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in the stone, and Grace Georgiana Tone Maxwell presented the trowel used at the time : which was designed by her daughter and bore the date, Aug. 15, 1898, with the inscription, "Ireland a Nation," surrounded by a wreath of shamrocks.

Neither Mrs. Maxwell nor any of her family ever resided in Syracuse. Her life was spent, and her children born and brought up, in New York and Brooklyn. She died Mar. 29, 1900, at her home, 489 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, where she had resided thirty- six years, and was buried in Green- wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.

We have no knowledge of Mrs. Gavin, who may be descended from a second cousin of Wolfe Tone. There are, however, several families of the name of Tone in the United States who have at different times falsely assumed relationship to Theobald Wolfe Tone calling themselves by his and other names of his family, and have even repeatedly claimed descent from him.

Wolfe Tone's mother's name was Lamport.

Wolfe Tone is buried in a grave, not a vault, in his father's plot in Bodenstown churchyard, co. Kildare.

William Sampson was the son of the Rev. Arthur Sampson of Londonderry of the Church of Ireland. All his ancestors were members of the Church of Ireland and England from the time of Elizabeth, when one was Richard Sampson, Bishop of Lich- field and Coventry, thirteenth in the Angli- can Succession. William Sampson who died in New York, Dec. 28, 1836, was buried in the private burying-ground of his friend Richard Riker, Recorder of New York, as Astoria, Long Island. His remains and those of his wife Grace Clark Sampson, and those of his daughter Catherine Anne Tone, who were also buried there, were removed to Mrs. Maxwell's lot in Greenwood Ceme- tery, Brooklyn, New York, as were those of William Theobald Wolfe Tone, his mother, Matilda Tone-Wilson and her second hus- band, Thomas Wilson, which were removed from the Marbury Burying Ground, George- town District of Columbia. The remains of all six were interred with religious cere- monies on Oct. 31, 1891, and their daughter and granddaughter, Grace Georgiana Tone Maxwell now lies at their feet.

John Phil pot Curran' Sampson, after his graduation from the law school at Lichfield, Conn., went to New Orleans, Louisiana, and was in the law office of a friend of his father's, an Irishman. He was editor of a new paper, but obviously a young man of 24

could hardly be said to be at the head of the- bar however talented he might be. He died of yellow fever Aug. 20, 1820, and was buried in New Orleans.

The Emmet family, John Mitchel's and John Martin's families, the late John E.- Redmond, M.P., and John Dillon, M.P., have been friends of Mrs. Maxwell and her family.

KATHERINE ANNE TONE -MAXWELL.

SILVER WINE CISTERNS (12 S. vii. 250, 294). I have an engraving about 20 in. by 15 in. (G. Scotin, sculp.) of a wine cistern, "Henricus Jernegan Londini Inuenit 1735." The description is as follows ;

"Delineatio*Argentese Cisternae, Juxtim Pondo Octo Millium Unciarum gravis Continentis Sexa- ginta Congiorum, Altitudine trium Pedum et -Longitudine, Quinque Pedum et ^-Latitudine, trium Pedum et ,j."

" SEXAGIXTA CONGIORUM "

Taking the Congius (I amphora, 1 am- phora = 5.78 gallons) roughly at .72 gallon,, the capacity of the cistern would appear to be about 43 gallons.

If this is of any interest to your corre- spondents I shall be pleased to shew it to them. EDWARD ELGAR.

Severn House, Hampstead, N.W.3.

GILBERT WAKEFIELD ; JOHN WATSON (12 S. vii. 390). I do not know what the sources of MR. HOLLAND'S information may be, but I cannot doubt Gilbert Wakefield 's plain and definite statement in his Memoirs : "On the 23rd March, 1779, I married the niece (the brother's daughter) of my rector, Mr. Watson. The fact must obviously have been within his personal knowledge. Her Christian name was Anne. Gilbert and Anne Wakefield had four sons, two of whom I myself well remember, and two daughters, the elder of whom was my grandmother. A. A. B.

What is the authority for stating that John Watson had only one brother, James ? It seems almost certain he had another, Joseph by name, who was, like his father, of Berristall Hall, Pott Shrigley, and was buried there on Aug. 22, 1764. The wills of the father of John, Legh Watson, proved at Chester, 1759, and of Joseph the suggested son proved 1764 should settle the matter. It is certain Joseph had two daughters. One married the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield,. fellow of Jesus, Camb, and late curate at Stockport in 1779. The Manchester Mercury of Mar. 30, 1779, records the .marriage afc