. American family antiquity, being an account of the origin and progress of American families, traced from their progenitors in this country, connected with their history abroad ... o higher motive, would lead me, as I leavehis fiiirure in this modest niche, to eive to hissculptured arm that upward inclination thatwould point towards Heaven as the source ofthe power which had Redeemed his soul, andanimated it with all its best and noblest in-spirations. And, as an Inscription surmount-ing the name of Thomas Stokes, which shallappropriately voice the sentiment of hiswhole heart and all his life
. American family antiquity, being an account of the origin and progress of American families, traced from their progenitors in this country, connected with their history abroad ... o higher motive, would lead me, as I leavehis fiiirure in this modest niche, to eive to hissculptured arm that upward inclination thatwould point towards Heaven as the source ofthe power which had Redeemed his soul, andanimated it with all its best and noblest in-spirations. And, as an Inscription surmount-ing the name of Thomas Stokes, which shallappropriately voice the sentiment of hiswhole heart and all his life, I deeply gravethe inspired motto : Not unto us, OLord! not unto us, but unto Thy Name giveGlory. Thomas Stokes above was born in London,England, in December, 1/65, and removedto New York in the Spring of 179S, wherehe died loth October, 1832. He was married to Elizabeth Ann Boulter,third daughter of James Boulter, Esq., ofLowestoff, England, by whom he had twelvechildren. His son James Stokes, Esq., of New York,was married by Rev. Dr. Skinner to Caro-line Phelps, daughter of Anson G. Phelps,Esq., of New York, by whom he has hadeight children. o .;2/j- -i/V DUNBAR. .J2/S2/C. ^mSh^. -c 5)1 DUNBAR. LINEAGE. The Scots Charters, preserved in Dur-ham, and the Register of Kelso, disclose thatthe Earls of Dunbar and March were de-scended of Gospatrick, Earl of Northumber-land. After Northumberland (one of the sevenSaxon Kingdoms of England) became aProvince, the Earls thereof were only Officialand Provincial, and not Hereditary; and theywere often changed at the pleasure of theSovereign.—Burkes Peera2;-e, Dunbar ofMochrum. Before the Conquest of England by Wil-liam, Duke of Normandy, Crinan, nat. circa970, was Saxon Earl of Northumberland. Hisson Maldred, nat. circa 1000, was Progenitorof that great and honorable Family of theNevills, which for many ages past hath flour-ished in this Kingdom.—Dusfdales Baron-age, pub. 1675, page 54. Maldred was the father of— I. Earl Gospatrick
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