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Lynde of Saybrook, a very tall, fine-looking man, with very handsome sons
and daughters. In this description may be included some of the Raymonds
and the' branch to which Hon. E. B. Lynde belongs. He describes,
especially, his father and his sister Mary as being remarkably handsome.
Unusual good looks have followed the lines of this blood in many families,
under many names, through all the American generations, and have often
been retained to old age.
We therefore accept these crayons as portraits of Mrs. Elizabeth
Digby Lynde, " the beautiful mother of a beautiful race."
In regard to the Boston branch of Lyndes, Dr. F. E. Oliver writes
" It is a somewhat remarkable fact that nearly all of the descendants of Simon
Lynde have been more or less prominent in their day and generation, and often
marked by a peculiar uprightness and sturdiness of character."
We have received similar testimony as to character in the Saybrook
branch. In our study of this family, while we have not made it a subject
of special inquiry, we have noticed a number of judges who have been of
Lynde blood or connected with this family. Nathaniel Lynde was himself
an Associate Judge in Connecticut; Simon Lynde his father was Associate
Judge, sitting with the Chief Justice in Massachusetts ; Benjamin
Lynde
his brother was Chief Justice of Massachusetts ; Benjamin Lynde 2d his
nephew occupied the same high office ; Samuel
Lynde his son was Judge
of the Superior Court of Connecticut ; Richard Lord, who married his
daughter Elizabeth, was an Associate Judge in Connecticut ; Nathaniel
Niles, who married his great granddaughter Nancy Lathrop, was Judge of
the Supreme Court of Vermont, Member of Congress, six times Elector
of President, etc.; John Barren Niles their son, his great great grandson,
was Circuit Judge of Indiana ; Charles Johnson McCurdy his great great
grandson was Judge of the Superior and Supreme Courts of Connecticut,
etc. ; William Griswold Lane, who married his great great granddaughter
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