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A SKETCH

OF SOME OF THE DESCEXDAST3 OF

SAMUEL ROGERS:

OF MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY. •
BY

GEORGE S. L. WARD, U.S. A.,

LOUIS RICHARDS, Reading, ?a.

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PHILADELPHIA:
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OUK BELOVED SISTEU AND COUSIN,

LOUISA RICHARDS WARD CARSOX,

THIS IMPERFECT NOTICE OF OUB COMilOX AXCESTEY
IS MOST AFFECTIOXATELT

INSCRIBED.

SKETCH

OP SOME OF THE

DESCEJy^DA^TS OF SAMUEL EOGERS.

The first settlers in New Jersey by the name of Rogers ap-
pear to liav^e come into the province at about the date of its
division into East and ^Yest Jersey, in 1076. Whilst they
were all, without doubt, of either English or Irish origin, a
few of them were probably from some of the older colonies of
New England, where they are traceable at a still more ancient
period. The oldest legal records of the State indicate that the
name was by no means a common one in the earlier }iart of
the provincial history. One John Rogers came with the Quaker
colony from London and Yorkshire by whom West Jersey
was originally settled, and located near Burlington in 1G78.
He died about 1097, leaving both male and female descendants,
and was probably the ancestor of the Rogers' of Burlington
County, who adhered to the Friends' denomination. This stock
had no known connection with that of Samuel Rogers of
A[onrnouth, some of whose descendants are noticed in the pres-
ent sketch.

According to tradition, Samuel Rogers was from Ireland, of
highly respectable connections, and possessed of considerable
estate. With his family, it is said, he brought over his servants
and household effects, and settled at or near the village of Allen-
town, Monmouth County. The period of his immigration
cannot be precisely determined, but there is evidence that it
was as early as 1731, The date of the first conveyance to
him to bo found of record, is 17o-l. The purchase was of o23
acres on Crosswicks Creek, for £500 sterling. Allentown
which became his place of residence, is an ancient settlement

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dating brick to 1706, and was laid out upon lands belonging to
Nathan Allen, son-in-law of Robert Burnet, the original pat-
entee. It is situated in what is now the township of Upper
Freehold, in the extreme western part of the countv, on a
branch of Crosswicks Creek, and is eight miles from Borden-
town, and eleven miles from Trenton.

Mr. liogers became an extensive land-owner, carried on a
prosperous mercantile employment, and lived in a style cor-
responding with his abundant means. lie was a staunch mem-
ber of the Chuich of England, and the Protestant Episcopal
organization in AUentown is said to have been founded by his
family, who donated the lot upon which the first church was
erected about 1750, and also the burial-place adjoining, which
is of still earlier date. The original church building was de-
molished in 1810; and the present edifice erected thirty-live
years later.'

Samuel Eogers, as appears from the inscription upon his
tombstone, died September 17, 1756, aged 64, and, conse-
quently, was born in 1602. His wile, Mary Kogers, died
April 14, 1738, at the age of 48. Their remains rest in the
ancient church ground, now abandoned, beside those of some
of their descendants, the inclosure being separated by a lane
from the rear of what was formerly the old family residence.
In his will, which is dated August 6, 1756, and was proven
September 22, following, he describes himself as a resident of
Upper Freehold, County of Monmouth, Eastern division of
Kew Jersey, "shopkeeper," and names his children in the
order of their ages. His family Bible, printed in 1736, in the
possession of Mrs. Anna Rogers Harlow, of Philadelphia, one
of his descendants, contains numerous records of births, mar-
riages and deaths, beginning with the five children of Samuel
and Islary Rogers. These were:

1 Jhcse statements in relation to the origin of Christ Church of AUen-
town, as the parish is called, were obtained from a memorandum in the
Bible foniicrly used in the church, bearing tlie imprint of 17'1'2, and in the
possession of .Miss 3Iary Gill, residing near the village. Unfortunately all
the early parish records are lost, and more definite information upon this
point is unattainable from any other source.

I. James, born June 8, 1723 ; died January 2, 1713, unmar-
ried; buried in tlie Episcopal ground at Allentown.

II. Elizai^etii, born July 10, 1725. She married Colonel
Joseph Borden, son of Joseph Borden, Esq., the founder of
Bordentown, Burlington County.' Colonel Borden was an
ardent Whig in the Ilevolutionary struggle, and "a steadfast
friend to the liberties of his country in the most trying times."
He was a deputy from Burlington County to the Provincial
Convention of New Jersey in 1775, was Colonel of the tirst
regiment raised from that county for the Continental service,
and subsequently Commissioner of Loans of the United States
for the State of New Jersey. In May, 1778, his house and
stores were burned by a British force sent up the Delaware
from Pliiladelpuia for the purpose of destroying several ve-sels
which had been brought for safety to the neighborhood of
Bordentown. A guard was placed about his dwelling to in-
sure its destruction, and it is related tliat, during the progress
of the flames, a British officer having expressed to Mrs. Borden
his sympathy for her private misfortune, she replied, "I thank
you, sir, but this is the ha})piest day of my life. I know you
have given up all hope of reconquering my country, or you
would not til us wantonly devastate it." Colonel Borden died
April 8, 1791, and his wife November 2, 1S07, and both are
buried in the Hopkinson ground at Bordentown. They had
three children : —

1. Mary, who married July 21, 1763, Thomas McKean, then

• The Bordens are said to have settled at Fall River, Massachusetts, in
1635, and ia New Jersey in 167!), first acquiring land in Bordentown in
1717, after the death of Thomas Farnsworth, an Englisli Quaker, by whom
the first settlement was made there in 1681. In a deed from .Joseph Borden,
Sr., bearing tlie date of 1730, for tlie conveyance of a lot now in the ownership
of Mr. A. D. Carman, the place is called " Bordenstown." Joseph Borden,
in 17.jO, established a line of public communication between New Tork and
Philadelphia by boats and stages. lie died September 2'2, 1765, in his 79lli
year, and, with his wife, Ann (Conover) Borden, who died March 11, 1745,
aged 57, lies interred in a small inclosure which he established as a family
buryingground, situated upon the brink of tlie hill overlooking the Dela-
ware, at the end of a lane called Church Street. From its sul'sec^uent use
as a burial-place by members of the Tloiikinson family, it obtaine<l the name
of the Hopkinson buryiug-ground, by which it is still designated.

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member of the General Assembly of Delaware, and subse-
quently Chief Justice and Governor of Pennsylvania, She
died at New Castle March 12, 1773, in her 29th year, leaving
two sons and four daughters. An obituary' notice of ^[rs.
McKean, published in the Pennsylvania Gazette of March 17,
1773, refers in highly eulogistic terms to her exemplary and
affectionate character in the several relations of daughter, wife
and mother, her domestic and benevolent qualities, and the
serenity and Christian resignation with which she met the final
summons. Her virtues were also commemorated bv her
brother-in-law, Francis Hopkinson, in some verses which are
contained in a volume of his literary productions published
posthumously. Mary Borden was the tirst wife of Governor
McKean : he subsequently married, 1774, Sarah Armitan-e, of
New Castle.

2, Ann, who married at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Sep-
tember 1, 1763, Francis Hopkinson, signer of the I>3c!aration
of Independence, and Judge of the Admiralty Court of Penn-
sylvania. He resided during the Revolution at Bordentown,

the venerable and historic mansion which he occupied, at the ;

corner of Farnsworth Avenue and Park Street, built by his v

father-in-law, Joseph Borden, in 1750. being still in the pos- i

session of some of his descendants. It was here that he pro- \

duced many of his popular political effusions, including the >

celebrated satire of " The Battle of the Kegs." Mrs. Hopkiu- ^
sou survived her husband, and died at Bordentown August

31, 1827'. They had five children, the eldest of whom was i

Joseph Hopkinson, the successor, in 1S2S, of Richard Peters i

as United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 1

Penns3dvania, and author of the words of the national air, I

"Hail Columbia." He married, 1791, Emily, daughter of !

Governor Thomas Mifflin; died in 1812, and, with his wife, is i

buried in the Hopkinson ground. j

3. Joseph, born 1755; married ^fary, daughter of Langhorn j
Biles, of Bucks County, and niece of Colonel Joseph Kirkbride; i
served with credit in the Revolutionary^ army ; died October J
16, 17SS, leaving a daughter Elizabeth, who married Azariah '

Hunt. Joseph was the last of the male line of the Borden
family.

III. Samuel, born February 12, 1727. He resided for
many years at Allentown, where he held considerable estate,
part of which w-as left to him by his father. His name is
found upon a list of Associators organized in 1778 for home
defence against the enemy and the Tory marauding parties and
refugees with which Monmouth Coanty Avas especially infested
during the Revolutionary war.^ The original paper is in the
office of the Secretary of State, at Trenton. He was appointed
one of the three Commissioners of Forfeited Estates for Bur-
lington County by an Act of the New Jersey Assembly passed
June 5, 1777, entitled "An Act of Free and General Pardon and
for other purposes therein mentioned." The latter part of his
life was spent in Burlington County, his death occurring in Ches-
terfield Township, near Bordentown, in November, 1313, in the
88th year of his age. His remains are interred in the IIop-
kinson ground. He was twice married : 1st, May 23, 1765, to
Sarah Hyne, by whom he had three children, Elizabeth, born
February 10, 1766, and Samuel, born February 2, 1769, who
both died in infancy, and Ann, born February 2, 1768, who
married, November 80, 1790, Samuel Forman,^ and had one
son, Samuel Rogers, born November 3, 1791 ; died January
27, 1793. Sarah Hyne Rogers died October 1, 1770, aged 32,
and is buried in the Episcopal ground at Allentown, Samuel
Rogers married, 2d, December 24, 1773, Mary Kirkbride, sister
of Colonel Joseph Kirkbride. She died March 11, 1800, in
her 72d year, without issue. As he had no children living at
the time of his death, he divided his estate among collateral
relatives and his friend and housekeeper, Lydia Bunting. His

1 Just previous to the battle of Monmouth, which was fought June 28,
1778, a column of the British army under Lord Corn wallis took up a position
at Allentown, but, with this exception, the village had an immunity from
the presence of the enemy during the war, and it sulfered but little in com-
parison with other sections of the county from the violence of cither the
foreign or domestic foe.

* Ue was an officer of the New Jersey line, and belonged to the Mon-
mouth family of Formans, distinguished for their military services in the
war for ludepeudeuce.

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residence, a handsome o]d mansion, a little out of Bordentown,
on the Crosswicks Road, erected by him in 1788, is still occu-
pied by one of his nieces, Miss Maria II. Nutt.

IV. Isaac, born February 25, 1728. lie resided all his life
at Allentown, and engaged in mercantile business, being also
a large land-owner, and of considerable estate. His family res-
idence, a quaint one-st->ry frame dwelling, was situated ou the
main street, between the two taverns. It was torn down in
1878, having stood for considerabl}'- over a century. Mr.
Rogers was an active promoter of the patriotic cause at the
outset of the Revolutionary struggle, his death occurring before
the events of the war had demonstrated the success of the pro-
ject of Independence. He was a member of the Committee of
Allentown, which was in correspondence on public affairs with
the Council of Safety of Pennsylvania. In a communication
of the latter, bearing the date of October 14, 1776, they take
occasion to refer to the well-known attachment of the Commit-
tee to the cause of America, and their readiness to render any
essential service to their country.* Like his father, Isaac
Rogers was a zealous Episcopalian, and reared his family in
that communion. He died in April, 1777, aged 49. He mar-
ried September 29, 1757, Hannah Tallman, of Shrewsbury, by
whom he had eight children. His wife, who survived him,
afterwards married, 1778, Colonel Joseph Haight, of Colt's
Neck. They had no issue.

The children of Isaac and Hannah Tallman Rogers were: 1.
Samuel, born July 11, 3 758; died in infancy; 2. Benjamin,
born October 27, 1759 ; married, 1784, Helena Reading, daugh-
ter of Daniel and Mary Ried Reading, of Flemington, by
whom he had seven children;' died in 1794; 3. James, born

» Pa. Archives, 2d Series, I., 633.

2 These were, 1. Eupheniia, bora September 23, 1T35 ; married Samuel
G. Wright; had four children; died March 29, 187G ; 2. Isaac, born No-
vember, 17SG ; died 1S09, unmarried ; 3. Eliza, born 17S8 ; died 1829, un-
married ; 4. 5. Robert and Sarah, born 1790 ; the former died 18G4, unmar-
ried, and ti)e latter married Henry Bostwick, Professor of Languages in the
University of Xew York, and died in 1S30, without issue ; 6. James, born
November 25, 1702; married February 22, 181G, ^lary, daughter of Kzekiel
and Anna Robbins; had four children ; died Dtcembcr I'O, 18G8 ; 7. He-

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January 14, 17Go — of whom further notice is made — married
February 1(3, 1779, Harriet Luttrell ; had seven children; died
May 29, 1791 ; 4. Eiiza])eth, born August 22, 1704, married
James Wilson; had one dauglitcr, Mary, Avho died unmarried;
5. Mary, born July 17, 1767; married, April G, 1797, Lloyd
Wharton, son of Thomas Wharton, Jr., President of the Su-
preme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, by his first wife
Susanna, daughter of Thomas Lloyd ; no issue ; 6. Sarah, born
August 5, 1769 ; married February 4, 1790, William ILiight,
son of Colonel Joseph Ilaight, who married the widow of Isaac
Rogers; had four children, Thomas Griffith; Joseph; Marianne,
who married John E. Conover, and Charles; died August 1,
1799; 7. Samuel, born August 12, 1772 ; married, 1st, Decem-
ber 14, 1797, Helena Heudrickson ; had by her two children;
2d, July 30, 1609, Sarah, daughter of Lurnet Montgomery;
had by her seven children ; died about 1^36 ; 8. Ann, born
January 21, 1774; married Stephen Sicard.

V. Mary, born February 18, 1730; married Joseph Kirk-
bride. Colonel Kirkbride was a native of Pennsylvania, of
Quaker ancestry, and a grandson of Joseph Kirkbride who
was one of the original settlers of Bucks County, in 1G82.
He was a member of the Provincial Convention of Defiuties
of 1774, and of the Convention of 177G, which framed the
first Constitution of the State; served in the General As-
sembly from 1776 to 1778, and was Lieutenant of the County
of Bucks from 1777 to 1780, in which latter capacity he
was charged with the duty of raising the various levies
for the Continental service. He also commanded, in 1775,
the First Battalion of the Backs County Associators. In 1778,
while the British occupied Philadelphia, the lower part of

Icna, born Jrinnary, 1704 ; married John C. Chambers ; liad five children ;
died November 4, 1S70. Benjamin Rogers died offL-ver at Readinir, Penn-
sylvania, in the autumn of 1794, while serving in the expedition against the
" Whiskey Insurrection" in Western Pennsylvania, in the capacity of a
non-commissioned officer of the New Jersey militia. His widow, Helena
Reading Rogers, aftr-rwards marrii d Captain Jnnus Montiromery, and had
three children, John, Kstlier, and William R., Major U. S. A., and subse-
quently Brigadier-Gcueral U, S. V.

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Bucks County was greatly infested with Tories, who were
supporrcd and encouraged in tbeir depredations upon their
neighbors by the enemy in the city. Colonel Kirkbride's
activity in the cause of Independence excited the special hos-
tility of the disalTected. The British burned his handsome
residence and all his other buildings at " Bellevue," opposite
Bordentown in the month of May, at the same time thev de-
stroyed the property of his brother-in-law, Colonel Borden.
In a communication addressed shortly afterwards to President
Wharton, of the Supreme Executive CouuciV Colonel Kirk-
bride attributes this act to the malice of a neighbor, without
indicating the individual.^ He then removed permanently to
Bordentown, and built a large brick mansion on the river bank,
at the end of the main street, which is still standing, and which,
with some subsequent additions, has been occupied for many
years as a young ladies' seminary .^ Colonel Kirkbride died
October 26, 1603, aged 72, and a monument over his remains
in the Hopkinsou ground commemorates his services in the
cause of his country. Mary Rogers Kirkbride, his wife, died
in 1S03, aged 78, They had no issue.
James Rogers, before mentioned — son of Isaac and Hannah

> Pa. Arobives, 1st Series, VI., 503,

* " The captain of the party and several of the officers informed that Miss

: ' Polly Kiche, sometime in the city with the enemy, daughter of Mr. Thomas

).. Riche who lives opposite to Bordentown, made them promise to burn Col-

onel Kirkbride's house before they returned from the expedition." Penn.
sylraidu Pachet, June 0, 1778. Mr. Charles Biddle. afterwards Vice-Pres-
ident of the State, who had shortly before tliis commanded an armed brig
which ]ay in the Delaware, oil Bordentown, to guard the stream, and who
had enjoyed the hospitality of both Colonel Kirkbride and Mr. Riche, being
much in the society of the daughters of the latter, discredits the malicious
agency here imputed to Miss 3Iary Riche in the affair of the destruction of

^ Colonel Kirkbride's property, considering it inconsistent wiih the well-

} known amiability of her character, thougii he admits she had good reason to

detest Kirkbride, who had her father, (a noted Tory,) taken, when ill of the
gout, and confined in Newtown jail. Autobiogniphy of Charles Biddle, 103.
» The noted Thomas Paine, who, like himself, was a zealous Whig, and
had employed his literary talents with marked effect in the patriotic cause,
often visited Colonel Kirkbride at his residence here, and traditious of the

■ ■ animated incidents of his sojourn in the village are still handed down in Bor-

1 dentown.

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Tallman Rogers — was born January 14, 17G3, He occupied
the old family residence at Allentown, left to liini Ly his father.
In 1787 he Avas elected as one of the three Representatives
from Monmouth to the Twelfth General Assembly of New Jer-
sey, which convened October 23d. The qualification of a mem-
ber then was that he should be worth an estate of £500. He
was re-elected in 17SS and 1789, his period of service termi-
nating June 12, 17'.'0. He died May 29, 1791, at the early ajxe
of 2>>, leaving a widow and seven children. His remains rest
in the Episcopal ground at Allentown, Ilis personal property
was inventoried at £303 7s. lOd. By his will he divided his
estate equally between his wife and children, and directed that
his sons should be put to trades, if convenient. He appointed
as his executors, his wife, his brother Benjamin and his friend
William Lloyd.

James Rogers married Februar\^ 10, 1779, Harriet Luttrell,
daughter of Henry Lawes Luttrell, afterwards Earl of Car-
hampton, and Elizabeth Mullen.^ She is said to have been

1 Elizabeth Mullen w<i3 the dMUg:hter of John and Elizabeth ^Tullen of
Amwell, Hunterdon county. The faniily -vvas of excellent social standiuff,
and of considerable estate. John Mullen died in 1740, leaving a son and
four daughters, all in their minority. His widow subsequently married a
Stevenson. They removed to the suburbs of Trenton, and occupied a hand-
some seat known as the Clay Hill property, the large old brick mansion,
which is still standing, being situated on what is now Pennington Avenue.
The marriage of Elizabeth to Luttrell took place in IT.jf). The do-rree of
romantic interest attending this affair will justify a somewhat extended di-
gression from the main thread of the sketch.

Luttrell was the same who is sometimes designated as " Wilkes' Colonel
Luttrell," from the circumstance of the celebrated Middlesex election in
1769, when he was admitted as 3Iember of Parliament, in the interest of the
King and Cabinet, over Wilkes, the champion of constitutional liberty,
thoiigli ho received a considerably less vote, upon the theory that as Wilkes
had been previously expelled from the House, he M-as thereby rendered in-
eligible to re-elrction. Tliis decision the Commons subsequently reversed,
and the ]>opular agitation to which the case gave rise is familiar to the read-
ers of modern English political history. Its most lasting memento is the
"Letters of Junius," in which Luttrell is handled with much severity by
bis anonymous r.pponf>nt. While the acrimony of these epistles is doubtless
largely attributable to the heat engendered by the controversy, Lord 3Ia-
caulay, in his History of Enizland, suggests that it is to be ascribed in part
to the race prejudices of their reputed author, Philip Francis, who was bora

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a woman of considerable pcri^onal beauty. After her hus-
band's death she contiuned to reside for some years with her

near Dublin, The LiittrcU family was of Irish descent, and dated its as-
cendency at the English court, according to the same historian, from the
period, of the Kevolution of IG'sS, when it forsook, at a critical juncture,
the cause of James, and e'-poused that of William. Heury was the eld-
est son of b'imon Luttrcll, Lord Irnham, first Earl of Carhampton, and
succeeded to that dignity upon the death of liis father in 1787. His sister
Anne married the Duke of Cumberland, brother of George III.

Lnttrell, at the date here specially referred to, was a youth under twenty,
and was serving in America as an ensign in H. M. 4Sth Regiment of Foot,
then engaged in the campaign against Canada, in the French and Indian
war. The corps had been quartered sometime in Trenton, and it was here
that hf' met in society Elizabeth Mullen, a young woman of rare beauty,
about two years his junior. A mutual and ardent attachment between them
resulted, which, however, her Himily firmly discouraged. In the summer of
1759, a commission having been procured for him as Captain in the IGth Regi-
ment Light Dragoons, Cokmel Burgoyne, then raising in England for per-
manent service, it became necessary for him to leave America to join his
command. At this crisis in the affairs of the lovers, Luttrell effected by
stratagem what could not be otherwise accomplished. An elopement and
marriage ensued, although, as both parties were under age, the necessary
legal requirements were wanting to the validity of the contract. After a
brief absence, the daughter was reclaimed by her mother as a fugitive when
upon the eve of embarking with Luttrell for England, and he was com-
pelled to leave the country without her.

Years passed, — he served with his corps in Portugal and elsewhere, and ■
though it is said he endeavored to communicate with Elizabeth, no tidings
from him ever reached her, and she was at length persuaded to believe
that she had been deserted. The period iiaving transpired when by the
laws of the province even binding marriage relations with one absent beyond
seas and unheard from would have become annulled, she eventually list-
ened to the suit of a young lawyer of Trenton, David Brearley, whom she
married about 17GR. Iler daughter, Harriet Luttrell, became a member of
Mr. Brearley's household, and shared with his own children his affection-
ate care and regard.

David Brearley was of Quaker descent, and was one of the most distin-
guished citizens of his native State. He was licensed as an attorney by
Governor Franklin in 1707, and served with credit in the War of the Revo-
lution as Lieutenant-Colonel in the New Jersey line, resigning his commis-
sion in 1779, upon his appointment, at the early age of 34, as Chief Justice of
the State, which position he occupied for ten years. He was a member of the
Convention which framed the Federal Constitution, and of the Convention
of New Jersey which ratified it. In 17S9 he was appointed by President
Washington United States District Judge for New Jersey, which office he

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family at AUentown, but about ISOi removed to Bordentown,
and occupied until the close of her life the former residence of
Colonel Kirkbride, ^vhich, with other property at that place,
was purchased out of the estate appropriated to her use bv her
father, the Earl of C;irhampton, She was married, 2d, to Dr.
Henry Gale, an Englishman of culture and good family connec-

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filled at the time of his doath in the followins: year. His wife, Elizabeth,
to whom he was most tenderly attached, died at Allentowii, where they
then resided, iu 1777, leaving several children, i Judge Brearley afterwards
married, in 17S3, Elizabeth Higbee, who survived him.

Harriet Luttrell wa3 married from Judge Brearley's house to James Rog-
ers. After the death of her husband, she made several visits to her futlier,
at liis uri^cnt solicitation. The first was in 1791, when, after having under-
gone the perilsof shipwreck on the Irish coast, she met him at his aucestral
seat at Luttrellstown, near Dublin. She was the bearer to him of a minia-
ture of her deceased mother, and the Earl's recognition of his daughter,
who resembled lier iu fatures, is said to have been most touching and affec-
tionate. His lordship had married, in 1776, Jane, daughter of George Boyd,
Esq., of Dublin, reputed to have been one of the most beautiful, as well as
mozt amiable women of her day. On subsequent occasions Harriet was the
guest of her father at his elegant estate at Paine's Hill, Surrey, England. She
was the recipient of many substantial marks of his favor, and continued dur-
ing her life to be the object of his warm atlection and solicitous care, being
his only offspring. He settled upon her a considerable estate, of a portion
of which he constituted Governor Thomas Mclvean and George Emlen. of
Philadelphia, the trustees for her use. The Earl of Carhampton died at his
residence in London, April25, 1821, aged about 83, after a most varied and
eventful career, of the incidents of which the gazettes of the period contain
abundant evidences. At the time of his death he was Representative of the
borough of Ludgershall in the Conmious, and stood third in the list of gene-
rals of the kingdom. Personally he is described as of short stature and
dark complexion ; of admitted physical courage and benevolent disposition.
He was succeeded in his title by his only surviving brother John, upon whose
decease without male issue in 1829, the family honors expired.

1 The following announcement of her decease is contained in the Penn-
tyltania Gazette of August 13, 1777: "On the third instant, died, at Allen-
town, in New Jersey, Elizabeth Brearley, wife of Col. David Brearley, after
along and painful illnrss, which she bore with great fortitude. It may
with truth be said of this lady that her external form, (for she was eminently
beautiful,) was but a fair copy of her mind ; and it would be injustice to lier
rncmory not to say that she possessed all the qualities that adorn human
nature."

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tions, who survived her. She died January 2, 1819, and is
buried in the Ilopkinson ground at Bordentown.^

She bequeatlicd the principal part of her estate to her young-
est son and executor, William L. Sogers, amongst which were
her re?-'idence, and a tract of ten acres which be afterwards sold
to Joseph Bonaparte, adjoining his extensive grounds at ''Point
Breeze."

The children of James and ITarriet Luttrell Eogers were :

1. Elizabeth ; born 17S0. She married April 12, 1798,
Ephraim Terrill Silver, son of John and Isabella Silver, of
Allentown.^ They had twelve children.^ Ephraim T. Silver
died about 1S25. Mrs. Silver removed from Allentown to
Trenton, and subsequently to Philadelphia, where she died
April 22. 1S'3S. in her SSth year.

2. Mary; born 17S2 ; married July 10, 1808, James C. Sar-
miento, whom she survived. They had four children.* ^[rs.
Sarmieuto resided for many years in Philadelphia, where she
was long a familiar figure in society, and was regarded as one

* The tablet over her rt-maius contains the following inscription : " Sa-
cred to the memory of Harriet Luttrell, daughter of Henry Lawes Luttrell,
Earl of CarhamptoD : Died January 2nd, 1819, in the o6th year of her age.
' Jly Flesh shall rest in Hope.' 'For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and
that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.' " The statement of
her age is an error ; she was about 59.

' The Silvers' were doubtless descendants of Archibald Silver, who took
up a right to 100 acres of land in the province in 16SG, by purchase from
the attorney of Edward Byllinge. The name became, by usage, at a much
later date, Silrer*. John, the father of Ephraim, died in 1803, aged 82,
and his mother, Isabella, in 1818. They had several children, one of whom,
Racht'l, married James Robbins.

' These were, 1. Louisa, born Jlarch 14, 1799 ; married John Richards ;
died January 26, 18S0; 2. Isabella, born April 12, 1!^00 ; died in 1S;J2, un-
married ; 3. Eliza ; married Abraham Kelsey ; 4. Harriet Luttrell, born July
5, 1805; married William Runyon ; died March 21, 1888; 5. Henry Lut-
trell; died December 8, 18':^6 ; 6. Henrietta; married George Tickuor ; died
December 17, 1S55 ; 7. Addison ; born 1810 ; died May 14, 1871 ; 8. 9. Delia
and Jane ; died in childhood ; 10. George Horatio ; 11. Anna Mary ; mar-
ried Asahel F. Ward ; 12. Benjamin ; died in infancy.

* They were, Ferdinand, Francisco and Louis, all of wliom died j-oung,
and Jane, who married, 1st, John Craig, and, 2d, Edward Biddle, son of
Nicholas Biddle.

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of the luinJsornest women of her day. She died at Borden-
town, January 10, 1S7-1-, at the advanced age of 92.

8. Benjaniin; born about 178-1-. He entered as midsliipman
in the United States Navy, and was captured by a British man-
of-war oft' the coast of Africa, in the war of 1812-15, and, with
the crew, confined in Dartmoor Prison, England, from which he
was released through the interposition of his grandflither, the
Earl of Carhampton, with whom he remained until the close of
hostilities. Upon his return to this country he engaged some
years in the West India trade, and died, as is supposed, at New
Orleans, though at what date was never ascertained.
• 4. Samuel ; born about 1785. "When a mere lad he went to
sea, in the merchant service ; commanded a privateer during
the war of 1812-15, and was subsequently associated with his
brother Benjamin in trading to the West Indies. As in the
case of the latter, he is believed to have ended his days at New
Orleans, of which city, it would appear, both had become resi-
dents.

5. Isaac; born about 1786; was also, before the war, some
time in the merchant trading service, and, when still a young
man, was lost at sea upon his retarn from a voyage to the West
Indies, He was unmarried.

6. William Luttrell; born 1788; entered as midshipman in
the United States Navy, and was subsequently Lieutenant in
the army, serving in both capacities in the war of 1812-15, at
the close of which he resigned his commission. He married
1st, 1816, Ann Ballantine Murphy, of Westmoreland County,
Virginia. She died in 1820, and he married, 2d, 1888, Jane,
sister of the former, who died in 1885. He had two children
by his first wife.^ He died at Princeton, New Jersey, July 27,
1866.

7. Ann; born about 1790. She married Detmar Basse, of
Frankfort-on-the-Main, vrhich city he at one time officially rep-
resented at Paris, in some commercial negotiations witli the

1 They were, 1. John Murphy, born March 18, 1818 ; graduated Nassau
Hall, 1837, and Theological Seminary, 1841 ; clergyman of the Preshyteriaa
church ; resides at Prince-ton ; 2. William Henry Luttrell, born April, 1820 ;
graduated I^assau Hall, 1838 ; died at Tallahassee, Florida, 1839.

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French government under the First Empire. Mr. Basse had
been previously twice married, and first came to this country
in 180-1, having become extensively interested in depreciation
lands sj^eculations in Western Pennsylvania. The town of
Zelienople, Butler County, which he laid out about 180G, was
named after his daughter Zelie, the wife of P. L. Passavant.
Mr. Basse was a frequent guest of Joseph Bonaparte, the brother
of Napoleon I., at Bordentown, and it was here he met Ann
Kogers, whom he married about 1817. Shortly afterwards
they went to reside in Germany, where Mr. Basse died about
183(3, and Mrs. Basse, a few years subsequently, returned to
this country. She resided for many years in Chicago, where
she married, 2d, Ilenry P^hrenfels, who survived her. She died
there January 28. 1861. without issue, and was buried at Rose
Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Basse was a lady of marked personal
attractions, and highly engaging social qualities.

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