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Title: The New York genealogical and biographical record
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Greene, Richard Henry, 1839-1926 Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909 Dwight, Melatiah Everett Morrison, George Austin, 1864-1916 Mott, Hopper Striker, 1854-1924 Totten, John Reynolds, 1856-1936 Pitman, H. Minot (Harold Minot), 1888- Ditmas, Charles Andrew, 1887-1938 De Forest, Louis Effingham, 1891- Mann, Conklin Maynard, Arthur S New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
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Publisher: New York, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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1.) Family tradition maintained that he died in prison during theRevolution, and in corroboration of this, we find recorded, in con-nection with the burial records of other prisoners of war, in theCenter Church Burying Ground of Hartford, Connecticut, thisitem: Jonathan Thorn, November 14, 1777, aged 53. (ConnecticutMagazine, vol. 4, p. 417.) His wife, Catharine Livingston, had died in 1769, leaving severalchildren, two of whom were Samuel Gilbert and Catharine,—thelatter married in New York City, April 25, 1795, Horace Johnson,son of Asahel Johnson and Eunice Wetmore, of Middletown, Con-necticut. (Trinity Church Records.) Cornelia Thorn, daughter of Jonathan, mentioned in the will ofCatharina Tenbroeck, doubtless was another child. (New YorkHistorical Society, Abstracts of Wills, vol. 9, p. 307. Samuel Gilbert Thorn, the second son, was born in Poughkeep-sie, Sept. 27, 1754; died at Flushing, L. I., Aug. 12, 1823. Hemarried, April 26, 1778, Helena Van Slyck and had fifteen children
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\ X 33 A O g O cr o C^ ft •■a p iyi <i •liliu. segaoaMMKww** 7 Z ^A*f ,i-«,/, y# v*- ■ ••• v. :v- ?• -r-y •■■•■ igi8.J Incidents in the History of the Thorn Family. 49 as follows: Jonathan, Adam Van Slyck, Herman, Robert Living-ston, Samuel, James Van Slyck (died in infancy), Catharine Liv-ingston, James Van Slyck, Jane Van Slyck, Cornelia, John VanEps, Eliza Glen, Helenah, Gilbert and Samuel Gilbert. (Upon theauthority of a descendant of Colonel Herman Thorn.) We do not know whether the sympathies of Jonathan Thorn,the elder, were altogether with the British,—probably not, sincehis family associations were with the Livingstons, men prominentlyidentified with the American cause. Jonathan Thorn was not, sofar as we may tell from records, guarded for any act against thecolonies, and it would appear possible that his previous militaryservice under B

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