nd seal, this
twenty-eighth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and
fifty-nine.
CHARLES F. HOVEY.
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Testator to be his
last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at his request, and
in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereto
subscribed our names as witnesses.
GEORGE L. LOVETT.
THOMAS MACK.
WILLIAM W. HOWE.
I do prove, approve and allow the same, and order it to be recorded.
Given under my hand and seal of office, the day and year above
written.
ISAAC AMES,
_May 30, 1859_. _Judge of Probate and Insolvency._
[154] George William Curtis, Mrs. Eliza W. Farnham, Parker Pillsbury,
Sarah Hallock, Mrs. Sidney Howard Gay, Sarah M. Grimke, Charles Lenox
Remond, Lucy A. Coleman, Sarah P. Remond, and the Hutchinson family,
consisting of Jessie, his wife, and two children, and Abby, who sung
among many other sweet ballads, "The Good Time Coming."
[155] Frederick Douglas, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Ernestine L.
Rose, Lucretia Mott, Frances Dana Gage, Wendell Phillips, Wm. Lloyd
Garrison, Oliver Johnson, Susan B. Anthony, Caroline H. Dall, Lucy
Stone, Antoinette Brown, Aaron M. Powell.
[156] Eliza Farnham was in many respects a remarkable woman. As matron
of the Sing Sing prison at one time, she introduced many humane
improvements in the occupation and discipline of the women under her
charge. She had a piano in the corridor, and with sweet music touched
the tender chords in their souls. Instead of tracts on hell-fire and
an angry God, she read aloud to them from Dickens' most touching
stories. In every way, assisted by Mariana Johnson and Georgiana
Bruce, she treated them as women, and not as criminals.
[157] Wendell Phillips, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Caroline H. Dall,
Caroline M. Severance, Ernestine L. Rose, Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
Thomas W. Higginson, Susan B. Anthony.
[158] _Resolved_, That while every newspaper in the land carries on
its face the record of woman's dishonor, the women who seek to elevate
their sex are bound to inquire into its causes and save from its
paralysis.
_Resolved_, That while we have no daughters too tender and pure, no
sons too innocent, to escape from the influence of such tr
|