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the Hon. Gabriel Ludlow, Colonel in Brigadier-General De Lance/s 

 brigade during the Revolution, and afterwards first Mayor of the city of 

 St. John's in the province of New Brunswick, President of his Majesty's 

 Council, and also for a time Governor of the same and Commander-in- 

 Chief of the forces. He died at Saint Johns, N. R, and was buried in 

 the cemetery of the Episcopal church at Carleton, a N. B. His brother, 

 George Duncan Ludlow, was Chief Justice of the Province. His father 

 was Gabriel Ludlow, third son of Gabriel Ludlow, Esq., who was born 

 in 1663 and came to this country in 1694. He married on Easter Mon- 

 day, April 5th, 1697, Saiah, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Hanmer, D. 

 D., Chaplain to His Majesty's forces in the Province of New York. He 

 was one of the first vestrymen of Trinity church, New York, in 1697, and 

 was the son of Gabriel and the grandson of Edmund Ludlow, second 

 son of Sir Edmund Ludlow, Knt.; by his second wife, Margaret, widow 

 of Viscount Bendon, second son cf Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. 

 Sir Edmund Ludlow's eldest son, by his first wife, Bridget Coker, was 

 Sir Henry Ludlow, Knight, M.P. for that shire, born 1587, who married 

 Letitia, daughter of Thomas West, Lord Delaware, by whom he had 

 issue, with three daughters ; Edmund Ludlow, the celebrated republican 

 general during the civil wars in England, who died at Vivay in Switzer- 

 land, in 1693, aged 73, where a monument is erected to his memory; 

 and Henry Ludlow, Esq., who married Webster, grand-daughter of 

 Margaret, second daughter of Sir Richard Bingham, the ancestor of the 

 late George James Ludlow, third Earl Ludlow, Viscount Preston, and 

 Baron Ludlow of Ardsalla in the peerage of Ireland, Baron Ludlow in 

 that of the United Kingdom, born 12th Dec, 1758. 



The family of Ludlow, (which derives its surname from the ancient 

 town so denominated in the County of Salop,) settled at Hill Deverell 

 in Wiltshire, in the reign of Edward III., 1350, at which time lived 

 William Ludlow, Esq., of Wiltshire, who married Margaret, daughter of 

 William Rvmer, whose son John Ludlow, married Leonora, daughter of 

 Thomas Ringwood ; their son was John Ludlow, who married Phillipa, 

 daughter of Nicholas Bulstrade, whose son William Ludlow married 

 Jane, daughter of Nicholas Moore ; leaving a son George Ludlow, Esq., 

 who married Edith, daughter of Sir Andrew, Lord Windsor, whose son 

 was the before mentioned Sir Edmund Ludlow, Knight. 



The old \Villett homestead stood on Clason's Point, the extremity of 

 Cornell's neck, directly on the site of the late Mrs. Clason's mansion. 6 



a Two silver cups bearing the crest of Ludlow, still preserved at Black Rock, are said to 

 have been used in the administration of the Holy Communion at Carleton churcli. 



On the north side of this house is a beautiful specimen of the Hycena Wisteria which is 

 said to be mdigencous to the Neck. 



