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Excerpt from An Angler's Reminiscences: A Record of Sport, Travel, and Adventure Young, of Hingham, Norfolk County, England, who landed in New Haven, Conn., October 21, 1640. He subsequently received from Governor Dougan, under James II., a grant of acres of land lying between Southampton and Montauk Point. The obituary notice of William, son of Peter, the founder of the Southold Colony, who died September 30, 1684, and is so recorded, is spelled Holyoake. Through his mother he is descended from Rev. Thomas Mayhew, Governor of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, under a grant from Lord Sterling in 1614. Of their descendants, one branch became Quakers, and to this Fitz Greene Halleck, the poet belonged; others comprised among their numbers eminent fighting men, distinguished in the American revolution and since, both on land and sea. During the revolution Joseph Hallock fell as commander of a privateer; William Halleck commanded packet boats on Long Island Sound; another William Hallock owned and commanded a vessel sunk by the English ship Snow, and had two sons, Jeremiah and Moses, who were also soldiers of the revolution. During the Civil War many members of the family fought in support of the Union, notably Major General Henry W. Halleck. A portion of Charles Hallock's life was passed on his uncle's farm, at Plain held, in a wilderness section of the Green Mountains in Massachusetts, where he imbibe'd those tastes for. Outdoor sports and adventure which so largely shaped his course through life. In those youthful days he occupied a secluded shooting box on the estate in preference to the farm house, except in coldest winter weather. Having fitted for college at Hopkins Grammar School, in New Haven, Conn., he entered Yale in 1850, but subsequently went to Amherst, where, in 1862, during his sophomore year, he printed a college paper named the Scorpion. This seems to have been his first journalistic venture, and the taste for newspaper work then imbibed, or more probably inherited from his father, who was at that time the active head of the New York Journal of Commerce, induced him to discontinue his collegiate course of study early in the junior year and enter the printing office of his father. There he mastered the rudiments of a journalistic education. Although not a college graduate, the faculty of Amherst subsequently conferred upon him, in 1871, the degree of A. B. Extraordinary, the first honor of the kind which it had conferred. In the spring of 1855 he attached himself to the New Haven Register, and conducted that paper for a year and a half for its proprietor, M. A. Osborn, Esq., then collector of the port. In August, 1856, he accepted a salary and one sixteenth proprietary interest in the Journal of Commerce, and remained until September, 1861, when the political troubles threw him out of his chair, but not of his ownership in the paper, which at that time had increased to about one-tenth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
