A history of Lodge no 61, F and A M., Wilkesbarré, Pa .. with a collection of masonic addresses .. . and War-den of Christ Church, and in 1758 was one of the foremostto assist in the erection of St. Peters Church, at Third andPine streets, Philadelphia. January 13th, 1750, Redmond Conyngham married Mar-tha, daughter of Robert Ellis, Esq., of Philadelphia.* They * Mary Conyngham, sister of Redmond, married the Rev. ThomasPlunket. Their son, William-Conyngham Plunket (born 1765) hav-ing attained the highest eminence at the Bar, and filled successivelythe ofiices of Solicitor and Attorney General
A history of Lodge no 61, F and A M., Wilkesbarré, Pa .. with a collection of masonic addresses .. . and War-den of Christ Church, and in 1758 was one of the foremostto assist in the erection of St. Peters Church, at Third andPine streets, Philadelphia. January 13th, 1750, Redmond Conyngham married Mar-tha, daughter of Robert Ellis, Esq., of Philadelphia.* They * Mary Conyngham, sister of Redmond, married the Rev. ThomasPlunket. Their son, William-Conyngham Plunket (born 1765) hav-ing attained the highest eminence at the Bar, and filled successivelythe ofiices of Solicitor and Attorney General in Ireland, was createda Baron by patent dated Jime ist, 1827, upon his advancement to theChief Justiceship of the Court of Common Pleas. He was constituted,in 1830, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, which high office he held almostuninterruptedly till 1841. He was one of the greatest of Irish orators. The present Lord Plunket, grandson of the first Baron, was conse-crated, in 1876, Bishop of Meath, Province of Armagh, Ireland, andin 1885 l^e was translated Lord Archbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ire-. Hon. JOHN N. CONYNGHSM, , D, 203 had six children, of whom the eldest was David HayfieldConyngham, born March 21st, 1756, in the North of Ire-land, where his parents were then temporarily the year 1775, Redmond Conyngham left Philadel-phia and returned to Ireland, where he died in 1784. David H. Conyngham remained in this country, andtook his fathers place in the house of J. M. Nesbitt &Company, then, and for many years afterwards, one of themost extensive mercantile establishments in the War of the Revolution the name of the firm waschanged to Conyngham & Nesbitt. David H. Conyngham was an original member of TheLight Horse of the City of Philadelphia (subsequently the First Philadelphia Troop of Horse, and now the FirstCity Troop ), organized in November, 1774, under Markoe. It was the first organization of volun-teers in the Colonies
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