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known : — " I cannot be reconciled to the thought of your leaving 

 Bordeaux. I lose the most agreeable pleasure I had, that of 

 seeing you and forgetting myself with you." The son John, who 

 married Jane Banks, had issue by her, among other children a 

 daughter, Eliza, born in 1751, whose second husband was Walter 

 Bagenal, of Bagenalstown. A daughter, Maria, of this marriage 

 became the wife of Lord Downs, and from them sprang two girls, 

 Ann and Charlotte, who married respectively Lord Clonmel and 

 Lord Seaton. There are foui- other children of John of Bordeaux, 

 iti addition to Joseph, which I should certainly mention. Isobel, 

 who married James Burnett, of Aberdeen, and whose daughter 

 became the wife of Adam Ferguson, the famous Moral Philosopher 

 and intimate friend of Joseph Black. Ferguson was already 

 related, being a cousin of Joseph's, his mother being one of the 

 Gordons of Aberdeen. Then there was Katherine, born 1736, 

 who married Francis Turnley of Newtownards. Her daughter, 

 also Katherine, was wife of Ezekiel Boyd, and from this marriage 

 sprang still another Katherine, who married the Rev. R. Glage, 

 of Rathlin, and their daughter Dorothea, in 1864, became the 

 wife of Prince Waldeck and Pyrmont. Black's two sons, Samuel 

 and George, came to Belfast, where they became leading men 

 among the merchants, holding che office of Sovereign between 

 them no less than seven times from 1772 to 1789. John of Bor- 

 deaux died in Belfast in 1767 while on a visit to his son, and was 

 buried in the family tomb in the old Corporation Chuich ground. 

 Samuel died in Belfast in 1792. George married in Belfast 

 in 1753 Arminella, neice of Hill AVillson of Purdysburn, and 

 widow of a Mr. Campbell. He purchased Stranmillis and on it 

 built a cottage for a summer residence, which was afterwards 

 rebuilt by his son George in 1802. This son George was born in 

 1763, and in 1801 married Ellinor Stewart, a daughter of Robert 

 Stewart of Ballydi-ain, a family with which the Blacks were 

 already related by common ancestry. Before George could get 

 married, however, he needed a settled position not dependent on 

 his father, and he became Landwaiter, oi- Officer of Customs, in 



