Watts died September 3, 1836, being then within three days of eightyseven years of age. Of his family of eight or nine children, but one survived him, and that one was childless. He had three grandchildren, however, one of whom, John Watts De Peyster, now living in New York, was his chief legatee. Mr. AVatts was the founder and endower of the Leeke and Watts Orphan House, corner One Hundred and Tenth Street and Ninth Avenue, New York.

Caleb Tompkins, son of Jonathan G. Tompkins, of Scarsdale, and eldest brother of Vice-President Daniel D. Tompkins, was first judge of the County Court of Common Pleas from 1808 to 1820, and again from 1823 to 1846. He died January 1, 1846, aged eighty-six years and nine days. He was buried at White Plains. Mr. Tompkins was a learned jurist and a man of great abilities. He possessed, in an eminent degree, the gifts and virtues for which the Tompkins family has ever been noted.

Nehemiah Brown,'-* who served two terms as county judge, was of the ancient family of Brownes of Rye and of Hastings, England, and a lineal descendant of Peter Brown, whose name is inscribed on the Pilgrim's Monument at Plymouth, Mass.

He was born at Rye, Westchester County, November 29, 1775, and until his death, on November 1, 1855, occupied the lands on which he was born, and which had been held by his family since the first settlement of the town. Few men were better known in his county or held in higher esteem. Of sound judgment, inflexible integrity, withal genial and given to hospitality, his counsel was widely sought and valued. He received a captain's commission in the War of 1812, but, as far as is now remembered, was not engaged in the field, being detailed to assist in the fortifications of Throgg's Neck and other points in the vicinity of New York.