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After the war Mr. Hallett again engaged in business, but not on so large a scale as formerly. His wife, who survived him for many years, retained her city house but passed the summer at Petersfield on Manhattan Island, a farm leased from the Stuyvesants at $1,250 per annum. The locality was especially agreeable to Mrs. Hallett as being of easy access to Horn's hook, where her husband's sister, the widow of Colonel Jacob Blackwell, had a country seat.
John and Ann (Hallett) Delafield had issue thirteen chil- dren, nine sons and four daughters, some born in the city of New York, others at the country seat at "Sunswick," all chris- tened by the clergy of Trinity church, where Mr. Delafield owned a large square pew. Two sons died in early youth ; three daugh- ters, Ann Eliza, Emma and Caroline Augusta died ummarried : Susan Maria, born February 25, 1805, died June 16, 1861 ; mar- ried, October 7, 1829, Henry Parish, merchant of New York. She had no children. Seven sons lived to old age and did their
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share in developing the resources and prosperity of their native city.
John Delafield, Jr., born in the city of New York, January 22, 1786, died at his farm "Oaklands," near Geneva. Seneca county, New York, October 22, 1853, and was buried at Geneva. Immediately on being graduated at Columbia college, 1802, he was given a position in the commercial firm of Le Roy, Bayar.I & MeEvens, and, anxious to see the world, was much to his delight sent by them the following year as supercargo of a ves- sel loaded with flour to Lisbon. Soon after he established him- self as a merchant and made several voyages to Europe and the West Indies, in one of which he was wrecked. In 1807 he loaded the brig " Fame" on his own account with sugar at Havana and sailed for England; forced by stress of weather into Corunna, Spain, he was ordered, January 17, 1808, to depart instantly, the French opening fire upon the harbor. The ship's cables were cut and he went to sea short of provisions and the vessel leak- ing, carrying, besides his own crew, a priest and a family of noble Spanish refugees, who had come to his vessel in the night. Happily all arrived in safety in the Thames.
Settling in London he remained there from 1808 to 1820 as a merchant and banker: During the war of 1812-15 was held as a prisoner on parole; his bounds, through the influence of his unele, Joseph Delafield. included the city of London and fifteen miles around Uxbridge, where he hired a country seat and in- dulged his absorbing passion for agriculture. His business af- fairs prospered to a marked degree, but in 1819 came heavy losses. In reference to this part of Mr. Delafield's life, Wash- ington Irving wrote "The Wife," one of the chapters of the Sketch Book. Early in 1820 Mr. Delafield returned to New York and in the following August was appointed cashier of the Phenix bank, retaining the office until 1838, when he was elected
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president of the bank, resigning the position the same year to accept the presidency of the New York Banking Company. Dur- ing all of this period he interested himself in a small farm on the East river at Hell Gate, which he brought to the highest state of cultivation. Mr. Delafield revived and served as presi- dent of the Philharmonie Society, which for many years had practically ceased to exist.
In 1842 Mr. Delafield purchased "Oaklands," a large farm on Lake Seneca, state of New York, and devoting the remainder of his life to its improvement it became the model farm of the state of New York. During his life he had occupied many posi- tions of trust and of importance, but nothing pleased him more than his election, in 1850, to the presidency of the New York State Agricultural Society.
Jolm Delafield Jr., was twice married-first at Hollington Church, Middlesex, England, to his cousin Mary, born February 22, 1786, died in London, March 19, 1818, and buried in Pen- tonville Chapel, only child of Jolm and Mary Roberts, of Whit- «Imreh. Buckinghamshire, the last of an ancient and honorable family-they had issue 1. John Delafield, 3d. born England, October 21, 1812, died England, December 12, 1866: graduate l Columbia College, 1830. A lawyer by profession, he was by choice a student and linguist. Published in New York and London, 1839, the " Antiquities of America." He married, June 14, 1833. Edith, daughter of Rev. M. G. Wallace, of Terre Haute. Indiana, and left issue : Edith Delafield, born at Columbus, Ohio. March 23, 1836, died at St. Louis, Missouri, March 28, 1864; married, at St. Louis, February 1, 1854, Christian Kribben, of St. Louis, and left issue : Bertram D. and Edith Wallace Kribben. Wallace Delafield. born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1, 1840, mar ried, at St. Louis, Missouri, April 23, 1874, Lizzie T., daughter of Richard P. Hanenkamp, (Mrs. Delafield is the Regent of
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the Daughters of the Amercian Revolution in St. Lonis) and has issue, all born at St. Louis; Agnes, Edith, Lizzie, Edna and a son Wallace, born May 25, 1878. Mary Delafield, born at Memphis, Tennessee, July 30, 1842, now deceased: married, at Duncan's Falls, Ohio, October 16, 1862. George Sturges, of Chicago, and left issne. 2. Mary Ann, born at Uxbridge. Eng- land, November 6, 1813, died New York ; married, November 6. 1832, Cornelius Du Bois, merchant of New York, and left issue. Mrs. Du Bois founded the Nursery and Child's Hospital of New York. 3. Charles, born at Woburn Place, London, England. February 4, 1815, died at St. Louis, Missouri, June 4, 1842; married, Angust 11, 1836, Lonisa, daughter of P. Potter, of Poughkeepsie and left issue, an only son, the Rev. Dr. Walter Delafield. The town of Delafield in Wisconsin is named after him.
John Delafield, Jr., married (second) Harriet T., daughter of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge. and had: 1. Tallmadge, born September 1, 1829, merchant, married, October 2. 1850, Anna. daughter of Thomas Lawrence, and has issue. 2. Clarence. born May 6, 1831, civil engineer, married. April 9. 1862. Eliza. daughter of John Payne, and has issne. 3. Mary Floyd, born May 11, 1834, deceased; married, November 4, 1858. Right Rev. Henry A. Neely, Bishop of Maine, she left no issue surviving her.
Major Joseph Delafield, born August 22, 1790, died at his residence, 475 Fifth avenue. February 12, 1875. He was grad- nated at Yale College, 1808. Studied law in the office of Josiah Ogden Hoffman, was admitted to the bar October 29, 1811, and the same year became a partner of Mr. Hoffman. March 12, 1810, he was appointed lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment New York State Militia, and captain of drafted militia February 4, 1812. December 29, 1812, he was commissioned to a captaincy
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in Hawkin's regiment of artillery in the regular army of the United States, and promoted major of the Forty-Sixth Infantry April 15, 1814. At the close of the war he resigned from the army.
He was appointed agent for the United States under the sixth and seventh articles of the Treaty of Ghent for settling the northern boundary of the United States, and had command of the parties in the field. military and civil, from January, 1821, until the completion of the work in 1828-the survey extending from the river St. Regis in the state of New York to the Lake of the Woods. Because of the inclemency of the climate and the nature of the country, much of which was inhabited almost ex- elusively by Indians, the work of the commission could only be proseented during the continuance of the moderate weather, hence Mr. Delafield was able to pass the winters in New York and in Washington. D. C. The president of the United States and congress formally acknowledged the services rendered by Major Delafield in the discharge of his duties. While in the north Major Delafield added materially to his collection of min- erals, which for many years was esteemed as one of the best in private bands in this country. The collection has now found a permanent home at the New York University, to which it has been given by the heirs of Major Delafield. In this connection Professor Egliston, of Columbia University. wrote: "The sci- ence of mineralogy owes a debt of gratitude to Major Delafield which ought not to be forgotten, and his memory will be per- potuated in the science which he loved so well."
Major Delafield was a member of many scientific societies. both foreign and American. For nearly forty years, 1827 to 1866, he was president of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, known during the latter part of his presidency and now known as the New York Academy of Sciences. He was a trustee
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of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and of other institu- tions, and a vestryman of Trinity church.
In 1829 Major Delafield acquired a traet of land of two hundred and fifty aeres on the Hudson river, about a mile above the Spuyten Duyvil ereek, then a part of the town of Yonkers, Westchester county, now in the Twenty-fourth ward of the city of New York, to which he gave the name of Fullerton. Here he had built a bachelor establishment, some time later destroyed by fire. and discovering limestone on the property, erected a lime kil on a French plan, which could be kept in continuous opera- tion, a quality theretofore unknown in America. The enter- prise for several years yielded large returns without requiring much of his personal time or attention.
In 1849 Major Delafield built a house in a beautiful posi- tion, overlooking the river, which he occupied during the sum- mer for the remainder of his life, interesting himself in the im- provement of the estate.
Major Delafield married, December 12, 1833, Julia. born at Staatsburgh, September 15, 1801, died in New York, June 23. 1882, eldest daughter of Judge Maturin Livingston, of New York, and Staatsburgh. Dutchess county, New York, and his wife. Margaret ( Lewis) Livingston, only child of General Mor- gan Lewis, chief justice and governor of the state of New York, president of the Order of the Cincinnati and son of Francis Lewis, "The Signer," and his wife, Elizabeth (Annesly) Lewis.
Major and Julia Delafield had children: Lewis L., born November 3. 1834. Julia Livingston, born September 10, 1837. Joseph, Jr., born August 5, 1839, died February 24, 1848.
(III) Lewis L. Delafield, born at his father's residence in Park place, New York city, November 3, 1834, died at his resi- dence, No. 24 West Seventeenth street, March 28, 1883. He was
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graduated at the Columbia College, 1855, studied law in the office of his uncle, Alexander Hamilton, Jr., admitted attorney at law, 1857, a trustee of School of Mines, Columbia College, one of the founders of the Bar Association of New York, 1870, vestryman of Calvary church, New York. and of Christ church, Riverdale. Mr. Delafield inherited and occupied, in summer, his father's residence and the grounds immediately adjacent, at Fieldston. IIe married, April 23, 1862, Emily, daughter of Frederick Prime, of New York, and Edgewood, New Rochelle, New York. By his second wife, Lydia, daughter of Dr. Robert Hare, of Philadelphia. they had four children :
1. Lewis L. Delafield, born New York city, January 30, 1863, graduated at Columbia College Law School, 1884, and ad- mitted attorney at law the same year. He received in 1906 from his brother lawyers and the Republican party the nomination for one of the justiceships of the supreme court of the state of New York. He married, April 25, 1885, Charlotte Hoffman, daughter of Leonard J. and Charlotte (Prime) Wyeth, and has three children: Lewis L., Jr., born October 27, 1886; Charlotte, born April 6, 1889; Emily, born July 28, 1900.
2. Robert Hare Delafield, born at Edgewood, July 13, 1864, died at the residence of his mother, Fieldston, November 20, 1906. He married, at San Francisco, California, August 14, 1889, Anne Shepherd, daughter of George Franeis and Mary Pindell (Hammond) Lloyd, of Virginia, and left issue, Robert Hare, Jr., born at San Francisco, California, January 25, 1894, and Mary Hammond, born at San Francisco, California, April 2, 1895.
3. Frederick Prime Delafield, born at 475 Fifth avenue, New York city, February 2, 1868. Graduated at Columbia Col- lege Law School and admitted attorney at law, 1891. He mar- ried, November 10, 1898. Elsie, daughter of Charles G. and
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Georgiana (Williams) Barber, of New York, and has Frederick Prime, Jr., born September 2. 1902, at Fieldston, Riverdale, and Charles Barber, born June 28, 1905, at Fieldston, Riverdale.
4. Emily Delafield, born New York city, September 10, 1870, married, June 21, 1901, at the residence of her mother, at Fieldston, Dr. Rolfe Floyd, only child of Augustus and Emma Floyd, of Mastic, Long Island, and has had issue: Rolfe, Jr., born July 13, 1902. Richard, born May 4, 1904, died February 16, 1905. Emily Delafield, born July 31, 1905.
(IV) Maturin L. Delafield, born at the residence of his father, 104 Franklin street, New York city, February 17, 1836. Was graduated at Columbia College, 1856, and three years later received the degree of A. M. After two years' experience in the counting honse of his uncle, Henry Delafield, during which time he made a voyage as supereargo of the brig "Bohio" to Porto Rico and Haiti, he engaged in the West Indian business on his own account, and being fortunate, retired in a few years from active business. Mr. Delafield's chief residence is at Fieldston on Hudson, where he built a stone house in 1869. He has also a summer home, "Sunswyck," at West Hampton, Long Island, New York, built in 1876.
Maturin L. Delafield married, December 1, 1868, Mary Cole- man Livingston, only surviving child of Eugene A. Livingston, of Clermont on Hudson, by his first wife, Harriet, daughter of Edward and Mary Jane (Ross) Coleman, of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania. Mrs. Delafield's only brother, Eugene Livingston, left school at the breaking out of the great Civil war to enlist in the Union army; stricken with fever in the camp before Washing- ton, D. (., he was brought to his father's home at Clermont to die. December 31, 1861, a few days before his seventeenth birth- day. Maturin L. and Mary C. Delafield have issue :
1. Maturin L. Delafield, Jr., born at the residence of his
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grandfather, Major Joseph Delafield, 475 Fifth avenue, New York city, September 29, 1869. entered Columbia College, class of 1893, but withdrew in his second year to engage in business, Ill health, however. obliged him to abandon the work, and for many years he has resided at St. Moritz, Switzerland. He mar- ried. November 21, 1893, Lettice Lee. daughter of Charles Ed- win and Letitia (Campbell) Sands.
2. Joseph I. Delafield, born at 475 Fifth avenue, New York city, entered Columbia College, class of 1893, but withdrew to
Eugene Livingston.
enter the New York Law School. and was admitted attorney at law in July. 1895, and practices his profession in New York city. He married, at the Brick Presbyterian church, New York city, May 5, 1906, Mary Renwick Sloane, daughter of William Milli- gan and Mary E. (Johnston) Sloane, of New York.
3. John Ross Delafield, born at the residence of his parents. Fieldston, Riverdale-on-Hudson, May 8, 1874, was graduated at the College of New Jersey, 1896, received the degree of Mas- ter of Arts from Princeton University in 1899, and was grad- nated at Harvard Law School, 1899; admitted the same year
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to the bar of the state of New York, and how practices his pro- fossion in the city of New York. Mr. Delafield built himself a residence at Fieldston Hill, Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York ( ity, in 1905, and has a residence on Seventy-ninth street. Mar- tied, at Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York City, June 14. 1904, Violetta, daughter of John J. and Lonisa Lawrance ( Wet- more) White. Mrs. White was one of the daughters of General Frosper Montgomery Wetmore, boin February 14, 1798, died March 15, 1876, organizer and first colonel of the Seventh Regi- next of New York and a general of state militia. Mr. and Mrs. Delafield have issue: John White Ross Delafield, born at the 1. sidence of his parents, 111 East Thirty-ninth street, New York ( ity, May 12, 1905.
4. Julia 1. Delafield. born at the residence of her parents at Field-ton. Riverdale-on-Hudson. October 14, 1875. married, at the residence of her parents, 475 Fifth avenue, New York City. April 30, 1901, Frederick William Longfellow (graduated at Harvard Law School in 1891). and has issue: Julia Delafield Longfellow. boun at Fieldston, Riverdale-on-Hudson, April 28, 1902. Frederick Livingston Longfellow. bora at the country reit of his parents, Roque Bluffs, Maine. August 18, 1903. Elizabeth Delafield Longfellow, bom at the residence of her parents, 282 West Seventieth street, New York City, February 14, 1905.
5. Edward Coleman Delafield, born at the country seat of his parents, "Sunswyck," West Hampton, Long Island, July 10, 1877, was graduated at Princeton University in 1899, and is engaged in business in Now York. He resides chiefly at Fields- ton Hill, Riverdale-on-Iludson, where he built himself a house in 1905. Married. at St. Thomas Church. New York City, April 30, 1900, Margaretta Stockton, daughter of Mercer and Mary (Stockton) Beasley ef New Jersey. grandchild of Chief Justice
GENERAL RICHARD DELAFIELD. Boru Sept, Jul, 1708; died Nov. 5th, 187J.
RUFUS K. DELAFIELD.
EDWARD DELAFIELD, M.D. Born May 17th, 1701 , died Veb. 13th, 1875.
MAJOR JOSEPH DELAFIELD. Horn August 220, 1500. died Feb, 12th, 1-76.
HENRY DELAFIELD. Junta July 19th, 12: akit Feb. 10th, INi3.
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Beasley, of New Jersey, and of General Robert Field Stockton, a descendant of the "Signer," and has issue: Maturin Living- ston Delafield, 3rd, born at the residence of his grandfather, Maturin L. Delafield, 475 Fifth avenue, March 17, 1901. Mar- garetta Stockton Delafield, born at the residence of her parents, 20 East Thirty-fifth street, New York City, November 3, 1904. Edward Coleman Delafield, born at the residence of his parents, 20 East Thirty-fifth street, New York City, February 14, 1906. 6. Mary Livingston Delafield, born at the residence of her parents at Fieldston, Riverdale-on-Hudson, November 23, 1878.
7. Harriet Coleman Delafield, born at the residence of her parents at Fieldston, May 7, 1880, married, at the Church of the Ileavenly Rest, New York City, April 28, 1906, JJarvis Pom- eroy Carter. Mr. Carter was graduated at Columbia College. 1902, and the Columbia University Law School, 1905.
8. Eugene L. Delafield, born at the country seat of his parents, "Sunswyek," West Hampton, Long Island, Angust 16, 1882, was graduated at Stevens Institute of Technology, 1905, mechanical engineering. He married, September 26, 1906, at the First Presbyterian Church at Tennent, New Jersey, Mar- garett Nevins, only child of John T. and Margarett S. (Nevins) Woodhull, of New Jersey.
Senator James Ross, born in York county, Pennsylvania, July 12, 1762, died in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1847. James and his sister Elizabeth, wife of
Whiteford, were the only children of Joseph and Jane (Gra- ham) Ross who survived infancy. James' wife, Jane (Graham) Ross, was the sole survivor of her family. Mr. Ross served as a young man in the Revolutionary army; was one of the most prominent members of the First Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention; represented his native state in the United States senate from 1794 to 1803; for three terms, in 1799, 1802 and
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1805, a candidate of the Federal party in Pennsylvania for the office of governor; was chairman of the committee named by Washington to compose the Whiskey Insurrection ; was a legal adviser and an intimate friend of General Washington.
lle married, January 13, 1791, Ann, born at Bedford. Penn- sylvania, January 20, 1771, died at Cornwall, Pennsylvania, Sep- tember 11, 1805, danghter of John Woods, of Bedford, Penn- sylvania, a colonel of the Pennsylvania troops during the Revo- Intion, and the chief officer for Bedford county, Pennsylvania. under the first constitution of the state. Of Senator and Ann Ross' children only one married, namely, Mary Jane, born at Pittsburg, June 28, 1797, died at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Sep- tember 27, 1825. Married, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, October 7. 1816, Edward Coleman, of Lancaster and Philadelphia, mem- ber of the assembly and of the senate of the state of Pennsyl- vania, born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1792, died at Philadelphia, June 6, 1841. Edward and Mary Jane Ross Cole- man had three children :
1. Mary Jane Coleman, born August 23, 1825, died un- married March 23, 1847.
2. Anne Ross Coleman, born November 8, 1818, died at Edinburgh, Scotland, December 2, 1895; married George Wool- sey Aspinwall. Their children all died young and unmarried.
3. Harriet Coleman, born JJuly 5. 1820, died May 3, 1848; married, at Philadelphia, December 7, 1841, Eugene A. Living- ston, of Clermont, New York, born at the residence of his grand- father, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, at Clermont, Columbia county, New York, August 13, 1813, died at Nice, France, Decem- ber 22, 1893, and had Engene, and Mary Coleman Livingston, who married Maturin L. Delafield, as mentioned in the text.
Mrs. Delafield and her children are the only descendants of their Graham, Ross and Coleman progenitors, above mentioned
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Her father, Engene A. Livingston, married (second) Eliza- beth Rhodes, daughter of Coleman and Mary Fisher, of Phila- delphia, and had two sons and three daughters, of whom one danghter is married, namely, Katherine MeCall Livingston, married, June 1, 1882, William B. Shinbrick Olymer, who died May 7. 1903, leaving an only child, George (lymer, born April 13. 1883, married, April 5, 1905, Susan, daughter of Dr. Russell Sturges, of Boston. and has issue, William P. S. Clymer, born January 20, 1906.
Henry and William Delafield, twins, born at the country seat of their father, "Sunswick, " Long Island, July 19, 1792. Will- iam dicd unmarried at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Henry Parish, New York City, November 20, 1853; Henry died at his residence. 269 Fifth avenue, February 15, 1875. These two brothers resembled each other so closely that only intimate friends conld distinguish one from the other, and from boyhood were inseparable --- not happy except in each other's company. Associated in business as shipping merchants and ship owners, under the firm name of Henry and William Delafield, they did business first with England, later with China, South America and the West Indies, finally restricting their business almost exclus- ively with the West Indies. Henry for many years was consul for Hoyti, during the reign of the Emperor Souloque, 1851 to 1859; and both brothers occupied many positions of trust. On the death of William, 1853, Henry lost all his interest in active commercial business; associated his nephew, Tallmadge Dela- field. in the business, under the firm name of Delafield & Com- ¡ any, from which he retired May 1, 1857. For some years he or- enpied himself as a director in several companies in which he was interested. The shipping Isiness of the old firm was con- tinved for several years by Tallmadge Delafield; the trust and Vol. 1 18
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banking affairs were placed by Mr. Delafield in the hands of Ma- turin L. Delafield, another one of his nephews.
Henry Delafield's country seat, which he occupied from 1831, during the summer months, was on Manhattan Island, at what is now Seventy-sixth street. The estate of over forty acres had been purchased by Dr. John Baker, an Englishman, and was in sight of "Sunswick," on the opposite (Long Island) shore of the river. As countrymen by birth, the family of Dr. Baker and that of John Delafield became intimate. Dr. Baker appoint- ed Mr. Delafield the executor of his will, and dying childless, be- queathed, subject to the life of his wife, who died in 1831, his country place, first to Henry Delafield, then in turn to the Dela- field Brothers for their lives and on their deaths to become the property of Trinity Church School. A print of the residence may be found in Valentine's Corporation Manual for 1862, page 261.
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