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12 I. Curtis,3 b. May 23, 1754 ; d. unmarried.
13 II. Martha,3 b. Sept. 10, 1756; in. Matthew Mitchell, Sept. 10, 1782.
14 III. Andrew,3 b. Aug. 14, 1758; d. without issue.
15 IV. Isaac Gilbert,3 b. Sept. 10, 1760.
16 V. Mary Ann,3 bap. June 27, 1762 ; m. David Hinman, 1784.
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27 VI. John A.,3 bap. June 10, 1764.
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VII. Nathan B.,3 bap. Dec. 20, 1767. 37 19
VIII. William Hackaliah Preston,3 b. Sept. 30, 1770 ; m. Ma- 45 ria Curtiss, July 23, 1804.
20 IX. Molly Matilda,3 b. Oct. 1, 1775 ; m. John Moseley, Esq., Oct. 31, 1798.
All these children are deceased.
Isaac Gilbert3 (15) married and settled in Westchester county,
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N. Y., where he resided on the same spot over half a century. He was an assistant surgeon in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War, and served under Gen. Washington at West Point, whose warm regard he possessed for his medical knowledge, and patriotic devotion to the great canse which engaged their united energies. Ile was present at several important engagements with the enemy. When he retired from the army, he received from his superior officers the highest proofs of their respeet and esteem, for his alacrity and fidelity in the performance of his military duties. Upon the close of the war, he commenced the practice of medicine, which he successfully prosecuted over half a century. He died on the 13th Sept., 1849, aged 88 years. ITis whole life was a display of useful- ness and benevolence. Ile was always ready and prompt to visit, without reward, the dwellings of the poor and afflicted, however re- mote or desolate, as a humane and ministering brother. Those who knew him long and intimately, estimated his sterling qualities. With steadiness of purpose, and regularity of life, he combined an incor- ruptible integrity, which secured for him through life, unlimited con- fidence, and an unblemished fame. IIe died as he had lived, a sin- cere and humble believer in the Christian faith. He left seven children :
21 I. Andrew,4 now deceased, leaving four children.
22 II. Frederick,4 a physician ; settled in Ohio.
23 III. Henry,4 now deceased, leaving three children, one of them Curtis B. Graham, residing at Washington City, D. C.
24 IV. Gilbert,4 has two children, and resides upon the homestead at Unionville, Westchester co., New York.
25 V. Betsey,4 married Benjamin Scofield, residing in Westchester co., N. Y .; has no issue.
26 VI. Patty,4 married S. Newman ; has no issue.
27 VII. Harriet,4 married A. Wordon, residing in Michigan. Has ten children ; one of her sons, John Lorimer Wordon is a lieu- tenant in the United States navy, and a very meritorious officer. He is married and has two children.
John A. Graham3 (17) was born June 10, 1764, at Southbury, in Woodbury. He was educated under the tuition of the Rev. Jehu Minor, until 1781, when he entered upon his judicial studies with Edward Ilinman, Esq., of Southbury, a lawyer of eminence, and continued with him until the death of his father, in 1785. Being at that date only twenty-one years of age, and left dependent on his own exertions, with that ardor and promptitude which characterized
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his after life, he decided to emigrate to a new state. The calamities of war, long continued, and the depreciation of continental currency, had put nearly all the people upon a level. The agrarian law had virtually passed, and all men had to commence anew in this country. Enterprise was the order of the day, and the young lawyer started for Vermont, to commence practice, with seanty means, but with a stout heart, and a determination to succeed in spite of all obstacles. Soon after he reached Rutland, Vermont, then a wilderness, and de- ciding to locate there, he sent for his two younger brothers, Nathan B. and William H. P., thus reclaiming his promise to his father, to educate and protect them in their youth. He practiced in the com- mon pleas court, where most of the litigated business was done, until 1790, when he was called to the bar of the supreme court of the state. In June, 1792, John Jay, chief justice of the United States, held a circuit court for the district of Vermont at Bennington. This was the first time the Vermonters had seen a United States Court, for they had come reluctantly into the Union. Judge Jay organized his court in due and solemn form, to lay its foundation deep in the respect and reverence of the people. He admitted to practice in his court as attorneys and counselors, such as had practiced with reputa- tion in the highest courts of the state. In 1794, he was appointed by Governor Chittenden his aid-de-camp with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1794, the Episcopal church in Vermont, appointed Col. Graham their special agent to the ecclesiastical courts of Canterbury and York at London, and to the Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the prominent object of the mission being to obtain the recognition and confirmation of the Rev. Samuel Peters, Bishop elect for the state of Vermont. The difficulties which attended his course of duty, and the ability and spirit with which they were met, although not surmounted, are exemplified in the correspondence be- tween Col. Graham and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and in the reports from the records of the mission, which were extensively pub- lished and noticed at the time. They displayed both tact and talent, and greatly aided to establish the reputation of the young diploma- tist, as an adroit and reliable negotiator. Col. Graham returned to Vermont in 1795, and shortly afterward revisited England. While in England, he received, unsolicited, the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the ancient and Royal College of Aberdeen, Scotland. The state of Vermont was scarcely known to the British nation, and Dr. Graham devoted some of his leisure hours to writing a history of the new state, as it was called by the other states of the
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Union. The elements of the history of Vermont were scanty in 1797, when " A Descriptive Sketch" of it was given by Dr. Gra- ham. The face of the country, its forests, its minerals, mountains and lakes, with its patches of cultivation, and its incipient forms of civil society, with a few pleasant anecdotes, were all he had from which to form his book. He adorned, it however, with brief and graphic sketches of biography, which will increase in interest with every passing year. This work was dedicated to the Duke of Mont- rose, the head of the Graham family, which was received very kind- ly by his grace. After residing in London a few years, he returned to the United States in the year 1800, and commenced his residence in the city of New York, where he remained until his death. He resumed the practice of his profession, and devoted a large share of his time and talents to the defense of those accused of crime. His warmth of heart. quick perception, and ready talents, peculiarly fitted him for this department of jurisprudence. Always seizing upon the strong points of the defense, and urging every favorable view with pathos and eloquence, he was one of the most popular advocates of the New York courts, and few were equally successful in their de- fenses. The argument which obtained for him the most celebrity, was delivered in a case involving the right of a magistrate to exam- ine in private, without the aid of counsel, a person brought before him charged with crime, and then making use of that examination as evidence against him on his trial. Upon the appearance of the argument, it produced a great sensation, and for the first time direct- ed public attention to alarming abuses, then in practice, and the doc- trines he advanced in favor of human life and liberty, were responded to by the ablest jurists in every part of the country. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Chief Justice Marshall, Andrew Jackson, Chief Justice Spencer, Cadwalader D. Colden, De Witt Clinton, Thomas Addis Emmett. Pierre C. Van Vyek, Chancellor Kent and many others in and out of the profession, wrote to Dr. Graham on perusing the argument, in the most approving terms, commending its doctrine, ability and eloquence. This effort was followed by a legis- lative enactment, securing for the first time to every one aceused the right of consulting counsel before examination by the committing magistrate ; and to Dr. Graham is to be awarded the high credit of having unalterably secured this inestimable privilege. In 1828, Dr. Graham wrote and published an elaborate essay on the subject of the letters of Junius, claiming for his friend, John Horne Tooke the authorship of those celebrated productions. It is an interesting and
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ingenious book. How far he has succeeded in his hypothesis, he has left the reader to decide. The work is dedicated to Chief Justice Ambrose Spencer, between whom and the author there had existed a long and close friendship.
Dr. Graham died August 8, 1841, aged seventy-seven years. He had suffered for two years from the effects of a paralytic shock, but retained his faculties. IIe died full of the hope of a blessed immor- tality. He was a firm believer in the Christian religion, to which he had given deep investigation. All his hopes centered in the re- deeming power of the Son of God. He passed from life without a murmur or regret. His first wife was the daughter of Dr. Hodges of Clarendon, Vermont, by whom he had one son, 28 I. John Hodges Graham.4 His second wife, Margaret, whom he married in England, was the daughter of James Lorimer of London, by whom he had one son, 29 II. John Lorimer Graham.4
John HI. Graham4 (28) was born in Vermont, March 6, 1794. His life has been an eventful one. He was destined by his father for the bar, but after pursuing judicial studies for two years, he im- bibed a partiality for nautical pursuits, and sailed on a voyage to China. Upon his return he obtained a midshipman's warrant in the United States navy, and soon after sailed on a cruise witli Commo- dore Rodgers, in the frigate Constitution.
In a few months, he resigned and resumed his legal studies, but soon after the declaration of war with Great Britain, in 1812, he again returned to the navy, and within a few weeks after joining Commodore Chauncey on Lake Ontario, he was engaged in the first conflict of the war, on the Canada side, under the command of Capt. Argus. It was a gallant affair ; nine out of eleven naval officers were killed, or severely wounded. He lost liis leg in the action, and his life was almost miraculously preserved by a noble tar, who car- ried the young and wounded midshipman on his back to the last boat, which had just put off for the American side. He was then only nineteen years of age. Having sufficiently recovered to substitute an artificial for a real limb, he applied for orders, reported to Com- modore Perry on Lake Erie, and had command of the magazine on board of his flag-ship, in the memorable conflict on that lake, which won for all who partook in it, an imperishable fame.
In this action, Midshipman Graham, had his organs of hearing severely impaired, from the heavy cannonading, from which he has never been relieved. After this battle, he made a voyage to the Mediterranean Sea, since which he has been engaged on shore duty,
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attached to the navy yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. He has now reached the grade of post-captain. He resides at Brooklyn city, is a promi- nent member of the Episcopal church, highly respected for his ex- emplary character and diffusive benevolence. He has married three times ; his first wife was the daughter of William Inman of Utica, N. Y., and sister of Capt. Inman, U. S. N. His second wife was the daughter of Isaac Clason of New York, and his present wife is the daughter of the Rev. Philip Millidores, D. D., of New Bruns- wick College. He has no issue.
Col. John Lorimer Graham4 (29) was born in the city of London, England, March 20, 1797. IIe was educated in New York, where he has resided since 1800. He prosecuted part of his judicial studies with the venerable Judge Tapping Reeve, at Litchfield, Con- necticut, and terminated them in New York, in the office of John Anthon, Esq. He was admitted to the bar in 1821. Few lawyers in the state have had a more extensive business. In 1817, he was called into military service by Governor Tompkins. In 1819, he was selected by the then Governor De Witt Clinton, as one of his aids-de-camp with the rank of colonel. He continued in the staff of Gov. Clinton for several years. Although subsequently tendered the commission of a brigadier-general, he declined it and other mili- tary distinctions, preferring to terminate his military carcer with the life of the illustrious Clinton.
Notwithstanding his incessant professional employments, Col. Gra- ham has been an active and liberal patron of scientific, literary, charitable and religious institutions. At an carly day, he became a member of the Historical, the New England, the St. George's and the St. Andrew's Societies; a life director of the American Bible Society, and an efficient member of the council of the University of the city of New York, in which he founded a free scholarship.
In 1834, he was appointed by the legislature of the state of New York, and now continues, a regent of the State University ; the duties of which station, frequently require attendance at the capitol at Albany, and visitations to the colleges and academies throughout the state. In the year 1840, the President of the U. S., (confirmed by an unanimous vote of the Senate.) conferred upon Col. Graham the office of postmaster of New York. Ilis administration of the office was marked with intelligence, industry and system. He reformed every department of that extensive and complicated establishment, and created order out of chaos. ITis efforts accomplished many use- ful reforms, and he signalized his administration by succeeding in
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effecting, after a long struggle, the removal of the post-office to a location which enables the mercantile class to have their letters de- livered at the earliest moment after the arrival of the mails. The value of this arrangement to a large commercial community like New York can not be too highly estimated.
The fitting up of the new post-office, (formerly the Middle Dutch Church,) was performed with an order, an adaptation, which received not only universal approbation in New York, and throughout the country, but obtained very liberal praise from the European press. Upon his retirement from office in 1843, he resumed his practice at the bar in New York, where he still resides. He married the young- est daughter of the late Isaac Clason. Esq., one of New York's oldest merchants, by whom he has had nine children, eight of whom are now living, viz.
30 I. John Lorimer.5
31 II. De Witt Clinton.5
32 III. Ambrose Spencer.5
33 IV. Augustus Clason.5
34 V. James Varnum.5
35 VI. Malcolm.5
36 VII. Emily Matilda.5
37 VIII. Margaret.5
The eldest son, J. Lorimer,5 (30) after admission to the bar, and practicing two years in New York, received in 1845, a commission in the U. S. army, and immediately joined the first regiment of dragoons, then under the command of General Scott, in Mexico. He joined the army at Jalapa, and remained with his company, commanded by Capt. (now Major) Philip Kearney, until the termination of the campaign. He won great distinction for his good conduct at Chalco, where with sixteen men he gallantly resisted an attack of 150 guerrillas in am- bush, rescuing one of Gen. Scott's aids, who was severely wounded. For this daring deed the President and Senate of the United States awarded him an honorable brevet. He was also distinguished at the battle of Churubusco, being engaged in the memorable pursuit of the enemy, under the command of the gallant Capt. Kearney. to the gates of the city of Mexico, where he was severely wounded in his left arm. For his condnet at that battle, he was also awarded another honorable brevet. He was subsequently appointed the aid of the late Gen. Kearney, and has been engaged on duty on the plains of New Mexico.
Nathan B. Graham3 (18) studied law with his brother, John A.,
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at Rutland, Vermont. For many years he filled with reputation the offices of district attorney and first judge of the county. He married in England, Jean, the daughter of James Lorimer, Esq., of London, March 27, 1797. Ile removed to New York in the year 1810, and pursued his profession. He died there in 1832. He was a sound lawyer, most estimable in all the relations of life, an exemplary Chris- tian and truly an honest man. He died greatly lamented and be- loved. Ile left eight children, viz.
38 I. Louisa,4 married John F. Gould, now deceased, had issue one daughter, Elizabeth Boyd, who married Alexander Kelsey, of Rochester, New York ; since married James Mc Call, of New York, and had issue : Louisa, who married James O. Sheldon, and died without issue.
39 II. Mary Ann,4 married Joseph B. Varnum, of New York. Has issue three daughters.
1. Mary Jane, married Henry A. Mott, Esq., of New York, and has issue, three children.
2. Margaret Ann, and 3. Julia.
40 III. James Lorimer Graham,4 a member of the bar in New York, married Julia, the only daughter of Charles Graham, Esq., de- ceased. Ilas no issue. Had an extensive practice for many years, and is now the president of the Metropolitan Fire Insurance Com- pany. In 1833, he was appointed by his excellency E. T. Throop, then governor of the state of New York, one of his aids, with the rank of colonel, and he subsequently received the commission of a brigadier-general in the militia of the state.
41 IV. Nathan B. Graham,4 resides in New York, married March 2, 1829, Marie Antoinette MeCoskay, of Scotland, who died June 8, 1850. Had issue :
1. Robert M. C.,5 born Sept. 28, 1830.
2. James Lorimer,5 born Jan. 21, 1834.
3. Douglass,5 born March 31, 1838.
4. Marie Antoinette,5 born August 2, 1843.
5. Jean Louisa,5 born Feb. 19, 1845.
Hle married April, 1852, Catharine, daughter of John W. Yates, of Albany, and widow of Francis Dwight, of the same city. He entered the state militia at an early age, and reached the rank of brigadier- general.
42 V. John A.,4 married Helen, only daughter of Henry Beek- man, of New York ; now resides in Maryland; has issue, three children, viz., 1. Henry Beckman ; 2. Helen ; 3. Wallace.
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43 VI. Henry Montrose,4 married Rebecca Porter, now deceased. He has since married Margaret Brower, by whom he has one son, James L.
44. VII. Edward Chauncey,4 is a merchant, residing in New York ; married Elizabeth Bacon, of New Haven ; has issue, one daughter, Louisa.
45 VIII. Susan Matilda,4 married Joseph B. Varnum, Jun., Esq., of Washington City, D. C., now a member of the bar in New York ; has issue, one son, James M.
William Hackaliah Preston,3 (19) married Maria Curtiss, of New Haven ; lived many years in Rutland, Vermont, where he officiated as sheriff of the county ; removed to New York, in 1832, where he died in 1847, leaving two children : 1. Maria, since deceased. 2, William.
HINMAN FAMILY.
For the sketch of this family, I am indebted to Hon. R. R. Hin- man, of Harlem, N. Y.
From recorded evidenee and tradition, the following facts are col- leeted. Sergeant Edward Hinman appears to have been the only one of the name who came from England to this country, either in the early settlement, or since. Edward located at Stamford, before 1650, (probably as early as 1645.) Being an unmarried man when he came to Stamford, he married Hannah, the daughter of Francis Stiles, of Windsor, who subsequently removed to Stratford. In 1651, he resided in the present Main street, at Stratford, upon the west side, a few rods below the Episcopal church. He had, before his emigra- tion, belonged to the body or life guard of King Charles I. He had not resided many years at Stratford, before he, with Stiles, became the principal purchaser of the south part of Pomperaug, (Wood- bury,) now Southbury. It does not appear that he removed to Woodbury with his wife and family, but some of his children, with the Stiles family, located at Southbury, where many of their descend- ants yet reside. He died at Stratford, Nov. 26, 1681. IIis will was proved at Fairfield, in 1682. To his son Titus, he gave his lands at Woodbury ; he also noticed his son Benjamin and daughter Sarah Roberts ; his son Samuel, and daughters Hannah, Mary and Pa- tience ; he also noticed his brother, Ephraim Stiles, of Stratford. Hannah, his wife, died before him, in 1677. Children, 1. Sarah, b.
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in 1653. m. William Roberts, of Woodbury, and had Hannah, bap. Oct. 27, 1677 ; Zechary, in May, 1682; Sarah, in 1685 ; Hannah, in May, 1686; Amos, in July, 1689, perhaps others ; 2. Titus, b. in 1656 ; 3. Benjamin, in 1662; 4. Hannah, b. in 1666 ; 5. Mary, b. in 1668 ; 6. Patience, b. in 1670; 7. Edward, b. in 1672. By his will he directed his youngest son to be placed as an apprentice to Jehiel Preston, of Stratford. That part of the family who removed to Woodbury, settled in the section of Southbury Main street, called White Oak, near where the dwelling-house of John Moseley, Esq., now stands.
Capt. Titus, the eldest son of Sergeant Edward, m. for his first , wife, Hannah Coc, of Stamford. After her decease, he m. Mary Ilawkins, of Woodbury, Jan., 1701-2 ; he d. April, 1736, aged 80 years. His children were, Ephraim, bap. July 26, 1685 ; Joseph, in June, 1687 ; Andrew, b. April, 1690 ; Titus, June, 1695 ; Ebenezer, b. Jan. 4, 1702-3 ; Titus, in March, 1703-4; Eleazer, in May, 1706 ; Timothy, bap. in March, 1708-9 ; Mary, b. in Feb., 1713-14, m. David Bostwick, July, 1739; Hannah, b. in March, 1720-21, m. Samuel Twitchell, Dec., 1739; Patience, in July, 1722. He was a member of the General Assembly in 1715, '16, '19 and '20.
Samuel, second son of Sergeant Edward, lived on the place called the Doctor Graham place, in Southbury Main street, where Nathan Hinman now resides. He had a wife but no children. Sarah, his adopted child, was bap. Sept. 28, 1707. He died about 1720, and his place was purchased for a parsonage.
Benjamin, third son of Sergeant Edward, m. Elizabeth Lamb, at Woodbury, July 12, 1684. He lived at Bullet Hill, in the Main street at Southbury, d. 1727. Children, Annis, bap. 1685, d. young ; Hannah, bap. Oct., 1686, m. Benjamin Hurd, Jr. ; Adam, bap. Jan., 1687; Noah, in July, 1689; Benjamin, in April, 1692; Elizabeth, Feb., 1693, m. John Hurd; Eunice, in May, 1696, m. Nathan Hurd, supposed grandmother of the Hon. Judge Smith, and Hon. Nathan Smith, deceased, of New Haven ; Annis, in Sept., 1697, m. Samuel Martin ; Rachel, b. Dec., 1700, m. Ephraim Baldwin ; Edward, b- Oct., 1702 ; Samuel, in Dec., 1704; Wait, in Oct., 1706 ; and Mercy, in Dec., 1709.
Edward, Jr., youngest son of Sergeant Edward, drew eighteen acres in the land division at Woodbury, in 1702, yet he appears to have uniformly lived in Stratford and vicinity. He was brought up, after his father's decease, by Jehiel Preston. The sons of Edward, Jr., were, Samuel, John and Ebenezer. Samuel moved to Goshen, and
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was the father of Lemuel, of North Stratford, and ancestor of the Fair- field county Hinmans. He removed a short time to Southbury, and thence back to Fairfield county, perhaps Trumbull. He had five sons, viz., Ephraim, Edward, Jonathan, Michael and Bethuel. He left two daughters, one m. Gideon Perry, the other m. Jonathan Hin- man, of Southbury, and became the mother of Gen. Robinson S. Hin- man, deceased, of New Haven, of Daniel, Simeon and John, of Betsey Canfield, and Orra Wheeler, of South Britain.
Ephraim, eldest son of Capt. Titns, left no family.
Joseph, second son of Capt. Titus, m. Esther Downs, Nov., 1714, and had children, Ebenezer, b. Oet., 1715; Joseph, bap. June 1, 1718; Tabitha, in Feb., 1721, m. Joseph Richards, in 1746; Es- ther, b. June 23, 1723, m. David Munn, Nov., 1749; Eunice, Jan. 9, 1725 ; Mabel, Aug. 11, 1728, mother of Justus Hinman ; Amos, Nov., 1730, d. young ; Elijah, April 8, 1733 ; Daniel, July 6, 1735 ; and Lois, b. Sept. 9, 1737, m. John King, Dec., 1784.
Andrew, third son of Capt. Titus, m. Mary Noble, Aug., 1711. Their children were, Andrew, bap. Aug., 1712; Hannah, Dec., 1714, m. Josiah Everest, March, 1739, ancestor of Dr. Solomon Everest, deceased, of Canton ; Coe, in Aug., 1718 ; Mary, March 8, 1720, m. Garwood Cunningham, of Woodbury, Dec., 1751 ; Margaret, Aug. 11, 1723, d. unm. ; Aaron, Oct. 23, 1726, d. young ; Nathan, Dec. 14, 1729 ; Elisha, March 10, 1734; Noble, April 26, 1737 ; he went to Nine Partners, in the state of New York ; perhaps he afterward went to New London, with his brother Elisha, who was commander of a government ship, called the Alfred, during the war of the Revo- lution, which sailed out of New London. Elisha left no sons, but several daughters ; one m. Mr. Day, one Sheriff Dimond, of Fair- field, and one Mr. Kellogg, of Stamford ; perhaps others.
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