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 272 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. in 1884 ; also graduated LL.B. at Victoria University, Cobourg, Ontario, 1869, and LL.D., May, 1887, Pli.D. upon examination at Illinois Wesleyan University, 1883 ; called to the Bar of New Brunswick, Trinity term, 1868. He is a director of the Provincial Building Society, St. John, New Brunswick ; a member of the Board of Governors of Mount Allison University, and secre- tary of board ; an examiner in constitutional history and political economy at Mount Allison University, and in law at Victoria University ; president of the New Brunswick Historical Society, registrar of the Court of Vice- Admi- ralty of New Brunswick, and a bencher of the Barristers' Society of the province of New Brunswick. He compiled and published The Rules of the Legislative Assembly Court, and edited, with copious notes, Berton's Reports of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick ; first returned to the New Brunswick House of Assembly, in August, 1883, for the city and county of Saint John, and again elected at the general election in April, 1886. He was for a number of years in co-partnership with his brother, Robert 0. Stockton, and senior member of the firm A. A. and R. 0. Stockton, which partnership was dissolved in April, 1887. Mr. A. A. Stockton m. at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 5th September, 1871, Amelia Elizabeth, 2nd daughter of the Rev. Humphrey Pickard, CD., of Sackville, New Brunswick, and has had issue, I. Ernest Pickard, 6. 22nd October, 1875. II. Goldwin Pickard, h. 13th April, 1885. III. Ronald Pickard, h. 23rd January, 1887. I. Elsie M., I. 6th December, 1872. II. Hazel C, I. 6th September, 1877 ; d. 4th December, 1883. III. Vida Avis, h. 13th April, 1880. IV. Alice Evelyn, h. 17th March, 1882. Utncaae. This family originally came from. Stockton Manor, Cheshire, England. Dr. Stockton is descended from Eichaed Stockton, Esq., who emigrated from England to America prior to the year 1656. He for a short time settled on Long Island, New York, and then removed to Princeton, New Jersey, where he became the grantee of large tracts of land. RiCHAED William Stockton, Esq., was h. at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1733. He served, with the rank of major, throughout the American Bevolutionary War on the side of the Crown, and was a cousin of the Richard William Stockton who signed the Declaration of Independence. He and his son, Andrew Hunter Stockton, Esq., were among the loyalists who went to the province of New Brunswick at the close of the revo- lution in 1783, and were among the original grantees of the city of St. John, New Bruns- wick, Canada, then known as Parrtown. All their estates in New Jersey were forfeited. They finally settled in King's co., N.B., and became grantees of large tracts of land in that county. The branch of the family which adhered to the cause of the colonies is still very prominent in New Jersey, John P. Stockton, Esq., being at present attorney- general. Richard William Stockton d. at Sussex, King's co. New Brunswick, Canada, 8th May, 1801, leaving issue, Andebw Huntee Stockton, Esq., I. at Princeton, New Jersey, 3rd January, 1760, served on the side of the Crown during the American Revolutionary War, with the rank of lieutenant, and d. at Sussex, King's co., N.B., May, 1821, leaving issue, Chaeles William Stockton, Esq., b. in King's CO., N.B., 4th April, 1787. He was a judge of the court of common pleas, a justice of the peace for King's co., N.B., and was also a large landowner. He d. July, 1869, having had issue, William A., of whom presently. Sidney S. John M. James H. G-eorge 0. Rufus A. (Dr.). Charles W., barrister-at-law, deceased. Thomas C. (Dr.), of California. Stanley J., of Australia. Jane, m. George Coates, Esq. of King's CO. He is deceased. Ann, m. Samuel Goslin, Esq. of King's