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MOLLINEX, Horsman, of Rye, married Sarah Blackman, nineteenth of tenth month, 1769. (Friends' Rec.)
MORRILL, Rivers, was of Saw Pit in 1799 ; mentioned 1814.
MORRIS. John, ' of Rye, yeoman,' in 1741 sold his house and eleven and one half acres, on Merritt's Point, bought in 1732. Owen, witness, in 1747.
MORGAN, Jonas, appears to have been associated in some way with Joseph Budd in the proprietorship of Budd's Neck. 'Budd and Jonas Morgan's Purchase' is mentioned in Harrison's patent, 1696 ; also in a deed of David Jamison, 1730. (Rec., D. p. 295.)
MAYNARD, Isaiah, mentioned 1752, 1753, 1761.
MUIRSON, Rev. George. See page 306.
MURRAY, Charles, witness in 1738.
Mc DONALD, Dr. Charles. See page 170.
MOORE, Nathanael, was here in 1771.
MOTT, James, was here in 1771.
NEALLY, John, is mentioned in 1721 and 1740.
NEWMAN, John, was of Harrison in 1740.
NICHOLS, Thomas. His . dwelling house' and 'fulling mill.' appar- ently in Harrison, are mentioned 1720. Walter, mentioned in 1793.
OAKLEY, Isaac, witness in 1757, 1761.
OWEN, Moses, bought in 1730 the farm of seventy-four acres for- merly John Walton's, near the Presbyterian Church at the White Plains. Moses, junior, is mentioned 1741.
PANTON, Andrew, was here in 1719.
PALMER, Edward, of King Street in 1746, and Marmaduke, of Brown's Point, near White Plains, in 1764, were sons of Sylvanus. of Mamaroneck, where this family established themselves at an early day.
PECK, Jared, removed early in this century from Greenwich, Conn. to Saw Pit, now Port Chester, where his family have since resided .. (See Adee.)
PEDERICK, Benjamin, 'late of Rye, now of New York,' in 1741 sold his house and eight and one half acres (where the Seminary now stands) to Rev. John Smith. He owned this property in 1732.
PEET, William, of Mamaroneck, in 1743 bought seventy acres on Budd's Neck, which he sold in 1752 to Jonathan Horton.
PINE. James is mentioned in 1714. The . estate of James Pine, deceased,' on the Purchase Road (about opposite Mr. Wilson's pres-
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ent residence), is referred to in 1760. James, perhaps his son, 'late of Nassau island,' in 1763 bought Anne Disbrow's house and land (near the present site of the Presbyterian Church), but removed next year to New Rochelle, where he died in 1766. Benjamin, in 1767, bought one of the Saw Pit lots. A third James in 1786 was living on the lower part of King Street ; mentioned in 1785-1801.
PARKER, William, married Anna Hyat, July 25, 1792. Joseph, of Rye, in early life was concerned in one of the most extraordinary cases of 'mistaken identity ' on record. At a court of Oyer and Terminer, held in the city of New York, June 22, 1804, 'Thomas Hoag alias Joseph Parker' was indicted for bigamy. The charge was that on the eighth of May, 1797, he was married in New York to Susan Faesch, and on the twenty-fifth of December, 1800, his wife being still alive, he married one Catharine Secor, in Rockland County, N. Y. The first marriage was admitted by the prisoner; and to prove the second, wit- nesses were brought, who testified that they had seen him constantly for several months in Rockland County, had been present at his wed- ding, etc .; the woman herself declaring ' that she was as well convinced as she could possibly be of anything in this world that the prisoner at the bar was the person who married her by the name of Thomas Hoag ; that she then thought him and still thinks him the handsomest man she ever saw.' Certain bodily marks, and other peculiarities were specified by the witnesses, as belonging to Hoag ; e. g. a scar on the forehead, produced by a kick from a horse, another just above the lip, a mark on the neck, a peculiar gait, a shrill voice, rapid utterance, slight lisp, etc. All these were noticed in the prisoner. For the defence it was shown that Parker, who ' was born at Rye, in Westchester county," had been engaged in his regular occupation in New York during the whole time of his alleged presence in Rockland County ; that he had served throughout the same period as one of the city watch, and had done constant duty, etc. Finally, several witnesses for the prosecution hav- ing spoken of a scar which Hoag bore on his foot, the trace of a wound produced by treading on a drawing knife ; the prisoner was requested to exhibit his foot to the jury ; whereupon 'not the least mark or scar could be found.' The jury, without retiring from the box, returned a verdict of not guilty. (Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, by D. T. Valentine, 1866, pp. 746-755.)
PINKNEY. Mr. Thomas Pinkney lived here in 1712.
PROBOY, William, bought land in Harrison, 1720; mentioned 1723.
PROVOOST. David,1 of New York, owned the property now known as Jones' Wood. He married - Rhinelander, and had four sons : John, William, Henry, and -; and one daughter. William,2 son of David,1 came to Rye, and bought of David Doughty sixty-seven acres of land near Rye Ferry - lately known as the Provoost estate. William T.,3 son of William,2 became the sole proprietor of Rye
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Ferry. He married Mary Carson, daughter of Robert Carson. She died in 1844. They had seven sons, five of whom removed to Buf- falo : James.4 who died in 1868; Robert,4 who died in 1840 ; David,4 Samuel,4 and John,4 now living. George, whose family are now resid- ing on Rye Neck, died in 1846. William,4 second son of William T.,3 lives near the steamboat landing, on a part of the old farm, the greater portion of which was bought in 1868. by E. B. Wesley.
. Rye Ferry' ceased to exist about sixty years ago. As late as 1810 or 1811, boats - schooners - ran regularly between this place and Matinecock Point, on the opposite shore of Long Island.
QUIMBY, Josiah, of Mamaroneck, sold land in Harrison, 1727.
QUINTARD, Peter. See page 148.
RICKEY. Thomas, lived here in 1720, and is mentioned in 1739- 1740. Peter and Jeremiah (the latter called Rieker) enlisted for the French War, 1758-1759.
RITCHIE (perhaps the same name), William, was here in 1771.
REYNOLDS, Gideon, witness in 1740.
ROBINSON. Thomas, of Rye in 1719. owned land in Harrison, 1727- 1740 : was living in 1766. William, mentioned 1736.
ROGERS, Dr. David. See page 170.
Rogers, Israel, witness in 1722. Jeremiah was living here in 1723.
ROLL, Mangle Jonson, mariner, of New York, bought land in . limp- ing Will's purchase,' 1713 ; witness in 1747.
ROOSEVELT. 'Rosevelt's store-house,' near Byram River, is men- tioned in 1730 : ' Rosevelt's land' near Saw Pit landing, in 1732. John Roosevelt and others of New York in 1743 sell to Adam Seaman of Rye for one thousand and two hundred pounds, a grist mill on Byran River, with all lands laid out to them 'at a place called the Saw pitt,' and a farm of fifty acres, on King Street.
RUSFORTII, Jonathan, lived here in 1705.
RUSTEN, John, about 1760 bought land on Budd's Neck.
RAY, John, witness in 1744-1754.
SACKETT, Nathanael, witness in 1764.
SAWYER, Thomas, mentioned 1739, bought land in 1750-1751. on Budd's Neck, now owned by J. E. Corning, Esq., and Miss Hubbs.
SCHOFIELD. R. ; . lot in town field, formerly ' his, mentioned 1714.
SCOTT, Henry, of Mamaroneck, in 1745 bought one hundred and thirty-eight acres in White Plains.
SEAMAN. Richard, witness in 1722, had land in the upper part of Harrison 1723-1730, previous to 1737. Adam, . of North Castle, mer- chant,' in 1742 bought land in Rye. He owned land at the lower end of King Street in 1749. Adam, junior, mentioned in 1758. Israel and Silvanus lived at Saw Pit in the latter part of the last century. Isaac is mentioned in 1800; Drake, in 1791. Hicks lived in Harrison in 1743.
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SALER, John, in 1724 had land in Harrison, on the road from the Purchase to King Street.
SECOR. Joshua, 1796, and Jonathan, 1802-1803, lived in the upper part of King Street : perhaps of the New Rochelle family of this name. (See Bolton, Hist. Westchester Co., vol. ii. p. 542.)
SEARS. - Seers had property in the town in 1720. In 1746 Bartholomew Sears of Rye sold eighty acres between Mamaroneck River and the White Plains Road. William Suel [Sewall ?] Sears lived on Middle Street in 1748.
SETTON, Daniel, in 1731 had land on the east side of King Street.
SEXTON, George, of Rye, 'cordwinder,' sold his house and land in White Plains, 1735, to Jeremiah Fowler.
SEYMOUR, Drake, mentioned 1788-1813.
SHAW, John, witness in 1743. 'Shaw's field' adjoining Godfrey Hains' land on Budd's Neck, is mentioned 1760.
SLATER. Abraham is mentioned in 1730; John in 1733. John as early as 1758 was living on Hog-pen Ridge ; was alive in 1789. Henry was of the same locality in 1785, and William in 1796. The name is sometimes written Slaughter.
SMITH. I. Rev. John Smith, for nearly thirty years minister of the Presbyterian congregation of Rye and the White Plains, was the an- cestor of a numerous and respectable family in this county. Accord- ing to the inscription upon his tombstone in the burying-ground at White Plains, he was born in England, May 5, 1702. See notice of his life and labors, pp. 166, 330-335. The following particulars are gathered chiefly from family records. Dr. Smith married, May 6, 1724. Mehetabel, daughter of James and Mary Hooker, of Guilford, Conn., born May 1, 1704, died September 5, 1775, aged seventy-one years. Her father was a son of Rev. Samuel Hooker, and grandson of the famous Rev. Thomas Hooker. Dr. Smith died February 26, 1771, aged sixty-nine years. He had four sons: William Hooker, John, James, and Thomas ; and eight daughters : Mary, Susannah, Eliza- beth, Ann, Martha, Sarah, Mehetabel, and Abigail.
II. 1. William Hooker Smith, M. D., was the eldest son of the Rev. John Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Rye from 1742 to 1771. He was born March 23, 1725, and studied medicine probably under the direction of his father, who was a physician as well as a clergyman. Dr. W. H. Smith practised medicine as early as 1753 at Rye. He joined the Continental Army at an early period, and was ap- pointed assistant surgeon in the Pennsylvania line. From July 3, 1778, until the close of the war, he 'aeted as surgeon at the post of Wilkes- barre, Wyoming Valley, and was the only officer attached to that post during the war. The garrison consisted of two companies of Regulars, and the militia of the valley.' In view of his services during the war, the elaim of his descendants in 1837 to commutation on account of those
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services was favored by the committee of Congress on Revolutionary claims. December 22, 1837. (Resolutions, etc., relating to the Pay of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution. Washington : 1838. p. 355.) And in 1838, the heirs of William Hooker Smith, . who was a surgeon in the War of the Revolution,' obtained compensation from the United States government, ' for five years' full pay.' 'The heirs represented in the settlement were James Smith, William Smith, John Smith, and Susannah Gay.' (Information from Treasury Department.) These would appear to have been children of Dr. W. II. Smith. He married Sarah -. He had a daughter Mary, who married John Barker.
2. John Smith,2 second son of Rev. John Smith, born August 12, 1726; died at Guilford, September 24, 1729.
3. James Smith,2 third son, born September 11, 1739 ; died July 23, 1754.
4. Thomas Smith,2 fourth son, born March 7, 1741, lived in Green- burg, and left several children.
5. Mary,2 eldest daughter, born August 5, 1728; died in New York, August 28, 1729.
6. Susannah,2 second daughter, born October 5, 1729 ; died April 20, 1768.
7. Elizabeth,2 third daughter. born January 12, 1731 ; died February 28,1797.
8. Ann,2 fourth daughter, born September 26, 1732; died November 2, 1750.
9. Martha,2 fifth daughter, born November 11, 1734.
10. Sarah,2 sixth . daughter to ye Rev. Doctr John Smith,' born De- cember 26, 1736, married Reuben Wright, and . deptd this Life Sept ye 7th 1768 in ye 32ยช Year of her Age.' (W. P. Cem.)
11. Mehetabel,2 seventh daughter, born June 22. 1744, married Purdy, of Greenburg, and had two sons : James and Elisha.
12. Abigail.2 youngest daughter, born March 21. 1746, married Jacob Purdy, of White Plains, and died about twenty-five years ago. She had three sons : Henry. Jacob, and John ; and five daughters: Lavinia, married - Horton ; Susan, married - Hunt, whose son Jacob is still living at White Plains ; Winneford, married - Ferris: Abigail, -
married - Angevine ; and Mehetabel, married John Dusenbery. of Greenburg.
STEVENSON. John, executor with Samuel Purdy, of Joseph Budd's will, in 1722. (Rec., C. p. 62.) Benjamin, owned land in Harrison, 1737. Stephen, of Rye, had deceased in 1742. (Friends' Rec ) Na- thanael, mentioned 1744, sold land in Harrison, 1749, to JJames Steven- son, called esquire in 1745. By an execution on the lands, etc. of James Stevenson, in 1766, his farm of two hundred acres, on the cross- road from Harrison to King Street, was granted to Andrew Lyon. (D). p. 218.)
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STRINGHAM, Peter, witness in 1726; of Rye in 1730, when Peter Ferris of Westchester released to him all his claim to the tract of land known as Harrison's Purchase. (D. p. 119.)
SUTTON. Joseph, according to Mr. Bolton, a son of Joseph Sutton who removed from Massachusetts to Long Island. He lived on King Street, within the present bounds of North Castle, where his descend- ants the Misses Field now live. The house is said to have been built by Joseph as early as 1710. Thomas, mentioned 1718, owned lands on the south side of the road from the meeting-house to King Street in 1723. Joseph, junior, mentioned 1725, and Daniel, mentioned 1727, were probably his sons. John, witness in 1750, and William, 1771, were perhaps of this family. John, son of Benjamin, married Ann Marshall of Greenwich, eighteenth of second month, 1761. (Friends' Rec.)
TALLEDY, Stephen, was of Rye in 1718, when the proprietors of Peningo Neck ' for their goodwill to' him, give ' him 1 acre 1 rood north of Nathan Kniffen's field.' John Tallady, witness in 1740.
TAYLOR. Nathanael, witness in 1712; Moses in 1715. John, of East Chester, in 1715 bought a house and three acres in Rye from Rev. Chr. Bridge. John was of King Street in 1735-1743. In 1741 he sold to Samuel Wilson, junior, his farm of forty-seven acres, 'partly in Greenwich, Ct., but mostly in Rye.' He owned other lands ; part of which were sold in 1768 as 'the late John Taylor's estate.' Joshua, 1739-1751 ; and Henry, 1743, were brothers, perhaps sons of John.
TEBOWES, William, was of Rye in 1707.
THACKER [THATCHER ?], witness in 1739.
THOMAS. John, a son of Rev. John Thomas, missionary of the Gos- pel Propagation Society in Hempstead, L. I., removed to Rye as early as 1734, and in 1739, when he was called esquire, owned land in . Rye Woods' or Harrison, north of the cross-road to King Street. He was for many years one of the most influential men in this region, ' favoured with all the administration of all offices, civil and military, by the help of which,' says Mr. T. Wetmore in 1761, ' he has procured himself a large interest in the county.' He espoused the cause of his country upon the approach of the Revolution, and became particularly obnoxious to the enemy. (See an account of his services and sufferings, pp. 225, 252.) He died in prison in New York, May 2, 1777. Judge Thomas married Abigail, daughter of John Sands, of Sand Point, L. I., born January 1708, married February 19, 1729 ; died August 14, 1782. Their chil- dren were : Jolin, Thomas, William, Sibyl, Charity, Margaret, and Glori- anna.
II. 1. John, son of Judge Thomas, born February 3, 1732, was for some time sheriff of Westchester County. He married Phoebe Palmer, and had two sons, Edward and John.
2. Thomas, second son, born June 17, 1745, married Catharine Floyd
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of Mastic, L. I., born May 9, 1746 ; died January 15, 1825. Colonel, afterward Major-General Thomas, was a useful officer of the Continental Army. He was appointed colonel of a regiment of militia of West- chester County, formed by order of the New York Convention July 16, 1773, and ordered to repair immediately to Peekskill. (American Archives, fourth series, vol. i. p. 1406.) August 6, he wrote to Wash- ington, from Tarrytown, offering suggestions as to the mode of repell- ing the British ships. (Ibid. fifth series, vol. i. p. 791.) October 21. his regiment formed part of General Clinton's brigade at Peekskill. (Ibid. vol. ii. p. 1319.) December 26, he was ordered by Heath to re- pair to North Castle, ' to protect the well-affected.' (Ibid. vol. iii. p. 1431.) In 1777 he was taken prisoner, and detained for some time. (See pp. 256, 373.) He died May 29, 1824. He had four children : Charles Floyd, died January 3, 1802, in his twenty-fourth year ; Glori- anna, died young ; Nancy, died February 1, 1795, aged nineteen ; and Catharine.
3. William. third son, died young.
4. Sibyl, eldest daughter, born January 15, 1730, married Abram Field.
5. Charity, second daughter, born July 3, 1734, married James Ferris, and had a son George, and a daughter Abigail.
6. Margaret, third daughter, born August 1, 1738, married Charles Floyd.
7. Glorianna, fourth daughter, born September 27, 1740, married James Franklin.
III. 1. Edward, son of John.2 surrogate of Westchester County, mar- ried Anne Oakley. He died May 2, 1806, aged forty-four. She died May 12, 1807, aged forty-five. They had one son, William, who died August 22, 1836, aged thirty-seven.
2. John, son of John,2 died January 6, 1835. Children : Benjamin. who died September 16, 1813 ; John ; Sophia, married - Deighton, M. D .; and Catharine, married O. Demilt.
3. George, son of James Ferris and Charity Thomas, married Post, and had a son Thomas, ' heir of the Thomas property. Harrison.'
4. Abigail, daughter of James Ferris and Charity Thomas, married David Harrison, and had a son David Harrison, of New Rochelle. (Pedigree, and account in Bolton's History of Westchester County, vol. i. pp. 254-258.)
THOMPSON, James, witness in 1770.
TILFORD. Archibald in 1734 had land in the lower part of Harri- son. In 1743, John Budd sold to Archibald Telford of Rye eighteen acres, ' on the westerly side of the West Chester old path so called.' In 1745 he bought ten acres adjoining this. He had a son Archibald, junior, mentioned 1769, when the father was still living. The son was living in 1795. Charles Tilford lived on Rye Neck, 1795-1808. The
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Tilford house stood a little south of Mr. Thomas Haviland's present house, close to the post-road.
TITUS, Silas, in 1720 sold a tract of one hundred and seventy acres in Harrison to Thomas Tredwell of Hempstead.
TOMPKINS, John, was here in 1731. He owned a house and eight acres in Rye, on the west side of ' the country road from Yorck to Boston.' He had deceased in 1741.
TOTTEN, Peter, senior, witness in 1739. In Gaine's 'New York Ga- zette,' February 14, 1774, the farm of one hundred and thirteen acres, ' formerly belonging to Peter Totten, Sr., deceased, now in the tenure of David Totten,' is offered for sale. 'It lays binding on King Street, which runs from the Saw-Pit direct to North Castle, about four miles from the Saw-Pit landing, in the township of Rye.' Robert and James Totten, September 19, 1776, apply to the New York Convention for directions. They have part in a brig lying in Saw Pit Creek, and have applied to the Committee of Safety for a permit to have her loaded at Philadelphia. The committee have refused to grant such a permit, ' lest she may go over to the enemy.' (American Archives, fifth series, vol. ii. p. 401.) Samuel in 1797 was living on the upper part of King Street.' Mentioned until 1806.
TREDWELL. Thomas, of Hempstead in 1720, had deceased in 1722. His land in the upper part of Harrison, three hundred and twenty-one and one half acres, was conveyed in 1722 by his eldest son, John of Hempstead, to the younger sons, Thomas and Timothy. Thomas was living in the Purchase, 1757. Samuel was here in 1723 ; of Harrison's Purchase in 1732; died between 1747-1749. Joseph, junior, men- tioned 1728.
Thomas Star Tredwell in 1737 bought land in Harrison near Rye Ponds from Timothy Tredwell.
TURNER, John, in 1702 bought Jonathan Vowles' right in the White Plains purchase ; and in 1703 bought a ' lotment' of seven acres there from Deliverance Brown, senior. He was living there in 1749.
VARNELL, John, witness in 1740.
VAIL. John 'Veal' of Rye, 1708-1709, bought land in the White Plains purchase. Ruth, 'of Amboy,' 1710, sold land in that purchase. Aaron, of Rye, 1745, bought of Benjamin Birdsall, ninety acres in Har- rison, west of Rye Pond. Aster (?) Veal is mentioned in the deed. Aaron sold this land in 1750 to Jacob Griffin. Thomas, 1764-1771, was living in the 'upper part' of Harrison. Phoebe, of Rye, daughter of Thomas Vail, married Josiah Quimby, fifteenth of eighth month, 1764. (Friends' Rec.) Thomas, junior, of West Chester, son of Thomas, mar- ried Sarah Carpenter, twelfth of sixth month, 1767. (Ibid.)
VICKERS, Jonathan F. See page 172.
VIRDINE [Worden ?], Cornelius, witness in 1740-1741 ; Mary in 1746. WALTON, Rev. John. See page 322.
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WARNER, Samuel, witness in 1739.
WEEDEN. William. of White Plains in 1737 ; wife, Mary. (New York Gazette, March 28, 1737.) Thomas, of IIarrison, in 1739-1742, bought sixty-five acres near the meeting-house, from Benjamin Birdsall and James Graham. Jane, widow of Thomas, in 1748, sold to ' James Crum- well, of Greenwich,' her husband's plantation ; one tract . northward of frind's meeting house, and north of the road'; another, south of the road and north of the meeting-house. (Rec., C. 227-230.)
WEEKS, Abel, was here in 1724. Joseph, of White Plains, in 1752 bought Elisha Merritt's house and land there. Elijah, mentioned in 1771.
WETMORE, Rev. James ; see page 314. He ' was the third son of Izrahiah Whitmore, and Rachel Stow,' and grandson of Thomas Wet- more, a native of England, one of the first settlers of Middletown, Connectient. James was born at Middletown, December 31, 1695 (O. S.) ; educated at the Saybrook Academy, and at Yale College, where he took the degree of B. A., September 1714, and that of M. A., September 1717. He was ordained to the ministry of the Gospel, November 1718, as first pastor of the Congregational Church of North Haven, where he continued his labors for about four years. Having arrived at the belief that his ordination was not valid, he resigned his charge, and in 1723 went to England, where he was ordained . deacon' and . priest ' of the Church of England. While in London he received from the ' Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts' the appointment of catechist to Trinity Church, New York, and assist- ant to the rector of that church. He returned to America, and in June 1726 was inducted as rector of the parish of Rye, and next year was appointed missionary of the Gospel Propagation Society to this place. Here he remained until his death, May 15, 1760. Mr. Wet- more married Anna Dwight; she died February 28, 1771. They had two sons : Timothy and James; and four daughters: Alethea, mar- ried Rev. Joseph Lamson ; Anna, married Gilbert Brundage ; Charity, married Joseph Purdy ; Esther, married first, David Brown, secondly, Jesse Hunt, Esq.
II. 1. James (see page 177), eldest * son of Rev. James Wetmore, born in Rye, December 19, 1727, married Elizabeth Abrahams, born March 16, 1730. Children : Abraham, John, Izrahiah. James, David, Josiah, Caleb, Elizabeth, Susannah, Charity. Alethea, Esther. . Ile was for many years an influential citizen of Westchester Co. He remained loyal to the Crown during the Revolution. He removed with his family to New Brunswick in 1783, and settled at the mouth of the St. John's River,' and soon after removed to Hammond River, distant about twenty miles from St. John's, where he resided till his death. His wife survived him seven years. (Wetmore Memorial.)
* So considered by the editor of The Wetmore Family, for reasons which seem suf- ficient. Mr. Bolton speaks of him as the second son of Rev. James Wetmore.
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2. Timothy (see page 172), second son of Rev. James Wetmore, married first, October 21, 1756, Jane Haviland, of Rye. Children : James, Janc, Anna, Timothy, Fletcher, Thomas, Luther, Theodore, Robert Griffith. Married, secondly, Rachel, widow of Benjamin Ogden, of New York ; no issue. He was a highly respectable and influential citizen of Westchester County ; ' was among the first graduates of Kings, now Columbia College, in the city of New York, 1758. He first studied for the ministry, but circumstances prevented his going to England for ordination. Subsequently he turned his attention to the study of the law, and became a practitioner of considerable importance. In 1753-1734, he was appointed by the Society as teacher for the parish of Rye.' (See pp. 175, 177.) ' At the close of the war (1783) he removed to Nova Scotia, where he practised his profession for many years, and held numerous offices of public trust.' His wife died in New York, August 5, 1777. Mr. Wetmore returned from New Brunswick in 1800, and took up his residence in New York, where he died, March 1820, aged eighty-three or eighty-five years. (Wetmore Memorial.)
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