- motion. It seems, however, that when he was exchanged Maj. Gen. John Grey made him an aide, and when Grey returned to Europe Andre was transferred to the same post in the military family of Sir Henry Clinton. When Lord Rawden resigned as Adjutant General, Andre was only a Captain, and the rank of Major

line, Robert Fulton, the in- ventor, through his lineage from the Blacks and Smiths, was collaterally related to this family. Robert Ful- ton, the elder, married his cousin,Mary Smith, daughter of Joseph. John Black, father of the present genealogist of this family, was born in Chester county, in 1798

handsome structure, in admirable state of preservation as a farm house; while across a little brook and meadow stands the beautiful stone mansion which has been the private residence of the Slaymaker family for more than a century. It is one of a group of fine farm buildings in a well-im- proved and highly

. Judge Yeates owned this cor- ner for less than two months—he never occupied it, and, likely,was only the medium through which it passed in 1779 to his wife's mother's brother,EdwardShippen,Jr.,ofPhiladelphia,for £3,030—thirty more than Yeates paid for it. The new purchaser was the first of the family

homesteads in the possession of even the third generation since their foundation. Throughout the county there are not a few family �estates which have continued in the ownership of successive generations since the original proprietary grants. Nor are they restricted to any one of the racial elements which