(1783), Miscellaneous Poems, (1787), The Times, a poem (1788), and Reconciliation, a comic opera (1790). He died unmarried. His second son Abraham Markoe, born 1 October 1755, married 5 October 1779, his cousin Mary Markoe, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Rogers) Markoe. They left no issue.

Captain Abraham Markoe married secondly, 16 December 1773, Elizabeth Baynton, a daughter of Peter Baynton, an old merchant of Philadelphia, who died 26 January 1795, leaving him three children. One of their sons Isaac Markoe was lost at sea, on the packet "St. Domingo," on his way to the West Indies. Elizabeth Baynton Markoe, their only daughter, born 20 February, 1778, one of the belles of Philadelphia, died 20 January 1842, married 22 October 1801, Isaac Hazlehurst, leaving issue. John Markoe, the youngest son, born 24 December 1781, died 26 October 1834; married 6 February, 1804, Miss Hitty Cox, leaving issue

Elizabeth Markoe, the eldest daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Farrell) Markoe, born 6 May 1732, died 16 December 1801, married Frank Créqui a descendant of an old French family.

Isaac Markoe, the sixth son of Peter and Elizabeth (Farrell) Markoe, born 4 July 1736, died 6 December 1777, married Elizabeth Rogers. Their descendants remained for the most part in the West Indies, although their daughter Anna Markoe, born 23 May 1765, who married 19 November 1785, Nicholas Cruger, who died in Santa Cruz, spent the latter part of her life in New York City, where some of her descendants now live. She married secondly William Rogers.

Francis Markoe, the seventh son of Peter and Elizabeth (Farrell) Markoe, born 20 September 1740, died in 1779, seems to have been a resident of Santa Cruz. He visited America, but returned to the island. He married 15 June 1769, Elizabeth Hartman, daughter of Isaac Hartman and Margaret Carroll Nanton, born 19 August 1755, died 25 February 1791. Their daughter Margaret Hartman Markoe, before mentioned, born 7 November 1770, died 28 July 1836. During her early womanhood she visited Philadelphia, doubtless as a guest of

her uncle Abraham Markoe, and where she was very much admired if we can judge from the effusion of some local poet of the day, while lamenting the void left by the absence of the young lady from one of their social entertainments.

'Say why! amid the splendid rows

Of graceful belles and polish'd beaux,
Does not Markoe appear?

Has some intrusive pain dismay'd
From festive scenes the lov❜ly maid,
Or does she illness fear?"

She married first, 17 November 1791, Benjamin Franklin Bache, grandson of Hon. Benjamin Franklin, and secondly, 28 June 1800, William Duane. Many of her descendants, through both marriages, are now living in Philadelphia.

Peter Markoe, the eldest son of Francis and Elizabeth (Hartman) Markoe, born 19 November 1771, died 1841, married November 1801, Mary Aletta Heyleger, leaving issue.

Elizabeth Markoe, the second daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Hartman) Markoe, died 5 March 1855, married 5 June 1794, Samuel Prom, a Danish gentleman of St. Thomas, West Indies. They had six children, two of whom died unmarried. Peter Prom, their only son, settled in Brazil and died there. Sarah Caldwell Prom, the eldest daughter, married Major Rowan of the British Army. Ann Elizabeth Prom married Count Scheel or Schele, and Mary Aletta Prom married a Lutheran Clerygman in Copenhagen. Mrs. Prom and her family removed to Denmark, where she died at "Ryegarde," the Scheel estate, her son-in-law having succeeded to the title and estates.

Francis Markoe, only son of Francis and Elizabeth (Hartman) Markoe, was born 5 June 1774. He was sent to this country to be educated, and graduated from Princeton College, now Princeton University, in the class of 1795. He then entered the counting house of Mr. Yard of Philadelphia. He made frequent voyages to the West Indies, on business. On 4 November 1797, he married Sarah Caldwell, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Round) Caldwell, of Philadelphia, and for the

next ten years resided almost wholly in Santa Cruz. He then sold his share of their jointly inherited estate to his brother and returned to Philadelphia, where he established himself as a merchant. He finally removed to the City of New York, where he entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, Thomas Masters. He was a man of the highest probity of character and deeply religious. He died 16 February 1848. Among his ten children were Francis Markoe, for many years connected with the State Department, Washington, D.C. and Thomas Masters Markoe, M.D., a distinguished physician and Professor at Columbia University, New York City.

Francis Markoe before mentioned, the third son of Francis and Sarah (Caldwell) Markoe, born 19 January 1801, died 31 October 1872, married 7 October 1834, Mary Galloway Maxcy, daughter of Hon. Virgil Maxcy, who was killed by the explosion of a large gun on board the Princeton, 28 February 1844. The children of Francis Markoe and Mary Galloway (Maxcy) his wife, were, Mary Galloway, Francis, Sarah Caldwell, Cornelia Maxcy, Sophia Dallas, Emily Maxcy and Virgil Maxcy Markoe.

Mary Galloway Markoe, the eldest child, died unmarried; Francis Markoe, Jr. married Maria Perry Thomas, (see Thomas Family); Sarah Caldwell Markoe died unmarried; Cornelia Maxcy Markoe died unmarried; Sophia Dallas Markoe married Professor Samuel F. Emmons; Emily Maxcy Markoe married D. C. F. Rivinus, and Virgil Maxcy Markoe married Mrs. Brown.

THE TRIPPES

When William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066, he found it peopled with the descendants of Britons, Saxonized Britons, Saxons and Danes. Very few of them had any surnames, and as the population at that time was estimated to be about 2,500,000, added to which was the great influx of the Normans, it became absolutely necessary to adopt surnames, in order to distinguish one family from another.

Among the divisions of land at the time of the Domesday Survey, in the County of Kent, was the hundred of Trepeslau, also called Trepeslai, Trepelau or Tripelau, which was afterwards known as Trippelowe.

The name of Trippe does not appear in Domesday Book, but in the Rotuli Hundredorum, (Hundred Rolls) temp. Henry iii, 1216-1272, the name of Gilbertus Trippe is mentioned, as also the names of Robertus and Walterus Trippe temp. Edw. i, and the name of Johannes Trip in the Parliamentary Writs and Writs of Military Summons, of that date.

The hundred of Trippelowe, County Kent, is described in the Hundred Rolls, temp. Edw. i, which gave rise to a family of that surname, Ricardus de Trippelowe being mentioned in the Parliamentary Writs, in 1322. The name of Trippe was also derived from the same source, a family assuming that surname no doubt then owning a manor in that part of the fertile County of Kent. The name of Trippelowe seems to have been continued and applied to family estates in the Province of Maryland, for in 1693, Henry Trippe, the emigrant, in his will, gives and bequeathes to his son Edward Trippe all the tract of land called Trippelow's Forest, Dorchester County.

The Trippe family were no doubt of Saxon origin, for after the battle of Crayford in A.D. 457, in which four thousand Britons are said to have been slain, the County of Kent was abandoned by the Britons, and taken possession of by the

Jutes, under Hengest, the Saxon, who founded the Kingdom of Kent, the first of the Heptarchy, or seven Kingdoms of the Saxons. In A.D. 796, Kent was conquered by Cenwulf, King of Mercia, a Saxon, and about A.D. 823, it was conquered by Egbert, King of Wessex, who appointed his son Ethelwulf, King of Kent. Egbert was as a conqueror, the most successful of all the Saxon Kings.

Nicholas Tryppe gave Laplands, County Kent, to Elham Church, in 1234-1242. Thomas Trippe and his son Thomas Trippe are mentioned in a deed of land at Sandwich, County Kent, 18 Edw. ii, 1325, from whom was descended John Trippe of Sandwich and Sellings, whose will is of 29 November 1543, and who left two sons John and Henry Trippe.

John Trippe, the eldest son, was Vice Marshal of Calais, France, which was lost to England in 1558. He married a Miss Kelé and left two sons Reginald and John, and one daughter, Alienora Trippe.

John Trippe, the second son, married first Benedita Boteler, and secondly Elizabeth More, who was living in 1644, and whose son Charles Trippe, of the Middle Temple, became a very distinguished lawyer.

Charles Trippe, of Tripham, in the parish of Wingham, County Kent, was born in 1584. He entered St. Mary's College, Oxford in 1598. He married first Rose, daughter of Sir Thomas Harfleete of Ashe, County Kent, who died leaving no issue. He married secondly Katherine, daughter of Sir Edmund Bell of Ontwell, County Norfolk, son of Sir Robert Bell, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, leaving issue. He died at his house in Trapham, in the parish of Wingham, 12 January 1624, and is buried in the Parish Church of Wingham, in the "South Crosse Isle," where there is a fine mural monument to his memory.

Henry Trippe, the second son of John Trippe (1543), before mentioned, of Sandwich and Sellinge, married whom is not known, and had a son.

Rev. Henry Trippe, M.A., author and translator, who matriculated as a sizar of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in May 1562. Rector of North Okendon, Essex, 1570. Rector of St. Stephen's