GRIDLEY HOLLOW near East Virgil, N.Y., where James Angell (b. 1775) and Polly Crandall whom he married in 1804, built their home and a big stone grist mill. They had 12 children, one of whom was your grandfather, Edward Justus Angell.

Your great grandfather, James Angell, was the son of Thomas Angell who came from Conn. to Otsego Co., N.Y. about 1793.

The father of Thomas, William Angell, was born in Providence, R.I., from where he moved to Colchester, Conn.

Providence had been the home of the Angell family since 1631, when Thomas Angell, who came to America from England with Roger Williams in February of that year, was driven out of Massachusetts by the Puritans because like Williams he was a Baptist. Mass. has never bothered to repeal a law imposing the death penalty on any resident of R.I. found in Mass.

There is an Angell Street in Providence.