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Mary, born September 3, 1793, married Abraham V. D. 

 Fountain. 

 John, born December 5, 1795, married Catharine Seguine. 

 Dinah, born May 24, 1799. 



The Mill Road west of the Lake-Tysen farm, originally laid 

 out in 1722 through the Guyon farm, was relocated in 1773 so 

 as to skirt the edge of the meadows (66), being then known as 

 the road leading to Daniel Lake's mill. Parts of the water wheel 

 and of one of the millstones still lie upon the east bank of Mill 

 Creek. The straight part of Mill Road, from the Guyon farm 

 easterly to New Dorp Lane, probably dates back to the time of 

 Jacques Cortelyou's original surveys. 



The life of James IV was long and must have been eventful. 

 Five of his children were born during the period of the Revolu- 

 tion, and he lived to see his son a member of Congress under the 

 political guidance of a vice-president of the United States, 

 Daniel D. Tompkins. A letter written by him to his son James 

 in 1821 shows him to have been a man of deep piety. He must 

 have been a man of substance, for he established three sons on 

 large farms. 



James IV, in 1814, conveyed the Guyon farm to his son 

 James V (67), going himself to live upon the farm adjoining on 

 the west, which he had purchased at a partition sale of one of the 

 Lake estates (68) ; he died in or about the year 1823, leaving a 

 will^ by which he devised this farm to his son John (69), who in 

 turn devised it to his widow for life, with remainder to her 

 brothers (70), and which has been since known as the Kitty 

 Guyon farm. It is probable that James IV bought for his son 

 Harmanus the farm at the Great Kill, where the latter resided. 



James V. — The last of the male line, James V, born December 

 24, 1778, was generally known as Major James Guyon, and 

 married, ist, Ann Bedell, 2d, Ann Ferine, and 3d, Martha Seguine, 



5 See p. 132. 



