Editing Wolfe Tone (section)

==Descendants==
Of Tone's four children, three died prematurely. His eldest child, Maria Tone (1786–1803; died in Paris) and his youngest child, Francis Rawdon Tone (1793–1806) both died of [[tuberculosis]]. Another son, Richard Tone (born between 1787 and 1789) died in infancy.<ref name="writings">{{cite book |title=The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98: Volume II |publisher=[[Clarendon Press]] |year=1998 |isbn=0198208804 |editor1-last=Moody |editor1-first=T. W. |page= |editor2-last=McDowell |editor2-first=R.B. |editor3-last=Woods |editor3-first=C.J.}}</ref>

Only his son William Theobald Wolfe Tone (b. 1789/91) survived to adulthood. Raised in France by his mother after Tone's death, William was appointed a cadet in the Imperial School of Cavalry in 1810 on Napoleon's orders. He was a naturalised French citizen on 4 May 1812. In January 1813 he was made sub-lieutenant in the 8th Regiment of Chasseurs and joined the Grand Army in Germany. His [[nom de guerre]] was the punning ''le petit loup'' – the little wolf. He was at the battles of Löwenberg, Goldberg, Dresden, Bauthen, Mühlberg, and Aachen. Following the [[Battle of Leipzig]], in which he received lance wounds, he was promoted to lieutenant and was decorated with the [[Legion of Honour]].<ref name=writings/>

After the defeat of Napoleon at the [[Battle of Waterloo]], William emigrated to the New York, where studied law with the United Irish veteran and abolitionist, [[William Sampson (lawyer)|William Sampson]], married his daughter, and in 1819 won a commission a captain in the United States Army. He died on 11 October 1828 at the age of 37, survived by his only child, his daughter Grace Georgina.<ref name="writings" />

Matilda Tone also returned to the United States, where in 1816 she married Thomas Wilson, a Scottish businessman and advocate who had taken care of Tone's financial affairs after the death of her husband. Her efforts, with Wilson, to return to Ireland were twice rebuffed by the British authorities. She died in 1849, and is buried in [[Green-Wood Cemetery|Greenwood Cemetery]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brundage |first=David |date=2010 |title=Matilda Tone in America: Exile, Gender, and Memory in the Making of Irish Republican Nationalism |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25660948 |journal=New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=96–111 |issn=1092-3977}}</ref>