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The 
Ancestors  and  Descendants 

OF 

RULEF  SCHENCK 


A  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  ONONDAGA  COUNTY, 

NEW  YORK,  BRANCH  OF  THE 

SCHENCK  FAMILY 


BY 

BENJAMIN  ROBINSON  SCHENCK,   M.   D. 

FROM 

RECORDS  AND   NOTES 
COMPILED 

BY 

ADRIAN  ADELBERT  SCHENCK 


DETROIT,  MICHIGAN 
1911 


THE  NEW  YORK 

PUBLIC  LIBRARY 

496413 

A'-rOft,  LENOX  AND 
TILDE.N   --'MiMDATlONS. 

R  1912  L 


The    Wilson    Printing   Company 
Detroit,    Michigan 


theSewtork 


ADRIAN   ADKl.HKRT  SCHENCK 

1842-1909 


THIS  BOOK  IS  PUBLISHED 

IN 
MEMORY  OF 

ADRIAN  ADELBERT  SCHENCK 

WHO  DEVOTED  MANY  OF  THE  LEISURE  HOURS 

OF  A  BUSY  LIFE  TO  COLLECTING  THE 

FACTS  HEREIN  RECORDED 


PREFACE. 

For  many  years  my  beloved  father,  Adrian  Adelbert 
Schenck,  cherished  the  ambition  of  putting  on  record  the 
genealogy  of  that  branch  of  the  Schenck  family  which 
originally  resided  in  or  near  Onondaga  County,  New 
York.  The  exigencies  of  an  active  business  life  left  him 
but  little  time  for  working  upon  the  thousands  of  details 
of  a  book  of  this  kind,  yet  as  opportunity  offered,  he 
corresponded  with  those  from  whom  information  could 
be  obtained  and  carefully  recorded  names  and  dates,  with 
that  wonderful  patience  which  was  such  a  predominant 
trait  of  his  character.  One  who  has  not  tried  to  gather 
together  facts  about  which  there  are  no  books  and  no 
authorities,  little  realizes  the  difficulties  which  beset  such 
work.  Letters  are  carelessly  answered  or  are  entirely 
ignored,  records  are  imperfect  as  to  full  names  and  com- 
plete dates,  and  the  memory  often  fails  at  a  critical  point. 
Unless  one  has  the  time  to  work  continuously  at  such 
a  task,  it  progresses  but  slowly  and  it  therefore  took 
many  years  for  my  father  to  collect  the  facts  here 
recorded. 

After  the  death  of  my  father,  which  occurred  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1909,  I  found  a  large  number  of  letters, 
written  records  and  newspaper  clippings,  which  he  had 
gathered    and   which    he   had   just   begun    to   arrange    in 


ScHENCK  Genealogy 


chronological  order  for  publication.  It  has  required  some 
time  to  complete  the  information  and  put  it  in  form  for 
the  printer.  Mj'  thanks  are  due  to  a  number  of  cousins 
who  have  willingly  and  enthusiastically  supplied  missing 
names  and  dates.  I  am  especially  indebted  to  Mr.  James 
Shuler  Schenck  for  his  energetic  aid.  Nearly  all  of  the 
latter  part  of  the  book  has  been  submitted  in  manuscript 
form  to  some  member  of  the  various  families  for  inspec- 
tion and  correction,  and  no  little  trouble  has  been  taken 
to  have  the  records  complete  and  correct.  It  can  hardly 
be  hoped,  however,  that  there  are  no  errors;  for  such 
as  may  occur,  I  ask  the  indulgence  of  the  reader. 

For  many  of  the  facts  in  the  early  history  of  the 
family  in  America,  we  are  greatly  indebted  to  the  late 
Rev.  Garret  C.  Schenck  of  Marlborough,  New  Jersey, 
v\'ho  spent  upv/ards  of  fifty  years  in  the  preparation  of 
a  complete  genealogy  of  the  Schenck  family.  This,  how- 
ever, has  never  been  published.  In  1883,  father  spent 
some  time  in  New  Jersey,  looking  up  the  records  of  the 
second,  third,  fourth  and  fifth  generations  in  America, 
and  I  know  that  he  was  greatly  aided  by  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Schenck.  We  owe  much  also  to  the  records  of  Lieut. 
A.  D.  Schenck,  U.  S.  A.,  whose  book.  Rev.  William 
Schenck,  His  /Ancestry  and  Descendants,  has  supplied  me 
with  many  valuable  facts.  The  connection  between  the 
Rev.  William  Schenck  and  the  Ohio  branch  of  the  family 
on  the  one  hand  and  Rulef  Schenck  and  the  Onondaga 
branch  on  the  other  is  recorded  on  page  60. 

The  genealogy  in  Holland  was  compiled  by  Jonkheer 
William  Frederic  George  Louis  van  der  Dussen,  Knight 
of  the   Order   of   the   Oak   Crown,   Lieutenant   Colonel 


Preface  7 

and  Commandant  in  1873,  of  the  Fortress  of  Nimeguen. 
He  was  editor  of  a  genealogical  journal  at  the  Hague 
and  one  of  the  genealogical  authorities  of  Holland.  His 
work,  formerly  in  the  possession  of  Rev.  Garret  C. 
Schenck,  is  an   immense  volume,  handsomely  bound  and 

clasped.       /,  .  .    v'  ''  w-  -^i        .' .    ■     V^'H>''' 

In  1885,  .there  appeared  a  twenty-six  page  pamphlet 
entitled  The  Blyenbeck  and  Ajferden  Branch  of  the  Fam- 
ily of  Schenck  van  Nydeck.  This  was  reprinted  from  a 
work,  The  Family  of  Schenck  van  Nydeggen,  which  was 
published  in  Cologne,  Germany,  in  i860.  From  this 
pamphlet  I  have  obtained  many  of  the  facts  contained 
in  the  first  part  of  this  book. 

In  1876,  P.  L.  Schenck,  M.  D.,  of  Flatbush,  L.  I., 
published  A  Memoir  of  Johannes  Schenck,  the  progenitor 
of  the  Bushwick  branch  of  the  family.  This  has  been 
of  great  help  in  elucidating  a  number  of  important  points 
in  the  early  American  history  of  the  family.  There  are 
many  descendants  of  Johannes  Schenck  and  their  rela- 
tionship to  our  branch  of  the  family  is  clearly  shown  on 
page  60. 

The  present  book  has  been  prepared  primarily  to  serve 
as  a  record  for  those  descendants  of  Rulef  Schenck  who 
are  now  living.  The  arrangement  and  method  of  num- 
bering are  modifications  of  those  recommended  by  the 
New  England  Genealogical  Society.  It  will  be  readily 
understood,  yet  a  word  of  explanation  on  the  significance 
of  the  numbers  and  the  use  of  Roman  numerals  may 
not  be  out  of  place.  The  genealogy  is  in  three  parts: — 
(i)  From  the  year  1346  to  1650,  where  the  unbroken 
line  of  descent   is   traced   from     Heinrlch    Schenck    van 


8  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


Nydeck  to  Roelof  Martense  Schenck,  who  was  the  first 
of  the  name  in  America;  (2)  from  1650  to  1776,  in 
which  section  the  American  ancestry  of  Rulef  Schenck  is 
given;  (3)  from  1776  down  to  the  present  day,  where 
may  be  found  the  descendants  of  Rulef  Schenck  in  all 
the  collateral  branches.  In  section  one  (Part  II.)  the 
name  of  each  individual  mentioned  is  preceded  by  an 
Arabic  numeral  followed  by  a  capital  A.  This  is  the 
key  number.  The  Roman  numeral  preceding  a  name  sig- 
nifies the  individual's  place  among  the  brothers  and  sisters 
of  the  immediate  family,  i.  e.,  whether  first,  second,  fifth 
or  sixth,  etc.,  child.  The  Roman  numeral  following  the 
name  signifies  the  generation.  To  avoid  confusion  the 
generations  in  Part  III.  date  back  to  Roelof  Martense 
Schenck,  that  is,  they  refer  only  to  the  generations  in 
America.  Roelof  Martense  represented  the  ninth  gen- 
eration from  Heinrich.  In  some  of  the  families  among 
the  descendants  there  are  now  children  of  the  eleventh 
generation  in  America.  They  can  therefore  trace  their 
ancestry  back  through  twenty  generations,  or  approxi- 
mately five  hundred  years.  In  section  two  of  Part  II., 
from  Roelof  to  Rulef,  covering  five  generations,  the  key 
number  before  the  name  of  each  individual  is  followed 
by  a  lower  case  a,  thus  12a.  In  Part  III.,  the  key 
number  stands  alone.  Whenever  an  individual  is  men- 
tioned the  name  is  followed  by  the  key  number,  thus 
avoiding  the  possibility  of  any  confusion  on  account  of 
similarity  in  names.  Each  individual  who  has  married 
is  carried  forward  into  the  next  generation,  a  reference 
being  given  to  the  page.  By  the  use  of  the  key  numbers, 
it  is  very  easy  to  trace  back  a  line  of  descent. 


Preface  9 

This  book  is  published  and  distributed  as  a  memorial 
to  Adrian  Adelbert  Schenck,  who  died  February  25,  1909. 
He  believed,  as  did  the  children  of  Israel,  that  each 
generation  should  leave  to  posterity  its  own  record  and 
that  these  records  should  be  carefully  preserved.  It 
was  his  expectation  and  hope  that  when  his  book  should 
appear,  it  would  be  carefully  preserved  for  the  children 
and  the  children's  children  of  all  who  received  a  copy. 
Care  has,  therefore,  been  taken  to  select  a  paper  which 
will  endure  and  an  ink  which  will  not  fade. 

The  editorial  work  has  not  been  done  so  well  as  would 
have  been  the  case  had  he  who  first  planned  the  book 
been  graciously  spared  to  have  completed  it,  yet  it  is  his 
spirit  which  permeates  it  and  the  credit  for  whatever  of 
merit  it  possesses  belongs  to  him. 

B.  R.  S. 
Detroit,  Mich.,  June  i,  191 1. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


Part  I 

Pace 

Coat  of  Arms             -             -             -  -                 13 

Derivation  of  the  Name                -             -  -          14 

Holland  History         _             _             _  _                 17 

Early  American  History                 -             -  -         27 

Part  II 

The  Holland  Ancestry  of  Rulef  Schenck  -                55 

The  American  Ancestry  of  Rulef  Schenck  -          61 

Part  III 

The  Descendants  of  Rulef  Schenck  -             -  65 

Seventh  Generation  in  America     -  -         66 

Eighth  Generation  in  America  -             -  80 

Ninth  Generation  in  America        -  -        100 

Tenth  Generation  in  America  -              126 

Index      ------        133 


PART  I. 

COAT  OF  ARiMS. 

Seipmacher  is  the  authority  quoted  by  A.  D.  Schenck 
for  the  arms  and  crest  of  the  van  Nydeck  branch  of  the 
family.  In  the  language  of  heraldry  the  description  is 
as  follows : — 

Arms — Sable,  a  lion  rampant,  or.,  langued  et  arme. 
Gu  and  az. 

Crest — Out  of  a  coronet,  or.,  a  demi-lion  rampant,  or., 
langued  et  arme.     Gu  and  az. 

In  explanation  it  may  be  said  that  it  was  the  custom 
among  the  knights  of  the  middle  ages  to  display  their 
armorial  ensigns,  or  arms,  upon  their  shields  and  banners, 
and  their  crest,  or  cognizance,  also  worn  by  their  fol- 
lowers, upon  their  helmets.  When  not  engaged  in  battle, 
a  coat  of  light  material  was  worn  over  the  steel  armor 
and  on  this  was  worked,  in  colors,  the  arms  and  crest. 
This  is  the  origin  of  the  term  coat-of-arms,  a  translation 
of  the  French,  cotte  d'armes. 

A  "coat-of-arms,"  as  we  use  the  term  to-day,  consists 
of  two  parts: — (i)  The  arms,  displayed  usually  on  a 
shield  or  banner,  and  above  this,  (2)  the  crest,  usually 
resting  on  a  crown  in  the  case  of  a  sovereign  family  or 
on  a  coronet,  in  the  case  of  families  of  lower  rank. 


14  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

By  referring  to  the  colored  frontispiece,  the  description 
of  the  arms  and  crest,  as  given  above,  will  be  under- 
stood. 

On  the  sable  (black)  banner  is  a  lion  rampant 
(charging).  This  is  painted  in  gold  (or).  The  lion's 
tongue  is  protruding  (langued)  and  he  shows  his  talons 
(arme).  The  tongue  is  red  (gu.)  and  the  talons  blue 
(az.) 

The  crest  represents  a  demi-lion  or  half  lion,  similar 
to  the  lion  of  the  arms,  charging  out  of  a  coronet. 


DERIVATION  OF  THE  NAME. 

The  family  names  of  all  the  countries  of  Europe  ^e 
derived  from  one  of  five  sources,  and  it  Is  possible  to 
trace  every  surname  to  one  or  another  of  these  five 
divisions,   which   are : — 

1.  Baptismal  or  personal  names,  such  as  Thompson, 
Williamson  or  Richardson.  As  Bardsley  says,  it  Is  easy 
to  see  how  they  came  Into  existence,  for  nothing  could 
be  more  natural  than  that  children  should  often  pass  in 
the  community  as  the  son  of  Thomas,  or  the  son  of 
William,  or  the  son  of  Richard.  In  some  particular 
generation  the  sobriquet  became  permanent  and  passed 
on   to  future  generations  as  an   hereditary  surname. 

2.  Local  surnames,  such  as  Lane,  Styles,  or  Wood 
have  survived  from  such  designations  as  John  of  the 
Lane,  William  atte  Style,  or  John  atte  Wood.  There 
are  many  instances  of  this  source  in  every  language. 


Derivation  of  Name  15 


3.  Official  surnames  have  been  bequeathed  to  us  by 
the  dignitaries  of  mediaeval  times.  Examples  are  Mayor, 
Baron   and   Bishop. 

4.  Surnames  of  occupation  are  very  numerous,  as  a 
moment's  thought  will  readily  convince  one. 

5.  Sobriquet  or  nicknames  form  a  large  class.  Applied 
originally  to  individuals  on  account,  perhaps,  of  certain 
personal  characteristics  they  at  some  period  became  hered- 
itary  and   survive   today. 

In  attempting  to  classify  a  given  name  in  any  one  of 
these  divisions,  however,  it  must  not  be  forgotten  that 
many  names,  especially  in  America,  are  not  what  they 
seem,  but  are  in  some  instances  corruptions  and  in  other 
cases  translations. 

The  name  Schenck  undoubtedly  belongs  to  the  third 
class,  that  of  official  surnames.  The  name  signifies  cup 
bearer  and  is  derived  from  the  same  root  as  the  German 
verb  schenken,  meaning  "to  pour  out."  Lieutenant  A. 
D.  Schenck  in  his  Rev.  William  Schenck,  His  Ancestry 
and  Descendants,  explains  the  origin  of  the  word. 

The  oldest  term  designating  the  office  of  cup-bearer, 
is  Skinker,  of  Sanskrit  origin.  A  more  recent  origin  is 
possible,  however,  as  it  may  be  connected  with  either  of 
the  Anglo  Saxon  words  scaene,  a  cup,  or  scanca,  a  shank. 
The  first  of  these  derivations  is  easily  understood,  the 
second  requires  an  explanation.  It  has  been  supposed  that 
the  shank  bone  of  an  ox  was  used  as  a  spout  for  a 
leathern  wine  bag.  This  use  of  a  bone  is  said  to  be  the 
origin  of  the  cups  of  the  butlers  of  England,  the  little 
knobs  on  the  covers  representing  the  shank-bone  spouts 
of  ancient  times. 


16  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Whatever  may  be  the  origin  of  the  word,  it  is  common 
in  several  European  languages,  thus  in  Icelandic,  skenka, 
in  Danish,  skencke,  in  Dutch  and  German,  schenkj  and 
in  French,  eschanson. 

Several  of  our  ancestors  are  referred  to  as  Pincerna. 
This  is  the  Latin  translation  of  the  same  word.  Thus 
the  first  of  the  Van  Nydeck  branch  of  the  family  is 
referred  to  as  Christianus  Pincerna.  He  was  cup  bearer 
to  the  Count  van  Julich,  whose  residence  was  the  famous 
castle  of  Nydeggen.  There  are  records  of  Julich  in 
which  he  speaks  of  PiA/c^rnrt' woi-Z^r  (our  cup  bearer).  All 
legal  documents  of  this  time  (1225)  are  in  Latin  and  this 
form  of  the  name,  Pincerna,  appears  in  them.  In  "low" 
Latin,  the  name  became  buticularius,  bucellarius,  busel- 
t  larius,  and  similar  words,  all  denoting  the  "leather  bag 
man."  From  these  is  derived  the  French  bouteiller,  and 
the   English   butler. 

Cup  bearers  were  probably  employed  long  before  his- 
tory takes  notice  of  them.  We  know  that  among  the 
ancient  Kings  of  Media  the  cup  bearer  held  the  first 
rank  in  the  royal  household.  He  had  charge  of  the 
household  arrangements  and  was  the  King's  chief  attend- 
ant when  at  home,  guarding  him  from  interruptions 
when  engaged,  and  acting,  in  fact,  as  master  of  cere- 
monies. Both  in  ancient  and  mediaeval  times,  it  was 
one  of  the  duties  of  this  officer  to  taste  the  wine  before 
it  was  served.  This  was  done  by  pouring  some  into 
the  palm  of  the  hand  and  was  to  guard  against  the 
possibility  of  poisoning  the  master.  The  office  was  always 
held  by  a  noble  and  in  feudal  times  became  hereditary. 


Holland  History  17 

Thus  it  was  that  many  noble  families,  in  the  middle 
ages,  bore  the  name  of  Schenck.  There  are  sixty-eight 
families  of  the  name  mentioned  in  the  Kueschke  Deutches 
Adch-Lexicon. 


HOLLAND   HISTORY. 

The  Holland  ancestry  of  Rulef  Schenck  may  be  traced 
in  an  unbroken  line  to  the  year  1346.  At  this  time  the 
head  of  the  family  was  the  Knight  Heinrich  Schenck 
van  Nydeck,  Lord  of  Afferden  and  Walbeck,  from  whom 
the  line  of  descent,  as  given  later  (Part  H.),  has  been 
recorded  by  van  der  Dussen,  formerly  one  of  the  most 
noted  genealogical  authorities  in  Holland,  who  searched 
long  and  patiently  to  complete  the  work.  While  there 
are  breaks  in  the  record  previous  to  1346,  we  are  fortun- 
ate in  possessing  not  a  little  information  concerning  the 
family  as  early  as  the  year  878. 

Before  relating  these  facts,  however,  it  may  be  of 
interest  to  briefly  sketch,  in  outline,  the  history  of  the 
Netherlands  and  attempt  to  form  some  conception  of 
the  character  of  its  people. 

The  Netherlands,  or  nether  lands,  was  the  name  given 
to  the  countries  situated  in  the  small  triangle  between 
the  France  and  Germany  of  today  and  the  sea,  the  ter- 
ritory which  is  now  about  equally  divided  between  the 
modern  countries  of  Holland  and  Belgium.  It  was  a 
country  traversed  by  overflowing  rivers,  harassed  by  the 
sea  and  devoid  of  beauty.  Of  its  earliest  inhabitants  wc 
know  little,   for  history  records  nothing  previous  to  the 


18  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

epoch  of  Julius  Caesar.  The  wars  waged  by  the  con- 
queror, rescued  from  obh'vion  the  Celtic  and  German 
tribes,  whom  he  found  in  this  hollow  land,  or  Holland, 
and  Tacitus,  the  Roman  historian,  has  minutely  described 
their  characteristics.  Motley,  whose  Rise  of  the  Dutch 
Republic,  The  United  Netherlands  and  John  of  Barne- 
veld  will  long  remain  the  authorities  on  early  Holland 
history,  thus  translates  and  embellishes  the  more  prosaic 
paragraphs  of  the  Latin: — 

"Physically  the  two  races  resembled  each  other.  Both 
were  of  vast  stature  and  the  gigantic  Gaul  derided  the 
Roman  soldiers  as  a  band  of  pigmies.  Both  were  fair, 
with  fierce  blue  eyes,  and  clear  blonde  complexions.  Their 
hands  and  feet  were  small.  The  especial  mark  of  high 
rank  was  the  brightness  of  the  eye,  and  long  hair  was 
considered  beautiful.  They  were  races  remarkable  for 
personal  dignity,  which  early  became  corrupted  into 
excessive  pride,  and  for  a  boundless  spirit  of  individual 
enterprise.  With  these  traits,  they  united  a  simplicity 
and  truthfulness,  which  was  always  observed  by  stran- 
gers. They  were  notoriously  reckless  of  their  own  lives 
and  cruel  to  enemies ;  fond  of  the  chase  and  of  adventure, 
especially  on  the  sea,  preferring  whatever  involved  peril 
and  hardships ;  greedy  for  booty  and  given  to  the  pleasures 
of  the  table  and  to  gaming." 

The  government  of  the  tribes  differed  somewhat,  yet 
with  all  of  them,  it  was  essentially  republican.  Clanship 
was  a  predominant  feature.  The  Gauls  were  an  agri- 
cultural people,  while  the  Germans  were  more  given  to 
war  and  carnage.  The  Gauls  were  priest  ridden  and 
their   Druids  were  a  predominant  class.     The  German 


Holland  History  19 

tribes,   however,   held   to  a  simpler   faith,  believing  iri  a 
single,  supreme,   almighty  God. 

P'irst  conquered  by  Caesar,  these  truculent  tribes, 
despite  many  revolts,  several  unsuccessful  confederacies 
and  numerous  rebellions,  remained  subject  to  Roman  rule 
for  about  five  centuries.  With  the  decline  of  the  Empire, 
the  Netherlands  were  "successively  or  simultaneously 
trampled  by  Franks,  Vandals,  Alani,  Suevi,  Saxons, 
Fresians  and  Sclavonians,  as  the  great  march  of  Germany 
to    universal    empire    went   majestically    forward." 

The  Frank  dominion  succeeded  the  Roman  and  the 
history  of  the  Franks  became  the  history  of  the  Nether-, 
lands.  Against  this  dominion  struggled  through  several 
centuries,  the  Fresians,  who  held  the  northern  part  of 
the  territory,  until  finally  conquered  by  Charlemagne 
in  785.  That  great  emperor,  however,  was  succeedeo 
by  unworthy  and  incapable  men  who  had  not  the  sense 
to  comprehend,  far  less  to  develop,  the  plans  of  their 
ancestor.  Charles  ihe  Simple  was  the  last  of  the  Franks 
to  govern  Lotharingia,  in  which  was  comprised  most  of 
the  Netherlands  and  Freisland,  and  the  sovereignty,  in 
925,  passed  to  Henry  the  Fowler.  Thus,  the  Nether- 
lands passed  out  of  France  into  Germany,  remaining  still 
provinces  of  a  loose,  disjointed  empire.  At  this  period 
the  various  petty  earldoms,  dukedoms,  etc.,  became 
hereditary.  Sovereign  counts  became  numerous  and 
autocratic,   and   the  force  of  arms  became  dominant. 

"Five  centuries  of  isolation  succeeded.  In  the  Neth- 
erlands, as  throughout  Europe,  a  thousand  obscure  and 
slender  rills  were  slowly  preparing  the  great  stream  of 


20  ScHENCK  Genealogy  ^ 

universal  culture.  Five  dismal  centuries  of  feudalism, 
during  which  period  there  is  little  talk  of  human  right, 
little  obedience  to  divine  reason.  Rights  there  vi^ere 
none;  onl}'  forces." 

Out  of  the  chaos  of  these  dark  ages  gradually  evolved 
a  people,  three  million  strong,  whom  Motley  in  his 
enthusiasm,  calls  "the  most  industrious,  the  most  pros- 
perous and  perhaps  the  most  intelligent  under  the  sun." 
The  Hollanders  of  the  sixteenth  century  were  unequalled 
as  agriculturists,  as  merchants,  as  mariners,  and  as  artis- 
ans. Their  natural  industry  was  untiring;  their  pros- 
perity unexampled ;  their  love  of  liberty  indomitable ; 
their  pugnacity  proverbial.  "Within  the  little  circle 
which  inclosed  the  seventeen  provinces  were  two  hundred 
and  eight  walled  cities,  many  of  them  the  most  stately 
in  Christendom,  one  hundred  and  fifty  chartered  towns, 
sixty-three  hundred  villages  with  their  watch  towers  and 
steeples,  besides  numerous  other  more  insignificant  ham- 
lets; the  whole  guarded  by  a  belt  of  sixty  fortresses  of 
surpassing  strength." 

Such,  very  briefly,  is  the  history  of  the  Netherlands — 
a  mere  outline  serving  to  show  inadequately  the  char- 
acteristics of  the  people  among  whom  were  our  ancestors. 
The  reader  who  is  interested,  will  find  a  lengthy  and 
most  picturesque  account  in  the  historical  works  of  Mot- 
ley, to  which  reference  has  been  made  and  from  which 
I   have  freely  quoted. 

The  first  information  which  we  have  of  the  Schenck 
family  concerns  Colve  de  Witte,  Baron  van  Toutenburg, 
who  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Clodius  against  the  Dane 


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in  878.  The  records  of  the  successors  to  this  title  and 
barony  are  imperfect,  but,  according  to  A.  D.  Schenck, 
sufficient  have  escaped  destruction  in  the  wars  of  the 
middle  and  succeeding  ages,  to  establish  the  fact  that 
the  same  family  held  possession  down  to,  and  even  much 
later  than,  the  year  1234  when  one  of  the  cadets  became 
the  first  of  the  family  of  Schenck  van  Nydeck. 

Following  Colve  de  Witte,  there  is  a  record  of: — 

Hermanus  Schenck,  Baron  van  Toutenburg.    Then: — 

Willem,  who  perished  at  the  first  tournament  held  in 
Germany,  at  Magdeburg  in  939.     He  was  followed  by 

Hermanus   H,,   in   turn   succeeded   by 

Willaim,  who  is  recorded  as  taking  part  in  the  seventh 
tournament,  held  at  Halle,  by  the  Emperor  Henricus 
n.,  in   1042.     The  next  record  concerns 

Reynier  Schenck,  Baron  van  Toutenburg,  who  had 
three   sons,   Theodorus,   Christianus   and   Albertus. 

Theodorus  Schenck,  the  eldest  son,  became  the  next 
Baron  van  Toutenburg.  There  was  a  succession  of  Barons 
in  this  family,  through  seventeen  generations,  down  to 
Joost,  or  George,  who  in  1521  was  Governor  of  Fries- 
land,  Groningen  and  Overyssel.  His  son,  Fredericus, 
the  last  Archbishop  of  Utrecht,  noted  for  his  learning 
and  many  literary  productions,  died  August  25,  1 580. 
This  branch  of  the  family  became  extinct  in  the  twentieth 
generation,  when  an  only  son,  Jacob,  died  when  a  child. 

The  second  son  of  Reynier,  Christianus  Schenck. 
became  attached  to  the  retinue  of  Count  van  Julich,  whose 
residence  was  the  famous  castle  of  Nydeggcn.     He  v\as 


22  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


called  Christianus  Pincerna  and  his  name  is  to  be  found 
as  witness  to  various  documents  of  Julich  between  1225 
and  1246.  He  held  the  important  office  of  cup  bearer 
to  the  Count.  It  may  be  said,  in  explanation,  that  the 
cup  bearer  of  these  times  was  the  head  of  the  household, 
the  protector  and  confidant  of  his  chief  and  the  master 
of  ceremonies  at  the  court.  Christianus  was  apparently 
held  in  high  esteem  by  the  Count,  who  in  a  document 
of  1234  affectionately  mentions  him  as  Pincerna  noster 
(our  cup  bearer).  On  September  lO,  12 50,  he  was 
appointed,  together  Avith  IMarschall  van  Kelser  and  Renad 
van  Druse,  a  court  of  justice  to  settle  a  dispute  between 
the  Count  and  Conrad  van  Hochsteden,  Archbishop  of 
Cologne.  In  some  of  the  documents  he  is  spoken  of  as 
Christianus  Pincerna  de  Nidke,  the  Dutch  form  of  which 
is  Christianus  Schenck  van  Nydeck.  His  coat  of  arms, 
as  given  by  Seipmacher,  forms  the  frontispiece  of  this 
book.      Christianus   had   one  son, 

Wilhelmus,  whose  name  appears  in  1275  and  1287 
as  witness,  and  in  1275  as  a  court  of  justice  in  a  dispute 
between  the  monastery  at  Kerpen  and  the  Lord  of  the 
castle.  On  April  i,  1279,  he  and  his  four  sons  sold  to 
the  church  syndicate  of  Cologne  all  their  estates  in  Geyen, 
namely,  "one  manses  cultivated  land,  the  decram  of  every- 
thing raised  thereon  and  their  rights  and  privileges  of 
patrons  of  the  church  of  Geyen."  Wilhelmus'  wife  died 
in  1271  and  was  buried  in  the  New  Cloister,  Graeven- 
dael,  near  Goch.  In  her  memory  Wilhelmus  presented 
to  the  convent  an  annual  revenue ;  the  document,  bearing 
the  date  of  March    13,   1271,  tied  with  rod  silk  threads 


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and  sealed  with  green  wax,  being  now  in  the  archives 
at  the  Hague.  Wilhelmus  had  seven  children,  four  of 
whom  were  living  as  late  as   1301. 

There  are  then  no  records  of  the  family  until  1346 
when  Heinrich  Schenck  van  Nydeck  (lA)*  is  mentioned. 
He  was  a  grandson  of  Wilhelmus,  but  there  is  no  infor- 
mation as  to  which  of  the  latter 's  sons  was  Heinrich's 
father.  In  the  year  1359,  the  lords,  knights  and  yeomen 
of  the  counties  of  Geldern  and  Cleve  concluded  a  treaty, 
in  which  Heinrich  was  assessed  "four  men  and  horses, 
completely  equipped  and  armed."  On  January  13,  1379, 
he  offered  to  the  Duke  of  Cleve,  the  privileges  of  his 
castle  of  Afferdcn,  He  sold,  July  12,  1389,  to  Eibriclit 
van  Eyll,  son  of  Evert,  the  court  of  Munster,  afterwards 
called  Munster  Mannshof,  situated  in  the  county  of 
Geldern. 

Heinrich  Schenck  van  Nydeck  was  Lord  of  Affeiden, 
a  small  village  in  the  province  of  Geldern,  and  was  also 
Feoffer  of  Wachtendonk.  He  married  Aleid  van  Rayde 
who  inherited  the  castle  of  Walbeck,  thus  bringing  that 
estate  into  the  Schenck  family.  One-half  of  all  the 
revenues  of  Walbeck  were  transferred,  in  1 381,  to  the 
Duke  of  Geldern,  Wilhelm  van  Julich,  in  return  for 
which  the  Duke  was  to  protect  and  defend  the  village 
and  parish  as  if  his  own.  Heinrich  had  two  sons, 
Wynand  and  Heinrich  (3A),  and  one  daughter,  Lis- 
beth.  The  latter  became  a  nun  at  Gravcndael.  She 
provided  annually  for  the  Convent  of  Gaesdonk,  "thirty- 


•NoTE. — The     numbers     following    the     names    correspond    to     those 
used   in   Part   II,   and   serve   to   identify   the   individuals. 


24  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

three  pairs  of  shoes,  upon  the  condition  that  they  be 
given  every  year  on  St.  Martin's,  by  the  prior  and  the 
convent,  to  the  poor,  namely:  eleven  pairs  to  poor  males, 
eleven  pairs  to  poor  females,  and  eleven  pairs  to  poor 
boys  and  girls  to  age  of  fifteen  years."  For  this  she 
gave  to  the  convent  for  a  number  of  years,  seventy  golden 
guilders. 

There  is  no  record  as  to  the  date  of  Heinrich's  death, 
but  we  know  that  the  family  estates  were  divided 
December  31,  1403.  The  elder  son,  Wynand,  received 
Afferden,  while  the  younger  son,  Heinrich,  was  given 
some  revenues,  the  court  Ten  Broke  in  Kampen  and  an 
estate  at  Ottersum.  Walbeck  and  other  property  not 
mentioned  in  the  division,  the  parents  designated  should 
go,  after  their  death,  to  the  sons.  Wynand,  however, 
renounced  his  equity  and  gave  to  Heinrich  his  share  "of 
the  house  Walbeck  with  its  outhouses,  orchards  and 
gardens,  just  as  it  stands  and  is  situated  within  its  ditches 
and  limits."  Wynand  purchased  Blyenbeck  in  1 405.  He 
married  Aleid  van  Bellinghoven  and  they  had  one  son, 
who  died  young.  The  titles  and  estates,  therefore,  went 
to  the  younger  brother  Heinrich  (3A)  who  thus  became 
Lord  of  Afferden,  Walbeck  and  Blyenbeck,  Feoffer  of 
Wachtendonk  and  Bailiff  of  Geldern.  There  is  a  record 
of  his  marriage  and  of  his  death,  which  occurred  Decem- 
ber 8,  1452.  He  and  his  wife,  were,  as  especial  benefac- 
tors of  the  convent  of  Gaesdonk,  declared  entitled  to  all 
the  good  offices  on  the  part  of  the  convent  and  promise 
was  given  them  that  holy  mass  was  to  be  read  daily  for 
all   time  and  eternity,   for  the  benefit  of  their  souls. 


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On  the  death  of  Heinrich,  in  1 452,  the  estates  went 
to  the  eldest  of  Heinrich's  three  children,  Diederich  (5A), 
who  became  possessed  of  very  considerable  property  in 
addition  to  his  inheritance.  As  heir  of  the  Knight  Goesen 
Stek,  he  received  the  house  Cradenborch  and  appurte- 
nances and  all  of  his  estate  with  their  complete  rights  and 
privileges.  Like  his  father  and  aunt  Lisbeth,  he  became 
a  benefactor  of  the  convent  of  Gaesdonk,  giving  on  June 
I,  1443,  an  estate,  Hazengest,  in  Baerls,  the  revenues  of 
which  were  to  be  used  for  the  benefit  of  the  convent. 
Of  his  eleven  children,  two  became  monks  and  three 
nuns.  He  died  in  1487  and  August  7th  of  that  year 
the  estate  was  divided,  Derick  (iiA),  the  fourth  son, 
receiving  some  of  the  less  important  property.  However, 
on  the  death  of  his  brothers,  he  inherited  their  share  and 
became  Lord  of  Afferden  and  Blyenbeck.  He  had  two 
morganatic  wives,  Catherine  Rutgen  and  Gertgen  Brug- 
ers,  and   later  married  Albeit   Custers,   of  Arssen. 

For  the  next  seventy  years  there  waged  a  contest  for 
the  estate  of  Derick.  Derick's  eldest  brother,  Winand 
(8A),  had  a  daughter,  Adelheid  by  name,  who  married 
for  her  second  husband,  Diderick  van  der  Lippe,  Lord 
of  Betgenhausen.  He  was  a  trusty  retainer  of  the  Duke 
Carl  van  Egmont,  and  no  sooner  had  he  secured  the 
hand  of  the  widow  than  he  began  his  designs  against  the 
estate  of  the  family.  In  this  he  was  aided  by  one  Godart 
Haes,  who  was  a  follower  of  the  Archbishop  of  Cologne, 
and  who  had  married  Catherine,  Lady  van  Huls,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Petronella  Schenck  van  Nydeck  (13A),  a  sister 
of  Derick.  These  two  men,  supported  by  their  influential 
and   powerful   superiors,   caused   an    immense   amount   of 


26  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

trouble  for  the  Schenck  family.  They  based  their  claim 
on  the  allegation  that  Derick's  marriage  to  Albeit  Custers 
was  illegal  on  account  of  a  relationship  in  the  third 
degr«^e   between   Albeit   and   Gertgen   Brugers. 

1  he  dispute  was  carried  to  the  Pope  at  Rome  and  was 
before  the  courts  of  the  Netherlands  for  many  years. 
Rome  rendered  its  final  decision  in  1546,  against  the 
children  of  Derick,  while  the  civil  courts  had  issued 
decrees  in  their  favor.  The  matter  was  carried  to  the 
Emperor  Charles  V.,  who  declared  the  lawsuit  at  Cologne 
and  its  sentence  void,  and  ordered  the  children  of  Derick 
to  comply  with  the  sentence  passed  at  Rome  and  desist 
disputing  possession  of  the  estates.  This  decision  was 
"given  in  our  imperial  capital,  Spain,  the  21st  of  October 
in   the  year  of  our  Lord,   1549." 

However,  from  1559  until  the  death  of  Martin 
Schenck  van  Nydeck  (29A),  in  1589,  during  which 
years  the  war  between  Spain  and  the  Netherlands  tore 
t'ne  country  into  shreds,  there  was  constant  fighting 
between  the  forces  of  Martin  and  those  of  van  der  Lippe 
for  possession  of  Blyenbeck.  These  knights  were  first 
on  the  one  side  and  then  on  the  other,  Martin  for  the 
most  part  fighting  against  Spain  and  Catholicism,  for  the 
sake  of   the   Netherlands   and   protestantism. 

Many  interesting  events  in  the  life  of  Martin  arc 
related  by  Motley  in  his  The  United  Netherlands  and 
in  the  pamphlet  The  Blyenbeck  and  Afferden  Branch  of 
the  Family  of  Schenck  van  Nydeck,  an  excerpt  from  the 
Family  of  Schenck  van  Nydeg^en,  published  in  Cologne 
in  i860.     At  the  time  of  Martin's  death,  Blyenbeck  was 


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in  the  hands  of  the  Spanish,  and  after  much  trouble  Cas- 
par van  der  Lippe,  a  son  of  Diderick  van  der  Lippe, 
received  an  order  from  the  Prince  of  Parma  that  the 
Spanish  garrison  should  leave  Blj'enbeclc  and  restore  it 
to  Caspar.  A  daughter  of  Caspar  became  heiress  to  the 
estate  and  by  her  marriage  with  Christoffle  Schenck  van 
Nydeck,  Lord  van  Hillenrath,  carried  the  ancient  estates 
to  that  branch  of  the  family. 

During  these  troublesome  times  Peter  Schenck  van 
Nydeck  (30A),  was  a  follower  of  his  more  famous 
brother,  Martin.  Peter's  son,  Martin  (35A),  is  said  to 
have  emigrated  with  his  children  to  America,  but  no 
trace  of  him  has  been  found  in  this  country.  It  is  likely 
that  the  misfortunes  and  reverses  which  overtook  the 
family  caused  them  to  seek  anew  their  fortunes  in  the 
land  of  promise — the  Nieu  Netherlands. 


EARLY  AMERICAN   HISTORY. 

The  immigrant  ancestor  of  Rulef  Schenck  was  Roelof 
Martense  Schenck,  who  was  born  at  Amersfoort,  Hol- 
land, in  1619.  Misfortunes  had  overtaken  the  family 
during  the  almost  constant  wars  which  occurred  during 
the  sixteenth  century  in  the  Netherlands  and  in  addition 
the  Emperor  Charles  V.  had,  after  seventy  jears,  ren- 
dered a  decision  which  was  adverse  to  Roelof's  grand- 
father, Peter  (30A)*,  thus  depriving  this  branch  of  the 
family  of  the  title  to  the  ancestral  estates.     Roelof's  grand- 


•NoTE — The   numbers   following  the   names   are   the   same  as  appear 
in   Part   II.    and   serve    to   identify   the    individuals. 


28  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

uncle,  Sir  Martin  Schenck  van  Nydeck,  was  heir  to  the 
castle  of  Blyenbeck,  but  the  title  was  contested  by  his 
cousin,  Caspar  van  der  Lippe,  and  Martin  was  besieged 
in  his  castle.  After  a  long  campaign,  Martin  was  ousted. 
His  brother  Peter,  a  gallant  soldier,  who  had  supported 
Sir  Martin,  lost  favor  with  the  authorities  and  was 
deprived  of  the  greater  part  of  his  possessions.  Thus  it 
was  that  Peter's  son,  with  his  children,  sought  to  renew 
his   fortune   by   coming  to   the   Nieu   Netherlands. 

It  is  probable  that  Roelof  with  his  brother,  Jan,  and 
sister,  Anetje,  sailed  in  the  ship  "de  Valckner,"  arriving 
in  New  Amsterdam,  June  28,  1650.  That  they  arrived 
p>  some  time  during  1650  is  certain,  as  will  be  shown  later. 
In  this  ship  came  also  Jacob  van  Couwenhoven,  who 
with  Adrian  van  der  Donck  and  Jan  Eversten  Bout,  had 
made  a  contract  with  the  West  India  Company,  dated 
at  Amsterdam,  March  19,  1650,  to  take  "to  the  Nieu 
Netherlands,  before  ist  June,  prox.,  200  passengers,  lOO 
to  be  farmers,  and  farm  servants,  and  lOO  such  as  the 
Amsterdam   Chamber  usually  send  over." 

Roelof  lived  for  a  few  years  in  Breuklyn  and  in  1660 
married  Neeltje  Geretsen  van  Couwenhoven,  a  niece  of 
Jacob  van  Couwenhoven.  He  then  settled  at  Amersfoort 
(later  Klatlands),  Long  Island,  where  he  resided  until 
his  death  in  1704,  and  where  he  is  buried. 

In  the  early  colonial  records  of  the  New  Netherlands, 
Roelof's  name  first  appears  in  connection  with  a  grant  of 
land  at  Amersfoort,  consisting  of  twenty-three  morgans, 
or  about  forty-six  acres.  This  grant  is  dated  January 
29,  1 66 1.     In  1664,  he  was  one  of  the  magistrates  of  the 


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five  towns  on  Nassau  Island  (Long  Island)  who  joined 
in  a  protest  against  the  outrages  of  the  English.  The 
Director-General  called  a  meeting  of  delegates  at  Mid- 
wout,  February  26,  1664,  and  they  then  made  accusa- 
tions against  the  English  Captain  Scott  and  voted  a 
remonstrance.  It  was  in  this  year  that  the  English  took 
over  the  government  of  New  Amsterdam  and  the  so-called 
Knickerbocker  rule  ceased. 

The  English  required  new  patents  to  be  taken  out  and 
the  following  patent  for  the  town  of  Amersfoort  was 
issued  by  Governor  Richard  NicoU: — 

Richard  Nicholl,  Esq.,  Gov.,  &c.,  &c.:  Whereas,  there  is  a 
certain  town  within  this  Government  situate  and  being  in  the 
West  Riding  of  Yorkshire  upon  Long  Island,  commonly  called  or 
known  by  ye  name  of  Amersfoort,  als.  Flattlands,  which  said 
town  is  now  in  ye  tenure  or  occupation  of  several  freeholders 
and  inhabitants  who  have  heretofore  been  seated  there  by  author- 
ity, and  likewise  made  lawful  purchasers  of  ye  granted  part  of 
ye  lands  thereunto  belonging,  have  also  improved  the  greater 
part  thereof,  and  settled  a  competent  number  of  families  there- 
upon; Now  for  a  confirmation  unto  ye  Freeholders  and  inhabit- 
ants of  the  premises,  Knoiu  ye,  that  by  virtue  of  ye  Commission 
and  Authority  unto  me  given  by  His  Royal  Highness,  I  have 
given,  ratified,  confirm  and  grant  unto  Elbert  Elbertse  (Stoothoff), 
Gerrit  Loockemans,  Roelof  Martense  (Schenck),  Pieter  Claes 
(Wyckoff),  Wellem  Gerrits  (van  Couwenhoven),  Tho.  Hille- 
brants,  Stephen  Coerten  (van  Voorhees),  and  Coert  Stephens 
(van  Voorhees),  as  Patentees  for  and  on  behalf  of  themselves 
and  their  associates,  ye  Freeholders  and  inhabitants  of  ye  said 
town,  their  heirs,  successors  and  assigns.  All  ye  tract  together 
with  ye  several  parcels,  &c. 

Mathias,  Secretary. 

(Signed)  Richard  Nicholl.     (L.  S.) 

Fort  James,  4th  October,  1667,  etc. 


30  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Governor  Cleve  appointed  Roelof  Schenck  one  of  the 
Schepens  for  Flatlands,  August  i8,  1673,  and  October 
25th  of  the  same  year,  he  was  chosen  a  lieutenant  of 
militia.  He  was  a  deputy  to  the  council  held  at  the  city 
hall   in   New  Amsterdam,  March  26,   1674. 

In  volume  II.  of  the  Documentary  History  of  New 
York,  a  valuation  of  property  shows  that  Roelof  Schenck 

possessed  2  polls,  4  horses,   i  do.  of  years  old,   10 

cows,  2  do.  of  2  years  old,  4  do.  of  i  year  old,  3  hogs: — 
Total  152  pounds,  14  shillings.  Also  52  morgans  of 
valley  land,  104  pounds.    Total  256  pounds,  14  shillings. 

He  was  next  to  the  wealthiest  man  in  town  and  sixth 
or  seventh  on  Long  Island  in  point  of  possessions.  In 
1698  he  had  four  slaves. 

The  inhabitants  of  the  New  Netherlands  were  required 
to  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  English  king  and 
these  documents  show  whether  the  individual  was  a  native 
or  an  immigrant.  If  the  latter,  the  length  of  residence 
in  the  New  Netherlands  was  given.  Roelof  took  this 
oath  of  allegiance  in  1687  ^"^  it  's  stated  that  he  and  his 
brother,  Jan,  had  been  "thirty-seven  years  in  the  coun- 
try," thus  confirming  the  date  of  arrival  as  1650. 

There  are  documents  showing  that  Roelof  was  com- 
missioned a  justice  of  Kings  County  in  1689  ^nd  a  Cap- 
tain of  Horse  in  1690. 

Roelof  was  three  times  married.  His  first  wife,  by 
whom  he  had  six  children,  Martin,  Annetje,  Jonica, 
Marike,  Jan  and  Gerret  Roelofse,  died  in  1673.  Two 
years  later,  he  married  Anetje  Pieterse  WyckoflF,  by  whom 
he  had  four  children,   Margaretta,   Neeltje,   Mayke  and 


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Sara.  The  date  of  the  death  of  the  second  wife  is 
unknown.  In  1688,  however,  Roelof  married  Catrina 
Crigers,  widow  of  Christopher  Hoogland.  This  mar- 
riage contract  is  of  interest.  A  translation  of  the  original 
Dutch  document  is  as  follows: — 

Today,  date  underwritten,  Mr.  Roelof  Martensen  Schenck, 
widower  of  the  late  Anneke  Pieters,  on  the  one  side,  and  Mrs. 
Catherine  Creugiers,  widow  of  the  late  Christopher  Hoogland 
on  the  other  side,  declared  that  they  had  agreed  between  them- 
selves to  the  honor  of  God,  to  enter  into  matrimony;  but  before 
the  solemnization  thereof,  they  had  convened  that  the  same 
should  be  confirmed  in  following  manner,  to  wit:  That  the  afore- 
said bridegroom  shall  bring  for  the  maintenance  of  himself  and 
his  future  wife  such  property  as  by  the  blessing  of  God  he  has 
become  possessed  of;  nothing  excepted;  but  he  shall  not  acquire 
any  ownership  in  the  estate  and  property  of  the  aforesaid  future 
bride  nor  in  those  which  she  shall  obtain  hereafter;  and  that  the 
future  bride  shall  bring  nothing  into  the  wedded  state  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  couple,  but  out  of  the  estate  and  property 
of  her  future  husband  she  and  her  son  Hermanus  Hoogland, 
shall  be  supported  and  maintained  in  board  and  clothing  as  is 
decent  and  proper.  It  is  further  conditioned  and  stipulated 
that  her  property,  moveable  and  immoveable,  present  and  future, 
nothing  excepted,  shall  not  be  held  in  commonalty  with  the  estate 
and  property  of  the  aforesaid  bridegroom,  but  that  she  shall 
keep  and  administer  her  estate  separately,  either  personally  or 
by  others,  and  dispose  of  it  as  she  shall  think  fit  without  the 
future  bridegroom  having  or  claiming  any  guardianship,  order, 
or  administration  over  her  estate  against  her  will  or  pleasure, 
but  that  all  this  property  with  its  increments  and  gains  shall 
remain  her  own  forever  and  subject  to  testamentary  disposition ; 
and  after  her  decease  to  her  children  and  their  lawful  descend- 
ants. 

Subject  to  the  above  written  conditions,  an  inventory  shall  be 
taken  of  the  property  of  the  future  bride  and  signed  by  both 
and  attached  hereto;  which  inventory  the  future  man  and  wife 


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desire  to  be  so  binding  and  inviolable  as  if  the  same  was  herein 
mentioned  and  inserted.  It  is  further  stipulated  and  conditioned 
that  if  the  bridegroom  should  first  die  the  aforesaid  future  bride 
shall  throughout  her  life,  whether  she  remains  single  or  marries 
again,  remain  in  full  possession  and  usufruct  of  his  bowery 
bought  from  the  widow  and  heirs  of  Govert  Lockermans  with 
the  house,  orchard,  negroes,  one  half  of  the  horses  and  cattle 
found  there;  provided  that  out  of  the  revenue  thereof  she  shall 
keep  it  in  good  condition  without  being  held  responsible  and 
accountable  in  any  manner  for  misfortunes;  provided  further: 
that  she  shall  maintain  and  support,  educate  and  have  instructed 
in  reading  and  writing,  and  taught  a  trade  to  which  thej'  are 
adapted,  the  minor  children  now  then  living  who  shall  then 
live,  and  the  child  or  children  which  they  together  may  beget, 
and  after  the  death  of  the  said  bride  all  the  property,  viz: 
Bowery,  said  house,  farm,  orchard,  negroes,  horses  and  cattle 
shall  be  subject  to  the  disposition  and  order  of  the  aforesaid 
bridegroom;  but  in  case  the  future  bride  should  die  before  her 
aforesaid  bridegroom  she  shall  have  no  right  to  claim  anything 
beyond  her  clothing  of  silk,  woolen  and  linen  and  her  jewels 
which  she  has  used  and  owned  during  her  lifetime,  out  of  the 
estate  and  property  of  the  aforesaid  bridegroom,  than  a  decent 
burial.  It  is  further  expressly  conditioned  and  stipulated,  that 
on  account  of  any  debts  and  obligations  contracted  before  the 
date  of  proposed  marriage  by  either  of  the  parties  hereto,  the 
other  one  shall  not  be  dunned,  molested  or  called  upon,  much  less 
shall  they  be  legally  collected,  as  all  community  of  property  and 
debts  between  the  parties  aforesaid  is  hereby  expressly  excluded 
and  disclaimed. 

This  Contract  of  Marriage  has  been  agreed  upon  and  con- 
cluded under  the  above  conditions;  and  the  bridegroom  binds 
himself,  his  executors,  administrators,  heirs  and  descendants  that 
it  shall  have  full  effect  under  the  aforesaid  stipulations  and 
conditions,  and  to  make  it  still  more  binding,  the  aforesaid  bride 
has  chosen  for  her  assistant  and  Trustee  in  this  matter  her  son 
Derick  Iloogland  with  his  heirs  and  descendants  to  receive  the 
above   for   the   behoof   of   the   said   bride    and    her  heirs   and   foi 


i 


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the  behoof  of  nobody  else;  and,  furthermore,  the  said  bridegroom 
binds  himself  and  promises  for  himself  and  for  his  executors, 
administrators  and  heirs  and  descendants  to  give,  satisfy  and 
allow  to  enjoy,  the  said  Derick  Hoogland  as  chosen  Trustee  of 
the  aforesaid  bride,  or  his  heirs  and  descendants,  all  which  has 
hereinbefore  been  convened  and  agreed  for  and  to  the  behoof 
of  the  aforesaid  bride  or  her  heirs  and  for  the  behoof  of  nobody 
else,  anything  heretofore  done  or  agreed  upon  to  the  contrary 
notwithstanding,  either  in  law  or  outside  of  law  thereto  apper- 
taining. This  done,  agreed  and  concluded  at  New  York  and  for 
its  further  confirmation,  it  is  signed  and  sealed  by  them  the  9th 
of  November,   1688. 

Catryntyna  Crigers.     (Seal) 
RoELOF  Martensen.      (Seal) 

Attested :    Willem    Bogardus, 
Notary  Public. 
Witnesses : 
Nicholas  Gerret. 
Cornelius  Dircksen. 

Roelof  Martense  Schenck  died,  either  in  1704  or  1705. 
The  records  of  the  late  Garret  C.  Schenck  give  the  date 
as  1705,  while  Lieut.  A.  D.  Schenck,  in  his  Rez\  JVilliafn 
Schenck,  His  Ancestry  and  DescendantSj  from  which  inost 
of  the  foregoing  facts  are  taken,  states  that  the  date  was 

1704.  At  all  events,  his  will  was  probated   August  3, 

1705,  and  may  be  found  in  the  New  York  Surrogate's 
OfHce,  liber  7,  pp.  209.     It  is  as  follows: — 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen, — ye  fourth  day  of  September  in 
ye  third  year  of  ye  reign  of  our  Sovereign  Lady  Annie  now  of 
England  &c..  Queen,  and  in  ye  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  four, — I,  Roelof  Schenck,  of  Flatlands,  in 
Kings  County,  on  Nassau  Island,  in  the  Colony  of  New  York — 
being  of  good  and  perfect  memory — praised  be  Almighty  God, 
therefore  doe  make  this,  my  last  Will  and  Testament  in  manner 
and  form  following — that  is  to  say: 


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First,  recommending  my  soul  unto  Almighty  God  who  gave 
it,  and  my  body  to  ye  earth  to  be  buried  in  such  decent  and 
C'hristianlike  manner  and  in  such  place  as  by  my  Executor,  here- 
after named,  shall  be  thought  fitt  and  convenient — hoping  for  a 
^.iorious  resurrection  at  the  last  day. 

Item — I  gi\e,  grant,  devise,  and  bequeath  unto  my  loving 
wife  Catharine  Schenck,  for  and  during  her  natural  life,  all  my 
farm  or  tenement  at  Flatlands  aforesaid,  now  in  my  possession 
and  whereon  I  now  live  with  ye  House,  Garden,  Barne,  orchard, 
and  premises  thereunto  belonging.  To  have,  hold,  occupy,  and 
enjoy  for  her  use  only,  without  impeachment  of  waste — for  and 
during  her  natural  life — and  all  according  to  a  contract  and 
agreement  made  between  my  said  wife  Catharine  and  myself 
before  marriage,  bearing  date  ye  ninth  day  of  November,  1688, 
reference  being  thereunto  had,  may  at  large  appear.  Provided, 
always,  that  if  my  said  wife  Catharine  happens  to  re-marry 
after  my  decease,  then  my  gift,  grant,  devise  and  bequeath  afore- 
said, to  be  null  and  voyd  to  all  intents  and  purposes. 

Item — I  give,  grant,  devise,  and  bequeath  unto  my  loving  son 
Martin  Schenck,  his  heyres  and  assigns,  forever,  after  the  de- 
cease or  re-marriage  of  my  said  wife  Catharine,  all  my  Houses, 
Lands,  Tenements,  orchards.  Gardens,  meadows,  and  heredita- 
ments in  Possession,  Reversion,  or  Remainder,  Either  within  the 
Town  and  Libertyes  of  Flatlands  aforesaid,  or  elsewhere.  To 
Have  and  To  Hold  all  ye  said  Houses  and  lands  as  afore  exprest 
unto  the  said  Martin  Schenck,  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever,  upon 
this  condition,  he  paying  the  legacies  hereafter  mentioned  unto 
my  children  hereafter  named,  within  six  years  after  possession 
taken  by  him— the  said  Martin— of  my  houses  and  lands  afore- 
said. That  is  to  say— to  my  daughter  Jonica,  sixty-four  pounds 
and  ten  shillings  in  money— to  my  daughter  Mayke— sixty-four 
pounds  and  ten  shillings  in  money— to  my  son  John,  sixty-four 
pounds  and  ten  shillings  in  money— to  my  son  Garrett  sixty-four 
pounds  and  ten  shillings  in  money— to  my  daughter  Margrieta 
sixty-four  pounds  and  ten  shillings  in  money— to  my  daughter 
Neltie  sixty-four  pounds  and  ten  shillings  in  money— to  my 
daughter  Mayke  sixty-four  pounds  and  ten  shillings  in  money— 


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to  my  daughter  Sara  sixty-four  pounds  and  ten  shillings  in 
money — and  to  ye  two  children  of  my  daughter  Anneke  deceased, 
by  name  Roeloft  and  Albert,  each  ten  pounds  in  money — and 
farther  it  is  my  -will  that  said  legacys  be  paid  to  ye  legatees 
aforesaid  within  six  years  time  as  aforementioned  and  that  those 
of  the  legatees  that  are  in  most  need  or  want  shall  be  first 
payed,  always  provided  that  if  my  son  Martin  refuses,  denyes 
or  delays  to  pay  ye  legacys  above  mentioned — then  my  houses 
and  lands  above  exprest  to  be  equally  divided  among  my  chil- 
dren  aforementioned   and   sold  to  the  highest  bidder. 

Item — I  give,  grant,  devise,  and  bequeath  unto  my  loving 
children  by  name  Martin,  Jonica,  Marike,  John,  Garrett,  Mar- 
grieta,  Neltie,  Mayke,  and  Sarah,  their  executors  and  assigns 
forever  after  ye  decease  or  remaryage  of  my  said  wife  Catharine, 
all  and  singular  my  goods  and  Chattels,  rights  and  credits, 
whatsoever  or  whensoever  the  same  are,  or  shall  become  due  in 
equal  proportion  be  divided  between  them,  that  is  to  say,  the 
one-half  immediately  after  my  decease  and  the  other  half  after 
my  wife's  decease  or  remaryage  as  aforesaid,  and  that  there  be 
an  Inventory  taken  of  all  my  goods  and  Chattels  soon  after  my 
decease  by  my  Executors  hereafter  named.  That  my  children 
or  creditors  may  not  be  defrauded,  and  that  my  said  wife 
Catharine  shall  give  in  bond  and  security  to  deliver  or  cause 
to  be  delivered  upon  her  remaryage  or  death  to  my  children 
above  named  what  goods  and  chattels  she  shall  enjoy  as  ye 
one-half  part  thereof,  death  of  living  creatures  and  wearing  out 
of  goods  only  excepted;  and  farther,  it  is  my  will  that  my 
daughter  Sarah  aforesaid,  before  any  division  of  ye  moveables 
have  a  good  outsetting  equal  as  ray  other  children  have  had,  and 
then  to  share  equally  with  the  rest,  and  that  my  son  Martin, 
for  his  birthright  as  Eldest  son,  shall  have  my  negro  boy  Anthony, 
my  said  wife  only  to  have  ye  profit  or  use  of  ye  one-half  of  ye 
labor  or  service  of  said  boy  during  her  life  time  or  remaryage. 

I  do  hereby  make,  appoint,  and  ordain  my  loving  son,  Martin 
Schenck,  whole  and  sole  Executor  of  this  my  last  Will  and 
Testament  to  see  it  performed  according  to  ye  true  intent  and 
meaning  thereof.   In  witness  whereof,  I,  the  said  Roelof  Schenck, 


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have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal  ye  day  and  year  first  above 
written. 

(Signed)     Roelof  Schenck,  [L.   S.] 

Signed,  sealed  and  delivered  in  the  presence  of  us: 

COERT    StEVENSE. 

Garret  Stoothoff. 
Henry  Filkin. 

The  next  in  our  line  of  descent  is  the  fifth  child  and 
second  son  of  Roelof  (la),  namely  Jan  Schenck  (6a). 
Born  at  Flatlands,  L.  I.,  in  1670,  he  married  Sara 
Willemse  van  Couwenhoven  in  1692.  Subsequently, 
Jan's  sisters,  Margaretta  and  Neeltje,  married  brothers 
of  Sara.  In  1698,  Jan  removed  to  a  tract  of  land  in 
Pleasant  Valley,  near  Holmdel,  Nevi^  Jersey.  This  tract, 
consisting  of  500  acres,  had  been  purchased  from  John 
Brovk^n,  a  merchant  of  Middletown,  N.  Y.,  in  1696,  by 
Cornelius  van  Couwenhoven  (w^ho  later  married  Jan's 
sister,  Margaretta),  Coert  van  Voorhees  and  Peter 
Wyckoff.  The  two  latter  sold  out  their  equity  to  Garret 
and  Jan  and  the  tract  was  divided  into  three  farms,* 
those  of  Garret  (7a)  and  Jan  Schenck  and  their  future 
brother-in-law,  Cornelius  van  Couwenhoven.  At  the 
corner  where  these  three  farms  met  was  dedicated  a  plot, 
containing  about  one-half  acre  of  land,  for  a  family  bury- 


•NoTE. — These  farms  were  visited  by  Adrian  A.  Schenck  in  1883. 
I  find  amons:  his  notes  the  following: — "In  August,  1883,  I  visited  the 
house  in  which  Jan  and  Sara  lived.  Only  a  part,  the  sitting  room  and 
adjoining  bedroom,  remains.  The  door  jams  were  hewn  from  pine 
logs,  and  dressed  down  with  a  plane,  no  saw  having  been  used.  The 
bedroom  door  was  in  one  piece,  hewn  from  a  log,  and  on  the  inside 
was  painted  the  coat  of  arms  of  the  van  Couwenhoven  family,  still 
quite  distinct.  In  the  burying  ground  were  some  20  graves,  marked 
either   Schenck   or   Couwenhoven."— B.   R.    S. 


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ing  ground.     It  was  afterwards  also  used  by  other  fami- 
lies. 

From  Garret  Schenck  has  descended  a  very  large 
branch  of  the  family,  including  a  number  of  illustrious 
men,  among  them  the  Rev.  William  Schenck;  General 
William  C.  Schenck,  who  was  prominent  in  the  war  of 
i8i2,  and  who  first  surveyed  and  founded  Port  Lawrence, 
now  Toledo,  Ohio;  Col.  William  Rogers  Schenck; 
Admiral  James  Findlay  Schenck;  General  Robert  C 
Schenck,  Minister  to  Brazil,  Congressman  from  Ohio. 
Minister  to  England;  Lieutenant  Woodhull  S.  Schenck, 
U.  S.  N. ;  and  Lieutenant  Alexander  D.  Schenck,  U.  S.  A. 

But  little  can  be  learned  concerning  the  life  of  Jan 
and  Sara.  For  over  fifty  years  they  lived  on  their  New 
Jersey  farm,  bringing  up  a  family  of  four  sons  and  six 
daughters. 

The  first  of  these  sons  was  Roelof  (12a),  born  at  Flat- 
lands,  L.  L,  in  1692,  and  at  the  age  of  six  years  going, 
with  the  family,  from  Long  Island  to  New  Jersey.  He 
lived  on  the  farm  of  his  father  and  was  apparently  a 
well  known  man  in  the  community.  The  only  informa- 
tion we  have  concerning  him  is  to  be  found  in  a  small 
volume,  published  in  1905,  edited  by  The  Rev.  A.  I. 
Martine  of  Marlborough,  N.  J.,  and  entitled  Bi-Cen- 
tennial  Celebration  of  the  Reformed  Church  of  the 
Navasink  and  Its  Two  Branches  {i6gg-i8gg) .  A  major- 
ity of  the  settlers  of  the  present  Monmouth  County,  New 
Jersey,  came  from  Long  Island,  and  these  families,  with 
a  few  others,  constituted  the  congregation  to  which  the 
Long   Island   pastors   ministered.      Stated   preaching  was 


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begun  in  1699,  various  ministers  coming  from  Long 
Island,  but  finding  their  duties  exceedingly  burdensome 
"because  of  the  distance  they  were  compelled  to  travel, 
and  the  danger  of  crossing  the  great  bay  in  small  boats." 
This  continued  for  ten  years  vi^hen  the  Reformed  Church 
of  Freehold  and  Middletown  (the  Congregation  of  the 
Navasink)  was  organized.  The  Consistory  was  com- 
posed of  Peter  van  Deventer  and  John  Wyckofif,  elders, 
and  Jacob  van  Dorn  and  Garret  Schenck,  deacons.  In 
1714,  the  parsonage,  consisting  of  a  house  and  a  tract 
of  "one  hundred  acres  of  good  arable  land,  as  good  as 
any  in  Freehold,  on  which  a  family  may  subsist  com- 
fortably," was  conveyed  by  Jacobus  Romain,  to  John 
Schenck  and  Cornelius  Couwenhoven  of  Middletown, 
and  Peter  Tyson  of  Freehold,  in  trust  for  the  use  of  the 
congregation.  It  was  located  "five  quarters  of  an  hour's 
distance  from  the  church."  The  first  edifice — probably 
used  both  as  a  school  and  a  church — termed  by  the  Dutch, 
"Gabat  House,"  or  prayer  house,  was  located  near  by,  on 
Hendrickson's  Hill.  The  first  pastor  was  Rev.  Guil- 
laume  Bertholf,  the  second.  Rev.  Joseph  Morgan, 
who  served  until  1731,  when  the  Rev.  Gerardus  Haeg- 
hoort  was  called  from  Holland.  The  next  year  it  was 
decided  to  erect  a  new  edifice.  The  congregation,  how- 
ever, was  so  evenly  divided  on  the  question  of  where  the 
new  church  should  be  located  that  they  agreed  that  it 
should  be  built  on  the  site  to  which  the  first  load  of  stone 
for  building  purposes  was  carted.  It  was  late  in  the 
afternoon  when  the  meeting  adjourned,  but  "Mr.  Roelof 
Schenck  (12a),  more  frequently  called  "Black  Roelof," 
immediately  went   home,   hitched   up  his  team,   gathered 


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the  stones  and  carted  them  to  the  lot  on  which  the  build- 
ing now  stands,"     That  settled  the  matter. 

The  edifice  which  was  then  built  was  in  use  over  ninety 
years  and  was  taken  down  in  1826  to  make  room  for 
the  present  church,  the  Old  Brick  Church  of  Marlbor- 
ough. 

For  many  years  there  were  no  pews  in  the  original 
church.  The  congregation  sat  on  benches,  the  men 
around  the  wall,  the  women  in  the  center.  Some  used 
double  chairSj^  such  as  were  generally  used  in  wagons  in 
those  days.  Some  of  the  families  would  ride  to  church 
sitting  on  these  chairs,  and  then,  taking  them  out  of  their 
wagons,  would  carry  them  into  the  church  for  use  during 
service.  A  great  many  would  go  on  horseback ;  one  horse 
generally  carried  a  man  and  his  wife,  and  very  frequently 
a  baby  also.  Carriages  were  unknown  and  farm  wagons 
without  springs  were  thought  to  be  comfortable.  There 
was  no  means  of  heating  the  church,  for  stoves  were  not 
in  existence.  Private  houses  were  made  warm  by  the  use 
of  large  fireplaces,  but  churches  were  built  without  chim- 
neys. The  women  brought  with  them  small  foot-stoves, 
which  kept  their  feet  warm,  while  good  homespun  cloth 
in  ample  folds  protected  their  persons. 

Roelof  Schenck  (12a)  was  frequently  called  "Black 
Roelof"  to  distinguish  him  from  a  cousin  of  the  same 
name.  He  was  of  a  swarthy  complexion,  was  large, 
muscular  and  very  strong.  The  following  anecdote  is 
told  of  him.  According  to  the  tradition,  a  professional 
prize  fighter  having  heard  of  Roelof's  strength,  sought 
to  obtain   a  match   and   prove   his  superiority.     He   paid 


40  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

him  a  visit  and  encountered  Roelof  as  the  latter  was 
returning  from  the  fields  with  the  plow  on  his  shoulder. 
Engaging  in  conversation,  Roelof  placed  the  plow  on 
the  ground ;  becoming  deeply  interested  as  the  talk  con- 
tinued, he  grasped  the  handle  of  the  plow  in  one  hand, 
and  holding  it  at  arm's  length  like  a  cane,  used  it  to  point 
out  the  various  places  of  interest.  The  prize  fighter  looked 
on  in  utter  amazement,  then  suddenly  remembered  that 
he  wished  to  see  another  man  by  the  name  of  Schenck, 
and  started  out  to  find  him. 

Roelof  (i2a)  died  January  19,  1766,  and  was  buried 
in  the  old  burying  ground  at  Pleasant  Valley.  In  August, 
1883,  the  stone  was  still  standing  and  a  sassafras  tree, 
more  than  five  inches  in  diameter,  was  growing  from  the 
center  of  the  grave.  On  the  stone  appeared  the  follow- 
ing:— 

"Here  Lies  Interred  the  Body  of  Roelof  Schenck, 
Son  of  John,  who  Departed  this  Life  the  Nineteenth  of 
January  in  the  \'ear  of  Our  Lord,  One  Thousand  Seven 
Hundred  and  Sixty-six,  aged  Seventy-three  Years,  Ten 
Months  and  Twenty-eight  Days." 

By  the  side  of  this  stone  was  another  giving  the  record 
of  the  death  of  his  wife,  Geesie. 

We  have  little  information  concerning  John  Schenck 
(24a),  the  third  child  and  first  son  of  Roelof  (12a), 
beyond  the  facts  of  his  birth,  marriage  and  death.  Born 
January  22,  1720,  he  married  when  twenty-one  years  of 
age,  Jacamyntie  van  Couwenhoven,  who  was  some  two 
years  his  senior.     They  had  two  sons  and  one  daughter. 


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The  first  son,  Rulief,  married  Sarah  Lippert,  had  three 
sons,  and  about  1800  removed  to  Ohio,  locating  near 
Cincinnati.  John  Schenck  (24a)  died  June  27,  1749. 
His  gravestone  bears  the  following  inscription: — 

"Here  Lies  the  Bodj'  of  John  Schenck,  who  Departed 
this  Life,  June  27,  Anno  Domini,  1749,  Aged  Twenty- 
nine  Years,  Two  Months  and  Five  Days." 

This  would  make  his  birthday  April  22,  1720,  and 
not  January  22,  as  given  in  the  records. 

Cornelius  Schenck  (28a),  the  second  son  of  John  (24a) , 
was  born  September  ig,  1744,  and  for  some  years  lived 
on  a  farm  in  Pleasant  V^alley,  Monmouth  County,  New 
Jersey.  For  some  reason  he  left  this  farm  and  removed 
to  a  farm  near  Charleston,  Montgomery  County,  New 
\  ork,  a  few  miles  south  of  the  present  city  of  Fonda. 
The  date  of  the  removal  is  uncertain,  but  it  was  appar- 
ently subsequent  to  1776,  as  all  of  his  children  were 
born  in  New  Jersey,  Rulef,  the  youngest,  being  born 
in  that  year.  The  probable  cause  of  the  removal  was  the 
barrenness  of  the  New  Jersey  land,  which  before  the 
discovery  of  marl,  was  most  unproductive.  Two  amus- 
ing anecdotes  are  told  in  connection  with  Cornelius  and 
his  Jersey  farm.  Soon  after  he  had  located  there,  two 
of  his  relatives  rode  over  on  horseback  to  see  him.  In 
those  days  all  the  farm  buildings  were  erected  in  the 
center  of  the  farm,  without  regard  to  the  highv/ay,  and 
the  buildings  were  surrounded  by  a  door  yard.  After 
riding  across  the  fields  and  coming  into  the  yard,  the 
two  visitors  dismounted  and  one  of  them  throwing  his 
bridle  over  his  arm,  began  walking  about  as  though  look- 


42  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

ing  for  something,  at  the  same  time  apparently  crying. 
When  asked  what  the  trouble  was,  he  replied — "It  is 
really  too  bad,  too  bad;  Cornelius  is  heie  on  a  farm  so 
poor  that  it  won't  raise  a  mullin  stalk  to  tie  one's  horse 
to." 

About  the  time  Cornelius  was  leaving  for  New  York 
State,  the  same  relative,  lamenting  the  sad  condition  of 
affairs,  remarked,  "too  bad,  too  bad,  Cornelius  continues 
in  such  bad  luck;  he  has  left  a  farm  too  poor  to  produce 
a  mullin  stalk  and  gone  into  New  York  State  where  the 
stones  are  so  thick  there  isn't  room  for  a  mullin  stalk 
to  grow."  Whether  the  latter  statement  was  descrip- 
tive of  the  new  location,  or  only  a  fancy  of  the  wag,  is 
not  known. 

Cornelius  Schenck  (28a)  and  his  wife,  Margaret  Tay- 
lor, had  six  children.  The  first  son,  John,  removed  to 
Cayuga  County,  brought  up  a  family  of  fourteen  children 
and  died  at  Springport,  June  8,  1 850.  The  youngest 
son  was  Rulef,  all  of  whose  descendants  we  propose  to 
trace  in  a  subsequent  chapter.  Cornelius  died  January 
14,    1790. 

It  will  be  noted  that  Rulef  represents  the  sixth  gen- 
eration in  America  and  the  fourteenth  of  the  generations 
whose  unbroken  records  we  possess.  In  some  of  the 
descendant  families  of  Rulef  there  are  now  children  of 
the  eleventh  generation  in  America  and  the  nineteenth 
from   Heinrich   Schenck  van   Nydeck. 

Little  is  known  of  the  boyhood  of  Rulef,  and  we  have 
no  record  as  to  when  he  came  to  Charleston.     In   1802 


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he  married  Elsie  Baird,*  and  the  first  six  of  their  eleven 
children  were  born  in  Montgomery  County.  In  1814. 
when  38  years  of  age,  he  made  a  journey  westward  and 
purchased  a  tract  of  land  in  Lysander  Township,  Onon- 
daga County.  In  April,  181 5,  he  removed  to  this  prop- 
erty, then  in  the  midst  of  the  wilderness.  When  cleared, 
it  proved  to  be  productive  and  Rulef  became  a  successful 
and  prosperous  farmer.  He  reared  a  family  of  eleven 
children  and  helped  all  of  them,  more  or  less,  to  a  start 
in  life.  He  resided  on  this  farm  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  April    15.    1852. 

Rulef  Schenck  and  his  wife  Elsie  (Baird)  Schenck  are 
buried   at  the  cemetery   in   Plainville. 

A  brief  sketch  of  the  early  history  of  Onondaga  County 
and  a  few  of  its  villages  in  Lysander  Township  may  not 
be  out  of  place  at  this  point. 

Originally,  all  that  part  of  New  York  State  situated 
west  of  Schoharie  County  comprised  Montgomery  County. 
In  1789,  the  territory  west  of  a  north  and  south  line  run- 
ning through  Seneca  Lake  was  set  ofi  and  called  Ontario 


*NoTE. — We  have  but  meager  information  concerning  Elsie  Bairrl 
and  her  family.  The  family  first  appeared  in  Monmouth  County,  New 
Jersey,  about  1680.  The  first  of  the  name  was  named  John.  Tradi- 
tion relates  that  he  introduced  a  new  method  of  courtship.  John 
chanced  one  day  to  meet  in  the  woods  Mary  Hall,  whom  he  after- 
wards married.  As  both  were  bashful,  they  halted  at  some  distance 
from  one  another  under  a  tree.  It  was  love  at  first  sight,  and  in  a 
short  time  John,  who  was  a  Quaker,  broke  the  painful  silence,  by 
saying,  "If  thou  wilt  marry  me,  say  yea;  if  thou  wilt  not,  say  nay." 
Mary   said    "yea"    and    proved   a    noble    wife    and   mother. 

It  is  presumed  that  Elsie  Baird's  family  removed  from  New  Jersey 
to  Montgomery  County,  New  York,  between  1780  and  1800,  but  I 
have  no  information  concerning  the  date.  The  Baird  family  in  the 
vicinity  of  Fonda  and  Gloversville  is  a  large  one,  and  reunions  are  held 
annually,    usually    at    Sacandaga    Park. 


44  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

County.  In  1791,  Herkimer  County  was  formed  from 
the  western  part  of  Montgomery  and  comprised  the  por- 
tion of  Herkimer  lying  west  of  Whitestown,  and  east  of 
Seneca  Lake.  In  1794,  the  original  Onondaga  County 
was  formed  by  the  present  counties  of  Cortland,  Cayuga, 
Onondaga  and  Seneca  with  parts  of  Wayne,  Oswego, 
Thompkins  and  Schuyler,  and  it  was  not  until  1 81 6  that 
Onondaga  County  assumed  its  present  size. 

Baldwinsville  was  founded  in  the  spring  of  1807,  when 
Dr.  James  C.  Baldwin  built  a  dam  and  erected  a  mill 
there.  The  settlement  was  first  called  Columbia,  but  in 
1817,  in  which  year  the  post  office  was  established,  the 
name  of  Baldwin's  Bridge  was  given  to  the  village.  The 
present  name  was,  however,  preferred  by  the  residents, 
and  it  later  became  recognized  by  the  post  office  depart- 
ment. The  town  was  very  prosperous  until  1819,  when 
the  opening  of  the  Erie  Canal  diverted  much  of  the  com- 
merce which  previously  had  passed  through  the  Seneca 
River,  and  for  a  time  the  village's  growth  was  retarded. 

The  village  was   incorporated  June   3,    1848. 

The  first  newspaper  in  this  part  of  the  country  was 
started  by  Samuel  B.  West  in  1844,  under  the  name  of 
the  Baldiuinsville  Republican.  Two  years  later  it  became 
the  property  of  C.  M.  Hosmer,  who  changed  the  name  to 
the  Onondaga  Gazette.  In  1878  it  became,  and  has  since 
remained,  the  Baldiuinsville  Gazette.  Its  files  contain  a 
wealth  of  local  matter  of  interest  to  the  historian. 

Plainville,  located  in  the  western  part  of  the  Town- 
ship of  Lysander,  was  originally  called  Wilson's  Corners, 
from  the  fact  that  William  Wilson  located  there  in  1 806. 


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Other  early  settlers  were  A.  B.  Scofield,  Ellas  Scofield, 
David  Carroll,  and  Peter  Voorhees,  grandfather  of  James 
L.  Voorhees  of  Baldwinsville.  Abram  Daily,  Marvin 
Adams,  Rulef  Schenck  and  John  Bratt  located  nearby  in 
1815  and  18 16.  When  the  post  office  was  opened  in 
1 82 1,  the  inhabitants  suggested  the  name  Farmersville, 
but  there  was  another  office  in  the  state  by  this  name  and 
the  department  designated  the  place  Plainville.  Mr. 
Stoddard,  Simon  Town,  John  Buck,  B.  B.  Schenck  and 
Lyman  Norton  were  the  early  postmasters.  The  mail 
was  received  and  dispatched  weekly  and  came  through 
the  Camillas  office. 

The  first  school  house  was  erected  in  1819  and  Amos 
Adams  was  the  first  teacher.  The  Christian  Church  was 
organized  in  1820;  the  edifice,  built  in  1831,  was  burned 
in  April,  1852,  and  replaced  by  the  present  structure  in 
1854.  For  thirty-nine  years,  until  1876,  the  people  looked 
to  Dr.  B.  B.  Schenck  for  medical  service. 

Lysander  was  settled  in  181 1,  being  first  called  Vickery's 
Corners,  from  several  families  of  that  name  who  located 
there.  In  181 7,  Chauncey  Betts  established  there  a  gen- 
eral store,  built  a  small  distillery  and  erected  a  potash 
factory.  It  then  became  known  as  Bett's  Corners,  until 
the  establishment  of  a  post  office  a  few  years  later.  Among 
the  early  settlers  of  this  section  were  W.  P.  Bump, 
Richard  Smith,  Grover  Buel,  Abram  van  Doren  and 
Alfred  Smith. 

No  better  description  of  the  pioneer  days  of  Lysander 
and  of  the  people  who  lived  there  can  be  given  than  that 
which  was  read  by  Dr.  B.  B.  Schenck  at  a  family  gath- 


46  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

ering  in  1 88 1.  On  October  13th.  of  that  year  a  reunion 
v/as  held  at  the  residence  of  John  Schenck,  in  Plainville, 
attended  by  four  brothers  and  four  sisters  of  the  eleven 
children  of  Rulef  Schenck.  After  dinner,  Benjamin  Baird 
Schenck   rerd   the  following: — 

The  present  gathering  is  at  the  end  of  a  long  series  of  years 
and  with  some  of  us  it  furnishes  an  opportunity  for  a  retro- 
spect of  nearly  two-thirds  of  a  century. 

The  review  with  me,  as  respects  our  immediate  family,  opens 
with  the  vision  of  a  train  of  five  wagons,  loaded  with  house- 
hold effects,  moving  westward.  One  wagon  carried  the  head  of 
the  family  with  the  children,  six  in  number,  and  his  niece,  our 
cousin.  We  were  journeying  from  a  region  occupied  for  several 
years  to  the  far  off  West,  and  though  then  very  young  in  years, 
I  have  a  memory  of  the  moving  procession  made  very  solemn 
by  the  spoken  farewells  of  parting  friends,  and  particularly  of  a 
father  and  mother  with  children  and  grand  children. 

The  tardy  movements  of  the  vehicles  along  the  muddy  roads 
of  a  March  season,  (the  frost  but  lately  going  out  of  the  ground 
making  places  almost  mirey)  made  probable  a  slow  and  tedious 
journey. 

The  season  of  the  year,  March  8,  1815,  was  the  time  for 
expected  rough  and  disagreeable  weather.  The  distance  to  be 
traveled,  120  miles,  which  was  duly  made  in  nine  days,  is  now 
made  in  nine  hours. 

Starting  from  a  locality  in  Montgomery  County,  some  six  or 
seven  miles  south  of  the  Mohawk  River,  town  of  Charleston, 
we  came  that  day  to  its  very  banks.  Then  we  drove  westward 
to  the  fabled  region  of  fever,  ague  and  Indians,  in  the  far  off 
Onondaga  County.  This  was  before  the  days  of  steam  and 
electricity,  those   annihilators  of   space   and  time. 

The  new  locality,  but  a  mile  or  so  from  this  very  spot,  fur- 
nished a  hospitable  domicil,  a  log  house,  for  us  to  occupy.  That 
spot  had  been  secured  by  purchase  in  advance  of  our  coming, 
so   that   the   tenure   of   the   place   was   not   doubtful;    indeed,   it 


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furnished  permanently  the  place  of  residence  for  both  our  parents 
for  the  balance  of  their  worthy  lives — the  one  for  37  years,  and 
the  other  for  42  years — and  is  still  the  residence  of  Rulef,  the 
youngest  born,  but  how  changed ! 

Then  the  unappropriated  wilds  furnished  pasturage  of  leeks 
and  leaves  for  the  stock  and  the  ample  range  in  territory,  with 
the  adventurous  inclination  to  wander  therein,  made  necessary 
the  clanging  cow-bell ;  hours  of  search  and  hunt  were  often  nec- 
essary, and  miles  of  travel  gone  over  to  return  them  to  the  fold. 

Myself,  at  first  too  young  for  this  particular  pursuit,  it  was 
duly  performed  by  the  older  ones,  often  by  him  who  now  fur- 
nishes the  invitation  to  this  family  gathering.  The  extent  of 
wilderness  being  nearly  the  whole  domain,  rendered  this  peregri- 
nation extremely  lonesome  and  tiresome.  The  heavy  growth 
of  stinging  nettles,  now  nearly  obsolete,  were  frightful  impedi- 
ments to  the  often,  if  not  always,  barefooted  boy.  The  hooting 
owl  and  buzzing  partridge  suddenly  breaking  the  gloomy  silence 
of  the  dense  forest,  would  thrill  the  hunter  with  emotions  such 
as  fright  gives  to  broken  contemplations. 

The  people,  or  neighbors  as  we  say,  were  those  living  any 
distance  off,  either  in  the  town  or  out  of  it.  Neighborhood  was 
not  the  exact  word,  an  individual  dweller  not  making  a  neigh- 
borhood. Joseph  Howe,  of  whom  our  father  purchased,  had 
just  left  the  premises,  but  I  could  name  a  David  Carrol,  a 
land  holder,  who  would  have  been  a  farmer  if  he  had  given 
his  time  to  working  the  soil  instead  of  fishing  and  hunting; 
also  a  Simon  Town  and  a  William  Wilson,  whose  son  William, 
one  year  after,  viz.,  April  14,  181 6,  took  to  him  for  wife,  our 
esteemed  cousin,  Polly  Shepard.  She  fell  a  victim  to  the  inci- 
dents and  frailties  of  life  and  left  him  and  us  in  1826;  and  of 
the  same  neighbor  Wilson,  his  son  Alfred  took,  December  22, 
1820,  one  of  our  sisters,  Sally,  from  our  household,  for  his  life 
companion.  That  association  and  companionship  continued  for 
some  35  years,  when  he  was  called  by  death  to  leave  behind  her, 
who  so  long  had  kindly  ministered  to  his  every  want.  Aged 
now,  and  widowed  over  27  years,  she  is  with  us  today,  the  eldest 
of   the   group. 


48  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

I  could  name  an  Abram  Dailey,  who  was  soon  followed  by 
a  John  Bratt,  whose  son  Peter,  in  due  course  of  time,  March 
1827,  came  into  the  family  for  a  place  and  relation,  and  worth- 
ily he  sustained  that  relation  for  46  years,  when  death  severed 
him  from  us.  A  year  or  so  later,  our  sister  Margaret,  his  con- 
sort,  yielded   to   disease   and   followed   him,  January   31,   1875. 

I  also  readily  recognize  a  Peter  Voorhees,  whose  family  in 
later  times  was  prominent  in  all  these  parts,  and  whose  grand- 
son, James  L.,  by  marriage  with  Eleanor,  our  niece,  the  daughter 
of  our  present  host,  gave  him  a  relationship  to  our  family. 
Eleanor  in  a  few  short  years  of  aggravated  suffering,  sank  into 
her  quiet  grave.  James  L.  changed  his  widowed  state  in  a 
couple  of  years,  by  marriage  to  Sarah  C,  our  niece,  youngest 
daughter   of  sister  Margare.t   and  Peter  JBratt. 

West  of  us,  across  the  Great  Bear  Swamp,  came  the  muffled 
sounds  of  ox  drivers,  log  rollers  and  ax  men — of  a  Sanborn,  a 
Critchet,  a  Van  Blaricom,  a  Hulet,  a  Bartlett,  a  Wright,  and 
later  a  Marselus,  a  Carncross,  a  Van  Horn,  a  Simmons,  a  Rel- 
yea,  a  Morrill  and  others,  a  succession  to  the  present  time.  The 
whoop  of  the  lost  cow  hunter  in  the  late  evenings,  was  replied 
to  by  other  whoops,  or  by  pounding  with  a  beetle  or  an  ax  on  a 
hollow  log  lying  at  the  wood  pile.  Again  I  turn  my  eye  south- 
ward and  I  spy  an  Elijah  Snow,  with  his  little  whisky  distillery 
on  the  bank  near  where  now  lives  B.  F.  Davis.  I  see  a 
Stoddard  just  north,  and  recognize  in  him  the  first  Post  Master 
for  our  present  post  office,  viz.  Plainville.  As  a  post  office 
is  the  most  public  institution  of  any  in  the  country,  the  frequency 
of  the  mails  is  the  best  announcer  of  such  a  recognition.  This 
received  a  weekly  mail  bag,  carried  on  horse  back,  and  put  up 
at  Camillus,  coming  through  Canal,  (now  Memphis)  and  ter- 
minating at  Lysander  and  return,  all  on  Saturday  of  each  week. 

I  see  at  a  glance  right  here  the  succession  of  Post  Masters 
for  this  office.  Next  to  Stoddard,  William  Wilson,  Simon  Town, 
John  Buck,  B.  B.  Schenck,  Lyman  Norton,  and  B.  B.  Schenck, 
the  present  incumbent.  Before  Simon  Town  was  Post  Master, 
we  received  our  mail  at  Lysander  and  I  presume  there  was  not 


JOHN   SCHKNCK 

1S04-1SS4 


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a  subscriber  to  a  regular  newspaper  in  the  whole  delivery  of 
this  office  for  the  first  ten  years.  Post  riders  or  others  might 
obtain  patrons  for  papers  and  deliver  them  to  such  patrons  with- 
out such  papers  entering  the  mails.  When  a  small  boy,  I  was 
gratified  by  our  parents  to  receive  the  Weeds  port  Sentinel  in  my 
own  name,  through  Herman  Pangburn,  for  a  bushel  of  corn  for 
the  paper  six  months. 

A  little  to  the  westward  of  this  Stoddard,  I  see  a  Daniel 
Dutcher,  a  Major  Sayles,  a  Costen,  a  Whitman  and  several 
others.  I  could  not  very  well  forget  a  Richard  Sullivan,  a 
military  musician,  an  officer  of  the  town,  and  father  of  daugh- 
ters enough  for  four  wives,  for  three  of  our  fraternity.  Two  of 
these,  Perlina  and  Parna,  the  eldest  of  his  family,  in  succession 
became  the  wives  of  him  who  is  the  centre  of  this  gathering, 
the  one,  from  October  13,  1831,  for  nearly  twenty  years,  the 
other,  for  the  brief  period  of  three  years. 

By  a  third  marriage,  in  the  autumn  of  1858,  with  Mrs.  Julia 
Parsels  Hall,  he  was  comforted  for  nearly  twenty-two  years,  or 
until  April  19,  1880.  Her  death  left  him  alone  for  the  third 
time.  [He  just  now  tells  me  that  this  is  fifty  years  from  his 
first  marriage,  October   13,   1831.] 

Our  neighbor  Sullivan  could  not  be  forgotten,  though  death 
took  him  from  us  more  than  twelve  years  ago.  The  strong  link 
that  binds  my  memory  to  him  is  she,  of  his  worthy  daughters 
Harriet,  who  has  been  my  prized  and  loved  companion  and  wife 
for  more  than  forty-two  years,  and  who  by  the  blessing  of  God 
is  with  me  today,  the  partner  of  my  declining  years. 

Nor  do  I  fail  to  remember  him,  when  I  review  the  past,  and 
see  in  the  pathway  of  a  brother,  James  L.,  whose  union  with 
the  daughter  of  another  neighbor,  was  dissolved  by  that  ruthless 
monster.  Death.  His  widowed  heart  was  comforted  by  the 
youngest  of  his  daughters,  N.  Maria,  with  whom  he  has  jour- 
neyed on  in  wedded  life  for  more  than  thirty  years,  and  both 
are  with  us  here  today. 

Not  far  out  of  the  direction  of  the  last  named  neighbor,  I 
see  an  Abram  Emerick,  who  out  of   a  large  family  of  children, 


50  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

furnished,  in  his  youngest  child,  Emerancy,  a  fit  and  worthy 
consort  for  our  youngest  brother  Rulef,  latest  born  of  our  par- 
ents, and  who  today,  although  far  beyond  the  meridian  of  life, 
and  after  a  union  of  more  than  thirty-one  years  is  here  to  indi- 
cate the  "rear  line"  in  age,  of  this,  one  of  the  pioneer  families 
of  the  town. 

Again  in  looking  for  neighbors,  I  see  a  John  P.  Schuyler, 
with  a  model  number  of  children  for  a  new  country,  viz. — 
fourteen.  A  Miles  Upson,  a  Garner  Smith,  a  Job  Loomis,  a 
Ben  Stevens,  a  Sam  Perry,  and  a  James  L.  Fenner.  The  last 
named  neighbor  furnished  two  worthy  sons  for  husbands  for  two 
of  our  sisters.  F.  W.,  the  elder  of  the  two,  took  from  our  already 
lessened  throng  of  family  inmates,  our  lively  sister  Eleanor  S., 
the  eldest  born  of  our  parents  in  this,  our  new  home.  Their 
marriage  relations  began  in  1834  and  continued  in  pleasant  har- 
mony till  1876,  a  period  of  forty-two  years.  How  long  and  yet 
how  short !  Her  widowed  heart  felt  keenly  the  loss  of  her  genial 
partner  and  valued  husband.  Wearied  of  the  lonesomeness  of 
her  so  greatly  changed  situation,  and  being  found  by  a  worthy 
citizen,  Perry  H.  Hinsdell,  of  another  town  (Salina),  in  this 
county,  whose  home  had  been  invaded  by  the  death  of  a  beloved 
wife,  they  changed  both  of  their  situations,  by  vowing  to  each 
other  and  receiving  the  rites  matrimonial.  They  are  here  present 
today  to  affiliate  in  this  commemoration  of  family  friendship 
and  allegiance. 

Russel  B.,  the  other  son,  and  the  younger  of  the  two — as 
neighbors'  sons  sometimes  will,  if  well  behaved — found  a  wel- 
come reception  to  the  abode  of  our  parents,  where  was  yet  re- 
maining in  single  life,  our  blithe  and  youngest  sister,  Hannah. 
With  lover's  art  and  brimful  worth  of  character  and  sense,  no 
wonder  of  his  conquest  there.  Who  would  not  yield  to  such 
attack?  He  took,  as  it  were,  the  nest-egg.  The  household  was 
robbed,  so  to  speak,  yet  the  robber,  if  he  were  one,  was  greeted 
with  the  favor  of  a  true  friend,  yea  a  family  relative.  A  few 
brief  years,  say  half-a-dozen,  and  a  feeling  of  Western  advan- 
tages operated  to  change  of  residence,  and  October,  1S44,  found 
them   severing   the   social   surroundings,    by   removing   from   the 


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state,  the  only  instance  in  all  this  large  family  of  taking  up 
abode  outside  the  state,  and  but  one  other  outside  the  county.  A 
fair  grade  of  prosperity  attended  them.  Several  times  have  they 
in  the  long  thirty-seven  years  of  Michigan  life,  returned  to  visit 
and  enliven  us.  Once  he  came  with  the  dead  body  of  our  Rush 
(who  died  at  his  home  in  Michigan),  that  it  might  be  safely 
guarded  on  its  passage  home,  so  that  it  might  have  its  long  and 
last  rest  in  the  cemetery  of  his  native  town. 

Now  they  come  to  make  us  a  long  and  may  be  a  final  visit, 
to  view  again  their  native  soil,  to  enter  the  cemeteries  of  their 
former  home  and  read  from  the  tomb-stones  the  well  remem- 
bered names  of  former  acquaintances,  friends  and  kin — a  gloomy 
pleasantry.  But  they  are  here,  and  right  welcome  are  they  too, 
,to  all  that  we  can  do  for  their  entertainment  and  enjoyment. 
Although  the  final  farewells  must  come,  the  present  is  full  of 
genuine  pleasure  on  account  of  their  presence. 

I  name  here,  for  we  cannot  forget  that  other  sister,  one  of 
the  party  from  the  East,  the  record  of  whose  birth  says: — 
"Catharine  Schenck,  born  February  ii,  1806,"  and  though  an- 
other record  says  she  "died  June  21,  1859,"  yet  we  all  remember 
her  well,  and  her  many  years  of  terrible  suffering  though  not 
all  spent  in  our  presence,  affix  in  our  memory  indelibly,  that 
one  of  our  number  in  the  lingering  thrall  of  disease,  had  re- 
teived  the  unbroken  care  of  a  kind  mother  while  she  lived,  and 
when  her  home  was  broken  up  by  the  death  of  our  parents, 
another  kind  sister  assumed  the  task  of  care  and  was  to  her  all 
that  a  sister  could  be. 

I  go  again  in  search  of  neighbors  of  that  early  period,  or  a 
little  later. 

Turning  my  eyes  northwest  it  meets  a  Daniel  Servoss,  a  Suel 
Holton,  a  Frederick  I.  Tator,  whose  youngest  daughter  Ann  L. 
was  for  a  brief  period  the  wife  of  our  brother,  James  L.  referred 
to  in  another  part  of  this  review.  Then  a  Josiah  Smith,  a 
Dennis  Kennedy,  a  Northrop  Preston,  a  Theophilus  Beebe,  a 
Samuel  Star,  a  Richard  Smith,  a  William  VanDorn,  an  Aaron 
F.  Vedder,  one  of  whose  sons,  James  S.,  became  the  son-in-law 


52  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

of  our  host,  and  with  his  family  now  resides  in  Washington, 
Kansas.  Then  a  Stuffle  Forncrook,  a  Cornelius  Hubbard,  a 
Chauncey  Betts,   a  Cornelius  Mount. 

These,  or  most  of  them  have  little  to  do  with  our  history, 
only  to  point  to  them  and  name  them  as  early  residents. 

Later  on  and  a  little  east  of  some  of  these,  I  discern  a  Gar- 
ret Vanderveer,  and  I  am  reminded  that  our  brother,  William 
B.,  found  and  married,  January  i8,  1843,  in  the  family  of  this 
neighbor,  a  wife,  a  prize  invaluable  to  him,  and  accepted,  be- 
loved and  cherished  by  us.  They  journeyed  prosperously  and 
happily  together  for  some  ten  years.  His  record  reads:  "W.  B. 
Schenck,  born  in  Lysander  November  5,  1819,  died  in  Lysander, 
March  17,  1853,  aged  33  years."  Over  twenty-seven  years  have 
rolled  by  since  the  separation,  yet  the  widow  has  continued  and 
remained  in  perfect  fraternity,  presenting  and  receiving  the 
kindly  reciprocities  of  the  entire  relationship.  Thanks  for  her 
willing  presence  today,  for  without  it,  would  be  a  vacuum  that 
she  alone  can  fill,  for  she  only  can  represent  our  deceased 
brother. 

Among  farmer  neighbors  and  contemporaries,  we  have  found 
sons-in-laws  and  daughters-in-law  for  all  but  one.  About  1830 
or  '31  came  Solomon  B.  Spaulding,  a  tradesman  of  the  order 
of  Crispin,  and  presented  inducements  acceptable  to  our  sister 
Eliza,  the  youngest  of  Montgomery  birth. 

He  was  duly  installed,  by  universal  consent,  a  member  of 
the  family,  by  matrimonial  rites,  July  14,  1832.  His  and  her 
struggles  in  life's  controversies  were  severe,  and  many  of  them 
of  doubtful  issue.  Industry  was  their  habit  and  hard  labor  was 
their  fortune,  honesty,  integrity  and  hospitality  their  character- 
istics. Companionable  and  well  informed,  his  position  in  society 
was  well  maintained.  Many  helps  and  encouragements  from 
him  have  I  received  and  I  know  not  the  time  he  was  not  my 
friend,  my  fast  friend.  Nor  did  I  ever  enter  their  door  that  I 
did  not  recognize  a  hearty  welcome  from  them  both,  and  I 
know  not  that  any  of  us  can  say  otherwise.  She  seemed  the 
nearest  to  me  in  age,  and  though  two  years  my  junior  her 
precocity  made  her  almost  my  equal  in  the  frequent  and  long 
searches  in  the  dense  and  distant  forests  for  the  straying  cow. 


F.LIZA  SCHENCK   SPAULDINCJ 

1811-1895 


American  History  53 

Our  memories  both  run  back  to  that  almost  dangerous  avoca- 
tion, when  we  were  scarcely  more  than  ten  years  of  age,  mere 
"Babes  in  the  Woods,"  ever  the  sister,  ever  the  friend.  The 
words  here  written  may  possibly  be  seen  by  other  eyes,  in  the 
coming  future,  but  they  will  not  give  the  full  impression  felt 
then  and  now  by  us,  so  much  does  each  live  his  own  live.  How 
very  much  would  memory  suggest,  but  I  forbear.  I  am  always 
glad  to  meet  you  but  doubly  glad  to  meet  you  here  today. 

Some  six  years  ago  a  few  of  us  met  here  to  celebrate  the 
seventj'-first  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  our  host.  Then  was 
Solomon  with  you.  You  have  both  been  here  since,  several  times 
perhaps,  he  in  his  state  of  morbid  health,  and  long,  almost  a 
wreck.  Today  he  is  not  here  and  the  reason  as  stated  I  copy 
"Fulton,  N.  Y.,  June  13,  1881.  Dear  Uncle: — Father  died  at  8 
o'clock  Saturday  night,  June  ii.  His  funeral  will  be  at  lo 
o'clock,  Wednesday,  at  the  house.  Will  be  buried  at  Plainville. 
Please  notify  friends." — Mary  Phelps. 

Widowed  at  seventy  years  when  almost  the  period  had 
arrived  for  your  Golden  Wedding,  only  a  year  or  so.  Having 
now  reached  your  three-score  years  and  ten,  the  allotment  to 
man  so  often  repeated,  bare  your  bereavement,  as  you  have 
borne    all    your  vicissitudes   of   life,   with   fortitude   and    heroism. 

A  few  statistics  and  I  am  done.  The  years  of  human  life 
lived  by  the  eleven  children  of  our  family  sum  up  685  years 
and  8  months.  Average  age,  62  3-11  years.  Of  the  eleven, 
eight  remain,  three  are  gone !  The  sum  of  the  ages  of  the  three 
is  154  years.  The  average  of  their  age  is  51  1-3  years.  The 
sum  of  the  years  of  the  eight  remaining  is  531  years  and  8 
months.  Average  age  is  66  years  5  months.  The  eldest  is  78 
years  8  months.  The  youngest  is  54  years  minus  ten  days.  Yet 
there  has  been  bereavement  and  mourning  in  this  family.  Hear 
the   necrologic   list: 

Wives  four,  sisters  two,  husbands  four,  brothers  one,  equals 
eleven.  Children  and  nieces  ten,  children  and  nephews  seven, 
equals  seventeen.  Making  twenty-eight  of  those  occasions.  Add 
our   parents   and  we  have  thirty. 


54 ScHENCK  Genealogy 

We  might  appropriately  say  with  the  pious   poet  Watis: 

"Save  us  O!  Lord,  aloud  we  pray, 
Nor  let   our  sun  go  down   at  noon. 
Thy  years   are  one  eternal  day, 
And  must  Thy  children  die  so  soon?" 

Our  sisters  given  in  marriage  to  our  neighbors'  sons,  and  our 
brothers  taking  wives  from  similar  sources  of  neighbors'  daugh- 
ters, somewhat  like  the  Banian  tree  that  has  given  as  many 
stems  and  stalks  to  the  family  tree.  The  boughs  and  branches 
of  these  stems  or  stalks  are  in  a  manner  covering  or  shading 
the  territory  of  and  about  the  original  homestead.  Their  fruits 
have  appeared  as  the  consecutive  years  have  passed.  The  whole 
number  born  to  a  name  is  forty-seven,  seventeen  of  whom  have 
gone  from  oflf  the  stage  of  life,  while  thirty  remain;  the  latter 
comparatively  sound  and  healthy  as  any  similar  number  taken 
from  any  family  record  of  the  country. 

BENJAMIN. 


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PART  II. 

THE  HOLLAND  ANCESTORS   OF  RULEF 
SCHENCK. 

The  ancestry  of  Roelof  Martense  Schenck,  the  first  of 
the  family  in  America,  and  from  whom  Rulef  Schenck 
is  traced  in  a  following  chapter,  has  been  worked  out, 
without  a  break,  to  the  year  1346.  The  records  of  one  or 
perhaps  two  generations  are  here  missing,  but  thanks 
to  the  researches  of  van  der  Dussen,  considerable  infor- 
mation is  at  hand  concerning  the  family  as  far  back  as 
939,  a  brief  outline  of  which  has  already  been  given. 

It  is  our  purpose  here  to  trace  the  unbroken  line  of 
descent  from  1346  to  1650,  in  the  latter  of  which  years 
Roelof  Martense  Schenck  with  his  brother,  Jan,  and 
sister,  Anetje,  came  to  America. 

In   1346,  the  head  of  the  family  was: — 

lA.     Heinrich  Schenck  van  Nydeck,  I.,  Knight,  Lord 

of  Afferden  and  Walbeck  and  Feoffer  of  Wachtendonk. 

He  married  Aleid  van  Rayde,  heiress  of  Walbeck. 

They  had  three  children: — 

2A.  I.  Wynand,  married  Aleid  van  Bellinghoven, 
heiress  of  Walbrick.  They  had  one  son  who 
died  young,  and  the  title  and  estates  on  Wyn- 
and's  death,  went  to  his  brother,  Heinrich   (3A). 


56  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

3A.        II.     Heinrich,  see  below. 

4A.     III.    Lisbeth,    a    nun    at    Graevendael.     Lisbeth   died 

September   29,    1443. 

3A.  Heinrich  Schenck  van  Nydeck,  II.,  son  of  Hein- 
rich (lA)  and  Aleid  van  Rayde,  Knight,  Lord  of  Affer- 
den,  Walbeck  and  Blyenbeck  (the  latter  purchased  by 
Wynand  in  1 405),  Feoffer  of  Wachtendonk,  married 
Alheid  van  Goen  van  Kaldenbrock,  daughter  of  Allard, 
Lord  van  Kaldenbrock  and  Anna  Monfoort.  Heinrich 
died  December  8,   1452. 

They  had   three  children: — 

V   5A.  I.     Diederich.     See  below. 

6A.  II.  Johann,  Lord  of  Walbeck,  Mayor  of  Mlddlelaer, 
1491,  married  Inugard  van  Schonan.  His  son, 
Arnold,  married  Isabella  van  Oest,  heiress  of 
Hillenrath,  and  thus  became  the  head  of  that 
branch  of  the  family.  Johann  died  May  24, 
1491. 
7A.  III.  Alheit,  married  Engelbert  van  Brempt,  Mayor 
of  Straden. 

'^-  5A.  Diederich  Schenck  van  Nydeck,  III.,  son  of  Hein- 
rich (3A)  and  Alheid  van  Goen  van  Kaldenbrock,  Lord 
of  Afferden  and  Blyenbeck,  Walbeck,  and  Arrsen,  mar- 
ried Adelheit  van  Buren,  daughter  of  Johann  van  Buren 
and  Aleid  van  Arendahl.  He  died  in  August,  1487. 
They  had   eleven  children : — 

Winand,  Lord  of  Arssen. 

Johann,   Lord   of   Blyenbeck   and  Afferden. 

Roelmann,  Lord  of  Walbeck. 

Derick.     See  below. 

Heinrich,  Lord  of  Horst. 

Petronella,  married  Frederich  van  Huls. 

Otto,   monk   at  Leigburg. 


8A. 

I. 

9A. 

II. 

loA. 

III. 

iiA. 

IV. 

12A. 

V. 

13A. 

VI. 

14A. 

VII. 

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isA.  VIII.  Thomas,  monk  at  Corneli  Munster, 

i6A.      IX.  Alheid,  nun  at  GrafenthaL 

17A,        X,  Anna,  nun   at  Grafenthal. 

18A.      XI.  Lisbeth,  nun  in  Gelden. 

V  1 1  A.  Derick  Schenck  van  Nydeck,  IV.,  son  of  Died- 
erich  (5A)  and  Adelhcit  van  Buren,  in  the  division  of 
his  father's  property  received  an  estate  in  the  Province 
of  Geldern,  the  estates  of  Nyfterich,  Myllingen  and 
Loet  and  the  court  Ter  Neirssan,  near  Hurst.  About 
15 15,  after  the  death  of  his  brothers,  he  became  Lord 
of  Blyenbeck  and  Afferden.  He  married  Alheit  Custcrs 
of  Arssen, 

They  had   nine  children : — 

Otto,   died   before    1485. 

Derick,   born   about    1485.     See   below. 

Peter,   became   Bailiff  of  Gibberfort. 

Heinrich,  born  about  1490. 

Johann,  born  about  1495. 

Winand,  became  a  priest. 
25A.    VII.     Adelhcid.  ' 

26A.  VIII*    Maria. 
27A.      IX.     Margaretha. 

^  ,2oA.  Derick  Schenck  van  Nydeck,  V.,  son  of  Derick 
(iiA)  and  Alheit  Custers,  was  born  about  1485.  He 
hVed  at  Goch  and  was  Lord  of  Afferden  and  Blyenbeck. 
He  married  Maria  van  Galen, 

They  had  one  child : — 

28 A.  I.     Dederick,  born  about  1507. 

28A.  Dederick  Schenck  van  Nydeck,  VL,  son  of 
Derick  (20A)  and  Maria  van  Galen,  was  born  about 
1507.  He  was  Lord  of  Afferden  and  Blyenbeck.  He 
lived  at  Goch  and  married  Anna  van   Berlaer. 


I9A. 

I. 

20A. 

II. 

2lA. 

III. 

22A. 

IV. 

23A. 

V. 

24A. 

VI. 

"*  3oA. 

II. 

jiA. 

III. 

32A. 

IV. 

33A. 

V. 

30A. 

Pet 

58 ScHENCK  Genealogy 

They  had  five  children: — 

39A.  I.  Martin,  born  at  Goch,  1543,  Knight.  General 
in  the  Netherlands  army,  killed  in  a  night  at- 
tack upon  the  City  of  Nimeguen,  August  11, 
1589. 

Peter,  born   1547.     See  below. 
Johann,  Colonel  in   the  Spanish  service. 
Maria  Margaretha. 
Maria  Magdelina. 

Peter  Schenck  vim  Nydeck,  VII.,  son  of  Deder- 
ick  (28A)  and  Anna  van  Berlaer,  was  born  at  Goch  in 
1547.  He  served  with  gieat  distinction  in  the  almost 
constant  wars  of  his  time,  attaining  the  rank  of  General 
in  the  service  of  the  Netherlands.  He  married  at  Does- 
burg,  May  17,  1580,  Johanna  van  Scherpenzeel. 

They  had   two  children: — 
34A.         I.    Wilhelmina. 
35A.       II.     Martin,  born  August  7,  1584. 

—  35A.  Martin  Schenck  van  Nydeck,  VIIL,  son  of 
Peter  (30A)  and  Johanna  van  Scherpenzeel,  was  born 
at  Doesburg,  August  7,  1584.  There  is  no  record  of 
his  marriage. 

He  had  three  children: — 
36A.         I.    Roelof  Martense,  IX.,  born  1619.     See  American 

Ancestors  of  Rulef  Schenck,  p.  6x. 
37A.        II.     Jan,  born  at  Amcrsfoort;   married   at   Flatlands, 

Long  Island,  Jannetje  Stephens  van  Voorhees. 
38A.     III.    Anetje,    married    at    Flatlands,    L.    I.,    July    29, 
^  1659,  to  Adrian  Reyersz. 

In  1650,  these  three  children  came  to  America.  It  is 
thought,  but  not  absolutely  proven,  that  they  embarked 
from  Holland  on  the  ship  "de  Valckener,"  Wilheim 
Thomasscn,   Captain,   sailing  some  time   in   March   and 


Holland  Ancestry  59 

landing  in  New  Amsterdam  June  twenty-eighth.  No 
record  of  the  father,  Martin,  has  been  found  in  this  coun- 
try, but  it  is  probable  that  he  came  with  the  family  and 
being  well  advanced  in  years,  may  have  died  shortly  after 
their  arrival. 

From  Roelof  and  Jan,  who  had  large  families,  there 
are  many  descendants  now  scattered  throughout  the 
United  States.  In  addition  to  these  families,  there  are 
also  the  descendants  of  Johannes  Schenck,  who  at  the 
age  of  27  years,  came  with  his  wife,  Maria  Magdalena 
de  Haes,  to  America  in  1683.  He  resided  for  a  time  at 
New  Amsterdam,  Esopus  (now  Kingston)  and  Flat- 
bush,  and  finally  located  permanently  at  Bushwick,  Long 
Island. 

The  relationship  between  the  descendants  of  Roelof 
and  Jan  on  the  one  hand  and  those  of  Johannes  on  the 
other,  may  be  accurately  traced,  as  each  family  goes  back 
to  Derick  Schenck  van  Nydeck  and  Alheit  Custers.  They 
had  nine  children,  the  second  of  whom  was  Derick  and 
the  third  Peter.  From  Derick  descended  in  the  fourth 
generation  Roelof  and  Jan;  from  Peter  descended,  also 
in  the  fourth  generation,  Johannes.  The  following  dia- 
gram shows  the  relation  of  these  two  families. 

There  is  no  other  family  by  the  name  for  any  long 
period  in  this  country  except  one.  In  1740,  Michael 
Schenck  emigrated  from  the  Palatinate  of  the  Rhine 
and  located  near  Lancaster,  Pa.,  and  his  descendants  are 
fairly  numerous  in  Pennsylvania,  Virginia  and  North 
Carolina.  They  are  of  German  and  not  Dutch  extrac- 
tion. 


60 


ScHENCK  Genealogy 


Roelof  Martense   Schenck    (la) — Neeltje  Geretsen  van   Couwen- 
hoven. 


Jan   (6a) 
Roelojf    (12a) 
John    (24a) 
Cornelius    (28a) 


Gerret  Roelof se   (7a) 

Koert 

i 
Rev.  William  Schenck 


Rulef  Schenck    (36a) 
Diagram    showing    the    relationship    between    Rulef    Schenck 
and  Rev.  William  Schenck,  from  the  latter  of  whom  is  descended 
the  Ohio  branch  of  the  family. 

Heinrich   (lA)   1346 

Heinrich    (3A) 

Diederich    (5A) 

Derick    (iiA) — Alheit  Custers 


Derick   (20A) 
Dederick   (28A) 
Peter    (30A) 
Martin  (3sA) 


Peter   (21A) 
Martin  (b.  1510) 
Theodore 
Martin   (b.  1633) 


Roelof  Jan  Johannes 

Flatlands,  L.  I.,  1650  Bushwich,  L.  I.,  1483 

Diagram    showing    the    relationship    of    the    Flatlands    and 
Bushwick  branches  of  the   Schenck   family. 


American  Ancestry 61 

THE  AMERICAN  ANCESTORS  OF  RULEF 
SCHENCK. 

I  a.  Roelof  Martense  Schenck,  I.,  was  born  at  Amers- 
foort,  Holland,  in  1619,  and  in  1650  came  to  New  Ams- 
terdam, settling  at  Flatlands,  Long  Island.  In  1660, 
he  married  Neeltje  Geretsen  van  Couwenhoven,  daughter 
of  Garret  Wolphertson  van  Couwenhoven.  She  was  born 
at  Flatlands  and  baptized  September  20,  1641. 

They  had  six  children: — 

za.  I.     Martin,  born  at  Flatlands,  L.  I.,  June  23,  1661; 

married  June  20,  1686,  Susanna  Abrahamse 
Brinkerhoff;  married,  second,  April  11,  1693, 
Elizabeth  Minnen  van  Voorhees;  married,  third, 
Janetye  van  Voorhees.  Martin  was  left  the 
homestead  farm  and  resided  there  until  his 
death.  May  2,  1721. 

3a.        II.    Anetje  was  born  at  Flatlands,  L.  I.,    about  1663 
I     1      ,     .      ;.'-:  ,^      and  June   10,   1681,  married   Jan  Alberte  Ter- 
hune.     She  died  about  1685. 

4a.  III.  Jonica  was  born  at  Flatlands,  L.  I.,  about  1665 
and  June  7,  1684,  married  Peter  Neefus. 

5a.  IV.  Marike  was  born  at  Flatlands,  L.  I.,  February 
14,  1667,  and  February  15,  1687,  married  Isaac 
Hegeman. 

6a.        V.    Jan,  born  March  i,  1670.    See  p.  62. 

7a.  VI.  Gerret  Roelofse  was  born  at  Flatlands,  L.  I., 
October  27,  1671,  and  1693  married  Neeltje 
Coerton  van  Voorhees,  baptized  December  5, 
1680.  He  died  at  Pleasant  Valley,  Monmouth 
County,  N.  J.,  September  5,  1745.  From  Gerret 
Roelofse  descended  the  Rev.  William  Schenck 
and  the  Ohio  branch  of  the  family. 

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62      ScHENCK  Genealogy " 

Neeltje  Geretsen  (van  Coliwenhoven)  Schenck  died 
in  1673  and  in  1675  Roelof  Martense  Schenck  (la)  mar- 
ried Anetje  Pieterse  Wyckoff. 

They  had   four  children: — 

8a.  VII.  Margaretta  was  born  at  Flatlands,  L.  I.,  Jan- 
uary 16,  i£6S,'  and  September  8,  1700,  married 
Cornelius  Willemse  van  Couwenhoven.  She 
died  at  Middletown,  N.  J.,  December  16,  1751. 
9a.  VIII.  Neeltje  was  born  at  Flatlands,  L.  I.,  January  3, 
1681,  and  about  1701  married  Albert  Willemse 
van  Couwenhoven.  She  died  at  West  Pleasant 
Valley,  Monmouth   County,   N.   J.,  July  7,   1751. 

10a.  IX.  Mayke  was  born 'ht  Flatlands,  L.  I.,  January  27, 
1684,  and  March  5,  1704,  married  Jan  Lucase 
van  Voorhees.  She  died  at  Flatlands,  November 
25,   1736. 

iia.  X.  Sara  was  born  at  Flatlands,  L.  I.,  baptized  De- 
cember 18,  1685,  and  November  12,  1705,  mar- 
ried Jacob  Willemse  van  Couwenhoven.  She 
died    at   Middletown,   N.  J.,   December    1,   1744. 

Anetje  Pieterse  (WyckoflE)  Schenck  died  and  November 
9,  1688,  Roelof  (la)  married  Catryntyna  Crigers.  Roelof 
(la)  died  in  1704.  His  will  was  probated  August  3, 
1705- 

6a.  Jan  Schenck,  II.,  son  of  Roelof  Martense  (la) 
and  Neeltje  Geretsen  (van  Couwenhoven)  Schenck,  was 
born  at  Flatlands,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.,  March,  1670,  and  mar- 
ried Sara  Willemse  van  Couwenhoven.  She  was  born  at 
Flatlands,   L.  I.,  December  27,   1674. 

They  had  ten  children. 
12a.  I.     Roelof,  born  February  21,  1692.    See  p.  63. 

13  a.        II.    Peter. 

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American  Ancestry  63 

14a.  III.  John,  baptized  in  1722. 

15a.  IV.  Ann. 

16a.  V.  Allchy. 

17a.  VI.  Maria. 

1 8a.  VII.  Sarah. --^ 

19a.  VIII.  Nellie. 

3oa.  IX.  Leah. 

31  a.  X.  Jane. 

Jan  Schenck  (6a)  died  at  Pleasant  Valley,  Monmouth 
County,  N.  J.,  January  30,  1753.  Sara  Willemse  (van 
Couwenhoven)   Schenck  died  January  31,  1761. 

12a.  Roelof  Schenck,  III.,  son  of  Jan  (6a)  and  Sara 
Willemse  (van  Couwenhoven)  Schenck,  was  born  at  Flat- 
lands,  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  February  21,  1692,  and  in 
1 7 16  married  Geesie  Hendrickson.  She  was  born  in 
October,  1696. 

They  had  five  children : 

22a.  I.     Sarah  was  baptized  in  1717  and  married  Joseph 

van  Mater. 

23a.  II.  Catherine  was  baptized  in  1718  and  married 
de   Hart  of   Long  Island. 

24a.       III.    John,  born  January  22,  1720.    See  below. 

25a.  IV.  Eleanor  was  baptized  in  1725  and  married  Gar- 
ret  Conover. 

26a.  V.  Hendrick  was  born  in  1731 ;  married  Katherine 
Holmes;   died  August  21,.  1766. 

Roelof  Schenck  (12a)  died  January  19,  1766.  Geesie 
(Hendrickson)  Schenck  died  September  20,  1747.  They 
are  buried  at  Pleasant  Valley,  N.  J. 

24a.  John  Schenck,  IV.,  son  of  Roelof  (12a)  and 
Geesie  (Hendrickson)  Schenck,  was  born  at  Pleasant 
Valley,  January  22,  1720,  and  November  26,  1741.  ^^^' 


64  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

ried  Jacamyntie  van  Couwenhoven.    She  was  born  October 
4,  1717- 

They  had  four  children : 

27a.  I.     Rulief    was    born    July    21,    1742,    and    married 

Sarah  Lippert.  They  had  three  sons,  Rulief 
(VI),  Daniel  and  Moses.  About  1800  the  fam- 
ily removed  to  Ohio,  locating  near  Cincinnati. 
28a.  II.  Cornelius,  born  September  19,  17+4.  See  below. 
29a.  III.  Gasha  was  born  September  14,  1748.  Married 
Aaron  van  Dorn. 

John  Schenclc  (24a)  died  June  27,  1749- 

28a.  Cornelius  Schenck,  V.,  son  of  John  (24a)  and 
Jacamyntie  (van  Couwenhoven)  Schenck,  was  born 
September  19,  1744,  and  July  3,  1765,  married  Margaret 
(Taylor),  the  widow  of  James  Hankenson.  She  was 
born  in  New  Jersey,  in  November,  1742. 

They  had  six  children: 

Eleanor  was  born  July  11,  1766. 
Gasha  was  born   September   18,   1767. 
John  was  born   in   New   Jersey,    April   7,    1770. 
He    married     Mary   Quackenbush.       They    had 
fourteen  children.     He  died  January  8,   1850,   at 
Springport,  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y. 
Mary  was  born  March  29,  1772. 
Margaret  was  born  April   21,    1774. 
Rulef,  born  August  4,  1776.     See  p.  65. 

Cornelius  Schenck  (28a)  died  in  January,  1790- 


30a. 

I. 

3". 

II. 

32a. 

III. 

33a. 

IV. 

34a. 

V. 

35a- 

VI. 

PART  III. 

THE  DESCENDANTS  OF  RULEF  SCHENCK 

1.  Rulef  Schenck,  VI.  was  born  in  Freehold,  Mon- 
mouth Co.,  New  Jersey,  August  4,  1776.  In  1802,  he 
married  Elsie  Baird,  daughter  of  William  and  Caroline 
Baird.  She  was  born  in  Millstone,  Somerset  Co.,  N.  J., 
March  8,  1785. 

They  had  twelve  children: 

2  I.     Sally,  born  February  2,  1803.     See  p.  66. 
3  II.     John,  born  June  12,  1804.     See  p.  67. 
4  III.     Catherine  was  born  February  ii,  1806,  at  Charles- 
ton,  Montgomery   County,    New    York.     In    1815 
she  removed  with  the  family  to  Onondaga  County 
and  lived  on  the  Homestead  in  Lysander  until  the 
death    of    her    parents.       After   the    death    of    her 
mother  in  1857,  she  resided  with  her  sister  Eliza 
in    Plainville,    Onondaga    County,    N.    Y.,    where 
she  died  June  21,  1859.     Catherine  never  married. 
5  IV.     Margaret,  born  August  26,  1807.    See  p.  70. 

6  V.     Benjamin  Baird,  born  July  20,  1809.    See  p.  70. 
7  VI.     Eliza,  born  Aoril  13,  i8ii.     See  p.  74. 
8  VII.     Son,   unnamed,   born   June   17,   1813;   died   July  4, 

1813. 
9  VIII.     Eleanor,  born  April  30,  1815.     See  p.  74. 

10  IX.     Hannah  V ,  born  August  13,  1817.    See  p.  76. 

II  X.     William  Baird,  born  November  5,  1819.    See  p.  78. 
12  XI.     James  L.,  born  May  25,  1823.     See  p.  79. 
13  XII.     Rulef,  born  October  23,  1827.    See  p.  80. 


66  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Rulef  Schenck  ( i )  died  at  the  Homestead,  near  Plain- 
ville,  N.  Y.,  April  15,  1852.  Elsie  died  at  the  same  place 
five  years  later,  November  3,  1857. 

There  were  born  of  these  parents  twelve  children,  of 
whom  one  died  in  infancy  and  one  at  the  age  of  33  years. 
Of  the  other  ten,  Sally,  Eliza,  Eleanor  and  Hannah  lived 
to  be  80  or  more  years  of  age.  The  average  age  of  the 
eleven  children  who  lived  to  adult  life,  was  70  years,  1 
month  and  15  days. 

SEVENTH  GENERATION  IN  AMERICA. 

2.  Sally  Schenck,  VII.,  daughter  of  Rulef  (i)  and 
Elsie  (Baird)  Schenck,  was  born  at  Charleston,  Mont- 
gomery County,  N.  Y.,  February  2,  1803,  and  December 
22,  1830,  married  Alfred  Wilson,*  son  of  William  and 
Mary  Wilson.    He  was  born  in  Vermont,  April  29,  1798. 

They  had  nine  children: 

14  I.    Austin  Wycoff,  born  October  18,  1821.     See  p.  80. 

15  II.     Charlotte  M.,  born  February  25,   1824.     See  p.  81. 

16  III.     Dennis  Kennedy,  born  August  23,  1825.     See  p.  81. 

17  IV.     Jane  Ann,  born  July  23,  1827.    See  p.  81. 

i8  V.  Orinda  M.,  was  born  November  17,  1830.  She  re- 
mained single  and  died  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  Feb- 
ruary 20,   1851. 

19  VI.    Louisa  A.,  born  March  27,  1834.    See  p.  82. 


•Note  on  the  Wilson  Family. — William  Wilson,  the  father  of 
Alfred  Wilson,  was  a  preacher  in  the  Christian  Church.  In  1806 
he  and  his  family  removed  from  Vermont  to  the  wilderness  of  Cen- 
tral New  York.  He  located  in  Lysander  Township  and  the  little 
•ettlement  which  grew  in  the  vicinity  of  his  residence  became  known 
as  Wilson's  Corners.  In  1821  a  post  office  was  established  and  the 
name    was  changed   to   Plainville. 


SAJ.L^'  SCHENCK   WILSON 

1803-18S3 


T«L*[: 


Seventh  Generation  67 

20  VII.  James  Alfred  was  born  November  12,  1837.  He 
remained  on  the  homestead  of  his  father  and  be- 
fore attaining  his  majority  came  into  possession  of 
the  farm  by  purchase,  but  owing  to  failing  health, 
he  relinquished  the  property  and  sought  to  regain 
his  strength  by  a  trip  to  Florida.  He  died  at  Jack- 
sonville, Florida,  January  8,  1858.  James  never 
married. 
21  VIII.  William  H.  was  born  June  15,  1840,  and  died  Feb- 
8,  1841. 
22  IX.  Francis  A.  was  born  June  28,  1842,  and  died  May 
28,   1845. 

Alfred  and  Sally  lived  on  the  Wilson  Farm  in  the 
Township  of  Lysander,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  until 
Alfred's  death,  which  occurred  February  4,  1854.  Sally 
continued  to  reside  there  until  April,  1868,  when  she 
removed  to  Meridian,  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y.,  where  she 
made  her  home  with  her  daughter,  Charlotte,  until  July, 
1882.  She  then  removed  to  the  home  of  her  daughter, 
Jane  Ann,  dying  there  December  15,  1883. 

3.  John  Schenck,  VII.,  son  of  Rulef  (i)  and  Elsie 
(Baird)  Schenck,  was  born  at  Charleston,  Montgomery 
County,  N.  Y.,  June  12,  1804,  and  October  13,  1830, 
married  Perlina,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Nancy  Sullivan. 
(See  pp.  68,  70  and  79.)  She  was  born  December 
19,  1810. 

They  had  seven  children: 

23  I.    Elsie  was  born  August  3,  1831,  and  died  April  24, 
1832. 
24  II.    Parna  Eleanora,   born  September  2,   1833.     See   p. 
82. 
25  III.     Harriet  Livona,  born  September   12,   1836.     See  p. 
83. 


68  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

26  IV.     James   Harvey   was   born  July   11,   1840,   and   died 

February  5,  1843. 
27  V.     John  Sullivan,  born  March  i,  1844.     See  p.  83. 
28  VI.     Nancy   Theresa    was   born    December   1,    1846,    and 

died    May   19,    1851. 

29  VII.     Perlina  Adele,  born  May  5,  1851.    See  p.  84. 

Perlina  (Sullivan)  Schenck  died  June  6,  1851.  John 
Schenck  (3)  married,  July  21,  1852,  Mrs.  Parna  Gorham, 
widow  of  Freeman  Gorham,  daughter  of  Richard*  and 
Nancy  Sullivan,  and  sister  of  his  first  wife. 

They  had  one  child : 

30  I.     Benjamin  Freeman,  born  January  11,  1854.     See  p.  84. 
Parna  (Sullivan)  Schenck  died  January  27,  1857.    On 

September  7,  1858,  John  again  married,  taking  for  his 
third  wife,  Mrs.  Julia  Hall,  who  resided  at  Conquest, 
Cayuga  County,  N.  Y.  They  had  no  children.  Julia 
(Hall)  Schenck  died  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  April  19,  1880. 
John  Schenck  (3)  died  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  May  3, 
1884,  and  was  buried  in  the  village  cemetery. 

The  following  obituary,  published  at  the  time  of  John 
Schenck's  death,  gives  a  vivid  picture  of  the  man  and 
his  sterling  character: 

The  community  of  Plainville  has  just  been  called  to  experi- 
ence a  common  sorrow  in  the  demise  of  Deacon  John  Schenck, 
who  departed  this  life  on  Saturday  last,  after  a  week's  illness. 
All  the  ministrations  of  the  affectionate  son  and  daughter-in-law, 
and  of  the  skillful  and  worthy  physician,  were  unavailing  to 
restore  health;  and  so  we  bow  in  sorrow  to  the  inscrutable  way 
and  will  of  Providence. 


•Note. — Richard  Sullivan  was  a  son  of  John  and  Sybal  Sullivan 
and  was  born  May  13,  1792.  He  was  married  August  19,  1809,  to 
Naacy  Faulkner,  at  Green,  Chenango  County,  N.  Y.  Nancy  (Faulk- 
ner)  Sullivan  was  born  October  11,   1790,   and  died  February  14,  1850. 


Seventh  Generation  69 

For  sixty-nine  years,  John  Schenck  has  been  a  worthy  and 
respected  citizen  of  the  town  of  Lysander.  Many  important 
trusts  were  committed  to  his  care,  and  his  integrity  remains  un- 
questioned. In  every  question  relating  to  the  public  good,  he 
was  actively  and  deeply  interested.  Ke  was  a  modest  man,  and 
yet  was  fearless  for  and  in  the  right.  Keen  perception,  honest 
judgment,  strong  convictions,  with  moral  courage,  were  among 
his  characteristics  as  a  parent,  a  citizen,  and  a  man.  He  en- 
couraged and  assisted  the  young,  helped  the  unfortunate,  min- 
istered  to  the  poor,   and  sympathized  with   the   sorrowing. 

In  1842  he  publicly  professed  loyalty  to  God,  united  with 
the  Christian  Church  at  Plainville,  and  remained  an  honured 
and   respected  member  until  called  to  "join  the  choir  invisible." 

Forty  years  of  Christian  service  revealed  the  true  character 
of  the  man.  His  faithfulness,  self-sacrifice,  and  devotion  to 
religion  are  well-known.  He  was  a  contented  burden-bearer, 
counting  it  ?».  pleasure  to  not  only  live  but  work  for  his  God 
and  Savior.  Here  he  will  be  sadly  missed,  for  his  seat  is  empty. 
In  social  life,  his  presence  was  an  inspiration  and  a  welcome 
addition  to  every  circle  of  society.  His  counsel  was  wise,  his 
influence  great,  his  life,  as  a  whole,  exemplary.  He  was  every- 
body's friend,  and  was  familiarly  called  "Uncle  John"  by  all. 
The  young  were  attracted  in  love  and  confidence  toward  him, 
and  the  aged  respected  him,  worthily.  Truly,  our  loss  is  great 
in  his  death;  but  we  confidently  believe  that  that  which  is  our 
affliction,  works  out  for  him  a  far  more  exceeding  weight  of 
glory.  The  united,  sincere  sorrow  of  the  Church  and  society 
can  only  be  healed  by  the  grace  of  a  kind  Providence. 

Funeral  services  were  held  at  his  late  residence  and  also 
at  the  Church  in  Plainville,  Tuesday.  The  large  gathering  of 
relatives  and  friends  bore  witness  to  the  sincere  sorrow  of  all. 
Rev.  W.  J.  Grimes,  of  Memphis,  a  life-long  friend  of  the  de- 
ceased, was  present,  and  in  obedience  to  the  personal  request  of 
the  deceased,  conducted  the  funeral  services,  assisted  by  Rev.  E.  E. 
Colburn,  pastor  of  the  Church.  The  Good  Templars  presented 
a  beautiful  floral  pillow,  as  a  slight  mark  of  appreciation  to 
the  memory  of  one  who  was  a  true  and  interested  member  of 
their  order. 


70  SCHENCK    GeNFALOGY 

Thus  all  that  was  mortal  of  our  father,  brother,  friend,  was 
laid  in  the  house  appointed  for  all  living,  to  await  God's  call 
to  life  and  love  in  eternity.  The  family  of  the  deceased  have 
the  sympathy  of  all  in  their  bereavement.  E.  E.  C. 

5.  Margaret  Schenck,  VII.,  daughter  of  Rulef  (l) 
and  Elsie  (Baird)  Schenck,  was  born  at  Charleston, 
Montgomery  County,  N.  Y.,  August  26,  1807,  and  April 
II,  1827,  married  Peter  Bratt,  son  of  John  and  Rebecca 
Bratt.     He  was  born  July  21,  1802. 

They  had  five  children: 

31  I.     Eliza  Ann  was  born  April  lo,  1828,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 2,   1842. 
32  II.     John,  born  December  17,  1831.     See  p.  85. 

33  III.     Elsie,  born  September  19,  1833.     See  p.  85. 

34  IV.     Sarah  Catherine,  born  July  12,  1838.     See  p.  86. 
35  V.     Peter  Schenck,  born  February  7,  1846.     Gee  p.  86. 

Peter  Bratt  died  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  April  14,  1874. 
Margaret  (Schenck)  Bratt  (5)  died  at  Plainville,  Jan- 
uary 31,  1875. 

6.  Benjamin  Baird  Schenck,  VII.,  son  of  Rulef  (1) 
and  Elsie  (Baird)  Schenck,  was  born  at  Charleston, 
Montgomery  County,  N.  Y.,  July  20,  1809,  and  June 
21,  1838  married  Harriet,  daughter  of  Richard  and 
Nancy   Sullivan.    (See   pp.   67,   68   and    79).      She  was 

born  near  Cross  Lake,  in  the  Town  of  Lysander,  On- 
ondaga County,  N.  Y.,  January  10,  1817. 

They  had  three  children : 

36  I.  Benjamin  Rush  was  born  at  Plainville,  June  12, 
1839.  At  the  age  of  four  years  he  was  able  to  read 
and  manifested  a  remarkable  interest  in  nature  and 
scientific  facts.     At  the   age  of  ten  his  father,  who 


mar(;ari:t  schenck  bratt 

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Sev^enth  Generation  71 

was  then  postmaster,  found  him  capable  of  doing 
the  routine  work  of  the  office  and  divided  the  in- 
come with  him.  By  his  fourteenth  year,  Benjamin 
had  accumulated  a  library,  extensive  for  that  per- 
iod. Although  he  had  but  meager  advantages  in 
the  way  of  education,  he  obtained  a  teacher's  cer- 
tificate at  sixteen  years  of  age  and  taught  school 
in  Van  Buren.  The  following  summer  he  attended 
the  Monroe  Collegiate  Institute  at  Elbridge,  N.  Y., 
where  he  became  the  intimate  friend  of  Professor 
Wilson.  In  1856-57,  he  taught  at  Lysander,  and 
the  next  year  returned  to  the  Institute  at  Elbridge. 
The  winter  of  1857  2"^  1858  he  spent  teaching  a 
select  school,  held  in  the  hall  above  the  store  of 
his  father   in  Plainville. 

Benjamin  Rush,  or  Rush  as  he  was  called,  then 
attended  the  Academy  at  Homer.  In  '59  and  '60 
he  taught  at  Truxton,  Cortland  County,  but  he  had 
to  relinquish  the  school  on  account  of  failing  health. 

In  the  spring  of  1861  he  visited  relatives  in 
Michigan  and  Illinois  and  obtained  a  position  to 
teach  at  Berrien,  Michigan.  In  a  letter  sent  to  his 
home,  he  stated  that  "it  was  just  the  situation  he 
had  so  earnestly  longed  for,"  but  added  that  it 
seemed  to  him  that  he  would  never  teach  the  school. 
While  waiting  for  the  term  to  open,  he  remained 
with  his  aunt,  Hannah  Schenck  Fenner,  at  Plain- 
well.  On  the  3rd.  of  September  he  was  taken  ill 
and  died  September  14,  1862.  He  was  interred  at 
Plainville,   N.  Y. 

Benjamin  Rush  Schenck  possessed  in  a  remark- 
able degree  that  intellectual  superiority  which  over- 
comes surrounding  obstacles,  and  which  local  seclu- 
sion cannot  withhold  from  general  appreciation. 
37  II.  Adrian  Adelbert,  born  March  26,  1842.  See  p.  87. 
38  III.  Henrietta  Maria,  born  November  lo,  1843.  See  p. 
91. 


72  ScHENCK  Genfalogy 

Benjamin  Baird  Schenck  (6)  died  at  Memphis,  N. 
Y.,  March  22,  1883.  Harriet  (Sullivan)  Schenck  died 
at  Merriphis,  February  2,  1899.  They  are  buried  in  the 
cemetery  at  Plainville. 

Benjamin  Baird  Schenck,  M.  D.,  was  the  fifth  child  and  the 
second  son  of  Rulef  and  Elsie  Baird  Schenck.  When  a  lad  of 
six  years,  he  removed  with  the  family  from  Montgomery  County 
to  Onondaga  County  and  his  early  years  were  spent  on  the  farm 
which  his  father  took  up  in  Lysander  Township.  As  he  grew 
to  manhood,  it  became  evident  that  physically  he  was  not  strong 
enough  for  the  strenuous  life  of  the  farm,  and  at  the  age  of 
twenty-three  he  entered  the  private  school  of  T.  W.  A.llis,  in 
Skaneateles,  where  he  remained  eighteen  months,  except  iCr  a 
short  interval  during  which  he  was  engaged  in  teaching  district 
school.  In  1834  he  attended  one  term  at  the  Homer  Academy,  and 
the  following  spring  began  the  study  of  medicine  under  Dr.  Joseph 
H.  Skinner,  of  Plainville.  In  the  winter  of  1835  and  1836,  he 
attended  lectures  at  the  medical  college  at  Fairfield,  N.  Y.,  and 
his  final  course  was  pursued  at  the  Geneva  Medical  College, 
from  which  he  received  a  diploma  to  practice  February  lo,  1835. 
Soon  after  this  he  began  practice  in  Plainville. 

Not  being  satisfied  with  the  science  of  regular  medicine,  as 
taught  and  practiced  at  that  time,  Doctor  Schenck  took  up  the 
subject  of  homeopathy  and  after  several  years  of  investigation 
adopted  it  as  his  mode  of  practice. 

In  1844  he  united  with  the  Christian  Church  of  Plainville 
and  two  years  subsequent^',  June,  1846,  at  the  Christian  Con- 
ference in  Dundee,  he  was  admitted  a  member  of  that  body  and 
given  the  credentials  of  "an  ordained  minister  of  the  Gospel  of 
Jesus  Christ."  He  was  a  close  student  of  the  Bible  and  spent 
much  of  his  time,  not  taken  up  with  the  activities  of  practice, 
in  searching  the  Scriptures.  Four  years  after  his  ordination,  a 
conference  of  the  Christian  Church  declared  him  "out  of  har- 
mony with  the  church  on  account  of  his  literal  interpretation 
of  the  Bible."  He  continued,  however,  for  several  years  to 
preach  the  doctrines  he  had  imbued  from  his  study  of  the  Scrip- 


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Seventh  Generation  73 

tures.  In  1862  he  commenced  the  study  of  Greek  and  read 
most  of  the  Bible  in  that  language. 

In  1853  he  took  his  brother-in-law,  Doctor  Sullivan,  who  for 
three  years  had  been  his  student,  into  partnership  with  him  and 
two  3'ears  later  withdrew  from  practice  to  enter  into  mercantile 
business.  He  opened  a  general  store  in  Piainville.  The  panic  of 
1857  and  the  Civil  War  seriously  embarrassed  him  and  he  re- 
sumed practice.  He  was  postmaster  from  1849  to  1853,  was  re- 
appointed in  1863  and  held  the  office  until  he  retired  from  busi- 
ness life.  He  held  a  lieutenant's  commission  in  the  State  Militia 
for  four  years  and  a  captain's  for  seven  years.  He  continued 
to  practice  medicine  until  1876,  when  he  removed  to  Memphis, 
N.  Y.,  to  make  his  home  with  his  daughter,  Henrietta.  While 
residing  there  his  professional  services  were  frequently  sought, 
especially  in  consultation.     He  died  at  Memphis,  March  22,  1883. 

Dr.  Benjamin  Baird  Schenck  was  untiring  in  his  energy  and 
industry.  He  was  possessed  of  a  genial  disposition  which  won 
him  many  friends  and  was  ever  ready  to  help  those  in  sorrow 
or  in  distress. 

The  following  tribute  to  his  memory  was  adopted  by  the 
Central  New  York  Medical  Society  at  a  meeting  held  on  Sep- 
tember 20,   1883: 

"Benjamin  Baird  Schenck,  M.  D.,  was  among  the  earliest 
converts  from  the  Old  School  to  Homeopathy  in  the  County  of 
Onondaga,  and  was  always  faithful  to  its  law  in  his  treatment 
of  the  sick.  He  was  an  organic  member  of  this  society  and 
almost  always  present  at,  and  active  in  its  meetings.  He  passed 
away  from  us  on  the  22nd.  of  March,  1883.  In  his  death,  we 
as  a  society,  feel  that  we   have   lost  one  of  our  best. 

"A  man  true  in  all  the  relations  of  life;  skillful,  modest,  and 
sympathetic  as  a  physician;  patriotic  and  public-spirited  as  a 
citizen;  and  noble,  just  and  true  as  a  man;  a  Christian  gentle- 
man. 

"As  a  society,  we  extend  our  sympathies  to  his  family  and 
friends  in  their  loss. 

Wm.  a.  Hawley, 
A.    J.    Brewster, 
Wm.   M.  Gwynn, 

Committee." 


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7.  Eliza  Schenck,  VII.,  daughter  of  Rulef  (i)  and 
Elsie  (Baird)  Schenck,  was  born  in  Charleston,  Mont- 
gomery County,  N.  Y.,  April  13,  181 1,  and  July  14, 
1832,  married  Solomon  B.  Spaulding,  son  of  Solomon 
and  Mary  Spaulding.  He  was  born  at  Boston,  Mass., 
January  27,  1808. 

They  had  four  children : 

39  I.     Burns,  born  March  25,  1833.     See  p.  91. 
40  II.     Mary  C,  born  October  30,  1837.    See  p.  92. 
41  III.     Annie  Laura,  born  April  28,  1843.    See  p.  92. 
42  IV.     Dealia,  born  February  2,  i85o.    See  p.  92. 

Solomon  B.  Spaulding  died  at  Fulton,  Oswego  County, 
N.  Y.,  June  11,  1881  and  was  buried  at  Plainville,  N.  Y. 
Eliza  (Schenck)  Spaulding  (7)  died  at  the  home  of  her 
daughter,  Mary  C.  Phelps,  Fulton,  N.  Y.,  on  February 
27>  1895.  The  funeral  was  held  at  Fulton  and  burial 
took  place  at  Plainville. 

9.  Eleanor  Schenck,  VII.,  daughter  of  Rulef  (i)  and 
Elsie  (Baird)  Schenck,  was  born  in  the  Township  of 
Lysander,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  April  30,  181 5,  and 
June  26,   1834,  she  married  Frederick  W.  Fenner,*  son 


*NoTE  ON  THE  Fenner  Family. — The  History  of  the  Fenner  Family, 
compiled  by  Lucinda  T.  Fenner,  of  Plainwell,  Mich.,  and  published 
in  1908,  gives  in  a  very  interesting  manner  the  early  history  of  this 
family. 

Captain  Arthur  Fenner,  the  ancestor  of  Frederick  W.  and  Russell 
B.  Fenner,  was  born  in  England  in  1C22.  He  arrived  at  Providence, 
R.  I.,  February  27,  1649,  and  until  his  death  in  1703  lived  about  four 
miles  from  that  city.  His  second  son,  Thomas,  had  eleven  children, 
the  sixth,  Joseph,  having  been  born  in  1693.  The  latter  had  six 
children,  the  youngest  of  whom,  born  in  1737,  was  Asahel,  who  had 
two   sons,    James   L.    and   Joseph. 

James  L.  Fenner  was  born  in  Rhode  Island  in  1777.  In  1801  he 
married  Betsey  Perry,  a  relative  of  Commodore  Perry,  the  naval  hero 
of  the  war  of  1812.  The  spring  following  their  marriage  they  moved 
to  New  York  State,  settling  temporarily  in  the  vicinity  of  Manlius, 
Onondaga  County.  In  1804  they  located  at  Pompey,  where  James 
erected  the  first  saw  mill  and  was  a  partner  in  the  first  grist  mills. 
During  the  residence  in  Pompey  six  children  were  born,  the  fourth 
being  Frederick  W.,  and   the  fifth,   Russell   B.   Fenner.     These  brothers 


ELEANOR  SCHENCK  FENNER 

1815-1899 

FREDERICK  W.    FENNER 

1811-1876 


I  THE  Nl^wyopv' 


Seventh  Generation  75 

of  James  L.  and  Betsey   (Perry)   Fenner.     He  was  born 
September  9,  181 1,  at  Pompey,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y. 

They  had  six  children: 

43  I.     Frederick   Byron  was   born   February  7,    1835,   and 
died   May  30,   1836. 
44  II.     James  Rulef,  born  August  12,  1836.     See  p.  93. 

45  III.     Avis  Melissa,  born  in  Lysander,  N.  Y.,  June  6,  1839. 

46  IV.     Sarah  Ellen,  born  September  3,  1841.     See  p.  93. 
47  V.     Frederick  William,  born  June  11,  1847.     See  p.  94. 

48  VI.     Franklin    Eddy    was    born    in    Lysander,    April    15, 
1853,  3nd  died  April  lo,  1857. 

Frederick  W.  Fenner  died  near  Jacksonville,  N.  Y., 
February  24,  1876.  Eleanor  (Schenck)  Fenner  (9) 
married  December  12,  1878,  Perry  Hazard  Hinsdell,  of 
the  Township  of  Salina,  Onondaga  County,  N,  Y. ;  he 
was  born  April  21,  1820,  and  died  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
March  12,   1907. 

Eleanor  (Schenck  Fenner)  Hinsdell  (9),  died  Decem- 
ber 31,  1899,  ^nd  was  buried  beside  her  first  husband  at 
Jacksonville,  N.  Y.  An  obituary  notice  pubished  at  the 
time  of  her  death  is  as  follows : 


were   of   the  sixth    generation    in    America. 

In  1818  the  family  removed  to  Lysander,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y., 
where  James  L.  died  January  16,  1851.  Three  of  the  sons,  Darius 
P.,  Russell  B.,  and  Luther,  removed  to  Michigan,  the  former  in  1840, 
the  two  latter  in    1844. 

Frederick  W.  Fenner,  the  fourth  son  of  James  L.  and  Betsey 
Perry  Fenner,  removed  from  Pompey  to  Lysander,  with  the  others 
of  the  family,  when  six  years  of  age.  It  has  been  scid  of  him:  He 
was  an  earnest  advocate  of  reform  and  a  prominent  temperance  worker, 
alive  to  all  educational  progress.  His  opportunities  for  attending 
school  were  limited,  but  being  a  great  reader  and  thinker,  he  kept 
pace  with  the  times,  although  he  was  a  busy,  hardworking  farmer. 
He  taught  school  when  eighteen  years  of  age  with  success,  and  also 
taught  several  terms  after  he  was  married.  He  was  the  first  town 
superintendent  of  schools  appointed  by  the  governor.  Whatever  office 
he  held,  he  was  conscientious  in  administering  for  the  public  good 
and  not  for  self-interest  or  gain.  He  was  a  friend  to  the  needy.  He 
was  a  fluent  speaker  and  his  impromptu  speeches  would  do  credit  to 
those  who  have  the  present  opportunities.  History  of  the  Fenner 
Family. 


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Eleanor  Schenck  Fenner  Hinsdell  entered  into  rest  December 
31,  1899. 

In  the  passing  of  "Annt  Ellen"  from  this  life,  disappears  the 
last  of  the  generation,  and  the  last  of  the  household  of  one  of 
the  pioneers  of  Lysander  Township. 

In  March,  1815,  Rulef  Schenck  and  his  wife  Elsie  Baird 
Schenck,  with  their  six  children  left  Charleston,  Montgomery 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  journeyed  in  a  wagon  train  to  Lysander, 
Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  to  take  up  their  abode  in  a  log  house 
which  had  been  built  for  them  in  the  wilderness. 

Soon  after  their  arrival  Eleanor  was  born  and  grew  to 
womanhood  on  the  farm,  doing  her  share  of  the  household  duties 
as  she  grew  into  them,  which  in  those  days  were  very  arduous, 
as  all  the  cloth  for  the  garments  worn  by  the  family  had  to  be 
spun  and  woven  in  the  home.  As  she  grew  to  womanhood  she 
developed  traits  of  character  thgt  were  a  blessing  to  all  with 
whom  she  came  in  contact  in  after  life — "in  her  mouth  was  the 
law  of  kindness,"  and  she  always  had  in  mind  the  comfort  and 
happiness  of  others. 

In  June,  1834,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  she  married  Frederick 
W.  Fenner,  of  the  town  of  Pompey  and  their  married  life  was 
one  of  continued  harmony  for  forty-two  years,  when  her  husband 
passed  away.  They  had  six  children,  two  of  whom  died  in  in- 
fancy. 

She  was  again  united  in  marriage  December  12,  1878,  to 
Perry  H.  Hinsdell,  of  North  Syracuse.  While  young  her  educa- 
tional advantages  were  limited,  yet  she  was  always  well  in- 
formed on  the  leading  questions  of  her  day,  and  her  society  was 
sought  after  by  many  friends  and  greatly  enjoyed. 

If  to  have  been  a  loving  and  dutiful  wife,  an  affectionate 
mother,  a  hospitable,  charitable,  and  generous  neighbor,  and  to 
have  lived  a  consistent  Christian  all  the  years  of  her  life,  may 
it  not  be  worthily  said  of  her — "Well  done,  good  and  faithful 
servant,  enter  now  into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord." 

10.  Hannah  V.  Schenck,  VII.,  daughter  of  Rulef  (i) 
and  Elsie  (Baird)  Schenck,  was  born  in  the  Township  of 
Lysander,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  August   13,   181 7, 


HANNAH  SC'HKN(  K    FKNNKR 

1817-189.S 


50 

II. 

51 

III. 

52 

IV. 

53 

1  V. 

Seventh  Generation  11 

and  September  28,  1837,  married  Russell  B.  Fenner,  son 
of  James  L.  and  Betsey  (Perry)  Fenner  and  brother  of 
Frederick  W.  Fenner.  (See  p.  74).  He  was  born  at 
Pompey,  N.  Y.,  February  9,  1814. 

They  had  five  children: — 

49  I.    Byron  Russell,  born  March  4,  1839.    See  p.  95  . 
Eliza  Eleanor,  born  April  i,  1842.     See  p.  95. 
William   Perry,   born   December  22,    1844.     See   p. 
96. 

Rulef  James,  born  September  17,  1850.    See  p.  96. 
Franklin  Monroe,  born  October  11,  1854.    See  p.  97. 

Russell  B.  and  Hannah  (Schenck)  Fenner  (lo)  re- 
moved from  Onondaga  County  to  Martin,  Allegan 
County,  Michigan,  in  1844.  He  died  March  27,  1896, 
and  Hannah  (Schenck)  Fenner  (10),  April  25,  1898. 

Russell  B.  Fenner  grew  up  to  manhood  in  Lysander  Township, 
N.  Y.  Seven  years  after  his  marriage  to  Hannah  Schenck  they  re- 
moved to  Michigan,  arriving  in  Martin,  Allegan  County,  October  10, 
1844.  The  History  of  the  Fenner  Family  says  of  them:  The  ap- 
pearance of  the  country  was  anything  but  inviting  to  the  young 
couple  who  had  left  parents,  brothers,  sisters,  and  the  friends  of  their 
youth  in  a  well-settled  neighborhood,  to  seek  a  home  in  the  unbroken 
wilderness.  He  at  once  began  cutting  logs  with  which  to  build  a 
house,  succeeding  so  well  that  they  were  able  to  live  in  it  that  winter. 
He  spent  the  winter  in  chopping  off  the  timber  for  the  purpose  of 
clearing    his   farm. 

There  were  many  Indians  in  the  country  at  that  time,  and  they 
often  came  for  him  to  take  his  dog  and  go  with  them  to  catch  the 
deer  which  they  had  wounded.  The  squaws  sometimes  came  to  the 
house  with  their  baskets,  trading  them  with  Mrs.  Fenner  for  salt  pork, 
flour,  or  such  eatables  as  she  had.  The  Indians  often  wanted  to  stay 
all  night,  and  frequently  they  were  allowed  to  roll  up  in  their  blankets 
and   sleep  beside  the   kitchen   fire. 

Three  sons  were  added  to  the  family  after  their  removal  to  Mich- 
igan:  Perry,  James  and  Franklin.  The  earliest  recollections  of  these 
boys  are  those  of  an  almost  unbroken  wilderness,  dotted  here  and 
there  with  small  clearings  upon  which  were  built  log  houses  and 
barns.  In  many  cases  the  clearings  were  enclosed  with  brush  fences, 
ms  was  also  the   heavily  timbered   land,   which  was  a  range  for  all  the 


78  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


stock  of  the  neighborhood  as  well  as  deer  and  other  wild  animals 
in  plenty.  Some  of  the  finest  farms  and  farm  buildings  in  the  state 
are   now    upon    that  land. 

To  the  older  boys  of  the  family  fell  the  task  of  hunting  the  cows 
in  the  woods.  To  boys  of  today  that  would  be  a  hard  task,  but  they 
rather  enjoyed  it,  especially  when  they  found  a  sleek  deer  with  the 
cows,  as  they  often  did.  It  was  one  of  their  chief  means  of  excite- 
ment. 

At  this  time  very  few  of  the  roads  were  on  section  lines,  as  they 
now  are,  but  ran  angling  through  the  woods,  around  big  trees  and 
swampy   places. 

After  living  in  Martin  nine  years,  Mr.  Fenner  moved  to  North 
Gunplain.  There  he  bought  eighty  acres  of  land  and  built  a  com- 
modious farmhouse  and  barns  upon  it.  He  was  a  man  who  was  gifted 
in  many  respects.  He  had  a  keen  insight  into  human  nature  which 
enabled  him  to  make  many  friends.  His  farm  and  stock  showed 
thrift  and  good  management.  Besides  his  interest  in  agricultural 
pursuits  he  was  deeply  interested  in  medical  science,  which  he  studied 
with  much  success,  many  times  curing  or  helping  sick  people  whom 
the  doctors  had  given  up.  He  was  always  active  in  promoting  the 
intellectual  advancement  of  the  young.  When  meetings  were  held  in 
the  schoolhouse  near  his  home,  he  and  his  wife  contributed  largely  to 
their  success,  aiding  in  the  singing  and  by  their  kindly,  friendly  man- 
ners   encouraging    others    to    help. 

Genial  and  social  in  his  nature,  he  always  delighted  to  welcome 
a  large  circle  of  relatives  and  friends  to  his  pleasant  home.  It  was 
a  delightful  custom  for  many  years  before  his  death  to  have  the 
children,  grandchildren,  and  other  relatives  gather  there  on  his  birth- 
day. Those  occasions  will  long  be  remembered  by  the  participants. 
On  September  28,  1887,  he  and  his  wife  celebrated  the  fiftieth  anni- 
versary of  their  marriage  with  a  golden  wedding.  Relatives  came  from 
the  East  and  West  to  add  their  gifts  and  join  with  their  children, 
children's  children,  and  other  relatives,  in  making  the  day  a  memor- 
able one  to  all  who  were  present,  as  well  as  to  the  honored  couple 
who  had   walked  side  by  side   for  fifty  years. 

A  few  years  before  his  death  he  bought  a  pleasant  place  in  the 
village  of  Plainwell,  still  retaining  his  farm.  For  a  few  years  after 
this  he  still  retained  mental  and  physical  vigor  remarkable  for  one  of 
his  years,  but  gradually  his  health  failed,  and  he  died  March  27, 
1896,   survived  by  his  wife   and  five  chidren. 

II.  William  Baird  Schenck,  VII.,  son  of  Rulef  (i) 
and  Elsie  (Baird)  Schenck,  was  born  in  the  Township  of 
Lysander,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y,,  November  5,  18 19, 
and  January  12,  1843,  married  Catherine  M.  Vanderveer, 


CATHKRINK  VANDKRVEKR  SCHF.NCK 

1822-1903 

\MI.I.IAM   HAIRI)  SCHKNCK 

1S19-185S 


JAMKS   I,.    SCHKNCK 

]S23-lSSr, 


TtLf* 


r:M    FOOMD* 


Seventh  Generation  79 

daughter  of  Garret  and  Ann  Vanderveer.  She  was  born 
at  Florida,  Montgomery  County,  N.  Y.,  December  31, 
1822. 

They  had  three  children: 

54  I.     Hulbert  Luke,  born  December  6,  1843.     See  p.  97. 
55  II.     Irwin  Vanderveer,  born  November  2,  1846.     See  p. 
98. 
56  III.     James  Shuler,  born  August  19,  1851.     See  p.  98. 

William  Baird  Schenck  (li)  died  in  Lysander  Town- 
ship, March  17,  1853.  Catherine  (Vanderveer)  Schenck 
died  on  the  "William  Baird  Farm,"  March  3,  1903. 

12.     James  L.  Schenck,  VII.,  son  of  Rulef   (i)   and 

Elsie    (Baird)    Schenck,  was  born   in   the  Township  of 

Lysander,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  May  25,  1823,  and 

September    15,    1847,   married   Ann   Tator,   daughter   of 

Frederick  I.  and  Polly  Tator.     (See  note  on  page  81). 

She  was  born  in  the  Township  of  Lysander.     They  had 

no  children.     Ann    (Tator)    Schenck  died  February  18, 

1848.    On  December  31,  1850,  James  L.  married  Nancy 

Maria  Sullivan,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Nancy  Sullivan. 

(See  pages  67  and  68).     She  was  born  September  27, 

1823. 

They  had  two  children : 

57  I.    James  Warren  was  born  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  May 
12,   1854,  and  died  at  the  home  of   his  parents  on 
Geddes  Street,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  November  24,  1883. 
He  never  married. 
58  II.     Leiia  Maria,  born  November  8,  1856.    See  p.  98. 

James  L.  Schenck  (12)  died  at  his  home,  204  Grape 
Street,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,"  January  16,  1886.  Nancy 
(Sullivan)  Schenck  died  at  Syracuse,  July  i,  1906.  They 
are  both  buried  at  Plainville. 


80  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

13.  Rulef  Schenck,  VII.,  son  of  Rulef  (i)  and  Elsie 
(Baird)  Schenck  was  born  in  Lysander  Township,  Onon- 
daga County,  N.  Y.,  October  23,  1827,  and  February  27, 
1850,  married  Emerancy  Jane  Emerick,  daughter  of 
Abraham  and  Hannah  Emerick.  She  was  born  in  Ly- 
sander Township,  August  6,  1831. 

They  had  three  children: 

59  I.     Alice  Maladine,   born   at  the  Homestead,  Lysander 
Township,    June    12,    1851.        Address,    Piainville, 
N.  Y. 
60  II.     Effie  Isadore,  born  February  12,  1854.    See  p.  99. 
61  III.     William  Baird,  born  July  21,  1859.    See  p.  99. 

In  1883,  Rulef  Schenck  (13)  removed  to  the  residence 
of  his  brother,  Dr.  Benjamin  Baird  Schenck  (6)  in 
Plainville  and  resided  there  until  his  death,  June  28, 
1888.  Emerancy  (Emerick)  Schenck  died  at  the  same 
place  October  20,  1905.  Both  are  buried  in  the  ceme- 
tery at  Plainville. 

EIGHTH  GENERATION  IN  AMERICA. 

14.  Austin  WycoiiE  Wilson,  VIII.,  son  of  Alfred  and 
Sally  (Schenck)  Wilson  (2)  was  born  in  Lysander,  N. 
Y.,  October  18,  1821,  and  February  2,  1843,  married 
Mary  Ann  Verity,  daughter  of  James  G.  and  Eunice 
Verity.     She  was  born  April  2,  1823. 

They  had  one  child: 

62  I.    Mervin  James,  born  May  5,  1850.    See  p.  100. 

Mary  (Verity)  Wilson  died  June  28,  1851,  and  Jan- 
uary 13,  1853,  Austin  W.  Wilson  (14)  married  Mrs. 
Eunice  Snow,  They  had  no  children.  Austin  died  at 
Plainville,  N.  Y.,  April  3,  1858.  Eunice  (Snow)  Wilson 
died  March  10,  1889. 


RULEF  SCHKNCK 

1827-lSS.S 


Eighth  Generation  81 

15.  Charlotte  M.  Wilson,  VIII. ,  daughter  of  Alfred 
and  Sally  (Schenck)  Wilson  (2),  was  born  February  25, 

1824,  and  February  6,  1842,  married  Jehial  E.  Tator, 
son  of  Frederick  I.  and  Polly  Tator.  (See  note  below). 
He  was  born  at  Lysander,  N.  Y.,  November  14,  1820, 
and  died  November  30,  1884.  Charlotte  M.  (Wilson) 
Tator  married  June  28,  1892,  Samuel  Wells.  He  diea 
September  20,  1895,  and  Charlotte  M.  (Wilson,  Tator) 
Wells  married  December  21,  1898,  Benjamin  Coats. 
Charlotte  died  at  Meridian,  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y.,  May 
I,   1907.     Benjamin  Coats  died  September  12,  1910. 

16.  Dennis  Kennedy  Wilson,  VIII.,  son  of  Alfred 
and  Sally   (Schenck)   Wilson   (2),  was  born  August  23, 

1825,  and  October  29,  1846,  married  Lydia  Amanda 
Tator,  daughter  of  Frederick  I.  and  Polly  Tator.  (See 
note  below).     She  was  born  October  19,  1826. 

They  had  one  child : 

63  I.     Orinda  More,  born  November  23,  1850.    See  p.  100. 

Lydia  Amanda  (Tator)  Wilson  died  February  i,  1854, 
and  March  4,  1857,  Dennis  Kennedy  Wilson  (16)  mar- 
ried Louisa  B.  Irish.  They  had  no  children.  Dennis 
died  July  5,  1865  and  Louisa  married  in  1867,  John 
Hunt.     She  died  in  November,  1868. 

17.  Jane  Ann  Wilson,  VIII.,  daughter  of  Alfred  and 
Sally  (Schenck)  Wilson  (2),  was  born  July  23,  1827, 
and  February  5,  1847,  married  James  M.  Tator*  son  of 


*NoTE. — It  will  be  noticed  that  the  first  wife  of  James  L.  Schenck 
(12),  the  first  husband  of  Charlotte  M.  Wilson  (15),  the  wife  of  Dennis 
Kennedy  Wilson  (16)  and  the  husband  of  Jane  Ann  Wilson  (17) 
were    brothers    and   sisters. 


82  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Frederick  I.  and  Polly  Tator.     He  was  born  at  Lysan- 
der,  N.  Y.,  December  i6,  1824. 

They  had  two  children: 

64  I.     Anna  Hubble,  born  September  7,   1849.     See  p.  loi. 

65  II.     Willard    Jehial   was   born    May   8,    1857,    and   died 

January  18,  1870. 

James  M.  Tator  died  November  28,  1901.    Jane  Ann 

(Wilson)   Tator   (17).     Address,  R.  F.  D.,  Memphis, 

N.  Y. 

19.  Louisa  A.  Wilson,  VIII.,  daughter  of  Alfred  and 
Sally  (Schenck)  Wilson  (2),  was  born  March  27,  1834, 
and  August  24,  1853,  married  Samuel  W.  Bates,  son  of 
James  and  Deborah  Bates.     They  had  no  children. 

Louisa  A.  (Wilson)  Bates  (19)  died  December  28, 
1854. 

24.  Parna  Eleanora  Schenck,  VIII.,  daughter  of  John 
(3)  and  Perlina  (Sullivan)  Schenck,  was  born  September 
2,  1833,  and  February  i,  1854,  married  James  Leslie 
Voorhees,  son  of  James  L.  and  Martha  Voorhees.  He 
was  born  at  Whig  Hill,  near  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  December 
1,  1831. 

They  had  four  children: 

66  I.     Martha   Northrop   was   born   October   3,    1854,   and 
died   November  19,  1871. 
67  II.     John  Schenck,  born  August  11,  1856.     See  p.  loi. 

68  III.    James  Hubbell   was  born   December   23,   i86o,   and 

died  January  13,  1861. 

69  IV.     Henry  Peter,  born  December  i,  i86i.     See  p.  101. 

Parna  (Schenck)  Voorhees  (24)  died  June  17,  1865. 
James  Leslie  Voorhees  married  April  10,  1867,  Sarah 
Catherine  Bratt  (34).     See  p.  86. 


Eighth  Generation  83 

25.  Harriet  Livona  Schenck,  VIII.,  daughter  of  John 
(3)  and  Perlina  (Sullivan)  Schenck,  was  born  September 
12,  1836,  and  October  2,  1853,  rnarried  James  S.  Vedder, 
son  of  Aaron  F.  and  Nancy  Vedder.  He  was  born  at 
Lysander,  N.  Y.,  July  23,  1828.  Soon  after  their  mar- 
riage, they  removed  to  Carrollton,  Greene  County,  111., 
where  they  remained  until  1872.  They  then  removed  to 
Washington,  Kansas. 

They  had  four  children: 

70  I.     Inez  Ann,  born  July  25,  1854.     See  p.  loi. 

71  II.     Harriet  Elnora,  born  December  i,  1856.     See  p.  102. 

72  III.     Lyman    Norton,    born    November    27,    1858.     See    p. 

103. 

73  IV.     Jennie  Leslie  was  born  at  Carrollton,  111.,  December 

9,    1862,    and    died    at    Washington,    Kan.,    October 
18,  1873. 

James  S.  Vedder  was  successively  Register  of  Deeds, 
Tax  Collector,  Clerk  of  Courts  and  Sheriff  of  Greene 
County,  111.,  and  was  for  three  terms  Mayor  of  Washing- 
ton, Kansas,  as  well  as  Postmaster,  a  position  which  he 
held  at  the  time  of  his  death,  November  12,  1888.  Har- 
riet Livona   (Schenck)   Vedder:    Address,  Ventura,  Cal. 

27.  John  Sullivan  Schenck,  VIII.,  son  of  John  (3) 
and  Perlina  (Sullivan)  Schenck,  was  born  at  Plainville, 
N.  Y.,  March  i,  1844,  and  January  3,  1865,  married 
Jane  Leslie  Tomlinson,  daughter  of  John  H.  and  Harriet 
Tomlinson,  and  niece  of  James  Leslie  Voorhees.  (See  p. 
82).  She  was  born  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  January  5, 
1845.  They  had  no  children.  Jane  (Tomlinson)  Schenck 
died  November  12,  1865,  and  March  i,  1866,  John  mar- 
ried Adaline  Day,  daughter  of  Hezekiah  and  Eliza  Ann 
Day.  (See  p.  94.)  She  was  born  at  Little  Utica, 
N.  Y.,  May  13,  1845. 


84  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

They  had  one  child: 

74  I.     Floyd   Sullivan,  born  September  21,   1874.     Sec  p. 

103. 

Adalinc  (Day)  Schenck  died  near  Plainville,  N.  Y., 
November  25,  1908,  and  June  12,  1910,  John  Sullivan 
Schenck  (27),  married  Mrs.  Sarah  C.  Winchel,  daughter 
of  Richard  and  Frances  (Cogswell)  Smith.  She  was 
born  at  Lysander,  N.  Y.,  September  23,  1833.  John 
Sullivan  Schenck  (27)  :    Address,  Lysander,  N.  Y. 

29.  Pcrlina  Adele  Schenck,  VIII.,  daughter  of  John 
(3)  and  Pcrlina  (Sullivan)  Schenck,  was  born  May  5, 
1851,  and  January  25,  1874,  married  at  Washington, 
Kansas,  Charles  Smith,  son  of  Stevens  and  Sophia  C. 
Smith.  He  was  born  at  Gorham,  Cumberland  County, 
Me.,  August  29,  1845. 

They  had  five  children : 

75  I.     Charles  Fred,  born  December  12,  1874.     See  p.  104. 
76  II.     Nellie  Leslie,  born  January  27,  1876.     See  p.  104. 

77  III.     Joseph  Lowe,  born  November  23,  1877.     See  p.  105. 

78  IV.     Harry  James,  born  September  30,  1883.     See  p.  105. 
79  V.     Harriet  Marie,  born  May  i6,  1885.    See  p.  105. 

Pcrlina  Adele  (Schenck)  Smith:  Address,  Washington, 
Kansas. 

30.  Benjamin  Freeman  Schenck,  VIII.,  son  of  John 
(3)  and  Parna  (Sullivan,  Gorham)  Schenck,  was  born 
at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  January  11,  1854,  and  December 
31,  1874,  married  Ella  Eliza  Chittenden,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Mallory  and  Julia  Eliza  (Parish)  Chittenden. 
She  was  born  at  Baldwinsville,  N.  Y.,  December  24, 
1854. 


Eighth  Generation  85 

They  had  three  children: — 

80  I.     Julia   was    born    at    Plainville,    N.    Y.,   January    1, 
1877,  and  died  January  14,  1877. 
81   II.     Lisle  John,  born  June  10,  1879.    See  p.  106. 
82  III.     Elsie  May,  born  May  7,  1881.    See  p.  106. 

Benjamin  Freeman  Schenck  (30)  died  at  Plainville, 
March  13,  1906.  Ella  Eliza  (Chittenden)  Schenck: 
Address,  Plainville,  N.  Y. 

32.  John  Bratt,  VIII.,  son  of  Peter  and  Margaret 
(Schenck)  Bratt  (5),  was  born  December  17,  1831,  and 
iViarch  7,  1854,  married  Matilda  Wilson,  daughter  of 
William  and  Hannah  Wilson  (William  Wilson  was  a 
brother  of  Alfred  Wilson,  husband  of  Sally  (Schenck) 
Wilson  (2)).  Matilda  (Wilson)  Bratt  was  born  at 
Plainville,  N.  Y.,  June   13,   1832. 

They  had  seven  children: — 

83  I.     Frank  Leslie,  born  November  i,   1857.     See  p.  106. 
84  II.     Charles  Willis,  born   May  31,   1859.     See  p.   107. 
85  III.     Ella  May,  born  September  21,  1862.    See  p.  107. 
86  IV.     Anna  Isabell,  born  August  9,   1864.     See  p.   108. 
87  V.     Alice    Merriman,    born    September    11,    1866.     See 
p.  ro8. 
88  VI.     Ernest  Wilson,  born  December  26,  i860.    See  p.  109. 
89  VII.     Sarah  Elsie,  born  November  12,  1872.    See  p.  109. 
John  Bratt   (32)   died  at  Baldwinsville,  N.  Y.,  April 
II,    1902.     Matilda    (Wilson)    Bratt  died   at  Baldwins- 
ville, N.  Y.,  November  26,  1898.     They  are  both  buried 
in  the  cemetery  at  Plainville,  N.  Y. 

33.  Elsie  Bratt,  VIII. ,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Mar- 
garet (Schenck)  Bratt  (5),  was  born  September  19,  1833, 
and  January  16,  1851,  married  Chauncey  Hubbard,  son 
of  Elijah  and  Eliza  Hubbard.  He  was  born  in  Albany 
County,  N.  Y.,  November  19,  1826. 


86 ScHENCK  Genealogy 

They  had  one  child : — 

90  I.    Ella  Lillian,  born  December  31,  1854.     See  p.  109. 
Elsie  (Bratt)  Hubbard  (33)  died  at  Plainville,  N.  Y., 

September   12,    1879.        Chauncey   Hubbard   died   at  the 
same  place,  July  4,  1906. 

34.  Sarah  Catherine  Bratt*,  VHI.,  daughter  of  Peter 
and  Margaret   (Schenck)    Bratt   (5),  was  born  July  12, 
1838,  and  April  10,  1867,  married  James  Leslie  Voorhees. 
(See  p.  82). 

They  had  six  children : — 

91  I.     Leslie  Eleanora,  born  January  12,   1870. 

92  IL  Sophia,  born  October  ii,  1872.  Graduated  at  Well- 
esley  College  in  1895,  3"^  received  the  degree  of 
M.  A.  at  the  University  of  Michigan  in  1910. 

93  in.    James    Leslie    was    born    June    i,    1874,    and    died 

March   8,  1875. 

94  IV.     Margaret  was  born  July  5,  1877,  and  died  February 

13,  1889. 
95  V.     Martha,  born  November   3,  1878.     Graduated  from 

Wellesley  College   in  1903. 
96  VI.     James  Leslie,  3rd,  born  September  8,  1880.     Address, 
Reno,  Nev. 
Sarah  Catherine  (Bratt)  Voorhees  (34)  died  at  Bald- 
winsville,  N.  Y.,  June  i,  1905.    James  Leslie  Voorhees: 
Address,  Baldwinsville,  N.  Y. 

35.  Peter  Schenck  Bratt,  VIIL,  son  of  Peter  and 
Margaret  (Schenck)  Bratt  (5),  was  born  February  7, 
1846,  and  March  15,  1869,  married  Marta  Nettie  Car- 
penter, daughter  of  George  and  Ruth  Carpenter.  She 
was  born  in  the  Township  of  Granby,  Oswego  County, 
N.  Y.,  June  3,  1848. 


•Sarah  Catherine  retained  the  original  spelling  of  her  name,  i.  e., 
Bradt.  While  this  is  undoubtedly  correct,  it  is  here  given  Bratt,  in 
order   to   retain    uniformity. 


Eighth  Generation 87 

They  had  seven  children: — 

97  I.     Herbert  Eugene,   born   February   13,    1870.     See   p. 
no. 
98  II.     LeRoy,  born  July  23,   1872.     See  p.  no. 
99  III.     Arthur,  born  February  28,  1874.    See  p.  in. 
100  IV.     William  Peter,  born  December  17,  18S2.     See  p.  in. 

loi  V.     Harry,  born  August  26,  1884.     See  p.  in. 
102  VI.     Raymond,  born  August  24,  1888.     See  p.  112. 
103  VII.     Ruth,  born  September  14,  1891.    Address,  251   Fitch 
St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Peter  Schenck  Bratt  (35)  died  January  13,  1904. 
Marta  Nettie  (Carpenter)  Bratt  died  at  Jordan,  N.  Y., 
May  3,  1906.  They  are  buried  in  the  Plainville  ceme- 
tery. 

37.  Adrian  Adelbert  Schenck,  VIII.,  son  of  Benjamin 
Baird  (6)  and  Harriet  (Sullivan)  Schenck,  was  born 
at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  March  26,  1842,  and  married  Octo- 
ber 23,  1866,  Harriet  Parthenia  Robinson,  daughter  of 
Horatio  N.  Robinson,  A.  M.,  LL.  D.,  and  Emma  R. 
(Tyler)  Robinson.  She  was  born  at  Cincinnati,  O., 
September  29,    1845. 

They  had  three  children: — 

104  I.     Elsie,  born  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  September  26,  1867. 
105  II.     Benjamin  Robinson,   born  August   19,   1872.     See  p. 
112. 
106  III.     Frederick  Tyler  was  born  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  March 

21,  1878,  and  died   March  25,  1878. 
Adrian  Adelbert  Schenck  (37)  died  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
February  25,  1 909,  and  is  buried  at  Oakwood  Cemetery 
in  Syracuse. 

Adrian  Adelbert  Schenck  was  born  in  Plainville,  N.  Y., 
March  26,  1842.  His  education  was  obtained  at  the  Monroe 
Collegiate  Institute,  at  Elbridge,  N.  Y.,  which  at  that  time  was 


ScHENCK  Genealogy 


an  academy  of  very  considerable  reputation.  After  leaving 
Elbridge  he  went  to  Syracuse  in  1864,  entering  the  office  of  the 
Provost  Marshal,  where  he  remained  until  obtaining  a  position 
in  1865,  in  the  canal  office. 

The  next  ten  years  were  devoted  to  work  in  the  offices  of  the 
Internal  Revenue  Service  and  County  Clerk  of  Onondaga  County. 
From  1876  to  i88o  he  held  the  important  position  of  clerk  of  the 
courts.  In  1880  he  returned  to  the  Revenue  Service,  being  Dep- 
uty Collector  of  Internal  Revenue  for  the  Twenty-fifth  District. 
This  position  he  held  until  the  election  of  Cleveland  to  the 
Presidency  in  1887,  when  he  resigned.  During  the  sessions  of 
the  New  York  Legislature  of  1888  and  1889,  he  was  clerk  of 
the  Committee  on  Cities  of  the  Senate,  spending  four  days  each 
week  in  Albany.  During  these  years  he  was  prominent  in  poli- 
tics in  the  Republican  party,  in  whose  tenets  he  was  an  uncom- 
promising believer  throughout  his  whole  life. 

On  October  6,  1888,  he  was  instrumental  in  the  organization 
of  the  Engelberg  Huller  Company,  becoming  its  first  secretary 
and  general  manager,  a  position  which  he  held  continuously 
until  his  death,  a  period  of  over  twenty-three  years.  The  suc- 
cess which  attended  this  organization  was  largely  due  to  his 
efforts  and  he  was  rewarded  by  seeing  it  grow  into  one  of  the 
most  stable  and  prosperous  of  the  manufacturing  industries  of 
Syracuse. 

After  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Schenck  and  Harriet  P.  Robinson, 
a  daughter  of  Horatio  N.  Robinson,  LL.  D.,  in  1866,  they  resided 
on  Montgomery  Street  until  May,  1869,  when  they  removed  to  a 
residence  which  they  built  at  No.  8  Holland  Street.  In  1894  a 
second  home  was  built  at  615  Park  Avenue. 

Mr.  Schenck  was  a  member  of  the  Central  City  Lodge  No. 
305,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  the  Royal  Arcanum  and  many  other  or- 
ganizations. He  was  much  interested  in  manufacturing  and 
industrial  questions  and  in  1907  and  1908  was  the  vice-president 
for  the  State  of  New  York  of  the  National  Association  of  Manu- 
facturers, the  Board  of  Directors  of  which  passed  the  following 
resolution: 


Eighth  Generation  89 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
National  Association  of  Manufacturers,  held  at  Niagara 
Falls,  New  York,  on  July  i6th,  1909,  the  following  min- 
ute was  unanimously  adopted  and  spread  upon  the  rec- 
ords: 

Resolved:  That  in  the  death  of  our  honored  Vice- 
President  for  the  State  of  New  York,  Mr.  Adrian  A. 
Schenck,  the  association  sustains  a  severe  and  deplorable 
loss. 

The  elevation  of  Mr.  Schenck  to  the  Vice-Presidency 
having  taken  place  at  the  instance  of  the  delegates  of  his 
State  at  the  annual  convention  of  1907  and  his  re-election 
following,  gave  abundant  evidence  of  his  popularity  with 
his  fellow  members.  The  performance  of  his  official 
duties  during  his  term  of  office  was  such  as  to  win  for 
him  the  approval  and  admiration  of  his  fellow  members 
of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

As  a  man  of  excellent  judgment  and  unblemished 
character  in  his  private  and  business  affairs,  he  won  the 
sincere  affection  and  regard  of  all  whose  pleasure  it  was 
to  know  him. 

We  shall  cherish  his  memory  and  the  recollection  of 
his  virtues  and  the  inspiration  of  his  example  will  remain 
as  a  stimulus  to  others  in  the  pursuit  of  lofty  ideals  and 
worthy  achievements. 

And  wc  extend  to  his  sorrowing  family  this  token  of 
our  high  regard  for  him  whose  loss  to  them,  to  us  and 
to  mankind   at   large   is  felt   with    deep    affliction. 

J.   KiRBY,  Jr.,  Pres't. 
Geo.  T.  Bondinot,  Sec'y. 

Committee: 

LuDwiG  Dessen, 
C.  C.  Hanch, 
Ends  Paullin. 

During  May,  1908,  Mr.  Schenck's  health  failed,  but  he  was 
able  to  attend  to  his  business  affairs  until  the  day  of  his  death, 
the  25th.  day  of  February,  1909. 


90 ScHENCK  Genealogy 

The  gentleness  of  his  character,  combined  with  his  high 
ideals,  lifted  him  above  the  petty  trials  of  every-day  life,  seeming 
to  cause  him  to  radiate  good  cheer,  helpfulness  and  optimism 
wherever  he  went.  To  him  no  one  ever  appealed  for  help  in 
vain.  He  lived  for  others  and  died  mourned  by  a  host  of 
sincere  friends.  The  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  his  inti- 
mate   business  associates  is   attested  in   the  following: 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Engel- 
berg  Huller  Company,  held  Monday,  March  ist,  at  their 
office  in  Fayette  Street,  the  following  preamble  and  reso- 
lutions relative  to  the  death  of  their  late  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  Mr.  A.  A.  Schenck,  were  presented  and  ap- 
proved : 

Whereas,  For  the  fourth  time  during  the  history  of 
this  Company,  we  are  called  upon  to  mourn  and  record 
the  death  of  a  Director ;  and,  in  the  death  of  our  co- 
worker, Secretary,  Treasurer,  and  friend,  we  have  lost 
the  greatest  of  them  all ;  for  while  others  had  different 
interests,  Mr.  Schenck  gave  twenty  of  the  best  years  of 
his  life,  with  undivided  devotion  to  the  welfare  of  this 
organization.  During  all  this  time  he  worked  for  its 
interests  and  battled  for  its  success.  We  alone  know  of 
its  success  and  that  no  one  has  done  more  to  achieve  it, 
and  we  alone  can  measure  our  loss.  As  time  has  gone 
on  we  have  learned  to  respect  and  love  him  and  as  time 
goes  on  we  shall  miss  him  more.  Our  loss  and  sorrow 
can  only  be  exceeded  by  that  of  his  family.  Therefore, 
as   an   evidence  of  our  appreciation  and   respect  be  it 

Resolved,  That  his  chair  as  Director  remain  unfilled; 
that  a  copy  of  this  tribute  be  engraved,  signed  by  the 
Board  and  presented  to  his  family,  and  these  proceedings 
recorded  in  the  books  of  this  Company  and  its  purport  be 
published  in  the  daily  papers. 
J.  R.  Montague  John  E.  Sweet 

J.  P.  Crowell  C.  p.  Remore 

C.  E.  Hutchinson  W.  C.  Life 

F,  P.  Fell 


Eighth  Generation 91 

38.  Henrietta  Maria  Schenck,  VIII.,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Baird  (6)  and  Harriet  (Sullivan)  Schenck, 
was  born  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  November  10,  1843,  and 
March  20,  1864,  married  John  Vedder  Norton,  son  of 
Lyman  and  Ann  Norton,  and  grandson  of  Aaron  F.  and 
Nancy  Vedder.  (See  p.  83.)  He  was  born  November 
7,    1840. 

They  had  three  children: — 

107  I.  Georgianna  Belle,  born  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  Oc- 
tober i6,  1864.  Address,  3719  W.  32nd.  Ave., 
Denver,  Colo. 
108  II.  Harriet  Maria  was  born  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  June 
20,  i866,  and  died  at  Memphis,  N.  Y.,  August  i8, 
1877. 
109  III.  Ann  was  born  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  January  13, 
1869,  and  died  at  the  same  place,  May  6,  1876. 

John  Vedder  Norton  died  at  Rio  Janeiro,  Brazil,  Feb- 
ruary II,  1879,  and  January  31,  1883,  Henrietta 
(Schenck)  Norton  (38)  married  Daniel  James  Fitzger- 
ald, son  of  John  and  Nancy  Fitzgerald.  He  was  born 
at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  June  27,  1834,  and  died  at  Denver, 
Colo.,  December  26,  1904, 

Henrietta  (Schenck,  Norton)  Fitzgerald:  Address, 
3719  W.  32nd.  Ave.,  Denver,  Colo. 

39.  Burns  Spaulding,  VIII.,  son  of  Solomon  B.  and 
Eliza  (Schenck)  Spaulding  (7),  was  born  at  Plainville, 
N.  Y.,  March  25,  1833,  and  October  26,  1856,  married 
Caroline  A.   Phelps,  daughter  of  H.  Nelson  and   Mary 

Phelps.   (See  p.  92.)      She  was  born  in  Sullivan  Town- 
ship, Madison  County,  N.  Y.,  October  18,  1835. 


92 ScHENCK  Genealogy 

They  had  two  children: — 

no  I.     Inez  Eudora,  born  November  22,  1857.     See  p.  112. 

iiz   II.     Irving  Burns  was  born  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  May  4, 

1869,  and  died  there  October   14,  1869. 

Burns  Spaulding  (39)  died  at  Kankakee,  111.,  April  24, 

1893.     Caroline  A.   (Phelps)   Spaulding  died  at  Chicago, 

III.,  May  2,  1907. 

40.  Mary  C.  Spaulding,  VIII.,  daughter  of  Solomon 
B.  and  Eliza  (Schenck)  Spaulding  (7),  was  born  at 
Plainville,  N,  Y.,  October  30,  1837,  and  February  2, 
i860,  married  Major  Fitts  Phelps,  son  of  H.  Nelson  and 
Mary  Phelps.  (See  p.  91.)  He  was  born  at  Chitte- 
nango,  Madison  County,  N.  Y.,  March  15,  1834. 

They  had  two  children: — 

112  I.     Louis  Spaulding,   born  May  27,   1862.     See  p.  113. 

113  II.     Homer  Jay,  born   September   5,   1866.     See  p.   113. 

Mary   (Spaulding)    Phelps   (40)   died  June  21,   1906. 

Major  F.  Phelps  died  at  Fulton,  N.  Y.,  June  20,  1907. 

41.  Annie  Laura  Spaulding,  VIII.,  daughter  of  Solo- 
mon B.  and  Eliza  (Schenck)  Spaulding  (7),  was  born 
at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  April  28,  1843,  and  December  17, 
1863,  married  J.  Edward  Perkins,  son  of  Erastus  B.  and 
Sarah  Perkins.  He  was  born  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  March 
13)  1834.     They  have  no  children. 

Annie  Laura  (Spaulding)  Perkins  (41):  Address, 
Kirkville,  N.  Y. 

42.  Dealia  Spaulding,  VIII.,  daughter  of  Solomon  B. 
and  Eliza  (Schenck)  Spaulding  (7),  was  born  at  Plain- 
ville, N.  Y.,  February  2,  1850,  and  October  15,  1874. 
married  L.  Austin  Chapman,  son  of  Austin  and  Adelia 
Chapman.  He  was  born  at  South  Granby,  Oswego 
County,  N.  Y.,  February  18,  1853- 


Eighth  Generation  93 

They  had  three  children: 

114  I.     Irwin  B.  was  born  at  South  Granby,  N.  Y.,  March 

4,    1879,   and   died  June   16,   1879. 
115  II.     Earl  Burns,  born  June  12,   1880.     See  p.  114. 
116  III.     Hazel  Eliza,  born  February  6,  1889.     See  p.  114. 

Dealia  (Spaulding)  Chapman  (42)  died  at  Fulton, 
N.  Y.,  June  28,  1890.  L.  Austin  Chapman:  Address, 
Fulton,  N.  Y. 

44.  James  Rulef  Fenner,  VIII.,  son  of  Frederick  W. 
and  Eleanor  (Schenck)  Fenner  (9)  was  born  in  Lysander 
Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  August  12,  1836, 
and  March  27,  1859,  married  Ellen  A.  Savage,  daughter 
of  Seth  and  Emily  Savage.  She  was  born  at  Cazenovia, 
N.  Y..  July  8,  1839. 

They  had  two  children : — 

117  I.     James  Emory,  born  June  4,  1862.     See  p.  115. 
118  II.     Florence  Ellen,  born  February  18,  1877.    See  p.  115. 

Ellen  A.  (Savage)  Fenner  died  at  Delphi,  N.  Y.,  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1897,  and  January  19,  1898,  James  Rulef  (44) 
married  Mrs.  Addie  E.  Barber,  born  at  Fabius,  Onon- 
daga County,  N,  Y.,  November  28,  1843. 

Addie  E.  (Barber)  Fenner  died  May  3,  1899,  and  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1900,  James  Rulef  (44)  married  Mrs.  Leida 
Jones,  born  at  Burwell,  Ontario,  January  27,  1856. 
James  Rulef  Fenner  (44)  died  March  i,  1909,  at  Delphi 
Falls,  N.  Y. 

46.  Sarah  Ellen  Fenner,  VIII.,  daughter  of  Frederick 
W.  and  Eleanor  (Schenck)  Fenner  (9)  was  born  in 
Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  Septem- 
ber 3,   1 84 1,  and  September  8,   1863,  married  Sylvester 


94  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

A.  Vedder,  son  of  Francis  P.  and  Wllmina  (Terhune) 
Vedder,  cousin  of  John  Vedder  Norton  (see  p.  91) 
and  nephew  of  James  S.  Vedder.  (See  p.  83.)  Sylves- 
ter A.  Vedder  was  born  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  September 
19,   1834- 

They  had  seven  children: 

119  I.    Frederick  Fenner,  born  October  26,   1866.     See  p. 
Z16. 
120  II.     Nicholas   was  born   October    19,     1868,    and    died 

October  20,  1868. 
121  III.^  Wilmina   Wycoff,    born    September    17,    1872.     See 
p.  116. 

122  IV.     Ross  Sylvester,  born  November  8,  1874.    See  p.  116. 

123  V.     George  Barry  was  born  at  CarroUton,  III.,  January 

25,  1878,   and  died  there  August  26,  1898. 

124  VI.     Neil  Davis,  born  October  29,  1880.     See  p.  117. 
125  VII.     Clyde  Byron  was  born  at  CarroUton,  July  25,  1883, 

and  died  there  January  5,  1885. 

Sylvester  A.  Vedder  died  at  CarroUton,  111.,  IVIarch  19, 
1907.  Sarah  Ellen  (Fenner)  Vedder  (46):  Address, 
CarroUton,  111. 

47.  Frederick  William  Fenner,  VIII.,  son  of  Fred- 
erick W.  and  Eleanor  (Schenck)  Fenner  (9),  was  born 
in  Lysander,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y,,  June  11,  1847, 
and  March  17,  1866,  married  Eliza  Day,  daughter  of 
Hezekiah  and  Eliza  Ann  Day,  and  a  sister  of  Adaline 
(Day)  Schenck.  (See  p.  83.)  She  was  born  in  Lysan- 
der Township,  September  19,  1847. 

They  had  two  children : — 

126  I.     Charles  Day,  born  August  18,  1867.     See  p.  117. 
127  II.    Frederick  William,  born  November  10,  1869.     See 
p.  117. 


Eighth  Generation  95 


Frederick  William  Fenner  (47)  :  Address,  Baldwins- 
ville,  N.  Y. 

49.  Byron  Russell  Fenner,  VIII. ,  son  of  Russell  B. 
and  Hannah  (Schenck)  Fenner  (lo),  was  born  at  Lysan- 
der,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  March  4,  1839,  and  Jan- 
uary I,  1861,  married  Caroline  V.  Nash,  daughter  of 
Major  D.  and  Phoebe  Nash.  She  was  born  in  Gun- 
plain,  Allegan  County,  Mich.,  June  30,  1841. 

They  had  four  children: — 

128  I.     Byron     Nash,    born    in    Gunplain,    Mich.,    July    4, 

1862.     Address,   Cressey,   Mich. 

129  II.     Jennie,  born  August  15,  1864.    See  p.  n8. 

130  III.     William   Perry    was    born   in   Gunplain,    Mich.,    Oc- 
tober 17,  1866,  and  died  there  May  8,  1869. 
ijx  IV.     Nina  Vanderveer,  born  at  Prairieville,  Barry  Coun- 
ty, Mich.,  April  21,  1879. 
Byron  Russell  Fenner  (49)  died  July  18,  1904.     Caro- 
line (Nash)   Fenner:    Address,  Cressey,  Mich. 

50.  Eliza  Eleanor  Fenner,  VIII.,  daughter  of  Russell 
B.  and  Hannah  V.  (Schenck)  Fenner  (10),  was  born  in 
Lysander,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  April  i,  1842,  and 
July  3,  1859,  married  Henry  Robley  Scott,  son  of  Ira 
and  Mary  B.  Scott.  He  was  born  at  LeRoy,  Genesee 
County,  N.  Y.,  August  17,  1836. 

They  had  eight  children: — 

132  I.     Mary    Eleanor    was    born    in    Gunplain,    Allegan 

County,  Mich.,  May  21,  i860,  and  died  January  i, 

1864. 

133  II.     William  Henry,  born  January  28,  1863.    See  p.  118. 

134  III.     Kittie  Belle,  born  December  21,   1864.     See  p.  119. 

135  IV.     Charles  Seneca,  born  January  12,  1869.     See  p.  119. 

136  V.     Herbert   Russell,    born   September    27,    1871.      See   p. 

119. 


96  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

137  VI.    Franklin  James,  born  September  30,   1873.     See  p. 

120. 

138  VII.     Bertha  May,  born  August  4,  1875.    See  p.  120. 

139  VIII.     Caroline  Eleanor,  born  August  2,  1877.    See  p.  120. 

Henry  Robley  Scott  died  June  8,  1905.  Eliza  Eleanor 
(Fenner)    Scott   (50)  :    Address,  Plainwell,  Mich. 

51.  William  Perry  Fenner,  VIII.,  son  of  Russell  B. 
and  Hannah  V.  (Schenck)  Fenner  (10),  was  born  at 
Martin,  Allegan  County,  Mich.,  December  22,  1844, 
and  December  22,  1869,  married  Mina  L.  Sornbury, 
daughter  of  Horace  and  Elizabeth  (Hicks)  Sornbury. 
She  was  born  at  Martin,  Mich.,  December  31,   1844. 

They  had  six  children: — 

140  I.     Ernest  William,   born  September   24,   1870.     See  p. 

121. 

141  II.     Nellie  May,  born  September  i,  1872.     See  p.  121. 
142  III.     James  Bruce,  born  September  28,  1874.     See  p.  121. 
143  IV.     Hannah    Jane,    born    in    Gunplain   Township,    Alle- 
gan County,   Mich.,  January  3,  1877. 
144  V.    Pearl  Eliza,  born  in  Gunplain  Township,  Allegan 
County,  Mich.,  August  10,  1880. 
145  VI.    Orlie  Perry,  born  December  20,  1884.     See  p.  122. 

Mina  (Sornbury)  Fenner  died  at  Martin,  Mich.,  Feb- 
ruary II,  1908.  William  Perry  Fenner  (51)  :  Address, 
Martin,  Mich. 

52.  Rulef  James  Fenner,  VIII.,  son  of  Russell  B.  and 
Hannah  V.  (Schenck)  Fenner  (10)  was  born  at  Mar- 
tin, Allegan  County,  Mich.,  September  17,  1850,  and 
AprQ  12,  1876,  married  Mary  Elizabeth  Case,  daughter 
of  Stephen  and  Sarah  Case.  She  was  born  at  Lynden, 
Cattaraugus  County,  N.  Y.,  October  5,  1851. 


Eighth  Generation  97 

Children:— 

146  I.     Elton     Perry,   bora    in    Watson,    Allegan    County, 

Mich.,  July  26,  188/.     Address,  Martin,  Mich. 

Rulef  James  Fenner  (52)  :   Address,  Martin,  Mich. 

53.  Franklin  Monroe  Fenner,  VIII.,  son  of  Russell 
B.  and  Hannah  V.  (Schenck)  Fenner  (10),  was  born 
in  Martin,  Allegan  County,  Mich.,  October  ii,  1854, 
and  October  ii,  1877,  married  Hannah  Ida  Honeysett, 
daughter  of  James  and  Hannah  Honeysett.  She  was 
born  in  Gunplain,  Mich.,  July  24,  1858. 

Children : — 

147  I.     Edith  May.  born  October  23,  1878.    See  p.  122. 
148  II.     Ida  Myrtle,  born  July  17,  1880.    See  p.  123. 

149  III.     Starr  Franklin,  born  February  24,  1886.    See  p.  123. 
150  IV.     Clay    Earl,    born    in    Gunplain,    Mich.,    March    15, 

1889.     Address,   Plainwell,   Mich. 
151  V.    Wave    lola,    born    in    Gunplain,    Mich.,    May    25, 

1895.     Address,  Plainwell,  Mich. 

Franklin  Monroe  Fenner  (53):  Address,  R.  F.  D. 
No.  2,  Plainwell,  Mich. 

54.  Hulbert  Luke  Schenck,  VIII.,  son  of  William 
Baird  (ii)  and  Catherine  (Vanderveer)  Schenck,  was 
born  in  Savannah,  Wayne  County,  N.  Y.,  December  6, 
1843,  and  January  12,  1865,  married  Betsey  Fenner, 
daughter  of  John  and  Zilpha  (Washburn)  Fenner  and 
niece  of  Frederick  W.  and  Russell  B.  Fenner  (see  p. 
74).  She  was  born  in  Lysander,  Onondaga  County, 
N.  Y.,  March  12,  1844. 

They  had  two  children: — 

152  I.     Nellie  Maria,  born  September  11,  1867.    See  p.  123. 
153  II.     Williano  Vanderveer,  born  January  22,  1875.     See 
p.  124. 


98  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


Hulbert  Luke  Schenck  (54)  died  in  Lysander,  N.  Y., 
March  14,  1879.  Betsey  (Fenner)  Schenck:  Address, 
R.  F.  D.,  Memphis,  N.  Y. 

55.  Irwin  Vanderveer  Schenck,  VIII.,  son  of  William 
Baird  (11)  and  Catherine  M.  (Vanderveer)  Schenck, 
was  born  in  Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N. 
Y.,  November  2,  1846,  and  December  9,  1868,  married 
Ann  Hubble  Tator  (64),  daughter  of  James  M.  and 
Jane  Ann  (Wilson)  Tator  (17).  She  was  born  Sep- 
tember 7,  1849,  and  died  August  17,  1894.  Irwin  Van- 
derveer Schenck  (55)  died  October  5,  1902.  They  left 
no  children. 

56.  James  Shuler  Schenck,  VIII.,  son  of  William 
Baird  (11)  and  Catherine  M.  (Vanderveer)  Schenck, 
was  born  in  the  Township  of  Lysander,  Onondaga 
County,  N.  Y.,  August  19,  1851,  and  December  17,  1873, 
married  Ella  Lucretia  Wormuth,  daughter  of  Solomon 
and  Charlotte  Wormuth.  She  was  born  in  Lysander,  N. 
Y.,  July  31,    1854- 

Children : — 

154  I.     Lester  Hulbert,  born  August  4,  1880.    See  p.  124. 

James  Shuler  Schenck  (56)  :  Address,  R.  F.  D.,  Mem- 
phis, N.  Y. 

58.  Leila  Maria  Schenck,  VIII.,  daughter  of  James 
L.  (12)  and  Nancy  Maria  (Sullivan)  Schenck,  was 
born  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  November  8,  1856,  and  June 
26,  1883,  married  T.  Edgar  Pomeroy,  son  of  Dr.  Theo- 
dore C.  and  Theresa  M.  (Elder)  Pomeroy.  He  was 
born  at  Onondaga  Valley,  N.  Y.,  December  25,  1846. 


Eighth  Generation  99 

They  had  three  children: — 

155  I.     Clara  Lelia  was  born  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Septem- 
ber 24,  1886,  and  died  there  January  10,  1887. 

156  II.    Edgar  Schenck,  born  at  Sy-acuse,  N.  Y.,  July  17, 

1889.     Address,    104  Lynhurst  St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

157  III.     Harold  Eltweed  was  born  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Feb- 

ruary 6,  1891,  and  died  there  October  15,  1891. 

Lelia  Maria  (Schenck)  Pomeroy  (58)  died  at  Syra- 
cuse, N.  Y.,  October  19,  1892,  and  June  23,  1903,  T. 
Edgar  Pomeroy  married  Melissa  Almira  Weller.  He 
died  at  Syracuse,  December  27,  1905. 

60.  Effie  Isadore  Schenck,  VIII.,  daughter  of  Rulef 
(13)  and  Emerancy  Jane  (Emerick)  Schenck,  was  born 
at  the  Homestead,  Lysander  Township,  Onondaga 
County,  N,  Y.,  February  12,  1854,  and  May  4,  1871, 
married  George  William  Simmons,  son  of  Peter  and 
Elizabeth  Simmons.  He  was  born  in  New  Scotland,  Al- 
bany County,  N.  Y.,  July  28,  1851. 

Children : — 

158  I.     Elva,  born  August  31,  1871.    See  page  125. 
159  II.     Raymond  Percy  was  born  in  Cato  Township,  Cay- 
uga  County,   N.   Y.,    September   8,   1874,   and   died 
there  March  20,   1889. 
Effie  Isadore  (Schenck)   Simmons   (60) :    Address,  R. 
F.  D.,  Cato,  N.  Y. 

61.  William  Baird  Schenck,  VIII.,  son  of  Rulef  (13) 
and  Emerancy  Jane  (Emerick)  Schenck,  was  born  at 
the  Homestead,  Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County, 
N.  Y.,  July  21,  1859,  and  July  13,  1879,  married  Flor- 
ence Loretta  Osborn,  daughter  of  David  and  Margaret 
Ann  Osborn.  She  was  born  in  Lysander,  N.  Y.,  July 
8,  1863. 


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100  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


Children : — 

i6o  I.     Florence  Loretta,  born  August  3,  1880.     See  p.  125. 
i6i  II.     Rulef  David,  born  January  21,  1885.     See  p.   125. 

William  Baird  Schenck  (61):  Address,  13  W.  Main 
St.,  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

NINTH  GENERATION  IN  AMERICA. 

62.  Mervin  James  Wilson,  IX.,  son  of  Austin  Wycoff 
(14)  and  Mary  Ann  (Verity)  Wilson,  was  born  at 
Plainville,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  May  5,  1850,  and 
June  27,  1 87 1,  married  Minnie  Ann  Locke,  daughter  of 
John  V.  N.  and  Ann  Locke.  She  was  born  February 
24,  1853,  and  died  July  15,  1872.  They  had  no  children. 
Mervin  James  married  March  23,  1880,  Cornelia  Har- 
rington, daughter  of  Thomas  and  Catherine  Harrington. 
She  was  born  at  Jordan,  N.  Y.,  May  12,  1861. 

Children : — 

162  I.    Ada  Mary,  born  January  i,  i88i.    See  p.  126. 
Mervin  James  Wilson  (62)  :  Address,  Meridian,  N.  Y. 

63.  Orinda  More  Wilson,  IX.,  daughter  of  Dennis 
Kennedy  (16)  and  Lydia  Amanda  (Tator)  Wilson,  was 
born  in  Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y., 
November  23,  1850,  and  February  19,  1867,  married 
Delancy  Duyane  Stone,  son  of  Alpheus  and  Lucy  Ann 
Stone.     He  was  born  January  8,  1846. 

They  had  three  children: — 

163  I.     Willard  Dennis,  born  June  7,  1870.    See  p.  126. 
J64  II.    Rosa  Anna,  born  October  5,  1879.    See  p.  127. 

165  III.  Jennie  Lucy  was  born  in  Lysander  Township, 
Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  July  2,  1884,  and  died 
at  Baldwinsville,  N.  Y.,  December  9,  1887. 


Ninth  Generation  101 

Delancy  Duyane  Stone  died  August  i,  1898.  Orinda 
More  (Wilson)  Stone  (63)  :   Address,  Auburn,  N,  Y. 

64.  Ann  Hubble  Tator,  IX.,  daughter  of  James  M. 
and  Jane  Ann  (Wilson)  Tator  (17),  was  born  Septem- 
ber 7,  1849,  and  December  9,  1868,  married  Irwin  Van- 
derveer  Schenck  (55).     (See  p.  98.) 

67.  John  Schenck  Voorhees,  IX.,  son  of  James  L.  and 
Parna  Eleanora  (Schenck)  Voorhees  (24),  was  born  in 
Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  August 
II,  1856,  and  June  7,  1905,  married  Anna  Cornelia 
Moerschler,  daughter  of  John  and  Caroline  (Nulty) 
Moerschler.  She  was  born  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  July  2, 
1877. 

Children : — 

i66  I.     Son,  born  May  31,  1906.     Died  in  infancy. 
167  II.     Henry  Austin,  born  May  27,   1907. 

John  Schenck  Voorhees  (67)  :  Address,  Baldwinsville, 
N.  Y. 

69.  Henry  Peter  Voorhees,  IX.,  son  of  James  L.  and 
Parna  Eleanora  (Schenck)  Voorhees  (24),  was  born  De- 
cember I,  1 861,  and  March  21,  1886,  married  Lillian  B. 
Wells,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  F.  and  Eveline  (Bailey) 
Wells.  She  was  born  February  10,  1863.  They  had  no 
children. 

Henry  Peter  Voorhees  (69)  died  at  Baldwinsville,  N. 
Y.,  February  9,  1889.  Lillian  (Wells)  Voorhees  mar- 
ried, June  6,  1901,  Ralph  Sheldon. 

70.  Inez  Ann  Vedder,  IX.,  daughter  of  James  S.  and 
Harriet  Livona  (Schenck)  Vedder  (25),  was  born  at 
CarroUton,  Greene  County,  III.,  July  25,  1854,  and  Sep- 


102  ScHENCK  Genfalogy 

tember  3,  1873,  married  Joseph  Garret  Lowe,  son  of  Aus- 
born  E.  and  Sarah  J.  Lowe.     He  vv^as  born  at  Rushville, 
Ind,,  December  31,  1846. 
They  had  eight  children : — 

168  I.     Harriet  Belle,  born  June  23,  1874.    See  p.  127. 

169  II.     Russell    Gordon,    born    November    12,    1877.      See    p. 

127. 

170  III.     Clara  Leslie,  born  May  31,  1880.     See  p.  128. 

171  IV.     Joseph    Garret,    born    October    22,    1883.       Address, 

First  National  Bank,  VVellston,  Mo. 

172  V.     Richard    Vedder    was    born    at    Washington,    Kan., 

September   12,    1886,   and   died    at   El    Reno,    Okla., 
June  4,  1902. 

173  VI.     Bessie  Inez,  born  at  Washington,  Kan.,  March  30, 

1891. 
174  VII.     Mildred   Adeline,    born    at   Washington,    Kan.,   Jan- 
uary 8,  1894. 
17s  VIII.     Ruth  Marjorie,  born  at  Washington,   Kan.,  Septem- 
ber  12,   1S95. 
Joseph    Garret   Lowe   died   at   Piedmont,    Okla.,    Sep- 
tember II,  1908.     Inez  Ann  (Vedder)  Lowe  (70):   Ad- 
dress, El  Reno,  Okla. 

71.  Harriet  Elnora  Vedder,  IX.,  daughter  of  James 
S.  and  Harriet  Livona  (Schenck)  Vedder  (25),  was  born 
at  Carrollton,  Greene  Count}',  111.,  December  I,  1856, 
and  September  3,  1874,  married  Alfred  Mortimer  Hallo- 
well,  son  of  Jesse  R.  and  Penelope  A.  Hallowell.  He  was 
born  at  Middletown,  O.,  February  20,  1847. 

They  had  five  children: — 

176  I.     Maud  May,  born  April  13,  1876.     See  p.  128. 
177  II.     Roscoe  Vedder  was  born  at  Washington,  Kan.,  De- 
cember 17,   1877,  and  died  there  January  7,   1880. 
178  III.     Henry   Raymond   was   born    at    Washington,    Kan., 
April  2,  i88i,  and  died  there  July  24,  1882. 


Ninth  Generation  103 

179  IV.     Edith    Leona    was   born    at   Washington,    Kan.,    No- 
vember 20,  1882.     Address,  Ventura,  Cal. 
180  V.     Lyman   Earl   was  born  at  Washington,   Kan.,  April 
21,    1885.      Address,    Winnipeg,    Manitoba. 
Harriet    Elnora    (Vedder)     Hallowell    (71)    married, 
January  I,  1903,  Charles  Gordon  Burtnett,  born  Decem- 
ber 13,  1852.     Harriet  Elnora  (Vedder-Hollouell)  Burt- 
nett  (71):    Address,  Ventura,  Cal. 

72.  Lyman  Norton  Vedder,  IX.,  son  of  James  S.  and 
Harriet  Livona  (Schenck)  Vedder  (25),  was  born  at  Car- 
rollton,  Greene  County,  111.,  November  27,  1858,  and 
July  13,  1896,  married  Ernestine  Adele  Eddy,  daughter 
of  Lucien  Crane  and  Amy  (Kennedy)  Eddy.  She  was 
born  at  Pella,  Iowa,  November  23,  1870. 

Lyman  Norton  Vedder  (72)  :  Address,  Anadarko, 
Okla. 

74.  Floyd  Sullivan  Schenck,  IX.,  son  of  John  Sul- 
livan (27)  and  Adaline  (Day)  Schenck,  was  born  at 
Plainville,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  September  21,  1874, 
and  November  3,  1895,  married  Olive  Mastin,  daughter 
of  Allen  Snyder  and  Lillian  (Lindsay)  Mastin.  She  was 
born  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  August  19,  1877. 

They  had  one  child : — 

181   I.     Mildred  Louise,  born   at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  January 
19,   1897. 

Floyd  Sullivan  Schenck  (74)  died  at  Plainville,  N.  Y., 
August  29,  1898,  and  January  14,  1902,  Olive  (Mastin) 
Schenck  married  Sardis  A.  Dunham,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  A.  (Greenfield)  Dunham.  He  was  born  at  Bald- 
winsville,  N.  Y.,  July  10,  1876. 

Olive  (Mastin-Schenck)  Dunham:  Address,  545  Cedar 
St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 


104  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


75.  Charles  Fred  Smith,  IX.,  son  of  Charles  and  Per- 
lina  Adele  (Schenck)  Smith  (29),  was  born  at  Wash- 
ington, Kan.,  December  12,  1874,  and  June  29,  1908, 
married  Elizabeth  Abigail  Townsend,  daughter  of  Joseph 
R.  and  Mary  J.  (Baker)  Townsend.  She  was  born  at 
Cottage  Home,  111.,  March  13,  1878. 

Children : — 

182  I.     Elizabeth  Gertrude,  born  at  Oklahoma  City,  Okla., 

August  28,   1909. 

Charles  Fred  Smith  (75):  Attorney-at-Law,  Address, 
335  Lee  Building,  Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 

76.  Nellie  Leslie  Smith,  IX.,  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Perlina  Adele  (Schenck)  Smith  (29),  was  born  at  Wash- 
ington, Kan.,  January  27,  1876,  and  February  20,  1894, 
married  Eddie  A.  Vincent,  son  of  Reuben  and  Alice 
(Larabee)  Vincent.  He  was  born  at  Crown  Point,  Ind., 
February  17,  187 1. 

They  had  one  child: — 

183  I.     Adele    Pauline   was    born     at     Washington,     Kan., 

October  11,  1897. 

Eddie  A.  Vincent  died  at  Albuquerque,  N.  M.,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1903,  and  May  i,  1908,  Nellie  Leslie  (Smith) 
Vincent  (76)  married  John  A.  Kinch,  son  of  Samuel  R. 
and  Abigail  Ann  (Groff)  Kinch.  He  was  born  at  Colum- 
bia, Pa.,  September  23,  1876. 

Children : — 

184  I.     Infant,  unnamed,  born  and  died  at  Oklahoma  City, 

January  31,   1909. 
185  II.     Kathryn   Augusta,   born    at   Oklahoma   City,   Okla., 
April  19,   1910. 

Nellie  Leslie  (Smith- Vincent)  Kinch  (76):  Address, 
432  West  6th  St.,  Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 


Ninth  Generation  105 

77.  Joseph  Lowe  Smith,  IX.,  son  of  Charles  and  Per- 
lina  Adele  (Schenck)  Smith  (29),  was  born  at  Wash- 
ington, Kan.,  November  23,  1877,  and  March  20,  1904, 
married  Florence  Elser,  daughter  of  John  Joshua  and 
Anna  (Burke)  Elser.  She  was  born  at  Harlan,  Iowa, 
February  25,  1881. 

Children : — 

186  I.     Charles    Elser,    born    at    Washington,    Kan.,    April 
23,   1907. 

Joseph  Lowe  Smith  (77)  received  the  degree  of 
D.  D.  S.  at  the  Dental  Department  of  Denver  University, 
in  1906.  Address:  First  National  Bank  Building,  Wash- 
ington, Kan. 

78.  Harry  James  Smith,  IX.,  son  of  Charles  and  Per- 
lina  Adele  (Schenck)  Smith  (29),  was  born  at  Wash- 
ington, Kan.,  September  30,  1883,  and  May  24,  1905, 
married  Loula  Anna  Hill,  daughter  of  Harvey  Cooney 
and  Elizabeth  (Finley)  Hill.  She  was  born  at  Wash- 
ington, Kan.,  October  13,  1882. 

Harry  James  Smith  (78):  Address,  340  Board  of 
Trade,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

79.  Harriet  Marie  Smith,  IX.,  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Perlina  Adele  (Schenck)  Smith  (29),  was  born  at 
Washington,  Kan.,  May  16,  1885,  and  May  31,  1910, 
married  Axel  Walfred  Erickson,  son  of  Erik  Axel  and 
Hedda  Louise  (Jonson)  Erickson.  He  was  born  at 
Trosa,  Sweden,  August  2,  1882. 

Harriet  Marie  (Smith)  Erickson  (79) :  Address, 
Lindsborg,  Kan. 


106  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

8i.  Lisle  John  Schenck,  IX.,  son  of  Benjamin  Free- 
man (30)  and  Eliza  (Chittenden)  Schenck,  was  born  at 
Plainville,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  June  10,  1879,  and 
October  27,  1910,  married  Lulu  May  Wilson,  daug;hter 
of  George  W.  and  Margaret  (Otis)  Wilson.  She  was 
born  at  Baldwinsville,  N.  \'.,  ALny  lO,   1883. 

Lisle  John  Schenck  (80  ^  Address,  Baldwinsville,  N. 
Y. 

82.  Elsie  May  Schenck,  IX.,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Freeman  (30)  and  Ella  Eliza  (Chittenden)  Schenck,  was 
born  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  May  7,  1881,  and  June  22, 
1904,  married  Frederick  L.  Huntington,  son  of  Henry 
L,  and  Mary  (Fisher)  Huntington.  He  was  born  at 
Lysander,  N.  Y.,  September  3,   1883. 

Children: — 

187  I.     Lisle    Schenck,   born    at   Plainville,   N.   Y.,   May  21, 
1906. 

Elsie  May  (Schenck)  Huntington  (82):  Address, 
Plainville.  N.  Y. 

83.  Frank  Leslie  Bratt,  IX.,  son  of  John  (32)  and 
Matilda  Wilson  Bratt,  was  born  in  Lysander  Township, 
Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  November  i,  1857,  and  Sep- 
tember 8,  1878,  married  Jennie  Stickle,  daughter  of 
Elizabeth  and  Jacob  Stickle.  She  Mas  born  at  Peru,  N. 
Y.,  July  14,  i860.     They  had  no  children. 

Jennie  (Stickle)  Bratt  died  February  26,  1885,  and 
August  6,  1886,  Frank  Leslie  Bratt  (83)  married  Ella 
Babcock,  dau'ghter  of  David  and  Margaret  Babcock.  She 
was  born  at  Belleville,  Ont.,  December  25,  1866.  They 
had  no  children. 


Ninth  Generation  107 

Ella  (Babcock)  Bratt  died  January  14,  1903,  and  Sep- 
tember 4,  1904,  Frank  Leslie  Bratt  (83)  married  Lillian 
Miller,  daughter  of  Albert  and  Mary  Miller.  She  was 
born  at  West  Leyden,  N.  Y.,  February  I,  1872. 

Frank  Leslie  Bratt  (83)  died  at  Munnsville,  N.  Y., 
December  27,   1910. 

84.  Charles  Willis  Bratt,  IX.,  son  of  John  (32)  and 
Matilda  (Wilson)  Bratt,  was  born  at  Togg,  Lysander 
Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  May  31,  1859,  and 
April  5,  1883,  married  Nettie  Matilda  Horton,  daughter 
of  Edward  and  Mary  Horton.  She  was  born  at  Horton- 
town,  Lysander  Township,  N.  Y.,  June  3,  1859. 

They  had  two  children : — 

188  I.     Jessie  Belle,  born  May  2,  1884.     See  p.  128. 
189  II.     Lela  Jane,  born  November  25,   1889,  and   died  Au- 
gust 7,  1890. 
Nettie    Matilda    (Horton)    Bratt   died    December   25, 
1894,  and  March,  1904,  Charles  Willis  Bratt  (84)  mar- 
ried   Hattie    Osborn    Humphrey,    born    June    6,     1859. 
Charles   Willis   Bratt    (84)  :    Address,    79    Scribner   St., 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

85.  Ella  May  Bratt,  IX.,  daughter  of  John  (32)  and 
Matilda  (Wilson)  Bratt,  was  born  at  Togg,  Lysander 
Township,  Onandaga  County,  N.  Y.,  September  21,  1862, 
and  December  9,  1879,  married  Garret  L.  Vanderveer, 
son  of  Henry  and  Agnes  Mary  Vanderveer  and  grand- 
son of  Garret  Vanderveer.  (See  p.  79.)  He  was  born 
near  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  September  27,  1858. 

They  had  three  children : — 

190  I.     Hattie  May,  born  October  5,  1881.     See  p.  129. 
191   II.     Henry    was    born    at    Plainville,    N.    Y.,    May    15, 
1884,  and  died  June  7,  1892. 


108  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

192  III.  John  Pomyea,  born  at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  January  17, 
1886.     Address,  Lysander,  N.  Y. 

Ella  May  (Bratt)  Vanderveer  (85)  died  at  Plainville, 
N.  Y.,  December  11,  1888.  Garret  L.  Vanderveer  died 
at  Meridian,  N.  Y.,  July  3,   1907. 

86.  Anna  Isabell  Bratt,  IX.,  daughter  of  John  (32) 
and  Matilda  (Wilson)  Bratt,  was  born  at  Plainville,  N. 
Y.,  August  9,  1864,  and  January  17,  1885,  married  John 
Wesley  Albright,  son  of  Jacob  and  Eliza  (Reed)  Albright. 
He  was  born  at  New  Scotland,  Albany  County,  N.  Y., 
May  8,  1859. 

Children: — 

193  I.     Charles  Wesley,  born  at  Hurstville,  Albany  Coun- 
ty, N.  Y.,  May  14,  1889. 
194  II.     Howard  Baxter,  born  at  Hurstville,  N.  Y.,  July  23, 
1895. 

195  III.     Wesley  Alfred,  born  at  Hurstville,   N.  Y.,  April  9, 

1897. 

196  IV.     Henry  Cary,  born  at  New  Scotland,  Albany  County, 

N.  Y.,  August  23,   1903. 
Anna  Isabell   (Bratt)   Albright  (86):    Address,  R.  F. 
D.,  Voorheesville,  N.  Y. 

87.  Alice  Merriman  Bratt,  IX.,  daughter  of  John 
(32)  and  Matilda  (Wilson)  Bratt,  was  born  at  Plain- 
ville, Onondaga  Count}',  N.  Y,,  September  ii,  1866,  and 
January  14,  1885,  married  Edward  Alexander  Jackson, 
son  of  Richard  and  Mary  (Clark)  Jackson.  He  was  born 
at  Scroepples,  N.  Y.,  December  30,  i860. 

Children : — 

197  I.     Eyola    Bratt,    born    at    Plainville,    N.    Y.,    October 
21,    1888. 
198  II.     Reba  Mary  was  born  at  Baldwinsville,  N.  Y.,  June 
4,   1894,    and   died   June   21,    1898. 


Ninth  Generation  109 


Alice  Merriman  (Bratt)  Jackson  (87)  :  Address,  Bald 
winsville,  N.  Y. 

88.  Ernest  Wilson  Bratt,  IX.,  son  of  John  (32)  and 
Matilda  (Wilson)  Bratt,  was  born  at  Plainville,  Onon- 
daga County,  N.  Y.,  December  26,  1869,  and  February 
II,  1891.  married  Julia  Stevens,  daughter  of  John  and 
Eleanor  Stevens.  She  was  born  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  No- 
vember 20,   1869. 

Children : — 

199  I.     Florence  May,   born   at  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  June 
7,  1892. 
200  II.     Alice  Viola,  born   at  Grand  Rapids,   Mich.,   March 
13,   1896. 
Ernest  Wilson  Bratt  (88)  :   Address,  Edgerton,  Mich. 

89.  Sarah  Elsie  Bratt,  IX.,  daughter  of  John  (32) 
and  Matilda  (Wilson)  Bratt,  was  born  at  Plainville, 
Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  November  12,  1872,  and  Jan- 
uary 20,  1897,  married  Franklin  Mills  Adsit,  son  of 
Francis  and  Mary  (Mills)  Adsit.  He  was  born  at  Little 
Utica,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  March  21,  1871. 

Children : — 

201  I.     Elon  Bratt,  born  at  Little  Utica,  N.  Y.,  January  15, 
1899. 
Sarah  Elsie   (Bratt)  Adsit   (89):    Address,  Baldwins- 
ville,  N.  Y. 

90.  Ella  Lillian  Hubbard,  IX.,  daughter  of  Chauncey 
and  Elsie  (Bratt)  Hubbard  (33),  was  born  at  Plainville, 
Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  December  31,  1854,  and  March 
26,  1878,  married  Miles  Clarence  Carncross,  son  of  John 
and  Mary  Ann  (Elsworth)  Carncross.  He  was  born  at 
Meridian,  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y.,  October  22,  1855. 


110  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Children : — 

202  I.     Avis  May,  born  January  31,  1884.     See  p.  129. 
203   II.     Frank   Hubbard,  born   at   Plainville,   N.   Y.,  March 
23,    1893. 
Ella    Lillian    (Hubbard)    Carncross    (go):     Address, 
Plainville,  N.  Y. 

97.  Herbert  Eugene  Bratt,  IX.,  son  of  Peter  Schenck 
(35)  and  Marta  Nettie  (Carpenter)   Bratt,  was  born  in 

the  Township  of  L3'sander,  Onondaga  County.  February 
13,    1870,   and   January   26,    1890,    married    Frances    E. 
Hammond,   daughter  of   George  and   Hettie   Hammond. 
She  was  born  at  Lysander,  N.  Y.,  May  12,  1868. 
Children : — 

204  I.     Earl,     born     in     Lysander     Township,     Onondaga 
County,   N.  Y.,  February  18,  1891. 
205  II.     Glenn,    born    in    Lysander    Township,    N.    Y.,    Au- 
gust  18,    1892. 

206  III.     Frances   was   born    in   Lysander  Township,    N.    Y., 

March  12,  1895,   and  died  March  30,  1895. 

207  IV.     Mabel    was    born    in    Lysander    Township,    N.    Y., 

May  12,    1896. 
208  V.     Ethel,  born  in  Lysander  Township,   N.   Y.,  October 
12,   1898. 
209  VI.     Edith,  born  in  Lysander  Township,  N.  Y.,  January 

7,   1901. 
Herbert  Eugene  Bratt  (97)  :  Address,  R.  F.  D.,  Mem- 
phis, N.  Y. 

98.  LeRoy  Bratt,  IX.,  son  of  Peter  Schenck  (35)  and 
Marta  Nettie  (Carpenter)  Bratt,  was  born  in  Lysander 
Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  July  23,  1872,  and 
October  24,  1890,  married  Grace  Hall,  daughter  of  Rob- 
ert and  Frances  (Carson)  Hall.  She  was  born  at  Maus- 
ton,  Wis.,  September  8,  1870. 


Ninth  Generation  111 

Children : — 

2IO  I.     Florence   Louise,   born   at   Syracuse,   N.   Y.,   August 

30,  1902. 
211  II.     Gertrude  Ruth,  born  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  September 
16,    1907. 

LeRoy  Bratt  (98)  :  Address,  257  Fitch  St.,  Syracuse, 
N.  Y. 

99.  Arthur  Bratt,  IX.,  son  of  Peter  Schenck  (35) 
and  Marta  Nettie  (Carpenter)  Bratt,  was  born  in 
Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  Febru- 
ary 28,  1874,  ^nd  April  7,  1897,  married  Grace  Edna 
Gibbs,  daughter  of  William  and  Augusta  Gibbs.  She 
was  born  at  Jordan,  N.  Y.,  April  15,   1872. 

Arthur  Bratt  (99)  :   Address,  Jordan,  N.  Y. 

100.  William  Peter  Bratt,  IX.,  son  of  Peter  Schenck 
(35)  and  Marta  Nettie  (Carpenter)  Bratt,  was  born  in 
Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y. ,  Decem- 
ber 17,  1882,  and  January  4,  1905,  married  Maude  Bow- 
man, daughter  of  Willis  and  Alice  (Farley)  Bowman. 
She  was  born  at  Memphis,  N.  Y.,  July  10,  1878. 

William  Peter  Bratt  (100)  :  Address,  Memphis,  N.  Y. 

loi.  Harry  Bratt,  IX.,  son  of  Peter  Schenck  (35) 
and  Marta  Nettie  (Carpenter)  Bratt,  was  born  in  the 
Township  of  Lysander,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  August 
26,  1884,  and  June  24,  1909,  married  lona  Leona  Doane, 
daughter  of  Adelbert  and  Anna  (Van  Slyck)  Doane.  She 
was  born  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  November  22,  1883. 

Harry  Bratt  (101):  Address,  402  Arthur  St.,  Syra- 
cuse, N.  Y. 


112  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


I02.  Raymond  Bratt,  IX.,  son  of  Peter  Schenck  (35) 
and  Marta  Nettie  (Carpenter)  Bratt  was  born  in 
Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  August 
24,  1888,  and  January  i,  1910,  married  Martha  Jessie 
Rogers,  daughter  of  Frank  Adelbert  and  Elizabeth 
(Bittel)  Rogers.  She  was  born  in  Lysander  Township, 
April  I,  1888. 

Raymond  Bratt  (102):  Address,  Baldwinsville,  N.  Y. 

105.  Benjamin  Robinson  Schenck,  IX.,  son  of  Adrian 
Adelbert  (37)  and  Harriet  Parthenia  (Robinson) 
Schenck,  was  born  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  August  19,  1872, 
and  August  17,  1904,  married  Jessie  Jane  McCallum, 
daughter  of  Peter  and  Agnes  (Mclndoe)  McCallum. 
She  was  born  at  St,  Catharines,  Ont.,  August  10,  1872. 
Children : — 

212  I.     Leila   Marion,   born    at   Detroit,    Mich.,    September 
30,  1905. 
213  II.    John  Tyler,  born  at  Detroit,  Mich.,  September  18, 
1907. 
Benjamin  Robinson  Schenck  (105)  received  the  degree 
of  A.  B.  from  Williams  College  in  1894,  an<l  the  degree 
of  M.  D.  from  Johns  Hopkins  University  in  1898.     Ad- 
dress:  32  Adams  Ave.,  W.,   Detroit,   Mich. 

no.  Inez  Eudora  Spaulding,  IX.,  daughter  of  Burns 
(39)  and  Caroline  A.  (Phelps)  Spaulding,  was  born  at 
Plainville,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  November  22,  1857, 
and  April  10,  1878,  married  Charles  Watson  Kyle,  son 
of  Alexander  and  Caroline  A.  Kyle.  He  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  May  13,  1844. 
They  had  one  child: — 

214  1.     Caroline    Inez,   born  at   Detroit,  Mich.,  August  22, 
1879. 


Ninth  Generation  11 J 


Inez  Eudora  (Spaulding)  Kyle  (no),  married  May 
24,  1894,  Almeron  Ward  Diinsmore,  son  of  Phineas  H. 
and  Lucy  Juliette  (Peters)  Dunsmore.  He  was  born  at 
Fowlersville,  N,  Y.,  August  14,  1854. 

Inez  Eudora  (Spaulding)  Dunsmore  (no):  Address, 
7300  Princeton  Ave.,  Chicago,  III. 

112.  Louis  Spaulding  Phelps,  IX.,  son  of  Major  Fitts 
and  Mary  (Spaulding)  Phelps  (40),  was  born  at  Granby, 
Oswego  County,  N.  Y.,  May  27,  1862,  and  September 
16,  1885,  married  Carrie  M.  Barnard,  daughter  of  Selah 
Smith  and  Melissa  (Parker)  Barnard.  She  was  born  at 
Volney,  N.  Y.,  September  16,  1865. 

They  had  three  children: — 

215  I.     Harry  Barrett,  born  August  9,  1886.     See  p.  130. 

2r6  II.     Homer  Spaulding,  born  April  11,  1888.     See  p.  130. 

217  III.    Lena  Marion,  born  at  Fulton,  N.  Y.,  March  2, 1896. 

Louis  Spaulding  Phelps  (112)  died  at  Banks,  Oregon, 
June  17,  1908.  Carrie  M.  (Barnard)  Phelps:  Address, 
Fulton,  N.  Y. 

113.  Homer  Jay  Phelps,  IX.,  son  of  Major  Fitts  and 
Mary  (Spaulding)  Phelps  (40),  was  born  in  Granby 
Township,  Oswego  County,  N.  Y.,  September  5,  1866, 
and  July  3,  1890,  married  Sarah  Agnes  Ostrander,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Henry  and  Sarah  Ellen  (Goodman) 
Ostrander.  She  was  born  at  Mottville,  Onondaga  Coun- 
ty, N.  Y.,  May  11,  1866. 

Children : — 

218  I.    Eliza  Eleanor,  born  at  South  Granby,  N.  Y.,  May 
20,  1891. 
219  II.     Harold   Major,  born   at  Fulton,  N.   Y.,  March  23, 
1893. 


114  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

220  III.    Anna  Laura,  born    at   South    Granby,   N.   Y.,   No- 

vember 9,  1894. 

221  IV.     Mildred  Bessie,  born  at  Fulton,  N.  Y.,  January  17, 

1896. 
222  V.     Gertrude,  born  at  Fulton,  N.  Y.,  February  7,  1898. 
223  VI.     Raymond  Lee,  born  at  Fulton,  N.  Y.,  April  4,  1900. 
224  VII.     Alfred    was    born    at    Fulton,    N.   Y.,    December    8, 
1902,  and   died  there  May  23,   1903. 
225  VIII.     Ruth    Marjorie,    born    at    Fulton,    N.    Y.,   June    20, 
1904. 

Homer  Jay  Phelps  (113):    Address,  Fulton,  N.  Y. 

115.  Earl  Burns  Chapman,  IX.,  son  of  L.  Austin  and 
Dealia  (Spaulding)  Chapman  (42),  was  born  at  South 
Granby,  Oswego  County,  N.  Y.,  June  12,  1880,  and 
October  30,  1903,  married  Minnie  Mae  Schall,  daughter 
of  Ephraim  and  Ellen  (McKinney)  Schall.  She  was 
born  at  Beach  Bottom,  Elk  County,  Pa.,  April  12,  1881. 

Children: — 

226  I.     Minnie   Geraldine,   born    at   Burton,    O.,    June    14, 

1909. 

Earl  Burns  Chapman  (115):  Address,  American  Ex- 
press Company,  Cleveland,  O. 

116.  Hazel  Eliza  Chapman,  IX.,  daughter  of  L. 
Austin  and  Dealia  (Spaulding)  Chapman  (42),  was  born 
at  South  Granby,  Oswego  County,  N.  Y.,  February  6, 
1889,  and  July  28,  1906,  married  Harry  Albertus 
Ketchum,  son  of  James  Robert  and  Isadora  (Ceathoat) 
Ketchum.  He  was  born  at  Alger,  Mich.,  December  26, 
1886. 

Children : — 

227  I.    Robert  Burns,  born  at  Fulton,  N.  Y.,  February  17, 

1908. 


Ninth  Generation  115 


Hazel  Eliza  (Chapman)  Kctchum  (ii6):  Address, 
Fulton,  N.  Y. 

117.  James  Emory  Fenner,  IX,,  son  of  James  Rulef 
(44)  and  Ellen  A.  (Savage)  Fenner,  was  born  at  Caze- 
novia,  N.  Y.,  June  4,  1862,  and  August  9,  1883,  niarried 
Lou  A.  Pinckney,  daughter  of  Alpheus  and  Julia  Pinck- 
ney.  She  was  born  at  Onondaga  Valley,  N.  Y.,  March 
12,   1864. 

Children : — 

228  I.  Frederick  Munroe,  born  at  Onondaga  Valley,  N. 
Y.,  November  3,  1883,  and  now  in  the  United 
States  Marine  Service.  Enlisted  September  17, 
1906. 
229  II.  Harry  Rulef,  born  at  Delphi  Falls,  Onondaga 
County,   N.  Y.,   September  23,  1886. 

230  III.     Frank    Clifton   was    born    at    Delphi   Falls,   N.   Y., 

August  9,  1889,   and  died  there  September  7,  1890. 

231  IV.     Raymond    Erasmus,    born    at    Delphi    Falls,    N.   Y., 

August  28,  1903. 

James  Emeroy  Fenner  (117):  Address,  Delphi  Falls, 
N.  Y. 

118.  Florence  Ellen  Fenner,  IX.,  daughter  of  James 
Rulef  (44)  and  Ellen  A.  (Savage)  Fenner,  was  born  at 
Delphi,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  February  18,  1877, 
and  August  27,  1 895,  married  Frederick  Thomas  Gallo- 
way, son  of  Henry  and  Harriet  E.  (Hitchcock)  Gallo- 
way.    He  was  born  in  Delphi,  N.  Y.,  September  6,  1871. 

Children : — 

232  I.     Wilbur  Fenner,  born  at  Delphi,  N.  Y.,  March  29, 
1896. 

Florence  Ellen  (Fenner)  Galloway  (118):  Address, 
722  Cannon  St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 


116  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

119.  Frederick  Fenner  Vedder,  IX.,  son  of  Sylvester 
A,  and  Sarah  Ellen  (Fenner)  Vedder  (46),  was  born  at 
Carrollton,  111.,  October  26,  1866,  and  February  25,  1892, 
married  Cornelia  Edna  Vertrees,  daughter  of  John  and 
Frances  (Fishback)  Vertrees.  She  was  born  at  Carroll- 
ton,  III.,  April  14,  1868. 
Children : — 

233  I.     Virginia  Vertrees,  born  at  Carrollton,   III.,  Decem- 
ber 8,  1892. 
234  II.     George  Sidney,  born  at  Carrollton,  111.,  October  20, 
1894. 
Frederick  Fenner  Vedder    (119)    graduated   from  the 
Department   of    Pharmacy,   University  of   Michigan,    in 
1886.    Address,  La  Harpe,  111. 

121.  Wilmina  Wycoff  Vedder,  IX.,  daughter  of  Syl- 
vester A.  and  Sarah  Ellen  (Fenner)  Vedder  (46),  was 
born  at  Carrollton,  111.,  September  17,  1872,  and  Sep- 
tember 28,  1887,  married  John  Cowan  Wilson,  son  of 
Dr.  Eberle  and  Lucy  (Cannedy)  Wilson.  He  was  born 
at  Fayette,  Green  County,  111.,  August  21,  1869. 

Children : — 

335  I.  Eberle  Irving,  born  at  Carrollton,  111.,  April  25, 
1888. 
Wilmina  Wycoff  (Vedder)  Wilson  (121)  graduated 
at  the  Female  Academy,  Jacksonville,  111.,  and  at  the 
Musical  Conservatory  of  the  same  place.  She  later  studied 
two  years  in  the  College  of  Music,  Chicago.  Address, 
6938  Kimbark  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

122.  Ross  Sylvester  Vedder,  IX.,  son  of  Sylvester  A. 
and  Sarah  Ellen  (Fenner)  Vedder  (46),  was  born  at 
Carrollton,  111.,  November  8,  1874,  and  August  22,  1900, 
married  Kathleen  Witherbee,  daughter  of  Thomas  F.  and 


Ninth  Generation  117 


Caroline    (Pease)    Witherbee.        She   was   born   at   Port 
Henry,  N.  Y.,  June  g,  1880. 

Ross  Sylvester  Vedder  (122)  graduated  at  the  Chicago 
Dental  College  in   1897.     Address,  Nevada,  Mo. 

124.  Neil  Davis  Vedder,  IX.,  son  of  Sylvester  A.  and 
Sarah  Ellen  (Fenner)  Vedder  (46),  was  born  at  Car- 
rollton,  111.,  October  29,  1880,  and  June  6,  1906,  married 
Edna  Rumrill,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Ella  (Landiss) 
Rumrill.  She  was  born  at  Carrollton,  111.,  September  6, 
1879. 

Children : — 

236  I.     Herbert  Edward,  born  at  Carrollton,   111.,  June  19, 
1907. 

Neil  Davis  Vedder  (124)  graduated  from  the  Depart- 
ment of  Dentistry,  University  of  Michigan,  1901.  Ad- 
dress, Carrollton,  111. 

126.  Charles  Day  Fenner,  IX.,  son  of  Frederick  Wil- 
liam (47)  and  Eliza  (Day)  Fenner,  was  born  at  Lysan- 
der,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  August  18,  1867,  and 
June  4,  1890,  married  Mabel  Keller,  daughter  of  James 
Henry  and  Margaret  (Martin)  Keller.  She  was  born  at 
Lysander,  N.  Y.,  June  20,  1869. 

Charles  Dav  Fenner  (126):  Address,  Baldwinsville, 
N.  Y. 

127.  Frederick  William  Fenner,  IX.,  son  of  Frederick 
William  (47)  and  Eliza  (Day)  Fenner,  was  born  at 
Lysander,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  November  10,  1869, 
and  June  16,  1892,  married  Jessie  Mead  Kelly.  She  was 
born  at  Lysander,  N.  Y.,  May  11,   1872. 


118  *  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Children : — 

237  I.     Halcyon  Edith,  born  at  Baldwinsville,  N.  Y.,  May 
28,   1894. 
Frederick  William  Fenner  (127)  :    Address,  529  Tall- 
man  St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

129.  Jennie  Fenner,  IX.,  daughter  of  Byron  Russell 
(49)  and  Caroline  V.  (Nash)  Fenner,  was  born  in  Gun- 
plain  Township,  Allegan  County,  Mich.,  August  15, 
1864,  and  February  12,  1890,  married  Manley  Maurice 
Chase,  son  of  Hiram  and  Sarah  (Holden)  Chase.  He 
was  born  at  Prairieville,  Mich.,  October  21,  1858. 
Children : — 

238.  I.     Herbert    Fenner    was    born    at    Prairieville,    Mich., 
October  26,  1893,  and  died  there  January  15,  1894. 
239  II.     Maurice    Manley   was   born    at    Prairieville,    Mich., 
March  28,  1896,   and  died  there  July   30,  1896. 

240  III.     Elliott    Leo   was    born    at    Prairieville,    Mich.,    Feb- 

ruary 12,   1898,  and   died  there  April  i,  1899. 

241  IV.     Cecile  Caroline,   born  at  Prairieville,  Mich.,  March 

IS,  1899. 
Jennie   (Fenner)   Chase   (129):    Address,  Prairieville, 
Mich. 

133-  William  Henry  Scott,  IX.,  son  of  Henry  Robley 
and  Eliza  Eleanor  (Fenner)  Scott  (50),  was  born  in 
Gunplain  Township,  Allegan  County,  Mich  ,  January 
28,  1863,  and  July  2,  1882,  married  Allie  Belle  Phillips, 
daughter  of  Albert  and  Harriet  (Amsden)  Phillips.  She 
<A'as  born  at  Kendall  Mills,  Monroe  County,  N.  Y, 
April  22,  1864. 
Children : — 

242  I.     Maude  Belle,  born  September  28,  1883.     See  p.  130. 
243  II.     Harry   Agatha,   born    November   25,    1889.     See    p. 
131. 


Ninth  Generation  119 

William  Henry  Scott  (133):  Address,  1607  E.  Main 
St.,  Kalamazoo,  Mich. 

134.  Kittie  Belle  Scott,  IX.,  daughter  of  Henry  Rob- 
ley  and  Eliza  Eleanor  (Fenner)  Scott  (50),  was  born 
in  Gunplain  Township,  Allegan  County,  Mich.,  De- 
cember 21,  1864,  and  September  8,  1885,  married  John 
Franklin  Eesley,  son  of  Albert  and  Jennette  (Goldie) 
Eesley.  He  was  born  at  Hamilton,  Ont.,  December  11, 
1859. 

Children : — 

244  I.     Iva   Belle   was   born   at   PlainweH,    Mich.,    June   8, 
1887,  and  died  there  February  10,  1888. 
245  II.     Harold    John,   born   in   Plainwell,    Mich.,   April    3, 
1893. 
246  III.     Franklin  R.  B.,  was  born  in  Plainwell,  Mich.,  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1898,   and  died  there  October  21,   1898. 
Kittie  Belle  (Scott)  Eesley  (134)  :   Address,  Plainwell, 
Mich. 

135.  Charles  Seneca  Scott,  IX.,  son  of  Henry  Robley 
and  Eliza  Eleanor  (Fenner)  Scott  (50),  was  born  at 
Plainwell,  Mich.,  January  12,  1869,  and  April  5,  1893, 
married  Belle  A.  Moulton,  daughter  of  Irvin  L.  and 
Betsy  E.  (Wall)  Moulton.  She  was  born  at  Martin, 
Allegan  County,  Mich.,  October  20,  1872. 

Children : — 

247  I.     Dorothea  Moulton,  born  August  18,   1897. 
Charles  Seneca  Scott  (135)  :  Address,  Plainwell,  Mich. 

136.  Herbert  Russell  Scott,  IX.,  son  of  Henry  Robley 
and  Eliza  Eleanor  (Fenner)  Scott  (50),  was  born  at 
Plainwell,  Mich.,  September  27,  1871,  and  March  15, 
1900,  married  Maud  May  Notter,  daughter  of  John  A. 


120  ScHENCK  Genfalogy 


and  Jennie  Lavinia   (Burrows)    Notter.     She  was  born 
at  Flint,  Mich,,  February  8,  1875. 
Children : — 

248  I.     Herbert  Russell,   born  June  20,   1903. 
249  II.     Donald   Notter,  born   July  9,   1904. 

250  III.     Nathan   Burrows,  born   October  23,   1908. 

251  IV.     Gerald   Notter,  born  August   10,   1910. 

Herbert  Russell  Scott  (136):  Address,  831  Clinton 
Ave.,  Kal?mazoo,  Mich. 

137-  Franklin  James  Scott,  IX.,  son  of  Menry  Robley 
and  Eliza  Eleanor  (Fenner)  Scott  (50),  was  born  at 
Plainwell,  Mich.,  September  30,  1873,  and  November 
24,  1908,  married  Fannie  Elizabeth  Ransom,  daughter 
of  John  Noyes  and  Caroline  (Hydorn)  Ransom.  She 
was  born  at  Alamo,  Kalamazoo  County,  Mich,,  October 
3,  1872. 

Franklin  James  Scott  (137):  Address,  Plainwell, 
Mich. 

138.  Bertha  May  Scott,  IX.,  daughter  of  Henry 
Robley  and  Eliza  Eleanor  (Fenner)  Scott  (50),  was  born 
at  Plainwell,  Mich.,  August  4,  1875,  and  November  11, 
1904,  married  John  Samuel  McColl,  son  of  John  Thomas 
and  Isabella  (McLean)  McColl.  He  was  born  at  Jack- 
son, Mich.,  November  19,  1876. 

Bertha  May  (Scott)  McColl  (138):  Address,  415 
Locust  St,,  Kalamazoo,  Mich. 

139.  Caroline  Eleanor  Scott,  IX.,  daughter  of  Henry 
Robley  and  Eliza  Eleanor  (Fenner)  Scott  (50),  was 
born  at  Plainwell,  Mich.,  August  2,  1877,  and  July  8, 
1908,  married  Ira  R.  Bullock,  son  of  Ira  and  M.  Jose- 
phine (Ensign)  Bullock.  He  was  born  at  Lynn,  Mich., 
May  II,  1870. 


Ninth  Generation  121 


Caroline  Eleanor  (Scott)  Bullock  (139):  Address, 
Plainwell,  Mich. 

140.  Ernest  William  Fenner,  IX.,  son  of  William 
Perry  (51)  and  Mina  L.  (Sornbury)  Fenner,  was  born 
at  Martin,  Allegan  County,  Mich.,  September  24,  1870, 
and  October  24,  1895,  married  Grace  Nichols,  daughter 
of  Dr.  George  Byron  and  Eunice  M.  (Watkins)  Nichols. 
She  was  born  at  Martin,  Mich.,  November  9,   1870. 

Children : — 
252  I.     Horace    Alfred,    born    at    Martin,    Mich.,    July    12, 
1897- 
253  II.     Helen  Angeline,  born  at  Martin,  Mich.,  March  21, 
1908. 
254  III.     Byron    Nichols,    born    at    Martin,    Mich.,    August   4, 
1910. 

Ernest  William  Fenner  (140):  Address,  Martin, 
Mich. 

141.  Nellie  May  Fenner,  IX.,  daughter  of  William 
Perry  (51)  and  Mina  L.  (Sornbury)  Fenner,  was  born 
in  Gunplain  Township,  Allegan  County,  Mich.,  Septem- 
ber I,  1872,  and  January  30,  1896,  married  Frank  A. 
Pratt,  son  of  William  and  Emma  (Buchanan)  Pratt.  He 
was  born  at  Martin,  Mich.,  January  25,  1872.  Nellie 
(Fenner)  Pratt  died  April  10,  1898,  leaving  no  children. 

142.  James  Bruce  Fenner,  IX.,  son  of  William  Perry 
(51)  and  Mina  L.  (Sornbury;  Fenner,  was  born  in  Gun- 
plain  Township,  Allegan  County,  Mich.,  September  28, 
1874,  and  April  14,  1897,  married  Wilma  Belle  Stayman, 
daughter  of  William  D.  and  Mary  J.  (Swaney)  Stayman. 
She  was  born  at  La  Grange,  Ind.,  December  7,  1875. 


122  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Children : — 

255  I.     Russell  William,  born   at  Martin,   Mich.,  February 

28,   1898. 

256  II.     Gertrude   Helen,   born    at   Martin,   Mich.,   July  23, 

1899. 
James    Bruce    Fenner    (142)     died    April    21,    1 904. 
Wiima  Belle  (Stayman)  Fenner :  Address,  Martin,  iVlich. 

145.  Orlie  Perry  Fenner,  IX.,  son  of  William  Perry 
(51)  and  Mina  L.  (Sornbury)  Fenner,  was  born  in 
Gunplain,  Allegan  County,  Mich.,  December  20,  1884, 
and  March  8,  1906,  married  Isabelle  Ketchum,  daughter 
of  Fernando  and  Roxie  (Presley)  Ketchum.  She  was 
born  at  Martin,  Mich,,  December  24,  1885. 

Children : — 

257  I.     Gerald    James,    born    in    Martin,    Allegan    County, 

Mich.,   February   2,   1907. 

258  II.     Dorothy    Isabelle,    born    in    Martin,    November    26, 

1909. 
Orlie  Perry  Fenner  (145)   now  resides  on  the  Home- 
stead Farm  in  the  Township  of  Martin,  Allegan  County, 
granted  by  the  government  to  his  grandfather  Sornbury, 
about  1840.     Address:    Martin,  Mich. 

147.  Edith  May  Fenner,  IX.,  daughter  of  Franklin 
Monroe  (53)  and  Hannah  Ida  (Honeysett)  Fenner,  was 
born  in  the  Township  of  Gunplain,  Allegan  County, 
Mich.,  October  23,  1878,  and  October  28,  1896,  married 
David  Edward  Brown,  son  of  Henry  and  Jane  (Wood) 
Brown.  He  was  born  in  Gunplain  Township,  Mich., 
October  27,  1874. 

Children: — 

259  I.     Verne   LeRoj',   born   in   Gunplain,  October    lo,   1899. 
260  II.     Reon   David,   born   in  Gunplain,  February  23,   1904. 


Ninth  Generation  123 


261   III.     lola  May,   born  in  Gunplain,  August  28,    1909. 
Edith  May  (Fcnner)    Brown    (147):    Address,  Plain- 
well.  Mich. 

148.  Ida  Myrtle  Fenner,  IX.,  daughter  of  Franldin 
Monroe  (53)  and  Hannah  Ida  (Honeysett)  Fenner,  was 
horn  in  Gunplain  Township,  Allegan  County,  Mich., 
July  17,  1880.  and  February  4,  1901,  married  Boaz  Cam- 
field,  son  of  Boaz  and  Anna  (Bellingham)  Camfield.  He 
was  born  at  Rotherfield,  Sussex,  England,  October  11, 
1872. 

Children : — 
262  I.     Nordah    Lavee,    born    in    Gunplain,    Allegan    Coun- 
ty,  Mich.,  October  4,  1902. 
263   II.     Franklin   Boaz,    born   in   Gunplain,   Allegan   Count>, 
Mich.,  June   18,   1905. 

Ida  Myrtle  (Fenner)  Camfield  (148)  :  Address,  Plain- 
well,  Mich. 

149.  Starr  Franklin  Fenner,  IX.,  son  of  Franklin 
Monroe  (53)  and  Hannah  Ida  (Honeysett)  Fenner,  was 
born  in  Gunplain,  Allegan  County,  Mich.,  February  24, 
1886,  and  February  24,  1910,  married  Frances  M. 
Greene,  daughter  of  Abner  and  Marion  D.  (Root) 
Greene.  She  was  born  at  Kendalls,  Mich.,  May  23,  1891. 
Starr  Franklin  Fenner  (149):  Address,  Plainwell, 
Mich. 

152.  Nellie  Maria  Schenck,  IX.,  daughter  of  Hulbert 
Luke  (54)  and  Betsey  (Fenner)  Schenck,  was  born  in 
Lj'sander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  September 
II,  1867,  and  November  6,  1890,  married  Edmund  Har- 
vey Turner,  son  of  Samuel  and  Ellen  C Mills)  Turner. 
He  was  born  in  Lysander  Township,  January  24,   1866. 


124  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


Children : — 

264  I.     Hattie    Betsey    was    born    in    Lysander    Township, 
June  lo,  1891,   and  died  August  3,  1903. 
265  II.     Anna  Nellie,  born  in  Lysander  Township,  May  18, 
1900. 
266  III.     Ellen    May,   born   in   Lysander   Township,   Septem- 
ber  14,   1901. 
Nellie    M.    (Schenck)    Turner    (152):    Address,    R. 
F.  D.,  Memphis,  N.  Y. 

153-  William  Vanderveer  Schenck,  IX.,  son  of  Hul- 
bert  Luke  (54)  and  Betsey  (Fenner)  Schenck,  was  born 
in  Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  Jan- 
uary 22,  1875,  and  December  1,  1895,  married  Nellie 
Wright,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Caroline  (Miller) 
Wright.  She  was  born  in  Ira,  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y., 
March  22,  1874. 

Children : — 

267  I.     John    Hulbert,    born    in   Lysander   Township,    Feb- 

ruary 3,  1900. 

268  II.     Lillian  May,  born  in   Lysander  Township,   July  9, 

1909. 
William  Vanderveer  Schenck    (153):  Address,   R.   F. 
D.,  Memphis,  N.  Y. 

154.  Lester  Hulbert  Schenck,  IX.,  son  of  James 
Shuler  (56)  and  Ella  Lucretia  (Wormuth)  Schenck, 
was  born  in  Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N. 
Y.,  August  4,  1880,  and  October  21,  1903,  married  Thola 
Nett  Tabor,  daughter  of  Ernest  Grant  and  Nett  (Clark) 
Tabor.  She  was  born  in  the  Township  of  Cato,  Cayuga 
County,  N.  Y.,  August  16,  1885. 

Lester  Hulbert  Schenck  (154):  Address,  R.  F.  D, 
Memphis,  N,  Y. 


Ninth  Generation  125 

158.  Elva  Simmons,  IX.,  daughter  of  George  Wil- 
liam and  Effie  Isadore  (Schenck)  Simmons  (60),  was 
born  in  Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y., 
August  31,  1 87 1,  and  September  4,  1895,  married  Edward 
Bela  Kaple,  son  of  Dr.  John  Delmar  and  Martha  (Good- 
rich) Kaple.  He  was  born  at  Hartwich,  N.  Y.,  March 
I,  1872. 

Elva  (Simmons)  Kaple  (158):  Address,  Elbridgc, 
N.  Y. 

160.  Florence  Loretta  Schenck,  IX.,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Baird  (61)  and  Florence  Loretta  (Osborn) 
Schenck,  was  born  in  Lysander  Township,  Onondaga 
County,  N.  Y.,  August  3,  1880,  and  October  5,  1898, 
married  Ceylon  Charles  Shearer,  son  of  William  Charles 
and  Ann  (Murray)  Shearer.  He  was  born  at  Homer, 
N.  Y.,  January  5,  1872. 

Children: — 

269  I.    Alice  Loretta,  born  at  Homer,  N.  Y.,  September  2, 
1900. 
270  II.     Grace  Reba,   born    at   Cortland,   N.   Y.,   December 
22,  1902. 

271  III.     Marion    Nellie,   born    at    Cortland,    N.   Y.,    August 

II,  1904. 

272  IV.     Neva  Estella,  born   at  Cortland,   N.  Y.,   December 

19,  1908. 

Florence  Loretta  (Schenck)  Shearer  (160):  Address, 
3  Wadsworth  ,St.,  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

161.  Rulef  David  Schenck,  IX.,  son  of  William 
Beard  (61)  and  Florence  Loretta  (Osborn)  Schenck, 
was  born  in  Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N. 
Y.,  January  21,  1885,  and  September  6,  1905,  married 


126  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


Irma  Louise  Givens,  daughter  of  George  E.  and  Hattie 
(Harter)    Givens.      She    was    born    at    Ithaca,    N.    Y., 
October  2,  1884. 
Children : — 

273  I.     Lawrence  David,   born   at  Cortland,   N.   Y.,   Decem- 

ber  12,    1906. 

274  II.     Luthera  Jane,  born  at  Cortland,  N.  Y.,  May  6,  1910. 
Rulef    David    Schenck    (161):    Address,    92    Lincoln 

Av.,  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

TENTH  GENERATION  IN  AMERICA. 

162.  Ada  Mary  Wilson,  X.,  daughter  of  Mervin 
James  (62)  and  Cornelia  (Harrington)  Wilson,  vi^as 
born  at  Memphis,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  January  i, 
1881,  and  March  12,  1902,  married  Frederick  W.  Corey, 
son  of  Charles  H.  and  Helen  (Knight)  Corey.  He  was 
born  at  Jordan,  N.  Y.,  July  5,  1873. 

Children : — 

275  I.     Eunice    Catherine    was    born    at    Syracuse,    N.    Y., 
July  15,  1903,  and  died  there  April  18,  1904. 
Ada  M.    (Wilson)    Corey    (162):  Address,  919  W. 
Onondaga  St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

163.  Willard  Dennis  Stone,  X.,  son  of  Delancy 
Duyane  and  Orinda  More  (Wilson)  Stone  (63),  was 
born  in  Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y., 
June  7,  1870,  and  February  12,  1894,  married  Hilda 
Norman,  daughter  of  Olif  Norman.  She  was  born  July 
9,  1871. 

They  had  two  children: — 

276  I.     Norman   D.,  born   at   Baldwinsvillc,   N.  Y.,  Novem- 

ber   I,   1894. 

277  II.     Donald  D.,  born  at  Baldwinsvillc,  N.  Y.,  December 

13,  1895. 


Tenth  Generation  127 

Willard  Dennis  Stone  (163)  married  again,  February, 
1904,  Eunice  Howe.     His  address  is  Cato,  N.  Y, 

164.  Rosa  Anna  Stone,  X.,  daughter  of  Delancy 
Duyane  and  Orinda  More  (Wilson)  Stone  (63),  was 
born  in  Lysander  Township,  Onondaga  County.,  N.  Y., 
October  5,  1879,  and  April  3,  1907,  married  Dr.  William 
T.  Hudson,  son  of  Watson  N.  and  Mary  (French) 
Hudson.     He  was  born  at  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  July  6,  1874. 

Rosa  Anna  (Stone)  Hudson  (164)  :  Address,  Auburn, 
N.  Y. 

168.  Harriet  Belle  Lowe,  X.,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Garret  and  Inez  Ann  (Vedder)  Lowe  (70),  was  born 
at  Washington,  Kas.,  June  23,  1874,  and  January  22, 
1903,  married  Frederic  Tobey  Stackpole,  son  of  Frederic 
W.  and  S.  Elizabeth  (Tobey)  Stackpole.  He  was  born 
at  Thomastown,  Me.,  November  18,  1874. 

Children : — 

278  I.     Joseph  Frederic,  born  at   Seattle,  Wash.,  April   14, 

1904. 

279  II.     Frederic  Tobey,  born  at  El  Reno,  Okla.,  December 

23,   1908. 

Harriet  Belle  (Lowe)  Stackpole  (168):  Address,  El 
Reno,  Okla. 

169.  Russell  Gordon  Lowe,  X.,  son  of  Joseph  Garret 
and  Inez  Ann  (Vedder)  Lowe  (70),  was  born  at  Wash- 
ington, Kas.,  November  12,  1877,  and  July  4,  1901,  mar- 
ried Doris  Pearl  Carlock,  daughter  of  Andrew  Means 
and  Luella  (Cullom)  Carlock.  She  was  born  at 
Cleburne,  Tex.,  April  26,  1879. 


128  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Children : — 

280  I.     Helen  Marjorie,  born  at  Perry,  Okla.,  June  25,1902. 

281  II.     Gordon    Cullom,   born   at   Perry,    Okla.,   March   ir, 

1906. 

Russell  Gordon  Lowe  (169):  Address,  Oklahoma 
City,  Okla. 

170.  Clara  Leslie  Lowe,  X.,  daughter  of  Joseph  Gar- 
ret and  Inez  Ann  (Vedder)  Lowe  (70),  was  born  at 
Washington,  Kas.,  May  31,  1880,  and  October  12,  1904, 
married  Dr.  Ralph  Evans  Runkle,  son  of  Winfield  S.  and 
Mirium  (Evans)  Runkle.  He  was  born  at  Mingo,  O., 
February  26,  1878. 

Children : — 

282  I.     Winfield    Lowe,    born   at   El   Reno,   Okla,   June   22, 

1908. 
Clara    Leslie    (Lowe)     Runkle    (170):    Address,    El 
Reno,  Okla. 

176.  Maud  May  Hallowell,  X.,  daughter  of 
Alfred  Mortimer  and  Harriet  Elnora  (Vedder)  Hallo- 
well  (71)  was  born  at  Washington,  Kas.,  April  13,  1876, 
and  June  30,  1894,  married  Claude  Clinton  Needham, 
son  of  Nathan  B.  and  Mary  A.  (Graves)  Needham.  He 
was  born   at  Clifton,  Kas.,   May  7,    1876. 

Children : — 

283  I.     Claude  Raymond,  born  at  El  Reno,  Okla.,  June  18, 

1899. 
Maud   May    (Hallowell)    Needham    (176):  Address, 
Ventura,  Cal. 

188.  Jessie  Belle  Bratt,  X.,  daughter  of  Charles 
Willis  (84)  and  Nettie  Matilda  (Horton)  Bratt, 
was  born  at  Plainville,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  May  2, 


Tenth  Generation  129 

1884,  and  December  24,  1903,  married  Earl  Lewis  John- 
son, son  of  George  H.  and  Emily  (Lewis)  Johnson.  He 
was  born  at  Granby,  N.  Y.,  August  21,  1883. 

Children : — 

284  I.     Lela  Bratt,  born  at  Fulton,  N.  Y.,  January  14,  1907. 
285  II.     Kenneth  Charles,  born  at  Fulton,  N.  Y.,  September  9, 

1908. 
Jessie    Belle    (Bratt)    Johnson    (188):   Address,    407 
Wilbur  Ave.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

190.  Hattie  May  Vanderveer,  X.,  daughter  of  Garret 
L.  and  Ella  May  (Bratt)  Vanderveer  (85),  was  born 
at  Plainville,  N.  Y.,  October  5,  1881,  and  November  22, 
1899,  married  Charles  Theodore  Lange,  son  ot  Frederick 
and  Elizabeth  (Kwitz)  Lange.  He  was  born  at  South 
Granby,  Oswego  County,  N.  Y.,  June  18,  1881. 

Children: — 

286  I.     Raymond   Charles,   born   at   South  Grandy,  N.  Y-, 

April    30,    1901. 

287  II.     Ernest    William,    born    at    South    Granby,    N.    Y., 

July  5,  1904. 
Hattie   May    (Vanderveer)    Lange    (190):     Address, 
South  Granby,  N.  Y. 

202.  Avis  May  Carncross,  X.,  daughter  of  Miles 
Clarence  and  Ella  Lillian  (Hubbard)  Carncross  (90), 
was  born  at  Meridian,  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y.,  January 
31,  1884,  and  December  14,  1905,  married  Charles  Egbert 
Cox,  son  of  William  B.  and  Mary  Frances  (Gordon) 
Cox.  He  was  born  at  Hortontown,  Onondaga  County, 
N.  Y.,  December  27,  1879. 

Children : — 

288  I.     Maurice  Egbert,  born  at  Syracuse,     N.  Y.,  July  9, 
1908. 


130  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Avis  May  (Carncross)  Cox  (202)  :  Address,  219 
West  Corning  Av.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

215.  Harry  Barrett  Phelps,  X.,  son  of  Louis  Spauld- 
ing  (112)  and  Carrie  M.  (Barnard)  Phelps,  was  born  at 
Granby,  Oswego  County,  N.  Y.,  August  9,  1886,  and 
February  4,  1905,  married  Harriet  L.  Osborn. 

Harry  Barrett  Phelps  (215):  Address,  United  States 
Navy,  Washington,  D.  C. 

216.  Homer  Spaulding  Phelps,  X.,  son  of  Louis 
Spaulding  (112)  and  Carrie  M.  (Barnard)  Phelps,  was 
born  at  Granby,  Oswego  County,  N.  Y.,  April  11,  1888, 
and  June  26,  1907,  married  Nellie  Mae  Wolcott, 
daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Mae  (Tillapaugh)  Wol- 
cott.    She  was  born  at  Pulaski,  N.  Y.,  May  8,  1889. 

Children : — 

289  I.     Lena  Mae  was  born  at  Fulton,  N".  Y.,  February  17, 
1908,  and  died  there   October  7,  1908. 

Homer  Spaulding  Phelps  (216)  :  Address,  423 
Columbia  St.,  LJtica,  N.  Y. 

242.  Maude  Belle  Scott,  X.,  daughter  of  William 
Henry  (133)  and  Alice  Belle  (Phillips)  Scott,  was  born 
at  Ludington,  Mich.,  September  28,  1883,  and  January  28, 
1910,  married  William  Howard  Rice,  son  of  William  L. 
and  Emily  Ann  (Corsin)  Rice.  He  was  born  at  Mendon, 
Mich.,  August  13,  1884. 

Maude  Belle  (Scott)  Rice  (242)  :  Address,  713 
Southworth  Place,  Kalamazoo,  Mich. 


Tenth  Generation  131 

243.  Harry  Agatha  Scott,  X.,  son  of  William  Henry 
(133)  and  AUie  Belle  (Phillips)  Scott,  was  born  at 
Plainwell,  Mich.,  November  25,  1889,  and  July  14,  1909, 
married  Bessie  Lenora  Lum,  daughter  of  Harrison  V. 
and  Harriet  Emeline  (Brininstool)  J  Aim.  She  was  born 
at  Galesburg,  Kalamazoo  County,  Mich.,  December  20, 
1884. 

Harry  Agatha  Scott  (243) : — Address,  1521  Fairbanks 
Court,  Kalamazoo,  Mich. 


INDEX 


Adams,  Amos  45 

Marvin  45 

Adsit,  Elon   Bratt    (201) 109 

Francis  109 

Franklin   Mills   109 

Sarah  Bratt   (89)    85-xo<; 

AfFerden,  Lord  of  23,  24,  25.   55,  56,  ii7 

Albright,    Anna    Bratt    (86)    85-io8 

Charles  Wesley   (193)   108 

Henry  Clay  (196)   • 108 

Howard  Baxter  (194)  108 

Jacob    io8 

John  Wesley  108 

Wesley  Alfred   (195)    108 

Allis,  T.  W 72 

American  History,  Early  27 

Amersfoort  (Flatlands,  L.  I.)  28-29 

Amsden,   Harriet 118 

Arssen,   Lord   of  56 

Babcock,  David  106 

Ella     _ 106 

Margaret    - 106 

Baird,   Caroline   65 

Elsie    43-65 

Family,  Note  on  43 

John    43 

William    ^ 65 


134 ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Baker,   Mary  J lo^ 

Baldwin,  Dr.  James  C 44 

Baldwin's  Bridge,  N.  Y 44 

Baldwinsville,  N.  Y 44 

"Baldwinsville   Gazette"   44 

"Baldwinsville    Republican"   „ 44 

Barber,  Addie   E 93 

Barnard,    Carrie  M 113 

Selah  Smith  113 

Bates,    Deborah   „ 82 

James   82 

Louisa  Wilson  (19)  66-82 

Samuel   W 82 

Bellingham,  Anna  123 

Bertholf,    Rev.    Guillaume    38 

Betts,   Chauncey  4S"52 

Belts'  Corners,  N.  Y 45 

Bittel,  Elizabeth  112 

Blyenbeck,  Castle  of 24,  25,  26,  28,  56,  57 

Bout,  Jan  Everston  „ 28 

Bowman,  Maude  1 1 1 

Willis    Ill 

Bradt,  See  note  86 

Bratt,   Alice   Merriman    (87)    85,  io8 

Alice  Viola   (200)   109 

Anna  Isabel   (86)   85,  108 

Arthur    (99)    87,111 

Charles  Willis   (84)   85,107 

Earl    ( 204)    1 10 

Edith    (209)    _ 110 

Ella  May    (85)    85, 107 

Eliza  Ann    (31)    70 

Elsie    (33)    - 70,  85 

Ernest  Wilson   (88)   85,  109 

Ethel    (208)    no 

Florence   Louise    (210)    in 

Florence  May  (199)  109 

Frances    (206)    no 


Index 135 

Bratt,  Frank  Leslie  (83)    «5,  io6 

Glenn    (205)    - "o 

Gertrude  Rii^'i    (211)    »" 

Harry    (loi)    r 8?.  "i 

Herbert   Eugene    (97) : 87,  no 

Jessie  Belle   (188)   _ /- —  107,128 

John    4 45.  48,  7° 

John    (32)   : 70,85 

Lela  Jane  (189)  »07 

LeRoy  (981    87,110 

Mabel   (207)   "o 

Margaret  Schenck   (5)    48,65,70 

Peter       48,  7° 

Peter  Schenck   (35)   70.86 

Raymond   (102)    87,112 

Rebecca    —    70 

Ruth    (103)   87 

Sarah  Catharine   (34.)    48,  70,  82,  86 

Sarah  Elsie   f8q) 85.  «09 

William  Peter    (100)    87,111 

Brininstool,  Harriet   Emeline   13 ' 

Brinkerhoff,  Susanna  Abrahamse  61 

Brown,    David    Edward    122 

Edith  Fenner    (14.7)   97.  122 

Henry  '22 

Ida  May  (261)  "3 

John    36 

Reon  David    (260)    «22 

Verne  Le  Roy   (259)  122 

Brugers,  Gertgen  25,  26 

Buchanan,   Emma   *2i 

Buck,   John   45. 48 

Buel,   Grover   - 45 

Bullock,  Caroline  Scott   (139)   96,  120 

Ira    «20 

Ira  R »2o 

Bump,  W.  P ~    45 

Burke,  Anna  *°S 


136 ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Burrows,  Jennie  Lavinia  izo 

Burtnett,   Charles  Gordon   103 

Harriet  Ved'der    (71)    83,10a 

Camfield,  Boas  123 

Franklin   Boas    (263)    123 

Ida    Fenner    (148)    97,123 

Nordah    Lavee    (262)     123 

Cannedy,  Lucy  116 

Carlock,  Andrew  Means  127 

Doris  Pearl   127 

Carncross,  Avis  Ma^'    (202)    no,  129 

Ella  Hubbard    (90)    86,  109 

Frank  Hubbard   (203)   no 

John    109 

Miles    Clarence    109 

Carpenter,    George    86 

Marta    Nettie    86 

Ruth 86 

Carroll,  David  .^ 45.47 

Carson,    Frances    no 

Case,   Mary   Elizabeth  9^ 

Sarah    96 

Stephen    96 

Cayuga  County,  Branch  of  Family  in  42,  64 

Ceathoat,    Isadora   "4 

Chapman,    Adelia    92 

Austin 92 

Delia  Spaulding  (42)  74.92 

Earl  Burns   (115)   93.  "4 

Hazel  Eliza    (116)    93.  "4 

Irwin  B.    (114)     93 

L.  Austin  92 

Minnie  Geraldine   (226^   "4 

Charlemagne   ^9 

Charles  V.,  Emperor  26,  27 

Charles  the  Simple  »9 

Charleston,   N.   Y 41,46 

Chase,  Cecile  Caroline   (241)    "8 


Index  137 

Chase,  Elliott  Leo  (240)   118 

Herbert  Fenner   (238)    118 

Hiram     Ii8 

Jennie  Fenner  (129)  95,118 

Manley   Maurice   ! 118 

Maurice  Manley    (239)    118 

Chittenden,  Ella  Eliza  „. 84 

Samuel  Mallory  84 

Christian  Church  at  Plainville  45 

Clark,  Mary  108 

Nett  „ 124 

Cleve,  Duke  of  23 

Governor    30 

Coat  of  Arms 13 

Coats,  Benjamin  81 

Charlotte  Wilson    (15)    66,67,81 

Cogswell,  Frances  84 

Colburn,    Rev.   E.   E 69 

Columbia,  N.  Y 44 

Conover,    Garret    63 

Corey,  Ada  Wilson    (162)    100,126 

Charles    H 126 

Eunice   Catherine    (275)    126 

Frederick  W.     126 

Corsin,  Emily  Ann  130 

Cox,  Avis  Carncross  (202)  no,  129 

Charles  Egbert  129 

Maurice  Egbert   (288)   129 

William  B 129 

Cradenborch,  House  at 2$ 

Crigers,  Catrina  3'>  ^2 

Cullum,  Luella  iz7 

Custers,  Alheit 25,26,57,59 

Dailey,  Abram  45i  4^ 

Oavis,   B.  F 48 

Day,    Adaline    83»  94 

Eliza  Ann  83,  94 

Eliza    94 


138 ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Day,  Hezekiah  83,  94 

de  Haes,  Marie  Magdalena  59 

de    Hart    63 

de  Witte,  Colve  20 

Doane,  Adelbert in 

lona  Leona  m 

Dunham,   Joseph   103 

Sardis    A loj 

Dunsmore,  Almeron  Ward  113 

Inez  Spaulding  (no)  92,112 

Phineas  H 113 

Dutcher,  Daniel  49 

Eddy,  Ernestine  Adele  103 

Lucien  Crane   103 

Eesley,  Albert  119 

Franklin  R.  B.  (246)  119 

Harold  John  (245)  119 

Iva  Belle  (244) 119 

John    Franklin    119 

Kittie  Scott  (134)    95,  119 

Elder,   Theresa  M 98 

Elser,   Florence  105 

John  Joshua 105 

Elsworth,  Mary  Ann  109 

Emerick,   Abraham  49,  80 

Emerancy  50,  80 

Erickson,  Axel  Walfred  105 

Erik   Axel   105 

Harriet  Smith  (79)  84,  105 

Ensign,  Josephine  120 

Evans,    Mirium   128 

Farley,  Alice   "i 

Farmersville,  N.  Y 45 

Faulkner,   Nancy    68 

Fenner,  Arthur,  Capt 74 

Avis,    Melissa    (45)     75 

Betsey    97 

Betsey   Perry  7Si  77 


Index 139 

Fenner,  Byron  Nash  (128) 95 

Byron  Nichols  (254)  - 121 

Byron  Russell    (49)   77.  95 

Charles  Day  (126)  94.  "7 

Clay  Enrl    (150)    97 

Dorothy    Isabella    (258) 122 

Eilith  May  (147)   97.  122 

Eleanor  Schenck    (9)    50,  65,   66,  74,  76 

Eliza  Eleanor    (50)    77.  95 

Elton  Perry   (146)    97 

Ernest  William  (140)   96,  121 

Florence  Ellen    (n8)    93,  "5 

Frank   Clifton    (230)    115 

Franklin  Eddy  (48)   75 

Franklin   Monroe    (53)    77.  97 

Frederick  Byron    (43)    75 

Frederick  Munroe   (228)   i»S 

Frederick   W SO,  74.  97 

Frederick  William   (47)   75.  94 

Frederick  William   (127)   94,  *'7 

Gerald  James   (257)   122 

Gertrude  Helen    (256)   122 

Halcyon  Edith   (237)   "8 

Hannah  Jane   (143)    - 96 

Hannah  Schenck  (10) 50,  65,  7i,  76 

Harry  Rulef   (229)   "5 

Helen  Angelina   (253)   121 

Horace  Alfred   (252)   121 

Ida   Myrtle    (148)    97.  "3 

James  Bruce    (142)    96,  121 

James  Emory  (117)   93.   "5 

James   L 50,  75,  77 

James  Rulef  (44)   75.  93 

Jennie    {129)   95.  "^ 

John    97 

Lucinda  T 74 

Nellie  May  (141)  96,  121 

Nina   Vanderveer    (131)    95 


140  ScHENCK  Genfalogy 


Fenncr,  Orlie  Perry  (146)     96,  122 

Pearl  Eliza   (144)  96 

Raymond    Erasmus    (231)    115 

Rulef  James  (52)  77,  96 

Russell    B _ 50,  77,  97 

Russell   William    (255)    122 

Sarah  Ellen   (46)   75,  93 

Starr  Franklin  (149)  97,  123 

Wave   lola   (151)    97 

William  Perry   (51)    77,  96 

William  Perry   (130)   95 

Finley,  Elizabeth  lo^ 

Fishback,   Frances  116 

Fisher,   Mary   106 

Fitzgerald,  Daniel  James  91 

Henrietta  Schenck   (38)    71,  91 

John    1 „ 91 

Nancy  91 

Forncrook,  Stuffle  52 

French,  Mary  127 

Gaesdonk,   Convent  of  23,  24,  25 

Galloway,  Florence  Fenner  (118)  93,  115 

Frederick  Thomas  115 

Henry   115 

Wilbur  Fenner  (232)   115 

Geldern,  Bailiff  of  24 

Geyen,  Church  of  22 

Gibberfort,  Bailiff  of  57 

Gibbs,   Augusta   1 1 1 

Grace   Edna  11 1 

William  1 1 1 

Givens,  George   E 126 

Irma   Louise   126 

Goldie,  Jennette  119 

Goodman,  Sarah  Ellen  113 

Goodrich,    Martha    125 

Gordon,  Mary  Frances 129 

Gorham,  Freeman  68 


Index 141 

Gorham,  Pama  Sullivan    „ 49,  68 

Graves,  Mary  A 128 

Greene,    Abner    123 

Francis   M 133 

Greenfield,   Mary  A 103 

Grimes,  Rev.  W.  J _ 69 

Groff,   Abigail   Ann   „ „ 104 

Haeghoort,  Rev.    Gerardus  „ _ 38 

H  aes,   God  art  25 

Hall,    Grace    ^ „ 110 

Julia  Parsels ™ 49,  68 

Mary    _ 43 

Robert  no 

Hailoweil,   Alfred  Mortinaer  ..._ _ loa 

Edith  Leona   (179)   „.  103 

Harriet  Vedder  (71)  „ „ 83,  102 

Henry  Raymond   (178)  _ X02 

Jesse  R „ _...  loa 

Lyman  Earl  (180)   103 

Maud  May  (176)  102,  128 

Penelope  A „ loa 

Roscoe  Vedder   (177)    loa 

Hammond,  Frances  E _ no 

George    no 

Hettie   „  no 

Hankenson,  James  „ 64 

Harrington,   Catherine  „ „ too 

Cornelia  _ loo 

Thomas    100 

Hazengest,  Estate  of  _ 25 

Hegeman,  Isaac  _ _ ~ 6i 

Hendrickson,   Geesie  - „ 63 

Henry  the  Fowler  19 

Hicks,  Elizabeth  ™ _ 96 

Hill,  Harvey  Cooney _ ~ _ ~ — 105 

Loula  Anna  ~ 105 

Hillenrath,   Heiress  of  _ 5< 

Hinsdell,  Eleanor  Schenck  (9)  50,  6^.  66,  74,  76 


142  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Hinsdell,  Perry  H.  50,  75 

Hitchcock,   Harriet  E 115 

Holden,   Sarah   _ ng 

Holland  History  17 

Holmes,  Katherine  „ 63 

Holton,   Sue]  5 1 

Honeysett,   Hannah  97 

Hannah   Ida  97 

James    57 

Horst,  Lord  of  56 

Horton  Edward  107 

Mary  107 

Nettie  Matilda  107 

Hosmer,  C.  M 44. 

Howe,    Eunice    127 

Joseph    47 

Hubbard  Chauncey  85 

Cornelius   52 

Elijah   85 

Eliza  85 

Elsie  Bratt    (33)   70,  85 

Ella  Lillian  (90)  86,  109 

Hudson,  Rosa  Stone  (164)  lOO,  127 

Watson    N 127 

William  T 127 

Humphrey,  Hattie  Osborn  107 

Hunt,  John  81 

Huntington,  Elsie  Schenck  (82)   85,  106 

Frederick  L io6 

Henry  L - 106 

Lisle  Schenck   (187)   106 

Hydorn,  Caroline  120 

Irish,  Louise  B 81 

Jackson,  Alice  Bratt  (87)  85,  io8 

Edward  Alexander  108 

Eyola  Bratt  {197)  108 

Reba  Mary  (198)  108 

Richard    »o8 


Index  143 

Johnson,  Earl  Lewis  129 

George  H 129 

Jessie  Bratt  (188)  107,  128 

Kenneth  Charles   (285)    129 

Lela  Bratt   (284)   129 

Jones,   Leid a  „ 93 

Jonson,  Hedda  Louise  105 

Kaple,  Edward  Bela „ 12s 

Elva  Simmons  (158) 99,  125 

John  Delmar  125 

Keller,   J ames   _ „ 117 

Mabel   „ „ 117 

Kellv,  Jessie  Mead  117 

Kennedy,  Amy  103 

Dennis     „     51 

Kerpen,   Monastery  of  _ ™ 22 

Ketchum,    Fernando   —  123 

Harry    Albertus 114 

Hazel   Chapman   (116)   _ 93,  114 

Isabella    „ 122 

James   Robert   114 

Robert  Burns  (227)  114 

Kinch,  John  A ~ 104 

K at hryn  Augusta  (185) 104 

Nellie  Smith  (76)  - 84,  104 

Samuel    R ~ 104 

Knight,  Helen  126 

Kwitz,    Elizabeth    — 129 

Kyle,  Alexander  ii» 

Caroline  A "» 

Caroline  Inez  (214)  — i»2 

Charles  Watson  — — —  tiz 

Inez  Spaulding  (110)   9*.  '12 

Landiss,    Ella   ~ —  "7 

Lange,  Charles  Theodore  ~ 129 

Ernest  Wililam   (287)    - 129 

Frederick   ~ —  ^29 

Hattie    Vanderveer    (190)    107,  129 


144  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


Lange,  Raymond  Charles  (286)  120 

Larabee,   Alice  ,„. 

— ....  104 

Lewis,    Emily    ^29 

Lindsay,  Lillian  ^ 

Lippert,    Sarah    ^j^  g^ 

Locke,  Ann  ^^ 

John  V.  N ;ZIZ  100 

Minnie  Ann   jpg 

Loet,   Estate   of  ,_ 

Lowe,  Ausborn  E jq2 

Bessie  Inez   (173)   jo3 

Clara   Leslie    (170)    102,  128 

Gordon  CuHom  (281)  j3g 

Harriet  Belle  (168)  102,  127 

Helen  Marjorie   (280)   128 

Inez  Vedder  (70)  83,  loi 

Joseph    Garret   102 

Joseph   Garret    (171)    102 

Mildred  Adeline   (174)   102 

Richard    Vedder    (172)    102 

Russell   Gordon    (169)    102,  127 

Ruth   Marjorie    (175)    10a 

Sarah  J 102 

Lum,  Bessie  Lenora  i^l 

Harrison    V i^i 

Lysander,  N.  Y 45 

Early  settlers  of 45 

Pioneer    days    of a$ 

McCallum,  Jessie  Jane  H2 

Peter  112 

McColl,  Bertha  Scott  (138)  96,  120 

John  Samuel  i2o 

John  Thomas  120 

Mclndoe,  Agnes  _ 112 

McKinney,  Ellen  „ 1 14 

McLean,  Isabella  120 

Marlborough,  Old  Brick  Church  of 39 

Martin,  Margaret 117 


Index  145 

Mastin,  Allen   Snyder   103 

Olive    103 

Miller,    Albert    107 

Caroline   124 

Lillian    107 

Mary    loy 

Mills,  Ellen  123 

Mary    109 

Moerschler,  Anna  Cornelia  „  loi 

John    _ loi 

Monfoort,    Anna    „ _ _ 56 

Morgan,   Rev.  Joseph  „ 38 

Motley   18,  26 

Moulton,  Belle  A 119 

Irvin    L 119 

Mount,  Cornelius  52 

Munster  Mannshof 23 

Murray,   Ann   125 

Mylligen,   Estate  of   _ ~ 57 

Nash,  Caroline  V _ 95 

Major    D —     95 

Phoebe    - 95 

Navasink,  Church  of  - 37j  3^ 

Needham,  Claude  Clinton  128 

Claude  Raymond    (283)    — 128 

Maud  Hallowell  (176)  102,  128 

Nathan  B _ "8 

Nefus,  Peter  - 6i 

Netherlands,    History  of  i? 

Nichols,  George  '21 

Grace   -  121 

Nicoll,    Gov.    Richard    _ — 29 

Norman,    Hilda   - »26 

Olif    "6 

Norton,    Ann    - - 9* 

Ann  (109)  - -     91 

Georgianna  Belle    (107)    - 9' 

Harriet  Maria   (io8) 9' 


11^ ScHENCK  Genealogy 


lOI 
21 


Norton,  Henrietta  Schenck  (38)  ^t    91 

John    Vedder    „.'  „, 

T  y*»   y-t 

Lyman    ,,      - 

■'  45,  48,  91 

Notter,  John  A ^^ 

Maud   May  ^^ 

Nulty,   Caroline   

Nydeggen,  Castle  of  ,g 

Nyfterich,  Estate  of  

Onondaga  County,  N.  Y ^^  ^5 

Osborn,  David  

Florence  Loretta  00 

Harriet  L j,q 

Margaret  Ann  oo 

Ostrander,  Sarah  Agnes  ii» 

William  Henry u- 

Otis,    Margaret    106 

Ottersum,  Estate  at 24 

Pangburn,    Herman    ao 

Parish,  Julia  Eliza  ^^ 

Parker,    Melissa   ,1^ 

Parma,  Prince  of  27 

Pease,  Caroline  u^ 

Perkins,  Annie  Spaulding  (41)  74^  92 

Erastus    B 02 

J.  Edward  92 

Sarah    „ 02 

Perry,    Samuel    50 

Peters,  Lucy  Juliette  113 

Phelps,  Alfred  (224)  114 

Anna  Laura    (220)   114 

Caroline  A 91 

Eliza  Eleanor  (218)  113 

Gertrude   (222)    114 

H.  Nelson  91,  92 

Harold  Major  (219)  113 

Harry  Barrett  (215)   113,    130 

Homer  Jay  (113)  92,  113 

Homer  Spaulding  (216)  113,  130 


Index 147 

Phelps,  Lena  Mae  (289)  130 

Lena  Marion    (217)    _ „  113 

Louis  Spaulding   (112)  „ 92,  113 

Major  Fitts  „ _     92 

Mary   „ 91,  92 

Mary  Spaulding   (40)   74,  9a 

Mildred   Bessie    (221)    114. 

Raymond  Lee   (223)   _ 114 

Ruth  Marjorie   ^225)   114 

Phillips,  Albert  Ii8 

Allie  Belle  „     118 

Pincerna,  Christianus  16 

Pinckney,    Alpheus   115 

Julia   115 

Lou  A ~ 115 

Plainville,   N.  Y 44 

Early  Settlers  of  - 45 

Christian  Church  at 45 

First  School  at _ 45 

Pleasant  Valley,  N.  J 3<5,  41 

Pomeroy,  Clara  Lelia  (155)  ~ 99 

Edgar  Schenck  (156)   ™ 99 

Leila  Schenck  79.  9** 

Harry  Eltweed    (157)    - 99 

T.    Edgar    98 

Theodore  C - 9* 

Pratt,  Frank  A X2i 

Nellie  Fenner    (141)   92.  »*i 

William   «2» 

Presley,  Roxie       ~  '** 

Preston,   Northrup  5» 

Quackenbush,  Mary ~ ^4 

Ransom,  Fannie  Elizabeth   — »2o 

John  Noyes  ~ x*** 

Reed,  Eliza  — - - »o* 

Rice,  Maud  Scott    (242)   - — 1»8,  130 

William  Howard  _ - - «30 

William  L »30 


148  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


Robinson,  Harriet  Partheriia  87 

Horatio   N 87 

Rogers,  Frank  Adelbert  nz 

Martha  Jessie  112 

Romain,  Jacobus  38 

Root,    Marion    D 123 

Rumrill,  Edna  117 

Edward    117 

Runkle,  Clara  Lowe  (170)  102,  128 

Ralph  Evans  128 

Winfield   Lowe   (282)   128 

Winfield   S 128 

Rutgen,  Catherine  25 

Savage,  Ellen  A 93 

Emily   93 

Seth    93 

Sayles,    Major    49 

Schall,    Ephraim   1 14 

Minnie   Mae  114 

Schenck,  Adrian  Adelbert  (37)  5,  9,  71,  87 

Alexander   D 6,  r5,  21,  37 

Alice   Maladine    (59)    80 

Alchy   (i6a)   „„ 63 

Ann    (15a)    63 

Ann  Tator  (64)  82,  98,  loi 

Anctje      (3a)    61 

Benjamin  Baird  (6)  4S,  46,  65,  70,  72 

Benjamin  Freeman  (30)  68,  84 

Benjamin  Robinson    (105)   87,  112 

Benjamin  Rush  (36)  70 

Catharine   (4)   51,  65 

Catharine  (23a)  63 

Cornelius   (28a)   41,  64 

Daniel    „ 64 

Derivation  of  Name  of 14 

Effie  Isadore  (60)  80,  99 

Eleanor  (9)  50,  65,  66,  74,  76 

Eleanor    (asa)    „ 63 


Index  149 

Schcnck,  Eleanor  (30a) 64 

Eliza   (7)   52,  65,  66,  74 

Elsie   (23 )   „ 67 

Elsie   ( 104)   87 

Elsie  May  (82)  85,  106 

Florence  Loretta  (160)      100,  125 

Floyd  Sullivan   (74)    .„ 84,   103 

Frederick  Tyler   (io6)   87 

Fredericus    21 

Garret    (7a)    36,  37,  38,  61 

Garret   C 6 

Gasha     (29a)     „ 64 

Gasha  (31a)  64 

Gerret  Roelofse  (7a)  36,  37,  38,  61 

Hannah  V.    (10)    50,  65,  71,  76 

Harriet  Livonia  (25)  67,  83 

Hendrick   (26a)   63 

Henrietta  Maria  (38)  71,  91 

Hermanus 21 

Hulbert  Luke    (54)    79i  97 

Irwin  Vanderveer    (55) 79,  98 

Jan    (6a)   36,  37,  38,  61,  62 

Jane    (21a)    63 

Tames   F 37 

James  Harvey   (26^    ~ 68 

James  L.   (12)    49.  S',  65,  79 

James  Shuler  (56)   79,  9* 

James  Warren    (57)  -    79 

Johannes    7.  59>  6° 

John   (3)   46,  65,  67 

John    (i4a^    63 

John   (24a)    40,  63 

John    (32a)   64 

John  Hulbert  (267)       124 

John  Sullivan  (27)  68,  83 

John  Tyler  (213)  n- 

Jonica  (4a)'  61 

Julia  (80)   „ 8s 


150 ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Schenck,  Lawrence  David  (273)  126 

Leah   (20a)   63 

Leila  Marion   (212)   112 

Lelia  Maria  (58)   79,  98 

Lester  Hulbert  (154)  98,  124 

Lillian   May   (268)   124 

Lisle  John   (81)    85,  106 

Luthera  Jane   (274)    126 

Margaret  (5)  48,  65,  70 

Margaret    (34a)    64 

Margaretta  (8a)  36,  62 

Maria  (17a)  63 

Marike   (5a)   61 

Martin   (2a)   61 

Mary  (33a)   ; 64 

Mayke   (10a)    62 

Michael    59 

Mildred  Louise   (181)    103 

Moses   64 

Nancy  Theresa  (28)  68 

Neeltje    (9a)    36,  62 

Nellie  Maria   (152)   97,  123 

Nellie   (19a)   63 

Parna  Eleanora   (24)       48,  67,  82 

PL 7 

Perlina  Adele  (29)  68,  84 

Peter   (13a)   62 

Reynier  „ 21 

Roelof   (12a)   37,  38,  39,  62,  63 

Epitaph  of  40 

Roelof  Martense  {36A-ia)  27,  28,  55,  58,  61,  62 

valuation  of  property  of 30 

marriage  contract  of  31 

will  of  3  3 

Robert  C 37 

Rulef  (353-1)   42,  45,  64,  65 

Rulef   (13)   47,  50,  6s,  80 


Index  151 

Schenck,  Rulef  David  (i6n loo,  125 

Rulief    (27a)    41,  64 

Rulief    2nd    64 

Sally  (2)  47,  65,  66,  85 

Sara   (iia)    62 

Sarah    (i8a)   63 

Sarah    (22a)   63 

Theodorus   21 

Willaim    21 

Willem  21 

William,  Rev 6,  37,  6r 

William  Baird   (11''  52,  65,  78 

William  Baird    (61)    80,   99 

William  C 37 

William  R 37 

William  Vanderveer    (153)   97,  124 

WoodhuU    S 37 

Schenck  van  Nydeck,  Adelheid 25 

Adelheid  {25A)  57 

Alheid    (i6A)    57 

Alheit    (7A)    „ --     56 

Anetje   (38A)  - 28,  55,  58 

Anna  {17A)    ~ 57 

Arnold    -     5^ 

Christianus  21,  22 

Christoffle    27 

Dederick    (28A)    57.  5^ 

Derick   (11  A)  25,  56,  57,  59 

Derick    (20A)    57.  59 

Diederich    (5A)    25,   56,  57 

Heinrich  (lA)  17.  23.  55.   56 

Heinrich   (3A)    23,  24,   55,  56 

Heinrich   (12A)   5^ 

Heinrich   (22A)    57 

Jan   (37A)  28,  55,  5« 

Johann    (6A)    * 5^ 

Johann    (9A)    „ 5^ 


152  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


Schenck  van  Nydeck,  Johann  (23A)  57 

Johann    (31A)    jg 

Lisbeth   (4A)   23,  56 

Lisbeth    (18A)    5^ 

Margaretha   (27A)    57 

Maria    (26A)    5y 

Maria  Margaretha    (saAl    58 

Maria  Magdelina    (33A)    58 

Martin    (29A)    26,  28,  58 

Martin  (35A)     27,  58,  59 

Otto  {i4A)   56 

Otto  (19A)   57 

Peter  {21A)   57^   59 

Peter    (30A)    27,  28,  58 

Petronella   (13A)    25,  56 

Roelmann     (loA)     56 

Roelof  Martense   (36A-ia) 27,  28,  55,  58,  61,  62 

Thomas    (15A)    57 

Wilhelmina     (34A)     58 

Wilhelmus   22 

Winand    (8A)   25,   56 

Winand    (24A)    57 

Wynand   (2A)   23,  24,  55 

Schuyler,  John  P 50 

Scofield,  A.  B 45 

Ellas   45 

Scott,  Bertha  May   (138)    96,  120 

Captain  29 

Caroline  Eleanor  (139)  96,  120 

Charles  Seneca   (135)   95,  ug 

Donald  Notter  (249)  120 

Dorothea  Moulton   (247)    119 

Eliza  Fenner   (50)   77,  95 

Franklin   James    (137)    96,  120 

Gerald  Notter    (251)   120 

Harry  Agatha  (243)  118,   131 

Henry  Robley  95 


Index  153 

Scott,  Herbert  Russell  (136)  95,  119 

Herbert  Russell   (248)    12c 

Ira  95 

Kittie  Belle   (134.)     95.  "9 

Mary  B 9 5 

Mary  Eleanor   (132)    95 

Maude  Belle   (242)   118,  130 

Nathan  Burrovvs   (250)    120 

William  Henry   (133)   95,  "8 

Seipnaacher     13,  22 

Servoss,    Daniel   51 

Shearer,  Alice  Loretta   (269)   125 

Ceylon    Charles   125 

Florence  Schenck   (160)    100,  125 

Grace  Reba    (270)    125 

Marion  Nellie    (271)    125 

Neva  Estella  (272)   125 

William  Charles  125 

Slieldon,  Ralph  loi 

Shepard,  Polly   47 

Simmons,  Effie  Schenck  (60)   80,  99 

Elizabeth    99 

Elva  (158)  99,  125 

George   William   99 

Peter   99 

Raymond  Percy  (159)   99 

Skinner,  Joseph   H 72 

Smith,  Alfred 45 

Charles  84 

Charles  Elser    (186)    105 

Charles  Fred    (75)    84,  104 

Elizabeth  Gertrude  (182)   104 

Frances   Cogswell   83 

Garner   5° 

Harry  James  (78)   84,  105 

Harriet   Marie    (79)    84,  105 

Joseph  Lowe    (77)   84,  105 


154  ScHENCK  Genfalogy 


Smith,  Josiah  51 

Nellie   Leslie    (76)    84,  104 

Perlina  Schenck   (29)    68,  84 

Richard     45,   51,  84 

Sophia   C 84 

Stevens   84 

Snow,  Elij  ah  48 

Eunice    80 

Sornbury,    Horace    96 

Mina  L 96 

Spaulding,  Annie  Laura  (41)  „ 74,  92 

Burns    (39)    74,  91 

Dealia  (42)    74,  92 

Eliza  Schenck   (7)   .• 52,  65,  66,  74 

Inez  Eudora    (no)    92-112 

Irving  Burns   (in)   92 

Mary    74 

Mary  C.   (40)   74.  92 

Solomon    B 52.  74 

Springport,   N.  Y 42 

Springport,   N.  Y.,  Branch  of  Family 64 

Stackpole,  Frederic  Tobey  127 

Frederic  Tobey    (279)    127 

Frederic  W "7 

Harriet  Lowe   (168)    102,  127 

Joseph  Frederic   (278)    127 

Stayman,  William  D 121 

Wilma    Belle 121 

Stek,  Count  Goessen  25 

Stevens,  Benj amin  "SO 

Eleanor    ^"9 

John    109 

Julia   109 

Stickle,  Elizabeth  106 

Jacob    106 

Jennie  'o^ 

Stoddard,  Mr 45,  48 


Index 155 

Stone,  Alpheus  loo 

Donald    D.    (277) _ 126 

Dulancy  Duyane  100 

Jennie  Lucy    (165)   100 

Lucy   Ann   100 

Norman  D.   (276)   126 

Orinda  Wilson    (63)    8i,  loo 

Rosa  Anna    (164) 100,  127 

Willard  Dennis  (163)   100,  126 

Straden,  Mayor  of  5^ 

Sullivan,   Bonapart  75 

Harriet    49.  7° 

John    _ 68 

Nancy  _ 67,  68,  70,  79 

Nancy  Maria  49,  79 

Parna    „ 49,  68 

Perlina  49,  67,  68 

Richard  „ 49,  67,  68,  70,  79 

Sybal    , 68 

Swaney,  Mary  J 121 

Tabor,  Ernest  Grant  124 

Thola   Nett  124 

Tator,  Ann  L 51,  79,  8i 

Ann  Hubble   (64)   82,  98,  loi 

Charlotte   Wilson    (15)    66,  67,  81 

Frederick    1 51,  79,  81 

James  M 81,  9S 

Jane  Wilson    (17)    66,  67,  81,  98 

Jehial  E.  81 

Lydia  Amanda  81 

Polly    79,  8i 

Willard  Jehial  (65)   82 

Taylor,  Margaret  42,  64 

Ten  Broke.  Court  of  24 

Terhune,  Jan  Alberte  61 

Wilrainz    94 

Tcr    Ncirssan    Court  of  57 


156  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


Thomassen,   Capt.   Wilhelm  58 

Tillapaugh,  Elizabeth  Mae   130 

Tobey,  S.  Elizabeth 127 

Tomlinson,  Harriet 83 

Jane  Leslie   83 

John  H 83 

Town,    Simon 45,  48 

Townsend,  Elizabeth  Abigail 104 

Joseph  R 104 

Turner,   Anna  Nellie    (265) 124 

Edmund   Harvey  123 

Ellen  May  (266)  124 

Hattie  Betsey   (264)    124 

Nellie  Schenck    (152)    99,  123 

Samuel    123 

Tyler,  Emma  R 87 

Tyson,    Peter    38 

Upson,    Miles   50 

van  Arendahl,  Aleid   56 

van  Bellinghoven,    Aleid   24,  55 

van  Berlaer,  Anna  57,  58 

van  Brempt,   Engelbert   56 

van  Buren,   Adelheit   56,  57 

Johann    5^ 

van  Couwenhoven,  Albert  Willerase  „ 62 

Cornelius    Willemse    36,  38,  62 

Garret  Wolphertson  6i 

Jacamyntie   40>  ^4 

Jacob    28 

Jacob  Willemse  62 

Neeltje    Geretsen   28,  61,  62 

Sara   Willemse    36,  62 

van  Deventer,  Peter  3^ 

van  Doren,  Abram  45 

Jacob    3* 

William  51 

van  Druse,  Renad  : — -.     22 


Index  157 

van  Egmont,   Duke  Carl   25 

van  Eyll,  Elbricht  2J 

van  Galen,    Maria    57 

van  Huls,   Frederick  56 

Lady    Catherine   25 

van  Hochsteden,  Conrad  22 

van  Julich,   Count  i6,  21,  23 

van  Kaldenbrock,   Alheid    56 

van  Kelser,  Marschall 22 

van  Mater,  Joseph   63 

van   Oest,   Isabella   56 

van   Rayde,   Aleid    23,  55,  56 

van    Scherpenzeel,    Johanna 58 

van  Schonan,   Inugard  56 

van  Slyck,  Anna  m 

van  Toutenburg,  Barons  of 2i 

van  Voorhees,  Coert  36 

Elizabeth    Minnen    61 

Janetye   61 

Jan  Lucase  62 

Neeltje   Coerton   61 

van  der  Donck,  Adrian 28 

van  der    Dussen,   Jonkheer  6,  17,  55 

van  der  Lippe,  Caspar 27,  28 

Diderick    25,  26 

V'anderveer,  Agnes  Mary 107 

Ann   79 

Catharine    M 52,  78 

Ella  Bratt    (85)    85,  107 

Garret    52,  79,   107 

Garret  L 107 

Hattie  May   (iqo)    107,   129 

Henry  107 

Henry  (191)  lorj 

John  Pomyea   (192)    108 

Vedder,    Aaron   F 51,  83,  91 

Clyde  Byron   (125)   94 


158  ScHENCK  Genealogy 


Vedder,  Francis  P qa 

Frederick  Fenner   (119)   94,  ufi 

George  Barry    (123)    94 

George  Sidney   (234)   n6 

Harriet  Elnora   (71)   i^,  102 

Harriet  Schenck   (25)   67,  83 

Herbert  Edward   (236)    117 

Inez  Ann   (70)   83,  loi 

James  S 51,  83,  94 

Jennie  Leslie  (73)  83 

Lyman  Norton  (72)  83,  103 

Nancy    83,  91 

Neil  Davis  (124)   94^  117 

Nichohs   (120)  ^ 94 

Ross   Sylvester    (122)    94,  116 

Sarah    Fenner    (46)       75,  93 

Sylvester    A 94 

Virginia  Vertrees    (233)    116 

Wilmina  Wycoff   (121)    94,  116 

Verity,    Eunice  80 

James  G 80 

Mary   Ann go 

Vertrees,  Cornelia  Edna  Ii6 

John    u6 

Vickery's   Corners,    N.   Y.   45 

Vincent,  Adele  Pauline  (183)  104 

Eddie    A 104 

Nellie  Smith    (76)    84,  104 

Reuben « 104 

Voorhees,    Henry   Austin    (167)    loi 

Henry    Peter    (69)     82,  loi 

James  Hubbel    (68)    82 

James   L 82 

James  Leslie  45,  48,  82,  83,  86 

James  Leslie  2nd   (93)  86 

James  Leslie  3rd   (96)   86 

John    Sclicnck    (67)    82,  loi 


Index 159 

Voorhees,  Leslie  Eleanora(9l) 86 

Margaret  (94)  86 

Martha  82 

Martha    (95)    86 

Martha    Northrup    (66)    82 

Parna  Schenck  (24)  48,  67,  82 

Peter    -45.  48 

Sarah  Bratt   (34)   48,  70.  82,  86 

Sophia    (92)    86 

Wachtendonk,    Feoffer    of   23,  24,  55,  56 

VValbeck,    Castle    of    23.  24.  55,  5^ 

VValbrick,  Heiress  of  • 55 

Wall,  Betsey  E "9 

Washburn,  Zilpha  97 

Watkins,  Eunice  M 121 

Weller,  Melissa  Almira  * 99 

Wells,    Charlotte    Wilson    (15)    66,  67,  81 

Eveline  *o' 

James   F , :-  lOi 

Lillian    B loi 

Samuel   8x 

West,  Samuel  B 44 

Wilson,  Ada  Mary  (162)   loo,  126 

Alfred    47.   ^6,  8^ 

Austin  Wycoff   (14)   ^6,  80 

Charlotte    M.    (15)    66,  67,  81 

Wilson's   Corners,   N.  Y 44 

Wilson,   Dennis  Kennedy    (16)    66,  81 

Eberle    "6 

Eberle  Irving  (235)    116 

Francis  A.  (22)  ^7 

George  W »o^ 

Hannah    85. 

James  Alfred    (20)    67 

Jane  Ann   {17)   66,  67,  81,  98 

John  Cowan  '*^ 

Louisa  A.   (19)   <56,  82 


160  ScHENCK  Genealogy 

Wilson,  Lulu  May io6 

Mary  66 

Matilda    85 

Mervin  James  (62)   80,  100 

Orinda  M.    (18)    66 

Orinda   More    (63)    81,  100 

Sally  Schenck    (2)   47,  65,  66,  85 

William    44,  47,  48,  66 

William  2nd  85 

William   H.    (21)    67 

Wilmina  Vedder   (121)    94,  116 

Winchel,   Sarah  C 84 

Witherbee,   Kathleen    116 

Thomas  F ~...  116 

Wolcott,  John  130 

Nellie    Mae    130 

Wood,   Jane   122 

Wormuth,   Charlotte  98 

Ella   Lucretia 98 

Solomon    98 

Wright,  Charles  124 

Nellie    124 

Wyckoff,  Anetje  Pieterse  30,  62 

John  38 

Peter   : 36 


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