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A MEMOIR
JOHN  PATTEN   EMMET  M.D
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PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND MATERIA MEDICA

     IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
WITH A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE EMMET FAMILY HISTORY
THOS. ADDIS EMMET M.D. LL.D.
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PREFACE.
   A large  portion of the material utilized in this memoir was  collected
years ago to form a history of the Emmet family, which was intended only
for the children of the writer, and with the hope on his part of encouraging
the sentiment set forth in the dedication.
   But the writer having been requested to prepare for the Bulletin of the
University of Virginia a sketch of his father, who was many years professor
in that institution, he  found it necessary, in complying with the request,
to make  many changes.  To condense the memoir within the limited space
for the periodical  it was necessary to omit  much valuable material.  The
sketch prepared  for  the Bulletin  developed   into J:his volume, that the
omissions might thus  be  preserved.  To  utilize for  the  same  purpose
many family letters and  documents of the greatest value, and which could
not be used in the  memoir of Dr. Emmet,  an extended  history of the
Emmet family was finally written and published.  The memoir  now pre-
sented forms a portion  of this  family history, and a  limited  number of
copies were  reprinted at the time of the publication of the larger work. 
 
INTRODUCTION.
    The name of Emmet has existed in England for centuries.  The records
of  Oxford show that in  one of the  colleges of that university Henry
Emmet received the degree of Doctor of Music in the time of Henry the
Second.
    Sir Bernard Burke, in his work on the " Landed  Gentry," claims that
members of the family bearing the name of Emot and Emmott  have been
landholders in Lancastershire since the days of William the Conqueror; and
the name, variously spelled, is  not  infrequently found at the present day in
that portion  of England, as well as in  the adjoining county of Yorkshire.
Burke states: " Of this family, established in England at the Conquest, the
first or second  on  record is Robert de Emot, who  held  lands  in Colne,
4  Edward II.,  as per  inquisition;  he built  the mansion  of Emot, and
died 1310."
    The Emmott family is still  living on these  lands at Colne, and from this
source all  of the race originally sprang, without reference  to the different
modes of spelling the name.
    The Shakesperian Society of England has published a document show-
ing who were Shakespeare's neighbors in " Chapel Street Ward, Stratforde
Borrough,  Warwick."   At a certain time of great scarcity this document
was doubtless made  as an inventory for ascertaining  the quantity of  grain
held by each family  in  the  town.   It  is indorsed: "The  noate of Corne
and Malte, taken the 4th  of February, 1597, in the 40th year of the raigne of
our most gracious Soveraigne Ladie, Queen Elizabeth," etc.
    " William Shackespere " is credited with " ten quarters," and  " William
Emmette's "  stock  on hand is  given as  "eight quarters of  Corne."  As
there  were but four other persons in the town  who held a  larger quantity,
and but little in excess,  it is apparent from this fact, and from the locality
of his residence, that this  Wm. Emmet, in 1597, was a man of means and
position in Stratford-upon-Avon. 
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INTRODUCTION.
    A  search, extending over  a number  of  years,  was  carried  on  in
Great  Britain and  Ireland,  by direction of the writer, to obtain from  the
public documents  and  other  sources  all the  available  information  in
connection with the Emmet family at large.  As a result  of this  investi-
gation it was found that there  had  existed no  standard  mode  of spelling
the  name, and  it was  equally  evident  that in many instances the same
individual  had frequently varied  his  orthography at  different  periods of
his life.
    The name of Emmet seems  to possess some special  attraction  for  the
struggling play-actor, the negro  minstrel and the clog-dancer.   The writer
has known of three instances in  this country and of one in  England where
persons on the  stage have  assumed the  name.  One of the most noted
instances was the late clog-dancer, "J. K.  Emmet," whose real name it is
said was Kline, and who had not the slightest claim whatever to the name
of Emmet; moreover, his family still continue to use it.
    In  the  investigation made it was found that there are certain striking
peculiarities  strangely associated  almost everywhere  with the name  of
Emmet.   The  most striking is  in the close  resemblance of  the arms
borne  by the different branches  of the family  for centuries past, without
relation to the different modes of spelling the name.  They are the same as
are used by  the Emmott family of to-day at  Colne,  and  were no doubt
borne  by Robert de Emot  in the fourteenth  century.   With  us  in  this
country heraldic claims would bear  but little weight, but in consideration
of the importance which has been attached to them  in other portions of  the
world  and  the jealousy with which  the use was guarded,  the  fact stated
should bear great weight in proving a common origin.
    It was found  in  nearly every generation and in every branch, that  the
Christian names  of Christopher, Robert, William, Thomas and John have
been  those  most commonly used.  Again, the records  of England  and
Ireland show, during the past three hundred years, that an  unusually large
proportion  of the Emmets, with  the various modes of spelling,  have been
professional  men, generally  " married well" and  evidently to superior
women, as a rule, who were  able to train their children to  the best  advan-
tage.   So far as  could be judged  from a large  number of wills  examined,
there is no  evidence  that the Emmets  at any time  possessed great wealth,
but  all seemed  to  have  been in comfortable  circumstances,  for   but
one  of the  name was  found on  the  records  of the bankruptcy  courts.
This would  indicate  a  prudent,  thrifty  race,  with little  taste for show
and one inclined  to live within its means.   But the most  remarkable  cir-
cumstance noted  was the fact that the  family has occupied essentially  the 
 
DR.  CHRISTOPHER  EMETT.          MRS.  REBECCA TEMPLE EMETT. 
INTRODUCTION.
9
same social position  from our earliest record  to  the  present day—a fact
doubtless to  be attributed  to the  training of professional  life  and the
consequent  development  and  maintenance  of the  intellectual  faculties.
Medicine seemed  to  have been a favorite profession  and many were  suc-
cessful at the Bar, but not a clergyman  of the name has  been  found  in
Ireland.   In the north of England  there have been several of the Estab-
lished  Church bearing the name of Emmott, and at a more recent period
the Rev. M. Emmet  became prominent in  central England as a Methodist
minister.
    Different branches of the Emmet family have been settled in  Ireland for
nearly three hundred years.   The family in the United States of  America
came from Christopher  Emett, who was born in 1700, as was ascertained
from the headstone  over  his  grave in the yard of the Tipperary parish
church.   He  was  a physician or  surgeon, and, according to Dr.  Madden's*
statement, had  a large  practice at the time of his death.  He  probably
practiced surgery chiefly,  and did not take the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine, which would explain why he never termed himself  " Doctor," and, in
fact,  nothing more  than  " Christopher Emett, Gentn," as  his  signature
appears  on his will  and  other  documents.   He  married,  February  9th,
1727, Rebecca,  only  daughter of Thos. Temple, Esq., and granddaughter of
Sir Purbeck Temple, Bart.   Her father resided for the  greater portion of
his life in America, as did his son Robert, and his grandsons Robert and
Sir John Temple.  They married  in  New England and their descendants
intermarried again with  the Emmet family in this country.
    Christopher Emett died in Tipperary, Ireland, August 26th,  1743, and
his wife,  Rebecca  Temple, died November 24th, 1774.   Christopher Emett
left  two  children, Thomas and Robert.  Thomas  and his  only child  died
June 27th, 1758, of smallpox.
    Robert was born in Tipperary, November  29th, 1729, and became  a
noted  physician.  He received his degree of medicine in the University of
Montpellier,  France,  about  1750, and began the  practice  of medicine  in
Cork, Ireland.  In 1753 Dr. Emmet wrote a  medical workf on some  of
the  diseases of women, which was  originally published  in Latin, and was
afterwards translated  into French, with two editions printed in Paris.
    Dr. Emmet  married Elizabeth Mason, in  Cork, November 16th, 1760,

   * Lives  and Times of the United Irishmen.
   tTentamina Medica, de Mensium fluxu, et de Curatione Morborum  Cephalicorum. Autore
Roberto Emett, Med.  Bacc. e Societate  Regia Scientiarum  Monspeliense,  MDCCLIII.  The
writer possesses a copy of each edition; the Latin one was presented to him in 1879,  through the
fully appreciated courtesy of the Obstetrical Society of London. 
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INTRODUCTION.
a woman of remarkable  intelligence.   Shortly after  this marriage, Earl
Temple,  then  the Marquis  of Buckingham, became  Viceroy of Ireland,
and  he advised his kinsman, Dr.  Emmet, to  settle  in  Dublin,  and then
appointed him state physician.   He soon became a  prominent man and
most successful  in his profession, and  early in life he  began to take an
active  part  in politics and acquired  a  reputation  as  a noted  political
writer of the day.
   Dr. Emmet was the  father of sixteen children,  but  four  only lived
beyond childhood.   These  were  Christopher Temple, Thos. Addis,  Mary
Anne  and Robert.  Dr. Madden  states that " Dr. Emmet was a man  of
warmth of feeling, frank, upright  and steadfast  in  his  opinions.   His lady
was  a person  of noble disposition and  of a vigorous understanding, fit  to
be the mother  of  three  such children as Christopher  Temple,  Thomas
Addis and Robert Emmet."  When giving the  "Folk-lore of the Emmets,"
at the beginning of the  second  chapter in  the Life of T. A. Emmet, Dr.
Madden  refers to  the  material which has been  furnished as follows:  " The
notes of the sons of Thos.  Addis Emmet,  that have reference chiefly  to
the career of their illustrious father, leave many deficiencies to be supplied
in the  accounts given of the origin of this remarkable family—perhaps one
of the most remarkable,  in an intellectual point  of  view, of any  family
we have authentic account of."   During  a visit  to  Ireland  in  1880 the
writer had the good fortune to meet  Dr.  Madden, and on one occasion he
expressed the opinion, as one based upon his  personal  investigation, that
the father and mother  and  the three sons and daughter of this branch  of
the  Emmet family constituted the most talented  family in  every respect
that he had ever known of.
   It will be  necessary to quote fully from  Dr. Madden's work, as it is the
only source  from which it is now possible to obtain any accurate informa-
tion.   Of Christopher Temple Emmet, the eldest son,  it is  stated  : " He
was  called to  the Bar in 1781 ;  he was appointed one of  His Majesty's
counsel in  1787,  and during his short professional  career, a period not
exceeding eight years, for he died in 1789, his brilliant talents and eminent
legal attainments obtained for him a character  that in  the same brief space
was  probably  never gained at the Irish Bar."
    Mr. Grattan, in the life of his father,  the celebrated Henry Grattan, gives
it as his  opinion  that " Temple  Emmet, before he  came to  the bar, knew
more law than any of the judges on the bench; and if he  had been placed
on one side,  and  the  whole bench  opposed to him,  he could  have been
examined against them and would have surpassed them all; he would have
answered better both in law and  divinity than  any  judge or  bishop  in the 
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land.   He had a wonderful memory, he recollected every thing, it stuck to
him  with singular  tenacity."  Temple Emmet  died, after  a short illness,
in February, 1788, at  twenty-seven years of age, while absent from home
on  the Munster Circuit.   He  married his  second cousin,  Anne Western
Temple, a daughter of Robert  Temple, of Ten Hills, near  Boston, Mass.,
and left one child, a daughter, who died unmarried.
    Mrs.  Emmet's  sister married the  first  Lord  and grandfather of the
present Marquis of Dufferin.
    Thos. Addis Emmet, the next  son, was born in Dublin April 24th,
1764.   He was educated  in  Dublin, and graduated from Trinity  College.
He studied medicine  in Edinburgh, and obtained his degree in  1784 with
unusual honors.   His thesis *  for  graduation  was written in Latin  and
dedicated  to  " Noblissimo et intergerrimo viro, Georgis Grenville Nugent
Temple, Comiti  Temple, &c," and  was deemed worthy of publication by
the authorities of the University.  He served the usual period, as one of the
resident physicians in  Guy's Hospital, London, and then began the practice
of medicine with his father in Dublin.  He had already entered on a prac-
tice which promised him a brilliant future, when, on the sudden death of his
brother, Temple, his father  urged him to  adopt the law.   Without delay
he acceded to his father's wishes, and within an  unusually short period  Dr.
Emmet thoroughly qualified himself for the Bar.  After he was  admitted
he rose rapidly, and soon clearly showed that he would occupy the position
his brother had held.
    Dr. Madden, in  his  Life of T. A. Emmet, claims in the dedication that
he was " a man of great worth and virtue, sound understanding, solid judg-
ment,  fine talents,  and highly cultivated tastes; of singular equanimity of
disposition; yet of  inflexible integrity, steadfast principles, just views,  and
well-weighed  opinions."
    On January nth  Mr.  Emmet  married Jane, a daughter  of  the  Rev.
John Patten,  a Presbyterian  clergyman of  Clonmel, Ireland, and  Margaret,
a daughter of Wm.  Colville, Esq., and Margaret Thompson.   He devoted
himself assiduously to  his profession, but became identified as early as 1794
with the cause of the  United Irishmen.  This  connection  led  to  his arrest
on March 12th, 1798,  and he was committed to prison.   Notwithstanding
there existed  no doubt of the  fact that Mr. Emmet  was a leader of the
organization and guilty of treason  from the  Government  standpoint, the
necessary evidence could not be obtained, and he was not brought to trial.

   * Tentamen Chymico-Medicum, de Aere Fixo, sive Acido Aereo. Edinburghi: MDCCLXXXIV.
This thesis was also selected  on account of its great merit and published, by Smellie the naturalist,
in the Thasaurus Medicus. 
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INTRODUCTION.
Mr. Emmet was confined  in the Dublin  prisons for nearly a year after his
arrest, and was then removed, with eighteen other leaders of the movement,
to Fort George, in Scotland,  April 9th, 1799.
    Mrs. Emmet at first was not allowed to accompany her husband, but
some  eighteen months afterwards she obtained permission to join him.  For
over  two  years she shared with him a small cell in a casemate.   Here she
was kept a close prisoner,  which was the only condition on which she could
remain with her husband.   The Government directed that if by any chance
Mrs. Emmet left the  cell she was to  be at  once  ejected from the fortress
and not to be allowed to return.
    Finally the British Government decided to release the " state prisoners,"
on  condition  that  they would  expatriate  themselves, after  having  kept
them  in custody for  four years without  being able to prosecute them.
Mr. Emmet  landed in Holland  July 4th,  1802,  with  his  wife and three
eldest children.   He  intended  to have emigrated with his  family and his
brother Robert  to the United States.  But he was urged by the Directory
of the United Irishmen to proceed to  Paris and act there as  the  Minister
from  the  Irish Republic,  as  at that  time it was assumed probable that the
republic would be  established with  the  aid  of  France.   At length being
fully assured  of Napoleon's lying and treacherous  policy towards Ireland,
Mr. Emmet left France and  arrived  in  New York November nth, 1804,
to begin life anew.  By special act,  gained through the influence of his
friends,  George Clinton,  De Witt   Clinton, Daniel  D. Tompkins,  Mr.
Jefferson,  the  President of the  United States, and  others, he  was allowed
without delay to practice  in  the Supreme Court of the United States and
in the  courts  of  the  State  of  New York before  he  was naturalized.
Mr. Emmet's  course  at the  Bar  was  a  phenomenal  one, as he overcame
all opposition and eventually reached  the highest position with a national
reputation.
   The first  case he  received was from  the Quakers to defend a fugitive
slave,  and  his last was for charity in  support of the will establishing the
present  wealthy corporation termed the Sailors' Snug Harbor of New York.
   Mr.  Emmet died on November 14th, 1827.   The following extract  is
taken from one of the many editorial  notices published at the time of his
death—the New York  Albion, November 18th, 1827:  "Of that  bar he
might well be called the  father, ' et  decus et tutamen'; perhaps we  may
say, without offense to  those who survive him, that whether we regard the
virtues of the heart, the high sense  of honour which  characterized every
action of his  life, or the display of his  forensic talents, he has not  left his
superior behind him." 
THOS. ADDIS  EMMET. 
 
 
ROBERT  EMMET  AT  HIS  TRIAL,
            BY  JOHN MULVANY
'I am ehapged with being an emmissary of France.
                                           It. is false. 
INTRODUCTION.
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   As the writer wishes to show the remarkable talents possessed by each
member of this family, he will briefly refer to  the  two younger members,
Miss Emmet and her brother Robert, whose sad fate has excited the wide
sympathy of the world.
   Mary Anne, the only daughter, was  born in  Dublin, October  10th,
1773-  She  was a woman of remarkable  intellect, and, as Madden  states,
"she shared in the talents which seemed hereditary in her family."   Dur-
ing the political turmoil of several  years, and which  eventually terminated
in the Irish Rebellion of  1798, no one did more to  rouse the people than
Miss Emmet by her vigorous writings on the political questions of the day.
She was a thorough classical scholar, an accomplishment which she held in
common  with the other members  of her  family.   The writer has  in his
possession several  political pamphlets from her  pen.   These clearly show
that she must  have possessed a profound knowledge of political economy,
with a familiarity of history and  the body politic, gained only after careful
reading,  which  few public   men  of her  day possessed.   Miss Emmet
married  Mr.  Robert Holmes, a distinguished  lawyer of  Dublin.   She
had  one child, who married  Mr.  Lenox-Conyngham,  and  who was the
mother of  the  present  dowager   of  the late  Viscount Donaraile,  Co.
Cork, Ireland.
   Robert, the youngest son of Dr. Robert Emmet, was born in Dublin,
March 4th, 1778.
   Dr. Madden, in his Life of Robert Emmet, quotes from a letter written
by a  distinguished  Protestant clergyman  of Dublin, the Rev. Archibald
Douglass, and dated November 6th,  1842,  in  which he states:  "With
Robert Emmet  I was  most intimate before he entered college and after.
Indeed, in his young  days  he  almost lived  in our house.   So gifted a
creature does not appear in a thousand years.  The whole family were dis-
tinguished for  talents of  the highest  order."  Thomas Moore, the poet, was
both at school and college with Robert Emmet, and in his " Life and  Death
of Lord Edward Fitzgerald " he writes: " Were I  to number, indeed, the
men among all I have ever known who  appeared to me to combine  in the
greatest degree pure moral worth with intellectual  power, I should, among
the highest of the few, place  Robert Emmet."
   Robert Emmet  was executed for high treason September 20th, 1803,
in the twenty-fifth year of his age.    His father died in  Dublin, December
9th, 1802, aged seventy-three.
   Dr. Madden writes in reference to the death of Mrs.  Emmet:  "She
survived  her husband only nine  months.  She preceded her younger son,
Robert, to the tomb by a few days.   From the period of the  arrest  of her
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son, T. A. Emmet, in March, 1798, her existence was a blank.  .  .   .  The
father had sunk under the trial, although he  was a man of courage and
equanimity of mind ; but the mother's last  hope in her youngest son sus-
tained in some degree her broken  strength  and spirits, and  that hope was
dashed down never to rise again when  her favorite child, the prop of her
old age,  was taken  from her,  and  the terrible idea of his frightful fate
became her one  fixed thought from the  instant the dreadful  tidings  of
his apprehension  reached her 'till  the approaching term of the crowning
catastrophe, when, in mercy  to her,  she was  taken away  from her great
misery." 
DR.  JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
    John Patten  Emmet  was  born  in  the city of Dublin, Ireland, on the
8th of April,  1796.   He  was  the second son  of Thos. Addis  Emmet  and
Jane Patten.
    The following letter, written by the father to his second cousin, a grand-
daughter  of Diana  Emett and the  sister of  Christopher, is probably the
first record  made of the son's birth:

                                                       Dublin, April 30th, 1796.
My dear Mrs. Macoubry:
   Tho' I was  very sorry to hear of Mr. Forde's death on many accounts, yet I assure you it gave
me very sincere pleasure to find by your letter that he had  left you out of debt.  It was an act of
kindness and generosity highly worthy of him.  I am very much obliged to you for having thought
of making me  acquainted with your good fortune and feel  something more than flattered by the
expressions of  gratitude you are so good as to use towards me.  I am only sorry it is not in my
power to be  of more essential service to my friends and relations.
   You did not know at the time you were wishing me joy  of the birth of my last daughter Mrs.
Emmet was  on the point  of giving me another son, which  she did in a few days after I received
yours.  She  is  now, thank God, extremely well and the mother of four fine children, two boys and
two girls.  So  that you see my family is increasing fast.  My sister Mary Ann is much obliged to
you for enquiring  after her.  She is, thank God, extremely well and strong,—so is my brother's
daughter,  who  is growing up a very sensible and sweet tempered child.  My father, mother, Mrs.
Emmet and all the family join in kindest good wishes to you, with your
                                           Affectionate friend and kinsman,
                                                         Thos. Addis Emmet.
   Mrs. Macoubry,
         Care G. Knox, Anacloy,
                       Downpatrick.

    Mr.  T.  A. Emmet, as we have seen,  was  one of  the  leaders  of the
United  Irishmen, and in consequence of the  uprising of the  Irish people
against  the  British Government in 1798 he  was arrested and  imprisoned.
    Mr.  Emmet was imprisoned for a time in Dublin ; then he was removed,
with  other leaders of the  United Irishmen, to Fort George, in Scotland, and
was finally released after  having  been  immured some  five years.   After he
had been  imprisoned for some  time permission was at length obtained, and
chiefly through Mrs. Emmet's efforts, for  her  to join him  at Fort George.
There, through the instrumentality of Col. Stuart, the Lieutenant-Governor 
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JOHN PATTEN EMMET.
of the  fort, the eldest  son, Robert, and the two daughters, Margaret and
Elizabeth, were allowed to remain  with  their parents.   But their second
son, John, and the two youngest children, Thomas and Temple, remained
in Dublin after their father's arrest with their grandparents, Dr. Emmet and
his wife,  Elizabeth Mason.
   From letters  written by Dr. Emmet  and his  wife to  their son, im-
prisoned in Fort  George, the following abstracts were  taken, and they are
the only records now existing in relation to John's  childhood.
   Mrs.  Emmet writes October 9th, 1800:  "The  two young ones  [Tom
and Temple]  are  gaining  ground so fast  as to be likely to distance poor
John, who is  certainly a very honest, good-tempered  fellow, but his talents
are of the  slow  kind.   He may,  nevertheless, hereafter head the  tribe,
for we know  that the battle is  not to  the strong,  nor the  race always to
the swift."
   October 30th we find :  " John, tho'  last named is not I assure you
ever forgotten  by  us, he looks robust   and  hearty and  is  much  more
playful  and  lively, but still your  father  thinks his lungs  are in a very
spongy state."
   The grandfather, in a letter to his son  of November 13th,  1800, writes
about the children: "As to those  under  my care  they certainly must  fall
short in education, but  we will  do  the  best we can.   John  is at  a crown
and quarter school, where he tells me he  makes great proficiency.  Four
or five letters a day in his A, B, C, but as  yet he does not couple them very
accurately.    John is, however,  a very well disposed, well tempered  child,
and if  he does not mount into  the  Empyrean Galaxy he  will always keep
the Milky Path of life and never tread on thorns."
   January 9th,  1801,  Mrs. Emmet acknowledges a  slight partiality for
the two younger children, who she  states are "the most interesting.  John's
ideas are, however, I think opening more and to shew you that  he looks
beyond the present time, he asked  me the other day, with  great  sobriety,
when I  thought  he would be  fit  to be  married."   Again, January 30th,
1801 :  "I find  Mrs. Patten has coupled me along with herself to express a
little jealousy at  your  intending to send  for Tom in preference  to  John.
Jane will know how to translate this, as she knows  that  her mother  is
partial to John  and that I do not profess to be so;  tho' I assure you he is
rising very much  in our estimation.  He gave us all very great pleasure
the other day by an instance of self conquest and firmness, which  would
have done honor  even  to  my dear little Robert; the incident is too  trivial
and too tedious to  make part of my letter, but  it would have given you
pleasure to see  it." 
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   In a letter of March 19th, 1801, we find:  "Little John is at my elbow
and expressly desires me to tell you that he is a very good boy, that  he
has gotten a  new spelling book from his grandmama  Patten, and that he
will take care and get his lessons well;  all this  I  am sure he  has  sincere
intentions of performing, tho' I must confess that in his old spelling book
he is not very brilliant.   He, however, I am told,  performs the part of an
usher in the school and acquits himself with great propriety.  John  I think
is  much better at school,  it helps to enliven him and in some measure
open  his  ideas.   He does not learn  any bad habits and is very fond of
it.  At home he would be apt to  grow sluggish,—he  and the others are
all well."
    May 10th, 1801, Mrs. Emmet wrote:  "The two  eldest boys desire
their love to  all.  John never omits desiring me  to read your letters to him
and I generally take the liberty of framing a paragraph  for them, to which
they both hearken with pleasure and attention."  Again, on June 25th, 1801,
we find: "John is not long returned from a week's visit to  Mrs.  Patten,
who has made him very happy with entire new clothes  and a great number
of buttons.   He  felt very visibly the importance  he had acquired by his
visit to town, for so soon as  he  returned he desired  that John Delany
should be brought into play with him, as his grandmama had always a boy
on  purpose to play with him.   He does  not,  I  assure you,  want either
observation or intellect, he has great natural justice and a very open good-
natured temper."
    August 27th, 1801, the grandmother wrote: "John continues  always
at a steady gait, never very high nor ever low spirited."
    In the few letters  which were preserved after this  date we find  no
further allusion made to the children.
    After Mr. Emmet's release from Fort George, on June 30th, 1802, he
lived  in Brussels and  Paris until  his emigration to the United  States in
October,  1804.  John,  however,  and  the two younger children  remained
with  their  grandparents  until their  death,  and afterwards  with other
relations until March, 1805, when  they set out  with a friend of the family
to join their parents in New York.  Shortly before leaving Ireland John
suffered  from a severe  attack of  smallpox, which was  nearly fatal,  and
before he had fully convalesced he  had  the measles and whooping-cough.
From  having been  a  strong and robust child  his constitution,  after  this
illness, remained impaired throughout the remainder of his life.
    Young Emmet was educated by Mr. Richard W. Thompson, who was a
graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and was the master of a noted classical
school then  located  at Flatbush,  Long Island, in the State of New York. 
18
JOHN  PATTEN EMMET.
When about sixteen  years of age he had  a severe  attack  of  pneumonia.
For  nearly a  year he was  an invalid,  but at  length  he  so far  recovered
his  health as  to  be  accepted in   1814  as  a  cadet  in  the  United States
Military  Academy, West Point.
    The  following letter is to  one of his sisters, and  is  the only one written
during his service at West Point which has been preserved:

                                                       West Point, October 22, 1816.
Dearest  Jane:
   The generous terms you have placed me in are so far from excusing  me not writing to you, that
I feel doubly deficient  in taking advantage  of them.   I did not receive your last letter until the
21st, although dated the 14th, owing to the stormy weather,  which prevented the boat from
landing it.
   We have had abundance of rain  here, enough for a whole season, so that I had a fair chance of
trying my "fear not" and found it waterproof, nearly. There was one disadvantage I was under
and against which there is  little  or no remedy up here, that  is the want of shoes.  I mentioned
them  among the other articles, but I suppose they were forgotten.   We have been paid off to-day
for two months, and  our  creditors proved  wonderfully good-natured and civil,  as we had the
management of our own debts.  Thorp made his bow to me as soon as I was paid, and presented
me with a bill for  a cool fifty six; for  a coat and pantaloons he made me this vacation.  I paid him
thirty six dollars,  walked on and was  saluted by the store-keeper, paid him, and ran against the
wash-man,—had to acknowledge him  and then found  that I had run out; those in the rear retired
in good order and  packed their bills for another time.  There  was  very little else done all day and
I resolved not to lose the opportunity of writing to  you.   I declare, if you will believe me, I was
for a long  time in  doubt who the letter  I  received came  from.   I could have sworn it was not
yours, for the writing and  the composition  only tended to deceive me  more, until I convinced
myself,  by the name, that they both belonged to you.  If I could  only get  Mary Ann to write me
such a letter I  should forgive her all her  past silence.  I am  inclined  to think Margaret and she
go halves in not saying a word.
   West Point begins to lose its agreeable appearance, and the rocks and mountains have already
changed their  summer clothing for the winter suit of brown, and as the mind's eye is  further
raised, a close examination and a dreary winter appear in full prospective, but last of all comes
no vacation.  The first brings all that we have passed through, on its back; the second, with its
north-west zephyrs, is sufficient of  itself, but when I view the  third  I find no  beauty in it.  It
seems too harsh to place at any distance, but particularly as it hides all  prospect of a visit home
and obscures those pleasing scenes we must for ever feel delight in.  The Examination I have no
doubt will  prove  very  strict and must not  be  neglected.   There is a book I wish Tom would
procure for  me, that is Holyday's Fluxions; if he can't find  this  he must endeavor to send me
some other good book on the subject.   If he asks Papa he will tell him the best.   Dear Jane, this
letter  should be entirely intended for you were it not that I have just received Elizabeth's and feel
it impossible to proceed without dividing it in part with her, you  know  I am but a poor debtor and
must  act according to my abilities.   You must  be  loving and not fight,  be full of Pathos to each
other; but if you can't agree stand  at  arms length and read it, after which the best way will be to
toss up  who shall have it, and  if this  don't  do  I beg Margaret, who is always very cool on such
occasions,  may decide.
   Dear Elizabeth, I must agree with  you that Tom is a great  plague to all harmony and melting
moods;  it is impossible to foresee what he will come  to in  the  end.   I have seen him at a  time, a
most critical time, when Margaret was  at one of those lofty never come down notes in Marmion, and
Mr. Ludlow sky high with sympathy, throw  a sofa cushion upon  some  unlucky key that marred
the whole.  If his friend can not drill him  I don't know who can.   For my part I can acquit myself
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going away, Margaret, Jane, Mary Anne and all fell a weeping, when I for novelty sake laughed
at them so heartily, that Jane made me a horrid hog on all occasions, and Mary Anne a dirty beast.
However, I am inclined to think we have all made up again by their attention in sending me those
Pears and Apples.  The provisions you have sent have  seen a merry life and therefore  not a long
one and I don't know but what I have measured the time of your precautions tolerably exact.
   There is nothing that I need now except those things I have last mentioned; however, you
need not think that by this I mean to say that anything you send up will not be acceptable, but I
feel so grateful  for those you have  sent, that I must not ask for  anything else.  There is an old
promissory condition in letter writing that I must put the family to. The Post Office has opened a
new regulation respecting letters which oblige us to pay for them on the spot.  Now,  although the
price is but small, it is at times just as difficult to get out of the pockets.   This is but a poor plan
for a person that has anything  of consequence in a letter, where he may be poor in one case but
rich in the other and still not able to pay his debts with either.
   We have been looking for segars some times as mine have  given out, and though I have one in
my mouth at this time I don't feel half the man I did with one of those Tom sent me.  I am very
sorry we will have no vacation and am afraid I shall forget all my drawing.  Mr. Milbert is not in
town at present I believe, but when he does return I imagine it would be better to send  him those
engravings I have of his.  If you should chance to see him at any time you can let me know.  You
must not be surprised this winter if I get sick and come home, for I am so vexed about this affair
that nothing is too difficult to overcome it. The idea of staying here is not relished by the  Cadets
and I doubt whether  we won't all be burnt out in  keeping ourselves warm.   Give my love to
all at home.
                                                                    J. P. Emmet.
    Miss Jane Emmet,
          No. 9 Nassau St., New York.

    The young cadet expressed the  fear  that he would  forget all  his draw-
ing.   About  this time  and while  on  a  visit home, he,  to  keep his  hand
in,  made  the  sketch  which  has  been reproduced  and which  he  termed
"Corporation Improvements."  While it is made in the spirit of a caricature,
it  is doubtless a correct  representation  of that part  of the city at White
Street and  Broadway,  looking north, as it  appeared  while  the  work was
going  on.*   This drawing  was copied as  an  illustration  for Mrs.  Lamb's
" History of the  City of New York."
     Mr. Emmet had already become so proficient in his knowledge  of mathe-
matics that before the termination  of his service he was detailed an Acting
Assistant  Professor.   While at West Point, in  1816, Cadet V. M. Lowe, of
New York,  the roommate  of Cadet Emmet, was killed by a rocket  stick.
His class erected to his  memory several years afterwards what is now  called

    * At that time Broadway terminated at Canal Street and was impassable, as  the way was  greatly
lowered by cutting down the high hills to fill up the Collect Pond.  Lispenard's farm  was to the
west of the road and Bayard's was to the east, near the Bowery.  "The improvement" was chiefly
on the Bayard place, and the residence was left for a time, as shown in the sketch, perched  upon a
small knoll of ground, little larger than was sufficient to support  the house.  On the other hand,
as the  progress of lowering  the hills  was  slow, it would seem as  if individual enterprise had
excavated to the grade of Canal Street a sufficiently large enough hole and had erected the French
Church at the bottom of it, for the  sketch shows that this  building was put up long  before the
back country was graded. 
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JOHN  PATTEN EMMET.
the  Cadet Monument, the  design  of which was  drawn by Mr. Emmet,
and they also selected  him to  deliver the  oration at  the funeral of  his
friend, which was afterwards printed, but no copy is known to  have  been
preserved.
    Boynton, in his " History of  West Point," does not give  Mr. Emmet's
name  among  the list  of  Acting  Assistant  Professors of Mathematics, nor
does he go  back  in  his list  to  the date of Emmet's service, and doubtless
this, as well as other  omissions,  are due to a subsequent fire which destroyed
a greater part of the records.
    The  following order,  in  the possession of the writer  and found among
his father's  papers,  is  unquestionable proof that  Mr. Emmet  did hold the
position of Acting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at West Point:

Orders.                                              West Point, April 3, 1817.
   None of the mathematical classes  are  in  future to be dismissed from the Recitation Rooms to go
to their quarters sooner than ten  o'clock in  the morning.  And none at that time except those who
attend the  French Academy at eleven o'clock,—all the others are to remain until the recitations are
complete.  Each Instructor in the Mathematical Department will keep a roll of his class on which
he will designate the  names of those who  attend the French Academy at eleven o'clock.  Each
Instructor  will also report to the  Command  Officer all those actually absent from recitation in their
respective  classes.
                                                        A. Partridge,
                                                                 Cap* Comns.
   To Acting Assistant
         Prof. J.  P. Emmet,
                      Present.

    Shortly after  this date Mr. Emmet's health became  so impaired that he
was obliged to seek a milder climate, and  consequently he was  unable to
complete his course at West Point.  Several of his  testimonials  have  been
preserved, which show that he  had held  a position  most  creditable  to
himself,  and  that he would  have graduated with honor if he could  have
remained through the prescribed  course of study.    These certificates are as
follows:

   I do hereby certify that Cadet  John P. Emmett of the U. S. Military Academy passed through
the course of Engineering with great credit  to himself and that he displayed in his studies a genius
which made his professors proud  of having  such a scholar under  their direction.
                                                               Crozet,
       „ .   T        „                                    Profr of Engineering.
   West Point,  June 30, 1817.                                                  s


    And the following is  of  particular interest from a noted officer  then in
command:

   The bearer hereof, Mr. John Emmett, has  been a student  of the Military Academy  of the
U. States,  and part of the time in the Philosophical Class under my direction. 
JOHN PATTEN EMMET.
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   Mr. Emmett's conduct was always very correct and honorable. As a proficient in Philosophy,
he was one of the first in his class, distinguished by a luminous and comprehensive view of that
science.  In all other branches of  learning taught at this Academy, he has the reputation  of
excelling, and I have no doubt will be found well qualified for entering on almost any business  or
profession.
                                                 Jared  Mansfield,
   West Point, Nov. 24th, 1817.                  Prof, of N. & E.  Phil. Mil. Academy.

    Mr. Emmet spent a year abroad, and  during a greater portion of the
time he was  in Italy, where  he devoted himself to the study of the Italian
language  and to  improving an already advanced stage of  proficiency in
music, painting and sculpture.
    In a dare-devil spirit, of which Mr. Emmet  gave frequent evidence in
early life  by his  taste for practical jokes,  he appeared at the Carnival in
Naples as the Devil.  This episode  of his life proved nearly a  fatal one,
as  he was set upon  by a mob and so severely punished that he was made
an invalid for several months afterwards.   The costume  was a black elastic
one, which fitted closely to the body and was pulled on through an  opening
in the back of the neck, which  was covered by a fold of the hood.   The tail
was the chief feature, and  Mr. Emmet, anticipating difficulty and  seeking
to  furnish a  means  of defense, put  at the  extremity a  lump of lead.  In
this lead, while in a fluid  state, he had placed a large  number of  pins and
needles so  that  they were firmly set when  it  cooled, with  their points
sufficiently projecting from the surface to  furnish a very formidable weapon
if wielded  as a  slungshot.   Owing to his forethought, by providing so
effective a weapon, he was able to defend himself at the  Carnival  until he
was rescued in a most exhausted condition.
    Dr. Emmet  returned home early in  1819  and began the study of
medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, then  a part of the
University  of New York, and  now  forming  the Medical Department of
Columbia University, under the  direction of Dr. William H. Macneven,
the  Professor of  Chemistry.   Having been appointed Dr. Macneven's
assistant,  he devoted a greater portion of his time  to that  special study.
But for   his  indomitable energy he would  never   have  completed  his
medical  studies,  for his  health  remained  so  much impaired that during
the  winter  he  was  frequently  confined  to  his house  for  weeks.  But
this time was not lost, as he fitted up a laboratory in his father's house,
where he applied  himself assiduously to the study of chemistry.  Moreover,
he  began to  show the same taste for  mechanical pursuits which  became
so  prominent in after life, and  he  evidently received  ready  aid from
his father,  who  had a  similar  bent of  mind.  Miss  Margaret  Emmet,
the  eldest  daughter, writes at  this  time  to  her  sister, Mrs.  Le Roy:
          3 
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JOHN PATTEN EMMET.
" Papa's  stove  mania  gets  worse  and  worse  every  day, but  he has
certainly made  the house  most  comfortable, and  his  only  anxiety  is
how to  dispose of the superfluous heat.   Among other  charming knick-
knacks  he  has  contrived  a place  to  hatch  eggs  while  the house  is
warming, and if he should  only succeed I think John  and Papa would
get out  of their wits with  pleasure, for they go hand in hand in all these
contrivances."
    The date  of Dr. Emmet's graduation  is shown by the following extract
taken from a  letter written by Mr. Robert Emmet, January  nth, 1822,  to
his brother-in-law, Mr. Wm.  H. Le  Roy, at Potsdam, N. Y.:  "John has
been  examined and admitted a Doctor  of  Medicine to-day.  I am just
called to go  and make whiskey-punch for  a little  merry-making which
has arisen from  John's  promotion, and have only time to tell you we are
all well."
    His  inaugural dissertation was  "The  Chemistry of Animated Matter."
This was a treatise of one hundred  and twenty  octavo pages, which was
printed  by the college as the  thesis selected  from those of the  graduating
class  of that year by the faculty to be  publicly discussed.  Dr.  Henry
William Ducachet, of the same  class, who became afterwards an Episcopal
clergyman and distinguished  in  Philadelphia, was designated to refute the
views advanced  by  Dr. Emmet.  But  it was  held  that  the author had
successfully defended his position.
    On  January  19th,  1822, his brother  Tom writes  to  his  sister  in
Potsdam : " John had a few symptoms  of a return of his complaint, but
he confined himself so closely to the  house that they have passed  off.  He,
however, will leave  this for  Charleston in eight  or ten days.   His health
is pretty good, but as we have not yet had  any severe weather and as the
spring would be the worst weather for him, Papa wishes to send him away.
He  goes for the purpose  of  avoiding, not  to recover  from  sickness,
but he will  not  return  till late next  spring.  He will see  Ludlow  in
Charleston, who no  doubt will  make his time very pleasant.  What has
contributed   as much as anything to  keep him so  well is that  he has
gone through  his  Examinations, which he  did  with much credit  to
himself.   So much  so that when  it  came  to  the turn of  one of the
Professors to examine  he declined,  giving  as  a  reason that he  was per-
fectly satisfied that  it would  be useless to examine  him  as his knowledge
had been sufficiently tested.   He is now a Doctor, and it has put him
in very good spirits."
    On  reaching Charleston Dr.  Emmet soon decided to  make it  his per-
manent residence  and to commence there  the practice of  his profession. 
JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
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Shortly after he writes  the following amusing letter to  Mrs. Emmet, the
wife of his brother  Tom,  congratulating her  on  the  birth  of  her first
child:
                                               Charleston, S. Ca.: March 14th, 1824.
My  dear Anna :
   Having just learned that there have been great things doing at your house since my departure,
I cannot refrain, in  humble imitation of the Wise Men of the  East, from offering my tribute of
sincere love to you and your first born.   I  have no myrrh or gold  to  offer, but  anything in the
shape of Drugs and  Physic is  entirely at  your service;  and howsoever  great the dose you
may be  assured that  my  inclination will  be greater.  I have something  of  a  Prophet's fancy
in these matters, for in my last  letter  to Jane, even  before I was aware of my being an  Uncle
to one more  hopeful, I concluded  my valedictory by desiring to be  remembered to all both great
and small.
   It pleases  me very  much to know that the chick  is a Boy.  I  like nephews for  the sake of
whipping them; besides they always bring  another emmet to the  swarm.   But though I love
a Niece  full as much, she can never be counted upon, for in some unlucky hour she may happen to
get married, and they take away an emmet.    Either of them, however, from you my dearest Anna,
would be sufficient to swell my heart with joy.  And on the present occasion as  soon as I knew
from Jane's letter, that everything  had  gone on so delightfully, I took down my  worthy Barney's
cremona from the peg and  struck  up " Come, haste to the wedding" not knowing any more suitable
to the occasion, and danced myself into a small fever,—which would have been much  more agree-
able to  my nervous  system had there been  any music in the confounded fiddle.  But I  was  so
rejoiced at the happy tidings that I  could have drawn Bow over the Devil himself, merely for the
sake of  the noise. And although a very small dose of my fiddle generally proves  enough for several
hours, I hope as the Quaker sayeth in the play to "rub the tail of the horse on the Bowels of the
Cat" again and again for the sake of the newcomer.   I would give a great deal  to be at home just
now, as I have a host of pithy remarks  to make.   To  see his claret nose, take his altitude and find
his solid contents by some  Grocer's sugary scale, would be extremely gratifying.   But a great
distance keeps me from the magnum opus, and there  is nothing left but idle words and worlds of
ifs.  I suppose his name and profession are already cut out for him, so that it would be idle for one
"hors de combat"  to open  his mouth  on the subject.   But as I can  give my opinion at present,
without opening my mouth, I shall take the  liberty of insinuating a hint or two.  With regard to
name and title, I take it for granted the hero will be called James Macneven Emmet, Esq^ of White
Street, or Wm. Tom Emmet, Esqr of Place  aforesaid.  But if all these  proposed contortions of
family names should be rejected, I may remark that as there are so many claimants  you will  be
compelled, to please all parties, to string all together  like a bunch  of onions and overpower the
dawning faculties of the youth by the two foot and a half name of Bill, Jim, Tom, Macneven, Addis
Emmet, EsqH —as  aforesaid; unless you prudently resolve upon the no contemptible  one of John
Patten Emmet.
   Thomas Addis Emmet  is certainly getting to be too common and besides to judge by the noddle
of the youngest representative, it will be confined to Lawyers and Attorneys, whereas I hope that
your Boy will worship the Gilt head of Galen.  As to  profession I think that the youth should  be
consulted.  I  would therefore  recommend that he begin a course of medicine,  and if  he takes the
stuff, as Bob does Castor Oil without turning up his  nose or making unbecoming faces, you may
look upon it as an unerring sign, that he can only flourish in a mortar.   If he can stand  probing and
to have  the bread taken from his mouth when he gets it, without thinking it a piece of  injustice, he
may do  for a lawyer.   If  he can live by sucking his  paws, and seem contented, he will do for a
Parson as such worthies seldom have much more to live upon.   If he shows greater pleasure at the
sight of cash than accounts, and if he can get up as well as ever, after half a dozen falls and other
failures, and if moreover he can manage to keep the Balance always in his own favor, he may thrive
as a Merchant.  This  last test, however, must  lie over until he has some footing to set out upon.
Lastly, if the youth shews  a strong propensity for  sleeping  and exhibits no turn for anything in par 
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ticular, but yawns and makes sweet faces as if inwardly pleased, which, however, I think does not
seem likely from some specimens I have elsewhere seen, he may turn out a fine gentleman.  You
have now my dear Anne, the essence of my wisdom.
   I should like to be Godfather to the little man, but I fear that will never happen.  However, as
his uncle I shall ever feel delighted to know that he meets every trial with fortitude and to see him
an intelligent man when you and I are shaking our grey locks and dealing out, for his edification,
proverbs and maxims of the " good old times."
                                                      Your affectionate Brother,
   Mrs. Anna R. Emmet,                                                J.  P. Emmei.
        Care of Thos. A. Emmet, Jr., New York.

     Shortly  after  writing  the  above  Dr.  Emmet,  in  a  letter  to  another
member of  the family,  stated  that  in  consequence of much leisure  time on
his  hands  which  he could  not utilize  in  the  practice  of his  profession,
owing to a  want of  appreciation on the part  of the  Charlestonians, he felt
tempted to deliver for the people a course of lectures on the sciences.   The
following  letter to his sister Jane refers, among  other  matters,  to the same
subject:
                                                       Charleston, May  22nd, 1824.
My  dear Jane:
   I received your letter of the eleventh yesterday, but not without an anticipation of several days.
I am sorry to learn that Anna has been unwell, both for her  own  sake and mine, for I hoped to
have had some  of her penmanship in the course of Providence.   I shall  regret  sincerely if she
makes it more serious than the song " Blankets and pins &c." authorises her.
   Among the sisterly  wishes which adorn  your letter to me, dear Jane,  I recognize your  old
hobby of a "rich wife " for me,—'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished—but you  know that
while the wind blows off shore there is no  making a landing, and  faith I  am so out of provision
just now that I dare not venture to take any one on board.  Friend Wilkens had done very little
indeed; he has an amiable wife hanging on one arm and a full purse, with both strings in his hand,
acting as a counterpoise on the other side. With regard to mental treasures I am  unable to speak
as the lady rarely ever  opens her mouth for  a reason common enough in  the South, and which  I
might mention were I anyway given to scandal.   I  may say  this much, however, from my own
observation, that although she  has good looks and lots of fresh fodder,  I should always  have been
Ass enough to prefer chewing  my own  dockroots.  However, " non disputandum  de gustibus," is
a proverb that  can season any dish and it  is as good  a foundation  for  appetite  as  a glass of
Stoughton's  Bitters.  It is considered a very lucky hit  when  Northern gentlemen  marry  in  the
South, for there is great jealousy towards  them notwithstanding that they generally, in  a year
or two, rid the  good people here of the presence both of themselves and wives.  It may be new to
you to hear that there is a vast deal of match making among members of great families in  this place.
Each house generally furnishes two or three young  beaux, who for the sake of pride  have been
educated in idleness and  for that of family and name, are afterwards compelled  to look out for
money matches as the only hope of existence.  These booby-puppies snarl like curs when they have
had a bone taken away from them, if an heiress should bestow her hand upon a stranger.
   Now we Northern dogs like the picking of a rib as well as  they do,  and generally with success
bully them out of it.  This, and nothing else, more so, keeps  the kennel  in an uproar,  but  thank
heaven  there has been  more snarling than  biting as  yet.  You may,  perhaps, suppose from  the
description that I write feelingly, but you may be better assured that the prospect of wealth alone,
will never induce me to join in the hue and cry.   My dear Jane, it is extremely gratifying to me to
find  in every letter your affectionate wish that I should make a home visit during a part of the
summer.  Be assured it is with great reluctance that I deny myself the pleasure.  I need not repeat
the  argument which I have already used.  Yet it is not  my intention to  be rash or hazardous. 
 
UNIVERSITY OF  VIRGINIA.
From  an  early Diploma. 
JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
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There is a state of my affairs which may lead me homewards, though I confess it seems remote.  If
the Yellow Fever should visit Charleston this summer, it will be an unwarranted risk for me to
remain  in the city, even  supposing that increase of Practice should make amends for  a steady
exposure to this  most fatal disease.  If I have to retire, there is but one  place in the neighborhood
where I could stay.  Then the expense of living would infinitely exceed my income from practice
as there are at least a dozen Physicians.   The sum which I now have  to pay every two or three
weeks amounts to more than my passage home, and during that time if I stayed I might not make
as much as a dollar.  I have concluded therefore to visit you all again if  the yellow fever makes its
appearance.
   This I am induced to do, by another consideration.   I have been requested by a great many
gentlemen and  I feel very  much inclined myself, for the sake of reputation, to  give a course of
Chemical lectures next winter.  I shall have at least  thirty persons to attend them and at even ten
dollars  a  piece  can meet the expenses of apparatus.   I  am desirous of going on to see about it
myself, if possible.  But  as that will at all events be late in the season I have written to Tom
to speak to the Doctor [Macneven] on the subject.  I hope he will not delay and if the things have
to be paid for,  I would much prefer the  Doctor writing for them to Paris, immediately, as they
must be in Charleston, by October next, and will thus be obtained at  a much less cost.  I wish
Tom would let  me hear from him on this subject.  Mr. Ludlow will in a few days set sail for New
York, with his wife and mother, and I sincerely wish they may find as  much sociability from my
friends  as they have  shown to me.  (live my love to all.
                                                                  J.  P. Emmet.
   Miss Jane E. Emmet,
            Care T. A. Emmet, Esq., New York.

     Dr.  Emmet evidently  acted promptly, and  did  deliver  a course  of
public  lectures, which became   so  popular as  to attract the  attention  of
Mr. Jefferson.
     A Board  of Trustees  had  been  formed about  1815 to  establish the
Albemarle  Academy in Virginia.    The plan was  soon  changed  to the
Central College, and finally the  University of Virginia was  decided upon.
Mr. Jefferson, as one of the Board  of Trustees of the Central  College, had
been  in communication with Dr. Thomas  Cooper, the friend of Priestley,
who  then held  the  Chair  of Chemistry  in  the University of  South Caro-
lina, and had accepted the  same position  in the Virginia  College.   Some
difficulty arose when  the plan was  changed  to the University of Virginia,
and a settlement was effected with Dr. Cooper by which he withdrew from
the new position which he had already accepted.   On Dr. Cooper's appoint-
ment to  the  Central  College Dr.  Emmet applied for the vacancy in South
Carolina.   On hearing of his application  the whole faculty of  the  Medical
School of the University of New  York, where   Dr.  Emmet  had  gradu-
ated,  united in the following nattering  memorial of  his qualification for the
Professorship of Chemistry.  As Dr.  Cooper  returned to  his  old  place, it
was of course not used, but it remains an honorable testimonial:

                                                   New York, 15th of April,  1823.
    Dr. John Patten Emmet began his studies at the University of New York under  my special
direction four  years ago;  and owing to his previous excellent  education and his proficiency in
 Mathematical knowledge, was at once employed in my laboratory as an assistant in the preparation 
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of my experiments and in a great variety of processes in operative chemistry.  During  the later
period of his studies he conducted several original  investigations with no less ingenuity than pre-
cision.   In consequence of all of which things I have no hesitation in giving him this certificate of
his ample fitness for discharging the functions of  Professor of Chemistry with reputation to himself
and to any school in which he may officiate.  For his  attainments  in other departments of the
physical sciences he is also entitled to high commendation, and more especially as qualifying him
for a Professor's Chair.  That to talents of the first  order and an  enthusiasm for science  he unites
studious habits, good morals and the manners  of a gentleman.
                                                     Wm.  J. Macneven, M.D.,
                                                                      Profr of Chemistry.

   I concur with my colleagues, from my knowledge and the reasons set forth, in recommending
Dr. Emmet to the University of South Carolina for the Chemical chair.
                                              Samuel L. Mitchell, M.D.,
   New York, April 15th, 1823.                       Prof,  of Botany and Materia  Medica.

   Dr. Emmet in my opinion is well qualified for the station for which he is a candidate and if
elected I believe will reflect great credit upon  the College of So. Carolina.
                                                          David Hosack, M.D.,
                                                                       Profr of Practice.

   I cheerfully concur in recommending Dr. Emmet as every way qualified for the Professorship
of Chemistry in the South Carolina College.
                                                        Valentine Mott, M.D.,
   April 15, 1823.                                                  Professor of Surgery.

   It is with much  pleasure that  I am  afforded the opportunity  of recommending Dr. Emmet as
eminently qualified for the station of Professor of Chemistry.
                                              Wright Post,  M.D.,
   April 15, 1823.                                   Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.

   I must  heartily concur in the recommendations set forth by my colleagues in the  University.
Dr. Emmet having prosecuted his medical studies with ardour and success, received the honors of
the College at their  Commencement in April  last.  His general knowledge of his profession war-
ranted the distinction; his chemical attainments eminently qualify him as Professor of Chemistry.
                                                       John W. Francis, M.D.,
                                                                     Profr of Obstetrics.

    After the compromise with  Dr. Cooper and his return to the University
of South Carolina  Mr. Jefferson offered  the  position to  Dr. Emmet, and
while he was on a visit to New  York  Mr. Jefferson addressed  the followino-
letter to  him:
                                                        Monticello, March 6th,  1821;.
Dear Sir:                                                                           j
   The board of visitors of the  University of  Virginia, at their  last meeting of the 4th inst., pro-
ceeding  to  the appointment of a Professor for the school of Natural History in that Institution,
unanimously nominated you  to that  chair.  Under  the  general  term Natural  History, they
comprehend Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Chemistry, and  Geology; that of  Chemistry  ho'wever
being considered as the branch most eminently distinctive of the school.
   Its emoluments are  fifteen hundred dollars a  year fixed  salary, tuition fees from those of your
school from twenty-five to  fifty dollars each according to circumstances, and an excellent house
and convenient garden grounds for your residence.  The  tenure of  the Professorship is under a
Board of Visitors, seven m number,  two thirds of whom, say five out of seven, can alone remove a
Professor.   It is therefore a freehold in  fact.  But one vacation is admitted, to wit from the 15th 
 
 
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of December to the last day of January, and lectures are expected every other day during term.
As you are probably a stranger to this establishment, I have  thought it right to state to you these
particulars.   The Institution  opens tomorrow, so that in the  hope you will accede to our wishes,
we  shall request your attention as early as possible;  and in the meantime ask an answer which
may place us on a certainty.   Accept the assurance of my great esteem and respect.
                                                                     Thos.  Jefferson.

     The following is a copy of his commission, written  by Mr. Jefferson on
a strip of paper forming about half of a quarto sheet of paper:
To Doctor  John  Patten Emmet:
   By virtue of the authority  vested by law in the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia, they do, by this letter appoint you the said  John Patten  Emmet to be Professor of the
School  of  Natural  History  in the said University,  with  all the authorities,  privileges  and
emoluments in the said Professorship belonging.
   Witness Thomas Jefferson, Rector of the said University under his hand  and  the seal of the
said University this 8th day of April, 1825.
                                                          Thos. Jefferson.    [seal.]

     Shortly after Dr. Emmet's  arrival  at  the University he wrote the fol-
lowing  letter to  his sister from Charlottesville,  a neighboring town  then a
mile  or  more  distant,* where  he was evidently at  first  obliged  to  reside,
in  consequence of  the unfinished  condition  of the University  buildings.
This  letter is of particular  interest, as it gives  his  first impressions and a
description of Mr. Jefferson :
                                                     Charlottesville, May 6th,  1825.
My  dear Jane:
   I have just received my first tidings from home by a letter from Tom and two from yourself.   I
need not say that I anxiously awaited them.  Immediately upon my arrival here I found  so much
to do, for myself and Pavilion, that it became  utterly impossible to  send such an account  home as
I desired; and  even now that I am settled my hours of recreation are very much limited by the
necessity of writing Lectures.   Under  such circumstances I can not be as good a correspondent as
my friends, and  I hope they know me well enough not to delay for  the sake of regularity.  I am
particularly anxious to  give such a description of the University as would  be satisfactory to Papa,
but we are yet so much in infancy, that it must be an imperfect  and unjust one.
   I have a plan of the whole premises,  filled in with my own  observations, but have yet had no
opportunity of sending it.  With regard to the plan  and prospect of Education, I can safely say
that the Virginia University will be  ranked among the very first in  this country.  The Professors
are all eminent in their departments and the Library now forming will be selected from the most
valuable stock in Europe and America.
   William [his younger brother]  must certainly come on, but  I  think it will be better for him
to wait 'till next  year.  The students are still without text books and altho' attentive and orderly,
have very many disadvantages in the prosecution of their education.  The University is founded
upon the most liberal principles, and besides the severer studies offer the greatest advantages for
pleasing accomplishments.  I have  forwarded  an advertisement for the  Teachers of Music and
Drawing, and it may be seen that the very first have been aimed at. +
   Indeed I  think William will be delighted with the change.  Mr. Jefferson is down  with us
almost every day, and as often invites us to call without formality at his house.   But I have already

  * The University of Virginia is now within the corporation limits of Charlottesville.
  t Music Hall was a detached building at the northwest angle of the University grounds and  situated in the neighbor-
hood of the present  chapel.  After this building became untenable and was pulled down, Mr. Bigelow, the teacher of
music, occupied for many years after a room in the Anatomical Hall, opposite the Western Range. 
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found that Monticello does not signify a small Mountain as might have  been expected.   I have
dined,  however, twice  with his  family since  my  arrival, and would go oftener, notwithstanding
distance and altitude, were  it not for lectures, lectures, lectures, &c.   He  has a most charming
prospect from the clouds, and commands a full view of the University, which is now his only hobby.
He is an extremely pleasant old  gentleman and as hospitable as a man can be.  We all take the
greatest delight in promoting his views, and he has expressed himself well pleased.  I do not know
that I ever entered on Business with more pride and  satisfaction and the day will yet come when it
will be a noble source of Pride to be known as the Professor of this promising University.
    We have a former President of the United States at its  head and two former Presidents among
its  Board  of Visitors.*  These and other  circumstances make me  desirous to make my situation
Becoming, and if I seem to enter  upon the outfit expensively I shall have  the less to do hereafter.
My house will have to be open not only to the visits of Professors, but to all  distinguished indi-
viduals who will be constantly  arriving for the purpose of viewing the University; and I am deter-
mined to be in proper  order.  One room at least, my sanctum sanctorum, or  Parlour, must have
taste, and  for this purpose I am willing to "bleed and die." The Study must have something done
for  it, to cover the walls and floor as it also faces the Portico.   Send on the Bills and I shall always
be able  to judge  how things may stand.   Recollect,  as I have already said, that  this is my home
for  the  best part of the year and during that  time  I  shall be liable to numerous  and  important
visits.
    I want some fine stockings, black neck handkerchiefs and two or three pair of nankin Pantaloons.
Woodhead has my measure.   Give my love and remembrance to all.
                                                                               J.  P.  E.
    Miss Jane E. Emmet,
          Care of Thos. A. Emmet, New York.

     Miss Jane Emmet writes to her  sister at Potsdam,  May 17th,  1825 :

    John is at length settled  in his new Establishment, he is in the  highest spirits with every pros-
pect of being the great man  of the family.   Every one tells us we  have reason to feel so  vain at
such a flattering  honor paid to so young a man, which so  many older ones have tried for in vain.
The college is on a more splendid scale than any one in America.   They have  sent to Europe for
Professors and Masters, at  the most  expensive price, so that  John will be  in  high company.  I
received a letter from him last night desiring us to send  him on furniture  for his house, two very
handsome carpets, oil paintings  in frames, chimney ornaments, &c,  in short everything in the
gayest style, so  that  we may say with the Vicar  of Wakefield:  "The family begins to  look
up  a little."

     Dr.  Emmet again writes  to  his  sister an  interesting  account of his
prospects and of  his difficulties:
                                                     Charlottesville, June icth, 182;.
My Dearest Jane :                                                                   J
    I have  just received your last kind letter and  altho'  constantly  occupied in  preparing my
lectures, can not let the present opportunity of expressing my sincere thanks for your perseverance
go by unnoticed.  You are indeed a good and  constant correspondent.   Go on, I entreat you, and
if others cannot write  me without a stimulus,  I shall  still  turn to  your letters with the warmest
feelings of love.   My friends surely know how little time I have to devote to regular correspond-
ence, and  they cannot therefore be so formal  as to measure lines with me.  I can  not hope, for
anything hitherto noticed, that they will adopt your generous rule of writing once a fortnight under
all kinds of disappointments, but I really had hopes that one letter  at least, for mere experiment,
would have reached me before this period.  Whatever irregularities  I may exhibit  in return are
such as result from necessity; and I have too often said how much I value  such letters from home,
to leave any doubt of their being most acceptable when they arrive.   Do you, Dearest Jane, continue

                        * Thos. Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe. 
JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
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your good example and I shall admire your resolution as much as I now value your affection.   I
have this  day received some of my furniture, &c, with a letter  from Tom, to whom I feel most
thankful for his attention.
   I am going on very well in my new vocation, and altho' I really earn the salary by the sweat
of my brow, I feel a great degree of pleasure in the task.  I look with joy towards the time when
I shall again visit you all and appear at last as a Being of some consequence.
   As you will feel great pleasure in knowing my progress, I must become so far an egotist as to
send some particulars.  The University even at this early period maybe said to be flourishing;
there are at  least seventy students not only from Virginia but from the Southern States.  We have
already taken several of this number from the neighboring University of Hampden and Sydney
and continue to increase.  Altho' I arrived  late and altho' the  students were under the impression
that the Professor of Natural Philosophy would also be Professor  of Chemistry,  I have  a  class of
twenty-eight and a most flattering prospect for next year.  I take a great deal of pains with  my
lectures and write them out at length.  Altho' my room is not opened publicly to others than
my class, it is generally filled and  not unfrequently so much so,  as to render the temperature
oppressive.   This is a flattering circumstance and sufficiently proves that my subject is popular.
   I do not, however, wish to take much attention to myself.  The other Professors, and particularly
Mr.  Bonnycastle,  Professor of Natural  Philosophy, may boast  of  the same kind reception.   I
entertain a very warm friendship for Mr. B. and shall undoubtedly bring him home with  me next
vacation.   He is unmarried, and altho' not handsome, is so amiable,  gentleman like and well
informed, that he cannot fail being highly esteemed when once known.
   Respecting the counterpanes and other  things alluded to in your letter, it is only necessary to
say that sooner or later  they must be procured and as I may have  persons visiting me whom I
should like  to ask to stay and sleep, I think it better to get them at once.   My shirts are beginning
to have the  transparency of muslin but as they  are not fine enough to pass  for such, I wish to have
a large collection of fine collars sent to me.  Take Tom's neck as a  measure and let them tie behind.
I also stand in need of stockings,  so let me have some fine ones.  Here I must conclude both letter
and  commissions.   Tell Bache that I have  received his memento  and admire his agricultural effu-
sions upon rakes, hoes, and  hammers.  I cannot say I think as highly of his silence hitherto, but he
must give an account of that himself.   Give my love to all.  Tell mamma  that I  shall never rest
until she pays me a visit at the  University.   When fixed I hope to have a visit from you all, from
year to year.  God bless you, my dear Jane.
                                                                          J. P. Emmet.
   Miss Jane E. Emmet,
           Care T. A. Emmet,  Esqr., New York.


     In the following letter Dr. Emmet  gives his sister a fair  outline  of his
daily work at the University:
                                                   University  of Va., April 2nd, 1827.
My  dearest Jane :
   The monotony of my occupation and the very little actual novelty existing to put anything in a
letter sufficient to repay you for the trouble of reading it.  To say  "I am well" comprises very
nearly  all that can interest you unless you are willing to take a " Lecture."
   Bache in his letter to me gave  me such a slash about my "pressure of business" that I am
almost afraid to urge it as an excuse for not having answered you before.   Yet like an honest man,
I can declare this is the cause.
   Experience has sufficiently proved to me that  I read  in two hours as much  as I can possibly
write in three days without killing myself. I am  actually compelled, therefore, to write without
flagging.  To add to the direful  necessity  a change is likely to  take place in  my department  by
which I will be required to lecture upon a new subject,  Materia Medica.
   The consequence will be that the lectures already written upon my present courses must count
nothing and new ones must be made.  All this is work for the next session; and so heavy will it

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be, that I feel hardly courageous enough to entertain the hope of going home during the Summer
vacation.  I am glad that there is a prospect of this alteration as I will then " teach the young idea
how to shoot," in Chemistry and Materia Medica, instead of struggling with that Monster of many
heads Natural History.  I know very well that " tall oaks from  little acorns grow," but there are
so many of these oaks and so very little time to plant the acorns, that one hand is not enough.
When all my lectures are finished, I shall moult and commence fresh life.
   Hitherto I have toiled  like the  Irishman  in the open Sedan chair, and "if it were not for the
honor of it, would as soon be walking."  In the way of recreation I am still limited,—the fiddle cures
despondency and Satan [his violoncello] smothers despair and fury amid its roar—I have the bust
[one made by Dr. E. of his father]  mounted on one of my tables with the crooked corner of the
mouth to the leeward, and I feel sincerely gratified in recognizing its familiar features.  It is indeed
an excellent likeness and I value it more than all I  possess.
   I have not had time to indulge in the promised  lithographic caricatures to which Bache alluded,
but the time must come.   My great recreation is working in my garden and I am anxiously looking
for the fulfillment of Anna's commission.  If the plants  have not yet been forwarded,  I wish you
would call and select some  handsome flower seeds.   Let  the  choice be yours and not Thorburn's.
Tell  Tom that I am obliged to add to his commissions.  I am so badly provided with books on
Materia Medica that he  must purchase Murray's and Eberlie's works on the subject.  I want also
the  last edition of  Thomson's Chemistry.  If he has not boxed up the articles, you can put the
flower seeds in and then, if he has any regard for his character let him forward them instanter.
   My dear Jane as you and Bache are one you may let him look over your shoulder while you are
reading this, in order that he may fully understand  that he is to divide it with you, in return for his
writing to me on a bit of your letter.
   How does half price charity come on ?  I hope my picture has procured you the promise of a
penny with five years credit &c.  Give my love to  all, unless  some fair one seems willing to take
it all, but don't advertise, farewell.
                                                                    John  P. Emmet.
   P. S.  I have received Robert's double letter, paid  the postage and had the unbounded satis-
faction of finding that it enclosed a Hoax !   We  repeatedly receive such tokens of remembrance,
but this is the first that hailed from Alabama.

    In June,  1827,  Dr.  Emmet  became  engaged  to  be married  to  Miss
Mary Byrd  Farley  Tucker, a native of Bermuda, who  was then, with her
mother, visiting her uncle,  Mr. George  Tucker, the first Professor of Moral
Philosophy in the University of Virginia.   Miss Tucker was  the daughter
of John and  Elizabeth Tucker.*

   * Mr. John H. Tucker, Mrs. Emmet's father, was the youngest  son.   He was at one time in
affluent circumstances, but in consequence of the long-continued war between England and  France,
during the  early part of this century, his  fortune as  a  merchant  in  Bermuda became greatly
reduced.  Having  been  captured on one of his own vessels, out as a privateer, he was held a
prisoner of war for several years in one of  the French West India islands.  On his release he was
taken to England and was induced there to accept as a temporary employment a position in  the
paymaster's department of the British army in Portugal.  But shortly after he joined the army he
died  on November 23d,  1811, from a fever which was then devastating the  British  troops.  His
wife, Mrs. Eliza J. Tucker, was a woman of  remarkable ability, with a strongly-marked character
and of great worth, for which she  was respected and greatly beloved by all who had the good
fortune to have known her.  She possessed the mind of a logical man, with all the instincts of a
woman  in its application.  The writer was for the first  nine or ten years of his  life under almost
the sole charge of his grandmother, in consequence of the bad health  of his mother, and  her
precepts and training  at  this  early age made  an indelible impression on him, strengthened after-
wards by the loving remembrance of her many virtues. 
JOHN H.  TUCKER. 
 
 
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MARY  BYRD  TUCKER  EMMET. 
JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
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     The letter from Dr. Emmet to his  sister announcing  his engagement is
 the first expression we have  from him  of unalloyed happiness, a state which
 continued  unbroken for a period of fifteen years of  married life:

 ,,            T                                University of Virginia, June 17th, 1827.
 My dearest Jane :                                                     J      '        '
    In the course of my communications I have  at length come around to  you.  You are I know
 incapable of  thinking that such delay was  neglect and must feel satisfied by this time how com-
 pletely you possess my sincerest affections.  Indeed I am already infinitely happy at the prospect of
 soon possessing a companion strongly resembling you in her mind and loving disposition.  You
 can not refrain from giving her your hand and heart the first moment you see her.   In figure, walk,
 dance and dignity of manner she strongly reminds me of Mary Anne and the resemblance fills me
 with sincere  delight.   Her complexion is dark, true West Indian, but she has the most beautiful
 set of teeth that a woman can have.  Her eyes  are  mild, soft  and black, beautifully expressive
 of the modesty of her manners.  I could go on thus for ever, but I feel that my description will be
 considered exaggerated.   She has also lately been so unwell that at present she possesses nothing of
 a complexion once the most striking that  I ever  saw.   She will, perhaps, go among you an invalid,
 but a cordial and affectionate reception will soon restore her and make her the happiest of Beings.
    It is strange beyond my power of reason, why I have so long refrained  from offering myself to
 so sweet  a creature as my Mary.  Duty was ever my first leading impulse.   I placed myself under
 cold and formal restraint in  order to fulfil my duties as a Professor; and most  assuredly had  I
 yielded before, the Lover would have ruined the Professor.
    I managed it differently from necessity.  I assumed an indifference  and steadily toiled until the
 lectures for  the  season  were written.  I then  opened my  heart clearly to her by  a proposition
 wholly unexpected from my former conduct.  Yet judge how happy I was to find that her heart
 had been mine before, tho' so disguised that nothing but our mutual love  revealed it.   I never
 knew myself  before.   I once thought that my wife should be musical, yet she will  possess nothing
 but a liking for it.  I now think that  I have all that a wife should have to make her forever dear to
 her husband,—your affectionate disposition.   But  I must talk to you of something else.   We are
 so situated up here that no suitable purchases can  be  made  for our wedding.   I mentioned that  I
 was sending to New York for things and  begged to execute other than my own commission.  Do
 you, Jane, purchase for me three pairs of ladies white kid  gloves, long ones, and three pairs of
 short ones;  six pair of men's white gloves and a piece of broad white satin ribbon for what is
 technically called favours, send plenty.
    The Wedding ring I must again notice.  I took the measure of her finger by the self same ring
 which  you gave me five or six years ago.  Let it be a thick double  ring and of the purest gold.
 This measure is perhaps too small as  the finger is now unusually thin.  I suppose  a ring too small
 may be afterwards stretched by the jeweller without diminishing the force of wedlock, but we must
 never afterwards change it.   I have another commission  for  you in favor of a most  esteemed friend
 at this  place, one of the professor's wives.  She  is desirous  of procuring a handsome, fashionable
 bunch  of  ostrich feathers.
    Use your taste, dearest Jane, and remember you are obliging a most affectionate brother.  Let
 all the  things written  for be forwarded at once.  No time  can  be  lost.   I expect William up as
 Groomsman, he will officiate with one of his old companions, St. George Coulter.  Charles McEvers
 must also come for the sake of Galen and the recollection of that cutting soda water which I once
 administered to him.  I cannot promise that I will be able  this time to vault across the table with
 him,* or  even to  pitch into a corner with  some dozens of custards &c, but he will be heartily

    * In explanation of this allusion the writer recalls a very amusing account, given him by his father, of a scene at the
 wedding of his brother Tom to Miss Anna Tom, which took place March 4th, 1823.  Shortly before the supper hour Dr.
 Emmet and  Mr. Charles McEvers had occasion to go into the dining-room—possibly the punch-bowl was in their charge.
 The doctor, being very active and slight, bantered Mr. McEvers, who was not agile or a light-weight, to follow him and
 vault across the table.  Dr. Emmet got over safely, as he expected to do, but  Mr. McEvers was not so fortunate.  His
hands slipped in some way and he fell, upsetting the two large tables where their leaves joined together, thus bringing 
32                            JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.

welcome.  Tell him this and persuade him to come.  My wife elect expects  Mary Anne for her
bride's maid.   I  have  had  a generous offer of accommodation for her from one of the professor s
wives so that she will  I hope come and confirm my happiness.   If she thinks of anything that may
be useful upon the occasion, let her bring it, for we are in a poor place for purchases.
          r              '                                                j.  P. Emmet.

     Immediately on  the reception of  the above letter his  sister Jane,  now
Mrs.  McEvers,  must  have communicated  by letter the  intelligence  to her

sister, Mrs. Le Roy.
                                                       Middle Road, June 19th, 1827.
My  dear Elizabeth:
   Altho' my letter has been long coming I am  sure you will say that it is the most agreeable one
you have received since you left us.  I do not intend to trust to my own powers of composition for
procuring this delightful effect; I think the plain matter of fact news will do it and as I think  my
preface has raised your expectations sufficiently  high I  will come to the point,  we expect about the
end of next month to be favoured with a visit from Mrs. John  P. Emmet!  We received a letter
last  night from John  bespeaking white gloves,  stockings, pantaloons, &c. &c. summoning  us all
to his wedding, which is to be as soon after the 20th of July as possible.  I suppose you would not
object to  hearing the young lady's  name, tho' that is more than John favoured us with; but from
the initials and William's help we have found out that her name is Mary Byrd Tucker, a cousin of
the Miss Tucker who  staid last spring at the Douglas's.   William* says  he has been a  long time
attentive to her and that she has always shown a partiality for John.
   The boys of the University had a good joke against her for an involuntary expression of hers.
When there was some riot in the college  at which the boys  were threatening the professors,  she
exclaimed "Don't hurt my father [uncle] and for  God's sake  spare D^ Emmet."  William says
she  is quite pretty, with a  good figure, something like Mary Anne's, and of a very high family,
but believes no money;  so that John will  not better himself in that way.   However, he seems as
happy as man can be and intends coming on here, as soon as  he is married, to be merry for a short
time and to show us his happiness and his wife  together. He is very anxious, he says,  to have us
all on there at the event.   But I do not believe any one will go  unless Mary Anne and Tom, if he
is able to leave town then, and  I  should not  be astonished if  Anna went  also.   But no other
member of the  family will  be able to go as  Robert  and Papa  are obliged to be in  Albany at
that time and Bache will be in Canada, or preparing to  go.  Of course you must not expect me at
Potsdam  this  summer, as I must stay to see my new sister, besides I have taken the management
of the house in the country upon myself and it would not do to back  out so soon.
    It has disappointed me very much, as I am extremely anxious to see the children and all of you.
The children  here continue quite well and Jane is cutting her teeth without the  least trouble.
Write me soon and tell me how all do and believe me—
                                               Your affectionate sister,
    Mrs. W. H.  Le Roy,                                         Jeannette [McEvers].
             Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co.,  N. Y.

     A few  days after, on June  24th,  his sister  Mary Anne,  afterwards  Mrs.
Graves, writes to her sister at Potsdam  as  follows:  "I suppose  by this  time
you must have heard  of John's  engagement, it  startled us  all  and  pleased
us.    I think  a wife  is just what he  wants, and if  she is  all  he  says she

down upon  him a host of ices, etc., and deluging himself with the contents of a large punch-bowl, which put out  the can-
dles, leaving the room in total darkness.  The doctor escaped quickly, and was one of the first of the guests who, attracted
by the noise, rushed to the scene of havoc, and, with a splendid exhibition  of astonishment, he expressed his sympathy,
which added no little to Mr. McEvers's state of speechless indignation. The incident and Mr. McEvers's forlorn condition
caused a good laugh, which was compensation enough for the less elaborate supper which was served later.
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must be all a wife ought to be.   She  is not  musical, that is  she does not
play on any instrument, but she  is very fond of it.  From the description
I think she must be very handsome.   She has  a dark skin, but  the finest
teeth ever seen  in  a head, at  least so  the lover says, and beautiful black
eyes, a very  fine figure,  and  ' in dignity of manner, walk and dance,' to
take John's own words, reminds  him of me.   In the last letter she sent on
a  request for me to  act  as bridesmaid, of course  I  cannot  refuse,  and I
think  Tom and  myself will set off the middle of July, as they  are  to be
married the twenty-first of the month.  ' Brian O'Linn, his wife  and wife's
mother'  then are to come on and pay us  a visit.   From William's  account
I don't think the old lady will add to  the  pleasure;  he says she is one of
the  'quality  folks.'"
    The bridal party set  out after the ceremony on a visit to New York,
and spent  a  month at the house on the Middle Road*.  The  bride was
received into the family  circle with open arms, and  the  visit  was  one of
great  satisfaction, not  only on this  account,  but from  the opportunity thus
offered  the  husband, as well  as  his wife, of seeing their most  illustrious
father, who died suddenly in the  following October.   Mrs. Tucker was cor-
dially received and fully appreciated. With Mrs. Graves and Mrs. Tom Emmet
she frequently corresponded, and continued to do so until her death.
    On  the  return of the  party to the University, a visit was paid to their
uncle, Mr. Thomas  Tudor Tucker, who  still held  the position  of United
States Treasurer, residing in Washington, and from some  letters yet pre-
served, it is evident that Dr. Emmet was  most fully appreciated by the  old
gentleman.
    Mrs. Tucker gives  the following  account of her visit with  the  bridal
party to New York, in a letter to her uncle, Judge St. George Tucker, of
Williamsburg, Va.:
                                       University  of Virginia, Septr. 8th, 1827.
   A thousand apologies are  due to you, my beloved uncle,  for my long silence.  My time was
so completely engaged when in New York, making purchases, cutting out bed and table linen &c.
&c, that I had it not in my power to write a single line to  any of my friends in Virginia, except to
my brother Henry [Dr. Wm. Henry Tucker], to whom I wrote a short letter after receiving a third
from him.  I left him quite well  and in good spirits, also my son Henry, who went on directly to
Hampden Sydney [College].
   We set out for New York the day after my dear Byrd  was married accompanied  by a married
brother of Dr. Emmet [T. A. Emmet,  Jr.] and a single sister [Mary Anne]. On the 24^ we had
the pleasure of  meeting  our worthy uncle in Washington [Mr. Thomas Tudor Tucker], and we
found a Hack sent by him to take us to his lodgings  for breakfast.  I was quite surprised to find
him looking so young and well.  The strong resemblance  he bears to my dear departed mother, to
   *Dr. Emmet in  1818 made a sketch which he termed "An Evening at Home," which is here reproduced.  It is a
faithful but grotesque representation of the family assembled in the parlor of the old house on the Middle Road.  And
while it is executed  in his usual spirit of caricature,  the likenesses have been sufficiently preserved to render it easy to
identify each individual. 
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JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
Aunt and Richard, filled my heart with pleasure and pain, notwithstanding I felt more  pleasure
than I can express to see him.  It was a source of much regret that we were obliged to leave him
so soon after breakfast, when we set out for Baltimore, and reached New York on the 27'  .
   My beloved Byrd was received with open arms by Dr. Emmet's family, and their reception of
me was that of a near relation.   They are indeed a most charming  family, all accomplished and
intelligent, but unaffected and plain in their manners and a more united and affectionate family I
have never known.   They reminded me so much of your brothers and sisters, and many  others of
my dear Bermuda friends, that I  felt I were with those whom I had known from infancy.  The old
gentleman is very mild and affectionate in his manners and very agreeable in conversation, and his
wife, who is much younger, is very like Cousin Fanny in favor and Aunt  Campbell in manners.
Having every article for Housekeeping to purchase our time was nearly the whole four weeks taken
up with shopping.
   We saw, notwithstanding, all that was  to be seen in  such a fine large city; we went to West
Point  and  spent a week at Long Branch, in New Jersey, where we  were all made ill for a short
time by the  extreme cold, not being prepared for the sudden change.
   We left New York on the 24th of August, and were so unfortunate as to be on the steamboat on
our way to Baltimore  in the storm of Saturday night.   My dear  Byrd was made so sick by the
motion of the  Boat that she could scarcely sit up.  We  arrived, thanks  to my Heavenly Father,
safely at three o'clock in the morning, and had to walk through  the heaviest rain  I ever  felt  to a
tavern.  In consequence of this we  were  unable  to proceed hither  'till the day after, when we
arrived in   time to  visit my dear Uncle that evening.   We breakfasted, dined  and drank tea
with him the next day,  and saw all that was worth seeing in Washington.
   We set out the next morning on  our journey home, and arrived  on Friday last in  time for
breakfast.   My dear Byrd is as busy as a bee and as happy as  possible arranging her household
matters, and I have been so much engrossed with her that I have never had a moment to myself,
or I certainly should have written to you,  my dearest uncle, as I intended on my arrival here.  I was
so fortunate as to meet with a cousin, on board one of the  Steam-Boats, from Bermuda, with several
others from there.   She is a grand-daughter of my uncle James Tucker, lately married to one of
the rich Penistones, and traveling for pleasure;  she had seen  my dear Aunt Betty a short time
since and my sisters too.   She said my dear Aunt looked better than she had ever seen  her and
was very well, the complaint in her neck was removed, and our friends were all well.
   I am requested by Byrd and by  her spouse to present them  most affectionately to  you, my
dear uncle and aunt, and to say how much gratified they both would be if you would, on your way
home,  make them a short visit;  they will  not ask you for  a long one lest you should refuse.   Do,
my dear Sir, gratify us  all  by coming; you cannot think what  pleasure it would  give  us.   Dr.
Emmet is very anxious  to see and know our relations; he is very much pleased with my dear uncle
in Washington and very often speaks of him in a way that  gives me great pleasure.
   I am also requested to remember them to Mr. and Mrs.  Cabell,* and to say they hope she will
accompany her good man when the Visitors meet again, and to dear Parke remember us affection-
ately, if you please.   I had determined when I returned to make you a visit for two or three days,
but I  found both a  conveyance  and escort was  impossible.  The  latter I  would have dispensed
with, but the former was not to be obtained, therefore must give  it up.   It was a source  of much
regret  to us  that Elizabeth Coulter should have left Washington on the morning of our arrival, and
was expected back on the evening of our departure.  I hope she will  be prevailed on to visit us ;
my dear Byrd  intends as soon as she  is settled to request her to do  so, to spend  some time with
us, and she will have a  double inducement, her  brother  being here.   My brother [Prof. George
Tucker] is well and looks much improved by his trip; his daughters are still in Lynchburg.
   My Dearest love to my good Aunt, to  Mr. and  Mrs. Cabell and Parke, in which my Byrd and
the Doctor combine. Accept the sincere affection of your  dutiful and attached niece,

   Saint George Tucker, Esquire, Warminster, Nelson Co., Va.                      ucker.

   * Mr. Jos. Cabell was one of the Visitors,  or Trustees, of the University of Virginia, and married Judge Tucker's
half-sister. 
JOHN PATTEN  EMMET.
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    Dr. Emmet's residence at  the  University was the  one nearest to the
rotunda, on the west side of the lawn.   The writer recalls a very amusing
description, given by his mother  in after years,  of how she took possession
as a bride.   She felt compelled at an  early day to  make  some  changes.
Her husband, as Professor of Natural History, had gradually accumulated
a  large  number of live  snakes, reptiles and  other animals  indigenous  to
Virginia, which had free  quarters in the  establishment.   One of the largest
and best rooms was devoted chiefly to  a collection  of snakes,  which were
retarded  somewhat in their movements by having  the floor  waxed.   A
brown bear which had  been raised  from a cub roamed  at pleasure through
the house and  garden ; a large white  owl also had full liberty of the house
and rested for  a greater part of the time in  his master's room on the top
of  a  high  four-post bedstead.   The owl  was  allowed  soon  to  shift  for
himself, and in time the bear became an addition  to  the  larder, while
the  snakes were banished in  as  summary  a manner  as  if St.  Patrick  had
exercised his power to that end.
    Her absence in  New  York after her marriage and the  cares of house-
keeping after  her  return  prevented  Mrs.  Emmet until a  late date  from
answering  a letter  of congratulation received  by her  from Mrs.  Le Roy.
The following  is a copy  of her reply :

                                              University of Va., Sept. 19th, 1827.
   I received your affectionate  letter, my dear Sister,  at a time when  I  was busily  engaged in
collecting articles for housekeeping; this with others equally indispensable so engaged my time
that I deferr'd writing to you until my return here.  But so it is, I, like all other young beginners,
think I have  not time for anything but to attend to my domestic concerns, which are not yet
altogether in the train I wish.
   The warm and affectionate feelings you express for me, as the wife  of your beloved brother, are
sincerely reciprocated, and let me assure you of my sisterly regard and affection.  To know and
love the relations of my dearly  beloved husband are among my first  wishes, and  nothing but our
limited  time deprived us of the happiness of visiting and becoming personally acquainted with you,
sister Margaret and your happy fireside.  I must confess that  the relations  of my dear husband
have a strong claim on my affections, but a large corner is yet  in reserve for you, my dear sisters
Elizabeth and Margaret.  I hope and trust  the time is not very distant when we shall know and
love each other with that  affection I so much desire.   As you all know the  worth and excellence of
my dearest husband, I shall only say he is all that  I could wish him, and if I am not happy the
fault must be mine.   In addition  to this  I have a tender  affectionate mother whose aid and counsel
is a treasure to me and to whom  I feel much indebted for her early instruction in the desirable art
of housekeeping, which is now my heart's delight. I am more and more convinced every day that
matches are made in heaven, for  chance never  could have directed me  in  the choice of one who is
so well  calculated to ensure domestic  happiness and comfort, which above  all others I prize the
most notwithstanding I have all that I could wish or desire to make me happy and  comfortable.   I
still have some anxiety for the health of my beloved husband,  who is more delicate  than I had
expected ; I will not however anticipate evil, but enjoy the blessings I  have and trust by the aid of
my heavenly father  and with care and good nursing I shall re-establish his health and good looks
again.   My dear Mother is still I presume  with you,  remember me most affectionately if you
please, and tell her  I will be more happy than I can express to have her  with me and shall indeed 
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be jealous and think I do not possess such a share of her affection, as I had hoped to merit, it she
does not pay me  a visit.   I need not add, to  see my worthy father here would give  me equal
pleasure and happiness, but I fear his avocations  in New York will be the means of depriving us of
what my dear husband and myself so much desire;  this excuse I do not however extend to our
Mother, therefore  none  will be admitted.  Good brother William has  promised to persuade her,
and I must have a visit from her, and it would give my dear Mother also so much pleasure  to see
her under the same roof.
   And now my dear Sister shall I not hope to see you, and your better half, at the University of
Virginia ? Yes, indeed, you must visit us,  nothing else  can compensate for the separation from
my dear friends in Bermuda, but after being with those of my dearest husband, whose cordial and
affectionate reception to me has already won my heart, and I often think with pleasure of the happy
four weeks we spent in New York.   Tell sister Margaret I shall also expect a visit from her, as
the distance from  this place is much about the same as Potsdam from New York, and tho' she will
have mountains and bad roads  to encounter, I shall not excuse her. Kiss your dear children for
me and teach them to love me as an Aunt.  My best love to Mr. Le Roy and sister Margaret, in
which I am joined by my dearest, and my dear Mother wishes her best  regards.   Accept, my dear
Sister,-the affection of yours,
   Mrs. Wm. H.  Le Roy,  Potsdam, N. Y.                          Mary B.  F. Emmet.*

    For an interval of nearly a  year there exists no record, among  the old
letters, of Dr.  Emmet and his family circle at the University.
    The old house  on the Middle  Road was about to be  abandoned by the
family, as all the sons  and daughters  had  married, with  the  exception
of the eldest sister, Margaret, and   each  member  already had his  own
household;  moreover,  the  death  of  the  father, Mr. Thos. Addis  Emmet,
during the past year had rendered the establishment  no longer necessary.
At  this time  Dr. Emmet, in a letter to  his  sister,  Mrs. McEvers,  refers
feelingly to the past  life at the old house,  but at length dispels  the "dreams
and  shadows of the  past"  by  a humorous  criticism on  the phrenological
development of his firstborn :
                                    University  of Va. (Commenced), August 2d, 1828.
                                         Finished August 17th, 1828. (Very busy.)
My dearest Jane :
   I have received your kind letter last written and I have been compelled to put off my answer in
consequence of a great press of business.  Among the contents I observe with alarm your toss out
of a gig.  Never do I wish  to hear of such  an accident befalling even indifferent persons, having
two or three  times cut such summersets  myself.   Neither do I think  that Bache is such a mere
atom, however he  may deceive himself, as to admit of being shot off like a blank cartridge.
   Our household  gods must have deserted us, for I perceive the members of our large family are
widely scattered.   The days are gone which were wont to shine upon  us  in our knot of domestic
comfort, and we appear now to be repelled  from the common centre,—our house in the country.
How I should rejoice in being able to spend my days at the  house on the Middle  Road and again
to rusticate, or rather vegetate,  year after  year in an old Laboratory uniform, to make experiments
and dream of great  discoveries. I have always had  a  good  share of enthusiasm, but little or
moderate ambition, to seek for domestic comforts and retirement rather than aspire at great things.
I would even now  resign professorship, honors and all for the  means of living to the end of my
glass at the home upon the Middle  Road,  with as many of my dear friends as would  volunteer
a visit or  so.  You will perceive, my dearest Jane, that I have not forgotten in this retrospect your
   * Mrs. Emmet's full name was Mary Byrd Farley, after her uncle's second wife, whose mother was Mary Byrd, of
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own courting days when  Bache used to  come to my garden house for the purpose, as he said of
smoking a segar and studying Chemistry,—when in fact he was only thinking about you.  Confident
that I was making rapid progress  in the pursuit of science, I put myself to the inconvenience of
letting him monopolize the doorway and with it all the light of the room.
    But no more of the dreams and shadows of the past ?  You will wish,  no doubt, that I shall, at
the conclusion of  this  very indefinite letter give some account of my little  son.  At all events I feel
disposed to anticipate the desire and only hope that I may be able to fortify myself against a father's
weakness and partiality.
    First then I have  concluded upon christening him Thomas Addis Emmet, after our beloved
Father, but he is to be called simply Addis Emmet.
    Altho' a delicate and small  child when born, he has since rapidly improved  and is now very
large plump and heavy.   His looks too have agreeably disappointed his mother, for he is at present
a very good looking Boy,—indeed he may be said  to be strikingly so, for every body notices it.
My opinion is however that his beauty will not continue to manhood at all events, for he possesses
one of the widest and most expanded foreheads that I have ever seen upon  an infant.
    Tom's Johnny has  a noble front, but of so different a character that it is not possible to compare
them.   Were I at this premature period to  apply the rules of Phrenology I would say that Tom's
Boy will excel  in  Mathematics and  Sciences, founded  upon close reasoning, while my chap will
become eminent in music, wit and poetry.  For  God's sake,  dear Jane, let nobody see this crude
speculation for no one thinks less  of bumps, and  at this period of life, than I do.   But as the
youngsters do actually differ,—in these particulars, from most other children, there actually seems
to be something of the kind to begin upon.  Young Master Addis now knows his Mother and
myself and actually did so before he was two months old.  But while I thus give you the sweets of
his character I must also be so  candid as  to add the Bitters.   He is the most troublesome and rest-
less dog living.   For whole hours will he lie upon his back fidgeting about and moving his quick
and restless eyes from one object in the  room to another.  Indeed he sleeps so very little that he
compels  his  Mother and Father to  keep him company during the greater part of every night.
Some times it  proceeds from colic,  but  more frequently depends upon an unknown  cause which
makes his little eyes bright when  mine are  dim  with sleep.   He is very  frequently laughing both
when asleep and awake, which convinces me that his wakefulness  is  not always attended with pain.
When I consider how very sound a sleepe*r  I once was, I am filled  with astonishment  that I am
able to live upon  the  scanty allowance taken at  present.  Great as our love for this little fellow
will seem, I firmly believe that he is more beloved by his  grand-mother  Mrs. Tucker who is con-
stantly devouring  him with kisses and staggering his young comprehension with " small talk."
How gratified Mary would be  could she see her son in his grandmother's arms at New York and
caressed by his numerous uncles and aunts. She has wished it a hundred times.  But the time
has not yet come, and perhaps never will for many years be  fully realized unless my friends will
condescend to take a trip to Virginia and pay me a visit,—I shall still cling to the hope.  We are
all doing tolerably well at present, but  I must conclude by presenting the warmest love of Mary
and her Mother to our Family in New York, and by  assuring you of my lasting affection.
    Mrs.  Bache  McEvers, New York.                                      J. P. Emmet.

     Evidently  the anxious care  of  the watchful wife  soon detected that her
husband was  having his rest thus disturbed by his  son's wakefulness, and
consequently  she persuaded him  to  visit  his  family in New  York,  as is
shown  in  the following letter  written  by his sister,  Mrs.   McEvers,  to
Mrs.  Le  Roy:
                                                           Sunday, August 31st, 1828.
My dear Elizabeth :
   As " age is honorable " and  I have to get  out of debt to you all,  I have preferred you to Mary
Ann this week, and I shall begin according to custom  with  a scolding,  not that I am the least
offended, but only I think it well to get the start  of  Mary  Ann and Margaret when I have a
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JOHN PATTEN  EMMET.
chance.  And as I think  this  may be the only time during the summer when I shall be in the
agreeable situation of giving instead of getting a scolding I cannot neglect  this opportunity of
crowing over the girls.  We have received no letter for two weeks, which has been a great disap-
pointment to us all as we look  out for Potsdam letters with the greatest anxiety.  As I have no
doubt you all have some good reason for your silence, I shall not launch out into any reproach on
the occasion, but only beg  that you will book it in my favor, as Bache says  in his mercantile
phrases, and deal as lightly with me when I serve you the same trick.
   We were all surprised and delighted yesterday at the appearance of John walking into the room
looking well and in as good spirits as possible.  He took advantage of his vacation to pay us a visit
of a week or fortnight.  His  wife persuaded him to come on as she thought the  visit to home would
do him good and make him go to work again with a better heart than if he took  no holiday.  We
are all collected again, Rosina and Anna have returned and the addition of John's company makes
the house very pleasant.   He speaks a great deal of his little boy, who he says is a very fine child
and the only Emmet in the family with large black eyes.  He promises by all accounts to be hand-
some.  I send Mama on a little sketch that John drew of him when he was asleep just before he
left home.  It may give her something to think of the little fellow by, as it will probably be long
before she sees him and John wishes him to have a little place in her heart, as well as the rest of
the grandchildren.  He calls him Addis, altho' he is christened the full name.   John appears so
happy to be with us again that we will find it very hard to part with him.
   We all continue quite well here except a few cases of fever and ague among the servants. How-
ever we are more fortunate than most people about here, as it is very unhealthy on both the North
and East Rivers and also in the city.  There is a great deal of bilious fever in town and even some
vague reports of the fever [yellow fever] having broken out in Old Slip, but they are not con-
firmed.  The children have been remarkably well this summer, and altho' we have had very warm
weather they have shown no symptoms of summer complaint.  We are in dreadful want of rain
here, it is so long since we had any that all the leaves are turned and have fallen and the country
looks now as bare as  it generally does in November.  Write to me soon and tell me everything
about the children.  There are no letters come from Potsdam we like so well as those that mention
them.  I generally try to say something of Jane to keep her in Mama's mind.  She is the greatest
amusement to me that can  be.  She imitates  everything and is talking all the time.  Bache calls
John always professor, and Jane thinks it his name and calls him Uncle Assessor.  John sends his
best love to Mama and all  of you, Bache also, and all the other members of  the family join with
me in it.  Give mine to Le Roy and the rest, and believe me—
                                           Yours most affectionately,
   Mrs. Wm. H. Le Roy,                                    Jeannette [McEvers].
                Potsdam, N. Y.

     In April, 1829,  a  second son was born  and christened John Tucker
Emmet.   He was a boy of good  promise and was the  idol  of his parents,
who in a few years were to  experience a great sorrow in  his early  death.
There seems to have been but little  in Dr. Emmet's family for several years
to disturb the monotonous  tranquillity of the daily  university  life.
     But in  1830 he met with a most serious accident from the carelessness
of  a  negro  man who was  assisting him while preparing  for one  of his
lectures.    It was necessary  to  obtain a  supply of  sulphuric  acid from  a
large demijohn, which the negro neglected to recork.  While attempting to
place  the  vessel on his  head and  carry it  back to  its  proper place, the
negro poured part of the contents over Dr. Emmet's shoulders,  and getting
a portion on his own hands, he threw the demijohn from him so as to break 
MRS.  JANE PATTEN EMMET. 
 
JOHN PATTEN EMMET.
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it against the  Doctor's body.   Fortunately Dr. Emmet's  face escaped the
acid, but his body was severely burned and the accident caused him months
of suffering.
   In  1831 the  University was visited by an itinerant portrait-painter by
the name of Ford,  who painted the portraits of many of the professors and
of other people in the neighborhood.  He evidently possessed but a single
paintbrush, from the general blending  of his colors, and  was an artist of
very moderate capacity, but it was claimed  that  he was very successful in
catching the likeness.  It was shortly after the illness just  referred to when
Ford painted the portrait of Dr. Emmet which has been  reproduced, and
faces the  title page.
    If the writer were to criticise this portrait of his father with the remem-
brance  of a boy some fourteen years of age at the time of his  death, the
criticism would be  that, while there was a strong resemblance, it did not do
him justice.   Dr. Emmet's eyes  were very fine and were marked by the
constant  presence  of an irresistible twinkle which was most suggestive of
some coming witticism.   His nose was well  shaped, but  his mouth when
in repose was  not  good and was often expressive of suffering from bodily
pain, but the shape of his head was faultless.   He generally had but little
color and his face was somewhat  disfigured by the attack of smallpox from
which  he had suffered while a  child.   He  was above the average  height,
but with a slight stoop of the shoulders, while his general appearance was
that of  an intellectual man with more brains  at his  command  than possessed
by the  average individual.
    Early in 1832  the year was  noted in  the  family circle by an event
which afforded great gratification to Dr. and Mrs. Emmet, namely, the birth
of Jane, their only daughter, on the 29th of April.
    At  a later date in the year Dr. Emmet had the pleasure of receiving a
long-promised  visit  from his  mother, his  eldest  sister, Margaret, and his
youngest brother,  William Colville Emmet.   For years after this visit a
recollection was cherished of Miss Emmet's performance  on the piano by
a number of persons living at the University and in  the  neighborhood.
The writer recalls as a child hearing, some  years afterwards, a  criti-
cism  by  some  negroes on her performance, which  was  termed "mighty
peart music."
    We find among  the  old letters one written by Miss Emmet from the
University to Mrs. Le Roy, and dated October 18th, 1832:
   You  must not let anything I write in  favor of the University make you jealous of Potsdam,
for although it is a little world in itself and different in that respect by having pleasant society at
hand when you wish to mix in it, yet you know I like congenial spirits at home as well as abroad.
John and I get at the piano sometimes in the evening and play 'till all is blue, and I believe we 
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pass for music-mad by those whose taste lies in a different direction.  But there are several here
who understand music and are fond of it, and we play together when we meet.  You must know I
am a lion for execution, however, and every now and then I hear of some one who wants to come
and hear Miss Emmet play.
    In 1834 Dr. Emmet  purchased a tract of land to the  west of and
adjoining the University grounds  on the Staunton Turnpike.  For some
five or six  years after his house was built at " Morea," as he called his
place, and before  his health finally broke  down, his life was passed very
happily.  After planting  the  greatest variety of flowers  and  fruit trees,
from  some of which came  the noted stock of apples and  peaches still to be
found in the neighborhood, he  put up a brick building for the  spinning of
silk.  The hedges on the  place were formed of the Moms multicaulis, the
leaves of which were to be  used for feeding the  silkworm.  After  several
years he succeeded fully, through his own ingenuity, in making  sewing-silk
of the best quality.  His  different dyes and methods of coloring the  silk
became the common  property of those who  came after him, and they were
in use until the discovery of the aniline products.
    Just  as  he  had demonstrated  what could be done towards establishing
the industry in this  country, the building and  its contents were destroyed
by an incendiary.
    The cultivation of the grape and the making of wine  next occupied his
attention.   He imported grape plants from different parts of Europe, and
employed persons who were familiar with their culture to  attend  to them.
On the  native grape he grafted the  foreign stock and  thus  produced a
hardy plant.  He  had  at  the time of his death a vineyard of some six or
eight acres  in  good  cultivation, and as early as 1836 he began  to produce
various wines and brandies in small quantities,  but sufficient to demonstrate
that as an industry it could be made profitable in Virginia.
    Shortly after Dr.  Emmet purchased his place  he discovered  on it a fine
vein  of  kaolin.  This  clay he  soon  employed for making  pottery and
porcelain vessels,  and though lacking  all  practical  knowledge  at  the
beginning, without any apparent difficulty he was  able to  devise  the various
methods necessary to accomplish his purpose.  He was also able from this
material  to  produce  a  hone equal to the finest  quality from Turkey; he
made a variety of cements which were impervious to water and were light
enough to be used for covering roofs of buildings, and  he employed this
earth to form the body of various kinds of paint intended to withstand
exposure to the weather.   WThen first removed from the earth this material
was as soft  as chalk, and from  it  he  carved a  number of statuary figures
one of which is still preserved.
    After building  his  house and  getting  his family  settled Dr. Emmet 
****<- *—_____
HAWK «v TAt,
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MOREA, THE RESIDENCE  OF  DR.  J. P.  EMMET,  NEAR  THE  UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
68 
 
 
 
JOHN  PATTEN EMMET.
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writes of his wants  and prospects to the wife of his brother Tom, who was
also  just  then  getting in  order a country-place  near  New  York,  called
" Mount Vernon,"  the  lodge of which was  situated on  the Third Avenue,
about Sixty-first Street.
                                                     University of Va., Dec. 7, 1834.
My dear Anna :
   I have for some time past  been prevented by my duties from acknowledging how much I am
indebted to you for the very handsome present  lately received from you.  Your peach  trees are
indeed highly acceptable and seem to be all of a very fine kind.  Since their arrival I have been
occupied in laying them, and the other trees from Shaw, out on the grounds and the whole make, a
very imposing appearance.  Shaw's  trees are fine ones as to size, and some I know are so as to
quality.  I particularly feel pleased  with the Newtown  pippins,* which ought to bear in three
years.   Mary and myself entertain strong hopes that we may yet have yourself and Tom under
our own roof, as a slight return for debts of kindness already incurred.   At  some future period I
must obtain a larger supply of the Seckle Pear, which is the most worthy of cultivation  in this
country and of which I have as yet only two trees.   Don't forget to make  Tom charge me with the
balance now against me for  the articles purchased from Shaw.  I  shall take an  early opportunity
of squaring our accounts for this and other items, but at present, after  pushing my hands down
into my pockets as far as they can  go, I find myself minus as to the cost of  my house, which will
be about twenty five hundred dollars altogether when complete.  Although contrived by myself I
may venture to assert that a more comfortable country house  does  not exist  in these parts for the
same  cost, and I  rejoice  to find that it has become the means of creating in  Mary a feeling of
contentedness with our present situation  in Virginia which she has not felt hitherto.  This object
was not necessary for myself, for I have been much pleased with the situation which I hold in, I
firmly  believe, the most liberal literary Institution of  our country.   Independent of our general
prosperity at the University, my own prospects are highly satisfactory.   For the last two sessions
I have had classes of between ninety and  one  hundred  students and have good reason  to believe
that before many  years  I shall have classes averaging one  hundred.  My farm is so close to the
University that without omitting the  discharge of any professional  duties  I shall be enabled to ride
my silk and wine hobbies to  death even, should I choose to do so.  I  am preparing everything
for the reception of my Mother and Margaret next  Spring, and shall accordingly feel much
mortification should they break their promise.t
    Mary requests me to ask  that you will  give the enclosed sample of room paper, No. 43, to
Margaret with the view of procuring a piece of the same kind to be sent to us  in the Spring.  Mary
Ann, I believe, purchased it.
    Mary also  wishes  Margaret to get her  six more stair rods, like those already sent.  As  our
University, dear  Anna,  is  not celebrated for either novelties or  wonders,  so soon as  business
ceases  to  furnish  us with matter  for correspondence, little  else  remains than  the assurance of
abundance of love and constant attachment.  All of which  I assure you is  here offered by Mary
and myself to you  and our dear New Yorkers.
                                                                     John P. Emmet.
   Mrs. Thos. A.  Emmet,
                  New York.

    Mr.  George Tucker prepared  a memoir  on  the  " Life and  Character of
Dr.  Emmet,"  which  was  read  by him  before the Visitors,  Faculty and
Alumni of the University  on July 4th,  1845.

   * The stock from which came the apple since termed in Virginia the "Albemarle pippin," from
the name of the county.
   t The promised visit  was made, with  the addition of Mr. and Mrs.  Wm. C. Emmet, shortly
after their marriage. 
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    As  Mr.  Tucker  was better fitted than anyone  then  living  to do jus-
tice to Dr.  Emmet's memory, it will  be necessary to quote at some length
from  his sketch.  In connection  with  Dr.  Emmet's  many  pursuits Mr.
Tucker writes:

   After he removed to the land purchased, he turned his attention to horticulture, and the sub-
ject of husbandry  generally.  Here, too, he was constantly  planning improvements,  making
experiments on manures, and introducing delicate fruits, new species of esculents, and, above all,
rare flowers.   His  experiments in live hedges were various; and his pyrocanthus  fence, had he
lived to perfect it, promised to keep out even that portion of our live stock which has hitherto
defied every form of this species of enclosure.   It would be impossible for me to enumerate all that
thus employed him.  It ranged from the petty concerns of domestic economy to the  highest efforts
of practical science, from pyroligneous  acid, by which the housewife was taught  a shorter and
better process of curing her hams, to the direct application of steam to rotary motion.
   I always thought there was a great probability that he would eventually light on some discovery
by which he would gain the renown due to his genius  and  zeal.  On several occasions, when dis-
coveries in physical science have  for their ingenuity, or  utility, made a noise  in  the world,  I
would remember that Dr. Emmet  had long before shadowed them out as practicable.  Among
other instances, I heard him suggest the idea of using a vacuum in the air as a motive  power,
long before the atmospheric railway was invented;  and prodigious effects of chemical agents in
stimulating the growth of vegetables were also anticipated by him, and, indeed, partially verified
by experiment.

    We now reach a sad  period in  the life of  both  Dr. and  Mrs. Emmet.
It was,  indeed,  the turning-point in their hitherto unbroken happiness ;  for
after the death  of their youngest  son, their first  real  sorrow, Dr. Emmet's
health gradually began  to fail  from fortuitous circumstances, and  from  this
time on he  was no  longer  the same  as  of old.  No  one  fully realized the
fact at the time, nor did he  for  several  years subsequently, but  on looking
back after his death it becomes very evident.    Mrs. Tucker had  been most
devoted in  the care of  her little grandson, and  in  the  following  letter to
Mrs. T.  A. Emmet  she  details a full account of his illness  and  death:

                                                 Morea, Virginia, Oct. 26th, 1837.
My dear Mrs. Emmet :
   Your letter from some  unknown cause did not reach me 'till yesterday, and altho'  you must have
heard from my dear Byrd,  who wrote to Mrs.  Graves, long ere this, I haste to  reply to  your
affectionate letter, if a severe headache and toothache will not oblige me to lay aside  my pen.  The
loss of our darling Tucker was  so sudden and unexpected that I may with truth say he was snatched
from us without scarcely being warned of his danger.   He had  been hoarse for several days, but
not more  or so much  as I had often seen him, and was with his Tutor on Friday afternoon.
Medicines were administered and he was kept in bed on  Saturday, more  to keep  off the croup
which was what we apprehended, than from any apparent indisposition.   His mother was engaged
with her family and I remained with him; during the time he  read many little stories to me and
would frequently say " come here,  grand-mother and  let me snug you and kiss you."  About two
o'clock his breathing became laborious and a fever succeeded.  Dr. Griffith,* the  new professor
was immediately sent for and remained all night.  As he did not appear to be worse and I was very
unwell, I went to bed and about two o'clock I was  called  and never while  my senses are retained
         * Dr. Griffith, of Philadelphia, succeeded Dr. McGill as the Professor of the Practice of Medicine. 
JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
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can I forget the sound and suffering of the dear darling child.  From that time, to that of his
dissolution, we were constantly bleeding, leeching, applying, mustard and  blister plasters and hot
baths, but all in vain.  The disease never yielded in the slightest degree, on the contrary it seemed
to defy the efforts of medicine or skill.  To see his sufferings, and to see him bear them like a hero,
never was there a murmur, a complaint, or the slightest objection to the most nauseous medicines.
But with his usual sweet smiles  and affectionate manner always said, "Thank you madam," or
" Thank you Sir," for all that was ever done for him.
   My afflicted children could not bear  the distressing scene and were taken from him two hours
before his death.   But knowing that next  to  his mother he would have preferred my being with
him, and heartrending  as  it was,  I had determined to suppress every emotion and to remain with
him.  On my arm  at half-past eleven o'clock on Sunday he breathed his last and the last words he
spoke were  " Dear Grandmother, come and lie down by me."   Dear good child he is I  trust far
more happy than he ever could  have been in this world of woe ;  and altho' I know that he was
taken at a time when he was pure and spotless, still we find it hard to bow with humble submission
to the will of the Allwise disposer of human events.  Long, very long,  will it be ere I can forget
the dear lovely boy whose affectionate and warm heart combined with a  natural flow of humour not
only endeared him to his own family  but to all  who knew  him.   From bitter experience I know it
is not in the power of the dearest  friend to alleviate grief in its first anguish.  Still,  the gratification
derived from  the sympathy of dear  and valued  friends  tends materially to soften the pains of our
over-whelmed and anguished hearts under such bereavements.
   This is the first real sorrow my beloved Byrd has ever  felt and most keenly has she felt  this.   If
I leave her for a few moments I always find her in tears and from her appearance every morning I
judge she must have spent the greater part of her night in the same.   My dear John is most keenly
afflicted, and for eight or ten days was at times quite unmanned, but his  daily avocations engage his
constant time and  attention, consequently tend much to lessen the weight  of his sorrow.   Neither
of the parents will admit that Tucker was their favorite child, but there is no denying what was too
apparent to every  eye.  Such uniform fondness and devotion for a child to a  mother I have never
before seen  exhibited, but in one instance  and that was  in my own darling Saint George.  None
but those who have lost such a child can  tell the pangs of a mother's heart.   But while we lament
the loss of those who are so dear  to us in life, we must not  be unmindful of the many very many
blessings we have left, and that these trials  are intended  either as a wholesome discipline of the
heart, or to prevent an undue  attachment of things of this world.  Under this impression I have
been consoled in the many severe afflictions I have experienced and think whatever  is, is best.
    We are grieved to hear of Annie's [the daughter] indisposition, but  as  the pain  in her  breast is
not attended with  fever or cough  I trust the skill of your Father * and the kind attention of her
friends  will soon restore her to her wonted  health.  Many of the Virginia  Springs have high repu-
tation for curing Dyspepsia, and should it be decided that Annie's complaint is that  and she should
not be restored before the Summer, I think you had better try their efficacy.   I  need  not  add  how
happy it would make  us  all  to have  you  spend some time here.  Present me, if you please,  in
the most tender and affectionate manner, to Mrs. Emmet, I have thought much of her,  also to your
better half, to Mr.  and Mrs.  Robert Emmet,  Mr. and  Mrs. McEvers, Mr. and  Mrs. Graves,  to
Margaret and to Mr. and Mrs.  Le Roy.  Tho' I have not the pleasure  of a personal  acquaintance
with Mr. and Mrs. Le Roy I feel as if I knew them very well and they being allied  to my  dear
John is quite sufficient to make me feel a deep interest in  them, for he is quite as dear to me as any
child I have.  And I assure you that I have  no greater happiness than  to meet and gladden his
heart to the extent of my ability.
    Our dear Addis and Jane are both well and desire to be affectionately remembered  to their  dear
Grandmother,  Uncles, Aunts and Cousins.   Addis is much afflicted at the loss of his brother,  they
were scarcely  ever separated, indeed they were so linked, as it  were, that  scarcely one was  ever
called without the other, and it seems quite an effort  for either of us to do it even now.   It is  at
meals and at our fireside that we  miss the darling child the most.  It was our constant custom after
sundown to assemble together and the dear children to hang around their father, each trying to get
* Dr. Macneven was Mrs. Emmet's stepfather. 
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the best place to comb his hair and to hear the stories which he regaled them with, and they in turn
each did the same.  This has afforded me no small amusement  to see  their lively imaginations put
to the test, and their natural disposition develop itself; but alas, the link is broken and time alone
can reconcile us to the void which has been made in our happy domestic circle.
   I was obliged to leave my letter unfinished, having the toothache so violently, I scarcely knew,
my dear Mrs. Emmet, what I had written; my nerves in addition have been so much unstrung that
I could scarcely guide my pen.  Remember me  to Mr. and Mrs. William Emmet and my respects
to your father and mother, if you please.   Kiss the dear children for  me if they have any recollec-
tion of such a person.  My dear  Byrd and John desire to be  affectionately remembered to every
member of the family.  The latter has said again and again that he would write to your good man,
but his heart fails him and he dreads the subject.   Will you be so good as to remember me affec-
tionately to the " Bond Street Tuckers " * when you see them.  Accept the sincere affection of your
much attached friend—
                                                                        Eliza J. Tucker.
   Mrs. T. A. Emmet,
           Mount Vernon, New York.

     Mrs. Le Roy writes  a  letter of condolence  to  her  brother.     He  in
answer  expresses his deep sympathy for  her on  the sudden loss of a  young
child, and in  doing so  gives  vent   to his own grief in  most expressive
terms:

                                                     University  of Va., Nov. 17th, 1837.
My dearest Elizabeth :
   Your kind and sisterly affection led you lately to attempt the trying duty of healing a brother's
deep affliction, kind and considerate  it was and  deeply did it  leave its impression.  Although  we
have not heard from our friends I have learned, through the papers, of your very  recent bereave-
ment.  Could I tell you how much aggrieved Mary and I were  at the intelligence, situated  as I was
myself and just about to answer your kind letter, it would only, perhaps, augment  the sorrow
and affliction which you are  now called  on to endure.  A few such scenes  make a deep, abiding
impression upon the mind; but they are not without their benefits.
   I cannot convince  myself nor  attempt to reason you into the belief that such losses are intended
for our good, especially, but,  my dear Sister, we  can draw lessons of wisdom from the  trial.   I
doted upon my beloved boy for  he was ambitious to emulate  me in  every respect.  Proud of  his
father, he was forever speaking  of the future;  and I allowed my feelings to run away with my
judgement.   When the trial came I was  not prepared, and ere I could think of the change he was
gone.  Mine was severe because it was the first; but, although  no repetition  can diminish the
anguish of a  mother  upon such  occasions, you  have been tried before  and from  the  event  have
drawn too many sobering reflections to stand  in  need of any moral  suggestions.  Sad  necessity
teaches us that such  events must be, that we stand,  as it were, upon  the battle-field with  the fatal
weapons  of Death around us, invisible and for ever threatening.   Then who is safe!  We must

   * Mr. Richard Jennings Tucker,  then a  prominent merchant and banker, was Mrs. Tucker's uncle.  It is held by
tradition that Mr. Tucker built the first house in Bond Street, No. 9, on the lower  side of the street, in 1826.  The writer
can recall distinctly a visit to this  house when he was a small child, and it then seemed to be in the country.  After
attending service with his grandmother,  Mrs. Tucker, in St. John's Church, he accompanied her, with his nurse, to take
an early Sunday dinner with the " Bond Street Tuckers."  Mrs.  Tucker must have been persuaded to remain longer, for
we did not  return home until after sunset and it was bright moonlight.  We were staying with Judge Robert  Emmet or
some other member of the  family, who lived on the south side of St. John's Park, now covered by the freight depot of the
Hudson River Railroad.  To take a short cut we crossed Broadway, which  seemed then to be a dusty country road,  and
over a stone wall by a stile into a cornfield on the west side.  The writer  recollects that he was very tired and sleepy
and that his nurse refused to carry him, but dragged him  along  by the arm between the rows of corn, and the circum-
stance is impressed upon his mind, as a very small child, in consequence of the annoyance he suffered from the continued
napping in his face of the blades of corn,  which were very wet from the heavy dew then falling. 
MRS. ELIZA J. TUCKER. 
 
                         JOHN PATTEN EMMET.                      45

learn patiently to abide the event and turn the mind from vainly brooding over losses which
we cannot restore.  Seek then, my dear Sister, in your family and in your husband's heart the
consolation which begets peace and you will find it.  May you realize these my best wishes.
                                               Yours most affectionately,
   Mrs. W. H. Le Roy, New York.                                j. p. Emmet.
    For ten years  after  1830  Dr.  Emmet was a frequent contributor, on
various scientific subjects, to  Silliman's Journal; he also wrote often  for
the  Virginia  Literary Museum, at  one time published at the University
of Virginia and edited by the  professors.  His contributions were always
gratuitous and  most  frequently anonymous.  Dr.  Emmet possessed so
modest an appreciation of his own talents that his efforts to conceal or
turn aside all credit for  his work  amounted almost to a weakness in  his
character.
    His last scientific investigation was pursued to a greater length and in
a more exhaustive manner than was usual with him.  Mr. Tucker writes:
" A year or  more before his death,  Dr.  Emmet  having casually  noticed
the coloured edge of a shadow on a piece of white paper, was led to specu-
late on the phenomenon;  and his mind having thus started, soon became
directed to the whole theory of light and  colours.   He  plunged into the
subject with his wonted ardour, and exhibited  more than  his accustomed
copiousness of  invention  by  the variety  of his experiments.  The result
was that he refused his assent to the Newtonian  Theory of refraction;  and
being  in pursuit of  nothing  but the truth, he  wrote  a paper  in  which,
with his characteristic candour, he stated the  grounds of his opinion at
full  length, accompanied  with diagrams   and  coloured  drawings  of  his
experiment."
    At Mr. Tucker's suggestion the manuscript was submitted to the criti-
cism of Professor Bonnycastle.  Mr.  Tucker states that  the critic  "gave
the praise of novelty and ingenuity to many of Dr. Emmet's experiments;
and thought  he  would  obtain great credit  if he  would  be content to
publish them simply as  experiments exhibiting phenomena  of  light not
hitherto known, without attempting to assail the Newtonian Theory, which
he  supposed  required a  more thorough knowledge of the higher  mathe-
matics than Dr. Emmet relied on, or had indeed claimed to possess."
    Mr. Tucker visited London in  1841 and  submitted  the manuscript to
a noted publisher  of scientific works.   But it was declined  and returned
unread, on the  ground that it was an absurdity to  attempt to controvert
any of Newton's views.   The paper has  been preserved,  but  has never
been published or the experiments  verified.
    During the summer of 1841 Dr. Emmet and his wife visited New York
to  see  their  relatives  and to  select a good  school for  their  son.   St.
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JOHN PATTEN  EMMET.
Thomas's Hall, Flushing, Long Island, then  under the charge of the  Rev.

Francis   L.  Hawks,  was  finally  decided  upon.   So,  on  their  return  to

Virginia  they left  the writer  in charge of  his  Uncle Bache  McEvers, and

shortly after  Dr. Emmet reached  home he  received  the  following  letter

from Mr.  McEvers:

                                                Monte Alto,*  New  York, 20  Sept., 1841.
My  dear John :
     Your letter of the 16* enclosing check for three hundred dollars was  received by me at home
this  evening and  I wrote at once to acknowledge its receipt and presume your view of the account
is correct, tho' as  I have  not access to my books I cannot say exactly.  The  am't, say three hundred
dollars, will be put to your credit and when I write again I will state exactly how the matter stands
between us.   I gave your note to Robert on his return to town, but he has not paid the amount,
and as I can advance the first  payment  to Mr. Hawks without inconvenience I  shall not press it
upon him.  Next week I shall  take Addis to Flushing and  Robert has decided to send Bill and
John there also, so that he will  have intimates at once  and find  himself quite at home.  He has
behaved himself very well since  he has been with us and  has written once to his mother and once to
you; the letter giving you an account of a pretty severe attack of Cholera  Morbus, which he went
through safely tho' I confess the  symptoms  were  for a few moments rather alarming from the
violence of the cramps.  He has been entirely well  since and as  Robert's  boys have been with us
nearly all the while, he has been as merry as a cricket.  I give you all these details  for Mary's sake
and  want you to assure her that while he is under  Jane's care, he will be quite as much at home as
if at the University.   Your letter found me as I stated at home and I have had for  the last week as
severe a bilious attack as I ever suffered under  and  today missed the fever for  the first  time, and
hope I  may not be troubled any more with it.   I shall not go to town for a day or two,  and if you
were here the  captivity would be much brightened.  The fishing is glorious, but I cannot join it.
Robert, Le Roy,  and Tom yesterday caught one hundred and thirty-five bass at the Rock.  Give
my best love to Mary, and believe me, my dear John, ever truly yours—
                                                                           Bache McEvers.
   Dr. Emmet, University of Va.

I shall have your  message to Edward Wilson & Dick duly delivered.

   * Monte Alto was Mr.  McEvers's country-place of some twenty-five acres, situated on the Hudson River, just below
Manhattanville, on  the Bloomingdale Road.  It is now a  part of the Riverside Park.  Gen.  Grant's tomb occupies
a portion of the ground where a large swing and  gymnasium put up by Mr. McEvers had stood, a little to the northwest
of the site of the dwelling house.  The fishing rock referred to by Mr. McEvers was a noted spot for bass fishing, situated
about half a mile nearer the city, on Mr. Schmidt's place; it was finally covered by the Hudson River Railroad. The
bluff on the river-bank was then heavily timbered with forest trees, among which were  extended walks, with rustic seats
placed to command, at different points,  a view of the river.  These walks passed on to  Mr. Schmidt's grounds, crossing
the intervening places then occupied by a Mr. Claibourne, an Irish merchant, and next to him was Mr. Samuel Whitlock,
also a merchant and the owner of the then noted French line of packet-ships. A close  intimacy had  existed between the
families for many years, and Mr.  Whitlock's son, of the same name,  afterwards married the eldest daughter of Mr.
McEvers.  Mrs. Schmidt, as has been stated, was Eliza Bache, a half-sister of Mr. Bache McEvers, and her  husband
was for many years the Consul-General in this country from Prussia.
   The writer some time  ago accidentally learned the history of this place from reading  an old letter written  nearly a
hundred years ago by a Mr. George Pollock, an  Irishman from Belfast and a merchant. The statement was there made
that he had cleared this place for his residence from the primitive forest shortly after the Revolution, and in consequence
of the death of his wife and the subsequent loss  of his only child by drowning he was about to return permanently to
England.  This child was drowned in the North River and was buried  on the bank within a  short distance of Gen.
Grant's tomb, where the writer, as a child, frequently spelled out the inscription on its monument with  feelings of profound
sympathy for the fate of the little stranger whose history was then unknown to him.
   Gulian Verplanck, of Verplanck's Point, North River,  and whose city residence was at that time in Wall Street on
the site  of the present United States Assay Office,  purchased this estate from Mr. Pollock, and it then  included the
portion which has since been known as  "Claremont," on  which was subsequently built the present standing  building
as a  country residence for one of the Post family.  Mr. McEvers leased  the place from his cousin,  the literary savant
Gulian C. Verplanck, a son of the purchaser. 
JOHN PATTEN  EMMET.
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    The writer recalls this portion of his  life with  an interest  not  free from
feelings of sadness.   On going  to school  he soon  became a  sufferer from
fever and  ague, which for the time impaired both  his health and judgment
This led to a series of letters between his father and himself, which brought
them in a closer  relation than would  otherwise have existed.   His father's
admonitions, coming as they  did almost  from the brink of the grave, were
productive of better results than he  himself could  have  anticipated.   The
recollection of his  father's love and entire confidence was a constant incen-
tive in after life to  accomplish whatever would  have met with  his  approval.
The last  letter written by his father to him, on  December 13th, 1841, was
certainly well calculated  to bring about good results in any boy as soon as
he could  think and appreciate what his father expected of him.

                                               University of Va., Sept. 20th, 1841.
My dear  Addis :
   Your last letter had distressed us greatly in consequence of the accounts which you give of your
very serious attack of  sickness.  Yet I know that, with your uncle and aunt, you are as well pro-
vided for in all cases as you would be under my own roof.  As,  however, you will be necessarily
separated from them while at school, you must at once acquire the habit of taking care of yourself.
I cannot of course say in what manner your late  attack was  brought on; but  from knowledge of
your peculiar disposition, your mother and myself have inclined to suppose that you have not been
particular enough in your clothing or eating.  This has been a cold and sickly season almost every-
where.  You should,  therefore, be warmly clad and not complain of clothing in the middle of the
day which may be the means of saving your life during the morning and night.  Your attack may
also have been brought on by imprudent eating, such as eating unripe apples, &c.   I do not write,
however, to lecture you and shall, therefore, merely beg earnestly, that you will, henceforth, begin
to be thoughtful about yourself.  Remember, always, that the less trouble you give other persons in
looking  after you, the more they will  love you.   You need not expect to find such friends as your
uncles and aunts when you are at school,  and the necessity of providing for yourself  will  then be
forced upon you.  I trust that you have  by this time fully recovered and  that you feel stout and
resolute about your studies.  Believe me that I shall look to your future letter-writing with the
greatest interest and shall remark with a  father's  pleasure every  new token of improvement.  We
have a great deal to  learn and were we to comprehend, at the commencement,  the full extent
of the task we should no doubt weary often and become frightened or dispirited, but then we also
have a great deal of time for studying.  You  need  not overtask yourself, when at school, or strain
to do a great deal in a very short time. This is not the way to acquire patience or resolution.  Go
along steadily, never  be absolutely idle  and when you  begin to study  turn all  your attention
to the task.
   I will say this for you, my dear son, that I have always felt good reason to rely upon you and I
am very sure that you will not now disappoint me when you understand my wishes.
   You  requested me to enquire how your pets  are going  on.   Judging from the Cat's placid
exterior, while reposing  upon the kitchen roof in the strong sunshine, I should say that  she was
well to do in this world and not liable to any heartrending emotions.  Your dog has quit the premises,
either as a defaulter or vagrant and I can give no further account  of him  than  that he fancies Joe
Woodley before any other person since you have withdrawn your  protection.  His place at Morea
is more than filled up by other pets.  John's* dog  is his immediate successor;  but  besides we
have lots of flowers, three canaries  and a  charming young mocking bird,  who is already so
extremely quick with his tongue and voice that I should not be at all surprised if he should talk Greek

              * John  Tom, the eldest son of Mr. T. A. Emmet and a student in the University. 
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JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
yet before you do.   As your mother has a postscript to add I must shut up for the present, but if
you only do well at school and improve you shall have many pleasant letters from me.
    My love to your uncle and aunt and to all the family of the great ant-hill.
                                                                  God bless you.
                                                                       John P. Emmet.
    The following is  the postscript of Mrs.  Emmet:

My beloved Addis :
    I cannot forbear putting a few lines in your father's letter to let you know how much uneasiness
I felt at reading your letter tonight.  I have thought a good deal of you this cool weather and often
said I hoped you would make  the  change in  your clothing by putting on your drawers.  If you
have not found the pair you left at your uncle Graves' ask your aunt Jane please to have you a pair
made.   I will bring you on in the vacation, if  I live,  drawers  and night shirts also.   Be prudent,
my dear Addis, and remember the anxiety I must necessarily feel at being separated from you.
Although you are now surrounded and will be near kind and affectionate friends who will be always
pleased, I know, to do  everything for you,  yet when you leave them for your school, you will have
to think for yourself.  To your uncle and aunt, whom you are with, you can never be too  grateful.
We have all experienced  their  very kind attention in  many  similar instances  of  sickness and
particularly in  the case of your dear sister when she broke her leg.   The kindness  of all at that
time I often think of with overflowing gratitude.
    Let  me beg of you, my dear Boy, not to  let a fortnight pass without writing.   If you  think
of your mother's  anxiety,  I know you will not.  If your aunt thinks  you have not  winter  socks
enough  ask  her to get you more and everything else  she thinks you will require.   Your  uncle
Henry *  and aunt  Mary were very much disappointed at not  seeing  you.  They will leave  us on
Monday next;  their stay will be only three weeks in consequence of its being so cold already, and
they are  afraid to  keep Julia out longer as she is so  delicate.  She and Emmet are dear little
children.  Your grandmother and sister  are well and will write soon.   John received a letter from
his mother and she did not mention you, I dare  say you were sick at that time, I  can  not help
thinking so.  I wrote  to her yesterday to get  me more seeds  and box-edging,—so  you  must get
me the rare roots and some carnations  to send also, and some of the white Phlox from your Uncle
Bache's, and that  white wild-flower which  your aunt  Jane has.   My love to Jane Le Roy and tell
her when she has anything  interesting she must write  the first letter.   Mention Templet when you
write.   I hope he has not forgotten me.  I  think of you both  several times a day and particularly
at meals.  Good night  my beloved Boy, think  often of your devoted mother.
                                                                         M. B. Emmet.
    Dr. Emmet again writes to  his son:
                                                      University of Va., Oct. 22,  1841.
My dear Addis:
    We  have just  received your last letter, to your Grandmother, and are greatly pleased to learn
from yourself that you  have recovered from your indisposition.   Fever and ague are troublesome
acquaintances and will be sure to call again and again, unless you drive them off by force.  When
therefore, you feel at all as if you were about to have another attack, return to your medicine and
seven or eight grains of quinine, taken at once, will  in your  case, I  doubt not, effect a complete
cure.  Lest  you  should think  that I am satisfied with  preaching, I will inform you that at very
nearly the same time as yourself, I was confined to my chamber with  the  same disease fever and
ague.   This indeed occasioned  the delay in answering your letter to me.   I had, however  a return
of the ague every day, but I broke it in  a short time  by taking fifteen  grains of quinine at a dose.
You have heard,  that  "an ounce of prevention is worth  a pound of time," and  a  great deal of
nasty medicines would  have to be swallowed if we were to take no pains to prevent the recurrence
of sickness.  Let your  clothing, therefore, be warm,  and if you want  anything to make yourself
comfortable, in this respect, write at once to your Aunt Jane and she will send it to you before the
   * Mr. Henry Tucker was a brother of Mrs. Emmet.
   t A son of Judge Robert  Emmet, and who had been a student at the University. 
JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
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winter sets in.  Don't be out late at night,—I suppose that I need not be so particular in cautioning
you not to rise too early in the morning.   What I wish to say is that although you may be out of
your bed as early as  you please, you should not expose yourself too early to the open air.   Most
of these remarks I make at your mother's  suggestion, and I know how much pleasure it will give
you to lessen her anxiety about you.
   And now, my dear  Boy, there is another topic to be noticed,  more especially since it has been
urged with much vehemence by yourself in your letters.  You want me to promise that  you shall
stay at home next year.  I  know that you are homesick, and that it will be many years before you
can become fully  conscious that this  is  merely a schoolboy's  disease, which  when once cured,
seldom, if ever, returns.
   I remember when I had it!  While it lasted, which was  for a week  or  so, I could not take
pleasure in anything, but was  constantly dreaming over my lessons or moping by myself in pro-
found solitude.   I  could not then perceive  how merrily my school fellows  played with each other,
and what a number of fine fellows there was among them.  But  it was not long before I made the
discovery, and as soon as I did away went the home sickness;  so will it be with you, rest assured.
Perhaps you are already cured.
   I have been disposed to attribute your  pressing request  to go home after a year to this melan-
choly feeling which has beset you, and with the  view of placing  your proposition on its right foot-
ing, I will ask  you  whether you have not often noticed a piece  of beef that has been  roasted
in a hurry and before  too  strong a fire.   It may be  done tolerably well  on  the outside, but it is
absolutely raw within.
   Could you  relish  such meat  and praise the cook ?   Certainly not.  One  year's schooling will
but make you like this roast beef,  and were you then to  return to me, I  should be  extremely
mortified at not being able to find  anything to  praise, and still  more  so  if I  found that you
were  satisfied with  your  condition.   As  your  father,  I  educate you not so much because your
attainments  may be a source of pride and gratification to myself; but because I know the value of
such knowledge  to yourself.
   You are now too young to know that a highly cultivated  mind is more valuable than anything
in the nature of wealth. But you have a good understanding, good habits, good  disposition, and,
moreover, the full confidence of your father and mother.  So that I  feel  satisfied that when you
have  completed  one year  at your  school, you will  never  rest contented with  so humble and
low-minded a termination of your studies as you now contemplate.
   Your idea seems  to be that  by great labor  you will be able to do in one year  what  usually
requires  three years.  Remember in doing so  your improvement  will be superficial—roast beef
only done on the outside.   Take things more quietly, and I will  ensure your success.  Do  not, for
the present, aim at  doing  more than to learn  thoroughly the  lessons given from day  to day by
your teachers, and to become obedient to all the regulations of your  school.

My dear Addis :
   Notwithstanding  the excellence of your Father's advice he  is now again on his back with the
ague, and in consequence thereof has not been able to finish his  own letter.  His relapse was occa-
sioned by lecturing in a damp room.  He requests me to state how much pleased he would  be to
learn something  from yourself about your  studies.  He also requests that  Dr. Hawks will forward
a monthly report to him.   As you feel so much attached to  your cat,  I cannot conclude  this  letter
without informing you  that she has been elevated to the responsible post of Governor General over
all the stock of winter vegetables in the Garret, and her rebellious subjects are the rats and mice.
She has refrained, with the strictest honor, from removing  any  of the vegetable deposits, but she
mews a great deal at  night and I fear she is troubled with your complaint of home sickness.   Please
to remember your father and myself to Dr. Hawks.  I remain as ever—
                                                               Your  devoted Mother.
   Master Thos. Addis Emmet,
            Care of the Revd. Francis L.  Hawks,
                                         Flushing,  L. I. 
5o
JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
    The following letter was the last  one the writer ever received  from his
father,  who when writing it could  have little realized that  the seed he  was
then planting would bear good  fruit and that his  admonitions would  exer-
cise  such a very salutary influence on his  son's after life.   During his boy-
hood, in youth  and  even in  manhood the writer has  many times reread
and  studied the contents of this letter to appreciate its full bearing,  and
deep have been the regrets on the part of the son that he should ever have
caused  his father an anxious moment.

                                            University of Va.,  December 13th, 1841.
Dear Addis :
   Last Friday evening we received your last letter, written to myself, and were very sorry to learn
that you have had another attack of fever and ague.  I presume that you exposed yourself too much
when you went skating.   By remaining too long in the cold,  or by getting your  feet wet, you will
always incur  the risk of an immediate attack.  I trust that the disease has been removed by this
time and  you may prevent its recurrence by continuing to take the quinine for a week or two.  Your
letter has caused me uneasiness from another cause.  We had begun to think that your good sense
had made you become  reconciled  to  your  school.  The letter from you, which produced this
impression on us, pleasant and gratifying I can assure you, was written cheerfully and in it you
declare you wish to remain at Mr. Hawks' school for two years, and you believe that there is not a
better place for study in the country.  But in your last letter, to which this is an answer, you wish
to take back your words by telling me that when you wrote the  former letter you were under the
influence  of sickness and did not know what you did.  Now  Addis, I am much older than you are
and will  tell  you candidly my  opinion.  I do  not think  that you wish to deceive me, but  most
certainly, you have allowed your own  good sense and judgement to be changed by the opinion of
some of your school fellows who are either somewhat idle or  do not like to submit to the rules and
discipline of the school.   It is not usual for people to write so cheerfully and contented  a letter as
your first one while under the influence of sickness and without being conscious of what was done.
Your  last letter shows much more of the feeling you allude to; for you  show the depression of
feelings  brought on by  your sickness,  but  you  also show the discontent  which is  always  so
distinguishable when one's judgement  and good sense have  been tampered with.  Now, my dear
Addis, go back to  your  original feeling and learn again  to become contented with your situation.
Whenever any person tells you that the school is a humbug tell him that your father considers it
quite  good enough for you, and that  you would  stay there five years if this were necessary to
please him.  Never be rude, dogged, or self sufficient, but do, my dear Boy, at once endeavour to
acquire independence of character and firmness of purpose in all matters  recommended by those
who are not only older than yourself but who value your own  welfare more than they do their own.
I do not send you to school to kill time and waste my slender income.  Idlers and loungers dislike
to be confined and restrained, but  good  boys soon learn to  know that the habit of study, which
leads to knowledge and  distinction, can only become well established by discipline. If I were to
take  you  away, which could only be done at  a  great sacrifice, you could not return home because
there  is  no school here which I approve.  Make up  your mind, therefore, to be separated  from
us for some time yet, and endeavour to shorten that  time, as much as possible, by attention to
your studies.
   Think yourself fortunate, moreover, that  your father is alive, willing and  able to confer  upon
you all the blessings of education. If all this does  not give  you resolution and a feeling of noble
ambition,  think of the fact that  hereafter your mother  and sister may have to look to you alone as
their only support upon  earth!  My health is slowly giving way and, even while now writing
to you, I  am afflicted with a disease which is  yearly killing thousands  in  this  country !  And what 
JOHN PATTEN  EMMET.                           5 I
would be your situation if now, or some few years hence, I were to be removed?  Are you pre-
pared to support your mother and sister ?  Or will you ever be able  to do so if you waste the
present time in idle complaints, or vain regrets ?  Turn, my dear Boy, at once a deaf ear to all those
whose counsel or opinion tends to make you discontented, and determine to judge for yourself at
the end of the season.  Let me tell you that your school  is well known to one or more  of our
students here,  and one  of them lately informed your mother, that he  had been a scholar under
Dr. Hawks.  He concluded by saying that although the school was a  very strict one it was also
excellent and that any boy might consider himself very fortunate who had the benefit of its instruc-
tion.  I must confess, my dear Addis, I have been so impressed by the belief that some one of your
young friends has caused this change in your feelings that I  have devoted the largest portion of my
letter to the expression of my regret  and disappointment.  There is, however, but little news
to add.  We are well at  present, with the exception of myself, and my health has greatly improved
within the past week.
   Your grandmother requests me to mention to you that she sent some time since a letter to you
in the care of Mr. Sylvester, who said that he would see you and deliver it.   As you did not allude
to this letter your grandmother is uncertain whether it has yet reached you.
   Your sister Jane is  doing very well, and what is perhaps necessary for success  at school,
she is contented.  I  hope that your next  letter will inform us of your  entire recovery from sick-
ness and that you will  feel again disposed to declare your manly  resolution in relation to your
studies.
                                         Your devoted Father and best adviser,
                                                                      J. P. Emmet.
    Master Thos. Addis  Emmet,
                      Care Rev. F. Hawks,
                                  Flushing, L. I.


     Dr.  Emmet's health, already seriously impaired, had  become  so  much
worse  that  in January,   1842,  he  was obliged  to  visit Florida, while his
course of lectures was completed by one  of his  colleagues, Prof.  Wm.  B.
Rogers.   He received every kindness from his friends about the University,
and particularly from the  students, by whom  he was greatly  respected and
beloved.   He received a  number of letters from  his students, individually
expressing their sympathy for his  illness  and  their appreciation  of the loss
they would sustain in their studies by his absence.
     The  following letter  was received   from the  members  of  his  class
through a committee appointed to express  their deep regret at his  contem-
plated departure:

                                                 University of Va., Jan. 20th, 1842.

Dear Sir:
    At a meeting of the Classes  of Chemistry and Materia Medica, at which Mr. P. B. Stark
presided, held this evening at half past four o'clock, we were appointed  a committee on their behalf
to express their deep regret at your contemplated departure.
    While we  are fully aware of the  loss which your pupils will sustain  by the absence of a
 Professor whose faithfulness and ability we have all experienced, we are yet convinced that your
course is in every way the most proper and heartily concur in all measures which you may think
suitable for the restoration of your health. 
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JOHN  PATTEN EMMET.
   The  personal attachment which we  all feel would exclude the selfish desire  to retain  your
services, even though your chair should be vacated.   We hope, however, to prosecute our studies,
if not with the same alacrity as under yourself, at least with success.
   Our  best wishes  go with you  for your speedy restoration to health, and to the enjoyment and
duties of life.
                                                With the highest respect,
                                                                Powhatan  B.  Stark,
                                                                L. F. Bullitt,
                                                               J. R. Tucker,
                                                               T. B. Holcombe.
   To Dr. John Patten Emmet,
                        Present.


    Dr. Emmet's health rapidly improved  in  the milder  climate, so much
so  that  he   decided to  purchase a  place on the St. John's River  opposite
Palatka.   There was  some difficulty and  delay  in  obtaining  money on
some property in New York,  and in consequence  he  writes  the  following
letter  to his  brother  Tom.   This  letter is  believed  to be the  last letter
written by him.

                                                     St. Augustine, April  24th, 1842.
Dear Tom :
   I can not disguise from you that your  last letter, received yesterday, depressed me a great deal.
My arrangements for the purchase had gone so far  that all parties looked  upon it as settled.   I
know that you made as great exertion in  my behalf as you would have done for yourself, and  I do
not mention my disappointment, therefore, as referring in the slightest  degree to yourself.  We
must, however,  continue our exertions,  so that I may be prepared for  some other opportunity.
The place which I proposed  to purchase  was a very beautiful  and  desirable one.   It had  a house
upon it  which, with  some repairs, would have enabled me  to remove my family and settle there
comfortably  at once.  Upon it, also,  is a grove of  Orange  trees  in full bearing,  which, in two
years, would have provided means to visit the North, during the Summer, and to pay for clothing
and groceries.
   The  proprietor will take nothing  but cash, because he wishes to purchase and settle upon land,
at the government price, in an unsettled but more fertile portion of the Territory.
   There are, however,  other beautiful, though unimproved, locations on the St. John's river, one
of which I hope will  yet belong to me.  This subject leads me to notice my reasons for seeking  a
permanent residence in Florida, or at least the acquisition of property there, as  soon as possible.
The war with the Seminole Indians has hitherto driven away the early settlers, most of whom have
thus become absentees and have entered into other engagements for their support.   The difficulty
of making cash payments has also brought down the value of such  property as is included within
the  Spanish Grants along the river St. John's.   Land is now, consequently, as cheap as  it is likely
to be.   But a reaction is already taking place.   The war is certainly about to close, and has been
so proclaimed by the officer in command of our troops—Col.  Worth.   The people have acquired
the  same conviction,  and settlers are not  only returning to their old homes, but persons from the
adjoining states, and many even from the State of New York, are making purchases daily.  These
circumstances have convinced me that now is the proper time to acquire the right of property even
though  I shall not take possession  immediately. By doing so and immediately planting out an
Orange  Grove of a thousand trees, I shall increase  the value of the land at least  tenfold and in
such a manner that no casualty can permanently destroy the improvement.
   As it will require  five or six years to render the young trees capable of bearing fruit abundantly,
it is obvious that the improvement to be of service to myself should be commenced  at once.   But'
perhaps, the most cogent reason for  purchasing speedily arises from my own position and circum- 
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stances.  Where else, in the United States, can I live if my present profession is destructive to my
health and my connection with the University must be broken off either this year or the next ?  If
my Virginia farm could support my family, which it has never done, I  should have  to fly from it
every winter, either alone or with my family, to expend much more in traveling and boarding  else-
where.   I should have  to leave behind my horses, my negroes,  &c, to provide for  their mainte-
nance, and in all other respects to feel the heavy expenses of two homes.  I am fully of opinion,
therefore, that it is my interest now to provide for the contingency which must arise very speedily,
if it does not already exist.
    I  have  already entered  upon the last third of the "three score years and ten,"  not with the
diseases of my youth softened or removed, but with such an increase of them as to prove that  they
have  assumed a chronic form for the future.  It is my interest, as much as my inclination, to seek
relaxation from intellectual pursuits, the most  depressing of all others, and I have some reasons to
believe that I have but a few years left to make the experiment.
    You, and  all the other members  of our happy family circle, must  have  observed my debility
and almost constant depression  when among you, for the last five or  six years,  and although
nothing  but death can  remove my affection for you  all, no effort on my part has been sufficient
to  diminish the frequency of these  attacks  of  the enemy which  deprive me of my natural
cheerfulness.
    In the mild climate of Florida I hope, still, to recover much of what has been lost, but whether
this,  my last chance, is  to benefit myself ox not I still feel convinced that the acquisition of property
here  will contribute more to the independence of my family than any other, either in  New York or
Virginia, can do.  Neither can I  regard it as selfish  that I should  now seek to dispose of some of
the New York property with a view of improving my own health, even though the change must be
made at a considerable sacrifice.
    You  will  perceive,  however, that I  do not make  the  change without the fairest prospect of
acquiring competency.   Before the war, the St. John's river was thronged by coasting vessels from
Boston,  New  York,  Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, and other seaport towns, visiting
the Orange Groves and paying cash for the crops, on the ground and without the risk of transporta-
tion.   The oranges never, when most abundant, sold for less than seventy-five cents a hundred and
a dollar was the usual price.   A good  tree bears from five hundred to a thousand  oranges, so that
taking seventy-five cents as the price of a hundred, a good tree will yield a profit of between seven
and ten dollars. Though frost is seldom felt here it does, about every ten years, destroy the crops.
Making allowance for this contingency to the utmost,  the average annual profit,  under the worst
circumstances, of an Orange tree  cannot fall below one or two dollars and a grove, therefore, of one
thousand trees may be  relied  upon as giving a cash income of  one  thousand or  fifteen hundred
dollars, without labor or requiring the presence of the owner until October, when  the sales are
made.  The Florida oranges are greatly preferred to those from  Cuba, as sweeter and of a higher
flavor.   But suppose there is a perfect failure for  one crop, then, where is the  place except in
Florida where cattle multiply with a profit of  thirty per cent, on the spot and for cash, where  they
find abundance to eat during the  severest winter, giving no trouble whatever except  to mark  them
once a year and milk them.  In short every living thing, whether hog, horse or poultry, provides for
itself throughout the year, furnishing to the farmer every luxury which substantial living can require.
The  almost total  absence of frost gives the crops great  luxuriance.   We have green peas at
Christmas, the richest sweet potatoes two crops a year,  Corn two crops, tobacco two  crops, besides
an abundance of garden vegetables, fruit, butter, milk, strawberries, &c, which makes it utterly
impossible to  starve unless the  cultivator is a fool,  or madman.   One acre of rich  land  properly
attended to and bearing the Cuba tobacco is estimated as yielding a thousand dollars when the leaf
is cured and made into segars.   The  Florida  sugar is considered to be superior to, and the  crops
more certain, than that of Louisiana, because the season of growing is longer and warmer,  while
the winter seldom injures the cane.  The woods are  literally thronged with wild flowers of the
greatest variety and beauty.   The pine forests abound with wild  turkeys and deer, while an almost
infinite variety of fish are to be found in the rivers.   Almost every person who visits Florida feels
its potent  charms and  longs to return.   The land seems to stick, like honey, to the fingers and

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produces a strong desire to enjoy it.  You  can well fancy, therefore, how all these advantages
tempt a man who, like myself, first visits it as an invalid and then acquires the conviction that a
permanent residence is necessary for his existence.  Think of this, my dear Tom, and do not lax
your efforts to enable me to succeed.  I am slowly improving and  Mary is very well.
                                                        Yours truly,
                                                             J. P. Emmet.
   Thos. Addis Emmet, Esqr., New York.
   P. S.  We shall leave this place for Charleston in about a fortnight, and shall, as soon after as
possible, take a vessel for New York, as I am desirous of trying the effects of a sea voyage. You
need not, therefore, reply to this letter and may retain any letters for me directed to New York.
Before I  arrive, you will, probably, become acquainted  with Dr. Byrne, who carries, from me, a
letter of introduction to Bache, whose residence in town will enable the Doctor to deliver it more
conveniently.  But  I want you to  become acquainted with him and to show him attention, as he
has laid me under deep obligation by his unremitted attentions to me, from the moment of my
arrival at St. Augustine.

    Dr. and  Mrs. Emmet returned to Charleston a  few days after this  letter
was written, and  there enjoyed for some time the hospitality of Mr. Daniel
Ravenell, whose  first wife was a half-sister of Mr. Bache  McEvers.   Mrs.
Emmet's letters state that her husband  gained more strength in Charleston
than  he  had  done  in  Florida, and  greatly  enjoyed the renewal of his
acquaintance with the  many  old  friends he  had  made twenty-five  years
before when  practicing  medicine there.   In  May  he  engaged passage for
himself  and  wife on a sailing vessel then  plying as a  packet between
Charleston and New York.   By accident they were detained a few moments
at the  hour  for  sailing, and consequently reached the wharf just as the
vessel was  getting under  way.   The  captain was surly and refused  to
delay a few moments until  they could be put aboard  by a rowboat.   This
proved a fortunate circumstance,  as the vessel was  never heard  of after
leaving the harbor, and all on board were lost.
    Dr. Emmet and  his  wife, however, immediately boarded  another vessel
just  sailing for New  York.   In a hurricane off Cape Hatteras  the vessel
was dismantled, the greater portion of her fresh water and  provisions being
washed overboard.   The wreck  drifted  for  some thirty-eight  days without
meeting any other vessels,  and was twice  blown off the coast after having
been  reported from the signal-station at  Sandy Hook.    At length, after all
hopes of her safety had  been  abandoned, she was  picked up  and brought
into New York harbor.   So  great was the  privation  and exposure that
several of the passengers died, and  Dr.  Emmet was so  much reduced that
within six weeks after his arrival he  died, on August 15th, 1842, at  Mount
Vernon, his brother Tom's country-place, near New York.
    Although from day to day he  slowly lost his  strength, Dr. Emmet did
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death he was  planning and looking forward to making his home in  Florida.
On the day of his death he seemed quite himself; after taking his breakfast
he partially dressed himself and sat up in an easy-chair reading the morning
newspaper.   For several days he had been making out a list of the  supplies
he thought  would  be needed  by the family in Florida.   The lucifer match
now  in  common use  having  been invented but a short  time  before, the
writer was  directed by his  father to  purchase  some in the  neighborhood
and  pack them in a  tin box.   While  engaged packing  the  matches  his
father, who  had just  been reading  from the  paper  the  time advertised
for the  sailing of  different vessels for  the  South,  suddenly  said:  " My
boy,  call your  mother quickly," and getting up from the  chair unassisted,
he  laid  down  on the  bed.  Mrs.  Emmet was  in the adjoining room,  and
on  reaching his side we heard him  say: "lam  never to  see little  Jane
again."
    He died, without a struggle, just at noon, the  bells on the  Blackwell's
Island prison beginning to ring just as we reached his bedside.
    His remains were placed in his brother's vault in  the Marble Cemetery,
Second Street,  New York.
    In the chapel of the  University of Virginia there has been placed a
brass mural monumental tablet by the  children of  Dr. and  Mrs. Emmet,
in memory  of their father and mother.
    At the first meeting of the Faculty of the University of Virginia, after
the summer vacation,  the following  action was  taken, as  published in the
newspapers of the day:
                                 DR. EMMET.
   At a full meeting of the Faculty of the  University of Virginia,  convened for the purpose of
recording a tribute to the memory of Dr. John P. Emmet, late  Professor of Chemistry and
Materia Medica in this  Institution, the following  preamble  and resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
   We are  again called  upon to perform the sad duty of mingling our heartfelt sorrow over the
grave of a beloved friend and colleague. Since the close of the last session death has bereaved
us of  another cherished companion—the inventive and learned, the ingenuous and high-souled
John Patten Emmet, one of the earliest supports, and one  of the brightest ornaments of this
University.
   As a cultivator of Physical Science, his  talents for original investigation won  for him a high
place among the scientific of our land.   As  a professor his earnestness and vivacity, his learning
and eloquence, his  modesty and high-toned independence,  his mingled firmness and urbanity
secured to him the respect and cordial affection of his pupils, his colleagues  and all the authorities
of the University, and his valuable services in this capacity, from the foundation of the  institution
until his death, will form an important chapter in its history.
  As  a citizen and friend, a son, a brother, husband and father, he adorned his station by every
social  and domestic virtue, and long will the memory of  his genius and excellence of heart be
cherished by his colleagues, his former pupils and the wide circle of relatives and friends who now
lament his loss. 
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JOHN PATTEN EMMET.
   As an  earnest though feeble token of the respect and affection with which we regard the
memory of our beloved colleague, and as a sincere offering of our heartfelt sympathy in the
affliction of his bereaved wife and family:—
   Resolved, That along with a Copy of these Proceedings we tender to Mrs. Emmet our most
affectionate condolence and fraternal  sympathy,—well knowing that, in the  midst of her deep
affliction, these mementoes of the warm attachment of those who knew and loved our lamented
friend so well, will not prove an unacceptable offering to her feelings.
   Resolved, That the above  proceedings  be published  in the Charlottesville,  Richmond, and
Washington papers.
                                            H. ST. GEO.  TUCKER,
   Wm. Wertenbaker,                                  Chairman of the Faculty.
          Secretary of the Faculty.

    The  earliest recollection of the writer in connection with  his father is
the  fact  that  he was a very agreeable  companion.   Dr. Emmet  was a
great  favorite  with  his children, who looked forward each  day  to the
pleasure  of spending an hour with him before tea was announced  and their
bedtime  had arrived.   He  possessed an endless fund of stories and  songs,
and seemed  to  be able to perform equally  well on  all musical instruments.
He was  always bright, full of fun, and  ever ready for a practical joke.
    So jolly was he that, on recalling the past, it seems impossible now to
realize that he could then have been in bad  health and constant  suffering.
In after  life the writer  has been able to appreciate fully, from the remnant
of his father's library, which was preserved,  and from his father's papers,
that he must have been a man of remarkable attainments.   He retained a
full  knowledge of Greek  and Latin throughout his  life.   There  has been
preserved a  thick octavo volume,  closely  written  in Latin, which  Dr.
Emmet  wrote  for  his  course of lectures on the natural history of this
country  according to Buffon's system.  He spoke French and  Italian, and
had some knowledge of German;  he was  a good mathematician,  and
possessed a profound knowledge of the sciences.   Very few men of his day
were better  read on all subjects, or more familiar  than  he with English
literature.  He was a  remarkably  good  draughtsman,   proficient  as  a
painter in oils, and chiseled several family busts in marble which were most
striking likenesses.  Mr. Tucker  states:  "  He now and  then  exercised  his
pencil, too, but it was chiefly on  grotesque subjects.   At the meetings of
the Faculty he instinctively, if a  pen was within his reach,  began  to  make
sketches of a comic or burlesque character, and some of the Faculty  books
still retain vestiges of this propensity.  These hasty  and careless  draughts
always showed a practiced hand and bore the stamp of genius.   His  house
was decorated  with  more finished productions of his  pencil, which bear
evidence  that had he devoted  himself to  this  beautiful art, he had risen to
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   The writer has had  reproduced a  specimen of his father's  free-hand
pen-drawing.   This he rescued from loss when a boy, having witnessed its
execution on a sheet of paper which by chance  lay before his  father.   It
was  drawn  with  great  rapidity and while he was deeply  interested in a
discussion with a  friend on some subject which seemed then to  occupy his
attention more than the drawing.   He drew first the figure  and  afterwards
the full face.   When he  had completed what he had to say on the subject
of the discussion he threw down the pen  on  the  inkstand, remarking, as if
to himself, " The full face gives the expression of  the  profile,"  and at the
same time he pushed the paper away from him as  if, having accomplished
what he had attempted, it interested him no more.  The writer has also an
oil portrait of Washington, painted by  his father from  the  Stuart portrait,
and  while there  can be no  comparison made  with  the finished work  of
Stuart, the copy  has been idealized into being, in  all probability, a better
likeness of Washington than the original.
   For his day he  was a good musician; he  composed music readily, had
a good voice and left a number  of songs in which both music  and verse
were original.   Withal, he was a  most ingenious man  and seemed never at
a loss for mechanical device, handling with great dexterity the tools of any
trade and reproducing with them anything he wished.
   Mr. Tucker states: " His was, I incline  to think,  the  most inventive
mind I ever met with, and its rare powers  of making new combinations
were manifestly not more in forming hypotheses than  in devising experi-
ments to test the  soundness  of his  theoretical views and  in  contriving the
mechanical apparatus  required for that purpose.   He  was  a very pleasing
lecturer.   His  style of speaking, as in  writing, was always clear, had the
grace of simplicity and ease and was occasionally very felicitous.   His mind,
naturally excursive, took a wide  range  and  often  surprised and delighted
his class by  the beauty and novelty of his illustrations.   Nor did he disdain
to embellish and  diversify the gravest subject  of speculation with flashes of
wit or  even  some original and ingenious pun; but  in the play of his fancy
he exhibited the  temperance of modesty as well as  of good taste.   He was
eminently a being of impulse, but his  impulses  were those  of a warm,
generous, unsophisticated nature.
   " His virtues,  his peculiarities, all his modes of thinking and acting, in
short, were strongly marked by this feature of his character.  Sudden and
lively feeling prompted his  likings or dislikes, made  him enamoured of a
theory grateful for kindness or resentful  of supposed injury or indignity done
or meditated.   To  the same  cause may be ascribed his remarkable open-
ness and sincerity from every  species of artifice or affectation.  One of the 
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most striking as well as pleasing traits of his character was his modesty, which
in man or woman is a crowning moral  grace; and like the veil of a lady, but
the more sets off the beauty it would seem to obscure.   He spoke little of him-
self and never with pretension.   He was backward in doing himself justice."
    His  individuality  and  great worth were  indelibly  impressed upon the
memory  of his son.    Years  after the  death  of his father, and when pub-
lishing a medical  book in which was embodied the work  of a lifetime, the
author's gratification was intense when dedicating it to  his  father's memory.
The dedication was  written  with  the  feeling that his father was present in
the  spirit, and if possible would have expressed  his approbation.   The
dedication was to the memory  of

                                  An honest man,
                           Esteemed by all who knew him.
                To his example and early training I owe my success in life;
           In youth I aimed to merit his approbation, in manhood I have striven to
                            be worthy of his good name.

    Mrs. Emmet,  shortly after her husband's death, came to New York and
remained with  his relatives until her son had  graduated in medicine and had
established  himself there.  Her son married, in 1853, Miss Catherine  R.
Duncan, of Alabama,* and after this time, with  more leisure, she devoted
her energies to the cultivation of  her taste for rare exotics, an  opportunity
which in her busy life had  never before presented itself.
    Thus, in the  midst  of her  children, grandchildren  and flowers,  Mrs.
Emmet's  life was uneventfully passed to  the end.   She  died at her son's
residence, on  Madison  Avenue,  February  29th, i860,  and  her remains
were deposited with  those  of her husband in the Marble  Cemetery vault,
Second Street, New York.

   * It became necessary to reprint this signature,  after the work had been finished, so the writer
was able to give this note relating to the Duncan family, of Alabama, which was supposed  to have
come from Ardounie, Scotland,  in consequence of the similarity of the arms.  The writer recently
came into possession of a book published in  London, 1875, with the title, " Real pictures of clerical
life in Ireland," by the Rev. J.  Duncan Craig, of Dublin, a distant relative of Mrs. Emmet, and in
this work we find a clue to the early history of her  father's family.  Mr.  Craig states :  "In the same
parish of Strathblane for some centuries lived the  ancient family of the Duncans of Drummiskirk,
who held their lands, prospered and were intermarried with the Lyles, Grahams, Craigs and, finally,
by the marriage of my grandfather with his  cousin, Miss Duncan,—when two of her brothers
settled in Dublin at the close of the eighteenth century, the occasion arose of my father's leaving
Scotland."  "My grandfather Duncan, at the time of '98, commanded  as colonel the Linen Hall
Corps of Volunteers;  and my granduncle Duncan served as private in the same corps."  "My father
leaving Dalsholme, came to Ireland to his uncle, John Duncan,  who lived in Granby Row about the
year 1804.  The Duncans have passed away.  Some [one] went to the United States and became
Southern planters, &c."
   As Colonel of the Linen Hall Corps of Volunteers, Dublin, Mr. Duncan must have been an Orange-
man, with no interest or sympathy in common with nine-tenths of the Irish people at that time. 
MISS  CATHERINE REBECCA  DUNCAN. 
 
CATHARINE R.  DUNCAN EMMET.
THOS. ADDIS EMMET, M. D- 
 
           JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET,  M.D.,  AND
                     HIS  DESCENDANTS.

    John Patten  Emmet, the second  son and  the fourth child  of  Thos.
Addis Emmet,  was born  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  April 8th,  1796,  and died
August 15th, 1842.
    He married, July 24th,  1827, Miss  Mary Byrd Farley Tucker, who was
born in Bermuda, August 2d,  1804, and died February 29th,  i860.
    Dr. and Mrs. Emmet had the following children :

    I.  Thos.  Addis Emmet,  M.D.,  LL.D.,  born  at  the University  of
Virginia, May 29th, 1828.   He was partially educated at the University
of Virginia; began the study of medicine, in the autumn  of 1845, at the
Jefferson Medical  College,  Philadelphia, and  graduated in 1850.  Began
the practice  of  medicine  in  the  City of New York,  in  the  autumn  of
1850, as Resident Physician for fifteen months  in  the  Emigrants' Refuge
Hospital,  Ward's  Island;  then he was  appointed,  in  1852,  a Visiting
Physician, and served  in this  position  until  the  autumn of 1855, when he
became Assistant Surgeon  to the Woman's Hospital Association.  In  1861
he was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief to the Woman's Hospital in the State
of New York, and served in this capacity until 1871, when, under a change
of the organization,  he accepted  the  position as  one of  the Surgeons  of
the Surgical  Board, and has continued to hold  this position.  He has
served as Consulting Surgeon or as Consulting Physician to the Roosevelt
Hospital,  St. Vincent's  Hospital  and  other  institutions   in the City  of
New York.
    In 1868 was published by him an original  surgical  work on Vesico
Vaginal Fistula, which was the foundation for this form of plastic surgery.
The Principles and  Practice of Gynaecology, written by  Dr. Emmet, was
issued in  1879;  three  editions of  this work  were printed  in this country
and in London,  and it was translated and  published in  Germany and  in
France.  Dr. Emmet has written  sixty or more monographs on different
professional subjects, all of  which were  printed in the medical  journals of
the day at home or abroad.  He  has also written various essays bearing
upon  subjects connected with American  history—as the Signers  of the
Declaration of  Independence, the  Annapolis Convention, the Presidents 
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JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
of Congress and of the United States, etc.—of which but  a single copy
was printed, for the  purpose  of  being  illustrated  with  autographs and
portraits.  These works form now part of the " Emmet Collection " in  the
Lenox Library of the City of New York.   He has also completed recently
a work, which has occupied his attention  for  several years, on the political
and commercial history of Ireland during the past three centuries—to show
that it has been a settled policy on the part of the British Government that
Ireland should  not  prosper.   The title of the work is  " The Indictment of
1898; or, Why Ireland  has not prospered under English Rule," with the
legend " God Save  Ireland."   This book has  not yet been published.*
    Dr. Thos.  Addis  Emmet  married, February  14th,  1853,  Catherine
Rebecca,  daughter  of John Duncan  and  Catherine  Moffitt Creyon,  of
Autauga County, Ala., and had the following children:
    1.  John  Duncan  Emmet,  born  April 26th, 1857.   Physician.  Was
           educated at  the  University of Virginia;   afterwards  studied
           medicine  and  graduated  there   in   1880,  and  subsequently
           received the  same  degree  from the  College  of Physicians and
           Surgeons, New York.   He then served the full term  as one of
           the  Resident House Staff  of the Roosevelt Hospital, and  after-
           wards, during 1884  and 1885, in  the same capacity for eighteen
           months in the Woman's Hospital.   To this institution he became
           an Assistant Surgeon in the autumn  of 1886, and has continued
           on  duty to  the  present time.  Dr. Emmet was a  founder and
           proprietor, as well as editor, of  the New York Journal of Gynae-
           cology and  Obstetrics, later the American  Gynaecological and
           Obstetrical Journal.  After  service as Surgeon to the Sixty-ninth
           Regiment, N. G.S.N.Y., early in 1898 he became Surgeon to the
           Fifth Brigade, on the staff  of Gen. George Moore Smith, await-
           ing  orders  to be  called into  active  service  as portion  of  the
           New York Volunteers.

    * When the sentiment, supposed to  exist to some  extent in this  country, in favor of " British
Alliance " has been dispelled, and in more peaceful times, when a truthful version of Irish history
will be acceptable,  this work may be published.  At present the  author has the satisfaction of
feeling that he has probably done justice to his subject, as a number of publishers, from alleged
motives of policy, refused to publish the work even at the author's expense.  Yet  it is believed the
time is not distant when  the people of this country, who are to so great a degree of  Irish blood,
will realize the truth that the government of Cuba by  Spain for the past three hundred years was
merciful and just in comparison with England's management of  Irish affairs during the same
period.  If the sympathies of the American people are sincere for the past suffering of the Cubans,
in maintaining the  present war with Spain,  we  will  never be deluded into forming a " British
Alliance" until Ireland's wrongs have been  redressed.  The purpose for writing the work will
have then been accomplished through other means, and there will be  no need for publishing it. 
THOS. ADDIS EMMET, M. D-
CATHARINE R.  DUNCAN EMMET. 
 
 
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         ROBERT EMMET, JR. 
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   2. Annie, born  March  12th,  1859.   Married,  February  8th,  n
          Charles N. Harris, lawyer.   Died March 13th,  1898.  Had issue:
            a.  Margaret, born December 2d, 1888.
            b.  Addis Emmet, born February 9th, 1890.
   3. Mary Tucker, born July 31st,  i860; died in New York, October
          16th, 1877.
   4. Thos. Addis Emmet, born April 18th, 1863.   A  member of Squad-
          ron A, N.G. S. N.Y.    He  was  mustered into active service of
          the United States  July, 1898, as a trooper of the  New York
          Volunteers, and was ordered to Porto Rico.
   5. Kathleen Erin, born October 6th, 1864.
   6. Robert Griswold (dropped the name  Griswold in 1891), born October
          23d,  1871.   Was educated at Harvard and graduated in  1892.
          Began the study of medicine and  graduated  in the College of
          Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, 1896.
          In May,  1898, as Sergeant of  Squadron A, N.G.S.N.Y., he
          was  mustered  into  active  service  of the United States as  a
          trooper of New York Volunteers, and was ordered to  Porto Rico.
          Married, November 25 th, 1896, Louise, daughter of James A. and
          Anna Louise Tuller Garland, of  New York, and had  issue:
            a.  Robert Emmet, born September 28th, 1897.

   II.  John Tucker Emmet, born April 9th, 1829;  died at the University
of Virginia, September 24th, 1837.

   III.  Jane, born at the University of Virginia, April 29th, 1832.  Married,
March 29th, i860, John Noble Alsop Griswold, of New York, and had  issue :
   1. Minnie, born July  20th, 1861.  Married  John Murray Forbes, of
          New York, and had issue.
   2. Richard Alsop.   Died young.
   3. John Noble Griswold, born  October 9th, 1865 ; died July 22d,  1895.
   4. Florence, born October  20th, 1867.   Married Horatio R. O. Cross,
          Surgeon British Army,  and had  issue.
   5. Addis McEvers,  born November 29th, 1870.  Changed his name to
          George Griswold,  1890. 
JOHN  PATTEN  EMMET.
                IN MEMORIAM.

    [Written on the death of Miss Mary Tucker Emmet.]

               BY AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR.

She has solved it,  life's wonderful  problem,
  The deepest, the strongest, the last,
And into the school of the Angels,
  With the answer, forever has passed.

How  strange that, in  spite of our questioning,
  She  maketh no  answer,  nor tells
Why  so soon were life's honoring  laurels
  Dispelled by God's immortelles.

How  strange she  should sleep so profoundly,
  So young,  so unworn by the strife,
While  beside her, brimful  of hope's nectar,
  Untouched stood the goblet of life.

Strong men sleep like that when the  evening
  Of a long,  weary day droppeth down.
But she  wrought so well,  that the  morning
  Brought for her  the rest and  the  crown.

'Tis idle to talk of the future,
  And the rare " might have been " 'mid our  tears.
God knows all about it, yet took her
  Away  from the  on-coming years.

God knew all about it, how noble,
  How gentle she  was, and how brave,
How bright was  her possible future,
  Yet  put  her to sleep in  the grave.

God knows all about those who love her,
  How bitter the  trial must be,
And right  through it all, God is loving,
  And knows  so  much better than  we. 
MARY TUCKER EMMET,
          Died 1877. 
 
 
 
CHRISTOPHER EMETT.
Born 1702.Lived in Tippe-
     raiy, Ireland-
   DiedAuquot 2f>.l743.
         PMSic iqn.
m.A.
 REBECCA, Daughter of
ThosTemple -, Born about 1704
 Married M>.y. 1727. Di«i in
  ,  Dublin Nov.24.1774.tir.Duii
 of Sir Purbech Trmple, Bar't.
THOMAS EMETT.
 Born June 2.1726-,
 Died in Dublin
  June 27. 1756.
 ELIZABETH.
Bom Jan. 10. 1753.
Died June?8 1758.
"£—:----r
 | CHRISTOPHER TEMPLE
  EMMET, Born inDubli
  Sept.5.1761. Barrister.
     Died Feb. 1788
  WILLIAM.
Bom April 24.1762.
 Died Young.
le!    annewesternTI
n  =  DauY of Rob* Temple I
        or Boston,Mass. I
__|  |   Marr" 1784.
       J
CATHERINE
Died Unmarried.
      GRACE,
 Daughter of WORussell
 of Tipperary. Married Mar.
50.17S. Died in Dublin 1778.
W^S     II   _  ____
  ROBERT  EMMET,
  M.D. Bom Nov.Z5.1729.
  Died Dec. 19.160? at Casino,
       near Dublin.
  ,  ELIZABETH,Daughter
  I of James Mason ofCaKerry.
— BomApril26.i740.Marr.Nov.
   ITbO.Died inDublinSep.9.1805.
ft ■  _ ]
  A Stilborn
 Child in 1765.
'a. a.     —i
 HENRY,
 Died You
 ectintheFcv
V, EldestChildn
nj, but not Retord-1
Family Bible.
H..D.
 THOS.ADDIS EMMET.
 B. in Cork April 24.1764.
 Physician * Lawyer. Set-
 tled in N.York  "
     Nov.
I « LUTTITT. »^|-  ■
ork,l8M,Died
15.1827.      |

  i         .  ;
  JANE.Dau'rof
 Rev. John Patten ot
Clonmrtl .Ireland. Bom
Aoq.lfe.lT7l: Man-. Jan J I.
rwi.Diedin NX.Mov.HUIM
HfL    r
["CATHERINE.
  Born July3.1766.1
    Died Young,
 ROBERT
 HOLMES
of Dublin.
 Barrister.
m.p.   I
    ROBERT.
  Born — 1777.
   Died Young.
ffl..Q.
__c
ROBERT  EMMET.
Bom March A 1778.
Was Executed in Dublin
     Sept. 20.1605.
MARY  ANNE
BomOct.10.l77J,
Married- hhad Is-
sue.Oied Dublin-
     1804.
  ROBERT.
Bom-1774-Died
soon afrer Birth.
~JvTc7

 1 EU2ABETH,Born
  Dublin,Dec.4.1794,  E
  Married 1819 and nod W-|
  sue.Died June 1.1878.
WHH.LEROY
    of
   New York.
W. D.
 ROBERT EMMET.
Born Dublin,Sept.9.1792
   Lawyer, New York.
   Died Feb. 15. 1873.
V.A.
THOS. ADDIS EMMET.
Born Jone 4.1618. Civil
Enq'meer. Died Unmarried
    Jan. 12.1880.
V.B.
 ROBERT EMMET.
Born Sept. 30. 1819.
     Merchant.
 Died August 19.1870.
ffl
R05INA. Daughterof Col:
Adam Hubtey or Lancaster,
Pa. Married Jan.l8. 1617.
   Died June 1.1849.
-JETT
JOHN RATTEN EMMET,
Physician .Born Dublin,
Mb, April 8.1796. Proles -
sor University of Vo. Died
NewYorKAuq.15.1842.
   MARGARET.
Born in Dublin Sep.ZI.ms
Unmarried .Died in New
 York Mar. 1. 1883.
MARY BYRD FARLEY,
Dr. of John H.Tucker. Born m
Bermuda Auq.2. I W4,Mat
July 24.I8Z7. Died in New1
York  Feb. 29.1860.
2£~
RICHARD STOCKTO*
EMMET.Bomreb. — of ColRotft Emmet
22.1821, Lawyer.
  New York.
CATHERlNE,Daur
of Aug James of Alb-
any. Married Aug. Vo.
IB4B.DiedApril4 W58.
WILLIAM EMMET.
 Bom Nov.Z4.1849
yii-  >
ROBI EMMET.
Bom Dec .17. »M
Died Unmarried.
,*».*.  I
CATHERINE.BWr
Temple.Bom-lSW^M.
Sepr."29.1668 ■ D. Aug.-
J. O.  I  "
"Christopher
temple emmet
  Bom Sept. 4.
  i822.Lawyer.
  Died US8Z.
  r ELLEN
Lj  TEMPLE.
T1DrofGolR.E.Ten,
   ple.U-S.A.Marr.
i^Xi60™^- J Russeu
4.187Z;Marr.Aug2S = pc»onnv
HHU. 8. hnrf I~=a2      PEABODY.
1894& had Issue.
EDW.EMMET.
  BomOct.H.
    1853.
W* TEMPLE,
Lawyer, N.Y.
CORNELIA BOORMAN,
Born July 18.1869.  = Daurof AuqusrusZabri
Uie.June 16.1896.
RICHARD STOCKTON
EMMET. Bom March
10.1871. Lawyer, N.Y.
MARY DauY of Har-
wood V.OIypharrr.Marr.
    June 6.1894.
MARTIN S.KE06H.
CATHERINE TEMPLE
Bon
May
DornM.arch9.1873. Marr.
  iy26.l894thad Issue.
ROSINA HUBLEYJ
 Bom Aucj. 27.167;]
JDEl
TEMPLE EMMET-
  Died Young
EDITH  LESLIE.
Bom May 17.1877.
KATHERINE TEMPI!
  Died Young
  LYDIA
 HUBLEY.
B.July 3.1624.
ELLINOR
Born Jan. 13.
  1680.
MARY OLYPHANT.
Bom March 14.1895.
ELV7.ABETHLER0Y
 Born Dec.2E. 1674.
5flTRENVIUE~l
  „  TEMPLE.
  BornAuq,2.l«77.|
 AILLlAMJENKmsl_rjULlA.M-.feb.l5.
 „  EMMET.     =f  1854.Dau'rof
I E>ornAugi.3.1826.1 11 Josioh Pierson
JULIA COLT.
 Died Young.
W*LEROYEMMB
 Bom JuiylO. 1859.
RICH5ST0CKI0H
EMMET. Bom
  Nov.27.l6M.
LYDIA FIELD.
BomJan.?3.ie66.
___A___
ROBERT TEMPLE
EMMET,LTU.S.A.
Bom Dec. 13.1854.
va. i.
ffi
HELEN VAN COURT-
LAND.Oct.ll.ie!}.
DVot Henry Phelps
R05INA(Twin5isV
er),B.uec.B.I854.M. t=
 ARTHUR
 MURRAY
SHERWOOD
 DEVEREUX
  EMMET.
Bom Dec.ll. I8H
R0BT RUTHERFORD
MORRIS EMMET.
  BornJan.2.
     1888.
HERMAN RUT-
6ER5 LE ROY.
 Born Sept
  26.1889.
ANETA
HELENA.
   ELLABATAYIA.
•-pi Jan tt>.l»89jDrof J
 | LonvTentrSmrtti.Ll
THOS.ADDIS EMMET
 BornSept.b.1870.
 Died March 10.1886.
JANE ERIN.
Bom Oct. 8.1873.
   Artist.
RICHS SMITH
  EMMET.
Bom-Oct.1889
CHRISTOPHER TEMPj
LE EMMET. Bom July = JohnW.Chanler
8.1868. Lawyer.
mT^S Ujohn fktten emmet.
Mtf rtrrnnLer&^H Bom Aoril 20.1828.
gar. No Issue.
 EDWARD
FITZGERALD.
Died Young.
Y.C.
TV.F.
CHRISTOPHERTEMP-
LEEMMET,US.Nayy.B.
inDublin,ln?ia,0ct:i6.
1798. Died Unmarried
  at5ea 1822.
W.6.
iv:h.   I
CATHERINE
Born in Paris
Jan. 11.1604.
Died Young.
[JANE ERIN. Born ft
 &eorae,ScotTd,April 18
 I602.forrifd0cr.«5i,
 had Issue. Died in Enqlb!
   BACHE
  MCEVERS.
Merchant NewYorX
Died July 151851
Tf.l.
WE.

THO? ADDIS EMMET.
 BorninDl.»lin.ln?lundtMay
 29.1797,lxiwver,NewYorli.
    Died Aug 12.186V
MARYANN.Bornin
N.Y..Man;n24.l805J
Harried-lffKandAad
oneChild who Died Younq
   Died July-I8K.
  EDWARD
BOONEN 6RAVES
   Merchant
   New York.
 JOHN TOM EMMET.
' BomMarchlJ.1824.
]0.Unm. May 1863.
k
ANNA (Daughter
of JohnTom.fiewYwk,
Married Mar.4.1425.
 Died June 2.1686.
2F—
TH05.ADD1S EMMET.
  BornNov.l.l»a.
 D.Unm.Nov.lt5t.
ANNARIKER.
Bom Aug.27.1826.
Died Unm.-1859.
TEMPLE EMMET.
 Born April-\M
,D.Unm.Aug.l86c
JASJOSEPH EMMET.
 Bom June 1832.
D.Unm. May I860.
 NKNEVEN EMMET.
 Bom March 15.1631.
i D.Unm.Sept. 1862.
   ROSA.
 Born June IMS.
D.Unm. July 1853.
ROBERT EMMET.
 Born June-1835.
Dlunm. Nov.-1856.
RICH. RIKER EMMET.
 Bom Sept.-1842.
D.Unm. Feb.-1663.
 DUDLEY SELDON EM-
 MET. Bom-1844.
.Died Unm. -1866
*COLVILLE EMMET.     [
om in N .Y. April 25.1807.  =J
 Died July  19.1875.     Tj
  LAURA,Man-. Jan.15.
, l834.,Dau'rofHem-yA.
ICoster.NY. D.Mayl3.1886.
I THOS.ADDIS EM-^
[ MET, Bom Nov.
 !4.ie34.DiedunmJ
  July 25.1895.  |
V.B.
HENRY COSTER
EMMET.  Bom
 Sept. 8.1836.
DieaJuly25.l6H.
V.E.
'WtfCOLVllLE
 EMMET, Bom
 June 13.1836.
 Consul Abroad.
 EMILY. M.
April 1863.
Dau'rcf Jehu
   Hone.
VE___c
BACHE MtEVERS
ANNIE.MJu:-;
 EMMET. Physi- _ l.ie76.0av''of
 cian.NewYork. ■  '
| BornMay23.1843
  EDWARD
 FITZGERALD.
BomMar.l0.16«.
y.p.  r
  LAURA.
BomDec31.l8W
Died Aug .4.18+3
'CHARLE5 EMMET,
  Lawyer. N.^.
 D0rnApnl':5.1S-«-.
YH.
    JANE.
Bom April 29.1832.
Marr. MarchW. I860
  and had Issue.
nALSC
  of
JOHN NOBLE
ALSOP &RISWOL0
    New York.
HENRY C05TER
   EMMET,
 Banker, N.Y.
Bom Jan.27.1846.
   MARIA LOUISE,
—J M.April-1886;
   Dau'rof Watson
    Case of tew York
WALTER EV;MET.
SoniSeot.l.isi-.
OiedmChi-.a.Ur.-
THOS.ADDIS EMMET,
! Physician.NewYork.^;
 Bom in Virginia May
       29.1828.
^rr
ffl
CATHERINE,
DauVot John Dun
canofAla.Feb.14.
    1854.
V.B.
JOHN TUCKER
EMMET. Bomat the
Univ.of Va.April 9*
l8».D.Sept.24.l837.
JOHN  DUNCAN
EMMET.Physician
Bom in New April 26
     1857.
•n.i.
ANNE,Bom March
l2.1859jMarr.Feb.8. =  AN HARRIS
I888,and had Issue
CHARLES NATH
Lawyer.
•vrs:
    ROBERT
    EMMET.
Bom Oct/3.18T7I.
     LOUISE .Marr.
=  Nov. 25.1696-,Dau>
   of James A .&arland
      of New York.
'V. J.
HERMAN LE ROY
   EMMET.
BomOtt.20.1850.
VT.1.
B
ALICE WELLINGTON.
M.0ec.2.1665.DouVc>T
Hexron A Johnson of
     New York.
HERMAN LE ROY
EMMET. Bom Sep.
26.\887.DiedApnl
     27.1889.
V.K.
  MARY TUCKER.
BornJuly3l.l860.Died
inNewX6rkOct.l6.iB77.
TH05 ADDIS
  EMMET.
Bom April 18.1863.
HENRY COSTER
    EMMET.
 Bom March29.l«1
KATHLEEN ERIN.
   Bom Oct.6.
      1864.
\T3:
 AUGUSTUS
SCHERMERHORN
   EMMET.
 Born May Sd.IBvO.
WATSON CASE
   EMMET.
 Born — 1892.
VL4.
 LAURA.
Born-April
   1890.
JEANN1E.
Born-June
   1693.
PEDIGREE OF THE  EMMET  FAMILY  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES 
 
WILLIAM  TUCKER
A Thornley.Co.D
Esquire.
   150TA, Daughter
of Wm.Ash of Co-- Devon.
I.GEORGE TUCKER
in Co Kent,  Son and
,of Milton |_f
ji Heir.   rfj
MARIA,eH.'
  of John Hi
     of Gau-
JOHN TUCKER, of London,
 Married Elizabeth Kenn,
 and had one Son, Richard,
ISOTA, Married William
Barbedin of No: Taunton
 and twice after his Death.
DANIEL
TUCKER.
2.GEO. TUCKER of
Milton,near draves-
end,Co: Kent.Sonand
Heir of Oeo.TucUer of
the same Place,Esquire.
I.
ELIZABETH, DauY
of Francis Stough-
ton of Crayford,
   Co: Kent.
  First Wife.
MARY, Daughter
of John Darell
of Caul Hill,Co:
Kent, Esquire. Second wife.
TOBIAS  TUCKER
of London,Married
ephen Fitch
NICHOLAS TUCKER
  of bravesend,
    Married
  Ann  Powell
   of London.
HE5TER, MAR'A,
ELIZABETH  .tM
MARTHA. .-. n;
opher
3. OEORGE TUCKER, of Milton
and afterwards of Crayford,also
of Dartford, Co: Kent, Gent., Son
and Heir. Aaed 25, about-1619.
Went to the Island of Bermuda
 During the Civil Wars. Will Dated
 Aug; ft.,1659. Com-.-£ndN|ayl6*8
       to George .his Son.
T
ELI7ABETH,
Daughter of Rich'd
Sidley.of Digswell,
  Co: Kent.
Living 23"?Aug:
1639. Died before
  2"^ May 1648.
JOHN
TUCKER.
Aged 19 in
  1619.
Living in
  1639.
ROBERT
TUCKER.
Aged 14 in
 , 1619.
Living  in
  1639.
 HENRY
 TUCKER.
Aged 8 in
  1619.
Living in
  1639.
 HESTER,
ELIZABETH,
  MARY,
5ARAH and
 MARTHA.
Were Livinq
  in 1619.
4. GEORGE TUCKER,erf Milton
aforesaid and of Bermuda. Esq:
Eldest Son and Heir. Will Proved
    at E3ermuda,16*>Sept.)6fe2.
  FRANCES,
3"dDauYof SirHen
ry St.beorae, K't bar-
ter and Principal
  King of Arms.
 FRANCIS
 TUCKER,
2 n-d Son. Liv-
 ing in 1639.
ROBT TUCKER
of SanfordjCo;
Essex.Livinqin
H
 SUSAN.
Daughter of
Nicholas Hyde.
   ELIZABETH.
Married Robert Devenesh,
Esquire , York Herald.
5. ST. GEORGE TUCKER,of the
Council erf the Island of Bermuda,
Esquire,also of Clayford,aforesaid,
Bom at Bermuda, '25th May 1651 -
Died lOthof Sept. 1710,and Buried
   in the Parish Church of War-
       wick, in the  said
           Island.
JANE ,Daught'r
of John or Daniel
   Hubbard
  of Bermuda,
   Esqu i re.
  Died about
     1717.
JOHN TUCKER,
Esq:, Sec'y to Queen
Ann and Keeper of
 the State Papers.
Died Unmarried,
WILLIAM TUCKER.
HENRY TUCKER.
_L
FRANCES.Married
Rich'd Darrell of Co:
  Bucks, Esquire.
 HENRY T-UCKER  of the Council of        FRANCES.DauYof John
the Island of Bermuda, Esquire, also of Clay-   __ Tudor,of New York,Esq:
ford, aforesaid. Born at Bermuda, l3ti<of Feb.lfccVS, -r- Marrtherein 1707. Died 14-tt
                                          of Feb: 1772 ,Aged 91 Years.Bur-
the Eldest Son and Heir. Died Httof December 1734
and was Buried atPortRoyal,in the said Island.
led at Port Royal,
6. ROBERT,
7. 5AMUEL,
8.MANSFIELD.
All Marriedandhad
I. GEORGE, JOHN,
3.DAVID.Diedinthe
Lifetime of their Father,
S.R-and 5.WILLIAM,
Ur
■fed.
SEVERAL DAUGHTERS
H ESTER ,DauV of
Jos: Stowe of Bermuda,
  Esq:-First Wife.-
-r- tn
I.ST.GEORGE TUCK-
ER.Esq: Born 1710.
 "iedat 5ea,l76l.
TUDOR TUCKER.
 Officer R.Navv Died
    1784. S. P.
DIANA, DauY of
WERiddell.Esq:
TO
ELIZABETH, DauY
of Turner Gibbs.of Berrnu
da, Gent; -Second Wife-
FRANCES, Married Judge John
Tucker, and after his Death
       Francis Tucker.
rrrr.—i
vjEORGE TUCK
 Married IUU2
3
3.TUD0R TUCKER.
Married and had Issue.
Was Lost at Sea in 1744.
5.GE0R&E TUCKER.
 Lost at Sea, Leaving
IEnqoge
■lay 1745
Oil
MARY, Daughter of
  Rich'd Nicholls,Esq:
FRANCES.
jM
Col: John Montresor
  of the Brit.Navy.
Z.HENRY TUCKER,Esq:
Born 28tS0ct.-1713. Died 1767.
     ANNE,
 Daughter of General
Math'- Butrerfield.Mcm
   Nov;9+h 1738.
THREE DAUGHTERS,
   Who Married.
I. FRANCES of the Grove
 in Port Royal.Born 26*
       of April 1740.
HENRY  TUCKER,
  Esq:, of the Bridge
      House.
[2. HENRY TUCKER,Presid-
 entof the Council, Sec'yof the
 Treasury and Acting Governor.
 Was Born 13th of February 1742,
    Died at Bermuda l«08.
I.HENRY STGE0R6E TUCKER,
Esq:,Born 15th Feb. 1771.In the
Employment and Service of the
E.I. Co., late of the Com- for the Set-
tlement of the Conquered Provinces
and Chief Secretary tothe Ben-
     qal Government-.
 FRANCES, Daughter
of Geo: James Brune,Esq:,
Governor of the Island of
Bermuda. Was Manied
     March 1770.
3.TH0'5 TUDOR
 TUCKER, M.D.
 Born 25ttjune
 1744. Settled
   intheU.S.
   Died 1827.
 ESTHER,
Daughter of
beorge Evans,
Esq: of S.Ca.
One Daughter.
5.NATHANIEL
 TUCKER,M.D.
Born Feb.1TOI750.
Settled in Hull,
England, Married
 and had Issue
4.ELI7ABETH.
 Born Sept. 2"4
    1747.
Died Unmarried.
2.GE0:JAS-.BRUNE TUCKER.
Born lit*Feb: 1773.Lieut:Col-inthe
Brit: Army. Ad): General under 6en'l
Si r Arthur Wellesley. Lost in the
Primrose, Sloop of War, I4tb Jan :
1609 on his Way to Join the Army in
     Spain. Unmarried.
3.THOS: TUDOR TUCKER. Born
 ZqtpJune I774-. Captain intheRoy-
4. JOHN GELSTON PUCE TUCK-
ER Born 27tb July 1777. Lieut:Col; in
Hie Army.Married June 1902,Ann.Dau'r
of Maj:6en'l Fredt Mul6aster,-Royal
   Engineersandhad Issue.
5. NATHAN'LBUTTERFIELD TUCK-
ER.Born Rtfi May 1779. Captain 32 "J
Regiment and Lost at Sea with
  "  his Brother George in 1809.
         Unmarried.
ANN NEELEand
CHARLOTTE NEELE,
     Daughters.
["ST GEORGE TUCKER.
1   Born June 29+-* 1752.
   Settled in Virginia.
   A Judge and Professor
    of Lawin William and
7,CHARLTON BROWN TUCK-
  ER, Lieut 24 +t,
8.RICH'D ALEXANDER
      TUCKER.
Dep't. Paymaster faen'l to
the Army. Warned Mary,
Daughter of Captrjc
Esq:-One Child. '
      Infancy,
-Died n
9.ARCHIBALD TOD
     TUCKER.
   Died in Infancy.
I0.DEC1MUS.
Died in Infancy.
6 WILL"-1 PENDOCK TUCKER.
Cjpf5. Born 2V.3Apriin8l.Cdpt'-'in
the Marine Batha\"ot the E.T. Co. on the
         Bombay Eetab^t.________
   Extracted  froa  tm&
Records  of tme College of
ARAS,LOMDOM, AMD Exaai/v
ED BY AE TM15 FlFTEEMTM DAY
          OFDECEABER   I85C)■

  (51GAED)  ALBERT A. WOODS.
                             LA.N CASTER.
TUCKER   PEDIGREE. 
 
      WILLIAM TUCKER
of Thnrnlev Co..Devon.  Esquire.
i£
. Daughter of
 . of .o: Devon.
i. GEORGE TUCKER of
Milton inCoiKent.Son and Heir.
|v\Wl A, Eldest
Had one Son,Richard.
 2. GE0R6E TUCKER
   of Milton,near
'  Gravesend CoiKent
  Son and Heir of Geotae
  Tucker of the same
    Place. Esquire.
MARY, Daughter a
  John Darrel .
 of Coulhill Co:
     Kent.
- Second Wife -
 TOBIAS TUCKER
 of London, Marr: Mar^
 Dauqhterof Stephen
  Fitch of London.
Hester. Eliiabelh and
 Maria werettie Daughters
VCHOLA^: TUCKcF
3. GEOR6E TUCKER
 of Milton, near
 &ravesencLetc.Bom  l_
  1594. Settled in
   Bermuda. Will
    Proved 1646.
J_
ELIZABETH Dau'r
of Richard Sidley of
 Digswell Co: Kent.
 Living attheTime
of theWeraldsVisitci-
tion 21.Aug:1639.Died
   Before Moy 16*8.
 SARAH and MARTHA
j   living in 1639.  |
  ROBERT TUCKER.
 Born 1605. WasLiving in
 l639.Supposed to have
 SetTledinWeymouth.Mas*.
 and Died Mar. 1682. All of
 hie Family from Hew Engl'd
I were Descended from him.
 HENRY TUCKER.
Born 1611. Livincj 1639. Is
Believed to have Settled in
Bermuda I&62 and tohave
been the ■jreatOmnafatti-
erof John.Chief Justice
       Tucker.
  DANIEL
  TUCKER,
the First Gov-
 ernor of
  Bermuda.
  Died 1626.
4. GEORGE TUCKER
of Milton aforesaid and
 of Bermuda,Esquire,
Eldest Son and Heir.
Will Proved at Bermuda
     16. Sept, 1662,
X
FRANCE5,3rd Dau'r
of SirHenryStGeorae
Knight Garter and
  Principal King
    of Arms.
FRANCIS TUCKER.
    2™* Son.
 Living in 1639.
  ROBERT TUCKER
of Sanford. Co: Essen.Liv-
ing in 1664. = Susan, Dau'r
   of Nicholas Hyde.
   ELIZABETH,
= Robert Devenesh.Esa.
The York Herald.
5.S1 GEORGE TUCKER.
Born at Bermuda May 25.1651.
Esquire,Member of the Council.
Died lO.Sept.niO.Buried at the
Parish Church, Heron Bay,War-
  wick in the said Islana.
   -JANE,
a Daughter of John
or Daniel Hubbard,
of Bermuda,Esquire.
     Died about
        1717.
 JOHN TUCKER,
Esquire, Sec'y to Queen
Ann and Keeper of the
 5tate Papers. Died-
     Unmarried.
WILLIAM TUCKER.
HENRY TUCKER.
FRANCES = Richard
DarrellfLillingston Darretl,
   Co: Bucks,Esquire.
HENRY TUCKER.of the Council of the
Island,Esq.,also of Clayford .aforesaid.
Eldest Surviving Son and Heir:Bom at
Bermuda IJtt Fe"b.l68s. Died 144 of De-
cember and was Buried at Port Royal
         in the said Island.
FRANCES, Daughter of
John Tudor, of New York,
Esquire.Married there in
1707. Died 14-* Feb: 1772,
Aged 91 Years.Buried at
     Port Royal.______
6. ROBERT,
7. SAMUEL,
B.MANSFIELD.
 All Married and
  had Issue.
  I.GEORGE,
  2.JOHN.
  3.DAVID.
and several uauqh
hers. Died S.P.
i &«

| Pit
MELI7
ofTu
. DIANA,Dau'r of
i W>BRiddell.Esa;
ELIZABETH ,D'r
     sr6ibbs.
     WhV-
THOMAS TUCKER     MARY,
Esq: Killed in a    __  Dauujhtei
Naval Engagement ^  °
 B*May 17+5.
T  Richd Nichols,
  [   Fsquire.
TUDOR TUCKER

GEORGE TUCKER.
Both Lost at Sea,
England in isfeZ.
JAMES TUCKER.Esq.
 of Devonshire Parish.
FRANCES.   \=4  John Mon+resor
                   Brit.- Army.
Z.Col. HENRY TUCKER,
 Esq;,Served inthe British
 Army.Born je^Oct.nrj.
 Died 1787- Lived at "The
 drove" in Port Royal.
Z.HENRY TUCKER . Pre-.- -
of the Council.Sec'y of the Tree*
ury, and Acting Governor.
Born Feb. 15* V742, Married
Frances, Daughter of GovV Geo
J.Brune Mar£h IT70iDied 1608,
and Buried in St George's Purisl
Church. Eldest Son Henry, Pres
of the EattlndiaCo; SevenSon6
 in the Brit: Army or Navy-Two Sow
 Died Young-,and Two Daughtei
     ANNE,Daughterof
    Gen'l Ncrtti'l Bunerfield.
-—i Brit: Army.Bornjan.28.
 " l722:MarriedNov.3.r738,
      Died July 25.1797.
I JOHN TUCKER.Esq.   I  MARY, Daughter
   Chief Justice.  =f=|  t^hHt^m^
      _ .             Bom0ct.-4.,ni3.
oftheETidseHoine   '
5T faEOR&E TUCKER.
 Bor.n June 29* 1752.
 Settled inVirginia.
 Officer in the Revolu-
 tion . Professor of Law
 inWill>«rMary
  afterwards
       ...1__________
THOS:TUDOR TUCKER,
M.D.Born June 25.17+4,Sem"d
in SlCarolina.Surgeon in the
--------"I------"I
 NATH'U TUCKER,
 M.D.,Bomr>b.l'5.n50,
 Settled in Hull, Eng-
 land. Married and
     had Issue
Frances Bland,
  Uu      ""I—   rrances di<
ry College,       Widow of John
a Judge.        ;      oiph.Ser
1747. Unmarried,
 HENRY  SX&EORfaE
 = Evelina Hon+erand
i the Ancestor of the
  Virginia Family.
ROB'T TUCKER
I BprnMav4.175+.
erT
754.
>ge:l
Died Feb:- 1794.
___nv™
 SEOR&E TUCKER
  of Somerset-
  Parish. = Mary
Dau'r of faeo.Tuciirr.
  ELUABETH
= Ricn'd rowle.
  JAMES -
 Ann VAavev —
a. id Had Ifoue.
RICH'D JENNINGS
TUCKER Of N.Y.,
   Had Issue.
FRANCES TUCKER
   of " The Grove"
Bom 25ttyApril 1740,
Marr'd51*Jan.  1764;
Died           1815.
  HENRY TUCKER.
 Married Esther,
Dau'r of Daniel and
  Elizabeth Tucker.
   Had Frances,
    who Died
     Unmarried.
 HENRY TUCKER
of the Bridge House.
DANIEL TUCKER
 Born  Feb. 9* 1747.
 Died July I US 1612'.
 Mayor of City of Ham-
  ilton, Bermuda.
  Married T> Times.
  RICHARD,=
Frances,Dau'r of
Rotaertand Frances
Fowle Tucker. Had
  Henry, Robert,
 Richard, Frances
    and Anne
     Tucker.
EL12ABETH,
= Tho's R., Son
of Robert and
Frances Fbwle
   and Had
    Issue.
CATHERINE,
  FRANCE5
    and
   NANCY.
Died Unmarried.
 5T-GE0R6E
  TUCKER.
Bom June 1809.
Died July 1820.
JOHN HENRY TUCKER
 Born 18* Jan. 1775.  ,
 Merchant-, Hamilton,
      Bermuda.

Died in Portugal Nov.
23r-S 1611  a Paymaster
   in the Brit. Army.
ELIZA JANE TUCKER,
Bom in Bermuda, July
81* 1779. Marry Dec. 10*
m 1801. Visited her Brother
&eorae atthe University
of Va: in 1822 and did non-
return. Died attheUnivj
      ofVa-.inl844.
ELIZABETH TUCKER.
 Born June 19.1762.
 Marr'd  Dec. 17. 1772.;
 Died Feb -24.1704.
     First Wife.
W* HENRY TUCKER
      Physician.
 Settled inVirginia,
 Died at the University
       1827.
 Widowet.rladoneDaur,
     who Died Young
   MARIA,
Daughter of Chas.
Carter of Fredericks-
MARY BYRD FAR-
  LEY TUCKER.
Born in Bermuda Aug:
•2n£l804,Marr:July "
26* 1827.. Died NY,F*b:
JOHN  PATTEN
 EMMET, M.D.
Professor of Chem-
istry, inthe Uni-
sityofVii
 ARiAS >*/tRfc GRANTED
TOTnfcTVCKErR  FAMILY
        OP devon CO=
          ENGLAND
HENRY 6EaTUCKER
Born in Bermuda June
Zb'i 1807. Died at New
     port, R.I
T CharloM*.Va.,l«OTT'd
    May 171632 Diedtn
JOHN EMMET
TUCKER .Born
Nov. 29. hi  ,Q,«i
at rlenderson.Ky
'jULIAMARbARET
    TUCKER.
 Born July H*
 lfcs6.Unmarried.
I MARY BYRD
1    TUCKER.
 Bom June Pit?
 IVM. Mamed
i  una had Issue.
   RICH'D DEWY
__  of Button
   Ueut.UJ5.Na-
   vy. Resigned.
PEDIGREE   OF  THE   TUCKERS  OF   BERMUDA   IN   CONNECTION
WITH   THE    EMMET  FAMILY. 
 
 JAMES  TUCKER,
of Devonshire Parish. 
 
COL. HENRY  TUCKER,
     Of "The Grove." 
 
             ANNE BUTTERFIELD TUCKER
WITH HER  CHILDREN ELIZABETH AND NATHANIEL. 
 
 HENRY TUCKER,
of the "Bridge House.' 
 
FRANCES  TUCKER,
   of "The Grove." 
 
INDEX
Alabama, the Duncan family of, 58, 60
Albemarle Academy, Va., proposal to found the, 25
American  history, Dr.  T. A. Emmet's contributions  to,
    59i 6o
Autauga County, Ala., the Duncan family of, 60

Bigelow, Mr., music  teacher  at the University of Vir-
    ginia, 27
Bonnycastle, Charles, professor of natural philosophy at
    the University of Virginia, 29;  criticism of Dr. Em-
    met's experiments, 45
British alliance with the United States, Dr. T. A. Emmet's
    views on the prospect of a,  60
Byrd,  Mary, of Westover, Va.,  36
Byrne, Dr., of St.  Augustine, Fla., 54

Cabell, Joseph, one of the visitors of the University of
    Virginia, 34
Cabell, Mrs. Joseph, 34
Cadet Monument, West  Point,  designed  by John P.
    Emmet, 20
Central College of Virginia, 23
Charleston,  S.  C,  Dr. John  P. Emmet settles  in,  22;
    social life  in, 24;  Dr. Emmet lectures in, 25;  Dr.
    Emmet revisits, 54; Dr. Emmet's lucky escape at, 54
Charlottesville,  Va.,  residence of  Dr. John  P.  Emmet
    at, 27
" Chemistry of Animated  Matter,  The," inaugural  dis-
    sertation of Dr. John P. Emmet, 22
College  of Physicians  and  Surgeons, New  York, John
    Duncan Emmet  takes degree at, 60;  Robert Emmet
    (1871) takes degree at, 61.  See also University of
    New York
Columbia College and  University,  New York, Robert
    Emmet (1871) graduated in medicine, 61
Colville,  Margaret, wife of the Rev. John Patten, n.   See
    also  Margaret Thompson
Colville, William,  marries Margaret Thompson, n
Cooper, Dr. Thomas, Columbia, S. C, changes  conse-
    quent on Dr. John P.  Emmet's appointment to  the
    University of Virginia, 25, 26
" Corporation Improvements"  (New York),  by John P.
    Emmet, 19
Coulter, St. George, groomsman to Dr. John P. Emmet, 31
Craig, Rev. J.  Duncan, account of the  Duncan family
    by,  58
Creyon, Catherine Moffitt, marries John Duncan, 60
Cross,  Florence (Griswold),  61.   See  also  Griswold,
    Florence
Cross, Horatio R. O., marries Florence Griswold, 61
Crozet,  Prof, of West Point,  attests John P. Emmet's
    proficiency in engineering, 20
Cuba compared with Ireland, 60

Doneraile, Dowager Viscount, connection with  the
    Emmet family, 13
Drummiskirk, the Duncan family of,  58
Dublin, Dr. Robert Emmet settled in, 10
Dublin,  the Duncan family of,  58
Ducachet, Dr. Henry William,  discussion with Dr. John
    P. Emmet,  22
Duncan, Catherine Moffitt (Creyon), wife of  John Dun-

Duncan! Catherine Rebecca, marries Dr Thomas Addis
    Emmet, 58-60.  See  also Emmet, Catherine Re-
    becca
Duncan family,  the, 58
Edinburgh,  Thomas Addis  Emmet  studies medicine
    at, n
Emett,  Christopher, of Tipperary, Ireland,  9; married
    Rebecca Temple, 9; children, 9;  death, g
Emett, Rebecca (Temple), wife of Christopher, 11
Emett, Thomas, son of Christopher, 9
Emmet, Anna  (Tom), wife of Thomas A.  Emmet, Jr.,
    birth  of  her first child,  23; letters  from John P.
    Emmet, 24, 40, 41; correspondence with  Mrs.  John
    P. Emmet, 33 ;  letter from Eliza J. Tucker, 42, 44
Emmet,  Anne Western  (Temple), wife  of Christopher
    Temple Emmet, 11; issue,  11
Emmet, Annie, daughter of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, 61;
    marries Charles N. Harris,  61 ; issue, 61; death, 61
Emmet, Christopher Temple, son of Dr. Robert, 10 ; mar-
    ries Annie Western Temple, n;  his brilliant attain-
    ments and career, 10;  death,  n
Emmet, Elizabeth (Mason), wife of Dr. Robert Emmet, 9;
    her issue, 10; character,  10;  cares for Thomas Addis
    Emmet's children, 16; death, 13
Emmet, Henry, Mus. Doc, Oxon., temp.  Henry II, 7
"Emmet, J.  K." (alias Kline), unauthorized use  of the
    name, 8
Emmet Jane  (1832),  39,  43,  48, 51, 55;  marries  John
    Noble Alsop Griswold, 61; issue,  61.  See also Gris-
    wold, Jane
Emmet,  Jane  (Patten), wife of Thomas  Addis Emmet,
    marries, n;  shares her  husband's imprisonment, 12;
    released  from  Fort  George,  Scotland, 12;  accom-
    panies her husband to Holland,  12; New York, 12;
    visits her son John, 39, 41
Emmet, Jane Erin,  19, 48; correspondence with Dr. John
    P. Emmet, 18,  19, 24, 25, 27,  29.   See  also McEvers,
    Jane Erin
Emmet, John Duncan, 60;  graduate in medicine at the
    University of Virginia and  the College of Physicians
    and Surgeons,  60; literary  work, 60;  military ser-
    vices, 60
Emmet, John Patten, birth, 15; childhood, 16; character
    and personality, sense of humor and spirit of mischief,
    16, 17, 21,  23, 26, 31, 36, 39, 45, 55-58; joins his par-
    ents in New York, 17; education, 17-22;  visits Italy,
    21; social  and  domestic  life,  27, 33, 39, 41, 56-58; his
    drawing  of "An Evening at Home," 33; settles  in
    Charleston,  S.  C,  22 ;  recounts anecdotes  of his
    brother's  wedding, 31;  marries   Mary  Byrd  Farley
    Tucker, 30-33 ; incidentally mentioned, 44  ; death, 54,
    55; correspondence with his sister, Jane Erin,  18, 19,
    24, 25, 27-31, 36, 37;  a cadet at West Point, 19, 20;
    designs the  Cadet Monument,  20;  delivers funeral
    oration for  V.  M.  Lowe, 20;   letters from  Alden
    Partridge and Jared Mansfield, 20, 21 ;  at the carnival
    at  Naples, 21; study of  medicine,  21, 22,  25, 26;
    appointed assistant to Dr. W. J. Macneven, 21, 24, 25;
    artistic tastes and studies  in painting, sculpture and
    music, 21,  28-30, 56,  57; mechanical skill and inge-
    nuity, 21,  40, 57;  scientific studies and experiments,
    chemistry, silk  culture, etc., 21, 22, 25, 26, 40, 42, 45;
    his inaugural dissertation,  22; letters to Anna (Tom)
    Emmet,  23,  24,  40, 41 ; applies  for professorship  of
    chemistry  at the University of South Carolina, 25;
    lectures in Charleston, 25;  testimonials from the med-
    ical faculty of  the University of  New York, 25, 26;
    letter from Thomas Jefferson, 26-27; appointed pro-
    fessor of  natural  history at the University  of Vir-
    ginia,  27-30; resides at  Charlotteville, 27, 41;  horti-
    cultural tastes  and experiments,  30,  39-42, 52, 53; 
64
INDEX.
Emmet/ John Patten—continued.
    visits Long Branch, West Point and Washington, 33,
    34; his residence at the University, 34, 35;  on phre-
    nology in relation  to  his  son, 37; portrait of, facing
    title  page, 38; accident to,  39; birth of a daughter,
    39; purchases land, 39;  experiments in pottery, 40;
    an incendiary's act, 40;  his industry,  41, 42; "Life
    and Character of,"  by  George Tucker, 41, 42; success
    at the University,  41, 45; death of  his son, John
    Tucker Emmet,' 42, 44;  letter to Elizabeth Le Roy,
    44; controverts  the Newtonian  theory of refraction,
    45; visits New  York, 45;  places  his  son  Addis at
    school, 45, 46; letter from Bache McEvers, 46; influ-
    ence over his son's life, 47, et seq.; letters to his son,
    47-51; appreciation of, by the faculty and students of
    the University, 51, 52, 55,  56; visits Florida,  51-54;
    proposes to buy land and  settle in Florida,  52-55;
   ' letter to  his brother Thomas,  52-54;  financial condi-
    tion, 53; lucky escape at Charleston,  54; returns to
    New York, 54;  his last and fatal voyage, 54 ;  burial,
    55; tablet to his memory in  the University chapel,
    55; his attainments and  talents, 55-58; dedication of
    his son's book to his memory, 58 ; his issue,  58-61
Emmet, John Patten (1828), at school at Flushing, 46
Emmet,  John Tom, infancy, 37; at the   University of
    Virginia, 47
Emmet, John Tucker, 38,  42-44, 61
Emmet, Kathleen Erin, 61
Emmet, Louise (Garland), 61
Emmet, Rev. M., 9
Emmet, Margaret, 39; musical  skill, 39;  on her father's
    and  brother's  mechanical contrivances, 21, 22; visits
    her brother John, 39, 41
Emmet, Mary Anne (1773), marries Robert Holmes, 13;
    issue, 13; birth,  13; political influence and  writings,
    13.  See also Holmes, Mary Anne
Emmet, Mary Anne (1805), social and  domestic life, 18,
    19, 31, 32, 38; letters to Elizabeth Le Roy,  32; at
    John  P. Emmet's wedding, 31, 33; personality, 31,
    32.  See also Graves, Mary Anne
Emmet, Mary Byrd Farley (Tucker), marries Dr. John P.
    Emmet, 30-32; personality, 30-32; banishes the snakes
    from  her husband's house, 34, 35; letter to  Elizabeth
    Le Roy, 35, 36; social and domestic life, 37, 41, 44,
    46, 54; death of her son, John Tucker Emmet, 42-44 ;
    visits New York, 45 ;  letters to her son Addis, 48, 49;
    visits Charleston, 54;  lucky escape, 54; tablet to her
    memory in the University Chapel, 55;  tribute of the
    faculty to,  56; settles  in  New York,  58; death  and
    burial, 58; issue, 58,  61.  See also Tucker, Mary
    Byrd  Farley
Emmet,  Mary Tucker, 61; verses written  on the death
    of, 62
Emmet,  Dr. Robert (1729), resides in  Cork, Ireland, 9;
    marries Elizabeth  Mason, 9;  resides  in Dublin,  10;
    death, 13,  14; professional education,  writings and
    career, 9, 10; made state physician,  10; portrait,  10
Emmet,  Robert, leads the outbreak of the  Irish  people
    in 1803, and execution, 13; his character and brilliant
    talents, 13; tribute to, by Thomas Moore,  13;  por-
    trait,  13
Emmet, Judge Robert.  Letter giving the date of John P.
    Emmet's graduation in medicine, 22
Emmet, Robert (1871), graduated from Harvard Univer-
    sity,  and in  medicine from Columbia College  and
    University, 61;  married  Louise Garland, 61; issue,
    61; military services, 61
Emmet, Robert (1897), birth, 61
Emmet, Thomas Addis (1764), son of Dr. Robert Emmet,
    birth, 11 ; studies medicine and law, 11; marries Jane
    Patten, 11; state  physician, 11; imprisonment,  12,
    'S-1?! preparations to emigrate to and settlement in
    the United States, 12, 17; personality, 12, 33;  admit-
    ted to the bar in  New  York and  Washington,  12;
    character, 12, 15; correspondence  with his mother,
    15, 16;  residence in  Paris, 17;  portrait, 12;  letter
    mentioning the  birth  of  J.  P.  Emmet, 15;  release
    from  prison,  12, 17; settles  in Brussels,  17; schemes
    of  labor-saving  machines,  mechanical tastes   and
    heated-air hobby,  21, 22;  social and domestic life
    of his family, 33; bust of, by John P. Emmet, 30
Emmet, Thomas Addis (1797), son of Thomas Addis Em-
    met (1764), 16; letter  to Elizabeth Le Roy, 22; social
    and domestic life, incidentally mentioned, etc.,  19, 29,
Emmet, Thomas Addis (1797)—continued.
    30, 32, 41 ;  frolic at his wedding, 57; marries Anna
    Tom, 57; at John P. Emmet's wedding, 33; his first
    child, 37; his residence at "Mount Vernon," 40,
    54; letter from John P.  Emmet, 52-54
Emmet, Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet (1828), son of Dr. John
    Patten Emmet, infancy, 36, 37, 38;  Morea, view of,
    drawn by, 40; recollections of his father, 39,  47, et
    seq., 56-58; death of his brother, John Tucker Emmet,
    43; recollections of old  New York, 44, 46;  at school
    at St. Thomas' Hall, 45-51; letters from  his mother,
    48, 49;  birth,  59; settles in New York,  59; medical
    education, appointments and services, 59; his writings,
    59, 60;  marries Catherine  R. Duncan, 58, 60;  issue,
    60, 61;  tribute to his maternal  grandmother's mem-
    ory, 30
Emmet, Thomas Addis (1863), son of Dr. Thomas Addis
    Emmet, 61; military service, 61
Emmet, William Colville (1807), son of Thomas Addis
    Emmet (1764),  social and domestic life, his genial dis-
    position,  27, 32, 35,' 44  ; groomsman to  his brother,
    John P. Emmet, 31; at the University of Virginia, 32  ;
    visits  his  brother  John, 39, 41;  marries Laura M.
    Coster, 41
Emmet, William Jenkins, at  school at" Flushing, 46
" Emmet  Collection,  The,"  in the  Lenox Library,  New
    York, 60
Emmet family (this heading treats all branches as one,
    irrespective of orthographical differences), the family
    name, 8;  settlement  in England and Ireland, 7, 8, 9;
    use of Christian names in, 8 ; settlement in the United
    States, 9;  close resemblance of the arms borne by the
    different branches, 8 ; unauthorized use of the name, 8  ;
    connected with  the Temple  family, 9;  its social rela-
    tions, characteristics, accomplishments, etc., 8, 9
Emmett, William (1597), 8
Emmott family, 8
Emot, the family and its mansion, 7
Emot,  Robert de, of Colne, Lancashire, 7

Florida, Dr.  John P. Emmet visits, 51-54;  Dr. Emmet
    proposes to buy land and settle in, 52-55; the orange
    trade of, and luxury of living in, 53
Flushing, L. I., the school at, 45
Forbes, John Murray,  marries Minnie Griswold,  61
Forbes, Minnie (Griswold), 61
Ford,------, paints portrait of Dr. John P. Emmet, 38, 39
Fort George, Scotland, Thomas Addis Emmet imprisoned
    in, 12
Fort George,  Scotland,  Mrs. Emmet confined  with her
    husband in,  12
Fort George,  Scotland, Thomas Addis  Emmet released
    from, 12
Francis, Dr. John W., commends Dr. John P.  Emmet's
    proficiency in chemistry, 26

Garland, Anna Louise (Tuller), 61
Garland, James A., marries Anna Louise Tuller, 61
Garland, Louise, marries Robert Emmet, 61.  See Em-
    met, Louise
Graves, Mary Anne (Emmet),  correspondence with  Mrs.
    Eliza J. Tucker, 33; incidental mention, 41-43.   See
    also Emmet, Marv Anne
Griffith, Dr.,  professor of medicine at the University of
    Virginia, 42
Griswold, Florence, marries Horatio R. O. Cross, 61.   See
    also Cross, Florence
Griswold, George (formerly Addis McEvers),  61
Griswold, Jane (Emmet),  61.  See  also  Emmet, Jane
    (1832)
Griswold, John Noble, 61
Griswold, John Noble Alsop, marries Jane Emmet (1832),
    61; issue, 6t
Griswold, Minnie, marries John Murray  Forbes, 61.   See
    also Forbes, Minnie
Griswold, Richard Alsop,  61

Harris,  Annie (Emmet),  wife   ot  Charles   Nathan
    Harris, 61';  her issue, 61;  death, 61.  See Emmet,
    Annie
Harris, Charles Nathan, marries Annie Emmet, 61
Harris, Margaret, 61
Harvard  University,  Robert  Emmet  (1871) graduated
    at, 61 
INDEX.
65
 Hawks, Rev.  Francis L., master of St. Thomas' Hall,
     Flushing, L. I., 45, 46, 49-51
 Henry II, the Emmet family in the time of, 7
 Holcombe, T. B., expresses his class's appreciation of Dr.
     John P. Emmet, 52
 Holmes, Elizabeth, marries Mr. Lenox-Conyngham, 13
 Holmes,  Mary Anne (Emmet), 13.  See  also Emmet,
     Mary Anne (1773)
 Holmes, Robert, marries Mary Anne Emmet, 13
 Hosack, Dr. David, commends  Dr. J. P. Emmet's profi-
     ciency in chemistry, 26
 Hudson River, fishing in, 46;  residence of Bache McEvers
     on the, 46

 "Indictment  of  1898;  or,  Why Ireland  Has  Not
     Prospered Under English Rule," by Dr. Thomas
     Addis Emmet, 60
 " In Memoriam,"  verses written on the death of Mary
     Tucker Emmet, 62
 Ireland, Napoleon's course towards, 12;  the Duncan fam-
     ily in, 58;  Dr.  T. A. Emmet's contribution  to the
     history of,  60
 Italy, John P.  Emmet's travels in, 21

 Jefferson, Thomas, attracted by Dr. John P. Emmet's
     lectures, 25 ; connection with the University  of Vir-
     ginia, 25-28; offers the  professorship of natural his-
     tory to Dr.  Emmet, 26, 27
 Jefferson  Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  Dr. Thomas
     Addis Emmet graduates at, 59

 Le  Roy,  Elizabeth (Emmet), letter from Mary  Byrd
     Farley Emmet,  44; death of  her  child,  44; letter
     from Dr. John  Patten Emmet to, 44.  See Emmet,
     Elizabeth
 "Life and Character of Dr. John P. Emmet,"  by  George
     Tucker, quoted, 41, 42
 Lowe, V.  M., cadet at  West Point, killed by a  rocket-
     stick,  19;  monument to,  19, 20;  funeral oration by
     his room-mate, John P. Emmet, 20
 Ludlow, Edward, 18, 22, 25

 McEvers, Bache, 30; incidental mention, 29,  32, 38, 43,
     54; country residence, Monte Alto, 46;  carriage  acci-
     dent to, 36; letter to John  P. Emmet, 46
 McEvers,  Charles, misadventure at  the Emmet-Tom  wed-
     ding, 31
 McEvers,  Jane Erin (Emmet), social life and incidental
     mention, 43,46;  letters from John P. Emmet, 29-31,
     36, 37; letters to Elizabeth Le Roy, 31, 32,  37, 38;
     carriage accident to, 36. See also Emmet, Jane Erin
 McEvers,  Jeannette Emmet (daughter of Bache and  Jane
     E. and afterwards Mrs. Samuel H. Whitlock), 32
 McGill, Dr. Alfred, professor of medicine at the  University
     of Virginia, 42
 Macneven, Dr.  William James, 43 ;  professor of chemistry
     at the  University of New York,  John P. Emmet
     studies under, 21, 25, 26;  commends  Dr. Emmet's
     proficiency in chemistry, 26
 Madison, James, connection with the University  of Vir-
     ginia,  28
 Mansfield, Jared, professor of philosophy at West Point,
     testimonial to John P. Emmet, 20, 21
 Monroe, James, connection  with the  University  of Vir-
     ginia,  28
 Monticello, Va., Thomas Jefferson's residence, 28
 Morea, Dr. John P. Emmet's residence near the University
     of Virginia, 39-42, 47, 49
 Morea, view of, drawn by Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, 40
 Mott, Dr. Valentine, commends Dr. John P.  Emmet's
     proficiency in chemistry, 26

 National Guard of the State of New York, services
     of the members of the Emmet family in the, 60, 61
 Newton,  Sir Isaac,  Dr.  Emmet's  controversion  of his
     theory of refraction, 45
New York (city), Dr. T. A. Emmet's recollection  of old,
     44; Dr. T. A. Emmet settles in, 59
       Specific localities:
     Bayard's farm in 1816,  19
     Bloomingdale Road, residence and social life on, 46
     Bowery, the, in 1816, 19
     Broadway,  "Corporation Improvements" on, 19; "a
      dusty country road," 44
New York (city)—continued.
    Canal Street, condition in 1816, 19
    Claremont, North River, an early residence district, 46;
      the child's tomb near, 46
    Collect Pond, the filling up of,  ig
    East River, sickness on the, 38
    Emigrant's Refuge Hospital, Dr. T. A. Emmet resi-
      dent and visiting physician at, 59
    French Church, Canal Street, in 1816, 19
    Grant's Tomb, the site sixty years ago, 46; the child's
      grave near, 46
    Lispenard's farm in 1816, 19
    Madison  Avenue, the residence of Dr. T. A. Emmet
      on, 58
    Marble Cemetery, the Emmet vault in, burial there
      of Dr. John  P. Emmet, 55;  Mrs. John P. Em-
      met, 58
    Middle Road, the Emmet residence on, 23, 36
    " Monte  Alto," residence of Bache McEvers, 46
    "Mount  Vernon," residence of Thomas Addis Em-
      met, Jr., 54;  death  of Dr.  John  P. Emmet  at,
      54. 55
    Nassau Street, the Emmet residence on, 19
    North River, sickness  on the, 38; a drowning acci-
      dent in, 46; fishing in, 46
    Old  Slip, yellow fever in, 38
    Riverside Park sixty years ago, 46
    St. John's Square, the Emmet residence in, 44, 49
    Sixty-first Street, Thomas Addis Emmet, Jr., his resi-
      dence near, 40
    Third  Avenue,  residence of Thomas Addis Emmet
      on, 40
    Wall Street, a residence street, 46
    Ward's Island, Dr. T. A. Emmet resident and visiting
      physician at the Emigrant's Refuge Hospital on,  59
    White Street,  " Corporation  Improvements," view
      from, 19
    "New York Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics,"
      founded by Dr.  J. D. Emmet, 60

Palatka,  Fla.,  Dr.  John P.  Emmet proposes  to buy
    land near, 52-54
Partridge,  Captain Alden,  commanding at West Point,
    appoints John P. Emmet acting assistant professor of
    mathematics, 20;  letter to John P. Emmet, 20
Penistone family, the,  34
Phrenology, Dr. John P. Emmet on, 37
Post,  Dr. Wright, commends Dr.  J.  P.  Emmet's pro-
    ficiency in chemistry, 26
Post family, residence at Claremont, 46

Ravenell, Daniel,  marries Miss  McEvers,  54;  enter-
    tains Dr.  John P.  and Mrs. Emmet at Charleston, 54
Rogers, Prof. William B., assumes  Dr.  John P. Emmet's
    duties, 51
Roosevelt Hospital, New York, Dr. T. A.  Emmet's ser-
    vices  to,  59; Dr.  John Duncan Emmet on the staff
    of the, 60

St. Augustine, Fla., Dr. John P. Emmet at,  54
St. John's River,  Fla., orange culture on, 53
St. Thomas' Hall, Flushing, 45
St. Vincent's Hospital,  New York, Dr. T.  A. Emmet's
    services to, 59
Schmidt,  Mr.,  Prussian Consul-General,  marries  Eliza
    Bache, 46; his residence on the Bloomingdale Road,
    46
Scotland, the  Duncan family in, 58
" She has solved  it, life's wonderful problem," verses  on
    the death of Mary Tucker Emmet, 62
" Silliman's Journal,"  Dr.  J. P. Emmet a frequent con-
    tributor to,  45
Sixty-ninth Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y.,  Dr.  J.  D. Emmet
    surgeon to  the, 60
Spain, England compared with, 60
Squadron A,  N.G.S.N.Y.,  services of members of the
    Emmet family in, 61
Stark,  Powhattan B., expresses his class's appreciation of
    Dr. J.  P. Emmet, 51, 52

Temple, Sir  John,  g
Temple, Sir Purbeck,  g
Temple,  Rebecca, 9
Temple,  Thomas, g 
DEX.
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Tucker,  Eliza  G.,  mother of  Mary  Byrd  Emmet, 30;
    accompanies  her daughter  and son-in-law  to  New
    York, 33; letter to St. George Tucker, 33;  incidental
    mention, 35,  48;  devotion  to  her grandchildren,  37,
    42, 43; letter to Mrs. Anna Emmet, 42, 44; the writer's
    tribute to, 30
Tucker,  George,  uncle of Mrs.  John P.  Emmet, 30; pro-
    fessor in the University  of Virginia, 30; memoir of
    Dr. John P. Emmet by, 41, 42, 45; on the talents and
    attainments of Dr. Emmet,  56-5S
Tucker, Henry George, brother of Mrs.  Emmet, 33, 48
Tucker, Henry St. George, professor at  the  University of
    Virginia and chairman of the faculty, 56;  tribute to
    Dr. J.  P. Emmet, 55, 56
Tucker, John Emmet, 48
Tucker,  John  H.,  father of  Mrs. J.  P. Emmet, 30;  a
    French prisoner of war, 30; paymaster in the British
    army, 30;  service in Portugal, 30; death, 30
Tucker, John Randolph, tribute to Dr. J. P.  Emmet, 52
Tucker,  Mary Byrd Farley, marries Dr.  John P. Emmet,
    30-33.   See also Emmet, Mary Byrd
Tucker, Richard Jennings, 44
Tucker,  St.  George, of Williamsburg,  Va., letter  from
    Eliza J. Tucker, 33
Tucker, St. George, son of John H. and Eliza J. Tucker, 43
Tucker, Thomas Tudor, visited by Dr. J. P. Emmet and
    his bride, 33, 34
Tuller, Anna Louise, marries James A. Garland,  59.   See
    also Garland

United  States Military Academy, John  P. Emmet a
    cadet at, 18-20.   See also West Point
University of Hampden and  Sydney, Va., the University
    of Virginia attracts students from, 29; Henry  G.
    Tucker a student at, 24
University of New York, John  P. Emmet studies medi-
    cine  at the,  21,  22, 25; the thesis of 1822,  22; the
    medical faculty urges Dr. John P. Emmet's appoint-
    ment to the University of South Carolina, 25, 26
University of South Carolina, changes in the professor-
    ship of chemistry at, in  connection with Dr. John P.
    Emmet's appointment at the University of Virginia, 25
University of Virginia,  foundation, 25 ;  Thomas Jeffer-
    son's connection with the, 25-28; Dr.  John P. Emmet
    appointed professor  of natural history at, 26, 27;  its
    site and  buildings, 47, 48;  its standing, 27-29, 41;  a
    students' riot at, 32;  Dr. Emmet's residence at, 34,35;
    social life at, 39; appreciation of Dr. Emmet by the
    faculty  and  students,  41.  51,  52,  55,  5b; George
    Tucker, professor at, 30; Henry St. George Tucker,
    professor at, 56

Virginia, establishment of a University in, 25 ; kaolin in,
    40; silkworm culture in, 40; culture of the grape and
    wine making in, 40
" Virginia Literary Museum," published at the University
    of Virginia,  45

Washington, George,  portrait of, painted by Dr. John
    P. Emmet, 56
Washington,  D. C, Dr. John P. Emmet visits,  33, 34
Westenbaker, William,  secretary of the faculty of the
    University of Virginia, 56
Westover, Va., the Byrd family of, 36
West Point, John P. Emmet a cadet at, 18-20; the trades-
    men at,  19, 20;  destruction of the records by fire,
    20; John P. Emmet leaves the academy, 20;  the
    Cadet  Monument at, 20;  revisited  by Dr. John P.
    Emmet, 33
Whitlock, Samuel, residence on the Bloomingdale Road, 46
Wilkens, Mr.----,  of Charleston, S. C, 24
Woman's Hospital Association, Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet
    appointed assistant  surgeon to  the, and afterwards
    surgeon-in-chief, 59
Woman's Hospital in the State of New York, Dr. Thomas
    Addis Emmet surgeon-in-chief, and afterwards surgeon
    to  the, 59;  Dr. John Duncan Emmet on the house
    staff of, and afterwards assistant surgeon to the, 60 
 
 
 
 
 
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