A History of the Parish of Standish, Lancashire (review)

60 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION mental in erecting, nine of them had to do with William Penn and thirteen with the Indians. Thus, he has put into stone and bronze in this popular way much new and unpublished information on Penn and Pennsylvania from the great stores he has these many years been garnering. Henry W. Shoemaker, the Chairman of the Commission, who signed the Report, was of indispensable support in the excellent results accomplished. They have carried out an invaluable program of historical marking, and have embodied the story of their labors in a sumptuous and informing Report. Porteus, Thomas G. A History of the Parish of Standish, Lancashire. Wigan : J. Starr and Sons, Ltd. 1927. Pp. 242. 21 shillings. This handsome volume, profusely illustrated and crowded with material for the genealogist and historian, has great interest for all Americans as being the history of the home of the family of Captain Myles Standish of Massachusetts, included with all of its related neighborhood parishes in the County of Lancashire. The story begins in the dim years before the Roman occupation, and covers that period, with an account of the discovery of Roman coins dating back to the year 90, down through the thirteenth century, the wars of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the period of the Jacobites, and the many changes to modern times. An interesting feature of the book is its recital of the sufferings of the Royalists during the Civil War, and of the Quakers who resided in the neighborhood. From this county came Roger Baldwin, a Non-Conformist ejected from Penrith and Rinford, who settled in Standish Parish as a Presbyterian in 1672, and Roger Haydock of Coppull, a Quaker, who with his family long maintained the Quaker cause in Lancashire. The Haydocks in America are descended from Robert Haydock, son of Roger, who with his wife Rebecca Griffith and several, but not all, of their children, emigrated to Rahway, New Jersey. It is the opinion of the author that Captain Myles Standish of Plymouth, Massachusetts, came from another and later branch of the original Lancashire stock. They were, he thinks, of Ormskirk and the Isle of Mann. The claim, however, is not proved, and we wonder, otherwise, why the gallant Captain named his new home " Duxbury " if not after that of his native land? The author refers us to his life of the immigrant, "Captain Myles Standish," published by the Manchester University Press, in 1920. With such a vast amount of detail as is contained within the covers of this volume, it is here impossible to describe its wealth of information, much of it of a sort most valuable to the specialist. Robert Roger Haydock , of Milton, Massachusetts, a direct descendant of the first Hugh Haydock of 1512, gave to Standish Church in 1926 a tablet commemorative of the family. He died May 11, 1928, and his widow presents this book "in furtherance of his desire to promote friendship between England and America." Amelia M. Gummere Haverford, Pennsylvania ...