We think the Hollisters of Stinchcombe may be separated into three generations. In the first belong Roger, John (and his wife Agnes), and Thomas. In the second generation was Roger, and in the third, John and Roger, thus:

FIRST GENERATION.

1. Roger Hollister of Stinchcombe, Esq. He is mentioned in the will of Richard Tyndall of Stinchcombe in 1577, and was living in 1591. He is probably the Roger who was dead Sept. 2, 1616, leaving a widow Mary (see B, p. 14, ante). He was probably father of:

2. Joane? buried Feb. 23, 1584, and

3. Dalgonia? who married Wm. Smith, May 3, 1584.

We do not take him to be the Roger whose father bought and whose son sold Stinchcombe (see A, p. 13, ante), for, according to the date of his daughter's marriage, he could not have been born much after 1540, in which case his father must have been nearly ninety years of age at the time the manor was purchased. Nor do we believe him to have been the father of John, born 1609, or of Maryan, born 1616, for in the latter year he must have been over seventy years of age.

4. John Hollister, whose wife Maryan was buried Aug. 5, 1585. We suppose this to be the John Hollister who bought the manors of Stinchcombe and Bradstone in 1608 (see A, p. 13). Query: was his father's name Roger? (See third note, p. 13) in which case he must have had a

son, viz.:

+5. Roger? (see A, p. 13).

Probably this John had a second wife Agnes, who was a widow in 1621, and made a will (C, page 14). By his wife Agnes he seems to have had the five children following, unless Joan, Margaret, and Ann were by her other husband, viz.:

6. Winifred? m. William Trotman, Dec. 28, 1607.
7. Margaret Parnell.

8. Elizabeth probably baptized 1590 (see page 14);
m., Dec. 26, 1614, John Trotman.

II.

Thomas Hollister, whose wife Elizabeth was buried Dec. 10, 1586, had the following children, viz.: Catherine? baptized June 12, 1588.

12.

13. William buried May 7, 1587.

14. Mary? buried Oct. 25, 1587.

SECOND GENERATION.

5. Roger Hollister, whom we take to be the Roger mentioned at A, p. 13, ante, and son of John, No. 4, of the First Generation, married, Dec. 28, 1607, Alice Fisher, and had at least two children, viz.:

+15. John baptized Oct. 29, 1609.

16.

Maryan baptized July 20, 1616, which would make her rather ancient to be the Marian who married Richard Atwood, Dec. 2, 1658.

THIRD GENERATION.

15. John Hollister had children, according to the Register, as follows:

17. Mary baptized May 2, 1640.

18. Hannah baptized March 2, 1642.

We suppose this to have been the John who sold Stinchcombe some time before 1649,-probably some years before that (see A, page 13, ante). Whether he went to the colonies or was the John who was buried at Stinchcombe, March 4, 1642, is a question that remains to be answered.

19. Rogers Hollister. How he was related to any of the preceding does not appear. His wife Marian was buried July 10, 1693. He appears to have been father of the following:

20. Miriam baptized Dec. 15, 1659.

21. Elizabeth; baptized March 8, 1660. 22. John baptized Dec. 8, 1665.

23. Sarah baptized Aug. 30, 1667.

24. Ha (illegible), baptized March 10, 1669.

Their father could not have been the Roger No. 5 above, for as his son owned and sold the manor before 1649, it is to be inferred that that Roger was dead before that year, and before any of these children were born.

COAT OF ARMS.

The Hollisters of England, ancient, talented, and wealthy as the family appears to have been, and although they sometimes owned landed estates, never seem to have been a "family" in the English sense of the word. They are not mentioned in Burke's "Landed Gentry," or in Walford's "County Families"; and it is evident that they never took as prominent a position in England as they have in America. This may be attributed to the fact that the Emigrant himself was a man of unusual ability, and he and his immediate descendants intermarried with some of the best blood of New England.

The anonymous compiler of one of Hon. Gideon H. Hollister's manuscript accounts of the Stinchcombe Hollisters says that no mention of Hollister arms is to be found in any book or manuscript in the British Museum. Later, however, he pictures (without stating where he found them) the arms of Trotman (argent, a cross gules between four roses of the second) impaling-he says quartering"- the Hollister arms. These arms, which have long been claimed by the Hollisters of America,

are: Sable, between a greyhound courant bendways and a -dolphin, hauriant in base, argent, three roses gules; on a chief of the second, two slips of strawberry fructed proper. Crest: an arm in armor, embowed between two sprigs of strawberry, as in the arms, and holding a branch of holly, proper. Motto: Fuimus, et sub Dco Erimus.

In a coat shown the writer by Hon. Gideon H. Hollister the armor is sable, but striped or; the greyhound is argent, as is the dolphin, except the back, tail, and fins, which are or. The crest rests on a wreath of gules and argent.

See also Cothren's "History of Ancient Woodbury."

THE AMERICAN HOLLISTERS.

LIEUT. JOHN' HOLLISTER.

John Hollister, the ancestor of the American family of that name, is said to have been born in England in 1612, and to have emigrated to America about 1642. The compiler has sought in vain for some conclusive authority for these two statements. Nor can the place of his birth be positively given, though it is supposed he sailed from Bristol, England.

That he was of a good family and educated is almost certain, as he immediately became one of the most prominent and influential men of Wethersfield and the Connecticut Colony. His name first appears in the annals of that colony as juror of the particular court held March 2 1642. He was admitted freeman in 1643; was a deputy in 1644, again in April, 1645, and represented the town of Wethersfield many times thereafter until 1656. His name appears also as a juror in June, 1646. Mr. Hollister, with Thos. Coleman and Nathaniel Dickerson were appointed for Wethersfield, Oct. 3, 1654, to join with the deputygovernor to press men at Wethersfield for an expedition (probably against the Indians). Mr. Hollister and others were appointed by the general court, February, 1656, to give "the best and safe advice to the Indians, if they agreed to meet and should crave their advice."

His name first appears as Lieut. Hollister in March, 1658-9, when he applied to the general court as to the charges of the church at Wethersfield against him for which he had been excommunicated. The following account of that unfortunate quarrel is taken from Hollister's "History of Connecticut:"

By this time, the church at Wethersfield had again. become ripe for dissensions. Probably within two years.