He was elected a member of the House of Assembly, about the lime of his father's return to the Uriited States; and when, in iSo6, William Cottam Longe, Esq., who was elected speaker, was disallowed by the governor, Lewis Morris Wilkins was chosen in his place ; and approved of, and occupied the chair, by subsequent election, until 1S17, when he was removed to be placed on the bench of the Supreme Court of the colony. Judge Wilkins resided at Windsor. "=

The residence of the late Governeur M. Wilkins is seated on the brow of a hill, near the extremity of the neck and commands an almost uninterrupted view of the river with the adjacent shores. The interior cona The naroi-' l.s siippose'l to be derived from tUo Wnollc, aa lma!?in;irj animal, wl .ch tradition assists iiiliahiteU tht? vai<'. Tlie Whelk id still borub on the coat armor of the family, with tiie M^jaitir.iiit \\ cb-li r.iotto : Siiu ar li) jiyn : angiice, beware of tliyself.

b Burki;'s UK. of th" land ;.l s;catry of E:i;jland, vol. iii, o'JS.

e Lo.'-cnzo t^dUm's Biug. Sketches ot American Loyali-sts.

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AdQ^FraMces Dash^ood Elizabeth ^FruncU Lewis (ttie sillier)

GaUaii.^in;i Lj

Edward H._.Eliza Livlngstoa

Julian (inXaiu)

(His famt"

liaiili JoUnsoa

PEUIGREK OF LUDLOW, OF WESTCHESTER.

Gabriel La(ilow_jSurati Hamaer, Came to New York city, where Tie married , and eettled 1q the year leai, from London,

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Gabriel_^Du \er Flanct: G^orye^.I'raiiCLS Duncan Daniel ^.-Vratjella DoDcan Robert ^Elizabeth Co;iV;id Aan^Kmiicea Dasr.woiJd Elizabeth „FriincL> Lewis (the ai^ner)