wife, and to Henry Overing and Charlotte Magdalene his wife, “cousins of ELIAS DESBROSSES, late of this City, Merchant, deceased." All of the legatees and executors are said to have died, and these, his grand-nieces, were next of kin. The whole property of the family, the accumulations of nearly a century, thus passed into the hands of these two ladies. The one had married John Hunter, of Hunter's Island, Westchester County, the other Captain Overing, of the British army.

The name of DESBROSSES thus became extinct in the American line, and is only kept in memory by the Street on the West side of the City which was called in his honor about the beginning of this century.

The life of MR. DESBROSSES presents many pleasing traits, which, derived from his French origin, are recognized as characteristic of the Huguenot families of America. Wherever the old French blood has allied itself to the English or Dutch, a fine variety of the human race has been the product; while the traits of the Huguenot are alike marked in the new strain as it appears in Charleston and New York, the chosen resorts of the early Huguenot emigration. Integrity of character, cheerfulness and amiability of temperament, and a religious sentiment showing itself in practical charity, are the well-known marks of this noble stock; and withal a desire for the quiet social walks rather than the busy and crowded scenes of public life.

A diligent search has not discovered any portrait or sketch of ELIAS DESBROSSES from which a picture could be made to fill his place upon the walls of the Chamber of Commerce, or to keep in memory the features of one whose character and life offer so much to imitate and revere.