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Kingsland, whose father owned a large plantation adjoining that of Col. Schuyler. The late Chief Justice Hornblower was the youngest of a large family of children which resulted from this marriage. Mr. Hornblower's father, whose name was Joseph, had been engaged in the business of constructing engines in Cornwall from their first introduction in the mines there, about 1740, and had been an engineer and engine builder from the first use of steam engines in the arts, about 1720. The engines constructed by him and his sons were the kind known as Newcomen's engines, or Cornish engines. That brought to America by Josiah was of this description. Watt had not then invented his separate condenser, nor the use of high pressure. But it is generally conceded that, for pumping purposes, the Cornish engine has still no superior. 

After 1760 the Schuyler mine was worked for several years by Mr. Hornblower himself. The approach of the war, in 1775, cause the operations to cease. Work was resumed however, in 1792, and was