John T. Terry

In 1846, Terry was married to Elizabeth Roe Peet (1826–1899), a daughter of Frederick Tomlinson Peet and Elizabeth Roe (née Lockwood) Peet.^[4] Together, they were the parents of seven children, including:^[5][4]

• Frederick Peet Terry (1847–1874), a Yale graduate and merchant who married Ellen Mills Battell, a daughter of Robbins Battell. After his death, she married Carl Stoeckel.^[6]
• Roderick Terry (1849–1933),^[7][8][9] a minister who married Linda Marquand, a daughter of Henry Gurdon Marquand, in 1875.^[10]
• Henriette Taylor Terry (1851–1857), who died young.^[4]
• Elizabeth Lockwood Terry (1855–1855), who died in infancy.^[4]
• John Taylor Terry Jr. (1857–1942),^[11] who married Bertha Halsted, sister of Dr. William Stewart Halsted.^[12][13]

In June 1853, he was a founder of the Irvington Presbyterian Church, serving as an officer of the church for the rest of his life.^[2] Terry was also a founder of the Ardsley Country Club in 1895.^[14]

Terry died on May 3, 1913, and was buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.^[15]

In 1853, 31-year-old Terry acquired a 35-acre estate along the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, from the Requa family (next door to Lyndhurst, the estate of New York City mayor William Paulding Jr., then merchant George Merritt, and railroad tycoon Jay Gould). In 1858 he began construction of a pink granite mansion on his estate which he called "Pinkstone". The estate remained in his family until his death in 1913 when it was sold to Rev. Alfred Duane Pell before being acquired by Harold Mayer Lehman of Lehman Brothers (who added a brick exterior in the Georgian Colonial style and renamed the house "Willow Pond").^[2][16][a]

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• Rev. Edward Taylor, 1642-1729 by John Taylor Terry and Emma C. Nason; New York; 1892.