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president of the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company and director of the United 

 New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company. This fraternity illustrates how a 

 certain marriage of a nomadic fighter may result in children without his tastes. 



The father of Robert Field Stockton, Richard Stockton, was graduated from 

 Princeton and was a leader of the New Jersey bar. Legal talent evidently came 

 from this side, for Stockton's brothers had legal (as well as military) interests. 

 The father's father was Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Inde- 

 pendence and a lawyer of great coolness and courage. He married Annis Bou- 

 dinot, a literary woman full of courage and high spirit, whose presence of mind 

 enabled her in the Revolution to save important state papers during the battle 

 of Princeton. Her brother Elias was president of the Continental Congress and 

 threw himself heart and soul into the patriotic struggle. 



The mother of Robert F. Stockton was Mary Field, daughter of Robert 

 (born 1775) and Mary (Peale) Field, of Burlington, New Jersey. Her brother 

 Robert married Abigail, a sister of Richard Stockton and a daughter of the signer, 

 and had a son, Robert Field (born in 1795), who was a naval officer, but resigned, 

 at the age of 25, upon his marriage, to go on a plantation. 



The hyperkinetic tendencies of the propositus probably came from the Bou- 

 dinot blood, probably reinforced by certain traits of the Field germ-plasm. 



FAMILY HISTORY OF ROBERT FIELD STOCKTON. 



I 1 (F M F), Elias Boudinot (1706-1770), of Huguenot ancestry. I 2 (F M M), Catherine 

 Williams, of Antigua, of Welsh stock. I 3 (F F F), John Stockton (1701-1758), a man of edu- 

 cation and influence, and judge of the court of common pleas; a patron of Princeton College. 

 14 (F F M), Abigail Phillips, a first cousin on the Stockton aide. 



Fraternity of F M: II 1, Elisha Boudinot, a lawyer of high reputation. II 2, Elias Bou- 

 dinot (1740-1821), a lawyer of note; president of the Continental Congress and president of 

 the American Bible Society. II 3, Annis Boudinot (1736-1801), a beautiful and gifted woman, 

 who had some poetical ability and contributed to periodicals. II 4 (F F), Richard Stockton 

 (1730-1781), a jurist of high reputation who signed the Declaration of Independence. II 5 

 (M F), Robert Field (1723-1775), in 1774 was chairman of a public meeting of Burlington county 

 which sent delegates to the State convention. II 6 (M M), Mary Peale, daughter of Oswald 

 Peale. Fraternity of F F: II 9, John Stockton (born 1744), was drowned by the upsetting of 

 a yawl. II 10, Samuel W. Stockton (1751-1795), went as secretary of the American commission 

 to the courts of Austria and Russia, and was secretary of state for New Jersey in 1794. Ill 11, 

 Rev. Philip Stockton, born 1746. 



Fraternity of F: III 1, Lucius Horatio Stockton, United States district attorney for New 

 Jersey. Ill 2, Julia Stockton. Ill 3, Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), a signer of the Declaration 

 of Independence and a famous physician of Philadelphia. Ill 4, Susan Stockton. Ill 5, Alex- 



