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XIX. Hamilton Beckett married Sophia, daughter of Lord 

 Lyndhurst. — (^See " Burke.") 



XX. Mary Kuhn married (her cousin) Hartman Kuhn (son of 

 Charles), February 3, 1842. 



38. Frederick, born December 16, 1843; ^^^^ December 23, 1844. 



39. William. 



40. Marv. 



41. Ellen. 



42. Cornelius Hartman. 



43. Charles. 



XXL Ellen Kuhn married Manlius Evans. 



44. Cadwalader. 



45. Ellen Lyle. 



46. Rosalie. 



47. Hartman Kuhn. 



XXIV. Charles Kuhn married Louisa, daughter of the Hon. 

 Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts. 



XX VI. Hartman Kuhn married Grace McCarey. 



Another son of John Moore was William Moore (known as of Moore 

 Hall), from his seat on the banks of the Schuylkill, above Valley Forge. 

 He was born in Philadelphia, May 6, 1699, and at the age of fourteen 

 was sent to England to finish his education. He graduated at the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford in 1719, and returned to America, where he married 

 Williamina, daughter of David, fourth Earl of Wemyss.* She had, to- 



*A recent writer in " Frazer's Magazine" gives the following account of the 

 Wemyss of Fifeshire : 



The Wemyss family has claims to great antiquity, being descendants of Gillimachus, 

 fourth Earl of Fife. Their great ancestor, the first Earl, is the Macduff of .Shakspeare, 

 whose important service to King Malcolm was rewarded by that monarch with the 

 Earldom of Fife. Three special privileges were also bestowed upon him at the same 

 period : First, that he and his successors should conduct the king to the chair of state 

 at coronations; second, that they should lead the van of the army in battle; and, third, 

 that unpremeditated murder on the part of any of Macduff's kin to the ninth degree 

 was expiable by certain fines or offerings at the cross of Macduff. " Our judicious 

 Skeen," as Sibbald calls him, thus refers to this curious privilege: "The croce of clan 

 Mackduff had privelege and liberty of girth, in sik sort, that when onie manslayer, 

 being within the ninth degree of kin and bluid to Mackduff, sometime Earl of Fyffe, 

 come to that croce, and gave nyne kie (cows) and an colpindach or young kow, he 

 was free of the slaughter committed be him." A dangerous privilege, it will be 

 thought, in those lawless times. Very little now remains of this famous cross.- There- 



