John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd Vol. I: Their Descendants and Related Families 18Th to 21St Centuries

By Barbara Broome Semans

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This book follows the lives of an American family started by John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd after they married in 1769. They already were supporters of the patriot cause and John actively participated in the Revolution. After the Revolution he helped establish the first U.S. government in New York City. Before he died, John Broome had a street in New York City, a county in New York State, and a town in New York named for him.

John and Rebecca had nine children. Three of them had descendants whose lives form these two volumes. Over a period of 235 years these three children and their spouses produced over 280 descendants. Together with their spouses and their spouses families there are a total of over 900 related persons mentioned in these two volumes. There are over 80 pictures.

Volume I covers the 1st throught the 5th generations of descendants and their spouses. Though many sources are given throughout Volume I, all endnotes for sources are in Volume II. In addition to the Broome family, Volume I has stories of the families of Allen, Boarman, Boggs, Brunnow, Cochran, Hoadley, Keyworth, Livingston, McGlassin, Miller, Nevins, OGorman, OHare, Prince, Randall, Ray, Roller, Sampson, Schempf, Schilling, Shaw, Stevens, Tappan, Toole, and many more in America; and from Europe, de Courval, de Gallifet, de Ligne, de Noailles, and Orlowski.

As you read their stories you also follow the evolving development of New York City from its dirt streets and hills to its expansion up Manhattan Island from Wall Street to Greenwich Village to 5th Avenue mansions, from combination business/residences to skyscrapers and high-rise apartments. Youll see who made money and how. Youll see who had harder times financially. Throughout, youll learn how they lived, what they did, and what interested them. Youll see how later generations moved to other parts of America and to Europe. You can read what was written about these people in the newspapers both the good and the bad.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 26, 2009
• ISBN: 9781462811137

Barbara Broome Semans

Letitia Broome Schwarz grew up in New Jersey and worked in New York City. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in history. Her interest in history, particularly in the 18th century, has continued to the present time. Extensive traveling in the eastern coastal states from Maine to Virginia has enabled her to visit many historic sites multiple times. Her interest in family history started as a young adult and developed into years of research. Barbara Broome Semans enjoys problem-solving she has a B.S. degree in math. So it was only natural that her interest was aroused by her sisters research. Barbaras interest developed into many years of extensive family-history research and travel to most of the places discussed in this book.

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JOHN BROOME and

REBECCA LLOYD

Their Descendants and Related Families

18th to 21st Centuries

Barbara Broome Semans

and

Letitia Broome Schwarz

Volume I

Copyright © 2009 by Barbara Broome Semans and Letitia Broome Schwarz.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

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To our Dad, Fred Broome, who inspired us to find out

more about our extended family, and to our brother,

Dave Broome, who felt very strongly about family and

kept the Broome name alive.

Contents

Introduction

In this family history book, genealogical order numbers are assigned

only to individuals whose children are listed separately. Other

individuals are described under their parents rather than in the

next generation to which they actually belong. Not all individuals

are listed in the table of contents. For a further explanation, read

the introduction.

SECTION 1

John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd and Their Descendants

Family Tree Charts

Chapter 1Generation No. 1

John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd

Chapter 2 Generation No. 2

John Lloyd Broome and Frances Ann McGlassin

Sarah Lloyd Broome and James Boggs

Julia Broome and John Walter Livingston

Caroline Matilda Broome and Darby B. Noon

Chapter 3 Generation No. 3

John Lloyd Broome II and Mary Cochran

George Temple Broome and S. Amelia Prince

Laura Broome

Charlotte Broome

Frederick Broome and Lillian and Julia Roller

Julia L. Broome and Burton T. Beach

William Henry Broome and Mary Jane Boarman

Charles Boarman Broome

Anna Broome

Mary Rebecca Boggs and Richard Ray

Julia A. Boggs and Lewis Howard Livingston

Julia Livingston and Henry Philip Tappan .

Adele C. Livingston and Joseph Sampson

Mary Augusta Livingston and John William (Turk) Livingston

Chapter 4 Generation No. 4

George Cochran Broome and Mary Orme Keyworth

William H. Broome and Rose O’Hare

Marguerite Broome

Rosemary Broome and J. Arthur Volz

John L. Broome and Julia Lounsbury

Lela Genevieve Broome and Halsey B. Toole

Edward Toole and Caroline Boysen

Frances Broome and John L. Schempf

Marie Adele Broome and Richard Randall

William H. Broome and Marguerite Abshire

Glen Abshire Broome and Lilly Mohr

Mary Ray and Vicomte Arthur-Constant du Bois de Courval

Rebecca Lloyd Tappan and Franz Brunnow

Adele Livingston Sampson and Frederic W. Stevens

Joseph S. Stevens and Clara Sherwood

Chapter 5 Generation No. 5

M. Josephine Broome and C. J. O’Gorman

and Roland Schilling

Columba Broome O’Gorman and Marilyn McCourt

Barbara O’Gorman and John McMahon and Robert C. Long .

Josephine Schilling and William Edgar Clemens

William J. Broome and Margaret Alt

Harold Broome and Mary Thelma LaTourette

Walter L. Broome and Sarah Early

William Broome and Annamarie Homberg

Walter L. Broome and Margaret Cook

G. Frederick Broome and Letitia Nevins

Barbara Broome and Robert L. Semans

Burton E. Broome and Ann Wall

Charles B. Toole and Frances Jordan

Jeannette F. Randall and James Freeman Miller

Madeleine de Courval and Prince Francois-

Eugene Joseph Marie de Noailles

Henri de Noailles and Marie de Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville

Charles de Noailles and Marie-Laure Bischofsheim

Philippine de Noailles and Prince Eugene de Ligne

Rudolph Brunnow and Marguerite Beckwith

Marguerite Brunnow and Nelson Titus Hoadley

Hildegarde Brunnow and Robert Wallace Shaw

Adele Stevens and Frederick Hobbes Allen

Frederic Stevens Allen

Frances Gallatin Stevens and Count Charles de Gallifet

Marguerite de Gallifet and Count Jehan de Jouffroy-Gonsans

Charles de Gallifet

Jacqueline de Gallifet

Mabel Ledyard Stevens and Count Micislas Orlowski

Alexandre Orlowski and Muriel Mullins and Gladys Goudie

Stanislaus Orlowski

Volume II

Chapter 6. Generation No. 6

R. Kurt Schilling and Joyce H. Wall .

Cynthia J. Schilling and Raymond E. Jones

Elizabeth R. Broome and Paul T. Fallon

Violet Broome and William H. Geiss

Letitia Rose Broome and William E. Schwarz

Letitia L. Schwarz

G. David Broome and Veronica Calnon

Michael C. Broome and Theresa A. Buckley

Shaun J. Broome and Melissa A. Chalmers

Burton E. Broome and Ann Curtis

Elizabeth A. Broome and Eugene P. Valley

Charles B. Toole and Louise A. Henders

Charles B. Toole

Katherine Brunnow and Louis Morton Faulkner

Diana Faulkner and John Forby Schereschewsky

Barbara F. G. Allen and Andre M. Vagliano

Dorothee Vagliano and Vicomte Jacques de Saint Sauveur

Sonia Vagliano and Philippe Eloy

Alexander M. Vagliano and spouses

Joan L. Allen and Goodhue Livingston

Julian Broome Allen and Alice Moore Harding

Priscilla A. S. Allen and Francis Jackson Hallowell

Chapter 7. Generation No. 7

Eric M. Schwarz and Rebecca J. Nickerson

W. Christopher Schwarz and Lucia A. Pasquini

Laura Schwarz and Dean T. Buckius

Ellen Schwarz and Eric Gil

Jonathan Schwarz and Diane L. Thompson

Matthew P. Schwarz and Veronica Gill

David A. Broome and Lisa A. Schellhorn

John Lloyd Broome and Colleen Makosky

Patrick M. Broome and Dr. Jennifer L. Sheehe

Section 2. Related Families

Chapter 8. Ancestors and Family of Mary Orme Keyworth

Ann Orme and Frederick Keyworth and James Barbour .

Mary Orme Keyworth and George C. Broome

Frederick Keyworth Barbour and spouses

Chapter 9. Ancestors and Family of John Walter Livingston

John William Livingston and Ann Saunders

Chapter 10. Generation No. 2 for Livingston Family

John Walter Livingston and Julia Broome

Eliza W. Livingston and William Turk

Catherine A. Livingston and Mariano Velasquez

Chapter 11. Ancestors and Family of Letitia Nevins

John O’Gara and Annie Hogg

Honoria O’Gara and Matthew Golden

Chapter 12. Generation No. 2 for O’Gara Family

Mary O’Gara and Michael Breheny

Julia Judge and Patrick Herrity

Michael O’Gara and Bridget Keane

Chapter 13. Generation No. 3 for O’Gara Family

Mary Judge and Patrick McGoldrick

Jennie Judge and Patrick Laughlin

Letitia Judge and Martin Nevins

Nora Judge and Michael Reidy

Susan Judge and Timothy Riley

Patrick J. Breheny and Elizabeth Reynolds and Delia Finlay

Winifred Breheny and Thomas Keohane

Margaret O’Gara and William Higgins

Chapter 14. Generation No. 4 for O’Gara Family

Florence McGoldrick and Edmund Dondero

Thomas B. Laughlin and Julia McIntyre

Mary F. Nevins and Patrick Flaherty

Letitia Nevins and G. Frederick Broome

Kathleen Nevins and Thomas Flynn

Gertrude Nevins and Francis Farley

Beatrice Nevins and Edward Dolan

Joseph Reidy and Helen Poplis

William Riley and Anna Brady

Joseph Brehony

Mae Brehony and Martin Loftus

George Brehony and Kathleen O’Connell

Gertrude Keohane and Thomas F. Nee

Chapter 15. Generation No. 5 for O’Gara Family

Mary E. Laughlin and Lester Arnold

George R. Laughlin and Maija Leskinen

Patricia Flaherty and Alfred Jannett

Edward Dolan and Margo Koelbl

Stephen Dolan and Stefanie Tausz

Anthony Brehony and Barbara McManus

Chapter 16. Ancestors and Family of Rose O’Hare

Patrick O’Hare and Bridget Lennan

Chapter 17. Generation No. 2 for O’Hare Family

Michael O’Hare and Margaret Duffy

Rose O’Hare and William H. Broome

Mary Ellen O’Hare and Simon Heher

Francis O’Hare and Annie L. Fox

William O’Hare and Gertrude Starbuck

Endnotes for Descendants of John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd

Endnotes for Keyworth Family

Endnotes for Livingston Family

Endnotes for O’Gara Family

Endnotes for O’Hare Family

Bibliography

Introduction

Seeing the name BROOME ST on the street sign as our father drove out of the Holland Tunnel into Manhattan piqued the curiosity of two young ladies with the last name of Broome. And when our father told us about our great-great-great-grandfather for whom the street was named and showed us other locations in New York City where relatives had lived, we were eager to learn more. But the tales were short, and our interest waned.

But in her early twenties, Letitia Broome’s interest in history—in how people lived and what they thought—brought a revival of her curiosity about her ancestors. Letitia started doing research the hard way—the only way available then. She went to libraries and searched through books, many of which had no indexes. She looked through old records on microfilm. There were no copiers or printers available then, so she had to transcribe information by hand. She visited historical organizations. She went to lectures. She solicited stories from older relatives. She read and bought any book she could find with pertinent information. And she did this in her spare time as she and her husband, Bill Schwarz, raised their family. Many, many years later, her sister, Barbara Broome Semans, hearing about all Letty had learned, decided to join in the research and document the findings. By then, research was a lot easier. Many more of the older documents were more easily available. Some information was made available to the public for the first time. Some documents—or at least indexes to them—were available online via the Internet. But the old methods of reading and looking at microfilm were needed as well. We looked at actual eighteenth- and nineteenth-century newspapers in addition to viewing newspapers on microfilm and online on the Internet. There were many on-site visits to such places as: Municipal Archives of the City of New York, the New York Main Public Library, Sutro Library in San Francisco, Santa Clara (CA) Public Library, the libraries of the University of California in Berkeley and in San Diego, and the state libraries of New York, Connecticut, California, and Nevada. There were numerous visits to local LDS Family History Centers and a weeklong visit to their main library in Salt Lake City. We visited places where relatives had lived—Staten Island, New York City, Brooklyn Heights, Philadelphia, Newport, Wethersfield (CT), Los Angeles, and Ireland—to get a feel for the environment and its changes, as well as to collect records. Barbara contacted numerous churches to obtain copies of their old baptismal and marriage records. She obtained city, county, and state records of births, marriages, deaths and wills, and records of purchases and sales of property.

After another sixteen years of research, it was decided that an incomplete (there is always more that can be done) published book is better than a more completely researched pile of papers and notes. Because of all the years of research, such a large amount of information was gathered that it did not fit into one book. For this reason it was necessary to put the information about John Broome’s descendants into two volumes. In order to make these two volumes as useful as possible, each table of contents covers both volumes, but each volume has its own index to the individuals named in that volume. All of the endnotes and the bibliography are in volume 2. It can be very useful to have volume 1 opened to the page referencing an endnote, and have volume 2 opened to the page which contains that numbered endnote. The bibliography can be used in a similar manner. (Research is almost complete for a book on the ancestors of John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd. Research is continuing for a separate biography of John Broome.)

So the decision was made to publish what we have gathered about the descendants of John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd. We gathered as much as we could find, whether or not the information was flattering, in an effort to give as complete a picture as possible about what was happening in a person’s life. It is well to keep in mind that, just like today, an older story may or may not be true or correct in all of its facts. In using census data, we supply the data just as it appears in the census even though ages and dates for births are frequently inaccurate, especially for adults. It is well to remember that census takers went to individual homes, and women often (and men not as often) would give their ages as younger. Sometimes the individual was not at home, and information had to be obtained from neighbors who did not know the correct information. Names also are not always correct because neighbors guessed at names or because the census taker spelled names incorrectly. Additional errors have occurred in the creation of online census indexes and extractions from census databases, due to misinterpretation of some census takers’ hard-to-read handwriting.

For those cases where the exact location of a wedding or baptism is not known, but where there is a church record from a particular church, or a newspaper report naming the presiding minister of a particular church, we list that particular church as the location of the event. However, especially in the 18th or 19th century, it is possible that the event took place at home rather than in a church building. If the exact location is known, it is so stated in the text for the individual.

Superscript numbers have been used in this book in two ways. The italicized superscript numbers are used to show to which generation individuals belong, and/or to show the sequence of descent from the first generation. The non-italicized superscript numbers in the text are used to reference specific endnotes that describe the source of the information in the text. Though endnote numbers are sequential within a family group, sometimes endnote numbers were skipped because they were duplicates of other endnotes. No skipped endnote numbers are referenced in the text.

All data in these volumes are from public sources or from involved families’ documents or from living family members. All research was done in the United States, with the single exception of a small amount of time spent on-site in Ireland. It is important to look at the endnotes to determine the reliability of the sources and the explanations given for choosing particular sources. As much as possible—as constraints on time and resources would permit—primary sources or sources contemporaneous to the events have been used. But some secondary sources have been used as well. The sources are grouped in the bibliography in three sections—contemporaneous, newspapers, and secondary sources. In addition to specific numbered sources in the endnotes, sources are frequently given within the text. For some of the sources in the endnotes and within the text, abbreviations have been used; please see the bibliography in volume 2 for the full reference information. Some data about living persons, though known, have not been included for privacy reasons.

We thank all those who have contributed information. Our aunt Marguerite Broome preserved family documents, pictures, and mementos and saved the scrapbooks of Laura Broome and Julia Livingston (Broome) Beach. Jon Schwarz and his sons made a special trip to New York City to photograph Broome Street for the book cover. Robert Semans provided support on fact-finding trips and took photographs at these locations. In addition, we owe particular thanks to photographer and friend Bob Loring for his work with our old photographs.

In using these volumes and in looking for descendants, it is important to know and remember that the structure of the genealogical system used in these volumes only assigns a number to an individual if that person has a child or children specifically identified in the genealogical system. Only numbered individuals are placed in the correctly numbered generation. All other descendants are listed under their parents (either because they had no children or because their children were not genealogically identified but were just included in the text under one of their parents) and, therefore, are not listed in the generation to which they belong. The table of contents shows this genealogical structure. However, the table of contents does not list all individuals. The index should be used to find an individual who is not in the table of contents. Note that because the ages at which individuals marry and have children vary from quite young to fairly old, the individuals in a particular genealogical generation are not necessarily contemporaries. For example, John Lloyd Broome (son of John Broome), married at about age 49 and his youngest child was born in 1831. His sister Julia married about 14 years before he did, at about age 27, and her children were considerably older than his were. In fact, it is Julia’s grandson, John Tappan, born in 1831, who is a contemporary of her brother’s son. The gap widens as the generations continue.

We have attempted to include all descendants of John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd through the fifth generation of descendants and believe we have done so. For the sixth, seventh, and eighth generations, we know we have not included all of the descendants. This was done because many of the descendants of these generations are still living, and we wish to respect their privacy, and all of the data is not yet readily available as public information. Also, some of these descendants are living overseas, and very little research has been done overseas.

If anyone would like to contribute information or make corrections, we would be happy to receive them at [e-mail].

SECTION 1

John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd

and Their Descendants

Family Tree Charts

The family tree charts are supplied to graphically show the line of descent from certain individuals. Unlike the body of the text in these volumes, which have descendants grouped by generation depending upon the genealogical numbering of the children, the tree chart shows the descendants in the correct generation. However, the tree chart only shows the direct descendants of the individual named on the title of the chart. Not all tree charts show all generations. The supplied tree charts are as follows:

Chart no. 1: Descendants of John Broome—shows his (first) and his children’s (second) generations and spouses

Chart no. 2: Descendants of John Lloyd Broome—shows his (second) and his children’s (third) generations and spouses

Chart no. 3: Descendants of John L. Broome II—shows his (third), his children’s (fourth), and grandchildren’s (fifth) generations and spouses

Chart no. 4: Direct Descendants of John Lloyd Broome to Matthew Schwarz—shows second through seventh generations. Spouses are given for the second and third generations, but for the fourth generation, the only spouse listed is Rose E. O’Hare because she was the only spouse to have children. All of her children are listed in the fifth generation, but only one, G. F. Broome, is shown with his children (sixth generation). The children of their eldest child, Letitia R. Broome, are listed in the seventh generation.

Chart no. 5: Direct Descendants of John Lloyd Broome to Shaun Broome—

same as the above mentioned chart except that the children of G. F. Broome’s youngest child, G. D. Broome, are listed in the seventh generation.

Chart no. 6: Descendants of Wm. H. Broome, son of George T. Broome—shows fifth and sixth generations and spouses.

Chart no. 7: Descendants of W. H. Broome, son of John Lloyd Broome. This two-page chart shows W. H. Broome, grandson of John Broome (third generation). W. H. Broome’s children and their spouses are the fourth generation. W. H. Broome’s grandchildren and their spouses are the fifth generation. The sixth and seventh generations are only partial.

Chart no. 8: Descendants of Sarah L. Broome—shows second through sixth generations and spouses.

Chart no. 9: Descendants of Julia Broome—shows her (second), her children’s (third), and her grandchildren’s (fourth) generations and spouses.

Chart no. 10: Descendants of Julia Livingston, daughter of Julia Broome—

shows third through sixth generations and spouses.

Chart no. 11: Descendants of Adele L. Sampson, daughter of Adele C. Livingston. Adele C. Livingston was the second daughter of Julia Broome (see chart no. 9). Adele L. Sampson of the fourth generation is shown with her children’s (fifth) generation and spouses, and grandchildren’s (sixth) generation and spouses of the Allen family. All spouses of the de Gallifet and Orlowski families are not shown on this chart.

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Chapter 1

John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd

1. JOHN BROOME1 was born on July 19, 1738, in Fresh Kills, Staten Island, New York,1 and died on August 8, 1810, in his home at 75 Stone Street, New York City, New York.2 He married (1) REBECCA LLOYD, daughter of JOHN LLOYD and SARAH WOOLSEY, on October 19, 1769, in the First Congregational Church, Stamford, Connecticut.3 Rebecca was born on January 2, 1746/47, in Stamford, Connecticut,4 and died on April 10, 1800, in her home at 75 Stone Street, New York City, New York.5 He married (2) RUTH HUNTER on July 9, 1806, in the First Presbyterian Church, New York City, New York; Rev. Dr. Rodgers officiated.6 Ruth was born in either 1755 or 1756 in New York7 and died on December 27, 1840, in her home on Second Avenue, New York City, New York.8

Notes for JOHN BROOME:

John Broome was an early New York Patriot whose public service and private character gave him the reputation to be honored during his lifetime with a street, a county, and a town named for him—Broome Street in New York City, Broome County in New York State, and the town of Broome in Schoharie County, New York.

John Broome was the second son, and the youngest of four children, of Samuel Broome and Marie LaTourette. Samuel was a Staten Island merchant and an elder of the Presbyterian church in Staten Island, New York. John’s mother was born in New York on September 23, 1693, of French Huguenot parents, Jean LaTourette and his wife, Marie Mercereau. Both parents had been born in France; the father in Osse en Bearn and the mother in Moise en St. Onge. They married at the French Church du Saint Esprit in New York. A few years after the birth of Marie, her family moved to a 75-acre farm on Staten Island purchased by her father. He helped establish a French church on Staten Island. In 1715, Jean LaTourette was elected assessor of Staten Island; in 1724, he was justice of the court for special sessions. In 1734, after the death of both of the parents of his wife, Samuel Broome purchased the farm and moved his family into the stone house built by his father-in-law.

So John Broome grew up in Staten Island on the same farm that his mother did. John studied law under William Livingston in the city of New York. (William Livingston and William Smith were the first to codify New York law. William Livingston later became the first Patriot governor of New Jersey.) John’s practice of law was concerned chiefly with drawing up legal documents and administering wills, but though he continued to handle legal matters and even was appointed a master in chancery after the Revolution, his main interest and occupation was that of a merchant, importing and exporting goods. Initially he was a partner in the firm of Phoenix, Broome & Company with his brother, Samuel Broome; Daniel Phoenix, later husband of Samuel’s sister-in-law; and Jeremiah Platt, Samuel’s brother-in-law. In 1765, they were among the many merchants who protested the Stamp Act by supporting an embargo against British shipping. In June of 1766, Daniel Phoenix left the partnership to form his own company, and the others continued as Samuel Broome & Company. After the Intolerable Acts were passed in England in 1769, John Broome became one of the 24 members of the Committee of Inspection to ensure compliance with the nonimportation agreement signed by the New York merchants, including John and his brother. John continued to support reasoned opposition to onerous English acts even when it adversely affected his merchant business.

In 1769, John married Rebecca Lloyd, the sister of one of his customers, who was also a strong Patriot. In February 1771, John sold his partnership interest to his two other partners and started his own firm under the name John Broome. In May 1771, John’s first child was born and was named John Lloyd Broome. In 1774, the family (by then there were three children) moved from rented quarters to 6 Hanover Square, one of the major business locations in the city, to a combination home/business establishment, which John had purchased for £3,100 current money of New York. John continued his merchant business until his death—adding his son to the firm in 1796 and changing the name to John Broome & Son. [NYC deeds, NYC directories, NY newspapers]

John became a communicant of the First Presbyterian Church on Wall Street in New York on February 21, 1772. (Probably he transferred from the Presbyterian church on Staten Island after his father died in 1771.) From 1784 to 1810, he was an elder of this church. For several years he was also president of their board of trustees. John’s involvement with the First Presbyterian Church was extensive and lasted until his death.

John and his brother, Samuel Broome, were very active in the cause of liberty. John’s early involvement in the protests against the British impositions on the colonies led to his elections to the New York Committees of Fifty-one, Sixty, and One Hundred, which ran the Patriot government in 1774 and 1775. During the Revolutionary War, John was an ardent Patriot supporter. To help the fledgling Continental Army, John loaned money (in specie) without interest to advance the pay of Col. Alexander McDougall’s First Regiment. John received thanks and repayment from the New York Provincial Congress on September 2, 1775. John was chairman of the General Committee of the City and County of New York in 1775, which operated the Patriot government while the provincial congress was not in session. He was asked to nominate all of the officers for three regiments of militia for New York City. This he did, and though he did not nominate himself, on November 3, 1775, he was appointed lieutenant colonel of John Jay’s Second New York City Regiment (one of the three militia units). The portrait of John Broome in military uniform is at the Roberson Museum in Binghamton, New York. (According to Makers of New York [edited by Charles Morris and published by L. R. Hamersly & Co., Philadelphia, PA, 1895], John Broome gained especial distinction for his daring and impetuous courage during the Revolutionary War.) John was elected to the Third Provincial Congress of New York (May 14-June 30, 1776) and to the fourth, which changed its name to the Convention of the State of New York. It operated sporadically between July 9, 1776, and May 13, 1777. Within one week of the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the representatives from New York on July 9, 1776, John Broome applied for his first letter of marque, for the privateer Independence to prey on enemy shipping. Less than a month later, John applied for a letter of marque for the sloop Harlequin. In addition to providing and supplying the ship, the letter of marque required the posting of a bond (usually for $5,000 to $10,000) to guarantee that the privateer owners and captain would follow the rules for privateers established by the Continental Congress.

In 1776, John Broome was on a committee with Gen. George Washington and two others to advise on disposition of livestock on Long Island to prevent capture and use of the livestock by the British forces then gathering in New York’s harbor. John moved his family to Connecticut for safety—his wife gave birth to their fifth child there just before the Battle of Long Island. After the loss of that battle in August of 1776 and the occupation of New York City by the British, John abandoned his house on Hanover Square and retreated to Connecticut. However, he continued in 1776 and 1777 to be active with the Convention of the State of New York, which met in locations north of the occupied island of Manhattan. John was one of three on a committee to superintend removal of British prisoners. In October 1776, he was appointed to the Committee of Safety that met near the battle lines to conduct the state’s business. In February 1777, the New York Convention, promising to reimburse him for expenditures, appointed John Broome agent for the privateer sloop Montgomery, which belonged to the state of New York [Journals of the Provincial Congress, vol. 1, p. 803]. Many of the privateers were very successful in thwarting the merchant ships of the British.

John was one of 13 appointed in August 1776 to the committee to frame the first constitution for the state of New York. This constitution was submitted to the New York Convention at Kingston, New York, on March 12, 1777, and was adopted on August 20, 1777. (This constitution remained in effect, without changes, until 1822.) With a state constitutional government in place for New York, John devoted his time in Connecticut in arranging for privateers and in serving on many committees with Connecticut Patriots throughout the war. John arranged for two privateers in July of 1777—the brigantine General Washington and the sloop Adams—and for three privateers in the spring of 1778—the sloop Beaver and the ships General McDougall and Mars. John remained in Connecticut throughout the war—first in New Haven, then in Hartford—and operated his merchant business from Wethersfield, Connecticut (of course, no longer trading with Britain). From his merchant business in Wethersfield, he provided supplies to the Connecticut government. (While in Wethersfield, John helped establish the town’s first library.) For services rendered during the Revolutionary War, New York State, on August 13, 1787, gave John Broome three 640-acre lots in Montgomery [later Broome] County, New York.

After the Revolutionary War and after the British evacuated the city in November 1783, John Broome was one of the first aldermen elected in December 1783 to run the City of New York. (There was no pay attached to this office; at the time, it was considered an honor and a civic duty to serve.) For several sessions John rotated as acting president of the board of aldermen until a mayor was appointed. Running the city was a major undertaking, for not only did current requests and duties need to be handled, but also many sections of the city needed to be rebuilt and accounts from before the war needed to be settled. But there were fun moments as well. John and three other men appointed to a committee decided on the appropriate means to be taken by the city government in celebrating the Fourth of July in 1785. Thirteen [for the thirteen states] rounds of cannon fire would take place at sunrise, all the bells (except the alarm bell at city hall and at the jail) would be rung for one hour, starting at 8:00 AM. At twelve noon, the city officials would assemble at city hall, the cannons would be fired, and the bells would be rung again. City officials would proceed to extend the compliments of the city to the governor and the president of the Congressional Congress. Thirteen rounds of cannon fire would occur again at sunset.

John Broome was the elected alderman from the East Ward and was reelected annually until 1786, when he resigned. By then, the Federalist Party was dominant. John was a Republican, and although he ran as the non-Federalist candidate for other offices, such as for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1789, he did not hold another political office until he was elected a member of the New York State Assembly in 1800. However, John did remain active in civic affairs. He served on many committees, often as chairman, and usually was the one who wrote the committee reports or wrote and presented petitions to local, state, and federal officials [Minutes of the Common Council of the City and County of New York].

Immediately after the Revolutionary War, John reestablished his merchant business in New York City. He was one of only a few who repaid, with interest, debts owed prior to the war to British merchants [National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 1, p. 497]. John helped petition for the reestablishment of the chamber of commerce, and when it was reincorporated in 1784, John was elected its treasurer. From 1785 to 1794, he was annually elected president of the New York Chamber of Commerce and remained a member until his death. In April 1789, as president of the chamber of commerce, John Broome called on George Washington and extended best wishes to him shortly before his inauguration as president of the United States.

John Broome was involved in establishing a number of charitable and civic organizations in New York City. For many years, he was on the boards of the City Dispensary (which gave free medical care and medicine to the poor—twelve physicians served as volunteers), the Humane Society (which provided soup to the poor), and the Society for the Relief of Distressed Prisoners (which primarily provided food to people confined to prison for debts). In 1792, he was one of the five founders of the Tontine Coffee House, which was built to hold meetings of the merchants. It also was the first building used by the recently formed stock exchange. John was a director of the New York Insurance Co. (a marine insurance company) and also served as its president. He was on the first board of directors of the Bank of Manhattan Co. in 1799 and continued to serve in that capacity for many years. In 1793, John Broome was appointed chairman of the New York City Committee of Health. He served again in that capacity during the yellow fever epidemic from July to November of 1795. He was treasurer of the New York Missionary Society (established in 1796 to propagate the Gospel) [New York city directories]. In 1809, he was chairman of the Anti-Dueling Association.

John did not have family portraits painted, but a small sketch of him was done secretly by Fairman in 1804 as John sat by the window in a New Jersey tavern. Years later (1889), John’s great-grandson, George Cochran Broome, had a portrait painted by New York artist Charles C. Markham from the sketch. George C. Broome donated this larger (29 x 24) portrait to the New York Chamber of Commerce. This portrait of John Broome was included in a booklet of portraits and sketches of its past presidents by the New York Chamber of Commerce in 1924. In 2003, the entire collection of portraits was donated by the chamber of commerce to New York State Museum in Albany, New York. The use of this picture of John Broome in this publication is courtesy of the New York State Museum, Albany, New York.

In April 1800, John’s wife, Rebecca, died after a long illness. In 1801, John purchased, for $18,000, a country home on 16 acres between the Bloomingdale Road and the Hudson River. [This land was between what is now Broadway and the river, covering some of the land between 71st and 72nd streets, all of the land between 72nd and 73rd streets, and extending north beyond 73rd Street. The layout of the land is shown in the 1864 map in Valentine’s Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York. (Also see 1801 NYC deeds.)] The property had a large house called Chevilly, originally built by Mme. d’Auliffe, dame d’honneur to Marie Antoinette. (Perhaps this country house was purchased because the air was more healthful—several of John’s children, and most likely his wife, had suffered from consumption [tuberculosis]).

Having been elected to the New York State Assembly for two terms (in 1800 and 1801), John was chosen in April 1802 as the Republican candidate from the second district of New York for the office of representative in the U.S. Congress, but he did not win this election. Later in 1802, he was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson as one of the nine commissioners of bankruptcy for New York. (John Broome was frequently appointed or elected to handle financial matters for a number of diverse organizations.) In 1803, John was instrumental in seeing that the franchise in New York City was extended to make more men eligible to vote. John was elected New York State senator in 1804 and was made a member of the four-person council of appointment. The council of appointment was arguably the most powerful council because they had the power to make all the appointments for military and civil positions in the state of New York. Later in 1804, John Broome was elected lieutenant governor of New York (with Morgan Lewis as governor). (The term of office was for three years.) As lieutenant governor, John presided as president of the New York State Senate. He was reelected twice (with Daniel Tompkins as governor) and served until his death in 1810.

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John Broome about 1804

On March 28, 1806, the New York State Legislature passed an act creating Broome County in honor of John Broome, current lieutenant governor of New York. John was asked to design the county seal of office. John replied to the county clerk, saying, I wish the device had been fixed upon by the County. However, since it has been very politely referred to my discretion, I naturally would prefer one emblematic of the name [Barrett, Old Merchants of New York, p. 228]. This seal (which is still used today) consists of a figure of Justice on the right side and, on the left side, a family coat of arms for Broome showing three slips of broom on a chevron and a demieagle holding a slip of broom in its beak. (The coat of arms was one of those for the name Broome and, therefore, emblematic; it does not mean that this coat of arms belonged to any of John Broome’s ancestors.)

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Broome Street in New York City, named for John Broome

On April 7, 1806, the Common Council of the City and County of New York, the governing body for the city of New York, named Broome Street in honor of John Broome. In 1808, the town of Bristol in Schoharie County, New York, changed its name to Broome.

Notice of John Broome’s marriage on July 9, 1806, to Ruth Hunter appeared in the New York Commercial Advertiser on July 10, the American Citizen on July 11, and a number of other newspapers. The New York Weekly Museum on July 12, 1806, stated, Hon. John Broome Lt. Gov. of New York married on Wednesday evening last, to Mrs. Hunter, widow of the late Robert Hunter of this city.

At the end of John Broome’s first term as lieutenant governor of New York, the newspaper American Citizen reported on April 15, 1807,

The Legislature adjourned on Tuesday last, sine die.

On the same day, in the senate, the following resolution was passed—

Resolved, unanimously, That the thanks of the Senate be presented to the honorable JOHN BROOME, Esq. for his able, faithful and impartial discharge of the arduous and important trust reposed in him, as President of the Senate, during the time he has exercised that office.

To which the President, rising in his place, made the following reply:

"GENTLEMEN,

"I receive with great pleasure this public testimony of your approbation of my conduct. It has indeed been my uniform endeavor to discharge the duties of my office, free from any just imputation of partiality. To the aid afforded me, when your advice was necessary, together with the assistance of a Clerk, of prompt and ready talent, may be attributed the satisfaction I have given, rather than to any merit of mine.

Permit me, gentlemen, to return you my sincere thanks for the polite attention and respect you have paid me through the whole of this session. I sincerely wish you all, health and prosperity, with a safe and happy return to your respective families and friends.

We are now about to part, and probably shall never all of us see each other again in this place. Be that, however, as it may, it is my earnest wish, that we may meet in a better world."

John Broome was reelected that year (with a different running mate) for a second term as lieutenant governor, and again three years later, for a third term.

John died a few months after being reelected lieutenant governor of New York for the third time. The following notice of John’s death appeared in the Public Advertiser (a New York City newspaper) in 1810:

Died, On the 8th inst. at 12 o’clock, the Hon. JOHN BROOME, Lt. Governor of this state.

The friends and acquaintance of the deceased are invited to attend his funeral this afternoon at 5 o’clock, from his late residence, No. 75 Stone-street [the same house was formerly called 6 Hanover Square].

The deceased was among the number of those active and intelligent patriots who took an early part in the year ’74, against the tyranny of the British ministry, and persevered through the privations of an eight years struggle to vindicate the rights and accomplish the independence of his country. As soon as peace had dawned upon the country, and our institutions began to assume a firm character, his distinguishing mind was invited to the direction and patronage of various religious and mercantile associations, until the portentous scenes of 1799 called him once more into the political field. To those who have been the witnesses or companions of his career, it is unnecessary to mention that in every variety of public service, his conduct and character have been equally unimpeached and unblemished.—Through a course of passionate political contention, the violence of party has not assailed his motives, nor ventured to question the purity of his virtue. Six years had he presided over the deliberations of the Senate with applause and usefulness—already had the partiality of the state imposed another term of duty upon his patriotism. But that being who rules the destinies of nations and limits the purposes of men, has destined this venerable senior to repose, and bade him sleep with his fathers.—To those who cherish his memory, it is an invaluable consolation that he died in the ripeness of years and in the fullness of honor.—The records of the Senate will be a lasting monument of his worth, and the tears of the people will embalm his ashes.

On such an occasion, however invited by a consciousness of acknowledged piety or by the authority of example, it would be unbecoming to expatiate on the exemplary virtue which led his hopes to Heaven. The fathers of the Presbyterian Church, his associates in religious exercises, will bear witness, that amidst the tumult of public affairs and the cares of domestic duty, his mind would regularly return to those zealous exercises of piety and grace to which he had long confided his future welfare.

The newspaper American Citizen reported on Thursday, August 9, 1810,

Died, Yesterday at 12 o’clock, the Hon. John Broome, Lieut. Governor of this State—aged 72 years. The subscribers have been requested by His Excellency the Governor, and his Honor the Mayor, to make arrangements for the public testimonials of respect to be paid to the remains of the Honorable John Broome, late Lieut. Governor of this State, which will be interred this afternoon at 5 o’clock, from his late dwelling No. 75 Stone Street, do recommend the following order to be observed.

The Flags of the different Forts and of the Vessels in the harbour to be worn from sun rise to sun set, in the usual mode of mourning.

Minute guns to be fired from the Battery commencing with the moving of the procession.

The bells of the different churches to be tolled during the procession, and commence at the firing of the first gun.

The Civil, Military, and Naval Officers of the United States, the Civil and Military Officers of the State, the Corporation of the city, the several incorporations and societies, and the Citizens in general are invited to attend. The Societies and incorporations will please to apply at the office of the City Inspector, between the hours of 10 and 1 o’clock this day, where they will receive information of the order of the procession.

The Commercial Advertiser on August 9, 1810, printed the following about the death of John Broome:

We are happy to learn that his Excellency the Governor of the State, and His Honor the Mayor of our city, have united in ordering those testimonials of respect for the deceased which his public station and his private virtue so eminently deserve. During a long and useful life, he sustained at all times a fair and unblemished reputation. For many years, in the more active part of his life, he stood at the head of a number of our commercial, charitable and religious institutions; and during the past 6 years he had presided over the Senate of the state. Very few have passed through life so uniformly and highly esteemed—very few whose general conduct and character have been so correct, honorable, and exemplary. He was a kind and affectionate husband, a tender father, a respected and useful citizen, conscientious magistrate and we trust a sincere and pious christian. The following, we understand, will be the order of procession:

The Rev. Clergy

Pall Bearers—Coffin—Pall Bearers

Relations

Recorder, Governor, Mayor

Corporations

Committee of Arrangements

Civil Officers of the U.S.

Civil Officers of the State

Military & Naval Officers of the U.S.

The different Societies

Citizens in general

Military Officers in Uniform

The procession having been thus formed, will move down Pearl Street, through Whitehall St., State St., up Broadway to Wall St. and down Wall St. to the Presbyterian Church.

Burial: August 9, 1810, First Presbyterian Churchyard, New York, New York; later reinterred at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Churchyard, Vault No. 7, North Lawn.9

The following is an abstract of the will of John Broome, dated August 26, 1807, and probated August 10, 1810 [NYC Wills, Liber 49, p. 37]:

Debts and funeral expenses to be paid first.

$5,000 To wife Ruth in lieu of dower right which she said she will give to such of my heirs as she might think proper

$ 500 To Charity School of first Presbyterian Church on Nassau St., New York City

$2,500 To son John L. Broome

1,500 To daughters Caroline

1,500 Ann Charlotte

1,500 Sarah Boggs

1,500 Julia Livingston

against any demands on John Broome’s books

All real estate, residue and personal property to be divided equally among John L. Broome, Caroline, Ann Charlotte, Sarah Boggs and Julia Livingston

Pay all debts of deceased son, William Temple Broome [$2,564.80]

Doctor Courbe                 $ 109

Frederick Seip                 200

Thomas Walker                 1,463

Elisha Hale                 500

Thomas McCready                 14.10

Richard Belden                 26

Baker & Terry                 132.70

Rich & Disbrow                 120

Archibald Currie small debt in store memo book under 8th Dec. 1804

All real estate to be sold at auction or private sale within 3 years of death.

Executors { John L. Broome

                { John W. Livingston

                { James Boggs of Philadelphia

John Broome is listed in the following books:

1. Herringshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publishers’ Association, 1898), page 154:

2. Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887-1889), vol. 1, p. 390. Reprint, Detroit: Gale Research, 1968.

3. Francis S. Drake’s Dictionary of American Biography (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872), supplement, p. 128. Reprint, Detroit: Gale Research, 1974.

4. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (New York: James T. White & Co., 1891), vol. 1, p. 497. Reprint, vols. 1-50. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1967-1971.

The John Broome, Early Patriot, Memorial Scholarship was established at Fordham University, New York, New York, in 2006.

[A full-volume biography of John Broome, with details of his life, is planned for future publication.]

Notes for REBECCA LLOYD:

Rebecca was the third child and oldest daughter of John Lloyd and his wife, Sarah Woolsey. Rebecca’s great-great-grandfather George Woolsey came to New Amsterdam (now New York) in 1624. Rebecca’s great-grandfather James Lloyd, who came from England to America in 1670, obtained a royal patent for land on Long Island, New York, now called Lloyd’s Neck. His wife, Gizzell Sylvester (born on August 12, 1654, at Shelter Island, New York), had inherited some of the land, and James Lloyd purchased additional land. Rebecca’s grandfather, Henry Lloyd, was the first lord of the manor to live at Lloyd’s Neck (then called Queens Village), and her father grew up there. After her father married, he lived in Stamford, Connecticut. But when Henry Lloyd died, his son, John Lloyd (Rebecca’s father), inherited one-fourth of the property at Lloyd’s Neck. Henry Lloyd’s house, which was built in 1711, is maintained and run by the Lloyd Harbor Historical Society and is included with Lloyd Harbor in the National Register of Historic Places.

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Henry Lloyd House, Lloyd’s Neck, New York. Built in 1711.

Rebecca Lloyd’s descendants are connected to a variety of notables, namely, Presidents George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt; the first Earls of Derby, Sussex, and Salisbury; the first Marquis of Montagu, and numerous other noble families of Great Britain. For further information, consult George Leveridge Bowen’s Dr. James Lloyd II and the 1995 edition of Ancestors of American Presidents, compiled by Gary Boyd Roberts (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society).

Rebecca’s birth was recorded in the Stamford register of births thusly: Rebecca, born in Stamford on Fryday, January 2nd, 1746/7 at four o’clock in ye morning, and was baptized by ye Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Dibble, June ye 29th, 1746. The baptism was at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Stamford, Connecticut.10 Her father called her Becca or Becky.

In 1759 (considerably before inoculation became popular), when Rebecca was about 13, she and her sisters and brothers were inoculated for smallpox. After Rebecca’s mother died in 1760, her father made sure Rebecca continued to learn and to travel to other colonies to see her relatives. It was fortunate that Rebecca had been inoculated because an epidemic of smallpox occurred when Rebecca was visiting her aunt Elizabeth (her father’s sister) and uncle Samuel Fitch in Boston in March of 1761. On November 20, 1761, Rebecca’s father wrote from Stamford to his father, Henry Lloyd I, saying, All that is proper for me to Say of my Daughter Becca is that she behaves Vastly beyond my Expectation. For her Sak wish I Could kept her Longer in Boston and given Her better advantages as she has improved what she has had So well. Rebecca was about 15 years old at this time. Other letters indicate that Rebecca had other trips to Boston. In a letter dated June 26, 1764, from her father at Stamford, Connecticut, to her uncle Joseph at Queens Village, Long Island, her father said, Send Becca home as Soon as You Can after her return to Queens Village will much oblige. A later letter to John Lloyd II, dated October 10, 1767, from Uncle Henry in Boston, says, Your Sister Becky & Brother Harry go from Boston by the ship of Pascal Smith, and she I imagine will return this Winter. The sister and brother mentioned are Rebecca Lloyd and her brother Henry (Harry) Lloyd III [D. C. Barck, Papers of the Lloyd Family].

About a month and a half later, on November 30, 1767, the intention to marry between Rebecca Lloyd of Stamford and Edmund Quincy, Tertius, was recorded in Boston. [A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, vol. 30: A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, containing Boston Marriages from 1752 to 1809, Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1903; Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1977.] The introduction to this volume says, The publishments for intentions of marriage from 1751 to 1809, inclusive, have been compared with the records, and all differences of spelling noted. The intentions, for which no subsequent records of marriage appear, have been printed separately. In the section that has just intentions, there is listed under the heading INTENTIONS—1762 TO 1809 (INCLUSIVE): Marriages not recorded. 1767. Mr. Edmund Quincy, Tertius & Mrs. Rebecca Lloyd of Stamford, Conn. Nov. 30, 1767 (p. 427). (Mrs. was a title of respect and did not necessarily convey marital status. Tertius, meaning third, did not mean Edmund was the third generation bearing the name Edmund Quincy; it was used to distinguish him from two other contemporary men born earlier and named Edmund Quincy.) Edmund Quincy, born on October 1, 1733, was the eldest son of Colonel Josiah and Hannah (Sturgis) Quincy. (Edmund had a younger brother named Josiah Quincy who became an early Patriot.) Edmund had graduated from Harvard College in 1752 and had a reputation for playing cards, telling a story well, and pretending to be a heretic. Edmund had become a merchant in Boston and was in England in 1760 for the purpose of establishing and maintaining mercantile connections. His ingenuous, manly, and generous behavior charmed Benjamin Franklin. Edmund was fervent in his zeal against the Stamp Act and continued to promote the cause of liberty. Engaged to Rebecca Lloyd but in poor health, Edmund sailed to Bermuda on March 4, 1768, in hopes of improving his health. On arrival in Bermuda, he was advised by physicians to go around the islands. He died at sea, unmarried, on March 30, 1768, age 34 [Sibley, Harvard Graduates, Biographical sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1965), vol. 13, pp. 285-9]. The death date for Edmund Quincy, Tertius, also appeared in a contemporary newspaper cited on p. 255 of vol. 84 (1930) of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. In February 1768, just before he left on his voyage, Edmund Quincy had purchased, from Paul Revere, a silver quart cann with molded rim and foot and a double scroll handle. Edmund had the letters EQ to RL engraved on the bottom, and gave it to Rebecca Lloyd. (This gift was passed down the generations through the female side to Rebecca Lloyd Tappan, then to Rudolph Brunnow, Marguerite Brunnow, and Marguerite Hoadley. In 2000, Mrs. Marguerite Hoadley O’Connell put the cann up for auction as Lot 330 at Christie’s in New York.)

About 18 months after Edmund Quincy died, Rebecca, age 23, married John Broome, age 31, on October 19, 1769, in the First Congregational Church in Stamford, Connecticut. (Her first cousin Elizabeth Lloyd got married to Joshua Loring in Massachusetts on the same day.) John Broome, a New York City merchant, had friendly patriotic and business dealings with Rebecca’s brother, John, at Queens Village (now Lloyd’s Neck) at least as early as 1766. Though John Broome was an active member of the Wall Street Presbyterian Church in New York City, no record has been found of Rebecca joining that church. However, most of their children were baptized in that church, and both Rebecca’s Congregational religious practices and Presbyterian practices were based on John Calvin’s teachings. Rebecca and John had nine children—the first four were born in New York City, the next four were born in Connecticut during the Revolutionary War years, and the last was born in New York City. Rebecca supported the Revolution and John’s active involvement with it. She saw the 1789 inauguration of George Washington as the first president of the United States; her brother-in-law, Dr. James Cogswell, mentions her in a letter he wrote about the inauguration festivities in New York. One year later, Rebecca experienced great sorrow when her daughter Harriet died at age 13. In 1798, Rebecca and her other daughters inherited some jewelry and other items from friend Mary Bryant, widow of Dr. William Bryant. Rebecca received a miniature picture of a lady and a pocket piece made of five Portuguese gold coins. Mrs. Bryant also granted freedom to her Negro woman Hannah, who had been residing with Rebecca Broome. Mrs. Bryant gave freedom to several other slaves and gave the majority of her estate to a young slave, Cressy Bell, who was living with her, and to a New York hairdresser, William Hutson. (John Broome was one of the two executors of Mrs. Bryant’s will.)

None of Rebecca’s children married during her lifetime. When Rebecca died in April of 1800, her children ranged in age from 13 to 28. Notice of Rebecca’s death appeared in the Commercial Advertiser newspaper on April 11, 1800: DIED. Yesterday after a long illness, Mrs. REBECCA BROOME, wife of John Broome, aged 53 years. The friends of the deceased are invited to attend her funeral to-morrow afternoon at 4 o’clock at No. 75 Stone-street. Similar notices also appeared in the American Citizen and General Advertiser and in the Mercantile Advertiser newspapers on April 12, 1800.

Rebecca had inherited one-fifth of the southern half of her father’s estate in Queens Village (now Lloyd’s Neck) when he died in 1795 [Will of her father, John Lloyd]. However, the land from this estate was not received by Rebecca during her lifetime inasmuch as her oldest brother, Henry Lloyd, had been given the entire southern half of their father’s farm for his lifetime, and he didn’t die until 1825. Rebecca’s share of the land then turned out to be one-third of the southern half of the farm (a total of 135 acres), which passed to her then-living (1826) heirs—son John Lloyd Broome, daughter Sarah and her husband James Boggs, daughter Julia and her husband John W. Livingston, and daughter Caroline Noon (then a widow).

Marriage Notes for JOHN BROOME and REBECCA LLOYD:

John and Rebecca’s marriage was recorded in the Stamford Church Records book (for the First Congregational Church) that was written by Noah Welles, minister, starting January 1, 1747. Under Marriages for 1769, the eighth marriage recorded for that year states, 1769 October 19—Mr. John Broome, New York To Miss Rebecca Lloyd, Stamford. On this page of the book, which records 36 marriages over a period of five years, John is the only groom to have the title Mr. in front of his name, and Rebecca is the only bride to have the title Miss.

Notes for RUTH HUNTER:

Ruth was a widow when she married John Broome in 1806. Her first husband was Robert Hunter, of Hunter’s Island, a merchant and an auctioneer. At one time, he belonged to the firm of George Hunter & Co., auctioneers, at 153 Pearl Street [Barrett, Old Merchants of New York]. In the 1798 and 1799 New York city directories, Robert was