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Rh nrd. and only one of their four sons. PETER, b. in 1727. left descendants. He married Margaret, daughter of Gilbert Livingston, :ind their sons were Peter Gerard and Nicholas William. Their daughters were Judith, who married Benjamin Winthrop ; Cornelia, who married Dirck Ten Broeck ; and Elizabeth, who married Col. Nicholas Fish, and became the mother of Hamilton Fish. Peter's son, Peter Gerard, lawyer, b. in New York city in 1778: d. at Niagara Falls. N. Y., 10 Aug., 1847, was graduated at Columbia in 1794, studied law, was admitted to the bar. and prac- ti~i'd for a short time in New York city. He was a founder of the New York historical society, of which he was president from 1830 till 1840. His residence, " Petersfield." and that of his brother Nicholas William, the "Bowery House," were built before the Revolution, and were situated on their father's Bouwerie farm. The chief portion of this extensive property was devised to his nephew Gerard Stuyvcsant. Hamilton Fish, and Ruther- furd Stuyvesant.

SUARD, Nicolas (soo-ar), Haytian patriot, b. in Jacmel about 1740; d. in Port au Prince, 26 Feb., 1791. He was a mulatto, and a rich merchant of < 'a pi- Franeais at the beginning of the French revo- lution. In 1790 he tried vainly to be elected a member of the colonial assembly, and. being de- feated on account of his color, went to Paris, where he became a member of the club " Les amis des noirs," and devoted his large fortune to the cause of the enfranchisement of the slaves and to gain equal political rights for the mulattoes. The as- sembly having negatived a motion for enfranchise- ment, Suard and his countryman. Vincent Oge, resolved to secure it by force. They went to Phila- delphia and New Orleans, enlisted 250 men, and, with a supply of arms and ammunition, landed near Cape Franeais, 23 Oct., 1790. where they were joined by Jean Baptiste Chavannes and other in- surgents. Suard shared in Oge's defeat, fled with him to the Spanish part of the island, and was de- livered to the French authorities and executed.

SUAREZ, Jose Bernardo, Chilian author, b. in Santiago, 20 Aug., 1822. He received his edu- cation in the colleges of Merced and San Francisco, and finished his studies in 1842 in the normal school. In 1843 he was appointed inspector of the lyceum of San Felipe. Aconcagua, and in 1847-'9 he occupied the chair of humanities in several colleges of Santiago. He was appointed in 1850 visitor of schools in Valparaiso, and in 1850 director of the first fiscal school of Santiago, which was founded by order of President Montt. He established in Valparaiso and Santiago the first free evening- schools for artisans, became in 1860 director of the model college, and in 1861 visitor-general of schools for the republic, retiring in 1869 on a pension. He is a member of the pedagogical societies of Santi- ago and Rio Janeiro, has been connected with va- rious journals, and has written about twenty his- torical and didactic works, among which are "Hombres celebres de Chile" (Santiago, 1859); " Plutarco de los Jovenes" (1801): "Tesoro de Bellas Artes " (1802) ; Recreo del soldado Chileno" 1 1 silt); " Rasgos Biograficos de ninos celebres" (1867) ; " Guia del Preceptor Primario " (1868) ; " Manual del Ciudadano " (1878) ; and " Principles de Derecho Internacional " (1883).

SUAREZ, Juan (soo-ah'-reth), Spanish colonist, b. in Andalusia about 1540; d. in Araucania in I.">NS He served as captain in the expedition of Diego Flores de Valdes and Pedro Sarmiento, who sailed from Seville. 2o Sept.. l.jSl, to found a colo- ny in the Strait i if Magellan. After five ships were wrecked, the fleet, reduced to sixteen vessels, ar- rived, 24 March, 1582. at Rio Janeiro. Having made several vain attempts to reach the strait, they at length arrived at its entrance, 7 Feb., 1583, and cast anchor, but were forced out again by a gale. They returned the following year, when the fleet was re- duced to five ships, and were again carried back by the strength of the ebb tide, but anchored close to i 'ape de las Virgenes, and the landing of the set- tlers began immediately under the direction of Su- arez. When 300 persons had gone on land a gale obliged the ships to quit their anchorage. On the same day Diego de Ribero left for Spain during the night, taking with him the whole fleet, except the vessel of Suarez, who refused to abandon the colony. Sarmiento had 400 men, 30 women, and provisions for eight months. They immediately built a city, Nombre de Jesus, near the mouth of the strait, and about eighty miles south founded San Felipe. Sarmiento, leaving the command to Suarez, sailed on 25 May. 1584, for Brazil, ' and subsequently went to Spain in April, 1585. In August, 1584, the two colonies united, but subse- rently Suarez removed with 200 men to Nombre Jesus. Many died during the winter, and by the hands of the Indians, who ruined the crops. In the beginning of 1586 an attempt was made by the colonists of San Felipe to build two barks, but they were wrecked, and in January, 1587, only eighteen men survived. One of these was rescued by Thomas Cavendish, and one other lived to be taken from the strait in 1589 by Andrew Merrick. He belonged to the colony of Nombre de Jesus. The latter suffered, perhaps, greater hardships than those that were experienced by the colonists of San Felipe. Nearly all of them set out toward the mid- dle of 1587 in hope of reaching by land the estab- lishments of the Plate river ; but they were either killed by the Indians or died from hunger in the deserts of Araucania. Accounts of the expedition are to be found in Hakluyt's and James Burner's collections, and in the " Noticias de las expediciones al Magellanes" (Madrid, 1788).

SUAREZ, Lorenzo, Mexican missionary, b. in Mexico about 1560; d. in San Gregorio in Ki','7. He was employed among the Indians of north- ern Mexico, attained great distinction as an ora- tor both in Spanish and native Mexican lan- guages, and in 1620 was appointed royal preacher. His works include "Sermones en lengua Mcxi- cana " (Mexico, 1017). an extremely rare work, which was among the first printed in the New World. A copy of it was sold at public auction in Brussels in 1847 for $2.500.

SUAREZ PER ALTA, Juan, b. in the city of Mexico about 1530. Nothing further is known of his life than that he was a son of one of the Span- ish officers of the conquest, and seems to have been educated and studious. A manuscript chronicle of events in Mexico, written by him in 1589, was some years ago discovered by Marcos Toledo. Al- though many of its conceptions are erroneous, it has a special" merit as containing information not furnished by any previous work. The manuscript was published by Justo Zaragoza. under the origi- nal title of " Noticias Historicas de la Nueva Es- paiia" (Madrid, 1878).

SUAREZ V ROMERO, Anselmo, Cuban writer, b. in Havana in 1818; d. there in 1882. He was educated in his native city, devoted himself to teaching, and did a great deal in behalf of public education. His literary career began with the publication of his Biografia de Carlota Valdes" (Havana, 1838), which was followed by a series of masterly sketches and descriptions of Cuban see-