Charity Floyd

The New Netherland Ancestors of

CHARITY FLOYD,

the first wife of EZRA L'HOMMEDIEU



- for Ezra L'Hommedieu

Continental Congress Delegate, State Assembly, State Constitutional Convention Delegate, State Senate





		 __Colonel Richard Floyd1
		|
	    __Colonel Richard Floyd1
	   |    |
	   |    |__Susanna (__)1
	   |
       __Colonel Nicoll Floyd1,2
      |    |
      |    |     __Richard Woodhull1
      |    |    |
      |    |__Margaret Woodhull1
      |         |
      |         |__Dorothy (Howell)1
      |
CHARITY FLOYD2
the first wife of EZRA L'HOMMEDIEU
      |
      |__Tabitha Smith1,2



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Biography of EZRA L'HOMMEDIEU

 
L'HOMMEDIEU, Ezra, lawyer, born in Stronghold, L.I., 30 August 1734; died there, 28 September 1811. He was graduated at Yale in 1754, studied law, and practised in New York City. He was a delegate to the New York Provincial Congress in 1775-1778, and assisted in forming the first State Constitution. Mr. L'Hommedieu was a member of the New York Assembly in 1777-1783, and chosen a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1779, 1781, 1783, 1787, and 1788. He was state Senator from 1784 until 1792, and from 1794 until 1809, was once a member of the Council of Appointment, and was Regent of the State University from 1787 until his death. In polities he was a Federalist. Mr. L'Hommedieu contributed papers to the first New York Agricultural Society.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Hoff, Henry B., F.A.S.G., "The Descendants of Richard Woodhull," The
       Genealogist, 2 (1981):  197-228.
   2.  Diodati-Thompson, Frederick, "The Family of Thompson, of the County of
       Suffolk, New York,"  The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
       22 (1891):  33-51.

 

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