Anthony Duane (–1747) was a Protestant Irish immigrant to

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who was the father of

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, later a

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of New York City, and U.S. judge. Anthony Duane was born in

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c.1679 and joined the

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, becoming an officer. He first came to New York in 1698 where he met and courted Eva, the daughter of local merchant Dirck Benson. In 1702, Duane left the navy to marry Eva and settle in New York City, where he pursued a mercantile career. Before her death, they had two sons, Abraham and Cornelius. Duane prosperedBurrows & Wallace (1999), p. 221 and bought land for investment, rental, and future development. When Eva died, he remarried, this time to Altea Ketaltas (Hettletas), the daughter of a wealthy Dutch merchant family. The couple's only child was

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. When Altea died in 1736, Duane married a third time in 1741, to a Margaret Riken (or Rycken), the widow of Thomas Lynch of

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. Anthony Duane died in 1747.

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