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lor. yet his sins do not seem to have debarred him from his office as councillor, and he was present at meetings of the council in 1642 and 1643. It seems probable that he died shonly fifter the latter date.

Evelyn, Robert, was a member of a family ithat had several representatives in Virginia and Maryland early in the seventeenth cen- itury. He was a relative of John Evelyn, the diarist and author of "Sylvia," and a brother of Capt. George Evelyn who emigrated from England to Maryland. Capt. Thomas Young, an uncle of Robert Evelyn, having obtained permission to trade in America and to explore there, sailed from England in 1634 with two ships, taking his nephew, Lieut. Robert Eve- lyn, as his second in command. They arrived at Point Comfort, in \'irginia, on July 3, and on the first of September, Evelyn, in a small shallop, which Young had built, departed for the Delaware, whither he was soon followed b}- his uncle. Here they built a fort where Evelyn says he remained four years trading with the Indians. He doubtless means that he and his uncle retained an interest in the place for that length of time, for in 1634 Evelyn himself returned to England and was again there in 1637. In the latter year he made another trip to Virginia, carrying a recommendation from Secretary W'indebanke to Gov. Harvey, who was "to let him passe without let or hinderance on this great and secret service of his Majesty's. What this great and secret service was does not appear, but it most probably relates to some rose col- ored accounts of profit in trade which Young and Evelyn had given. Immediately upon his arrival in Virginia, Gov. Harvey and Secre- tary Kemp chose Evelyn to be surveyor-gen- eral of the colony, in place of Gabriel Hawley,

deceased. This a{)pointment was ratified by tlie English government, wdiich also appointed him a member of the council. In 1640, Eve- lyn again w'ent to England and in the next year, published a pamphlet giving directions tc emigrants to America. Before this time he appears to become a resident of Maryland and was a member of the assembly of that colony. He continued to play a prominent part in the affairs of Maryland for a time, but after 1642 he is not mentioned in the records. A nephew, Mountjoy Evelyn, son of Capt. George Eve- lyi'! resided in James City county. \'irginia.

Hav^ley, Jerome. Burke's "Peerage and Baronetage" gives the pedigree of the present baronet of the name of Hawley, tracing to an ancestor in Somersetshire, from whose eldest son the extinct Lords Hawley were descended, and whose second son, Jeremy Hawdey, of Boston, near Brentford, Middlesex, England, was the father of (T ) James Hawley, Esq., of Brentford; (2) John, who married Amy, daughter of Thomas Studley. possibly the first "Cape Merchant" of \'irginia ; and (3) Capt. Henry Hawley. John and Amy (Stud- ley) Hawley had issue: (i) Jerome, of Vir- ginia and ^Maryland ; ( 2 ) Capt. Henry, gov- ernor of Barbadoes ; (3) Dr. Richard, of Lon- don, ancestor of the present baronet ; (4) James, who was also interested in the colonies and perhaps lived in Northumberland county. Virginia; (5) William, who came from Barba- does to Maryland after the death of his brother Jerome, and was a signer of the Prot- estant Declaration of 1650. There were two other sons, who were probably Gabriel, who died in Mrginia while holding the office of surveyor-general, and John, who came to Vir- ginia in 1619. Jerome Hawley was a coun- cillor of Maryland in 1634, and returned to