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Not$s on tije iFaindfi of Ue WioU
elsewhere. A female descendant, Alice Starr Chipman, is the wife of
Hon. Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, C. B., K.C.M.G., late Minister of
Finance, Canada,^ and the present Lieut-Governor of New Brunswick.
" Nathan De Wolf married Lydia Kirtland, and had Elisha ;
112 ried Margaret Ratchford, and had William ;
113 and had Mary Elizabeth ; who
N. B., and had Alice Starr Chipman.
who
who mar-
married Amelia Fitch,
married Zachariah Chipman of St. Stephen,
" Of Simeon's (23) descendants there have been some prominent
persons in the female line. The present Countess of Erroll is the great
granddaughter of Benjamin De Wolf of Windsor, N. S., son of Simeon
—a daughter of this Benjamin, Rachel Otis (38), having married Hon.
James Eraser of Halifax ;
and
Sarah Rachel Eraser, of this marriage,
having married General the Hon. Sir Charles Stephen Gore, G.C. B.,
K.H.; whose daughter Eliza Amelia (45) married the Baron Kilmarnock
and Earl of Erroll.'""
For the following notes on the Rhode Island branch of the family of
DeWolf we are chiefly indebted to Dr. John James DeWolf of Provi-
dence, R. I., son of the late Professor De Wolf of Brown University ;
Mrs. Robert Shaw Andrews of Bristol, R. I., his half sister ; Mr. John
De Wolf, their nephew, formerly of Bristol, R. I., now of New York ; and
Rev. A. W. H. Eaton of Boston. Having received them in a discon-
nected form, we here use our own words somewhat freely.
114 This branch sprang from Charles De Wolf, said to have been born in
1695, who "went from Lyme, Conn., to the Island of Guadeloupe as a
millwright." He married, March 31, 171 7, on that island, Margaret Potter,
an Englishwoman, who never came to this country, by whom he had :
Burke. .
' A Geneal. and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage. ... By Sir Bernard
. . London,
•» Id., p. 510.
18S7, p. 1601.
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