Jacob, proprietor of the Servoss and Carpenter farms. New Rochelle, mar. Jane Renaud, his children were, 1. Jacob. 2. David, who had Jacob, Isaac, Maria, who mar. Charles Dusenberry of New Rochelle, and Lewis P. The latter had John, who d. April 1848, and James. 3. Esther, mar. Henry Pinckney. n. Isaac, mar. Frances Badeau, da. of John, and left, 1. Isaac, b. 1754, proprietor of the Homestead, New Rochelle. 2. John, d. 3. James, mar.

Geraud, and had three sons, Andrew, (Major) Elijah, and Rev. George,

all of New Rochelle. HI. John, d. s. p. mar, Catharine . IV. Catharine. V. Esther. VI. Susan. VII. Miriam.

Cromwell of Harrison. " The family of the Protector, which arose in Wales, and was deemed illustrious by the genealogists of the principality, bore the surname of Cromwell, by assumption only, its patronimic, Williams, having been abandoned at the special desire of King Henry VIII. "That monarch," saith Noble, " strongly recommended to the Welsh, (whom he incorporated with the English,) to adopt the mode of most civilized nations, in taking family names, instead of their manner of adding their father's, and perhaps grandfather's name, to their own Christian one, nap, or ap^ between the Christian and surname, as Morgan ap Williams, or Richard ap Morgan ap Williams, that is, Richard the son of Morgan, the son of Williams ; and the King was the more anxious as it was found so inconvenient in identifying persons in judicial matters. Richard's father seems to have taken the name of Williams for his family name ; but as the surname of Williams was of so late a standing, his Majesty recommended it to Sir Richard to use that of Cromwell in honor of his relation, the Earl of Essex, whose present greatness entirely obliterated his former meanness."* The several branches of the Cromwell family in America claim descent from the same parent stock as that of the Protector Oliver Cromwell.