26 OCTOBER 1929, Page 20

TO DESCENDANTS OF EARLY SETTLERS IN MASSACHUSETTS

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am appealing through your columns to your readers to ask if any of them can throw light on the whereabouts of any descendants of the following if still living :- William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony, Massa- chusetts, during various periods from 1621 to 1657. Born Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, 1596. Richard Bellingham, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony during various times between 1641 and 1665. Born England 1592, place of birth unknown. John Haynes, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1635-36. Born Old Holt, England, date unknown. Sir William Phips, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1692-1694. Born in America, buried in the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lombard Street. John Carver, Governor Plymouth Bay Colony, 1620-21. Born somewhere in England, 1575; Thomas Hinckley, Governor of Plymouth Bay Colony, 1682-1692. He purchased the manor of Copford Hall, Essex. Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony during various periods from 1634 to 1651. Born Northampton, England, in 1576. Thomas Prence, Governor of Plymouth Colony at different times from 1634 to 1673. Born Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England, where his family had lived for several generations. Born about 1618. Spencer Bennett, nephew of Sir William Phips, who took the name of Phips and became Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony during different periods from 1749 to 1757.

Thanks to the help given by the Spectator and the English Speaking Union two portraits of three Colonial Governors have been added to the Collection at the Boston State House, and a group of interested people are anxious to find out if any portraits of the twelve Colonial Governors still missing from the colleetion are in existence with a possibility of procuring either copies or originals.

If your readers could throw any light on the subject it would be a great help. Communications to be addressed to Mrs. Edward F. Gray, British Consulate, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. —I am, Sir, &e.,