Show r 1 1 I ri ii Ii ii fi WALWORTH FAMILY Walworth W Family Family Family-Family Family of Brave Men True Men True Patriots Patriots- V Friends of Liberty I BY ELEANOR LEXINGTON GT i is a suburb o of London j jand I and tho the family I Is supposed to take o I Its Is name minnie from the town Toe Tin derivation u 1 ibm tion tOI of or this word IH is p po possibly French from flom a a crier announcer or herald o and amid anc Vt orth als are about the only variations oC or tho the name with J worth Alls orth found occasionally occa occa- in colonial records William llam Walworth n a I settler Hetter of New New- ew Jon London un hiSO ant and who came caine from fromI Middlesex Ls is L' L called the lie father oC of all nJ of this country countr He lie le came caine over 01 at at tho the request l of or th tho no I to teach leach the lie colonists alt all nl about the methods of or ln n agriculture am ani wa vas tr first t given land jaunt and on nit 01 Fishers Fisher's 11 bl und and Wn Lon Long 1 Inland lanc Later r. r cro crossin croinE over ore to th the tho mainland he had hud at and New London William flam claimed descent from ioni SIT Sli Si William 11 Walworth alworth Val lord ma mayor ol o ot London London In the reign of Richard II I. I ISh Sir Sh William hu hud had hJ his seat Ipat at Walworth alworth Tho rho Pilgrims Pilgrim's sons on numbered three William John and ane Thomas JI Like Robinson on Crusoe William llam the lie S Jr first t was for a n long time monarch of or oral all al ho he surveyed cd and FJ Fishers Fisher's her Islands Island's sole Hole citizen Ho Tin 10 was vas nR above bOe all ni town to n meetings s ho lie could couil hid bid defiance to sheriffs sherin's and und constables he lie made mac hl lila his own roads road and anc mended th them m no noman noman man but himself ha had a right to hunt no do log dog but lil hi own hi own o n a rl right ht to hail bark there William hail had his romance and pret- pret tv if f if she sho ho wasn't pretty I and charming we wo dont don't wish to be betout iou tout of It came it-came I came over on the time same ame ship with him luini The vo voyage ng W was lon long bug enough for tor him to plead hl lila suit and andIn andI I In 1090 they tey were erl married Upon the baptism of oC thick their nl first l child Martha Martha Mar Mar- tha ia the parents owned tl the covenant covenant cove e nant in the vernacular of or th the tho cIa day T riis ils means menns the they too 1 were hap bat t I It I was waR said said- ale to b be fear nr of or Captain Kidd that caused the to to the mainland or Connect Connect- cut How much more mOI valiant to have ha remained need faced time the pirate and donand do- do nand a tt share rp of Ills His Ils ninety bars of gold I F Ills Ils mone money manifold And uncontrolled But Dut Chic have l ne never cr been beon accused of a avarice They fhe have in e been blessed lessed both in basket and store John of or the second A generation had hud SOO sheep CO 50 0 caUl cattle 32 horses slaves la and 77 ji ounces ot or wrought plate From him ilm in direct In line de descended John ohn Walworth orth one erie Ole of the founders of Ohio who died In 1St If I Benjamin the youngest l fon son of John son on or of the thA Pilgrim had hod been leen possessed of that foresight which I Is I often otten a as good as gold his lila po posterity terl 1 might have ha been rolling in wealth but as that is not always the thc most mot d thing In life It Il is perhaps just jUNt n ns am well troll wol that lint he missed I It sO I d to speak It I was this timis a way tray After 4 sering ser sert lug ing ng as os quartermaster In the rp I tion kt lon let him bo be b. b remembered for this thin I and not berated for fOl the possible guild gold Jd J I h he 10 missed missed lie he removed to New Nets pw York lork state and the lie whole site ie of what ot I Inow Is Isnow isnow I now t tIP o cl city of or Troy 0 was wa offered ord to him for tor 2000 Its Ii not worth It IC he hC declared 1 and all although u h the Illus Illus- 1 Is not as af apt a aw as it I might be bp t I Il l like e Goethe's Goethel Charlotte Charlote WA was It I It Goethe's who went on cutting broad bread I and butter buter hl while her iu r OT over was carried car car- cr- cr ried tied on n a R shutter Benjamin wont vent on on stcl steadily grinding corn cor at his mill mi and anti I undisturbed b by dreams of oC castles In Inthe Inthe inthe the air or In fro Troy roy He had Lie tio luck to marry matr his first sweetheart no sweetheart w no other other oth oth- er or is quite equal to her hel lie le had I however howe first frt to see her the tho tw w Ife of oC Captain Card ll but upon his hl taking 0 off Hyde became Benjamin Benjamins I and it is down In the r records that she the was beautiful i The have always alwa's ben been bravo brave men true patriots patriot and firm friends oC nr liberty They sl served ell r In inI et e every war vai Tho They wed were of oC tho thon o In I New Neit ew England who t sat faw v a quito Culo enough Indian in lighting t to make makl thu the text I a n re iest l for the people peo peo- I plo pIc of a great favorite ta On the tho Groton monument in the tho l list t of heroes heroes he he- roe roes martyred at the tho tl l storming of or Fort Griswold Is the of nr Sylvester Walworth ral grandon of William tho the first Ho H C Sarah srah Holmes anil anO II I th the poor POO willow widow was waR as consoled 7 at I hits by a n neighbor un tin old oll vo 0 vos om o s m I mann n. in this wa way Why h Ut the tho poor l I LI man Il Its It's too loo bad s see ec h hi ht j has hn hit best hest clothe nil all 11 torn anti and spoiled t lut n nev nevii III r mind dear you 01 can make maket makeI t them over 01 0 and ancI the they will wil do for or yourI your OU I two little lite boys bo Sylvester S I was wag 9 tho ho 1 I son who on of John who was as cornet of a n troop troup of oC dragoons dragoon I 17 j and became captain Ii this His commission Is dated at Hartford This J Js a pretty good 1001 showIng showIng show show- hoIn ho In Ing for fOI oi the time descendants desiring to patriotic societies Of or tIme the ali pioneers of or New York lorl state one of her most souls sons was Reuben H Hyde rdo Val Wal worth thi the tho la last t chancellor of or the tho state lie Ire le was iuis born near neal the close of the tho eighteenth I century In Iii Connecticut At t sixteen he ho taught anti and ani gained a I little Latin Without much schooling ho became the gl greatest ate t Jurist of or his cIa day He lie le was also vitally Holy Interested In iii nil mill ni the Important questions making tot fur the tIme good sool of his follow fellow men inca and was chic tho president of the New Neis' York State Temperance society pr president president sl- sl dent of or the American Tl Temperance union vice Ico pre president o of tile the Bible and anel Tract society focht nut and a n member of or tho the foreign Mission society As an nn au- au nl- nl 1101 besides th the works on 01 law ho published an elaborate genealogy of ot the he Hyde family Camly 11 ills His home homo PineGrove Pine Pino Grove Gro Saratoga wits was the tho resort of oC alt all nI th the tho prominent and l learned m mon 1 of or hl lila his ca tiny day lie He 1 kept It up tip the tho military record of o the family Ills Ibis father lund had been an nit al otc J In tho the revolution and ho he wn was a a. n general n ral In the thC second war it-ar with Great Gleat Britain HI His son on Clarence a man of or profound learning was us on one of or tho thc founders Counder of nf tile the order of oc l I Path Fath ath- ath ore ers or j Jud Judge c Hydes Hyde's s 's daughter Anno Anna married mar mar- I ried the Rev Ilci Jonathan Backus of New York state who through his hits forebear the Porters I Aliens Alens Clapps GO Governor Son of Connecticut hi his descent from fromI rout I Edward I I. I of England Such Stuck names S us tl the Eat Earl of oC Hertford and nul Lady I do de Neville It appear upon this I family Of or one on Abigail the widow of or a R Walworth Wal Wa- I worth It Is written that she lio he lived hit I II I eight forty h years cars after the thC decease of oC I Ir r her h husband and never I. married n again aln which was wa unusual hi ll an age Ig where not only em early hut but hast hasty 1 frequent anti and late marriages were the tho rule attributed to Tue hA arms anna reproduced o William Wilam the Pi Pilgrim Is 11 blazoned gule gulett a bend n argent he between eol two H garl-H arl wheat sheaves nhi-aves or ci I CI r a cubit arm vested el or cuffed argent arnt the tip lined hand grasping a clag dagger cro rued gules anti and hilt hi or tit Mot Ito 0 o. o Si for flu rf th the Laws LawS Thoo Those who 0 o procure family genealogical 1 In Information ion pedigrees or lineages should corr correspond spona with tIme tho th Genealogical Society of Utah Anthon II hi I. I Iun Lund president Historians Historian's Ills His torian's toran's alle S Salt lt Lake City Miss 15 Lexington has published about OO rami family and can supply copies cople at a nominal price List of or tItles title lt sent for Cor ten ton cents Research work orl undertaken ln antI and blazon of ot of coats arms In their itch proper colors s a special feature felure Address 8 Miss Mis I l Lexington C cato caro- The Tho 1 Inter Inter- Republican or CO 14 East Twenty thud d street Now oW York Cl City |