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more fulness because he was the only one of his race who has left reproach
with his memory.
170 (2.) Ursula'' (see below).
171 (3-) Elizabeth,'^ born October 15, 1778; who married, March 28,
1802, Jacob Barker Gurley of New London, Conn., graduated at Dart-
mouth College in 1 793, a man of very astute mind and high character ; a
lawyer. State's Attorney and President of the New London Bank ;
and
died a widow, June 22, 1857, having had ten children, all of whom except
one she survived.
She bore her great griefs with an almost stoical composure, and to her
last days met her friends with a calm and cheerful mien. Her only living
1 72 descendants are Mrs. Elizabeth ^ (Gurley) Merrow, and her three children,
173 daughter of her daughter Ellen^ who married her cousin Charles Artemas
1 74 Gurley ; three great granddaughters, children of Mrs. Ursula Wolcott ^
175 (Noyes) Grosvenor, daughter of her daughter Sarah Griswold^ who
married Joseph Noyes of Lyme, Conn.; and a great grandson, son of
176 Mrs. Mary Gurley^ (Noyes) Selden.
177 (4-) Sarah^ born August 12, 1781; who married, March 4, 1803,
John Lyon Gardiner Esq., the seventh proprietor of the Manor of
Gardiner's Island, N. Y., by whom she had five children ; and
February 10, 1863.
died
Mrs. Gardiner was a lady of much strength of mind and dignity of
character. During a long widowhood she had the management of a large
estate, and administered its hospitalities as a true "lady of the manor." At
the time of this marriage the original charter of Gardiner's Island, which
made it an entirely independent and separate plantation, with no responsi-
bility for laws civil or ecclesiastical, was no longer in force ; and
the lord-
ship, with right of advowson, and to hold a court leet and a court baron,
which had been subsequently created, was extinguished by the establish-
ment of the Republic of the United States.
But the property was still entailed on the eldest son. The eldest son
178 of this marriage, David Johnso7i,^ was the last who received the property
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