THE 
 
 POST FAMILY 
 
 BY 
 
 Marie Caroline de Trobriand Post 
 
 (Mrs. Charles Alfred Post) 
 
 190S. 
 
 STERLING POTTER, 
 
 New York. 
 

 LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
 TwoCoDics Received 
 
 FEB 21 1906 
 
 v9 . CoDyrient Entry 
 CLASS /a, xxc. No 
 
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 COPY e. 
 
 Copyright, 1905, 
 
 MARIE CAROLINE DE TROBRIAND POST. 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 PORTRAITS. 
 
 Wright Post, M. D. 
 Joel Post. 
 Allison Post. 
 
 COATS OF ARMS. 
 
 Frontispiece. 
 
 (Arms carried by descendants of Jotham Post of New York.) 
 
 Post — Germany. 
 
 Post — Hanover, Prussia, Hamburg, Bremen and Lubeck. 
 
 Post — Hesse. 
 
 Post — Denmark, Norway and Sweden. 
 
 Post — Austrian-Silesia. 
 
 Post — Amsterdam, Holland, Leiden, Utrecht, Holland 
 
 AND Groningen. 
 Pieter Post. 
 Dr. Johan Post. 
 Post — England. 
 
POST FAMILY 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The title of this book may be misleading and 
 perhaps cause disappointment to many who ex- 
 pect to find a detailed history of every branch of 
 the Post family in America. I trust its opening 
 pages, giving an account of the POST family in 
 Europe, may prove a compensation, as those bearing 
 the name in all parts of the United States must be in- 
 terested to know something of their common origin. 
 
 A history of the POST family in America would be 
 a web almost impossible to disentangle, owing, not 
 only to the fact that there are descendants of those 
 who came from Holland and those who came from 
 England about the same time — not to speak of the 
 more recent arrivals from Germany — but the records 
 in those early days were so badly kept on Long Island 
 and elsewhere that it has been a most difficult under- 
 taking to procure the material necessary for the 
 single chain of JOTHAM POST'S descent from Lieu- 
 tenant Richard Post, of Southampton. Thompson, 
 in his history of Long Island, says: 
 
 "Another and more formidable embarrassment 
 presented itself in the progress of the compiler's re- 
 searches, which was in great measure unexpected, 
 and had well nigh persuaded him to relinguish his 
 
viii Preface. 
 
 further labor after a considerable mass of material 
 had been collected. This arose from the peculiar 
 condition and deficiency of the records of many of 
 the twenty-one towns which he examined. In gen- 
 eral, they are almost entirely wanting in matters of 
 antiquity, and in others have been so negligently kept 
 as to be in great measure incapable of being under- 
 stood." 
 
 It often happens that one who marries into a fami- 
 ly and makes a point of studying relationships knows 
 more on the subject than the actual born members. 
 These take no thought on the subject until a wedding 
 or funeral brings a family gathering, when the 
 younger members are sure to question how they are 
 related to heretofore ignored cousins. 
 
 This work was begun with no other object than to 
 answer oft-put questions. 
 
 Taking JOTHAM POST, the founder of the New 
 York branch, as a common ancestor, I wrote down a 
 history of his descendants. With the help of all the 
 elder members of the family, who kindly gave me 
 their records from family Bibles and papers, I was 
 soon in possession of a full history of this part of the 
 Post family. Writing it was a pleasure and com- 
 paratively easy, but the interest grew in proportion 
 as the work progressed, and it seemed unfinished if 
 a history of JOTHAM Post's descendants were not 
 preceded by a history of his ancestors. 
 
 Climbing the ladder was far more difficult than 
 descending it, and I realized the truth of Thompson's 
 
Preface. ix 
 
 words when the task began of searching records. 
 Many times I stopped, discouraged, feeling it was 
 hopeless to work on, but help always came, 
 sometimes in the most unexpected way. At last 
 the history is finished and complete, but I owe 
 the result to the assistance given me by Miss 
 Phebe Post, a descendant of Henry Post 
 (elder brother of JOTHAM POST) who, being a 
 member of the Society of Friends, was able to 
 procure for me (and worked indefatigably to do 
 so) the Quaker Records that established the com- 
 plete chain of descent of JOTHAM POST and his broth- 
 ers from Lieutenant RICHARD PoST, of Southampton. 
 
 Though this introduction begins with the assertion 
 that this volume is confined exclusively to a history 
 of JOTHAM Post's descendants, I have made a point 
 of inserting all information in regard to other 
 branches which came to me in the course of my work. 
 There is information, though limited, about the 
 Posts who came from Holland to New Amsterdam, 
 and many more data about STEPHEN PoST who came 
 to Massachusetts in 1634 from England. 
 
 The labor of years is finished, and this volume is 
 dedicated to the family with the hope that each mem- 
 ber will continue his personal records on the blank 
 pages provided for the purpose. 
 
 Marie Caroline de Trobriand Post. 
 
SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 
 
 Records in family Bibles and old diaries. 
 
 Old deeds filed at Riverhead, L. I. 
 
 The History of Southampton, by George R. 
 Howell. 
 
 Thompson's History of Long Island. 
 
 The Books (four volumes) of the Records of the 
 town of Southampton (printed at Sag Harbor, L. I., 
 by John H. Hunt). 
 
 Book I. "Including all the writings in the Town 
 Clerk's office from 1639 to 1660; transcribed with 
 notes and an introduction by Wm. S. Pelletreau, and 
 compiled by the undersigned Committee, chosen at 
 Town meeting April ist, 1873, and published at the 
 expense of the -Town, by its authority. 
 
 Henry P. Hedges, 
 W. S. Pelletreau, ■ 
 Edward H. Foster. 
 
 Book II. Same as Book I. . 
 
 Book III. Same as books I and II. 
 
 Book IV. Including Records from 1807 to 1873 
 and printed under the supervision of WILLIAM J. 
 Post, Clerk of the Town, in compliance with a reso- 
 lution passed April 4th, 1896. 
 
SOURCES OF INFORMATION. XI 
 
 Biographical annals of the Civil Government of 
 the United States, by Charles Lanman, page 342. 
 (In the Congressional Library at Washington.) 
 
 "Memorial History of the City of New York," by 
 James Grant Wilson. 
 
 "Marriage Bonds" from Albany, vol. I, p. 627 and 
 vol. 7, p. 114, New York State Library. 
 
 "History of New York City," by Valentine. 
 
 "Biographical sketches of Loyalists of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution," by Lorenzo Sabine. 
 
 History of Westchester County (Bolton's), vol. II 
 (Yonkers). 
 
 Holland Documents. 
 
 Riker's History of Harlem. 
 
 Washington Irving's Knickerbocker History of 
 New York. 
 
 Genealogical History of New York. 
 
 Records of the "Friends at Westbury." 
 
 Pratt's History of Cambridge, Mass. (At Long 
 Island Historical Society.) 
 
 Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New Eng- 
 land. 
 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Regis- 
 ter. 
 
 Mrs. Martha J. Lamb's "History of New York 
 City." 
 
 The Early Settlers of King's County, by Tunis G. 
 Bergen. 
 
 Documentary History of New York. 
 
 Liber 3, deeds. State House, Trenton, New Jersey. 
 
Xll SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 
 
 Mary Powell Bunker's "Long Island Genealo- 
 gies." 
 
 "Early Long Island," by Martha Bockee Flint. 
 
 Berry's "Kent." 
 
 Census of Southampton and Hempstead in the 
 Archives at Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Town Records of North and South Hempstead. 
 
 History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, 
 by Benjamin W. Dwight, vol. II, p. 710. 
 
 "An Old Family, or the Setons of Scotland," by 
 Monsignor Seton. 
 
 "History of the 22d Regiment, N G. S. N. Y.," by 
 Col. George W. Wingate. 
 
 Genealogical and Historic Records in Germany, 
 Sweden, Denmark, Hanover, Hesse, Prussia, Ham- 
 burg, Bremen, Lubech, Alsace, Holland and 
 England. 
 
THE POST FAMILY. 
 
 Researches Concerning the Post Family in 
 Europe from Various Sources. 
 
 The Post family is one of the oldest families, of 
 which we have any authentic records. 
 
 It is mentioned as early as 980 A. D., when Nettel- 
 burg, which later became known as Schaumburg, 
 was besieged and taken by a Von Palingsleben, who 
 became founder of the great and important family, 
 the Counts Von Schaumburg. He assumed the Net- 
 telburg arms: three thistles, while the Von Palings- 
 leben arms were assumed by the "Herren VON PoST/' 
 who had taken active and prominent part in the at- 
 tack on Nettelburg. For the above, and following 
 data, see : 
 
 Pfefriger, II., 761 ; Ganke, I., 1695, 1696. 
 Zeden, 28, 1788; Swea Rikes Matrikel, I., 
 546. 
 
 Megerle von Muhlfeld Erg. Bel. 88. 
 Wenck, Hessische Landesgeschichte, III., 
 242. 
 
 Freih. von der Knesebeck, 229; Von Ledebur 
 II., 220; Gneal. Taschenbuch der Freih. 
 Hauser, 1854, 384-6; 1861, xvi; 1864, 59^; 
 
2 Post Family. 
 
 Harenberg, Hist, diplom. Gandersh. Rab. 33, 
 11; V. Mending, I. 445, 446; Knesche, II., 
 346; 347; V. Hefner, Han. Adel. Tab. 25. 
 
 Adolph Post, 
 
 a "Ritter" (knight), was a member of the "Reichs- 
 tag" of Minden in 1030, and 
 
 LuDwiG Post and Helnrich Post "^ 
 
 appeared in 1273 as witnesses to a deed by which sev- 
 eral mansions belonging to the Counts Gerhardt and 
 Johann of Holstein and Schaumburg were sold to 
 the Cloister or Abbey Marienbode near Hildesheim. 
 This Heinrich was progenitor of a prominent fam- 
 ily orthis surname, of which we shall have occasion 
 to refer only to the Goossen branch. Before we give 
 the history of that branch, it might be of interest to 
 follow the development of the other branches. 
 Heinrich Post's grandson, Walther Post, had, in 
 1399, land granted to him in Braunschweig, and 
 from him descended 
 
 General Herman Lothar, Freiherr Von Post, 
 
 who was of Bosfeld, Emsink and Bockholt, and mar- 
 ried the only daughter of Johann von Herdings and 
 Anna von Hoen. He died in 1674 on the field of 
 battle near Ensiskerin, Elsass, and in the Munster of 
 Strassburg can be found a magnificent monument to 
 his memory. His youngest son, 
 
Post Family. 3 
 
 William Moritz Von Post, 
 
 followed as Hessische Hofmarshall, etc., the Prin- 
 cess Leonore von Hessen, who afterward became 
 Queen of Sweden, to Stockholm, and was breveted 
 Colonel, in 1617. in the battle of Lansskrona. He 
 was founder of the Swedish line, while the Danish 
 line descends from one WOLTERUS DICTUS POST, with 
 armory: Azure, a lion rampant argent, and de- 
 scended also from the Schaumburg house, in 1337. 
 Holsteinske Documenter, Lex. over Ade- 
 lige Familier. 
 
 The eldest son of WILLIAM MORITZ VON POST, 
 
 George Arnold von Post, 
 
 "Herr zu Lude and Emsink, K. K. Danish Rittmeis- 
 ter, resided at Gloustrup, Jylland, Danemark, and 
 dying, in 1709, left son 
 
 I WARD VON Post, 
 
 of Lude, who left two sons, 
 
 I. Major Peter Lasson von Post, 
 of Broksoe, near Nestved, 
 and 
 Freiherr Ignaz Philip, 
 of Lude and Oldendorf, who married Wilhelmina, 
 Countess von Zedtwitz, who died in 1857. He died 
 1821, leaving son 
 
4 Post Family. 
 
 Col. Freiherr Joseph von Post, 
 born in 1803, of Oldendorf and Kurhessen, who, in 
 1 83 1, married Marie, Countess von Hardegg, born 
 in 1802, and with four daughters had a son, 
 
 Freiherr Maximilian von Post, 
 born in 1835. 
 
 I. Goossen Post,* 
 
 who is mentioned, in 1376, as one of the "anzienl- 
 ijkste Arnhemsche burgers," was a descendant of 
 Heinrich Post, who, in 1273, appears as a witness 
 to a deed, as referred to on previous page. 
 
 Arnhem is in that part of Netherland that is called 
 Gelderland. He had wife, Jantje Van Zul, a daugh- 
 ter of Peter Van Zul and Jane Rapalje, having issue: 
 
 Hist. Gen. de Rapalje, II., 63. 
 
 ^ I. Peter, of whom presently, 
 2. George, 
 
 * GOOSEN POST belonged to the most prominent citizens of 
 .'\rnlieim. With the consent of the latter, mayor, aldermen and 
 counsellors of the above city, resolved on Friday after St. Jacob's 
 Day. 1376: "That outside of the walls of the city (Arnheini) and 
 as far as the jurisdiction of the city extends, nobody should hence- 
 forth be allowed to erect houses or small farms." The document 
 is signed by: 
 
 Reinout Gijsbertsen. Hendrik van Renevy'k. 
 
 Godert van der W^erve. Kerstien Nedunck. 
 
 Wouter van der Lijirden. VVouter Kivit. 
 
 Johan van Giesen. Johan van Heme. 
 
 Albert van Giese. Engelbert Ryckens. 
 
 Diderick ven Have. Evert van Appeltere. 
 
 Wouter van Duren, Florken Zegers. 
 
 Henrick Becker. Evert van Blerssem. 
 
 Hendrick van Elden. Johan Pott. 
 
 GOOSSEN POST and Arnt van Meynersivijck. From 
 "Rietstap Heraldicke Bibliotheek III., p. 6." (The Hague. 1881.? 
 
Post Family. 5 
 
 II. Peter Post 
 had land in 1399 in or near Elspet, and appears to 
 have married Annatie Suydam, daughter of George 
 Suydam and Else Meyers, of ZwoUe (SwoUe), hav- 
 ing issue: 
 
 Jean le Carpentier Coll. 
 
 1. Peter Arnold, 
 
 2. George, 
 
 3- Jan. 
 
 Of these, it is said, that George emigrated to 
 England, settling down near Sandwich, Kent, about 
 1473, from where he went to Ulcomb, Co. Kent, be- 
 coming the progenitor of that branch of the family. 
 (His will, dated 1502, is in the archives of Canter- 
 bury.) See Appendix A. 
 
 Ibid Chartres Particulieres. 
 
 The grandnephew of this GEORGE PoST, Pax- 
 WELL/* "of Gudenarde, and Leyden," Holland, emi- 
 grated to Kent, also, marrying in the Dutch Church, 
 London, and his brother, Jan, had a daughter, Sarah, 
 who married in Maidstone, Kent, in 1607, to which 
 place the Ulcomb branch of the family had removed 
 shortly before. GEORGE POST, of Elspet andUlcomb, 
 Co. Kent, had with wife, Eleanor, son Thomas, who 
 had several sons, of which WILLIAM POST was of 
 Maidstone, Kent. 
 
 * The direct ancestor of Richard, of Southampton. 
 
6 Post Family. 
 
 III. Peter Arnold van der Poest, 
 born in 1500, married September 13, 1539, Mar- 
 ragrietje Bogert, daughter of Jan Bogert, and had 
 issue: 
 
 Ex. Archiv. S. Auberti. 
 
 I. Jan, who resided in Oudenarde, where he 
 married Sarah Van Tassell, and had daughter 
 Sarah, who married in Maidstone, Kent, Sep- 
 tember 15, 1607, Isaac Clerk. 
 
 Maidstone Rec. Dutch Church, Austin 
 Friars, London. 
 
 V 2. PanWELL, of whom presently, 
 
 IV. Panwel van der Poest 
 
 married, February 7, 1571, Susannah, daughter of 
 Abraham Van Gelder, and had issue: 
 
 Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London. 
 
 1. Abraham, bapt. Oct. 6, 1573, in London, 
 
 2. Sarah, bapt. Oct. 6, 1573, in London. 
 
 3. Susanna, bapt. Jan. 18, 1578, in London, 
 
 4. Jan, bapt. Nov. 5, 1579, of whom presently, 
 
 5. Arthur, bapt. Aug. 26, 1580, married Bennet 
 
 Lambe in Maidstone, Kent. 
 
 Of these, Jan van der Poest, of Oudenarde, mar- 
 ried, June 18, 1594, Tanneken van Mulken, of 
 Smerghen. 2d, as Jan Post, of Leyden, June 13, 
 
Post Family. 7 
 
 1596, Elizabeth de Cock, of Lokeren, and, 3d, Oct. 
 22, 1598, Sarah de Coninck, "of London," in the 
 Dutch Church, Austin Friars, having issue: 
 
 1. Joannes, bapt. Sept. 16, 1599, 
 
 2. David, bapt. Feb. 17, 1601, as son of J. de 
 Post, 
 
 3. Joannes, bapt. Aug. 22, 1624, 
 
 4. Samuel, bapt. July 30, 1626, 
 
 5. Elizabeth, bapt. Nov. 12, 1629. 
 
 Panwell van DER Poest was a "bezitter van 
 ijzersmelterijen (iron founder) in Oudenarde," and 
 had (with his first wife) "uit zijn eerste huwelijk, 
 dat met Tanneken van Haersolte, een zoon (one son) , 
 Jan Ludolf," who, evidently died young. 
 
 V. Arthur Post,* 
 
 born and baptized August 26, 1580, married, Feb- 
 ruary 2, 1 6 14, in Maidstone, Kent, Bennet Lambe, 
 daughter of Richard Lambe, and had issue: 
 
 1. Richard, born Feb. 4, 1617, of whom pres- 
 ently, 
 
 2. Stephen, born Nov. 27, 1618, 
 
 3. Panwell, born Sept. 3, 1619. 
 
 Lambert Coll., ix, 43. 
 
 * Arthur, calls himself Post like his ancestors, whilst his 
 
 father. Panwell, and grandfather, Peter Arnold, were van 
 
 der Poest. 
 
8 Post Family. 
 
 Arthur Post, in a deed dated June 14, 1644, "be- 
 ing of grete age," gives to "my cousin, Richard van 
 Mulken, ten pounds within six months; my second 
 son Stephen and his wife, Margaret, all my lands, 
 tenements and hereditaments in Estling, formerly 
 in the possession of my eldest son, Richard, being 
 now of New England or some parts beyond the seas, 
 Panwel, my youngest son, to have all my wearing 
 apparel." 
 
 Phillips Coll. Mss., in Mulken Gen. 
 Mss., XXII, 4. 
 
 The Richard Post, here referred to, I take to be 
 identical with 
 
 VI. Richard Post, 
 
 the early settler of Southampton, L. I., who had a 
 grant of land May, 1643, as no further records can 
 be found, as to the above RICHARD POST, of Maid- 
 stone, although both his brothers are mentioned as 
 having left issue. 
 
GERMANY. 
 
Post Family. 
 
 POST. 
 
 Post, a noble family of Lower Saxony, especially 
 from the bishopric of Paderborn; originally they 
 came from the county of Schaumburg, and accord- 
 ing to ancient printed and written documents it is 
 shown that some members were already greatly 
 esteemed in the times of Conrad Salico, the Roman 
 Emperor, on account of their special reputed qual- 
 ities. At least one of the family was already in olden 
 times a celebrated knight; he attended the Imperial 
 Diet in Minden, in 1030, together with Adolph von 
 Palingsleben, Von Bardeleben, Von Busch, etc. He 
 was named Adolph and all the VON POSTS derive 
 their noble descent from him. He had a son, named 
 Frederic, who was alive in 1026; he was in the 
 service of a Count Schaumburg and left an only son. 
 Only from the year 1272, when HENRY and LuDWIG 
 Post were living, authentical reports can be given. 
 These two went over to the city of Itzehoe in Danish 
 Holstein together with Gerhard and Johann, Counts 
 of Schaumburg, and there is yet a document of the 
 year 1272 attached by all the seals of the above-men- 
 tioned. According to that document, the Counts 
 made a donation of some domains to the Abbot of 
 Itzehoe. 
 
lO Post Fami/y. 
 
 All the Posts in existence to-day are, however, de- 
 rived from the above named Henry. He left as son 
 and heir his oldest son, RICHARD, who was an Im- 
 perial colonel and counselor, alive in 1363; he again 
 was followed by Johann, who signs as a witness in 
 1377, when Count Henry Sternberg and his son 
 Johann sold the earldom of Sternberg with all its 
 privileges to Otto, Count of Holstein-Schaumburg 
 and his heirs. 
 
 Johann Post married Mechtild, a daughter of 
 Adolph von Busche; his son, Walther POST, was 
 high-sheriff in Varenholtz; he was the first who re- 
 ceived grant of lands by Duke Frederic of Braun- 
 schweig and Luneburg in the year 1399; he mar- 
 ried Agnes Von Wend, who formerly was a baroness 
 Kratzenstein. Frederic von Post was a counsellor 
 of the Elector of Cologne and of Count Schaum- 
 burg; he had great quarrels with Philip, then Count 
 of Spiegelberg, and the brothers of FREDERIC POST, 
 above mentioned probably were Joachim-Werner, 
 Johann and Clans Post. 
 
 Werner, another son of Frederic Post, happily 
 brought the above-named controversies to an end. 
 He died in 1503. 
 
 Stantius Von Post married Catharine Von 
 Bahr, a daughter of Johann Bahr, counselor and 
 captain in the service of Mansfield Statius, received 
 confirmation of grant of the ancestral estates by 
 
Post Family. ii 
 
 Albert, Duke of Brunswick, in 1484, and by Henry, 
 Duke of Brunswick, in 1529. When he died, his sons 
 made the following partition of the inherited estates: 
 
 1. Joachim, the oldest son, received the estates 
 and castle of Holtensen, half a mile distant from 
 Hameln, hard by the frontier of Schaumburg; 
 further the domain of Boden-Enger in the county 
 of Schaumburg, and a farm and estate in the city of 
 Rinteln. 
 
 2. Werner received Oldendorfif. 
 
 3. JOHAXX received Buckenburg. 
 
 4. Nicholas obtained Luden in the bishopric of 
 
 Paderborn, and Postholtz. 
 
 From Joachim, above named, derive the branches 
 of POST-HOLTENSEN and PosT-RiNTELN. He was 
 a counselor at Brunswick-Luneburg and high- 
 sherifif of Uslar in Schaumburg. He died in 1577. 
 
 He founded a family vault in the church of Saint 
 Nicholas in Rinteln for his descendants, and there 
 is a document still in existence wherein the mayor 
 and the aldermen of Rinteln affirm this foundation 
 to the heirs of the POSTS. Among the signatures of 
 this document can also be found an Adolph VOX 
 PO.ST. 
 
 Joachim had two sons, Johanx, senior, and 
 Joachim ; they divided the estates anew. 
 
 Johanx received Holtensen, and JOACHIM ob- 
 tained Boden-Enger and the estates in Rinteln. 
 JOHAXX was hereditary lord of Holtensen and Post- 
 
12 Post Family. 
 
 holtz. He obtained confirmation of the estates and 
 concessions by various Dukes of Brunswick; some of 
 the estates, however, were disputed of him by his 
 relatives . He was married twice : 
 
 1. With Ilsa von Bardeleben, and 
 
 2. With Anna von Haselhorst. 
 
 His oldest son was JOHANN Dederik, who re- 
 ceived confirmation of grant of the inherited estates 
 by Duke Christian Ludwig, of Brunswick-Luneburg. 
 Another son was Statius-Frederic Vox Post, 
 counselor of Brunswick-Luneburg, high-sherifif, and 
 governor of the Institute for Noblemen in St. 
 Michael. He was born in 1607 and died in 1671. 
 He had the following children: 
 
 1. Agnes Elizabeth, born 1659. She was mar- 
 
 ried to Ernst-Christian Von StafYhorst, prin- 
 cipal master of the Hunt in Zell. She died 
 November 5, 171 8. 
 
 2. Christiax-Ludwig, born March 22, 1661, 
 died December 30, 1707. 
 
 3. August- Frederic, born 7 September, 1662, 
 died 1663. 
 
 Christiax-Ludwig was married to Dorothea- 
 Elizabeth von Reden. They had the follow- 
 ing children : 
 
 1. Eleoxora-Elizabeth, born January 9, 1689. 
 
 2. Frederic-Christian, died January 21, 1719. 
 
 3. Werxer-Ernst, died 1700. 
 
 4. August-Otto. 
 
Post Family. 13 
 
 5. Sophia-Amalia, born June 28, 1698, died 
 July 13, 1698. 
 
 6. Elizabeth-Juliana, born September 30, 
 
 1697, married February 14, 1726, to Henry 
 von Grote, Royal Great Britain and Han- 
 overian stateminister. 
 
 7. Dederik-William-Christian, born Decem- 
 
 ber 13, 1698, died September 3, 1700. 
 
 8. Ludwig-Christiax, born August 27, 1700. 
 
 9. Joachim-William, and 
 
 10. George-William, born 1707. 
 
 The branch of POST-LUDEX became extinct in 1672 
 with Bernhard, a grandson of NICHOLAS, above 
 named, and all the hereditary estates came legiti- 
 mately to Christian-Ludwig. 
 
 Joachim, junior, of the branch of PoST-RlNTE- 
 LEN, left WILLIAM-MORITZ, a colonel in the service 
 of Sweden. He married Catherina von Schilt and 
 they had various children. 
 
 The arms of the family of POST are: 
 Azure, a lion rampant, argent, crowned or. 
 
 Crest: A post, gules, before the post stands the 
 lion of the field, crowned as above; the post is sur- 
 mounted by three ostrich plumes, proper. 
 
 From the German of "Zedler's Grosses 
 Universal-Lexikon" (1741), vol. 
 XXVni, pp. 1788 to 1790. 
 
I^. Post Family. 
 
 POST. 
 
 GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWEDEN, ALSACE. 
 
 The Posts are noble, also are they barons. They 
 belong to the Bohemian nobility, too, as per a dip- 
 loma given to AUGUST Otto Von Post. Imperial 
 and Royal Austrian Captain in the Army. 
 
 The family comes originally from Lower-Saxony 
 and Westphalia, namely from the province of 
 Schaumburg. There is a tradition, but probably 
 mythical, that the house was existing already in 980. 
 At that time (it is claimed) there was a fortress by 
 the name of Nettelberg (later called Schaumburg). 
 The inhabitants had rioted against Emperor and 
 Empire, and therefore the fortified place was forci- 
 bly taken by storm by a certain nobleman, named 
 Von Palingsleben. The victor took possession of the 
 castle as the owner, who had heretofore lived there 
 lost his life during the siege. It is claimed also 
 that this conqueror became the ancestor of the Counts 
 of Schaumburg. He took up the Arms of Nettel- 
 berg, consisting of three nettle leaves, and the fort- 
 ress henceforth was called Schaumburg. He grant- 
 ed his own Arms, heretofore adopted by him, to the 
 Post family, members of which, at the siege and 
 capture of Nettelberg had assisted and prominently 
 distinguished themselves. 
 
Post Family. 15 
 
 Adolph Post, Knight, was at the Reichstag in 
 Minden, in 1030; LUDWIG and Heinrich POST ap- 
 pear documentary in 1273, namely as witnesses in a 
 contract, wherein Counts Gerhard and Johann von 
 Holstein and Schaumburg sell some estates to the 
 cloister Marienrode near Hildesheim. The uninter- 
 rupted descendance commences with HeinriCH 
 above named. His grandson was a certain "Wal- 
 THER.". He came to the land of Brunswick in the 
 XIV century, and continued the branch; the oldest 
 charter being dated "Grubenhagen, 1399." 
 
 It is claimed that the ancestor of all the actually 
 living Baron Posts was in the XXth generation. 
 
 Herman Lothar Baron Post, Lord of Bosfeld, 
 Emsinck and Bockholt, Imperial Royal Austrian and 
 also Spanish Colonel, further a General in the serv- 
 ice of Munster as also Upper-Sherifif of Trent. He 
 was married to the only daughter of Johann Von 
 Herding and Anna Von Hoen. He died in 1674 in 
 the camp at Ensisheim in Alsace. A most magnifi- 
 cent monument is erected to him in the Minster in 
 Strassburg, Alsace. His younger son, WILLIAM 
 MORITZ, was a Court Chamberlain at the Court of 
 Princess Leonore, of Hessen, who later on became 
 Queen of Sweden. He accompanied her to Stock- 
 holm, entered the Swedish service and was killed in 
 the battle of Landskrona, in 1617. (There is evi- 
 
1 6 Post Family. 
 
 dently an error of misprint in the dates, as it is impos- 
 sible that the father was killed in 1674 and the son 
 in 1617. Translator.) He was the founder of the 
 Swedish Branch. His oldest son, GEORGE ARNOLD, 
 died in 1709. He was Lord of Lude and Emsinck 
 a Royal Danish Captain of Horse. He continued 
 the branch and his successor was Erich Isvard 
 Post, Lord of Lude. His grandson was Baron 
 Ignatz Philip von Post, Lord of Lude and Olden- 
 dorf, proprietor of the estates-in-fee in Hanover and 
 Waldeck. He died anno 1821. He was married to 
 Wilhelmina Countess Zedtwitz of the house of 
 Schonbach. She died 1857. They had: 
 
 Baron Joseph, born 1803, Lord of the Estates-in- 
 Fee Oldendorf in the Electorate of Hessen ; also 
 proprietor of the formerly independent estate of 
 Ober-Puttgau in Lower-Styria, Imperial and Royal 
 Colonel in the Austrian army. He married, in 1831, 
 Mary, Countess Hartegg, born 1802. They again 
 had five daughters and one son: 
 
 Baron Maximilian, born 1835. 
 
 The oldest of the four daughters, 
 
 Mary, married, in 1862, Julius, Count of Attems, 
 Lord of Pragerhof in Lower Styria, Imperial and 
 Roval First Lieutenant in the Austrian armv- 
 
Post Family. ij 
 
 Bibliography. Compare the following sources: 
 Pfeffinger, vol. ii, p. 761. 
 Ganhe, vol. i, pp. 1595-96. 
 Zedler, vol. 28, p. 1788. 
 Svea Rikes Matrik, vol. i, pp. 546-7. 
 Megerle von Muhlfeld, supplement p. 
 
 88. 
 Wenck, Hessische Landes-Geschichte, 
 
 vol. III. Documents p. 242. 
 Freiherr von der Knesebeck, p. 229. 
 Freiherr von Ledebur, vol. 2, p. 220. 
 Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Frei- 
 
 herrlichen. 
 
 Hauser, 1854, pp. 384-386. 
 1861, XVI. 
 1864, P- 596. 
 
 Harenberg, Hist. Dipl. Gandersheim 
 Table 33, No. 1 1. 
 
 Von IVIeding, vol. i, pp. 445-446. 
 
 Wappenbuch des Konigreichs Hann- 
 over C 62, p. 12. 
 
 Kneschke Adels-Lexikon. 
 
 Von Hafner, Hannoverscher Adel pi. 25. 
 
 Taken from "Kneschke Adels-Lexikon, 
 vol. Vn, pp. 226-227, 1867. 
 
1 8 Post Family. 
 
 POST. 
 
 HANOVER. 
 
 The family is a very ancient one from Calenberg. 
 The family appears documentary already since 1272. 
 They are mentioned by Knesebeck and Grothe, but 
 recent genealogical works do not enumerate them 
 anymore. 
 
 Arms: Azure, a lion, rampant, argent crowned. 
 
 Crest: The lion of the field standing before a post, 
 azure, surmounted by ostrich plumes, proper. 
 Lambrequins: Argent and azure. 
 
 Siebmacher, "Der Adel in Hannover." 
 (1857) page 20, plate 23. 
 
HANOVER -PRUSSIA-HAMBURG 
 BREMEN- LUBECK. 
 
Post Family. 19 
 
 POST. 
 
 PRUSSIA. 
 
 An old noble family from Lower Saxony and 
 Westphalia actually having estates in Schaumburg, 
 bishopric of Munster and Luneburg. 
 
 Arms: Azure, a lion rampant, argent, crowned. 
 
 Crest: The lion of the field, standing before a post 
 or pillar, azure, surmounted by ostrich plumes, 
 proper. 
 
 Lambrequins: Argent and azure. 
 
 Siebmacher, "Der Adel in Preussen." 
 (1878) page 305, plate 358. 
 
20 Post Family. 
 
 POST. 
 
 HAMBURG, BREMEN, LUBECK. 
 
 Nobility of Hanover, very ancient, appears docu- 
 mentary, 1272. 
 
 Arms: In azure a lion argent, crowned. 
 
 Crest: The lion standing before a blue post or pil- 
 lar, surmounted by three ostrich plumes. 
 Lambrequins: Argent and azure. 
 There was a VON POST actually living in Bremen 
 in 1869. 
 
 Siebmacher, "Der Adel in Hamburg, 
 Bremen und Lubeck." (1870) page 
 17, plate 16. 
 
Pll.-.t. 
 
 HESSE. 
 
Post Family. 21 
 
 POST. 
 
 HESSE. 
 
 The Posts belong to the Knightage of Schaum- 
 burg. 
 
 Armes: Azure, a lion, rampant, argent. (Note. 
 The lion is not crowned.) 
 
 Crest: A post or column, surmounted by ostrich 
 plumes, proper, the lion standing before the post. 
 Lambrequins: Argent and azure. 
 
 See this family also under "Nobility of 
 Prussia." 
 
 Siebmacher, "Der Adel in Hessen." 
 (1859) page 22, plate 23. 
 
22 Post Family. 
 
 POST. 
 
 DENMARK, NORWAY AND SWEDEN. 
 
 From "Lexicon of Noble Families in Denmark 
 and Norway, vol. ii, page 85, published probably 
 end of XVIII century. 
 
 This is originally a family of Schaumburg, where- 
 of descendants appear variously in Holstein docu- 
 ments of the XI. and XII. centuries. On a document 
 of 1337 we meet a WOLTERUS POST (Walder) 
 named POST. 
 
 Arms: Azure, a lion at dexter, rampant, argent, 
 armed and tongued gules. 
 
 Crest: The lion of the field upon a casket, stand- 
 ing before a post or pillar, gules, crowned or, sur- 
 mounted by three peacock feathers, proper. 
 
 Compare plate XIV, No. 81. 
 
 In Denmark we meet with a captain (of horse) 
 George Arnold Von Post. He owned, in the 
 XVII. century, Glomstrup, in Zutland. His grand- 
 son was Major Peter Lasson Von Post, who owned 
 the estate Broksoe near Restved." — From the Danish. 
 
DEN MARK- NORWAY- SWEDEN 
 
Post Family. 23 
 
 VON POST. 
 
 SWEDEN. 
 
 In the year 1890 there was actually alive in 
 Sweden, an officer in the army by the name of VON 
 Post — Christian name not given. The family is of 
 German origin, was entered into Swedish nobility in 
 1664 by King Charles XI of Sweden, and again 
 proved noble descent in 1809. 
 
 From Fahlbeck "Sveriges Adel," Lund, 
 1898, p. 70. (Nobility in Sweden.) 
 
24 Post Family. 
 
 POST. 
 
 AUSTRIAN-SILESIA. 
 
 Bohemian Baronetage of 1739 for AUGUST OTTO 
 Vox Post, Captain in the Imperial Royal Army. 
 
 The above-named descended originally from an 
 old noble family of Lower Saxony and Westphalia. 
 He was, from 1744 to 1750, in the service of the 
 Prince-Bishop of Breslau as burgrave and castellan 
 of the palace and estate of Johannisberg. 
 
 Arms: Azure, a crowned lion, argent turned dex- 
 ter. 
 
 Crest:* Upon a torse, azure, argent, the lion of the 
 field standing before a shaft or post, azure, the post 
 is topped by a bunch of peacock plumes, proper. 
 
 Lambrequins: Azure, argent. 
 
 From Blazek, Der Adelvin Oester- 
 reichisch Schlesien (Siebmacher IV) 
 Nurnberg, 1885. Text page 59, plate 
 32- 
 
 * There is a discrepancy between the illustration and the text 
 —one descnbmg the lion of the crest on a torse (wreath) while the 
 illnstration has a crown. 
 
Posi:. 
 
 AUSTRIAN— SILESIA 
 
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 V 
 
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Post Family. 25 
 
 POST. 
 
 HOLLAND. 
 
 I. Post of Amsterdam. 
 
 Arms: Azure, a chief argent, charged by a 
 post-horn, sable, belt gules, buckles or, 
 
 II. Post of Lieden. 
 
 Arms: Argent, a cross sable, accosted in chief 
 by two bezants, sable. 
 
 III. Post of Holland generally, two families. 
 
 1. Arms: Azure, three gudgeons argent 
 
 put in pale (2, i ) . 
 
 Crest: A gudgeon, put in pale, head 
 downwards. 
 
 2. Arms: Azure, a chevron or, accosted by 
 
 three gudgeons, natant, argent, two 
 in chief, one in point. 
 
 IV. Post of Utrecht. 
 
 Arms: Azure, two pitch-forks argent, handles 
 sable, put in saltire, accompanied by three 
 swans, argent, two at the flanks, one in point. 
 
 V. Ten Post, Groningen. 
 
 Arms: Argent a post-horn, gules, buckles and 
 horn belt or, tied azure. 
 
 Rietstap, Armurial General, II, 473. 
 
26 Post Family. 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
 
 POST FAMILY OF HOLLAND. 
 
 Elizabeth Mary Post was born in 1735. 
 
 (This seems to be a mistake; compare below. I 
 think it should read 1755. Translator.) 
 
 In 1788 appeared by her, but anonymously, an 
 exceedingly clever work under the title: "Het 
 Land," (the country) in the form of letters, with an 
 introduction greatly in her favor, by A. van den Berg, 
 a minister in Arnhem. This story went through four 
 editions. A second work "Voor Eenzamen" (For 
 Solitaries) was soon after published. In this book 
 she gave her real name and also divulged the fact 
 that she was the author of "Het Land." Then fol- 
 lowed "Reinhart, of Natuur en Godsdienst" (Rein- 
 hart, or Nature and Religion) in three parts, plates 
 and portrait, Amsterdam, 1793, written in a simple, 
 and yet beautiful style. 
 
 Miss Post was already the favorite of the public 
 when she published (Rotterdam, 1793) : "Mijne 
 Kinderlijke Tranen" (My Childish Tears), wherein 
 she mourned the demise of her mother, as she had 
 mourned the death of her father in her "Vor Eenza- 
 men." 
 
Post Family. 27 
 
 In 1794 she married Mr. Overdorp, a clergyman 
 of Nordwijk. At that occasion was published her 
 "Gezangen der Liefde" (Songs of Love), Gron- 
 ingen, 1794. Then followed: Gezelschap en Een- 
 zamheid" (Society and Solitariness), Groningen; 
 "Het waar genot der Lebens" (The real Delight of 
 Life), in letter-form with plates. (Amsterdam, 
 1796.) 
 
 G. W. C. Starke "Tafereelen nit het huiselijk 
 leven," (Pictures from Domestic Life), translated 
 from the High-German, Amsterdam, 1804, 2 parts; 
 "Don Carlos, crown prince of Spain," translated 
 from the High-German of Schiller (Amsterdam, 
 royal 80) ; "Frederica Weisz and her daughters," 
 from the High-German (Amsterdam, 1806), and 
 finally: "Ontwaakte Zanglust" (Awakened Joy of 
 Song). The Hague, 1807. 
 
 In 1 8 10 were privately printed for her friends: 
 "Ter gedachtenis van mijnen waardigen broeder H. 
 H. Post, in 1809, to Demerara overleden." (In 
 memory of my worthy brother, H. H. POST, deceased 
 in Demerara in 1809.) 
 
 This is the brother she has formerly depicted in 
 her "Reinhard." 
 
 She died in Epe in 1812, aged 57. 
 
 Her portrait is engraved by Vinkeles. 
 
28 Post Family. 
 
 G. Post, a minor poet in the beginning of the i8th 
 century. He was yet alive in 1716. 
 
 H. Post was a poet in the first half of the i8th cen- 
 tury. He published in 1754: 
 
 "Lofoffer, toegenvijd aan het Pan Batavum van 
 A. van Halen." (Praise-Ofiferings, dedicated to the 
 Pan Batavum of A. van Halen.) 
 
 J AX Post was a son of Herman us Post and Eva- 
 RIXA van RiemSDIJK, born in Tiel, August 28, 1778. 
 He entered military service as a cadet of calvary in 
 1796, was appointed second-lieutenant in 1803 and 
 assigned to the Second Regiment of (Batavian) 
 Hussars in 1805. When Holland became a part of 
 the French Empire he entered the French service 
 as a Captain of Lancers of the Guard, and did not 
 return to his native country until 18 14. He was pro- 
 moted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the Regiment of 
 Hussars No. 6, and subsequently became Comman- 
 der of the Regiment of Cuirassiers No. 3. In 1826 
 he was promoted Major-General and charged with 
 the inspection of heavy Cavalry, and after the Bel- 
 gian Revolution he became Commander of the First 
 Brigade of Cavalry. In 1836 he was put in non- 
 activitity and pensioned three years later. 
 
 Post, in various ranks, took part in the following 
 expeditions: Northern Holland, 1806; Austria, 
 1805; Prussia, r8o6; Zealand, 1809, ^"d Russia, 
 18 1 2. He further was in Germany in the war of 
 
Post Family. 29 
 
 1813, wounded in the battle of Leipsic; France 
 1814; the Netherlands, 1815. 
 
 He was decorated with the order of the Legion of 
 Honor; the military order of William (3d class), 
 and the Order of the Netherlandish Lion. 
 
 General Post died in Utrecht, September 18, 
 1841. 
 
 H. Post, Engraver, lived in the first half of the 
 XVHI century. He was the artist, who, amongst 
 others, engraved the plate: 
 
 "The Clergy and Government, compelled to leave 
 Amsterdam in 1578." This picture was executed in 
 1728. He was also the engraver of a "New Map of 
 Gooiland," in copper. 
 
 Jan Post, a painter on glass in Haarlem. He died 
 there November 11, 1614. 
 
 He was the father of FranS PosT and PlETER 
 Post, who follow: 
 
 Frans Post, son of Jan Post, above, brother of 
 PlETER Post, who follows, was born towards 1620 in 
 Haarlem. 
 
 (There is another discrepancy, as the father died 
 in 1614, the son naturally could not have been born 
 in 1620. This is probably a misprint for 1600. 
 Translator.) 
 
30 Post Family. 
 
 He became acquainted, through his brother, with 
 Prince Maurice, who, in 1637, took him along to 
 the West Indies, where he sketched and painted 
 many landscapes, and also the customs and manners 
 of the inhabitants. He returned with the Prince in 
 1644, and adorned, in 1668, the palace of Rijksdorp 
 near Wassenaar with some paintings of the above 
 subject. Another large picture by his brush was to 
 be seen in Honsholredijk. 
 
 In 1816 eighteen pictures by him were sold at an 
 auction in Haarlem by Vincent van der Vinne; all 
 of them West Indian landscapes. 
 
 It is reliably stated that Frans Post was buried 
 in the Great Church of Haarlem, February 17, 1680. 
 
 His portrait is variously taken. There exists a 
 drawing by Cornells Visscher; a painting of him by 
 Frans Hals; an engraving by J. Suyderhof. 
 
 PiETER Post, son of Jax Post, was a celebrated 
 architect. He was born in Haarlem in 1608. 
 
 He became a favorite of Count Johan Maurice, 
 and accompanied him in his e.xpedition to Brazil, 
 where he erected the churches and principal build- 
 ings in Olinda, and also constructed the fortress and 
 some houses in Maurits-stad (Fernambuco) . 
 
 Returning to his native country he erected also 
 various excellent edifices, for instance, the palace of 
 Zwanenburg, near the ferry in Haarlem; the City- 
 
ARMS OF I'ETHR POST, IHE FAMOUS ARCHITECT OF 
 HENRY OF NASSAU. 
 
Post Family. 3 1 
 
 Hall of Maastricht (1659-63); the Public Stores 
 (Scales) in Gouda; Castle Vredenburgh, in North 
 Holland; Prince Maurice House in The Hague; 
 Orange-Hall in the House in the Bush, The Hague, 
 etc., etc. 
 
 He was appointed architect and painter to his 
 Highness Prince Frederic-Henry, whose funeral he 
 depicted in 29 plates, Amsterdam, 1655. He wrote 
 books on Architecture, published Leiden, 1715, and 
 was also favorably known as a painter. 
 
 His residence was at the Amsterdam Wharves in 
 The Hague, where he must have died in or before 
 1669, as his books, plates, prints, etc., were sold there 
 on December 17, 1669. 
 
 His daughter was married to Fredericus Ruysch. 
 
 Tobias Post, navigating officer of Adriaan De 
 Haese, Admiral of our fleet. 
 
 He distinguished himself in the war with England 
 in 1672, and when Haese was killed at a naval battle, 
 his successor, Du Bois, promoted PoST Captain of 
 the fleet. 
 
 J. Post was an author. He published works in 
 Amsterdam in 1734. 
 
 P. Post wrote some poetical pieces, last half of 
 the XVI n century. 
 
 Sebastian Post, portraitist, born in Tiel in 1777. 
 He gave drawing lessons in Nijmegen. 
 
32 Post Family. 
 
 Margaretha Van den Post was the mother of 
 the Bastards Filip and David, Counts of Burgundy, 
 both later celebrated bishops of Utrecht. 
 
 Johannes Robertus Post (Bran Post), por- 
 trait painter, born April i, 1811, in The Hague. 
 His master was C. Kruseman. PoST emigrated to 
 Curacao, 1843, where, in 1848, he was yet a success- 
 ful portraitist. 
 
 Translated from the Dutch of "Von Der 
 Aa, Biographisch Woordenboek der 
 Nederlanden," vol. HI, pp. 130-131. 
 
 (From the Latin, "Astor Lby., N. Y.") 
 The following persons by the name of POST 
 studied at the University of Leyden, Holland: 
 
 From "Album Studiosorum Acad. Lugd. Batav., 
 1575-1875, The Hague, 1875," or in English, "Al- 
 bum of the Students of Leyden University, 1575- 
 1875." 
 
 Page 309 anno 1639. Bastiaen Post, aged 15, 
 
 "Famulus." 
 
 " 1416 " 1869. David Post, native of Am- 
 sterdam, 25 years old, 
 studied Theology. 
 
 " 1071 " 1761. Janus Post, native of 
 
 Rotterdam, aged 23, 
 studied Medicine. 
 
Post Family. 33 
 
 Page 1309 anno 1836. Jaxus Post, native of 
 
 Vlardinghen, aged 18, 
 studied Medicine. 
 
 " 1 141 " 1782. Johannes Cornelius 
 
 Post, born in Leyden, 
 aged 14, studied ? 
 
 " 1326 " 1 841. Petrus Post-Uiterweer, 
 
 native of Schiedam, 
 aged 19, studied Laws. 
 
 " 1422 " 1 871. Petrus Abel Post-Uiter- 
 
 WEER, native of Schie- 
 dam, 29 years old, stud- 
 ied Law. 
 
 " 1 1 12 " 1773. Cornelis Van der Post, 
 
 native of Leyden, aged 
 30- 
 
 " 1267 " 1825. Petrus Abraham Van 
 
 DER HOEVEN PoST, born 
 in Schiedam, 17 years 
 old, studied Theology 
 and Literature. 
 
 Note. — This is arranged alphabetically by Chris- 
 tian names, just as found in the above authority. 
 
34 P<J^i Family. 
 
 Coat of Arms, black and white, 
 OF 
 
 JOHANN POST, Med. Doctor, 
 
 HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, 
 He lived towards 1570. 
 
 Arms: A rider, blowing a horn (Postilion) upon 
 a tertre. 
 
 Crest: A posthorn before three ostrich plumes. 
 
 A'^. B. — The colors are unknown. 
 
 From Siebmacher "Patrician Families," 
 part I, p. 53, plate 74. 
 
l^o^t . 
 
 ARMS OF DR JOHAN POST 
 HEIDELBER& /570. 
 
EN GLAN D 
 
Post Family. 35 
 
 POST. 
 
 ENGLAND. 
 
 George Post, son of Peter Post and Axxatie 
 SUYDAM (see page 5) left Holland to settle in Eng- 
 land, where his descendants are to this day. 
 
 George Post settled near Sandwich, Kent, about 
 1473, from whence he went to Ulcomb Co., Kent. 
 His will, dated 1502, is in the archives of Canter- 
 bury. 
 
 (See Appendix A). 
 
 It was not the direct descendants of George Post 
 who came to New England in 1633-34, but those of 
 his great-nephew Panwell. This nephew followed 
 the example of his great-uncle and left Holland to 
 settle in Kent (Maidstone). See page 5.) 
 
 The Coat of Arms on opposite page is that of 
 George Post's descendants. They bore arms : "Or, 
 a fesse azure." Crest: "On a chapeau, azure, turned 
 up ermine, a demi eagle, wings expanded, beaked, 
 azure." 
 
36 Post Family. 
 
 COATS OF ARMS and CRESTS. 
 Armorial Bearings. 
 
Post Family. 37 
 
 Armorial Bearings. 
 
 In examining the various POST coats of arms, it 
 is noticeable that those of Leiden, in Holland, vary 
 in every respect from the others, keeping no single 
 distinctive part of the original or German arms. All 
 the others have the azure, or the ostrich feathers, or 
 the play on the word POST with a post, or posthorn. 
 
 The Arms of Hanover, Prussia, Hamburg, Bre- 
 men and Lubeck are exactly like the original Ger- 
 man, with the lions crowned on arms and crests, and 
 the ostrich feathers on crest, but the color of the post 
 on the crest is different, azure in the original. Gules 
 (red) in the others. 
 
 The Arms of Hesse, Denmark, Norway and 
 Sweden, have the lions uncrowned, and the same dif- 
 ference in the colors of the posts, Hesse being azure 
 and the others gules, but Hesse retains the ostrich 
 feathers, while Denmark, Norway and Sweden have 
 adopted peacock feathers on the crest, and the post 
 is crowned instead of the lion. 
 
 In the arms of Holland are found the azure, but 
 the play on the word post is shown in posthorn and 
 postilions, instead of a column.* 
 
 In England they kept the azure in the fesse of the 
 shield. 
 
 * Since writing the above I have ascertained that there is a 
 species of fish called Pos in Dutch. Hence the presence of the 
 Pos or fish on the Dutch coats of arms. Several of the Posts who 
 first came to New Amsterdam spelled the name Pos. See page 46. 
 
38 Post Family. 
 
 Whether Panwell Post, of Leiden, greatnephew 
 of George Post (founder of the English branch), 
 who also settled in England, carried his uncle's arms 
 or those of the Leiden family, to which he was prob- 
 ably entitled, does not appear from the records. 
 
 None of these arms or crests, as far as can be as- 
 certained, were ever carried by any of the POSTS who 
 settled in America. 
 
 These emigrants, the majority of whom fled from 
 religious persecution, thought only of joining a 
 colony where each man brought the simple worth of 
 his individual work. All class distinctions were left 
 behind. It is pretty nearly certain that the Richard, 
 of Southampton, hereinafter referred to, never car- 
 ried a crest. 
 
 Many of RiCHARD POST'S descendants became 
 Quakers, the tenets of whose faith inspire still greater 
 dislike to aristocratic emblems. For five genera- 
 tions the Posts lived in their new country satisfied 
 with competency or wealth acquired in mercantile 
 or agricultural pursuits, or occupying with credit 
 official positions to which they were elected, unam- 
 bitious of carrying armorial bearings. 
 
 There is, therefore, no record of any arms having 
 been carried by the family in America until the be- 
 ginning of the 19th century. 
 
Post Family. 39 
 
 About that time the descendants of JOTHAM POST, 
 in New York, carried and placed upon certain pieces 
 of family silver a coat of arms which has been gen- 
 erally adopted by those of the name. (See frontis- 
 piece) 
 
 The origin of these armorial bearings is uncertain. 
 They are identical, save in the colors of the lions, 
 with the arms of the Poston family, of England, 
 which are described in "Burke's General Armory," 
 and also in ''Fairbank's Crests," (vol. i, 362), as: 
 "Argent, on a fesse between three arches, gules, a lion 
 passant or, inter two bezants." 
 
 Crest: "A demi-lion or, supporting an arch gules." 
 
 Whether the name Poston derived its origin from 
 the Posts of Germany and Holland, we are unable 
 to say. The family seems to be extinct, and searches 
 in England throw no light upon the matter. 
 
 From the striking similarity it is presumed that 
 both are derived from the same source. 
 
 It is probable that the arms, almost similar to the 
 Postons, were not assumed, nearly one hundred years 
 ago, by the POSTS of America without authority. 
 What that authority was it is impossible to say after 
 the lapse of so many years. For four generations 
 they have been used and accepted by the New York 
 branch of the POST family, and will be found upon 
 all of their old family silver, books, etc., etc. 
 
40 Post Family. 
 
 They are registered in the College of Heraldry, 
 of New York, as : 
 
 Arms: "Argent, on a fesse gules a lion passant be- 
 tween two roundels of this first between three arches 
 with columns of the second." 
 
 Crest: "A demi lion p. p. r. tongued gules resting 
 his sinister paw on an arch with colums gules." 
 
 Motto: "In me mea spes omnis." 
 
 (See frontispiece) . 
 
Post Family. 41 
 
 HERALDIC TERMS USED IN CONNEC- 
 TION WITH THE POST ARMS: 
 
 Or. gold, indicated by hatched points f-'-^ 
 
 Argent, silver, indicated by plain white | | 
 
 Gules, red, indicated by vertical lines 
 
 Azure, blue, indicated by horizontal lines. . . .^H 
 
 Sable, black, indicated by lines in squares, ^^ 
 horizontal and vertical M 
 
 Proper or p. p. r. natural color. 
 
 Dexter, right. Sinister, left. 
 
 Fesse or fess, a strip placed horizontally across the 
 middle of the shield. It takes up about a third of 
 the shield. 
 
 Chevron (cauterius) from its resemblance to the 
 main rafters or principals of a roof. 
 
 Saltire (sautoir) is known as the cross of St. An- 
 drews ^ 
 
 Cross, (croix, crux). In heraldry is usually the 
 Greek cross, or that of equal arms — |— 
 
42 Post Family. 
 
 Lion rampant. Lion standing as if climbing. 
 
 Lion passant. Lion walking, passing. 
 
 Roundel. If of metal is a simple disk. If "or" it 
 is convex, half a globe. It is named especially from 
 its color. "Or" (gold) a "bezant from a coin of that 
 name in the East. Sable, "a pellet;" Argent, a 
 "Plate;" Azure, a "Hurt;" Gules, a "Torteau." 
 Although bezants, plates, hurts, torteaux, are given 
 in early rolls of arms, their names do not always 
 carry their color. They are blazoned as "roundels 
 d'or, pelottes d'argent." 
 
 The pellets often stand for the roundels. 
 Chief. Upper third of the shield. 
 Put in Pale. Upright in the middle line of shield. 
 Put in Saltire. Put as the St. Andrews cross. . .)x( 
 The above are Heraldic figures. 
 
 Beasts, birds, fishes, etc., on shields are called 
 Charges. When marked or placed on shields; 
 "three arches" — or "three swans, etc., 2-1," it means 
 r\vo in chief, on the upper third of the shield and one 
 
 at the point Yj\ 
 
 "Two in pale" would be one over the other and 
 upright. 
 
 "Two swans or other device in flank and one in 
 point," means one on each side of the middle third 
 
 of the shield and one at the point, thus : [T^ 
 
Post Family. 43 
 
 The Shield is considered divided in three parts. 
 
 The husband and wife's arms joined are called 
 'impaled." 
 
 Crests. 
 
 Strictly speaking, the armorial bearings are con- 
 fined to the contents of the shield; and heralds have 
 never regarded the appendages as of the same im- 
 portance. These include whatever is borne outside 
 the shield, as the crest, badge, motto, supporters, 
 helmet, etc. 
 
 The crest was the ornament of the head-piece, and 
 offered protection against a blow. In early rolls of 
 arms it is not noticed. In early seals when it appears 
 it is rarely heraldic. 
 
 With the crest is usually combined some flowing 
 drapery, known as panache, mantling or lambrequin, 
 
44 Post Family. 
 
 Helmets. 
 
 The helmet indicates the rank of the wearer. It 
 is placed above the shield and beneath the crest. 
 The sovereign and the royal family bear the helmet 
 full faced with six bars, all of gold. 
 
 Those of dukes or marquises are of gold with five 
 steel bars. The lesser nobles have silver helmets 
 borne in profile with gold ornaments and four silver 
 bars. 
 
 Those of baronets and knights are of steel, full 
 faced and open. 
 
 An Esquire's helmet is of steel represented in pro- 
 file with visor closed. 
 
Post Faiuily. 45 
 
 At the risk of much reiteration I have given on 
 the preceding pages all the genealogical and biog- 
 raphical information from European sources con- 
 cerning the Post family, which I thought would 
 prove of interest. It will be seen that it originated 
 in Germany. From there it branched out into 
 Sweden, Denmark, Bremen (where there are VON 
 Posts to-day), Hamburg, Lubeck, Prussia, Hesse, 
 Hanover, Alsace, Holland, England, and I believe 
 into Switzerland. 
 
 From Holland and England, POSTS came to New 
 Amsterdam and Massachusetts, and the descendants 
 of these early Dutch and English settlers have now 
 carried the name into almost every part of the 
 United States. 
 
 The Richard Post, son of Arthur Post, men- 
 tioned in his father's will as "my eldest son, Richard, 
 being now of New England or some parts beyond 
 the seas" (see page 8), was one of the first settlers 
 (1640) of Southampton, known in its records as 
 Lieut. Richard Post. It is his history, and that 
 of his descendants, which concerns us the most, as 
 he was the ancestor of JOTHAM POST, — but before 
 proceeding with Richard's history it would be of 
 interest to many to read the information procured 
 concerning the other POST immigrants of those early 
 times, from whom are descended so many of that 
 name. 
 
46 Post Family. 
 
 The Dutch Posts of New Amsterdaim. 
 
 Bolton's "History of Westchester County," vol. II, 
 (Yonkers). mentions several POSTS, among others, 
 -Martlx Post, "Washington's faithful guide," and 
 in his Appendix A is the genealogy of POSTS of Yon- 
 kers "who came from Holland." 
 
 Mrs. AJartha J. Lamb, in her history of New York 
 City, states that "Governor Minuit organized the 
 province as soon as he had obtained the title deed 
 to Manhattan Island, May 6, 1626, . . . with an 
 advisory council of five of the best men in the col- 
 ony," one of whom was SiMOxX Dercksen Pos. (In 
 the early records the names Pos and POST were both 
 used also PoAST and PosTE.) 
 
 In the Memorial History of New York, by James 
 Grant Wilson, it is stated that SiMOX DiRKSOX Pos 
 vv-as one of five councilors that came over from Hol- 
 land with Governor Minuit on the ship Sea Mew. 
 
 LUDOWICK Pos is mentioned in the N. Y. Gene- 
 alogical and Historical Magazine, vol. V, p. ii;i. 
 On page 180 is LuDOWiCK Post and AxiETjE. In 
 vol. VIII, p. 26, is Anietje Post (April 7, 1672). 
 
 Tunis G. Bergen, in his work, "The Early Settlers 
 of Kings County, N. Y." (p. 228), and in the Docu- 
 mentary History of N. Y. (pp. 659-660), says that 
 William Post (or Pos) took the oath of allegiance 
 in 1687 3S a native, and of New York. 
 
Post Family. 47 
 
 Tunis G. Bergen gives some of his children, viz.: 
 
 1. William, born July 20, 1680. 
 
 2. AgneTJI, born February 7, 1683. 
 
 3. Barbara, born February 21, 1689. 
 
 4. Janetje, born April 17, 1698. 
 
 This group appears in the census of Hemstead, 
 Long Island, in 1698. They probably moved and 
 settled there, just before Jeremiah and Richard 
 Post (of the English POSTS) came to Hempstead 
 from Southampton.* These Dutch POSTS left 
 Hempstead and settled in New Jersey. WILLIAM'S 
 will was administred in Perth Amboy in 1724. 
 
 In a magazine article ("Our Home," Somerville, 
 New Jersey, 1873, p. 462), the same writer says that 
 Themis and William Post, ... of the vicinity of 
 the Raritans in 1707, and JOHANNES PoST, of Mon- 
 mouth County, were probably sons of William Post 
 above mentioned. And in his "Early Settlers," p. 
 228, he says that the first William was probably a 
 son of Captain Adrain Post, an early immigrant, 
 who finally settled in Bergen, New Jersey. 
 
 In "Liber 3, deeds," in the State House, in Tren- 
 ton, New Jersey, p. 5, is a record of the fact that 
 Captain Adrian Post took the oath of allegiance 
 as a citizen of Bergen, November 22, 1665. 
 
 * Of Jeremiah and Richard we give the history later among the de- 
 scendants of Lieutenant Rich.\rd Post. 
 
48 Post Family. 
 
 Some records of the Dutch POSTS can be found in 
 the records of the old Dutch church in the "Gene- 
 alogical History of New York," at the Lenox Li- 
 brary. The following names are from the list of 
 church members, and their residences in 1686, kept 
 by the Rev. Henricus Selyns, pastor of the Dutch 
 Reformed Church. 
 
 Meretje Cornelius h. v. van Elias Post, 
 living Breede Weg (Broadway). 
 
 Agnetje Bouen h. v. Ludowick Post, 
 living Heeren Gracht (West Zide), (Broad Street, 
 West Side). 
 
 In Dutch records, the initials "h. v. van," means 
 
 "Wife of." 
 
 It was to New Jersey that most of the Dutch PoSTS 
 of New Amsterdam seem to have removed, and from 
 there to have sent branches back into New York State 
 in the counties of Westchester and Warwick. Not 
 only in Trenton are to be found their records, but 
 also in Hackensack and Schraalenburg. Here in 
 New Jersey, among others, is the name of GarriT 
 Post. Later we find in Warwick County, New 
 York, the following POSTS. 
 
 Col. Garret Post, born in Warwick County, New 
 York, died there March 12, 1825; married June 7, 
 1782, Martinche Bertolf. Col. PoST was the son of 
 Major Jacobus Post, a revolutionary soldier. 
 
Post Family. 49 
 
 Col. Garret Post commanded the 30th Regiment 
 of the 19th Brigade of Infantry, in the war of 1812 
 (see p. 630 of Military papers of Gov. Daniel D. 
 Tompkins, of New York, 1807-17, published 1898.) 
 
 Col. Garret Posts's son, Peter Schuyler Post, 
 of Florida, Orange County, New York, was born in 
 Warwick County, New York, August 15, 1795,* and 
 was a soldier in the war of 1812 and later Brigadier 
 General of New York militia. 
 
 The son of General Peter Schuyler Post was 
 General Philip Sidney Post, whose brilliant record 
 in the civil war is as follows: 
 
 ^General Philip Sidney Post, born in Florida, 
 Orange County, New York, March 19, 1833, was 
 graduated from Union College in 1855, and after- 
 ward studied law and was admitted to the bar. 
 
 He then traveled through the North-West and 
 lived in Kansas, where he practised law and estab- 
 lished a newspaper. At the opening of the Civil 
 War he was chosen Second Lieutenant in the 59th 
 Illinois infantry, and in 1862 became its Colonel. 
 He was severely wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge, 
 and made his way, with much sufifering, to St. Louis. 
 
 * Genera! Peter Schuyler Post died in Galesburg, III, September 
 5, 1861. He married, June 21, 1820, Marv D. Coe, daughter of Hon. 
 John D. Coe. 
 
 t Appleton's Cyclopaedia America Biography, vol. V, p. 84. 
 
50 Post Family. 
 
 Before fully recovering he joined his regiment in 
 front of Corinth, Mississippi, and was assigned to 
 command of a brigade. From May, 1862, to close 
 of war, he was constantly at the front. In the Army 
 of the Cumberland, as first organized, he com- 
 manded the first brigade, first division of the 20th 
 Army Corps, from its formation to its dissolution. 
 He began the battle of Stone River, drove back the 
 enemy several miles, and captured Leetown. 
 
 During Atlanta campaign he was transferred 
 to Wood's Division of the 4th Army Corps, and when 
 that General was wounded at Lovejoy's Station, POST 
 took charge of the division, and with it opposed the 
 progress of the Confederates toward the North. On 
 November 16, 1864, in a charge on Overton Hill, a 
 grape shot crushed through his hip, making what for 
 some time was supposed to be a mortal wound. On 
 December 16, 1864, he was brevetted Brigadier- 
 General of Volunteers. After the surrender at Ap- 
 pomattox, he was appointed to the command of the 
 western district of Texas, where there was then a con- 
 centration of troops at the Mexican border. He re- 
 mained till 1866, when the withdrawal of the French 
 from Mexico removed all danger of military com- 
 plications. 
 
 In 1866 he was appointed U. S. Consul at Vienna, 
 and in 1874 Consul-General. His official reports 
 have been quoted as authority. In 1878 he tendered 
 
Posi Family. 51 
 
 his resignation, which was not accepted until 1879. 
 He then resided at Galesburg, 111., and in 1886 was 
 elected to Congress as a Republican. 
 
 Was Department Commander to G. A. R. 
 
 General POST married, May 24, 1866, CORNELIA 
 Almira Post, daughter of Hon. William Town- 
 send Post, member of the Assembly; great-grand- 
 daughter of Col. Garret Post. 
 
 The children of General Philip Sidney Post are: 
 
 Harrietts Helena Post. 
 
 Philip Sidney Post, Jr. 
 
 William Schuyler Post. 
 
 John Coe Post. 
 
 The name, Garret Post, is spelled in various ways 
 in the Hackensack records published by the Holland 
 Society, pp. 161, 198, 209, 214. It is given as GerriT^ 
 Gerrid and Gerret. . In Governor Tompkins' pa- 
 pers it is spelled Garrit Post. Appleton's Cyclo- 
 poedia American Biography has it GARRET POST, so 
 also has "American Ancestry," vol. IX, p. 40. 
 
52 Post Family. 
 
 Posts from England. 
 
 We have seen by a deed of ARTHUR POST, of 
 Maidstone, Kent, drawn June 14, 1644, that he gives: 
 . . . "my second son, STEPHEN, and his wife, MAR- 
 GARET, all my lands, tenements and hereditaments 
 in Estling, formerly in the possession of my eldest 
 son, Richard, being now of New England or some 
 parts beyond the seas." 
 
 Now there were in New England (at the time the 
 deed was drawn) Richard Post and a Stephen 
 Post, whom it was natural to suppose were brothers, 
 as they emigrated about the same time. The above 
 extract, however, from ARTHUR POST'S deed or will, 
 shows his son STEPHEN, RICHARD'S younger brother, 
 was at home. 
 
 According to a comparison of dates, Richard 
 Post, born February 4, 1617, was twenty-seven years 
 old when his father disinherited him in 1644, and his 
 brother, STEPHEN, eighteen months younger. 
 
 The STEPHEN Post of whom we are about to speak 
 was in Cambridge (Newtown) in 1634, and was then 
 father of a family, one at least of his children hav- 
 ing been born in England. This Stephen, then, so 
 much older than our Richard, must have been a 
 cousin, or perhaps an uncle. It is natural to suppose 
 they were nearly related. This STEPHEN is the pro- 
 genitor of those generally called the Connecticut 
 Posts, and we will give his history before beginning 
 that of Richard, whose history and that of one 
 branch of his descendants is the object of this work. 
 
Post Family. 53 
 
 The Posts of Connecticut. 
 
 Stephen Post. 
 
 The following account of STEPHEN POST is from 
 notes collected with great care by one of his descend- 
 ants, the late Mr. WILLIAM A. POSTE (who kept the 
 terminal e to his name), at one time Deputy Attor- 
 ney-General of the State of New York.* 
 
 "There are in the United States, both Connecticut 
 Posts and Long Island PoSTS.i' The former are 
 descendants from STEPHEN POST, of Saybrook; the 
 latter have for their common progenitor RICHARD 
 Post, who was at Southampton, Long Island, about 
 1640. 
 
 "It is the natural supposition that STEPHEN, of 
 Saybrook, and RICHARD, of Southampton, were 
 brothers, but there is no proof to be found in any 
 known records that sustain this theory. There is a 
 vague tradition that there were two or even three 
 brothers of the name, who came from England to 
 America at about the same time. STEPHEN POST'S 
 
 * I am greatly indebted to the widow of Mr. PoSTE for kindly allow- 
 ing me to copy all his notes. I print them as they were written by him, 
 and am not responsible if there are any errors. I verified nothing by 
 documentary research, as Mr. Poste had already done so, and my work 
 lay in the history of Richard Post, and not of Stephen Post. 
 
 M. C. P. 
 
 t Mr. Poste seems to ignore the Posts descended from the Dutch 
 Posts, of New Amsterdam. JM. C. P. 
 
54 Post Family. 
 
 name appears for the first time in America in the list 
 of freemen of Newtown, now Cambridge, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1634.* He had certainly four children: 
 John, born 1627; Catherine, Thomas and Abra- 
 ham. 
 
 "The family is of English origin pure and simple. 
 The suggestions or surmises of German, Scotch, 
 Dutch or Welsh descent are utterly unfounded and 
 unwarranted by any facts whatever.''' 
 
 "Among the Canterbury archives is recorded the 
 will of George Post, of Ulcombe, Kent, who died 
 in 1504. He had many desecndants, and some of 
 them are in Kent^^^ to this day. The name is spelled 
 in England both with and without a terminal "^". 
 The writing of the name with the unnecessary letter 
 finds some precedents in the old records. Such 
 records were, however, engrossed at a time when 
 words were written with a terminal "f", long since 
 discarded. 
 
 * From Pratt's History of Cambridge, Mass. "Post, Stephen, 
 (otherwise Po.^st) owned house and twelve acres of land on south 
 side of river, 1635. He removed with Hooker to Hartford, where he 
 was constable, 1641. Some of the family moved down the river." 
 (Quotes Hinman). 
 
 t Again ]Mr. Poste was ignorant of the German origin of the family, 
 as shown by the documents that introduce the work, the results of 
 more recent investigation. 
 
 tt An additional corroboration of Richard Post, being a near rela- 
 tion of Stephen is that Stephen came from Kent, and the fellow 
 colonists of Richard to Southampton were mostly Kentish men. At 
 any rate, in Howell's History of Southampton, it says : 
 
 ■'That they were men of intelligence is seen in their free charter, 
 their just laws, and liberal institutions. They secured in their patent, 
 land tenure by gavelkind (Blackston, 24) which had from time im- 
 memorial prevailed in the county of Kent, in England." 
 
Post Family. 55 
 
 "Stephen Post was a member of the congrega- 
 tion of the Reverend Thomas Hooker, of Chelms- 
 ford, Essex. Hooker was a noted non-conformist 
 minister. He was compelled by the persecution of 
 the government to partake himself to Holland in 
 1620-30. 
 
 "Many of his people then came to this country. 
 Soon after their arrival they sent word to him to 
 come to them. With about two hundred of his 
 former congregation, he came over in the 'Griffin,' 
 and landed in Massachusetts September 4, 1633. It 
 is not certain whether STEPHEN POST was of the first 
 or second party, but probably of the latter. 
 
 "For some reason or other, Mr. Hooker and his 
 people migrated in a body, in 1635 or 1636, from 
 Massachusetts Bay southwesterly to the Connecticut 
 River. They founded the city of Hartford in 1636. 
 Stephen Post was one of the original proprietors. 
 
 "In 1649 he sold his land at Hartford to one 
 Thomas Gridley, and removed to Saybrook, where 
 he spent the remainder of his life until his death, 
 August 16, 1659. 
 
 "It is probable that all the children, except ABRA- 
 HAM, the youngest, were born in England. The 
 name of STEPHEN Post's wife is not known with cer- 
 tainty. It is supposed that an entry in the Saybrook 
 records relates to her, viz.: 'Ellenor Post de- 
 parted this life November 13, 1670.' 
 
56 Post Family. 
 
 "John and Thomas, sons of Stephen Post, were 
 among the first settlers of Norwich, Connecticut. 
 Abraham, the youngest son of Stephen, remained 
 at Saybrook. CATHARINE, daughter of STEPHEN 
 Post, was married to Alexander Chalker in Septem- 
 ber, 1649.* 
 
 "In May, 1680, ABRAHAM POST, son of STEPHEN, 
 was appointed Lieutenant in command of the Say- 
 brook fort. In 1685 he was deputy to the Assembly. 
 He died in 1690. Little is known of his wife, save 
 that her name was Mary. Abraham and Mary 
 Post had eleven children, most of whom remained 
 in Saybrook. STEPHEN, the eldest, removed to what 
 is now the town of Hebron, Connecticut (to lands 
 given to ABRAHAM POST by the will of the Indian 
 Sachem Uncas), in the year 1707 or 1708. He had 
 a numerous family. His descendants for a genera- 
 tion more or less remained in the vicinity of Hebron. 
 Oliver Post his grandson, removed in the early 
 part of the century to Hinesburg, Vermont. Hence 
 his sons emigrated westward^-OLlVER to Northern 
 New York; STEPHEN and JOSEPH to Ohio, then to 
 Indiana, and Iowa. Alson, the youngest, alone re- 
 mained in Hinesburg." 
 
 To the above records should be added the follow- 
 ing: "John Post, eldest son of Stephen Post, 
 
 * For an account of them see Miss Caulking's History of Norwich 
 Also bavage s Genealogical Dictionary of New England. 
 
Post Family 57 
 
 born in England in 1627, married March, 1652, Hes- *^ 
 ter Hyde, daughter of William Hyde, of Norwich, 
 Connecticut, who was cousin of Anne Hyde, wife of 
 James H. of England when he was Duke of York, 
 and mother of the Queens Mary and Anne. 
 
 John Post settled in Saybrook, where four of his 
 nine children were born. He moved to Norwich, 
 Connecticut, in 1660, and was an active and influ- 
 ential man in the town. His wife died at Norwich 
 November 13, 1703, and he died there February 10, 
 171 1, aged 83 years. 
 
 For a full list of the descendants of JOHX POST and 
 Hester Hyde, see"Hyde Genealogy," by Walworth,* 
 pp. II, 12, 13, 56, 57, 58, 201, 203, 1033, 1039. 
 
 Thomas Post, second son of Stephen Post, mar- 
 ried first, Margaret Andrews, and second, Rebecca 
 Bruen, of Norwich. 
 
 * Reuben Hyde Walworth, published in 1864. 
 
58 Post Family. 
 
 RICHARD POST, 
 
 OF 
 
 Southampton, Long Island. 
 
Post Family. 59 
 
 Lieutenant Richard Post, 
 
 OF Southampton, Long Island. 
 
 We now come to the history of RICHARD PoST, of 
 Southampton, and his descendants; the RICHARD 
 Post disinherited by his father, ARTHUR POST, of 
 Maidstone, Kent (see page 7). This ARTHUR, as 
 has already been related, in a deed dated June 4, 
 1644, "being of grete age," gives to "my cousin, 
 Richard van Mulhen, ten pounds within six months; 
 my second son STEPHEN, and his wife Margaret, all 
 my lands, tenements and hereditaments in Estling, 
 formerly in the possession of my eldest son, RICHARD, 
 being now of New England or some parts beyond 
 the seas, etc., etc." 
 
 It has been impossible to trace RICHARD'S where- 
 abouts before his arrival in Southampton. The old 
 town records of Lynn were burned in 1863. There, 
 perhaps, might have been found a clue to his history 
 from the time of his arrival in Massachusetts until 
 we pick up his record with that of the other settlers 
 of Southampton in 1640. It is almost certain that 
 Richard was nearly related to STEPHEN PosT, who 
 was in Newtown (Cambridge) in 1634.* STEPHEN 
 was among the non-conformists fleeing from persecu- 
 tion in England. That one of the same name should 
 
 * See Stephen Post, page 53. 
 
6o Post Family. 
 
 come to Massachusetts about the same time, presumes 
 they were of the same blood, and the fact that RICH- 
 ARD was much younger than STEPHEN^ and was dis- 
 inherited by his father, would lead to the probability 
 that the younger man followed the elder, and being 
 under his religious influence, wished to share his fate 
 in the life "beyond the seas." 
 
 When Stephen Post and others, migrating to 
 Connecticut with the Rev. Thomas Hooker, founded 
 the town of Hartford, RICHARD POST evidently pre- 
 ferred to join the band going to Southampton, and 
 from that time, 1640 on, we have his complete his- 
 tory. 
 
 In 1640, Richard Post, called Lieutenant Rich- 
 ard Post, came to Southampton, Long Island, from 
 Lynn, Massachusetts. 
 
 The names of the settlers who arrived during the 
 first twelve months, were as follows: 
 
 Daniel Howe, Christopher Foster, 
 
 William Harker, Joseph Raynor, 
 
 Thomas Goldsmith, Ellis Cook, 
 
 John Oldfields, Abraham Pierson, 
 
 Samuel Dayton, Edward Needham, 
 
 Thomas Burnet, Samuel James, 
 
 John Howell, John Gosman, 
 
 Thomas Sayre, Benjamin Haynes, 
 
 Edward Howell, John White, 
 
 William Odell, William Payne, 
 
Post Family. 
 
 6i 
 
 Thomas Topping, 
 John Woodruff, 
 Henry Pierson, 
 Richard Post, 
 Job Sayre, 
 George Wells, 
 John Jessup, 
 Josiah Howe, 
 Obediah Rogers, 
 John Fordham, 
 John Lum, 
 Samuel Osman, 
 John Rose, 
 James Herrick, 
 
 John Bishop, 
 Henry Walton, 
 Allen Breed, 
 Edmund ffarington, 
 Isaac Willman, 
 John Cooper, 
 George Woods, 
 John Jagger, 
 Richard Smith, 
 Thomas Hildreth, 
 John Hampton, 
 Joshua Barnes, 
 John Jennings. 
 
 Most of the names mentioned above will be found 
 in the histories of Lynn and other places, in the 
 vicinity of Boston. Many of the persons probably 
 came to Boston with Governor Winthrop, some years 
 before their removal to Long Island. They were 
 generally of a superior class, and of greater intelli- 
 gence than some who came subsequently to other 
 towns, being both respectable in character and edu- 
 cation. 
 
 "Edward Howell was the owner of 500 acres at 
 Lynn, and possessed a large estate here at his death, 
 leaving a family whose posterity are very numerous 
 at this day. The same may be said of Sayre, Halsey, 
 
62 Post Family. 
 
 Cooper, Post, Rogers, White, Rose, Wells, Foster 
 and Pierson." 
 
 (Thompson's "History of Long Island," vol. I, p. 
 327-328.) 
 
 Among the first records of RICHARD POST is one in 
 May, 1643, when he. receives an allotment of land in 
 addition to what he had already received. 
 
 His name appears often in the records of the early 
 history of the settlement. 
 
 The — of October, 1650, RICHARD POST was 
 chosen Sergeant of the (trained) band. 
 
 "Upon the sixth day of October, 1651, at the same 
 court, was chosen for constable and marshal, RICH- 
 ARD Post, who was sworne to his office the 9th of 
 October, 165 1." 
 
 October 6, 1657, "At the court of election it was 
 voted and concluded by the maior part that RICHARD 
 Post and John Howell should stand officers accord- 
 ing as they were chosen by the souldiers." (RICH- 
 ARD was chosen.) 
 
Post Family. 63 
 
 RECORDS FROM THE BOOK OF TOWN ACCOUNTS: 
 
 "May ye 2, 1657. Att a towne meeting, there be- 
 ing divers aprehension what way or means was best 
 to be taken for preservation of ye towne, it is con- 
 cluded by the major voat of the towne yt 7 men 
 namely, Capt. Topping, Mr. Gosmer, Mr. Fordham, 
 Mr. Rainer, John Cooper sen, Thos. Sayre & Ser- 
 geant Post should have the managing of the present 
 afifaire of the towne concerning ye safety thereof, and 
 yt all men did lay downe themselves in respect of 
 their persons & estates, to bee disposed of by the said 
 7 men in a way of righteousness, to attend any means 
 that may in their judgment effect the said ends." 
 
 At a towne meeting, November 25, 1659: 
 
 "It is ordered by ye major voat that RICHARD 
 Post and 1 1 others are to regulate the towne papers 
 and writings, to keepe what in theire best judgment 
 are to be kept and to cashiere those that are in their 
 judgment unnecessary, and to order whatever in yt 
 respect both for matter and manner may bee in theire 
 discretion thought most convenient for the towne use. 
 Alsoe to sett downe which of the lawes in the law 
 book, from Hartford shal bee, and at all times, and 
 in all cases to bee esteemed to beel our lawes, and this 
 is to bee done by the sd 12 men or the major voat of 
 them. And in case time and place bee appointed 
 and some (through any impediment cannot come 
 
64 Post Family. 
 
 that then the rest, (provided there be 7 at least) are 
 to proceed and the major pt of those that doe attend 
 the said business shall act & effect as if all that are 
 nominated & appointed did consent. And allsoe it 
 is ordered that if any of the said persons appeare not 
 according to warneing, and have not such allegation 
 as may bee to satisfaction of our magistrates they 
 shall pay 2S. 6d. a peece per day to ye towne's use, 
 more over if any other besides the fore mentioned 
 persons please to come to see ye carriage of ye said 
 business they have liberty soe to do and to give their 
 advice. It is transcribed out of a paper wharein 
 severall things or orders were written & to be re- 
 corded, which paper is Intitled and dated as follow- 
 eth. At a towne meeting November 25, 1659." 
 
 "It is uncertain whether any patent was granted to 
 this town (Southampton) previous to 1676, the same 
 having been purchased and settled under a convey- 
 a,nce from the agent of the Earl of Sterling; for 
 which reason the inhabitants did not consider them- 
 selves bound by the act of 1665, requiring the towns 
 within the jurisdiction to procure patents for their 
 lands. They found themselves mistaken, however, 
 in the opinion of the Governor and Council, who 
 (October 8, 1670) declared the title to their lands 
 forfeited, unless they should apply for a patent 
 within a limited period. The matter was deferred 
 under various pretexts, till the recapture of New 
 
Post Family. 65 
 
 York by the Dutch in 1673, when they despatched 
 deputies to Connecticut requesting again to be taken 
 under their jurisdiction, and to be furnished with 
 assistance should the Dutch attempt their subjuga- 
 tion. October 9, 1673, the court referred their appli- 
 cation to a committee to do what might be considered 
 for the mutual advantage of both parties. They were 
 received, accordingly, together with the towns of 
 Easthampton and Southhold, which were thereupon 
 erected into a shire or county, in which a county court 
 was established, judges, and other civil, as well as 
 military officers appointed, and a force sent over for 
 their protection. The Dutch used both persuasion 
 and threats to bring them under subjection, in which 
 they were unsuccessful. After the surrender of the 
 province again to the English, in 1674, these towns 
 were anxious to preserve their alliance with Con- 
 necticut, and even appointed a committee to petition 
 the King for that purpose. But Sir Edmund Andros 
 having arrived, required said towns to submit to the 
 government of His Royal Highness the Duke of 
 York, which, as they declined to do, his Excellency 
 on the i8th of November, 1674, peremptorily de- 
 manded of them that the former overseers and con- 
 stables should be restored to their offices, "Under the 
 penalty of being declared rebels"; and he ordered 
 the deputies who had signed a memorial to him on 
 behalf of said towns, namely: John Mulford, John 
 
66 Post Family. 
 
 Youngs, and John Howells, to appear and answer 
 before the council, — "on the like penalty."* 
 
 A patent of confirmation for their purchases was 
 subsequently accepted by them, bearing date Novem- 
 ber I, 1676, as follows: 
 
 PATENT OF GOVERNOR EDMUND ANDROS, 1 676. 
 
 "Edmund Andross Esq Seigneur of Sousmarey 
 Lieut, and Governor Genii under his Royall High- 
 ness James Duke of York and Albany &c., of all his 
 Territory in America, to all to whom these presents 
 shall come Sendeth Greeting Whereas there is a 
 certaine towne in the East riding of Yorkshire upon 
 Long Island commonly called and known by the 
 name of Southampton, situate, lying and being on 
 the south side of the said Island, towards ye main 
 sea, having a certain tract of land thereunto belong- 
 ing, The Eastward Bounds whereof extend to a cer- 
 taine place or plaine called Wainscott where the 
 bounds are settled betwixt theire neighbors of the 
 Town of Eastampton and them: their Southern 
 bounds being the sea and soe runsWestward to a place 
 called Seatuck, where a stake was sett as their farth- 
 est extent that way: Then crossing over the Island 
 to the northward to Peaconic great river (not con- 
 tradicting the Agreement made between there towne 
 and the Town of Southold, after their tryall at the 
 
 * Thompson's History of Long Island, Vol. I, p. 334. 
 
Post Family. 67 
 
 court of Assizes) and soe to run Eastward along the 
 north bounds to the Eastermost poynt of Hogg neck 
 over against Shelter Island, Including all the necks 
 of land and Islands within the aforesaid described 
 lands and limits: Now for a confirmation unto the 
 present freeholders Inhabitants of the said towne 
 and precincts, Know yee that by virtue of his Majes- 
 ties letters pattent and the Commission and authority 
 unto mee given by his Royall Highness, I have rati- 
 fied, confirmed and granted. And by these presents 
 doe hereby ratify confirme and grant unto John 
 Topping, Justice of the peace, Capt. John Howell, 
 Thomas Halsey Senior, Joseph Rainer Constable, 
 Edward Howell, John Jagger, John fifoster and 
 fifrancis Sayre Overseers, Levt Joseph fifordham, 
 Henry Pierson, John Cooper, Ellis Cook, Samuel 
 Clarke, RICHARD POST, and John Jennings as pat- 
 tentees for and on ye behalfe of themselves and their 
 associates, the ffreeholders and Inhabitants of the 
 said Towne their heires successors and assigns all 
 the aforementioned tract of land with the necks and 
 Islands within the said bounds set forth and de- 
 scribed as aforesaid, with all rivers lakes waters 
 hawking hunting and fowling and all Hereditaments 
 thereunto belonging. To have and to hold all and 
 singular their said lands hereditaments & premises 
 with their and every of their Apurtenances and of 
 every part and parcel thereof to the said patentees 
 and their Associates, their heirs, successors and as- 
 signs forever." 
 
68 Post Family. 
 
 "The Tenure of the said land to be according to 
 the custome of the Mannor of East Greenwich in the 
 County of Kent in England, in free and common soc- 
 cage and by fealty only, provided always notwith- 
 standing that the extent of the bounds before recited 
 no way prejudice or infringe the particular propriety 
 of any person or persons who have right by patent 
 or other lawfuU clayme to any part or parcell of the 
 lands or tenements within the limitts aforesaid, only 
 that all the lands and plantations within the said 
 limitts or bounds shall have relation to the towne in 
 Generall for the well government thereof, and if it 
 shall so happen that any part or parcell of lands or 
 tenements withine the limitts afore described bee not 
 already purchased of the Indians it may be pur- 
 chased as occasions (require) according to law. I 
 do likewise confirme and Grant unto the said pat- 
 entees, their heirs successors and assigns all the priv- 
 ileges and immunities belonging to a town within 
 this government, and that the place of their present 
 habitation and abode shall continue and retaine the 
 name of Southampton by which name and stile it 
 shall be distinguished and knowne in all bargains 
 and sales, deeds, records and writings, they the said 
 patentees and their associates their heirs successors 
 and assigns making Improvement on the said lands 
 and conforming themselves according to law and 
 yielding and paying therefor yearly and every yeare 
 as an acknowledgement or quitt rent one fifatt lamb 
 
Post Family. 69 
 
 unto such officer or officers there in authority as shall 
 be empowered to receive the same." 
 
 "Given under my hand and scale v^^ith the scale of 
 the province in New Yorke, the first day of Novem- 
 ber in the eight and twentieth year of his Majesties 
 Reigne Annoque Domini one thousand six hundred 
 
 seventy-six. 
 
 E. Andros. 
 
 "Examined by me and recorded, 
 
 "Mathias Nicolls Seer." 
 
70 Post Family. 
 
 Richard Post must have had some trouble with 
 his hand in advancing years, either through accident 
 or paralysis, for whereas the early deeds bear his full 
 signature, the later ones are signed RICHARD x' POST. 
 
 The later deeds are conveyances of property before 
 his death to his sons, JOHN and JOSEPH POST, his 
 daughter, MARTHA, wife of Benjamin Foster, and 
 his grandson, Benjamin Foster, Jr. 
 
 Deed dated April 17, 1688. 
 
 The original homestead of RiCHARD POST was on 
 the East side of Main Street, and owned in recent 
 years by Capt. Charles Howells. His house was 
 remodeled and the circle has returned to its begin- 
 ning, for it is now owned by Henry Post, and the 
 present buildings are known as the "Post Block." 
 
 Richard Post died about 1689. 
 
 He married Dorothy Johnson* and left issue: 
 
 1. Martha Post, married to Benjamin Foster. 
 
 2. Thomas Post. No record of marriage or 
 issue : 
 
 3. Joseph Post. A power of attorney given by 
 him in 1675 shows that he had been engaged in busi- 
 ness in Talbot County, Maryland. He returned 
 from there, lived and died in Southampton, Novem- 
 
 * There is no positive evidence of her name being Johnson. 
 
Post Family. 71 
 
 ber 10, 1 72 1. Aged about 72. (For description of 
 his grave, the first in the second burying ground, see 
 Appendix B.) 
 
 His name appears in the tax list of 1696. He mar- 
 ried Sarah , but left no issue. His will, dated 
 
 August 7, 1717, was probated August 12, 1723. 
 
 4. John Post, who left, as by his will (for abstract 
 of will see Appendix C) eight children, five daugh- 
 ters and three sons. These sons were (Capt.) JOHN 
 Post, Jeremiah Post and Richard Post H. 
 
 Capt. John Post* was the progenitor of all the 
 Posts at the East end of Long Island; (for these 
 descendants see Charts A and B, Appendix D) those 
 of Montrose and Honesdale, Pa. ; Palmyra and New- 
 burgh, N. Y., and California. 
 
 The homestead of John Post, bequeathed to his 
 son (Capt.) John Post, was on the East side of 
 Main Street, Southampton. The railroad station 
 now stands on part of it. 
 
 Jeremiah Post, second son of John Post, set- 
 tled in Hempstead. He had left Southampton be- 
 fore the census of 1698, as his name is not therein 
 mentioned; neither is it mentioned in that of Hemp- 
 
 *Capt. John Post's commission as ensign is in the possession of his 
 descendant, Abram S. Post, of Quogue, L. I. 
 
72 Post Family. 
 
 stead of 1698, where some POSTS of Dutch descent 
 are recorded. (These were WILLIAM, BARBARA. 
 Anietje,* etc. These Posts moved away and set- 
 tled in New Jersey. William's will was adminis- 
 tered in Perth Amboy in 1724.) 
 
 Jeremiah's name begins to appear in the Hemp- 
 stead records in 1700. 
 
 The homestead of JEREMIAH POST, in Southamp- 
 ton, was probably sold by him (on leaving South- 
 ampton) to his brother, Capt. JOHN POST, who left 
 it to his son JOSEPH POST, and from him to his son 
 JEREMIAH II, who left it to his son SAMUEL PoST, 
 who had an only daughter, ELIZABETH, who 
 married Albert Reeves. They had a son, Samuel 
 Post Reeves (lost at sea), and a daughter, ELIZA- 
 BETH, who married Lemuel Wicks. They had no 
 children, and she left all her property to her cousin 
 on her father's side, Harriet, wife of Capt. Peter R. 
 Rogers, and sister of Hon. James H. Pierson. 
 
 *See page 46, about the Dutch Posts. 
 
Post Family. 73 
 
 Richard Post II, youngest son of John Post, 
 born about 1684, was a minor child at the time of his 
 father's will, drawn in 1685. The census of South- 
 ampton of 1698, gives the name of RICHARD as being 
 there at that time, when he was about fourteen or 
 fifteen years of age. In the same household were 
 his mother, MARY, his sisters, Mary, Jr., Deborah, 
 Sarah, Dorothy, Martha, and his brother, (Capt.) 
 John Post. After that there is no record of Rich- 
 ard in Southampton, and in 171 1 his name begins to 
 appear in those of Hempstead as having inherited 
 his brother Jeremiah's cattle "ear mark." He be- 
 came a Quaker and was the grandfather of JOTHAM 
 Post. 
 
 The personal peculiarities of the family may be 
 expressed by the Southampton saying: "There 
 never was a POST that wasn't honest." 
 
 It will be noticed that JEREMIAH and RiCHARD 
 Post's arrival in Hempstead brought the English 
 branch to settle where the Dutch POSTS had already 
 been for some time, and thus probably began the 
 confusion about their origins, continued later when 
 Richard's grandson, Jotham, settled in New York. 
 
 Richard had become a Quaker, and in the Quaker 
 records we find records of him, of his sons, RICHARD 
 Post. Jr. (Ill), Joseph Post, John Post, and his 
 daughter, Phebe. 
 
74 Post Family. 
 
 Also of his grandsons, the sons of RICHARD POST 
 (hi), Henry, Richard ( IV) , Jotham, and others. 
 
 This book aims at giving principally the his- 
 tory of the descendants of JOTHAM POST, but a his- 
 tory of the "Posts of Queens County," that is, of 
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 The Posts in Queens County. 
 
 In the records of the town of Hempstead, before 
 the division (1784) into North and South Hemp- 
 stead, we find the first record of the brothers JERE- 
 MIAH and Richard Post, after they came there 
 from Southampton. 
 
 For more than two hundred years they and their 
 descendants have dwelt in that part of old Queens 
 that is now Nassau County. Here and there one 
 could find the tradition of visits from their kinsfolk 
 near Southampton; just as remembrance of visits 
 of far-ofif cousins from Queens County has been told 
 to this generation by one of the Southampton POSTS. 
 Leaving tradition, we find in the town records of 
 the year 1700: 
 
 "Jeremiah Post his (cattle) eare marcke is one 
 half peni on yt C, entered May ye 20, 1700." 
 
 In a deed we read, "as witness owre hands and seles 
 ye 9 of October and year 1703. 
 
 "Jeremiah Post." 
 Under date of 19 February 1704, 
 
 "Hempstead in Queen's County on Nawsaw island 
 in the Province of New York." . . . "The third part 
 of a hundred acar Lot of Land Lying on ye north 
 side of ye hills at ye head of ye beavill w't sd third 
 part of hundred acars of Land my brother sold to 
 Jeremiah Post," is ratified and confirmed. 
 
Post Family. jj 
 
 Beavel or Bevvel hill is about two and a half miles 
 west of Westbury Meeting-house; and this piece of 
 land was owned by EDMUND POST, Senior, within 
 the memory of those now living. It may well have 
 been some of the first land bought by his great- 
 great-uncle, Jeremiah. 
 
 Cattle grazed in common on "the plains," as in- 
 deed they did, not so long ago. But to the marks 
 of ownership, which were kept by the town, we owe 
 the first mention of RICHARD POST since his name 
 was given in the census list in Suffolk County thirteen 
 years before. 
 
 "Richard Post his Ear-marke is the antient 
 marke of his brother Jeremiah Post . . . , Re- 
 corded the i6 day of the fourth month June 171 1, 
 
 "by mee, 
 
 "William Willis Clarke." 
 
 This is the last time that the name JEREMIAH PoST 
 appears in the town records, except a mark recorded 
 in 1747. 
 
 The Queens County address to the Howes, Octo- 
 ber 21, 1776, has among the signers JEREMIAH PoST 
 and JOHX POST. 
 
 In the "Colonial Series of the Report of the New 
 York State Historian, vol. I, p. 497." 
 
78 Post Family. 
 
 "Captain Tredwell's Train Band Hempstead, 
 September 17, 1715," in "list of train Souldiers." 
 
 "Richard Post/' 
 
 Richard Post, however, and his son, Richard, 
 Junior, are mentioned several times in the Hemp- 
 stead (town) records. Sometimes it is difficult to 
 tell which is meant. 
 
 "Richard Postt Juner his ear mark is a slitt in 
 the near ear and two half peneys on the fore side of 
 ear. 
 
 "Entered November 5, 1723." 
 
 Richard Post, Jr., was witness to a deed in 1728. 
 
 Richard Post. Earmark entered 173 i. He was 
 chosen one of the "Surveyors or Overseers of High 
 Ways" in 1744, 1745 and 1747. In March, 1744-5, 
 he requested "a highway Laid out." The names of 
 Richard and John Post are signed to a paper con- 
 cerning this road in 1745. 
 
 In 1744, when RICHARD PoST, Jr., affixed his sig- 
 nature as witness, the record adds that he affirmed. 
 For they were now friends. (Quakers.) We find 
 their names in old leather-bound manuscript vol- 
 umes, one of the oldest having as its title page: 
 
 "A 
 book of Records of concerns belonging to friends of 
 the Monthly Meeting at Westbury containing a 
 Record of the affairs of friends in four parts began 
 in the year 1730." 
 
Post Family. 79 
 
 It was not strange that they should be moved by 
 the rising wave of the new form of faith that had 
 established itself in Westbury (1697) just before 
 their coming, and that was later to become the pre- 
 vailing form for that region. Though the lists of 
 those admitted were not kept at that early date, it is 
 certain that in June, 1727, RICHARD POST was a mem- 
 ber of the Society of Friends; and in 1728 we find 
 the names of both RICHARD PoST and RICHARD, Jr., 
 appended to one of the documents signed at the 
 meeting. 
 
 There is an inference that the former chose a 
 Quaker wife, and accepted her faith for that reason: 
 for the rule was inexorable that marriage must not 
 be allowed with one not also a Friend. 
 
 In Mrs. Bunker's "Early Long Island Families," 
 there is a note of a sale of land by RICHARD and 
 Phebe Post in 1729. This land must then have 
 been the dower of RICHARD'S wife; for otherwise it 
 was not customary for her to sign the deed. 
 
 In 1744, at the marriage of "Phebe PosT, daugh- 
 ter of Richard Post, of Westbury, of Township of 
 Hempstead," the first woman to sign the marriage 
 certificate as witness was Phebe PoST. That place 
 was usually given to the mother of the bride. 
 
 The name of the place had been changed to West- 
 bury from the unborrowed, descriptive name of 
 
8o Post Family. 
 
 Wood-edge. It was too good to keep. One reads, 
 "Also it is adjudged that a meeting shall be kept at 
 the Woodedge." The present year (1903) is the 
 two-hundredth since the quarterly meeting was first 
 held at Woodedge. It is thought that RICHARD 
 Post, the first who came to Queens County, had other 
 sons besides RICHARD, namely: JOSEPH and JOHN. 
 It is certain that he had a daughter, for we have the 
 record of her marriage in "9th mo. 1744," Phebe 
 Post, daughter of RICHARD PoST, Sr., of Westbury, 
 to Joshua Powell, son of Thomas Powell, of Beth- 
 page. (See Appendix F). 
 
 Joseph's name is earlier mentioned, 1732. Also 
 the next year in record of earmarks. 
 
 Both Joseph and John were married before 1737 ; 
 for the meeting then appointed a committee "to 
 speak to Joseph and John Post about their going 
 and marrying from amongst Friends." Two or 
 three years later their condemnation was accepted, 
 Joseph, also for "bearing arms." There is mention 
 of John in the town records in 1745, when a road 
 was laid out and carefully described. JOHN was 
 disowned by Friends in 1760 for bearing arms. He 
 had two daughters, Phebe, who married John 
 Powell, of Flushing, and ABIGAIL, who married 
 Henry Pearsall, son of Rowland Pearsall, of Oyster 
 Bay, in 1780. Of those who witnessed this marriage 
 certificate were two John Posts and Jacob Post. 
 
Post Family. 8l 
 
 Lastly, in 1776, JOHN and JEREMIAH POST were 
 found on the address to the Howes.* 
 
 Richard Post, Junior, married first, Mary Willis, 
 daughter of Henry Willis, in 1732. It was not till 
 three years later that the Friends wrote, "ye 29th day 
 of ye 8th mo. 1735, RICHARD PosT and Mary Post 
 gave in each of them a paper condemnung their run- 
 ning out from the Order of Friends, and without the 
 consent and knowledge of their parents and being 
 married by a Justice and Friends received them and 
 ordered them to be recorded." 
 
 In another volume is the record of their children, 
 with the half-finished date that one wishes the clerk 
 had filled in. 
 
 "The Age of RICHARD POST Junr. and his Chil- 
 dren, ye sd Richard Post was born ye Day of 
 mo 17 
 
 "Henry Post (ye son of ye sd Richard Post) 
 was born the first Day of ye 8mo 1733. 
 
 "Richard Post (ye Son of ye sd Richard Post) 
 w^ born ye 17th Day of ye 5 mo 1735. 
 
 "Mary Post (Daughter of Said Richard Post) 
 was Born the 6th day of 12 mo in the year 1737-8. 
 
 "JOTHAM Post (son of the aforesaid RICHARD 
 Post) was Born the 14th Day of the 4 mo 1740." 
 
 "Mary Post wife of Richard Post and daughter 
 
 * Lord and Sir William Howe. 
 
82 Post Family. 
 
 of Henry Willis died 13th day of 5 mo 1744 in unity 
 with Friends." 
 
 Richard Post, Junior, married second, Elizabeth 
 Willis, daughter of William Willis. Their children 
 were STEPHEN, Sarah, and perhaps others. Ste- 
 phen removed to Nine Partners,* where we lose the 
 trace when "he Rather chose" to leave the Friends. 
 
 But Richard Post, not remaining among the 
 Friends, there is an interval till the time of the eldest 
 son, only filled by the order of his going. 
 
 "29th day of II mo 1745-6." "At the aforesaid 
 meeting . . . were appointed to speak with RICH- 
 ARD Post concerning his laying of wagers and horse- 
 racing and to endeavor to bring him to a sense of his 
 Misstep." 
 
 "26th of ist mo 1746." "They had treated with 
 Richard Post about his lay'g of wagers on Horse 
 Races, and that he seemingly condemned it by word 
 of mouth, but he having been spoke to on that ac- 
 count several times before and he hath not con- 
 demned it underhand therefore it is the sense of this 
 meeting not to receive it as a satisfactory Account 
 until he doth refrain and condemn ye same more 
 fully." 
 
 "Ye 30th d 2nd mo 1746." "that they had again 
 
 * "Nine Partners" was a grant to nine partners in Dutchess County, 
 N. Y., and Milbrook is now the best known place in that vicinity. 
 
Post Family. 83 
 
 spoke with him and that he desired to consider of it 
 till the next monthly meeting." When the chronicle 
 reads, "he was disowned." 
 
 Henry Post, the eldest son of Richard Post, 
 lived a long life from 1733 to 1816, in the vicinity of 
 Westbury. The memories of his personality that 
 have been handed down relate to his later days; so 
 that these gleanings from his younger energy are 
 valuable. The enthusiasm of the Colonial Wars had 
 sway when he was a young man. In 1759, the meet- 
 ing expressed disapproval of Henry Post for being 
 Captain of Militia for one year. 
 
 Further we read, "21 of 5 mo 1759. To the mo. 
 mtg. at Westbury. Dear friends, these lines may 
 inform you that I was educated partly under the care 
 and Direction in my very young years until the De- 
 cease of my mother and then I was left much to my 
 own Liberty and after I came to the Estate and Con- 
 dition of a man I was led away into Company and In- 
 listed in the malitia Service and there Exercised my- 
 self in that practice for about the space of one year 
 . . . and had great uneasiness of mind until I could 
 not any Longer Comply to use the Discipline of War 
 ... I desire to come under care of friends, 
 
 "Henry Post. 
 
 "ye 2ist of ye 5 mo. 1759." 
 
 This was satisfactory. One may note, too, that the 
 war was about over. His first home was where an old 
 
84 Post Family. 
 
 cellar long marked the site, just southeast of "West- 
 bury pond" and near the present home of CATHERINE 
 Post Willis. This land was recently found to have 
 been his father's. (Tradition fancied his father lived 
 near Wheatly.) This old deed is extremely inter- 
 esting from its marking a fact not known before, — 
 that he was not the first of the name to follow the 
 alternate occupation of a weaver. I have been told 
 that Westbury was famed for some sorts of fine weav- 
 ing, and that people came from a distance to have 
 it done. At any rate, some of the napery is at New 
 Utrecht to this day.* 
 
 "To all christian people to whom these Presents 
 shall come. Greeting, know ye that I RICHARD POST 
 of Hempstead in Queen's County on Nassau Island 
 weaver for and in the Consideration of the full and 
 just Sum of Eighteen Pounds of Good Current and 
 Lawful! money of the Province of New York to me 
 in hand well and Truly paid by HENRY PoST of 
 Westbury in the Town and Island aforesaid Weaver 
 
 the receipt whereof on a certain 
 
 messuage and small Plot of ground Lying situate and 
 being in Westbuary Lying in the fork or Devision 
 of the Highway Leading from Wheatly Leading 
 Down by John Willis his house and is bounded on 
 south by Thomas Carmons Land on the East North 
 
 * Dr. Weir Mitchell, in his story, "Hugh Wynne Quacker," tells us 
 all Quakers were obliged to learn a trade. The records show that 
 Richard and his sons were weavers, which seems to have been the 
 principal occupation of the community at Hempstead. 
 
Post Family. 85 
 
 and West by sd. Highways aforesaid be it in Quan- 
 tity more or Less. 
 
 "Together with the dwelling-house and Improve- 
 ments thereon standing ... In witness hereunto I 
 have Set to my hand and fixed My Seal this 15 day 
 of May in the year 1758. 
 
 "Richard Post (S)" 
 
 "Memorandum that on the day and date within 
 written I RICHARD POST received the full payment 
 and satisfaction for the consideration money within 
 mentioned." 
 
 Henry lived there two or three years, then bought 
 a farm farther west, and much better, he thought. 
 Here the remainder of his life was spent, and after 
 him it was the lifelong home of his youngest son, 
 James. 
 
 In 4th month, 1761, HENRY POST and Mary Titus 
 (daughter of Edmund Titus, deceased,) declared 
 their intentions of marriage." On 6 mo. 3, 1761, 
 "Henry Post, son of Richard Post, of Hempstead, 
 in Queen's County, on Nassau Island," married 
 Mary Titus. Among the witnesses were MARY, 
 Elizabeth, Richard and Jotham Post. And af- 
 terward William Loines and Thomas Seaman made 
 report (to the meeting) "that it was accomplished 
 orderly and well." 
 
86 Post Family. 
 
 From the granddaughters we have pleasant de- 
 scriptions of this old house, part of which is still 
 standing. 
 
 Here his six sons grew to manhood. The eldest 
 son, at the outbreak of the Revolution, is described 
 as "a noble-looking lad, tall and athletic, and of a 
 high spirit," — doubtless partook of the more positive 
 hereditary temperament. There is a story of him 
 when an old man, bending his keen, dark eyes to the 
 cradles of his blue-eyed grandchildren and saying, 
 "no black eyes yet!" 
 
 The British occupation of New York colored the 
 Revolutionary experiences of the Long Island town. 
 
 There were English officers and soldiers who were 
 quartered in the house. Major Crief died there. 
 His body-servant. Jack, who remained in the vicin- 
 ity, became a picturesque reminder of 'old war 
 times.' " 
 
 "The Hessians cut down the saplings, then, by 
 pressing teams and wagons, carted them away to 
 forts and barracks. It is a serious loss: in a few 
 years our farms will be without wood for use." 
 
 They suffered much loss and annoyance; but after 
 a while it was over. Only "the blood-stains in the 
 old East-room remained." 
 
 A great-grandson, now living, says: "Once, 
 Grandfather Henry Post was coming home from 
 
Post Family. 87 
 
 New York, when, down where Bedford woods used 
 to be, the soldiers took his horse and wagon away. 
 He regained it next day over by the Sound." 
 
 On the other hand, they could not voluntarily give 
 support to the American army. The Friends re- 
 corded their "sufferings." 
 
 "On the 5 mo. 1774 Then came Nehemiah Sammis 
 to my house and Demandes of me five Shillings for 
 not Appearing at a General Training and Upon my 
 refusing to pay it he Took a Table cloth worth 18 
 shillings. 
 
 "Dated 1776. Henry Post." 
 
 "i8th of and. mo. 1778. Took from me 17s and 
 4 pence for not appearing to stand guard. In 10 mo. 
 1778, i-9S-4d." 
 
 "On ye i6th of i mo. Daniel Tofife and Obediah 
 Valentine Sergeants Under Captain Cornell and De- 
 manded 5 1 5s in Order to pay Some charges in build- 
 ing the Fort at Brooklyn and Pay the Guard as they 
 say and I Being from home they found Money and 
 
 took 4-5-0. 
 
 "HEx\ry Post." 
 
 There are other similar entries, the last in 1780. 
 It was in this year that, his granddaughter relates, 
 he went with some other Friends to Nine Partners. 
 On reaching the Continental lines they were stopped ; 
 but on asking to see General Washington they were 
 
88 Post Family. 
 
 released, after he had granted them an interview, 
 when he made close inquiry relating to the British 
 force on the island. "They very candidly told him 
 all they knew, and acquainted him with some facts 
 before unknown to him." On their return they were 
 again received, their account listened to, and passed 
 through the lines." The charming character of 
 Henry Post is drawn as "Henry Pattison," in a 
 little volume called "The Recollections of the Amer- 
 ican Revolution," written by his granddaughter, 
 Lydia Post (daughter of his son Henry) under the 
 name of "Grace Barclay." This book, praised by 
 Lydia Post's friend, Washington Irving, was printed 
 for private circulation. 
 
 Henry Post was called the "peacemaker" from 
 his success in settling disputes for his neighbors. The 
 wife of Henry Post was of an early Long Island 
 family. She was a descendant of Edmund and 
 Martha Titus, whose "memorials" are kept in manu- 
 script by so many of their descendants. They both 
 lived to great age, and Edmund Titus was one of 
 the first settlers in Westbury. Born in England, in 
 1630, in the "register of all the passengers which 
 passed from ye Port of London for one whole yeare 
 ending at Christmas 1635." And as embarker in 
 the ship Hopewell are "Robert Titus of St. Kather- 
 ines age 35, uxor Hanna Titus 31. Jo. Titus 8, 
 Edmund 5." Doubtless it was "a chaste, zealous 
 and godly life that was revived by their granddaugh- 
 
Post Family. 89 
 
 ter." Mary Post, widow of Henry Post, died 
 "13th of loth mo. 1823 aged 82 years." 
 
 The second RICHARD POST, Jr. (Richard IV), 
 was the second son of RICHARD POST, Jr., and Mary 
 Willis. Less is known of him. 
 
 The marriage bond of RICHARD POST and Han- 
 nah Beddle bears date August 31, 1757. "At a meet- 
 ing at Westbury ye 25 of ye 2nd month 1761, RICH- 
 ARD Post Jr. of Nine Partners requested some ac- 
 count from us concerning his conduct from his 
 Youth, and so upwards to the Time he removed away 
 from the Island to Nine Partners, which relation 
 was drawn up and read," "and sent. It was perhaps 
 not quite what he hoped for, and rather unu- 
 sual." It was the sense and judgment of this meet- 
 ing yt. we could not properly give him any Certifi- 
 cate, because he was not taken under the care of 
 Friends by request before he removed from us," but 
 the clerk was to "write to the Monthly Meeting at 
 the Nine Partners and give them a brief relation of 
 the reasons, and of his wild Conduct, when young, 
 and of his return to be more sober, some Time before 
 he left us." But in 12 mo. 1774 RICHARD POST was 
 admitted a Friend at Nine Partners. A Removal 
 Certificate was sent from Nine Partners to New 
 York, in 1793, for RICHARD POST "removed to New 
 York." Another was sent, in 1797, to Saratoga, for 
 Richard Post. Whether he had gone back to Nine 
 Partners we do not know. Other POSTS removed to 
 Saratoga about this time. One, Henry PoST, a min- 
 ister, in 1794. 
 
90 Post Family. 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 Richard (III), called "Richard, Jr." 
 
 Richard Post III, of North Hempstead, Long 
 Island, sometimes spoken of in the Society of Friends 
 (Quakers) as RiCHARD, Jr. His first marriage to 
 Mary Willis was against consent of parents, but 
 "29th day of 8th month, RICHARD and MARY POST 
 professed sorrow for having been married by a Jus- 
 tice and not according to Friends' order and without 
 the consent and knowledge of their parents." 
 
 Friends received them again as members and or- 
 dered them recorded. (Extract from Friends' 
 records). 
 
 Richard Post (III) and Mary Willis, his first 
 wife, had — 
 
 I. Henry Post, born August i, 1733. Married 
 1761, to Mary Titus. (For account of Henry Post 
 see page 83 and for chart of descendants see Appen- 
 dix G.) 
 
 *Mary (Willis) Post died in 1744, May 13th. 
 
 * Henry Willis, tlie common ancestor of the families bearing that 
 name upon the Island, was born at Westbury in Wiltshire, England, 
 September 14, 1628. where he married Mary Peace, in 1654. On ac- 
 count of his predelictions in favor of the sect called Quakers, he was 
 unable to enjoy the liberty he desired, and therefore resolved to try 
 his fortunes in America. He arrived here about the year 1670, and 
 made a purchase of land in a part of the town, which he called, from 
 the place of his nativity, Westbury. — (Thompson's "History of Long 
 Island," note to P. 53, Vol. 11.) 
 
Post Family. 91 
 
 2. Richard Post, born May 17, 1735. Married 
 Hannah Bedle, August 31, 1757, (For marriage bond 
 see "Marriage Bonds," vol. I: 627 in New York 
 State Library, Albany.) Died August 8, 1813 ; bur- 
 ied in New York. Hannah Bedle was born August 
 28, 1734. (For account of RICHARD POST (IV) see 
 page 89 and for descendants see Appendix H.) 
 
 3. Mary Post, born December 6, 1737-8. 
 
 4. JOTHAM Post, born April 14, 1740. Married 
 Winifred Wright, April 20, 1763. (For marriage 
 bond see New York State Library, Albany. "Mar- 
 riage Bonds," 7:1 14.) 
 
 Richard Post HI and Elizabeth Willis, his 
 second wife, had — 
 
 Stephen, Sarah, and perhaps others. (Stephen 
 removed to Nine Partners, where the Quaker records 
 lost trace of him, when "he rather chose to leave the 
 Friends." 
 
92 Post Family. 
 
 JOTHAM POST, 
 
 BORN 1740, 
 
 AND His Descendants. 
 
Post Family. 93 
 
 JOTHAM Post. 
 
 Third son of RICHARD POST III and Mary Willis, 
 was born in Westbury, North Hempstead, April 14, 
 1740. Died in New York, January 25, 1 8 17. Mar- 
 ried April 20, 1763, Winifred Wright, daughter of 
 Benjamin Wright, of Oyster Bay, descendant of 
 Peter Wright* 
 
 Winifred Wright was born April 12, 1745. Died 
 May 29, 181 1. 
 
 In the volume, "Records of First Church, Hunt- 
 ington, Long Island, 1723-1779," is the following 
 record of marriage: 
 
 "Huntington, 1763, April 20. JOTHAM POST — 
 Winifred Wright. JOTHAM POST, of Queen's Coun- 
 ty; Winifred Wright, of Suffolk County. 
 
 Baptized 1768, July 22. WRIGHT POST." 
 
 JOTHAM Post was a Quaker, but on account of 
 his marriage with one not a member of the Society 
 of Friends, he was expelled from the Society, and 
 probably soon after moved to New York. In his 
 marriage bond (in New York State Library, Al- 
 bany, "Marriage Bonds," 7:114.) JOTHAM PoST 
 
 * The first actual transfer of land in the township of Oyster Bay 
 was by an Indian deed given in 1653 to Peter Wright, Samuel Mayo 
 and William Leveredge, with whom were soon associated William 
 Washburn and his son John. ("Early Long Island," by Martha Bockee 
 Flint, p. 189.) 
 
94 Post Family. 
 
 states his occupation as weaver, for in the Society of 
 Friends every member was obliged to learn a trade 
 (see page 90), and the community at Hempstead 
 were principally weavers. As soon as he left the 
 Society, he adopted other pursuits, and raised cattle, 
 droves of which were regularly sent to market. In 
 the history of the "Old Fly Market" he is spoken 
 of as follows : 
 
 "JOTHAM Post, another prominent character, was 
 in his day considered one of the most scientific men 
 in the business. He studied the anatomy of the ani- 
 mals which the men converted into food, as the sur- 
 geon studies that of men. He was a man of educa- 
 tion, yet his kind and truthful disposition, ofttimes 
 by the unscrupulous, led him to be imposed upon. 
 
 "In the year 1768, we find him named as one of 
 the executors to the estate of Susan Wright. 
 
 "After the Revolution had begun, he removed to 
 Brooklyn, for better protection, as he was a man of 
 peace, and therefore not called upon to take up arms; 
 he was, however, obliged to swear allegiance to King 
 George the third. 
 
 "While living in Brooklyn, there were many oc- 
 casions offered during the war by which he could 
 display the kindness of his heart, in the relief of the 
 sick and needy, or the poor afflicted prisoner. Soon 
 
Post Family. 95 
 
 after peace was proclaimed, he removed to New 
 York, in Cherry Street.* 
 
 "In 1795 he gave up business, having been induced 
 to accept the office of Assistant Alderman of the 
 Fifth Ward, during the years 1796 to 1800. Alder- 
 man Post is yet spoken of as having been an honest, 
 conscientious and humane magistrate. 
 
 "He was one of the governors of the New York 
 hospital in 1795 and 1796, and again in 1801 and 
 1802." 
 
 JoTHAM Post and Winifred Wright 
 Had 
 
 1. William Post. Born February 11, 1764; died 
 
 September 20, 1814; married Abigail Floyd. 
 
 2. Wright Post, M. D. Born February 19, 1766; 
 
 died June 14, 1828; married Mary Bayley. 
 
 3. Joel Post. Born in New York, June 27, 1768 ; 
 
 died April 7, 1835; married first, Elizabeth 
 Browne; second; Alma Floyd. 
 
 4. JOTHAM Post H. Born April 4, 1771 ; died 
 
 May 15, 1817; married first, Magdalen 
 Blaau; second, Julia Wattles. 
 
 * A description of Jotham Post's house in Cherry street will 
 be found in Appendix I, which concerns his son-in-law, Peter Hawes. 
 
g6 Post Family. 
 
 5. Nancy Post. Born November 29, 1773; died 
 
 July 4, 1806; married, May 11, 1797, Peter 
 Hawes. (See Appendix I). 
 Had 
 
 I. William Post Hawes, married to Pris- 
 cilla Moris. 
 
 II. Susan Hawes. 
 
 III. Matilda Hawes. 
 
 6. Elizabeth Post. Born March 9, 1776; mar- 
 
 ried Alexander Mowatt. 
 Had 
 
 I. Elias Mowatt. 
 
 II. Jane Mowatt, married Berrian. 
 
 7. Allison Post. Born January 25, 1779; died 
 
 March 18, 1848; married Elizabeth Floyd. 
 
 8. Mary Post. Born January 18, 1782; died un- 
 
 married, January 8, 1864. 
 
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 Nancy Post married Bernard Rhinelander. 
 
 Edwin Post married Lucretia Main. 
 
 Jotham (HI) Post married Angelina Byers. 
 
 Eleanor or Ellen Post married 1st. Francis d'Wolf. 
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 Julia Post married James d'Wolfe. 
 
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 John Post married Adeline Forbes. 
 
 Edward Post married Clementine Church Post. 
 
 Anne Post married 1st. Wilham Livermore. 
 2nd, Edward Livermore. 
 
 —6 Joel Browne Post married Abby Mauran Church. 
 —5 • Alfred Charles Post married Harriet Beers. 
 Henry Albertson Van Zo Post, unmarried. 
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 Emily Post married 1st, Frederic Gore-King. 
 
 2nd, William Meredith Hawthorne, 
 
 —6 Mary Post mamed Robert Hawthorne. 
 
 —5 Edward Post, unmarried. 
 
 Lionel Post, unmarried. 
 
 —8 Eugene Post. 
 
 —2 Richard Bayley Post. 
 
 —1 Catherine Post married James Van Cortlandt Morris, 
 (No descendants.) 
 
 
98 Post Family. 
 
 SONS OF 
 
 JOTHAM POST: 
 
 1. William Post. 
 
 Eldest branch extinct in male line. 
 
 2. Wright Post, M. D. 
 
 3. Joel Post. 
 
 4. JoTHAM Post II. 
 
 5. Allison Post. 
 
 This branch now extinct in male line. 
 
Post Family. 99 
 
 ELDEST BRANCH. 
 
 William. 
 
 Born February 1 1, 1764; died September 20, 1814; 
 married Abigail Floyd, aunt of Alma and Elizabeth 
 Floyd, the sisters who married JOEL and ALLISON 
 Post, brothers of WILLIAM POST. 
 
 William Post and Abigail Floyd 
 Had 
 
 1. Floyd Post, died without issue. 
 
 2. Eliza Post, married to George Washington 
 
 Brown. They had a daughter, married to 
 Oscar Coles. 
 
 3. Catharine Ann Post, married Ferris. 
 
 This branch is extinct in the male line. 
 
lOo Post Family. 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 WRIGHT POST, M. D., 
 
 BORN 1766, 
 AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
Post Family. loi 
 
 second branch. 
 
 Wright Post, M. D. 
 
 This gentleman, so justly ranked among the most 
 eminent surgeons and physicians of the United States, 
 was the son of JOTHAM, and grandson of RICHARD 
 Post, of North Hempstead, L. I., where he was born 
 February 19, 1766. His mother was a daughter of 
 Benjamin Wright, of Oyster Bay. He is said to have 
 possessed, from childhood, a remarkably quiet, ami- 
 able and accommodating temper, yet was resolute 
 and firm of purpose, industrious and active, both in 
 mind and in body. He was never known to engage 
 in the mischievous sports and dangerous intrigues so 
 common at country schools; and his mother has been 
 heard to say that his conduct was never such as to 
 occasion her any uneasiness on his account. Little 
 is known of his early instruction or pursuits. While 
 a boy, he was placed under the tuition of Master 
 David Beatty, in the village of Hempstead, from 
 whom he received the primary elements of an Eng- 
 lish education; casual opportunities for improvement 
 enabled him to add to his village instruction, by an 
 attendance on other teachers of higher attainments. 
 
 In 178 1 young POST was placed under the super- 
 intendence of Dr. Richard Bayley, at that time the 
 most celebrated and skilful surgeon in the city of 
 New York. With this eminent man, he prosecuted 
 
I02 Post Family. 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 his studies with great zeal and success, — the limited 
 anatomical collection of his preceptor giving him 
 a tolerably fair opportunity of securing a substantial 
 proficiency in a knowledge of the human structure, 
 and his surgical science being tested by practical ex- 
 positions in the hands of his master. Yet finding that 
 his professional attainments might be greatly in- 
 creased by foreign travel, he repaired to London in 
 1784, then only eighteen years old, and became a 
 house pupil of the far-famed Sheldon, whose repu- 
 tation as a teacher of anatomy and surgery was de- 
 servedly high. The zeal of the master was felt by 
 the pupil, and his progress was great. He also at- 
 tended the valuable lectures of John Hunter and 
 George Fordyce. 
 
 That these great opportunities of acquiring knowl- 
 edge were not lost upon him, we have the evidence, 
 in the lessons of general anatomy and surgery, which 
 he afterwards delivered to admiring students, upon 
 his return to his own country in the fall of 1786. His 
 skill in the practical display of his subjects, by the 
 scalpel, was a means of adding much to the value of 
 his oral communications. Having spent, as we have 
 seen, about two years and a half abroad, during all 
 which period he was closely engaged in anatomical 
 and physiological pursuits, and in hospital practice, 
 he commenced his profession in the citv of New 
 
Post Family. 103 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 York, and in the following year delivered his first 
 course of lectures on anatomy in the unappropriated 
 apartments of the New York hospital, while surgery 
 was taught by Dr. Bayley. 
 
 But owing to the imprudent exposure of an an- 
 atomical specimen by some pupils, the business of 
 instruction was interrupted, the building itself 
 broken into, by what is well remembered as the 
 "Doctors' Mob," and the cabinet of anatomical pre- 
 parations of his first preceptor, heaped into carts, 
 carried off, and triumphantly buried. 
 
 In 1790 he married the daughter of Dr. Bayley, 
 who now advised him to repair again to London, in 
 order still further to carry into successful operation 
 his intentions of a teacher of anatomy and surgery, 
 by procuring a suitable anatomical museum. In this 
 interesting object he was eminently successful, as he 
 brought out with him, in 1793, a collection of sound 
 and morbid specimens, which was deservedly con- 
 sidered the largest and rarest in this country. It was 
 during this second visit to Europe, that he availed 
 himself of the valuable instructions of Cruickshank 
 and the late Dr. Matthew Baillie. Under them. 
 Dr. Post prepared some of the first and most beau- 
 tiful injections of the absorbent system which were 
 ever seen. 
 
I04 Post Family. 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 Upon the reorganization of the medical schools of 
 New York, after the Revolutionary contest, by the 
 trustees of Columbia College, Dr. PoST was ap- 
 pointed, by that body, to the department of surgery, 
 while Dr. Bayley held that of anatomy; but on his 
 return, in 1793, an exchange took place, and conse- 
 quently he assumed the responsibilities of teacher of 
 anatomy. Some of his surgical operations were of 
 the most extraordinary nature, and attended with 
 wonderful success. His fame increased with age 
 and experience; and from this time till 18 13, — a 
 period of twenty years, — he discharged the duties of 
 professor of anatomy and physiology in this institu- 
 tion with unexampled success, while he had for asso- 
 ciates, in other departments of the healing art, such 
 men as Bayley, Mitchell, Hammersley, Hosack, 
 Francis, Stringham, Rogers, Smith, Macneven and 
 Mott, which, upon the union of the medical faculty 
 of Columbia College with the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons, and the State medical school of the 
 regents of the university, now embracing, under one 
 head, the faculties of the two rival institutions, pre- 
 sented a confederacy of names, several of which had 
 been long conspicuous in the various departments 
 of physical science. 
 
 While anatomy was taught by PoST and Dr. John 
 Augustine Smith, surgery received its best illustra- 
 
Post Family. 105 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 tions by Mott, the practice of physic its soundest 
 doctrines by Hosack, juridical medicine, now first 
 taught in this country, by Stringham, and the collat- 
 eral branches of the healing art imparted by the lec- 
 tures of Professors Macneven, Mitchell and Francis. 
 
 The health of Dr. Post was always delicate, and 
 for the purpose of recruiting it, he made a third voy- 
 age to Europe in 181 5, and returning the next year 
 with renewed vigor, he resumed his professional 
 duties. In 18 16 he was chosen a trustee of Colum- 
 bia College, which office he held during the residue 
 of his life. He was also a member of the Literary 
 and Philosophical Society of New York, and a coun- 
 sellor for several years, while he was, for more than 
 thirty-five years, a surgeon of the New York Hos- 
 pital. 
 
 Upon the decease of Dr. Bard, in 1821, he was 
 appointed his successor as president of the College 
 of Physicians and Surgeons, which he retained till 
 1826, when he resigned his several offices in the uni- 
 versity, and confined himself to the practice of his 
 art until a short time before his death, which took 
 place at his country seat at Throgg's Neck, June 14, 
 1828, and a suitable tablet was afterward erected to 
 his memory in Grace Church, New York, of which 
 church he was vestryman for a number of years. 
 
io6 Post Family. 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 From this hasty outline, it will be perceived that 
 Dr. Post was engaged for a period of nearly forty 
 years as teacher of anatomy; and his reputation as 
 such has rarely been surpassed. His surgical fame 
 will mainly rest on his distinguished operation for 
 tying the subclavian artery above the clavicle, on the 
 scapular side of the scaleni muscles, for a brachial 
 aneurism, situated so high in the axilla as to make 
 it expedient to tie this artery. 
 
 With other advantages in early life, and a more 
 devoted taste for literary acquisitions, he might have 
 shone with greater brilliancy. But he was, neither 
 from education, nor from his natural or acquired 
 habits of reflection, qualified to distinguish himself 
 in the ranks of medical literature; and except for a 
 very few papers descriptive of some of his most inter- 
 esting surgical cases, he has left nothing as an evi- 
 dence of literary talent. There is reason to believe 
 that he was greatly averse to the exercise of writing. 
 His introductory lectures seldom exhibited proofs of 
 originality of thought, nor did his anatomical and 
 physiological lectures evince any great research, be- 
 yond the plain and obvious trait which duty and 
 decency prescribed. 
 
Post Family. 107 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 Nevertheless, as a teacher, his lectures were char- 
 acterized by judgment, accuracy and minuteness, and 
 few have rivaled him as the expositor of anatomical 
 science. His general learning was, however, very 
 limited, and he was too indifferent to the improve- 
 ments which the investigations of modern physiolo- 
 gists and pathologists have made. (Thompson's 
 "History of Long Island," Appendix, vol. H.) 
 
 "Probably the most noted surgeon of the beginning 
 of the century, and one most frequently quoted in 
 the annals of the city (New York), was WRIGHT 
 Post (1766- 1828), one of the first American pupils 
 of John Hunter, in London, being one of a class of 
 ten from different parts of the world. He became 
 professor of surgery, and subsequently of anatomy, 
 in Columbia College. He was a careful, slow, and 
 elegant operator, the first in America to tie the sub- 
 clavian artery above the clavicle or collar-bone." 
 (Memorial History of New York 
 
 by James Wilson.) 
 
 The records of the New York Hospital state that 
 Doctor Wright Post served the institution thirty- 
 six years; from 1792 to 1821, as surgeon; from 1821 
 to 1828 (the year of his death), as Consulting Sur- 
 geon. 
 
io8 Post Family. 
 
 second branch. 
 
 Wright Post, M. D. 
 
 Born February 19th, 1766. Died June 14, 1828. 
 Married in 1790, Mary Magdalen, daughter of 
 Richard Bayley, M. D. She died April 9, 1856. 
 
 Of Mary Bayley's parentage, the following ac- 
 count is interesting; it is taken from "An old family, 
 or the Setons of Scotland," by Monsignor Seton 
 (Robert Seton, D. D.) 
 
 "The first who came to the Colonies was William 
 Bayley, a younger son of the Bayleys of 'Haddes- 
 ton,' in Hertfordshire, England, whose arms were: 
 'Argent, three torteaux — two and one — a chief 
 gules.' He sailed from Lynn Regis for New York 
 in 1726. He was a gentleman of means and educa- 
 tion, and came originally only on his travels, but 
 falling in love with Susannah, the beautiful daugh- 
 ter of William Le Compte, or Le Conte as he 
 always wrote it, of the French settlement at New 
 Rochelle, New York, he married her and re- 
 mained there. The family of William Bayley's 
 wife, Susannah Le Conte, is said in Baird's 
 "History of the Huguenot Emigration to Amer- 
 ica" (vol. H, p. 75), to derive from Guillaume 
 Le Conte, who was born in Rouen, March 6, 
 1659, and died in New York in 1720. There 
 
Post Family. 109 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 is a family tradition that he was descended on 
 his mother's or grandmother's side from the 
 Barons de Nonant. Guillaume Le Conte married, 
 February 17, 1701, Margaret de Valleau, daughter 
 of Pierre Joyeaux de Valleau, of the Island of Mar- 
 tinique, who died soon after, leaving one child, a 
 son, called William, born December 3, 1701. (He 
 was married twice, and his first wife was Grace, 
 daughter of George Walrond, Esq., of the Island 
 of Barbadoes, whose father was a distinguished Roy- 
 alist Commander in the Civil War in England, and 
 had been created, in 1653, by Philip IV of Spain, 
 'Marquis de Vallads, etc' The title continued in 
 the family, and is found among other 'Foreign titles 
 of Nobility' at the end of 'Burk's Peerage.') 
 
 "William Le Conte married Ann Besly, of New 
 Rochelle, and had two daughters, the younger of 
 whom, Susannah, married William Bayley. Wil- 
 liam Bayley had two sons by this marriage, Richard 
 Bayley, born at Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1744 
 (the church records were burnt during the Revolu- 
 tion, hence the uncertainty of the exact date), and 
 William Bayley, born at New Rochelle, August 8, 
 1745- 
 
 "Richard Bayley married twice, first in 1767, Cath- 
 erine Charlton, daughter of Rev. Richard Charlton, 
 and Mary Bayeux, his wife. Mrs. Richard Bayley 
 
no Post Family. 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 died at Newtown, Long Island, in May, 1777, leav- 
 ing two daughters, Mary, who married Dr. WRIGHT 
 Post, and Elizabeth Ann, who married William 
 Seton. 
 
 "The Rev. Richard Charlton, mentioned above, 
 was descended from a family of distinction in Ire- 
 land. One of his daughters (sister of Catherine, 
 wife of Richard Bayley,) married Lord Dongan, 
 Governor of the Province of New York, afterwards 
 Earl of Limerick. Rev. Richard Charlton was at 
 one time assistant minister of Trinity Church, New 
 York, from 1732 to 1747. 
 
 "Richard Bayley married the second time, June 
 16, 1778, Charlotte Amelia Barclay, daughter of An- 
 drew Barclay and Helen Roosevelt. They had a 
 large family of sons and daughters, one of whom, 
 Guy Carleton Bayley born 1786, married Grace 
 Roosevelt November 14, 1813, and their eldest son 
 was Archbishop Bayley, of Baltimore, Maryland. 
 
 "Charlotte Amelia Barclay, second wife and 
 widow of Richard Bayley, and sister-in-law of 
 Augustus van Cortland, Sr., is buried near the Van 
 Cortland Manor house, on 'Vault Hill,' where the 
 inscription reads: 
 
 Charlotte Amelia Bayley, 
 
 relict of Doctor Richard Bayley, 
 
 who died the ist day of Sept., 1805." 
 
Post Family. 1 1 1 
 
 second branch. 
 
 Wright Post and Mary Magdalen Bayley. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Catherine Charlton Post, born October 20, 
 
 1798, died January 20, 1828. Married Feb- 
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 1843, son of James, grandson of Lewis Mor- 
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 Had 
 James Morris, born March 14, 1825, died 
 January 29, 1853, unmarried. 
 
 2. Richard Bayley Post, married Harriet Wads- 
 
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 3. Eugene Post, married first, Priscilla Ridgely 
 
 Howard; second, Margaret Elizabeth How- 
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 4. Lionel Post, unmarried. 
 
 5. Edward Post, unmarried. 
 
 6. Mary Post, married Robert Hawthorne. 
 
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 -I William Meredith Hawthorne. 
 
 -4 John Maxwell Nesbitt Hawthorne married 
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 -2 Mary Magdalen Post. 
 
 -I Eugene Howard Post married Mary Adams. 
 
 -6 Faith Post, died in childhood. 
 
 -5 Emily Post, died in childhood. 
 
 -4 Harriet Terry Post married Casper Wistar Hodge. 
 
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 -1 Catharine Wadsworth Post married Frederick 
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 -I James Morris, died unmarried. 
 
Post Family. 1 13 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 Sons of 
 Wright Post, M.D., 
 Leaving Descendants: 
 
 1. Richard Bayley Post. 
 
 2. Eugene Post. 
 
114 Post Family. 
 
 second branch. 
 
 Richard Bayley Post, 
 Eldest Son of Wright Post, M.D., 
 Married Harriet Wadsworth Terry. 
 Had 
 
 1. Richard Bayley Post, died in infancy. 
 
 2. Catherine Wadsworth Post, born January 
 
 1 1, 1827; died June 19, 1869; married July i, 
 1857, Frederick Philipse,* of Highland 
 Grange, Garrisons, New York; born July 5, 
 1804; died October 26, 1874; eldest son of 
 Mary Philips and Samuel Gouverneur. Had 
 
 I. Mary Philipse, born May 4, 
 1858; died January 6, 1862. 
 
 II. Frederick Philipse, Jr., born 
 January 9, i860; died March 5, 
 'i860. 
 
 HI. Catherine Wadsworth Philipse, 
 born September 18, 1861. 
 
 IV. Margaret Gouverneur Philipse, 
 born June 27, 1864. 
 
 * Frederick Philipse Gouverneur inherited the old Philipse Home- 
 stead of Highland Grange at Garrisons, New York, from his grand- 
 father, Capt. Frederick Philips, and dropped the surname of Gouver- 
 neur at his request on succeeding to the property by an act of Legisla- 
 ture passed April 7, 18,^0. He resumed the old spelling of the name 
 Philipse with a terminal e, which his grandfather had dropped. 
 
Post Family. 115 
 
 SECOxND BRANCH. 
 
 3. Mary Moris Post, unmarried. 
 
 4. Richard Bayley Post, married Eliza Dean 
 
 Arden. 
 
 5. Harriet Terry Post, married Caspar Wistar 
 
 Hodge, no issue. 
 
 6. Emily Post, died in childhood. 
 
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 -5 Lionel Post married Lucille Veronica 
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 -4 Adrian Terry Post. 
 
 -3 Richard Bayley Post married Silvie 
 Livingston Strong. 
 
 -2 Arden Post married Mabel Maud 
 Blanchard. 
 
 -I Lillian de Peyster Post married John 
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 second branch. 
 
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 Entered St. Stephen's College, Annandale, New 
 York, September, 1859; graduated 1863. Entered 
 General Theological Seminary, New York, 1863; 
 graduated 1865. Went to Hawaiian Islands as xMis- 
 sionary in February, 1866. Remained at Honolulu, 
 H. I., until May, 1867, when ill health obliged him 
 to return home via San Francisco. Remained in 
 the latter place at the request of the Bishop of Cali- 
 fornia, in charge of the parish of St. James, for three 
 months until the return of the Rector. On ist of 
 January, 1868, accepted a call to All Saints Parish, 
 Sing Sing, N. Y. In April, 1869, accepted a call 
 to Christ Church Parish, South Amboy, N. J. Re- 
 mained in this parish until May, 1886. In this 
 month he took charge of the parish of the Church of 
 the Holy Communion, South Orange, N. J., remain- 
 ing there until September, 1890. During the next 
 two years and a half he had charge of two parishes 
 until a Rector could be procured, declining a call 
 to each of them. In 1893 h^ ^'^'^s called as assistant 
 of Christ Church, Elizabeth, and Vicar of St. Paul's 
 Chapel in the same parish. 
 
1 1 8 Post Family. 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 Rev. Richard Bayley Post married February 
 13, 1866, Eliza Dean Arden, daughter of Colonel 
 Thomas B. Arden. 
 
 Colonel Arden was born at Yorkville, July 27, 
 1813. Entered West Point in 1831, graduated in 
 1835, and was assigned to the 7th Infantry. After 
 graduation, he immediately entered on active service 
 and was sent out to the Indian frontier. He was en- 
 gaged in the Seminole War. He returned to the 
 Academy at West Point as assistant instructor of in- 
 fantry tactics, resigned in 1842, taking up his resi- 
 dence on his father's estate, occupying the old Bev- 
 crlv Robinson house, once Arnold's headquarters 
 while in command at West Point. Shortly before 
 his father's death he removed to the homestead, Ar- 
 denia, in 1866. 
 
 At the outbreak of the Rebellion, in 1861, he of- 
 fered his services to the United States Government 
 through General Scott, and, not hearing from Wash- 
 ington, he was requested to serve as aide to Major- 
 General Sandford, which he consented to do (with 
 the rank of major), and went through the Patterson 
 campaign. On the return of that body, at the in- 
 stance and advice of Major-General Richard Dela- 
 field, U. S. Army, Governor Edwin D. Morgan ap- 
 pointed him his military adviser and aide with the 
 rank of colonel. In this latter capacitv he rendered 
 
Posf Family. II9 
 
 SECOND BRAXCH. 
 
 his best and most efficient service, both to his coun- 
 try and State; for, while nominally but an aide-de- 
 camp, he was the Board of Examination for all offi- 
 cers desiring commands in all branches of the ser- 
 vice, and was constantly occupied visiting the camps 
 of volunteers in various parts of the State. After- 
 ward he was detailed to be near the United States 
 Government and look after the general interests of 
 our troops in field, camp and hospital, especially the 
 Army of the Potomac and its adjacent commands. 
 
 On the expiration of Governor Morgan's admin- 
 istration Colonel Arden returned to private life, and 
 to the resumption of the quiet retirement on his estate 
 and the pleasures and tastes of the old-time country 
 gentleman, where he always found abundant amuse- 
 ment as well as resource. For many years he kept 
 a meteorological journal for the benefit of the Smith- 
 sonian Institute. He was interested in the Putnam 
 County Agricultural Society, and in this connection 
 was the assistant of our government in the introduc- 
 tion of manv seeds of various vegetables to the neigh- 
 boring farmers. Colonel Arden took a great interest 
 in the beautiful little parish church of St. Philip's, 
 in the Highlands, and had special charge of the 
 grounds surrounding it, serving fo.r a long time as 
 both vestryman and warden. 
 
 Colonel Arden married Jane de Peyster, a direct 
 descendant of Hon. Johannes de Peyster. 
 
I20 Post Family. 
 
 SECOND B R A x\ C H . 
 
 Rev. Richard Bailey Post and Eliza Dean Arden 
 
 Had 
 r. Lilian de Peyster Post, born at Honolulu, 
 Hawaii, November 19, 1866. Married, April 15, 
 1896, John Arthur Pulsford. 
 
 2. Arden Post, born January 27, 1868. Gradu- 
 ate of Stevens Institute, M. E. (Mechanical Engi- 
 neer), 1891. Married, June 27, 1895, Mabel Maud 
 Blanchard. 
 
 Had 
 Ardex Carey Post, born at South Orange, April 
 17, igo2. 
 
 3. Richard Bayley Post H, born October 15, 
 1870. Graduated from Columbia College, School 
 of Mines, Architectural Department, 1894. Mar- 
 ried, April 8, 1901, Silvie Livingston Strong. 
 
 Had 
 Alleta Bayley Post, born at Babylon, Long 
 Island, September 6, 1902. 
 
 4. Adrian Terry Post, born May 13, 1872. Is 
 in Marine Insurance. 
 
 5. Lionel Post, born July 5, 1875. Graduate of 
 Stevens Institute, M. E. (Mechanical Engineer), 
 class of 1899. Married, March 28, 1903, Lucille 
 Veronica Mravlag, daughter of Dr. Victor Mravlag. 
 
 6. Helen Wadsworth Post, born March i, 1880. 
 
Post Family. 121 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 EUGENE POST. 
 
 Second son of Wright Post, M. D., and Mary 
 Magdalen Bayley, born October 28, 1810. Died 
 August 7, 1884. Married first, July 9, 1835, Pris- 
 cilla Ridgely Howard, born July 31, 1814; died 
 May 15, 1837. Married second, October 2, 1838, 
 Margaret Elizabeth Howard, born August 7, 1816; 
 died February 18, 1901. 
 
 Priscilla and Margaret Howard were sisters, and 
 daughters of Governor George Howard, of Mary- 
 land, and his wife. Prudence Ridgely, daughter of 
 General Charles Ridgely, of "Hampton," and Pris- 
 cilla Dorsey, his wife. Governor George Howard 
 was the son of Colonel John Eager Howard, of 
 Revolutionary fame, and his wife, Margaretta Chew, 
 daughter of Chief Justice Chew, of Pennsylvania. 
 

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 -1 Elizabeth Post. 
 
 -5 Walter Post Duvall, 
 
 -4 George Howard Duvall. 
 
 -3 William Edward Post Duv.iU. 
 
 -2 Eugene Post Duvall, dead. 
 
 -1 Ridgely Duvall, dead. 
 
 -s Franck Donalson Post, dead. 
 
 -4 John Eugene Howard Post. 
 
 -5 James Nicholson Post, dead. 
 
 -2 Harriet Parker Post, dead. 
 
 -1 John Eagei Howard Post, dead. 
 
 -5 Sophia Howard Post. dead. 
 -2 Margaret Elizabeth Post, dead. 
 -I Eugene Post, dead 
 
 
Post Family. 123 
 
 second branch. 
 
 Eugene Post and Priscillia Howard 
 Had 
 Eugene Howard Post, born April 23, 1837, 
 Died October 10, 1873. Married September ig, 
 1865, to Mary Adams, daughter of Captain George 
 Adams, U. S. Navy. She was born January 9, 1846; 
 died January 7, 1877. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Eugene Post, born June 30, 1867; died August 
 
 7, 1896. 
 
 2. Margaret Elizabeth Post, born September 
 
 3, 1868; died April 17, 1869. 
 
 3. Sophia How.ard Post, born June 3, 1871 ; died 
 
 March 4, 1874. 
 (This branch extinct.) 
 
124 Poi/ Family. 
 
 second branch. 
 
 Eugene Post and Margaret Elizabeth Howard 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Mary Magdalene Post, born September 13 
 
 1839. 
 
 2. John Eager Howard Post, born January 19, 
 
 1841; died February 12, 1876. Married 
 Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson, April 17, 1866. 
 
 3. SoPHL^ Howard Post, born October 25, 1842; 
 
 died April 18, 1897. Married June 4, 1858, 
 Ridgely Duvall, of Baltimore, Md. 
 Had 
 I. Ridgely Duvall, born April 12, i860; 
 died June 9, 1895. Married, November 
 7, 1888, Margaret Spady Costin of Vir- 
 ginia. 
 
 Had 
 a. Severn Parker Costin Duvall, 
 born March 6, 1893. 
 
 n. Eugene Post Duvall, born June, 1867; 
 
 died August 18, 1867. 
 HI. William Edward Post Duvall, born 
 February 25, 1872. Married January 
 19, 1898, Mary Humerickhouse. 
 Had 
 a. Mary Humerickhouse Duvall, 
 born November 1;, 1901. 
 
Post Family. 125 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 IV. George Howard Duvall, born Decem- 
 ber 6, 1873. Married, September, 1896, 
 Louise Berry of Washington, D .C. 
 
 Had 
 
 a. Sophia Howard Post Duvall, 
 
 born November 4, 1897. 
 
 b. Louise Berry Duvall, born 
 
 1902. 
 
 V. Walter Duvall, born June 9, 1879. 
 
 4. George Howard Post, born 1844, died 1846. 
 
 5. Richard Bayley Post, born January 8, 1847. 
 
 Married Ella Stump, November i, 1866. 
 
 6. William Edward Post, born July 7, 1850. 
 
 Married Mary Boyce, April 15, 1876. 
 
126 Post Family. 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 SONS OF EUGENE POST. 
 
 LEAVING DESCENDANTS : 
 
 r . John Eager Howard Post. 
 
 2. Richard Bayley Post. 
 
 3. William Edward Post. 
 
Post Family. 127 
 
 second branch. 
 John Eager Howard Post. 
 
 Born January 19, 1841. Died February 12, 1876. 
 
 "When the great Civil War broke out JOHN Eager 
 Howard Post joined the Confederate Army. He 
 left Baltimore, Maryland, September 3, 1861, and 
 enlisted first as a private in Company A, ist Mary- 
 land Infantry, C. S. Army, serving in this capacity 
 in all the battles in which the ist Maryland Infantry 
 was engaged, and when his term of service expired, 
 he joined the ist Maryland Cavalry Regiment, C. 
 S. Army, and was shortly after elected ist Lieutenant 
 of Company C. He served with distinction and 
 was soon after chosen adjutant of same regiment 
 with rank of lieutenant, and afterward rank of 
 captain, which he held to the close of the war. He 
 fought in most of the great battles, — was with 
 "Ashby," "Ewell," "J. E. B. Stewart," and in the 
 "Stonewall Brigade," and with General R. E. Lee's 
 army. Among other battles, he was present at 
 Gettysburg. He was a gallant and accomplished 
 soldier, and readily won the love, respect and esteem 
 of all who knew him. 
 
 After the close of the war he returned to his home 
 in Baltimore, in May, 1865, ^"d soon after engaged 
 in mercantile pursuits. 
 
128 Post Family. 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 When the "Fifth Maryland Regiment" was organ- 
 ized he was one of the first to join and was chosen 
 first lieutenant of Company K, and afterward 
 elected captain of the same company, which position 
 he held at the time of his death. He was equally 
 popular with officers and men in the "Fifth," as he 
 was in the C. S. Army, and his early death cast a 
 deep gloom over a large circle of friends, as well as 
 over his family." 
 
 April 17, 1866, John E.ager Howard Post mar- 
 ried Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson (born May 28, 1842), 
 second daughter of James Macon Nicholson and his 
 wife, Arinthea Darby Parker (a daughter of John 
 Andrews Parker, of "Poplar Grove," Accineac 
 County, Virginia, and his wife, Harriet Burleigh 
 Darby, daughter of Colonel John Darby and his 
 wife, Esther Christian, of "Oak Grove," Northamp- 
 ton County, Virginia.) 
 
 James Macon Nicholson was son of Judge Joseph 
 Hopper Nicholson, of Maryland, and his wife, Kt- 
 becca Lloyd (daughter of Hon. Colonel Edward 
 Lloyd IV, of "Wye House," Talbot County, Mary- 
 land, and his wife, Elizabeth Tayloe, daughter of 
 Hon. Colonel John Tayloe, of "Mt. Airy," Rich- 
 mond County, Virginia, and his wife, Rebecca Plat- 
 ter. 
 
Post Family. 129 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 The widow of John Eager Howard Post married 
 the second time, Dr. Edward Shippen, of Philadel- 
 phia, Pa., on December 3, 1878. They had one 
 child, Lloyd Parker Shippen, born October 18, 
 1879. Dr. Edward Shippen died April 22, 1895. 
 
130 Post Family. 
 
 SECOND BRANCH 
 
 John Eager Howard Post and Rebecca Lloyd 
 Nicholson 
 
 Had 
 
 1. John Eager Howard Post, born May 10, 
 
 1868; died June 29, 1869. 
 
 2. Harriet Parker Post, born September i, 
 
 1869; died November 26, 1878. 
 
 3. James Nicholson Post, born July 8, 1871; 
 
 died October 2, 1877. 
 
 4. John Eugene Howard Post, bom February 
 
 2, 1873. 
 
 5. Frank Donaldson Post, born September 24, 
 
 1874; died August 21, 1875. 
 
Post Family. 131 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 The only surviving child is JOHN EuGENE HOW- 
 ARD Post, born February 2, 1873. He went at the 
 age of five years, in December, 1878, to Europe with 
 his mother (who married, December 3, 1878, Dr. 
 Edward Shippen, of Philadelphia), and was edu- 
 cated abroad, principally in Florence, Italy. His 
 teacher in Florence was the celebrated Prof. Do- 
 menge, member of the French Academy, who after 
 1849 left France to settle in Florence, where for 
 forty years the Institute Domenge was one of the 
 great educational centres. He graduated in 
 1 89 1 among the first in his class. He returned to 
 Baltimore, September, 1891, and entered the "Johns 
 Hopkins University," October, 1891, from which he 
 graduated, taking his degree of B. A. in June, 1894. 
 
 In 1895 he went abroad with his mother and half- 
 brother, Lloyd Shippen, for a year's travel. Re- 
 turned to the University in October, 1896, to take a 
 Ph.D. in French, but his health broke down during 
 the winter of 1896-97 and he was obliged to leave 
 college. For a time he tutored and prepared boys 
 for college, but was appointed in April, 1902, teacher 
 of French at the "Country School for Boys," near 
 Baltimore, where he still remains (March, 1905). 
 He is a member of the University Club of Baltimore, 
 Maryland. 
 
132 Post Family. 
 
 second branch. 
 
 Richard Bayley Post. 
 Born January 8, 1847. Married, November i, 
 1866, Ella Stump, daughter of Alexander Hamilton 
 Stump, and Elizabeth Boardley, his wife, of Mary- 
 land. They were married at "Stoneton," by the 
 Rev. Mr. Lockwood, of Garrison Forest Church. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Elizabeth Boardley Post, born August 21, 
 
 1867. Married, November, 1893, William 
 Costin, son of Robert Costin and Catherine 
 Purnell Parker, his wife, of "Kendall Grove," 
 Northampton County, Virginia. 
 
 2. Alexander Hamilton Stump Post, born No- 
 
 vember 6, 1870. 
 
 3. Margaret Howard Post, born May 29, 1875. 
 
 Married William McMurtrie Speer, of New 
 York. 
 
 Had 
 I. Margaret H. Speer. 
 
 4. Martha Goldsborough Post, born September 
 
 24, 1880. 
 
Post Family. 133 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 Alexander Hamilton Stump Post, son of Rich- 
 ard Bayley Post, born in Baltimore County, No- 
 vember 6, 1870. At the age of sixteen, having de- 
 clined a college education, he entered the old estab- 
 lished banking house of Wilson, Colsten & Co., 
 where he remained four years. In June, 1890, he 
 accepted an ofifer of a junior clerkship in the Mer- 
 cantile Trust and Deposit Co., the largest financial 
 institution in the South. After working through the 
 various departments of that company, he was, in 
 March, 1897, elected third vice-president. 
 
 He is identified with sports of every kind, and a 
 member of the principal clubs of Baltimore. 
 
134 Post Family. 
 
 second branch. 
 
 William Edward Post. 
 
 Born June 7, 1850. Married April 15, 1876, 
 Mary Elizabeth Boyce, daughter of James Boyce, 
 of Baltimore, Maryland. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Florence Elizabeth Post, born January 27, 
 
 1877; died April 12, 1877. 
 
 2. Mabel Howard Post, born August 20, 1878. 
 
 Married, April 14, 1900, Harry Lee Reed, of 
 Baltimore, Maryland. 
 
 Had 
 I. Mabel Howard Post Reed, born 
 August 13, 1901. 
 
 3. James Boyce Post, born January 31, 1881. 
 
 Was drowned by capsizing of boat in a heavy 
 storm in Chesapeake Bay, near Baltimore, 
 July 20, 1902. 
 
Post Family. 135 
 
 SECOND BRANCH. 
 
 Daughters of Wright Post, M.D., 
 Leaving Descendants: 
 
 1. Mary Post. 
 
 2. Emily Post. 
 
136 Post Family. 
 
 second branch. 
 
 Mary Post. 
 
 Mary, sixth child of WRIGHT POST, M. D., mar- 
 ried Robert Hawthorne. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Eugene Post Hawthorne, married Frances 
 
 Ludlow. 
 
 Had 
 
 I. Eugenia Hawthorne, married . 
 
 II. Frances Ludlow Hawthorne. 
 
 III. Mary Glover Hawthorne. 
 
 IV. Gertrude Meredith Hawthorne. 
 
 V. Ludlow Hawthorne. 
 
 VI. Robert Howard Hawthorne. 
 
 2. Robert Hawthorne,) r., married Augusta Eliza- 
 
 beth Ludlow, had no children. 
 
 3. Archibald Charles Edward Hawthorne, mar- 
 
 ried Mary Schenckberg. 
 Had 
 I. Mary Schenckberg Hawthorne. 
 
 4. John Maxwell Nesbitt Hawthorne, married 
 
 first Elizabeth Bayard; second Annie Giles. 
 Had 
 First marriage. Bayard Hawthorne, married Alice 
 White. 
 
 Second marriage, Annie Giles Hawthorne. 
 
Post Family. lyj 
 
 second branch. 
 
 Emily Post. 
 
 Emily Posx.seventh child of Wright Post.M.D., 
 married first, Frederick. Gore King, youngest son of 
 Rufus King; no children. Married second, Wil- 
 liam Meredith Hawthorne, brother of MARY POST'S 
 husband, Robert Hawthorne. 
 
 Emily Post and William Hawthorne 
 Had 
 
 1. William Meredith Hawthorne, unmarried. 
 
 2. Wright Post Hawthorne, married Ellen Sharp. 
 
 Had 
 I. Norman Hawthorne, 
 n. Ellen Hawthorne. 
 
 3. David Meredith Hawthorne, married Nancy 
 
 Rowley. 
 
 Had 
 I. David Hawthorne. 
 
 4. Emily Hawthorne, married Henry W. Rogers. 
 
 5. Edward Post Hawthorne, married Elizabeth 
 
 Giles. 
 
 Had 
 
 I. Meredith Giles Hawthorne, 
 n. Henry Rogers Hawthorne. 
 
138 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 JOEL POST, 
 
 Born 1768. 
 AND HIS Descendants. 
 
JOEL POST. 
 
Post Family. 139 
 
 third branch. 
 
 Joel Post. 
 
 Third son of JOTHAM POST I. Born June 27, 
 1768; died April 7, 1835. Married, May 21, 1796, 
 to his first wife, Elizabeth Browne, who was born 
 October 4, 1774. She was the daughter of Dr. Peter 
 Browne. Her grandfather was Isaac Browne and 
 her grandmother a Miss Cutter-Cowell. 
 
 Isaac Browne was an Episcopal clergyman and a 
 Tory. He fled to Nova Scotia when the English 
 evacuated New York, November 25, 1783. Her 
 brother was a Major in the British Army. The sis- 
 ter of Dr. Peter Browne married Mr. Ogden, who 
 was Chief Justice of Canada. The Brownes were 
 from Boston and related to the Faneuils. 
 
 Joel Post's second wife was Alma Floyd, whom 
 he married April 29, 1820. She was born April 19, 
 1794. Died November 30, 1843. Alma Floyd was 
 sister of Elizabeth Floyd, who married JOEL POST'S 
 brother, ALLISON POST. These sisters were nieces 
 of Abigail Floyd, wife of WiLLiAM POST, eldest 
 brother of JOEL and ALLISON. 
 
 Joel Post was in the wholesale drug importing 
 business with his brothers, firm of J. J. and A. PoST. 
 In 1820 Joel Post purchased the property known as 
 Claremont, and shortly after the adjoining property 
 called Monte Alta. In 1873 the city purchased from 
 
140 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 Joel Post's descendants the house and the land bor- 
 dering on the river for the terminus of Riverside 
 Park. On the land acquired by the city is the site 
 of Grant's tomb and the nearby grave of "An Amia- 
 ble Child," about which so much has been written. 
 This grave was on the place when purchased by JOEL 
 Post in 1820. 
 
Post Family. 141 
 
 third branch. 
 
 Joel Post and his first wife, Elizabeth Browne, 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Winifred Post, born April 16, 1797; died 
 
 November 29, 1875; unmarried. 
 
 2. Mary Post, born April 2, 1799; died March 
 
 23, 1885 ; unmarried. 
 
 3. George Dominick Post, born February 22, 
 
 1801; died November 2, 1869; unmarried. 
 Graduated from Columbia College in 1818. 
 Was Counsellor at Law. 
 
 4. Henry Albertson Van Zo Post, born Sep- 
 
 tember 21, 1803 ; died September 21, 1832, un- 
 married. Graduated from Columbia Col- 
 lege in 1 82 1, C. L. (Counsellor at Law.) 
 H. A. V. Post went as Commissioner to 
 Greece, in 1 82 1 , in the ship sent with contribu- 
 tions to the Greek insurgents. 
 
 5. Alfred Charles Post, M. D., born January 
 
 13, 1806; died February 7, 1886; married 
 Harriet Beers. 
 
 6. Joel Browne Post, born June 17, 18 10; died 
 
 December 29, 1882; married Abby Mauran 
 Church. 
 
142 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 Joel Post by his second marriage witli Alma Floyd 
 
 Had 
 
 7. Anne Post, born April 17, 1821 ; died March 
 
 19, 1899; married first, William W. Liver- 
 more; 
 
 Had 
 I. William Livermore. 
 H. Adele Livermore, married Rev. Alex- 
 ander Schuyler Hamilton. 
 Anne married second, Edward Livermore, no 
 issue. 
 
 8. Edward Post, born January 9, 1823; died July 
 
 15, 1851 ; married, November 20, 1844, Clem- 
 entine Church, sister of Abby Mauran 
 Church, wife of JOEL BROWNE PoST. 
 
 9. John Alexander Post, born December 15, 
 
 1825; died in England, October 28, 1894; 
 married Adeline Forbes. 
 10. Wright Eli Post, born June 2, 1828; married 
 May 2, 1853, Clementine Church, widow of 
 his brother Edward; no issue. 
 
 Wright E. Post was a graduate of New York 
 University, taking his degrees of B. A. and M. A. 
 Afterward went to the Harvard Law School and 
 took his degree of LL.B. Was admitted to the New 
 York Bar, but did not practise. Spent all the latter 
 part of his life in Paris. 
 
Post Family. I43 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 Sons of Joel Post, 
 
 LEAVING descendants: 
 
 1. Alfred Charles Post, M. D. 
 
 2. Joel Browne Post. 
 
 3. Edward Post. 
 
 4. John Alexander Post. 
 

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 "7 Edgar Norris Post. 
 
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 -4 Alfred Augustus Post 
 married Emma Dale. 
 
 -3 Henry A. V. Post. 
 
 -2 Margaret Post married 
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 -I Emma Post. 
 
 — 4 Henry A. V. Post, 
 
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 Alfred Charles Post, M. D. 
 
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 1806; died February 7, 1886; married April 13, 
 183 1, to Harriet Beers. The following is among 
 the very many obituary notices of Dr. PoST: 
 
 "Dr. Alfred C. Post, the well-known surgeon, 
 died yesterday (February 7, 1886,) at his residence, 
 No. 291 Madison Avenue, in the eighty-first year of 
 his age. 
 
 "Dr. Post was the son of JOEL POST, an eminent 
 merchant of the old firm of J. & J. PoST, formerly 
 of Hanover Square. JOEL POST in his lifetime oc- 
 cupied as his country seat the property known as 
 Claremont, now forming in part the Riverside Park, 
 and embracing the site of General Grant's tomb. 
 Much of this property still remains in the ownership 
 of the family. Dr. PoST entered Columbia College 
 when less than fourteen years old, and, in fact, was 
 prepared to enter college two years earlier. After 
 his graduation, in 1822, he became a medical student 
 in the office of his uncle, Dr. WRIGHT PoST, an emi- 
 nent surgeon of a former generation. He also took 
 the course of instruction in the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons, where he graduated in 1827. He 
 then went to Europe to complete his medical educa- 
 tion, studying in Paris, Berlin and Edinburgh. On 
 
Post Family. 147 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 his return, in 1829, he began the active practice of 
 his profession in this city (New York) and continued 
 it until the week before his death, a period of nearly 
 fifty-seven years. He had a preference for surgical 
 practice, and in that department he won his greatest 
 fame. In his operations he exhibited marked pre- 
 cision and dexterity, and great mechanical ingenuity 
 in devising instruments and appliances. He first in 
 America operated for stammering, and as early as 
 1840 devised a new method of performing bilateral 
 lithotomy. His love for surgery kept him in active 
 practice as a surgeon after he reached eighty years 
 of age, a later period of active practice than that 
 reached by any other surgeon in this city. 
 
 "Dr. Post as early as 1836 was made one of the at- 
 tending surgeons at the New York Hospital,* and 
 more recently was connected with the medical staff 
 of St. Luke's and the Presbyterian Hospital. He 
 was one of the founders of the medical department 
 of the University of the City of New York, taking 
 the chair of surgery and pathological anatomy, and 
 at the time of his death was President of the Medical 
 Faculty and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery 
 in that institution. His skill and devotion gave him 
 early distinction in his profession, and he was widely 
 known in this country and in Europe. 
 
 * Dr. Alfred C. Post, according to the records of the New York Hos- 
 pital, served that institution fifty years. He was surgeon from 1836 
 to 1853, and consulting surgeon from 1853 until his death in 1886. 
 
148 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 "Aside from his mechanical skill in operations, 
 perhaps Dr. POST'S greatest eminence was due to his 
 encyclopedic knowledge. His memory was appar- 
 ently never at fault, and all manner of learning and 
 statistical information, together with the choicest 
 treasures of literature, seemed to be at all times sub- 
 ject to his instant command. He was very active 
 in the usual medical meetings and conventions, read- 
 ing many important papers on these occasions. None 
 of his writings, however, were published in book 
 form, except some early publications on strabismus, 
 club feet and stammering. In late years he labored 
 much in the line of plastic surgery, and made im- 
 portant reports of operations in that line. From 
 early life he was a devoted and consistent Christian. 
 He was connected with many of the theological, re- 
 ligious, and charitable societies of this city, giving 
 largely of his time and of his means in this direction. 
 At the time of his death he was President of the New 
 York Medical Missionary Association, one of the 
 Directors of the Union Theological Seminary, and 
 an Elder in the Church of the Covenant. About the 
 year 183 1 Dr. POST married Harriet, a daughter of 
 Cyrenius Beers, whom he survived nearly nine years. 
 Of their children, three sons and four daughters sur- 
 vive their father. One of his sons, GEORGE E. PoST, 
 of the Presbyterian Mission, at Beirut, Syria, has also 
 reached distinction as a surgeon." 
 
Post Family. 149 
 
 third branch. 
 
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 2. Margaret Elizabeth Post, born 1834; mar- 
 
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 3. Henry Albertson Post, born 1835; died No- 
 
 vember 12, 1861; married, i860, to Fanny 
 Smith ; no issue. 
 
 4. Alfred Augustus Post, born 1837; died Sep- 
 
 tember 4, 1903; married, 1867, ^'^ Emma 
 Dale. 
 
 5. George Edward Post, born December 17, 
 
 1838; married, 1863, to Sarah Read. 
 
 6. Harriet Edith Post, born 1840; married, 
 
 1859, to Rev. Arthur Mitchell. 
 
 7. Edgar Norris Post, born 1842; died 1842. 
 
 8. William Henry Post, M. D., born 1843; died 
 
 1886; not married. Served in the Civil War 
 in the 22d Regiment, New York, as assistant 
 surgeon and 3d Sergeant, Company H, in 
 1862. In 1863, ist Sergeant; Company H, 
 appointed assistant surgeon; afterwards served 
 in Sherman's army in Georgia. 
 
 9. Erskine Mason Post, born 1845; died 1852. 
 
 10. Julia Post, born 1847; married 1869, to Rev. 
 
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Post Family. 151 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 Sons of 
 
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152 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH 
 
 Alfred Augustus Post. 
 
 Alfred Augustus Post, fifth child of Alfred 
 Charles Post, M. D., born 1837; died at Denver, 
 Colorado, September 4, 1903. He served as private 
 in the 22d Regiment, Company H, during its cam- 
 paign, 1862. Married, in 1867, to Emma Dale. 
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Post Family. 153 
 
 third branch. 
 
 George Edward Post, M. D. 
 
 George Edward Post, M. D., fifth child of Al- 
 fred Charles Post, M. D., born December 17, 
 1838; married, September 17, 1863, to Sarah Read, 
 daughter of Robert and Frances Read, of George- 
 town, D. C. Graduated B. A. from the College of 
 the City of New York in 1854. Took, his degree of 
 A. M. in 1857 from the same. Graduated with de- 
 gree of M. D., i860, from Medical Department of 
 the University of the City of New York. Gradu- 
 ated from the Union Theological Seminary, New 
 York, 1 86 1. Licensed as a preacher of the gospel 
 by the Presbytery (Fourth) of New York, April, 
 1861. D. D. S., Baltimore College of Dentistry. 
 Was commissioned Chaplain of the 15th Regiment, 
 New York Volunteers, during the Civil War, with 
 rank from 1861 to 1863. Honorably discharged Feb- 
 ruary 6, 1863. Appointed Missionary of the A. B. 
 C. F. M. to Syria in 1863, ^"d arrived at the seat of 
 his labors in November of the same year. Appoint- 
 ed Professor of Surgery in the Syrian Protestant Col- 
 lege 1867; and later made President of the college. 
 
 All his studies and degrees taken in various 
 branches of learning were intended to fit him for 
 missionary work, where knowledge of medicine, den- 
 tistry and surgery are as important as theology. 
 
154 P'^^t Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 After his marriage, in 1863, GEORGE PoST went to 
 Syria as a missionary under the American Bo'ard, 
 but when the "Syrian Protestant College" was 
 founded in Beirut he accepted a call to the chair of 
 "Surgery and Diseases of the Eye and Ear," and has 
 held that position ever since. In connection with his 
 work as professor he holds two cliniques a week at 
 the "Johanniter Hospital," of Beirut, at which he 
 treats from seventy-five to one hundred day patients 
 in surgery, reserving the heavy cases for operation 
 and regular treatment in the wards of the hospital. 
 He also carries on a private city practice, which he 
 uses as a means of giving further training to his sur- 
 gical students. 
 
 He has written in the Arabic language, text books 
 on surgery, physiology and natural history; and pre- 
 pared an Arabic Concordance and an Arabic Bible 
 Dictionary, besides many articles for scientific and 
 religious papers in English. His last work is the 
 completion of his "Flora of Syria and Palestine," the 
 result of thirty years' study and fifteen years' actual 
 preparation, and this work has been done only in 
 recreation hours in addition to his regular work. He 
 has kept up his preaching, holding a regular Sunday 
 service at the Hospital, and preaching something 
 like once in three weeks either at the College Chapel 
 or at other places of worship. 
 
Post Family. 155 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 Dr. George Edward Post has received the fol- 
 lowing decorations: 
 
 Ritter-Kreutz (knight) of the Ducal Order of Sax- 
 ony, for service in the Johanniter Hospital at Beirut. 
 
 Decoration of the fourth class of the Othnaniyyeh 
 Order, conferred by the Sultan of Turkey for public 
 services in behalf of the sick, and for contributions 
 to the scientific literature of Syria. 
 
 He has received membership, regular, correspond- 
 ing or honorary, in the following societies and or- 
 ganizations : 
 
 Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadel- 
 phia. 
 
 Academy of Medicine of New York. 
 
 New York Academy of Sciences. 
 
 The Torrey Botanical Club of New York. 
 
 The Linnaean Society of London. 
 
 The Palestine Exploration Fund of London. 
 
 The American Palestine Exploration Society. 
 
 The College of Pharmacy of New York. 
 
 The Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 
 
 The following works have been published by him: 
 
 Structural and Systematic Botany, 303 pp. octavo, 
 illustrated. Arabic. 
 
156 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 The Mammalia, 143 pp. octavo, illustrated. 
 Arabic. 
 
 The Birds, 97 pp. octavo, illustrated. Arabic. 
 
 Translation of Cuttter's Physiology, 187 pp. duo- 
 decimo, illustrated. Arabic. 
 
 Materia Medica, 304 pp. octavo. Arabic. 
 
 Complete Concordance to the Arabic Scriptures, 
 704 pp. octavo, diamond type. Arabic. 
 
 Surgery, 701 pp. octavo, illustrated. Arabic. 
 
 Flora of Syria, Palestine, Sinai and Egypt, 320 pp. 
 octavo, illustrated. Arabic. 
 
 Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai, 920 pp. small 
 octavo, illustrated. English. , 
 
 Five Years' Editorship of the Medical Periodical 
 "The Tabib." Arabic. 
 
Post Family. 157 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 George Edward Post, M. D., and Sarah Read 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Arthur Mitchell Post, born December 10, 
 
 1864; died May 17, 1865. 
 
 2. Robert Read Post, born in Syria, March 14, 
 
 1866; died August 19, 1869. 
 
 3. Francis Read Post, born July 5, 1873; died 
 
 September 12, 1873. 
 
 4. Alfreda Post, born October 20, 1869. Gradu- 
 
 ated at Packer Collegiate Institute, in Brook- 
 lyn, in 1889; married Rev. Charles Lyman Car- 
 hart. 
 
 5. Bertram Van Dyck Post, born October 26, 
 
 1871; married December 26, 1901, to Caro- 
 line Hyde Hardin. 
 
 6. Wilfred McIlvaine Post, born October 25, 
 
 1876; married June 30, 1904, to Annie Gard- 
 ner Stabb. 
 
158 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH 
 
 Sons of 
 George Edward Post, M. D. 
 
 1. Bertram Van Dyck Post. 
 
 2. Wilfred McIlvaine Post. 
 
Post Family. 159 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 BERTR.AM Van Dyck Post. 
 
 Born October 26, 1871. Graduated valedictorian 
 of his class at Lawrenceville School in 1889. Gradu- 
 ated at Princeton in 1893, having taken fouth prize 
 in the Junior oration contests, and first prize in the 
 Baird oration contest. Studied medicine in the 
 Syrian Protestant College. 
 
 Bertr^^m Van Dyck Post married Caroline 
 Hyde Hardin, December 26, 1901. 
 
 Betram Van Dyck Post and Caroline 
 
 Hyde Hardin 
 
 Had 
 
 Dorothy Isabel Post, 
 
 born December 21, 1902. 
 
i6o Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH 
 
 Dr. Wilfred McIlvaine Post. 
 
 Born October 25, 1876. Graduated at Lawrence- 
 ville School in 1893 and at Princeton in 1897. He 
 took first prize in the Junior oration contest and 
 second prize in the Baird oration contest. He de- 
 livered the class oration and one of the English ora- 
 tions at commencement, and wrote the class ode. 
 Graduated as physician from College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons. After completing his studies in 
 special branches entered, in September, 1904, on 
 the duties of medical missionary in a hospital at 
 Caesarea, Asia Minor, where he has taken up his resi- 
 dence. 
 
 Wilfred McIlvaine Post married June 30, 1904, 
 in Greenock, Scotland, to Annie Gardiner Stabb, 
 daughter of the late Nicholas S. Stabb. 
 
Post Family. i6i 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 Daughters of Alfred Charles Post, M. D., 
 leaving descendants : 
 
 1. Margaret Elizabeth Post. 
 
 2. Harriet Edith Post. 
 
 3. Julia Post. 
 
1 62 Post Family. 
 
 third branch. 
 
 Margaret Elizabeth Post. 
 
 Born 1834; married, 1863, to William S. Opdyke. 
 
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 2. Alfred Post Opdyke, married Hilde Beck. 
 
 Harriet Edith Post. 
 Born 1840; married, 1859, to Rev. Arthur Mit- 
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 2. Alice Mitchell. 
 
 3. Harriet Post Mitchell. 
 
 4. Margaret Johns Mitchell. 
 
 5. Edith Mitchell. 
 
 6. Arthur Mitchell. 
 
 7. Lucy Mitchell, died. 
 
 8. Julia Post Mitchell. 
 
Post Family. 163 
 
 third branch. 
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 Born 1847; married, 1869, to Rev. Peter Augustus 
 
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 2. Mary Rutherford Jay. 
 
 3. Laura Prime Jay, married Frederic DeWitt 
 
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 4. John Jay. 
 
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 Joel Browne Post. 
 
 Joel Browne Post, sixth child of Joel Post, 
 Born in New York, June 17, 18 10; died December 
 29, 1882. Married, July 7, 1835, Abby Mauran 
 Church, who was born October 15, 18 16; died Feb- 
 ruary 12, 1894. 
 
 Abby Church and Clementine Church (wife of 
 Edward Post, and afterward of Wright E. Post,) 
 were from Providence, Rhode Island, the daughters 
 of Captain William Church, descendant of Colonel 
 Benjamin Church, celebrated in the early colonial 
 wars with the Indians. He captured Annawon, the 
 great Indian Chief, and put an end to "King Philip's 
 War." 
 
 Colonel Benjamin Church was born at Duxbury, 
 near Plymouth, in 1639. He settled after the war 
 in Rhode Island, first at Bristol, then at Fall River, 
 lastly at Seconet. 
 
 Abby Mauran Post's sisters, besides Clemen- 
 tine, were Hannah, married to Nicholas Hey- 
 ward, of South Carolina, and MARTHA, married to 
 James Otis, of Boston, and afterward of New York. 
 
 Joel Browne Post was graduated at Columbia 
 College in 1828. 
 
Post Family. 167 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 Sons of 
 
 Joel Browne Post, 
 
 leaving descendants : 
 
 1. George Browne Post. 
 
 2. Charles Alfred Post. 
 
1 68 Post Family. 
 
 third branch. 
 
 George BroWxNE Post. 
 
 Eldest son of JOEL Browne Post and grandson of 
 Joel Post, was born in New York, December 15, 
 1837. After leaving Mr. Churchill's Military 
 School he studied at the University of the City 
 of New York and graduated in the class of Civil En- 
 gineering in 1858. Immediately after his gradua- 
 tion he began the study of architecture under the 
 late Richard Morris Hunt, a man whose name will 
 remain famous in the annals of the profession in this 
 country not only for his own noble works, but for 
 the influence he exerted upon his art and the many 
 noted leaders of architecture in America who were 
 his pupils. 
 
 At the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, GEORGE 
 Post had just begun the practice of his profession. 
 He, however, laid aside his chosen career, entered 
 the army as Captain of the 22d N. G. N. Y. — he had 
 previously been Captain of the Regiment of Union 
 Greys, which had been organized for home service, 
 from which the 22d Regiment was formed. 
 
 George Post's record during the service of the 
 22d Regiment in the field is as follows: 
 
 Captain, commissioned September 24, 1861, com- 
 manding Company C during the first campaign in 
 Maryland and Virginia, and second campaign, in 
 
Post Family. 169 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 1863, in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and New York 
 during the riots. 
 
 He served as Captain and volunteer aid to General 
 Burnside, commanding the Army of the Potomac, 
 at the time of the battle of Fredericksburg, and was 
 thanked on leaving the stafif, "for distinguished ser- 
 vices" in special orders. 
 
 On November 3, 1863, GEORGE POST was 
 
 elected Major of the 22d Regiment. 
 Lieutenant-Colonel, January 12, 1866. 
 Colonel, February 8, 1867. 
 Resigned September 12, 1868. Honorably 
 discharged January 9, 1869. 
 To quote from a biographical article on GEORGE 
 Browne Post, the following is added : 
 
 "Among the great architects, not only of the 
 United States but of the modern world, Mr. GEORGE 
 B. Post occupies a position of singular prominence. 
 
170 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 It is a fact recognized by the public as well as by 
 his own profession, and it may further be said that 
 no individual has done so much to beautify and 
 adorn the metropolis. It would be impossible to 
 even suggest the number of architectual works now 
 adorning New York and other cities that are due to 
 his genius. The long list of public and private con- 
 structions include many of the most famous resi- 
 dences in the city, together with such notable features 
 of New York as the Equitable, the Mills, the Times, 
 the Havemeyer and Post buildings, the New York 
 Hospital, the Produce and Cotton Exchanges, Chick- 
 ering Hall; the residences of Mr. Cornelius Van- 
 derbilt and Mr. C. P. Huntington. At the World's 
 Fair, in Chicago, in 1893, he was the architect of 
 the Manufacturers and Arts Building. While Mr. 
 Post has been a successful and exceedingly busy man, 
 he has also been a public-spirited citizen, giving his 
 advice and experience ungrudgingly for the benefit 
 of his city upon matters of an artistic or professional 
 character." 
 
 George Browne Post was President of the Archi- 
 tectural League and of the American Institute of 
 Architects; also President of the Fine Arts Federa- 
 tion of New York. He is a member of many of the 
 principal sporting clubs in the country and the prin- 
 cipal social clubs of New York. 
 
Post Family. iji 
 
 third branch. 
 
 Dinner to George B. Post. 
 
 "The Vanderbilt gallery in the Fine Arts Building 
 has been the scene of many important gatherings, but 
 of none more interesting than the dinner given last 
 night by the Architectural League to GEORGE B. 
 Post, the architect. It was a memorable occasion 
 in every way. Four hundred men sat down to the 
 table, representing not only architecture, sculpture, 
 and decoration, but writers upon these subjects, and 
 laymen who are interested in them, with a fair 
 sprinkling of visitors from other cities, lay and pro- 
 fessional." 
 
 "The whole affair was characterized by a genuine 
 and spontaneous enthusiasm. The occasion was 
 primarily intended to honor a man who is a leader 
 of the architectural profession in this city. But it 
 meant even more than this. It was a recognition of 
 the part which the architects, as a body, have played 
 in the general progress of the past quarter of a cen- 
 tury; the stimulus which they have given to the sis- 
 ter arts of sculpture and painting; and the debt which 
 all who are interested in national and civic improve- 
 ment owe to them." 
 
 "American architecture is as distinctively Ameri- 
 can as our constitution. It has had to face conditions 
 of its own, and to meet them by methods which it has 
 been obliged to discover for itself. For example, the 
 
172 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 use of wrought iron and steel construction has revolu- 
 tionized architecture just as much as it has revolu- 
 tionized ship-building. It has greatly increased the 
 scope of knowledge necessary to an architect. He 
 needs to be much of an engineer also. And here is 
 found the special appropriateness of coupling Mr. 
 Post's name with the movement." 
 
 "He was brought up as a civil engineer, so that 
 since he has practised architecture, he has been able, 
 as an expert, to exercise a strong direction over the 
 new combination. As a matter of fact, the first use 
 of iron construction in a building was made by him. 
 In the Produce Exchange Building, in this city, some 
 nineteen years ago, he built for the central courtyard 
 wall a cage of cast and wrought iron, with panels of 
 brickwork; the precursor of the present steel cage. 
 Since then the 'epidemic of steel construction' has 
 spread wide and high, and the number of problems 
 it has presented for immediate solution is incalcul- 
 able. To mention only one : the relative responsi- 
 bility of the frame-work and of the masonry in sup- 
 porting weight is a most important one. Mr. POST 
 has always contended for the conservative view, mak- 
 ing his masonry sufficiently thick to provide an ade- 
 quate protection to the steel, and also strong enough 
 to support itself and to resist the tendency to expand 
 in case of conflagration." 
 
Post Family. ij-i 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 "Moreover, in the encouragement of mural paint- 
 ing and sculpture, Mr. PoST has done much. The 
 World's Fair was certainly most important in the 
 opportunity it gave to sculptors and painters to work 
 in connection with architecture. Messrs. McKim, 
 Mead & White probably designed the Agricultural 
 Building with a view to exterior color; at any rate, 
 it entered early into their scheme. But in the pavil- 
 ion of the Manufactures Building there was no such 
 need of figure compositions on the ceilings. They 
 were a luxury, and probably no one but Mr. PosT 
 could have secured them. He simply assumed that 
 there could be no doubt about their advisability, and 
 over rode the opposition." 
 
 "The considerations thus roughly outlined formed 
 the framework around which the various speeches 
 of the evening were built. Mr. Russel Sturgis went 
 over much of the ground, dwelling especially upon 
 the interior decoration which Mr. PoST had been in- 
 strumental in introducing into private mansions. 
 Notable speeches were made by non-professional 
 men: the Rev. Thomas Hastings; Mr. Beck, a law- 
 yer, of Philadelphia; and Judge Howland. Mr. 
 Beck made the hit of the evening, when he said that 
 Philadelphians have the advantage over New York- 
 ers in that from their distance of ninety miles ofif 
 
174 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 they alone could view New York sky-scrapers in 
 their proper perspective. Judge Howland made a 
 witty speech, in which he recited the war experience 
 of Mr. Post and himself." 
 
 "The reception gallery was hung with drawings 
 of some of the most important buildings for which 
 Mr. Post has been responsible; the place of honor 
 being occupied by drawings and blueprints of the 
 famous Manufactures' Building at the World's 
 Fair. This colossal structure, the largest of the kind 
 ever constructed, was perhaps typical of Mr. Post's 
 general work: big, well adapted to utilitarian needs, 
 and possessing a large measure of dignity. Around 
 the walls of the Vanderbilt gallery were hung speci- 
 mens of mural paintings executed for Mr. Post's 
 buildings, including the detail drawing of Mr. Lath- 
 rop's ceiling in Mr. C. P. Huntington's New York 
 house, and Mr. Millet's tympanum, that soon will be 
 placed in the Agricultural Bank of Pittsburg, as a 
 companion to Mr. Blashfield's, which is already in 
 place." 
 
 "The gathering was presided over by Mr. Bruce 
 Price, and will be memorable, not only as a personal 
 tribute, but as an object lesson of the strength of the 
 art movement in this city." 
 
 "From the 'Evening Post,' December i6, 1897." 
 
Post Family. ijc 
 
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 October 14, 1863, GEORGE Browne Post married 
 Alice Maud Stone, daughter of William W. Stone, 
 a prominent merchant of New York." 
 
 George Browne Post and Alice M. Stone 
 Had 
 
 1. George Browne Post II, born July 30, 1864; 
 
 married Julia Cotton Smith. 
 
 2. William Stone Post, born May 10, 1866; 
 
 married Lillian Hood Adams. 
 
 3. Allison Wright Post, born July 25, 1867; 
 
 married Katharine Beekman Hoppin 
 
 4. James Otis Post, born August 3, 1873. 
 
 5. Alice Winifred Post, born August 19, 1875. 
 
J 76 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH 
 
 Sons of 
 
 George Brown Post : 
 
 1. George Browne Post II. 
 
 2. William Stone Post. 
 
 3. Allison Wright Post. 
 
 4. James Otis Post. 
 
Post Family 177 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 George Browne Post II. 
 
 Born July 30, 1864. Was christened GEORGE 
 Augustus Post, and subsequently changed his name 
 to George Browne Post. Graduated from St. 
 Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts, in 
 1882; from Columbia College, 1886; joined the New 
 York Stock Exchange, 1888. November 22, 1888, 
 George Browne Post II married Julia Cotton 
 Smith, daughter of the Rev. John Cotton Smith. 
 
 George Browne Post and Julia Cotton Smith 
 
 Had 
 
 1. George Browne Post 1 1 1, born March 3, 1890. 
 
 2. Harriet Appleton Post, born November 26, 
 
 1894. 
 
178 Post Family. 
 
 third branch. 
 
 William Stone Post. 
 
 Born May 10, 1866. Graduated from St. Mark's 
 School, Southborough, Massachusetts, 1884; Colum- 
 bia College, in the Arts, 1884-1886; Columbia Col- 
 lege, in the Mines, Ph.B., 1890; traveled and studied 
 abroad. Is an architect and associated with his 
 father, GEORGE BROWNE PoST. June 14, 1894, WIL- 
 LIAM Post married Lilian Hood Adams, daughter 
 of the distinguished Confederate General Hood, and 
 adopted daughter of Thatcher M. Adams, Esq. 
 
 William Stone Post and Lilian Hood Adams 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Marion Hood Post, born May u, 1895. 
 
 2. Lilian Post, born July 31, 1896. 
 
Post Family. 179 
 
 third branch. 
 
 Allison Wright Post. 
 
 Born July 25, 1867. Graduated from St. Mark's 
 School, Southborough, Massachusetts, 1886; from 
 Columbia College, 1890; from New York Law 
 School, 1892; was admitted to the Bar June, 1892. 
 December 15, 1898, ALLISON WRIGHT POST married 
 Katharine Beekman Hoppin, daughter of Mr. and 
 Mrs. William Warner Hoppin. 
 
 Allison Wright Post and Katharine Beekman 
 
 Hoppin 
 
 Had 
 
 Katharine Hoppin Post, born September 25, 
 1901. 
 
i8o Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH 
 
 James Otis Post. 
 
 Born August 3, 1873. Graduated from St. Mark's 
 School, Southborough, Massachusetts. Was at 
 School of Mines, Columbia College, two years; then 
 went to Paris to study architecture at the Beaux Arts. 
 Is associated with his father, GEORGE BROWNE POST. 
 
Post Family. l8l 
 
 third branch. 
 
 Charles Alfred Post. 
 
 Charles Alfred Post, born in New York City, 
 January 6, 1844, is the second son of JOEL BROWNE 
 Post, and a grandson of JOEL PoST. 
 
 He entered Columbia College at the age of fifteen 
 years, and at the end of his sophomore year was 
 given the prize for oratory. 
 
 In 1861, he joined the 22d Regiment as a private, 
 and during the space of one year held the positions 
 of corporal, second sergeant, first sergeant, color ser- 
 geant, and sergeant major. 
 
 During the Civil War campaign of 1862 he was 
 promoted in the field to the grade of second lieuten- 
 ant of Company C. On the return of the one hun- 
 dred day troops, he resigned his commission and 
 started his senior year at Columbia College. Before 
 the end of the first term, however, he received 
 the ofifer of an appointment in the Navy, upon 
 a vessel commanded by Captain John P. Bank- 
 head, a friend of his father. He therefore 
 applied to the college authorities and received 
 an honorable discharge, signed by the president, 
 Charles A. King, which stated that he had cred- 
 itly performed his college duties and was withdrawn 
 with the regret of the faculty. 
 
182 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 His next service, therefore, was upon the U. S. S. 
 "Florida," commanded by John P. Bankhead, at- 
 tached to the North Atlantic Squadron, and stationed 
 off Wilmington, N. C. 
 
 During this period of his service, the Florida par- 
 ticipated in a number of minor engagements and cap- 
 tured several prizes. Captain Bankhead was finally 
 invalided and sent to New York. The darkest days 
 of the war had passed, and, at the earnest solicitation 
 of his parents, CHARLES A. Post sent in his resigna- 
 tion and entered the Columbia College Law School, 
 from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. 
 He actively practised the profession of law but a 
 short time, various important family interests soon 
 demanding; his undivided attention. 
 
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 On November 18, 1874, he received the commis- 
 sion of captain upon the staff of General Alexander 
 Shaler, commanding the First Division of New York 
 State troops. In this service he was promoted, 
 March 27, 1876, to the grade of major, and on the 
 26th of December, 1877, to that of lieutenant-colonel 
 and chief of ordnance. 
 
 His early naval training left a taste for the sea, 
 and he became deeply interested in yachting. When 
 the idea of a National Naval Reserve was first agi- 
 tated, he, in company with a number of well-known 
 
Post Family. 183 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 yachtsmen, with the idea of preparing themselves to 
 pass the examination prescribed in a bill then before 
 Congress, studied practical navigation and received 
 his diploma as navigator. The knowledge of nau- 
 tical astronomy, thus acquired, awakened a deep in- 
 terest in the subject and led to a wider study of the 
 science of astronomy. 
 
 He, therefore, at his country seat, Strandhome, 
 Bayport, Long Island, built and equipped an as- 
 tronomical observatory, and soon became widely 
 known as an amateur astronomer, and at the annual 
 commencement of 1900, Columbia University, in 
 recognition of his scientific work, conferred upon 
 him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. Dur- 
 ing the same year he was appointed one of the as- 
 tronomers attached to the Eclipse Expedition of the 
 U. S. Naval Observatory, and he accompanied that 
 expedition to Barnsville, Georgia, in charge of in- 
 struments, which he loaned the government for that 
 occasion. 
 
 Mr. Post is a member of the Naval Order of the 
 United States, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical 
 Society, a Fellow of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the New 
 York Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the As- 
 tronomical and Astrophysical Society, and a member 
 of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and many 
 
184 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 other literary and social clubs in New York, the city 
 of his birth. 
 
 Charles Alfred Post married October 28, 1875, 
 Marie Caroline de Trobriand Post, daughter of 
 the Comte Philippe Regis de Trobriand, who served 
 with distinction in the U. S. Army during the Civil 
 War, and attained the rank of major-general, the 
 highest rank ever held in the U. S. Army by any 
 Frenchman, except Lafayette. Marie Caroline de 
 Trobriand, at the time of her marriage to CHARLES 
 Alfred Post, was the widow of his distant cousin, 
 Albert Kintzlng Post. (See fourth branch.) 
 
Post Family. 1 85 
 
 third branch. 
 
 Charles Alfred Post axd Marie Caroline Post 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Beatrice de Trobriand Post, born December 
 
 31, 1877, married, August 27, 1902, to Duncan 
 Candler, son of Flamen Ball Candler, direct 
 descendant of Rev. Eliphalet Ball, founder of 
 Ballston, N. Y., and cousin of Mary Ball, 
 Washington's mother. 
 
 Beatrice de Trobriand Post and Duncan 
 Candler. 
 Had 
 Edith Beatrice Candler, born November 29, 
 1903. ^ 
 
 2. Edith Church Post, born August 7, 1882, 
 
 married, October i, 1902, to Goelet Gallatin, 
 direct descendant of Albert Gallatin, Secre- 
 tary of the Treasury during the administra- 
 tions of Jefiferson and Madison, and minister 
 to France and England. 
 Through his mother, Almy Goelet Gerry, Goelet 
 Gallatin is a direct descendant of Elbridge Gerry, 
 signer of the Declaration of Independence, Governor 
 of Massachusetts, and Vice-President of the United 
 States. Through his paternal grandmother (who 
 was a Stevens) he is a descendant of General 
 Ebenezer Stevens, of Revolutionary fame. 
 
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 THIRD BRANCH 
 
 Edward Post 
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1 88 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 Edward Post, eighth child of Joel Post. Born 
 January 9, 1823 ; died, in Paris, July 15, 1851. Took 
 his degree of B. A. at New York University. Mar- 
 ried, November 20, 1844, to Clementine Church, 
 who was born September 12, 1824, and died in Paris 
 May 8, 1887. Clementine Church was the sister of 
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 reside permanently in New York. Married, 
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 2. Mary Alma Post, born April 2, 1847; died 
 
 August 2, 1849. 
 
 3. Frederick Alfred Post, born at Claremont, 
 
 July 18, 1850. Brought up abroad. Was 
 at Oxford University. Resided in Paris, then 
 moved, in 1882 to London. Was considered 
 among the amateur singers of first rank in 
 Europe, and now devotes his time to musical 
 composition. Has published some very 
 much appreciated songs. 
 
Post Family. 189 
 
 THIRD BRANCH. 
 
 Frederick A. Post was married, February 25, 
 1873, to Harriet Bininger, daughter of Abra- 
 ham Bininger. 
 
 Frederick Post and Harriet Bininger 
 Had 
 
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 3. Elizabeth Charlotte Post, born in Paris, 
 
 January 2, 1876. 
 
 4. DONNELL Shep.-^RD Post, born in Paris, Feb- 
 
 ruary 12, 1877. 
 
 5. George Henry Draper Post, born in Fon- 
 
 taineblau, January 27, 1882. 
 
190 Post Family. 
 
 THIRD BRANCH 
 
 John Alexander Post 
 AND HIS Children: 
 
 1. Arthur Post. 
 
 2. Alice Post. 
 
 3. John Morris Post. 
 

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192 Post Family. 
 
 third branch. 
 
 John Alexander Post. 
 
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 Born December 15, 1825; died in England, Oc- 
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 Adeline Forbes. She died in Cannes, France, Feb- 
 ruary 15, 1891. 
 
 John Post spent most of his life abroad, princi- 
 pally in Pau, France, but resided also in England, 
 where he rented for several years Williamstrip, near 
 Oxford, the property of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. 
 
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 shooting, golf, etc. 
 
 John Post and Adeline Forbes 
 Had 
 
 I. Arthur Post, born died . He gradua- 
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 Resigned from the navy. Resided abroad. 
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 worth, daughter of General James Wads- 
 worth, of Geneseo, N. Y. After ARTHUR 
 Post's death his widow married Arthur 
 Hugh Smith Barry, M. P., who later became 
 Lord Barrymore. 
 
Post Family. 193 
 
 third branch. 
 
 Arthur Post and Elizabeth Wadsworth 
 
 Had 
 Helen Agnes Post. 
 
 2. Alice Post. Married first to Amedee de 
 
 Montgeon, who died, in Paris, June 25, 1876, 
 leaving one child, a daughter, Gabrielle Ma- 
 rie Alice de Cavelier de Montgeon, born Jan- 
 uary 31, 1876, in Pau, France. 
 
 Alice Post de Montgeon married second, Mariano 
 de Cuadra, has one daughter, Marie Anne Jeanne 
 Louise Therese de Cuadra, born October 14, 1884, 
 in Pau, France. 
 
 3. John Morris Post. Was at Eton, England. 
 
 Was appointed American Consul at Pau, 
 France, where he has almost always resided. 
 Married first, Cornelia King; they were di- 
 vorced. Married second, Violet Tottenham, 
 daughter of Tottenham, M. P. 
 
 John Morris Post and Cornelia King 
 Had 
 
 1. Reginald Morris Post, born November 16, 
 
 1879, in Pau, France. 
 
 2. Remsen Forbes Post, born April 23, 1883, in 
 
 Pau, France. 
 
FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 JOTHAM II, 
 
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 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 JoTHAM Post II, Jr. 
 
 JoTHAM Post II, Jr., fourth son of JoTHAM Post 
 I. Born April 4, 1771 ; died May 15, 1817. Gradu- 
 ated from Columbia College in 1792. Studied medi- 
 cine and took his degree of M. D. in 1793, but did 
 not practise. 
 
 With his brothers, JOEL and ALLISON, he founded 
 the drug importing firm of J. & J. & A. PoST, and 
 made a large fortune. 
 
 He was director of the New York Hospital, 1798- 
 1802; member of Common Council of the City of 
 New York; member of New York Assembly, 1795, 
 1805-8, and member of Congress from 18 13-15. 
 
 The "Memorial History of the City of New 
 York," says: "The new Congress met on Thursday 
 (May 24). New York was represented by Egbert 
 Benson and JOTHAM POST, Jr., both Federalists, etc., 
 etc." 
 
 JOTHAM Post, Jr., was married twice. His first 
 wife was Magdalen Blaau, of Dutch origin, daugh- 
 ter of Waldron Blaau and Eleanor Cresson.* They 
 
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 riage bond of Waldron Blaau and Eleanor Cresson, see Appendix J. 
 
198 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 were married by the Rev. Dr. McKnight, on August 
 10, 1792. Magdalen Blaau was born August 14, 
 1771, and died May 29, 181 1. She was always called 
 by her husband Lanah, by which name her death is 
 entered in his family Bible (now in possession of his 
 granddaughter, Mrs. Edward Anthon), and by 
 which name, or its initial L, he always writes of her 
 in his diary, kept from day to day in 1792-93. This 
 diary, begun in 1792, when he was twenty-one, just 
 one month married, and studying medicine, is most 
 interesting. He writes every evening the events of 
 the day, and comments on the lectures heard ; ex- 
 presses his hesitancy on whether after taking his 
 degree he will practise medicine, or, following the 
 advice of the great Dr. Bayley, his instructor, he will 
 send to England for trained clerks and drugs and 
 found a much-needed business in New York in that 
 day, the importation of drugs by wholesale. He 
 also describes the efforts made to obtain the restora- 
 tion to his widowed (Tory) mother-in-law, Mrs. 
 Blaau, of her confiscated property. This diary is 
 now in the possession of his great-great-grandson, 
 Waldron Kintzing Post, eldest son of Albert 
 KiNTziNG Post, son of Abraham Kintzing Post, 
 eldest son of Waldron Blaau Post, eldest son of 
 JOTHAM Post. Jr. 
 
Post Family. 199 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 JOTHAM Post, Jr.'s second wife was Julia Strong,* 
 widow of George Wattles. She was born March 17, 
 1777. They were married by the Rev. Dr. Romeyn, 
 on the 2d of October, 181 5. A touching part of 
 JOTHAM Post, Jr.'s, diary mentioned above, is his 
 evident adoration for his father, whom he never fails 
 to visit every day, and of whom he always speaks 
 with expressions of the deepest afifection. He died 
 three months after this much-beloved father: JOTH- 
 AM Post Fs death occurring January 25, 1817, and 
 JOTHAM Post, Jr.'s, on May 15, 18 17. 
 
 *"Julia Strong, born March 17th, 1777; married George Wattles, 
 and after his decease, Jotham Post, Jr., member of New York As- 
 sembly for four years, graduate at Columbia College in 1792, and 
 member of Congress from New York (1813-15). No issue from either 
 marriage." 
 
 From "The History of Elder Strong's Descendants," by B. M. 
 Dwight, yol. I, p. 710. 
 
200 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 JoTHAM Post, Jr., and Magdalen Blaau 
 Had 
 
 1. Waldron Blaau Post, born May 30, 1793; 
 
 died July 31, 1874; married Sarah Elizabeth 
 Parker. 
 
 2. Ur Post, born February 19, 1795; died April 
 
 16, 1796. 
 
 3. Julia Lynch Post, born February 16, 1797; 
 
 died December 7, 1878; maried May 15, 1815, 
 to James D'Wolfe. 
 
 4. Eleanor Post, born April 19, 1799; died April 
 
 26, 1872; married first, to Francis L. B. 
 D'Wolfe, March 9, 1820; married second, to 
 John Whipple, December, 1839. 
 
 5. JOTHAM William Post, M. D., born May 15, 
 
 1801 ; died May 31, 1841 ; married Angelina 
 Thayer Byers. 
 
 6. Edwin Post, born June 12, 1804; died June 3, 
 
 1888 ; married first, Lucretia Ann Main ; mar- 
 ried second, Cornelia Davis. 
 
 7. Nancy Elizabeth Mary Post, born October 
 
 8, 1806; died February 21, 1895; married 
 Bernard Rhinelander. 
 
 8. Magdalen Rachel Post, born December 14, 
 
 1810; died January 29, 1841; married Isaac 
 Gibson. 
 
Post Family. 20 1 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 Sons of Jotham II 
 
 LEAVING DESCENDANTS : 
 
 1. WaldrOxN Blaau Post. 
 
 2. Jotham William Post. 
 
 3. Edwin Post. 
 
202 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Waldron Blaau Post. 
 
 Waldron Blaau Post, first child of Jotham 
 Post II, was born May 30, 1793 ; died July 31, 1874; 
 married, on December 11, 1816, to Sarah Elizabeth 
 Parker, born July 5, 1793, daughter of an English 
 officer, who, unable to look after his child, as her 
 mother was dead, left her in the care of a relation or 
 friend, Miss Elizabeth Kintzing, of Philadelphia, 
 who adopted the little girl and brought her up. Miss 
 Kintzing married Elisha Kane, of Philadelphia, the 
 father of John Kane, the Arctic explorer. 
 
 Waldron Blaau Post and Sarah Parker were 
 married in Philadelphia by the Rev. Dr. Janeway. 
 
 Waldron Blaau Post graduated from Columbia 
 College in 18 10, when seventeen years old. It is said 
 he was ready for college at twelve years of age. On 
 leaving college he went into the wholesale drug busi- 
 ness, in the firm of his father and uncles, JOTHAM, 
 Joel and Allison Post. He retired from business 
 at the age of twenty-five, but retained for a time an 
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204 Post Family. 
 
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 1817; died September 14, 1845. Was mar- 
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 Eaton, by Rev. Dr. Dewey. 
 
 2. Julia Elizabeth Post, born May 4, 1819; 
 
 died May 11, 1898. Was maried October 16, 
 1845, by the Rev. Dr. Hutton, to James Mun- 
 caster Brown, head of the banking firm o^ 
 Brown Brothers, New York. 
 
 3. Waldron Blaau Post, Jr., born November 4, 
 
 1821; died December 17, 1858. Was mar- 
 ried, June 6, 1844, by Rev. Mr. Bedell, to 
 Euretta Barnwell Seton. 
 
 4. Sarah Madeline Post, born August 22, 1824; 
 
 died March 14, 1845. Married 23, 
 
 1843, to Oliver Shepard. Left no issue. 
 
 5. Elizabeth Kintzl\g Post, born June 10, 
 
 1829; died January 21, 1833. 
 
 6. Helen Louise Post, born June 17, 1834. Was 
 
 married, October 14, 1856, by Rev. Dr. An- 
 thon, to Rev. Edward Anthon. 
 
Post Family. 205 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 Sons of Waldron Blaau Post 
 
 LEAVING descendants: 
 I. ABR.AHAM KiNTZING POST. 
 
 2. Waldron Blaau Post, Jr. 
 
2o6 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Abraham Kintzing Post. 
 
 Born September 28, 1817; died September 11, 
 1845. Married, May 4, 1840, by Rev. Dr. Dewey, 
 to Matilda Wickham Eaton, who was born Septem- 
 ber 30, 1821; died July 22, 1896. 
 
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 Abraham Kintzing Post did not go to college, 
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 fourth branch. 
 
 Albert Kintzing Post. 
 
 Born January 5, 1843 ; died July 5, 1872. In 1845 
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 mother married again, her second husband being the 
 Count Armand de MaCarty. Business interests ob- 
 liging M. de MaCarty to live in Matanzas, Cuba, 
 he moved there with his wife and step-son. The lat- 
 ter, however, did not remain in the island after he 
 was old enough to go to school, but was sent to the 
 school of Mr. Calthrop, at Bridgeport, in Connecti- 
 cut. 
 
 He entered Harvard College in 1859. While 
 there he was identified with many of the under- 
 graduate traditions of the time. At the "Burial of 
 the Football," in i860, he acted as chaplain; he was 
 poet of the Hasty Pudding Club, and his name ap- 
 pears on several playbills of the Pudding theatricals. 
 In 1862, in his junior year, at nineteen years of age^j 
 he went to the war as a second lieutenant in the 45th 
 Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, which was 
 raised in response to the call for nine months men. 
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 in the battles of Kinston and Goldsboro and some 
 lesser operations about Newbern, where it was sta- 
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Post Family. 209 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 After leaving the army he received his degree of 
 A. B. from Harvard, and then went into business for 
 a short time. His tastes, however, made art and 
 literature more congenial occupations to him, and 
 he devoted himself to cultivating his talents in those 
 directions. He would undoubtedly have made a 
 career in these pursuits had he not met an early and 
 sudden death. 
 
 On July 5, 1872, at Westhampton, Long Island, he 
 was bathing in the surf when a young boy, carried 
 ofT by the undertow, called for help. He swam to 
 the rescue, but his efforts were unavailing and both 
 were drowned. 
 
 On January 25, 1866, ALBERT KiXTZiNG PoST 
 married Marie Caroline Denis de Keredern de Tro- 
 briand, daughter of General Comte de Trobriand, 
 U. S. Army. The Trobriands belonged to the old 
 nobility of Brittany, France. Their first ancestor. 
 Miles Denis, Esquire), an Irishman, came with the 
 English forces asked to help Jean de Montfort regain 
 his crown of Brittany. When the cause was won, 
 Miles Denis remained in Brittany, where he and his 
 son, in 1384, received their titles of nobility and the 
 fiefs of Keredern and Trobriand. Their descendants 
 were hereditary members of the Parliament of Brit- 
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 great province, taking, on sea and land, part in all her 
 
2IO Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 wars. During the wars of Napoleon two brothers 
 became generals; one was chief of stafif of Marechal 
 Lobeau, the other on the stafif of Marechal Davout. 
 The former, General Joseph de Trobriand, for a 
 most brilliant and daring action which saved the 
 battle of Bautzen and turned it into a victory, was 
 created Baron by Napoleon (his elder brother was 
 Comte) ; the title of Baron was confirmed to Gen- 
 eral Joseph de Trobriand by Louis XVIII. after the 
 "Restauration." 
 
 His son, Philippe Regis Denis de Keredern de 
 Trobriand, inherited the title of Baron, and after- 
 ward of Comte, from the elder branch, which be- 
 came extinct. 
 
 In 1 841 the Baron de Trobriand came to America 
 to visit the.country, and met in New York Miss Mary 
 Mason Jones, granddaughter of John Mason, 
 founder and first president of the Chemical Bank, 
 and daughter of Isaac Jones, second president of 
 that institution. They were engaged and married in 
 Paris, in 1843. For several years they lived in 
 Venice, attached to the court of the exiled Bourbon 
 King of France, Henri V. 
 
 While in Venice, in 1845, October 15, their daugh- 
 ter, Marie Caroline, was born. She was named after 
 her godmother, Henri V.'s mother, the famous 
 
Post Family. 21 1 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 Duchess de Berry, ex-Regent of France, who held 
 the child in her arms during the whole ceremony of 
 baptism, which took place in the private chapel of 
 her palace, the Palazzo Vendramin. 
 
 After a sojourn of two years in New York, from 
 1848 to 1 85 1, and a return to France of several years, 
 the Trobriands returned again to New York in 1854, 
 to reside permanently; for when the war broke out, 
 in 1861, the Baron de Trobriand became an Ameri- 
 can citizen and offered his services to the Northern 
 cause. He served with distinction during the war, 
 took part in all the battles of the Army of the Poto- 
 mac, and in the taking of Richmond, and retired 
 with the rank of major-general. 
 
 In 1867 he was offered the colonelcy of the 31st 
 U. S. Infantry, and in 1869 that of the 13th U. S. 
 Infantry, which he commanded until he was retired 
 in 1879. During those years General de Trobriand 
 commanded in Dakota, Montana, Utah, Wyoming 
 and Louisiana. 
 
 January 25, 1866, Marie Caroline de Trobriand 
 was married to ALBERT KiNTZlXG POST, in Trinity 
 Chapel, New York, by Rev. Edward Anthon. 
 
 In 1875, at Ascension Church, by Rev. Dr. Mor- 
 gan Di.Y, she was married to CHARLES ALFRED POST, 
 descendant of JOEL POST, of the third branch. 
 
212 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Albert Kintzing Post and Marie Caroline de 
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 1. Lina Beatrice Post (Lina de Trobriand 
 Post), born November ii, 1866; married, Octo- 
 ber I, 1891, to Hamilton Fish Webster, grandson of 
 Hon. Hamilton Fish, Governor of New York and 
 Secretary of State for eight years during President 
 Grant's administration. 
 
 2. Waldron Kintzing Post, born July 7, 1868; 
 married Mary Lawrence Perkins. 
 
 3. Regis Henri Post, born January 28, 1870; 
 married CAROLYN BEATRICE Post. 
 
Post Family. 213 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 Sons of 
 Albert Kixtzing Post; 
 
 1. Waldron Kintzing Post. 
 
 2. Regis Henri Post. 
 
214 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Waldron Kintzing Post. 
 
 Waldron Kintzing Post, eldest son of Albert 
 Kintzing Post, born July 7, 1868, in New York, 
 at 23 Waverly Place, the residence of his great 
 grandfather, Waldron Blaau PoST, with whom his 
 parents were living. Attended St. Mark's School, 
 Southborough, Massachusetts, there receiving the 
 Founders' Medal, in 1884. Passed his examinations 
 for Harvard when seventeen years of age, but at the 
 request of his parents did not enter until 1886, and 
 graduated with the class of 1890. While in 
 college he wrote several plays performed by the 
 "Dicky" and "Hasty Pudding" Clubs, and was Class 
 Poet. After leaving college he spent a year in 
 travel, going around the world. 
 
 He studied law at the Law School of Columbia 
 University from which he received the degree of 
 LL.B. Was admitted to the bar, in New York, in 
 1895; served a clerkship in the office of North, 
 Ward & Wagstaff, and became junior partner of the 
 successors of that firm, Ward, Hayden & Satterlee, 
 in 1897. 
 
 In 1893 he published "Harvard Stories," and in 
 1899 he published "Smith Brunt, U. S. N.," a story 
 of 1812. 
 
Post Family. 215 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH . 
 
 October 27, 1894, Waldron Kintzing Post was 
 married, at Glen Cove, Long Island, to Mary Law- 
 rence Perkins, youngest daughter of Charles Law- 
 rence Perkins. 
 
 Waldron Kintzing Post is a member of the 
 Loyal Legion in hereditary right of his father. 
 His home is at Bayport, Long Island. 
 
2i6 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch . 
 Waldron Kintzing Post and Mary Perkins 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Charles Kintzing Post, born January n, 
 1897, in New York. 
 
 2. Mary Lawrence Post, born March 5, 1898, 
 in New York. 
 
 3. Langdon Ward Post, born April 10, 1899, in 
 New York. 
 
 4. Lina de Trobriand Post, born July 2, 1901, 
 in Bayport, Long Island, N. Y. 
 
 5. Elizabeth West Post, bom June 14, 1904, in 
 Bayport, Long Island, N. Y. 
 
Post Family. 217 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Regis Henri Post. 
 
 Regis Henri Post, second son of Albert Kint- 
 ZING Post. Born January 28, 1870, at 23 Waverly 
 Place, New York, the residence of his great grand- 
 father, Waldron Blaau Post. 
 
 Attended St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mas- 
 sachusetts. Went to Harvard and graduated with 
 the class of 1891. Wrote for the "Hasty Pudding 
 Club" plays. Has his home in the country, at Bay- 
 port, Long Island. 
 
 November 8, 1898, REGIS PoST was elected mem- 
 ber of the State Assembly to represent the second 
 district, Suffolk County (Republican). 
 
 November 8, 1899, was re-elected and served a 
 second term. February, 1903, was appointed by 
 President Roosevelt, Auditor of Porto Rico. 
 
 August 10, 1904, Regis Henri Post was appoint- 
 ed Secretary of State of Porto Rico. His promo- 
 tion from Auditor to Secretary also carries with it 
 the Governorship during the Governor's absence. 
 In commenting on this appointment the New York 
 Tribune of August i ith, I904,has the following par- 
 agraph. "Washington, August loth — Regis H. Post 
 who was appointed Secretary of Porto Rico to-day 
 called at the White House this afternoon to say good- 
 
2i8 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 by to the President before his departure for the 
 island. Mr. Post has been promoted from the Audi- 
 torship of the Island. He is a young man of wealth 
 who has gone into public life for the sake of 'doing 
 something' and has made a fine record." 
 
 On the day Regis Post called at the White House 
 he took luncheon with President Roosevelt, the other 
 guests being Secretary Taft (War) Secretary Shaw 
 (Treasury) Postmaster General Payne and Ex-Sec- 
 retary of the Navy Moody, now Attorney General. 
 
 Regis Henri Post was married in New York, on 
 March 6, 1895, by Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, to CAROLYN 
 Beatrice Post, his distant cousin, daughter of 
 Henry Albertson Van Zo Post (of the Fourth 
 Branch). 
 
Post Family. 219 
 
 fourth branch . 
 
 Regis Henri Post and Carolyn Beatrice Post 
 
 Had 
 
 Regis Henri Post, Jr., born February 17, 1897, 
 at Bayport, Long Island. 
 
 On July 24, 1903, when Rex, as he is called, was 
 six years old, the following interesting event oc- 
 curred: President Theodore Roosevelt, being in 
 the neighborhood of Bayport for the day, visiting 
 his uncle, Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, heard that Mrs. 
 Regis Post was ill. The President drove to Little- 
 wood (the name of their place) to inquire for her, 
 but Mrs. Post, feeling better that day, had gone out 
 for a drive. From his nursery window Master Rex 
 saw the visitor and called out: "Hallo! my muddie 
 is out; who are you?" The answer came, "I am the 
 President, and glad to meet you; tell your mother I 
 called to inquire how she was, and am sorry not to 
 see her." "All right," condescendingly called out 
 the small highness. 
 
220 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 WALDRON BLAAU POST, JR. 
 
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 222 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Waldron Blaau Post, Jr. 
 
 Waldron Blaau Post, Jr., second son of Wald- 
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Post Family. 223 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Alfred Seton Post. 
 
 Alfred Seton Post, only son of Waldron Blaau 
 Post, Jr., born June 15, 1845. 
 
 He entered the United States Navy in 1862, and 
 was appointed aide-de-camp to Admirals Charles H. 
 Davis and David D. Porter. Entered the Naval 
 Academy, at Annapolis, in 1863. Resigned in 1864 
 and went to China, where he entered the firm of 
 Russell & Co. Returned to New York in 1867. 
 
 December 6, 1871, married Alice Lee Morgan, 
 daughter of Henry Morgan and Cornelia Pell. 
 
224 Poj/ Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
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 2. Alice Lee Post, born October 24, 1875; mar- 
 
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 3. Alfred Seton Post, Jr., born December 24, 
 
 1876. 
 
 4. Walter Blaau Post, born December 24, 1876, 
 
 nvin brother of ALFRED Seton POST, Jr., died 
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 5. Ethel Maud Post, born August 30, 1878. 
 
 6. Mabel Catherine Post, born May 22, 1880; 
 
 married December 16, 1903, to George Gib- 
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 Alfred SetOxN Post, Jr., born December 24, 1876. 
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 Massachusetts, ini895. Graduated from Yale Col- 
 lege in 1898. 
 
Post Family. 225 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH . 
 
 Daughters of Waldron Blaau Post 
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 2. Helen Louise Post. 
 
226 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Julia Elizabeth Post 
 
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 4, 1819; died May 11, 1898; married James Mun- 
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 in. Julia Post Hard, married Augustine 
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 IV. Laura Warner Hard, married Henry 
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 V. NellieWales Hard, married John Kane 
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 VI. Anson Wales Hard, Jr. 
 
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Post Family. 22J 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
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 III. James Muncaster Brown, married 
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 1852; married James Taylor Soutter. 
 
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 II. James Taylor Soutter. 
 
228 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Helen Louise Post. 
 
 Sixth child of Waldron Blaau Post, born June 
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 1882; second marriage to Lewis Quentin 
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 Fanny Coster Jones, married Henry Spies 
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 died April 17, 1898. 
 
 5. Edward Henry Anthon, born April 6, 1870; 
 
 died June 17, 1896. 
 
Post Family. 229 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
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 230 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
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 JOTHAM William Post, M. D., fifth child of 
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 October 14, 1805; died, in New York, 1890; daugh- 
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 tise. Went into the wholesale importing drug busi- 
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 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
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 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 JoTHAM Post, M. D., and Angelina Thayer 
 
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 September 17, 1828; died, in Chicago, Illi- 
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 3. Charles William Post, died January i, 1844. 
 
 4. Sarah Byers Post, born, in New York, June 
 
 24, 1834; died, in Boston, Massachusetts, Feb- 
 ruary 18, 1877; married, in New York, by 
 Rev. Henry W. Bellows, December 16, 1859, 
 to John Hooper Reed, of Boston, born Au- 
 gust 3, 1827; died March 6, 1899. Two chil- 
 dren died in infancy. 
 
 5. Madeline Post, born, in New York, July 28, 
 
 1836; married George Eliot Stone. 
 
 6. Angelina Post, born, in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 
 August 16, 1837; married Casper Wistar 
 Hodge. 
 
 7. Jotham William Post H, born, in Brooklyn, 
 
 New York, 1839; died at sea, April 30, 1877; 
 married Eliza Chapman. 
 
 8. Mary Ellen Post, died in infancy. 
 
Post Family. 235 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 James Byers Post. 
 
 First child of JOTHAM WILLIAM PoST, born, in 
 New York, September 9, 1826; died, in New Brigh- 
 ton, New York, August 31, 1902; married, in New 
 York, by Rev. Samuel Osgood, December 17, 1850, 
 to Caroline Tibbits How, born, in New York, Octo- 
 ber 31, 1831; died, in New Brighton, New York, 
 September 25, 1902; daughter of Calvin W. How, 
 of New York. 
 
 James Byers Post was corporal Company B, First 
 Regiment Infantry, First Brigade, First Division, 
 Volunteer Militia of Massachusetts, June 9, 1858. 
 Sergeant Company B, Second Battalion Infantry, 
 First Brigade, First Division, Volunteer Militia of 
 Massachusetts, May 16, 1859. Lieutenant-colonel 
 Ninety-fifth New York State Volunteers, March 6, 
 1862. Honorably discharged, April 14, 1863. 
 
 James Byers Post and Caroline How 
 Had 
 I. James Byers Post, Jr., born, in Boston, Massa- 
 chusetts, September 5, 1854; married, in 
 
236 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 Richmond Hill, New York, June 3, 1885, by 
 Rev. William A. Matson and Rev. Joshua 
 Kimber, to Katherine Marble Matson, born 
 March 10, 1855, daughter of Rev. William 
 A. Matson, of Richmond Hill, New York. 
 Had 
 
 I. EsTELLE Alma Post, born, in New 
 Brighton, New York, April 5, 1886. 
 
 n. William Matson Post, born, in Rich- 
 mond Hill, New York, October 12, 1890. 
 
 HI. James Byers Post HI, born, in Rich- 
 mond Hill, New York, July 25, 1892. 
 
 2. Charles Francis Post, born, in Boston, Mas- 
 sachuttes, April 3, 1858; married, in New 
 Brighton, New York, October 17, 1883, by 
 Rev. William A. Matson and Rev. A. P. 
 Stanley, to Lillian Hooker Brodhead, born, 
 in Prescott, Canada, May 20, 1859, daughter 
 of Edward C. Brodhead, of Boston. 
 Had 
 
 I. Elsie Post, born, in New Brighton, 
 New York, March 13, 1885. 
 
 n. Dorothy Margaret Post, born, in 
 New Brighton, New York, August 29, 
 1897. 
 
Post Family. 237 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 3. George Atwell Post, born, in Boston, Massa- 
 chussetts, November 19, 1859; died in Richmond 
 Hill, New York, April 9, 1901 ; married, in Phillips- 
 burg, New Jersey, by Rev. Percy J. Roebottom, June 
 16, 1887, to Emily Kent, born, in Phillipsburg, New 
 Jersey, October 10, 1863, daughter of Joseph Charles 
 Kent, of England. 
 
 Had 
 
 I. George Atwell Post, Jr., born, in New 
 Brighton, March 29, 1889. 
 
 n. Joseph Kent Post, born, in Stapleton, 
 New York, March 8, 1892. 
 
 HI. Caroline Post, born, in Richmond 
 Hill, New York, November 19, 1897. 
 
 IV. Emily Post, born, in Richmond Hill, 
 New York, December 4, 1900. 
 
 4. Madeline Post, born, in New York, March 
 
 31, 1864. 
 
 5. Caroline Post, born, in Astoria, New York, 
 
 July 25, 1865. 
 
 6. Angelina Post, born, in New York, October 
 
 3, 1872. 
 
238 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Edwin Frederick Post. 
 
 Second child of JOTHAM WILLIAM POST, M. D., 
 born, in New York, September 17, 1828; died, in 
 Chicago, Illinois, January 29, 1870; married, in New 
 York, March 8, 1852, by Rev. James Alexander, to 
 Adeline Mitchell, daughter of Samuel Latham Mit- 
 chell and Anne Kneeland, of New York, born De- 
 cember 10, 1 83 1. 
 
 Edwin Frederick Post and Adeline Mitchell 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Samuel Latham Mitchell Post, born, in 
 New York, December 25, 1853 ; died, in New York, 
 February 20, 1891 ; married, in New York, October 
 25, 1880, by Rev. Henry W. Bellows, to Mary Louisa 
 Allen, born December 16, 1854, daughter of Wil- 
 liam B. Allen and Harriet Bellows, of New York. 
 
 Had 
 
 Mary Allen Post, born, in New York, 
 October 1 1, 1883. 
 
 2. Edwin Frederick Post, Jr., born, in New 
 
 York, October 10, 1855; married, at Quogue, 
 New York, September 21, 1889, by Caspar 
 Wistar Hodge, D. D., to Evelyn Goldthwaite 
 Baker, born May i, i860, daughter of Francis 
 Baker and Ester G. Barrett, of New York. 
 
Post Family. 239 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 Alice Adeline Post, born, in Astoria, New 
 York, June 3, i860; married, in New York, 
 by Rev. John Hall, December 15, 1883 to 
 William Berryman Scott, of Princeton, New 
 Jersey, born February 12, 1858. 
 
 Had 
 
 I. Charles Hodge Scott, born in Prince- 
 ton, December 16, 1884. 
 
 n. Adeline Mitchell Scott, born, in 
 Princeton, July 30, 1886. 
 
 HI. Mary Blanchard Scott, born, in 
 Heidelberg, September i, 1888. 
 
 IV. Anne Mitchell Scott, born, in Prince- 
 ton, November 21, 1890; died, in Prince- 
 ton, September 30, 1892. 
 
 V. Sarah Post Scott, born, in Princeton, 
 March 3, 1894. 
 
 VI. Hugh Lennox Scott, born, in Prince- 
 ton, March 3, 1894; died, in Princeton, 
 
 April 18, 1894. 
 
 VII. Angelina Thayer Scott, born, in 
 Princeton, November 27, 1895. 
 
240 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 4. Sarah Reed Post, born in New York, Septem- 
 ber 21, 1862; married in New York, by Rev. 
 John Hall, October 30, 1884, to George Ho- 
 ratio Allen (born September 21, 1852), of 
 New York, brother of Mary Louisa Allen, 
 wife of Samuel L. M. Post. 
 
 Had 
 
 I. Francis Post Allen, born, in New York, 
 August 16, 1885. 
 
 n. Mitchell Allen, born, in New York, 
 March 27, 1887. 
 
 HI. Langdon Allen, born, in Orange, 
 New Jersey, May 26, 1891. 
 
 IV. Alice Post Allen, born, in Concord, 
 Massachusetts, March 11, 1894. 
 
Post Family. 241 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 JoTHAM William Post II. 
 
 Seventh child and third son of JOTHAM WILLIAM 
 Post, M. D., born, in Brooklyn, New York, January 
 II, 1839; died, at sea, April 30, 1877. Went to Mr. 
 Churchill's Military School, at Sing Sing, and dur- 
 ing the war joined the Twenty-second Regiment, N. 
 G. N. Y. ; served in its campaign of 1862-63, was 
 quartermaster-sergeant and quartermaster; date of 
 commission, October 25, 1862. 
 
 Married, in Boston, Massachusetts, April 10, 1866, 
 by Rev. John H. Morrison, to Eliza Chapman, 
 daughter of Jonathan Chapman and Lucinda 
 Dwight, of Boston. 
 
 Jotham William Post and Eliza Chapman 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Eliza Chapman Post, born, in New York, 
 
 January 27, 1867. 
 
 2. Jotham William Post III, died in infancy. 
 
 3. John Reed Post, born July 15, 1872; married, 
 
 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Rev. Paul Revere 
 Frothingham, June 5, 1902, to Mabel Davis, 
 born March, 1876, daughter of Joseph E. 
 Davis, Worcester, Massachusetts. 
 
 4. Helen Post, died in infancy. 
 
242 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH 
 
 Daughters of Jotham William Post, M. D., 
 
 LEAVING issue: 
 
 1. Madeline Post. 
 
 2. Angelina Post. 
 
Post Family. 243 
 
 fourth branch. 
 Madeline Post. 
 
 Fifth child of JOTHAM WILLIAM POST, M. D., 
 born, in New York, July 28, 1836; married, in New 
 York, April 29, 1863, by Rev. Henry W. Bellows, 
 to George Eliot Stone, of New York, born January 
 17, 1822; died January 20, 1898. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. William Eliot Stone, born, in New York, Sep- 
 
 tember 3, 1864; married, in West New Brigh- 
 ton, New York, January 29, 1890, by Rev. 
 Pascal narrower, to Helen Purvis Key, born 
 November 25, 1867, daughter of Henry Har- 
 wood Key and Anna Morrill Knapp, of An- 
 napolis, Maryland. 
 
 2. Madeline Post Stone, born, in New York, Au- 
 
 gust 16, 1867. 
 
 3. Frederick Sigourney Stone, born, in Princeton, 
 
 New Jersey, July 4, 1871. 
 
 4. Herman Foster Stone, born, in New York, No- 
 
 vember 3, 1874. 
 
244 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 Angelina Post. 
 
 Sixth child of JOTHAM WILLIAM POST, M. D., 
 born, in Brooklyn, New York, August i6, 1837; mar- 
 ried, in New York, October 20, 1869, by Rev. Henry 
 W. Bellows, to Caspar Wistar Hodge, D. D., of 
 Princeton, New Jersey (born February 21, 1830; 
 died September 27, 1891 ) . The first wife of Caspar 
 Wistar Hodge was HARRIET Terry Post, daughter 
 of Richard Bayley Post I, of the Second Branch. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Caspar Wistar Hodge, Jr., born, in Princeton, 
 
 September 22, 1870; married, in Princeton, 
 November 23, 1897, t>y Rev. George T. Pur- 
 vis, to Sarah Henry, of Princeton. 
 
 Had 
 
 Lucy Maxwell Hodge, born, in Princeton, 
 March 5, 1902. 
 
 2. Angelina Post Hodge, born, in Princeton, No- 
 
 vember 15, 1871 ; married, in Princeton, June 
 5, 1900, by Francis Hodge D. D., to Malcolm 
 MacLaren, of Princeton (born June 21, 
 1869). 
 
 Had 
 
 Malcolm MacLaren, Jr., born, in London, 
 June 26, 1901. 
 
Post Family. 245 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 3. Mary Blanchard Hodge, born, in Princeton, 
 
 February 2, 1874; married, in Princeton, 
 June 7, 1894, by Francis Hodge, D. D., to 
 William Francis Magie, of Princeton (born 
 December 14, 1858). 
 
 4. Sarah Madeline Hodge, born, in Princeton, 
 
 December 29, 1876. 
 
246 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH 
 
 EDWIN POST, 
 
 Third Son and Sixth Child of Jotham II, 
 
 AND his Children. 
 
1—9 Henry Burnett Post. 
 
 — 1 Regis Henri Poet., Jr 
 
 7 Maud Evelyn Post, died in infancy, 
 6 Garrard Post, died without issue. 
 
 i Bruce Price Post. 
 
 1 Edwin Main Post, Jr. 
 
 4 Nathalie McLean Post. 
 ■3 AJbertson Van Zo Post. 
 
 Norreys Jephson O'Conor, 
 
 —1 Laura Josephine Post. 
 
 George Griswold, rv. 
 
 -1 Ellen Post married Philip AUen. 
 No issue. 
 
 2 Philip Allen Post, died without issue. 
 
 1 Morgan Gibbes Post, died without 
 
 issue. 
 
248 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 Edwin Post. 
 
 Third son of JOTHAM POST II and Madeline 
 Blaau, born June 12, 1804; died June 3, 1888. 
 Graduated from Columbia College in 1821. 
 Was married first, on May 12, 1824, in Trinity 
 Church, by Rev. Mr. Berrian, to Lucretia Ann Main 
 (sister of Austin Main, who married Emily^ daugh- 
 ter of Allison Post, Fifth Branch). His second 
 marriage was with Cornelia Davis. No issue by sec- 
 ond marriage. 
 
 Edwin Post was a celebrated sportsman and shot. 
 
Post Family. 249 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Edwin Post and Lucretia Ann Main 
 Had 
 
 1. Ellen Post, married Philip Allen, of Provi- 
 
 dence, Rhode Island. She died November 
 16, 1847, leaving no issue. 
 
 2. Edwin Augustus Post, born March 10, 1829; 
 
 married Margaret Oliver Gibbes. 
 
 3. Henry Albertson Van Zo Post, born May 
 
 16, 1832; married first, Maria Farquhar Tay- 
 lor; second, Caroline McLean. 
 
 4. Lucretia Main Post, born December 16, 
 
 1833 ; died May 18, 1873. Was the first wife 
 of William T. Moore, son of Clement C. 
 Moore, the author of "The Night Before 
 Christmas." No issue. 
 
 5. Mary Post, died in infancy. 
 
 6. Ellen Allen Post, born April 15, 1848. 
 
250 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH 
 
 Sons of 
 
 Edwin Post 
 
 leaving descendants : 
 
 1. Edwin Augustus Post. 
 
 2. Henry Albertson Van Zo Post. 
 
Post Family. 251 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Edwin Augustus Post. 
 
 Edwin Augustus Post, born March 10, 1829, 
 
 was graduated a lawyer from Butler & Evarts' office 
 
 in 1850; practised until his marriage. Afterwards 
 
 had no particular occupation, but was at one time 
 
 one of the Dock Commissioners of the City of New 
 
 York. 
 
 May 16, 1853, Edwin Post married Margaret 
 Oliver Gibbes, daughter of Robert Morgan Gibbes, 
 of South Carolina, granddaughter of Governor 
 Gibbes, of South Carolina. Her family record is 
 in "Burke's Peerage and Landed Gentry." Her 
 mother, Emily Oliver, was a daughter of Robert 
 Oliver, of Baltimore, Maryland. 
 
252 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 Edwin Augustus Post and Margaret Oliver 
 
 GiBBES 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Morgan Gibbes Post, born February 20, 1854; 
 
 died December 9, 1888. Graduated from 
 Harvard University. 
 
 2. Philip Allen Post, born November, 1855; 
 
 died December 27, 1875, while a student at 
 Harvard University. 
 
 3. Emily Oliver Post, married, May 6, 1886, to 
 
 George Griswold. 
 
 Had 
 George Griswold IV, born October 7, 1896. 
 
 4. Edwina M. Post. 
 
Post Family. 253 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Henry Albertson Van Zo Post. 
 
 Born, in New York City, May 16, 1832. Went 
 to M. Churchill's Military School, at Sing Sing, 
 New York; from there he went to the "Novelty Iron 
 Works," Brooklyn, where he learned his profession 
 of mechanical engineer. He was for eleven years 
 connected with the firm as expert engineer. 
 
 In 1 86 1 he was mustred in as Lieutenant-Colonel, 
 Second U. S. Sharpshooters, and on January i, 1862, 
 became Colonel of the same regiment. He was 
 wounded at the battle of Antietam, and granted 
 leave of absence on surgeon's certificate of disability, 
 September 23, 1862, and upon expiration of its ex- 
 tension rejoined on or about November 6, and 
 commanded his regiment in the Army of the Poto- 
 mac, until ordered on detached service, November 
 II, 1862, by Special Orders of that date from Head- 
 quarters Army of the Potomac. He was honorably 
 discharged upon the tender of his resignation, to date 
 November 16, 1862. In 1864 he went to Cincinnati 
 as a partner in Perkins, Livingston & Post. Estab- 
 lished there a large manufacturing business of rail- 
 road supplies as "POST & Co." In 1870 he returned 
 to New York, and later established "PoST, Martin & 
 Co." and "PoST & Pomeroy." 
 
 Henry Albertson Van Zo Post was twice mar- 
 ried, his first wife was Maria Farquhar Taylor. She 
 was born February 25, 1832; married H. A. V. PoST, 
 
254 -Po-^' Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 November 22, 1853, in Calvary Church, New York. 
 Died in Newport, Rhode Island, July 27, i860. 
 
 Henry Post's second wife was Caroline Burnet 
 McLean, of Cincinnati, daughter of General Na- 
 thaniel McLean, and granddaughter of Justice John 
 McLean, of the Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
 Caroline Burnet McLean was also a granddaugh- 
 ter of Justice Burnet, of the Supreme Court of Ohio, 
 and United States Senator from that State. She was 
 born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 14, 1843. Was mar- 
 ried to H. A. V. Post, in Glendale, Ohio, by the Rev. 
 Frank L. B. Robbins, October 16, 1865. 
 
 The father of Mrs. PoST, General McLean, son 
 of Hon. John McLean, of Ohio, Associate Justice 
 of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born 
 February 2, 1818. At sixteen years of age he 
 graduated at Augusta College, Kentucky, went im- 
 mediately to Harvard College, where he passed 
 through the studies of the Senior Class as a resident 
 graduate; then entered the Law School. After com- 
 pleting this course, he returned to his home in Ohio 
 and commenced the practice of law in Cincinnati. 
 
 At the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, 
 under orders received from General Fremont, he 
 commenced the organization of the Seventy-fifth 
 Ohio Regiment; he was commissioned its colonel 
 September 18, 1861. In January, 1862, he was or- 
 dered with his regiment to West Virginia, and com- 
 
Post Family. 255 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 manded it personally in all its service under Generals 
 Milroy, Schenck and Fremont, up to and through 
 the battle of Cross Keys, when he was promoted to 
 the command of a brigade consisting of four Ohio 
 regiments. He commanded this brigade through 
 the campaign of General Pope in Virginia, through 
 the second battle of Bull Run, and the retreat upon 
 Washington. On the 29th of November, 1862, he 
 was commissioned as brigadier-general. He re- 
 mained in the Army of the Potomac in command of 
 a division in active service under Generals McClel- 
 lan, Burnside and Hooker, and through the battle of 
 Chancellorsville. He then asked to be relieved, and 
 was ordered to report to General Burnside in the 
 Department of the Ohio. When General Burnside 
 was relieved by General Schofield, he was ordered 
 to the command of a brigade in the field in Tennes- 
 see, where he joined the corps of General Schofield 
 and served actively under General Sherman. After 
 the battles of Kenesaw and Lost Mountain, he was 
 ordered to Kentucky and placed in command of a 
 district. He was subsequently ordered to Tennes- 
 see, when our army under General Thomas was 
 pushed up the Tennessee River, when the command 
 was ordered to North Carolina. From Fort Fisher 
 they formed a junction with General Sherman. 
 When the surrender of Lee ended the war, General 
 
256 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 McLean sent in his resignation and returned to his 
 home, Glendale, near Cincinnati, Ohio. During 
 the whole war of four years General McLean was 
 off duty only thirty days. 
 
 General McLean was the son of Judge John Mc- 
 Lean, born in Morris County, New Jersey, 1785; 
 died, in Cincinnati, April, 1861. In 1812 Judge 
 McLean was elected to Congress; re-elected in 18 14. 
 18 16 resigned to accept a seat on the supreme bench 
 of Ohio. 1822 Commissioner of Land Office. 1823 
 Postmaster-General under President Monroe, and 
 continued through the administration of John 
 Quincy Adams. 1829 resigned as Postmaster-Gen- 
 eral, declined War and Navy Department. Same 
 year was appointed Associate Justice Supreme 
 Court of the United States, which position he held 
 until his death, over thirty- two years. 
 
 In 1848, and in 1852 and 1856, he was prominently 
 spoken of for President of the United States. In the 
 last-named year he received a formidable support in 
 the convention, and came near, on the first ballot, 
 beating Colonel Fremont. Had it not been for his 
 advanced age he would probably have been nomi- 
 nated for President instead of Abraham Lincoln by 
 the Chicago convention. 
 
 Vol. 10, Am. Cyclopedia, has an account of his 
 life; also other histories. 
 
Post Family. 257 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 The mother of Caroline Burnet McLean (wife of 
 H. A. V. Post), was the first wife of General Na- 
 thaniel McLean, Caroline Thew Burnet, daughter 
 of Judge Jacob Burnet. 
 
 Judge Jacob Burnet was an eminent lawyer, au- 
 thor of the first Constitution of the State of Ohio, a 
 Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and a United 
 States Senator during the administration of President 
 Jackson. 
 
 A noteworthy incident in the history of Judge 
 Burnet's Senatorship occurred during the debate, as 
 it was called, between Daniel Webster and Colonel 
 Hayne, of South Carolina. Mr. March, of Boston, 
 in his reminiscences of Congress, published in 1850, 
 states that during the debate there was a case of 
 importance on argument before the Supreme Court 
 in which Mr. Webster was retained as counsel. 
 Compelled to watch its progress, he had not been 
 able to command more than an occasional presence 
 in the Senate Chamber, and requested that the fur- 
 ther consideration of the resolution might be post- 
 poned till the following Monday. The request was 
 refused by Colonel Hayne, who in evident agitation 
 and excitement demanded that the debate should go 
 on without postponement. Colonel Hayne was to 
 make his second speech the following day. Mr. 
 Webster, after a moment's consultation with Judge 
 
258 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 Burnet, in which the latter consented to take notes 
 of Colonel Hayne's speech for him, then rose, and, 
 to use the words of a distinguished member of Con- 
 gress from the Southern State who was present on 
 the occasion, his person seemed to become taller and 
 larger, his chest expanded, and his eyeballs dilated. 
 Folding his arms in a composed, firm and most ex- 
 pressive manner, he exclaimed: "Let the discussion 
 proceed; I am ready." 
 
 In 1850 the City of Boston ordered from Healy 
 a picture which now hangs in Faneuil Hall repre- 
 senting Mr. Webster replying to Colonel Hayne in 
 the U. S. Senate. The artist, on being asked why 
 he had given so prominent a position in the fore- 
 ground to the portrait of Judge Burnet, replied that 
 it was Mr. Webster's special request, on account, not 
 only of their long friendship, but also because Judge 
 Burnet had at his request taken notes of Colonel 
 Hayne's speech, and from those notes chiefly he had 
 composed his speech in reply. In this picture is also 
 represented Judge McLean, of the Supreme Court, 
 and Mrs. Burnet is represented seated in the gallery 
 — so Mrs. Post has two grandfathers and a grand- 
 mother painted in that picture. 
 
 It may be added here, as a matter of interest, that 
 Mrs. H. A. V. Post is descended from Oliver Crom- 
 well in the following direct line: 
 
Post Family. 259 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 Elizabeth, born 1629, daughter of Oliver Crom- 
 well, married Sir John Claypole. Their son came 
 to America, married and lived in Philadelphia. His 
 daughter was married to David Chambers, a de- 
 scendant of the Chalmers of Scotland; their daugh- 
 ter, Rebecca, was married to Robert Wallace; their 
 daughter, Rebecca, was married to Judge Jacob Bur- 
 net; their daughter, Caroline Thew, was married to 
 Nathaniel McLean; their daughter, Caroline Bur- 
 net, was married to HENRY Albertson Van Zo 
 Post. 
 
 Henry Albertson Van Zo Post and Maria 
 Farquhar Taylor 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Laura Josephine Post, born September 23, 
 
 1854. 
 
 2. Maria Jephson Post, born November 14, 
 
 1855; married; November 15, 1881, in Christ 
 Church, to John Christopher O'Connor. 
 
 Had 
 
 Norreys Jephson O'Conor. 
 
26o Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 Henry Albertson Van Zo Post, by his 
 second marriage with Caroline Burnet Mc- 
 Lean, 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Albertson Van Zo Post, born, in Cincinnati, 
 
 July 28, 1866. Graduated from Columbia 
 College School of Mines as a Civil Engine- 
 er, 1889. Was one of the original members 
 of Troop A. Then became captain in the 
 Twelfth Regiment, N. G. N. Y., and with 
 his regiment volunteered for the Spanish- 
 American war, summer of 1898. 
 
 2. Nathalie McLean Post, born, in Cincinnati, 
 
 November 3, 1868. 
 
 3. Edwin Main Post, born, in Cincinnati, Janu- 
 
 ary 6, 1870; married Emily Bruce Price. 
 
 4. Garrard Post, born, in New York, November 
 
 12, 1871; died, December 6, 1886. 
 
 5. Maud Evelyn Post, born January 17, 1875; 
 
 died February 6, 1875. 
 
 6. Carolyn Beatrice Post, born at Babylon, 
 
 Long Island, March 6, 1876; married, March 
 6, 1895, to Regis Henri Post. (See Fourth 
 Branch, descendants of Waldron Blaau 
 Post.) 
 
 7. Henry Burnet Post, born, at Babylon, Long 
 
 Island, June 15, 1885. 
 
Post Family. 261 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Edwin Main Post. 
 Edwin Main Post, second son of Henry Al- 
 BERTSON Van Zo Post, was born January 6, 1870. 
 Graduated at Columbia University in the class 
 of 1892. He is a broker. Married, at Tuxedo, 
 New York, June i, 1892, Emily Bruce Price, daugh- 
 ter of the distinguished architect, Bruce Price. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Edwin Main Post, Jr., born June 2, 1893. 
 
 2. Bruce Price Post, born February 9, 1895. 
 
262 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH 
 
 Daughters of Jotham Post II 
 
 LEAVING issue: 
 
 1. Julia Lynch Post. 
 
 2. Eleanor Post. 
 
 3. Nancy Elizabeth Mary Post. 
 
 4. Magdalen Rachel Post. 
 
Post Family. 263 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Julia Lynch Post. 
 
 Born February 16, 1797; died December 7, 1878; 
 married, May 15, 1815, by the Rev. Dr. Romeyn, to 
 James D'Wolf. 
 
 Had 
 
 Juliana D'Wolf, married Robert Livingston Cut- 
 ting. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Robert Livingston Cutting, married Judith 
 
 Carter Moale, of Baltimore. 
 Had 
 L Robert Livingston Cutting, 
 n. James D'Wolf Cutting. 
 
 2. James D'Wolf Cutting, died unmarried. 
 
 3. Walter Cutting, married Maria Center Pome- 
 
 roy, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. 
 Had 
 L Juliana Cutting. 
 
 IL Mary Pomeroy Cutting, married Ar- 
 thur Cumnock. 
 
 HL Walter Cutting. 
 
 IV. Madeline Cutting, married Dr. Rus- 
 sell Aubra Hibbs. 
 
 4. Julia Cutting, died unmarried. 
 
264 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Eleanor Post. 
 
 Born April 19, 1799; died April 26, 1872. First 
 married, March 9, 1820, by Rev. Dr. Romeyn, to 
 Francis L. B. D'Wolf. Second married, December, 
 1839, by Rev. Dr. Hawks, to John Whipple, of 
 Providence, Rhode Island. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. James D'Wolf, by first marriage. He married 
 
 Ellen Dabney. 
 
 Had 
 I. Frank L. B. D'Wolf, dead. 
 n. James D'Wolfe. 
 HI. Ellen D'Wolf, married. 
 
 IV. Henry D'Wolf. 
 
 V. Sherman D'Wolf. 
 
 2. John Whipple, by second marriage. He mar- 
 
 ried Elizabeth Swann, daughter of Governor 
 Svvann, of Maryland. 
 Had 
 
 I. John Whipple, Jr., born July 15, 1865; 
 married Florence Dibrell. 
 
 II. Elizabeth Sherlock Whipple, born 
 July 20, 1867; married Pemberton Hare 
 Powell. 
 
Post Family. 265 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 III. Eleanor Whipple, born January 2, 
 1870; married Benjamin Weaver. 
 
 IV. Thomas Swann Whipple, born April 
 29, 1872. 
 
 V. Mary Carter Whipple, born March 
 27, 1873. 
 
 VI. Jane Byrd Whipple, born August 13, 
 1876. 
 
 VII. Gwendolyn Whipple, born May 
 29, 1883. 
 
 VIII. Shirley Carter Whipple, born Sep- 
 tember 25, 1884. 
 
266 Post Family. 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Nancy Elizabeth Mary Post. 
 
 Born October 8, 1806; died February 21, 1895; 
 married, on December 19, 1826, by the Rev. Dr. 
 Wainwright, to Bernard Rhinelander. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Emily Catharine Rhinelander, married Dr. 
 
 John Watson, June 29, 1861. Died without 
 issue. 
 
 2. Charles Edward Rhinelander, married to Ma- 
 
 tilda Cotheal, June 7, 1878. 
 
 3. Adelaide Rhinelander, died in infancy. 
 
 4. Bernard Rhinelander. 
 
 5. Ellen Lucretia Rhinelander, married Anson 
 
 Van Horn Leroy, March 24, 1858. 
 Had 
 Ellen Rhinelander Le Roy, died in infancy. 
 
 6. Laura Virginia Rhinelander. 
 
 7. Gertrude Rhinelander, married Francis Wil- 
 
 liam Waldo, June 6, 1876. 
 Had 
 Rhinelander Waldo. 
 
Post Family. 267 
 
 fourth branch. 
 
 Magdalen Rachel Post. 
 
 Born December 14, 1810; died January 29, 1841. 
 Was married, July 27, 1829, by Rev. Dr. Wain- 
 wright, to Isaac Gibson. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Julia Gibson, married Melancthon Woolsey 
 
 Borland, of Boston; she died April 13, 1901. 
 
 Had 
 
 I. James Lloyd Borland, died in infancy. 
 
 n. Madeline Borland, married to Louis 
 M'Lane Tififany, M. D., of Baltimore. 
 Died leaving 
 
 a. Katherine M'Lane Tififany, mar- 
 ried Gordon Abbot, of Boston. 
 
 b. Louis M'Lane Tififany, died in 
 infancy. 
 
 in. John Borland, married to Constance 
 Evelyn Rives, of New York. Died leav- 
 ing, 
 
 a. Maud Rives Borland. 
 
 b. John Borland. 
 
 c. Ella Aufrere Borland. 
 
 2. Madeline Gibson. Married John Nelson Bor- 
 
 land, M. D., of Boston. She died April, 
 1900. 
 
268 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 Had 
 I. Rebecca Nelson Borland, married 
 James Jackson, of Boston. 
 Had 
 
 a. Madeline Jackson, married 
 George Cabot Lee, Jr., of Boston. 
 
 b. James Jackson. Married on June 
 27th, 1904, Rachel Brooks, daugh- 
 ter of Shepard Brooks, of Boston. 
 
 c. Rebecca Borland Jackson, mar- 
 ried Robert Haydock Hallowell, 
 of Boston. 
 
 n. Julia Borland, married Colonel Fran- 
 cis Lee Higginson, of Boston. 
 
 Had 
 
 a. Mary Cabot Higginson, married 
 Philip Shelton Sears, of Boston. 
 
 b. Francis Lee Higginson, Jr. 
 
 c. Juliet Higginson. 
 
 d. Barbara Higginson. 
 
 IH. John Nelson Borland, married Alice 
 Haven, of New York. 
 Had 
 
 a. Georgette Borland. 
 
 b. Alice Borland. 
 
 c. Madeline Borland. 
 
Post Family. 269 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 IV. William Gibson Borland, married 
 Lucy Sturgis Codman, of Boston. 
 Had 
 
 a. John Nelson Borland, born De- 
 cember 29, 1898. 
 
 b. Susan Codman Borland, born 
 August 24, 1900. 
 
 c. Rosamond Borland, born August 
 29, 1903. 
 
 3. Edwin Post Gibson, married Eliza Pollock 
 Dodge, of New York. 
 Had 
 I. William Maitland Gibson, married Sara 
 Laughlin Messimer. 
 Had 
 
 a. William Maitland Gibson, Jr., 
 deceased. 
 
 b. Madeline Gibson. 
 
 c. Max Agassiz Gibson. 
 
 n. Clara Gibson, married Henri Lavan- 
 chy, of Zurich, Switzerland. 
 Had 
 a. Magda Lavanchy. 
 
 in. John Travers Gibson, married Mary 
 
 Wilson. 
 
 Had 
 a. Alice Gibson. 
 
270 Post Family. 
 
 FOURTH BRANCH. 
 
 4. William Borrowe Gibson, died unmarried dur- 
 
 ing the Civil War. Was assistant surgeon on 
 Admiral Farragut's ship, "Hartford," and 
 treated by the Admiral as a personal friend, 
 who had him at his table instead of at the 
 mess. When William Gibson died, Admiral 
 Farragut wrote to his sister, Mrs. J. N. Bor- 
 land, asking to see her, as he wished to ex- 
 press in person his sense of loss at his friend's 
 early death. 
 
 5. Mary Ellen Gibson, married William Jafifray, 
 
 of New York. 
 
 Had 
 I. Isaac Gibson JafTray. 
 n. William JafTray. 
 
ALLISON POST. 
 
 da^ucyntype taken before his death. 
 
Post Family. 271 
 
 FIFTH BRANCH. 
 
 ALLISON POST, 
 
 BORN 1779, 
 
 AND HIS Descendants: 
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 Allison Post. 
 
 Born January 25, 1779; died March 18, 1848; 
 married, July 5, 18 12, Elizabeth Floyd, whose sister. 
 Alma, was the second wife of ALLISON'S brother, 
 Joel, and whose aunt, Abigail, married ALLISON'S 
 eldest brother, WILLIAM. Elizabeth Post died April 
 4, 1869. 
 
 Allison Post was born and lived in New York. 
 In r8i2 he bought a farm at Nissequogue, Long 
 Island, but in 1816 sold it and returned to New York 
 and went into the wholesale drug business with his 
 brothers. The firm was JOEL and JOTHAM and AL- 
 LISON Post, and afterwards JOTHAM, ALLISON and 
 
 Waldron Blaau Post. 
 
274 Post Family. 
 
 fifth branch. 
 
 Allison Post and Elizabeth Floyd 
 Had 
 
 1. Elizabeth Floyd Post, born April 17, 1813; 
 
 died April 2, 1817. 
 
 2. William Floyd Post, born November ig, 
 
 1 8 14; died May 15, 1844. He was married; 
 no issue. 
 
 3. Emily Post, born June 11, 18 16; died July 28, 
 
 1892, at Dinard. France; married Austin 
 Main. 
 
 4. Alma Post, born January 8, 1818; died July 
 
 5, 1824. 
 
 5. Elizabeth Mary Post, born April 12, 1819; 
 
 died March 9, 1824. 
 
 6. Jotham Post, born March 19, 1821 ; died, in 
 
 Paris, August 21, 1877; married Josephine 
 Bridge. 
 
 7. Caroline Post, born April 13, 1824; died 
 
 March 11, i860; married Benjamin L. Swan. 
 
 8. Amelia Post, born August 6, 1826; died June 
 
 5, 1830. 
 
 9. Julia Strong Post, born September 23, 1828; 
 
 married Edward Swan. 
 
 10. Allison Post, born August 18, 1832; died 
 
 February 17, 1835. 
 
Post Family. 275 
 
 FIFTH BRANCH. 
 
 JoTHAM Post, M. D. 
 
 JoTHAM Post, M. D., sixth child of Allison 
 Post, was born March 19, 1821; died, in Paris, 
 France, August 21, 1877. Graduated at Columbia 
 College 1840. Graduated College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons in 1845, *^hen for two years studied in Paris. 
 He did not subsequently practice. He married 
 Josephine Bridge. 
 
 Jotham Post and Josephine Bridge 
 Had 
 
 1. Emily Elizabeth (Lizzie) Post, unmarried. 
 
 2. Adeline Emma Post, married to Jacques 
 
 Reubell ; died leaving no issue. 
 
 3. Pauline Post, married to Francis McNiel 
 
 Bacon, Jr. 
 
 Had 
 
 I. Pauline Post Bacon, born September 29, 
 1898. 
 
 n. Francis McNiel Bacon HI, born May 
 14, 1900. 
 
276 Post Family. 
 
 fifth branch. 
 
 Emily Post. 
 
 Daughter of Allisox Post, born June 11, 18 16; 
 died July 28, 1892 ; married to Austin Ledyard Sands 
 Main, November 4, 1835. 
 
 Had 
 I. Lucretia Ann Main, born August 23, 1836; 
 married to William H. Brydon. 
 These had 
 Emily Ann Brydon, married to Reginald Vil- 
 liers Forbes. 
 
 Caroline Post. 
 
 Daughter of ALLISON POST, born April 13, 1824; 
 died March 11, i860; married Benjamin L. Swan. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Allison Post Swan, died in infancy. 
 
 2. William Lincoln Swan, married — — Thurston. 
 
 3. Caroline Emily Swan, married Thomas S. 
 
 Young. 
 
 4. Benjamin L. Swan, died in infancy. 
 
Post Family. 277 
 
 fifth branch. 
 
 Julia Strong Post. 
 
 Daughter of ALLISON POST, born September 23, 
 1828; married Edward Swan, who died August 30, 
 1903. 
 
 Had 
 
 1. Edward Henry Swan, died in childhood. 
 
 2. Julia Post Swan, married Rev. William Irvin. 
 
 3. Allison Post Swan, married Mary U. Paris. 
 
 4. Emily Swan, married Edward Lentilhon ; died 
 
 January 3, 1890. 
 
 5. Frederick. Henry Swan, died in childhood. 
 
 6. Edward Henry Swan, Jr., married Catherine 
 
 S. Paris. 
 
 7. Charles Fearing Swan. 
 
 8. Theodore Augustus Swan. 
 
 9. Elizabeth Mary Swan, married Capt. Horatio 
 
 McKay. 
 
 10. Harriet Stone Swan. 
 
 11. Charlotte Caroline Swan. 
 
 12. Robert Otis Swan. 
 
278 -Po^/ Family. 
 
 APPENDICES. 
 
Post Family. 279 
 
 Appendix A. 
 
 Detached facts relating to the POSTE family in Eng- 
 land from notes aforesaid. 
 
 Registry of Wills, Canterbury, Kent, England. 
 
 George Post or Poste, of Ulcombe (Co. Kent), 
 died 1502. 
 
 A. D. 1559, JULIANE Poste, of Tenderden, widow, 
 dated 1558, Liber 34, quire 3. Testatri.x mentions 
 Edward Poste her son, Thomas Poste her son, 
 Stephen Poste her son, whom she appoints execu- 
 tors. Proved 30 Jany. 1559, o.s. 
 
 1871, i6th April Sunday. "It is with regret 
 we announce the death of the Rev. Beale PoSTE, 
 LL.B., which took place on Sunday last, at his resi- 
 dence, Bydew's Place, near Maidstone. Born in 
 1793, of an old Kentish family, he was son of WIL- 
 LIAM Poste, Esq., one of the Four Pleaders of the 
 city of London, and grandson of WILLIAM PoSTE, 
 Esq., of Hayle Place, near Maidstone, and Mary, his 
 wife, daughter and coheiress of Richard Beale, Esq., 
 likewise of Hayle Place, which property had been 
 held by the Beales for several generations. The de- 
 ceased gentleman was educated at Trinity College, 
 Cambridge, where he attained to the degree of LL.B. 
 at an unusually early age. After spending some time 
 on the continent he returned to England and took 
 holy orders, and was some years curate of High 
 
280 Post Family. 
 
 APPENDIX A . 
 
 Halden, and Milsted, in this county, but never held 
 preferment in the church. He afterwards came to 
 reside on his property at Bydews and occupied him- 
 self much in antiquarian studies and researches, and 
 was intimately associated with a number of anti- 
 quarians of note, more especially with those resident 
 in and near Maidstone, of whom we may mention the 
 late Rev. Lambert Blackwell Larking, Mr. Charles, 
 Mr. Clement Smythe, Mr. Pretty, the late curator 
 of the Museum, and Mr. John Newington Hughes, 
 all of whom have passed away before him. Mr. 
 POSTE was an early member of the Archaeological 
 Association of Great Britain, and contributed several 
 learned papers to their journal; and on the establish- 
 ment of the Kent Archaeological Society he took an 
 active part in its foundation, and regularly attended 
 the meetings of the Council, and one of his last pa- 
 pers was contributed to the society's journal, ArchiE- 
 ologia Cantiana, on the site of ancient Roman Maid- 
 stone, which contains a mass of valuable and inter- 
 esting information respecting the early history of the 
 town. In 1847 ^Jr. PoSTE published a valuable 
 "History of the Church and College of All Saints, 
 Maidstone," which was followed in 1853 by "Bri- 
 tannic Researches, or new facts and Rectifications of 
 Ancient British History." Mr. PoSTE married in 
 early life Mary Jane, daughter of the late John 
 Cousens, Esq., of Westbourne, who died two years 
 
Post Family. 281 
 
 APPENDIX A. 
 
 since and has left a family. His eldest surviving 
 son is Mr. Edward Poste, Fellow of Oriel College, 
 O.xford, one of the principal examiners to the Civil 
 Service Commissioners, himself an author. 
 
 Mr. Beale Poste traces his pedigree to GEORGE 
 PoSTE (or Post), of Ulcombe (Co. Kent; d. 1502). 
 
 Coat of arms of GEORGE PosTE, of Ulcombe, bore 
 arms having for crest a demi eagle with wings rest- 
 ing on chapeau." 
 
 Though many of GEORGE POST'S descendants bear 
 the name of STEPHEN POST, none of them emigrated 
 to America. 
 
282 Post Family. 
 
 Appendix B. 
 
 Joseph Post. 
 "The first grave (in the new burying ground pur- 
 chased by the town of Southampton) was on the 
 south side of the lot, and is marked by a headstone 
 bearing the following inscription: 
 
 '"Heare lyes | ye body of JOSEPH | POST deceased ] 
 10 november | aged aboot | 72 172 1.' " 
 
 "Upon the footstone is the following: 
 
 " 'Post Joseph | the first | entared | in this plas.' "* 
 
 From the published records of South- 
 ampton, with a picture of the tomb- 
 stone. 
 
 ♦Second (North End) burying ground. 
 
Post Family. 283 
 
 Appendix C. 
 
 Abstract of Will of John Post. 
 
 In the Name of God, Amen, I, JOHN PoST, of the 
 Towne of Southampton, in the East Riding of York- 
 shire. Being in perfect memory, though weake in 
 Body. 
 
 I leave to my son JOHN, my house and homestall, 
 and all my land adjoining. And my close at the 
 Head of the Creek, and a £50 right of Commanage. 
 
 I leave to my son JEREMIAH, the house and home 
 lot of my father that he hath given to me. And the 
 Close that was my fathers, between the Mill Path, 
 and Cobb's Pound path. 
 
 I leave to my son RICHARD, all my close at the 
 Long Springs, and my acre of land lying by it. And 
 my £50 allotment of land at Meco.x. 
 
 I leave to my three sons my £150 lot at Hog Neck, 
 and all my lands west of Canoe Place, and my land 
 in the Great Plane. 
 
 I leave to my five daughters Sarah, Dorothy, Mar- 
 tha, Mary and Deborah, £5 each, when they are 
 married. 
 
 I make my wife Mary, executor, and my sons are 
 to live with their mother till they are of age. 
 
 John Post. 
 
 Dated December 9, 1687. 
 
 Witnesses 
 Joseph Post 
 
 John LaughtoR. 
 
 Proved at Court of Sessions in Southampton, 
 March 21, 1687-8. 
 
 Inventory of estate amounts to £99. 
 
 Recorded in Liber "A" of Deeds, in Sufifolk Coun- 
 ty Clerk's office. 
 
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 -9 Mary Post. 
 
 -8 George Post, (of 
 Missouri. ) 
 
 -7 Charles A. Post, 
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 -a Peter Post, 
 
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 San Francisco, 
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APPENDIX D.— CHART B. 
 
 Descendants of CAPT. JOHN POST. 
 
 Marguerite Post, born 
 June 12. 1893. 
 
 George Birkbeck Post, 
 
 born Jan. 7, 1897. 
 
 Richard Post, born 
 Jan. 17, 1904. 
 
 Fanny Post, born Nov. 
 7, 1892. 
 
 Mary Post, born Dec. 2, 
 1893- 
 
 Lucy M. Post, born Jan. 
 31. 1883. 
 
 John J. Post, born Aug. 
 27, 1850. died March 
 29, 1869. 
 
 Sarah H. Post, born Oct. 
 26, 1852. married 
 Henry N. Corwith. 
 Had children. 
 
 Charles R. Post, born 
 Sept. 13, 1854, died 
 April 10, 1865. 
 
 Louise J. Post, born 
 Feb. 8, i860, married 
 Dec. 20, igoo. Silas 
 McBee. 
 
 Elizabeth Post, born 
 I Nov. II, 1S09, died 
 
 j June 27, i8gu, mar- 
 ,! ried Joshua Skidmure. 
 li Had children. 
 
 John H. Post, born 
 April 19, 1812, died 
 Aug. 24, 1872, mar- 
 ried June 3, 1851. 
 Jane Howell, born 
 May, 1810, died July 
 17, 1901. No chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Abram S. Post, born 
 June 13, 1862, mar- 
 ried Tune 24, 1891, 
 Ida P. Crabbe, born 
 March 31, 1863. 
 
 William H. Post, born 
 Oct. 2, 1865, married 
 Jan. 7, 1892, Harriet 
 R. Bridges. 
 
 Josiah H. Post, born 
 Dec. 10. 1844, mar- 
 ried March 29, 1877, 
 Lucy Mitchell. 
 
 William E. H. Post, 
 
 born Feb. 27, 1848, 
 
 died July 23. 1877. 
 
 married July. 1877. 
 
 Mary Milford. No 
 children. 
 
 Mary Post, born April 
 
 18. 1815. died March 
 
 1 1. 1890, married Oct. 
 
 27, 1836, C. H. Rogers, 
 
 (j Had children. 
 
 William Post, born May 
 23. 1819. died Nov. 
 I. 1893, married May 
 23, 1849, Mary A. 
 Jagger, born Nov. 17, 
 1828, died Feb. 3, 
 1896. 
 
 Frances Post, born May 
 31, 1821, died June 
 3. 1854. married Tames 
 Wickam, died ' June 
 3. 1854. No children. 
 
 Marv Post, born Tuly 
 27. 1856. 
 
 George O. Post, born 
 March 16. 1814, died 
 Aug. 7. 1895. mnrried 
 ist, Jan. Q. 1844, Julia 
 A. liowell. born Aug. 
 
 28. 181 1, died Sept. 
 8. 185 1, niai;ried 2d. 
 Oct. 26, 1854. Harriet 
 
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 29. 1824, died July 8. 
 1901. 
 
 Erastus F. Post, born 
 July 2, 1859, married 
 Nov. 12. 1885, Anna 
 Grace Foster. 
 
 Phcebe Post, born April 
 7. 1812, died 1 88 1, 
 married Nov. 16. 
 1841. Benjamin H. 
 Foster. Had children. 
 
 George Edward Post, 
 
 born July 3, 1832. 
 
 died Nov. 17. 1892. 
 
 married Susan Clark. 
 No children. 
 
 Abigail 
 
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 Feb. 
 
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 Nov. 
 
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 F. Mitchell, 
 
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 . 6, 1808. 
 
 died 
 
 Nov. 
 
 9. 1854. 
 
 1807. Sarah Howell, 
 born April 9, 1779, 
 died Oct. 10, 183S. 
 
 I Oliver Post, born Nov. 
 15. '^777, died April 
 13. 1871, married Mary 
 Howell, born June i, 
 1782, died Feb. 26, 
 1808. 
 
 Mary Post, born March 
 29, 1780, died Sept. 
 S. 1781. 
 
APPENDIX D— CHART B. 
 
 Descendants of CAPT. JOHN POST. 
 
 James Post mar- 
 ried Mary Hunt- 
 ting. 
 
 Abraham Post, 
 born 1738, died 
 Dec. 8, 1815, 
 married March 
 23. 1773, Mary 
 lyUpton, born 
 1746, died Dec. 
 29, 1807. 
 
 John Post 
 ried? 
 
 Possibly there 
 were sisters 
 Mary and 
 
 Martha. 
 
 John Post, born 
 1700, died Jan. 
 3. 1793. Capt. 
 I St Co. Militia, 
 first settler in 
 Quogue, married 
 Abigail Halsey, 
 born 1705, died 
 March 17, 1772. 
 
 Joseph Post, born 
 1704, died 1780, 
 married Bethia 
 Jessup. 
 
 Isaac Post, born 
 1712. died May 
 8, 1785. 
 
 Between 
 generations. 
 
 Between 
 cousins. 
 
 Between 
 brothers 
 and sisters. 
 
 Mary Post. 
 
 (Capt.) John Post, 
 born 1674, died 
 March 3, 1741- 
 Made ensign in 
 171 1 and later 
 Captain of Mili- 
 tia. (His Com- 
 mission as en- 
 sign is in the 
 hands of his de- 
 scendant Abram 
 S. Post.) 
 
 (Capt.) John Post's 
 will is recorded 
 in the New York 
 Surrogate's Of- 
 fice. Vol. 14, 
 page 52. He 
 married Mary 
 
 John Post, died 
 
 Jeremiah Post. 
 
 Sarah Post. 
 
 Dorothy Post. 
 
 Martha Post. 
 
 Deborah Post. 
 
 Richard Post. 
 
 Nov. 3, 1670, to 
 Mar^^^ 
 
 Thomas Post. 
 
 Joseph Post, born, 
 1649, died Nov. 
 10, 1721. 
 
 Martha Post, mar- 
 ried Benjamin 
 Foster. 
 
 Richard Post, died 
 
 about 1689, mar- 
 
 ried Dorothy 
 
 settled in South- 
 ampton village, 
 1640. 
 
Post Family. 287 
 
 Appexdix D. 
 
 In the preceding charts of this appendix D are the 
 names of many who have attained positions of in- 
 fluence and trust in their communities, viz.: 
 
 William Rogers Post, died 1892, was twelve 
 years supervisor of Southampton and a man of ster- 
 ling worth. His eldest son, jAMES H. PoST, died in 
 the Civil War in 1861. 
 
 William J. Post has been town clerk of South- 
 ampton since 1888. 
 
 Albert Jessup Post, President of the village of 
 Southampton. 
 
 Hon. ER.ASTUS Foster Post, of Quogue, civil en- 
 gineer, a representative man in the Republican party, 
 served three terms as the representative of the first 
 district of Sufifolk County in the Assembly at Al- 
 bany. He has been one of the directors of the South- 
 ampton bank since its organization in 1888; is trustee 
 of the Sag Harbor Savings Bank. 
 
 James Howell Post is a member of the firm of 
 B. H. Howell Son & Co., New York; President of 
 the National Sugar Refining Co., member of the 
 New York Chamber of Commerce, Director of the 
 City Bank, the Central Realty Bond and Trust Com- 
 pany, the Williamsburg Savings Bank, and various 
 other corporations. 
 
288 Post Family. 
 
 Appendix E. 
 
 Children of JOHN POST, married, in 1740, to 
 Phoebe Willis: 
 
 Phoebe Willis Post, married to John Powell, of 
 Flushing, Long Island. 
 
 Abigail Post, married to Henry Pearsall, son of 
 Rowland Pearsall, of Oyster Bay, Long Island. 
 
 John Post and Phebe Post (see Appendix F) 
 were son and daughter of RICHARD PoST, Sr. (II), 
 of Hempstead, who came from Southampton. (See 
 chart on page 58.) 
 
Post Family. 289 
 
 Appendix F. 
 
 Children of Phebe PosT, married, in 1744, to 
 Joshua Powell : 
 
 Hannah, born 1745. 
 Willets, born 1747. 
 Phebe, born 1749. 
 Amos, born 1752. 
 Joshua, born 1754. 
 Richard, born 1757. 
 Benjamin, born 1760. 
 
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 AppExNDIx H. 
 
 Copy of the record of RICHARD POST (IV) in the 
 family Bible of Hexry Post: 
 
 "Richard Post, born July 17, 1735; died August 
 8, 18 13; buried in New York. 
 
 Hannah (Bedle) his wife, born August 28, 1734-* 
 
 Their children were: 
 
 Henry Post, born June n, 1758; died xMay 8, 
 1804. 
 Israel Post, born July i, 1760. 
 James Post, June 19, 1762. 
 Mary Post, born October 5, 1777. 
 Hannah Post, born August 29, 1779. 
 
 Henry Post. Mersa Post, his wife, born August 
 8, 1761 ; died March 19, 1816. Their children 
 were: 
 
 Martha Post, born October 30, 1780; died 
 March 19, 18 16. 
 
 Susannah Post, born April 15, 1783. 
 
 Israel Post, born January 17, 1784; died Septem- 
 ber 19, 1785. 
 
 Gilbert Post, born, in Dutchess County, January 
 5, 1786; died April 12, 1871. 
 
 *RlCHA.RD Post and Hannah Bedle were married August 31, 1757. 
 See "Marriage Bonds," vol. I, 637 in New York State Library, Albany. 
 
294 Post Family. 
 
 APPENDIX H. 
 
 Mary Post, born January 15, 1788. 
 
 James Post, born May 4, 1790. 
 
 Willis Post, born November 24, 1792; married 
 Catharine, his wife, September 27, 18 17. 
 
 Joseph Post, born October 10, 1795. 
 
 Hexry Post, born April 10, 1798. 
 
 Gilbert Post, born January 5, 1786; died April 
 12, 1871. Elizabeth Titus, his wife, born May 10, 
 1783; died May 4, 1837. Their children were: 
 
 Mary Post, born, in Rensselaerville, August 28, 
 1808; died June 4, 1883. 
 
 Isaac Titus Post, born, in Rensselaerville, Janu- 
 ary 4, 1810; died June 4, 1883. 
 
 Emeline Post, born, in Rome, Oneida County, 
 December 29, 181 1. 
 
 Joseph Post, born, in Rome, Oneida County, Oc- 
 tober 4, 1 813. 
 
 William Post, born, in Rome, Oneida County, 
 July 28, 1815; died 1881 or 1882. 
 
 Stephen Titus Post, born, in Rome, Oneida 
 County, February 2, 1818. 
 
 Isaac Titus Post. Nancy Pope, his wife. 
 Their children : 
 
 Mary Elizabeth Post, born June 5, 1840. 
 James Elmer Post, born September 27, 1845. 
 
Post Family. 295 
 
 APPENDIX H. 
 
 James Elmer Post. Margaret Helena Rogers, 
 his wife, born May 27, 1845; married September 5, 
 1871. Their children : 
 
 Frederick William Post„ born December 11, 
 1872. 
 Royal Elmer Post, born April 13, 1884. 
 
 William Post, born July 28, 181 5; died 1881 or 
 1882. Adelia Antoinette Wing, his wife, June 19, 
 1832. 
 
 Their children: 
 
 Sarah Elizabeth Post, born May 26, 1857. 
 Helen Augusta Post, born June 16, 1859. 
 Antoinette Wing Post, born August 2, 1861; 
 died i884(?). 
 Maria Wing Post, born June 27, 1864. 
 Irene Wing Post, born November 6, 1869." 
 
296 Post Family. 
 
 Appendix I. 
 
 Peter Hawes (son-in-law of Jotham Post) was 
 born in 1768. He graduated from the Rhode Is- 
 land College (now Brown University) with high 
 honors and as salutatorian of his class in 1791. The 
 following year he came to New York City. 
 
 In the "New York Directory and Register" for 
 1795 appears the name of "Peter Hawes, student of 
 law, 91 Beekman Street." The same year he was 
 admitted to the bar; his license to practise was signed 
 by Richard Varick, Mayor of the City. 
 
 Thus did Peter Hawes begin his illustrious career 
 at the bar of New York one hundred years ago. He 
 rapidly rose to prominence, and by his native talent 
 and ability, as well as by his industry and integrity, 
 he soon acquired a large clientege. As evidence of 
 this it may be mentioned that he organized one of 
 the first fire insurance companies of the United 
 States, the old 'Washington Insurance Comapny,' 
 and remained its secretary up to the time of his death 
 in 1829. He was also a member of the New Eng- 
 land Society, and served as its secretary from 1807 
 to 1809. From 1809 to 1812 he was a member of 
 the Common Council, or Board of Aldermen, of this 
 city. The office of Alderman was then reserved as 
 an honor for the most distinguished and worthy citi- 
 zens, and the name of 'City Father' was not inaptly 
 bestowed. 
 
Post Family. 297 
 
 APPENDIX I . 
 
 "The 'Memorial History' of New York makes 
 "mention of the fact thatPeterHawes was appointed, 
 "with other members of the Common Council, as a 
 " 'Committee of Defense,' on December 2, 181 1, and 
 "served with honor and distinction three years, look- 
 "ing after and protecting the interests of the citizens 
 "of New York during the period of the War of 18 12 
 "with Great Britain. 
 
 "But Peter Hawes did not spend all his time in 
 "poring over Blackstone, and Coke on Littleton. He 
 "also found opportunity to seek divine afflatus, and 
 "cultivate the muse of poetry. With other bright 
 "young fellows of the Knickerbocker period, he 
 "founded the Calliopean Society, which flourished 
 "several years from October i, 1793, to February 3, 
 "1799. They had regular meetings at which poems 
 "and essays were read. 
 
 "Some years ago, a descendant of Peter Hawes 
 "came across an original autograph poem of his 
 "grandfather's which needs a word of explanation. 
 "It is entitled 'The Belles of Cherry Street' Cherry 
 "Street was then the Court end of town, and filled 
 "with elegant and fashionable residences. Conspicu- 
 "ous among these was the house built by JOTHAM 
 "Post, a respected and wealthy citizen. The doors 
 "were of solid mahogany, with silver knobs, solid 
 "mahogany balusters, etc. His daughter, Nancy, was 
 "acknowledged to be the handsomest girl onManhat- 
 
298 Post Family. 
 
 APPENDIX I . 
 
 'tan Island, and the Belle of New York. Many were 
 'the suiters that thronged her father's house, and 
 'sought to carry off the prize. But sad to say she was 
 'inclined to be coquettish, as maidens sometimes are 
 'even to this day. Scores of broken hearts were laid 
 'at her feet, but still she did not relent. Serenades 
 'were sung before herwindow, and sonnets composed 
 'to her beauty and charms, but without avail. At last 
 'Peter, who was a persistent man, and quite set in his 
 'ways, like his Puritan ancestors, determined that he 
 'must win her. He wrote a number of verses which 
 'did not have the effect desired of securing his lady's 
 'affections. She only laughed him to scorn. Finally 
 'he prepared his chef d'oeuvre wherein she is apos- 
 'trophised under the pseudonym of 'Eliza,' the name 
 'by which she was known in all these effusions. All 
 'the other belles of Cherry Street are mentioned in 
 'turn, only to be rejected. The final verse sets forth 
 'the pre-eminent attractions of 'Eliza.' There are 
 'many personal allusions which cannot be appre- 
 'ciated at this distant day. But the poem is sprightly 
 'and clever. Whether it was this poem which caused 
 'her to smile upon him with favor, deponent saith 
 'not. But certain it is that after a long and arduous 
 'courtship, on the nth day of May, 1797, Peter 
 'Hawes was able to lead NANCY POST, a fair and 
 'blushing bride, to the altar, and the twain were 
 'made one." 
 
Post Family. 299 
 
 appendix i . 
 
 The Belles of Cherry Street. 
 
 Erato, sweetest Muse, assist my lays, 
 
 While I advent'rous sound the chord of praise, 
 
 Or dare proclaim the beauties of the fair. 
 
 The winning Virtues, or the modest air. 
 
 The matchless persons, and their forms replete. 
 
 With ev'ry grace, who dwell in Ch y S t. 
 
 Rash Youth, forbear. Methinks the Muse reply'd, 
 
 Nor dare each beauty to describe; 
 
 Tho' sweet th' employ, with worth to fill the page. 
 
 To count E 's charms would cost an age. 
 
 Life is too short to sound her praises forth. 
 Volumes too small to mention half her worth; 
 Still would I rashly the fond theme pursue. 
 And strive to paint those beauties to the view; 
 For this, once more, oh. Muse, thy pow'r I ask, 
 Then aid my fancy in this pleasing task. 
 
 But, say, whose beauties first wilt thou rehearse. 
 Who most from virtuous merit claim thy verse? 
 Or her, whose face, whose form in ev'ry part 
 Proclaims her nature's master-piece of art? 
 Or wilt thou, like yon glorious orb of light. 
 That forms our day, or points our path by night 
 Rise in the East, and, with descriptive force. 
 Pursue the street, as he pursues his course? 
 
300 Post Family. 
 
 APPENDIX I . 
 
 Thee, first, oh, Jane. Thy beauties meet our eyes, 
 
 Beauties which B — n knows how much to prize, 
 
 And while he fondly gazes on thy charms, 
 
 The rapturous glow of love his bosom warms; 
 
 Thy gentle manners void of ev'ry art. 
 
 Thy graceful smile has bound his generous heart; 
 
 Intent on these he knows no other fair. 
 
 Thou art his life, his thoughts, his joy, his care. 
 
 Next Ellen, whom the muses oft have sung. 
 
 Whose charms so oft thro' the museum rung; 
 
 Who flippant Crito, anxious for to please, 
 
 Portray'd with "grace, wit, sense and sparkling ease," 
 
 But well might Crito thus exulting praise. 
 
 And proudly tune his best, his fondest lays, 
 
 For Ellen, such thy face, thy form, thy air. 
 
 Few greater beauties boast, few half so fair. 
 
 Whoe'er those lovely sable tresses sees. 
 
 In graceful ringlets kiss the passing breeze; 
 
 Thy form angelic, or those lovely eyes. 
 
 Feels the warm wish, the fond effusion rise. 
 
 But why 'midst those who to thy beauty bow, 
 Has no fond Youth proferred the nuptial vow, 
 Why not, enraptur'd by thy winning charms, 
 Sigh'd to enclose you in his longing arms; 
 Do they inconstant from the nuptial bow'r, 
 Fly off like insect when they taste the flow'r? 
 
Post Family. 301 
 
 APPENDIX I . 
 
 Or can no sighs or tears, your pity move, 
 
 Warm your cold heart, or walce your soul to love: 
 
 Consider, Ellen, lest those vain delays. 
 
 Should waste your charms and steal your youthful 
 
 days. 
 And thou be doomed in Pluto's drear domain 
 To lead a cap'ring ape in silken chain. 
 
 But hark, what cruel nymph could cause to rise. 
 Those piercing groans, or wake those mournful sighs, 
 Rebecca, say, art thou the cruel fair, 
 
 And M e the swain that rends with sighs the air? 
 
 Ah, Hog, too much I fear this mournful strain. 
 Those sighs, those tears, alas, are all in vain : 
 You gaze in vain with rapture on her charms — 
 In vain your bosom beats to soft alarms : 
 Some happier Youth possesses all her care. 
 Her love — and leaves thee nought but sad despair, 
 Since then is banished ev'ry ray of hope, 
 Use that cure for love — an end of rope. 
 
 Miss now with measured pace is seen. 
 
 With tortur'd features, studied gait and mien; 
 Of self — importance, alTectation full, 
 Formal and serious, phlegmatic and dull. 
 Pity, alas! That we so often find, 
 Vain affectation taint the female mind. 
 
302 Post Family. 
 
 APPENDIX I . 
 
 Lovely as morn that ushers in the day 
 When choirs of warblers hail returning May; 
 And Nature lavish, o'er her carpet strews 
 Her opening flowers of various hues; 
 Blythe as the lark that wakes to early love, 
 Meek as the lamb, and harmless as the dove. 
 Does lovely R - d - n meet our wandering eyes. 
 Raise the fond wish, and fill us with surprise. 
 
 Those baneful passions which so often are 
 Unhap'ly nurs'd in bosoms of the fair. 
 In that dear breast could ne'er an entrance find, 
 Nor e'er contaminate that virtuous mind; 
 Not afifectation with her stififen'd mien, 
 And tortur'd features, ever could be seen; 
 But following nature, all her actions tend 
 To charm the lover, or to fix a friend, 
 These praises, Nancy, equally thy due, 
 For all the gentler Virtues dwell with you; 
 Thy form is grace replete in ev'ry part. 
 But far much nobler graces fill thy heart; 
 These, these shall far outlive frail beauty's ray. 
 Smile e'en in age, and never know decay. 
 
 Eliza, formed with every charm to please, 
 Wins the soft heart and moulds it at her ease, 
 Now claims my lay — had I Pope's tuneful lyre, 
 His fertile genius, his poetic fire. 
 
Post Family. 303 
 
 APPENDIX I . 
 
 The sweetest voice of love should fondly flow, 
 The heart exult, the best ideals glow, 
 To paint that fair, that lovely blushing cheek, 
 Those beauteous eyes that eloquently speak; 
 That modest front where candor dwells, 
 Where smiling innocence each art repels. 
 Those nectar lips, with tints of glowing red, 
 Which are with sense and goodness ever fed; 
 That skin, pure, spotless, and of dazzling hue, 
 Prone to betray the bright ethereal blue; 
 That lovely neck, that shape, that grace, that air, 
 Those thousand nameless charms that deck the fair. 
 These when the muse in brightest numbers drew, 
 Would be but faintly pictured to the view; 
 Then sure no pen howe'er sublime, no art 
 Can paint the richer beauties of her heart. 
 
304 Post Family. 
 
 APPENDIX I . 
 
 Five children were the result of this marriage, 
 William Post, Susan, Matilda, William Post II, and 
 Matilda II. 
 
 Nancy Post died July 4, 1806, and on June 16, 
 1808, Peter Hawes married for his second wife Mar- 
 garette Ray, by whom he had nine children, Eliza 
 Ray, Nancy Post, Charles Robert, Mary Louisa, 
 Rufus King (named after his particular friend), 
 Rufus King II, Peter Augustus, Gardiner Spring, 
 and Julia Lynch. All these fourteen children are 
 now dead except one daughter. The only descend- 
 ants in the male line remaining in this country are 
 the two sons of Peter Augustus, of whom the writer 
 of this paper is one. 
 
 William Post Hawes graduated from Columbia 
 College in 1821, at the age of eighteen years. He 
 was admitted to the bar in New York City in 1824. 
 He served in the New York State Militia from the 
 grade of ensign, in January, 1825, through all the 
 successive ranks to that of colonel of the Twenty- 
 second Regiment of Infantry, in January, 1836. He 
 was secretary of the New England Society, 1824-29. 
 He commenced literary work in 1827, by contrib- 
 uting articles to the "American Monthly Magazine," 
 "The Mirror," "New York Times,"" "Standard," 
 "N. Y. Spirit of the Times and Turf Register," etc., 
 which displayed a great love of nature, a facile pen, 
 graceful style, and wonderful descriptive powers. 
 
Post Family. 305 
 
 APPENDIX I . 
 
 Some of these stories, poems, etc., were collected 
 and published in two volumes by Henry William 
 Herbert ("Frank Forester") in 1834, under the title 
 of "Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches, being the 
 miscellaneous writings of J. Cypress, Jr.," which also 
 includes a most touching and appreciative notice of 
 his dead friend, cut ofif in his prime, at the age of 
 38. 
 
 (The above account of Peter Hawes is taken from 
 a lecture delivered before the Genealogical Society 
 of New York, by a descendant of Peter Hawes, Gil- 
 bert Ray Hawes, Esq.) 
 
3o6 Post Family. 
 
 Appendix J. 
 
 From "Marriage Bonds," Vol. 1:858 N. Y. 
 State Library, Albany: 
 
 "Know all Men by These Presents, 
 
 "That We Waldron Blaau of New York Mercht. 
 and Isaac Goelet of the same place Mercht. are held 
 and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lord George 
 the 2d by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France 
 and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., in the 
 Sum of five hundred Pounds, current Money of the 
 Province of New York, to be paid to his said Ma- 
 jesty, or his Heirs and Successors: For the which 
 Payment well and truly to be made and done, We 
 do bind ourselves, and each of us, our and each of 
 our Heirs, Executors and Administrators, and every 
 of them, firmly by these Presents. 
 
 "Sealed with our Seals, Dated the 21st day of 
 March in the 31st Year of his said Majesty's Reign, 
 Annoq. Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and 
 fifty eight. 
 
 "The Condition of this Obligation is such. That 
 whereas the above-bounden Waldron Blaau hath ob- 
 tained a license of Marriage for himself of the one 
 party and Eleanor Creson of the City of New York 
 Spinster of the other Party. Now if it shall not ap- 
 pear hereafter, that they or either of them the said 
 Waldron Blaau & Eleanor Creson have any lawful 
 Let or Impediment of Pre-Contract, Afiinity or Con- 
 
Post Family 307 
 
 APPENDIX J. 
 
 sanguinity, to hinder their being joined in the Holy 
 Bonds of Matrimony, and afterwards their living 
 together as Man and Wife; Then this Obligation to 
 be Void and of none Effect, or else to stand, remain, 
 abide and be in full Force and Virtue. 
 
 "Sealed and Delivered in 
 
 "the Presence of "Waldron Blaau 
 
 "Jno. Godley." "Isaac Goelet." 
 
 will of waldron blau. 
 
 Recorded in England. 
 
 WA1.DRON Blau, of City of New York, New York. Will 
 23 June, 1783; proved 19 November, 1787. 
 
 To my son, Richard Blau, my house and block opposite 
 the Exchange in Broad street. New York, in tenure of Jona- 
 than Clarke. All the rest to my wife, Eleanor Blau, and 
 at her death to be sold and divided amongst my children, share 
 and share alike, except that as my eldest son, Uriah, has had 
 iioo from me, all my other children to receive £100 before 
 the division be made. If my wife re-marry, the estate be sold, 
 and she to have ii,ooo of New York currency; the rest to be 
 divided as above. 
 
 Executors: My wife, Eleanor, and my son, Uriah. 
 Witnesses: Nat. Chandler, Fras Groome, John Knap^p. 
 
 Major, 485. 
 
 The name is spelled Blaau in the Marriage Bond and Blau in the 
 Will. 
 
3o8 Post Family. 
 
 appendix j. 
 The Waldron Family. 
 
 "Joseph and Resolved Waldron, sons of Resolved 
 Waldron, of Amsterdam, were book printers. The 
 family was English — the name of repute in England 
 from the time of the Conquest, had spread through 
 nearly all its southern tiers of counties. 
 
 "But born and raised at Amsterdam, these broth- 
 ers had acquired all the characteristics of Holland- 
 ers, having also married Dutch wives, the sisters 
 Aethe and Rebecca Hendricks, whose father, Hend- 
 rick Koch, was a respectable Amsterdam burgher. 
 
 "Joseph Waldron came to America two years be- 
 fore his brother, with his second wife, Annetie 
 Daniels, but 25 when he married her at Amsterdam, 
 April 4, 1649. 
 
 "Joseph Waldron had a son, Rutgers Waldron, 
 who had a daughter, Cornelia Waldron, who mar- 
 ried Jaurian Blaau, sometimes spelled Blaaua. 
 Their son, Waldron Blaau, married Eleanor Cres- 
 son (called Neltje). Their daughter, Magdalen 
 Blaau, married JOTHAM PoST, Jr." (Riker's His- 
 tory of the New Netherlands.) 
 
 "Waldron Blaau, of New York. In 1776 an ad- 
 dressor of Lord and Sir William Howe; in 1782 cap- 
 tain in the Third Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers. 
 Went to St. Johns, New Brunswick, in 1783, and 
 
Post Family. 309 
 
 APPENDIX J. 
 
 died five days after landing there. His house and 
 lands in the City of New York were confiscated, but 
 restored to his widow and daughter." ("Biographi- 
 cal Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolu- 
 tion," by Lorenzo Sabine.) 
 
 "Resolved Waldron (brother of Joseph) , who had 
 been in the printing business at Amsterdam, emi- 
 grated with his family to New Netherlands in 1654, 
 and in the same year Governor Stuyvesant made a 
 grant of that portion of Manhattan Island lying be- 
 tween Eighty-second and One Hundred and Ninth 
 Streets, and extending from the North to the East 
 River, to Baron Waldron and two others. In 1657 
 Resolved Waldron was admitted a burgher, and in 
 1658 he was appointed deputy sherifif and to the 
 schout-fiscal (attorney-general) de Sille. In 1659 
 he was sent with Augustine Heermans to Maryland 
 to vindicate the Dutch title on the Delaware. On 
 the accession of the English, Waldron took the oath 
 of allegiance (1664) and retired to private life in 
 Harlem. He was one of the five patentees named 
 in NicoU's patent. He died in 1690, his inventory 
 embracing lands, slaves, farm stock, etc. He mar- 
 ried first, Rebecca Hendricks, and second, Janneke 
 Nagel." (Riker's Harlem and Annals of New- 
 town.) 
 
3IO Post Family. 
 
 APPENDIX J. 
 
 "Resolved Waldron, the most noted, as he was one 
 of the most intelligent of the Harlem settlers, needed 
 not the titular dignity of Baron, which some of poetic 
 humor claim for him; yet might he have well graced 
 the title. As we have seen, he had been in the print- 
 ing business at Amsterdam, and emigrated with his 
 family to New Netherlands late in 1654." (Wash- 
 ington Irving's "Knickerbocker History of New 
 York.") 
 
 "On the council records of January 8, 1661, it is 
 stated that the Governor (Stuyvesant) addressed the 
 people of Jamaica, informing them that he had re- 
 ceived their petition for a minister to baptize some 
 of their children ; and their information that Quakers 
 and other sects held private conventicals. He tells 
 them that he had dispatched his deputy-sherifif. Re- 
 solved Waldron, and one of his clerks, Nicholas Bay- 
 ard, to take notice thereof, and requiring the inhab- 
 itants to give exact information where and in what 
 house such unlawful conventicals were kept; what 
 persons had exercised therein, what men or women 
 had been present; who called the meeting, and 
 of all the circumstances appertaining thereunto." 
 ("Thompson's History of Long Island," vol. H, p. 
 292.) 
 
Post Family. 311 
 
 APPENDIX J. 
 
 Burke, in his "General Armory," describes the 
 Waldron arms as: 
 
 First — Walrond (Sea, County Somerset, and Dul- 
 ford county Devon; descended from the Walronds 
 of Bradfieid, and now represented by Bethell Wal- 
 rond, of Dulford House, Esq., only surviving son of 
 the late Joseph Lyons Walrond, Esq., and Caroline, 
 his wife, daughter of Edward Codrington, of Dod- 
 ington, county Gloucester, Esq.), ar. three bulls' 
 heads cabossed sa., armed or, quartering Afflete, 
 Brokehampton, Devenish, Hoo, Wells, &c. 
 
 Crests — First, a heraldic tiger sa., pellettee; 
 second, granted by Charles I. to Colonel Humph- 
 rey Walrond for his services during civil wars, on 
 a mural crown an heraldic tiger sa., pellettee. 
 
 Motto — Nee beneficii immemor nee injuriae. 
 
 Second — Walrond (Calder Park, county Lanark, 
 a branch of the Walronds of Bradfield, represented 
 by the present Theodore Walrond, of Calder Park, 
 Esq., son of Charles Wills Waldron, Esq., and grand- 
 son of Main Swete Walrond, of the Island of An- 
 tigua, Esq., and Sarah, his wife, sister and heiress of 
 William Lyons, of Antigua and Philadelphia, Esq.), 
 ar. three bulls' heads sa., armed or., quarterings same 
 as those of Waldron, of Dulford. 
 
 Crests — First, a heraldic tiger sa., pellettee; 
 second, on a mural crown a heraldic tiger sa., pel- 
 letee. 
 
 Motto — Paix et peu. 
 
312 Post Family. 
 
 appendix j. 
 
 Blaau. 
 
 "Johannes Blaau (w) was a native of Amsterdam, 
 and the oldest son of William or Willem Jansy Blaau 
 (w), the celebrated printer. He succeeded his 
 father in business in 1638, and in 165 1 was chosen 
 schepen or mayor and one of the thirty-six city coun- 
 cillors. 
 
 "His world-renowned printing establishment, 
 which stood in the rear of the Neuw Kerk, was 
 burned to the ground on the 22d of February, 1672, 
 and the plates and letter press of his celebrated Atlas 
 were unfortunately consumed at the same time. His 
 losses were esteemed at 328,200 guilders, or $131,200. 
 He did not long survive the misfortune, having died 
 on the 20th of December, 1673. He was the cele- 
 brated cartographer." (From "Holland Docu- 
 ments.") 
 
 Holland Documents; XV. 63 New Netherlands 
 colonies, maintenances and documents. 
 
 "Resolution of the Common Council of the City 
 of Amsterdam 24th of Oct., 1663 : 
 
 "The Burgomasters have submitted to the council 
 some proposals of Commissioners and Directors of 
 the City's Colony in New Netherland respecting its 
 maintenance and advancement and what to that end 
 should at present be taken by the hand and put in 
 operation, according to the aforesaid proposal con- 
 
Post Family. 313 
 
 APPENDIX J . 
 
 tained in writing and enregistered in muntenent 
 Register D. fal. 148. 
 
 Which being considered, Mr. Joris Bacher, Mr. 
 Peter Cloek, Dr. Joan Blaau, Cornelius Gulvinch 
 and Gerard Hasselaer are requested and appointed 
 to hear the aforesaid Commissioners and Directors 
 further touching said proposal and to examine the 
 same and to report their opinions and advice there- 
 from at the earliest moment. 
 
 Dr. Joan Blaau was appointed on a Committee to 
 consider in what manner the Colonies of the City of 
 Amsterdam, New Netherlands, could be separated 
 from the West India Co. The better to forward the 
 prosperity of the Colonies." (Riker's "History of 
 the New Netherlands.") 
 
314 Post Family. 
 
 appendix j. 
 
 appendix j continued. 
 
 Cresson. 
 
 Pierre Cresson was a Huguenot exile. 
 
 "Their ancient family seat was Misnil la Cresson 
 (Cresson Manor) near Abbeville Picardy. 
 
 "Pierre Cresson, a Picard Protestant, born in 1609, 
 fled into Holland, and there remained an exile seven- 
 teen years; part of this time at Sluis, Delft, Leyden 
 and Ryswich ; in the early part of this period acted 
 as gardener to the 'Prince of Orange,' and was ever 
 afterwards called 'Pierre le Jardinier'; with his fam- 
 ily emigrated to America, 1657, settled at Harlem, 
 of which town he was one of the first Magistrates in 
 1660. He removed to Staten Island in 1678; died 
 about 1684." 
 
 Pierre Cresson married Rachel Cloos, also a 
 French Huguenot. "She joins with her husband in 
 making a will in 1673." They were members of the 
 Reformed Church. 
 
 Their great-granddaughter, Eleanor (called 
 (Meethe) Neeltje) Cresson, married Waldron 
 Blaau. Their daughter, Magdalen Blaau, married 
 JoTHAM Post, Jr. 
 
ADDENDA. 
 
 Pages 29 and 30 — Four pictures painted by Frans Post are 
 at present owned by members of the family of General Philip 
 Sidney Post, of Galesburg, 111. 
 
 Page loi. — Photograph of Dr. Wright Post is taken from 
 a portrait painted for, and in the possession of the New York 
 Hospital. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 POST NAMES. 
 
 (Including Poste. Von Post, Van der Poest, etc.) 
 
 A., 139 
 
 Abby Mauran, 100 
 Abigail, 80, 285, 288 
 Abraham, 284, 286 
 Abraham Kintzing, 195, 
 198, 203, 204, 205, 206, 
 
 207, 208 
 Abram, 285 
 Abram S., 71, 286 
 Adeline Emma, 272 
 Adolph, 2, 9, II, 15 
 Adrian, 116 
 Adrian (Capt.), 47 
 Acnes, 284 
 
 Agnes Elizabeth, 12 
 
 Agnetje, 47 
 
 Agnetje Bouen H. V. Ludo- 
 
 WICK, 48 
 
 Albert Jessup, 284, 287 
 Albert Kintzing, 144, 165, 
 184, 198, 203, 206, 207, 
 
 208, 209, 211, 212, 213, 
 214, 217 
 
 Albertson Van Zo, 247, 260 
 Ale.xander H am I l t o n 
 
 Stump, 122, 132, 133 
 Alfred Augustus, 144, 149. 
 
 150, 151, 152 
 Alfred Charles, 97, 144, 
 
 146, 149, 150, 152 
 
 Alfred Charles, (M. D.), 
 141, 143, 146, 148, 149. 
 
 151. 152, 153 
 Alfred Seton, 203, 221, 222, 
 
 223, 224 
 Alfred Seton, Jr., 224 
 Alfreda, 150, 157 
 Alice, 145. 190, 191. i93. 291 
 Alice Adeline, 232, 239 
 Alice Lee, 221, 224 
 Alice Winefred, 165, 175 
 Alleta Bayley, 120 
 Allison. 96, 97, 98, 99, 139. 
 197, 202, 248, 271, 272, 
 273, 274, 275, 276, 277 
 Allison Wright, 165, 175, 
 
 176, 179 
 Alma. 272, 274 
 Alson, 56 
 
 Amelia, 272, 274, 290 
 Amy, 291 
 Angelin.-\, 196, 233, 234, 237, 
 
 242, 244 
 Angeline, 232 
 Anietje, 46, 72 
 Anne, 97, 142. i45 
 Antoinette Wing, 295 
 Arden, 1x6, 120 
 Arden Carey, 120 
 Arthur, 6, 7, 8, 42, 52, 59, 
 145, 190, 191, 192, 193, 
 291 
 Arthur Mitchell, 150, 157 
 
11 
 
 Index. 
 
 August-Frederic, 12 
 August-Otto, 12, 14, 24 
 
 B 
 
 Barbara, 47, yz 
 Bastiaen, 32 
 Beale (Rev.), 279, 281 
 Beatrice de Trobriand, 165, 
 
 185 
 Bernhard, 13 
 Bertha King, 292 
 Bertram Van Dyke, 150, 
 
 157, 158, 159 
 Bruce Price, 247, 261 
 
 Caleb, 284 
 
 Caroline, 97, 232, 237, 272, 
 
 274, 276, 290 
 Carolyn Beatrice, 207, 212, 
 
 218, 219, 247, 260 
 Catharine, 293, 294 
 Catharine Ann, 99 
 Catherine, 54, 56, 97, 112, 
 
 116, 122, 290, 291 
 Catherine Charlton, hi 
 Catherine Wadsworth, 
 
 112, 114, 116. 
 Charles, 290, 291 
 Charles A., 182, 183, 284 
 Charles Alfred, 122, 165, 
 
 167, 181, 184, 185, 211 
 Charles Francis, 232, 236 
 Charles Kintzing, 207,216 
 Charles Morgan, 291 
 Charles R., 285 
 Charles William, 196, 232, 
 
 234 
 
 ChRISTIAN-LuDVVIG. 12, 13 
 
 Claus, 10 
 Clementine, 166 
 
 Clementine Church, 97 
 Cornelia, 292 
 Cornelia Almira, 51 
 Cornelis, 33 
 
 D'Alfred C, 147 
 Daniel, 290, 291, 292 
 David, 7, 32 
 Deborah, 73, 75, 283, 284, 
 
 286 
 Dederik-William-Chris- 
 
 tian, 13 
 Donnell Shepard, 187, 189 
 Dorothy, 73, 75, 283, 284, 
 
 286 
 Dorothy Isabel, 159 
 Dorothy Margaret, 232, 236 
 
 Edgar Norris, 144, 149, 150 
 Edith, 291 
 
 Edith Church, 165, 185 
 Edmund, 290, 291, 292 
 Edmund, Jr., 291 
 Edmund L., 291 
 Edmund, Sr., 77 
 Edward, 97, 11 1, 112, 116, 
 
 122, 142, 143, 145, 186, 
 
 187, 188, 279, 281, 290, 
 
 291 
 Edward Church, 145, 186, 
 
 187, 188 
 Edward Rogers, 284 
 Edwin, 97, 196, 200, 201, 
 
 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 
 
 284 
 Edwin Augustus, 196, 247, 
 
 249, 250, 251, 252 
 Edwin Frederick, 196, 231, 
 
 233. 234, 238 
 
Index. 
 
 Ill 
 
 Edwin Frederick, Jr., 238 
 
 Edwin Main, 247, 260, 261 
 
 Edwin Main, Jr., 247, 261 
 
 Edwina, 247 
 
 Edwin A M., 252 
 
 Eleanor, 5, 195, 200, 262, 264 
 
 Eleanor or Ellen, 97 
 
 Eliza, 99, 298 
 
 Eliza Chapman, 233, 241 
 
 Elizabeth, 7, 72, 85, 96, 97, 
 
 122, 273, 285, 290, 291 
 Elizabeth Boardley, 132 
 Elizabeth Charlotte, 187, 
 
 189 
 Elizabeth Floyd, 272, 274 
 Elizabeth-Juliana, 13 
 Elizabeth Kintzing, 204 
 Elizabeth Mary, 26, 272, 
 
 274 
 Elizabeth West, 207, 216 
 Ellen, 196, 247 
 Ellen Allen, 196, 247, 249 
 Ellenor, 55 
 Elsie, 232, 236 
 Emeline, 294 
 Emily, 97, iii, 112, 115, 116, 
 
 122, 135, 137, 232, 237, 
 
 247, 248, 272, 274, 276, 
 
 290 
 Emily Elizabeth, 272 
 Emily Elizabeth (Lizzie), 
 
 275 
 Emily Oliver, 252 
 Emma, 144, 149, 150 
 Erastus F., 285 
 Erastus Foster (Hon.), 287 
 Erich Isvard, 16 
 Erskine Mason, 144, 149, 
 
 150 
 estelle a.'lma, 232, 236 
 Esther, 290 
 
 Ethel Maud, 221, 224 
 Eugene, 97, iii, 112, 113, 
 
 116, 121, 122, 123, 124, 
 
 126 
 Eugene Howard, 112, 122, 
 
 123 
 Eugene Minturn, 292 
 Euretta, 203, 221 
 EuRETTA Barnwell, 222 
 
 Faith, 112, 115, 116 
 
 Fanny, 285 
 
 FiLiP, 32 
 
 Florence, 122 
 
 Florence Elizabeth, 134 
 
 Floyd, 99 
 
 Frances, 285 
 
 Francis Read, 150, 157 
 
 Franck Donalson, 122, 130 
 
 Frans, 29, 30 
 
 Frederic, id 
 
 Frederick-Christian, 12 
 
 Frederick, 9 
 
 Frederick A., 189 
 
 Frederick Alfred, 145, 186, 
 
 187, 188 
 Frederick Floyd, 187, 189 
 Frederick William, 295 
 
 G 
 
 G., 28 
 
 Garrard, 247, 260 
 
 Garret, 51 
 
 Garret (Col), 48, 49, 51 
 
 Garrit, 48 
 
 General, 29, 51 
 
 George, 4, 5- 35- 38, 54, i54, 
 
 168, 169, 279, 281, 284 
 George (Capt), 284 
 George Arnold, 3, 16, 22 
 
IV 
 
 Index. 
 
 George Atwell, 232, 237 
 George Atwell, Jr., 232, 237 
 George Augustus, 177 
 George Birkbeck, 285 
 George Brown, 144, 167, 
 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 
 
 173. 174- 1 75. 176, 177. 
 
 178, 180 
 George Browne II, 175, 177 
 George Browne III, 165, 177 
 George Dominick, 97, 141, 
 
 144 
 George E., 148 
 George Edward, 144, 149, 
 
 150, 151, 285 
 George Edward (M. D.), 
 
 153' 157. 158 
 George Henry Draper, 187, 
 
 189 
 George Howard, 112, 122, 
 
 125 
 George O., 285 
 George-William, 13 
 Georgia, 291 
 Gilbert, 293, 294 
 Goossen. 4 
 
 H 
 
 H., 28, 29 
 
 H. A. v., 253, 254, 257 
 
 H. A. v., (Mrs.). 258 
 
 H. H., 27 
 
 Hannah, 166, 293 
 
 Harriet Appleton, 165, 177 
 
 Harriet Edith, 144, 146, 
 
 149, 150, 161, 162 
 Harriet Parker. 122, 130 
 Harriet Terry. 112, 115, 
 
 116, 244 
 Harriette Helena, 51 
 Hattie, 291 
 
 Heinrich, 2, 4, 15 
 Helen, 233, 241, 291 
 Helen Agnes, 291, 293 
 Helen Augusta, 295 
 Helen L., 203 
 Helen Louise, 195, 204, 226, 
 
 228 
 Helen Minturn, 292 
 Helen Wadsworth, 116, 120 
 Henry, 9, 10, 70, 74, 75, 81, 
 
 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 
 
 290, 291, 292, 293, 294 
 Henry A. V., 144 
 Henry Albertson, 149, 150 
 Henry Albertson Van Zo, 
 
 97, 141, 196. 218, 247, 
 
 249, 250, 253, 254, 259, 
 
 260, 261 
 Henry Burnet, 260 
 Henry Burnett, 247 
 Henry H., 284 
 Henry Morgan, 221, 224, 
 
 291 
 Henry R., 291 
 Herbert, 291 
 Herman Lothar (Baron), 
 
 2. 15 
 Hermanus, 28 
 Herren, I 
 Hunting J., 284 
 
 I 
 
 Ignatz Philip (Baron). 3, 
 
 16 
 Irene Wing, 295 
 Isaac, 284, 286, 290, 291, 292 
 Isaac R., 291 
 Isaac Titus, 294 
 Israel, 293 
 I ward, 3 
 
Index. 
 
 J-. 7. 31 
 J- J-> 139 
 J. & J., 146 
 J. & J. & A., 197 
 Jacob, 80, 291 
 Jacobus (Major), 48 
 James, 85, 284, 286, 290, 291, 
 292/293, 294 
 
 James Boyce, 122 
 
 James Byers, 196, 231, 232, 
 234. 235 
 
 James Byers III, 236 
 
 James Byers, Jr., 232, 235 
 
 James H., 284, 287 
 
 James Howell, 284, 287 
 
 James Nicholson, 122 
 
 Jan, 5, 6, 28, 29, 30 
 
 Jan Ludolf, 7 
 
 Janetje, 47 
 
 Janus, 32, 33 
 
 Jeremiah, 47, 71, 72, 73, 75, 
 76, 77, 81, 238, 283, 284, 
 286 
 
 Jeremiah II, 72 
 
 Jessie, 291 
 
 Joachim, ii, 13 
 
 Joachim-Werner. 10 
 
 Jo.\chim-William, 13 
 
 Joannes. 7 
 
 Joel. 95, 97, 98, 99, 138. 139, 
 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 
 14s, 146, 166, 168, 181, 
 188, 192, 197, 202, 211, 
 
 273 
 
 Joel Browne, 97, 141, 142, 
 14^. 144, 164, 165, 166, 
 167, 168, 181, 188 
 
 Joel Browne (Mrs.), 145 
 
 joHANN, II, 34 
 
 Johann Dederik, 12 
 Johannes, 47 
 Johannes Cornelius, 33 
 Johannes Robertus, 32 
 John, 54, 56, 57, 70, 71, 73. 
 75.77.78,80,81,97, 192, 
 
 283, 284, 286, 288, 291 
 ToHN (Capt.). 71, 72, 72,. 75, 
 
 284, 286 
 
 John Alexander, 142, 143, 
 
 145, 190, 191, 192 
 John Coe, 51 
 John Eager Howard, 112, 
 
 122, 124, 126, 127, 129, 
 
 130 
 John Eugene Howard, 121, 
 
 130 
 John H., 285 
 John J., 285 
 John. Jr., 284 
 John Morris, 145, 190, 191, 
 
 193 
 John Reed, 233, 241 
 John W., 291 
 Joseph, 56, 70, 72, 73, 75, 80, 
 
 282, 283, 284. 286, 291, 
 
 294 
 Joseph (Baron), 4, 16 
 Joseph Kent, 232, 237 
 Josiah H., 285 
 
 JOTHAM, 39 45, 73. 74, 75. 
 81, 85, 91, 92, 93, 94. 95, 
 
 97,98, loi, 139, 195, 196, 
 
 197. 199, 202, 272. 273, 
 274, 284, 296. 297 
 JoTHAM (M. D.), 234, 275 
 
 Jotham II, 95, 97, 98, 194. 
 
 195, 201, 202, 229, 230, 
 246, 248, 262 
 
 Joth.\m III, 97 
 
VI 
 
 Index. 
 
 JoTHAM, Jr., 197, 198, 199. 
 
 200, 308, 314 
 JoTHAM II, Jr., 197 
 JoTHAM William, 196, 201, 
 
 233 
 JoTHAM William (M. D.), 
 
 200, 229, 230, 231, 232, 
 
 238, 241, 242, 243, 244 
 JoTHAM William II, 231, 
 
 234, 241 
 JoTHAM William III, 241 
 Julia, 97, 144, 149. 150, 161, 
 
 163, 195, 203 
 Julia Elizabeth, 204, 225, 
 
 226 
 Julia Lynch, 195, 200, 262, 
 
 263 
 Julia Strong, 272, 274, 277 
 JuLiANE, 270 
 
 K 
 
 Kathep.tve Hoppin, 165, 179 
 
 L 
 
 Langdon Ward, 207, 216 
 
 Laura Josepki:;^ 247, 259 
 
 Lilian, 178 
 
 Lillian, 165 
 
 Lillian de Peyster, 116, 120 
 
 Lin A Beatrice, 207, 212 
 
 Lina de Trobriand, 207, 212, 
 
 216 
 Lionel, 97, m, 112, 116, 
 
 120, 122 
 Louise J., 2S5 
 Lucretia Main, 249 
 
 LUCRETIA MarI.V, 196, 247 
 
 Lucy M., 285 
 ludovvick, 46 
 Ludwig, 2, 9, 15 
 
 Ludwig-Christian, 13 
 Lydia, 88. 290, 291, 292 
 
 M 
 
 Mabel Catherine, 221, 224 
 
 Mabel Howard, 122, 134 
 
 Madeline, 196, 232, 233, 234, 
 237, 242, 243 
 
 Magdalen, 97 
 
 Magdalen Rachel, 196, 200, 
 262, 267 
 
 Margaret, 8, 52, 59. 144 
 
 Margaret Elizabeth, 122, 
 123, 149, 150, 161, 162 
 
 Margaret Howard, 122, 132 
 
 Margaretha, 32 
 
 Marguerite, 285 
 
 Maria Jephson, 247, 259 
 
 Maria Wing, 295 
 
 Marie Caroline, 185 
 
 Marie Caroline de Trobri- 
 and, 184 
 
 Marion Hood, 165, 178 
 
 Martha, 70, 73, 75, 122, 166, 
 283, 284, 286, 293 
 
 Martha Goldsborough. 132 
 
 Martha W., 291 
 
 Mary, 16, 56, 73, 75, 81, 85, 
 89, 90, 91, 96, 97, III, 
 112, 116, 122, 135, 136, 
 137, 141, 144, 196, 247, 
 249, 284, 286, 290, 291, 
 292, 293. 294 
 
 Mary (Willis), 90 
 
 Mary Allen, 232, 238 
 
 Mary Alma, 188 
 
 Mary Elizabeth, 294 
 
 Mary Ellen, 196, 233, 234 
 
 Mary Jane, 290 
 
 Mary, Jr., 73 
 
 Mary L.winia, 149, 150 
 
Index. 
 
 Vll 
 
 Mary Lawrence, 207, 216 
 Mary Magdalen, 112, 122, 
 
 124 
 Mary Matilda, 291 
 Mary Minturn, 292 
 Mary Morris, 112, 115, 116 
 Maude Evelyx, 247, 260 
 Maximilian (, Baron), 4, 16 
 Melancthon, 284 
 Meretje Cornelius H. V. 
 
 VAN ElIAS, 48 
 
 Mersa, 293 
 
 Minturn (M. D.), 292 
 Morgan Gibbes, 247, 252 
 Mrs., 258 
 
 N 
 
 Nancy, 96, 97, 297, 298, 304 
 Nancy Elizabeth Mary, 
 
 196, 200, 262, 266 
 Nathalie McLean, 247, 260 
 Nathan, 284 
 Nicholas, il 
 
 o 
 
 Oliver, 56, 285 
 
 P., 31 
 
 Panwell, 5, 6, 7, 8, 35, 38 
 Pauline, 272, 275 
 Peter, 4, 5. 35. 284 
 Peter Arnold, 5, 6 
 Peter Lasson, 3, 22 
 Peter Schuyler, 49 
 Petrus Abel LTiterweer, 33 
 Petrus Abraham Van der 
 
 HOEVEN, 33 
 
 Petrus Uiterweer, 33 
 Phebe, 73, 75, 79, 80, 289, 
 
 291 
 Phebe Anna, 291 
 Philip Allen, 247, 252 
 Philip didney, 49, 51 
 Philip Sidney, Jr., 51 
 Phoebe, 285 
 Phoebe Willis, 288 
 PlETER, 29, 30 
 
 Rachel, 290 
 
 Reginald Morris, 191, 193 
 
 Regis Henri, 207, 212, 213, 
 
 217, 218, 219, 247, 260 
 Regis Henri, Jr., 219, 247 
 Remsen Forbes, 191, 193 
 Richard, 5, 7, 8, 10, 38, 45, 
 
 47. 52, 53. 54. 58. 59. 60, 
 61, 62, 63, 67, 70, 73, 76, 
 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 
 84, 85, 89, 90, 91, lOI, 
 283, 284, 286, 293 
 Richard (Lieutenant), 75, 
 
 284 
 Richard II, 71, 73, 74, 75 
 
 112, 121 
 Richard III, 74, 90, 91, 93, 
 Richard IV, 74, 75, 293 
 Richard B.ayley, 97, iii, 
 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 
 
 117, 122, 125, 126, 132, 
 133. 244 
 
 Richard B-\YLEY(Rev.),ii7, 
 
 118, 120 
 RiCH.\RD Bayley n, 120 
 Richard, Jr., 78, 81, 82, 89, 
 
 90 
 
VUl 
 
 Index. 
 
 Richard, Jr., Ill, 73, 75, 290 
 Richard, Sr., 80 
 Richard, Sr., II, 288 
 Robert, 291 
 Robert Read, 150, 157 
 Royal Elmer, 295 
 RuDEN, 291 
 
 Samuel, 7, 72, 290, 291, 292 
 Samuel, Jr., 290 
 Samuel L. M., 232, 240 
 Samuel Latham Mitchell, 
 
 238 
 Sara, 292 
 Sarah, 5, 6, 71, 7^, 75, 82, 
 
 91, 203, 221, 284, 286, 
 
 290, 291, 292 
 Sarah Byers, 196, 232, 234 
 Sarah Klizabeth, 222, 295, 
 Sarah H., 285 
 Sarah Reed, 232, 240 
 Sarah M., 203 
 Sarah Madeline, 195, 204 
 Sebastian, 31 
 Sergeant, 63 
 Simon Dercksen, 46 
 Sophia-Amalia, 13 
 Sophia Howard, 112, 122, 
 
 123, 124 
 Stantius, 10 
 Statius Frederic, 12 
 Stephen, 7, 8, 52, 53, 54, 55, 
 
 56. 57, 59, 60, 75, 82, 91, 
 
 279, 281, 284 
 Stephen R.. 291 
 Stephen Titus, 294 
 Stephen W., 291 
 Susanna, 6 
 Susannah, 293 
 
 Themis, 47 
 
 Thomas, 5, 54, 56, 57. 70, 75. 
 
 289, 284, 286 
 Tobias, 31 
 
 u 
 
 Ur, 97, 195, 200 
 
 w 
 
 Waldron Blaau, 97, 195, 
 198, 200, 201, 202, 204, 
 205, 214, 217, 222, 225, 
 226, 230, 260, 273 
 
 Waldron Blaau, Jr., 204, 
 205, 220, 221, 222, 223 
 
 Waldron Kintzing, 198, 
 207, 212, 213, 214, 215, 
 216 
 
 Wallace, 291 
 
 Walter Blaau, 221, 224 
 
 Walter Eugene, 203, 206, 
 207 
 
 Walther, 2, 10, 15 
 
 Werner, 10, 11 
 
 Werner-Ernest, 12 
 
 Wilfred McIlvaine, 150, 
 157, 158, 160 
 
 William, 5, 46, 47, 72, 95, 
 97. 99. 139. 178, 273, 279, 
 285, 290, 291, 294, 295 
 
 William A., 53 
 
 William E. H., 285 
 
 William Edward, 112, 122, 
 125, 126, 134 
 
 William Floyd, 272, 274 
 
 William H., 285 
 
 William Henry (M. D.), 
 144, 149, 150 
 
 William J., 284, 287 
 
Index. 
 
 IX 
 
 William M., 232 
 William Matson, 236 
 William Moritz, 3, 13, 15 
 William Rogers, 284, 287 
 William Schuyler, 51 
 William Stone, 165, 175, 
 
 176, 178 
 William TowNSEND(Hon.), 
 
 51 
 
 Willet, 291 
 Willis, 294 
 
 Winifred, 97, 141, 144 
 wolterus, 22 
 
 WOLTERUS DiCTUS, 3 
 
 Wright, 93, 97, 122, 187, 189 
 Wright (M. D.), 95, 98, 100, 
 loi, 103, 104, 105, 106, 
 107, 108, no, III, 112, 
 113, 114, 116, 135, 136, 
 137, 146, 147, 148 
 Wright E., 97, 142, 166 
 Wright Eli, 142, 145 
 
NAMES OTHER THAN POST. 
 
 ABBOT, Gordon, 267 
 ADAMS, George (Capt.), 
 123 
 
 Lillian Hood, 165, 175, 178 
 
 Marv, 112, 122, 123 
 
 Thatcher M., 178 
 ALEXANDER, James 
 
 (Rev.), 238 
 ALLEN Alice Post, 232, 240 
 
 Francis Post, 232, 240 
 
 George H., 232 
 
 George Horatio, 240 
 
 Langdon, 232, 240 
 
 Mary L., 232 
 
 Mary Louisa, 238, 240 
 
 Mitchell, 232, 240 
 
 Philip, 196, 247. 249 
 
 William B., 238 
 ANDREWS, Margaret, 57 
 ANDROS, E., 69 
 
 Edmund (Sir), 65 
 ANDROSS, Edmund, 66 
 ANTHIN, Edward (Mrs.), 
 198 
 
 Edward (Rev.), 195, 203, 
 204, 211, 228 
 
 Edward Henry, 203, 228 
 
 Emilia Corre ,203, 228 
 
 Helen Louise, 203, 228 
 
 Madeline, 203, 228 
 
 Rev. Dr., 204 
 
 Sarah Post. 203, 228 
 ARDEN, Eliza Dean, 112, 
 115, 116. 118, 120 
 
 Thomas B. (Col.), 118, 
 "9 
 
 ARNOLD, Benedict, 292 
 Mary, 291 
 
 B 
 
 BACHER, Toris, 313 
 BACON, Francis McNeil III, 
 
 275 
 Francis McNeil, Jr., 272, 
 
 275 
 Pauline Post. 275 
 
 BAHR, Johann, 10 
 BAILLIE, Matthew (Dr.), 
 103 
 
 BAKER, Evelyn, 232 
 
 Evelyn Goldthwaite, 238 
 
 Francis, 238 
 BALL, Eliphalet (Rev.), 185 
 
 Mary, 185 
 BANKHEAD, John P. 
 
 (Capt.), 181, 182 
 BARCLAY, Andrew, no 
 
 Charlotte Amelia, 1 10 
 BARD, Dr., 105 
 BARLOW, Francis ( Maj.- 
 Gen.), 163 
 
 Louisa Shaw, 150, 163 
 BARNES, Joshua, 61 
 BARRETT, Ester G., 238 
 BARRY, Arthur Hugh 
 
 Smith (M. P.), 192 
 BARTLETT, Clifford, 292 
 
 Franklin, 292 
 BAYARD, EHzabeth, 112, 
 136 
 
 Nicholas, 310 
 BAYEl'X, .Mary, lot^ 
 
Ind, 
 
 ex. 
 
 XI 
 
 BAYLEV, Archbishop, no 
 Dr., 104. 198 
 Elizabeth Ann, i ro 
 Guy Carleton, 1 10 
 Mary, 95, 97, no, n2, 
 
 116, 122 
 Mary Magdalen, 108, ni, 
 
 121 
 Richard, 109 
 Richard (M. D.), loi, 
 
 103, 104, 108 
 William, 108, 109 
 BEADLESTON, Henry C, 
 221 
 Hcnrv Colwell, 224 
 BEAMISH. William, 291 
 BEATTY. David (Master), 
 
 lOI 
 
 BECK, Hilda, 150 
 
 Hilde, 162 
 
 Mr., 173 
 REDDLE. Hannah. 89 
 BEDELL. Rev. Mr., 204, 222 
 BEDLE, Hannah, 91. 293 
 
 Richard, 279 
 BEERS. Cyrenius, 148 
 
 Harriet, 97, 141. 144, 146, 
 148. 149, 150 
 BELLOWS, Harriet, 238 
 
 Henry W. (Rev.), 234, 
 238, 243, 244 
 BENSON, Egbert, 197 
 BERRIAN, , 96, 97 
 
 Rev., 248 
 BERRY, Louise, 125 
 BERTOEF, Martinche, 48 
 BESLEY, Ann, 109 
 BIXIXGER, Abraham. 189 
 
 Harriet, 14S, 187, 189 
 BISHOP, John, 61 
 BLAAU, Jaurian, 308 
 
 Joan (Dr.), 312 
 
 Johannes, 312 
 
 Madeline, 248 
 
 Magdalen, 95, 97, 195, 
 196, 198, 200, 308, 314 
 
 Mrs., iq8 
 
 Waldron, 197, 306, 307, 
 308, 314 
 
 Willen Jansy, 312 
 
 William, 312 
 BLAN CHARD, Mabel 
 
 Maud, 116. 120 
 BOARDLEY, Elizabeth, 132 
 BOGERT, Jan, 6 
 
 Marragrietje, 6 
 BORLAND, Alice, 268 
 
 Ella Aufrcre, 267 
 
 Georgette, 268 
 
 J. N. (Mrs.), 270 
 
 James Lloyd, 267 
 
 John, 267 
 
 John Nelson, 268, 269 
 
 John Nelson (M.D.), 196 
 267 
 
 Julia, 268 
 
 Madeline, 267, 268 
 
 Maud Rives, 267 
 
 Melancthon Woolsey, 196, 
 267 
 
 Rebecca Nelson, 268 
 
 Rosamond, 269 
 
 Susan Codman, 269 
 
 William Gibson, 269 
 BOYCE, James, 134 
 
 Mary, 122, 125 
 
 Marv Elizabeth, 134 
 BOYD.' Marv, n2 
 BREED, Allen, 61 
 BRIDGE. Josephine, 97, 272, 
 
 274, 27s 
 BRIDGES, Harriet R., 285 
 
Xll 
 
 Index. 
 
 BRODHEAD. Edward C, 
 236 
 Lillian H., 232 
 Lillian Hooker, 236 
 
 BROOKS, Rachel, 268 
 Shepard, 268 
 
 BROWN, Anna, 230 
 Brothers, 204, 226 
 Ellen Granville, 227 
 Ellen Whipple, 203, 227 
 Fannie Wright, 227 
 George Washington, 99 
 Isabella Oldfield, 227 
 James Muncaster, 195, 
 
 203, 204, 226, 227 
 Julia Elizabeth, 203. 227 
 Julia Post, 227 
 John Wright, 227 
 Sarah, 230 
 
 Sarah Elizabeth, 203, 226 
 Waldron Post, 203, 227 
 Waldron Post, Jr., 227 
 
 BROWNE, Elizabeth, 95, 
 97, 139, 141, 146 
 Isaac, 139 
 Peter (Dr.), 139 
 
 BRUDEN, Emily Ann, 272 
 William H., 272 
 
 BRUEN, Rebecca, 57 
 
 BRYDON, Emily Ann, 276 
 WilHam H., 276 
 
 BURNET, Caroline, 259 
 Caroline Thew, 257 
 Jacob (Judge), 257, 258, 
 
 "259 
 
 Mrs., 258 
 Thomas, 60 
 BYERS, Angelina, 97, 196 
 Angelina Thayer, 200, 
 
 230, 234 
 James, 230 
 
 CALTHORP, Mr., 208 
 CANDLER, Duncan, 165, 
 
 185 
 Edith Beatrice, 165, 185 
 
 Flamen Ball, 185 
 CARHART, Charles Lyman 
 
 (Rev.), 150 
 CHALKER, Alexander, 56 
 CHAMBERS, David, 259 
 CHAPMAN, Eliza, 196, 233, 
 234, 241 
 
 Joathan, 241 
 CHARLES, Mr., 280 
 CHARLTON, Catherine, 109 
 
 Richard (Rev.), 109, no 
 CHEW, Chief Justice, 121, 
 
 Margaretta, 121 
 CHRISTIAN, Esther, 128 
 CHURCH, Abby, 166 
 
 Abby Mauran, 97, 141, 
 142, 144, 166, 188 
 
 Benjamin (Colonel), 166 
 
 Clementine, 142, 145, 166, 
 187, 188 
 
 William (Capt), 166 
 CLARK, Susan, 285 
 CLARKE, Samuel, 67 
 
 William Willis, yj 
 CLAYPOLE, John (Sir), 
 
 259 
 Rebecca, 259 
 CLERK, Isaac, 6 
 CLOCK, Peter, 313 
 CLOOS, Rachel, 314 
 CODMAN, Lucy Sturgis, 
 
 269 
 CODRINGTON, Edward, 
 
 311 
 COE, Mary D., 49 
 
Index. 
 
 XIII 
 
 COLES, Oscar, 99 
 CONKLIN, Ann, 290 
 
 Jacob, 290 
 COOK, Ellis, 60, 67 
 
 COOPER, 
 
 62 
 
 Jdlin, fii, 63, 67 
 
 Rebecca Patterson, 227 
 CORNELL, Captain, 87 
 CORWITH, Henry N., 285 
 COSTER, Cbarles, 203, 228 
 
 Helen Marie, 228 
 COSTIN, Margaret Spady, 
 124 
 
 Robert, 132 
 
 William, 132 
 
 COTHEAL, Matilda, 196, 
 266 
 
 COUSENS, John, 280 
 
 Marv Jane, 280 
 CRARP.E', Ida P., 28s 
 CRESON, Eleanor, 306 
 CRESvSON, Eleanor, 197, 
 308, 314 
 
 Pierre, 314 
 CRIEF, Major, 86 
 CROMWELL, Elizabeth, 259 
 
 Oliver, 259 
 CRUTCKSHANK, 103 
 CUMNOCK, Arthur, 263 
 CURTIS, Jennie, 291 
 Cl'TTER-COWELL. Miss, 
 
 139 
 CUTTING. James D'Wolf, 
 263 
 
 Julia, 263 
 
 Juliana, 263 
 
 Madeline, 263 
 
 l\Iary Pomeroy, 263 
 
 Robert Livingston, 195, 
 263 
 
 Walter, 263 
 CYPRESS, J., Jr.. 305 
 
 DALE, Emma, 144, 149, 150, 
 
 152 
 DANIELS, Annetie, 308 
 
 DARBY, Harriet Burleigh, 
 128 
 
 John (Colonel), 128 
 DAVIS. Charles H., 223 
 
 Cornelia, 196, 2CXD, 248 
 
 Joseph E., 241 
 
 Mabel, 233, 241 
 DAVOUT, Marechal, 210 
 DAYTON, Samuel, 60 
 deCOCK, Elizabeth, 7 
 deCONINCK, Sarah, 7 
 deCUADRA, Mariano. 145, 
 
 191. 193 
 Marie Anne Jeanne Louise 
 Therese, 191, 193 
 DeHAESE, Adriaan. 31 
 D E L A F I E L D . Richard 
 
 (Maj.-Gen.), 118 
 deLASSANCE, Alfred, 203, 
 221, 222 
 Alice Therse, 221, 222 
 Helen Post, 221, 222 
 DE M .\C ARTY, Armand 
 
 (Count), 208 
 DEMENGE, Prof., 131 
 deMONTFORT, Jean, 209 
 nE MONTGEON, Alice Post, 
 
 193 
 Amedee, 145, 191, 193 
 Gabrielle Marie Alice de 
 Cavalier, 191, 193 
 DENIS, Miles, 209 
 deNONANT, Baron. 109 
 
XIV 
 
 Index. 
 
 DE PEYSTER, Jane, 1 19 
 Johannes (Hon.), 119 
 DE TROBRIAND, Baron. 
 210, 211 
 General Comte, 209 
 Joseph (Gen.), 210 
 Marie Caroline, 144, 165, 
 
 184, 203, 207, 210, 212 
 Marie CaroHne Denis de 
 Keredern, 209 
 Philippe Regis (Comte), 
 
 184 
 Philippe Regis Denis, 210 
 DE VALLEAU. Margaret. 
 109 
 Pierre Toveaux. 109 
 DEWEY, "Rev. Dr., 204, 206 
 DIBRELL, Florence, 264 
 DIX, Morgan (Rev. Dr.), 
 
 211 
 DOBNEY, Ellen, 19=;, 264 
 DODGE, Eliza Pollock. 196, 
 
 269 
 DONGAN, Lord, no 
 DORSEY, Priscilla, 122 
 
 Du BOIS. , 31 
 
 DUVALL, Eugene Post, 122, 
 124 
 George Howard, 122, 125 
 Louise Berry, 125 
 Mary Humerickhouse, 124 
 Ridgely, 112, 122, 124 
 Severn Parker Costin, 124 
 Sophia Howard Post, 125 
 Walter, 125 
 Walter Post, 122 
 William Edward Post, 
 122, 124 
 DWIGHT, Lucinda, 241 
 d'WOLF, Francis, 97 
 D'WOLF. Ellen, 264 
 
 Francis L. B., 195 
 Frank L. B., 264 
 Henry, 264 
 
 James, 195, 200, 263, 264 
 Juliana, 195, 263 
 Sherman, 264 
 d'WOLFE, James, 97 
 
 Francis L. B., 200, 264 
 
 EATON, Matilda, 195, 203, 
 
 207 
 Matilda Wickham, 204, 
 
 206 
 EDGAR, James Clifton 
 
 (Dr.), 227 
 
 FARRAGUT, Admiral. 270 
 
 FERRIS, , 99 
 
 FFARINGTON, Edmund,6i 
 FFORDHAM, Levt Joseph, 
 
 67 
 FFOSTER, John, 67 
 FIXCKE, Benjamin Clarke, 
 
 FISH, Hamilton (Hon.), 
 
 212 
 FLOYD, Abigail. 95, 97, 99, 
 
 139. ^72, 
 Alma. 95, 97. 99. I39. 142, 
 
 273 
 Elizabeth, 96, 97, 99, 139, 
 272, 273, 274 
 FORBES, Adeline, 97, 142, 
 145. 191, 192 
 Reginald VilHers, 2j2. 276 
 FORDHAM. John. 61 
 
 Mr.. 63 
 FORDYCE, George, 102 
 
Index. 
 
 XV 
 
 -,62 
 
 FOSTER, — 
 
 Anna Grace, 285 
 
 Benjamin, 70, 75, 284, 286 
 
 Benjamin H., 285 
 
 Benjamin, Jr., 70 
 
 Christopher, 60 
 
 Harriet, 285 
 
 FRAKCIS, , 104, 105 
 
 FREDERTC, Duke, 10 
 FROTHINGHAM, Arthur 
 L., Jr., 291 
 
 Paul Revere (Rev.), 241 
 
 GALLATIN, Albert, 185 
 
 Goelet, 165, 185 
 GERHARD, Count, 9 
 GERHARDT, Count, 9 
 GERRY, Almy Goelet, 185 
 
 Elbridge, 185 
 GIBBES, Governor, 251 
 
 Margaret 196, 247 
 
 ]\[argaret Oliver, 24g, 251, 
 
 Robert Morgan, 251 
 
 GIBSON, Alice, 269 
 Clara, 269 
 Edwin. 196 
 Edwin Post, 269 
 Isaac, 97, 196, 200, 267 
 John Travers, 269 
 Julia, 196, 267 
 Madeline, 196, 267, 269 
 Mary Ellen, 196, 270 
 Max Agassiz, 269 
 Williarn Borrowe, 196 
 
 270 
 William Maitland, 269 
 William Maitland, Jr., 269 
 
 GILES, Anne, 112, 136 
 Elizabeth, 112, 137 . 
 
 GODLEY, Ino., 307 
 GOELET, Isaac, 306, 307 
 GOLDSMITH, Thomas, 60 
 GOSMAN, John, 60 
 GOSMER, Mr., 63 
 GOUVENEUR, Frederick 
 
 Philipse, 114 
 Samuel, 1 14 
 GREENE, Nathaniel (Gen.), 
 
 292 
 GRIDLEY, Thomas. 55 
 GRINNELL, Minturn & Co., 
 
 292 
 GRISW()I<D, George, 247, 
 
 252 
 George IV, 247, 252 
 GULVINCH, Cornelius. 313 
 
 H 
 
 HALL, John (Rev.), 239, 
 
 240 
 HALLOWELL, Robert 
 Haydock, 268 
 William, 291 
 HALS, Frans, 30 
 
 HALSEY, , 61 
 
 Abigail, 284, 286 
 Susan, 284 
 Thomas (Sr.), 67 
 H A .M I L T O N, Alexander 
 Schuyler (Rev.), 142, 
 
 145 
 
 HAMMERSLEY, , 104 
 
 HAMPTON, John, 61 
 HANCOCK, John. 206 
 HARD, Anson Wales, 203, 
 226 
 Anson Wales, Jr., 226 
 De Courcy Lawrence, 226 
 James Muncaster, 226 
 lulia Post, 226 
 
XVI 
 
 Index. 
 
 Laura Warner, 226 
 Nellie Wales, 226 
 Sarah Anson, 226 
 HARDIN, Caroline Hyde, 
 
 150, 157, 159 
 HARKER, William, 60 
 HARRUWER. Pascal 
 
 (Rev.), 243 
 HARTEGG, Mary (Count- 
 
 ess) 16 
 H A S t'i N G S , Thomas 
 
 (Rev.), 173 
 HAVEN, Alice, 268 
 HAVILAND, Betsv. 2qi 
 HAWES, Charles Robert, 
 
 304 
 
 Eliza Ray, 304 
 
 Gardiner Spring, 304 
 
 Gilbert Ray, 305 
 
 Julia Lynch, 304 
 
 Matilda, 96. 97. 304 
 
 Matilda H, 304 
 
 Mary Louisa ,304 
 
 Nancy Post, 304 
 
 Peter, 95, 96, 97, 296, 297, 
 298, 304, 305 
 
 Peter Augustus, 304 
 
 Rufus King, 304 
 
 Rufns King H, 304 
 
 Susan, 97, 304 
 
 William, 304 
 
 William H, 304 
 
 William Post, 96, 97 
 HAWKS, Rev. Dr., 264 
 HAWTHORNE, Annie 
 Giles, 136 
 
 Archibald Charles Ed- 
 ward, 112, 136 
 
 Bayard, 136 
 
 David, 137 
 
 David Meredith. 112, 137 
 
 Edward Post, 112, 137 
 Ellen, 137 
 Emily, 112, 137 
 Eugene Post, 112, 136 
 Eugenia, 136 
 Francis Ludlow, 136 
 Gertrude Meredith, 136 
 Henry Rogers, 137 
 John Maxwell Nesbitt, 
 
 112, 136 
 Ludlow, 136 
 Mary Glover, 136 
 Mary Schenckberg, 136 
 Meredith Giles, 137 
 Norman, 137 
 Robert, 97, iii, 112, 136, 
 
 137 
 
 Robert Howard, 136 
 
 Robert, Jr., 112, 136 
 
 William, 137 
 
 William Meredith, 97, 
 III, 112, 137 
 
 Wright Post, 112, 137 
 HAYNE, Colonel, 257, 258 
 HAYNES, Benjamin, 60 
 HEERMANS, Augustine, 
 
 309 
 HENDRICKS, Aethe, 308 
 
 Rebecca, 308, 309 
 HENRY, Sarah, 233, 244 
 HERBERT, Henry William, 
 
 305 
 HERRICK, James, 61 
 HEYWARD, Nicholas, 166 
 HIBBS, Russell Aubra 
 
 (Dr.), 263 
 HICKS, Phebe, 291 
 HIGBEE, Charles (Rev.), 
 
 292 
 HIGGINSON, Barbara, 268 
 
Index. 
 
 XVII 
 
 Francis Lee ( Colonel ) , 
 
 268 
 Francis Lee, Jr., 268 
 Juliet, 268 
 Mary Cabot, 268 
 HILDR'ETH. Thomas, 61 
 HINDS, Bartlett, 284 
 HOAG, A. D., 291 
 HODGE, Angelina Post, 233, 
 244 
 Caspar Wistar, 112, 115, 
 
 116, 233, 234 
 Caspar Wistar (D. D.), 
 
 238, 244 
 Caspar Wistar (Prof.), 
 
 196 
 Caspar Wistar, Jr., 244 
 Francis (D. D. ), 244, 245 
 Lucy Maxwell, 244 
 Mary Blancliard, 233, 245 
 Sarah Madelina. 233, 245 
 HOOD. General, 178 
 HOOKER, Thomas (Rev.), 
 
 55' 60 
 HOPPIN, Katherine Beek- 
 man, 165, 175, 179 
 William Warner, 179 
 HOSACK, 104, 105 
 HOW, Calvin W., 235 
 Caroline, 196, 232 
 Caroline Tibbits, 234, 235 
 HOWARD. George (Gov- 
 ernor), 121 
 Governor, ill, 112, 122 
 John Eager (Colonel), 121 
 Margaret Elizabeth, in, 
 
 112, 121, 122, 124 
 Priscilla, 122 
 
 Priscilla Ridgely, ill, 
 112, 121, 122 
 HOWE. Daniel, 60 
 
 Josiah, 61 
 Lord, 81 
 
 William (Sir), 81 
 HOWELL, Edward, 60, 61, 
 
 67 
 
 Jane, 285 
 
 John, 60, 62 
 
 John (Capt.), 67 
 
 Julia A., 285 
 
 Mary, 285 
 
 Phebe, 284 
 
 Sarah, 285 
 HO WELLS, Charles (Capt.), 
 70 
 
 John, 66 
 HOWL AND, Judge, 173 
 HUGHES, John Newington, 
 
 280 
 HUMERICKHOUSE, Mary, 
 
 124 
 HUNT, Richard Morris, 168 
 HUNTER, John, 102, 107 
 HUNTTING. Marv, 284, 286 
 HUTTON, Rev. Dr., 204 
 HYDE, Hester, 57 
 
 William, 57 
 
 I 
 
 IRVIN, William (Rev.), 272, 
 277 
 
 JACKSON, James, 268 
 
 Madeline, 268 
 
 Rebecca Borland, 268 
 JAFFREY, Isaac Gibson, 270 
 
 William, 196, 270 
 JAGGER, John, 61, 67 
 
 Mary A., 285 
 T.AMES, Samuel, 60 
 
XVIU 
 
 Index. 
 
 JANEWAY, Rev. Dr., 202 
 JAY, John, 150, 163 
 
 Laura Prime, 163 
 
 Louise Prime, 150 
 
 Mary Rutherford, 150, 
 163 
 
 Peter Augustus (Rev.), 
 144, 149, 150, 163 
 
 Pierre, 150, 163 
 JENNLNGS. John, 61, 67 
 JESSUP, Bethia, 284, 286 
 
 Elizabeth, 284, 285 
 
 Harriet, 284 
 
 John, 61 
 JOHANN, Count, 2, 9 
 JOHNSON, Dorothy, 70, 75 
 JONES, Alfred Renshaw, 
 203, 228 
 
 Fanny Coster, 228 
 
 Isaac, 210 
 
 Lewis Quentin, 203, 228 
 
 Mary Mason, 210 
 
 K 
 
 KANE, Elisha, 202 
 
 John, 202 
 KENT, Emily, 232, 237 
 
 Joseph Charles, 237 
 KEY, Helen, 233 
 
 Helen Purvis, 243 
 
 Henry Harwood, 243 
 KIMBER, Joshua (Rev.), 
 
 236 
 KTNG, Charles A., 181 
 
 Corneha, 145, 191, 193 
 
 Edward, 188 
 
 Emilie Thorn, 145, 187, 
 188 
 
 Emma Thorn, 188 
 
 Frederick Gore, 97, ill, 
 112, 137 
 
 Mary, 292 
 
 Rufus, III, 137 
 KINTZING, Elizabeth. 202, 
 
 203 
 KIP, Henry Spies, 228 
 KIRBY, Amy, 291 
 
 Hannah, 281 
 KNAPP, Anna Morrill, 243 
 KNEELAND, Anne, 238 
 KOCH, Hendrick, 308 
 KRUSEMAN, C. 32 
 
 LAMBE, Bennet, 6, 7 
 
 Richard, 7 
 LARKING, Lambert Black- 
 well (Rev.), 280 
 LAUGHTON, John, 283 
 LAURENCE, Esther, 290 
 LAVANCHY, Henri, 269 
 
 Magda, 269 
 LeCOMPTE, Susannah, 108 
 
 William, 108 
 LeCONTE, Guillaume, 108, 
 109 
 Susannah, 109 
 William, 109 
 LEE, George Cabot (Jr.), 
 
 268 
 LENTILHON, Edward, 272, 
 
 277 
 LEONORE, Princess, 15 
 LeROY, Ellen Rhinelander, 
 
 266 
 LEROY, Anson \'an Horn, 
 
 196, 266 
 LEVEREDGE, William, 93 
 LIVERMORE, Adele, 142, 
 
 145 
 Edward, 97, 142. 145 
 
 WilHam, 97, 142, 145 
 
Index. 
 
 XIX 
 
 William W., 142 
 LLOYD, Edward IV, 128 
 
 Rebecca, 128 
 LOCK WOOD, Rev., 132 
 LOINES. William. 85 
 LUDLOW, Augusta Eliza- 
 beth, 112, 136 
 
 Francis, 112. 136 
 LUDWIG, Christian (Duke), 
 
 12 
 LUPTON, Marv, 284. 286 
 LYONS, Sarah, 311 
 
 M 
 
 MACFARLAXE. Kenneth, 
 
 221, 222 
 M.^cLAREN. Malcolm, 233, 
 
 244 
 Malcolm, Jr.. 244 
 MACKEVEN, , 104. 
 
 105 
 MAGIE. William Francis, 
 
 233, 245 
 MAIN, Austin, 248, 274 
 Austin Ledyard, 276 
 Lucretia, 97, 196 
 Lucretia Ann, 200, 248, 
 249, 272, 276 
 MARCH, Mr., 257 
 MASON, John, 210 
 MATSON, Katherine, 232 
 Katherine Warble, 236 
 William A. (Rev.), 236 
 MAURICE. John (Count), 
 
 30 
 
 Prince, 30 
 MAYO, Samuel, 93 
 McBEE, Silas, 285 
 McKAY, Horatio (Capt), 
 
 272, 277 
 
 Mcknight, Rev. Dr., 198 
 McLEAN, Caroline, 196, 
 247, 249 
 Caroline Burnet, 254, 257, 
 
 260 
 General, 254, 256 
 John (Justice), 254, 256 
 Nathaniel, 257, 259 
 McMURTY, George Gibson, 
 
 Jr., 221, 224 
 MESSIMER, Sara Laughlin, 
 
 269 
 MEYER, Henry von Len- 
 
 gerke, 226 
 MEYERS, Else, 5 
 MILFORD, Mary, 285 
 MILLS. John Kane, 226 
 MINTl'RN, Marv, 290, 292 
 MITCHELL, — , 104, 
 
 105 
 Adeline, 234, 238 
 Albert Minturn Post, 292 
 Alice, 150, 162 
 Arthur, 150, 162 
 Arthur (Rev.), 144, 149, 
 
 150, 162 
 Arthur Minturn, 292 
 Catherine F., 285 
 Edith, 150, 162 
 Harriet Post, 150, 162 
 Henry Post, 292 
 Julia Post, 150, 162 
 Lucy, 150, 162, 285 
 Margaret Johns, 150, 162 
 Roland Greene, 292 
 Samuel Latham, 238 
 Sarah Augusta, 292 
 Susan, 150, 162 
 Walter Howard, 292 
 MITCHILL, Adeline, 196, 
 
 232 
 
XX 
 
 Index. 
 
 MOALE, Judith Carter, 263 
 MOODY, " Attorney-General, 
 
 218 
 MOORE, Clement C, 249 
 
 William T., 196, 247, 249 
 MORGAN, Alice Lee, 203. 
 221, 222, 223, 224 
 Carrie B., 291 
 Edward D. (Gov.), 118, 
 
 119 
 Henry. 223 
 MORIS, Priscilla, 96 
 MORRIS, Benjamin, 203, 
 221, 223 
 Euretta Post, 221, 222 
 James, ill, 112 
 James Van Cortlandt, 97, 
 
 III, 112 
 Katharine Luquer, 221, 
 
 222 
 Lewis. III. 112 
 Priscilla, 97 
 MORRISON, John H., 241 
 John H. (Rev.), 241 
 
 MOTT. . 104, 105 
 
 MOW ATT, Alexander. 96. 
 
 97 
 Elias. 96, 97 
 Jane. 96, 97 
 MRAVLAG, Lucille Veron- 
 ica, 116. 120 
 Victor (Dr.), 120 
 MULFORD. John. 65 
 
 N 
 
 NAGEL. laenneke, 309 
 NEEHAM, Edward, 60 
 NEWBOLD. Clayton. 292 
 NICHOLSON, James Ma- 
 con. 128 
 
 Joseph Hopper (Judge), 
 
 128 
 Rebecca Lloyd, 112, 122, 
 
 124, 128, 130 
 NICOLLS, Mathias. 69 
 
 O'CONNOR. John Chris- 
 topher, 247, 259 
 O'CONOR, Norreys Jeph- 
 
 son, 247. 259 
 ODELL, William, 60 
 OGDEN, Mr., 139 
 Rollo. 150, 162 
 OLDFIELDS, John. 60 
 OLIVER, Emily, 251 
 
 Robert, 251 
 OPDYKE. Alfred Post. 150, 
 162 
 George. 150, 162 
 William S., 144, 149, 150, 
 162 
 OSGOOD. Samuel (Rev.), 
 
 235 
 OSMAN, Samuel, 61 
 OTIS, Tames. 166 
 OTTO,' Count. 10 
 OVERDORP, Mr., 27 
 
 PARIS, Catharine S.. 272, 
 
 277 
 Mary U., 272. 2-j-j 
 PARKER, Arinthea Darby, 
 128 
 Catherine Purnell, 132 
 Charlotte. 284 
 John Andrews. 128 
 .'^arah. 97, 195, 203 
 
Index. 
 
 XXI 
 
 Sarah Elizabeth, 200, 202, 
 204 
 PARKHURST. Rev. Dr., 
 
 218 
 PATTISON. Henry, 88 
 PAYNE, Postmaster-Gen- 
 eral, 218 
 William, 60 
 PEACE, Mary, 90 
 PEARSALL, Henry, 80 
 
 Rowland, 80 
 PELL, Cornelia, 223 
 PERKIXS, Charles Law- 
 rence, 215 
 Mary, 216 
 Marv Lawrence, 207, 212, 
 
 215 
 PHILIPS, Frederick (Capt.), 
 114 
 
 Marv, 1 14 
 PHILIPSE. Catherine, 116 
 
 Catherine Wadsworth, 114 
 
 Frederick, 112, 114, 116 
 
 Frederick, Jr., 114 
 
 Margaret Goiiverneur, 
 
 114, 116 
 
 Alary, 114, 116 
 PIERSON, , 62 
 
 Abraham, 60 
 
 Henr\', 61, 67 
 
 Tames H. (Hon.). 72 
 PLATTER. Rebecca. 128 
 POMEROY. Maria Center, 
 
 263 
 POPE.'' Xancv, 294 
 PORTER, David D., 22t, 
 POST & MIXTURN, 292 
 POWELL. Amos. 289 
 
 Benjamin, 289 
 
 Hannah, 75, 289 
 
 John, 80, 288 
 
 Joshua, 75, 80, 289 
 
 Pemberton Hare, 264 
 
 Phebe, 75, 289 
 
 Richard, 289 
 
 Thomas, 80 
 
 Willets, 289 
 PRETTY, Mr., 280 
 PRICE, Bruce, 174, 261 
 
 Emily Bruce. 247, 260, 
 261 
 
 Rebekah, 292 
 PULSFORD, John Arthur, 
 
 116, 120 
 PURVIS. George T. (Rev.), 
 244 
 
 RAINER, Joseph. 67 
 
 Mr., 63 
 RAPALJE, Jane, 4 
 RAY. Margarette, 304 
 RAYNOR, Joseph, 60 
 RE.AD, John H., 232 
 
 Frances, 153 
 
 Robert, 153 
 
 Sarah. 144, 149, 150, 153, 
 157 
 REED, Harry Lee, 134 
 
 John. 196 
 
 John Hooper, 234 
 
 Mabel Howard Post, 134 
 REE\'ES. Albert, 72 
 
 Elizabeth. 72 
 
 Samuel Post. 72 
 RE I' BELL. Jaques, 272 
 RHINELANDER. .\delaide, 
 196. 266 
 
 Bernard. 97. 196. 200, 266 
 
 Charles Edward. 196, 266 
 
 Ellen Lucretia. 196. 266 
 
XXll 
 
 Index. 
 
 Emily Catharine, 196, 266 
 
 Gertrude, 196, 266 
 
 Laura Virginia, 196, 266 
 RIDGELY. Charles (Gen.), 
 122 
 
 Prudence, 122 
 RIVES, Constance Evelyn, 
 
 267 
 ROBBINS. Frank L. B. 
 (Rev.), 254 
 
 Marv, 291 
 ROEBOTTOM. Percy J. 
 
 (Rev.), 237 
 ROGERS, , 62, 104 
 
 C. H., 284 
 
 Hannah, 284 
 
 Harriet, 72 
 
 Henry VV., 112, 137 
 
 Margaret Helena, 295 
 
 Obediah, 61 
 
 Peter R. (Capt.), 72 
 ROMEYN, Rev. Dr., 199, 
 
 263, 264 
 ROOSEVELT. Grace, no 
 
 Helen, no 
 
 President, 217, 218 
 ROSE, , 62 
 
 John, 61 
 ROWLEY, Nancy, 112, 137 
 RUSHMORE, Isaac. 291 
 
 Marv, 291 
 RUYSCH, Fredericus, 31 
 
 SAMMIS, Nehemiah, 87 
 SANDFORD, Major-Gen- 
 
 eral, 118 
 SAYRE, , 61 
 
 ffrancis, 67 
 Job, 61 
 
 Thomas, 60, 63 
 SCHAUMBURG, Count, 9 
 SCHENCKBERG, Mary, 
 
 112, 139 
 SCOTT, Adeline Mitchell, 
 232. 239 
 Angelina Thayer, 232, 239 
 Anne Kneeland, 232 
 Anne Mitchell, 239 
 Charles Hodge, 232, 239 
 Hugh Lennox, 232, 239 
 Mary Blanchard, 232, 239 
 Sarah Post, 232, 239 
 William B., 232 
 William Berryman, 239 
 SEAMAN, Thomas, 85 
 SEARS, Philip Shelton, 268 
 SELYNS, Henricus (Rev.j, 
 
 48 
 SETON, Alfred, 222 
 Euretta, 195, 203, 221 
 Euretta Barnwell, 204, 
 
 222 
 William, no 
 SHARP, Ellen, n2, 137 
 SHAW, Secretary, 218 
 
 SHELDON, '- — , 102 • 
 
 SHEPARD. Oliver, 195. 203, 
 
 204 
 SHIPPEN, Edward (Dr.), 
 129, 131 
 Lloyd, 131 
 Lloyd Parker. 129 
 SKIDMORE, Joshua, 285 
 
 SMITH, 104 
 
 Augustine Jaquelin, 226 
 John Augustine (Dr.), 
 
 104 
 John Cotton (Rev.), 177 
 Julia Cotton, 165, 175. 177 
 
Ind, 
 
 ex. 
 
 XXI a 
 
 Fanny, 149, 150 
 Richard, 61 
 SMYTHE, Clement, 280 
 SOUTTER, Ellen Muriel 
 Beatrice, 227 
 James Taylor, 203, 227 
 SPEER, Margaret H., 132 
 
 William McMurtrie, 132 
 STABB, Annie Gardner, 150, 
 157, 160 
 Nicholas S., 160 
 STANLEY, A. P. (Rev.), 
 
 236 
 STATIUS, Mansfield, 10 
 STERNBERG, Henry 
 
 (Count), 10 
 STEVENS, Ebenezer ( Gen. ) , 
 
 185 
 STONE, Alice Maud, 144. 
 
 165, 175 
 Frederick Sigournev, 233, 
 
 243 
 George E.. 196 
 George Eliot, 233, 234, 
 
 243 
 
 Herman Foster, 233, 243 
 
 Madeline Post. 233, 243 
 
 W^illiam Eliot, 233, 243 
 
 William W., 175 
 
 STRINGHAM, , 104 
 
 STRONG. Julia, 199 
 
 Silvie Livingston, 1 16, 
 120 
 STUMP. Alexander Hamil- 
 ton, 132 
 
 Ella, 122, 125, 132 
 STUY\-ESANT, Governor, 
 
 309, 310 
 SUYDAM. Annatie, 5. 35 
 
 George, 5 
 
 SL'YDERHOF, J., 30 
 SWAN, Allison Post, 272, 
 276, 277 
 Benjamin, 97 
 Benjamin L., 2-/2, 274, 
 276 
 Caroline Emily, 272, 276 
 Charles Fearing, 272, 277 
 Charlotte Caroline, 272, 
 
 Edward, 97, 272, 274, zj-/ 
 Edward Henry, 2^2, 2yj 
 Edward Henry, Jr., 272, 
 
 2/7 
 Elizabeth Mary, 272, 277 
 Emily. 2yy 
 
 Frederick Henry, 272, 2jj 
 Harriet Stone, 272, 2jj 
 Julia Post, 2^2, 2JJ 
 Robert Otis, 272, 277 
 Theodore Augustus, 272, 
 
 \\ illiam Lincoln, 272, 276 
 SWANN, Elizabeth, 195, 264 
 Governor. 264 
 
 TAFT, Secretarv, 218 
 TAYLOE, Elizabeth, 128 
 
 John (Hon. -Colonel), 128 
 TAYLOR, Elizabeth Wet- 
 more, 292 
 
 Maria, 196 
 
 Maria Farquhar, 249, 253, 
 
 259 
 Mary, 247 
 
 \\'illiam Beade Kirkland, 
 226 
 
 TERRY, Harriet Wads worth. 
 III. 112, 114. 116, 117 
 
XXIV 
 
 Index. 
 
 THAYER, William Turpin, 
 230 
 
 THURSTON, . 272, 
 
 276 
 TIFFANY, Katherine 
 M'Lane, 267 
 
 Louis M'Lane, 267 
 
 Louis M'Lane (M. D.), 
 267 
 TITUS, Edmund, 85, 88 
 
 Eliza, 290 
 
 Elizabeth, 294 
 
 Hanna, 88 
 
 Henry, 290 
 
 Jane, 290 
 
 John, Jr.. 290 
 
 Lydia, 290, 291 
 
 Martha, 88, 290 
 
 Marv, 85, 290, 291, 292 
 
 Robert, 88, 290 
 
 Rosetta, 290 
 
 William R., 290 
 TOFFE, Daniel, 87 
 TOPPING, Capt, 63 
 
 John, 67 
 
 Thomas, 61 
 TOTTENHAM, Violet, 145, 
 
 191, 193 
 TOWNSEND, Amelia, 290 
 
 u 
 
 UNDERHILL, Daniel, 290 
 UPTON, Mary, 290 
 
 VALENTINE, Elwood, 290 
 
 Obediah, 87 
 
 William, 290 
 VAN CORTLAND, Augustus, 
 no 
 
 VAN DEN BERG, A., 26 
 
 VAN DER VINNE, Vincent, 30 
 
 VAN GELDER, Abraham, 6 
 
 Susannah, 6 
 VAN HAERSOLTE, Tanne- 
 
 ken, 7 
 VAN MULKEN, Richard, 8, 
 
 59 
 
 Tanneken, 6 
 VAN RIEMSDYK, Evarina, 
 
 28 
 VAN TASSELL, Sarah, 6 
 VAN ZUL, Jantje, 4 
 
 Peter, 4 
 VARICK, Richard, 296 
 VISSCHER, Cornelis, 30 
 VON BAHR, Catharine, 10 
 VON BARDELEBEN, Ilsa, 
 
 12 
 VON BUSCHE, Adolph, 10 
 
 Mechtild, 10 
 VON GROTE, Henrv, 13 
 VON HARDEGG, Marie 
 
 (Countess), 4 
 VON HASELHORST. Anna, 
 
 12 
 VON HERDING, Johan, 15 
 vonHESSEN, Leonore 
 
 (Princess), 3 
 VON HOEN, Anna, 2, 15 
 VON PALINGSLEBEN, i 
 VON REDEN, Dorothea-Eliz- 
 abeth, 12 
 VON SCHAUMBURG, 
 
 Count, I 
 VON SCHILT, Catherina. 13 
 VON STAFFHORST, Ernst 
 
 Christian, 12 
 VON WEND, Agnes, 10 
 VON ZEDTWITZ, Wilhel- 
 
 mina (Countess), 3 
 
Index. 
 
 XXV 
 
 w 
 
 WADSWORTH, Elizabeth, 
 145, 191. 192, 193 
 
 James (General), 192 
 WAINWRIGHT, Rev. Dr., 
 
 266, 267 
 WALDO, Francis William, 
 196, 266 
 
 Rhinelander, 266 
 WALDRON, Baron, 308, 310 
 
 Charles Wills, 311 
 
 Cornelia, 308 
 
 Humphrey (Colonel), 311 
 
 Joseph, 308 
 
 Resolved, 308, 309, 310 
 
 Rutgers, 308 
 WALLACE, Robert, 259 
 WALROND, George, 109 
 
 Grace, 109 
 
 Joseph Lyons, 311 
 
 Main Swete, 311 
 
 Theodore, 311 
 WALTON, Henry, 61 
 WASHBURN, John, 93 
 
 William, 93 
 WATSON. John, 196 
 WATTLES. George, 199 
 WEAVER, Benjamin, 265 
 WEBSTER, Daniel, 257, 258 
 
 Hamilton-Fish, 207, 212 
 WELLS, , 62 
 
 George. 61 
 
 Frederick De Witt, 150, 
 
 163 
 WHEELER. Josephine, 291 
 
 WHIPPLE, Eleanor, 265 
 Elizabeth Sherlock. 264 
 Gwendolyn. 265 
 Tane Byrd, 265 
 John. 97, 195, 200, 264 
 
 John, Jr., 264 
 
 Mary Carter, 265 
 
 Shirley Carter, 265 
 
 Thomas Swann, 265 
 WHITE, , 62 
 
 Alice, 136 
 
 John, 60 
 
 Robert (Capt.), 284 
 WICKAM, James, 285 
 WICKS, Lemuel, 72 
 WILLETS, Catherine, 291 
 
 Henry, 290 
 
 Robert R., 290 
 
 Stephen, 290 
 WILLIAMS, Roger, 292 
 WILLIS, Catherine Post, 84 
 
 Elizabeth, 75, 82, 91 
 
 Henry, 75, 81, 82, 90, 291 
 
 John, 84 
 
 Mary, 75, 81, 89, 90, 93 
 
 Phebe, 290 
 
 Samuel, 291 
 
 William, 7s 
 WILLMAN, Isaac, 61 
 WILSON, Mary, 269 
 WING, Adelia Antoinette, 
 
 295 
 WRIGHT, Benjamin, 93, 
 
 lOI 
 
 Isabella, 203, 227 
 
 Peter, 93 
 
 Susan, 94 
 
 Winifred, 91, 93, 95, 97 
 WOOD, Elizabeth, 291 
 WOODRUFF, John, 61 
 WOODS, George, 6i 
 
 YOUNG, Thomas, 272 
 
 Thomas S., 276 
 YOUNGS, John, 66 
 
Blank pages are here inserted for additional 
 records. Each branch, it is hoped, will endeavor 
 to keep them up. 
 
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