89 



under the name of J. Waddington & Co., corner of 

 Pine and Pearl streets. A dissolution of the firm 

 took place at the time of the war of 1812. 



In the year 1786 Mr. Waddington was elected a 

 Director of the Bank of New York. He is said to 

 have been one of the most energetic and socially 

 disposed merchants of his day, and to have en- 

 tertained his friends and associates with regal 

 splendor, and was never better pleased than when 

 extending true English hospitality at his home, or 

 while distributing charity to his fellow countrymen 

 in distress. He was a true Son of St. George, proud 

 of his family and of the land of his birth, and care- 

 ful of all that concerned his honor and good name. 



Mr. Waddington was interested as a stockholder 

 and director in many of the old Banks, Insurance 

 Companies and other joint stock enterprises of the 

 city of his day. He closed his honorable and well- 

 spent life A. D. 1844, in the 89th year of his age, 

 beloved and respected by all who knew him and 

 deeply mourned by his brethren of the St. George's 

 Society. 



SAMUEL CORP. 



Mr. Samuel Corp was the senior partner in the 

 English exporting house of Corp, Ellis & Shaw, 

 and lived at the time of the organization of the St. 

 George's Society, in i 786, over his store, as was the 



