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(III) Judge George Gordon, only son of James and Mary ( Botsford) Scott, was born in the town of Ballston, Saratoga county, New York, May 11. 1811, died September 7, 1886. He prepared for Union College, where he was graduated in 1831, being then twenty years of age. He embraced the pro- fession of law, for which he prepared with Palmer & Goodrich, at Ballston, finishing his ·course of preparation with Brown & Thomp- son, of the same village. He was admitted to the bar in 1834, and at once began the practice of his profession in Ballston. He soon became well established in business and commanded universal respect for his legal ability and manly, upright character. In 1838 he was commissioned judge of the .county courts by Governor Marcy, but re- signed before the expiration of his term. He was an active Democrat, and was elected to the state assembly in 1856, and re-elected in 1857. In the latter year he was elected state senator from the fifteenth district, and served his term, but declined re-election. In 1861 he was the nominee of his party for the high ·office of state comptroller, but was defeated
by Lucius Robinson. In 1859 he removed from the Milton part of Ballston Spa into his native town, and in 1860 was elected super- visor, being re-elected each year for twenty- one years, generally without opposition. In 1863 and 1876 he was chairman of the board. He delivered the historical address at Balls- ton Spa in 1876, and in 1877 was presiding officer at Bemis Heights upon the occasion of the celebration of the one hundredth anni- versary of that decisive battle of the revolu- tion. He survived all his associates on the bench, and was the last of fifteen senators of Saratoga county who were contemporaries. He married Lucy, daughter of Joel Lee, of Ballston Spa, and left issue.
(IV) James Lee, son of Judge Gordon and Lucy (Lee) Scott, was born at Ballston Spa, New York, January 9, 1856. He pre- pared for college at Greylock Institute, Soutlı Williamstown, Massachusetts, and entered Williams College in 1872, and was graduated from there in 1876. He prepared for the profession of law, and was actively engaged in legal practice at Ballston Spa until 1900, when he removed to Saratoga Springs. In 1886-87 he was county clerk of Saratoga county, and in 1898 was appointed referee in bankrutpcy for the counties of Saratoga, Schenectady and Warren, and held that office for twelve years. He has many important business interests. He is president of the Congress Spring Company ; president of the Ballston Refrigerating Storage Company, of Ballston; first vice-president of The Adiron- dack Trust Company, of Saratoga ; vice-presi- dent of the Security Steel & Iron Company, of Troy. His clubs are the University and Manhattan of New York City, the Maganas- sippi Fish & Game of Canada, the Saratoga and Saratoga Golf. Politically he is a Re- publican. He married a Miss Boone, of Louisville, Kentucky, a direct descendant of Squire Boone (brother of Daniel), and of Judge John Rowan, formerly United States senator from Kentucky. He has two sons, Brenton and Gordon.
The name Silliman, Sille- SILLIMAN mant or Sillivant is derived from a silly man not silly or witless, as used in modern times, but inno- cent, free from guile, a good man. About 1690 the name came to be spelled Silliman. It has been suggested by persons familiar with the pronunciation of family names that this family was of Irish extraction, but there has been no proof yet found.
(I) Daniel Silliman was in Fairfield in 1658. He married (first), in July, 1661, Peac-
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able Eggleston, widow of John Eggleston. He bought of Joseph Middlebrook, adminis- trator of John Eggleston's estate, ten acres of land left for the use of Eggleston's son. This lot was southwest of the present Black Rock bridge. He married ( second) Hannara, Hen- ichy or Hannah Hendrickson, widow of "Hendrick" or "Henry Hendrickson." He was one of the land dividend holders of the town. He died intestate in 1690, and the in- ventory of his estate, valued at three hundred and two pounds, was made January 13, 1690- 91. His property was divided between his wife Hannah and his three sons. It has not been determined whether he was related to Daniel Sillivant or Selevant, of New Haven, who married, before 1654, Abigail Cole, only daughter of "James Cole, of Hartford, and who married, October 17, 1654, Eliza Lam- berton, daughter of Captain George Lamber- ton, master of the famous phantom ship. or the ship in the air, lost in 1646. In the New Haven records, it says that a William Trow- bridge married, March 9, 1667, at Milford, Elizabeth, widow of Sillivant and daughter of George Lamberton, but before this Eliza- beth deeded the house and lands given to her husband and his former wife, Abigail, by James Cole, her father, in his will, and it also says that the said Daniel died in Vir- ginia in 1655, and he left a will, proved June 1655, naming his widow. Tradition says that Daniel of Fairfield was from Holland. Chil- dren by first wife: Daniel, Thomas, Robert, mentioned below.
(II) Robert, son of Daniel Silliman, mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Cornelius Hull. He died in 1748. Children : Sarah, baptized September 16, 1694; Nathaniel, September 27, 1696; Anne, March 12, 1698-99; Martha, August 24, 1701 ; Robert, March 19, 1703-04, mentioned below; Rebecca, April 8, 1705; Ebenezer, September 21, 1707.
(III) Robert (2), son of Robert (1) Silli- man, was baptized March 19, 1703-04. Ile married (first), October 20, 1715, Ruth, daughter of Samuel Tredwell, of Pequonnock. She died March 15, 1756. He married (sec- ond), Mary Morehouse, December 14, 1756. Children by first wife: Robert, born Septem- ber 26, 1716, mentioned below; Ruth, bap- tized August 24, 1718; Daniel, born Decem- ber 31, 1722; Sarah, February 17, 1728-29; John, April 9, 1731. By second wife: Ruth, born August 19, 1760. There were perhaps other children by second wife.
(IV) Rev. Robert (3) Silliman, son of Robert (2) Silliman, was born September 26, 1716, at Fairfield, died in 1781 at Saybrook. He married Annie, daughter of Samuel
Cooke, granddaughter / Tlons Vode and great-granddaughter of Thomas Cooke Sun- uel Cooke was born November 22 1687! vad became a Congregational minister- aded in Stratfield, Connecticut, now Bridgeport with a salary of a hundred pounds a year with bis firewood. He is described as of digital p- pearance and manner, wearing a particularly careful ministerial dress. He married Anne Trowbridge. a girl of twenty, only daughter of John Trowbridge, of New Haven. For a time Cooke was the principal of the Hop- kins grammar school. The wife of John Trowbridge was a daughter of Governor I.cete, a distinguished member of an old Eng- lish noble family. Anne was the youngest child of seven. Robert Silliman moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, to succeed Rev. John Eells, as pastor, and continued there for thirty years. He accepted a call to Say- brook, Connecticut, January 8. 1772. Solomon A. Silliman has in his possession a copy of the old church record of Saybrook, which contains the proceedings of a meeting of the society to give a call to Rev. Robert Silliman. and his letter of acceptance. It was voted at this meeting to give him a salary of sixty pounds and twenty cords of firewood a year, the sixty pounds to be one-third in cash, and two-thirds in food products at the market price in that town. His wife died two years and a half before him. His own death came unexpectedly while he was visiting. Among his children were: 1. Samuel Cooke, died February 14, 1798; married Elizabeth Strat- ton and Dinah Comstock, and lived on the homestead. 2. Dr. Joseph, mentioned below. 3. John, who built the first boat that navigated the Connecticut river propelled by any power but the wind, namely horse- power ; he loaded it with grain to go up and down the river, and, running against a "snag," it sank. He afterward left that part of the country and moved to a place north of Troy, called Half Moon, and from him have come three or four generations who have lived along the Hudson in this vicinity, some of whom have been prominent business men in Troy; one each of the third and fourth gen- erations are still living here, also some in West Troy, now called Watervliet. In the census of 1700, the only heads of families of this surname at Stamford and Norwalk, which are reported together, were Dr. Jo- seph, who had two sons under sixteen, and three females, and Samuel Cooke, who had one son under sixteen and one female.
(V) Dr. Joseph Silliman, son of Rev. Rob- ert (3) Silliman, was born about 1700. He removed from New Canaan at the age of fif-
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teen, but returning later settled there. He was a prominent physician and held various offices of trust and honor. He died in Bedford, New York, aged seventy-one. He married, No- vember 23, 1785, Martha Leeds. Children : Joseph, born August 13, 1786, graduate of Yale, married Martha Mitchell; William, January 17, 1788, graduate of Yale, married - St. John : Eliabeth Leeds, October 22, 1789, married Hon. Minot Mitchell; Samuel Cooke, January 1I, 1792, graduate of Yale, married Uriah Reeds' daughter; Elisha, De- cember 22, 1793; Ann, October 23, 1795, died young ; John Leeds, mentioned below.
(VI) John Leeds, son of Dr. Joseph Silli- man, was born at New Canaan, Connecticut, June 14, 1798, died at White Plains, New York, May 2, 1879. He was a farmer. Orig- inally a Whig, he supported the Republican party after it was established. In religion he was a Presbyterian and active in good works. He married, December 24, 1822, Catharine Mary, born at Poundridge, Westchester county, New York, October 13, 1802, daugh- ter of Solomon Lockwood (see Lockwood VI). Children: William, Joseph, John, Mi- not M., Ann Eliza, Chauncey M., Solomon Augustus, Charles H., Charles H. M. and Caroline M.
(VII) Solomon Augustus, son of John Leeds Silliman, was born in Brutus, Cayuga county, New York, November 5, 1837. He was educated in the public schools of his na- tive town and the Union School at Weeds- port, New York. He also took a private course in accounting and commercial branches at Auburn, New York. He came to New York City in November, 1858, and engaged in temporary business for a year, then entered a firm dealing in trimmings and millinery goods. The firm imported goods extensively. He was in charge of the finan- cial part of the business and of the accounts. In 1888 he came to Troy, New York, and since that time has been virtually retired from business, though he has taken some engage- ments as an expert accountant. He enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment ( Brooklyn regiment ), New York National Guard, in the civil war, in 1862, and served from October 6, 1862, to May 1, 1867. He was for four years a member of the State National Guard Association. In politics he is a staunch Re- publican, and his first vote was cast for Abra- ham Lincoln. In religion he is a Presby- terian. Ile was formerly a member of the Union League club of New York City. He married June 26. 1879, Martha Ann, horn at Troy, daughter of Henry Ingram ( see Ingram VIII).
The surname Lockwood LOCKWOOD is of very ancient origin and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. It is a place name, and the family has several branches in England, in Staffordshire, Yorkshire, county Essex and Northampton. The coat-of-arms borne by Rev. Richard Lockwood, pastor of Dingley, Northampton, was: Argent, a fesse between three martletts sable.
(I) Robert Lockwood, immigrant ancestor, came to New England about 1630 and set- tled in Watertown, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman, March 9, 1636-37, and was the executor of the estate of one Edmund Lockwood, supposed to have been his brother. He removed to Fairfield, Connecticut. He was recorded as a settler there as early as 1641 and died there in 1668. He was admit- ted a freeman of that state, May 20, 1662. He was appointed sergeant at Fairfield in May, 1657. He is said to have lived for a time in Norwalk, Connecticut. He married Susannah , who married ( second) Jef- frey Ferris, and died at Greenwich. Chil- dren : Jonathan, mentioned below ; Deborah, born October 12, 1636; Joseph, August 6, 1638; Daniel, March 21, 1640; Ephraim, De- cember 1, 1641 ; Gershom, September 6, 1643; John; Abigail, married John Barlow, of Fair- field ; Sarah ; Mary, married Jonathan Heusted.
(II) Lieutenant Jonathan, son of Robert Lockwood, was born in Watertown, Massa- chusetts, September 10, 1634, died May 12, 1688, in Greenwich, Connecticut, in his fifty- fourth year. He married Mary, daughter of Jeffrey Ferris, who married, late in life, Mrs. Susannah Lockwood, widow of Robert Lock- wood, and Jonathan's mother. Jonathan signed a paper on January 1, 1657, at East- towne, in the New Netherlands, in which he promised allegiance to the Dutch gover- nor as long as he lived within his jurisdic- tion. He lived in Stamford, Connecticut, ()c- tober 16, 1660, and in 1665 he sold his es- tate there and moved to Greenwich. He was made a freeman here in 1670. He was assis- tant in May, 1671. and in 1672 was "one of the twenty-seven proprietors." He repre- sented the town in the legislature for four years. At his death, the people met in town meeting and passed resolutions deploring the loss of so valuable a citizen, and he was greatly mourned. He was deputy to the gen- eral assembly several times. He was ap- pointed by the court, with three others, to determine the boundary line between Green- wich and the colony of New York, from Mamaroneck river to Hudson river. On May
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9, 1688, he made a deed, a division of prop- erty, and named his wife and children. This was three days before his death. His wife, after his death, made provision for her chil- dren, when about to marry Sergeant Thomas Merritt, of Rye, June 5, 1696. Children : Jonathan, born about 1663; Robert ; Gershom ; Still John, about 1674; Joseph, mentioned be- low ; Sarah; Abigail.
(III) Joseph, son of Lieutenant Jonathan Lockwood, was born in 1675, in Stamford, Connecticut, died 1759, aged eighty-four, at Poundridge, Westchester county, New York, where he moved in 1743. He was admitted a freeman, February 7, 1697. He married (first), May 19, 1698, Elizabeth Ayres, who died December 16, 1715. He married (sec- ond), August 10, 1716, Margery, born Oc- tober 4, 1683, died January 2, 1736-37, daughter of James and Hannah (Scofield) Webb. Children by first wife: Joseph, born March 15, 1699, mentioned below; Hannah, March 24, 1701 ; John, September 18, 1703; Nathaniel, April 1, 1706, died young; Eliza- beth, May 15, 1708; Israel, June 4, 1710; Mary; Reuben, December 15, 1715. By sec- ond wife: Nathaniel, May 20, 1717; Nathan, March 25, 1719; James, July 15, 1722.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Lock- wood, was born March 15, 1699, at Stam- ford. He moved with his father to Pound- ridge in 1743, and here he died June 15, 1757. He was one of the proprietors of the Stam- ford Patent, which was granted in 1685. He married Sarah, born April 1, 1706, died in 1790, daughter of Joshua and Mary ( Pickett) Hoyt. Children: Eliakim, born February 28, 1728-29; Joseph, June 30, 1731, men- tioned below ; Elizabeth, March 7, 1733; Gil- bert, 1736, died 1740; Ebenezer, March 31, 1737; Rachel, January 19, 1739; Mercy ; Hezekiah, killed by a fence rail, aged seven years ; Prudence.
(V) Captain Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Lockwood, was born June 30, 1731, in Stam- ford, died March 17, 1792, at Poundridge. Joseph Lockwood was elected town clerk of Old Poundridge in 1760. He was chosen captain of a military company, and his com- mission was issued September 13, 1775. On June 10, 1775, a list of men who went from Manchester to Ticonderoga under him is given by him. He was chosen as one of the competent officers by the committee of safety at New York. He was unanimously chosen chairman of the first meeting of the congre- gation of the Presbyterian Society at Pound- ridge in 1760. He married Hannah Close, who died December 22, 1806, daughter of Solomon Close, of North Salem, New York.
She married ( second ) Captain James Rich- ards, of New Canaan, Connecticut, a wealthy man, who died at New Canaan, May 17, 1810, aged eighty-seven, after being blind for sev- eral years. Children : Hannah; Sarah, born 1761 ; Joseph, December 3, 1764; Solomon, August 28, 1766, mentioned below ; Prudence, 1767; Mindwell, married Jotham Waring; Mercy; Matilda, died young; Matilda, mar- ried Seth Kellogg; Nancy, married Henry Jones.
(VI) Solomon, son of Captain Joseph (3) Lockwood, was born August 28, 1766, at Poundridge, died March 19, 1841. He mar- ried Mary Close, of Greenwich, born April 16, 1770, died May 6, 1848, daughter of Odle Close. Children : Bethia, born June 21. 1791 ; Odle, May 4, 1793 : Leander, Novem- ber 21, 1794; Joseph. September 23. 1796; Hannah, March 9, 1798: William, September 14, 1800; Catharine Mary, October 13, 1802, married John L. Silliman, died April 17, 1879 (see Silliman VI) : Sarah Elizabeth, Septem- ber 10, 1805; Solomon, September 5, 1810, died September 22, 1811.
Randolph, son of Ingel'ram or
INGRAM Ing'ram, was the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby in the reign of Henry II, 1133-89. He had two sons, Robert and William.
Robert Ingram, knight, son of Randolph, was of such importance in the reign of Henry III that the Prior and Convent of Lenton granted to him a yearly rent out of their lands in Sheynton and Nottingham, in recog- nition of his military service in their defense. His arms are painted in Temple Newsham, or Newsam, England, which is an immense estate, six miles long and four wide, about four and a half miles east of Leeds. It is now called the Ingram Estate, and at first it was a settlement of Knights Templar in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. After their disper- sion, it was granted by Edward III to Sir John Darcy, and descended to Sir Thomas Darcy, who was beheaded by Henry VIII, and the estate was forfeited to the crown. In 1554 it was again granted by Henry VIII to Mathew, Earl of Lennox, and here was born his son, Henry Darnley, who later mar- ried Mary, Queen of Scots. The estate de- scended to their son, James I, of England, and from him to his kinsman, Esme Stuart, Duke of Lennox, from whom it passed to Sir Arthur Ingram, the first of the Lords Viscount Irwin, one of the conditions being that the room in which Lord Darnley was born in should remain unaltered, and this room is still called the "King's Chamber."
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Sir Arthur Ingram, who is supposed to have been born about 1570, was celebrated for his valor as a cavalier. He was a near relative of Wentworth, the celebrated Earl of Stafford. He was twice married; first to Eleanor, daughter of Sir Henry Slingsby, of the "Red House," and second to Lady Kath- erine, daughter of Thomas, Lord Viscount Fairfax of Gilling. Sir Arthur died in 1655. His portrait in cavalier costume, that of the First Viscount Irwin in full armor, and of Henry, the second Viscount Irwin in half ar- mor, all nearly full length, were in the col- lection of the Bishop of California, William Ingraham Kip, D. D., LL. D., who died in 1894. His children were Henry and Arthur.
Henry, son of Sir Arthur Ingram, was born between 1595 and 1600. At the time of the restoration, six years after the death of his father, he was created a peer of Scot- land by Charles II, with the title of Viscount Irwin, by letters patent, dated May 23, 1661, as a recompense to the family for their loy- alty. He married Anne, daughter of Mon- tacute, Earl of Manchester, a leader in par- liament. The male branch in England, as descended from Sir Henry, the second Vis- count Irwin, became extinct with Charles Ingram, ninth Viscount Irwin, who died in 1778. His daughter, the Marchioness of Hertford, and Lady William Gordon, suc- cessively inherited Temple Newsam, and from them it passed to their sister. Mrs. Hugo Maynell, whose son took the name of In- gram, and his descendants are the present owners of the family estate.
Arthur, of Barrowby, son of Sir Arthur Ingramı, and brother to Henry Ingram, was born between 1595 and 1600. He married a daughter of Sir John Mallory about 1615, and genealogists agree that it was from him that the Ingram family in America is descended.
(I) Richard, doubtless son of Arthur In- gram, came to America between 1638 and 1642. He settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor in 1645. Some years later he moved to Northampton, Massa- chusetts, where in 1668, late in life, he mar- ried, probably his second marriage, Joan Rockwell Baker, daughter of William Rock- well and widow of Jeffrey Baker, of Wind- sor, Connecticut. He contributed a sum at the time of the general subscription for the support for Ilarvard college in 1672-73. He died in August, 1683, and his widow died September 16, 1683, both at Northampton. He is thought to have been a brother of Jared and Edward Ingram, as they all lived near together at times, and the name is the same. Edward came to America in 1635, and
Richard between 1638 and 1642, and Jared in 1635. There is also a John Ingram, who settled at Boston and Hadley, who is thought to have been Richard's son.
(II) John, very likely son of Richard In- gram, was born in England about 1642. He come to New England when a young man, and settled first at Boston, Massachusetts. He removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, with two others in 1661, and was admitted a free- man in 1663. He was a member of Joseph Kellogg's company of Hadley, under Captain William Turner, and was engaged in the fight at Turner's Falls, during King Philip's war, May 19, 1676. He died June 22, 1722. He married, 1664, Elizabeth, daughter of Sam- uel and Elizabeth Gardner, of Hadley, and she died November 29, 1684. Children : John, born June 29, 1665; Jadiah, August 16, 1668; Samuel, October 8, 1670; Ebenezer, February 3, 1673; Nathaniel, October 8, 1674, mentioned below; Jonathan, 1676; Elizabeth, May 1, 1679; Abigail, January 12, 1683.
(III) Nathaniel, son of John Ingram, was born at Hadley, October 8, 1674. He mar- ried, October 20, 1696, Esther, born March 31, 1674, daughter of Chileab and Hannah (Hitchcock) Smith, of Hadley. He and his son Nathaniel had a grant of land at South Hadley, which the Ingram family retained and occupied one hundred and seventy-five years. It was sold in the spring of 1904. Children : Esther, born July 23, 1697 ; Eliza- beth, April 6, 1699; Abigail, August 24, 1700; Mercy, April 15, 1702; Ebenezer, November 18, 1703; Nathaniel, May 18, 1708; Hannah, April 14, 1711; Jonathan, June 5, 1713, men- tioned below : Sarah, October 2, 1717.
(IV) Jonathan, son of Nathaniel Ingram, was horn June 5. 1713, died November 12 or 14, 1748. He married, May 18, 1743, Mary, daughter of John Montague, Jr. Children : Jonathan, born January 5, 1745, mentioned be- low; John, August 9, 1746; Mary, Novem- ber 21, 1748.
(V) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (I) Ingram, was born January 5, 1745. Children : Jonathan, mentioned below; Samuel, March, 1781; son, April 20, 1783; Joanna, baptized April 17, 1785; Ira, baptized December 31, 1786; Elisha, baptized April 17, 1789.
(V1) Jonathan (3), son of Jonathan (2) Ingram, was born at Hadley, May 2, 1779, died at Marlborough, Vermont, August II, 1855. Ile was a farmer. He moved to Marlborough among the early settlers. He was a deacon of the Congregational church there. He married, August 25, 1802, Polly, daughter of Jonathan Underwood. Children :
Henry Ingram
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Henry, William, Jonathan, Porter, Harriet, Polly, Joanna, Lucy, Ira.
(VII) Henry (2), son of Jonathan (3) Ingram, was born at Marlborough, Vermont, December 7, 1803, died at Troy, New York, August 10, 1890. He was educated in the Marlborough public schools, and worked dur- ing his youth on the homestead. He went to Northfield. Massachusetts, when he came of age, and in 1830 removed to Troy, New York, where he embarked in the grocery business. Subsequently he was engaged in manufacturing and in the wholesale liquor trade in the firm of H. Ingram & Company, in which his brother William was his partner. He was one of the organizers of the National State Bank and vice-president and president for many years. He retired a few years be- fore he died. In politics he was a Democrat, and greatly interested in public affairs, but
never sought office for himself. He was a member of the Universalist church, and was one of the first of the family to leave the Presbyterian church and join the liberal de- nomination. He married, October 12, 1836, at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Martha, daughter of Simeon and Lucy (Deming) Butler. Chil- dren: 1. James Henry, born at Troy, Feb- ruary 13, 1838, died at Brooklyn, New York, February 27, 1900; enlisted in the civil war in the Sixth New York Independent Bat- talion and served three years; promoted to rank of sergeant; was in the mounted artil- lery in the Army of the Potomac and took part in nineteen important battles; was for a time under General John A. Logan ; captured and confined in Libby prison and paroled. Soon after he engaged in business with his father and continued until the eighties, when his father retired, and he went into business in Brooklyn ; was chief of the fire department for years and captain of Read Steamer Com- pany ; was sheriff of the county ; was a Demo- crat; married, but left no children. 2. Jona- than E., born July 15, 1839, died April I, 1844. 3. Charles, December 7, 1841, died October 21, 1842. 4. Francenah J., July 10, 1843, died April 8, 1844. 5. Martha A., April 18, 1846. 6. Emma, June 1, 1848. 7. George, October 17, 1851, died November 18, 1851.
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