Commission of Fisheries, where he acquitted himself with honor. Professor Bashford Dean was recently married to Miss Dyckmau, the daughter of Isaac M. Dyckmau, Esq. , of the old Kingsbridge Dyckman family. Wm. Dean also has a son Thomas and a daughter Llarriet M.

This much to show that Sergt. John Dean of the Revolution has posterity as well as ancestry. That there was cause for his being the hero and patriot that he was.

Capt. Gilbert Dean, who was the son of Isaac and brother of Thomas, senior, is said to have been a merchant at one time, probably

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prior to the Revolution, in New York, and had his residence at the time of his Revolutionary service at or near Tarrytown. He was appointed a 2d Lieut, in the East Philipsburgh Company, Benjamin Verniilye Captain, Sept. 20, 1775; was made xst Lieutenant, Oet. 23, 1776, and Captain in 1778. It is stated that at one time he entirely fitted out a Company at his own expense.

Two children were born to Capt. Gilbert Dean and Effie his wife; a son John, whose line seems to be extinct, and a daughter Emma who married Daniel Delanoy and lived at Sing Sing. A daughter and only child, Mary Ann Delanoy, married Isaac Nelson of Somers and Sing Sing, and so became the mother of Hon. Henry C. Nelson of that place and of David D. Nelson formerly of Sing Sing and now of New York, who has four sons and two daughters by a marriage with Sarah C. News of Cortlandt. Two of the sons are graduates of the College of the City of New York, one of whom, Dean Nelson, is a member of the Society of the .Sons of Revolution of New York. After the Revolution Capt.