Goodrich, S. G.-The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, Georgia, 331 Lead, Maine, Massachusetts, 339 New Hampshire, 422 New Article of Traffic, New-York, 159 Greenleaf, Simon-a Discourse pronounced at the Inauguration of the Author, Royal Professor of Law in Harvard University, Guy Rivers, by the author of Martin Faber, Humphrey, Heman, D. D.-Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews, Kentuckian in New-York; by a Virginian, 157 McLellan, I. Jr.-Journal of a Residence in Scotland, &c. with a Memoir of the Author. Compiled from the manuscripts of the late Henry B. McLellan, Miriam Coffin, or the Whale Fisherman, Mansfield, E. D.-The Political Grammar of the United States, Outre-Mer; a Pilgrimage beyond the Sea, Pilgrims of the Rhine. By the author of Pelham, &c. Popular Reader, or Complete Scholar, intended as a Reading-Book for the Higher Classes in Academies and other Schools in the United States. By the author of the Franklin Primmer, &c. Randolph, John-Letters to a Young Relative, 82 252 The Indians, The Cotton Crop, 511 150 Vermont, Virginia, 80 OUR FILE. Letter to the Editor, The Poet's Last Hour, Remarks on the Classical Education of Boys; by a Teacher, THE NEW-ENGLAND MAGAZINE. JULY, 1834. ORIGINAL PAPERS. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE THACHER FAMILY, FROM THEIR FIRST SETTLEMENT IN NEW-ENGLAND. IT has been the anxious desire of all nations, in all ages of the world, that family genealogies, from their original foundation, should be correctly recorded and transmitted to future generations; and posterity love to trace back their progenitors, in an uninterrupted line, to the earliest periods. The descendants of the puritan fathers of NewEngland have a peculiar interest in the character and transactions of their ancestors, and they are happily furnished with ample data for the purpose of tracing the course of the founders of an empire. When the Saxons came over and settled in England, the British sirnames were immerged, and no records of the original inhabitants, by their own sirnames, were to be found on the page of history; but in our favored country by far the largest proportion of our sirnames are those which were precious to our puritan fathers, and ever will be to their grateful posterity. The spreading branches of the genealogical tree, from the stock of the pilgrims, will ever command admiration and respect; and, among these, the name of Thacher is not the least deserving of a grateful and perpetual remembrance. Whether the Thacher family were ever entitled to the distinction of ancient and honorable, the writer has not been ambitious to ascertain. The first of the name, of which we have obtained any account, is the Rev. PETER THACHER, a distinguished minister of the gospel, who resided in Sarum, in England, in the seventeenth century. He was a man of talents, and possessed a liberal and independent mind; he dissented from the established church, and being, in consequence, harassed by the spiritual courts, he resolved to turn his back on royal and ecclesiastical folly and persecution, and emigrate to New-England, for the enjoyment of religious freedom; but the death of his wife altered his determination. There is now a letter extant, which he wrote to the bishop of the diocese, begging that he might be excused from reading certain directions of the vicar-general, which, he said, were against his conscience, and would tend to disturb the order of worship. In his address, he says, "I never neglected the order aforesaid out of contempt of ecclesiastical discipline and jurisdiction, as has |