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that dog to the one which he had received. To coolly 

 send back one dog, however, sent as a present, and 

 ask for another, would certainly be deemed a " fredom " 

 not easily excusable in these days. But the noblemen 

 of that period were in the habit of taking even ruder 

 " fredoms." 



From such good old sporting stock, then, came 

 Archibald, Lord Kennedy, who was born on June 4th, 

 1794, at Cassillis House, in the shire of Ayr. His great- 

 grandfather had been Receiver-General at New York, 

 where he married as his first wife Miss Elizabeth 

 Massam, of that city. 



His grandfather was a captain in the Royal Navy, 

 who greatly distinguished himself in many brilliant 

 actions, particularly in one off Lisbon, in commemoration 

 of which the merchants of that city presented him with 

 a handsome piece of plate. He succeeded to his father's 

 estate of Pavonia, in the State of New York, and during 

 the War of Independence his house was burned and 

 all his papers destroyed. He married as his first wife 

 a Miss Schayler, of New Jersey, a lady of large fortune, 

 by whom he had no issue. His second wife was also 

 an American |lady, Anne, daughter of John Watts, of 

 New York, and she bore him four children, the eldest 

 of whom became twelfth Earl of Cassillis, and was the 

 father of Lord Kennedy, the subject of my sketch. 



It will be noted how largely the Kennedys introduced 

 American blood into the family, and I think they were 

 the first noble house in Great Britain to enrich them- 

 selves by alliances with American heiresses. 



The family estates, all in Ayrshire, comprised 76,000 



