Abraham and Christina Van Wart Odell had the following children : John, Isaac, Jacob, Benjamin, who married Mary, the daughter of Jacob Buckhout and Jane Hammond his wife, and had Capt. Jacob B. Odell, who was at one time Postmaster of Tarrytown and has long been connected with the Albany Day Boat Line ; Hannah, twin sister of Benjamin, married Jacob Buckhout, Jr.; Rachel, another sister, married David Buckhout ; Ann, bom 1800, married the late Martin Smith, so long the proprietor of the noted Couenhoven-Smith Inn at Broadway and Main St., Tarrytown ; Rosetta, married William Dutclier, 3d, a grandson of Capt. Wm. Dutclier ; Jane, daughter of Abraham Odell and Christina his wife, married Abraham Buckhout ; Elizabeth, another daughter, married Nicholas Storms ; a sou Clinton, married Susannah Ackerman. Christina, widow of Abraham Odell, died March 16, 1851, aged 86 years, and was buried in the old Dutch Churchyard.

The Isaac Odell who is said to have been one of the Westchester Guides, was a son of Isaac, Sr., one of the brothers of Jonathan Odell, Sr., of Philipse Manor. He married his cousin Hannah Odell, daughter of Abraham Odell.

General Jacob Odell of Yonkers, born 1756, was the son of Abraham, brother of Jonathan, Sr. An interesting fact in regard to this Patriot officer of the Revolution, is the following statement said to have been made by him in after years. He used to recount the time and the place where himself and three other cousins of the name (Odell) volun-