wealth; asst. weigher, and later asst. storekeeper in Bos. Custom House; literary editor for Lee & Shephard Publishing House.   He is now (1904) serving in the pay office in the Boston Navy Yard.   He has delivered many political campaign and lyceum lectures through New England and other parts of the country.   His children are: 1, Edward R., b. June 17, 1864; 2, Carlotta, b. June 17, 1869.

   Henry Ewell,¹ the Colonial ancestor of the Ewells, was from Sandwich, in county Kent, England.   He was a shoemaker, and came over in the ship "Hercules," Capt. John Wetherby, in March, 1634.   He settled in Scituate, and was a member of Dr. Lothrop's church.   His name appears in an original manuscript, dated 1636, written by Rev. John Lothrop.   In 1637 he volunteered and enlisted as a soldier in the Pequod war.   He was a freeman in 1638.   In 1639-40, he removed to Barnstable, Mass., with Dr. Lothrop, Anthony Anable, and others.   In Nov., 1638, he mar. at Green Harbor, Sarah Anable, dau. of Anthony Anable and his wife Jane, who came over from England in the ship "Ann," in 1623, bringing their daughter Sarah with them.   Henry Ewell, the above ancestor, returned to Scituate and died there in 1697.   His farm was on the east side of Walnut Tree Hill, near the Amos Town and Shaw place, in Greenbush, Mass, back of Northey's.   His house was burned by the Indians in 1676.   He sold to the Society of Friends land for a meeting house in 1678.

   I. John,² b. 1639.   II. Ebenezer.²   III. Sarah.²   IV. Hannah, b. 1649.   V. Gershom,² b. 1650.   VI. Bethiah.²   VII. Ichabod,² b. 1659.   VIII. Deborah,² b. 1663.   IX. Eunice.²   X. Abia,² b. 1653.