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FAMILT HISTORY OF THOMAS MACDONOUGH. 



I 1 (F F F), Thomas Macdonough, of Ire- 

 land. I 2 (F F M), Jane Coyle. I 3 (F M F), 

 Peter Laroux, of Huguenot extraction. 1 5 

 (M FF), John Vance. 



Fraternity of F F: II 1, John Macdon- 

 ough, settled in Newton, Long Island. II 2, 

 Augustin Macdonough, went to the West Indies. 

 II 3 (F F), James Macdonough (died 1792), who 

 settled in New Castle county, Delaware, was a 

 physician and an able business man. II 4 (F M), 

 Lydia Laroux (1729-1764). 115 (M F), Samuel 

 Vance, who settled in Delaware about 1707, was 

 the owner of a grist-mill and a captain in the 

 Delaware colonial militia. 



Fraternity of F: III 1, James Macdonough, 

 died early in the service of the country in the 

 Revolutionary war. Ill 4, Micah Macdonough, was an officer under General St. Clair in an 

 expedition against the Indians in 1791. Ill 5 (F), Thomas Macdonough (1747-1795), in March 

 1776 was commissioned a major of the Delaware battalion and distinguished himself in active 

 service. In February 1777 he was elected a member of the privy council and served for several 

 years, being elected speaker of the council in 1784 and again in 1787. Later he was made second 

 justice of the court of common pleas and orphans' court of New Castle county. Ill 6 (M), 

 Mary Vance (1751-1792). Ill 7 (consort's F), Nicolas Shaler, of New York City. 



Fraternity of Propositus: IV 1, Lydia, Hannah, Mary, Hester, and Jane Macdonough. 

 IV 2, Samuel, John, and Joseph Macdonough. IV 3, James Macdonough, a midshipman in 

 the navy, who took part in the action between the Constellation and the Insurgente in 1799. IV 

 4 (Propositus), THOMAS MACDONOUQH. IV 5 (consort), Lucy Ann Shaler. 



Children of Propositus: V 2, James Edward Fisher Macdonough (1816-1849). V 3, 

 Charles Shaler MacDonough (1818-1871). V 4, William Joseph Macdonough. V 5, Augustus 

 Rodney MacDonough (1820-1907). V 6, Frances Brenton McVickar. V 7, Thomas Mac- 

 Donough (1822-1894). V8, Charlotte Rosella Macdonough (1825-1900). V 9, Henry G. 

 Hubbard. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



MACDONOUGH, R. 1895. A Paper on Commodore Thomas Macdonough, United States 



Navy. (In: Historical and Biographical Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware. 



Vol. II. 22 pp.) 

 MACDONOUGH, R. 1909. Life of Commodore Thomas Macdonough. Boston: The Fort 



Hill Press, S. Usher. 12 + 313 pp. 

 VANDERGRIFT, L. 1895. Memoir of Commodore Thomas Macdonough. (In: Historical and 



Biographical Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware. Vol. II, pp. 3-14.) 



