APPENDIX.

Judge John Lawrence Smith.

Judge J. Lawrence Smith was born Sept. 20, 1816. His early education was obtained at Clinton Academy in East Hampton. He entered Yale College, but left that institution and was graduated from Princeton in 1837. Adopting the profession of law he was admitted to the bar in 1840. In 1846 he was elected member of Assembly from Suffolk County. He was elected District Attorney in 1850 and was extremely active in performing the duties of that office. In 1858 he was elected County Judge, an office for which his education and extensive acquaintance with all branches of the law rendered him peculiarly fitted. His decisions were always rendered in the plainest language and were seldom reversed by the higher courts. In social life he was dignified and possessed a full share of that family pride which is so characteristic of the descendants of his illustrious ancestor.

Judge Smith married Sarah N. Clinch. Their children are Cornelia S., wife of Prescott Hall Butler; Kate A., wife of J. Bloomfield Wetherell; Bessie S., wife of Stanford White; Ella B., wife of Devereux Emmett; and James Clinch Smith, who inherits the homestead of his father.

Judge Smith died March 17, 1889.

Judge Wm. P. Buffett.

Judge Wm. P. Buffett was born in 1793 and graduated from Yale College in 1812. Studied law at the Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut. At the time of the election of William Henry Harrison to the Presidency he was the Whig candidate for Congress, but failed of election. In 1852 he was elected Judge and Surrogate for Suffolk County. In the performance of the duties of those offices he was noted for rare judgment and for very careful consideration of the cases that came before him. He was a man of great amiability of character and possessed of a high sense of duty.

Judge Buffett married Nancy Rogers in 1825. Their children were: Chatfield Rogers, Wm. Theodore, Henry Martyn, Dr. Edward Payson, Mary E. and Anna E.

The homestead of Judge Buffett was a tract of 330 acres, originally laid out to Edmund Smith (see page 270) and sold by his son Thomas to Timothy Tredwell, whose executors sold it to Joseph Buffett April 25, 1778. The family mansion, of which a view is given, was burned in 1893.

After a life of usefulness and honor, Judge Buffett died in 1874.