Upon the decease of his uncle he inherited the homestead and fifty acres of land. His early circumstances were unfavorable and he enjoyed few educational and religious advantages. During the whole of his life he was a farmer, a business which he conducted with such success that at the time of his death he was the owner of a farm of three hundred acres in a higli state of cultivation, and was generally considered one

of the best agriculturists in the county. He was a devoted and lil)eral member of the Methodist Cluirch, and highly esteemed as a citi7,en. He married Mary, daughter of Benjamin Lyon, and they were the parents of ten children, -- Margaret, born May 27, 1786, married Peter Cornell ; Esther, born January 24, 1788, married Anthony Martine; Abigail, born November 1(), 1789, married Nathaniel Tompkins; Elizabeth A., born .January 29, 1792, died unnuirried in 1831; Phebe, born June 6, 1794, married George Wildey ; Dorothy was born August 27, 1796; Charlotte, born June 20, 1800, married Edward Billington ; Bartholomew was born April 22, 1802 ; Elijah L. was boru'May 5, 1804; Mary L., born September 6, 1806,

married Charles Whiting, of New York ; and John B. was born June 4, 1808. After a long life of active usefulness Mr. (Jedney died December 28, 1841, and rests in the old burying-ground by the Methodist Church in White Plains.

liartholomew Gedney, the oldest son of this family, has passed his entire life on the ancestral farm inherited from his father. Of an exceedingly industrious nature, he has devoted his time and labor to the improvement of his estate, and is widely known as one of the most accomplished agriculturists in the county. Upon this larm one hundred and twelve bushels of shelled corn have been raised