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Rh on his death to his son, Henry, through whom they descended to his daughter and heiress, Alice Mary, wife of Edmund Henry Pery, Earl of Limerick, Viscount Limerick, and Baron Glentworth in the Peerage of Ireland; Baron Foxford of Stackpole Court, co. Clare, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Of the other issue of Robert Ormsby,

Oliver Ormsby was the third son, according to the published pedigree, or the fourth and youngest son, on the authority of personal memoranda left by John Ormsby of Pittsburgh, and still in the possession of his family. He married Deborah, daughter of Colonel Barry, "descended from a junior branch of Lord Barrymore, who lost his leg in the wars in Flanders," and had son John Ormsby of whom we write.

John Ormsby was educated at Trinity college, Dublin, as were many others of the name. He came to America in 1752 as we learn from a letter which he wrote to Sir William Johnson, "colonel, agent and sole superintendent of the affairs of the Six Nations and other northern Indians," dated 23 September, 1764, in which he says: "I have often wished, Sir, for an Opportunity of being known to you but unhappily have not had that pleasure, though very intimate with several of your Relations, particularly that glorious Hero, the late Sir Peter Warren, and your sister Reily in the county of Meath. In May, '52, I took my leave of her and her lovely little daughter Polly at Trim. Mrs. Reily was afflicted with a Dropsie so am afraid she is no more." From a partial autobiography, written in a very clerkly hand during the latter years of his life, we find that he