cemetery by the lake.

"Charles Miner, grandfather of Dr. Miner, was one of the early settlers of Lempster, N. H., nearly all of whom were emigrants from Connecticut. His earlier years have been sketched by himself. At what time the record was written does not appear. It is as follows:

"I was born in Lyme, Conn., in the year 1763, January 28th, my parents Ebenezer Miner and Betty Rowley. I lived with my parents till I was in my seventh year, and my father having a large family and under low circumstances, sent me to live with my grandfather, where I lived nearly three years. My grandfather being out of health and unable to manage his business, moved to his son-in-law's, Manasseh Leach, in New London, at which time I returned to my father's, where I remained a few months, and in the spring of 1772, and being in the tenth year of my age, I went to live with Mr. Moses Noyes, with whom I lived five years, and then returned to my parents and tarried with them a few days, and then went to live with Mr. Seth Lee at Lyme, Grassy-Hill, and with my father's consent agreed to live with him till I was twenty-one years of age, which time I faithfully served him, except so much of the time as I was in the Continental service.

"In 1780 I was drafted into the State service to go to HorseNeck for three months; and not liking to go in the State service, I enlisted in the Continental service for six months under Lieutenant Ichabod Spencer, and marched to headquarters of General Washington's army, which then lay at the Fish-Kills in New York State, and then joined Colonel Storr's regiment, Huntington's brigade, in the seventh company, commanded by Richard Sill of Lyme, Conn., and served the full time of six months, and was discharged with honor. Returned to my old master, worked with him till September, 1781, when the British came into New London, and burnt the larger part of the town. The alarm was given, and the militia was called out into town, and I for one, and there was drafted for two months. I served the time out, and returned to my master again, and worked with him till spring of 1782. And then I enlisted in the Continental service for six months under

Captain Ezra Selding; marched to headquarters, which then was at Verblanks Point, joined the Second Regiment commanded by Colonel Sill, of Lyme, Conn., General Huntington's brigade. Served my country that campaign very agreeably, and in December the 5th, 1782, I got my discharge from the army, and on the tenth arrived home to my master's house and was very happily received, and worked for him till the twenty-fifth. This being Christmas Day, my comrades called on me to accompany them in the diversion of hunting squirrels, and I not having spent any time with them since my return from the army, my master consented, and I joined their company. A sorrowful day to me it was, for towards the close of day, as we were returning home, our dogs called us into a swamp which was then a mill-pond, and having spent our ammunition, we thought to cut the tree that the squirrels were on. In so doing, the tree which we cut broke down another, which fell on me and broke and wounded me severely, breaking several bones and injuring me other ways, so that I was confined for about five months before I was able to work, I being then in my twentieth year. While I lay in this distressed situation it brought me to think of my sixteenth year, when at that time the Lord was pleased to work by His spirit on the minds of his people in this vicinity in which I lived, and there was a great reformation, many souls hopefully converted. I hope I made one of that number which shall in the coming world surround the dazzling throne, with the listening millions above.

"In the time of my apprenticeship I became acquainted with a young woman, and soon after that my time being out with my master, I married her, and our fortune being very small, I thought best to leave my wife with her mother, as she had no father then living, and go in search of a place of residence. Accordingly on the fifth day of May, 1784, I started with two of my brothers-inlaw and several others, seven in number, to go to some new country where land could be bought for little or nothing, for that was all we had to buy with. We rambled over the State of New York till we were satisfied we should not find the place we were in search of, and by this time our number had decreased to three, my two brothers-in-law and myself.""

"Here abruptly ends the story, but it is evident that the writer's search did not end there. The records of the family