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A    HISTORY 

OF    THOMAS    AND    ANNE 

BILLOPP    FARMAR 

And  Some  of  Their 
Descendants  in  America 


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CONTENTS 


PAOI 

Preface  ...  .  .  .        ix 

<   IIAI'TKU 

I.     The   Early    Pakmahs    ......  1 

II.     The    Billopps     .......  15 

Captain  Christopher  Billopp,  Royal   Navy     .  17 

Joseph    Billopp              ......  30 

III.  Chief-. hsTK  k    Tn<>\i  \»    I'mimak,   tiik    1  <n  nder         .         81 

IV.  Captain  Jasper1  Farmab  and  His  Sun.  Majob  Jai 

PKU      I'AIIMAK  ......  IS 

Captain  Jasper  Farmar       .....       45 

Major    Jasper8    Farmar  .  .  .  .49 

V.     Major  Thomas1  Billopp  and  Solfl    DBS4  1  ffDAVM  51 

Major    Thomas    Billopp  .....         53 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Christopher1  Billopp 

Thomas4    Billopp 62 

Mary    Lawrence''    Billopp      .....  64 

Prances'1    (Billopp)   Wyatt   and   Descendants    .  64 

Thomas  Farmar"  Billopp     .....  68 

VI.     Major  Robert2  Farmar  and  Descendants                 .  73 
Major   Robert    Farmar           .           .                       .            .75 

Descendants  of  Anne   Billopp3   Farmar             .            .  83 

Robert  Adolphus3   Farmar    .....  f)0 

Descendants  of  Robert  Adolphus3  Farmar        .            .  93 

Appendix         .........        99 

Major   Robert   Farmar  .  .  .  .  .101 

The  Fall  of  Pensacola,   1781,       .  .110 

Index  .  .  .  .  .  •  •  •  .115 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


Arms  of  Fermob   (a  facsimile  reproduction  of  an 

old    print.)       ......  Fronstispiece 


Charles  Farmah   Billopp         ..... 

View  of  Easton   Nksto.n   from  the   From  i 

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"  Surveillante  "    (from  .id  old  engraving 
BsNTLEY     Manor     ....... 

The  Chapel  at  Baston   Neston       .... 

Rear   View  ok   Kaston    Neston  .... 

Monument  \t  Puebto  CabellOj  Venezuela 
Captain  Thomas  Billopp  (reproduced  from  a  ininiatui 
The   Reverend  Thomas   Billopp       .... 

Major  Robert  Farmab  (reproduced  from  a  painting) 


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PREFACE 

It  was  not  the  intention  of  the  writer  of  this  little  book,  when 
the  work  was  conceived,  to  make  more  than  the  veriest  sketch 
of  the  principal  members  of  the  ancient  and  honorable  Far- 
mar  family.  But,  as  in  his  researches  so  many  incidents, 
intensely  interesting,  were  discovered  which  he  believed  his 
relatives  and  connections,  who  have  the  Farmar  blood  in  their 
veins,  would  be  equally  desirous  and  laudably  curious  to  know. 
he  could  not  find  it  in  his  power  to  deny  tin  in  that  privilege. 

He  has  found  it  very  difficult  to  separate  legend  and  tradi- 
tion from  authentic  history,  and  in  his  endeavor  to  winnow  the 
true  from  the  false,  he  has  been  compelled  to  ignore  numerous 
very  interesting  and  pretty  tali s,  which  in  his  opinion  were 
too  highly  colored  with  romance.  He  believes,  however,  that 
the  reader  will  be  interested,  entertained,  and  satisfied  with 
this  story,  though  nearly  every  sentence  of  it  w  supported 
by  documentary  proof  of  its  reliability,  and  after  its  perusal 
will  agree  with  the  writer  that  truth  is,  if  not  stranger,  at 
least  more  satisfying  than  fiction. 

Of  many  of  the  people  here  mentioned  we  would  all  like 
to  know  more  than  it  seems  possible  now  to  discover.  There 
are  many  we  would  all  feci  honored  simply  to  have  known. 
Perhaps  we  will  know  them  in  the  future;  but  in  the  present 
we  can  but  feel  proud  that  we  have  their  blood  in  our  veins — 
that  we  are  a  part  of  them. 

There  is  good  old  Richard  Fermour,  who  lost  his  princely 
estates  for  being  true  and  steadfast  in  his  friendship  for  his 
imprisoned  confessor,  Nicholas  Thayne,  through  the  cupidity 
of  Thomas  Cromwell,  Earl  of  Essex.  The  writer  must  con- 
fess that  he  cannot  read  of  the  downfall  of  that  cunning  states- 
man without  a  feeling  of  satisfaction :    How  the  Duke  of  Nor- 

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X  PREFACE 

folk  tore  the  Insignia  of  the  Garter  from  his  neck  at  the 
Council  Board;  how,  in  spite  of  his  abject  prayers,  he  was 
accused  of  treason,  found  guilty,  and,  amid  popular  applause, 
executed  on  the  scaffold.  And  Richard  Fermour  came  to  his 
own  again.  Yes,  we  would  be  glad  to  have  known  the  brave 
and  patient  old  man. 

And  there  is  Sir  George  Fermor,  "  the  man  of  letters," 
the  personal  friend  of  Sir  Philip  Sydney.  How  pleasant  it 
would  have  been  to  have  heard  him  converse  of  his  friend. 
And  the  first  Earl  of  Pomf  ret,  the  "  traveler  and  scholar," 
he  who  secured  the  Arundel  Marbles ;  and  his  wife,  Louisa, 
the  first  "  blue  stocking,"  who,  as  his  widow,  presented  these 
most  valuable  antiques  to  the  University   of  Oxford. 

And  Robert  Farmar,  the  "  officer  of  rank  in  Queen  Eliza- 
beth's Army  in  Ireland,"  who  "  was  slain  in  battle,"  but  not 
before  he  had  founded  our  branch  of  the  family — else  where 
would  we  have  been! 

Major  Jasper  Farmar,  the  friend  and  neighbor  of  William 
Penn,  who  took  up  5000  acres  of  land  in  White  Marsh  town- 
ship, but  died  on  the  voyage  over ;  and  his  grandsons,  Captain 
George  Farmar,  the  hero  of  H.  M.  S.  Quebec,  and  Colonel 
and  Chief  Justice  Thomas  Farmar.  And  an  army  of  others, 
Captain  Christopher  Billopp,  of  the  Royal  Navy,  his  grand- 
son, Major  Robert  Farmar,  of  the  English  Army,  and  the 
Major's  nephew,  Christopher  Billopp,  the  "Tory  Colonel"; 
but  if  the  writer  continues  this  list  his  history  will  be  repeating 
itself. 

There  is  one  person,  however,  whom  we  would  rather  have 
known  than  any  of  the  others,  yet  her  name  does  not  appear 
in  any  historical  document  nor  private  letter.  One  family 
chart  informs  us  that  Thomas  Farmar  married  her;  an  order 
of  an  orphan's  court  mentions  that  Thomas  Farmar  "  inter- 
married with  her  " — that  is  all  we  read  of  her.  Yet  we  know 
she  was  a  dutiful  daughter,  a  loving  sister,  a  good  wife,  and 
the  best  of  mothers. 

That  she  was  a  dutiful  daughter  is  shown  by  the  fact  that 
her  father  always  made  his  home  with  her  in  Perth  Amboy, 


PREFACE  XI 

and  her  second  son  was  named  for  him.  As  a  loving  sister, 
she  named  her  son  in  honor  of  her  sister's  dead  husband, 
and  her  daughter  also  bore  her  sister's  name.  That  she 
was  a  good  wife  is  proved  by  our  hearing  nothing  of  her 
but  that  she  bore  her  husband  twelve  children,  who  were  all 
brought  up  in  the  fear  of  God.  Had  their  descendants  all 
done  the  same,  as  there  have  been  seven  generations  of  the 
Thomas  and  Anne  Billopp  Farmars,  the  Farmar  blood  would 
now  be  coursing  through  the  veins  of  nearly  four  hundred  and 
fifty  million  people— five  times  the  population  of  this  country! 
Let  us  devoutly  thank  God  that  they  did  not.  That  she  was 
one  of  the  best  of  mothers  is  shown  by  the  love  and  regard  of 
those  children.  Nearly  all  of  them  grew  up  and  married,  and 
each  and  every  one  revently  named  the  first  daughter  in  honor 
of  their  devoted  mother,  Anne  Billopp  Farmar.  Not  did  thil 
custom  cease  with  the  first  generation]  but  the  story  of  her 
lovely  character  must  have  been  handed  down  from  parent 
to  child,  for  generation  after  generation  continued  to  honor 
their  first  daughter  with  that  revered  name.  Yes,  we  would 
all  have  been  benefited  by  knowing  Anne  Billopp   Farmar. 

The  writer,  in  his  researches,  has  been  forcibly  impressed 
by  the  almost  total  absence  of  information  regarding  the 
female  members  of  the  family,  their  birth,  marriage,  and 
death  being  generally  all  that  can  be  found.  He  is  reminded 
of  the  reply  of  a  lady  to  one  who  was  discoursing  with  some 
vehemence  of  the  Bufferings  and  hardships  of  the  Pilgrim 
Fathers :  "  Yes,"  she  remarked,  "  but  the  poor  Pilgrim 
Mothers!  They  had  to  put  up  with  all  that,  and  the  Pilgrim 
Fathers,  too !  "  There  is  nothing  to  tell  us  of  the  hopes  and 
disappointments,  the  pleasures  and  pains,  the  heart-burnings 
and  sacrifices  of  the  women. 

Mary,  the  wife  of  Major  Jasper  Farmar,  buried  her  hus- 
band and  son  in  the  sea  on  her  voyage  to  a  strange  and  new 
world.  Her  sorrow  must  have  been  almost  overpowering,  yet 
there  is  no  record  of  complaint  from  this  woman.  The  duty 
of  the  hour  was  to  take  care  of  her  family,  and  the  record 
shows  she  did  it  nobly.     There  are  no  documents  to  show  that 


Xll  PREFACE 


she  yearned  for  the  friends,  and  the  scenes,  and  the  customs  of 
the  Fatherland,  but  the  two  copper,  Irish  pennies  found  two 
hundred  years  after  they  had  been  hoarded  and  sacredly  hidden 
by  their  owner. 

"They  loved,  but  their  story  we  cannot  unfold; 
They  scorned,  but  the  heart  of  the  haughty  is  cold; 
They  grieved,  but  no  wail  from  their  slumbers  will  come; 
They  joyed,  but  the  voice  of  their  gladness  is  dumb." 

There  seems  to  be  a  splendid  opening  for  the  historian  in 
writing  up  the  Colonial  domestic  life. 

The  writer  did  not  expect  to  carry  this  work  down  to  the  pres- 
ent day.  But  one  never  knows  where  one  will  end  when  one  begins 
to  write.  He  has  been  urged  to  bring  it  down  to  date,  and 
in  a  genealogical  way,  he  has  in  some  cases  done  so.  He 
feels  that  the  work  in  its  present  shape  will,  in  some  future 
day,  be  a  good  foundation  for  some  member  of  a  future  gen- 
eration to  build  upon,  and  he  hopes  that  that  time  will  not 
come  until  the  magic  of  years  shall  have  clothed  him  and  his 
cotemporaries  in  the  glamor  of  legend  and  tradition.  And 
may  the  motto  of  that  later  writer  also  be  "  de  mortuis  nil 
nisi  bonum." 

Washington,  D.  C. 
1906. 


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THE    EARLY    FARMARS 

HE   family    of    Farmar,    ire   are    informed    in    Collins' 

Peerage,  is  derived  from  one  of  the  Companions  of  the 

Conqueror,  and  was  at  a  very  early  period  established 

in  the  Lordship  of  Somerton,  in  Oxfordshire,  England.     The 

name  has  been  spelled  in  numerous  u  ays,  father  and  Bon,  in  the 

olden  times,  seldom  agreeing  upon  the  Bame  orthogr«  uhy,  and 

there  are  some  iiistanees  where  one  individual  has  his  name 
spelled  in  two  or  three  ways,  Fermour,  Fermor,  Farmar,  and 
Farmer  being  some  of  the  styles,  while  frequently  the  double 
F  is  used,  as  Thomas  Ffarmar  or  ffarmar.  We  find  some  of  this 
various  spelling  on  brasses  and  monuments  in  the  old  Somerton 
Church,  two  of  which  arc  here  transcribed.     . 

A  certain  William  Fermour,  who  was  a  man  of  consider- 
able importance  in  his  day  (which  day  began  before  the  Co 
lumbian  discovery  of  America),  lies  buried  in  a  chapel  on  the 
south  side-  of  the  chancel  of  the  Somerton  Church,  under  a 
great  raised  monument  of  gray  marble,  whereon  lie  the  figu 
of  a  gentleman  and  his  wife,  in  brass,  and  bearing  this  in- 
scription: 

"  Here  lyethe  buried  Mr.  William  Fermour,  Esq.,  whych 
was  born  of  this  Towne  and  patron  of  this  Churche,  and  also 
Clarke  of  the  Crowne  in  the  King's  Bench,  in  King  Henry 
the  7th  and  King  Henry  the  8th  Dayes,  Whyche  died  the 
20th  day  of  7ber  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord  God  aMCCCCCLII : 
And  also  here  lyeth  Mistress  Elizabeth  Fermour,  his  last 
Wyffe  whych  was  the  Daughter  of  Sr  W7illm  Norrysse  Knight 
— upon  whose  and  all  Christene  Souls  Ihu  have  mercy." 

At  Home  Church,  Essex,  was  buried  his  first  wife,  with  the 
following  to  tell  the  tale: 


4  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

"  Here  ljeth  Katharine,  the  daughter  of  Sir  William  Pow- 
let,  Knyght,  wyf  of  William  Fermour,  Clarke  of  the  Crown, 
who  died  May  26,  the  second  of  Henry  the  eighte." 

Now,  the  above  William  Fermour  left  the  greater  part  of  a 
large  fortune  by  a  will,  which  is  of  record,  to  his  nephew  who 
lies  buried  in  the  same  church  of  Somerton,  and  whose  name 
was  Thomas  Farmar. 

Thomas  seems  to  have  been  a  liberal-minded  man,  who 
endowed  schools  and  did  much  other  good  with  his  fortune, 
and,  according  to  his  will,  which  is  still  extant,  his  executors 
erected  in  the  Chapel  of  Somerton  Church,  a  raised  monu- 
ment of  white  marble,  whereon  lies  his  effigy  in  armor,  and  the 
effigy  of  his  wife,  and  around  the  verge  is  the  following  Latin 
inscription : 

"  Thomas  Farmar,  Armigero,  viro  animi  magnitudine 
contra  Hostes  beneficentia  erga  Doctos  admirabili.  Domino 
hujus  territorii  benignissimo  et  Novae  scholae  Fundatori 
optimo  in  perpetuam  sui  suaeq.  conjugis  Brigittae  faeminae 
lectissimae  memoriam  ex  Testamento  executores  sui  hoc  monu- 
mentum   flentes   erexerunt. 

"  Obiit  vero  anno  Domini  Millesimo  quingentisimo  Octo- 
gesimo  die  Augusti  Octavo." 

Which  in  English  would  read: 

"  To  Thomas  Farmar,  Esq.,  a  man  magnanimous  to  his 
enemies,  admirably  beneficent  to  learning,  a  kind  master,  and 
the  founder  of  the  new  school  in  perpetual  memory  of  him- 
self and  his  wife  Bridget,  a  most  learned  woman,  by  authority 
of  his  will  this  monument  is  erected  by  his  weeping  executors. 
He  died  in  the  true  year  of  our  Lord,  fifteen  hundred  and 
eighty,  the  8th  day  of  August." 

Thomas  Fermour,  and  his  wife  Emmotte,  the  widow  of 
Henry  Wenman,  and  the  daughter  of  Mr.  Hervey  of  Here- 
fordshire, are  the  first  of  the  name  of  whom  we  have  any  docu- 
mentary evidence,  according  to  Collins'  Peerage.  The  will 
of  the  said  Thomas  is  dated  September  9,  1485,  and,  among 


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other  things,  he  orders  his  body  to  be  buried  in  the  Chapel 
of  St.  Mary  Magdelen  in  the  Church  of  Whitney  in  Oxford- 
shire. It  gives  twenty  pounds  to  the  altar  in  the  chancel  of 
the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary  in  that  church — "  For  his  tithes, 
which  he  had  forgotten."  To  William,  his  son,  the  same  Wil- 
liam who  became  clerk  of  the  Crown,  and  who  lies  buried  at 
Somerton  Church,  he  gives  200  marks  and  all  his  lands  in 
Cogges,  and  Buford. 

To  Richard,  his  eldest  son,  and  our  ancestor,  he  gives 
200  marks  and  all  his  lands  in  Filkinger  and  Langford.  To 
three  children  of  his  wife  Emmotte,  by  her  first  husband,  he 
gives  "  100  £  each  M — which  would  seem  to  indicate  that  he 
w.is  a  generous  and  kindhearted  man. 

The  "English  Dictionary  of  National  Biography n  informs 
us  that  Richard  Permour  engaged  extensively  in  commerce 
"of  the  staple  of  Calais,"  amassed  a  noble  fortune,  and  set- 
tled at  Easton  Neston,  in  Northamptonshire.  He  traded  in 
all  kinds  of  commodities,  and  in  no  mean  scale,  as  will  be  seen 
by  the  following  statement,  taken  from  vol.  i.  p.  472,  of  the 
"Letters  and  Papers  of  King  Henry  VIII.,"  viz.: 

"  In  1513  he  was  granted  by  Margaret  of  Savoy,  at  the 
request  of  Henry  VIII.,  a  passport  enabling  him  to  export  duty 
free,  the  large  amount  of  144,000  bushels   of  wheat." 

In  1515  we  find  mention  of  the  A\\y  (  'rctt,  of  which  William 
Fermour  was  owner,  which  "  fine  ship,"  laden  with  wool  for 
Italy,  was  driven  on  the  Zealand  coast,  and  some  of  the 
sailors  were  taken  by  Moorish  pirates.  We  also  find  in  these 
papers  that  in  1524  he  was  in  Florence,  and  of  much  assistance 
to  Sir  John  Clerk,  the  agent  of  Cardinal  Wolsey,  who  was 
negotiating  in  Italy  for  the  Cardinal's  election  to  the  Papacy. 

He  was  a  zealous  Catholic,  and  at  the  time  of  the  Reforma- 
tion, we  are  told  in  Burke's  "  Peerage,"  his  large  possessions 
excited  the  cupidity  of  Thomas  Cromwell,  Earl  of  Essex,  the 
Vicar-General  of  Henry  VIII.,  so  he  confiscated  the  whole 
of  his  large  fortune,  because  of  his  having  relieved  his  con- 
fessor, Nicholas  Thayne,  while  in  the  gaol  of  Buckingham. 


6  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

The  Job-like  disposition  and  experiences  of  Mr.  Richard 
Fermour  compels  a  lengthy  quotation  from  Hall's  "  Life  of 
Henry  the  Eighth."  Mr.  Hall  was  a  cotemporary  of  Mr. 
Fermour. 

"  The  good  old  man,  when  he  was  stript  of  all  he  had,  re- 
tired to  a  village  called  Wapenham,  in  sight  of  his  former 
Habitations,  and  lived  in  the  parsonage  house  there,  the 
advowsons  of  which  had  been  in  his  gift,  and  the  parson  thereof 
presented  by  him. 

"  There  he  passed  several  years  with  a  most  consummate 
piety  and  entire  resignation,  till  1550. 

"  In  the  time  of  his  prosperity  he  had  in  his  family  accord- 
ing to  the  custom  of  the  age,  a  servant,  '  Will  Somers,'  who 
by  his  witty  or  frothy  discourse,  past  for  a  jester,  and  after- 
wards served  the  King  himself  in  the  same  office  or  capacity. 
This  man,  remembering  with  some  gratitude  his  first  mas- 
ter, and  having  admission  to  the  King  at  all  times,  and  places, 
especially  when  sick  and  melancholy,  and  toward  his  end,  let 
fall  some  lucky  words  which  awakened  his  conscience  so  as 
at  least  to  endeavour  a  restitution,  and  accordingly  he  gave 
immediate  orders  about  it,  but  being  prevented  by  death,  it 
was  never  effectually  performed  till  the  fourth  year  of  Ed- 
ward VI.,  by  letters  patent  bearing  that  date;  but  so  miser- 
ably lopt  and  torn  by  the  several  grants  and  sales  made  by 
the  Crown  during  the  aforesaid  interval,  that  what  he  did 
obtain  was  not  one  third  of  what  he  had  before  possessed." 

Mr.  Hall  gives  a  list  of  the  poor  "  lopt  and  torn  "  one- 
third,  as  follows: 


ij 


"  Those  lands  restored  to  him  were  the  lordships  and  manors 
of  Towcestour,  and  Easton  Neston,  the  advowsons  of  the  rec- 
tories of  Cold-Higham  and  of  the  vicarage  of  Easton  Neston, 
the  hundred  of  Wilmersley,  with  very  great  privileges  thereto 
belonging,  and  several  houses  in  Cotton-End  in  the  county 
of  Northampton;  the  lordship  and  manor  of  Offley  St.  Leger 
in  the  county  of  Hereford ;   the  lordship  and  manor  of  Granno 


THE    EARLY      1  A  K. MARS  7 

in  the  county  of  Worcester;  the  lordship  and  manor  of  Lu- 
trnhoe,  and  the  hermitage  lands  in  Luten  and  Runtisford 
Farm  in  Runtisford  in  the  county  of  Bedford. 

"  Yet  King  Edward,  to  make  some  compensation  granted 
by  the  same  charter,  tv  Richard  Fermour  md  his  heirs,  sev- 
eral other  lordships,  manors,  lands  and  tenements,  viz.:    The 

lordships  and  manors  of  Corsec be,  Holstocke,  Nether-Stoke 

and  the  advowsons  of  the  rectory  of  Corsecombe  in  the  county 
of  Dorset;  the  manor  of  Mudforl  in  the  county  of  Somerset; 
the    house   and    scat    of    the    then    lately    dissolved    priory    of 

SwardersleV  .and  divers  woods  and  lands  thereto  belonging; 
the  manor  of  Hide  in  Rode  and  Beveral  lands  in  Rode-in-Ashen 
in   tin'  county  <>\'   Northampton;     the  manor  of   Newport    round 

and  the  advowson  of  the  rectory  and  church  of  Rawrith,  in 
the  county  of  Essex,  etc.     )'<  t  all  this  was  but  a  small  com 
peruation  for  the  great  loss  he  Jiarf  sustained. 

"lie,   therefore,   being   rep'  d   ^t'   part  of  his   estate, 

and  of  some  addition,  as  aforesaid,  returned  to  his  manor 
house  at  Easton  Neston,  where  he  departed  this  life  on  No- 
\ ember  the  17th.  1552.  It  is  further  remarkable,  that  ha\ 
ing  some  foreknowledge  of  his  own  death,  lie  invited  on  that 
very  day,  many  of  his  friends  and  neighbors,  and  taking  leave 
of  them,  retired  to  his  devotions,  and  was  found  dead  in  that 
posture,  and  afterwards  buried  on  the  north  side  of  the  chancel 
of  the  parish  Church  of  Easton  N<  ston,  under  a  gray  marble 
tomb." 

He  had  married  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Brown, 
Lord  Mayor  of  London. 

He  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son,  John  Fermor  (sic). 
Esq.,  who  was  made  one  of  the  "  Knights  of  the  Carpet  at 
Westminster,  Oct.  2nd  1553,  the  day  of  the  coronation  of 
Queen  Mary,  in  Her  Majesty's  presence,  under  the  Cloth  of 
State,  by  the  Earl  of  Arundel,  Commissioner  for  the  occasion." 

Sir  John  Fermor  represented  the  county  of  Northampton 
in  two  Parliaments,  and  was  sheriff  of  that  Shire  in  the  4th 
and  5th  years  of  Queen  Mary's  reign.  He  married  Maud, 
daughter  of  Sir  Nicholas  Vaux,  Knt.,  Lord  Vaux  of  Harrow- 


8  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAE 

don,  and  was  succeeded  at  his  death,  December  12,  1571,  by 
his  eldest  son,  George  Fermor,  Esq.,  who  received  the  honor 
of  knighthood  in  1586. 

Sir  George  had  the  honor  of  entertaining  King  James  the 
First,  and  his  Queen,  at  Easton  Neston,  on  June  11,  1603, 
"  when,"  so  Collins  informs  us,  "  his  Majesty  was  pleased  to 
confer  the  honor  of  knighthood  upon  his  eldest  son,  Sir  Hatton 
Fermor."  Sir  George  married  Mary,  the  daughter  of  Thomas 
Curzon,  Esq.,  of  Waterperry,  County  Oxford.  He  was  a 
man  of  letters  and  a  personal  friend  of  Sir  Philip  Sydney, 
and  when  the  latter  was  buried  in  the  Abbey,  Sir  George  was 
one  of  the  few  who  were  invited  to  walk  in  the  funeral  pro- 
cession with  the  family  of  his  friend. 

Robert  Fermor,  the  third  son  of'  Sir  George  Fermor,  of 
Easton  Neston,  by  his  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Cur- 
zon, Esq.,  we  are  told  in  Burke's  "  Peerage,"  went  to  Ireland 
with  Queen  Elizabeth's  army,  "  in  which  he  was  an  officer  of 
rank,"  and  for  his  services  was  given  by  the  Crown  several 
estates,  chiefly  in  the  counties  of  Cork  and  Tipperary.  He 
was  "  killed  in  battle,"  leaving  a  son  Robert,  of  whom  we  will 
speak  later.  We  will  first  give  a  very  brief  sketch  of  the 
elder  branch  of  the  family. 

Sir  Hatton,  who  was  knighted  by  King  James  the  First  at 
Easton  Neston,  left  a  son  George,  who  was  created  a  baronet 
in  1641,  and  his  son  created  Baron  Leominster  in  1692.  It 
was  the  first  Lord  Leominster  who  built  the  house  now  stand- 
ing at  Easton  Neston,*  after  designs  by  Sir  Christopher  Wren. 
In  the  year  1721  the  then  Baron  Leominster  was  created  Earl 
of  Pomfret. 

Lady  Juliana  Fermor,  fourth  daughter  of  the  first  Earl 
of  Pomfret,  married  Thomas,  the  eldest  son  of  William  Penn. 
Lady  Arabella,  another  daughter  of  the  first  Earl,  was  made 

*Easton  Neston,  the  estate  of  the  Farmer  family  (the  Earl  of  Pomfret), 
is  situated  near  Towcester,  Northamptonshire — a  tract  of  some  25,000 
acres.  The  last  Earl  of  Pomfret  died  in  1867;  leaving  no  children,  his 
sister  came  into  possession  of  the  estate.  She  married  Sir  Thomas  Hes- 
keth,  Bart.;  their  son,  Thomas,  has  inherited  the  title  and  estate.  The 
present  Sir  Thomas  Hesketh  married  Florence  Sharon,  daughter  of  Sen- 
ator Sharon  of  San  Francisco,  California. 


THE    EARLY     FARMARS  \? 

famous  by  Alexander  Pope,  who  dedicated  to  her  his  "  Rape 
of  the  Lock." 

A  large  number  of  the  Arundel  Marbles,  which  were  collected 
by  Thomas  Howard,  Earl  of  Arundel  and  Norfolk,  between 
the  years  1607  and  1614,  were  Bold  by  the  divorced  duchess  of 
one  of  his  descendants,  then  Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  came  into 
the  possession  of  the  Karl  of  Pomfret.  These  most  valuable 
antiques  were,  in  1755,  presented  by  Louisa,  Countess  Dowager 
of  Pomfret,  to  the  University  of  Oxford,  where  they  now  are. 
Celebrated  among  Lady  Pomfret's  contribution  arc  a  colossal 

torso  of  Minerva,   and   BCV<  ral    statues   of   Hoinan    senators,   in- 
cluding one  supposed  to  represent  Cicero. 

Robert,  the  grandson  of  Sir  George  Fermor,  and  the  son 
of  Robert,  who  was  "killed  in  battle,"  resided  on  his  estates 
in  the  county  of  Tipperary.  He  had  Beveral  sons,  the  second 
being  Jasper  Farmar.  a  Major  in  the  Army,  who  married 
Mary,  the  eldest  daughter  of  Anthony  Gamble.  Fsq.,  of 
County  Cork,  and  resided  at  Garron  Kenny  Fange,  in  that 
county. 

When  Oliver  Cromwell  carried  his  war  into  Ireland,  among 
the  Royalists  opposed  to  him  was  the  Farmar  family.  Burke 
tills  us  they  were  deprived  of  a  large  part  of  their  estat 
and,  with  what  property  they  were  able  to  carry  with  them, 
they  were  for  a  time  compelled  to  take  refuge  in  England. 
After  the  Restoration  they  received  some  small  compensation 
for  their  losses  in  the  cause  of  their  King,  but  a  large  part  of 
their  estates  was  never  returned  to  them.  So,  in  the  year 
1685,  we  find  that  Major  Jasper  Farmar,  and  Jasper  Farmar, 
Jr.,  with  their  respective  families,  came  to  Pennsylvania. 

Major  Jasper  Farmar's  younger  brother  John  married 
Mary  Hales,  and  was  the  father  of  John  Farmar,  who  settled 
at  Youghall.  John,  Jr.,  in  1719,  married  Alphea  Garde,  died 
in  1740,  and  left  a  son,  George  Farmar,  of  the  Royal  Navy, 
who,  while  commanding  H.  M.  Ship  Quebec  off  Ushant  in 
1779,  engaged  a  French  frigate  of  greatly  superior  force. 
The  contest  on  both  sides  was  desperate,  and  Captain  Far- 
mar   displayed    such    gallantry    and   intrepidity    that    he    con- 


10  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAE 

tinued  the  engagement  until  his  ship  took  fire.  Because  of  a 
serious  wound,  received  during  the  engagement,  he  was  unable 
to  take  to  the  boats,  and,  after  most  of  his  crew  had  escaped, 
he  was  blown  up  with  his  ship.  When  last  seen,  the  brave 
captain  was  coolly  sitting  on  the  fluke  of  the  anchor,  watching 
the  progress  of  the  flames. 

Lord  Nelson  had  served  under  Farmar,  and  it  is  such  ex- 
amples as  Farmar's  that  does  much  towards  making  such 
men  as  Nelson. 

In  recognition  of  Farmar's  heroic  act,  his  grateful  King, 
in  January,  1780,  created  his  eldest  son,  George,  a  baronet. 
Sir  Richard  Henry  Kendrick  Farmar,  of  Mt.  Pleasant,  County 
Sussex,  is  the  present  representative  of  that  branch  of  the 
family.  There  are  several  other  branches  of  the  family  men- 
tioned in  Burke's  "  Landed  Gentry." 

Major  Jasper  Farmar,  who  resided  at  Garron  Kenny  Fange 
in  County  Cork,  the  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History,  in 
vol.  xxi.  p.  335,  tells  us,  was  a  neighbor  of  William  Penn,  who 
lived  at  Shangarry  in  the  same  county.  "  Shangarry  "  was 
an  estate  containing  eight  square  miles  of  land,  and  adjoin- 
ing it  was  the  estate  of  the  Major's  brother  John — "  Youg- 
hall."  The  Major  was  a  friend  of  William  Penn,  and  most 
probably  it  was  through  Penn's  influence  that  he  decided  to 
take  up  a  "  Plantation,"  as  these  settlements  were  all  called 
at  that  time,  in  the  new  Province  of  Pennsylvania. 

The  Farmars  came  to  America  in  the  year  1685.  Jasper 
Farmar,  Jr.,  had  made  a  voyage  of  investigation  two  years 
before,  but  had  returned  to  England  to  bring  out  his  father, 
and  their  families,  and  servants.  The  following  letters  from 
James  Claypoole,  merchant,  of  London,  who  emigrated  to 
Philadelphia  in  1683,  will  explain  themselves.  Copies  of  them 
are  to  be  found  in  the  tenth  volume  of  the  Pennsylvania  Mag- 
azine of  History,  pages  402  and  403. 

"  To  Thomas  Cooke, 
"  Philadelphia  Ye  l8t  12m0  1683. 
"  .     .     .     I  might  give  thee  large  accounts  of  the  country 
and  divers  matters  relating  thereto,  but  thou  may  have  it  by 


■f. 


/      :, 


- 


Z 


THE     EARLY      1  A  U.MARS  11 

word   of  mouth   with  more   satisfaction    from   Jasper   Farmar, 
Jr.,  by  whom  I  send   this      .      .      ." 

And  to  Robert  Rogers,  of  same  date,  in  almost  the  same 
words : 

"  .  .  .  I  might  give  a  larger  account  of  the  country 
and  trade  and  matters  relating  thereto,  but  thou  may  have 
it  witli  more  satisfaction  from  Jasper  Farmar,  by  whom  I 
send  this.      .      .      ." 

We  find  in  tin-  Bame  magazine,  vol.  viii.  p.  336,  the  follow- 
ing account  of  the  arrival  in  Philadelphia  of  the  Farmar 
families : 

"The  Bristol  Merchant,  John  Stephens,  commander,  ar- 
rived here  the  10th  of  9"'  month,  1685.  The  p assengers  named 
are  as  follows,  viz. : 

"Jasper  Farmar,   Senior,   his   family, 

"  Mary  Farmar,   Widdow, 

"  Edward  Farmar,  Edward  Batsford, 

"Sarah  Farmar.  John  Farmar,  Charles  Farmar, 

"Jasper  Farmar  .Junior's  family, 

"Thomas  Farmar,  Katharine  Farmar,  Widdow,  Elizabeth 
Farmar,    Katharine    Farmar,    Junior.'' 

Their  servants  are  as  follows : 

"  Joan  Daly,  Philip  Mayow,  &  Helen,  his  wife,  John  Mayow, 
John  Whitlow,  Nicholas  Whitloe,  Thomas  Younge  &  his  wife, 
William  Winter,  George  Fisher,  Arthur  Smith,  Thomas  Al- 
ferry,  Henry  Wells,  Robert  Wilkinson,  Elizabeth  Mayow, 
Martha  Mayow,  Albert  Dawson,  Sarah  Binke,  Thebe  Orevan, 
Andrew  Walbridge,  Twenty  servants." 

In  volume  iv.  of  the  same  magazine,  on  page  354,  is  found 
another  account  of  the  advent  of  the  family  in  America: 

"  Mary  Farmar,  Widow  of  Jasper  Farmar,  an  Irish  gentle- 
man and  officer  of  the  British  Army,  arrived  in  America  with 
her  son  Edward,  and  other  children,  and  twenty  servants,  in 


12  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

the  ship  Bristol  Merchant,  John  Stephens,  commander,  No- 
vember tenth,  sixteen  hundred  and  eighty-five,  and  settled  on 
a  tract  of  five  thousand  acres  of  land  purchased  from  William 
Penn,  embracing  all  of  Farmar's  or  Whitemarsh  Township, 
Philadelphia  County,  south  of  Skippack  Road." 

So  it  would  appear  that,  in  spite  of  their  many  adversities, 
the  Farmars  were  not  reduced  to  abject  poverty. 

The  will  of  Major  Jasper  Farmer  is  dated  7th  month  25, 
1685,  and  was  proved  the  second  of  November,  1685.  Let- 
ters of  Administration  to  the  estate  of  Jasper  Farmar,  Jr., 
were  issued  the  nineteenth  day  of  November,  1685.  It  is  very 
probable,  as  has  been  frequently  stated,  that  they  both  died 
on  the  voyage. 

From  the  Thomas  Farmar  mentioned  above,  the  son  of  Jas- 
per Farmar,  Jr.,  we  are  descended.  He  was  probably  about 
ten  years  old  when  he  landed  in  America.  In  fact,  the  only 
man  in  the  family  at  that  time  was  Edward,  the  son  of  the 
Major. 

Mary,  the  widow  of  Jasper  Farmar,  Sr.,  appears  to  have 
proved  herself  a  very  good  business  woman,  and  in  this  try- 
ing emergency  she  took  care  of  the  interests  of  her  large 
family,  and  numerous  dependents,  as  well  as  most  men  could 
have  done.  Her  son  Edward  could  not  have  been  of  age,  for 
the  records  show  that  all  the  business  was  transacted  in  her 
name,  and  with  her  building  and  planting,  road-making  and 
lime-burning,  she  was  a  very  busy  woman,  and  is  frequently 
mentioned  with  very  great  respect. 

Edward  eventually  received  the  balance  of  the  five  thousand 
acres  called  for  in  the  Patent  after  Katharine,  the  widow  of 
Jasper,  Jr.,  received  her  portion,  and  he  lived  and  died  on  his 
land.  He  was  a  Justice  of  Philadelphia  County  for  twenty- 
six  consecutive  years.  He  married  and  left  children.  He  must 
have  married  in  Pennsylvania,  for  his  wife's  name  was  Rachel, 
and  that  name  does  not  appear  in  the  list  of  the  passengers  of 
the  good  ship  Bristol  Merchant. 

Sarah,  the  daughter  of  Edward  and  Rachel  Farmar,  mar- 
ried  Peter  Robeson.      Katharine,    another   daughter,    married 


THE    EARLY     FAEMAKS  13 

Jonathan  Robeson,  a  nephew  of  the  said  Peter  Robeson. 
There  is  mention  on  page  451  of  volume  iv.  of  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Magazine  of  History,  that  Mary,  the  widow  of 
Major  Jasper  Farmar,  built  a  brick  house  in  Philadelphia, 
in  the  autumn  of  1686,  a  little  more  than  a  year  after  she 
landed. 

This  house  was  standing  until  about  the  year  1895.  It  was 
then  and  had  long  been  known  as  the  old  Bowers  house,  and 
was  standing  at  Frankford  Avenue  and  Norris  Street.  It 
was  torn  down  to  make  room  for  the  building  that  is  now 
owned  and  occupied  by  the  Northeast  Branch  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.  It  vraa  owned,  and  perhaps  improved 
by  Dr.  Richard  Farmar,  the  grandson  of  the  original  builder, 
about  the  year  1750. 

Dr.  Richard  Farmar  married  Misa  Sarah  Carmack,  daugh- 
ter of  a  prominent  Philadelphia  merchant.  They  had  one 
daughter,  Sarah  Farmar,  born  in  1753,  probably  in  this  house. 
She  married  Major  William  Bowers,  a  continental  soldier. 
Tradition  says  her  parents  were  averse  to  the  marriage,  and 
that  Miss  Sallie,  under  the  cover  of  darkness,  climbed  out  of 
a  second-story  window,  joined  her  lover,  got  away  and  was 
married.  Two  sons  were  born  to  them;  the  eldest,  Richard 
Farmar  Bowers,  was  ordained  minister  of  the  Wesleyan 
United  Society  of  Kensington,  on  January  1,  1827.  At  the 
death  of  Pastor  Bowers,  the  house  became  the  property  of 
his  second  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Marie  Tilton.  She 
occupied  it  until  her  death  in  1886,  when  the  mansion  and 
its  very  greatly  circumscribed  site  was  purchased  by  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  Watson,  in  his  "  Annals," 
says  of  this  Farmar-Bowers  Mansion,  that  "  it  was  the  only 
one  of  the  old  Colonial  houses  with  a  gable  pointed  toward 
the  road."  It  was  a  two-story  brick  house,  very  substantially 
built.  The  materials  were  imported.  The  entrance  was  by 
a  massive  door  which  swung  back  into  a  wide  hallway,  bril- 
liant from  floor  to  ceiling  with  plate  glass  mirrors.  The 
rooms  on  the  first  floor  opened  into  the  hallway  on  each  side. 

They  were  wainscoted  to  the  ceiling.     One  was  also  panelled 


14  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FAEMAR 

most  artistically.  In  this  room  a  massive  iron  safe  was  built 
into  the  wall.  The  place  was  heated  by  large  open  fireplaces. 
During  the  demolition  of  the  old  house,  two  Irish  pennies, 
issued  under  the  authority  of  the  Irish  Parliament  in  1681 
and  1683,  were  also  found.  Were  these  relics  of  the  old  coun- 
try, brought  over  by  Mary,  the  widow  of  Major  Jasper 
Farmar? 


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THE    BILLOPPS 


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THE   BILLOPPS 
Captain    Chbibtofheb    Billopp,    Royal    Navy 

AS    Captain    Hillopp,    whose   daughter   Anne   married   the 

/%  emigrant  Thomas  Farmar,  was  the  ancestor  of  all 
A  ^L  the  Farmars  and  Billopps  in  America  of  whom  the 
writer  has  any  knowledge,  and,  as  he  was  an  exceedingly 
notable  and  interesting  character,  the  writer  believes  a  sketch 
of  his  career  will  be  welcome  to  all  the  readers  of  this  book. 
So  before  proceeding  with  the  narrative  of  Thomas  Farmar, 
he  will,  as  briefly  as  possible,  give  a  sketch  of  Captain  Christo- 
pher Billopp. 

Although  the  writer  has  confined  his  story  within  the  limits 
of  documentary  evidence,  there  have  been  so  many  traditions 
relating  to  Captain  Christopher  Billopp,  and  the  circumnavi- 
gation of  Staten  Island,  that  he  is  impelled  to  quote  from 
Mr.  Ira  K.  Morris,  the  author  of  "  A  Biographical  History 
of  Staten  Island,"  Mr.  Morris  having  assured  the  writer  that 
his  story  of  Christopher   Billopp  is  founded  on   reliable  data. 

He  was  the  great-grandson,  we  are  told  by  Mr.  Morris, 
of  one  Barnard  Billopp,  who  "  was  born  in  Coventry,  near 
the  close  of  the  sixteenth  century.  At  the  age  of  seventeen 
Barnard  enlisted  as  a  cavalryman  in  the  service  of  the  Crown ; 
he  became  an  officer  as  a  reward  of  merit,  was  repeatedly  pro- 
moted for  bravery,  and  finally  died  from  the  effects  of  a  wound 
received  in  a  duel  with  a  fellow-officer. 

"  Barnard  left  two  sons,  Christopher  and  James.  The  latter 
is  said  to  have  won  the  warm  friendship  of  Queen  Elizabeth 
by  once  saving  her  precious  life  at  the  risk  of  his  own.  He 
was  presented  with  a  commission  in  the  Navy,  which  he  de- 
clined, and  accepted  a  Court  appointment.  He  had  a  large 
family.     A  son,  Christopher,  became   a  merchant  in  London, 

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18  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

and  was  government  contractor  under  Charles  the  First, 
who  granted  him  this  favor  because  of  his  marriage  to 
a  lady  belonging  to  the  Court  circle.  Christopher  had  one 
son,  whom  he  also  named  Christopher,  who  was  born  in  London 
about  1638.  He  was  educated  for  a  naval  officer,  by  direction 
of  the  King,  who  held  his  father  and  mother  in  high  regard. 

"  He  received  his  commission  as  captain,  and  made  several 
important  voyages  to  distant  parts.  In  one  of  these  he  was 
captured  by  Turkish  pirates,  who  wounded  him  severely,  and 
left  him  lying  on  the  shore  for  dead. 

"  After  many  weeks  of  suffering,  he  was  picked  up  by  an 
English  vessel,  and  taken  back  to  his  home. 

"  In  the  spring  of  1667  Christopher  Billopp  sailed  from 
England  in  the  Bentley,  a  small  vessel  carrying  two  cannon 
on  her  deck.  She  reached  the  banks  of  Newfoundland,  after 
several  weeks  of  tossing  about  on  the  ocean,  and  almost  im- 
mediately started  to  make  a  cruise  along  the  coast  of  New 
Netherlands.  It  is  not  known  whether  he  was  in  the  service 
of  Charles  the  Second,  or  whether  the  venture  was  of  a  private 
nature. 

"Up  to  the  year  1668  it  was  a  disputed  question  whether 
Staten  Island  belonged  to  New  York,  or  New  Jersey,  and  tired 
of  the  annoyance  that  this  fact  gave,  the  Duke  of  York  de- 
cided that  all  islands  lying  in  the  harbor  of  New  York,  which 
could  be  circumnavigated  in  tewnty-four  hours  should  belong 
to  New  York,  otherwise  to  New  Jersey.  The  possibility  of 
sailing  around  this  island  in  a  day  had  long  been  disputed, 
and  was  generally  denied,  but  Captain  Billopp  thought  other- 
wise, and  undertook  the  work,  and  was  successful,  with  an 
hour  to  spare." 

It  is  said  he  covered  the  deck  of  his  vessel  with  empty  casks, 
at  first  gaining  sailing  power,  but,  when  he  came  to  the  shal- 
low portion  of  the  stream,  between  the  island  and  New  Jersey, 
he  used  the  barrels  to  buoy  up  his  ship,  and  thus  passed  over 
the  bar,  and  won  the  island  for  New  York.  In  consideration 
for  this  service,  the  Duke  of  York  presented  Captain  Billopp 
with  a  patent  for  a  tract  of  land  on  the  southwest  end  of  the 


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island,  which  he  called  "  Bentlcy  Manor,"  in  honor  of  his 
sturdy  little  ship.  "  There  and  then  he  built  the  house  still 
standing,"  now,  and  for  many  years  past,  known  as  "  The 
Old  Billopp  House,"  which  will  frequently  be  mentioned  in 
these  records.  "  Most  of  the  materia]  for  the  house  was 
gathered  on  the  plantation,  but  the  cement  which  holds  the 
great  thick  walls  together  came  from  England,  and  the  bricks 
from  Belgium." 

The  foregoing  account  is  taken  almost  literally  from  Mor- 
ris' M  Biographical  History  of  Staten  Island."  While  it  is 
very  interesting,  there  are  some  statements  which  do  not  ex- 
actly square  with  the  documents  in  the  case.  The  above  shows 
that  the  Captain's  grandfather  was  named  .lames,  and  lived 
in  London,  but  the  copy  of  a  deed  found  on  page  702,  vol.  v., 
second  series  lYnna.  Archives,  proves  that  his  name  was 
Christopher,  and  that  he  lived  in  the  town  of  Beverly  in 
Yorkshire.  The  died  is  given  by  Captain  Christopher  Billopp, 
to  his  brother  Joseph  Billopp,  Merchant  of  London,  and  is 
dated  October  9,  1677,  and  conveys  a  house  from  Christopher 
to  Joseph,  the  consideration  for  which  is  six  hundred  pounds; 
which  house  is  said  to  be  situated  in  the  town  of  Beverly,  in 
Yorkshire,  near  the  North  Bar  re,  "  between  one  formerly  owned 
by  my  grandfather,  Christopher  Billopp,  late  alderman  of  the 
said  town,  and  the  house  of  Mitchell  Wharton,  Esq." 

This  deed  also  shows  that  Captain  Christopher  Billopp  had 
a  brother  Joseph,  a  merchant  of  London,  and  as  the  abbrevia- 
tion of  this  name — (Jos.) — is  very  similar  to  that  of  James 
—  (Jas.) — the  writer  is  of  the  opinion  that  Mr.  Morris' 
authorities  had  gotten  the  dates  wrong  and  the  names  mixed. 
It  is  the  belief  of  the  writer  that  the  six  hundred  pounds  re- 
ceived for  the  house  in  Beverly,  which  was  a  large  sum  of 
money  at  that  time,  was  used  in  building  the  house  on  Staten 
Island.  If  this  is  true,  the  date  of  the  building  would  be 
ten  years  later  than  that  given  by  Mr.  Morris. 

In  the  "  Biographia  Navalis,"  Charnock,  vol.  i.  p.  386,  we 
are  informed  that  Christopher  Billopp  was,  in  the  year  1671, 
made    a    lieutenant   in   the    English    Navy,    and    appointed    to 


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the  good  ship  Portsmouth,  from  which  ship  he  was  detached, 
and  ordered  to  the  Bristol,  on  the  same  station,  in  the  follow- 
ing year.  On  the  7th  of  May,  1673,  he  was  promoted  to  the 
command  of  the  Prudent  Mary,  Fireship.  On  the  3d  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1674,  he  was  made  captain  of  the  Rainbow — hired  ship 
of  war.  There  now  comes  a  hiatus  of  six  years,  which  will  be 
accounted  for  later. 

On  the  20th  of  July,  1680,  Billopp  was  appointed  to  the 
command  of  the  Depthford  Ketch.  Then,  says  Mr.  Charnock : 
"  Whether  he  retired  from  service  for  a  time  after  this  period, 
we  know  not,  but  we  have  not  been  able  to  learn  anything 
relative  to  him  until  the  year  1692,  when  we  find  him  com- 
manding the  Ossory,  of  ninety  guns.  He  was  appointed  to 
this  ship  as  successor  of  Captain  John  Tyrrel,  on  the  6th  of 
December,  1692,  and  was  promoted  on  the  23d  of  May  (1693), 
following,  to  the  Victory,  first  rate,  100  guns,  succeeding  Sir 
Edward  Stanley.  On  the  death  of  Sir  John  Ashby,  in  the 
following  month,  Captain  Billopp  was  removed  to  the  London, 
96  guns,  at  that  time  the  largest  ship  in  the  English  Navy. 

Mr.  Charnock  has  done  very  well,  but  even  he  is  not  com- 
plete, for  Mr.  Wm.  L.  Clowes,  in  "  The  Royal  Navy,"  vol.  ii. 
p.  328,  informs  us  that  Captain  Christopher  Billopp  com- 
manded the  Greenwich  of  54  guns,  and  280  men,  at  the  battle 
of  Bantry  Bay,  May  1,  1689,  which  closes  the  gap  by  over 
three  years.  But  the  same  author  tells  us  what  the  Captain 
was  doing  in  the  first  part  of  the  year  1692,  for  he  states  on 
page  349,  of  the  same  volume,  that  Captain  Christopher 
Billopp  was  in  command  of  the  Suffolk,  of  70  guns,  at  the 
great  naval  battle  of  Barfleur,  beginning  May  19,  1692,  and 
lasting  three  days.  It  is  not  at  all  probable  that  even  this 
completes  the  list  of  vessels  which  he  commanded,  for  it  is 
very  difficult  to  secure  accurate  data  of  English  naval  affairs 
of  over  two  hundred  years  ago. 

But  here  is  another  interesting  incident  locating  him  on 
the  last  night  of  the  year  1690,  related  by  Lord  Macaulay  in 
the  sixteenth  chapter  of  his  "  History  of  England."  In  his 
usual    forcible    and    graphic    style,    he    tells    us    how    Captain 


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Billopp  captured  some  conspirators  against  the  Throne  of 
King  William.  He  says:  "This  vessel  [a  yacht,  belonging 
to  the  Earl  of  Danby]  was  placed  under  the  command  of  a 
trusty  officer,  Captain  Billopp  ...  At  dead  of  night, 
the  last  night  of  the  year  1690,  Preston,  Ashton,  and  Elliott 
went  on  board  of  their  smack  mar  the  Tower.  They  were  in 
great  dread,  lest  they  Bhould  be  stopped  and  searched,  either 
by  a  frigate  which  lay  off  Woolwich,  or  by  the  guard  posted 
at  the  block  house  at  Gravesend,  but,  when  they  had  passed 
both  frigate  and  blockhouse,  without  being  challenged,  their 
spirits  rose,  their  appetites  became  keen,  they  unpacked  a 
hamper  well  stored  irith  roast  beef,  mince  pies,  and  bottles 
of  wine,  and  were  jusi  sitting  down  to  their  Christinas  cheer, 
when  the  alarm  was  given  that  a  vessel  from  Tilbury  was 
flying  through  the  water  after  them.  They  had  scarcely  time 
to  hide  themselves  in  the  dark  hole,  among  the  gravel,  which 
was  the  ballast  of  their  smack,  when  the  chase  was  over,  and 
Billopp,  as  the  head  of  an  armed  party,  came  on  board.  The 
hatches  were  taken  up,  the  conspirators  were  arrested,  and 
their  clothes  were  strictly  examined. 

"  Preston,  in  his  agitation,  had  dropped  on  the  gravel  his 
official  seal,  and  the  packet  of  which  hi'  was  the  bearer.  The 
seal  was  discovered  where  it  had  fallen.  Ashton,  aware  of 
the  importance  of  the  papers,  snatched  them  up,  and  tried  to 
conceal  them,  but  they  were  found  in  his  bosom.  The  prison- 
ers then  tried  to  cajole  or  corrupt  Billopp.  They  called  for 
wine,  pledged  him,  praised  his  gentlemanly  demeanor,  and 
assured  him  that  if  he  would  accompany  them,  nay — if  he 
would  only  let  that  little  roll  of  paper  fall  overboard  into  the 
Thames,  his  fortune  would  be  made.  The  tide  of  affairs,  they 
said,  was  on  the  turn ;  things  would  not  go  on  forever,  as 
they  had  gone  on  of  late ;  and  it  was  in  the  Captain's  power 
to  be  as  great  and  as  rich  as  he  could  desire.  Billopp,  though 
courteous,  was  inflexible.  .  .  .  Later  in  the  night  the 
yacht  reached  Whitehall  stairs,  and  the  prisoners,  strongly 
guarded,  were  conducted  to  the  Secretary's  Office." 

As  has  been  observed,  after  Billopp  was  appointed  Captain 
of  the  Rainbow,  in  February  of  1674-,  his  name  is  not  again 


22  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

mentioned  in  the  navy  list  for  about  six  years.     It  is  this  hiatus 
that  the  writer  will  now  supply. 

In  1674,  shortly  after  the  surrender,  for  the  second  time, 
of  New  Amsterdam  to  the  English,  Major  Edmond,  later  on 
Sir  Edmond  Andros,  was  appointed  by  James,  Duke  of  York, 
to  be  Governor.  Andros  was  tyranical  in  his  nature,  as  is 
well  known. 

It  was  Andros  who,  while  governor  of  Connecticut,  in  his 
attempt  to  take  from  that  spirited  little  colony  their  liberal 
charter,  forced  them  to  hide  it  in  the  hollow  of  the  famous, 
and  now  historical,  Oak  Tree.  He,  perhaps,  knowing  enough 
of  his  own  disposition  to  feel  that  he  would  require  some  physi- 
cal support,  requested  and  secured  permission  to  raise  a  com- 
pany of  one  hundred  men  to  take  with  him  to  New  York. 
This  was  the  first  company  of  soldiers  that  was  ever  raised 
in  England  for  service  in  America.  Major  Andros  was  com- 
missioned captain  of  this  company,  and  Captain  Christopher 
Billopp  a  lieutenant.  Why  Billopp  should  have  given  up  a 
captaincy  in  the  navy  for  a  lieutenantcy  under  Andros  can 
only  be  explained  on  the  hypothesis  of  a  great  love  of  ad- 
venture, and  hope  of  quick  promotion  and  handsome  gains. 
Billopp's  commission  is  found  on  page  221,  vol.  iii.,  "  Docu- 
ments Relative  to  Colonial  History  of  New  York,"  and  reads 
as  follows: 

"  Commission  of  Christopher  Billopp  to  be  Lieutenant  of 
Maj.  Andros  Company. 

"  To  Christopher  Billopp,  Lt.,  to  Edmd.  Andros.  Esq. 

"  Whereas  I  have  thought  fit  out  of  the  good  opinion  I  have 
conceived  of  you  to  appoint  you  to  be  Lieu4,  of  ye  said  Company 
above  mentioned, 

"  These  are  to  will  authorize  and  require  you  forthwith  to 
take  upon  you  the  command  of  Lieu1  of  ye  said  Company 
accordingly  and  duly  to  exercise  ye  officers  and  sold™  of  ye 
same  in  arms  according  to  ye  direccions  of  your  Cap1  and  to 
use  yor  best  care  and  endeavor  to  keep  them  in  good  ordr  and 
discipline,  Hereby  commanding  them  to  obey  you  as  their 
Lieut  and  you  likewise  to  obey  and  follow  such  ord8  and  direc- 


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tions  as  you  shall  from  time  to  time  receive  from  myself  or 
yor  said  Cap1  according  to  the  discipline  of  War  and  ye  trust 
reposed  in  you. 

"For  w'h  this  shall  he  yor  warr1 

"  Given  under  my  hand  and  seale  at  Windsor  the  3d  July 
1674  "  James 

"  Duke  of  York." 

Shortly  after  Billopp's  arrival  in  New  York,  he  received 
a  patent  for  eleven  hundred  and  sixty-five  acres  of  land  in 
the  west  end  of  Staten  Island,  which  was  followed  soon  after 
by  another  patent  for  two  thousand  acres  contiguous  to  the 
first — in  all  thirty-one  hundred  and  sixty-five  acres,  which 
"plantation"  became  known  as  "  Bentley  Manor." 

It  is  the  writer's  opinion  tli.it  Staten  Island  was  circum- 
navigated by  Captain  Billopp,  who  was  an  experienced  sea- 
man, after  his  arrival  in  New  York  with  Andros,  in  some  ship 
picked  up  in  the  New  York  harbor,  which  happened  to  be 
named  the  Bentley. 

There  have  been  many  stories  told  by  Lossing,  Whitehead, 
and  other  American  historians  in  regard  to  these  grants  of 
land.  Some  say  they  were  given  on  account  of  the  circum- 
navigation of  the  island,  and  others  as  a  reward  for  having 
saved  the  life  of  the  Duke  in  a  naval  engagement.  It  is  pos- 
sible that  one  was  a  reward  for  one  of  these  things,  and  one 
for  the  other.  But  the  fact  remains  it  was  an  unusually  large 
grant  of  land,  and  Billopp  must  have  done  something  of  un- 
usual merit  in  the  opinion  of  the  Duke  to  have  been  thought 
worthy  to  receive  such  a  handsome  gift. 

On  August  13,  1677.  after  he  had  been  in  New  York  for 
three  years,  Governor  Andros  appointed  Billopp  Collector  of 
Customs  in  the  Delaware  River  and  Bay  at  the  old  town  of 
New  Castle.  On  the  next  day  we  find  that  he  appointed  him 
to  be  commander  in  the  Delaware  River  and  Bay  with  the  title 
of  Captain.  Copies  of  both  commissions  are  to  be  found  on 
pages  695-6,  Pennsylvania  Archives,  second  series,  volume  v. 
He  remained  as  commander  on  the  Delaware  for  about  two 
years.      It  is  said  by  Mr.   Holcomb,  in  his   interesting  work, 


24  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

"  Early  Ecclesiastical  Affairs  in  New  Castle,  Delaware  ":  "  He 
seems  to  have  been  a  very  arbitrary  and  tyrannical  individual, 
and  carried  things  with  a  high  hand."  His  chief  offense,  in 
Mr.  Holcomb's  view,  was  that  he  "  deprived  the  Court  of  the 
use  of  the  Court  Room  and  prison,  which  were  within  the  fort, 
using  the  first  for  a  barn,  and  the  prison  for  a  stable,  and 
when  remonstrated  with  by  the  Court,  answered  '  that  the  Court 
should  not  sit  in  the  fort,  and  that  it  did  not  concern  the 
Court.'  But  he  afterwards  agreed  to  remove  his  horses,  and 
cause  the  Court  Room  to  be  cleaned."  He  also  prohibited  a 
Mr.  John  Yoe,  a  minister,  from  exercising  his  ministerial 
office,  but,  as  Mr.  Holcomb  himself  does  not  appear  to  be  a 
great  admirer  of  the  reverend  gentleman,  perhaps  Captain 
Billopp,  who  knew  him  personally,  had  very  good  reasons  for 
his  action. 

His  offense,  however,  in  the  eyes  of  Andros,  his  superior 
officer,  was  the  stand  he  made  in  the  affair  of  John  Fenwick, 
who  had  made  a  settlement  at  Salem,  New  Jersey,  on  the  east- 
ern side  of  the  Delaware  River.  Fenwick  claimed  his  title 
from  the  original  proprietors,  which  Andros  denied  on  the 
ground  that  that  title  had  lapsed  by  the  temporary  occupancy 
of  the  Dutch.  Billopp  supported  Fenwick's  claim,  and,  as 
he  was  the  immediate  agent  through  whom  Andros  had  to  deal 
with  Fenwick,  affairs  became  rather  unpleasant.  Billopp  went 
to  New  York  to  have  it  out  with  Andros,  which  he  did,  but 
he  seems  to  have  gone  out  with  it,  for  we  read  that  he  was 
requested  to  resign  his  commission  "  for  talking  against  the 
Governor  in  a  loud  voice  at  the  Custom  House." 

Billopp  remained  in  America  a  short  time,  during  which 
time  appears  a  letter  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Duke  to  Andros, 
advising  him  to  be  cautious  in  his  "  treatment  of  Captain 
Billopp,  as  his  father,  Christopher  Billopp,  Gent.,  of  London, 
is  a  friend  of  the  King."  There  are  letters,  too,  that  show 
anxiety  and  fear  that  he  may  sell  his  plantation  to  citizens 
of  the  rival  colony — New  Jersey. 

He,  however,  returned  to  England,  and  as  Charnock  states, 
on  the  20th  of  July,  1680,  re-entered  the  navy,  and  was  ap- 


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pointed  to  the  command  of  the  Dcpthford.  It  was  while  in 
command  of  this  vessel  that  an  incident  occurred,  which,  while 
only  the  documents  in  the  case  appear,  the  glamor  of  two 
centuries  makes  very  interesting.  The  documents,  from  the 
New  York   Historical  Collection,   1893,  page  436,  follow: 

"  To  the  Sheriff  of  New  York,  or  Water  Bailiff,  You  are  in 
his  Majesty's  name  required  to  attach  in  the  hands  of  Mr. 
John  I  in  in-,  or  any  other  person,  within  your  precinct,  thirty- 
eight  negro  Blaves,  lately  taken  and  carried  away  by  Captain 
Christopher  Billopp,  from  on  board  the  ship  Providence  of 
London,  George  Mantor,  Master,  being  on  her  voyage  from 
Angola  to  Nevis  [an  island  in  the  West  Indies,  owned  by  the 
English,  near  St.  Christopher],  and  by  him  sent  to  this  place, 
consigned  to  John  [mans.  Which  Bhip  and  negroes  did  belong 
to  and  were  the  proper  estate  <>('  Mr-  John  How  den,  of  Lon- 
don, Mr.  John  Temple,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Temple,  citizens  and 
goldsmiths  of  London.  And  if  the  said  negroes  are  sold,  you 
are  to  attach  the  effects  or  produce  of  them  in  such  place  as 
the  same  shall  be,  So  that  you  have  the  negroes  or  produce 
at  the  next  Court  to  he  held  in  tin  City  Hall.  Wherein  fail 
not. 

"May   4,   1683. 

"William   Hi  i  kman,  Dep.  Mayor." 

Then  follows  the  sheriff's  return  and  endorsement: 

"By  virtue  of  said  attachment  I  did  on  the  5th  instant, 
attach  in  the  hand-  of  Mr.  John  Imans  the  said  negroes,  and 
being  informed  that  some  of  the  effects  or  produce  of  some 
of  the  negroes  were  shipped  on  board  the  ship  Charles, 
Robert  Codenham,  Master,  I,  the  same  day  repaired  on  board 
the  ship,  and  inquired  for  the  Master,  who  not  being  on  board, 
I  did  publically  (sic),  upon  the  Deck  of  said  vessel,  read  the 
attachment  in  the  presence  of  the  mate  and  the  boatswain, 
and  did  attach  all  such  goods,  to  witt,  40  barrels  and  24  half- 
barrels  of  flour,  and  8  hogeheads  of  bread,  but  the  vessel  sailed 
without  delivering  said  goods. 

"May  15,  1683.  "John  Collier,  Sheriff." 


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This  looks  very  badly  for  the  Captain,  for  the  New  York 
Historical  Society  has  given  him  no  chance  to  defend  himself. 
But  defend  himself  he  did,  and,  probably,  got  the  negroes,  too. 
For  in  "  Documents  Relating  to  the  Colonial  History  of  New 
York,"  vol.  iii,  p.  365,  we  find  a  "  Petition  of  Captain  Billopp 
to  the  King,"  which  reads  as  follows: 

"To  the  King8  most  Excellent  Maty  and  the  R\  Honoble. 
the  Lords  of  His  Mate  most  Honoble  Privy  Council — The  Hum- 
ble Petition   of  Captain   Christopher   Billopp   sheweth — 

"  That  yor  Petr  some  time  in  June  1682  as  Commander  of 
His  Mats  Ketch  Depthford  pursuant  to  his  Mats  commandes, 
Seized  an  enterloper  called  the  Providence,  of  London,  whereof 
one  George  Mantor  was  commander,  which  ship  and  negroes 
with  all  that  belonged  to  her  was  condemned  in  the  Admiralty 
Court  at  Neaves  (sic)  for  trading  to  Guiney  contrary  to  his 
Mats  Charter  granted  the  Royal  AfFrican  Company;  some 
time  after  yor  Petr  sent  from  Neaves  to  New  York  some  Nea- 
groes  with  other  Goods  consigned  to  Mr.  John  Injons  about 
the  month  of  May  1683  by  vertue  of  a  Procuration  from  Mr. 
John  Baudcn  and  Thomas  Temple  of  London,  to  Mr  John 
West,  Clarke  of  the  Mayor's  Court  at  New  Yorke.  The  said 
West  as  Attorney  to  Bauden,  &rc,  attached  and  arrested  in  the 
hands  of  the  said  Injons,  all  the  neagroes  or  effects  of  the 
said  neagroes  which  yor  Petr  soe  consigned  to  the  said  Injons, 
and,  as  yor  Pet1"  shall  make  appear  Pet1",  [property?]  to  the 
value  of  one  Thousand  one  Hundred  and  fforty  pounds  Ster- 
ling, from  which  Judgment  yor  Pet"3  agent  desired  to  appeale 
to  yor  Maty  and  Council  here  which  was  refused. 

"  Now  may  it  please  your  sacred  Maty  That  Province  being 
settled  as  other  of  Yor  Mau  Plantations,  being  by  Laws  and 
Constitutions  for  the  security  of  yor  Ma"  subjects,  whereof 
Yor  Mau  reserving  appeals  to  be  determined  before  Yor  Ma" 
and  Councell. 

"  Yor  Petr  most  humbly  prayes  Yor  Maty  will  be  graciously 
pleased  to  order  the  Mayor's  Court  of  New  York  to  stop  all 
proceedings  and  to  send  over  an  Appeale  That  the  Matter  may 


CAPTAIN     CHRISTOPHER    BILLOPP,    ROYAL    NAVY  27 

be  argued,  before  this   Board  in  Order  to  a  finall  Determina- 
tion. 

"And  Yor  Petr  as  in  duty  bound  shall  ever  pray — (Decem- 
ber 23,   1685.)" 

That  day  the  King's  Council  reported  favorably  on  the  pe- 
tition, requiring  a  security  from  Billopp  of  two  thousand 
pounds,  whereupon  the  King  approved  the  same  in  the  fol- 
lowing words : 

"His  Mau  Council  approving  the  same  and  being  graciously 
pleased  to  admit  of  the  pet™  appeal  hath  this  day  thought  fit 
to  Order  The  matter  of  the  Baid  appeal  bee  and  the  same 
is  hereby  appointed  to  be  heard  before  lli^  Maly  in  Council 
within  four  months  after  notice  hereof  shall  be  given  to  the 
Mayor  of  New  York,  who  \a  to  transmit  to  this  Board  an 
account  of  all  proceedings  in  his  Court  relating  thereunto, 
and  it  is  further  ordered  thai  in  the  mean  time  all  Proceed- 
ings against  the  said  Cap'  Billopp  or  his  Agent  relating  to 
this  matter  doe  cease;  Hee  having  this  day  given  security 
here,  according  to  the  Report,  to  answer  such  Determination 
in  the  Appeal,  as  his  Majesty  in  Council  shall  award.  Whereof 
the  said  Mayor  of  New  York,  or  the  Mayor  thereof  for  the 
time  being  and  all  others  concerned  are  to  take  notice  and 
give  obedience  hereunto,  and  Colonel  Thomas  Dungan  His 
Ma1"  Governor  of  New  York  is  hereby  directed  to  take  care 
and  give  order  that  all  things  be  performed  accordingly." 

Captain  Billopp's  name  is  frequently  mentioned  in  the  old 
records.  In  the  "  Calendar  of  Historical  Manuscripts,"  vol.  ii. 
p.  64,  June  19,  1678,  he  procures  a  warrant  for  Paulus  Mar- 
shall, and  others  for  abducting  a  servant  girl.  Though  he 
was  appointed  to  the  command  of  the  Depthford  in  1680,  we 
find  in  the  New  Jersey  Archives,  1st  series,  vol.  xxi.  p.  45, 
under  the  date  of  November  26,  1681,  mention  of  a  special 
Court  of  Oyer  and  Terminer,  called  at  the  request  of  Captain 
Christopher  Billopp.  The  same  volume  mentions  two  mort- 
gages held  by  him  on  land  in  New  Jersey,  the  two  tracts  of 
land  aggregating  over  1900  acres. 


28  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

June  10,  1687,  the  "  Calendar  of  Historical  Manuscripts  " 
shows  an  order  for  a  commission  for  Captain  Christopher 
Billopp  as  surveyor  of  highways  for  Staten  Island.  The  same 
volume,  page  237,  shows  that  on  December  5,  1693,  he  was 
charged  with  kicking  and  beating  William  Bryan  for  refusing 
to  sign  his  indentures.  This  last  item  is  useful,  in  that  it 
indicates  that  he  had  retired  from  the  Royal  Navy  after  hav- 
ing been  for  a  short  time  in  command  of  England's  finest  ship, 
the  London,  to  which,  the  reader  will  remember,  he  was  ap- 
pointed in  June  of  that  very  year.  On  the  27th  day  of  Au- 
gust, A.  D.  1752,  is  recorded  in  the  Book  of  Conveyances  for 
Mistress  Mary  Billopp  and  Mistress  Anne  Billopp,  Spinsters, 
of  London,  a  Power  of  Attorney,  giving  them  complete  con- 
trol of  all  his  property  in  America. 

In  1701  he  was  in  London,  for  the  authorities  in  New 
Jersey  at  that  time  recommended  to  the  Board  of  Trade  some 
provincial  appointments,  and  referred  to  Sir  Edmond  Andros 
and  Captain  Christopher  Billopp  as  gentlemen  in  London  who 
knew  all  about  the  persons  suggested.  (P.  417,  vol.  2,  1st 
series,  N.  J.  Archives.) 

He  was  again  on  his  beloved  Staten  Island  in  1718,  and  signed 
with  others  a  petition  to  King  George  the  First.  (N.  J.  Ar- 
chives, vol.  4,  1st  series,  pp.  344-345.)  He  lived  in  Lon- 
don for  a  few  years  before  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1726, 
when  he  was  nearly  ninety  years  old. 

He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife,  probably  the  daughter 
of  Major  Farmar,  bearing  him  two  daughters,  Mary  and 
Anne.  His  second  wife  was  Katharine  Farmar,  the  widow  of 
Jaspar  Farmar,  Jr.,  whom  he  married  some  time  between  the 
years  1685  and  1689,  as  is  shown  by  the  following,  taken  from 
the  Pennsylvania  Archives,  2nd  series,  vol.  xix,  page  33,  Feb. 
12,  1690.  "  At  a  meeting  of  the  Land  Commissioners  a  pat- 
ent was  signed  for  Katharine  Farmar,  now  Katharine  Billopp, 
for  1250  acres  of  land,  being  her  former  husband,  Jasper  Far- 
mar's,  part  in  the  tract'  of  5000  acres  purchased  by  Major 
Farmar."  Katharine  bore  him  no  children.  She  died  in  1702, 
as  on  page  297  of  the  last  mentioned  volume,  we  are  told  that 


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on  February  20,  1702,  Thomas  Farmar,  her  son  and  heir, 
asks  for  a  resurvey  of  her  estate. 

Captain  Billopp's  daughter  Mary  first  married  the  Reverend 
Mr.  Brooke,  a  clergyman,  who  is  repeatedly  mentioned  in  the 
most  complimentary  manner  by  his  contemporaries  (see  Dr. 
Hawks'  "  History  of  the  Church  in  America").  In  1707  he 
sailed  for  England,  and  the  vessel,  with  all  on  board,  was  lost 
at  sea.  Mary  afterward  married  the  Reverend  William  Skin- 
ner of  Perth  Amboy,  and  died  about  1725,  before  her  father, 
without  leaving  any  children.     Anne  married  Thomas  Farmar. 

The  will  of  Captain  Christopher  Billopp  was  written  in 
London,  the  25th  of  April,  17'24.  In  it  the  Manor  of  Bentley 
was  left  to  his  daughter  Mary  during  her  life  only,  and  at  her 
decease  to  her  heirs  rnnli\  according  to  primogenature ;  but, 
should  she  die  without  heir-,  the  property  should  be  inherited 
by  Christopher  Farmar,  the  second  son  of  his  daughter  Anne, 
and  to  his  heirs  male.  Failing  such  issue,  it  was  to  descend  in 
regular  order  to  his  brothers  in  succession,  with  like  restric- 
tions. They  are  all  mentioned  by  name  except  the  eldest,  Jas- 
per, and  the  youngest,  John,  the  latter  being  born  after  the 
will  was  drawn.  Jasper  wax  left  twenty  pounds.  "Should 
the  fates  prove  so  against  him  as  not  to  favor  him  with  an  heir 
among  the  Farmars,  the  property  was  to  go  to  his  '  right  ' 
heirs,  male,  of  the  name  of  Billopp.  Which  name — Billopp — 
was  to  be  assumed  by  such  one  of  the  Farmars  as  might  become 
his  heir." 

Mrs.  Skinner  having  died  shortly  after  the  will  was  made, 
indeed,  before  the  death  of  the  testator  (for  the  Reverend  Wil- 
liam had  another  wife  in  March.  17^7),  the  property,  accord- 
ing to  the  terms  of  the  will,  went  to  the  Farmars,  Christopher, 
the  second  son  being  dead,  Thomas,  the  third  son,  inherited 
and  took  the  name  of  his  maternal  grandfather. 

Had  Mrs.  Skinner  inherited  the  property,  the  will  states 
that  she  must  have  left  it  to  her  successors  in  the  following 
condition :  "  All  the  messuages,  out-houses,  fences  and  other 
appurtenances  in  good  and  sufficient  Reparrations,  and  shall 
leave  in  the  said  Mansion  House  of  Bentley  five  good  feather 


30  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAB. 

beds,  with  Sheets,  Blanketts,  Pillows,  Curtains,  Vallences,  and 
other  furniture  thereunto  Belonging,  with  such  Brass,  Pewter, 
and  Wooden  Ware  as  are  Requisite  for  a  family  of  six  people, 
with  Table  Linnen  and  all  manner  of  Necessaries  for  the 
Kitchen,  fit  and  convenient  with  five  pair  of  Iron  Doggs  and 
five  tongs  and  5  shovels  for  the  Chambers,  with  a  table  for 
each  Room,  such  seats  as  are  used  in  that  Country ;  and  also 
proper  utensils  for  a  Dairy,  ten  Cows,  and  sufficient  casks  in 
the  cellar  for  Cyder,  and  all  other  convenienceys  for  Making 
of  Cyder,  and  shall  also  Leave  four  horses  and  six  oxen  fit  for 
the  plough,  with  Carts,  Plows  and  Harrows,  and  all  other  im- 
plements of  husbandry  thereunto  belonging  and  in  that  coun- 
try used,  of  axes,  shovels  and  the  like,  with  ten  Milch  Cows 
and  calves,  that  same  spring  of  Year  falling  and  raising,  and 
three  steers  of  two  years  old,  four  Heifers  of  two  years  old ; 
and  ten  yearlings  and  a  Bull  of  two  years  old,  two  sows  and  a 
Boar,  and  one  hundred  Ewes  and  a  Ram,  fifty  Lambs,  ten 
Weathers  of  two  years  old,  with  what  fowle  shall  be  at  the 
House." 

Joseph    Billopp 

Captain  Christopher  Billopp's  brother  Joseph,  to  whom  he 
deeded  the  house  in  the  town  of  Beverly,  came  to  Staten  Island 
and  lived  at  Bentley  Manor  in  1698.  He  had  a  power  of  attor- 
ney from  his  father,  Christopher  Billopp,  Gentleman,  of  Lon- 
don, to  collect  debts  due  by  John  Inians  and  others.  He  re- 
ceived a  patent  for  a  lot  of  one  acre  in  Perth  Amboy,  Novem- 
ber 30,  1699.  The  lot  was  on  East  High  Street.  Morris 
says  he  was  a  lawyer.  He  was  appointed  "  Escheator  in 
Chief  "  for  New  Jersey  in  1710.  He  died  in  1712,  as  the  fol- 
lowing from  the  New  York  Historical  Society's  Collection  for 
1893,  page  87,  informs  us :  "  Whereas  Joseph  Billopp  of 
Staten  Island  died  intestate,  Letters  of  Administration  are 
granted  to  Thomas  Farmar,  Esq.,  who  hath  intermarried  with 
Anne,  the  daughter  of  Christopher  Billopp,  brother  of  Joseph 
Billopp,  April  21,  1712."  Joseph  Billopp's  wife  was  named 
Mary ;  no  children  are  mentioned. 


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WE  have  seen  that  Katharine,  the  widow  of  Jasper 
Farmar,  Jr.,  with  her  son  Thomas,  and  two 
daughters,  Elizabeth  and  Katharine,  landed  from 
the  good  ship  Bristol  Merchant,  John  Stephens, 
commander,  at  Philadelphia,  on  the  tenth  day  of  October,  1685, 
Thomas  being  ten  years  of  age  at  that  time.  It  is  recorded 
that  in  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1701  he  was  appointed  by 
William  Penn,  personally,  who  was  then  in  Philadelphia,  to 
take  the  position  of  Sheriff  of  Philadelphia.  During  the  next 
three  years  he  is  frequently  mentioned  in  the  exercise  of  the 
duties   of  his   office. 

He  held  the  office  of  sheriff  until  the  latter  part  of  the  year 
1704,  when  it  is  stated  in  the  minutes  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Provincial  Council,  vol.  ii.,  page  25,  that  "  Thomas  Farmar 
High  Sheriff  of  the  City  and  County  of  Philadelphia  ac- 
quainted y*  Board  that  having  a  design  to  transport  himself 
to  England  he  must  crave  leave  to  lay  down  his  said  office,  and 
therefore  requested  the  Board  that  another  might  be  ap- 
pointed." The  writer  is  of  the  opinion  that  this  is  the  first 
instance  on  record  in  America  of  a  voluntary  resignation  of 
office,  and  he  recalls  no  other  until  the  time  of  General  Wash- 
ington. 

Farmar  probably  went  to  England  to  sue  for  the  hand  of 
Anne  Billopp,  the  step-daughter  of  his  late  mother,  Katharine, 
whose  second  husband  was  Captain  Christopher  Billopp,  and 
that  his  suit  proved  successful,  we,  his  descendants,  are  here 
to-day  to  testify.  The  family  tree  or  chart  which  the  writer 
now  has  in  his  possession  starts  with:  "  Thomas  Farmar,  High 
Sheriff  of  Philadelphia  and  Mayor  of  New  Brunswick,  mar- 
ried Anne,  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  Captain  Christopher 
Billopp,   Royal   Navy."      This    document   was    copied   by   the 

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34  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FAUMAR 

father  of  the  writer  from  one  sent  to  him  by  his  grandfather, 
Colonel  Christopher  Billopp,  the  "  Tory  Colonel,"  who  was 
born  in  the  year  1737,  some  years  before  the  death  of  his 
grandfather,  Thomas  Farmar,  so  he  could  have  had  many 
opportunities  to  verify  its  statements,  and  therefore  the  writer 
feels  at  liberty  to  use  its  data  in  this  narrative. 

We  next  hear  of  Thomas  Farmar  residing  at  "  Bentley 
Manor,"  where  his  eldest  son,  Jasper,  was  born  in  1707,  he 
having  married  in  1705.  Up  to  this  time  and  for  thirty  years 
later,  until  the  time  of  Governor  Lewis  Morris,  the  provinces 
of  New  York  and  New  Jersey  had  but  one  Governor  in  com- 
mon, and  it  was  frequently  the  case  that  the  Governor  would 
appoint  to  office  in  one  colony  a  gentleman  who  resided  in  the 
other.  This  caused  considerable  bitter  feeling,  and  event- 
ually led  to  the  appointment  of  separate  Governors  for  the 
two  provinces. 

Colonel  Farmar,  though  living  on  Staten  Island,  in  the 
province  of  New  York,  was  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  As- 
sembly in  1708,  according  to  the  New  Jersey  Archives,  1st 
series,  vol.  xiii.,  page  308.  The  first  mention  of  him  in  that 
august  body  was  on  the  third  of  March,  1708,  and,  according 
to  vol.  xxv.,  page  304,  his  last  appearance  there  was  a  gener- 
ation later,  November  23,  1743. 

In  the  New  Jersay  Archives,  vol.  iv.,  page  74,  is  to  be  found 
a  paper  sworn  to  and  signed  by  Thomas  Farmar,  dated  the 
tenth  of  February,  1710,  and  which  indicates  his  age  at  that 
time,  which  is  the  writer's  excuse  for  inserting  such  an  unin- 
teresting document.      The  affidavit  is  as  follows: 

"  Thomas  Farmar  aged  about  thirty-Six  years,  being  sol- 
emnly sworn  upon  ye  holy  Evangelist  of  Almighty  God,  doth 
depose  that  on  or  about  the  twelfth  of  May  Anno.  Dom.  1708, 
Thomas  Gordon,  Esqre.,  then  Speaker  of  ye  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives of  Her  Maj'ty  Province  of  New  Jersey,  being  ar- 
rested by  Hugh  Huddy,  Esq1".,  then  Sheriffe  of  ye  County  of 
Burlington,  after  ye  Assembly  was  adjourned.  A  little  time 
after  Mr.   Gordon   did  desire  this  deponent   to   go   to   Judge 


CHIEF-JUSTICE    THOMAS     KAUMKK,    THE    FOUNDER  35 

Pinhorn  and  make  applycac'on  on  behalf  of  said  Mr.  Gordon 
for  an  Habeas  Corpus  to  be  admitted  to  baile,  and  accordingly 
this  Depont.  did  apply  to  William  Pinhorn,  Esq1".,  then  Second 
Judge  of  ye  Supreme  Court,  of  said  Province,  that  at  ye  desire 
of  Mr.  Gordon,  he  would  please  grant  him  a  habeas  corpus  to 
be  brought  before  him  in  Ordr  to  be  Admitted  to  baile.  To  wch 
Judge  Pinhorn  answered  that  he  must  apply  to  his  Coun11  at 
Law,  this  Depon1.  replyed  he  believed  he  might  do  it  by  his 
friend,  and  used  several  arguments,  to  that  Effect,  but  could 
not  prevaile,  with  w ' ''  this  Depon1.  Acquainted  Mr.  Gordon, 
who  Imployed  John  Pinhorn  Attorney  at  Law,  and  next  morn- 
ing was   admitted   to   Baile,   and    further   S&itfa   not 

"  Thomas  Farmar." 

He  owned  estates  in  New  Jersey  and  is  very  frequently  men- 
tioned in  the  Archives.  In  vol.  iv.,  1st  series,  page  56,  Gov- 
ernor Hunter  says:  "Captain  Farmar  and  Dr.  Johnston  are 
men  of  the  best  estates  in  this  province."  On  page  49  is  a 
letter  from  Governor  Hunter  to  the  Commissioners  of  Cus- 
toms, May  7,  1711:  .  .  .  "another  thing  I  shall  take 
notice  of  to  you  is  Mr.  Harehfield's  suspending  Mr.  Farmar 
from  his  collect  inns  office  at  Aniboy  in  New  Jersey,  the  sole 
reasons  seems  to  be  his  non-residence,  and  the  delay  vessels 
wire  put  to  by  that  means.  This  is  in  some  measure  true,  that 
Captain  Farmar  did  not  live  for  sometime  at  Amboy.  But 
it  is  likewise  true  that  at  the  time  of  his  suspension,  and  for 
some  months  before,  he  lived  there  with  his  family.  And  if  it 
is  allowable  for  a  collector  to  live  out  of  his  Port,  Mr.  Far- 
mar had  the  best  reason  to  expect  of  any  man,  for  his  house 
on  Staten  Island  in  the  Province  of  New  York  is  directly  oppo- 
site Amboy,  from  which  Port  no  vessel  can  go  or  come  without 
his  seeing  it,  but  to  take  away  all  occasion  of  complaint,  he 
appointed  a  deputy  at  Amboy,  who  duly  attended  there. 
I  am  very  unwilling  to  give  you  the  trouble  of  a 
recommendation,  but  the  good  service  Mr.  Farmar  has  done  his 
Majesty  in  the  Assembly  of  New  Jersey,  being  a  principal 
instrument  in  settling  a  support  for  the  government  and  pro- 
moting her  interests  in  whatever  else  came  before  that  house, 


36  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

deserves  some  notice."  On  page  129,  vol.  iv.,  we  read  Captain 
Farmar  is  made  a  colonel  and  Judge  of  the  Pleas  in  Middle- 
sex and  Somerset  (counties)  ;  on  page  135  appears  a  letter 
from  Colonel  Thomas  Farmar  to  Governor  Hunter  about  sup- 
plies for  the  troops  for  Albany,  written  July  31,  1711. 

Another  letter  to  Colonel  Farmar  at  Perth  Amboy  (page 
137)  concerns  the  movements  of  his  troops.  His  work  must 
have  been  very  satisfactory,  for  his  promotions  and  honors 
followed  swiftly,  as  we  find  in  the  same  volume,  page  139,  a 
letter  from  Governor  Hunter  to  Jeremiah  Basse,  secretary, 
etc.,  dated  October  22,  1711,  as  follows: 

"  Sir  I  return  you  ye  paper  sealed  wth  proclamation  which 
I  desire  you  cause  to  be  published  forthwith,  to  make  out  and 
send  to  be  sealed  by  the  return  of  this  post  two  commissions, 
for  the  judge  of  ye  Supreme  Court,  one  in  the  name  of  Thomas 
Farmar,  Esq1-.,  and  the  other  of  John  Reading,  Esq1".,  and 
also  a  Ded.  protestatem,  directed  to  David  Jamison,  Esq1-.,  to 
swear  them.  Ye  time  of  setting  for  ye  next  Supreme  Court  is 
drawing  on  apace.  Soe  that  you  will  perceive  that  there  is  a 
necessity  of  yor  Dispatching  those  things  that  I  may  have 
them  by  Satturday  next.     I  am 

"  Yor  humble  Servt., 

"  Ro.  Hunter. 

"  To  Jeremiah  Basse.,  Esqr." 

The  salary  for  the  office  of  judge  for  fourteen  months  was 
the  munificent  sum  of  fifty  pounds,  and  the  salary  for  man- 
aging the  Canada  expedition  was  twenty-seven  pounds ! 

In  1716,  Farmar  was  a  member  of  the  Council.  In  vol.  v. 
of  the  Archives,  page  185,  we  find  the  following  rather  ob- 
sequious address: 

"  To  his  Most  Excellent  Majesty,  George  the  Second,  of 
Great  Britain,  France  and  Ireland,  King,  Defender  of  the 
Faith,"  etc.  "  The  humble  address  of  the  Chief  Justice,  sec- 
ond Judge,  High  Sheriff,  Grand  Jury,  Practic'oners  of  the  Law, 


CHIEF-JUSTICE    THOMAS    FARMER,    THE    FOUNDER  37 

and  the  Gierke  of  the  Peace  at  a  Supreme  Court  held  at  Bur- 
lington for  the  Western  District  of  the  Province  of  New  Jer- 
sey, on  the  seventh  day  of  May,  1728. 

"May  it  please  your  Majestic. 

"  Amongst  the  rest  of  Your  most  Dutiful  and  Loyal  Sub- 
jects, we  beg  leave  with  all  Humility,  to  congratulate  Your 
Majcstie  upon  the  hope-  of  seeing  the  Publick  Peace  restored, 
(through  Your  wise  and  unerring  conduct.) 

"  As  the  important  consequences  of  Y'our  Majestie's  Ne- 
gotiac'ons  make  a  daily  accession  to  Your  Glory,  so  they  give 
us  an  agreeable  prospect  of  the  speedy  confining  of  the  Power 
of  Spain   within   its    just   Limits. 

"While  the  Faithful  adherence  of  Your  Allies  &  Parlia- 
ments, to  Your  Majestie  in  this  Juncture  give  us  a  very  par- 
ticular Satisfaction;  we  in  thi>  remote  part  ^i'  Your  Dominion, 
beg  Leave  to  assure  Your  Majesty  of  our  inviolable  fidelity; 
and  what  we  Bay  on  this  occasion  is  not  only  our  own,  but  the 
unanimous  sencc  (sic)  of  all  the  People  of  the  Province,  who 
would  be  thankful  for  a  greater  capacity  to  show  that  their 
Zeal  for  Your  Service,  is  not  inferior  to  that  of  the  most 
approved  and  Loyal  of  their  fellow  Subjects.  We  can't  with- 
out a  rapture  of  thankfulness  recount  our  obligation  to  Your 
Majestic,  for  your  Parental  care  of  Your  People  in  this  Dis- 
tant Colonie,  Particularly  for  sending  His  Excellency,  John 
Montgomcrie,  Esq1".,  to  represent  Your  Majestie  here,  not 
doubting  that  we  shall  live  peaceable,  &  happy,  under  his  pru- 
dent   administration. 

"  We  shall  not  Trespass  farther  upon  Your  Royal  Patience, 
but  shall  offer  up  our  fervent  prayers  to  the  King  of  Kings, 
that  he  will  please  direct  Your  Majesty  by  his  unerring  wis- 
dom, &  always  incline  Your  heart  to  his  Glory,  &  encompass 
Your  Sacred  Person  with  his  Favour  as  with  a  Shield,  and 
make  \rour  Government  an  universal  blessing  to  all  Your 
Dominions,  is  the  hearty  prayers  of — 

"(May  it  Please  Your  Majestie)  Yrour  Majestie's  most 
Dutiful  &  most  Loyal  Subjects  &  Servants. 

"  We  of  the  Grand  Jury  being  of  the  People  called  Quakers, 


88  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

agree  to   the  matter  &  substance   of  this  Address,   but  make 
some  exceptions  to  the  '  Stile.'  " 

The  first  signature  is  that  of  Thomas  Farmar,  Chief  Jus- 
tice. 

In  1734  Governor  Cosby  recommends  Colonel  Thomas  Far- 
mar  to  be  appointed  to  the  Council  in  these  words: 

"  I  beg  leave  to  recommend  to  your  Lordships  that  you 
would  be  so  good  as  to  fill  up  and  give  commissions  to  the 
following  gentlemen,  namely,  Colonel  Thomas  Farmar,  John 
Rodman,  and  Richard  Smith,  who  are  very  much  esteemed  in 
this  country  from  their  worth,  honest  character,  as  well  as 
great  estate. 

"W.  Cosby." 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Council  from  1736  to  1738,  and 
again  in  1744,  in  which  last  year  he  took  an  active  part  in  the 
passage  of  a  Militia  bill,  a  pet  measure  of  Governor  Lewis 
Morris  and  the  home  government.  The  following  rather  un- 
usual article  was  published  in  the  New  York  Weekly  Post  Boy, 
May  15,  1749,  by  his  son,  Thomas  Billopp,  with  an  introduc- 
tory note  to  Mr.  Parker,  the  editor : 

"  Mr.  Parker : 

"  If  you  have  room  in  your  next  paper,  please  insert  the 
following  Affidavit,  and  my  reasons  for  printing  it  therein, 
and  you'll  oblige, 

"  Your  humble  Servant, 

"  Thomas  Billopp." 

"  Whereas  Mr.  Philip  French,  of  New  Brunswick,  in  New 
Jersey,  hath  taken  a  licentious  Liberty  to  asperse  my  Char- 
acter, by  publickly  and  falsely  reporting  that  I  was  the  author 
and  contriver  of  Mr.  Samuel  Leonard's  obtaining  the  Patent 
mentioned  in  said  Affidavit;  and  that  (as  he  was  pleased  to  term 
it),  with  a  view  to  take  the  Bread  out  of  my  Father's  mouth. 
Wherefore,  in  justice  to  myself,  and  to  undeceive  many  others, 
I  think  I  can  do  no  less  than  publish  said  Affidavit  and  my 
reasons  for  so  doing." 


CHIEF-JUSTICE    THOMAS    FARMER,    THE    FOUNDER  39 

Then  follows  the  affidavit,  which  shows  that  Thomas  Billopp 
was  not  a  party  to  the  act  and  knew  nothing  about  Mr.  Samuel 
Leonard  (who  was  his  father-in-law)  obtaining  a  patent  to 
the  prejudice  of  Mr.  Thomas  Farmar,  for  keeping  a  ferry 
across  Raritan  River,  opposite  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey. 
Ife  died  in  the  year  1752. 

It  appears  that  one  son  of  Thomas  Farmar  and  all  three 
daughters  married  and  settled  in  New  Brunswick.  All  his  large 
family  had  married  and  left  the  old  home  at  Amboy,  so  he 
went  with  his  daughters  to  New  Brunswick,  and  there  his  life- 
long habit  of  office-holding  still  clung  to  him,  for  the  family 
chart,  ignoring  the  "  Captain,"  the  "  Colonel,''  the  "Collector 
of  the  Tort  of  Amboy,"  the  "  Member  of  His  Majesty's  Coun- 
cil," the  "Judge,"  and  the  "  Chief  Justice,"  -imply  tells  us  he 
was  "  High  Sheriff  of*  Philadelphia,  ami  Mayor  of  New  Bruns- 
wick." 

Thomas  ami  Anne  (Billopp)  Farmar  had  nine  sons  con- 
secutively, followed  by  three  daughters.  They  were  born  in 
the  following  order:  Jasper,  Christopher,  Thomas,  Brooke, 
Edward,  Robert,  Samuel,  William  IVnn,  John,  Mary,  Anne 
Billopp,  and  Elizabeth. 

The  records  of  Jasper,  Thomas,  and  Robert,  and  of  their 
descendants,  are  given  more  or  less  completely  in  subsequent 
chapters.  Christopher  died  in  childhood;  Brooke,  named  in 
honor  of  the  husband  of  his  mother's  sister  Mary,  married, 
but  left  no  children  ;  Edward,  William,  and  John,  a  Captain 
in  the  English  Army,  died  unmarried. 

Samuel  Farmar,  the  seventh  son,  became  a  successful  mer- 
chant of  New  York,  and  married  Christina,  the  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Peck,  of  that  city.  They  had  one  son,  Thomas,  and 
four  daughters.  The  first,  Elizabeth,  married  her  cousin, 
Thomas  Farmar,  but  died  without  children.  The  second 
daughter,  Anne  Billopp,  born  in  1744,  married  Right  Reverend 
Abraham  Jarvis,  Bishop  of  Connecticut,  on  Trinity  Sunday, 
May  25,  1766.  She  died  in  1801,  aged  fifty-seven  years,  leav- 
ing two  sons.  The  eldest,  Reverend  Samuel  Farmar  Jarvis, 
was   a   prominent   clergyman    of   the   Episcopal   Church.      He 


40  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BII/LOPP    FARMAR 

died  in  1850,  leaving  a  son,  Reverend  Samuel  Farmar  Jarvis 
the  second,  who  also  became  a  clergyman,  and  whose  son  is  the 
third  Samuel  Farmar  Jarvis.  Bishop  Jarvis'  and  Anne  Far- 
mar  Jarvis'  second  son,  John  Abraham  Jarvis,  was  in  the 
United  States  Navy,  and  died  at  Marseilles  in  1834.  Two 
daughters,  Hannah  and  Griselda,  died  unmarried. 

The  first  daughter,  Mary  Brooke  Farmar,  married  Paul 
Miller,  and  had  three  sons,  Paul,  who  commanded  his  uncle 
Jasper's  privateer,  the  Hercules;  Christopher  Billopp,  who 
was  commander  of  the  brigantine  True  Britton,  another  priva- 
teer; and  Thomas  Farmar,  who  was  in  business  with  Peter 
Farmar,  and  whom  his  uncle  Jasper  Farmar  named  as  one  of 
his  executors. 

The  eleventh  child,  Anne  Billopp  Farmar,  married  Philip 
French,  son  of  Philip  French,  one  of  the  wealthiest  men  in  New 
York,  speaker  of  the  New  York  Assembly,  and  Mayor  of  New 
York.  The  son,  Philip,  settled  at  New  Brunswick,  New  Jer- 
sey. He  is  mentioned  as  one  of  the  pall-bearers  of  Governor 
Lewis  Morris.  In  1745  he  gave  the  site  for  Christ  Church, 
New  Brunswick. 

The    following   is    taken    from    the  Boston  Evening   Post, 

March  23,  1741 : 

"We  have  the  melancholly  News  from  New  Brunswick,  in 
New  Jersey,  that  a  few  Days  since,  in  the  dead  of  Night  a  Fire 
broke  out  in  the  famous  New  House  of  Mr.  Philip  French  (a 
Gentleman  of  that  City)  which  consumed  the  same,  with  all 
the  rich  Furniture  therein ;  Mr.  French  and  his  Family  hardly 
escaped  with  their  Lives,  one  of  his  Daughters,  (to  save  her 
Life)  was  forced  to  jump  out  of  a  Window  two  Stories  high. 
No  other  House  took  Fire  from  this,  it  being  built  at  a  small 
Distance  from  said  City  of  Brunswick.  It  was  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  complete  Houses  in  the  Province  and  had 
been  built  but  little  more  than  one  year." 

He  left  several  children ;  one  daughter  named  Anne  Billopp 
French,  and  one  son  named  Christopher  French,  who  was  a 
major  in  the  English  Army  during  the  Revolution.     The  fol- 


CHIEF-JUSTICE    THOMAS    FAEHES,    THE    FOUNDER  41 

lowing   letters    (New   York    Historical   Collection,    1871,   page 
241)  in  connection  with  this  gentleman  are  interesting: 
From  General  Charles  Lee  to  General  Washington. 

"  Dear  General: 

"  Major  French  whom  I  have  met  with  at  Hartford,  is  ex- 
tremely solicitous  for  permission  to  return  home,  as  he  is  con- 
fident that  his  whole  fortunes  depend  upon  his  being  immedi- 
ately on  the  spot  at  this  instant.  As  he  is,  I  believe,  a  man 
of  strict  honor,  his  parole  not  to  serve  for  a  given  time  against 
the  freedom  of  America,  would  be  sufficient  security;  and  as 
he  has  a  family  t<>  provide  for,  it  would  certainly  be  humane 
and  charitable  to  indulge  him,  nor  can  I  see  any  inconvenience 
which  would  attend  the  indulgence;  there  may  be  some  objec- 
tions, which  do  not  perhaps,  occur  to  me,  but  I  could  wish  for 
my  own  part,  that  as  so  much  depends  upon  it,  he  might  be 
gratified;  however,  I  beg  you  will  excuse  submitting  the  mat- 
ter to  your  consideration. 

"  I  am,  dear  General, 

"  Your  most  obt.  humble  servant, 

"  Charles  Lee. 

"To  His  Excellency,  General  Washington." 

Letter    from    Christopher    French    to   General    Charles   Lee: 

"  Hartford,  IS  May,  1776. 
"  Sir  : 

"  You  no  doubt  remember  that  when  you  passed  through  this 
Place  in  January  last,  you  made  a  Bett  of  Ten  Guineas  with 
me  that  Quebec  would  be  taken  by  the  Provincials  in  the  Course 
of  the  current  Winter;  That  event  has  not  happened  (nor  is 
there  now  the  least  prospect  that  it  ever  will,  as  there  are 
accounts,  not  only  of  its  having  been  reinforced  by  part  of 
his  Majesty's  Fleet  and  a  large  body  of  his  Troops,  but  that 
His  Excellency,  Gen1.  Carleton,  has  drove  them  entirely  from 
before  it)  &,  indeed  your  own  Papers,  unaccustomed  as  they 
are  to  communicate  to  the  Public  anything  which  argues 
against  their  Success,  have  lately  inserted  some  very  despond- 


42  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAE 

ent  Letters  from  that  Quarter,  I  cannot  be  so  gross  as  to  wish 
you  had  (met)  with  success  yet  I  am  not  so  much  yours  as 
to  envy  you  the  Honor  you  might  have  acquired  by  a  well- 
concerted  Retreat,  which,  though  you  might  not  have  effected, 
yet  I  know  you  would  have  attempted,  a  circumstance  which 
from  your  being  at  the  head  of  such  raw  &  undisciplined 
Forces  could  only  have  added  to  the  brilliancy  of  your  meas- 
ures. You  will  be  pleased  to  direct  Mr.  Lawrence,  Treasurer 
here,  to  pay  me,  which  will  much  oblige, 

"  Sir,  Your  most  obt.  hble.  Servant, 

"  Chris.  French. 
"  To  Gen1.  Lee, 
"  Williamsburg, 

"  Savannah,  Georgia." 

The  twelfth  child,  Elizabeth  Farmar,  married  Dr.  William 
Farquhar.  They  lived  at  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.  Very  little 
is  known  about  this  gentleman,  but  the  following  shows  that 
he  kept  good  company. 

There  appears  in  the  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  March  16. 
1746-7,  an  advertisement  of  an  estate  for  sale,  near  New 
Brunswick,  N.  J.     The  last  paragraph  reads  as  follows : 

"  Whoever  inclines  to  purchase  may  apply  to  Doctor  Wil- 
liam Farquhar,  in  New  York,  Benjamin  Franklin,  in  Philadel- 
phia, or  Jacob  Janeway,  living  on  the  premises,  and  be  in- 
formed of  the  conditions  of  sale." 

The  same  appears  in  the  New  York  Gazette,  revised  in  the 
Weekly  Post  Boy,  August  10,  1747,  except  it  reads :  "  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  at  Philadelphia,  Printer." 


IV 


CAPTAIN   JASPER-    FA  KM  AH   AND    HIS   SON, 
MAJOR    JASPER     FARMAR 


IV 

CAPTAIN   JASPER2  FARMAB   AND    HIS   SON, 
MAJOR  JASPER    FARMAR 

Captain   Jasper   Ear. mar 

JASPER,  the  elded  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne  (Billopp) 
Farmar,  was  horn  in  the  "Old  Billopp  House,"  Bentley 
Manor,  States  Eland,  New  York,  in  the  year  1707.  In 
his  early  life  he  is  frequently  mentioned  in  the  New 
York  Historical  Society's  Collections,  as  owner  and  captain  of 
the  ship  Katharine.  But  in  the  year  1746  he  became  commis- 
sioner of  pilots  in  New  York,  and  continued  in  this  position 
until  1752.  (Calendar  of  Historical  Manuscripts,  vol.  ii., 
page  600.) 

It  is  probable  that  at  the  same  time  he  was  engaged  in  a 
very  successful  mercantile  business,  for  in  the  same  volume 
we  find  he  is  engaged  in  fitting  out  privateers  during  the  war 
with  Erench  and  Spain  ;  and  Whitehead,  in  his  "  Early  His- 
tory of  Perth  Amboy,"  always  speaks  of  him  as  a  merchant. 
On  page  659  of  the  same  volume  of  the  Calendar  of  Historical 
Manuscripts  is  stated  that  on  September  20,  1756,  Nathaniel 
Manton  and  Jasper  Farmar  of  New  York,  Merchants,  owners 
of  the  schooner  Peggy,  twenty  guns,  petition  for  a  commis- 
sion for  Richard  Haddon,  as  commander  of  said  schooner,  and 
Christopher  Miller  as  first  lieutenant,  and  John  Marshall, 
second  lieutenant.  But  alas !  I  fear  the  Peggy  brought  trouble 
to  her  owners,  for  on  page  694  it  is  mentioned  that  on  No- 
vember 3,  1758,  after  Captain  Jasper's  death,  proclamation 
was  made  for  the  apprehension  of  Richard  Haddon,  comman- 
der of  the  privateer  Peggy,  on  a  charge  of  piracy,  in  seizing 
and  plundering  the  Spanish  schooner  La  Virgin,  accompanied 
with  numerous  petitions  from  officers  and  passengers  of  the 
unfortunate    Spanish    schooner.      But   Farmar's    course   must 

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46  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

have  been  vindicated,  for  his  son  and  executor,  Peter  Farmar, 
after  that  incident,  secures  a  commission  for  Andrew  Elliott 
as  captain  of  his  ship  Philadelphia,  eight  guns.  He  had,  how- 
ever, previously  sent  out  the  dogger  Decoy,  six  guns,  with 
Isaac  Seers,  captain ;  and  the  brigantine  True  Britton,  four- 
teen guns,  with  his  nephew,  Christopher  Miller,  as  commander. 
The  same  Christopher  who  had  been  first  lieutenant  of  the 
Peggy,  and  he  had  also  sent  out  the  ship  Hercules,  of  eighteen 
guns,  with  Paul  Miller,  his  nephew,  the  son  of  his  sister  Mary, 
as  captain. 

Whitehead  tells  us  that  he  commanded  an  artillery  company 
in  New  York  City,  and  is  therefore  generally  styled  "  Cap- 
tain." On  the  news  of  the  surrender  of  Fort  William  Henry 
in  August,  1757,  he  gallantly  set  off  with  his  company  for 
the  seat  of  war,  but  before  he  reached  his  destination  he  was 
recalled  by  Colonel  DeLancy.  It  is  probable  that  previous  to 
this  time  he  had  been  a  prisoner,  as  a  Captain  Farmar  of 
New  York  is  mentioned  as  being  detained  at  Quebec.  He  died 
April  23d,  1758,  in  the  fifty-first  year  of  his  age. 

The  New  York  Gazette,  and  the  Weekly  Post  Boy,  of  May 
1,  1758,  gives  the  following  account  of  his  death: 

"  New  York,  May  1st,  1758.  On  Sunday  morning,  the  23rd 
about  two  o'clock,  Captain  Jasper  Farmar,  of  the  Militia 
train,    with    a    number    of   his    company,    went    on    board    the 

snow    Charming    Jenny,    Scott,    Master,    then    lying 

along  the  new  dock  in  order  to  impress  men  for  the  transport 
service,  who  having  impressed  several,  four  of  the  crew,  more 
obstinate  than  the  rest,  retired  into  the  Round  House,  and 
there  armed  themselves  with  Blunderbusses,  and  altho'  Cap- 
tain Farmar  and  a  Magistrate  then  standing  on  the  dock,  de- 
sired them  in  an  amicable  manner,  to  surrender,  promising 
they  should  not  go  on  board  the  Man  of  War,  but  serve  on 
board  the  Transport,  yet  they  obstinately  refused,  and  fired 
their  Blunderbusses  through  the  loop  holes,  and  wounded  Cap- 
tain Farmar  in  the  neck,  of  which  wound  he  languished  until 
about  ten   o'clock  of  the  evening  of  the  same  day,  when  he 

died. 

"  The  fellows  did  not  surrender  'till  an  officer  with  a  party 


CAPTAIN    JASPER    FARMAR  47 

of  Regulars  came  down  and  fired  a  volley  into  the  Round 
House,  which,  not  damaging  any  of  them,  they  were  seized 
and  are  all  in  custody.  The  Coroner's  Inquest  having  sat  two 
days,  brought  in  their  verdict,  murder,  in  four  persons  belong- 
ing to  the  said  snow." 

And  the  New  York  Mercury,  Monday,  May  1,  1758,  says: 

"  Sunday  the  24th*  untimo,  at  night,  Mr.  Jaspar  Farmar  of 
this  city,  departed  this  life,  after  a  short  illness  in  the  51st 
year  of  his  age.  His  remains  were  decently  interred  on  Tues- 
day following,  in  Trinity  Church.  Hi-  was  a  gentleman  re- 
markable for  a  noble  spirit  of  patriotism.  No  fatigues,  diffi- 
culties or  dangers,  wlun  his  country's  good  required  it,  could 
in  the  least  discourage  him.  The  various  instances  he  has 
given  of  his  uncommon  loyalty  are  too  numerous,  and  too 
deeply  impressed  upon  the  minds  of  all  those  who  knew  him, 
to  require  a  present  recapitulation.  His  Honesty  in  Trade, 
his  affable,  humane  and  generous  disposition,  procured  him 
not  only  the  good-will  and  affection  of  his  intimate  acquaint- 
ances, but  likewise  of  all  such  as  had  the  least  knowledge  of  his 
character,  which  nothing  could  more  fully  evince  than  the 
unusual  sorrow  and  dejection  displayed  by  the  inhabitants  of 
this  City,  on  the  news  of  his  death.  The  second  independent 
Artillery  Company  belonging  to  our  Militia,  which  he  himself 
raised,  and  had  the  command  of,  testified  their  high  respect 
towards  him,  by  a  voluntary  appearance,  under  arms,  at  his 
funeral,  marching  before  the  corpse  to  the  Grave,  and  per- 
forming the  military  ceremonies  with  unusual  solemnity." 

"  Lo !     Farmar  now  no  more  does  act  below. 
He's  now  enlarged  and  free  from  human  woe. 
In  death  secure,  his  vital  breath  has  done 
And  left  his  country  to  bemoan  a  son. 
A  man  rever'd,  as  social  and  a  friend, 
A  publick  good  and  Patriot  to  the  end. 
Hard  Fate,  and  inauspicious  death, 
To   rob   us   of  that   life,  that   useful    breath ! 
No  common  loss,  this  is,  which  we  deplore, 
A  Beneficial  man  is  now  no  more ! 
Let  this  be  said — this  never  be  denied: 
Farmar  beloved  lived,  lamented  died." 

'This  is  an  error  of  the  Mercury:  Sunday  was  the  23d. 


48  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

In  the  New  York  Historical  Society's  Collections,  of  1896, 
page  231,  is  found  the  very  brief  will  of  Jasper  Farmar: 

"  In  the  name  of  God,  Amen,  I,  Jasper  Farmar,  of  New 
York,  Merchant,  being  unfortunately  and  dangerously  wound- 
ed, but  in  my  perfect  senses  .  .  .  All  debts  and  funeral 
charges  to  be  paid,  I  leave  to  my  wife,  Mary,  ^  of  my  personal 
estate,  3  to  my  son  Jasper,  and  ^  to  my  son  Peter.  I  leave 
to  my  wife  Mary  Farmar,  ^  of  all  my  real  estate,  and  §  to  my 
two  sons.  I  make  my  wife  and  my  son  Peter  and  my  nephew, 
Thomas  Miller,  executors.  Dated  April  23,  1758.  I  leave 
to  my  wife  Mary,  my  negro  wench  '  Ann  '  before  any  division 
of  my  estate."     Proved  May  9,  1758. 

Mary,  the  wife  of  Jasper  Farmar,  was  the  widow  of  Henry 
Meyer,  Jr.,  and  the  daughter  of  Abraham  Gouveneur  and  his 
wife  Mary ;  the  latter  the  daughter  of  the  famous  and  ill-fated 
Jacob  Leishler.  She  was  a  widow  when  she  married  Gouv- 
eneur, her  first  husband,  Milborne,  and  her  father  having  been 
executed  at  the  same  time  for  treason.  Mary  Farmar  sur- 
vived her  husband  thirty  years,  and  died  in  1788. 

The  Daily  Advertiser,  Monday,  March  17,  1788,  contains 
the  following  notice  of  her  death  and  funeral: 

"  On  Tuesday  last  departed  this  life,  in  the  71st  year  of 
her  age,  after  a  tedious  illness,  which  she  bore  with  great  resig- 
nation and  Christian  Fortitude,  Mrs.  Mary  Farmar,  a  lady 
whose  goodness  of  heart  and  cheerful  disposition  endeared  her 
to  all  ranks  and  descriptions  of  people  who  enjoyed  the  pleas- 
ure of  her  acquaintance.  Her  dying  request  was  that  her 
funeral  might  be  conducted  according  to  the  ancient  Dutch 
custom,  strict  observance  of  which  she  had  expressly  enjoyned 
in  her  last  will  and  testament.  Her  remains  were  accordingly 
interred  on  Friday  last  near  the  chancel,  in  Trinity  Church, 
next  to  the  remains  of  her  deceased  husband,  the  late  Captain 
Jasper  Farmar.  The  followers,  after  being  liberally  supplied 
with  spiced  wine,  pipes,  and  tobacco,  moved  in  procession  from 
her  house  in  Hanover  Square,  and  proceeded  up  Wall  Street 
in  the  following  order: 


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DOCTORS 

Rev.  Dr.  Rogers  and  Domine  Gross 

Bishop  Provost  and  Clergy  of  the  Episcopal  Church 

Dutch   Clergy 

Citizens 

"  She's  now  relieved  from  a  world  of  woe, 
Eternal  wisdom  hath  conceived  it  best 
On  her  a  crown  of  glory  to  bestow, 
With  saints  above   in  her   Redeemer's   rest." 

MAJOR  JASPER3  FARMAR 
Major  Jasper3,  the  eldest  son  of  Captain  Jasper  Farmar, 
according  to  the  English  Army  List,  entered  the  English 
Army  at  an  early  age.  He  was  appointed  an  ensign  in  the 
Twenty-first  Regiment  of  Foot  (or  Royal  North  Briton  Fusi- 
leers)  in  December,  1762.  His  regiment  saw  almost  constant 
service  in  the  West  Indies  and  North  America.  At  one  time, 
while  he  was  a  lieutenant,  he  commanded  Fort  Charlotte  at 
Mobile,  but  was  not  there  at  the  time  of  its  capitulation.  He 
served  through  each  grade  and  was  made  a  major  November 
18,  1790.     He  retired  from  the  army  in  1795. 


50  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FAEMAE 

Dunlap  says  one  of  the  few  pictures  by  Reynolds  in  this 
country  is  of  Jasper  Farmar  in  his  youth.  He  is  said  to  have 
been  extremely  prepossessing  in  his  personal  appearance. 

He  married  and  had  several  children.  A  daughter  of  Major 
Farmar  married  a  Mr.  Murphy  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  left  sev- 
eral children.  Peter  was  long  engaged  in  business  in  New 
York.  He  left  a  son,  Jasper,  whose  daughter  Anne  married 
Mr.  Cayle. 


MAJOR    THOMAS2    BILLOPP    AND    SOME 
DESCENDANTS 


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MAJOR    THOMAS2    BILLOPP    AND    SOME 
DESCENDANTS 

Major   Thomas   BlLLOPF 

THOMAS,  the  third  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne  (Billopp) 
Farmar,  was  born  in  Perth  Amboy,  New  Jersey,  in 
the  year  1711. 

As  directed  by  the  will  of  his  grandfather,  Cap- 
tain Christopher  Billopp,  in  regard  to  his  heir,  as  previously 
mentioned,  Thomas,  when  he  became  of  age,  dropped  the  sur- 
name of  Farmar,  and  assumed  that  of  Billopp,  and  came  into 
possession  of  the  noble  estate  of  "  Bentley  Manor."  In  1740 
he  materially  assisted  his  brother  Robert  to  raise  a  company 
of  103  men  to  take  to  the  war,  which  gained  for  the  latter 
his  commission  as  captain,  and  this,  so  far  as  there  is  any 
documentary  evidence  to  show,  seems  to  be  nearly  all  that  he 
did.  It  is  true,  he  married — yes,  married  twice,  and  left  sons 
and  daughters — but  the  eighteen  years  between  his  majority 
and  his  death  were  very  stirring  and  troublous  times  with  the 
colonies,  and  the  writer  thinks  that  if  his  fortune  had  not  been 
ready  made  for  him  there  would  have  been  much  more  said 
about  him  in  the  history  of  his  times. 

His  first  wife  was  Eugenia  Stelle,  by  whom  he  had  two 
daughters,  but  one  of  them  died  quite  young,  as  only  one, 
"  Anne,"  is  mentioned  in  his  will.  Eugenia  was  a  year  younger 
than  her  husband.  He  must  have  married  young,  for  after 
having  borne  him  two  children,  she  died,  March  22,  1735-6. 
Her  gravestone  bears  the  following  inscription: 

"  Here  Lyes  ye  Body  of 
Eujenia 
Ye  Wife  of  Thomas 

Billopp  aged  23 

years.     Dec'd  March 

ye  22d  1735-6." 

53 


54)  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

Thomas  took  for  his  second  wife  Sarah,  the  daughter  of 
Mr.  Samuel  Leonard,  of  New  Jersey.  His  wife,  Sarah,  was  the 
mother  of  eight  children;  three  sons — Christopher,  Thomas, 
and  Jasper  Farmar ;  and  five  daughters — Mary,  Elizabeth, 
Rachel,  Sarah,  and  Katharine.  Katharine  was  probably  born 
after  her  father's  death. 

Thomas  Billopp  was  judge  in  his  county,  and  major  of  the 
local  Battalion.  He  died  the  2nd  of  August,  1750,  in  his 
thirty-ninth  year.  He  appears  to  have  been  a  man  of  con- 
siderable prominence.  His  grave  was  beside  that  of  his  first 
love — Eugenia.     The  tombstone  bears  the  inscription: 

"  Here  Lyes  y«  Body  of 
Thomas   Billopp,  Esq>\, 
son  of  Thomas  Farmar, 
Esqr.    Dec'd  August  y° 
2d  1750.    In  ye  39th 
year  of  his  age." 

He  and  Eugenia  were  buried  in  the  family  burying-ground, 

near  the  "  Old  Billopp  House,"  on  Bentley  Manor. 

Thomas  Billopp  left  a  will,  an  abstract  of  which  has  been 
printed  in  the  New  York  Historical  Society's  Collections,  for 
1895,  page  297,  which  reads  as  follows: 

"  In  the  name  of  God,  Amen.  I  Thomas  Billopp,  of  Staten 
Island,  Esq.,  being  in  health,  and  of  sound  mind,  my  temporal 
estate  I  dispose  of  as  f  olloweth :  '  And  although  I  will  as  the 
Law  wills,  in  several  cases,  yet  I  think  it  best  to  declare  my 
mind  therein.'  My  executors  are  to  sell  all  personal  property 
not  herein  disposed  of  at  public  vendue.  I  leave  to  my  wife 
Sarah,  a  negro  woman,  and  her  child,  and  my  riding  chair, 
and  the  choice  of  my  horses,  and  £500  in  lieu  of  dower.  I 
leave  to  my  eldest  daughter,  Anne,  whom  I  had  by  my  first 
wife,  £100  and  my  silver  teapot.  I  leave  to  my  eldest  son, 
Christopher  Billopp,  all  the  certain  part  of  my  lands  called 
the  Manor  of  Bentley,  on  Staten  Island.  [Here  are  inserted 
the  boundary  lines.]  And  also  all  the  mines  and  minerals  in 
the  other  part  of  the  Manor  of  Bentley,  and  he  is  to  have  the 
overplus  of  my  personal  estate,  after  paying  debts,  when  he  is 


MAJOR    THOMAS    BILLOPP  55 

of  age.  If  he  dies  under  age,  the  said  lands  are  to  go  to  my 
son  Thomas,  and  if  he  dies,  then  to  my  son  Jasper  Farmar 
Billopp.  All  the  rest  of  my  lands  are  to  be  sold  by  my  exec- 
utors, and  after  paying  debts  and  legacies  the  remainder  is  to 
be  paid  to  all  my  children  except  Christopher.  If  my  wife 
shall  bear  me  a  child,  it  shall  have  an  equal  share.  If  I  should 
purchase  any  lands  a  iter  the  date  of  this  will,  all  such  are  to 
be  sold  and  the  proceeds  to  go  to  my  children.  I  make  my 
wife,  Sarah,  ami  my  friend  Paul  Michaux  and  my  son  Chris- 
topher (when  of  age)  executors. 

"Dated  October  5,  171!).  Witnesses  Elizabeth  Seaman, 
Rachel  Leonard,  Benjamin  Seaman." 

"Codicil:— 'The  Testator  did  on  the  10  of  October,  1749, 
call  for  his  will  '  and  ordered  that  all  his  silver  plate,  (except 
the  siher  teapot)  he  given  to  his  wit'.',  and  >he  shall  have  the 
choice  of  the  feather  beds,  with  pillows,  etc.,  and  all  table  linen, 
and  chest  of  drawers  and  dining  table.  He  haves  to  his  eldest 
daughter,  Anne,  a  large  white  bed  quilt.  He  leaves  to  his  son 
Christopher  all  the  family  pictures  and  looking  glasses,  etc., 
and  *  my  large,  square  copper  kettle.'  Witnesses:  Richard 
Charlton,  Jasper  Farmar." 

In  1748  his  friend  and  executor,  Paul  Miehaux,  had  also 
made  his  will,  and.  among  other  things,  had  also  left  to  his 
wife  a  negro  woman,  and  his  M  riding  chair  "  and  a  good 
horse,  and  after  disposing  of  much  other  property,  had  named 
"  My  trusted  friend,  Thomas  Billopp,"  to  be  one  of  his  ex- 
ecutors. 

All  of  Thomas  Billopp's  children,  except  Christopher,  after 
their  father's  death,  reassumed  the  name  of  Farmar,  which 
fact  has  added  not  a  little  to  the  mystification  of  the  historians 
who  have  attempted  to  unravel  the  tangled  thread  of  the 
family  alliance. 

Anne  died  in  the  year  1752. 

Mary  married  Colonel  Davis,  of  the  Army.  On  page  144 
of  the  22d  volume  of  the  1st  series  of  the  New  Jersey  Ar- 
chives, it  is  stated  that  Elizabeth  Farmar  married  on  the  26th 


56  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

of  October,  1775,  in  Christ  Church,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J., 
Peter  Goelet,  Esq.,  of  New  York.  She  bore  him  two  sons — 
Thomas  Farmar  and  Christopher  Billopp — but  died  early,  and 
Peter  consoled  himself  with  a  second  wife  in  the  person  of  her 
younger  sister,  Rachel.  The  following  is  the  notice  of  Sarah 
Farmar's  marriage,  from  Rivington,  New  York,  Gazette, 
Thursday,  February  16,  1775: 

"  Saturday  Night  last  was  Married  at  Trinity  Church  by 
the  Reverend  Dr.  Auchtmuty,  Alexander  Ross,  Esq.,  of  Mid- 
dlesex County,  New  Jersey,  to  Miss  Sallie  Farmar,  sister  to 
Christopher  Billopp,  Esq.,  member  of  the  Honorable  House  of 
Assembly,  for  Richmond  County."  Their  descendants  are  now 
living  in  New  York. 

Katherine  married  Mr.  Effingham  Lawrence  of  New  York, 
afterward  of  London,  where  he  became  an  eminent  merchant. 
She  died  in  1806-  Her  daughter,  Katharine  Mary  Lawrence, 
married  on  April  20,  1816,  Major  General  Sir  John  Thomas 
Jones,  Bart.,  A.  D.  C.  to  the  Duke  of  Wellington,  and  after- 
ward to  Queen  Victoria.  He  was  Chief  of  Engineers  on  the 
staff  of  the  Duke  of  Wellington,  was  created  a  Baronet  Sep- 
tember 30,  1831,  and  was  promoted  to  Major  General  in  1837. 
He  ranked  among  the  first  military  engineers  of  his  time.  He 
died  at  his  residence,  Pittsville,  Cheltenham,  February  25, 
1843.  A  statue  to  his  memory,  by  Behnes,  was  erected  in  the 
south  transept  of  St.  Paul's  Cathedral,  by  the  officers  of  the 
Royal  Engineer  Corps.  His  son  Lawrence,  2nd  Baronet,  was 
killed  by  Greek  brigands  in  1845.  His  second  son,  Sir  Wil- 
loughby,  3rd  Baronet,  married  his  cousin,  Emily,  daughter  of 
Henry  S.  Jones,  and  died  August  20,  1884.  His  son,  Sir 
Lawrence  John  Jones,  4th  Baronet,  was  born  August  15,  1857, 
and  married  April  13,  1882,  Evelyn  Mary,  daughter  of  James 
Johnstone  Bevan,  Esq.  Seven  children  were  born  to  them — 
Willoughby  John,  Lawrence,  Evelyn,  Barham  Edward,  Mau- 
rice Herbert,  Hester,  Katharine,  Rachel  Margaret ;  seat,  Cran- 
mer  Hall,  Kakenham,  Norfolkshire.  In  their  portrait  gallery 
are  the  old  Billopp  family  portraits,  willed  by  Thomas  Billopp 
to  his  son  Christopher. 


MAJOR    THOMAS    BILLOPP  57 

Thomas  (Major  Thomas2  Billopp,  Thomas1  Farmar)  first 
married  his  cousin  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  his  father's  brother, 
Samuel  Farmar.  His  second  wife  was  the  widow  of  his  brother 
Jasper,  who  had  married,  in  1771,  Susannah,  the  beautiful 
daughter  of  Courtland  Skinner,  of  Perth  Amboy.  There  were 
no  children.  Thomas  is  mentioned  as  being  vestryman  of  St. 
Peter's  Church,  Perth  Amboy,  from  1785  to  1788. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Christopher3   Billopp 

Colonel  Chistopher3  Billopp,  the  eldest  son  of  Major  Thomas 
Billopp,  was  born  in  1737,  in  the  "  Old  Billopp  House  "  on 
Bcntley  Manor,  Staten  Island.  There  was  at  that  time  a 
famous  school  at  Perth  Amboy,  which  opportunity  he  im- 
proved by  acquiring,  for  that  period,  an  excellent  education. 
He  took  great  interest  in  the  political  questions  of  the  day, 
and  soon  after  he  attained  his  majority  he  represented  his 
county  in  the  New  York  Assembly,  and  took  part  in  all  the 
debates  relating  to  the  trouble  with  the  Mother  Country.  From 
the  very  first  he  w&S  a  pronounced  Loyalist,  and  did  all  in  his 
power  to  prevent  an  open  rupture  between  the  Colonies  and 
Great  Britain,  but  when  it  came,  there  was  not  a  moment's 
hesitation  on  his  part.  His  duty,  as  he  saw  it,  was  to  support, 
defend,  and  aid,  with  all  his  power,  with  his  mind,  body,  and 
estate,  that  Crown  which  had  been  so  liberal  and  generous  to 
his  family  for  generations. 

As  soon  as  the  war  had  really  begun,  he  accepted  a  lieuten- 
ant colonel's  commission  and  commanded  a  corps  of  Loyalists 
raised  on  Staten  Island,  and  was  from  that  time  until  the  end 
of  the  war  employed  in  military  duties.  The  Continentals  were 
never  in  force  on  Staten  Island,  but  they  held  that  section 
of  New  Jersey  for  several  years,  and  as  they  could  watch  his 
house  from  Perth  Amboy,  they  were  constantly  on  the  alert  to 
catch  the  "  Tory  Colonel,"  and  twice  succeeded.  On  one  of 
these  occasions  he  was  confined  in  the  jail  at  Burlington.  The 
patriot  Commissary  of  Prisoners,  Mr.  Boudinot,  in  the  war- 
rant of  commitment,  directed  that  irons  should  be  put  on  his 
hands  and  feet,  that  he  should  be  chained  to  the  floor  of  a  close 


58  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR. 

room,  and  that  he  should  be  fed  on  bread  and  water,  which  was 
done,  it  is  said,  in  retaliation  for  the  cruel  treatment  of  two 
Whig  officers  who  had  fallen  into  the  hands  of  the  Royal 
troops. 

In  1782  Colonel  Billopp  was  Superintendent  of  Police  of 
Staten  Island. 

His  estate,  Bentley  Manor,  and  also  the  estate  of  his  father- 
in-law,  Benjamin  Seaman,  were  confiscated  by  an  act  of  the 
New  York  Legislature  in  the  year  1776. 

At  the  "  Old  Billopp  House  "  Lord  Howe,  as  Commissioner 
of  the  King,  met  Franklin,  John  Adams  and  Edward  Rutledge, 
a  committee  of  the  Continental  Congress,  in  the  hope  of  ad- 
justing difficulties  and  of  inducing  the  Colonies  to  return  to 
their  allegiance.  Lord  Howe,  General  Kniphausen,  Colonel 
Simcoe  and  other  officers  of  rank  were  frequent  guests  of 
Colonel  Billopp  at  this  old  house. 

After  the  war,  Colonel  Billopp,  with  all  his  family,  except 
his  two  sons,  settled  at  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  and  for 
many  years  bore  a  part  in  the  administration  of  affairs.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Assembly,  and  of  the  Council, 
and  on  the  death  of  Governor  Smith,  in  1823,  he  claimed  the 
vacant  position ;  but  as  he  was  then  nearly  ninety  years  old, 
a  younger  man  was  chosen,  and  his  competitor,  the  Honorable 
Ward  Chapman,  was  sworn  into  office.  He  died  at  St.  John, 
March  28,  1827,  aged  ninety  years.  From  Mr.  Morris'  "  His- 
tory of  Staten  Island,"  page  147,  is  quoted: 

"  The  St.  John  Daily  Telegraph,  March  29,  1827  (some- 
thing of  a  prophetic  name  for  a  paper  then),  contained  the 
following  notice: 

*  Died,  last  evening,  in  the  ninetieth  year  of  his  age,  the 
Hon.  C.  Billopp,  a  member  of  His  Majesty's  Council  in  this 
Province.  He  was  formerly  of  Staten  Island,  New  York, 
where  he  owned  a  very  valuable  property,  but  from  which  he 
was  driven  by  his  firm  and  inflexible  loyalty ;  for  his  intrepid 
zeal  and  indefatigable  exertions  in  the  Royal  cause  during  the 
American  Rebellion,  brought  upon  him  the  vengeance  of  the 


MAJOR    THOMAS    BILLOPP  59 

Revolutionary  government  and  placed  him  and  his  possessions 
in  the  proscribed  list.  Since  then  he  has  resided  in  this  Prov- 
ince, and  was  an  active  and  useful  representaive  in  its  first 
House  of  Assembly;  and  during  a  long  life  he  has  ever  been 
distinguished  for  the  strictest  honor  and  integrity  and  an 
undeviating  independence  of  mind.  His  funeral  will  take  place 
from  his  late  residence  in  King  Street  next  Monday  at  two 
o'clock,  when  the  friends  of  the  family  are  respectfully  re- 
quested to  attend.'  " 

From  the  same  work  is  the  following  description  of  Colonel 
Billopp:  "He  was  a  very  tall,  rather  slender,  soldierly  look- 
ing man  when  in  his  prime.  He  was  exceedingly  proud,  and  his 
pride  at  times  led  him  to  the  verge  of  hauteur,  yet  he  was  kind- 
hearted,  not  only  to  those  whom  he  considered  his  equals,  but 
to  In-  Blavee  and  to  the  poor  people  of  the  Island.  No  one 
went  from  his  door  at  the  old  Manor  hungry.  It  was  his  cus- 
tom to  gather  the  people  of  the  Island  once  a  year  on  the  lawn 
in  front  of  his  house  and  hold  a  harvest-home.  He  delighted 
to  talk  to  them  and  give  advice  for  their  welfare.  He  was 
very  popular.  He  was  fond  of  dress  and  scrupulously  neat 
in  his  attire.  He  Kept  his  coach  and  liveried  driver  and  foot- 
man. Passionately  fond  of  horses,  his  stable  was  filled  with 
the  finest  bred  animals  in  the  land.  He  was  a  magnificent  rider 
and  was  very  fond  of  the  saddle.  He  was  an  expert  shot  with 
the  pistol,  which  once  saved  his  life  when  attacked  by  robbers. 
Colonel  Billopp  was  not  a  man  to  take  advice  unless  it  instantly 
met  his  favor.  He  generally  regarded  his  own  opinion  supe- 
rior to  that  of  others,  especially  if  theirs  did  not  accord  with 
his. 

"  Life-long  friends  pleaded  with  him  to  join  the  cause  of  in- 
dependence at  the  commencement  of  the  Revolution,  but  he 
chose  to  follow  the  fortunes  of  Royalty.  He  was  a  good  citi- 
zen, a  noble  man.  his  misfortune  being  that  he  was  on  the 
losing  side  of  a  cause  in  which  he  had  everything  at  stake." 

The  following  inscription  is  on  his  tomb: 


60  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

"  Sacred  to  the  memory  of  the 
Honorable  Christopher  Billopp, 
a  member  of  His  Majesty's  Council 
in  this  Province,  whose  uncompro- 
mising Loyalty  and  distinguished 
exertions  as  a  Lieutenant  Colonel 
in  the  Royal  Cause  during  the  American 
rebellion  obliged  him  at  the  termination 
of  that  contest  to  abandon  without  com- 
pensation, his  hereditary  property   on  Staten 
Island  and  retire  with  his  family 
to  this  colony,  wherein  he  since  resided 
at  St.  John,  universally  respected. 

"  He  died  on  the  28th  day  of  March,  1827, 
in  the  ninetieth  year  of  his  age." 

Colonel  Billopp  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Fran- 
ces Willett,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  Thomas  and  John  Wil- 
lett  Billopp,  and  three  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Sarah,  and  Kath- 
erine  Billopp.  Elizabeth  married  Mr.  Robinson  of  St.  John, 
New  Brunswick,  and  had  four  children.  The  eldest,  Frances 
Robinson,  married  Doctor  Bayard  of  St.  John.  The  second 
daughter,  Mary  Robinson,  married  Major  Short. 

Sarah,  Colonel  Billopp's  second  daughter,  married  Henry 
Seaman  of  New  York,  and  had  four  children — Billopp,  who 
married  Miss  Kortright;  Jasper  and  Edmund,  unmarried;  and 
Frances,  who  married  Mr.  Townsend. 

The  Colonel's  third  daughter,  Katherine,  died  in  infancy. 

Colonel  Billopp's  second  wife,  Jane  Seaman,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Seaman,  of  Staten  Island,  bore  him  five  daughters, 
and  died  in  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  in  1802,  aged  forty- 
eight  years.  Her  daughters  were  Katharine,  who  married  Hon. 
John  Black  of  Halifax,  and  left  a  son  and  daughter ;  Jane, 
who  married  Hon.  William  Black  of  St.  John,  and  had  three 
sons  and  three  daughters;  Louisa,  who  married  John  Wallace; 
Mary,  who  married  Archdeacon  Willis,  and  left  children,  and 
Anne,  who  died  unmarried. 

In  speaking  of  the  descendants  of  the  daughters  of  Colonel 
Christopher  Billopp,  Mr.  Morris,  in  his  "  History  of  Staten 
Island,"  has  the  following:  "  The  descendants  of  Colonel 
Christopher  Billopp  have  passed  on  to  the  fourth  generation, 


MAJOR    THOMAS     HILLOPP  61 

and  are  now  scattered  throughout  the  Dominion  of  Canada  and 
England.  They  are  people  of  whom  any  community  might 
well  be  proud.  The  four  grandsons  of  Mary  Billopp  Willis 
are  the  Rev.  Robert  S.  Willis  of  England,  the  Rev.  Cuthbert 
Willis  of  Halifax,  John  Willis  of  Halifax,  and  William  Chris- 
topher Willis  of  Glasgow,  Scotland. 

"  The  grandchildren  of  Jane  Rillopp  Black  are  the  Honor- 
able John  Black,  member  of  the  Provincial  Legislature  of  New 
Brunswick,  and  Mrs.  Harriet  Paddock,  wife  of  Morris  V.  Pad- 
dock, of  St.  John.  This  estimable  lady  visited  'The  Old  Bil- 
lopp House'  in  company  with  the  writer"  (Mr.  Ira  K.  Mor- 
ris), "  in  the  autumn  of  1896.  She  inspected  the  various  rooms 
with  an  interest  indescribable,  and  beheld  them  with  a  sacred 
awe  worthy  of  the  honorable  memory  of  her  ancestors.  Here 
and  there  she  gathered  a  mute  trophy  to  carry  to  her  far- 
off  home  to  keep  as  treasured  mementoes  of  this  most  memor- 
able day  of  her  life." 

Both  the  Colonel's  sou-  Beem  to  have  inherited  that  spirit 
of  adventure  bo  prominently  developed  in  their  ancestors,  al- 
though it  is  said  they  did  not  inherit  the  spirit  of  loyalty  to 
the  King  evinced  by  their  father. 

The  second  son,  John  Willett  Billopp.  was  born  in  1769.  He 
was  in  Paris,  France,  during  the  Reign  of  Terror  of  the  French 
Revolution,  for  in  an  article  entitled  "  Paine  and  the  French 
Revolution,"  published  by  the  Honorable  E.  B.  Washburn, 
President  Grant's  Minister  to  France,  in  vol.  xx.  of  Scribner's 
Monthly  Magazine,  there  is  quoted  an  appeal  by  American 
citizens  then  in  Paris,  addressed  to  the  National  Convention, 
petitioning  for  the  release  of  Thomas  Paine,  who  was  then  a 
prisoner,  and  among  the  names  of  the  signers  of  the  petition  is 
that  of  "John  Willett  Billopp,  of  New  York."  But  a  few 
years  later  he  was  again  in  New  York  engaged  in  business  with 
his  older  brother,  Thomas.  In  1798  New  York  experienced  an 
epidemic  of  yellow  fever,  and  the  ravages  of  the  disease  were 
very  terrible.  Thomas  was  married  and  had  three  children,  one 
an  infant  born  that  year,  so  he  was  persuaded  by  his  generous 
brother  to  go  with  his  family  out  of  the  city  until  the  danger 


62  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

had  passed,  while  he — John — who  was  not  married,  would  re- 
main and  look  after  the  business.  So  John  remained,  was  a 
victim  of  his  generosity,  and  died  from  the  fever. 

Thomas4    Billopp 

Thomas4  (Col.  Christopher3,  Maj.  Thomas2  Billopp, 
Thomas1  Farmar),  the  Colonel's  eldest  son,  was  born  in  the 
year  1767.  He  was,  according  to  Thomas  Jones'  "  History  of 
New  York,"  employed  as  clerk  to  his  father,  the  Superintend- 
ent of  Police  of  Staten  Island,  in  the  year  1777.  He  was  then 
only  ten  years  old.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he  engaged  in 
business  in  New  York  City.  In  1790,  he  married  Abigail,  the 
youngest  daughter  of  John  Moore,  of  Newtown,  Long  Island. 
Can  anything  more  be  said  to  show  the  sweet  and  lovely  dispo- 
sition of  this  amiable  lady  than  that  her  death,  at  an  advanced 
age,  in  1834,  caused  her  son-in-law  such  poignant  grief  that  he 
could  not  survive  it,  but  soon  followed  her  to  the  grave? 
Thomas  and  Abigail  Billopp  had  six  children — Mary  Lawrence 
Billopp  married  Mr.  Grundy  of  Baltimore;  Frances  Billopp 
married  Rev.  William  Edward  Wyatt,  D.  D. ;  Christopher  Bil- 
lopp, born  in  1798,  unmarried,  died  in  1820;  Elizabeth  Farmar 
Billopp,  born  in  1800,  died  in  1805;  John  Moore  Billopp,  born 
in  1802,  died  at  Mobile,  Alabama,  in  1835;  Thomas  Farmar 
Billopp,  born  May  22,  1805,  died  September,  1876. 

Thomas  Billopp's  business  was  ruined  by  the  yellow  fever 
scourge  and  the  death  of  his  brother  in  1798.  He  struggled 
manfully  for  several  years  to  retrieve  his  fortunes,  but  so 
bitter  was  his  chagrin  at  his  lack  of  success  that  he  was  at  last 
driven  almost  to  despair. 

It  was  at  this  time,  when  his  fortunes  were  at  such  a  low 
ebb,  that  Francisco  Miranda,  a  Venzuelan  revolutionist,  ap- 
peared in  New  York.  Miranda  had  been  in  the  French  service 
in  the  American  Revolution  and  had  been  one  of  Washington's 
aides.  He  went  to  South  America  in  1783,  with  ideas  of  lib- 
erating the  Spanish  colonies  and  establishing  a  republic  on  the 
American  plan,  with  himself  as  the  Washington,  but  his 
schemes  were  discovered  and  he  fled  to  Europe.     He  was  again 


(    \  PT  \  I  \    Thom  \>    Hll.l  OPP 

From    :i    Contemporarj    Miniature    now   owned    by 
Mi---*   Elinor  Billopp,  his  Great-Granddaughter 


MAJOR    THOMAS    BILLOPP  63 

in  the  French  service  as  Gcneral-of-Division  in  1792-3.  In 
1806  he  fitted  out  an  expedition  in  the  United  States  and  sailed 
for  South  America,  with  a  view  of  establishing  a  republic  at 
Caracas,  but  was  not  successful.  Toward  the  close  of  1810 
he  again  went  to  South  America  and  succeeded  in  putting  the 
republic  on  its  feet ;  but  becoming  a  rival  of  Bolivar,  he  was 
delivered  by  the  latter  to  the  Spaniards  and  carried  to  Cadiz, 
where  he  died  in  prison.  Miranda  was  a  man  of  great  ability, 
polished  manners,  and  gnat  personal  magnetism.  He  had 
been  at  nearly  everj  court  of  Europe,  and  was  for  a  time  a 
high  favorite  of  the  fickle  Catharine  of  Russia.  He  was,  with 
his  schemes,  received  in  New  York  with  great  enthusiasm. 
Over  thirty  thousand  dollars  were  subscribed  by  the  merchants 
of  New  York,  and  he  soon  procured  men  enough  to  fit  out  an 
expedition  of  three  ships. 

Thomas  Billopp,  after  eight  years  of  unsuccessful  struggle 
against  adverse  fortune,  and  inspired  by  that  spirit  of  adven- 
ture inherited  from  his  fathers,  nut  the  affable  adventurer  and 
was  quickly  won  to  the  support  of  his  cause.  Miranda  ap- 
pointed him  a  captain,  with  many  liberal  promises  of  early 
advancement.  The  expedition  sailed  from  New  York  Febru- 
ary 2,  1806,  and  after  waiting  a  long  time  near  Hayti  for 
another  ship,  which  was  to  meet  him  there,  but  never  came, 
Miranda  sailed  for  Venezuela.  On  the  27th  of  April  he  had 
his  first  and  only  encounter  with  the  enemy,  in  which  two  of 
his  ships  were  captured  and  his  own  took  to  flight.  The  prin- 
cipal officers  captured  on  the  ill-fated  ships  were  tried  and 
found  guilty  of  an  attempt  to  incite  a  rebellion,  and  were  exe- 
cuted in  the  fort  at  Puerto  Cabello,  Venezuela,  on  the  21st 
of  July,  1806.  They  were  Captain  Thomas  Billopp,  Captain 
Thomas  Donohue,  Lieutenant  Gustavus  A.  Bergerd,  Lieuten- 
ant Charles  Johnson,  Lieutenant  Daniel  Kemper,  Lieutenant 
Miles  L.  Hall,  Lieutenant  Paul  F.  George,  Lieutenant  James 
Gardiner,  Lieutenant  John  Ferris,  and  Second  Lieutenant 
Francis  Farquarson. 

In  1895,  through  the  efforts  of  the  then  President  of  Vene- 
zuela, General  Andrade,  his   government  erected  in   honor  of 


64  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

these  American  citizens,  on  the  spot  where  they  were  executed, 
a  beautiful  monument.  It  is  an  imposing  and  handsome  struc- 
ture in  bronze,  resting  on  a  granite  pedestal,  and  is  sixty-five 
feet  high,  on  top  of  which  is  a  condor,  in  bronze,  just  spread- 
ing its  wings  to  soar.  The  front  panel  of  the  pedestal  con- 
tains the  coats  of  arms  of  the  United  States  and  Venezuela 
interwoven.  On  the  rear  panel  there  is  a  bronze  crown  of 
laurel  and  palm,  and  on  the  east  panel  a  bronze  plate  contain- 
ing the  names  of  the  men  in  whose  honor  the  monument  was 
erected.  The  monument  was  dedicated  on  February  25,  1895, 
by  the  government.  The  Minister  of  Public  Works  delivered 
the  oration,  and  Mr.  W.  W.  Russell,  the  Secretary  of  the 
United  States  Legation,  made  a  few  happy  remarks,  closing 
with  the  following  apt  quotation : 

"  Whether  on  scaffold  high, 
Or  in  the  battle's  van, 
The  noblest  place  for  man  to  die 
Is  where  he  dies  for  man." 

Mary  Lawrence5  Billopp 

Mary  Lawrence5  Billopp  (Thomas4,  Col.  Christopher3,  Maj. 
Thomas2  Billopp,  Thomas1  Farmar)  married  George  Kerr 
Grundy  of  Baltimore.  Their  first  son,  George  Kerr  Grundy, 
of  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  married  and  left  children.  Their 
second  son,  Thomas  Billopp  Grundy,  married  Clara  Haxhall, 
of  Richmond  Va.,  and  left  two  daughters,  both  married.  By- 
ram  and  Frances  Billopp  Grundy  both  died  unmarried. 

Frances5    (Billopp)   Wyatt  and  Descendants 

Frances5  Billopp  married  Rev.  William  Edward  Wyatt,  D. 
D.,  S.  T.  D.  Dr.  Wyatt  graduated  from  Columbia  College  in 
the  class  of  1809,  and  received  his  A.  M.  in  1816;  was  or- 
dained priest  in  1813,  and  was  called  to  the  rectorship  of  St. 
Paul's  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  1817.  He  was  the  son  of  James 
Wyatt  and  Mary  Winslow,  daughter  of  Rev.  Edward  Winslow, 
rector   of  St.   George's   Church,  New   York,   who   died   in   the 


MAJOR    THOMAS     BILLOPP  65 

chancel  of  that  church,  and  was  there  buried.  Mary  Winslow 
was  a  descendant  of  Mary  Chilton,  who  came  over  in  the  May- 
flower, 1620,  and  married  John  Winslow,  brother  of  Governor 
Edward  Winslow,  who  came  in  the  Fortune,  1621.  Dr.  Wyatt 
was  very  prominent  in  all  church  affairs  of  his  time,  being 
leader  of  the  old  High  Church  party.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  was  President  of  the  House  of  Clerical  and  Lay  Deputies  of 
the  General  Convention.  He  was  respected  and  admired  by 
all  whe  knew  him.  He  died  in  1864,  surviving  his  wife  one 
year,   and  leaving  seven   sons  and   four  daughters,  as  follows: 

1  William  Edward  Wyatt,  born  in  1S16.  married  Margaret 
Klizabeth  Noel.  He  died  in  1  H(j(>,  leaving  one  son,  James 
Bosley  Noel,  who  is  now  a  leading  architect  of  Balti- 
more, Md. 

2  The  Rev.  Thomas  James  Wyatt,  married  Maria  Louise 
Fischer.  She  died,  leaving  no  children,  when  he  married 
Sophia  Louise  Hollingsworth.  She  died,  leaving  two  chil- 
dren : 

1  William    Edward  Wyatt.  married  Fanny  Rich;    child: 

1   Arthur  Rich  Wyatt. 

2  Sophia    Louise    Hollingsworth    Wyatt,    married    Rose- 
well  Graves;    children: 

1  Sophia  Anne  Graves. 

2  Evelyn  Wyatt  Graves, 

.'J   Rosewell  Elizabeth  Graves. 

The    Rev.    Thomas   James    Wyatt's    third    wife   was    Mary 
Louise  Jones,  who  bore  him   two   children: 
S  Thomas  Wyatt. 

4>  Mary  L.  Wyatt,  who  as  a  miniature  painter  has  been 
accorded  favorable  notice  at  the  Paris  Salon. 

3  Frances  Billopp  Wyatt,  married  George  Somerville  Norris 
of  Baltimore;    children: 

1  William  Wyatt  Norris,  married  Mary  Ridgely  Gaither ; 
child : 


66  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

1   Hannah  Gaither  Norris. 

2  George  Somerville  Norris,  died  young. 

3  Frances  Wyatt  Norris,  married  George  Howard  El- 
der ;    children : 

1  George  Howard  Elder. 

2  Frances  Wyatt  Elder. 

4  Susan  Voss  Norris. 

5  Sophia   Howard   Norris,   married   John   Paul   Baker ; 
children : 

1  John  Paul  Baker. 

2  Bessie  Kelso   Baker. 

3  Somerville  Norris  Baker. 

4  Sophia  Howard  Baker. 

5  Eva  Graff  Baker. 

6  Katharine    Isabella    Norris,    married    Christopher    A. 
Wyatt ;    children : 

1  Christopher  Wyatt. 

2  Katharine  Isabella  Wyatt. 

7  Richard    Horton    Norris,    married    Margery    Watson 
Allis ;    children : 

1  Richard  Horton  Norris. 

2  William  Allis  Norris. 

3  Margaret  Allis  Norris. 

8  Mary  Gordon  Norris,  married,  first,  Richard  Norris, 
and  second,  Nathan  Ryno  Gorter,  M.  D. 

9  George  Somerville  Norris,  married  Gertrude  Couthoui ; 
children : 

1  Joseph  Couthoui  Norris. 

2  Frances  Wyatt  Norris. 

3  Jessie  Norris. 

10  Henry    Franklin    Norris,    married    Edith    Lockwood; 
child : 

1  Whitton  Evans  Norris. 

11  Jessie   Somerville   Norris,   married   Edward   S.   Lewis. 

4  Mary  Augusta  Wyatt,  died  young. 

5  Katharine  Isabella  Wyatt,  died  unmarried. 

6  Charles  Handfield  Wyatt. 


MAJOR    THOMAS    BILLOPP  67 

7  Christopher  Billopp  Wyatt,  also  a  clergyman  in  the 
church,  died  while  rector  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  West 
Chester,  New  York.  He  married  Mary  Angelica  Crogan; 
children : 

1  Frances    Billopp    Wyatt,    married    Henry    H.    Allen; 
children  : 

I    Wyatt    II.  Allen. 
2  Harriet  Debb  Allen. 
S   Frances  Billopp  Allen. 
4*   Lucius  A.  Allen. 

2  William    Edward    Wyatt,    married    Jane   Kirby;     chil- 
dren : 

1  Christopher    Billopp    Wyatt. 

2  Cornelia  Wyatt. 

8  Merritt  T.  Wyatt. 
8   Christopher   A.    Wyatt,   married    Katharine  I.   Norris, 
died  190(5;    children: 

1  Christopher  A.    Wyatt. 

2  Katharine    I.    Wyatt. 

4  Mary  Livingston  Wyatt,  married  Henry  G.  Newhall : 
children  : 

1  Alice  Newhall. 

2  Donald  Neuhall. 

3  Lila  Newhall. 

8  Edward  Winslow  Wyatt,  married  Rosella  R.  McAllister, 
the  daughter  of  George  Washington  McAllister,  who  was 
born  in  Lancaster  Co.,  Pa.,  but  early  settled  in  Georgia,  on 
a  plantation  ;    children  : 

1  Rosa   McAllister  Wyatt. 

2  Edward  Winslow  Wyatt. 

9  John  Henry  Wyatt,  died  young. 

10  Mary  Augusta  Wyatt,  married  Daniel  Sprigg  Hall;    chil- 
dren: 

1  William  Edward  Wyatt  Hall,  married  Ellen  Winslow 
Marston  ;    child : 

1   Francis  Winslow  Hall. 

2  Anna  Hall. 


68  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

3  Francis  Billopp  Hall. 

4  Daniel  Sprigg  Hall. 

11  Charles  Handfield  Wyatt,  was  a  prominent  lawyer  of 
Baltimore,  Md.,  died  in  1904.  His  first  wife  was  Eliza 
Kreeland,  granddaughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  McVickar  of  New 
York ;    children : 

1  Lisa  Wyatt,  married  George  Peabody  Tiffany ;    child : 

1   George  Peabody  Tiffany. 

2  Charles  Handfield  Wyatt. 

3  John  McVickar  Wyatt,  died  in  1891. 

4  Frances  Billopp  Wyatt. 

Charles    Handfield    Wyatt's    second    wife    was    Marion    C. 
Beacham,  who  bore  him  one  child: 

5  Marion  Beacham  Wyatt. 

Thomas  Farmar5  Billopp 

Thomas  Farmar5  Billopp,  the  youngest  child  of  Thomas 
and  Abigail  Billopp,  was  born  in  1805,  was  educated  by  his 
brother-in-law,  Rev.  Dr.  Wyatt,  and  was  ordained  a  priest 
by  Bishop  Kemp,  of  the  Diocese  of  Maryland,  in  1825.  He 
was  at  various  times  rector  of  churches  in  Maryland,  Dela- 
ware, and  New  Jersey,  and  after  more  than  fifty  years  work, 
while  rector  of  St.  Barnabas  Church,  Prince  George  County, 
Md.,  he  died  in  1876,  beloved  and  revered  by  all. 

Mr.  Holcomb,  in  his  "  History  of  Immanuel  Church,"  New 
Castle,  Delaware,  says  of  him:  "His  disposition  and  manners 
were  exceedingly  gentle,  and  his  voice  sweet  and  sympathetic, 
which  made  him  a  charming  preacher  and  reader.  He  resigned 
the  rectorship  of  the  parish  in  1856.  He  had  many  warm 
friends  in  the  congregation  who  greatly  regretted  his  resig- 
nation." 

He  married,  in  November,  1832,  Katharine  Risteau,  the 
daughter  of  Captain  Christopher  Carnan  of  Baltimore  County, 
Md.  Captain  Carnan  was  a  soldier  of  the  American  Army  in 
the  War  of  1812,  and  was  a  grandson  of  Colonel  Charles 
Carnan  of  the  Continental  Army,  who,  as  a  Captain,  had  raised 


I'm:    Reverend    Thomas    Farmar    Billopp 


MAJOR    THOMAS    BILLOPP  69 

a  company  in  Baltimore  County,  Md.,  which  was  known  by  the 
unique  name  of  "  The  Soldier's  Delight."  Katharine  Risteau 
Billopp  died  in   1892. 

There  were  born  to  them  seven  sons  and  two  daughters.  The 
eldest  son,  Lieutenant  Colonel  William  Wyatt0  Billopp,  was 
born  in  May,  183-1,  was  educated  at  St.  Timothy's  Military 
Academy,  at  Catonsville,  Md.,  became  a  civil  engineer,  and 
settled  in  Savannah,  Georgia,  when  about  eighteen  vears  old. 
When  the  Civil  War  broke  out,  he  ardently  supported  the 
Southern  Cause,  and  raised  on  artillery  company  of  which 
he  was  elected  Captain,  During  the  first  two  years  of  the 
war,  his  company  was  engaged  in  the  defense  of  Charleston 
and  Savannah,  but  eventually  it  became  "Company  A"  of 
tin'  29th  (ieorgia  Infant  rv,  and  Berved  with  the  army  com- 
manded by  Generals  Johnston,  Bragg,  and  Hood,  until  the 
end  of  the  war.  He  was  soon  promoted  to  Major  and  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel,  and,  as  his  Colonel  was  a  prisoner  in  the  hands 
of  the  Union  forces  during  tin-  last  year  of  the  war,  he  com- 
manded his  regiment.  lie  was  with  General  Hood  when  he 
made  his  ill-advised  march  into  western  Tennessee,  and  partici- 
pated in  all  the  hard-fought  battles  of  that  army  from  Atlanta 
to  Franklin,  and  was  more  than  once  severely  wounded.  At 
Murfrcesboro  on  the  7th  of  December,  1864,  he  was  gallantly 
leading  his  regiment  in  a  charge  when  a  rifle  ball  pierced  his 
forehead,  killing  him  instantly.  The  charge  was  repulsed,  and 
his  men  were  driven  back,  but  that  night  some  of  the  men 
of  his  old  company,  who  were  all  devoted  to  him,  returned 
to  the  battlefield,  and  recovered  his  body,  and  buried  it  with 
military  honors.  The  following  is  the  report  of  Major  General 
William  B.  Bate,  commanding  Division  of  Operations  from 
November  21,  to  December  25,  1864,  War  of  the  Rebellion, 
series  1,  vol.  xlv.  part  1,  p.  74-7: 

"  December  7,  ...  In  this  day's  fight  there  were  nine- 
teen killed,  seventy-three  wounded,  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
two  missing.  Among  the  former  was  Lieutenant  Colonel 
Billopp,  commanding  the  29th  Georgia  Regiment,  who  fell 
gallantly  at  his  post." 


70  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

The  writer  became  acquainted  with  General  Bate,  and  met 
him  frequently  during  his  long  service  as  United  States  senator 
from  Tennessee.  He  was  a  personal  friend  and  admirer  of 
Colonel  Billopp,  and  spoke  of  him  as  a  most  gallant,  brave,  and 
conscientious  officer,  who,  if  his  life  and  the  war  had  lasted 
longer,  would  soon  have  met  rapid  promotion.  General  Bate 
was  present  at  his  burial,  and  thirty  years  after  the  end  of 
the  war,  said  he  believed  he  could  point  out  the  place  where 
his  body  was  buried  by  his  loving  comrades. 

Colonel  Billopp  was  in  his  thirty-first  year  when  he  met 
his  death.     He  had  not  married. 

Christopher6  Billopp  become  a  civil  engineer.  He  was  for 
a  number  of  years  Engineer  Commissioner  of  Baltimore  City, 
and  has  successfully  accomplished  several  difficult  works  for 
the  Pennsylvania  and  Baltimore  and  Ohio  Railroads.  When 
the  Cival  War  broke  out,  he  joined  the  First  Maryland  Cav- 
alry, C.  S.  A.,  and  served  through  the  war  under  his  former 
schoolmate,  General  Fitzhugh  Lee.     He  has  not  married. 

Major  Thomas  Farmar6  Billopp,  when  the  Civil  War  was 
began,  was  in  business  in  Clarkesville,  Tenn.  He  immediately 
volunteered  and  served  as  a  private  in  a  Tennessee  regiment. 
During  the  first  year  of  the  war,  he  was  under  Stonewall  Jack- 
son in  Virginia,  and  was  severely  wounded  in  one  of  the  battles 
before  Richmond,  when  McClellan's  attempt  to  capture  that 
city  was  defeated.  After  his  recovery  he  was  transferred  to 
the  company  of  artillery  commanded  by  his  brother,  with  which 
he  remained  until  the  surrender,  under  Johnson,  in  1865,  at 
which  time  he  was  Major  and  commanded  the  regiment.  Dur- 
ing the  war  he  saw  severe  fighting,  and  was  seriously  wounded 
many  times.  Immediately  after  the  close  of  the  war  he  en- 
gaged in  business  in  Baltimore.  He  married  Anna  Holliday 
of  Baltimore,  but  left  no  children.     He  died  July,  1891. 

Robert  Carnan0  Billopp  married  Virginia  Magruder.  They 
had  one  son,  Archibald,  who  married  Margaret  Ella  Shaw 
of  Prince  George  Co.,  Md.  They  have  one  son,  whose  name 
is  Thomas  Farmar  Billopp. 

Francis  Wyatt  Billopp  died  at  St.  James  College,  Md.,  July, 
1858. 


MAJOR     THOMAS     UILLOPP  -71 

John  Sappington  Billopp,  unmarried. 

The  last  three  children  of  Thomas  Farmar*  Billopp  were 
born  *hile  he  was  rector  of  Ennnanuel  Church  in  Newcastle, 
™"~*  ***  Church  bore  a  particular  interest,  inasmuch 
as  it  occupied  he  identical  spot  on  which  formerly  stood  the 
fort  commanded  by  his  ancestor,  Captain  Christopher  Billopp, 
nearly  two  hundred  years  before. 

Charles  Farmar  Billopp  was  horn  March  11,  1846  He 
married  Mary  Blake,  daughter  of  Samuel  L.  Brooke  of  Prince 
George  County  Maryland.  They  had  three  daughters,  Elinor, 
Lisa  Brooke,  *ho  married  Raymond  Healy  of  Brooklyn  N  Y 
and  Katharine  Risteau.  He  died  on  February  14,"  1907  in 
Washington,  I).  C,  *here  he  had  lived  for  the  last  twenty 
years  oi  his  life.  J 

Katharine  Carnan  Billopp,  the  first  daughter  of  Thomas 
Farmar  and  Katharine  (Carnan)  Billopp,  married  William 
Berry  of  Prince  George  Co.,  Maryland.  Their  one  son,  Wil- 
nam,  died  in  infancy. 

Mary  Elinor  Billopp  married  George  W.  Brooke  of  Mary- 
land, in  1875.     She  died  in  1876,  leaving  no  children. 


Major    Robert    Farmah 
From  a  Painting  now    m  the  Possession  of   Mr.  George  Brooke 
of  Birdsboro,   Pennsylvania 


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MAJOR    ROBERT1    FABMAR    WD    DESCENDANTS 


VI 

MAJOR    ROBERT8    FARMAR     AND    DESCENDANTS 

Ma.iok  ROBERT  Eakmar 

ROBERT,  the  sixth  son  of  Thomas  and  Anno  Billopp 
Farmar,  named  in  honor  of  Robert,  the  founder 
j  of  our  branch  of  the  family,  he  who  "  was  an  officer  of 
rank  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  Army,  in  Ireland,"  and 
was  "slain  in  battle,"  was  born  in  1717,  and  had  a  liberal 
education.  His  name  does  not  appear  in  any  of  the  records 
of  his  time  until  the  year  1740,  when  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
three  years  he  raised  a  full  company  of  soldiers,  of  one  hundred 
and  three  men,  u  as  appointed  captain,  and  sailed  with  them  to 
join  the  English  Army,  commanded  by  General  Wentworth 
in  the  West  Indies.  It  is  at  this  time  his  name  is  frequently 
found  in  the  "  Papers  of  Governor  Lewis  Morris,"  of  New 
Jersey. 

Governor  Morris  had  the  disposal  of  two  captain's  com- 
missions, while  there  were  three  applicants  for  these  prizes,  who 
were  under  the  impression  that  the  rule  of  "  first  come,  first 
served,"  would  decide  their  fate,  so  the  rivals  each  strove  to 
secure  the  first  full  company.  Rut  there  were  other  influences 
which  weighed  with  the  Governor,  who  was  a  shrewd  politician, 
and  about  as  scrupulous  as  politicians  generally  were  in  those 
days,  and  are  in  these.  For,  though  Farmar,  with  the  aid 
of  his  brother  Jasper  in  New  York,  and  his  brother  Thomas 
Billopp  on  Staten  Island,  was  the  first  to  secure  his  full  quota, 
he  received  no  commission,  but  had  to  content  himself  with  a 
"  certificate  "  from  the  Governor,  which  did  not  give  him  a 
captain's  rank  in  the  regular  army.  But  Farmar  did  not,  as 
Governor  Morris  said  he  feared  he  would,  "  sulk  in  his  tent  " 
— he  was  not  made  of  that  sort  of  stuff.     Though  disappointed, 

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76  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

he  stuck  his  certificate  in  his  pocket,  sailed  to  the  Indies,  and 
soon  won  his  spurs  at  the  point  of  his  sword. 

The  Governor's  letters  at  this  time  frequently  mention  Far- 
mar.  Before  the  companies  are  filled  he  shows  his  prejudice 
by  speaking  of  him  as  "  a  vain  young  man,"  but  after  Far- 
mer's rivals  have  secured  the  commissions  he  turns  about  and 
sounds  his  praises.  He  urges  Captain  Thomas  to  greater 
energy  by  telling  him  "  Captain  Farmar  has  a  full  company." 
On  page  102  of  the  "  Papers  "  there  is  a  letter  to  Colonel 
Blakeney,  commanding  Farmar's  regiment.  It  is  dated  Sep- 
tember 30,  1740,  and  he  says,  "  Captain  Farmar  is  very  dili- 
gent and  careful."  In  a  letter  to  the  Duke  of  Newcastle,  he 
mentions  the  departure  of  Captain  Farmar's  company  to  the 
West  Indies,  and  explains  the  matter  of  the  certificate,  which 
he  carries  in  the  place  of  a  commission. 

On  page  148  of  "  Papers  of  Governor  Lewis  Morris  "  is 
a  letter  to  General  Wentworth,  in  which  the  Governor  speaks 
very  flatteringly  of  Captain  Farmar,  and  mentions  his  father, 
Thomas  Farmar,  as  the  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Assembly 
who  did  most  to  raise  two  thousand  pounds  and  equip  three 
companies  for  service  in  the  West  Indies. 

The  next  time  his  name  is  found  is  in  the  Boston  Weekly 
News  Letter,  of  July  2,  1741,  in  the  following  report  of  mili- 
tary affairs :  "  Admiral  Vernon,  with  his  fleet,  and  General 
Wentworth,  with  his  Land  Forces,  have  left  off  the  siege  of 
Carthagena,  on  account  of  great  sickness  and  death  among 
his  men,  and  are  arrived  at  Jamaica.  They  have  lost  in  all 
about  8,000  men.  Captain  Stevens  and  Captain  Cosby  of  New 
York  are  both  very  well,  as  also  Captain  Farmar  and  Captain 
Thomas  of  New  Jersey.  The  officers  and  soldiers  of  North 
America  behaved  themselves  with  much  Bravery,  but  many  of 
them  are  dead."  So  we  see  that  Robert  Farmar  has  secured 
his  commission  as  captain. 

On  page  157  is  a  letter,  dated  December  19,  1742,  from 
the  Governor  to  Henry  Pelham,  Paymaster  General,  which 
mentions  that  Captain  Farmar  had  been  sent  home  by  General 
Wentworth  to  raise  recruits,  and  had  forwarded  to  the  West 


MAJOR    ROBERT    FARMAR  77 

Indies  twenty-two  men.  In  a  note  on  page  816,  vol.  viii.  of 
"  Documents  Relating  to  the  Colonial  History  of  New  York," 
the  editor  says :  "  Robert  Farmar  was  a  captain  in  the  army 
as  early  as  1740,  and  obtained  a  company  in  the  19th  Foot,  in 
1744.  In  1761  he  became  a  major  in  the  34th,  and  commanded 
that  regiment  the  following  year  in  the  expedition  against 
Havana"  (Beatson,  iii.  p.  395).  Havana  capitulated  August 
13,  1762,  after  a  siege  of  two  months  and  eight  days. 

By  the  Treaty  of  Paris,  in  February,  1763,  all  of  that  part 
of  the  United  States  east  of  the  Mississippi  River,  now  com- 
prising the  states  of  Florida,  Alabama,  and  Mississippi,  was 
ceded  by  France  to  England.  The  town  of  Mobile  and  the 
French  fort  called  Conde  were  surrendered  October  20,  1763, 
The  transfer  \va>  >igned  by  Devalle  and  Fazende,  on  the  part 
of  France,  and  by  Major  Robert  Farmar  for  England,  fol- 
lowed by  Farmar's  proclamation. 

The  historic  name  of  Fort  Conde  was  changed  to  Fort  Char- 
lotte, in  honor  of  the  young  Queen  of  George  the  Third. 

I  am  indebted  to  "  Colonial  Mobile,"  an  intensely  interest- 
ing history  of  the  early  days  of  Florida,  from  the  pen  of  Peter 
J.  Hamilton,  Esq.,  for  nearly  all  the  information  I  have  re- 
ceived relating  to  Major  Robert  Farmar. 

He  was  in  command  of  Mobile  for  a  number  of  years,  in 
fact  as  long  as  he  remained  in  the  army.  During  that  time 
he  commanded  an  expedition  to  the  Illinois  country  opposite 
St.  Louis,  and  relieved  Captain  Sterling.  He  was  compelled 
to  accommodate  himself  to  the  French-Indian  policy,  and  keep 
open  house  for  twenty  or  thirty  people  every  day — "  a  vile 
custom,"  he  declares.  Hamilton  says,  "  He  was  an  interesting 
character.  He  had  frequent  occasion  to  correspond  officially 
with  Aubrey,  the  French  Governor  of  New  Orleans,  and  we 
have  Aubrey's  impression  of  him  in  a  dispatch  to  his  home 
government."  It  is  found  in  Gayarre's  "  History  of  Louis- 
iana," vol.  ii.  p.  125: 

"  The  correspondence  which  I  am  obliged  to  have  with  the 
English,  who  write  to  me  from  all  parts,  and  particularly  with 


78  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

the  Governor  of  Mobile,  gives  me  serious  occupation.  This 
Governor  is  an  extraordinary  man.  As  he  knows  that  I  speak 
English,  he  occasionally  writes  to  me  in  verse.  He  speaks  to 
me  of  Francis  I.  and  Charles  V.  He  compares  Pontiak,  an 
Indian  Chief,  to  Mithridates ;  he  says  that  he  goes  to  bed 
with  Montesquieu.  When  there  occur  some  petty  difficulties 
between  the  inhabitants  of  New  Orleans  and  Mobile,  he  quotes 
to  me  from  the  Magna  Charta,  and  the  laws  of  Great  Brittain. 
It  is  said  that  the  English  ministry  sent  him  to  Mobile  to  get 
rid  of  him  (  !)  because  he  was  one  of  the  hottest  in  the  oppo- 
sition. He  pays  me  handsome  compliments,  which  I  duly  re- 
turn him,  and  upon  the  whole  he  is  a  man  of  parts,  but  a 
dangerous  neighbor,  against  whom  it  is  well  to  be  on  one's 
guard." 

The  Major  acquired  from  the  Indians  a  piece  of  land  fac- 
ing the  Bay,  and  extending  over  towards  Pensacola  (men- 
tioned in  his  son  Robert's  letter  as  containing  upwards  of 
200,000  acres),  and  from  the  Government  at  some  time,  Far- 
mar's  Island,  and  his  residence  at  what  is  now  the  northeast 
corner  of  Government  and  St.  Emanuel  Streets,  which  was 
his  home  until  he  moved  over  to  the  Tensaw  River.  In  1766, 
through  the  enmity  of  Governor  Johnstone,  which  Farmar 
had  incurred  by  opposing  his  claim  to  be  Commander  in  Chief 
of  all  the  land  forces  in  America,  charges  were  preferred 
against  the  Major,  and  a  court  martial  was  ordered.  He  had 
handled,  in  the  two  years  in  question,  over  fifteen  thousand 
pounds.  He  had  very  voluminous  accounts,  but  nothing  in- 
criminating was  found.  One  of  the  charges  was,  "  For  em- 
ploying the  King's  boat  to  his  own  emolument."  This  was 
proved  to  be  the  Major's  own  boat  which  he,  in  affectionate 
pleasantry,  had  named  after  his  son,  calling  it  "  The  Little 
Bob." 

The  trial  lasted  several  years,  and  the  dispute  between  civil 
and  military  departments,  meantime,  fills  volumes  of  British 
records,  with  complaints  and  counter  charges.  It  was  con- 
cluded in  August,  in  1768,  and  the  papers  submitted  to  the 
King.     The  General  in  Chief,  in  notifying  Farmar,  remarked 


MAJOR     ROBERT    FARMAR  79 

that  he  could  say  nothing  until  the  result  was  known.  In 
October  the  news  came  that  his  Majesty  approved  of  the  court- 
martial,  acquitting  the  Major.  "  We  can  readily  imagine," 
writes  Mr.  Hamilton,  who  has  a  very  soft  spot  in  his  heart 
for  the  Major,  "  We  can  readily  imagine  the  joy  of  the  whole 
southern  detachment,  at  this  victory  over  Governor  Johnstone." 

The  Major  seems  at  the  time  of  his  trial  to  have  withdrawn 
from  active  service,  though  he  did  not  resign  from  the  arm}' 
until  after  his  acquittal,  as  his  name  appears  in  the  Armv 
List  for  1768.  In  17(i!)  we  find  him  recommended  to  succeed 
Browne  as   Governor  of  Florida. 

Even  af't.r  his  retirement.  Major  Farmar  was  in  frequent 
demand  for  information  a^  to  Mobile  matters  from  those  high- 
est  in  authority.  He  lived  for  ten  years  after  his  acquittal, 
residing  at  his  plantation  on  the  Tensaw.  He  was  several 
times  elected  to  the  Florida  Assembly.  It  was  at  the  Tensaw 
that  the  famous  naturalist,  William  Bartram,  visited  him. 
Bartram  says,  in  his  "Travels,"  page  402:  "On  August  5, 
went  in  a  trading  boat  to  visit  Major  Farmar,  that  worthy 
gentleman    having  invited   me." 

Robert  Farmar  was  member  of  the  Assembly  from  the  year 
1772  to  1777,  and  it  is  stated  of  the  Assembly  of  1778  that 
"Peter  Swann  was  elected  in  the  room  of  Robert  Farmar,  de- 
ceased." As  he  had  been  appointed  by  Governor  Chester  to 
be  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  tin  Peace  for  the  town  of 
Mobile,  in  1777,  it  is  probable  that  he  died  in  the  early  part 
of  1778. 

On  the  fourteenth  of  March,  1780,  the  town  of  Mobile  was 
surrendered  to  the  Spanish  under  the  command  of  Don  Ber- 
nardo de  Galvez.  During  the  siege,  which  lasted  for  nearly 
a  month,  many  of  the  houses  in  the  vicinity  of  Fort  Charlotte 
were  burned,  among  them  being  the  late  home  of  Major  Far- 
mar, which  contained,  with  other  things,  many  valuable  and 
interesting  papers.  Some  of  the  latter,  no  doubt,  would  have 
been  most  useful  to  the  writer  of  this  chronicle,  as  he  would 
then  know  more  of  the  doings  of  the  doughty  Major. 

There  is  a  footnote  on  page  382  of  "  Colonial  Mobile,"  which 


80  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

reads :  "  Mrs.  Curtis  Lewis  was  a  granddaughter  of  Sir  Rob- 
ert Farmar;  she  was  a  daughter  of  De  Vaubercey  of  Dauphine 
Island."  This  is  the  only  intimation  that  the  writer  has  found 
of  the  Major's  being  knighted. 

The  year  of  Major  Farmar's  marriage  is  uncertain,  but  it 
must  have  been  rather  late  in  his  life,  for  at  the  time  of  his 
death  his  children  were  all  quite  young.  He  married  Mary 
Anderson  of  Yorkshire,  England,  and  had  two  sons  and  three 
daughters.  The  first  child  was  a  daughter  named  Anne  Billopp, 
who  married  John  Lewis  Barde,  an  officer  in  the  English  Army, 
who  eventually  settled,  lived,  and  died  at  Birdsboro,  Pennsyl- 
vania. The  second  was  a  son,  Robert  Adolphus,  an  officer  for 
a  time  of  the  60th  Foot,  of  the  English  Army.  The  third, 
a  daughter,  Mary  Elizabeth,  married  John  Louis  De  Vaubercey, 
of  Orleanist  connection  (see  "Colonial  Mobile"),  and  re- 
mained in  Florida.  They  had  at  least  one  son,  Louis  Le  Gras 
De  Vaubercey,  and  one  daughter,  who  married  Mr.  Curtis 
Lewis  of  Mobile. 

The  fourth  child,  a  daughter,  Katharine  Louisa,  married 
Otto  Vautile  Barbaree.  The  fifth  was  a  son,  named  for  his 
Grandfather  Thomas.     He  died  at  sea,  unmarried. 

The  descendants  of  the  Major's  daughter,  Mary  Elizabeth, 
who  married  De  Vaubercey,  lived  in  Mobile  as  late  as  1839,  and 
at  that  time  petitioned  Congress  to  confirm  to  them  as  the 
heirs  of  Major  Farmar,  the  title  to  "  Farmar's  Island,"  and  a 
bill  was  introduced  in  the  Twenty-fourth  Congress  to  that  effect, 
and  became  a  law  on  the  last  day  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Congress. 
The  reports  on  these  bills  are  to  be  found  in  vol.  ii.  of  the 
Twenty-fourth  Congress,  report  No.  352,  and  in  vol.  i.  of  the 
Twenty-fifth  Congress,  report  No.  139.  These  reports  are 
identical,  and  are  made  by  Mr.  Lawler,  from  the  Committee 
on  Private  Land  Claims.  Among  other  things,  they  state  that 
Robert  Farmar,  the  ancestor  of  the  petitioners,  occupied  it  in 
his  lifetime,  as  a  boatyard,  and  that  he  resided  in  Mobile  until 
his  death,  which  happened  sometime  in  or  about  the  year 
1781.  That  the  right  heirs  of  the  said  Robert  Farmar  were 
all   born   in   America,   and  that   the   said   Louis   Le   Gras   De 


MAJOR    ROBERT    FARMAR  81 

Vaubcrccy  did  reside  in  the  town  of  Mobile  on  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1813,  when  the  United  States  took  possession  of  that 
part  of  west  Florida,  and  that  he  has  resided  in  the  same  place, 
or  vicinity,  ever  since,  and  still  resides  there.  They  also  recite 
an  affidavit  of  Curtis  Lewis  to  the  same  effect. 

The  statute  is  found  in  "  United  States  Statutes  at  Large," 
vol.  vi.  p.  761,  chap.  105:  An  "Act  for  the  Relief  of  the 
Heirs  and  Legal  Representatives  of  the  Late  Robert  Farmar, 
Deceased."  "  Be  it  enacted,  etc.,  that  the  heirs  and  legal  rep- 
resentatives of  the  late  Robert  Farmar,  deceased,  be,  and  they 
hereby  are,  confirmed  in  their  title  to  a  certain  tract  of  Land, 
commonly  called  the  Island ;  bounded  on  the  north  by  the 
Bayou  Chataque,  on  the  south  by  the  Bayou  Marmott,  on  the 
east  by  the  River  Mobile,  and  on  the  wrest  by  the  said  Bayou, 
situate  about  a  mile  above,  or  north  of  the  city  of  Mobile,  in 
the  state  of  Alabama,  and  containing  400  acres,  more  or  less, 
and  the  Commissioner  of  the  General  Land  Office  is  hereby 
authorized  to  issue  a  patent  to  the  said  heirs,  agreeable  to  their 
petition.     Approved  March  3,  1839." 

While  the  descendants  of  Mary  Elizabeth  may  have  re- 
ceived their  patents,  the  writer  has  never  been  informed  that 
the  descendants  of  any  of  Robert  Farmar's  other  children  have 
ever  been  benefited  by  this  Act. 

After  the  fall  of  Mobile,  the  English  troops  and  their  fam- 
ilies went  to  Pensacola.  The  60th.  or  Royal  American  Regi- 
ment of  Foot,  was  a  portion  of  this  small  army.  There  were 
also  with  it  several  companies  of  Pennsylvania  Loyalists.  John 
Lewis  Barde  (though  the  English  Army  List  calls  him  Lewis 
Barde)  had  been  appointed  an  ensign  in  the  60th  Foot,  the 
29th  of  June,  1776,  and  was  raised  to  a  lieutenancy  September 
2,  1779.  It  is  probable  that  Major  Robert  Farmar's  family 
accompanied  the  army  to  Pensacola,  for  the  Army  List  informs 
us  that  Robert  Adolphus  Farmar  (the  son  of  Major  Farmar) 
was  appointed  an  ensign  in  the  60th  Foot,  January  8,  1781. 
He  became  a  lieutenant  September  25,  1787,  and  remained  in 
the  army  until  1790. 

General  Galvez  was  not  content  with  the  capture  of  Mobile, 


82  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BII/LOPP    FARMAB 

but  in  March  of  the  following  year,  1781,  he  lay  siege  to 
Pensacola.  The  writer  has  in  his  possession  a  copy  of  a  very 
valuable  and  interesting  journal  of  the  siege  of  Pensacola, 
written  by  Ensign  Farmar,  and  handed  down  by  his  descend- 
ants to  the  present  generation,  but,  as  this  story  is  not  in- 
tended as  a  general  history,  he  forbears  to  quote  it  in  full. 
It,  however,  tells  the  story  of  the  siege  and  surrender  very 
lucidly,  and  at  the  close  informs  us  that  the  English  sailed  in 
the  Spanish  transports,  first  to  Havana,  and  from  there  to 
New  York.  It  is  to  be  presumed  that  the  families  of  the  sol- 
diers went  with  them.  They  arrived  in  New  York  the  latter 
part  of  July,  1781. 

Lieutenant  Barde,  husband  of  Anne  Billopp  Farmar,  re- 
signed from  the  English  Army  at  the  close  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  settled  at  Birdsboro,  in  Pennsylvania.  What 
led  him  to  take  this  step  is  to  a  considerable  extent  conjecture. 
As  has  been  mentioned,  there  was  a  large  contingent  of  Penn- 
sylvania troops  employed  in  the  defense  of  Mobile,  who  had 
been  stationed  there  sometime  previous  to  the  siege,  and  re- 
mained with  the  army  and  took  part  in  the  defense  of  Pensa- 
cola in  the  following  year.  As  Mr.  Farmar  frequently  men- 
tions them  in  his  journal,  and  as,  after  the  fall  of  the  latter 
place,  these  Pennsylvanians,  with  the  other  troops,  including 
the  60th  Foot,  in  which  Mr.  Barde  and  Mr.  Farmar  were 
officers,  sailed  to  New  York  in  the  Transports,  the  writer  be- 
lieves the  most  reasonable  explanation  of  Mr.  Barde's  move- 
ments is  that  he  and  his  wife,  Anne  Billopp,  the  daughter  of 
the  late  Major  Farmar,  who  were  strangers  in  the  city  of 
New  York,  had  in  the  common  reverses  and  misfortunes  of  the 
war,  formed  intimacies  and  friendships  with  some  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Loyalists,  and,  at  the  close  of  hostilities,  they  were 
persuaded  by  these  friends  to  go  with  them  to  their  old  home, 
which  was  still  a  new  country,  in  Pennsylvania.  Be  the  cause 
what  it  may,  there  is  where  they  went,  and  some  of  their 
descendants  are  there  at  the  present  day  to  prove  it. 

As  for  the  Major's  widow,  Mary  Anderson,  of  Yorkshire, 
England,  it  is  said  she  refused  to  live  where  the  English  flag 


MAJOR    ROBERT    FARMAR  83 

did    not    wave,    and    so     returned     to    England,    and    there 
died. 

Descendants  of  Anne  Billopp3  Farmar 

Anne  Billopp,  the  eldest  child  of  Major  Robert  Farmar, 
married  John  Lewis  (or  Louis)  Barde,  April  16th,  1780;  had 
three  sons  and  four  daughters: 

1  Robert  George  Barde,  unmarried,  died  in  Mobile,  in  1840. 

2  Samuel  Barde,  married  Anna  Davis,  and  had  five  children: 

1  Anne  Billopp  Barde,  married  Nathan  Evans,  and  had 
six  children : 

1  Louisa  Brooke  Evans. 

2  George    Evans,    married    Annie    Shoemaker,    and 
had  three  children : 

1  Louisa  Evans, 

2  George  Evans. 

3  Horace  Barde  Evans. 

3  Charles  Brooke  Evans. 

4  Mary  Evans,  married  Lewis  Garrigues,  and  had 
two  children  : 

1  Emily   Garrigues,  married  William   Lincoln. 

2  Edward  Garrigues. 

5  Clement  Brooke  Evans,  married  Elizabeth  Cham- 
bers, and  had  three  children: 

1  Frank  Evans,  married  Harriet  Spotts. 

2  Howell  Evans. 

3  Gertrude  Evans,  married  William  Short. 

6  Anne  Sheafe  Evans. 

2  Jared  Barde. 

3  Ellen  Barde. 

4  Eliza  Barde. 

5  Jane   Brooke   Barde,   married  John   Martin,   and  had 
six   children: 

1  Mary  Martin,  married  William  Eachus,  and  had 
six  children : 

1  William    Eachus,    married    Mary    Shalcross, 
and  had  two  children : 


84  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAB 

1  Charles  Eachus. 

2  Harrold  Eachus. 

2  Jennie  Eachus. 

3  Charles  Eachus. 

4  Louisa  Eachus. 

5  Marion  Eachus,  married  Walter  Greenwood; 
children : 

1  Walter  Edward  Greenwood. 

2  Richard  Fleming  Greenwood. 

6  Thomas  Norman  Eachus. 

2  Louisa  Brooke  Martin. 

3  Henry   Clay   Martin,   married  Louisa   McCorkle, 
and  had  one  child: 

1   Eliza  Barde  Martin. 

4  John  Locke  Martin,  married  Ella  Gause,  and  had 
three  daughters : 

1  Gillie  Ogden  Martin. 

2  Jessie  Martin,  married  John  McCulloch. 

3  Helen  Martin. 

5  Helen  Martin,  married  Thomas  Eachus,  and  had 
one  child : 

1   Edith  Eachus. 

6  Jane  Barde  Martin. 
3  Mary  Barde,  died,  unmarried. 

4<  Elizabeth   Barde,   married   Matthew   Brooke,   and   had  five 
children : 

1  Anne  Farmar  Brooke,  died  unmarried. 

2  Sarah  Reese  Brooke,  died  unmarried. 

3  Edward  Brooke,  married  Anne  Clymer,  and  had  four 
children : 

1  Anne  Brooke,  married  Blair  Lee  of  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  had  three  children: 

1  Brooke  Lee. 

2  Blair  Lee. 

3  Arthur  Lee,  died  young. 

2  Robert  Edward  Brooke,  married  Cornelia  Ewing, 
had  three  children : 


MAJOR    ROBERT    FARMAR  85 

1  Robert   Clymer   Brooke. 

2  Maskell  Ewing  Brooke. 

3  John  Louis  Barde  Brooke. 

George  Clymer  Brooke,  married  Rhoda  Morris, 
and  had  two  children: 

1  Rhoda  Brooke. 

2  George  Clymer  Brooke. 
4  Frederick  Brooke. 

4  George  Brooke,  married  Mary  Baldwin  Irwin,  and  had 
two  children : 

1  Edward  Rrooke,  married  Louisa  Clingan,  a  de- 
scendant of  the  first  Jasper  Farmar's  youngest 
son,  Edward.     They  had  four  children: 

1  George  Brooke. 

2  Edward  Brooke. 

3  Mary    Brooke 

4-  Charles  Brooke. 

2  George  Brooke. 

5  Elizabeth  Mary  Brooke,  married  Heister  Clymer,  and 
had  two  children  : 

1  Elizabeth   Clymer,  died  young. 

2  Edward  Clymer,  died  young. 

5  Jane  Barde,  married  Charles  Brooke  of  Hibernia  Iron 
Works,  Chester  Co.,  Pa.  This  gentleman  was  born  at 
Brooke  Manor,  on  the  Schuylkill  River,  near  Pottstown,  a 
tract  of  land  purchased  from  William  Penn,  by  his  grand- 
father, John  Brooke,  a  younger  son  of  the  famous  family 
of  that  name  of  Yorkshire,  England.  He,  with  his  wife 
and  two  sons,  arrived  in  America  in  1699.  Charles  Brooke, 
early  in  life,  purchased  a  tract  of  some  thousand  acres 
of  land  in  Chester  Co.,  where  he  started  the  well-known 
Hibernia  Iron  Works,  in  which  he  was  very  successful. 
He  was  a  man  of  much  influence  in  his  State.  He  died 
July  17,  1866.     They  had  nine  children: 

1  Mary  Brooke,  married  Clement  Brooke  Grubb,  who 
was  a  representative  of  the  fifth  generation  of  his 
family  in  this  country,  a  son  of  Harriet  Buckley  and 


86  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BII/LOPP    FARMAE 

Henry  Bates  Grubb.  He  was  born  at  his  parental 
homestead,  Mount  Hope,  on  February  9,  1815,  and 
died  at  his  Lancaster  residence  October  31,  1899. 
Mr.  Grubb  was  a  prominent  iron  master,  owning  Mount 
Hope,  Mount  Vernon,  Manada,  and  Codorus  char- 
coal furnaces ;  also  "St.  Charles  and  Henry  Clay  an- 
thracite furnaces.  He  was  also  an  owner  of  the 
Chestnut  Hill  and  Cornwell  ore  mines.  He  was  an 
active  business  man,  with  the  rare  faculty  of  perfect 
sympathy  with  those  in  his  employ,  and  was  admired 
and  beloved  to  a  degree  enjoyed  by  few.  He  was  one 
of  the  first  members  of  the  Union  League  Club  of 
Philadelphia,  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  a  vestry- 
man in  St.  James  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Lan- 
caster, Pa.     Their  five  children  were: 

1  Harriet  Brooke  Grubb,  married  Stephen  B.  Ir- 
win, and  had  two  children: 

1  Stephen  Irwin,  died  young. 

2  John  Heister  Irwin. 

2  Charles  Brooke  Grubb. 

3  Mary  Lilly  Brooke  Grubb,  married  Joseph  Bond 
Bcall  of  New  York  City,  formerly  of  Georgia. 
He  served  for  three  years  in  the  Civil  War,  a 
Captain  of  Company  A,  in  the  27th  Georgia  Bat- 
talion Heavy  Artillery,  Army  of  Tennessee,  com- 
manded by  General  Joseph  E.  Johnston  ;  children: 

1  Maria  Sanford  Beall,  died  young. 

2  Mary  Lilly  Beall. 

3  Ella  Josephine  Beall,  died  young. 

4  Ethel  Grubb  Beall,  married  George  Tucker 
Smith,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Navy,  died  March  10, 
1903,  leaving  a  son: 

1   George  Tucker  Smith  Jr. 

5  Florence  Beall. 

4  Ella  Jane  Grubb,  married  Colonel  L.  Heber  Smith. 
This  gentleman  was  a  great-grandson  of  Robert 
Smith,  a  Colonel  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  who 


MAJOR    ROBERT    FARMAR  87 

Berved  under  Washington.  Colonel  L.  Heber 
Smith  was  born  at  Joanna  Furnace,  Berks  County, 
Pa.  He  was  engaged  in  the  iron  manufacturing 
business  with  his  father  and  brothers  at  Joanna 
Furnace,  which  furnace  had  been  in  the  continual 
possession  of  his  family  since  its  establishment 
in  1793.  In  the  early  part  of  the  Civil  War  he  was 
mustered  into  the  United  States  Army,  as  captain 
of  Company  A,  128th  Regiment  of  Pennsylvania 
Infantry,  and  participated  in  the  battles  of  South 
Mountain  and  Antietam.  At  the  battle  of  Staf- 
ford Court  House  he  was  promoted  to  be  Colonel 
of  his  regiment.  At  the  battle  of  Chancellors- 
ville,  May  2,  1863,  through  the  blunder  of  a 
superior  officer,  he  was  captured  by  the  Confed- 
erates and  sent  to  Libby  Prison,  in  Richmond, 
but  was  shortly  afterward  exchanged.  His 
sword,  which  had  been  presented  to  him  by  his 
Company  upon  his  promotion  to  the  command  of 
the  Regiment,  was  taken  from  him,  at  the  time  of 
his  capture,  but  his  Regiment  presented  him  with 
another  upon  his  return.  He  was  a  gallant  and 
brave  soldier,  popular  alike  with  his  command  and 
his  ranking  officers.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he 
returned  to  his  home  and  business  at  Joanna 
Furnace.  He  was  frequently  tendered  a  promi- 
nent share  of  the  honors  of  his  political  party 
in  his  State,  but  his  controlling  preference  was 
for  the  unostentatious  sphere  of  business  duties 
and  the  modest  discharge  of  private  obligations. 
He  eventually  acquired  the  sole  ownership  of 
Joanna  Furnace  property,  and  enlarged  the 
works,  and  greatly  improved  his  ancestral  home, 
where  he  died  August  5,  1898,  leaving  six  chil- 
dren: 

1   Clement  Grubb  Smith,  married  Edith  Watts 
Comstock,  and  has  one  child: 


88  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

1  Julia  Comstock  Smith. 

2  Heber  L.  Smith,  married  Nellie  Oliver  Baer. 

3  Mary  Grubb  Smith. 

4  Daisy    Emily    Smith,    married    William    S. 
Morris  ;   they  have  one  son : 

1   Heber   Smith  Morris. 

5  Stanley   McDonald   Smith. 

6  William  Howard  Smith. 

5  Daisy  Elizabeth  Brooke  Grubb. 

2  Louisa  Catherine  Brooke,  married  Cadwalader  Wick- 
ersham,  and  had  four  children : 

1  Alice  Morris   Wickersham,   married  John   Miller 
Zinn,  and  had  two  children : 

1  George  Cadwalader  Zinn,  died  young. 

2  Maurice  Collins  Zinn,  married  Julia  Murray, 
and  has  one  child : 

1   Alice  Wickersham  Zinn. 

2  Josephine  Mary  Wickersham,  died  young. 

3  Paul    Goddard    Wickersham,    married    Annette 

Josephine  Wilson. 

4  Helen  Billopp  Wickersham. 

3  Elizabeth  Barde  Brooke. 

4>  Jane  Barde  Brooke,  married  Nathaniel  Burt.  Mr. 
Burt  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  1823,  was  the  son 
of  Nathaniel  Burt  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  of  Belfast, 
Ireland,  who  left  that  country  during  a  period  of 
troubles  with  England.  He  came  to  America  and 
settled  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  engaged  in  large  com- 
mercial interests,  being  one  of  the  first  to  establish 
trading  posts  in  the  West.  He  married  Mary  Leh- 
man, whose  ancestors  were  prominent  people  in  Sax- 
ony, and  came  to  America  with  Count  Zinzendorf; 
were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Germantown.  Na- 
thaniel, his  son,  was  a  graduate  of  Princeton  College, 
afterward  graduated  at  law,  but  did  not  practice. 
Mr.  Burt  took  an  active  interest  in  the  Pennsylvania 
Historical  Society,  also  in  many  charitable  organiza- 


MAJOR    ROBERT    FAEMAR  89 

tions.  He  was  one  of  the  early  members  of  the  Phila- 
delphia Club.  After  his  marriage  he  settled  at  Water- 
loo Farm,  a  large  estate  he  owned  in  Lancaster  County. 
He  died  in  Philadelphia,  January  23,  1893.  They  had 
nine  children : 

1  Nathaniel   Burt,  died  young. 

2  Charles   Brooke  Burt,  died  young. 

3  Alice  Burt,  died  young. 

4  Arthur    Burt,    married    Ella   Plank,    and   has    six 
children  : 

1  Nathaniel  Burt. 

2  Mary  Burt. 

3  Arthur  Armstrong  Burt. 

4  Alfred  Farmar  Brooke  Burt. 

5  Alice  Burt. 

6  Eliza  Lehman   Burt. 

5  Horace  Brooke   Burt,  married   Hester  Jones;  he 
died  1890,  leaving  four  children: 

1  Alice   Burt,    married   Henry   Drinker   Riley, 

and  has  two  children  : 

1  Jean  Brooke  Riley. 

2  Lewis  Alsop  Riley. 

2  Horace  Brooke  Burt,  died  young. 

3  Maxwell  Struthcrs  Burt. 

4  Nathaniel  Burt,  died  young. 

5  Jean  Brooke  Burt. 

6  Jean    Barde    Burt,   died   in   Paris,   France,   June, 
1894. 

7  Mary  Theodora  Burt. 

8  Alfred  Farmar  Burt,  died  1893. 

9  Edith  Brooke  Burt. 

Thomas  Reese  Brooke,  married  Harriet  Phelps,  died 
six  months  after  his  marriage;  there  was  one  son: 
1   Thomas  Reese  Brooke,  married  Elizabeth  Dodge ; 
child : 

1   Helen  Brooke. 
Charles  Edward  Brooke. 


90  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAE 

7  Horace  Louis  Brooke,  married  Gay  Williams,  and  had 
four  children: 

1  Horace  Louis  Brooke. 

2  Dandridge    Williams    Brooke,    married    Augusta 
Schaff er,  and  had  one  child : 

1   Gay  Brooke. 
S  Christine  Gay  Brooke. 
4  Charles  Grubb  Brooke. 

8  Henry  Clay  Brooke,  was  an  officer  in  the  11th  Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry  in  the  Civil  War.  Died  in  Belief ont, 
Pa.,  December  8,  1880,  unmarried. 

9  Helen  Theresa  Brooke,  married  Thomas  Harrison 
White,  a  great-grandson  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.  White, 
D.  D.,  the  first  bishop  consecrated  by  the  English 
Church  for  the  Church  in  America. 

6  Anne   Billopp   Barde,   married  Reese  Evans,   and  had   six 
children : 

1  Eliza  Brooke  Evans. 

%  Anne  Reese  Evans,  married  Francis  T.  Fassitt,  and 
had  one  child: 

1  Anne  Fassitt,  died  young. 

3  Charles  Brooke  Evans,  died  young. 

4  John  Evans,  died  young. 

5  Edward  Brooke  Evans. 

6  Sarah  Evans. 

7  John  Lewis   Barde,  married  Sarah  Neiman,  and  had  two 
children : 

1  Elizabeth  Brooke  Barde,  died  1907. 

2  Robert   Barde,   died  young. 

ROBEET  ADOLPHUS3   FaRMAE 

Robert  Adolphus,  son  of  Major  Robert  Farmar,  was  ap- 
pointed Ensign  in  the  60th  Regiment  of  Foot,  or  "  Royal 
Americans,"  on  the  8th  of  January,  1781.  He  was  made  Lieu- 
tenant September  25,  1787 ;  retired  from  the  English  Army  in 
1789.  He  took  part  in  the  defense  of  Pensacola,  and  kept  a 
diary  of  the  incidents  of  the  siege,  which  will  be  very  interest- 


MAJOR    ROBERT    FARMAR  91 

ing  to  the  historian.  In  the  diary  he  states  that,  after  the 
capture  of  Pensacola  by  the  Spaniards,  under  General  Galvez, 
his  regiment  sailed  to  New  York,  arriving  there  in  July,  1781. 

After  he  left  the  army  he  settled  in  Birdsboro,  Pennsylvania, 
in  the  neighborhood  of  his  sister,  Mrs.  Barde.  The  Penn- 
sylvania Archives  mentions  his  marriage  on  March  25,  1792, 
at  St.  James  Episcopal  Church,  commonly  called  "  The  Perkio- 
men  Church,"  to  Margaret,  the  daughter  of  Judge  John  Paw- 
ling of  Providence  Township,  Montgomery  County. 

On  page  372  of  the  Pennsylvania  Archives,  2d  series,  vol. 
wiii.,  is  found  the  following  letter  addressed  to  the  State 
Land  Commissioners: 

"  Providence  Township,  Montgomery  Co., 

"  11  June,  1804. 

"  Gentlemen  : 

"  Agreeable  to  Mr.  Taylor's  request  that  I  should  note  par- 
ticulars respecting  the  money  arising  from  the  Wyalusing 
tract,  I  have  promised  it  to  my  son-in-law,  Robert  A.  Farmar, 
to  enable  him  to  go  to  Louisiana  to  prosecute  his  claims  for 
his  Lands  in  that  country,  as  the  commissioners  have  now  met 
there  and  the  time  is  limited  for  the  Claimants  to  prove  their 
title  to  10th  September.  So,  therefore,  Gentlemen,  if  you 
could  facilitate  the  certificate,  and  send  me  pr  post,  it  would 
be  conferring  a  great  favor,  and  rendering  an  Essential 
Service. 

"  I  remain  with  great 

"  Respect  &  Esteem, 

"  Gentlemen, 
"  Your  Most  ob\  Hbl.  Sev't. 

"  John  Pawling. 

"  Thomas  Cooper,  and 
"  John  M.  Taylor,  Esqr 


,™  >> 


On  page  379,   same  volume,  is  the  following  letter  to  the 
same  commissioners: 


92  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 


"  Birdsboro,  Berks   County, 
"  14  June,  1804. 


"Sir: 

"  Inclosed  is  a  letter  from  my  worthy  Friend  Gen1.  Nichols, 
as  I  have  not  the  honor  of  your  Acquaintance,  he  was  kind 
enough  to  be  my  Advocate,  that  I  might  be  enabled  through 
your  means  to  recover  my  Birthright,  which  was  taken  from  us 
by  the  Spaniards,  in  1781. 

"  I  perceive  by  the  Newspapers,  that  the  Commissioners 
have  met  at  the  Natchez  and  Mobile,  and  the  time  will  expire 
by  the  16th  Septr  for  the  Landholders  to  lay  in  their  claims, 
so  you  will  conceive,  Sir,  how  necessary  it  is  for  me  to  be  in 
that  country  by  that  time,  Where  my  family  has  upward  of 
two  hundred  thousand  Acres  of  Land,  part  of  which  we  have 
settled  and  made  considerable  improvements  on,  before  it  fell 
to  the  Arms  of  Spain. 

"  Mr.  Pawling,  my  Father-in-law,  has  given  me  the  Money 
come  from  the  Commonwealth  for  the  lands  he  holds  in  Wyalus- 
ing,  have  therefore  to  beg  that  you  will  be  pleased  to  send  the 
Certificate  either  to  him  or  Me ;  he  has  wrote  a  few  Days  ago, 
by  Mr.  Stalford  respecting  the  Business. 

"  Do,  Sir,  let  me  entreat  you  to  be  expeditious,  as  it  will 
be  the  means  of  saving  a  large  family  from  want ; 

"  Relying  therefore  on  your  Goodness, 
"  I  subscribe   myself, 
"  With  Esteem  and  regard, 
"  Your  mo.  obt.  Hble.  Servt. 

"  Robt.  A.  Farmar." 

On  which  is  written  the  following  note: 

"  July  27,  1804,  answered  that  John  &  H.  Pawling  alone,  or 
their  Assignees  are  entitled  to  receive  the  Certificate." 

But  Robert,  perceiving  the  dilatory  ways  of  these  commis- 
sioners, and  the  ultimate  day  fast  approaching,  writes  again. 
On  page  383  we  find  this  letter: 


MAJOR    ROBERT    FARMAR  93 

"  Lancaster,  10th  September,  1804. 
"  G\  n'ii.imkn  : 

"  Compelled  by  necessity  to  Address  you  again,  must  intreat 
that  you  will  be  good  enough  to  forward  the  Certificate  for 
Mr.  Pawling's  Land,  as  I  am  full  empowered  to  receive  the 
need  (net?)  proceeds,  have  Shew  my  power  to  Mr.  Ellicott, 
who  is  satisfied  with  it,  and  told  me  I  should  not  be  detained 
a  minute  if  he  had  the  Certificate;  remember,  Gentlemen,  your 
promise  to  me  a  month  ago  that  you  would  forward  it  immedi- 
ately, relying  fully  upon  yr  goodness, 

"  I  subscribe  myself 
"  With  perfect  Esteem  and  Respect, 

"  Gentlemen, 
"  Your  most  ob\  humble  Servant, 

"  Robert  A.  ffarmar." 

The  poor  fellow  probably  did  not  receive  his  certificate  in 
time,  for  a  few  years  later  the  family  traditions  assert: — "  He, 
in  a  final  attempt  to  perfect  his  title  to  the  '  two  hundred 
thousand  acres,'  sailed  for  England,  and  was  lost  at  sea,  the 
vessel  never  being  heard  of  after  she  left  port." 

Descendants  of  Robert  Adolphus8  Farmar 

Lieutenant  Robert  Adolphus  Farmar  and  Margaret,  his 
wife,  had  several  children.  There  is  mention  of  one  son,  Rob- 
ert, who  grew  to  manhood,  and  probably  married,  for  Mrs. 
King's  mother  frequently  spoke  of  her  "  Uncle  Robert  Far- 
mar," and  her  "  Cousin  Robert  Farmar."  But  the  writer  can 
find  out  nothing  more  in  regard  to  them. 

The  only  children  of  Robert  Adolphus  Farmar  of  record 
are  two  daughters,  Anne  Billopp,  and  Margaretta,  whose  de- 
scendants are  shown  as  follows : 

I.  Anne    Billopp    Farmar,    daughter   of   Lieutenant   Robert 

Adolphus  and  Margaret  Pawling  Farmar,  born  July  30,  1800, 

married  Daniel  Rife  Brower,  January  1,  1819. 

1   Rachel  Pawling  Brower,  born  November  13,  1819,  married 

Cadwallader  Evans,  February  1,  1842.    This  estimable  lady 


94  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FA1MAE 

was  a  volunteer  nurse  during  the  Civil  War,  gathering 
hospital  stores  in  Montgomery,  Berkes,  Lehigh,  and  North- 
ampton Counties,  Penn.,  and  taking  them  to  the  front  after 
the  battles  of  Bull  Run  and  Antietam,  remaining  there  six 
weeks  and  living  in  a  tent,  returning  only  on  account  of  an 
attack  of  camp  fever.  On  her  recovery  she  returned  to  her 
work  of  love.  She  was  appointed  commissioner  for  Mont- 
gomery Co.,  Penn.,  to  the  United  States  Centennial  Expo- 
sition, in  1876,  was  active  in  all  good  works  in  alms- 
houses, jails,  and  other  public  institutions,  and  best  of  all, 
the  sweet  halo  of  her  memory  still  lingers  in  her  old  home, 
Bridgeport,  Penna.,  where  she  died  in  1902.  Her  children 
were : 

1  Margaretta  Pawling  Evans,  married  Thomas  H.  Wil- 
son ;  child : 

1   Franklin  Evans  Wilson,  married  Alice  V.  Babcock ; 
children: 

1  Mildred  Wilson. 

2  Dorothy  Wilson. 

3  David  Wilson. 

2  George  Jones  Evans,  officer  138th  Pennsylvania  Vol- 
unteers, in  the  Civil  War,  married  Sophia  Bradbury; 
children: 

1  Alice    Vivian    Evans,    married    Harry    Runacres, 
children : 

1  Dorothy  Runacres. 

2  Alice  Runacres. 

3  Harry  Runacres. 

4  Helen  Runacres. 

2  Rachel  Edna  Evans. 

3  Blanch  M.  Evans. 

3  Charles  Brower  Evans,  served  in  Penna.  Volunteers 
during  the  Civil  War,  died  1903. 

4  Cadwallader  Evans,  died  1864. 

5  William  Penn  Evans.  Mr.  Evans  has  kindly  con- 
tributed this  history  of  the  descendants  of  Anne  Bill- 
opp  Brower.     He  is  a  mechanical  engineer,  the  North- 


MAJOR    ROBERT    FARMAR  95 

western    representative    of    the    Baldwin    Locomotive 
Works.      He  married  Anne  Mary  Idell;  child: 
1   Donald  Evans,  with  Philadelphia  Inquirer. 
6  Anne  Brower  Evans,  died  in  infancy. 

2  Margaretta  Farmar  Brower,  born  1823,  drowned  in  Talla- 
hoochee  River,  Alabama,  in  1837. 

3  Mary  Louisa  Brower,  married  Oscar  Carter;  children: 

1  Oscar  Charles  Sumner  Carter,  married  Nellie  Martin. 

2  Mary  Louisa  Carter,  married  Peter  V.  Hoy. 

3  Josephine  Carter. 

4  Abby  Anne  Turner  Brower,  married  Dr.  George  W.  Hol- 
stein  ;  children : 

1  Charles  Holstein. 

2  Ella    Holstein,    married   William   W.    Potts,   children: 

1  Elizabeth  Holstein  Potts,  married  John  D.  Paist. 

2  Helen  Rutter  Potts. 

3  Carrie  C.  Potts. 

4  Ella  Holstein  Potts. 

3  George   Meade    Holstein,    married    Sarah   C.    Highly; 

children  : 

1  Abby  von  Holstein. 

2  George  Meade  von  Holstein,  Jr. 

3  Anne  H.  von  Holstein. 

5  Ella  Jane  Brower. 

6  Frances  Rife  Brower. 

7  Noah  Billopp  Brower,  married  Christine  Meeh. 

8  Laura  Brower. 

9  Daniel  Roberts  Brower,  M.  D.,  married  Eliza  Shearer.  Dr. 
Brower  is  one  of  Chicago's  prominent  physicians.  During 
the  Civil  War,  he  was  a  surgeon  in  the  United  States  Army. 
He  is  the  author  of  many  valuable  works  on  nervous  dis- 
eases.    Children : 

1  Unis  Anne  Brower. 

2  Daniel  Roberts  Brower,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  married  Olive  Mc- 
Gill. 

10  James  Farmar  Brower,  married  Elizabeth  Kelly;    children: 
1  Anne  Billopp  Brower,  married  Drew. 


96  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAB 

2  Earl  Brower. 

3  Robert  Farmar  Brower. 

4  Harry  Brower. 

5  Laura  Brower. 

6  Hubert  Brower. 

7  Helen  Brower. 

II.  Margaretta  Farmar,  daughter  of  Robert  Adolphus  Far- 
mar,  married  John  Turner  Lackey,  of  Northumberland  County, 
Virginia,  and  had  eight  children : 

1  Robert  Farmar  Lackey,  married  Miss  Lloyd,  of  Alexandria, 
Va.,  their  only  descendant  of  whom  the  writer  can  learn 
being  Mrs.  Harold  Snowden,  of  Alexandria. 

2  Milton  Lackey,  served  in  the  Civil  War  for  four  years,  and 
had  an  honorable  record  as  an  officer  of  the  40th  Virginia 
Infantry.  He  married  Miss  Travis,  of  Virginia,  and  had 
five  children,  of  whom  the  writer  has  learned  nothing  but 
their  names : 

1  Roberta  Lackey. 

2  Farmar  Lackey. 

3  Margaretta  Lackey. 

4  Hubert  Lackey. 

5  Robert  Farmar  Lackey. 

3  Caroline  Virginia  Lackey,  married  Joseph  de  Shields  Basye 
of  Northumberland  Co.,  Virginia,  and  had  one  child: 

1  Adelaide  Pawling  Basye,  who  married  Warrington 
Crane  King,  of  Norfolk,  Va.  At  the  breaking  out  of 
the  Civil  War,  when  he  was  just  fifteen  years  old, 
Mr.  King  joined  the  "  Norfolk  Light  Artillery  Blues," 
and  served  through  the  war,  seeing  four  years  of  hard 
service  in  General  A.  P.  Hill's  Corps,  Army  of  Vir- 
ginia. Many  of  Mr.  King's  comrades  have  told  the 
writer  that  no  braver  nor  more  gallant  boy  ever  wore 
the  gray.  The  writer  had  the  good  fortune  to  know 
Mr.  King  intimately,  in  Washington,  where  he  lived 
subsequent  to  the  war,  engaged  in  a  successful  busi- 


MAJOR     ROBERT     FARMAR  97 

ness.  He  was  a  cultivated,  intelligent,  and  loveable 
man,  devoted  to  his  family  and  friends,  who  in  return 
loved  and  esteemed  him  to  the  full  measure.  He  died 
in  Washington  in  1903.     They  had  two  sons: 

1  Charles  Kirby  King,  a  nautical  draftsman  in 
Cramp's  Shipyards,  Chester,  Penna.,  who  married 
Henrietta  Thorpe  Griffith,  of  Baltimore,  Md. 
They  have  one  child: 

1    Virginia  Basyc  King. 

2  Edwin  Fitzgerald  King. 

4-  Margaret  Lackey,  married  Dr.  Prestly  Nelms,  and  had 
three  children : 

1    Audubon  Nelms,  who  was  named  in  honor  of  the  great 
naturalist,  whose  wife,  Lucy  Blakcwell,  was  a  school- 
girl friend  of  his  grandmother,  Margaretta  Farmar, 
in  Berk's  County,  Penna. 
ii  John  Edwin  Nelms. 

8  Catherine  Downing  Nelms,  married  R.  H.  Blundon,  of 
Northumberland  Co.,  Va. 

5  Oscar  Lackey,  Chief  Engineer,  U.  S.  Navy.  In  opposition 
to  the  wishes  of  his  family,  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil 
War,  he  remained  in  the  United  States  service,  and  served 
through  the  war.  He  married  Miss  Stone  of  Norfolk,  Va., 
and  had  one  son  : 

1    Henry    Ellis    Lackey,    Lieutenant    Commander,    U.    S. 
Navy. 

6  Milford  Lackey,  married  Miss  Laurason,  of  Baltimore 
County,  Md.,  and  left  three  children: 

1  Elizabeth  Carroll  Lackey,  married  Charles  S.  Abel,  of 
Baltimore. 

2  Margaret  Virginia  Lackey. 

3  Oscar  F.  Lackey. 

7  Randolph  Lackey,  died  young. 

8  Logan  Lackey,  served  in  Kirkpatrick's  Battery  in  the  Con- 
federate Army,  in  General  Early's  command,  for  four 
years.  He  married  Miss  Betts,  of  Virginia,  and  had  several 
children. 


APPENDIX 


APPENDIX 

MAJOR    ROBERT    FARMAR 

This  sketch  of  Major  Robert  Farmar,  and  his  son-in-law, 
Captain  John  Louis  Barde,  was  prepared  and  kindly  contrib- 
uted by  Mr.  George  Brooke  of  Birdsboro,  Penna.,  to  be  used 
in  this  work  at  t lie  discretion  of  the  author.  The  article  is  so 
instructive  and  the  incidents  recounted  so  interesting  that  the 
writer  feels  compelled  to  insert  it  in  full,  and  he  is  certain  the 
reader  will  approve  his  action. 

"When  quite  young.  Major  Farmar  was  sent  to  England 
to  receive  his  education,  and  remained  there  until  he  was  nearly 
twenty  years  of  age,  when  he  returned  to  America.  In  1740 
he  entered  the  military  service  of  New  Jersey,  and,  with  a 
company  raised  by  himself  and  which  he  commanded,  joined 
an  expedition  against  the  Spaniards  in  the  South.  He  was 
commissioned  captain,  August  5,  1740,  and  embarked  at  Bur- 
lington, New  Jersey,  in  September,  but  did  not  sail  until  the 
following  month  for  the  West  Indies,  where  he  served  in  Colo- 
nel Goodie's  regiment.  On  June  19,  1744,  he  obtained  a  cap- 
taincy in  the  19th  Foot,  which  command  he  retained  until 
June  2,  1761,  when  he  was  promoted  to  a  Major  in  the  34th 
Foot,  known  as  the  Cumberland  Regiment,  and  served  the 
following  years  against  the  Havanas.  (From  the  New  Jersey 
Historical  Society,  vol.  iv. )  In  1763  he  was  sent  against 
Mobile,  and  on  October  2  he  took  possession  of  the  city  in  the 
name  of  his  British  Majesty,  and  remained  there  until  1765. 
During  the  year  1765,  he  left  for  the  Illinois  Country,  and 
arrived  opposite  St.  Louis  in  December  of  the  same  year,  re- 

101 


102  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BII/LOPP    FARMAE 

lieving  Captain  Sterling,  who  had  been  in  command.  He  cap- 
tured the  city  and  became  military  governor  of  the  Illinois 
Country,  which  had  been  claimed  by  France.  (New  York 
Colonial  Documents,  vol.  vii.)  It  is  supposed  that  he  held 
this  post  until  November  23,  1768,  when  he  retired  from  the 
Army  and  went  to  West  Florida,  residing  in  Pensacola.  Major 
Farmar  had  acquired  large  possessions  of  land  in  the  South, 
and  this  was  probably  the  cause  of  his  returning  there.  These 
properties  consisted  of  a  square  in  the  center  of  Mobile,  in 
the  middle  of  which  was  his  residence ;  and  other  lots  in  Mo- 
bile ;  part  of  Dauphin  Island  in  the  Bay ;  two  plantations  on 
the  Tombigbee  River,  containing  1260  acres,  with  a  handsome 
residence  on  one  of  them ;  another  on  the  Tensaw ;  and  also  a 
tract  of  8,000  acres  of  timber  land  on  the  east  side  of  Mobile 
Bay,  granted  to  Major  Farmar  by  the  Choctaw  Indian  Chiefs 
for  establishing  a  ferry.  In  addition  to  the  above  he  had  land 
in  Louisiana,  viz. :  3,000  acres  near  Natchez,  and  2,000  acres 
near  Baton  Rouge,  then  occupied  by  a  Mr.  Skipwith. 

"Major  Farmar  was  married  to  Mary  Anderson,  of  York- 
shire, England,  in  1766.  He  died  in  Pensacola  in  1779,  leav- 
ing his  wife  with  the  following  children :  Anne  Billopp,  Robert 
Adolphus,  Mary  Elizabeth,  Catharine  Louisa,  and  Thomas. 

"  Major  Farmar  was  a  great  favorite  with  the  Indians  of 
Florida.  He  always  treated  them  with  the  greatest  hospitality 
frequently  entertaining  the  Chiefs  at  his  table.  They  called 
him,  in  their  language,  '  The  King  of  the  Choctaws.'  He  also 
entertained  distinguished  men  from  the  North,  and  other  lo- 
calities. John  Bertram,  the  naturalist,  who  founded  Bertram 
Gardens,  near  Philadelphia,  made  Farmar's  house  his  home 
for  months  at  a  time,  when  he  was  examining  and  collecting 
specimens  in  Florida. 

"  At  this  time,  while  the  war  for  the  Independence  of  the 
United  States  was  keeping  the  English  Army  and  Navy  en- 
gaged, Spain  took  advantage  of  this  condition  to  try  to  retake 
Florida,  and  sent  over  a  large  body  of  troops  under  Don 
Galvez  for  that  purpose.  Among  the  English  sent  to  oppose 
them  was  a  young  officer,  Lieutenant  John  Louis  Barde,  act- 


APPENDIX  103 

ing  as  Captain  of  the  60th  Royal  American  Regiment,  and 
stationed  at  Pensacola.  He  was  quartered  at  the  house  of 
Mrs.  Farmar,  and  after  a  while  Captain  Barde  and  Anne 
Billopp,  her  oldest  daughter,  became  lovers,  but,  owing  to  her 
extreme  youth,  Mrs.  Farmar  ignored  the  affair.  Not  to  be 
defeated,  they  quietly  procured  a  marriage  license  from  Gov- 
ernor Chester,  and  by  the  Chaplain  of  the  Regiment,  they 
were  quietly  married  under  a  large  tree  in  the  woods.  The 
young  groom  could  not  purchase  a  wedding  ring  in  Pensa- 
cola, so  he  cut  one  out  of  a  gold  guinea.  About  three  weeks 
after  this  secret  wedding,  a  dispute  arose  at  the  dinner  table 
between  Anne  and  some  of  the  younger  children.  Captain 
Barde  sided  with  his  wife,  and  Mrs.  Farmar  with  much  in- 
dignation inquired  by  what  right  he  interfered  in  her  house- 
hold. "  By  right  of  a  husband,"  came  the  reply,  producing 
marriage  certificate  and  license.  Angry  as  Mrs.  Farmar  most 
justly  was,  she  could  do  naught,  as  all  was  in  due  form,  so  in  a 
little  time,  when  her  anger  wslb  cooled,  she  gave  a  party  and 
introduced  the  young  couple  to  her  friends. 

Hut,  while  this  love  affair  and  marriage  were  going  on, 
the  Spanish  Army  had  again  conquered  the  Province  of  Florida. 
All  the  English  troops  were  prisoners  of  war,  and  the  flag 
of  Castile  and  Leon  once  again  floated  where  the  proud  banner 
of  St.  George  had  been  unfurled  for  some  dozen  years.  After 
the  surrender  the  Spanish  Commander  made  Mrs.  Farmar's 
house  his  headquarters,  and  used  all  his  influence  and  persua- 
sion to  induce  her  to  remain,  promising  all  protection  to  her 
young  family,  and  her  large  landed  possessions,  from  the  laws 
of  Spain.  The  Spanish  Commanders  were  most  anxious  for 
the  law  abiding  English  settlers  to  stay  with  them,  but  Mrs. 
Farmar  said  she  could  not  live  where  any  other  flag  than  the 
Red  Cross  of  England  was  flying. 

"  Captain  Barde  was  exchanged  and  ordered  to  Charles- 
ton, as  the  British  still  held  possession  of  that  place.  His  wife 
accompanied  him,  and  also  Mrs.  Farmar  and  her  other  children. 
They  remained  in  Charleston  until  it  was  given  up  to  the 
United  States  troops.    On  the  first  day  of  April,  1782,  the  last 


104?  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

British  man-of-war  left  the  harbor  at  Charleston,  in  which 
vessel  sailed  Mrs.  Farmar  and  her  family,  this  being  her  last 
opportunity  of  getting  to  England.  On  this  day  also  was  born 
her  first  grandchild,  Robert  George  Barde.  Loath  as  Mrs. 
Farmar  was  to  leave  her  daughter,  a  young  mother,  she  had 
no  option.  Tearful  and  sad  was  the  parting  of  the  mother  and 
daughter,  who  were  never  again  to  meet  in  this  world. 

"  Soon  all  the  English  troops  were  ordered  to  New  York, 
Mrs.  Barde  accompanying  her  husband.  The  next  year,  when 
she  saw  the  English  fleet  leave  New  York,  she  was  truly  a 
stranger  in  a  strange  land.  All  her  relations  (and  they  were 
quite  numerous  in  New  York  and  its  vicinity)  were  loyal  to 
England,  many  of  them  having  gone  there,  but  Captain  Barde 
remained  in  America,  as  he  thought  there  was  a  better  pros- 
pect of  success  here  than  in  the  old  country.  After  peace 
was  declared  between  England  and  the  United  States,  he  had 
himself  put  on  half  pay,  and  remained  until  England  had  de- 
clared war  against  France,  when  by  proclamation,  all  English 
officers  on  half  pay  in  America,  were  ordered  to  report  at 
Halifax.  He  then  sold  his  commission,  and  remained  in  this 
country. 

"  It  is  proper  here  to  relate  the  family  history  of  Captain 
John  Louis  Barde.  He  was  born  in  Geneva,  Switzerland,  in 
1756.  At  the  age  of  fourteen,  he  left  his  home  and  went  to 
England  to  obtain  a  military  education.  Through  the  influence 
of  his  cousins,  the  Prevosts,  he  obtained  an  appointment  as 
cadet  in  the  Royal  Military  College  at  Woolwich.  At  the  age 
of  eighteen  he  received  his  commission  as  ensign,  and  some- 
time later  as  lieutenant.  His  ancestors  belong  to  the  Prevost 
family,  this  name  being  changed  to  Barde  by  one  of  his  an- 
cestors who  took  the  name  of  the  woman  he  married,  which 
was  then  sometimes  done.  Probably  this  was  a  descendant 
of  Jean  de  la  Barde,  for  many  years  a  representative  of  France 
in  Switzerland.  The  Prevost  family  and  their  ancestors,  the 
Mallets,  trace  their  family  back  to  the  Crusaders,  where  one 
of  this  name  was  a  distinguished  leader,  and  was  rewarded  with 
high  honors.     They  resided  in  Geneva,  Switzerland.      Several 


APPENDIX  105 

of  the  family  came  to  this  country  early,  and  settled  in  Hunter- 
don Co.,  New  Jersey,  the  place  being  called  Frenchtown,  from 
the  many  French  settlers  there.  Captain  Barde  and  his  sons 
frequently  visited  them  there. 

"  Mrs.  Barde  had  relations,  the  Farmars,  in  New  York  and 
on  Staten  Island,  where  they  had  a  large  grant  of  land,  but 
in  a  short  time  they  came  to  Philadelphia,  thinking  there  was 
a  better  opening  there  for  some  business,  and  here  also  were 
settled  relatives  of  the  Farmar  family.  Jasper  Farmar  had 
purchase  d  ",,000  acres  of  land  from  William  Penn,  in  the  town- 
ship of  White  Marsh,  in  Montgomery  County.  Edward  Far- 
mar, one  of  his  sons,  gave  the  land  and  helped  build  St.  Thomas 
Church,  and  many  of  the  family  are  buried  in  the  adjoin- 
ing graveyard.  They  were  intimate  with  William  Penn,  and 
held  some  offices  in  Philadelphia  which  required  their  pres- 
sence  in  that  city.  No  doubt  Captain  Barde  and  his  wife  and 
small  son  went  there  first,  but  we  next  find  them  living  at 
Spring  Mill  in  1784,  where  their  son,  Samuel,  was  born  on 
March  3,  in  that  year. 

"  It  may  be  possible  that  Captain  Barde  was  attracted  to 
that  place  by  a  Frenchman  who  had  purchased  a  large  tract 
of  land  there,  and  built  a  large  stone  house,  still  standing.  This 
Frenchman  was  a  man  of  some  distinction,  and  undertook  to 
cultivate  grapes  for  making  wine,  which  proved  a  failure.  The 
next  place  we  hear  of  the  Bardes,  they  are  living  at  Moore 
Hall,  a  fine  residence  on  the  Perkiomen  Creek,  a  short  distance 
from  its  mouth  on  the  Schuylkill,  and  with  a  beautiful  view 
of  the  Valley  Hills  in  front.  Their  daughters,  Mary  and 
Elizabeth,  were  born  there,  the  former  March  25,  1786,  and 
the  latter  March  18,  1788.  Their  next  move  was  to  Birdsboro, 
an  iron  works  on  the  Schuylkill  about  50  miles  from  Phila- 
delphia, which  works  Captain  Barde  rented  in  1789.  He  car- 
ried on  the  works  under  lease  for  eight  years,  and  then 
purchased  them  together  with  about  2.200  acres  of  woodland 
from  the  Mark  Bird  estate. 

"  Captain  Barde  died  at  Birdsboro  in  1799,  leaving  his 
widow  and  seven  children  ;    the  oldest,  Robert,  aged  about  17 


106  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 

years,  and  the  youngest  three,  born  at  Birdsboro,  viz.:  John 
Louis,  March  31,  1791 ;  Jane,  February  7,  1794,  and  Anne 
Billopp,  born  June  30,  1796. 

"  As  before  stated,  the  widow  of  Major  Farmar,  with  her 
children,  sailed  from  Charleston  for  England  in  1782,  leav- 
ing Mrs.  Barde  with  her  husband  in  this  country.  The  names 
of  these  children  were  Robert  Adolphus,  Mary  Elizabeth, 
Catharine  Louisa,  and  Thomas.  When  these  children  grew 
up,  they  all  returned  to  this  country,  except  Thomas,  who  en- 
tered the  British  Navy,  and  died  a  boy  at  sea.  Robert  Adol- 
phus, when  he  was  grown  up,  entered  the  English  Army,  but 
when  quite  a  young  man  he  sold  his  commission,  and  came  to 
this  country  to  be  near  his  sister  at  Birdsboro.  He  married 
a  daughter  of  Judge  Pawling  of  Norristown.  He  built  a  stone 
house  at  Birdsboro,  on  what  was  called  Farmar's  Hill,  which 
house  is  still  standing.  He  had  several  children,  one  of  whom 
married  Daniel  Brower  of  Norristown.  After  residing  here 
for  several  years,  Farmar  went  to  England,  supposedly  to 
recover  some  property,  and  was  never  heard  from  after  he  left 
this  country. 

"  The  next  child,  Mary  Elizabeth,  married  a  French  noble- 
man, Count  Louis  de  Grasse  de  Vaubercy.  They  lived  in  Mo- 
bile, and  endeavored  to  recover  some  of  the  Farmar  property, 
but  with  little  success.  Their  descendants  are  still  living  there 
or  in  New  Orleans. 

"  Catharine  Louisa  married  Count  Otto  Vautile  Barbaree, 
and  lived  in  New  York. 

"  Regarding  the  Farmar  property,  the  titles  were  very 
much  mixed  up,  as  the  country  had  been  in  the  possession  of 
the  Spaniards  several  years.  Powers  of  attorney  had  been  given 
several  times  to  act  for  the  heirs,  and  Robert,  eldest  son  of 
Captain  Barde,  made  Mobile  his  residence  to  carry  on  the 
suits,  but  disagreements  with  De  Vaubercy  prevented  any  joint 
action.  Although  the  United  State  Courts  awarded  these  lands 
to  the  Farmar  heirs,  the  Spanish  claims,  and  the  expensive  law 
suits  prevented  any  title  being  secured  to  them. 

"  Birdsboro  is   among  the  old  iron  works   of  the  country. 


APPENDIX  107 

William  Bird,  an  Englishman,  took  up  land  and  built  forges 
here  in  1740.  His  son,  Mark  Bird,  succeeded  him,  built  Hope- 
well Furnace,  and  extended  his  boundary  to  over  10,000  acres. 
He  owned  other  works  and  properties,  and  was  quite  a  wealthy 
man.  The  disturbance  of  business  by  the  Revolution,  and 
the  monetary  troubles  after  its  close,  brought  about  his  fail- 
ure. His  property  and  works  had  to  be  sold  to  satisfy  his 
creditors,  and  his  old  mansion  house,  built  in  1750,  together 
with  the  farm  and  woodbind,  amounting  to  about  1,400  acres, 
was  sold  to  Matthew  Brooke  in  1796.  Soon  after  Hopewell 
Furnace  was  purchased  by  Thomas  Brooke  and  Matthew 
Brooke,  and  their  brother-in-law,  Daniel  Buckley,  with  the 
woodland  belonging  to  it.  After  Captain  Barde's  death  his 
property  came  into  the  possession  of  Matthew  Brooke,  and 
now  nearly  all  this  property  of  the  Birds  came  into  the  hands 
of  the  Brookes.  It  will  be  well,  therefore,  to  look  back  into  the 
history  of  the  Brooke  family,  from  their  landing  in  this 
country. 

"  The  Brookes  came  from  Yorkshire,  England,  John,  and 
his  wife  Frances,  and  two  sons,  .lames  and  Matthew,  the  latter 
a  minor,  coming  over  on  the  ship  Brittania,  in  the  latter  part 
of  1698.  They  left  an  elder  son,  George,  and  two  married 
daughters  in  England.  A  contagious  disease  broke  out  on  the 
ship,  and  it  was  not  permitted  to  come  into  Philadelphia,  but 
was  sent  to  the  New  Jersey  side  of  the  river.  John  Brooke 
and  his  wife  were  quartered  in  the  house  of  one  Will  Cooper 
of  Cooper's  Point,  and  died  there,  soon  after  their  arrival. 
They  were  buried  in  the  graveyard  at  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey. 
His  will  shows  that  he  left  considerable  property  in  England 
to  those  he  left  behind  him,  and  the  inventory  of  goods  they 
brought  with  them  included  everything  necessary  in  a  new 
country,  with  articles  of  furniture  and  a  maid  servant  (valued 
at  12  pounds  in  the  inventory)  showing  that  they  were  ac- 
customed to  a  comfortable  life  at  home.  Before  embarking 
to  America,  John  Brooke  had  purchased  1,500  acres  of  land 
of  William  Penn  to  be  taken  anywhere  between  the  Delaware 
and  Susquehanna  rivers,  where  vacant  land  could  be  found. 


108  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAK 

"  James  and  Matthew,  after  the  death  of  their  father,  took 
up  land  in  Limerick  Township,  Mongomery  Co.,  where  they 
settled,  James  on  the  right  side  of  the  road  from  Philadelphia, 
and  Matthew  on  the  left,  nearly  a  mile  apart.  Matthew  mar- 
ried Anne  Evans.  He  presented  the  land  for  the  Limerick 
Meeting  House,  and  graveyard,  where  all  the  early  Brookes 
were  buried.  Matthew  died  in  1720,  leaving  four  children, 
William,  George,  John,  and  Matthew. 

"  Matthew  2nd  married  Sarah  Reese  and  died  at  Birdsboro 
in  1806,  aged  eighty-seven  years.  He  had  nine  children,  one 
of  them  being  Matthew  3rd,  who  purchased  the  Iron  Works, 
and  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Captain  John  Louis  Barde, 
and  Anne  Billopp,  daughter  of  Major  Farmar.  Matthew 
Brooke's  sister  Sarah,  married  Daniel  Buckley,  who  also  be- 
came a  partner  in  the  purchase  of  Hopewell  Furnace. 

"  Matthew  Brooke  married  Elizabeth  Barde,  and  a  few  years 
after,  his  nephew,  Charles  Brooke,  married  Jane  Barde,  and 
their  mother,  Anne  Billopp  Barde,  made  her  home  with  the 
latter,  first  at  Joanna  Furnace,  and  afterwards  at  Hibernia 
Iron  Works.  Matthew  Brooke  had  five  children.  Two  daugh- 
ters died  young,  and  two  sons,  Edward  and  George,  succeeded 
their  father  in  the  iron  business,  and  extended  the  works  until 
now  they  give  employment  to  about  1,000  men,  and  the  place 
has  grown  to  a  town  of  2,500  inhabitants. 

"  Edward  married  Annie  M.  Clymer,  a  descendant  of  the 
family  of  the  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

"  George  married  Mary  B.  Irwin,  daughter  of  John  H. 
Irwin  of  Philadelphia,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Frederick 
Augustus  Muhlenberg,  first  Speaker  of  the  House  in  the  first 
Congress. 

"  The  youngest,  Elizabeth,  married  Hiester  Clymer,  once 
candidate  for  Governor  of  this  State,  and  one  of  its  representa- 
tives in  congress. 

"  Charles  Brooke,  who  married  Jane  Barde,  had  ten  children. 
The  oldest  one  married  Clement  B.  Grubb  of  Mt.  Hope  Fur- 
nace.    Louisa,  the  next  daughter,  married  Cadwaladcr  Wick- 


APPENDIX  109 

ersham.  The  latter,  when  she  was  a  child,  was  a  pet  with  her 
Grandmother  Barde,  and,  as  she  grew  up,  was  always  with 
her  and  learned  a  great  deal  of  her  family  history,  which  she 
stored  away  in  her  mind,  and  on  paper. 

"  The  writer  of  this  paper  (Mr.  George  Brooke)  is  greatly 
indebted  to  her  for  much  of  it,  having  procured  a  written  copy 
of  it  during  her  life." 


THE  FALL  OF  PENSACOLA,   1781. 

From  the  Journal  of  Robert  Adolphus  Farmar,  Ensign,  60th 
Regiment  of  Foot,  "  Royal  Americans." 

"Friday,  March  9th,  1781.  Appeared  in  sight  a  Spanish 
Fleet,  consisting  of  thirty-two  sail  of  vessels.  The  same  night 
a  number  of  Spaniards  landed  on  St.  Rose  Island. 

'  Monday  12th.  The  enemy  erected  batteries  on  Rose  Is- 
land, which  compelled  the  Mentor  and  Port  Royal  (British  ves- 
sels) to  quit  the  station.  Some  of  their  vessels  attempted  to 
come  over  the  bar,  but  put  back  again. 

"  Saturday  17th.  The  enemy  attempted  to  land  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Perdido  under  cover  of  two  row  galleys,  but  the 
Indians  in  sight  prevented  them. 

"  Monday  19th.  About  two  o'clock  p.  m.  twenty-two  sail 
of  the  enemy's  vessels  came  over  the  bar  and  passed  the  fort  at 
the  cliffs  without  receiving  any  damage. 

"  Tuesday  20th.  Captain  Stevens  arrived  with  a  party  of 
Indians,  informs  us  that  yesterday  they  fell  in  with  an  enemy's 
boat  and  crew  consisting  of  eleven  men  ten  of  whom  were 
killed  and  one  brought  in  a  prisoner.  About  five  o'clock,  Gen- 
eral Galvez,  the  Spanish  Commander,  sent  a  flag  of  truce  to 
General  Campbell,  the  English  Commander,  to  the  purpose  as 
Lord  Albermarle  sent  one  at  the  siege  of  the  Havana,  which 
was  not  to  burn  the  shipping,  King's  Buildings,  or  town,  and 
threatened,  etc.,  .  .  .  General  Campbell  answered  that  the 
threats  of  an  enemy  are  not  to  be  minded. 

"  Friday  23rd.  The  sixteenth  and  sixtieth  regiments  evacu- 
ated the  town  of  Pensacola,  and  took  their  station  at  the  two 
redoubts. 

"  Saturday  24th.     Mr.  Stevenson  went  with  a  flag  of  truce 

no 


APPENDIX  HI 

from  the  Governor  to  the  Don,  concerning  the  town,  women 
and  children. 

"  Sunday  25th.  Nine  o'clock,  a.  m.  The  Indians  brought 
in  twenty-three  horses  belonging  to  the  enemy,  and  two  scalps. 

*  Tuesday  27th.  Forty-two  sail  of  the  Spanish  Fleet  took 
their  station  between  Moore  and  Neils  houses. 

"  Thursday  29th.  About  nine  o'clock  some  of  the  Indians 
came  in  and  say  they  had  a  brush  yesterday  afternoon  the  other 
side  of  Sutton's  Lagoon  with  the  enemy  and  drove  in  the  piquet 
three  times,  upon  which  their  grenadiers  turned  out  and  fired 
twice  at  them,  and  retired.     Four  of  the  Indians  are  wounded. 

"  Friday  30th.  About  nine  o'clock  an  advance  piquet  under 
the  command  of  Captain  Kennedy  of  the  Maryland  Loyalists, 
was  obliged  to  retreat  as  the  enemy  was  marching  down  upon 
them,  and  began  to  fire  their  field  pieces.  At  10  o'clock, 
Captain  Kennedy's  party  marched  down  to  Neils'  meadows,  a 
mile  and  a  quarter  from  our  works.  About  two  o'clock  the 
Indians  went  there  also,  and  attacked  the  main  body  of  the 
enemy,  and  kept  up  a  very  heavy  fire  until  five  o'clock,  at  which 
time  tluv  w.  iv  supported  by  Captain  Johnston,  with  two  field 
pieces,  and  one  Howitzer ;  also  by  fifty  negroes.  Lieutenant 
Meiggs  went  with  twenty-five  men  of  the  Sixtieth  to  cover  the 
field  pieces.  On  account  of  the  heavy  fire,  they  received  from 
Captain  Johnston,  the  Indians  and  negroes,  they  retired  under 
cover  of  their  shipping  and  galleys.  At  half  past-five  o'clock, 
Captain  Johnston  and  Lieutenant  Meiggs  returned.  The  Indi- 
ans came  in  and  brought  in  with  them  four  of  the  enemy's 
drums  and  a  number  of  scalps.  The  inhabitants  of  the  town 
say  that  they  saw  a  shell  from  the  howitzer  fall  in  the  midst 
of  thirteen  boats,  full  of  men  coming  on  shore,  which  made 
them  return  again  to  their  ships.  We  had  one  Indian  killed, 
two  slightly  wounded,  and  one  negro  wounded  in  the  foot. 

"  Monday  April  2nd.  The  enemy  this  evening  embarked 
all  their  troops. 

"  Tuesday  10th.  One  of  the  Waldecks  who  was  taken  at 
Baton  Rouge,  and  had  enlisted  in  the  regiment  of  Louisiana, 
deserted  and  came  and  joined  his  regiment.     He  says  that  the 


112  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAE 

enemy  is  badly  off  for  provisions,  two  men  getting  only  one 
pound  of  meat  per  day. 

"  Monday  16th.  B.  Jones  and  A.  Francis  arrived  with  about 
ninety  Choctaws.  The  enemy  threw  up  a  work  in  a  plain  one 
mile  and  a  half  from  us. 

"  Tuesday  17th.  Eleven  o'clock  a.  m.  an  Express  arrived 
from  St.  Augustine,  with  duplicates  of  the  letters  that  were  re- 
ceived sometime  ago,  informing  us  that  Lord  Cornwallis  had  an 
engagement  with  the  rebels  at  Hillsborough,  North  Carolina, 
and  had  killed  three  thousand  of  them.  A  party  of  the  Creeks 
that  came  with  the  express  took  a  boat  belonging  to  the  enemy 
at  Deer  Point.  They  killed  three  of  the  crew  and  took  one 
prisoner.  This  afternoon  five  negroes  took  a  Spaniard  at  Gull 
Point. 

"  Tuesday  24th.  Between  seven  and  eight  o'clock,  a  body 
of  about  three  hundred  of  the  enemy  were  seen  advancing. 
Upon  which  the  Indians  went,  but  they  retired  from  the  enemy's 
fire.  Upon  which  Captain  Byrd,  with  the  Sixtieth,  advanced 
to  within  70  yards  and  gave  them  a  volley.  When  they  re- 
treated very  precipitately.  Dawes  arrived  from  Carolina  and 
brought  an  account  that  Lord  Cornwallis  had  totally  defeated 
the  rebels  at  Guilford,  killing  two  thousand  of  them,  and  tak- 
ing a  number  of  cannon  and  stores,  and  prisoners,  upon  which 
at  eight  o'clock  we  fired  a  feu  de  joie. 

"  Wednesday  25th.  About  seven  o'clock  a.  m.  an  advance 
piquet  had  a  skirmish  with  the  enemy  and  beat  them  off. 

"  Monday  30th.  A  French  frigate  came  over  the  bar,  and 
joined  the  enemy's  fleet  inside. 

"  Thursday,  May  3rd.  The  enemy  fired  during  the  day  five 
hundred  and  thirty-four  shot,  and  one  hundred  and  eighty-six 
shells.  They  killed  one  of  the  men  of  the  Sixteenth  and 
wounded  one  of  the  seamen  belonging  to  the  Port  Royal,  but  did 
very  little  damage  beside.  Our  people  picked  up  today  about 
five  hundred  shot,  some  of  which  we  returned  to  the  Dons. 

"  Friday,  4th.  We  began  to  fire  upon  the  enemy  from  the 
advanced  redoubt,  at  their  battery,  and  the  people  at  work  in 
in  the  front.     Twelve  o'clock  ninety-four  Provincials  under  the 


APPENDIX  113 

command  of  Major  Mac  Donald,  and  Waldecks,  under  the 
command  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  De  Horn,  to  support  them, 
stormed  the  works  in  front  of  the  advanced  redoubt,  burnt 
their  works,  and  spiked  six  pieces  of  cannon — eight  and  four 
pounds.  The  enemy  fired  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  shot, 
and  eighty-seven  shells  during  the  day. 

"  Saturday  5th.  The  enemy's  ships  on  the  outside  of  Rose 
Island  are  gone  off,  about  six  o'clock.  Two  deserters  from 
the  French  train  of  artillery  came  in,  who  informed  us  that  the 
enemy's  loss  yesterday  amounted  to  thirty  killed,  among  which 
is  a  Major  of  the  Catalonia  volunteers.  The  enemy  fired  dur- 
ing the  day,  twenty-five  shot,  and  forty-three  shells.  The 
enemy  threw  a  few  shells  tonight. 

"  Sunday,  6th.  The  shot  and  shell  fired  by  the  enemy  dur- 
ing the  day,  amounted  to  five  hundred  and  sixty-three  shot,  and 
two  hundred  and  six  shells. 

"Monday  7th.  Deserter  came  in  from  the  enemy.  He  is 
a  German,  and  belongs  to  the  Regiment  of  Flanders,  informs 
us  that  the  Dons  are  very  badly  off  for  provisions,  and  that 
Don  Galvez,  and  the  French  General  do  not  agree.  He,  (the 
French  General)  told  Galvez  that  if  we  did  not  surrender  on 
the  8th  instant,  he  would  withdraw  his  troops  and  vessels  and 
go  upon  the  expedition  he  was  destined  for;  and  he  further  says 
that  a  shot  from  us  yesterday  killed  one  Captain,  one  lieutenant 
and  twelve  privates  of  the  Catalonia  volunteers.  Yesterday 
one  of  the  Pennsylvania  Loyalists  attempted  to  desert,  but 
was  taken  and  brought  in  by  the  Indians,  when  he  received  five 
hundred  lashes  and  was  drummed  out  of  the  regiment,  with  his 
hands  tied  behind  him,  and  a  large  label  pinned  to  his  breast 
with  his  crime.  He  was  escorted  close  to  the  Spanish  lines  and 
left  to  his  fate,  but  he  soon  returned.  The  whole  of  the  Indians 
went  out  about  half  past  twelve  o'clock  to  endeavor  to  get  upon 
the  rear  of  the  enemy's  encampment.  They  would  not  suffer  a 
white  man  to  go  with  them.  They  returned  in  a  short  time  with 
ten  scalps.  Our  fire  from  the  advanced  redoubt  did  the  enemy 
a  great  deal  of  damage  to  their  works  in  our  front. 

"  Tuesday,  8th.     About  nine  o'clock,  a.  m.  a  shell  from  the 


114  THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BII/LOPP    FARMAR 

enemy's  front  battery  was  thrown  in  at  the  door  of  the  maga- 
zine of  the  advanced  redoubt,  as  the  men  were  receiving  powder, 
which  blew  up  and  killed  forty  seamen  belonging  to  His  Maj- 
esty's ships  the  Mentor  and  Port  Royal,  and  forty-five  men  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Loyalists  were  killed  by  the  same  explosion. 
There  were  a  number  of  men  wounded.  Captain  Byrd,  with 
seventy  men  of  the  sixtieth  regiment  immediately  went  up  to 
the  advanced  redoubt,  and  brought  off  two  field  pieces,  one 
howitzer  and  a  number  of  wounded  men,  but  was  obliged  to 
return,  as  a  great  quantity  of  shell  was  lying  about  filled.  At 
ten  o'clock  the  enemy  took  possession  of  the  remains  of  the 
advanced  redoubt,  and  kept  up  from  it  a  very  heavy  fire  of 
small  arms  and  cannon  from  their  flank  battery  upon  the  center 
redoubt,  which  wounded  Lieutenant  Wood  and  eighteen  men  of 
the  Sixtieth  Regiment,  and  twelve  seamen,  a  number  of  whom 
died,  as  they  were  mostly  wounded  in  the  head.  About  two 
o'clock  p.  m.  hoisted  a  flag  of  truce  from  Fort  George,  and 
offered  to  surrender  upon  capitulation.  Lieutenant  Mieggs 
of  the  Sixtieth  Regiment,  went  as  a  hostage  from  us,  and  we 
received  Lieutenant  Kinney  of  the  Regiment  of  Hibernia  from 
the  enemy. 

"  Wednesday,  9th.     All  day  settling  terms. 

"  Thursday,  10th.  About  five  o'clock  p.  m.,  we  surrendered 
to  the  arms  of  Spain.  The  Spanish  Grenadiers,  under  the  com- 
mand of  Don  Bernardo  de  Galvez,  took  possession  of  Fort 
George  and  the  line,  and  sixty  French  Chasseurs  of  the  center 
redoubt. 

"  Friday,  11th.  The  Corps,  under  the  command  of  Lieut- 
enant General  Campbell,  encamped  on  the  east  side  of  the 
town. 

"  June  1st.     Embarked  on  board  of  the  Spanish  transports. 

"  June  4th.      Sailed  from  Pensacola. 

"  June  20th.  Arrived  at  Havana,  where  we  remained  till 
the  30th  to  take  provisions  and  water.     Sailed  for  New  York." 


INDEX 


INDEX 


Abel,    Charles    S.,    97 
Adams,  .John,  58 
Albermarle,  Lord,  110 
Al ferry,  Thomas,  11 
Allen,  Prances  Billopp,  67 

I  I  irriet    Debb,   <>7 
Henry    II.,   67 
Lucius  A.,  67 

Wy.it  t    II.,  (IT 

Allis,  Margery  Watson,  66 

Anderson,    Mary,    so,    82,    102 

Andrade,  General,  63 
Andms,   Bdmond,   .'-',   33,  M,  28 
Ashby,  John,   M 
Aubrey,  Governor,  77 
Auchtmuty,    Doctor,   56 

Babcock,  Alice  v..  94 

Baer,   Nellie  Oliver,  88 
Baker,    Bessie    Kelso,   66 

Eva    Graff,    66 

John   Paul,  66 

Somerville  Nbrris,  66 

Sophia    Howard,  66 
Barbaree,  Otto  Yautile,  80,  106 
Barchfleld,  Mr.,  35 
Barde,    Anne    Billopp,    83,    90,    105, 
106,  108 

Eliza,  83 

Elisabeth,  84,   108 

Elizaheth    Brooke,   90,   105 

Ellen,  83 

Jane  Brooke,  83,  85 

Jane,   108 

J a red,   83 

Jean   de  la,   104 

John,  85 

John  Lewis,  80,  81,  82,  83,  90,  101, 
102,  103,  104.  105,  106 

John    Louis,    101,    102,    103,    104, 
105,  106,  108 


Mary,  84,   105 

Robert,  90,  105,  106 

Robert  George,  83,  104 

Samuel,  83,  105 
Bartram,  William,   79 
I> asse,  Jeremiah,  36 
Basye,  Adelaide  Pawling,  96 

Joseph  de  Shields,  96 
Bate,  William  B.,  (i9,  70 
Batsford,    Edward,    11 
Bayard,  Doctor,  60 
Beacham,  Marion  C,  68 
Beall,  Ella  Josephine,  86 

Ethel  Gruhb,  86 

Florence,  86 

Joseph  Bond,  86 

Maria    San  ford,   86 

Mary    Lilly,   86 
Beekman,   William,   25 
Beerman,  William,  25 
Hrrgerd,  Gustavus  A.,  63 
Berry,    William,   71 
Bertram,  John,  102 
Betts,  Miss,  97 
Bevan,  Evelyn   Mary,  56 

James  Johnstone,  56 
Billopp,  Abigail,  68 

Anne,  17 

Archibald,  70 

Barnard,  17 

Charles  Farmar,  71 

Christopher,  17,  18,  19,  20,  21,  22, 
23,  24,  25,  26,  27,  28,  29,  30,  33, 
39,  40,  53,  54,  55,  56,  57,  58,  59, 
60,  62,  64,  70,  71 

Elinor,  71 

Elizabeth,    54,   60 

Elizabeth    Farmar,    62 

Eugenia,  53 

Frances,  62,  64 

Francis   Wyatt,   70 


117 


118 


THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAE 


James,   17,  19 

Jane,   60 

Jaspar,  57 

Jaspar   Farmar,  54,  55 

John,  62 

John  Willett,  60,  61 

John  Moore,  62 

John  Sappington,  71 

Joseph,  19,  30 

Katharine,  28,  54,  60 

Katharine  Carnan,  71 

Katharine  Risteau,  69,  71 

Lisa   Brooke,   71 

Louisa,  60 

Mary,  28,  29,  30,  54,  55,  60 

Mary   Elinor,   71 

Mary  Lawrence,  62,  64 

Rachel,  54 

Robert  Carnan,  70 

Sarah,  54,  55,  60 

Thomas,  38,  39,  53,  54,  55,  56,  57, 
60,  62,  63,  64,  68,  75 

Thomas   Farmar,   62,  68,  70,  71 

William  Wyatt,  69,  70 
Binke,   Sarah,   11 
Bird,  Mark,  107 

William,  107 
Black,   Jane   Billopp,   61 

John,  60,  61 

William,  60 
Blakeney,  Colonel,  76 
Blakewell,  Lucy,  97 
Blundon,   K.   H..  97 
Boudinot,  Mr.,  57 
Bowden,  John,  25,  20 
Bowers,   Richard   Farmar,  13 

William,    13 
Bragg,  General,  69 
Brooke,  Anne  Farmar,  84 

Charles,  8.3,  108 

Charles   Edward,  89 

Charles   Grubb,  90 

Christine   Gay,  90 

Edward.  84,  B5,   108 

Elizabeth,    10* 

Elizabeth  Barde,  88 

Elizabeth  Mary,  85 

Frances,  107 

Frederick,  85 


Gay,  90 

George,  85,  101,  107,  108 

George  Clymer,  85 

George  W.,  71 

Helen,  89 

Helen  Theresa,  90 

Henry  Clay,  90 

Horace  Louis,  90 

James,  107,  108 

Jane  Barde,  88 

John,  85,  107,  108 

John   Louis   Barde,  85 

Louisa  Catherine,  88,  108 

Mary,  85 

Mary  Blake,  71 

Maskell    Ewing,   85 

Matthew,  84,  107,  108 

Rev.  Mr.,  29 

Rhoda,  85 

Robert  Clymer,  85 

Robert  Edward,  84 

Samuel  L.,  71 

Sarah,  108 

Sarah  Reese,  84 

Thomas    Reese  89,    107 

William,   108 
B rower,  Abby  Anne  Turner,  95 

Anne   Billopp,  94,  95 

Daniel   Rife,  93,   106 

Daniel    Roberts,   95 

Daniel   Roberts,  Jr.,  95 

Earl,  96 

Ella   Jane,   9.3 

Frances   Rife,  95 

Harrv,  96 

Helen,  96 

Hubert,   96 

James    Farmar,    95 

Laura,  95,  96 

Margaretta  Farmar,  95 

Mary    Louisa,    95 

Noah    Billopp,   9.3 

Rachel   Pawling,   93 

Robert    Farmar,    96 

Unis   Anne,  95 
Brown,  Anne,  7 

William,   7 
Browne,    Governor,    79 
Brvan,  William,  28 


INDEX 


119 


Buckley,  Daniel,  107,  108 

1  la  met,  85 
Burt,  Alfred  Farmar,  89 

Alice,  89 

Arthur,  89 

Arthur  Armsl rang,  89 

Charles    Brooke,  B9 

Edith    Brooke,   89 

Eliza  Lehman,  89 
Horace  Brooke,  89 

Jean  B  ■<■<:■ 
Jean   Brooke,  89 
Mary,  89 

Mary  Theodora,  89 

Maxwell    St  rut  hers,    89 

Nathaniel,  88,  89 

Byrd,    Captain,    11.',     lit 


Campbell,  General,  110,  ill 
Carleton,  General,  41 
Carmack,  Sarah,  IS 
Carnan,  Charles,  68 
Carnan,  Christopher,  <<* 

Katharine   Risteau,  68 
Carter,  Josephine,  95 

Mary    Louisa,   !>.» 

Oscar,   "> 

Oscar  Charles   Sumner,  95 
Cayle,  Mr.,   10 
Chambers,  Elisabeth,  BS 

Chapman.   Ward.    58 
Charlton.    Richard, 
Charnock,  Mr..  19,  20,   M 
Chester,    Governor,   79,    103 
Chilton,  Mary,  65 
Claypoole,  James,  10 
Clerk,   John,   5 
Clingan,   Louisa,  85 
Clowes,  William  L.,  20 
Clymer,  Anne,  84 

Annie  M„  108 

Edward,  85 

Elisabeth,  85 

Heister,  85,   108 
Codenham,  Rohert,  25 
Collier,   John,    25 
Comstock,   Edith   Watts,   87 
Cooke,  Thomas,  10 


Cooper,   Thomas,   91 

Will,  107 
Cornwallis,  Lord,  112 
Cosby,   Captain,   76 

Governor,  38 
Couthoui,  Gertrude,  66 
Crogan,  Mary  Angelica,  67 
Cromwell,  Oliver,  9 

Thomas,  5 
Curzon,  Mary,  8 

Thomas,  8 

Daly,  Joan,  11 

Dandridge,  Williams  Brooke,  90 

On  is,  Anna,  83 

Colonel,   55 
Dawson,  Albert,  11 
de  Galvez,  Bernardo,  79,  81,  92,  110, 

112,  114 
De  Horn,  Lieutenant-Colonel,   112 
De   Lancy,    Colonel,   46 
De  Vauhercey,  John  Louis,  80 

Louis  de  Grasse,  106 

Louis  Le  Gras,  80,  106 
Dcdgc,  Elizabeth,  89 
Donohue,  Thomas,  63 

Drew, ,  95 

Dungan,   Thomas,  27 

Eachus,  Charles,  84 

Edith,  84 

Harrold,  84 

Jennie,  84 

Louisa,  84 

Marion,  84 

Thomas,   84 

Thomas  Norman,  84 

William,  83 
Elder,  Frances  Wyatt,  66 

George  Howard,  66 
Elizabeth,   Queen,   17 
Ellicott,  Mr.,  93 
Elliott,  Andrew,  46 
Evans,  Alice  Vivian,  94 

Anne  Brower,  95 

Anne    Reese,    90 

Anne  Sheafe,  83 

Blanch  M.,  94 

Cadwallader,   93,   94 


120 


THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 


Charles  Brooke,  83,  90 
Charles  Brower,  94 
Clement   Brooke,  83 
Donald,  95 
Edward  Brooke,  90 
Eliza  Brooke,  90 
Frank,  83 
George,   83 
George  Jones,  94 
Gertrude,  83 
Horace  Barde,  83 
Howell,   83 
John,  90 
Louisa,  83 
Louisa   Brooke,   83 
Margaretta  Pawling,  94 
Mary,  83 
Nathan,  83 
Rachel  Edna,  94 
Reese,  90 
Sarah,   90 
William  Penn,  94 
Ewing,  Cornelia,  84 

Farmar,  Anne,  28,  39,  49 

Anne   Billopp,  39,  75,  80,  82,  83, 
93,  102,  103,  108 

Anne  (Billopp),  39,  45,  53 

Bridget,  4 

Brooke,   39 

Catharine  Louisa,  102,  106 

Charles,    11 

Edward,  11,   12,  39,  85,   105 

Elizabeth,  11,  33,  39,  42,  55,  56 

George,  9,  10 
Jaspar,  J.,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  28, 

29,  34,  39,  40,  45,  46,  47,  48,  49, 
55,  75,  85,  105 

Jaspar,  Jr.,  9,   10,   11,   12,  28,  33 

John,  9,  10,  11,  29,  39 

John,  Jr.,  9 

Katharine,  11,  12,  28,  33,  56 

Katharine  Louisa,  80,  102,  106 

Margaret,   93 

Margaretta,   93,  96,  97 

Mary,  11,  12,  13,  14,  28,  39,  48 

Mary   (Anderson),  103,   104,  106 

Mary  Brooke,  40 

Mary  Elizabeth,  80,  81,  102,  106 


Peter,  40,  46,  48,  49 

Rachel,  12,  56 

Richard,  13 

Robert,  39,  53,  75,  76,  77,  78,  79, 
80,  81,  82,  83,  90,  93,  101,  102, 
106 

Robert  Adolphus,  80,  81,  90,  91, 
92,  93,  96,  102,  106,  110 

Richard   Henry   Kendrick,   10 

Samuel,  39,  57 

Sarah,  11,  12,  13,  56 

Thomas,  4,  11,  12,  17,  29,  30,  33, 
34,  35,  36,  38,  39,  40,  45,  53,  54, 
62,  64,  75,  76,  102,  106 

William  Penn,  39 
Farquhar,  William,  42 
Farquarson,   Francis,   63 
Fassitt,  Anne,  90 

Francis,  T.,  90 
Fenwick,   John,   24 
Fermor,   Arabella,  8 

George,  8,  9 

Hatton,   8 

John,  7 

Juliana,  8 

Robert,  8,  9 
Fermour,  Elizabeth,  3 

Emmotte,  4,  5 

Richard,  5,  6,  7 

Thomas,  4 

William,  3,  4,  5 
Ferris,  John,  63 
Fischer,  Maria  Louise,  65 
Fisher,   George,   11 
Francis,  A.,  112 
Franklin,  Benjamin,  42,  58 
French,  Anne   Billopp,  40 

Christopher,  40,  41,  42 

Philip,  38,   40 

Gaither,  Mary  Ridgley,  65 
Gamble,    Anthony,    9 

Mary,  9 
Garde,  Alphea,  9 
Gardiner,  James,  63 
Garrigues,  Edward,  83 

Emily,  83 

Lewis,  83 
Gause,  Ella,  84 


INDEX 


121 


(ieorge,  Paul  F.,  63 

The  Second,  36 
Goelet,    Christopher    Billopp,    56 

Peter,  56 

Thomas   Farmar,   56 
Gordon,    Thomas,  34 
Gorter,  Nathan   Ryno,  66 
Gouverneur,  Ahraham,  48 

Mary  (Lelshler),  48 
Gra\«s,  Evelyn  Wyatt,  65 

Rosewell,  65 

Rosewell    Elizabeth,  65 

Sophia    Anne,   65 
Greenwood,   Richard  Fleming,  84 

Walter,  B4 

Walter  Edward,  -  ■ 

Griffith,    Henrietta    Thorpe,   97 
Gross  Domine,  49 
Grubb,  Charles  Brooke,  86 
(lenient  Brooke,  *"•,  108 

Daisy    Elizabeth    Brooke,   88 

Ella   .lane,    B6 

Harriet     Hrookc,    86 

Henry  Hates,  86 

Mary    Lilly    Brooke,   86 

Grundy,  Byram,  64 

1   ranees     Billopp,    64 

George  Kerr,  63,  64 
Thomas   Billopp,  64 

Haddoti,    Hieliard,  45 
Hales,    Mary,    9 
Hall,   Anna,  67 

Daniel  Sprigg,  67,  68 

Francis  Billopp,  68 

Francis  Winslow,  67 

Miles  L.,  (i:{ 

Mr.,  6 

William    Edward    Wyatt,   67 
Hamilton,  Peter  J.,  77,  79 
Hawks,    Doctor,    J9 
Haxhall,    Clara,   64 
Healy,  Raymond,  71 
Hervey,  Emmotte,  4 

Mr.,' 4 
Hesketh,  Thomas,  8 
Highly,  Sarah  C,  95 
Holcomb,  Mr.,  24,  68 
Holliday,  Anna,  70 


Hollingsworth,   Sophia  Louise,  65 
Holstein,  Ella,  95 

George  Meade,  95 

George   W.,  95 
Hood,  General,  69 
Howard,  Thomas,  9 
Howe,  Lord,  58 
Hoy,  Peter  V.,  95 
Huddy,  Hugh,  34 
Hunter,  Governor,  35,  36 

Idell,  Anne  Mary,  94 

Imans,  John,  25,  30 

Inians,  John,  30 

Injons,  John,  26 

Irwin,  John    Heister,  86,   108 

Mary   Baldwin,  85,  108 

Stephen,  86 

Stephen  B.,  86 

Jackson,  Stonewall,  70 
Jamison,   David,  36 
Janeway,  Jacob,  42 
Jarvis,    Abraham,   39 

Anne  Farmar,  40 

Griselda,  40 

Hannah,   40 

John    Abraham,   40 

Samuel    Farmar,   39,   40 
Johnson,   Charles,   63 
Johnston,  Captain,  111 

Doctor,   35 

General,  69,  86 
Johnstone,  Governor,  78,  79 
Jones,  B.,  112 

Barham  Edward,  56 

Emily,  56 

Evelyn,  56 

Henry  S.,  56 

Hester,   56,  89 

John  Thomas,  56 

Katharine,  66 

Lawrence,  56 

Lawrence  John,  56 

Mary  Louise,  65 

Maurice  Herbert,  56 

Rachel    Margaret,    56 

Willoughby,  56 

Willoughby  John,  56 


122 


THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 


Kelly,  Elizabeth,  95 

Kemp,   Bishop,   68 

Kemper,  Daniel,  63 

Kennedy,  Captain,  111 

Kinney,   Lieutenant,    114 

King,  Charles   Kirby,  97 
Edwin    Fitzgerald,    97 
Virginia   Basye,  97 
Warrington  Crane,  96 

Kirby,  Jane,  67 

Kniphausen,  General,   58 

Kortright,  Miss,  60 

Kreeland,    Eliza,    68 

Lackey,   Caroline   Virginia,  96 

Elizabeth    Carroll,    97 

Farmar,   96 

Henry  Ellis,  97 

Hubert,  96 

John   Turner,   96 

Logan,  97 

Margaret,  97 

Margaretta,  96 

Margaret    Virginia,   97 

Milford,  97 

Milton,  96 

Oscar,    97 

Oscar  F.,  97 

Randolph,  97 

Roberta,  96 

Robert  Farmar,  96,  97 
Laurason,    Miss,   97 
Lawler,    Mr.,   80 
Lawrence,  Effingham,   56 

Katharine   Mary,   56 
Lee,  Arthur,  84 

Blair,  84 

Brooke,   84 

Charles,  41,  42 

Fitzhugh,   70 
Lehman,  Mary,  88 
Leishler,  Jacob,  48 
Leominster,   Baron,  8 
Leonard,  Rachel,  55 

Samuel,  38,  39,  54 

Sarah,  54 
Lewis,  Curtis,  81 

Curtis,   Mrs.,   80 

Edward  S.,   66 


Lincoln,   William,   83 
Lloyd,  Miss,  96 
Lockwood   Edith,   66 

McAllister,    George   Washington,   67 

Rosella  R.,  67 
McClellan,  General,  70 
McCorkle,   Louisa,   84 
McCulloch,  John,  84 
MacDonald,  Major,  112 
McGill,  Olive,  95 
Magruder,  Virginia,  70 
Manton,   Nathaniel,  45 
Mantor,  George,  25,  26 
Marshall,   Paulus,   27 
Marston,  Ellen   Winslow,  67 
Martin,  Eliza   Barde,  84 

Gillie  Ogden,  84 

Helen,  84 

Henry  Clay,  84 

Jane  Barde,  84 

Jessie,  84 

John,  83 

John    Locke,   84 

Louisa   Brooke,   84 

Mary,  83 

Nellie,  95 
Mayow,  Elizabeth,  11 

Helen,  11 

John,   11 

Martha,    11 

Philip,   11 
Meeh,  Christina,  95 
Meiggs,  Lieutenant,  111,   114 
Meyer,  Henry,  Jr.,  48 
Michaux,  Paul,  55 

Milborne,   ,   48 

Miller  Christopher,  45,  46 

Christopher  Billopp,  40 

Paul,  40 

Thomas,  48 
Miranda,    Francisco,    63 
Montgomerie,   John,   37 
Moore,   Abigail,   62 

John,  62 
Morris,   Heber  Smith,  88 

Ira  K.,  17,  19,  30,  58,  60,  61 

Lewis,  34,  38,  40,  75 

Rhoda,  85 


INDEX 


123 


William,  8,  88 
Muhlenberg,     Frederick     Augustus, 

108 
Murphy,    Mr.,   49 
Murray,  Julia,  88 

N'eiman,    Sarah,   90 
N'clni  ,   Aiiilulion,  97 

Catharine    Downing,   97 

John  Edwin,  97 

Prestly,   97 
Nelson,  Lord,  10 
N'euh.ill,    Alice,    67 

Donald,   G7 

Henry  ('..,  67 

I.il  i,  67 
\iclmls,  George,  92 
Noel,  Margaret   Elizabeth,  65 
Norris,  Prances  Wyatt,  gg 

George  Somerville,  65,  66 

Hannah,   Gaither,   66 

Henry   Franklin,  66 

Jessie,   66 

Jessie  Somerville,  66 

Joseph   Coutboui,   66 

Knrtharine    I.,   67 

Katharine    Isabelle,  66 

Margaret  A  His,  66 

Mary  Gordon,  66 

Richard,  66 

Richard   Horton,  66 

Sophia    Howard,    66 

Susan  Voss,  66 

Whitton  Evans,  66 

William   Allis,  66 

William   Wyatt,   65 
Norrysse,   William,  3 

Orevan,  Thebe,  11 

Paddock,   Harriet,  61 

Morris  V.,  61 
Paine,   Thomas,   61 
Paist,  John  D.,  95 
Pawling,   H.,  92 

John,  91,  93,   106 

Margaret,   91,   93,   106 
Peck,  Benjamin,  39 

Christina.  39 


Pelham,    Henry,    76 
Penn,  Thomas,  8 

William,    8,    10,    12,    33,    85,    105, 
107 
Phelps,  Harriet,  89 
Pinhorn,  John,  35 

Judge,  34,  35 
Plank,  Ella,  89 
Pomfret,  Earl  of,  8,  9 

Lady    Louisa,    9 
Pope,  Alexander,  8 
Potts,  Carrie  C,  95 

Elisabeth  Holstein,  95 

Ella  Holstein,  95 

Helen   Rutter,  95 

William  W.,  95 
Powlet,   Katharine,  4 

William,    4 

Reading,   John,   36 
Reese,  Sarah,  108 
Rich,  Fanny,  65 
Riley,  Lewis  Alsop,  89 

Jean  Brooke,  89 

Henry  Drinker,  89 
Robeson,  Jonathan,  13 

Peter,  12,  13 
Robinson,   Frances,   60 

Mary,  60 

Mr.,   60 
Rodman,  John,  38 
Rogers,   Rev.  Doctor,  49 

Robert,    11 
Ross,    Alexander,    56 
Runacres,    Alice,    94 

Dorothy,  94 

Harry,  14 

Helen,  94 
Rutledge,  Edward,  58 

Savoy,  Margaret  of,  5 
Schaffer,  Augusta,  90 
Seaman,   Benjamin,  55,  58,   60 

Billopp,  60 

Edmund,  60 

Elizabeth,   55 

Henry,  60 

Jane,  60 

Jaspar,  60 


124 


THOMAS    AND    ANNE    BILLOPP    FARMAR 


Isaac,  46 
Shalcross,  Mary,  83 
Sharon,  Florence,  8 

Senator,    8 
Shaw,  Margaret  Ella,  70 
Shearer,    Eliza,   95 
Shoemaker,   Annie,   83 
Short,  Major,  60 

William,  83 
Simcoe,  Colonel,  58 
Skinner,  Courtland,  57 

Mary,  29 

Susannah,    57 

Rev.  William,  29 
Skipwith,  Mr..  102 
Smith,  Arthur,  11 

Clement  Gruhh,  87 

Daisy   Emily,  88 

George  Tucker,  86 

George  Tucker,  Jr.,  86 

Governor,   58 

Heber   L.,  88 

Julia  Comstock,  88 

L.   Heber,  86,  87 

Mary  Grubb,  88 

Richard,  38 

Robert,   86 

Stanley   McDonald,   88 

William   Howard,  88 
Snowden,   Mrs.    Harold,   96 
Somers,    Will,    6 
Spotts,   Harriet,  83 
Stelle,  Eugenia,  53 
Stephens,   John,    12,   33 
Sterling,    Captain,    77,    102 
Stevens,  Captain,  76,  110 
Stevenson,    Mr.,    110 
Stone,  Miss,  97 
Sydney,  Philip,  8 

Taylor,  John  M.,  91 
Temple,  John,  25 

Thomas,    25,    26 
Thayne,   Nicholas,   5 
Thomas,  Captain,  76 
Tiffany,    George    Peabody,    68 

George    Peabody,    Jr.,    68 
Tilton,  Marie,  13 
Townsend,    Frances,    60 


Travis,   Miss,   96 
Vaux,  Maud,  7 

Nicholas,    7 
Vernon,   Admiral,   76 
Victoria,  Queen,  56 
von  Holstein,  Abby,  95 

Anne   H.,   95 

George  Meade,  Jr.,  95 

Walbridge,    Andrew,    11 
Wallace,   John,   60 
Washburn,  E.  B.,  61 
Washington,  General,  41 
Wellington,  Duke  of,  56 
Wells,  Henry,  11 
Wenman,   Emmotte,   4 

Henry,  4 
West,    John,    26 
Wentworth,  General,  75,  76 
Wharton,   Mitchell,   19 
White,    Thomas    Harrison,    90 

William,   90 
Whiteloe,   Nicholas,   11 
Whitelow,    John,    11 
Wickersham,   Alice   Morris,  88 

Cadwallader,  88,  108 

Helen   Billopp,   88 

Josephine  Mary,  88 

Paul    Goddard,   88 
Wilkinson,    Robert,    11 
Willett,  Frances,  60 
Williams,  Gay,  90 
Willis,  Archdeacon,  60 

Rev.  Cuthbert,  61 

John,  61 

Mary  Billopp.  61 

Rev.   Robert  S.,  61 

William   Christopher,   61 
Wilson,  Annette  Josephine,  88 

David,  94 

Dorothy,  94 

Franklin  Evans,  94 

Mildred,  94 

Thomas  H.,  94 
Winslow,  Edward,  64,  65 

John,  65 

Mary,  64,  65 
Winter,  William,  11 


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107 


Wolsey,   Cardinal,    5 
Wood,   Lieutenant,   114 
Wrenn,    Christopher,   8 
Wyatt,    Arthur    Rich,   65 

Charles    Handfield,   66,   68 

Christopher,   66 

Christopher  A.,  66,  67 

Christopher    Billopp,   67 

Cornelia)   67 

Edward    Winslow,   67 

Prances   Billopp,  65,  67,  68 

James,  64 

James    Bosley    Noel,    65 

John  Henry,  67 

John  McVickar,  68 

Katharine     Isabella,    66,    67 

Lisa,    (is 

Marion  Beacham,  68 


INDEX  125 

Mary   Augusta,  66,   67 

Mary  L.,  65 

Mary   Livingston,  67 

Merritt   T.,   67 

Rosa   McAllister,  67 

Sophia    Louise    Hollingsworth,   65 

Thomas,   65 

Thomas  James,  65 

William  Edward,  62,  64,  65,  67,  68 

Yoe,  John,  24 

York,   Duke  of,  18,  23 

Younge,  Thomas,   11 

Zinn,  Alice  Wickersham,  88 
George    Cadwalader,    88 
John  Miller,  88 
Maurice   Collins,   88 


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