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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:12:06 EST

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Stephen Mazyck Esq. 3rd. son of Paul Mazyck of the Isle of Rhe quitted
France on the Edict Nantes. He first went to Holland thence to England,
where he arrived in 1686 and was present in London at the beheading of
the Duke of Monmouth; and also had the pleasure to be present and see
the revolution under our glorious deliverer King William III of blessed
memory, and say the Dutch Guards relieve the English on the happy
occasion at Whitehall Place. The said Stephen Mazyck was married in
England in the year 16-- to Miss Elizabeth Lambert of London. She was of
ancient and Honorable family. She was the aunt of the late Sir John
Lambert, and of Miss Lambert who married His Excellency Mr. Hopp the
Dutch Ambassador in England in the year 17--. Soon after the said
Stephen Mazyck married he went to reside in the city of Dublin, the
Metropolis of the Kingdom of Ireland, and there entering into business
soon became one of the most iminent Merchants in the Kingdon, earring on
a very large trade with France, Spain, Holland, England and other parts
of Europe; by which he soon made a large estate and was a gentleman
universally respected and beloved for his upright dealings, exemplary
piety, and virtue, and for his benevolent, charitable and amiable
disposition. His wife also was a lady of exemplary pies, virtue, and
amiable disposition. She died in the year 1729 greatly regretted. The
said Stephen Mazyck lived to a very advanced age, and died in the year
173- in the city of Dublin, much lamented for his great worth and real
merit. By his said wife he had the following children. (Stephen Mazyck
Jr., Marianne Mazyck, Elizabeth Mazyck, and Susanne Mazyck.) Stephen the
eldest settled in the city of Cork. I shall give an account hereafter.

Marianne married the Hon. Col. Hamon, of whose issue I shall give an
account hereafter.

Elizabeth died an infant, and Susanne died in Dublin in the bloom of
youth, greatly regretted for amiable disposition. Stephen Mazyck the
younger went to reside in the city of Cork, whence he became an eminent
Merchant, and lived much respected and beloved for his amiable
character. He married Miss Duncombe in Ireland who was of the same
family and related to Anthony Duncombe late Earl of Favorsham in
England. The said Stephen Mazyck died at Cord in 17-- and left issue
only two daughters, both these ladies were living at Cord in the year
1774. Neither of them ever married, so that branch of the family which
went to Ireland will be extinct on the death of these two ladies. Miss
Marrianne Mazyck, daughter of Stephen Mazyck the elder was born in
Dublin in the year 169- and was married there in the year 17-- to Hector
Hamen Esq. of Portarlington, Kings County Ireland, a gentleman of very
ancient, respectable, and worth family, who intermarried withy some of
the honorable and respectable families in England and Ireland. (The said
Hector Hamon entered young into a military life, and by his galantry and
good conduct, he raised himself to the rank of Colonel in the
British Army, having been many years before Lieutenent Colonel of the
25th Regiment of British Feet or Foot. In the younger part of his life
he had distinguished himself under the great Duke of Marlborough in
Flanders, and afterwards in many other services with much honour, at
Gibralta, and in the year 1740 he was appointed one of the principal
Staff Of ficers to go on the grand expedition to Carthagena and other
places belonging to the Crown of Spain, in South America, under His
Excellency the Right Hon. Lord Cathcart, Genl. Wentworth, and Admiral
Vernon. In which expedition he behaved with the greatest galantry and
firmness and good conduct and got the esteem of the whole Army; but
unfortunately for His Majesty's service, as well as his family, by the
badness of the climate he got a severe illness on his return to the
Island of Jamaica and died at Kingston, greatly regretted by all his
acquaintances, as well as by the whole Army for his amiable charactor
and great worth and merit both in public and private life. He had the
prospect of rising to the highest command in the Army to which he belonged.

The said Major Hamon by Miss Marrianne Mazyck, his wife, who survived
him many years had two sons and one daughter that survived him. The sons
are the Rev. Peter Hamen, Dr. of Divinity, of whom I shall give an
account hereafter, and Isaac Hamen, Esq. of Golden Hill near Cherley in
Lancasteer, of whom I shall give an account hereafter, and a daughter
who was married in the year 17-- to Dr. Pilett a very eminent Physician
at Portarlington and had by him several children. The said Dr. Pilett
died in 17--.

Mrs. Pelett is still living, her children are Misses Elizabeth and Anne
Pilett. Mrs. Marrianne Hamen, widow of Col. Hecter Hamen of
Portarlington, lived at that place to an advanced age, and was greatly
beloved, esteemed, and respected there for her great piety exemplary
virtue, and real merrit. She possessed a genteel fortune, lived to 87
years of age, and died in Portarlington in 1773, greatly regretted. She
continued healthy and hearty, had all her faculties, and was very
sensible and cheerful till a few weeks before she died. Paul Mazyck of
South Carolina saw her in 1772 and was entertained by her in the kindest
and genteelest manner. She told him she was cousin germain to his Father
Isaac Mazyck, who had lived several years in Dublin with her Father
Stephen Mazyck his Uncle, and she gave Paul Mazyck a seal with the Coat
of Arms of the Mazycks. Of the sons of the late Col. Hamen by Marrianne
his wift, the Rev. Peter Hamen the eldest, was born in Ireland in 17--
and after a liberal education was sent to Trinity Collage in the
University of Dublin, and there passed through the several degrees, and
being a young gentleman of great abilities and piety, and of most
amiable character and disposition, he was brought up a clergyman, and in
the year 1 7--entered into Holy Orders as a Minister of the Established
Church of England and Ireland, and was soon after appointed Chaplain of
the 25th. Regiment, which his Father then commanded, and with the same
Regiment went to the West Indies, and in the station he was in, behaved
in a manner that reflected the highest honor on him as a gentleman and
as a Clergyman. After this expedition he returned to Jamaica where he
lost his worthy Father, after which he became Chaplain to the Prince
Frederick Man of War commanded by the Hon. Edward Boscawen, afterwards
the gallent Admiral, who took a great liking for him and was a
particular friend of his to the day of his death, and assisted to
promote him in the Church. However the Rev. Mr. Hamen did not stay long
in the Navy but returned to his family in Ireland, and soon after being
strongly recommended to his Excellency the Hon. Philip D. Stanhope, Earl
of Chesterfield, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who took great notice
of Mr. Hamen and on the death of the celebrated Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean
of St. Patricks in Dublin, and Vicar of Lanacer in the Diecess of Meath,
Lord Chesterfield gave the said living of Lanacer to Mr. Hamen, and in
the year 17-- he was promoted to the Rectery of ------in the Diecess of
Kildare. #7 The said living bringing in about five hundred pounds
sterling a year, and Dr. Hamen having many friends among the nobility in
England and Ireland, ass the Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl of Monmouth,
the Earl of WestMeath, the Earl of Mena, the Duke of Leinater, Lord
Dawson, Lord Paget, the Bishop of Kildare, the Viscountess Langford, and
many others, was by their recomendation and interests some years ago
offered to be made a Dean, but the Deanery not being worth more than his
one living, and being unwilling to leave Portarlington where his Mother
and most of his relations lived, he declined the Deanery, and took a
living near Portarlington in which town he lived many years, greatly
respected and beloved for his great piety and abilities as a Clergyman
was on the year 17-- made by the University of Dublin a Dr. of Divinity.
The said Dr. Peter Hamen was married to Miss Prudence Payne, a lade of
genteel and respectable family of the city of Dublin. By this lady he
had the following issue; Miss. Susanne Hamen, a young lade of great
piety, virtue and merit, who died at Portarlington unmarried in 17-- in
the prime of life, greatly regretted for her virtues and
accomplishments; and another daughter Elizabeth Julia Hamen, so named
from her GodMother, Elizabeth Viscountess Langford of Langford Lodge.
The said Elizabeth Julia Hamen being a young lade of great beauty,
virtue and merit, and possessed of every accomplishment, having learnt
the Latin and French languages from her Father. She is a good scholar
and being brought up in the politest manner, and lived with Lady
Langford, and being intimate with many ladies of the highest rend in the
Kingdom, she is very accomplished. She was married on the 5th of Jany.
1775 to Paul Mazyck Esq. of South Carolina. Her cousin the said Paul
Mazyck and Elizabeth his wife are still living at Portarlington and have
as yet no issue. Isaac Hamen Esq. of Golden Hill in Lancashire, youngest
son of the late Hector Hamen Esq. of Golden Hill in Lancashire, youngest
son of the late Hector Hamen by Marrianne Mazyck his wife, was born in
the year 17-- and after a good education entered young into the British
Army under his Father as an ensigne and was soon after a Lieutenant, and
was many years ago one of the oldest Captins in the 2nd., or Queens
Regiment of Foot, and by his gallantry and good conduct distinguished
himself under the Duke of Cumberland in Flanders, but the Regiment being
long on real duty, and he marrying and wanting a quiet life, disposed of
his commission and lives a private and quiet life. If he had staid in
the Army till now he might have been a Colonel long ago. The said
Captain Isaac Hamon was married in 17-- to Miss Ferrington daughter of
Sir William Ferrington of Shey Hall in Lancashire. This lady was also
nearly related to the Rt. Hon. Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, and to
Lade Bradshaw of the Haigue in Lancashier. The Farringtons are of a very
ancient and Honorable family and very rich. The said Isaac Hamon soon
after his marriage bought and settled at a seat called Golden Grove in
Lancashire where he still lives greatly respected and beloved. His wife
was a lade of great worth and real merit and very accomplished; she died
in the year 1774 greatly lamented, and left issue by the said Isaac
Hamon two sons, William and Isaac; Isaac lives with his uncle Dr. Peter
Hamon, and is now at Portarlington school.

The family of Hamon have intermarried with some of the best families of
Ireland. The are of French extraction and are one of the families who
quitted France on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and going to
Ireland settled at Portarlington in Kings County where most of the
genteel inhabitants are of French Extraction. Co. Hector Hamon had a
brother Isaac Hamon Esq. who was also a Colonel in the British Army, he
left no sons; but one of his daughters married the Rev. Josiah
Champagne, Dean of ---- in Ireland, a Clergyman of French decent and son
of Major Champagne of Portarlington by Rt. Hon. Lady James Forbes,
daughter of the Earl of Granaid in Ireland, and one of the said Dean
Champagne's daughters is married to the Rt. Hon. Lord Paget in England.

to be continued...
Chris Shelley

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