This tradition has remained in the Ellsworth family.

I have confirmed it by inquiry of the Rev.Mr.Wood, a grandson of Oliver Ellsworth, who died in Washington a few years ago.
Besides the uncle to whom I allude, who died in 1856, Judge Simeon Baldwin, who married two of my aunts, died in 1851, aged ninety.

He was a Member of Congress in 1803-5, and was an intimate friend of Chancellor Kent, who was his classmate and chum in Yale, and was intimate with the Federalist leaders of the Hamilton party.

I several times made visits in his household before his death.

President Jeremiah Day, another uncle by marriage, was at the head of Yale for thirty years.
He died in 1867, at the age of 94.
My mother's sister, Mrs.Jeremiah Evarts, was born January 28, 1774, and died in 1851, at the age of seventy-seven.