GABRIEL" LllDLO'W 1663-1736 The lmmisran\ Ancestor GABRIEL LUDLOW 1663-1736 AND HIS DESCENDANTS [Reprinted from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.] GABRIEL2 LUDLOW (1663-1736) AND HIS DESCENDANTS. BY WILLIAM SETON GORDON, Member of the New York Genealogical dlld Biographical Society. I. Gabriel2 Ludlow ( son of Gabriel1 Ludlow and his wife Mar­ tha--, of .Frome, County Somerset, England), born Nov. 2, 1663, at Castle Cary, County Somerset, England, and baptized there Dec. r, 1663; died --, 1736; married April 5, 1697, to Sarah Hanmer (daughter of Rev. Joseph and Martha (Eddowes) Hanmer), born --, at --; died --, at --. The following is a copy of the entry in the Register of Baptisms for the Parish of Castle Cary in the County of Somerset, England ( certified March ro, 1883, by Rev. A. W. Grafton, Vicar) : "Christenings in Y eare 1663 December The first day of this Moneth Gabriell, the sonne of Gabriell Ludlow of ffrome and of Martha his wife, was christened." This entry records the baptism of Gabriel2 Ludlow, who in 1694 settled in New York. His grandfather, Thomas Ludlow, was a younger brother of the Gabriel Ludlow who was Receiver of the Duchy of Lancaster during the reign of Charles I, and of Roger Ludlow who became Deputy-Governor of The Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634, and married Mary Endicott, sister of Governor John Endicott. His father was cousin to Cromwell's general, Sir Edmund Ludlow, who was one of King· Charles l's judges and who, at the Restoration, had to flee from England. He was born at Castle Cary, Somerset, Nov. 2, 1663, and first set foot in New York Nov. 24, 1694. His father had died in Eng­ land in 1690, and being a second son, the family estates had remained with the elder line. It is not unlikely that a younger brother, Wil­ liam, came with him; but of this no authentic record remains. We do not know the name of the ship in which he came, bat we are told that it suffered shipwreck at Sandy Hook, whereby our ancestor lost most of his belongings. This misfortune did not prevent him, however, from taking, almost from the day of his entrance into thc:> Colony, that social rank to which he was entitled. He at once entered upon a successful mercantile career, built and owned ves­ sels in the coasting trade and established a place of business in Queen ( now Pearl ) Street. He also became an extensive land owner, and obtained a patent from King George It for a tract of 4,000 acres of land in what is now Orange County, on the west bank of the Hudson River. This was then known as the Rockland Tap­ pan tract. 2 Three years after his arrival, Gabriel2 Ludlow married Sarah Hanmer, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Hanmer,* Chaplain to His Majesty's forces in the Province of New York, and of Martha Eddowes his wife, of whose marriage we have a record at White­ church, Shropshire, in 1.663. The Hanmer descent is traced from Sir John de Hanmere, Knight, 1272, of Hanmer in the County of Flint, \Vales. Sarah Hanmer was the youngest of a family of nine, consisting of two boys and seven girls. We have the names of the four daughters, Catharine, Hester, Abigail and Sarah, who, upon the death of their father in New York, petitioned the Governor in Council to be paid the balance of his salary. The Order in Council directing the sisters to be paid the balance of the salary is dated April 13, 1691, and applies "from the 6th January, 1689, unto the daye of his death." Rev. Joseph and Martha (Eddowes) Hanmer had 9 (Hanmer) children, 2 sons and 7 daughters, viz.: I. Joseph, R. N. Surgeon on H. B. M.'s ship Archangel. Obiit sine prole. II. John, attorney-at-law. He married and had 4 (Hanmer) children: r. Laight, m. Martha Edwards, daughter of Ralph Ed­ wards, Esq. 2. Samuel, Rector of North Durham. 3. Mary, m .. Geo. Bentley, Gent. 4. Samuel. III. Elizabeth, m. Edward Taylor, Gent. IV. Martha, m. Rev. Wm. Jones. V. Catharine, m. Samuel Yates, of the Temple, Esqre. VI. Hester, m. J. Jackson, of Coventry, Gent. VII. Abigail, m. J. Clark, of London, Gent. VIII. Rachel, m. Captain Sey, R. N., of Bermuda. IX. Sarah, m. Gabriel2 Ludlow. Joseph Hanmer, the surgeon, came out with Governor Slaugh­ ter, in H. B. M.'s Frigate Archangel, which brought out three com­ panies of foot and convoyed four other ships. These vessels sailed from the Isle of Wight, Dec. 1, 1690. They were driven by stormy * Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. This is to certify that I have recently caused an examination to be made of the official Registers or Books of Record wherein have been recorded from time to time the Births, Marriages and Deaths of the Parish of Whitchurch, in the County of Shropshire, England (the said Registers being now and having been continuously since my incumbency in my possession and charge as Rector of the said Parish), and that I do find recorded there the following entries made, to the best of my belief at or about the date they respectively bear, to wit: (Banns) 1659, Mar. Mr. Joseph Hanmer of Iscoyd, in the county of Flint and Mrs. Martha Eddow of this parish were publish­ ed three severall Lord's Dayes ending 27 of March 1659. (Marriage) 1659, March. Joseph Hanmer and Martha Eddow, March 29, 1659. The above are full, true and correct copies of said original entries. (Sd.) SYDNEY DUGDALE, Rector. 24th June, 1916. STOKf_SA Y CASTLE.. in South Shropshire, E.ngland, was the home of the Ludlows for ten generations. William the Conqueror granted the Manor of Stoke to the De Lacys who, retaining the over-lordship, placed their vassal, the Norman knight Picot de Say in possession, after whom the Manor was named Stoke-de-Say. About the centre of this Manorial grant, and six miles south of Stoke, stood Ludlow Castle, another ancient seal of the family, now o ruin. The male line of the De Lacys became extinct in 1240, and the Manor became the property of John de Verdon, who married the heiress of the De Lacys. He died 1274, and his son conveyed the "viii de Stokesay" lo Lawrence de Ludlowe. eldest son of Nicholas de Ludlowe, castellan of Ludlow Castle, who entered into possession in 128 I. Lawrence built the massive embattled south tower, deepened the moat and extended the walls. During the reign of Henry Vil I, owing to the marriage of a Ludlow heiress to Sir Thomas Vernon of Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, Stokesay Castle passed with her dowry into the possession of the Vernon family. It was subsequently purchased, in 1620, by a rich London Alderman's son, who became Earl of Craven; and is now owned by Mr. J. D. Allcroft. 3 weather to take refuge in the Bermudas, where they remained three weeks for repairs, so that it was March 19, 1691, when they at last dropped anchor in the lower Bay. Governor Slaughter appointed Joseph Hanmer Post Surgeon at the Fort, formerly called Fort George, but which Gov. Slaughter renamed Fort William Henry; but the surgeon did not long survive the effects of exposure suffered on the voyage of the Archangel, and died in the Fort in April, 1691. The marriage of Gabriel2 Ludlow and Sarah Hanmer took place in the Church in the Fort on Easter Monday, April 5, 1697. The Rev. Mr. Seymour Smith, Chaplain to H. M.'s Forces, officiated. Of Gabriel2 Ludlow's home life in New York but little informa­ tion has come down to us. We know that at one time he resided in Maiden Lane, and in the Census of New Yark, taken in 1703, his name is entered as then residing in the East Ward, and as the mas­ ter of a family consisting of husband and wife, one male child, five female children, and two negro slaves. Only one or two books have come down to us of those which he possessed. Upon the fly-leaf of an ancient book, being Vol. I of the Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Vevey, Switzerland, once in the possession of Thomas W. Ludlow, Esq., but once owned by Gabriel2 Ludlow, is found in the handwrit­ ing of the latter, the following:- "Translated, Gabriel Ludlow, Senior, in August 1723." The inscription over his door. To everyone that is courageous, every soil is his native country,. because of his God, our Heavenly Father. The Epitaph. "Stay and Behold: Here lyes Edmund Ludlow, of the English Nation and the County of Wilts, son of Sir Henry and Senator of Parliament, who was himself a member also; of eminent and noble descent, yet more noble and gifted with remarkable piety. In the 23rd year of his age he was Colonel, and soone after General of the Army; then a Sub­ duer of Ireland. In battle courageous and lavish of life: in victory mild and courteous; Defender of his country's liberty and a most vehement opposer of arbitrary power, for the same cause was ban­ ished his country thirty two years, and worthy of a better fortune; betook himself among the Helvetians, where he enjoyed it to the 73rd year of his age; at his Death, joyfully leaving his place here, according to his desire, he is passed to the Eternal Joys. This monument is dedicated and desired by Mrs. Elizabeth de Thomas, his most beloved consort, in perpetual memory toward her deceased husband, being active and most sorrowful as well in mis­ fortune as in wedlock, who out of greatness of mind and efficacie of conjugal love Thereunto moved constantly followed him in exile to his decease, which was in the year 1693." Upon the same fly-leaf is also the following: 4 "New York, ye 9th day of May, 1712.