MEMORIAL
111: ·1 HE F.\:.IIL\" UF
FORSYTH DE FRONSAC
ll\' - - FREDERiC GREGORY FORSYTH DE FRONSAC
ll l'ltESS c,r S. J. l'Al \\'e are indel,tcd to the rnurl<.'~1· Ill the Dana Estes Co. iur lour electros: to the JJonaiiot: \la~azine for two, and to tiu.: l'lant Stt:an,ship c·o. iur 1>11e. "' ~ ~· ~· LO-YA~-'A-LA MORT[:1 --'\,.~ ~--,.... "-'·, -·~""::,., -~ ...-:~· ·--~- .>RMS OF "0R5YlH OF FAILZERTON .:.RMS OF FORSYTH OF TAILZERTON CC11_,...,t.,. St•rliflg, Sco11and , ~ \ - Tl1e l,l;i, ]; l\\"•lieadcJ ,; heen adUed the •....:r~:--t ,-,1~h: ,,i the l ;1rl\1\-i11 and motto uf the L,il :_:1,;11 ! ) \.'l\;L:,.,t\', \\ it Ji l'I 11" 1ennn hranch as repre •ll t:I lwl\\t_TI; Lhe he~,d ..... 1Putr;; _,e11ti11g the eldest line. \\ ,l .... t\H.'. ,;B:--il..!,11 i ,,11 di,e 1 .tgk· in tl1i:-; il111:-. C ',dh::ge. in r,,;s. \\,\li•,1L ~u \\hi1·h ha\e 'r (' ....~--'""·· c;i:~s nF FORSYTH OF THE FIRS ARMS OF FORSYTH OF THE COUNTIES of Cromarty and El!;tf'I, Scotland. ARISTOCRACY Page 260, Voi. Ii, of Professor Laycock's ".Jfiml and Brain " reads: "The highest evolution of what I have termed ' Primordia Instincts' is seen in the communistic instincts of two classes of animals which are at the head of their respective archetypal branches : viz., the social insects - the most highly developed of the invertebrate; and the social man - the most highly developed of the vertebrate. In truth, the family instincts are the solid foundation of society. Hence it is, in proportion as they are active in a nation, in the same proportion is its social organization vigorous and complete." ARISTOCRACIEi are formed by Nature, by the general advancemeni of the fittest. This is accomplished gcncalog-i cally, and gene::ilogy is the science on \vhich arisiocracy rests. From the study of genealogy arises the science of heredity, of the science of psychic transmissions. Nobilities, on the other hand, :ire nut formed by Nature, but are recognitions, by man and his gon::rnment, of aristocratic products. Nobility and aristocracy are not always the same, yet they are related. An aristocracy does not exist in \'i_g-nr without producing a nobility, and a nobility, even though at first formed (Jf unaristocratic products, if continued in a proper 111a11ner, makes itself respectable and conse1Tati\·e. Uf aristocracy, though containing different elt·111,_·nh, there is but one description. It is an organic body, in a community, bred to eminence and renown by many generations ,,t hunor abk career and exaited position. Of nobility there are three formations: I, by the sword; II, by the pen; III, by landed estates; in other words, by tal ent recognized in individuals, regardless •>f family cunnection, iii !\' 11, 111 state-craft and scienn:; and I 11, in long tcrrit,,rial st1L·cessH111. ,'\rist<>na,')· gi\·es the nrtll grou11d-11·ork of character, nobility, the transit"r\ rnark "t disti11ctiEv11. The ancient king was not ,ti ways f r"lll the 111, ,st ,:111 i 11L·11t t;1 rn ii y, and when the king gT;u1ts titles l<> his sen·ants aristonacy is tkstroyed. The arist<1nacy has always, on this account, held itself superiur tu any <>rder of nobility that is nut founded 011 aristocratic 1irrnlill't-.:l --·- -··• The aristocratic power in famili,:s, in a state makes itself 111a11ifest by creating a little kingdom for each of the families. This iittlc kingdom, erected on a few acres of land, and known as the fan1iiy estate, is cherished, bv the n1embers of that tatllily, as a territory peculiar to itself. A. family estate is cliffe1e11t, in this respect, from the l'.state of any particular rich man, "r c,,rp<>ration. The arist I Who says the knight shall come amain, With gilded mail and trappings vain, His pride in pomp alone to glow, For wealth, his energy o'erflow? They estimate his worth too small, Who think that virtues near him pall: - It is by them alone he lives: They are the gems of Chivalry. II They form the charge he honors most: They give to him his proudest boast : Their honor, gentleness and grace Shine, like the sunlight, from his face. With frail timidity removed, By them his worth to Valor proved, Theirs is the name for which he strives To gain the fame of Chivalry. rrr Such is the need of every state : Without it all its days are late. So faintly shines their light of dawn, That night and day seem almost one, And deeds of darkness hold their sway, When Honor has not strength to stay And Honor in some form must brood, Or else there's never Chivalry. V \'I IV '!'hat forn1 Hurnanity must own, And person is the seed that's sown. From seedling must the flower expand - (;rass seed but grasses can command, .-\nd roses ne'er descend to grass, Though frequent soiled and torn, alas! And ruined in the course of life, A_nd so declines their Chivalry. V But children of the rare rose born, If Chivalry their lives adorn, Have in them all that generous mood, Whose ceaseless virtue keeps them good. No moth, corrupting, mars thei, state: Misfortune cannot make them hate A noble cause - though beaten ill: It is the cause of Chivalry. VI Let knighthood only be for those \Vhose fame is like the rare, white rose - To lead them to an honored state ; - Those men, whose lives are true and great: Whose deeds, though crowned not, like Success, Reach hearts by motives pure and bless Them with a love of right that's strong And 'stablished as their Chivalry. F. G. FuRSYTH oi;: FRoNSAC. CII.-\RLE~l..\ 1:or 1:()IC,1·T11 l>I·: F1w:s:s.\C : Sec pa:..:e 7. ...._·,., . Flll. f1,1{~\'TII OF '('_\11./Fl{Ti)\;, F.\!!.l':E!{Tt)~: . .-\.:\'I) TlfLIH • ll 1,- 1:1{ 1:-., 111-:,: ()11 a shield argent, a che1·cn1n en:..:railed .:..:ulcs. l,et\\'ecn 3 .:..:rif1i1" "::..:reant. 1·ert. ar 111ed and 1neml,ered .:..:ules. C1(1:., I' F<>I( T.-111.11-.1no:s:: .\ demi-:_:ritiin. n:rt. armed and 111c111hered :..::ulc;-,, Cl(l•:,r !-'()I{ F.111.Li-:1n,,,: ..\ griffin head l,etween t11·" win:..:s. dis i,L1 yed 1·ert, beaked gules. h,r 1:111 LTtH\'IIUI. ur. HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF FORSYTH DE PART I- HISTORY ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY AND RACE :--1'i 1: i~ name Fors,zt/1, atterwards For.1)'//1, is first 111enti11ned 111 Froissart's Chronicks uf the Middle :-\ges in the chapkr de\·oted to the in\'asinn of A.quit::1.11ia in ! 344 by th:: Eng·lish army of the Earl 11f Derby, who commanded in the na1m: of the Fren,ch family of l'lantag\:net 1111 the Eng ]i,-,h tlm11ll.: in their :tttempt, as lk,-,n.:11da11ts tr,,111 tlh: :111c·ie11t king,-, ,,f Franc·e, t,, pt1s,;e,-,,; tht:msc·l\'es 11f the thr,111e 11t Vra11L·c· al,-,()_ :-\II the manuscripts of Frnissart in the 1-:nglisl, Collection spell the na111e F11rsath, and Forsathe. The: tra11s lati11n 11f two manuscript L·opies in the French Collection spL'II the narne Forsz.ch and Torsach.* As Froissart, the historian, was in the sen·ice of the l'lantagenets when he wruti: his Chr11nicks ;ind as the best and 1111,st numerous of his i\ISS. rcmai11L'll in England and are the ,,riginab, the\' art: the ones most worthy tu bt: cons1dtcd. l,d (;.. ntlltlc.· J:~ll(i't:lofltlit· lit' /· ..rtl11t·c.• describes i-1-on.rac ~s an ancient district uf France in ,--\quitania, bordering ,,n the Ri\'t'.I" Uordogne; its hist(lry reaches back to the Ruman peri11d. This history says that a L·astle --- which is discu\·crcd in l;r(lis,;art tu ha1·c be,:n !Elmct! Furc;ath -- \\'ZiS built I,) tht: * I )1,uhtle:-.s tlic ("Olllllleutator forgot the m.trk which make:-, a .;} an -J in hi:-. \I.~. h111•n,,, Ch:1rlemag11L· in 76X ()I\ the Tertre (ur hill) "t Fr THE RACE fltt· Fr,11tks were an army of knights and nobles of cliffer t:nt Europt:an races conkderated togdher. Although the gTcatt:r number of them were of (;ermanic urigin,,yet senti ment rather than kinship was the basis of their organization. The 11a111e Fr,111/, meant ·•_ji·l'l'" -- not in the modern sense of free, i. ,·., not enslaved, but in the ancient sense "f Jin', i. t·., !1 {~/'ll/i"/,\'/1/ rlta! is tlj>j>,!lli,~~r, l ·+ + J 11 the line "f Charlernagm.: and descended from the tir,;t Seigneur de Forsath, \'icornte de Fronsac, was: The CADET DE Fo1 Kinu-,c, --Henrv---./ ---·I I I His son: \Vru.lAM DE Fnr [In q92 the arms of Forsyth, baron of N ydie, appear in the Heraldic ll1S. of Sir James Balfour, Lyon King of Arms for Scotland. The arms are described as: ·· Gules, a cheveron engrailed argent, between 3 griffins segreant or." Again, in the /l-£S. of 1603, the arms of Forsyth of N ydie are given as: .. Or, 3 griffins segreant azure, armed and mem bered vert.'· In Sir David Lindsay's MS. of 1 5.p, "argent, a cheveron engrailed g;ule, between 3 gritnns segreant vert." The last of this branch uf the family recorded in Fyfeshire as holding the barony is Alexander Forsyth, baron of N ydie in I 60.J.. J RollERT DE FORSYTH, son of \Villiam, the Crown officer at Stirling, obtained the barony of Dykes in Co{mty Lan ark. His name is attached as witness to a charter, in r429, of Robert Keith, Earl Marischall of Scotland. His sons were : John (below) and Thornas, canon of Glasgow in FURSYTll UE FRONS.-\C 7 J W:.lS: D ..\.\'11) llE FOl \\'11.r.1 \:\t FtiJ RE\', J.UIES Fo1{S\'TH,* of Tailzerton (son of John ancl Mis,; Li\·ing,-;tlln, Forsyth, see p. :-;). inhcrited the land,; (If Tailzerton and Kibyth Easter fr.,m hi,; nwther. ! le 11·:is minister to thc church at Airth in 1661, and t() that at Stirling in 1665. He rnarriecl, rst, a daughter and heiress ".\ct. Scot. l'arl. ( 1!>/H-5). t (;eneral Armory ( Burke), c•ide Bruce and Airth. l{ev. James Fors; th '"" a famous preacher. .Sermons p11hlished at I .ondon, 1(X>l). t Ret. Scot. Abbrev. Ing. Spec. Stirling ( 2771, Sept. r, ,1,7(,: .. Here, tallia et pro visionis Magistri Jacobi f"orsyth dt: Tailzertoune1 magistri volii I>ei apud eccle-.,ium clL· Stirling . . . in terris de Polinais, vocatis Polinais-Tai!zertoun pro pri11cipr1.li. kr· ,·is de Kils) th: Easter in speciale warrantum earuntlam." ') I lJ FORSYTH DE FRONSAC l,il.,,tli, tlic Far! ,>f Mar hl'ing- the con\'enor (1685;. In 1n96 11,· :--al 111 ]';1rlialllcllt, as " Forsyth 1>f Cavel!." Childre11 :1ill•l"l") \\';[:-, h1>J"ll 1(>87: !--;1":llltL"tl freedom uf (;lasgo\\", 1735; 111;11-riul 1•:lspd, daughkr ot ( ;cranl of \ \'alkl'rhill, 1/llllly .\l>enlcL·11. A son 1\"as: \\'11.1.1\~1 1"01c-;\·T11, born lJeL·e111ber 18, 1721; .;ranted free cl1>111 11f (;lasgow, 1740; married Jean, daughter of Ceorge i'hyn11,f i .ord ot the ( ·orse of \l()nelly. Issue: 1. (;corg1·, born April 2, 1756; married a Miss Tay lm>ok. ,., ll'i/liam, horn .-\pril 5, 1756. I {is daughter mar- ried l'rof. Means, D.lJ., and was mother of Rev. \ \'. ]\'leans, U. D., ()f Dishlair, County Aberdeen. 3- .·11,Tlllldo-,s horn NO\·ember 1 7, 1 758. --1-- James, born June 23, r 759; Captain of Dragoons; married A1111, daughter of John, 9th Baron Col ville. I/ 5. Tl111m,1.r, horn March, 1761, presented by Lord Nelson, February 2, 1802, with his picture, 1ww at the i:.-111q. :---pL'c. :--itirli11~ 13-J..?J, .\pril .-?h. 1(ut41: "lleres ta!lia et provisionis, J~tcoUi 1 h,r .... \·th .. 1li.i~ Bruce de c ;,L\'ell. p.Ltri'.', in terri~ de l'olinai~ hunc vocatis l'oli11ais-Tail- 1.t·1 t,111t1 pr11 p1incip,di. ct in .,peciak warr;L11t11m e,Ln111da111 in terris de Kilsyth: l·:.l-.tt:r.'' ~ l•:u·k·-...i.:-1L'i_~ :\l~S.: ( rl·--.t ot 'L1illL'rto11. ,L de111i-grittln vert,armed and membered gu. \I otto " l~1· ... t.tur.ttor I\ 11i11icu:." 1 ~ .\notlwr d:111gliter of f ;L'I'- l liy1111 \\CL., 11111tlier to l{iglit 11011. Ed\\anl El lice, \I. I'. § hcle,.~r,·ig )[:-;,-;_ ]! li11rke·-. l'L'er,1ge ll.'ulvilleJ. FOl{S\'TH DE F RONS.-\C I I Robbins, R. A. He was Cc,lonel of l\'Iilitia Issue: a. \Villiam, died unmarried. b. James Bell, born December 25, I 803; married in i828 Fanny, daughter of the Hon Matthew Bell of (Juebec, whose father ancl grandfather were of Berwick on Tweed, and had : 1, Col. Joseph Bell (see p. So), 2, John Bell and James Hell died young, 3, Fanny Bell, mar ried Jul11t Burstall of Quebec [whose chil dren are John Forsyth Burstall, London and Quebec, z,ml Capt. Harry Burstall of the Royal Canadian Artillery in I 90 3, se1Ting with the South African Constabulary in com mancl of the District of Rustanburg, Trans vaal. He has been mentioned four times iur bravery ancl coolness in the fields, espt.:cially by Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchent.:r], 4, Frances, 5, Edith, 6, Amy, 7, Alice, 8, Mabel Kate, married John G. Ross t)f the H ighlancls. c. Eueretta Jane, married \Villiam Forsyth of Ecclesgreig. ,i. John Richardson of Kingston, returned t1, the fam ily house at Huntley, ,vhich he inherited. I fe married his cousin, I ,ouisa Forsyth, and Ins i"sue. ,. Mary Ann, married David Burnet, Maj11r of * Record of Services of Maj. Rubert Forsyth, 6oth Rifles. No. 73;3. F. 2q. \\'ar Office. London, England. 1..: FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 6~ th Foot, I 7 8 5 ; 7 2d Foot, I 78 5 ; Lieutenant 7 2d F1111t, I 78 7 ; Captain I I 2th Foot, I 79 5 ; 2d Batt;Lli(ln 90th hJ()t, I 795 ; 6oth Fout, I 795 ; Major 60th F()<>t, I 797 ; retired from service by the sale of his commission, March 6, r 802; died 1824. <). /)a,•zd,"' b,irn September 2, I 767; married a Miss Jackson, uf Kendall, \Vestmoreland, England. Issue: a. \Villiam, married Susan, daughter of Judge Leigh (sister of Maj. H. Leigh, 98th Foot), of Madras l'rt:sidency. b James, Lieut. R.A.. c. Ce< ,rge. d. Henry. ,·. Emily, married \Villiam Skinner, Barrister, nephew "' Ecc!e~greig :\!SS. FORSYTH OF ECCLESGREIG CASTLE COUNTY KINCAR0INE, SCOTLAND [ Lly royal license the Forsyths of Ecclesgreig added the nam~ , it <;rant in I 82-J., and quartered the Grant arrns \vith that of Forsyth, l J1mN FfrnsYTII, see p. ro (s,m i)f \\.illiarn :t1HI Jean Phynn), was b()rn lJecember 8, 1762. He c-1111e t<> ::'\In\· Yurk about the liegi1111ing of thl.:' American Re,·,,luti<>n. but would nut n:nuunn· his allegiance to the king, a11d was ,H1t: .,f the United Empire Loyalists who settled in M"ntreal bdore ,786. He was in partnership there as a ship-fl1\'t1er a11d foreign merchant with another United Empire Ll)y,llist, Hlln. John Richardson, President of the I ,achine Ca11:1 I c·, •nstruc• tion Company. He married Margaret, daug-hkr flt Charks Grant, third son <>f (;rant, Laird of Kinworth. ChildrL·n: r. l/-'illiam, born Februan· 10, 1Ko4; suLTeL·detl hi,.. uncle, Frederic ( ;r;t11t. t" the L'states "i EL·clc,-, gre1g; married Eucretta, daughter .,t J,,sqlh Forsyth, Kingston, Canada. Issue: a. Frederic (;rant, born September 2, 1 S36; Cap tain 3d Hussars, A.U.C to His Evellcncy, the .\larquis of Lorne, Cm·ernor-( ;eneral ,,f C:111ada; afterwards A.. D.C. to Her }lajcsty <_JueL'll \'iL· t,iria; married Margaret, daughtn 11f ( ·"1. \\'illiam A. Orr, C.H., l{obin~un, Jjeut.-(;o\·ernor of { }nta1 i1>, and sl)n <1f Sir John Bt:\t:rky Robinson, Bart. d. ( ;t:(Jrgt: Jamt:s, horn March 7, I 847. ,·. Annie ( ;rt:gl)ry, marriL'd \\'illiarn ( )wen llridgL' st()ck, Ccttydp-yl, Carmarthenshire, \Vales. /. Eueretta Alice. 2. _folt1t Hla,·/,,",t'Ood, born November 2 I, 1805; mar ried Mary, daughter of Samuel Gerrard, of Mon treal. Issue; a. John Gerrard, Major S 7th Foot ; see p. 8 7. b. Frederic Arthur, born April 2, I 830; Captain 5th t'\1s ileers, after\vards Lieut.-Colonel. r. Margaret, born March 6, I 83 r ; married Rev. C. N. \\'illiams, M.A., Rector of St. Andrews, Heresford, England. d. Eueretta Vivian, born December 8, I 8 3 1. 3. _fa11c, married Capt. (~eorge Gregory, 19th Light Dragoons. ~,.. i - ·- - .-\HMS UF FUl{"i\'TII UF 'fAll.ZEKTUN .\RM~ UF FUK:-i\111 UI· F.\IJ./.l-:H!11r,.. FORSYTH OF FAILZERTON, COUNTY AYR \VALTEI{ Fo!{SYTII (son of John, see p. 8) was l'rn\·ost of the College and Subdeaneries of Glasg(Jw, mentioned in the Acts of Scottbh Parliament for 1678. He married Mar guerite, daughter (Jf Capt. James Fursaith, of French marinL·, by Marguerite Denys, daughter of Go\'. 0J'icolas Denys, Vicornte de Fronsac in Seigneurial Order of Can;1da. I Ii,; sons were James and Alexamler (see p. r9). JAMES FoRSAYTII, born Ayrshire, 1678, captured during King William's Irish Campaign (at age of 1 3 years), with a relative who fa,·ored the cause uf the Stuarts. He himself in 17 I 5 was said to ha\'e been a captain in the Earl ,,f l\brr',; uprising; for the Stua-rts and obliged tu kave the country with his family, going te Ireland. His wife was ;\fargaret, daughter I 5 16 FORSYTH DE Fl{ONS.-\C "' I I 11gl1 :\-l1,11tgomnic, Ill County .A.yr, Maj11r 11f R"yalist ( ·a,·alry, who had ht:cn a "Sig·11cr fllr tlw King 111 1660." Ilis cliildre11 wcrc: I, Matthew (lidow); II, .-\lnarnkr; Ill, 1"11"mas, 1,t C"t1nty l"llrk (sec p. 22). l. 1111;--.;_ :\I.\TTIIEII·,* born County Ayr, 1699 (sec p. 6:-:); n1arriL'.d Esther, daughtcr of Robcrt (;raham. He clinl 1790. I I is children werl' : 1. l\hTTIIEI\', burn m ln:bnd, was a Loyalist and WL'.nt off as a physician in thL'. Royal Navy. 2. IJA\'in,t born in Ireland. J<..nsign in Chester Company, 1st New Hampshire Regiment; wounded, TicondL'.roga, and died May 2r, 1778. 3. JuNATII.-\N,:f: born in Ireland. Soldier in Chester Com pany, 1st New Hampshire Regiment; killed, Ticonderoga, Ju Iy 9, r 7 77. 4. EsTJIEI{, died unmarried. 5. \V11.r.u11-r,§ born in Ireland, 1740. Ensign in the Royal l'ro1·incial Regiment, 1763~7; married Jane \\'ilson (see p. 7 1 J. He died in 1808. His children were: a. Matthew, st.:ttled in what is now Manchester, N. H. b. James, a physi-cian, an alumnus 1Jt Dartmouth C11lleg-e, a s•in of whom, Ur. F. F. Forsyth, was one of the founders of the \ Veymuuth (_Mass.) Historical Society, and a co11triliutor to the History of \\'eymouth. Ua1·id, Captain "f the Deering Rifles. d. Thomas,11 born September r, 1775 (see p. 72). _,, •··t.hase'..; lli:-it. of Che:-iter,1' pp. 524, JC'tJ, 12j, 121), 130, q.o, I-J2, LH,, 152, 25q, -tsb, <,21. z_p; ··Town Paparo,:,.; 11.,"" \'ol XI, p. ,0,1; Vol. IX., pp. IO I le 111a1Til'd Sallil' !'ray.* I I is l·hildrl'n 11·L-rl': 1. Janl', burn 1810, marriL·d R. I'. llbky, ui l'"rt land, whuse daughtt;r, Elizabeth, married Hun. Boise de V L'.ber, M. I'. and l\'byor of St. John, N. B., in I 886. a cil',;L'encbnt ()f Cul. (;abrid de Vebn of thl' l'rincl'. uf \\'ales: American Rq;iment of 17 76-8 3. 11. !la111iltlll1, born 1812. Army of TL'..\as, 1834. Captain on staff of GL'.n. Mirabl'.au B. I~zlinl, ,-. I)icd, (;al,·csron, I 8 39. lit. Sarah .-\1111, born 1815, married, a,; :-il'C :t. '· :-ial~ine's American !.oya.li:,b" \ Hamilton i. ~ote. - ~allie Pray, born 17jS ...\dmiral Pray, born li-1-"· :\lary 11.unilton. born 17bo. Colonel llamiltun. born dOOUI 173;. FOl .\lbcrti11a, daughter 11i Capt :-\lbt~rt Jewett, 11f l'ortb.nd; their daughter Albertina mar ried !Jr. l\facalkster, 11f Honolulu. 1·11 ( ·arnline Aug·usta, bllrn I 823; married James .-\lbert .\[auiahh, ,it (;reenuck, SL-1Jtb11d, a CCJllsin , ,f Sir .-\. N. Macnabb, of Canada. c. l<.11bcrt, wlwse Sl!lls WLTe Samuel C. and Rudney. f J l!siah, b:trristn at ( ;,>ffstu~vn, an alumnus ui 1)artnwuth C()lkge, wlwse sun, Hon. \Villiam I.., is justice oi the Boston l\lunicipal Court ( I 896). K· l Iannah, married a Mr. Paige. 6. RoBEl ..., .. , lu-..L'·-.11i ... t. t'he-,,ter,'' pp. 11S, H+-J-f.1>; ·· l'ro\illtial l'aµ:..:r~. N. H .. " \'ed. \'IJ, p. _;-;.;: .. l"o\\ll l'.1pe1:,;, N fl.," \"ol. .\Ill.. pp. 1qt,, l'}S, 751; \'ol. \.I., pp. po, 1iX5. I" t 11,L..._t'·.., lli:-.t. 1·1u:~ter," pp. 211. 11,, 1S;, -f5/, 11;0: ··Town Paper:-.,:'\. II.," \"ol. .\i.. p. ;a~:·· ~t;itc i'ap~r .... , \.II .. "\ ul. .\I., p. :;15. ,~ :i'-_., .-\1u,t::, uF Fv1c--.\ ru ur 1:_\11.1F1, 111, FORSYTH OF BOSTON CAPT. ALEXANOER FORSYTH, son uf \\'alter, Provost of Glasgow College and Subdeaneries, by wife, his cousin, Mar garet, daughtt:r of Capt. James, and l\larguerite ( Denys tit: Fronsac) Forsaith (see p. 1 5), was born, Failzerion l\Ianour, Ayrshire, 1689 (see p. 77), prominent in Boston Chronicles; married, 1st, Miss Elizabeth Evans, of Boston, December 1 2, 1717; 2d, Miss Deborah Briggs, also of Boston, about 1 730. Returned to Ayrshire, Scotland, with his wife Deborah, and son John, in 1763. His children, born in Boston, were: I. Alcxaudcr, burn ( ktuber 20, 172 I. IL kobcrt, born August 18, 1723. 2() FORS \'Tff DE FIWNS.\C 111 J,,/111, h11rn Junl' X, 1726; dil"d September X, 1727. I\·. _/, 1/111, IH>lll N .. ,.L·111her 5, 17 3 I (see below). /""·' 1:"""1T11, ""ll 111 l':1pt .·\k-xantkr, as ahon.:, tilled ,,·\·,·1:il 11Hin:s in B11sto11, in the public trust, bdurc returning t" .\y1c,llll'L', SL·11tland, ·,l'ith his i:1ther a11d mother in 1763, ;1m1111g thL'lll hl:ing that ot sur\'L'_l' ! !. .Julm lltliiii'l!un, horn March 9, 1842, superintendent, B11ston Heiting Co111p:111y. WILLIAM FORSYTH FORS \'TH UE FRONS ..\C 21 III. Anne Jane, born November 18, 1843; died Septem ber 7, 1848. IV. .Jla1;r;,ird Bomdt, born August 24, 1845 ; died April 8, 1 890. V. .Jfa1y Eli:::abct/1, born December r 1, 1847; died September 5, 1848. VI. _/t111w; Hm11ctl, horn February 2, 1850 (Seep. 73), general manag·er, Host()n Belting Company. VII. 7/unnas .,-J/,xandcr, born April 12, 1852, manu facturing ag-ent, l1{>~tnn I!elting l\,ni pany. VII I. C-'e01;r;-,· Holl)', horn November 27, 18 54, assistant manager, Hoston Belting Company . .\KMS OF JL\M~l.'1'1,N l ~ee pp. 20, j2 and So) .-\1<>1' UF BENNUT E.\Rl.S T110~11s,"' dil'.d in C11rk, I rd and, i11 1 16,'), ,,, 111 ()I Capt _1 aml'.s (:-,eL' p. I 5 ). l\bry. hi:-; l\'idull', s11n i\ul him, ka\·ing a pri\atL' ,·state. lssul'.: 1. N,,110·1, ml'.1-chant in ( ·, ,rk; married l 'atheri1w, daughter of Thomas Campion, Esq., and had : a. T110~1.,s, married Mary .\1111, relati,·l'. of St. John (;rant, ,,f Kiln111rr;1y, Fl'.rnwy. Issue: 1. R/1/Jcrl, b,m1 I Ko7; l'llrak in Bristol; marril'.d r::11111)' ----; died I K40, k:l\·in!-: ;1 daughter, Frat1L'l'.S Jane, author of poems "Armos \\_r,...,.. •• ,.,_. '' II Y &.-1.LL-l ,,. 11. Tlwmas (;fjford, born I 808 ; H.M. Attache to the Embassy at Morocco; musician and poet; married 1st, Rose D'Aguilar; 2d, • .-\nus of Failzertou continued to this fan1ily: Crest; a griffin's head between two wings displayed, vert. ~lotto: "l.11ynl nu .lfort." 22 FOKSYTH DE FRONSAC 23 Lucy H., daughter of Colonel O"Tuuk. uf \\'ickluw. 111. Catltcrinc. 1,·. "limy. \'. J(1/m Br,rba::;01t, artist, settkd at Bunbury. \Vestern Australia, in r845. \·i. E!i:::a. 2.Jolt11, born 1735; Pensioner at Trinity College, Dublin, 1749; Fellow r762, with dq~Tee of U.l>.; Arcbcicaeon of Cork, I 781 ; fine classical scholar ; died unmarried, 1 78 I. 3. Jfargard, died unmarried. 4. Samuel, entered H.M. Customs Servin.: at Curk. 1752; appointed by the \'icen>y, Inspector c;en eral of Customs for Ireland, Duhlin, July 24, 1776; married Margaret--; died 1801; buried at St. Ann·s, Dublin. Issue: a. Jom,, A.B., appointed Vicar o{ Leighn11Jney, March 30, 1826; priest at Cloyne, Sept. 29, I 786; in 1803 was "Threshers Lecturer" in Cork; died Sept. 16, r820; buried at St. Nicholas, Cork. He married :\nne C.iurtL-nay, and had: i. Tlwmas, educated at Trinity College, where he distinguished himsdf by ciassical attain ments; barrister at law; Queen's l·mmsd; Recorder of Cork; died 1879. 11. ,\amuel. iii. Robert. 1v. Clwr!ottc. v. l,-Villiam. vi. Joltn, Curate of Upper Sham.Ion, Cork. b. RonEI daughter ui Hugh Evans; Esq., uf Cashel. He was author of the '' History of our Loni alld Saviour." Issue: 1. S11mud, settled in Halifax, N. :--i. Captaill ill the British ,\rmy there. ii. Robat. 111. N id1tlrd .lf11rti11, ,\, studied medicine in Dublill and Edinlrnrgh; degree of M. D., Edinburgh, 1827; degree of Surgery, Glasgow, 1828; at Hotel Dieu alld other hospitals, Paris; settled at Templemore, Ireland; married Kate Cravell, daughter of \Vm. Chadwick, Esq., of Ballinard, Tipperary; his chilclre11 were: l{ichard \Villiam, who entered H.1\:1. Mili tary .Service ill r 863, served ill India; retired in r 884, as brigade surgeon and lieutenant-colollel; married Mar garet, daughter uf Rev. ]. Baird, had issue : Amy, Kate, Gonion \Villiam, Noel Francis, settled at \\'hitechurch House, Cappagh, County \Vaterforcl, Ireland. Kate Frances. John C. C., entered medicai profession; died of fever in forest of \Vest Africa while employed in an expe dition, JanL" I~., ,narried I)r. l{obert 1". Hus ton, ll0 ISSlle. iv. _/01!11, L'omma11eled the "Indian Queen" in the Merchant Marine, and made the shortest *'.\;u11ed for Iii" 1111de Col. l\iclianl Martin. :'\I. I'., nf Ba!!inahinch, County (;;lJwar lrela.nd, and of the ~ame family ,1:-. \lartin of T11llyra Ca~tle 1 (ialway, so cdebrated in th~ ~i11nah of lrela11d. lie wa~ tht pioneer of tlit.: leghlation against cruelty to animals in the J';trli;u11e11t of tireat Brit;lln. FORSYTH DE fKONSAC voyage then known between Li,·erpoul ,:tncl Barbadoes. ,, c. Charlotte, married Richard Martin, Esq. d. Elizabeth, married the Rev. Charles Smith. c. A daughter, unmarried. FORSYTH OF CROMARTY AND ELGIN JAMES FoRSYTII, 3d son uf William of Dykes (see p. 8) left quite a posterity, who are l'llllsiderably scattered. One llt his s()ns was : \\'1u.1AM Fot{S\'TH, of Barrnuckety, who married Jean Thomson. Their children were : I. JAMES, married at Cromarty, Sept. 20, 1720, Katherine Morison ; died I 7 39, leaving : 1. H'i/liam,* merchant and magistrate at Cromarty, born 172 r ; married, r st, l\Iary Russell; 2d, Elizabeth, daughter oi Rev. l'atrick Grant, of Duthel, Strathspey, incumbent of Nigg, Rosshire. Issue: a. William. b. Patrick. c. James. d. William. ,;. Life of William Forsyth, by Hugh Miller. 2b FORSYTH DE FRONS.·\C c. Isabella. f Margaret. All died in infancy. g. Juhn, born Crornarty, r 779; in ci\·il service of Bengal; married at Calcutta, 18 16, ;\fary Ann Farmer; his daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born Calcutta, 1817, married Henry H. Harwuocl, J.P. and D. L. for County !\I iddlese:,.;, \\'hose children are Henry \\'. Forsyth Harwood, Bar rister of the Inner Temple, editor of the (J·o,c a!ogist ( I 90 3 ), another sun, and a ciaughtt:r. It. Catharine, married Isaac Forsyth, of Elgin. z. Isabella, married Alex. Mackenzie, Captain 111 Royal Marines, and grambon uf Sir l -+· l.'°t1 FORSYTH OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. Ar.EX,\NllEI{ F, 11{S\'Tll, supposed to be son of .-\lesan der, of Elgin, meIThant and magistrate (see p. 27 ), married Margaret, daughter 11f \\'i!liam Temple, uf County ..--\berdee11, a partisan of the House of .Stuart, to which family he was related, as wdl'as tu the Barclays and Lore! Cunl.un, •>f Hunt ley. Their children were: r, Alexander; 2, \Villiam [born at Kirkpatrick, married Jane Livingston in 1788, and had 11, John, born 1789; b, Nancy, born 1792; ,·, Mary, born 1794; d, Jane, born 1796; I', Peter, born 1799; ;; Nellie, horn 1801; g, Alexan 3. Jo!t11. 4. E!i:::abctlt. 5. iVzlliam Temple. 6. Hellen. II' -==---ATOR RUINIJfE ,.' ~- - . ·. ' .. FORSYTH OF NEWBURGH, N. Y. T111 2 F.pl1r,1im, burn, I-"armingt,J11. l\k·rchant in ( ;ardinl'r, Me.; married Emily \\'illiamson, rebti,·e ,,f \\'il liamson, the historian. Childn:n: a. Martha, n~arried Charles Duren. Chebe:i. b. Alexander, born 18 7 5, Gardiner. 3. E!i:::abcth, born, Farmington, .September 3, r 813; married Henry Stone. Children : a. Lucy Augusta. 4. (r'corgc, born, Farmington, July 9, 18 1 5. Mt.:r cliant; married Rebecca, daughter of Sanrnd Ric!1anbon, of l'rincetuwn, Mass, Children: a. Harriette A., marrit:d John (Juincy Adams, of Derry, N. If., now uf Chelsea, whuse sun, \Viiiiam R., married .-\ddie, daughter of Edwin Smyth, of East Huston, and has a daughter, Hester Forsyth Adams, born I S93. b. Isabdla I nsta1Kt.:, d. s. p. ,-. \\'alter, burn, ( "helsca, married Angie E., daughtn of Capt. E. B. \\'inchester, Boston. Children : 1. Annabella, d. s. p. 11. Ernest \V., d. s. p. d. James Brander, born, Chelsea, 18 5 5, uf the ti rm i,f .Stone & Forsyth, Devonshire Street, Bi,,-;tun ; married Ruth, daughter of Capt. Uiiton ~ ,r Blanchard, U . .. J. " • 5. Aknmdcr, born, Farmington, r8 r9. farmer. 6. IVi!!iam, born, Farmington, 1822, d. s. p. II. Jo1IN, born, Aberdeen, 1791. He c1me to l\e\\'burgh, N. Y., where he married Janet Currie. Children: 1. Jo/m, Doctor uf Divinity and LL. l>., t.:ducatcd :tt Edinburgh. l'rofessor at Princeton Cc,lkgt.:, i\'. Y., and Chaplain at U.S. Military Academy, \\"est Point; died r 88 i, \\·ithout issue. 2. Robert .i.lc.mudcr, born, Newburg-h, N. Y., 1814; FORSYTH DE FRONSAC n1arried ( "harlottc Pierson, daughter of San1uel Williams, of Newburgh; died 1873. Children: a. Mary \V., married E. A. \Vikes, of Poughkeepsie, and had Mary Forsyth and Forsyth Wikes. b. George Wallace, born 1854; married Emily Vermilye, daughter of John E. Burrill, of New York city. 3. Isabella, born, Newburgh, married Mr. Little. 4. _/milt's Christie, born, Newburgh, married at Kings ton, N. Y., Mary Catherine, daughter of Severyn Bruyn, son of Lieut.-Cul. Jacobus Severyn Bruyn. I IL THE THIRD SoN 'wvent to South America, and one of his descendants was the late Faulkner Forsyth. FORSYTH OF GEORGiA RollERT FORSYTH was born in Scotland, about 1754. He came to Fredericks burgh, \'a., before the .:\merican Re\' olution of I 776-8 3. He became interested, like so many in the Southern Colonies, in the republican philanstery, and entered the army of Congress. He became captain in Lee's Light Horse, 1776; Major, 1777; Deputy Quartermaster General of the Southern Army, I 778; and A. D. C. to General \Vashington; member of the Virginia Order of Cincinnatus, r.783; appointed U. S. Marshal of Georgia, 1786; killed in performance of duty, I 794 ; buried with funeral honors by the Order of Cincinnatus; a monument was erected to his memory at Augusta, Ga.; Congress voted a sum of money for the education of his children ; he married Mrs. Fanny (Johnston) Houston, a widow, sister to Judge Peter Johnston, of Fredericksburg, and aunt of Lieut.-Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, C. S. A. Issue : a. Robert, died, aged 19. 35 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC /, john,* born in Fredericksburg, October 10, 1780; member of Society of the Cincinnati; 1st Attorney ( ;e11eral ()f Ceorgia, 1808 ; Representative nf LT. S. ( ·ungress, 18I3-1818 ; Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain, 1019-1822; Representati\'e of l 1. S. Con gress, 1823-1827; c;o\'ernorof Georgia, 1828-1830; ll. S. Senator, 1830-18 34; Secretaryof State for l 1 11ited :-itates, 1834-1841; died in \Vashington, < ktober n, I 84 1 ; introduced the culture of nan keen cotton into America; Georgia erected a mon ument tu his mc1110ry in the Congressional Burying (;round at \Vashington; married Clara, daughter of I Ion. Josiah Meigs, LL.D., first president of the University of Ceorgia, and son of Col. Jonathan l\:kigs of the war uf I 776. Issue: 1. Julia, horn 1803; married Hon. Alfred Iverson, Judge of Supreme Court of Georgia, U. S. Senator, and general in Confederate Army. 2. JlinJ',t born 1807; married Arthur Shaaff, Georgetown, D. C. 3. Clara, born I 810; married Capt. Murray Masun, U. S. N., afterwards commodore in Confederate Navy, sun of (;en. John Mason, of Virginia, whose brother was U. S. Senator James M. Mason, and whose sister was Mrs. Sidney Smith Lee,:J: mother of Gen. Fitz-Hugh Lee (nephew of (;en. Robert E. Lee, Commander-in Chid of the Southern Confederacy); a daughter of Clara Forsyth Mason married Capt. S. B. Davis, C. S. A., living in Alexandria, Va. • · 1· JJ ginia 11 ist. Loll. ·,; ·· Whyte', 11 ist. uf (;a."; " Van Holst's Hist. of U. 5. "; ·· lkncl, and Bar of 1;., .• ·• \"ol. II., etc. The family estate in Georgia was about 50,000 .1 ...:re ..... \'vith al,out 10,000 additional in Louisiana. t .-\ 4 . .f/llt11, * born in Augusta, Ca., 1 81 2 ; member uf Society of the Cincinnati (S. C.) ; Adjutant I st Georgia Regiment in Mexicm \\'ar; L:. S. Minister to Mexico, 1856; Maym of Mobile, 1860; Confederate Cummissionl:'r l'knipotl:'ll tiary, 186 1 ; the Chief of Staff "f thl' C"n federate .-\rmy of Tennessee, l 86 3 ; and author of the '' l'rnclamation of the South to the l'eo ple of Kentucky" ; since the war editur uf .lf,h~ik N egt~lcr until his death in l /:i 7X ; he lllarried l\fargaret, daughter of Lath:1m ] lull, of Augusta, (~a., and had : 1. ( ·harles, born, Mobile, Colonel 3cl Alabama Regiment, C. S. A. ; distinguished at battles uf Bull Run, Shiloh, SL·\·en l'ines, and 11b11t1t l'etersburg; married Lrnra, daughter ol L"renzo M. Sprague, ancl had as children : r. Charles Sprague, born, ;\fobile, I 86 I. [Member of the S. C. Society of the Cin cinnati, Supc_rintenclent Becker Leather Company of Milwaukee; married Margaret, daughter of Rev. C. F. Knight, 4th Bishop of Milwaukee, their children being Elizabeth Pickering, born I 891, and John, born I 892.] 2. Elizabeth H11ntn, married Irwin 1\1. Meyer, died 1895; and 3, Margaret Angela, cliecl 1883. 5. T'irginia, married George Hargraves, had Clara F. ; married Capt. Chas. Wood, C. S. A., of Ivy, Albemarle County, Va. 6. Anna E., born I 823. •••Stevens' War between the States," \'ol. II.; "Davi}s Rise and Fall of the Southern Confederacy," \'ol. II.; '· Southern Historical Papers; Correspondence be tween the U. ~- and C. S. Governments." John Forsyth, Jr., enjoyed the ~uubriquet of " Prince of Southern Journalists." FORSYTH DE FRONSAC -;. NuJ·a .11, born 1823; married \Vm. Aubrey, uf Baltimore, afterward of Cartersville, (;a., Com missary, C. S. A. 8. No/,cr/,* born in Augusta, (~a., 1826; Captain rst lf. S. \' •See·' Correspondence between the U.S. and C. S. Governments." ~...... IN~iAlfuA,.~~ •011i~,,-~=_; ,-·~.;-. ~ -~--~-n~~~~:~•<:~~t.. FORSYTH OF ALBANY, CONNECTICUT AND NOVA SCOTIA AwrHUI< F()l a. Doughs. b. \Villiam \Vallace, married Cornelia Kane Strong, niece of Dr. Kane, the explorer, and descendant of Governor \Vinthrnp. Issue: 1. Emily Howe, married Herman Bruen, of '.\Iew York, and had Emily Howe and Herman. 11 Sarah Seymour,. married Matthias Ellis, of South Carver, Mass., their daughters Zaidee (who married Thos. T. Gaff, of c:incinnati) and Helena. iii. Russell, married Helena Annette, daughter of Henj. Davies K. Craig, of New York City, and had Beatrice. JI. T1~10-r11,·, son of Arthur, married--, and had: 1. r;eo,;i;c (hereafter). 2. Da,,id. 3. :-;1111/ord. 4. Frederic. C1-:01~<;E (as above), married Lucy, daughter of Abner Howe. He died 182 I. Issue: I. ( )r/ando. 2. .--l manda JI., born I 806 ; married Darwin Hill, of Clarkson, N. Y., and had: tl. Cornelia Frances, born 1832; married Thos. Southworth, Holly, N. Y. b. llelen Louise, born 1834; married E. Brad ford Greenleaf, Milwaukee. c. Mary Seymour, born 1836 ; married W. H. Rog·ers, Mount Vernon, 0. d. Harriet Evdyn. c. Emma Amanda. 3. kussdi. 4. l11c;v, horn 18 1 2; married Hon. J. D. Perkins. FORSYTH TJE FRONS.--\C ..J-1 5. (J·<·u1:i;-c fliullilton, burn 1 8 I 3 ; married Ju!i:i man. He died 1857. ls:-;ue: a. Lucy. b. Amanda. <·. William. 6. Anne, born 1815; married \V. M. Gorham, M.IJ .. Newburgh, N. Y. 7. Jane. .\kMS OF DENYS uE LA T111aAuD1ERE, DE FRONSAC, DE BoNNAVENTliRE. IJE \'1TRF.. llE ST. SIMON, DE LA RONDE DENSY, SIEUR DE LA THIBAUDIERE jEIIAN DElffs, born in Honfleur, France, in the early half of the 15th century, was one of the boldest, most experienced and renowned of the na.-igators uf France. He commanded an expedition to the coast of Brazil in I 504. In Dionne's H istury of New France, he is clescribecl as the '' First of the Norman French to become acquainted with the shores of Newfoundland in an authentic manner." In I 506, he pub lished, at Hont-leur, his chart of the eastern coast of Canada, Cape Breton and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. His name is inscribed in the •' Registre de Ia Charite et Confrerie de Notre Dame de Honfleur," an order founded in 1457. In the same register are the names of his son j ehan and of his grandson and great-grandson Jehan. This latter married Marguerite, eldest child of David cle Forsyth, lord of Dykes, in Scotland, and Commissioner of Glasgow in 1 594 and Vicomte de Fron sac in France. One of the sons of Jehan Denys, the explorer, was: Ft) l{:-i \'TH IJ E F l PrEKKE DEN\';,, who became established in Tuurs and \\·as Intendant of Finance for Tours. His sons were : Pierre ·Denys de la Uarodiere, a magistrate of Tuurs and cnrulled 111 the nobility, and Mathurin (below). MATHURIN DEN\'S, Sicur de la Tl1ibaud1/rc, was captain m the Royal Guard of King Henry III. It is related, that, on the 7th of May, I 589, the King, being besieged in Tours by the rebels and leaguers under the Due de Mayc111H:, \\·as St) closely pressed that he was obliged to rely fur safety on tht: ef forts of Denys, who w:is killed at his side by the lhn1sc uf a pike. Denys was buried at Saint Symphorien, a suburb uf Tours, with royal honors. He married Mlle.. ,.\_ubert, pre,;um abiy of the famiiy of Aubert, the explorer. His son was : JACQUES DENYS, Sicur de la Tltibaudi,'re, who was an officer of distinction in the army of King Henry II I, ha Ying ,;uc ceeded his father as Captain of tht: Royal (;uard. He mar ried Marie, daughter of Hughes Cosnier de Beseau and sistt:r of Emelien Cosnier, one of the "Hundred Gentlemen ()f tht: King." His sons were: 1, Nicolas; 2, Simon, ancestor of the Denys de Bnnna\.L'll ture and de la Ronde families (to follow) ; 3, Jacques, captain in the army, afterwards quartermaster-general of the armies of the King, killed at Candie, in the naval battle of tht: Vene tians; 4, Henri, killed in Italy in the regiment uf the Royal Guards. NICOLAS DENYS, Vicomte de Fronsac, son of Jacques ,as above), was born at Tours in r 598. He and his brother Simon were provided for in the inheritance of Capt. Jehan Denys and his wife, Marguerite (Forsyth) Denys, of Honfleur, which included their ancestral claims in Canada, or New France, into which country these two brothers went (see ck Fronsac succession, p. 65). He married Marguerite cle la Faye. His children were: I. Ricltard, for whose family; see n1arried .Jean l\,1er,~~u1, n, ,n-con1n1i:..;sii ,ned , ;fficer in (Jue bee ( ;arrison in 1 709, whuse children were : 11. Agathe, burn 17 1 2; b. Jean H., who married and had an only child also named Jean B. Mer DENYS, SEIGNEUR DE BONNAVENTURE s,~10:-.: DEN\'S, sl-i:fl/Cllr de la li·iniN. brother of Nicolas, \'innnte de Fronsac, was born at Tours in 1599. He came Lu Canada as Captain in the Rq~iment Carignan-Salieres, where he was distinguished in the indian \Vars. He was matk Rcn.:i\'er Ceneral for the Company of New France at <_Juehec. 1 k married, 1st, Jeanne Dubreuil, daughter of the l'r,,cureur du Roi du Breuil of Tours; 2d, Franise du Tar lr<.·. I !is l'hildrcn were: I. l'iuTe, born, France, 1630, :-.;it'ltr de la Rundt·, under which head ,;ee. 11. Charles, burn, France, 16 38, Sfrur dt· I 'itr/, umler which lwad see. l l 1. F ran~oi~_e, born I 644, 1narried Micht:l Le N euf, Scignn,r du f/oinon. FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 45 IV. Catherine, hllrn 1646. V. Paul, burn 1649, Sic1t1· d£· St.. '>'imun, under which hea Port l{oyal. f !c failed tu capture Pcn1krut, but his arrival and conquests on the coast 11i .-\caJia in 1695 * raised the spirits of the pr,; \·incials. He ddeakd the Boston man-of-war "Surlings" off St. John. In I 707 he was one of the most energetic naval commanders against the English. He married Genevieve, daughter uf Lc)uis Couillard, Sieur de I' Es pmay; secondly, Jeanne Janiere, of Hom bourg. Children : ,,. Charles, born 1687, died r688. b. Claude, ~';e1"gneur t!t· ..IJonna1, 1cJtt1tre, Chevalier of the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis, Admiral of France ; married, r 7 48, Louise, daughter of Louis Den5·s, Situr de la kunde, by wife Louise, daughter of Rene Louis Char tier de Lotbiniere, Councillor fur the King, Lieut.-(;en. Civil and Criminal. Claude was also Major of the Battalion of Isle Royal. He returnt:d to France with the French Naval and Military forces in r 760 and died from wounds received at Louisbourg. He had a son, Claude Charles (see p. 50), and daughter, Marie Louise, born, Louisbourg, I 758. I \r. .Jlarie rlngt:iiquc, born J 66 r ; married Charles Aubert. V. Claude, born 1663. \·I. Fm11roisc 7cmmc, born 1664 ; married Guillaume Bonthier; secondly, Nicolas 1)' Aiileboust, Seigneur de Menteth. l ~,tlu·rinc, born I 666 . .1/ariL· l ltarlo/t,·, born 1668 ; married Claude de Ramezay, Govt:rnor uf Montreal, who built the Chateau de Ramezay there, 1705. • Cli.lrlcvoix, ·' llb,t. de '.'\u11vdle France." F<>RSYTH IJE Fl< IX. JUSi'flt, Priest-Recollect. X. ...\rit·ulas, born 1669. XI. Pierre, born I 67 I. XI I. Jlarfr luuis,·, bum I 67 1 married l'ierre D' Aille buust, Seigneur d' Argenteuil. CIIATE.·\ll I>E JU.J\IEZAY XIII. Louis, born 1675; Simr de la Ronde; married Louise Chartier de Lotbiniere (as below). XIV. A1111c ('rsu!c, born 1677; married Fran'roise Aubert. Lou 1s DENYS IJE LA RuN OE, son as above, of Pierre, a captain of a detachment of Marines. First Captain Comman dant of troops sent by the King to Acadia. Chevalier uf the Order of St. Luuis, de., married Louise; daughter of Rene Louis Chartier Lotbiniere, Lieut.-Gen., etc., and son of Louis FORSYTH OE FRONSAC ThL'Llll(lrc: Chanin clc I.(ltbiniere, Lieut.-Gen. of the Prevote "' < luelicc fie dro,·e the English from ,-\cadia. Royal l·.11\••_i' ,-c:nt tu New England, 1711, by the Governor, Count tic ( ·"stahelle. Most likdv he is the Sieur de La Ronde 111L'11tio11cd liy (;arncau as intruducing the manufacture of salt inti! ( ·anada. Thn.:e ot his children were: i. Fm11cis Paul Dnt_)'S, born 1722; Sieur,it: la Tltibcau dz/rc, officer ; married Marguerite, daughter of Alex. Celles-Duclos, son of Gabriel, Sieur du Sail{v, Ci vii and Criminai J uclge at Montreal m 1652. Children: a. I.uuis, born --; b. Paul, Royalist, killed in War 1777; c. Marie A., born at Detroit, 1757; d. Elizabeth, born 1 76o. 11. l'it-rrc Dol)'s, born, Quebec, November Ir, 1 726, .\a;i;nmr de la Roudc, etc. (see page 5 I). 1I I. l'lulippc Dmys, Simr de la Rowle; captain of a de tachment of marines ; married, Quebec, 175 3, Louise Marguerite, daughter of Jean Baptiste Caillard, son of Guillaume, Seigneur de l' Isle et Cumte cle St. Laurent, Royal Cuuncillor, etc. Children: a. l'hilippe Ambroise, born I 7 5 3. b. Roch,bornanddied 1755. DENYS DE VlTRE l:11.-\J I I I. Clmrlcs, Sim r de T-'itre, councillor of the king; married, at Lorette, 1 700, Charlotte, daughter of Jean Chretien. Children: a. Charles Amboise, born, Quebec, 1700; died 170 I. b. Charles Paul, born 1702; died 1703. DENYS DE ST. SIMON PAUL DEN\'S, third son of Simon Denys, ~zcztr de la Tri;tit/, was Sieur de St. Simon. He was grand provost of the "Marechaussee"; married, (Juebec, 1678, Marie Made leine, daughter of Jean Dupeyras, Simr de Sa11terrc; secondly, Marie Theresa, daughter of Ignace Duchesna,y, Simr de Beau port. He died 1737. Children: I. Cat/1cri11e, born I 679 ; married Dominique Berge ron ; 2d, Guillaume Cai!larc!. II. Lo111".i-Jl,u/c/cinc, born 1681. III. Jfaric A11gcliq11c, born 1684. IV. Jfaric A11toiuettc, born 1686. V. Clmrlcs Paul, born 1688; Sag11mr de St. Sz"mon: royal councillor and provost of the Marechaussee; died 17 48 ; married Marie Joseph, daughter of Louis Prat, captain of the Port of Quebec. Children: a. Marie Louise, born 17r4; died 1717. b. Marie Angelique, born 1716. c. Jean Paul, born 171 7. d. Matheu Paul, born 1 718. c. Louise Fran~oise, born 1722 . .f. Marie Madeleine, born 1724. g. Marie Jacquette, born and died 1 729. h. Anne Charlotte, born, Charlesbourg, 1730. 1. Paul Charles, born r 733. J. Antoine Charles, born I 7 34; died at Leszanne, Hayti, I 78 S. 50 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC ,.(,_ Catherine Angelique, born I 736. l Louis Achille, born 1738. 111. Hugues Mathurin, born and died 17 39. 11. (;uilburne Mathurin. born and died 174r. \' L F!i::;abc//1, born r690; married I\lathurin Collet. \'II. {r'ui!laumc Emanud Tlll'odore, born 1693 ; Sicur de I'itr/: married Marie Joseph, daughter of Raymond Blaise Des Bergeres, captain of Marines and major-commandant at Three Rivers. Chiklren: tt. Theodore Mathieu, born I 724; captain French Royal Navy, made prisoner by the English, r 7 59, afterwards entered the British Navy as captam ; died, England. /J. Marie Noelle, born I 7 2 5. ,·. !'ierre :\farie, born i727; died 1730. VII I. .·lkm11drc, born r696; priest. IX. Jfaric .--J.11nc, born 1698; married Michd Berthier. X. Jmn, born I 702. XI. Charlotte Fraw;oise, born, Charlesbourg, I 704. CL.-\LTIH: C1r.->.1 (See p. 51) FUKSYTH DE FKUNSAC I. Cltar/cs (See below). II. A.clalle DcnJ'S de B0111mvt·ntun:, born 1832, married, 18 5 7, Emelie de Montlaur de Bonnecarere and had, 1, Olurn; 2, Marie Louise; 3, l"harles, born 1860, married M. de Chauvigny and had, "• Henry, horn 1893; b, Cuy, born 1897; c, l'iern:, born r 898. III. Eugotit· de Ru1111avcnture, burn 1834, married M. de Chievres and had, a, Zenobie de Ch it'.:nes, horn 18 59; married, r 886, the Cumte de N ucheze. CHARLES IJEN\'S nE linNNA\'ENTUH.E (as J.hiP:t:), bf1rn 1830; died 1871 : paymaster of marines at [ .a Rochelle; married Clemence de Villedon de Cuurson and had Louis (as belo\v). Louis DE;-J\'S DE BoNN~-'.. VENTUl{E, born iH6o~ counci1lur in France of the Seigneurial Order of Canada (1902-3), re siding at Aytre, Charente Inferieure; married r XXo, l\b.rthe de la Rochelrochard and has : I. Elizabeth, born r 88 7. II. Jean, born 1889. DENYS DE LA RONDE PIERRE DENYS OE LA RoNOE (see p. 48), born, Quebec, November 11, 1726. He died May 7, 177::?. His sponsors wer~ the Marquis de Vaudreuil and Ursule Aubert. He was Major in the Marines sent into Louisiana; and also Che,·a!ier of the Order of St. Louis. His mag-nificent estate was situ ated at Algiers, near New Orleans. He married, 1757, Madeleine, widow of Louis Xavier Chalmet de Lino, lieuten ant in the Marines. She was daughter of Ignace F. ell' Broutin, captain and engineer, and commandant of the Nat chez Port, by wife, Madeleine Lemaire. He was relative of the Marquis de Vaudreuil, last French governor of Canada. His children: I. Louise, born 175 8, at New Orleans, m:i.rried Col. Don Andre Almonaster-Y-Roxas (son of Don Miguel Jose 52 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC Alrnonaster by his wife, Donna Maria Juanna de Estrada-\' Roxas, both of noble birth and natives of Mayrena, Anda lusia, Spain). He was Knight of the Royal Order of King Carlos r I I, colonei, king·s lieutenant-governor and president of the Cnuncil ot Luuisiana for King Charles II I. Don :\ I monaster is buried in front uf the altar of St. Francis of +.;sissis, beneath a marble slab on which is engraved his name and arms, his royal honors, and the enumeration of his deeds - he having founded the cathedral of St. Louis, the palace of justice; the presbytery, several schools for children and a hospital for lepers. By this marriage there was one daughter: Michela Leonarda, born 1795; married Joseph C. Delfau de Pontalba, lieutenant in the French Marine C()rps, commandant of the Cotes des Allc- 111,u,ds on the Mississippi, son and heir of Xavier Delfau, Baron de l'ontalba, officer in the army of King Charles I I I, of Spain. I I. Jlaric Tltcrcst·, burn 175 9, married Don Juan Pietu, New ( >rleans. [l I. Picrr,· (below). l'IEHirn DENYS DE L.-\ RnNI>E (as above), born, New ( >rleans, I 762 ; lieutenant in Royal Regiment of Louisiana; civil and military governor of St. Barnard Parish ; president of the Royal Council (I 798-r 803); Colonel of the Roya! Regiment of I ,ouisiana up to the cession to the United States, 1803 ; General, commanding the Louisiana troops at the Battle of New Orleans (r8 14), and chief military adviser of (;eneral Jackson, by the adoption of whose pian the defence of N cw Orleans was made successful. I le was member of the Constitutional Convention of Louisiana in 18 12. He married Eulalie, daughter of Louis Alexander (;crl>ois, officer in the French army, and left: 1. Eula he, born, New ( >rleans, r 788; married Gabriel buille \'illere, Colonel of the 3d Regiment of Louisiana at The Old Fronsac-Forsytn. .Composed by VIOOMTE de FRONSAC. Grazioso.-:_;_--- PIANO. 8··--·-··-··-·-·-··-···· ...... ·------, ·-··------1 • I -- Copyright 1903 bf/ JTicomte de .Pron sac. ------ 8 ------... ---·------·------' ,;:i ____ ------. ----, cr I §·------i I ' FORS¥TH UE FRONSAC 53 ,-,iq.;c of New ()rJeans in 1814, and son of Maj.-Gen. Jacques l'. \'illere, second governor of Louisiana. II. Eli:::abetlt Ci'kstc, born 1792; married Maunsel \\'hite, colonel in the Mexican \Var uf 1846, and State senator_ II I. Hdoisl', born 1792. I\'. ;Jl,111dlt', born r 799, married Gen. Casimir Lacoste. \i. l'cpit,·, born r 799. \T Addaidi' .-ldNc, burn 11'03; married the Hun. Joseph Adolph lJucros, senator in 1S77, son of Rodolphe Jo- scph Ducros~ a ·n_1ilitary nfficer under King Charles I I I, by wife, Marie Lucie de Reggio. VI I. Fdiciti' ldi,-i,-i,·, born 180 5 ; married Pierre F. Jorda, sun o[ Don Jayne Y. F. Jorda and Helene cle Reggio. \rl I I. l!..~1ni!ic, born I 807 ; rnarried Pierre HC>a, son of D1111 Manual Hoa . .-\rms ()f all these branches of the family of Denys are: gulcs, a grape, argent, over all a count's crown; the shield supported by 3 stags. The lordships and seigneuries of the families of Forsyth and Denys in Canada were as follows : lleny~. Lordship of ble St. Jean (Prince Edwards Island), I ,4 50,440 acres. Denys, Lordship THE INDIVIDUAL BY f. G. F. DE FRONSAC The race owes everything to the Individual. In viewing the Past, the race is proud of the Individual. The present greatest achievement of the race is the production of the In di\'idual; the futun.· glory of the race is in the possibility of the Individual. \'et, frL'.4ue11tly and always disastrously, the race and the Indi\·idual arc behdd in contlict. The Past, Present and Future are rL·ady to fall into the crucible of l:haos, tn be dissolved fron1 their harnionious union, the memory of the first from the reality of the second, from the ambition of the third, to lie in unconscious and perishing frag ments, uniess drawn together again by a new combination. _A.nd it is submission to the Individual that reunites the race, as it is war against the lncli\·idual that causes the race to be d isSL'.\·ert:d. Here in is the law of human progression and retrogression as derived from the multitudinous histories of the human race. However the abstract testimonials of histo rians may disagree, the concrete testimonials of their subject mattn, divested from the commenting prejudice of the writers, hear witness to the invariability of this law. The building up of civilization is ever under the rulership of the Individual. This rulership is called monarchy and is the government of the first great man who dominates the savage tribe of jarring mediocres who are disputing continu• ally over the affairs of ordinary living. He leads them by the might of his genius along the path, which alone, his far-reach ing vision sees, to the affairs of extraordinary living. These affairs are developed in his potent intelligence. He becomes the god, the creator of the race, the head, the lightning en deavor that flashes for a while, and causes a momentary light 55 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC t COUNTS, MARQUISES AND DUCS DE FRONSAC I The Castle Forsath tit' Frousac, which g-a\'e a name to the family, continued in the possession uf the male line down to the fourteenth century, when it was demolished in war, and rebuilt. In 1344, at the time of which Froissart writes, it had passed into the female line, the Cadet male line having emigrated to Scotland, but of this later. (For Cadet line see p. 5.) The castle was destroyed and rebuilt, but this time as Chateau Fronsac. Sever:1! heirs and rivals fur its posses siun, representing as many different families, all descended from daughters of Forsath cle Fronsac, carried on party feuds. Une of these occupied it against the wishes of the king, who was the arbitrator of their dispute. He defied the king's general, the Count Dunois, in 1442, to turn him out, beating hack three desperate assaults of the king's army with great slaughter before the c:1.stle was taken. OoET n'Ayn1E, belonging to the princely house of Foix, then was recognized (1472) by the king as Ficomtc de Fromme. He was already l 'inmztc de L,wtrcc. At his death: The SEJGNEUI< DE Glli, Marshal of the Army (r49r), was the next Vicnmte cle Fronsac. He was succeeded by his Cl!USlll : JACQUES o· ALIH his death eighteen years after, as absolute master of the des tinies of France. That country he raised from the third power of Europe to the first place. He could say, as he is made to say in Bulwer's Ricltdfru: ·· I found France rent with heracies and bristling \Vith reliellion . , . I have recreated France and From the ashes of the decrepit, feudal carcass, civilization Soars on luininous wings to Jove ... ~1 H'-' \vas 2 gre~t general as his can1paigns before L.aRochl:lie and in Italy testify, and although he was a Cardinal of the Church of Rome, he was so liberal to the Protestants and ·• hen:tics '' that his enemies called him "Pontiff of the Cal vinists," and "Cardinal of atheists." His maxim was that if a man is a good citizen and performs his civil duties that is all that can bt; required of him. He appointed the Prince de Rohan, a l'rutestant, to be general of the armies of France, and he sent troops and money to aid Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden and chief of the Protestants, in his fight against Catholic Austria because the political interest of France re quired the humiliation of Spain and Austria, then her most powerful enemies. No minister of France has left so great a name as Ridtelicu, and when he died, December 4, 1642, he bequeathed the powers of monarchy consolidated fur the ad ministration of King- Louis XIV, one of the glories of whose n:ign in literature and art may be traced to Richelieu's creation of the French Academy - that protector of French genius. R1-:N1~ IIE Vf(;NEIWT, Due DE R1cHELIEU, Due DE F1w!\S.\C, de., succeeded the Cardinal, being adopted as his heir and successor, he having married Richelieu's elder sister. Hut as they had no. children the title passed, at his death, to the family of: L<1L 1 1s DE Bou1rnoN, PRINCI~ DE CoNill~, who had married, 111 1641, Claire Clemence de Mail!c-Breze, niece of the Cardinal :\Iinister, the Due de Richelieu and de Fronsac. The l'rince Rlt.'llELIEl' .\'.\() F.-\T!IER JO~EPII. THE GREAT CONDE. FOl{S\'TH DE Fl ,-,tll'L·L·c,.lcd he passed rapidly to pro1110ti1111s by his distinguished 1>1;11 ,-ry and military taknb, being brigadier i11 r 733 and .1/,11·,d111/ d,· c;nnf' in 173K. lie raised, arme SEIGNEURIAL ORDER OF CANADA N1coL.\S DEN\'s, V1coMTE DE F1wNs.-\.c; (;o\'1.?rnor :md Viceroy of Acadia, Gaspasia and Newfoundland (for pedigTL'C seep. 43). He was born in the city of Tours in 1598; st>ll of Jacques Denys, Sieur de la Thibaudiere, Captain of the Royal (;uard, and Mlle. Cllsnier de Besseau whose brl)ther, Emilien Cosnier, was ,me tJf the ·• H undrecl Centlemen llf the King." Nicolas and his brother Simon were the chosen heirs of Captain Jehan Denys ancl his wife, Marguerite Forsyth de Fronsac of Honfleur, to claims ~vhich Capt. J ehan Denys had in America, deriving- through their c·umnwn ancestor, Captain Jehan Denys, the great explorer of 1 506. In 1632 he obtained the favor of his relative, the Cardinal Richelieu, who gave him a commission in the military suitL· uf the admiral, Isaac lle Launoy, Comte de Razilli, wh, > was ready to sail to America as Governor of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. In addition, Denys was namt:d !,ml proprietor and governor of Cape Breton. In this new tielcl he established the towns of Chedebuctoo (Guysborough) :rncl St. Pierre, and founclecl the fort at Canso and another, \\'hich was his chief residence, at N:ipisiguit. He brought , >1 n colonists from Franct.:, instituted the culture uf cere'.tl" :t11cl promoted the fisheries and fur trade. He chased tht.: English out of the islands of Brion and La ivfadeieine. The prosperity he was building up excited the cupidity ancl e11\'y uf ri,·als (after the death of de Razilli) all the more because he, as a man of education, was liberal in religious views. De Razilli had named Denys as his successor in the government, but the cabal of rivals planned to deprive him of that office and of his lands as well. One Giraudiere, recognized by the others 65 (iii FORSYTH DE FIWNS:\C ~1~ g< 1\'ernor, t, 1uk ship and sailed for Cape Breton for tn1s p11rp"~e. I >cnys was employing his men about commercial Ld>c,rs \\-lh:n the ene1ny appeared \\'ith an arn1cd ship. Girau dic1·c .1tte111ptcd to terrC1rize lknys' men by declaring himself t,, he the ki11g·s g<1\'l:riwr, that Denys was under arrest, and that I huse wh" defied the king·'s autlwrit y would be guilty of high treason. But Denys was ll l'. that thesc will prucure an audience, which will gi\'e me th: mcans tJf cxplaining- to Your Majesty those things which I cu111nt make public. In awaiting this grace, find it well, Sire, that with my work, I consecrate what yet remains of life tn the ser\'ice of Your Majesty, and that this offers an occa sion of testifying, with how much zeal; respect and submission I am Your Majesty's very humble, very obedient and very faithful subject and sen·iteur. DENYs.'' He married, in Tuur:-,, Marguerite de la Faye, who remained in Francc. He died about 1687 at Nipisiguit. He had one s Fronsac, etc. Matthew was born in C,>unty A.yr, Scotland. in 1699. He was e11dowed by nature and Lt\·urcd by educ:1- tion. His father's immediate family were friendly to the cause of the Stuarts, whom they regarded as the legitimate so\'creig11s of the country, and they wt~re said to ha\·e lwe11 implicated in the Earl of Marr's uprisi11g of I 7 I 5. ,-\t any rate, suspicio11s of the partisans of the Hotise of Hanover were ,-,1, strong against them that they were obliged to le:1\·e Scotland. In STIC\IT OF FRONSAC, MISNAMED C:\:\,.;O Engraving couitesy of Plant S . .:-;_ Co. escaping, it is said that Matthew wou11decl 011e of the \\'hig officers with his sword. He sought safety for a time i11 Ireland, where his royalist convictions were much stre11gthened by beholding the injurious effects of parliamentary gU\·ern ment there. He married Esther, daughter of Robert Craham of County Fermanagh, whose wife, Janet Hume, liclo11ged t<> the nob)e family of Hume of Castle l-1 ume a11d 1 I urne 'vVood, whose estates have passed to the present Lurcl 1.oftus, Marquis of Ely. The Grahams had settled in Ireb11d since ;o FORSYTH DE FIWNSAC 1 (>.!Ll ("ill'. of whom was Sir I Iector Graham Df Lea Castle). !'hl'.Y 11·L'.rl'. from the Cumberland border ancl were descended I 111m tht: Earls of l\lenteath. The Grahams persuaded him t" go tu Amt:rica with them and a number of other families \\'Ii() 11T1T Llt:sirous uf escaping from the parliamentary abuses \\'hich were heaped on the country. They landed at Boston - Matthew, his wife and sons - about 1740, and moved to the l'rt:sbyterian colony at Chester, New Hampshire. He had brought with him much wealth in money and family piate, and he purchased to begin with the \Vurthen Mill, and tht: saw and grist-mills. He found himself surrounded by a singular population - the Puritan Yankee -- jealous, suspi cious, a\'aricious, religiously intolerant and hypocritical. In this inhospitable element, the little Presbyterian colony was ;1s isola!t:d as. though in a desert. Frum tht: first, Matthew bt:came the chief man and counsellor of the settlement. He rq>rest:nted the Presbyterian parish before the provincial kgislatun:, was deacon of the church, and consented tu lect urt: during the absence of the minister. But a hostile par liament followed the few partisans uf the Stuarts who had nossed the sea in company with others. Twelve of the thirtt:en colonies had received charters from the Stuart kings, :111d although these charters had been modified, the sense of them recognized the Stuart heir as king. Hence the desire of the London parliament to revoke them. The result gave an excuse to the radicals, factious and disloyal to any prin ciple, in the colonies, to join the enemies of the empire in 1776, to turn the true cause for a· Stuart declaration into the propag-anda of a hybrid republic. But until this propaganda was re,·ealed all parties were united to resist parliamentary encro,.1clrn1ent. Matthew, himself, became President of the Chester Committee of Public Safety in 1776, but he was distinctly opposed to democratic tendencies. He lived long enough, lwwever, tu see the " Republic" established and to have his royalism confirmed by the treachery, insincerity, 1-t JR:-, \'TH IJ E FI< UN :-i .-\ C vulgarity and cy11iL·ism ()f its g-overnn1t.:nt. He died 1n 1 790, leaving as a legend to his family the phrase: ".\. rllyal furm of government conduces to the best interests ()f a people." His principal heir was: \VrLLIAM FuRs.~ITII (Vicurnte de Frn11sac,, e11c,ig·n in r,>yal colonial troops, burn in County Fermanagh, I n:land. in r ;40. He was educated in his father':; huu:;elwld, for there \\'.1s nu school ur L'ollege in the colunies superi1Jr in a(h·.111Lt.!.,;cS tu that huuselwld. \\'hik yet ,-ery ymmg, he w:t.~ ,;olicited to teach thnst_' 1_1f (_:bester ~o:nt: of the hig-hcr :-,tudit:s. iJur ing the Indian \\'ar of 1763-65 he entered thl'. ruyal L'lllonial militia, became ensign, was wounded, takl'.ll prisoner and rt:rnaiued a captive among the Indians fur twn year,;. \ \'hl'.n the tmub!es began between the l\Ietrupolis and the Cuiunics, he signed the articles of the "Minute Men,·· ll'hu ll'ere obli gakcl by these articles to, I, Defend the persun, Cruwn and dignity uf the king; to, II, Defend the chartered liberties of the colonies, and to, I II, Obey superior officers 11·ith armed support. So long as the chartered liberties were thrL·ate11ed, the "Minute Men" were in arms, but in 1770, ll'hen the British Parliament restored all those liberties and conceded to the demands uf tht: colonists, the "Minutt: Mrn " dis banded. \Villiam, as a royalist officer, whu had ,;11·,>rn t l 1)l1 ..... lll of Sir \\'illia1n ~hirlLy, \\'ho \\'3.S c;.overnor of r"1assa \ li11:--dts i11 1741, and Comlllander-in-Chief uf the British l11rccs in ~orth Antcrica; \vh"se fan1ily arn1s are ernblazoned , ,11 the illumi11ated winduw at the State House in Boston, 11 itl1 th",;c ,Jt the other royal gm·crnors of that colony. It is stated in Chase's History of Chester that John Shirley was a rclatin: also of the Countess of Huntington, the patron of \\'c,;tlt:y. \Villiam died at Deering in 1808. His son was: T110MAS FoRSAITH, entitled OE FRONSAC in 1 798. He was born in Deering, N. H., September 1, I 775. At the age of eleven, in charge of a cousin who was an officer in the merchant marine, he WQS sent to France tu be educated. During the French Revolution of 1 792, he joined the Royalists, brigade de Navarre, Marquis de Muntrnarte commanding, with the l'rus::;ians and Austrians against the French Republicans. In 1798, he was entitled de Fronsac in the correspondence of the Emegres. He went to the French \Vest Indies in the same year on some mission and finally to Savannah, Ga., in 1800. He entered into the \Vest India trade after the ,;ale of I ,ouisiana, by Napoleon I, to the United States in 1 803, settling at Portland, Me., where he joined the Masonic Order and was junior warden of the Ancient r.ancl mark Lodge. He wa,; interestL:d with the earliest project of a railway from l\Iontreal to Portland in I 836, completed in 18 54, after his death. He was a tine musician on the violon cello, versed in languages, history and literature, and a com petent man of affairs. He married, in I 809, Sallie, daughter of Capt. John Pray of the colonial service, by wife, Mary, daughter of Col. John Hamilton whu had raised a regiment for the Crown in_ North Carolina, in I 776, and who was British Consul at Norfolk, Va., after the war of 1776-83. The !'rays were also of French urigin, from the Praye family of Lausanne, whose arms an;: "D'azur, au cocur cl'or entre deux etoilcs en premier et une croissant en pointe, d' argent." Thomas died at Portland, in December, 1 849, and is buried FORSYTH DE FIWNSAC in the \Vcstern Cemetery. He was a man ,,f sterling charac ter and resolution, kind to the poor, setting apart each year a sum of money to purchase provisions for the indigent. His son was: CAPTAIN Fl{EDEl{IC Ful{SYTH, ViscuuNT DE FtwNsAc in the Seigneurial Order of Canada, etc., born at Portland, March 22, 1819. After an academic education ancl military training he entered his father's exporting office on lngraham's \Vharf until the discon:ry of gold in California, in 1849, wht.:n he joined with Captain Thing, of Boston, to raise a military cumpany of pioneers tu march across the plains tu the gold fields of California. The party of se\'enty-five, armed as nHH_mted riflemen, proceeded to St. Louis and from there after weeks of hardship, clanger and hostile adventure in the Indian country, during which time they lost fifteen men, they arrived. Not blessed by fortune in the gold mines, he went tu Nicaragua and was agent for the English Navigation Com pany at Realejo. He returned to Portland, tu learn for the first time of the death of his father, which occurred soon after he had started with the pioneers. He commanded there an independent company, called the Rifle Corps, which had been - founded in 18 1o by Juclge A. A. Atherton, son of an U nitcd Em pire Loyalist of 1776-8 3, many of whose members were of Brit ish or Canadian origin. This company in 1860, on the occasion of the visit at Portland of H. R. H. the Prince of \,\'ales (now King Edward VII), was joined to another, the whole under command of Captain Forsyth, as the guard of honor of the Prince during his stay in l'ortlancl. In 1879, with his elder son and some gentlemen in Canada and in the States, they organized the Aryan Order of St. George of the Empire, which in itself is a reorganization of all the royalist urclers that had existed on the American continent since the time of the Emperor Charles {Juint, in the 16th century, who by imperial decree had incorporated his estates in America with the Holy Ruman Empire. The principal of these ruyalist 74 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC orders reorganized in the Aryan ( lnler are the descendants i !f the ~eigncurial ( )rder nf c·anada and L.ouisiana; of the ( >rdcr of the Baronets of Nuva Scotia; of the United Empire ! .!lya!ists, of 1776-8 3 ; of the Lan FREDERIC liREliUI{\' FORS\'Tll OE Fl \'icomte de Fronsac in Seigneurial Order of Canada FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 75 he conceived it; he was hospitable, high-minded, chi\·alrous; patient under difficulties; serene and u11 moved amidst the clash of misfortune; a "gentleman of the old school" to the bst. He died June 11, 1891, and is buried in Evergreen Ct:metery. His wife, who survived him until 1898, was Harriette Marie, daughter of Major-Ceneral Joseph Scott Jewett, (1f Scar borough, l\fe. (st:e p. 88). By her he had two sons, Frederic Gregory ancl Thomas Scutt (see p. 80). He changed the spelling of the name Forsaith to the one-time form of Forsyth. His elder son : F1ofllERIC (;l{EliOI<\' Foi .-\,-,s, ,ciat ion at Montreal and was its first pres id en t, being- ,-,uc ceeded the same year by Sir \\'illiam Johnson, Bar()nd uf Charnbly, and becoming himself Marechal de Blasun uf the Seigm.:urial ( lnler,ut ( ·anada -- the Baron de Lungtieuil being the chancell()r - h11th ,,f these deriving from the prel·edent "t the :-\ryan ( lrder "r St (;eorge of the Empire of 1879-80. Spn.:ading rapidly, the United Empire Loyalist .--\ssociati"n, as he founded it, established headquarters at Montreal, Toronto ( 1896)1 and I lalifax (I 897); a previous branch succeeding the .-\ry:rn Unkr ;;f iSi9-80 had been estabiisheci in 1883 at St. J()hn, N. B. The efforts of the loyalists effaced the an nexat iun propaganda that Yankee intrigue was fostering in Canada and clicl more to exalt the royalist influence and im perial connection than :ili the commercial schemes, preferential trade formula: and imperial league teachings ,·,,mbined, and which appeared only after the loyalists had led the way - fur they had with them that which Burke said (tradition) "Though lighter than air holds stronger t ban iron,·· what Beaconsfield declared (sentiment)·• Is sole foundation of national greatness." I !is last project of 1903 of introducing into Canada a colony of French royalist families, whose sons' future, denied by the French Republic, would cause them to be glad to come if gi\·en encouragement, was fa\'ored by the royalist press of ( ·anada, English and French, and may bring fruit. The Seig-neurial Order, of which he is the Hera!d-1\farshal, was established by King Louis XI\' in Canada in 1663 : its rights, titles and precedence were recognized by King Ceorge of England in the "Capitulations of Montreal " of I 760, and to the Seigneurs who defended Quebec against the American invasion of 1775 additional recognition ha CAPT. ALEXANDER FoRSYTH was born at Failzcrton :\Ianur, Ayrshire, 1689; son of \Valter Forsyth, provost uf the College and Subdeaneries of Glasgow (seep. 191, hy wik, his cousin, Margaret, daughter of Capt. James Fursaith * ilf the French service, who married Marguerite, daug-hter uf the \"i,.; count and Governor Niculas Denys de Fronsac, of ..-\cadia, etc. Like his brother James he was attached to the c:-1.use uf legitimate monarchy in the person uf the Stuart King,.;, and favored the ,.;tancl taken by I.md l\[arr in 17 1 5. ( )11 the un fortunare issue uf that cause, he came tu Boston, where, un December 12, 1717, he married Miss Elizabeth E\·ans, of Boston, ancl entered into the life of the New \\"orld. \ \"ith the wealth which he had inherited and brought with him he became interested in the foreign commerce of the town, ancl by his education, refinement of person and energy, he was recognized speedily as one of the foremost among the resident gentry. In the course of his residence he filled many and important occasions. His military experience caused him to be chosen as captain in the Colonial regiment. In 1733 he was on the committee of freeholders to chose se\·en selectmen. Before this, in 1 724, he was a commissioner of the colony t11 draw up a treaty with the \Vestern Indians of ~t:1v l•:ngfand. In r 7 3 5 and for many years after he was selectman uf H"ston, and his autograph is printed in the second volume uf the Jfcmoria! l-listo1J' of Boston. In I 742 he was one of the mili tary commission to plan the fortificatio_ns about Hoston. Throughout these years, as selectmen, he was on the com mittee of visitation of the public institutions in company with the governor and His Majesty's justices. He was a patrun uf • The ai in French is pronounced like yin Scottish or English; Forsaith-Forsyth. 77 FORSYTH DE FfWNS,\C ;1rt and literature and OIH: uf the subscribers to the fund for the pub Iication of Prince's "Cltro110/ogJ'·" In the rneantime his first wife, Elizabeth, died July 28, r726, ;1_:..:~·d 30, leaving- three small children, one of whom, John, died September 8, r 727, aged 14 months; both buried in tomb 65, Copp's Hill Cemetery, Boston. About 1730 he married ag-ain for second wife, Miss Deborah Briggs, of Boston, ancl by her had a son John. At the close of the C()lonial \\'ar in 1763 he returned to Ayrshire, Scotland, be111g accompanied by his wife and son John, where he died "full of years and honors," and in the consciousness of having done his duty with integrity and zeal in a long and busy career. J .\\IE:-i BE:>;NETT F1 ► 1<:-;\·-r11 was born in Brookline, a suburb ,>f Bo:-,ton, Mass., February 2, 1850. His parents moved to the Roxbury District of Hoston while he was \'ery young. ( >11 account of the unsatisfactory condition of his health, he was frequently kept out of school for long periods, and a gn:at deal of the time he passed in the office and factories of the Boston Belting Company, with wl'lich his father was con nected, and which were, and still are, located in the Roxbury District of Boston. He became greatly interested in the machinery and manufacture of vulczmized rubber. After his health was restu1ed, he returned again to school. Later on, by advice of physicians, he was taken away entirely from the public school, as the state of his health would not permit of the confinement of study in a schoolroom, and continued his education u.!)cler private instruction. He continued to interest himself in the manufacture of vulcanized rubber, and, later on, while yet very young,· he became connected with the factories of the Cimpany, where, in process of time, he filled all the important positions at the factories, such as cierk, assistant superintendent, superin tendent, manufacturing agent, and director, and for nearly JAMES DENNETT FORSYTH 1-'Ul{S \'TH DE Fl{ONS ..\C 79 twenty years (!884-1903) he has tilled the position of director and general manager of the entire business uf the Company. It has been very largely through his efforts that the Com pany has prospered so wonderfully. He has made many impnrtant and useful inventions, all connected with the machinery and manufactures of the Com pany, and has taken out nw1T than fifty patent,; un machinery and manufacturing processes. A few of his inventions are : l, machinery for the manufacture of that kind of hose which is made of duck, or canvas, coated with rubber, and which is used very extensively in all civilized countries; 2, for the art of lining textile tubes with rubber su as to fit them for use as hose for conducting ;,vatcr, air, etc. Hose of this kind is in general use in fire-departments throughout the civilized . world. It is used also extensively in railway stations and repair-shops, public buildings, in mills, factories, on ship-board, and wherever a strong, light-weight and durable hose is re quired ; 3, rubber-covered rollers, now considered indispen sable for squeezing, sizing, and calendaring purposes in cotton, woolen, paper, and wool-scouring mills, print and dye works, blcacheries, tanneries, etc. ; 4, improved methods in the manu facture of rubber, gutta percha, and balata machine belting, used for transmitting power, coal, grain and ore conveyors, etc. His knowledge of the manufacture of mechanical rubber goods, general management of all branches of the business, and his inventions, have aclclecl greatly to the great success, prosperity, and unrivcillecl reputation of the Company. His father was the late 'vVilliarn Forsyth, referred to in the genealogy (p. 20). His n1other's family, the Bennetts, of which her father, Hamilton Bennett, was a member, was known in England from the time of the Norman Conquest in I066. The title of the family chief is Earl of Tankarville, one of whom, the Earl of Arlington, in 1663, was father-in law of the Duke of Grafton, natural sun of King Charles II I l.1111ilt,>11 Hrnnctt, l•:sq., father of Mrs. \Villiam Forsyth, 11 ;1-. , k--t·t.'11 T11uM.-\s Scorr Fo1 C()J.. JosEPII BELL FoJ{S\'Tll, of Quebec. He was son of J amc.:s Bell Forsyth (see p. I I), by wife, Fanny, daughter ot the Hon. Matthew Bell, who raised, at his own expense, a squadron of cavalry at Quebec, in 18-12, who had come from Scotland bringing over the first pack of hunting hounds ever seen at Three Ri\·ers, Canada, and induced the king to give a cup, to be called the •' A"ing'.r Cup,'' tu be run for every year on the Three Rivers Course fur the improvement of horses in Canada. This course is held now at Quebec and l'-,fontreal, alier nately. The Hun. Mr. Bell was also a prominent member of the THO~L\S SCUTT FUl COi.. JOSEPH BELL FOl F<>RSYTII l>E Fl REV. ALEXANDEI{ Jo11N Fo1 \\'1u.1AM Fu1 also Chancellor's medallist and Ft.:11(/w of Trinity and "pro ceeded M.A.'' in 1837. He entered the bar at the fnner Tem ple in 1839, Northern Circuit and (_}ueen's Counsel in 1857 and Bencher of the Inner Temple. He was a member of Parliament tor Marylebone and Cambridge University; Coun sel for the Secretary of State fm India and Commissioner for ( ·am bridge LT11i\·ersity. I le was a contributor to the great revi1:ws and ,ine uf the great auth<>rs (If the British Em pin:. 11 is chief works are, "Un the Law of Composition ,vith ( · reditnrs " (_ I 84 I) ; " I {ortcn~iu~, or the Duties of an Aclv11cate" (1849); •'()n the Law Relating to the Custody of Infants'' (1850); ••History of Trial by Jury" (1852); "Nap1ileun at St. Helena and Sir Huc!Sl>l1 Low" (1853); " Life of Cicero'' ( i 864) ; '' Cases and Opinions in Constitu tional Law" (I 869); "Novels and Novelists of the XVII I Century in Illustration of the !\Tanners and Morals of the Age" ( 18 7 I) ; '' Hannibal in Italy ; a Historic Drama " (1872); "Essays Critical and Narrative" (1874); "Scla,·onic Provinces South of the Danube" ( 1876). Sm THOMAS DouGL\.S FoRsYTH, C.B., K.C.S.I., etc., was brother of the above. In the biographical sketch of Laurie's "Distinguished Anglo-Indians," 2d series, p. 199, is the fol lowing: "In some respects Sir Douglas Forsyth may be con sidered as having been one of the most remarkable among our distinguished Anglo-Indians .... He was educated at Rugby (touk four medals at Cambridge, and was the first in Oriental scholarship). He entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1848, when the final conquest of the Punjab was in progress and on the eve of the formation of the junior division of the Civil Service. . . At a very early stage of his career, he was sent to this new province, the organization of which Lord Dalhousie, the Viceroy, entrusted to the very ablest men at bis disposal, and when the Mutiny broke out, nine years after F!lRSYTII l!I•: FRONS.-\C his arri\·al, he was actin,..;- as Deputy Commissioner in the Cis :--iutlej States . on whose tact and firmness depended the ;1ttit11dL' "f the protl'ctccl Sikh StatL"s. Mr. Forsyth took a IHd,I initiati\L' in c11ling 11n the Maharajah c>f Puttiala for ;1~~i:-;L11t,·L·, ;u1d the appeal being promptly responded to by t bt l11yid L·liidtain, awakened a responsive echo in the Sikh ( liids ,,t lhcend and Nabha. His measures for the defense ,,f lrmballa \,·ere prompt and sufficient. He raised a police t<1rce of Sikhs for the purpose ... and provided for the security of the road from IJmba!!a to Kurnau! up to the siege and capture of Delhi. The n:putation he gained during the Mutiny ensun:d his rapid promotion until he became in due cuurse Commissioner of U mballa. But in I 869 a still more important subject than the management of the Sikhs had come to the front ; and that was our future relation with Russia. Lord Mayo had just received the Ameer Shere Ali in durbar at U mballa and it was considered desirable to bring the views of the Indian government on the Central Asian question in a clear and unn1istakable form before that of St. Petersburg. Mr. Fursyth was considered the most competent Hll :tcti\'e part as director 0f seHTal of the larger Indian rail w;,y,;. l n i K50, he married .-\lice, daughter ot Thomas, and ,:_;r;rnddaughtLT uf Sir Tlwrn:ts l'lummer, Master of the Rulls, !iy wh"m he had thn.:L· daughters, one of whom married the late Sir I larry l'arl-es. If Sir Douglas Forsyth's character had to he summed up in a li11e it ll'ould be accurate tu say that llL' was a plain, straight-dealing, truth-telling English ge11tlem;111, who un critical occasions exhibited the qualities ul a hero." His life has been published recently by his dau_g·hter, Miss Ethel Forsyth In ;i.dditinn tu his other hnn •>rs not mentioned above, he was made in 1874 Additional Member uf the (;overnur-General's Council. A peerage would ha·,c: been a nol too great recognition for his valuable '.'-lervice to the en1pire, Ztnd the n1ajority of recent peerage appointments ha\·e been made for less. C.\PT. J.u11-:s Fo1 :-iii< J,111:- F111{S\'TII, inspector gem:ral of the Medical Uqiartment, Bengal .--\rmy, 1857; honorary physician tu Iler Majesty, Quet:n Victoria (1861-1883); Companion of the Bath, and Knight Commander of the Star of India; was burn in 1799, and died at \Vest Brighton, England, January 14, 1S83. \\'11.1.1.\\1 F<11 l'IWF. i\;sl>l{L\\" RL':-,Sl·l.l Ft>RS\'TII, M.A., F. R. S., St>ll ()f J"hn Fnrsyth, was h"rn in (;lasgow, June 18, 1858. Ile graduated at the Lin:rp11t)I Collegt: ,rnd at Trinity C.dkg·L·, 0 c·a!nbridg-e lf niver~ity, in : s ~ i, \\'here he \\"~i:-; a: SL iliur \\'rangier," ·• First Smith\ ('rizcman" and Fcllo11· uf th,_• College. In 1882 he was Professor of Mathematics at 11L·11· l'nin·rsity Cullcgt:, Lil't:rpo,,I; in 1884 LeL'turn 1>11 '.\Lttlh.: matics at Trinity C11lll'gc, Cambridge, and Fellow ol tilt' h'.,,yal Society in 1886. I le is authur t>f a '' Tr,:atisc 1111 Differential Equations·· am! <>f mat!H:matic papers relating to such equations, theory 11f functi()ns and theory of im·arian tive forms published in the ·• Transactions 1Jf the R,>1·,il Socidy '' and '' Cambridge l'hilosuphical S<>cicty.'' T1w C11El'.11.1ER, M.1_11Hi Jt)11:,.; C1-:1rn 11i1> F1>1i,-;1·T11, ,>1 M()ntrcal (sec p. 14), Knig·ht of Sardinia, etc., was one "t tliL· most distinguished and gallant uf Canadian suldicrs. I le n;ceived more foreign decorations for military distinL'lit>n than any other Canadian. He was born in Montreal, ,;()n ot John Hlackwood Forsyth, by Mary, cla11ghter of Samuel (;errard, first president of the Bank of Montreal. I-Ii,; life i:-, mentioned in the first edition of Morgan's "CLhrall'd (. ~11111- diaus." He was major of the 57th Foot and served with m,,st distinguished gallantry in the Crimean \Var, taking- part in the battles of Balaklava, Inknmann, Scbastapol ancl the 1 lmrrics. I le led the stmmi11g party at the Redan, which is -.,.11.I t" h:1,·e been the 11111st successful uf any storming party in t lie G,mpaign 1,f the British in that war. He was deputed t" kad :ti,-," the storming- party at Kinbourn. For the L'\L'lllj>Ltry manner and gn·at skill he showed in these se\'eral ,l11tiL·s, 11erfur111ed 1111der the s11rl'eillance of the allied sol'er l't:-:,-1is, he 1r;1s made a Knight with the Grand Cross of the l .c;..;io11 11f I !"nor by the Emperor, Napoleon III; a Knight "' till: Order of Medjidie by the Sultan uf Turkey; a Kni;.;'l,t irith the S,ttdinian \Var Medai by King Victor Ern rn;inuel, and gin;n the medal with clasp:; by the British Go\" ernmcnt. At the close of the war he returned tu Montreal. I k married Elizabeth Egberta, daughter of John Hurseky, "t the Madras Cil'il Scl"\"ice, and granddaughter of J< ilrn Byng, 5th \'iscount Torrirn;ton. !\11 ARMS OF THE ARYAN ORDER OF ST. GEORGE OF THE EMPIRE FORSYTH DI•: FR Mellen uf Maine, in I 8 :w, and aunt of Frederic Mellen the artist and (; ran ,·ii le Mellen the poet. Ceneral Jewett\ father, Joseph Jewett, had come from Newburyport to Port land before the American Re,·olution, and married Ruth Mc Laughlin of a nuted Irish family, who were Lords of Clan Uw.:n near Londonderry, Ireland. He was one uf the wealthiest and one of tht.: most reliable uf the inhabit::mts of Portland - then called Falmouth; he respected the Crown (;o\'ernment and when, for the sedition, conspiracy ancl puliti ca! treachery uf the pe,;plc uf that place, Captain Mowat, the British naval nffin:r, landed :rnd burned the tuwn, he spared the residence of Mr. Jewett from esteem of his person aiity. ]Vlr. Jewett's father was James Jewett, of Newbury pnrt, Mass., by wife, Sarah Scott, daughter of a British utfict:r who transmitted through ht:r hi,-, Solingen sword to her posterity as a relic of his race. The first of thi,; family to America was the Hon. Maxmillian Jewdt, one time Presi dent (Speaker) of the (;eneral Court of Massachusetts, whu came of a Nurman French family (Jouet) from Bradford, \V. R. \'urkshire, to Rowley, Mass., in 1638. Such was the worthy and distinguished ancestry of Mrs. Harriette l\I. Forsyth. A biographical sketch of her has appeared in the New England Historical and (;,·m·,rlugiclll Ri;i;1·shr for I 898, the year of her death. She was of remark able and noble characteristics; with dauntless and hopeful spirit, even under the shadow of great adversities of fortune. To her family she was devoted and loyal to the sublimest self-abnegation. She was witty, brilliant and accomplished. On her graduation day she was the first pupil in music anc! French, and ever after was appreciated among high-minded people for those virtues that are rare at the present time amidst the rubbish that are filling their place. She was about sixty-seven years of age at the time of her death, May Io, 1898. qO F(IRS\'Tl-1 DE 1-"RUNSAC \\'11.11111 hll<,-;1111. one uf the most distinguished botanists 111 Sc11iL111d, i>"rn at ( Jid Melclrurn, Aberdeenshire, in r 737. Studied arJ>.,riuilture and after graduatiun was gardener to the ( ·.,rnpany "f Ap"thecaries at their physic-garden in Chelsea. J le .,ttralled the attention of King- (;eurge III who appointed him 111 1784 ::iuperintendent uf the Royal Gardens of Ken ,.;ingt<>ll and .St. Jame,;. In 1768 he had invented a compo sition to remedy the diseases incident to fruit trees. The success ui his experiments attracted the attention of the com- 111issioners nf the land rt..~\·enue in r789 and a curnrnittee of both I-louses of l'arliament was appointed tu report un the merits uf his discovery. The result uf their inquiries was a convic tion of its utility, and an address was voted by the House of c·o1nn1ons to his rvlajesty that a re\vard be granted Mr. F'or svth. In r 791 ;rnd in 1802 he published works relating to his disco,·ery and to arboriculture. He was a member of the I .inna:an ::iociety and also , ,f other learned societies of Great Britain and Europe. T11E R1 Fol(',\° I'll llF T.\ll.ZEl J,'01{,-,y r11 111·: F.111.1'.LI< 111:--. 1 l-:11:_:lish1 "l.\lyal unto IJe;1th.". ll.u111.'l'"'-· [)uke of l larniltot1 1 L:.1tin) ·· S11la :\ol,ilitas \'irtu~:· HAMII.Tr1,. Duke of llarnilton 1Enµ;lish1 .. flonor unh- >iohk."' llE:-.:NJ·:l"f'. Earl t>f Tankarville I Frencl11 .. De Bon \',rnloir sen·ir k Roy:· BE,:-.:1-:rl'. Earl ,1f Tankan·ille 1En:..:lish1 ·· \\'ith good faith t" ,cn·e the Kin:.::· A,•ms of Denys. Arms before 1.J88. Arms of Family since 1.J88. Crest and Motto of Failzerton added in 1620. DAVID DE FORSYTH, LORD OF DYKES IN 1:i71 and VICOMTE DE FRONSAC: I IN SCOTLAND, [See page 7,] IN FRANCE. I MARGUERITE WILiIAM MATTHEW ROBERT OF FAJLZERTON m. Capt. Jehan Deny!! of Honfleur, France, Lorcl of Dykes of Auchengray I great-grandson of the explorer. Their heirs were I Capt. ,JAMES OF FAILZER- Nicolas and Simon Denys, sons of Capt. Jacques ,--·------"- TON, m. Marguerite, cl. of Denys, Sieur de la Thibaudiere of the King's WILLIAM I JAMES--- Nicolas Denys, Vicomte cle Gtlard. Nicolas Denys was Governor of Acadia ,JOHN, M. P. of Cromarty Fronsac. in 1054, etc., and Vicomte de Fronsac. BARJARA for Cullen ancl Elgin -----~.A.CHILDREN O~' NICOLAS ______RICHARD MARGUERUE, m. Capt. ,James Forsaith NICOLAJ, d .. s. p. of Failzerton. ,------~--- Rev. J"AMES OF TAILZEWl'ON WALTER' married MAROARET FORSAITII Co. Stirling Provost. of Glasgow College of Failzert.on .A_I ______Capt. JAMES Capt. ALEXANDER of Ayr of Boston, Mass. I I ,- ,------"------lion. MATTHEW ALEXANDER THOMAS ALEXANl>ER HORl.:HT JOHN of Chester, N. IL of Cork I ,JOHN ENsrnJ WILLIAM I of Deering, N. H. ,------"-----, .JOHN WILL TAM JAMES TIIO~AS Chevalier de Fronsac I FUEUERH\ Vico!ute.A. ______cle Fronsac _ FREDEHIC GHEGORY, Vicomte de Fronsac THOMAS SCOTT WILLIAM JOHN H. ANNE J. MARGARET BENNE1c'T. MARY E. . ,JAMES BENNETT THOMAS A. GEOHGE H. of Boston, Mass.