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 100 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. UtnfaaE. The progenitor of the farnily on the con- tinent of America, Hknry Botsford, settled in Connecticut in 163j), only nineteen years after the "iVIay flower" crossied tlie ocean. Amos Botspoed, Esq. (son of G-ideon Bots- FOBD, Esq.), a United Empire Loyalist, was b. in JS'evv Town, Connecticut, 30th January, 1744, but through adhesion to his allegiance in the Revolutionary War was forced to leave his home. He embarked at New York in the British Fleet, with other Loyalists, in the autumn of 1782, to seek an asylum in Nova Sc )tia, and landed at Annapolis. He was appointed by the British Government agent to the Loyalists, and subsequently removed to Westmorland ; upon the erection of the province of ISew Brunswick, he represented that county, and was elected speaker of the first House of Assembly in 1786, and was afterwards re-elected by each successive House until his death in 1812, thus havmg filled that impartant oflice twenty-seven years. He in. 8th November, 1770, Sally, daughter of Colonel Joshua Chandler, a gentleman of large landed estates in New Haven, who ad- liered to the Loyal cause, and came to Nova Scotia, with his fa'nily, in the British Fleet, in 1782. Colonel Chandler with his ton William and two daughters, Mrs. Sarah Grant and Elizabeth, met with a sad fate, having been shipwrecked on their passage from Digby to St. John, New Brunswick, on the 9th March, 1787, on the rock-bound coast of the Bay of Fundy, and perished miserably in the woods. Amos Botsford left, with two daughters (S:trah, b. 11th August, 1771 ; in. Rev. John Milledge ; and Anne, b. 2!<th April, 1778 ; m. Stephen Milledge, Esq.), an only son, The Hon. Wilitait Botsfokb, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and previously speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, b. in New Haven, Connecticut, 29th April, 1773 ; m. 21st January, 1802, Sarah Lowell, daughter of the late Hon. William Hazen. She was S. 17th October, 1775, and d. May, 1851. He d. at Saokville, 8th May, 1864, having had issue, I. William Hazen (deceased), represented the county of Westmorland in the Legislature of New Brunswick. II. Amos Edwin (Hon.), of whom we treat. III. Charles, a lawyer. IV. George, a barrister, clerk of the Legis- lative Council of New Brunswick. V. Chipman (deceased), a barrister, re- presented the county of Rishgouohe, New Brunswick. VI. Le Barou, M.D., educated at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. VII. Bliss, represented the county of Westmorland in the Legislature, elected speaker, and is now judge of the County Court of Kent and Westmorland. VIII. Blair, warden of the Dominion Penitentiary, Dorchester, deceased. I. Sarah Anne, m. the Hon. Robert L. Hazen, barrister and member of the Senate of Canada. She is now deceased. II. Eliza, d. tciim. Crest used — A bird close. Motto — Digna sequens. Residences — City of Ottawa ; parish of Sackville, Dominion of Canada. 38afor (^l atrrtaitrt. BA-KER, HON. RICHARD CHAFPBY, C.M.G., J.P., of Adelaide, South Australia, member of the Legislative Council of South Australia, h. at North Adelaide, 22nd June, 1841 ; m. Katherine Edith, daughter of the late Richard Bowen CoUey, Esq., and by her has issue, I. John Richard, h. 1867 ; educated at Cambridge. II. Robert Barr, h. 16th May, 1879. I. Edith Adelaide. Mr. Baker was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambindge (B.A. 1864) ; called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, June, 1864; became a member of the Legislative Council in 1877, and took office as minister of education, 1884 ; was a member of the South Australian Commission on the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, 1886. He vs^as appointed special envoy in 1885 from all the Australian Colonies to Great Britain, to negotiate a Postal union between that country and Australia, and for his services Her Majesty was pleased to confer on him the Order of St. Michael and St. George, in 1886. He is the first