U. S. Navy as a mid-shipman in 1799 and was lost in the wreck of the "Insurgent." He was unmarried.

Peggy, or Margaret, the third child of Daniel Polk with her twin sister Sarah, was born September 26th, 1780, Sarah died when a year old. Peggy Polk married Doctor George Logan of South Carolina, whom she met while attending school in Philadelphia, Doctor Logan at the time being a student of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. They were married at Doctor Clayton's, and Miss Polk was the ward of Hon. Cæsar A. Rodney, who had been a very close political friend of her father's. Doctor George Logan and his wife lived in South Carolina, Mrs. Logan died in 1826, at the age of forty-six years, leaving six sons to survive her. There are grand children still living, Mrs. Logan was the beauty of the family.

Daniel Polk, Jr., the fifth child of Daniel Polk entered the U. S. Navy as Mid-shipman in 1799, both he and his brother John being appointed to the Navy by President John Adams on the recommendation of Cæsar A. Rodney. Daniel Jr., resigned from the Navy in 1804, and married in 1812 his cousin Eleanor Polk, daughter of Trusten Laws Polk. They emigrated to Louisville, Kentucky and afterward located in Shelby County in the same State. They had twelve children, who were the progenitors of many descendants. Eleanor Polk, wife of Daniel, Jr., died before her husband and he afterwards married a lady from Kentucky named Hite, by whom there were no children. Daniel, Jr., died in Kentucky June 14th, 1838. Several descendants of this line are living.

Thomas White Polk, the sixth child of Daniel Polk was born in 1784 but lived only ten years. Another son Robert,

born two years later lived to be nine years old, and the tenth and last child named Maria, died in infancy.

Anna Polk, the eight child of Daniel Polk born in 1788 married William Gibson Tilghman of Talbot County, Maryland in 1809. There were nine Tilghman children, five of whom grew to maturity and married, and are nearly if not all represented by descendants at the present time.

Samuel White Polk, the ninth child of Daniel Polk, born in 1790, was educated by his uncle, the Senator, and married Margaret F. Fletcher, daughter of Governor Fletcher of Louisana. His life after marriage was spent in New Orleans, where several of his descendants are still living. He is said to have been a man who was scrupulously neat in his attire and who lived a life of

ease.

The only descendants of Judge Thomas White came through his daughter Margaret Nutter, who married Daniel Polk as traced above.

Judge White's daughter Sarah, married Doctor Robert Cook the only son of John Cook, Governor of Delaware in 1783. Doctor Cook during his married life with Sarah White lived in or near Smyrna, and practiced his profession there. No children were born of the marriage, and Sarah Cook died early, and afterwards Doctor Cook married Nancy Rogers, the widow of Governor Daniel Rogers of Milford, and after his marriage to her he lived in the large mansion house in South Milford now owned and occupied by Joseph E. Holland.

Samuel White served as guardian for nearly all of the orphaned children of his sister Margaret Nutter Polk. They inherited some means from their mother and this was invested

and looked after by their uncle who also interested himself in their education and establishment in life.

The portrait of Samuel White, which appears in this publication is a copy from a portrait drawn by St. Memim and presumably was made about the year 1808. In it he appears in uniform. On September 21st, 1807, he was appointed Adjutant General of the Militia of the State by Governor Nathaniel Mitchell. In 1803 he was commissioned by the Governor, under an Act of the General Assembly, to obtain copies from Pennsylvania of the early land grants made by the proprietaries, of realestate located in Delaware, but which had been improperly recorded elsewhere. He served for several years as one of the State directors of the Farmers Bank, and was a Presidential Elector in 1800.

Judge White by his will which was probated at Dover, March 7th, 1795, provided for the liberation of all his slaves using the following language therein: "I think it wrong and oppressive and not doing as I would be willing to be done by, to keep negroes in bondage or perpetual slavery. I therefore, hereby manumit and set free those that are or have been in bondage to me." He then mentions the names of twenty-one slaves. Samuel White, the son, seemed imbued with the same idea, as the records at Dover disclose four separate deeds of manumission from Samuel White to slaves owned by him, between 1799 and 1804.

These fragments of history that remain after the lapse of a century, justify the conclusion that both father and son were true sons of Delaware; and that in their day and generation they merited the recognition and honors that fell to them.