He made his will, date of Oct. 7, 1 776, and it showed him to be possessed of a considerable estate. The farm, consisting of 262 acres, comprising the present Benedict- Cobb estate and other lands adjoining, after the Revolution came into the possession of his sous-in law Col. Hammond and Capt. Geo. Comb, who were his executors. He left sons, Griffin, Joseph, Jacob, Caleb, Thomas and John, and daughters Xeneia, wife of Col. Hammond, Elizabeth, (wife of Capt. Comb,) and Sarah.

Thomas Wildey, Jr. , (as the name is now written) had a son William who had Will. H. Wildey, now of Pcekskill. Caleb Wildey, son of Thomas, Sr., lived in a house on the site of the Bull place, corner of Wildey St. and Broadway. He married Deborah MeKeel and had son Pierre who married Mary Ann Mandeville and had Pierre W. Wildey, Esq., of New York. Caleb also had sons Caleb, Jr., and Elisha. A daughter married the late Henry E. Haight, and he and Pierre Wildey, the father of Pierre W., were in business here for many years and were well known and influential members of the old Point Dock Regency. Sarah, another daughter of Caleb, Sr. , married Jasper Odell and was so the mother of John J. Odell of Tarrytown.

1 he Roomer Family.

Mrs. Charity Tompkins, in an interview, date of Aug. 31, 1847, gives the following sketch of the Romer family, early of this vicinity : " Old Mr. (Jacob) and Mrs. Romer, parents of John Romer, came from the same parish, or village, in Switzerland, and had become attached to each other in early infancy ; she the daughter of a farmer, and lie the son of a tailor, and a tailor himself. When grown up they wanted to marry, but her parents refused consent.