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Leonard Lispenard, 3d, was also engaged in one of the breweries on the Greenwich road, perhaps in partnership with his father. He went to Eng- land shortly after the peace in 1783, and remained some years in London with the Barclays, relatives of his mother, the founders of the famous breweries of that city bearing their name. One purpose of this visit may have been the better to fit himself for the management of a business of this kind on his return. In 1802 Leonard Lispenard, 3d, formed a partnership with Bernard Hart, under the firm of " Lispenard & Hart." Mr. Hart was one of the leading Jewish merchants at the close of the last century. The business of the house was partly as auctioneers, added to which was a large commission business. They were originally located at 89 Water Street, but in 1806 moved to 141 Pearl Street, where they remained until the dissolution of the partnership in 1813. Mr. Lispenard died in 1816.
Leonard Lispenard, 3d, married Anna Dorothea, daughter of Mr. Theophylact Bache, a distinguished merchant and Fifth President of the Chamber of Commerce. They were cousins also, their mothers being both daughters of Andrew Barclay. Their issue were, Ist, Theophylact Bache Lispenard, who settled in Montreal, married a Canadian lady, and died in 1832, leaving three daughters ; 2d, Sarah, still living and unmarried ; 3d, Anthony, died unmarried ; 4th, Helen, married to Major Nicholson, Pay- master in the United States Marine Corps, and the mother of the present Captain Somerville Nicholson, of the United States Navy, and Captain Augustus Nicholson, of the United States Marine Corps, as also of other children, daughters.
Thus to-day, while the honored name of Lispenard is no longer borne by any male descendant of this once powerful family, there are many repre- sentatives by the female line, in the fifth and sixth generations from the old Huguenot refugee, in the families of Stewart, Webb, Nicholson, Livingston, LeRoy, and Winthrop .- Communicated by Lispenard Stewart, Esq., of New York.
LIVINGSTON PHILIP .- The family of Livingston in America is descended from John Livingston, a Scotch clergyman of the parish of Ancram, Roxburghshire, Scotland. His son, Robert, emigrated to America about the year 1676, and shortly after married Alida, daughter of Philip Pieterse Schuyler, and widow of the Patron Nicholas Van Renselaer. He soon acquired a large landed estate by purchase from the Indians, which was incorporated into the manor of Livingston by patent dated 22d July, 1686. This grant was confirmed in 1715, and to it was added the privilege of a "close-borough ;" that is, of a right to the tenants of electing a repre- sentative to the General Assembly. Philip, the second son, succeeded to the estate on the death of the eldest brother, and is known as the second proprietor of the manor. He married Catharine, daughter of Captain Peter Van Brugh, of Albany.
PHILIP LIVINGSTON, grandson of Robert Ist, and son of Philip Living- ston 2d (proprietor), and Catharine Van Brugh, was born at Albany on the
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15th January, 1716. He graduated from Yale College in the year 1737, and soon after, settling in New York, established himself in business and rapidly acquired a large fortune. His place of business was on Burnet's Key. An advertisement of the "Brigantine Nebuchadnezar, Captain Peter Corne, for London, (for freight or passage, agree with Philip Livingston, Junior,)" ap- pears in " Bradford's New York Gazette, revived in the New York Post Boy," 2d January, 1748. During the French war he was extensively engaged in privateering. He appears as an applicant for commissions for captain of the Schooner Albany, of 8 guns, in 1757 ; of the Ship Tartar, 16 guns, and Amherst, 12 guns, in 1758. He seems early to have turned his attention to public affairs, in which the family of Livingston was deeply interested.
In 1754 he was elected Alderman for the East Ward, and held this office until 1762. He was a member of the Assembly from 1759 to 1769, and du- ring his last term of office was Speaker of the House. He was a member of the First and Second Continental Congress, elected in 1774 and 1775, and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was also a member of the Convention which met at Kingston to form a Constitution for the State of New York in 1777. He was a Representative in Congress at the time of his death, which occurred at York, Pennsylvania, on the 12th June, 1771. His great patriotism was shown by the sale of part of his pri- vate property to support the public credit.
LIVINGSTON ROBERT CAMBRIDGE .- The son of Robert, third proprietor of the manor of Livingston, and Mrs. Gertrude Schuyler, his sec- ond wife. He took his middle name as a distinction, from his having grad- uated from Cambridge University, England, where he was a fellow-student with Bishop Prevoost, afterwards Chaplain to the Senate of the United States.
In September, 1775, having informed the Committee of Safety of "his intention to go to Britain for the recovery of his health, at present very much impaired," he received a permission attested by the officers of the commit- tee : "The Committee, firmly persuaded of his attachment to the liberties of this country, approve of his intended voyage, wish him the restoration of his health and a happy return to his native country." He married Alice, daughter of John Swift, Esq., of Pennsylvania. He died at Hudson, in Sep- tember, 1794, at the age of fifty-three years. His descendants are in the families of Robert Swift, John S. and James Duane Livingston. His New York residence was at 13 Dock Street.
LIVINGSTON ROBERT GILBERT, JR .- The son of Robert Gil- bert Livingston and Catharine McPheadres. His sisters, Helen and Cath- arine, were married to Samuel Hake and John Reade ; both of whom were merchants of New York. In 1771 he was engaged in the dry goods trade in Dock Street, "next door to Messrs. Hugh & Alexander Wallace, near the Coffee House." In July, 1773, he announced that he had " declined trade and intended leaving the city." On the 2d August, 1776, he addressed to the Provincial Congress a complaint that Mr. Rutgers had refused to receive payment for principal and interest due upon a bond in Continental cur- rency, and stated that he " had received lately very large sums in that way with as great readiness as he would gold and silver." He resided subse- quently at Redhook, on the Hudson. After the War his New York resi- dence was in the " Bowerie Lane."
LOW ISAAC .- He was seventh President of the Chamber of Com- merce. For sketch of his life see page 69, ante.
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LOWTHER WILLIAM .- In 1775 he was owner of the sloop Francis, which was permitted to sail with her cargo for the Carolinas by the Com- mittee of Safety. He remained in New York. After the War he was in business at 78 Cherry Street.
LUDLOW DANIEL .- The Ludlows of New York are all descended from Gabriel Ludlow, who emigrated to this country from England towards the close of the seventeenth century, and married Sarah Hanmer, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Hanmer. His son Gabriel married, first, Frances Dun- can, and afterwards his cousin, Elizabeth Crommelin.
DANIEL LUDLOW was the third son of Gabriel Ludlow and Elizabeth Crom- melin, and was born about the year 1750. He followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, and early devoted himself to commerce. A part of his mercantile training he received at Amsterdam, in the counting-house of the great bankers, his relatives, Daniel Crommelin & Son.
In 1773 (the date of the bond is given as of September 13th, 1773), he married Arabella Duncan, daughter of Mr. Thomas Duncan. A few years later MR. LUDLOW entered into partnership with Mr. Edward Goold, and transacted a general importing business at No. 47 Wall Street. This con- nection was terminated about 1790, and MR. LUDLOW continued business under his own name at 38 Dock Street, his residence being at No. 48 Wall. In 1793 his counting-house was at 42 Wall Street, and in 1795 at 51 Wall, and the title of his firm, Daniel Ludlow & Co.
MR. LUDLOW visited Europe to extend the business of his house, and it is related of him that he was present in Paris at the execution of Lewis XVI. and Marie Antoinette. On his return to this country he took his son Daniel Ludlow, Jr., into partnership. The house was engaged in general trade. They did an extensive business with the East Indies, and were heavy underwriters.
The country-seat of MR. LUDLOW was at Baretto's Point, on the East River, from which it was his habit to drive into town four-in-hand in the summer season. . He died in New York about 1813. The name of Lud- low, in his branch, is continued by the children of his son, Dr. Edward G. Ludlow, of New York.
LUDLOW GABRIEL H .- Of the firm of " Ludlow & Hoffman," auc- tioneers. He was one of the Committee of Correspondence of Fifty-one in 1774, and also a member of the Committee of One Hundred which assumed charge of the city in May, 1775. His sympathies were with the Royal cause, however, and he remained in the city during the War. He was one of the Vestry appointed by General Robertson, in 1778, to look to the poor. He married Ann Williams in March, 1771. His residence in 1780 was at No. II Wall Street. In 1783 he was in partnership with Mr. Shaw in the importa- tion of wines - the style of the house being Ludlow & Shaw. In 1787 his place of business was at 50 Smith Street. In 1789 his widow resided at 16 Little Queen Street.
LUDLOW GEORGE W .- He is mentioned by John Moore as a mem- ber of the Social Club which met in New York during the War. He says of him that he was loyal to the Crown, but remained on Long Island in quiet.
LYNSEN ABRAHAM .- The son of Abraham Lynsen, of New York. In 1757 he married Magdalen Beekman, and soon after appears to have made a partnership with some one of his wife's family under the name of
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Beekman & Lynsen. This connection was dissolved in 1763, and for a time MR. LYNSEN carried on his business, which was chiefly with the West Indies, under his own name. Later he formed a partnership with Thomas William Moore in the Vendue business, as auctioneering was called in that day. He died before 1783. The death of his widow is thus recorded in Gaine's New York Gazette of 29th September, 1783 : "the 2d instant died at Verplanck's Point, in the County of Westchester, in this Province, Mrs. Magdalen Lynsen, Relict of MR. ABRAHAM LYNSEN, formerly of this place, Merchant."
McADAM JOHN LOUDON .- He was distinguished as the inventor of the MacAdamised stone-road. He was born in Scotland in 1756, and emigrated to America shortly before the Revolution, his uncle being estab- lished in business in New York. In 1778 he married Gloriana Margaretta, daughter of William Nicoll, by whom he had several children. After her death he married Anne Charlotte, daughter of John Peter Delancy, of Marmaroneck, and great niece of Judge Thomas Jones, who had adopted her as his daughter. MR. MCADAM was engaged as agent for the sale of British prizes, and accumulated some property, but returned to England at the close of the War with but little of his fortune. The name of his house was Mc- Adam, Watson & Co. For his discovery in road-making the British Gov- ernment gave him £10,000, and offered him Knighthood, which he declined. The honor was then conferred on his son, James Nicoll McAdam. MR. MCADAM died at Moffat, County of Dumfries, in 1836, aged eighty. His widow, Anne Charlotte, died at Hoddeson, Hertfordshire, England, May, 1852.
McADAM WILLIAM .- He was in business near the New Dutch Church in 1766, where he advertised for sale "Iron-bound Butts and Pun- cheons, genuine Batavia Arrack in Bottles, Frontiniack, Priniack and Ma- deira," etc. He was one of the Committee of Correspondence of Fifty-one, but later took part with the Crown. His estate was confiscated. He died in New York on the Ist day of October, 1779.
McCORMICK DANIEL .- He was of the house of Moore, Lynsen & Co., auctioneers. At a later period he carried on the same business alone. He made a large fortune in the sale of prizes during the War. His vendue store was in Wall Street. He was a bachelor, noted for his hospitality. Of a fine afternoon he would sit with his friends upon the stoop of his house, 39 Wall Street, for hours. Notwithstanding his conviviality, he is described as a man of strict religious principles, and was a member of the First Pres- byterian Church in Wall Street.
McDAVITT PATRICK .- He was of the firm of Fargie & McDavitt, vendue masters, which dissolved on 6th November, 1766. In 1771 he was importing English and India goods at his store near the Fly Market. He remained in the city during the War, and carried on an extensive auction business under his own name in Queen Street.
McDONALD ALEXANDER .- He was a sea-captain. On the Ist October, 1764, he married Susannah Myers. In 1771 his store was in King Street, where he bartered Madeira wine for country produce, and gave no- tice that " the one article is to be received when the other is delivered."
He was charged, 14th June, 1775, in Provincial Congress, "with concert- ing measures and employing agents to enlist men, to be employed against
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the liberties of America." A committee was sent to Staten Island to arrest him and search his house, but they reported that he had gone to Boston, and that they found " no papers relating to the raising of troops."
McEVERS CHARLES .- The brother of James McEvers, who de- clined to distribute the Stamps as Stamp Officer, in 1765. Upon his brother's death, in 1768, he succeeded to his business. He had previously been established, first near the Meal Market, where he sold dry goods, teas, and Irish goods as early as 1759, and later in Dock Street. One of the Committee of Correspondence in 1774, his statement that he wished the disavowal of the Meeting in the Fields printed, that it might go to England in the Packet, was the cause of a serious division among its members. One of the Committee, in a handbill in his defence, calls him "one of the most amiable characters among us." He remained in the city during the War, and was one of the addressers of Lord and General Howe in the fall of 1776, when the British troops entered the city. His wife, Mary, died at Jamaica, Long Island, 23d December, 1778. He died in New York, Sun- day, September 4, 1808, aged sixty-nine years, and was buried from No. 34 Wall Street, the house of his son, Charles McEvers, Jr. Charles McEvers, Jr., married Mary, daughter of Theophylact Bache, in 1787, and after her death, Margaret Cooper. He was of the famous house of LeRoy Bayard and McEvers.
McEVERS JAMES .- He was largely engaged in the importation of European and India goods at Hanover Square about the middle of the last century. The family were well established in New York at that period. Besides his brother Charles, mention is made, in Parker's Post Boy of July 22, 1752, of John and William McEvers.
On the passage of the Stamp Act, JAMES McEVERS was appointed Stamp Distributor for New York and accredited by Act of Parliament. In August, 1765, he found that the sentiment of the people was so strongly opposed to the Act that he resigned his office. On the 26th August he wrote to Jared Ingersoll, who had been appointed " Stamp Master " for Con- necticut, asking what course he intended to pursue. It appears from the correspondence that neither of them were in favor of the Act. Ingersoll replied, " the truth is that I love the Stamp Act about as little as you do." The people, however, were not satisfied, and the Stamps having arrived, and it being understood that a commission had been received by McEVERS, he was waited on by Isaac Sears and Joseph Allicocke in behalf of the Sons of Liberty, and signed a public renunciation of the office on the 2d Decem- ber, 1765, which was published in the newspapers of the day.
One of the earliest members of the Chamber, illness prevented his taking his seat. He died in New York City, 8th September, 1768. His executors were Elizabeth McEvers, Charles McEvers his brother, and Charles William Apthorpe.
MCKENZIE JOHN .- He is said by Sabine to have been a Captain, and to have commanded a vessel engaged under the royal flag in the trans- portation of supplies for the British troops. " He removed to Shelburne, Nova Scotia, at the peace, and died at Liverpool, in that Province, in 1825." He left several children.
MARSTON THOMAS .- This family, now extinct in the male line in this city, was among the most distinguished of the colonial period. He was one of the earliest members of the Chamber. In 1759 (the date of the
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bond is given as February 7th), he married Cornelia, daughter of Leonard Lispenard. She died on the 18th November, 1775. His eldest daughter married Francis Bayard Winthrop, in April, 1779. He was one of the Committee of One Hundred raised in 1775, but his name does not again appear in the history of the time. His portrait, taken in 1798, is No. 74 of the St. Memin collection. He died in New York on the 11th January, 1814, in the 75th year of his age.
MILLER JOHN .- He was one of the addressers of Lord and General Howe in October, 1776, and remained in the city during the War. His place of business was in 1782 at No. 14 Water Street, where he sold a variety of goods, chiefly provisions.
MILLER THOMAS, CAPTAIN .- One of the most noted Captains in the London trade. He commanded the ship Britannia, which "arrived on Monday evening (28th May, 1770), in 6 weeks from the Downs." She " brought over the Statues of His Majesty and Mr. Pitt," which had been ordered by the Assembly of the Colony in gratitude for the repeal of the Stamp Act. He remained loyal to the Crown. He was an addresser of Lord Howe in 1776, and sailed for England with his family in the fleet which took over Governor Tryon, in September, 1780. He married Martha Willett, in October, 1756.
MOORE JOHN .- In 1762 he kept the "compleat Soap and Candle Store and sold coffee and tobacco in the house where the late David Fleming lived, between the Market and Burling Slip." He is presumed to be the JOHN MOORE who married Elizabeth Taylor, in 1759. He formed a partnership later with Andrew Kerr, and carried on the ship chandlery business from their store in Wall Street. A notice of his death appears in Gaine's New York Gazette : "Last Monday night, December 31, 1781, died MR. JOHN MOORE, merchant of this city in partnership with Mr. Kerr ; as he possessed the general esteem of mankind, from the excellent qualities of his heart and the urbanity of his manners, his death is most sincerely regretted by an extensive and a very genteel acquaintance."
MOORE THOMAS WILLIAM .- He was the seventh child of Judge William Moore, of Moore Hall, Pennsylvania, and was born the 17th June, 1735.
Judge William Moore was a son of John Moore, who died Collector of the Port of Philadelphia in 1732, and who was the first of this branch of the family who emigrated to this country from England. He first estab- lished himself at Charleston, South Carolina, then an important commercial city, and his son, John Moore, was there born as early as 1686.
The first record of the presence of THOMAS W. MOORE in New York is to be found in the recorded publishment of his marriage with Anne Ascough, 6th July, 1761, at which period he had just entered on his 27th year. This lady was the widow of Dr. Richard Ascough, a surgeon in the British army resident in New York in the middle of the last century. In 1762 MR. MOORE appears to have been engaged in mercantile business for his own account. In Gaine's Mercury of 23d August of that year he advertises "Sugar by THOMAS WILLIAM MOORE at his store in King's Street, next door to James Duane, Esq."
In 1768, on the 4th October, he was admitted to membership in the Chamber of Commerce, and in the course of the next year, 1769, he was made a freeman of the city under the appellation of Gentleman.
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He was of the firm of Moore & Lynsen, afterwards Moore, Lynsen & Co., auctioneers, Daniel McCormick having been admitted to the firm.
MR. MOORE seems never to have hesitated in his allegiance to the Crown. When the British army arrived from Halifax, in 1776, he immedi- ately entered the service. When General Oliver DeLancey raised his Loyal Brigade, he offered Captains' and subordinate commissions to all well recommended characters who should engage a company of seventy men. In the 2d Battalion of this Brigade, commanded by Colonel George Brew- erton, MR. MOORE enlisted as Captain. Notwithstanding the inducements held out by General DeLancey, his Brigade filled up but slowly, and the three Battalions did not number over seven hundred men in 1778 instead of the fifteen hundred required to fill his ranks. Towards the close of the year 1778 the large force which had been gathering in New York, to the great solicitude of Washington and the colonists, was sent out on various expeditions. About the end of November a body of troops under Lieuten- ant-Colonel Campbell sailed for Georgia in the squadron of Commodore Hyde Parker. The object of this expedition was to attack Georgia from the seaboard, while General Prevost should make a flank attack on the banks of the Savannah River.
CAPTAIN MOORE sailed with his command in this expedition, and was present at the taking of Savannah at the end of December of that year. After the capture of the town Colonel Campbell appointed MOORE Barrack Master to the Garrison.
General Prevost, arriving shortly after, assumed the general command, and detached Colonel Campbell against Augusta. CAPTAIN MOORE re- mained in Savannah as Provincial Aid-de-Camp to General Prevost, and took part in the defence of the city in October of the succeeding year, 1779, during the memorable siege by the Americans under Major-General Lincoln and the French under Admiral D'Estaing, one of the most hotly contested actions of the War, from which, after a spirited assault led in person by their commanders, the allies were forced to retreat, with a large loss of offi- cers and men, including the gallant Count Pulaski.
On the evacuation of Savannah by the British troops, CAPTAIN MOORE returned to New York. Whether he continued in the corps of loyalists commanded by DeLancey, which gave so much annoyance to the American forces and scourged the counties of Westchester, New York, and Long Island, in 1781, does not appear.
Upon the entry of the troops under Washington, in 1783, CAPTAIN MOORE withdrew to Nova Scotia ; thence he crossed the Atlantic to Eng- land, and was rewarded by the Government for his services with the appointment of Consul to Rhode Island and Connecticut. A disagreement taking place between the Governor of Rhode Island and MR. MOORE, his exequatur was withdrawn by President Washington. After again twice crossing the Atlantic, he died in England.
By his wife, the widow of Dr. Ascough, MR. MOORE had several children. Thomas William Moore, his son, was well known and greatly esteemed in this city, and was for many years the Agent of the British Packets at New York. He was celebrated for his genial and generous hospitality. He was twice married, first to Mary, daughter of George Gibbs, Esq., of New- port, Rhode Island, who died in 1813, secondly to Miss Bibby, of New York, who still survives him. Their son, Thomas Bibby Moore, served gal- lantly in the U. S. Cavalry during the recent War. The other children of CAPTAIN MOORE were William Moore, and a daughter who married first Mr. Campbell, and later became the wife of Lieutenant, afterwards Captain, Jones, of the British Navy, a distinguished officer.
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The widow of CAPTAIN MOORE, after the death of her husband in Eng- land, resided and died in Brooklyn, Long Island .- Chiefly contributed by T. W. C. Moore, Esq., of New York.
MURRAY JOHN .- The son of John Murray. He was of Scotch parentage, born in the town of Swataca, Pennsylvania, in 1737. Early in life he came to New York City and entered the counting-house or store of an older brother, Robert, with whom he was at a later period associated in partnership under the name of ROBERT & JOHN MURRAY. The name was later continued under the styles of JOHN MURRAY, JOHN MURRAY & SON, and JOHN MURRAY & SONS. He was a man of quiet and unobtrusive man- ners, and plain, simple habits, particularly averse to display of any kind ; as a citizen, among the foremost in the support of all the religious and philan- thropic institutions of the day ; in his religious belief a Presbyterian, and for many years an elder in Dr. Rodgers' Church. As a business man he was comprehensive in his views, of strict integrity, and successful. He took no prominent part in public affairs, and is not known ever to have held any office. In his political opinions he was a Federalist, and among his intimate friends were Rufus King and Alexander Hamilton. During the later years of his life MR. MURRAY was much engaged in acting as a ref- eree and arbitrator in cases of mercantile differences, and an appeal was rarely taken from his decision. He was President of the Chamber of Com- merce from 1798 to 1806.
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