"That monarch,"' sailh ^oble, '-strongly recommended to the Welsh, (whom he incorporated with the English,) to adopt the n.ode of most civilized nations, in taking family names, UHtcad of their manner of adding tiieir father's, and perhaps grandfather's name, to their own Christian one, nap^ or ap, between the Christian and surname, as Morgan ap Williams, or Rir hanl np r»Iorgan ap Williams, tliat is, Richard the the son of Morgan, the son of Williams ; and the King was the more anxious as it was found so inconvenient in identifying persons in judicial matters. Richard's father st-ems to have taken the name of Wiliiams for his family name ; but as t'.ic surname of Williams w-as of so late a standing, his Majesty reconnncndcd it to Sir Richard to use that cf CrumTcU. in honor of Ins relation, the Eai:l of Eassx, wh'-ise present greatness entirely o'jliterated his former meanness."* The several " branche-s of the Cromwell family in America claim descent from the same parent stock as that of the Pkotectop. Oliver Cromwell. It is presumed that tlie ancestors oi the Avnorican-line was Col. Jolui Cromwell, third son of Sir Oliver, and a Inother of the PnoTr.cTnR. Jolm, a colonel in the royal army, mar.

Abigail . lie h:A a d 1. Jxm and a son John, who emigrated from

Holland to the New Xetherlan;:-. ,J.)hn. son of Col. John, resided at Long Neck, Westell >'t.r. lie mar. ]\Iary , and left two sous, John, from whom

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