Mark's Church in the Bowery,) the governors of three different dynasties, Dutch, EngUsh and American, repose almost side by side. In the Stuyvesant vault, next to Governor Stuyvesant are the remains of the English governor, Colonel Henry Sloughter, who died in 1691. In the vault of Mr. Miathorne, not far distant, the body of Daniel D. Tompkins, a former governor ,Qf th* state of New York, was interred. Parish Annals by Henry Anthon, D. D,

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ficer becoming enraged, drew his sword and struck the nnoffend' ing blacksmith to the ground. In revenge for this brutal assauitj Elijah Vincent, a brother of the smith, concealed himself in the vicinity of the Morris house, and whilst the French officer was passing, on his return from Bearmore's expedition, shot him dead.

The Popham family were originally from Pophara, in the county of Hampshire, England, and spring from Gilbert Popham, of Popham, who in the year 1200 married Joan, daughter and heiress of Robert Clarke, a feoffee in trust for the manor of Popham. They were greatly distinguished by the favor of the Empress Maud, A. D. 1140, and held high and honorable stations in the reign of Henry the third. To Hampshire county they gave several sheriffs.^ Sixth in descent from Gilbert Popham was Sir John Popham, knight of the Bath, lord chief justice of the Q,ueen's Bench, purchaser of the Littlecot estate, Wiltshire, England ; this individual died, A. D. 1607, and his remains repose under a magnificent tomb in the church of Wellington, surrounded by a palisade of wood and iron ; on a tablet are the effigies of himt;elf and Lady Popham. His only son was Sir Francis Po})ham, Knt., of Littlecot, Wilts. This gentleman, together with his son Alexander, became so obnoxious to King Charles the first, that he excepted them both out of the general pardon.