APPENDIX A. 761 



Hempstead, L. I., 1704, mar. , d. 1723-4, buried at Hempstead, and had 



Hon. John Thomas, first Judge of the county of Weschester, and a Representa- 

 tive in General Assembly, d. May 2, 1777; interred in Trinity churchyard. He 

 mar. 19th Feb. 1729, Abigail, da. of John Sands of Sands Point, L. I., b. Jan. 



1708, d. 14th Aug. 1782; buried at Bedford, and had, 1, John; 2, Thomas 

 Thomas; 3, William; 4, Sibell ; 5, Charity ; 6, Margaret ; 7, Glorianna. (I.), 

 John, Sheriff of Westchester county, 1). 3d Feb., 1732, mar. Phoebe Palmer, and 

 had, 1, Edward ; 2, John T. 1, Edward, son of John, Surrogate of Westchester 

 Co. d. 2nd May, 1806, at . 44. lie mar. Anne Oakley, d. May 12, 1807, act. 45, 

 and had, 1, William of N. Y., d. Aug 22, 1836, set 37, ; 2, Capt. John T., son 



of John, mar. , d. Jan. 6, 1835, and had, 1, Capt. Benjamin, d. 16 Sept., 



1813, in N- Y.; 2, John of N. Y.; 3, Sophia, mar. Deighton, M.D.; 4, 



Catharine, mar. O. Dewitt. (II.), Major General Thomas Thomas, a distin- 

 guished officer of the continental army, and a member of the Legislature of the 

 State of New York, b. 17 June, 1745, d. May 29, 1824, interred on the estate, 

 and mar. Catharine Floyd of Mastic, L. I, b. 0th May, 174G,d. Jan. 15, 1825, act. 79 ; 

 and had, 1, Floyd, b. 1778, d. 2nd June, 1802; 2, Glorianna, b. 9th Dec, 1772, andd. 

 9th Dec, 1779 ; 3, Nancey, d. Feb. 1, 1795, aet. 19; 4, Catharine, 1795. (III.), Wil- 

 liam, b. 1st Aug., 1736, d. Sept. 21, 1740. (IV.), Sibell, b. 15th Jan., 1730, mar. 

 Abram Field. (V.), Charity, b. 3d July, 1734, mar. James Ferris, and had, 1, 



George; 2, Abigail. 1, George, son of Charity, mar. Post, and had, 1, 



Thomas, heir of the Thomas property, at Harrison ; 2, Abigail, da. of Charity, 

 mar. David Harrison, and had, 1, David Harrison, of N. Rochelle. (Yl.), 

 Margaret, b. Aug. 1, 1738, mar. Charles Floyd. (VII. ), Glorianua, b. Sept. 

 27, 1740, mar. James Franklin. 



Townsend, of Eastchester. — This family is descended from the Townsends 

 of Long Island. John Townsend, son of John of Oyster Bay, d. 1788-9, and 

 had, 1, Daniel of Eastchester, who left John of Eastchester, Senator for the Second 

 District in 1821, and Elijah ; 2, Freelove, who mar. William Pickney. From 

 the Long Island family also descended Sylvanus Townsend, who removed to 

 North Salem, and left issue William, Sylvanus, ast. 91, James, Samuel, and Jus- 

 tus, all residing at North Salem. 



Valentine, of Yonkeks. — Benjamin Valentine, the ancestor of this family, 

 was a dragoon in the French military service, Canada. He removed to New York 

 circa 1680, and settled upon the farm (in Yonkers)now owned by Frederick Rich. 



He mar. Odell, and had three sons, Matthias, first proprietor of Valentine's 



Hill, Yonkers, b. 1698, d. 1781, buried at Eastchester; Nicholas, who removed 

 South, and Joseph, i'he latter individual was so passionately fond of the violin, 

 that he obtained the surname of "The Fiddler." Matthias, the eldest son, mar. 



1, Anna Rych ; ?., Mary , and left, (L), Abraham of Yonkers, b. 1719, d. 



19th Oct., 1768, 'mried at Eastchester, mar. Deborah Barton, and had, 1, Gilbert, 

 b. 1748, d. 1819, mar., 1, Mary Morgan, da. of Charles. 2, Martha Briggs; by 

 first wife he had Abraham, b. June 16, 1773, mar. May 27, 1798, Hannah Briggs ; 

 she was b. May 2, 1776. Abraham and Hannah left, a, Abraham of New York, 

 b. May 10, 1804, mar., 1S26, Jane Bates, and had Abraham, Edward, John, 

 William, George, Mary Jane, Emily, d. 1843, and Catharine ; b, Edward Briggs, 

 b. Jan. 25, 1S09, d. Sept. 23, 1834, mar., 1833. Eliza E. Pickney ; c, Sam. Morgan 



