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(II)
Margaretta Henrietta, daughter of the Rev.
Henry Melchior and Anna Maria (Weiser)
Muhlenberg, was born September 17, 1751,
died October 23, 1831. She married, July
23, 1771, John Christopher Kunze, D. D.,
born at Arlem, near Mansfield, Germany,
August 5, 1744, died July 24, 1807. He took
a preparatory course at Halle and the high
schools of Rosleben and Merseburg. He then
devoted three years to the study of
theology at Leipsie, and spent three more
as teacher in the celebrated school at
Klosterbergen, near Magdeburg. He also
spent one year at Greitz, as inspector of
the orphan house. With Frederick Augustus
and Gotthilf Ernst Muhlenberg he left Halle
for America on May 5, 1770. In 1784 he
accepted a call to Christ church, new York
City, where he labored faithfully until his
death. He was a very learned man. His wife
was the last of her family, and is buried
beside her husband in St. Mark's Episcopal
graveyard, New York City. Children: 1.
Maria, born August 17, 1773. 2. Marie
Catherine, October 22, 1774. 3. Catherine
Eliza, October 4, 1776, died January 29,
1863; married, May 21, 1801, Casper Meier.
4. Anna Maria, August 20, 1778. 5. Hannah
Christina, August 20 1779. 6. Charles
Henry, June 24, 1781, died 1808. 7. Maria
Magdalena, October 8, 1785, died July 11,
1838. 8. Catherina Frederica, march 26,
1789, died March 22, 1809; married Daniel
Oakley. 9. Anna Margaretta, of whom
further.
(III) Anna
Margaretta, daughter of John Christopher and
Margaretta Henrietta (Muhlenberg) Kunze, was
born August 14, 1791, died November 23,
1846. She married Jacob Lorillard, born May
22, 1774, died September 21, 1836, of the
new York family of that name. He was a well
known leather merchant, and prominent in
various ways. He was president of the
Mechanics Bank and vestryman of Trinity
church. Children: 1. Anna Catherine, of
whom further. 2. Margaretta Henrietta,
born January 13, 1811, died in 1898; married
Thomas Ward. 3. Jacob, 1813, died 1855;
married Eliza Ann Bayard. 4. Eliza Meier,
September, 1815, died April 23, 1900;
married Nathaniel Platt Bailey. 5. Emily,
November 13, 1817, died April 25, 1850;
married Lewis Governeur Morris. 6. Julia,
June 17, 1821, died November 27, 1907;
married Daniel M. Edgar.
(IV) Anna
Catherine Lorillard, daughter of Jacob and
Anna Margaretta (Kunze) Lorillard, was born
October 21, 1809, died in 1897. She
married, April 18, 1833, George Philip
Cammann, M. D., born September 7, 1804, died
February 14, 1863. Dr. Cammann was a very
eminent physician of New York city,
Children: 1. Maria Margaretta, born June
4, 1834, died March 7, 1889; married Charles
S. Weyman. 2. Anna Margaretta, August 6,
1835, died 1803. 3. George Philip,
November 23, 1839, died January 14, 1872;
married Frances N. Schenck. 4. Jacob
Lorillard, June 21, 1840, died 1868; married
Isabella Appoline Mali. 5. Anna Catherine,
1842. 6. Hermann Henry, of whom further.
7. Donald M., born 1852.
(V) Hermann
Henry Cammann, son of Dr. George Philip and
anna Catherine (Lorillard) Cammann, was born
in 1845 in New York city. He was educated
in private schools, and started his business
career in a downtown brokerage office and
later in the Bank of America. After a
couple of years he entered the real estate
business on his own account and has
continued ever since. He became a vestryman
of Trinity church in 1882, and controller of
the corporation in 1898. He is a governor
of the New York Hospital, trustee of
Columbia College, and trustee and
vice-president of the Fulton Trust
Company,. He is connected with a great many
charitable and other associations. He is a
member of the Museum of Natural History,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Botanical Gardens, New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society, New York Zoological
Society, American Ethnological Society,
Chamber of Commerce, Horticultural Society
of New York, New York State Agricultural
Society, Nassau County Agricultural Society,
St. Nicholas Society, American Association
for the Advancement of Science, American
For-
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est Association, and
American Scenic and Historic Preservation
Society; and is also trustee of the House
of
Mercy, and the General Theological
Seminary. He is a member of the Downtown
Association, City Club, Church Club, Grolier
Club, and other societies and associations.
He married,
in 18783, Ella Cornelia Crary, granddaughter
of Robert Fulton. Children: 1. Edward
Crary, born 1874, married Helena Van
Cortlandt Clarkson. 2. Robert Fulton, born
1879, died 1896. 3. Hermann Muhlenberg,
born 1882, died 1883. 4. Herbert Schuyler,
born 1884, married Katherine Van Rensselaer
Fairfax.
BIRCH. This surname, if English in
origin, may be derived in some cases from
the tree bearing the name. In other cases,
it is said to be derived from the name of
parishes and chapelries in the counties of
Essex, Hereford and Lancaster in England.
According to the work of Burke dealing with
heraldry, there are at least six families of
the name in the British isles who have the
right to bear arms. The description of the
arms borne by the present Wyrley Birch
family of Wrotham, county Norfolk, England,
is: Azure, three fleur-de-lis canton ar.
Crest: A fleur-de-lis arg. Entwined by a
serpent ppr. Motto: Prudentia
simplicitate.
(I) John
Birch, ancestor of the family, lived in
Dutchess County, New York, for the most part
in the town of Pawling. He owned large
tracts of land which he purchased from the
government, and which he gradually cleared
and improved. He married Patty Ralph.
Among his children was Samuel R., mentioned
Below.
(II) Dr.
Samuel R. Birch, son of John and Patty
(Ralph) Birch, was born in the town of
Pawling, new York, and when a young man
removed to New York City. He was a
distinguished medical writer, and surgeon of
the war of 1812, whose century old diploma
from the College of Physicians and Surgeons
may still be seen in his son's office. He
married Sarah Chase, member of the famous
English Chase family whose fortune of
seventy-five million dollars is tied up in
chancery. Children: 1. Samuel R., who
served in the civil war and who is now
deceased. 2. George Washington, a graduate
of Yale, was a physician, and practiced in
Connecticut for fifty years. 3. Henry
Lafayette, who died at Pawling, Dutchess
County, New York. 4. Edward Fowler, a
graduate of Yale, was a physician and
practiced at Norwalk, Connecticut. 5.
Sarah B., married Augustus Stevens, of
Fairfield, Connecticut. 6. James G.,
mentioned below.
(III) Dr.
James G. Birch, son of Dr. Samuel R. and
Sarah (chase) Birch, was born in New York
City. His parents removing to Dutchess
County, New York, Dr. Birch attended and was
graduated from the Patterson Academy, and in
1858, after having been examined by the Rev.
John Brown, D. D., the Rev. John Forsythe,
D. D., and Judge Jones, he was named as
professor in the Clinton Street School,
Newburg, and there taught five years.
Turning to the study of medicine, he
qualified with honor in Yale, 1865, and
Harvard, 1866, receiving the degree of M. D.
from both in successive years. Then going
abroad he studied under eminent physicians
in Edinburgh, Dublin, London, Paris, during
which time he received a commission as
surgeon from the English government under
Queen Victoria, having been previously an
assistant surgeon during the civil war.
Returning to the United States, Dr. Birch
served as the head of the Connecticut State
Hospital and later as physician for the
Newburg Almshouse. He was the consulting
friend and associate of the late Dr. Ely in
many cases, and among his more cherished
possessions are the friendly correspondence
he carried on for years with Oliver Wendall
Homes, Dr. Bowditch, Dr. Jackson , and other
men of eminence in Boston. Out of his
suggestion grew the Old Ladies' Home and
Hospital of which St. Luke's Hospital is the
successor, and he was the first physician in
the same. In his office and at his
invitation were held the first and second
meetings out of which finally resulted the
organization of the Columbus Trust Company.
In his profession he had been very
successful, singularly so in obstetrics, in
which out of many cases he has never lost
one.
He married
Mrs. Jane Denslow, who is now deceased.
During the summer Dr. Birch, according to
his year long custom, seeks rest in his
ancestral home in Pawling, Dutchess county,
New York, residing at 86 Broadway, New York,
during the other months of the year.
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BOARD.
Cornelius Board, the founder of the
family in this country, emigrated from
England in 1730 under the patronage of Lord
Sterling to examine as a mining expert the
property at Rocky Hill, Hunterdon County,
New Jersey, for copper. He prospected
through the Ramapo Valley and although
unsuccessful in his quest after copper, he
discovered iron-ore at what is now Sterling,
Orange County, New York, and there between
1730 and 1740 he established the first
furnace and forge for the manufacture of
iron in New York State. It was there was
forged the chain that was stretched across
the Hudson river at West Point during the
Revolutionary War. Two sons of Cornelius
Board emigrated to America with him: James
and David. Joseph, referred to below, was
born in America.
(II) Captain
Joseph Board, son of Cornelius Board, was
born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, December 12,
1737, died in Boardville, New Jersey,
December 12, 1831. He served in the
Revolutionary War from March, 1776, to
November, 1783, with the rank of captain in
Colonel Dey's regiment of the Bergen County,
New Jersey militia, and took part in the
battle of New Bridge, Hackensack, New
Jersey, in the spring of 1778, and also in
the battle of Acquackanack Bridge in
September,. 1778, and that at English
Highlands, New Jersey, on October 17, 1778.
He married, August 15, 1762, Phoebe, born
1737, died November 20, 1816, daughter of
Josiah and anna (Day) Beach, of New Haven,
Connecticut. Children: 1. Annas, born
October 18, 1763. 2. Martha, February,
1765. 3. Elizabeth, October 12, 1766. 4.
Mary, August 5, 1768. 5. Charles, referred
to below. 6. Phoebe, December 4, 1773,
died in Chester, New York, May 3, 1856. 7.
Sarah E., January 3, 1777, died in Chester,
April 12, 1826. 8. Joseph, November 21,
1779, died 1837. 9. Susannah, April 5,
17782, died August 28, 1866.
(III)
General Charles Board, son of Captain Joseph
and Phoebe (Beach) Board, was born August
27, 1772, died December 22, 1858. He held
the rank of general in the New Jersey State
Militia, and was for thirteen years a member
of the New Jersey State legislature. He was
judge of the court of common pleas from
1822 to 1832. He married, December 15,
1804, Joanna, daughter of Thaddeus Seeley,
who died October 16, 1841. Children: 1.
Peter S., referred to below. 2. Thaddeus,
born July 31, 1807, died 1855. 3. Mary,
October 11, 1809, died November 16, 1856.
4. Joseph, February 27, 1813, died 1820.
5. Sarah, January 7, 1815. 6. Joanna, June
17, 1817. 7. Elizabeth, April 10, 1822.
(IV) Peter
S. son of General Charles and Joanna
(Seeley) Board, was born in Boardville, N.
J., 1805; died near Chester, Orange County,
New York, in 1853. He received his early
education in the school of his native
county, and later removed to Orange County,
New York, and settled on a farm near
Chester, which he afterwards inherited from
his uncle and which he cultivated until his
death. He married (first) Susan Mapes, and
(second) December 25, 1841, Madeline C.,
born in 1816, died in 1884, daughter of
Peter and Lucretia (Halsey) Conkling, of
Warwick, New York. Children: two by first
marriage: 1. Charles, born 1830, died
1866. 2. Gabriel, died in infancy. 3.
Joseph, referred to below. 4. James C.,
born 1846, died 1864. 5. Helen, 1853, died
1872.
(V) Joseph
(2), son of Peter S., and Madeline C. (Conkling)
board, was born on his father's farm in
Sugar Loaf Valley, Chester Township, later
town of Warwick, Orange County, New York,
November 9, 1842, and is now living in
Chester, New York. He received his early
education in the public schools and
graduated from the Chester Academy in 1862,
and then entered Amherst College, from which
he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts in the class of 1867, member of Phi
Beta Kappa society. He then settled in
Chester and in 1868 established himself in
the mercantile business, in which he
remained continuously until July 1, 1911,
when he retired from active business
pursuits. In 1889 he was elected one of the
directors of the Chester National Bank, and
still holds that office. He was a member of
the board of supervisors of Chester in
1877-79, and in 1883-84. He was a candidate
for the state assembly in 1884, but was
defeated of election. For over twenty years
he was a member of the board of education of
Chester, and for five years was the
president of that body, and from 1892 to
1894 was clerk of the village. He has also
served as one of the trustees of the village
of Chester, and as one of the trustees of
the Free Library. He is a member of the
Amherst College Chapter of the Delta Kappa
Epsilon
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Fraternity, and is a
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Club
in
New York City. He is a Republican in
politics, and an Episcopalian in religion.
He married
(first) June 3, 1868, Josephine Bradbury
Curry, of Tilton, New Hampshire, June 27,
1841m died April 6, 1869. He married
(second) November 2, 1870, Hannah Augusta
Curry, born July 15, 1848, sister of his
first wife, now living in Chester..
Children: (One by first marriage): !.
Charles, born March 4, 1869, died in
infancy. 2. Joseph Orton, born September
4, 1872. 3. Helen, October 6, 1874, died
March 1, 1877. 4. Anna Tebbetts, December
30, 1880, married, May 8, 1909, Edwin
Durland Chamberlain, child: Joseph B.
Chamberlain, born April 9, 1910, and a son,
unnamed.
VANAMEE. The
family bearing this surname is Holland
Dutch
in origin and the name was originally
spelled with an additional "a" and
without the final "e" Van Naame. The
family was of early settlement on Staten
Island, New
York. It was one of the oldest of the
Dutch families of that county, though not
the
oldest. The earliest mention of the
name occurring in a church record is as
follows:
"Evert and Wyntie (Wilhelmina) Benham
had a son Joseph, baptized April 22, 1709,
and a
daughter august 3, 1718". There
is another record in the public archives
at Kingston,
Ulster County, New York to the effect that
Jochem Van Namee was a trustee of the
freeholders and commonality of the town of
Kingston in 1695. According to such
tradition as comes down to us it would
seem
that this Jochem was the immigrant
ancestor. The available evidence points
in the same direction, for it is clear,
among
other things, that Jochem must have been
a man well on in judgment and years to have
been made the holder of a position in the
public affairs of the town usually filled
by
men of responsible station and of mature
years.
(I) Jochem
Englebert Van Naame, the progenitor of the
well known family of New York bearing the
name, was born probably in Holland, and died
at Kingston, Ulster County, New York, after
the year 1695. He was a trustee of the
freeholders and commonalty of the town of
Kingston in 1695. He probably engaged in
farming chiefly as an occupation, the work
at that early date in that region being
almost exclusively of the pioneer kind,
clearing and cultivating the ground and
building up an ordered community.
Nevertheless he seems to have been a man of
education and character, possessing a
certain recognized position among the
members of the municipality in which he
lived. Children: 1. Evert, who married
Wyntie Benham, having a son Joseph, baptized
April 2, 1709, and a daughter, 2. Who was
baptized August 3, 1718. 3. Simon,
mentioned below.
(II) Simon,
son of Jochem Englebert and Lysbeth (Pels)
Van Naame, was born about the year 1685.
He was a farmer, though following in his
father's footsteps in so far as his
interest in general public affairs
extended. He married Sarah Prall.
Children: 1. Aaron, mentioned below. 2.
Moses.
(III) Aaron
Van Namee (the name changed to its modern
form about this time), son of Simon and
Sarah (Prall) Van Naame, was born august 17,
1718. There is no record giving his
occupation or any details concerning his
life. He probably followed the occupation
of both his father and grandfather, devoting
most of his time to the cultivation of the
land to the construction fo houses and their
appurtenances. In those days a man had to
be a master of many trades, involving both
the development of properties and the
transaction or barter connected with their
passage from one hand to another. Aaron Van
Namee married Mary McLean, thus signalizing
the gradual mixture of the old Dutch with
the other and somewhat later elements I that
region, coming from the British Isles. Their
children were: 1. Aaron. 2. Simon,
mentioned below. 3. William. 4 Ann. 5
Moses. 6. Charles.
(IV) Simon
(2), second son of Aaron and mary (McLean)
Van Namee, was born somewhere between 1740
and 1750, died after 1790. He was engaged
for the most part in agricultural pursuits
and settled in Norway, Herkimer County, New
York. He married, but the name of his wife
does not appear in any record. He was
numbered in the census of 1790 and there he
is stated to have five sons and two
daughters, the names of three of the sons
being Aaron, Stephen John, mentioned below.
(V) John,
son of Simon (2) Van Namee, was born in
Norway, Herkimer County, New York, about the
year 1785, died in Ogdensburg, new York.
The name of his wife is not known.
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(VI) Simon
(3), son of John Van Namee, was born at
Ogdensburg, New York, in 1814, died at
Kingston, new York. he was a physician by
profession and practiced for a number of
years in Albany and Kingston, in both of
which places he was well know. He married
Anna, daughter of a Mr. Graham, who belonged
to a family that had come originally from
Scotland.
(VII)
William Vanamee, son of Simon (3) and anna
(Graham) Van Namee, was born in Albany,
Albany County, New York, January 9, 1847.
While he was yet a child his parents removed
from Albany to Kingston, Ulster county, New
York, where he received an education at the
Kingston Academy. In 1886 Hamilton college
conferred on him the degree of Master of
Arts. When he was nineteen he went to
Middletown, Orange County, New York, for the
purpose of studying law with Judge Groo.
Two years after he was admitted to practice
at the general term of the supreme court,
held at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New
York, in May, 1868. He began the practice
of law in Middletown, Orange County and he
remained there until 1895, when he removed
to Newburg. He was in active practice and
associated in the trial of many important
cases during his entire professional life
until 1906 when trouble with his eyes caused
his retirement from trial work. Mr. Vanamee
during this period was frequently called to
other counties as counsel in the trial of
important cases. Some idea of the scope and
character of his work may be gathered from
the report of a trial which appeared in the
Newburg Journal on the 12th
day of November, 1903, in which it is said:
"The jury was addressed for the plaintiff by
Mr. Vanamee, who made one of those
impressive, pathetic, eloquent and
verdict-getting addresses for which he has
become so famous on the Hudson River." In
1902 Mr. Vanamee was appointed the general
counsel of the state excise department at
Albany, a position which he held until he
was compelled to resign on account of the
demands of his general practice. He has
never been a candidate for public office
except upon one occasion when in 1888 he was
the candidate of his party for county judge
of Orange County.
The place
occupied by Mr. Vanamee in his profession
has been described in the Newburg Journal
which, upon the conclusion of a series of
articles upon the Bench and Bar contributed
to it by Mr. Vanamee, said of him:
"Mr.
Vanamee, in discussing so generously the
leaders of the bar of Orange county, forgot
to mention one who has long been in the
forefront of the profession--himself. In
justice to him, then, it falls on a layman
to add him to that constellation of legal
luminaries of which he wrote so well. From
1868, Mr. Vanamee's voice has been heard in
the courts in this and other states in
important litigations. Aside from his
admitted knowledge of the law, Mr. Vanamee
has the advantage of unusual gifts as an
orator and public speaker. A natural
fluency of speech he developed by close and
constant study of language, of the best
literature, of the masterpieces of the
master of all ages. Hence it is that when
Mr. Vanamee approaches a subject, be it a
legal argument, a lecture on burns, a
political address, or an after dinner
speech, he puts into it the thought and the
finish of the scholar. It is this habit of
the student that has given Mr. Vanamee that
elegance of diction, that grace of rhetoric,
and that command of ornate and correct
English which lovers of English pure and
undefiled so much admire in his public
addresses, and in his writings.
"Mr.
Vanamee's articles have been widely read and
extensively reprinted in the press of the
county. They have formed a valuable series
of intimate and personal sketches which have
been a delight to read, and which have added
to the reputation of Mr. Vanamee as a
graceful writer and accurate observer of
men.
"When about
fifteen years ago Mr. Vanamee removed from
Middletown to Newburg, he at once took a
position at the head of the Bar and when it
is known that Mr. Vanamee is to sum up a
case for the jury, the Court room is
invariably filled with attorneys, who in
this manner pay a tribute to his eloquence
that is sincere and voluntary. In a case
some years ago, in which the reputation of a
Middletown lawyer was at stake, Mr. Vanamee
was brought into the case to present it tot
he jury and his address on that occasion is
still referred to as one of the most
masterly addresses ever made at the Newburg
Court House. With an eloquent and keen
analysis of the testimony he laid bare the
weak points of the opposition and secured a
verdict of acquittal for his client."
Mr. Vanamee is frequently called upon for
lectures and addresses. He was the orator
for the day upon the occasion of the
Fiftieth Anniversary of the mustering in of
the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth
Regiment--the famous "Orange Blossoms:, held
at Goshen on the fifth of September, 1912,
the Middleton Argus saying of it:
"It was a gen and surpassed all of Mr.
Vanamee's previous oratorical efforts." In
referring to the address of Mr. Vanamee
delivered on the first of December, 1912, at
the Memorial Service of the Middletown Lodge
of Elks the Middletown Times-Press
said: "It was a masterpiece, not
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only in its delivery,
but in construction and composition."
Mr. Vanamee
married (first) in 1871, his children being
Dr. Talcott O. Vanamee, now practicing in
Newburg; Rev. Parker Vanamee, rector of the
Episcopal Church at Burnt Hills, Saratoga
County, and Theodora, wife of Percy V. D.
Gott, Esq., a prominent lawyer of Goshen.
Mr. Vanamee's second marriage occurred in
1909.
BAYLIES.
Baylies appears to be allied to the surname
Bailey or Baily, which is usually regarded
as being Norman in origin. In Barber's
"British Family Names" the name
of Baylies is said to be derived from the
Flemish
Bellis, a personal name.
(I) Thomas
Baylies, the first American ancestor of the
family, was the son of Nicholas Baylies, of
Worcester, England. He was born, it is
thought, in Worcester, England, 168, died
at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, march 5, 1756.
He arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, in
June, 1737, accompanied by his son Nicholas
and daughter Esther, but soon returned to
England for his wife and two other
daughters, returning to this country in
1787. He did considerable work as a
pioneer, for in those days the colonists
were versatile men, able to turn their hands
to almost any trade, and there were few of
them who did not assist in cultivating the
land as well as engage in commercial and
industrial pursuits. He finally settled at
Uxbridge, where he owned land and engaged in
farming and other occupations. His training
seems to have been largely commercial and
manufacturing, and he established iron
works, at Uxbridge, which developed to a
considerable size. He married, June 5,
1706, Esther, daughter of Thomas Sargent, of
Fullford Heath, Warwickshire, England.
(II)
Nicholas, son of Thomas and Esther (Sargent)
Baylies, was born in England May 19, 1719,
died at Taunton, Massachusetts, July 26,
1807. He resided for a number of years in
Uxbridge, Massachusetts, from whence he
removed to Taunton about the year 1757, and
became interest in iron works there. He was
a noted patriot at the time of the
Revolutionary War, during which he took part
in several stirring incidents. He married
in 1738, Elizabeth Parks, and had a son
Hodijah, of whom further.
(III) Judge
Hodijah Baylies, son of Nicholas and
Elizabeth (Parks) Baylies, was born at
Taunton, Massachusetts, September 17, 1756,
died at Dighton, April 26, 1843. He was
graduated from Harvard College with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1777, and in
the same year enlisted in a company. Then
he was appointed aide-de-camp to General
Benjamin Lincoln, one of the most famous
soldiers of the Revolutionary War, and
served with him at the siege of Charleston
and the capture of Yorktown. He was
appointed aide-de-camp to General George
Washington, May 3, 1782. He settled at
Dighton about the year 1785. He occupied
various civil positions of prominence,
including that of collector of the port of
Dighton, to which he was appointed August 4,
1789, and from February 20, 1810, to
December 20, 1834, was judge of probate in
Bristol County. He was a member of the
Society of the Cincinnati and several other
patriotic societies.
Judge Baylies
married, in 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of
General Benjamin Lincoln, of Hingham, who
was delegated to receive the sword of
Cornwallis at the battle of Yorktown.
General Lincoln's family were among the
earliest settlers of new England. From one
branch President Abraham Lincoln descended,
while another produced Levi Lincoln, a
leading revolutionary patriot and prominent
lawyer of Massachusetts in the years
following the war. His equally famous son,
General Levi Lincoln, born in 1782, died in
1868, was foremost among statesmen of the
earlier period of the nineteenth century.
General Benjamin Lincoln, born at Hingham,
Massachusetts, 1733, was a member of the
colonial assembly, and as colonel of the
militia was active in organizing troops at
the outbreak of the revolution and at the
siege of Boston. He became major-general in
1776 and served throughout the war. He was
wounded at Bemis Heights in the Saratoga
campaign, while acting as second in command
under General Gates. He was in command of
the southern department, and became
secretary of war under the confederation
from 1781 to 1784. He suppressed the famous
shay's rebellion in Massachusetts. He was
lieutenant-governor of the
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State in 1787, and held
many offices of prominence, including that
of commissioner to various Indian Tribes. Among
the children of Hodijah Baylies was Edmond,
of whom further.
(IV) Edmund,
son of Judge Hodijah and Elizabeth (Lincoln)
Baylies, was born at Hingham, Massachusetts,
September 22, 1787, died at Taunton,
Massachusetts, may 10, 1878. He was a
merchant at Boston for a number of years,
achieving success along that line. In 1838
he removed to Taunton and established a
country home, which is still occupied by
members of the Baylies family. He was a
member of the Massachusetts Society of the
Cincinnati. He married, in 1819, Elizabeth,
daughter of Philip and Ruth Payson, of
Charleston, Massachusetts, and had a son
Edmund Lincoln, of whom further.
(V) Edmund
Lincoln, son of Edmund and Elizabeth
(Payson) Baylies, was born at Boston,
Massachusetts, May 18, 1829, died at Geneva,
Switzerland, November 28, 1869. He was
graduated from Harvard University with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1850. He
lived during his early life in Boston and
Taunton, Massachusetts, and after his
marriage made his home in New York City. He
married, November 27, 1856, Nathalie,
daughter of Robert Ray, of the New York
family of that name, which has given a
number of distinguished men in public and
commercial life to the city and state.
(VI) Edmund
Lincoln, (2), son of Edmund Lincoln (1) and
Nathalie (Ray) Baylies, was born in New York
City, December 2, 1857. He was graduated
from Philip's Exeter Academy in 1875, and
from Harvard University in 1879, with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1882 with
the degree of Bachelor of Laws. This was
supplemented by a course at the Columbia Law
School, from which he also received the
degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted
to the Bar in 1882, and on his return from a
trip around the world he began the practice
of law. He is now a member of the law firm
of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. In 1902 he
was appointed secretary to the special
embassy of the United States to the
coronation of Kind Richard VII of England.
He is vice-president of the Mexican
Telegraph Company, trustee of the New York
Life Insurance and Trust Company, and of
Greenwood Cemetery. He is a member of the
Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, the Society of the Cincinnati, the
Century, Knickerbocker, University, Down
Town, City and New York Yacht clubs.
Mr. Baylies
married, January 18, 1887, Louisa, daughter
of the late Alexander Van Rensselaer, of
Albany, New York, patroon, thus becoming
connected with one of the very foremost old
families of New York if not of the country.
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