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emigrated with his family to New Netherland late in 1654. Re- ceived with his brother, Joseph, and their wives, to the fellowship of the church at New Amsterdam, the first care was to secure a home, and on April 3 ensuing the brothers bought a house and lot on Broadway, near Wall Street. Both entered the public ser- vice, Resolved being made "overseer of the workmen" .* On
* Joseph Waldron, "living near the hoeck of Passenger Street," in Amsterdam, and on the eve of his second marriage, appeared before the orphan master, May 12. 1649, according to custom, and gave bonds for the maintenance of his two children by his late wife, Aeltie Hendricks; as "the children by the former marriage had no property." One of these perhaps was left at .Amsterdam with its grandmother, Maria Goverts, since it is not named in our records here, and Waldron was wont to order part of his salary to be paid his said mother. The last time noticed was on .Augus: 30, 1661, being two months' wages, 48 florins. He was butler to the garrison, and had charge of the magazine of the company. Waldron died in 1663. Just before his end, sending for a notary to draw up his will, he said "there would be nothing left. but if anything should remain, it should not be touched, but go to pay the passage of his widow, who intended to leave for Fatherland." Upon these representations, and it appearing that there were "six minor children, two of whom are of a former marriage," the orphan's court of New Amsterdam, December 10, 1663, at the desire of the widow. Annetie Daniels, appointed Resolved Waldron, "her husband's brother." and Hendrick Jansen Vander Vin, "who is her oldest and most intimate friend," as guardians of her surviving children. It is uncertain whether she visited Holland, as she was married here, in 1668, to Harman Smeeman, and again, in 1682, to Coenract Ten Eyck. Joseph Waldron's children known to us were Sarah, Daniel, Mary, Anna, Deborah and Jolin. Deborah died in infancy, and John, when not quite 8 years old, was accidentally killed in his step-father's mill, January 23, 1669. Sarah, born about 1646, at Amsterdam, married, in 1662, Jan Gerritsen Van Voorst, and in 1666 Laurens Jansen Colevelt, by whom she had children whose descendants are yet found. Mary. born 1652, married Hendrick Gerritsen Blauvelt (see page 363). and .Anna, born 1657. married John Delamontagne. To her son Daniel and son-in-law Delamontagne, Annetie Daniels, then for the third time a widow, conveyed some city property. May 10, 1688. She was afterward allowed pay by government "for tending sick soldiers." Daniel Waldron, born 1650, at Amsterdam, married, in 1673, Sarah Rutgers. daughter of Rutger Willemsen. He was a gun-stock maker, but while serving in the city guards against Leisler lost an eye and was otherwise badly hurt by the premature discharge of "a great gone," March 19, 1691. and which killed several persons, including Jacob De Key, the De Key ancestor, and Major Patrick MacGregory, from whom are descendants, I believe, the Gregory family of Orange County, of which was the late Dr. H. H. Gregory, of Harlem. Daniel Waldron and his son Joseph were admitted freemen August 30, 1698. He had children, Joseph, born 1674: Judith, born 1675. married Mr. Isaac Sclover; Rutger, born 1677: Annetie, born 1681, married Francis . Buys and Isaac Van Duersen; Sarah, born 1683, married Carsten Burger: John. born 1685: Maria, born 1686, married Frederick Williams; Cornelia. horn 1688. married Gerrit de Forest; and Catharine, born 1689, married Isaac Boelen. The last died in her 83d year, in 1772, her sisters, Sarah and Cornelia, surviving her; and of the others, Judith lived to be 85, Annetie, 84, and Mary 80. Their mother died January 7. 1738, having reached her 95th year. Truly a long-lived race.
" Joseph Waldron, a "cordwainer." married, in 1696, Anna Woodward; his will. dated New York. May 5, 1715, was proved October 10, 1722. His children that sur- vived infancy were Jannetie, born 1698, who married Henricus Boelen: Sarah, born 1701; Catharine, born 1703, married. 1726, Hendrick Van Winckel, of Bergen, New Jersey: Joseph, born 1708, cordwainer, married, 1731, Effie Ilellacker, both living. 1758, at Pemberpogh, on Bergen Neck (parents of Jacobus, of Staten Island, black- smith, who married, 1762, Elizabeth Holland, widow, and had issue Joseph, 1765. etc. ) : Benjamin, born 1711, hatter. married Maria Debevoise (by whom a daughter. Maria, who married Isaac Meet), and was living in 1758 with his second wife, Bridget Haviland, at Newtown, L. I .; Daniel, born 1713, a cordwainer, admitted freeman, N. Y., 1737, where he died about 1756. having married three wives, viz .: Maria Pell. 1735: Maria Gautier. 1743: and Teuntie Bogert. 1746, and leaving two sons, Daniel, house carpenter (married, 1759, Catharine Turner), and Joseph, born 1740. feltmaker (married, 1761, Mary Foshay) ; and Jacobus, born 1717, who died July 22, 1730.
Rutger Waldron, a turner, made freeman February . 1699. married, 1700. De- borah Pell, and. 1714. Cornelia Morse. He died. 1720, leaving Daniel, born 1703 ( father of William, of New York. baker, who married. 1752. Ifillegond Minthorne. and died 1762, leaving children Jane. John. Daniel and Richard) ; Samuel, horn 1705. of New York, blockmaker, married. 1746. Mary Kip, and died April 2, 1772. leaving son Richard; Richard, born 1707, made freeman, 1732, married, 1734. Anna de Graaf, widow of John Langedyke, made property as a baker and shopkeeper. and died January 4, 1775, without surviving children; Johannes, born 1713, married. Ness. was living 1774, with children Christopher. horn 1743: Deborah, born 1745; and Rachael, born 1746; Sarah, born 1716, living unmarried
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April 17, 1657, he applied for the burgher right, and under May 3 occurs this entry: "Resolved Waldron being admitted a burgher, hath on this date taken the oath of fidelity." His salary was in- creased soon after. Found to be efficient, the Director and Coun- cil, on May 25, 1658, appointed him deputy to the schout-fiscael, or attorney-general, de Sille; the Burgomasters being ordered, October 28, to recognize him as deputy sheriff. Very exact in carrying out his orders and in enforcing the laws, he was charged by the Quakers, some of whom he arrested, with being "hard- hearted". He visited, upon public errands, every part of the province, and even the neighboring colonies ; and in 1659 was sent with Augustine Heermans to Maryland, to vindicate the Dutch title on the Delaware. The next year the directors in Holland would have made Waldron sheriff of the Dutch towns on Long Island, but Stuyvesant wrote them, June 25. 1660: "Respecting the person, Resolved Waldron, we may be permitted to remark. that when appointed as a deputy to the fiscael. and as schout-by- nacht, in this city, he conducted himself with so much fidelity and vigilance that he gave to us and the magistrates great satisfac- tion, so that his services, both as respects the Company and the fiscael. can hardly be dispensed with, besides that he would not be so well fitted for the shrievalty of the said villages, as he can- not well wield his pen ; wherefore, till your further orders on this point. we shall ask his continuance in that office." Stuyvesant was allowed to retain his favorite officer while his own rule lasted.
On the accession of the English, Waldron took the oath of allegiance (October, 1664), but retired to private life at Harlem with the disappointment of one whose interests, as well as sym- pathies, all lay with the former government. It was still a pleas- ure to correspond with kindred in Holland. Mortien Govert, of Amsterdam, writing to Resolved. April 12, 1666, says, "Brother : Tall Anna has gone over with the supercargo who lived in Nicholas Carmen's house." Waldron had secured some property at Harlem (see pages 256, 264, 267), and was soon called to public office. from which he seldom had a respite for the rest of his life. He was one of the five patentees named in Nicolls' patent, and also served in the eldership. He died in 1690; his inventory taken that year, May 17, embraced lands, slaves, farm- stock, etc. The following items stand first : "Three lots of land lying upon Van Keulen's Hook, with one lot of land lying upon
1774; and Cornelia. born 1718, who married Juriaen Blaau, issue William, Cornelia, Sarah and Henry Blaau, or Blaw.
John Waldron was a turner, and married Rachel Lefferts, daughter of Leffert Pietersen Van Haughwout, of Flatbush, to which place Waldron removed, and was there living in 1755. a farmer. He had issue Daniel, Leffert, Benjamin, etc .. of whom Leffert, who died 1748, was father of Johannes, of Middlebush, New Jersey. (See Leffert Genealogy, pages 28, 29, from which we differ somewhat.) Daniel and his wife, Hepzibah, also went to New Jersey, had Johannes, born 1737, etc., and one of their younger sons, Leffert, born 1754. died August 20, 1847. was the father by his wife. Sarah Colthar, of the present respected Cornelius I .. Waldron, of Martin- ville, New Jersey, father-in-law of Charles H. Horton, M. D.
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Jochem Pieters, and a house with its lot (erf), comprising build- - ings and plantation, as it is situate and lying at this village; as also a piece of meadow lying in the Round Meadow."*
But Waldron owed so much that the heirs agreed to let his son Samuel take all the property, real and personal, on condition that he assume the debts and the support of the widow. This was subscribed to May 10, 1690, and pursuant to which, on the 17th, the town clerk, Bertholf, took a list of the lands and effects, in presence of the constable, etc., and on June 5 the magistrates ap- pointed Adolph Meyer and Daniel Tourneur to appraise the same. But on the 14th the heirs executed a paper assigning "two-thirds of the estate of our deceased father, aforesaid, to his creditors, for the payment of his debts, and the widow agreeably to law shall retain one-third." On July 16 ensuing, the widow, for 1,200 guilders, conveyed to Arent Harmens, "a lot of land on Jochem Pieters, being No. 12 on the survey." On the 25th ensuing a public sale of part of the farm-stock, etc., took place; and the next day the widow sold to John Hendricks Van Brevoort, for 600 guilders, "a half lot lying upon Van Keulen's Hook, being No. 9, the other half belonging to Adolph Meyer." On November 25, 1690, the widow and heirs sold to Samuel Waldron, for 3,800 guilders, "the farm of his deceased father, Resolved Waldron, consisting of two lots and a half of land, lying upon Van Keulen's Hook, with the meadows, buildings, and planting:" on the same date released to John Dyckman, for 400 guilders, "a certain piece of meadow lying in the Round Meadow, at Spuyten Duyvel, next to the meadow of Coenraet and Meyndert:" and also ratified the sale of Nos. 3 and 4. New Lots, which Resolved Waldron had deeded to Samuel. February 20, 1686, and he to his brother, Jo- hannes, May 21. 1689.
Resolved Waldron ( 1). born May 10, 1610, married first. Rebecca Hendricks, before 1647, had three children. He married second, Tanneke Nagel, May 10, 1654, had five children, and died in 1690. He had issue by first wife :
2. William, born at Amsterdam, Holland. February 10. 1647. married Engeltie Stoutenburg, February 10, 1671, had seven children.
3. Rebecca, born at Amsterdam, in 1649. married first, John Nagel. August 27. 1670, had ten children, and second, John Dyckman, May 15. 1600. had two children.
4. Aeltie. born at Amsterdam, in 1651, married Captain Johannes Vermilye, August 27. 1670. had ten children.
* The statement in the Annals of Newtown, page 381, that Resolved Waldron "acquired a large property at Hoorn's Hook, within the limits of Harlem. on which he located," was made on the authority of Mr. Isaac .Adriance, seldom inaccurate in such matters; but was found, on fuller investigation, to apply to Samuel, son of Resolved Waldron.
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RESOLVED (I) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
5. Barent, born at New Amsterdam, in 1655, married Jannetie Meynderts, September 25, 1687, had six children.
6. Ruth, baptized May 10, 1657, married first, John Delamater, August 11, 1678, had nine children. She married second, Hendrick Bogert, September 15, 1703.
7. Cornelia, baptized February 30, 1659, married Peter Van Oblienis, June 8, 1685.
8. Johannes, born at Harlem, September 12, 1665, married Anna Van Dalsen, April 25, 1690, had seven children, and died in 1753.
9. Samuel, born at Harlem, April 10, 1670, married Neeltie Blood- good, March 5, 1692, had ten children, and died in 1737.
William Waldron (2), (son of Resolved),* of New York, cooper (see page 333). was made viewer of pipestaves, June 7, 1676. On December 17, 1679, he and the other coopers, in all twenty-two, formed a combination to maintain their prices upon casks and barrels, and prevent underselling. For this they were proceeded against before the governor and council, and fined each fifty shillings, for "the church or pious uses". The cullers of pipestaves were dismissed, and Waldron and his partner, Peter- sen, were sworn as cullers, February 16, 1680. Waldron was ap- pointed one of the public measurers December 1, 1702. He was still living in 1710. By Engeltie, daughter of Peter Stouten- burgh, married February 10, 1671 (see page 272),
WILLIAM (2) HAD ISSUE:
10. Rebecca, baptized June 21. 1672, married first, John Daven- port, August 28, 1696, had two children. She married second, David Kent, had one child.
II. Peter, baptized June 23, 1675, married Tryntie, daughter of Cornelius Vandenbergh, September 9, 1698, had ten chil- dren, and died May 3. 1725. Went to Albany and died there.
12. Hendrick. born April 10. 1677. married Maria Van Tassel, March 2. 1706, had six children.
13. William, born January 16, 1680, married Johanna, daughter of John Nagel, March 10, 1705, had five children. After 1717 he seems to have left the city. On his petition an
* Capt. John Waldron, who commanded his Majesty's ship "Greyhound" was probably not from either of our Waldron families. He married at New York, by license of October 27, 1704, Cornelia Hardenberg. About 1721 he gave up his com- mand, and became a merchant; was vestryman of Trinity Church, 1725 to 1732, and captain of the Blue Artillery company, and as such had charge of the military stores for some 20 years. He died about 1762. His daughter Mary married Daniel Stiles. 1713, married, 1736, Elizabeth Hose, but both died soon after their marriage (Gerar- dus in 1737, at Hurley. U'lster County), leaving no issue. The widow of John, Jr., married, 1737, Johannes Remsen.
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act was passed in 1717 to exempt his sloop, the "Mary and Hannah". from paying tonnage.
14. Aefie, born 1682.
15. Jannetie, born 1692, married first. Thomas Powell. March 25. 1711, had three children. She married second. William Adams, had two children.
16. Wyntie, baptized September 30, 1694.
Barent Waldron (5). (son of Resolved). whose possession of Gloudie's Point gave him a place among the patentees, married September 25, 1687, Jannetie, daughter of John Meynderts. ( See page 212.) Having much of his father's aptness for pub- lic business. he served the town in various trusts, especially in that of collector. His name as assessor stands in Montgomery's char- ter. 1731, and he signs the Mill Camp grant in 1738. At this date Jochem and Jacob Gardenier appear to occupy his farm. Being aged, he sold his farm, August 6, 1740, to John R. Myer. of New York. (See page 602.)
BARENT (5) HAD ISSUE:
17. Tanneke, born November 3. 1688, married John Adriaens ( Ariaense), March 25, 1720. had four children.
18. Belitie, baptized April 6, 1690. married Isaac Delamater. Jr .. August 9. 1717, had four children.
19. Johannes. baptized August 7, 1692, married first, Susannah. daughter of Isaac Delamater, June 5, 1719, had seven chil- dren. He married second. Margaret Roll. April 13. 17,29. had five children. Later removed to Philipsburgh. West- chester County, N. Y., both living to an advanced age."
* There was also Johannes Waldron, who lived at Philipsburgh, probably related to. but not easily identified with, our Waldrons, if, as his marriage record says, lie was born "at Utrecht, in Holland." He married, in 1720, Janneke Bogert, of Tappan. probably a daughter (not named. page 448) of Peter and Feytie, and. if we mistake not, was the father of Peter Waldron. born in Fordham, who, while living at Philips- burgh. married October 10. 1747. Marritie Ackerman.t He became a freeman of New York in 1752. and had sons David. born 1754, and Isaac. 1756; the first. by trade a gunsmith, and a much respected citizen, married, 1773. Elizabeth Tremper, and died November 9, 1811, at 418 Broadway.
i David Ackerman, whose descendants are very numerous, was from Berlikum. in Brabant. His departure from Amsterdam for this country, in 1662, is mentioned page 95, but considering the silence of our records regarding him it may be doubted whether he survived the voyage. He had six children, who came over. viz .: Lysbeth. born 1642; Anneken, born 1644; David. horn 1646: Lourens, born 1650: Lodewyck. born 1654. and Abraham, born 16:6. Lysbeth being the eldest, upon her seems to have devolved the care of the younger children. She and her sister joined the church at New Amsterdam January 6, 1663, being the first communion season after their arrival. They lived in the Marckvelt Steeg. In 1664 Anneke married .Nathaniel Pietersen Hennion, from Leyden; and in 1668 Lysbeth became the wife of Kier Wolters, of Harlem, whence for several years some of the family are found here and at Fordham. where Lourens rented a farm. (See pages 249 and 313.) In 16,0 Lourens married Geertie Egberts. David, living in New York, married. in 1680. Hillegond, daughter of Abram Isaacs Verplanck. Lodewyck married at Kingston, in 1681, Janneke, born in New England, daughter of Jacob Black, of New York (see page 205), and Abraham, living at Bergen, married, in 1683. Neltie, daughter of Adrian Van Laer. All the family ultimately went to Hackensack: David, Lourens and Lodewyck, with their wives, helping to organize the church there in 1686. the nearest church previously being the newly formed French society at Kinkackemech. or Kinderkameck. Abraham also joined in 1696. Ledewyck losing his wife, married.
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20. Resolved, baptized September 1, 1695.
21. Catherine, baptized May 25, 1698, married John Foshay, May 18, 1728, had one child.
22. Margaret, born 1700. married Cornelius Lydecker, June 24, 1721.
Johannes Waldron (8). (son of Resolved), married April 25, 1690, Anna, daughter of Captain Jan Van Dalsen ; and living close under Jochem Pieters' Hills (133d Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues), he was usually called of the Hill, to distinguish him from his namesake of Hoorn's Hook. His house-lot, which lay at the end of the New Lots, but west of the highway, was bought from the town, May 10, 1688, for 12 guilders, by his brother Samuel, who, after building on it, sold it to Johannes, May 21, 1689, together with the New Lots, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 7, which had. come to Samuel from his father and others. On April 3, 1690, the town sold Johannes an addition to his house-lot, mak- ing it 17 rods on the road, and to extend back to the foot of the hill. Johannes and Barent together bought No. 8 of the New Lots, January 1, 1701, from Johannes' brother-in-law, Teunis Van Dalsen, who had obtained it, May 1, 1696, from Joost Van Oblinus. This lot they divided, Johannes taking the western half. He had already secured No. 2. originally Glaude Delamater's, from his son-in-law. Arent Bussing, and in 1731 bought No. 6 from Isaac Delamater, who had received it in 1729 from Nicholas Kortright, grandson of Cornelis Jansen, the first owner. Thus Johannes came to hold Nos. 2 to 7 and half of 8, being 61/2 lots. His large acquisitions from the drafted lands are shown in Ap- pendix J. He died in 1753, having survived his wife and all his children, except his son Resolved.
JOHANNES (8), (SON OF RESOLVED), HAD ISSUE :
23. Anneken. baptized February 22, 1691, died young.
24. Annetie, baptized April 17. 1692, married John Delamater, June II. 1714, had ten children.
in 1699, Hillegond, daughter of Hendrick Bosch, and removed to Philipsburgh, West- chester County. We give a list of children, but incomplete. David had issue, David, born 1681, married Gerbrecht Romeyn; Johannes, born 1684, married Jannetie Lozier; Marritie. born 1690, married Cornelius Vanderhoof, from Albany; Jannetie. born 1682, married Jacobus Van Voorhees; Egbert, born 1685, married Elizabeth Brvant: Catharine, born 1687, married John Verwey; David, born 1689, married Sarah Culver, and Johannes, who married Jacomina Demarest. Abraham had David. born 1684, married Margaret Jurcks: Gerrit, born 1685, married Jannetie V'an Voorhees; Abigail. horn 1687, married Andries Hopper and Derick Brinkerhoff. Lysbeth. born 1689. married Johannes Doremus; Anneken, born 1691, married Thomas Doremus: Adrian, born 1695, married Mary Van Blarcom; Johannes, born 1696, married. 1721. Maria Wakefield, and, 1728, Elizabeth Stagg: Gulian, born 1697, married Rachel V'an Voorhees; Anna Maria, horn 1701. married Albert Terhune; Abraham, born 1702, married Hendrica Hopper, and Sarah, born 1705, married Cornelius Boers. Lodewyck, ef Philipsburgh, had a daughter, Lysbeth, born 1684, married Arent Poot- man (Putnam). of Schenectady, but who moved to the "Maquaas country;" and daughter Francina, born 1696, married Samuel Williams, of Albany. Ilis son David. born 1694, married, 1719, Mar . Sce. was a deacon in the Philipsburgh Church, and father of Mary, who married Peter Waldron, as in the text. We have not space for fuller details, but hope this brief sketch may aid some descendant, with a becoming pride in his ancestry, to fill out the family tree.
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25. Margaret, baptized October 22, 1693, married Adolph Myer, October 25, 1716, had five children.
26. Cornelia, born March 4, 1696, married Ryck Lent, December 26, 1722, had four children.
27. Johannes, baptized May 22, 1698, married Elizabeth Benson, December 10, 1719, had two children, and died December 10, 1724.
28. Resolved, born May 6, 1702, married Mattie Quackenbush, May 9, 1729, had seven children, and died January 10, 1761.
29. Samuel, born about 1705, married Engeltie Myers, 1725, had one child, and died in 1752. Bought his father's farm and stock, November 17, 1748, his widow, Engeltie, oc- cupying the farm till the Revolution. His heirs sold it to John Delancey, July 10, 1776, the principal heir being his daughter, Engel, who married November 16, 1766, Lawrence Myer, father of Samuel Myer.
Samuel Waldron (9), (son of Resolved), purchased the paternal farm upon Van Keulen's Hook, November 25, 1690, as before mentioned. He married Neeltie, daughter of Francis Bloodgood, of Flushing, March 5, 1692 .* Waldron was among the first to discard the common fences. On October 26, 1704, he gave notice that he should do so, and, within a year and six weeks, fence in his lands on Van Keulen's Hook.' The same notice was given by Arent Bussing ; and also by Johannes Waldron, Joost and Peter Van Oblienis, and Barent Nagel, owning lots on Jochem Pieters. Waldron had a share in the Hoorn Frigate, a somewhat noted vessel, which, being sent out by Governor Sloughter on the public service, was captured by the enemy. In 1710 he bought the John Delamater lands. including the Hoorn's Hook farm, two north gardens (see page 484), a lot on Montanye's Flat, and No. I, Van Keulen's Hook, the last adjoining his farm there, which embraced lots 2. 3, and half of 4. This farm he sold, March 23, 17II, to Capt. Charles Congreve and John James, reserving the morgen rights, but allowing the purchasers "all those undivided
* Capt. Frans Jansen Bloodgood, or Bloetgoet, as then written, was from Amster- dam, and one of the early colonists to New Amstel, whither he was accompanied by his wife, Lysbeth Jans, a native of Gouda, and an infant. Geertie. In 1659 he came to New Amsterdam, but settled in Flushing. owning, when he died, land, cattle and sheep. On May. 24, 1674, he was commissioned chief officer of the Dutch militia of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown. Two years after, "being sorely wounded and very weak," he gave directions as to his property. and died December 20. 1676. His widow, three years later. married Wouter Gysberts, from Hilverzum. His chil- dren were Geertie, born 1658 at Amsterdam, married John Marston; Adriana. horn 1660, married Hendrick Hegeman: Isabella, born 1662, married Ide Van Schaick: Judith, born 1665, married Johannes Wynkoop: William, born 1667; Neeltie, born 1670, married Samuel Waldron; John. born 1672. and Lysbeth, born 1675, and un- married in 1698. At this date John and his wife Mary were living at Flushing. William belonged to Lieut. Schuyler's troop in 1687, was elected one of the first vestrymen for Jamaica parish in 1703. and in 1714 was justice of the peace. De- scendants of Frans Bloodgood went to Albany in the next century (Pearson); and the New York Directory witnesses to their increase in this city, some of them dis- tinguished for their wealth.
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