NOTES AND FRAGMENTS.

The Forsyths in Texas.—Among the Forsyths in Texas may be mentioned the following:

Captain Cyrus Hamilton Forsyth, born Portland, Maine, 1812; died of yellow fever in Galveston, Texas, 1839. He was with Major Montgomery and was a volunteer captain in his command or on his staff in the battles for the establishment of the Texan nation. There is the name Forsyth on the monument to the heroes of Texas at Galveston. He was unmarried and left no issue. He was a son of Captain Thomas Forsyth (who had been educated as the heir of his uncle, Dr. Matthew Forsyth, Viscount de Fronsac of the Royal French Navy, a citizen of Normandy, France) by Sallie, daughter of Captain John Pray, whose wife was Mary, daughter of Colonel John Hamilton of North Carolina. Colonel Hamilton had raised a regiment for the crown in 1776 and was on the staff of the Marquis of Cornwallis. His first American ancestor was Hon. Matthew Forsyth, Viscount de Fronsac and a seigneur of Canada, a sketch of whom appeared in the American Historical Magazine of Jan. 1908. Colonel Hamilton was a relative of Governor John Forsyth of Georgia.

Joseph Forsyth, sometime marshal of Dallas, descended, I believe, though I am not certain, from the Kentucky branch of the same Scottish family, whose first ancestor (John Forsyth) came to Kentucky through the north of Ireland about 1754. He died as the result of wounds received at Wellington, Kansas, where he alone and unaided quelled two cowboy riots. An eye-witness relates that the cowboys were “shooting up” the town, and every one was afraid; but Marshal Forsyth went to the corner of the street, took off his hat and emptied his spare cartridges in it and held up the entire gang as they came along. He killed three of the rioters and was mortally wounded himself, but he quelled the riot.

The Hon. Thomas Scott Forsyth, nephew of Captain Cyrus Hamilton Forsyth, was a journalist in Dallas, Marshall and other towns in Texas, 1906-8.

Are there others of the name who are worth recording?

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