ited the family titles and estate in Sussex,
England.

KEMBLE.

On the 27th of May, 1767, fifteen of the original grantees, including
General Thomas Gage, transferred their rights to Stephen Kemble[132]
for a very small consideration--ten pounds current money of the
Province of New York--and the grant was thenceforth known as the
Kemble Manor.

[132] Stephen Kemble was born in 1740 at New Brunswick in New Jersey;
was ensign in the 44th regiment under Lord Howe at Ticonderoga
in 1757. In 1765 he became captain in the 60th or Royal
American regiment, major in 1775 and Lieut.-Colonel in 1778.
He was for a while Deputy Adjutant General of the forces in
America, a position filled a little later by Major John Andre.
Col. Kemble retired from active service in 1805. He eventually
returned to his native town of New Brunswick in New Jersey and
died in the house where he was born, Dec. 20, 1822, in the
82nd year of his age.

In the year 1774 Col. Kemble appointed Joseph Frederick Wallet
Des-Barres to act for him in the settlement of the manor, with power
to substitute and appoint one or more agents. Des-Barres immediately
named James Simonds as his deputy; the duties of the latter are
specified in the records of the old county of Sunbury under the
following heading:

"Instructions for carrying into execution the letter of Attorney
of Stephen Kemble, Esq., to Joseph Frederick Wallet Des-Barres,
Esq., to be observed by James Simonds, Esq., his substitute for
this purpose specially appointed."

Under the instructions the manor was to be divided into one hundred
lots of 200 acres each, to be laid out in such a way as to allow
communication with the river to as many settlers as possible. Half the
lots were offered at L5 sterling each to purchasers or to tenants at a
renewable lease of ten shillings per annum, but it was not until about
the year 1782 that any effectual measures were taken for the
settlement of the grant, the explanation probably being that Mr.
Simonds and his partners were too much engaged in securing their own
lands from forfeiture to pay much attention to those of Col. Kemble.
However on the arrival of the Loyalists a number of lots were speedily
disposed of and by the efforts of Ward Chipman, who succeeded James
Simonds as agent, the greater part of the lands were saved from
escheat. Col. Kemble visited the River St.