Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. I have gleaned information from so many sources that I cannot mention all who have kindly assisted me. I am indebted to Mrs. Henry F. (susan Whitney) Dimock of New York and South Coventry for invaluable aid, without which this work would never have been written. Her privately printed records of Coventry placed a flood of information in my hands, and in addition I have had the benefit of her private memoranda taken from town records and tomb-stone inscriptions.