ISRAEL LUDLOW. - The following notice of the Ludlow familywas received after the personal sketch of Colonel Israel Ludlow, in our chapter on Losantiville had passed through the press.  It has been courteously prepared for this work by a gentleman who shares the Ludlow blood - the Rev. Ludlow D. Potter, D. D., president of the Glendale Female College:

     General Benjamin Ludlow (an officer in the Revolutionary war) resided at Long Hill, bordering the Passaic valley, three miles from New Providence.  His residence was on the north side of the Passaic river, the boundary line between Morris and Essex (now Union) counties, and ours on the south side.  So he was in Morris county and we in Essex.  He was quite a noted character, and his family residence a marked feature in that region— the abode of more than ordinary refinement and culture in his day.  He, his wife, and .all his children, except two, were buried in the graveyard in New Providence.  He and his wife imbibed the French infidelity so prevalent about the close of the Revolutionary war.  On his deathbed he renounced his infidelity through the faithful labors of Rev. Dr. W. C. Brownlee, who subsequently wrote a sketch of him and his religious deathbed discussions, and it was published in a thick tract by the American Tract society, entitled “The General.”  Subsequently his widow passed through a similar experience, and the pastoral labors resulted in her conversion also.  This formed the subject of a second tract, entitled “The General’s Widow.”  The tracts, I think, were subsequently suppressed at the request of the family.  General Ludlow had a large family, but most of them died with consumption after reaching maturity, or before.  His eldest son, Cornelius, graduated at Princeton college in 1816.  His youngest son, George, was long sheriff of Morris county, but subsequently became deranged, and, I believe, died in an asylum.  His eldest daughter married Dr. John Craig, of Plainfield, New Jersey, and outlived all the rest, but died childless.  They all renounced infidelity and died in the faith.  None left children except Cornelius.  Colonel Israel Ludlow, of Cincinnati, was a brother, or half-brother of General Ludlow; I think a half-brother.  The first wife of the late George C. Miller, of Cincinnati, was a daughter of Colonel Israel Ludlow, and Mrs. Whiteman and the late Mrs. Charlotte Jones, of Cumminsville, and their brother and sister, were Colonel Ludlow’s grandchildren.  The old Ludlow mansion in New Jersey, which I visited a few years ago, has passed entirely out of the family. Indeed, the family is nearly extinct.  Hon. T. M. McCarter, a distinguished lawyer and judge in New Jersey, a graduate of Princeton in 1842, is a grandson, I believe, of Cornelius Ludlow, mentioned above.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A. Williams & Co. - Page  477