Washington Irving never married.

He had loved in his early years a daughter of his friend Mrs.Hoffman, had sat by her death-bed when she was a girl of seventeen, and waited until his own death restored her to him.
H.M.
HISTORY OF NEW YORK _BOOK IV_.

(_continued._) CHAPTER VI.
Next to his projects for the suppression of poverty may be classed those of William the Testy for increasing the wealth of New Amsterdam.

Solomon of whose character for wisdom the little governor was somewhat emulous, had made gold and silver as plenty as the stones in the streets of Jerusalem.

William Kieft could not pretend to vie with him as to the precious metals, but he determined, as an equivalent, to flood the streets of New Amsterdam with Indian money.