1 82 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



whose maiden name was Koughter or Slaughter : but she died without 

 children. His second wife was a Miss Harris of the same Island, by 

 whom he had four sons and two daughters. His eldest s< >n was John 

 Harris Cruger who succeeded his father in 1773 as one of the Gover- 

 nor's Council, he was also Chamberlain of the city of New York, and was 

 commissioned Lieut. Colonel of the First battalion or regiment, General 

 de Lancey himself, being the Colonel. After the war he went to Eng- 

 land and resided at Beverley in Yorkshire, where he died without issue. 



Henry Cruger, the second son, educated at King's College, N. Y., was 

 in 1757 sent bydiis father to Bristol, England, to enter a counting-house. 

 He became a successful and popular merchant of that city, which he 

 made his home. In 1774, he and Edmund Burke were nominated for 

 Members of Parliament for Bristol, and after a sharp contest, elected. 

 He was also once Sheriff of Bristol, and in 1781 was elected its Mayor. 

 In 1784, he was again elected to Parliament." In 1790 he declined re- 

 election, having determined to return to America and reside there for 

 the rest of his life, and in the same year came back with his family to 

 his native city. He was soon engaged in politics, and notwithstanding 

 his service in Parliament, and especially his re-election in 1784, after the 

 peace of 1783, and subsequent service of about six years, he was, in 

 1792, elected a Senator of the State of New York, and served as such. 

 His residence during the latter part of his life was at 382 Greemvich 

 street, N. Y., where he died 24th of April, 1827, aged 88 years. 



His first wife was Miss Peach, daughter of Samuel Peach the great 

 Banker of Bristol, by whom he had one child, Samuel Peach Cruger, 

 who subsequently took the surname of Peach, and was the late Samuel 

 Peach Peach of Tackington House, Gloucester in England, who mar- 

 ried a daughter of William Miles, of Leigh Court, near Bristol; they had 

 one child, Emma Sarah, who married in 1820, Lord John Murray-Ayns- 

 ley, a grandson of John Murray, Duke of Athol. 



The second wife of Henry Cruger, was Miss Caroline Elizabeth Blair. 

 Their eldest son was Henry H. Cruger who married Mary, daughter of 

 Nicolas Cruger, his first cousin. Their second son was William Cru- 

 ger, and their third son was John Cruger who was the father of Henry 

 Cruger, the late Hon. Nicholas Cruger and Col. John Peach Cruger" of 

 Boscobel House, Crugers, Westchester county, who possesses the large 

 silver pitcher, presented by the citizens of Bristol, England, to his grand- 

 father, the Hon. Henry Cruger, when a resident of that city. 



a For most of the foregoing sketch relating to the Cruger's, we are indebted to an article 

 in the New York Gen. and Kiog.. ltec. vol. vi, No. 2 ; entitled Family Records, Cruger. Con- 

 tributed by Edward F. DeLancey. 



