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Sasnalo or Sigewalo HI was a witness to a charter of Bald- win, Bishop of Tourney 1087; appears in the history of the Normans. The Shirley family bearing the arms of Ridel descend from him. Descendants of Bathet or Baset, duke of the Loire, who accompanied Onilly Basset and Normanville in 912 have married in the family ; also Thomas, sixth Baron of Groby, mar- ried Elizabeth, first and co-heir of Sir Baldwin Frevile, Lord of Tamworth, in right of his wife-he d. 35th of Henry VI; their descendants are known as Ferrars of Tamworth, Anne of the eleventh generation brought Tamworth Castle, in marriage to Robert Shirley, the fourteenth Baron of Ferrars, of Chartley, who by the marriage of Jolm Devereux to Cecil Bourchier
Rufus G. Shirley.
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brought the Baronies of Bour and Loraine, in the eight previous generation.
The manor is in Lower Eatington, a town abont mid- way between the Vale of Redhorse and the plains of Eve- sham, betwixt the villages of Hawford and Butlers-Marston, four miles distant from Stratford-on-Avon. The church and manor-honse are built on the northeastern bank of the river Stour, the dividing line between the counties of Warwick and Worcester and the parishes of Eatington and Tredington.
His son Fulcher held land there; dead 1169 (Temp. Henry 11). The grandson, Sewallis de Seyrle, Lord of Eatington, living 1192, married Matilda, daughter of Ridel of Haloughton, county Berb., living 1192. (3-4 Rich. I.) They had Henry, Lord of Eatington, 1205, married , and their son, Sir Sewallis de Eatington, Knt., living 1251 (Temp. Henry IH), married Isabel, daughter of Robert Meysnyll, of " Dalby in the Woulds in Leicestershire." Their only son, Sir James de Eatendon, living 1278 (6-7 Edward I), being Lord of Sirlai, county Derby (Temp. Henry III), adopted the name Shirley (derived from the Saxon and signifying a clear place) ; married Agnes de Waunton.
Their first son, Sir Ralph Shirley, Knt., Lord of Eatington, ob. 1326, sheriff of Derby and Nottingham 1279, had the custody of Salop, Stafford and Shrewsbury Castle, 1298; governor of Horston Castle, county of Derby, 1315; married Margaret, daughter and coheir of Walter de Waldershef; constituted in the 5th of Edward II, governor of the Castle of Honor. of High Peak. in Derbyshire; and their son, Thomas Shirley, K'nt., Lord of Eatington, dead 1363 (35-36 Edward HID), married Isabell, daughter of Ralph Bassett, of Drayton, and sister of the last baron.
Their only son, Sir Hugh Shirley. Lord of Eatington, Mas-
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ter of the King's Hawks, Chief Warden of Hingham, Ferrers Park. county Northampton, and Constable of Donnington Castle 1399, slain ex parte regis, in the battle of Shrewsbury, July 12, 1403; married Beatrice, daughter of Sir Peter Braose, of Wis- ton. in Sussex, and tenth in descent from William de Braose, Lord of the Castle of Bramber. 1085-6.
Their son. Ralph Shirley, Knt., of Eatington, married Joan (Joyce), daughter of Thomas Bassett, of Brailesford, county of Derby. Esq., and Margaret Mering, and ninth in descent from Ralph Bassett ( Temp. Henry I).
Their son, Ralph Shirley, Esq., Lord of Eatington, ob. 1466, sheriff of Nottingham and Derby, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Staunton, of "Staunton Harolde, " 1423, and twelfth in descent from Alan de Lecha, who held a land grant before 1141. Their son, John Shirley. Esq., Lord of Eatington, ob. 1486 (Temp. Henry VII), married Elianor, daughter of Lord Hugh Willoughby, of Middleton, county of Warwick, Knt. Their first son, Sir Ralph Shirley, Knt., of Banneret 1487. oh. January 6, 1516, buried in the chapel of St. Katharine, within the abbey church of Gerondon, married, fourth wife, Jane, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Sheffield, of Chilwell, county of Nottingham, Knt. Their only son, Francis Shirley, of Stanaton Harolde, Esq., Lord of Eatington, n. January 26, 1515, ob. An- gust, 1570-1, married 1535, Dorothy, daughter of his guardian, Sir John Gifford, of Chillington, county Stafford, Knt, (widow of John Congreve, of Streeton, Staffordshire, England). They resided at Manor of Brailesford, Derbyshire (Temp. Edward VI). "Indenture of the 22nd of March, Sth Eliz. 1566"-"the now mancion howse of Franeis Shirley of Staunton Harolde"- "it had two turrets and gothick gates at its entrance impressive and gloomy in appearance." Their eldest son, John Shirley, Esq., born at Staunton Harolde, 1535 (27 Henry VIII), "in.
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structed in his youth" "in all manner of good literature, virtue and military discipline, by the most knowing and excellent mas- ters. of his time in which he profited so much, that he drew ad- miration, from all that ever saw him; who all praised him, for the sweet candor of his life and rare acuteness of his wit"; ob. September 12, 1570, married, 1556, Jane, daughter of Thomas, Lord Lovett, of Astwell, county Northampton, and thirteenth in deseent from William Lovett, of Rhyston.
Their son, Sir George Shirley, Bart., Lord of Eatington, n. April 23, 1559. ob. April 27, 1622, buried at Breedon, on the Hill, county Leicester, married, 1587, Frances, daughter of Henry, Lord Berkeley, ob. December 29, 1595.
Their eldest son. Sir Henry Shirley, Bart., Lord of Eating- ton, n. 1588, ob. February 8, 1632, married, August 1, 1651, Lady Dorothy, youngest daughter of Sir Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, and "favorite of Queen Elizabeth and great- great-granddaughter of the Honorable Walter Devereux, of the Kings mest noble order of ve garter, knight viconte Hereford Lord Ferrers of Chartley" (and Lady Mary. daughter of Lord Thomas, Marquis Dorsett). and eighteenth in descent from John de Ebroieis. At the Lord Deputies coming to London, he sol- emnly caused my Lords' ( Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex) ". Patent of Earl Marshall of the countrey of F. fernes ( Feney) "to be red and published and invested my Lord in his office and "it is greatlie to be thought that my lord shall have com'odtie "by that countrey --- but that I referre to further triall Exitys "ceta "; from original letter in possession of Lord Bagot.
Their son, Sir Robert Shirley. Bart .. Lord of Eatington. n. 1625, ob. November 16, 1656, married. 1646, Katharine, dangh- tor of Sir Humphrey Okeover. of Okeover. county Stafford. Esq .. ob. November 18, 1672. Above the entrance to the beautiful church of Holy Trinity at Staunton Harold is a tablet of white
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marble. over which are the arms of Shirley, impaling Okeover. with their erests carved in stone, and on either side a large figure of an angel; on the tablet is the following inscription :
In the year 1653 when all things Saered were throughout ve nation Either demolished or profaned. Sr. Robert Shirley Barronet, Founded this church. Whose singular praise it is, to hane done the best things in ye worst times. and hoped them in the most callamitous.
The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.
Beneath the battlements of the chancel are also these words carved in large capital letters :
SIR ROBERT SHIRLEY, BARONET, FOUNDER OF THIS CHURCH. ON WHOSE SOVL GOD HAVE MERCY.
Their third son, Robert Shirley, married, October 2, 1693, Elizabeth Washington (eighth in descent from John Washing- ton, of Whitfield county Lancaster. He died at Bath, and was buried in the church of Staunton Harold; in the south aisle of the church of Lower Eatington, in Warwickshire, the ancient burial place of the family, the Honorable George Shirley erected a monument to his father's memory, with the following :
This monument is erected to the Memory of the Right Honble Robert Earl Ferrers. and to his second Wife Selina, daughter of George Finch. of the City of London, esq.
He was called to the House of Lords by King Charles the second.
by the title Baron Ferrers of Chartley, with the Precendeney thereto belonging.
by writ under the Great Seal of England, dated the 14th Decem Anno 1677.
And by the same Right Baron Bovchier and Baron Lovain.
He was Master of the Horse to X Catherine Queen Dowager in 1662
And high Steward of her Household.
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and in 1699 sworn of the Privy Council to King William the III
And in 1711 was one of the Lords of Council to Her Ma- je-ty. Queen Aime, who by patent dated the 3rd of Sepr. 1711 advanced him to the dignity of Earl Ferrers
and Viscount Tamworth.
He was born at the time his father Sir Robert was imprisoned in the Tower by the Usurper Oliver Cromwell, and died there not without suspicion of poison.
He married to his first wife Elizabeth daughter and heir of Lawrence Washington. of Garesdon, in the county of Wilts Esgre by whom he had issue ten sons and seven daughters.
To his second wife Selina danghter of George Finch of the city of London Esqre by whom he had five sons and five daughters.
He was born Oet. 1651 and died the 25th of Decem. 1717 aged sixty-seven years and lies in the family vault of this Church
This family is descended by an heir female from the Ancient Family of Devereux. Earls of Essex and W. Viscount of Here- ford and Lord Ferrers of Chartley by their intermarriages with the second sisters of the Earl of Essex, the favorite of Queen Elizabeth, who was beheaded abont the year (1660) which inter- marriage entitles the noble family to quarter the King's Arms.
His danghter (by the second wife) Lady Mary, born at Stanton Nov. 2 bp. the 30, 1702. mar. in the Bishop of London's Chapel at Fulham JJuly 3, 1722 Charles Tryon ob. Nov. 28, 1768. she was hu. at Twickenham where a plain brick altar tomb (which covers the remains of her mother Selina Countess Ferrers) is inscribed-
"Here lies the body of The Right Honble Lady Mary Tryon. of Bulwiek, in Northamptonshire & daughter of Robert Earl Ferrers. She died May 17. 1771, aged 68. Also the body of Lieut. General William Tryon son of Charles Tryon of Northamptonshire, Esqre. & the above mentioned Lady Mary
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Late Governor of the Province of New York & Colonel of the 29th Regiment of Foote who died the 27th of January 1788 aged 58 years.
On the sides are inscriptions for Mrs. Margaret, widow of Governor Tryon. ob. February, 1819, ae. 86; and the daughters, Mary S., July 26, 1791, ae 30, and Anne, ob. July 10, 1822, ae 82.
Their tenth son, Laurence Shirley, n. September 26, 1693, ob. April 27, 1743, married Ano (daughter of "Sir Walter ('larges, Bart. of "St. Martins in the Fields," county Middle- sex"). ob. May 27. 1782. Their seventh son, William Shirley, ob. 1780. married Margaret, daughter of Sir Alexander Bathurst, Bart. ; their son, William Shirley, second, died in Lon- don, married Angusta, daughter of Sir George Hastings, of Sussex. Their son, William Wright Shirley, born in England, September 29, 1797. died in New York city. March 8, 1865, mar- ried there, in St. Stephen's Episcopal church, August 15, 1818, Elizabeth G. Coddington. born December 15, 1799. died July 16, 1880. daughter of Moses Coddington, "Gentleman of America" (descendant of Governor Coddington of Rhode Island, by his son John. who went from Rhode Island to New Jersey), who married. November 4. 1789, Sarah Petty, born Angust 29, 1770, died August 25, 1808. daughter of David Petty and Ann Garwich.
Their son, William Fearelo Shirley, born March 4, 1833. died November 14. 1903, married. in Christ Episcopal church, April 14, 1864. Caroline Chester Sidell, born JJuly 12, 1848, died November 15. 1903. Natives of New York city; married, died and buried there.
Their only son, Rufus George Shirley, born at 53 West Thirty-seventh street, Angust 7, 1873, resides at 716 Madison aveme, New York city ; baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal Church. A Republican in polities. Ho early evinced a desire
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for knowledge in military tactics, and entered the Military Academy at Peekskill for training, receiving at the age of twelve a diploma for skill in dril. Later he became a student at Trin- ity School, and from there passed on to the Columbia Institute, acquiring in each proficiency in other studies. He finally grad uated in June, 1891, from the Dupuy School, in Trenton, New Jersey. By the desire of his father and the influence of their intimate friend, the late Governor Roswell P. Flower, he was appointed a eadet in the United States Naval Academy, rooming with Cadet Worth Bagley. of Raleigh, North Carolina (nafor- tunately the first naval officer to lose his life in the Spanish- American war. being the second officer in command of the United States torpedo boat "Winslow." A shell from a masked bat- tery at Cardenas Harbor exploded directly over the forward part of the boat, where he and half the crew were standing. and they were blown to pieces). After his return to New York city he was appointed, in 1895, a clerk in the home office of the New York Life Insurance Company. Being alert both mentally and physically, industrious, genial and kindly in nature, with keen perception, aptness in emergencies and quick resentment of in- fringements, at the expiration of five years he was advanced (in 1900) and made assistant manager of the Broadway branch. and ten days later to the position he now ocenpies, as ageney director of the St. James byaoch, at 320 Fifth avenue, New York city. His reputation is an attractive character, of wide observa- tion, broad and liberal views, frank and earnest in his opinions. and is gratified with the satisfaction and confidence of the com- pany. His fondness for traveling has made him a tourist for considerable extent in America. In 1981 he went abroad for a sojourn of ten weeks, passing through Holland, Belgium and the northern part of France, and especia'ly vividly recalls with mnoh pleasure a private coaching trip from London to Chester,
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up the valley of the Thunes. through many beautiful estates, and being entertained at Lord North's estate at Waxton Abbey. He is an ardent admirer of outdoor recreation, being a close pursner of large game in the Canadian woods, and an enthusi- astie disciple of Isaak Walton.
He is vice president of the North Lake Fish and Game Club, of Montreal, Canada, and the Delta Chi Club of New York. and is a member of the societies: St. George's Society of New York, Veteran Corps of Artillery (New York), Historical So- ciety, New England Society, Military Society of the War of 1812, St. Nicholas Society, Sons of the Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Huguenot So- ciety, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Nat- ural History, Veteran Volunteer Firemen County of Richmond. Naval Athletic Association, Army Athletic Association, and Delta Chi Fraternity. He is a veteran of the Fourth Division, First Naval Battalion, Naval Militia, New York; first lieutenant Company H, Ninth Regiment, N. G., N. Y.
Shirley Arms: Earl Ferrers. Paly Or and Azure: A can- ton Ermine. Supporters. Dexter, a talbot Ermine, eared Gules and ducally gorged Or. Sinister a reindeer Gules, attired and ducally gorged Or and charged on the shoulders with a horse- shoe Argent. Crest-A bust of a Saracen in profile and conped proper, wreathed about the temples Or and Azure. Motto -- Honor Virtutis Premium.
Connecting this remote ancestry with numerous prominent persons of the Colonial and the War of the Revolution period through the struggles of the nineteenth century to their descend- ants, many of whom are citizens of the present New York, to the origin, of Mr. Shirley's maternal ancestors, natives of Holland, Sweden, France and England, the earliest of whom we have record is by the first marriage, in the Dutch church-"Egbert
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Van Borsmn v. m. van Amsterdam en Ennetje Hendricks, y. d. mar. Dee. 11, 1638." He was a resident of Brooklyn, and in 1652 lessee of the ferry at the foot of the present Fulton street. The passengers were summoned by a horn.
Their granddaughter, Margaret Van Borsmm, married Cor- nelius Low (son of Pieter Cornelisen), who came from "Hlol- stein or Schvorenvet," Holland, in "The Faith" in 1659. In
HONOR
VIRTUTIS
PREMIUM
SHIRLEY
1668 married Elizabeth Blanshan, daughter of Matthew Blan- shan, born in Noeville, French Flanders, at Frankenthal, four miles from Manheim. He married Madeline Jorisse, and em- barked with her and three children in "The Gilded Otter," April 27, 1660. They arrived at Wiltwyck and settled there Decem- ber 27 of that year. Their son. Peter Low, married Angust 8. 1721, Rachel Roosevelt, daughter of Nicholas Roosevelt, born September, 1658, died JJuly 30, 1742, in New York; married De- cember 9, 1682, Heltje Kunst, daughter of Jan Barentsen Kunst.
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who married May 16, 1661, JJannetje Cornelise, of Albany, daugh- ter of Cornelis Barentse Sleght, from Woerden, a province of South Holland, an efficient man in office and the church. He married Tryntie Tyssen Bosch, and granddaughter of Claes Martinzen Van Roosevelt, from Zeeland, Holland, a settler of New Amsterdam in 1649 with his wife, Jannetje Samuels- Thomas.
An eleventh descendant of Abraham Piertersen supposedly from Drenthe, a hamlet of North Brabant, in the Netherlands, and his wife. Tryntie Melchoir Abrahams. In 1677 they were infineneed to use the name of Van Densen. He was lance cor- poral of Company No. 2 of the Burgher Corps. Their grand- daughter, Elizabeth Van Densen, born February 2, 1680, mar- ried 1676, Johannes Benson, born February 8, 1655 (son of Direk Benson, from Sweden or Denmark), a resident of Amster- dam, who married Catalina Berek, danghter of Samson Berck and Tryntie Van Rechtersen. They were residents of Bever- wyck in 1654. His arms are painted on a window in the first church in Albany. In 1689 when apprehensions existed of a French and Indian invasion from Canada a Committee of Safety, of which Lieutenant Johannes Benson was a member, directed "that the people of Patcook do make their retreat to Johannes Bensing's upon occasion." He was lieutenant in Albany county in 1688, and captain in 1690; their daughter. C'atalyntie Benson, married May 27, 1706, Jacob Sammon, son of Johannes Thomaszen, from Amsterdam; married October 3, 1677. Aechtje Jacobs. "They resided at Sapponiean (Green- wich ), Manhattan Island."
Another line originating during the rule of William the Conqueror was represented by Resolved Waldon, born 1613, died 1690, of English blood and Dutch training and by occupation a printer at Amsterdam. He arrived at Manhattan about 1650.
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April 3, 1654, he bought a house on Broadway, near Wall street, and married May 10, 1654, Taneke Nagel, daughter of Barent Nagel, of Groningen. They were members of the Dutch church. influential, and for the times wealthy. He performed many services, and September 30, 1659, was sent with Augustus Her- mans as ambassadors to vindicate the Dutch title on the Dela- ware.
Their son, Johannes Waldon, married April 25, 1690. Anna, daughter of Captain Jan Van Dalsen, and sup. Anna Roosevelt. They resided under Jochem Pieters Hills, 133rd street, between Eight and Ninth avenues. Their daughter, Annetie Waldron, married June 11, 1714, John Delamater. Their son, Samuel Wal- dron, married March 5, 1692, Meltje, daughter of Captain Fran- eis Bloodgood, "Chief Military Officer of Flushing. Heemstede. Rustdorp and Middleburgh, Privy Councillor to the Gov- ernor for the surrender of the Colony to the English in 1675." Their son. Benjamin Waldron, married September 19. 1736. Elizabeth Sammon. and they were the parents of Catalina Waldron, married October 3, 1756, Samuel Delamater, born Oet- ober 3, 1725, great grandson of Clande le Maistre, an exile from Richebourgh, iu Artois. France, born abont 1620, died before the Dongan Patent ; married April 24, 1652, at Lovertwars street. Amsterdam, Holland, Hester Du Bois, born in Canterbury, Eng- land, and daughter of Pierre Du Bois, a refugee to America with the Huguenots in 1685. He was a carpenter, and August 22. 1661, applied for land on Staten Island. The greater part of their lives was spent at Flatbush, Long Island. He was a third cousin to his wife, being a great-grandehild of Resolved and Taneke Waldron.
From contemporaneons people a line is taken back by his mother's father, Cornelius Low Sidell, born April 18, 1804. die! August 18, 1858, son of John Sidell, born 1760, died 1837. (The
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Sidells originated in Lancaster County, England, and were iden- tified in the early history of New Jersey as industrious, perse- vering settlers.) Married Elizabeth Low, baptized August 6, 1764, daughter of Peter Low, born April 30, 1727, married about 1750, Jannetje Van Vliet, daughter of Aurie Van Vliet and Jannetje Cloet, and granddaughter of Frederick Cloey, mar- ried before 1693, Franeyntie Dumont, daughter of Wallerandt Du Mont Sen. and Grystie, married March 1, 1834, Eliza Gan- tier, born 1814, died March 27, 1892, daughter of Samuel John Sinelair Gautier, baptized February 13, 1785, died in New York city 1845, married 1808, Elizabeth Fawpell, born February 13. 1783, died September 4, 1865, daughter of John Fawpell, born August 17, 1756, married May 26, 1782, Helena Howser, born May 25, 1765, and grandson of Samuel Gautier and Cataline Delamater, and great-grandson of Louis Andrew Gautier, mar- ried about 1753, Elizabeth Sebering, born March 18, 1733, daugh- ter of Frederick Sebering, of Brooklyn, Long Island, married December 17. 1711. Maria Provoost, baptized April 17, 1692, daughter of Jonathan Provoost, born 1651, baptized June 29. 1659. married December 26, 1679, Catherine, daughter of Pieter Cornelis Van der Veen, a merchant, and appointed in 1658 a commissioner to treat with the Indians at Esopus. He married January 1, 1652, Elsje Tymens, niece of Anneke Jans. They were- prominent in social life. In the paper read before the New York Historical Society, June 2, 1874, by James W. Gerard, entitled "Old Streets of New York," we quote: "Among the good citizens, Pieter Cornelius Van der Veen and Mrs. Elsje, his wife, at church situated in the fort, under the preaching of Dominie Megapolensis, and recalls a picture of our predecessors in this devont congregation;" also, "His Excellency De Heer Directeur General Petrus Stuyvesant and his wife Judith, and old Dr. Johannes de la Montagnie, Ex Conneillor" The New
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York Magazine in 1790 records "June 30. On Monday last while digging ont the foundation of this fort a square stone was found among the ruins of a chapel that formerly stood there, with the following: . Ao Do. MDCXLII W Kieft Di. Gr. Heeft de Gementen dese Temple doen Bouweri.'"
WALTON FAMILY.
This family, once so prominent in New York, came from Norfolk, England. William Walton was born in the latter part of the seventeenth century, came to New York and was made freeman in 1698. The same year he married Mary Santford. In 1711 he appears as one of the subscribers for finishing the steeple of Trinity church. In 1712 he, with some others, owned the sloop "Swallow, " of which Rene Hett was master. He sailed his own vessels to the West Indies. His dwelling place was on Hanover Square, now No. 130 Pearl street, and was a wide lot which originally belonged to James Graham, attorney general. This was directly opposite the lot on which "Mistress Kidd," the widow of Captain William Kidd, lived. His fortune and that of his sons was derived from the preference in trade given him by the Spaniards, who gave him the sole privilege of trading at St. Augustine. In 1738 Governor Clarke writes that he was the only person permitted by the Spaniards to trade at that place, "where he had a factor or agent who had resided there for many years." He died on Saturday, May 21, 1747, and was described as "a very eminent merchant of this city." His widow, known as "Madame Walton," died September 3. 1768, in her ninetieth year.
William Walton left two sons, Jacob and William. Jacob Walton married Maria, daughter of Gerard Beekman and Mag- dalene Abeel, May 14, 1726. He died October 17, 1749, aged forty-seven, and left children: Jacob, Thomas, Gerard. Mary.
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wife of Lewis Morris; Magdalena, wife of David Johnston; C'atherine, wife of James Thompson; William and Abraham. Of these, Thomas died a young man. William married, May 16. 1767, Mary, daughter of Governor James De Lancey, and left children, William, James Delancey, Jacob, and Ann, wife of Daniel C'romelin Ver Planck; the father died Angust 18, 1796, at the age of sixty-five. His wife died May 16, 1767. Jacob Wal-
Mrs. William (Beekman) Walton.
William Walton.
ton was an admiral in the British navy, and had a son, Rev. William Walton.
William Walton (the brother of Jacob, the first mentioned) carried on the business inherited from his father, he and his brother being the firm of William Walton and Company. In 1753 they. with other merchants, made an agreement "not to receive Copper Half Pence otherwise than 14 for a shilling." They added to their number of vessels and enlarged their trade. Hav-
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