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MARGARET ALLEN, dau. of Andrew Allen the Councillor, as above, d. Dec. 8, 1838, m. Phila., May 20, 1793 George Hammond, the first British Minister to the United States. He was for some time Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He d. in Portland Place London, Apr. 23, 1853, aged 90.
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Issue (surname HAMMOND) :
WILLIAM ANDREW, m. Maria Brown, see below,
GEORGE, Senior Fellow of Merton, d. unm. Apr. 6, 1882,
MARGARET, m. Henry Richard Chetwynd-Stapylton, see be- low,
EDMUND, m. Mary Frances Kerr, see next page.
Rev. WILLIAM ANDREW HAMMOND, son of George and Margaret Hammond, and gr'dson of Andrew Allen the Councillor, as above, grad. M. A. (Oxon.), was Rector of Whitchurch, Oxon., d. (Gent. Mag.) at Naples Nov. 29, 1844, m. Maria Brown.
Issue (surname Hammond) :
Maria, m. (Gent. Mag.) Jany. 31, 1860 Rev. Charles Nevile, M. A., (see Burke's Landed Gentry) prebendary of Lincoln and Rector of Fledboro' near Newark, Issue (surname Nevile) : Christopher William Andrew, b. July 12, 1862, Charles Swainston, b. July 5, 1864, Henry Isaac Williams, b. Aug. 30, 1865, Maria Elizabeth, Charlotte Gertrude Lucy.
MARGARET HAMMOND, dau. of George and Margaret Hammond, and grddau. of Andrew Allen the Councillor, as above, m. Dec. 13, 1820 Maj. Henry Richard Chetwynd-Stapylton, R. A., son of Maj. Gen. Granville Anson Chetwynd-Stapylton, and gr'dson of William, 4th Viscount Chetwynd. Maj. Chetwynd-Stapylton b. 1789, d. Apr. 4, 1859.
Issue (surname Chetwynd-Stapylton) :
Henry Edward, b. Mch. 12, 1822, m., 1st, Apr. 29, 1851 Esther Charlotte, dau. of Serjeant Edw. Goulburn, and, 2nd, Oct. 23, 1856 Ellen, widow of Rev. James L. Venables and dau. of Henry H. Oddie, and, 3rd, Aug. 15, 1871, Sophia Catherine, dau. of Richard Walter, 6th Viscount Chetwynd, Issue by 1st wife (surname Chetwynd-Stapylton) : Henry Goulburn, b. May 20, 1852,
Issue by 2nd wife (surname Chetwynd-Stapylton) :
Miles, b. June 22, 1860, Beatrice, Evelyn Mary,
Granville George, b. Mch. 22, 1823, Maj .- Gen. late 32nd Regt., m. Dec. 8, 1864 Lady Barbara Maria, dau. of Joseph, 4th Earl of Milltown, 1
Issue (surname Chetwynd-Stapylton) : Barbara Margaret,
Granville Joseph, b. Sep. 11, 1871,
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Bryan Henry, b. June 10, 1873, Richard Cecil, b. Apr. 14, 1876, d. June 27, 1878,
William, b. May 15, 1825, Vicar of Malden and Rector of Chessington, m. Oct. 26, 1852 Elizabeth B., dau. of Rev. Robt. Tritton, Rector of Morden, Issue (surname Chetwynd-Stapylton) :
Edward, b. 1855, m. Sep. 27, 1879, Mary Beatrice Cowie, Issue (surname Chetwynd-Stapylton) :
a son, b. June 28, 1880, Frederick, b. Oct. 15, 1857, Granville, b. Dec. 11, 1858, Ella,
Margaret Diana, m. Sep. 5, 1856 George Carnac Barnes, Esq., C. B., Commissioner of the Cis Sutlej Islands, East Indies, who d. May 12, 1861, Issue (surname Barnes) : George Stapylton, Arthur, Margaret.
EDMUND HAMMOND, b. June 25, 1802, son of George and Mar- garet Hammond, and gr'dson of Andrew Allen the Councillor, p. 150, grad. M. A. (Univ., Oxon.), entered the British Civil service Oct. 10, 1823, was appointed Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs April 10, 1854, which office he resigned Oct. 9, 1873, was sworn a member of the Privy Council June 12, 1866, and was created a peer March 5, 1874, with the title of BARON HAMMOND of Kirk Ella.
He m. Jany. 3, 1846 Mary Frances, dau. of Maj .- Gen. Lord Robert Kerr, and grddau. of William John, 5th Marquess of Lothian.
Issue (surname Hammond) :
Mary Georgina, b. Jany. 14, 1848,
Margaret Elizabeth, b. Nov. 26, 1851, Katherine Cecilia, b. Apr. 2, 1853.
JAMES ALLEN, b. about 1742, son of Chief Justice William and Margaret Allen, and gr'dson of Andrew Hamilton the Councillor, grad. at College of Phila., studied law with Shippen the Councillor, and afterwards at the Temple, admitted to practice in Supreme Court Sep. 26, 1765. He was elected a Common Councilman of the City Oct. 6, 1767, and in May, 1776, was sent to the Assembly from Northampton County. After the House adjourned, he retired to the country.
He d. in Phila. Sep. 19, 1778, in the 37th year of his age (Obit. Notice in the Penna. Evening Post of Sep. 21, 1778). He m. Xt. Ch. Mch. 10, 1768 Elizabeth, only child of John Lawrence, son of Thomas Lawrence the Councillor.
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Issue (surname ALLEN) :
ANNE PENN, b. Feb. 19, 1769, m. James Greenleaf, see below, MARGARET ELIZABETH, b. Apr. 21, 1772, d. Phila. Sep. 9,
1798, m. Xt. Ch. July 1, 1794 William Tilghman (see TILGHMAN),
MARY MASTERS, b. Jany. 4, 1776, m. Henry Walter Livings- ton, see below,
JAMES HAMILTON, b. Jany. 24, 1778, d. aged 10 years.
ANNE PENN ALLEN, b. Phila. Feb. 19, 1769, dau. of James and Elizabeth Allen, as above, d. Phila. Sep., 1851, m. Xt. Ch. Apr. 26, 1800 James Greenleaf, then of Washington, D. C., native of Massa- chusetts, who had been U. S. Consul at Amsterdam, and partner of Robert Morris and John Nicholson in the immense land purchases which ruined them and him. They organized in 1795 the North American Land Co. for the sale of 6,000,000 acres which they had jointly selected, guaranteeing to the stockholders an annual dividend of 6 per cent. Morris and Nicholson contracted for the purchase of his share, giving him $1,150,000 in drafts on each other, which they never paid, and on which he was sued as indorser. He was Secretary of the Co. . He resided after his marriage near Allentown, Pa. He d. Washington, D. C., Sep., 1843.
Issue (surname GREENLEAF) :
MARY LIVINGSTON, now of Phila., m. her cousin Walter C. Livingston, dau. of Henry Walter Livingston by his w. Mary Masters Allen,
MARGARET TILGHMAN, now of Phila., m. Charles Augustus Dale from London, since dec'd,
Issue (surname Dale) : Allen, civil engineer, in P. R. R. Co.'s service.
MARY MASTERS ALLEN, b. Jany. 4, 1776, dau. of James and Elizabeth Allen, as above, d. Livingston Manor, N. Y., Dec. 11, 1855, m. Xt. Ch. Nov. 27, 1796 Henry Walter Livingston of Livingston Manor, son of Walter Livingston by his w. Cornelia, dau. of Peter Schuyler. Henry Walter Livingston, b. 1768, grad. A. B. (Yale), studied law, was Secretary to Gouverneur Morris when Minister to France, and Member of Congress from 1803 to 1807, d. Livingston Manor, Columbia Co., N. Y., Dec. 22, 1810.
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Issue (surname LIVINGSTON) :
HENRY W., of Livingston Manor, d. Paris Feb. 19, 1848, m. Caroline Marie de Grasse Depau, dau. of Francis Depau, she d. Stuttgart Feb. 13, 1871,
Issue (surname Livingston) : Henry W., m. Angelica Urquhart, Issue (surname Livingston) : Mary, Henry W., Bayard,
Silvia, d. 1873, m. Johnston Livingston of New York, Issue (surname Livingston) : Carola, Estelle, Walter L., of the Brooklyn bar, Surrogate of King's Co., m. Silvia Coster, Issue (surname Livingston) : Stephania, Marie, dec'd, m. Samuel M. Fox of Phila., Issue (surname Fox) :
Stephanie, d. 1878, m. H. B. Livingston, Issue (surname Livingston) : Mary Angelica, de Grasse, m. Anna Hyslop,
Robert L., d. Feb., 1877, m. Mary S. McRae, Issue (surname Livingston) :
Duncan McRae,
Mary, Allen,
Jacqueline, Robert,
Stephanie, d. s. p. Santander, Spain, Feb. 10, 1856, m. Baron Adolph Finot,
Louis Phillipe de M., d. unm. 1881,
ALLEN, d. unm. Rouen, France,
WALTER [COPAKE], of Allentown, Pa., member of the Senate of Penna., some time of Phila., merchant, d. in Phila., m. his cousin Mary L. Greenleaf,
Issue (surname Livingston) :
Anne Greenleaf, d. s. p. Mch. 28, 1846, m. Thomas C. Rockhill, Tilghman, d. unm.,
James, d. unm.,
Walter, d. unm.,
Henry Walter, of Phila.,
Meta, unm., Marion, unm.,
Florence, unm.,
MARY, d. Paris Apr. 14, 1880, m. James Thomson,
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Issue (surname Thomson) :
James, m. Amelia Parnell of Ireland, sister of Charles Stewart Parnell, M. P., Issue (surname Thomson) : James Henry Livingston, d. Paris Apr., 1882, Henry L., d. unm., ELIZABETH, d. s. p., m. William D. Henderson of Boston, CORNELIA, now of Staten Island, m. Carroll Livingston, Issue (surname Livingston) :
Charles Carroll, m. Mary J. Cruger, née Jauncey, Brockholst, Lieut. U. S. N., d. unm.,
ANNE, now of Staten Island, m. Anson Livingston,
Issue (surname Livingston) :' Mary, m. Capt. Harrison, U. S. A., who d. s. p., Anne Ludlow, unm., Ludlow, d. unm.
MARGARET ALLEN, dau. of Chief Justice William and Margaret Allen, see p. 145, d. Tunbridge Wells, Eng., Oct. 18, 1827, m. Shrewsbury, N. J., Aug. 19, 1771 James de Lancey, b. 1732, eldest son of James De Lancey, Chief Justice and Governor of New York, by his w. Anne, dau. of Col. Caleb Heathcote of N. Y. He graduated at Cambridge, England, was aide-de-camp to Gen. Abercrombie at the taking of Ticonderoga, and represented New York City in the Colo- nial Assembly. He was the leader of the Conservatives, or "De Lancey Party," in the Province down to the end of the British rule. He d. at Bath, Eng., Apr. 8, 1800.
Issue (surname DE LANCEY) :
CHARLES, b. Phila. Nov. 27, 1773, in Royal Navy, d. unm. London May 6, 1840,
MARGARET, d. June 11, 1804, m. July 17, 1794 Sir Juckes Granville Clifton-Juckes of Clifton, Co. Nottingham, Bart., succeeded his brother Sir Robert Clifton as 8th Bart., took name of Clifton-Juckes, and (after m., 2nd, Marianne, dau. of John Swinfen) d. Oct. 1, 1852,
Issue (surname CLIFTON-JUCKES) : GERVASE, d. y. Nov. 11, 1795,
GERVASE, b. Sep. 24, 1796, d. y. Jany. 24, 1797, JAMES, Lt. Col. 1st Dragoon Guards, d. unm. Cheltenham, Eng., May 26, 1857,
ANNA, d. unm. Cheltenham, Eng., Aug. 10, 1851, SUSAN, d. unm. Cheltenham, Eng., Apr. 7, 1866.
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HENRY BROOKE.
HENRY BROOKE was a grandson of Sir Henry Brooke of Norton in Cheshire, who was created a Baronet in 1662. The family was one of long standing, the ancestor of Henry VIII's time having been Sheriff of Cheshire and a Knight of St. John at Rhodes. Belonging to a younger branch of the family, public office was sought for Henry Brooke. He had expected the Collectorship of the Port of "New- Castle-on-Delaware," as the chief town of Penn's Lower Counties was called. However, greater influence was brought to bear upon the Lords Commissioners of Customs in favor of Samuel Lowman, and Brooke was made Collector at Lewes, a lesser port. He came over to Penn's dominions to accept this charge in 1702. In 1704, the death of John Bewley, Esq., made a vacancy in the service at Phila- delphia. Col. Robert Quarry, Surveyor-General of the Customs, and Judge of the Admiralty, gave the position to John Moore, a Church- man like himself, who was the annoyance of the Quaker population. Brooke, however, sought the place, and wrote to his friends the bro- ther and sister of Lord Treasurer Godolphin to obtain it from the Com- missioners. (P. & L. Corr.) James Logan asked Penn to endorse the application, saying, " I take him to be a young man of the most polite education and best natural parts that I have known at least before his time, thrown away on this corner of the world." Notwithstanding all this, John Moore's appointment as Collector was allowed to stand ; and Brooke, "a young beau, otherwise well accomplished, and de- serving a better society," remained at Lewes. Probably finding some company among the principal inhabitants of Sussex, he also collected a fair library, and whiled away some leisure hours with poetry. Sev- eral of his pieces have been found at Stenton, with whose proprietor he was a frequent correspondent : and his "Discourse concerning Jests," written in 1705, is published in one of the volumes of Haz- ard's Register. Still Collector of his Majesty's Customs, and " of late a useful magistrate of the County of Sussex," he was called to the Provincial Council to supply the place of Jasper Yeates dec'd, and
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took the oaths on the 19th day of January, 1721. In 1727, he was again commissioned a magistrate, or Justice of the County Court, of Sussex, and was also appointed one of the six judges of the Supreme Court of the Lower Counties. His position under the Crown did not prevent him from being on good terms with the people : he was elected one of their representatives in Assembly. He became, more- over, Speaker of the House.
He died in Philadelphia on Friday, February 6, 1735-6, and was buried in Christ Church by "general invitation" on the following day. By his will, dated May 1, 1732, he left to James Logan all the Italian books given to him by Gov. Burnet of New York, and ordered Mr. Logan's copy of Lucretius and Italian books to be returned to him : and then, after leaving mourning rings to his " dear sister Mrs. Mary Brooke," to his brother Philip Brooke, and to his kinsman John Plumtre, Esq., he bequeathed his books -- of which he had not only English and Latin, but also French and Greek-with his goods and chattels to his countryman William Becket, the missionary at Lewes. Some months after his death, appeared in the Weekly Mercury & poetical apostrophe to his memory, praising the generality of his learn- ing and the sincerity of his religious professions, and containing these lines :
"Good humour, manly wit, a gen'rous mind,
" A judgment strong, a fancy unconfined,
" A friend to virtue and a foe to vice,
" In all thy conduct regularly nice.
"Happy the future age, that once shall see
"In all respects a parallel to thee !"
THOMAS GRÆME.
The illustrious ancestry of the Dukes of Montrose is set forth in Douglas's Peerage of Scotland with the wonted carefulness of that author, and, derived from ancient charters, found in the monasteries or among the Public Archives, is divested of all mythology. The first of the race as far as the antiquary can discover, was
WILLIAM DE GRAHAM, who is said to have received lands from David I, in whose reign he came into Scotland. He witnessed char- ters dated A. D. 1128 and 1129.
Ten generations later, SIR WILLIAM GRAHAM of Kincardine, the head of this powerful family, was one of the commissioners to treat with England, being intrusted with that power in 1406 and 1411. He married twice. The son of his first wife was ancestor of the Gra- hams of Montrose. His second wife was the daughter of King Robert III, a charter dated August 4th, 1420 conveying lands to Sir William and " Mariotæ Stewart, sorori (she was niece) Roberti Ducis Albania, spouse dicti Willielmi." In another charter from their cousin Murdac, Duke of Albany-these Dukes are well known to the readers of the " Fair Maid of Perth "-there is mentioned as their 3rd son
WILLIAM GRAHAM, or GRÆME, to whom the barony of Garvock was granted in 1473. Acc. to Burke's Landed Gentry, he was father of
MATTHEW LE GRÆME, who succeeded him in 1502, and had
ARCHIBALD GRÆME of Garvock, his son, who fell at Flodden in 1513, and was father of
JOHN GRÆME of Garvock, who had two sons, viz : James Græme of Garvock and a John Graham, who possessed the estate of Bal- gowan. The latter was in turn father of a second John Graham of Balgowan.
JAMES GRÆME of Garvock, eldest son aforesaid, we are told, was the father of
NINIAN, who married in 1606 Elizabeth Oliphant, and had a son
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JOHN GRÆME, who married 1638 Agnes Drummond, and was father of
JAMES GRÆME of Garvock. The "Inquisition. ad Cap. Dom. Regis Retorn. &ct. Abbrevatio," published by Royal Authority in 1811, has this entry concerning him. "Jan. 9. 1668. Jacobus Grahame de Garvock, hæres Niniani Graham de Garvock, avi." We also learn that the lands of Balgowan and the property of that branch of the family were inherited by him ; he appears (ibid) " Dec. 14. 1677. Jacobus Grahame de Garvock, hæres Joannis Grahame de Balgoway, filii fratris proavi." In 1678, he married Anne Stewart, daughter of John Stewart of Arntullie and Cardneys. Balgowan soon after was in possession of his kinsman, Thomas Græme.
According to the pedigree in the appendix to the Life of Lord Lynedoch by Capt. Delavoye, London, 1880,
John Græme, second son of John Græme of Garvock, purchased the estate of Balgowan of Lord Innermeath in 1584, and, the pedigree says, his son
John Græme m. Isabel Bonnar, dau. of Ninian Bonnar of Keltie and (instead of dying without issue so that the estate passed to James Græme of Garvock) was succeeded by his son
John Græme, who m. 1647 Helen, dau of Sir Thomas Blair of Balthayock, and was father of
THOMAS GRÆME who entailed the estate on his heirs male. (It would seem that his father was in fact no other than John Græme of Garvock named in the pedigree in Burke's Landed Gentry and that this Thomas obtained the lands from his brother James after Dec 14, 1677, the date of the inquisition.) The sons of this Thomas Græme by his 1st wife (whom he married in 1671), Anna, dau. of Sir James Drummond of Machany, are given as follows, viz:
JOHN, who inherited Balgowan, and was gr'd-father of Lord Lynedoch,
JAMES and THOMAS, who both died young,
DAVID,
ROBERT, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir D. Threipland, and whose gr'dson succeeded to the estate on death of Lord Lynedoch in 1843,
DR. THOMAS, (this Dr. Thomas was the Councillor), WILLIAM,
PATRICK, m. Janet Murray of Murrayshall, and whose gr .- grdson. John Murray Graham succeeded in 1859 to the estates remaining entailed.
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The arms of both the Garvock and Balgowan family are : or, 3 piles gu. issuing from a chief sa. charged with 3 escallops or, within a double tressure flory counterflory, to mark the royal descent from Robert III.
THOMAS GRÆME, the subject of this sketch, " was born at the family seat at Balgowan in Perthshire in North Britain October the 20th, 1688." He mentions a brother Peter in a letter to the Penns ; and his brother Patrick came to Pennsylvania. A nephew, Capt. Græme, was here for a short time with the troops that served in the French War. Thomas Græme chose as a profession that of " Doctor in Physick." His name does not appear in the catalogue of the medi- cal graduates of Edinburgh, but it may be conjectured that he studied at Leyden, from his testimony in the case of Penn vs. Lord Baltimore that he was there in 1712, and then purchased a certain map. He came to Pennsylvania with Col. William Keith, heir-apparent of Ludquhairn, who had just been appointed Lieutenant-Governor. They arrived in Capt. Annis's vessel, May 31, 1717. Philadelphia had never felt the want of medical learning, although the practitioners were applied to more for the purchase of drugs than to superintend the treatment of the sick. Among the earliest Welsh settlers had been several physicians, the most prominent of whom, Dr. Griffith Owen, died the year of Græme's arrival. There were also several chirur- geons in the colony, and Dr. Samuel Monckton established a " phar- macopia " in the city. Græme, with pleasing manners, obtained some little practice, which, as time went on, and population increased, gave him the chief place among a group of physicians by no means con- temptible in abilities, and alumni of the medical schools of Europe.
Gov. Keith, removing Assheton from the Naval Office in 1719, conferred it upon Græme. Logan notes the fact with these words : " I acknowledge the young gentleman on whom it is now conferred appears to have merit, but I who know something of the history of his life, am sensible what was his greatest, and that Sherry Moor and a closet prevailed above relation [the only explanation of which seems to be that perhaps Keith or one of his family hid at Balgowan after the battle of Sheriff Muir in Perthshire, November 13th, 1715; Logan having opportunities for learning this secret history of the Jacobites from the residence in his house of one Mac Gregor, who took the name of Skinner, who had been wounded on that field-Bp. Perry's Hist. Coll.] I have so much respect for his Assheton's successor who has
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now married our Governor's daughter-in-law - Diggs that I should not begrudge him any favor." Græme's term of office was not long; but, later in life, he was again appointed, and was Naval Officer at his death.
He was sworn into the Governor's Council February 25, 1725-6, and duly became a Master in Chancery. For many years, he was em- ployed, often in company with Dr. Lloyd Zachary, to examine the ships arriving in the port to see whether there were any cases of con- tagious diseases on board. It was during the period of a large Pala- tinate emigration that this inspection was required ; and the Gover- nors had a high estimation of his services. The Assembly, always cavilling at the members of the Governor's Council, had a long con- tention with him on the subject of his fees, and charged him with partiality. He was appointed Third Justice of the Supreme Court in 1731 ; and on the appointment of Langhorne as Chief Justice, August 9, 1739, became second in rank. His salary was 50l. Pa. money. He resigned in 1750.
When in Philadelphia, he resided first with Gov. Keith, and then on Second Street, and later on Fourth Street, and at one time in Car- penter's mansion, Chestnut near Seventh ; but his country-house, which may be considered his home, was nineteen miles from the City, off the Doylestown and Willow Grove Turnpike. It is still standing, one of the few vestiges of early provincial grandeur. The seat has been known as "Græme Park," and, containing originally twelve hundred acres, lay partly in Bucks, and partly in what was then Philadelphia, but is now Montgomery County. Lieut. Gov. Keith, his wife's step- father, bought it as wild land in 1718. A road to it was afterwards laid out. The house itself was begun during the summer of 1721. (Buck's Map of Montgomery Co.) There is a contract for stone work extant, bearing the date December 12, 1721. After its completion, Sir William Keith, who had succeeded his father as Baronet, lived there in great style. He had seventeen slaves, four horses for his coach, seven riding horses, and nine horses for farm work. In 1731, Sir William, then residing in St. Margaret's Parish, Westminster, conveyed the property to trustees for his wife's use. By deed dated December 22, 1739, Dr. Græme bought it for 760l. from Joseph Turner, the Councillor, who had bought it from the trustees. It then contained 834 acres, the edifice measuring 60x25 feet, two stories in height, covered by the usual hipped roof. Some years later, its laird, as we may call him, writes, " I have endeavored to make a fine plan-
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tation in regard to fields, meadows, and enclosures, not much regard- ing the house and gardens. I have a park which incloses 300 acres of land. This park is managed quite different from any I have seen here or elsewhere : it's very good soil, and one half of it lies with an easy descent to the South sun; where besides avenues and vistas through it, there is now but just done a 150 acres of it quite clear of shrubbs, grubbs, and bushes, nothing but the tall trees and good sap- ling timber standing. This I harrow, sow in it grass seed, then bush and roll it. I expect it soon capable of maintaining a large stock of sheep and black cattle. It would be one of the finest parks for deer that well could be imagined, but though I have double ditched and double hedged it, I am afraid it is not secure enough against deers escaping. On the other hand, if you consider it as a piece of beauty and ornament to a dwelling, I dare venture to say that no nobleman in England but would be proud to have it on his seat, or by his house." In old age, he enjoyed this prospect enlivened indeed with deer ; and in the main room of the mansion, spacious for the day it was built, 21 feet square with its ceiling 14 feet high, his family received the gay and the great of Tory times.
Dr. Græme was a subscriber to the Pennsylvania Hospital at its foundation, and was one of the physicians from 1751 to 1753.
He was also the first President of the St. Andrew's Society, founded, for the assistance of Scotchmen, in December of 1749, and was a mem- ber of the Amer. Philos. Society. He died at Græme Park on Fri- day September 4, 1772, bu. in the yard of Christ Church, Phila., the funeral being Sunday forenoon following, and Provost Smith of the College preaching a funeral sermon (obituary in the Penna. Packet of Sep. 7, 1772).
He m. Xt. Ch. Nov. 12, 1719 Ann, dau. of Robert Diggs by his wife Ann. The grandmother of Mrs. Græme, so says a family record, was Ann Morgan, born in England in 1625, and died in 1697, aged 72 years. Her daughter, Ann Newbury, married to Robert Diggs and afterwards to Sir William Keith, Bart., Lieut .- Gov. of Pennsylvania from 1717 to 1726, was born in the year 1675. She emigrated to America with her husband, Gov. Keith, in the month of May, 1717. She died July 31, 1740, aged 65 years, was interred in Christ Church yard, Phila. Ann Diggs, dau. to Ann Newbury and Robert Diggs, was born July 22, 1700, at St. Alban's in England, came with her mother to America, and died in Phila. May 29, 1765, buried in Christ. Church yard.
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Issue :
THOMAS, b. Sep. 5, 1721, in house of Gov. Keith in Phila., bapt. Xt. Ch. Sep. 27, 1721, Collector of the Port of New Castle on the Delaware, d. unm. Sep. 6, 1747, bu. Xt. Ch. Sep. 7,
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