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marriage were Gabriel, Marie, Esther, Sarah, and Jeanne. 

 Gabriel died nnmarried. Marie married Abraham Tour- 

 tellot, a Hugnenot who was at that time master of a ves- 

 sel sailing from Newport. Their descendants are numer- 

 ous. Esther married Adam Powell, of Newport, in 1713. 

 She gave birth to two daughters, the elder of whom, 

 Elizabeth, married the Reverend Samuel Seabury, of New 

 London, Connecticut ; while the younger, Esther, married 

 Chief-Justice Helme of the Superior Court of Rhode 

 Island. 



Sarah married the representative of a prominent New 

 England family, Benjamin Whipple, in the year 1722. 

 Jeanne married Colonel William Coddiugton, of Newport, 

 in 1722. The issue of this union was two sons and four 

 daughters ; John and Francis, Content, Esther, Jane and 

 Ann. 



The children of Bernon's second wife, Mary Harris, 

 granddaughter of William Harris, who accompanied 

 Roger Williams when he landed at Whatcheer rock in 

 1636, were Susanne, Mary, and Eve. There was also 

 born to her a son, Gabriel, who died at an early age. 



Susanne married Joseph Crawford in 1734. Nine 

 children were born to them, the youngest of whom, Ann, Honorable 

 was married to Zachariah Allen in 1778. The Hououi'- in''en*"^^ 

 able Zachariah Allen, son of Ann Crawford and grandson 

 of Susanne Bernon, was born in Providence, Rhode 

 Island, in 1795, where he died in 1882 at the age of eighty- 

 seven. His Huguenot ancestry was always a matter of 

 keen interest to Mr. Allen, and as president of the Rhode President 

 Island Historical Society and first president of the Historical so- 

 Huguenot Memorial Society of Oxford, Massachusetts, he '^'^^^ 

 was enabled to further the growing sentiment which gives 

 to the French Protestant emigrants their rightful place 

 among the founders of the Republic. As Baird says of Brown 1813 

 Mr. Allen, "perhaps more than any other American who 

 has lived in these times, Mr. Allen himself illustrated 

 some of the finest traits of the Huguenot character." A 



