William Theobald Wolfe Tone born 29 April 1791 in Dublin, son of Theobald Wolfe Tone and his wife Matilda (Witherington)Tone. [1]
an officer in the French and American armies
William Tone, was an apprentice there in the law office of the United Irishman William Sampson. Then he took employment with the US War Department in Washington, DC.
William married in 1825 in NYC to Catherine Sampson, daughter of William Sampson.
Child:
"William Tone died 10 October 1828 (or 11 October, ‘of an intestinal disorder’, according to Katherine Anne Tone-Maxwell) at Georgetown, District of Columbia, presumably at the house in First Street where he lived with his mother, wife, and child."
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