I don’t wonder you think the blunted arrows unsightly. They are all wrong. The arms are a hand grasping three _crossbow bolts_, a very different thing, and with very formidable points to them, as I trust those of the family will always have. I brought home three of them from Germany in ’52. They are shaped thus [Illustration: right-facing arrow], the shaft of oak, the _feathers_ of lighter wood, and the head steel. The transverse section of the head would be a diamond ◇. I think it plain that my father knew all about Ebenezer, wherever he got it. If I can aid you in any way, I shall be glad to do so. I remain, Very truly yours, J. R. LOWELL. II. _Maternal._[111] 1. ROBERT CUTT is supposed to have come from England to this country previous to 1646, going first to the Barbadoes, where he married Mary Hoel, and afterward to Portsmouth, N. H. He removed thence to Kittery, Me., and died there 18 June, 1674. 2. ROBERT, sixth child of Robert and Mary [Hoel] Cutt, was born in 1673. He married Dorcas Hammond, 18 April, 1698, and died 24 September, 1735. 3. MARY, daughter of Robert and Dorcas [Hammond] Cutt, was born 26 December, 1698. She married, 16 May, 1722, William Whipple, afterward one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and died 28 February, 1783. 3a. ELIZABETH, sister of Mary (3), was born 20 March, 1709. She married, 20 March, 1709, Rev. Joseph Whipple, brother of William Whipple, just named; and after his death she married for her second husband, 23 October, 1727, Rev. John Lowell (son of Ebenezer). 4. MARY, daughter of William and Mary [Cutt] Whipple, was born 13 January 1728/29, 1 September, 1748, Robert Traill, a merchant in Portsmouth, from the Orkney Isles, who remained a British subject, and left the country in November, 1775. Mary [Whipple] Traill died 3 October, 1791. Robert Traill, after the Revolution, was a collector of the revenues in the Bermudas. 5. MARY, only daughter of Robert and Mary [Whipple] Traill, baptized 24 May, 1753, married Keith Spence, of Kirkwall, Orkney, who had settled as a merchant in Portsmouth. Later he became purser of the frigate Philadelphia. Mrs. Spence died 18 January, 1824. 6. HARRIET BRACKETT, daughter of Keith and Mary Whipple [Traill] Spence, was born 26 July, 1783; she married the Rev. Charles Lowell, 2 October, 1806, and died 30 March, 1850. CHILDREN OF JAMES RUSSELL AND MARIA [WHITE] LOWELL. 1. Blanche, born 31 December, 1845; died 19 March, 1847. 2. Mabel, born 9 September, 1847. She married, 2 April, 1872, Edward Burnett, of Southborough, and died at Elmwood, 30 December, 1898. Their children are: i. James Russell Lowell Burnett, now James Burnett Lowell, his name having been changed at the request of his grandfather. ii. Joseph. iii. Francis Lowell. iv. Esther Lowell. v. Lois. 3. Rose, born 16 July, 1849; died 2 February, 1850.