Note 633 — Chapter IX · (continued 2)

[Mr. Somerby, a native of Massachusetts, who died in London in 1872, did much during a long sojourn in England to further the interests of American antiquaries and genealogists. Cf. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1874, p. 340. Colonel Joseph L. Chester also for many years filled a prominent place in similar work in England, till his death in 1882. A portrait and notice of him by John T. Latting is in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1882; also issued separately: Cf. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., January, 1883, p. 106.—Ed.]