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remains are said to have reposed beneath a " superb monument," erected
to his memory by his daughters.'*^ His wife had died in 1698.
Two of the children of Jean Diodati by Aldegonda Trouwers were
Philippe^'^ and Salomon}'^ born at Dort in 1686 and 1688; who both
became Associates of the Dutch East India Company at Batavia. The
former died childless, in Batavia, on the 26*'' of January 1733, bequeathing
15,000 rix dollars to the Cathedral of Dort, for the purchase of communion-
plate. The latter, on the f^ of December 1713, married Geertruida
daughter of Jerome Slott ; and
in 1733 returned to Holland with his wife
and two sons, Mmdin Jacob'^^ and Antoine Josiie ;'^'^ and settled at the
Hague, where he died in 1753. Of these two sons, Martin Jacob estab-
lished himself in Holland, and was the founder of the family of the
Diodatis of that country. The other, ANTOINE JOSUE, born in
1728, having studied theology at Geneva, went to the Hague, and became
Chaplain to the Prince of Orange. He married Marie Aimee Rilliet of
Geneva, and later in life settled there, and founded the Genevan family of
Diodatis. He was the builder of the Chateau de Vernier, already referred
to, and lived there till he died in 1791. " He was a great amateur of the
fine arts, and had his house always full of artists. The consequence of his
expensive style of living, and keeping always open house, was that he
spent the greater part of his fortune, which for the time was considered a
large one, and left it very much diminished to his children," three sons
and five daughters. The name was transmitted by only one of the sons,
Jacques AniMie ;'^^ whose son Rev. Alexandre Amddt^e Edoitard}^
Professor in the Academy of Geneva, and Librarian of that city, was the
father of our friends and correspondents Gabriel Charles ^'' Diodati and
his two brothers, the late Salomo7i Thiodore^'^ and Charles Aloysy
These three gentlemen have worthily maintained the honors of the family
at Geneva.
'* De Bude's Vie de Jean Diodati, ut supra, p. 298. At our request, through the intervention of
missionary-friends, a search was made for this monument, in the English, French and Dutch cemeteries
at Surat, but without success ;
the climate, time and neglect would seem to have destroyed all traces of it.
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