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On the death of the tenth Earl the title passed to a kinsman who had settled
in America. Captain Archibald Kennedy was an officer in the Royal Navy who
held estates in Hoboken in New Jersey and became the greatest property owner
in New York. He tried to be neutral during the American War of Independence,
and was accordingly mistrusted by both sides. Half of his New York
properties were confiscated, including number 1, Broadway, which was
appropriated by George Washington. His son, the twelfth Earl, was a close
friend of the Duke of Clarence, who, on his coronation as William IV,
created him Marquess of Ailsa. The second Marquess, Archibald Kennedy, was
killed in a hunting accident in 1870. His son succeeded to the title at the
age of twenty-two, and after his death in 1938 the family title was borne by
each of his three sons in turn.
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