Lispenard Stewart, &.c.

Tu the immediate vicinity of the latter is situated Font Hill, the seat of Mr. Edwin Forrest. The edifice which is of stone, after the designs of Mr. Thos. C. Smith, presents a fine specimen of the English castellated style. The building has six towers, affording extended vie\ys of the Hudson River ; the highest of these called the flag or stair tower, is seventy-one feet from the surface of the ground.

Thegothic residenceof Mr. Thomas W. Ludlow occupies a very pleasant spot on the bank of the river, a short distance south of the village; it is almost surrounded by high hills. From this place the noble Hudson appears in all its glory. The edifice is built of brick in the Elizabethian style. The exterior presents quite the beau ideal of an old English country residence. A pretty lodge in the rural gothic order adorns the entrance of the grounds. Mr Thomas W. Ludlow is the youngest son of Thomas Ludlow,

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Esq., who was Marshal of theCoiirt of Admiralty in 1780.^ The family of Ludlow derives its surname from the ancient town so denominated, in the county of Salop, England. They afterwards removed to High Deverell in Wiltshire, about the middle of the 14th century; at which time hved William Ludlow Esq., of High Deverell, from whom lineally descended Sir Henry Ludlow, Knt. of Maiden Bradley, in the county of Wilts, M. P. for that shire, father of Edmund Ludlow, the celebrated republican general during the civil wars, who died in exile, at Vevay, in Switzerland, in 1693, where a monument is erected to his memory. The half brother of Sir Henry Ludlow, was Edmund Ludlow, Esq., ancestor of the American branch. Of this family is Henry Ludlow, Esq. of Clason's neck.