728 APPENDIX A. 



Field. — The name of Field is of frequent occurrence in Doomsday's book, and 

 there is often inter-changed with Lea — a word having the same signification. 

 John Field of Ardsley, County or York, England, was a distinguished mathema- 

 tician and astronomer. lie is said to have been the first person who intro- 

 duced into England, by his writings, the discoveries of Copernicus. His Ephe- 

 merides was published in that country in 1556. His will bears date Doc. 28th, 

 15S6, in which he directs his body to be interred in the church porch at Ardsley. 

 He mar. Jane Amyas of Kent, who d. A. D. 1609. His children were (I). 

 Richard, b. 1562, who left a da. Mary; (II), Christopher; (III), John; (IV), 

 Matthew of Ardsley, b. 1615; (V), Thomas; (VI), James; (VII), Martin; 

 VIII), William, who mar. the widow of George Burdett, da. of John Totwell, 

 and had Judith, the wife of John Mundy. Matthew, fourth son of John, had 

 two sons, James and Robert. James had Robert, James, Anne, and Judith. 

 Robert removed to America, and settled at Flushing, L. I., in 1645. He left 



Anthony, Benjamin and Robert. Anthony, the eldest, mar. Susannah , and 



had first, John, who removed to New Jersey. He was the father of Jeremiah 

 and others ; secondly, Benjamin, who mar. Hannah Bowne, she was b. in 1665, 

 and d. A. D. 1707. The children of Benjamin and Hannah, were (I), Robert, 

 b. 1707, the father of Uriah. Uriah left 1. Aaron, who had first Charles, the 

 father of seven children, viz. : Edward, Richard, Charles M., Aaron, Phoebe, 

 Jane, and Louisa M. ; 2nd, Richard ; 4th, Sarah C. ; 5th, Anne ; 6th, Eliza, 

 7th. Hannah : 2, Robert, second son of Uriah ; 3, Josiah, ibid. ; 4, James, ibid; 

 5, Abigail ; 6, Elizabeth ; 7, Hannah ; 8, Sarah ; 9, Mary ; 10, Anna. The two 

 das. of Robert, son of Benjamin, were Jerusha and Sarah ; (II), Benjamin, b. 

 1692; (III), John, b. 1694; (IV), Samuel, b. 1696, left three sons, William, 

 Stephen and John. William had William and Samuel ; (V), Anthony of 

 Harrison, Westchester Co., b. 1698, mar. Hannah Burling, and had 1, John 

 of Yorktown, who mar. Lydia Hazard of Rhode Island.; 2, Thomas; 3, Moses ; 

 4, Samuel, mar. Abigail Haight ; 5, Benjamin, b. 1732, d. 1818, mar. Jerushua 

 Sutton ; 6, William, mar. Mary Hatfield ; 7, Sarah, mar. Joseph Waters ; 8, 

 Mary. John, eldest son of Anthony and Hannah, left nine sons and four da. ; 

 1, Hazard, mar., 1, Frances Wright; 2, Mary Bailey, and had two sons, Benja- 

 min and Joseph. Benjamin mar. Catharine Depeyster, and has one son, Cort- 

 landt. The four da. of Hazzard are Phoebe, Hannah, Jerusha, and Abigail ; 2, 

 John, mar. Frances Perry ; 3, Daniel, mar. Elizabeth Field, and left one son 

 James, and two da. James had Edward, James, and Adele; 4, James; 5, 

 Joseph ; 6, Moses of Peekskill, d. Oct. 18, 1833, mar. Susan K. Osgood, and 

 left, Maunsell, Osgood, Franklin C, Moses A., William Hazard, Susan K., and 

 Caroline M. ; 7, William, mar. Sarah Fairchild, had a son William, who mar. 

 Margaretta Day. The latter left two children, viz., W r illiam and Helen; 8, 

 Hickson, mar. Eleanor K. De Forest, and had a son Hickson, who mar. Mary 

 Bradhurst, and a da Eleanor, who mar. John Jay ; 9, Seaman, youngest son of 

 John, mar. Eliza Debourg, and had De Forest, Eliza, mar. J. T. Blanchard, 

 Odell, and Clemence; 10, Abigail, mar. Leonard Van Hoosen ; 11, Phoebe, 

 mar, nenry Fowler; 12, Jerusha; 13, Josiah; 14, Sarah, mar. Caleb Horton; 

 15, Abigail, d. young. (VI), Joseph, b. 1702, left Gilbert, Nehemiah, Solomon, 

 and Comfort ; (VII), Hannah, b. 1700 ; (VIII), Sarah, youngest da. of Benja- 

 min and Hannah Bowne, was b. A. D. 1704. Uriah Field of Greenwich, Conn., 



