648 HIS FAMILY AND DESCENDANTS. might be expected from so unequal a connexion.* Her father is said to have been a lawyer; so that she was in all probability the daughter of the younger Henry Baker, above mentioned. To the foregoing acccount of De Foe's children, may be added some further particulars which have reached the author concerning his other descendants. From information communicated by the present representative of the family in the male line, it appears that De Foe had a grandson named SAMUEL DE FOE, but from which of his sons he descended, is, it seems, uncertain; although most likely from the one that continued in England. Upon the first of April, 1743, he was put apprentice to a calico-printer, in London, and afterwards followed the business upon his own account; but marrying a person who kept the Royal Inn, at West-Ham, in Essex, he removed thither, and conducted the concern until the death of his wife, when he returned to calico-printing. He afterwards married a second wife, proved unfortunate in business, and dying at Pedlar's Acre, in November, 1783, was buried in Lambeth Church Yard. By the first marriage, he had three sons: Samuel, who died young; Richard, bred a carpenter; and Joseph, who came to an untimely end. (B) By his second wife, he had four sons and four daughters. Daniel was bound apprentice to a watch-maker, but ran away and went to sea. He afterwards became cook on board the Savage sloop of war, and was living, in that employment, in 1787. (c) Samuel has been dead some years. Joseph * From the information of the late Rev. Mr. Claypole, of Yeovil. (B) This was, no doubt, John Joseph De Foe, who was capitally convicted with John Clarke, at the Old Bailey Sessions, December 1770, for a highway robbery upon the person of Alexander Fordyce, Esq. They both suffered the sentence of the law at Tyburn, January 2, 1771. See Dodsley's Annual Register for that year. (c) A correspondent of the "Gentleman's Magazine,” signed Edward Harwood, jun., speaking of De Foe, says, " His grandson (rather his greatgrandson) is at this time cook to the gentlemen of the gun-room of the Savage sloop of war. Having been lately surgeon of one of His Majesty's ships on the coast of Scotland, and business requiring me on board that HIS FAMILY AND DESCENDANTS. 649 was brought up a caulker, and went to sea. He married, and had two children; one of whom, bearing his own name, is still living. James, the younger son, is living at this time, a box-maker and undertaker, in Hungerford Market, London. He has had a family of eight children, of whom two are now living, James and Priscilla. (D) Of the daughters, one of them married a Mr. Sayers, with whom she went to the East ship, I casually heard a Daniel De Foe mentioned among the seamen. The name being so familiar to me, I inquired, from motives of curiosity, concerning his family. He told me his father was a calico-printer in London, who had failed in business; that his grandfather had written 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'The True-Born Englishman,' &c. I felt myself much affected when I saw the descendant of so ingenious a man in so unworthy a situation; and, making the circumstance known, recommended him to the attention of the gentlemen on board."—Gents. Mag. vol. lvii. p. 1088. (D) In St. Martin's Church-yard, Westminster, is a grave-stone, bearing the following inscription for James De Foe's children: In memory of JAMES and MARY DEFOE, Who died Dec. 12, 1812, Aged 5 months. GEORGE DEFOE Died January 24, 1816, Aged 9 weeks. JAMES DEFOE, Died 6th of July, 1817, Aged 9 years and 10 days. Sister of the above, Died 8th of July, 1817, Also, ROBERT DEFOE, Brother of the above, Who died the 18th Nov. 1817, Aged 11 months. Also, MARY ANN Defoe, Who died the 22d Nov. 1820, Aged 2 years. 650 HIS FAMILY AND DESCENDANTS. Indies, where she died, leaving seven children. Another daughter married a Mr. Jenner, and is also dead, leaving four children; and a third died unmarried. Priscilla, the fourth daughter, is now, or was lately, living near Chatham. Besides the male descendants above-mentioned, De Foe had several grand-daughters, said to have sprung from his son Daniel. Mary, who had previously boarded in a private family at Chelmsford, in Essex, was married, about the year 1749, to John Thorne, a shopkeeper at Braintree, in the same county; where she died a widow, about the year 1775, leaving a son, since dead, and two daughters.* She was a zealous Dissenter, and seemed to inherit the sarcastic spirit of her grandfather. Sophia, another grand-daughter, became the wife of James Standerwicke, a haberdasher in Cornhill. She died at Stoke Newington, where her husband had retired from business, October 26, 1787, aged 62. One of her sons, a tick merchant, was lately living in retirement at Islington. Another of De Foe's grand-daughters was married to a Mr. Coram, whose son was master of the free-school at Battersea, and was father to the late Thomas Coram, an eminent printseller in London, who has been often heard to say, that his grandmother was a De Foe. The Corams were related to the celebrated Captain Coram, projector of the Foundling Hospital. A few years ago, a great-great-grand-daughter of De Foe was upon the list of the National Benevolent Institution, in Great Russell-street, London. * Biog. Dict. Art. De Foe. INDEX. A. ABBOT, Mordecai, his integrity, ii. 251. Abney, Sir Thomas, allusion to him, ii. 36, 79. Academy for the improvement of the English Tongue, projected by De Foe, i. for Military Studies, i. 263. for the Education of Females, i. 264. Academies of the Non-conformists, some account of them, i. 20.-Their de Account of some late designs to create a misunderstanding betwixt the King and Account of some remarkable passages in the Life of a Private Gentleman, iii. 27. Act of Uniformity, Locke's reflections upon it, i. 42. Addison, intended for the Church, i. 28.-His Whig Examiner, iii. 152.-His Advantages of the Act of Security, ii. 482. Advice to all parties, ii. 333. Advice to the Ladies, ii. 353. Alsop, Vincent, in King James's confidence, i. 125. Marquis of Halifax, 115.-Colonel Fox, 120.-Bishop Morley, 139.-Colonel Anguis in Herba, a work of Lord Somers, ii. 448. Anne, Queen, goes over to the Prince of Orange, i. 152.—Sensation produced by Annesley, Dr. Samuel, De Foe's Pastor, i. 8.-De Foe's Elegy upon him, 343.— Answer to the Question that Nobody thinks of, iii. 310. Anti-Christ unmasked, ii, 302. Ants, remarkable swarm of, i. 229. A Pleasant Dialogue between the Pillory and Daniel De Foe, ii. 74. Appeal to Honour and Justice, iii. 388. Appeal to Protestant Kings and Princes, a pamphlet so called, i. 327. Arbitrary Power, its character, ii. 210. Arbuthnot, Dr., a writer for the Ministry, iii. 300.-Some of his publications, Archdale, John, his interview with Lord Granville, ii. 325.-His pamphlet upon Argument for Self-Defence, a pamphlet so called, i. 168. Armageddon, a pamphlet so called, iii. 231. Asgill, John, his argument upon eternal life, ii. 284.-Misrepresented by his Astell, Mary, writes upon Occasional Conformity, ii. 124. Atheism, De Foe's remarks upon, ii. 268. Atkinson, Paul, a Franciscan Friar, imprisoned for life, i. 312. |