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Burlington militia and fought in most of the battles on New Jersey soil. His son 

 Joseph was a gallant cavalryman and quartermaster in the Revolutionary war. 

 Another daughter of Thomas McKean (besides Letitia) was Anne, who married 

 Andrew Buchanan, brother of Franklin Buchanan's father. They had a son, 

 Thomas McKean Buchanan, who became a lieutenant in the navy in 1827. He 

 had a sister, Anne, who married Colonel Richard Wade and had a son, Robert 

 Buchanan Wade, a captain in the United States army and professor of military 

 science in Missouri State College. A son of Thomas McKean, the signer, was 

 Joseph Borden McKean, who became an associate judge of the district court of 

 Philadelphia, and had a son, William Wister McKean, who became a commodore 

 in command of a part of the Gulf Squadron. 



Thus Franklin Buchanan's family abounded in administrative, legislative, 

 and fighting capacities, and in an attachment to the sea. 



FAMILY HISTORY OP FRANKLIN BUCHANAN. 



II (F F F) George Buchanan, born in Scotland about 1680; in 1723 came to Maryland, 

 where he practiced medicine. In 1729 he was one of the commissioners to lay out the city of 

 Baltimore; in 1749 he was elected a member of the general assembly of Maryland. 12 (F F M), 

 Eleanor Rogers, daughter of Nicholas Rogers. I 3 (M M F), Joseph Borden (1719-1791), in 1765 



assumed entire control of the stage and boat line between Philadelphia and New York. He was 

 a member of the committee of correspondence and, in February 1775, one of the committee of 

 observation; a member of the Provincial Congress that met in Trenton; one of the committee of 

 safety; was also a judge of the court of common pleas. He was a colonel of the First regiment 

 of Burlington (New Jersey) militia and in 1776 was appointed quartermaster. I 4 (M M M), 

 Elizabeth Watson (died 1807, aged 81 years), was the daughter of Marmaduke Watson. 



II 1 (F F), Andrew Buchanan (1734-1786), a justice, became, in 1776, brigadier general of 

 the Maryland state troops. He was also a member of the committee of correspondence in 1774 

 and of the committee of observation in 1775. II 2 (F M), Susan Lawson. II 3 (M F), Thomas 

 McKean, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1734. He be- 

 came speaker of the general assembly of Delaware. He was a member of the Stamp Act Congress 

 of 1765 and a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1783, and signed the Declara- 

 tion of Independence. II 4, Mary Borden. Fraternity of M M: II 5, Joseph Borden (1755-1788) 

 was an ardent patriot who raised and commanded the Burlington (New Jersey) troop of light 

 horse; he was also quartermaster of the militia. II 6, Ann Borden. II 7, Francis Hopkinson 

 (1737-1791), a well-known statesman and jurist who signed the Declaration of Independence 

 and was judge of the admiralty for Pennsylvania. 



UI 1 (consort's F), Edward Lloyd (1779-1834), governor of Maryland. Ill 2 (consort's M), 

 Sallie Scott Murray. Ill 3 (M), Letitia McKean (1769-1845). Ill 4 (F), George Buchanan 

 (1763-1808), took his medical degree in Philadelphia and practiced. Fraternity of F: III 5, 

 Andrew Buchanan. Fraternity of M : III 6, Anne McKean (born in 1773). Ill 7, Robert McKean 



