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COMMODORE ISAAC CHAUNCEY was a great grandson of
her second cousin, a Wolcott by descent.
MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN POPE, U. S. A., son of Judge
Pope (II. 26), was distinguished in the late civil war ;
as were many of her
young descendants, one of whom, the heroic Captain John Griswold, gave
his hfe at Antietam.
GENERAL JAMES S. WADSWORTH of Geneseo, N. Y.,
killed in the battle of the Wilderness, was descended from several branches
of her Wolcott family. Gen. Wadsworth's sister Elizabeth married Hon.
Charles Augustus Murray, son of the Earl "of Dunmore.
Mary daughter of the late Robert and Mary Jane (Lucas) Reade of
New York, of the same Hyde and Lee blood as Governor Matthew
Griswold, is the wife of Byron Plantagenet Cary, Viscount Falkland
and Baron Cary. Her elder sister, Katharine Livingston, married Sir
George Cumine Strahan, formerly Governor of several British colonies
who lately died in England, while waiting to be invested with the Grand
Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, before proceeding
to take the post of Governor of Hong Kong.
Alice Starr Chipman, the wife of Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, C.B.,
K.C.M.G., late Minister of Finance, Canada, is of the same DeWolf
descent as Governor Matthew Griswold. The present Countess of Erroll,
Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, is also of the same
DeWolf descent.
Mrs. Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold's great great granddaughter Eleanora
Lorillard, daughter of Lorillard Spencer and of her great granddaughter
Sarah Griswold, married Prince Virginio Cenci of Vicovaro, etc., Cham-
berlain to the reigning King of Italy. Princess Cenci is now one of the
Ladies of Honor to the Italian Queen.
It may be noted as somewhat remarkable that, though not in the
blood of Governor and Mrs. Griswold, yet in their immediate familyconnection
there had been another group of Judges. Governor Matthew
Griswold's uncle Rev. George Griswold had married Hannah Lynde, who
was a granddaughter of Judge Simon Lynde, a daughter of Judge Nathaniel
Lynde, a sister of Judge Samuel Lynde, a niece of Chief Justice Benjamin
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