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Title: The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles Knowles, 1867-1950
Subjects: Portraits, American United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Biography
Publisher: (Boston) The Boston athenaeum
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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er, and thus weare dispersed about. The Lord give us all a gatheringe in Christand theire we shall meete without seaparations to all eternity. She was now thirty-three, more favored in character,piety, and the buffetings of fortune than in her beauty.Then Colonel Richard Pryce, of Gunley Hall, in Wales,a widower of good family, came upon her horizon. Sheunited herself with him soon after the year 1647 ^^^went to Gunley to live. It must have been not long after this date that herportrait, now at Gunley Hall, was painted. It was madeknown to Mr. Leverett Saltonstall of Boston, throughthe researches of Mr. Joseph Gardner Bartlett, thegenealogist, and was photographed by permission ofEdward Stisted Mostyn Pryce, the present owner. Rosamund Pryce had no children, but her husbandsrelatives and her own large family circle claimed heranxious care until her death in 1695. Of them sheprobably could say, as she did of her brother Samuel:I can desire nothing so much as your souUesprospearity. 810
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ROSAMUND PRYCE 1612-1695 (811) William Stoughton has been known up to this timeby the portrait reproduced on page 485 of Volume 2.The picture represents him as the donor of StoughtonHall, built In 1700, after he had been the dominantforce In New England. We now have in the newlydiscovered portrait, reproduced here, a vision of Stough-ton at the age of fifty-four, just as he is about to becomeChief Justice, and presumably at his best. This is a moreopen countenance than In the other; and although a re-lentless attitude toward the witches was In later yearsa reproach, he still had, when this picture was painted,a record to be proud of, and a future in the making. The picture is the only portrait identified as the workof Evert Duycklnck, of New York, who arrived fromBorken, In Holland, about 1638, and was active as alimner and glazier until the beginning of the next cen-tury. The coats of arms on glass, made for the firstDutch church In New Amsterdam, are attributed tohim; and perhaps he

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