His name appears in early manhood as town clerk, about the time of the Revolution and for some years after, and then as supervisor. Like his father and his grandfather, he was in dress and manner a strict member of the Society of Friends, of high character and fine personal appearance, nearly six feet in height, and bearing himself with grace and dignity. The only portrait of him is here copied from a pencil sketch, said to have been a good likeness at the time, made when he was eighty years old, in 1841, by his

Ninth -- Beiuamin, horn 1760, died 1760.

Tenth -- Benjamin, born 1761, died 1841 ; married Ist, 19th of 3d month, 1783, .\lice Sutton, daugliter of William Sutton and Dorcas Clapp ; married 2d, on the 9th of 5th month, 1804, Pamelia Farrington, and had ten children, ae follows ;

l6t. .lohn, born 1783, died 1864 ; married Sarah Matthews; 2d, Mary .\nn Porter, ami had: William H., of Newtown, Elizabeth, .\ndrew J., Jesse, Arvin Alice, .\nna Maria, Sarah and Emily and .John H.

2d. Jesse, born 178.5, died 1805.

3d. Jane, born 1787, died IS ; married David Arnold.

4th. Silas, I)om 1789, died at Rochester, 1854 ; marrie<i, 1815, Sarah Mott. born 1791, died 1872, daughter of Adam and .-Vnnie Mott, and had : First -- Thomas Clapp, of whom further mention is made in our account of Yonkers, l>orn 1819 ; married, 1850, Jane K. Bashford, borii 1829, daughter of John and Esther A. (Guion) Bashford, of Yonkers.