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served. Rev. Launcelot Addison is buried
in the Cathedral of Litchfield, where over
the door is to be seen the Addison arms. In
common with his family in England, Colo-
nel John Addison was a Whig in politics,
and his signature is found on an address of
congratulation to King William. He was a
Privy Councillor of the "intruding govern-
ment introduced by the Protestant Revolu-
tion." "In 1692 he was a member of his
]\fajesties Council and presiding judge of
Charles county." He also distinguished him-
self in the encounters of the colonists with
the Indians, and was commissioned colonel
of the "-Military Establishment of the Col-
ony."' He was the leading commissioner in
establishing St. John's parish, Alaryland, and
in building Broad Creek Church, of which
his great-grandson. Rev. W^alter D. Addi-
son, was later rector. He was a large sub-
scriber and one of the trustees of King Wil-
liam's School, at that time about to be made
a free school. He married the widow of
Thomas Dene, she was a daughter of Rev.
A\'illiam Atkinson, the first clergyman of
the church of England to come to the prov-
ince of ^Maryland and the owner of twelve
thousand acres of land. Returning to Eng-
land on business, Colonel Addison died in
that country, intestate, leaving considerable
wealth there besides "a very large landed
estate in this country."
(II) Colonel Thomas Addison, only son of Colonel John Addison, greatly increased and improved the estate left by his father, and became influential in church and colony. He was colonel of the militia. Privy Coun- cillor, 1/21 to 1727. and visitor to the Free Schools. He married (first) Elizabeth Tas- ker, who bore him daughters. Rebecca and Eleanor. He married (second) Eleanor, daughter of Colonel Walter Smith, who bore him a daughter and four sons, who were educated at Lowther, England, under the direction of Mr. Wilkinson, one of the first scholars of his day.
(III) John Addison, son of Colonel Thomas Addison and his second wife, Eleanor (Smith) Addison, inherited the greater part of his father's Maryland estate. He married Susannah W^ilkinson and had sons, Thomas and John, and daughters, Ann, married a Mr. Carr. and Eleanor, mar- ried Rev. Jonathan Boucher.
(IV) Thomas (2) Addison, eldest son of John and Susannah (Wilkinson) Addison,
married Rebecca Dulany, daughter of Wal-
ter and Mary (Grafton) Dulany, of Anna-
polis, Maryland, and granddaughter of Dan-
iel Dulany, a prominent man of early Mary-
land. Daniel Dulany was a student of Trin-
ity College. Dublin, when a quarrel with his
step-mother induced his father to withdraw
his allowance. He left college, and being
without funds indentured himself to the
captain of a vessel loading for Maryland.
On his arrival he was transferred to Colonel
George Plater, attorney-general of the
Providence, who paid the captain for his
passage, and finding him an educated gen-
tleman he made the runaway his clerk.
Later Daniel Dulany studied law under
Colonel Plater, and in 1710 was admitted to
the provincial bar, and in 1716 went to Lon-
don, where he was a student of law at
Gray's Inn. On his return to Maryland he
married a daughter of Governor Plater, and
after her death married a daughter of Colo-
nel Walter Smith and sister of Eleanor, wife
of Colonel Thomas Addison. For nearly
forty years Daniel Dulany held high posi-
tion in Maryland government and in the
afifections of the people. He was succes-
sively alderman, councilman and recorder of
the city of Annapolis, attorney-general,
judge of the admiralty, commissary-general,
receiver-general and councillor of the prov-
ince, holding the latter office under Gov-
ernors" Bladen, Ogle and Sharpe. For sev-
eral years he was leader of the "Country"
party in the Maryland house of assembly.
He died in 1753 and was buried with his
second wife in an Annapolis cemetery,
where their tombs may yet be seen. In
1728 he caused to be built a mansion in
Annapolis, that in 1808 was sold with seven
acres of ground to the government by Major
Walter Dulany. The old mansion stood
until 1883, when it was torn down by Cap-
. tain Ramsay, superintendent of the Naval
Academy, to make room for a more modern
residence for the commandant. Congress
resented the action and refused to vote
means to erect the new building. After
Captain Ramsay passed, the building was
erected as nearly as possible on the same
plan as the "old Dulany house" and with tlie
old brick. This old mansion, with its beau-
tiful gardens extending to the water edge,
was Walter Dulany's home and later his
son-in-law, Thomas Addison, made it his
home and there Rev. \\'alter Dulanv Addi-
