Re: Edmund Kingsland died 1742
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Re: Edmund Kingsland died 1742
Judy Kingsland 1/29/01
Sounds great to me!
My drafted history of ownership for the tankard, to be published by the Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, follows.Please let me know if I have made any grievious errors!
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"The Grantham family arms that are engraved on the tankard have not yet been linked with the known history of ownership, and may signal a matrilineal origin. Nevertheless, family history and probate records indicates a matrilineal line of descent in the Kingsland for two tankards, one of which may have been by Kip.According to the will of Edmund Kingsland (____-d. 1742) of New Barbadoes, New Jersey, he beqeathed to his daughter Mary, his “large Silver Tankard,” and to Anna, his “small Silver Tankard.” [did the sisters remain spinsters? They were unmarried in 1741, the year the will was written].1
The Kip tankard was probably given to a niece, Elizabeth Kingsland(1734-____),the daughter of Colonel William Kingsland [and son of Edmund Kingsland] and Margrreta Coerten (Courten) (b. 1704-after 1742) of New Barbadoes Neck, New Jersey, m. 1732.Elizabeth Kingsland married Josiah Hornblower (1729-1809) of Newark, New Jersey in 1755, and the tankard passed to their daughter-in-law, Mary Burnet (____-1836) and Chief Justice Joseph Coertin Hornblower (1777-1864), m. 1803.2 By descent to their daughter Mary Hornblower (1816-1896) and the Hon. Joseph P. Bradley (1813-1892), Justice of the United States Supreme Court, m. 1844; to their daughter, Mary Burnett Bradley (b.1845) and Henry Varnum Butler (b.1821) of Patterson, New Jersey, m. 1870;3by descent to their daughter Mary Hornblower Butler and Bancroft Gherardi (1873-1941), m. 1898, who died without issue.4Mrs. Gherardi gave the tankard to her cousin, Anne Brown Bradley (b.1894) and Samuel Eliot of Manchester, Massachusetts, m. ____ from whom it descended to their daughter, the donor, Mary Eliot (Mrs. Grafton Fay).
1.Bergen County Probate Records, Book D, pg. 48; Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey.Vol. 2. (New York:Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910), pp.739-40.
2. Memorial Biographies of the New-England Historic Genealogical Society, Volume V 1862-1864 (Boston:Published by the Society, 1894), p. 445-47; 465-66.IGI Record, IGI Index v4.01, film number 184229, page 1153, reference number 25664.
3. Joseph P. Bradley, ed. Charles Bradley, Family Notes Respecting the Bradley Family of Fairfield and our Descent Therefrom (Newark, N.J.:Amzi Pierson & Co, 1894), section VI, unpag; p. 58.William Nelson, ed.,Nelson's Biographical Cyclopedia of New Jersey.Vol. 1.(New York:Easter Historical Publishing Society, 1913), 244-47.IGI, film no. 1985527.
4.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography being the History of the United States Vol. XXXIV.(New York:James T. White & Company, 1948), p. 121.
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