Book Reviews - "The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut"; EDWARD GODFREY: (1584-1664); Frances.. Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Book Reviews The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 2, No. 4. (Apr., 1894), p. 279. THE GOODWINS OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT. Compiled for James Junius Goodwin. Hartford, Conn.: Brown and Gross. 1891. These are good old New England people, of the kind that have built up the waste places by energy, perseverance, and pluck. The record of the family during more than two hundred years is highly honorable. Among those who have contributed to this important work is the eminent genealogist, Henry F. Waters, to whom New England and Virginia are alike grateful for important investigations. We are lately indebted to him for ascertaining the English ancestry of Maj. James Goodwin, whose descendants have figured prominently in Virginia history. Book Reviews Edward Godfrey: (1584-1664), His Life, Letters, and Public Services Charles Edwards Banks William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 2, No. 4. (Apr., 1894), p. 279. EDWARD GODFREY: (1584-1664), HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND PUBLIC SERVICES. By Charles Edward Banks, M.D. Privately printed in 1887. The Riverside Press: Cambridge. Edward Godfrey was the first governor of Maine, and the author tells the story of the fraudulent seizure of his territory by the Massachusetts authorities, with careful selections from the records. The experience of Godfrey was somewhat similar to that of William Clay- borne in respect to his little Island of Kent, siezed by the Maryland authorities. But Godfrey was not the fighter that Clayborne was, and Masschusetts had no trouble in carrying out her designs. The book is beautifully printed, and shows much research. Book Reviews Notes on the Surnames of Frances, Francis, French, etc., in Scotland, with an Account of the Frenches of Thorndyke A. D. Weld French William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Apr., 1894), p. 279. BOOK REVIEWS NOTES ON THE SURNAMES OF FRANCES, FRANCIS, FRENCH, ETC., IN SCOTLAND WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE FRENCHES OF THORNDYKE. By A. D. Weld French, author of the "Index Armorial", Fellow of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, &c. Boston. 1893. Mr. French has brought the spirit of the true scholar and genealogist to the arrangement of this work. It contains a multitude of suggestive facts, and the only adverse criticism to which perhaps his book is subject is its lack of an index. In this busy life of ours an index becomes the soul of a book. It may be said of Mr. French's work, and others similar to it, that they are the necessary conditions of a true history of the people. Family relations are potential in state and church, and are factors such as the modern historian cannot overlook.