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the latter part of the year 1787, when Mr, Theophy- 

 lact Bache was elected in his stead. He married 

 in 1767 the widow of Major Appy, Elizabeth, daugh- 

 ter of Major Abraham Mortier, the British Pa)^- 

 master of all the forces in North America, by whom 

 he had two children; the elder, Goldsborough Ban- 

 yer, Jr., married Maria, daughter of Chief Justice 

 Jay, and had issue one child, who died young. 



Albany Annals, Vol. V, published by Munsel & 

 Co., Albany, 1854, page 278, we abstract the follow- 

 ing from " Random Recollections of Albany," by 

 Ignatius Jones : 



" Among other curious subjects that attracted my 

 attention during the early part of my residence in 

 Albany was a blind old man led about the streets 

 by his colored servant — " 



"It was old Mr. Goldsborough Banyer, a most 

 intelligent, wealthy and respectable old gentleman." 



" He was the most perfect type of the Anglo- 

 American then living (1809). He was the last of a 

 race, or class of men now totally extinct — a race 

 born in England, grown rich in America, proud of 

 their birth and prouder of their fortune. He had 

 been a Secretary of State under the Colonial Gov- 

 ernment. At the breaking out of the Revolution, 

 very naturally, and the prospect considered, very 

 wisely, took sides, not arms, with the Mother 

 Country." 



" A short, stout built man, English alike in form, 



