4 o <^'^^ "^oV .3^"^. v-^^ ^a>^- V^' -- ^^' %,*^^*.<^ ^<.'°-'*^^ \*'^^*A<^ ,Hq, 4 o I0& ARMS OF FORSYTH OF FAILZERTON County Ayr. Scotland. ARMS OF FORSYTH OF TAILZERTON County Stirling, Scotland. The black two-headed eagle of the Cavlovin- gian Dynasty, with cor- onet between the heads, was the ensign of the Seigneur de Forsath, Viscount de Fronsac, son of the Emperor Charlemagne and broth- er of l>ouis. King of Aquitania in S25. A. D. The modern shield of Forsyth is emblazoned on the eagle in this illus- tration, to which have been added the crest and motto of the Fail- zerton branch as repre- senting the eldest line, derived through m a r • riage of the heiress of Margaret Forsyth and Capt. Jehan Denys with Capt. James For- saith of F a i 1 z e r t o n , whose only daughter married Walter Forsyth, I 'rovost of Glasgow College, in 1678. ARMS OF FORSYTH OF THE FIRS Mortimer, Berkshire, England. ARMS OF FORSYTH OFTHE COUNTIES of Cronnarty and Elgin, Scotland. MEMORIAL OF THE FAMILY OF FORSYTH' DE FRONSAC BY .> FREDERIC GREGORY FORSYTH DE FRONSAC A 11 A ^1®"* ill BOSTON Press of S. J. Parkhill & Ccjmpanv 1903 p' We are indebted to the courtesy of the Dana Estes Co. for four electros ; to the Donahoe Magazine for two, and to the Plant Steamship Co. for one. ARISTOCRACY Page 260, Vol. II, of Professor Laycock's '■'■Mind and Brain " reads : "The highest evolution of what I have termed ' Primordia Instincts ' is seen in the communistic instincts of two classes of animals which are at the head of their respective archetypal branches: e/Zs^., the social insects — the most highly developed of the invertebrate ; and the social man — the most highly developed of the vertebrate. In truth, the family instincts are the solid foundation of sQciety. Hence it is, in proportion as they are active in a nation, in the same proportion is its social organization vigorous and complete." Aristocracies are formed by Nature, by the general advancement of the fittest. This is accomplished genealogi- cally, and genealogy is the science on which aristocracy rests. From the study of genealogy arises the science of heredity, of the science of psychic transmissions. Nobilities, on the other hand, are not formed by Nature, but are recognitions, by man and his government, of aristocratic products. Nobility and aristocracy are not alw^ays the same, yet they are related. An aristocracy does not exist in vigor without producing a nobility, and a nobility, even though at first formed of unaristocratic products, if continued in a proper manner, makes itself respectable and conservative. Of aristocracy, though containing different elements, there is but one description. It is an organic body, in a community, bred to eminence and renown by many generations of honor- able career and exalted position. Of nobility there are three formations : I, by the sword ; II, by the pen ; III, by landed estates ; in other words, by tal- ent recognized in individuals, regardless of family connection. iv FORSYTH DE FRONSAC I, in war; II, in state-craft and science; and III, in long territorial succession. Aristocracy gives the firm ground-work of character, nobility, the transitory mark of distinction. The ancient king was not always from the most eminent family, and when the king grants titles to his servants aristocracy is destroyed. The aristocracy has always, on this account, held itself superior to any order of nobility that is not founded on aristocratic products. The aristocratic power in families, in a state makes itself manifest by creating a little kingdom for each of the families. This little kingdom, erected on a few acres of land, and known as the family estate, is cherished, by the members of that family, as a territory peculiar to itself. A family estate is different, in this respect, from the estate of any particular rich man, or corporation. The aristocratic family has changed the acres it occupies, by the fairy wand of its sentiment, by the power of its individuality, into a territorial realm that bears evidence to its renown. A state that encourages fami- lies of this sort to hold territorial positions strengthens itself in the hearts of its best people, and provides a barrier against the restlessness of anarchy that an unsympathetic democracy always engenders. F, G. Forsyth de Fronsac. CHIVALRY Who says the knight shall come amain, With gilded mail and trappings vain, His pride in pomp alone to glow. For wealth, his energy o'erflow ? They estimate his worth too small, Who think that virtues near him pall : - It is by them alone he lives : They are the gems of Chivalry. II They form the charge he honors most : They give to him his proudest boast : Their honor, gentleness and grace Shine, like the sunlight, from his face. With frail timidity removed. By them his worth to Valor proved, Theirs is the name for which he strives To gain the fame of Chivalry. Ill Such is the need of every state : Without it all its days are late. So faintly shines their light of dawn. That night and day seem almost one, And deeds of darkness hold their sway. When Honor has not strength to stay — And Honor in some form must brood, Or else there's never Chivalry. VI FORSYTH DE FRONSAC IV That form Humanity must own, And person is the seed that's sown. From seedling must the flower expand - Grass sged but grasses can command, And roses ne'er descend to grass, Though frequent soiled and torn, alas ! And ruined in the course of life, And so declines their Chivalry. V But children of the rare rose born. If Chivalry their lives adorn. Have in them all that generous mood, Whose ceaseless virtue keeps them good. No moth, corrupting, mars their state : Misfortune cannot make them hate A noble cause — though beaten ill: It is the cause of Chivalry. VI Let knighthood only be for those Whose fame is like the rare, white rose — To lead them to an honored state ; — Those men, whose lives are true and great : Whose deeds, though crowned not, like Success, Reach hearts by motives pure and bless Them with a love of right that's strong And 'stablished as their Chivalry. F. G. Forsyth de Fronsac. CHARLEMAGNE PRESIDING AT THE SCHOOL OF THE PALACE HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 'PART I — HISTORY ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY AND RACE THE name Forsatli, afterwards ForsytJi, is first mentioned in Froissart's Chronicles of the Middle Ages in the chapter devoted to the invasion of Aquitania in 1344 by the English army of the Earl of Derby, who commanded in the name of the French family of Plantagenet on the Eng- lish throne in their attempt, as descendants from the ancient kings of France, to possess themselves of the throne of France also. All the manuscripts of Froissart in the English Collection spell the name Forsath, and Forsathe. The trans- lation of two manuscript copies in the French Collection spell the name F"orsach and Torsach.* As Froissart, the historian, was in the service of the Plantagenets when he wrote his Chronicles and as the best and most numerous of his MSS. remained in England and are the originals, they are the ones most worthy to be consulted. La Grajide Encyclopedic dc France describes Fronsac as an ancient district of France in Aquitania, bordering on the River Dordogne ; its history reaches back to the Roman period. This history says that a castle — which is discovered in Froissart to have been named Forsath — was built by the * Doubtless the commentator forgot the mark which makes a <^ an c/ in his MS. 2 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC Emperor Charlemagne in 768 on the Tertre (or hill) of Fron- sac. It was built by the Emperor as a restraining influence on the people of the West whom he and his Franks had con- quered. Lavisse, in the Histoire Generale, Vol. I, pp. 310, describes this castle on the Tertre de Fronsac as the most powerful of Western France and as the headquarters of the military dis- trict of the West. Over this district the Emperor put his son Louis as King of Aquitania, who became afterwards Emperor on the death of his father, Charlemagne, while the first lord or Seigneur de Forsath, Vicomte de Fronsac and military governor of the district, was of the same imperial family ( Carlo vingian) and son of the Emperor Charlemagne. The pedigree of Charlemagne from the King of Austrasia is as follows : ■ — \. Ansigise, King of Austrasia, in 650 a. d. married Sainte Beggipe, daughter of Pepin de Landen. His son : n. Pepin (V Heristal, Duke of France, married Pleetrude, daughter of Prince Hugobert, in 706. His son : HI. Charles Martel, Duke of France, 725, married Sonis- hilda, niece of Odilon, Duke of Bavaria. His son : IV. Pepin le Bref, King of France, 752, married Bertrade, daughter of Caribert, Comte de Laon. His son : V. Charlemagne, Emperor of the Romans and King of the Franks. THE RACE The Franks were an army of knights and nobles of differ- ent European races confederated together. Although the greater number of them were of Germanic origin, yet senti- ment rather than kinship was the basis of their organization. The name Frank meant 'free'' — not in the modern sense of free, i. e., not enslaved, but in the ancient sense of free, i. e., not inferior to a seigneur, not bound by fealty to a superior ; in other words, they recognized no lords as their superiors FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 3 because they were lords, a confederated nobility, themselves. So the Franks when they conquered Gaul, named it France, and became the nobility of th-^t country. Spreading out in later times, under William the Conqueror, with his Normans of similar blood, they became as well the nobility of Eng- land, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, as the old records show, and every royal family on the throne of Western Europe of to-day is derived from the confederation of the Franks, either from those who remained in Germany or from those who settled in France. There may be some who object and speak of the Normans as furnishing a large coterie to the British nobility, but the Normans themselves for two genera- tions had been affiliated with the Franks in France. The Franks continued their principle of an armed nobility — - of Free Knights — when they constituted the Order of Chivalry — the noblest organization which ever existed, which extended from France over Christendom, which " caused the heart to expand like a flower in the sunshine, beautified glory with generosity and smoothed even the rugged brow of War." The principle of this Chivalry became the principle of their descendants and gives to family history its greatest value as a means of reenforcing the same sentiment in the race by the record of its honors and distinctions. The difference between this nobility of the Frankish insti- tution and that of the Anglo-Saxons is in the difference between the meaning of nobility in ancient France and in England. In France wealth added nothing to nobility. Indeed, as Montesquieu said : " All is lost when the lucra- tive profession of the note-shaver and speculator by its riches becomes a profession of honor." In England, nobility cannot exist without wealth to maintain it. Again, in ancient France, if a family is noble, all its members and all their descendants in the family name are of the noblesse, while the eldest line male bears the title and inherits the manor-house. In modern England, if a family is noble, only the eldest son. 4 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC the possessor of the title, is noble ; the younger sons and their offspring do not in any way belong to the nobility, but are allowed to sink into the commonality, and, after a few generations, cease to participate in any distinctions of the eldest line. Again, the Anglo-Saxons, with a commercial cynicism that is appalling, load a tax on the honors and armorials of families, while the French monarchy granted exemptions and privileges. CADET LINE MALE OF THE SEIGNEURS DE FORSATH, VICOMTES DE FRONSAC ARMS BEFORE I 488 In the line of Charlemagne and descended from the first Seigneur de Forsath, Vicomte de Fronsac, was : The Cadet de Forsath, who in 1236 accompanied the Princess Eleanor, daughter of Ra}mond Berenger, Comte de Provence, on her journey to P^ngland to become the wife of King Henry III. His son : William de F'orsath (spelled Frisaith in Stoddart's " .W/Z/.s-// y4r;//jr ") took oath of fealty to King P^dward I in 1296. His son : Robert de Forsyth, moved into Stirlingshire, Scotland, and his son : OsBERT de P'orsvth, was among those who supported the pretensions of Robert de Bruce to the throne of Scotland, 5 6 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC and after the Battle of Bannockburn received for fealty from that personage who had become king of Scotland : " One hundred solidates in terrge tenemento de Salkill in the Sheriff- dom of Stirling." The pedigree of his family is giv^en partly in Stoddart's *' Scottish Arms." His sons were : Robert (below) and William, baillee of Edinburgh 1364. Robert de Forsyth, son of Osbert, Constable of Stirling Castle for the king in 1368. A report of his rendering the customs of Stirling to the king is in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, as well as his receiving lOO;^ per annum from the king for the lands of Polmaise-Marischall, County Stirling. His son was : John de Forsyth, who succeeded his father as Crown officer at Stirling, mentioned in the Exchequer Rolls in 1379. His son : William de Forsyth, who succeeded his father as Crown officer at Stirling, mentioned in the Exchequer Rolls of 1399. His sons were : Robert (below) and William, baron of Nydie, in Fyfeshire. [In 1492 the arms of Forsyth, baron of Nydie, appear in the Heraldic MS. of Sir James Balfour, Lyon King of Arms for Scotland. The arms are described as : " Gules, a cheveron engrailed argent, between 3 griffins segreant or." Again, in the MS. of 1603, the arms of Forsyth of Nydie are given as : " Or, 3 griffins segreant azure, armed and mem- bered vert." In Sir David Lindsay's MS. of 1542, "argent, a cheveron engrailed gule, between 3 griffins segreant vert." The last of this branch of the family recorded in Fyfeshire as holding the barony is Alexander Forsyth, baron of Nydie in 1604.] Robert de Forsyth, son of William, the Crown officer at Stirling, obtained the barony of Dykes in County Lan- ark. His name is attached as witness to a charter, in 1429, of Robert Keith, Earl Marischall of Scotland. His sons were : John (below) and Thomas, canon of Glasgow in 1487. FORSYTH DE FRONSAC ^ John de Forsyth, son of Robert, baron of Dykes, ac- quired the lands of Gilcairnstorm, County Aberdeen. He married a daughter of Sir James Douglas. His son was : David de Forsyth, lord of Dykes (1488). He was the last of the family to bear the ancient arms of the Seigneurs de Forsath (de Fronsac), which are described in Stoddart's ''Scottish Anns'' : "Argent, between 3 cross-crosslets, gules, a fesse vert charged with 3 lozenges of the field." His son was : David de Forsyth, lord of Dykes in 1507. His sons were : John (below), 'James, lord of the Monastery of Dum- blane in 1560, and Henry, rector of Munnymusk in 1642. John de Forsyth, son of David, lord of Dykes and of Hallhill in 1540. In 1543 he transferred his estate of Glen- cairnstorm to Lord Gordon of Pitwig. He married in France, Louise de Ravenel, a descendant of the Chevalier Pierre de Ravenel, Seigneur of Broys, Saint Remy and Saint Martin de Nepz in 1440, whose arms were: "Gules, 6 crescents along the flancs of the shield, 2, 2 and 2 each surmounted by a star, or, and in the base of the shield another star of the same." His son was : David de Forsyth, lord of Dykes, in 1571, born in P'rance. According to the Act of Scotch Parliament (p. 79, 1594), it recites a commission formerly given to David For- syth of Dykes, to have charge of assessing the beer and malt tax. His children were: i. Marguerite, married Capt. Jehan Denys of Honfleur, France ; 2, James, of Dykes, Commis- sioner of Glasgow, who died without issue ; 3, William (below) ; 4, Matthew, laird of Auchengrey, an advocate ; 5, Robert, laird of Failzerton in County Ayr, an officer in the French service, who spelled the name Forsaith. He married in P" ranee a lady of the name of Chabot, and had a son, Capt. James Forsaith, at one time in the French service, but who was a prisoner of war in England in 1654, escaping the 17th May of that same year, who 8 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC had married his cousin at Honfleur, F'rance, Marguerite Denys de Fronsac. William Forsyth, son of David, lord of Dykes, was commissioner to parliament for Forres in 1621. His children were : i, William, whose daughter Barbara married Baron Rello. The special returns of Lanark January 18, 1640, has the following : " Heres William Forsyth de Dykes, patris, in 40 solidates terrarum antiqui extentus de Gayne, 40 solidates de Untheos, infra dominium de Newburgh et baronium de Munckland." 2, John (below) ; 3, James, from whom are the Forsyths of Cromarty and Elgin (see p. 26). John Forsyth, son of William, member of Parliament for Cullen and one of the signers of the commission to meet the English parliament in 1652 He married a daughter of Sir William Livingston of Kilsyth. His sons were: Rev. James of Tailzerton, County Stirling, and Walter, provost of the colle£:e of Glaso:ow. FORSYTH OF TAILZERTON Rev. Jaimes Forsyth,* of Tailzerton (son of John and Miss Livingston, Forsyth, see p. 8), inherited the lands of Tailzerton and Kilsyth Easter from his mother. He was minister to the church at Airth in 1661, and to that at Stirling in 1665. He married, ist, a daughter and heiress of Bruce.f Laird of Gavell, cadet of Bruce of Airth through a daughter of Sir William de Airth of that ilk, 2d, Marion Elphinstone. Lssue, a son : James Forsyth, J his successor, of Tailzerton, Member of the Council of Stirling, in compan)- with the Duke of Hamil- ton, Earl of Calender, Lords Elphinston and Livingston of * Act. Scot. Pari. (1661-5). t General Armory (Burke), vide Bruce and Airth. Rev. James Forsyth was a famous preacher. Sermons published at London, 1666. J Ret. Scot. Abbrev. Inq. Spec. Stirling (277), Sept. i, 1676: " Heres tallia et pro- visionis Magistri Jacobi Forsyth de Tailzertoune, magistri vobi Dei apud ecclesium de Stirling ... in terris de Polinais, vocatis Polinais-Tailzertoun pro principal!, ter- ris de Kilsyth : Easter in speciale warrantum earundam." 9 lO FORSYTH DE FRONSAC Kilsyth, the Earl of Mar being the convenor (1685). In 1696 he sat in Parliament, as " Forsyth of Gavell." Children : I. Rebecca * II. William, see below. William Forsyth| (son of James Bruce Forsyth, as above) was born 1687; granted freedom of Glasgow, 1735 ; married Elspet, daughter of Gerard of Walkerhill, County Aberdeen. A son was : William Forsyth, born December 18, 1721 ; granted free- dom of Glasgow, 1746; married Jean, daughter of George Phynn,| Lord of the Corse of Monelly. Issue : 1. George, born April 2, 1756; married a Miss Tay- brook. 2. William, born April 5, 1756. His daughter mar- ried Prof. Means, D.D., and was mother of Rev. W. Means, D.D., of Disblair, County Aberdeen. 3. Alexander,^ born November 17, 1758. 4. James, born June 23, 1759 ! Captain of Dragoons; married Aun, daughter of John, 9th Baron Col- ville. II 5. Thomas, born March, 1761, presented by Lord Nelson, February 2, 1802, with his picture, now at the Quebec Garrison Club. 6. JoJin (of whom hereafter). See Forsyth of Eccles- greig Castle. J. Joseph, \)0\-\\ June 24, 1764; came from Huntley, County Aberdeen, to Kingston, Canada, about 1787; married Alice, daughter of Maj. James *Inq. Spec. Stirling (342), April 26, 1699: " Heres tallia et provisionis, Jacobi Forsyth, alias Bruce de Gavell, patris in terris de Polinais hunc vocatis Polinais-Tail- zertoun .pro. principali, et in speciale warrantum eanindam in terris de Kilsyth: Easter." t Ecclesgreig_MSS.: Crest of Tailzerton, a demi-griffin vert, armed and membered gu. Motto : " Restaurator Ruiniae." J Another daughter of Geo. Phynn was mother to Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P. § Ecclesgreig MSS. II Burke's Peerage (Colville), FORSYTH DE FRONSAC II Robbins, R. A. He was Colonel of Militia. Issue : n. William, died unmarried. b. James Bell, born December 25, 1803; married in 1828 F'anny, daughter of the Hon. Matthew Bell of Quebec, whose father and grandfather were of Berwick on Tweed, and had : I, Col. Joseph Bell (see p. 80), 2, John Bell and James Bell died young, 3, Fanny Bell, mar- ried John Burstall of Quebec [whose chil- dren are John Forsyth Burstall, London and Quebec, and Capt. Harry Burstall of the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1903, serving with the South African Constabulary in com- mand of the District of Rustanburg, Trans- vaal. He has been mentioned four times for bravery and coolness in the fields, especially by Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener], 4, Frances, 5, lulith, 6, Amy, 7, Alice, 8, Mabel Kate, married John (j. Ross of the Highlands. c. Eueretta Jane, married William Forsyth of Ecclesgreig. d. John Richardson of Kingston, returned to the fam- ily house at Huntley, which he inherited. He married his cousin, Louisa Forsyth, and has issue. e\ Mary Ann, married David Burnet, Major of Que- bec Cavalry in Rebellion of 1837-8, whose residence, " Etrick," is named from his ances- tral place in County Aberdeen. /. Thomas, Captain 3 2d Foot, served in the Rebel- lion of 1837-8. 8. Robert* born 1766; Ensign 6ist Foot, 1783; * Record of Services of Maj. Robert Forsyth, 60th Rifles. No. 7353. F. 214. War Office. London, England. 12 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 68th Foot, 1785 ; 720! Foot, 1785 ; Lieutenant 72d Foot, 1787; Captain 112th Foot, 1795; 2d BattaUon 90th Foot, 1795; 60th Foot, 1795; Major 60th Foot, 1797 ; retired from service by the sale of his commission, March 6, 1802 ; died 1824. 9. David,* born September 2, 1767; married a Miss Jackson, of Kendall, Westmoreland, England. Issue : a. William, married Susan, daughter of Judge Leigh (sister of Maj. H. Leigh, 98th Foot), of Madras Presidency. b James, Lieut. R.A. c. George. d. Henry. e. Emily, married William Skinner, Barrister, nephew of Right Rev. William Skinner, D.D., Lord Primate of Scotland and Kishop of Aberdeen. 10. Morris, born January 27, 1771 ; minister to the church at Mortlach ; married Isabella, daughter of James Donaldson, of Kinairdie. 11. Margaret, born May 3, 1777. * Ecclesgreig MSS. FORSYTH OF ECCLESGREIG CASTLE COUNTY KINCARDINE, SCOTLAND [By royal license the Forsyths of Ecciesgreig added the name of Grant in 1824, and quartered the Grant arms with that of Forsyth.] John Forsyth, see p. 10 (son of William and Jean Phynn), was born December 8, 1762. He came to New York about the beginning of the American Revolution, but would not renounce his allegiance to the king, and was one of the United Empire Loyalists who settled in Montreal before 1786. He was in partnership there as a ship-owner and foreign merchant with another United Empire Loyalist, Hon. John Richardson, President of the Lachine Canal Construc- tion Company. He married Margaret, daughter of Charles Grant, third son of Grant, Laird of Kinworth. Children : I. William, born P'ebruary 10, 1804; succeeded his uncle, P'rederic Grant, to the estates of Eccies- greig; married P^ueretta, daughter of Joseph P^orsyth, Kingston, Canada. Issue : a. P^'rederic Grant, born September 2, 1836; Cap- tain 3d Hussars, A.D.C. to His Excellency, the Marquis of Lome, Governor-General of Canada ; afterwards A.D.C. to Her Majesty Queen Vic- toria ; married Margaret, daughter of Col. WilHam A. Orr, C.B., of Bridgetown. b. John Joseph, born October 23, 1840; Captain 46th F'oot ; married Annie, daughter and heir- ess of John Littleton, of Trewin, St. Germain, Cornwall, England. c. William, born May 26, 1843 ; Captain 82d Foot, married Minnie, daughter of Hon. John Beverley 14 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC Robinson, Lieut. -Governor of Ontario, and son of Sir John Beverley Robinson, Bart. d. George James, born March 7, 1847. e. Annie Gregory, married WilHam Owen Bridge- stock, Gettydyvyl, Carmarthenshire, Wales. /. Eueretta- Alice. 2. John Blackzvood, born November 21, 1805; mar- ried Mary, daughter of Samuel Gerrard, of Mon- treal. Issue : a. John Gerrard, Major 57th Foot ; see p. 87. b. Frederic Arthur, born April 2, 1830; Captain 5th P\isilcers, afterwards Lieut. -Colonel. c. Margaret, born March 6, 1831; married Rev. C. N. Williams, M.A., Rector of St. Andrews, Heresford, England. d. Eueretta Vivian, born December 8, 1831. 3. Jane, married Capt. George Gregory, 19th Light Dragoons. Arms, Denvs dk Fronsac Arms of Forsvth of Tailzerton Arms of Forsvth of I'ailzkrton FORSYTH OF FAILZERTON, COUNTY AYR Walter Forsvth (son of John, see p. 8) was Provost of the College and Suhdeaneries of Glasgow, mentioned in the Acts of Scottish Parliament for 1678. He married Mar- guerite, daughter of Capt. James Forsaith, of French marine, by Marguerite Denys, daughter of Gov. Nicolas Denys, Vicomte de Fronsac in Seigneurial Order of Canada. His sons were James and Alexander (see p. 19). James Forsayth, born Ayrshire, 1678, captured during King William's Irish Campaign (at age of 13 years), with a relative who favored the cause of the Stuarts. He himself in 1715 was said to have been a captain in the Farl of Marr's uprising for the Stuai ts and obliged to leave the country with his family, going to Ireland. His wife was Margaret, daughter 15 J l6 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC of Hugh Montgomerie, of County Ayr, Major of Royalist Cavalry, who had been a " Signer for the King in 1660." His children were: I, Matthew (below) ; H, Alexander; HI, Thomas, of County Cork (see p. 22). I. Hon. Matthew,* born County Ayr, 1699 (see p. 68) ; married Esther, daughter of Robert Graham. He died 1790. His children were : 1. Matthew, born in Ireland, was a Loyalist and went off as a physician in the Royal Navy. 2. David,! born in Ireland. Ensign in Chester Company, 1st New Hampshire Regiment ; wounded, Ticonderoga, and died May 21, 1778. 3. Jonathan, J born in Ireland. Soldier in Chester Com- pany, ist New Hampshire Regiment ; killed, Ticonderoga, July 9, 1777. 4. Esther, died unmarried. 5. WiLLiAivr,§ born in Ireland, 1740. Ensign in the Royal Provincial Regiment, ^7^1-7 \ married Jane Wilson (see p. 71). He died in 1808. His children were: a. Matthew, settled in what is now Manchester, N. H. b. James, a physician, an alumnus of Dartmouth College, a son of whom. Dr. F. F. Forsyth, was one of the founders of the Weymouth (Mass.) Historical Society, and a contributor to the History of Weymouth. c. David, Captain of the Deering Rifles. d. Thomas, II born September i, 1775 (see p. 72). *" Chase's Hist, of Chester,"|pp. 524, 109, 127, 129, 130, 140, 142, 144, 152, 259, 456, 621, 231; "Town Papers, N. H.," Vol XI, p. 309; Vol. IX., pp. 109, 115; "State Papers, N. H.," Vol. IX., pp. 109, 115; "Granite Monthly," Vol. VIII. The name is spelled on the Chester Records Forsayth, Forsaith, and Forsyth. Some descendants follow the first, others the last, way of spelling. He had an estate in Ireland for which his descendants lodged papers. t" Hist. Col. N. H.," Vol. VII., p. 83; " Chase's Hist, of Chester," p. 524; "State Papsrs, N. H ," Vol, XIV., pp. 554, 634. X " Chase's Hist, of Chester," pp. 377, 379. § " Provincial Papers, N. H.," Vol. VI , p. 767 ; " Town Papers, N. H.," Vol. XL, pp. 493, 497, 498; Vol. IX., p. 759; " Hist, of Hillsborough County (N. H.)." II " Burke's Colonial Gentry," Vol. II. " Dufaure's Notes sur las Emigres." " Amer- ica Heraldica, .\merican .\ncestry," \o\. VII. F(3RSVTH DE FRONSAC I? He married Sallie Pray.* His children were: i. Jane, Ix^rn 1810, married R. P. Illsley, of Port- land, whose daughter, Elizabeth, married Hon. Boise de Veber, M. P. and Mayor of St. John, N. B., in 1886, a descendant of Col. Gabriel de Veber of the Prince of Wales' American Regiment of 1776-83. ii. Hamilton, born 18 12. Army of Texas, 1834. Captain on staff of Gen. Mirabeaii B. Lamar. Died, Galveston, 1839. iii. Sarah Ann, born 18 15, married, as second wife, Hon. W. P. Preble, LL.D., Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine, F'irst Presi- dent of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada (1854), and U. S. Mini.ster to the Nether- lands, etc. They had one son, Edward, married to Caroline S., daughter of George Capron, Newton Centre, Mass. iv. Eleanor, born 18 17, married Samuel Sawyer, of Portland. Their son, George, died at New Orleans, 1853. V. Frederic, Vicomte de Fronsac, of Montreal and Portland, born 18 19, see p. 73. He married Harriette Marie, daughter of Maj.- Gen. Joseph Scott Jewett, of Scarborough (see p. 88). His children, Frederic Gregory, Vicomte de Fronsac, born, Montreal (see p. 75), and Thomas Scott (see p. 80). vi. George, born 182 1, Lieutenant 78th U. S. C. Troops, 1863, Assistant O. M. and A. A. G. with rank as Major, at camps at Washing- ton, 1865 ; customs officer at Sitka, Alaska, afterwards removed to Fresno ; married * " Sabine's American Loyalists " ( Hamilton ). Note. — Sallie Pray, born 1778. Admiral Fray, born 1746. Mary Hamilton, born 1760. Colonel Hamilton, born about 17^3. I8 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC Albeitina, daughter of Capt. Albert Jewett, of Portland ; their daughter Albertina mar- ried Dr. Macall ester, of Honolulu, vii. Caroline Augusta, born 1823 ; married James Albert Macnabb, of Greenock, Scotland, a cousin of Sir A. N. Macnabb, of Canada. e. Robert, whose sons were Samuel C. and Rodney. f. Josiah, barrister at (loffstown, an alumnus of Dartmouth College, whose son, Hon. William L., is justice of the Boston Municipal Court (1896). g. Hannah, married a Mr. Paige. 6. Robert,* born Chester, 1746; Lieutenant in the War of 1776-83 ; married Mary, daughter of~ Deacon William Tolford, of Walnut Hill. One of his sons was Robert, who married Sarah Luvkin. His son Robert married Sabrina Ramesay, and their son, James, was one of the prominent men in New York State. He was president of the Rens- salaer Polytechnic Institute ; president of the Renssalaer & Saratoga Railway ; president of the Troy Bridge Company ; Judge of the County Court ; Judge Advocate of Division ; author on the Law of Contracts, etc. He married, ist, a daughter of Hon. Elisha Tibbetts, of New York City; 2d, a Miss Pumpelley, of the family of the explorer. His chil- dren were: i, Robert, civil engineer and manager of the Union Steel Company, of Chicago, and 2, James, Attorney- at-Law, born i860, living at Riverside, the home of the Pumpelleys, in Owego, N. Y. 7. JosiAii,f born Chester; Lieutenant in War of 1776-83; married Kitt)', daughter of Caleb Richardson. *" Chase's Hist. Chester," pp. ii8, 344, 446; " Provincial Papers, N. H.," Vol. VII, p. 755 ; " Town Papers, N. H.," Vol. XIII., pp. 196, 198, 751 ; Vol. XI., pp. 320, 685. t" Chase's Hist. Chester," pp. 231, 373, 383, 457, 630; "Town Papers, N. H.," Vol. XI., p. 315; " State Papers, N. H.," Vol. XI., p. 315. Arms, Denvs dk I^'konsac Arms ok Forsyth of Tailzerton Arms of Forsyth of Failzerton FORSYTH OF BOSTON Capt. Alexander Forsyth, son of Walter, Provost of Glasgow College and Subdeaneries, by wife, his cousin, Mar- garet, daughter of Capt. James, and Marguerite (Denys de Fronsac) Forsaith (see p. 1 5), was born, Failzerton Manour, Ayrshire, 1689 (see p. jj), prominent in Boston Chronicles ; married, ist, Miss Elizabeth Evans, of Boston, December 12, 1 7 17; 2d, Miss Deborah Briggs, also of Boston, about 1730. Returned to Ayrshire, Scotland, with his wife Deborah, and son John, in 1763. His children, born in Boston, were: \. Alexander, born October 20, 1721. II. Robert, born August 18, 1723. 19 20 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC III. JoJin, bom June 8, 1726; died September 8, 1727. IV. John, born November 5, 173 i (see below). John Forsyth, son of Capt. Alexander, as above, filled several offices in Boston, in the public trust, before returning to Ayrshire, Scotland, with his father and mother in 1763, among them being that of surveyor of lumber and clerk of the city market. After he returned to Scotland, he entered the royal arm)- stationed in Britain and attained the rank of captain. His son born in Ayrshire was : John Forsyth, born 1770; died 18 15. He was, like many of his family, inclined to the military profession and, like his father, attained the rank of captain in the British Army. His children, born in Ayrshire, were: I. JoJin, born 1805 ; died 1892. n. Williavi (see below). HI. James, born 18 10; died 1858, in Ayr, Scotland. William Forsyth, son of Capt. John, as above, born, Ayrshire, November 8, 1807 ; died, Roxbury, Boston, Decem- ber 12, 1876. He came to Boston with his brother John in 1828, but John returned to Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1835. William settled in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, where most of his children were born, but later he resided in Roxbury, now a part of Boston, where he died. For about a quarter of a century he was connected with the Boston Belting Company, the original manufacturers of vulcanized rubber-goods in the United States. He married Jane, daughter of Hamilton Bennett, Esquire, of near Buxton, England, who was born November 15, 181 5; died, Roxbury, Boston, September 8, i860. He was a man of the highest character for integrity, a characteristic which all his children inherited. His children were : I. William, born November g, 1839; died July i, 1877. II. JoJin Hamilton, born March 9, 1842, superintendent, Boston Belting Company. WILLIAM FORSYTH FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 21 III. Atinc Jaiic, born November i8, 1843 ! ^^^^ Septem- ber 7, 1848. IV. Margaret Bctinctt, born August 24, 1845 \ died April 8, 1890. V. JMary Elizabeth, born December ri, 1847; died September 5, 1848. VI. James Bennett, born February 2, 1850 (see p. y'S), general manager, Boston Inciting Company. VII. Thomas Alexander, born April 12, 1852, manu- facturing agent, Boston Belting Company. VIII. George Henry, born November 27, 1854, assistant manager, Boston Belting Company. \> AOBlLITAj Arms of Hamilton Dukes of Hamilton and Abercorn (See pp. 20, 72 and So) yVOULOl Arms of Bennett Earls of Tankarville (See pp. 20 and 79) K.OYAL ^A LA>[0RTE2I FORSAYETH OF WHITECHURCH HOUSE CAPPAGH, COUNTY WATERFORD, IRELAND Thomas,* died in Cork, Ireland, in 1768, son of Capt. James (see p. 15). Mary, his widow, survived him, leaving a private estate. Issue : I . Robert, merchant in Cork ; married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Campion, Esq., and had : a. Thomas, married Mary Ann, relative of St. John Grant, of Kilmurray, Fermoy. Issue: i. Robert, h<.^\\\ 1807; curate in Bristol; married Fanny ; died 1840, leaving a daughter, Frances Jane, author of poems " Armos Waters." ii. Thomas Gifford, born 1808 ; H.M. Attache to the Embassy at Morocco ; musician and poet; married ist. Rose D'Aguilar ; 2d, *Arms of Failzerton confirmed to this family: Crest; a griffin's head between two wings displayed, vert. Motto : " Loyal mt Mart." FORSYTH DE P^RONSAC 23 Lucy H., daughter of Colonel O'Toole, of Wicklow. iii. Catherine. \\. Mary. V. JoJin Bralnrrjoii, artist, settled at Bunbury, Western Australia, in 1845. vi. Eliza. 2. John, born 1735 ; Pensioner at Trinity College, Dublin, 1749; Fellow 1762, with degree of D.D.; Archdeacon of Cork, 1781 ; fine classical scholar ; died unmarried, 1 78 1 . 3. Margaret, died unmarried. 4. Samuel, entered H.M. Customs Service at Cork, 1752 ; appointed by the Viceroy, Inspector Gen- eral of Customs for Ireland, Dublin, July 24, 1776; married Margaret ; died 1801 ; buried at St. Ann's, Dublin. Issue : a. John, A.B., appointed Vicar of Leighmoney, March 30, 1826; priest at Cloyne, Sept. 29, 1786; in 1803 was "Threshers Lecturer " in Cork; died Sept. 16, 1820; buried at St. Nicholas, Cork. He married Anne Courtenay, and had : i. Thomas, educated at Trinity College, where he distinguished himself by classical attain- ments ; barrister at law ; Queen's counsel ; Recorder of Cork; died 1879. ii. Samuel. iii. Robert. iv. Charlotte. V. William. vi. John, Curate of Upper Shandon, Cork. b. Robert, A.B., scholar at Trinity College, 1780; priest at Cloyne, 1784; rector of Kilfithmone, County Tipperary, 1 798 ; married Jane, 24 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC daughter of Hugh Evans, Esq., of Cashel. He was author of the "History of our Lord and Saviour." Issue : i. Samuel, settled in HaHfax, N. S. Captain in the British Army there, ii. Robert. iii. RieJiard Martin* studied medicine in Dublin and Edinburgh; degree of M.D., Edinburgh, 1827; degree of Surgery, Glasgow, 1828; at Hotel Uieu and other hospitals, Paris ; settled at Templemore, Ireland ; married Kate Craven, daughter of \Vm. Chadwick, Esq., of Ballinard, Tipperary ; his children were : Richard William, who entered H.M. Mili- tary Service in 1863, served in India; retired in 1884, as brigade surgeon and lieutenant-colonel ; married Mar- garet, daughter of Rev. J. Baird, had issue : Amy, Kate, Gordon William, Noel Francis, settled at Whitechurch House, Cappagh, County Waterford, Ireland. Kate Frances. John C. C, entered medical profession ; died of fever in forest of West Africa while employed in an expe- dition. Jane E., married Dr. Robert T. Huston, no issue. iv. JoJin, commanded the "Indian Queen " in the Merchant Marine, and made the shortest *Named for his uncle Col. Richard Martin, M. P., of Ballinahinch, County Galway Ireland, and of the same family as Martin of Tullyra Castle, Galway, so celebrated in the annals of Ireland. He was the pioneer of the legislation against cruelty to animals in the Parliament of Great Britain. FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 25 voyage then known between Liverpool and Barbadoes. c. Charlotte, married Richard Martin, Esq. d. Elizabeth, married the Rev. Charles Smith. e. A daughter, unmarried. FORSYTH OF CROMARTY AND ELGIN James Forsyth, 3d son of William of Dykes (see p. 8) left quite a posterity, who are considerably scattered. One of his sons was : William Forsyth, of Barmuckety, who married Jean Thomson. Their children were : I. James, married at Cromarty, Sept. 20, 1720, Katherine Morison; died 1739, leaving: I. William* merchant and magistrate at Cromarty, born 1721 ; married, ist, Mary Russell; 2d, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Patrick Grant, of Duthel, Strathspey, incumbent of Nigg, Rosshire. Issue : a. William. b. Patrick. c. James. d. William. * Life of William Forsyth, by Hugh Miller. 26 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 27 e. Isabella. f. Margaret. All died in infancy. g. John, born Cromarty, 1779; in civil service of Bengal; married at Calcutta, 18 16, Mary Ann Farmer ; his daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born Calcutta, 18 1 7, married Henry H. Harwood, J. P. and D.L. for County Middlesex, whose children are Henry W. Forsyth Harwood, Bar- rister of the Inner Temple, editor of the Gene- alogist (1903), another son, and a daughter. h. Catharine, married Isaac Forsyth, of Elgin. /. Isabella, married Ale.x. Mackenzie, Captain in Royal Marines, and grandson of Sir Roderic Mackenzie, 2d Bart, of Scat well. 2. Aim, born 1725. 3. JoJin, settled at Dingwall. 4. ArtJiur, merchant. II. Elspet, born 1704. HI. Alexander, born 1707; merchant and magistrate at Elgin; married, ist, Margaret Ross; 2d, Ann, daughter of William Harrold, by wife, a Miss Gordon, daughter of Gor- don, laird of Cairnfield, Banffshire. Mr. Harrold was a fol- lower of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and was robbed of everything by the brutal followers of the brutal Duke of Cumberland. Mr. Forsyth was one of the most prominent citizens of Elgin. He had 21 children, of whom a few were : T. John, married Sophie, daughter of Rev. Patrick Grant, of Nigg, Rosshire, and his daughter Ann married Adam Longmore, of the Court of Ex- chequer, Edinburgh. 2. Elizabeth, married Thomas Stephen, Provost of Elgin. I. JosepJi, born Elgin; author of the "Antiquities, Arts and Letters of Italy," etc. 28 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC * 4. Isaac, author of " Memoire of Joseph Forsyth"; married Catherine, daughter of WilHam Forsyth, of Cromarty, and had : a. Elizabeth. b. Isabella. c. Catherine. d. Ann, married William Duncan Macandrew, of Liverpool and Elgin, whose sons are Major- General Isaac Forsyth Macandrew, of the Bengal Staff Corps, and William Macandrew, Esquire. c. Justina, married Arthur Duff, Sheriff-clerk of Morayshire. FORSYTH OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. Alexander Forsyth, supposed to be son of Alexan- der, of Elgin, merchant and magistrate (see p. 27), married Margaret, daughter of William Temple, of County Aberdeen, a partisan of the House of Stuart, to which family he was related, as well as to the Barclays and Lord Gordon, of Hunt- ley. Their children were: i, Alexander; 2, William [born at Kirkpatrick, married Jane Livingston in 1788, and had a, John, born 1789 ; b, Nancy, born 1792 ; c, Mary, born 1794 ; d, Jane, born 1 796 ; e, Peter, born 1 799 ; /, Nellie, born 1801 ; g, Alexander, born 1803]; 3, James (went to Lon- don); 4, Peter; 5, Jonathan; 6, Hugh; 7, Andrew (see below); 8, Thomas; 9, Bartholomew; 10, Nathaniel; 11, Isabella. Andrew F"c)Rsvth, son of Alexander, at the age of 20, went to London with his brother James, who presented him to their relative, Lord George Gordon. He accompanied Lord Gordon to Philadelphia, being employed by that nobleman 29 30 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC for seven years. Afterwards he entered into mercantile partnership, finally doing business for himself. He married I St a widow, Cooper, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Hopewell, and had one son, James, who died at Natchez, Miss., at the age of 40, unmarried. At her death he married for 2d wife, Agnes, daughter of Col. James Longh- ead, by wife, Catherine Finney (daughter of Robert Finney and Catherine Fleming, of Holland). James Longhead was son of James Longhead and Miss Glenn, daughter of Captain Glenn of the English Navy, who was present at the siege of Derry. Mrs. Longhead, daughter of Captain Glenn, lived to the age of 1 18 years, residing when .she died with her daughter, Mrs. McDowell, in Chester County, Pa. Their son, James Longhead, entered business at Philadelphia as burgomaster. He entered the war of the American Revolution, first as a dispatch bearer for General Washington, then as a colonel of infantry. When the British troops occupied Philadelphia in that war. Colonel Longhead's wife, with those of others who were fighting against His Majesty's troops, were sent out of the city, and unfortunately compelled to bear those hardships from which even the innocent are obliged to suffer in war- time — and above all in a civil war, like the American Revo- lution. Agnes, the daughter of Colonel Longhead, who married Andrew F"orsyth, could with difficulty obtain the con- sent of her parents to her marriage with one not an active revolutionist, at which time her father had returned to Phila- delphia and was elected Mayor, and Lord Cornwallis had sur- rendered at Yorktown to the French General de Rochambeau and the P'rench fleet sent to aid General Washington and Congress. One of the principal officers entertained by Andrew P'orsyth after his marriage was the Marquis de LaFayette. About 1785, Andrew moved to Lebanon and went into partnership with a brother Scot. Andrew died at the age of 73 in Danville, Pa., leaving the following: I . James. FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 3 1 2 . Catherine. 3. John. 4. Elisabeth. 5. William Temple. 6. He I I en. FORSYTH OF NEWBURGH, N. Y. Three brothers, Alexander, John, and a third (from the Aberdeen Forsyths), sons Hkely of Alexander (see p. 27), are given below : I. Alexander, born July 5, 1787. Came to Martha's Vineyard, 1808. He settled in Maine, and married at Farm- ington, Deborah, daughter of Ephraim Norton, grand-uncle of Lillian NoTiiica, the prima donna. His children were : I.James Brandcr, born, Farmington. Mayor of Chelsea, Mass., two terms. He was a physician of high standing. He married Octavia Augusta, daughter of Joseph Bacon, president of the Brantle Rank of Boston. His children were : a. Sarah E., married Allen E. Engles, M.D., surgeon U. S. N. b. Annie, d. s. p. c. Margaret Hopkins, married Arthur Pratt, Boston. d. Isabella, d. s. p. 32 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 33 2. Ephraivi, horn, h'armington. Merchant in Gardiner, Me. ; married Emily Williamson, relative of Wil- liamson, the historian. Children : a. Martha, married Charles Duren, Chelsea. b. Alexander, born 1875, Gardiner. 3. ElizabetJi, born, Farmington, September 3, 1813 ; married Henry Stone. Children : a. Lucy Augusta. 4. George, born, Farmington, July 9, 18 15. Mer- chant ; married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Richardson, of Princetown, Mass. Children : a. Harriette A., married John Quincy Adams, of Derry, N. H., now of Chelsea, whose son, William R., married Addie, daughter of Edwin Smyth, of East Boston, and has a daughter, Hester Forsyth Adams, born 1893. b. Isabella Instance, d. s. p. c. Walter, born, Chelsea, married Angle E., daughter of Capt. E. B. Winchester, Boston. Children : i. Annabella, d. s. p. ii. Ernest W., d. s. p. d. James Brander, born, Chelsea, 1855, o^ the firm of Stone & Forsyth, Devonshire Street, Boston ; married Ruth, daughter of Capt. Clifton Blanchard, U. S. V. 5. Alexander, born, Farmington, 18 19. Gentleman farmer. 6. William, born, Farmington, 1822, d. s. p. II. John, born, Aberdeen, 1791. He came to Newburgh, N. Y., where he married Janet Currie. Children : I.John, Doctor of Divinity and LL.D., educated at Edinburgh. Professor at Princeton College, N. Y., and Chaplain at U. S. Military Academy, West Point; died 1887, without issue. 2. Robert Alexander, born, Newburgh, N. Y., 18 14; 34 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC married Charlotte Pierson, daughter of Samuel Williams, of Newburgh ; died 1873. Children: a. Mary W., married E. A. Wikes, of Poughkeepsie, and had Mary Forsyth and Forsyth Wikes. b. George Wallace, born 1854; married Emily Vermilye, daughter of John E. Burrill, of New York city. 3. Isabella, born, Newburgh, married Mr. Little. 4. James Christie, born, Newburgh, married at Kings- ton, N. Y., Mary Catherine, daughter of Severyn Bruyn, son of Lieut. -Col. Jacobus Severyn Bruyn. in. The Third Son went to South America, and one of his descendants was the late Faulkner Forsyth. FORSYTH OF GEORGIA Robert Forsyth was born in Scotland, about 1754. He came to Fredericksburgh, Va., before the American Rev- olution of 1776-83. He became interested, like so many in the Southern Colonies, in the republican philanstery, and entered the army of Congress. He became captain in l.ee's Light Horse, 1776; Major, 1777; Deputy Quartermaster- General of the Southern Army, 1778 ; and A. D. C. to General Washington ; member of the Virginia Order of Cincinnatus, 1783; appointed U. S. Marshal of Georgia, 1786; killed in performance of duty, 1794; buried with funeral honors by the Order of Cincinnatus ; a monument was erected to his memory at Augusta, Ga. ; Congress voted a sum of money for the education of his children ; he married Mrs. Fanny (Johnston) Houston, a widow, sister to Judge Peter Johnston, of Fredericksburg, and aunt of Lieut. -Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, C. S. A. Issue : a. Robert, died, aged 19. 35 36 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC /;. John,* born in Fredericksburg, October lo, 1780; member of Society of the Cincinnati ; ist Attorney- General of Georgia, 1808 ; Representative of U. S. Congress, 1813-1818; Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain, 1819-1822; Representative of U. S. Con- gress, 1 8 23-1 8 27 ; Governor of Georgia, 1828-1830 ; U. S. Senator, 1830-1834; Secretary of State for United States, 18 34-1 841 ; died in Washington, October 22, 184 1 ; introduced the culture of nan- keen cotton into America ; Georgia erected a mon- ument to his memory in the Congressional Burying Ground at Washington ; married Clara, daughter of Hon. Josiah Meigs, LL.D., first president of the University of Georgia, and son of Col. Jonathan Meigs of the war of 1776. Issue : 1. Julia, born 1803 ; married Hon. Alfred Iverson, Judge of Supreme Court of Georgia, U. S. Senator, and general in Confederate Army. 2. Mary,\ born 1807; married Arthur Shaaff, Georgetown, D. C. 3. Clara, born 18 10; married Capt. Murray Mason, U. S. N., afterwards commodore in Confederate Navy, son of Gen. John Mason, of Virginia, whose brother was U. S. Senator James M. Mason, and whose sister was Mrs. Sidney Smith Lee,J mother of Gen. Fitz-Hugh Lee (nephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Commander-in- Chief of the Southern Confederacy); a daughter of Clara Forsyth Mason married Capt. S. B. Davis, C. S. A., living in Alexandria, Va. *" Virginia Hist. Coll."; " Whyte's Hist, of Ga. "; " Van Hoist's Hist, of U. S."; " Bench and Bar of Ga.," Vol. H., etc. The family estate in Georgia was about 50,000 acres, with about 10,000 additional in Louisiana. t A daughter of Mary (Forsyth) Shaaff married Richard Tighlman Brice, grandson of Gen. Tench Tighlman, of Maryland. \ " Lee Family History." FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 37 4. John* born in Augusta, Ga., 1812; member of Society of the Cincinnati (S. C.) ; Adjutant 1st Georgia Regiment in Mexican War; U. S. Minister to Mexico, 1856; Mayor of Mobile, i860; Confederate Commissioner Plenipoten- tiary, 1861 ; the Chief of Staff of the Con- federate Army of Tennessee, 1863 ; and author of the " Proclamation of the South to the Peo- ple of Kentucky " ; since the war editor of Mobile Register until his death in 1878; he married Margaret, daughter of Latham Hull, of Augusta, Ga., and had : T. Charles, born. Mobile, Colonel 3d Alabama Regiment, C. S. A. ; distinguished at battles of Bull Run, Shiloh, Seven Pines, and about Petersburg; married Laura, daughter of Lorenzo M. Sprague, and had as children : 1. Charles Sprague, born, Mobile, 1861. [Member of the S. C. Society of the Cin- cinnati, Superintendent Becker Leather Company of Milwaukee ; married Margaret, daughter of Rev. C. F. Knight, 4th Bishop of Milwaukee, their children being Elizabeth Pickering, born 1891, and John, born 1892.] 2. Elizabeth Hunter, married Irwin M. Meyer, died 1895 ; and 3, Margaret Angela, died 1883. 5. Virginia, married George Hargraves, had Clara F. ; married Capt. Chas. Wood, C. S. A., of Ivy, Albemarle County, Va. 6. Aima E., born 1823. * " Stevens' ^Yar between the States," Vol. II. ; " Davis's Rise and Fall of the Southern Confederacy," Vol. II.; "Southern Historical Papers; Correspondence be- tween the U. S. and C. S. Governments." John Forsyth, Jr., enjoyed the soubriquet of " Prince of Southern Journalists." 38 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 7. Rosa M., bom 1823 ; married Wm. Aubrey, of Baltimore, afterward of Cartersville, Ga., Com- missary, C. S. A. 8. Robert,* born in Augusta, Ga., 1826; Captain I St U. S. Voltigeurs, Mexican War; Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A. ; Commandant of Con- federate Fortifications in Mobile Bay ; married Julia, daughter of Latham Hull, of Augusta, Ga., and had : 1. John. 2. Angela. 3. Margaret. * See " Correspondence between the U. S. and C. S. Governments." FORSYTH OF ALBANY, CONNECTICUT AND NOVA SCOTIA Arthur FoRsvni, from Scotland, son of William, of Bar- muckety (see p. 26), settled first near Boston in the first part of the 1 8th century. His children were John and Timothy, with perhaps Gilbert and Jason, who went from Connecticut and settled in King's County, Nova Scotia, before 1760. I. John, son of Arthur, married a Miss Smith, of Lyme, who claimed descent from the Princess Pocahontas. Conn Issue 1. Rttsst/l (hereafter). 2. Dana. 3. George, U. E. Loyalist, list 11, District O, Depart- ment Ontario, from Schenectady, N. Y. 4. A daughter, married Mr. Rathbone, of Albany, the father of General Rathbone. I. Russell (as above), physician in Albany; married Sarah Seymour, of the family of Gov. Horatio Seymour. Issue : 39 40 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC a. Douglas. /;. William Wallace, married Cornelia Kane Strong, niece of Dr. Kane, the explorer, and descendant of Governor Winthrop. Issue : i. Emily Howe, married Herman Bruen, of New York, and had Emily Howe and Herman, ii Sarah Seymour, married Matthias Ellis, of South Carver, Mass., their daughters Zaidee (who married Thos. T. Gaff, of Cincinnati) and Helena, iii. Russell, married Helena Annette, daughter of Benj. Davies K. Craig, of New York City, and had Beatrice. H. Timothy, son of Arthur, married , and had: 1. George (hereafter). 2. David. 3. Sanford. 4. Fredej'ic. George (as above), married Lucy, daughter of Abner Howe. He died 1821. Issue: 1. Orlando. 2. Amanda M., born 1806; married Darwin Hill, of Clarkson, N. Y., and had : a. Cornelia Frances, born 1832 ; married Thos. Southworth, Holly, N. Y. b. Helen Louise, born 1834 ; married E. Brad- ford Greenleaf, Milwaukee. c. Mary Seymour, born 1836; married W. H. Rogers, Mount Vernon, O. d. Harriet Evelyn. e. Emma Amanda. 3. R?{ssell. 4. Lucy, born 18 12; married Hon. J. D. Perkins. FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 41 5. George Hamilton, bom 18 13; married Julia Har- man. He died 1857. Issue: a. Lucy. b. Amanda. c. William. 6. Anne, bom 18 15; married W. M. Gorham, M.D., Nevvburgh, N. Y. 7. Jane. Arms of Denys de la Thibaudiere, de Fronsac, de Bonnaventure, DE VlTRE, DE St. SimON, DE LA RONDE DENSY, SIEUR DE LA THIBAUDIERE Jehan Denvs, born in Honfleur, France, in the early half of the 15th century, was one of the boldest, most experienced and renowned of the navigators of France. He commanded an expedition to the coast of Brazil in 1504. In Dionne's History of New France, he is described as the " First of the Norman French to become acquainted with the shores of Newfoundland in an authentic manner." In 1506, he pub- lished, at Honfleur, his chart of the eastern coast of Canada, Cape Breton and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. His name is inscribed in the " Registre de la Charite et Confrerie de Notre Dame de Honfleur," an order founded in 1457. ^^ ^^^ same register are the names of his son Jehan and of his grandson and great-grandson Jehan. This latter married Marguerite, eldest child of David de Forsyth, lord of Dykes, in Scotland, and Commissioner of Glasgow in 1594 and Vicomte de Fron- sac in France. One of the sons of Jehan Denys, the explorer, was : 42 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 43 Pierre Denys, who became established in Tours and was Intendant of Finance for Tours. His sons were : Pierre Denys de la Barodiere, a magistrate of Tours and enrolled in the nobility, and Mathurin (below). Mathurix Dexys, Sicnr de la TJiibandicrc, was captain in the Royal Guard of King Henry HI. It is related, that, on the 7th of May, 1589, the King, being besieged in Tours by the rebels and leaguers under the Due de Mayenne, was so closely pressed that he was obliged to rely for safety on the ef- forts of Denys, who was killed at his side by the thrust of a pike. Denys was buried at Saint Symphorien, a suburb of Tours, with royal honors. He married Mile. Aubert, presum- ably of the family of Aubert, the explorer. His son was : Jacques Denys, Sieiir dc la T/iibauditre, who was an officer of distinction in the army of King Henry HI, having suc- ceeded his father as Captain of the Royal Guard. He mar- ried Marie, daughter of Hughes Cosnier de Beseau and sister of Emelien Cosnier, one of the "Hundred Gentlemen of the King." His sons were : I, Nicolas ; 2, Simon, ancestor of the Denys de Bonna ven- ture and de la Ronde families (to follow) ; 3, Jacques, captain in the army, afterwards quartermaster-general of the armies of the King, killed at Candie, in the naval battle of the Vene- tians ; 4, Henri, killed in Italy in the regiment of the Royal Guards. Nicolas Denys, Vicomte de Fronsac, son of Jacques (as above), was born at Tours in 1598. He and his brother Simon were provided for in the inheritance of Capt. Jehan Denys and his wife, Marguerite (Forsyth) Denys, of Honfleur, which included their ancestral claims in Canada, or New France, into which country these two brothers went (see de Fronsac succession, p. 65). He married Marguerite de la Faye. His children were : I. Richard, for whose family, see de Fronsac succes- sion, p. 68. His daughter Anne de Fronsac 44 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC married Jean Mercian, non-commissioned officer in Quebec Garrison in 1709, whose children were: a. Agathe, born 171 2; b. Jean B., who married and had an only child also named Jean B. Merman, born 1749, married, at Repentigny, 1768, Marie, daughter of J. B. Baudoin, and had an only child, Marie Joseph, who married 1792, at Repentigny, Augustin Duval (descendant of Francois Duval, Seigneur Duponthant, in Brittany, who came to Quebec before 1657 and whose wife was Marie Giguelle of Ponsol, Brittany). His children were : I, Augustin Duval, born 1792, and 2, Marie Angelique Duval, born 1795. II. Marguerite, married, at Honfleur in France, her cousin, James Forsaith of Failzerton, a captain under the King; of France. DENYS, SEIGNEUR DE BONNAVENTURE Simon Denys, Seigneur de la Triuite, brother of Nicolas, Vicomte de Fronsac, was born at Tours in 1599. He came to Canada as Captain in the Regiment Carignan-Salieres, where he was distinguished in the Indian Wars. He was made Receiver General for the Company of New France at Quebec. He married, ist, Jeanne Dubreuil, daughter of the Procureur du Roi du Breuil of Tours ; 2d, Fran^oise du Tar- tre. His children were : I. Pierre, born, France, 1630, Sieur de la Ronde, under which head see. II. Charles, born, France, 1638, Sieur de litre, under which head see. III. Frangoise, born 1644, married Michel LeNeuf, Seizneur du Herisson. FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 45 IV. Catherine, born 1646. V. Paul, born 1649, Sicur dc St. Simon, under which head see. VI. Marguerite, born 165 i, married Michael Cresse. VII. Barbe, born 1652, married Antoine Pecody-de Centrecoeur. VIII. Simon Pierre, born 1654. IX. Marie, born 1656. X. Claude, born 1657. Deacon. XI. Gabrielle, born 1658. XII. Charlotte, born 1663; married Pierre Dupas ; secondly, Pierre Boucher. XIII. Jacques, born 1664. XIV. Marie F'rangoise, born 1666; married John Outlan ; secondly, Noel Chartrain. XV. Jean Baptiste, born 1669. Pierre Denys, Sicur dc la Rondc, eldest son. [His spon- sors were Sieur da Breuil and Nicole du Ruisseau, wife of Hurban Chomalus, Procureur du Roi de la Prevote de Tours] as above. He was grand master of forests and waters of New P" ranee ; married 1655, at Quebec, Catherine, daughter of Jacques Le Neuf, Sieur de La Poterie, member of the Superior Council, by wife Margaret Le Gardeur. He was brother of Matheu-Michel Le Neuf, Sieur de Herisson, Lieut.- Gen. for the king. Pierre died 1708. Children : I. Marguerite Renec, born. Three Rivers, 1656; mar- ried 1672, Thomas de La Nouguere ; sec- ondly, Jacques Alex de Pleury, died 1722. II. Jacques, born 1657. III. Simon Pierre, born 1659, Seigneur de Jioiuuvvoi- ture ; Chevalier and King's Lieutenant in Acadia in 1689; captain of frigate. Royal French Navy, 169 1 ; announced relief at Quebec, captured several English prizes, even at the gates of Boston, and took them into 46 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC Port Royal. He failed to capture Pemkrut, but his arrival and conquests on the coast of Acadia in 1695 * raised the spirits of the pro- vincials. He defeated the Boston man-of-war " Sorlings " off St. John. In 1707 he was one of the most energetic naval commanders against the English. He married Genevieve, daughter of Louis Couillard, Sieur de I'Es- pinay ; secondly, Jeanne Janiere, of Hom- bourg. Children : a. Charles, born 1687, died 1688. b. Claude, Seigneur de Bonnaventiire, Chevalier of the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis, Admiral of France; married, 1748, Louise, daughter of Louis Denys, Sieiir de la Ronde, by wife Louise, daughter of Rene Louis Char- tier de Lotbiniere, Councillor for the King, Lieut .-Gen. Civil and Criminal. Claude was also Major of the Battalion of Isle Royal. He returned to France with the French Naval and Military forces in 1760 and died from wounds received at Louisbourg. He had a son, Claude Charles (see p. 50), and daughter, Marie Louise, born, Louisbourg, 1758. IV. Marie Angeliqne, born 1661 ; married Charles Aubert. V. Claude, born 1663. VI. Franqoisc Jeantie, born 1664; married Guillaume Bonthier ; secondly, Nicolas D'Ailleboust, Seigneur de Menteth. VII. Catherine, born 1666. VIII. Marie Charlotte, born 1668; married Claude de Ramezay, Governor of Montreal, who built the Chateau de Ramezay there, 1705. * Charlevoix, " Hist.de Nouvelle France." FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 47 IX. Joseph, Priest-Recollect. X. Nicolas, born 1669. XI. Picnr, born 1671. XII. Marie Louise, horn 1671; married Pierre D'Aille- boust, Seigneur d'Argenteuil. L.^^ CHATEAU DE RAMEZAY XIII. Louis, born 1675 ; Sieur dc la Romie ; married Louise Chartier de Lotbiniere (as below). XIV. Anne Ursule, born 1677 ; married P'ran^oise Aubert. IvOUis Denys de la Ronde, son as above, of Pierre, a captain of a detachment of Marines. First Captain Comman- dant of troops sent by the King to Acadia. Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis, etc., married Louise, daughter of Rene Louis Chartier Lotbiniere, Lieut. -Gen., etc., and son of Louis 48 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC Therandre Chart ier de Lotbiniere, Lieut .-Gen. of the Prevote of Quebec. He drove the EngHsh from Acadia. Royal Envoy sent to New England, 171 1, by the Governor, Count de Costabelle. Most likely he is the Sieur de La Ronde mentioned by Garneau as introducing the manufacture of salt into Canada. Three of his children were : L Francis Paul Denys,hoxxv 1722; Sieur de la TJiibeau- dicre, ofificer ; married Marguerite, daughter of Alex. Celles-Duclos, son of Gabriel, Sieur du Sailly, Civil and Criminal Judge at Montreal in 1652. Children : a. Louis, born ; b. Paul, Royalist, killed in War 1777; c. Marie A., born at Detroit, 1757; d. P21izabeth, born 1760. II. Pierre Denjs, born, Quebec, November 11, 1726, Seigneur de la Ronde, etc. (see page 51). III. Philippe Denys, Sieur de la Ronde ; captain of a de- tachment of marines; married, Quebec, 1753, Louise Marguerite, daughter of Jean Baptiste Gaillard, son of Guillaume, Seigneur de ITsle et Comte de St. Laurent, Royal Councillor, etc. Children : a. Philippe Ambroise, born 1753. /;. Roch, born and died 1755. DENYS DE VITRE Charles Denys, Sieur de litre and Sieur de la Prinite, second son of Simon, Sieur de la Prinite, councillor for the king; married, 1668, Quebec, Catherine, daughter of Charles de Lostelnau, of St. Nicolas des Champs, Paris, died 1703. Children : I. Catherine Philippe, born 1672. II. Marie Gabrielle, married, 1687, Pierre Descayrac. ELIZABETH AND JEAN DE BONNAVENTURE (See p. 51) FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 49 III. Charles, Stair dc Vitt'e, councillor of the king; married, at Lorette, 1700, Charlotte, daughter of Jean Chretien. Children : a. Charles Amboise, born, Quebec, 1700 ; died 1701. b. Charles Paul, born 1702; died 1703. DENYS DE ST. SIMON Paul Denys, third son of Simon Denys, Sieur de la TrhiitcK was Sieur de St. Simon. He was grand provost of the " Marechaussee " ; married, Quebec, 1678, Marie Made- leine, daughter of Jean Dupeyras, Sieur de Santerre; secondly, Marie Theresa, daughter of Ignace Duchesnay, Sieur de Beau- port. He died 1737. Children: I. Catlierine, born 1679 ; married Dominique Berge- ron ; 2d, Guillaume Gaillard. n. Louis Madeleine, born 1681. HI. Marie Angelique, born 1684. IV. Marie Antoinette, born 1686. V. Charles Paul, born 1688 ; Seigneur de St. Simon ; royal councillor and provost of the Marechaussee ; died 1748; married Marie Joseph, daughter of Louis Prat, captain of the Port of Quebec. Children : a. Marie Louise, born 1^14; died 17 17. d. Marie Angelique, born 17 16. e. Jean Paul, born 1717. d. Matheu Paul, born 171 8. e. Louise Fran^oise, born 1722. /. Marie Madeleine, born 1724. g. Marie Jacquette, born and died 1 729. h. Anne Charlotte, born, Charlesbourg, 1730. i. Paul Charles, born 1733. J. Antoine Charles, born 1734; died at Leszanne, Hayti, 1785. 50 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC k. Catherine Angelique, born 1736. /. Louis Achilla, born 1738. m. Hugues Mathurin, born and died 1739. ;/. Guillaume Mathurin, born and died 1741. VI. ElizabctJi, born 1690; married Mathurin Collet. VII. Guillaume Emanuel Theodore, born 1693 ; Sicur de Vitre ; married Marie Joseph, daughter of Raymond Blaise Des Bergeres, captain of Marines and major-commandant at Three Rivers. Children : a. Theodore Mathieu, born 1724; captain French Royal Navy, made prisoner by the English, 1759, afterwards entered the British Navy as captain ; died, England. b. Marie Noelle, born 1725. e. Pierre Marie, born 1727 ; died 1730. VIII. Alexandre, born 1696 ; priest. IX. Marie Anne, born 1698 ; married Michel Berthier. X. Jean, born 1702. XI. Charlotte Franqoise, born, Charlesbourg, 1704. Claude Charles Denys (see p. 46), Sieur de la Ronde de Bomtaventtire ; born October 19, 1749, captain in Royal French navy, chevalier of the Order of St. Louis, Elector of the nobility of Aunis (France) in 1787. He was a royalist who died in emigration in 1801. He had married in 1790 Jeanne Pelagic de Butler, one of the family of the Irish Dukes of Ormonde in France. His children were : I. Amedic Denys (see below). II. Adolphe Denys de Bonnaventure, born 1799, d. s. p. 1871. Amedie Denys de Bonnaventure, born 1796 ; died 1890. Officer and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, under Napoleon, and Knight of the Order of King Charles III of Spain. He married Mile. Laurisseau and had : FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 5 1 I. Charles (see below). II. AcJiille Deiiys dc Bonnai'cutitrc, born 1832, married, 1857, Emelie de Montlaur de Bonnecarere and had, I, Olum ; 2, Marie Louise; 3, Charles, born i860, married M. de Chauvigny and had, a, Henry, born 1893; b, Guy, born 1897; c, Pierre, born 1898. III. Eugenie de Bonnaventnre, born 1834, married M. de Chievres and had, a, Zenobie de Chievres, born 1859; married, 1886, the Comte de Nucheze. Charles Denys de Bonnaventure (as above), born 1830; died 187 1 : paymaster of marines at La Rochelle ; married Clemence de Villedon de Courson and had Louis (as below). Louis Denys de Bonnaventure, born i860, councillor in France of the Seigneurial Order of Canada (1902-3), re- siding at Aytre, Charente Inferieure ; married 1886, Marthe de la Rochelrochard and has : I. Elizabeth, born 1887. II. Jean, born 1889. DENYS DE LA RONDE Pierre Denys de la Ronde (see p. 48), born, Quebec, November 11, 1726. He died May 7, 1772. His sponsors were the Marquis de Vaudreuil and Ursule Aubert. He was Major in the Marines sent into Louisiana, and also Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis. His magnificent estate was situ- ated at Algiers, near New Orleans. He married, 1757, Madeleine, widow of Louis Xavier Chalmet de Lino, lieuten- ant in the Marines. She was daughter of Ignace F. de Broutin, captain and engineer, and commandant of the Nat- chez Port, by wife, Madeleine Lemaire. He was relative of the Marquis de Vaudreuil, last F"rench governor of Canada. His children : I. Louise, born 1758, at New Orleans, married Col. Don Andre Almonaster-Y-Roxas (son of Don Miguel Jose 52 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC Almonaster by his wife, Donna Maria Juanna de Estrada- Y- Roxas, both of noble birth and natives of Mayrena, Anda- lusia, Spain). He was Knight of the Royal Order of King Carlos III, colonel, king's lieutenant-governor and president of the Council of Louisiana for King Charles III. Don Almonaster is buried in front of the altar of St. Francis of Assissis, beneath a marble slab on which is engraved his name and arms, his royal honors, and the enumeration of his deeds — he having founded the cathedral of St. Louis, the palace of justice, the presbytery, several schools for children and a hospital for lepers. By this marriage there was one daughter : Michela Leonarda, born 1795 ; married Joseph C. Delfau de Pontalba, lieutenant in the French Marine Corps, commandant of the Cotes dcs Allc- mands on the Mississippi, son and heir of Xavier Delfau, Baron de Pontalba, officer in the army of King Charles III, of Spain. II. Maj-ic T/icirsc, horn 1759, married Don Juan Pieto, New Orleans. III. Picnr (below). Pierre Deny.s de la Ronde (as above), born, New Orleans, 1762; lieutenant in Royal Regiment of Louisiana; civil and military governor of St. Barnard Parish ; president of the Royal Council (1798-1803); Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Louisiana up to the cession to the United States, 1803 ; General, commanding the Louisiana troops at the Battle of New Orleans (18 14), and chief military adviser of General Jackson, by the adoption of whose plan the defence of New Orleans was made successful. He was member of the Constitutional Convention of Louisiana in 18 12. He married Eulalie, daughter of Louis Alexander Gerbois, officer in the F'rench army, and left : I. Eulalie, born. New Orleans, 1788 ; married Gabriel Everille Villere, Colonel of the 3d Regiment of Louisiana at ARMS OF THE OLD DE FRONSAC DE FORSYTH BEFORE 1488. The Old Fronsac-Forsytti. 'Composed by VICOMTE de FRONSAC. Grazioso, PIANO. S ^P^ ^ m ^^ i • # f • =» I g f m Jj3 p , ^EE^ ^ ^^ i I I r*^ j ^^^ ^^^ r=f '^ --i-i-iT i^ P ^^ ^ 5 P gp ^ ill "I f E^ irf ^ ^^ s Copyright 1903 b/y Vicomte de Fronsac. s ^ ^x^ttl M ^ s # » 1 i ■f ffrf ■I • ^ s 35: 4 ^-^r^ ^ ^ ^^ § I » 1^ I « ^ ^ r =^ :3e ^ ^ «- i^ s — ■ — i ItMI P f ^?=^ ^ ^ ^ ^ J J PJ ^ f g ^ P^ ^ FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 53 siege of New Orleans in 1814, and son of Maj.-Gen. Jacques P. X^illere, second governor of Louisiana. II. Elicabetk Celeste, born 1792 ; married Maunsel White, colonel in the Mexican War of 1846, and State senator. III. Heloise, born 1792. IV. Manette, born 1799, married Gen. Casimir Lacoste. V. Pepitc, born 1799. W. Adelaide Adele, born 1803 ; married the Hon. Joseph Adolph Ducros, senator in 1877, son of Rodolphe Jo- seph Ducros, a military officer under King Charles III, by- wife, Marie Lucie de Reggio. VII. Felicite Felicicie, born 1805 ; married Pierre ¥ . Jorda, son of Don Jayne Y. F. Jorda and Helene de Reggio. VIII. Emilie, born 1807; married Pierre Hoa, son of Don Manual Hoa. Arms of all these branches of the family of Denys are : gules, a grape, argent, over all a count's crown ; the shield supported by 2 stags. The lordships and seigneuries of the families of Forsyth and Denys in Canada were as follows : Denys, Lordship of Isle St. Jean (Prince Edwards Island), 1,450,440 acres. Denys, Lordship of Cape Breton, 2,119,600 acres. Denys, Seigneurie of Fronsac (in New Brunswick), 1,390,600 acres. Denys, Seigneurie of Bonnaventure (in Quebec), 2,106,000 acres. Forsyth, Seigneurie of Langon (near St. Hyacinthe, P. Q.), 6,000 acres. Forsyth, Seigneurie of Anticosti, 1,774,000 acres. Total, 8,846,640 acres THE INDIVIDUAL BY F. G. F. DE FRONSAC The race owes everything to the Individual. In viewing the Past, the race is proud of the Individual. The present greatest achievement of the race is the production of the In- dividual ; the future glory of the race is in the possibility of the Individual. Yet, frequently and always disastrously, the race and the Individual are beheld in conflict. The Past, Present and F"uture are ready to fall into the crucible of Chaos, to be dissolved from their harmonious union, the memory of the first from the reality of the second, from the ambition of the third, to lie in unconscious and perishing frag- ments, unless drawn together again by a new combination. And it is submission to the Individual that reunites the race, as it is war against the Individual that causes the race to be dissevered. Herein is the law of human progression and retrogression as derived from the multitudinous histories of the human race. However the abstract testimonials of histo- rians may disagree, the concrete testimonials of their subject matter, divested from the commenting prejudice of the writers, bear witness to the invariability of this law. The building up of civilization is ever under the rulership of the Individual. This rulership is called monarchy and is the government of the first great man who dominates the savage tribe of jarring mediocres who are disputing continu- ally over the affairs of ordinary living. He leads them by the might of his genius along the path, which alone, his far-reach- ing vision sees, to the affairs of extraordinary living. These affairs are developed in his potent intelligence. He becomes the god, the creator of the race, the head, the lightning en- deavor that flashes for a while, and causes a momentary light 55 56 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC to send a blessing over the darkness of the age. Then, when he departs, he, the Individual, from the confines of terrestrial activity, he leaves the ideal of himself as that by which human progress and order are to be maintained. By the divine power of genius, coming to the dictatorship of affairs, he be- queathes his dictatorial authority in a definite manner. It goes as a legacy, so that it shall fall to the Individual the best born and not to the first discordant self, the meanest Barab- bas, half-man of the crowd. What though the Individual who inherits the power of Monarchy be not a genius, yet he repre- sents the type of that government which genius has bestowed as the most natural and orderly for human progress and hap- piness. The Monarchy, the government of the Individual, is the only form of rulership wherein man prospers in his greatness. Then the pride, the product and the hope of the race, are in security. But so soon as the race is dissevered — breaking from this, through a passing madness, like a rabid dog with an hundred heads, whose brain has been turned by meaning- less words and whose acts are already savored by the corrup- tion of a dissolute society, or by some other ways — then begins the abolition of the Individual. Every great man is a Monarch in embryo, whom the race hastens to destroy, or repulses to the pace of mediocres, in order that the embryo shall not develop and the crown of human dignity be not manifest on his brow. The same servile bigotry and the desire for the drunken- ness of license and disorder animated the crowd when they demanded their Barabbas in their war against the Individual- Christ. It is the difference of the Individual from the race that causes the race to be hostile to his endeavor and to desire to destroy his Individuality. Yet it is the Individual alone, who possesses the idea and knowledge of power and the ability of leadership. It is the government of the Monarch alone, that FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 57 calls the great men of the state to surround the Throne by their glory, and gives to each a place for his peculiar genius. It is the government of the democracy — or that of the race against the Individual — that crushes individual honor and distinction, discourages glory before the rotting charms of avarice and tramples the ambition of noble and high-minded men beneath the feet of servile and contending factions. It has been said, and truly, that the democracy is the gov- ernment of races in a state of decay, and however it may be brought about, or what might have been the excuse which led to its introduction, the fact remains, that the flood-tides of evil passion in the majority, by drowning each opposing individuality, leaves the most abasing model of nonentity as the fashion of mankind. With the government of such in lead, the final disaster of the state approaches with a good invitation. THE DE FRONSAC SUCCESSION COUNTS, MARQUISES AND DUGS DE FRONSAC The Castle ForsatJi dc Fronsac, which gave a name to the family, continued in the possession of the male line clown to the fourteenth century, when it was demolished in war, and rebuilt. In 1344, at the time of which Froissart writes, it had passed into the female line, the Cadet male line having emigrated to Scotland, but of this later. (For Cadet line see p. 5.) The castle was destroyed and rebuilt, but this time as Chateau Fronsac. Several heirs and rivals for its posses- sion, representing as many different families, all descended from daughters of Forsath de Fronsac, carried on party feuds. One of these occupied it against the wishes of the king, who was the arbitrator of their dispute. He defied the king's general, the Count Dunois, in 1442, to turn him out, beating back three desperate assaults of the king's army with great slau£:hter before the castle was taken. Odet d'Aydie, belonging to the princely house of Foix, then was recognized (1472) by the king as Vicomte de Fronsac. He was already Jlcomte de Lantrcc. At his death: The Seigneur de Gie, Marshal of the Army (1491), was the next Vicomte de Fronsac. He was succeeded by his cousin : Jacques d'Albret, of the princely family of Navarre. He was also Marechal de St. Andre. The king, Henry H, erected the title into Count de Fronsac in 1 55 i. His relative : Antoine de Lustrac was made Marquis de Fronsac in 1555. The family of Lustrac was ancient and noble in Peri- gord. They were Barons de Lias, and Seigneurs of Cana- bazes, Cazarac, La Maritinie and Losse. Bernard de Lustrac 58 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 59 was Bishop of Rieux and President of the Estates of Langue- docque in 1483. Jean de Lustrac married in 15 19 Antonia Delluc and was grandsire of the above Marquis de Fronsac. Previous to this, the family of Caiiniotit, whose descendant was the Due de la Force, and a marshal of France, were claiming the title of Comte de Fronsac. Through various alliances the title passed next to a distant member of the Royal Family of France in the person of : P'rancois d'Okleans-Longueville, Comte dc St. Pol, whose relative, Henry the Great, King of P>ance, raised it to a duchy in 1608. He died without issue in 163 i. Arms of Lustrac : — Quarterly ist and 4th, gules three bars argent ; 2d and 3d azure, a lion rampant or, crowned of the same and armed and membered gules. The family of Richelieu succeeded to the title and their arms are: — Quarterly ist and 4th, or, three boars' heads sable for Vignerot ; 2d and 3d, argent, three cheveronells gules for Duplessis de Richelieu. Armand Jean Duplessis, Due de Richelieu, Prime Min- ister of P" ranee and Cardinal, succeeded to the title of de Fronsac in 1634. He was the son of Francois Duplessis, Seigneur de Richelieu, and of Susanne de la Porte, born at Paris, September 5, 1585, and was descended from the Seign- eurs Du Plessis of Poitou, tracing to Lord William Du Plessis of 1 20 1. He had two sisters, who married, the first, Rene de Vignerot, Lord of Pont-Courlay, the second, Urban de Maille, Marquis de Breze, Admiral and Marshal of P^'rance. Armand de Richelieu was intended for the military profession, but he was persuaded to renounce it and become Bishop of Lugon in 1607. In the assembly of the States General of 16 14 he was Deputy for the Clergy of Poitou. He became next, confessor of the Queen Dowager, and in 16 16 he became Secretary of State for War and Foreign Affairs. He was made Cardinal in 1622, and he was named a member of the King's Council in 1624 which he dominated from the time he entered it until 6o FORSYTH DE FRONSAC his death eighteen years after, as absohite master of the des- tinies of France. That country he raised from the third power of Europe to the first place. He could say, as he is made to say in Bulwer's Richelieu : " I found France rent with heracies and bristling With rebellion ... I have recreated France and From the ashes of the decrepit, feudal carcass, civilization Soars on luminous wings to Jove ..." He was a great general as his campaigns before LaRochelle and in Italy testify, and although he was a Cardinal of the Church of Rome, he was so liberal to the Protestants and "heretics" that his enemies called him "Pontiff of the Cal- vinists," and "Cardinal of atheists." His maxim was that if a man is a good citizen and performs his civil duties that is all that can be required of him. He appointed the Prince de Rohan, a Protestant, to be general of the armies of France, and he sent troops and money to aid Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden and chief of the Protestants, in his fight against Catholic Austria because the political interest of France re- quired the humiliation of Spain and Austria, then her most powerful enemies. No minister of France has left so great a name as RicJielien, and when he died, December 4, 1642, he bequeathed the powers of monarchy consolidated for the ad- ministration of King Louis XIV, one of the glories of whose reign in literature and art may be traced to Richelieu's creation of the French Academy — that protector of French genius. Rene de Vignerot, Due de Richelieu, Dug de P'ronsac, etc., succeeded the Cardinal, being adopted as his heir and successor, he having married Richelieu's elder sister. But as they had no children the title passed, at his death, to the family of : Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, who had married, in 1 64 1, Claire Clemence de Maille-Breze, niece of the Cardinal Minister, the Due de Richelieu and de PVonsac. The Prince RICHELIEU AND FATHER JOSEPH. FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 6 I of Conde, siirnamed the Great, was born in 1621. He was General-in-Chief of the armies of France. His campaigns are among the most glorious in the annals of Europe. He con- quered Germany, Spain and Austria. Wherever he went he bore the standard of victory. He was also the patron of Corneille and Racine. The history of his life would make volumes, and of his race, a library. His grandfather was the Prince de Conde, the Huguenot, and cousin of King Henry IV. He died December 11, 1689. Armand Jean de Vignerot-Duplessis, Dug de Riche- lieu, Dug de Fronsac, General of the Galleys of France, succeeded the Prince and Princess de Conde in the titles of Richelieu and Fronsac, being nephew of the Princess de Conde, Duchess de Fronsac, and her heir. He married Anne Marguerite d'Acigne. His eldest son was : Louis Frangois-Armand de Vignerot-Duplessis, Due de Richelieu, Due de P'ronsac and Marshal of France. He was baptized as the Due de Fronsac in 1699, being held in the arms of the King and Duchess of Burgundy. He entered the army as a musketeer and served so well at the Battle of Denain, that he was named aide-de-camp to Marshal Villars. In Dumas' novels the story of Richelieu's implica- tion in the conspiracy of Cellamare has the romantic flavor of trying to release France from the odious ministry of that Dubois, who had come into power with the regency which succeeded the death of King Louis XIV, — and Dubois has been well-painted by Dumas, especially in his book, "Zrt Fille du- Regiment!' On account of the elegance of Richelieu's mind and talent his admirers had him elected to the French Acad- emy. In 1720 he was received in Parliament as a peer of France. After the death of Dubois, he was relieved from the jealousy of that minister. He was named in 1727 ambassa- dor to Vienna. His success as a diplomat in defeating the designs of Spain at the Austrian court established his reputa- tion for wisdom and tact. In the wars of Germany which 62 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC succeeded he passed rapidly to promotions by his distinguished bravery and miHtary talents, being brigadier in 1733 and Marcchal dc Camp in 1738. He raised, armed and equipped, at his own expense for the king, a regiment of dragoons called Septimenic, of which his son, the young Due de Fronsac, then (1744) but nine years of age, was named colonel by the king, while the father was made lieutenant-general. But his greatest success was the victory of Fontenoy, which his tact and skill won from the English, after Marshal de Saxe and King Louis XV had abandoned all hope of the day, and the English were advancing to drive the French into the river. The story of this is told in the Due de Broglie's " Diplomatie Contemporaine," published a few years ago in the Revue des Deux Maudes, at Paris. In 1748, sent with an inferior French force, he was able to deliver Genoa from the English and was proclaimed Liberator by that government and was made marshal of France. It was at this time that Madame de Pompadour was holding "high carnival at the court of France " as mistress of the king. She thought to do herself honor by proposing to marry a daughter whom she had had by Lenormand d'Etioles to the Due de P'ronsac, son of the Marshal de Richelieu. He gave his refusal in the following manner: "That it would surely be too great an honor, but that as his son through his mother belonged to the House of Lorraine, it would be necessary for her to ask permission of the head of that house, who was the empress-queen." P'or this reply, Madame de Pompadour never forgave Richelieu. In the campaign against England of 1756 he chased her armies from Fort Mahon and in 1757 conquered Hanover and captured the entire British army of the Duke of Cumber- land. He married three times : First, a daughter of the Due de Noailles, secondly, Mile, de Guise, Princess de Lorraine of the imperial family of Austria (by whom he had two sons, the Due de Fronsac, and a daughter who married the Comte THE GREAT CONDE. FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 63 d'Egmont), and thirdly, in 1780, Madame de Rothe. He was called "the man of his centm-y." He died August 8, 1788. Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Due de Fronsac, eldest son of the above, by the Princess of Lorraine, married first Mile. d'Hautefort, secondly, Mile, de Galifet. His son was : Armand Emmanuel de Vignerot-Duplessis, Due de RieHELiEu, Due de Fronsac, Minister of State under Louis XVHL He commenced, by a brilliant course of studies at Du Plessis College, one of the noble foundations of Cardinal Richelieu. Without neglecting literature, he became a great linguist, speaking with easy fluency German, English, Italian and Russian. He was married very young to Mile, de Rochechouart, but had no children. In order to learn the service of arms he entered the Russian army as commander of battalion under Marshal Souvarovv in the Turkish cam- paign, in which for merit and bravery he received a golden sword from the Empress Catherine. This was during the French Revolution, when the royalty and nobility of France were scattered in foreign parts. The Emperor Alexander appointed him in 1803 governor of Southern Russia, and Odessa, which he found a miserable village without a street, became under his management the most beautiful and pros- perous city of eastern Europe, gaining 80,000 inhabitants during the eleven years of his administration. His new government he protected by military skill from the inroads of Turks, Bulgarians and Circassians. He founded more than 100 villages in this part of Russia and proved himself by his humanity and justice a most able ruler. After the Bourbons were restored in France in 18 15, Richelieu returned and was named Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Council. In this capacity he was to negotiate the particu- lars of a treaty which had been imposed on France by the different Powers, which would have deprived France of strong 64 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC places, territory and population. By his personal influence with Alexander of Russia, he won over that Power, and obtained a great amelioration of the hardships which the others had imposed on France. For his great services to the State when he retired from his office of minister of state, the king and parliament accorded him an immense indemnity which he employed in founding a hospital in Bordeaux. When King George IV ascended the throne of England, the Due de Richelieu and de Fronsac was sent to represent the King of France. Again in 1820, he was called to be President of the Council of Ministers, which office he resigned the next year. He died in Paris, May 17, 1822. THE VISCOUNT DE FRONSAC IN THE SEIGNEURIAL ORDER OF CANADA Nicolas Denys, Vicomte de Fronsac, Governor and Viceroy of Acadia, Gaspasia and Newfoundland (for pedigree see p. 43). He was born in the city of Tours in 1598 ; son of Jacques Denys, Sievir de la Thibaudiere, Captain of the Royal Guard, and Mile. Cosnier de Besseau whose brother, Emilien Cosnier, was one of the " Hundred Gentlemen of the King." Nicolas and his brother Simon were the chosen heirs of Captain Jehan Denys and his wife, Marguerite Forsyth de Fronsac of Honfleur, to claims which Capt. Jehan Denys had in America, deriving through their common ancestor, Captain Jehan Denys, the great explorer of 1506. In 1632 he obtained the favor of his relative, the Cardinal Richelieu, who gave him a commission in the military suite of the admiral, Isaac de Launoy, Comte de Razilli, who was ready to sail to America as Governor of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. In addition, Denys was named lord proprietor and governor of Cape Breton. In this new field he established the towns of Chedebuctoo (Guysborough) and St. Pierre, and founded the fort at Canso and another, which was his chief residence, at Nipisiguit. He brought over colonists from France, instituted the culture of cereals and promoted the fisheries and fur trade. He chased the English out of the islands of Brion and La Madeleine. The prosperity he was building up excited the cupidity and envy of rivals (after the death of de Razilli) all the more because he, as a man of education, was liberal in religious views. De Razilli had named Denys as his successor in the government, but the cabal of rivals planned to deprive him of that office and of his lands as well. One Giraudiere, recognized by the others 6s 66 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC as governor, took ship and sailed for Cape Breton for this purpose. Denys was employing his men about commercial labors when the enemy appeared with an armed ship. Girau- diere attempted to terrorize Denys' men by declaring himself to be the king's governor, that Denys was under arrest, and that those who defied the king's authority would be guilty of high treason. But Denys was not to be intimidated. He persuaded some of his men to man the fort, and training his guns on Giraudiere's ship he threatened to sink it if Girau- diere approached nearer. At the same time, to quiet the fears of his men, he offered to go to France with Giraudiere and let the king decide between them. To this Giraudiere agreed. And the king not only confirmed Denys in the gov- ernorship of Acadia, Gaspasie and Newfoundland, etc., by commission of January 30, 1654, but made him viceroy, with power to make treaties of trade and war or peace for the protection of the king's dominion and with the privilege of s:rantin tmeir Sui!- Branx'HES: On a shield argent, a cheveron engrailed gules, between 3 griffins segreant, vert, armed and membered gules. Crest for Tailzertox : A demi-griffin. vert, armed and membered gules. Crest for Failzertox: A griffin liead between two wings, dis- played vert, beaked gules. For Forsyth of Elgix, Cromarty axd Suh-Braxches : .Shield same as for Tailzerton and Failzerton except that the griffins are armed and membered sable and ducallv crowned, or. Crest : A demi-griffin vert, armed and membered sable, ducally crowned, or. # /^.. LORDRE SEIGNEUR- lAL DU CANADA. MEANING OF THE MOTTOES FoKSVTH i)K Tail/.kk'j OX (Latin) •• Instaiirator Ruinaer Forsyth dk Tailzrrton (Ena^lish) " Restorer of the Ruin.'" Forsyth ue Failzkrtox (French) •' Loyal a la Morte.'" Foi^sYTH DK Fah.zkrtox (En^lisli) •' Loyal unto Death.'" Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton (Latin) '^ Sola Nol)ilitas Virtus.'" Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton (English) " Honor only Noble." liKXNKTT. Earl of Tankarville (French) " De Bon \'ouloir servir le Roy." Bexxictt. Earl of Tankarville (English) "With good faith to serve the King.'" \ M 22 Wt* CHART SHOWING THE ALLIANCE OF THREE BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY. P^" Arms of Denys. Arms before 1488. Arms of Family since 1488. Crest and Motto of Failzerton added in 1620. DAVID DE FORSYTH, LORD OF DYKES IN J57i and VICOMTE DE FRONSAC IN SCOTLAND. [See page 7.] IN PRANCE. MARGUERITE m. Capt. Jehan Denys of Honfleur, France, great-grandson of the explorer. Their heirs were Nicolas and Simon Denys, sons of Capt. Jacques Denys, Sieur de la Thibaudiere of the King's Guard. Nicolas Denys was Governor of Acadia in 1664, etc., and Vicomte de Fronsac. CHILDREN OF NICOLAS , A , RICHARD NICOLAS, d. s. p. MARGUERITE, m. Capt. James Forsaith of Failzerton. JAMES d. s. p. WILLIAM I BARBARA WILLIAM Lord of Dykes MATTHEW of Auchengray Rev. JAMES OF TAILZERTON Co. Stirling JOHN, M. P. for Cullen JAMES of Cromarty and Elgin ROBERT OF FAILZERTON Capt. JAMES OF FAILZER- TON, m. Marguerite, d. of Nicolas Denys, Vicomte de Fronsac. WALTER married MARGARET FORSAITH Provost of Glasgow College of Failzerton Capt. JAMES of Ayr Capt. ALEXANDER of Boston, Mass. Hon. MATTHEW ALEXANDER of Chester, N. H. ENSIGN WILLIAM of Deering, N. H. I THOMAS Chevalier de Fronsac FREDERIC, Vicomte de Fronsac A_ FREDERIC GREGORY, Vicomte de Fronsac THOMAS of Cork THOMAS SCOTT ALEXANDER ROBERT JOHN JOHN JOHN WILLIAM JAMES WILLIAM JOHN H. ANNE J. MARGARET BENNETT. MARY E. JAMES BENNETT of Boston, Mass. THOMAS A. 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