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high family descent, and a cousin of Scotto- Irish Kings," erected a monastery on a very small island lying in the Scottish Sea off the west coast of the mainland, and known in poetry and history as Iona.
It is about this time that we find the term Caledonians changed to Picts, and read of the Pictish kings and the Scotto-Irish kings, until in A. D. 843 a Scotch-Irish king as- cended the Pictish throne as Kenneth, son of Alpin, and the name of Picts lost to history, and we have in its place the names, Scots and Scotland, while the name Caledonia covers the whole of Scotland as with a blanket, and the aboriginal Irish designated as Celts, and the Scots as Gaels.
It is said that the family name of Reid in Scotland comes from a family or clan which bore the patronymic of Rua, or the Red Ba- rons-probably a predatory band, as they were called "the Red Robbers," and the name Rua, in the course of continuous centuries becoming Reid. If this be true, it may be that an in- finitesimal drop of the blood of Kenneth of Alpin, the first Scottish King of Scotland, is still in my veins.
The foregoing is from the pen of a Reid, an accomplished writer, who adds, in a per- sonal note to the editor of this work, some words which are well worth preserving: "I have made the above record to assist in keep- ing in my mind the early names of my Scot- tish ancestry, rather than for information to the reader; but, whether I am a Celt or a Gael, a Pict or Caledonian, or just a plain every-day Scotchman; or whether I am a de- scendant from a Red Baron or a Scotto-Irish or Pictish king, will ever remain a mystery. Nor do I care much. Being born in America, of Scotch parentage, of law-abiding and God- fearing people, is a sufficiently good ancestry for me.'
(I) Edward Reid, of Speddock, Scotland, married Jane Barber. Children: Edward, William, James, John, Robert, Susannah and Agnes.
(II) Edward (2), son of Edward (1) Reid, was born in Speddock, Scotland, and came to America in 1818. He married Maxwell Dal- rymple, a cousin of the Earl of Dalrymple. Children, James and Jane, born in Scotland, the others in Amsterdam, New York: I. James, married Lura Bartlett ; children : Ed- ward M .; Jay; Mary, married John Teller De Graff, and had two children-Edward Teller, married Anna V. Taylor, and Luella, married David C. DeGraff. 2. Jane, married, 1850, John Dingman ; died without issue. 3. Edward A., married Catherine Stewart; chil- dren: Jennie, Elizabeth, Archibald, Edward,
James Morrison. 4. Alexander, lived and died at Schaghticoke, New York; had one child, Edward James, died at Minaville, about 1907. 5. William, see forward. 6. Hugh Gordon. 7. Agnes, married Sebastian Gunsalus.
(II) William, son of Edward (1) Reid, was born in Speddock, parish of Holywood, county of Dumfries, Scotland, November 12, 1779. He was the first of the family to come to America. He sailed from Greenock on June 1, 1802, landed in New York City on August 8, following, after a voyage of ten weeks in a sailing vessel. He went direct to Amsterdam, New York, partly by sloop, part- ly afoot. He was probably attracted to that locality by Scotch settlements previously made at Galway, Broadalbin, Perth and Johnstown, and engaged in teaching "On the Rocks," in the vicinity of what afterwards became the Tunis I. Van Dervere estate. He accumu- lated considerable property by his industry, and was considered a wealthy man for those early days. He was librarian of the first library in Amsterdam, and was justice of the peace for many years.
He married, February 1, 1806, Sarah, daughter of Elisha and Sarah Arnold, whose other child was Benedict Arnold, married Mary Bovee. Children of William and Sarah (Arnold) Reid: I. Marian, born De- cember 7, 1806, died March 3, 1835; married, June 8, 1826, John B. Borst. 2. Minerva, born June 21, 1808, died June 27, 1833; mar- ried, April 26, 1833, Merritt Bates. 3. James Benedict, born November 19, 1810, died March 20, 1862; married Jane E. De Graff. 4. Darwin E., born September 9, 1812; mar- ried, 1835, Elizabeth Kingsbury. 5. Alex- ander, born August 29, 1815, died October 22, 1815. 6. Louisa Jane, born August 16, 1820, died September 3, 1872; married, September 20, 1844, Orin David.
Mr. Reid married (second) Chloe, daugh- ter of Dudley Smith, of Galway, New York. Children : 1. William Edward, born July 1, 1836, died August 11, 1837. 2. William Max- well, born June 8, 1839; see forward. . 3. John Warren, born August 2, 1843, died May 23, 1846. 4. Myron White, born October 22, 1845 ; married Sarah Kellogg; one son, Wil- liam Kellogg Reid, married Mabelle Putnam; no issue.
(III) William Maxwell, eldest child of William (1) and Chloe (Smith) Reid, was born in Amsterdam, New York, June 8, 1839. He received his education in Amsterdam Academy, and engaged in mercantile business. He was the founder of the Amsterdam Board of Trade, was its first president, and re- mained in that position for seventeen years.
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At the beginning of this connection he came in touch with many plans for the benefit of the people of Amsterdam, notably the secur- ing of a city charter in 1885; the organiza- tion and successful advancement of the Ams- terdam Hospital, of which he has been a trustee for many years ; the rebuilding of St. Ann's Church, and other praiseworthy enter- prises. He has also long served as a trustee of the Children's Home.
Mr. Reid's principal distinction, however, is as an author. At the age of fifty, having some leisure, he became interested in the early history of the Mohawk Valley, and also in the general history of the Aborigines of North America. Embued and obsessed with this theme, he wrote for a local paper a series of articles called "Hollender Letters." With this as a beginning it was easy to com- pile a book entitled "The Mohawk Valley; Its Legends and Its History." Soon after the publication of this book "The History of the Terrible Mohawks" was published seri- ally, after which followed "The Story of Old Fort Johnson." He also wrote a "History of St. Ann's Church and Queen Anne's Chapel." At this writing "Lake George and Lake Champlain" is in the hands of the publishers, to be issued in May.
Mr. Reid assisted in organizing the Mont- gomery County Historical Society. He is a member of the American Historical Associ- ation, the New York State Historical Society, the American Scenic and Historic Preserva- tion Society, and trustee and corresponding secretary of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. He is also a member of Artisan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Fort Johnson Club, and a member of the Masonic Club. He is senior warden of St. Ann's Church, Amsterdam.
Mr. Reid married, June 8, 1859, Laura L. McDonald; children: I. James McDonald, born June 8, 1860; married Carrie Nettle ; one daughter, Laura Pauline Reid. 2. Emma Maria, born July 22, 1862, died December 5, 1862. 3. Bella Louise, born August 4, 1864, died February 18, 1866. 4. Carrie Christine, born September 8, 1869; married, August 15, 1901, Frazier C. Whitcomb. 5. Maxwell Charles, born March 15, 1872, died November 22, 1877. 6. Augustus Clark, born October 8, 1874.
TUCKER This family is mentioned promi- nently in early New England records. Many of the name settled early in Massachusetts and rapidly passed into adjoining colonies, New Hamp- shire, Vermont and Maine. The family is
numerous in New Jersey, where they were early settlers in the Passaic valley. A num- ber of the early family went to Virginia, where the name is of frequent occurrence. In New England, Richard Tucker was one of the first white settlers of the present city of Portland. He was a business partner for a time of the notorious George Cleeves. Abra- ham and John Tucker were early proprietors of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, as was Henry Tucker, of Sandwich. Moses Tucker, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, born in England, had many descendants who settled in New Hampshire, where Captain Moses Tucker, a noted soldier of the earlier colonial wars, lived at Ipswich. His son Moses was also a sol- dier, serving in the revolutionary war. Moses Tucker, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, is men- tioned in the records, October 14, 1661, when his marriage to Elizabeth Stevens is recorded. William Howard Tucker wrote a history of Hartford, Vermont. A numerous branch of the family settled in Newbury, Vermont, de- scendants of Robert of Weymouth. They were men of substance, of marked individ- uality, above the usual height and weight. It used to be said of them in earlier days that "90 lineal feet of Tuckers go into the Union Meeting house every Sunday." The family in Amsterdam descend from the Vermont Tuckers.
(I) Edward H. Tucker, born in Vermont, married and had the following children: I. Theodore S., a resident of Battle Creek, Michigan. 2. Wilson S., M.D., was a promi- nent physician of New York city; left a widow, a son Wilson, and a daughter Mary. 3. Virginia, married Robert Hasbrook, and left sons: Robert, Charles and William Has- brook. 4. Edward H. (2), see forward.
(II) Edward H. (2), son of Edward H. (1) Tucker, was born in 1825. He was reared and educated in Vermont, removing after his marriage to Montgomery county, New York. He met a tragic death by drowning. He, with his son and a young lady, were fishing from a boat on Joanna Lake, Minnesota, when the boat upset and all were drowned. He married, in Vermont, about 1830, Anna Waldon Fiske, a native of Vermont, and cousin of "Jim Fiske," former partner of Jay Gould, and one of the earlier kings of finance and captains of industry. She died in Ams- terdam, New York, 1895, at the age of sixty- five years. Children: I. Henry, married and settled in Minnesota, near St. Paul; he met his death with his father in the accident pre- viously mentioned. 2. Edward H. (3), see forward. 3. William, died young. 4. Jennie V., married Richard Denny; she survives
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him, resident of Waterloo, New York, with a son, Richard Denny. 5. Nettie, married James Neff ; has Maud and May Neff ; the family reside in Tampa, Florida. 6. Benja- min, now of Chicago, Illinois, married, and has sons Harry and Walter D. 7. Alma. 8. Hattie, married Ward Schermerhorn, of Schenectady, New York.
(III) Edward H. (3), son of Edward H. (2) and Anna Waldon (Fiske) Tucker, was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, May 30, 1847. He is a manufacturer of gloves in Amster- dam, and interested in the real estate business. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and politically a Republican. He mar- ried, in Amsterdam, February 23, 1879. Cath- arine V. Miller, born in North Broadalbin, June 2, 1854. (See Miller forward.) Chil- dren: 1. Lena, died at the age of two years. 2. William, killed in the west. 3. Carrie, mar- ried (first) Simon Reese, accidentally killed in the mills, leaving a son, Edward Reese; she married (second) Edward Jackson. 4. Mag- gie, married Warden W. Rhodes, a general merchant of Benedict, New York. Their only child, Dorothy, died at the age of two years.
(The Miller Line).
William H. Miller, grandfather of Mrs. Edward H. Tucker, was born in Northampton, Fulton county, New York; died in 1865. He was a farmer. He married (first) Slo- cum, who died in middle life, leaving: 1. Bet- sey, married Joseph Gifford, both deceased. 2. Agnes, married Joseph King, both deceased, leaving three children. 3. Nathaniel, see for- ward. 4. Joseph, died unmarried.
(II) Nathaniel, son of William H. Miller, born in Fulton county, New York, 1827, was reared on his father's farm, educated in the public schools, and became a successful farmer of North Broadalbin. After many years of profitable farming he retired to the city of Amsterdam, where he died May 7, 1901, and is buried in Green Hill cemetery. He married, in North Broadalbin, Cynthia J. Van Derburg, born in Northampton, New York, April 24, 1827, died in Amsterdam, February 12, 1905, and is buried beside her husband. They were both members of the Baptist church. She was a daughter of Abram and Catherine J. Fay Van Derburg. For many years Abram Van Derburg was a merchant and hotel keeper, later a farmer of Fulton county. He became a man of means, and died at the age of eighty, surviving his wife many years. They were active members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Children : Cynthia J. (Mrs. Nathaniel Miller), and a son, Asa, who died at the age of seventy
years ; married (first) Betsey Brewer, who bore him George E. and Mary J. Van Der- burg; married (second) Lucy Steele, who survives him, resident of Broadalbin; child of second marriage: Minerva, married Rich- ard Van Valkin, and left children : Matilda, Abram, Frances, Henrietta. The latter mar- ried John Bundige, who survives his wife and resides in North Broadalbin with his children: Georgianna, Frederick, Eliza and Abram Bundige. The children of Nathaniel and Cynthia J. (Van Derburg) Miller are: I. George, a resident of Hagaman; inarried Marietta Forbes, and has Jennie, Carric, Frank and Maud Miller. 2. Frances, de- ceased ; married Henry Buell, and had a daughter Alice, who died in childhood. 3. Charles, deceased, married (first) Olive Van Arnam ; children: Fannie Conant, Percy and Charles. He married (second) Catherine Seward, who survives him, resident of Tribes Hill, New York. 4. Catharine V., married Edward H. Tucker. 5. Mary Estelle, married Frank H. McConnell, of Amsterdam, and has a daughter Lela, born 1892. 6. James M., a successful grocery merchant of Amsterdam; he has served as alderman of the city through two elections ; he married (first) Martha Gor- don, born March 15, 1867, in Amsterdam, died June 1, 1891, leaving a daughter Marjorie, born May 26, 1891 ; married (second) Har- riet M. Helling, born in West Galway, Sara- toga county, New York, August 20, 1868, daughter of Garrett and Jean (Whillie) Hel- ling, of Dutch descent, who came from Ver- mont to West Galway, where he died. Jean Whillie was born in Greenlaw, Scotland, in 1814. The children of Garrett and Jean Hel- ling were: I. Harriet M. (Mrs. James Mil- ler). 2. Garrett, married Mary Kavanaugh, and has a daughter, Lillian H. Helling. 3. James, unmarried.
The progenitor of the WOODWARD Woodward family in America, Richard Wood- ward, was born in England in the year 1589. He embarked October 10, 1634, at Ipswich, England, for New England, making the voy- age in the "Elizabeth," and settled at Water- town, Massachusetts. His wife's given name was Rose.
(II) George, son of Richard Woodward, was born in England in 1621, accompanied his father to America, and died May 31, 1676. His wife's name was Mary.
(III) John, son of George and Mary Woodward, was born in Watertown, Massa- chusetts, March 20. 1651, died in 1728. His second wife was Sarah Bancroft.
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(IV) Joseph, son of John and Sarah (Ban- croft) Woodward, was born in Newton, Mas- sachusetts, November 26, 1688, died May 30, 1727. He married, June 24, 1714, Elizabeth Silsby.
(V) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Elizabeth (Silsby) Woodward, was born February 26, 1725-26, in Canterbury, Connec- ticut, died July 8, 1814, at Ashford, Connec- ticut. He filled many public positions in Windham and Ashford, and for twenty-six years held the most important offices in the gift of his townsmen. He served in the revo- lutionary war, and was in Boston at the time of its evacuation by the British. There is in existence a letter that he wrote to his wife while there. He married, May 19, 1748, Elizabeth Perkins, of Norwich, Connecticut, who died September 28, 1823, at the age of ninety-one years. Children: I. Elizabeth, born May 22, 1749, died January 18, 1814. 2. Joseph, May 26, 1751. 3. Jason, July 10, 1753, died July 15, 1821. 4. John, June 10, 1755. 5. Martha, August 13, 1757, died Jan- uary 8, 1847. 6. William, November 14, 1759, served as a soldier in the colonial army, was taken prisoner at Fort Washington, No- vember 16, 1776, and remained a prisoner until he died, December 30 of that year. 7. Abner, see forward. 8. Phineas, born June 3, 1764, died in 1776. 9. Othniel, September 8, 1766. 10. Perkins Bushnell, August 17, 1770. II. Levi, August 19, 1773.
(VI) Abner, son of Joseph (2) and Eliza- beth (Perkins) Woodward, was born July 10, 1762, in Ashford, Connecticut, died Jan- uary 28, 1840. He was an extensive farmer in Ashford. According to "Connecticut in the Revolution," Abner Woodward was a pensioner of the revolutionary war, having served through several campaigns. He mar- ried (first) April 15, 1789, Miriam, born De- cember 15, 1766, in Ashford, daughter of Abraham Knowlton, and a relative of Colonel Knowlton, of Ashford, Connecticut. She was a descendant of Miles Standish, who caine over in the "Mayflower." She died August 14, 1793. Children: I. Hial, see forward. 2. Joseph, born December 30, 1792, died Octo- ber 17, 1793. He married (second) Eunice Fuller, born July 1, 1769. Children: 3. Jo- seph, born November 17, 1795, died August 31, 1851. 4. Jonathan, September 23, 1797, died December 10, 1875. 5. Jerusha, June 26, 1799, died October 27, 1847. 6. Jelina, Sep- tember 8, 1802. No date of death. 7. Ash- bel, June 26, 1804, died December, 1885. 8. Otis, August 10, 1807, died May 26, 1894. 9. Henry, 1800, died December 6, 1809. IO. Elizabeth Perkins, August, 1811, died Febru-
ary 26, 1814. 11. Royal, November 13, 1815,. died October 2, 1882.
(VII) Hial, son of Abner and Miriam (Knowlton) Woodward, was born in Ash- ford, September 20, 1790, died at Enfield, March 23, 1857. About 1819 he located in Enfield, Hartford county, Connecticut. He started tlie first United States mail coach on the east side of the Connecticut river, between Hartford, Connecticut, and Walpole, Massa- chusetts, continuing this service for seven years. He engaged in farming in Enfield, and in 1826 settled on the farm, later occu- pied by his son Henry C., where he passed the remainder of his life. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He married, February 8, 1818, Anna Higgins, daughter of Abram Andrews, of Haddam, Connecticut, where she was born December 30, 1796. She died Feb- ruary 15, 1875. Abram Andrews lived in Haddam, Connecticut. He was a soldier in both the revolution and the war of 1812, en- tering the former at the age of sixteen and serving several years. Until the beginning of the war of 1812 he carried on the grocery business in Hartford, but when the war broke out he offered his services to the government, and died while with his company at Green Bay, Wisconsin. He married Sarah Higgins, of Haddam, Connecticut. Children of Hial and Anna Higgins (Andrews.) Woodward : I. Miriam, born February 11, 1819; married Erastus Hemingway. 2. Anna Maria, Sep- tember 21, 1820, died April 30, 1880; married George L. Welton. 3. Emily, December 14, 1822, died November 28, 1884; married George Lord. 4. William, October 15, 1824, died May 28, 1873; married Abigail Smith. 5. Sarah C., July 2, 1826; married James B. Packard. 6. Abner, February 7, 1828, dieď May 11, 1895; married Lucy Harris. 7. Henry C., see forward. 8. Hial, May 24, 1832, died September 10, 1833. 9. Joseph, August 20, 1835. 10. Harriet L., August 24, 1837 ; married Caleb L. Packard.
(VIII) Henry C., son of Hial and Anna Higgins (Andrews) Woodward, was born October 27, 1829. He was reared to manhood on the homestead, receiving his education in the common school of the neighborhood. In. early youth he served an apprenticeship of two and one-half years and learned the car- penter's trade in Hartford, Connecticut. Dur- ing the year 1856 he went to Charlestown, South Carolina, where he was employed as. foreman of a gang of slave carpenters. The. following year he engaged in contracting on his own account. He returned to Enfield in 1858 and carried on extensively contracting and building there and in surrounding towns,
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including Boston and Hartford, employing many carpenters and laborers. He continued in that business until 1877, since then he has devoted his time and attention to agricultural pursuits, making a specialty of tobacco rais- ing and dairying, keeping for the latter pur- pose a large herd of cows. He has been very successful in all his undertakings, and besides his farm has acquired much valuable property in Windsor Locks. He is a charter member of Doric Lodge, No. 94, A. F. and A. M. Politically he was a Democrat with the Gree- ley movement in 1872; since then he has been an ardent Republican. He has taken an active interest in public affairs, and in 1891 origi- nated the citizens' ticket, which was success- ful for three years. Mr. Woodward is de- scended through his grandmother, Miriam Knowlton, from Captain William Knowlton, the ancestor of the American branch of the family, who was a native of England. He married in England Ann Elizabeth Smith, and is supposed to have sailed with his family from the port of London in 1632, bound for Nova Scotia. He was part owner of the ship in which he took passage. He died on the voyage, and his widow and children, after re- maining a short time in Nova Scotia, removed to Ipswich, Massachusetts. Mr. Woodward married, May 15, 1861, Adelaide, born in Simsbury, Connecticut, December 31, 1836, a daughter of Joseph N. and Wealthy Ann (Lord) Hall, of Windsor, Connecticut. Mr. Woodward and his wife have long been mem- bers of the First Congregational Church of Enfield, and identified with church work in all its branches. Children : I. Cassius Henry, born July 20, 1863; married, 1895, Sarah Morris, of Ping, Garfield county, Washing- ton. 2. Carrie Hall, July 7, 1865; living in Enfield, Connecticut. 3. Herbert William, January 17, 1872, died May 25, 1873. 4. Burton Knowlton, see forward. 5. Mary Adelaide, March 7, 1876, died January 2, 1902; married, June 28, 1899, Albert M. Jones, principal of the boys' literary depart- ment of Perkins Institute, South Boston, Mas- sachusetts.
(IX) Burton Knowlton, son of Henry C. and Adelaide (Hall) Woodward, was born June 30, 1873, in Enfield, Connecticut. He received his education in the public schools of Hartford, graduating from high school in 1892. He entered the employ of Hall & Hart- well, as clerk, at Troy, New York. In 1908 he was admitted to a partnership in the firm, and is at the head of the purchasing depart- ment, a position for which he is eminently fitted. The firm, now ( 1910), Hall, Hartwell & Company, manufacture shirts and collars,
have mills at Troy and Albany, New York, and are among the leading manufacturers in their line. Mr. Woodward is a member and an elder of the Second Presbyterian Church. He is a Republican in politics. He married, June 23, 1897, Grace E., daughter of George K. and Elizabeth (Abbe) Pryor, of Enfield, Connecticut. Children: I. Henry Abbe, born April 2, 1898. 2. Burton Knowlton (2), April 23, 1899. 3. Hermon Hall, February 1, 1901.
This ancient Scottish ROBERTSON family has an ancestry very interesting to trace. The Robertsons of Strowan are unquestion- ably one of the oldest and most eminent fam- ilies in Scotland, being the sole remaining branch of that royal house which occupied the throne and kingdom during the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, from which they can distinctly trace their descent. Says Skene: "It is undoubted that the Robertsons are descended from the ancient Earls of Athol, which house sprang from Duncan, King of Scotland, eldest son of Malcolm III surnamed Canmore."
The Earls of Athol were the ancestors of the Robertsons of Strowan. They were the Robertson family before the name Robertson was assumed. Crenan, Lord or Earl of Athol, married Balhoe (or Beatrice), daugliter of King Malcolm II. Crenan and Balho were the ancestors of all the Scottish kings from Duncan I. to Alexander III. in the male line except Macbeth. In America the allied fam- ilies include the Patrick Henry family of Vir- ginia, the Hamiltons and Livingstons of New York, Mac Naughtons, Mac Dougalls and many others famous in American history.
(I) John Robertson, of Peterhead, Aber- deenshire, Scotland, the immediate ancestor of William, "the founder," was a descendant of John Robertson, first Laird of Munton, Elginshire, and his wife, Lady Margaret Crighton. He married Anne Hamilton, one of whose ancestors, the first Lord Hamilton, married in 1474 Princess Mary, eldest daugh- ter of King James II. of Scotland. The Ham- ilton family has been known in Scotland since the thirteenth century, and has been a ducal family since 1643. During nearly a century the house of Hamilton was, after the royal family, heir to the Scottish throne. John and Anne (Hamilton) Robertson had a son William, who founded the family (here con- sidered) in America, and a daughter Anne, who died young.
(II) William, son of John and Anne (Hamilton) Robertson, was born January 24. 1752, at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland,
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died February 19, 1825, in Argyle, Washing- ton county, New York, on the Robertson homestead. When he was ten years old, after the death of his father, mother and only sis- ter Anne, he was sent to Kilkenny, Ireland, to live with his bachelor uncle, Gilbert. In 1772 he came to America with his uncle. They settled on Ballen Kill, town of Jackson, Wash- ington county, New York. Gilbert Robert- son returned to Ireland and died in Kilkenny. He left the farm to William, who later sold it and removed to Argyle, where he lived the remainder of his days. He married Mary Livingston, born September 26, 1757, at Tap- pan, Rockland county, New York, died Au- gust 7, 1793, in Argyle. She was the eldest daughter of Archibald and Eleanor (Mc- Naughton) Livingston. The Livingston an- cestry traces descent from the seventh Lord Livingston, Earl of Linlithgow and Calender, Scotland, and the Mac-Naughtons and the Mac Donalds, whose ancestor, John Mac Don- ald, Lord of the Isles, married Margaret, daughter of King Robert II. of Scotland. The line continues to the great Douglass Clan and George, fifth Earl Marischal of Scotland. Children: 1. Anna, married John McNeil and had issue. 2. Gilbert, see forward. 3. Archi- bald, married Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (Mahan) Cook, and had issue. 4. Jeanette, married James McDougall and had issue ; he was a descendant of Sir John McDougall, of Dunolly, whose grandson Alexander settled in Orange county, New York, took an active part in the French and revolutionary wars, and is said to have com- manded a brigade at the battle of Saratoga. 5. William, married Mary McDougall and had issue ; she was granddaughter of Captain Alexander Thomas of the revolution through his second daughter Sarah. 6. John, married Anna Small and had issue; she was also a granddaughter of Captain Alexander Thomas through his youngest daughter Phebe. 7. Hon. Alexander, married Jane Savage Mc- Dougall and had issue; he settled in the town of Salem and was surrogate of Washington county. New York. 8. Moses, unmarried. 9. Mary, married James Patten and had issue ; one of her sons, Hon. William Patten, served eight years in the Illinois legislature; he voted for Abraham Lincoln for senator at the time he was opposed by Stephen A. Doug- lass; he was for forty years ruling elder of the United Presbyterian Church at Sandwich, Illinois, and captain of Company H, One Ilundred and Fifty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, during the civil war.
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