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Encyclopedia of Biography of New York: Lydia Anderson Maverick, of
South Carolina, born in Charleston, in 1814, daughter of Samuel and
Elizabeth (Anderson) Maverick, granddaughter of General Robert Anderson,
a distinguished soldier in the War of the Revolution, and a public
officer of the State of South Carolina for over thirty years, the
county of Anderson being named in his honor, and a descendant of NY-VolIV-6 81 John Maverick, who was among the earliest settlers of Charleston,
and whose brother, Samuel Maverick, settled in Boston in 1630. Members
of the family were prominent in the affairs of New York when it passed
into the possession of the Duke of York, and the Southern branch
of the family has been extremely prominent in several States. Samuel
Maverick, father of Mrs. Van Wyck, was born at Charleston, South
Carolina, in 1772, and his wife was born at Pendleton, Anderson county,
South Carolina. Children: Samuel Maverick, M. D., died 1861; William,
died 1887; Zeruah, married Charles Banks, of New York; Abraham; Mary;
and a second Abraham, died in infancy; Augustus and Robert A., who
receive further mention in this work; Lydia Ann Maverick, married
General Robert Hoke, of Raleigh, North Carolina; Benjamin Stevens,
a physician, died in 1888.
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