. Letters from Waldegrave cottage. I MAGDALEN WALDEGKAVE. J L Let me explain at the outset my reasons fornaming the spot from which I am now writing,^ Waldegrave Cottage. It is said, and with con-siderable show of truth, that the writer is a descend-ant of the Earl of Waldegrave, who died in Englandmany years since/leaving large possessions. Thatsome of his descendants came to this country, andlived and died here is well known. At least, threeof their tomb-stones may still be seen in TrinityChurch-yard, in the City of New York. They standto the north of the Church, about fifty feet west ofthe
. Letters from Waldegrave cottage. I MAGDALEN WALDEGKAVE. J L Let me explain at the outset my reasons fornaming the spot from which I am now writing,^ Waldegrave Cottage. It is said, and with con-siderable show of truth, that the writer is a descend-ant of the Earl of Waldegrave, who died in Englandmany years since/leaving large possessions. Thatsome of his descendants came to this country, andlived and died here is well known. At least, threeof their tomb-stones may still be seen in TrinityChurch-yard, in the City of New York. They standto the north of the Church, about fifty feet west ofthe iron railing on Broadway. One of them is quitemodern and in a good state of preservation. It is tothe memory of George Walgrave who died in 1785,and his wife, Magdalen, who died in 1821—the for-mer, aged sixty-two years, and the latter, ninety-nine years. Their daughter, Magdalen, was marriedto my great-grandfather, George Warner, onthe second day of February, 1771. She died Janu-ary 2d, 1814, and her remains, with those of her
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