Arabella (Duncan) Ludlow (1756-1803)

Mrs Arabella (Duncan) Ludlow

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She was just a baby and was out with her nurse when her family home on Queen Street/Hanover Square was burned to the ground in 1757 along with her mother and all her siblings (who were all suffering from smallpox) except for her elder sister, Frances. Frances was encouraged by a British officer, Captain Miller, to leap from an upper floor window, she was saved but, "he never recovered from the shock his frame received in sustaining her". Some of the servants who jumped weren't so lucky and were impaled on the iron railings. Arabella and her father then lived with Frances and her new husband (and cousin), George Duncan Ludlow. Arabella would marry George's younger half-brother. They had eleven children of whom five (listed) lived to adulthood.

Parents

Thomas Duncan

Merchant, of Queen (Pearl) Street, New York City

1710-1760

Mary (Ketcham) Duncan

Mrs Mary (Ketcham) Duncan

1717-1757

Spouse

Daniel Ludlow

1st President of the Manhattan Company; of New York City, Long Island & Skaneateles

1750-1814

Children

Harriet (Ludlow) Wright

Mrs Harriet (Ludlow) Wright

b.1774

Daniel Ludlow

Jr., Partner of Daniel Ludlow & Co., New York City; died unmarried

1779-1827

Robert Crommelin Ludlow

Attorney & Merchant, of Bleecker Street, New York City

1789-1842

Ferdinand Ludlow

Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy; died unmarried at Florence, Italy

b.1790

Dr. Edward Greenleaf Ludlow

of New York City & 59 Hawthorne Avenue, Yonkers, New York

1793-1877