 At his death, he left a widow, for he was twice married, upon whom government, to show their sense of his worth, settled a liberal pension.His children, who were all by his first marriage, consisted of four sons, of whom John, the third, his faithful assistant among the archives of Geneva, died only two years after his father.Besides these, he had one daughter, married to Archibald Meikle, Esq., Flemington.