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ander Cuthbert, of Canada. Ill 6, Mary Stockton. Ill 7, Andrew Hunter (1752-1823), a 

 missionary who became a brigade chaplain in the Revolutionary army and later a chaplain in 

 the navy. Ill 8 (F), Richard Stockton (born 1764), stood at the head of the bar in New Jersey 

 at the age of 25 years. He was a Presidential elector; a United States senator, and a member of 

 Congress from 1813-1815. Ill 9 (M), Mary Field (1766-1837). Fraternity of M: III 11, 

 Lydia Field. Ill 12, Adam Hubly. Ill 13, Robert Field (born 1775), a Princeton graduate. 

 Ill 14, Abigail Stockton. Ill 15, Richard Howell (1754-1803), served in the army throughout 

 the Revolutionary war. Afterwards he practiced law and was elected governor of New Jersey. 



III 16, Miss Burr. Ill 17, Lucius Stockton (born 1771), a lawyer. Ill 18, Eliza Core. Ill 

 19, Zachary Cantey, a general of South Carolina. 



IV 1, Richard Rush (born 1780), attorney general of Pennsylvania and United States 

 minister to England. IV 2, James Rush (born 1786), followed scientific and literary pursuits. 



IV 3, David Hunter (1802-1886), was graduated from the United States Military Academy 

 at West Point in 1822, but afterwards engaged in business in Chicago (1836). Later he served in 

 the Mexican war and as brigadier general of volunteers won distinction in the Civil War, being 

 made a major general of the United States army in 1865. IV 4, Lewis Boudinot Hunter (born 

 1804), served as a surgeon in the Mexican and Civil Wars, retiring with the rank of commodore 

 in 1871. IV 5, Mary Hunter. Fraternity of Propositus: IV 6, Samuel Witham Stockton, a 

 lieutenant in the United States navy. IV 7, Mary Stockton. IV 8, William Harrison. IV 9, 

 Richard Stockton (born 1791), became judge of the Mississippi supreme court, and attorney 

 general. IV 10, Julia Stockton, born 1793. IV 11, John Rhinelander. IV 13, Caroline Stock- 

 ton. IV 14, William Rotch. IV 15, Annis Stockton, born 1804. IV 16, Hon. John Renshaw 

 Thomson, United States senator. IV 17 (Propositus), ROBERT FIELD STOCKTON. IV 18 (con- 

 Bort), Harriet Maria Potter, of Charleston, South Carolina. IV 19, Robert Field (1767-1850), 

 at 12 years of age shipped before the mast on board a man-of-war with his cousin Robert 

 Stockton. He became a lieutenant in the navy; and in 1822 resigned and took up plantation 

 life in Mississippi. IV 20, Richard Stockton Field (1803-1870), became attorney general of New 

 Jersey, 1838-1844. He was professor of law in the New Jersey Law School (1847-1855), and in 

 1862 was elected to the United States senate. IV 22, Major Richard Lewis Howell. IV 23, 

 Rebecca Stockton, born 1798. IV 24, Charles C. Stockton (born 1796), removed to Kentucky, 

 where he died young. IV 25, Lucius W. Stockton (born 1799), was the leading spirit in building 

 the historic National Road, the precursor of the trunk-line railroads. IV 26, Mary Remington. 



IV 27, Philip Augustus Stockton (1802-1876), entered the navy in 1819 and served 11 years. 

 In 1856 he was appointed consul general for Saxony. IV 28, Sarah Cantey (1813-1835). 



V 1, Samuel Witham Stockton, an aide on the staff of Major General David Hunter in the 

 Civil War. V 2, Sarah Hodge. V 3, Mary Stockton. Children of Propositus: V 4, Catherine 

 Elizabeth Stockton, died 1875. V 5, William Armstrong Dod, a noted preacher and educator. 



V 6, Richard Stockton (1824-1876), a lawyer, and treasurer of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. 

 V 7, John Potter Stockton (born 1826), was United States minister to Rome in 1857 and as United 

 States senator in 1869 he advocated the establishment of life-saving stations. He became attor- 

 ney general of New Jersey. V 8, Robert Field Stockton (1832-1898), a lawyer and capitalist; 

 was a brigadier general in 1858 and adjutant general of New Jersey. V 9, Caroline Stockton. 

 V 10, Captain William Rawle Brown, of the United States navy. V 11, Harriet M. Stockton, 

 born 1834. V 12, Julia Stockton, born 1837. V 13, Edward M. Hopkins. V 14, Annis Stock- 

 ton. V 15, Franklin Howell. V 16, Mary Elizabeth Stockton, born 1830. V 17, John C. 

 Howell (born Philadelphia, 1819), entered the navy in 1836 and served in various capacities; was 

 acting secretary of the navy at various times between 1874 and 1878, being promoted in 1877 

 to rear admiral. V 18, Howard Stockton (born 1842), was a brevet captain, United States army. 

 V 19, Philip A. Stockton, was graduated from the United States Military Academy; served in 

 the Confederate States army as colonel. V 20, Edward Stockton (born 1849), was a lieutenant 

 in the United States navy; entered the Confederate States navy, afterwards an engineer. 



VI 1, Charles Stockton, a civil engineer who died in Nicaragua. VI 2, Samuel Stockton, 

 with the "Rough Riders" in Cuba. 



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BAYARD, S. T. 1856. A Sketch of the Life of Commodore Robert Field Stockton, with an 



Appendix. New York: Derby and Jackson. 



PEIRCE, F. 1901. Field Genealogy. Chicago: Hammond Press. 2 vols. 

 STOCKTON, T. C. 1911. The Stockton Family of New Jersey. Washington: The Carnahan 



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