The old merchants of New York City / by Walter Barrett.

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THE OLD ~MERCHIA7'TS

ten to it. There was nothing left for the lovers except
to run away, or get married by the Rev. Charles Inglis,,at Trinity Church, who was afterwards Bishop of Nova
Scotia. Captain Robinson took his wife to England.
They became parents to two sons and four daughters.
The eldest daughter married a Mr. Robinson of the East
India Company service. A second married I. Bird Sumner, the then Bishop of Chester. Bird Sumner is
now Archbishop of Canterbury. A third married Sir
William Moncrieff, afterwards a Lord of Session in Ed
inburgh. One of his sons was Judge of the Supreme
Court of Calcutta. The fourth daughter married a
Bishop of Calcutta, (successor to the celebrated Bishop
Heber.)
The English decendants of the signer, by his daughter Ann, are well placed. He did not live to see it.
Notwithstanding his extensive commercial operations,
and with all parts of the world, and the fact that he
personally attended to them, as for instance when he
went to Russia, he established commercial relations, as
agencies, not only in every port between St. Petersburg
and Archangel, but in every port in the north of Europe; yet he found time to look after the interests of his
city and of his country. He was elected a delegate
from this city to the Constitutional Convention that met
here in 1765, and he gave his support to every measure
adopted by that body in opposition to the odious Stamp
Act passed by the British Parliament, and when attempts were made to put the law in force he withdrew
from business and went to reside at a country seat he
owned at Whitestone, in the town of Flushing L. I.
He removed back to New York in 1771, for the purpose of establishing his son Francis in business under
favorable auspices, which he did under the firm of