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CAPTAIN SOLOMON JOHNSON, son of Daniel and Joanna ( Preston) Johnson, born at Wallingford, Connecticut, May 4, 1740, was a sea-captain, and com- manded a trading vessel prior to the Revolutionary War. On May 9, 1775, he enlisted in the Eighth Company, Third Regiment, Connecticut troops, and served under General Israel Putnam until his discharge, December 14, 1775. Un- der what command he served during 1776 does not appear, but in 1777 and until his discharge on December 9, 1780, he served in the Connecticut Line, in the Continental Army, his last term of service beginning August 18, 1780. A let- ter written by him to his wife while in the service, dated at Fishkill, New York, October 12, 1777, is in possession of his great-great-grandson, Edward Hine Johnson, the subject of this sketch. He died at Wallingford, April 4, 1799. Captain Solomon Johnson married, at Wallingford, Connecticut, December 6, 1764, Mary, daughter of John Barker. She was born there, March 10, 1742, died September 7, 1825.
CHIARLES JOHNSON, son of Captain Solomon and Mary (Barker) Johnson, born at Wallingford, Connecticut, May 3, 1767, married, in New Haven, Con-
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necticut, Elizabeth Rice, born in New Haven, October 22, 1769. Soon after their marriage they removed to Durham, on Catskill creek in Greene county, New York, where he was captain of a troop of cavalry in 1811. His wife Elizabeth died at Durham, December 25, 1840, and he on September 22, 1848.
SOLOMON RICE JOHNSON, son of Charles and Elizabeth (Rice) Johnson, born at Durham, Greene county, New York, August 15, 1797, died there, November 5, 1833. He married, October 12, 1828, Mary Whittlesey, born in Saybrook, Connecticut, December 12, 1799, died in Durham, New York, December 3, 1829.
SOLOMON WHITTLESEY JOHNSON, only child of Solomon Rice and Mary (Whittlesey) Johnson, born at Durham, New York, November 5, 1829, was left doubly an orphan by the death of his father, on his fourth birthday, his moth- er having died when he was thirteen months old. He received a common school education, and in early life located in the city of New York, where he was many years connected with the American News Company, serving as its pres- ident until his death. He was a Republican in politics, and in religion, like his paternal ancestors for several generations, was a Presbyterian. He married. September 15, 1853, Adelaide, daughter of Harvey Hine, of Cairo, New York, and of New England ancestry. She was born at Cairo, Greene county, New York, February 12, 1830, died in Brooklyn, New York, December 16, 1898.
EDWARD HINE JOHNSON, son of Solomon Whittlesey and Adelaide (Hine) Johnson, was born in the city of New York, June 29, 1854. He graduated at Yale in the class of 1876, and has since been manager of the American News Company's business in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, and of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution. He married at Philadelphia, December 12, 1883, Frances Van Leer, daughter of George H. and Frances (Van Leer) Earle, of Philadelphia, and they have two children, Edward Earle Johnson, born October 31, 1884, a graduate of St. Paul's School, and the University of Pennsylvania; and Florence Earle Johnson, born De- cember 8, 1892. The family are members of St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, of Philadelphia.
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SAMUEL TAYLOR BODINE
The American family of Bodine is of French extraction, and its present rep- resentatives claim descent from Jean le Baudain, Seigneur d'Villiers, governor of the Castle de Selles, Cambray, France, in 1340; the name being later cor- rupted to Bodin, in France, and on the migration of a Huguenot descendant to England, in the middle of the seventeenth century, to Bodine. Of this family was Jean Bodin, the great French jurist and political economist of the sixteenth century. The line of descent as stated by the New Jersey family down to the emigration to America is as follows :
Jean le Baudain, Seigneur d'Villiers, governor of the Castle of Cambray, 1340.
Jean le Baudain, son of the above, 1376.
Jean le Baudain, Bishop's chamberlain, at Cambray, 1419.
Jean le Baudain, his son and successor, 1459.
Jean le Baudain, Seigneur d'Villiers, 1480.
Gulliame, Le Baudain, of Cambray, whose son,
Daniel Bodin, went to Medis, in the ancient French Province of Saintonge, whose son,
Daniel Bodin, born at Medis, went to London, England, and married there, July 30, 1637, and returned with his wife to Medis and died there.
JEAN BODINE, born at Medis, France, May 9, 1645, became a Huguenot, and fled to London, where he took the oath of allegiance to the British Crown, Oc- tober 14, 1681, and in the year following emigrated to Staten Island, Richmond county, New York, where he died in March, 1695.
FRANCIS BODINE, son of Jean Bodine, the Huguenot refugee, accompanied his father to Staten Island, married and reared a family, among whom was a son, also,
FRANCIS BODINE, who took up land in Middlesex county, New Jersey, on which several of his sons settled, among them,
FRANCIS BODINE, who married, January 29, 1755, Rachel Wilson, and was the father of,
CAPTAIN JOHN BODINE, born near Cranberry, Middlesex county, New Jer- sey, in 1755, removed to Burlington county when a young man. He enlisted as a private in the First Regiment of Burlington County Militia, and rose to the rank of captain, serving throughout the war. He married, at Burlington, September 16, 1790, Ann Taylor, born at Hillsborough, North Carolina, in 1765, died in Nottingham township, Burlington county, New Jersey, March 26, 1831. Captain John Bodine died in the same township, March 26, 1827.
SAMUEL TUCKER BODINE, son of Captain John and Ann (Taylor) Bodine, born at Wading River, Burlington county, New Jersey, July 29, 1810, came to Philadelphia when a young man and was prominently identified with her bus- iness and municipal interests and some of her most important industrial enter- prises and institutions. He resided for many years in that part of the present
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city, then known a. the city of Kensmgion, if wRh hc har pe consolidation with the city of Philadelphi .. rectors of the Pennsylvania Railroad : a manager a . . Pres Education, and a director of various thanin! ah; .. · .
stiutions. He died in Philadelphia, November adelphia, November 25, 1851, Lomiss Hvis du milian.
(Orr) Millikin; she was born in Phi adeipink Bridgeton, New Jersey, May 4, 1887.
SAMUEL TAYLOR BODINE, son of Samuel Fr kin) Polline was born in Philadelphia, Amer po the Germantown Academy and the Univer m the latter institution in the class of 1873. gree of Bachelor of Arts, and receiving rio- from the same institution three years latt: ping clerk, first for an Iron Foundry Cone and later for the Cohansey Glass Compen. took charge of the commercial work :( : pair shops of the American Steamship ( steamboats, with the prominent shipping & Sor 1: 183: 16 was elected secr -: a: Improvement Company, and in 1888 becan tion. He was named as its second vice-ple. morel to the postion of first vice-president eral manager of the company he has since heft of the Franklin National Bank, of the Commde; Guarantee Company of North America, the Wal trustee of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Connaux .. cember 6, 1899, to April 10, 1901. He was a fuer : 4
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of Germantown Academy, May 12. 1800, to Get news from June 3. 1890, to May (1, 1896; wa a man ghi Archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania, Tebmar. I, 1905, and one of the vice-presidents from January if a director of the American Society for Extern -
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uary 17, 1900, to January 24. 1906; and is a /i Protestant Episcopal Church, in the city of Piedde .. William G. Warden estate. He is a member ! : y veta Soriay, Sont of the Revolution, in right of his grandfather, Cousin Teln Bodine a mar- ber of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania : of Manl-lin Institute, of the Phi Kappa -Sigma-fraternity, and of the following jal organizations; the Rittenhouse Club; University Club ; Merka Gift lub, of Philadelone. he Germantown Cricket Club; the University the of New York, and me Dex County Club, of Massachusetts.
Mr Bodine married, November 19, 1882. Eleanor Gray, daughter of Ore. lote Willam O. and Sarah ( Bushnell) Warden, and they reside at Penn yhima. They have three children, Louisa Warden Bonne, i. ender 15. 1884; Eleanor Gray Boline born August 21, 18. mirrie", Anges " Food, William Graves Perry, en el. Charles French and Creamals We (Graver) Perry of Boston and Newhorster, Massachusetts as William Winien Bod ne. born October 18, INS;
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city, then known as the city of Kensington, of which he was mayor prior to its consolidation with the city of Philadelphia. He was one of the board of di- rectors of the Pennsylvania Railroad; a manager of the Presbyterian Board of Education, and a director of various financial and other corporations and in- stiutions. He died in Philadelphia, November 26, 1879. He married, at Phil- adelphia, November 25, 1851, Louisa Wylie, daughter of William and Martha (Orr) Millikin; she was born in Philadelphia, November 16, 1820, died at Bridgeton, New Jersey, May 4, 1887.
SAMUEL TAYLOR BODINE, son of Samuel Tucker and Louisa Wylie (Milli- kin) Bodine, was born in Philadelphia, August 23, 1854. He was educated at the Germantown Academy and the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1873, in his nineteenth year, with the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts, and receiving the higher degree of Master of Arts from the same institution three years later. After three years spent as ship- ping clerk, first for an Iron Foundry Company at Royer's Ford, Pennsylvania, and later for the Cohansey Glass Company, at Bridgeton, New Jersey ; he then took charge of the commercial work of the engineering department and re- pair shops of the American Steamship Company's and the Red Star Line of steamboats, with the prominent shipping and ship-building firm of Peter Wright & Sons. In 1882 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the United Gas Improvement Company, and in 1888 became general manager of that corpora- tion. He was named as its second vice-president in 1892, and in 1904 was pro- moted to the position of first vice-president, which position with that of gen- eral manager of the company he has since held. Mr. Bodine is also a director of the Franklin National Bank, of the Commercial Trust Company, of the Guarantee Company of North America, the Welsbach Company, and was a trustee of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia from De- cember 6, 1899, to April 10, 1901. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Germantown Academy, May 12, 1890, to September 12, 1896, and secretary from June 3, 1890, to May II, 1896; was a manager of the department of Archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania, February 5, 1901, to March I, 1905, and one of the vice-presidents from January 16, 1903, to March 1, 1905 ; a director of the American Society for Extension of University Teaching, Jan- uary 17, 1900, to January 24, 1906; and is a trustee of the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the city of Philadelphia; and a trustee of the William G. Warden estate. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, in right of his grandfather, Captain John Bodine; a mem- ber of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; of the Franklin Institute; of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, and of the following social organizations; the Rittenhouse Club; University Club; Merion Cricket Club, of Philadelphia ; the Germantown Cricket Club; the University Club of New York, and the Essex County Club, of Massachusetts.
Mr. Bodine married, November 15, 1883, Eleanor Gray, daughter of the late William G. and Sarah (Bushnell) Warden, and they reside at Villanova, Pennsylvania. They have three children; Louisa Warden Bodine, born De- cember 15, 1884; Eleanor Gray Bodine, born August 21, 1886, married, August 6, 1908, William Graves Perry, son of Charles French and Georgiana West (Graves) Perry, of Boston and Newburyport, Massachusetts; and William Warden Bodine, born October 18, 1887.
GUILLERMO COLESBERRY PURVES
GUILLERMO COLESBERRY PURVES, FsQ., of the Philadelphia bar, and since 1903 president of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, comes of Scotch, Swedish and Huguenot ancestry.
JOHN PURVES, a son of Alexander Purves, was born December 17, 1738, in Berwickshire, Scotland, came to America when a young man. He married, June 30, 1765, Ann Marot, of New Jersey, of Huguenot ancestry, and settled at Bridgeton, New Jersey, removing later to Philadelphia, where he died in 1802, leaving five children. He and his son, Alexander, are buried in the old burying ground at Fourth and Pine streets.
ALEXANDER PURVES, eldest son of John and Ann (Marot) Purves, born at Bridgeton, New Jersey, September 20, 1766, died July 28, 1827; married, No- vember 6, 1800, Margaret Colesberry, born April 18, 1776, died August 25, 1816, daughter of Jacob Colesberry, born 1734, died August 28, 1797, and his wife, Catharine (Geavenreat) Colesberry, whom he married January 20, 1761 ; granddaughter of Henrik Colesberry and great-granddaughter of Swen Kals- berg, or Colesberry, a native of Sweden, who died in Delaware, January, 1710. Henrik Colesberry, son of Swen and Elizabeth Colesberry, born in Delaware, in 1702, was lieutenant of Captain William Danford's company, in Colonel John Gooding's associated regiment of New Castle county, in the Provincial Ser- vice of Pennsylvania, 1747-48. Lieutenant Colesberry died August 12, 1760, and his wife Elizabeth, born 1709, died in 1771.
WILLIAM PURVES, of Philadelphia, son of Alexander and Margaret (Coles- berry) Purves, was born December 28, 1809, died in Philadelphia, October 28, 1886. He married, May 7, 1839, Anna Kennedy, born April 1I, 1811, died Oc- tober 14, 1889, daughter of William and Ellen (Darrach) Kennedy, and grand- daughter of David Kennedy.
David Kennedy was a grandson of David Kennedy, of Scotland, who with his son, William settled in county Antrim, Ireland, about 1715, died there in 1749. The son William married Elinor Armstrong, of another prominent Scotch family of Antrim, representatives of which later migrated to Penn- sylvania, and had four children, the second of whom was David Kennedy, first above mentioned, who was born in county Antrim, Ireland, March 17, 1741. He landed at New Castle, with a number of compatriots, May 18, 1760. Like nearly all the Scotch-Irish settlers of Pennsylvania and the other American Colonies, David Kennedy became an ardent patriot at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. He enlisted January 15, 1776, in Captain Samuel Smith's company, of Colonel John Haslet's Delaware Regiment of the Continental troops, and served throughout the war, holding the office of corporal of his company. On his tombstone in the old Presbyterian graveyard at Smyrna, Delaware, is the following inscription :
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"DAVID KENNEDY Born March 17, 1741, in Antrim, · Ireland ; landed at New Castle, May 18, 1760; took an active and decisive though humble part with the Patriots of the Revolution. Died Decr. 22, 1802."
The Delaware Regiment, under the gallant Colonel Haslet, who lost his life while heroically leading a desperate charge, after the fall of Commander Gen- eral Hugh Mercer, at Princeton, January 3, 1777, did indeed take "an active and decisive part" in the Revolutionary struggle. Haslet's was the first regi- ment raised in Delaware; organized before the adoption of the State Constitu- tion, and its officers commissioned by Congress upon recommendation of the Council of Safety of "The Three Lower Counties on the Delaware", still con- sidered as territories of Pennsylvania. The officers elected January 19, 1776, were John Haslet, colonel, Genning Bedford, lieutenant-colonel, and John Macpherson, major. The latter was, however, dead before his election, having been killed at the storming of Quebec, December 31, 1775, with the gallant Montgomery, whose aide he was. On March 22, 1776, Thomas Macdonough was named as major in the stead of Macpherson. The company to which Cor- poral David Kennedy belonged consisted of ninety-seven privates, with Sam- uel Smith as captain; John Dixon as first lieutenant and James Macdonough as second lieutenant. They marched from Dover in July, and joined the army under Washington at New York early in August, and were included with four Pennsylvania regiments and Smallwood's Maryland regiment under Lord Stirl- ing as brigadier-general. During the desperate battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776, Haslet's regiment was under the command of Major Macdonough, both Colonel Haslet and Lieutenant-Colonel Bedford being members of a court-mar- tial sitting in New York on the day of the fight.
The part taken by Haslet's regiment in the battle of Long Island has always been a matter of great pride to the Delawareans. An eminent historian has said of them, "they behaved with the courage and firmness of veteran soldiers. *
* being well-trained, kept and fought in a compact body the whole time, and when obliged to retreat, kept their ranks, and entered the lines in that order, and were obliged, frequently while retreating, to fight their way through bod- ies of the enemy". Caesar Rodney, writing to his brother Thomas, under date of October 2, 1776, is full of the great honor obtained by the Delaware Battalion "in the affair at Long Island, from the unparalled bravery they showed in view of all the generals and troops within the lines, who alternately praised and pitied them." In a subsequent letter the same correspondent gives a more detailed account of their part in the action, as follows: "The Delaware and Maryland Regiments stood firm to the last; they stood for four hours drawn up on a hill, in close array, their colors flying, the enemy's artillery playing up- on them; nor did they think of quitting their station until an express order from the General commanded them to retreat. Their standard was torn with shot in Ensign Stephen's hands".
After the retreat to New York, the regiment was placed in General Mif- flin's brigade, and sent to King's Bridge. It took part in the battle of White Plains, October 28, 1776, and again bore the heavy brunt of the battle with the
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utmost bravery. Then followed the distressing retreat across New Jersey, in December, 1776, to the western shore of the Delaware in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, where, again under the command of Lord Stirling, the remnant of the regiment fought in the woods near the river, above Brownsburg, where a num- ber of rude stones still mark the last resting place, on the river bank, of some of Stirling's corps. They participated with Washington in the capture of the Hessians at Trenton on Christmas night; in the second battle of Trenton, and at Princeton, where Colonel Haslet was killed. The term of service of the men having expired in January, 1777, the company was disbanded and most of the officers and men joined the Second Delaware Regiment, and later served in the Southern Expedition.
Corporal David Kennedy married (first) Agnes White, who died November 29, 1777 ; married (second) Susannah Pugh, who died April 19, 1785.
William Kennedy, of Smyrna, later Port Penn, Delaware, son of Corporal David Kennedy, by his second wife, Susannah (Pugh) Kennedy, was born April 8, 1785, died in 1861. He married, July 7, 1805, Ellen Darrach, born Oc- tober 2, 1783, died February 21, 1818, daughter of John Darrach, a prominent merchant of Smyrna, Delaware, who came from county Antrim, Ireland, about 1767, and settled at Smyrna, where he died December 25, 1804. He married, January 7, 1775, Jane, daughter of William White, by whom he had six chil- dren; Ellen (Darrach) Kennedy, being the fourth.
GUILLERMO COLESBERRY PURVES, son of William and Anna (Kennedy) Purves, was born at the residence of his parents on the east side of Seventh Street, below Spruce, Philadelphia, December 18, 1843. He received his early education in James' Union Academy, and prepared for college at the Classical Academy of William Few-Smith, in Philadelphia. He entered the academic de- partment of Yale University in 1860, and graduated with the degree of Bach- elor of Arts in 1864; was a member of the Delta Kappa, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key fraternities, and one of the Cochleaureati at that instituion. Making a choice of the legal profession he entered the law de- partment of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with the degree of LL.B., in 1867. In the same year he received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale University. He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, April 13, 1867, and practiced his profession in that city until his connection with the Saving Fund Society. His father was treasurer of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, and during his lifetime Mr. Purves acted as assistant treasurer, succeeding to the treasurership in 1887, and also filled the position of vice- president, and in 1903 was chosen its president, a position he has since filled. He is also a director of the Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank, the Mort- gage Trust Company of Pennsylvania, Insurance Company of North America, trustee of Jefferson Medical Hospital, president of the Union Benevolent Asso- ciation, and of the Philadelphia Lying-in and Charity Hospital. He is a mem- ber of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, and of the University and Rittenhouse clubs. He mar- ried, November 17, 1900, Elizabeth Cowan, daughter of Anthony and Fanny (Edwards) Gilkison, of Brooklyn, New York, and they reside at 1812 Pine Street, Philadelphia.
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THOMAS HAND BALL
THOMAS HAND BALL, the prominent woolen manufacturer of Philadelphia, is a great-great-grandson of Thomond Ball, a merchant of Dublin, Ireland, who came to Pennsylvania in 1769, and soon after settled in Sunbury, Northum- berland county, Pennsylvania.
The Ball family, from which Thomas Hand Ball descends, long resident in Enniskillen, county Fermanagh, Ireland, was founded there about 1608, by William Ball, third son of Thomas Ball, Esquire, of Boughton, Cheshire, Eng- land. This Thomas Ball "of Great Boughton, County of Chester, Gentleman" died in 1605, and his widow Jane died in 1615.
WILLIAM BALL, son of Thomas and Jane Ball, was baptized at St. Oswald's Parish, Chester, December II, 1582, and the Cheshire Visitation of 1648 re- fers to him as then "living in Ireland and has issue". He probably went to Ireland as part of the settlement of William Cole, ancestor of the Earls of En- niskillen in 1608. Letters of administration on his estate were granted to his son, Thomas Ball, June II, 1658, in connection with the widow, Parnell Ball, and a younger son, William Ball. In this administration Thomas Ball is de- scribed as "of Ballyclomelagh, County Monaghan", doubtless Clonelagh, or Clenlogh, parish of Drumsnett, county Monaghan, where William Ball, the grandfather of Thomond Ball above mentioned, owned lands which he con- veyed in 1726 and 1727, while a resident of Cookstown, county Meath. The name of the wife and children of Thomas Ball are unknown to the American family of Ball, but it is supposed that he married a daughter of William Smyth, to whom the identical lands conveyed by William Ball were granted about 1641.
WILLIAM BALL, of Enniskillen, younger son of William and Parnell Ball, had several children, but little is known of his descendants. A William Ball, of Enniskillen, born about 1670, probably a grandson of William Ball Jr., mar- ried (first) at Enniskillen Church, in 1693, Alice Cottington, by whom he had two daughters. He married (second) Elizabeth Battersby, of county Mona- ghan, to whom administration on his estate was granted May 9, 1717. By his second wife, he had sons, William, baptized 1701, Henry, baptized May I, 1703, who settled in Drumcullin, where his descendants still reside; Thomas, baptized, 1709; and a daughter Ursula, baptized in 1702. William Ball, of Cookstown, was doubtless a son of Thomas Ball, of Clenlogh.
WILLIAM BALL, grandfather of Thomond Ball, was resident at Cookstown, Barony of Kells, county Meath, Ireland, May 3, 1726, when he conveyed es- tates in county Monaghan. He removed soon after that date to West Forrest, county Dublin, where he was living, August 28, 1727, when, with his eldest son, Daniel Ball, of Kilmainham, he made a deed to which his second son, Henry Ball, father of Thomond Ball, above mentioned, was a witness. He married Elizabeth, daughter of "John Nicholas of the Forrest, County Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland, Gent.", whose will dated December 3, 1719, and proved December 8, 1720, mentions his wife Mary and his daughter Elizabeth Ball. they had sons: Daniel, Henry and Nicholas; and a daughter Thomazine.
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HENRY BALL, second son of William and Elizabeth (Nicholas) Ball, was born in the first decade of the eighteenth century. The first record we have of him was his witnessing the deed of his father and brother in 1727. He was married prior to May 31, 1734, when he is a party to a suit with his wife, in the Court of Exchequer at Dublin, to recover some estate due her from the es- tates of her father and grandfather. At the latter date he was residing on Charles street, Dublin. He married Eleanor, daughter of Thomond Blackall, Esq., born in Dublin, September 21, 1674, died there December 30, 1715; his widow Sarah, and daughter, Eleanor Ball, surviving. He was the eldest son of George Blackall, Esq., a very prominent citizen of Dublin, many years an alder- man of the city, and possessed of a large estate, who died in 1701 and was bur- ied in St. Peter's churchyard at Dublin. He married, September 9, 1672, Ju- dith Desminieres, who was baptized at St. Andrew's Church, Dublin, Septem- ber 16, 1652, and was a daughter of Lewis Desminieres, who was Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1669. Sir Thomas Blackall, a brother of Eleanor (Blackall) Ball, was also later Lord Mayor of Dublin.
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