Chap. 0115 An Act to change the names of the several Persons therein described.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the several persons herein named, shall be called and known by the names they are hereby respectively allowed to assume, and the same shall be deemed their only proper and legal names, viz : That Joseph Dowding Bass Eaton may take the name of Joseph Bass Eaton ; that George Watson Patrick may take the name of George Watson ; that Henry Augustus Emery Humphrey, a minor son of George Humphrey, may take the name of Henry Smith Humphrey; that Samuel Smith may take the name of Samuel James Hall Smith ; that William C. Johnson may take the name of William Johnson Cochrane ; that Nathaniel Russell Sturgis, jr. may take the name of Russell Sturgis ; that Elizabeth Palfrey may take the name of Elizabeth Cazneau Palfrey; that George Dodd may take the name of George William Dodd; that IVIc Cray Cutter may take the name of Thomas Mc Cray Cutter; that Prince Freeman, Junior, may take the name of Henry Prince Freeman ; that Betsey Olivey Lane may take the name of Elizabeth Olivey Lane ; that Maxey Hall may take the name of Francis Maxey Hall; that Theophilus Bradbury may take the name of Theophilus Washington Brad • bury ; that Albent Smith may take the name of Al-bent William Smith ; that Thomas Ham may take the name of Thomas Ham Grenville ; that Francis Bigelow may take the name of Francis Rufus Bige-low ; and that Edwin Fullerton may take the name of James John Fullerton,-all of the city of Boston, in the County of Suffolk ;-that Amos Smith, Junior, of Salem, may take the name of Amos F.

Smith; that William Balch, Junior, of Bradford, may take the name of William Henry Balch ; that Sarah Tenny of Bradford, may take the name of Sarah De Tenny ; that Hannah Ordway, of Bradford, may take the name of Hannah Dorothy Annis ; that John Nichols, of Salem, a minor son of George Nichols, may take the name of John H. Nichols; that Jonathan Kimball, a minor son of John Kimball of Andover, may take the name of Charles Kimball; that John Richardson, Junior, of Bradford, may take the name of John Pierce Richardson ; and that Timothy Abbot, of Andover, may take the name of Sereno Timothy Abbot,-all of the County of Essex ;-that William Hickox, of Weymouth, may take the name of William Harrington ; that Catharine Otis Farnsworth, of Weymouth, may take the name of Catharine Jane De-lap Otis Farnsworth ; that James Barker, of Franklin, may take the name of James Adams; that Ab-by Hayden Heath, of Brookline, may take the name of Abby Louisa Hayden Heath; that Almira Pen-niman, of Brookline, may take the name of Almira • Cornelia Penniman ; that Willis George Daniels, of Franklin, may take the name of George Willis Daniels ; and that George Peck, of Braintree, may take the name of George Batcheller Peck,-all of the County of Norfolk;-that William Goddard Babcock, of Northborough, may take the name of William Goddard Emerson ; that Rufus Dodge, of Leicester, may take the name of Rufus Dexter ; that Sarah Dodge, wife of said Rufus, may take the name of Sarah Dexter; that Lucy Gilbert Dodge, a minor daughter of said Rufus, may take the name of Lucy Gilbert Dexter; that Lyman Cranch, of Bolton, may take the name of Charles Augustus Lyman ; that Joanna Allen; of Uxbridge, . may take the name of Joanna Spring ; that John C. Allen, a minor son of said Joanna, may take the name of John C. Spring; that Lavinia Ferguson, an adopted daughter of Benjamin Butman, of Worcester, may take the name of Sally Lavinia Butman; that Jedediah Easterbrook, Junior, of Rutland, may take th-R nntno of Joel ,Easterbrook; that Azubal

Partridge Gardner, of Bolton, may take the name of Ellen Partridge Gardner ; and that George Julius Dodge, an adopted son of Asa Putnam, of Sutton, may take the name of George Julius Putnam, -all of the County of Worcester ; that Solomon S. Rice, of Cambridge, may take the name of Henry Solomon Sibley Rice ; that Lovett Walker, of Hol-liston, may take the name of Charles Gibbs Walker ; that MarkNewcomb, of Charlestown, may take the name of Mark Winchester ; that Isaac Austin, of Charlestown, may take the name of Arthur Williams Austin ; that Suzan Fiske Manson, of Fra-mingham, may take the name of Susan Fiske Man-son ; that Sarah Hazen, of Shirley, may take the name of Sarah Hazen Parker ; that William Francis Cotting, of West Cambridge, a minor son of William Cotting, may take the name of William Wallace Cotting ; and that William Hovey, of Cambridge, may take the name of William Bowles Hovey,-all of the County of Middlesex;-that James Sever, Junior, of Kingston, may take the name of James Nicholas Sever; and that Zoroaster Edson, of West Bridgewater, may take the name of Henry * Edson,-both of the County of Plymouth ;-that Job Cash Orchard, of Northampton, may take the name of Josiah Curtis Orchard ; that Olcott Taylor, of Norwich, may take the name of Charles Bizzell Taylor ; that Amasa Wade, of Northampton, may take the name of Amasa Dwight Wade ; that Patrick Slate of Northampton, may take the name of George Austin-Slate ; and that Royal Packard, of Cummington, may take the name of Royal Lewis Packard,-all of the County of Hampshire ;-that George Appleton Gold, a minor son of Thomas A. Gold, of Pittsfield, in the County of Berkshire, may take the name of Nathan Appleton Gold ; that Joseph Smallidge, Junior, of Shutesbury, in the County of Franklin, may take the name of Joseph Lu-cian Smallidge ; and that Gilbert Richmond Lawless, of Newbedford, in the County of Bristol, may take the name of Gilbert Richmond.

[Approved by the Governor, March 11, 1828.]