(II) John (2), second son of Oliver and Sally (Owens) Evens, was a farmer in Walker Valley, New York. He married Ann

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McNamara, by whom he had five children: 1. Annie, married (first) Frederick Robinson, (second) John I. Terwilliger; 2. Samuel A., mentioned below; 3. William B., mentioned below; 4. Joseph, C., 5. Maretta, all born in Walker Valley, New York.

(III) Samuel A., eldest son of John O. Evens, married Emma Lloyd, by whom he had four children, namely: 1. Elbert, married Kate Meyers; he is in the United States Navy. 2. Lizzie, married William Lober, having one son, William B., mentioned below. 3. Maud, married Gabriel Clark, both now residing in Brooklyn , New York . 4. Mary, married Thomas Tynan, both residing now in Pennsylvania . Samuel A. Evens, the father of these children, died some years ago.

(III) William B., second son of John O. Evens, married Joanna Goreth, by whom he had one son, Arthur, born in Walden, Orange County, New York, married Eva Tompkins, both now residing in Montgomery, Orange county, New York, where they are engaged in farming. William B. Evens died November 28, 1908 .

ROOS. Jacobus, Roos, the first member of this family of whom we have any definite information, was a farmer in Orange county, New York , where he died. He married -------- Ostrander. Children, all born in Ulster County , New York : 1. Levi, born April 26, 1799 . 2. James, July 31, 1804 . 3. Catherine E., January 10, 1812 . 4. Green M., referred to below.

(II) Green M., son of Jacobus and ------------ (Ostrander) Roos, was born August 3, 1814 , in Ulster County , New York , and died there. He married Rachel M. Munson. Children, all born in Ulster County : 1. Amos M., referred to below. 2. Edward J., born February 18, 1841 . 3. Willet M., born May 13, 1844 . 4. E. A., October 26, 1846 . 5. Abram, February 1, 1851 . 6.Caroline M., September 19, 1853 . 7. Josiah, September 2, 1859 . 8. George B., December 2, 1862 .

(III) Amos M., son of Green M. and Rachel M. (Munson) Roos, was born in Ulster County, New York, March 26, 1839, died near Walden, New York, April 15, 1893. He removed to Orange County and purchased a large farm near Walden which he cultivated until his death. He was a member of the Ditch Reformed church. He married Harriet R. Roos, of Ulster County , New York , now living in Walden. Children, all born in Orange County : 1. Willett, born April 3, 1869., died November 13, 1891 . 2. Mamie, March 5, 1873 , died January 12, 1912 . 3. Jennie, June 2, 1878 , died March 8, 1882 . 4. Lena , November 30, 1890 , died February, 1891.

SIMPSON. Alfred Simpson, the founder of the family in this country, was born in Sheffield , England , died in Walden , New York , March 22, 1907 . When a young man he emigrated to this country and settled first at Mattewan, later removed to Walden with other cutlers and was there engaged in the trade of forging knife blades for the New York Knife Company for the long period of thirty-five years. He was a man of high character, honored and respected by all who knew him. He was a member of the Walden fire department, also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he took an active part, and the Knights of Pythias. He had a sister, Martha, who married John McMara, and their child, Thomas, is now living in Chester , New York .

Mr. Simpson married Katherine (Kate), daughter of Erastus and Crissy J. (Michaels) Hatch, of Walden , New York , the former of whom died aged seventy-four years and is buried in the graveyard of the Episcopal Church in Walden. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Hatch: 1. Maria, married Peter Schoonmaker, of Walden; children: i. Isaac, deceased; ii. katherine, deceased; iii. Francis. 2. Lewis, Married Sarah Bodine, of Walden; children: i. Perry, ii. William, iii. George, iv. Lavinia. 3. Sarah J., married John Williams, of Orange County , New York ; children: i. Margaret, ii. Josiah, iii. Caroline. 4. Erastus, Jr., married Mary Peter, of Walden; children: i. Alexander, ii. Moses, iii. Duncan, iv. Emma, v. Lottie, vi. William. 5. Harriet, married William wood, children: i. Frederick , ii. Lida, iii. William, iv. Katherine, v. Thomas, vi, Charles. 6. William, died in Libby Prison during the Civil War. 7. Katherine, referred to above. 8. John, died while a soldier in the Civil War and is buried in Washington, D. C. 9. Moses,

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Married Elizabeth Bunton, of Montgomery ; children: i. Jacob, ii. Harriet, iii. Caroline, iv. Rebecca, v. James, vi. Rose, vii. Crissy. 10, Caroline, married George McKinney. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Simpson: 1. Hetty, married George Sutley, of Suffern , New York ; children: i. Mildren, ii. George L., iii. Ida. 2. Ida, married Thomas W. Morton, of New Jersey, now a resident of Walden, New York, children; i. Thomas, ii. Russel.

HAWXHURST. The surname Hawxhurst would appear to be English in origin, and probably has some connection with Hawkhurst, the name of a parish in Kent , England . Another suggestion is that it is derived in its first syllable from Hawkes, a diminutive of Harry or Henry, connected with Hal and Hawken, just as Wilkes is connected with Will and Wilkins.

(I) Daniel Hawxhurst, the first ascertainable ancestor of the Hawxhurst family, in America here under consideration, was born in Ellenville , New York , died in his seventy-fifth year at the same place. He was by occupation a farmer and lumber dealer. He married Mary Ann Grey, who was buried with her husband at Greenfield , Ulster County, New York . Children: 1. Elizabeth , married Tunis Freer, of Greenfield , New York ; there were no children of this marriage. 2. Ruth, married Nelson Perkins, it is probable that they left no issue. 3. Sarah, married Du Bois Brennan, the family living at Monticello, Sullivan County, New York, their children were: i. Ella May, ii. William L. 4. William, a woodworker, lived at Ellenville , New York ; married Caroline Van Wyke, they had one daughter, Essie. 5. Myra . 6. Horace mentioned below.

(II) Horace, youngest son of Daniel and Mary Ann (Grey) Hawxhurst, was born in ellenville, New York, died early in life somewhere about the age of thirty-four years. He was a farmer by occupation at ellenville, New York. He married Mary Elizabeth McDowell, of Ellenville, New York. She married for her second husband, Cornelius Scott, of Walden, Orange County, New York, who died in 1`902, leaving her a widow again. Children: 1. Willian Virgil, mentioned below. 2. Joseph. 3. Annie. 4. Myra. 5. Sarah, all born at Ellenville, New York.

(III) Willian Virgil, eldest son of Horace and mary Elizabeth (McDowell) Hawxhurst, was born at Ellenville, New York, August 16, 1871. During his boyhood days he worked on his father's farm. He then engaged in the cutlery business, which he followed for a bout twenty years. After that he was employed as a salesman for the Grand Union Tea Company, of Newburg, Orange County, New York. He is now a dealer in real estate. He is a member of the United Order of American Mechanics, and also the Foresters of America. While he is not affiliated with any church he generally attends the Episcopal services. He married Hattie Benett, of Walden. They have one son, Virgil W., born in Walden, Orange County, New York.

Abram Benett, father of Mrs. Hattie (Benett) Hawxhurst, lived at South Centerville, New York, being by occupation a farmer. He married Susan Ziegler. The children, all born at south Centerville, New York, were: 1. Emma, married John Barett, having two children; i. Carrie, ii. George, this family lives in Newark, New Jersey. 2. Ida, married John Richardson, of Yonkers, New York; they have one daughter, May, the family resides in Yonkers, New York. 3. Chancy, married May Perry, the family living at South Centerville, New York. 4. John. 5. Charles. 6. Hattie. 7. Carrie, married Charles smith, of Middletown, new York; they have two children; i. Edwin and ii. Jessie, both born in Middletown, New York, where the family still resides. 8. Alice, married William Shoop, of Middletown, New York, there are no children of this marriage.

MILLS. This is an old name in the American colonies, having been found widely scattered over Maine and Connecticut, and having numerous pioneer representatives in the settlement of various New England colonies. One of these was John Mills, who came from England to Scarborough, in what is now Maine, before 1650. He was a Quaker, and with his family was much persecuted by other inhabitants about 1670. Samuel Mills was at Weymouth, Massachusetts, as early

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as1640, and removed to Dedham, in 1642. Edward Mills was in Boston in 1645, and Benjamin Mills in Dedham about the same time. Robert and Joseph Mills were in Kittery (Now Maine) in 1647, and Richard Mills at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1654. Thomas Mills was at Wells, Maine, in 1653. Probably the earliest of the name in this country was John Mills, who came with Winthrop's colony in 1630, and was made a freeman in Boston in 1632. The ancestor of the family herein traced may have been related to some of these, but there is nothing in the records to show it. This is one of the names arising from ownership, location or occupation. The first to take it as a surname was either a miller, the owner of mills, or lived near mills. In comparatively modern times we have a conspicuous example of this development of names. In 1666 Peter van der Muellen, a Dutchman by birth, settled in Windsor, Connecticut. The English speaking people of that community could not be persuaded either to pronounce or write his name correctly and at last in desperation he procurred an act of the general court, changing his name to Mills. The literal translation of this Dutch name is "from the mills."

(I) George Mills, born about 1605, came from Yorkshire, England, to America about 1630, and after a brief tarry at Milford, Connecticut, settled at Jamaica, Long Island, where he died October 17, 1694, at the age of eighty-nine years. His name is found on the town records of Hempstead and Jamaica, February 16, 1656, and November 25, 1656, when he was granted a home lot in each town.

(II) Samuel, son if George Mills, was born in 1631 in America, died at Jamaica, in March, 1726. The New York Gazette of March 12, that year, gives an obituary, stating that he was born in America, and that he was an honest and very industrious man, of temperate habits, and was in good health up to the time of his death. He married, in 1658, the name of his wife is not mentioned. It is stated that they lived together sixty-eight years, and that she survived him, having borne sixteen children, the last one born when she was fifty-one years of age. Nine of these were living in 1726, and at the same time there were eighty grandchildren and fifty-four great-grandchildren. Among his children were Joanna, Jonathan and William. The latter was pastor of a church at Jamaica from 1662 to 1674, when he died.

(III) Timothy, son of Samuel Mills, was born in 1667, at Jamaica, died March 30, 1751, at Mills Pond, in the town of Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York, which was named in his honor, and where he settled before 1700. His first wife, Elizabeth, bore him two children, and his second, Sarah, was the mother of eleven.

(IV) Jonathan, son of Timothy Mills, being the sixth child of his second wife, Sarah, was born October 23, 1710, at Mills Pond, where he resided, and died October 23, 1798. He married (first), April 3, 1737, Ruth, daughter of John Rudyard, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, who bore him six children, including twins, Jacob and Timothy. He married (second) January 25, 1756, Dorothy Miller, who bore him three children.

(V) Jacob, son of Jonathan and Ruth (Rudyard) Mills, was born December 2, 1746, at Mills Pond, died in 1841, at Scotchtown, Orange County, New York. At the age of nineteen he shipped on a whaler and made three voyages to Greenland, which netted him a tidy sum. During the winters of this period he worked at shoemaking, going from house to house, according to the custom of the times, called "whipping the cat." About 1769 he settled in Little Britain, Orange County, (then Ulster), New York, and established a tannery near New Windsor. His tanning business was successful and was gradually enlarged, and during the Revolution he made shoes for the American soldiers, including his own company. He was a member of a militia company which was ordered out for the defense of Fort Montgomery. His name appears among the signers of the Revolutionary pledge from precinct of New Windsor, Orange County, New York. He marched with the company after having worked all night to make a pair of shoes for one of the men who was barefoot. The fort had been taken, however, by the British before his company reached it. He furnished, he said, a large number of shoes for the Army and became quite rich in Continental money, but at the close of the war his money was worthless and he had to being life anew. His place, however, was paid for and he had this ad-

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vantage. A few years after the war, he sold his place in New Windsor, and bought two thousand two hundred and fifty acres of land in the town of Wallkill, about five miles north of Middletown, and moved his family there, the place having been known for many years of late as Millsburg. The price paid by him for his large tract of land he has been heard to say was, "Thirteen shillings and sixpence hapenny" per acre in Continental money. Here he started again a tannery consisting at first of but four vats in which he could tan about two hundred hides, but which was subsequently greatly enlarged. He at first lived on what was known as the Smith Place, half a mile or more southeast of the tannery and east of the direct road leading to Scotchtown. In 1791 he built a stone house near the tannery, employing for this purpose a mason from Little Britain, all the mortar for which building was carried by his son Samuel, then but fifteen years of age. The stone house, tannery and farm connected therewith and formerly occupied by him he gave to his son Samuel. He was one of the leading persons in the erection of the Presbyterian Church at Scotchtown. Besides contributing liberally in money for this purpose he kept his team there continually during the time of its erection.

He married, December 27, 1773, at Goshen, New York, Catherine, daughter of Samuel Denton, who removed from Long Island to Goshen. They had six sons and six daughters of whom eleven reared families At his death there were forty-eight grandsons, most of whom were engaged in farming, and forty-nine granddaughters. Among these descendants were counted a physician, a clergyman, and one who was sheriff of Orange County.

(VI) Samuel (2), son of Jacob and Catherine (Denton) Mills, was born August 27, 1776, on the paternal homestead in Wallkill, to the ownership to which he succeeded, and died September 26, 1860. He voted only a few days preceding his death. Besides operating the tannery established b y his father, he engaged extensively in farming, having three large farms which he cultivated. He was successful and was able to provide substantially for his children. He married, January 31, 1807, Esther Stitt, born August 28, 1787, ion Bloomingburg, Sullivan County, New York, died November 11, 1863, daughter of John and Nancy (McCullough) Stitt, of Bloomingburg. Children: 1. Catherine, born December 19, 1807, died in 1888; married Archibald Slaughter. 2. Nancy, born July 10, 1809; became the wife of Hiram S. Dunning. 3. William, born October 5, 1810, died in 1885, at Petersburg, Virginia. 4. Caroline, born May 4, 1812, died 1861; became the wife of DeWitt Slaughter. 5. Mary Jane, born November 5, 1814; married Robert J. Bull, of Wallkill. 6. Sarah Elizabeth, born September 26, 1816, died in 1886; became the wife of General Alfred D. Hurtin. 7. Jacob Stitt, born September 21, 1818, died young. 8. Samuel Wickham, mentioned below. 9. James Jackson, born October 2, 1822. 10. Albert, born June 12, 1825, died on the paternal homestead in 1890, in his sixty-sixth year. 11, Edwin, born December 4, 1827; resided near Philluipsburg, New York. 12. Ruth, died at the age of nine years.

(VII) Rev. Dr. Samuel Wickham Mills, fourth son of Samuel (2) and Esther (Stitt) Mills, was born April 5, 1820, near Scotchtown, in the town of Wallkill, New York. He remained on the paternal homestead until fifteen years of age. He was a studious lad and made unusual progress so that he was able to enter Rutgers College at New Brunswick, New Jersey, when fifteen years old, and was graduated in 1838, in his nineteenth year, delivering the salutatory. A year later he took up the study of theology at the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church at New Brunswick, and was graduated in 1842, taking up a prominent position in his classes. He began his pastoral work at Bloomingburg, where he was ordained, and continued fifteen years until February, 1858, when he removed to Port Jervis, New York. There he was pastor of the Reformed Church for a period of fourteen years, until 1872, during which time a handsome church edifice was constructed at a cost of forty-four thousand dollars, all of which was paid before the dedication. Dur-

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ing his pastorate two hundred and forty-nine persons were received into the church, and after his retirement from that pulpit he continued to labor for some time in supplying various churches in the vicinity, and died there November 29, 1902. Mr. Mills was an untiring worker in the moral and religious interests of the world; was a member of the classis of Orange County, and highly esteemed by his contemporaries and parishioners. He was president of the Minisink Valley Historical Society from its organization in 1889. For thirty-seven years he was corresponding secretary of the Orange County Bible Society until June, 1895, when he was made president. A natural pulpit orator, his sermons were profound and edifying, and he was everywhere highly regarded as man and citizen. His residence on Main Street, Port Jervis, at the foot of the mountain, was an ideal spot in which to pass his declining years. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Rutgers College in 1874.

He married (first) January 7, 1844, Almeda J., born February 28, 1822,m died march 12, 1867, daughter of Nathaniel and Mahalah (Dunning) Bailey, of Mechanicstown. He married (second) November 30, 1870, Amira, daughter of Stephen St. John, of Port Jervis. Children, all by first wife: 1. Harriet Bailey, died in childhood. 2. Esther, became the wife of C. E. Cuddeback, an attorney of Port Jervis. 3. Anna, died at the age of twenty-nine years, unmarried. 4. Theodore Denton, mentioned below. 5. Cornelia Hunter, died at the age of fifteen years. 6. Mary Delia, married J. Alexander Stitt, an attorney of New York City.

(VIII) Theodore Denton, only son of Rev. Dr. Samuel Wickham and Almeda J. (Bailey) Mills born June 9, 1852, in Bloomingburg, New York, and was six years of age when the family moved to Port Jervis. After the usual attendance at the public schools he prepared for college in a private school maintained by Professor A. b. Wilbur, and in 1870 entered Rutgers College, from which he was graduated in 1874 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Three years later the same institution gave him the degree of Master of Arts. He was identified with the Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternities. During his senior year in college he began reading medicine with Dr. H. R. Baldwin, of new Brunswick, New Jersey, and subsequently entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City, from which he was graduated in 1870 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Having passed a competitive examination, he became a house surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, New York, and subsequently was a partner of Dr. Henry Hardenbergh, with whom he practiced from October, 1877, to January 28, 1881, in Port Jervis. He then located in Middletown, New York, where he is still actively engaged in the practice of his profession, as a physician and surgeon, and is often called in consultation by his contemporaries. For many years he has been surgeon for the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad, and has been a member of the staff of Thrall Hospital of Middletown since its organization. Dr. Mills has been president and secretary of the Orange county Medical Society, to whose archives he has contributed many valuable papers. He is a member of the State Association of Railway Surgeons, and the National Association of the same body, in which he takes an active interest. He has been president of the First District Branch of the New York State Medical Society; was a member of the Tri-States and New York Medical societies; is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. Dr. Mills has never relaxed in scientific studies, and in 1887 he pursued a post-graduate course at the New York Post-Graduate College by which he was better equipped for the pursuit of his chosen calling. He has been medical examiner for various fraternal societies and old line insurance companies.

Though a busy man, Dr. Mills has always had time for an interest in the social and moral interests of the community, and takes some part in developing its material interests. He was a trustee of the Orange County Trust and Safe Deposit Company, a director of the Orange County Telephone Company, of which he was one of the incorporators and president several years, and a member of the Middletown Club and Board of Trade. He was one of the five commissioners appointed by the city to have charge of the erection of the beautiful city hall completed in 1912. He is a lifelong

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member of Middletown Presbyterian Church, to whose works he is a liberal contributor. He is not an active politician, though interested in the progress of the state and nation, and is independent of party division in political action.

Dr. Mills married, October 20, 1887, at Middletown, Christina Stewart, daughter of Hon. Moses dunning and Elizabeth (Stewart) Stivers. Two of the three children of this marriage are living: 1. Samuel Wickham, born January 4, 1892, at present a student in Yale College. 2. Elizabeth Stivers, born august 29, 1893, and 3. Theodore Denton died at the age of nine weeks.

ROBERTSON. Bronson Robertson, the first member of this family of whom we have any definite information, lived in the township of Liberty, Sullivan County, New York. He married Abigail Stoddard. Child: James, referred to below.

(II) James, son of Bronson and Abigail (Stoddard) Robertson, was born in the township of Liberty, December 6, 1844, and died in 1910. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the United States Navy and served until the close of the Civil War. After this he traveled westward as far as Chicago, as a bridge carpenter. In 1869 he came to Monticello, Sullivan County, New York, and here lived for three years, working at the same trade. He went in 1872 to Port Jervis, Orange County, New York, where he lived until his death. He was a member of the F. and A. M., having been admitted in Chicago in 1868; after coming to Monticello, he was admitted to the Monticello lodge. When he moved to Port Jervis he became a member of Lodge No. 328. He served in every chair to and including that of senior warden, and he was marshal at the time of his death. He was a charter member of Mount William Lodge, No. 105, Knights of Pythias, and was head of the Grand Orient, a side degree in this order. In the I. O. O. F., he was a member of Ustayantha Lodge, No. 143, Port Jervis, and became a past grand. He was a member also of the Eastern Star, and was worthy patron of Pocono Chapter, No. 62; also a member of Orpha Rebekah Lodge, No. 29, I. O. O. F. In politics he was a Republican, in religion a Presbyterian. He married Mary E., daughter of Robert Latham and Lydia (Conant) Kinne, who was born in 1842. For her ancestry see Kinne sketch following.

KINNE. The surname Kinne is identical with Kinney, Kenney, Kenny, Keny, Kinnee, Kene, and other forms of spelling are common in the old records. Kene and Kenney are common Irish forms of this surname at the present time. Various members of the Scotch-Irish families of Kenny coming to Connecticut used various forms of spelling of the name. The English family mentioned below used the spelling Kenninge or Kenning at first, but that form seems to have disappeared and the descendants use the forms Kinne, Kinney and Kenney.

(I) Henry Kinne, Kinney, and Kenninge, was born in 1624, in Holland, of English Puritan ancestry. According to some accounts, however, he was a native of Norfolkshire, England, and went to Holland when very young. Thence he came to New England. He was first of Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he was apprenticed to William Park by Vincent Potter, who was presumably a relative in charge of him, perhaps step-father. His home after he came of age was at Salem, Massachusetts. His wife Ann was admitted to the Salem church, August 24, 1654. Children: 1. John, born January, 1651. 2. Thomas, January 1, 1656. 3. Hannah, January 2, 1658. 4. Mary, May, 1659. 5. Sarah, June 20, 1661. 6. Elizabeth, December, 1662. 7. Lydia, April, 1665. 8, Henry, May, 1669.

(II) Thomas, son of Henry Kinne, was born at Salem, January 1, 1655-56, in what is now Danvers, Massachusetts, then Salem village, in the town of Salem. He married there, May 23, 1677, Elizabeth Knight, who died in 1894. Children, born in Salem Village: 1. Thomas, of whom further. 2. Joseph, September 7, 1680. 3. Daniel, July 23, 1683. 4. Jonathan, May 27, 1686.

(III) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Kinne, was born at Salem village, July 27, 1678, and died October 1, 1755. He settled with others of the family at Preston, Connecticut, and was one of the founders and the first deacon of the Second Church of Christ in Preston. He married Martha ----------. Children, born in Preston: 1. Jeremiah, August 30, 1708. 2. James, October 14, 1703. 3. Stephen,

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June 1, 1705. 4. Amos, mentioned below. 5. Moses, May 8, 1710. 6. Martha, June 20, 1712. 7. Lois, March 18, 1713. 8. Keziah, December 31, 1714. 9. Thomas, May 11, 1717. 10. Huldah, February 1, 1719. 11. Phebe, July 24, 1720. 12. Timothy, March 14, 1722. 13. Jerusha, twin of Timothy. 14. Nathan, March 20, 1727.

(IV) Lieutenant Amos Kinne, son of Thomas (2) Kinne, was born at Preston, September 3, 1708, and died September 19, 1795. He married, in Preston, November 15, 1732, Sarah Palmer, who was born in 1708, a descendant of Walter Palmer. Children, born in Preston: 1. Simeon, October 8, 1733. 2. Elizabeth, September 15, 1735. 3. Roger, baptized April 27, 1740. 4. Amos, baptized July 11, 1742. 5. Anne, baptized September 29, 1747. 6. Nathan, mentioned below. 7. Freelove, baptized April 12, 1752.

(V) Nathan, son of Amos Kinne, was born at Preston, Windham County, Connecticut, May 3, 1750. He was sergeant of a Pomfret company in the Revolution, under Captain Zebediah or Zebulon Ingalls, Eighth Company, Eleventh Regiment of Connecticut, which marched to join the Army in Westchester, New York. In 1700 he was reported in the census as living in Killingly, Connecticut, and as having in his family two males over sixteen years, two under sixteen, and six females. He was the only Nathan Kinne in Connecticut at that time. Killingly, Pomfret and Plainfield are adjacent towns in Windham County. Amos, David and Cogshamm Kinne were heads of families in Plainfield in 1790.

Nathan Kinne came from Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut, according to the family history, and bought a farm in Maplewood, in the town of Thompson, Sullivan County, New York. His farm was on what is now called Kinne Brook.

He married, at Pomfret, Connecticut, Deborah Knight. He married again about 1790, if the family records are correct. Children, by first wife: 1. Phebe, born October 29, 1773, died October 14, 1775. 2. Elias, April 12, 1775, died October 16, 1775. 3. Elisha, born October 14, 1776. 4. Mary, December 7, 1778. 5. Anne, March 5, 1781. 6. Oliver. 7. Betsey. 8. Wealthy, August 5, 1790, perhaps others. Children as given by family, probably by a second wife: 1. Elijah, born February 27, 1792, in Plainfield, Connecticut, married Rhoda M. Abbott, and remained in Connecticut some years after his father's departure, but came eventually to New York. 2. Daniel. 3. Robert Latham, mentioned below.

(VI) Robert Latham, son of Nathan Kinne, was born in Maplewood, town of Thompson, New York, November 5, 1809. He attended the district schools of his native town and assisted his father on the homestead. After he came of age he bought a tract of one hundred acres in what was then known as the West Settlement, in the town of Thompson. He was a prosperous farmer and influential citizen. He retired a few years before his death and removed to Port Jervis, New York, where he died in 1890. He was active in his younger days in the state militia, and was captain of the local company. After the formation of the Republican Party he gave to it his earnest and loyal support as long as he lived. He married Lydia Atwood Conant, daughter of Seth Conant, a farmer of Forestburgh, Sullivan County, New York. Children: 1. Henry, married Elizabeth Rinehart, and lived at Newburgh, New York, where he died. 2. Angeline, married Alexander Moore. 3. Amelia, born 1838, married John Maston, and is now living at Norwalk, Connecticut. 4. Edward, died in infancy. 5. Mary Eliza, born 1842, married James Robertson, and is now living, a widow, at Port Jervis. 6. Eunice, born 1844, married Levi Robertson, of White Sulphur Springs, and now resides in Nebraska. 7. Sarah, born 1846, married Webster Cortwright, of Port Jervis; children: i. Moses, ii. Grace, iii. Charles, iv. Mary, v. Seth, vi Blake, vii. Wayne, and viii, Emma Cortwright. 8. Minerva, born 1848, married Thomas Parrott, lived in New York City; both now deceased. 9. Robert Darwin, mentioned below.

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