He married a Miss Anna Barbara Boss, by whom he had three children, namely, Anne, Lawrence, and John.

He had the local reputation of great intrepidity, strong muscular power, and unyielding decision of character.

He died at the age of 64.

LAWRENCE, his eldest son, had entered his seventeenth year when the American Revolution broke out.

He embraced the patriotic sentiments of that era with great ardor, and was in the first revolutionary procession that marched through and canvassed the settlement with martial music, and the Committee of Safety at its head, to determine who was Whig or Tory.
[Footnote 3: This officer was shot in the trenches, which devolved the command on Sir William.] The military element had always commanded great respect in the family, and he did not wait to be older, but enrolled himself among the defenders of his country.
He was present, in 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was read to the troops drawn up in hollow square at Ticonderoga.