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family in 1785 and engaged in businss in New Yoek. The houae he built
there for his family was one of the finest in New York at that time.
The a- house waa rated to George Washington when he was first
President of the United States. Afterwards it became the Bunker's
Hotel. Alezander wa. a great land apeculator(Hough'm "Hiatory of Lewis
County" pp 21-24) The largeat deal he made during him life wan hi-
application to the U.S. Land Comdaaionera, which warn accepted, in New
York 2 Xsy 1791 for 3,670,715 acre8 which ia now Jefferson County, NY
A map was made of the "Xscomb Purchase" by Charlem C. Broadhead
Children:
4 r. John ~avarre3 b 1 Xsr 1714
ii. Ann Pfiater b 19 Jun 1775 Detroit d 1 Jul 1787 New York
iii. Jane(Geneveva) b 21 Aug 1776 Detroit d 20 Xsy 1867 London,
England m Ni Hon. Robert Kennedy, b 1713 d 5 Nov 1843 England
third .on of Admiral Archibald Kennedy of the Britiah Navy,
Earl of Caaailia (England) and --- ward of NY At the time of
the marriage, the Kennedy family r at No 1 Broadway and the
Xsccmb family r at No 7 Broadway, near the Battery. Hon.
Robert Remedy moved with hi8 family to England; hi8
deafendant are atill there in London and other Dlacea. (See
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Burke'. "Dictionarv of the Perragde and earonetbge, ', Art:
Ailaa.)
iv. Mary Catherine b 22 Dec 1771 Detroit d NY unm
v. William b 26 Oct 1119 Detroit d Trinidad, Weat Indie8 unm He
was admitted to Weat Point in 1803
vi. Sarah b 2 EBe 1181 Detroit d NY m Capt. Arent Saahuyler de
Pevater. b NY. aon of Pierre Guillam de Pevster (Jr. or
2nz). rent raa named aftet hi. uncle and godfather, Col.
Arent Schuyler de Peyater who asawed the expense and
direction of his education. At the age of 15 yra he left the
achoolbanches. Billed with a desire for adventure, he
c-nced hia career aa rover by aea and ahore. In the
courae of his various wanderings he aailed twice around the
world, doubled the Cape of Good Hope fifteen time-, viaited
momt of the Polynesian Ialanda and in a pallaage from the
weatern coast oi America to Calcutta, dlbfoPe;ed, among
aePer.1 others, the group of island. bearing hi. n-, the De
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Pevater Ialandd. (See De Peveter'. Miscellsniea, bv J. Watts
de-peymter, LL.D page CIXV.)-
5 vii. Alexander b 3 Apr 1182
viii. R~bert b 20 Dec 1183 Detroit m NY Mary Pell, b there. Robert
r Xsccmb's Dam on the Harlem River NY. S- of thia branch
of the Macomb family are aaid to be living at Imington, on
the Hudaon, NY
Children:
1. nary'
2. Julia
ir. Marie Frances b 29 Oct 1786 NY d there 14 Dec 1192
x. Ann b 20 Nov 1788 NY m there William Wilson, a merchant in
New York
3. WILLIAM~H~COH~(J~~~~) Dunturky pariah of Ballynure County Antrim,
b
1751
Ireland d 16 Apr 1796 Detroit m SABXi JANE DRING, 15 b Canada d 20 Nay
1849 Anthony Street NY dau of --- Dring and --- Gallant. Madame
Gallant, the mother of Sarah Jane Dring, descended from a Huguenot
fdlv who fled from France to Enaland after the Edict of Nantes had
been ;evoked. She m --- Dring in-~ngland and soon they came to Canada,
where two children *ere born;sarah ~ane and a younger-daughter. After
the death of --- Drina. his widow. m 2nd Ca~t David Bitton of the - ~
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Britiah Navy who c&hded all t& xingia nHval fo;cea on the Great
Lakes
Children:
i. John b Detroit d 29 Jun 1815 m Iaabella Ramsay, (poaafily
the d ia wrong a8 there ia a deed on record from John w.
Haccmb and Iaabella, wife, to John A. Rucker dated 21 Oct
1819)
Children:
1. 1aabella4 m Dr. William Wetherel
2. Maria De La blerced m 1st William Beean Verplank, m
2nd Rev. William Lyle