The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-19

Brig. Gen. Montgomery G. Meigs and
Col. Nathaniel Rochester, founder of the
city of Rochester n. Y, were descended
from David l., King of Scotland. The
family name is Neutrality-suspicious. Mont
geometry Meigs.
Gen. fitz-John Porter is of the same
family as Charles Chauncey, the name
having been once changed to Clarke. Porter
has also some of the blood of Edward |. of
England aud Eleanor, only child of Ferdi-
nand I'LL, King of CASTLE. Prof. Parsons
OF Harvard is OF the same family.
BENEDICT ARNoLD's ANCESTORS.
Benedict Arnold was descended from
Alfred the Great There are Arnolds, rela-
tlves of Benedict. now living IN Providence,
PawJucket, K. l., and New York. One of
the Arno'ds was brave colonel at Sebasto-
pol, where he lost his life, and another is
married to the present Marquis of Cholmon-
deley
The Mcintosh family of Georgia and New
Jersey, several members of which were
prominent in the confederate service during
the war, are descendants from William the
Conqueror and Matilda, daughter of the
Count of Flanders.
Old King MasSaSoit, who ruled Eastern
Massachusetts when the Puritans landed
there, has many descendants throughout
New England. The best known are the
Mitchells of North Arlington, Mass.
The Lawrence family of Long Island, of
whom is the wife of Bishop Jaeger of Gin
cinnati, are descendants of Alfred the Great
and Hugh Capet of France. The Calverts
of Baltimore and Philadelphia come from
Charles H. of England, through Barbara,
Duchess of Cleveland.
The Fairfaxes of Virginia are descended
from Gen. Thomas Fairfax, fifth baron of
Leeds castle. He married Lady Catherine,
daughter of Thomas Lord Culpepper-
the Culpepper name i'll Virginia-through
whom he acquired vast tract of land in
Virginia. Baron Fairfax was descended
from the Cholmondeleys through daughter
of Edmund, Earl OF Somerset, who was
great-grandson to King Edward ii. of
England.
Mary, wife of Robert NJ T. Hunter. of
confederate fame, was descended from
Henry III. of England and Louis VIII. of
France. The cambridge and Pendleton
families of Cincinnati and the Spottswoods
of Virginia are of the same family. One of
the Dandridges married the daughter of
President Zachary Taylor.
THE AMERICAN BoNAPARTEs.
Prince Jerome Bonaparte was the founder
of the American Bonaparte family. His
son, born at Camberwell England, and
whom the prince never saw, married
Baltimore lady, by whom he had two chill
dren, both sons, and both still living. The
elder, Col. jerome, is graduate of West
Point and a distinguished soldier, having
done good service in the Franco-Prussian
and the Crimean wars. He married a
granddaughter of Daniel Webster, and they
have two children, daughter aged Is and
a son, Jerome Bonaparte, aged II. The
other son married a granddaughter of
William Ellery Charming both sons going
to Boston for their wives Charles J. Bona
parte is leading lawyer at tho Baltimore
bar, but has no offspring.
The Carpenters and Wistars of Philadel-
phia, the Actions of Cincinnati, the Mobiles
of Columbus o., the Smiths of Trenton,
the Ellets of Richmond, Memphis. Salem,
n. j., and Atchison, Kan, the Wainwrights
of San Francisco, and the Wallings and
Lloyds of Philadelphia and Baltimore, are
descended from King Edward l. of Eng
land
The Charles Carroll of Carrollton and
Declaration of Independence fame. and the
Cations and Towards of Baltimore, and the
Chews of Germantown are from the same
family as the present Duke of Argyle.
The family descent is from King Robert II.
of Scotland