gratitude of w^{ch} I can pay noe other returne but if you please to prepare any service for me you shall find me most ready to obey it when you reflect upon what I subscribe w^{ch} is Yo^r most assured fathfull serv^t FRAN: LOVELACE. From y^e Barbadoes I hear yo^r Bro: Ld Berkeley is designed to be Governor but the truth I refer to your Consideracon. M^r Winthrop Newley sent me This newes w^{ch} here inclosed will kisse yo^r hands adue Jeames ffort 6^{th} Decemb^r 1669 Rec^r p. RICH. AWBORNE Jan: ye 7^{th} 1668” Richard Awborne was clerk of the Virginia Council, and this letter was evidently recorded for young Whitby’s benefit. The other paper is entitled “Resolutions for the settlem^t of Comerce to and from all his Maj^{ties} Plantations in America, and other places to the port of New York & the rest of his Royall Highnes his Territoryes not p’hibited by act of Parliam^t” and concludes “Given und^r my hand at ffort James in New York on Manhatans Island the 18^{th} day of November 1668 FRAN: LOVELACE” This also had been copied into the Virginia records and attested by Awborne. In the present discussion this last paper is valuable as proving that the writer of the letter to Berkeley was certainly Governor Lovelace of New York. The chain of evidence which appears to contradict the commonly accepted statement in regard to Governor Lovelace’s family begins with the pedigree of a family of Gorsuch in the Visitation of London, 1633–4. (Harleian Society, p. 327.) In this pedigree it is stated that John Gorsuch, rector of Walkhome, Hertfordshire, 1633, married Anne, daughter of Sir William Lovelace, of Kent, Knight, and had the following children at the time of the visitation: 1. Daniel “about 4a^o 1633”; 2. John; 3. William; 4. Cathrin. On April 1st, 1657, Richard, Robert and Charles Gorsuch, sons and co-heirs of John Gorsuch, “P’fessor in Divinity,” petitioned the Court of Lancaster County, Va., that their sister Katherine Whitby might be their guardian for “such estate as doth in any ways belong to them in England,” and that Francis Moryson [afterwards governor of Virginia] be their guardian for Virginia. Shortly afterwards all of these boys removed to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The records of that colony not only make notice of them, but also show that they had another brother Lovelace Gorsuch, and a sister Anne, who married Thomas Todd, of Mockjack (now Mobjack) Bay, Gloucester County, Va.