The Giles Memorial Genealogical Memoirs Author: John Adams Vinton Call Number: R929.1V79s This book contains the history and genealogy of the Giles familly of Maine. Bibliographic Information: Vinton, John Adams. The Giles Memorial Genealogical Memoirs. Henry W. Dutton & Son. Boston. 1864. ------------------------- Page 1 The Giles Mcmorial NEW PUBLICATIONS. NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. This venerable quatterly puts in a prompt appearance with its CXXXIV. number for April, filled as is its custom with cumons and interesting matter, valuable to the local historian, antiquarian and genealogist. The opening article is a memoir, accompanied by a portrait of the late Rev. John Adams Vinton, from the pen of Dr. Increase N. Tarbox. Mr. Vinton was one of the most accomplished genealogists in New England, and his labors are worthily preserved in the Vinton Memorial, 1858; Giles Memorial, 1864; Genealogy of the Sampson Family, 1864; Symmes Memorial, 1873, and Upton Memorial, 1874,--all of them finished productions in their way, and embodying a vast amount of historical, family and ant??rian research. . . . ------------------------- page 2 . . . . GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF THE FAMILIES BEARING THE NAMES OF GILES, GOULD, HOLMES, JENNISON, LEONARD, LINDALL, CURWEN, MARSHALL, ROBINSON, SAMPSON, AND WEBB; ALSO, Genealogical Sketches of the Pool, Oerg, Carr, and other Families, WITH A HISTORY OF PEMAQUID, ANCIENT AND MODERN; SOME ACCOUNT OF EARLY SETTLEMENTS IN MAINE; AND SOME DETAILS OF INDIAN WARFARE. "All human beings, not utterly savage, long for some information about past times."--LORD MACAULAY. "It is wise for us to recur to the history of our ancestors. Those who are regardless of their ancestors . . . . . do not perform their duty to the world."--DANIEL WEBSTER, Speech, Dec. 22, 1845. BY JOHN ADAMS VINTON, AUTHOR OF THE VINTON MEMORIAL; MEMBER FOR LIFE OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE BUFFALO HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCLETY OF WISOONSIN. BOSTON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY HENRY W. DUTTON & SON, NOS 90 & 92 WASHINGTON STREET. 1864. Page i Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by JOHN ADAMS VINTON, the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.