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360 Dr. Samuel Fuller died in 1633. The Rev. Samuel Fuller, born in 1625, his son by his third wife, Bridget Lee, was minister at Middle- boro. Samuel Fuller, third, born in 1658, son of the Rev. Samuel and his wife Elizabeth, married Mercy Eaton. Deacon John Fuller, bom in 1698, married Deborah Ring in 1723. Their daughter, Deborah Fuller, born in 1729, married Kimball Prince. Deacon John Prince, born in 1768, married Elizabeth Sherman. Mercy Prince, bom in 1793, married Hervey Cushman, a lineal descendant of Robert Cush- man through his only son, Thomas, whose wife was Mary, daughter of Isaac Allerton. Eveline Cushman, born in 1818, married Lucius Pratt, and tlied in 1901. Deborah Cilley Pratt, born of this marriage, married Edward B. Atwood, as above indicated, and became the mother of Grace Atwood, now Mrs. Pope.

Descent from Elder Brewster is through his son Jonathan,^ whose daughter Mary^ married John^ Turner, Sr. (Humphrey*), of Scituate. Ruth' Turner married in 1685 Captain Thomas^ Prince, son of Elder John* Prince, of Hull. Job' Prince, son of Captain Thomas^ and Ruth, married Abigail, daughter of Captain Christopher Kimball, lived in Kingston, Mass., and was father of Kimball Prince above named.

Deborah Ring, wife of Deacon John Fuller and mother of Deborah Fuller, wife of Kimball Prince, was a grand-daughter of Andrew Ring and his wife Deborah, who was a daughter of Stephen Hopkins.

Grace Atwood Pope was educated in private schools and at Braclford Academy. She early showed herself a lover of books and an original thinker, with a natural gift for composition. Her first article written for publication appeared in the Saturday Evening Gazette when she was a girl of sixteen. After her marriage she re- sided by tums in the New England, Middle, and Southem States. But she did not during these years lose her interest in educational matters, books, and book-makers.

Arriving in Boston from New Orleans a few years since, she saw an advertisement calling for literary work, and, answering it, soon assumed regular duties upon The Writer. It was while she was filling this position that she was invited to become editor of a publication just then coming into existence. The Brown Book. Declining a post which she felt involved too much responsibility, she consented to write for its pages, which she did for two years, only to become, at the end of that time, its assistant editor. In May, 1903, she was appointed editor of Modern Women, a monthly magazine devoted to woman's best interests, and whose special aims are best set forth in Mrs. Pope's own words in the initial number, here quoted but in part: —

"Beginning with this issue. Modern Women presents to you a new owner and a new editor, who beg for your gentle leniency toward their efforts to publish a magazine for the pleasure and profit of its subscribers. It opens its pages hospitably, and hopes to draw around it, both within and without, many women of many minds. It will be edited for women generally interest-ed in affairs, topics of the home, handiwork, physical and beauty culture, literature, fiction, and humanity. . ..

"Modern views of life will be presented in a bright, attractive maimer, giving what is pleasant, and, mayhap, some little which is not. The guiding principle will be to grant the freedom of its pages to the best thoughts of the whole country."

With her own ability as writer, her unfail- ing good judgment, and, best of all, her ideas, Mrs. Pope will no doubt make of this publica- tion a magazine of wide circulation and digni- fied standing.

ELLEN VERNOR DELANO, historian of Thomas Kempton Chapt-er, Daugh- ters of the Revolution, was born in Warren, R.I., May 31, 1848. Her par- ents were William Sweet Bennett and his wife, Nancy Wilmarth. On her father's side she is descended from Edward Bennett and on her mother's from Thomas Wilmarth. These two immigrant progenitors, be it noted, were numbered among the original proprie- tors of the town of Rehoboth, Mass., which was incorporated in 1645.

A genealogical work of about fifty pages, entitled "The Bennett, Bently, and Beers Families," by S. B. Bennett, gives a brief rec-