No layman of the Episcopal church was more instrumental than himself in uniting all its members in the United States under one constitution, and in obtaining the consecration of her first bishops.

At his death Judge Duane was survived by his widow, one son and four daughters. The son was the late James C. Duane, of Schenectady. His oldest daughter married the late General North of Duanesburgh, and is long since dead. His second daughter married George W. Featherstonhaugh, an English

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gentleman, who after her death returned to England, and has been for some years consul at Havre. "Another daughter married the late Alfred S. Pell Esq., and is yet living in the city of New-York, and the remaining daughter resides in Duanesburgh, and for her disposition and deeds of charity, is the worthy representative of her distinguished father.

Judge Duane is interred under the church he built in Duanesburgh, and a neat mural tablet within the church is erected to his memory. His widow survived until 1821, and is buried beside her husband, and:a similar monument to his, records her memory, and reminds us of her virtues. There are two original portraits of Judge Duane preserved; one by Coply, painted about the year 1773, now in the possession of his great granddaughter, Mrs. Weston, of Augusta, Maine ; the other painted by C. W. Peale, about the close of the revolution, now in the possession of his grandson, James Duane, of Franklin county, and of which the one in the City Hall, of New-York, is a copy.