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Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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red to the law; was appointed Mas-ter in Chancery in 1820, and continued in office for seventeenyears; was president of the New York Historical Society; waspresident of the New York Society Library; was president ofthe St. Nicholas Club; was president of the St. NicholasSociety; and was said, in a public print, to have been anactive officer of more societies than any other New-Yorker whoever lived. Just as the first Johannes de Peyster came out to NewAmsterdam to explore before settling, so Robert Watt of RoseHill, near Edinburgh, Scotland, came to New York to lookabout him, and then went back to Edinburgh, and emigratedto America for good toward the close of the seventeenth cen-tury, settling in New York city. He likewise soon attained thehighest official positions, as he enjoyed the highest social rela-tions. He was the brother-in-law of Sir Walter Riddle, Baronet,a creation of King David I of Scotland (1124-53); was theson of John Watt of Rose Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland; writer to i
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JOHN WATTS DE PEYSTER 95 the Signet and Lord of Sessions (according to Burkes Peerageand Baronetage, 1850-54); and was grandson of Adam Watt ofRose Hill, Commissary to Kirkcudbright. Robert Watt, or Watts (for he added the letter s to his name),was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1680, and died in New Yorkcity in 1750. In 1706 he married Mary, daughter of WilliamNicoll, originally Nicolls, of Islip, Long Island, and of his wifeAnne, daughter of Jeremiah van Rensselaer and Maria vanCortlandt. Their son, the Hon. John Watts, great-grandfatherof General de Peyster, was one of the founders, incorporators,and trustees of the New York Society Library in 1753; was^elected to the New York Assembly; was commissioner in thematter of the New York and New Hampshire boundary dispute;was a leading founder of the New York Merchants Exchange in1752; was a member of the colonial committee of correspon-dence ; was long a member of the Kings Council; was attorney-general under Governor Monckton in 1762-
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