Footnote 67:
From Octavia Southgate to Mrs. Southgate.
Footnote 68:
Mr. Newbold and Mr. Philip Rhinelander were well-known New Yorkers.
The latter married, December 22, 1814, Miss Mary Colden Hoffman.
Footnote 69:
Mr. Jephson was an Englishman who had lately arrived in New York.
Footnote 70:
John Duer married Miss Anne Bunner October 19, 1804, and his
brother, William Duer, soon after married Maria Denning. Mr.
Rhinelander engaged the two Miss Duers to the wrong men. Fanny
married Beverly Robinson, and Sally married, March 10, 1805, John
Witherspoon Smith, and died July 10, 1887, in the one hundred and
first year of her age.
Footnote 71:
Mrs. Kane’s “charming little girl” became Mrs. James King of Albany,
and the mother of many well-known New Yorkers.
Footnote 72:
Lady Temple was the daughter of Governor Bowdoin, and had married
Sir John Temple. Their daughter, afterwards Mrs. Winthrop, was the
mother of the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop. She was long the reigning
belle in Boston.
Footnote 73:
Mr. and Mrs. Bogert were intimate friends of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus
King’s, and they occupied adjoining places at Jamaica.
Footnote 74:
Mrs. Heyward was Mr. and Mrs. Rogers’ daughter. She married Mr.
Heyward of South Carolina. Miss Heyward married Mr. Cutting of New
York, and was the mother of Messrs. William, Heyward, and Brockholst
Cutting.
Footnote 75:
Wolsey Rogers married, Thursday evening, December 1, 1807, Miss
Susan Bayard.
Footnote 76:
Harriet Clarke, a daughter of John Innes Clarke of Providence, and
sister of Mrs. Kane.
Footnote 77:
Mrs. Oliver Kane had married, at Providence, R. I., May 22, 1803,
Mr. Oliver Kane, merchant of this city. Her children were Mrs. King
of Albany, Mrs. William Russel, Mrs. Nicholsen, John, De Lancey, and
Miss Lydia Kane.
Footnote 78:
Mrs. Gilbert R. Livingston (Martha Kane), a sister of Oliver Kane.
Her children were Mrs. Henry Beekman, Mrs. Codwise, Mrs. Constable,
the Rev. Gilbert R. Livingston, and James Kane Livingston.
Footnote 79:
Mrs. Fish (Miss Elizabeth Stuyvesant) had married, April 30, 1803,
Colonel Nicholas Fish. This daughter was Mrs. Daniel le Roy. The
Hon. Hamilton Fish and Mrs. Richard Morris were also children of
Colonel Fish’s.
Footnote 80:
_Pauline Porter_, daughter of Paulina King and Dr. Aaron Porter of
Portland, had married Edward Beecher.
Footnote 81:
Mary King Porter, her sister, married Nathaniel Coffin of Saco.
Footnote 82:
Horatio Southgate married his first wife, Nabby McLellan, September
29, 1805. Mrs. Bowne is here alluding to her sister Octavia’s
engagement to William Browne.
Footnote 83:
Robert Murray, Mr. Bowne’s nephew.
Footnote 84:
_Frederic Southgate_, her youngest brother.
Footnote 85:
John, Charles, and James King, sons of Rufus King, Mrs. Bowne’s
cousins. James was at that time at Harvard College.
Footnote 86:
Mrs. Gillespie (Amelia Denning). This daughter died when a very
young girl of a putrid sore throat.
Footnote 87:
Walter Bowne, Jr. Eldest child of Walter Bowne and Eliza Southgate.
Footnote 88:
Kitty Bayard married Duncan Campbell. Her sister Susan had married
Woolsey Rogers, December 1, 1807.
Footnote 89:
Mary, oldest daughter of Robert Watts and his wife Lady Mary
Alexander, married Dr. Romaine, who left her a widow after a few
years of married life. At the age of seventy-three Mrs. Romaine
married her first love, Peter Bertram Cruger, a widower with eight
children. Miss Watts’s engagement to Dr. Romaine was a surprise to
her friends, who knew of her attachment to Mr. Cruger.
Footnote 90:
John Alsop King, oldest son of Rufus King and his wife Mary Alsop.
John A. King was twice governor of the State of New York. He married
in 1810 Mary Ray. Charles King, the second son of Rufus King, for
some time President of Columbia College, New York. He married twice:
first, Miss Gracie, and for his second wife Miss Low, the daughter
of his father’s intimate friend Nicholas Low.
Footnote 91:
Miss Fairlee was the daughter of Major Fairlee of the British army,
who was a noted wit. Many anecdotes are told of his odd sayings. One
of them was, that being on his death-bed he was told by his
physician to take yeast as medicine. “What for?” said the Major; “to
make me rise?” Miss Fairlee married Cooper the actor.
Footnote 92:
The wife of the French General Moreau. They came to the United
States in 1805, but he returned to fight with the Allies, and was
killed in 1813, some say by a bullet aimed by Napoleon himself.
Footnote 93:
Mrs. Stevens was Miss Rachel Coxe, of Philadelphia, and had married
Colonel Stevens, of Hoboken, New Jersey.
Footnote 94:
Miss Lyde married Jonathan Ogden. Among her children were Mrs.
Robert Goelet, Mrs. Dominick Lynch Lawrence, and Mrs. Joseph Ogden.
Footnote 95:
Mrs. John Lawrence.
Footnote 96:
Ralph Izard and his wife, the granddaughter of Etienne de Lanci, a
Huguenot nobleman who came to this country in 1686. Mr. Izard had
been appointed Commissioner from Congress to the grand-duchy of
Tuscany, and had performed other important diplomatic services. He
was one of the first United States senators from South Carolina.
Mrs. Mannigault’s husband was the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Izard.
She was related to the Misses Watts of New York, and for their sake
was particularly attentive and kind to their friend Mrs. Bowne. Mr.
and Mrs. Heyward were the parents of the celebrated beauty Miss
Elizabeth Heyward, who married James Hamilton.
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