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 822 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. He bad issue, two sons and three daughters. The second son, John Odell, of Sti-atfield, rcuioyed to Connecticut Farms, New Jersey, and ni. Temp- erance, daugliter of Rev. Jonatlian Dickinson, First President of the College of New Jersey, whose wife was Joanna Melten. He d. 25th June, 1750 (wUl recorded at Trenton, N.J.), leaving issue, one son, Jonathan, and three daughters. The son, Hon. and Eev. Jonathan Odell, M.A. of Frederict«n, N.B., the noted loyalist ; was b. 25th September, 1737, in Newark, N.J. ; in 1754 he graduated at the College of New Jersey, was educated for the medical profes- sion, and served as surgeon in the British Army. He afterwards studied for holy orders, and in 17G6 was ordained by the Bishop of London, »t the Chapel Eoyal, St. James'. In 1767, he was appointed rector of St. Anue's Church, Burlington, N.J. He was prominent during the war of the Kevo- lutjon for his sympathy for England, and was employed by General Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester) in many important and confidential trusts. He was joint author of the Loyal Verses of S/aiishnri/ and Odell. At the close of the war he removed to Freder- icton, N.B., where he was made secretary of the province, and held many other responsible offices under the Crown. He m. 1772, Anne de Cou, who survived him, and d. 25th Novem- ber, 1818, leaving one son, Wdliam Franklin, and tliree daughters. The sou, Hon. William Feanelin Odell, of Fredericton, N.B., b. in Burlington, N.J., 19th October, 1774; in 1812, he succeeded his father as provincial secretary, of New- Brunswick; in 1817, be was engaged in the location of the boundarv line between New Brunswick and the LTnited States, imder the Treaty of Ghent. He m. Elizabeth, daugh- ter of the Eev. Dr. Elisha Newell, of Allan- town, N.J., and Sarah, his wife, daughter of the Kev. Samuel Cooke, D.D., sometime rector of the church at Shrewsbury, N.J., iind aftcnvards at Fredericton. Mr. Odell, d. 25th December, 1841, leaving four sons and four daughters. The eldest son, Hon. William HnsTEB Odell, of Eook- wood, Fredericton, and Halifax, N.S., b. in Fredericton, N.B., 26th November, 1811, was educated at King's College, now the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, and graduated in the class of 1832. He studied law and was called to the bar in 1838, when he was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick. He resigned this office the same year, on being made deputy provincial secretary, registrar and clerk of the Executive Council. In 1847, Mr. Odell was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas ; in 1850, he was made a member of the Legislative Council, of New Brunswick, by royal warrant ; in 1865, on the formation of what was known as the Anti-Confederate CrOTcrnment, he was appointed member of the Executive Council and postmaster-general, remaining in office until the resignation of the government the next year ; in May, 1867, he was called to the Dominion Senate by royal proclamation, and for twenty-fouryears was a member of that honourable body. Mr. Odell »i. Elizabeth Ann, daughter of the Hon. William B. Bliss, judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia; and d. at Halifax, N.S., 26th July, 1891, leaving, with three daughters, one son, Majoe William Henet Odell, the subject of this memoir. Arms — Or, three crescents, gules. Crest — An arm embowed in armour holding a sword, all p]ir. Motto — Pro patriu iniHcfus. Sesidejices — Eookwood, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and Fort Massey, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Club — Naval and Military, Piccadilly, London. ^^dljinson. HENRY WIRGMAN ROBINSON, of Ronaki, Nelson, New Zealand, district judge of the Nelson District and stijiendiary magistrate for Nelson, h. in Lambeth, London, 5th August, 1829, m. first, 19th October, 1864, Charlotte, third daughter of William Darling, of St. Helena, and by her, who </. 26th October, 1873, has issue, I. Henry Charles Lancelot, h. 19th October, 1873. I. Edith Louisa Elizabeth, m. George Aufrere Fenwick. ir. Gertrude Eliza, m. Alfred Dillon Bei,l. Mr. H. W. Robinson m. secondly, 5th April, 1877, Gertrude Mary, second daughter of Ven. O. Mathias, archdeacon of Akaroa, New Zealand, and by her has issue,