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served. Rev. Launcelot Addison is buried in the Cathedral of Litchfield, where over the door is to be seen the Addison arms. In common with his family in England, Colo- nel John Addison was a Whig in politics, and his signature is found on an address of congratulation to King William. He was a Privy Councillor of the "intruding govern- ment introduced by the Protestant Revolu- tion." "In 1692 he was a member of his ]\fajesties Council and presiding judge of Charles county." He also distinguished him- self in the encounters of the colonists with the Indians, and was commissioned colonel of the "-Military Establishment of the Col- ony."' He was the leading commissioner in establishing St. John's parish, Alaryland, and in building Broad Creek Church, of which his great-grandson. Rev. W^alter D. Addi- son, was later rector. He was a large sub- scriber and one of the trustees of King Wil- liam's School, at that time about to be made a free school. He married the widow of Thomas Dene, she was a daughter of Rev. A\'illiam Atkinson, the first clergyman of the church of England to come to the prov- ince of ^Maryland and the owner of twelve thousand acres of land. Returning to Eng- land on business, Colonel Addison died in that country, intestate, leaving considerable wealth there besides "a very large landed estate in this country."

(II) Colonel Thomas Addison, only son of Colonel John Addison, greatly increased and improved the estate left by his father, and became influential in church and colony. He was colonel of the militia. Privy Coun- cillor, 1/21 to 1727. and visitor to the Free Schools. He married (first) Elizabeth Tas- ker, who bore him daughters. Rebecca and Eleanor. He married (second) Eleanor, daughter of Colonel Walter Smith, who bore him a daughter and four sons, who were educated at Lowther, England, under the direction of Mr. Wilkinson, one of the first scholars of his day.

(III) John Addison, son of Colonel Thomas Addison and his second wife, Eleanor (Smith) Addison, inherited the greater part of his father's Maryland estate. He married Susannah W^ilkinson and had sons, Thomas and John, and daughters, Ann, married a Mr. Carr. and Eleanor, mar- ried Rev. Jonathan Boucher.

(IV) Thomas (2) Addison, eldest son of John and Susannah (Wilkinson) Addison,

married Rebecca Dulany, daughter of Wal- ter and Mary (Grafton) Dulany, of Anna- polis, Maryland, and granddaughter of Dan- iel Dulany, a prominent man of early Mary- land. Daniel Dulany was a student of Trin- ity College. Dublin, when a quarrel with his step-mother induced his father to withdraw his allowance. He left college, and being without funds indentured himself to the captain of a vessel loading for Maryland. On his arrival he was transferred to Colonel George Plater, attorney-general of the Providence, who paid the captain for his passage, and finding him an educated gen- tleman he made the runaway his clerk. Later Daniel Dulany studied law under Colonel Plater, and in 1710 was admitted to the provincial bar, and in 1716 went to Lon- don, where he was a student of law at Gray's Inn. On his return to Maryland he married a daughter of Governor Plater, and after her death married a daughter of Colo- nel Walter Smith and sister of Eleanor, wife of Colonel Thomas Addison. For nearly forty years Daniel Dulany held high posi- tion in Maryland government and in the afifections of the people. He was succes- sively alderman, councilman and recorder of the city of Annapolis, attorney-general, judge of the admiralty, commissary-general, receiver-general and councillor of the prov- ince, holding the latter office under Gov- ernors" Bladen, Ogle and Sharpe. For sev- eral years he was leader of the "Country" party in the Maryland house of assembly. He died in 1753 and was buried with his second wife in an Annapolis cemetery, where their tombs may yet be seen. In 1728 he caused to be built a mansion in Annapolis, that in 1808 was sold with seven acres of ground to the government by Major Walter Dulany. The old mansion stood until 1883, when it was torn down by Cap- . tain Ramsay, superintendent of the Naval Academy, to make room for a more modern residence for the commandant. Congress resented the action and refused to vote means to erect the new building. After Captain Ramsay passed, the building was erected as nearly as possible on the same plan as the "old Dulany house" and with tlie old brick. This old mansion, with its beau- tiful gardens extending to the water edge, was Walter Dulany's home and later his son-in-law, Thomas Addison, made it his home and there Rev. \\'alter Dulanv Addi-