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- It may be the best evidence of our bad weather
- ko add that our Captain made to-day his first
observation never haying been able to see the sun before. Everybody is on deck and in high spirits, two people coming up to-day who have never shown before. It is remarkable as an evidence ,of the general well-doing of the States that we have on board five men all very rich who are not yet passed middle life and all the architects of their own fortune. One of them who drove a stage coach in Nova Scotia is said to be worth 10,000 a. year, Zimmerman and Benedict, neither of them ,60, half a miiiion each, and so on with others. We had fog enough in the afternoon to justify some whist before dinner and in the evening our Actor read Hamlet, the Germans singing between ^the Acts. I find it rather a sore subject among the Yankees that they have no national air. "They repudiate Hail Columbia ! as being too theatrical and complex and of course, do not .recognise Yankee Doodle. They assure me that the musical taste of the U.S. is far ahead of Europe, but don't account for the fact that they .have never produced a composer.
Wednesday, 8th. Very fine. A shoal of por- 'poises accompanied the ship all day, and whales 'Were seen every now and then. Quite Mediter- ranean weather. Ohmstead [Olmstead ?] tells me that so feeble are the women in the States generally that he does not know in a large ac- >.quaintance one who may be said to enjoy even fair health. It is a recognised fact in medicine that the climate is inimical to female health, and the almost universal weakness and feebleness of the .women has become a matter of serious concern. "The men, he declares, though seldom robust, last as long as we do but the women lose their looks very soon and go off young. From a series of conversations about Ballot, it seems that 'the U.S. system is practically the same as our own, no man concealing his vote.
C. W. B.
IRISH FAMILY HISTORY.
- TONE OF BODENSTOWN, co. KILDARE
(See 12 S. iii. 500.)
OF the descendants of this family there .are, I believe, very few living. When the foundation stone of the Wolfe Tone Me- morial in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, was .llaid in 1898, the matter for the document an the stone was sent from America by Miss Grace Georgina Tone, his only grandchild, .then living in the city of Syracuse, New York State ; and Mrs. or Miss Grace Georgina Tone Maxwell presented the trowel, which bore date Aug. 15, 1898. Another relative,
- Mrs. Gavin, with her husband Mr. Joseph
Gavin, was at that date living on Wilbur Avenue, Syracuse. Mr.s. Gavin was the dau. of William Tone Dunnan, who was a
second cousin of Theobald Wolfe Tone. I am anxious to obtain full particulars of
any of ^Tone's relatives, in order to make
the following pedigree of his family as
complete as possible to date.
William Tone, born 1706, is described in the ' Annual Register ' for 1798 (vol. xl. p. 97) as an old and confidential servant in the family of the present (1798) Lord Kilwarden. Wm. Theobald Wolfe Tone in the ' Life and Writings ' of his father Theobald Wolfe Tone, published in 1820, says : " My grand- father was a respectable farmer near Naas, co. Kildare." And in Madden's ' United Irishmen,' published in 1858, it says :
" ... .was a farmer in co. Kildare. The land, which he held on freehold leases, was part of the estate of Mr. Wolfe of Blackball, and lies between. Sallins and Clane within a few minutes walk of the remains of the ruined church and ancient burying ground of Bodenstown. A part of the old dwell- ing house of the Tones is yet standing, in sight of the Mansion of the Wolfes of Blackball."
William Tone was killed Apr. 24, 1766, by a fall from a stack of his own corn, and was buried in the churchyard of Bodenstown, co. Kildare. He married, but I am unable to trace his wife's name, and had issue, three sons and two daughters.
I. Peter Tone, the eldest son, established himself as a coachmaker and carried on an extensive business in that line for some years at 44 Stafford Street, Dublin, his name appears at that address in Peter Wilson's, ' Dublin Directory ' from 1768 to 1770, and again in 1779. According to Madden's ' United Irishmen ' :
" His address appears in the Dublin Directory only from 1770 to 1781, and in the intermediate period, for a short time in 1773, the family, re- sided at 27 Bride Street, or lodged there."
He inherited his father's farm, said to be worth about 300Z. a year, which he rented bo a younger brother, Jonathan, a retired ieutenant of the 22nd Regiment of Foot ; it eventually was the cause of much litiga- tion between them, and ended in a decree of the Court of Chancery that utterly ruined aim. After the Chancery suit, he became insolvent, quitted Dublin, and in 1786 was living near Clane on the property that was about to pass away from him. He died in 1805/6 in Dublin, and was buried at Bodens- town, co. Kildare, having married in 1761, Margaret, dau. of a Capt. Lamport or Lambert of Drogheda, who was in the West India Trade, and by her, who dying in 1818 at 65 High Street, Dublin, was buried at Bodenstown (she had a brother who was first lieutenant on the Buckingham, com- manded by Admiral Tyrril), had issue :
1. Theobald Wolfe Tone, born June 20, 1763, at 44 Stafford Street, Dublin, and
