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Title: The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Publisher: (Philadelphia) Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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In 1799 he was Adjutant General of the Militiaof Pennsylvania. It was after this, no doubt, that he lived for a time, inthe Saur House spoken of in the last Walk, but subsequently he moved tothe house spoken of above, No. 4630, on the west side of the road. At alater time Mr. Benjamin J. Leedom lived in the house. In Germantown theformer occupant was always called Squire Baynton. He died somewherebetween the years 1817 and 1825. John Baynton, his son, lived in Missis-sippi for a time, and was cashier of a bank there. He became Mayor ofNatchez, and married there Miss Sessions. In after years he returned toPhiladelphia, where he died about twenty-three years ago, leaving a widow,who is the only one here now bearing the name. Burke, in his Extinct andDormant Baronetcies, under Baynton-Rolt of Spye Park, says, Sidney, inhis Treatise on Government, affirms that, in antiquity of possession and name,few of the nobility equal the family of Baynton. oV 1) ,r ^c- i 1 f^;(f^:^^ ■MM./:^ ^ 1^%:
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Fa i ^>- :—, -_•- :;. ^l).,i. M^ f The Gennantoicn Boad and its Associations, 19 The title was changed after 1783 to Conyngham, Xesblt k Co.David 11. was descended from William Conyngham, Bishopof Argyll, 1539, and was therefore of the same line of de-scent as the Marquess Conyngham of Ireland. lie was firstcousin to William Conyngham, created Baron Plunket, theeminent Chief-Justice and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1S20-1841, and also of Capt. Gustavus Conyngham of the U. S.ISavy, 1776-1783. He was father of the Hon. EedmondConyngham of Lancaster Co., and the Hon. John X. Conyng-ham of Wilkes-Barre. He died on the fifth of March, 1834,and was buried in the grounds of our Christ Church. Thecareer of Mr, Convn2:ham was a varied and interestiusr one,and such excellent material is in existence for a memoir ofhim, that I refrain from saying much more, as I understandone is to he written by the Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, ofWilkes-Barrd ^ One or two points in our local history impelme t

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