SECOND (q.v.) is used for junior; and the next in order of the same name takes the title of Third. The compiler is familiar with the visiting card of “Horace Binney, third,” of Philadelphia, the bearer of a distinguished name.
1765. “Robert Jenkins, Tertius,” makes an announcement in the Mass. Gazette, Dec. 12.
1772. The Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Edmund Quincy the Third [give notice, &c.].
1774. “Benj. Ward, tertius,” was one of the commissioned officers of the first regiment in Essex, Mass., who resigned their commissions, Oct. 4.—Salem Gazette, Oct. 28.
1821. “Nathan Tufts the third,” son of Amos Tufts, blacksmith, changed his name to Nathan Adams Tufts, by Act of Feb. 24.—Mass. Spy, April 4.
1825. “I do hereby relinquish and give to my son John Bartlett 3d. his time and all his earnings from the first day of August last past. John Bartlett, jr.”—N.H. Patriot, Concord, April 25.
