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His iffue was a fon born in 16 ^ 2 * farmer of the manor 
of Erickftad, and who by a tranfpofition of names was 
called Ingemar Bensjefton ; he was the granufather of 
Linne. His fon, Nicholas I innaeus, the father of 
Linne, vyas born in 1764, and being the firft learned 
man of his family, took his name from a Tilia or 
linden tree which grew in the neighbourhood of his 
native piace, and from which fome other branches of 
his farnily had derived theirs. He was paflor of the 
village v.’hcre he rtfided, and married Chriftiana Bro- 
derfon the daughter of his predecefTor in ofEce. By her 
he had iffiie Charles their firft born; Anna Maria who 
married Gabriel Hoek reflor of Wirefladt ; Sophia 
Juliana who married John Collin redor of Ryfby: 
San.ue! vyho was born in 1718, and married the daugh- 
ter of Nicholas Qfander prebendary of Makaryd, and 
who Aicceeded his father in the re£lory and prebendary 
of Sttnbrohult. He has feveral daughters. 
The retirement and leifure which his funflion 
afforded him, and probably the flenderntfs of his income, 
had given the father a great attachmert to hufbandry and 
gar.kning; and hence might fpring the bud, which 
afterwards bianched out into that exfenfive and never- 
fading tree of fyftcm produced by the fon. The earlieft 
day; ot Linnxus are faid to have been rriarkt-d by an ex- 
traordinary paflii.n for the polfcllion and e.xamination of 
flowers, of which his father’s garden, according to 
Linnxus’s own account in a letter to Baron Haller, 
