In stature he was small. He is said to have been a man (if reserved manners and of strong likes and dislikes. He is said to have been buried at Cronipond- A tradition among the descendants of Underbill Strang is, that John Strang was an assistant judge ad»-ocate in the Revolutionary War, and, but for the fact that he was away on a furlough, would have acted as judge at the trial of Major Andre.

William Popham, of Scarsdale, practiced in the ^\'^■stchester County Courts in 1785. This gentleman, better known as Major William Po])ham, descended , from a very old and distinguished family, the Pophams of Popham, in the county of Hampshire, Engiand. The sixth in descent from Gilbert Popham, I the founder of the family in the year 1200, was Sir John Popham, Knight of the Bath, lord chief justice * of the Queen's Bench. The Pophams took sides against the King in the English Revolution and, ' upon the restoration of Charles II., John Popham, j the direct ancestor of Major Popham, removed to : Ireland. He was for many years a gentleman of the I household to King James the First, and married, it is said, a daughter of the celebrated president John Bradshaw. His great-grandson, William Popham, of Bundon, county of Cork, Ireland, was the father of Major William Popham- This gallant soldier was born in Ireland in 1752 and came to America with his parents at the early age of nine years. The Pophams settled in the town of Newark (State of Delaware), where William spent his youth and received a finished education. He was intended for the ministry, but on the breaking out of the Revolutionary War he entered the American army.'