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GENEALOGICAL 

AND 

FAMILY    HISTORY 

OF 

SOUTHERN    NEW    YORK 

AND  THE 

HUDSON    RIVER   VALLEY 

A  Record  of  the  Achievements  of  Her  People  in  the  Making  of  a 
Commonwealth  and  the  Building  of  a  Nation 


COMPILED  UNDER  THE  EDITORIAL  SUPERVISION  OF 

CUYLER   REYNOLDS 


Curator  of  The  Albany  Institute  and  Historical  and  Art  Society,  since  1898;   Director  of 

New  York  State  History  Exhibit  at  Jamestown  Exhibition,   1907;   Author  of 

"Albany  Chronicles,"    "Classified  Quotations,"   etc.,  etc. 


VOL.  II 


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As  previously  shown,  the 
VAN  NAME  name  of  Van  Name  is  an 
old  and  honored  one  on 
Staten  Island,  and  derives  its  origin  from  the 
locality  whence  came  the  founder  of  the  family 
to  America.  The  church  records  of  Staten 
Island  contain  many  references  to  David  Van 
Name,  and  record  several  marriages,  but  none 
corresponding  to  that  given  in  the  family  rec- 
ords of  this  branch  of  the  family.  There  can 
.be  no  question,  however,  that  it  belongs  to  the 
old  family  of  that  name. 

(I)  David  Van  Name,  born  1799,  on 
Staten  Island,  died  there  in  1879,  at  the  age 
of  eighty  years.  He  was  a  builder  and  con- 
tractor, and  operated  exclusively  on  the 
Island.  In  early  life  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church,  but  later  affiliated 
with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  denomination. 
Politically  he  is  described  by  his  descendants 
as  a  Whig,  and  it  is  presumable  that  he  acted 
with  the  Republican  party,  successor  of  the 
Whigs.  He  married  (first)  Catherine  John- 
son, and  (second)  x\bigail  Jane  Conklin. 
Children  of  first  marriage  were:  i.  Mary, 
wife  of  William  Cuddy,  who  had  a  son  Her- 
bert Burton.  2.  Cornelius,  married  Nettie 
Tuttle,  and  had  a  son  Myers  Ludington.  3. 
George  Edgar,  mentioned  below.  4.  John, 
died  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years.  Children 
of  second  marriage  were :  5.  William  Conk- 
lin.   6.    John  Frederick. 

(II)  George  Edgar,  second  son  of  David 
and  Catherine  (Johnson)  Van  Name,  was 
born  August  24,  1839.  on  Staten  Island.  He 
was  a  wholesale  and  retail  dealer  in  oysters 
for  many  years  at  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and 
is  now  living  there,  retired.  He  enlisted  in 
October,  1862,  as  a  member  of  the  One  Hun- 
dred and  Seventv-sixth  Reg-iment  New  York 
Infantry,  under  Captain  William  B.  Coe,  and 
took  part  in  several  engagements,  receiving 
his  discharge  in  February,  1864,  with  the  rank 
of  corporal.  He  is  now  a  member  of  Robert 
O.  Tyler  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
of  Hartford,  and  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  of  that  city.  Politically  he  has  always 
sustained  the  Republican  party.  He  married 
(first!  September,  T862,  Antoinette  Bray, 
born  in  1844,  in  Brooklyn.  He  married  (sec- 
ond! Francps  McCune.  Issue  of  first  mar- 
riage: I.  Frances,  born  1864;  married  Dr. 
F.   Taylor.     2.     Antoinette,   born    1866.   died 


in  infancy.  3.  Frank,  twin  of  Antoinette, 
born  1866,  died  in  infancy.  4.  George  Edgar 
Jr.,  born  July,  1868;  married  Emma  Hewitt. 
5.  Holley,  born  1871,  died  in  infancy.  6. 
Joseph  Mason,  mentioned  below.  Child  of 
second  marriage :  7.  Frank,  born  February, 
1884,  died  in  childhood. 

(Ill)  Joseph  Mason,  son  of  George  Edgar 
and  Antoinette  (Bray)  Van  Name,  was  born 
May  27,  1874,  in  Hartford,  Connecticut.  He 
was  placed  in  a  private  school  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  at  the  age  of  six  years,  and  two 
years  later  entered  the  public  schools  of  Hart- 
ford, where  he  continued  until  fourteen  years 
old.  He  was  then  apprenticed  to  George  Den- 
nison,  of  Hartford,  a  builder,  and  continued 
five  years,  after  which  he  entered  the  employ 
of  Herman  Mohl,  a  builder  and  contractor. 
He  later  formed  a  partnership  with  Peter  Zyk- 
kie  in  the  building  business,  which  continued 
two  years,  and  after  this  Mr.  Van  Name  be- 
gan dealing  in  coal  and  building  materials  in 
the  City  of  New  York,  and  later  organized  the 
firm  of  Van  Name  &  Company,  which  con- 
tinued the  business  five  years  After  selling  out 
his  interest,  he  was  appointed  superintendent 
of  construction  for  the  American  Tobacco 
Company.  This  position  he  resigned  to  become 
the  general  manager  of  the  Church  Construc- 
tion Company,  of  New  York  City,  and  con- 
tinued in  that  position  six  years.  Many  pri- 
vate and  public  buildings  in  and  around  New 
York  City  have  been  erected  by  this  firm,  as 
have  also  a  number  of  Carnegie  libraries  in 
various  portions  of  the  state  of  New  York. 
Under  the  recent  appropriation  of  twelve  mil- 
lion dollars  by  Congress  for  improvements  at 
West  Point,  the  firm  were  employed  in  the 
construction  af  new  buildings  at  the  Military 
Academy.  After  resigning,  he  again  organized 
the  firm  of  Van  Name  &  Company,  which 
engages  exclusively  in  building  construction, 
with  offices  at  No. '80  Wall  Street,  New  York 
City. 

Mr  Van  Name  and  family  still  retain  mem- 
bership in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  of 
Hartford.  Connecticut,  and  he  is  a  member  of 
the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  and 
the  Engineers  Club,  of  New  York.  Thou.gh 
he  has  given  little  time  to  politics  and  has  no 
desire  for  official  station,  he  gives  consistent 
support  to  the  principles  and  policies  of  the 
Republican  party. 


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He  married,  June  6,  1894,  at  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church,  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  Net- 
tie AmeHa  Hansbrough,  born  January  22, 
1873,  in  Woodside,  Long  Island,  daughter  of 
Charles  Hansbrough.  The  last  named  was 
born  June  3,  1845,  in  Manchester,  England. 
As  a  boy  he  came  to  America,  and  served  as 
a  soldier  in  the  latter  part  of  the  civil  war. 
Later  he  became  a  painter  and  decorator.  He 
married,  October  21,  1871,  in  Red  Bank,  New 
Jersey,  Anne  Eliza  White,  born  October  6, 
1849,  in  Red  Bank,  daughter  of  Robert  White, 
a  native  of  Birmingham,  England,  and  Mary 
(Coles)  W^hite,  born  at  Wadesden,  in  Buck- 
inghamshire, England.  Mr.  White  emigrated 
to  America  and  settled  in  Red  Bank,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  had  the  following  children: 
George,  died  October  8,  1851 :  Harriet  Jane, 
wife  of  Jacob  Antonias,  of  Red  Bank;  Sarah 
Elizabeth,  married  (first)  George  McQueen, 
(second)  Thomas  Swannell;  Mary  Hannah, 
married  (first)  Jeflferson  Hillier,  (second) 
Oscar  Leith ;  John  R.,  married  Catherine 
Way;  Anne  Eliza,  wife  of  Joseph  M.  Van 
Name;  William  Henry  and  Lucy  Ann,  twins, 
the  former  died  October  16,  and  the  latter, 
October  31,  1857;  Henrietta,  wife  of  William 
Conklin  Van  Name.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph 
M.  Van  Name  had  a  daughter,  Edna,  born 
May  17,  1896,  died  in  infancy. 


A  branch  of  the  Goelet  family 
GOELET  being  Protestants,  to  avoid  per- 
secution, removed  from  Ro- 
chelle  in  France  in  the  year  1621  and  settled  in 
Amsterdam  where  they  remained  until  1676, 
and  Francis  Goelet,  the  youngest  son  of  the 
family,  having  lost  his  wife,  with  an  only  child. 
Jacobus  Goelet,  a  boy  about  ten  years  of  age, 
came  to  New  York.  He  left  his  son  in  the 
care  of  Mr.  Frederick  PhilHpse,  a  merchant 
of  New  York,  and  sailed  for  Amsterdam  with 
the  intention  of  returning  with  his  effects,  but 
as  he  was  never  afterwards  heard  of,  it  was 
supposed  that  he  was  lost  at  sea,  after  which 
Jacobus  Goelet  married  Jannetie,  daughter  of 
Mr.  Coesaar,  likewise  a  Rochelle  refugee  fam- 
ily, and  had  six  children:  i.  Jacobus,  the 
eldest,  married  Miss  Buller  and  had  children. 
2.  James,  who  died  at  about  twenty  years  of 
^S^-  3-  Jannetie,  who  married  Mr.  John 
Dies.  They  had  several  children.  This  family 
moved  from  New  York  and  settled  at  Kaats 


Kill.  4.  Francis,  was  a  surgeon  on  an  Eng- 
lish man-of-war  and  was  lost  in  the  river 
St.  Lawrence  in  the  expedition  against  Can- 
ada, under  Sir  Hovenden  Walker,  a.  d.  171  i. 
5.  John,  married  Jannetie  Cannon,  of  a 
Protestant  refugee  family  from  France  (from 
whom  Peter  Goelet  is  descended)  and  had 
several  children :  Raphael,  married  Miss 
Pelse  and  died  without  issue.  Phillip,  married 
Miss  Buller,  had  one  son  and  two  daughters. 
The  son  died  in  St.  Eustatia  at  about  thirty  . 
years  of  age  and  was  not  married.  Jannetie, 
married  Alderman  Abraham  P.  Lott  and  had 
no  children.  The  other  daughter,  Catherine, 
married  Peter  Cartenius  and  had  several 
children.  6.  Effe,  married  Mr.  Burger  and 
had  children. 

It  is  related,  that  about  1710,  Jacobus  Goelet 
went  to  Amsterdam  and  was  directed  by  his 
father  had  built,  and  that  he  would  know  the 
and  informed  him  in  what  part  of  the  city 
they  had  lived  and  also  a  house  his  grand- 
father had  built,  and  that  he  would  know  the 
house  by  the  family  arms  being  cut  in  stone 
on  the  front  of  it,  and  to  inquire  for  the 
Spoorinburgh  family  into  which  one  of  his 
father's  aunts  had  married.  He  found  the 
house,  it  being  a  very  large  building  and  being 
informed  where  the  Spoorinburgh  family  re- 
sided, he  called  upon  them  and  found  them 
far  advanced  in  life.  They  had  two  daugh- 
ters married,  and  were  a  wealthy  family, 
and  one  of  the  Goelets  was  captain  of  an 
Indiaman.  They  were  all  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  and  in  the  India  trade.  He 
found  that  the  family  in  Amsterdam  had 
never  heard  of  the  family  in  New  York 
since  the  latter  first  left  Holland,  suppos- 
ing them  to  be  lost  at  sea,  there  being  at 
that  time  but  one  American  vessel  in  Dutch 
trade  and  she  very  irregular  in  her  voyages, 
sometimes  making  one  in  each  year,  some- 
times one  in  two  years  and  sometimes  one 
voyage  in  three  years.  Jacobus  Goelet  died 
on  the  20th  of  August,  1731,  at  sixty-six  years 
of  age,  and  was  buried  in  the  Old  Dutch 
Church,  about  the  middle  of  the  left  aisle  in 
the  church  when  entered  from  the  street, 
called  Garden  Street. 

John  Goelet,  the  third  son  of  Jacobus  Goe- 
let by  Jannetie  Coesaar,  his  wife,  born  Feb- 
ruary I,  1694,  married  Jannetie  Cannon, 
daughter  of  John  Cannon  by  Mary  Le  Grand, 


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his  wife,  descended  from  a  refugee  family  of 
Rochelle  in  France,  and  died  July  13,  1753, 
age  fifty-nine  years.  Had  thirteen  children, 
several  of  them  dying  quite  young. 

Peter  Goelet,  the  fifth  child,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 5,  1727,  died  October  11,  181 1,  age  eighty- 
four  years.  He  was  married  on  April  27, 
1755,  to  Elizabeth  Ratsey  and  had  children: 
Alice,  Jannetie,  John,  Peter  P.,  Elizabeth 
On  December  6,  1770,  Peter  Goelet  was  mar- 
ried to  Mary  Ludlow,  daughter  of  Henry  Lud- 
low Esq.,  of  New  York,  and  had  issue:  Mary, 
born  June  17,  1773,  died  January  31,  1774, 
age  eight  months.  On  October  26,  1775,  Peter 
Goelet  was  married  to  Elizabeth  Farmer,  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Farmer,  who, 
having  inherited  the  estate  of  Bentley  in 
Staten  Island,  assumed  the  name  of  Billop, 
the  old  proprietor.  They  had  issue,  five  chil- 
dren: Sarah,  Thomas  Billop,  Mary,  Cather- 
ine, Christopher  Billop.  February  i,  1792', 
Peter  Goelet  was  married  to  Rachael  Farmer, 
the  daughter  of  the  aforesaid  Thomas  and 
Sarah  Billop ;  had  no  issue. 

Peter  P.  Goelet,  the  son  of  Peter  Goelet  by 
Elizabeth  Ratsey,  was  born  on  August  18, 
1764,  and  was  christened  on  Friday  morning, 
August  24,  in  Trinity  Church  by  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Auchmuty.  In  the  Year  of  Our  Lord  1799, 
on  the  9th  day  of  May,  Peter  P.  Goelet  was 
married  to  Almy  Buchanan,  the  daughter  of 
Thomas  Buchanan  by  Almy  Townsend,  his 
wife,  at  the  house  of  Thomas  Buchanan  in 
Wall  Street.  They  had  issue:  i.  Peter, 
born  June  22,  1800,  died  November  21,  1879. 
2.  Jean  Buchanan,  born  February  7,  1802.  3. 
Francis,  born  March  2,  1804,  died  July,  1804, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Goelet  family  vault  in 
Trinity  churchyard.  4.  Hannah  Green, 
born  January  19,  1806,  at  the  house  of  Peter 
Goelet  in  Water  Street,  was  married,  June  30, 
1830,  to  Thomas  R.  Gerry,  son  of  Elbridge 
Gerry  and  Ann  Gerry.  5.  Francis  (2),  born 
January  12,  1808,  died  January  16,  1809, 
buried  in  Trinity  churchyard.  6.  Robert, 
born  September  19,  1809.  Married  Sarah 
Ogden,  the  daughter  of  the  late  Jonathan 
Ogden,  October  16,  1839  Married  by  the 
Rev  Berrian,  rector  of  Trinity  Church ;  died 
September  22,  1879.  Buried  in  the  Marble 
cemetery.  New  York  City,  Second  Avenue. 
They  had  issue :  Robert,  born  September  29, 
1841.       Helen,    borfi    March    8,    1843,    died 


March  15,  1844.     Ogden,  born  June  11,  1846. 

Robert  Goelet  was  married  to  Harriette 
Louise  Warren,  (the  daughter  of  George 
Henry  Warren  and  Mary  Phoenix),  by  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Tucker,  at  No.  520  Fifth  Avenue, 
the  17th  day  of  April,  1879.  Died  April  27, 
1889,  at  Naples,  Italy,  on  his  steam  yacht 
"Nahma."  Buried  in  the  Goelet  family  vault 
at  Woodlawn.  They  had  issue:  i.  Robert 
Walton,  born  March  19,  1880,  at  279  Madison 
Avenue.  2.  Beatrice,  born  December  11, 
1885,  died  February  11,  1902,  and  interred  in 
the  Goelet  vault  in  Woodlawn  cemetery. 

Ogden  Goelet  was  married  to  Mary  R.  Wil- 
son, the  daughter  of  Richard  Thornton  Wil- 
son. He  died  August  27,  1897,  on  board  his 
steam  yacht  "Mayflower"  at  Cowes,  England, 
and  was  interred  in  the  Goelet  family  vault 
in  Woodlawn  cemetery.  They  had  issue:  i. 
Mary  Wilson,  born  October  6,  1878.  Married, 
November  10,  1903,  to  Henry  John  Innes- 
Kerr,  eighth  Duke  of  Roxburghe.  2.  Robert 
Goelet,  born  January  9,  1880.  Married  to 
Elsie  Whelen,  daughter  of  Henry  Whelen  Jr., 
on  June  14,  1904,  at  Wayne,  Pennsylvania. 
They  had  issue:  Ogden,  born  January  17, 
1907,  and  Peter,  born  June  8,  191 1. 


It  is  now  a  pretty  well  estab- 
BEEKMAN     lished  fact  that  the  families 

in  New  Jersey  bearing  the 
name  of  Beekman  are  descended  from  two 
distinct  sources,  one  of  which  is  Willem 
Beeckman  (Beekman),  of  New  York,  who 
emigrated  to  New  Amsterdam  in  1647,  and 
the  other  Maarten  Beeckman,  of  Albany,  who 
is  the  progenitor  of  the  branch  of  the  family 
at  present  under  consideration. 

(I)  Maarten  Beeckman  emigrated  to  New 
Netherland  in  1638,  and  settled  in  Albany, 
where  he  plied  his  trade  of  blacksmith,  and 
died  before  June  21,  1677.  He  married  Su- 
sanna Jans,  and  had  at  least  three  children: 
Johannes;  Hendrick,  referred  to  below; 
Metie. 

(II)  Hendrick,  son  of  Maarten  and  Su- 
sanna (Jans)  Beeckman,  lived  for  a  number 
of  years  at  Schodack,  near  Albany,  and 
November  13,  1710,  purchased  from  Octavo 
Coenraats,  merchant  of  New  York,  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  acres  of  land  on  the  Raritap 
river  in  Somerset  county,  New  Jersey,  it 
being  a  part  of  the  tract  bought  by  Coenraats 


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from  Peter  Sonmans,  who  in  turn  had  pur- 
chased it  from  the  proprietors  of  East  Jersey. 
The  deed  for  this  land  has  never  been  re- 
corded, and  is  now  in  possession  of  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  (Beekman)  Vredenburgh,  who  still 
owns  a  portion  of  the  land  described,  which 
she  inherited  from  her  father,  Benjamin 
Beekman,  and  her  mother,  Cornelia  Beekman. 
He  married  Annetje,  daughter  of  Peter 
Quackenbush  and  among  his  children  was 
Marten,  referred  to  below. 

(III)  Marten  Beekman,  son  of  Hendrick 
Beeckman,  was  born  in  1685,  died  October  27, 
1757.  The  descendants  of  his  three  sons  are 
very  numerous  in  New  York,  Ohio,  Indiana, 
Illinois,  Michigan,  Oregon,  and  elsewhere. 
He  married,  June  21,  1734,  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Neeltje  fBloetjoet)  Wald- 
ron.  and  granddaughter  of  Resolved  Waldron, 
of  Harlem,  who  was  sheriff  of  New  York  City 
under  Governor  Peter  Stuyvesant.  She  was 
born  in  1700  and  died  November  27,  1760. 
Children :  Elizabeth,  Hendrick,  Samuel, 
Annatie  and  Johannes. 

(IV)  Johannes  (John"),  youngest  child  of 
Marten  and  Elizabeth  (Waldron)  Beekman, 
was  born  November  5.  1741.  in  .Somerset 
county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  died  March  17, 
1789  He  married,  July  30.  1769.  Arriantje 
Tunison,  born  October  12,  1753,  died  Janu- 
ary 31,  1835.  They  were  the  parents  of  four 
children. 

(V)  Cornelius,  son  of  John  and  Arriantie 
(Tunisonl  Beekman.  was  born  January  28, 
1772,  in  Somerville,  New  Jersey,  and  died 
July  5,  1850.  He  married,  in  1702,  Rebecca 
Sharp,  born  January  2.  1772,  died  February 
27,  1844,  aged  seventy-two  years.  They  had 
three  sons  and  two  daughters. 

(VI)  Beniamin.  son  of  Cornelius  and  Re- 
becca C  Sharp)  Beekman.  was  born  Aoril  27, 
1804,  in  Si^merville,  and  died  at  Dundee  New 
York,  Aoril  8,  1879.  ^^  married,  at  Plain- 
field,  New  Tersev.  March  21,  1827.  Lvdia 
Comnton.  born  there  March  3.  i8o5,  died  in 
Dundee.  New  York.  October  2.  i8qt,  daugh- 
ter of  Toshua  and  Catherine  (Co«ad)  Comn- 
ton. He  resided  in  Somerville.  New  Tersev, 
and  New  York  Citv.  and  removed  to  Dimdee 
after  T820.  Children:  i.  Corneliiis  C, 
born  Januarv  27,  T828,  in  New  York,  now 
resides  at  Jacksonville,  Oregfon ;  married,  at 
Jacksonville,  Julia  E.  Hoffman.     2.     Abram. 


mentioned  below.  3.  John,  born  March  9, 
1832,  at  Dundee;  married  (first)  Elizabeth 
Disbrow,  (second)  Helena  Ackerson,  and 
died  at  Bath.  4.  Lydia  Ann,  May  30,  1834, 
died  in  Dundee  in  1910;  married  there  in 
1853,  Marcus  T.  Seely.  5.  Thomas  De  Witt. 
August  22,  1841,  now  resides  at  Dundee,  New 
York :  married,  in  1863,  Isadore  Fowler,  of 
Elmira,  New  York.  6  and  7.  Cyrus  and 
Augustus,  twins,  born  August  25,  1844,  i" 
Dundee.  The  former  died  there  in  185 1,  and 
the  latter  when  four  days  old. 

(VII)  Abram,  second  son  of  Benjamin 
and  Lydia  (Compton)  Beekman,  was  bom 
December  26,  1829,  in  New  York  City,  died 
at  Bath,  Steuben  county,  New  York,  May  10, 
1907.  He  married,  October  30,  1861,  Sarah 
McKay  Fowler,  of  Bath,  born  there  Novem- 
ber 21,  1843,  died  there  September  27,  1905, 
daughter  of  John  W.  and  Helen  D.  (Clement) 
Fowler,  who  were  married  November  12, 
1823.  Children:  i.  Lydia,  born  June  28, 
1863,  married  George  H.  Parker,  of  Bath.  2. 
George  N.,  born  September  17,  1865,  in  Bath, 
now  resides  there;  married  there,  in  1891, 
Julia  E.  Averell.  3.  John  Fowler,  mentioned 
below.  4.  Edgar,  mentioned  below.  5.  Cor- 
nelius C,  mentioned  below. 

(A'lII)  John  Fowler,  second  son  of 
Abram  and  Sarah  M.  (Fowler)  Beekman, 
was  born  February  18,  1869,  in  Bath,  where 
he  is  now  living  engaged  in  the  manufacturing 
business.  He  is  a  Presbyterian  in  religious 
faith,  and  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  Bath  and  for  a  short 
time  resided  in  New  York  City,  returning  to 
his  native  place  in  1912.  He  married,  in  New 
York  City,  May  22,  i88g,  Caroline  A.  Young, 
daughter  of  William  H.  and  Polly  (Brund- 
age)  Young. 

(VIID  Edgar,  third  son  of  Abram  and 
Sarah  M.  (Fowler)  Beekman,  was  born 
March  iq,  1872,  at  Bath,  and  now  resides  at 
Bronxville,  New  York.  He  was  educated  at 
the  Haverling  Union  School  in  his  native 
place  and  became  an  expert  in  corporation 
taxation.  He  is  a  Presbyterian  in  religious 
faith,  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  member  of 
the  Aero  Club  of  .A.merica,  the  RTasonic  Club, 
and  the  Bronxville  Athletic  Association.  He 
married,  at  Jersey  Citv,  New  Jersey,  Decem- 
ber 21,  1893,  May  Hastings  Leonard,  bom 
August    23,     1869,    in    Troy,     Pennsylvania, 


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daughter  of  Solyman  and  Elizabeth  (Hast- 
ings) Leonard.  They  have  one  son,  Abram 
Leonard,  born  August  21,  1895,  at  Forest  Hill, 
New  Jersey. 

(VHI)  Cornelius  C,  youngest  child  of 
Abram  and  Sarah  M.  (Fowler)  Beekman, 
was  born  August  17,  1880,  at  Bath,  where 
he  grew  up,  receiving  his  primary  education 
at  the  Haverling  High  School  of  his  native 
town.  He  subsequently  entered  Columbia 
Law  School  of  New  York  City  and  is  now 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  New  York, 
with  residence  in  Brooklyn.  He  is  a  Presby- 
terian in  religion,  and  a  Republican  in  his 
political  views.  He  married,  in  Brooklyn, 
November  8,  191 1,  Josephine  Estelle  Egan, 
born  November  9,  1882,  in  Syracuse,  New 
York,  daughter  of  the  late  William  G.  Egan 
and  Josephine  M.  Egan,  now  Mrs.  H.  R.  H. 
Nicholas,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 


This  surname  in  the  old 
WORTENDYKE     records  is  also  found  in 

the  forms  of  Woorten- 
dyck,  Woertendky  and  Weortendijck.  The 
bearers  of  the  name  have  a  common  ancestry 
with  those  who  bear  the  name  Somerindyke, 
the  other  forms  of  which,  found  in  the  old 
records,  are:  Somerindyck,  Somerindyk, 
Somerindick,  Somerindicke  and  Somerindijck. 
The  immigrant  ancestor,  Cornelius  Jacobsen, 
is  found  at  an  early  date  bearing  the  sobriquet 
of  Stille  (or  The  Silent),  which  may  have 
been  no  true  surname,  but  merely  an  appella- 
tion given  to  him  to  denote  one  of  his  charac- 
teristics. Cornelius  Jacobsen  came  to  this 
country  with  his  brother  John,  and  it  has  been 
said  that  the  descendants  of  Cornelius  adopted 
the  surname  of  Wortendyke,  while  the  de- 
scendants of  John  assumed  that  of  Somerin- 
dyke. Cornelius,  however,  had  a  large  family 
of  children,  and  the  descendants  of  some  of 
the  sons  took  the  surname  Wortendyke,  and 
the  descendants  of  the  others  took  that  of 
Somerindyke.  What  were  the  motives  gov- 
erning the  choice  are  not  now  quite  clear. 

(I)  Cornelius  Jacobsen,  alias  Stille,  the 
immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Wortendyke  familv. 
came  to  this  country  from  Amsterdam.  Hol- 
land, with  his  brother,  John,  in  1639.  Shortly 
after  their  arrival  they  are  said  by  one  author- 
ity to  have  assumed  the  name  of  Somerin- 
dyke, which  in  the  case  of  Cornelius  was  sub- 


sequently changed  to  Wortendyke.  Besides 
the  sobriquet  of  Stille,  Cornelius  also  appears 
to  have  been  known  as  "Van  Vreelandt,"  in- 
dicating from  what  part  of  Holland  he  had 
come.  One  authority  states  that  Cornelius, 
and  perhaps  also  John,  his  brother,  was  in 
New  Amsterdam  as  early  as  1631,  and  re- 
sided at  the  head  of  what  is  now  Chatham 
Square.  The  records  indicate  that  after  re- 
maining a  short  time  in  New  Amsterdam 
(later  New  York)  he  bought  and  located  on 
a  plantation  at  Bushwick,  Long  Island.  From 
there  he  removed  to  what  is  now  the  Williams- 
burg district  of  Brooklyn.  In  1664  he  took 
the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  British  govern- 
ment, at  which  time  he  was  residing  on  a  farm 
of  a  hundred  acres  in  what  was  formerly  the 
Greenwich  district  of  New  York  City.  He 
married  (first)  August  24,  1692,  Classic 
Teunis;  (second)  July  28,  1675,  Trynte  Wait- 
ings Van  Winkle,  of  Amsterdam,  Holland, 
Among  his  children  was  Jacob,  mentioned 
below. 

(II)  Jacob,  son  of  Cornelius  Jacobsen, 
surnamed  Stille,  also  Van  Vreelandt,  also 
Somerindyke,  and  also  Wortendyke.  and  his 
wife,  Trynte  Wallings  Van  Winkle,  was  born 
in  New  Amsterdam  (later  New  York)  in 
1644.  Very  little  concerning  the  details  of 
his  career  is  given  in  the  records,  but  he  prob- 
ably died  at  a  not  very  advanced  age,  for  his 
children  numbered  only  four.  He  married, 
March  11,  1671,  Aeltje  Fredericks,  an  estim- 
able Brazilian  lady.  Children  :  Jacob,  Nicho- 
las, Frederick  Jacobsen,  mentioned  below; 
Cornelius. 

(III)  Frederick  Jacobsen,  son  of  Jacob 
and  Aeltje  (Fredericks)  Wortendyke,  was 
born  on  Manhattan  Island,  probably  about 
1679.  He  spent  his  boyhood  on  his  father's 
farm,  and  seems  to  have  taken  advantage  of 
the  educational  facilities  then  offered.  In 
course  of  time  he  located  on  the  upper  west 
side  of  Manhattan  Island.  Concerning  him 
it  is  said  by  one  authority  that  he  and  his 
descendants  permanently  adopted  the  surname 
of  Wortendyke,  which  had  been  somewhat 
loosely  applied  up  to  that  time,  while  the 
descendants  of  his  brother  retained  the  name 
of  Somerindyke,  which  had  till  that  time  alter 
nated  with  Wortendyke  as  the  family  cogno- 
men. The  old  Somerindyke  mansion  hoii=e. 
built  of  stone,  stood  a  few  years  ago  on  the 


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Bloomingdale  road  near  the  west  of  Seventy- 
fifth  Street.  About  1722  Frederick  removed 
to  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  where  he  pur- 
chased several  tracts  of  land,  the  principal 
one  of  which  was  nearly  five  hundred  acres 
in  area  at  what  is  now  Park  Ridge,  formerly 
Pascack.  On  this  tract,  lying  on  both  sides 
of  Pascack  Brook,  he  built  his  residence  and 
two  or  more  mills.  He  was  founder  of  the 
Pascack  settlement,  and  left  a  large  landed 
estate.  After  his  death  his  will  became  the 
subject  of  judicial  construction  in  an  eject- 
ment suit  reported  in  7  New  Jersey  Law  Re- 
ports, page  363.  He  married  Divertie  Rynear- 
sen  Quackenbush.  Children :  Aeltie,  Reynier, 
mentioned  below ;  Elizabeth,  Frederick  F., 
Classic. 

(IV)  Reynier,  eldest  son  of  Frederick 
Jacobsen  and  Divertie  Rynearsen  (Quacken- 
bush) Wortendyke,  was  born  in  New  York, 
and  baptized  March  14,  1714.  His  mother 
was  the  granddaughter  of  Peter  Quackenbush, 
of  Oostergeest,  Holland.  With  his  brother, 
Frederick  F.,  he  obtained  part  of  the  home- 
stead farm  at  Pascack.  Reynier  was  a  man  of 
considerable  varied  ability,  not  content  with 
the  scope  that  agricultural  interests  alone 
offered.  He  was  a  successful  farmer  and 
brought  his  property  to  a  high  state  of  devel- 
opment. But  a  good  deal  of  his  time  was  also 
occupied  in  running  a  mill  and  in  other  avo- 
cations leading  him  into  the  industrial  and 
commercial  field.  He  married  (first)  Decem- 
ber 10,  1746,  Jannetje  Peters  Durie.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  March  2,  1752,  Jannetje  Smith. 
His  original  will  was  made  February  24,  1799, 
and  to  this  he  added  a  codicil,  February  6, 
1799.  By  this  will  be  bequeaths  to  his  eldest 
son,  Frederick,  his  old  Dutch  Bible,  which 
was  to  continue  in  descent  to  the  eldest  son. 
This  will  indicates  possession  of  a  large 
amount  of  real  estate  and  personal  property 
Probably  not  all  of  his  children  were  living 
at  that  time,  as  several  are  not  mentioned  in 
the  will.  To  each  of  the  living  sons  he  gave 
valuable  lands,  and  provided  for  liberal  lega- 
cies in  cash  to  his  daughter  and  to  the  children 
of  a  deceased  daughter.  Children :  Frederick, 
Peter,  Jannetje,  Cornelius,  died  young;  Diver- 
tie, Cornelius,  Reynier,  Jenny,  married  Fred- 
erick Wortendyke  ;  John,  Jacob,  mentioned  be- 
low ;  Mary,  Albert,  Aeltje,  married  John  De- 
baun. 


(V)  Jacob,  son  of  Reynier  and  Jannetje 
Peters  (Durie)  Wortendyke,  was  born  May 
5,  1763,  at  Pascack,  died  December  18,  1858. 
From  his  father  he  received  the  land  on  which 
he  was  then  living  in  the  town  of  Harring- 
ton, Bergen  county,  containing  fifty  acres,  and 
three  other  parcels  amounting  to  eleven  acres, 
including  three  acres  of  fresh  meadow  at  Tap- 
pan.  Besides  this  he  was  to  receive  one-fourth 
of  his  father's  right  in  the  swamp  known  as 
Bear  Gat,  lying  in  the  town  of  Harrington, 
and  in  consideration  of  this  inheritance  he 
was  to  pay  thirty  pounds  cash  to  one  of  his 
sisters.  He  continued  in  the  cultivation  of 
his  lands  at  Pascack,  and  by  his  skillful  op- 
eration and  development  his  estate  became 
very  valuable.  He  married  Elizabeth  Camp- 
bell, born  October  10,  1773,  at  Pascack,  Park 
Ridge,  New  Jersey,  and  died  March  20,  1862. 
Children :  Luthische,  Reynier,  mentioned  be- 
low; Elizabeth. 

(VI)  Reynier  (2),  son  of  Jacob  and  Eliza- 
beth (Campbell)  Wortendyke,  was  born  De- 
cember, 1792,  at  Chestnut  Ridge,  Bergen 
county.  New  Jersey,  died  December  3,  1884. 
He  was  a  farmer,  and  owned  several  hundred 
acres  of  land  in  Chestnut  Ridge,  where  he 
died.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  a 
member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  He 
took  considerable  interest  in  public  afifairs,  as 
also  in  the  welfare  of  his  party,  and  he  held 
several  local  offices  in  the  gift  of  the  town. 
He  was  a  man  of  considerable  ability,  and 
much  respected  throughout  his  long  life.  To 
the  property  that  come  to  him  by  inheritance 
he  added  considerably,  and  greatly  developed 
it  along  various  lines.  He  sought  always  to 
use  the  most  approved  methods  in  farming, 
and  his  main  farm  was  one  of  the  model  ones 
of  the  country.  He  owned  a  considerable 
amount  of  live  stock  as  well.  He  married 
Cornelia  Haring.  She  died  August  12,  1891. 
Children :  Jacob  Reynier,  mentioned  below ; 
Peter  Reynier,  Garrett,  Elizabeth,  who  mar- 
ried   Peter   Merseles   Holdrom. 

(VII)  Jacob  Reynier,  son  of  Reynier  (2) 
and  Cornelia  (Haring)  Wortendyke,  was 
born  at  Chestnut  Ridge,  Bergen  county.  New 
Jersey,  November  18,  1818,  died  in  Jersey 
City.  November  2,  1868.  He  was  graduated 
from  Rutgers  College  in  1839,  after  which  he 
read  law  in  the  office  and  became  a  partner  of 
Chancellor   A.    O.   Zabriskie.     After  his    ad- 


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mission  to  the  bar  he  attained  great  success  in 
the  practice  of  his  profession  and  held  numer- 
ous official  positions  in  Hudson  county.  He 
organized  the  Jersey  City  water  board  and 
served  as  a  member  of  the  riparian  commis- 
sion. In  1857  he  was  elected  to  congress  from 
the  Hudson  district  and  served  two  terms  in 
that  body.  In  1868  he  was  a  delegate  to  the 
Democratic  National  Convention.  His  posi- 
tion as  a  prominent  lawyer  of  New  Jersey 
made  him  well  known,  and  he  was  held  in  the 
highest  esteem  by  his  colleagues  and  friends. 
In  religion  he  was  affiliated  with  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church.  He  was  always  a  staunch 
Democrat  in  active  public  life  and  remained 
such  until  his  death.  He  married  Susan  Jane 
Doremus,  born  August  18,  1826,  in  Pompton 
Plains,  New  Jersey,  died  August  25,  1910. 
Children :  Nicholas  Doremus,  married  Mary 
Elizabeth  Quick ;  Cornelia  Elizabeth,  married 
William  Perry  Watson,  M.D. ;  Reynier  Jacob, 
mentioned  below;  Jacob,  died  in  1867;  Jacob 
Reynier,   married   Anna   Traphagan. 

(VIII)  Reynier  Jacob,  son  of  Jacob  Rey- 
nier and  Susan  Jane  (Doremus)  Wortendyke, 
was  born  August  24,  i860,  in  Jersey  City,  New 
Jersey.  He  graduated  from  Rutgers  College 
in  1882,  with  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  State  of  New 
Jersey  in  the  June  term  of  1885,  and  has  since 
been  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law 
in  Jersey  City,  becoming  a  member  of  the  law 
firm  of  Carrick  &  Wortendyke,  in  May,  1890, 
with  offices  at  No.  15  Exchange  Place,  Jersey 
City,  New  Jersey.  Mr.  Wortendyke  is  a  Dem- 
ocrat in  politics,  and  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Jersey  City.  He  mar- 
ried (first),  at  Newtonville,  Massachusetts, 
October  17,  1893,  Carolyn  M.  Cooley,  born 
in  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  October  27. 
1870,  died  September  22,  1900.  He  married 
(second)  Carolina  Laubach,  born  in  Hamil- 
ton, Ohio ;  the  second  marriage  occurring  at 
Hamilton,  Ohio,  October  17,  1906.  Children 
by  first  wife :  Reynier  J.,  Jr. ;  Howard  Blakes- 
ley  and  Carolyn, 


The  vast  majority  of  people 
BOGARDUS     bearing  the  name  of  Bogar- 

dus  are  descended  from  the 
Rev.  Everardus  Bogardus,  the  minister  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  in  New  Amsterdam, 
who  came  from  Holland  in  1633  with  Gov- 


ernor Wouter  Van  Twiller.  The  church  in 
which  he  preached  stood  at  what  is  now  No. 
33  Pearl  Street,  and  his  residence  was  at  No. 
23  Whitehall  Street.  He  married  the  widow 
of  Roeloff  Jansen,  the  famous  Anneke  Jans, 
and  had  children:  Jonas,  Willem,  Cornelis, 
Peter.  Several  branches  of  the  family  were 
deeply  involved  in  the  well  known  contest 
between  the  heirs  of  Anneke  Jans  and  Trinity 
Church.  Anneke  came  to  Rensselaerwyck  in 
1630  with  her  husband,  Roeloff  Jansen,  who 
acted  as  assistant  bouwmeister  for  the  patroon 
at  a  salary  of  one  hundred  and  eighty  guilders. 
Her  marriage  w^ith  the  Rev.  Everardus  Bogar- 
dus or  Bogart  or  Bogard,  took  place  in  1637. 
There  were  others  of  the  name  at  that  early 
time  and  their  connection  with  the  Rev.  Ever- 
ardus is  not  very  clear.  Willem  Bogardus,  of 
New  Amsterdam,  in  1656  was  appointed  clerk 
in  the  secretary's  office  in  New  Amsterdam, 
and  in  1687  postmaster  of  the  province.  This 
Willem  Bogardus  married  and  had  eight  chil- 
dren. Another  Bogardus,  Cornelis,  married 
Helena  Teller,  daughter  of  Willem  Teller,  of 
Albany.  He  lived  in  Albany,  where  he  died 
in  1666.  leaving  one  son,  Cornelis,  who  mar- 
ried Rachel  De  Wit,  and  died  October  13, 
1707.  Peter  Bogardus,  mariner,  resided  in 
Albany  near  the  close  of  his  life,  and  then  he 
removed  to  Kingston  where  he  died  in  1703. 
In  1673  he  was  one  of  the  magistrates  of  the 
town,  and  in  1690  was  commissioned  with 
others  to  treat  with  the  Five  Nations  and  to 
look  after  the  defense  of  the  town.  He  made 
his  will  February  3,  1701.  His  wife  was 
Wyntie  Cornelis  (Bosch)  Borgardus,  daughter 
of  Cornelis  Teunise  and  Maritie  Thomas 
(Mingael)  Bosch,  who  afterwards  married 
Jurriaen  Janse  Groenwout  in  1664.  Cornelis 
Bogardus  was  a  schoolmaster  in  Albany  in 
1700,  and  shortly  after  that  year  he  removed 
with  his  wife,  Rachel  Tjerckse  (De  Wit) 
Bogardus.  to  Kingston,  his  wife's  native  place. 
He  died  October  13,  1707.  Shibboleth  Bogar- 
dus and  Ann,  his  wife,  lived  in  Albany.  His 
house  in  1720  and  from  that  year  to  1737  was 
on  the  north  corner  of  James  and  Steuben 
Streets.  They  had  nine  children,  most  of 
whom  grew  up. 

In  the  annals  of  Albany  at  an  early  period 
we  read  also  of  other  men  of  the  name  of 
Bogardus,  Anthony  Bogardus,  Ephraim  Bo- 
gardus,  Petrus   Bogardus,   and  others.     The- 


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name  itself  is  found  in  the  form  of  Bogard 
and  Bogardus,  as  well  as  Bogart.  The  name 
is,  however,  distinct  from  that  of  Bogert,  the 
bearers  of  which  are  in  the  main  descended 
from  Cornelis  Jansen  Bogaerdt,  who  came 
from  Holland  before  1661,  and  settled  on  a 
village  lot  at  Flatbush,  Long  Island,  which 
he  shortly  sold  to  Peter  Jansen.  In  1677 
Cornelis  Jansen  Bogaerdt  was  one  of  the  pro- 
prietors of  the  Flatbush  patent,  and  died  at 
that  place  in  1684.  The  name  of  his  wife 
who  accompanied  him  from  Holland  is  given 
as  Geesie  Williams,  which  indicates  that  her 
father's  christian  name  was  William.  They 
had  a  number  of  children  who  settled  at  Hack- 
ensack,  New  Jersey.  This  name  of  Bogert 
is  often  found  in  various  spellings  resembling 
the  variations  of  Bogardus,  and  there  has  been 
a  certain  amount  of  confusion  in  consequence. 
Of  the  name  two  distinct  forms  are  widely  in 
use  at  the  present  day,  many  employing  both 
Bogert  and  Bogart.  There  were  several  im- 
migrants bearing  the  name  among  the  early 
settlers  of  New  Amsterdam  and  Long  Island, 
and  their  descendants  have  scattered  over  a 
wide  region,  being  especially  numerous  in 
northeastern  New  Jersey. 

The  conspicuous  Dutch  traits  of  industry 
and  thrift  have  been  well  perpetuated  in  both 
the  Bogardus  and  Bogart  families,  who  are 
connected  in  various  ways.  A  great  number 
of  the  members  of  various  branches  of  the 
family  have  been  engaged  in  agriculture  and 
its  allied  interests  and  industries  from  the  be- 
ginning. In  later  generations  many  bearing 
the  Bogardus  name  have  also  been  conspicuous 
in  the  ranks  of  the  professions  as  well  as  in 
mercantile  life.  The  family  is  a  fine  one,  with 
a  Dutch  ancestry  second  to  none,  associated 
for  all  time  with  the  development  of  the  new 
world,  in  the  founding  of  whom  they  bore 
■\  worthy  part. 

(I)  Stephen  H.  Bogardus,  ancestor  of  the 
Bogardus  family,  was  born  probably  near 
Poughkeepsie,  New  York.  The  facts  relating 
to  his  life  are  meagre,  but  there  can  be  very 
little  doubt  that  he  was  a  direct  descendant 
of  the  Rev.  Everardus  Bogardus,  the  first  set- 
tled Dutch  minister  of  any  religion  in  the 
New  Netherlands.  Investigation  so  far  has 
not  revealed  the  name  of  his  wife  or  any  of 
his  children  except  one.     He  was  engaged  in 


the  leather  business,  and  died  in  the  early 
eighties. 

(II)  Stephen  H.  (2),  son  of  Stephen  H. 
( I )  Bogardus,  was  probably  born  in  Pough- 
keepsie, New  York,  and  died  of  yellow  fever 
in  the  South.  He  received  his  education  in 
the  public  schools,  and  enlisted  as  corporal 
in  the  New  York  Volunteers  in  the  company 
known  as  the  Duryea  Zouaves.  He  was  ad- 
jutant of  Purneirs  Legion  of  Maryland  Vol- 
unteers, and  was  captain  of  the  One  Hundred 
and  Ninety-second  Regiment,  New  York 
Volunteers.  He  was  also  second  lieutenant  of 
the  Fourth  Infantry  Regulars,  United  States 
Army,  and  was  mustered  out  in  Janu- 
ary, 1871,  after  he  had  been  wounded.  The 
principal  items  of  his  military  history  are  set 
forth  in  "Heitman's  Historical  Register  and 
Dictionary  of  the  United  States  Army,"  1789- 
1903.  Captain  Bogardus  was  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  most  of  his  life  was  spent  at 
Poughkeepsie,  Dutchess  county,  New  York. 
He  married  Ellen  Mary,  daughter  of  John 
James  and  Harriet  (Willard)  Haile,  of  Platts- 
burg.  She  was  bom  at  Plattsburg,  New 
York,  March  19,  1849,  and  died  at  Green- 
wich, Connecticut,  in  January,  1903.  Their 
only  child  was  John  Haile,  mentioned  below. 

(HI)  John  Haile,  son  of  Stephen  H.  (2) 
and  Ellen  Mary  (Haile)  Bogardus,  was  born 
at  Plattsburg.  New  York,  January  29,  1870. 
He  received  his  preliminary  education  at  the 
Plattsburg  Academy,  New  York,  at  the  board- 
ing school  at  Westport,  Connecticut,  and  at 
the  boarding  school  at  Hamden.  Connecticut, 
near  New  Haven.  He  was  also  for  some 
time  at  a  boarding  school  at  Cornwall-on-Hud- 
son.  After  leaving  school  he  went  into  the 
hardware  business  with  Russell  &  Erwin,  who 
were  hardware  manufacturers,  and  he  re- 
mained with  that  concern  about  one  year.  His 
health,  however,  was  not  very  strong,  and 
he  decided  that  a  change  of  occupation  would 
be  agreeable  He  thus  came  to  teach  school 
at  Lakewood.  New  Jersey,  his  subjects  being 
mathematics  and  English,  and  he  continued 
at  that  occupation  for  a  period  of  from  two 
to  three  vears.  From  New  Jersey  he  went 
to  San  Francisco,  California,  and  there  he 
engaged  in  teaching  for  about  another  year. 
At  the  end  of  that  time  he  returned  to  New 
York,  and  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the 
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He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  in 
October,  1902,  and  has  practiced  in  New 
York  since  that  time.  Mr.  Bogardus  enlisted 
in  the  Twenty-third  Infantry,  National 
Guard,  New  York,  February  7,  1893,  and  was 
promoted  corporal,  sergeant,  color  sergeant, 
battalion  sergeant  major,  battalion  quarter- 
master and  commissary,  with  rank  of  second 
lieutenant,  and  battalion  adjutant,  with  rank 
of  first  lieutenant.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican, and  he  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Bar  Association,  New  York  County  Lawyers' 
Association,  Marine  and  Field  Club,  United 
Service  Club,  National  Geographic  Society, 
Military  Service  Institution  and  United  States 
Infantry  Association. 

He  married,  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  Jan- 
uary 17,  1900,  Lillian  May,  born  in  New  York 
City,  March  4,  1870,  daughter  of  William 
Henry  and  Harriet  E.  (Wiggins)   Stewart. 


The  Sahler  family  is  of  Ger- 
SAHLER  man  origin  and  dates  back  to 
the  tenth  century  when  we  find 
the  record  of  Heinrich  von  der  Sahle,  who 
participated  in  one  of  the  tournaments  of  that 
day.  The  family  was  noble  as  well  as  ancient 
and  had  its  home  in  that  part  of  the  Rhen- 
ish Palatinate  that  is  now  in  Hesse-Darm- 
stadt. The  original  name  of  the  family  was 
von  Heppenheim,  derived  from  their  ancestral 
home,  but  in  1019  Werner  von  Heppenheim 
removed  to  Alzey  on  the  Selz,  near  Mentz, 
and  lived  in  the  Saal  or  "Hall"  there,  whence 
he  received  the  name  Werner  von  Heppen- 
heim von  dem  Saale  which  later  on  became 
corrupted  to  von  Sahler  or  Sahler. 

(I)  Abraham  Sahler,  the  founder  of  the 
family  in  America,  emigrated  about  1736  and 
settled  on  the  banks  of  the  Perkiomen  river 
about  twenty-five  miles  from  Philadelphia  and 
became  a  large  landowner  there.  He  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Rachel  (Du 
Bois)  Du  Bois,  who  was  born  at  Perkiomen, 
Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1724  (see  Du  Bois  V).  Children:  i. 
Isaac,  married  Eleanor  Hartley,  of  York 
county,  Pennsylvania.  2.  Abraham  (2),  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Elizabeth,  married  Robert 
Patton,-  4.  Rachel,  married  John  Gross.  5. 
Catherine,  married  Christian  Gross.  6.  Dan- 
iel, born  April  16,  1762,  died  February  20, 
1834;  married,  May  8,  1786,  Elizabeth  Van 


Wagenen.    7.  John,  born  November  23,  1765; 
married  Ann  Barlow. 

(II)  Abraham  (2),  son  of  Abraham  (l) 
and  Elizabeth  (Du  Bois)  Sahler,  was  born  at 
Perkiomen,  Montgomery  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  September,  1738,  died  in  the  town 
of  Rochester,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  Jan- 
uary 14,  1800,  and  was  buried  in  the  Kyserike 
cemetery.  He  married  first)  Tryntje,  daugh- 
ter of  Solomon  and  Hannah  (Bruyn)  Van 
Wagenen,  who  was  baptized  at  Kingston, 
New  York,  January  7,  1752.  He  married 
(second)  Hester,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Maria 
(Bruyn)  Hasbrouck,  who  was  born  January 
8,  1760  (see  Hasbrouck  in  Index).  Chil- 
dren (two  by  first  marriage)  :  Abraham  (3), 
referred  to  below ;  Solomon,  referred  to  be- 
low ;  daughter,  who  married  Louis  Stilwell ; 
daughter,  who  married  Simeon  Du  Bois ; 
daughter,  who  married  Elias  De  Puy. 

(III)  Abraham  (3),  son  of  Abraham  (2) 
and  Tryntje  (Van  Wagenen)  Sahler,  was  born 
in  the  town  of  Rochester,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  and  died  there.  He  married  Nellie 
Hasbrouck.  Children  :  Abraham  Louis  ;  Jacob 
R.  H.,  referred  to  below;  James  B. ;  Ann 
Eliza. 

(IV)  Jacob  R.  H.,  son  of  Abraham  (3^ 
and  Nellie  (Hasbrouck)  Sahler,  married  El- 
mira,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Sah- 
ler) van  de  Mark,  and  granddaughter  of  Dan- 
iel and  Elizabeth  (Van  Wagenen)  Sahler, 
referred  to  above.  Children :  Abraham  J., 
Henry,  James,  referred  to  below;  Isaac  L., 
Daniel,  Catherine  J..  Elizabeth. 

(V)  James,  son  of  Jacob  R.  H.  and  Elmira 
(van  de  Mark)  Sahler,  married  Sarah  AUiger. 
Children:  Jennie,  referred  to  below;  Eliza- 
beth, married  Dr.  N.  A.  Monroe,  of  Stone 
Ridge,  Ulster  county.  New  York;  Irving, 
James  B.,  Louis  D.,  twin  with  James  B.,  Har- 
ry, Olive  Reid. 

(VI)  Jennie,  daughter  of  James  and  Sarah 
(Alliger)  Sahler,  married  in  1880,  Dr.  Charles 
Oliver  Sahler,  son  of  Solomon  and  Caroline 
(Winfield)  Sahler,  referred  to  below. 

(Ill)  Solomon,  son  of  Abraham  (2)  and 
Tryntje  (Van  Wagenen)  Sahler,  was  born 
in  the  town  of  Rochester,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  November  14,  1775,  died  there  Febru- 
ary 13,  1827.  He  was  a  landowner  and  slave- 
holder, a  surveyor  and  supervisor  of  the  town 
from  1819  to  1827.    In  1816  he  was  appointed 


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coroner  by  Governor  Tompkins.  He  married 
(first)  August  25,  1797,  Nellie,  daughter  of 
John  and  Sophie  (Burgess)  Perrine,  who  was 
born  June  6,  1777,  died  February  14,  1805. 
He  married  (second)  Catherine  Davis.  Chil- 
dren (four  by  first  marriage)  :  Tryantje  Van 
Wagenen,  married  Andries  Roosa;  Daniel, 
died  in  infancy;  Abraham,  referred  to  below; 
John  Perrine,  born  January  26,  1805,  died 
June  27,  1866,  married,  February  3,  1830, 
Maria  Hasbrouck;  Isaac  Du  Bois,  married 
Maria  Schoonmaker  ;  Jacob,  died  unmarried  ; 
Sarah  Catherine,  married  Dr.  George 
Chambers. 

(IV)  Abraham  (4),  son  of  Solomon  and 
Nellie  (Perrine)  Sahler,  was  born  in  the  town 
of  Rochester,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  Oc- 
tober 14,  1802,  died  there  in  March,  1857. 
He  inherited  his  father's  homestead  near  Ky- 
serike  and  lived  there  until  1840  when  he 
bought  and  removed  to  the  Van  Wagenen 
homestead  in  the  same  place.  He  was  super- 
visor from  1839  to  1841  and  from  1845  to 
1851.  He  was  a  veterinary  surgeon  and  also 
captain  of  cavalry  in  the  state  militia.  He 
married,  January  3,  1822,  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Judge  Richard  and  Wyntje  (Robinson) 
Davis,  who  was  born  February  i,  1803.  Chil- 
dren :  Solomon,  referred  to  below ;  Isaac 
Robinson,  married  Kate  Schoonmaker;  Mary 
Ellen,  married  Lyman  Terpenning. 

(V)  Solomon  (2),  son  of  Abraham  (4) 
and  Catherine  (Davis)  Sahler,  was  born  in 
the  town  of  Rochester,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  December  22,  1827.  He  inherited  the 
Van  Wagenen  homestead  at  Kyserike.  He 
married,  February  24,  1852,  Caroline,  daughter 
of  Casparus  and  Jane  (Van  Aken)  Winfield, 
who  was  born  February  20,  1832  (see  Win- 
field).  Children:  Charles  Oliver,  referred  to 
below ;  Kate  Jane,  married  Luther  H.,  son  of 
Abraham  J.  and  grandson  of  Jacob  R.  H.  and 
Elmira  (van  de  Mark)  Sahler,  referred  to 
above ;  Mary  Elizabeth,  married  Lawrence  H. 
Swisher;  Caspar,  died  in  infancy;  Jeannette. 
died  in  infancy. 

(VI)  Dr.  Charles  Oliver  Sahler,  son  of 
Solomon  (2)  and  CaroHne  (Winfield)  Sahler, 
was  born  at  the  home  of  his  maternal  grand- 
father in  the  town  of  Esopus,  Ulster  county. 
New  York,  June  23,  1854,  and  is  now  living 
in  Kingston,  Ulster  county.  New  York.  He 
leceived    his    early    education    in    the    public 


schools,  and  also  under  the  tutorship  of  John 
H.  Van  Wagenen,  who  was  at  one  time  princi- 
pal of  the  University  of  Northern  Pennsyl- 
vania. He  also  took  up  the  study  of  medi- 
cine and  at  the  age  of  twenty  years  entered 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  (med- 
ical department  of  Columbia  University),  in 
New  York  City,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
the  class  of  1878.  He  immediately  commenced 
the  active  practice  of  his  profession  in  Ky- 
serike, and  remained  there  for  thirteen  years, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  he  opened  an  office 
in  Kingston.  Early  in  his  career  he  became 
interested  in  mental  therapeutics,  and  for 
many  years,  even  as  a  young  physician  and 
knowing  nothing  of  the  experiments  that  were 
then  being  made  in  Europe,  he  made  use  of 
it  in  his  practice,  often  being  himself  aston- 
ished at  the  results  that  he  obtained,  and  he 
was  among  the  first  of  the  regular  practitioners 
in  this  country  to  recognize  the  power  of  the 
mind  as  a  curative  agency,  and  largely  through 
his  own  experiments  discovered  that  diseases 
could  be  overcome  through  the  mind,  that 
failed  to  respond  to  ordinary  medical  methods, 
and  began  using  mental  suggestion  in  his  prac- 
tice with  most  gratifying  results.  This  fact 
becoming  known,  his  services  were  sought  to 
such  an  extent  that  he  finally  abandoned  his 
large  lucrative  medical  and  surgical  practice 
and  opened  a  sanitarium  for  the  treatment  of 
nervous,  mental  and  functional  disorders  by 
the  then  almost  unknown  methods  of  psycho- 
theraphy.  In  1893  he  purchased  the  fine  old 
estate  of  Marius  Schoonmaker,  in  Kingston, 
and  in  1898  founded  there  the  first  mental 
healing  sanitarium  in  America.  From  the 
first  the  success  of  the  undertaking  was  phe- 
nomenal, and  it  was  but  a  short  time  before 
he  was  compelled  to  make  extensive  addi- 
tions to  the  building,  and  to  erect  others,  be- 
sides taking  in  all  the  available  cottages  and 
extra  rooms  in  the  neighborhood;  and  in  191 1 
he  erected  a  handsome,  five  story,  stone  struc- 
ture to  accommodate  the  patients  who  came 
to  him  from  all  parts  of  the  world.  He  is 
the  author  of  the  book  "Psychic  Life  and 
Laws,"  is  a  contributor  to  several  magazines, 
and  for  a  time  occupied  the  chair  of  Nervous 
Diseases  and  Suggestive  Therapeutics  of  the 
post-graduate  school  of  Eastern  College  and 
of  the  Psychological  Medical  Society  at  Phil- 
adelphia.    He  has  been  vice-president  of  the 


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American  Association  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons, and  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Psychological  Medical  and  Surgical  Society, 
and  of  the  Medico-Legal  Society,  and  has 
lectured  before  the  Phrenological  Institute 
and  Medical  and  Psychic  Study  societies  of 
New  York  and  New  Jersey.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Kingston  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons ;  Mount  Horeb  Chapter,  and  Rondout 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  He  married, 
in  1880,  Jennie,  daughter  of  James  and  Sarah 
(Alliger)  Sahler,  referred  to  above.  Child 
(adopted)  :  Nellie,  daughter  of  Simon  Daven- 
port and  Jennie  (Sahler)  Davenport. 

(The  Du  Bois  Line.) 

The  Du  Bois  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  of 
the  noble  houses  of  Cotentin,  in  the  duchy 
of  Normandy,  the  heraldic  records  in  Paris 
beginning  with  Geofifroi  du  Bois,  a  knight 
banneret,  and  a  companion  of  Duke  William 
in  the  conquest  of  England  in  1066. 

(I)  Chretien  Du  Bois,  the  first  member  of 
the  branch  of  the  family  under  consideration 
of  whom  we  have  any  definite  information, 
was  a  Huguenot  gentleman  of  the  family  of 
Du  Bois,  seigneurs  de  Beau-fermez  et  de 
Bourse,  and  owned  an  estate  at  Wicres,  in  La 
Bassee,  near  Lille,  in  French  Flanders,  now 
Artois.  Among  his  children  were :  Louis,  re- 
ferred to  below ;  Jacques,  baptized  June  18, 
1622,  died  in  1676,  married  April  25,  1663, 
Pieronne  Bentyn,  emigrated  to  Esopus,  New 
York,  in  1675;  Albert,  baptized  November  13, 
1625 ;  Francoise,  married  April  20,  1649, 
Pierre  Biljouw ;  Anne. 

(H)  Louis,  son  of  le  sieur  Chretien  Du 
Bois,  was  born  at  Wicres,  October  27,  1627, 
died  in  Kingston,  New  York,  in  June,  1696. 
He  emigrated  first  to  Mannheim,  in  the  Pala- 
tinate, where  he  married  and  two  of  his  sons 
were  born  ;  April  27,  1660,  came  with  his  fam- 
ily in  the  ship  "Gilded  Otter"  to  New  Nether- 
land.  He  and  his  father-in-law  were  granted 
by  patent  considerable  tracts  of  land  in  Hur- 
ley where  they  both  lived  until  their  removal 
to  New  Paltz.  June  7,  1663,  his  wife  and 
three  sons  were  captured  with  others  by  the 
Indians  and  held  prisoners  for  three  months, 
and  the  campaign  to  rescue  them  resulted  in 
the  purchase  of  the  Walkill  Valley,  by  the 
Huguenot  settlers,  from  the  Indians,  which 
purchase  was  patented  to  them  by  Governor 
Edmund  Andros,  September  29,  1677.     Here 


during  the  following  spring  they  founded  "Le 
nouveau  Palatinat"  or  New  Paltz.  In  1686 
Louis  Du  Bois  and  his  wife  removed  from 
New  Paltz  to  Kingston.  He  married,  in  the 
French  church  in  Mannheim,  October  10, 
1665,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Mathew  and 
Madeline  (Jorisse)  Blanchan,  who  died  in 
Kingston,  New  York,  in  1706.  Children : 
Abraham,  referred  to  below ;  Isaac,  born  in 
1659,  died  June  28,  1690,  married  in  June, 
1683,  Maria  Hasbrouck;  Jacob,  baptized  Oc- 
tober 9,  1661,  died  in  1745,  married,  March 
8,  1689,  Lysbeth  Varnoye;  Sarah,  baptized 
September  14,  1664,  married,  December  12, 
1682,  Joost  Janz,  of  Marbletown ;  David,  bap- 
tized March  13,  1667,  married,  March  8,  1689, 
Cornelia  Varnoye;  Solomon,  referred  to  be- 
low; Rebecca,  baptized  June  18,  1671,  died 
yotmg;  Ragel,  baptized  in  April,  1675,  died 
young;  Louis,  born  in  1677,  married,  Janu- 
ary 19,  1701,  Rachel,  daughter  of  Abraham 
and  Maria  (Deyo)  Hasbrouck;  Martin,  born 
January  3,  1679,  married,  January  17,  1697, 
Sara  Matthyssen. 

(III)  Abraham,  son  of  Louis  and  Catherme 
(Blanchan)  Du  Bois,  was  born  in  Mannheim, 
Germany,  December  26,  1657,  died  at  New 
Paltz,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  October  7, 
1 73 1.  He  married,  March  6,  1681,  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Christian  Deyo.  Children :  Sara, 
baptized  June  20,  1682,  married,  June  13,  1703, 
Roelof  Eltinge;  Abraham  (2),  born  April  17, 
1685;  Lea,  born  October  16,  1687,  married 
Philip  Fires  or  Ferre ;  Rachel,  referred  to 
below ;  Mary,  twin  with  Rachel,  baptized  Oc- 
tober 13,  1689,  died  young;  Catherine,  born 
May  21,  1693,  married,  October  4,  1728,  Wil- 
liam Danielsz;  Noah,  baptized  February  18, 
1700,  died  young;  Joel,  baptized  June  20,  1703, 
died  in  1734. 

(IV)  Rachel,  daughter  of  Abraham  and 
Margaret  (Deyo)  Du  Bois,  was  baptized  at 
New  Paltz,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  Oc- 
tober 13,  1689.  She  married  (first)  April  6, 
1713,  Isaac,  son  of  Solomon  and  Tryntje 
(Gerritson)  Du  Bois,  referred  to  below,  and 
married  (second)  Coats. 

(Ill)  Solomon,  son  of  Louis  and  Catherine 
(Blanchan)  Du  Bois,  was  born  at  Wiltwyck 
or  Hurley,  about  1670,  died  at  New  Paltz, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  between  June  26, 
1756,  and  February  15,  1759.  He  married 
about    1690,    Tryntje   Gerritsen,    daughter   of 


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Gerrit  Focken  and  Jacomyntje  Sleght.  Chil- 
dren: Isaac,  referred  to  below;  Jacomyntje, 
baptized  November  5,  1693,  married,  April 
23,  1715,  Barent,  son  of  Isaac  and  Maria 
(Hasbrouck)  Du  Bois;  Benjamin,  baptized 
May  16,  1697,  married  Catrina  Zuylant; 
Sarah,  baptized  February  11,  1700,  married, 
November  17,  1720,  Simon  Jacobse  Van 
Wagenen;  Catryn,  baptized  October  18,  1702, 
died  in  infancy;  Cornelis.  died  in  1798,  mar- 
ried, April  7,  1 729.  Anna  Margaret  Hooghtel- 
ing;  Magdalena,  baptized  April  15,  1705,  died 
young;  Catherine,  married  December  9,  1722, 
Petrus  Matheus  Louw ;  Deborah,  died  young ; 
Hendrikus,  baptized  December  31,  1710,  mar- 
ried. May  6,  1733,  Jannetje  Hooghteling; 
Magdalena,  baptized  December  20,  1713,  mar- 
ried. July  14,  1734,  Josiah  Eltinge. 

(lY)  Isaac,  son  of  Solomon  and  Tryntje 
(Gerritsen)  Du  Bois,  was  baptized  at  New 
Paltz,  September  21,  1691,  died  at  Perkiomen, 
Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania,  February 
10,  1729.  He  married,  April  6,  1713,  Rachel, 
daughter  of  Abraham  and  Margaret  (Deyo) 
Du  Bois,  referred  to  above.  Children :  Cath- 
erine, born  February  13,  1715;  Margaret,  born 
about  1717;  Sarah,  born  March  19,  1720;  Re- 
becca, born  August  14,  1722;  Elizabeth,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(V)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Rachel 
(Du  Bois)  Du  Bois,  was  born  September  10, 
1724.  She  married  Abraham  Sahler,  the  em- 
igrant, referred  to  above. 

(The  Winfield  Line.) 

Caroline  Winfield,  mother  of  Charles  Oliver 
Sahler,  M.D.,  was  born  February  20,  1832, 
died  March  2,  1896.  She  was  married  to 
Solomon  Sahler,  February  24,   1852. 

Casparus  Winfield,  grandfather  of  Charles 
Oliver  Sahler,  was  born  August  4,  1795,  died 
January  15,  1879.  His  wife,  Jane  Van  Aken, 
was  born  October  9,  1798,  and  died  June  14, 
1842.  She  was  the  daughter  of  John  Van 
Aken  and  Maria  Degruff.  Grandmother  and 
grandfather  Winfield  were  both  from  the  town 
of  Esopus,  and  buried  in  the  Grand  View 
cemetery,  town  of  Esopus. 

John  Winfield,  great-grandfather  of  Charles 
Oliver  Sahler.  was  born  September  9,  1764, 
died  February  5,  1853 ;  and  his  wife,  Jane 
Van  Nostrand,  was  born  March  12,  1770,  died 
October  26,  1849.  John  Winfield  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution.     His  gun  is  now  in  posses- 


sion of  James  M.  Winfield,  M.D.,  Brooklyn, 
New  York.  He  also  was  made  member  of  the 
Livingston  Lodge,  No.  23,  December  18,  1799. 
There  is  a  silver  medal  with  name,  date  of 
initiation  and  with  the  dove  and  olive  branch 
on  one  side,  and  on  the  reverse  side  all  of  the 
emblems  of  the  Master  Mason.  This  jewel 
was  given  to  his  son,  Casparus  Winfield,  who 
was  also  a  member  of  the  same  lodge,  called 
Kingston  No.  10.  He,  John  Winfield,  attended 
a  banquet  given  by  the  city  of  Kingston  to 
its  veterans  September  10,  1832 ;  was  over- 
seer for  Hurley  in  1781 ;  assessor  for  Esopus 
in  181 1  ;  trustee  of  the  corporation  of  Kings- 
ton, 1813-14-15;  school  commissioner  for 
Esopus,  1813-44.  Jane  Van  Nostrand  was  a 
daughter  of  Casparus  Van  Nostrand.  a 
soldier  of  the  revolution,  and  Eva  Freling- 
huysen ;  and  a  granddaughter  of  Judge  Van 
Nostrand  and  Annatie  Steimets.  Eva  Frel- 
inghuysen  was  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Johan- 
nes Frelinghuysen  and  Dinah  Van  Berr,  and 
a  sister  of  General  Frederick  Frelinghuysen. 
Their  grandfather,  the  Rev.  Jacobus  Freling- 
huysen, was  sent  by  the  classes  of  Amster- 
dam to  take  charge  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  in  New  Jersey  in  1719.  He  married 
Eva  Terhune. 

John  Winfield,  great-great-grandfather  of 
Charles  Oliver  Sahler,  was  born  March  8, 
1727,  died  January  9,  1798.  His  wife.  Eliza- 
beth Smit,  was  born  August  11,   1828. 

John  Winfield,  great-great-great-grand- 
father   of    Charles    Oliver    Sahler,    was    born 

September  6,  .     He  was  a  soldier  in  the 

foot  militia  for  the  battle  of  Shawangunk, 
under  Colonel  Rutsert,  in  171 5,  Zara  Kool, 
his  wife,  born  November  16,  1694.  and  mar- 
ried in  1716,  was  the  daughter  of  Simon  Kool 
and  Biliye  Pieters ;  granddaughter  of  Jacob 
Barent  Kool,  and  Maria  Simmons,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Barent  Jacobset  Kool  and 
Marie  Leenderts. 

Richard  Winfield  (Rutsert  Wintveld),  great- 
great-great-great-grandfather  of  Charles  Ol- 
iver Sahler,  was  born  in  Derby,  England,  in 
1657.  He  also  lived  in  Albany,  New  York. 
His  wife,  Magdalena  Schutt,  was  a  widow  of 
Gerrit  Decker,  and  daughter  of  William  Jan- 
sen  Schutt.  Of  the  family  of  Winfield.  says 
Camden,  famous  for  their  knighthood  and 
ancient  nobility,  as  stated  of  them  before, 
seated  at  Wingfield,  county  of  Suffolk,  before 


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the  conquest  of  1066.  The  castle  of  Wing- 
field  is  situated  low,  without  any  earthmarks 
for  its  defense.  The  ruined  walls  are  still 
standing,  the  south  front  or  principal  entrance 
entire.  The  chequered  fates  and  fortunes  of 
its  noble,  but  often  turbulent  inmates,  ex- 
pressed this  term,  "Magnificence  of  feudal 
times." 


Of  the  many  prominent  fam- 
ERVING     ilies  in  America  none  can  claim 

a  more  honorable  lineage.  They 
trace  their  ancestry  to  the  Celts,  who  at  an 
early  date  settled  on  the  east  coast  of  Erin 
and  the  west  hills  and  islands  of  Albyn.  The 
word  was  originally  written  Erevine,  meaning 
a  stout,  westland  man,  and  is  derived  from 
the  Celtic-Scythic  words,  Erin-vine,  or  fein, 
Erin  meaning  west,  and  the  early  name  for 
Ireland,  the  westland,  and  vine  or  fein,  a 
strong  and  resolute  man.  The  name  is  vari- 
ously written :  Erevine,  Erwine,  Ervine,  Er- 
ving,  de  Irvin,  Irvine  and  Irving.  One  of  the 
first  of  the  name  was  Crine  Erevine,  who  was 
Abthaine  of  Dull  and  senechal  and  collector 
of  "all  the  King's  rent  in  the  western  isles." 
He  married  the  Princess  Beatrix,  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  Malcolm  II.  Their  son  became  Dun- 
can I.  of  Scotland.  Descendants  of  Crine 
Erevine  located  in  Bonshaw,  where  about  I2q6 
Robert  the  Bruce  found  an  asylum  in  the 
castle,  when  a  fugitive  from  Edward  Long- 
shanks.  Here  he  was  concealed  for  some 
time.  Sir  William  Irvine  (de  Irvine),  a  son 
of  the  owner  of  the  castle,  became  an  ardent 
supporter  of  the  cause  of  Robert  the  Bruce. 
He  was  appointed  his  squire  and  armor  bearer 
and  accompanied  his  royal  master  in  his  vari- 
ous wanderings.  He  shared  in  his  many  nar- 
row escapes  and  took  part  in  his  many  excit- 
ing encounters  and  battles,  culminating  in  the 
battle  of  Bannockburn  in  1306,  which  resulted 
in  victory  for  the  heroic  Bruce.  In  1323 
Robert  the  Bruce  awarded  him  for  his  ser- 
vices and  fidelity  in  his  support  the  forest  of 
Drum  in  Aberdeenshire,  originally  the  Royal 
forest,  and  one  of  the  hunting  seats  of  the 
Kings  of  Scotland ;  also  his  coat-of-arms. 
which  he  wore  during  the  time  he  was  con- 
cealed in  the  Bonshaw  castle.  William  Ir- 
vine was  also  knighted  by  Robert  the  Bruce, 
who  gave  him  for  his  coat-of-arms :  Three 
holly    leaves    branded    together    on    a    shield 


arant ;  also  his  own  motto,  sub  sole  sub  umbra 
virens.  A  direct  descendant  of  Sir  William 
Irvine  located  in  the  Orkneys,  and  from  there 
descendants  of  the  family  went  to  Stromness, 
where  John  Irving,  father  of  the  progenitor 
of  the   family  in  America,  was  born. 

(I)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Irving,  born 
in  the  island  of  Shapinsha  in  the  Orkneys,  in 
1693,  came  to  America  about  1700  and  located 
in  Boston,  where  he  made  his  home  until  his 
death,  August  30,  1786.  He  was  buried  in 
the  Granary  cemetery  on  Tremont  Street,  after 
coming  to  this  country  he  changed  the  spell- 
ing of  his  name  from  Irving  to  Erving.  At 
an  early  age  he  began  a  mercantile  business, 
in  which  avocation  he  gained  distinction,  be- 
coming one  of  the  most  prosperous  and  best 
known  merchants  in  the  colonies.  He  took 
an  active  interest  in  the  civic  and  business 
affairs  of  Boston,  serving  for  twenty  years 
as  a  member  of  the  council  of  Massachusetts, 
He  also  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  educational 
system  of  Boston.  His  portrait  painted  by 
Copley  is  now  in  the  possession  of  his  great- 
great-grandson,  John  Erving,  of  New  York 
City.  He  was  married  in  Boston,  December 
I,  1725,  to  Abigail,  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  Philips.  She  died  June  20,  1759,  and 
was  buried  in  King's  Chapel,  Boston.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John,  mentioned  below.  2.  George, 
graduated  from  Har\'ard  University  in  1757; 
married  (first)  Lucy  Winslow,  (second)  Mary 
Mcintosh  Royall ;  he  died  in  London,  Eng- 
land, January  16,  1806;  his  son,  George  Wil- 
liam, became  American  Consul  at  London  and 
minister  to  Denmark  and  Spain.  3.  Abigail, 
born  May  16,  1729,  died  young.  4.  Mary, 
married  Governor  Scott,  of  the  island  of  St. 
Christopher.  5.  Elizabeth,  born  September  14, 
1731,  died  May  5,  1803;  married  Governor 
James  Bowdoin.  6.  Abigail,  born  September 
17,  1733.  7.  William,  born  September  8,  1734. 
died  in  Jamaica  Plains,  Massachusetts,  May 
27,  1791 ;  graduated  from  Harvard  University 
in  1753:  he  served  as  major  in  the  British 
army  and  took  part  in  General  Wolfe's  cam- 
paign against  Quebec;  at  the  commencement 
of  the  revolutionary  war  he  resigned  from  the 
army ;  the  British  government,  in  recognition 
of  his  services,  gave  him  a  grant  of  land  in 
Coos  county,  New  Hampshire,  which  for 
many  years  was  known  as  the  Erving  loca- 
tion;  he  bequeathed  one  thousand  pounds  to 


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Harvard  University  to  found  the  Erving  Pro- 
fessorship of  Chemistry.  8.  James,  born  April 
14,  1736.  9.  Sarah,  born  June  8,  1737;  mar- 
ried Brigadier-General  Waldo.  10.  Ann,  born 
January  20,   1740;  married  Duncan   Stewart. 

(II)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  and  Abi- 
gail (Philips)  Erving,  was  born  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  January  26,  1727,  died  in 
Bath,  England,  July  22,  1816,  and  was  buried 
in  Walcot  Parish  churchyard  (St.  Swithins), 
Bath.  He  attended  the  schools  of  his  native 
city,  and  in  1747  graduated  from  Harvard 
University  with  the  degree  of  A.B.  He  took 
a  prominent  part  in  the  civic  affairs  of  his 
native  city  and  the  Massachusetts  colony.  In 
1760  he  was  one  of  the  fifty-eight  who  signed 
the  "Boston  Memorial,"  thus  being  one  of  the 
first  in  America  to  oppose  the  officers  of  the 
Crown;  in  1774  he  was  an  addressor  of  Hut- 
chinson and  in  the  same  year  was  appointed  a 
mandamus  councillor.  In  1776  he  fled  to  Hal- 
ifax, and  from  there  proceeded  to  England. 
In  1778  he  was  proscribed  and  banished  from 
America;  in  1779  his  property  was  confiscated 
under  the  Conspiracy  Act.  He  married, 
April  18,  1754,  Maria  Catharina,  youngest 
daughter  of  William  Shirley,  governor  of 
Massachusetts  Bay,  and  commander-in-chief 
of  the  British  forces  in  North  America.  She 
died  March  12.  1816,  aged  eighty-seven  years, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Walcot  Parish  church 
yard.  Children:  I.  Maria  Catharina,  christened 
August  17,  1755.  2.  Frances,  baptized  Sep- 
tember 24,  1756.  3.  John,  mentioned  below. 
4.  William,  born  in  1758,  died  November  14, 
1772.  5.  Shirley,  christened  November  23, 
1759.     6.  Abigail,  born  April  20,  1760. 

(III)  John  (4),  son  of  John  (3)  and  Maria 
Catharina  (Shirley)  Erving,  was  christened 
in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  November  20,  1757, 
died  there  about  1847.  He  received  a  liberal 
education,  and  for  many  years  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile business  in  his  native  city.  He  took 
a  prominent  part  in  the  civic  and  social  af- 
fairs of  Boston.  He  married,  September  24, 
1785,  Ann  (Nancy),  daughter  of  William 
Sheaffe,  collector  of  the  port  of  Boston,  and 
sister  of  General  Sir  Robert  Hale  Sheaffe, 
Baronet.    Children:  i.  John,  mentioned  below. 

2.  William,  born  in  1790,  died  June  7,   1791. 

3.  Frances  Anne,  died  in  Waltham,  Massa- 
chusetts, May  12,  1880. 

(IV)  Colonel    John    (5)    Erving,    son    of 


John  (4)  and  Ann  (Sheaffe)  Erving,  was 
born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  in  1789,  died 
in  New  York  City,  October  26,  1862.  He  at- 
tended the  schools  of  his  native  city.  On  Jan- 
uary 9,  1809,  he  was  appointed  second  lieu- 
tenant of  the  United  States  army.  He  then 
for  two  years  at  the  National  Academy 
at  West  Point.  He  was  promoted  first  lieu- 
tenant, August  16,  1812,  and  from  April  6, 
1813,  to  June  15,  1815,  during  the  war  of 
1812,  served  as  assistant  adjutant-general, 
with  the  rank  of  major.  He  was  retained  as 
first  lieutenant  artillery  corps.  May  17,  1815, 
and  from  March,  1817,  to  April,  1818,  was 
battalion  adjutant.  On  April  25,  1818,  he 
was  promoted  captain  and  transferred  to  the 
Fourth  Artillery ;  was  brevetted  major,  April 
28,  1828,  for  "ten  years  of  faithful  service 
in  one  grade."  He  was  commissioned  major, 
June  I,  1821,  and  assigned  to  the  Third  Artil- 
lery, and  on  December  2,  1843,  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Second  Artillery.  He  performed 
gallant  service  in  the  Seminole  and  Greek 
wars  in  Florida.  He  was  commissioned  lieu- 
tenant-colonel, August  16,  1846,  and  served 
with  distinction  during  the  Mexican  war.  On 
October  5,  1837,  he  was  promoted  colonel  and 
transferred  to  the  First  Artillery.  He  was 
retired  from  active  service  because  of  failing 
health,  October  26,  1861. 

He  married,  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
December  6,  1831,  Emily  Sophia,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Langdon-Elwyn,  of  Portsmouth, 
New  Hampshire,  born  March  12,  1802.  died 
March  13,  1878.  Children:  i.  John,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Langdon.  born  November  20.  1834, 
died  May  20,  1862 ;  married,  in  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  December  18,  i860,  Sophia  Clap- 
ham,  daughter  of  Josiah  Pennington.  3. 
Ehvyn,  born  June,  1839,  died  November  8, 
1867 ;  married,  in  Baltimore,  April,  i860, 
Lydia  Hollingsworth,  daughter  of  Captain 
Adams,  United  States  navy.  Mrs.  Erving 
was  a  granddaughter  of  John  Langdon,  born 
in  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  June  25, 
1 74 1.  He  became  one  of  the  most  prominent 
citizens  of  the  state,  serving  as  delegate  to 
the  continental  congress,  1775-76  and  1783; 
and  was  for  several  years  a  member  of  the 
house  of  representatives,  being  speaker  of  the 
house,  1776-82,  1804-05.  He  was  president 
of  New  Hampshire  in  1785,  and  in  1787  was 
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tion.  He  was  governor  of  the  state  in  1788, 
1805-09-10-11,  and  served  as  United  States 
.senator  from  New  Hampshire,  March  4,  1789, 
to  March  3,  1801,  being  for  some  time  presi- 
dent of  that  body.  He  decHned  the  appoint- 
ment of  secretary  of  the  navy  in  181 1.  In 
1812  he  was  the  Democratic  nominee  for  vice- 
president  of  the  United  States.  He  died  in 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  September  18, 
1819.  Governor  Langdon  married,  February 
3.  1776,  Elizabeth  Sherburne,  and  had  one 
child,  Elizabeth,  born  December  4,  1777.  She 
married,  July  16,  1797,  Thomas  Elwyn,  and 
Tiad  nine  children.  A  daughter,  Emily  Sophia 
Langdon-Elwyn,  married  Colonel  John  Er- 
ving.  United  Stales  Army,  mentioned  above. 
(V)  John  (6),  son  of  Colonel  John  (5) 
and  Emily  Sophia  (Langdon-Elwyn)  Erving. 
was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  July 
6,  1833.  After  a  five  years'  course  of  study 
at  the  Brothers  Peugnet  School  in  New  York 
City,  he  entered  the  sophomore  class  of  Har- 
vard University  in  1850,  and  graduated  in 
1853  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts 
In  1858  his  alma  mater  conferred  upon  him 
the  degree  of  master  of  arts.  He  entered  the 
Harvard  University  Law  School  in  1853  and 
graduated  in  1855  with  the  degree  of  LL.B 
In  1856  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New 
York  City,  but  for  many  years  has  been  re- 
tired from  active  practice.  He  joined  the 
Seventh  Regiment  New  York  National  Guard, 
in  i860,  and  was  honorably  discharged  in 
1868.  In  1861  and  1863  he  served  with  his 
regiment  in  the  war.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Union  League  and  Harvard  clubs,  and  a 
charter  member  of  the  New  York  Bar  As- 
sociation. Mr.  Erving  married,  April  22, 
1862,  Cornelia,  second  daughter  of  William 
Paterson  Van  Rensselaer,  son  of  Stephen  Van 
Rensselaer,  of  Albany,  the  last  Patroon  (see 
Van  Rensselaer  V).  She  was  born  Septem- 
ber 22,  1841.  Children:  i.  Susan  Van  Rens- 
selaer, born  May  11,  1863,  died  July  i,  191 2 
2.  Cornelia  Van  Rennsselaer,  born  April  6, 
1865;  married  (first)  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  June 
II,  1895;  children:  John  V.  L.,  Jr.,  born  June 
6,- 1896,  died  May  17,  1897;  Erving,  born  Oc- 
tober 26,  1897;  Hendrik,  born  December  28, 
1900;  she  married  (second)  April  6,  1908, 
Hamilton  L.  Hoppin.  3.  John  Langdon,  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Emily  Elwyn,  born  June  29, 
1868 ;  married  Henry  Woodward  Cooper,  Jan- 


uary 22,  1895;  he  died  April  30,  1912;  chil- 
dren :  Cornelia  Van  Rensselaer,  born  Febru- 
ary 6,  1896,  died  July  20,  1899;  Lamberton, 
born  February  16,  1900;  John  Erving,  born 
September  30,  1905.  5.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born 
May  4,  1870;  married,  April  22,  1896,  James 
Gore  King;  children:  James  Gore,  Jr.,  born 
May  25,  1898.  Eleanor  Erving,  born  Novem- 
ber 29,  1900;  Edward  Ramsay,  born  May  20, 
1905,  died  October  21,  1907;  Cornelia  Van 
Rensselaer,  born  February  7,  191 1.  6.  Wil- 
liam Van  Rensselaer,  born  November  15,  1871 ; 
is  a  lawyer  residing  in  Albany,  where  he  is 
a  representative  of  the  estate  of  his  grand- 
father, the  late  William  Paterson  Van  Rens- 
selaer ;  Mr.  Erving  was  municipal  civil  ser- 
vice commissioner  for  ten  years,  and  is  now 
commissioner  of  public  safety  in  Albany.  7. 
Katharine    Van    Rensselaer,    born    November 

19,  1873.     8.  Eleanor  Cecilia,  born  September 

20,  1875.  9.  Frances  Shirley,  born  Novem- 
ber 7,  1877,  died  September  29,  1878.  10. 
Walter  Shirley,  born  January  3,  1880.  11. 
Justine  Bayard,  born  December  22,  1881.  12. 
Philip  Livingston,  born  March  12,  1884,  died 
May  II,  1885. 

(VI)  John  Langdon,  son  of  John  (6)  and 
Cornelia  (Van  Rensselaer)  Erving,  was  born 
on  Manising  Island,  Rye,  New  York,  July 
31,  1866.  He  was  educated  in  private  schools 
of  New  York  City,  and  for  twenty  years  was 
connected  with  the  Mexican  Cable  Company. 
In  January,  1885,  he  enlisted  in  the  Sixth 
Company,  Seventh  Regiment  New  York  Na- 
tional Guard.  In  August,  1887,  he  was  com- 
missioned first  lieutenant  in  the  Twelfth  Regi- 
ment. In  March,  1895,  he  enlisted  in  Troop 
A,  Second  Army  Corps,  United  States  Army, 
and  served  with  his  troop  in  the  campaign  in 
Porto  Rico  during  the  Spanish-American  war 
in  1898,  and  in  the  fall  of  this  year  was  hon- 
orably discharged.  He  married,  November  3, 
1904,  Alice  Hanchet  Rutherford.  Children: 
I.  Alice  Rutherford,  born  May  24,  1906.  2. 
Cornelia  Van  Rensselaer,  born  November  23, 
1907.  3.  John  Langdon,  Jr.,  born  August  i, 
1909-  "     

The     surnames     Dickey,     Dick 
DICKEY     and  the  like  are  manifestly  de- 
rived from  the  personal  or  bap- 
tismal name  Richard.     Richard  besides  being 
itself  a  surname,  like  a  number  of  other  per- 


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sonal  names  having  the  dual  capacity,  has 
given  rise  to  other  surnames.  Among  the 
surnames  that  have  been  derived  from  Rich- 
ard and  its  modifications  in  almost  every 
country  of  Europe,  are  Richards,  Richardson, 
MacRichard,  Rich,  Riche,  Ritchie,  Riches, 
Rick,  Dick,  Hitchin,  Dix,  Dickinson  and  so  on. 
These  names  are  common,  some  of  them  to 
every  country  in  Europe,  though  Dickey  is 
confined  for  the  most  part  to  England  and 
Ireland.  It  is  in  some  cases  a  rendering  from 
the  Gaelic  term,  MacRiocard,  which  is  also 
in  many  cases  rendered  as  Richardson.  The 
Dickey  family  or  rather  families  bearing  the 
name  of  Dickey  were  known  in  America  in 
the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

(I)  Robert  Dickey,  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  Dickey  family,  was  born  in  Ireland,  and 
died  in  New  York  City.  He  came  from  Ire- 
land in  1798  and  was  a  shipping  merchant  in 
New  York.  He  married  Anne  Brown.  Chil- 
dren :  Hugh  T.,  Anne,  Elizabeth,  Jane,  George, 
Robert,  John,  Charles  Denston,  mentioned  be- 
low :  Mary. 

(II)  Charles  Denston,  son  of  Robert  and 
Anne  (Brown)  Dickey,  was  born  October  8, 
1818,  in  New  York  City,  and  died  at  Islip, 
Long  Island,  in  1897.  He  received  his  pre- 
liminary education  in  the  schools  of  the  city, 
and  in  1835  entered  the  office  of  Brown 
Brothers  &  Company,  remaining  with  the  firm 
till  his  death  in  1897.  During  this  period  he 
represented  the  house  at  various  times  in  Sa- 
vannah, New  Orleans  and  Mobile,  and  became 
a  partner  in  1859.  In  1850  he  married,  at 
Greensboro,  Alabama,  Mary,  born  October  28, 
1825,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  and  Sophia 
(Graham)  Witherspoon.  Sophia  (Graham) 
Witherspoon,  mother  of  Mary  (Witherspoon) 
Dickey,  and  grandmother  of  Charles  Denston 
(2)  Dickey,  was  a  daughter  of  Governor  Jo- 
seph Graham,  of  North  Carolina.  Children 
of  Charles  Denston  and  Mary  (Witherspoon) 
Dickey:  Eliza  Goldthwaite,  born  in  Mobile, 
Alabama,  1853;  Charles  Denston,  mentioned 
below;  Sophia  Witherspoon,  New  York,  1864; 
Mary  Witherspoon,  New  York,  1866. 

(III)  Charles  Denston  (2),  son  of  Charles 
Denston  (i)  and  Mary  (Witherspoon) 
Dickey,  was  born  at  Mobile,  Alabama,  May 
8,  i860.  He  was  educated  in  St.  Paul's 
School,  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  and  at  Har- 
vard  University,   graduating  in   the   class   of 


1882.  After  leaving  college  he  entered  the 
office  of  Brown  Brothers  &  Company.  In 
1885  he  became  their  representative  in  Phil- 
adelphia, where  he  lived  for  a  period  of  about 
two  years,  afterwards  returning  to  New  York 
as  a  partner  in  the  New  York  house.  Mr. 
Dickey  is  a  director  of  the  Commercial  Trust 
Company  of  New  Jersey,  trustee  of  the  Green- 
wich Savings  Bank,  trustee  of  the  London 
Assurance  Corporation,  director  of  the  Mer- 
chants' National  Bank  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  director  of  the  Niagara  Falls  Power 
Company,  United  States  trustee  of  the  North- 
ern Assurance  Company,  Limited,  of  London, 
trustee  of  the  Ocean  Accident  and  Guarantee 
Corporation,  and  director  of  the  United  States 
Mortgage  and  Trust  Company.  Mr.  Dickey 
also  belongs  to  a  number  of  leading  clubs. 

He  married,  in  New  York  City,  March  14, 
1893,  Louise,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Mar- 
garet (Johnson)  Whitney,  of  New  Haven. 
Children:  Charles  Denston  (3),  born  Decem- 
ber 3,  1893;  Stephen  Whitney,  January  2, 
1897;  Lawrence  Witherspoon,  April  12,  1906. 


Originally  spelled  Rosseter, 
ROSSITER  this  name  is  of  undoubted 
Saxon  or  Norman  origin,  and 
probably  was  carried  into  England  with  the 
conquering  army  of  William  the  Norman.  It 
is  still  a  conspicuous  one  in  England,  as  well 
as  in  the  United  States,  and  has  borne  its 
part  in  developing  this  country  in  the  various 
branches  of  progress. 

(I)  Sir  Edward  Rossiter,  the  founder  of 
the  family  in  the  United  States,  came  from  a 
good  substantial  family  of  the  English  gentry, 
and  owned  a  large  estate  in  the  county  of 
Somerset,  England.  He  was  commissioned 
in  London  in  1629  as  one  of  the  assistants  to 
Governor  Winthrop,  and  embarked  for  the 
colonies  from  Plymouth,  England,  March  20, 
1630,  in  the  ship  "Mary  and  John,"  com- 
manded by  Captain  Syuet,  with  one  hundred 
and  forty  persons  abroad.  Their  original 
destination  was  the  Charles  river,  but  the  cap- 
tain decided  to  land  them  at  Dorchester  Neck, 
at  the  end  of  a  two  months'  voyage.  In  the 
histories  of  the  colonies  Edward  is  spoken  of 
as  a  "godly  man  of  good  repute,"'  who  left 
England  for  the  sake  of  religion.  He  lived  to 
fill  his  position  but  a  few  months  after  his 
arrival  in  this  country,  and  died  October  23. 


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1630.  There  is  no  mention  of  Sir  Edward's 
wife,  and  it  is  supposed  that  she  had  previ- 
ously died. 

(II)  Dr.  Brayard  Rossiter,  son  of  Sir  Ed- 
ward Rossiter,  was  the  only  member  of  his 
family  who  came  with  him.  He  was  accom- 
panied by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  (Alsop)  Ros- 
siter, whom  he  had  married  in  England.  Dr. 
Rossiter  is  spoken  of  in  history  as  a  finely 
educated  man  from  the  best  schools  in  Eng- 
land. He  was  one  of  the  principal  men  who 
commenced  the  settlement  of  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut, in  1636,  where  he  was  a  magistrate 
for  eighteen  years,  and  became  widely  known 
as  a  physician.  In  1652  he  removed  to  Guil- 
ford, Connecticut.  On  March  11,  1662,  he 
performed  the  first  post-mortem  examination 
in  the  Connecticut  colony,  and  history  has  it 
that  it  was  the  first  autopsy  of  which  there 
is  any  record  in  New  England,  antedating  by 
a  dozen  years  the  one  in  Boston,  in  1674,  an 
account  of  which  is  given  by  Dr.  Greene  in 
his  "History  of  Medicine."  Dr.  Rossiter  died 
in  Guilford,  September  30,  1672.  He  had  five 
sons  and  five  daughters,  but  the  only  son  who 
had  descendants  was  Josiah. 

(III)  Josiah,  son  of  Dr.  Brayard  and  Eliza- 
beth (Alsop)  Rossiter,  was  born  in  1646,  in 
Windsor,  died  January  31,  1716,  in  Guilford, 
whither  he  had  removed  with  his  father  when 
a  boy.  He  was  one  of  the  twelve  patentees 
of  the  town  of  Guilford  in  1685,  and  was  a 
very  prominent  man  in  that  community,  fill- 
ing many  official  positions.  He  represented 
the  town  in  the  state  legislature  nine  times, 
the  last  year  being  1700.  He  was  town  clerk 
from  1695  to  17015,  and  from  1707  to  1716, 
the  time  of  his  death.  In  1676  he  was  ensign 
of  the  local  militia  company;  he  served  as 
county  and  probate  judge  of  New  Haven, 
Connecticut,  and  was  for  ten  years  one  of  the 
assistants  of  the  governor,  and  was  also  the 
first  naval  officer  of  the  port  of  Guilford.  He 
married,  in  1676,  Sarah,  daughter  of  the  Hon, 
Samuel  Sherman,  of  Stamford  and  Wood- 
bury, Connecticut,  from  whose  grandfather 
descended  Roger  Sherman,  one  of  the  signers 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  General 
William  Tecumseh  Sherman  and  Senator  John 
Sherman.  Children  of  Josiah  Rossiter :  Sarah, 
who  died  young;  Elizabeth,  born  in  April, 
1679;  Josiah  (2),  born  March  31,  1680; 
Samuel,  died  young;  Timothy,  born  June  5, 


1683;  John  born  October  13,  1684;  Samuel, 
born  February  28,  1686  ,■*  David,  born  April 
17,  1687;  Jonathan,  born  April  3,  1688; 
Nathaniel,  of  whom  further;  Sarah,  born  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1691 ;  Patience,  born  April  6,  1692; 
Johanna,  born  April  23,  1693. 

(IV)  Ensign  Nathaniel  Rossiter,  eighth  son 
of  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Sherman)  Rossiter,  was 
born  November  10,  1689,  in  Guilford,  where 
he  died  October  4,  1751.  He  resided  in  his 
native  town,  and  was  a  joiner  by  occupation. 
In  1716  his  property  was  valued  for  taxation 
at  fifty-eight  pounds,  nineteen  shillings  and  six 
pence.  He  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant Nathaniel  Stone.  She  died  April  20, 
1776,  having  survived  her  husband  about  a 
quarter  of  a  century.  Children:  Nathaniel 
(2),  born  March  23,  1716;  Benjamin,  born 
September  25,  1718;  Sarah,  born  June  i,  1720; 
Noah,  born  April  15,  1725,  died  February, 
1757;  David,  born  in  October,  1728,  died  in 
September,    1731  ;  Nathan,  of  whom  further. 

(V)  Nathan,  youngest  child  of  Ensign 
Nathaniel  and  Anna  (Stone)  Rossiter,  was 
born  October  31,  1730,  in  Guilford,  died  in 
1788,  in  Richmond,  Berkshire  county,  Mass- 
achusetts. He  settled  in  the  latter  town  in 
1775,  locating  in  the  western  part,  a  little  over 
one  mile  west  of  the  village  of  Richmond,  at 
the  intersection  of  two  roads.  He  married, 
June  14,  1755,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Timothy 
and  Bathsheba  (Stone)  Baldwin,  of  North 
Guilford,  born  July  24,  1735,  in  that  town. 
Children:  Nathan  (2),  of  whom  further; 
Noah,  born  June  5,  1759,  resided  on  the 
paternal  homestead;  Abraham,  died  young; 
Sarah,  born  August  28,  1763;  Abraham,  born 
October  20,  1765,  resided  on  the  homestead; 
Samuel,  born  February  26,  1768 ;  Benjamin, 
born  November  23,  1771,  lived  in  New  York; 
Rebecca,  born  June  20,  1774. 

(VI)  Nathan  (2),  eldest  child  of  Nathan 
(i)  and  Sarah  (Baldwin)  Rossiter,  was  born 
in  1756,  in  Guilford.  He  settled  in  the  south- 
ern part  of  the  town  of  Williamstown,  Berk- 
shire county.  New  York,  where  he  was  a 
prominent  citizen,  and  died  in  1829.  His 
name  appears  frequently  as  a  witness  to  deeds 
and  other  legal  documents.  He  married  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Timothy  and  Hannah  (Wad- 
hams)  Tuttle,  of  Goshen,  Connecticut,  born 
there  August  10,  1758.  Children:  Dr.  David, 
born    in    February,    1783,    died   in    February, 


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1870;  Timothy  Tuttle,  of  whom  further; 
Louis  Nathan,  born  in  1788 ;  MeHssa,  born  in 
1790,  died  in  June,  1859;  Edward. 

(VTI)  Timothy  Tuttle,  second  son  of  Na- 
than (2)  and  Hannah  (Tuttle)  Rossiter,  was 
born  in  1785,  probably  in  Williamstown, 
though  his  birth  is  not  there  recorded.  He 
died  in  that  town,  July  29,  1809,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-four  years.  He  married  Cynthia 
Powers.  She  married  (second)  intentions  re- 
corded December  20,  1813,  in  WilHamstown, 
Charles  Bulkeley,  of  Granville,  Massachusetts. 
Son  of  Timothy  Tuttle  and  Cynthia  (Powers) 
Rossiter ;  Lucius  Tuttle,  of  whom  further. 

(Vni)  Lucius  Tuttle,  only  son  of  Timothy 
Tuttle  and  Cynthia  (Powers)  Rossiter,  was 
born  October  2,  1809,  in  Williamstown. 
though  not  recorded  there,  and  died  August 
24,  1879,  in  Guilford,  Connecticut.  In  1843 
he  went  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  was 
a  dry-goods  merchant  until  185 — ,  when  he 
retired  and  settled  in  Brooklyn,  New  York. 
He  always  maintained  a  summer  home  in 
Guilford.  Owing  to  business  reverses  in  1865 
he  entered  the  service  of  the  United  States  in 
the  customs  department  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  continued  ten  years.  Following  this 
he  became  secretary  of  the  York  County  Iron 
Company,  of  York,  Pennsylvania,  but  did  not 
remove  his  residence  from  Brooklyn.  He 
continued  in  this  capacity  until  a  short  time 
before  his  death,  being  prevented  by  illness 
in  his  last  years  from  further  activity.  He 
was  a  regular  attendant  of  the  Lafayette  Ave- 
nue Presbyterian  Church,  of  Brooklyn,  and  a 
steadfast  supporter  of  Republican  principles, 
but  not  an  active  politician.  He  married, 
August  28,  1843,  at  Troy,  New  York,  Mary 
Wickes,  bom  January  30,  1817,  at  Jamaica, 
Long  Island,  died  January  4,  1907,  at  the 
home  of  her  daughter  in  New  York  City. 
She  was  a  descendant  of  General  Van  Wyck 
Wickes,  of  Jamaica.  Children  of  Lucius  Tut- 
tle Rossiter  and  wife:  i.  Edward  Van  Wyck, 
of  whom  further.  2.  Walter  King,  born 
May  25.  1846,  died  October  i,  1910;  married, 
April  26,  1 87 1,  Emilie  K.  Mayo,  daughter  of 
Joshua  C.  Mayo.  Children :  i.  Marie  Louise 
born  February  16,  1872.  ii.  Ethel  Mayo,  born 
March  28,  1874,  married  Peter  Duncan  Mc- 
Naughton;  child,  Walter,  iii.  Helen  Wickes, 
born  March  14,  1876.  3.  William  Wickes,  of 
whom   further.     4.   Mary  Wickes,  bom  Au- 


gust 19,  1849,  died  January,  1852.  5.  Frank 
Powers,  born  August  19,  1852.  6.  Anna,  born 
October  7,  1853,  died  February,  1856.  7. 
Elizabeth,  born  December  12,  1854.  8.  Lucius 
Tuttle,  born  September  4,  1856.  9.  Arthur 
Lawrence,  born  October  18,  1857,  died  in 
August,  1858.     10.  CHnton  Lawrence. 

(IX)  Edward  Van  Wyck,  oldest  child  of 
Lucius  Tuttle  and  Mary  (Wickes)  Rossiter, 
was  born  July  13,  1844,  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
died  December  10,  1910,  at  Flushing,  New 
York.  He  was  educated  at  the  Collegiate  and 
Polytechnic  Institute,  of  Brooklyn,  and  upon 
attaining  his  majority  became  a  clerk  in  the 
office  of  the  Hudson  River  Railroad  Company, 
where  he  continued  two  years.  For  the  suc- 
ceeding seven  years  he  was  a  clerk  in  the 
treasurer's  ofifice  of  the  same  company,  and 
from  1867  to  1877  was  cashier  of  the  com- 
pany. From  1877  to  1901  he  was  treasurer 
of  the  company,  and  after  1901  was  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  New  York  Central  &  Hudson 
River  Railroad  Company,  and  from  1883  to 
1900  he  was  treasurer  of  the  same  company. 
After  November  9,  1900,  was  vice-president  of 
the  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  Railroad 
Company,  and  since  January  3,  1905,  of  the 
Michigan  Central  Railroad  Company.  He 
was  a  vice-president  of  the  Cleveland,  Cin- 
cinnati, Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway  Com- 
pany, and  an  officer  and  director  in  other  sub- 
sidiary companies  of  the  New  York  Central 
system.  He  was  a  vice-president  and  a  di- 
rector of  the  Lincoln  National  Bank  of  New 
York;  vice-president  and  trustee  of  the  Lin- 
coln Safe  Deposit  Company ;  trustee  of  the 
Bowery  Savings  Bank ;  director  of  the  Queens 
Insurance  Company  of  America;  and  also  of 
many  coal  and  other  corporations.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  New 
York ;  New  England  Society  of  New  York, 
and  of  the  Union  League  Club ;  and  for  many 
years  he  was  a  warden  of  St.  George's  Pro- 
testant Episcopal  Church,  of  Flushing.  He 
married,  at  Great  Neck,  Long  Island,  June 
16,  1S69,  Estelle  Hewlett,  born  1845.  daughter 
of  Joseph  Lawrence  and  Mary  (Cromwell) 
Hewlett,  of  Hewlett's  Point,  Great  Neck,  Long 
Island.  Children:  i.  Edward  Lawrence,  of 
whom  further.  2.  Estelle  Hewlett,  born  Oc- 
tober 6,  1872 ;  married,  November,  1898, 
Charles   Edward  Titus,  and  resides  in   New 


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York  City;  children:  Arthur  Rossiter,  born 
November,  1899;  Charles  Edward,  March, 
1902.  3.  Arthur  Wickes,  of  whom  further. 
4.  Frank  Herriman,  born  March,  1878;  con- 
nected with  the  accounting  department  of  the 
New  York  Central  Railroad.  5.  Mary  Hew- 
lett, residing  in  New  York  City.  6.  Ernest 
Tuttle,  born  April,  1884;  graduated  from  a 
school  in  Pomfret,  Connecticut;  unmarried; 
resides  in  New  York  City. 

(X)  Edward  Lawrence,  eldest  child  of  Ed- 
ward Van  Wyck  and  Estelle  (Hewlett)  Ros- 
siter, was  bom  August  14,  1870,  at  Great 
Neck,  Long  Island.  He  was  educated  in 
Flushing  Institute,  and  in  1887,  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  years,  entered  business  as  a  clerk 
in  the  office  of  the  New  York  Central  &  Hud- 
son River  Railroad  Company.  In  1900  he 
became  assistant  treasurer  of  the  same,  and 
in  November,  1902,  became  treasurer.  Since 
December,  1910,  he  has  been  a  director  of  the 
Lincoln  National  Bank  of  New  York ;  is  a 
director  in  a  number  of  subsidiary  companies 
of  the  New  York  Central  railroad  system. 
For  two  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Seventh 
Regiment,  National  Guard  State  of  New 
York,  receiving  his  discharge  about  1897.  He 
is  a  member  of  Christ  (Protestant  Episcopal) 
Church,  of  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  and  is 
identified  with  numerous  clubs,  including  the 
LTnion  League  of  New  York,  Transportation, 
Greenwich  Country,  and  Field  of  Greenwich. 
Politically  he  is  an  Independent.  He  now 
resides  at  Greenwich,  Connecticut. 

Mr.  Rossister  married,  June  5,  1895,  i" 
Brooklyn,  Ella  Fowler,  a  graduate  of  Packer 
Institute,  born  October  29.  1875,  daughter  of 
Henry  J.  and  Sarah  (Quimby)  Fowler,  of 
Brooklyn,  New  York.  Children :  Lawrence 
Fowler,  born  March  23,  1896,  in  Brooklyn, 
now  a  member  of  the  class  of  1913,  afthe  Al- 
len-Stevenson School,  of  New  York  City ; 
Dorothy,  a  student  at  the  Ely  School  of  Green- 
wich. 

(X)  Arthur  Wickes,  second  son  of  Edward 
Van  Wyck  and  Estelle  (Hewlett)  Rossiter, 
was  born  October  8,  1874,  at  Flushing,  Long 
Island.  He  attended  the  Flushing  Institute 
and  Drisler's  private  school  of  New  York 
City.  In  1892,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  he 
entered  the  employ  of  J.  W.  Davis  &  Com- 
pany, bankers  and  brokers  (then  located  at 
No.  66  Broadway,  but  now  at  No.  100  Broad- 


way), as  a  boy,  and  since  then  has  filled  by 
steady  advancement  every  position  in  the  busi- 
ness. In  1900  he  became  a  member  of  the 
firm.  At  the  present  time  (1913)  he  is  one 
of  the  active  members  of  the  Stock  Exchange. 
He  holds  membership  in  the  Union  Club, 
Racquet  and  Tennis  Club,  Automobile  Club, 
the  Stock  Exchange  Lunch  Club,  the  Nassau 
Country  Club,  the  Piping  Rock  Country  Club, 
and  the  Oakland  Golf  Club.  ■  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics.  He  resides  at  Glen  Cove, 
Long  Island. 

He  married,  in  1906,  Alice  Riggs  Colgate, 
of  Flushing,  Long  Island,  daughter  of  Robert 
and  Henrietta  (Craig)  Colgate.  Children: 
Henrietta  Craig,  born  March  22,  1907;  Arthur 
Wickes,  Jr.,  born  March  30,  1908. 

(IX)  William  Wickes,  son  of  Lucius  Tuttle 
and  Mary  (Wickes)  Rossiter,  was  born  in 
Troy,  February  9,  1848,  and  died  in  Brook- 
lyn, April  27,  1897.  As  a  merchant  in  general 
produce  he  began  business  with  the  firm  of 
Wallace  &  Wickes ;  afterwards  the  company 
was  reorganized  under  the  name  of  Rossiter  & 
Skidmore,  and  Mr.  Rossiter  was  its  principal 
member  until  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was 
also  the  president  of  the  Terminal  Warehouse 
Company,  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  Re- 
publican and  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church.  He  was  prominent  in  the  social  and 
club  life  of  Brooklyn,  serving  on  the  boards  of 
such  organizations  as  the  Hamilton  Club,  Chil- 
dren's Aid  Society,  etc.  He  married  (first) 
in  Brooklyn,  August  2,  1870,  Emma  L.,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  Richmond,  who  was  born  in 
Brooklyn,  in  1849,  and  died  October  23.  18S8; 
(second)  Helen,  daughter  of  James  Hendrick, 
of  Albany,  New  York.  All  his  children  were 
by  the  first  wife.  Her  father,  Robert  Rich- 
mond, was  born  in  Scotland,  and  came  to 
America  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  and  died  in 
1879.  Children:  Van  Wyck,  of  whom  further: 
Julie,  born  January  21,  1875,  married,  April 
29,  1896,  John  J.  Hinchman ;  William  Wickes. 
born  November  13,  1877. 

(X)  Van  Wyck,  son  of  William  Wickes 
and  Emma  L.  (Richmond)  Rossiter,  was  born 
in  Brooklyn,  May  12,  1871.  After  having  had 
a  thorough  preliminary  course  of  study  in  the 
Holbrook  School,  Ossinning,  he  completed  his 
education  at  the  Polytechnic  Institute,  of 
Brooklyn.  His  first  business  experience  was 
with  H.  A.  Rogers,  at  No.   19  John   Street, 


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New  York  City ;  but  this  position  he  was  after 
a  time  compelled  to  give  up  on  account  of  ill 
health,  and  going  out  to  California  for  re- 
cuperation, he  remained  for  a  year.  In  1893 
he  organized  the  firm  of  Rossiter,  McGovern 
&  Company,  the  company  being  incorporated 
in  1899,  and  Mr.  Rossiter  serving  as  its  presi- 
dent until  he  retired  from  the  business.  He 
was  also  president  of  the  Queensboro  Electric 
Light  &  Power  Company,  of  the  borough  of 
Queens,  New  York  City;  of  the  Citizens'  Elec- 
tric Lighting  Company,  of  Far  Rockaway, 
Long  Island,  New  York ;  of  the  Liberty  Light 
&  Power  Company,  of  Liberty,  Sullivan 
county.  New  York,  and  a  director  of  many 
other  companies.  He  organized  and  was  for 
six  years  the  president  of  the  Rockland  County 
Trust  Company ;  is  president  of  the  Gregory 
&  Sherman  Company,  and  of  the  Braeburn 
Association,  all  three  of  these  organizations 
being  of  Nyack,  Rockland  county,  New  York, 
Mr.  Rossiter  making  his  home  at  Upper 
Nyack.  He  is  president  of  the  Nyack 
Country  Club,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Union 
League  Club,  of  New  York  City.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican,  and  he  has  served  as 
village  trustee  of  Upper  Nyack. 

Mr.  Rossiter  married,  in  California,  Octo- 
ber 10,  1895,  Mabel,  daughter  of  Lewis  Cass 
and  Anna  L.  (Davis)  Fuller,  who  was  born 
in  Portland,  Oregon.  Her  father  was  a  well- 
known  banker  of  that  state.  Children:  Rich- 
mond, born  November  8,  1896;  Ruth  Mabel, 
born  September  29,  1897;  Van  Wyck,  born 
May  26,  1900;  Margaret,  born  April  22,  1901  ; 
Elizabeth,  born  July  23,  191 1. 


This  old  Dutch  family  has  been  con- 
SIP  tinuously  located  in  New  Jersey  for 
two  and  a  half  centuries,  and  seven 
generations  have  been  born  in  one  house,  lo- 
cated at  the  south  corner  of  Bergen  Avenue 
and  Newkirk  Street  in  Jersey  City.  This 
house  was  built  by  Adraen  Hendrickse  Sip 
about  1664,  and  is  still  occupied  by  his  lineal 
descendant,  who  was  born  there. 

(I)  Adraen  Hendrickse  Sip,  of  Breda,  Hol- 
land, came  to  America  in  1641,  and  joined  the 
church  in  Bergen,  November  13,  1666.  The 
house  which  he  built  there  in  1664  is  still 
standing  in  almost  its  original  form.  The 
h-omes  of  that  period  were  usually  one-story 


structures  built  of  stone  or  wood  and  some- 
times of  both,  and  were  comfortable  and 
hospitable  in  appearance.  The  steep  roof 
curved  slightly  toward  the  lower  part  and  often 
extended  beyond  the  walls  to  form  a  piazza, 
the  edge  being  supported  by  pillars.  There 
were  spacious  rooms  on  either  side  of  a  wide 
hall  which  ran  through  the  middle  of  the  house, 
and  the  attic  contained  several  sleeping  apart- 
ments, a  spinning  and  loom  room  and  a  store- 
room. A  very  fair  example  of  one  of  these 
is  the  Sip  homestead.  Adraen  H.  Sip  married 
(first)  February  4,  1656,  Grietje  Warnants 
Van  Schonevelt,  and  (second)  Geertje  Aur- 
ians,  a  widow,  who  survived  him  and  died  May 
17,  1691.  Children:  Henricus,  Jan  Arianse, 
Antje,  became  the  wife  of  Symon  Jacobse 
Van  Winkle ;  Maritje,  married  Sibi  Opdyke. 
He  was  one  of  the  original  purchasers  on 
January  30,  1658,  of  the  Peninsula  between 
the  Hudson  and  Hackensack  rivers,  south 
from  Weehawken  to  Bergen  Point,  from  the 
Indians,  which  was  finally  granted  to  the  in- 
habitants of  Bergen  in  the  year  1661. 

(II)  Jan  Arianse,  second  son  of  Adraen 
Hendrickse  and  Grietje  Warnants  (Van 
Schonevelt)  Sip,  was  born  May  24,  1662,  died 
August  12,  1729.  He  was  an  important  and 
influential  person  in  the  town  of  Bergen.  He 
was  lieutenant  in  the  Bergen  militia  under 
Captain  John  Pinhorne  from  1703  to  171 1, 
and  later  captain.  He  married,  April  22,  1683, 
Johanna  Van  Vorst.  Children,  all  baptized  in 
New  York:  Arie,  born  October  25,  1684,  bap- 
tized November  11,  1684:  Hillegend,  bap- 
tized August  28,  1687 ;  Ide,  twin  of  Hillegond, 
died  in  infancy;  Margaret,  August  17,  1690; 
Annetje,  February  22,  1693;  Ide,  mentioned 
below:  Johannis.  born  May  10,  1698;  Abra- 
ham, April  II,  1704;  Lena,  baptized  Decem- 
ber I,  1708. 

(III)  Ide,  son  of  Jan  Arianse  and  Johanna 
(Van  Vorst)  Sip,  was  born  September  3,  1695, 
in  Bergen,  and  died  February  26,  1762.  He 
was  commissioned  lieutenant  of  the  Sixth 
Company  of  the  Bergen  militia  under  captain 
Michael  C.  Vreeland.  March  13,  17^3,  and 
was  active  in  the  affairs  of  the  town.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  April  12,  1715,  at  Hackensack, 
Ariantje  Cornelisse  Cadmuys,  a  native  of 
Passaic,  and  (second)  June  9.  1725,  in  New 
York,  Antje  Van  Wagenen,  born  about  1704, 
daughter   of    Johannis   and    Catalyntje    (Hel- 


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migse)  Van  Wagenen,  died  January  25,  1749. 
Children  of  second  marriage :  John,  Cornelius, 
Annetje,  Catalyntje,  born  August  5,  1731 ;  Ar- 
riantje,  baptized  June  2,  1733;  Jannetje,  Sep- 
tember 30,  1735;  Garret,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Garret,  youngest  child  of  Ide  and 
Antje  (Van  Wagenen)  Sip,  was  baptized  Au- 
gust 21,  1740,  in  Bergen,  and  died  October 
4,  1775.  He  married  Jannetje  Merselis,  who 
survived  him  almost  fifty  years,  dying  October 
4,  1775.  Children:  Antje,  born  September  6, 
1764;  Peter,  mentioned  below;  Jenneke, 
March  12,  1770. 

(V)  Peter,  only  son  of  Garret  and  Jannetje 
(Merselis)  Sip.  was  born  August  18,  1767, 
in  Bergen,  and  died  May  i,  1852.  He  was  a 
jurist  of  the  finest  type,  being  judge  of  the 
Bergen  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  and  in  1840 
was  elected  county  judge  of  Hudson  county 
by  the  Republican  party,  of  which  he  was  an 
earnest  supporter.  He  was  the  founder  of 
the  New  Jersey  Railroad  &  Transportation 
Company;  Newark  Plank  Road  Company; 
Mechanics  Bank,  Newark ;  Jersey  City  &  Ber- 
gen railroad,  which  has  since  grown  to  enor- 
mous proportions  He  married,  November  i, 
1789,  Elizabeth  Vreeland,  who  died  March  i, 
1827.  Children:  Garret,  born  March  11,  1791  ; 
Marritje,  February  27,  1795 ;  Richard,  men- 
tioned below. 

(VI)  Richard,  second  son  of  Peter  and  Eli- 
zabeth (Vreeland)  Sip,  was  born  August  31, 
1800,  in  Bergen,  and  died  April  10,  1865.  He 
was  engaged  in  looking  after  his  father's  es- 
tate, and  bv  his  good  judgment  and  foresight 
the  value  of  the  property  was  greatly  increased. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church  of  Bergen,  now  Jersey  City,  and  in 
politics  was  a  Republican.  He  married,  in 
Jersey  City,  September  5,  1856,  Sarah  Eliza- 
beth Wayland,  born  July  31,  1818,  in  New 
York  City,  died  October  20,  1910,  daughter 
of  Letitia  Wayland,  born  in  Bath,  England, 
June  22,  1789,  died  July  12,  1864.  They  had 
one  son,  Richard  Garret,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  Richard  Garret,  only  son  of  Richard 
and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Wayland)  Sip,  was 
born  July  2,   i860,  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jer- 

■  sey.  He  first  attended  private  schools  in  New 
York  City,  and  later  Professor  Anthon's 
Grammar  School,  where  he  remained  until  he 
was  sixteen  years  of  age,  when  he  entered 
the  School  of  Mines.     He  studied  Chemistry 


and  Mining  Engineering.  He  then  made  an 
extensive  tour  of  the  world  in  a  560-ton  bark, 
when  he  returned  to  Jersey  City  He  is  now 
retired  and  is  living  in  the  old  homestead  built 
by  Adraen  Hendrickse  Sip  in  1664.  In  poli- 
tics he  is  a  Republican.  Mr.  Sip  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Holland  Society  of  New  York, 
president  of  the  Hudson  County  Holland  So- 
ciety, and  of  the  Alpha  Beta  Delta.  He  is  a 
charter  member  of  the  Carteret  Club  of  Jersey 
City,  Indian  Harbor  Yacht  Club,  Lake  Hopat- 
cong  YacTit  Club,  Manhattan  Bicycle  Club, 
New  York,  and  member  of  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, Jersey  City,  New  Jersey. 

Mr.  Sip  married,  December  31,  1889,  in 
Jersey  City,  Mary  Ella  Riker,  born  March 
26,  1863,  in  Jersey  City,  daughter  of  John 
Kidney  and  Martha  Ann  (Van  Derlinder) 
Riker.  The  latter  was  born  December  16, 
1832,  and  died  November  9,  1908,  in  Jersey 
City.  John  K.  Riker  was  engaged  in  the  hotel 
business.  He  died  April  14,  1867.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Riker  had  children :  John  Romine,  born 
October,  1855;  Henry  H.,  December  3,  1857; 
Albert :  Mary  Ella,  above  mentioned  as  the 
wife  of  Richard  Garret  Sip. 


Captain  John  Luther  was  born 
LUTHER     in   Shrewsbury,   England.     He 

set  sail  from  Dorset  county, 
England,  for  the  new  world,  landing  in  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  in  1635.  and  in  1637  was 
one  of  the  first  purchasers  and  settlers  of 
Swansea ;  his  ninety  acres  of  land  were  said 
to  have  been  purchased  from  the  Indians  for 
a  peck  of  white  beans.  It  is  quite  probable 
that  the  land  was  assigned  by  the  government 
and  the  peck  of  beans  merely  quieted  any 
claim  made  by  the  Indians.  He  sold  his  in- 
terests there  and  in  1642  became  one  of  the 
fir.st  settlers  of  Gloucester;  in  the  same  year 
he  was  made  governor  of  Rhode  Island.  He 
was  employed  by  the  merchants  of  Boston  as 
captain  of  a  vessel  to  go  to  Delaware  Bay  on 
a  trading  voyage,  and  while  there  was  killed 
by  the  Indians  in  1644.  Evidently  his  son  was 
captured  at  the  same  time,  for  on  May  2,  1646, 
the  general  court  of  Massachusetts  decreed 
that  the  widow  Luther  should  have  the  balance 
of  her  husband's  wages  according  to  the  cus- 
tom, after  allowing  the  merchants  what  they 
paid  for  the  redemption  of  her  son.    Children: 


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Samuel,  of  whom  further;  Hezekiah,  of  whom 
further,  and  James. 

(II)  Rev.  Samuel  Luther,  son  of  Captain 
John  Luther,  was  born  in  1636,  in  Taunton, 
and  died  December  20,  1716,  at  Kickemuit, 
Rhode  Island.  He  was  among  the  first  set- 
tlers of  Swansea,  Massachusetts,  in  1667,  and 
made  a  demand  upon  the  town  of  Taunton, 
October  19,  1672,  for  his  father's  purchase 
rights,  but  it  was  shown  that  his  brother  had 
been  for  many  years  in  peaceful  possession  of 
the  property  and  his  appeal  was  denied.  He 
served  as  selectman  of  Swansea  before  1675. 
His  wife  bore  the  baptismal  name  of  Mary, 
and  they  had  children ;  Samuel,  born  October 
25,  1663;  Theophilus,  October  9,  1665;  Mary, 
July  25,  1668;  Ebenezer,  December  27,  1678; 
Mehitable,  married  Ebenezer  Cole;  Martha, 
married  Huge  Cole.  The  first  four  are  re- 
corded at  Rehoboth. 

(II)  Hezekiah,  son  of  Captain  John  Luther, 
was  born  about  1639-40,  in  Taunton,  and  died 
July  23,  1723,  in  Swansea,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  one  of  the  first  settlers,  in  asso- 
ciation with  his  brother  Samuel.  His  descend- 
ants continued  to  itside  there  and  in  Rehoboth. 
and  in  Warren  and  other  towns  in  Rhode 
Island.  His  first  wife  bore  the  name  of  Eliza- 
beth, and  his  second  that  of  Sarah,  Children 
of  first  wife,  born  in  Swansea:  John,  born 
1663,  died  1697;  Nathaniel,  1664,  married, 
June  28,  1693,  Ruth  Cole.  Children  of  second 
wife:  Joseph,  born  February  12,  1669,  died 
March  23,  1736;  Elizabeth,  December  29, 
1671,  married  John  Kinnicutt ;  Edward,  April 
27,  1674,  married  (first)  Sarah  Callender, 
(second)  Elizabeth  Mason;  Hezekiah,  men- 
tioned below;  Hannah,  married  Dr.  Richard 
Winslow. 

(III)  Hezekiah  (2),  fifth  son  of  Hezekiah 

(i)     and    Sarah    ( )     Luther,    was    born 

August  27,  1676.  in  Swansea,  and  married. 
March  23,  1704,  Martha  Gardner.  They  were 
the  parents  of  twelve  children. 

(IV)  Hezekiah  (3),  .son  of  Hezekiah  (2) 
and  Martha  (Gardner)  Luther,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1728,  in  Swansea,  where  he  resided. 
He  married,  December  23,  1750,  Mary  Jolls, 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  eight  children : 
Hannah,  born  175 1  ;  William,  mentioned  be- 
low; Mehitable,  1755;  Israel,  1757;  Elizabeth, 
1759;  Rebecca,  1761  ;  Hezekiah  and  Hopestill 
(twins),   1763. 


(V)  William,  eldest  son  of  Hezekiah   (3) 

and  Mary  (Jolls)  Luther,  was  born  December 
31,  1752,  and  died  at  sea,  May  11,  1784.  He 
was  a  soldier  of  the  revolution,  serving  first 
under  Captain  Ezra  Ormsbee,  of  the  town  of 
Warren,  in  1776,  and  in  1781  in  Captain  Cur- 
tis Cole's  company  of  Colonel  Nathan  Miller's 
regiment.  Caleb  Salisbury  was  a  soldier  in 
the  same  companies,  as  was  also  his  relative 
Gideon  Luther.  He  married,  about  1774, 
Patience  Miller,  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
the  following  children,  born  in  Warren :  James 
Miller,  October  23,  1776;  Hezekiah,  Novem- 
ber 26,  1778 ;  Asa,  mentioned  below ;  William. 
April  I,  1784.  The  mother  married  (second) 
Caleb  Salisbury. 

(VI)  Asa,  third  son  of  William  and  Pa- 
tience (Miller)  Luther,  was  born  April  24, 
1781,  in  Warren,  Rhode  Island,  and  settled 
when  a  young  man  in  Albany  county,  New 
York.  Thence  he  removed  to  Saratoga 
county,  where  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  pottery  ware  and  lived  until  his  death.  He 
married  Phebe  Purinton,  a  native  of  Saratoga 
county,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  three 
children:  John  Purinton,  George  W.,  and 
Caroline. 

(VII)  George  Washington,  son  of  Asa  and 
Phebe  (Purinton)  Luther,  was  born  October 
5,  1815,  in  Saratoga  county,  New  York,  and 
died  May  10,  1889,  in  Albany.  For  more  than 
forty  years  he  conducted  a  retail  coal  busi- 
ness in  Albany,  and  was  successful  in  business 
and  esteemed  as  a  private  citizen.  He  mar- 
ried Phebe  Andrews,  born  March  28.  1813.  in 
Stillwater,  Saratoga  county,  and  died  in  Al- 
bany, September  23,  1882,  daughter  of 
Machiavel  Andrews ;  her  father  was  a  prom- 
inent civil  engineer,  residing  in  Stillwater, 
Saratoga  county,  and  constructed  vari- 
ous water  works  in  the  state  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  was  chief  engineer  in  charge  of  construc- 
tion of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  canal.  George 
W.  Luther  and  wife  have  three  children:  i. 
Ellen  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Edward  Gary,  who 
has  been  for  several  years  editor  of  the  New 
York  Times,  and  has  a  daughter  Elisabeth 
Luther  Gary.  2.  John  Asa.  3.  George  Mar- 
tin, mentioned  below. 

(VIII)  George  Martin,  junior  son  of 
George  W.  and  Phebe  (Andrews)  Luther,  was 
born  .'\ugust  25,  1849.  '"  Greenbush,  \'an 
Rensselaer  countv.   New  York,  and  attended 


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Albany  Academy.  Entering  Cornell  Univers- 
ity, he  graduated  in  1870,  in  his  twenty-first 
year,  after  which  he  continued  to  reside  at 
home,  assisting  his  father  in  business  until 
1885.  In  the  last  named  year  he  removed  to 
New  York  City  and  engaged  in  the  manufac- 
turing business,  becoming  treasurer  of  the  C. 
W.  Hunt  Company  of  New  York,  in  which 
position  he  continued  until  1890.  At  this 
time  the  Nichols  Chemical  Company  was 
formed  and  Mr.  Luther  became  its  secretary, 
and  soon  after  was  made  secretary  and  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Nichols  Copper  Company 
of  New  York,  in  which  relation  he  has  con- 
tinued until  the  present  time.  He  is  also  presi- 
dent of  the  Granby  Consolidated  Mining 
Smelting  and  Power  Company.  Ltd.,  of  Brit- 
ish Columbia,  and  is  vice-president  of  the 
Albert  Mines  Company  of  Canada.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Albany  Society  of  New  York. 
He  married,  February  12,  1873,  Mary  H. 
Gould,  born  in  Albany,  New  York,  daughter 
of  William  and  Sarah  (Hartness)  Gould. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Luther  are  the  parents  of  two 
daughters:  Mary  Gould  and  Phebe  Andrews. 
The"  latter  is  the  wife  of  Philip  Lee  Gill,  of 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  is  mother  of  Philip 
Lee  Gill  Jr.,  born  in  that  borough. 


The  Saugerties  and  Albany 
MYERS     families  of  the  Myer  or  Myers 

name  are  descendants  of  Chris- 
tian Myers,  who  was  born  in  the  village  of 
Wolferlingen,  about  six  miles  northeast  of 
Coblenz,  in  the  Palatinate  on  the  banks  of 
the  Rhine,  March  11,  1688,  and  died  in  Sau- 
gerties, New  York,  January  5,  1781.  He 
and  his  wife  are  buried  on  the  old  Christian 
Myers  farm  at  Churchland,  town  of  Sauger- 
ties, New  York.  He  married,  1710,  Ann  Geer 
trury  Theunyes,  born  May  15,  1690,  died  Jan- 
uary 9,  1766.  Christian  Myers  and  wife,  with 
the  Palatinate  emigration,  arrived  in  New 
York,  June  24,  1710,  remaining  with  Governor 
Robert  Hunter  during  the  summer,  and  were 
then  transported  to  West  Camp,  Ulster  county 
New  York,  the  exact  date  of  their  arrival 
there  not  being  known,  nor  the  length  of  their 
stay  at  that  place.  We  next  hear  of  him  as 
the  purchaser  of  the  farm  at  Churchland,  just 
west  of  the  village  of  Saugerties,  February  24, 
1724,  and  there  he  spent  his  remaining  days. 
In  the  course  of  time  he  added  a  large  tract  of 


land  to  his  original  purchase,  and  this  was 
later  apportioned  as  farms  among  several  of 
his  sons.  He  also  erected  a  mill  on  the  Mud- 
dah  Kill.  In  1738  he  was  named  as  one  of 
the  freeholders  of  Kingston,  and  he  was  an 
elder  in  the  Kaatsbaan  church.  His  will,  ex- 
ecuted March  15,  1773,  proved  May  8,  1783, 
bequeaths  to  his  sons  Willem,  Johannis,  Ben- 
jamin (of  whom  further),  Petrus  and  Tobias; 
and  children  of  his  son  Christian,  deceased, 
and  heirs  of  his  daughters,  Marytje,  Christina 
and  Catrina  (deceased),  and  his  daughter 
Geertje ;  it  also  liberates  and  provides  for  his 
old   slave   Cut?   during  his   life. 

(II)  Benjamin,  son  of  Christian  and  Ann 
Geertruy  (Theuyes)  Myers,  born  October  21, 
1730,  died  December  12,  1819.  He  married 
Leah,  daughter  of  Teunis  and  Catrina  (Legg) 
Osterhoudt,  the  banns  of  marriage  being  pub- 
lished August  13,  1756.  Children:  i.  Teunis, 
of  whom  further.  2.  Christian,  born  June  5, 
1759;  unmarried.  3.  Stephanus,  born  Decem- 
ber 27,  1760,  died  March,  1841  ;  married  Helen 
Low.  4,  Petrus,  born  November  17,  1762, 
died  March,  1841.  5.  Catherine,  born  April 
10,  1769;  married  David  Myer.  6.  Annetje 
(or  Anna),  born  June  23,  1772;  married  Isaac 
Vandenberg.  7.  Marytje,  born  May  10,  1775; 
married  Tjerck  Schoonmaker,  Sr.  8.  Solomon, 
born  October  i,  1786;  died  unmarried. 

(HI)  Teunis.  son  of  Benjamin  and  Leah 
(Osterhoudt)  Myers,  was  born  in  1757,  and 
died  November  22,  183 1.  He  resided  at  Sau- 
gerties, New  York,  where  he  owned  consider- 
able property,  on  which  was  a  stone  house 
typical  of  the  period  and  bearing  upon  its 
portals  the  date  of  its  erection,  1746.  This 
house  was  not  far  from  Mount  Marion,  in 
the  Catskill  mountains,  a  beautiful  location 
for  a  residence.  It  was  long  and  low,  with 
an  unusually  steep  roof,  and  was  still  stand- 
ing in  1910.  Teunis  Myers  married,  1781, 
Cornelia,  daughter  of  John  Legg,  who  resided 
where  in  1910  was  the  Shefifield  place,  now 
the  property  of  Henry  Barclay,  of  Saugerties. 
Cornelia  (Legg)  Myers  was  an  intimate  friend 
of  the  wife  of  George  Clinton,  and  when  the 
British  proceeded  up  the  Hudson,  working 
devastation,  she  witnessed  the  burning  of 
Kingston,  October  13,  1777.  Children:  i.  Ben- 
jamin Teunis,  of  whom  further.  2.  Jane,  born 
September  17,  1793,  died  November,  1872; 
married  Peter  G.  Post,  born  January  19,  1792. 


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3.  Solomon,  born  July  14,  1798;  married  Eliza- 
beth Goodwin. 

(IV)  Benjamin  Teunis,  son  of  Teunis  and 
Cornelia  (Legg)  Myers,  was  born  at  Platt- 
skill,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  May  9,  1783, 
died  at  Saugerties,  January  31,  1869.  He  was 
originally  a  farmer  on  a  somewhat  large  scale, 
supplying  the  neighborhood  and  river  towns 
with  the  produce  from  his  estate,  but  in  the 
later  years  of  his  life  he  was  able  to  retire 
from  business  cares  and  all  activities  in  Sau- 
gerties, where  he  lived  the  greater  part  of  his 
life.  He  married,  at  Plattskill,  September  2, 
1804,  Sarah,  only  daughter  of  Johannes  and 
Leah  (Myer)  Snyder,  and  granddaughter  of 
Colonel  Johannes  Snyder,  of  Ulster  county, 
who  was  colonel  of  the  First  Regiment  of 
Ulster,  May  i,  1776,  also  delegate  to  the  pro- 
vincial congress,  member  of  the  council  of 
safety,  member  of  assembly,  and  president  five 
terms  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Kingston 
corporation.  Sarah  (Snyder)  Myers  inherited 
a  number  of  slaves  as  a  portion  of  her  dowry, 
one  of  whom  (Flora)  taught  Mrs.  S.  M.  Tay- 
lor to  knit,  and  another  was  known  as  "Old 
Rub." 

(V)  John  Benjamin,  child  of  Benjamin 
Teunis  and  Sarah  (Snyder)  Myers,  was  born 
at  Brabant,  near  Kingston,  New  York,  Febru- 
ary 27,  1806,  and  died  in  the  town  of  Mentz, 
near  Port  Byron,  New  York,  February  27, 
1861,  buried  in  Fort  Hill  Cemetery,  Auburn. 
New  York.  His  birth  took  place  on  a  farm 
rented  of  a  Mr.  Cockburn  by  his  father,  who 
soon  purchased  a  farm  where  the  other  chil- 
dren were  born.  He  married,  at  Saugerties, 
August  12,  1828,  Arriet,  daughter  of  Captain 
John  Gillespy,  who  had  a  record  as  a  fighter 
in  the  American  cause,  and  was  son  of  Major 
John  Gillespy,  who  engaged  in  the  French  and 
Indian  wars,  and  afterwards  in  the  war  of  the 
Revolution  as  a  member  of  the  Fourth  Ulster 
County  Militia.  Captain  John  Gillespy  fought 
at  the  head  of  his  company  in  the  War  of 
1812;  for  a  time  he  was  stationed  on  Staten 
Island.  Children:  i.  Benjamin  Gillespy,  born 
at  Saugerties,  August  20,  1829,  died  at  No. 
372  Clinton  avenue,  Albany,  New  York, 
March  5;,  1901  ;  married,  at  Port  Byron,  New 
York,  November  23,  1858:  Minerva  Kerns; 
children:  Howard  Gillespy,  born  at  Port 
Byron;  Leila  Whitney,  born  in  New  York 
City;  Lotta  Wright,  born  in  New  York  City. 


2.  John  Gillespy,  of  whom  further.  3.  Sarah, 
born  September  21,  1833;  was  residing  in  Al- 
bany in  1910;  married,  at  Port  Byron,  May 
28,  1863,  Captain  David  Austin  Taylor;  chil- 
dren: John  Myers,  born  near  Port  Byron; 
Lawrence  Hartshorne,  born  at  Camden,  New 
Jersey ;  Grace  Brown,  born  at  Oneida,  New 
York ;  Ernest  Chandler,  born  at  Guineys,  Vir- 
ginia ;  Marion  Lee,  bom  at  Albany,  New  York ; 
Bessie  Myers,  born  at  Albany.  4.  Jason  Gil- 
lespy, born  January  25,  1840;  unmarried.  5. 
Lavinia,  died  at  Albany,  October  29,  1855, 
buried  at  Auburn,  New  York.  6.  Elizabeth, 
born  near  Port  Byron;  died  young.  7.  Eliza- 
beth (2d),  living  at  present  time  (1913).  8. 
Selina,  married,  at  Auburn,  New  York,  July 
10,  1878,  S.  Henry  Atwater ;  children:  Wini- 
fred Moore,  born  at  Windham,  New  York; 
Reginald  Myers,  born  at  Canon  City,  Colorado. 
(VI)  John  Gillespy,  son  of  John  Benjamin 
and  Arriet  (Gillespy)  Myers,  was  born  in 
Saugerties,  New  York,  August  4,  1832,  died  in 
Albany,  December  i,  1901.  Until  the  age  of 
eight  years  he  lived  with  his  parents  on  their 
farm  in  their  typical  Dutch  farm  house  in  the 
shadow  of  Mount  Marion,  in  the  Catskill 
mountain  range.  About  that  time  his  father 
selected  better  land  than  the  rocky  soil 
of  Ulster  county,  purchasing  a  tract 
near  Montezuma,  Cayuga  county,  and 
here  his  son  aided  him  in  agricultural 
pursuits.  When  fourteen  years  old  he 
returned  to  Saugerties  and  began  his  business 
career  as  a  store  boy  and  general  clerk  for 
his  uncle,  P.  M.  Gillespy.  He  had  been  accus- 
tomed from  early  youth  to  dispose  of  the 
produce  of  his  father's  farm,  and  he  acquired 
a  strong  tendency  for  trade,  made  keen  by  his 
competition  with  other  lads  of  the  neighbor- 
hood. The  connection  with  the  store  in  a 
minor  capacity  -simply  interested  and  aroused 
him  to  make  more  rapid  progress  in  some- 
thing better.  But  until  he  became  of  age  he 
remained  in  the  employ  of  his  uncle,  except 
such  times  as  he  was  engaged  in  study  in  the 
little  red  school  house.  He  was  fond  of  read- 
ing and  very  quick  to  observe,  so  that  he  ac- 
quired much  knowledge  even  when  not  in 
school,  and  what  he  learned  in  this  fashion  he 
was  clever  enough  to  turn  to  good  account  in 
later  life.  Even  in  those  days  he  possessed  a 
keen  insight  into  character,  a  faculty  for  de- 


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cision  and  rapid  action,  and  these  governed 
him  throughout  his  life. 

When  twenty-one  years  old  he  became  asso- 
ciated with  two  men  in  the  conduct  of  a  gen- 
eral country  store  at  Port  Byron,  Cayuga 
county,  but  this  partnership  did  not  last  long, 
and  finally  he  was  left  in  sole  possession  to 
dispose  of  the  stock  for  the  benefit  of  the  cred- 
itors. He  succeeded  in  doing  this  by  means 
of  a  trip  through  the  west,  and  the  result  was 
that  through  his  ability  every  creditor  was  paid 
in  full.  After  this  he  obtained  a  position  in 
the  large  wholesale  house  of  Clapp  &  Kent, 
clothing  and  dry  goods  merchants  of  New 
York  City,  and  was  rapidly  promoted.  At  the 
commencement  of  the  rebellion  he  started  in 
business  for  himself  in  New  York,  securing 
for  a  location  the  corner  of  Bleecker  and 
Christopher  streets,  and  here  he  made  some 
money.  In  1865  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
William  M.  Whitney,  in  Albany,  where  they 
succeeded  the  firm  of  Ubsdell,  Pierson  & 
Lenox,  in  the  dry  goods  business,  and  the  store 
on  North  Pearl  street.  Albany,  was  known 
as  the  "New  York  Store."  It  was  by  far  the 
largest  of  its  kind  in  Albany,  and  was  a  pro- 
nounced success.  This  partnership  continued 
five  years,  when  it  was  dissolved,  each  partner 
continuing  in  business  for  himself.  Mr.  Myers 
opened  another  large  store  at  Nos.  39-41 
North  Pearl  street.  An  incident  in  its  his- 
tory was  a  catastrophe  on  the  morning  of 
August  8,  1905,  when,  during  the  course  of 
repairs  and  alterations,  the  floors  sank,  and  as 
a  result  the  handsome  new  building  was  erected 
immediately  upon  the  site  of  the  old  one,  and 
is  a  leading  adornment  of  the  business  section 
of  the  city.  But  of  far  more  importance  than 
a  beautiful  building  in  showing  the  character 
of  the  merchant,  stands  the  system  inaugurated 
by  him  through  which  method  the  employees 
receive  each  year  proportionate  financial  re- 
turns dependent  upon  the  success  of  the  year, 
and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no  employees  are 
more  interested  in  doing  their  best  by  co- 
operation than  are  these,  and  at  the  same 
time  he  gained  what  he  most  desired — their 
good  will  and  high  regard. 

The  business  career  of  Mr.  Myers  knew 
no  wavering  from  that  time  on.  His  strict 
attention  even  to  details,  and  thorough  know- 
ledge of  the  requirements  of  each  depart- 
ment, to  make  for  absolute  success,  were  the 
great    factors    which    brought    such    excellent 


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results.  As  his  wealth  increased  he  became 
associated  with  the  development  of  local  en- 
terprise, and  his  name  was  valued  on  dififer- 
ent  boards  and  companies  for  it  was  a  guar- 
antee of  high  standard.  While  aiding  many 
institutions  liberally,  probably  more  so  in 
some  instances  than  any  other  citizen,  he  was 
decidedly  averse  to  any  publicity.  He  was 
among  the  four  special  commissioners  ap- 
pointed from  among  the  citizens  by  the  mayor, 
in  1891,  to  investigate  means  by  which  an  in- 
creased and  purer  water  supply  could  be  se- 
cured to  the  city,  which  was  prior  to  the 
attempt  to  acquire  a  driven  well  supply  and 
the  installation  of  the  filtration  system. 

He  joined  the  Holland  Society,  December 
7,  1888,  as  one  of  the  earliest  members,  and 
always  took  a  decided  interest  therein.  He 
also  joined  Philip  Livingston  Chapter,  Sons 
of  the  Revolution,  and  aided  in  all  of  its 
movements.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Fort 
Orange  Club,  and  his  religious  association  was 
with  the  Presbyterian  faith.  In  politics  he 
was  a  staunch  Republican  throughout  his  life, 
and  a  firm  believer  in  the  policies  of  that 
party.  He  was  president  of  the  Albany  Hos- 
pital, which  probably  interested  him  more  than 
any  other  institution  in  the  city  with  which 
he  was  associated,  and  it  received  his  most 
liberal  support  and  thoughtful  attention.  He 
was  a  governor  of  the  Albany  Orphan  Asy- 
lum, a  director  of  the  Albany  railway ;  vice- 
president  of  the  Merchants'  National  Bank 
in  1880;  trustee  of  the  Albany  Female  Acad- 
emy, now  known  as  the  Albany  Girls'  Acad- 
emy, and  in  the  erection  of  its  new  and  hand- 
some edifice  he  played  an  important  part ;  was 
first  vice-president  of  the  newly  organized 
Albany  Trust  Company,  and  had  been  a  lead- 
ing spirit  in  its  organization  as  one  of  the 
foremost  business  institutions ;  vice-president 
of  the  Commerce  Insurance  Company ;  and 
a  trustee  of  the  Albany  Rural  Cemetery. 

The  death  of  Mr,  Myers  occurred  on  a 
Sunday  morning,  at  his  home,  No.  240  State 
Street,  Albany,  following  an  illness  of  a  few 
weeks'  duration.  In  his  demise  the  citizens 
as  a  body  felt  that  from  their  midst  had  been 
removed  one  who  had  been  respected  among 
the  best  of  them,  and  who  had  been  a  pillar 
of  strength  to  many  philanthropic  institutions. 
His  honesty  and  painstaking  measures  had 
brought  about  a  success  well  merited  and  far 
beyond  the  average.     His  mode  of  living  had' 


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been  simple,  although  his  home  was  one  of 
the  most  beautiful  in  the  city,  and  his  bene- 
factions were  the  unostentatious  acts  of  a 
man  bent  upon  doing  good,  tlis  associates 
in  business  admired  his  straightforward, 
manly  methods,  imd  those  who  met  him  so- 
cially were  impressed  by  his  charming  person- 
ality. Both  in  public  and  in  the  privacy  of 
his  family  he  lived  the  conscientious,  kindly 
life  of  a  Christian.  The  Albany  Hospital, 
having  long  received  the  benefits  of  his  coun- 
sel and  benefactions,  felt  his  loss  keenly,  and 
the  board  declared  that  "while  his  death  is  a 
loss  to  the  whole  city,  it  falls  especially  upon 
the  hospital  board,  and  on  the  benevolent  work 
in  which  with  them  he  was  so  deeply  inter- 
ested." He  had  been  governor  of  this  insti- 
tution for  many  years,  and  both  his  wisdom 
and  liberality  had  been  of  the  greatest  ser- 
vice, with  a  record  of  never  having  been  ab- 
sent from  a  meeting  when  possible  to  attend 
When  the  work  of  constructing  a  new  hos- 
pital was  begun,  his  contributions  created  one 
of  the  pavilions,  and  were  also  an  encourage- 
ment to  those  struggling  with  the  enormous 
undertaking. 

John  Gillespy  Myers  married,  at  Cayuga, 
New  York,  August  19,  1857,  Mary  Augusta 
Young,  the  Rev.  Frederick  Starr,  of  Auburn, 
officiating.  She  was  born  at  Auburn,  Febru- 
ary 22,  1833,  died  at  her  home  in  Albany, 
February  9,  1904,  daughter  of  Jacob  Young, 
of  Auburn,  who  enlisted  at  the  age  of  sixteen 
years,  served  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  was 
present  at  the  sortie  at  Fort  Erie ;  and  grand- 
daughter of  Christian  Young,  who  served 
throughout  the  Revolution,  and  received  his 
honorable  discharge,  which  is  signed  by  Gen- 
,eral  George  Washington. 

During  their  long  residence  in  Albany  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Myers  co-operated  with  each  other 
in  philanthropic  work,  she  making  good  use 
of  the  means  placed  at  her  disposal  for  the 
alleviation  of  suffering  and  the  comfort  of 
the  afflicted.  But  the  good  accomplished  was 
not  allowed  to  reach  the  public  ear,  for  it  was 
her  own  pleasure  akin  to  her  nature.  She 
was  a  woman  of  sympathetic  nature,  and 
more  than  willing  to  listen  to  appeals.  She 
was  a  member  of  the  State  Presbyterian 
Church,  aided  in  its  various  interests,  belong- 
ing also  to  a  number  of  local  institutions.  Of 
her  it  was  said :  "When  the  final  honors  have 
been  paid  to  her  mortality,  and  her  last  rest- 


ing place  on  earth  has  become  a  reality,  the 
world  will  know  no  more  a  woman  who  bene- 
fited it  by  her  bemg,  and  whose  memory  will 
long  be  cherished  for  the  good  that  she  did." 
Children  of  John  Gillespy  and  Mary  Au- 
gusta (Young)  Myers,  are  as  follows:  i. 
Margaret  Fuller,  born  at  Mintline,  Cayuga 
county,  New  York,  May  6,  1858 ;  married,  at 
Saugerties,  New  York,  September  2,  1891, 
Henry  King  Sturdee,  born  in  London,  Eng- 
land, August  13,  1859,  son  of  Captain  Edwin 
Thomas  Sturdee,  of  the  Royal  Navy,  and  had 
children :  Georgiana  Myers,  born  at  Albany, 
April  7,  1892;  Flora  Margaret,  born  at  Al- 
bany. November  27,  1894.  2.  Jessie  Kenyon, 
born  at  Auburn,  October  19,  1859;  married 
at  Albany,  September  14,  1899,  Colonel 
George  Porter  Hilton,  son  of  Charles  and 
Mary  Etta  (MacWhorter)  Hilton,  born  in 
Albany,  March  19,  1859,  died  at  his  home.  No. 
240  State  Street,  Albany,  October  7,  1909; 
had  one  son :  John  Gillespy  Myers  Hilton, 
born  in  Albany,  May  11,  1901.  3.  Georgiana 
Seymour,  born  in  New  York  City,  August  14, 
1861,  died  at  Saugerties,  New  York,  June  13, 
1893;  married,  at  Albany,  November  24,  1891, 
Walter  Launt  Palmer,  A.  N.  A.,  born  at  Al- 
bany, August  I,  1854,  son  of  Erastus  Dow 
and  Mary   (Seaman)    Palmer. 


One  finds  the  signifi- 
VAN  ALSTYNE  cance  of  the  family 
name  of  Van  Alstyne 
in  the  Dutch,  meaning  from  the  old  or  high 
stone,  and  therefore  those  who  first  bore  that 
name  as  a  distinctive  family  in  Holland  dwelt 
upon  the  top  of  a  rocky  eminence,  or  near  to 
some  enormous  boulder  which  for  years  had 
been  a  prominent  landmark  among  all  the  in- 
habitants of  that  neighborhood.  There  have 
been  a  number  of  forms  for  the  spelling  of 
the  name,  as  the  early  records  show  by  the 
variety  of  signatures  attached  to  official  docu- 
ments, such  as  Van  Aelsteyn,  Van  Aalsteyn, 
Van  Alstyn,  Van  Alstein  and  Van  Alstine. 
Since  coming  to  this  country  the  centuries 
have  not  added  to  the  diversity,  but  rather 
simplified  matters,  for  at  the  present  time  the 
chief  forms  are  Van  Alstyne,  Van  Alstine  and 
Van  Alstyn. 

Those  who  have  delved  deeply  into  the 
family  history  have  demonstrated  that  the 
records  still  preserved  in  Holland  show  that 
the  line  of  descent  mav  be  traced  tc  the  vear 


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533 


936,  dating  contemporaneous  with  the  crown- 
ing of  Otho,  Henry  Van  Alstyn  was  present. 
It  may  seem  peculiar,  but  the  family  name 
first  appears  as  Ralsko,  which  was  abandoned 
in  order  to  take  that  of  Wartemberg,  which 
it  bore  for  several  centuries.  Jean  Ralsko 
who  died  in  Flanders,  in  1236,  had  built  there 
the  Chateau  de  Waldstein,  the  name  of  which 
he  took  in  order  to  distinguish  himself  from 
his  brother,  who  bore  that  of  Wartemberg. 
The  family  has  been  traced  under  the  name 
of  Balstein  in  Spain,  Vallenstcin  in  France. 
Halsteyn  in  Flanders,  and  Van  Alstein  in 
Holland.  From  Waldstein  the  name  changed 
to  Wallenstein,  Walstein,  Valstein,  and  finally 
became  Van  Alstein.  Those  who  located  in 
Flanders  were  loyal  to  the  Church  of  Rome, 
and  those  living  in  Holland  allied  themselves 
to  the  Reformation  of  Martin  Luther,  and 
displayed  the  courage  of  their  convictions. 
Those  who  came  to  America  have  particularly 
demonstrated  their  courage  of  independent 
thought  and  action,  and  were  well  represented 
in  the  war  of  American  independence  as  well 
as  in  the  Civil  War.  Invariably  they  have 
been  men  of  middle  ground,  neither  acquiring 
great  riches  nor  suffering  poverty,  freed  both 
from  the  worries  of  life  and  the  cares  of 
wealth.  In  like  degree  they  have  been  prom- 
inent in  politics  and  religion,  as  well  as  in 
the  professions, 

(I)  Jan  Martense  Van  Alstyne  was  the  pro- 
genitor of  the  family  in  America.  He  was 
the  son  of  Marten  (or  Martin)  Van  Alstyne, 
of  Holland.  There  is  a  record  to  prove  that 
he  was  in  New  Amsterdam  (New  York  City) 
as  early  as  1646,  the  exact  date  of  this  entry 
being  December  T7,  1646,  upon  a  bill  of  sale 
of  a  yacht,  namely,  Thomas  Hall  and  Jan 
Peterson  to  Hendrick  Jansen  and  Jan  Mar- 
tense.  It  seems  evident  from  what  transpired 
later,  that  he  engaged  in  transportation  upon 
the  Hudson  river,  between  New  York  and 
Albany,  for  within  a  decade  he  began  buying 
land  at  the  latter  place.  It  is  not  known  just 
how  long  he  remained  upon  Manhattan,  but 
he  was  recorded  in  1657  as  owner  of  a  lot 
in  Beverwyck,  or  Albany,  New  York,  located 
upon  the  east  side  of  Broadway  and  north  of 
Columbia  street,  which  was  beyond  the  north 
wall  of  the  stockade,  built  to  keep  out  the 
Indians  about  that  time.  This  land  he  held 
as  late  as  1693,  and  in  the  meanwhile  had  be- 
come the  patentee  of  two  tracts  of  land  in 


Ulster  county.  Possibly  he  had  stopped  there 
while  making  one  of  his  trips  and  had  been 
shown  good  land  which  was  offered  to  him. 
He  likewise  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land 
"behind"  Kinderhook,  New  York,  about  a 
score  of  miles  from  Albany  and  east  of  it. 
This  became  the  real  home  of  the  family,  and 
he  the  founder  of  it  in  every  sense.  The  place 
was  so  named  because  in  the  Dutch  it  signifies 
"Children's  Point,"  which  is  thought  to  have 
been  bestowed  because  of  the  great  number 
of  Indian  children  who  ran  out  on  the  point  of 
land  the  better  to  observe  the  passing  of  Hen- 
drick Hudson's  ships.  (Rev.  Mr.  Collier's  ad- 
dress, "Kinderhook.")  The  first  proprietor  re- 
sided there  until  his  death,  which  was  about 
1698,  and  the  land  continued  for  more  than 
two  centuries  in  the  possession  of  the  descend- 
ants of  his  son  Abraham,  to  whom  he  con- 
veyed the  farm  in  1695,  conditioned  on  his 
paying  the  other  heirs  certain  sums  of  money 
as  provided  explicitly.  He  married  Dirckje 
Harmense,  a  woman  endowed  with  all  the 
characteristics  necessary  to  make  her  a  fitting 
helpmate  for  a  pioneer  husband.  Their  chil- 
dren were  named  Marten,  Abraham,  Lambert 
and  Isaac. 

(II)  Lambert  Janse,  son  of  Jan  Martense 
and  Dirckje  (Harmense)  Van  Alstyne,  emi- 
grated to  this  country  in  1665,  and  settled  in 
Kings  county.  New  York ;  but  no  record  has 
been  found  of  his  birth.  About  1684  he  came 
into  possession  of  a  tract  of  land  lying  on  the 
east  side  of  Kinderhook  Creek,  and  adjoining 
the  lands  of  his  father.  This  he  acquired  by 
purchase  of  the  patent  or  lease  from  the  heirs 
of  Peter  Van  Alen.  He  held  it  until  his 
death,  October  13,  1703.  About  the  year  1682 
he  married  Jannetje,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Marritje  Abrahamse  (Vosburgh)  Mingael, 
she  and  her  husband  being  first  cousins  once 
removed,  as  her  father  and  her  husband  were 
first  cousins.  There  is  no  record  of  her  birth, 
but  she  was  doubtless  much  younger  than  he, 
for  following  his  demise  she  married,  Febru- 
ary 2,  1713.  Jochem  Lambertse  Van  Valken- 
burgh,  and  had  five  sons.  As  all  their  chil- 
dren excepting  the  first-born  were  baptized  in 
Kinderhook,  it  is  safe  to  believe  that  the  eldest 
was  born  in  Kings  county.  New  York,  and 
all  the  others  after  his  removal,  about  1684, 
in  Kinderhook.  Children:  i.  Catherine,  born 
about  1683;  married  Bartholomeus  Van  Val- 
kenburgh.    2.  Marritje,  baptized  December  2y. 


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1685.  3.  Thomas  (see  forward).  4.  Johan- 
nes, baptized  August  11,  1691.  5.  Dirckje, 
baptized  May  26,  1695 ;  married  Pieter  Vos- 
burgh.  6.  Antje,  or  Annetje,  baptized  Janu- 
ary 16,  1698;  died  young.  7.  Annetje,  bap- 
tized July  28,  1700.  8.  Pieter,  baptized  Au- 
gust 9,  1702. 

(III)  Thomas,  son  of  Lambert  Janse  and 
Jannetje  (Mingael)  Van  Alstyne,  was  bap- 
tized in  Kinderhook,  New  York,  August  22, 
1688.  Upon  the  death  of  his  father  in  1703 
he  came  into  possession  of  the  homestead  ly- 
ing along  Kinderhook  Creek,  adjacent  to  the 
farm  of  his  grandfather,  the  pioneer  settler. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Dutch  church  of 
Muitzeskill,  where  were  baptized  most  of  his 
offspring,  although  one  of  them.  Maria,  was 
baptized  in  Albany.  In  1752  he  bought  a  tract 
of  land  in  the  district  of  Claverack,  described 
in  the  records  kept  at  Hudson,  New  York,  as 
lying  between  the  Claverack  and  Kinderhook 
creeks.  His  will,  dated  November  15,  1760,  on 
file  in  Albany,  devises  the  farm  occupied  by 
William  and  his  big  gun  to  that  son,  provided 
that  he  pay  off  the  debt  on  it,  amounting  to 
£100,  and  divided  the  property  among  five 
children,  after  providing  for  the  support  of  his 
wife  during  life,  and  to  Pieter  his  bouwerie  or 
whole  farm,  with  all  belongings  thereto,  pro- 
vided that  he  pay  his  brother  Lambert  £400 
in  current  money  within  six  years  of  the  tes- 
tator's death.  He  died  in  August,  1765,  at 
Kinderhook.  He  married,  December  12,  1718, 
Maria  Van  Alen.  She  was  baptized  June  21, 
1695,  daughter  of  Willem  and  Marritje  (Van 
Patten)  Van  Alen.  Children:  i.  Jannetje, 
baptized  March  6,  1720;  died  young.  2.  Wil- 
liam (see  forward).  3.  Lambert,  baptized 
October  4,  1724;  married  (first)  Alida  Conyn  ; 
(second)  Aletteka  Osterhout.  4.  Maria,  bap- 
tized September  10  1727;  died  young.  5. 
Catherine,  baptized  January  17,  1731  ;  married 
Petrus  Hoffman.  6.  Maria,  baptized  Novem- 
ber 18,  1733;  married  Dr.  Johannes  Paterson. 
7.  Pieter,  baptized  May  16,  1736;  married 
Marritje  Conyn. 

(IV)  William,  son  of  Thomas  and  Maria 
(Van  Alen)  Van  Alstyne,  was  baptized  at 
Muitzeskill  (near  Troy),  New  York,  Decem- 
ber 10,  1721.  In  1752  he  and  his  wife  were 
members  of  the  Dutch  church  of  Kinderhook. 
He  probably  settled  upon  the  farm  which  had 
just  come  into  possession  of  his  father  by  pur- 
chase of  the  patent  from  John  Van  Rensse- 


laer, and  which  was  bequeathed  to  him  out- 
right on  his  father's  death,  situate  between 
Kinderhook  and  Claverack  creeks.     On  May 

1,  1772,  he  leased  a  house,  shop  and  a  fulling- 
mill,  with  dam  and  two  acres,  to  Thomas 
Avery,  and  as  much  wood  as  he  required  for 
burning.  In  August,  1791,  he  bought  a  farm 
in  Hillside,  from  John  Collier.  A  document 
bearing  date  October  19,  1793,  deeds  a  negro 
boy  named  Tom  to  his  son  Lawrence.  On 
July  12,  1799,  he  sold  to  the  same  son  the 
farm  he  had  bought  of  Nicholas  and  Philip 
Hoffman  a  few  years  before.  He  was  com- 
missioned a  captain  in  Colonel  Jeremiah  Hoge- 
boom's  regiment,  which  served  in  the  revolu- 
tionary war;  his  commission  signed  by  Gov- 
ernor Cadwalader  Colden,  preserved  by  the 
Holland  Society,  bears  date  April  4,  1770. 
He  died  May  22,  1802,  and  his  tombstone  was 
found  a  century  ;ater  on  the  farm  which  he 
had  bought  of  the  Hoffmans.  William  Van 
Alstyne  married  (first)  in  1744,  Christina 
Van  Alen,  baptized  June  16,  1723,  daughter  of 
Stephanus  and  Mary  (Muller)  Van  Alen,  by 
whom  he  had  five  children.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) September  17,  1762,  Catherine  Knicker- 
bocker, who  was  baptized  October  19,  1731, 
daughter  of  Lawrence  and  Catherine  (Van 
Home)  Knickerbocker;  by  whom  he  had  four 
children.  Children:  i.  Maria,  baptized 
March  23,   1745  ;  married  Richard  Esselstyn. 

2.  Hilletje,  baptized  January  25,  1746;  died 
young.  3.  Jannetje,  baptized  February  29, 
1749:  married  William  Winne,  Jr.  4.  Alber- 
tina,  born  in  1754 ;  married  John  De  Forest. 
5.  Thomas  (see  forward).  6.  Lawrence,  born 
June  22,  1767;  married  Mary  Murdock.  7. 
William,  born  January  31,  1770;  married 
Maria  Vosburgh.  8.  Mary,  born  January  6, 
1773;  married  John  Leggett. 

(V)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  William  and  Cath- 
erine (Knickerbocker)  Van  Alstyne,  was  born 
at  Kinderhook,  New  York.  February  18,  1765, 
In  the  Columbia  county  records,  under  date 
of  May  7,  1795,  it  is  stated  that  he  and  his 
wife,  together  with  other  owner<;hip  claim- 
ants, deeded  the  farm  which  ■>rently 
the  property  of  the  first  Thomas  van  .-vlstyne 
secured  from  John  Van  Rensselaer,  in  1752, 
to  Thomas  Goldthwait.  He  died  September 
10,  1838.  Thomas  Van  Alstyne  married  Ma- 
bel Butler,  born  January  3,  1768.  died  January 
10,  1832,  daughter  of  Ezekiel  and  Mabel 
(Jones)  Butler.    Her  father  displayed  so  much 


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zeal  in  the  American  cause  for  liberty  that 
the  British  offered  a  reward  for  his  head, 
dead  or  alive,  and  it  is  probable  that  he  died 
before  the  close  of  hostilities,  because  he  was 
privately  buried  for  fear  that  his  body  would 
be  disinterred  for  the  sake  of  the  reward. 
Mabel  Butler  was  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Colonel  John  Jones,  one  of  the  regicides  of 
Charles  I.,  whose  wife  Henrietta  was  sister 
of  Oliver  Cromwell.  Children:  i.  William, 
born  November  12,  1791 ;  died  October  12, 
1867;  married  Polly  Ostrander.  2.  Maria, 
married  February  14,  1815,  Martin  Barton. 
3.  Catherine,  married,  March  13,  1819,  Scovil 
Martin.  4.  Thomas  Butler  (see  forward).  5. 
John  Thomas,  born  September  28,  1800;  mar- 
ried, February  8,  1826,  Jane  Ackerman ;  died 
February  10,  1876.  6.  Temperance,  born  in 
1802;  died  October  29,  1877.  7.  Jane,  born 
March  4,  1805  ;  died  December  18,  1886;  mar- 
ried, December  27,  1827,  Dr.  Levi  B.  Skinner. 
8.  Lawrence,  born  February  16,  1807 ;  died 
January  18,  1835 ;  married,  March  28,  1829, 
Eliza  Van  Hoesen.  9.  Sally,  married  John 
Van  Bramer.  10.  Ezekiel  Butler,  born  No- 
vember 6,  181 1.  II.  Louisa,  born  November 
27,  1813;  died  February  11,  1871 ;  married, 
December  14,  1839,  Rev.  Nicholas  Van 
Alstine. 

(VI)  Dr.  Thomas  Butler  Van  Alstyne,  son 
of  Thomas  (2)  and  Mabel  (Butler)  Van  Al- 
styne, was  born  in  Ghent,  Columbia  county, 
New  York,  July  27,  1797,  and  died  at  Rich- 
mondville,  Schoharie  county,  New  York,  Octo- 
ber 26,  1867.  He  was  a  well-known  physician  of 
Richmondville,  Schoharie  county,  New  York. 
After  attending  school  in  his  native  place  he 
went  to  Hudson,  near  there,  as  a  clerk  in  a  gen- 
eral merchandise  store.  This  work  was  not  con- 
genial, hence  he  decided  to  follow  his  inclina- 
nation,  which  was  for  the  medical  profession. 
With  this  in  view  he  began  his  studies  under 
Dr.  Samuel  White,  of  Hudson,  and  graduated 
in  1818  from  the  Fairfield  Medical  College. 
The  following  year,  according  to  the  advice 
of  his  forrner  friend,  Dr.  White,  he  located 
at  Rio''  Jlle,   and   continued  .  to  practice 

there  •.  .-^^.^vi  forty  years,  making  consider- 
able success  and  gaining  a  reputation  through 
out  a  wide  area.  He  was  often  summoned  in 
consultation  cases,  and  was  offered  a  medical 
professorship,  which  he  declined.  He  was  a 
forceful  advocate  of  the  abolition  of  slavery, 
and  not  only  practiced  what  he  preached  in 


that  line  during  the  civil  war;  but  was  also  a 
strong  advocate  on  the  platform  in  the  move- 
ment for  abstinence  from  intoxicants. 

Dr.  Thomas  B.  Van  Alstyne  married,  Au- 
gust 10,  1820,  Eliza  Shepard  Giles,  who  was 
born  October  28,  1799,  and  died  at  Richmond- 
ville, New  York,  May  13,  1877.  Children; 
I.  Jane  Ann,  born  May  22,  1821  ;  died  De- 
cember 4,  1853 ;  married,  October  8,  1839 
Rev.  Joseph  Kingsley  Barry.  2.  Thomas  W., 
born  December  12,  1822;  died  A.pril  25,  1825. 
3.  Thomas  Jefferson  (see  forward).  4.  Syl- 
vester Memford,  born  February  28,  1833; 
died  October  28,  1882;  married,  July  9,  1855, 
Cynthia  E.  Whitney.  5.  Fayette  Edgar,  born 
June  15,  1837;  died  September  30,  1905;  mar- 
ried, August  19,  1857,  Rose  M.  Markel.  6. 
John  Lawrence,  born  October  8,  1840;  mar- 
ried, October  8,  1868,  Carrie  A.  Shults.  7. 
Mary  Eliza,  born  March  18,  1846;  married, 
November  7,  1873,  J.  Leslie  Multer. 

(VH)  Hon.  Thomas  Jefferson  Van  Alstyne, 
son  of  Dr.  Thomas  Butler  and  Eliza  Shepard 
(Giles)  Van  Alstyne,  was  born  in  Richmond- 
ville, Schoharie  county,  New  York,  July  25, 
1827,  where  his  father  was  practicing  medi 
cine,  and  died  at  his  home.  No.  289  State 
street,  Albany,  of  heart  failure,  October  26, 
1903.  He  first  attended  the  public  schools, 
but  his  strong  inclination  for  knowledge  and  a 
desire  for  success  in  life's  work  led  him  to 
prepare  for  higher  education.  At  the  age  of 
thirteen,  while  visiting  at  the  home  of  his 
brother-in-law,  a  Baptist  minister  in  Cayuga 
county,  he  conceived  the  purpose  of 
acquiring  an  education  which  would  place 
him  in  position  to  make  his  mark,  if 
backed  by  serious  effort,  so  he  entered 
the  Moravia  Academy.  After  that  he  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Hartwick  Seminary, 
and  with  six  companions  matriculated  at  Ham- 
ilton College,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1848,  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Arts,  and  in  185 1  that  of  Master  of  Arts.  He 
was  especially  excellent  in  mathematics,  and 
had  a  high  general  standing  He  then  took  up 
the  study  of  law  under  Professor  Theodore 
W.  Dwight,  who  was  prominent  later  on  at 
Columbia  College.  Having  graduated,  he  en- 
tered the  law  office  of  Harris  &  Van  Vorst. 
at  Albany,  and  by  diligent  application,  com- 
bined with  his  previous  study  of  the  law,  was 
able  to  pass  a  most  satisfactory  examination 
before  the  close  of  the  year,  the  examining 


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committee  consisting  of  the  well-known  attor- 
neys, Hon.  John  H.  Reynolds,  Hon.  John  K. 
Porter  and  Orlando  Meads.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  on  March  6,  1848,  and  in  1850 
opened  his  office,  continuing  to  practice  alone 
until  1853,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Matthew  McMahon,  which  firm  continued 
four  years,  when  Mr.  Van  Alstyne  formed  a 
partnership  in  1858  with  Winfield  Scott  Heve- 
nor,  of  Albany,  and  they  opened  their  office 
in  the  old  Douw  Building,  at  the  southwest 
corner  of  Broadway  and  State  street,  Albany. 
From  1858  until  he  died  in  1903,  or  for  forty- 
five  years,  he  practiced  there. 

Mr.  Van  Alstyne  had  a  noteworthy  political 
life,  and  ranked  high  in  the  councils  of  the 
Democratic  party,  at  whose  hands  he  received 
a  number  of  offices,  each  of  which  he  filled 
with  a  noble  record  for  efficiency  and  integ- 
rity. He  was  elected  judge  of  Albany  county 
in  1871,  and  presided  for  twelve  years.  In 
1882  he  was  elected  congressman,  taking  his 
seat  in  the  Forty-eighth  Congress,  and  was 
appointed  a  member  of  the  committee  on 
claims,  and  also  on  that  of  expenditures  of 
the  department  of  justice.  To  his  constitu- 
ents he  gave  thorough  attention  to  their  needs, 
and  he  furnished  entire  satisfaction  to  friends 
and  foes  alike.  His  party  renominated  him, 
but  dissension  in  the  ranks  ruined  his  chances. 
Judge  Van  Alstyne  was  elected  mayor  of 
Albany  on  November  2,  1897,  and  served 
from  January  i,  1898,  to  1900.  His  oppo- 
nents were  General  Selden  E.  Marvin,  of  the 
Republican  party,  who  received  6,014  votes ; 
Alderman  George  H.  Stevens,  Independent, 
who  received  6,012  votes;  Robert  H.  Moore 
and  George  Du  Bois ;  and  the  judge  received 
8,172  votes.  Judge  Van  Alstyne  was  a  prom- 
inent Mason,  associating  himself  with  that 
body  when  a  young  man  by  entering  Mount 
Vernon  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
October  4,  1855;  made  master  mason,  Novem- 
ber 19,  1855;  master,  1858-61;  marshal,  1865. 
He  officiated  frequently  on  various  commit- 
tees and  often  rendered  excellent  service  by 
sound  advice.  In  his  religion  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Emmanuel  Baptish  Church  at  Al- 
bany, and  along  the  lines  of  Christian  work 
he  became  a  life  member  of  the  Young 
Men's  Association,  organized  for  the  upbuild- 
ing of  the  youth,  in  those  days  conducting  the 
only  city  library  and  educating  by  the  medium 
■of    platform    lectures    addressed    by    lyceum 


speakers.  He  was  particularly  concerned  in 
the  work  of  the  Albany  Institute,  and  the 
preparatory  work  of  its  curator,  Cuyler  Reyn- 
olds, in  combining  that  old  organization  with 
the  Albany  Historical  and  Art  Society,  was 
only  carried  through  by  the  vigorous  speech 
in  the  advocacy  of  the  plan  made  by  Judge 
Van  Alstyne,  for  there  was  almost  overwhelm- 
ing opposition  to  what  has  since  proved  a  prac- 
tical combination  of  societies  performing  simi- 
lar work.  He  had  the  faculty  of  being  aggres- 
sive in  the  right,  along  logical  lines,  and  his 
arguments  were  always  convincing.  He  was 
impatient  at  delay  in  discussions  at  meetings 
of  any  sort,  when  lay  members  talked  around 
the  subject,  and  when  satisfied  he  saw  the 
features  would  introduce  his  views  through 
the  medium  of  a  resolution  which  usually 
closed  the  matter  immediately.  In  this  man- 
ner he  would  have  made  an  exceedingly  able 
executive  official  of  a  big  corporation ;  but  he 
enjoyed  the  practice  of  law,  and  maintained 
in  his  office  an  ample  library  of  legal 
works.  He  was  very  fond  of  his  well  stocked 
home  library  of  more  than  10,000  volumes, 
which  contained  mostly  histories,  biographies 
and  works  pertaining  to  America.  One  of  his 
greatest  pleasures  was  to  gather  them  where- 
ever  he  traveled.  He  was  a  man  of  more 
than  ordinary  physique  both  in  stature  and 
power  of  frame,  with  a  bright,  piercing  eye, 
and  a  firm,  elastic  step.  His  ready  wit  and 
delightful  conversational  powers  were  charm- 
ing attributes  of  one  who  was  welcomed  so- 
cially everywhere  he  went.  Best  of  all  there 
was  no  hypocrisy  about  him,  and  those  who 
were  his  friends  and  family  could  ever  rely 
upon  his  deep  affection  and  help.  In  a  word, 
he  was  a  good  official  and  citizen. 

Judge  Thomas  J.  Van  Alstyne  married 
(first),  at  Albany,  September  2.  1851,  Sarah 
Clapp ;  she  was  born  at  Albany,  February  29, 
1832,  died  there,  September  25,  1859,  daughter 
of  Reuel  Clapp,  of  the  Albany  firm  of  Clapp 
&  Townsend.  and  Sarah  Coon,  of  Dorchester, 
Massachusetts.  He  married  (second),  at  Al- 
bany, New  York,  September  2,  1875.  Nancy 
Louisa  Peck,  of  Albany,  New  York ;  she  was 
born  July  14,  1842,  died  at  Albany,  New  York. 
November  12,  1884,  daughter  of  Samuel  S 
Peck  and  Eliza  M.  (Collum)  Peck.  He  mar- 
ried (third),  at  Washington,  D.  C,  February 
17,  1886,  Laura  Louisa,  daughter  of  Williani 
and    Lydia    (Van    Derbilt)    Wiirdemann,    of 


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Washington.  D.  C,  the  former  having  been  a 
noted  manufacturer  of  astronomical  and 
mathematical  instruments.  Children:  i. 
Thomas  Butler,  born  at  Albany,  June  3,  1852 ; 
married,  May  7,  1879,  Anna  Richards,  daugh- 
ter of  Lysander  and  Content  (Clapp)  Rich- 
ards, of  Washington,  D.  C.  2.  Charles  Edwin, 
born  at  Albany,  July  18,  1855 ;  died  at  Albany, 
New  York,  July  10,  1858.  3.  William  Thomas 
(see  forward). 

(VIII)  William  Thomas  Van  Alstyne,  son 
of  Hon.  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Laura  (Wiir- 
demann)  Van  Alstyne,  was  born  at  Albany, 
New  York,  in  his  father's  home,  No.  289  State 
street,  July  28,  1887.  He  received  his  prepa- 
ratory education  at  the  Albany  Academy,  un 
der  a  private  tutor,  and  then  entered  Yale 
University.  While  there  he  belonged  to  the 
Yale  Chapter  of  the  Acacia  fraternity,  and 
graduated  Ph.B.,  in  1910.  He  studied  law  at 
Columbia  University,  having  selected  upon 
the  profession  in  which  his  father  had  made 
his  mark,  graduated  February,  1913,  LL.B., 
and  November  10,  1913,  it  was  announced  that 
he  had  passed  his  examination  for  admission 
to  the  bar  of  New  York  State.  He  associated 
himself  with  Charles  Oakes,  formerly  of  Al- 
bany, at  No.  2  Rector  street.  New  York  City. 
He  joined  the  Seventh  Regim.ent  in  April, 
191 1,  and  in  December,  1913,  was  promoted 
to  the  grade  of  second  lieutenant  and  assigned 
to  the  First  Regiment  Field  Artillery,  N.  G. 
N.  Y.  He  is  a  member  of  Mount  Vernon 
Lodge  No.  3,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons;  in 
politics  he  is  a  Democrat  and  attends  the 
Baptist  church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity Club  of  Albany,  and  the  Yale  Club, 
of  New  York  City,  where  he  resides. 


The  highly  distinguished  fam 
CLINTON  ily  of  Clinton  traces  its  ances- 
try in  America  to  Charles 
Clinton  (1690-1773),  who  in  1729  came  from 
county  Longford,  Ireland,  and  with  other 
Protestant  immigrants  organized  a  settlement 
at  Little  Britain  in  what  was  then  Ulster  (now 
Orange)  county.  New  York.  A  descendant 
in  a  cadet  branch  of  Edward  Clinton  (1512- 
85),  ninth  Baron  Clinton  and  first  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  he  belonged  to  that  historic  house  of 
Clinton,  which  was  established  in  England  at 
the  Norman  conquest,  received  extensive 
grants  of  estates,  and,  enjoying  constantly  in- 
creasing dignities,  with  the  highest  distinction 


for  public  services  and  the  fairest  pedigree 
and  reputation,  came  down  to  his  time  in  an 
unbroken  male  succession  for  six  centuries.  A 
man  of  character,  attainments  and  ability 
Charles  Clinton  was  a  useful  and  influential 
citizen  of  New  York,  commanded  a  regiment 
in  the  French  and  Indian  war  (participating 
in  the  capture  of  Fort  Frontenac),  was  a  com- 
missioner for  the  settlement  of  the  boundary 
dispute  with  New  Jersey,  and  was  judge  of 
his  county. 

He  had  four  sons,  two  of  whom  left  issue 
and  to-day  have  posterity.  These  were  James 
Clinton  (1736-1812),  the  eminent  revolution- 
ary general,  and  George  Clinton  (1739-18 12), 
the  first  governor  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
for  twenty-one  years  the  incumbent  of  that 
office,  and  for  eight  years  vice-president  of 
the  United  States.  Arms:  Argent,  six 
crosses  crosslet  fitchee  sable ;  on  a  chief  azure 
two  mullets  pierced  or.  Crest:  Out  of  a 
coronet  gules  five  ostrich  feathers  argent, 
banded  azure.  Motto:  Patria  cara  carior 
libcrtas.  In  a  British  work  of  eminent  au- 
thority occurs  the  following  striking  charac- 
terization of  the  Clinton  family: 

"It  is  really  a  great  house,  .  .  .  and  fot 
seven  hundred  years  has  thrown  a  scarcely  in- 
termitted succession  of  men  who  have  spent 
their  lives  in  the  furtherance  of  England's 
greatness  and  policy.  If  it  has  never  had 
genius  it  has  also  never  produced  a  traitor,  and 
if  it  has  never  risen  to  the  lofty  position  of 
one  or  two  of  its  rivals,  it  has  not  in  its  records 
chapters  which  it  would  give  estates  to  conceal. 
Always  in  front  but  never  in  command,  this 
great  house  had  the  clearest  pedigree  in  all 
England." 

This  expresses  in  brief  the  conclusions  of 
all  writers  who  have  given  critical  attention  to 
the  Clinton  family  history.  The  pedigree  is 
one  of  the  most  remarkable  to  be  found  in  the 
whole  scope  of  genealogical  science.  It  is 
completely  and  precisely  traceable  from  the 
Norman  conquest  to  the  present  time,  a  most 
exceptional  fact,  as  every  j^eneilogist  knows. 
As  long  ago  as  1558,  in  an  examination  by  the 
House  of  Lords  to  determine  the  exact  status 
(as  to  precedence)  of  the  th^n  head  of  the 
Clinton  house,  reference  was  made  to  the 
"great  antiquity"  and  "long  continuance"  of 
his  ancestral  line,  and  he  was  declared  the 
"second  lord  of  the  realm."  Moreover,  the 
Clinton  descent — embracing  at  the  present  time 


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some  twenty-five  generations — has  never  suf- 
fered any  interregnum  in  the  male  stem  (re- 
medied by  subsequent  resumption  of  the  fam- 
ily name  in  the  female  succession),  as  is  so 
often  the  case  in  pedigrees  of  such  length. 
There  is  historical  evidence  that  the  Clinton 
name  existed  in  England  before  the  conquest. 
In  1592  John  Hakluyt,  the  antiquarian,  dis- 
covered in  the  church  of  Loominster  a  brass 
tablet  which  perpetuated,  in  the  Saxon  lan- 
guage, the  memory  of  one  Kenelm,  of  the 
Saxon  royal  house,  who  was  buried  in  that 
place  in  1060.  The  inscription  included  the  fol- 
lowing: "My  fathers  did  build  upon  this,  my 
town,  and  at  Kenelmsford,  Kenelmswearth 
(Kenilworth)   and  at  Clint       .       .  and 

Reinelmebald  at  Clinton  is  my  kinsman."  The 
early  adoption  after  the  conquest  of  the  sur- 
name de  Clinton  by  the  Norman  founders  of 
the  family  in  England  indicates  the  pre-exis- 
tence  there  of  the  name  and  probably  the 
blood.  The  most  authentic  genealogists  of  the 
peerage — Dugdale  Collins,  and  others — trace 
the  ancestry  of  the  Clintons  to  the  ducal  house 
of  Normandy.  A  progenitor  was  William, 
Earl  of  Arques,  son  of  Richard,  second  Duke 
of  Normandy  (known  as  Richard  the  Good). 
William,  Earl  of  Arques,  had  a  daughter, 
Maud,  who  married  William,  Earl  of  Tancker- 
ville.  Of  their  grandsons  w^ere  the  brothers 
Geoffrey  and  Osbert,  who,  established  in  Eng- 
land on  estates  inherited  from  their  father 
(the  gift  of  his  kinsman,  the  Conqueror),  took 
the  surname  of  de  Clinton.  GeoiTrey  de  Clin- 
ton the  elder  brother,  is  in  most  American  ac- 
counts of  the  ancestry  of  the  Clinton  family 
designated  as  the  founder  of  the  line,  but  this 
is  erroneous,  as  his  branch  soon  expired 
through  the  failure  of  male  succession.  He 
was  lord  chamberlain  and  treasurer  to  Henry 
I.,  and  afterward  chief  justice  of  England. 
The  manor  of  Kenilworth  in  the  county  of 
Warwick  was  bestowed  upon  him  by  the  king, 
and  he  built  the  great  and  strong  castle  of 
Kenilworth,  so  famous  in  English  history. 
He  married  Agnes,  daughter  of  Roger,  Earl 
of  Warwick,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  son, 
Henry  de  Clinton.  The  latter  married  Amicia 
de  Bidun  and  had  a  son,  Henry  de  Clinton, 
who  died  without  issue  in  1233. 
(English  Lineage.) 
(I)  Osbert  de  Clinton,  brother  of  Geoffrey, 
left  four  sons:  Osbert,  Roger  (who  as  bishop 
of  Coventry  died  in  1148),  Hugh,  Maurice. 


(H)  Osbert  (2)  de  CHnton,  eldest  son  of 
Osbert  ( i )  de  Clinton,  was  granted  the  lord- 
ship of  Coleshill  by  his  kinsman,  Geoffrey  de 
Clinton,  and  he  was  denominated  as  of  Coles- 
hill.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam de  Hatton,  who  was  the  son  of  Hugh, 
founder  of  the  priory  of  Wroxhall. 

(HI)  Osbert  (3)  de  Clinton,  son  and  heir 
of  Osbert  (2)  de  Clinton,  received,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  lordship  of  Coleshil!  that  of  Am- 
ington  in  County  Warwick,  as  the  inheritance 
of  his  mother.  Living  in  the  reign  of  John 
he  was  one  of  the  insurgent  barons  who 
wrested  from  the  king  the  Magna  Charta.  In 
consequence  of  his  rebellion  his  lands  were 
seized,  but  upon  the  accession  of  Henry  III. 
(1216)  he  "made  his  peace''  and  they  were 
restored  to  him.  He  died  in  1223.  His  wife's 
name  was  Elisant. 

(IV)  Thomas  de  Clinton,  son  and  heir  of 
Osbert  (3)  de  Clinton  and  his  wife  Elisant, 
was  resident  at  Amington  in  Warwickshire; 
justice  of  assize  for  County  Warwick.  He 
married  Mazera,  daughter  and  heir  of  James 
de  Bisege,  of  Badsley,  Warwick,  and  had  five 
sons  :  Thomas,  mentioned  below  ;  Sir  John  de 
Clinton,  of  Coleshill;  Osbert  de  Clinton,  lord 
of  the  manor  of  Austrey,  County  Warwick, 
no  issue;  William  de  Clinton,  rector  of  Aus- 
trey ;  James  de  Clinton,  seated  at  Badsley,  the 
inheritance  of  his  mother,  which  to  the  present 
time  has  retained  the  name  of  Badsley  Clin- 
ton. His  son  and  heir,  Thomas,  was  survived 
by  daughters  only — Joan,  who  married  (first) 
John  Coningsby,  and  (second)  John  Fowkes; 
and  Petronilla,  who  married  John  Woodward, 
of  Solihull  in  Warwickshire. 

(V)  Thomas  (2)  de  Clinton,  son  of  Thomas 
(i)  and  Mazera  (de  Bisege^  de  Clinton 
(first  Baron  by  tenure),  married  Maud 
Bracebridge,  of  Kingsbury,  and  was  succeeded 
by  his  son. 

(VI)  John  de  Clinton,  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
and  Maud  (Bracebridge)  de  Clinton,  resided  at 
Amington  and  later  at  Maxtock  Castle,  which 
he  had  from  his  wife.  On  February  6,  1298, 
he  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  Baron 
Clinton.  In  1301  he  was  "specially  summoned 
among  divers  great  men  to  attend  the  king 
(Edward  I.)  at  Berwick-upon-Tweed  on  June 
25.  the  feast  day  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  to 
march  against  the  Scots,  at  which  time  the 
king,  invading  Scotland  with  his  royal  army, 
as  a  particular  badge  of  his  favor  to  him  for 


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his  special  services  in  that  expedition,  called 
him  his  beloved  Esquire.  He,  by  letters  patent 
dated  August  2,  at  Glasgow,  granted  him  lands 
in  that  kingdom  which  were  part  of  the  pos- 
sessions of  Malcolm  Dromond  (ancestor  of 
the  family  of  Perth),  then  in  arms  against 
Edward."  In  1305  he  participated  in  another 
Scottish  expedition,  and  in  1308  by  the  king's 
special  command,  accompanied  Edward, 
Prince  of  Wales,  to  Pronthieu.  During  the 
latter  year  the  castle  and  honor  of  Wallingford 
were  committed  10  his  keeping.  He  married 
Ida,  eldest  of  the  four  daughters  and  coheirs 
of  Sir  William  de  Odingsells,  lord  of  Maxtock 
Castle  and  other  possessions  in  Warwickshire 
whose  wife  was  Ela,  daughter  of  William 
Longspee  (second  of  that  name),  Earl  of 
Salisbury.  Two  sons  were  born  of  this  mar- 
riage :     John,  mentioned  below  ;  William. 

( VII)  Sir  John  de  Clinton,  second  Baron 
Clinton,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Ida  (de  Oding- 
sells) de  Clinton,  was  knighted  before  1325,  in 
which  year  he  was  returned  among  the  prin- 
cipal knights  of  the  county  of  Warwick,  who 
bore  ancient  arms  from  their  ancestors.  As  a 
baron  of  the  realm  he  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament. In  1326  he  accompanied  John,  Earl 
of  Warren,  in  the  expedition  for  the  relief 
of  the  duchy  of  Guyen.  He  died  after  1333 
He  married  Margery,  daughter  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Corbet,  of  Chadsley  Corbet  in  Worcester- 
shire. Children :  John,  mentioned  below ; 
Mary,  married  Baldwin  de  Mountfort,  of 
Coleshill. 

(VIII)  Sir  John  de  Clinton,  third  Baron 
Clinton,  son  of  John,  second  Baron  Clinton, 
and  Margery  (Corbet)  de  Clinton,  was  born 
1326.  From  youth  he  fought  in  the  wars 
under  his  uncle,  the  Earl  of  Huntingdon. 
Later  he  participated  in  the  glorious  French 
campaigns  of  Edward  the  Black  Prince,  and 
he  was  at  the  great  historic  battle  of  Poictiers 
in  1356.  Upon  his  return  to  England,  his 
father  being  deceased,  he  was  summoned  to 
parliament  by  virtue  of  his  position  as  a 
baron  of  the  realm.  In  the  French  military 
expeditions  of  Thomas  Beauchamp,  Earl  of 
Warwick,  Thomas  of  Woodstock,  and  several 
others  he  performed  conspicuous  services.  He 
was  the  Lord  Clinton  who.  as  observed  by 
Froissard,  in  the  English  invasion  of  Brittany 
"rode  with  his  banner  displayed  and  performed 
certain  feats  of  arms  at  Nantes  with  Sir 
Galoys   D'Aunoy."     When  Thomas   Beauch- 


amp, Earl  of  Warwick,  was  attainted  and  ban- 
ished (1397),  the  custody  of  Warwick  Castle 
and  all  the  manors  and  lands  belonging  to  it 
was  confided  to  him.  He  died  September  8, 
1399.  He  married  (first)  Idonea,  eldest 
daughter  of  Jeffery,  Lord  Say,  and  grand- 
daughter, maternally,  of  Guy  Beauchamp,  Ear! 
of  Warwick.  She  was  coheir  with  her  brother, 
William,  Lord  Say,  cousin  and  heir  of  Wil- 
liam de  Say,  Baron  of  Sele.  As  the  result 
of  the  failure  of  male  issue  in  the  Say  line,  she 
became  the  eldest  coheir  of  this  noble  family, 
which  from  the  time  of  the  conquest  had  pro- 
duced men  of  distinction.  Children:  Cather- 
ine de  Clinton,  married  Thomas,  Lord  Berke- 
ley; Sir  William  de  Clinton,  mentioned  be- 
low ;  Sir  Thomas  de  Clinton ;  Edward  de  Clin- 
ton, died  unmarried  1400.  Sir  John  de  Clin- 
ton, the  third  Lord,  married  (second)  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  and  at  length  heir  of  William 
de  la  Plaunch,  of  Haversham,  County  Buck- 
ingham (cousin  and  heir  of  Sir  Roger  Hillary, 
knight),  and  widow  of  Sir  Robert  Grey,  of 
Rotherfield,  knight.     No  issue. 

(IX)  Sir  William  Clinton,  eldest  son  of  Sir 
John,  third  Baron  Clinton,  and  Idonea  (Say) 
de  Clinton,  died  during  the  lifetime  of  his 
father.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Sir  William  Deincourt,  knight,  by  Alice  his 
wife,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Lord  John 
Nevile,  of  Raby,  and  sister  of  Ralph,  first  Earl 
of  Westmoreland. 

(X)  Sir  William  Clinton,  fourth  Baron 
Clinton,  eldest  son  of  Sir  William  and  Eliza- 
beth (Deincourt)  Clinton,  succeeding  his 
grandfather  in  the  estates,  title  and  arms,  was, 
like  his  ancestors,  summoned  to  parliament  as 
a  baron  of  the  realm ;  his  name  appears  in  this 
connection  continuously  from  1400  to  his 
death.  During  the  reigns  of  Henry  IV.  and 
Henry  V.,  and  a  portion  of  that  of  Henry  VI., 
much  of  his  time  was  engaged  in  the  wars 
After  serving  in  expeditions  to  Ireland  and 
Scotland,  he  took  part  in  the  campaigns  in 
France,  where  he  was  concerned  in  many  no- 
table sieges  and  engagements.  At  various 
times  he  was  "retained  by  indenture"  to  serve 
the  king  with  his  followers,  who  on  one  occa- 
sion consisted  of  thirty-eight  men  at  arms  and 
three  hundred  archers.  In  addition  to  his 
hereditary  dignity  of  Lord  Clinton,  he  bore 
the  title  of  Lord  Say  by  virtue  of  his  heirship 
to  William  de  Say  and  to  his  grandmother, 
Idonea.     His  landed  possessions,  as  enumer- 


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ated  by  Collins,  consisted  of  manors  and  ham- 
lets in  the  counties  of  Kent,  Sussex  and  War- 
wick. He  died  July  30,  1432.  He  married 
Anne,  daughter  of  William,  Lord  Botreaux. 
and  widow  of  Sir  Fouke  Fitzwaryn,  knight. 

(XI)  John  Clinton,  fifth  Baron  Clinton,  son 
of  Sir  William,  fourth  Baron  Clinton,  and 
Anne  (Botreaux)  Clinton,  was  born  about 
1410.  In  1438  he  exchanged  with  Humphrey, 
Earl  of  Stafford,  his  castle  and  manor  of  Max- 
stock  for  the  manors  of  Whiston  and  Wood- 
ford in  County  Northampton.  To  his  kins- 
man. Sir  James  Fynes,  knight,  he  resigned,  in 
1449,  his  title  of  Lord  Say.  From  early  man- 
hood he  fought  valiantly  in  the  French  wars. 
In  1441,  while  serving  in  the  retinue  of  Rich- 
ard, Duke  of  York,  he  was  taken  prisoner  by 
the  French  and  he  remained  in  captivity  for 
six  years,  when  he  bought  his  ransom  for  six 
thousand  marks.  Returning  to  England  he 
received  from  the  king  a  special  license  to  buy 
and  sell  wool  and  woolen  cloths  as  a  means  of 
reimbursing  himself.  He  was  one  of  the  no- 
bles (1459)  who  revolted  against  Henry  VI. 
and  sustained  the  pretension  of  Richard,  Duke 
of  York,  to  the  throne.  He  was  consequently 
attainted  and  his  estates  were  seized,  but  upon 
the  accession  of  Edward  IV.  (Richard's  son) 
in  1461  his  property  was  restored  to  him.  He 
afterward  served  in  another  expedition  to 
France  and  in  a  successful  campaign  made  by 
Edward  against  the  Lancastrian  party  in  the 
north  of  England.  He  died  September  25, 
1464.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Richard  Fynes,  Lord  Dacre  of  Hurst-Mon- 
ceaux  in  Sussex. 

(XII)  John  Clinton,  sixth  Baron  Clinton, 
only  son  of  John,  fifth  Baron  Clinton,  and 
Elizabeth  (Fynes)  Clinton,  was  born  about 
1434,  died  February  29,  1488.  He  married 
Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Humphrey  Stafford. 

(XIII)  John  Clinton,  seventh  Baron  Clin- 
ton, son  of  John,  sixth  Baron  Clinton,  and 
Anne  (Stafford)  Clinton,  died  June  4,  1515  He 
was  with  Sir  Henry  Poynings  in  the  expedition 
in  aid  of  Margaret,  Duchess  of  Savoy,  against 
the  Duke  of  Guelders  and  in  15 14,  "with 
divers  other  persons  of  honor  and  four  hun- 
dred men  at  arms,  went  over  to  Calais  for  the 
better  defense  of  that  garrison."  He  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Morgan, 
knight,  of  Tredegar,  Countv  Monmouth. 

(XIV)  Thomas  Clinton,  eighth  Baron 
Clinton,  son  of  John,  seventh  Baron  Clinton, 


and  Elizabeth  (Morgan)  Clinton,  was  born  | 
1491.  He  "succeeded  to  the  manor  of  Folke-  i 
stone  in  Kent  with  other  large  possessions,  and 
having  summons  to  parliament  took  his  place 
among  the  barons  of  the  realm.  But  two  years 
after  a  distemper  called  the  sweating  sickness 
raging  with  that  malignity  as  to  kill  in  three 
hours  divers  knights,  gentlemen,  and  officers 
of  the  king's  court,  the  Lord  Clinton  and 
others  of  quality,  who  are  recited  by  Lord 
Herbert  in  his  life  of  Henry  VIII.  as  of  the 
king's  court,  died  thereof  (August  7,  1517)- 
He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward 
Poynings,  baronet  and  knight  of  the  Garter. 

(X\')  Edward  Clinton,  ninth  Baron  Clin- 
ton and  first  Earl  of  Lincoln,  son  of  Thomas, 
eighth  Baron  Clinton  and  Marv  (Poynings) 
Clinton,  was  born  1512.  His  career,  beginning 
in  the  time  of  Henry  VIII.,  extended  through 
the  reigns  of  Edward  VI.  and  Mary  I.  and  a 
portion  of  Elizabeth's;  and  under  all  these 
sovereigns  he  served  with  distinction  in  mili- 
tary, naval  and  civic  employments,  becoming, 
says  Collins,  "one  of  the  most  en  inent  persons 
this  nation  has  produced."  An  infant  at  his 
father's  decease,  he  was  reared  as  a  ward  to 
the  king  (Henry  VIII.)  and  received  a  care- 
ful and  polished  education  At  the  age  of 
twenty  he  attended  the  king  in  his  memorable 
interview  with  Francis  I.  of  France  at  Sand- 
ingfield  and  in  the  subsequent  entertainments 
at  Boulogne  and  Calais.  Mention  of  him  ap- 
pears frequently  in  connection  with  the  con- 
cerns of  the  court.  In  1541,  "a  great  joust 
at  tourney  and  barriers  having  been  pro- 
claimed in  France.  Flanders.  Scotland,  and 
Spain  for  all  comers,  to  be  holden  at  West- 
minster May  I,  the  Lord  Clinton  was  the  third 
of  the  forty-six  defendants  who  very  richly 
apparelled,  appeared  on  that  occasion,  which 
continued  five  days,  the  king,  queen,  and  whole 
court  being  present." 

Having  at  an  early  age  contracted  an  inti- 
macy with  John,  Viscount  of  Lisle,  Lord  High 
Admiral,  he  entered  the  naval  service,  in 
which  he  rose  rapidly  to  distinction.  He  was 
with  the  fleet  which  in  1544  escorted  the  Earl 
of  Hertford,  general  of  the  army,  to  Scot- 
land, and  after  the  successful  assault  on  the 
Canongate  he  was  the  first  of  those  who  for 
meritorious  conduct  received  the  honor  of 
knighthood.  The  fleet  then  scoured  the  coasts 
of  Scotland  and  besieged  and  took  Boulogne, 
of  which  he  was  made  governor;  and  in  con- 


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junction  with  Lord  Lisle  he  was  a  witness  to 
the  resulting  agreement  signed  by  the  French 
king  to  observe  the  treaty  (June  7,  1546).  At 
the  funeral  of  Henry  VHI.  (1547)  he  was 
one  of  the  twelve  principal  peers  who  were 
appointed  chief  mourners.  After  the  accession 
of  Edward  VL  he  was  appointed  admiral  of 
the  fleet  which  was  to  assist  the  Duke  of  Som- 
erset in  the  expedition  against  Scotland  for 
refusing  to  comply  with  the  treaty  that  pledged 
the  young  Mary  (Mary  Queen  of  Scots)  to 
marry  King  Edward.  With  fifty  men-of-war 
and  twelve  galleys,  he  rode  into  Edinburgh 
Frith,  greatly  contributing  to  the  memorable 
victory  of  Musselborough  ( September  10, 
1547).  On  his  return  he  was  the  object  of 
marked  evidences  of  favor,  being  granted  ex- 
tensive estates  in  the  County  of  Lincoln.  He 
was  next  sent  to  Boulogne  as  the  ablest  person 
to  defend  that  place  against  a  threatened  siege 
by  the  French.  This  trust  he  discharged  with 
signal  courage  and  skill,  only  surrendering  the 
town  when  ordered  to  do  so  by  the  king  and 
council  pursuant  to  the  treaty  of  peace.  For 
his  great  services  at  Boulogne  he  received  the 
personal  thanks  of  the  king  and  council,  was 
made  one  of  the  privy  council  and  a  lord  of 
the  bedchamber  with  the  title  of  Edward,  Lord 
Clinton  and  Say,  was  appointed  for  life  lord 
high  admiral  and  chief  commander  of  the 
fleets  and  seas,  and  was  endowed  with  numer- 
ous other  estates  and  manors.  On  April  24, 
1551,  he  was  elected  a  knight  of  the  Garter 
with  Henry  H.,  king  of  France,  and  about  the 
same  time  he  was  appointed,  with  the  Earl  of 
Rutland,  lord  Heutenant  of  Lincolnshire  and 
Nottinghamshire.  Being  designated  to  receive 
the  embassy  (1552)  which  came  to  propose  a 
marriage  between  Edward  and  the  Lady  Eliza- 
beth of  France,  he  personally  conducted  the 
ambassadors  to  the  king.  Afterward  he  was 
sent  on  a  special  mission  to  France,  bearing 
costly  presents,  and  concluded  the  negotiations 
for  the  marriage.  Other  honors  which  he  en- 
joyed under  Edward  were  those  of  sole  lord 
lieutenant  of  the  County  of  Lincoln  and  gov- 
ernor of  the  Tower  of  London.  During  the 
reign  of  Mary  L  he  also  rendered  conspicuous 
services,  retaining  his  previous  dignities.  He 
was  present  at  the  marriage  of  that  sovereign 
to  Philip  of  Spain.  Upon  the  breaking  out  of 
war  in  1557  he  was  appointed  general  of  the 
army,  and  subsequently  was  lieutenant-general 
and  chief  commander  of  the  fleet  and  forces 


against  France  and  Scotland.  He  was  in  chief 
command  of  the  military  and  naval  expedition 
against  Brest  in  1558.  During  the  same  year, 
becoming  involved  with  Lord  Stafl^ord  in  a 
dispute  as  to  precedence,  the  matter  was  re- 
ferred to  the  peers,  and  after  an  exhaustive 
examination  of  all  the  records  it  was  decided 
"that  the  Lord  Clinton  had  place  next  above 
the  Lord  Audley  and  next  to  Lord  Abergave- 
ney,  and  that  he  was  the  second  lord  of  the 
realm  because  of  the  long  continuance  of  the 
Lords  Clinton  and  of  the  great  antiquity  of 
the  family,  and  that  the  Lord  Stafi^ord  was 
eleventh  in  rank  or  order  of  precedence." 
When  Elizabeth  came  to  the  throne  in  1558 
she  appointed  him  privy  councillor  and  con- 
tinued him  as  lord  high  admiral.  In  the  sixth 
year  of  her  reign  he  attended  her  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cambridge,  and  there  received  the 
degree  of  master  of  arts  as  a  person  of  the 
highest  rank.  With  other  lords  he  was  ap- 
pointed during  the  eleventh  Elizabeth  to  "hear 
and  examine  matters  brought  against  the 
Queen  of  Scots  by  the  Earl  of  Murray,  regent 
of  Scotland."  In  conjunction  with  the  Earl 
of  Warwick  he  marched  against  the  rebellious 
Earls  of  Northumberland  and  Westmoreland 
(1569)  and  dispersed  their  forces.  In  recog- 
nition of  his  prolonged  and  eminent  services 
he  was  elevated  by  Elizabeth  to  the  peerage, 
May  4,  1572,  as  Earl  of  Lincoln.  The  next 
year,  "attended  by  a  great  train  of  noblemen," 
he  was  sent  to  France  to  receive  from  Charles 
IX.  the  ratification  of  the  treaty  of  Bloise. 
He  was  one  of  the  commissioners  named  by 
the  queen  to  treat  of  her  proposed  marriage 
to  the  Duke  of  Anjou.  He  died  January  16, 
1585.  "Always  of  unspotted  report,  specially 
for  allegiance,"  says  Hollinshead,  "and  there- 
fore singularly  beloved  in  his  life,  so  accord- 
ingly he  was  bemoaned  in  his  death."  He  was 
buried  in  the  south  isle  of  the  Chapel  of  St. 
George  in  Windsor.  The  tomb  is  a  sumptuous 
monument  of  alabaster,  with  pillars  of  por- 
phyry. The  Earl  "lies  in  armor  with  his  lady 
by  him,  in  full  proportions,  their  heads  on  a 
pillow  and  their  hands  uplifted  as  praying; 
on  one  side  three  sons  in  armor  kneeling,  and 
on  the  other  five  daughters  in  the  same  atti- 
tude." There  is  an  elaborate  Latin  inscrip- 
tion. 

He  married  (first)  EHzabeth,  daughter  of 
John  Blount  and  widow  of  Gilbert,  Lord  Tal- 
boys.    She  was  known  as  "the  beautiful  Eliza- 


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beth  Blount."  Children:  i.  Bridget,  married 
Robert  Dymock,  Esq.,  of  Scrivelby,  County 
Lincoln.  2.  Catharine,  married  William,  Lord 
Brough.  3.  Margaret,  married  Charles,  Lord 
Willoughby  of  Parham.  The  Earl  married 
(second)  Ursula,  daughter  of  William,  Lord 
Stourton.  Children :  4.  Sir  Henry  Clinton, 
tenth  Lord  Clinton  and  second  Earl  of  Lin- 
coln. He  married  (first)  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Francis  Hastings,  Earl  of  Huntingdon. 
Two  sons,  of  whom  the  elder,  Thomas,  suc- 
ceeded as  third  earl ;  but  owing  to  ultimate 
failure  of  male  issue  in  the  line  ci  this  Thomas 
the  succession  to  the  earldom  finally  reverted 
to  the  descendants  of  his  younger  brother,  Sir 
Edward,  who  married  Mary,  diughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Dighton,  Esq.,  of  Stourton,  county 
Lincoln.  A  descendant  of  this  Sir  Edward 
was  Henry  Clinton,  ninth  Earl  of  Lincoln; 
married,  1744,  Catherine,  eldest  daughter  and 
heir  of  Rt.  Hon.  Henry  Pelham.  Her  uncle. 
Thomas  Pelham  Holies,  was  created  duke  of 
Newcastle-under-Lymp  on  the  17th  of  No- 
vember, 1756,  with  special  remainder  to  the 
Earl  of  Lincoln ;  and  upon  the  death  of  this 
Thomas,  first  duke,  in  1768,  Henry  Clinton, 
ninth  Earl  of  Lincoln,  succeeded  as  seconJ 
Duke  of  Newcastle-under-Lyme,  assuming  by 
royal  license  the  surname  of  Pelham — whence 
the  present  family  name,  Pelham-Clinton.  The 
head  of  this  house  is  now  Henry  Pelham 
Archibald  Douglas  Pelham-Clinton,  seventh 
Duke  of  Newcastle  and  fourteenth  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  born  September  28,  1864.  Another 
present  representative  is  Mr.  Charles  Staple- 
ton  Pelham-Clinton,  of  Moor  St.  Stoud,  Eng- 
land, born  1857,  giandson  of  the  fourth  duke, 
who  married,  in  1886.  Lizzie,  only  daughter 
of  Louis  di  Zeresra,  of  New  York  City.  Re- 
curring to  the  Clinton  line  previous  to  the 
merging  of  the  earldom  of  Lincoln  in  the 
dukedom  of  Newcastle,  we  find  that  Francis 
Clinton,  sixth  Earl  of  Lincoln,  died  1693, 
aged  fifty-eight,  was  the  father,  by  his  sec- 
ond countess,  Susan,  daughter  of  Anthony 
Penniston,  Esq.,  of  Hon.  George  Clinton, 
royal  governor  of  the  province  of  New  York 
from  174-^  to  1753.  This  provincial  governor, 
George  Clinton,  who  died  July  10,  1761,  mar- 
ried Anne,  daughter  and  heir  of  Hon.  Peter 
Carle,  major-general,  their  onlv  surviving  son 
being  the  distinguished  Sir  Henry  Clinton, 
born  1738.  died  December  23,  17Q5,  wlio  was 
Knight  of   the   Bath,  member  of  parliament. 


lieutenant-general,  and  commander-in-chief  of 
his  majesty's  forces  in  America  during  the 
revolutionary  war,  with  headquarters  in  New 
York  City.  It  was  he  who  led  the  brilliant 
and  successful  expedition  against  Forts  Clin- 
ton and  Montgomery  on  the  Hudson  (1777), 
defended  by  his  American  kinsmen,  General 
James  Clinton  and  General  George  Clinton 
(then  governor  of  the  State  of  New  York). 
Sir  Henry  left  descendants  in  England.  5. 
Edward,  unmarried.  6.  Thomas,  mentioned 
below.  7.  Anne,  married  William  Ascough, 
son  and  heir  of  Sir  Francis  Ascough,  knight 
of  Kelsy,  county  Lincoln.  8  Frances,  mar- 
ried Gyles  Bruges,  third  Lord  Chandos.  Ed- 
ward Clinton,  first  Earl  of  Lincoln,  married 
(third)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Gerald  Fitz- 
gerald, ninth  Earl  of  Kildare,  and  widow  of 
Sir  Anthony  Browne,  knight.  This  was  the 
lady  celebrated  by  Henry,  Earl  of  Surrey,  as 
the  Fair  Geraldine.     No  issue. 

(X\T)  Sir  Thomas  Clinton,  third  son  of 
Edward,  ninth  Baron  Clinton  and  first  Earl 
of  Lincoln,  and  Ursula  Stourton,  inherited 
estates  in  Ireland;  in  1618  was  seated  at 
Dowdston  in  that  country.  He  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  Tirrell,  Esq.,  of  Warley,  in 
county  Essex.  England.  Children :  William, 
mentioned  below ;  Margery,  married  James 
Crelie,  of  the  Newry,  Ireland,  who  was 
drowned  at  Ringshead,  April  2,  1618. 

(XVII)  Sir  William  Clinton,  son  of  Sir 
Thomas  and  Mary  (Tirrell)  Clinton,  like  his 
father,  resided  in  Ireland.  In  the  civil  wars 
he  supported  the  fortunes  of  Charles  I.  and 
was  an  ofiicer  in  the  royalist  armies.  It  may 
be  remarked  that  the  head  of  the  Clinton  house 
at  that  period,  Theophilus,  fourth  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  was  also  a  royalist,  and  for  his  ac- 
tivity in  the  cause  his  estates  were  seized. 
.^fter  the  triumph  of  Cromwell.  Sir  William 
Clinton  went  into  exile  on  the  continent,  liv- 
ing in  France  and  Spain.  Later  he  was  for 
some  time  in  Scotland,  where  he  married.  He 
died  in  Glenwharry,  Ireland.  He  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Kennedy, 
Earl  of  Cassilis  in  the  Scotch  peerage,  known 
as  "the  grave  and  solemn  earl."  Kennedy, 
and  the  Earls  of  Cassilis,  were  descended  from 
Duncan  de  Carrick,  who  lived  in  the  reign  of 
Malcolm  IV.  of  Scotland  (beginning  about 
1150).  The  grandson  of  Duncan,  Roland  of 
Carrick,  had  a  grant  of  the  country  of  Car- 
rick from  Neil,  Earl  of  Carrick,  and  was  de- 


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clared  chief  of  his  name,  this  grant  being 
confirmed  by  Alexander  III.  Sixth  in  descent 
from  Roland  was  Sir  John  Kennedy  (desig- 
nated as  son  of  Sir  Gilbert  de  Carrick  in  many 
writs),  who  had  a  confirmatory  charter  from 
David  II.  of  the  lands  of  Castlys,  county  Ayr, 
with  other  lands  which  came  to  him  from 
his  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Neil  Mont- 
gomery. Descended  from  him  in  a  distin- 
guished line  was  Lord  David  Kennedy,  who 
was  created  Earl  of  Cassilis  by  James  IV., 
1509.  The  earldom  of  Cassilis  is  now  sub- 
ordinate to  the  marquisate  of  Ailsa,  Archi- 
bald Kennedy,  twelfth  Earl  of  Cassilis,  having 
been  created,  1831,  marquis  of  Ailsa.  This 
Archibald,  twelfth  earl,  was  the  son  of  Archi- 
bald, eleventh  earl,  who  married  (first)  Cath- 
erine Schuyler,  daughter  of  Peter  Schuyler 
of  New  Jersey,  and  (second)  Anne  Watts, 
daughter  of  Hon.  John  Watts  of  New  York 
(the  descent  being  through  the  second  mar- 
riage). Children  of  Sir  William  Clinton  and 
Elizabeth  Kennedy:  i.  Margaret,  married  John 
Parks ;  children :  John  Parks ;  Jane  Parks, 
married  John  Young;  Barbara  Parks,  married 
John  Crawford.     2.  James,  mentioned  below. 

(XVTII)  James  Clinton,  son  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam and  Elizabeth  (Kennedy)  Clinton,  was 
an  infant  at  his  father's  death.  He  was  born 
in  Ireland  and  continued  there,  residing  in 
county  Longford,  where  he  had  considerable 
estates.  A  portion  of  his  life  was  passed, 
however,  as  an  officer  in  the  military  service 
under  Queen  Anne  in  England,  where  he  made 
an  effort  to  recover  patrimonial  lands,  in  which 
he  was  unsuccessful  on  account  of  the  limita- 
tion of  an  act  of  parliament.  He  died  in 
■county  Longford,  Ireland,  January  24,  1718. 
He  married  Elizabeth  Smith,  of  an  English 
family,  daughter  of  William  Smith,  a  Crom- 
wellian  officer.  She  died  December  5,  1728. 
Issue:  Christina,  Mary,  Charles,  mentioned 
below. 

(The  Family  in  America.) 

(I)  Charles  Clinton,  son  of  James  and  Eliza- 
beth (Smith)  Clinton,  the  founder  of  the 
family  in  America,  was  born  in  Ireland  about 
1690  According  to  a  letter  brought  by  him 
to.  America  from  Rev.  James  Bond,  pastor 
of  the  dissenting  (Presbvterian)  congregation 
at  Corbay,  countv  Longford,  both  he  and  his 
wife  lived  "within  the  bounds"  of  that  con- 
gregation "from  their  infancy."  He  was  active 
and  prominent   in  the  afifairs  of  the  church, 


occupying  the  position  of  ruling  elder.  After 
his  mother's  death  (1728)  he  made  prepara- 
tions for  removal  to  the  colonies  and  was  the 
leading  spirit  in  organizing  a  company  hav- 
ing for  its  object  the  founding  of  a  settlement. 
On  the  20th  of  May,  1729,  with  his  wife  and 
three  young  children,  his  two  sisters,  and  his 
associates,  he  sailed  from  Dublin  on  the  ship 
"George  and  Ann,"  bound  for  Philadelphia. 
The  party  numbered  ninety-four  persons,  in 
whose  behalf  he  paid  the  passage  money.  The 
voyage,  chronicled  in  his  diary,  which  is  now 
preserved  in  the  New  York  State  Library  in 
Albany,  was  one  of  the  most  unfortunate  and 
distressing  in  colonial  records.  There  was  a 
shortage  of  supplies,  the  vessel  was  over- 
crowded, and  many  died  of  disease  and 
famine,  including  two  of  Clinton's  children. 
It  was  not  until  October  4,  four  and  a  half 
months,  that  land  was  seen,  and  instead  of 
Philadelphia,  whither  the  emigrants  were 
destined,  they  were  put  ashore  on  Cape  Cod, 
the  master,  who  appears  to  have  been  a  man 
of  the  greatest  barbarity,  positively  refusing 
to  carry  them  further.  The  Clintons  passed 
the  winter  in  Massachusetts.  After  due  in- 
vestigation land  for  a  settlement  was  selected 
in  the  province  of  New  York  some  six  miles 
southwest  of  the  present  city  of  Newburgh. 
The  tract,  about  four  miles  square,  received 
the  name  of  Little  Britain,  also  being  called 
the  "precinct  of  the  Highlands."  Though 
within  a  short  distance  of  the  Hudson  river 
and  only  sixty  or  seventy  miles  from  New 
York  City,  it  was  wholly  unsettled,  "border 
land  to  the  Indians"  In  a  petition  asking 
for  protection,  which  was  addressed  to  the 
colonial  legislature  after  this  period  by  some 
inhabitants  of  Ulster  county,  it  was  stated 
that  they  were  bounded  on  the  west  by  the 
desert,  where  only  the  wild  Indian  made  his 
home  and  grave.  Here  Clinton  and  his  com- 
panions from  Ireland  built  their  homes,  and 
the  country  being  fertile  and  salubrious,  grad- 
ually advanced  to  prosperity.  His  house  was 
very  strongly  constructed  as  a  frontier  post 
and  fortification  for  security  against  the 
Indians,  and  was  often  called  "the  fort."  From 
an  early  period  of  his  settlement  Clinton, 
known  for  energy  and  ability,  exercised  a 
marked  influence.  Being  a  proficient  surveyor 
and  mathematical  scholar,  he  was  employed  in 
various  important  matters  in  this  connpction 
and  so  came  into  association  with  the  officials 


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of  the  provincial  government.  In  November, 
1736,  he  joined  with  a  son  of  Governor  Cosby 
in  petitioning  for  a  grant  of  land  extending 
on  both  sides  of  the  Mohawk  river  around 
Fort  Stanwix.  He  was  appointed  in  1738 
clerk  of  a  military  organization  in  the  pre- 
cinct of  the  Highlands.  During  the  admin- 
istration of  his  relative,  George  Clinton,  royal 
governor  of  New  York  from  1743  to  1753,  he 
formed  an  acquaintance  with  him  which  rip- 
ened into  intimacy.  Continuing  his  identifica- 
tion with  the  militia,  he  was  promoted  to  lieu- 
tenant-colonel and  colonel,  and  in  1758  he  led 
in  person  a  regiment  against  the  French,  which 
marched  to  the  Mohawk  Valley  and  was  sta- 
tioned at  Fort  Herkimer,  where  he  was  for  a 
time  in  command.  Soon  afterward  he  joined 
with  his  forces  the  main  army  under  General 
Bradstreet  and  participated  in  the  taking  of 
Fort  Frontenac  on  Lake  Ontario,  one  of  the 
most  brilliant  and  important  events  of  the 
war.  In  this  campaign  he  was  near  seventy. 
Two  of  his  sons,  James  and  George,  were  of- 
ficers under  him,  the  former  as  captain,  the 
latter  as  lieutenant.  For  manv  years  he  oc- 
cupied the  position  of  justice  of  the  peace 
In  1764  he  was  one  of  the  commissioners 
named  to  settle  the  controversies  as  to  the 
New  Jersey  boundary  line  and  similar  vexed 
matters  resulting  from  the  confusion  of  the 
old  Dutch  grants.  His  last  public  employment 
was  that  of  county  judge  of  Ulster  county 
(1769).  He  died  at  his  residence,  Little 
Britain,  New  York,  November  19,  1773.  In 
his  will  he  directed  that  he  be  buried  in  the 
graveyard  on  his  farm  beside  his  daughter 
Catherine,  and  added  the  following  request: 
"That  my  executors  procure  a  suitable  stone 
to  lay  over  my  grave,  whereon  I  would  have 
the  time  of  my  death,  my  age,  and  coat-of- 
arms  cut.  I  hope  they  will  indulge  me  in 
this  last  piece  of  vanity."  Charles  Clinton 
was  distinguished  for  dignity  and  refinement 
of  manners,  purity  and  elevation  of  character, 
sincere  devotion  to  the  interests  of  religion, 
and  earnest  attachment  to  his  adopted  country. 
He  lived  to  witness  the  events  which  fore- 
shadowed the  conflict  with  Great  Britain,  and 
his  dying  injunction  to  his  sons  was  to  main- 
tain the  liberties  of  America 

He  married,  in  Ireland,  Elizabeth  Dennis- 
ton,  born  about  1705.  died  December  25,  1779. 
She  was  of  the  very  ancient  Scottish  family 
of  Dennistoun,   from  which  Robert  II.   was 


descended ;  over  the  mantel  in  the  hall  of  the 
ancestral  castle  were  inscribed  the  words: 
"Kings  came  of  us,  not  we  of  kings."  An 
exceptionally  accomplished  and  intelligent 
lady,  she  gave  every  encouragement  to  her 
husband  and  sons  in  their  various  activities, 
and  shared  in  their  patriotic  ardor.  Issue:  i. 
Catherine,  born  in  Ireland,  August  11,  1723, 
died  in  Little  Britain,  New  York,  November 
28,  1762 ;  she  married,  June  22,  1749,  Captain 
James  McClaughry,  who  came  to  America 
with  the  Clinton  party  in  1729;  no  issue.  2. 
James,  born  in  1726,  died  on  the  passage  to 
America,  August  28,  1729.  3.  Mary,  born  in 
Ireland,  July  11,  1728,  died  on  the  passage, 
August  2,  1729.  4.  Alexander,  born  in  Little 
Britain,  New  York,  April  28,  1732,  died  in 
Shawangunk,  New  York,  March  11,  1758;  he 
was  graduated  from  Princeton  College  in  1750, 
studied  medicine  under  Dr  Peter  Middleton 
in  New  York  City,  and  practiced  his  profes- 
sion in  his  native  neighborhood;  no  issue.  5. 
Charles,  born  in  Little  Britain,  July  20,  1734, 
died  April  3,  1791,  unmarried.  6.  James,  men- 
tioned below.  7.  George,  born  in  Little  Britain, 
July  26,  1739,  died  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
April  20,  1812. 

(II)  James,  sixth  child  of  Charles  and 
Elizabeth  (Denniston)  Clinton,  was  born 
August  9,  1736,  in  Little  Britain,  Ulster  coun- 
ty (now  Orange  county).  New  York.  During 
his  entire  life  he  resided  in  his  native  locality. 
"With  a  hardy  and  vigorous  constitution,  ac- 
customed to  alarms  and  Indian  incursions,  he 
became  in  early  life  attached  to  the  profession 
of  arms,"  and  it  is  as  a  soldier  that  he  is 
chiefly  remembered.  In  1757,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  he  was  commissioned  ensign,  and 
the  following  year  was  made  first  lieutenant 
with  power  to  enlist  troops  in  the  war  with 
France.  He  commanded  a  company  of  his 
father's  regiment  in  the  expedition  against 
Fort  Frontenac  (1758),  and  with  his  brother, 
George,  exhibited  an  intrepidity  in  the  result- 
ing attack  which  gained  him  great  credit.  On 
the  same  occasion  the  brothers  further  dis- 
tinguished themselves  by  the  capture  of  a 
French  vessel  on  Lake  Ontario  Continuing 
in  the  army  until  the  peace  of  1763,  he  was 
variously  employed  throughout  these  five 
years  as  an  ofiRcer  at  frontier  posts,  in  border 
skirmishes,  and  in  enlisting  new  recruits  under 
orders  from  the  colonial  governors,  achieving 
a   high  reputation  for  soldierly  qualities.     In 


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1763  he  organized  and  commanded  a  corps 
of  two  hundred  frontier  guards.  After  the 
war  he  resumed  the  duties  of  peaceful  Hfe 
at  his  native  place,  but,  retaining  his  military 
enthusiasm,  was  active  in  promoting  the  effi- 
ciency of  the  local  militia,  in  which  he  was 
advanced  to  lieutenant-colonel.  In  the  devel- 
opments which  led  up  to  the  separation  of  the 
colonies  from  the  mother  country  he  took  an 
intense  interest,  and  his  name  appears  prom- 
inently in  the  early  movements  both  for  mili- 
tary and  civil  preparation.  After  the  battle 
of  Lexington,  April  19,  1775^  he,  with  his 
brothers.  Dr.  Charles  and  George,  and  brother- 
in-law,  Captain  McClaughry,  was  instrumental 
in  the  formation  of  the  committees  which  met 
at  New  Paltz  on  May  11.  He  was  one  of  the 
delegates  from  Ulster  county  to  the  first 
provincial  convention,  held  in  New  York  City, 
and  signed  the  strong  document  promulgated 
by  that  body  on  May  26.  Later  he  was 
conspicuous  in  circulating  the  "association" 
agreements  for  support  of  the  continental 
congress  and  in  organizing  forces.  On 
June  30,  1775,  he  was  unanimously  ap- 
pointed by  the  provincial  congress  colonel  of 
the  Third  New  York  Regiment;  and  in  the 
fall  he  was  made  colonel  of  one  of  the  new 
regiments  which  had  been  raised  in  Ulster 
county.  With  a  portion  of  his  command  he 
accompanied  General  Montgomery  to  Canada, 
and  he  was  with  the  army  before  the  walls  of 
Quebec  when  that  heroic  leader  fell.  In  June, 
1776,  Colonel  Clinton  was  stationed  at  Fort 
Montgomery  on  the  Hudson.  Under  his 
supervision  the  works  there  and  at  the  neigh- 
boring Fort  Clinton  were  completed,  and  with 
great  energy  he  labored  to  put  them  and  their 
garrisons  in  readiness  for  defense.  Only 
scanty  munitions  being  sent  him,  he  manufac- 
tured his  own  powder  and  ball.  He  was  pro- 
moted to  brigadier-general  in  the  army  of  the 
United  States  in  August.  Possessing  the 
especial  confidence  of  General  Washington, 
who  regarded  the  security  of  the  Hudson  as  of 
the  very  highest  importance,  he  was  continued 
in  the  command  at  Fort  Montgomery. 
The  next  year  occurred  the  memorable 
descent  of  Burgoyne's  army  from  Canada, 
the  prime  object  of  this  invasion  being 
the  mastery  of  the  Hudson,  which  if  realized 
would  have  isolated  New  England  and 
have  prevented  all  future  conjunction  be- 
tween the  eastern  and  western  colonies.     At 


the  same  time  that  Burgoyne  advanced  from 
Canada,  Howe,  the  British  commander  in  New 
York,  sailed  with  a  formidable  expedition  for 
Philadelphia,  thus  engaging  the  main  Ameri- 
can army  under  Washington  in  that  quarter. 
Thereupon  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  Howe's  suc- 
cessor in  New  York,  proceeded  to  carry  out 
that  very  vital  part  of  the  British  plans  which 
involved  forcing  the  defenses  of  the  lower 
Hudson  and  effecting  a  junction  with  Bur- 
goyne. On  the  4th  of  October,  1777,  Sir 
Henry  embarked  his  forces,  some  four 
thousand  men,  at  New  York,  sailed  up  the 
Hudson,  and  landed  at  Verplanck's  Point  be- 
low Peekskill  in  Westchester  county.  Peeks- 
kill  was  at  that  time  the  headquarters  of  the 
military  district  of  the  Highlands,  which  com- 
prehended Forts  Montgomery  and  Clinton. 
The  command  of  the  district  was  held  by 
General  Israel  Putnam  at  Peekskill,  subor- 
dinate to  him  being  the  brothers.  General 
(Governor)  George  Clinton  at  Fort  Mont- 
gomery and  General  James  Clinton  at  Fort 
Clinton.  (In  the  very  grave  military  situation 
Governor  George  Clinton  had  leemed  it  his 
duty  to  take  the  field  in  person,  and  had  come 
to  the  support  of  his  brother  in  the  Highland 
forts.)  General  Putnam,  at  Peekskill,  mis- 
apprehended Sir  Henry's  object,  supposing  it 
was  to  attack  his  main  position  in  force,  and 
he  not  only  neglected  to  strengthen  the  Clinton 
brothers  in  the  forts,  but  even  sent  to  them 
for  troops.  In  the  night  the  British  com- 
mander transferred  some  three  thousand  of 
his  men  to  the  west  bank  of  the  river,  leaving 
the  remainder  of  Verplanck's  Point  to  con- 
tinue the  ruse.  Everything  worked  to  his  sat- 
isfaction ;  Putnam  still  thought  the  objective 
of  the  enemy  was  Peekskill,  and  it  is  said  that 
though  he  received  early  intelligence  of  the 
passage  of  a  body  of  the  British  to  the  other 
•,ide,  he  concluded  this  was  only  a  detachment ; 
certain  it  is  he  took  no  measure  to  reinforce 
the  brothers,  for  which  he  had  ample  time  after 
hearing  of  the  new  movement.  On  the  morn- 
ing of  October  5,  the  three  thousand  British 
who  had  landed  on  the  west  side  took  up  the 
difficult  march  northward  through  the  moun- 
tain passes.  About  five  o'clock  in  the  after- 
noon they  arrived  in  the  vicinity  of  the  forts,, 
and,  surrender  being  refused,  divided  into  two 
columns  and  stormed  them  from  the  rear.  The 
forces  under  the  brothers  did  not  exceed  five 
hundred,  but  a  terrific  resistance  was  made 


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which  lasted  till  after  nightfall,  when  the 
overwhelming  power  of  numbers  prevailed.  In 
the  fight  General  James  Clinton  suffered  a 
severe  bayonet  wound.  The  last  to  leave  Fort 
Clinton,  he  escaped  down  a  precipice,  one 
hundred  feet  high,  fronting  the  river,  and 
made  his  way  to  his  home  at  Little  Britain. 
The  governor  crossed  in  a  rowboat  to  the  op- 
posite shore.  The  taking  of  the  Highland 
forts  was  one  of  the  most  sensational  events 
of  the  revolution,  standing  as  much  to  the 
credit  of  the  British  general  who  planned  and 
executed  the  enterprise  as  did  the  subsequent 
capture  of  Stony  Point,  a  few  miles  below, 
to  that  of  the  American  General  Wayne.  Sir 
Henry  Clinton,  having  an  unobstructed  path 
before  him  (West  Point  had  not  then  liieen 
built,)  immediately  marched  to  assist  Bur- 
goyne.  but  was  too  late,  and  so,  after  burning 
Kingston  and  committing  other  ravages,  re- 
turned to  New  York.  Forts  Montgomery  and 
Clinton  were  demolished  and  never  recon- 
structed. For  this  disastrous  afifair  Putnam 
was  sharply  criticised  but  the  conduct  of  the 
Clinton  brothers  was  regarded  by  both  Wash- 
ington and  congress  with  unmixed  approba- 
tion. Against  odds  of  six  to  one  their  situation 
was  hopeless  unless  reinforced ;  but  as  help 
miglit  still  come  from  Putnam,  and  as  in  any 
case  it  was  their  duty  to  maintain  the  honor  of 
the  American  arms,  they  made  a  desperate 
defense,  prolonging  it  in  sheer  heroism  until 
further  fighting  could  have  had  no  other  issue 
than  the  mere  massacre  of  their  little  remnant. 
After  recovering  from  hi?  wounds.  Genera! 
James  Clinton  returned  to  the  army  and  was 
stationed  at  the  new  post  of  West  Point  on 
the  Hudson.  As  a  result  of  the  Wvoming 
and  Cherry  Valley  massacres  it  was  decided  to 
di=patch  a  strong  expcd'tinn  against  the 
Indians.  To  the  details  of  this  matter  ^^''ash- 
ington  gave  very  particular  attention,  and  the 
preservation  among  Tames  Clinton's  papers  of 
the  original  letter  of  the  commander-in-chief 
shows  that  it  was  referred  to  him  General 
Sullivan  was  placed  at  the  head  of  the  expedi- 
tion, with  Clinton  second  in  command.  In 
June,  1779,  Clinton  moved  with  his  division 
of  two  tliousand  from  Albany,  proceeded  up 
the  Mohawk  Valley,  crossed  to  Lake  Otsego, 
and  there  embarked  in  two  hundred  and 
eighteen  boats  which  had  been  carried  over- 
land with  great  labor.  At  the  lower  extremity 
of  the  lake,  where  it  has  its  outlet  in  the  east- 


ern branch  of  the  Susquehanna  river — ordin- 
arily an  unnavigable  stream — he  built  a  dam, 
elevating  the  water  several  feet.  Men  were 
sent  ahead  to  clear  the  river  of  driftwood,  the 
flood  was  released,  and  the  troops  rode  quickly 
and  safely  down,  reaching  the  point  of  ren- 
dezvous in  the  Susquehanna  Valley  before 
the  main  army.  On  the  29th  of  August,  Sul- 
livan having  arrived,  the  united  forces  en- 
countered the  Indians  at  Newtown  (now  El- 
mira,  New  York),  and  completely  defeated 
them.  The  object  of  the  campaign  being  re- 
■  tributive,  an  extensive  march  was  then  made 
through  the  country  of  the  Onondagas,  Cayu- 
gas  and  Senecas.  which  was  thoroughly  laid 
waste,  villages,  stores  and  crops  being  de- 
stroyed. This  was  one  of  the  most  comprehen- 
sive and  successful  expeditions  ever  under- 
taken against  the  savages.  Years  afterward 
General  Clinton,  revisiting  the  scene,  was  re- 
membered by  the  chiefs  of  the  tribes  and  was 
offered  large  donations  of  land  (which  he 
declined)  because  of  their  admiration  for  him 
as  a  brave  man.  In  1780,  after  the  treason  of 
Arnold,  Washington  wrote  to  Clinton,  then  at 
West  Point:  "As  it  is  necessary  there  should 
be  an  ofificer  in  whom  the  state  has  confidence 
to  take  the  general  direction  of  afifairs  at  Al- 
bany and  on  the  frontier,  I  have  fixed  upon 
you  for  this  purpose,  and  request  you  will 
proceed  to  Albany  without  delay  and  assume 
command."  He  administered  this  post — the 
northern  department — very  efficiently  until 
August,  1781.  when,  with  his  troops,  he  joined 
Washington  and  accompanied  him  in  the  York- 
town  campaign.  It  was  his  brigade  which 
received  the  colors  of  the  British  army  at  the 
surrender  of  Cornwallis.  Afterwards  he  was 
for  several  months  in  command  of  the  Ameri- 
can forces  at  Pompton,  New  Jersey.  He  was 
one  of  the  distinguished  officers  present  at  the 
evacuation  of  New  York  in  November,  1783. 
LTpon  his  retirement  from  the  army  he  held  the 
rank  of  maior-general. 

The  remainder  of  his  life  was  for  the  most 
part  passed  in  the  privacy  of  his  home,  al- 
though on  several  occasions  he  was  summoned 
to  the  public  service  in  honorable  position. 
In  1784  he  was  appointed  regent  of  the  LTni- 
versity  of  the  State  of  New  York.  He  was 
a  delegate  to  the  famous  Pous^hkeepsie  con- 
vention of  1788.  held  to  consider  the  Ignited 
States  constitution,  and  strongly  supported  his 
brother  in  opposition  to  that  instrument :  but 


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after  its  ratification  he  defended  it  with  his 
accustomed  sincerity  and  energy.  At  various 
times  he  was  a  member  of  the  assembly  and 
state  senate,  and  he  also  was  a  commissioner 
on  the  New  Jersey  boundary  and  sat  in  the 
convention  of  1801  which  revised  the  state 
constitution.  He  died  in  Little  Britain,  New 
York,  December  22,   1812. 

In  person  General  Clinton  was  one  of  the 
most  striking  individualities  of  his  times — of 
commanding  stature  and  powerful  physique, 
finely  proportioned,  and  with  features  of  re- 
markable beauty,  indicative  of  the  greatest 
dignity,  resolution  and  candor.  As  a  military 
leader  he  was  above  all  distinguished  by  ef- 
ficiency— self-possessed  amid  the  most  serious 
dangers,  a  firm  disciplinari?cn,  and  absolutely 
loyal  to  every  trust.  These  qualities  led  to 
his  constant  employment  by  Washington  in 
responsible  commands  on  the  Hudson  river, 
where  unquestionable  reliability,  incessant 
alertness,  and  administrative  vigor  were  the 
prime  requirements.  On  the  other  hand,  his 
campaign  of  1779  to  the  Indian  country,  in- 
volving an  extraordinarily  toilsome  march  and 
a  delicate  engineering  feat,  executed  with  pre- 
cision of  detail  and  surprising  dispatch,  dem- 
onstrates that  as  a  field  commander  he  also 
possessed  exceptional  abilities.  His  son.  Gov- 
ernor De  Witt  Clinton,  in  a  tribute  to  his 
character  said:  "He  was  ?.  p^ood  man  and  a 
sincere  patriot,  performing  in  the  most  ex- 
emplary manner,  all  the  duties  of  life,  and  he 
died  as  he  had  lived,  without  fear  and  without 
reproach." 

He  married  ffirst)  February  t8,  1761;,  Marv 
(baptized  Maria)  De  Witt,  onlv  daughter  of 
Egbert  De  Witt,  of  Naoonach,  Ulster  county. 
New  York,  and  Mary  (Nottingham)  De  Witt. 
Her  ancestry  was  as  follows :  Tjerck  Claesen 
De  Witt,  from  the  Netherlands ;  married,  in 
the  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  New  Amster- 
dam, April  24,  1656,  Barbara  Andriessen ; 
fourteen  children,  of  whom  the  eldest  was 
Andries  De  Witt,  born  in  New  Amsterdam, 
1657.  died  July  22,  T710:  lived  for  some  years 
in  Marbleton,  New  York,  later  removing  to 
Kingston ;  married.  March  7,  1682,  Jannetje 
Egbertsen,  daug-hter  of  Egbert  Meindertse  and 
Jaepe  Tans  :  twelve  children,  the  tenth  of  whom 
was  Esjbert  De  Witt,  born  March  18.  i6qq; 
lived  in  Naponach,  Ulster  county,  married, 
November  .1.  1726,  Mary  Nottino-ham,  daugh- 
ter, of  William  and  Margaret  (Rutsen)   Not- 


tingham ;  nine  sons  and  one  daughter,  Mary 
De  Witt,  married  James  Clinton,  mentioned 
above.  Issue  of  James  and  Mary  (De 
Witt)  Clinton:  i.  Alexander,  born  in  Deer- 
park,  Orange  county.  New  Y'ork,  1765, 
drowned  in  the  Hudson  river,  March  15,  1787; 
he  served  as  lieutenant  in  Colonel  Lamb's  regi- 
ment of  artillery  during  the  revolution,  and 
was  for  a  time  private  secretary  to  his  Uncle 
George ;  unmarried.  2.  Charles,  mentioned  be- 
low. 3.  De  Witt,  governor  of  New  York,  etc., 
born  in  Little  Britain,  March  2,  1769,  died  in 
Albany,  New  York,  February  11,  1828.  4. 
George,  born  July  6,  1771.  5.  Mary,  born 
July  20,  1773;  married  (first)  Robert  Burrage 
Norton,  (second)  Judge  Ambrose  Spencer;  no 
issue.  6.  Elizabeth,  born  January  15,  1776; 
married  Lieutenant  WilHam  Stuart,  who 
served  in  the  revolutionary  army ;  seveil  chil- 
dren. 7.  Katherine,  born  September  24,  1778. 
died  1837;  married  (first)  Samuel  Lake  Nor- 
ton, brother  of  Robert  Burrage  Norton,  her 
sister  Mary's  first  husband ;  no  issue ;  married 
(second)  Judge  Ambrose  Spencer,  her  sister'.'; 
widower.  General  James  Clinton  married 
(second)  Mrs.  Mary  (Little)  Gray,  widow 
of  Alexander  Gray.  .She  was  born  in  county 
Longford,  Ireland,  August  22,  1768,  died  in 
Newburgh,  Orange  county,  New  York,  June 
22,  1835.  Issue:  8.  James,  died  young.  9. 
Caroline  H.,  born  March  27.  1800;  married 
Judge  Charles  A.  Dewey,  of  Northampton, 
Massachusetts.  10.  Emma  L.,  born  February, 
1802,  died  July  6,  1823 ;  unmarried.  11.  James 
Graham,  born  January  2,  1804,  died  May  28, 
1849,  "Honored,  loved,  lamented."  12.  Leti- 
tia,  born  April  12,  1806.  died  April  23,  1842, 
aged  thirty-six ;  married  Dr.  Francis  Bolton ; 
children:  Thomas  Bolton,  died  young;  James 
Clinton  Bolton,  lawyer  in  New  York;  married 
Laura  Tallmadge.  13.  Anna,  born  July  26, 
1809,  died  December  11,  1833,  aged  twenty- 
four  ;  married  Lieutenant  Edward  Ross,  of 
the  LTnited  States  army. 

(Ill)  Charles  (2),  second  son  of  James  and 
Mary  (De  Witt)  Clinton,  was  born  February 
t8,  1767,  in  Little  Britain,  and  died  in  New 
York  Citv,  April  20,  T829.  He  prepared  for 
the  practice  of  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar, 
and  gave  much  of  his  time  to  his  profession. 
He  had  a  particular  taste  for  surveying,  in 
which  he  was  very  skillful  and  devoted  consid- 
erable time  to  that  occupation.  His  home  was 
in  Newburgh,  New  York,  where  he  filled  vari- 


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ous  positions  of  irust  and  responsibility.  In 
1802  he  represented  his  district  in  the  state 
assembly.  He  married,  in  1790,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Denniston) 
Mulliner,  of  Little  Britain,  born  there  April 
27,  1770,  died  August  15,  1865,  in  New  York 
City.  Children:  Maria,  born  March  26,  1791, 
married  Robert  Gourlay  Jr. ;  Alexander,  men- 
tioned below. 

(IV)  Dr.  Alexander  Clinton,  only  son  of 
Charles  (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Mulliner)  Clin- 
ton, was  born  April  7,  1793.  in  Newburgh, 
and  died  February  16,  1878,  in  New  York 
City.  He  studied  medicine  and  engaged  in 
practice.  He  joined  the  United  States  army 
in  which  he  attained  the  rank  of  lieutenant 
He  married  Adeline  Arden  Hamilton,  daugh- 
ter of  ^Captain  James  and  Mary  (Dean)  Ham- 
ilton, natives  of  Scotland.  Captain  Hamilton 
was  a  descendant  of  the  ancient  family  of 
that  name  of  the  Baronage  of  Innerwick. 
Children :  Mary  Elizabeth,  married  John 
Rhinelander,  of  Bleecker ;  Adeline  Arden,  wife 
of  Thomas  E.  Brown  ;  Alexander  James,  many 
years  president  of  the  Eagle  Fire  Insurance 
Company,  of  New  York  City ;  Ann  Eliza, 
Mrs.  Thomas  A..  Wilmerding;  Charles  Wil- 
liam, a  noted  architect  of  New  York  City 
De  Witt,  mentioned  below ;  Katherine  Spen- 
cer, died  in  childhood. 

(V)  De  Witt,  third  son  of  Dr.  Alexander 
and  Adeline  Arden  (Hamilton)  Clinton,  was 
born  July  5,  1835,  in  New  York  City.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  private  schools  of  his 
native  place.  From  i860  to  1897  he  was  a 
member  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange 
and  is  now  retired  from  :ictive  business,  re- 
siding in  Ridgewood,  New  Jersey.  He  is  not 
affiliated  with  any  religious  body.  During 
the  first  thirty-three  years  of  his  life  his  home 
was  in  New  York  City,  and  from  1868  to  1897 
he  resided  in  South  Orange,  New  lersey, 
whence  he  removed  to  Ridgewood.  Politically 
he  is  a  Republican.  He  served  a  term  of  en- 
listment in  the  Seventh  Regiment,  National 
Guard,  State  of  New  York,  during  the  period 
of  the  civil  war  and  the  draft  riots.  He  was 
married  in  St.  Anne's  Church,  New  York  City. 
September  25,  1862,  to  E'izabeth  Sigourney 
Burnham,  born  August  9,  1840.  in  New  York 
City,  died  at  Ridgewood,  New  Jersey.  Janu- 
ary 9.  1912.  daughter  of  Michael  and  Jane 
(Carter")  (Si.Erourneyl  Burnham,  of  New  York 
City.     Children:  Alexander,  born  August  11, 


1863,  in  New  York,  died  at  Norwalk,  Connecti- 
cut, July  23,  1864;  De  Witt,  mentioned  below; 
Jennie  Sigourney,  born  September  14,  1867, 
in  New  York ;  Roland  Burnham,  mentioned 
below;  Elizabeth  Sigourney  born  December  13, 
1880,  at  South  Orange,  New  Jersey. 

(VI)  De  Witt  (2),  second  son  of  De  Witt 
(i)  and  Elizabeth  Sigourney  (Burnham) 
Clinton,  was  born  October  23,  1864,  in  New 
York  City.  He  attended  private  schools  in 
South  Orange,  New  Jersey  He  is  connected 
in  business  with  the  firm  of  Clinton  &  Russell, 
architects,  with  offices  in  Liberty  street.  New 
York  City,  practicing  architecture.  He  is  also 
a  professional  musician  and  church  organist, 
and  has  been  director  of  various  choruses  and 
church  choirs,  though  not  connected  otherwise 
with  any  religious  organization.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Architectural  League  of  New  York, 
and  the  Manhattan  Single  Tax  Club  and  Sun- 
rise Club  of  the  same  city.  He  has  long  en- 
gaged actively  in  the  single  tax  propaganda, 
and  other  economic  and  social  reform  work, 
and  is  politically  independent.  He  was  reared 
at  South  Orange.  New  Jersey,  and  now  resides 
at  Ridgewood.  same  state. 

(YD  Roland  Burnham,  third  son  of  De 
Witt  (i)  and  Elizabeth  Sigourney  (Burnham) 
Clinton,  was  born  October  14,  1878,  in  South 
Orange,  New  Jersey.  He  attended  public  and 
private  schools  in  that  place.  Since  attaining 
manhood  his  time  has  been  devoted  principally 
to  literary  work.  He  is  not  connected  with 
any  religious  organization,  and  is  politically 
independent.  His  home  is  now  at  Ridgewood, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  was  married,  November 
8.  191 1,  to  Pauline  L.  Provine,  born  Novem- 
ber 2,  1887,  in  New  York  City,  daughter  of 
James  Edwin  and  Stella  Mary  (Bates)  Pro- 
vine.  They  have  one  son  •  De  Witt  Provine 
Clinton,  born  October  18,  1912.  in  Brooklyn. 
New  York. 


In  preparing  the  gene- 
FLOYD-JONES  alogy  of  the  Floyd- 
Jones  family  it  becomes 
necessary  to  take  into  consideration  two  fam- 
ilies which  for  centuries  have  been  of  fore- 
most account  in  the  State  of  New  York,  and 
with  an  influence  much  wider.  For  genera- 
tions the  Jones  family,  settled  on  Long  Island, 
has  contributed  a  line  of  distinguished  legisla 
tors  and  jurists,  and  has  maintained  promin- 


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€nce  in  political  life  under  both  British  and 
American  rule.  The  Floyd  family  was  among 
those  of  this  state  which  were  held  in  esteem 
before  the  revolution,  gained  distinction  at 
that  period,  and  since  then  its  members  have 
invariably  been  worthy. 

The  line  of  descent  to  be  considered  here 
is  traced  separately  through  the  Floyd  and 
Jones  families.  In  the  year  1757  they  were 
united  by  an  important  intermarriage,  and  the 
united  strains  became  known  as  Floyd-Jones 
by  the  legislative  enactment  of  1788,  which 
enabled  Colonel  David  Richard  Floyd  to  add 
the  name  of  Jones  to  his  surname,  hence  he 
and  all  of  his  descent  since  then  to  the  present 
day  have  borne  the  name  Floyd-Jones.  As 
the  male  line  was  that  of  the  Floyd  family,  at 
tention  will  first  be  paid  to  it. 

(I)  Colonel  Richard  Floyd  was  the  first  of 
this  family  in  America.  He  was  born  about 
1620,  and  was  a  native  of  Brecknockshire, 
Wales.  He  came  to  this  country  in  1656,  set- 
tling in  Setauket,  Long  Island.  There  he  be- 
came one  of  the  fifty-five  original  proprietors 
of  Brookhaven,  was  made  a  justice,  and  ap- 
pointed a  colonel  of  the  Suffolk  militia  com- 
pany.    His  wife,  Susanna  ,  was  born  in 

1626,  and  died  in  1700.  They  had  one  child, 
who  bore  the  name  of  its  father. 

(II)  Colonel  Richard  (2)  Floyd,  son  of 
Colonel  Richard  d)  Floyd  and  his  wife  Sus- 
anna, was  born  May  12,  1661,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 28,  1737.  He  was  appointed  county  colonel 
m  the  days  when  King  William's  war  made 
troubled  times,  and  by  the  grace  of  Anne  be- 
came a  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas. 
He  married,  September  10.  1686,  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Matthias  Nicoll,  secre- 
tary of  New  York  colony,  and  many  years 
judge  of  Sufifolk  county,  anci  his  wife  Abigail. 
Margaret  Nicoll  was  born  in  1662  and  died 
in  1718.  The  inscription  upon  Colonel  Floyd's 
tombstone,  still  in  a  state  of  preservation  at 
Setauket,  Long  Island,  reads:  "Here  lies  ye 
body  of  Richard  Floyd,  Esqre..  late  Collonel 
of  this  County,  and  a  Judge  of  ye  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  who  deed.  Febry  28,  1737,  in 
ye  73  year  of  his  age."  Children  :  i.  Su.sannah. 
born  1688;  married  Edmund  Smith,  son  of 
Adam,  son  of  Richard,  of  the  "Bull"  Smith 
family  of  Smithtown.  2.  Marg-aret,  born  1690: 
married  Rev.  John  Thomas,  of  Hempstead.  3. 
Charity,  born  1692,  died  in  1758;  married 
(first)  Benjamin  Nicoll;  (second)  Dr.  Samuel 


Johnson.  4.  Eunice,  born  1694;  married  Wil- 
liam Stephens.  5.  Ruth,  born  1699;  married 
Walter  Dongan.  6.  Richard,  born  1703  (see 
forward).  7.  Nicoll,  born  1705,  died  1752; 
married  Tabitha  Smith. 

(III)  Colonel  Richard  (3)  Floyd,  son  of 
Colonel  Richard  (2)  Floyd  and  Margaret 
Nicoll,  was  born  December  29,  1703,  and  died 
April  21,  1771.  He  married  Elizabeth  Hut- 
chinson, born  in  1709,  died  in  1778,  daughter 
of  Benjamin  and  Martha  Hutchinson,  large 
property  owners  bordering  on  Long  Island 
sound.  Children:  Richard,  of  whom  further; 
Elizabeth  ;  John  ;  Margaret ;  Benjamin  ;  Gil- 
bert :  William  ;  Samuel ;  Mary  ;  Anna. 

(IV)  Colonel  Richard  (4)  Floyd,  son  of 
Colonel  Richard  (3)  and  Elizabeth  (Hutchin- 
son) Floyd,  was  born  February  26.  1731,  and 
died  February  6,  1791.  He  settled  upon  the 
estate  left  to  him  by  his  father  at  Mastic,  Suf 
folk  county.  Long  Island,  where  he  was  re 
garded  by  all  as  the  most  generous  man  who 
had  ever  resided  within  that  county.  He  en- 
tertained all  ranks  of  neighbors  not  only 
courteously  but  cordially,  and  sustained  the 
reputation  of  keeping  the  most  hospitable  table 
on  the  entire  island.  Needless  to  say,  these 
characteristics  of  his  nature  made  him  num- 
erous friends  and  precluded  enemies.  To  the 
poor  he  likewise  extended  unstinted  generosity, 
and  all  those  in  distress  lived  to  revere  his 
memory  as  their  best  friend.  He  was  a  Tory 
of  the  deepest  dye  throughout  the  revolution, 
and  became  one  of  the  proscribed  individuals 
who  came  under  the  Act  of  Attainder.  For 
this  reason  he  was  obliged  to  leave  the  country 
in  order  to  save  any  portion  of  his  valuable 
property.  The  remainder,  including  the  fine 
family  place  at  Mastic,  Long  Island,  was  con- 
fiscated, and  his  wife  fortunately  succeeded 
to  the  property  bequeathed  b^  her  father 
Colonel  Richard  Floyd  was  also  related  to 
General  Nathaniel  Woodhull,  of  the  American 
army,  who  married  Ruth  Floyd,  first  cousin  of 
Richard,  and  they  were  near  neighbors  at 
Mastic.  The  battle  of  Long  Island  was  fought 
August  27,  1776,  in  which  the  British  arms 
were  victorious.  Nathaniel  Woodhull  was  ap- 
pointed brigadier-general  and  commander-in- 
chief  of  all  the  militia  on  Long  Island.  Before 
he  reached  Jamaica,  with  less  than  one  hun- 
dred men,  the  battle  was  decided,  so  he  re- 
mained there  at  an  inn  kept  by  a  man  named 
Carpenter,  about  two  miles  east  of  the  village. 


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for  reinforcements,  which  he  could  not  get,  as 
the  American  army  had  escaped  from  Long 
Island,  leaving  the  enemy  in  possession.  The 
British  received  information  where  he  was, 
and  surrounded  the  house,  making  him  and  all 
his  party  prisoners.  This  happened  on  the 
night  of  August  28,  1776,  and  not  a  gun  was 
fired.  The  general,  favored  by  darkness,  at- 
tempted to  escape;  but  being  discovered  by 
sentries  while  attempting  to  get  over  a  fence, 
he  received  a  number  of  strokes  from  their 
.swords,  particularly  a  severe  one  upon  the 
arm.  He  was  carried  aboard  a  man-of-war, 
and  treated  with  hospitality.  The  surgeons 
advised  amputation,  but  he  would  not  give  his 
consent,  and  hence  the  wound  mortified,  caus- 
ing his  death,  which  occurred  September  20, 
1776. 

Colonel  Richard  Floyd  married,  November 
2,  1757,  Arabella  Jones,  born  December  7, 
1734,  died  May  29,  1785,  daughter  of  Judge 
David  Jones  and  Anna  Willett.  The  judge 
amassed  a  fortune  of  considerable  size,  being 
a  large  property  owner  on  Long  Island.  His 
daughter  Arabella  thus  became  wealthy  by 
inheritance,  and  through  her  issue  the  property 
was  to  descend  provided  a  child  of  hers  would 
carry  down  the  name  of  Jones.  In  order  to 
take  the  best  of  care  of  the  will  of  her  father, 
in  1783  she  desired  Ruth  Woodhull,  widow 
of  the  general,  to  take  care  of  it.  The  will  was 
delivered  to  her  by  Mrs.  Floyd  sealed  in  a 
paper,  with  the  declaration  *hat  it  was  the  will 
of  Judge  David  Jones.  This  was  placed  in  a 
sealskin  trunk  by  Mrs.  Woodhull  for  safe- 
keeping with  the  will  of  General  Woodhull ;  but 
on  April  5,  1784,  Mrs.  Woodhull's  house 
caught  fire  and  the  trunk,  with  its  valued  con- 
tents, was  destroyed.  Colonel  Richard  Floyd 
left  his  home  on  Long  Island  in  1783,  for  Con- 
necticut, and  from  there  went  to  Nova  Scotia. 
He  died  at  Maugerville,  New  Brunswick,  June 
30,  1791,  where  he  was  buried.  His  wife  was 
buried  at  Mastic,  Long  Island.  Children:  i. 
Elizabeth,  born  August  8,  1758,  died  May  7, 
1820;  married.  September  28,  1785.  John  P. 
De  Lancey.  2.  David  Richard,  born  November 
14,  1764.  later  known  as  David  Richard  Floyd- 
Jones  (see  forward").  3  Anne  Willett,  born 
August  17,  1767,  died  June  8,  1813;  married, 
December  3,   1784,   Samuel   Benjamin   Nicoll. 

As  David  Richard  Floyd,  son  of  Colonel 
Richard  Floyd  and  Arabella  Jones,  became 
known  as  David  Richard  Floyd-Jones  by  Act 


of  Legislature  of  New  York  State  in  1788,  the 
Jones  line  will  be  considered. 

(The  Jones  Line.) 
By  its  very  name,  the  family  proclaims  itself 
of  the  country  of  Wales.  Johnes  is  the  style 
of  the  primitive  orthography,  although  the 
contracted  form  of  Johns  is  equally  correct 
and  Jones  the  modern  form,  now  in  common 
use  in  America.  Besides  consideration  of  the 
name,  students  of  the  family  history  assert 
that  traits  and  characteristics  of  the  Welsh  as 
a  race  stand  out  in  succeeding  generations  ever 
since  the  arrival  of  the  first  of  the  name  in 
this  country,  and  they  even  go  so  far  as  to 
point  out  the  transmission  of  these  traits  in 
the  female  line,  when  reflecting  on  the  quali- 
ties of  allied  families  Edward  F.  de  Lancey 
has  defined  them.  "The  distinguishing  char- 
acteristics of  the  family  are  penetration,  judg- 
ment, independence,  resolution,  clearness  of 
intellect,  strength  of  memory,  coolness,  de- 
termination of  action  and  high  honor,  united 
with  a  temperament  sanguine  and  choleric, 
great  fearlessness,  and  a  disposition  extremely 
social  and  hospitable "  Another  has  said : 
"Other  characteristics  of  the  family,  those  not 
based  upon  the  ideas  of  any  one  individual, 
are  its  longevity,  the  excellence  of  its  matri- 
monial alliances,  the  great  eminence  which 
many  of  its  members  have  obtained  in  legal 
jurisprudence,  and  the  continuance  of  the 
latter  through  successive  generations."  Were 
either  of  these  views  half  right,  one  would  have 
abundant  reason  to  be  proud  if  a  member  of 
the  family,  which  for  righteous  reason  finds  its 
name  recorded  on  numerous  pages  of  Ameri- 
can history.  In  substantiation  of  this  a  single 
paragraph  will  make  the  matter  perfectly 
clear.  Commencing  with  Major  Thomas 
Jones,  the  first  of  the  name  in  this  country, 
one  finds  that  shortly  after  his  arrival  on  Long 
Island,  about  1695,  he  held  the  official  position 
of  high  sheriff,  and  in  1710  was  justice  of  the 
peace  for  Queens  county.  After  his  decease 
his  eldest  son  David  became  judge  of  Queens 
county,  in  1734,  and  was  made  the  second 
justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  New  York 
in  1763,  sitting  for  ten  years,  when  he  was 
succeeded  by  his  son  Thomas,  who  filled  the 
offices  of  recorder  of  the  City  of  New  York 
and  judge  of  the  Supreme  Court,  holding  the 
latter  office  until  the  end  of  the  revolution, 
when,  because  of  his  adherence  to  the  Crown, 
he  was  forced  to  lea\-e  the  country  for  Eng- 


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land,  where  he  wrote  his  vyell-known  history, 
"New  York  During  the  Revolutionary  War." 
These  facts  not  alone  seem  to,  but  actually 
do  prove,  the  previous  declaration  regarding 
this  family's  standing  in  the  community. 

(I)  Major  Thomas  Jones  was  the  progenitor 
of  this  family  in  America.  It  is  a  matter  of 
tradition  that  the  family  was  descended  in 
remote  times  from  a  good  family  resident  of 
Ireland  who  intermarried  with  another  of 
Wales,  supposed  to  have  originated  in  Merion- 
etshire  or  Glamorganshire.  But.  as  previously 
stated,  the  blood  of  the  Wel.=;h  family  seems  to 
have  been  predominant  and  has  given  the 
name. 

Thomas  Jones,  after  the  king's  defeat  at 
the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  fought  between  the 
English  under  William  III.  and  the  Irish 
under  James  II.,  1690,  emigrated  to  America 
from  Straubane,  Ireland,  in  1692',  his  title 
of  major  having  been  bestowed  when  he  was 
an  officer  in  the  army  of  the  dethroned  mon- 
arch. He  was  a  Protestant  gentleman  of 
Straubane,  in  county  Tyrone,  Province  of 
Ulster,  Ireland,  some  one  hundred  and  fifty 
or  more  miles  to  the  northwest  of  Dublin, 
where  he  was  born  about  the  year  1665  The 
family  had  come  there,  the  north  of  Ireland, 
from  England.  He  landed  at  Port  Royal,  in 
the  island  of  Jamaica,  where  he  was  at  the 
time  of  the  great  earthquake  in  June  of  that 
year.  It  is  unverified  tradition  that  he  com- 
manded one  .  of  the  vessels  in  the  harbor 
whither  the  people  then  flocked  for  safety — the 
"Swan"  and  the  "Siam  Merchant."  Thomas 
Jones  figures  in  history  as  a  regularly  com- 
missioned privateer  under  King  James  II., 
for  there  is  record  of  a  trial  for  being  a  pirate, 
whereas  his  business  differed  essentially  as 
may  be  shown.    In  his  testimony  he  avers : 

"We  accepted  the  King's  commission  and  acted 
under  it,  and  for  which  we  were  condemned  as 
traitors,  and  we  never  received  any  protection  from 
King  William;  but  served  all  along  as  subjects  to 
King  James  II.,  etc.,  etc.,  and  that  after  the  sur- 
render of  Limerick  we  (and  thousands  more)  were 
conveyed  as  enemies  into  France,  with  our  arms, 
brass  guns  and  ammunition,  and  that  being  thus 
convej-ed  to  France,  continued  to  act  under  King 
James  II.,  as  our  King,  and  he  all  along,  while  we 
were  in  Ireland  and  after,  commissioned  us  as  his 
subjects,  and  that  the  ship  and  goods  we  took  by 
virtue  of  a  commission  as  privateers,  etc.,  etc.,  and 
that  thereafter  we  ought  to  be  treated  as  only  ene- 
mies and  prisoners  of  war,  etc.  Some  of  these 
men  were  executed,  not  all." 


The  above  shows  the  activity  of  the  man  in 
adventure  and  a  portion  of  his  life  in  following 
the  sea.  When  he  arrived  in  Rhode  Island 
he  held  a  commission  as  captain.  This  was 
in  1692.  The  governor  of  New  York  colony 
from  1692  to  1698  was  Colonel  Fletcher,  and 
he  it  was  most  likely  who  allowed  him  the  com- 
mission or  recognized  him  as  a  captain  to 
cruise  against  Spain  while  that  country  was 
at  war  with  England.  While  in  Rhode 
Island,  he  became  associated  with  Captain 
Thomas  Townsend,  who  was  an  active  trader. 
He  participated  in  his  numerous  enterprises 
and  married  his  daughter  Freelove.  Captain 
Townsend  was  son  of  John  Townsend  and 
his  wife  Elizabeth,  and  had  come  to  Rhode 
Island  from  their  place  on  Long  Island.  The 
latter  colony  had  proved  a  refuge  for  the 
Quakers  when  persecuted,  and  there  Thomas 
Townsend,  his  father-in-law,  died  in  or  about 
1712.  Thomas  Townsend  gave  to  Major 
Thomas  Jones  and  Freelove  Townsend  Jones, 
his  wife,  in  1695,  a  large  tract  of  land  which 
had  formerly  belonged  to  the  Massapequa 
Indians  at  Fort  Neck,  on  the  south  side  of 
Long  Island.  He  had  previously  offered  it 
to  his  son,  John  Townsend ;  but  the  land 
seemed  so  distant  from  other  built-up  places 
that  the  son  refused  it,  saying:  "Does  father 
want  me  to  go  out  of  the  world?" 

Seven  Indians  from  this  place  had  come 
on  November  27,  1655,  fo  f^^^'  with  Peter 
Stuyvesant,  the  Dutch  governor  at  New  Am- 
sterdam, representing  the  Marsepain,  or  Mar- 
sepingh  tribes,  whose  chief  was  Tachpausaan, 
alias  Meautinnemin,  Fort  Neck,  Queens  coun- 
ty, Indians.  To  this  vast  estate  Major  Thomas 
Tones  and  his  wife  removed  in  1696  There 
he  built  a  substantial  house  of  brick,  at  the 
head  of  the  creek,  on  the  portion  now  known 
as  the  Massapequa  Farm.  Many  relics  of  the 
tribes  liave  been  dug  up  at  this  locality,  and 
it  is  believed  by  what  has  been  discovered  that 
the  Indian  cemetery  was  on  the  north  side  of 
the  turnpike,  just  west  of  Little  Massapequa 
creek.  Lord  Cornbury,  governor  of  the 
province  of  New  York,  commissioned  Thomas 
Jones  a  captain  of  militia  in  Queens  county, 
October  20,  1702.  On  October  14,  1704,  he 
was  appointed  high  sheriff  of  Queens  county, 
and  on  April  3,  1706,  he  was  made  major 
of  the  Queens  county  regiment.  Governor 
Hunter  of  New  York  appointed  him  ranger 
general  of  the  Island  of  Nassau.     The  last- 


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named  commission  bears  date  September  4, 
1710.  Rangers  general  were  sworn  officers  of 
the  Crown,  to  whom  were  granted  by  the 
sovereign  or  his  representative  the  royal  rights 
or  franchises,  of  waifs,  estrays,  hunting  royal 
fish,  treasure  trove,  mines,  deodands,  forfei- 
tures and  the  like.  This  particular  office  gave 
Major  Jones  the  monopoly  of  the  whale  and 
other  fisheries  from  both  the  north  and  south 
shores  of  Long  Island  Subsequent  to  Thomas 
Jones'  settlement  upon  this  domain,  he  ac- 
quired from  the  Indians  and  other  owners,  as 
well  as  by  inheritance  by  his  wife  from  her 
father,  various  tracts  which  included  the  West 
Neck  and  Umqua  properties.  By  accumula- 
tion he  was  eventually  the  possessor  of  about 
6,000  acres  of  land,  all  contiguous,  which  at 
a  later  date  was  designated  as  follows :  "That 
part  extending  from  or  near  the  Jerusalem 
South  Creek,  later  called  'Verrity's,'  or  At- 
ianticville  creek,  now  designated  as  Seaford 
creek,  to  the  Little  West  Massapequa  creek, 
was  denominated  'West  Neck  From  the 
West  Massapequa  creek  to  the  east  branch  of 
Fort  Neck  creek  was  called  Fort  Neck,  and 
from  there  east  to  Carman's  creek,  running 
south  to  Umqua  Point,  was  designated  as 
Umqua.  The  northern  boundary  of  the  es- 
tate ran  very  close  to  the  village  of  Hard- 
scrable.  now  Farmingdale."  The  dwelling 
which  he  erected  was  for  many  years  the 
wonder  of  the  age,  its  cognomen  being  the 
"Old  Brick  House."  Many  strange  and  weird 
stories  are  told  about  it,  one  to  the  effect  that 
after  the  death  of  Major  Jones,  strange  noises 
were  heard  there,  and  that  a  small,  cir- 
cular window,  seen  in  the  gable,  could  never 
be  closed,  for  sashes,  boards  and  even  bricks 
held  by  mortar,  placed  over  or  in  it,  were  in- 
stantly removed  by  an  invisible  power.  This 
house  was  demolished  in  1837,  and  for  a  long 
time  afterward  any  negro  passing  by  would 
shrink  with  terror,  expecting  the  appearance 
of  a  ghost.  The  inlet  from  the  Great  South 
Bay  into  the  ocean  has  for  a  long  time  been 
known  as  Jones"  Inlet,  and  the  long  sand  dune 
as  Jones'  Beach,  taking  the  name  directly 
from  the  progenitor  of  the  family  and  original 
owner.  Freelove  Townsend  Jones  also  re- 
ceived from  her  father  a  house  and  two  lots 
in  Oyster  Bay,  which  Major  Jones  sold  to 
George  Townsend  in  17 12. 

When   Major  Thomas  Jones  died,   Decem- 
ber 13,  1713,  he  was  buried  in  a  small  grave- 


yard on  the  bank  of  what  was  then  called 
Brick  House  Creek,  now  known  as  Massa- 
pequa Creek.  A  brownstone  headpiece  marks 
the  spot,  on  which  was  carved  the  inscription 
which  he  wrote:  "Here  Lyes  Interd  The 
Body  of  Major  Thomas  Jones,  Who  Came 
From  Straubane,  In  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland, 
Settled  Here  and  Died  December,  1713."  Be- 
neath that : 

"From  Distant  Lands  to  This  Wild  Waste  He  Came, 
This   Seat   He   Choose,   And   Here   He  Fixed  His 

Name. 
Long  May  His  Sons  This  Peace  Full  Spot  Injoy, 
And  No  111  Fate  his  Offspring  Here  Annoy." 

On  May  21,  1709,  Major  Thomas  Jones, 
Colonel  Henry  Smith,  and  Colonel  Richard 
Floyd  were  ordered  by  Lieutenant-Governor 
Ingoldesby  "to  engage  the  Long  Island  In- 
dians to  join  the  expedition  into  Canada.''  In 
171 1  he  subscribed  £2  Eng'ish  towards  build- 
ing Trinity  Church  steeple  in  New  York  City. 
As  early  as  1710  he  held  the  office  of  super- 
visor of  Oyster  Bay,  and  was  annually  re- 
elected until  he  died.  September  2,  1709,  he 
was  appointed  assistant  justice  of  court  of 
common  pleas  for  Queens  county.  His  wi- 
dow, who  was  born  December  29,  1674,  mar- 
ried Major  Timothy  Bagley  (no  issue),  and 
died  July,  1726.  Children:  i.  Sarah  L.,  born 
1695,  died  August  18,  1696.  2.  David,  of 
whom  further.  3.  Freelove,  born  1700,  died 
before  1768.  4.  Thomas,  born  1701,  died 
November  13,  1741.  5.  Sarah,  born  1703.  6. 
Margaret,  born  about  1706,  died  before  1768. 
7.  William,  born  April  25,  1708,  died  August 
29,  1779  8.  Elizabeth,  born  about  1710,  died 
after  1768. 

(II)  Judge  David  Jones,  son  of  Major 
Thomas  Jones  and  Freelove  Townsend,  was 
born  at  Fort  Neck,  Long  Island,  September 
16,  1699,  and  died  there'^  in  the  "Old  Brick 
House,"  October  11,  1775.  As  early  as  1734 
he  had  from  Governor  Cosby,  of  New  York, 
the  appointment  of  judge  of  Queens  county, 
fitting  in  the  court  of  common  pleas.  On 
June  2,  1737.  at  an  election  for  members  of 
assembly,  he  had  390  votes  and  Colonel  Isaac 
Hicks  432,  the  latter  supported  by  the  Quak- 
ers, who  were  of  course  numerous.  From 
1737  to  1758  he  was  member  of  assem- 
bly and  also  in  1761.  For  thirteen  years 
he  presided  as  speaker  of  the  house.  It 
was  here  he  made  a  decided  mark  in  his- 
tory. On  December  15,  1737,  he  introduced 
a  bill   to  repeal   so  much  of  the  law  of  this 


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colony  concerning  the  Quakers  as  required 
them  to  produce  certificates.  This  bill  was 
lost,  Chief  Justice  de  Lancey  dissenting.  Oc- 
tober 20,  1737,  he  introduced  a  bill  "to  restrain 
tavern  keepers  from  selling  strong  liquors  to 
servants  and  apprentices."  It  was  passed. 
September  14,  1738,  he,  with  Colonel  Isaac 
Hicks  and  others,  were  appointed  by  the  legis- 
lature as  a  committee  to  prepare  an  address 
of  condolence  to  His  Majesty  on  the  lamented 
death  of  her  late  Majesty  Queen  Charlotte. 
November,  1739,  a  bill  was  introduced  by  him 
and  passed,  to  prevent  setting  fire  or  burning 
the  old  grass  on  Hempstead  Plains.  October 
4,  1752,  he  was  chosen  speaker.  July  4,  1753, 
he  and  John  Townsend  and  others  were  ap- 
pointed commissioners  to  examine  the  en- 
croachments made  on  this  province  by  neigh- 
boring colonies. 

Although  Judge  David  Jones  was  an  Epis- 
copalian, he  was  not  of  the  high  church  party 
favored  by  his  son,  Thomas,  and  it  is  inferred 
that  he  inclined  somewhat  to  the  Presbyte- 
rians, because  they  were  so  largely  his  con- 
stituents. In  1754,  while  speaker  of  assembly, 
he  had  much  to  do  in  procuring  the  charter 
for  King's  College  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
now  Columbia  University.  A  clause  in  this 
charter  provided  that  its  president  should  al- 
ways be  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England. 
This  created  a  serious  storm  of  opposition,  and 
he  was  roundly  abused  for  favoring  it.  His 
son  has  left  a  statement  regarding  the  incident 
in  these  words :  "It  threw  the  whole  Province 
into  a  ferment,  and  Presbyterian  pulpits  thun- 
dered sedition."  In  the  election  for  Assembly, 
February  24,  1761,  David  Jones  received  382 
votes ;  Thomas  Cornell  363 :  Thomas  Hicks 
342;  and  Zebulon  Seaman  217.  He  was  first 
appointed  judge  in  1758,  and  although  the 
rule  that  an  office-holder  went  out  on  the  death 
of  the  monarch,  he  was  reappointed  in  1761, 
arid  he  continued  to  hold  the  position  until, 
wishing  to  resign  in  1773,  his  son  Thomas  took 
his  place. 

He  built  a  large  house  on  his  estate  at  Fort 
Neck,  which  he  called  Tryon  Hall,  in  honor 
of  the  governor.  He  possessed  the  clearness 
of  mind  and  incisiveness  of  character  which 
is  so  marked  a  characteristic  of  his  race,  never 
"hesitating  in  doing  anything  he  believed  to  be 
right,  regrardless  of  consequences,  and  alwavs 
commanded  the  confidence  of  the  public 
throughout  his  career.     While  speaker  of  as- 


sembly, he  had  the  firmness  to  order  the  doors 
of  the  chamber  closed  against  the  governor 
until  a  bill,  then  under  discussion,  was  acted 
upon,  it  being  known  that  the  governor  was 
opposed  and  had  determined  to  prevent  action. 
Throughout  his  life  he  was  an  imyielding  ad- 
vocate of  the  rights  of  the  people  against  every 
species  of  royal  encroachment. 

To  Judge  David  Jones  and  his  heirs  in  taile 
was  devised  the  greater  portion  of  his  father's 
large  estate  located  at  South  Oyster  Bay,  who 
by  sufifering  a  common  recovery  the  life  estate 
thus  devised  to  him  was  changed  into  a  fee, 
which  he  devised  to  his  son  Thomas  during 
his  life,  with  remainder  on  failure  of  issue, 
to  his  daughter  Arabella  and  her  issue  in- 
tail-male.  The  entailment  of  the  property  by 
Judge  David  Jones  saved  it  from  being  for- 
feited, as  he  adhered  to  the  royal  cause  during 
the  revolution,  and  on  the  restoration  of  peace 
was  "attainted"  and  forced  to  leave  the  coun- 
try for  England,  where  he  died  without  issue. 
The  estate  thus  devised  him  under  his  father's 
will  was  by  a  provision  in  that  will  vested  in 
the  testator's  daughter,  Arabella,  and  her  heirs 
in-taile-male.  An  abstract  of  this  important 
will  states : 

"All  his  beaches,  lands,  marshes  and  grounds  cov- 
ered with  water  in  Queens  County,  he  gives  to  his 
son,  Thomas,  for  his  use  during  his  life,  and  after 
his  death  to  the  use  of  the  first  son  of  his  said  son 
Thomas,  and  the  heirs  male  of  such  first  son,  etc., 
and  in  failure  of  such  issue  to  the  use  of  the  second 
son,  and  sons  of  his  Said  son  Thomas  during  their 
lives.  On  the  failure  of  heirs  male  of  his  son, 
Thomas,  he  gives  all  the  said  real  estate  to  and  for 
the  use  of  the  oldest  daughter  of  his  said  son, 
Thomas,  during  life,  etc.  In  case  of  a  total  failure 
of  issue  of  his  son  Thomas,  he  gives  the  same  to 
and  for  use  of  his  grandson,  David  Richard  Floyd, 
the  oldest  son  of  his  daughter  Arabella,  for  his  life, 
and  after  his  death  to  and  for  the  use  of  the  first 
son  of  his  said  grandson,  in-tail  forever,  they  taking 
the  surname  of  Jones." 

Judge  Jones  made  further  provision,  in  case 
there  was  no  male  heir  and  no  one  of  his  fam- 
ily took  the  name  of  Jones.  In  either  event 
the  said  lands  were  to  go  to  King's  College, 
New  York;  the  rents  and  issues  to  be  applied 
yearly  to  the  maintenance  of  charity  schools, 
two  of  such  schools  always  to  be  in  Queens 
county — one  at  Jamaica  and  the  other  in  the 
town  of  Oyster  Bay. 

Judge  David  Jones  married,  November  22, 
1722,  Anna,  then  aged  eighteen  years,  called 
the  second  daughter  of  Colonel  William  Wil- 
lett,   of   Willett's    Point,   Westchester  county. 


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New  York,  great-granddaughter  of  the  settler, 
Thomas  WiUett,  of  Bristol,  England,  who 
married  Sarah  Cornell,  of  New  York,  in  1643. 
She  died  January  31,  1750,  and  he  later  mar- 
ried Margaret,  widow  of  John  Treadwell,  by 
whom  no  issue.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Colonel  William  Willett  and- his  wife  Alice, 
daughter  of  Governor  CoMen,  therefore  a 
niece  of  his  first  wife.  Children:  i.  Anna, 
born  May  11,  1724.  2.  Sarah,  born  February 
12,  1728,  died  April,  1828.  3.  Thomas,  born 
April  20,  173 1,  died  July  25,  1792.  4.  Ara- 
bella, born  December  7,  1734,  died  May  29, 
1785 ;  married,  November  2,  1757,  Colonel 
Richard  Floyd  (see  foward).  5.  David,  born 
April  30,  1737,  died  September  9,  1758.  6. 
Mary,  born  April  29,  1743. 

(The  Floyd-Jones  Line.) 

(V)  David  Richard  Floyd-Jones  (formerly 
David  Richard  Floyd),  son  of  Colonel  Rich- 
ard Floyd  and  Arabella  Jones,  was  born  No- 
vember 14,  1764,  and  died  February  10,  1826. 
He  took  possession  of  the  Fort  Neck  estate 
about  1782  to  1783,  it  being  with  his  mother's 
consent,  and  that  of  his  uncle.  Judge  Thomas 
Jones,  when  the  latter  became  civilly  dead  by 
reason  of  the  Act  of  Attainder.  As  his  grand- 
father. Judge  David  Jones,  by  his  will  entailed 
his  Fort  Neck  property  in-tail  male  upon  his 
only  son,  Judge  Thomas  Jones,  and  in  default 
of  issue  to  his  daughter  Arabella  in-tail  male, 
by  reason  of  such  default  David  Richard 
Floyd  inherited.  But  there  was  another  pro- 
vision in  the  will,  and  that  was  to  the  effect 
that  the  son  inheriting  must  take  the  surname 
of  Jones  or  annex  it.  He  therefore  appealed 
to  the  legislature  to  be  allowed  to  affix  the 
name  of  Jones  to  his  own.  The  Act  of  the 
Legislature  reads : 

"Chap.  75, of  the  New  York  Laws  of  1788;  an  Act 
to  enable  David  Richard  Floyd  to  add  the  name  of 
Jones  to  his  surname,  passed  March  14.  1788: 
Whereas,  David  Richard  Floyd  by  his  petition  to 
the  Legislature  has  prayed  that  the  surname  Jones 
may  be  added  to  his  present  name.  Therefore.  Be 
it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
represented  in  Senate  and  Assembly,  and  it  is  hereby 
enacted  by  the  authority  of  the  same,  that  the  sur- 
name of  Jones  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  added  to 
the  name  of  David  Richard  Floyd  and  that  at  all 
times  hereafter  he  shall  and  may  take  upon  himself 
the  name  David  Richard  Floyd-Jones,  and  by  the 
same  name  be  known  and  called  in  all  cases  what- 
soever," 

Shortly  after  his  succeeding  to  the  estate,  he 
was  admonished  by  his  uncle.  Judge  Thomas 


Jones,  as  follows :  "Behave  with  caution  and 
prudence,  and  let  me  beg  of  you  by  your  con- 
duct never  to  disgrace  the  families  of  your 
two  grandfathers.  Always  remember  one  was 
first  in  Queens,  the  other  in  Suffolk."  There 
is  every  evidence  that  he  regarded  this  ad- 
vice, and  lived  Vifith  probity  and  honor,  as 
had  his  ancestors.  It  is  known  that  he  was 
a  most  faithful  churchman,  never  failing  to 
drive  on  Sunday  mornings  ten  miles  to  St. 
George's  Church  at  Hempstead,  which  was 
the  nearest  in  the  parish. 

David  Richard  Floyd-Jones  married,  Sep- 
tcinber  20,  1785,  Sarah  Onderdonk,  born 
March  26,  1758,  died  February  29,  1844, 
daughter  of  Hendrick  and  Phoebe  (Tread- 
well  )  C)nderdonk.  Her  father-in-law  was  of 
the  third  generation  in  this  country,  being  the 
son  of  Andries  .and  his  wife,  Gertrude  Lott. 
He  was  born  December  11,  1724;  died  March 
31,  180C);  married  May  20,  1750;  and  she  was 
born  July  12,  1730,  died  December  19,  1801, 
Children:  i.  David  Thomas,  born  April  25, 
1787,  died  June  12,  1787.  2.  Thomas,  of 
whom  further.  3.  Arabella  born  February  6, 
1790,  died  May  5,  1790.  4.  Henry  Onderdonk, 
born  January  3,  1792,  died  December  20,  1862; 
became  a  major-general ;  married  Helen, 
daughter  of  Charles  Watts,  of  South  Caro- 
lina, who  was  born  November  24,  1792,  and 
died  July  18,  1872;  seven  children.  5.  An- 
drew Onderdonk,  born  January  9,  1794,  died 
February  11,  1794. 

(VI)  Brigadier-General  Thomas  Floyd - 
Jones,  son  of  David  Richard  Floyd-Jones  and 
Sarah  Onderdonk,  was  born  July  23,  1788, 
and  died  August  23,  185 1.  On  the  death  of 
his  father  he  succeeded  to  the  estate  at  Fort 
Neck,  which  was  in  1826,  and  was  the  last 
owner  under  the  entail  created  by  his  great- 
grandfather. Judge  David  Jones.  \\''hen  the 
law  of  entail  was  abolished  in  1830  he  be- 
came possessor  of  the  entire  estate  in  fee 
simple.  When  he  died  in  185 1,  intestate,  his 
estate  was  divided  among  his  four  children  so 
that  each  was  the  recipient  of  about  1,200  acres 
of  the  land  which  had  been  left  from  father 
to  son  since  the  time  of  the  Indians.  He  was 
one  of  those  contributing  to  the  erection  of 
Grace  Church,  at  Massapequa,  Long  Island; 
in  fact,  he  was  the  one  to  give  the  land  there- 
for and  was  one  of  the  two  coninrising  the 
building  committee.  Because  of  his  love  and 
affection   for  his  brother,   Henry  Onderdonk 


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Floyd-Jones,  he  deeded  to  him  a  good  farm 
on  the  eastern  part  of  the  Fort  Neck  property, 
between  the  two  branches  of  Fort  Neck  creek, 
on  which  a  house  of  some  size  then  stood, 
which  was  rebuik  and  the  place  named  "Rose- 
dale."  This  brother  was  a  member  of  assem- 
bly in  1829-30,  and  a  member  of  the  State 
senate  in  1836-40,  besides  which  he  held  the 
position  of  major-general  of  Queens  county 
militia.  Both  the  brothers  received  exceed- 
ingly long  and  interesting  epistles  from  James 
Fenimore  Cooper,  which  were  published  in  a 
book  entitled  "England  by  an  American." 
General  Floyd-Jones  commanded  a  company 
of  detached  militia  in  the  Second  Regiment 
of  New  York  State  Infantry,  commanded  by 
Colonel  Daniel  Bedell,  at  Fort  Green,  Brook- 
lyn, in  the  war  with  England,  1812-1815.  He 
was  regarded  as  a  thoroughly  representative 
man  of  the  gentry  of  Queens  county,  and  was 
esteemed  by  his  neighbors.  In  1837,  he  re- 
ceived the  letters  mentioned  from  his  friend 
Cooper,  who  was  making  an  extensive  tour 
abroad  and  was  a  connection  by  marriage. 
General  Thomas  Floyd-Jones  married  January 
z8,  1812,  Cornelia  Haring  Jones,  born  April 
22,  1796,  died  December  29,  1839,  daughter  of 
Major  William  and  Kezia  (Youngs)  Jones,  of 
Cold  Spring  Harbor,  Long  Island,  and  thus  a 
third  cousin  of  her  husband.  Children:  I. 
David  Richard,  of  whom  further.  2.  William, 
born  March  10,  1815,  died  February  7,  1896; 
married  Caroline  Amelia,  daughter  of  Robert 
Blackwell,  of  New  York,  and  who  was  born 
July  31,  1822,  died  December  9,  1886.  3.  El- 
bert, born  February  7,  1817,  died  February 
17,  1901 ;  married  (first)  June  5,  1838,  Emily, 
born  1815,  died  April  29,  1845,  daughter  of 
Plunket  F.  Glentworth,  M.D.,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  Harriet  Bostock,  his  wife.  4.  Sarah  Ma- 
ria, born  December  10,  1818,  died  January  2, 
1892:  married,  1854,  Coleman  Williams,  born 
1805,  died  December  27,  1891,  and  formerly 
resided  in  Halifax  Court  House,  Virginia. 

(VII)  Lieutenant-Governor  David  Richard 
Floyd-Jones,  son  of  Brigadier-General  Thomas 
Floyd-Jones  and  CorneHa  Haring  Jones,  was 
born  at  Fort  Neck.  Long  Island,  April  6,  1813, 
and  died  at  the  old  homestead,  January  8,  1871. 
He  was  buried  in  the  ancient  family  burial- 
ground  at  Massapequa,  Long  Island. 

He  received  his  early  education  at  a  public 
school  near  his  father's  residence  at  Fort  Neck, 
and  commenced  his  classical  studies  in  Christ 


Church  School  at  Manhasset.  He  then  entered 
the  sophomore  class  of  Union  College,  gradu- 
ating in  1832.  After  that  he  studied  law  in 
the  office  of  Judge  Samuel  W.  Jones,  of 
Schenectady,  and  began  practice  in  1835,  with 
James  P.  Howard,  in  New  York  City.  He 
started  his  political  career  in  1840,  and  identi- 
fied himself  with  the  Democratic  party.  In 
1840  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  assembly  of 
New  York,  and  was  re-elected  in  1841,  and 
again  the  following  year.  In  1843  he  was 
elected  to  the  senate  from  the  first  district, 
which  then  comprised  the  counties  of  New 
York,  Kings  and  Richmond.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent and  influential  member  of  the  constitu- 
tional convention  of  1846  from  New  York 
City.  On  the  close  of  his  senatorial  term, 
1847,  and  following  the  death  of  Jesse  Oakley, 
he  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  superior  court 
of  New  York  City,  by  Chief  Justice  Oakley, 
Judges  Sandford  and  Van  der  Poel,  which 
office  he  filled  faithfully  until  the  death  of  his 
father,  1852,  when  he  returned  to  his  native 
place.  Through  1858-59  he  held  the  position 
of  president  of  the  Queens  County  Agricul- 
tural Society,  for  he  had  been  as  successful  as 
a  country  gentleman  as  in  politics. 

In  1856  he  was  lured  from  a  pleasant  retire- 
ment to  be  assemblyman  and  in  the  subse- 
quent session  filled  the  speaker's  chair.  He 
was  nominated  with  great  unanimity  of  senti- 
ment for  secretary  of  state  by  both  wings  of 
the  Democratic  party  in  the  fall  of  1859,  and 
was  triumphantly  elected,  holding  the  position 
at  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war.  He  co- 
operated with  Governor  Morgan  in  enlisting 
and  sending  forward  troops,  and  was  a  pa- 
triotic figure  along  these  lines.  He  took  a 
most  decided  stand  against  the  dissolution  of 
the  Union,  and  made  a  ringing  speech  July  4, 
1862,  which  attracted  wide  attention  and  was 
published.  It  brought  him  more  into  the 
limelight  of  public  life,  and  in  the  fall  of  that 
year  he  was  elected  lieutenant-governor  on  the 
ticket  with  Horatio  Seymour  heading  it  for 
governor.  His  oration  upon  assuming  office, 
January  5,  1863,  when  he  was  the  acting  cx- 
officio  president  of  the  senate,  was  a  burst  of 
patriotism  which  stirred  the  souls  of  listeners. 
One  who  had  known  him  intimately  and  had 
been  his  political  opponent,  spoke  of  him  in  thi? 
strain  after  his  death  : 

"He  passed  through  life  from  the  beginning  to 
the   end   of   it,    I   believe,   without   a   single  blemish 


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upon  his  reputation  or  standing  before  the  entire 
communitv  of  this  State.  No  man  in  the  heat  of 
partj-  strife  or  conflict,  no  man  in  the  heat  of  debate 
upon  the  floor  in  either  branch  of  the  Legislature, 
was  ever  heard  to  say  aught  against  his  pure  and 
upright  character,  and  no  man  who  watched  him 
can  say  aught  than  that  he  worked  with  his  whole 
heart  and  soul  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  had 
placed  him   in  position." 

In  the  work  of  the  Episcopal  church  he  was 
a  devout  and  consistent  helper.  The  Church 
Journal  of  1871  has  this  to  say: 

"His  influence  and  usefulness  in  the  councils  of 
the  church  need  no  other  record  than  the  important 
positions  which  he  filled  in  the  Diocese  of  New 
York  previous  to  its  recent  division,  and  subse- 
quently in  the  Diocese  of  Long  Island.  In  the  new 
diocese  his  important  services  were  immediately  rec- 
ognized and  acknowledged  at  its  primary  convention 
by  his  being  elected  a  member  of  the  standing  com- 
mittee, a  deputy  to  the  General  Convention,  and  also 
a  deputy  to  the  Federal  Council.  He  was  appointed 
on  the  Special  Committees  on  Canons,  and  on  the 
Revision  of  the  Constitution  and  Canons,  in  both  of 
which  he  served  with  marked  ability." 

Lieutenant-Governor  David  Richard  Floyd- 
Jones  married,  at  Albany,  New  York,  June  25, 
1845,  Mary  Louisa  Stanton,  born  August  14, 
1818,  died  at  Massapequa,  Long  Island,  July 
22,  1906,  daughter  of  George  W.  Stanton,  of 
Albany,  and  his  wife  Sally,  daughter  of  Theo 
philus  Morgan,  of  Killingworth,  Connecticut 
Children:  i.  Stanton,  born  June  11,  1846, 
died  February  17,  1848.  2.  George  Stanton, 
of  whom  further.  3.  Thomas  Richard,  born 
December  15.  1851,  died  February  4,  1857.  4. 
Mary  Louisa,  born  September  29,  1853.  5 
Henrietta,  born  October  22,  1855,  died  No- 
vember 13,  1897;  graduate  of  St.  Mary's  Hall, 
Burlington,  New  Jersey;  joined  Sisterhood  of 
St.  John  the  Baptist.  6.  Sarah  Hall,  born  Sep- 
tember 18,  1857;  married,  June  28,  1892,  Cap- 
tain Nathaniel  W.  Barnardiston,  an  officer  in 
the  Duke  of  Cambridge's  "Own  Middlesex 
Regiment,"  England,  eldest  son  of  Colonel 
Nathaniel,  of  the  Ryes,  Sudbury,  Suffolk 
county,  England,  and  Lady  Florence  Barnard- 
iston, daughter  of  the  fourth  Earl  of  Dart- 
mouth ;  by  whom  :  Joan,  born  January  31,  1897, 
at  Colchester,  England.  7.  Thomas  Langley, 
born  October  7,   1859,  died  August  30,   1861. 

(VIII)  George  Stanton  Floyd-Jones,  son  of 
Lieutenant-Governor  David  Richard  Floyd- 
Jones  and  Mary  Louisa  Stanton,  was  born  at 
Albany,  New  York,  December  25,  1848.  He 
received  his  early  education  at  the  Albany 
Academy,  then  at  the  Walnut  Hill  Academy 


in  Geneva,  New  York,  and  followed  this  course 
with  studies  in  the  Oak  Hill  Academy  at 
Yonkers.  He  became  associated  with  the  At- 
lantic Mutual  Insurance  Company,  September 
25,  1865,  and  in  1913  was  secretary  of  that 
corporation,  having  succeeded  Mr.  J.  H.  Chap- 
man in  1902.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  and  was  an  attendant  of  St.  Igna- 
tius Episcopal  Church  in  New  York  City  and 
of  Grace  Church,  Massapequa,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  vestries  of  each  until  1894, 
when  he  and  his  wife  joined  the  Roman  Cath- 
olic church,  attending  St.  Martin's  Church, 
Long  Island,  and  the  Church  of  the  Blessed 
Sacrament  in  New  York  City.  His  summer 
home  is  at  Massapequa,  Long  Island,  and  is 
called  "Seawan,"  and  his  city  residence  is  at 
No.  207  West  Seventieth  Street,  New  York 
City.  He  is  a  member  of  several  clubs  and 
societies,  among  them  the  Union  Club,  Cath- 
olic Club,  Automobile  Club,  Society  Sons  of 
the  Revolution,  Union  Society  of  the  Civil 
War,  Society  for  the  Protection  of  Game,  etc. 

George  Stanton  Floyd-Jones  married,  at 
Christ  Church,  New  York  City,  February  4, 
1880,  Anita  Owen.  She  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  May  3,  1855,  and  was  the  daughtet 
of  Thomas  Jefferson  Owen  and  Emilie  Ket- 
cham  Piatt,  of  New  York  City. 

(VI)  Henry  Onderdonk  Floyd-Jones,  son  of 
David  Richard  and  Sarah  (Onderdonk) 
Floyd-Jones  was  born  January  3,  1792,  and 
died  at  his  home  in  South  Oyster  Bay,  Long 
Island,  New  York,  December  20,  1862.  He 
was  member  of  assembly  from  Queens  county 
in  1829  and  1830,  and  from  1836  to  1840  was 
State  senator  for  the  First  District,  compris- 
ing then  Long  Island,  Staten  Island  and  New 
York  City.  He  was  major-general  of  the 
Queens  county  militia. 

General  Henry  O.  Floyd-Jones  married 
Helen,  daughter  of  Charles  Watts,  of  Charles- 
ton, South  Carolina,  who  was  born  Novembe; 
24,  1792,  and  died  at  South  Oyster  Bay,  July 
18,  1872.  Children:  i.  Charles,  born  1817, 
died  1874;  married  Isabella  M.  Semple,  who 
died  November  3,  1888,  by  whom:  Robert, 
Semple  and  Edgar.  2.  Sarah,  born  October  i, 
181S,  died  August  10,  1900;  unmarried.  3. 
Henry,  born  March  10,  1820,  died  February 
20,  1849;  unmarried.  4.  Edward,  of  whom 
further.  5.  De  Lancey,  born  January  20, 
1826,  died  January  19,  1902,  New  York  City; 
married,  June  24,  1852,  Laura  Jeannie  Whit- 


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ney,  daughter  of  Warcham  Whitney,  of  Ro- 
chester, New  York ;  no  issue.  He  was  a  West 
Point  graduate,  June,  1846,  when  twenty  years 
old,  and  commissioned  second  Heutenant  in 
the  Seventh  U.  S.  Regiment  of  Infantry, 
served  under  General  Zachary  Taylor  in  Mex- 
ico; in  1848  was  made  lieutenant  because  of 
his  gallantry  in  the  battle  of  Molino  del  Rey, 
and  July  31,  1854,  was  commissioned  cap- 
tain; was  sent  to  California  in  1856  to  serve 
against  the  Kalmath  Indians,  and  May  14, 
1861,  was  commissioned  major  of  the  Eleventh 
Infantry,  serving  in  the  battle  of  Yorktown, 
Gaines  Mill  and  Malvern  Hill.  In  1863  he  be- 
came lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Nineteenth  In- 
fantry, and  on  June  25,  1867,  was  made  colonel 
of  the  Third  Regiment  Infantry,  serving 
against  the  Indians  during  the  period  of  terri- 
torial expansion,  1868  to  1879,  when  the  red- 
man  was  supreme  the  breadth  of  the  western 
prairies.  In  the  latter  year  he  retired,  and 
living  in  New  York  City  the  remainder  of  his 
life  was  held  in  highest  esteem.  6.  Helen 
Watts,  born  December  9,  1827,  died  July  25, 
1855 ;  unmarried.  7.  Josephine  K.,  born  Au- 
gust, 1832,  died  November  15,  1905;  married 
John  D.  Jones. 

(VII)  Edward  Floyd-Jones,  son  of  Major- 
General  Henry  Onderdonk  and  Helen  (Watts) 
Floyd-Jones,  was  born  at  South  Oyster  Bay, 
Long  Island,  New  York,  January  26,  1823, 
and  died  at  New  York  City,  January  23,  1901. 
He  was  buried  in  the  ancient  family  burial- 
place  at  Massapequa,  Long  Island. 

He  was  educated  at  Easthampton  and  at 
the  Union  Academy,  Jamaica,  Long  Island. 
Civil  engineering  was  adopted  for  his  profes- 
sion, and  he  followed  this  calling  some  years, 
being  engaged  in  building  railroads.  In  1849, 
when  the  gold  fever  possessed  so  many  and 
the  people  of  the  Eastern  States  were  flock- 
ing in  numbers  to  the  gold  lands  of  the  Pacific 
coast,  he  made  the  trip  by  vessel  around  Cape 
Horn  and  landing  in  California  engaged  first 
in  engineering  work  and  afterward  in  the  sale 
of  agricultural  implements  and  general  mer- 
chandise. The  firm  was  known  as  Jones  & 
Hewlett,  and  was  located  at  Stockton,  Califor- 
nia. Later  on  Mr.  Hewlett  became  president 
of  the  Bank  of  Stockton.  Returning  to  the 
East  in  1862  Mr.  Floyd- Jones  lived  for  a  few 
years  at  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  returned  to 
Stockton  in  1869  and  came  East  permanently 
in  1872,  living  at  Greenport  till  the  death  of 


his  wife  in  1874,  when  he  settled  in  the  old 
homestead  at  South  Oyster  Bay.  He  was 
chosen  supervisor  of  the  town  of  Oyster  Bay 
in  1886,  and  in  1891  was  elected  State  senator, 
receiving  in  Queens  county  11,537  votes,  while 
Roswell  P.  Flower,  who  was  elected  governor, 
received  11,543  votes.  His  district  comprised 
Queens  and  Suffolk  counties. 

Edward  Floyd-Jones  married,  at  Greenport, 
Long  Island,  December  10,  1862,  Mary  Smith 
Lord,  of  Greenport,  Long  Island.  She  was 
born  at  Sag  Harbor,  Long  Island,  December 
14-  1839,  died  at  San  Francisco,  California, 
May  23,  1874,  and  was  daughter  of  Dr.  Fre- 
derick W.  Lord  and  Louisa  Ackerley. 

(VIII)  Edward  Henry  Floyd- Jones,  son  of 
Edward  Floyd-Jones  and  Mary  Smith  Lord, 
was  born  at  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  New 
York,  January  2,  1869,  and  resides  at  Massa- 
pequa, Long  Island,  on  the  old  estate  of  his 
ancestors. 

He  received  his  preparatory  education  at 
St.  Paul's  School,  in  Garden  City,  Long  Island, 
1878-1883,  and  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord, 
New  Hampshire,  1883-1888.  He  then  at- 
tended Yale  University,  1888-1892,  and  gradu- 
ating, entered  the  New  York  Law  School, 
where  he  studied,  1892- 1894,  and  entered  the 
practice  of  law  in  New  York  City,  with  office 
at  No.  49  Wall  Street.  He  entered  Squadron 
A,  National  Guard,  New  York,  serving  from 
1895  to  1897.  He  has  usually  voted  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket;  is  a  member  of  the  Protestant 
church,  and  a  vestryman  of  Grace  Church, 
South  Oyster  Bay,  New  York.  Before  resid- 
ing in  Massapequa  he  had  lived  some  time  in 
Hempstead,  Long  Island,  Stockton,  California, 
and  at  Greenport,  Long  Island.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  several  clubs  in  New  York  City,  among 
them  the  University,  Yale,  Graduates  Club  (of 
New  Haven),  City  Midday,  New  York  Bar 
Association,  Automobile  Club  of  America  and 
the  Aztec  Club  of  1847.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  South  Side  Sportsmen's  Club  of  Long 
Island. 

Edward  H.  Floyd-Jones  married,  November 
22,  1905,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  father. 
No.  33  West  Forty-sixth  Street,  New  York 
City,  Miss  Edith  Carpender,  who  was  born 
at  No.  16  East  Forty-second  Street,  April  i, 
1880,  and  was  the  daughter  of  William  Car- 
pender and  Ella  Floyd-Jones,  daughter  of 
William  Floyd- Jones. 


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This  name  is  of  English  origin,  and 

FISH     was  very  early  identified  with  Long 

Island.     Little  trace  of  it  is  found 

in   New   England,  but  it  has  long  been  well 

known  in  New  York. 

Nathaniel,  John  and  Jonathan  Fish  were,  as 
early  as  1637,  among  the  founders  of  Sand 
wich,  on  Cape  Cod,  coming  there  from  Lynn, 
Massachusetts. 

(I)  Jonathan,  the  youngest  of  them,  later 
moved  to  Oyster  Bay  on  Long  Island.  He 
again  appears  in  Middelburg,  or  Newtown, 
Long  Island,  as  early  as  1659,  and  was  evi- 
dently a  man  of  worth  and  standing.  The 
records  of  that  town  show  frequent  mention  of 
his  name  in  official  capacities  as  a  magistrate. 
He  was  owner  of  a  twenty-shilling  right  in  the 
town  lands,  which  secured  him  a  share  in  the 
various  divisions  of  the  common  lands.  He  died 
about  1663,  leaving  a  widow,  Mary,  and  three 
sons  (John,  Samuel  and  Nathan),  all  of  whom 
were  among  the  patentees  of  Newtown  in 
1686.  Samuel  died  in  1700  without  issue,  and 
John  removed  to  New  Jersey. 

(II)  Nathan,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary 
Fish,  inherited  from  his  father  a  right  in  the 
undivided  lands  of  Newtown  and  continued  to 
reside  there,  where  he  died  August  i,  1734. 

(III)  Jonathan  (2),  eldest  child  of  Nathan 
Fish,  was  born'October  11,  1680,  in  Newtown, 
and  died  there  in  November,  1723.  He  in- 
herited the  ancestral  homestead  and  other 
lands  in  the  village  of  Newtown,  where  he  re- 
sided. He  occupied,  and  perhaps  built,  the 
house  afterwards  kept  as  an  inn  by  his  son, 
and  long  known  as  the  "Corner  House."  In 
1715  he  gave  to  the  "Dissenting  Presbyterian 
Congregation  of  Newtown"  the  land  on  which 
the  old  Presbyterian  church  stood  until  the 
present  church  was  built  in  1895  He  served 
fifteen  years  as  town  clerk.  He  was  survived 
by  his  wife  Mary,  but  only  two  of  his  seven 
children  appear  to  have  reached  maturity: 
Samuel,  mentioned  below,  and  Jane,  born  May 
26,  1721,  married  Charles  Palmer. 

(IV)  Captain  Samuel  Fish,  only  surviving 
son  of  Jonathan  (2)  and  Mary  Fish,  was  born 
November  24,  1704,  in  the  village  of  New- 
town, and  inherited  from  his  father  the  "Cor- 
ner House,"  which  became  noted  as  an  inn 
during  his  lifetime.  He  seems  -to  have  been  a 
useful  citizen  in  various  ways,  and  died  Au- 
gust 27,  1767.  He  married  (first)  June  21, 
1727,  Agnes,  daughter  of  John  Berrien;  (sec- 


ond) April  22,  1748,  Abigail,  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward Howard;  (third)  November  19,  1752, 
Anna  Betts,  who  survived  him.  Of  his  fifteen 
children  the  following  appear  in  the  records: 
Jonathan,  mentioned  below;  Ruth,  born  May 
7,  1730;  Samuel,  April  13,  1734;  Mary,  July 
9,  1736;  Sarah,  February  24,  1739;  Richard, 
August  9,  1743;  Abigail,  August  27,  1749; 
Elizabeth,  August  24,  1753. 

(V)  Jonathan  (3),  eldest  child  of  Samuel 
and  Agnes  (Berrien)  Fish,  was  born  May  11. 
1728,  in  Newtown,  where  he  died  December 
26,  1779.  He  owned  the  homestead  in  New- 
town, on  which  he  dwelt,  with  the  exception 
of  some  years  when  he  was  a  merchant  in 
New  York  City  and  there  resided.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  October  5.  1750,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Sackett,  who  died  April  9, 
1778;  and  (second)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Whitehead,  who  died  October  26, 
1798.  There  were  two  children,  both  of  the 
first  marriage:  Sarah,  born  October  22,  1755. 
married  Terence  Reilly;  and  Nicholas,  men- 
tioned below. 

(VI)  Nicholas,  only  son  of  Jonathan  (3) 
and  Elizabeth  (Sackett)  Fish,  was  born  Au- 
gust 28,  1758,  in  New  York  City,  and  died 
there  in  his  house.  No.  21  Stuyvesant  street,  on 
June  20,  1833.  He  studied  law  in  the  office 
of  John  Morin  Scott  On  the  breaking  out 
of  the  Revolutionary  War  he  entered  the  ser- 
vice of  the  Colonies  as  a  lieutenant  in  the 
First  New  York  Regiment.  On  November  21, 
1776,  he  was  appointed  by  Congress  major  of 
the  Second  New  York  Regiment  of  the  Con- 
tinental army,  and  served  with  that  rank 
throi'gbort  the  war.  .A^t  its  close  he  was.  by 
a  resolution  of  Congress,  commissioned  as 
lieutenant-colonel.  He  participated  in  the  bat- 
tle of  Long  Island,  the  battle  of  Monmouth, 
and  General  Sullivan's  expedition  against  the 
Indians.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  battles 
which  led  to  the  capture  of  Burgoyne  at  Sara- 
toga, and  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis,  and 
with  his  lifelong  friend,  Hamilton,  was  in  the 
final  assault  at  Yorktown.  He  enjoyed  the 
confidence  of  General  Washington  and  of  all 
his  contemporaries,  and  was  by  him  appointed 
a  division  inspector  of  the  army  in  1778  under 
General  Steuben,  who  was  inspector-general. 
He  continued  in  the  regular  army  for  a  few 
years  after  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary 
War,  commanding  a  regiment  of  infantry  at 
Fort  Mcintosh  and  other  points  on  the  Ohio 


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river  in  1785-6.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
members  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  and 
assistant  treasurer  of  the  New  York  State  So- 
ciety at  its  organization,  and  president  thereof 
from  1797  to  1804.  In  1786  he  was  appointed 
as  the  first  adjutant-general  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  serving  in  that  capacity  until  1793. 
He  was  appointed  Supervisor  of  the  Revenue 
by  President  Washington  in  1794,  and  served 
for  several  years.  He  was  alderman  of  the 
Ninth  Ward  of  the  City  of  New  York,  1806  to 
181 7,  serving  on  the  committee  of  defense  dur- 
ing the  War  of  1812  with  Great  Britain.  He 
was  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Col- 
umbia College  from  1824  to  1832,  and  in  1831 
was  the  last  president  of  the  Butchers  and 
Drovers  Bank.  He  was  a  devout  communi- 
cant of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church, 
and  for  some  years  a  member  of  the 
standing  committee  of  the  Diocese  of  New 
York.  As  Colonel  Fish's  epitaph  in  St. 
Mark's  Church  in  the  Bowerie  aptly  rec- 
ords: "He  was  the  faithful  soldier  of  Christ 
and  of  his  Country."  He  married,  April  30, 
1803,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Petrus  Stuyve- 
sant,  a  great-grandson  of  the  last  Dutch  Gov- 
ernor of  New  Netherlands.  Children:  Susan 
Elizabeth,  born  July  25,  1805,  married  Daniel 
Le  Roy,  of  New  York ;  Margaret  Ann,  Febru- 
ary II,  1807,  married  John  (2)  Neilson,  of 
New  York ;  Hamilton,  mentioned  below ; 
Elizabeth  Sarah,  May  25,  1810,  married  Dr. 
Richard  L.  Morris;  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  May 
13,  1813,  died  unmarried,  November  i,  1834. 
(VH)  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  eldest  son  of 
Colonel  Nicholas  and  Elizabeth  (Stuyvesant) 
Fish,  was  born  August  3,  1808,  in  New  York, 
and  graduated  from  Columbia  College  in  1827. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1830,  but  early 
turned  his  attention  to  political  affairs.  He 
became  prominent  in  the  Whig  party.  In 
1842  he  was  elected  to  the  National  Congress 
from  the  Sixth  New  York  District.  In  1846 
he  was  the  nominee  of  his  party  for  the  office 
of  lieutenant-governor,  with  the  Hon  John 
Young  as  candidate  for  governor.  Although 
the  head  of  the  ticket  was  elected,  the  oppo- 
sition of  the  anti-renters,  whose  plans  Mr. 
Fish  emphatically  condemned,  prevented  his 
election.  His  successful  competitor,  Addison 
Gardner,  .'^oon  resigned  the  office  to  accept  the 
position  of  judge  of  the  Court  of  Appeals,  and 
Mr.  Fish  was  elected  in  1847  ™  his  place.  In 
1848  Mr.   Fish   was  elected  governor  of  the 


State  by  a  plurality  of  nearly  100,000,  and  in 
185 1  was  chosen  United  States  Senator  and 
served  for  six  years,  following  which  he  made 
an  extended  tour  of  Europe.  While  he  was 
in  the  Senate,  the  Republican  party  was  or- 
ganized, and  Governor  Fish,  as  he  was  always 
called,  became  one  of  its  loyal  supporters.  On 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he  took  a  de- 
cided stand  in  defense  of  the  Union  and  at- 
tained a  commanding  influence.  In  1862 
President  Lincoln  appointed  him  a  member  of 
the  Commission  to  visit  the  Union  prisoners 
confined  in  Richmond,  with  a  view  to  obtain- 
ing an  exchange,  which  was  eventually  ef- 
fected. He  also  was  chairman  of  the  Union 
Defense  Committee.  In  1869  he  was  called 
to  the  cabinet  of  President  Grant,  hold- 
ing the  high  position  of  Secretary  of 
State  for  eight  years.  Through  his  skill- 
ful and  untiring  efforts  a  peaceful  settle- 
ment of  the  Alabama  claims  was  made, 
through  the  Treaty  of  Washington  in  1871  and 
the  subsequent  Geneva  Arbitration  in  1872. 
He  became  president  general  of  the  Order  of 
the  Cincinnati  in  1854,  and  so  continued  until 
his  death.  He  was  also  president  of  the  New 
York  Historical  Society,  of  the  Union  League 
Club,  and  of  the  United  Railroad  and  Canal 
Company  of  New  Jersey,  and  from  1859  until 
1893  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
Columbia  College.  Governor  Fish  served  re- 
peatedly as  a  delegate  from  the  Diocese  of 
New  York  to  the  Triennial  Conventions  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  and  devoted 
much  of  his  time  to  the  study  of  and  became 
an  authority  in  respect  to  the  canon  law  of  the 
church.  After  a  long,  extremely  active,  and 
useful  life,  Mr.  Fish  passed  awav  at  the  age  of 
eighty-five  years,  on  September  7,  1893,  at  his 
country  seat,  "Glenclyffe,"  near  Garrison,  in 
Putnam  county.  New  York,  leaving  behind 
him  the  memory  of  a  patriotic  citizen  and 
an  upright,  able  and  honorable  man.  Mr.  Fish 
built  and  for  more  than  forty  years  lived  in 
a  house  at  the  corner  of  Second  avenue  and 
Seventeenth  street,  fronting  on  Stuyvesant 
Square,  the  land  occupied  bv  which  public 
park  had  been  given  to  the  city  by  his  uncle, 
Mr.  Peter  G  Stuyvesant.  The  site  of  Mr. 
Fish's  house  and  garden  is  now  that  of  the 
Maternity  Hospital.  His  country  seat.  "Glen- 
clyffe," embraced  the  famous  "Beverley 
House,"  which  had  been  the  headquarters  of 
General   Benedict  Arnold  at  the  time  of  the 


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detection  of  his  treason  and  from  which  he 
had  fled  to  the  British. 

Hamihon  Fish  married,  December  17,  1836, 
Julia,  daughter  of  Peter  Kean,  of  Ursino,  near 
Ehzabeth,  New  Jersey.  Children:  Sarah 
Morris,  married  Sidney  Webster;  Elizabeth 
Stuyvesant,  married  Frederic  S.  G.  d"Haute- 
ville;  Julia  Kean,  married  Colonel  S.  N.  Ben- 
jamin,'of  the  United  States  army;  Susan  Le- 
Roy,  married  William  E.  Rogers;  Nicholas; 
Hamilton;  Stuyvesant,  and  Edith  Livingston, 
married  Oliver  Northcote. 

(Vni)  The  eldest  son,  Nicholas,  born  in 
New  York,  February  19,  1846,  graduated  from 
Columbia  College  in  1867  and  from  the  Dane 
Law  School  of  Harvard  in  1869.  In  1871  he 
was  second  secretary  of  the  United  States 
legation  in  Berlin,  and  first  secretary  in  1874. 
From  1877  to  1881  he  was  charge  d'affairs  to 
the  Swiss  Confederation,  and  Alinister  to  Bel- 
gium, 1882-86.  He  was  subsequently  engaged 
in  banking  and  financial  affairs  in  New  York. 
He  married  Clemence  S.  Bryce,  and  had  chil- 
dren:  Elizabeth  S.  Claire,  who  was  married 
to  Robert  Burnside  Potter ;  and  Hamilton. 

(Vni)  The  second  son,  Hamilton  {2)  Fish, 
was  born  April  17,  1849,  in  Albany,  while  his 
father  was  governor,  and  graduated  from  Col- 
umbia College  in  1869.  For  two  years  he 
served  as  secretary  to  his  father,  who  was  then 
Secretary  of  State.  In  1873  he  graduated 
from  the  law  school  of  Columbia  College,  and 
ser\'ed  several  terms  as  member  of  assembly 
from  Putnam  county,  New  York.  He  was 
aide-de-camp  on  the  staff  of  Governor  John 
A.  Dix,  and  was  a  leader  in  the  Republican 
party,  serving  repeatedly  as  chairman  of  im- 
portant committees  of  the  legislature,  and  in 
1895  ^"<^  1896  as  speaker.  In  1884  he  was  a 
delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Conven- 
tion. He  was  United  States  Assistant  Treas- 
urer at  New  York  from  1903  to  1908,  and 
Member  of  Congress  from  1909  to  igii.  He 
married  (first)  in  1880,  Emily  M.,  daughter 
of  Hon.  Francis  N.  Mann,  of  Troy,  New 
York,  and  they  had  five  children.  He  married 
(secondly)  in  19 12,  Florence  Delaplaine,  the 
widow  of  Gustav  Amsinck. 

(VIH)  The  youngest  son,  Stuyvesant,  was 
born  June  24,  185 1,  in  New  York,  and  gradu- 
ated from  Columbia  College  in  1871.  In  Oc- 
tober, 1871,  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  New 
York  office  of  the  Illinois  Central  railroad, 
serving  as  private  secretary  to  W.  H.  Osborn, 


chairman,  and  later  in  Chicago  to  John  Newell, 
president  of  that  company.  From  1872  to 
1876  he  was  connected  with  the  banking  house 
of  Morton,  Bliss  &  Company  in  New  York, 
and  Morton,  Rose  &  Company,  in  London. 
From  1877  onward  he  devoted  himself  chiefly 
to  railroad  affairs.  He  became  a  director  of 
the  Illinois  Central  railroad,  March  16,  1877, 
vice-president  in  1883,  and  advanced  to  the 
presidency  May  18,  1887,  and  continuing  in 
that  position  until  November  7,  1906.  He  is 
now  interested  in  other  railroads.  Like  his 
father,  he  has  long  been  a  trustee  of  the 
New  York  Life  Insurance  and  Trust  Com- 
pany. He  is  a  director  of  the  National  Park 
Bank  and  other  financial  corporations.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Monetary  Commission 
created  by  the  Indianapolis  Monetary  Con- 
ference in  1897;  was  president  of  the  Ameri- 
can Railway  Association  in  1904-6,  and  chair- 
man of  the  Seventh  International  Railway 
Congress,  held  at  Washington  in  1905.  Mr. 
Fish  is  identified  with  many  clubs,  including 
the  Union,  Metropolitan,  Downtown,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  St.  Nicholas  Society  of  New 
York,  of  which  his  father  was  one  of  the 
founders. 

He  married,  June  i,  1876,  Marian  G.  An- 
thon,  and  they  have  three  children.  Mrs.  Fish 
is  the  daughter  of  William  Henry  Anthon,  one 
of  the  prominent  members  of  the  New  York 
bar,  born  1827.  in  New  York,  died  in  1875 
In  185 1  Mr.  Anthon  was  a  member  of  the  New 
York  Assembly,  and  during  the  Civil  War, 
judge  advocate  general  on  the  staff  of  Gov- 
ernor Edwin  D.  Morgan.  His  grandfather. 
Dr.  George  Christian  Anthon,  was  a  native  of 
Germany,  who  entered  the  British  army  and 
attained  the  rank  of  surgeon-general,  serving 
from  the  commencement  of  the  French  War 
until  after  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War. 
In  1784  he  resigned  from  the  British  service 
and  settled  in  New  York.  His  son,  John 
Anthon,  was  born  in  1784,  in  Detroit,  Michi- 
gan, and  died  in  New  York  in  1863.  Graduat- 
ing from  Columbia  College  m  1801,  he  studied 
law,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  New 
York  Law  Institute,  which  he  served  as  presi- 
dent, and  was  author  of  numerous  law  re- 
ports and  treatises.  It  was  largely  through  his 
efforts  that  the  Supreme  Court  of  New  York 
City  was  established.  During  the  War  of 
1812  he  commanded  a  company  of  militia  and 
served  in  defense  of  the  city.     His  son.  Wil- 


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liam  Henry,  was    father  of  Mrs.   Stuyvesant 
Fish,  as  above  noted. 


George  SulHvan  Ludlow  was 
LUDLOW  born  at  Neshanic,  Somerset 
county,  New  Jersey,  Septem- 
ber 16,  1873.  His  family  removed  to  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  in  1888,  where 
he  prepared  for  college  and  entered  Rutgers 
in  1891.  In  college  he  v/on  distinction  in 
athletics,  particularly  in  football,  and  also  in 
his  studies,  and  graduated  with  honors  in  1895, 
taking  the  degree  of  A.B.  He  entered  the 
New  York  Law  School  in  the  fall  of  1895, 
and  was  graduated  therefrom  in  1897  with  the 
degree  of  LL.B.,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  New  York  State  shortly  thereafter.  In 
1898  he  received  the  degree  of  A.M.  from 
Rutgers  College.  Since  his  admission  to  the 
bar  Mr.  Ludlow  has  devoted  himself  to  the 
practice  of  law  in  all  the  New  York  State 
and  United  States  Courts.  He  married,  De- 
cember I,  1908,  Grace  D.  Fackler,  daughter 
of  George  W.  and  Fanny  (Trimble)  Fackler. 
and  has  one  daughter,  Hope  Ludlow,  born 
January  4,  1913.  Mr.  Ludlow  is  an  enthus- 
iastic golfer  and  is  a  member  of  the  Engle- 
wood  Country  Club  and  the  Deal  Golf  and 
Country  Club.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Bar  Association  of  the  City  of  New  York 
and  of  the  Manhattan  Club.  Mr.  Ludlow 
comes  of  a  very  r)1d  and  distinguished  English 
family,  which  first  came  to  New  York  City 
in  1694,  and  he  is  the  first  of  his  direct  line 
to  return  to  New  York  City  as  a  place  of  resi- 
dence since  his  ancestor,  John  Ludlow,  re- 
moved to  New  Jersey  in  1734.  Few  families 
in  the  United  States,  certainly  none  in  this 
state,  can  trace  their  descent  back  to  noble 
and  even  royal  ancestors  with  more  certainty 
than  the  Ludlows.  The  genealogy,  descending 
from  King  Edward  III.  of  England,  is  clear 
and  exact. 

The  name  "Lude-lawe"  in  Saxon  means 
"lude,"  a  ford,  and  "lawe"  or  "lowe,"  low 
ground.  In  the  reign  of  Edward  the  Confes- 
sor "Ludelawe"  was  held  by  "Saisi  the  Sax- 
on," and  at  Domesday  Survey  it  was  held  by 
Roger  de  Laci  from  Osberne  Fitz  Richard, 
who  held  it  in  chief  from  the  crown.  Lude- 
lawe Castle  was  built  by  Roger  de  Laci  about 
the  year  1086,  and  stands  on  a  hill  just  above 
the  old  town  of  Ludelawe,  which  is  clustered 


on  low  ground  just  around  the  ford  from 
which  it  derives  its  name.  The  present  family 
of  Ludlow  appears  to  owe  its  origin  to  (I) 
Simon  de  Ludelawe,  who  flourished  in  the 
reign  of  Stephen,  1135-1154,  and  was  father 
of  (II)  Turstino  (Thurstan),  filius  Simonis, 
castellan  of  Ludelawe  Castle  in  1177.  His 
successors,  and,  presumably  his  eldest  male 
line,  as  the  office  appears  to  have  been  heredi- 
tary, were  (III)  Willelmus,  (IV)  Rogerius, 
(V)  Rogerius  Tunerius,  (VI)  Willelmus, 
(VII)  Henricus;  and  (VIII)  Matthew  de 
Ludelawe,  castellan  of  Ludelawe  Castle  in 
1229,  who  married  Petronilla,  daughter  of 
Norman  de  Swineton  and  Matilda  de  Misec, 
feudal  lords  of  Ludelawe  Castle  at  that  time 

(IX)  Nicholas  de  Ludelawe,  son  of  Mat- 
thew de  Ludelawe,  was  a  merchant  and  a  man 
of  great  wealth.  He  was  much  thought  of  by 
Edward  I.  who,  in  1276,  appointed  him  one 
of  the  special  proctors  to  receive  the  sum  of 
£4755  17s.  sterling  from  Margaret,  Countess 
of  Flanders,  due  to  merchants  of  England  for 
wool  exported  into  Holland.  Ilis  son,  John, 
was  burgess  of  Shrewsbury  and  Coventry,  and 
Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Oxford.  His 
son,  Thomas,  was  knighted  by  Edward  I.  for 
distinguished  services  in  the  Welch  and  Scot- 
tish wars. 

(X)  Lawrence  de  Ludelawe,  son  of  Nicho- 
las de  Ludelawe,  succeeded  his  father  in  busi- 
ness as  a  wool  merchant.  He  became  very 
wealthy,  and  in  1281  purchased  the  manor  of 
Stoke  Say,  County  Salop.  He  was  appointed 
one  of  the  three  commissioners  to  take  4,000 
marks  to  France  to  Henry,  Count  de  Bar, 
brother-in-law  of  Edward  I. 

(XI)  William  de  Ludelawe,  son  of  Law 
rence  de  Ludelawe,  was  a  member  of  Parlia- 
ment from  Salop  in  1307,  assessor  for  the 
counties  of  Hereford  and  Salop,  burgess  of 
Shrewsbury,  justice  of  the  peace  for  Salop, 
and  a  judge  oi  Oyer  and  Terminer  from  1313 
to  his  death  in  1316.  His  son,  Thomas,  was 
appointed  recorder  of  the  City  of  London, 
November  20,  1362.  and  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer, May  7,  1378. 

(XII)  Sir  Lawrence  de  Ludelawe  of  Stoke 
Say,  Hodnet  and  Great  Merkeley,  son  of  Wil- 
liam de  Ludelawe,  was  born  March  2,  1301. 
He  was  appointed  one  of  the  commissioners  of 
the  wool  trade  by  Edward  III.  In  1349  he 
founded  the  House  of  St.  Mary's  of  the 
White  (Carmelite)   Friars.     He  died  October 


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14,  1353.  His  son  and  heir,  Sir  John  de  Lude- 
lawe,  was  born  May  6,  1320,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 17,  1382.  He  was  high  sheriff  of  Salop, 
justice  of  the  peace  for  Worcester,  one  of 
the  assessors  and  commissioners  of  array  for 
Salop  and  was  knighted  by  Edward  HI.  for 
long  and  faithful  service  to  the  king. 

(XHI)  Roger,  or  Robert,  de  Ludelawe,  sec- 
ond son  of  Sir  Lawrence  de  Ludelawe,  was 
high  sheriff  of  Salop  in  1379  and  1388,  and 
justice  of  the  peace  in  1389 

(XIV)  Sir  William  de  Ludelawe,  son  of 
Roger  or  Robert  de  Ludelawe,  was  one  of  the 
deputy  butlers  to  Henry  IV.,  1399-1412.  His 
son,  Richard,  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath 
by  Henry  VI. 

(XV)  William  de  Ludlowe,  son  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam de  Ludelawe,  was  one  of  the  "Servitors 
of  the  Cellar"  to  Henry  V.  in  1414,  and  "Yeo- 
man of  the  Cellar"  to  Henry  VI.  in  1427.  He 
acquired  the  estate  of  Hill  Deverell,  which 
remained  in  the  family  for  over  two  centuries. 
He  was  parker  of  the  Royal  Park  at  Ludgers- 
hall,  and  represented  that  borough  in  Parlia- 
ment. He  also  occupied  many  other  positions 
of  honor  and  trust. 

(XVI)  John  Ludlowe,  of  Hill  Deverell,  son 
of  William  de  Ludlowe,  was  constable  of 
Carrisbroke  Castle,  parker  of  the  Isle  of 
Wight,  assistant  parker  of  Ludgershall,  and 
mayor  of  Southampton  in  1478. 

(XVII)  John  Ludlowe,  of  Hill  Deverell, 
son  of  John  Ludlowe,  married  Philippa, 
daughter  of  William  Bulstrode,  of  London, 
and  died  in   ISI9- 

(XVIII)  William  Ludlowe,  of  Hill 
Deverell,  son  of  John  Ludlowe,  married  Joane, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Moore,  of  Withford, 
County  Hants,  and  died  in  1533. 

(XIX)  George  Ludlowe,  of  Hill  Deverell, 
son  of  William  Ludlowe,  was  high  sheriff 
of  Wilts  in  1559  He  married  Edith,  third 
daughter  of  Andrew,  first  Lord  Windsor,  who 
through  her  mother  could  trace  a  lineal  descent 
from  Edward  III.  and  Philippa  of  Hainault. 
Their  third  son,  Lionel,  Duke  of  Clarence, 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  de 
Burgh.  Earl  of  Ulster,  and  had  PhiHppa  Plan- 
tagenet  who  married  Edmund  Mortimer,  Earl 
of  March.  Thev  had  Elizabeth  Mortimer, 
who  married  Sir  Henry  Percy,  surnamed 
Hotspur,"  whose  son  Henrv.  second  Earl  of 
Northumberland,  married  Eleanor,  daughter 
of  Ralph  Neville,  first  Earl  of  Westmoreland, 


and  had  Henry,  third  Earl  of  Northumber- 
land, who  married  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Richard,  Lord  Poynings,  and  had  Eleanor 
Percy  who  married  Sir  Reginald,  fourth  Lord 
West  and  seventh  Lord  De  la  Warr.  Lord 
West  was  also  of  royal  descent  in  the  direct 
line  from  Edward  I.  and  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Philip  IV.  of  France.  Their  daughter, 
Margaret  West,  married  Thomas,  Lord  Ech- 
ingham,  and  had  Margaret  Echingham,  who 
married  William  Blount  and  had  Elizabeth 
Blount,  who  married  Andrew,  first  Lord 
Windsor,  and  had  Edith  who  married,  as 
stated  above,  George  Ludlowe,  who  died  in 
1580.  His  eldest  son  was  Sir  Edmund  Lud- 
lowe from  whom  descended  the  Earls  of  Lud- 
low, and  the  famous  Lieutenant-General  Ed- 
mund Ludlow,  who  was  one  of  the  judges  who 
tried  and  condemned  Charles  I.,  and  Lieuten- 
ant Philip  Ludlow,  who  served  in  Admiral 
Blake's  fleet  and  was  buried  in  Westminster 
Abbey. 

(XX)  Thomas  Ludlowe,  the  younger  son 
of  George  Ludlowe,  acquired  the  estate  of 
Baycliffe  in  the  parish  of  Dinton,  County 
Wilts.  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  sister  of  Sir  Gabriel  Pyle.  He  died  in 
1607.  His  third  son,  Roger,  came  to  New 
England  with  his  youngest  brother,  George, 
in  the  "Mary  and  John"  in  M.iy,  1630.  He 
was  assistant  to  Governor  Winthrop,  1630- 
34,  deputy  governor  of  Massachusetts  Bay 
Colony,  1634-35,  first  deputy  governor  of  Con- 
necticut, 1636,  and  member  of  Council  of 
United  Colonies  of  New  England,  1651-53 
He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Governor  John 
Endicott.  He  was  the  ancestor  of  Israel  and 
John  Ludlow,  the  founders  of  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  and  of  Governor  and  Supreme  Court 
Justice,  George  C.  Ludlow,  of  New  Jersey. 
His  youngest  brother,  George,  went  to  Vir- 
ginia, where  he  was  a  member  of  the  Gov- 
ernor's Council  from  1642  unti'  his  death  in 
1656.  He  owned  17,000  acres  in  York  and 
Gloucester  counties,  and  in  his  will  he  be- 
queathed his  sixteenth  part  of  the  ship  "May- 
flower" to  his  nephew,  Thomas  Ludlow,  and 
ten  pounds  to  Captain  Augustine  Warner, 
great-grandfather  of  George  Washington. 

(XXI)  Thomas  Ludlow,  son  of  Thomas 
Ludlowe,  married  Jane,  daughter  of  John 
Bennett,  of  Steeple  Ashton  and  Smallbrooke, 
County  Wilts,  and  died  in  1646. 


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(XXII)  Gabriel  Ludlow,  son  of  Thomas 
Ludlow,  married  Martha  Gary  at  Gastle  Gary, 
County  Somerset,  in  1662. 

(XXIII)  Gabriel  Ludlow,  son  of  Gabriel 
Ludlow,  was  born  at  Gastle  Gary,  November 
2,  1663,  and  came  to  New  York,  November 
24,  1694.  He  was  a  merchant  and  also  clerk 
in  Governor  Bellomont's  office  in  1698.  He 
was  clerk  of  the  Assembly  in  1699,  a  vestry- 
man of  Trinity  Parish,  1696-98,  and  a  revenue 
officer  of  the  Port  of  New  York  in  1722.  He 
married,  in  Old  Trinity,  on  April  5,  1697, 
Sarah  Hanmer,  daughter  of  Rev.  Joseph  Han- 
mer,  D.D.,  the  first  Episcopal  minister  in  New 
York.  This  lady  was  also  of  royal  lineage 
by  direct  descent  from  Humphrey,  fourth  son 
of  Henry  IV. 

(XXIV)  John  Ludlow,  third  son  of  Gabriel 
Ludlow,  was  born  January  20,  1706.  He  mar- 
ried Susannah,  daughter  of  Gornelius  Brad- 
bury. In  1734  he  removed  to  New  Jersey, 
and  in  1739  Governor  Lewis  Morris  appointed 
him  one  of  the  justices  of  the  peace  and 
quarter  sessions  for  Essex  county.  He  died 
November  4,  1775. 

(XXV)  Richard  Ludlow,  fifth  son  of  John 
Ludlow,  was  born  August  17,.  1745.  He  served 
during  the  Revolutionary  War  as  Major  and 
Gornmissary  of  Issues,  Commissary  General's 
Department,  New  Jersey  Militia.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Jane,  daughter  of  John  Van  Nos- 
trand.  He  married  (second)  Elizabeth  Van 
Camp,  and  died  November  20,  1820. 

(XXVI)  John  Richard  Ludlow,  eldest  child 
of  Richard  Ludlow,  was  born  August  5,  1769. 
He  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Vreeland.  He 
married  (second)  Catalina  Ditmars,  and  died 
April  14,  1849. 

(XXVII)  Gabriel  Ludlow,  third  son  of 
John  Richard  Ludlow,  was  born  April  23, 
1797.  He  was  graduated  from  Union  College 
in  1817,  and  later  from  the  New  Brunswick 
Theological  Seminary,  which  conferred  on  him 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Diviniti'  in  1850.  He 
was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  at  Neshanic,  New 
Jersey,  September  5,  1821,  and  held  the  pas- 
torate until  his  death,  February  19,  1878.  It 
is  one  of  the  record  pastorates  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  Church  and  it  is  remarkable  that  he 
ministered  to  the  children,  grandchildren  and 
great-grandchildren  of  those  who  were  present 
at  his  ordination.  He  married  Susan  Rapelyea, 
June  22,  1820,  and  had  the  follov/ing  children: 


Elizabeth  Vreeland  Ludlow,  Dr.  Jacob  Rapel- 
yea Ludlow,  Mary  Rapelyea  Ludlow,  Dr.  John 
Richard,  Anna  Phoebe,  Susan,  Dr.  Richard 
Gabriel  Ludlow,  and  Caroline.  His  brother, 
John  Ludlow,  was  also  a  celebrated  divine 
in  the  same  church.  He  was  graduated  from 
Union  College  in  1814  and  from  the  New 
Brunswick  Theological  Seminary  in  1817.  He 
was  professor  of  Biblical  Literature  and  Ec- 
clesiastical History  in  the  New  Brunswick 
Theological  Seminary,  1819-23,  and  Provost  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  from  1834  to 
1854,  and  later  again  professor  in  the  New 
Brunswick  Theological  Seminary  and  in  Rut- 
gers College.  Union  College  gave  him  the  de- 
gree of  D.D.  in  1827,  and  LL.D.  later  on. 
James  Reily  Ludlow,  son  of  John  Ludlow,  was 
graduated  from  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
1843,  which  institution  gave  him  the  degree 
of  LL.D.  in  1870.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Philadelphia  Bar  in  1846,  and  in  1857  was 
chosen  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
serving  until  1875.  Although  a  Democrat  he 
was  twice  elected  by  votes  of  all  parties.  In 
1875,  under  the  new  constitution,  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  President  Judgeship  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas,  serving  until  his  death  in 
1886. 

(XXVIII)  Richard  Gabriel  Ludlow,  third 
son  of  Gabriel  Ludlow,  was  born  May  29, 
1840.  He  entered  Rutgers  College  in  the  class 
of  1862  but  left  before  graduat'on  to  take  up 
the  study  of  medicine  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  from  which  he  received  the  de- 
gree of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1863.  After 
graduation  he  served  as  resident  physician  at 
the  Blockley  Hospital  in  Philadelphia  for  a 
year,  and  thereafter  served  the  Union  cause 
in  the  Civil  War  as  surgeon  for  over  a  year. 
After  the  war  he  settled  at  his  old  home  in 
Neshanic,  New  Jersey,  where  he  practiced  his 
profession  until  his  untimely  death  by  accident 
on  December  5,  1879.  He  married  Jeannette 
Rapelyea  Van  Camp,  daughter  of  Tunis  and 
Ida  (Schenck)  Van  Camp,  in  1868,  and  had 
the  following  three  sons :  John  Van  Camp 
Ludlow,  born  April  29,  1870,  and  died  just 
after  he  had  entered  Rutgers  College  in  1889; 
Gabriel  Ludlow  was  born  May  29,  1872,  and 
was  graduated  from  Rutgers  College  in  1895. 
He  married  Louise  Richards,  daughter  of  Wil- 
lard  and  Anna  (Randolph)  Richards,  in  1900, 
and  has  two  sons,  Willard  Richards  Ludlow, 
born    March    15,    1902,   and   Richard   Gabriel 


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He  resides  at 


Ludlow,  born  May  23,   1912. 
Macon,  Georgia. 

(XXIX)  George  Sullivan  Ludlow,  third  son 
of  Richard  Gabriel  Ludlow,  the  subject  of 
the  above  sketch. 


Hon.        Alphonso       T. 

CLEARWATER  Clearwater,  of  King- 
ston, New  York,  prom- 
inent as  a  lawyer  and  jurist,  historian  and  an- 
tiquarian, is  descended  from  ancestors  long 
prominent  in  the  annals  of  Holland  and 
France,  who  were  noted  for  their  patriotism 
and  liberal  contributions  to  the  cause  of  re- 
ligion and  learning. 

The  present  form  of  the  name  (Clearwater) 
was  adopted  in  this  country  about  the  begin 
ning  of  the  nineteenth  century,  being  angli- 
cised from  the  original  form  of  Klaarwater,  as 
it  exists  in  Holland  at  this  day.  There  are  as 
well  changes  in  the  spelling  of  the  family 
names  of  his  other  ancestors.  In  France,  Deyo 
was  spelled  Doiau,  and  the  American  patentee 
used  the  latter  form.  The  original  form  of 
Tromper  is  yet  in  use  in  Holland,  though  there 
it  frequently  appears  as  Tromp ;  it  was  angli- 
cised to  Trumpbour  about  the  time  that 
Klaarwater  became  Clearwater.  The  original 
French  name  of  Boudouin  is  retained  in 
France ;  here  it  was  anglicised  to  Bowdoin  in 
the  eighteenth  century.  There  are  many  vari- 
ant spellings  of  these  names,  there  being 
twenty-seven  different  ways  of  spelling  Deyo, 
and  almost  as  many  of  spelling  Clearwater, 
Boudoin  and  Tromper. 

In  the  fifteenth  century  the  Clearwaters  had 
large  and  valuable  possessions  in  the  vicinity 
of  Hattem,  Holland,  where  .a.  d.  1414  they 
built  a  castle,  and  with  it  a  cloister  which  was 
'dedicated  by  Roedericus,  Bishop  of  Utrecht, 
and  devoted  to  the  Sisters  of  the  Order  of  St 
Benedict.  It  was  known  as  the  Kloster  Klaar- 
water, and  was  the  home  of  the  Benedictines 
until  late  in  the  seventeenth  century.  At  the 
time  of  the  Reformation  in  Holland  it  was 
the  only  cloister  Ihe  inmates  of  which  escaped 
the  censure  of  the  Reformed  Church.  An  in- 
teresting historical  account  of  it  has  been 
published  in  Holland. 

Theunis  Jacobson  Klaarwater,  a  member  of 
this  ancient  family,  left  Holland  in  the  latter 
naif  of  the  seventeenth  century  and  with  his 
son  Jacob  came  to  America,  settling  in  Ulster 
county.  New  York.     On  May  24,   1709,  with 


Colonel  William  Peartree,  Governor  Rip  Van 
Dam,  Adolphus  Philipse,  Dr.  Gerardus  Beek- 
man,  Hendrick  Vernooye  and  Abraham  Deyo, 
he  and  his  son  Jacob  obtained  from  Queen 
Anne  the  grant  of  a  patent  of  four  thousand 
acres  of  land  in  what  was  then  the  town  of 
Shawangunk.  Jacob  married  Marie,  daughter 
of  Pierre  Deyo,  one  of  the  Huguenot  patentees 
of  New  Paltz,  he  being  the  first  Dutchman  to 
marry  into  the  Huguenot  families  of  that  set- 
tlement. Their  son  A.braham,  who  was  bap- 
tized by  the  pastor  of  the  Huguenot  Church 
of  New  Paltz,  July  3,  1699.  was  Judge  Clear- 
water's great-great-grandfather. 

On  his  mother's  side,  Judge  Clearwater  is 
descended  from  Jacob  Tromper,  who  was  a 
great  Dutch  ship  owner,  and  a  city  counsellor 
of  Rotterdam,  Holland,  from  1524  to  1540; 
schepen,  1527-29-32;  city  treasurer  from  1535 
to  1539;  and  burgomaster  of  that  city  from 
1527  to  1532.  In  1533  he  was  unanimously 
chosen  head  of  the  Orphans  Commission  of 
Rotterdam,  which  looked  after  its  still  famous 
orphan  asylums,  the  homes  of  the  orphan 
children  of  the  soldiers  and  sailors  of  Holland. 
He  discharged  these  public  and  official  duties 
without  compensation,  quietly;  and  quaintly 
saying,  "Heaven  and  Holland  have  done  much 
for  me,  and  I  must  do  a  little  bit  (kleyn 
beetje)  to  help  pay  back.''  The  Trompers 
were  regarded  as  among  the  most  public  spir- 
ited and  enterprising  citizens  of  the  Nether- 
lands. 

Nicolas  Tromper  came  to  America  late  in 
the  seventeenth  century,  and  married  Jeanne 
Boudouin,  a  descendant  of  Pierre  Boudouin, 
the  distinguished  Huguenot  who've  estates  were 
confiscated  and  who  was  exiled  from  France 
at  the  time  of  the  revocation  of  the  Edict  of 
Nantes  in  1685,  and  from  them  Judge  Clear- 
water's mother,  Emily  Boudouin.  daughter  of 
Peter  Tromper  and  Jeanne  Corquet,  was  de- 
scended. Among  other  descendants  of  Pierre 
Boudouin  were  James  Boudouin,  founder  of 
Bowdoin  College;  and  Robert  C.  Winthrop  of 
Massachusetts. 

Judge  Clearwater  was  born  at  West  Point, 
New  York,  September  11,  184S,  his  father, 
Isaac  Clearwater,  being  there  under  designa- 
tion by  the  Secretary  of  War  to  superintend 
the  buildings  then  being  constructed  at  the 
Military  Academy  under  the  Act  of  Congress. 
He  was  educated  at  the  f.imous  old  Anthon 
Latin   Grammar  School   in  the   City  of   New 


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York,  and  at  the  Kingston  (New  York) 
Academy.  He  studied  law  at  Kingston,  with 
Senator  Jacob  Hardenburgh  and  Judge  Au- 
gustus Schoonmaker,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  November,  1871.  His  notable  public 
career  began  in  1877,  when  he  was  elected  dis- 
trict attorney  of  Ulster  county;  he  was  re- 
elected in  1880  and  a  third  time  in  1883.  In 
1884  and  1886  he  declined  the  nomination  for 
congress  in  the  Ulster-Greene-Delaware  dis- 
trict. In  1889  he  was  elected  county  judge  of 
Ulster  county,  and  re-elected  in  1895.  In 
1898,  Alton  B.  Parker,  having  been  elected 
chief  judge  of  the  Court  of  Appeals,  Judge 
Clearwater  was  appointed  by  Governor  Black 
to  be  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  Judge 
Parker's  stead.  In  1909  he  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Hughes  a  member  of  the  New  York 
State  Probation  Commission  to  fill  the  va- 
cancy created  by  the  resignation  of  Felix 
Warburg,  was  reappointed  by  Governor 
Hughes  for  the  full  term,  and  subsequently 
appointed  for  another  full  term  by  Governor 
Sulzer  in  1913. 

Judge  Clearwater  has  been  notably  active 
in  public  aiifairs  aside  from  his  professional 
and  ofificial  career.  He  is  a  trustee  of  Rutgers 
College,  and  chairman  of  the  library  commit- 
tee of  the  board ;  he  was  a  delegate  of  the 
New  York  State  Bar  Association  to  the  Uni- 
versal Congress  of  Lawyers  and  Jurists,  held 
in  connection  with  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Ex- 
position at  St.  Louis  in  1904;  he  is  and  has 
been  for  several  years  chairman  of  the  law 
reform  committee  of  that  association ;  is 
chairman  of  its  committee  to  suggest  reform  in 
the  introduction  of  medical  expert  testimony 
in  civil  and  criminal  trials ;  and  at  the  request 
of  the  editor  of  the  North  American  Review 
wrote  an  article  upon  "Medical  Expert  Tes- 
timony," which  appeared  in  the  June,  1909, 
number  of  that  publication.  He  is  chairman 
of  the  joint  committees  of  the  New  York 
State  Bar  Association,  the  New  State  Medical 
Society,  the  Homoeopathic  Medical  Society  of 
New  York,  the  Academy  of  Medicine  of  New 
York  City,  and  the  Society  of  Medical  Juris- 
prudence, to  urge  the  passage  by  the  legisla- 
ture of  New  York  of  a  law  regulating  the  in- 
troduction of  such  testimony  in  courts  of  jus- 
tice ;  is  chairman  of  the  committee  of  the 
New  York  State  Bar  Association,  to  suggest 
matters  to  be  brought  to  the  attention  and  for 
the  consideration  of  the  aproaching  Constitu- 


tional Convention  to  be  held  in  19 16  to  re- 
vise the  Constitution  of  the  State  of  New 
York;  and  is  a  member  of  the  committee  upon 
workmen's  compensation  of  the  Association. 
To  the  subject  of  workmen's  compensation, 
he  has  devoted  much  time  and  thought,  fami- 
liarizing himself  with  the  workmen's  compen- 
sation acts  of  the  different  states  of  the  Union, 
and  of  Great  Britain  and  the  countries  of  con- 
tinental Europe.  He  made  strong  addresses 
upon  this  subject  at  the  annual  meetings  of 
the  New  York  State  Bar  Association  in  1912 
and  1913. 

Judge  Clearwater  was  appointed  by  the  gov- 
ernor of  New  York  a  member  of  the  Hudson- 
Fulton  Celebration  Commission  in  1906,  and 
in  1907  edited  an  authoritative  history  of  Ul- 
ster County.  At  the  request  of  David  Dudley 
Field,  he  prepared  many  of  the  provisions  of 
the  Penal  Code  and  the  Code  of  Criminal 
Procedure  of  New  York.  In  1895  he  was  ap- 
pointed commissioner  to  super\ise  the  trans- 
lation from  Dutch  into  English  of  the  Dutch 
records  of  Ulster  county  (1664-84),  and 
completed  the  work  in  1898.  He  was  one  of 
the  founders  and  the  first  vice-president  for 
Ulster  county  of  the  Holland  Society,  was 
president  of  that  society  in  191 1,  and  now  is 
one  of  its  trustees.  He  was  one  of  the  found- 
ers and  since  its  formation  has  been  a  vice- 
president  of  the  Huguenot  Society  of  America  : 
is  president  of  the  following  organizations : 
The  Farm  Bureau  of  Ulster  County,  the  Old 
Senate  House  Association  of  Kingston,  the 
Ulster  Historical  Society,  the  Ulster  County 
Bar  Association,  the  Ulster  County  Bible  So- 
ciety, and  the  Wiltwyck  Rural  Cemetery  Asso- 
ciation. He  is  a  member  and  one  of  the  man- 
agers of  the  St.  Nicholas  Society  of  the  City 
of  New  York;  member  of  the  American  Bar 
Association,  and  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of 
the  Revolution ;  an  honorary  member  of  the 
St.  Andrew's  Society  of  Charleston,  South 
Carolina ;  a  life  member  of  the  Huguenot  So- 
ciety of  South  Carolina,  and  in  191 1,  at  the 
request  of  that  society,  delivered  at  Charles- 
ton the  commemorative  address  on  the  occa- 
sion of  the  celebration  of  the  two  hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  founding  of  civic  govern- 
ment by  the  Huguenots  in  South  Carolina ;  is 
a  member  of  the  Huguenot  Society  of  New 
Paltz ;  a  member  of  the  Ex  Libris  Society  of 
London ;  a  member  of  the  American  Peace 
Society,    the    New   York    Peace    Society,    the 


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American  Scenic  and  Historic  Preservation 
Society,  the  Historical  Society  of  Newburgh 
Bay  and  the  Highlands,  the  Minnisink  His- 
torical Society  ;  and  is  a  corresponding  member 
of  the  historical  societies  of  many  states.  In 
191 1,  he  was  made  an  honorary  fellow  for  life 
of  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art  of  the 
City  of  New  York,  in  recognition  of  his  loans 
of  old  American  silver  to  that  museum,  and  a 
like  member  of  the  American  Numismatic 
Society. 

He  has  delivered  and  is  the  author  of  many 
valuable  monographs  He  delivered  the  ad- 
dress at  the  opening  of  the  great  Protestant 
Mission  at  Menilmontant,  Paris,  France,  in 
June,  1888;  and  the  response  to  the  address 
of  welcome  to  the  Holland  Society  made  by 
the  burgomaster  of  Rotterdam,  Holland,  on 
the  occasion  of  the  visit  of  the  Holland  So- 
ciety to  that  country  in  the  same  year.  He 
is  a  contributor  to  the  North  American  Re- 
view, and  is  and  has  been  an  extensive  con- 
tributor to  the  historical  literature  of  New 
York.  He  is  author  of :  "The  Influence  of  the 
Dutch  and  Huguenots  in  the  Formation  of  the 
American  Republic,"  "Louis  XIV.  and  the 
Revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,"  "The 
Huguenot  Settlement  at  New  Paltz,  in  Ulster 
County,"  "Huguenot  Medals  in  the  British 
Museum,"  "Founders  of  New  Amsterdam," 
"The  Dutchmen  of  Albany  and  the  Iroquois," 
"Dutch  Governors  of  New  York,"  "The  Jur- 
ists of  Holland,"  "Lord  North  and  the  Ameri- 
can Colonists,"  "Ulster  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution,"  "The  Adoption  of  the  First  Con- 
stitution of  New  York,  at  Kingston,  1777," 
"The  Struggle  for  the  Highlands  During  the 
War  of  the  Revolution,"  "The  Inaugural  of 
George  Clinton,  the  First  Constitutional  Gov- 
ernor of  New  York,  at  Kingston."  He  has 
delivered  notable  memorial  addresses  upon  the 
life  and  services  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  General 
Ulysses  S.  Grant,  and  William  McKinley ;  an 
address  upon  "Ulster  in  the  War  of  the  Re- 
bellion." "Protest  Against  the  Destruction  of 
the  City  Hall  of  New  York,"  "The  Significance 
of  Dutch  Local  Names,"  "Antiquity  of  Free 
Masonry,"  "The  Trial  of  Christ  From  the 
Standpoint  of  a  Roman  Lawyer  of  the  Time 
of  Tiberius."  He  has  written  extensively  on 
criminological,  legal  and  public  matters,  includ- 
ing "Heredity  and  Criminal  Propensity," 
"Lombroso,  and  the  Danger  of  Sentimental 
Criminology,"  "Moral  Accountability  of  Crim- 


inals," "Goethe  and  the  Sentimentalists,"  "The 
Disregard  of  Law,"  "The  Deterioration  of  the 
Trial  Jury."  At  the  request  of  the  New 
York  Historical  Association  he  prepared  and 
in  September,  1913,  delivered  the  annual  ad- 
dress at  its  fifteenth  annual  meeting  at  Os- 
wego, the  subject  being  "The  Undervaluation 
of  American  Citizenship."  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  and  has  been  president  of  the  King- 
ston Club;  was  one  of  the  founders  and  is 
president  of  the  Twaalf skill  Golf  Club;  is  a 
member  of  the  Union  League,  Metropolitan 
and  Grolier  Clubs  of  New  York  City,  and  of 
the  Automobile  Club  of  America.  He  is  and 
for  many  years  has  been  a  collector  of  early 
American  silver;  much  of  his  collection  he 
has  loaned  to  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art 
of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  to  the  Museum 
of  Fine  Arts  of  the  City  of  Boston.  He  has 
repeatedly  been  a  delegate  to  national,  state, 
judicial,  congressional  and  senatorial  conven- 
tions of  the  Republican  party,  with  which  he 
has  always  been  identified. 

Judge  Clearwater  has  twice  been  invited  by 
Presidents  of  the  United  States  to  accept 
diplomatic  positions  abroad,  and  frequently 
asked  by  the  Republican  party  to  become  a 
candidate  for  political  office.  He  always  has 
declined  to  accept  any  position  not  connected 
with  the  administration  of  justice,  having  fully 
determined  when  he  entered  the  bar  never 
to  embark  upon  a  political  career.  It  is  at 
the  bar,  and  upon  the  bench,  therefore,  that 
his  most  important  work  has  been  done,  the 
record  of  which  appears  in  the  annals  of  the 
Ulster  Bar,  in  the  records  of  the  courts,  and 
in  the  volumes  published  by  the  state  of 
New  York,  which  contain  the  decisions  of  the 
old,  general  term,  the  Appellate  Divisions  of 
the  Supreme  Court  and  of  the  Court  of  Ap 
peals.  In  1903  he  received  the  honorary  de- 
gree of  Doctor  of  Laws  from  Rutgers  College 
for  distinction  in  the  public  service 

He  married,  in  1875,  Anna  Houghtaling 
Farrand,  daughter  of  Colonel  William  D.  Far- 
rand,  of  San  Francisco,  California,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Henry  Houghtaling  of  Kingston. 
New  York. 


This   is   one    of   the   early   Dutch 

CRUM     names   of   this   State   and   is   now 

spelled  differently  from  the  form 

used   in   the   early   church    records,   where   it 


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occurs  first  as  Krom  and  Crom.  There  are 
numerous  descendants  bearing  the  name  now 
Hving  in  this  State  and  New  Jersey,  who  have 
done  credit  to  a  worthy  ancestry. 

(I)  According  to  the  church  records  of  Tap- 
pan,  New  York,  Floris  Willemsen  Krom  Hved 
at  one  time  in  Flatbush.  His  wife  was  Cata- 
lyntie  Ariaens  and  they  had  baptized  at  the 
Dutch  church  in  New  Amsterdam  (New 
York)  May  3,  1685,  a  daughter,  Willemyntie. 
Their  son  Dirck  (Richard)  was  baptized  No- 
vember 14,  1694,  It  is  evident  that  they  lived 
somewhere  outside  of  New  York  at  this  time. 
A  record  at  Hackensack  shows  that  their  son, 
Willem  Florisse  Crom,  was  married  there  in 
1699. 

(H)  Dirck  Crum,  son  of  Floris  Willemsen 
and  Catalyntie  (Ariaens)  Krom,  baptized  as 
above  noted  in  New  York,  resided  at  Tappan, 
New  York.  His  wife,  Catriena  Kuyper 
(Cooper)  Crum,  was  a  daughter  of  Cornelius 
Kuyper  and  his  wife,  Aeltie  (Bogert)  Kuyper 
of  Tappan  and  Schraalenburg.  Cornelius 
Kuyper  was  a  son  of  Claes  Jansen,  who  came 
in  1647  from  Permerond,  a  village  near  the 
Zuyder  Zee,  between  Amsterdam  and  Hoorn, 
Holland,  and  settled  at  Brooklyn,  where  he 
married  (first)  Pietartie  Brack  Hoengie.  of 
Gowanus.  She  died  soon  after  and  he  re- 
moved to  Bergen,  New  Jersey,  where  he  mar- 
ried (second)  November  11,  1656,  Anna  Van 
Vorst.  He  received  a  patent,  January  i,  1662, 
for  a  tract  of  land  near  Harsemus,  New  Jer- 
sey, on  which  he  settled  and  remained  until 
his  death,  November  20,  1688.  His  widow 
survived  him  many  years,  dying  January  12, 
1726.  He  was  an  active  and  prominent  citi- 
zen, a  cooper  by  trade,  hence  is  often  referred 
to  in  the  records  as  Kuyper,  and  from  this 
time  on  the  family  adopted  the  surname  now 
rendered  Cooper.  On  April  10,  1671,  he  re- 
ceived a  deed  of  two  hundred  and  forty  acres 
of  land  on  the  Hudson  River,  where  the  village 
of  Nyack  now  stands.  Subsequently  he  pur- 
chased four  hundred  and  sixty-eight  acres  of 
meadow  north  of  Nyack,  being  a  partner  in 
part  of  these  lands  with  the  Tallmans.  He  had 
fifteen  children.  The  eldest  son  Cornelius  set- 
tled at  Tappan  in  1689,  but  soon  sold  to  Tall- 
man,  and  removed  to  Schraalenburg,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  bought  two  hundred  and 
sixty-six  acres  on  the  Hackensack  River.  His 
daughter  Catriena  became  the  wife  of  Dirck 
Crum,  as  above  noted.    Children :  Helena,  born 


October  12,  1718;'  Katharyna,  August  15, 
1723;  Willemyntie,  October  9,  1725;  Dirck, 
December  16,  1728;  Cornelius,  mentioned  be- 
low; Maria,  December  26,  1735;  Johannes, 
January  5,  1740. 

(HI)  Cornelius,  second  son  of  Dirck  and 
Catriena  (Kuyper)  Crum,  was  born  April  27, 
1 73 1,  and  baptized  May  30,  of  the  same  year, 
at  Tappan,  where  all  of  his  father's  children 
were  baptized,  and  settled  at  Haverstraw, 
New  York. 

(IV)  Richard,  son  of  Cornelius  Crum, 
was  born  February  4,  1763,  in  Haverstraw, 
New  York,  where  he  grew  to  manhood.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  serv- 
ing first  as  a  drummer  boy  and  later  becoming 
a  matross  in  the  Continental  artillery.  New 
York  line,  throughout  that  struggle.  He  was 
a  member  of  Captain  John  Doughty's  com- 
pany, under  Colonel  John  Lamb,  and  saw  many 
hardships.  At  one  time  he  was  stationed  with 
a  force  at  Fort  Herkimer,  during  a  severe 
winter,  with  the  snow  attaining  a  depth  of 
more  than  four  feet.  The  soldiers  were  forced 
to  carry  wood  on  their  shoulders  from  the 
timber  a  half  mile  distant  to  keep  from  freez- 
ing. Because  of  the  great  depth  of  snow  their 
food  supply  was  very  much  reduced  and  many 
were  glad  to  get  a  crust  of  bread.  After  the 
winter  had  somewhat  moderated  a  supply  of 
cattle  was  driven  in  and  the  soldiers  fared  bet- 
ter. Their  clothing  was  ragged  and  filthy  and 
when  warmer  weather  came  every  one  engaged 
in  washing.  Two  members  of  his  squad,  Jacob 
Van  Wart  and  John  Paulding,  were  members 
of  the  party  which  captured  Major  Andre,  and 
Richard  Crum  was  present  at  the  execution  of 
that  unfortunate  officer.  He  witnessed  the  de- 
parture of  General  Arnold  in  his  boat  when 
he  went  on  board  the  English  frigate  on  the 
Hudson.  He  was  a  member  of  the  party  of 
ten  men  which  defended  a  fort  on  the  bank  of 
the  Hudson  from  an  attack  of  Hessian  soldiers, 
during  which  two  field  pieces  in  the  fort 
mowed  down  the  assaulting  party  with  grape 
shot  and  successfully  repulsed  two  attacks  in 
this  manner.  Their  fire  was  held  until  the 
Hessians  were  so  close  that  they  could  see 
them  wink  their  eyes,  and  the  suddenness  and 
deadly  character  of  the  fire  caused  a  panic  and 
compelled  a  retreat.  After  darkness  came  on 
the  cannons  were  spiked  and  the  little  garrison 
fled  up  the  river.  At  the  same  time  the  sol- 
diers were  frequently  attacked  by  Indian  allies 


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and  British,  and  Mr.  Crum  was  wont  to  say 
that  they  were  "between  the  devil  and  the 
deep  sea,"  with  red  coats  on  one  side  and  In- 
dians on  the  other.  He  often  engaged  in 
friendly  conversation  with  Indian  girls,  who 
passed  the  fort,  and  on  one  occasion  one  of 
these  gave  him  an  implement  used  by  the  In- 
dians for  skinning  deer  and  preparing  the 
hides  for  tanning.  This  implement  is  now  in 
possession  of  his  son,  and  no  one  to  whom  it 
has  been  shown  has  been  able  to  name  the  ma- 
terial of  which  it  is  made.  The  powder  horn 
in  which  he  carried  his  priming  material  for 
the  artillery  is  also  preserved  by  his  son.  After 
the  men  were  discharged  a  barrel  of  whiskey 
was  rolled  out  for  their  use,  the  head  knocked 
out  and  the  men  helped  themselves  with  their 
cups.  This  resulted  in  much  fist  fighting  and 
General  Lamb  remarked  that  he  "thought  the 
war  was  over,  but  the  hard  fighting  seemed  to 
have  just  begun."  After  the  war  Richard 
Crum  returned  to  his  father's  home  at  Haver- 
straw,  but  soon  after  went  to  New  York 
There  he  boarded  a  schooner  for  Eatontown, 
New  Jersey,  whence  he  proceeded  to  what  was 
at  that  time  called  the  Liberty  Pole  in  Shrews- 
bury township,  Monmouth  county,  now  the 
city  of  Long  Branch. 

There  he  settled  and  married  Elizabeth  Gard- 
ner, born  September  14,  1768,  died  1827.  He 
died  in  1847.  Children:  i.  Deborah,  married 
Joseph  West,  a  farmer  and  fisherman  of  Long 
Branch.  2.  Nancy,  married  a  Throckmorton. 
3.  Hannah,  became  the  wife  of  Joseph  Brown, 
and  resided  in  Long  Branch.  4.  John,  a  very 
powerful  man,  standing  six  feet,  four  and  a 
half  inches  in  his  stockings.  5.  Catherine,  wife 
of  Hugh  Read,  lived  in  Long  Branch.  6. 
Gardner,  was  for  some  time  a  clergyman  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  later  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  law.  7.  Jacob.  8. 
Susannah,  married  a  Baldwin.  9.  Richard,  men- 
tioned below.  10.  Elizabeth,  married  Hugh 
Managhan.  11.  William  W.,  mentioned  below. 
12.  Sarah,  married  Barnabas  Clark,  who  was 
a  fish  dealer  in  New  York  City.  13.  Rebecca, 
wife  of  Isaac  Emmons,  a  sailor,  was  the 
mother  of  Edward  Emmons,  of  Long  Branch. 
(V)  Richard  (2),  fourth  son  of  Richard 
(i)  and  Elizabeth  (Gardner)  Crum,  was  born 
March  31,  1803,  at  Long  Branch,  New  Jer- 
sey, died  September  19,  1847.  He  married,  at 
Long  Branch,  July  26,  1831,  Mary  Brooks, 
born  at  Doylestown,  Bucks  county,   Pennsyl- 


vania, died  April  23,  1873,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Rebecca  (Harkins)   Brooks. 

(VI)  Richard  Benjamin  Brooks,  only  child 
of  Richard  (2)  and  Mary  (Brooks)  Crum, 
was  born  November  23,  1832,  at  Long  Branch, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  remained  until  he  came 
of  age.  He  then  removed  to  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  was  employed  in  the  lumber  woods 
for  several  years  and  settled  in  Gibson  town- 
ship, Cameron  county,  Pennsylvania.  Through 
successive  changes  in  boundaries,  although 
remaining  on  the  same  farm,  he  has  lived  suc- 
cessively in  Lycoming,  Elk  and  Cameron  coun- 
ties. He  has  been  quite  active  in  public  affairs, 
serving  as  school  director,  three  years  as  con 
stable,  four  years  as  supervisor,  and  also  as 
justice  of  the  peace.  For  several  years  he 
travelled  in  the  interest  of  the  nursery  busi- 
ness. He  married,  August  11,  1853,  Sarah 
Jane  Miller,  born  April  25,  1836,  at  Sinema- 
honing,  Pennsylvania,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Loque)  Miller.  Children:  i.  Mary 
Elizabeth,  widow  of  George  H.  Boardman.  2. 
Martin  Luther,  a  real  estate  broker  in  Chicago, 
Illinois.  3.  Charles  Washington,  a  railroad 
engineer.  4.  Victor  Emanuel,  resides  in  Si- 
nemahoning,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  is  as- 
sistant superintendent  of  the  Keystone  Tire 
Company.  5.  Richard  McClelland,  an  exten- 
sive farmer,  and  state  forestry  warden  of 
Pennsylvania.  6.  Martha  Rebecca  Victoria 
Lucinda,  wife  of  James  W.  Montgomery,  a 
Pennsylvania  railroad  engineer.  7,  Nancy 
Jane,  married  Abel  Dent,  a  merchant  and  hotel 
proprietor.  8.  John  Calvin.  9.  Roscoe  Al- 
bert, a  railroad  conductor.  10.  Melancthon 
Vespasius,  engaged  in  business  at  Sinemahon- 
ing.  II.  James  Harrison,  was  accidentally 
killed  at  Butte  City,  Montana,  August  i,  1902. 

(V)  Rev.  William  W.  Crum,  fifth  son  of 
Richard  (i)  and  Elizabeth  (Gardner)  Crum, 
was  born  January  24,  1807,  at  Long  Branch, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  grew  up  and  learned 
the  blacksmith's  trade.  Having  adopted  the 
religion  taught  by  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  he  became  a  clergyman,  and  thus  con- 
tinued until  the  end  of  his  life.  He  was  a 
pioneer  minister  in  Western  New  York,  es- 
tablishing many  churches,  and  was  later  con- 
nected with  the  Michigan  Conference.  Dur- 
ing the  civil  war  he  served  on  the  Christian 
Commission,  bringing  comfort  to  many  soldiers 
of  the  Union  army.  He  died  September  16, 
1866.     He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Henry 


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Latham,  who  was  an  earnest  religious  worker 
in  co-operation  with  her  husband,  and  held  in 
high  esteem  on  account  of  her  excellent 
Christian  character  and  earnest  labors  in  every 
enterprise  of  the  church.  She  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1808,  in  New  York  City,  died  Oc- 
tober 16,  1891.  Her  father  was  commander 
of  the  brig  "Delia,"  and  was  lost  at  sea.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John,  born  November  26,  1828;  was 
a  soldier  in  the  First  Michigan  Cavalry  during 
the  civil  war,  and  served  five  years,  dying  as 
a  result  of  that  service ;  he  married,  Decem- 
ber 22,  1855,  Harriet  Johnson.  2.  Richard 
Donly,  mentioned  below.  3.  William  Henry, 
born  November  23,  1832 ;  has  a  large  stock 
farm  in  Missouri,  and  is  an  honored  citizen ; 
married,  December  18,  1857,  Ann  Totten. 
4.  Delia,  born  October  i,  1834;  married,  Sep- 
tember II,  1851,  William  Hibbard,  and  was 
the  mother  of  four  children.  Mr.  Hibbard 
was  a  Union  soldier,  and  died  from  wounds 
received  in  battle.  5.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born 
December  11,  1837;  married,  December  30, 
1855,  George  Sherman,  and  died  without  is- 
sue. 6.  Ruth,  born  January  23,  1843 !  was  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
and  a  devoted  Christian  woman ;  married,  July 
31,  1858,  Jerome  Biteley.  who  was  an  officer  in 
the  First  Michigan  Cavalry,  and  served  with 
distinction  through  the  civil  war  ;  he  established 
the  town  of  Biteley  in  Michigan,  where  he 
operated  large  lumber  mills.  7.  Hannah  B., 
born  January  17,  1845  •  married,  January  22, 
1863,  Rev.  M.  H.  McMahon,  and  now  resides 
in  Portland,  Oregon,  where  in  1913  was  cele- 
brated the  golden  anniversary  of  their  mar- 
riage. Mr.  McMahon  is  a  veteran  of  the  civil 
war,  having  served  in  Company  G,  Fifth  New 
York  Duryea  Zouaves,  one  of  the  famous 
fighting  regiments ;  he  was  severely  wounded 
at  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run ;  was  dis- 
charged from  the  army  at  the  age  of  twenty, 
and  entered  the  ministry  in  1878.  Their  daugh- 
ter, an  accomplished  artist,  is  the  wife  of  Hon. 
Elisha  A.  Baker,  formerly  prominent  in  In- 
diana, and  now  residing  in  Portland,  Oregon. 
8.  George  Latham,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Richard  Donly,  second  son  of  Rev. 
William  W.  and  Sarah  (Latham)  Crum,  was 
born  February  11,  1831,  in  New  York  City, 
and  was  a  small  child  when  his  parents  settled 
in  Schuyler  county.  New  York.  It  was  diffi- 
cult for  a  struggling  clergyman  in  a  pioneer 
region  to   sustain   his   increasing   family,   and 


Richard  D.  was  bound  out  to  a  Methodist 
brother  by  the  name  of  Archibald  Tilford. 
Here  he  was  reared  in  the  fear  of  God,  with 
plenty  of  work  and  little  schooling  thrown  in, 
the  latter  consisting  mainly  of  the  double  rule 
of  three  and  the  multiplication  table.  At  the 
age  of  fifteen  years  he  determined  to  learn  a 
trade,  and  going  to  Watkins,  the  county  seat, 
he  served  an  apprenticeship  for  several  years 
as  wheelwright.  In  time  he  constructed  a 
buggy,  which  he  thought  good  enough  for  a 
bride,  and  with  it  drove  back  over  the  hills  to 
a  cross  road  named  Oak  Hill,  where  lived 
Mariah  R.  Du  Vail,  who  was  a  descendant  of 
the  Mohawk  Valley  Dutch.  On  December  22, 
1852,  they  were  married,  and  have  dwelt  in 
peace  and  harmony  over  sixty  years.  In  1853, 
on  account  of  precarious  health,  Mr.  Crum 
abandoned  his  trade,  and  engaged  in  photo- 
graphing. This  business  he  followed  for  more 
than  fifty  years,  when  he  retired.  He  was 
one  of  the  pioneer  photographers  of  views  in 
and  about  Watkins  Glen,  in  the  days  when 
the  developing  outfit  must  be  carried  to  the 
scene  of  operations.  He  very  greatly  aided 
in  making  that  section  the  popular  resort  which 
it  is  today.  In  the  spring  of  1898  he  removed 
with  his  family  to  Long  Branch,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  now  resides.  Children:  i.  Adelaide, 
born  January  31,  1854;  a  talented  musician 
and  gifted  artist  in  oils ;  she  married,  Febru- 
ary 25,  1892,  Levi  H.  Bower,  formerly  of 
Watkins,  now  of  Long  Branch ;  they  have  one 
son,  Richard  Crum  Bower.  2.  Fred,  born 
July  21,  1858,  in  Watkins;  is  a  photographer 
in  Syracuse,  New  York ;  he  married,  in  1879, 
Sadie  Bedient.  3.  Ellen  Gertrude,  born  March 
16,  1865  ;  graduated,  1886,  from  the  Woman's 
College  of  New  York  City ;  died  August  3, 
1898,  at  Long  Branch.  4.  Delia,  born  Decem- 
ber 12,  1873;  now  the  wife  of  John  Henry 
Brown,  a  merchant  of  Long  Branch ;  children : 
Joseph,  Duvale,  Helen  Gertrude. 

(VI)  George  Latham,  youngest  child  of 
Rev.  William  W.  and  Sarah  (Latham)  Crum, 
was  born  February  28,  1847,  in  Beaver  Dam, 
Schuyler  county.  New  York. 

He  attended  the  public  schools  at  Watkins, 
Schuyler  county,  New  York,  up  to  the  age 
of  twelve  years,  at  which  time  his  school  days 
ended  and  he  became  a  workman  in  the  Fall 
Brook  Company  shipyard  at  Watkins,  engaged 
in  making  coal  barges  for  carrying  coal  down 
Seneca  lake  and  Erie  canal.    He  was  employed 


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at  this  until  he  was  fifteen  years  and  six  months 
of  age,  when  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil 
war  he  enlisted  in  Company  B,  One  Hundred 
and  Sixty-first  New  York  Infantry  Regiment, 
and  served  for  three  years  and  two  months. 
His  regiment  was  in  the  First  Division,  Third 
Brigade,  Nineteenth  Army  Corps,  under  Gen- 
eral Banks,  commander  of  the  Department  of 
the  Mississippi  Valley,  and  served  through  all 
the  operations  below  Vicksburg,  including  the 
siege  of  Port  Hudson,  which  continued  forty- 
five  days.  On  July  13,  1863,  he  participated 
in  the  battle  of  Donaldsonville,  Louisiana,  in 
which  he  lost  a  brother-in-law,  William  Hib- 
bard,  husband  of  his  sister  Delia.  After  that 
battle  he  returned  to  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana, 
and  in  the  spring  of  1864,  when  the  Red  River 
campaign  was  organized  and  troops  assembled 
at  Algiers,  he  was  among  the  sharpshooters 
assigned  to  gunboats,  attached  to  the  gunboat 
"Arizona,"  and  took  part  in  the  engagement 
of  Sabine  Pass,  where  the  gunboats,  "Sachem" 
and  "Clifton"  were  destroyed.  As  soon  as  the 
tide  permitted,  the  gunboats  withdrew,  and  the 
"Arizona"  returned  to  Algiers,  whence  all  the 
forces  organized  for  the  Red  River  campaign, 
marched  about  four  hundred  miles  up  and 
back.  They  came  back  to  Morganza  Bend,  and 
at  this  point  word  was  brought  that  the  enemy 
was  driving  cattle  across  the  river  by  the 
thousands  for  supplies  for  their  army,  and  a 
detachment  was  sent  out  against  them  by  Gen 
eral  Guppy  of  the  Twenty-third  Wisconsin 
Regiment,  its  brigade  commander.  When 
some  fourteen  miles  from  headquarters,  Gen- 
eral Guppy  found  it  necessary  to  make  another 
day's  march  into  the  interior  to  reconnoiter. 
Finding  it  necessary  to  send  a  messenger  back 
to  headquarters  through  an  enemy-infested 
country,  with  orders  for  the  wagon-train  to 
come  up  with  supplies,  and  after  others  re- 
fused to  undertake  the  errand  without  an  es- 
cort, which  was  practically  impossible,  young 
Crum  was  recommended  by  Colonel  Kinsey 
of  the  One  Hundred  and  Sixty-first  New  York 
State  Volunteers.  Readily  accepting  the  com- 
mission, he  made  the  dangerous  trip,  without 
mishap.  This  feat  of  courage  was  widely 
spoken  of  and  commended  in  army  circles. 
After  leaving  Morganza  Bend,  his  regiment, 
the  One  Hundred  and  Sixty-first  New  York 
State  Volunteers,  was  ordered  to  Vicksburg, 
and  being  largely  made  up  of  mechanics,  was 
set  to  work  repairing  the  rolling  stock  on  the 


Jackson  &  Eastern  Mississippi  railroad.  Here 
Mr.  Crum  was  detailed  on  the  staff  of  Major 
Alexander  Shaler,  who  was  put  in  charge  of 
the  Department  of  Arkansas,  with  headquar- 
ters at  Duvall's  Bluff.  In  the  spring  of  1865, 
the  Mobile  campaign  being  organized,  he  was 
directed  to  return  to  Carlton  to  his  own  regi- 
ment, and  there  was  placed  on  the  staff  of 
Major-general  Steele,  in  which  capacity  he  re- 
mained until  after  the  fall  of  Fort  Blakley.  The 
army  was  then  ordered  to  Spanish  Fort,  thence 
to  Mobile,  Alabama.  While  on  the  march 
news  of  General  Lee's  surrender  reached  the 
troops.  Finding  that  the  fort  had  been  eva- 
cuated, the  troops  moved  against  the  city  of 
Mobile,  and  after  its  evacuation  marched  into 
the  city  at  night  and  went  into  camp  in  the 
suburbs.  After  several  weeks  his  regiment 
was  sent  to  Apalachicola,  Florida,  with  other 
troops,  to  take  care  of  the  cotton  which  had 
accumulated  there  during  the  war,  in  hopes 
that  the  blockade  runners  might  get  in  to  carry 
it  away,  but  which  had  not  been  done.  This 
cotton  was  seized  in  the  name  of  the  govern- 
ment. Colonel  B.  Kinsey  being  detailed  as 
judge  advocate,  under  Major-general  Ashboth, 
Mr.  Crum  assisted  in  trying  cases  against 
delinquent  soldiers  and  officers.  Here  he  spent 
two  months,  when  he  came  home  and  was 
mustered  out  of  service,  October  25,  1865.  He 
participated  in  thirty-three  engagements  dur- 
ing the  war ;  Avas  on  the  staffs  of  Major-gen- 
eral Shaler,  Major-general  Steele,  Brigadier- 
general  Guppy  and  Colonel  Kinsey;  was  con- 
tinuously under  fire  for  forty-five  days  at  the 
siege  of  Port  Hudson.  He  fervently  believes 
that  his  life  was  spared  in  answer  to  the  fer- 
vent prayers  of  his  righteous  parents. 

After  the  war,  he  entered  the  New  York 
Fire  Department,  and  became  a  member  of 
Engine  Company  No.  35,  with  which  he  re- 
mained nearly  three  years,  when  he  became 
assistant  foreman  of  Engine  Company  No.  7, 
and  four  months  later  was  made  foreman  in 
command  of  Engine  Company  No.  4,  at  39 
Liberty  Street,  New  York  City,  with  which 
he  served  fourteen  years  and  seven  months. 
He  then  became  connected  with  the  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company  as  assistant  super- 
intendent of  the  real  estate  department  of  New 
York  City,  holding  this  position  for  two  years, 
when  he  was  sent  to  Boston  to  take  charge  of 
the  real  estate  department  of  the  same  company 
in  that  city.     He  remained  there  three  years, 


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when  failing  health  caused  him  to  retire  from 
active  business  for  some  time.  When  he  re- 
signed his  position  with  the  Mutual  Life,  the 
company  accepted  his  resignation  and  pre- 
sented to  him  a  check  amounting  to  three 
thousand  dollars  in  evidence  of  appreciation 
of  his  long  services.  After  regaining  his  health 
he  became  connected  with  the  Equitable  Life 
Assurance  Society  as  a  solicitor,  and  for  the 
past  twenty-four  years  has  been  acting  in  the 
capacity  of  agency  manager.  During  this  time 
he  has  probably  written  some  twelve  million 
dollars  worth  of  policies.  His  offices  are  in 
the  Singer  Building,  Broadway,  New  York, 
and  he  is  a  well-known  figure  in  the  insurance 
line,  and  most  highly  esteemed  by  every  ex- 
ecutive officer  of  the  company.  This  is  evi- 
denced by  the  following  letter : 

THE     EQUITABLE     LIFE     ASSURANCE     SO- 
CIETY   OF    THE    UNITED    STATES. 

June  17,  1913. 
My  Dear  Financier : 

I  have  followed  your  career  with  interest  and 
pride  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  or  more.  At  one 
time  I  see  you  breaking  into  politics  and  making  an 
impress  on  affairs  of  State— at  another  time,  as  the 
present,  I  see  you  breaking  into  the  financial  affairs 
of  the  world,  vide  your  interest  in  the  Long  Branch 
Banking  Company,  "tlie  pioneer  concern  along  the 
Jersey  coast,"  and  all  the  while  I  know  your  heart 
is  true  to  your  first  love,  the  Equitable, 'and  I  see 
you  continuous  in  your  endeavors  to  give  your  fellow 
men  "protection  that  protects"  by  insuring  them  in 
the  greatest  company  in  the  world. 

So  here's  to  j-ou !  and  long  life,  happiness  and 
content  to  you ! 

Sincerely  yours, 

(Signed)     Geo.  T.  Wilson, 

GiiORGE  L.  Crum,  Esq.         Second  Vice-President. 

Mr.  Crum  is  a  man  of  strong  force  of  char- 
acter; is  a  director  in  several  large  corpora- 
tions and  banks.  He  is  a  member  of  A.  E. 
Kimball  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
of  New  York,  and  of  the  Board  of  Trade  at 
Long  Branch,  which  is  his  home,  and  where 
he  was  candidate  for  mayor  in  1910.  In  pol- 
itics he  is  a  Republican.  He  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  Harlem  Lodge,  No.  201,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  since  1868,  and  is  also 
a  member  of  what  is  known  as  the  Half  Mil- 
lion Club  in  insurance  circles.  He  and  his 
family  attend  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

He  married  (first)  in  1866,  Mary  Lanzer, 
daughter  of  Frederick  and  Elizabeth  (Mar- 
jory) Lanzer;  she  was  born  in  New  York  City. 
Of  this  marriage  two  children  were  born:  i. 
William  K.,  born  in  New  York  City,  August 


II,  1868;  married  Mamie  Pasterelle,  and  they 
have  four  children :  John,  William,  Patrice, 
George  L. ;  his  residence  is  at  College  Point, 
Long  Island ;  he  is  a  machinist,  and  employed 
by  the  Auto-Press  Company  there.  2.  Ella 
Frances,  married  William  G.  Colling,  of 
Brooklyn,  New  York ;  they  have  a  daughter, 
Marion.  Mr.  Crum  married  (second)  Fannie 
L.  Rabb,  of  New  York  City,  a  native  of  Aus- 
tria, who  came  to  this  country  when  a  child. 
She  is  the  mother  of  three  children :  3.  Maurice 
R.,  born  in  Boston,  April  16,  1888,  died  at  the 
age  of  two  years.  4.  Mercedee  Latham,  born 
November  11,  1890,  in  New  York  City;  she 
was  educated  in  the  Long  Branch  high  school, 
and  was  selected  by  the  Long  Branch  Board 
of  Trade  as  Queen  of  the  Carnival  of  1912, 
she  is  an  ardent  student  of  music.  5.  Ortrude 
Latham,  born  in  New  York  City,  October  7, 
1893  '•  she  is  a  graduate  of  the  Long  Branch 
high  school,  and  is  an  ardent  student  of  music, 
and  an  elocutionist  and  vocalist  of  high  order. 


Willem  Florisse  Crum,  son  of 
CRUM  Floris  Willemsen  (q.  v.)  and 
Catalyntie  (Ariaens)  Krom,  was 
probably  baptized  somewhere  on  Long  Island, 
born  about  1677-78.  He  was  a  small  child 
when  his  father  removed  to  Tappan,  and  there 
resided.  He  married,  at  Hackensack,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1699,  Geritje  Van  Houte,  and  the 
marriage  record  at  Tappan  describes  him  as 
a  native  of  Flatbush,  and  his  wife  as  a  native 
of  Harsamus.  They  had  children  baptized  at 
Tappan:  Floris  Willemse,  mentioned  below; 
Theunis,  April  14,  1703;  Willem,  July  4,  1705. 
Willem  F.  Crum  died  before  October  15,  1707, 
on  which  date  his  widow  married  Jan  Hogen- 
canb. 

(HI)  Floris  Willemse,  eldest  child  of  Wil- 
lem Florisse  and  Geritje  (Van  Houte)  Crum, 
was  born  October  16,  1701,  at  Tappan,  New 
York,  and  resided  in  that  vicinity.  He  mar- 
ried Cytie  (Seitje)  Brouwer,  and  they  had 
children  baptized  at  Tappan :  Johannes,  men- 
tioned below ;  Samuel,  born  May  14,  1731 ; 
Geritje,  July  24,  1733;  Willem,  March  g, 
1739;  Margrietje,  March  17,  1741 ;  Theunis, 
November  27,   1743. 

(IV)  Johannes,  eldest  child  of  Floris  Wil- 
lemse and  Cytie  (Brouwer)  Crum,  was  born 
July  31,  1728,  baptized  August  23,  same  year, 
at  Tappan,  New  York,  and  resided  in  Upper 
Nyack.      He    married,    at    Clarkstown,    Lena 


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Benson,  daughter  of  Johannes  and  Lena  Ben- 
son, and  was  described  at  the  time  of  his  mar- 
riage as  a  resident  of  Clarkstown.  Only  one 
of  his  children  is  recorded  there  and  he  evi- 
dently moved  up  the  river  in  1751-52. 

(V)  Johannes  (John)  Benson,  son  of  Jo- 
hannes and  Lena  (Benson)  Crum,  was  bap- 
tized March  i,  175 1,  in  Clarkstown,  New 
York,  and  resided  at  Spring  Valley,  in  the 
town  of  Ramapo.  He  was  probably  twice 
married.  The  family  records  show  that  he 
married  Katee  Sarvent,  December  31,  1782. 
All  of  his  children  were  born  previous  to  that 
date.  No  record  of  the  former  marriage  has 
been  discovered.  The  Sarvent  family  is  of 
French  origin  and- the  name  appears  on  the 
Dutch  records  of  Tappan  in  various  forms,  the 
most  usual  being  Server.  It  is  also  found  as 
Sarven.  Philip  Sarvent,  born  about  1720-21, 
is  described  as  coming  from  Holland  at  the  age 
of  thirteen  years.  He  worked  thirteen  years 
for  Cornelius  Cooper  in  Clarkstown,  whose 
farm  of  fifty-five  acres  he  purchased  in  1747. 
This  is  in  Upper  Nyack,  and  the  stone  house 
on  the  farm  contains  a  chimney  made  of  bricks 
brought  from  Holland.  He  died  August  15, 
1786.  His  wife  was  Maria  (Onderdonck) 
Crum,  and  they  had  children :  Philip,  Adrian, 
Garret,  Abraham,  born  May  22,  1752,  and 
probably  Katee,  wife  of  Johannes  B.  Crum 
The  birth  of  the  oldest  son  is  recorded  at 
Clarkstown,  August  5,  1748.  Katee  was  prob- 
ably born  about  1752-53.  Jacob  Sarvent  and 
Catrina  De  Beer  had  a  son  Abraham,  born 
November  25,  1760.  baptized  December  7,  at 
Clarkstown.  Katee  may  have  been  theii 
daughter.  Children  of  Johannes  B.  Crum : 
Elizabeth,  born  February  22,  1767;  James, 
December  25,  1768;  Thomas,  January  27, 
1771  ;  Katie,  March  20,  1773;  Jacob,  January 
18,  1776;  Henry,  January  17,  1778;  John,  Jan- 
uary 12,  1781  ;  Abram,  mentioned  below. 
These  records  are  supplied  by  the  family  and 
cannot  be  found  in  any  of  the  Rockland  county 
or  New  Jersey  churches.  The  family  may 
have  crossed  the  river  for  church  privileges. 

(VI)  Abram,  son  of  Johannes  (John)  Ren- 
son  and  Katee  (Sarvent)  Crum,  was  born 
September  29.  1783,  in  Nyack,  New  York, 
died  March  24,  1858.  He  probably  resided  in 
the  town  of  Ramapo,  as  his  marriage  was  per- 
formed bv  Rev.  George  Brinkerhoff,  pastoi 
of  the  Kakiat  Dutch  Church  of  that  town. 
He  was  born  just  at  the  close  of  the  revolu- 


tionary war,  was  imbued  with  the  patriotic 
spirit  of  his  ancestors,  and  served  as  a  soldier 
from  Rockland  county  in  the  war  of  1812.  He 
married,  September  11,  i8o8,  Peggy  (Mar- 
garet) Sarven.  They  had  children:  i.  Mary, 
born  August  30,  1810,  married  Levi  Spring- 
steen, November  3,  1829;  their  children  were: 
Theodore  and  Levi  Jr.  2.  John  Abram,  merv 
tioned  below.  3.  Abram  Sarven,  born  Decem- 
ber 12,  1814;  married,  January  2,  1840, 
Uphemia  Sickles ;  they  had  one  child,  Martha 
Blanch,  born  December  28,  1840;  married  Dr. 
Alonzo  C.  Rembaugh  in  1874,  and  has  one 
child.  Bertha,  born  in  1876,  unmarried.  4. 
Theodore,  born  October  26,  1826,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 5.  Cyrus  Mason,  born  September  29, 
1831  ;  married  (first)  Laura  Ann  Dickey, 
September  29,  1857;  married  (second)  Edith 
Mathilda  Hope ;  his  children  by  first  marriage 
were :  Margaret  and  Florence.  Children  of 
second  marriage:  Margaret,  Elizabeth,  Helen, 
Louise,  Harold. 

(VII)  John  Abram,  eldest  son  of  Abram 
and  Peggy  (Margaret)  (Sarven)  Crum,  was 
born  June  16,  1812,  and  baptized  July  10,  fol- 
lowing, at  the  Kakiat  Church.  He  resided 
for  many  years  in  New  York  City,  where  he 
was  a  dry  goods  merchant,  and  retired  upon 
a  competence.  Religiously  he  was  a  Presby- 
terian, and  in  politics  acted  with  the  Republi- 
can party.  He  married,  October  25,  1870,  at 
the  Brick  Church,  New  York  City,  Janet  Mac- 
donald  Rait,  born  March  22,  1836.  died  April 
^^.  ^^77'  daughter  of  James  and  Margaret 
(Dean)  Rait.  They  had  two  children:  Emma, 
born  March  27,  1874;  John  Egbert,  mentioned 
below. 

(VIII)  John  Egbert,  only  son  of  John 
Abram  and  Janet  Macdonald  (Rait)  Crum, 
was  born  in  Nyack,  Rockland  county.  New 
York,  March  26,  1876  When  quite  young 
he  received  private  tuition  in  Nyack  and  was 
prepared  to  enter  the  public  school.  He  finally 
attended  the  high  school  and  in  1889  he  grad- 
uated with  his  class  with  honors.  He  was 
then  thirteen  years  old.  Immediately  upon 
his  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Rochester  Lamp  Company  in  New  York  City 
as  a  clerk  and  salesman,  and  remained  with 
them  for  about  six  years,  when  he  resigned 
and  accepted  a  position  in  the  Shoe  &  Leather 
National  Bank  in  New  York  City.  LTpon  the 
consolidation  of  the  bank  with  the  Metropoli- 
tan Bank  in  1906.  he  became  its  general  audi- 


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tor  and  is  still  connected  with  it,  and  is  highly 
respected.  John  Egbert  Crum  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  but  has  never  held  any  public  of- 
fice. He  is  a  notary  public  and  a  commissioner 
of  deeds  of  New  York  county.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Doric  Lodge,  No.  280,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  New  York  City ;  Phoenix 
Chapter,  No.  2,  New  York  City;  Sons  of  the 
Revolution;  and  is  also  an  honorary  member 
of  the  Orangetown  Fire  Company,  No.  i, 
Nyack,  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Nyack.  He 
married,  June  12,  1906,  in  Tacoma,  Wash- 
ington, Marie  Agnes,  born  November  27, 
1874,  in  Coldwater,  Mercer  county,  Ohio, 
daughter  of  George  Rosenbeck.  George  Ro- 
senbeck  was  born  August  ig,  1836,  in  Ham- 
burg, Germany.  He  emigrated  when  young 
to  America  and  finally  became  a  prominent 
dry  goods  merchant  in  Coldwater,  and  also 
owned  a  large  farm  in  the  same  place.  He 
has  now  disposed  of  all  his  interest  in  Cold- 
water  and  leads  a  retired  life  in  Los  Angeles, 
California.  He  married  Marie  Elizabeth,  born 
in  Bantzen,  Germany,  daughter  of  Frederick 
Kalkhofif.  Their  children  were:  Catherine, 
born  in  1872;  Marie  Agnes,  mentioned  above; 
Elizabeth,  born  in  1876;  Josephine,  born  in 
1878. 


Gysbert   Crum   appeared   in    New 
CRUM     York    City    when    it    was    under 

English  rule.  The  first  mention 
of  him  is  found  in  the  land  records  at  Albany, 
showing  that  he  received  a  deed  of  confirma- 
tion of  thirty  acres  at  Marbletown,  Esopus, 
October  11,  1671.  He  appears  to  have  been 
living  in  New  York  in  1677,  when  he  had  a 
child  baptized  there.  Possibly  he  may  have 
been  living  at  Marbletown  at  this  time  and 
brought  the  child  to  New  York  for  baptism. 
The  survey  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-eight 
acres  on  the  south  side  of  Esopus  Creek,  in 
Marbletown,  for  him,  was  recorded  April  13, 
1686.  No  record  of  his  marriage  is  found  in 
New  York  or  Kingston  but  his  wife  was 
Giertie  (Van  Vliet)  Crum.  Their  oldest  child, 
Mayken,  was  baptized  in  New  York,  October 
31,  1677.  Others,  recorded  in  Kingston,  are: 
Gysbert,  born  February  9,  1679;  Henric,  De- 
cember 9,  1683;  Archie,  January  31,  1686; 
Zacharias  and  Elizabeth  (twins)  March  e,. 
1688. 

(U)    Dirck,    or    Richard,    undoubtedly   the 


son  of  Gysbert  and  Giertie  (Van  Vliet)  Crum, 
born  about  1681,  resided  in  the  vicinity  of 
Marbletown  or  Rochester,  near  Kingston. 
New  York,  where  the  baptisms  of  his  chil- 
dren are  recorded.  No  record  of  his  own  birth 
or  baptism  appears,  or  of  his  marriage.  He 
married  Eva  de  la  Montanjen,  baptized  March 
23,  1683,  in  New  York,  daughter  of  William 
and  Leonora  (de  Hooges)  de  la  Montanjen. 
Children:  Willem,  baptized  September  i,  1709; 
Gysbert,  mentioned  below ;  Geertjen,  March 
I,  1713  ;  Johannes,  March  13,  1715  ;  Elehonora, 
June  3,  1716;  Henderick,  January  12,  1718; 
Abraham,  February  5,  1721 ;  Elizabeth,  March 
10,  1723;  Lydia,  January  i,  1727. 

(HI)  Gysbert  (2),  second  son  of  Dirck 
or  Richard  and  Eva  (de  la  Montanjen)  Crum, 
was  baptized  at  Kingston,  New  York,  No- 
vember 12,  1710,  and  appears  to  have  been 
baptized  a  second  time  at  Rochester,  October 
18,  1724.  He  married,  at  Kingston,  October 
2^1  >  ^737 >  Zara  Bogaard,  both  being  residents 
of  Marbletown,  where  she  was  born.  They 
had  children  baptized  at  Kingston:  Marthen, 
February  26,  1738;  Dyne,  April  6,  1740; 
Henry,  mentioned  below;  Anneke,  December 
17,  1749;  Marte,  February  11,  1759. 

(IV)  Henry,  eldest  son  of  Gysbert  (2)  and 
Zara  (Bogaard)  Crum,  was  born  at  Marble- 
town, New  York,  baptized  September  4,  1743, 
at  Kingston,  and  made  his  home  in  Marble- 
town. He  married,  at  Kingston  church,  May 
4,  1777,  Janneke  Phoenix,  a  native  and  resi- 
dent of  Hurley,  baptized  September  3,  1758, 
at  Kingston,  daughter  of  Matthew  and  Mary 
Phoenix.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  revolution, 
was  shot  in  the  legs  and  always  a  cripple  there- 
after. He  resided  in  the  vicinity  of  Kingston 
until  1785,  or  later,  and  had  children  baptized 
at  Kingston:  Mathias,  October  3.  1779;  Re- 
becca, September  29,  1782;  Willem,  May  i, 
1785.  Tradition  says  he  resided  in  Kingston 
or  Saugerties.  He  brought  no  more  children 
to  Kingston  for  baptism. 

(V)  Henry  (2),  son  of  Henry  (i)  and 
Janneke  (Phoenix)  Crum,  was  born  in  the 
vicinity  of  Kingston,  New  York,  and  died 
August  20,  1834,  in  Bergen  county,  New  Jer- 
sey, where  he  was  a  farmer.  For  a  time  he 
lived  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  Democrat 
politically,  and  affiliated  with  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church.  He  married,  March  s,  1814. 
Maria  Becker,  who  married  (second),  in  1839,. 
William    Wyley.      She    died    May    20,    1881. 


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Children :  Henry,  mentioned  below ;  Mary 
Ann,  married  George  Bloomer;  Peter  James, 
born  May  17,  1822;  John  William,  February 
22,  1828;  Theophilus  Hanford,  August  12, 
1830;  Andrew  Jackson,  June  26,  1834. 

(VI)  Henry  (3),  eldest  child  of  Henry  (2) 
and  Maria  (Becker)  Crum,  was  born  July 
27,  1815,  in  New  York  City,  died  there  July 
19,  1849.  He  married,  November  3,  1846,  i'l 
New  York  City,  Henrietta  Frances  Garns, 
born  April  23,  1827,  died  February  11,  1906, 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Eliza  (Herring) 
Garns.  The  last  named  was  a  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Herring,  who  was  an  officer  under 
Washington  and  one  of  the  Cincinnati  Society. 
His  wife,  Catherine  (Myers)  Herring,  was  a 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Myers,  who  was  put 
aboard  the  prison  ship  "Jersey,"  and  never 
heard  of  after.  Children:  Frederick  Henry, 
mentioned  below ;  Emma  Frances,  born  Ma> 
4.  1849,  unmarried. 

(VH)  Frederick  Henry,  only  son  of  Henry 
(3)  and  Henrietta  F.  (Garns)  Crum,  was 
born  September  27,  1847,  at  No.  83  Charlton 
Street,  New  York  City.  In  1862  he  graduated 
at  the  Dutch  Collegiate  Institute  of  New  York. 
In  his  sixteenth  year,  on  March  9.  1863,  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  North  River  Fire 
Insurance  Company  as  a  clerk  and  has  risen 
through  various  positions  in  that  establish- 
ment, being  now  its  vice-president  and  secre- 
tary. He  is  also  president  of  Crum  &  Forster 
fire  underwriters;  vice-president  of  the  Hut- 
chins  Security  Company;  director  of  the  Nas- 
sau Fire  Insurance  Company;  the  United 
States  Fire  Insurance  Company ;  the  Williams- 
burg City  Fire  Insurance  Company;  and  ot 
the  People's  National  Bank  of  Hackensack, 
New  Jersev.  Mr.  Crum  is  a  life  member  of 
the  New  York  Historical  Society,  a  member 
of  the  Economic  Club  of  New  York,  and  of 
the  Episcopal  church  at  Oradell.  New  Jersey 
He  is  active  in  the  local  councils  of  the  Dem 
ocratic  party,  and  is  an  esteemed  and  useful 
citizen  of  his  home  town. 

He  married  (first)  February  iq.  1871.  Marv 
Laura  Petrowitch.  born  in  1844.  in  New  York 
City,  died  April  6.  1883.  daughter  of  Chris- 
tian Petrowitch.  He  married  (second)  Feb- 
ruary II.  1903,  Louise  M'altbie  Wortendyke. 
born  June  9,  1869.  Children  of  first  wife: 
I.  Frederick  Henry,  born  November  3.  1871, 
died  December  15,  1882.  2.  Mary  Laura, 
born   June   3.    1873.     3.    Helen   Louise,   born 


January  15,  1878;  married,  June,  1903,  S.  A. 
Van  Der  Water,  M.D.,  of  Oradell,  and  has 
a  daughter  Helen,  born  September  27,  1904. 
4.  Hubert,  born  August  20,  1882;  married, 
February  28,  1906,  Lucy  Sparks,  and  they 
have  one  child,  Edith  Lucile,  born  January 
22,  1907.  Child  of  second  wife:  5.  Frederick 
Davenport,  born  August  20,  1904. 


Rev.  William  Leverich,  the 
LEVERICH     founder  of  this  family,  first 

appears  as  a  student  at 
Emanuel  College,  Cambridge,  England,  where 
he  graduated  in  1625.  He  died  in  Newtown, 
Long  Island,  before  June  19,  1677,  when  letters 
of  administration  on  his  estate  were  granted 
to  his  son  Eleazer.  He  came  over  to  America 
in  the  ship  "James."  as  minister  to  the  church 
in  Dover.  New  Hampshire,  arriving  at  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  October  10,  1633.  Two  years 
later  he  removed  to  Boston,  and  about  1637, 
he  became  assistant  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Partridge, 
at  Duxbury.  Massachusetts.  Three  years 
later,  he  accepted  the  charge  of  the  church  at 
Sandwich,  on  Cape  Cod.  and  in  1653  he  be- 
came a  purchaser  and  settler  of  Oyster  Bay, 
Long  Island,  the  inhabitants  agreeing  to  give 
him  £15  a  year  as  their  minister  among  them. 
Here  and  at  Huntington  and  Newtown.  Long 
Island,  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
His  wife's  name  is  unknown.  Children,  so 
far  as  known :  Caleb,  referred  to  below ; 
Eleazer.  married  Rebecca  Wright. 

(II)  Caleb,  son  of  Rev.  William  Leverich, 
came  with  his  father  to  Newtown,  Long 
Island,  where  he  acquired  much  land  and  was 
one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Presby- 
terian church.  He  died  in  1717,  aged  seventy- 
nine  years.     He  married   Martha  ,  who 

survived  him.  Children:  John,  referred  to 
below ;  Mary,  married  Job  Wright ;  Eleanor, 
married  Joseph  Reeder. 

(III)  "John,  son  of  Caleb  and  Martha 
Wright,  was  born  in  Newtown.  Long  Island, 
died  there  about   1705.     He  married  Hannah 

.     Children :  John,  born  about  1696.  died 

in  1780,  married  (first)  December  14.  1720, 
Amy  Moore,  (second)  Susanna,  widow  of 
John  Sackett.  and  (third)  Sarah  (Titus) 
Cornish;  William,  died  March  25,  I7.=i4.  mar- 
ried. July  23.  1722.  Martha  Way;  Beniamin, 
referred  to  below ;  Hannah,  married  James 
Way;  Martha,  married  John  Way. 

(IV)  Benjamin,  son  of  John  and  Hannah 


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Leverich,  was  born  in  Newtown,  Long  Island, 
died  there  about  1732.  He  married  Mary 
.     Children:  Caleb,  referred  to  below. 

(V)  Caleb  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary 
Leverich,  was  born  at  Newtown,  Long  Island, 
died  July  6,  1758,  at  Sabbath  Day  Point,  on 
Lake  George,  while  accompanying  the  ill-fated 
expedition  of  General  Abercrombie.  He  be- 
gan business  life  early  as  a  painter  in  New 
York  City,  but  was  induced  to  enlist  for  the 
French  and  Indian  wars.  He  married  Sus- 
anna, died  September  11,  1814,  aged  eighty- 
eight  years,  daughter  of  William  Burch.  Chil- 
dren: Benjamin,  referred  to  below;  John,  born 
September  4,  1758,  died  July  28,  1812,  mar- 
ried Ann  Chase. 

(VI)  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  Caleb  (2)  and 
Susanna  (Burch)  Leverich,  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  and  died  in  Cortlandtown,  near 
Peekskill,  Westchester  county,  New  York, 
after  1790,  in  which  year  the  census  of  the 
township,  gives  him  three  white  males  over 
sixteen  years,  including  heads  of  families, 
three  free  white  males  under  sixteen  years, 
and  four  free  white  females  over  sixteen 
years,  including  heads  of  families.  He  is  the 
only  Leverich  in  Westchester  county  at  that 
time  except  his  third  cousin  John,  who  at  that 
time  was  living  at  North  Castle,  but  later  wenl 
back  to  his  paternal  home  in  Newtown. 

(VII)  John  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  (2)  Leve- 
rich, of  Cortlandtown,  Westchester  county, 
New  York,  was  a  farmer  in  that  county.  His 
wife's  name  is  unknown.  Children  :  Benjamin, 
referred  to  below  ;  Caleb  ;  a  daughter. 

(VIII)  Benjamin  (3),  son  of  John  (2) 
Leverich,  was  born  in  Cortlandtown,  West- 
chester county,  New  York,  January  22,  1793, 
died  there  April  14,  1878.  He  was  a  carpenter 
by  trade  and  had  a  shop  in  Cortlandtown.  He 
was  somewhat  of  a  lawyer  and  was  looked  up 
to  by  his  neighbors,  who  would  ask  his  advice 
as  to  the  settling  of  their  disputes.  He  was 
a  Whig  in  politics,  and  served  as  justice  of 
the  peace  and  also  as  poormaster  of  the  town. 
He  served  on  Long  Island  in  the  war  of  1812. 
He  married  (first)  August  27,  1814,  Eunice 
Outhout,  who  was  born  May  6,  1791  ;  married 
(second)  in  1856,  Hannah  Purdy.  Children, 
all  by  first  marriage :  Hattie  Ann,  married 
George  Cruger ;  John  W.,  born  in  1819,  died 
about  1880,  married  Elizabeth  Ryder;  Caleb; 
Mary  Jane,  married  Gilbert  Treadwell ;  Wil 
liam,   referred   to  below;   Benjamin;   George. 


(IX)  William,  son  of  Benjamin  (3)  and 
Eunice  (Outhout)  Leverich,  was  born  in 
Cortlandtown,  Westchester  county.  New  York, 
October  26,  1822,  and  is  now  living  in  Kings- 
ton, Ulster  county,  New  York.  He  received 
his  education  in  the  country  schools  of  Cort- 
landtown, and  learned  the  trade  of  mason, 
which  he  followed  in  that  section  of  the 
country  until  1848,  when  he  removed  to  Tomp- 
kins Cove,  Rockland  county,  New  York,  to 
set  up  an  engine  and  boiler  for  the  Tompkins 
Cove  Stove  Company,  and  to  do  other  work 
for  them.  He  remained  here  until  1850,  when 
he  went  to  Rondout,  Ulster  county.  New  York, 
where  he  did  all  the  mason  work  for  the 
Newark  Lime  and  Cement  Company,  building 
all  of  their  kilns,  which  are  still  standing.  He 
also  did  numerous  other  masonry  jobs,  among 
them  being  the  school  house  at  Tompkins 
Cove,  the  Children's  Church  and  the  district 
school  at  Rondout,  and  for  fifty-six  years  he 
was  the  boss  mason  of  the  town.  He  was  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  cast  his  first  vote 
for  Harrison  and  Tyler.  He  married,  in 
Peekskill,  Westchester  county.  New  York,  in 
1842,  Catharine,  daughter  of  James  Gale,  of 
Oregon,  Westchester  county,  New  York.  Chil- 
dren: Minnie  D.,  born  in  1864;  William  H., 
referred  to  below. 

(X)  William  H.,  son  of  William  and  Cath- 
arine (Gale)  Leverich.  was  born  in  Kingston, 
Ulster  county,  New  York,  May  9,  1866,  and 
is  now  living  with  his  father  at  Kingston. 


Captain  John  Seaman,  the 
SEAMAN     founder    of    this    family,    was 

with  six  of  his  sons  one  of  the 
patentees  of  the  town  of  Hempstead,  Long 
Island.  He  was  born  about  1610,  and  died 
after  August  5.  1694,  the  date  of  the  writing 
of  his  will.  He  married  (first)  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  John  Stricland.  and  (second) 
Martha,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Martha 
(Youngs)  Moore.  Children  by  first  marriage: 
John,    married    Hannah    Williams;   Jonathan, 

married    Jane    ;     Benjamin,     married 

Martha  Titus;  Solomon,  died  in  1743,  married 
Elizabeth  Linnington ;  Elizabeth,  married 
Colonel  John  Jackson ;  Samuel,  married  Phebe 
Hicks;  Thomas,  married  Mary  ;  Na- 
thaniel, mentioned  below;  Richard,  born  in 
1673,  rnarried  Jane  Mott;  Sarah,  marrie-j 
John  Mott ;  Martha,  married  Nathaniel  Pear- 
sail  ;  Deborah,  married Kirk ;  Hannah, 


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married 


Carman ;     Mary,     married 


Pearsall ;  daughter,  died  before  1694, 

married  Carman;  daughter  died  un- 
married. 

(II)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Captain  John  and 
Martha  (Moore)  Seaman,  was  born  in  Hemp- 
stead, Long  Island,  and  died  there  October  9, 
1759.  He  married  there,  9th  mo.,  8,  1695, 
Rachel,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary 
(Pearce)  Willis,  who  died  August  20,  1759. 
Children:  Rachel,  born  5th  mo.  26,  1696,  died 
unmarried;  Nathaniel,  born  nth  mo.  18,  1699, 
died  June  14,  1774,  married,  in  1722,  Sarah 
Powell;  Hester,  born  9th  mo.  8,  1701,  mar- 
ried John  Whitson ;  Jacob,  born  8th  mo.  10, 
1703,  died  April  4,  1759,  married,  in  1726,, 
Mercy  Powell;  Abraham,  born  nth  mo.  10, 
1706,  married  Deborah  Townsend;  Rachel, 
born  1st  mo.  9,  1708,  married,  in  1738,  Jere- 
miah Elfreth;  Hezekiah,  born  3rd  mo.  11, 
171 1,  married  a  daughter  of  Isaac  Doughty; 
Thomas,  born  nth  mo.  2,  1713,  married,  in 
1 741,  Hannah  Willets;  Samuel,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(HI)  Samuel,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel 
(Willis)  Seaman,  was  born  in  Hempstead, 
Long  Island,  4th  mo.  13,  171 5.  He  married 
Martha,  daughter  of  Obadiah  and  Martha 
(Willets)  Valentine.  Children:  Willet,  mar- 
ried Mary  Searing;  Valentine;  Obadiah,  mar- 
ried Deborah  Valentine;  Rachel,  born  in  174Z, 
died  in  1797,  married,  February  3,  1762,  Silas 
Hicks ;  Martha,  married  Henry  Titus ;  Phebe, 
married  Samuel  Hicks;  Miriam,  married 
Stephen  Robbins ;  Samuel,  mentioned  below; 
Esther,  married  Samuel  Sands ;  Abigail,  mar- 
ried Richard  Willets;  Marmaduke. 

(IV)  Samuel  (2).  son  of  Samuel  (i)  and 
Martha  (Valentine)  Seaman,  was  born  in 
Hempstead,  Long  Island,  and  died  in  Corn- 
wall. Orange  county.  New  York.  He  married 
Kezia,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Martha 
(Powell)  Titus,  who  was  born  in  17.^7.  Chil- 
dren :  Thomas,  mentioned  below ;  Silas,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Green ;  Martha,  married  Josiah 
Hazard;  John,  married  Amy  Pearsall;"  Wil- 
liam ;  Isaac  ;  Rachel,  married  Joseph  Marshall ; 
Samuel,  married  (first)  Anna  Pearsall,  (sec- 
ond) Phebe  Pearsall.  daughters  of  Wait  and 
Hannah  Pearsall. 

(V)  Thomas,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  and  Kezia 
(Titus)  Seaman,  was  born  in  1780,  died  in  the 
town  of  Monroe,  Orange  county.  New  York, 
February  23,  1848.    He  married  Sarah  Brown, 


who  was  born  in  1780,  died  in  May,  1864. 
Children :  Jacob,  mentioned  below ;  Kezia, 
married  Daniel  Cornell ;  Martha ;  Keturah, 
married  Peter  S.  Titus. 

(VI)  Jacob,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 
(Brown)  Seaman,  was  born  in  Cornwall, 
Orange  county.  New  York,  in  1803,  died  in 
1888.  He  married,  in  1826,  Hannah  Cocks, 
who  was  born  in  1804,  died  in  1889.  Chil- 
dren: Sarah  Brown,  born  in  1827;  Thomas, 
died  in  infancy ;  Edmund,  born  in  1832,  died 
in  1888,  married  Mary  Willets;  Thomas,  bora 
August  17,  1835,  died  in  November,  1886; 
Jacob  T.,  November  26,  1838,  died  in  1864; 
Elizabeth  K.,  September  24,  1841  ;  James, 
referred  to  below ;  Hannah  Townsend,  Janu- 
ary 20,  1848. 

(VII)  James,  son  of  Jacob  and  Hannah 
(Cocks)  Seaman,  was  born  in  Cornwall, 
Orange  county.  New  York,  June  30,  1844,  and 
is  now  living  at  Woodbury  Falls,  New  York. 
He  was  born  on  a  farm  which  was  owned  by 
his  grandfather  and  part  of  which  is  still  in 
his  own  possession.  He  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  district  and  private  schools  of 
Mountainville,  New  York,  and  has  been  a 
successful  farmer  all  his  life.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  and  for  six  years,  from  1900 
to  1902,  and  from  1904  to  1906,  served  as 
supervisor  of  the  town  of  Woodbury.  At  one 
time  he  was  postmaster  at  Woodbury  Falls. 
He  is  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  Woodbury; 
a  member  and  trustee  in  the  Religious  Society 
of  Friends.  He  married,  January  14,  1874, 
Elizabeth,  born  November  10,  1848,  daughter 
of  Charles  Townsend  and  Martha  (Weyant) 
Ford.  Children:  i.  Charles  Ford,  born  Jan- 
uary 29,  1875  ;  married  Lulu  M.  Viele,  of  Har- 
riman,  New  York;  children:  James  and  Mil- 
dred. 2.  Jacob  Townsend,  born  January  30, 
1877;  married  Mae  L.  Greenleaf ;  children: 
Melissa  G.,  Elizabeth  and  Elaine.  3.  Mari- 
anna,  born  October  12,  1879;  living' at  home, 
unmarried.  4.  Edmund,  born  May  20,  1883; 
married  Edna  Smith,  of  Harriman ;  child: 
Elizabeth  Meta,  born  August  4,  1913.  5. 
James  Pierre,  born  March  6,  1885;  a  civil  en- 
gineer in  New  York  City. 


Under  the  fierce  per  • 
GIRAUD-GEROW     secution  following  the 

Revocation  of  the 
Edict  of  Nantes,  October,  1685,  many  of  the 
nobility,  and  over  three  hundred  thousand  of 


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the  most  skillful  artizans  and  leaders  in  indus- 
tries found  refuge  in  America,  which  was 
benefited  by  what  was  lost  to  France.  From 
the  folk  lore  of  this  family  we  learn  they  fled, 
leaving  all  possessions  behind  them,  some  com- 
ing in  slippers  and  laces.  Candles  were  left 
burning  in  silver  candle-sticks,  and  food  left 
untouched  on  the  table. 

At  New  Rochelle,  New  York,  the  two  hun- 
dredth and  twenty-fifth  anniversay  of  the  land- 
ing of  the  French  Huguenots  in  America  was 
celebrated.  By  pageant  the  scene  was  repro- 
duced, an  exact  replica  of  the  caravel  in  which 
they  came  floated  in  the  harbor,  realistic  In- 
dians surrounded  the  strange  ship  as  when 
she  appeared  in  the  waters  years  ago.  Among 
the  invited  guests  were  the  President  and  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States,  Secretary  of 
War  Garrison,  Secretary  of  Navy  Daniels,  the 
French  Ambassador  Jusserand  and  M.  Chato- 
net,  delegate  from  France  to  the  celebration. 
In  one  of  the  addresses  on  "The  Huguenot 
in  America,"  it  was  said  in  closing:  "The 
Huguenot  was  one  of  the  most  valuable  agents 
God  ever  furnished  for  American  Liberty  and 
American  Independence."  In  Hudson  Park, 
New  Rochelle,  a  granite  monument  has  been 
erected  by  descendants  of  these  early  settlers, 
and  on  the  bronze  tablet  are  to  be  found  the 
names  of  Giraud,  Coutant,  Chadeyane  and 
others.     From  available  records  we  have : 

(I)  Etienne  Giraud,  of  whom  we  have  no 
information. 

(II)  Daniel  Giraud,  who  came  from  La 
Rochelle,  France,  in  1688,  to  New  Rochelle, 
New  York.  He  married  and  had  three  sons ; 
Daniel,  of  whom  further ;  Andrew,  of  Fish- 
kill,  New  York;  Benjamin. 

(III)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (i)  Giraud, 
born  in  1724,  was  a  resident  of  Cortland 
Manor.  During  the  revolutionary  war  he  ob- 
tained a  pass  to  go  through  the  lines  and  pur- 
chased a  large  tract  of  land  from  King 
George's  agent,  which  is  now  known  as  Platte- 
kill,  Ulster  county.  New  York.  The  tract  was 
then  known  as  the  "Ten  Stone  Meadow."  The 
"Pass"  and  deed  for  the  land  is  now  in  pos- 
session of  a  descendant.  The  deed  was  signed 
by  "John  Lake,  Agent."  Daniel  Giraud  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Coutant,  sister  of  Jacob,  Gilbert 
and  Henry  Coutant,  and  settled  in  Westchester 
county.  New  York.  Children:  Elias,  of 
whom  further;  William,  married  Esther  Cha- 
deyane;   John,    married    Elizabeth     Palmer; 


James  went  to  St.  John's,  New  Brunswick; 
Daniel  went  to  St.  John's,  New  Brunswick; 

Catharine  married  Yerksie;  Deborah 

married  James  Denton ;  Esther,  married  Wil- 
liam Clark;  Betsy  married  James  McCallum; 
Sarah   married   Jacob   Russell;   Jane  married 

(first J  Isaac  Brown  (second)  Coutant; 

Mary  married  Adolphus  Shuart. 

(IV)  Elias  Gerow,  son  of  Daniel  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Coutant)  Giraud,  was  born  April 
9,  1765,  died  1838.  He  married  Elizabeth, 
born  May,  1768,  daughter  of  Jacob  Coutant. 
Children:  Gilbert,  of  whom  further;  Annie 
married  Ebenezer  Cooley;  Daniel  married 
Lucy  Haviland ;  Phebe,  deceased ;  Hannah 
married  Samuel  P.  Birdsall;  Catherine  mar- 
ried Smith  Pine;  Deborah  married  Daniel 
Birdsall,  cousin  of  Samuel  P.  Birdsall;  Wil- 
liam, deceased;  Jacob  married  Jane  Thorn; 
Lydia  H.,  married  Samuel  Heaton ;  Elias  mar- 
ried Sally  Ann  Barber ;  Isaac  married  Cornelia 
Ann,  daughter  of  Adolphus  and  Mary 
(Giraud)  Shuart.  Elias  Gerow  had  twelve 
children  and  sixty-four  grandchildren,  whose 
descendants  are  many,  scattered  far  and  wide, 
many  of  them  living  in  the  Hudson  river 
towns,  as  also  do  the  descendants  of  William, 
John,  Sarah  and  Mary.  The  French  Hugue- 
not name,  Giraud,  is  still  held  with  pride  by 
many,  others  have  accepted  the  name  as  pro- 
nounced, Gerow.  At  an  early  period  the 
Christian  fellowship  of  this  family  was  with 
the  Society  of  Friends  (often  called  Quakers) 
and  their  influence  for  righteousness  has  left 
a  benediction  on  succeeding  generations. 

(V)  Gilbert,  son  of  Elias  and  Elizabeth 
(Coutant)  Gerow,  married  Anna,  daughter  of 
Justus  and  Mehetable  Cooley.  Children: 
Louise  married  Harry  Seeley;  Emma  Jane 
married  John  Jackson;  Elias,  mentioned  be- 
low; Justus  married  Phebe  Yoimg;  Asahel 
married  Mary  Townsend ;  John  C,  deceased; 
Mehetable  married  John  Deming,  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

(VI)  Elias  (2),  son  of  Gilbert  and  Anna 
(Cooley)  Gerow,  married  Sarah  Cooper. 
Children :  Charles  Cooley,  married  Margaret 
Culbert;  Gilbert  Haviland,  mentioned  below; 
Henrietta  Van  Cleft,  married  Charles  Hull; 
Mary,  died  in  early  life ;  Emma  Jane,  married 
William  V.  Many;  Joseph  Cooper,  married 
Jennie  Hathaway,  and  occupies  the  homestead 
at  Blooming  Grove,  Orange  county.  New 
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(VII)  Gilbert  Haviland,  son  of  Elias  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Cooper)  Gerow,  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Blooming  Grove,  Orange  county,  New 
York,  August  12,  1844,  died  at  Washington- 
ville,  Orange  county,  New  York,  March  19, 
191 1.  He  was  educated  in  the  district  schools 
of  Blooming  Grove  and  at  Antioch  College, 
Ohio.  W'ith  his  brother,  Charles  C.  Gerow, 
and  William  Beattie,  he  was  engaged  in  mill- 
ing and  coal  business  at  Salisbury  Mills,  New 
York.  Later  he  purchased  property  at  Vail's 
Gate,  New  York,  where  for  about  twenty-five 
years  he  conducted  a  general  store,  coal  yard, 
and  lumber  and  feed  business.  After  this  he 
formed  a  partnership  under  the  name  of 
Gerow  &  King,  and  continued  the  business  for 
several  years,  and  this  was  followed  by  the 
firms  of  Gerow  &  Son,  Gerow  &  Stone,  Stone 
Brothers,  the  latter  for  a  term  of  ten  years. 
Mr.  Gerow  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Newburgh  Carpet  Company,  of  Newburgh, 
New  York,  of  which  he  was  treasurer.  He  was 
an  honorary  member  of  the  Tenth  Separate 
Company  of  New  York  State,  having  served 
the  required  term  of  years,  also  honorary 
member  of  the  Fire  Department,  \Vashington- 
ville.  He  was  early  a  member  of  the  Congre- 
gational church  of  Blooming  Grove,  and  later 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Wash- 
ingtonville. 

He  married,  October  23,  1872,  Alletta  Rem- 
sen,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  Rapelye  and 
Catherine  (White)  Lente,  who  was  born  at 
Napanoch,  Ulster  county.  New  York  ( see 
Lente  VIIL).  Children:  i.  Charles  Halcott, 
born  December  31,  1873,  died  March  16,  1875. 
2.  James  Frank,  born  May  6,  1876,  died  May 
19,  1878.  3.  Arthur  Riker,  born  April  8,  1879 ; 
now  with  the  Newburgh  Carpet  Company, 
Newburgh,  New  York.  4.  Lyman  Abbott, 
born  October  4,  1880;  graduate  of  Rutgers 
College,  1906.  5.  Walter  Haviland,  born  July 
16,  1884;  now  at  Young  Men's  Christian  As- 
sociation at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York.  6.  Gil- 
bert Westcott,  born  April  25,  1886;  now  en- 
gaged in  coal  and  feed  business  at  the  original 
Vail's  Gate  stand  which  was  established  in 
i860  by  the  late  Gilbert  H.  Gerow. 
(The   Riker-Lent   Lines.) 

From  European  genealogy  we  learn  that  the 
Rykers  were  located  at  a  very  remote  period 
in  Lower  Saxony,  where  they  enjoyed  a  state 
of  allodial  independence,  at  that  day  constitut- 


mg  nobility.  There  they  possessed  the  estate 
or  Manor  of  Ryken,  from  which  they  took 
their  name,  written  von  Ryken.  Subsequently 
the  name  suffered  changes:  de  Ryke,  de  Ryk, 
Rieche,  etc.,  von  Lentum,  von  Lent,  Lent, 
Lente. 

Hans  von  Ryken,  with  his  cousin,  Mel- 
choir  von  Ryken,  a  valiant  knight,  who 
lived  in  Holland,  went  in  the  First  Crusade  to 
the  Holy  Land  in  1096,  heading  eight  hundred 
crusaders  in  the  army  of  Walter  the  Penniless. 
Melchoir  von  Ryken  lived  to  return,  but  Hans 
von  Ryken  perished  in  that  ill-fated  expedi- 
tion. The  coat-of-arms  borne  by  the  family 
is  thus  explained :  The  shield  azure,  em- 
blematic of  knighthood ;  the  horns,  indicating 
physical  strength ;  the  golden  stars,  a  striving 
for  glory,  and  the  white  roses,  symbol  of  dis- 
cretion and  fidelity.  Ln  time  the  descendants 
of  Melchoir  von  Ryken  extended  from  Hol- 
land to  Switzerland  and  America.  Before  the 
family  is  mentioned  in  America  we  learn  they 
occupied  places  of  public  trust  for  two  cen- 
turies, until  the  Spanish  war  occasioned  great 
reverses  in  their  fortunes.  Captain  Jacobus 
Simonsz  de  Ryken.  of  Amsterdam,  a  warm 
partisan  of  the  Prince  of  Orange,  distin- 
guished himself  by  military  services  when  that 
Prince  defended  Dutch  liberty,  and  the  family 
for  successive  generations  during  the  struggle 
with  Spain  followed  a  military  career.  ( Rik- 
er's  Annals  of  Newtown.) 

(I)  Gysbert  or  Guisbert  Rycken,  founder  of 
the  family  in  America,  emigrated  to  New  Am- 
sterdam from  Holland  about  1630.  Prac- 
tically all  that  is  known  about  him  is  the  in- 
scription on  the  gravestone  of  his  grandson, 
Abraham,  son  of  Abraham  and  Margaret 
Riker,  which  reads :  "The  grave  of  Abraham 
Riker,  son  of  Abraham  and  Margaret  Riker; 
born  1655.  died  August  20,  1746,  in  the  91st 
year  of  his  age ;  and  in  memory  of  his  grand- 
sire,  Guisbert  Riker,  a  native  of  Holland,  who 
came  to  America  in  1630,  obtained  a  patent 
for  land  at  the  Bowery  bearing  date  1632." 

(II)  Abraham,  son  of  Gy.sbert  or  Guisbert 
Rycken.  was  born  in  1619,  died  in  1689.  He 
married  Grietje  Hendrickse,  daughter  of  Hen- 
drick  Harmensen.  In  1642  he  purchased  prop- 
erty on  the  Heeren  Gracht,  now  Broad  street. 
His  children  were  baptized  in  the  church  at 
Fort  Amsterdam.  Children :  Ryck  Abraham- 
sen,  mentioned  below:  Jacobus,  born  1640, 
died  in  infancy;   Jacobus,   born    1643;    Hen- 


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drick,  born  in  1646,  died  young;  Marytje,  born 
in  1649,  married  Sibout  Krankheyt ;  Jan,  born 
in  1651,  married  Sara  Schouten ;  Alletta,  born 
in  1553,  married  Captain  John  Harmensen; 
Abraham,  born  in  1655,  died  August  20,  1746, 
married  Grietje  Janse  van  Buytenhuysen ; 
Hendrick,  born  in  1662,  joined  his  brothers, 
Ryck  A.  and  Jacobus,  in  Westchester  county. 
New  York,  and  changed  his  name  to  Lent, 

(III)  Ryck  Abrahamsen,  son  of  Abra- 
ham Gysbrechtsen  and  Grietje  (Hendrickse) 
Rycken,  was  born  on  Long  Island,  died  in 
Westchester  county,  New  York.  He  changed 
his  name  to  Lent,  and  with  his  brother  Hen- 
drick became  the  ancestors  of  the  family  of 
that  name.  In  1685  he  bought  from  the  In- 
dians an  extensive  tract  of  land,  eighteen  hun- 
dred acres,  in  Westchester  county,  which  sub- 
sequently became  famous  under  the  name  of 
"Ryck's  Patent."  He  was  an  elder  in  the 
Dutch  Church  at  Sleepy  Hollow,  and  died 
between  March  30,  1720,  and  March  28,  1723, 
the  dates  of  the  writing  and  proving  of  his 
will.  He  married  Catrina,  daughter  of  Harck 
Siboutsen  and  Wyntje  Teunis.  Children: 
Elizabeth,  married  Thomas  Hyers ;  Abraham, 
mentioned  below;  Ryck,  born  in  1678,  married 
Marytje  Blauvelt ;  Harck  or  Hercules,  born 
in  1681,  died  in  1766,  married  Cornelia  Van 
Wart ;  Margaret,  married  Thomas  Bepson ; 
Catharine,  married  Joseph  Jones. 

(IV)  Abraham  Lent,  son  of  Ryck  Abra- 
hamsen and  Catrina  Lent,  was  born  in  West- 
chester county.  New  York,  March  10,  1674, 
died  in  Newtown,  Long  Island,  February  5, 
1746.  He  lived  for  some  years  in  Westchester 
county,  and  in  1729  settled  in  Newtown.  He 
married,  late  in  1698,  Anna  Catrina,  daughter 
of  Adolph  and  Maria  (Verveelen)  Meyer, 
who  died  July  2'i,  1762,  aged  eighty-six  years. 
Her  father  was  a  deacon  in  the  church  at 
Sleepy  Hollow.  Children :  Ryck,  died  in 
1732,  married,  December  26,  1722,  Cornelia 
Waldron ;  Adolph,  born  in  1703 ;  Isaac,  mar- 
ried Sara  Luyster;  Abraham,  married  Mar- 
garet Snediker  ;  Jacob  ;  Jacobus,  mentioned  be- 
low; Catrina,  married  Elbert  Herring;  Eliza- 
beth, married  Jacob  Brinckerhoff ;  Maria,  mar- 
ried John  Rapelye;  Wyntje,  married  Jeromus 
Rapelye;  Ann,  married  Jan  BrinckerhofT. 

(V)  Jacobus,  son  of  Abraham  and  Catrina 
(Meyer)  Lent,  was  born  in  Westchester 
county.  New  York,  July  3,  1714,  died  in  New- 
town, Long  Island,  December  13,   1779.     He 


married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Daniel  Rape- 
lye, who  died  September  11,  1794,  in  her 
seventy-fourth  year.  Children :  Abraham, 
born  February  15,  1745,  died  April  13,  1816, 
married  Diana  Lawrence;  Alletta,  born  April 
24,  1747,  married  George  Rapelye;  Daniel, 
mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Daniel,  son  of  Jacobus  and  Margaret 
(Rapelye)  Lent,  was  born  in  Newtown,  Long 
Island,  May  31,  1754,  died  there,  April  20, 
1797.  He  was  the  last  of  the  family  to  live  on 
the  original  Rycken-Lent  estate  at  Armen 
Bouwerie.  He  married,  December  9,  1792, 
Rensie,  daughter  of  Martin  Rapelye.  Child: 
Daniel,  mentioned  below.  Four  children  died 
in  infancy. 

(VII)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (i)  and 
Rensie  (Rapelye)  Lent,  was  born  in  Newtown, 
Long  Island,  August  30,  1797,  died  in  Flush- 
ing Bay,  Long  Island.  He  was  a  merchant  in 
New  York  City,  and  in  later  life  bought  a 
farm  at  Flushing  Bay.  He  married,  June  6, 
182 1.  Jane  Catharine,  daughter  of  Cornelius 
Rapelye  Remsen.  Children:  James  Rapelye, 
mentioned  below ;  Cornelius  Remsen,  married 
Ama  Nafis ;  Charles  Henry,  married  Ama 
Thorborn ;  Elizabeth  Catharine,  married 
Charles  Halcott,  deceased;  Theodore,  died  in 
infancy. 

The  name  of  van  Lente  was  retained 
by  some  of  the  family  until  the  last  century, 
when  it  was  dropped  and  the  plain  Lent  was 
i^sed.  A  few  also  spelled  their  name  with  a 
final  "e,"  Lente,  as  the  best  abbreviation  of  the 
name  at  one  time  taken,  van  Lenten,  from  a 
maternal  inheritance.  The  Rev.  James  Ra- 
pelye Lente,  of  Washingtonville,  of  more  than 
ninety  years  of  age,  and  his  son,  Edward 
Prime  Lente,  are  probably  the  only  ones  bear- 
ing this  rendering  at  the  present  time.  It  is 
recorded  that  the  Lents  lived  friendly  with 
the  native  Indians,  no  record  of  any  trouble 
arising  between  them  having  been  found.  The 
Lents  were  numerous  in  the  Continental  army 
They  voluntarily  took  up  arms  and  fought 
bravely  for  freedom  from  the  yoke  of  Great 
Britain.  Sir  Henry  Clinton  said  he  could 
neither  "buy  nor  conquer  these  Dutchmen." 

(VIII)  The  Rev.  James  Rapelye  Lente,  son 
of  Daniel  (2)  and  Jane  Catharine  (Remsen) 
Lent,  was  born  in  Flushing,  Long  Island, 
April  18,  1822,  and  is  now  living  at  Washing- 
tonville, Orange  county.  New  York.  After 
being     tutored     by     Rev.     Garrett     J.     Gar- 


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retson,  pastor  of  the  Reformed  Dutch 
Church  of  Newtown,  Long  Island,  he 
prepared  for  college  at  Erasmus  Hall 
and  graduated  from  Rutgers  College  in 
1842.  After  teaching  at  Erasmus  Hall  (Pre- 
paratory School)  for  three  years,  he  entered 
the  New  Brunswick  Theological  Seminary  and 
graduated  in  1850.  He  took  charge  for  a  few 
months  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  at 
Coxsackie  Landing,  Greene  county,  New 
York,  in  the  absence  of  the  pastor,  then  be- 
came pastor  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church 
at  Napanoch,  New  York.  Two  years  later  he 
became  pastor  of  the  Collegiate  churches  at 
Bloomingdale  and  Rosendale,  New  York,  and 
ten  years  later,  in  1864,  he  retired  on  account 
of  ill  health  and  has  since  lived  at  Washing- 
tonville,  New  York.  He  married  Catherine. 
daughter  of  Colonel  John  White,  who  was 
born  January  22,  1825,  died  May  27,  1887. 
Children:  Alletta  Remsen,  born  September 
23,  1853,  married,  October  23,  1872,  Gilbert 
Haviland  Gerow  (see  Gerow  VH)  ;  Edward 
Prime,  born  November  5,  1857,  unmarried. 


The  name  Thornton  is 
THORNTON  said  to  have  been  derived 
from  Thor,  the  ancient 
northern  deity.  A  different  origin  is,  however, 
suggested  by  the  coats-of-arms  of  two  of  the 
oldest  Thornton  families  of  England,  the 
Thorntons  of  Yorkshire,  and  the  Thorntons 
of  Tiersall,  which  bear  upon  them  three  haw- 
thorn trees  or  bushes  which  suggest  the  com- 
bination of  the  "thorn"  and  "town."  The 
name  de  Thornton  also  appears  in  the  early 
annals,  indicating  a  possible  Norman  ancestry. 
There  are  many  families  in  Ireland  and  Scot- 
land bearing  the  name  of  Thornton,  but  in 
these  cases  it  is  said  that  the  patronymic  is 
usually  an  English  rendering  of  the  Gaelic 
Mac  Skenaghan  or  Mac  Sceinaghan,  the  root 
of  the  name  being  from  the  Gaelic  word 
"sceine,"  a  knife.  Lower  derives  the  English 
name  in  some  cases  from  parishes  and  places 
in  the  counties  in  England  of  Buckingham- 
shire, Durham,  and  adjacent  districts.  York- 
shire abounds  with  places  so-called.  Thome 
appears  to  have  been  an  old  Anglo-Saxon  per- 
sonal name ;  and  hence  Thornton  may  have 
been  in  some  cases  the  homestead  of  Thorne. 
There  are  numerous  families  bearing  the 
name  of  Thornton  in  the  United  States.  One 
of  the  earliest  Thornton  emigrants  to  America 


was  William  Thornton,  who  came  from  York- 
shire, England,  prior  to  1646,  and  settled  in 
York  county,  Virginia.  This  William  Thorn- 
ton was  the  ancestor  of  a  large  number  of 
prominent  descendants,  some  of  whom  became 
connected  by  marriage  with  the  family  of 
George  Washington,  and  some  with  the  family 
of  President  Zachary  Taylor.  Dr.  John  N.  F. 
Thornton,  who  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
President  William  Henry  Harrison,  was  prob- 
ably of  this  family.  Another  early  immigrant 
to  America  was  John  Thornton,  who  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  First  Baptist  Church 
of  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  in  1648.  The  Rev. 
Thomas  Thornton,  who  came  from  England 
in  1663,  and  settled  at  Yarmouth,  Massachu- 
setts, was  the  ancestor  of  descendants  of  emi- 
nence. James  Thornton,  father  of  the  Hon. 
Matthew  Thornton,  one  of  the  signers  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  emigrated  from 
Ireland  to  America  in  1718.  There  were  other 
Thornton  families  that  settled  in  Massachu- 
setts, Connecticut,  New  York,  Pennsylvania 
and  Virginia. 

( I )  James  Thornton,  the  immigrant  ances- 
tor in  America  of  the  Thornton  family  here 
dealt  with,  was  born  near  Londonderry,  Ire- 
land, in  1684,  died  November  7,  1754,  at  East 
Derry,  New  Hampshire.  The  family  of  James 
Thornton  lived  on  a  farm  about  a  mile  from 
the  city  of  Londonderry  and  were  subject  to 
frequent  visits  from  King  James's  troops. 
James  and  his  family  is  said  to  have  been  one 
of  one  hundred  and  twenty  families,  who  in 
five  small  ships  arrived  at  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, August  5,  1718,  and  in  the  fall  of  that 
year  went  to  Falmouth,  now  Portland,  Maine, 
where  they  spent  the  winter  on  shipboard,  en- 
during great  hardships.  They  then  went  to 
Wiscasset,  Maine,  and  after  a  stay  there  of  a 
few  years  they  moved  to  Worcester,  Massa- 
chusetts. In  Worcester  they  lived  on  a  farm 
near  Tactknuck  Hill,  adjoining  the  town  of 
Leicester.  The  only  record  that  has  been 
found  of  the  wife  of  James  Thornton  is  in 
the  deed  of  the  Worcester  family,  dated  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1730-40,  in  which  "Keturah"  Thorn- 
ton joins.  In  1740  James  Thornton  moved 
from  Worcester  to  Pelham,  Massachusetts, 
of  which  town  he  was  one  of  the  founders 
and  principal  proprietors.  He  remained  in 
Pelham,  where  he  held  various  town  offices, 
until  1748,  when  he  moved  to  Londonderry, 
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death,  November  7,  1754.  He  is  buried  in 
Forest  Hills  cemetery,  East  Derry,  New 
Hampshire,  beside  his  daughter,  Hannah  Wal- 
lace. He  married  Nancy  Smith.  Children; 
I.  James.  2.  Andrew.  3.  Matthew,  born  near 
Londonderry,  Ireland,  in  1714,  died  June  24, 
1803 ;  he  was  the  most  prominent  member  of 
the  Thornton  family;  he  settled  in  New 
Hampshire,  where  he  became  distinguished  as 
a  physician,  judge,  statesman,  and  patriot  in 
the  revolution ;  he  was  one  of  the  signers  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence  for  the  State 
of  New  Hampshire,  and  the  history  of  his  life 
is  to  be  found  among  the  Lives  of  the  Signers. 
He  was  buried  at  Thornton's  Ferry,  New 
Hampshire,  where  a  monument  to  his  memory 
was  erected  in  1872  by  the  State  of  New 
Hampshire.  4.  Agnes.  5.  William,  mentioned 
below.     6.  Samuel.     7.  Hannah.     8.  Esther. 

(H)  William,  fourth  son  of  James  and 
Nancy  (Smith)  Thornton,  was  with  his  father 
one  of  the  settlers  of  Pelham,  Massachusetts, 
in  1740,  and  as  a  surveyor  he  assisted  in  the 
laying  out  of  the  town.  In  1744  he  left  Pel- 
ham  and  moved  to  Kingsfield  (now  Palmer), 
Massachusetts,,  where  he  had  a  farm  on  the 
east  side  of  Dumplin  Hill.  Here  his  sons, 
William,  Matthew  and  James,  were  probably 
born.  In  March,  1748,  William  sold  his  farm 
at  Palmer  and  became  the  first  settler  of  Dub- 
lin, New  Hampshire,  which  town  was  granted 
in  1749  to  the  Hon.  Matthew  Thornton  and 
others.  The  farm  in  Dublin  on  which  William 
Thornton,  settled  was  owned  by  the  Hon. 
Matthew  Thornton  and  was  subsequently  sold 
by  him  to  Deacon  Isaac  Appleton.  A  small 
monument  has  been  erected  on  this  farm  to 
mark  the  settlement  of  the  town.  Two  chil- 
dren were  born  to  William  Thornton  during 
his  residence  in  Dublin,  a  daughter,  Molly,  in 
1749,  said  to  have  been  the  first  white  child 
born  in  the  town,  and  a  son,  Thomas.  William 
Thornton  remained  in  Dublin  until  about  1753, 
when  he  left  on  account  of  the  Indians,  and 
with  his  family  moved  to  Schenectady,  New 
York,  where  his  son  John  was  born  in  1753. 
William  Thornton  and  his  sons,  Matthew  and 
James,  served  in  the  border  warfare,  their 
names  appearing  on  the  muster  roll  of  Captain 
Daniel  Campbell's  company,  of  Schenectady, 
on  May  12,  1767.  From  a  deed  dated  Febru- 
ary 3.  1770,  it  appears  that  William  Thornton 
was  then  of  Curry's  Brook  or  Bush,  near 
Princeton,  Albany  county.  New  York.    He  re- 


turned to  New  Hampshire,  and  after  living  in 
Londonderry  in  1773  and  1774,  he  went  to 
Thornton,  New  Hampshire,  where  he  re- 
mained until  his  death.  Children:  i.  William, 
born  in  1745,  married  Dolly  Bayley,  of  Can- 
dia.  New  Hampshire ;  they  had  seven  children 
born  between  1784  and  1799.  2.  Matthew,  born 
December  6,  1746,  undoubtedly  at  Palmer, 
Massachusetts,  where  his  father  then  lived ;  he 
was  probably  with  his  father  when  the  latter 
became  the  first  settler  of  Dublin,  New  Hamp- 
shire, about  the  year  1748,  and  moved  with 
him  to  Schenectady,  New  York,  in  1753;  he 
married,  March  30,  1768,  Mary  Crawford,  and 
their  first  child,  Dorcas,  born  March  12,  1770, 
was  baptized  at  Schenectady,  New  York,  June 
12,  1770.  3.  James,  born  about  1747,  probably 
at  Palmer,  Massachusetts,  went  with  his 
father's  family  to  Dublin,  New  Hampshire, 
about  the  year  1748,  and  moved  with  them  to 
Schenectady,  New  York,  in  1753 ;  the  muster 
roll  of  Captain  Dan  Campbell's  company,  of 
Schenectady,  May  12,  1767,  gives  the  names  of 
James  Thornton  and  of  his  father  and  brother, 
Matthew ;  James  also  served  in  the  war  of  the 
revolution  in  the  Second  Regiment,  Albany 
county;  he  married  Antje  Schermerhorn  and 
had  three  children,  May,  William,  Margarieta. 
4.  Molly,  born  in  Dublin,  New  Hampshire, 
about  the  year  1749.  5.  Thomas,  born  in  1751, 
probably  in  Dublin,  New  Hampshire;  he 
moved  to  Schenectady,  New  York,  with  his 
father  in  1753;  he  was  a  school  teacher  and 
served  in  the  war  of  revolution  in  the  Second 
Regiment,  Albany  county ;  he  married  Eliza- 
beth Richardson,  sister  of  Paris  Richardson, 
aide  to  General  Washington;  they  had  seven 
children,  William,  Euretta,  Elizabeth,  Thomas, 
Charles,  Wallace,  George.  6.  John,  mentioned 
below. 

(Ill)  Major  John  Thornton,  youngest  son 
of  William  Thornton,  was  born  at  Schenec- 
tady, New  York,  in  1753.  He  served  with  dis- 
tinction in  the  war  of  the  revolution.  He  was 
first  lieutenant  in  Captain  Thomas  Wasson's 
company  in  the  Second  Regiment,  Schenec- 
tady division.  His  brothers,  James  and 
Thomas,  served  in  the  same  war.  Captain, 
later  Major,  John  Thornton  served  with 
Colonel  Willets  along  the  Mohawk  Valley,  and 
as  major  he  commanded  the  escort  to  General 
Washington  and  General  Clinton  from  Fort 
Plain  to  Cherry  Valley  and  Otsego  Lake  and 
return,  during  the  summer  of  1783.     On  Jan- 


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uary  25,  1786,  Major  Thornton  purchased  a 
farm  of  one  hundred  acres  at  Curry's  Bush 
(or  Brook)  in  the  town  of  Princeton,  Albany 
county,  New  York,  which  farm  had  been 
owned  by  Daniel  Clyde  in  1771.  He  married 
Ann  (Adelia)  Clyde,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Samuel  Clyde,  born  October  25,  1764.  Chil- 
dren :  William  A.,  mentioned  below ;  George, 
died  young;  Adelia,  married  Volney  Freeman, 
of  Schenectady ;  Catherine,  who  died  un- 
married. 

(IV)  William  A.,  eldest  son  of  Major  John 
and  Ann  or  Adelia  (Clyde)  Thornton,  was 
born  August  29,  1802,  at  Albany,  New  York, 
died  April  6,  1866,  on  Governor's  Island.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Albany,  and  was 
appinted  cadet  at  West  Point  in  1821,  gradu- 
ating in  1S25.  He  was  appointed  lieutenant  of 
artillery  on  the  staff  of  General  Scott  in  the 
Black  Hawk  campaign,  and  later  served  in  the 
Seminole  Indian  war,  Florida.  When  the 
ordnance  corps  was  created  by  congress,  he 
was  assigned  to  that  corps,  where  he  remained 
until  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  made 
brevet-major  for  meritorious  service  in  the 
Mexican  war  and  brevet-brigadier-general  for 
distinguished  service  in  the  civil  war.  His 
rank  was  colonel  of  ordnance,  United  States 
Army.  At  different  times  he  was  stationed  at 
Watervliet,  New  York,  Watertown,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  on  Governor's  Island,  New  York 
Harbor.  He  married,  in  1833,  Helen,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Gilbert  Smith,  of  New  York  City.  Mrs. 
Thornton's  mother  was  Helena  De  Witt,  and 
connected  with  the  De  Witt  family  of  revolu- 
tionary fame  along  the  Hudson.  Children : 
Adelia,  married  Colonel  James  S.  Casey, 
United  States  Army,  died  in  1875  '  William  A., 
who  was  a  paymaster  during  the  war  and  died 
in  1872;  George  De  Witt,  who  died  in  1883; 
Nora,  who  married  John  H.  Walsh,  died  in 
1904;  Howard,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Howard,  son  of  William  A.  and  Helen 
(Smith)  Thornton,  was  born  on  Governor's 
Island,  New  York,  February  25,  1849.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  New 
York  City,  and  for  a  time  was  a  student  of  the 
College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  later  of 
Union  College,  Schenectady,  where  he  gradu- 
ated in  the  class  of  1872  with  the  degree  of 
A.B.  He  then  settled  in  Newburgh,  where  he 
read  law  in  the  office  of  Eugene  A.  Brewster, 
and  in  1874  graduated  from  the  Albany  Law 
School  with  degree  of  LL.B.     He  continued 


in  his  profession  for  a  number  of  years  in 
Newburgh,  where  he  still  retains  an  office.  In 
1892-93-94  he  was  a  member  of  the  New  York 
State  assembly  and  chairman  of  the  judiciary 
committee  in  1894.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution,  University  and 
Transportation  clubs,  of  New  York  City,  01 
the  City  and  Powelton  clubs  of  Newburgh. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  education 
of  the  city  of  Newburgh  from  1906  for  four 
years.  In  1909  he  was  elected  president  of 
the  National  Bank  of  Newburgh,  a  position 
he  still  holds.  He  was  trustee  of  the  Washing- 
ton Headquarters,  and  part  of  the  time  presi- 
dent of  the  board.  He  is  a  past  master  of 
Hudson  River  Lodge,  No.  607,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons..  He  married,  October  19, 
1897,  Julia  B.  Sterling,  daughter  of  Charles  H. 
Burr,  of  Astoria,  Long  Island. 

Colonel  Samuel  Clyde  was  born  at  Wind- 
ham, Rockingham  county.  New  Hampshire, 
April  II,  1732.  The  family  of  Clyde  were 
originally  from  the  banks  of  that  river  in  Scot- 
land, whose  name  they  bore.  They  had  set- 
tled in  Ireland  in  the  time  of  Cromwell  and  a 
branch  came  to  this  country  in  that  large  emi- 
gration from  Londonderry  in  Ireland,  which 
settled  the  town  of  the  same  name  in  New 
Hampshire.  They  were  mostly  farmers.  The 
father  of  Colonel  Clyde  owned  and  cultivated 
a  small  farm  on  which  the  son  labored  until 
he  was  nearly  twenty  years  of  age.  He  was 
well  educated  for  a  farmer's  son  in  those  times, 
and  being  of  an  enterprising  character  sought 
a  wider  field  of  labor.  He  first  engaged  in 
the  trade  of  shipbuilder  and  later  joined  in 
the  war  in  this  country  between  England  and 
France.  Captain  Clyde  was  in  the  disastrous 
attack  on  Ticonderoga.  In  1761  he  married 
Catherine  Wasson  at  Schenectady.  He  was 
prominent  in  the  war  of  the  revolution,  and 
one  of  the  small  forts  in  the  Mohawk  Valley 
was  named  Fort  Clyde  in  his  honor.  He  was 
appointed  high  sheriff'  of  the  county  of  Mont- 
gomery in  1785  and  this  office  he  held  for 
several  years.  The  county  seat  was  at  John- 
ston, and  the  office  of  sheriff  of  such  an  ex- 
tensive county  was  one  of  great  labor  and 
responsibility.  He  was  greatly  beloved  by  his 
fellow-officers  and  soldiers  and  a  vacancy  hav- 
ing happened  in  the  office  of  brigadier,  in  the 
brigade  to  which  his  regiment  was  attached, 
he  was  earnestly  urged  by  those  under  his  im- 


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mediate  command  to  accept  the  appointment, 
but  he  dechned,  giving  the  honor  to  men  hold- 
ing older  commissions.  He  was  from  the 
commencement  to  the  close  of  the  war  chair- 
man for  the  committee  of  safety  for  the 
county,  and  he  was  also  elected  a  member  of 
the  legislature  from  the  county  of  Tryon. 
Colonel  Clyde  died  on  his  farm  at  Cherry  Val- 
ley, November  30,  1790,  in  his  fifty-eighth 
year. 


The   surname,    Seeger,    is   Ger- 
SEEGER     man  in  origin.    It  is  pronounced 

"Sager"  in  that  language.  The 
name  is  well  known  in  Germany,  but  it  is  not 
what  could  be  called  a  popular  name.  There 
is  also  an  English  form  of  the  name  derived 
from  Segar  and  Seager.  This  name  is  derived 
from  the  Anglo-Saxon  word,  akin  to  that  of 
German,  namely,  "sigora,"  meaning  a  "con- 
queror," or  "sigor,"  meaning  "victorious." 
In  this  form  it  was  an  ancient  personal  name 
before  surnames  came  into  use,  and  occurs  in 
the  Domesday  Book  under  the  forms  of  Segar, 
Sigar  and  Sigarus.  Another  derivation  of  the 
English  name  is  from  the  northern  counties, 
pronunciation  of  or  rather  provincialism  for 
"sawyer,"  from  the  Anglo-Saxon  "saga," 
meaning  "a  saw."  In  Poiton,  moreover,  there 
is  a  local  surname — De  Segur.  From  this 
Norman  surname  it  is  possible  that  the  English 
form  or  variation  may  be  derived.  Of  course 
it  is  not  contended  that  there  is  any  relation- 
ship between  the  bearers  of  this  surname. 
They  have  in  all  cases  come  by  it  by  chance 
and  there  is  no  more  connection  between  them, 
beyond  similarity  of  the  name,  than  if  one 
had  fallen  into  the  name  of  Baker,  and  the 
other  had  taken  that  of  Butcher.  This  may  be 
said  of  nearly  all  occupational  names.  They 
were  assumed  in  an  entirely  independent  and 
arbitrary  manner,  and  there  is  consequently  no 
sense  whatever  in  such  phrases,  common 
among  those  who  try  their  hand  at  genealogv. 
as  "the  Smith  family"  or  the  "Tanner  family," 
and  so  on.  The  German  Seegers  were  of  good 
social  standing  in  the  old  country,  and  many 
of  them  had  the  right  to  bear  arms. 

(I)  Louis  Seeger,  M.D,,  the  ancestor  in  Ger- 
many of  the  Seeger  family  in  America  here 
dealt  with,  was  a  practising  physician  in  his 
own  country,  but  died  early  in  life  in  the  village 
of  Feldrennach  on  the  borders  of  the  Schwarz- 


wald,  or  Black  Forest.     Among  his  children 
was  John,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Louis  Seeger,  M.D.,  was 
born  in  the  kingdom  of  Wurtemberg,  Ger- 
many, in  the  year  1835,  and  died  at  Newburgh, 
Orange  county,  New  York,  in  1888.  He  was 
a  cabinetmaker  by  trade,  and  he  was  a  member 
of  a  sharpshooter  corps  in  Germany  before 
coming  to  the  United  States.  He  came  to 
America  in  the  year  i860,  and  he  was  engaged 
at  his  trade  in  Goshen,  and  later  at  Newburgh, 
Orange  county.  New  York,  where  he  became  a 
stair  builder  for  Charles  Volckmer.  In  reli- 
gious faith  he  was  a  Lutheran.  He  married 
Louise  Hammer,  who  was  born  at  Laufen,  on 
the  Neckar,  in  the  kingdom  of  Wurtemberg, 
Germany.  Children:  Albert  H.  F.,  mentioned 
below,  and  several  daughters. 

(III)  Albert  H.  F.,  son  of  John  and  Louise 
(Hammer)  Seeger,  was  born  at  Stuttgart,  in 
the  kingdom  of  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  Feb 
ruary  20,  1859.  He  came  to  the  United  States 
in  April,  1861,  at  the  age  of  two  years,  with 
his  mother,  his  father  having  come  over  from 
Germany  six  months  previously.  Young  See- 
ger and  his  mother  made  the  trip  from  Bremen 
to  Baltimore,  Maryland,  in  a  sailing  vessel 
The  ship  encountered  calm  weather,  and  the 
trip  occupied  seventy-two  days.  For  some 
time  Mrs.  Seeger  and  one  of  her  daughters, 
Catherine  M.  Seeger,  made  their  home  at  No. 
247  First  street,  Newburgh,  Orange  county. 
New  York,  where  Albert  H.  F.  Seeger  also 
at  one  time  resided. 

The  Seeger  family  first  resided  in  Goshen, 
Orange  county,  New  York,  but  came  to  New- 
burgh in  1867.  Young  Seeger  saw  the  founda- 
tion of  the  third  ward  grammar  school  (now 
the  South  Street  school)  laid,  living  near  the 
site  of  the  building,  which  he  saw  erected,  and 
where  he  afterwards  attended  school,  starting 
the  first  day  the  school  was  opened.  After  his 
graduation  from  there  he  attended  the  New- 
burgh Academy,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1875.  The  same  year  he  entered  the  law 
office  of  Colonel  William  D.  Dickey  in  the 
Stern  Building  at  Water  and  Third  streets, 
in  Newburgh.  He  was  clerk  for  Colonel 
Dickey  until  1886,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar.  May  14,  1880.  In  1886  he  entered  into 
partnership  with  the- late  L.  W.  Y.  McCrosk- 
ery,  a  son  of  former  Mayor  John  J.  S.  Mc- 
Croskery.  This  partnership  continued  two 
years,  and  after  that  Mr.  Seeger  and  the  late 


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i-'rank  H.  Cassedy  became  partners  in  the  prac- 
tice of  the  law,  the  partnership  continuing  for 
six  months.  Since  that  time  Judge  Seeger  has 
practiced  alone.  One  of  Judge  Seeger's  stu- 
dents was  Henry  Kohl,  a  prominent  and  suc- 
cessful lawyer  of  Newburgh,  later  its  corpora- 
tion counsel.  Another  was  Addison  C.  Orms- 
bee,  a  graduate  of  Cornell  University,  who 
after  leaving  Judge  Seeger's  office  entered  into 
partnership  with  Mr.  Kohl.  They  practiced 
law  for  some  years  together,  and  then  Mr. 
Ormsbee  went  to  New  York,  where  he  prac- 
ticed until  his  death  in  1908.  Another  student 
of  his  was  Edward  J.  Collins,  formerly  of  Port 
Jervis,  who  is  a  successful  practicing  lawyer 
in  Newburgh.  Still  another  was  Peter  Can- 
tine,  a  rising  lawyer  of  the  city  of  Newburgh, 
and  at  present  its  recorder. 

During  these  years  Judge  Seeger  did  not 
make  speciahies,  but  engaged  in  all  branches 
of  the  law,  both  civil  and  criminal.  He  has 
been  counsel  for  a  number  of  towns  in  Orange 
county,  also  for  Newburgh  City  and  Town 
Home  and  the  Board  of  Education  of  the  same 
city.  Judge  Seeger  was  admitted  to  practice 
in  the  district  court  of  the  United  States  and 
the  United  States  circuit  court  in  1886.  He 
has  been  engaged  in  the  trial  of  many  impor- 
tant cases.  In  1886  he  tried  the  case  of  Town- 
send  versus  George  in  the  United  States  cir- 
cuit court  in  New  York  City.  This  was  stub- 
bornly contested  and  he  was  successful  in  re- 
covering some  mining  leases  on  the  Townsend 
farm,  in  the  town  of  Cornwall.  In  1888  the 
failure  of  the  firm  of  John  R.  Willsie  &  Son 
occurred  in  Newburgh.  John  M.  Pollock,  of 
the  firm,  had  been  a  schoolmate  of  Judge 
Seeger,  and  appealed  to  him  for  assistance, 
and  Judge  Seeger  defended  him.  Although 
Pollock  was  at  first  convicted  and  sentenced  to 
five  years'  imprisonment  in  Sing  Sing  prison. 
Judge  Seeger  took  an  appeal  and  succeeded  in 
securing  a  reversal  of  judgment  and  the  dis- 
missal of  several  indictments  against  Pollock. 
Since  that  time  Judge  Seeger  has  had  numer- 
ous important  cases.  One  of  his  most  cele- 
brated cases  was  that  of  Quackenbush  versus 
the  Hon.  William  P.  Richardson,  who  was 
formerly  state  senator  from  the  district  of 
Newburgh.  This  was  an  action  to  recover  for 
alleged  malicious  prosecution.  The  plaintiflF, 
who  was  a  debtor  of  the  defendant,  on  account 
of  the  illness  of  his  wife,  left  the  state  with 
her,  the  impression  following  that  he  had  ab- 


sconded. Senator  Richardson,  who  was  a  resi- 
dent of  the  town  of  Goshen,  subsequently  had 
Quackenbush  arrested.  Judge  Seeger,  who  up 
to  that  time  had  not  held  any  public  office,  se- 
cured the  release  of  Quackenbush,  and  then 
had  what  proved  to  be  a  clear  case  against 
Senator  Richardson.  He  conducted  the  case 
to  a  speedy  finish  and  secured  a  judgment  for 
his  client  against  the  senator  for  a  considerable 
amount,  in  fact  for  the  largest  sum  ever  real- 
ized in  a  similar  case  in  that  county  up  to  that 
time. 

Judge  Seeger  has  always  been  a  Republican. 
He  has  held  elective  office  but  twice,  having 
been  chosen  district  attorney  to  succeed  A.  V. 
N.  Powelson,  in  1903,  he  having  been  Mr. 
Powelson's  assistant  for  seven  years  previously 
by  appointment.  While  the  number  of  con- 
victions secured  by  District  Attorney  Seeger 
was  large,  he  takes  pride  in  the  fact  that  he 
has  never  procured  the  conviction  of  an  inno- 
cent person.  As  district  attorney  he  gave  such 
satisfaction  that  he  was  elected  county  judge 
in  1900  by  a  large  majority  for  a  term  of  six 
years.  He  is  making  a  fine  record  in  the  posi- 
tion. 

Judge  Seeger  is  a  member  of  Hudson  River 
Lodge,  No.  607,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons 
("raised"  in  1895)  ;  also  of  Highland  Chapter, 
No.  52,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  and  of  Hudson 
River  Commandery,  No.  35,  Knights  Templar, 
and  Mecca  Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  a  member 
of  Bismarck  Lodge,  No.  420,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows  (of  which  his  father 
was  a  charter  member,  besides  being  a 
D.D.G.M.  of  that  Odd  Fellows  district), 
and  a  member  Newburgh  Lodge,  No.  247, 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 
Among  the  other  organizations  in  which  Judge 
Seeger  holds  membership  is  the  Republican 
Club  of  the  City  of  New  York,  the  Newburgh 
Mannerchor,  the  Newburgh  Turn  Verein,  the 
Newburgh  City  Club,  the  Newburgh  Wheel- 
men, the  Newburgh  Canoe  and  Boating  Asso- 
ciation, the  Ringgold  Hose  Company,  the  New 
burgh  Volunteer  Firemen's  Association  and 
Brookside  Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry. 
Judge  Seeger  is  one  of  the  most  genial  and 
approachable  of  men.  He  is  affable  and  plea- 
sant to  everybody.  He  is  not  only  learned  in 
the  law  and  successful,  but  he  is  a  man  among 
men,  whom  it  is  a  delight  to  know  and  one 


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whom  his  fellow  citizens  are  likely  to  honor 
to  an  extent  still  greater  than  they  have  al- 
ready done. 

He  married,"  in  Newburgh,  Orange  county, 
New  York,  in  1884,  May  E.  Riker,  of  New- 
burgh, a  former  resident  of  Chester,  where  she 
was  born.  They  have  one  son,  John  Albert, 
who  has  been  studying  law  with  his  father. 

The  original  name  of  the  Ryker  (Riker) 
family  was  Rycken.  In  the  first  crusade  in 
the  Holy  Land  Hans  Von  Rycken,  Lord  of 
the  Manor  of  Rycken  in  Saxony,  was  accre- 
dited the  honor  of  being  the  first  to  establish 
a  perfunctory  form  of  emancipation.  His 
coat-of-arms  was  a  shield,  horns,  stars  and 
roses.  As  the  family  name  was  changed  to 
De  Ryck,  the  insignia  was  changed  to  a  heap 
of  bears.  In  1329  Louis  the  Fifth,  Emperor 
of  Germany,  presented  the  family  with  a  new 
coat-of-arms,  bearing  crossed  spears  and  a 
fish.  Jacob  Simonez  de  Rycke,  grandfather  of 
Abraham  de  Rycke,  is  accredited  with  being 
the  head  of  the  family  in  America.  Passing 
on  down  to  1614,  we  find  four  brothers  of 
the  de  Ryckes  in  New  Netherlands :  Abraham, 
Geysbert,  Rynier,  and  Hendrick,  bringing  with 
them  much  wealth  and  honor.  Abraham  de 
Rycke  was  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in 
America ;  and  they  assumed  the  name  of  Riker 
and  were  the  first  owners  of  Ricker's  Island. 
His  son,  Abraham,  married  Elizabeth  Conkhn ; 
their  issue  being  John,  Sophia,  Abraham,  Mar- 
garet, Mathias,  Gerardus,  Maria,  James, 
Henry,  Peter,  Samuel,  Tunis.  Tunis  was  born 
August  10,  1770.  He  married  Ellen  Moore. 
He  was  commissioned  as  major  in  the  United 
States  militia  under  James  Madison,  and 
served  as  such  in  the  war  of  the  United  States 
and  Great  Britain  at  Mexico  in  the  years  1812 
and  1813.  At  the  close  of  that  war  he  was 
honorably  discharged,  then  retiring  with  a  life 
pension  of  three  hundred  dollars  annually. 
The  issue  of  his  marriage  was  Abraham. 
Thomas,  Samuel,  Anthony,  Perry,  James, 
Maria,  Jane,  Eliza,  all  of  Spencer,  New  York! 
where  he  died  in  1863.  His  son,  Abraham, 
married  Ellen  Sackett  and  their  issue  was 
Jane,_  Wesley,  Ellen,  Eliza,  Jackson.  Wesley 
married  Hannah  Ackly,  and  their  issue  was 
Catharine,  Robert,  Augustus,  Wheeler  and 
May  E.,  mentioned  above,  who  married  Tudee 
Albert  H.  F.  Seeger. 


Allan  Ainsworth  was 
AINSWORTH  born  in  Denton,  Lan- 
cashire, England,  in  1841. 
The  Ainsworth  family  undoubtedly  takes  its 
name  from  the  chapelry  Ainsworth  (i.  e., 
Aynes  or  Haynes  enclosure)  commonly  called 
Cockey  Moor,  situated  in  the  parish  of  Mid- 
dleton,  Salford  hundred,  in  the  county  pala- 
tine of  Lancaster,  England.  So  long  ago  as 
1639  ^•i-'v  John  Ainsworth  was  of  that  ilk  and 
owned  lands  there,  but  "Bayne's  Directory" 
for  1825  gave  no  one  of  the  name  as  an  in- 
habitant; there  were  then  no  Ainsworths  or 
Ainsworth,  The  place  was  always  small,  and 
the  census  of  1881  states  its  population  as  only 
1,729  and  its  area  as  1,309  acres.  Burke's 
"General  Armory"  gives  four  coats-of-arms  as 
those  of  Lancashire  Ainsworths  that  are  prob- 
ably ancient,  two  of  these  differ  only  as  to 
their  tincture  (i.  e.,  colors).  The  description 
given  by  Burke  in  the  technical  language  of 
heraldry  is  as  follows:  i.  Gules,  three  battle 
axes  argent ;  Crest — two  battle  axes  in  saltire 
proper.  Motto — Courage  Sans  Peitr.  2. 
Azure,  three  spades  argent,  another  within  a 
border.  Crest — two  battle  axes  in  saltire 
proper.  3.  Azure,  on  a  bend  sable  three  cres- 
cents of  the  first.  4.  Sable,  on  a  bend  argent 
three  crescents  of  the  field.  In  view  of  the 
later  American  history  of  the  family,  these 
coals-of-arms  are  not  inappropriate ;  spades 
are  emblematic  of  the  agricultural  occupation 
of  the  great  majority  of  the  individuals  repre- 
senting the  name,  the  battle  axes  symbolizing 
their  aptness  and  devotion  to  military  service. 
Every  war  here  has  seen  the  name  of  Ains- 
worth repeated  on  its  muster  rolls,  and  the 
number  who  died  in  the  French  and  Indian 
war  and  in  the  revolutionary  war  seems  out  of 
proportion  to  the  number  who  have  borne  the 
name.  The  motto,  "Fearless  Courage,"  has 
evidently  been  sustained  by  the  family  in 
America. 

Allan  Ainsworth  received  a  common  school 
education  in  Denton,  and  afterward  learned 
the  manufacturing  of  hats  as  a  trade.  He  was 
a  very  young  man  when  he  came  to  this  coun- 
try and  established  himself  in  Yonkers,  later 
in  Newburgh,  and  subsequently  in  Matteawan, 
New  York,  continuing  the  hat  manufacturing 
trade.  He  married  Delia  Carey,  in  New 
York  City,  about  1870;  Delia  Carey  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  about  1850.  There  were 
six    children    to    this    union :    Lena,    Arthur, 


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Edith,  Ida,  Walter  F.  and  Harry.  They  be- 
longed to  the  Episcopal  church. 

Walter  Francis,  fifth  child  of  Allan  and 
Delia  Ainsworth,  was  born  July  31,  1878,  in 
Newburgh,  Orange  county,  New  York.  He 
went  to  public  school  and  later  to  high  school 
in  ]Matteawan.  After  graduating  he  entered 
De  Garmo  Institute,  and  subsequently  Spen- 
cer's Business  College,  Newburgh,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1895.  He 
was  employed  by  the  West  Shore  Rail- 
road Company  at  Newburgh  as  a  clerk 
for  three  years ;  later  he  was  transferred 
to  the  superintendent's  office,  where  he 
remained  about  one  year;  after  that  he  was 
employed  by  the  New  York,  New  Haven  & 
Hartford  Railroad  Company  at  Fishkill, 
where  he  remained  for  one  year.  After  that 
he  entered  in  the  coal  business  for  himself  for 
four  years  at  Fishkill  Landing.  He  sold  out 
his  business  and  accepted  a  position  with  the 
Matteawan  Savings  Bank  as  assistant  treas- 
urer for  two  years,  when  he  came  to  New 
York  and  re-entered  in  the  coal  business  with 
Whitney  &  Kemmerer,  and  finally  entered  the 
firm  of  W.  A.  Marshell  &  Co.  as  secretary, 
and  was  also  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Lincoln  Coal  Company  and  the  Maple  Ridge 
Coal  Company.  Mr.  Ainsworth  is  owner  and 
operator  of  the  Belmont  Ouemahoning  Coal 
Company.  He  is  founding  a  settlement  at 
Acosta,  Pennsylvania,  near  one  of  his  proper- 
ties.    Mr.  Ainsworth  lives  in  New  York  City. 

He  married  Beatrice  Martin,  in  New  York 
City,  in  1892 ;  she  was  the  daughter  of  Charles 
Martin  and  Minnie  Raynor.  Mr.  Martin  was 
a  wholesale  produce  merchant. 


There  has  been  much  specula- 
ODELL     tion     concerning    this     surname, 

which  first  appears  in  American 
records  as  borne  by  William  Odell,  who  came 
to  New  England  in  the  early  part  of  the  sev- 
enteenth century.  Some  genealogists  give  the 
name  an  English  origin.  According  to  these 
the  name  is  said  to  have  been  variously  writ- 
ten in  the  public  records  of  England  as  Wade- 
helle,  Wahulle,  de  Wahul,  Wodhull.  Wood- 
hull.  Wodell,  Odell,  Odill  and  Odle.  The 
parish  registers  of  Bedfordshire,  England, 
show  a  very  extensive  settlement  of  the  family 
in  that  county  and  the  name  appears  to  have 
undergone  many  variations  in   spelling,   such 


as  Wodell,  Woddell,  Woodell,  Woddle,  Odill. 
Odell  and  Odle.  The  seat  of  the  families 
bearing  these  variegated  surnames  was  origin- 
ally the  ancient  castle  and  barony  of  Wahull, 
also  called  Wodhull,  Woodhull,  Woodhill, 
etc.  This  place  is  now  described  as  Odell  on 
the  maps  of  the  county,  this  being  a  later 
orthography.  In  the  parish  registers  of  Then- 
ford,  Northamptonshire,  and  MoUington,  Ox- 
fordshire, the  common  spelling  of  the  name 
is  Wodhull  and  Woodhull ;  in  MoUington 
Church,  however,  is  a  tomb  to  the  memory  of 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Merse)  Woodhull,  late  wife 
of  Richard  Woodhull,  of  MoUington.  In 
America  the  families  of  Woodhull  have  not 
traced  any  relationship,  though  Richard 
Woodhull.  born  about  1620,  who  is  considered 
the  progenitor  of  most  of  the  Woodhulls  in 
this  country,  was  sometimes  described  on  the 
public  records  as  Richard  Odell,  and  William 
Odell,  Jr.,  of  R3'e,  New  York,  signed  as  Wil- 
liam Woodhull  in  1668. 

The  Q'Dells  or  Odells  of  Ireland  are  a  well 
known  Milesian  family  of  the  race  of  Heber. 
a  branch  of  the  family  of  Ring  or  O'Villrin. 
The  surname  is  derived  from  Dall  ("dall"  in 
Gaelic  meaning  "Wind"),  the  christian  name 
of  a  military  commander  who  is  the  hundred 
and  second  on  the  O'Mllrin  or  Ring  pedigree. 
It  has  been  variously  anglicised  O'Dally, 
O'Dell,  Odell  and  Dale.  The  family  is  of  dis- 
tinguished ancestry,  Dall,  who  appears  to 
have  been  present  at  the  battle  of  Clontarf 
(1014  A.D.),  having  been  a  descendant  in  the 
fourteenth  generation  of  Daire  Cearb  a 
brother  of  Lughaidh,  son  of  Olioll  Flann-beag, 
king  of  Munster  for  thirty  years,  and  great- 
grandson  of  the  celebrated  Olioll  Olum,  king 
of  both  Munsters  in  the  third  century,  from 
whom  were  descended  all  the  Heberian  nobil- 
ity and  gentry  of  Thomond  and  Desmond. 

(I)  William  Odell,  the  founder  and  first 
immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Odell  family  here 
dealt  with,  was  born  either  in  Britain  or  Ire- 
land, died  in  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  in  1676. 
He  came  to  New  England  in  the  early  part  of 
the  seventeenth  century,  and  he  is  first  traced 
at  Concord,  Massachusetts,  where  his  name 
appears  in  the  town  records  as  early  as  1639. 
He  removed  to  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  about 
1644,  and  became  the  owner  of  a  large  estate. 
His  name  appears  there  in  the  probate  records 
with  the  comparatively  rare  prefix  of  "Mr.," 


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which  in  those  early  days  was  a  distinctive 
and  honorable  title.  His  will,  recorded  at 
Fairfield,  Connecticut,  and  dated  June  6,  1676, 
mentions  his  sons  William  and  John,  his 
daughter  Rebecca,  who  had  married  Thomas 
Moorehouse,  his  daughter-in-law,  Mary 
Odell,  and  others.  In  this  will  he  bequeathed 
lands  in  Concord  and  Fairfield  and  makes 
his  son,  John  Odell,  and  his  son-in-law,  Sam- 
uel Moorehouse,  his  executors.  William 
Odell  married  before  coming  to  America,  it 
is  thought,  but  the  name  of  his  wife  has  re- 
mained unknown.  There  is  no  trace  of  Mrs. 
Odell's  residence  in  Concord,  the  first  book 
of  the  records  of  that  town  having  been  lost. 
In  the  early  records  of  Boston,  however,  may 
be  found  "A  Register  of  the  births  and  burials 
in  Concord  for  the  years  1639  until  the  first 
month  of  1644,  according  to  Or  account."  In 
this  register  are  the  following  entries : 
"James  the  sonne  of  William  Odle  was  born 
the  2  of  the  11  month  1639,  and  was  buried 
4  (2)  1 64 1."  "Rebecca,  the  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Odle  was  borne  the  17  (5)  1642."  It  is 
supposed  that  Mrs.  Odell  died  before  1644, 
the  year  of  her  husband's  removal  to  Fair- 
field, Connecticut,  as  the  records  of  the  town 
make  no  mention  of  her  name,  nor  does  Mr. 
Odell's  will,  made  in  1676,  refer  to  her.  Chil- 
dren:  William,  mentioned  below;  James, 
born  in  1639,  died  in  1641  ;  John,  married 
Abigail  Walker;  Rebecca,  married  Thomas 
Moorehouse. 

(II)  William  (2),  eldest  son  of  William 
(i)  Odell,  was  born  about  1634,  died  about 
1700  at  Rye,  New  York.  In  1659  he  pur- 
chased land  in  Fairfield  from  Thomas  Moore- 
house, and  in  1668,  when  he  appears  to  have 
been  residing  at  Rye,  he  signed  a  petition  as 
"William  \^'oodhull."'  such  a  name  appearing 
on  the  record  and  considered  to  have  been 
signed  by  him.  In  1681  he  owned  about  four 
hundred  acres  in  Fairfield,  and  in  1684  he 
gave  a  deed  of  land  in  Rye,  New  York,  to  his 
son  Samuel.  There  is  also  a  record  of  his 
giving  a  deed  of  land  to  his  eldest  son,  John 
Odell,  in  1693.  He  married  a  daughter  of 
Richard  Vowles,  Esq.,'  of  Rye,  New  York, 
who  was  of  Fairfield,  in  1650,  and  was  a  Free- 
man in  1662.  Children:  i.  John,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Samuel,  who  lived  at  Rye,  New 
York,  and  in  1700,  gave  Abraham  Smith  a 
deed  of  land  which  formerly  belonged  to  his 
father.    3.  Jonathan,  who  was  of  White  Plains 


in  1697  and  signed  the  oath  of  allegiance  to 
King  William.  4.  Sarah,  married,  in  1686, 
John  Archer,  Esq.,  lord  of  the  manor  of  Ford- 
ham,  New  York,  and  had  issue.  5.  Hackahal, 
who  is  mentioned  in  Rye  town  records  as  wit- 
nessing Robert  Bloomer's  deed.  6.  Isaac,  lived 
at  Eastchester,  New  York,  and  gave  to  Misses 
Hoit  a  deed  of  land  in  Eastchester.  7. 
Stephen,  who  is  said  to  have  removed  to 
Dutchess  county,  New  York.  8.  Michael,  who 
is  said  to  have  married  one  Bussing. 

(III)  John,  eldest  son  of  William  (2)  and 

(Vowles)  Odell,  was  probably  born  at 

Fairfield,  Connecticut,  died  at  Fordham,  New 
York.  There  is  a  record  of  his  signing  as  a 
witness  in  1683,  and  in  1706  he  sold  to  George 
Knififen,  of  Rye,  New  York,  his  interest  in 
the  undivided  lands  "below  the  marked  trees 
which  belong  to  the  eighteenth,"  being  a  thirty- 
sixth  part  of  the  land  which  belonged  to  his 
deceased  father,  William  Odell.  He  married 
Joanna  Turner,  who  in  1688  was  mentioned 
as  Hannah,  wife  of  John  Odle,  in  an  account 
of  the  attempt  of  Nicholas  Bayard  to  take  pos- 
session of  the  Dutch  church  of  New  York. 
Lawrence  Turner  was  the  founder  of  this 
family  in  Westchester  county;  his  estate  was 
administered  by  his  widow  Martha  and  her 
children  in  1688.  Children:  i.  Johannes, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Michael,  of  whom  no 
trace  has  been  found  beyond  the  mention  of 
his  name  as  an  executor  of  the  will  of  Johan- 
nes Odell,  of  Fordham,  New  York,  in  which 
instrument  he  is  called  by  the  testator  "My 
brother,  Michael  Odell." 

(IV)  Joannes,  eldest  son  of  John  and 
Joanna  (Turner)  Odell,  was  born  probably  at 
Rye,  New  York,  and  died  about  1738.  He 
lived  at  Fordham  Manor,  New  York.  His 
will  in  New  York  City  dated  September  25, 
1735.  and  proved  July  27,  1738,  mentions  his 
"honored  father"  John  Odell,  and  appoints 
his  wife,  his  brother  Michael,  and  his  son  John 
as  executors.  He  married  Joanna,  daughter 
of  Joannes  and  Altien  (Waldron)  Vermelje 
(Vermilye)  of  Harlem.  Joannes  Vermelje 
was  in  1670  magistrate  and  in  1689  member  of 
the  committee  of  safety  and  of  Leisler's  coun- 
cil. Isaac  Vermeille,  the  founder  of  the  fam- 
ily in  this  country,  was  the  son  of  Jean  and 
Marie  (Roubley)  Vermeille,  who  were  among 
the  Walloon  refugees  in  London  in  the  latter 
part  of  the  sixteenth  century.  Children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Odell:     i.  John,  married  Anne, 


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daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  Benson,  of 
Harlem.  2.  Isaac,  married  Lena  Devaux  and 
had  three  sons :  Isaac,  who  served  in  the  revo- 
lutionary war;  John,  Jonathan.  3.  Abraham, 
born  April  22,  1725,  died  1819;  married  Re- 
becca, daughter  of  Joseph  and  Jannetje  (Kier- 
sen)  Dyckman.  4.  Jonathan,  mentioned  be- 
low.    5.  Hannah.    6.  Altien. 

(V)  Jonathan,  son  of  Joannes  and  Joanna 
(Vermilye)  Odell,  was  born  December  26, 
1730,  died  September  23,  1818,  at  Tarrytown, 
New  York,  being  buried  in  Sleepy  Hollow 
cemetery  in  that  neighborhood.  He  lived  at 
Tarrytown,  New  York,  and  owned  a  large 
estate  in  Westchester  county.  New  York.  He 
served  in  the  revolutionary  war  and  was  im- 
prisoned by  the  British  for  loyalty  to  the 
American  cause.  His  will  is  dated  May  29, 
1812,  and  mentions  his  sons  and  daughters. 
He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Jacob  and 
Jannetie  (Kiersen)  Dyckman.  She  was  born 
in  1736,  died  March  20,  1783,  granddaughter 
of  Jan  Dyckman,  the  founder  of  the  family, 
who  came  from  Bentheim,  Westphalia,  and 
was  a  landholder  in  Harlem  as  early  as  1666. 
Children:  i.  Jacob,  born  February  26,  1752, 
died  October  15,  1798;  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Jasper  and  Auly  Stymus,  of 
Greenburg,  New  York.  2.  Lieutenant  John, 
born  October  25,  1756,  died  October  26,  1835 ; 
was  an  officer  in  Colonel  Morris  Graham's 
regiment  and  mounted  guide  to  the  American 
army  during  the  war  of  the  revolution ;  mar- 
ried Hannah,  daughter  of  John  and  Ann  Mac- 
Chain,  of  Cortlandt,  Westchester  county, 
New  York.  3.  Abraham,  born  January  4, 
1760,  died  February  26,  1820;  married  Anne, 
daughter  of  Cornells  and  Rachel  (Horton) 
Mandeville,  of  Cortlandt  Manor,  New  York : 
he  served  in  the  American  army  in  Colonel 
Van  Bergen's  regiment  during  the  war  of  the 
revolution.    4.  William,  mentioned  below. 

(  VT)  William,  youngest  son  of  Jonathan  and 
Margaret  (Dyckman)  Odell,  was  born  in  New 
York,  December  18,  1762,  died  at  Kendall, 
Orleans  county.  New  York,  February  14, 
1856.  He  served  in  Colonel  Van  Bergen's 
regiment  during  the  war  of  the  revolution  and 
later  held  a  colonel's  commission  in  a  West- 
chester county  regiment.  In  1812  he  was 
named  in  his  father's  will  with  a  bequest  of 
an  estate  called  the  Homestead.  He  was  for 
some  years  proprietor  of  the  Bull's  Head 
Tavern.       In     1835    he    settled    at    Kendall, 


Orleans  county,  New  York,  buying  a  tract  of 
land  for  the  purpose  of  improving  it.  He 
married  Johanna,  born  December  30,  1769, 
daughter  of  Daniel  S.  and  Rebecca  (Brown) 
Willsea,  of  Greenburg.  Children:  i.  Isaac, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Abram,  who  settled  in 
Little  Britain,  near  New  Windsor,  Orange 
county.  New  York. 

(VII)  Isaac,  eldest  son  of  William  and 
Johanna  (Willsea)  Odell,  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  about  1799,  died  at  Newburgh 
Orange  county,  New  York.  He  went  with  his 
father  to  Orleans  county,  New  York 
and  afterwards  settled  in  Little  Britain,  near 
New  Windsor,  Orange  county.  New  York, 
where  they  settled  on  the  De  Witt  Clinton 
farm.  He  married  Mary  Ann  Barker,  born 
in  Westchester  county,  New  York,  died  in 
New  York  City  at  the  age  of  eighty-one. 
Children:  i.  Benjamin,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Caleb,  born  at  New  Windsor,  Orange  county, 
New  York,  June  28,  1827,  died  on  Thanks- 
giving Day,  1 88 1. 

(VIII)  Benjamin,  eldest  son  of  Isaac  and 
Mary  Ann  (Barker)  Odell,  was  born  at  New 
Windsor,  Orange  county.  New  York,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1825,  in  the  same  house  in  which 
Governor  Clinton  was  born.  He  attended 
school  as  a  boy,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
was  bound  out  to  Abram  Weller  of  the 
town  of  Montgomery,  as  a  farm  hand.  He 
remained  with  Mr.  Weller  three  years,  and  in 
the  meantime  attended  school  part  of  the  time 
at  the  Clineman  school  house,  near  Walden. 
Mr.  Odell  went  to  Newburgh  in  1843  and  en- 
tered the  employ  of  Benjamin  W.  Van  Nort, 
with  whom  he  remained  four  years,  when  he 
began  business  for  himself.  In  1863  he  bought 
from  J.  R.  Dickson  the  Muchattoes  Lake  ice 
property.  In  1886  he  organized  the  Muchat- 
toes Lake  Ice  Company,  of  which  he  is  still 
president.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  former 
village  of  Newburgh  and  has  been  an  alder- 
man in  the  third  ward  of  Newburgh  and  a 
supervisor  of  New  Windsor.  He  was  sheriff 
of  Orange  county  in  1880-83,  and  has  served 
six  terms  of  two  years  each  as  mayor  of  New- 
burgh. He  has  always  faithfully  fulfilled 
every  trust  reposed  in  him.  He  is  a  staunch 
Republican,  and  has  been  ever  since  the  open- 
ing of  the  rebellion  in  1861.  He  has  always 
been  a  farseeing  and  capable  politician.  As 
regards  religion  Mr.  Odell  belongs  to  the 
American  Reformed  church,  of  which  he  is 


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an  elder.  He  married,  in  1850,  Ophelia, 
daughter  of  Hiram  Bookstaver,  of  Newburgh, 
New  York.  Children:  i.  Benjamin  B.,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Hiram  B.,  mentioned  below. 
3.  George  C.  D.    4.  Clara.    5.  Ophelia. 

(IX)  Benjamin  B.,  eldest  son  of  Benjamin 
and  Ophelia  (Bookstaver)  Odell,  was  born  at 
Newburgh,  Orange  county,  New  York,  Janu- 
ary 14,  1854.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Newburgh  and  at  Bethany  College, 
West  Virginia.  From  1873  to  1875  he  was  a 
student  at  Columbia  College.  He  engaged  for 
a  number  of  years  in  banking,  electric  light- 
ing and  other  commercial  enterprises  in  New- 
burgh with  his  father.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Republican  State  committee  from  1884  to 
1900,  and  chairman  of  the  Republican  state 
executive  committee  from  1898  to  1900.  He 
was  a  member  of  congress  from  the  seven- 
teenth district  of  New  York  from  1895  to 
1899,  but  declined  renomination.  He  earned 
considerable  distinction  as  governor  of  New 
York  from  1901  to  1905.  He  married  (first) 
in  1877,  Estelle  Crist,  who  died  in  1888;  (sec- 
ond) in  1891,  Mrs.  Linda  (Crist)  Traphagen, 
widow  of  Mr.  Traphagen,  and  sister  of  the 
first  Mrs.  Odell. 

(IX)  Hiram  B.,  second  son  of  Benjamin 
and  Ophelia  (Bookstaver)  Odell,  was  born  in 
Newburgh,  Orange  county.  New  York,  Au- 
gust 21,  1856.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  city.  Soon  after  leaving 
school  in  1871  he  began  work  with  his  father 
in  the  ice  business,  the  elder  Odell  being  presi- 
dent of  the  Muchattoes  Lake  Ice  Company. 
He  has  remained  in  that  business  and  has  long 
been  an  officer  in  the  company.  In  18S0  he 
was  appointed  under  sheriff  in  charge  of  the 
Goshen  court  house  and  jail  by  his  father,  who 
had  been  elected  sheriff  of  Orange  county  the 
previous  November.  He  served  in  that  office 
during  a  term  of  three  years  and  his  work 
gave  general  satisfaction.  On  March  7,  1893, 
Mr.  Odell  was  elected  alderman  in  the  New- 
burgh common  council  to  represent  the  third 
ward.  He  served  in  that  office  one  term  of 
two  years  and  declined  re-election.  The  next 
office  held  by  Mr.  Odell  was  that  of  postmas- 
ter of  Newburgh,  in  which  he  served  his  third 
term  of  four  years.  He  was  first  appointed 
in  March,  1900,  by  President  McKinley  and 
was  reappointed  by  President  Roosevelt  in 
1904  and  again  in  1908.  Mr.  Odell,  it  is  said 
locally,     has    made    an    admirable    postmas- 


ter and  there  have  been  many  improve- 
ments made  in  the  postal  system  of  the 
city  since  he  began  to  hold  the  position. 
He  has  been  connected  with  the  fire 
department  for  seven  years,  and  was  secre- 
tary of  the  Ringgold  Hose  Company  sev- 
eral years.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  Com- 
pany E,  Seventeenth  Battalion  (now  the 
Tenth  Separate  Company)  in  1878.  He  was 
appointed  first  corporal  by  Captain  Joseph  M. 
Dickey,  and  took  rank  as  second  lieutenant, 
February  8,  1884,  and  as  first  lieutenant,  May 
22,  1885.  He  served  seven  years  in  the  Na- 
tional Guard,  and  left  the  company  August  10, 
1886.  He  married,  in  April,  1886,  Edith, 
daughter  of  James  Ashley  and  Catherine 
Booth,  of  Wilbur,  a  suburb  of  Kingston, 
Ulster  county,  New  York.  Children:  Mil- 
dred, Edith,  Hiram  B.,  Jr. 


(VIII)  Caleb  Odell,  second  son 
ODELL  of  Isaac  (q.  v.)  and  Mary  Ann 
(Barker)  Odell,  was  born  at  New 
Windsor,  Orange  county.  New  York,  June  28, 
1827,  and  died  on  Thanksgiving  Day  in  1881, 
at  Newburg,  Orange  county,  New  York.  He 
attended  the  district  schools  in  the  vicinity  of 
New  Windsor  and  later  in  life  settled  in  New- 
burg, where,  with  his  brother,  Benjamin  B. 
Odell,  he  conducted  a  restaurant.  Later  he 
was  proprietor  of  the  old  Van  Ort  House, 
one  of  the  leading  hotels  of  that  day.  He 
managed  the  Van  Ort  Hotel  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  when  it  was  torn  down  he  engaged 
again  in  the  restaurant  business,  though  he  did 
not  continue  very  long  in  this  second  venture. 
He  was  a  very  genial  man  and  his  jovial 
character  and  conversation  had  much  to  do 
with  his  success  in  his  catering  business.  Gay 
as  he  was  he  retained  a  firm  belief  in  the  value 
of  practical  religion  and  was  a  regular  at- 
tendant with  his  family  at  the  Old  Dutch 
church.  He  married,  June  25,  1849,  J^"^' 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ann  (Dunning)  Cas- 
telline  (see  Castelline  VI).  Children:  Mary 
Ann,  who  married  William  Ernest;  George 
W. ;  Ophelia,  who  died  in  infancy  ;  Caleb  ;  Wil- 
liam; Adelaide,  who  married  William  Corn- 
wall; Katherine,  who  married  H.  E.  Limmer; 
Laura  V.,  mentioned  below ;  Harriet  E.,  who 
married  (first)  Clarence  Whitehill,  and  (sec- 
ond) Dr.  J.  L.  Rathburn ;  and  Cora,  who  died 
in  infancy. 


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(IX J  Laura  V.,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Jane 
(.Castellmej  Odell,  was  born  in  Newburg, 
Orange  county,  New  York.  She  married,  No- 
vember 2^,  1898,  Samuel  L.  Carhsle,  who  was 
born  at  Newburg,  Orange  county.  New  York, 
June  30,  1832,  and  died  at  Newburgh,  Novem- 
ber 9,  191 1.  Beginning  hfe  in  Newburgh  in 
obscurity,  he  died  one  of  the  most  honored 
citizens  of  the  district,  having  been  a  represen- 
tative in  tlie  state  legislature,  where  he  served 
un  important  committees  during  the  term  of 
1884-5.  Mr.  Carlisle's  early  education  was 
secured  in  public  schools  and  while  attending 
school  he  was  employed  as  a  newsboy  by 
Stephen  Hoyt.  After  leaving  school  he  started 
a  brush  factory  and  later  went  to  New  York 
City  to  learn  the  dry  goods  business,  but  left 
It  to  enter  the  service  of  the  Singer  Sewing 
Machine  Company,  at  their  works  in  Brook- 
lyn, New  York.  He  entered  the  establish- 
ment as  an  office  boy,  worked  through  the  sev- 
eral grades  to  that  of  buyer,  and  then  became 
a  stockholder  and  director,  holding  a  position 
on  the  board  of  directors  at  the  time  of  his 
death. 

After  becoming  associated  with  the  Singer 
Company  in  an  official  capacity  Mr.  Carlisle 
organized  in  Brooklyn  what  was  for  years 
known  the  country  round  as  the  "Carlisle  Bat- 
tery," an  organization  used  exclusively  for 
political  purposes.  After  Mr.  Carlisle  went  to 
Newburg  to  live  a  retired  life  in  1881,  the 
battery  was  reorganized  and  is  now  known  as 
the  "Francis  William  Battery."  In  1884  when 
the  Blaine  and  Logan  campaign  was  on  Mr. 
Carlisle  entered  the  political  field  locally,  and 
one  of  the  largest  demonstrations  ever  given 
in  the  district  was  brought  about  at  his  sug- 
gestion and  with  his  assistance.  This  was  the 
occasion  of  visits  from  clubs  representing  all 
river  cities  and  towns.  The  closing  years  of 
Mr.  Carlisle's  life  were  somewhat  over- 
shadowed by  illness.  He  was  a  member  of 
Newburg  Lodge,  No.  308,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  and  of  Hudson  River  Commandery, 
No.  35,  Knights  Templar.  Mr.  Samuel  Lud- 
low Carlisle,  by  his  first  marriage,  had  one  son, 
William,  who  died  in  December,  1910.  Wil- 
liam married  Anna  P.  Daly,  of  Brooklyn,  and 
had  three  children :  Avrill,  who  has  been  pri- 
vate tutor  to  a  son  of  Mr.  William  Randolph 
Hearst,  the  newspaper  proprietor  ;  SamueJ  Car- 
lisle, who  is  with  the  Remington  Typewriter 
Company,  and  Emilie.  who  married  Martin  C. 


Stewart,     professor    of     German     at     Union 
College. 

(The  Castelline  Line.) 
The  name  Castelline  is  manifestly  Latin  in 
origin,  and  particularly  French.  In  America 
it  has  appeared  in  various  forms,  the  chief  be- 
ing the  ordinary  and  probably  correct  form  of 
Castelline,  and  the  still  prevalent  form  of  Cas- 
terline,  which  is  simply  an  anglicised  form  of 
the  other.  The  tradition  is  that  the  family 
arrived  on  the  coast  of  New  Jersey  from 
France  at  an  early  period  in  the  seventeenth 
century.  The  name  Castelline  has  reference 
to  some  castle  or  stronghold  apparently  con- 
nected with  the  original  family.  This  was  a 
very  common  form  for  French  or  Norman 
names  to  assume,  surnames  in  France  being 
usually  taken  from  the  appellation  of  some 
town  or  territory  or  district  or  feature  of  the 
landscape,  more  particularly  in  the  case  of 
families  having  pretensions  to  wealth  and 
social  position. 

(I)  Francis  Castelline  or  Casterline,  the 
founder  of  the  family  in  America  bearing  the 
name  and  its  variations,  was  born  in  France, 
probably  about  1672,  and  died  at  Rockaway, 
Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  December  16, 
1768,  aged  ninety-six.  According  to  the  tradi- 
tion handed  down  in  the  family  he  arrived 
in  New  Jersey  from  France  and  settled  near 
Union  or  Franklin  in  that  state,  about  the 
year  1690.  His  son  Francis  is  said  to  have 
been  a  mere  babe  at  the  time  and  had  to  be 
carried  in  his  mother's  arms.  There  is  no 
record  as  to  the  name  of  the  mother.  Francis 
was  probably  a  farmer  and  he  seems  to  have 
owned  some  land  in  the  place  where  he  set- 
tled, near  Rockaway,  Morris  county,  New 
Jersey. 

(II)  Francis  (2),  son  of  Francis  (i)  Cas- 
telline, was  probably  born  in  France  about 
1690.  and  died  in  1796  at  Rockaway,  Morris 
county.  New  Jersey,  at  the  age  of  one  hundred 
and  six.  He  married  three  times  and  had 
twenty-six  children.  The  records  as  far  as 
known  give :  Abraham,  Amariah,  Jacob, 
Stephen.  Benjamin.  Samuel,  Francis,  Phebe, 
James,  and  Joseph,  mentioned  below. 

(III)  Joseph,  son  of  Francis  (2)  Castelline, 
was  born  at  Rockaway,  Morris  county.  New 
Jersey,  June  10,  1736,  and  died  at  the  same 
place  April  t8,  1832.  He  lived  at  Rockaway 
and  was  a  farmer.  He  married  (first)  Mav 
16,    1772,   Susannah   Lyon,  by  whom  he  had 


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eleven  children;  and  he  married  (second) 
Penniah  Searing,  March  24,  1799;  by  this 
marriage  he  had  ten  children.  Children:  1. 
Daniel,  mentioned  below.  2.  Sarah.  3.  Susan, 
who  married  Stephen  Freeman.  4.  Hannah, 
who  married  (first)  one  Tompkins,  (second) 
one  Harris.  5.  Phebe.  6.  Huldah.  7.  Simeon, 
who  died  March  14,  1888,  married  (first)  Re- 
becca Duly,  of  Minkey,  (second)  Eveline 
Atno  of  Succasunna,  and  (third)  Susan 
Sharf  of  Madison,  born  September  25,  1799, 
died  April  i,  1879.  8.  Jane,  died  July  7,  1875  ; 
married  (first)  Hiram  Henry  Baxter,  August 
2,  1822,  and  had  two  children,  one  of  whom 
died  young,  and  the  other,  William  Henry, 
born  June  10,  1825,  died  in  California;  mar 
ried  (second)  a  Mr.  Harrison  of  Caldwell. 
Penniah  Searing,  the  second  wife  of  Joseph 
Castelline,  was  the  daughter  of  William  and 
Penniah  { Burnett )  Searing,  the  seventh 
daughter  of  a  seventh  daughter,  and  was  pos- 
sessed, according  to  the  belief  of  some,  of 
great  healing  powers  by  the  "laying  on  of 
hands." 

(IV)  Daniel,  son  of  Joseph  and  Susannah 
(Lyon)  Castelline,  was  born  at  Rockaway, 
Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1774.  He  mar- 
ried a  lady  whose  first  name  was  Elizabeth, 
but  whose  maiden  surname  remains  unknown. 
They  had  several  children,  but  the  records 
contain  the  name  of  only  one  of  them.  There 
is  no  means  of  surmising  the  probable  date 
of  the  death  of  Daniel  or  his  wife,  or  of  any 
special  incidents  in  their  lives. 

(V)  Joseph,  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth 
Castelline,  was  born  in  Rockaway,  Morris 
county,  New  Jersey,  May  26,  1798,  and  died 
at  Dover,  November  26,  1852,  being  buried 
in  Berkshire  Valley.  He  settled  in  Orange 
county,  New  York,  and  married  Ann  Dunning. 
One  of  their  children  was  Jane,  mentioned 
below. 

(VI)  Jane,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ann 
(Dunning)  Castelline,  was  born  November 
19,  1827,  and  died  February  11,  1903,  at  New- 
burg,  Orange  county,  New  York.  She  mar- 
ried, June  25,  1849,  Caleb  Odell.  son  of  Isaac 
and  Mary  Ann  (Barker)  Odell,  (see  Odell 
VIII). 


It  is  claimed  that  the  surname 

HOPPER     Hopper  is  of  French  origin  and 

was   originally   spelled   Hoppe. 

There  are  in  America  three  distinct  Hopper 


families.  One  is  of  Irish  descent,  another 
came  from  the  county  of  Durham,  England, 
and  the  third,  by  far  the  most  numerous,  is 
of  Dutch  ancestry.  The  immigrant  ancestor 
of  the  Holland  Hoppers  was  Andries  Hopper, 
and  the  New  Jersey  and  New  York  Hoppers 
are  descended  from  him.  Members  of  the 
family  have  represented  their  districts  in  the 
legislature,  others  have  worn  the  judicial 
ermine  with  dignity  and  respectability,  still 
others  have  held  from  time  to  time  county  and 
township  offices,  and  some  have  become  fam- 
ous as  physicians,  clergymen,  lawyers,  mayors 
of  cities,  publicists,  mechanics,  sailors,  soldiers 
and  agriculturists. 

(I)  Andries  Hopper  came  from  Amster- 
dam, Holland,  in  1652,  accompanied  by  his 
wife  and  two  or  three  children,  and  settled  in 
New  Amsterdam  (now  New  York  City).  In 
1657  he  was  granted  the  privileges  of  a  small 
burgher.  He  acquired  considerable  property 
but  did  not  live  long  to  enjoy  it,  as  he  died  in 
1659.  He  had  entered  into  an  agreement  with 
one  Jacob  Stol  to  purchase  the  Bronx  lands, 
but  owing  to  the  death  of  both,  the  trans- 
action was  not  completed.  The  maiden  name 
of  his  wife  was  Giertie  Hendricks,  and  she 
bore  him  several  children.  Those  born  in 
America  were:  i.  William,  1654;  2.  Hendrick, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Matthew  Adolphus. 
(N.  B.  The  Hoppers  of  Saddle  River,  Ridge- 
wood  and  Midland  townships,  Bergen  county, 
are  all  descended  from  these  brothers.)  In 
1660  Andries  Hopper's  widow  married  (sec- 
ond) Dirck  Gerritsen  Van  Tricht,  thereby 
securing  to  each  of  her  three  children  the  sum 
of  two  hundred  guilders. 

(II)  Hendrick,  second  son  of  Andries  and 
Giertie  (Hendricks)  Hopper,  was  born  in  New 
Amsterdam,  New  Netherland,  in  1656,  re- 
moved to  Bergen,  East  Jersey,  with  his 
parents  in  1680,  and  was  married,  March  14, 
1680,  in  the  Dutch  church  in  New  Nether- 
lands, to  Maria  Johns  Van  Barkum  (or 
Maria  Jans,  as  the  name  is  written  in  the  mar- 
riage record).  They  removed  to  Hackensack, 
North  Bergen,  in  1687.  Children:  i.  Andrew, 
born  1681  ;  married,  July,  1707,  Abigail  Ack- 
erman  and  had  three  daughters.  2.  Johannes, 
born  1682;  married,  July,  1707,  Rachel  Ter- 
hune.  3.  William,  born  1684.  4.  Catherine, 
1685.  5.  Garret,  mentioned  below.  6.  Ger- 
trude, 1699.     7.  Lea. 

(III)  Garret,  fourth  son  of  Hendrick  and 


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Maria  (Jans  Van  Barkum)  Hopper,  was  bap- 
tized December  25,  1696,  in  Hackensack,  New 
Jersey,  and  was  an  elder  of  the  church  there 
in  1748  and  1758.  He  married  (first)  about 
1725,  Catherine  Kejoyne,  who  left  one  son, 
Jacob  G.,  mentioned  below.  He  married 
(second)  in  Hackensack,  October  31,  1741, 
Hendrickjen  Terhuen,  both  described  as  resi- 
dents of  Paramus.  A  careful  search  of  the 
church  records  of  New  York,  Hackensack, 
Schraalenburg  and  Tappan,  discovers  record 
of  only  two  children  of  this  marriage,  namely  > 
Andries,  baptized  November  19,  1742,  and 
Lidea,  August  5,  1744,  at  Hackensack.  There 
were  undoubtedly  several  others,  not  recorded 
in  any  of  the  records  just  mentioned. 

(IV)  Jacob  Garretson,  only  son  of  Garret 
and  Catherine  (Kejoyne)  Hopper,  was  born 
in  1727,  on  his  father's  farm  near  Saddle 
River,  and  died  in  1815.  He  married,  at 
Hackensack,  September  22,  1750,  Cornelia 
Ackerman.  The  following  children  are  men- 
tioned in  his  will:  Catrina,  Cornelius,  Garret, 
Elizabeth.  Henry  and  John  J.  Four  of  these 
are  recorded  as  baptized  in  Hackensack.  It 
is  presumable  that  his  eldest  son,  Jacob,  left 
home  in  early  life  and  so  was  not  named  in 
the  will. 

(V)  Jacob,  son  of  Jacob  Garretson  Hopper, 
born  about  1768,  resided  in  New  York  City, 
where  his  children  were  born.  He  married, 
in  1795,  Lydia  Manwaring,  born  March  31, 
1768,  daughter  of  John  and  Lydia  (Plumb) 
Manwaring.  of  New  London,  Connecticut. 
Their  children,  born  in  New  York,  were :  Ja- 
cob Mulford,  March  7,  1797;  James  Manwar- 
ing, mentioned  below ;  Lydia  Ann,  June  4, 
1804;  Daniel  Manwaring,  March  10,  1807. 
Lydia  Plumb  was  born  June  10,  1732,  and  was 
married  at  New  London,  February  4,  1762, 
to  John  Manwaring.  She  was  descended  from 
John  Plumb,  of  county  Essex,  England  (see 
Plumb  VIII). 

(VI)  James  Manwaring,  second  son  of 
Jacob  and  Lydia  (Manwaring)  Hopper,  was 
born  March  26,  1798,  in  New  York,  where 
he  resided.  He  superintended  the  loading  and 
unloading  of  ships  along  the  North  river  docks 
in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  church,  and  lived  to  see  the 
organization  of  the  Republican  party,  which 
he  supported  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
married.  September  5.  1820,  Mary  Faulkner. 
a  native  of   New  York   City,  and  they  had 


children :  Jacob  Manwaring,  born  July  24, 
1822,  died  May  17,  1890;  George  Faulkner, 
April  26,  1824;  Mary  Faulkner,  January  25, 
1826;  Eliza  Parker,  May  17,  1828;  James 
Alexander,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  James  Alexander,  third  son  of  James 
M.  and  Mary  (Faulkner)  Hopper,  was  born 
July  17,  1831,  in  New  York  City,  and  died 
December  11,  1900,  in  San  Francisco,  Cali- 
fornia. He  became  a  brass  turner,  locksmith 
and  gunsmith,  and  was  highly  skilled  as  a 
mechanic.  In  1855-56  he  was  engaged  on  the 
famous  "'Hobb's  Lock,"  which  was  sent  to 
London  in  1856  and  successfully  competed  in 
the  great  World's  Fair.  His  employers  were 
Day  &  Newell,  who  finally  secured  a  number 
of  contracts.  Following  this  Mr.  Hopper  and 
his  family  sailed  from  Boston.  Massachusetts, 
in  1859,  to  Honolulu,  via  Cape  Horn,  the 
voyage  taking  one  hundred  and  fourteen  days, 
where  he  established  a  brass  and  machine 
foundry  and  began  manufacturing  whaling 
guns  and  general  ship  work.  After  the  loss 
of  the  Arctic  fleet  he  turned  his  attention  to 
the  production  of  sugar  and  rice  milling  ma- 
chinery and  was  very  successful  in  that  line  of 
industry.  He  invested  in  rice  fields  and  plan- 
tations, and  by  his  thrift  and  energy  built  up 
a  successful  business  as  a  rice  merchant.  In 
political  principles  he  was  a  Republican.  He 
married,  October  4,  1853,  in  New  York  City, 
Ellen  Lewers,  born  April  12.  1832,  in  New 
York,  died  August  5.  1910.  in  San  Francisco. 
Children:  i.  William  Lewers.  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Mary  Jane,  born  August  9,  1859.  mar- 
ried Elisha  Wells  Peterson  and  had  children : 
Margaret  Lewers.  James  Hopper.  Dorothy 
Faulkner.    Ernest    Wells    and    Lewers    Clark. 

3.  Margaret  Lewers,  born  December  19,  1861, 
in  Honolulu,  resides  in  Honolulu ;  unmarried. 

4.  Ellen  Reaney.  born  February  3.  1873,  in 
Honolulu :  married  Willard  Elias  Brown  and 
had  children:  Willard  Everett  and  Winifred 
Lewers. 

(VIII)  William  Lewers,  eldest  child  of 
James  A.  and  Ellen  (Lewers)  Hopper,  was 
born  February  20,  1856,  at  his  parents'  resi- 
dence on  Elizabeth  street.  New  York  City, 
and  was  a  small  child  when  his  parents  located 
in  Honolulu.  There  he  continued  under  the 
instruction  of  public  tutors  until  i86q,  when 
he  entered  in  the  Oahu  College  at  Honolulu 
and  remained  until  1871.  Following  this  he 
was    a    student    in    grammar    school    number 


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thirty-five  of  New  York  City,  and  passed  a 
successful  examination  in  1872  for  entry  in 
the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York.  He 
then  pursued  a  course  in  Bryant,  Stratton  & 
Clark's  Business  College,  of  Brooklyn,  grad- 
uating April  18,  1873,  receiving  a  diploma  as 
an  accountant.  Upon  leaving  school  he  went 
to  Honolulu  and  was  employed  in  his  father's 
business  as  a  clerk  of  the  machine  shop  and 
foundry.  He  was  admitted  into  partnership 
with  his  father  in  the  rice  business,  and  con- 
tinued actively  engaged  in  this  business  until 
1907,  when  it  was  discontinued.  He  is  now 
president  of  the  James  Alexander  Hopper  Es- 
tate, Limited,  and  is  chiefly  engaged  in  the 
care  of  his  properties.  Politically,  he  has  al- 
ways been  a  Republican,  but  has  never  sought 
any  connection  with  public  afifairs.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Hawaiian  Sugar  Planters'  As- 
sociation. 

He  married,  September  14,  1882,  in  Os- 
borne, Osborne  county,  Kansas,  May  Temple- 
ton,  born  September  16,  1862,  in  West  Middle- 
ton,  Washington  county,  Pennsylvania.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Elizabeth  Templeton,  born  Decem- 
ber 25,  1883,  graduated  at  Washington  (D. 
C.)  Seminary  in  May,  1904.  2.  Katherine 
Matthews,  October  6,  1886,  graduated  at  Oahu 
College,  Honolulu  ;  became  the  wife  of  Chester 
Gilbert  Livingston  and  is  the  mother  of  one 
child,  William  Hopper.  3.  Mary  Ellen,  April 
24.  1888,  died  two  weeks  old.  4^  Alice  Lewers, 
June  20,  1890. 

(The  Plumb  Line.) 

The  origin  of  the  surname  Plumb  (Plume, 
Plumbe  and  its  other  variations)  is  unknown, 
but  it  was  in  use  in  England  among  the  earliest 
family  names.  The  American  family  of  Plumb 
is  descended  from  the  English  family  of 
county  Essex.  There  are  numerous  coats-of- 
arms  of  this  family,  but  that  to  which  the 
Essex  branch  has  claim  is  described:  Ermine 
a  bend  vaire  or  and  gules  cottised  vert.  Crest: 
Out  of  a  ducal  coronet  or  a  plume  of  ostrich 
feathers  argent.  The  name  of  Robertus 
Plumme  appears  in  the  Great  Roll  of  Nor- 
mandy, in  A.  D.  1 180;  also  Robert  Plome. 
John  Plume  was  in  Hertfordshire  in  1240, 
and  in  1274  the  surname  is  found  in  Somerset- 
shire, Cambridge  and  Norfolk.  One  branch 
of  the  Connecticut  Plumbs  traces  its  ancestry 
direct  to  John  Plumb,  or  Plume,  of  Toppes- 
field,  county  Essex,  England,  born  about  1505  ; 


of  this  line,  John  Plumb,  of  Wethersfield, 
was  the  immigrant  and  progenitor  of  a  widely 
dispersed  hne. 

(I)  John  Plumb,  of  Terling,  county  Essex, 
was  born  about  15 10,  and  was  doubtless  closely 
related  to  the  other  John.    He  married  Johana 

,  and  he  was  buried  January  25,  1548-49. 

Children  :  Elizabeth  ;  Jane,  baptized  February 
23.  1538-39;  Margaret,  baptized  May  18,  1540; 
Philip,  May  4,  1542;  Johana,  May  22,  1543; 
Thomasin,  April  4,  1545;  George,  mentioned 
below. 

(H)  George,  son  of  John  Plumb,  was  bap- 
tized at  Terling,  April  23,  1547;  was  buried 
there  October  11,  1586,  aged  thirty-nine  years, 
five  months  and  eighteen  days.  The  names  of 
his  children  are  not  known,  but  there  is  good 
reason  to  believe  that  he  and  his  sons  lived  at 
Inworth,  the  register  of  which  is  lost. 

(IV)  George  Plumb  (or  Plume),  grandson, 
it  appears  to  be  proved,  of  George  Plumb, 
was  born  about  1607.  His  will,  dated  July 
25,  1667,  bequeathing  to  wife  Grace  and  sons 
John  and  Timothy,  was  proved  July  18,  1670, 
and  shows  that  he  was  father  of  Timothy,  of 
Hartford  and  Wethersfield,  and  of  John,  men- 
tioned below.  He  had  a  second  wife  Sarah, 
who  proved  the  will.  George  was  buried  in 
June,  1670,  at  Inworth,  Essex,  England, 
where  he  lived. 

(V)  John  (2),  son  of  George  Plumb,  was 
born  in  Essex,  England,  in  1634,  and  died 
about  1696.  He  deposed  at  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, July  II,  1666,  that  he  was  about 
thirty-two  years  old.  He  lived  many  years 
at  Hartford,  but  moved  to  New  London, 
Connecticut ;  was  constable  there  in  1680  and 
also  inn-holder  there.  His  wife  joined  the 
church  in  1691.  He  was  a  shipowner  and 
master  and  owned  the  ketch  "Hartford."  His 
wife  was  fined  for  selling  liquor  to  the 
Indians.  He  was  a  bearer  of  dispatches  from 
New  London  to  the  governor  at  Hartford, 
in  January,  1675-76,  in  King  Philip's  war,  and 
was  afterward  granted  land  for  service  in  this 
war.  He  was  given  power  of  attorney,  when 
he  was  of  Hartford,  to  collect  debts  at  Charles- 
town,  Massachusetts,  for  creditors  in  England, 
and  was  named  a  son  of  George  Plumb,  of 
Inworth,  Essex.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Green.  Children :  John,  mentioned  below ; 
Samuel,  born  about  1670;  Joseph,  about  1671 ; 
Green,  about  1673;  Mercy,  1677;  George, 
1679:  Sarah,  1682. 


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(VI)  John  (3),  eldest  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Green)  Plumb,  was  born  about 
1666,  and  resided  in  New  London,  where  he 
died  in  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1732,  his 
will  being  proved  December  4,  of  that  year. 
With  his  wife  he  joined  the  New  London 
church  in  1693,  was  judge  of  the  county 
court  in  1710-12,  and  had  long  been  probate 
judge  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  married, 
December  13,  1689,  Elizabeth  Hempstead, 
who  died  in  September,  1733.  Children:  Eliza- 
beth, born  February  27,  1691 ;  John,  Novembei 
21,  1692;  Abigail,  January  i,  1695;  Joshua, 
August  3,  1697;  Sarah,  December  22,  1699; 
Peter,  mentioned  below ;  Lydia,  April  24, 
1703 ;  Hannah,  July  10,  1705 ;  Daniel,  June 
12,  1708;  Patience,  March  4,  1710;  Elisha, 
March   10,   1712. 

(VH)  Peter,  third  son  of  John  (3)  and 
Elizabeth  (Hempstead)  Plumb,  was  born  De- 
cember 26,  1701,  in  New  London,  and  there 
resided,  where  the  inventory  of  his  estate  wa? 
made,  February  21,  1749.  In  1732  he  was 
associated  with  others  in  forming  a  stock  com- 
pany to  engage  in  trade  by  sea.  He  married, 
about  1729,  Hannah  Morgan,  born  December 
17,  1706,  daughter  of  Captain  John  (2)  and 
Ruth  (Shapley)  Morgan,  of  New  London 
(see  Morgan  IV).  Children:  Lucretia ;  Ly- 
dia, mentioned  below ;  Peter,  born  about  1733- 
34;  Green,  about  1735-36. 

(VIII)  Lydia,  second  daughter  of  Peter 
and  Hannah  (Morgan)  Plumb,  became  the 
wife  of  John  Manwaring.  Their  daughter, 
Lydia,  married  Jacob  Hopper  (see  Hopper 
V). 

(The  Morgan  Line.) 

(I)  James  Morgan,  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  born  in  Wales,  probably  at  Llandaff, 
Glamorgan  county,  but  the  family  appears  to 
have  removed  to  Bristol,  England,  before 
1636.  The  name  of  his  father  is  unknown. 
but  there  is  some  traditionary  evidence  that  it 
was  William.  In  March,  1636,  he  and  two 
younger  brothers,  John  and  Miles,  sailed  from 
Bristol  and  arrived  in  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
in  April.  John  Morgan,  who  appears  to  have 
been  a  High  churchman,  soon  left  Boston  for 
the  more  congenial  society  of  Virginia.  Miles 
Morgan  settled  in  Springfield.  James  Mor- 
gan settled  at  Roxbury  before  1640  and  lived 
there  for  ten  years  or  more.  He  was  admitted 
a   freeman  May   10,   1643.     Early  in   1650  he 


was  granted  land  at  Pequot,  later  called  New 
London,  Connecticut,  and  soon  occupied  by 
him  as  a  homestead,  on  the  path  to  New  street 
(now  Ashcraft  street),  near  the  present  third 
burial  ground  in  the  western  suburbs  of  the 
present  city.  He  continued  to  occupy  this 
homestead  on  the  path  to  New  street,  or  Cape 
Ann  Lane  (as  it  was  called,  in  honor  of  the 
Cape  Ann  Company,  who  chiefly  settled  there) 
until  about  March,  1657.  He  sold  his  home- 
stead, however,  in  December,  1656,  and  re- 
moved with  others  across  the  river  to  sites 
granted  them  in  the  present  town  of  GroTon. 
That  town  and  Ledyard,  set  off  in  1836,  hav: 
been  the  places  of  residence  of  his  descendants 
to  the  present  time.  He  was  a  large  owner 
and  dealer  in  land  and  distinguished  in  public 
enterprises ;  he  was  often  employed  by  the 
public  in  land  surveys,  establishing  highways, 
determining  boundaries,  adjusting  civil  diffi- 
culties as  a  magistrate,  and  ecclesiastical  diffi- 
culties as  a  good  neighbor  and  Christian.  He 
was  one  of  the  townsmen,  or  selectmen,  of 
New  London,  and  one  of  the  first  deputies  to 
the  general  court  at  Hartford  (May,  1657)  and 
was  nine  times  afterward  elected  a  deputy. 
In  1661  he  was  one  of  a  committee  to  seat 
the  meeting  house,  a  difficult  task,  because  the 
seating  determined  the  social  standing  of  all 
the  people.  The  spot  where  he  built  his  house 
in  Groton  in  1657  and  ever  afterward  resided, 
and  where  he  died,  is  a  few  rods  southeast 
of  the  Elijah  S.  Morgan  house,  three  miles 
from  the  Groton  ferry,  on  the  road  to  Po- 
quonoc  bridge,  and  this  homestead  has  de- 
scended down  to  the  present  generation  by  in- 
heritance. He  died  in  1685,  aged  seventy-eight 
years,  and  his  estate  was  soon  after  divided 
among  his  four  surviving  children. 

He  married,  August  6,  1640,  Margery  Hill, 
of  Roxbury.  Children,  born  in  Roxbury,  ex- 
cept perhaps  the  youngest:  i.  Hannah,  born 
May  18,  1642;  married,  November  20,  1660, 
Henehiam  Royce.  2.  James,  March  3,  1644; 
married,  in  November,  1666,  Mary  Vine.  3. 
John,  mentioned  below.  4.  Joseph,  Novem- 
iaer  29,  1646.  5.  Abraham.  September  3,  1648. 
died  August,  1649.  6.  Daughter,  November 
17,  1650,  died  young. 

(II)  Captain  John  Morgan,  son  of  James 
Morgan,  was  born  March  30,  1645.  He  was 
a  prominent  man  and  served  as  Indian  com- 
missioner or  advisor.     He  was  deputy  to  the 


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general  court  from  New  London  in  1689-90, 
and  from  Preston  in  1693-94.  He  removed 
to  Preston  about  1692.  His  will  was  dated 
August  23,  171 1,  proved  February  12,  1712. 
The  probate  of  the  will  was  appealed  from, 
as  he  made  no  mention  of  his  son  Joseph,  who 
appeared  as  a  party  in  the  proceedings.  He 
married  (first)  November  16,  1665,  Rachel, 
daughter  of  John  Dymond.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Elizabeth  (Jones)  Williams,  widow, 
daughter  of  Lieutenant  Governor  William 
Jones,  of  New  Haven,  and  granddaughter  of 
Governor  Theophilus  Eaton.  Children  of 
first  wife :  John,  mentioned  below ;  Samuel, 
born  September  9,  1669;  Isaac,  October  24, 
1670;  Hannah,  January  8,  1674;  Mercy,  May, 
1675;  Sarah,  April  13,  1678;  James,  about 
1680.  Children  of  second  wife:  Elizabeth, 
born  about  1690,  died  young;  William,  1693; 
Rachel,  baptized  April  19,  1697 ;  Audrea,  bap- 
tized same  day ;  Margery,  baptized  July  9, 
1699 ;  Joseph,  April  27,  1701 ;  Theophilus. 
May  16,   1703;  Mary,  married  John  Norton. 

(HI)  Captain  John  (2)  Morgan,  eldest  son 
of  Captain  John  (i)  and  Rachel  (Dymond) 
Morgan,  was  born  June  10,  1667,  in  Groton, 
and  died  about  the  age  of  seventy-nine  years, 
between  May  30,  1744,  and  March  i,  1746, 
the  respective  dates  of  making  and  proving  his 
will.  He  was  lieutenant  of  the  first  train  band 
or  militia  company  of  Groton,  being  commis- 
sioned April  30,  1692,  at  the  same  time  that 
his  uncle,  James  Morgan,  was  made  captain  of 
the  company.  The  nephew  succeeded  the  lat- 
ter, October  8,  1714,  as  captain,  and  continued 
in  that  office  until  October  12,  1730.  He  left 
a  large  estate  in  both  real  and  personal  prop- 
erty. The  latter  was  bequeathed  to  his  daugh- 
ters, while  the  lands  descended  to  his  only 
son.  He  married  Ruth,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
and  Mary  (Rickett)  Shapley,  of  Groton,  whom 
he  survived.  Children:  Ruth,  born  August 
29,  1697;  Mary,  December  18,  1698;  John, 
January  4.  1700;  Sarah,  February  24,  1702; 
Experience,  March  24,  1704;  Hannah,  men- 
tioned below;  Rachel,  July  5,  1709;  Martha, 
December  12,  171 1;  Elizabeth,  June  12,  1713; 
Jemima,  May  5,  1715. 

(IV)  Hannah,  fifth  daughter  of  Captain 
John  (2)  and  Ruth  (Shapley)  Morgan,  was 
born  December  17,  1706,  in  Groton,  and  he 
came  the  wife  of  Peter  Plumb,  of  that  town 
(see  Plumb  VII). 


This  family  is  one  of  the  old- 
DOLSON  est  in  Manhattan,  coming  to 
New  Amsterdam  from  Holland 
before  1648.  Riker's  History  gives  space  to 
the  family  and  has  something  to  say  of  the 
Dutch  town  in  Holland  of  similar  name  where 
the  family  came  from. 

By  chance  Captain  Dolson,  progenitor  of 
the  family  in  America,  came  from  Workum 
on  the  coast  of  Friesland  instead  of  direct 
from  the  home  town  in  Holland.  At  New 
Amsterdam,  in  1667,  he  built  the  first  vessel 
of  size  put  upon  the  stocks  here;  it  was  ,a 
merchant  yacht  for  Captain  Thomas  Bradley. 
Captain  Dolson  married  the  daughter  of 
Teunis  Kray  (Grey),  who  returned  to  New 
Amsterdam  in  1658.  where  he  had  already 
lived  for  several  years.  Teunis  Kray  went 
over  to  bring  back  his  family,  and  in  1660, 
at  New  Amsterdam,  his  daughter,  Gerritee. 
and  Captain  Dolson  were  married.  They 
lived  in  New  .'Xmsterdam  until  the  Dutch  lost 
New  York,  and  then  for  a  time  in  New  Eng- 
land where  their  daughter  Gerritee  was  born, 
later  returning  to  New  Amsterdam  and  the 
adjoining  town  of  New  Harlem.  Their  chil- 
dren, omitting  the  first  two  who  died  young, 
were:  Teunis,  born  1664,  married,  in  1696, 
Sarah  Vermilie ;  Gerritee,  born  1667,  married, 
in  1685,  Jans  Kiersen ;  Annetie,  born  1669, 
married,  in  1690,  Johannas  Waldron ;  Peter, 
born  1671 ;  Tryntie,  born  1674,  married  John 
Meyer;  Jacob,  born  1679;  Lyabet,  born  1682; 
Jannetie,  born  1685. 

In  1670  Captain  Dolson  sold  his  residence 
to  Resolved  Waldron,  but  subsequently  owned 
another  and  appears  among  the  feofholders, 
1681-83,  having  his  home  here  and  sailing  an 
open  boat  out  of  New  York.  It  is  recorded 
in  the  council's  minutes  of  January  28,  1684. 
that  he  desired  some  land  at  Harlem,  where 
he  formerly  had  owned  land.  It  was  agreed 
by  those  of  Harlem  to  give  him  a  piece  of 
ground  for  him  and  his  heirs  provided  he 
would  not  sell  it.  but  for  want  of  heirs  it 
should  relapse  to  the  township.  After  this  he 
and  his  son-in-law,  Jans  Kiersen,  got  a  lease 
of  the  Great  Maize  Land,  an  Indian  clearing 
not  far  from  Fort  Washington,  on  March  30, 
1686.  These  lands  were  laid  out  and  allotted 
in  1691,  and  Kiersen  on  July  2,  1694,  bought 
for  1,000  guilders  in  money  the  lots  Nos.  16 
and  18  from  Thomas  Tourneur  as  purchased 
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original  drawers.  In  March,  1696,  Kiersen 
obtained  the  signature  of  every  inhabitant  of 
the  town  to  a  paper  granting  him  a  half  mor- 
gen  of  land  from  the  common  woods,  lying 
at  the  southeast  hook  of  the  land  that  Samuel 
Waldron  has  drawn  out  of  the  common  woods, 
which  half  morgen  of  land  he  (Kiersen)  may 
build  upon,  thereon  setting  a  house,  barn  and 
garden,  for  which  he  promises  to  let  lie  a 
morgen  of  land  upon  the  northeast  hook  of 
the  aforesaid  lot,  leaving  a  suitable  road  or 
King's  way  between  his  house  and  the  lot  of 
Samuel  Waldron.  Kiersen  built  his  house, 
and  on  March  7,  1700,  the  town  officer  gave 
him  a  deed.  Here  Kiersen  and  his  wife,  who 
was  Gerritee  Dolson,  lived.  This  was  the 
first  settlement  on  the  now  well  known  Jumel 
Homestead  and  believed  to  be  the  first  spot 
permanently  occupied  on  these  heights. 

In  1690  Johannes  Waldron.  son  of  Resolved 
Waldron,  married  Annetie,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Dolson.  To  begin  housekeeping  he  bought 
from  his  brother,  Samuel  Waldron,  the  new 
house  the  latter  had  just  completed  west  of 
the  road.  This  modest  home  was  just  north 
of  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-third  Street. 
Johannes  Waldron  added  to  this  property  by 
purchasing  more  ground,  from  the  town,  run- 
ning back  to  the  Hills.  From  this  fact  he  and 
his  wife  became  known,  as  they  prospered, 
as  the  Waldrons  of  the  Hill,  and  in  1748  sold 
all  their  lands  to  their  son  Samuel  for  £400. 
Samuel  Waldron's  daughter,  Angel,  the  wife 
of  Samuel  Myer,  sold  the  farm  in  July,  1776, 
to  John  De  Lancey  for  £1,720.  He  was  a 
grandson  of  the  great  Huguenot  merchant 
who  built  and  occupied  the  old  building  known 
as  Fraunce's  Tavern  at  the  corner  of  Pearl 
and  Broad  streets.  This  property  passed  into 
the  hands  of  Archibald  Watts  in  1826,  and  has 
become  well  known  as  the  Watts- Pickney  es- 
tate. Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  two  of  Captain 
Dolson's  children  were  the  original  residen- 
tees  on  two  estates  destined  to  become  of  the 
best  known  of  the  old  estates  of  New  York. 

As  proof  of  the  high  esteem  that  his  fellow 
citizens  had  for  Captain  Dolson  it  is  interest- 
ing to  note  that  Lubbert  Gerritsen  who  de- 
parted this  life  on  November  21,  1673,  and 
who  had  held  several  public  offices  in  the 
town,  being  chosen  adelborst  in  1663,  and  serv- 
ing as  overseer  the  year  before  he  died,  chose 
Captain  Dolson  as  guardian  of  his  children's 
inheritance. 


Captain  Dolson  appears  in  the  tax  list  of 
February  14,  1682,  and  in  1683  he  with  Jo- 
hannes Vermilye  and  Jan  Dyckman  and  others 
paid  a  total  of  608  guilders  for  the  estate  of 
the  deceased  Thomas   Hedding. 

Captain  Dolson's  son  Teunis  received  the 
appointment  of  constable,  September  29  1697. 
He  is  credited  with  being  the  first  male  child 
born  in  this  city  (New  York)  after  it  was 
ceded  to  the  English  by  the  Dutch.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  \'ermilye,  daughter  of  Captain 
John  Vermilye,  in  New  Amsterdam  (New 
York)  in  1696  and  later  lived  in  W'estchester 
county  and  advancing  to  different  localities 
up  the  Hudson  river,  finally  locating  in  and 
about  Goshen,  New  York,  where  is  established 
the  town  of  Dolsontown.  He  resided  here 
until  his  death,  August  30,  1766,  at  the  age  of 
one  hundred  and  two  years.  The  Dolsons  of 
Orange  county,  New  York,  are  his  descend- 
ants. 

Some  of  his  children  were  baptized  at 
Poughkeepsie  and  others  at  Fishkill.  The 
first  house  at  Dolsontown  was  a  log  house 
loopholed  for  musketry  and  this  was  followed 
by  a  stone  house  which  was  used  as  a  forti- 
fication as  well  as  the  block  house  when  the 
Indians  were  troublesome  and  during  the 
French  and  Indian  war  of  1756.  Near  this 
fortification  the  Indians  had  had  an  apple  or- 
chard, one  of  the  very  old  trees  of  which  was 
still  standing  in  1846.  At  times  travel  between 
Goshen,  Dolsontown  and  Napanoch  was  only 
possible  under  an  escort  of  soldiers  on  account 
of  the  lurking  savages. 

Teunis  Dolson  had  several  children  among 
whom  were:  i.  Johannas,  who  married  Eliza- 
beth Buys;  children:  Maria,  born  1731  :  Joh- 
annis,  born  1735;  Isaac,  born  1739;  Abraham, 
born  1741  ;  Samuel,  born  1744:  Peter,  Sally, 
Betsey.  2.  Jacob,  married  Maria  Buys,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1734,  having  children:  Teunis.  born 
r)ctober  6.  1735;  Johannas.  born  May  15. 
1737:  Isaac,  born  May  27,  1739;  Aeltie.  born 
April  28,  1745.  3.  Abraham,  married 
Marytje  Slot,  having  children :  Jannetje,  born 
1739;  Margaret,  born  1740;  Abraham,  born 
1741  :  Aeltje.  born  1743:  Marytje.  born  1745. 
4.  Isaac,  married  Polly  Hussey,  having  chil- 
dren :  James,  married  Phoebe  Meeker :  Isaac, 
said  to  have  never  married.  James,  son  of 
Isaac,  was  living  in  1846,  aged  eighty-two 
years. 

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we  are  now  chiefly  interested ;  they  lived  in 
and  about  the  vicinity  of  Newburg-Ivlarlboro, 
where  they  signed  the  revolutionary  pledge 
in  1767.  They  and  their  children  served  in 
the  American  army  during  the  revolution. 
Teunis  Dolson,  after  the  war  was  over,  took 
up  lot  No.  118,  three  hundred  and  ninety  acres 
in  town  of  Chemung-Big  Hats,  1788,  his  son 
John  accompanying  him.  This  John  also 
served  in  the  revolution  and  also  in  the  war 
of  1812.  He  was  born  in  1752,  married,  in 
181 1,  and  lived  at  Big  Hats,  moving  in  1837- 
38  to  Battle  Creek,  Michigan,  and  in  1913  his 
daughter,  a  Mrs.  Andrews,  still  resides  in  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  aged  eighty-four  years ;  she 
says  her  father,  John  Dolson,  son  of  Teunir 
Dolson,  died  at  age  of  eighty-six  years ;  that 
there  were  nine  children  by  his  last  wife,  in- 
cluding herself,  and  that  her  mother  died  in 
November,  1849. 

John  Dolson,  born  1737,  brother  of  Teunis, 
born  1735,  and  uncle  of  the  younger  John, 
born  1752,  continued  after  his  servi,ce  in  the 
revolutionary  army  to  live  in  the  Newburg- 
Marlboro  vicinity.  His  last  wife  was  named 
Sarah  and  outlived  him.  His  son,  Teunis,  born 
1783,  married  twice  and  had  a  total  of  ten 
children,  one  of  them,  James,  born  1812,  liv- 
ing to  very  old  age  at  Tuttletown,  Ulster  coun- 
ty. New  York;  he  remembered  his  step-grand- 
mother, Sarah  Dolson.  Teunis,  born  178^, 
had  half-brothers,  Jacob,  born  1791,  and  Wil- 
liam, born  October  28,  1794.  William  mar- 
ried Lydia  Polhemus.  born  June  29,  1804,  died 
March  4,  1869,  and  buried  at  Haverstraw, 
New  York,  in  the  J  W.  Dolson  plot.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Cornelius  Polhemus,  who 
had  a  brother,  Josiah  Webb  Polhemus.  Their 
children  were:  Hiram,  born  July  11,  1819; 
Sarah,  born  March  18,  1821  ;  Anna,  born 
March  22,  1823;  Dorcas;  born  May  13,  1825; 
Josiah  W.,  born  July  27,  1827,  died  January 
21,  1890;  Catherine  M.,  born  February  13, 
1830;  Margaret,  born  June  30,  1832;  Charles 
M.,  born  September  23,  184^.  Sarah,  who 
was  named  after  her  grandmother,  remem- 
bered her  very  well  and  told  Josiah's  sons 
many  facts  of  interest  about  her  grandparents. 

Josiah  W.  and  his  brother,  Charles  M.  Dol- 
son, could  not  both  go  to  the  civil  war  and 
they  arranged  for  the  younger  brother,  Charles 
M.,  to  go,  Josiah  W.  endeavoring  to  support 
the  families  of  each.  Charles  M.  served  from 
start  to  finish,  was  a  prisoner  in  Libby  Prison 


and  when  freed  through  an  exchange  of 
prisoners  he  re-enlisted  at  Haverstraw,  New 
/ork,  the  Edward  Pye  Post  Company.  Josiah 
W.  later  paid  draft  money  as  an  operation  on 
his  jaw  made  him  unfit  for  army  service,  and 
supported  the  two  families  through  the  means 
of  the  brick  business  in  which  he  was  then 
engaged.  The  last  brick  manufacturing  ven- 
ture of  Josiah  W.  Dolson  was  at  Haverstraw, 
New  York,  about  1890,  in  partnership  with 
his  brother-in-law,  Hon.  Samuel  Carlisle,  of 
Newburg,  New  York.  To  get  their  brick  to 
New  York  they  built  what  was  at  that  time  the 
largest  brick  barge  sailing  on  the  Hudson 
river,  a  boat  capable  of  carrying  about  300,000 
bricks  as  one  load.  This  boat  was  named 
"Josiah  W.  Dolson"'  and  is  still  in  service. 

Josiah  W.  Dolson  married  several  times,  hii 
first  wife  being  Phoebe  Ann  Loveless,  born 
May  7,  1832 ;  they  were  married  December  5, 
1849;  she  died  May  27,  1856.  Their  children 
were:  Cornelius,  born  July  7,  1850,  died  De- 
cember 4,  1853;  Josiah  W.,  born  December 
7,  1851,  died  September  6,  1859;  Samuel  Car- 
lisle, born  September  28,  1853,  still  living  in 
1913;  Frederick  B.,  born  May  8,  1856,  died 
August  8,  1856;  Lucy  C,  twin  of  Frederick 
B.,  died  October  13,  1856.  Mr.  Dolson  mar- 
ried (second)  Jane  Constant,  born  October 
31,  1821,  died  November  25,  1867.  He  mar- 
ried (third)  Cornelia  M.  Constant,  born  April 
13,  1840,  died  February  16,  1873.  Children 
by  these  marriages:  Anthony  Constant,  born 
June  4,  i860,  died  same  day;  Lewis  Constant, 
born  May  23,  1861,  died  April  27,  1865 ; 
Frank,  born  July  26,  1863,  died  August  10, 
1863.  He  married  (fourth)  Anna  Hamilton 
Conklin,  born  October  17,  1845,  died  Novem- 
ber 9,  1895,  daughter  of  Mannings  Conklin 
and  the  widow  of  Alfred  Conklin,  who  was 
also  her  second  cousin.  She  was  the  mother 
of  two  children  by  her  first  husband,  namely 
Abram  J.,  born  January  31,  1865,  living  at 
the  present  time,  and  Alfreta,  born  June  10, 
1868,  died  July  i,  1903.  On  July  19.  1874, 
she  married  Josiah  W.  Dolson,  and  their  chil- 
dren are :  Josiah  W.,  Florence  Jones,  William 
Hamilton,  Esther  Phoebe  Carlisle,  all  born 
at  Haverstraw,  New  York.  These  children  are 
all  living  at  the  present  time  and  reside  in 
New  York  City  with  the  exception  of  Florence 
J.,  who  is  married  to  Walter  Rauscher  and 
resides  in  Bloomfield,  New  Jersey.  William 
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County  Society  and  Josiah  W.  is  at  present 
the  secretary  of  that  organization. 

This  is  a  Dutch  name  con- 
SIMONSON     forming  to  the  usual  custom 

of  adding  "son"  to  the  bap- 
tismal name  of  the  father  for  a  surname.  It 
was  of  French  origin,  and  begins  with  one 
who  fled  from  persecution  in  France  to  Fries- 
land  in  Holland.  His  son,  Simon  La  Blau 
(also  written  Blan  and  Blant),  was  born  about 
1590  in  Friesland,  and  went  to  Amsterdam, 
where  he  settled  and  married. 

(I)  Willem,  son  of  Simon  La  Blau,  born 
in  1632,  in  Amsterdam,  was  the  ancestor  of 
a  very  large  progeny,  now  scattered  ovei 
America.  He  was  entered  on  the  passenger 
list  of  the  ship  "Fox,"  Captain  Jacob  Jans 
Huys,  master,  which  sailed  from  Amsterdam, 
August  31,  1662,  and  lived  in  and  about  New 
Amsterdam,  finally  settling  on  Staten  Island. 
He  first  wrote  his  name  William  Simon's  son, 
which  soon  came  to  be  written  Simonson,  and 
thus  the  name  has  remained  in  this  country. 
But  few  records  concerning  him  can  now  be 
found.  He  married,  in  1662,  Janneken  Bar- 
entsen,  widow  of  Jan  Quistout,  and  accord- 
ing to  the  records  of  the  Dutch  church  in  New 
York  died  in  1664.  The  Dutch  church  record, 
of  New  Amsterdam  show  that  he  had  a  daugh- 
ter, Lysbeth,  baptized  June  16,  1663.  Records 
furnished  by  the  family  indicate  that  he  had 
a  son,  Aert,  born  1664. 

(II)  The  records  of  Long  Island  show  that 
Aert  Simonson  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  as 
a  native  of  Brooklyn,  in  1687.  Nothing  fur- 
ther concerning  him  has  been  discovered.  From 
the  next  generation  forward  the  line  seems 
to  be  clearly  established.  Aert  Simonson  had 
four  sons :  Barnt,  Aert,  Simon  and  Isaac.  An 
original  tract  of  land  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  was  granted  to  Aert  ( i )  Simonson 
in  1 72 1,  by  Queen  Anne,  at  Carls  Neck,  now 
known  as  New  Springville,  Staten  Island. 

(III)  Isaac,  son  of  Aert  Simonson,  was 
born  about  1690.  He  appears  to  have  had  two 
wives;  married  (first)  Antje  Van  Der  Vliet, 
daughter  of  Jacob  Janse  and  Marretje  (Der- 
ickse)  \'an  Der  Vliet,  who  was  the  mothei 
of  Jeremias,  baptized  June  12,  1720,  and  Maria 
Simonson,  July  8,  1722.  The  Dutch  church 
records  of  New  Amsterdam  show  that  Isaac 
Simonson's  wife,  in  1732.  was  Neeltje  Cortel- 
you.   a  granddaughter  of  Jacques   Cortelyou. 


who  came  to  America  about  1652,  died  1693. 
His  son,  Peter  Cortelyou,  born  about  1664, 
died  April  10,  1757,  married  Deborah  De  Witt, 
and  they  were  tne  parents  of  Neeltje  Cortel- 
you, who  became  the  wife  of  Isaac  Simon- 
son. 

(IV)  Isaac  (2),  son  of  Isaac  (i)  and  Neel- 
tje (Cortelyou)  Simonson,  was  born  August 
4  1732,  and  baptized  December  17,  1732,  at 
the  church  in  New  Amsterdam.  He  was  an 
officer  of  the  old  Dutch  Reformed  church,  at 
Port  Richmond,  and  in  1795  signed  the  call  of 
the  Rev.  Thomas  Kirby  as  pastor.  He  mar- 
ried, July  28,  1757,  Elizabeth  Wood. 

(V)  Joseph,  son  of  Isaac  (2)  and  Eliza- 
beth (Wood)  Simonson,  was  born  on  Staten 
Island,  and  purchased  forty-one  acres  of  land 
at  what  is  now  New  Springville,  Staten 
Island.  He  probably  owned  other  lands  in 
that  vicinity.  He  married  Elizabeth  Winant, 
born  July  29,  1774,  daughter  of  John  and 
Hannah  Winant.  They  had  children:  John. 
David ;  i^raham ;  Joseph ;  Jacob,  of  whom 
further ;  Eliza ;  Joanna,  married  John  B.  Hill- 
yer,  born  1808,  died  1908,  aged  over  one  hun- 
dred years,  their  marriage  taking  place  in 
1829,  at  New  Springville.  Staten  Island,  and 
they  became  the  parents  of  James  Hillyer,  of 
Port  Richmond  ;  Mary  ;  Jemima. 

(VI)  Jacob,  son  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth 
(Winant)  Simonson,  was  born  in  1798,  on 
Staten  Island,  and  settled  on  the  original  home- 
stead of  his  father  at  New  Springville,  where 
the  records  show  he  purchased  twenty-three 
acres  of  land.  He  was  supervisor  of  the  town 
of  Northfield  from  1833  to  1840,  again  in  1849, 
and  was  elected  sheriff  of  Richmond  county 
in  1840.  He  located  at  New  Spring\'ille,  Sta- 
ten Island,  where  he  died  April  4,  1883.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  and  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  aftei 
the  organization  of  the  party  of  that  name. 
He  married  (first)  Ann  Eliza  Bedell,  daugh- 
ter of  Israel  and  Lena  (Crocheron)  Bedell, 
and  (second)  Caroline  Jacques.  By  the  first 
marriage  he  had  a  son,  John  William,  of  whom 
further.  By  the  second  marriage  he  had  chil- 
dren :  Isaac  Jacques,  Joseph,  Eliza  Jane,  Jacob, 
the  daughter  married  Philip  Waters,  of  New 
York. 

(VII)  John  William,  son  of  Jacob  and  Ann 
E.  (Bedell)  Simonson,  was  born  December 
23,  1826,  died  December  28,  1882,  at  West 
New  Brighton.     He  became  agent  of  the  Con- 


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tinental  Fire  Insurance  Company  in  i860,  and 
soon  after  was  made  secretary  of  the  old  New 
York  &  Yonkers  Fire  Insurance  Company.  He 
was  afterward  president  of  the  New  York  City 
Fire  Insurance  Company,  which  was  ulti- 
mately absorbed  by  the  Standard  In- 
surance Company,  of  London,  England. 
Following  this  he  was  resident  manager 
of  this  concern  until  his  death.  He  filled 
various  offices  of  trust  in  political  affairs,  was 
an  ardent  Republican  in  politics,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Episcopal  church.  He  married, 
January  18,  185 1,  Charlotte  Ann  Stephens, 
born  February  24,  1832,  daughter  of  Stephen 
Dover  and  Elizabeth  (Johnson)  Stephens.  The 
latter  was  born  January  28,  181 1,  daughter  of 
WiUiam  and  Elizabeth  (Latourette)  Johnson. 
Stephen  D.  Stephens  was  a  great-grandson  of 
John  Stephens,  born  about  1714,  married 
April  2'6,  1736,  Mary  Harding.  Their  son, 
John  (2)  Stephens,  born  1743,  married,  De- 
cember 8,  1763,  Elizabeth  DeBow.  They  were 
the  parents  of  Stephen,  born  December  31, 
1774,  married,  March  5,  1803,  Ann  Dover, 
born  Actober  17,  1781.  Stephen  Dover 
Stephens,  their  son,  was  the  father  of  Char 
lotte  Ann,  wife  of  John  W.  Simonson,  as  above 
noted.  They  had  children :  Stephen  Dover, 
born  August  20,  1853,  died  unmarried,  Octo- 
ber 4,  1905  ;  John  William,  July  14,  i860,  died 
in  his  fifth  year;  Ann  Eliza,  July  20,  1862,  died 
unmarried  at  the  age  of  thirty-seven  years ; 
Charles  Edgar,  of  whom  further. 

(VIII)  Charles  Edgar,  youngest  child  of 
John  William  and  Charlotte  A.  (Stephens) 
Simonson,  was  born  July  7,  1871,  in  Richmond. 
He  early  received  private  tuition  at  West  New 
Brighton  and  entered  Trinity  School,  New 
Brighton,  where  he  graduated,  after  which  ho 
received  private  instruction  of  Rev.  Dr.  Al- 
fred Demarest,  minister  of  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church  of  Port  Richmond.  At  the 
age  of  seventeen  years  he  entered  the  employ 
of  Miller  &  Simonson,  who  succeeded  Johii 
William  Simonson,  in  the  agency  of  the  Con- 
tinental Insurance  Company.  By  close  ap- 
plication and  industry  he  built  up  a  large  busi  ■ 
ness.  and  after  several  changes  in  the  person 
nel,  became  its  sole  owner  in  1908.  Conduct- 
ing the  business  under  the  title  of  C.  E.  Simon- 
son &  Company.  Owing  to  the  great  increase 
of  business  a  corporation  seemed  advisable 
and  in  191 1  this  was  accomplished  under  the 
title    of    C.    E.    Simonson    &    Company,    In- 


corporated. It  is  now  the  largest  insurance 
brokerage  and  agency  on  Staten  Island,  repre- 
senting twenty-nine  fire  insurance  companies 
and  several  casualty  companies  and  having 
five  offices,  the  home  office  located  at  1595 
Richmond  Terrace,  West  New  Brighton.  An 
extensive  real  estate  business  is  conducted,  and 
the  concern  acts  as  appraiser  for  several  title 
and  trust  companies.  In  1904  Mr.  Simonson 
was  elected  a  vestryman  and  treasurer  of  the 
Church  of  the  Ascension  (Protestant  Episco- 
pal), in  which  position  he  continued  several 
years.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Richmond 
County  Savings  Bank,  and  a  director  of  the 
Staten  Island  Building,  Loan  &  Savings  As- 
sociation, a  member  of  the  Holland  Society  oi 
New  York,  and  the  Staten  Island  Club.  Poli- 
tically he  is  a  Democrat,  but  has  never  aspired 
to  or  accepted  any  political  office. 

He  married,  January  19,  1899,  in  New  York 
City,  May  Sexton,  born  May  20,  1870,  in 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  daughter  of  William 
Libby  and  Mary  (Ladd)  Sexton.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Charles  E.  Simonson  have  a  son,  Cortel- 
you  William,  born  December  15,  1902,  in  West 
New  Brighton.  His  early  instruction  was  pro- 
vided by  private  tutors  and  he  is  now  a  student 
of  the  Staten  Island  Academy  at  St.  George. 


Robert  R.  Livingston, 
LIVINGSTON  jurist,  son  of  Robert  and 
Margaret  (Howerden) 
Livingston,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  in 
August,  1718,  died  at  his  country  seat,  Cler- 
mont, New  York,  December  9,  1775.  He  ac- 
quired an  excellent  education  which  thor- 
oughly prepared  him  for  the  active  duties  of 
life,  and  he  devoted  his  attention  to  the  prac- 
tice of  law  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  provincial  assembly.  1759-68. 
and  also  served  in  the  capacity  of  judge  of  the 
admiralty  court,  1760-63;  justice  of  the  co- 
lonial supreme  court,  1763 ;  a  delegate  to  the 
stamp  act  congress  of  1765 ;  commissioner  to 
decide  upon  the  boundary  line  between  New 
York  and  Massachusetts,  1767,  and  again  in 
1773,  and  a  member  of  the  committee  of  one 
liundred  in  1775.  He  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Henry  and  Janet  (Living- 
ston) Beekman. 

Robert  R.  (2),  son  of  Robert  R.  (i)  and 
Margaret  (Beekman)  Livingston,  was  born 
in  New  York  City.  November  27,  1746,  died 
suddenly  at  Clermont,  New  York,  February  26, 


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1813.  He  was  a  student  at  King's  College, 
which  institution  conferred  upon  him  the  de- 
grees of  A.B.,  1765,  and  A.M.,  1768,  after 
which  he  pursued  the  study  of  law  under  the 
preceptorship  of  William  Smith  and  William 
Livingston.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1773,  and  formed  a  partnership  with  John  Jay, 
with  whom  he  practiced  in  New  York  City,  and 
upon  his  retirement  from  public  life  removed 
to  Clermont,  New  York,  where  he  engaged  in 
agriculture  and  stock  raising,  being  the  first 
to  introduce  gypsum  in  agriculture,  and  also 
introduced  Merino  sheep  west  of  the  Hudson 
river.  Being  a  man  of  scholarly  attainment 
and  wide  influence,  he  was  chosen  for  posi- 
tions of  public  trust  and  responsibility,  fulfill- 
ing the  duties  thereof  with  ability  and  credit. 
He  served  as  recorder  of  the  city  of  New 
York  by  appointment  of  Governor  Tryon, 
1773-75,  but  was  obliged  to  relinquish  the  posi- 
tion on  account  of  his  outspoken  espousal  of 
the  patriot  cause  in  the  latter-named  year.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  provincial  assembly  in 
1775;  was  a  delegate  to  the  continental  con- 
gress, 1775-77  and  1779-81,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  committee  of  five,  comprised  of 
Adams,  Jefiferson,  Franklin,  Livingston  and 
Sherman,  appointed  to  draw  up  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence,  but  was  obliged  to  re- 
turn to  his  duties  in  the  provincial  assembly 
without  signing  the  instrument.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  committee  that  drafted  the 
state  constitution  adopted  at  the  Kingston 
convention  in  1777;  he  was  chancellor  of  the 
state  under  the  new  constitution,  1785-1801, 
and  in  that  capacity  he  administered  the  oath 
of  office  to  President  Washington,  April  30, 
1789;  he  was  secretary  of  foreign  affairs  for 
the  United  States,  1781-83,  and  was  chair- 
man of  the  state  convention  at  Poughkeepsie 
in  1788,  to  consider  the  adoption  of  the  United 
States  constitution.  He  declined  the  office  of 
United  States  minister  to  France  proffered  by 
President  Washington  iii  1794,  and  in  1801 
the  portfolio  of  the  navy  from  President  Jef- 
ferson, who  also  offered  him  the  mission  to 
France,  which  latter  he  accepted,  resigning 
his  chancellorship.  While  in  France  he  formed 
a  strong  friendship  with  Napoleon  Bonaparte ; 
he  also  made  the  initial  movement  that  re- 
sulted in  the  purchase  of  Louisiana  from  the 
French  in  1803.  He  resigned  from  the  office 
of  United  States  minister  to  France  in  1803, 
after  which  he  spent  some  time  in  traveling 


through  Europe,  and  while  in  Paris  became 
interested  in  the  invention  of  the  steamboat  of 
Robert  Fulton,  whom  he  assisted  in  his  en- 
terprise with  his  counsel  and  money,  eventu- 
ally becoming  his  partner.  The  first  steamboat, 
owned  by  Livingston  and  Fulton,  was  built  in 
France  and  was  launched  upon  the  Seine,  but 
was  a  failure,  and  on  returning  to  America 
they  built  and  launched  on  the  Hudson  an- 
other steamboat,  the  "Clermont,"  in  1807, 
which  was  named  in  honor  of  the  Livingston 
home  in  New  York. 

The  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  was  con- 
ferred on  Mr.  Livingston  by  the  regents  of  the 
University  of  the  State  of  New  York  in  1792. 
He  was  a  founder  of  the  American  Academy 
of  Fine  Arts  in  New  York  in  1801,  and  was 
its  first  president;  was  president  of  the  New 
York  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Useful 
Arts,  and  upon  the  reorganization  of  the  New 
York  Society  library  in  1788,  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  trustee.  He  published  many  essays 
and  addresses  on  fine  arts  and  agriculture. 
His  statue,  with  that  of  George  Clinton,  form- 
ing the  group  of  the  most  eminent  citizens  of 
New  York,  was  placed  in  the  capitol  at  Wash- 
ington by  act  of  congress.  In  the  selection  of 
names  for  a  place  in  the  Hall  of  Fame  for 
Great  Americans,  New  York  University, 
made  in  October,  1900,  his  was  one  of  the 
thirty-seven  names  in  "Class  M,  Rulers  and 
Statesmen,"  and  received  only  three  votes, 
his  votes  in  the  class  equalling  those  for 
Richard  Henry  Lee  and  Stephen  A.  Douglas, 
and  exceeding  those  for  Martin  Van  Buren, 
Charles  Carroll,  of  Carrollton,  John  J.  Crit- 
tenden and  Henry  Wilson. 

Mr.  Livingston  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
John  Stevens,  of  New  Jersey.  Children : 
Elizabeth  S.,  married  Edward  P.  Livingston. 
Margaret  M.,  married  Robert  L.  Livingston. 


This  name  is  supposed  to  have 
DeBAUN     been  originally  DeBaen,  and  to 

be  derived  from  Baen,  a  village 
in  France.  In  the  Dutch  records,  the  spelling- 
ings  DeBaen  and  DeBaan  are  of  frequent  oc- 
currence. The  family  is  undoubtedly  of 
French  origin,  and  from  this  it  is  natural  to 
suppose  that  they  were  Huguenots.  It  is  not 
at  all  out  of  accord  with  this  that  the  name 
should  be  found  in  the  Netherlands,  especially 
on  the  north  side  of  the  river  Rhine,  in  the 


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lower  Palatinate,  and  thence  following  the 
course  of  immigration  that  built  up  New 
Netherland  and  New  Amsterdam.  Although 
these  passed  into  the  possession  of  the  English 
in  the  year  1664,  this  change  of  proprietor- 
ship did  not  stop  the  flow  of  immigration  from 
France  to  Holland,  Belgium  and  England,  and 
and  from  these  countries  to  America.  The 
DeBauns  were  among  the  later  Huguenots, 
and  came  to  New  York  or  its  vicinity  about 
1683.  They  may  have  lived  before  that  time, 
for  two  generations,  in  Holland,  and  had, 
doubtless,  acquired  the  habits  and  language  of 
the  Dutch. 

The  following  is  a  probable  account  of  the 
descent  from  the  immigrant  to  certain  of  the 
present  Rockland  county.  New  York,  De- 
Bauns. It  has  a  background  of  careful  and 
extensive  searching  in  the  printed  Dutch 
church  records  of  Hackensack  and  Schraalen- 
burg,  New  Jersey;  the  printed  baptismal  rec- 
ords of  Tappan  and  Clarkstown,  in  Rockland 
county,  and  in  the  manuscript  copies  of  the 
marriage  records  of  Tappan  and  Clarkstown. 
The  records  of  Kakiat,  Rockland  county, 
Tarrytown,  Westchester  county,  and  Flatbush, 
Long  Island,  have  also  been  consulted,  but  in 
these  little  or  nothing  has  been  found.  The 
entries  are  mostly  in  the  Tappan,  Clarkstown, 
Hackensack,  and  Schraalenburg  records,  but 
distributed  among  these  in  a  bewildering  man- 
ner. Conjecture  has  been  used  only  when  cer- 
tain fact  was  not  accessible.  Former  printed 
accounts  of  the  family,  of  which  there  are 
several,  have  furnished  some  guidance,  but  the 
account  given  herewith  supplies  a  number  of 
deficiencies  in  these  accounts,  and  casts  doubt 
on  some  of  their  statements,  so  that  we  are 
confident  that  this  is  the  fullest  and  most  ac- 
curate account  of  the  family  history  in  the 
early  generations  which  has  yet  been  published. 

(I)  Joost  DeBaun,  the  founder  of  this  fam- 
ily, is  said  to  have  been  a  native  of  Brussels, 
in  Flanders  (Belgium),  and  to  have  come  to 
New  Amsterdam  in  1683.  He  was  clerk  of 
the  town  of  Bushwick,  Long  Island,  in  1684, 
and  in  1685  was  the  schoolmaster  and  clerk  of 
the  town  of  New  Utrecht,  Kings  county,  New 
York,  south  of  the  Wallabout.  The  position 
of  schoolmaster  was,  in  those  times  and  places, 
second  only  to  that  of  the  minister.  Evidently 
he  was  a  supporter  of  the  policy  of  the  lieu- 
tenant governor,  Nicholson,  for  when  the 
•democratic  colonists,  under  the  lead  of  Cap- 


tain Jacob  Leisler,  took  possession  of  the  state 
house  in  the  name  of  William  of  Orange,  and 
Captain  Leisler  was  appointed  lieutenant  gov- 
ernor by  the  committee  of  safety,  Joost  De- 
Baun was  deposed  from  his  offices  as  clerk 
and  schoolmaster.  Afterward,  having  taken 
the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  new  rule,  he  was 
reinstated  in  these  positions,  and  continued  to 
reside  at  New  Utrecht.  He  probably  resided 
at  that  village  until  early  in  the  eighteenth 
century.  Early  in  the  year  1704  he  sold  his 
lands  and  removed  to  Bergen  county.  New 
Jersey,  where  he  joined  the  Kinderkamack 
settlement,  near  Hackensack.  In  November 
of  that  year  his  name  appears  as  witness  of  a 
baptism  in  his  new  home.  From  May,  1708, 
to  May,  1710,  he  was  one  of  the  churchmas- 
ters  of  Hackensack;  according  to  the  church 
records,  he  and  the  other  churchmaster  of  the 
time  (in  1708)  "in  this  year  caused  the  steeple 
to  be  built  upon  the  Ackinsack  church,  which 
has  here  been  recorded  in  their  praise."  He  was 
an  elder,  from  1716  to  1718.  Thus  we  have 
a  fair  picture  of  the  personality  of  this  man ; 
he  was  an  educated  man,  for  the  time,  a  leader 
in  the  community,  though  hardly  to  be  deemed 
aggressive,  and  strongly  attached  to  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church.  From  him,  it  is  natural  to 
suppose,  all  the  DeBauns  of  Bergen  county, 
New  Jersey,  and  of  Rockland  county,  New 
York,  are  descended.  His  death  seems  to  have 
occurred  about  1718  or  1719.  It  is  just  possi- 
ble that  he  once  returned  to  Holland  after  his 
settlement  in  America,  for  against  the  mar- 
riage record  of  his  son  Jacobus,  in  the  Tappan 
register,  is  set  a  note  that  this  son  was  born 
in  Middleburg,  a  place  in  Holland.  Yet  the 
Dutch  dominies,  with  all  their  painstaking  care, 
were  certainly  human,  and  liable  to  make  oc- 
casional mistakes ;  their  records  are  of  hisrh 
value  as  evidence,  but  this  statement  is  prob- 
ably erroneous.  He  married,  probably  in  Hol- 
land, Elizabeth  Drabba.  Children :  Matie, 
married,  registered  November  10,  1705,  David 
Samuelse  DeMaree ;  Christian,  baptized  May 
15,  1687.  died  before  January  21,  171 1,  mar- 
ried, registered  January  29,  1700,  Judith  Sam- 
uelse DeMaree;  Meyke,  baptized  May  4,  1690; 
Carel,  of  whom  further;  Christina;  Jacobus, 
married  (date  probably  that  of  registration), 
January  12,  1709,  Antje  Cenneff  (this  is  the 
spelling  in  the  Tappan  register,  in  the  Hacken- 
sack records  the  name  appears  as  Kennis ;  our 
conjecture  is  Kenneth)  ;  Margarietje,  married 


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(date  probably  that  of  registration),  June  22^. 
1738,  Theodorus  Remsen. 

(II)  Carel,  son  of  Joost  and  Elizabeth 
(Drabba)  DeBaun,  removed  with  his  family 
to  Hackensack.  Perhaps,  however,  he  lived 
for  a  time  in  Rockland  county,  New  York, 
near  Rockland  Lake.  The  baptisms  of  his 
children  are  scattered  among  the  three  regis- 
ters, Hackensack,  Schraalenburg  and  Tappan. 
He  is  named  in  the  list  of  the  original  mem- 
bers of  the  church  at  Schraalenburg  and  those 
transferred  from  Hackensack  before  1733.  In 
1748  he  was  an  elder  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church  at  Schraalenburg.  His  marriage  is  re- 
corded at  Tappan,  and  the  date,  February  14, 
1714,  is  probably  the  date  of  registration 
rather  than  of  the  actual  marriage.  He  mar- 
lied  Jannetje  Haringh,  who  was  born  at  Tap- 
pan.  Children :  Joost,  baptized  February  6, 
1715;  Margritie,  baptized  August  18,  1717; 
Petrus,  baptized  October  9,  1719;  Elisabeth, 
baptized  November  19,  1721  ;  Jan,  baptized 
April  5,  1724;  Jacob,  baptized  October  9, 
T726;  Isak,  baptized  February  14,  1729;  Abra- 
ham, baptized  December  12,  1731  ;  Christiaen, 
of  whom  further ;  Cornelia,  baptized  August 
14.  1737:  Maria,  baptized  April  6  1740. 

(III)  Christian,  whose  name  is  noted  above 
as  spelled  in  the  baptismal  record,  son  of  Carel 
and  Jannetje  (Haringh)  DeBaun,  was  born  at 
Schraalenburg;  his  baptism  is  recorded  at 
Hackensack,  under  date  of  January  26,  1735. 
He  married,  registered  November  7,  1761, 
Rachel  Helm,  who  was  born  at  Paramus,  Ber- 
gen county.  New  Jersey.  Children :  Jannetie, 
baptized  October  19,  1762 ;  Fransytie,  born 
March  8,  1764;  Fransytei,  born  January  9, 
1766:  Abraham,  baptized  May  10,  1767,  died 
young;  Samuel,  baptized  December  18,  1768; 
Elisabet,  born  October  11,  1771  ;  Abraham 
Christian,  born  August  20,  1773;  Rachel,  born 
May  9.  1775  ;  Petrus,  born  May  5,  1779;  Cor- 
neles,  baptized  November  25,  1781 ;  Maria, 
born  August  t,  1783;  Christian  (2),  of  whom 
further. 

(IV)  Christian  (2),  son  of  Christian  (i) 
and  Rachel  (Helm)  DeBaun,  was  born  March 
22,  1787.  Although  his  baptism  is  recorded  in 
Bergen  countv.  New  Jersey,  he  may  have  been 
born  in  Rockland  county.  New  York,  and  was 
living  there  by  the  time  of  his  marriaee,  for 
in  the  entry  of  his  marriage  in  the  Tappan 
register  he  is  said  to  be  of  Clarkstown.  He 
was    a    farmer,   and   in   politics    followed   the 


principles  of  the  Democratic  party.  In  re- 
ligion he  adhered  to  the  True  Reformed 
church.  He  married  (date  probably  being  that 
of  registration)  December  4,  1806,  Elizabeth 
llutton,  of  Clarkstown.  Children:  Cornelia; 
Sarah;  Christian  C,  of  whom  further;  John; 
Henry  ;  Mary ;  Cornelius. 

(V)  Christian  C,  son  of  Christian  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Hutton)  DeBaun,  was  born  at 
Clarkstown,  January  31,  1812.  He  was  a 
builder  and  contractor.  After  the  formation 
of  the  Republican  party  he  followed  its  prin- 
ciples. In  religion  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  church.  He  married  at  New 
City,  Rockland  county,  New  York,  Catharine 
Maria,  daughter  of  Henry  Resolvert  and 
Maria  (Tallman)  Stephens,  who  was  born  at 
New  City,  March  i,  181 5.  Her  father  was  a 
farmer,  born  January  19,  1789,  died  March  8, 
1868;  her  mother  was  born  in  1787,  died  in 
October,  1868.  Children  of  Christian  C.  and 
Catharine  Maria  (Stephens)  DeBaun:  Eliza- 
beth, born  August  3,  1835  ;  Matthew  Watson, 
of  whom  further;  John,  born  July  5,  1841, 
died  in  1887;  Henry,  born  July  12,  1844, 
served  throughout  the  civil  war;  Margaret 
Jane,  born  November  18,  1846;  Charles,  born 
June  20,  1857. 

(VI)  Matthew  Watson,  son  of  Christian  C. 
and  Catharine  Maria  (Stephens!  DeBaun, 
was  born  at  Nyack,  Rockland  county.  New 
York,  November  3,  1838.  At  the  age  of  nine 
he  went  to  live  with  his  grandfather,  Henry 
Resolvert  Stephens,  at  New  City.  His  school- 
ing was  received  at  the  public  schools  of  Ny- 
ack and  New  City,  and  he  then  learned  the 
trade  of  a  carpenter.  In  1859  he  returned  to 
Nyack  and  entered  into  business  with  his 
brother  Henry,  and  this  partnership  has  con- 
tinued to  the  present  day.  Under  the  firm 
name  of  Matthew  Watson  &  Henry  DeBaun 
they  are  builders  and  contractors  on  a  large 
scale  and  have  built  up  a  profitable  business 
and  gained  a  high  standing  in  the  community. 
They  have  erected  about  two  thousand  build- 
ings of  many  kinds  and  sizes.  Their  place  of 
business  is  at  No.  28  Jackson  avenue.  Nyack. 
Matthew  Watson  DeBaun  is  one  of  the  di- 
rectors of  the  Nyack  Board  of  Trade,  and  is 
a  trustee  of  the  Oakland  cemetery.  He  is  a 
member  of  Rockland  Lodge,  No.  723.  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  and  of  Rockland  Chap- 
ter, No.  204,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  both  of 
Nyack.     He  is  a  Republican,  and  from   1883 


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to  1887  was  trustee  of  the  village ;  he  has  also 
been  president  of  the  school  board  for  two 
terms,  and  is  a  trustee  of  the  Nyack  public 
schools.  The  family  are  members  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church  at  Nyack,  of  which  Mr.  De- 
Baun  has  been  a  trustee  for  over  thirty  years, 
and  is  also  an  elder  of  the  church.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Nyack,  April  23,  1862,  Catharine 
Amelia,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Marion 
(House)  Perry,  who  was  born  at  Nyack,  in 
August,  1842.  Her  father  was  a  captain  of 
freight  and  passenger  vessels,  and  navigated 
the  Hudson  river.  Children  of  Edward  and 
Marion  (House)  Perry:  lona ;  Catharine 
Amelia,  married  Matthew  Watson  DeBaun. 
Children  of  Matthew  Watson  and  Catharine 
Amelia  (Perry)  DeBaun:  Annie,  born  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1863:  Ella,  born  October  12,  1864; 
Alice,  born  December  4,  1867;  Florence,  born 
March  11,  1875,  married  Rev.  George  John- 
son, now  a  professor  in  Lincoln  University, 
Pennsylvania. 


(IV)  Abraham  Christian  De- 
DeBAUN     Baun,  son  of  Christian  (q.  v.) 

and  Rachel  (Helm)  DeBaun, 
was  born  August  20,  1773.  He  was  a  farmer 
at  Nanuet,  Rockland  county.  New  York,  and 
a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  He 
married,  it  is  said  at  Saddle  River,  Bergen 
county.  New  Jersey,  but  the  marriare  is  re- 
corded in  the  register  of  Tappan,  Rockland 
county.  New  York,  with  the  date,  probably 
that  of  registration  rather  than  of  the  actual 
marriage,  March  18,  1798,  Anna  Van  Buskirk, 
of  Clarkstown,  Rockland  county.  New  York. 
Children :  Christian  Abram,  of  whom  fur- 
ther ;  Rachel ;  Christiana. 

(V)  Christian  Abram,  son  of  Abraham 
Christian  and  Anna  (Van  Buskirk)  DeBaun, 
was  born  at  Nanuet,  New  York,  about  1804. 
After  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party  he 
adhered  to  its  policies.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  He  married 
(first)  (date  probably  of  registration)  October 
i.S,  1825,  Hannah,  daughter  of  James  D.  and 
Hannah  Blauvelt,  who  was  born  at  Clarks- 
town, Rockland  county.  New  York,  June  i, 
1808,  died  December  17,  1846;  (second)  Janu- 
ary I,  1850,  Sally  Ackerman.  Children,  all  by 
first  marriage:  Abram,  of  whom  further: 
Rachel,  born  December  ig.  183 1.  died  August 
28,  1849;  Christian,  born  December  20,  1834. 

(VI)  Abram,  son  of  Christian  Abram  and 


Hannah  (Blauvelt)  DeBaun,  was  born  at 
Nanuet,  New  York,  January  21,  1827,  died  at 
Wyandotte  City,  Kansas,  May  21,  1857.  Hav- 
ing first  attended  public  school  at  Nyack, 
Rockland  county,  New  York,  he  entered  the 
normal  college  at  Albany,  New  York,  and 
from  this  he  graduated  in  the  class  of  1848. 
Later  he  taught  school  at  Haverstraw,  and 
was  finally  made  principal  of  the  school.  Also 
at  Haverstraw  he  learned  the  business  of  mak- 
ing brick,  and  in  1852  he  went  into  the  busi- 
ness of  brick  manufacture,  and  also  built  an 
iron  foundry,  wherein  he  made  the  castings 
for  brick  forms  and  molds.  This  grew  into  a 
very  large  business,  and  so  continued  until  his 
death  at  Wyandotte  City.  He  was  a  member 
of  Seguel  Lodge,  No.  542,  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows.  He  was  a  Republican,  and 
one  of  the  founders  of  this  party,  which  came 
into  existence  only  a  few  years  before  his 
death.  In  1855  he  was  elected  county  clerk 
of  Rockland  county,  and  he  served  for  one 
term,  but  he  refused  a  second  election.  A 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  he  was 
for  many  years  the  leader  of  its  choir.  He 
married,  at  Haverstraw,  Jane,  born  at  Middle- 
hope,  Orange  county.  New  York,  January  15, 
1828,  daughter  of  Levi  Quimby  and  Lucretia 
(Purdy)  Fowler.  Her  father  was  a  manu- 
facturer of  brick  and  a  merchant ;  he  was  born 
December  22,  1790,  died  December  13,  1853. 
Children  of  Levi  Quimby  and  Lucretia 
(Purdy)  Fowler:  David,  died  in  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  November  10,  1873 ;  Mordecai, 
born  in  1821,  died  August  28,  1847;  Denton, 
born  December  6,  1825,  died  January  5,  1904; 
Louisa,  married  John  W.  Gilles ;  Jane,  born 
January  15,  1828,  married  Abram  DeBaun,  of 
whom  herein  :  Sarah,  married  Uriah  F.  Wash- 
burn;  Charlotte,  married,  October  26,  1S56, 
Daniel  O.  Lake  Children  of  Abram  and  Jane 
(Fowler)  DeBaun:  Ruth,  married  Rodney 
Winans  Milburn;  Abram  Melville,  married 
Carrie  Fort,  cousin  of  Franklin  Fort,  formerly 
governor  of  New  Jersey ;  Anna,  married  Wil- 
son Perkins  Foss. 


The  name  Stoddard  is  de- 
STODDARD     rived    from    the    office    of 

standard  bearer,  and  was 
anciently  written  De  La  Standard.  The  coat- 
of-arms  is  thus  heraldically  described :  Sable 
three  estoiles  and  bordure  gules.  Crest :  Out 
a  ducal  coronet  a  demi  horse  salient,  ermine. 


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Motto:  Festina  lettte.  William  Stoddard,  a 
knight,  came  from  Normandy  to  England, 
1066,  A.  D.,  with  William  the  Conqueror,  who 
was  his  cousin.  Among  his  possible  descend- 
ants appears  the  name  of  Rukard  Stoddard, 
of  Nottingham,  Kent,  near  Elthan,  about 
seven  miles  from  London  Bridge,  where  the 
family  estate  of  about  four  hundred  acres  was 
located.  This  came  into  possession  of  the 
family  in  1490  and  continued  until  the  death 
of  Richard  Stoddard,  a  bachelor,  in  1765. 
Other  descendants  are  Thomas  Stoddard  of 
Royston ;  John  Stoddard  of  Gundon ;  William 
Stoddard  of  Royston ;  Anthony  Stoddard  of 
London ;  Gideon  Stoddard  of  London ;  An- 
thony Stoddard  of  London,  and  William  Stod- 
dard of  London.  The  derivation  of  the  name 
Stoddard  from  the  phrase  De  La  Standard 
does  not  seem  impossible  or  very  far  fetched, 
as  the  name  is  known  under  a  variety  of 
forms,  such  as  Stodard  and  Stodart.  In 
Wethersfield  (Connecticut)  records  the  name 
frequently  appears  as  Stodder,  Stoder,  Stod- 
ker,  Studder  and  Stoddard.  John  Stoddard, 
born  about  1620,  was  an  early  settler  in 
Wethersfield,  and  was  a  juror  in  1643.  He 
figures  in  the  court  records  both  as  plaintiff 
and  defendant.  He  married  Mary  Foote,  was 
a  well-to-do  farmer,  and  left  an  estate  of  four 
hundred  pounds.  There  may  have  been  a  con- 
nection between  the  family  of  John  Stoddard 
and  that  of  Anthony  Stoddard  of  Boston,  but 
the  links  have  not  been  found. 

(I)  Anthony  Stoddard,  immigrant  ancestor 
of  this  Stoddard  family,  came  from  England 
to  Boston  about  1639  He  was  admitted  a 
freeman  in  1640,  a  representative  in  1650- 
1659-1660,  and  during  twenty  successive  years 
from  1665  to  168.S.  He  married  (first)  Mary, 
daughter  of  the  Plonorable  Emmanuel  Down- 
ing, of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and  his  wife 
Lucy,  daughter  of  George  Downing,  and  sister 
of  Sir  George,  afterwards  Lord  Downing. 
The  Honorable  Emmanuel  Downing  and  his 
wife  were  admitted  to  the  church  in  Salem, 
November  4,  1638.  Anthony  Stoddard  mar- 
ried (second)  Barbara,  widow  of  Captain  Jo- 
seph Weld  of  Roxbury;  she  died  April  15, 
1654.  He  married  (third),  about  165;.=;.  Chris- 
tian   .  He  died  March  16,  1 686- 1687.  Chil- 
dren by  first  marriage:  Solomon,  mentioned 
below;  Samson,  December  3,  1645;  Simeon, 
1650.  Children  by  the  second  marriage: 
Sarah,  October  21,  1652;  Stephen,  January  6, 


1654.  Children  by  the  third  marriage  :  Chris- 
tian, March  22,  1657;  Anthony,  June  16,  1658; 
Lydia,  May  27,  1660;  Joseph,  December  i, 
1661 ;  John,  April  22,  1663;  Ebenezer,  July  i, 
1664;  Dorothy,  November  24,  1665;  Mary, 
March  25,  1668;  Jane  (twin),  July  29,  1669; 
and  Grace  (twin),  July  29,  1669;  all  born  at 
Boston. 

(H)  Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard,  eldest  son  of 
Anthony  and  Mary  (Downing)  Stoddard,  was 
born  October  4,  1643,  and  died  February  11, 
1729.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  in  the  year 
1662  and  was  afterwards  elected  "Fellow  of 
the  House,"  and  was  first  librarian  of  the  col- 
lege, which  office  he  held  from  1667  to  1674. 
About  this  time,  on  account  of  ill  health,  he 
accompanied  the  governor  of  Massachusetts  to 
the  Barbadoes,  in  the  capacity  of  chaplain,  and 
remained  nearly  two  years,  preaching  to  the 
dissenters.  In  1669  he  received  a  call  to  the 
church  in  Northampton  and  settled  there  as 
minister,  September  11,  1672.  In  1726  his 
grandson,  Jonathan  Edwards,  was  elected  his 
colleague.  Among  his  publications  are  the  fol- 
lowing: "The  Trial  of  Assurance,"  1696; 
"The  Doctrine  of  Instituted  Churches,"  1700, 
written  in  answer  to  the  work  of  the  Rev.  In- 
crease Mather,  entitled  "The  Order  of  the 
Gospel,"  which  occasioned  exciting  contro- 
versy. Other  works  were  "The  Danger  of 
Degeneracy,"  1702;  "Election  Sermon,"  1703; 
"Sermon  on  the  Lord's  Supper,"  1707:  "Ser- 
mon, Ordination  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Willard, 
Swampfield,"  1708;  "Inexcusableness  of  Ne- 
glecting the  Worship  of  God,"  170S;  "False- 
ness of  the  Hopes  of  Many  Professors."  1708; 
"An  Appeal  to  the  Learned  on  the  Lord's  Sup- 
per," 1709;  "A  Plea  for  Tithes";  "Divine 
Teachings  Render  Persons  Blessed,"  1712;  "A 
Guide  to  Christ."  1713;  three  sermons:  "The 
Virtue  of  Christ's  Blood,"  "Natural  Men  Un- 
der the  Government  of  Self  Love."  "The  Gos- 
pel a  Means  of  Conversion,"  and  a  fourth,  "To 
Stir  up  Young  Men  and  Maidens."  1717; 
"Sermon  at  the  Ordination  of  Mr  Thomas 
Cheney,"  1718;  "Treatise  Concerning  Conver- 
sion," 1719;  "Answer  to  Cases  of  Conscience," 
1722;  "Inquiry  whether  God  is  not  Angry 
with  this  Country,"  1723:  and  "Safety  of  Ap- 
pearing in  Christ's  Riehteousness,"  1724. 
Solomon  Stoddard  married,  March  8.  1670, 
Mrs.  Esther  Mather,  widow  of  Rev.  Eleazar 
Mather,  and  originally  Esther  Warham  of 
Windsor,  Connecticut.    She  died  February  10, 


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1736,  aged  ninety-two.  Children:  Mary,  bom 
January  9,  1671 ;  Esther,  June  2,  1672;  Sam- 
uel, February  5,  1674;  Anthony,  June  6,  1675, 
died  the  following  day;  Aaron  (twin),  August 
23,  1676,  died  the  same  day;  Christian  (twin), 
August  23,  1676;  Anthony,  mentioned  below; 
Sarah,  April  i,  1680;  John,  February  17, 
1682;  Israel,  April  10,  1684;  Rebecca,  1686; 
Hannah,  April  21,  1688. 

(HI)  Rev.  Anthony  (2)  Stoddard,  son  of 
Rev.  Solomon  and  Esther  (Warham-Mather) 
Stoddard,  was  born  August  9,  1678,  and  died 
September  6,  1760.  He  graduated  at  Harvard, 
1697,  and  settled  as  minister  in  Woodbury, 
Connecticut,  where  he  continued  sixty  years. 
He  married  (first)  Rev.  Stephen  Mix,  offici- 
ating, October  20,  1700,  Prudence  Wells,  of 
Wethersfield,  who  died  May,  1714.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  January  31,  1715,  Mary  Sher- 
man, who  died  January  12,  1720.  Children 
by  the  first  marriage:  Mary,  June  19,  1702; 
Solomon,  October  12,  1703;  Eliakim,  April  3, 
1705;  Elisha,  mentioned  below;  Israel,  August 
7,  1708;  John,  March  2,  1710;  Prudence,  Oc- 
tober 12,  171 1 ;  Gideon,  May  27,  1714.  Chil- 
dren by  the  second  marriage :  Esther,  Octo- 
ber II,  1716;  Abijah,  born  February  28,  1718; 
Elizabeth,  November  15,  1719;  all  at  Wood- 
bury. 

(IV)  Elisha,  son  of  Rev.  Anthony  (2)  and 
Prudence  (Wells)  Stoddard,  was  born  at 
Woodbury,  Connecticut,  November  24,  1706, 
and  died  in  1766.  He  resided  at  Woodbury, 
where  also  lived  his  brother  Eliakim,  whose 
death  preceded  his  by  sixteen  years.  Elisha 
Stoddard  married  Rebecca  Sherman. 

(V)  Elisha  (2),  son  of  Elisha  (i)  and  Re- 
becca (Sherman)  Stoddard,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 4.  1735,  at  Woodbury,  Connecticut.  He 
married  Anna  Hunt,  May  29,  1760. 

(VI)  Elisha  (3),  son  of  Elisha  (2)  and 
Anna  (Hunt)  Stoddard,  was  born  May  i, 
1765,  and  died  February  8,  1833.  He  married 
Mary  Crane,  November  22,  1791.  She  was 
born  August  7,  1767,  and  died  September  11, 
1843. 

(VII)  Phineas,  son  of  Elisha  (3)  and  Mary 
(Crane)  Stoddard,  was  born  July  7,  1797,  and 
died  in  1879.  He  spent  his  younger  days  in 
Massachusetts,  and  in  early  manhood  went  to 
Greenfield,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  where 
he  assisted  his  uncle  in  agricultural  pursuits. 
After  his  marriage  in  181 5  he  purchased  a 
farm  of  his  own,  where  he  followed  farming 


all  his  life,  while  engaging  in  various  other  in- 
terests. He  worked  a  good  deal  in  the  lumber 
business,  buying  and  selling  timber  property 
on  the  land  he  bought  while  clearing  it,  and 
became  a  large  land  owner  in  Sullivan  and 
Ulster  counties.  On  his  land  he  built  first  a 
log  house  of  the  old  type,  and  later  a  structure 
of  the  modern  style.  He  was  a  strong  mem- 
ber of  the  Friends  Society,  and  took  a  great 
interest  in  all  the  public  movements  of  the 
day,  though  usually  too  busily  engaged  in  his 
own  business  affairs  to  have  an  active  partici- 
pation in  them.  Mr.  Stoddard  was  a  citizen 
greatly  honored  in  the  community  in  which  he 
resided.  Courtesy  and  gentleness  were  habit- 
ual characteristics  of  his  deportment  in  the 
bosom  of  his  family  and  in  his  dealings  with 
other  men  in  the  conduct  of  his  affairs.  He 
was  a  man  of  considerable  and  varied  ability, 
but  he  put  the  larger  part  of  it  into  the  energy 
he  expended  in  building  up  a  suitable  prop- 
erty for  himself  and  his  family.  He  married, 
October  18,  181 5,  Marilda  Fair,  born  October 
20,  1798,  and  died  October  30,  1848,  at  Green- 
field, Ulster  county.  New  York.  Children: 
I.  Mary  Eliza,  born  October  29,  1819,  died 
May  29,  1839.  2.  Elisha,  born  June  2,  1823 ; 
married,  March  2,  1844,  Mary  Frear;  chil- 
dren: i.  Mary  E.,  born  July  15,  1845.  ii. 
Phineas,  Jr.,  born  January  24,  1847,  died  in 
1882,  married  Gertrude  E.  O'Neil ;  children: 
Floyd  J.,  Nellie  Marilda,  Edith,  Lizzie  M., 
Frank  P.  3.  John  F.,  born  in  Greenfield,  New 
York,  July  20,  1825 ;  married,  October  18, 
1865,  Eliza  A.  Piatt;  one  daughter  died  at  the 
age  of  seventeen.  He  was  noted  as  the  author 
of  Stoddard's  "Arithmetic."  4.  Perry  C,  born 
October  30,  1827;  a  successful  farmer;  mar- 
ried July  15,  1850,  Hannah  W.  Southwick; 
children:  Stephen  W.,  born  October  14,  1851 ; 
Zadoc  S ,  born  February  18,  1858,  married 
Dora  M.  Winters,  one  child,  Mildred  Nor- 
bury.  5.  Henry,  born  March  5,  1831,  died 
June  19,  1852 ;  a  teacher.  6.  Sarah,  born  Oc- 
tober 26,  1835,  at  Greenfield,  New  York;  mar- 
ried October  23,  1856,  John  F.  Norbury,  M. 
D.,  of  New  York  City ;  one  child,  Fannie  Stod- 
dard Norbury,  born  May  4,  1866,  died  Janu- 
ary 22,  1882. 


This    name    is    English    and 
WHEELER     appears  to  be  a  name  of  oc- 
cupation,    the     word     being 
equivalent  in  meaning  to  wheelwright.     It  is 


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curious  to  note  that,  reversing  the  common 
procedure,  the  name  seems  to  have  passed 
from  England  into  Normandy,  and  the  form 
which  it  has  assumed  in  France  is  also  curious 
to  English  eyes — Houelleur.  In  England, 
county  Kent  and  Hertfordshire  have  been 
special  abodes  of  Wheelers,  and  persons  of 
this  name  have  been  numerous  in  London  for 
the  last  four  hundred  years.  The  name  in 
England  is  sometimes  spelled  Wheler,  and  in 
this  way  it  was  spelled  in  the  early  days  in 
America.  Kent  county,  England,  is  supposed 
to  be  the  place  of  origin  of  many  of  the 
American  Wheelers.  The  number  of  Ameri- 
can families  of  this  surname  was  very  great 
at  an  early  day.  Thirty  families  of  the  name 
of  Wheeler  are  said  to  have  resided  at  Con- 
cord, Massachusetts,  between  1650  and  1680. 
Although  Wheelers  are  found  very  early  in 
Virginia,  and  the  name  has  been  handed  on  in 
that  state,  it  is,  in  America,  distinctively  a 
Connecticut  and  Massachusetts  name.  His- 
torically, the  best  known  of  this  name  has  been 
Major  General  Joseph  Wheeler  of  Alabama, 
the  distinguished  Confederate  cavalry  officer, 
who  was  afterward  a  patriotic  member  of  the 
house  of  representatives  of  the  reunited  coun- 
try, and  finally  was  made  an  officer  in  the 
regular  army.  Yet  his  case  does  not  even 
modify  the  statement  that  the  name  is  distinct- 
ly a  New  England  name,  for  he  was  de- 
scended from  Moses  Wheeler,  who  lived  in 
the  colony  of  New  Haven  in  1641 ;  the  family 
has  continued  in  Connecticut,  and  General 
Wheeler's  father  was  born  in  Connecticut. 
From  about  1700  Wheelers  (with  various 
Dutch  spellings  of  the  name),  some  of  them 
marrying  Dutch  women,  and  some  of  them 
bearing  Dutch  Christian  names,  have  been 
found  in  Albany,  New  York,  but  they  were 
also  of  New  England  descent.  In  the  present 
family  similarity  of  names  suggests  a  con- 
nection with  the  Fairfield  (Connecticut) 
Wheelers,  but  a  very  strong  argument  cannot 
be  built  on  this.  A  Daniel  Wheeler  was  in 
Rockland  county.  New  York,  by  the  year  1781. 

(I)  Isaac  Wheeler,  the  first  member  of  this 
family  about  whom  we  have  definite  informa- 
tion, was  a  Democrat,  and  his  religion  was  the 
Presbyterian.  He  married  Sarah  Remsen, 
Among  their  children  was  Aaron  Remsen,  of 
whom  further. 

(II )  Aaron  Remsen,  son  of  Isaac  and  Sarah 


(Remsen)  Wheeler,  was  born  about  1820,  and 
died  about  1889.  For  many  years  he  was  a 
steamboat  engineer.  He  long  had  in  charge 
the  "Isaac  P.  Smith,"  one  of  the  swiftest 
steamers  then  plying  between  New  York  City 
and  Albany.  After  giving  up  steamboat  en- 
gineering he  became,  in  1865,  chief  engineer 
and  master  mechanic  of  the  Hoppe  sugar  re- 
finery, at  Hastings,  Westchester  county,  New 
York.  Here  he  remained  for  about  twenty 
years;  in  1885  he  retired,  continuing  to  live  at 
Hastings,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
nine.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  political  belief, 
and  was  also  active  in  church  and  Sunday 
school  work,  where  he  had  a  special  sphere  of 
service  and  usefulness,  by  reason  of  his  mu- 
sical ability.  He  was  a  thorough  musician, 
had  a  fine  tenor  voice,  and  for  many  years  was 
leader  of  the  choir  of  the  Reformed  church  at 
Nyack,  Rockland  county,  New  York.  His 
own  denomination,  however,  was  the  Presby- 
terian. He  married,  in  Nyack,  Eliza  Taylor, 
who  was  born  at  Clarkstown,  Rockland  county. 
New  York ;  she  survived  him  several  years. 
Children :  Jacob  Taylor ;  Alonzo,  of  whom 
further ;  William  Francis ;  Theodore  Freling- 
huysen. 

(Ill)  Alonzo,  son  of  Aaron  Remsen  and 
Eliza  (Taylor)  Wheeler,  was  born  at  Nyack, 
April  29,  1844.  He  attended  the  public  school 
at  the  place  of  his  birth,  and  also  the  Ruther- 
ford Military  Institute  at  the  same  place.  From 
his  youth  he  was  striving  to  enter  the  legal  pro- 
fession, and  availed  himself  of  every  means 
to  accomplish  his  purpose,  often  under  most 
discouraging  circumstances.  For  a  time  he 
was  a  student  in  the  law  office  of  Van  Vorst 
&  Beardsley,  at  the  corner  of  Broadway  and 
Pine  street,  in  New  York  City.  Afterward  he 
studied  at  Nyack  with  Marcena  M.  Dickinson. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  from  this  office 
December  16,  1868,  at  the  general  term  of  the 
supreme  court,  in  Brooklyn,  New  York.  He 
at  once  opened  an  office  at  Nyack,  and  soon 
went  into  partnership  with  his  preceptor,  un- 
der the  firm  name  of  Dickinson  &  Wheeler,  at 
Nyack.  This  partnership  was  dissolved  in 
1S70,  and  Mr.  Wheeler  removed  to  Haver- 
straw,  Rockland  county.  New  York,  where  he 
began  practice  on  the  second  of  March.  Five 
years  later  he  formed  a  partnership  at  Haver- 
straw  with  Irving  Brown,  which  continued 
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has  practiced  alone,  living  continuously  at 
Haverstraw.  He  was  the  first  president  of 
the  Rockland  County  Bar  Association.  When 
Stony  Point  was  finally  dedicated  and  set  apart 
as  a  state  reservation,  and  turned  over  by  Gov- 
ernor Odell  to  the  National  Scenic  and  His- 
toric Preservation  Society,  Mr.  Wheeler  de- 
livered the  address  of  welcome.  He  was  ap- 
pointed by  Governor  Odell  one  of  the  com- 
mittee of  fifteen  "to  examine  into  the  condi- 
tion of  the  statutes  and  laws  of  the  state,"  of 
which  committee  Alton  Brooks  Parker  was 
chairman.  He  is  a  member  of  Stony  Point 
Lodge,  No.  313,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  in  1876,  1877  and  1901  he  was  master  of 
this  lodge,  which  is  at  Haverstraw ;  he  is  also 
a  member  of  Haverstraw  Lodge,  No.  877, 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  has  been  active 
in  public  affairs.  In  1878  he  was  the  inde- 
pendent candidate  for  the  district  attorneyship 
and  was  endorsed  by  the  Republican  party. 
He  was  elected  and  on  the  expiration  of  this 
term  was  re-elected  as  a  strictly  independent 
candidate,  over  the  nominees  of  both  the  par- 
ties. In  1880  and  1881  he  served  as  surrogate 
of  Rockland  county,  by  appointment  of  the 
general  term  of  the  supreme  court.  In  1896 
he  was  again  elected  district  attorney,  being  on 
this  occasion  the  Republican  nominee ;  but  he 
resigned  in  1898  and  accepted  the  office  of 
county  judge,  to  which  he  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Black.  As  district  attorney  he  tried 
several  homicide  indictments,  and  in  four- 
fifths  of  all  criminal  cases  he  obtained  convic- 
tions. He  has  been  one  of  the  counsel  for  the 
village  of  Haverstraw.  Judge  Wheeler  and 
his  family  are  members  of  the  Central  Presby- 
terian Church  at  Haverstraw.  For  many  years 
he  has  been  a  ruling  elder  and  an  active 
worker  in  the  Sunday  school.  He  married,  at 
Grassy  Point,  Rockland  county,  New  York, 
May  9,  1876,  Mary  Serena,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Henry  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Fredericks) 
Wiles,  who  was  born  at  Haverstraw,  April  8, 
1856.  Her  father  was  a  manufacturer  of  brick 
machines  and  moulds.  Children  of  William 
Henry  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Fredericks) 
Wiles  :  Mary  Serena,  mentioned  above ;  John 
Jacob,  Frederick  J.,  Lydia  A.,  Martha  L., 
Frank  E.,  Emma  L.  Children  of  Alonzo  and 
Mary  Serena  (Wiles)  Wheeler:  Jeanie  Suf- 
fern,  Jessie  Louise,  Ethel  May. 


Like  most  of  the  old  Dutch 
TALLMAN  names  founded  at  New  Am- 
sterdam and  now  located  in 
many  sections  of  the  state,  this  was  adopted 
some  time  after  the  location  of  the  family  in 
this  country,  and  its  origin  is  hidden  in  the 
mysteries  of  early  days.  The  family  is  today 
conspicuous  in  northern  New  Jersey  and 
southern  New  York,  and  is  contributing  to  the 
progress  and  development  of  the  nation.  The 
name  appears  on  the  church  records  of  New 
York,  Hackensack  and  Tappan  as  Taelman, 
Talema,  Taelma  and  Tallman.  The  last  form 
has  been  adopted  generally  by  recent  genera- 
tions. 

(I)  The  first  of  this  family  of  whom  any 
definite  knowledge  can  be  obtained  was  Har- 
man  Douwenszen,  who  was  early  in  what  is 
now  New  York  City,  and  probably  came  with 
his  children  to  the  new  world  when  he  was 
well  advanced  in  life.  It  is  apparent  from  his 
name  that  his  father's  Christian  name  was 
Douwe;  beyond  that  it  is  impossible  at  this 
time  to  learn  anything. 

(II)  Douwe  Harmsen  (Harmanszen,  etc.), 
born  about  1625,  in  the  province  of  Friesland, 
Holland,  came  in  the  ship  "Brown  Fish,"  in 
June,  1658,  with  his  wife,  Dierckje  Theunis, 
and  four  children  to  New  Amsterdam.  After 
his  arrival  he  had  baptized  in  New  York,  Jan- 
netie,  February  5,    1662;  Anthony,   February 

8,  1665 ;  Douwen,  September  29,  1669.  About 
167 1  he  settled  at  Bergen,  New  Jersey,  and  at 
the  same  time  was  owner  of  a  patent  at  Nyack 
in  what  is  now  Rockland  county.  New  York. 
He  died  at  Bergen,  March  25,   1678,  or  May 

9,  1678,  according  to  one  authority.  Another 
authority  states  that  he  was  buried  at  Bergen, 
June  19,  1687,  being  the  eleventh  buried  in 
the  church  and  the  thirty-fifth  in  the  "Pall," 
showing  that  his  funeral  was  among  the  most 
costly  at  that  time.  His  sons,  Theunis  and 
Douwe,  removed  to  Nyack  after  his  death  and 
were  the  progenitors  of  all  the  name  in  Rock- 
land and  Bergen  counties.  They  received  his 
property  in  Bergen  by  will  and  sold  it  in  1705. 

(HI)  Theunis  Douwese  Talema,  son  of 
Douwe  and  Dierckje  (Theunis)  Harmsen, 
may  have  been  born  about  1672  at  Bergen,  and 
resided  at  Nyack  until  his  death,  July  17,  1739. 
He  was  the  first  high  sheriff  of  Orange  county, 
which  then  included  the  present  Rockland 
county.  New  York,  serving  as  such  until  1702, 
and  owned  about  thirty-six  hundred  acres  of 


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land  at  Nyack.  He  married  (first),  in  1694, 
Brechtje  Haring,  and  had  children:  Dirck, 
born  April  11,  1695;  Grietje,  January  13, 
1697;  Dierckje,  April  13,  1700;  Douwe,  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1703;  Marytie,  April  17,  1706; 
Breckje,  Harman  and  Jan  (triplets),  January 
12,  1709,  all  baptized  at  Tappan.  He  married 
(second)  January  11,  1710,  Margritie  Hogan- 
kamp,  born  in  New  York,  and  they  had  chil- 
dren baptized  at  Tappan  ;  Brechie,  born  July  6, 
171 1  ;  Jannetie,  August  30,  1712;  Theunis, 
September  16,  1714;  Harne,  November  25, 
1716;  Antje. 

(IV)  Jan  Tallman,  son  of  Theunis  Douwese 
and  Brechtje  (Haring)  Talema,  was  born 
January  12,  1709,  at  Nyack,  and  resided  in 
Orangetown,  Orange  county,  New  York, 
where  he  was  a  farmer,  described  in  the  rec- 
ords as  a  yeoman.  He  married,  about  1735, 
Helena  Blauvelt,  born  June  27,  1715,  and  bap- 
tized on  the  twenty-eighth  of  the  same  month, 
daughter  of  Garret  and  Marytie  (Krom) 
Blauvelt.  Children :  Theunis,  born  May  22, 
1737;  Gerret,  November  23,  1740;  Breckje, 
October  8,  1745;  Jan,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Jan  (2),  youngest  son  of  Jan  (i)  and 
Helena  (Blauvelt)  Tallman,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 3,  1751,  in  Orangetown,  died  February 
7,  1839,  at  Tallman's,  in  the  town  of  Ramapo, 
same  county,  his  body  being  deposited  in  Sad- 
dle River  cemetery.  He  resided  at  Greenbush, 
a  small  settlement  near  Tappan,  during  the 
revolutionary  war,  and  afterward-s  settled  at 
what  is  now  called  Tallman's,  a  station  on  the 
Erie  railroad,  and  by  occupation  was  a  farmer. 
During  the  revolutionary  war  he  was  a  scout 
in  the  service  of  the  American  army  and  a 
reward  of  thirty-five  guineas  was  offered  by 
the  British  authorities  for  his  capture.  He  is 
recorded  as  a  private  soldier  in  Captain  Wil- 
liam Sickel's  company,  belonging  to  the 
Orange  County  Regiment,  from  the  Haver- 
straw  precinct,  under  the  command  of  Colonel 
A.  H.  Hay.  This  was  a  portion  of  the  New 
York  state  militia  which  was  employed  in  ac- 
tive service  during  the  war.  He  received  a 
commission  from  Governor  George  Clinton, 
dated  September  28,  1786,  as  ensign.  No.  2, 
in  Captain  Cornelius  J.  Blauvelt's  company  of 
the  corps  of  state  militia  of  the  precinct  of 
Tappan.  Jan,  or  John  Tallman,  purchased  a 
farm  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-seven  acres,  re- 
ceiving a  deed  March  23,  1797,  at  Tallman's. 
for  which  he  paid  one  thousand  five  hundred 


and  twenty-five  pounds.  Immediately  he 
erected  thereon  a  dwelling  house,  which  is  still 
standing.  The  homestead  farm  and  house  are 
now  in  the  possession  of  two  of  his  lineal  de- 
scendants. James  Cornell  Tallman  and  Mrs. 
Harry  Sutherland.  At  the  time  of  this  pur- 
chase the  neighborhood  was  known  as  Masoni- 
cus.  and  the  new  name  Tallman's  was  prob- 
ably received  on  his  locating  there.  He  was 
the  progenitor  of  all  bearing  the  name  now  liv- 
ing in  that  vicinity.  He  married  Frinckye 
(Fanny)  Mabie,  born  March  27,  1757,  bap- 
tized April  2,  of  the  same  year,  at  Tappan, 
daughter  of  Abraham  and  Maria  (Van  Are- 
lant)  Mabie,  and  granddaughter  of  Peter  and 
Callyntie  (Bogart)  Mabie.  Children:  Brid- 
get, born  August  9,  1778;  Mary,  February  13, 
1781  :  John,  October  16.  1783:  Tunis,  May  17, 
1790;  Abraham  J.,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Abraham  J.,  youngest  son  of  Jan  (2) 
(John)  and  Fanny  (Mabie)  Tallman.  was 
born  July  14.  1793,  at  Tallman's.  and  died 
there  June  4,  1884.  He  lived  in  the  house  built 
by  his  father,  and  like  him  was  a  farmer. 
September  3,  1814,  he  was  appointed  a  cor- 
poral in  the  Fifth  Company,  Eighty-third 
Regiment,  Twenty-Ninth  IBrigade  of  the  In- 
fantry Militia  of  the  State  of  New  York,  un- 
der Lieutenant  Colonel  G.  A.  Blauvelt.  He 
married,  September  14,  1814,  Maria  Deronde, 
born  February  18,  1794.  died  April  3.  1878,  at 
Tallman's,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Heleche 
(Van  Nostrand)  Deronde.  Among  their  chil- 
dren was  John  Abraham,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  John  Abraham,  only  son  of  Abraham 
J.  and  Maria  (Deronde)  Tallman.  was  born 
May  16,  1815,  at  Tallman's,  and  died  there 
April  16,  1888.  He  was  a  farmer  and  drover. 
He  married,  December  8,  1842.  Caroline  Conk- 
lin,  born  March  26,  1824,  died  June  15,  1886, 
at  Tallman's.  daughter  of  WilHam  and  Ann 
(Wilson)  Conklin.  William  Conklin  was  a 
son  of  William  Conklin,  born  February  21, 
1751,  who  resided  at  Tappan,  where  he  died 
May  19,  1825,  being  a  tailor  and  farmer  by 
occupation.  He  married,  in  1773.  Elizabeth 
Hunt,  of  Hunt's  Point  on  Long  Island,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  Margaret,  William, 
Mary,  Ann,  Abraham,  John,  David,  Elizabeth, 
Benjamin,  Rachel.  William  (2)  Conklin,  born 
August  27,  1775,  was  a  farmer  at  Ramsey's, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  died  October  25,  1859* 
He  married.  July  4.  1802',  at  New  Prospect, 
Ann  Wilson,  born   November  23,   1783,  died 


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October  12,  1870,  at  Ramsey's,  New  Jersey, 
daughter  of  Albert  \^'ilson,  born  February  14, 
1755,  at  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey,  and  died 
November  13,  1834.  His  wife,  Mary,  died 
September  18,  1818.  Ann,  their  fourth 
daughter,  became  the  wife  of  William  Conklin, 
as  above  noted.  Children  of  John  A.  Tallman  : 
John  Harvey,  born  October  3,  1843;  Abram, 
mentioned  below;  William  Henry,  February 
25,  1851;  Anna  Maria,  February  23,  1855; 
James  Cornell,  March  29,  i860;  Caroline 
Louise,  May  16,  1866. 

(VHI)  Abram,  second  son  of  John  Abra- 
ham and  Caroline  (Conklin)  Tallman,  was 
born  May  6,  1846,  at  Tallman's.  He  resided 
at  Englewood,  New  Jersey,  where  he  was  a 
carpenter  and  builder.  His  early  life  was 
spent  on  the  paternal  farm  at  Tallman's,  and 
he  attended  school  at  Sufifern,  New  York.  In 
1862,  when  sixteen  years  old,  he  taught  school 
for  a  few  months  at  Tallman's,  his  first  ven- 
ture in  life  on  his  own  account.  In  1863  and 
1864  he  was  employed  in  a  photograph  gallery 
in  New  York  City,  but  this  work  proved  in- 
jurious to  his  health,  and  he  returned  to  his 
native  place  and  spent  six  months  on  the  farm. 
Following  this  he  was  employed  for  two  years 
in  the  shops  of  the  Erie  Railroad  Company  at 
Ramapo,  where  he  learned  the  building  trade. 
Afterwards  he  worked  as  a  carpenter  in  Suf- 
fern  and  Middletown,  New  York,  and  Pater- 
son,  New  Jersey,  and  in  1867  settled  in  Engle- 
wood, New  Jersey,  where  for  many  years  he 
was  engaged  in  business  as  a  builder,  con- 
structing many  of  the  finest  residences  in  the 
city.  He  has  always  taken  an  active  interest 
in  the  welfare  of  Englewood  and  saw  it  grow 
from  a  village  of  about  fifteen  hundred  peo- 
ple, when  he  settled  there,  to  nearly  two  thou- 
sand inhabitants  in  1913.  From  1889  to  1893 
he  was  a  member  of  the  township  committee, 
and  was  also  a  member  of  the  citizen's  com- 
mittee formed  in  1895,  to  promote  the  move- 
ment for  the  incorporation  of  the  city,  and 
when  this  was  accomplished  in  the  following 
year  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  first  com- 
mon council,  and  served  as  chairman  of  that 
body  from  1896  to  1898.  He  was  regarded  as 
a  faithful  municipal  officer,  who  gave  strict 
regard  to  the  public  interest  in  the  perform- 
ance of  his  duties.  Since  his  retirement  from 
active  business,  several  years  ago,  Mr.  Tallman 
las  devoted  his  attention  to  the  development 
of  his  real  estate  interests  in  Englewood,  being 


the  owner  of  several  acres  of  land,  upon  which 
he  has  erected  a  number  of  houses,  and 
through  which  a  street  has  been  opened,  which 
has  been  named  Tallman  Place  by  the  Engle- 
wood common  council  in  recognition  of  his 
services  to  the  community.  He  married,  Sep- 
tember 2-j,  1870,  at  Englewood,  New  Jersey, 
Maria  Zabriskie,  born  February  26,  1849,  near 
New  Milford,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey, 
daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Effie  (De- 
marest)  Zabriskie,  descended  from  one  of  the 
oldest  families  of  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey 
(see  Zabriskie  VH).  Children:  Abram  Zab- 
riskie, born  April  3,  1872 ;  William,  mentioned 
below;  Margaretta,  December  20,  1877;  John, 
February  i,  1885,  died  April  20,  1893;  James 
Albert,  March  19,  1892. 

(IX)  William,  second  child  of  Abram  and 
Maria  (Zabriskie)  Tallman,  was  born  March 
3,  1875.  in  Englewood,  New  Jersey.  He 
graduated  from  the  public  schools  of  that 
city  in  1891.  Following  this  he  graduated 
from  Drake's  Business  College  of  Jersey  City, 
in  1892,  and  entering  the  New  York  Law 
School  was  graduated  in  1897  with  the  de- 
gree of  LL.B.,  being  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  the  same  year  in  New  York  City.  From 
1897  to  1902  he  practiced  law  in  New  York 
City.  On  November  12,  1912,  Mr.  Tallman 
was  appointed  by  the  four  judges  of  the 
United  States  district  court  for  the  southern 
district  of  New  York  in  New  York  City,  first 
deputy  clerk  of  that  court,  which  position  he 
now  holds.  He  is  also  a  standing  examiner  in 
equity  and  has  served  as  special  commissioner 
in  bankruptcy  of  that  court.  He  is  a  past  mas- 
ter and  also  historian  of  Tuscan  Lodge.  No. 
115,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Engle- 
wood ;  a  thirty-second  degree  and  Royal  Arch 
Mason,  and  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  City  Club 
of  Englewood,  of  which  he  is  historian,  and 
has  served  several  times  as  a  member  of  its 
executive  committee.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  shade  tree  committee  of  the  City  Club  of 
Englewood  and  one  of  the  organizers  and  sec- 
retary and  treasurer  of  the  Shade  Tree  Fed- 
eration of  New  Jersey.  In  this  connection  he 
has  been  active  in  movements  leading  to  the 
preservation  of  shade  trees  in  Englewood. 

He  married,  August  8,  1907,  in  Whitehall, 
New  York,  Isabelle  Jean  Sleight,  born  Janu- 
ary 3,  1876,  in  Dresden,  Washington  county. 
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(Stuart)  Sleight.  David  Sleight  came  from 
Northumberlandshire,  England,  about  i860, 
and  was  a  prominent  farmer  of  Dresden. 
(The  Zabriskie  Line.) 
John  Sobieski,  John  III.,  king  of  Poland, 
1674-96,  was  one  of  the  greatest  warriors  of 
the  seventeenth  century.  His  father,  James 
Sobieski,  castillion  of  Cracow,  was  a  man  of 
virtuous  character,  and  in  behalf  of  his  fellow 
countrymen  he  developed  a  warlike  spirit 
which  secured  to  him  the  throne  of  Poland. 
He  brought  up  his  sons,  Mark  and  John,  born 
between  1624  and  1629,  with  the  utmost  care, 
and  they  completed  their  education  by  travel 
and  observation  in  France,  England,  Germany 
and  Italy.  On  the  death  of  their  father,  in 
1648,  they  were  recalled  home,  and  after  the 
defeat  of  the  Polish  army  by  the  Russians  in 
the  battle  of  Pilawieez,  the  brothers  Sobieski 
took  up  arms  to  restore  the  fortunes  of  their 
countrymen,  and  Mark  fell  in  the  battle  on 
the  banks  of  the  Bog.  This  spurred  John  to 
greater  valor,  and  he  became  the  admiration 
of  the  Poles  and  the  dread  of  the  Tartans  and 
Cossacks.  He  received  the  highest  military 
rank  in  the  army,  and  on  November  11,  1673, 
in  the  great  battle  of  Choezin,  he  defeated  the 
Turks,  who  left  twenty-eight  thousand  men 
dead  and  wounded  on  the  battlefield.  This  led 
to  his  unanimous  election  of  king  of  Poland, 
May  21,  1674,  and  he  was  crowned  at  Cracow. 
In  1683  the  Turks  beseiged  Vienna,  and  King 
John  HI.,  with  twenty  thousand  Poles,  aided 
by  the  German  auxiliary,  raised  the  siege  by 
the  victory  of  September  12,  1683,  in  which 
battle  he  took  the  banner  of  Mohammed  and 
sent  it  as  a  trophy  to  the  pope.  His  entry  into 
Vienna  was  that  of  a  conqueror,  and  the  citi- 
zens of  the  besieged  city  showed  every  demon- 
stration of  joy  and  thanksgiving  their  ingenu- 
ity could  devise  or  their  glad  hearts  express. 
John  Sobieski  was  not  only  a  warrior  and 
ruler,  but  a  lover  of  science  and  a  man  of 
gentle  disposition  and  agreeable  manner.  His 
constant  wars  did  not  allow  him,  however,  to 
attend  to  the  industrial  needs  of  the  citizens  at 
home,  and  the  want  of  such  fostering  care 
hastened  the  downfall  of  Poland.  He  died  of 
apoplexy  June  17,  1696.  His  ancestors  had 
been  for  two  centuries  Palatine  nobles  of  Po- 
land and  famous  soldiers  and  statesmen.  It 
is  from  such  ancestors  with  such  records  ol 
military  and  executive  greatness  that  the  Zab- 
riskies  of  New  Jersey  and  New  York  are  de- 


scended, and  the  cognomen  has,  through  the 
German,  Holland  and  English  spellings, 
evolved  from  Zobrieski,  Saboroweski,  So- 
brisco,  Zabrioski  to  Zabriskie. 

(I)  Albert  Saboriski,  son  of  a  brother  of 
James  Sobieski,  and  cousin  of  King  John  III., 
of  Poland,  who,  like  his  nephew,  was  a  fa- 
mous soldier,  was  born  in  Zolkwa,  Poland 
(or  Enghsburg,  Prussia),  probably  in  1638. 
He  was  given  a  liberal  education,  being  sent 
by  his  father  to  Amsterdam,  Holland,  with 
the  hope  that  he  would  enter  the  ministry,  and 
he  directed  his  studies  to  that  end  for  a  time, 
but  the  preparation  proved  distasteful  and  he 
abandoned  theology;  subsequently  he  was 
pressed  into  the  Prussian  army.  To  fight  for 
the  old  enemy  of  Poland  was  far  more  dis- 
tasteful, and  he  determined  to  seek  his  for- 
tune in  the  new  world  and  join  his  friends 
who  had  gone  from  Upper  Palatinate  to  New- 
Amsterdam  and  made  homes  there  and  in  New 
Jersey.  He  took  passage  in  the  Dutch  ship 
"D'Vos"  (the  "Fox"),  Captain  Jacob  Hansz 
Huys,  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  31, 
1662,  and  landed  in  New  Amsterdam,  where 
he  lived  for  ten  or  more  years  without  set- 
tling in  any  one  place  or  engaging  in  any  set- 
tled business.  We  find  him  in  Bergen  (now 
Jersey  City)  about  the  time  of  his  marriage, 
which  is  registered  in  the  books  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church  of  Bergen,  December  17, 
1676,  and  the  marriage  certificate  recorded  as 
issued  January  8,  1677.  He  married  Mach- 
telt  (Matilda),  daughter  of  Joost  Van  der 
Linde,  whose  brother,  Roloff  Van  der  Linde, 
became  one  of  the  largest  land  holders  in  Ber- 
gen. Upon  his  marriage  he  took  title  to  a 
tract  of  land,  patent  20,  21,  22.  In  1682  he 
obtained  patents  from  Lady  Carteret  of  sev- 
eral adjacent  tracts,  thus  extending  his  estate 
from  the  Hudson  river  on  the  east  to  the 
Hackensack  river  on  the  west.  The  Indians 
also  bargained  with  him  for  land  at  Tappan, 
higher  up  the  river,  which,  in  1702,  he  nomin- 
ally exchanged  for  twenty-one  hundred  acres 
owned  by  the  Indians  adjoining  his  original 
purchases,  and  this  second  purchase  became 
known  as  the  New  Paramus  Patent.  (See 
map  of  Perth  Amboy.)  He  erected  a  house 
at  Old  Ackensack  (now  near  Ridgefield  Park), 
and  his  eldest  sons,  Jacob  and  Jan  (John), 
and  probably  all  his  children,  were  born  there. 
He  helped  to  organize  the  church  on  the  green 
at  Old  Hackensack  in  1696,  his  name  appear- 


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ing  on  stone  in  present  church  wall,  and  was 
the  leading  member  and  supporter  of  that 
church  for  over  twenty-five  years.  He  was 
also  the  first  justice  of  the  peace  of  Upper 
Bergen  county  (his  original  signature  appear- 
ing on  deed  held  by  Wesley  Van  Emburgh  of 
Ridgewood,  New  Jersey),  his  commission 
having  been  signed  by  Governor  Hamilton  in 

1682.  He  died  in  Hackensack,  and  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  buried  there  September 
II,  171 1,  according  to  the  record  of  the  Luth- 
eran churches  in  and  about  New  York,  and 
his  age  is  stated  as  between  seventy-two  and 
seventy-three  years.  His  widow,  born  in  1656, 
died  in  1725.  In  the  record  of  his  death  his 
name  is  written  "Albert  Saboriski." 

Children  of  Albert  and  Matilda  (Van  der 
Linde)  Saboriski,  born  in  or  near  Hackensack, 
Bergen  county.  New  Jersey:  i.  Jacob  A., 
April  12,  1679.  2.  Jan  (John),  born  in  Hack- 
ensack, about  1682;  married  (first)  Septem- 
ber 20,  1706,  Elizabeth  Cloes  Romeyn,  of 
Gravesend,    Long    Island,    New    York,    born 

1683,  died  in  Hackensack,  in  1712;  he  married 
(second)  December  6,  1712,  Marguaretta  du 
Rij  (Durie),  and  lived  on  the  old  homestead 
facing  the  green  alongside  the  church  in  Hack- 
ensack, which  he  inherited,  and  besides  being 
a  farmer  he  was  active  in  public  affairs ;  he 
had  four  children  by  his  first  wife  and  nine 
by  his  second.  3.  Yost.  4.  Christian.  5. 
Hendrick.  There  is  a  tradition  in  the  family 
that  Jacob  A.,  eldest  son  of  Albert,  was  stolen 
by  the  Indian  sachem  when  seven  years  old  and 
carried  to  the  Indian  village  nearby,  and  that 
some  time  elapsed  before  his  whereabouts  be- 
came known.  As  his  father  was  a  true  friend 
to  the  Indians,  the  sachem  at  last  disclosed  the 
secret  of  taking  the  child,  and  he  expressed 
the  wish  that  he  be  allowed  to  keep  the  boy 
until  he  became  versed  in  the  Indian  lan- 
guage, that  he  might  be  able  to  maintain  the 
friendship  established  by  the  father,  and  like 
him,  act  as  an  arbitrator  and  interpreter  in 
any  trouble  that  misrht  come  up  between  the 
Indians  and  their  white  neighbors.  The  boy 
consented  and  when  he  had  returned  to  his 
father's  home  he  had  acquired  the  language, 
and  his  friendship  for  the  Indians  was  a  fixed 
principle  of  his  life.  The  tradition  adds  that 
in  consideration  of  allowing  the  boy  to  re- 
main, the  second  erant  of  Upper  Paramus  was 
secured.  The  fact,  however,  remained  that 
valuable    merchandise,    wampum    and    money 


was  paid  the  Indians  by  Albert  Saboriski  for 
the  land. 

(II)  Christian  Zabriskie,  fourth  son  of  Al- 
bert and  Machtelt  or  Matilda  (Van  der  Linde) 
Saboriski,  was  born  in  Hackensack,  Upper 
Bergen,  New  Jersey,  was  baptized  in  the 
church  at  Hackensack,  Upper  Bergen,  July  3, 
1696,  and  died  1774.  He  married,  May  28, 
1714,  Lea  Hendricksje  Hoope  (Hooper).  He 
lived  in  Lower  Paramus,  and  was  received  in 
the  church  at  Hackensack,  as  a  member,  July 
13,  1723,  when  he  appears  to  have  spelled  his 
name  '"Zabbroski."  He  was  probably  a  far- 
mer, as  his  father  had  large  estates  in  New 
Jersey,  which  afforded  the  best  of  land  for 
carrying  on  the  business  of  cultivating  the  soil, 
and  in  fact  the  early  Hollanders  and  Palatin- 
ates were  farmers  and  both  men  and  women 
were  accustomed  to  working  in  the  fields,  and 
the  women  universally  were  the  chief  depen- 
dence in  milking  and  caring  for  the  butter  and 
cheese.  Children  of  Christian  and  Lea  Hen- 
dricksje (Hooper)  Zabriskie,  born  in  Lower 
Paramus,  New  Jersey:  i.  Albert,  baptized 
September  2,  1716;  married,  October  26,  1739, 
Aeltje,  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Aeltje 
(VanLeer)  Ackerman ;  her  parents  removed 
from  New  York  City  to  Bergen,  New  Jersey, 
in  1694,  and  settled  on  a  large  tract  of  land 
lying  between  the  Hackensack  and  Saddle 
rivers  in  Bergen  county.  (The  chart  of  the 
Zabriskies,  prepared  by  Chandler  Zabriskie 
gives  Tjilletji  Ackerman  to  this  Albert ;  but  the 
record  of  baptism  of  Jacob,  son  of  Tjilletji, 
has  the  father's  name  "Albert  Hen,"  and  not 
"Albert  Christ."  She  must  therefore  have 
been  the  wife  of  Albert,  son  of  Henry  and 
Gertrude  H.  (Hooper)  Zabriskie.  2.  Hen- 
drick, baptized  May  22,  1718.  3.  Jacob,  bap- 
tized January  22,  172 1  ;  died  young.  4.  Jacob, 
baptized  January  20,  1725 ;  married,  August 
7,  1747,  Lena  Ackerman.  5.  Andries,  men- 
tioned below. 

(HI)  Andries  (Andrew),  fifth  son  and 
youngest  child  of  Christian  and  Lea  Hen- 
dricksje (Hooper)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
Lower  Paramus.  January  3,  1729,  according 
to  records  of  the  Schraalenburg  church.  He 
was  a  farmer.  He  married,  in  1750,  Eliza- 
beth Ackerman,  of  Paramus:  i.  Christian  A., 
born  in  Paramus,  and  baptized  in  the  church 
there,  February  24,  1751.  2.  John  A.,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Jane,  January  i,  1761  :  mar- 
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Bogert,  Elizabeth  Bogert,  who  married  Will- 
iam Pell  and  had  six  children. 

(IV)  John  A.,  son  of  Andrew  and  EHza- 
beth  (Ackerman)  Zabriskie,  was  born  about 
1752  in  Lower  Paramus,  and  died  in  1824. 
He  was  a  farmer,  residing  on  the  west  side 
of  the  road  in  what  was  known  as  the  Flats, 
near  New  Milford,  New  Jersey.  He  married 
Christina  Zabriskie,  born  November  5,  1752, 
died  January  13,  1831.  They  had  sons,  John 
and  Henry  J. 

(V)  Henry  J.,  son  of  John  and  Christina 
Zabriskie,  was  born  January  29,  1787,  at  the 
Flats,  where  he  lived,  engaged  in  farming  until 
his  death,  January  7,  1861.  He  married, 
March  9,  181 1,  Anna  Sickels,  born  November 
15,  1790,  died  February  18,  1876,  daughter  of 
William  N.  and  Elizabeth  Sickels  of  Sickel- 
town,  Rockland  county.  New  York.  They  had 
sons,  John  H.  and  William  Henry. 

(VI)  William  Henry,  son  of  Henry  J.  and 
Anna  (Sickels)  Zabriskie,  was  born  August 
9,  1820,  at  the  Flats,  where  he  lived  until  his 
death,  December  6,  1859.  He  was  an  exten- 
sive dealer  in  timber  and  also  a  farmer.  He 
married,  November  3,  1841,  at  Schraalenburg, 
Effie  Demarest,  born  September  7,  1821,  a; 
Schraalenburg,  died  July  2,  i860,  at  the  Flats, 
daughter  of  Abraham  J.  and  Rachael  (Blau- 
velt)  Demarest,  of  Schraalenburg.  Children: 
Henry,  Eliza,  Ann,  Rachel,  Maria.  Abraham, 
Margareta,  Euphemia. 

(VII)  Maria,  third  daughter  of  William 
Henry  and  Effie  (Demarest)  Zabriskie,  born 
February  26,  1849,  i"  New  Milford,  became  the 
wife  of  Abram  Tallman  (see  Tallman  VIII). 


There  were  numerous  immigrants 
PECK  of  this  name  in  the  early  days  of 
Connecticut,  and  Massachusetts, 
and  their  progeny  is  now  widely  scattered 
throughout  the  nation.  The  first  in  America 
of  the  line  traced  below  was  a  direct  descend- 
ant in  the  twenty-first  generation  of  John 
Peck,  of  Belton,  Yorkshire,  England.  This 
family  is  often  referred  to  as  the  "Massachu- 
setts Pecks,"  to  distinguish  it  from  descend- 
ants of  settlers  at  Hartford  and  New  Haven, 
Connecticut.  They  have  been  distinguished 
for  their  sound  sense  and  keen  business  abil- 
ity, and  are  nearly  always  found  in  good  finan- 
cial circumstances. 

(I)    Joseph    Peck  was   the   son  of   Robert, 
born    1546,    died    1593,    and    Helen    (Babbs) 


Peck,  of  Beccles,  Suffolk  county,  England, 
and  was  baptized  there  April  30,  1587.  He 
settled  in  Hingham,  Norfolk  county,  England, 
and  in  1638  he  and  other  Puritans,  with  his 
brother,  Robert  Peck,  their  pastor,  fled  from 
the  persecutions  of  the  church  to  this  country. 
They  came  in  the  ship  "Diligent,"  and  settled 
in  Hingham,  Massachusetts,  where  Joseph 
Peck  received  a  grant  of  land  in  1638.  He 
remained  there  about  seven  years,  and  was 
justice  of  the  peace,  assessor,  selectman,  repre- 
sentative to  the  general  court  four  terms.  In 
1641  he  became  one  of  the  principal  purchas- 
ers of  that  tract  of  land  called  by  them 
Seekonk,  afterwards  incorporated  as  Reho- 
both,  and  removed  there  in  1645,  ^^''d  became 
one  of  its  prominent  men,  as  well  as  one  of  its 
wealthiest.  He  died  December  23,  1663.  He 
married  (first)  in  Hingham,  England,  May  21, 
1617,  Rebecca  Clark,  who  died  and  was  buried 
there,  October  24,  1637.  The  name  of  his 
second  wife  is  unknown.  The  marriage  was 
probably  in  another  parish,  where  the  records 
were  not  preserved.  The  records  of  the  town 
clerk  at  Hingham,  Massachusetts,  show  that 
"Mr.  Joseph  Peck,  his  wife,  three  sons  and 
a  daughter  settled  there,"  so  it  is  known  he 
married  a  second  time  before  leaving  Eng- 
land. His  children  were :  Anna,  baptized  in 
Hingham,  England,  March  12,  1618,  buried 
there,    July    27,    1636:    Rebecca,    baptized    in 

Hingham,    May    25,     1620,    married    

Hubbert;  Joseph,  August  23,  1623;  John,  bap- 
tized about  1626;  Nicholas,  mentioned  be- 
low :  Samuel,  baptized  in  Hingham,  Massa- 
chusetts, February  3,  1639;  Nathaniel,  Octo- 
ber 31,  1641  ;  Israel,  March  4,  1644. 

(II)  Nicholas,  third  son  of  Joseph  Peck, 
was  baptized  April  9.  1630,  in  Hingham,  Eng- 
land, and  was  about  eight  years  of  age  when 
he  came  with  his  parents  to  America.  He  set- 
tled in  the  southeastern  part  of  Seekonk,  and 
there  died  May  27,  1710.  He  was  often  one 
of  the  raters,  or  assessors,  and  selectmen  of 
the  town.  In  1669  he  was  elected  deputy  to 
the  general  court,  and  also  served  from  1677 
to  1690,  with  exception  of  1687-8,  when  the 
town  elected  no  representative.  From  1677  to 
1684  he  is  called  Ensign  Nicholas  Peck,  later 
lieutenant,  and  finally  captain.  He  married, 
about  1655,  Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Alexan- 
der Winchester.  He  had  a  second  wife,  Re- 
becca, who  died  November  2,  1704.  Children: 
Joseph,  born  October  27,  1656:  John.  August 


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8,  1660;  Hezekiah,  April  i,  1662;  Mary,  Sep- 
tember 15,  1664;  Jonathan,  November  5,  1666; 
Nicholas,  June  6,  1669;  Elisha,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(III)  Elisha,  youngest  child  of  Nicholas 
and  Mary  (Winchester)  Peck,  was  born 
April  II,  1673,  in  Rehoboth,  and  resided  for 
a  time  on  the  homestead  there,  and  subse- 
quently in  Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  and 
Providence,  Rhode  Island.  He  removed  from 
Rehoboth  to  Attleboro  about  1718.  He  mar- 
ried, December  24,  1703,  in  Rehoboth,  Martha 
Lake,  "both  of  Rehoboth."  Children: 
Martha,  died  young;  Joel,  born  June  i,  1707; 
Jerusha,  January  i,  1709;  Eunice,  March  12, 
171 1 ;  Inspection,  March  22,  1713;  Constan- 
tine,  mentioned  below;  Martha,  April  8,  1717; 
Nicholas,  April  30,  1719;  Mary,  August  31, 
1724;  Elijah,  September  7,  1729.  All  except 
the  last  two  are  recorded  in  Rehoboth,  and 
the  last  three  in  Attleboro. 

(IV)  Constantine,  second  son  of  Elisha  and 
Martha  (Lake)  Peck,  was  born  May  26,  171 5, 
in  Rehoboth,  and  resided  for  a  time  in  that 
town,  later  removing  to  Providence.  He  mar- 
ried Priscilla  Peck,  of  that  town.  Children : 
Joel,  born  September  i,  1735;  Susannah,  May 
13,  1738;  Benoni,  November  25,  1739;  Abra- 
ham, May  30,  1742;  Inspection,  July  6.  1745; 
Nicholas,  October  2,  1746;  Elisha,  mentioned 
below;  Eleazer,  March  7,  1750;  Martha,  Au- 
gust 8,  1752;  Abiah,  December  18,  1755; 
Mary,  May  19,  1758;  Gershom,  July  20,  1760; 
Anne,  January  10,  1762. 

(V)  Elisha  (2),  sixth  son  of  Constantine 
and  Priscilla  (Peck)  Peck,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 25,  1747.  He  resided  for  a  time  in  Pro- 
vidence; soon  after  1773  he  settled  in  Lenox, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  was  a  farmer.  He 
married,  in  Providence,  March  11,  1773,  Free- 
love  Knight,  of  Cranston,  Rhode  Island.  No 
record  of  children  is  available  beyond  that 
furnished  by  the  family  records. 

(VI)  Elisha  (3).  son  of  Elisha  (2)  and 
Freelove  (Knight)  Peck,  was  bom  March  4, 
1789,  in  Lenox,  and  died  in  18.SI.  at  his  resi- 
dence on  Fourth  street.  New  York  City.  He 
was  reared  upon  the  farm,  and  early  in  life 
went  to  Berlin,  Connecticut,  where  he  became 
interested  in  the  manufacture  of  metal  ware. 
Later  he  removed  to  New  York  City  and  there 
formed  an  association  with  Anson  G.  Phelps, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Peck  &  Phelps,  for 
dealing  in  metals.     He  immediately  proceeded 


to  Liverpool,  where  he  opened  a  foreign 
branch  of  the  business  and  continued  four- 
teen years.  In  August,  1830,  he  returned  to 
America,  bringing  with  him  the  machinery  for 
a  rolling  mill.  Mr.  Phelps  had  already  pur- 
chased land  and  a  water  privilege  on  Minis- 
ceongo  creek,  in  Rockland  county.  New  York, 
where  they  established  a  rolling  mill  wire 
works  and  kindred  industries.  A  village 
sprang  up  about  these  mills,  which  was  named 
Samsondale  by  Mr.  Peck,  in  honor  of  the  ves- 
sel which  brought  him  from  Liverpool  in 
1830.  Here  was  manufactured  what  was 
known  as  the  E.  P.  brand  sheet  iron,  which 
had  a  high  reputation  among  dealers.  The 
partnership  between  Messrs.  Peck  and  Phelps 
was  dissolved  and  Mr.  Peck  retained  the  shops 
at  Samsondale,  while  Mr.  Phelps  took  the  mer- 
cantile business  in  New  York.  About  this 
time  Mr.  Peck  erected  a  screw  factory  and 
chemical  works,  where  was  carried  on  chiefly 
the  production  of  sulphuric  acid.  In  1833  he 
opened  a  new  road,  which  is  now  the  thor- 
oughfare from  Minisceongo  creek  to  the  rail- 
road station  at  Haverstraw.  The  new  plants 
were  established  on  what  was  known  as  the 
Allison  farm,  which  Mr.  Peck  purchased  for 
that  purpose,  and  removed  the  old  mansion, 
in  whose  place  he  erected  a  handsome  resi- 
dence. His  eldest  son,  Shubael,  who  possessed 
an  inventive  mind  and  was  of  much  assistance 
to  his  father,  was  killed  by  the  explosion  of 
a  boiler  in  a  vessel  which  he  was  navigating 
on  the  Hudson.  After  this  a  younger  son, 
John  Peck,  became  his  father's  partner. 
About  1842  the  industries  began  to  feel  the 
injurious  effects  of  changes  in  the  tariff,  and 
the  mills  were  closed.  They  were  reopened 
during  the  civil  war  and  did  a  prosperous 
business  for  a  time,  and  have  since  been  occu- 
pied by  various  industries.  Mr.  Peck  was  a 
man  of  keen  foresight  and  great  executive 
ability,  and  became  interested  in  various  large 
enterprises.  He  was  one  of  the  original  pro- 
moters of  the  Somerville  &  Easton  railroad, 
and  of  the  Elizabeth  &  Easton,  both  of  which 
became  part  of  the  New  Jersey  Central  sys- 
tem, in  which  Mr.  Peck  was  a  large  stock- 
holder and  director.  At  one  time  he  was  the 
principal  owner  of  the  Providence  railroad, 
which  under  his  direction  as  president  proved 
to  be  one  of  the  most  profitable  enterprises  of 
the  kind  in  this  section  of  the  L^nion.  He  was 
a  director  of  the  Hudson  River  railroad,  and 


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when  he  retired  from  the  board  resolutions 
of  regret  were  passed  by  his  contemporaries. 
He  was  interested  in  various  other  industries, 
and  it  is  a  remarkable  fact  that  none  of  those 
in  which  he  invested  ever  proved  unprofitable. 
Mr.  Peck  was  a  man  of  genial  nature  and 
very  liberal,  and  when  the  Presbyterian  church 
established  at  Samsondale,  he  donated  the  lot 
upon  which  its  house  of  worship  was  located, 
and  also  contributed  generously  in  cash  to- 
ward its  completion. 

He  married,  June  30,  1814,  Chloe,  daughter 
of  Shubael  Pattison,  of  Berlin,  Connecticut. 
Children  :  Shubael,  born  April  10,  181 5  :  Har- 
riet, Januarv  22.  1817;  John,  born  No- 
vember 12,  '1818;  Edward,  June  3,  1822; 
Mary  Ann,  December  16.  1823.  The 
youngest  son  was  born  in  Liverpool,  England, 
and  the  youngest  daughter  in  West  Darby, 
England.  The  others  were  born  in  Berlin, 
Connecticut.  Of  these  only  the  second  son 
and  youngest  daughter  survived  their  father. 
The  latter  became  the  wife  of  George  Gordon. 


Alexander  Hamilton,  dis- 
HAMILTON  tinguished  soldier  and 
statesman,  was  born  in  the 
Island  of  Nevis,  West  Indies,  and  was  of  a 
Scotch  family.  He  was  instructed  under  the 
tutorship  of  a  Scotch  Presbyterian  minister, 
and  in  young  manhood  was  in  charge  of  a 
mercantile  business  in  his  native  place.  In 
1772  friends  induced  him  to  go  to  Boston, 
whence  he  went  to  Elizabethtown,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  attended  a  preparatory 
"school,  thence  entering  King's  College,  New 
York,  but  after  two  years  his  education  was 
interrupted  by  the  occupation  of  the  college 
buildings  by  the  British  troops.  At  the  open- 
ing of  difficulties  he  took  an  emotional  part, 
and  at  the  early  age  of  seventeen,  voluntarily 
ascended  a  platform  in  New  York  City  and 
delivered  a  fiery  phillipic  against  British  op- 
pression. Subsequently  he  issued  a  couple  of 
pamphlets,  which  were  of  such  force  and 
literary  merit  that  they  marked  him  as  a 
revolutionary  leader.  Early  in  1776,  when 
not  nineteen  years  old,  he  had  command  of 
an  artillery  company,  which  he  made  the 
model  of  its  kind  in  General  Greene's  com- 
mand. His  military  behavior  in  the  battles 
of  Long  Island  and  White  Plains  brous;ht  him 
a  commission  as  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Con- 
tinental   army,    and    assignment    to    the    stafi^ 


of  Washington  as  military  secretary.  Taking 
ofifence  at  a  reproof  from  his  chief,  he  re- 
signed his  position  and  entered  the  field  as 
lieutenant-colonel  of  New  York  artillery.  At 
Yorktown  he  led  a  successful  storming  party 
upon  a  redoubt,  and  was  breveted  colonel. 
He  served  in  the  New  York  assembly  and  in 
congress,  and  also  in  the  national  constitu- 
tional convention.  When  Washington  was 
elected  to  the  presidency,  he  made  Hamilton 
first  secretary  of  the  United  States  Treasury. 
Hamilton's  services  at  this  period  were  con- 
spicuously useful :  he  inaugurated  a  system 
of  internal  revenue,  a  protective  tarifi^.  regu- 
lated the  currency,  established  navigation 
laws  and  laws  regulating  the  coasting  trade, 
the  post  offices  and  the  disposition  of  public 
lands,  and  procured  the  purchase  of  land  at 
West  Point  for  a  military  academy.  He  re- 
signed the  secretaryship  in  1795  and  resumed 
his  law  practice  in  New  York  City.  He  main- 
tained close  relation  with  Washington,  and 
was  an  influential  factor  in  public  affairs.  In 
1798  he  was  made  major  general  and  inspec- 
tor general  of  the  army,  and  the  following 
year  was  made  commander-in-chief.  On  July 
II,  1804,  at  Weehawken,  New  Jersey,  he  fell 
in  a  duel  with  Aaron  Burr.  He  married  Eli- 
zabeth, daughter  of  General  Philip  Schuyler, 
of  Albany. 


The  origin  of  this  name  seems 
TELLER     uncertain ;  it  was  employed  by 

the  first  Dutch  immigrant  and 
has  been  continually  used  by  his  descendants, 
among  whom  have  been  many  conspicuous 
and  useful  citizens  in  Albany  and  Kingston, 
and  all  along  the  Hudson  river  valley. 

(I)  William  Teller,  born  161 6,  in  Holland, 
arrived  in  the  province  of  New  Netherlands, 
in  the  year  1639,  and  was  soon  sent  to  Fort 
Orange  by  Governor  Kieft  with  the  rank  of 
corporal.  He  was  probably  a  soldier  before 
his  arrival  in  America,  and  was  made  wacht- 
meister  of  the  fort  at  Albany  by  Governor 
Kieft  soon  after  his  arrival  there.  He  con- 
tinued to  reside  at  Albanv  until  1692,  except 
while  on  trips  to  New  York,  the  Delaware 
river,  and  one  voyage  to  Holland.  For  about 
fifty  years  he  was  a  trader  at  Albany,  whence 
he  removed  to  New  York  in  1692  with  his 
sons,  and  died  in  1701.  In  1656  he  was  one 
of  the  collectors  of  taxes,  and  in  1684  was 
made  alderman  of  the  first  ward  of  Rensselaer- 


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wyck  (Albany)  upon  the  first  division  of  that 
village  into  wards.  In  that  year  he  was  also 
a  justice  of  the  peace.  In  1678  he  accidentally 
killed  an  Indian  woman  with  a  gun  which  he 
was  taking  from  the  wall  just  as  she  was 
entering  the  door,  and  was  tried  for  this  on 
May  6  of  that  year  before  the  governor  and 
council  and  was  acquitted.  In  his  will,  made 
March  9,  1669,  proved  1701,  he  spoke  of  six 
of  his  nine  children  as  then  living,  namely: 
Andries,  Helena,  Elizabeth,  VVillem,  Johannes 
and  Jannette.  It  is  probable  that  he  had  dis- 
posed of  much  of  his  property  before  his 
death,  when  the  inventory  amounted  to  nine 
hundred  and  ten  pounds,  ten  shillings  and 
two  pence.  He  was  one  of  the  early  proprie- 
tors of  Schenectady  in  1662,  though  probably 
never  a  resident  there,  and  was  one  of  the 
patentees  mentioned  in  the  first  patent  of  the 
town  in  1684.  His  first  wife,  Margaret  Dun- 
cassen,  died  before  1664,  in  which  year  he 
made  a  marriage  contract  with  Maria  Varleth, 
widow  of  Paulis  Schrick.  She  survived  him, 
dying  in  1702,  when  an  inventory  of  her  estate 
was  made,  amounting  to  one  thousand,  two 
hundred  and  seventy-five  pounds,  twelve  shill- 
ings and  nine  pence.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Casper  and  Judith  Varleth,  early  residents  of 
Port  Good  Hope,  Hartford,  Connecticut,  be- 
ing there  as  early  as  1633.  Children  of  first 
marriage:  Andries,  Helena,  Maria  (Marga- 
rette),  Ehzabeth,  Jacob,  William,  Johannes  (or 
John).  Children  of  second  wife  :  Janette  (or 
Janneke)  and  Casper. 

(II)  William  (2),  third  son  of  William  (i) 
and  Margaret  (Duncassen)  Teller,  was  born 
in  1657,  at  Albany,  and  settled  in  New  York, 
where  he  made  his  will  June  25,  1710.  He 
married  (first)  November  19,  1686,  Rachel 
Kierstead,  of  New  York,  daughter  of  Hans 
Kierstead  and  Sarah  Rolffsen,  who  died  before 
1705.  He  received  a  license,  January  19,  1705, 
to  marry  his  cousin,  Maria  Van  Tricht.  Chil- 
dren of  first  marriage,  baptized  in  New  York: 
Margarita,  August  17,  1687;  William,  died 
young;  William,  December  25,  1690;  Hans  (or 
John),  mentioned  below;  Margaret,  February 
2,  1696;  Jacobus,  died  voung;  Andries,  Janu- 
ary 25,  1702;  Jacobus,  August  29,  1703. 

(III)  Hans  or  John,  third  son  of  William 
(2)  and  Rachael  (Kierstead)  Teller,  was  bap- 
tized March  12,  1693,  in  New  York.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  April  23,  1719,  Catherine  Van  Til- 
burgh,   and   had   sons,   baptized   in    1720  and 


1722.  He  married  (second)  before  1728,  Au- 
lie  Vermilyea.  Children  of  second  marriage: 
Catherine,  born  1728,  married  John  Stouten- 
burgh;  Isaac,  born  1730;  John,  born  1733, 
married  Margaret  Stoutenburgh ;  Jacobus, 
born  1736;  Rachel,  born  1741,  married  Luke 
Stoutenburgh;  Dr.  Abram,  born  1744,  mar- 
ried Margaret  Driemer;  Cynthia,  married 
Jacobus  Stoutenburgh;  Luke,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(IV)  Luke,  son  of  John  and  Aulie  (Ver- 
milyea) Teller,  resided  in  Dutchess  county 
and  died  there.  He  married  Sarah  Snedeker, 
November  10,  1765,  and  had  ten  children, 
namely :  James,  Elizabeth,  Sarah,  Abram, 
Rachel,  Catherine,  born  June  16,  1778;  Rich- 
ard, John,  Auley,  Theodora. 

(V)  James,  probably  eldest  son  of  Luke  and 
Sarah  (Snedeker)  Teller,  died  young.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  lived  a  short  distance  north 
of  Poughkeepsie,  New  York.  Where  the  house 
stood  is  still  known  as  Teller's  Hill.  He  mar- 
ried, January  6,  1796,  Sarah  Smith,  who  died 
January  3,  1847.  Children:  WilHam  S.  and 
Caroline.  The  latter  died  at  the  age  of  eight 
years. 

(VT)  William  Smith,  only  son  of  James 
and  Sarah  (Smith)  Teller,  was  born  February 
24,  1807,  and  died  January  21,  1892,  in  King- 
ston. He  and  his  mother  lived  in  Poughkeep- 
sie, where  he  learned  the  tanner  and  currier's 
trade.  He  later  joined  his  brother-in-law  in 
Newburgh  and  engaged  in  the  leather  busi- 
ness for  several  years,  then  removed  to  King- 
ston and  formed  a  co-partnership  with  An- 
drew Near,  purchasing  the  Kingston  Tannery 
of  A.  H.  Bruyn,  and  for  twenty-five  years  car- 
ried on  the  tanning  and  leather  business.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  First  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church  from  1846  until  his  death  and  was 
an  officer  of  this  body.  He  married  (first) 
October  27,  1831,  Maria  Broomfield,  born 
January  25,  1812,  died  June  15,  1844.  He 
married  (second)  September  17,  1846,  Esther 
M.  Hoyt,  born  September  15,  1824,  died 
March  6,  1865.  He  married  (third)  April  25, 
1867,  Rebecca  Montayne,  born  November  20, 
1823.  died  February  24,  1889.  Children  of 
first  marriage:  James  G.,  born  July  20,  1833, 
died  December  16,  1892,  in  Saugerties,  New 
York,  Caroline,  August  5,  1836,  died  in  her 
sixth  year ;  William  H.,  February  20,  1839, 
died  in  his  twenty-fifth  year;  Elizabeth.  Octo- 
ber 20,  1841,  married  Oliver  C.  Webster,  and 


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lived  until  her  death  in  Kingston.  Children 
of  second  wife:  George,  born  November  12, 
1848,  married  Sophia  E.  Brill,  two  children, 
Myron  S.  and  Janette  B. ;  Myron,  mentioned 
below ;  Charles,  died  in  infancy. 

(VII)  Myron,  fourth  son  of  William  Smith 
Teller  and  second  child  of  his  second  wife, 
Esther  M.  Hoyt,  was  born  January  i,  185 1, 
in  Kingston,  New  York,  where  he  now  re- 
sides. He  is  a  member,  with  his  family,  of  the 
First  M.  E.  Church  of  that  city.  He  mar- 
ried, September  18,  1873,  in  Kingston,  Jennie 
Frances  Romer,  daughter  of  William  F.  and 
Jane  (Baldwin)  Romer.  Children:  Marian, 
married  October  23,  1906,  Edward  Dunscomb 
Ibbotson ;  Caroline,  died  May,  1905  ;  William 
Romer;  Jennie  (Jane  R.),  married  January 
30,  1 009,  Charles  Bruyn,  and  lives  in  New 
York'Citv. 


The  name  of  Romer  is  one  which 

ROMER  has  been  identified  with  many 
important  interests  in  the  state 
of  New  York,  and  the  most  recent  bearer  of  it 
in  the  family  here  under  review  was  William 
F.  Romer,  head  of  the  Albany  and  Newburgh 
Day  Line  of  boats. 

(1)  Jacob  Romer  married,  August  20,  1754, 
Fannie  Erlacher,  and  they  had  children :  Hen- 
drick,  born  June  17,  1755;  Elizabeth,  born 
May  3.  1757  ;  Frena,  born  September  13,  1760; 
Catrina,  born  April  30,  1763  ;  Jacob,  see  for- 
ward:  Johannes,  born  1767:  Maritie,  born 
Tune  25,  1760:  .\nnette,  born  May  20,  1770; 
Sara,  born  November  16,  1773;  Femmetje, 
born  February  20,  1777. 

(Ill  Jacob  (2),  son  of  Jacob  (i)  and  Fan- 
nie (Erlacher)  Romer,  was  born  November  4. 
T764.  He  married  Hannah  Henderson  and 
had  children  as  follows  :  Benjamin  ;  Sarah  ; 
James  H..  see  forward:  Fannie;  Nancy;  John, 
married  Fannie  Mead,  of  Tarrvtown ;  Char- 
lotte. 

(Ill)  James  H.,  son  of  Jacob  (2)  and  Han- 
nah (Henderson)  Romer,  was  a  Methodist 
minister,  who  had  been  pastor  of  a  church  in 
Putnam  county,  and  his  last  charge  was  in 
New  York  City,  died  in  Kingston.  New  York. 
He  married  Abigail  Du  Bois,  daughter  of 
Peter  and  Mary  (Coutant)  Du  Bois.  grand- 
daughter of  Louis  and  Elizabeth  (Souliss) 
Du  Bois,  and  sister  of  John,  William,  Peter, 
David,  Esther,  Mary,  Stephen.  Elizabeth  and 
Phoebe.      James    H.    and    .Abigail    ( Du    Bois) 


Romer  had  children:  i.  James  L.,  married 
Juliette  Young,  daughter  of  Lewis  W.  and 
Marjante  R.  (Dubois)  Young,  and  had  chil- 
dren: William;  Maggie  E. ;  James  L. ;  John; 
Frank  R. ;  Caroline  L.,  who  married  Roger 
Williams,  and  has  a  son,  Roger  Williams,  Jr. 
2.  William  F.,  see  forward.  3.  Phoebe  D.  B., 
never  married. 

(IV)  William  F.,  son  of  James  H.  and  Abi- 
gail (Du  Bois)  Romer,  was  born  at  Tarry- 
town,  New  York,  in  1820,  died  at  Kingston, 
New  York,  August  3,  1885.  He  received  the 
education  which  the  common  schools  of  the 
day  afforded,  and  being  an  apt  and  attentive 
scholar  he  acquired  a  fund  of  useful  knowl- 
edge. In  1840  he  commenced  teaching  in 
Marbletown,  New  York.  When  General 
Joseph  Smith  was  cashier  of  the  Kingston  Na- 
tional Bank,  application  was  made  by  Mr. 
Ferguson  for  the  appointment  of  William  F. 
Romer  as  discount  clerk  and,  upon  the  recom- 
mendation of  Judge  Hardenburgh,  and  other 
prominent  residents  of  Marbletown,  Mr. 
Romer  received  the  appointment.  In  1841  he 
was  appointed  teller  and  bookkeeper,  and  a 
few  years  later  was  made  cashier,  an  office 
he  was  filling  at  the  time  of  his  first  connec- 
tion with  the  freighting  business  in  Rondout. 
He  resigned  from  his  official  position  in  the 
bank  in  1848,  and  formed  a  partnership  with 
Nathan  Anderson  and- his  son  under  the  firm 
name  of  Anderson,  Romer  &  Company,  and 
a  third  interest  in  the  steamer  "Highlander" 
was  purchased.  In  1853  Captain  Tremper  and 
Mr.  Gillett  bought  out  the  interests  of  the 
Andersons,  and  the  firm  name  became  Romer, 
Tremper  &  Gillett.  They  were  the  owners  of 
two  steamers,  the  "Rip  Van  Winkle"  and  the 
"North  America."  In  i8s6  Mr.  Romer  and 
Mr.  Tremper  bought  the  interest  of  Mr.  Gil- 
lett and  the  firm  name  was  changed  to  read 
Romer  &  Tremper,  under  which  style  it  was 
known  until  1883,  at  which  tiirie  the  firm  was 
incorporated  as  the  Romer  &•  Tremper  Steam- 
boat Company,  and  they  became  the  owners 
of  the  Albany  &  Newburgh  Day  Line.  While 
his  connection  with  the  bank  was  still  in  force 
Mr.  Romer  married  Jane  R.,  daughter  of 
James  \\'.  and  Mary  (  Newkirk  I  Baldwin,  of 
Kinffston,  and  thev  had  children:  i.  Mary 
De  A\'itt,  who  died  Sentember  12,  1866.  2. 
Jane  F..  who  married  Mvrnn  Teller,  and  had 
children :  Marian,  married  E'hva'-d  D,  Ibbot- 
son :  Caroline,  deceased  ;  \Ml!iani  Romer,  mar- 


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Tied  Adelaide  Hardenburgh ;  Jane  R.,  married 
Charles  D.  Bruyn. 

Mr.  Romer  in  all  his  business  affairs  was 
an  honest,  upright  man,  noted  for  his  integrity. 
In  social  life  he  had  many  and  sincere  friends, 
and  he  was  a  kind  husband  and  an  indulgent 
father.  When  a  young  man  he  identified  him- 
self with  the  St.  James  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  was  a  prominent  member  and  held 
official  position  during  the  greater  part  of  his 
life.  He  was  one  of  the  main  supporters  of 
this  church  and  gave  liberally  to  it,  and  to 
every  benevolent  project  which  it  furthered. 


This  name  appear.-;  in  the  early 
CORSA  Dutch  records  of  the  state  of 
New  York  in  a  variety  of  forms, 
such  as  Corse,  Corsa,  Corsse,  Corssen,  and 
Coursen,  and  appears  to  have  been  derived 
from  Cornelius.  In  comparatively  recent 
times  members  of  the  fainily  in  Westchester 
county.  New  York,  wrote  it  Cursa,  and  the 
will  of  Benjamin  Corsen,  of  the  fourth  gener- 
ation below  is  recorded  under  the  name  Cour- 
son.  The  Dutch  had  a  great  habit  of  abbrevi- 
ating names  and  frequently  called  Cornelius 
"Cors,"  and  it  was  a  very  simple  step  to  call 
his  sons  Corssen.  An  effort  has  been  made  to 
connect  this  family  with  Hendrick  Corstiansen 
or  Christiansen  from  Clieves,  Holland,  who  is 
said  to  have  been  a  mate  with  Hudson  on  the 
"Half-moon"  and  who  made  several  voyages 
between  Amsterdam  in  his  native  land  and 
New  Amsterdam,  now  New  York.  He  had  a 
comrade,  Cornelius  Hendricksen,  who  may 
have  been  his  son  or  merely  a  friend  and  co- 
voyager.  He  was  killed  by  one  of  two  Indians 
whom  he  had  captured  and  carried  to  Holland, 
and  returned  to  Manhattan  Island.  This  was 
at  the  beginning  of  the  year  1614.  This  much 
is  certain,  that  the  first  ancestor  from  whom 
this  family  can  be  continuously  traced  was  the 
son  of  a  man  named  Peter.  The  family  has 
been  long  identified  with  the  state  of  New 
York,  and  for  some  time  was  in  possession  of 
landed  propertv  at  Fordham.  the  title  to  some 
of  which  is  still  in  dispute, 

(I)  The  first  of  whom  any  record  is  dis- 
covered was  Cornelis  Pieterse  \^room  Corssen, 
who  resided  in  New  Amsterdam,  where  his 
children  were  baptized.  He  married  Tryntje 
Hendricks,  and  died  before  16^7.  She  mar- 
ried (second),  August  17,  1657.  Frederick 
Lubbertse,  of  Brooklyn.    Children  of  Cornelis 


P.  V,  Corssen  were:    Cornelis,  baptized  April 

23,  1645  ;  Pieter,  March  5,  1651 ;  Hendrick,  No- 
vember 30,  1653;  and  Catherine,  who  married 
John  Stats. 

(II)  Cornelis,  son  of  Cornelis  Pieterse 
Vroom  and  Tryntje  (  Hendricks)  Corssen,  was 
baptized  April  2;^.  1645,  i"  New  York,  and  re- 
sided in  Brooklyn,  where  he  was  on  the  assess- 
ment rolls  in  1675-6,  and  constable  in  1677. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Reformed  Dutch 
church  of  Brooklyn,  and  described  as  of  Wala- 
bocht  (Wallabout).  By  1680  he  removed  to 
Staten  Island,  where  he  took  title,  December 

24,  of  that  year,  to  three  hundred  and  fifty-two 
acres  on  the  west  side  of  Mill  Creek,  and  on 
the  28th  of  the  same  month  an  additional  one 
hundred  and  eighty  acres.  Both  these  tracts 
were  purchased  for  himself  and  three  asso- 
ciates, and  his  share  of  the  last  named  was 
sixty  acres.  He  also  secured  thirty-two  acres 
of  salt  meadow  "where  most  convenient."  He 
was  appointed  justice  of  the  peace  for  Rich- 
mond county,  April  2,  1685,  was  later  captain 
of  militia,  and  in  1689  held  both  positions.  In 
1 68 1  he  bought  land  on  the  Raritan  river  in 
New  Jersey  for  three  cents  per  acre.  His 
will,  made  December  9,  1692,  was  proved  Au- 
gust I,  1693.  He  married,  in  New  Amster- 
dam, March  11,  1666,  Marrytje  Jacobs,  van 
der  Grist  (Grift).  In  the  record  he  is  de- 
scribed as  a  young  man  of  Brooklyn  and  she 
as  a  young  woman  of  New  York.  He  had 
sons:  Jacob:  Cornelius,  baptized  August  13, 
1681,  'who  was  many  years  a  justice  of  the 
peace  of  Staten  Island :  Christian,  a  second 
judge  and  lieutenant-colonel  in  1738;  and 
Daniel,  baptized  February  8,  1690.  in  New 
York.  Benjamin,  another  son,  removed  in 
1726  to  Northampton,  Bucks  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  his  descendants  have  resided  until 
very  recent  time. 

(III)  Jacob  Corsen,  eldest  son  of  Cornells 
and  Marrytje  (Jacobs)  Corssen,  was  born 
about  1668,  and  resided  on  Staten  Island, 
where  he  made  his  will,  October  8,  1742.  By 
this  instrument  his  homestead  was  bequeathed 
to  his  son  Jacob,  and  seventy  pounds  to  each 
of  his  children,  including:  Suster,  wife  of 
Johannes  Simonson :  Mar}',  Mrs.  Joshua  Mer- 
sereau  ;  Douwe,  Benjamin,  and  Rebecca,  wife 
of  John  Blom.  Very  little  mention  of  this 
family  is  found  in  the  records  of  Staten  Island 
at  a  later  day. 

(IV)  Benjamin  Corsa,  son  of  Jacob   Co: 


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sen,  was  born  before  1700,  and  the  family  tra- 
dition says  he  was  named  in  honor  of  Gover- 
nor Benjamin  Fletcher,  whose  jurisdiction  be- 
gan with  the  year  1692.  He  probably  resided 
about  the  time  of  his  majority  at  Fordham, 
which  was  then  under  the  jurisdiction  of  New 
York.  He  married,  April  17,  1718,  in  New 
York,  Jannetje  Reyers,  daughter  of  Reyer 
Michaelson  Reyers.  In  the  records  she  is  de- 
scribed as  a  young  woman  from  the  Manor 
of  Fordham  and  he  is  called  a  young  man  from 
New  York.  His  will,  made  October  i,  1770, 
is  on  record  in  Westchester  county,  and  he 
died  before  December  22,  of  the  same  year, 
when  the  will  was  proved.  It  disposed  of 
lands  now  occupied  by  Fordham  University 
and  the  homestead  mansion  is  still  standing  on 
the  grounds  of  the  University  and  used  as  an 
infirmary.  Southern  boulevard  now  crosses 
the  old  graveyard  in  which  many  of  the  Corsa 
family  are  buried.  The  will  mentions  sons 
Tunis,  John,  then  deceased,  and  Isaac,  and 
daughter  Jane  Lent.  Isaac  was  made  execu- 
tor of  the  will. 

(V)  Captain  Isaac  Corsa,  youngest  son  of 
Benjamin  and  Jannetje  (Reyers)  Corsa,  was 
born  about  1735,  at  Fordham,  and  was  com- 
missioned as  captain  of  a  company  of  ninety- 
five  men  in  an  expedition  against  the  French 
in  1755.  As  already  noted,  he  was  made  ex- 
ecutor of  his  father's  estate  and  during  his 
lifetime  the  property  passed  out  of  the  family. 
He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Andrew  Gibb, 
of  Fordham  Manor,  who  made  his  will  Decem- 
ber 24,  1761,  in  which  twenty-five  pounds  was 
bequeathed  to  his  daughter  Mary,  wife  of 
Isaac  Corsa.  They  had  children :  John,  An- 
drew, Isaac,  Richard  and  Hannah.  "  The  first 
renaoved  to  Nova  Scotia.  The  second,  Andrew, 
resided  in  the  vicinity  of  Fordham.  He  was 
a  soldier  of  the  revolution  and  was  the  last 
survivor  of  Washington's  Scouts,  dying  at  the 
age  of  ninety-one  years.  The  other  sons  re- 
.sided  in  the  vicinity  of  Fordham,  and  the  third 
married  Helena  Bussing,  of  Harlem,  for  his 
first  wife,  and  Mary  Poole,  second. 

(VI)  Richard,  fourth  son  of  Captain  Isaac 
and  Mary  (Gibb)  Corsa,  was  born  February 
Q,  1793,  in  Fordham,  where  he  resided  and  died 
December  26,  18.S3.  He  married.  December 
27,  1817,  Esther  Crawford,  born  May  4,  1799, 
died  January  24,  1870.  They  had  children: 
Louisa  A.,  born  December  24,  1818:  James  C, 
mentioned  below;  Andrew  J.,  April    i,   1822; 


Rachel,  April  30,  1825,  and  Armenia,  June  11, 
1830.  The  second  son  married  (first)  Octo- 
ber 7,  i860,  Jane  Van  Riper,  and  (second) 
November  10,  1869,  Araminta  Jackson.  He 
was  long  engaged  in  business  in  Williamsburg, 
in  association  with  his  elder  brother. 

(VII)  James  Crawford,  eldest  son  of  Rich- 
ard and  Esther  (Crawford)  Corsa,  was  born 
May  7,  1820,  on  the  Corsa  homestead  in  Ford- 
ham, and  attended  the  public  schools  in  the 
neighborhood  of  his  home.  While  still  a  boy 
he  was  apprenticed  to  the  cooper's  trade  and 
after  becoming  a  journeyman  located  in  Wil- 
liamsburg, where  he  was  employed  in  making 
casks  for  a  sugar  refining  company.  He  was 
subsequently  engaged  in  business  on  his  own 
account  with  a  man  named  Flynn,  and  they 
were  the  first  in  Brooklyn  to  use  machinery 
in  the  manufacture  of  casks.  They  also  manu- 
factured kegs  for  the  Atlantic  White  Lead 
Company,  and  continued  in  this  line  of  busi- 
ness until  about  1877.  Mr.  Corsa  was  after- 
ward employed  by  the  sugar  refining  company 
of  Crabb  &  Company,  in  which  his  brother 
Andrew  J.  was  a  partner,  among  the  first  im- 
porters of  raw  sugar.  He  continued  in  this 
association  until  his  death,  April  30,  1890,  near 
the  close  of  his  seventieth  year.  He  was  afifili- 
ated  with  the  Dutch  Reformed  church,  whose 
house  of  worship  was  located  in  the  rear  of 
the  present  Borough  Hall,  Brooklyn,  and  was 
also  a  member  of  the  Order  of  American  Me- 
chanics. He  married,  March  26,  1850,  Sarah 
Garretson,  daughter  of  Garret  and  Mary  (Ro- 
maine)  Garretson,  and  had  two  children; 
Andrew  Jackson  and  Mary  Jane.  The  latter 
became  the  wife  of  William  Hooker  Meeteer 
and  now  resides  in  Brooklyn. 

(VIII)  Andrew  Jackson,  only  son  of  James 
Crawford  and  Sarah  (Garretson)  Corsa.  was 
born  December  4,  1856,  at  his  father's  home 
on  President  street,  in  Brooklyn,  and  attended 
the  Wilson  street  public  school  of  that  city 
until  he  was  fifteen  years  old.  He  was  then 
employed  as  office  boy  by  the  Exchange  In- 
surance Company  of  New  York  City,  and 
since  that  time  has  been  continuously  identified 
with  insurance  interests.  He  was  soon  ad- 
vanced to  a  clerkship  and  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
five  was  made  assistant  secretary  of  the  com- 
pany. At  the  age  of  thirty  years  he  became 
secretary  of  the  Mechanics'  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  New  York  and  in  1885  became  man- 
ager of  the  .Alliance  Insurance  Association  of 


HENRY  HUDSON 


An  Intrepid  English  navigator  who  made  trips  In  1607  and  1608  seeking  an  ArcUC 
India,  and  on  the  third  sailed  Into  the  Hudson  River.  On  Jan.  8.  I  609,  he 
signed  a  contract  with  the  Dutch  East  India  Co.  to  sail  the  Half  Moon  (60  tons)  to 
America;  started  from  the  Texel,  Holland,  March  25th,  entered  The  Narrows  Sept. 
6th,  anchored  at  42°  40'  (Albany)  Sept.  19th;  sailed  for  England  Oct.  4th.  On  sub- 
sequent voyage  his  crew  mutinied  and  he  was  set  adrift  In  Hudson's  Bay,  June 
23.  1611. 


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New  York,  in  which  position  he  continued  five 
years.  At  the  same  time  he  was  made  man- 
ager of  the  Queen  Insurance  Company  of 
America  and  located  his  offices  in  Brooklyn, 
where  he  has  since  continued.  Since  1908  he 
has  also  represented  the  Sun  Insurance  office 
of  London  and  conducts  a  general  insurance 
brokerage.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and 
first  president  of  the  Brooklyn  Underwriters' 
Association,  formed  in  1896,  and  became  presi- 
dent of  the  Nassau  County  Board  of  1  rade, 
organized  in  1906.  He  is  at  present  president 
of  the  Brooklyn  Business  Men's  Association 
and  a  member  of  the  Merchants'  Association 
of  New  York,  representing  in  that  body  the 
Sun  Insurance  office  of  London  and  also  the 
Insurance  Society  of  New  York.  For  five 
years  he  was  secretary  of  the  Brooklyn  Salvage 
Corps  and  is  now  a  member  of  the  commission 
for  locating  and  constructing  a  new  municipal 
building  for  Brooklyn  and  also  chairman  of 
the  commission  for  the  Marginal  Railroad, 
which  goes  along  the  river  front  of  Brooklyn. 
He  is  a  past  master  of  Aurora  Grata  Lodge 
No.  756,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of 
Brooklyn,  in  which  he  was  raised,  and  is  now 
affiliated  with  Chrystal  Wave  Lodge.  He  is 
at  present  grand  representative  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  California  in  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
New  York.  Mr.  Corsa  was  reared  under  the 
teachings  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church,  with 
which  he  is  still  in  active  sympathy.  Politically 
he  is  independent  of  partisan  rulings.  He  has 
always  been  active  in  political,  civic  and  religi- 
ous interests  for  Brooklyn's  good.  He  mar- 
ried, November  4,  1885,  in  Brooklyn,  Eliza- 
beth Steimle,  born  November  24,  1868,  in 
Brooklyn,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Jannette 
(Cook)  Steimle.  They  have  only  one  child, 
Stanley  J.,  mentioned  below. 

(IX)  Stanley  James,  only  son  of  Andrew 
Jackson  and  Elizabeth  (Steimle)  Corsa,  was 
born  October  17,  1886,  in  Brooklyn,  and  began 
receiving  private  instruction  at  the  early  age 
of  six  years.  He  subsequently  attended  the 
Brooklyn  public  school  until  twelve  vears  of 
age,  when  he  entered  the  Brooklyn  Polytech- 
nic Institute  and  remained  one  year.  In  1900, 
he  was  sent  to  Major  Holbrook's  Military 
Academy  at  Ossining,  New  York,  where  he 
remained  for  one  year,  subsequentlv  becoming 
again  a  student  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic 
Institute,  where  he  finished  in  1905.  He  im- 
mediately entered  the  fire  insurance  business 


of  his  father  as  a  clerk,  and  in  1910  he  was 
admitted  to  partnership  in  the  business,  which 
has  since  been  conducted  under  the  firm  name 
of  Andrew  J.  Corsa  &  Son,  with  offices  on 
Remsen  street.  They  transact  a  general  fire 
insurance  business,  covering  a  wide  range  of 
country,  representing  the  Queens  Fire  Insur- 
ance Company  of  America,  the  Sun  Insurance 
Company  of  London,  England,  and  various 
other  responsible  underwriters,  besides  con- 
ducting a  general  brokerage  business  in  in- 
surance. Mr.  Corsa  is  a  member  of  the  Beta 
Phi  fraternity  of  Brooklyn,  the  Insurance  So- 
ciety of  New  York,  and  Bedford  Conclave 
No.  850,  Improved  Order  of  Heptasophs.  He 
attends  religious  services  at  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed or  Episcopal  church,  and  is  a  stead- 
fast Democrat  in  political  principle. 

Henry  (or  Hendrick)  Hud- 
HUDSON  son,  famous  explorer,  was 
probably  born  in  London,  Eng- 
land, about  1775.  He  was  bred  to  the 
sea,  and  in  1609  he  was  engaged  by  the  Dutch 
East  India  Company  to  discover  new  whale 
fishing  grounds.  On  April  4  that  year  he 
sailed  in  the  "Half  Moon,"  an  eighty-ton  ship, 
with  a  crew  of  sixteen  men,  about  equally 
divided  between  Englishmen  and  Dutchmen, 
with  the  intention  of  reaching  Nova  Zembla, 
and  was  prevented  by  ice.  Bearing  west  he 
passed  the  Newfoundland  banks,  thence  pass- 
ing by  Penobscot  Bay  and  Cape  Cod.  Arriv- 
ing at  the  James  river,  Virginia,  he  decided 
not  to  meet  Captain  John  Smith,  and  sailed 
north.  Entering  Delaware  Bay,  he  concluded 
he  could  make  no  passage  to  the  East  Indies, 
and  following  the  Jersey  coast  reached  Sandy 
Hook  on  September  3.  He  sailed  150  miles 
up  the  river  which  bears  his  name,  and  then 
returned  to  England.  He  was  ordered  by  his 
employers  to  return  to  Holland.  In  the  sum- 
mer of  1610  he  sailed  in  an  English  ship,  the 
"Discovery,"  and  in  Hudson's  Bay  (which 
received  its  name  from  him),  he  and  his  son 
John  and  five  of  his  seamen  were  cast  adrift 
by  mutineers,  and  all  miserably  perished. 

The  family  tradition  states  that 
FURMAN     this  name  is  of  Welsh  origin 
and  it  may  be  true  that  it  orig- 
inated in  the  English  from  someone  who  dealt 
in  furs,  but  the  stronger  supposition  is  that  it 
came   from   the   German   Fuhrman,   the   man 


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who  made  journeys  or  carried  other  people  on 
their  journeys.  At  any  rate,  people  bearing 
this  name  have  been  prominently  identified 
with  the  history  of  the  state  of  New  York 
from  a  very  early  period.  While  not  numer- 
ous they  have  borne  their  proportionate  share 
in  the  struggles  of  pioneer  life  and  in  the 
building  up  of  communities  morally,  socially 
and  materially. 

{I)  John  Furman,  born  1600,  came  from 
Wales,  according  to  the  family  tradition,  and 
was  made  a  freeman  of  the  Massachusetts 
Colony  in  163 1.  Soon  after  this  he  probably 
removed  to  Long  Island  and  little  further  con- 
cerning him  is  known. 

(IIj  Josiah  and  John  Furman,  sons  of  John, 
removed  from  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  to 
the  town  of  Newtown,  where  they  purchased 
land  and  where  John  died  in  1677,  aged  about 
forty-six  years,  leaving  a  son  Jonathan.  Jo- 
siah Furman,  born  1635,  in  Massachusetts, 
died  in  1705  in  Newtown,  leaving  sons,  John, 
Josiah,  Joseph,  David,  Samuel  and  Jonathan. 

(Ill J  John  (2),  apparently  eldest  son  of 
Josiah  Furman,  born  in  Newtown,  died  there 
in  1726.  He  was  one  of  the  twenty-four  pat- 
entees of  Jamaica  by  grant  of  Governor  Don 
gan  made  May  17,  1686.  He  married  Mar- 
garet Lynch. 

(IV)  Gabriel,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Mar- 
garet (Lynch)  Furman,  was  born  1690,  in 
Newtown,  and  owned  a  farm  in  the  locality  of 
that  town,  known  as  Whitepot.  He  died  there 
September  23,  1768.  He  married,  August  19, 
1 713,  Abigail,  daughter  of  William  and  Abi- 
gail Howard,  of  New  Lots,  born  about  1692. 
They  had  sons :  William,  John,  Samuel,  How- 
ard,  Nathan,  Joseph  and   Benjamin. 

(V)  Benjamin,  youngest  son  of  Gabriel  and 
.'\bigail  (Howard)  Furman,  was  born  about 
1726-30  in  Newtown,  and  settled  early  in  life 
in  the  town  of  Ramapo,  Rockland  county,  re- 
moving later  to  Haverstraw.  He  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Rem  and  Mary  (Letten) 
Remsen,  born  May  4,  1732  in  Newtown. 

(VI)  William,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary 
(Remsen)  Furman,  was  born  February  21, 
1771,  in  the  town  of  Ramapo.  and  died  Novem- 
ber, 1824,  having  there  engaged  in  farming. 
He  was  a  Methodist  in  religion  and  is  de- 
scribed by  his  descendants  as  a  Republican. 
He  probably  belonged  to  a  party  under  that 
name  which  flourished  for  a  short  time  in  the 
early  part  of  the  nineteenth  century.    He  mar- 


ried Elizabeth  Cooper,  born  June  16,  1780,  a 
Lumber  of  a  large  and  influential  family  of 
Rockland  county.  Children  :  Elizabeth,  John, 
Abram,  Gilbert,  Martha,  William  F.,  Eliza- 
beth and  George. 

(VII)  Gilbert,  third  son  of  William  and 
Elizabeth  (  Cooper)  Furman,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 28,  1807,  in  Rockland  county.  New  York, 
and  settled  in  Haverstraw,  where  he  was  a 
farmer  and  lumberman,  and  died  May  5,  1889. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  in 
which  he  held  various  official  positions,  and 
was  a  man  of  high  character,  noted  for  his 
industry  and  upright  life.  He  was  buried 
from  the  Mechanicsville  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  and  was  borne  to  his  last  resting  place 
by  six  of  his  sons,  Henry,  George,  John,  Mon- 
roe, Benjamin  and  Harmon,  while  the  other 
son,  William  G.,  supported  his  widowed 
mother.  He  married  Sarah  Van  \^'aert,  born 
November  17,  1815,  in  Little  Falls,  New  Jer- 
sey, died  September  22,  1893,  in  Haverstraw. 
She  was  a  descendant  of  the  old  Dutch  fami- 
lies of  \'an  Waert  and  Dey,  located  in  New 
Jersey.  She  was  possessed  of  many  Christian 
virtues,  ever  ready  to  relieve  suffering  and 
deeply  revered  by  her  family.  After  her  death 
her  body  was  borne  to  the  grave  by  her  sons, 
William  G.,  Henry,  George,  Monroe.  Benja- 
min and  Harmon  (John  being  ill  at  the  time), 
and  deposited  beside  that  of  her  husband. 
Children:  John.  Catharine,  William  G., 
Abram,  Sarah  Mancell,  Henry,  John  Wesley, 
George  Banghart.  Charles,  Gilbert  Monroe. 
Benjamin,  Harmon,  Ida  L. 

(VIII)  John  Wesley,  fifth  son  of  Gilbert 
and  Sarah  (Van  Waert)  Furman,  was  born 
March  9,  1847,  in  Haverstraw,  New  York.  He 
grew  up  on  the  paternal  farm,  in  whose  labor 
he  took  an  active  part,  and  attended  the  dis- 
trict school  at  Camp  Hill  until  eighteen  years 
of  age  when  he  entered  Canandaigua  Acad- 
emy. Later  he  was  a  student  at  the  Oswego 
Normal  School,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  187 1,  and  entered  Cornell  University  in 
1873.  In  1879  he  became  a  student  at  the  law 
school  of  New  York  LTniversity,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1881  with  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  For  some  years  he  was  engaged  in 
teaching  in  Rockland  county,  and  was  for  a 
time  employed  as  principal  in  the  city  schools 
of  Binghamton.  New  York,  and  the  southerly 
part  of  Westchester  county,  which  afterward 
became  annexed  to  New  York  City.     In  1881 


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he  began  the  practice  of  law  at  Haverstraw, 
New  York,  and  has  been  so  engaged  continu- 
ously to  the  present  time.  By  his  industry, 
strict  integrity,  and  thorough  preparation  he 
obtained  a  large  and  lucrative  practice  and 
is  one  of  the  leading  and  inuuential  lawyers 
of  Rockland  county. 

He  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in 
educational  matters  and  for  many  years  served 
as  clerk  of  the  Haverstraw  board  of  educa- 
tion. During  this  time  the  public  school  sys- 
tem of  the  village  has  been  re-organized  and 
the  present  large  high  school  building  erected 
in  which  Mr.  Furman  took  a  very  active  part. 
Notwithstanding  his  extensive  professional  du- 
ties, he  has  ever  been  ready  to  advance  the  in- 
terest of  his  home  town  and  the  general  com- 
munity. He  is  an  active  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist church  of  that  place,  in  which  he  is  a 
trustee  and  teacher  of  the  Bible  class.  He  is 
a  member  of  Stony  Point  Lodge,  No.  313, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  lona  Lodge,  No. 
128,  Knights  of  Pythias;  and  Sequel  Lodge, 
No.  542,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
being  a  past  noble  grand  of  the  last  named 
body.  Mr.  Furman  took  the  leading  part  in 
securing  the  incorporation  of  Mount  Repose 
Cemetery,  located  at  Haverstraw,  New  York, 
and  through  the  efforts  of  himself  and  his 
brother  Henry  this  cemetery  has  been  greatly 
improved  and  is  considered  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  and  attractive  along  the  Hudson 
river. 

He  married,  June  29,  1892,  in  Haverstraw, 
Ida  May  Holmes,  an  estimable  woman,  born 
September  24,  1856,  in  Kingston,  New  York, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Henrietta  (Cosgrove) 
Holmes,  who  were  the  parents  of  the  follow- 
ing children:  William  S.,  Emma,  Charlotte, 
Minnie  F.,  Ida  May,  Charles,  Albert,  Nettie, 
Clara. 


Frans  Hendrickszen,  the 
HENDRICKS     founder  of  this  family,  was 

born  in  Breevoort,  Hol- 
land, and  died  in  New  Amsterdam  before  No- 
vember 6,  1684,  the  date  of  his  widow's  second 
marriage.  He  married  in  the  Dutch  church  in 
New  Amsterdam  in  1670,  Belitje  Jorisz, 
daughter  of  Joris  Stephenszen  and  Annatje 
Hendricks,  who  had  emigrated  from  Brugge, 
in  Vlaenderen,  and  was  at  the  time  of  her  mar- 
riage living  in  Milpits  Kill.  She  married 
(second)    November  6,    1684,   in   the   Dutch 


church  in  New  Amsterdam,  George  Atkins,  an 
Englishman,  who  had  come  from  Virginia  or 
Maryland  and  settled  in  New  Amsterdam. 
Children  of  Frans  Hendrickszen,  baptized  in 
the  Dutch  church  in  New  Amsterdam :  Hen- 
drick,  baptized  March  16,  1672',  died  in  in- 
fancy; Hendrick  Franse,  referred  to  below; 
Geesje,  baptized  November  10,  1675. 

(II)  Hendrick  Franse,  son  of  Frans  Hen- 
drickszen and  Belitje  Jorisz,  was  baptized  in 
the  Dutch  church  in  New  Amsterdam,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1673.  After  1725  he  removed  to 
Dutchess  county.  New  York.  He  married 
(first)  Reuth  Moor,  and  (second)  October 
21,  1709,  Anna  Maria  Sipken,  widow  of  Har- 
man  Lucasz,  of  New  York.  Children  (two 
by  first  marriage)  :  Frans,  referred  to  below; 
Marijtje,  baptized  July  2,  1710;  Anna,  baptized 
June  3,  171 1 ;  Jan,  baptized  September  20, 
1713;  Hendricus,  baptized  June  6.  1715;  Elsje, 
baptized  September  i,  1717;  Elisabet,  baptized 
June  7,  1721 ;  Johannes,  baptized  February  26, 
1725- 

(III)  Frans  Hendricks,  son  of  Hendrick 
Franse  and  Reuth  Moor,  was  born  in  New 
York  about  1705,  died  near  Kingston,  Ulster 
county.  New  York.  He  married,  in  the  Dutch 
church,  in  Kingston,  August  31,  1734,  Eliza- 
beth Valk.  Children,  baptized  at  Kingston: 
Louwerens,  baptized  June  2^,  1736,  married. 
May  6,  1763,  Elizabeth  Pleogh  ;  Johannes,  bap- 
tized December  2,  1739 ;  Jacob,  baptized  Sep- 
tember 2j,  1741,  married,  August  24.  1771, 
Ariantje  Louw ;  Elizabeth,  baptized  April  29, 
1744;  Philip,  referred  to  below;  Petrus,  twin 
with  Philip,  baptized  July  17,  1748;  Catherine, 
baptized  February  16,  1752. 

(IV)  Philip,  son  of  Frans  and  Elizabeth 
(Valk)  Hendricks,  was  born  near  Kingston, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  and  baptized  in  the 
Dutch  church  at  Kingston,  July  17,  1748.  He 
died  November  28,  1834.  He  married,  in  the 
Dutch  church,  in  Kingston,  December  zj, 
1775.  Catherine  van  Stynberg,  who  was  born 
in  1747  and  died  May  9,  1835.  Children: 
Elizabeth,  baptized  June  27,  1779 ;  Abraham, 
baptized  October  21,  1781,  married  Maria  Os- 
terhout;  Philip  (2),  referred  to  below. 

(V)  Philip  (2),  son  of  Philip  ( i)  and  Cath- 
erine (van  Stynberg)  Hendricks,  was  born 
September  3,  1791,  near  Kingston,  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  died  November  16,  1876. 
He  inherited  the  old  family  homestead  from 
his   father,  and  cultivated  it  until  his   death. 


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He  was  captain  in  the  National  Guard 
of  the  State  of  New  York.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  First  Dutch  Reformed 
Church,  in  Kingston.  He  married,  De- 
cember 21,  1815,  Elsie  Elmendorf,  who  was 
born  March  21,  1795,  and  died  October  27, 
1869.  Among  his  children  were  :  Martin  Ed- 
gar, referred  to  below ;  Racheal  Catherine,  and 
Abram. 

(VI)  Martin  Edgar,  son  of  Philip  (2)  and 
Elsie  (Elmendorf)  Hendricks,  was  born  on 
his  father's  farm  near  Kingston,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  May  28,  1822,  died  June  10,  1905. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  township  and  worked 
on  the  farm,  which  he  inherited  at  his  father's 
death,  and  which  he  cultivated  until  his  own 
death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  liberal  branch 
of  the  Democratic  party,  and  served  as  school 
trustee  and  overseer  of  the  poor  in  1872  and 
1873.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Dutch 
Reformed  Church,  in  Kingston,  of  which  he 
was  deacon  and  elder  for  two  years  in  each 
office,  and  was  also  the  superintendent  of  the 
branch  Sabbath-school  of  the  church  in  East 
Kingston.  He  was  a  liberal  supporter  of  the 
various  benevolent  and  philanthropic  enter- 
prises of  the  vicinity,  and  actively  identified 
with  all  movements  of  an  elevating  and  Chris- 
tian character.  He  married,  September  26, 
1850,  Harriet  Ann,  daughter  of  Tjerck  and 
Margaret  (Hendricks)  Wynkoop,  who  was 
born  December  27,  1824,  and  died  April  7, 
1909:    Child:    Clarence  P.,  referred  to  below. 

(VH)  Clarence  P.,  son  of  Martin  Edgar 
and  Harriet  Ann  (Wynkoop)  Hendricks,  was 
born  on  the  old  homestead,  near  Kingston,  Ul- 
ster county.  New  York.  September  29,  1856, 
and  is  now  living  in  Kingston  city.  He  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  public  schools 
and  assisted  his  father  on  the  farm  until  1890, 
when  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Charles 
M.  Streeter  in  the  business  of  brick  manufac- 
turing under  the  firm  name  of  Streeter  &  Hen- 
dricks, which  continued  until  1900,  when  he 
purchased  the  interests  of  his  partner,  and 
conducted  the  business  until  1906.  In  1906 
he  admitted  to  partnership  F.  P.  Luther,  and 
the  business  was  incorporated  under  the  title 
of  the  Hendricks  Brick  Company,  which  is  still 
continued  and  is  one  of  the  largest  of  the  kind 
on  the  Hudson  river,  and  of  which  he  is  the 
president.  He  is  one  of  the  directors  of  the 
National  Ulster  County  Bank.    He  is  an  Inde- 


pendent in  politics,  and  for  thirty-five  years 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Flatbush  school 
board.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Holland  Society 
of  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church,  in  Kingston,  of  which  he 
has  been  deacon  and  elder.  He  married,  June 
18,  1879,  Maria  V.,  daughter  of  Henry  B.  and 
Isadora  (Gibbs)  Luther,  of  Kingston,  who  was 
born  April  7,  i860.  Child:  Clarence  Abram, 
referred  to  below. 

(VIII)  Clarence  Abram,  son  of  Clarence  P. 
and  Maria  V.  (Luther)  Hendricks,  was  born 
March  11,  1885,  and  is  now  living  in  Kingston, 
New  York.  He  is  engaged  in  the  automobile 
business  there.  He  married.  May  8,  1907,  Eli- 
zabeth McCullough.  Child :  Clarence  Philip, 
born  October  29,  1908. 


Matthew  Vassar,  founder  of 
VASSAR  the  female  college  which  bears 
his  name,  was  born  April  29, 
1792,  in  East  Dereham,  England.  His  par- 
ents, James  and  Anne  (Bennett)  Vassar, 
were  Baptists.  They  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1796,  settling  in  Poughkeepsie,  New 
York,  where  the  father  set  up  a  "home-brewed 
ale"  brewery. 

The  father's  business  was  distasteful  to  the 
son,  who  went  into  other  occupations,  but  the 
brewery  burned  down,  and  a  brother  lost  his 
life  in  an  endeavor  to  save  the  property,  and 
Matthew  Vassar  rejoined  his  father,  aided  him 
in  re-establishing  the  business,  and  acquired 
a  great  fortune.  In  1813  he  married  Catherine 
Valentine,  and  subsequently  they  traveled 
abroad.  Upon  his  return  he  expressed  a  de- 
termination to  devote  his  great  wealth  to  some 
noble  purpose.  At  that  time  there  was  not 
in  the  country  a  higher  educational  institution 
for  women,  and,  through  the  influence  of  Pro- 
fessor Milo  P.  Jewett  he  determined  to  supply 
the  want.  Accordingly,  in  1861,  Vassar  Col- 
lege was  incorporated,  and  to  it  Mr.  Vassar 
donated  200  acres  of  land  and  the  sum  of 
$400,000,  conditioned  that  the  college  should 
be  maintained  non-sectarian  in  its  teachings, 
but  under  Baptist  control.  The  college  opened 
in  1865,  with  350  pupils.  Mr.  Vassar  also 
contributed  liberally  to  local  benevolences,  and 
erected  a  Baptist  church  in  his  native  town  in 
England.  He  died  in  Poughkeepsie,  June  23. 
1868,  while  in  the  act  of  reading  his  annual 
address    at    the    third    commencement    of   the 


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MATTHEW  VASSAR. 
Founder   of   Vassar   College. 


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college.     His  will  added  an  additional  $400,- 
000  to  his  original  gift. 


This  name  appears  in  various  forms 
ROSE  in  the  early  records  of  New  Eng- 
land, such  as  Rowes  and  Rowe.  It 
has  been  long  established  in  this  country,  has 
been  identified  with  its  progress,  and  has  fur- 
nished many  pioneers  who  have  cleared  the 
way  for  civilization. 

(I)  Robert  Rose,  who  was  born  in  1594,  in 
England,  sailed  from  Ipswich,  Suffolk  county, 
England,  in  1634,  on  the  ship  "Francis,"  ac- 
companied by  his  wife  Margery  and  eight 
children.  He  was  among  the  proprietors  of 
Watertown,  Massachusetts,  in  1636-7,  and  a 
member  of  the  company  of  "adventurers"  who 
settled  Wethersfield,  Connecticut.  There  he 
was  a  large  landholder,  was  constable  in  1639- 
40,  a  juror  in  1641,  representative  to  the  gen- 
eral court  in  1641-2-3  and  held  other  official 
appointments.  His  homestead  was  on  Broad 
street,  on  its  southeastern  side,  embracing  three 
and  one-quarter  acres.  In  1641  he  exchanged 
twenty  acres  in  Wethersfield  for  a  like  amount 
in  Branford,  Connecticut,  then  known  as  Toto- 
ket.  In  1644  he  removed  to  that  place,  and 
died  there  in  1665,  his  will,  made  August  25, 
1664,  being  proven  at  Branford,  April  4,  1665. 
He  bequeathed  six  pounds,  thirteen  shillings 
to  the  Branford  Church,  and  the  inventory 
of  his  estate  amounted  to  eight  hundred  and 
twenty-six  pounds,  nine  shillings,  and  seven 
pence.  He  married  (second),  at  Branford, 
June  7,  1664,  Elizabeth,  of  New  Haven,  widow 
of  Edward  Parker,  and  formerly  widow  of 
John  Potter.  Robert  Rose's  children:  John 
and  Robert  (twins),  born  1619:  Elizabeth, 
162 1 ;  Mary,  1623  ;  Samuel,  1625  ;  Daniel,  men- 
tioned below ;  Dorcas,  1632 ;  Jonathan,  and 
Hannah.  The  last  two  were  probably  born  in 
America. 

(II)  Daniel,  fourth  son  of  Robert  and  Mar- 
gery Rose,  is  shown  by  the  statement  of  his 
age  in  the  sailing  list  of  the  ship  "Francis"  to 
have  been  born  in  1631.  He  settled  in  Weth- 
ersfield, where  he  was  fenceviewer  in  1669  and 
pound-keeper  in  1680.  He  received  land  in 
the  allotments  of  1670  and  1694.  In  1663  he 
purchased  one  hundred  and  twelve  acres  at 
Red  Hill,  on  the  east  side  of  the  river,  in  what 
is  now  Glastonbury,  and  in  1666  purchased 
the  homestead  of  Thomas  Prout,  on  the  west 


side  of  Sandy  Lane.  In  1670  he  purchased 
seventeen  acres  on  the  south  side  of  what  is 
now  Pratt's  Ferry  road,  and  sold  one  and  one- 
quarter  acres  of  this  tract  in  1683.  He  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
Goodrich,  born  November  2,  1645.  Children: 
Elizabeth,  born  April  15,  1665 ;  Daniel,  Au- 
gust 20,  1667  ;  Mary,  died  young;  Hannah,  Au- 
gust 12,  1673;  John,  June  10,  1675;  Jonathan, 
mentioned  below;  Sarah,  November  2,  1681  ; 
Jacob,  twin  of  Sarah ;  Mary,  died  July  24, 
1683  ;  Abigail,  born  September  14,  1685  ;  Doro- 
thy, May  3,  1687;  Lydia,  April  24,  1689. 

(HI)  Jonathan,  third  son  of  Daniel  and 
Elizabeth  (Goodrich)  Rose,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 30,  1679,  in  Wethersfield,  and  in  171 1  re- 
ceived a  house  and  one  and  one-half  acres  of 
land  from  his  father,  situated  on  the  north  side 
of  the  "road  to  Hartford."  He  was  haywar- 
den  of  Wethersfield  in  1701  and  fenceviewer 
in  1714.  He  married,  February  26,  1707,  Abi- 
gail, daughter  of  Ebenezer  Hale,  of  what  is 
now  Glastonbury,  born  March  20,  1688,  died 
1 79 1,  at  Granville,  Massachusetts,  where  her 
sons  settled.  Children :  Jonathan,  mentioned 
below;  David,  born  September  13,  baptized 
September  18,  1709 ;  Dorothy,  born  June  20, 
171 1;  Damaris,  Eebruary  30,  1713. 

(IV)  Jonathan  (2),  eldest  child  of  Jonathan 
(i)  and  Abigail  (Hale)  Rose,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 18,  baptized  February  29,  1708,  in  Weth- 
ersfield, and  was  among  the  pioneer  settlers  of 
Granville,  Massachusetts,  where  he  located 
about  1736-7.  He  lived  to  the  age  of  one  hun- 
dred and  three  years,  losing  his  life  through 
the  burning  of  a  house  in  which  he  was  alone 
at  the  time.  He  had  sons :  Sharon,  Daniel 
and  Timothy.  The  last  named  was  a  revolu- 
tionary soldier  and  settled  in  Granville,  Ohio, 
where  he  became  a  judge,  and  died  in  181 5. 
David  Rose,  brother  of  Jonathan,  followed 
him  to  Granville,  Massachusetts,  and  became 
a  deacon  of  the  church  there,  but  no  record  of 
his  descendants  appears. 

(V)  Sharon,  eldest  son  of  Jonathan  (2) 
Rose,  had  children :  Giles,  Sharon,  Reta, 
Oliver,  Dwyer,  Mercy,  Ruth,  and  Abigail. 
Probably  one  of  these  was  the  father  of  the 
next  mentioned. 

(VII)  Rufus  Rose,  Sr.,  is  supposed  to  have 
had  an  existence,  because  the  next  mentioned 
is  known  in  the  family  records  as  Rufus  Rose, 
Jr.    The  name  of  Rufus  Rose  does  not  appear 


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in  the  town  records  of  Granville,  but  there  can 
be  little  doubt  that  he  was  among  the  descend- 
ants of  Jonathan  Rose. 

(VIIIj  Rufus  Rose,  Jr.,  was  married  in 
Granville,  in  1803,  to  Orpha  Parsons,  who  was 
without  doubt  also  descendant  from  a  pioneer 
settler  in  Granville,  of  whom  there  were  sev- 
eral bearing  that  name.  Owing  to  the  scanti- 
ness of  the  records  of  that  town  it  is  impossible 
to  trace  the  connection.  Rufus  Rose,  Jr.,  set- 
tled in  Sherburne,  Chenango  county.  New 
York. 

(IX)  William  Clemons,  son  of  Rufus  (2) 
and  Orpha  (Parsons)  Rose,  was  born  in  1807, 
in  Sherburne,  died  in  Port  Jervis,  New  York, 
in  1873.  He  left  home  on  attaining  his  ma- 
jority and  obtained  employment  on  the  Dela- 
ware &  Hudson  Canal,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ally promoted  and  served  over  forty  years, 
being  for  a  long  period  of  that  time  a  division 
superintendent.  He  married,  in  1832,  Lavina 
Shimer,  daughter  of  Abraham  Shinier,  of 
Montague,  New  Jersey,  and  granddaughter  of 
Captain  Abraham  Shimer,  of  the  revolution- 
ary period.  This  family  is  said  by  tradition  to 
have  come  originally  from  Germany. 

(X)  William  Rufus,  son  of  William  Cle- 
mons and  Lavina  (Shimer)  Rose,  was  born 
April  6,  1834,  in  Cuddebackville.  Orange 
county.  New  York,  died  in  Ellenville,  Ulster 
county,  September  23,  1909.  For  more  than 
forty-five  years  he  conducted  a  mercantile 
business  at  Phillipsport,  Sullivan  county,  New 
York,  on  the  line  of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson 
Canal.  For  three  terms,  of  three  years  each, 
he  served  as  superintendent  of  the  poor,  and 
in  1890  was  a  member  of  the  state  assembly, 
elected  as  a  Republican  from  Sullivan  county. 
In  1901,  he  removed  to  Ellenville,  and  for 
seven  years  was  president  of  the  Home  Na- 
tional Bank  of  that  town,  of  which  he  was  one 
of  the  original  directors,  and  for  many  years 
vice-president. 

He  married,  in  1862,  Eleanor  Jane,  daughter 
of  James  and  Catherine  (Gumaer)  Graham,  of 
Wurtsboro,  Sullivan  county,  New  York,  and 
they  had  children  :  Catherine  Lavina  ;  James 
Graham,  and  William  Clemons. 

James  Graham,  father  of  Mrs.  Rose,  was 
born  in  1810,  in  Montgomery,  Orange  county. 
New  York,  died  in  Wurtsboro.  in  18S8.  son  of 
James  and  Cynthia  (Brown)  Graham,  and  de- 
scended from  one  of  the  early  Scotch  settlers 
of  Orange  county.     His  wife,  Catherine  Gu- 


maer, was  born  in  1810,  at  Wurtsboro,  and 
died  in  1884,  daughter  of  Jacob  Gumaer  and 
liis  wife,  Margaret  Cuddebeck,  married  in 
1803.     Jacob  Gumaer  was  born  in  1780. 

(XI)  James  Graham,  senior  son  of  William 
Rufus  and  Eleanor  Jane  (Graham)  Rose,  was 
born  August  15,  1866,  at  Phillipsport.  He  was 
educated  in  the  district  schools  of  the  vicinity 
and  Delaware  Academy,  at  Delhi,  New  York. 
In  his  nineteenth  year  he  went  to  Kingston  and 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson 
Canal  Company  as  a  clerk.  Here  he  won  rapid 
promotion  and  was  given  charge  of  the  general 
outside  work,  under  the  title  of  superintendent 
of  docks,  and  this  continued  until  the  canal 
was  abandoned.  His  energy  and  executive 
capacity  had  not  been  overlooked  by  his  con- 
temporaries, and  in  1899  his  services  were 
secured  by  S.  D.  Coykendall,  having  charge 
of  various  interests  of  this  large  operator.  He 
is  now  president  of  the  Consolidated  Rosen- 
dale  Cement  Company,  purchasing  agent  of 
the  Ulster  &  Delaware  Railroad  Company, 
and  the  Cornell  Steamboat  interests.  He  is  a 
trustee  of  the  Rondout  Savings  Bank,  ship- 
ping agent  of  the  North  River  Coal  Company, 
secretary  and  director  of  the  Kingston  Coal 
Company,  a  director  of  the  Rose  &  Douglas 
Company,  and  interested  in  various  other  en- 
terprises. He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Industrial 
Home  of  Kingston,  and  a  member  of  the  Ron- 
dout, Kingston,  and  Twaalfskill  clubs. 


The  surname  Piatt  has  been  early 
PLATT  found  in  many  countries,  the 
word  meaning  an  open  level  piece 
of  land.  In  Norman-French  the  name  was 
spelled  Pradt,  then  Pratt;  in  German,  Platz, 
Coats-of-arms  were  granted  to  half  a  dozen 
different  branches  of  the  family  in  England 
as  early  as  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  and  some 
as  early  as  1326.  Senator  Orville  Hitchcock 
Piatt  was  descended  through  both  father 
and  mother  from  long  lines  of  New  Eng- 
land farmers,  who  for  many  generations  held 
prominent  station  in  the  communities  in 
which  they  lived.  They  held  offices  in 
church  and  town  affairs,  were  landowners, 
deacons,  tithingmen,  and  captains  of  militia. 
One  ancestor  was  among  those  who 
marched  to  Fishkill  in  the  Burgoyne  cam- 
paign of  October,  1777,  to  reinforce  General 
Putnam.  It  was  a  sturdy,  loyal,  patriotic 
efficient  New  England  stock. 


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(I)  Deacon  Richard  Piatt  is  believed  to 
be  the  Richard  who  was  baptized  Septem- 
ber 28,  1603,  son  of  Joseph  Piatt,  in  the 
parish  of  Bovington,  Hertfordshire,  Eng- 
land. He  settled  as  early  as  1638  at  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  and  was  one  of  a  party 
of  sixty-one  who  formed  a  church  settle- 
ment at  Milford  in  the  same  colony,  being 
the  first  settlers  in  that  place  November  20, 
1639.  At  that  time  he  had  four  in  his  fam- 
ily. He  was  chosen  deacon  at  Milford  in 
1669.  His  will  is  dated  January  24,  1683-84, 
and  bequeathed  to  each  of  his  nineteen 
grandsons.  In  August,  1889,  a  memorial 
stone,  suitably  inscribed  to  the  pioneers,  was 
placed  in  the  new  bridge  over  the  Mapa- 
waug  at  Milford.  Children:  i.  Mary,  mar- 
ried (first)  May  i,  1651,  Luke  Atkinson; 
(second),  January  3,  1667,  Thomas  Wether- 
ell.  2.  John,  settled  in  Norwalk ;  married 
Hannah  Clark.  3.  Isaac,  of  whom  further. 
4.  Sarah.  5.  Epenetus,  baptized  July  12, 
1640;  associated  with  his  brother  Isaac  in  his 
varied  experience.  6.  Hannah,  born  October  i, 
1643.  7.  Josiah,  1645.  8.  Joseph,  1649;  mar- 
ried, 1680,  Mary  Kellogg. 

(II)  Isaac,  son  of  Deacon  Richard  Piatt, 
was  with  his  brother  Epenetus  enrolled 
among  the  fifty-seven  landowners  of  Hunt- 
ington, Long  Island,  in  1666.  They  were 
doubtless  residents  there  for  some  years 
earlier.  Both  were  admitted  freemen.  May 
12,  1664,  by  the  general  assembly  of  Con- 
necticut, then  having  jurisdiction  over  Long 
Island  under  the  old  charter,  and  their 
names  appear  among  the  proprietors  in  the 
patent  of  1666,  and  again  in  the  patent  of 
1668.  Both  were  imprisoned  in  New  York 
by  Governor  Andros  in  1681  for  attending 
a  meeting  of  delegates  of  the  several  towns 
to  obtain  "a  redress  of  grievances  under  his 
arbitrary  rule."  After  their  release  a  vote 
was  passed  at  a  town  meeting  to  pay  their 
expenses.  He  and  his  brother  were  among 
the  sterling  patriots  of  the  time,  fully  rec- 
ognizing and  claiming  their  civil  and  re- 
ligious rights.  He  bought  land  at  Hunting- 
ton in  1679  of  John  Greene,  and  of  Jonathan 
Hammet  May  15,  Tf>*^3.  He  was  recorder 
of  Huntington  in  T687,  was  captain  of  mili- 
tia, and  it  is  said  of  him  that  "he  held  every 
office  of  consequence  in  the  gift  of  his  towns- 
men." His  death  occurred  at  Huntington 
July   31,    1691.      He   married    (first)    at   Mil- 


ford, Connecticut,  March  12,  1640,  Phebe 
Smith;  (second)  at  Huntington  about  twen- 
ty years  later,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jonas 
Wood.  Children,  all  by  the  second  mar- 
riage: Elizabeth,  born  September  15,  1665; 
Jonas,  August  16,  1667 ;  John,  born  June  29, 
1669;  Mary,  October  26,  1674;  Joseph,  Sep- 
tember 8,  1677;  Jacob,  September  29,  1682. 

(III)  Little  is  known  about  John,  Joseph 
and  Jacob,  sons  of  Isaac  Piatt.  It  is  pre- 
sumable that  one  of  them  was  the  father  of 
Benoni,  of  whom  further. 

(IV)  Benoni,  son  of  Piatt,  appears 

as  early  as  1730  in  North  Castle,  Westchester 
county,  New  York,  where  the  records  show 
he  was  a  town  officer.  His  will  was  made 
May  20,  1761,  and  proved  May  14,  1763,  in- 
dicating that  he  died  in  the  latter  year.  His 
widow  Hannah  made  her  will  March  8,  1764, 
and  this  was  proved  February  25,  1767. 
Children:  Jonathan;  Benoni  (2),  of  whom 
further ;  and  Abigail. 

(V)  Benoni  (2),  son  of  Benoni  (i)  and 
Hannah  Piatt,  was  born  in  1734  at  North 
Castle,  and  resided  on  the  paternal  home- 
stead, where  he  died  November  3,  1796. 
Children :  Stephen,  Cynthia,  Hannah,  Abi- 
gail, Deborah,  and  Benoni  (3),  of  whom  fur- 
ther, 

(VI)  Benoni  (3),  son  of  Benoni  (2),  Piatt, 
was  born  August  8,  1764,  in  North  Castle, 
died  there  May  13,  182:4.  He  married  (first) 
Charity  Reynolds,  and  (second)  Betsy 
Brush.  Children  of  the  first  marriage :  Or- 
samus,  died  without  issue ;  Rachel,  born  Oc- 
tober 15,  1787,  married  O.  Marvin,  and  died 
in  her  twenty-fourth  year,  leaving  no  issue; 
Cynthia,  died  in  her  eighteenth  year;  Hor- 
ton,  born  August  9,  1792,  died  December 
18,  1867;  Stephen,  June  24,  1794;  Charity, 
April  10,  1796;  Reynolds,  October  13,  1798; 
William,  December  i.  1801  ;  Jane  Ann,  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1804.  Children  of  second  wife :  Ed- 
ward Brush,  born  October  9,  181 1;  Lewis 
C,  of  whom  further ;  Jesse  Holly,  Decem- 
ber 3,   1820. 

(VII)  Lewis  Canfield,  son  of  Benoni  (3) 
and  Betsy  (Brush)  Piatt,  was  born  March 
7,  1818,  in  North  Castle,  died  at  White 
Plains  March  13,  1893.  In  early  life  he  was 
a  student  in  the  academy  at  Bedford  Village 
in  his  native  county.  He  was  graduated 
from  Union  College  with  the  class  of  1834, 
one  which  included  several  men  since  prom- 


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inent  in  the  history  of  the  state.  Taking  up 
the  study  of  law  with  Samuel  E.  Lyon,  a 
leading  lawyer  in  White  Plains,  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  1843,  and  immediately 
opened  an  office  for  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession at  White  Plains.  Being  industrious 
and  painstaking  he  quickly  built  up  a  very 
satisfactory  practice,  and  in  more  than  forty 
years  of  activity  at  White  Plains  he  trans- 
acted a  great  volume  of  business,  especially 
in  matters  connected  with  real  estate  and 
probate.  To  the  very  last  of  his  life  he  was 
an  indefatigable  worker,  and  his  attention 
to  business  employed  many  hours  a  day.  In 
1879  his  son,  William  P.  Piatt,  became  his 
partner  in  practice,  and  the  firm  of  L.  C.  & 
W.  P.  Piatt  long  ranked  among  the  leaders 
at  the  Westchester  bar. 

In  early  life  Mr.  Piatt  was  identified  polit- 
ically with  the  Whig  party,  and  in  1846  he 
was  elected  on  its  ticket  as  supervisor  of 
the  town  of  White  Plains.  In  the  following 
year  he  was  elected  surrogate  of  the  county. 
and  by  re-election  served  two  terms  of 
four  years  each.  He  was  the  first  elected 
surrogate,  the  office  having  been  previously 
filled  by  appointment.  During  the  last  year 
of  his  term  as  surrogate  he  was  made  can- 
didate for  county  clerk  on  a  fusion  ticket 
composed  of  Whigs  and  Democrats,  as  op- 
posed to  the  American  ticket  whose  candi- 
date was  John  P.  Jenkins.  Westchester 
county  was  then  a  stronghold  of  Know- 
nothingism,  and  the  fusion  ticket  was  de- 
feated. In  the  following  year  the  Republi- 
can party  became  thoroughly  organized,  and 
Mr.  Piatt  was  among  those  who  joined  its 
ranks.  He  thus  continued  until  after  the 
civil  war,  which  settled  many  of  the  issues 
that  gave  rise  to  the  Republican  party.  Mr. 
Piatt  next  supported  the  Liberal  ticket, 
whose  presidential  candidate  was  Horace 
Greeley,  and  he  was  urged  by  both  Demo- 
cratic and  Liberal  leaders  to  become  candi- 
date for  congress  on  the  same  ticket.  He 
declined,  but  thenceforward  was  a  consistent 
supporter  of  the  Democratic  party.  After 
1870  he  was  for  two  terms  a  trustee  of  the 
village  of  White  Plains.  In  1883  at  the 
urgent  solicitation  of  leading  Democrats  of 
the  town  he  became  candidate  for  super- 
visor against  Elisha  Horton,  a  popular  Re- 
publican, who  had  been  repeatedly  elected 
in  a  town  whose  normal  majority  was  Dem- 


ocratic. In  this  election  Mr.  Piatt  received 
a  splendid  majority  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty-eight.  For  nine  successive  years  he 
was  the  unanimous  nominee  of  the  Democratic 
party,  and  with  the  exception  of  one 
year  his  election  was  practically  unopposed 
by  the  Republicans.  His  death  just  before 
an  election  prevented  his  choice  for  another 
term.  He  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  best 
informed  members  of  the  county  board  of 
supervisors,  and  for  a  number  of  years  he 
was  chairman  of  the  judiciary  committee  of 
that  body. 

Mr.  Piatt  became  a  Free  Mason  May  15, 
1859,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
the  oldest  member  of  White  Plains  Lodge, 
No.  473.  He  was  a  regular  attendant  and 
liberal  supporter  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
and  his  funeral  held  there  was  attended  as 
a  last  mark  of  respect  by  a  great  throng, 
many  of  whom  could  not  find  accommoda- 
tions within  the  church.  Many  prominent 
citizens  were  present,  and  the  fellow  crafts- 
men of  his  fraternity,  who  passed  resolu- 
tions of  respect  to  his  memory,  as  did  also 
the  courts.  Rev.  Dr.  A.  R.  Macoubrey,  his 
pastor,  who  could  not  be  present  at  the  funeral 
on  account  of  illness,  wrote  the  following 
tribute,  which  was  read  on  that  occasion : 

Nothing  since  I  have  been  laid  aside  in  illness  has 
moved  me  to  so  deep  regret  as  that  I  am  unable  to 
stand  in  my  place  in  his  funeral  services  and  utter  my 
tribute  of  respect  and  love  for  Mr.  Lewis  C.  Piatt.  I 
did  not  know  that  he  was  ill  till  the  day  upon  the 
evening  of  which  he  died.  I  at  once  sent  words  of 
greeting  from  my  sick  room  to  his,  but  ere  they 
could  reach  him  God  had  seen  it  best  that  the  end 
of  the  earthly  life  should  be.  and  the  rest  eternal 
and  perfect  should  be  his.  One  cannot  but  be  grate- 
ful that  the  experience  of  long  distressing  illness 
was  not  his  ere  the  finger  of  God's  silence  was  put 
upon  his  lips.  One  could  not  but  be  grateful,  too, 
for  the  spirit  that  was  his.  I  have  wondered  if 
ever  any  came  to  know  him  as  he  really  was  with- 
out loving  him.  his  was  so  eminently  and  really  an 
unselfish  spirit.  How  many  stories  of  his  kindness 
will  be  told  in  the  houses  in  this  community.  He 
was  so  frank  and  honest  in  every  revelation  of  him- 
self that  all  came  instinctively  to  love  him. 

One  in  another  part  of  this  state,  who  himself  had 
held  a  position  of  influence,  once  said  to  me  that, 
from  his  ability  and  spirit  in  the  days  of  his  power, 
Mr.  Piatt  could  have  occupied  the  highest  posi- 
tion in  our  state  had  the  spirit  of  ambition  pos- 
sessed him.  I  have  k-nown  him  but  in  these  vears 
of  his  age  since  his  three-scorce  years  and  ten.  There 
has  been  indeed  in  his  physique  the  suggestion  of 
years:  but  one  forgot  this  in  his  active  life,  quick 
step,   clear,   vigorous  intellect,   sustained  interest  in 


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all  the  walfare  of  the  community  and  of  those  with 
whom  he  was  associated  in  life.  Who  that  knew 
him  was  ready  to  have  him  go  hence  ?  But  the  Lord 
has  chosen,  and  there  is  never  error  in  His  judg- 
ment or  failure  in  His  love ;  and  gently  as  a  father 
dealeth  with  his  little  child  He  has  taken  him  unto 
Himself. 

Shut  within  my  room  these  weeks,  I  have  no  word 
from  him  in  his  illness  to  bear  unto  my  speech ; 
but  I  know  of  his  simple,  earnest  faith  in  Christ 
and  of  the  tender  turning  of  his  spirit  toward  the 
cross,  through  which  alone  our  spirits  know  par- 
don, cherish  hope  and  pass  unto  the  life  eternal. 

In  the  vision  of  my  congregation  as  it  now 
comes  before  me,  no  face  is  more  distinct  than  his. 
Always  was  he  in  his  place  in  the  Sabbath  morn- 
ing, and  in  the  Sabbath  afternoon  service  also, 
listening  with  an  earnestness  that  made  my  gaze 
often  seek  his  face.  I  shall  so  miss  his  presence 
from  the  inspirations  and  helps  in  the  worship  of 
the  Lord's  house!  However  early  I  was  in  enter- 
ing the  church  I  was  rarely  there  before  him.  Often 
a  few  words  of  salutation  would  be  exchanged  on 
my  way  to  the  pulpit.  I  must  wait  now  to  see  his 
face  again  and  get  his  greeting,  and  see  the  revela- 
tion of  his  tender,  true  spirit  until  it  is  in  our 
Father's  house  on  high. 

And  so  we  go  hence,  one  by  one. 

He  married  Laura  Popham,  born  in  Scars- 
dale,  daughter  of  William  S.  and  Eliza 
(Hill)  Popham.  Children:  Benoni ;  Wil- 
liam Popham,  of  whom  further;  Lewis  C. 
(2),  Mary  Shinbrook,  Alathea  Hill,  Eliza 
Hill,  Julia  Wood,  and  Theodora. 

(VHI)  William  Popham,  second  son  of 
Lewis  C.  and  Laura  (Popham)  Piatt,  was 
born  May  16,  1858,  in  White  Plains.  He 
was  reared  and  educated  in  that  village, 
completing  his  literary  studies  in  the  high 
school.  He  began  the  study  of  law  with  his 
father,  and  after  thorough  preparation  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  May  15,  1879,  the  day 
he  became  legally  of  age,  the  law  not  con- 
sidering the  fraction  of  a  day  in  determining 
when  one  attains  his  majority.  He  at  once 
became  a  partner  in  his  father's  law  practice, 
and  until  the  death  of  the  latter  the  firm  con- 
tinued under  the  title  of  L.  C.  &  W.  P.  Piatt. 
For  some  time  after  his  father's  death  Mr. 
Piatt  continued  practice  alone,  and  subse- 
quently formed  a  partnership  with  Farring- 
ton  M.  Thompson,  under  the  style  of  Piatt 
&  Thompson.  Mr.  Piatt  has  always  en- 
gaged in  general  practice  and  is  well  versed 
in  all  branches  of  jurisprudence.  In  1889 
he  was  nominated  on  the  Democratic  ticket 
for  district  attorney  of  Westchester  county, 
and  was  elected  for  a  term  of  three  years. 
Before    the   close    of    this    term    he    was    re- 


nominated and  again  elected.  In  1896  he 
was  the  candidate  of  his  party  for  the  office 
of  county  judge,  and  was  defeated  by  a 
small  majority  in  that  election,  which  swept 
nearly  all  the  Republican  candidates  in  the 
United  States  into  office.  The  average  ma- 
jority of  the  candidates  of  this  party  in 
Westchester  county  at  that  election  was  be- 
tween two  and  three  thousand.  He  was  sub- 
sequently again  a  candidate  for  district  at- 
torney, and  in  1901  was  elected  county 
judge.  On  his  retirement  from  the  office  of 
district  attorney  in  1895  he  resumed  the 
private  practice  of  law,  and  has  been  con- 
cerned in  much  of  the  important  litigation 
held  in  Westchester  county. 

He  is  especially  distinguished  as  a  trial 
lawyer,  being  skilled  in  the  examination  of 
witnesses,  and  adept  in  the  introduction  of 
testimony  on  his  own  side  of  the  case.  He 
was  retained  in  the  defence  of  many  homi- 
cide cases  besides  those  he  prosecuted  when 
district  attorney.  One  of  the  important 
cases  entrusted  to  his  care  involved  the  es- 
tate of  John  McCaffery  in  the  probate  court 
of  Chicago,  Illinois,  in  which  large  sums 
were  at  stake.  Judge  Piatt's  success  in  his 
chosen  profession  has  been  due  to  the  in- 
dustrious application  of  his  talents  and  to 
his  keen  and  brilliant  mind.  His  prepara- 
tion of  cases  has  been  marked  by  thorough- 
ness, and  he  was  always  found  well  pre- 
pared for  any  contingency  in  the  trial  of  his 
cases.  Among  the  most  notable  of  his  crim- 
inal cases  was  the  defence  of  Frank  Brouty, 
charged  with  the  murder  of  Constable  Wood 
of  Mount  Vernon.  After  a  stubborn  con- 
test, which  was  carried  through  the  court 
of  appeals,  the  defendant  was  convicted,  but 
his  life  was  saved,  and  the  victory  was  one 
which  reflected  great  credit  upon  the  ability 
of  Mr.  Piatt  as  a  trial  lawyer.  Judge  Piatt 
is  a  vestryman  of  Grace  Church  at  White 
Plains.  He  is  also  an  active  member  of 
White  Plains  Lodge,  No.  473,  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons ;  the  Medico-Legal 
Society  of  the  United  States;  the  Demo- 
cratic Club,  of  New  York  City;  and  the 
Knollwood  Country  Club,  of  White  Plains. 
He  is  at  all  times  and  under  all  circum- 
stances a  gentleman  of  dignified  and  affable 
manners,  a  champion  of  truth  and  right,  and 
a  possessor  of  the  respect  and  esteem  of  his 
contemporaries. 


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He  married,  October  i,  1890,  Sarah  Dean, 
born  April  28,  1861,  daughter  of  Moses  W. 
and  Sarah  (Stuart)  Dean.  They  have  two 
sons:  Stuart  (Dean)  Piatt,  born  February 
24,  1896;  and  William  Popham,  Jr.,  August 
18,  1900.  Their  handsome  country  residence 
is  situated  within  the  corporate  limits  of 
White  Plains,  and  is  the  scene  of  generous 
hospitality  and  the  home  of  many  cultured 
gatherings. 


The    Neal    family,    of    Ellenville, 

NEAL  New  York,  is  of  English  descent, 
but  the  name  is  also  found  in  a 
slightly  varied  form  in  Ireland  and  Scotland. 
The  American  ancestor  of  the  branch  of  the 
family,  here  under  discussion,  came  to  this 
country  about  the  year  1620. 

(I)  Neal,  who  lived  and  died  in  the 

state  of  Maine,  was  a  soldier  during  the  revo- 
lutionary war.  He  reared  a  large  family,  the 
names  of  his  children  being  as  follows  :  David, 
Rufus,  Joshua,  Samuel,  Mercy,  Susan,  Pa- 
tience, Huldah,  Jane,  Hannah,  William,  see 
forward ;  Sarah,  Keziah. 

(H)  William,  son  of Neal,  was  born 

April  23,  1788,  at  Berwick,  Maine,  where  he 
lived  until  1812.  He  then  removed  to  Lisbon, 
Maine,  and  his  death  occurred  there,  June  12, 
1868.  In  his  early  manhood  he  was  engaged 
in  the  profession  of  teaching,  but  later  in  life 
made  farming  his  chief  occupation.  Like  his 
father,  he  was  a  brave  defender  of  the  rights 
of  his  country,  and  was  an  active  participant 
in  the  war  of  1812.  He  married  Mehitable, 
who  died  in  1866.  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Kil- 
gore,  a  prosperous  farmer,  who  had  been  a 
soldier  in  the  war  of  the  revolution.  They 
had  children:  Edwin,  William,  Mary  J.,  Em- 
meline  P.,  William  K.,  Margaret,  and  Albert 
C,  see  forward. 

(Ill)  Albert  C.  son  of  William  and  Mehit- 
able ( Kilgore )  Neal,  was  born  in  Lisbon, 
Maine,  April  8,  1825,  and  died  at  Ellenville. 
New  York,  December  16,  1904.  Mr.  Neal 
■was  engaged  as  a  contractor  from  1850  until 
i86r,  his  business  being  that  of  loading  cotton 
on  board  ships.  Upon  the  outbreak  of  the 
civil  war  he  was  appointed  to  the  position  of 
paymaster  in  the  army.  In  1866  he  returned 
to  his  home,  where  he  became  pension  attor- 
ney, prosecuting  claims  against  the  govern- 
JTient.     He  was  advanced   in  vears   when   he 


finally  retired  to  a  life  of  ease  and  rest.  His 
political  affiliations  were  with  the  Republican 
party,  and  fraternally  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  Mr. 
Neal  married,  December  31,  1849,  Octavia  T. 
Whitney,  of  Lisbon,  Maine,  who  was  born 
February  9,  1828,  and  died  February  14,  1889. 
They  had  two  children,  born  in  Lisbon :  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  see  forward ;  and  Mary  J., 
who  married  Thomas  J.  Home,  of  Lisbon 
Falls,  Maine. 

(IV)  Dr.  Benjamin  Franklin  Neal,  son  of 
Albert  C.  and  Octavia  T.  (Whitney)  Neal, 
was  born  at  Lisbon,  Maine,  February  25, 
1853.  There  he  attended  the  district  schools 
until  the  age  of  thirteen  years,  when  he  be- 
came a  student  in  the  high  school  at  Lisbon 
Falls,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  the 
class  of  1 87 1.  For  a  short  time  he  was  em- 
ployed as  a  clerk  in  a  store;  then  in  the  fall 
of  1873  '^^  matriculated  at  Bowdoin  College 
and  graduated  from  this  institution  in  1876, 
when  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  was  con- 
ferred upon  him.  Entering  the  medical  de- 
partment of  Dartmouth  College,  he  in  due 
course  of  time  was  awarded  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine.  Dr.  Neal  at  once  estab- 
lished himself  in  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  Lincolnville,  Waldo  county,  Maine,  re- 
maining there  for  a  period  of  four  years. 
One  year  was  then  spent  at  Gardner,  whence 
he  removed  to  Belgrade,  Maine,  and  at  the 
end  of  six  years,  he  left  this  town,  went  to 
New  York  and  there  took  a  course  in  medi- 
cine and  surgery  at  the  Post  Graduate  College. 
Having  completed  this  course  in  November, 
1888,  he  went  to  Ellenville,  New  York,  where 
he  has  since  been  engaged  in  the  successful 
practice  of  the  profession  to  which  he  is  de- 
voted. Dr.  Neal  is  also  a  registered  New 
York  state  pharmacist,  is  president  of  the 
Doyle  Drug  Company,  of  Ellenville,  New 
York,  and  is  a  trustee  and  director  of  the 
Ponpfhkeepsie  Utility  Company.  Profession- 
ally l^e  is  a  member  of  the  Maine  State  Medi- 
cal .\.«sociation,  the  Waldo  County  Medical 
-AsFOciation  and  the  Kennebec  County  Medical 
.Association  His  political  support  is  nfiven  to 
the  Democrati'-  parly.  His  fraternal  affilia- 
tions are  as  follows :  Wawarsing  Lodge,  No. 
582,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Wawarsing 
Chapter.  No.  246.  Royal  Arch  Masons :  Ron- 
dont  Commandery,  No.  ^2,  Knights  Templar; 


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Mecca  Temple,  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine, 
of  New  York  City;  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows;  Benevolent  and  Protective  Or- 
der of  Elks ;  and  George  Innes  Council,  Junior 
Order  of  United  American  Mechanics. 

Dr.  Neal  married,  October  12,  1881,  Anna 
H.  Marson,  who  was  born  in  Pittston,  Maine, 
December   18,   1855. 


The  founder  of  the  Bronk  fam- 
BRONK     ily  in  America  was  Jonas  Bronk, 

born  in  Copenhagen,  Denmark, 
died  at  Bronxland,  Westchester  county.  New 
York.  He  married  Antonia  Slagboom.  He 
came  to  America  in  1639  from  Amsterdam, 
in  his  own  ship  "Fire  of  Troy,"  a  private 
armed  vessel,  accompanied  by  his  friend  and 
officer  in  the  Danish  army.  Captain  Jochiem 
Pietersen  Kuyter.  He  brought  a  cargo  of 
cattle  and  each  was  attended  by  his  family  and 
a  number  of  farmers  or  herdsmen.  He  was 
a  man  of  means,  and  loaned  money  in  large 
sums.  He  was  of  a  family  long  distinguished 
in  Sweden,  though  probably  himself  from 
Copenhagen.  He  located  his  land  north  of 
the  Great  Kill  and  built  a  "stone  house  cov- 
ered with  tiles,  a  barn,  tobacco  house,  two 
barracks,  etc."  He  later  purchased  from 
the  Indians  five  hundred  acres  on  the  now 
Bronx  river,  later  included  in  the  Manor  of 
Morrisania.  He  was  a  devoted  Lutheran,  and 
brought  with  him  Luther's  Catechism  and  a 
folio  Danish  Bible.  From  it  he  drew  a  name 
for  his  home  "Emaus."  It  was  here  that 
Director  Kieft  sent  delegates  to  meet  the  In- 
dian chiefs  and  made  a  treaty.  This  treaty 
was  followed  by  the  unproved  murder  of  the 
Indians  for  which  they  exacted  frightful  ven- 
geance upon  the  Dutch  settlers.  It  was  at 
this  time  that  Jonas  Bronk  met  his  death,  per- 
haps at  the  hands  of  the  savages,  but  as  his 
property  was  spared,  they  may  have  been 
guiltless.  "Seignor"  Bronk,  as  he  was  styled, 
must  be  rated  above  the  ordinary  colonist.  His 
Danish  and  Latin  library,  stored  with  law, 
history,  and  books  of  divinity,  indicate  taste, 
culture  and  piety.  His  widow  Antonia, 
daughter  of  Juriaen  Slagboom,  whom  he  mar- 
ried in  Amsterdam.  Holland,  married  (sec- 
ond) Arent  Van  Curler,  of  Rensselaerwyck. 
She  died  at  Schenectady.  New  York,  Decem- 
ber 19,  1676. 

(II)    Pieter  Jonasen.  son  of  Jonas  Bronk, 
was  born  in  Holland,  died  in  Coxsackie,  New 


York,  1669.  He  was  a  brewer  of  Beverwyck 
as  early  as  1645,  owned  houses  and  lots  which 
he  sold  in  1662,  and  purchased  land  in  Cox- 
sackie, which  was  the  colonial  grant  known  as 
the  Bronk  patent,  upon  which  he  settled.  His 
wife  was  Hilletje  Tyssinck. 

(III)  Jan,  son  of  Pieter  Jonasen  Bronk, 
was  born  in  Albany,  New  York,  1650,  died 
at  Coxsackie,  New  York,  1742.  He  built  a 
saw  and  grist  mill.  He  married  Commertje 
Leendertse  Conyn.  His  will  speaks  of  five 
sons  only:  Pieter,  Jonas,  Phillip,  Casper,  and 
Leendert  Janse.  Daughters,  Antje  and 
Helena. 

(IV)  Leendert  Janse  (Leonard  Janse),  son 
of  Jan  Bronk,  was  born  about  1699.  He  mar- 
ried, February  26,  1717,  Anna  de  Wandalaer. 
Children:  Jan  Leendertse,  Sara,  Commertje 
and  Catharina. 

(V)  Jan  Leendertse,  son  of  Leendert  Janse 
(Leonard  Janse)  Bronk,  was  baptized  July 
14,  1723.  died  1794.  He  married  (first)  June 
17.  1/47'  Elsje  Van  Buren ;  (second)  Susan- 
na Hotaling  (Hooghteeling).  Elsje  Van 
Buren  was  a  descendant  of  Cornells  Maase 
and  Catalina  Martense  Van  Buren,  who  came 
to  America  on  the  ship  "Rensselaerwyck"; 
Cornells  M.,  died  1643,  his  wife,  1648.  Their 
son,  Martin  Cornelis  Van  Buren,  was  born  in 
Houten,    province    of    Utrecht.      He   married 

Maritje  .     Their  son,   Pieter  Martinse 

Van  Buren,  of  Kinderhook  (1720),  married 
Arientje  Barentse,  January  15,  1693.  Their 
son,  Barent  Van  Buren,  married  (first)  De- 
cember 29,  1719,  Maria  Winne,  daughter  of 
Livinus  Winne  and  Willempje  (Viele)  Winne, 
widow  of  Simon  Schermerhorn,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Peter  Winne,  from  Ghent  in 
Flanders,  and  Jannetje  (Adams)  Winne,  of 
Friesland.  Their  daughter,  Elsje  Van  Buren, 
married  Jan  Leendertse  Bronk.  They  had 
an  only  son  Leonard. 

(VI)  Leonard  Bronk,  only  child  of  Jan 
Leendertse  and  Elsje  (Van  Buren)  Bronk. 
was  born  May  11,  175 1,  died  April  22,  1828. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  state  as- 
sembly, 1786-98;  of  the  state  senate,  1800. 
Was  first  judge  of  the  court  of  appeals  of 
Greene  county;  was  an  officer  in  the  revolu- 
tionary army,  first  as  a  lieutenant,  later  as 
captain,  and  was  discharged  with  rank  of 
lieutenant-colonel ;  was  supervisor  of  Albany 
county.  He  was  an  intimate  friend  of  Gen- 
eral Schuyler  and  General  Gansevoort.      He 


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married  (first)  January  11,  1779,  Tryntje, 
daughter  of  Robert  Van  Denbergh;  (second) 
Albertje  Van  Buren.  Tryntje  (Catherine) 
Van  Denbergh  was  a  daughter  of  Robert  and 
granddaughter  of  Richard  Janse  Van  Den- 
bergh and  Catherine  (Tryntje)  Houghtaling 
(Hotahng),  who  were  married  November  13, 
1699.  Catherine  was  a  sister  of  Matthys 
Houghtahng,  born   1644,   died    1796.     Robert 

Van     Denbergh     married    Brandow. 

Their  daughter  Tryntje  (Catherine)  married 
Hon.  Leonard  Bronk.  Children  of  Leonard 
and  Tryntje  (Catherine)  Bronk;  Elsie,  born 
December  23,  1782,  married,  November  27, 
1799,  in  Kinderhook,  Rev.  Jacob  Sickles;  and 
Leonard,  born  June  29,  1797,  married  Maria, 
daughter  of  Dr.  John  Ely. 


According  to  Schoonmak- 

HOORNBEEK  er's  "History  of  King- 
ston," we  find  that  the 
Hoornbeek  family  of  America,  one  of  the  old- 
est Dutch  families,  was  founded  by  Warnaar 
Hoornbeek,  who  was  one  of  the  early  settlers 
in  Ulster  county.  New  York.  He  was  a  man 
of  influence  in  the  community  and  reared  a 
large  family,  having  eighteen  children  by  his 
two  wives.  He  married  (first)  Anna,  daugh- 
ter of  Anthony  de  Horges  and  Eva  Albertse 
Bratt,  and  (second)   Grietze  Tyssen. 

(H)  Johannis,  son  of  Warnaar  and  Grietze 
(Tyssen)  Hoornbeek,  was  a  farmer  in  Ulster 
county.  New  York. 

(HI)  Johannis  (2),  son  of  Johannis  (i) 
Hoornbeek,  was  a  farmer  and  blacksmith,  and 
took  a  prominent  part  in  the  political  afifairs 
of  his  time  as  a  supporter  of  the  Democratic 
party.  He  was  the  first  supervisor  from  the 
town  of  Wawarsing,  serving  from  April  i, 
1806  to  1810,  and  when  he  was  again  elected, 
served  from  1816  to  1817;  and  later  he  served 
from  1827  to  1831.  He  married  Gertrude  Du 
Bois,  a  lineal  descendant  of  Louis  Du  Bois, 
who  was  one  of  the  twelve  patentees  of  New 
Palz,  she  being  of  the  fourth  generation  in  this 
country.  They  had  children :  Calvin,  see 
forward ;  John,  Methusalem,  Cornelius,  Philip 
D.  B. 

(IV)  Calvin,  son  of  Johannis  (2)  Hoorn- 
beek, was  born  in  the  town  of  Wawarsing, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  September  17,  1813, 
died  March  31.  1892.  He  received  a  meagre 
education   in   his   native   town,   and   after   his 


marriage  settled  on  a  farm  at  Napanoch,  New 
York.  Later  he  went  to  Libertyville,  township 
of  Gardner,  where  he  kept  a  store  for  a  while, 
and  then  moved  back  to  his  old  home  town  of 
Wawarsing,  where  he  managed  his  farm  and 
was  with  his  brother,  John  Hoornbeek,  in  the 
tanning  business.  Later  he  left  this  farm  in 
W'arwarsing  and  moved  to  New  Paltz,  where 
he  resided  one  year.  He  then  moved  back  to 
Napanoch,  where  he  resided  until  his  death 
in  1892.  He  was  a  Democrat  and  served  his 
town  as  supervisor  for  several  terms,  and  his 
county  one  term  as  county  treasurer.  He  mar- 
ried Catharine  DePuy,  December  20,  1832. 
Their  children:  John  C,  see  forward;  Maria, 
Louis  D.  B.,  Stephen  E.  D.,  Elenora,  Cath- 
arine B. 

(V)  John  C,  son  of  Calvin  and  Catherine 
(DePuy)  Hoornbeek,  was  born  at  Napanoch, 
New  York,  March  3,  1834,  died  at  W'awarsing, 
November  5,  1910.  Until  the  age  of  thirteen 
years  he  was  a  pupil  in  the  district  schools  of 
Wawarsing,  and  after  spending  two  years  at 
school  in  Napanoch,  he  completed  his  educa- 
tion at  Kingston  Academy.  While  he  was  still 
a  student  he  decided  to  establish  himself  in 
business  and  accordingly  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Port  Hixon,  conducting  this  for  a 
period  of  six  years.  He  then  became  asso- 
ciated with  William  H.  De  Garmo,  and  was 
engaged  in  the  tanning  and  mercantile  busi- 
ness at  Wawarsing,  New  York.  This  associa- 
tion was  in  force  until  1876,  at  which  time  Mr. 
Hoornbeek  purchased  the  interest  of  his  part- 
ner and  continued  this  business  alone.  In 
1879  he  commenced  the  manufacture  of  excel- 
sior, and  the  following  year  erected  another 
factory  at  Boiceville.  In  1900  he  built  a  mill 
at  Napanoch  for  the  manufacture  of  dry  wood 
pulp,  and  he  was  also  extensively  engaged  in 
the  bending  works  for  auto-wagons,  etc.,  at 
Boiceville.  Since  the  death  of  Mr.  Hoornbeek 
these  extensive  interests  have  been  continued 
and  are  conducted  by  his  sons.  Mr.  Hoorn- 
beek was  the  largest  landowner  in  Ulster 
county.  He  was  a  self-made  man  in  the  high- 
est and  best  sense  of  the  expression,  and  one 
who  had  won  the  esteem  and  respect  of  all 
with  whom  he  had  dealings,  whether  in  pri- 
vate or  business  life.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  had  been  president  of  the  Ellenville  Sav- 
ings Bank,  but  was  obliged  to  resign  this  post 
of  honor  and  trust  owing  to  the  press  of  his 


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other  interests.  He  served  a  number  of  times 
as  delegate  to  state  and  county  conventions, 
and  in  1896  was  honored  by  being  chosen 
Democratic  presidential  elector.  His  fraternal 
affiliation  was  with  Wawarsing  Lodge,  No. 
582,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Ellenville, 
New  York,  of  which  he  was  a  charter  member. 

Mr.  Hoornbeek  married,  in  January,  1859, 
Amelia,  born  May  11,  1834,  died  January  25, 
191 1,  daughter  of  John  B.  Van  Leuven,  of 
Rochester,  Ulster  county,  New  York.  Chil- 
dren :  Louis  A.,  see  forward ;  Elias  D. ;  Ar- 
thur v.,  see  forward. 

(VI)  Louis  A.,  son  of  John  C.  and  Amelia 
(Van  Leuven)  Hoornbeek,  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Wawarsing,  Ulster  county,  New 
York,  October  31,  1864,  on  the  old  Hoornbeek 
homestead.  He  attended  the  district  schools 
of  his  native  town,  and  Rhinebeck  Academy, 
Rhinebeck,  New  York,  under  the  tutorship  of 
James  De  Garmo.  Then  he  became  associated 
with  his  father  until  1885.  when  he  moved  to 
Napanoch,  and  settled  on  the  farms  formerly 
owned  by  Jacob  Joy  and  Andrew  Schoon- 
maker,  both  consisting  of  two  hundred  and 
fifty  acres.  Here  he  followed  farming,  and 
bought  the  Jacob  Hoornbeek  grist  mill,  which 
he  later  sold  to  his  father,  who  turned  it  into 
a  pulp  mill,  which  is  still  being  conducted  by 
John  C.  Hoornbeek's  sons.  During  his 
father's  life  he  was  associated  with  him  in  his 
various  enterprises,  and  on  his  death,  with 
his  brother,  succeeded  to  his  interests,  which 
they  still  conduct.  He  is  a  member  of  Wawar- 
sing Lodge,  No.  582,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons :  and  Wawarsing  Chapter ;  Junior  Order 
of  American  Mechanics,  Napanoch,  New 
York.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  in 
religion  an  attendant  of  the  Methodist  church. 
He  married,  October  7,  1885,  Frances  Estelle 
Brundage.  Children :  Ethel  B.,  Clarence  A., 
John  C. 

(VI)  Arthur  V.,  son  of  John  C.  and  Ame- 
lia (Van  Leuven)  Hoornbeek,  was  born  in 
Wawarsing,  New  York,  September  15,  1873. 
The  district  schools  of  his  native  town  fur- 
nished his  early  education,  and  going  from 
there  he  went  to  Ellenville  Academy,  and  fin- 
ally to  Eastman's  Business  College  in  Pough- 
keepsie,  New  York.  Early  in  life  he  became 
associated  with  his  father  in  the  various  busi- 
ness enterprises  of  the  latter,  thus  obtaining  a 
thorough  and  practical  knowledge  of  every  de- 


tail. Since  the  death  of  his  father,  in  associa- 
tion with  his  brothers,  he  has  carried  on  all 
the  various  lines  under  the  firm  name  of  John 
C.  Hoornbeek's  Sons,  manufacturers  of  dry 
wood  pulp  and  excelsior.  The  products  of 
the  firm  are  known  and  valued  throughout  the 
country.  Mr.  Hoornbeek  married,  June  29, 
1905,  Josephine,  daughter  of  William  Decker, 
of  Kerhonkson,  Ulster  county,  New  York. 
Mr.  Hoornbeek  has  apparently  inherited  in 
large  measure  the  business  and  executive  abil- 
ity so  generously  displayed  by  his  father,  and 
is  a  man  of  most  progressive  ideas. 


The  name  Clark  or  Clarke  is  de- 
CLARK  rived  from  the  term  clericus, 
meaning  "a  priest,"  or  "one  con- 
nected with  the  service  of  the  church."  At 
first  the  term  was  used  only  to  designate  those 
in  clerical  orders,  but  as  in  early  times  the 
church  was  the  only  source  and  protector  of 
learning,  any  person  who  had  been  educated 
by  the  clergy  eventually  came  to  be  called  "a 
clerk."  The  designation  was  finally  given  to 
all  who  were  able  to  read  and  write.  So  dis- 
tinguished a  name  was  eagerly  coveted.  Hence 
its  frequency,  many  people  adding  "le  clerk" 
to  their  names.  This  was  finally  dropped  and 
only  Clerk  left,  or  as  it  was  pronounced  Clark. 
The  final  "e"  is  an  addition  of  later  times,  given 
for  the  most  part  at  mere  caprice.  Compounds 
of  the  name  are  Beauclark,  the  good  clerk ; 
and  Pityclerk,  the  little  clerk;  Kenclerk,  the 
knowing  clerk ;  and  Mauclerk,  the  bad  clerk. 
The  name  Milo  le  Clerk  is  found  in  the  "One 
Hundred  Rolls,"  compiled  in  the  reign  of  Ed- 
ward I.,  which  contains  records  of  the  persons 
who  owned  lands  in  the  time  of  William  the 
Conqueror,  for  which  they  paid  rent  in  money, 
sheep,  or  hens,  or  gave  their  service  as  sol- 
diers. Several  Domesday  tenants  are  desig- 
nated "Clericus."  An  interesting  tradition  has 
been  handed  down  by  one  family  bearing  the 
name  of  Clark  or  Clarke,  with  regard  to  a 
marriage  with  one  of  the  descendants  of  Jo- 
seph of  Arimathea.  After  the  Crucifixion, 
Joseph  was  banished  from  Judea.  In  company 
with  Philip  the  Apostle,  Mary,  Martha,  Laza- 
rus, and  a  servant  Marcilla,  he  was  put  into 
a  vessel  without  sails  or  oars,  and  set  adrift  to 
perish  in  the  sea.  The  ship  was  thrown  upon 
the  French  coast.  Joseph  finally  found  his 
way  to  Britain,  where  he   founded  a  church 


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at  Glastonbury,  to  which  place  thousands  of 
the  devout  in  the  Middle  Ages  journeyed  ev- 
ery year  to  see  the  blossoming  of  the  sacred 
thorn  on  Christmas  Day.  Upon  what  author- 
ity the  connection  of  the  family  of  Clark  with 
Joseph  rests,  history  maintains  a  discreet  si- 
lence. It  gives  the  tradition  and  leaves  the  rest 
to  the  imagination.  There  are  many  families 
of  the  name  of  Clark  having  the  right  to  bear 
arms,  both  in  England,  Scotland  and  Ireland. 
In  the  latter  two  countries  the  name  Clark  is 
usually  a  translation  from  the  older  Gaelic 
name,  O'Cleirigh  or  MacCleirigh,  which  in  its 
turn  is  derived  from  the  name  of  the  main 
ancestor,  Cleirach  (Gaelic,  "a  clerk"),  who  on 
official  Irish  pedigrees,  is  given  as  No.  loi  on 
the  O'Shaughnessy  pedigree,  the  one  family 
being  a  branch  of  the  other  and  both  belong- 
ing to  the  Heremonian  stem.  The  arms  of 
one  Clark  family  are  thus  heraldically  describ- 
ed :  Argent,  on  a  bend  gules,  between  three 
roundels  sable,  as  many  swans  of  the  field. 
Crest :  Out  of  a  tau  cross  or  three  roses  gules, 
leaves  vert,  between  a  pair  of  wings  azure. 
Motto :  Sccrctum  mei  gaudii  in  cnice — The 
secret  of  my  joy  is  in  the  cross. 

(I)  Henry  Clark  was  the  son  of  Nathaniel 
Clark,  and  was  born  December  4,  1764,  in 
Orange  county,  New  York,  lived  in  the  town 
of  Blooming  Grove,  and  died  at  Salisbury 
Mills,  Orange  county.  New  York.  The  Clark 
name  is  so  numerous  that  it  is  difficult  for  the 
genealogist  to  connect  one  branch  with  an- 
other among  the  English,  Irish,  Dutch,  Scotch, 
Welsh  and  other  families  bearing  the  name. 
This  family  is  of  Welsh  descent.  If  Henry 
Clark  was  not  the  son  of  the  immigrant  an- 
cestor who  came  to  America  a  little  before  the 
revolution,  it  seems  probable  that  he  was  de- 
scended from  John  Clark,  son  of  William 
Clark,  who  settled  in  Middletown,  Connecti- 
cut, between  1675  ^"<i  1680,  whose  descend- 
ants are  now  numerous  in  New  York.  The 
father,  William  Clark,  was  one  of  the  original 
settlers  of  Haddam,  Connecticut.  In  Field's 
"Statistical  Account  of  the  County  of  Middle- 
sex in  Connecticut,"  it  is  stated  that  the  first 
settlement  there  was  made  by  twenty-eight 
young  men  who  bought  their  land  from  Mat- 
thew Allyn  and  Samuel  Willys,  who  purchased 
it  from  the  Indians  for  thirty  coats,  a  tract 
extending  six  miles  east  and  westerly  from 
the  Connecticut  river.  At  the  beginninsr  of 
the   first   book   of    Haddam    records    William 


Clark's  name  is  third  on  the  list  of  those  to 
whom  land  is  distributed.  He  died  at  Had- 
dam, July  22,  1681,  and  his  will,  together  with 
the  inventory  of  his  estate,  is  among  the  pro- 
bate records  of  Hartford,  Connecticut.  His 
estate  was  appraised  at  four  hundred  and 
twelve  pounds,  eighteen  shillings,  quite  a  re- 
spectable fortune  in  those  days.  The  children 
who  survived  him  were:  Thomas,  William, 
John,  Joseph,  Hannah,  and  other  daughters 
mentioned  only  in  their  family  names :  Mrs. 
Wells,  Mrs.  Fennoe  and  Mrs.  Spencer.  His 
son  John  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Nathaniel  White,  and  appears  to  have 
been  a  man  of  standing  and  property.  John, 
the  son  of  John,  and  grandson  of  William, 
had  a  homestead  of  thirteen  acres  given  to 
him  in  1720  by  his  father,  who  in  1730  also 
deeded  him  one  hundred  and  sixty-one  acres 
of  land  at  Haddam.  He  married  Sarah  Good- 
win, of  Hartford,  and  his  grandsons,  through 
his  son  William,  are  the  first  of  the  family  to 
appear  settled  in  New  York. 

The  exact  relationship  of  Henry  Clark  to- 
wards this  family,  assuming  such  a  relation- 
ship to  exist,  does  not  seem  clear.  He  spent 
his  early  days  in  Orange  county,  where  he  was 
a  farmer.  He  also  lived  in  Middletown  and 
other  places  in  the  vicinity,  where  he  was  a 
farmer  and  mason.  Later  in  life  he  settled 
in  the  town  of  Neversink,  Sullivan  county. 
Here  he  was  a  prominent  man,  and  a  Chris- 
tian of  devout  character,  who  was  greatly  re- 
spected by  all  who  knew  him.  Henry  Clark 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Reformed 
Dutch  church  of  Grahamville.  He  married 
Susan  G.  Horton,  born  October  20,  1792,  died 
January  7,  1844.  Children:  Mary  H.,  mar- 
ried J.  Denniston;  Walter;  Nathan  Corwin. 
mentioned  below ;  Eunice,  married  Henry 
White;  Sarah  T.,  married  William  T.  Stead. 

(II)  Nathan  Corwin,  son  of  Henry  and 
Susan  G.  (Horton)  Clark,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 21,  1818,  in  the  town  of  Blooming  Grove, 
Orange  county,  New  York,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 25,  1906,  at  his  residence  in  Ellenville. 
New  York.  He  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  of  Blooming  Grove,  Orange  county, 
and  early  in  life  went  west  and  found  em- 
ployment in  a  general  store  at  Ravenna.  Ohio. 
Here  he  remained  a  year,  and  at  the  end  of 
that  period  returned  to  his  native  town  and 
took  up  school  teaching.  He  was  a  teacher 
from  that  time  in  various  schools  nf  Orange 


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and  Sullivan  counties.  This  continued  for 
eight  or  nine  years,  and  at  the  end  of  that 
time  he  forsook  the  teaching  profession  and  in 
company  with  his  father-in-law  opened  a 
general  store  in  Grahamsville.  The  partner- 
ship between  him  and  his  father-in-law,  R.  D. 
Childs,  continued  for  a  number  of  years,  when 
it  was  dissolved  and  Mr.  Clark  formed  another 
partnership  with  George  B.  Childs.  The  part- 
nership formed  with  George  B.  Childs,  under 
the  firm  name  of  N.  C.  Clark  &  Company,  did 
an  extensive  and  lucrative  business  in  lumber 
and  turn  stuff  in  connection  with  their  general 
store.  This  partnership  continued  until  1876, 
when,  with  his  son,  R.  D.  Clark,  he  formed  a 
partnership  which  continued  until  1878.  In 
1880  Mr.  Clark  and  his  son  again  engaged  in 
business  in  Fallsburg,  New  York.  He  re- 
mained in  business  in  that  town  until  the  year 
1890,  when  he  retired  from  active  business. 
In  the  year  1905  he  moved  from  Grahamsville 
to  Ellenville,  in  company  with  his  daughter, 
with  whom  he  resided  until  he  passed  away 
in  1906.  Mr.  Clark  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  on  the  Democratic 
ticket  from  the  town  of  Neversink,  Sullivan 
county,  for  two  terms,  and  chairman  of  the 
board  one  year.  He  was  a  member  and  offi- 
cer of  the  Reformed  church  for  forty-six 
years,  and  was  also  justice  of  the  peace  for  a 
number  of  years.  He  was  a  stockholder  in 
the  Bank  of  Monticello,  New  York,  and  was 
one  of  the  founders  and  original  directors  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Ellenville,  New 
York,  and  subsequently  became  its  vice-presi- 
dent, holding  both  positions  continually,  until 
his  death  and  outliving  all  the  rest  of  the 
original  board  by  nearly  two  decades.  He 
was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the 
surrounding  country,  comprising  parts  of  Sul- 
livan and  Ulster  counties.  Though  largely 
self-educated,  during  the  time  he  worked  as 
a  teacher  in  the  schools,  he  was  a  man  of  ac- 
complishments and  large  reading.  He  took 
the  keenest  interests  in  the  public  questions 
of  the  day,  whether  they  related  to  national, 
state  or  civic  affairs,  though  his  time  was 
greatly  absorbed  by  the  demands  of  business. 
By  all  who  knew  him  he  was  looked  upon  as 
a  man  of  high  character,  an  extremely  capable 
business  man,  and  an  excellent  citizen.  He 
married,  July  29,  1848,  Clarissa  A.  Childs, 
born  November  14.  1821.  died  September  30, 


1898,  at  Grahamsville.  Children:  Mary  H. ; 
R.  Dwight,  of  whom  further;  M.  Eugene,  of 
whom  further.  All  are  residents  of  Ellen- 
ville, New  York. 

(Ill)  R.  Dwight,  son  of  Nathan  Corwin 
and  Clarissa  A.  (Childs)  Clark,  was  born  at 
Grahamsville,  Sullivan  county.  New  York, 
July  II,  1857.  He  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  and  at  Eastman's  Business  College, 
Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  afterwards  going 
to  Monticello,  Sullivan  county.  New  York. 
In  1876  he  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  N.  C.  Clark  &  Son,  of  Gra- 
hamsville. This  continued  until  1880, 
when  they  built  a  store  for  general  mer- 
chandising at  Fallsburg  Station.  Mr.  Nathan 
Corwin  Clark  was  then  at  the  head  of  a  large 
business.  When  he  retired  in  1890  his  son,  R. 
Dwight  Clark,  succeeded  him.  Two  years 
afterwards,  in  connection  with  his  general 
business  he  established  the  R.  D.  Clark  Feed, 
Coal  and  Lumber  Company,  which  proved 
successful  from  the  start.  In  1904,  after  a 
quarter  of  a  century  of  successful  and  ener- 
getic business  life,  Mr.  Clark  purchased  a  resi- 
dence in  Ellenville  and  settled  there  in  October 
of  that  year.  In  1905  he  bought  the  coal  and 
oil  business  of  O.  H.  Harting,  which  business 
Mr.  Clark  still  maintains,  having  disposed  of 
his  entire  business  interests  at  Fallsburg  in 
1905.  He  has  been  for  many  years  a  director 
of  the  National  Union  Bank  of  Monticello, 
New  York,  and  trustee  of  the  Ellenville  Sav- 
ings Bank,  also  a  director  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Ellenville.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Reformed  church,  and  for  many  years 
an  elder.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and 
has  always  taken  great  interest  in  public  af- 
fairs, was  postmaster  at  South  Fallsburg,  New 
York,  under  Cleveland's  first  administration. 
but  has  never  sought  or  held  any  other  public 
office. 

On  September  15.  1881,  he  married  Harriet 
L.  Grant,  born  February  4,  i860,  youngest 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Hannah  Leroy  Grant, 
of  the  town  of  Neversink,  Sullivan  county. 
New  York.  Mr.  Grant  represented  his  town 
on  the  board  of  supervisors  and  was  one  of 
Sullivan  county's  merchants  of  prominence. 
Children:  i.  Augusta  C,  born  July  9,  1882; 
married  Raymond  G.  Cox,  attorney  of  Ellen- 
ville, April  20,  1907,  and  has  one  daughter, 
Harriet  G.  Cox.     2.  Harry  N.,  born  June  9,' 


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1885;  a  graduate  of  Princeton,  class  of  1907; 
a  civil  engineer,  now  in  Hayti ;  married,  Oc- 
tober 19,  191 1,  Emma  Askew,  of  Atlanta, 
Georgia.  3.  R.  Eugene,  born  August  14,  18S7; 
a  graduate  of  Cornell,  class  of  191 1. 

(Ill)  M.  Eugene,  son  of  Nathan  Corwin 
and  Clarissa  A.  (Childs)  Clark,  was  born  at 
Grahamsville,  Sullivan  county.  New  York,  Au- 
gust 12,  1863.  He  was  educated  in  the  dis- 
trict schools  of  his  native  town,  Chappaqua 
Mountain  Institute,  Westchester  county.  New 
York,  and  Fort  Edward  Institute,  Fort  Ed- 
ward, New  York.  His  first  start  in  life  was 
in  the  mercantile  business  with  his  brother  at 
South  Fallsburg,  New  York,  in  which  he  con- 
tinued for  five  years,  and  in  1887  he  came  to 
EUenville  and  became  a  bookkeeper  in  the 
First  National  Bank,  in  1890,  being  made 
cashier,  and  in  1897,  on  the  death  of  its  presi- 
dent, Charles  Vernooy,  he  was  elected  to  suc- 
ceed him  as  president,  which  position  he  has 
acceptably  filled  to  the  present  time  (1913). 
He  is  and  has  been  elder  for  the  past  fifteen 
years  in  the  Dutch  Reformed  church  of  EUen- 
ville ;  a  member  of  the  EUenville  board  of 
education  for  ten  years,  at  the  present  time 
serving  as  president ;  was  a  member  of  the 
Democratic  county  committee ;  and  a  dele- 
gate to  the  Democratic  National  Conven- 
tion at  Baltimore,  Maryland,  that  nomin- 
ated President  Wilson.  Although  it  has  been 
suggested  that  he  accept  public  office  by  the 
leaders  of  the  Democratic  party,  he  has  never 
done  so,  preferring  to  devote  his  entire  time 
and  attention  to  his  business  pursuits.  He  is 
public-spirited  and  progressive,  active  in  the 
affairs  of  the  community  in  which  he  resides, 
and  is  one  of  the  influential  and  substantial 
citizens  of  EUenville.  He  married  (first)  in 
1890,  Mary  Ella  Weeks,  born  in  July,  1862, 
died  in  1902.  He  married  (second)  October 
28,  1903,  Lenora  Terwilliger. 


The  family  hereditary 
TERWILLIGER     name  of   Terwilliger  is 

Holland  Dutch  in  origin, 
and  resolved  into  its  original  elements  be- 
comes Van  Der  Willigen  or  Van  Derwilligen. 
It  is  evident  from  the  records  that  all  the 
children  of  Jan  Evertsz  and  Sytje  VanEtten 
took  the  name  of  Van  der  Willigen  or  Ter- 
willigen  (er),  which  was  modified  later  and 
more  generally  to  Terwilliger.  From  the  una- 
nimity with  which  all  of  them  did  so  it  is  plain 


that  the  family  name  in  the  Netherlands  was 
either  Van  Der  Willigen  or  Terwilligen.  Van 
d^r  Willigen  means  "From  the  Willows,"  Ter 
\\  illigen  means  "Near  the  Willows."  It  is 
thus  plain  that  the  family  name  was  origin- 
ally derived  from  some  place  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  woods  of  willow  trees.  Vianen,  from 
which  the  original  American  emigrants  of  the 
name  hailed  directly  on  coming  to  this  country, 
is  in  the  province  of  South  Holland,  seven 
miles  southeast  of  Utrecht  and  thirteen  miles 
northeast  of  Gorcum.  In  1870  it  had  a  popu- 
lation of  three  thousand  two  hundred.  Fami- 
lies of  the  name  of  Terwilliger  were  prominent 
at  an  early  date  in  Ulster  county  and  the  ad- 
joining counties.  It  has  been  borne  through 
succeeding  generations  by  sturdy  and  worthy 
yeomen,  as  well  as  by  men  of  prominence  in 
business  and  public  afifairs.  Among  the  ar- 
rivals from  the  Netherlands,  March  15,  1663, 
in  the  "Arend"  (Eagle)  Captain  Pieter  Corne- 
lisz  Bes,  from  Amsterdam  for  Manhattan, 
were  Evert  Dircksen  (Terwilliger)  from 
Vianen,  and  two  children,  thirteen  and  six 
years  old.  Also  Annetje  Dirck  (probably 
Evert's  sister)  widow,  from  Vianen,  and 
child,  four  years  old. 

( I )  Dirck  Terwilliger  or  Van  Der  Willigen, 
ancestor  of  the  family  bearing  the  name  of 
Terwilliger  in  America,  was  born  probably 
about  1610  in  Holland,  where  he  lived  and 
died.  He  resided  at  Vianen  and  probably  died 
there.  He  belonged,  according  to  tradition, 
to  the  farming  class. 

(II)  Evert  or  Dirck,  son  of  Dirck  Terwilli- 
ger or  Van  Der  \\'illigen,  and  immigrant  an- 
cestor of  the  Terwilliger  family,  was  born  at 
\'ianen  in  Holland,  and  came  to  this  country 
in  1663,  with  his  sister,  Annetje  Dirck.  a  wi- 
dow, with  a  child  four  years  old.  Among  the 
arrivals  from  the  Netherlands,  March  15, 
1663,  was  Evert  Dircksen  Terwilliger,  accord- 
ing to  the  records.  There  is  no  record  of  the 
name  of  Evert's  wife,  who  had  probably  died 
in  Holland  before  he  crossed  the  sea,  and  it 
seems  that  Evert  did  not  marry  again.  His 
children  were  Jan  and  a  daughter. 

(HI)  Jan,  son  of  Evert  Terwilliger,  was 
born  at  Vianen,  in  Holland,  in  1657,  and  died 
at  Kingston,  New  York.  In  the  marriage 
records  of  Kingston,  under  date  of  April  23, 
1685,  is  the  record  of  the  marriage  of  "Jan 
Evertsz,  young  man  of  Vianen,  under  the  jur- 
isdiction of  the  Diocese  of  Utrecht,  and  Svtie 


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Jacobz  van  Etten,  young  woman  of  Kings- 
touwne,  both  residing  in  Marmur  (Marble- 
town)."  Both  Evert  Dirckson,  the  father,  and 
Jan  Evertsz,  the  son,  appeared  at  first  only 
under  their  patronymic,  as  was  customary  with 
all  the  Dutch  families  of  the  period.  Evert 
Dircksen  means  Evert,  the  son  of  Dirck.  His 
son  was  known  as  Jan  Evertsz  or  Evertsen. 
The  children  of  Jan  Everts  and  Sytie  Jacobsz 
Van  Etten  resumed  the  family  name  of  Ter- 
williger  (Van  Der  Williger,  Derwilligen). 
Without  doubt  Jan  was  the  six  year  old  son 
of  Evert  Dircksen  of  1663  in  the  "Eagle." 
Children  :  Evert,  mentioned  below  ;  Jacobus, 
baptized  November  25,  1688:  Johannes,  No- 
vember. 6,  1692;  Jannetje,  June  9,  1695; 
Matheus,  April  18,  1697;  Matheus,  October 
30,  1698;  Salomon,  September  i,  1700;  Man- 
uel, May  31,  1702:  Pieter  or  Petrus,  Septem- 
ber 3,  1704;  Ary  or  Adrian,  September  22, 
1706;  Abraham,  September  18,  1707;  Ysaak, 
June  10,  1716. 

(IV)  Evert,  eldest  son  of  Jan  Evertsz  and 
Sytie  Jacobsz  (Van  Etten)  Terwilliger,  was 
baptized  at  Kingston,  New  York,  May  23, 
1686.  He  married.  August  18,  1717,  Zara 
Freer,  "a  youn^  woman  born  in  New  Paltz." 
Among  his  children  was  Hugo,  mentioned 
below. 

(V)  Hugo,  son  of  Evert  and  Zara  (Freer) 
Terwilliger,  was  born  near  Kingston,  about 
1720.  He  married  Jannetje  Frere.  Among 
his  children  was  Benjamin,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Benjamin,  son  of  Hugo  and  Tannet'e 
(Frere)  Terwilliger.  was  born  near  Kingston, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  September  23,  1753. 
He  married  Eva  Hasbrook.  Among  his  chil- 
dren was  Cornelis  or  Cornelius,  mentioned 
below. 

(VII)  Cornelis  (or  Cornelius),  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Eva  (Hasbrook)  Terwil1is:er,  was 
born  near  Kingston,  and  baptized  December 
26,  1785.  Among  his  children  was  Jonathan 
C,  mentioned  below 

(VIII)  Jonathan  C,  son  of  Cornelis  (or 
Cornelius)  Terwilliger,  was  born  in  the  town 
Wawarsing,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  Tune 
22,  1819,  and  died  June  13,  1885.  His  educa- 
tion was  such  as  the  countrv  school  afiforded 
in  those  days.  In  early  life  he  learned  the 
carpenter's  trade,  became  a  successful  contrac- 
tor and  builder  and  was  so  engaged  for  thirtv- 
five  years  in  Ellenville  and  its  vicinity.  He 
was  president  of  the  village  for  one  term  and 


was  chief  of  the  first  fire  department  of  Ellen- 
ville. He  was  a  strong  temperance  advocate, 
and  a  man  of  sterling  qualities,  greatly  re- 
spected by  all  who  knew  him.  He  married 
Elizabeth  R.  Wilber. 

(IX)  Uriah  E.,  son  of  Jonathan  C.  and 
Elizabeth  R.  (Wilber)  Terwilliger,  was  born 
in  the  village  of  Ellenville,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  December  10,  1849.  His  educa- 
tion was  begun  in  the  public  schools  of  his  na- 
tive town  and  continued  at  the  Ellenville  High 
School,  conducted  for  long  years  by  Professor 
S.  A.  Law  Post,  which  was  then  an  institution 
of  considerable  prominence.  Later  Mr.  Ter- 
williger attended  Waring's  Military  Institute, 
at  Poughkeepsie,  and  the  Hudson  River  Insti- 
tute, at  Claverack,  New  York.  At  an  early  age 
comparatively  he  was  compelled,  because  of 
impaired  health,  to  abandon  plans  for  extended 
study,  and  for  three  years  engaged  with  his 
father,  thus  acquiring  a  practical  knowledge  of 
carpentry.  A  little  later  on,  at  nineteen  years 
of  age,  he  established  a  real  estate  and  in- 
surance agency.  With  characteristic  enthusi- 
asm Mr.  Terwilliger  quickly  developed  the 
business,  and  eventually,  with  partners,  built 
up  one  of  the  largest  general  insurance  agen- 
cies in  the  state.  The  firm's  style  for  a  number 
of  years  was  Neafie  &  Terwilliger,  then  Neafie, 
Terwilliger  &  Post.  For  many  years  after 
Mr.  Terwilliger's  brother,  Edward  N.,  was  his 
only  associate  in  the  firm  which  was  familiarly 
known  as  U.  E.  and  E.  N.  Terwilliger,  and 
three  years  since,  upon  the  admission  of  Bert 
H  ,  only  son  of  Mr.  Terwilliger,  the  business 
became  known  and  is  now  conducted  as  The 
Terwilliger  Agency.  In  connection  with  this 
particular  business  Mr.  Terwilliger  was  con- 
spicuously entrusted  with  many  fiduciary  in- 
terests as  the  executor  and  administrator  of 
estates,  and  as  the  representative  of  various 
financial  institutions  throughout  the  county 
and  elsewhere,  until  he  became  widely  known 
for  his  business  sagacity  and  unswerving  hon- 
esty. Always  deeply  interested  in  local  affairs, 
Mr.  Terwilliger  has  given  generously  of  time 
and  money  to  matters  of  local  weal.  It  was 
during  his  presidency  of  the  board  of  educa- 
tion that  the  school  system  was  advanced,  a 
superintendent  first  employed,  and  the  old  high 
school  property  acquired  for  the  use  of  the 
higher  departments.  A  local  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  and  Board  of  Trade, 
both  in  active  useful  existence  for  many  years. 


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owed  their  beginning  to  his  enthusiasm.  From 
early  manhood  he  has  been  an  active  member 
of  the  Reformed  church,  with  which  he  has 
long  been  officially  connected,  and  for  twelve 
years  superintendent  of  its  Sunday  school.  In 
politics  Mr.  Terwilliger  has  always  been  a  Re- 
publican, until  the  advent  of  the  Progressive 
party,  with  which  he  is  now  affiliated.  He 
has  invariably  declined  political  honors,  though 
frequently  urged  to  accept  nominations,  from 
supervisor  of  the  town  to  state  senator. 

But  it  is  perhaps  in  the  development  of  his 
estate  at  Mount  Meenahga,  now  famous  as  a 
summer  resort,  that  Mr.  Terwilliger  has  be- 
come most  widely  known.  After  some  years 
of  close  application  to  business,  necessity  for 
rest  manifested  itself,  and  in  1877  Mr.  Terwil- 
liger and  a  party  of  friends  formed  a  camp  on 
the  westerly  side  of  the  Shawangunks,  two 
miles  from  EUenville.  Impressed  with  the 
natural  advantages  and  beauty  of  the  location 
he  made  a  lease  of  the  property  the  following 
year,  and  three  years  later  bought  a  tract  of 
one  hundred  acres.  With  a  view  to  making  a 
permanent  summer  home,  a  comfortable  cot- 
tage and  barns  were  erected,  and  from  time  to 
time  other  cottages  were  built  for  the  accom- 
modation of  friends  who  sought  more  comfort- 
able quarters  than  a  simple  camp  life  afforded. 
Additional  acres  were  bought  from  year  to 
year,  until  finally  the  erection  of  a  small  board- 
ing house,  in  t88i,  marked  the  beginning  of  the 
present  Mount  Meenahga  as  a  resort,  now  sec- 
ond in  importance  only  to  one  other  in  the 
county.  Lake  Mohonk.  The  property  now 
comnrises  upwards  of  six  hundred  acres,  con- 
trolling the  bold  face  of  the  mountain  for 
nearly  two  miles.  On  the  north  and  south  are 
tracts  owned  by  the  village  of  EUenville,  as 
a  water  preserve,  numbering  some  five  thou- 
sand acres,  and  assuring  to  Mount  Meenahga 
for  all  time  the  advantages  of  a  large  forest 
domain.  The  work  of  development  at  Mount 
Meenahga  has  been  along  the  lines  of  nature's 
plan,  and  rare  genius  has  been  displayed  in 
the  building  of  many  miles  of  paths  and  roads 
that  lead  over  the  beautiful  hilltops  or  through 
deep  gorges,  disclosing  a  wealth  of  beauty  and 
grandeur  at  every  turn.  The  hotel  property 
is  thoroughly  modern  in  its  equipment,  and 
means  for  healthful  recreation  have  been  gen- 
erously provided.  Mr.  Terwilliger  is  one  of 
the  trustees  of  the  EUenville  Savings  Bank  and 
has  been  such  for  twenty-seven  years,  a  wit- 


ness and  abettor  of  its  growth  from  $481,000 
to  over  $2,000,000  in  deposits. 

Mr.  Terwilliger  married  Alice  A.  Hoar, 
daughter  of  George  Hoar,  prominent  as  a  boat 
builder  of  EUenville,  New  York.  They  have 
two  children:  i.  Bert  H.,  who  married  Flor- 
ence Tone,  of  Bergen,  New  York;  children: 
Robert  S.  and  Katharine  T.  2.  Alice  Louise, 
married  Harold  B.  Raymond,  son  of  President 
P.  B.  Raymond,  of  the  Wesleyan  University, 
of  Middletown,  Connecticut. 


Reuben  Bernard,  the  earliest 
BERNARD  ancestor  recorded  in  the  fam- 
;  ily  Bible,  was  of  English  de- 
scent and  was  a  Quaker.  He  was  born  on 
Long  Island,  October  i,  1764,  and  died  at 
Plattekill,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  June  12, 
1840.  At  the  time  of  the  revolutionary  war, 
his  father's  family  being  Loyalists,  removed  to 
Canada,  he  alone  remaining  in  the  state.  In 
early  manhood  he  came  to  Ulster  county, 
where,  about  1795,  he  married  Mary  Lawrence, 
and  settled  upon  a  farm  at  Plattekill.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Phoebe  (  Sim- 
mons) Lawrence,  was  born  October  31,  1774, 
and  died  at  Plattekill,  November  30.  1851. 
The  children  of  Reuben  and  Mary  (Lawrence) 
Bernard  were  :  Rachel,  married  John  Church  ; 
David  Lawrence,  see  forward ;  Daniel ;  Wil- 
liam ;  Mary,  married  Charles  Palmer ;  Annie, 

married    Penny ;    James.     Daniel    and 

James  were  also  married. 

(II)  David  Lawrence,  son  of  Reuben  and 
Mary  (Lawrence)  Bernard,  was  born  March 
II,  1803,  and  died  at  Highland,  New  York, 
July  4,  1879.  He  received  such  education  as 
the  public  schools  of  the  day  afforded,  but  be- 
ing of  a  literary  turn  of  mind,  through  reading 
and  study  became  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary 
culture.  Early  in  life  he  engaged  in  teaching. 
Later,  during  the  height  of  the  Masonic  excite- 
ment, he  edited  the  LHster  Palladium,  an  anti- 
Masonic  publication.  A  file  of  these  papers 
has  been  preserved  in  the  Kingston  Public 
Library.  After  leaving  Kingston,  he  bought 
the  farm  near  Clintondale,  where  he  lived  for 
many  years.  In  1872  he  removed  to  Highland, 
New  York,  where  his  death  occurred.  Polit- 
ically he  was  a  member  of  the  old  Whie  party 
and  was  freqtiently  a  delegate  to  state  and 
county  conventions.  In  1840  Mr.  Bernard  re- 
presented his  district  in  the  state  legislature. 
He  helped  to  organize  the  Republican  party 


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and  was  faithful  to  it  until  his  death.  For 
several  years  he  was  president  of  the  Ulster 
County  Agricultural  Society,  and  was  a  charter 
member  of  the  Ulster  County  Historical  So- 
ciety. He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends  by  right  of  birth. 

Mr.  Bernard  married,  October  21,  1826,  Abi- 
gail, born  January  8,  1809,  died  September  7, 
1874,  a  daughter  of  David  and  Mary  (Ketch- 
um)  Demerest.  Children  :  William  ;  Reuben, 
see  forward ;  Mary. 

(HI)  Reuben,  second  son  of  David  Law- 
rence and  Abigail  (Demerest)  Bernard,  was 
born  in  Plattekill,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
February  24,  1830.  He  was  educated  in  the 
.schools  of  his  neighborhood,  and  later  at  the 
New  Paltz  Academy  and  Amenia  Seminary. 
In  1849  he  commenced  reading  law  in  the  offi- 
ces of  Forsyth  &  Hasbrouck,  at  Kingston.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  New  York  State  and 
National  Law  School,  at  Ballston  Spa,  in  185 1, 
was  awarded  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  the  same  year. 
Later  he  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts 
of  the  United  States.  He  commenced  his  pro- 
fessional work  in  the  offices  of  his  former  pre- 
ceptors, and  continued  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession  until  his  retirement  in  January, 
1909,  in  same  location.  In  1852  he  was  ap- 
pointed attorney  for  the  Huguenot  Bank,  this 
having  been  organized  at  New  Paltz,  and  from 
1855  until  1870  was  attorney  for  the  Ulster 
County  Savings  Institution,  and  from  1877  to 
1909,  attorney  for  the  New  Paltz  &  Savings 
Bank.  In  1858  he  assumed  official  connection 
with  the  Kingston  National  Bank  as  its  attor- 
ney ;  was  made  a  director  in  1868 ;  became  its 
president  in  1877,  and  now  (1913)  has  entered 
upon  his  thirty-seventh  year  in  that  office. 
Four  years  were  spent  in  office  as  the  president 
of  the  Kingston  &  Rondout  railroad,  and  he 
was  for  a  number  of  years  director  of  the 
W'allkill  \'alley  railroad ;  he  was  attorney  for 
both  of  these  corporations.  Another  honor 
that  came  to  him  was  that  of  the  presidency 
of  the  Kingston  Board  of  Trade,  an  office  he 
held  for  many  years.  Mr.  Bernard  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Fair  Street  Reformed  Church,  has 
held  various  offices  in  the  church  and  Sunday 
school,  and  has  served  as  president  of  the  Ul- 
ster County  Sunday  School  Association. 

Mr.  Bernard  married,  June  3,  1856,  Jane 
Catherine,  born  August  8.  1833,  died  December 
18,  1903,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Garrett  Du  Bois 


and  Sarah  (Post)  Crispell.  Dr.  Crispell  was 
a  practicing  physician  in  Kingston  for  more 
than  half  a  century.  Children  of  Reuben 
Bernard:  i.  Mary  Lawrence.  2.  Amelia 
married  Henry  S.  Crispell.  3.  Sarah  Crispell 
Bernard. 


The  first  one  of  this  family  of 
RICARD  whom  we  have  any  definite  in- 
formation is  John  Ricard,  or 
Ricardo,  as  the  name  was  originally  spelled. 
He  was  a  native  of  Bordeaux,  was  educated 
in  the  school  of  that  city,  and  his  vocation  in 
life  was  that  of  a  medical  doctor.  In  Bor- 
deaux, where  he  followed  his  profession,  he 
enjoyed  the  reputation  of  being  a  leading 
authority  on  medicine  and  consultation.  He 
moved  to  New  York  and  there  married  Maria 
Dilford  and  had  five  children:  i.  Mary,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Connor.  2.  Mary  Agnes,  mar- 
ried (first)  John  Freedy,  (second)  Edward 
Randolph,  (third)  David  Van  Name.  3. 
George,  born  December  25,  1841,  died  in  1862. 
4.  Catharine,  married  Peter  Coyler.  5.  John 
Augustus,  mentioned  below.  Dr.  Ricard 
eventually  went  back  to  Bordeaux  where  he 
died. 

(II)  John  Augustus,  son  of  Dr.  John  and 
Maria  (Dilford)  Ricard,  was  born  at  No.  16 
Christie  street.  New  York  City,  December  25, 
1820,  died  December  30,  1905.  He  received 
a  liberal  education,  and  at  an  early  date  began 
his  career  as  a  merchant.  For  several  years 
he  engaged  in  the  grain  business,  meeting  with 
marked  success.  He  subsequently  retired 
from  this  business  and  joined  the  police  force 
of  New  York  City.  He  was  promoted  first 
aid  to  Chief  Matrell  on  his  staff.  After  sev- 
eral years'  service  in  the  police  department, 
he  became  president  of  the  old  Coney  Island 
Railroad  Company  and  he  resigned  from  this 
to  engage  in  the  hotel  business,  remaining  in 
this  a  short  time.  He  then  retired  from  active 
business.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  but 
never  held  public  office.  He  took  great  in- 
terest in  military  matters.  He  enlisted  in  the 
Ninth  Regiment  New  York  National  Guard, 
and  served  for  several  years  as  color  sergeant. 
He  married,  October  3,  1842.  Maria  A.,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Doreco  (Mercle)  Laytin. 
Three  children:  i.  William  Laytin,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Elizabeth  Matilda,  born  October  17, 
1 85 1,  married  Frederick  A.  Foggin.     3.  Ellen 


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Louise,  born  July  21,   1857,  married  George 
Van  Name ;  one  child,  William. 

(Ill)  William  Laytin,  son  of  John  Augus- 
tus and  Maria  A.  (Laytin)  Ricard,  was  born 
in  Williamsburg,  New  York  City,  August  13, 
1849.  ^*^t  the  age  of  seven  years  he  entered 
No.  12  public  school  on  Madison  street,  where 
he  remained  four  years.  He  then  received 
private  instruction  until  he  was  fifteen  years 
of  age,  when  his  father  moved  to  Staten 
Island,  where  he  attended  the  Briggs  Private 
School  at  Mariner's  Harbor  until  the  family 
returned  to  New  York  City,  in  1857.  He  con- 
tinued his  studies  in  the  same  private  school 
until  1859,  and  then  entered  the  shipping  busi- 
ness in  New  York.  In  1863  he  became  ship- 
ping clerk  in  the  office  of  Layton  &  Hulbert,  at 
No.  84-86-88  South  street,  New  York  City. 
He  remained  with  this  company  three  years 
and  then  resigned.  He  became  connected  with 
the  firm  of  Young  &  Davidson,  manufacturers 
of  crackers  and  biscuits.  He  was  promoted 
manager  of  the  company,  which  office  he  held 
until  about  1872,  when  he  resigned  his  posi- 
tion to  engage  in  the  cigar  and  tobacco  busi- 
ness. In  1876  he  disposed  of  this  business  and 
retired  from  active  work.  He  is  a  stockholder 
in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Brooklyn, 
founded  by  his  grandfather,  William  Laytin, 
who  served  for  many  years  as  its  president. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  but  has  never 
aspired  to  office.  He  enlisted.  May  10,  1861, 
in  the  Eighty-second  Regiment  New  York 
Volunteer  Infantry,  then  under  command  of 
Colonel  Lyons.  He  took  part  with  his  com- 
mand in  two  (first  Bull  Run  and  second  Bull 
Run)  battles,  and  was  honorably  discharged 
from  the  service  in  1863.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Staten  Island  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
took  an  active  part  in  all  of  its  affairs.  He  was 
a  member  of  Peterson  Engine  Company,  No. 
31,  New  York  \'olunteers,  for  four  years,  and 
then  joined  the  Zepher  Hose  Company,  No.  4. 
After  a  service  of  four  years  with  this  com- 
pany he  joined  Washington  Engine  Company, 
No.  I,  at  Port  Richmond.  He  was  promoted 
foreman  of  the  company,  retaining  this  office 
two  years,  when  he  joined  Port  Richmond 
Engine  Company,  No.  3,  as  exempt  member. 
He  remained  in  the  service  of  this  company 
until  it  was  finally  disbanded  under  the  con- 
solidating act  of  the  Greater  New  York  City 
Charter.    He  is  an  attendant  of  the  Dutch  Re- 


formed   church    of    Port    Richmond,    Staten 
Island. 

He  married,  November  13,  1864,  Josephine 
Coates,  born  at  Port  Richmond,  May  13,  1847. 
The  marriage  was  performed  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
James  Brownlee.  Her  father,  Malachi  Wil- 
son Coates,  of  Currituck  county.  North  Caro- 
lina, was  for  some  years  a  sea  captain  and 
later  became  a  prosperous  oyster  planter  and 
dealer  on  Staten  Island  and  in  the  south.  He 
was  a  Democrat  in  politics.  He  died  in  Port 
Richmond,  October  26.  1900,  aged  ninety-nine 
years,  six  months  and  eleven  days.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Eliza  Martling;  one  child,  Peter 
Coates.  He  married  (second),  September  30, 
1838,  Hannah  Anna  Martling,  born  November 
18,  1816,  sister  of  his  first  wife;  she  died  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1877.  Four  children :  Annie  Post, 
Wynice  Anna,  Isaac  Van  Duzer,  born  April 
23,  1844,  and  Josephine,  mentioned  above. 
Two  children  have  been  born  to  William  Lay- 
tin  and  Josephine  (Coates)  Ricard:  Maria 
Augusta,  born  May  13.  1870,  was  educated  in 
the  schools  of  Port  Richmond,  and  now  re- 
sides with  her  parents ;  George  Timothy  Reed 
Crawford,  born  1874,  died  1878. 


Like  nearly  all  Dutch 
VAN  ALSTINE     names    beginning    with 

"Van,"  this  is  derived 
from  a  place.  It  is  a  very  old  name  in  Europe 
and  has  flourished  under  many  different  forms, 
being  traced  back  to  the  crowning  of  Otho  in 
936.  It  is  found  under  the  names  of  Wald- 
stein  and  Wartenberg  in  Flanders  before  1236, 
in  Spanish  it  is  rendered  Balstein,  in  the 
French  Vallenstein.  In  Flanders  it  was  often 
rendered  Halsteyn,  and  in  Holland,  Alstein. 
In  the  early  New  York  records  it  is  written 
Van  Aelsteyn,  Van  Aalsteyn,  Van  Alstyn,  Van 
Alstein,  \^an  Alstyne  and  Van  Alstine.  The 
last  two  forms  are  those  now  most  in  use  and 
in  some  cases  the  prefix  "\'an"  has  been 
dropped.  Members  of  the  family  in  this 
country  have  been  generally  identified  with 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  The  name  was 
prominent  during  the  revolution  in  New  York, 
and  its  representatives  have  been  among  the 
most  loyal,  progressive  and  useful  citizens 
down  to  the  present  date.  In  Holland  the 
name  was  frequently  written  Van  Aelsteijn 
and  about  1700,  when  the  English  spelling  was 
adopted  by  the  citizens  of  New  York,  it  was 
generally   written   \'an   Alstine.     About    1820 


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several  branches  of  the  family  adopted  the 
spelling  Van  Alstyne.  Since  1880  a  diligent 
search  has  been  made  for  the  earliest  traces 
of  the  family  in  New  York,  but  the  actual 
time  of  their  arrival  has  not  been  established. 
(I)  Jan  Martense  de  wever,  (in  English 
John,  the  son  of  Martin,  by  occupation  a 
weaver)  was  in  New  York  as  early  as  1646, 
at  which  time  he  joined  with  another  in  the 
purchase  of  a  yacht.  His  wife  was  Dirckje 
Harmense  (daughter  of  Harmen)  and  they 
had  a  son  Martin,  baptized  July  18,  1655,  at 
the  Dutch  church  of  New  Amsterdam  ( New 
York).  Jannetje  Martense,  who  was  supposed 
to  have  been  a  sister  of  Jan  Martense,  came 
from  the  principality  of  Holstein,  and  it  is  sup- 
posed that  Jan  and  his  wife  also  came  from 
that  locality.  She  was  the  wife  of  Jan  Thomas 
Mingael,  the  ancestor  of  the  Whitbeck  family 
from  Widbek-Holstein.  In  1656  Jan  Mar- 
tense was  living  at  Beverwyck  (now  Albany), 
and  continued  to  reside  there  until  1664,  when 
he  hired  land  on  the  "Island  Schodack"  from 
his  brother-in-law,  Jan  Tomase  Mingael 
(Whitbeck).  From  this  Jan  was  ousted  by 
Patroon  Van  Rensselaer  and  he  returned  to 
Albany  where  he  lived  on  the  property  which 
he  purchased  in  1657  on  the  east  side  of 
Broadway  and  north  of  Columbia  street,  and 
which  he  continued  to  own  until  1695,  when  he 
sold  it.  In  1670  Jan  Martense  and  wife  were 
the  owners  of  farms  "behind  Kinderhook"  at 
a  place  called  "Pompoenick"  and  there  they 
resided  until  their  deaths.  The  wife  died  after 
1687,  and  the  husband  after  1701.  This  land 
remained  in  the  possession  of  their  descendants 
down  to  1897  and  later.  Jan  Martense  was 
one  of  the  charter  members  named  in  the  Don- 
gan  Charter  erecting  the  town  of  Kinderhook 
in  1686.  Children  :  i.  Martin  Jans,  born  1655  ; 
married  Jannetje  Cornelius  (Bogert).  2. 
Abraham,  mentioned  below.  3.  Lambert,  born 
about  1659;  married  his  cousin  Jannetje  Min- 
gael. 4.  Isaac,  born  about  1661  ;  married 
(first)  Maritje  Vosburgh,  (second)  Jannetje 
Van  Valkenburg.  5.  Dorothy,  born  about 
1663;  married  Jacob  Vosburgh.  About  1703 
the  eldest  and  youngest  son.s  removed  from 
Kinderhook  to  Canajoharie,  where  they  pur- 
chased several  hundred  acres  of  land  in  the 
Mohawk  \"alley.  and  about  1730  Martin  Jans, 
the  eldest,  erected  there  a  large  stone  mansion 
which  is  still  standing,  and  during  the  revolu- 


tion was  barricaded  and  called  "Fort  Van 
Rensselaer." 

(II)  Abraham,  second  son  of  Jan  and 
Dirckje  (Harmense)  Martense,  was  born 
about  1657.  He  resided  upon  the  paternal 
lands  near  Kinderhook.  In  1686  he  was  an 
ensign  in  colonial  service  and  was  a  cap- 
tain of  militia  in  1714.  He  was  twice  married, 
the  name  of  the  first  wife  being  unknown.  The 
second  was  Maritje  Van  Deusen,  whom  he 
married  January  17,  1694.  Children  of  sec- 
ond wife:  Johannes,  Mattheus,  Dirckje,  died 
young;  Sander,  Abraham,  Leena,  Isaac, 
Dirckje,  grandmother  of  President  Martin 
Van  Buren;  Catryntje,  Jacobus,  Martin. 

(HI)  Abraham  (2),  fourth  son  of  Abraham 
(i)  and  Maritje  (Van  Deusen)  Van  Alstine, 
was  born  August  15,  1703,  in  the  town  of 
Kinderhook.  He  resided  there  and  married 
there,  September  29,  1734,  Weintje  Conyn, 
daughter  of  Leendert  Phillipse  de  Konyn  and 
his  wife  Emmetje  Van  Alen.  Children:  Phil- 
ippus,  mentioned  below;  Abraham,  born 
March  4,  1734;  Leendert,  September,  1743; 
Emmetje,  October  11,  1745,  married  Colonel 
Samuel  Ten  Brook,  a  revolutionary  officer. 

(IV)  PhiHppus,  eldest  child  of  Abraham 
(2)  and  Weintje  (Conyn)  Van  Alstine,  was 
born  September  16,  1735,  at  Kinderhook.  He  ■ 
lived  at  Poelsburgh  now  in  town  of  Stuyves- 
ant.  He  was  colonel  of  the  Rensselaerwyck 
Regiment  from  1775  to  1798,  and  with  a  part 
of  his  command  was  in  active  service  in  Try- 
on  county.  New  York,  at  several  periods  dur- 
ing the  revolution.  He  married.  July  8,  1761, 
his  cousin,  Maritje  (Mary)  Van  Alstine, 
daughter  of  his  uncle.  Isaac  Van  Alstine  and 
his  wife  Elizabeth  Van  Alen.  Children : 
Abraham  Philip,  mentioned  below:  Isaac  P., 
born  October  i,  1764;  Weintje,  August  15, 
1766:  John  P.,  March  2,  1770. 

(V)  Abraham  Philip,  eldest  child  of  Philip- 
pus  and  Mary  (Van  Alstine)  Van  Alstine,  was 
born  May  16,  1762,  in  Poelsburgh,  then  in 
town  of  Kinderhook,  where  he  made  his  home. 
He  married,  in  1784,  Catalyne,  daughter  of 
John  and  Cornelia  (Vosburgh)  Gardinier. 
Children:  Maria,  born  February  20,  1785; 
Cornelia,  January  15,  1792;  Philip  Abraham, 
mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Philip  Abraham,  only  son  of  Abra- 
ham Philip  and  Catalyne  (Gardinier)  Van 
Alstine,  was  born  February  20,  1799,  in  Poels- 


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burgh,  then  in  town  of  Kinderhook,  where  he 
was  a  farmer.  He  married,  June  i,  1820, 
AHda,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  EHzabeth 
(Smith)  Vanderpool.  Children:  Abraham 
PhiHp,  mentioned  below ;  Andrew  X'anderpool, 
born  March  i,  1823;  Caroline,  February  9, 
1825;  James,  January  31,  1829;  Joseph 
Toombs,  July  31,  1836. 

(VTI)  Abraham  Philip  (2),  eldest  child  of 
Philip  Abraham  and  Alida  (Vanderpool)  Van 
Alstine,  was  born  June  4,  1821,  in  Poelsburgh, 
situated  in  the  northwestern  part  of  the  town 
of  Stuyvesant,  Columbia  county.  New  York. 
He  married,  January  15,  1844,  Anna  Maria, 
daughter  of  James  and  Maria  (Morrison) 
Beneway.  Children :  Philip,  mentioned  below  ; 
James  Morrison,  Elizabeth  Caroline,  Eldorus, 
Mary  Augusta. 

(Vni)  Philip,  eldest  son  of  Abraham 
Philip  (2)  and  Anna  Maria  (Beneway)  Van 
Alstine,  was  born  at  Poelsburgh  in  the  town 
of  Stuyvesant,  Columbia  county,  New  York. 
He  was  educated  in  district  schools,  Schodack 
Academy,  Volkert  Whitbeck's  Classical  School 
at  Albany,  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Commercial 
College.  He  studied  law  at  Hudson,  New 
York,  with  Beale  &  Benton,  admitted  to  the 
bar  at  New  York  City.  1868.  He  became  a 
resident  of  Spring  \'alley,  Rockland  county, 
New  York,  1887.  Delegate  to  Democratic 
National  Convention  at  Chicago,  1892  ;  counsel 
for  the  town  of  Ramapo  and  the  village  of 
Spring  Valley,  Rockland  county.  New  York, 
several  years ;  member  of  Holland  and  Colum- 
bia County  Societies;  member  of  Reformed 
church ;  in  politics,  an  Independent  Democrat. 
He  married,  September  2,  1874,  at  Austerlitz, 
Columbia  county,  New  York.  Amelia  A., 
daughter  of  Roger  and  Silence  (Crowter) 
Haskell.  Children :  Anna  Amelia.  Daisy 
Mabel,  Edna  May.  The  eldest  of  these  was 
married  at  Spring  Valley,  New  York,  Febru- 
ary 21.  1900,  to  Percival  Van  Orden,  son  of 
Peter  S.  and  Mary  Ann  (Hopper)  \"an 
Orden.  and  has  a  daughter,  Mabel  V'an  Alstine 
Van  Orden. 


It  is  strongly  claimed  that  the 
HASKELL     name    Haskell    is    of    Norse 

origin.  The  name  is  traced 
back  in  English  manuscripts  in  an  unbroken 
line  from  Surrey  Osberne  Haskell,  of  Rowl- 
stone  castle,  Herefordshire.  England,  who  was 
born  1541.  and  married  Sarah  Finderne.  1580, 


to  Oscytel,  a  Norse  king,  who  landed  in 
Northumberland,  England,  in  the  year  800. 

Surrey  Osberne  Haskell,  died  1642,  leaving 
a  son  Edward,  born  1581. 

Edward  Haskell  married  Viola  Patterson, 
1605,  and  had  children:  Edward,  born  1606; 
William.  1607;  Roger,  1608;  Mark.  1609.  The 
three  brothers,  William,  Roger  and  Mark  em- 
igrated from  Bristol,  England,  in  1628,  and 
settled  at  Salem,  Massachusetts,  in  that  part 
of  Salem  now  called  Beverly,  then  known  as 
Cape  Ann  side. 

Roger  Haskell  married  Elizabeth  Hardy  at 
Salem  about  the  year  1655.  Children:  Samuel, 
born  about  1656;  Mark,  about  1657;  Roger, 
about  1658. 

Mark  Haskell  married  Mary  Smith,  March 
20.  1678.  Children:  Roger,  born  October  17, 
1680.  married  Joanna  Swift,  January  25,  1709; 
John,  February  14,  1682. 

John  Haskell  married  Mehitabel about 

1710.  Children:  Roger,  born  March  8,  171 1, 
married  Alice  Spooner;  Zachariah,  April  11, 
1718. 

Zachariah  Haskell  married  Keziah  Goss, 
August  20,  1746.  Child :  Roger,  born  April 
^-  1753- 

Roger  Haskell  married  Mary  Webster.  May 
10,  1781.  Children:  Daniel,  born  February 
13.  1782;  Mary,  March  18.  1783;  Zachariah, 
November  3.  1784;  Simon,  February  2,  1787; 
Patience,  April  14,  1789;  Huldah.  June  13, 
1791  ;  Ebenezer,  July  15.  1794;  Sylva,  March 
28,  1797;  Parthenia.  June  13.  1799:  Sally.  Au- 
gust 15.  1801 ;  Allen,  June  28,  1803:  Lester, 
February  15,  1805:  Luzillah,  February  21, 
1807. 

Zachariah  Haskell  married  Unity  Anderson, 
widow  of  Calvin  Geer.  April  3,  1810.  Chil- 
dren: Chloe,  born  April  8,  1812 ;  Anna,  De- 
cember 19,  1813;  Anderson,  November  15, 
1815:  Roger,  March  17,  1818;  Dehlia.  Octo- 
ber 12.  1821  ;  Zachariah,  November  12,  1823; 
Herman.  May  17,  1826. 

Roger  Haskell  married  Silence  Crowter.  of 
Austerlitz,  New  York,  daughter  of  Robert 
and  Ruth  (Harmon)  Crowter,  December  19, 
1842.  Children :  Ruth  Maria,  spinster,  born 
at  Austerlitz.  New  York,  October  11.  1843; 
Amelia  Ann.  bom  at  Peru.  Massachusetts, 
June  18,  1848.  graduate  of  Canaan.  New 
York,  Classical  Institute,  and  Albany  Normal 
College,  Principal  of  Union  Free  School  at 
Bayside,    Long   Island.      A   manager   of   the 


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Woman's  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the 
Reformed  Church  in  America.  Married,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1874,  Philip  Van  Alstine,  counsellor- 
at-law.  Now  a  resident  of  Spring  Valley, 
New  York. 


The  founder  of  the  Bogar- 
BOGARDUS     dus  family  in  America  was 

the  famous  Dominie  Ever- 
ardus  Bogardus,  pastor,  counsellor  and  friend 
of  the  early  Dutch  settlers  of  New  Amster- 
dam, who  cheered  them  amid  their  toils  and 
adversities  and  in  dark  hours  of  peril;  joined 
many  of  them  in  marriage ;  baptized  their  chil- 
dren; oft  performed  in  their  stricken  homes 
the  last  sad  rites  and  frequently  acted  as  guar- 
dian of  their  estates.  He  was  the  first  settled 
minister  of  the  Dutch  church  at  New  Am- 
sterdam, where  he  continued  until  his  last  trip 
to  Holland  in  1647.  He  sailed  from  New 
Amsterdam  in  the  ship  "Princess"  in  company 
with  Director  Kieft,  August  16,  1647.  On 
September  2^,  having  mistaken  their  course, 
they  were  wrecked  upon  a  rock  on  the  coast 
of  Wales.  Dominie  Bogardus  and  Director 
Kieft  both  perished,  although  many  were 
saved.  (For  an  extended  account  of  his  ca- 
reer see  Bogardus  in  Gray  family  history.) 
He  was  a  valuable  man  in  the  settlement,  his 
advice  was  constantly  sought  in  matters  af- 
fecting both  individuals  and  the  community 
and  the  amount  of  public  business  with  which 
he  was  intrusted  on  his  final  departure  for 
Holland  evinced  the  continued  respect  and  con- 
fidence of  his  people.  He  married,  June  21, 
1642,  Anneke  (Annetje)  Jans,  or  Jansen,  who 
had  a  grant  of  sixty-two  acres  between  the 
present  Warren  and  Christopher  streets.  New 
York  City.  This  land  has  probably  caused 
more  bitter  controversy  than  any  other  on 
earth.  It  forms  the  basis  of  dispute  between 
the  heirs  of  Anneke  and  Domine  Bogardus 
on  the  one  hand  and  Trinity  church  corpora- 
tion on  the  other.  Its  immense  value  makes 
the  ownership  a  prize  worth  striving  for  and 
fierce  legal  battles  have  been  fought  over  it. 
The  title,  however,  seems  to  rest  with  Trinity 
corporation.  After  the  death  of  Dominie  Bo- 
gardus, his  widow  took  up  her  residence  in 
Albany,  continuing  there  until  her  death  in 
1665.  Children:  William,  in  1656  a  clerk  in 
the  secretary's  office  in  New  Amsterdam  and 
in  1687  postmaster  of  the  province ;  Cornelis, 
baptized    September   9,    1640,    in    New   York 


City,  later  of  Albany,  married  Helena  Teller; 
Johannes  or  Jonas,  baptized  January  4,  1643; 
Pieter,  baptized  April  2,  1645,  resided  in 
Albany  until  near  the  close  of  his  life,  when 
he  removed  to  Kingston,  where  he  died  in 
1703.  In  1673  he  was  one  of  the  magistrates 
of  the  town  and  in  1690  was  commissioned 
with  others  to  treat  with  the  Five  Nations  and 
to  look  after  the  defence  of  the  town.  He 
made  his  will  February  3,  1701-2.  He  mar- 
ried Wyntje  Cornelis  Bosch. 


Some  idea  of  the  origin  of 
LEAYCRAFT  this  name  may  be  had  if 
we  consider  the  words. 
Lay  or  Leay,  which  may  be  derived  from  the 
French  word  Laie,  which  is  the  term  to  de- 
scribe a  lane  through  a  forest.  Lay  in  the 
sense  in  which  it  is  used  in  the  compound 
word.  Layman,  not  meaning  clerical  or  pro- 
fessional, is  clearly  not  the  sense  in  which  it 
is  used  here.  In  the  latter  sense  the  word 
was  used  by  Ben  Jonson,  the  British  poet. 
The  word  or  that  form  of  it  occurs  in  the 
Hundred  Rolls  of  England  as  a  personal  name. 
There  are  also  other  names,  evidently  Norman 
in  origin,  such  as  Le  Lay,  Du  Lay  and  De 
Lay.  The  name  has  been  spelled  in  this  form 
since  the  year  1743  in  this  country. 

(I)  Captain  Viner  Leaycraft  was  com- 
mander of  the  privateers,  "Potter,"  from  1743 
to  1748,  and  of  "King  George"  from  1756  to 
1763.  His  will  was  probated  August  24,  1784, 
and  recorded  September  24,  1784. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Captain  Viner  Leaycraft, 
served  as  second  lieutenant  in  the  revolution 
on  the  sloop,  "Montgomery,"  entering  the  ser- 
vice, April  18,  1776. 

(III)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Leaycraft, 
died  January  10,  1844,  aged  sixty-five  years, 
buried  from  his  residence.  No.  130  Thirteenth 
street.  New  York  City. 

(IV)  Anthony  D.,  son  of  John  (2)  Leay- 
craft, was  born  in  New  York  City,  October 
15,  1824,  died  there,  April  21,  1898.  He  was 
engaged  in  the  express  business,  and  was  well 
known  in  his  line  of  trade.  He  was  a  Whig  in 
politics,  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church.  He  married  Hannah  Thompson, 
born  July  25,  1828,  in  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
died  May  3,  1908,  in  New  York  City,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Elizabeth  Thompson.  The 
marriage  took  place  March  8,  1848,  the  Rev. 
J.    Dowling,    D.D.,    officiating.      Children :    i. 


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John  Edgar,  mentioned  below.  2.  Mary  Eliza- 
beth, born  March  30,  1852 ;  married,  February 
22,  1872,  John  Morrison  Chesborough.  3. 
Hannah  Augusta,  born  January  2,  1863 ;  mar- 
ried Dr.  Charles  Sumner  Benedict.  4.  Eg- 
bert Rinehart,  born  February  24,  1869;  mar- 
ried Louise  Belle  Haddon. 

(V)  John  Edgar,  eldest  son  of  Anthony  D. 
and  Hannah  (Thompson)  Leaycraft,  was 
born  March  15,  1849,  in  New  York  City.  He 
established  the  firm  of  John  Edgar  Leaycraft 
&  Company  in  the  real  estate  business  and  is 
now  located  at  No.  30  East  Forty-second 
street.  The  members  of  the  firm  have  built 
up  a  large  and  lucrative  business  and  stand 
high  in  their  profession.  John  Edgar  Leay- 
craft is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  in  religion 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 
He  married,  in  Sing  Sing,  Westchester  county, 
New  York,  November  25,  1874,  Caroline 
Crawford,  born  March  19,  1847,  daughter  of 
Morris  De  Camp  and  Charlotte  (Holmes) 
Crawford.  Morris  De  Camp  Crawford  was 
born  February  19,  1819,  in  Albany,  New 
York.  Charlotte  (Holmes)  Crawford  was 
born  April  14,  1822,  in  Newburgh,  New  York, 
died  in  1886.  The  marriage  took  place  No- 
vember 20,  1844,  at  Newburgh,  New  York. 
Joseph  Crawford,  father  of  Morris  De  Camp 
Crawford,  was  born  February  10,  1785,  died 
August  9,  1832.  He  married,  December  31, 
1806,  Mary  Barker.  The  children  of  Joseph 
Crawford  were:  Caroline,  Lemuel,  Sarah, 
Elijah,  Joseph  Barker,  Mary,  Morris  De  Camp, 
mentioned  above  ;  Almira,  Susan  Ophelia.  The 
children  of  Morris  De  Camp  Crawford  were: 
I.  Gilbert  Holmes,  born  1849;  married  Sarah 
Merritt.  2.  Morris  Barker,  born  1852;  mar- 
ried Caroline  Rice.  3.  Caroline,  mentioned 
above,  born  1847 ;  married  John  Edgar  Leay- 
craft. 4.  Hanford,  born  1854;  married  Ger- 
trude Smith.  5.  Frank  Lindsay,  born  1856: 
married  Genevieve  Buckland.  6.  William 
Herbert,  born  i860;  married  Mina  Paine. 
Children  of  John  Edgar  and  Caroline  (Craw- 
ford) Leaycraft:  i.  Agnes,  born  April  25, 
1876;  married,  June  14,  1906,  Thomas  S.  Don- 
ohueh ;  children :  Agnes  Caroline,  born  No- 
vember 30.  IQ07,  New  York,  and  Crawford 
Edgar,  born  December  23,  1910.  in  India.  2. 
Edgar   Crawford,   mentioned   below. 

(VI)  Edgar  Crawford,  son  of  John  Edgar 
and  Caroline  (Crawford)  Leaycraft,  was 
born  in  New  York  Citv,  November  12,  1S80. 


He  attended  the  Collegiate  School  in  New 
York  City  when  he  was  eight  years  old  and 
continued  his  studies  for  six  years.  Then  he 
went  to  Cutler  School  in  New  York  City  and 
remained  there  four  years.  In  1898  he  entered 
Harvard  University  and  remained  until  1902, 
graduating  the  same  year  and  receiving  the  de- 
gree of  B.A.  He  joined  his  father  in  the  real 
estate  business  and  is  still  connected  with  the 
same,  being  now  a  member  of  the  firm.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Cavalry,  National  Guard,  New 
York.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Harvard  Club, 
New  York  City ;  the  Lawyers'  Club,  New 
York  City;  and  the  Union  League  Club.  In 
religion  he  is  a  Methodist,  and  attends  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Madison 
avenue.  New  York  City.  He  married,  June 
T,.  1913.  Tulia  Searing  in  Saugerties,  New 
York. 


The  ancestors  of  this 
VAN  ORDEN  family  came  from  Naar- 
den,  a  small  village  in  Hol- 
land, hence  the  name  Van  Naarden  (from 
Naarden).  Two  forms  of  the  name  are  now 
in  general  use  among  the  descendants,  Van 
Norden  and  Van  Orden. 

(I)  The  earliest  record  now  obtainable  con- 
cerns the  family  of  Peter  Van  Naerden  and 
his  wife  Aneckje  Jans,  the  latter,  of  course, 
being  a  daughter  of  a  man  named  Jan.  They 
were  residents  of  New  Amsterdam  (New 
York)  prior  to  1654,  and  in  1655  Peter  was 
the  owner  of  property  as  shown  by  the  fact 
that  he  was  taxed  five  dollars  to  pay  debt  in- 
curred in  erecting  the  city  defenses.  In  the 
previous  year  he  was  appointed  a  beer  carrier. 
In  1664  he  owned  a  lot  with  a  frontage  of 
twenty-two  feet,  situated  at  the  southwest 
corner  of  Broadway  and  Marketfield  street, 
in  New  Amsterdam,  where  he  resided  with  his 
wife  and  died  soon  after.  For  several  years 
following  his  death  his  widow  continued  to  re- 
side there,  but  in  1686  her  home  was  on  the 
west  side  of  Broad  street  at  which  time  she 
was  a  member  of  the  Dutch  church.  The  bap- 
tismal records  of  that  church  give  the  follow- 
ing, but  undoubtedly  there  were  other  chil- 
dren :  Jan,  baptized  October  4.  1654 ;  Engeltie, 
.A.pril  "14,  1658;  Metje,  April  14,  1658;  Casper, 
February  15,  1660;  Tryntie.  December  17, 
1662.  The  church  records  of  Hackensack 
show   that   Andriese,   undoubtedlv  a   child   of 


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Peter  and  Aneckje,  was  born  about  1670,  in 
New  York. 

(II)  Andriese  (Andrew)  Janse  Van  Or- 
den  was  residing  in  the  vicinity  of  Hackensack 
as  early  as  1700,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Schraalenburg  church  with  his  second  wife 
before  1733.  The  Hackensack  records  say  he 
was  born  in  New  York  and  the  date  must  have 
been  in  the  vicinity  of  1675.  He  married 
(first)  at  Hackensack,  August  31,  1700,  Rachel 
Demarest,  born  June  4,  1680,  at  Hackensack, 
died  before  June,  1710,  daughter  of  David 
and  Rachel  (Cresson)  Demarest.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Antie  Laroe.  Children  of  first 
wife  :  Jan,  mentioned  below  ;  Rachel,  baptized 
April  2,  1704;  David,  July  13,  1709.  Children 
of  second  wife :  Jacobus  and  Elizabeth 
(twins),  baptized  November  4,  171 1  ;  Jannetje, 
November  14,  1714;  Elizabeth,  September  15, 
1717;  Petrus,  July  2,  1720;  Wybrege,  January 
20,  1723,  all  at  Hackensack;  Andries,  March 
28,  1729,  at  Tappan. 

(III)  Jan,  eldest  child  of  Andriese  Janse 
and  Rachel  (Demarest)  Van  Orden,  was  bap- 
tized September  16.  1701,  at  Hackensack,  and 
probably  lived  in  that  neighborhood  all  his  life. 
He  married,  September  17,  1728,  at  Hacken- 
sack, Rachel  Van  Schieve,  and  had  children 
baptized  at  Hackensack:  Andriese,  June  18, 
1729;  David,  died  young;  David,  born  May  5, 
1733;  Stephen,  mentioned  below;  Lea  and 
Rachel  (twins),  April  9,  1738;  Jacobus,  June 
13.  1742. 

(IV)  Stephen,  fourth  son  of  Jan  and 
Rachel  (Van  Schieve)  Van  Orden,  was  born 
May  2,  1735,  at  Hackensack,  and  resided  in 
what  is  now  Rockland  county.  New  York, 
then  a  part  of  Orange.  He  died  before  July 
17,  1771,  when  his  widow  brought  their  young- 
est child  for  baptism  at  the  Tappan  church. 
He  married,  at  Schraalenburg,  May  31,  1760, 
Marya  Koning,  born  January  6,  1736,  at  Tap- 
pan,  daughter  of  Arie  and  Elisabedt  (Hartie) 
Koning.  They  had  the  following  children  bap- 
tized at  Schraalenburg:  Rachel,  born  May  13, 
1761  ;  Petrus,  August  14,  1763;  John,  men- 
tioned below ;  Elizabeth,  January  28,  1769 ; 
Marytje,  July  26,  1771. 

(V)  John,  second  son  of  Stephen  and  Maria 
(Koning)  Van  Orden,  was  born  July  8,  1766, 
probably  at  Tappan,  and  was  a  farmer  in  the 
town  of  Ramapo,  Rockland  county.  New 
York,  where  he  was  associated  with  the  Dutch 
Reformed    church,    and    in    politics    with    the 


Democratic  party.  He  married,  April  18, 
1795,  at  Tappan,  Elizabeth  Eckerson,  of 
Clarkstown,  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Dirckje 
(Westervelt)  Eckerson,  born  December  16, 
1771,  in  Clarkstown,  died  March  11,  1862,  in 
Ramapo.  At  the  time  of  this  marriage  John 
Van  Orden  lived  in  Ramapo,  and  died  there 
April  21,  1837.  Children:  Stephen,  mentioned 
below ;  Thomas,  Catherine,  Myers,  Peter, 
Elizabeth  Yourey,  Lucas,  Margaret  Tallman, 
Maria,  Jacob  A.  Van  Riper. 

(VI)  Stephen  (2),  eldest  child  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Eckerson)  Van  Orden,  was 
born  September,  1796,  in  Ramapo,  died  there 
January  25,  1859.  He  was  a  farmer  all  his 
life;  a  member  of  the  True  Reformed  Church, 
and  a  Democrat  in  politics.  He  married,  in 
Ramapo,  Elizabeth  Van  Houten,  born  Febru- 
ary 7,  1801,  in  Spring  Valley,  died  there  Janu- 
ary 28,  1889,  daughter  of  Peter  Resolvert  and 
Wentje  (Tallman)  Van  Houten.  Peter  R. 
Van  Houten  was  born  January  11,  1778,  in 
Ramapo,  where  he  died  October  i,  1868.  His 
wife,  born  September  18,  1779,  died  January 
21,  1856.  Children  of  Stephen  Van  Orden: 
John  Stephen,  born  January,  1822.  married 
Jane  Maria  Quackenbush,  and  lived  and  died 
in  Ramapo,  Rockland  county.  New  York; 
Maria,  1826,  married  Peter  H.  Clark,  died  aged 
twenty-six;  Peter,  died  young;  Peter  S.,  men- 
tioned below. 

(VII)  Peter  S.,  youngest  child  of  Stephen 
(2)  and  Elizabeth  (Van  Houten)  Van  Orden, 
was  born  February  20,  1834,  in  Spring  Valley, 
New  York.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  that  place,  graduating  from  the  high  school. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  blacksmithing  which 
he  followed  two  years  in  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, after  that  about  eight  years  in  Spring 
Valley,  New  York.  Later  he  engaged  in  the 
undertaking  and  livery  business  at  Spring  Val- 
ley in  which  he  continued  over  forty  years, 
having  a  large  patronage.  la  1900  he  organ- 
ized the  firm  of  P.  S.  Van  Orden  cS:  Sons, 
and  this  establishment  has  built  up  an  exten- 
sive business  in  undertaking  and  embalming 
and  is  thus  at  present  engaged.  Mr.  Van 
Orden  and  family  are  affiliated  with  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church  of  Spring  Valley,  and  while 
he  sympathizes  with  the  general  policy  of  the 
Democratic  party  he  is  independent  in  politi- 
cal action.  He  is  a  member  of  Athelstane 
Lodge,  No.  839,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
of    Spring   Valley.      He   married,   October   4, 


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1859,  at  Nanuet,  Mary  Ann  Hopper,  senior 
daughter  of  Andrew  and  Annetje  (Terhune) 
Hopper,  born  March  19,  1836,  at  Nanuet,  her 
father  being  a  farmer  of  that  place,  and  the 
farther  of  children :  Garret,  Albert  Terhune, 
James  Van  Orden,  John  Henry,  Mary  Ann 
and  Matilda.  Children  of  Peter  S.  Van  Or- 
den: I.  Ellen,  born  August  3,  i860;  married 
William  Danforth  Keer,  and  resides  at  Spring 
Valley.  2.  Andrew,  born  November  24,  1864 ; 
married  Martha  V.  O.  Smith.  3.  John  S.,  born 
December  6,  1867;  married  Ida  Van  Ness.  4. 
Frank  M.,  born  January  8,  1870;  married  Ma- 
belle  Baird.  5.  Percival,  born  April  16,  1873; 
married  Anna  Amelia  Van  Alstine. 


This   spelling  has  been   quite 
PEARSON     uniformly    preserved    by    the 

members  of  this  family,  al- 
though it  appears  in  numerous  forms  in  the 
early  records  of  New  England,  such  as  Per- 
son, Peirson,  Pierson,  Persune.  There  is  a 
distinct  family,  quite  numerous  in  this  country, 
which  uses  the  spelling  Pierson.  The  name 
Pierre  (Peter),  which  was  introduced  into 
England  by  Norman  French  and  anglicized 
into  Pier  or  Piers,  is  the  word  from  which 
comes  the  name  Pierson  or  Pearson.  The 
family  bearing  this  patronymic  includes  many 
citizens  of  high  standing. 

(I)  John  Pearson  came  from  England  and 
settled  in  Rowley,  Massachusetts,  in  1643,  ^"d 
then  set  up  a  fulling  mill,  the  first  mill  for  this 
purpose  in  America.  He  was  a  man  of  prop- 
erty, and  active  and  prominent  in  the  com- 
munity. His  first  grant  of  land  was  in  the 
"uplands  laid  out  in  the  field  called  Batchelder's 
Plaine"  and  was  "one  house  lott  Containeing 
an  Acre  and  an  halfe  lying  on  the  South  side 
of  Richard  Lighton."  His  name  appears  often 
in  the  town  records  as  grantor  and  grantee  of 
land.  He  was  made  freeman  probably  in  1647, 
and  was  one  of  the  "five  men,"  or  selectmen, 
and  as  a  representative  of  the  town  opposed 
the  tyrannous  acts  of  Sir  Edmond  Andros, 
and  was  fined.  He  was  representative  in  1678. 
was  made  deacon,  October  24,  1686,  and  died 
December  22,  1693.  His  wife,  Dorcas,  sur- 
vived him  nine  years,  dying  January  12,  1703. 
Children:  Mary,  died  voung;  John,  born  De- 
cember 27,  1644;  Elizabeth,  October  17,  1652; 
Jeremiah.  October  25,  1653;  Sarah,  May  3, 
1655;  Joseph,  August  21,  1656;  Benjamin, 
April  6.   1658;   Phoebe.  April    13,   1660;   Ste- 


phen, mentioned  below;  Sarah,  May  6,  1666. 
The  fourth  son,  Joseph,  before  he  was  nine- 
teen years  old,  entered  the  Colonial  service  in 
what  was  known  as  the  "Flower  of  Essex," 
and  was  killed  in  a  battle  with  the  Indians 
near  Hatfield,  Massachusetts,  August  25,  1695. 

(II)  Stephen,  sixth  son  of  John  and  Dorcas 
Pearson,  was  born  about  1662.  but  his  birth  is 
not  recorded  in  Rowley.  He  received  from  his 
father  deeds  of  land  on  which  he  resided  in 
Rowley,  dying  about  the  beginning  of  the  year 
1706,  aged  about  forty-four  years.  Admin- 
istration of  his  estate  was  granted  March  9, 
1706,  and  division  was  made  April  4,  17 12. 
He  married  Mary  French,  who  survived  him 
more  than  twenty-four  years,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 27,  1730,  after  being  bedridden  for 
many  years.  She  may  have  been  a  daughter 
of  Stephen  (2)  and  Plannah  French,  of  Wey- 
mouth. Massachusetts,  born  May  11,  1662,  and 
granddaughter  of  Stephen  (i)  French,  who 
settled  at  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  in  1630, 
removing  soon  after  to  Weymouth.  There 
was  a  large  family  of  this  name  in  Essex 
county,  Massachusetts,  but  the  only  Mary  in 
it  who  could  possibly  have  been  the  wife  of 
Stephen  Pearson,  married  an  Eaton  and  died 
in  1726  Children:  Elizabeth,  born  August  25. 
1685  :  Stephen,  mentioned  below  ;  Martha.  July 
6.  1689:  Mary.  January  7,  1691  ;  Jonathan.  Oc- 
tober 21.  1693.  died  the  same  year;  Patience. 
July  26.   1697;  Hephsibah.   January  20,   1699. 

(III)  Stephen  (2).  eldest  child  of  Stephen 
(i)  and  Mary  (French)  Pearson,  was  born 
June  9,  1687.  in  Rowley  baptized  on  the  19th 
of  the  same  month,  and  died  Marcli  18,  1772. 
Undoubtedly  his  entire  life  was  passed  in  Row- 
ley, where  he  married.  February  27.  1711. 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Elizabeth 
(Kimball)  Jewett,  born  July  16,  1690.  in  Ips- 
wich. Massachusetts,  died  March  3,  1773.  and 
buried  in  Rowley.  Children :  Hannah,  born 
May  6.  1712;  Jonathan,  February  24.  1714; 
Moses,  mentioned  below:  Amos,  March  22, 
1718;  Mary,  May  3.  1720;  Stephen,  died 
young:  Sarah,  June  17.  1724;  Stephen.  Octo- 
ber 25.  1726;  Jeremiah,  baptized  April  13, 
1729;  Rebecca.  August  29.  1731  ;  Patience,  not 
recorded,  liut  mentioned  in  her  father's  will. 

(IV)  Moses,  second  son  of  Stephen  (2)  and 
Hannah  (Jewett)  Pearson,  was  baptized 
March  18.  1716.  in  Rowlev.  and  lived  in  that 
town  or  the  town  of  Newbury,  died  1794,  ac- 
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in  the  town  of  Newbury.  He  married  in  New- 
bury, January  i,  1739,  Sarah  Greenleaf,  of 
that  town,  born  July  6,  1719,  died  August, 
1792,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Cooper) 
Greenleaf.  Children,  baptized  at  Byfield 
parish  church:  EHzabeth,  May  22,  1743; 
Eunice,  October  6,  1745 ;  Sarah,  November  4, 
1750;  Moses,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Moses  (2),  son  of  Moses  (i)  and 
Sarah  (Greenleaf)  Pearson,  was  born  about 
1740  in  Rowley,  and  was  baptized  at  the  By- 
field  parish  church,  May  18,  1755.  He  settled 
in  the  town  of  Bradford,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  married,  November  9,  1766,  Martha  Goss, 
born  July  11,  1745,  in  Bradford,  daughter  of 
John  and  Mehitable  Goss,  of  that  town.  Chil- 
dren, recorded  in  Bradford :  Moses,  born  Oc- 
tober 8,  1767;  Hittie  (Mehitable),  November 
27,  1768;  Samuel,  mentioned  below;  Mollie, 
born  and  died  in  1772  ;  a  child  died  in  October, 
1774;  John  Tappan,  baptized  January  5,  1777. 

(VI)  Samuel,  second  son  of  Moses  (2)  and 
Martha  (Goss)  Pearson,  was  born  March  30. 
1770,  in  Bradford,  and  settled  in  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  as  early  as  1796,  dying  there  in 
1836.  He  married  (first)  October  12,  1793, 
Judith  Thurston,  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Elizabeth  (Rolfe)  Thurston,  of  Bradford, 
baptized  January  5,  1772,  in  the  Byfield  church, 
and  died  in  1824,  in  Providence.  He  married 
(second)  L.  B.  Coy.  Children:  Luther,  born 
September  21,  1794,  in  Reading,  Massachu- 
setts ;  Susanna,  November  30,  1795,  in  Read- 
ing, died  in  1796,  in  Providence;  Daniel  Chute, 
April  13,  1798;  William  Coleman,  mentioned 
below;  Harriet  and  Henry,  (twins),  October 
16,  1803;  Samuel,  December  4,  1705;  Susan, 
August  7,  1707;  Henry  Adams,  May,  171 1; 
Martha  G.,  December,  1713. 

(VH)  William  Coleman,  second  son  of 
Samuel  and  Judith  (Thurston)  Pearson,  was 
born  April  16,  1801,  in  Providence,  and  died 
in  January,  1865,  in  Jersey  City.  He  married 
in  Providence,  in  1826,  Mary  Ann  Earle,  born 
June  7,  1803,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Amey 
(Arnold)  Earle,  of  Providence  (see  Earle 
VHI).  Children:  Fanny  Earle,  probably  died 
young ;  William  Earle,  mentioned  below ; 
Henry  Augustus,  who  lived  in  Jersey  City, 
New  Jersey. 

(VIII)  William  Earle.  son  of  William 
Coleman  and  Mary  Ann  (Earle)  Pearson,  was 
born  July  6.  1830,  died  February  i,  iqos.  He 
was  a  manufacturer  of  lumber  and  boxes  in 


Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  and  was  in  partner- 
ship with  his  wife's  father,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Vanderbeek  &  Sons.  The  firm  con- 
ducted a  planing  mill,  lumber  yard  and  box 
factory.  He  married  Susan  Ann  Vanderbeek, 
of  Jersey  City.  Children:  Frank,  born  Sep- 
tember 26,  1864;  Isaac  Vanderbeek,  mentioned 
below. 

(IX)  Isaac  Vanderbeek,  son  of  William 
Earle  and  Susan  Ann  (Vanderbeek)  Pearson, 
was  born  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  March 
7,  1871.  He  attended  Hasbrouck  Institute  of 
Jersey  City.  New  Jersey,  and  Stevens  Prepara- 
tory School  of  Hoboken,  New  Jersey.  The 
first  four  years  of  his  business  life  were  in 
the  employ  of  H.  J.  Hardenbergh,  architect, 
whose  offices  were  at  Twenty-third  street  and 
Fifth  avenue,  New  York  City.  Afterward, 
until  1905,  he  was  associated  in  business  with 
his  father  in  the  manufacture  of  boxes  in  the 
the  firm  of  Vanderbeek  &  Sons.  Since  1905 
he  has  been  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Pearson  & 
Welch,  brokers,  of  No.  25  Broad  street.  New 
York.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Jersey  City  Club 
and  of  the  New  England  Society  of  New 
York.  In  religion  he  is  a  Presbyterian,  and  in 
politics  a  Republican. 

He  married,  November  i,  1899,  Katherine, 
born  May  19.  1879,  in  Glasgow,  Scotland, 
daughter  of  John  R.  MacKenzie,  granddaugh- 
ter of  George  R.  MacKenzie.  Children' 
Katherine  M.,  born  November  25,  1904;  Wil- 
liam Earle,  January  2,  1908. 

(The  Earle  Line.) 

This  is  an  old  Rhode  Island  name,  and 
represents  one  of  the  most  prolific  of  New 
England  families.  From  Rhode  Island  the 
family  has  spread  over  the  United  States  and 
is  well  represented  in  nearly  every  state  of  the 
Union.  It  has  been  for  some  time  connected 
with  the  business  history  of  Jersey  City. 

(I)  Ralph  Earle  was  in  Newport,  Rhode 
Island,  as  early  as  1638,  being  one  of  the  fifty- 
nine  persons  admitted  October  i.  of  that  year, 
as  a  freeman  of  the  island  of  Aqueedneck 
(Rhode  Island).  For  many  years  he  bought 
and  sold  land  frequently  in  various  parts  of 
the  island,  and  in  t6sS  and  T669  served  on  the 
grand  jury.  He  was  appointed  bv  the  court 
commissioners  to  keep  a  house  of  entertain- 
ment, joined  a  company  of  horse,  August  10, 
1667,  and  later  was  chosen  captain.  On  June 
7,  1671,  he  was  a  member  of  a  special  jury  to 


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try  two  Indians.  Ralph  Earle  claimed  the 
lands  of  the  Dutch  House  of  Good  Hope,  now 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  commenced  a  law- 
suit to  establish  his  claim  against  Richard 
Lord  and  James  Richard,  possessors  of  the 
Dutch  land  about  1667.  Earle  affirmed  that 
he  purchased  the  land  from  Underbill  in  Au- 
gust, 1653,  paying  twenty  pounds  sterling  for 
it,  but  Underbill  protested  against  the  claim, 
which  was  probably  well-founded.  His  wife, 
Joan  Savage,  was  born  in  England  in  1594-95. 
They  were  probably  married  in  England.  Their 
children  were:  Ralph,  married  Dorcas 
Sprague ;  William,  mentioned  below ;  Mary, 
married  William  Cory ;  Martha,  married  Wil- 
liam Wood ;  Sarah,  married  Thomas  Cornell. 
(11)  William,  second  son  of  Ralph  and  Joan 
( Savage)  Earle,  was  born  in  England,  and 
first  appears  in  American  records,  April  2, 
1654,  when  he  and  his  wife  Mary  sold  their 
interest  in  fourteen  acres  of  land,  which  came 
to  the  wife  from  her  parents.  He  was  admitted 
a  freeman  at  Bristol,  Rhode  Island.  May  11, 
1658.  and  seven  days  later  was  admitted  a 
freeman  of  the  colony  by  the  general  court 
held  at  Warwick.  On  June  8,  of  the  same 
year,  he  was  chosen  to  represent  Bristol  in  the 
general  court  of  trials  at  Newport.  In  part- 
nership with  William  Cory  he  was  given  a 
grant  of  one  and  one-quarter  acres  of  land. 
May  I.  1665.  provided  they  maintain  a  wind- 
mill for  the  use  of  the  town.  The  site  of  the 
mill  was  thereafter  known  as  Windmill  Hill. 
In  1668  the  wind-mill  had  been  completed,  and 
two  years  later  William  Earle  removed  to 
Dartmouth.  Massachusetts,  where  he  had 
large  interests  and  remained  several  years. 
His  share  of  lands  received  in  the  original 
divisions  exceeded  two  thousand  acres.  The 
general  assembly  for  Rhode  Island  and  Provi- 
dence plantations  for  the  election  of  general 
officers  of  the  colony  was  held  May  6.  i6gi,  at 
the  house  of  William  Earle.  having  removed 
from  Newport  because  of  a  prevailing  epi- 
demic. Earle  was  a  deputy  from  Portsmouth 
to  the  general  assemblies  held  at  Providence. 
October  25.  1704.  and  at  Newport  May  i  and 
July  3.  1706.  His  will  was  executed  Novem- 
ber 13.  1713,  and  he  died  January  15.  1715. 
He  married  (first)  Mary,  daughter  of  John 
and  Katharine  Walker,  of  Portsmouth.  His 
second  wife.  Prudence,  died  January  18.  T718. 
Children:  Mary,  born  i6S5.  married  Tohn 
Borden;  William,  born  at  Portsmouth,  Rhode 


Island;  married  Elizabeth  ;  Ralph,  born 

1660;  Thomas,  mentioned  below;  Caleb,  mar- 
ried  Mary ;   John,   born  at    Portsmouth, 

married  Mary  Wait;  Prudence,  married  Ben- 
jamin Durfee. 

(HI)  Thomas,  third  son  of  William  and 
Mary  (Walker)  Earle,  born  about  1662,  re- 
ceived land  in  Dartsmouth  from  his  father  in 
1692  and  settled  thereon.  This  he  sold  in  1696 
and  resided  for  a  short  time  in  Portsmouth, 
Rhode  Island,  but  before  the  close  of  that 
year  he  purchased  forty  acres  of  land  in  Swan- 
sea, Massachusetts,  where  he  settled,  and 
about  the  same  time  purchased  more  lands. 
In  1708  he  sold  a  parcel  exceeding  an  acre  for 
the  Friends'  Meeting  House,  and  in  1721  sold 
his  lands  and  removed  to  Portsmouth.  He 
made  his  will  in  Warwick,  April  27,  1727,  and 
died  the  following  day.  The  inventory  of  his 
estate  amounted  to  six  hundred  and  sixty-nine 
pounds,  nineteen  shillings  and  one  penny.  He 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Mary 
Taber,  of  Dartmouth,  born  1670.  died  1759. 
Children :  Willian^,  Thomas,  Mary.  Oliver, 
Sarah,  Lydia.  Rebecca. 

(IV)  Oliver,  third  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(Taber)  Earle,  was  born  about  1695,  in  Swan- 
sea, Massachusetts,  and  resided  for  a  time 
in  New  York  City,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
the  East  India  trade.  In  1716  he  received  a 
deed  from  his  father  of  one-half  the  paternal 
farm,  and  in  172 1  he  purchased  the  remainder 
for  eleven  hundred  pounds  and  settled  upon 
the  homestead,  where  he  died  in  1766.  His 
will,  made  in  that  year,  granted  freedom  to 
his  negro  slave  Jeff,  to  take  effect  when  the 
apprenticeship  of  the  latter  was  completed. 
Oliver  Earle  married.  June  9,  1720.  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Martha  (Tripp) 
Sherman,  of  Portsmouth.  She  was  a  grand- 
daughter of  Caleb  Sherman  and  great-grand- 
daughter of  Philip  Sherman,  of  Portsmouth. 
Children :    Joshua.  Caleb.  Thomas.  Mary. 

(V)  Caleb,  second  son  of  Oliver  and  Re- 
becca (Sherman)  Earle.  was  born  January  30, 
1729,  in  Swansea.  Massachusetts,  where  he  re- 
sided and  died  November  14,  1812.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  October  5,  1745,  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Benjamin  and  Isabel  Buffington,  of  Swan- 
sea, born  September  i,  1727,  date  of  death  un- 
known. He  married  (second)  in  1769,  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mary  Chace,  of 
Swansea,  born  December  12,  1744.  Children 
of  first  wife:     Elizabeth,  born   Februarv   13, 


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1748;  Weston,  mentioned  below;  Caleb,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1756;  Benjamin,  January  17,  1759; 
Joshua,  October  11,  1762;  David,  May  8,  1764. 
Children  of  second  wife :  Mary,  born  Febru- 
ary 20,  1771 ;  Joanna,  July  13,  1772 ;  Rebecca, 
July  20,  1774;  Daniel,  August  30,  1776;  Sarah, 
March  11,  1778;  Oliver,  January  24,  1780; 
William,  August  30,  1781 ;  Hannah,  March  15, 
1787. 

(VI)  Weston,  eldest  son  of  Caleb  and  Sarah 
(Buffington)  Earle,  was  born  April  18,  1750, 
in  Swansea,  where  he  resided  and  passed  away, 
September  5,  1838.  His  body  was  interred  at 
tl-e  Friends'  Cemetery  at  Somerset.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Hepzibeth  Terry,  (second)  Sarah 
Slade,  (third)  Martha  H.  Smith.  Children  of 
first  marriage:  Caleb,  mentioned  below; 
Sarah,  born  1777;  Hepzibeth,  1778.  Children 
of  second  wife:  John,  born  May  24,  1790; 
Slade,  October  16,  1791  ;  Edward  S.,  October 
17-  1795-  Child  of  third  wife:  Thomas  G., 
born  October  19,  1823. 

(VH)  Caleb  (2),  eldest  child  of  Weston  and 
Hepzibeth  (Terry)  Earle,  was  born  February 
25.  1771.  in  Swansea,  and  resided  in  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island,  where  he  died  July  13, 
1851.  He  married,  September  19,  1796,  in 
Providence,  Amey  Arnold,  born  April  16,  1777, 
in  Foster,  Rhode  Island,  second  daughter  of 
Nehemiah  and  Alice  (Arnold)  Arnold.  Chil- 
dren :  Frances,  born  April  16,  1798  ;  Elizabeth 
T  ,  September  8,  1800;  Mary  Ann,  mentioned 
below;  Joseph  M.,  July  18,  1810;  Henry,  June 
3.  1815. 

(VIII)  Mary  Ann,  third  daughter  of  Caleb 
(2)  and  Amey  (Arnold)  Earle,  was  born 
June  7,  1803,  in  Providence,  and  became  the 
wife  of  William  Coleman  Pearson,  of  that 
town   (see  Pearson  VII). 


The  name  Maxwell  is  of 
MAXWELL     Scot    origin,    and    is    found 

among  the  Scotch  and  Irish 
descendants  of  those  Scots  who  originally 
dwelt  in  the  northeast  part  of  Ireland,  whence 
they  emigrated  in  early  days  to  what  is  now 
Scotland  and  dispossessed  the  Picts,  who  were 
the  aboriginal  inhabitants  of  that  land.  From 
these  two  places  the  name  has  spread  over  the 
whole  world.  In  meaning  the  name  is  made  up 
of  the  prefix  "Mac"  and  the  noun  "swell,  or 
swale,"  the  significance  of  the  combination  be- 
ing "son  or  man  of  the  swale"  that  is  a  dweller 
in  a  low  marshy  valley. 


(I)  Thomas  Maxwell,  the  founder  of  the 
family  at  present  under  consideration,  was 
born  in  Donegal,  Ireland,  in  1786,  and  died  in 
Saugerties,  New  York,  in  1858.  In  1827  he 
came  to  America  with  his  young  wife,  and  for 
a  while  they  stopped  in  Philadelphia,  later  on 
removing  to  the  town  of  Hunter,  Greene 
county.  New  York,  where  he  worked  for 
Colonel  Pratt,  who  appointed  him  superinten- 
dent of  the  building  of  the  Catskill  turnpike 
and  later  made  him  overseer  of  the  turnpike 
at  Palenville.  Afterwards,  Mr.  Maxwell 
bought  a  farm  of  ninety  acres  of  land  at  Quar- 
ryville,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  and  clearing 
it,  lived  there  and  farmed  until  his  death.  Be- 
fore coming  to  America,  he  was  a  soldier  in 
the  British  army  under  Sir  John  Moore  and 
the  Duke  of  Wellington,  and  at  the  battle  of 
Waterloo  he  received  a  medal  for  meritorious 
conduct  and  bravery,  which  is  now  in  the  pos- 
session of  his  grandson,  Mr.  James  T.  Max- 
well, referred  to  below.  In  religion  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Church  of  England.  He  mar- 
ried in  Ireland,  Elizabeth  Heatherington,  of 
Fermanagh,  Ireland.  Children:  John,  re- 
ferred to  below ;  Eliza,  born  in  1820,  married 
George  Sanderson,  of  Paterson,  New  Jersey; 
James,  born  in  1823  ;  Sarah  Jane,  born  in  1828, 
married  C.  C.  Fiero,  of  Greene  county.  New 
York;  Thomas  (2),  born  in  1832  (q.  v.); 
Isabella,  born  in  1834,  married  Tunis  W.  Van 
Hoesen;  William,  born  in  1838;  Catharine, 
born  in  1841,  married  Jeremiah  Hommel,  of 
Saugerties. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
(Heatherington)  Maxwell,  was  born  in  Ire- 
land in  1818,  and  died  in  Saugerties,  New 
York,  in  July,  1885.  He  was  one  of  the  most 
progressive  men  of  his  day  and  was  extensively 
engaged  in  the  blue-stone  industry,  maintain- 
ing wholesale  departments  at  Rochester.  New 
York,  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  and  Maiden,  New  York.  He 
was  a  staunch  Republican  in  politics  and  served 
as  a  member  of  the  state  assembly  from  Ul- 
ster county  in  1867.  In  1877  he  was  nominated 
for  congress  against  D.  M.  Dewitt  and  was 
defeated  by  only  seventeen  votes  in  a  strongly 
Democratic  district.  He  married,  in  Philadel- 
phia, in  1842  or  1843,  Sarah  Maxwell,  not  a 
relative.  Children  :  Elizabeth  ;  John  ;  James 
T.,  referred  to  below  ;  Emma  and  William  L. 

(III)  James  T.,  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Maxwell)  Maxwell,  was  born  in  Quarry ville,. 


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Ulster  county,  New  York,  October  6,  1854.  and 
is  now  living  at  Saugerties,  New  York.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  private  school  at 
Maiden,  New  York  and  at  Riverview  Military 
Academy,  Poughkeepsie.  When  his  father 
died  he  succeeded  him  in  the  management  of 
the  large  interests  which  fell  to  his  inheritance, 
and  he  has  been  prominently  identified  with 
most  of  Saugerties'  important  industrial  and 
fiduciary  institutions  ever  since.  His  plant 
in  Philadelphia  handles  mostly  granite  and  cut 
stone,  is  fitted  with  special  machinery  and  is 
one  of  the  most  important  plants  of  its  kind 
in  the  country.  Mr.  Maxwell  is  interested  in 
the  New  York  Saugerties  steamboat  lines,  and 
owns  an  interest  in  about  fifteen  coastline 
schooners.  He  is  vice-president  and  director 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Saugerties,  a 
trustee  of  the  Saugerties  Savings  Bank,  vice- 
president  of  the  Saugerties  Steamboat  Com- 
pany, president  of  the  Saugerties  Printing  and 
Publishing  Company,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Saugerties  board  of  education. 

He  married,  in  1893,  Charlotte  A.  Haley, 
of  Princeton.  Maine,  born  March  11,  1871. 
Children:  William  L.,  born  July  24,  1894, 
now  attending  Yale  University ;  John,  born 
May  25,  1898:  James  T.,  born  September  17, 
1903- 


(H)  Hon.  Thomas  (2) 
MAXWELL  Maxwell,  third  son  of 
Thomas  (i)  Maxwell  (q.  v), 
and  Elizabeth  (Heatherington)  Maxwell,  was 
born  in  the  town  of  Hunter,  Greene  county, 
New  York,  April  20,  1832,  and  died  at  Sau- 
gerties, New  York,  September  4,  1894.  He 
lived  with  his  parents  in  Kaaterskill,  and  in 
1834  came  to  Quarryville,  where  he  obtained 
his  education  in  the  public  schools.  In  1869  he 
became  a  resident  of  Saugerties,  having  ac- 
cepted the  position  of  bookkeeper  for  his 
brother  John.  Later  he  became  interested  in 
the  blue  stone  business,  with  which  he  was 
identified  during  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
He  was  a  man  who  thought  deeply  on  all  pub- 
lic questions,  and  gave  his  political  support  to 
the  Republican  party.  He  was  elected  to  the 
office  of  supervisor  in  1877,  and  at  various 
times  filled  several  other  minor  offices  in  the 
village.  During  the  administrations  of  Presi- 
dents Hayes  and  Arthur  he  filled  the  office  of 
postmaster  of  Saugerties,  to  the  general  satis- 
faction of  tHe  community.     In    1887  he  was 


elected  as  a  member  of  assembly.  His  relig- 
ious affiliations  were  with  the  Methodist 
church.  He  was  a  member  of  Ulster  Lodge, 
No.  193,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1855,  Jane  A.  Hommel,  born  May  8, 
1837,  and  had  children  :  Adelaide  ;  Wilfred  ; 
David  W.,  see  forward;  Sarah;  and  Mabel. 

(Ill)  David  W.,  second  son  of  Hon. 
Thomas  and  Jane  A.  (Hommel)  Maxwell,  was 
born  at  Saugerties,  July  8,  1863,  and  died  at 
the  same  place.  May  18,  1910.  He  attended 
the  local  schools  and  the  Saugerties  Academy, 
and  early  in  life  turned  his  attention  to  a  busi- 
ness career.  He  was  identified  with  the  blue 
stone  business  of  John  Maxwell's  Sons,  in 
1886  became  superintendent  of  the  business, 
and  continued  in  this  position  until  his  death. 
He  was  a  thorough  business  man,  highly  re- 
spected in  the  community,  and  active  and  use- 
ful as  a  citizen.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  church,  of  the  Saugerties 
Club  and  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which 
he  had  attained  the  Knight  Templar  degree. 
Republican  in  politics,  he  was  active  in  promot- 
ing the  general  interests,  and  was  supervisor 
of  Saugerties  for  ten  consecutive  years,  ending 
in  1908.  He  married,  October  11,  1884,  Isabel, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Darrow,  of  Saugerties. 
Children:  i.  '\\'alter  Maxwell,  born  January 
28,  1888 :  a  graduate  of  Rensselaer  Poly- 
technic Institute,  Troy,  New  York,  June;  1910; 
is  now  employed  by  the  General  Electric  Com- 
pany, in  Schenectady,  New  York.  He  married, 
November  2,  1910,  Anna  M.  Clum,  and  they 
have  a  daughter,  Helen  C,  born  November  i, 
191 1.  2.  D.  Leslie  Maxwell,  born  June  7, 
1890,  succeeded  his  father  on  the  latter's  death 
as  superintendent  of  The  John  Maxwell's  Sons 
bluestone  business,  at  Saugerties,  New  York. 
He  married,  March  i,  191 1,  Hazel  Terwilliger, 
and  resides  in  Saugerties.  3.  Stewart  Max- 
well, born  January  i,  1893. 


The  names  of  Bergen  and  Van 
BERGEN     Bergen  are  Teutonic  or  German 

in  origin,  and  are  common  ones 
in  Holland  and  Germany,  and  the  adjacent 
territories,  as  well  as  in  Ireland.  In  German 
the  word  signifies  hills,  and  in  most  cases  the 
family  name  has  been  derived  from  the  prox- 
imity or  connection  of  the  original  family  with 
some  hills.  It  is  generally  assumed  in  the  case 
of  the  bearers  of  Teutonic  or  anglicized  names 
in  Ireland  that  thev  are  descendants  of  settlers 


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who  have  come  from  England  or  the  Continent 
after  the  establishment  of  surnames.  This 
may  occasionally  be  the  case.  Usually,  how- 
ever, it  is  not.  Thus  the  Irish  Bergens  and 
Mergins,  according  to  O'Hart,  are  really  scions 
of  the  ancient  Milesian  family  of  O'Aimergrin, 
the  Gaelic  prefix  in  their  case  being  dropped  and 
the  name  itself  slightly  metamorphosed  to  suit 
it  to  the  English  tongue.  Concerning  the  Ber- 
gens of  Holland,  Davies  in  his  "History  of 
Holland,"  says  :  "Guelderland  the  States  were 
composed  of  three  orders,  of  which  the  four 
baronial  families  of  Bronkhurst,  Bergen,  Baren 
and  Wissen,  were  esteemed  the  first  families." 

In  the  history  of  the  city  of  Amsterdam, 
the  name  frequently  occurs  among  the  munic- 
ipal officers.  Rietstap  gives  about  a  dozen 
families  of  the  name  as  having  the  right  to 
bear  arms.  The  coat-of-arms  of  one  of  the 
Dutch  families  is  thus  heraldically  described : 
Cuope,  au  d'or  a  trois  lions  de  sable,  arm.  et 
lamp,  de  gules  au  d'argent  a  un  bateau  a  tour- 
bes,  voguant  sur  une  eau,  !e  tout  au  nat.  Crest : 
im  lion  issuant  de  sable. 

(I)  Hans  Hansen  Bergen,  immigrant  ances- 
tor of  the  Bergens  of  Long  Island,  New  Jersey, 
and  vicinity,  was  born  at  Bergen,  Norway, 
deriving  his  surname  from  that  circumstance, 
and  died  at  Wallabout,  Brooklyn,  in  1653,  or 
1654.  He  emigrated  from  Norway  to  Hol- 
land, and  from  Holland  he  crossed,  in  1633,  to 
New  Amsterdam  or  New  York.  His  name 
appears  on  the  early  records  in  various  forms, 
his  surname  being  generally  omitted,  some  of 
the  forms  being  "Hans  Hansen  Van  Bergen 
in  Noorwegan,"  "Hans  Hansen,"  "Hans 
Hansz,"  "Hans  Noorman,"  the  term  Noor- 
man,  meaning  Northman,  evidently  referring 
to  Norway.  He  resided  for  some  years  in 
New  Amsterdam,  where  he  owned  and  prob- 
ably occupied  a  lot  on  the  present  Pearl  street, 
abutting  against  the  fort,  lying  between  the  lots 
of  John  Snedeker,  and  that  o'f  Joris  (George) 
Rapalie.  In  1638  he  was  engaged  in  the  cul- 
tivation of  the  tobacco  plantation  on  the  land 
of  Andries  Hudden  on  Manhattan  Island.  It 
is  evident  also  that  he  was  interested  in  the 
plantation  of  Master  Fixcox.  he  and  Fiscox 
having  taken  possession  of  and  cultivated  a 
tract  of  land  situated  on  the  North  river 
prior  to  the  granting  of  the  patents,  and  be- 
fore he  was  engaged  in  the  cultivation  of 
Hudden's  land.  In  1643  Maryn  Andriaensen 
sold    to    Thomas    Hall,    tobacco    planter,    the 


"plantation  situated  on  the  island  of  Manhat- 
tan on  the  North  river,  heretofore  cultivated 
by  Hans  Hansen."  Hans  Hansen  Bergen  was 
by  occupation  a  ship  carpenter  and  from  an 
agreement  with  Mr.  Moyr.  in  1642,  in  rela- 
tion to  a  yawl,  and  from  a  lawsuit  in  1643,  in 
relation  to  a  sloop,  it  appears  that  he  was  em- 
ployed at  his  trade  in  addition  to  the  cultiva- 
tion of  tobacco  and  farming.  In  the  beginning 
of  1643  the  River  Indians,  who  were  attacked 
by  their  enemies,  the  Mohawks,  fled  to  the  vi- 
cinity of  the  Dutch  settlements  for  protection. 
On  this  some  of  the  settlers  of  Long  Island 
petitioned  the  director  for  leave  to  attack  the 
Mareckkaweck  or  Brooklyn  Indians,  a  band 
of  the  Canarsie  tribe.  This  petition  was 
signed  among  others  by  Hans  Hansen,  from 
which  it  appears  that  at  this  date  he  was  re- 
sident on  Long  Island.  Later  he  fled  to  the 
city  for  safety  from  his  plantation,  of  which 
city  he  was  again  considered  a  resident.  Ac- 
cording to  a  receipt  on  the  register  of  the 
provincial  secretary  it  appears  that  April  2t„ 
1644,  Hans  Hansen  and  George  Rapalie,  his 
father-in-law,  hired  cattle  to  William  Smith, 
of  Stamford,  and  November  29,  1644,  gave  a 
note  to  Cornells  Maersen,  for  two  hundred 
and  fifty  guilders  for  wheat  bought  from  him. 
In  March,  1647,  he  obtained  from  Governor 
Kieft  a  patent  for  "a  piece  of  land  situated  on 
Long  Island."  On  his  two  hundred  morgen 
at  Wallabout  Hans  Hansen  Bergen  resided  as 
early  as  1648  and  continued  to  reside  there 
until  his  death.  There  is  a  tradition  in  the 
family  to  the  efl^ect  that  on  one  occasion  when 
Hans  was  working  in  the  fields  he  was  sud- 
denly surprised  by  a  band  of  Indians.  He 
sought  refuge  in  a  tree  and  believing  that  his 
last  hour  was  perilously  near  he  began  in  a 
strong  and  moving  voice  the  old  Dutch  hymn, 
"In  mijn  grootste  nood,  O'Heere"  (In  my 
greatest  need,  O  Lord).  The  savages  were 
so  charmed  by  the  music  that  they  stayed 
in  their  chase,  thus  giving  him  a  chance  to  get 
away.  Hans  Hansen  Bergen  married,  in  1639, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Joris  (George)  Jamsen 
Rapalie,  born  June  9,  1625.  She  married 
shortly  after  his  death,  Teunis  Gisbertsen  Bo- 
gaert.  Children :  Anneken,  baptized  July 
22,  1640;  Brecktje,  July  27,  1642;  Jan,  April 
17,  1644;  Michiel,  mentioned  below;  Joris, 
July  18,  1649;  Marritje,  October  8,  "165 1  ; 
Jacob,  September  21,  1653  ;  Catalyn,  twin  to 
Jacob. 


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(II)  Michiel  or  Michael,  son  of  Hans  Han- 
sen and  Sarah  (Rapalie)  Bergen,  was  bap- 
tized November  4,  1646,  in  New  Amsterdam, 
and  died  about  1732.  His  name  appears  on 
March  10,  1661,  to  a  petition  to  the  governor 
for  more  land.  In  May,  1664,  he  obtained 
from  Governor  Stuyvesant  a  patent  of  twenty 
morgens  at  New  Bedford  in  W'allabout.  From 
various  deeds  it  would  appear  that  Michiel's 
patent  of  twenty  morgens  in  Bedford  ad- 
joined the  north  side  of  the  road  leading  from 
New  York  to  Brooklyn  ferry  to  Jamaica,  and 
that  he  probably  sold  it  to  Denys  Hegeman, 
who  sold  it  to  Hendrick  Suydam.  After  the 
capture  of  New  Netherlands  from  the  English 
by  the  Hollanders,  in  October,  1673.  he  was 
appointed  a  lieutenant  of  militia  under  the 
administration  of  Anthony  Colve,  the  Nether- 
land  governor.  In  1676  and  1683  his  name 
appears  on  the  assessment  rolls  of  Brooklyn 
for  twenty  morgens,  the  amount  of  his  patent, 
on  which  at  the  time  he  probably  resided.  In 
1679  his  name  and  that  of  his  wife  appear 
on  the  list  of  the  members  of  the  Reformed 
Dutch  Church  of  Brooklyn,  among  the  resi- 
dents of  the  Wallabout,  and  from  1680  to 
1685  ^^  appears  to  have  held  the  office  of 
deacon  of  the  church.  In  1675  he  was  as- 
sessed in  Brooklyn  one  poll,  two  horses,  seven 
cows,  and  twenty  morgens  of  land  and  valley, 
the  land  valued  at  forty  pounds,  and  the  per- 
sonal property  at  seventy-four  pounds,  the 
total  being  one  hundred  and  fourteen  pounds. 
In  1680  he  and  Symon  Aessen  were  overseers 
of  Brooklyn.  In  the  same  year  he  is  credited 
on  the  books  of  Elbert  Elbertse  Stoothofif,  of 
Flatlands,  with  four  schepels  wheat,  and  also 
charged  for  a  house.  In  Dongan's  patent  of 
Brooklyn  of  1686,  he  is  named  as  one  of  the 
patentees.  Between  1681  and  1689  he  held 
the  office  of  one  of  the  overseers  or  commis- 
sioners, having  in  charge  town  lands.  In  Oc- 
tober, 1686,  he  was  a  member  of  the  grand 
jury  and  in  i6qo  he  was  foreman.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1687,  his  name  appears  among  those 
who  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  British 
government.  He  was  sent  with  others  on 
behalf  of  a  company  to  Pennsylvania  to  select 
a  good  tract  of  land  for  a  settlement  and  resi- 
dence. In  1698  he  was  appointed  a  justice  of 
the  peace  by  the  governor,  the  Earl  of  Bello- 
ment,  and  was  one  of  the  justices  of  the  ses- 
sions. There  are  various  records  of  his  buy- 
ing and  selling  lands,  the  last  record  of  him 


being  as  late  as  January  22,  1731.  He  mar- 
ried Femmetje  Theunis,  daughter  of  Theunis 
Denyse,  of  Gowanus,  baptized  April  3,  1650, 
at  New  Amsterdam.  Children :  Sara,  born 
June  2,  1678:  Teunis,  May  16,  1680;  Hans, 
mentioned  below;  Femmetje;  May. 

(Ill)  Hans,  son  of  Michiel  or  Michael  and 
Femmetje  ( Denyse)  Bergen,  was  baptized 
March  11,  1689,  and  died  in  1731.  From  the 
records  of  the  court  of  sessions  of  Kings 
county  in  1708,  it  appears  that  Hans,  with 
others,  was  tried  April  30,  1708,  for  a  riot 
said  to  have  been  committed  at  the  house  of 
Sarah  Knight,  a  t;iv:rn  keeper  in  Brookland. 
In  1710  he  bought  of  his  father  for  four  hun- 
dred pounds  the  land  at  Brooklyn  ferry, 
which  he  purchased  in  1709  from  Garret  Mid- 
dagh.  Hans  Bergen  and  his  wife  became  com- 
municants of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  of 
New  York  in  February,  171 3.  He  bought 
various  lands  in  Brooklyn,  and  seems  to  have 
engaged  in  many  real  estate  transactions.  In 
17 1 5  his  name  appears  on  the  militia  list  of 
the  town  as  a  private  in  Captain  Remsen's 
company.  In  171 7  Hans  Bergen,  baker, 
bought  of  Johannes  Sebering,  baker,  for 
ninety-nine  pounds,  his  interest  or  the  one 
individual  half  of  the  plot  they  purchased  as 
freeholders.  He  appears  also  to  have  had  an 
interest  in  lands  in  Manhattan.  He  carried 
on  the  bakery  business  in  Brooklyn  from  1717 
to  1730,  in  conjunction  with  a  store,  and 
stabling  for  horses  of  the  residents  of  the 
island,  when  crossing  to  New  York.  He  mar- 
ried Rachel,  daughter  of  Derick  Bensing  or 
Benson.  Children:  Annetje,  baptized  March 
12,  1710,  in  New  York;  Tiesje,  June  9,  171 1; 
Meigheil,  December  20.  1712:  Femmetje,  July 
29,  1715;  Derick,  mentioned  below:  Hans, 
July  12,  1721 ;  Tunis,  October  15.  1720. 

CIV)  Derick,  second  son  of  Hans  and 
Rachel  (Benson)  Bergen,  was  born  February 
28,  1718,  baptized  March  5  of  the  same  year 
in  New  York,  and  died  November  19.  1759. 
He  lived  with  his  brother  Hans  in  the  old 
stone  house  on  the  paternal  homestead  near 
the  Bay,  at  what  is  now  Fifty-fifth  street, 
Brooklyn,  where  he  died.  He  bought  of  his 
brother  Hans,  July  21,  1756,  a  farm  near  the 
present  Fifteenth  street,  Brooklyn,  where  his 
family  lived  after  his  death.  After  the  death 
of  his  father,  jointly  with  his  mother,  he  sold 
a  plot  in  Brooklyn,  about  one  acre,  on  the  road 
to    the    ferry,    for    three    hundred    and    forty 


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pounds.  He  owned  two  Negro  slaves  called 
Will  and  Caesar.  He  married,  in  1749,  De- 
borah, daughter  of  Jacques  (2)  Cortelyou, 
born  November  29,  1720,  died  January  15, 
1808.  Jacques  (2)  Cortelyou  was  born  about 
1697,  died  in  1757,  son  of  Peter  Cortelyou, 
who  was  born  about  1664  at  New  Utrecht, 
Long  Island,  and  died  April  10,  1757.  He 
was  a  surveyor  and  part  owner  of  the  Har- 
lington  Tract  in  Somerset,  New  Jersey.  He 
married  Deborah  DeWitt,  and  Jacques  was 
their  eldest  son.  Peter  Cortelyou  was  a  son 
of  Jacques  (i)  Corteljau,  very  prominent  in 
the  early  history  of  New  York.  His  name 
was  sometimes  written  Cortilleau.  He  was 
either  a  Huguenot  or  a  Walloon,  the  latter 
being  indicated  by  the  termination  of  his  name, 
which  he  wrote  Corteljau.  He  was  tutor  of 
the  children  of  Cornells  Van  Werckhoven  in 
Holland,  and  came  with  his  employer  to  New 
Amsterdam  in  1651-52.  Van  Werckhoven 
was  a  member  of  the  West  India  Company 
and  patroon  of  New  Netherlands,  owning  a 
patent  of  the  Nyack  tract  in  New  Utrecht, 
Long  Island.  In  1654  he  returned  to  Holland 
to  procure  settlers  for  his  tract,  leaving  Cor- 
teljau to  manage  the  property  in  his  absence. 
Soon  after  arrival  in  Holland,  Van  Werck- 
hoven died  and  the  property  on  Long  Island 
ultimately  came  into  possession  of  Corteljau. 
The  latter  was  appointed  surveyor  of  the  col- 
ony by  the  governor  and  council,  January  23, 
1657,  and  in  that  year  he  laid  out  the  village 
of  New  Utrecht,  whose  settlement  began  in 
1 661.  He  surveyed  much  of  the  lands  on 
Long,  Staten,  and  Manhattan  islands,  and  in 
other  parts  of  the  colony.  He  laid  out  the 
village  of  Schenectady,  and  lots  and  farms  on 
the  Delaware  river.  He  died  about  1693.  His 
wife,  Neeltje,  was  a  sister  of  Garret  Cornelisse 
Van  Duyn,  and  survived  him  a  short  time,  dy- 
ing before  December,  1695.  Children : 
Jacques,  born  about  1662 ;  Peter,  previously 
mentioned  as  the  father  of  Jacques  (2),  and 
grandfather  of  Deborah,  wife  of  Derick  Ber- 
gen; Cornells,  died  about  1690:  Helena,  died 
after  1726;  Maria,  wife  of  William  Barkeloo ; 
William,  who  probably  died  before  his  father. 
Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bergen;  i.  Rachel, 
born  1753,  died  March  10.  1824;  married,  De- 
cember 29,  1771,  Walter  Barry,  of  Gowanus. 
2.  Jemima,  mentioned  below.  3.  Tiesie,  born 
January  19,  1758:  married,  in  May,  1780, 
Ebenezer  Carson,  an  officer  of  the  revolution ; 


resided  on  a  part  of  the  paternal  farm,  which 
she  owned,  and  died  April  18,  1826.  4.  Naltie, 
born  March  25,  1759,  died  in  her  second  year. 

(V)  Jemima,  second  daughter  of  Derick  and 
Deborah  (Cortelyou)  Bergen,  was  born  May 
4,  1755.  She  was  married  in  September,  1769, 
to  Joseph  Smith,  a  native  of  New  Jersey. 
Children:  i.  Derick  Bergen,  born  December 
II,  1770,  died  1777.  2.  Samuel,  born  July  13, 
1772,  died  an  old  man,  unmarried.  3.  Eliza- 
beth, born  August  11,  1774;  married  James 
Seaman,  and  died  about  1854.  4.  Derick  Ber- 
gen, born  August  20,  1778,  died  1779.  5.  John, 
born  September  11,  1780;  was  living  in  1863. 
6.  Derick,  born  January  16,  1783  ;  was  mate  of 
a  vessel  sailing  from  New  York  to  San  Do- 
mingo, and  was  poisoned  by  a  Negro  cook  in 
November,  1828.  7.  Jacques,  born  March  17, 
1785,  died  an  old  man  in  Queens  county.  8. 
James,  born  March  12,  1787,  probably  died 
young.  9.  Rachel,  born  December  19,  1789 ; 
married  (first)  Captain  Nicholls,  (second)  a 
Mr.  Ford,  (third)  Calvin  Camfield,  of  New 
Jersey,  and  was  living  in  1863.  10.  Deborah, 
mentioned  below.  11.  Joseph,  born  April  7, 
1795,  died  November  25,  1850,  on  Long 
Island. 

(IV)  Deborah,  third  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Jemima  (Bergen)  Smith,  was  born 
Marcli  26,  1792.  She  married  (first)  Novem- 
ber II,  1813,  Thomas  G,  Adams,  of  New 
York  (see  Adams  VI)  ;  she  married  (second) 
John  Wyckofif,  of  Gowanus,  and  died  March 
6,  1836.  Children  of  first  marriage  :  Thomas, 
Jemima  Adaline,  William,  Elizabeth,  William 
J.;  child  of  second  marriage:  John  Wyckofif, 
born  February  10,   1835. 

(VII)  Jemima  Adaline.  second  child  of 
Thomas  G.  and  Deborah  (Smith)  Adams,  was 
born  January  4,  1817,  died  January  19,  1897. 
She  married.  December  31,  1836,  Joseph  Mo- 
sier  Simonson,  who  was  born  about  1810  in 
New  York  City  or  Brooklyn.  For  more  than 
forty  years  he  was  connected  with  the  Brook- 
lyn post  office,  being  most  of  that  time  assistant 
postmaster  under  various  administrations,  and 
died  in  the  harness,  July  4,  1879.  On  the  day 
of  his  funeral  nearly  all  the  employes  of  the 
post  office  attended  in  a  body.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Washington  Street  Methodist 
Church  of  Brooklyn,  and  was  also  identified 
with  temperance  organizations.  Politically  a 
Republican,  he  did  not  engage  actively  in  pol- 
itical movements,  and  held  no  elective  office. 


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His  efficiency,  faithful  and  upright  character 
are  attested  by  his  long  term  in  the  United 
States  service.  He  was  esteemed  for  his 
manly  qualities  and  widely  mourned  at  his 
death.  Children:  Joseph  Mosier,  born  De- 
cember I,  1837;  Mary  Louise,  August  29, 
1839;  Thomas  G.  Adams,  February  23.  1841 ; 
Sarah  Louise,  October  4,  1842;  Ann  Elizabeth, 
March  18,  1844;  Adalina,  September  28,  1846; 
Morris,  died  young ;  Morris,  born  January  28, 
1850:  Malvinio  Black,  June  27,  1852;  John 
Wyckoff,  June  28,  1855 ;  Arthur,  mentioned 
below. 

(VHI)  Arthur,  youngest  child  of  Joseph 
Mosier  and  Jemima  Adaline  (Adams)  Simon- 
son,  was  born  January  30,  1857,  in  Brooklyn, 
and  in  early  boyhood  attended  public  school 
No.  15  in  that  city.  He  afterwards  received 
private  tuition,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  years 
began  a  course  at  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Business 
College,  from  which  he  graduated.  Shortly 
after  he  engaged  with  the  firm  of  Powers  & 
Weightman,  chemists,  in  New  York  City,  with 
whom  he  continued  several  years.  He  then 
joined  the  law  firm  of  F.  &  H.  L.  Morris, 
which  later  became  Morris,  Sentell  &  Main. 
Mr.  Simonson  is  now  associated  with  H.  L. 
Morris,  with  offices  on  Exchange  Place,  and 
specializes  in  real  estate  and  insurance.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  resides  in  New 
York  City.     He  is  unmarried. 

(The  Adams  Line.) 

It  is  presumable  that  the  ancestor  of  this 
family  was  related  to  that  which  furnished 
two  presidents  to  the  United  States,  and  many 
distinguished  citizens  through  the  succeeding 
generations,  down  to  the  present  time.  This 
assumption  is  based  on  the  fact  that  the  an- 
cestor is  found  at  Braintree,  Massachusetts, 
where  Henry  Adams,  founder  of  what  is 
known  as  the  Presidential  Family,  also  settled 
on  coming  to  America.  At  any  rate,  many 
worthy  citizens  have  been  born  in  this  family, 
and  it  has  contributed  to  the  development  and 
welfare  of  many  localities. 

(I)  Jeremy  Adams,  ancestor  of  the  branch 
of  the  name  which  is  at  present  under  con- 
sideration, came  from  England  with  the  com- 
pany brought  over  to  America  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Hooker,  and  settled  first  at  Braintree,  Massa- 
chusetts, from  whence  he  soon  removed  to 
Cambridge,  then  called  Newtown,  where 
Jeremy  Adams  appears  as  early  as  1632,  and 
where  he  was  made  a  freeman,  May  6,   1635. 


and  was  assigned  a  homestead  lot  in  October 
of  the  same  year.  The  following  year,  1636, 
he  removed  with  the  company  which  became 
the  original  proprietors  of  the  new  settlement 
to  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  according  to 
Himman  was  a  juror  and  deputy  to  the  general 
court  of  Connecticut  in  1638.  On  April  5, 
1638,  he  was  sent  with  Captain  Mason  and 
five  others  to  treat  with  the  Indians  and  trade 
with  them  for  corn,  and  in  the  land  division  of 
1639  he  received  thirty  acres  on  the  highway, 
now  Elm  street,  and  the  same  year  was  chosen 
constable.  March  5,  1644,  the  general  court 
ordered  Jeremy  Adams  to  appear  before  the 
next  session  of  that  body  in  order  to  receive 
censure  for  "adhering  to  Thomas  Asmor,  en- 
couraging him  to  resist  an  officer,  and  espe- 
cially for  his  passionate  distempered  speeches, 
lowd  language  and  unmannerly  caredge  in  the 
face  of  the  court.''  March  13,  1660,  the  same 
court  granted  him  three  hundred  acres  of  up- 
land and  forty  acres  of  meadow  on  the  road 
going  to  Monhegin,  and  about  the  same  time 
established  him  as  keeper  of  the  ordinary. 
This  tavern  was  on  the  site  of  the  present 
Universalist  Church.  January  26,  1660,  he 
bought  the  lot  of  John  Morrice,  and  mortgaged 
it  to  the  colony,  and  May  14,  1663,  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  general  court  "custome  mas- 
ter" for  Hartford.  March  2,  1664,  being  sixty 
years  old,  he  was  "freed  from  watching  and 
warding."  and  in  1671  he  was  chosen  one  of 
the  townsmen.  He  died  .August  11,  1683,  leav- 
ing an  estate  valued  at  £243  5  shillings  6 
pence,  and  gave  his  property  to  his  grandson, 
Zachariah  Sanford,  the  children  of  his  son 
John,  and  the  children  of  his  son-in-law,  Na- 
thaniel Willit,  which  last  named  was  also  his 
executor.  The  house  of  his  executor  burned 
down  and  with  all  of  Jeremy  Adams'  books 
and  papers. 

About  1639,  Jeremy  Adams  married  (first) 
Rebecca,  widow  of  Samuel  Greenhill.  She  was 
possibly  the  second  wife  of  Mr.  Greenhill,  whc> 
had  come  from  Staplehurst.  county  Kent,  Eng- 
land, in  the  same  ship  with  Simon  Willard. 
To  this  marriage  there  were  six  children:  i. 
John,  mentioned  below.  2.  Ann,  died  in  1682 ; 
married  Robert  Sanford,  of  Hartford,  and 
had  eight  children.  3.  Hannah,  became  second 
wife  of  Nathaniel  Willit,  and  was  the  mother 
of  at  least  two  of  his  children.  4.  Samuel, 
baptized  November  24,  1645.  probably  died 
young.     5.   Hester.     6.   Sarah.     Rebecca,  his 


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first  wife,  died  1678,  and  Jeremy  Adams  mar- 
ried (second)  Rebecca,  daughter  of  John 
Fletcher,  and  widow  of  Andrew  Warner,  Jr., 
who,  although  not  mentioned  in  his  will,  sur- 
vived him  and  died  in  Middletown,  January 

25,  1715,  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years. 
(II)    John,    son    of    Jeremy    and    Rebecca 

(Greenhill)  Adams,  has  left  little  record  be- 
hind him  except  his  children,  the  date  of  his 
death,  and  the  inventory  of  his  estate,  which 
was  made  November  9,  1670,  and  amounted 
to  £4  15  shillings  6  pence.  His  widow  Abi- 
gail married  John  Betts,  of  Wethersfield,  who 
was  probably  a  son  of  John,  son  of  Mary 
Betts,  the  school  dame  of  Hartford.    January 

26,  1680,  John  Betts,  of  Wethersfield,  bought 
of  Jacob  Walker,  of  Stratford,  a  farm  at 
Huntington,  Long  Island,  and  about  this  time 
removed  with  his  wife  and  the  children  of 
John  Adams  to  that  place.  They  were  there 
at  least  in  1684,  when  John  Betts  and  his  wife 
Abigail  conveyed  to  Edward  Higbee,  "for  and 
in  consideration  of  a  marriage  between  the  said 
Higbee  and  Abigail  Adams,  his  stepdaughter," 
a  part  of  the  farm  bought  from  Jacob  \\'alker. 
Children  of  John  and  Abigail  Adams:  i.  Re- 
becca, born  August,  1658.  2.  Abigail,  born 
February,  1660;  married  Edward  Higbee;  one 
son,  John  Higbee,  married  Alice,  daughter  of 
Edward  Andrews,  and  left  two  children — Abi- 
gail, married  Robert  Leeds,  of  Burlington 
county,  New  Jersey,  and  Edward,  who  settled 
in  what  is  now  Atlantic  county.  New  Jersey, 
and  became  ancestor  of  the  Higbee  family  in 
that  region.  3.  Sarah,  born  March,  1662.  4. 
Jeremiah,  born  August,  1664;  married  and  re- 
moved to  Great  Egg  Harbor,  New  Jersey, 
where  letters  of  administration  were  granted 
to  his  son  Jeremiah,  December  16,  1735.  5. 
John,  Jr.,  born  September,  1666:  removed  to 
New  Jersey;  by  wife  Esther  had  seven  chil- 
dren. 6.  Jonathan,  mentioned  below.  7.  An 
unnamed  child. 

(Ill)  Jonathan,  next  to  the  youngest  child 
of  John  and  Abigail  Adams,  was  born  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  November  6,  1668,  died  in 
1727.  He  went  to  Huntington,  Long  Island, 
with  his  mother  and  stepfatlier.  and  November 
10,  1689,  Jeremiah  Adams  sold  to  "his  well 
beloved  brother"  Jonathan,  one-half  of  the 
plot  of  land  he  had  bought  of  his  stepfather. 
In  1695  Jonathan  Adams,  "of  Long  Island, 
yeoman,"  purchased  of  Thomas  Budd  about 
two  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  land  at  Great 


Egg  Harbor,  Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey, 
and  subsequently  made  further  purchases  until 
his  estate  consisted  of  over  twelve  hundred 
acres.  About  the  time  of  his  coming  to  New 
Jersey  he  became  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  his  descendants  for  several  gen- 
erations clung  to  the  same  faith.  In  1726  he 
was  chosen  as  one  of  the  overseers  of  the 
Friends'  meeting  at  Great  Egg  Harbor.  He 
was  a  man  not  only  of  much  property  but  of 
considerable  influence  and  was  very  highly  re- 
spected. For  a  number  of  years  he  was  one 
of  the  justices  of  the  county  court,  and  in  1701 
was  appointed  special  tax  collector.  His  will, 
dated  May  27,  1719,  proved  June  17,  1727, 
mentions  his  wife  Barbara,  and  children: 
Jonathan,  Jr. ;  John,  mentioned  below  ;  Abigail ; 
Margaret;  Rebecca;  Sarah,  married  John 
Steelman  ;  Mary ;  Nina  ;  Phoebe. 

(IV)  John  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  and  Bar- 
bara Adams,  inherited  most  of  his  estate  from 
his  father,  and  in  1676  had  it  resurveyed  to 
his  three  sons  in  equal  parts.  Besides  the  fact 
that  he  was  a  large  landholder  and  an  earnest 
Quaker,  very  little  record  of  him  has  come 
down  to  us.  The  three  sons  mentioned  in  the 
resurvey  spoken  of  above  were :  i.  John,  men- 
tioned beloW:  2.  Jonathan,  who  lived  in  Egg 
Harbor  township,  Atlantic  county;  was  a  pri- 
vate during  the  revolution ;  by  his  wife  Mary 
had  five  children.  3.  Elijah,  who  served  in  the 
Gloucester  county  militia  during  the  revolu- 
tion;  died  intestate  in  1801,  leaving  an  only 
son   Jeremiah. 

(V)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Adams, 
lived  on  the  one-third  of  his  father's  estate 
which  he  had  inherited.  He  served  as  an  en- 
sign in  the  New  Jersey  militia  during  the  war 
of  the  revolution.  His  will,  dated  August  25, 
1797.  proved  April  17,  1798,  does  not  mention 
his  wife,  but  she  survived  him  many  years,  liv- 
ing with  her  son-in-law,  John  Lake,  and  dying 
April  29,  1825.  John  Adams  married  Mary 
Garwood,  the  descendant  of  a  long  line  of 
prominent  Quaker  ancestors.  Children:  i. 
Mary,  born  March  14.  1764.  2.  Hannah,  born 
September  23,  1765  ;  married  Solomon  Man- 
nery.  3.  Daniel,  born  August  2^,,  1767.  4. 
John,  born  May  25,  1769.  5.  Joshua,  April 
22,  1771.  6.  Daniel,  born  April  i,  1773,  died 
February  17,  1863;  married  (first)  Sarah 
Chamberlain,  (second)  Elizabeth  Bartlett  7. 
Abigail,  born  January  11,  1775;  married  John 
Lake.      8.    Jesse,    born    April    26,    1777.      9. 


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Thomas  G.,  mentioned  below.  lo.  Margaret, 
born  January  7,  1783;  married  Amariah  Lake. 
II.  William,  born  November  24,  1787.  12. 
Bevina,  born  May  18,  1789. 

(VT)  Thomas  G.,  sixth  son  of  John  (3) 
and  Mary  (Garwood)  Adams,  was  born  April 
17,  1780,  died  October  10,  1820.  He  married, 
November  11,  1813,  Deborah  Smith,  born 
March  26,  1792.  Children:  Thomas,  born 
November  21,  1814;  Jemima  Adaline,  men- 
tioned below;  Elizabeth,  November  10,  1818; 
William  I.,  March  4,  1820,  died  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  years. 

(VII)  Jemima  Adaline,  senior  daughter  of 
Thomas  G.  and  Deborah  (Smith)  Adams,  was 
born  January  4,  1817,  and  became  the  wife  of 
Joseph  Mosier  Simonson  (see  Bergen  VII). 


The  hereditary  surname  Wells  is 
WELLS     said  by  one  authority  to  be  from 

Wellan,  an  old  form  of  expres- 
sion which  means  to  spring  up  as  a  fountain 
of  water.  It  is  found  as  a  place  name  in  Eng- 
land, and  also  has  a  Norman  stem  in  Val,  Vals, 
Vaux,  and  De  Vollibus.  Three  sons  of  Har- 
old De  Vaux,  a  Norman  baron,  went  over  to 
England  in  11 20  from  France  and  settled  in 
Cumberland.  One  of  these  was  named  Robert, 
and  his  grandson,  Adam  Vaux,  about  1194, 
holding  the  manor  of  Welles,  took  the  name  of 
De  Wells.  Bishop  Hugo  De  Welles  became 
one  of  the  most  important  men  in  England. 
Advanced  to  the  see  of  Lincoln  as  archdeacon 
and  lord  chancellor  of  the  realm,  his  power 
became  very  great.  He  was  chief  of  the  ba- 
ons,  and  was  instrumental  in  obtaining  from 
King  John  at  Runnymede,  in  1215,  the  Magna 
Charta,  since  regarded  by  historians  as  a  bul- 
wark and  beginning  of  liberty  to  the  English 
people,  prepared  by  his  own  hand.  The  early 
records  of  New  England  colonies  contain  men- 
tion of  many  persons  of  this  name,  who  were 
settled  in  Boston,  Lynn,  Hatfield,  Haddam, 
Ipswich,  New  London,  and  Hartford.  From 
the  early  progenitor  descended  a  manly  race, 
and  many  of  the  name  made  records  in  the 
revolution.  Nine  who  spelled  their  names 
Welles  were  patriot  soldiers  in  the  revolution 
in  Massachusetts  regiments,  and  one  hundred 
and  sixty  whose  name  is  spelled  Wells.  In 
the  Connecticut  organizations  were  five  of  the 
Welles  branch,  and  forty-seven  of  the  Wells 
branch  of  the  family,  assuming  that  they  were 
branches  of  the  same  stem.     Other  spellings 


of  the  name  in  revolutionary  records  are: 
Wailles,  Wails,  Wealls,  Weels,  Well,  Walks, 
Wels,  Willa,  and  Wolle.  Prominent  among  the 
men  who  used  the  form  of  Welles,  was  Gover- 
nor Thomas  Welles,  a  colonist  of  Connecticut ; 
Gideon,  once  secretary  of  the  navy ;  and  Ed- 
ward R.,  an  American  bishop.  Among  those 
who  used  the  simpler  spelling  of  the  name 
(Wells)  are:  Henry  T.,  a  painter;  H.  G., 
a  novelist ;  and  Horace  and  John  D.,  men  of 
rank  in  medicine.  A  very  large  number  of  the 
name  of  Wells  and  Welles  in  North  America 
are  descended  from  Governor  Thomas  Welles. 
Of  this  prominent  settler  Savage  says :  "It  is 
quite  uncertain  when  he  came  from  England, 
that  satisfactorily  known  is  that  he  brought 
three  sons  and  three  daughters ;  equally  un- 
certain is  the  name  of  his  wife,  though  we  can 
hardly  doubt  whether  he  brought  one;  and 
stranger  still  is  the  uncertainty  of  his  prior 
residence  in  Massachusetts.  He  had  good 
proportions  of  the  patents  from  Swampscott 
and  Dover,  which  he  sold,  August  1648,  to 
Christopher  Lawson.  We  may  then  safely 
conclude  that  a  person  of  his  education  and 
good  estate  had  not  come  over  the  water  before 
1636,  and  that  he  stayed  so  short  a  time  at 
Boston,  or  Cambridge,  as  to  leave  no  trace  of 
himself  at  either,  and  he  was  established  at 
Hartford  before  Governor  Haynes  left  Cam- 
bridge. There  is  indeed  a  very  precise  tradi- 
tion of  his  coming  with  his  father  Nathaniel, 
in  the  fleet  with  Higginson,  1629,  to  Salem; 
but  this  is  merely  ridiculous."  "He  came  to 
Boston  or  vicinity,  probably  about  1636;  then 
perhaps  to  Saybrook,  Connecticut,  thence  1637 
or  earlier  to  Hartford,  thence  1643  to  Weth- 
ersfield,"  says  Henry  R.  Styles  in  his  excellent 
history  of  ancient  Wethersfield,  Connecticut. 

(I)  John  T.  Wells  was  born  in  1826,  in 
Montreal,  Canada,  and  died  at  High  Falls, 
New  York,  in  1877.  His  early  life  was  spent 
in  Canada,  where  he  engaged  in  rafting  on  the 
St.  Lawrence  river.  A  few  years  later  he 
came  to  New  York  state  and  settled  at  Stone 
Ridge,  Ulster  county,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
custom  boot  and  shoe  business.  He  was  of  a 
quiet  disposition  and  was  greatly  devoted  to 
his  home  life,  though  taking  a  deep  interest 
in  all  public  movements.  He  was  quite  likely 
a  descendants  of  the  Governor  Thomas  Welles, 
mentioned  above,  though  diligent  research  has 
not  revealed  the  links  binding  his  generation 
to  earlier  ones.     He  was  a  member  of  the  In- 


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dependent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  was  a 
sexton  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church  at 
Stone  Ridge  for  a  number  of  years.  Both  he 
and  his  wife  are  buried  at  Stone  Ridge,  New 
York.  He  married  Catherine,  born  1836,  died 
1900,  daughter  of  John  Snyder,  of  Rochester, 
Ulster  county,  New  York  (see  Snyder). 
Children  :  Mary  J.,  married  L.  Snyder  ;  John  ; 
Herman  S.,  mentioned  below ;  and  William  D. 

(11)  Herman  S.,  son  of  John  T.  and  Cath- 
erine (Snyder)  Wells,  was  born  at  Stone 
Ridge,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  April  23, 
1867.  He  was  educated  in  the  district  schools 
and  early  in  life  worked  on  the  D.  and  H. 
canal.  He  continued  in  this  occupation  for  a 
number  of  years,  and  then  commenced  to 
learn  telegraphy,  accepting  a  position  as  tele- 
graph operator  at  High  Falls  for  the  D.  and  H. 
Canal  Company.  Two  years  later  he  accepted 
a  similar  position  at  Ellenville,  where  for 
twenty-six  years  he  was  manager  of  the  West- 
ern Union  Telegraph  Company's  interest.  In 
1902  he  purchased  a  controlling  interest  in  the 
Deleware  River  Telephone  and  Telegraph 
Company  and  was  made  president.  This  con- 
tinued until  July,  iqii,  when  it  was  merged 
into  the  New  York  Telephone  Company.  Mr. 
Wells  is  at  present  (1913)  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Ryan  &  Wells,  granite  and  marble 
works,  whose  business  extends  throughout  the 
middle  and  eastern  states.  Mr.  Wells  repre- 
sented the  town  of  Wawarsing  in  Ulster 
county  on  the  board  of  supervisors  as  a  Re- 
publican from  1910  to  191 1.  He  was  trustee 
of  the  village  of  Ellenville  for  twelve  years, 
and  is  president  of  the  Delaware  River  Tele- 
phone and  Telegraph  Company.  He  has  been 
connected  with  the  Scoresby  Hose  and  Hook 
and  Ladder  Company  of  the  Ellenville  Fire 
Department  for  the  past  twenty  years'  con- 
tinuous service,  and  is  an  exempt  fireman ; 
is  a  member  of  Wawarsing  Lodge,  No.  582, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  Lodge,  of  Ellenville.  In  religion  he 
is  an  attendant  at  the  Methodist  places  of 
worship.  He  married  Cora  B.  Schoonmaker; 
they  have  no  children. 

(The  Snyder  Line.) 

The  Snyder  family  is  German  in  origin,  and 
the  name  is  a  corruption  of  the  German  form 
"Schneider,"  which  has  the  meaning  of  Taylor. 
Several  distinct  families  of  the  name  settled 
in  this  country  during  the  period  of  heavy 
German  immigration  in  the  early  part  of  the 


eighteenth  century.  Jacob  Schneider,  or  Sny- 
der, came  to  Ulster  county  from  Dutchess 
county,  New  York,  and  settled  in  what  is  now 
known  as  the  Cottekill,  where  he  took  up  a 
tract  of  land.  His  children  were  Christopher, 
Andrew,  Jacob,  and  Henry. 

Christopher,  son  of  Jacob  Snyder,  was  born 
in  Dutchess  county,  February  24,  1752,  and 
came  with  his  parents  to  Ulster  county.  He 
married,  November  3,  1785,  Deborah  Low, 
having  one  child,  Jacob  Low,  who  was  born, 
September  9,  1788. 

Jacob,  son  of  Christopher  Snyder,  lived  to 
middle  age,  and  died  December  23,  1834,  being 
buried  in  Rosendale  cemetery.  His  education 
was  obtained  in  the  schools  of  the  district  in 
which  he  lived,  and  under  the  tuition  of  his 
uncle  Andrew,  who  was  a  man  of  considerable 
erudition,  he  became  a  man  of  excellent  at- 
tainments, apart  from  the  work  of  his  life 
in  the  agricultural  field.  His  principal  occu- 
pation was  farming  and  his  father  and  himself 
were  extensive  landowners,  all  the  land  from 
Keator's  Corners  to  near  High  Falls  being 
their  property.  Jacob  also  owned  and  oper- 
ated a  flour  mill,  which  was  one  of  the  first 
in  that  locality.  He  was  successful  in  all  his 
business  enterprises  and  was  a  man  highly 
respected  in  the  community.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  prosperous  and  progressive  citizens 
in  his  township  and  a  leading  man  in  all  its 
affairs.  In  religion  he  belonged  to  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church  of  Marbletown,  now  Stone 
Ridge,  which  church  was  established  before  the 
revolutionary  war,  being  a  very  active  worker 
in  this  body  and  one  of  its  chief  supporters.  He 
bore  a  high  character  for  integrity,  industry, 
and  ability.  He  was  liberal  in  his  donations 
to  worthy  objects  of  every  kind.  His  children 
were  Benjamin.  Deborah,  Ann  Eliza,  Christo- 
pher, John,  Sarah  and  Peter.  John  was  the 
father  of  Catherine  Snyder,  who  married  John 
T.  Wells. 


The  surname  Wilklow  is  an 
^^'ILKLO^^'  unusual  one,  and  an  investi- 
gation of  the  lists  of  names 
current  in  England,  Ireland,  Scotland,  France. 
Germany,  and  Holland,  does  not  reveal  it  in 
this  form  or  in  any  form  that  can  be  claimed 
as  very  nearly  analogous  to  it.  The  name  has 
been  described  as  Norman,  and  also  as  Anglo- 
Saxon,  and  even  as  Dutch  in  origin.  There  is 
no  evidence  in  the  ordinary  records  to  show 


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that  it  is  any  of  these.  Burke's  "General  Ar- 
mory" does  not  contain  it.  One  authority  as- 
serts that  it  is  a  corruption  of  the  name  of 
Wicklow,  which  is  appHed  to  one  of  the  coun- 
ties of  Ireland.  On  the  supposition  that  the 
two  names  have  a  common  origin  an  extract 
from  O'Hart's  "Pedigrees"  (Vol.  I,  p.  840) 
may  be  given:  "Wicklow"  says  that  author- 
ity, "was  formed  into  a  county  in  the  reign 
of  King  James  the  First;  its  name  being  de- 
rived from  the  town  of  Wicklow,  which  it  is 
said  was  called  by  the  Danes  Wykinlow  or 
Wykinlough,  signifying  the  Harbor  of  Ships, 
and  it  was  called  by  the  Irish  (in  Gaelic)  Cil- 
mantan.  According  to  O'Flaherty  (the  cele- 
brated author  of  'Ogygia')  the  name 
of  Wicklow  was  derived  from  the  Irish 
Buidhe  Cloch,  signifying  the  yellow  stone 
or  rock ;  and  probably  so-called  from 
the  yellow  color  of  its  granite  rocks. 
Wicklow  was  in  ancient  times  covered 
with  extensive  forests  and  the  oak  woods  of 
Shillelagh,  on  the  borders  of  Wicklow  and 
Wexford,  were  celebrated  in  former  times. 
The  gold  mines  of  Wicklow,  celebrated  in  his- 
tory, were  situated  in  the  mountains  of  Crog- 
han  Kinselagh,  near  Arklow,  and  pieces  of 
solid  golden  ore  of  various  kinds  were  found 
in  the  rivulets ;  one  of  which  pieces  was 
twenty-three  ounces  in  weight."  In  P.  W. 
Joyce's  work  on  "Irish  Names  of  Places"  a 
great  deal  of  other  information  is  given  regard- 
ing the  name  of  Wicklow,  which  appears  to 
have  had  many  different  forms. 

(I)  Daniel  Wilklow  was  born  in  Lloyd 
township,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  and  died 
at  New  Paltz,  Ulster  county,  in  1850.  He  is 
the  first  member  of  the  family,  who  can  be 
traced,  and  it  is  thus  far  impossible  to  decide 
by  research  what  number  of  generations  he 
had  behind  him  in  this  country.  The  evi- 
dence points  to  the  fact  that  his  father  was  the 
first  of  the  name  to  settle  in  this  country, 
where  he  was  probably  a  cultivator  of  the  soil. 
Daniel  was  brought  up  like  a  majority  of  the 
boys  of  that  day,  with  plenty  of  hard  work, 
and  with  only  modest  advantages  in  the  way 
of  education.  On  arriving  at  years  of  matur- 
ity he  married,  and  after  his  marriage  located 
on  a  farm  at  New  Paltz,  which  he  developed 
into  an  excellent  property,  where  he  brought 
up  a  fine  family  of  boys  and  girls.  He  married 
a  Miss  Palmateer,  whose  father  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolutionary  war  and  after  its  close  set- 


tled on  the  banks  of  the  Hudson,  in  Ulster 
county,  where  he  followed  agriculture  and 
reared  a  large  family.  Children  of  Daniel 
Wicklow  :  John  D.,  mentioned  below  ;  Wil- 
liam ;  Maria  ;  Solomon  ;  David  ;  Eliza  ;  Luther ; 
Hannah,  who  married  Daniel  Rider ;  Elijah 
and  Philip. 

(II)    John    D.,    eldest    son    of    Daniel    and 

(Palmateer)    Wilklow,    was    born    in 

Lloyd  township,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  in 
December,  1801,  died  in  March,  1881,  at  Mar- 
bletown,  near  Kripple  Bush,  Ulster  county. 
His  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  public 
schools  of  the  district,  and  being  a  young  man 
of  considerable  natural  ability  he  supplemented 
the  regular  course  of  study  with  a  wide  range 
of  reading  and  observation,  thus  acquiring  a 
sound  judgment  and  a  varied  store  of  knowl- 
edge on  many  subjects,  which  served  him  well 
through  life.  He  had  learned  the  elements  of 
agriculture  by  assisting  his  father  in  the  de- 
velopment of  his  property,  and  naturally  took 
up  farming  as  an  occupation.  He  lived  for  a 
time  at  New  Paltz  and  later  at  Rochester, 
where  he  took  up  a  farm  owned  by  one  P.  H. 
Hornbeck.  In  1849  he  bought  a  farm  in  Mar- 
bletown,  near  Kripple  Bush,  where  he  spent 
the  rest  of  his  life.  The  farm  consisted  of  one 
hundred  and  thirty  acres  and  was  one  of  the 
finest  in  that  section  of  the  state.  Mr.  Wilk- 
low was  very  successful  as  an  agriculturist, 
and  his  exceptional  powers  of  judgment  and 
high  moral  character,  combined  with  natural 
abilities,  gave  him  considerable  influence  in 
the  community  of  which  he  was  a  member. 
He  took  a  very  considerable  interest  in  the 
public  affairs  of  the  day,  whether  they  affected 
the  interests  of  nation,  state  or  town.  In  his 
early  days  he  was  inclined  to  give  his  support 
to  the  Whig  interest,  and  later  he  was  a  Re- 
publican, following  the  lead  and  principles  of 
that  party  to  the  close  of  his  life.  Like  most 
members  of  his  family  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  He  married 
Dorcas  Dow,  of  Milton,  who  died  in  1876. 
They  had  a  family  of  ten  children,  all  of  whom 
lived  to  an  adult  age,  a  circumstance  that  be- 
tokened the  strength  of  the  stock  from  which 
they  sprang,  as  well  as  the  healthful  condi- 
tions in  which  they  lived.  Children :  Isaac, 
who  married  and  resided  at  Kripple  Bush : 
Theodore,  mentioned  below ;  Sarah,  who  re- 
mained single ;  Jane,  who  married  Gerrey  Ten 
Hagen :   Philip,   who  married  and   resided   at 


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Ellenville;  Lewis,  who  resided  at  Ellenville ; 
Denton,  unmarried,  resided  at  Kripple  Bush ; 
Almira,  married  Alexander  Schoonmaker; 
Margaret,  hved  at  High  Falls;  Mary  Ann. 

(HI)  Theodore,  son  of  John  D.  and  Dorcas 
(Dow)  Wilklow,  was  born  at  New  Paltz,  Ul- 
ster county,  New  York,  August  24,  1836.  Mr. 
Wilklow  was  the  founder  of  the  soft  wood 
industry,  and  inventor  of  it,  his  business  in  it 
extending  in  course  of  time  to  Berlin,  Paris, 
London,  and  all  over  the  world.  He  attended, 
in  youth,  the  common  schools  of  Rochester 
and  Marbletown  with  one  winter  term  at  the 
Ellenville  Academy.  Of  all  the  opportunities 
which  these  educational  advantages  presented 
he  made  good  use  and  was  always  a  great 
reader,  keeping  himself  well  informed  on  cur- 
rent topics.  At  an  early  age  he  worked  at 
farming,  and  later  became  a  clerk  for  S.  Has- 
brouck  for  four  dollars  a  month.  Following 
that  he  spent  a  year  in  the  employ  of  Jacob  D. 
Van  De  Mark,  and  finally  in  the  year  1856 
went  into  business  for  himself  at  Kripple 
Bush.  At  the  end  of  three  years  he  took  a 
partner  and  this  partnership  continued  for  six 
years,  until  1867,  when  he  moved  to  Phillips- 
port,  in  Sullivan  county,  and  began  the  manu- 
facture of  hoops.  After  a  period  of  four 
years,  however,  he  returned  to  Kripple  Bush, 
and  engaged  again  in  merchandising  until  at 
the  end  of  some  years  he  found  himself  deeply 
involved.  After  much  consideration  Mr.  Wilk- 
low then  returned  to  hoop  manufacturing, 
this  time,  out  of  the  fund  of  his  mature  ex- 
perience and  knowledge  of  the  industry,  in- 
troducing an  entirely  new  departure  by  em- 
ploying soft  wood  as  a  material.  His  success 
in  the  new  line  was  almost  instantaneous,  and 
continued  in  such  steady  growth  that  his  first 
order  of  ten  thousand  soon  developed  into 
millions  annually.  His  trade  soon  extended 
all  over  the  west,  and  in  1887  Mr.  Wilklow 
transferred  his  establishment  to  Ellenville, 
making  his  business  the  center  of  the  hoop 
trade  in  that  part  of  the  country,  where  he 
is  generally  recognized  as  the  father  of  the 
industry.  The  business  is  now  worldwide, 
having  developed  from  a  sample  of  five  thou- 
sand soft  wood  hoo]is.  in  1875.  to  an  output 
of  scventv-five  million  in  1008.  Mr.  \\'ilk- 
low  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  of  progres- 
sive and  liberal  principles:  for  fifty  years  he 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  and  also  of  the  Knights  of 


Pythias.  In  1859  he  joined  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church,  and  has  held  the  office  of 
deacon  at  Stone  Ridge  and  Ellenville  for  many 
years.  He  takes  an  active  and  generous  in- 
terest in  many  enterprises  in  the  community, 
and  though  repeatedly  urged  to  accept  public 
offices  of  various  kinds  he  has  declined.  He 
married  (first)  Hannah  M.,  daughter  of  Dan- 
iel Schoonmaker,  her  death  taking  place  in 
1865;  married  (second)  in  1868,  Jane  North. 
Child  by  first  marriage :  Ledrira,  who  mar- 
ried Rufus  Wood.  Children  by  second  mar- 
riage: Mary  A.:  George  F.,  mentioned  be- 
low ;  Eva ;  Anna  and  Charles. 

(IV)  Dr.  George  F.  Wilklow,  son  of  Theo- 
dore and  Jane  (North)  Wilklow,  was  born 
at  Stone  Ridge,  Ulster  county.  New  York, 
November  7,  1870.  He  was  educated  at  El- 
lenville Academy  and  Cazenovia  Seminary, 
Cazenovia,  New  York.  At  the  close  of  his 
preliminary  education  he  took  up  the  study 
of  medicine,  attending  for  a  period  of  two 
years  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons. New  York  City.  Then  he  spent  two 
years  at  Bellevue  Hospital,  being  finally  ad- 
mitted to  practice  in  the  year  1897.  Dr.  Wilk- 
low served  in  the  Spanish-American  war  as 
assistant  surgeon,  with  the  rank  of  first  lieu- 
tenant, in  the  Philippines  and  China ;  is  now 
first  lieutenant,  Medical  Reserve  Corps, 
United  States  Army.  At  the  close  of  the  war 
he  served  also  one  year  in  the  Manhattan  Hos- 
pital, New  York  City;  then  settled  in  Wurts- 
boro.  New  York,  where  he  practiced  his  pro- 
fession till  1910,  in  which  year  he  removed 
to  Ellenville,  where  he  now  (1913)  resides 
and  practices.  He  belongs  to  the  Wawarsing 
Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and 
among  other  societies  is  a  member  of  the  State 
and  LHster  County  Medical  associations.  Dr. 
A\'ilklow  married  Blanche  Fairbanks. 


It  is  more  or  less  a  matter  of  pride 
GRAY     for  one  to  be  able  to  look  back 

over  a  known  ancestral  line  of  a 
thousand  years — a  line  that  can  be  traced  to 
the  time  of  William  the  Conqueror.  The 
name  Gray  is  of  great  antiquity  and  of  local 
origin.  The  orthography,  however,  prior  to 
the  tenth  century,  was  De  Gray,  but  the  prefix 
has  been  generallv  dropped  excepting  in  some 
of  the  titled  families  of  England  and  Ireland. 
There  are  some  members  of  this  large  family 
in  Canada  who  can  trace  an  unbroken  lineage 


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back  to  King  William,  who  granted  a  crest 
which  is  still  maintained  in  England,  and  the 
reception  of  valuable  testimonials  from  that 
king  for  distinguished  services  rendered  at 
the  battle  of  Hastings.  "Burke's  Peerage" 
gives  information  of  members  of  this  family 
who  received  high  honors  from  Richard  I. 
in  the  twelfth  century.  The  marriage  of 
Henry  Gray,  the  Duke  of  Suffolk,  with  Mary, 
the  daughter  of  Henry  VH.,  brought  the  fam- 
ily near  the  throne.  His  unreasonable  strug- 
gle, however,  to  have  their  daughter,  Lady 
Jane  Gray,  crowned  as  queen  brought  that  es- 
timable young  woman  to  a  sad  end.  But  Mr. 
Gray  deems  the  attainments  of  the  men  of 
today  of  more  account  than  the  merits  of 
remote  ancestors. 

(I)  John  Gray,  the  founder  of  this  family, 
lived  in  Yarmouth,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
died  in  1674.  He  is  said  to  have  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  William  Lumpkin,  one 
of  the  founders  and  prominent  citizens  of 
Yarmouth.  Children :  Benjamin,  born  De- 
cember 7,  1648;  William,  born  October  5, 
1650:  Mary,  married,  June  10,  1680,  Benja- 
min Ryder ;  Edward,  of  whom  further ;  John, 
died  March  31,  1732,  married  Susannah  Clark; 
Gideon. 

(H)  Edward,  son  of  John  and  Hannah 
(Lumpkin)  Gray,  was  born  in  Yarmouth,  and 
died  there.  He  married,  in  Plymouth,  July 
16,  1684,  Melatiah,  daughter  of  George  Lewis, 
of  Brewster.  Children :  Priscilla,  born  Oc- 
tober 18,  1686;  Gideon,  born  September  6, 
1688;  John,  born  July  26,  1691,  married  Han- 
nah    ;    Meiatiah,    born    June   6,    1694; 

Mercy,  born  April  13,  1696;  Edward,  of  whom 
further. 

(HI)  Edward  (2),  son  of  Edward  (i)  and 
Melatiah  (Lewis)  Gray,  was  born  in  Yar- 
mouth, and  died  in  Harwich,  Massachusetts. 
He  married,  July  3,  1727,  Hannah  Godfrey. 
Children:  Mary,  baptized  October  18.  1728; 
Mary,  baptized  April  13,  1735  ;  Priscilla,  bap- 
tized April  13,  1735  :  Richard,  baptized  April 
13,  1735  :  Hannah,  baptized  November  9,  1735  ; 
Benoni,  baptized  October  16,  1737.  married 
Mary  Rockwell;  Edward  (3),  baptized  March 
29,  1741  ;  John;  Godfrey,  of  whom  further; 
Oliver. 

(IV)  Godfrey,  son  of  Edward  (2)  and 
Hannah  (Godfrey)  Gray,  was  born  in  Har- 
wich or  Brewster,  Massachusetts,  about  1745, 
and  died  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  in  1809. 


His  wife's  name  is  unknown.  Children,  be- 
sides two  that  died  young:  William;  Martin, 
of  whom  further;  Morgan;  Samuel. 

(V)  Martin,  son  of  Godfrey  Gray,  was 
born  September  20,  1784,  died  in  Katsbaan, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  January  10,  1871, 
and  is  buried  in  the  Blue  Mountain  Cemetery, 
near  Saugerties.  He  lived  for  a  time  in  Sara- 
toga county.  New  York,  and  removed  from 
there  to  Greene  county,  New  York,  finally  set- 
tling on  a  farm  near  Saugerties,  Ulster  county. 
New  York,  which  he  cultivated  until  his  death. 
He  married  Elsie  Clum,  born  March  28,  1787, 
died  October  28,  1856.  Children:  John; 
Jonas;  Morgan,  of  whom  further;  Christina; 
Teannette,  born  March  5,  1821,  died  February 
16,  1893. 

(VI)  Morgan,  son  of  Martin  and  Elsie 
(Clum)  Gray,  was  born  in  Clermont,  Colum- 
bia county.  New  York,  January  30,  1824,  and 
died  at  Katsbaan,  Ulster  county.  New  York, 
July  20,  1899.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools,  and  then  became  a 
farmer,  also  a  butcher  and  drover  for  many 
years  at  Samsonville,  and  finally  purchased  a 
farm  of  two  hundred  acres  near  Samsonville, 
which  he  cultivated  for  about  eighteen  years, 
then  moved  to  Katsbaan,  where  he  bought  a 
farm,  and  where  his  death  occurred.  He  was 
a  prominent  man  in  his  county,  was  a  large 
quarryman  and  had  several  blue  stone  quar- 
ries ;  was  a  deacon  in  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church.  He  married,  February  26,  185 1, 
Rachel  Caroline  Freleigh,  born  April  18,  1827, 
died  July  24,  1883.  Children,  all  born  in  Sam- 
sonville:  Samuel  Martin,  of  whom  further; 
John  Henry,  born  July  13,  1853;  Eliza  Caro- 
line, born  October  10,  1854 ;  Mary  Adeline, 
born  May  11,  1857;  Abby  Celestia,  born  Au- 
gust 16,  1859;  Charles  Freleigh,  born  June  i, 
1861 ;  George  Silver,  born  February  26,  1868, 
died  April  6,  1870. 

(VII)  Samuel  Martin,  son  of  Morgan  and 
Rachel  Caroline  (Freleigh)  Gray,  was  born  in 
Quarryville,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  De- 
cember 15,  1851.  He  is  now  living  in  King- 
ston, Ulster  county.  New  York.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Olive  township,  and  in  Katsbaan,  and  then 
worked  on  his  father's  farm,  and  for  two  years 
was  engaged  as  a  butter  buyer  in  Greene  and 
Ulster  counties.  In  1876  opened  a  grocery 
store  in  Quarrs'ville.  which  he  soon  after  en- 
larged  to    a    general    merchandise    store,    and 


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which  he  conducted  for  nine  years,  meanwhile, 
in  1883,  establishing  also  a  wholesale  flour, 
feed,  grain  and  grocery  business  in  Sauger- 
ties,  New  York.  In  1886  he  disposed  of  his 
interests  in  Quarryville  to  his  brother,  John 
Gray,  and  removed  to  Saugerties,  where  he 
gave  his  attention  to  his  wholesale  grain  busi- 
ness, which  he  developed  to  the  largest  of  its 
kind  in  Ulster  county.  In  1909  he  disposed  of 
his  interests  in  Saugerties  and  removed  to 
Kingston,  vVhere  he  is  now  living.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  board  of  education  in  Sauger- 
ties twelve  years,  and  was  at  one  time  presi- 
dent of  the  Saugerties  Sewer  Commission ; 
also  president  of  the  Saugerties  Club  six  years, 
and  is  now  one  of  the  directors  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Saugerties.  He  is  a  Demo- 
crat in  politics,  and  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Dutch  Reformed  church,  in  Kingston. 

He  married,  June  3,  1875,  Isabella,  born  in 
Saugerties,  New  York,  May  18,  1852,  daughter 
of  Jeremiah  J.  and  Hannah  Christina  (Ack- 
ler)  Hommell.  She  is  a  descendant  of  Peter 
Hommell,  who  served  in  the  Ulster  county 
(New  York)  militia,  during  the  revolutionary 
war.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gray  have  one  child: 
Ethel  Hommell  Gray. 


This  family  is  of  ancient  Eng- 
DIMMICK  lish  ancestry,  ante-dating  the 
Conquest.  The  name  is  de- 
rived from  the  Anglo-Saxon  word  denoting  an 
oak  tree,  and  is  written  in  numerous  forms, 
the  most  common  being:  Dymok,  Dymock, 
Dymocke,  Dymoke,  Dimoc,  Dimmock,  Dim- 
mick  and  Dimock.  The  usual  spelling  of  the 
name  in  England  is  Dymoke,  and  in  America 
Dimmick  and  Dimock.  The  original  home  of 
the  family  in  England  was  the  manor  of  Dim- 
mock,  in  Gloucestershire.  Very  little  is  known 
of  the  early  history  of  the  family  in  that  local- 
ity. Early  in  1500  members  of  the  family  re- 
moved to  Scrivelsby.  The  first  record  of  the 
family  in  this  locality  was  the  marriage  record 
in  1567  of  Miss  Frances  Dymoke,  daughter  of 
Sir  Edward  Dymoke.  to  Mr.  Thomas  Winder- 
banke,  appearing  on  the  first  page  of  the  "Old 
Scrivelsby  Register."  The  first  of  the  family 
to  locate  in  Scrivelsby  was  Sir  John  Dymoke, 
a  gallant  oflicer  in  the  service  of  the  king.  He 
was  appointed  "Champion"  at  the  coronation 
of  Richard  II.,  and  from  that  date  until  the 
coronation  of  George  IV.,  in  1820,  members 
of  the  Dymoke   family  filled  this  office.     Sir 


John  Dymoke  married  Lady  Margaret  Lud- 
low, great-granddaughter  of  Sir  Philip  Mar- 
mion,  prominent  in  the  history  and  legends  of 
England.  Sir  Thomas  Dymoke  succeeded  his 
father.  Sir  John  Dymoke,  to  the  estate  at 
Scrivelsby.  Then  followed  a  long  list  of  Dy- 
mokes,  who  were  prominent  in  the  history  of 
England.  They  were  loyal  to  the  king,  as 
shown  in  their  holding  the  office  of  "Cham- 
pion." The  last  of  the  family  to  possess  the 
estate  in  Scrivelsby  was  Sir  Henry  Lionel  Dy- 
moke, who  died  without  heirs  in  1883,  being 
succeeded  by  the  Tetford  branch  of  the  family. 
The  family  motto.  Pro  rege  dimico,  was  as- 
sumed soon  after  the  family  located  in  Scriv- 
elsby. The  quartering  of  the  Dymoke  es- 
cutcheon is  as  follows:  i.  Dymoke.  Sable 
two  lions  passant  argent,  crowned  or.  2.  Lud- 
low. Azure,  three  lions  passant  guardant  ar- 
gent. 3.  Marmion.  Vair,  on  a  fesse  gules 
frette  or.  4.  Kilpeck.  Sable,  a  sword  point 
downwards  argent,  hilt  and  pommel  or.  5. 
Hebden.  Ermine,  five  fusils  in  fesse  gules. 
6.  Rye.  Gules  on  a  bend  argent,  three  ears  of 
rye  sable.  7.  Welles.  Or,  a  lion  rampant 
queue  fourche  sable.  8.  Watertown.  Barry 
of  six  ermine  and  gules,  three  crescents  sable 
9.  Engaine.  Gules,  a  fesse  dancette  between 
six  cross  crosslets  or.  10.  Sparrow.  Argent, 
six  sparrows  sable,  three  two  and  one  or,  a 
chief  indented  gules,  two  swords  in  saltire, 
points  upward  argent,  hilts  and  pommels  or, 
between  two  lions'  heads  erased  of  the  last.  1 1. 
Talboys.  Argent,  a  saltire  gules,  on  a  chief  of 
the  second  three  escallops  of  the  field.  12. 
Barraden.  Gules,  on  a  bend  argent  three  cin- 
quefoils  sable.  13.  Fitzwith.  Gules,  two  bend- 
lets  or.  14.  Umfraville.  Gules,  a  cinquefoil 
between  eight  cross  crosslets  or.  15.  Kyme. 
Gules,  a  chevron  between  nine  cross  crosslets 
or. 

(I)  The  first  of  the  family  to  settle  in 
America  was  Thomas  Dimock.  His  connec- 
tion with  the  Scrivelsby  family  is  not  definitely 
known,  but  the  tradition  in  the  family  in 
America  holds  that  he  was  a  direct  descendant 
of  Sir  John  Dymoke,  mentioned  above.  There 
is  a  tradition  in  England  that  one  of  the 
younger  sons  of  the  family  married  into  a 
Puritan  family,  and  that  he,  or  his  son,  dis- 
appeared from  England  at  the  end  of  the  six- 
teenth century  and  became  estranged  from  his 
relatives  in  the  mother  country.  It  is  known 
that   much  mystery   surrounded   Thomas   Di- 


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mock,  the  immigrant,  and  it  is  reasonable  to 
assume  ttiat  he  kept  his  relationship  with  the 
family  in  England  a  secret.  Careful  research 
has  been  made  to  disclose  the  identity  of  the 
progenitor  of  the  family  in  America.  Sir  Ed- 
ward Dymoke,  Champion  to  Edward  VI.,  mar- 
ried Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  George  Talbois. 
Arthur,  the  youngest  son  of  Sir  Edward,  had 
two  sons  :  John,  known  as  the  "son  and  heir," 
and  Edward,  who  is  supposed  to  have  been  the 
father  of  Thomas  Dimock,  progenitor  of  the 
family  in  America. 

Thomas  Dimock  first  located  in  Dorchester, 
Massachusetts,  in  1635,  serving  in  that  year 
as  selectman.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman, 
May  25,  1636.  In  1638  he  removed  to  Hing- 
ham,  and  in  1639  to  Scituate.  settling  first  in 
Barnstable,  on  Cape  Cod,  where  he  had  re- 
ceived a  large  grant  of  land.  He  was  the  lead- 
ing citizen  of  the  new  town  and  identified  with 
all  its  various  activities.  In  March,  1639,  he 
was  appointed  "to  exercise  Barnstable  men  in 
their  arms."  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  of 
the  colony,  December  3,  1639.  He  served  as 
deputy  to  the  Plymouth  colony  court  during 
1640-42,  and  1648-50.  On  June  2,  1640,  Mr. 
Dimock,  with  John  Crow,  of  Yarmouth,  was 
appointed  to  "join  with  Mr.  Edmond  Free- 
man of  Sandwich  to  hear  and  determine  all 
cases  and  controversies  within  the  three  town- 
ships not  exceeding  twenty  shillings,  according 
to  the  former  order  of  the  court."  This  was 
the  first  court  established  in  Barnstable  county. 
Mr.  Dimock  was  re-appointed  magistrate, 
June  5,  1644.  On  September  22,  1642,  he  was 
appointed  by  the  colony  court  as  member  of 
the  council  of  war,  and  on  October  10,  of  the 
same  year,  was  elected  lieutenant  of  the  Barn- 
stable militia,  retaining  the  office  until  1650. 
In  1650  he  served  as  one  of  the  commissioners 
of  the  Plymouth  colony  to  confer  with  a  simi- 
lar commission  of  the  Massachusetts  colony  to 
decide  upon  the  titles  of  the  lands  at  Shaw- 
wamet  and  Patuxet.  He  was  active  in  relig- 
ious matters,  taking  a  prominent  part  in  or- 
ganizing the  church  in  Barnstable,  and  on  Au- 
gust 7,  1650,  he  was  ordained  its  elder.  He 
died  in  1658  or  1659  and  in  his  nuncupative 
will,  attested  to  by  Anthony  Annable  and  John 
Smith,  they  stated,  "when  he  was  sick  last 
summer  (1658)  he  said  that  little  he  has  he 
would  give  to  his  wife,  for  the  children  were 
hers  as  well  as  his."  Elder  Dimock  was 
greatly  respected  and  loved  by  the  people  of 


his  county.  He  was  tolerant  in  his  religious 
beliefs  and  willing  to  give  all  the  citizens  of 
the  town  equal  religious  liberty.  He  married 
Ann  Hammond  (  ?)  before  settling  in  Barn- 
stable. Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  married 
Kuyvet  Sears.  2.  John  (?).  3.  Timothy, 
baptized  January  12,  1639,  was  the  first  white 
person  to  die  in  Barnstable.  He  was  buried, 
June  17,  1640,  "in  the  lower  syde  of  the  Calves 
Pasture."  4.  and  5.  Twin  sons,  buried,  March 
18,  1641.  6.  Mehitable,  baptized  April  18, 
1642;  married  Richard  Child,  of  Watertown, 
March  30,  1662;  she  died,  August  18,  1676. 
7.  Shubael,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Shubael,  son  of  Elder  Thomas  and 
Artn  Dimock,  was  baptized  in  Barnstable,  Sep- 
tember 15, 1644,  and  died  in  Mansfield, Connec- 
ticut, October  29,  1732.  aged  ninety-one  years. 
In  1669  he  was  residing  in  Yarmouth  but  soon 
afterwards  returned  to  Barnstable.  At  an 
early  age  he  became  prominent  in  the  civic 
and  military  aftairs  of  his  town.  He  was  often 
appointed  to  attend  to  the  business  of  the 
town.  He  served  as  selectman  in  1685-86,  and 
was  a  deputy  to  the  general  court  in  the  same 
years,  and  also  in  1689,  after  the  expulsion  of 
the  notorious  Sir  Edmund  Andros.  At  an 
early  age  he  joined  the  militia,  and  was  elected 
ensign,  being  then  known  in  Barnstable  as  En- 
sign Shubael  Dimock.  About  1693  l""^  joined 
a  company  of  Barnstable  people,  who  removed 
to  Nawbesatuck  or  \\^abaquassuck,  now  Mans- 
field, Connecticut.  His  residence  in  1686  was 
the  fortified  house  built  by  his  father  in  1640. 
The  building  was  taken  down  in  1800.  The 
design  of  the  house  was  known  as  the  "high 
single" ;  it  was  two  stories  in  height,  the  first 
story  being  built  of  stone  and  the  second  of 
wood.  Each  floor  contained  the  same  number 
of  rooms  and  fronted  due  north  and  south. 
On  clear  days  the  shadows  of  the  house  acted 
as  a  sun  dial  to  its  inmates,  and  was  the  only 
timepiece  they  could  consult.  He  at  once  took 
a  prominent  part  in  the  organization  of  the  new 
town.  In  1700  an  effort  was  made  to  organize 
a  Congregational  church  in  Mansfield,  and  in 
1 701  he  was  a  member  of  a  committee  ap- 
pointed to  secure  the  services  of  a  minister, 
but  it  was  not  until  October  18,  1710,  that  their 
efforts  were  successful  and  a  church,  the  First 
Congregational,  was  organized.  In  February, 
1 717,  lie  was  ordained  a  deacon  in  this  church. 
He  married,  in  .\pril,  1663,  Joanna  Bursley, 
daughter  of  Tohn  Burslev.  of  Barnstable.    She 


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was  baptized  in  March,  1646,  and  died  in 
Mansfield,  May  8,  1727.  Children,  born  in 
Barnstable:  i.  Thomas,  born  in  April,  1664; 
engaged  in  the  whale  fishery  business,  and 
later  was  a  captain  in  the  service  of  the  colony 
against  the  French  and  Indians ;  was  killed  at 
the  battle  of  Canso  (?),  September  9,  1697; 
he  married  Desire  Sturgis ;  five  children.  2. 
John,  January,  1666,  removed  to  Falmouth, 
Massachusetts  ;  married  Elizabeth  Lombard ; 
nine  children.  3.  Timothy,  mentioned  below. 
4. -Shubael,  February,  1673,  resided  in  Barn- 
stable, where  he  died,  December  16,  1728 ;  mar- 
ried Tabitha  Lothrop,  May  4,  1699;  she  died, 
July  24,  1727.  5.  Joseph,  September,  1875 ; 
married  May  12,  1699,  Lydia  Fuller.  6.  Me- 
hitable,  1677.  7.  Benjamin,  March,  1680,  re- 
sided in  Mansfield.  8.  Joanna,  March,  1682 ; 
married  Josiah  Conant.  9.  Thankful,  Novem- 
ber, 1684;  married,  June  28,  1706,  Deacon  Ed- 
mund Waldo. 

(III)  Timothy,  son  of  Shubael  and  Joanna 
(Bursley)  Dimock,  was  born  in  Barnstable, 
Massachusetts,  and  died  in  Ashford,  Connec- 
ticut, 1733.  He  removed  to  Mansfield,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  made  his  home  for  many 
years,  subsequently  removing  to  Ashford,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  resided  until  his  death.  He 
married  Abigail  Doane,  who  died  in  1718. 
Children:  i.  Timothy,  born  June  2,  1703.  2. 
John,  January  3,  1705.  3.  Shubael,  mentioned 
below.  4.  Daniel,  January  28,  1710.  5.  Israel, 
December  22,  1712.  6.  Ebenezer,  December 
22,  1715. 

(IV)  Shubael,  son  of  Timothy  and  Abigail 
(Doane)  Dimock,  was  born  in  Mansfield,  Con- 
necticut, May  27,  1707,  and  died  June  26,  1788. 
He  married  (first)  December  11,  1731,  Percilla 
Hovey,  daughter  of  James  Hovey,  of  Mans- 
field. She  died  March  14,  1747.  Children: 
Asa  and  Anne  (twins),  born  August  14,  1732, 
Anne,  died  July  18,  1749:  Abigail,  July  16, 
1734,  died  young;  Abigail,  August  23,  1742. 
Mr.  Dimock  married  (second)  November  10, 
1747,  Eunice  Marsh,  daughter  of  James 
Tylarsh.  Children :  Lydia,  born  August  27, 
1748;  Eunice,  June  27,  1751 ;  Shubael,  men- 
tioned below;  Eunice,  2d,  June  i,  1755. 

(V)  Shubael  (3)  Dimmick,  son  of  Shubael 
(2)  and  Eunice  (Marsh)  Dimock,  was  born 
in  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  March  24,  1753. 
The  family  records  give  the  date  as  October  i, 
1752,  which  does  not  correspond  with  records 
of  Mansfield.     He  died  in  Arkville,  Delaware 


county.  New  York,  October  29,  1839,  and  was 
buried  in  the  cemetery  near  the  old  Baptist 
church  in  Batavia  Kill,  New  York.  At  an 
early  date  he  removed  to  Frederickstown,  Ul- 
ster county  (now  Putnam  county),  New  York, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming.  In  May,  1776, 
he  enlisted  in  the  Sixth  Regiment,  Ulster 
county  (New  York)  militia.  He  was  later  a 
private  in  the  Seventh  Regiment,  Dutchess 
county  militia,  commanded  by  Colonel  Henry 
Ludenton.  He  subsequently  served  in  Colonel 
Jacobus  Swartwout's  regiment  of  minutemen, 
Dutchess  county  (New  York)  miHtia,  until 
September,  1781,  when  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged. He  drew  a  pension  from  the  govern- 
ment from  July  5,  1832,  until  his  death.  In 
1795  he  removed  to  Middletown,  Delaware 
county.  New  York,  where  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing until  he  removed  to  Arkville,  Delaware 
county.  New  York,  where  he  made  his  home 
until  his  death.  He  was  a  man  of  great  force 
of  character  and  greatly  admired  and  respected 
by  the  people  of  his  community.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  church  in  Fredericks- 
town,  now  Carmel,  Putnam  county,  in  1792. 
He  married  Thankful  Burbank,  who  died  in 
Batavia  Kill,  April  19,  1808,  aged  fifty-seven 
years,  five  months  and  seventeen  days.  Chil- 
dren :  Noah,  mentioned  below ;  Perez  ;  Shu- 
bael. 

(VI)  Colonel  Noah  Dimmick,  son  of  Shu- 
bael (3)  and  Thankful  (Burbank)  Dimmick, 
was  born  in  Frederickstown,  Dutchess  (now 
Putnam)  county,  New  York,  September  14, 
1778,  and  died  in  Arkville,  town  of  Middle- 
town,  Delaware  county,  New  York,  September 
II,  1862.  He  attended  the  schools  of  his  na- 
tive county,  and  in  1795  accompanied  his 
father  to  Middletown,  Delaware  county.  He 
engaged  in  farming  for  a  time  in  Lexington. 
Greene'  county,  and  in  Roxbury,  Delaware 
county.  He  then  purchased  land  in  Middle- 
town,  which  through  his  great  industry  he 
made  one  of  the  finest  farms  in  the  county. 
His  place  was  named  Arkville,  owin?  to  its 
prominent  location  in  the  valley.  Here  he 
erected  a  fine  residence  and  dispensed  a  liberal 
hospitality.  He  became  one  of  the  leading 
business  men  of  the  county.  He  built  at  Ark- 
ville in  1826  grist  and  saw  mills,  which  he  con- 
ducted for  many  years.  He  also  owned  a  large 
general  store,  and  was  the  first  person  in  the 
town  to  own  a  carriage,  also  a  gold  watch.  He 
acquired  a  valuable  property,  and  was  hig'hly 


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respected  by  the  citizens  of  his  county.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  directors  of  the  Ulster 
County  Bank,  retaining  the  office  until  his 
death.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  state 
militia,  serving  for  several  years  as  colonel. 
In  politics  he  was  at  first  a  Whig  and  later  a 
Republican.  He  served  as  supervisor  of  Mid- 
dletown  from  1819  until  1826.  He  married 
(first)  February  10,  1801,  Elliff  Peck.  She 
was  born  November  4,  1783,  and  died  May  7, 
1817.  Children,  born  in  Arkville :  Kittie  and 
Thankful  (twins),  November  14,  1802;  Han- 
nah, December  22,  1804;  Mehitable.  October 
24,  1806;  Warren,  April  28,  1808;  Ellifif,  April 
26,  1810;  Thankful,  October  11,  1811;  son, 
June  26,  1813,  died  young;  child,  June,  1814, 
died  young;  Julianna,  August  26,  181 5;  child. 
May  6,  1817.  Colonel  Dimmick  married  (sec- 
ond) October  2,  1817,  Mary  Keator,  born 
July  8,  1797,  died  March  19,  1856.  Children: 
Noah,  born  January  i,  1819;  Mary,  April  16, 
1820,  died  July  22,  1822;  Jemima,  January  20, 
1822;  son,  June  28,  1823,  died  young;  five 
daughters,  born  respectively,  July  16,  1824, 
November  25,  1826,  June  25,  1828,  July  12, 
1829,  July  14,  1831,  died  in  infancy;  Samuel 
G.,  mentioned  below. 

(VH)  Samuel  Gripman,  son  of  Colonel 
Noah  and  Mary  ( Keator)  Dimmick,  was  born 
at  Arkville,  New  York,  October  17,  1833,  died 
in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  February  27,  1899, 
while  there  on  a  pleasure  trip.  He  attended 
the  schools  of  his  native  county  and  com- 
pleted his  education  at  a  well  known  boarding 
school  on  Long  Island,  New  York.  Soon  after 
leaving  school  he  entered  his  father's  store  at 
Arkville  as  a  clerk,  and  there  received  a  careful 
business  training.  Later  he  purdiased  a  tan- 
nery which  he  conducted  for  several  years. 
Subsequently  he  removed  to  Kingston,  New 
York,  and  formed  the  firm  of  Dimmick  & 
Shaw  and  began  in  the  drygoods  business.  On 
the  death  of  Mr.  Shaw  he  became  a  partner 
in  the  firm  of  Burhans  &  Webster,  drygoods 
merchants.  Subsequently  the  firm  became 
Dimmick  &  Tappan.  In  1880  he  sold  his  in- 
terest in  the  firm  and  became  private  secre- 
tary to  Thomas  Cornell,  which  position  he  held 
until  Mr.  Cornell's  death  in  1890,  when  he  re- 
tired from  active  business.  Mr.  Dimmick  was 
an  able  business  man  and  acquired  a  valuable 
property.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Methodist  church,  and  for  years  was  a  teacher 
in   the  Sunday  school.      In  politics  he  was  a 


Democrat  and  held  several  local  offices.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  lodge,  of  King- 
ston. He  was  twice  married  (first),  October 
28,  1857,  to  Christina  Hardenburgh,  who  died 
November  24,  1893.  They  had  one  child: 
Mary  Hardenburgh,  born  June  14,  i860,  died 
June  20,  1877.  He  married  (second),  October 
17,  1896,  Mrs.  Mary  (Osterhout)  Cole,  daugh- 
ter of  Jacob  and  Jane  (Luyster)  Osterhout,  of 
Flatbush,  Ulster  county.  Her  father  was  a 
son  of  Daniel  and  Helena  (Hendricks)  Oster- 
hout, married  in  Kingston,  February  21,  1793, 
and  grandson  of  Cornelius  Osterhout,  a  prom- 
inent citizen  of  Flatbush. 


The    Brigham    family    is    of 
BRIGHAM     Saxon  origin  as  is  indicated 

by  its  name,  which  is  com- 
pounded of  the  two  Saxon  words  "Brig," 
meaning  "bridge,"  and  "Ham,"  meaning 
"home,"  the  two  together  designating  "the  man 
whose  home  was  by  the  bridge."  The  name  is 
found  from  early  times  in  Norfolk,  Yorkshire, 
Cumberland,  and  Berwickshire,  and  in  later 
days  in  London  and  other  parts  of  England 
and  Scotland.  There  are  catalogued  at  least 
eight  coats-of-arms  belonging  to  different 
branches  of  the  family,  and  several  of  the 
name  became  distinguished  personages  in  the 
history  of  their  times,  especially  Nicholas 
Brigham,  the  poet,  jurist  and  historian,  who 
died  February  20,  1558,  and  was  buried  in 
"Poet's  Corner"  in  Westminster  Abbey,  be- 
side his  daughter  Rachel,  whom  he  lost  at  the 
age  of  four, 

(I)  Thomas  Brigham,  the  founder  of  this 
family  in  American,  was  born  probably  in 
England,  in  1603,  and  died  in  Cambridge,  Mas- 
sachusetts, December  8,  1653.  He  emigrated 
to  Massachusetts  Bay  in  the  "Susan  and  El- 
len,"' which  left  London  in  April,  1635.  He  is 
said  to  have  settled  first  in  Watertown,  Massa- 
chusetts, but  the  only  evidence  is  the  fact  that 
his  largest  piece  of  "planting  ground"  lay 
within  the  limits  of  that  town,  and  the  asser- 
tion is  disputed  by  several  historians  of  the 
family.  It  is  certain,  however,  that  in  1639  he 
was  a  resident  of  Cambridge,  then  known  as 
Newtown.  He  married,  about  1637,  Mercy 
Hurd.  who  was  born  in  England,  about  1613, 
and  died  in  Marlboro,  Massacihusetts,  Decem- 
ber 23,  1693.  After  her  first  husband's  death 
she  married  (second)  March  i,  1655,  Edmund 
Rice,  and  in  1664  she  married  (third)  William 


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Hunt  of  Marlboro.  Children  of  Thomas 
Brigham :  Mary,  born  about  1638,  died  in 
1676,  married  John  Fay ;  Thomas  (2) ,  referred 
to  below;  John,  bom  in  Cambridge,  March  9, 
1644,  died  September  16,  1728,  married  (first) 

Sarah  ,  (second)  Deborah ,  and 

(third)  Sarah  IBowker;  Hannah,  born  March 
9,  1649-50,  died  in  December,  17 19,  married 
(first)  Gershom  Ames,  and  (second)  William 
Ward;  Samuel,  born  January  12,  1652,  died 
July  24,  1713,  married  Elizabeth  Howe. 

(H)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i)  and 
Mercy  (Hurd)  Brigham,  was  born  probably  in 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  about  1640,  and 
died  in  Marlboro,  Massachusetts.  November 
25,  1716.  He  removed  from  Cambridge  when 
his  mother  married  Edmund  Rice,  first  to  Sud- 
bury and  then  to  Marlboro.  He  married 
(first)  December  27,  1665,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Moore)  Rice,  and 
granddaughter  of  Edmund  Rice,  the  emigrant, 
and  his  first  wife  Tamazine,  and  also  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  Moore,  of  Sudbury.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  July  30.  1695,  Susannah, 
daughter  of  William  Shattuck,  of  Watertown, 
and  widow  of  Joseph  Morse  and  of  John  Fay, 
the  latter  of  whom  had  for  his  first  wife 
Thomas  Brigham's  sister  Mary.  Children,  all 
by  first  marriage:  Thomas  (3),  born  Febru- 
ary 24,  1666-7;  Nathan,  born  June  17,  1671, 
died  February  16,  1746-7,  married  (first)  Eli- 
zabeth Howe,  and  (second)  Mrs.  Mehitable 
(Gould)  Eaton;  David,  born  August  11,  1673, 
died  young;  Jonathan,  born  February  22,  1675, 
died  January  4,  1768,  married  March  26,  1696, 
his  cousin  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Brigham)  Fay;  David,  born  April  12,  1678, 
died  June  26,  1750,  married  (first)  Deborah 
-,  and  (second)   August  21,  1709,  Mrs. 


Mary  (Leonard)  Newton,  and  (third) 
Gershom,  born  February  23,  1680,  died  Jan- 
uary 3,  1748-9,  married.  May  18,  1703,  Me- 
hitable Warren  ;  Elnathan,  referred  to  below  ; 
Mary,  born  October  26.  1687.  married,  July 
30,  1710,  Captain  Jonas  Houghton,  of  Lancas- 
ter, Massachusetts. 

(HI)  Elnathan,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  and 
Mary  (Rice)  Brigham,  was  born  in  Marlboro, 
Massachusetts,  March  7,  1683,  and  died  in 
Mansfield  or  Coventry,  Connecticut,  April  10, 
1758.  He  drew  seventeen  acres  in  his  father's 
right,  was  surveyor  of  Marlboro  in  1715,  and 
removed  to  Mansfield  in  1717.  He  married, 
about  1705,  Bethiah,  daughter  of  William  and 


Hannah  (Brigham)  Ward,  who  died  in  Coven- 
try, Connecticut,  April  15,  1765,  aged  eighty- 
two  years.  Children  (the  six  elder  born  in 
Marlboro,  the  two  youngest  in  Mansfield)  : 
Uriah,  born  April  30,  1706,  died  July  9,  17 10; 
Jerusha,  married,  in  1729,  Benjamin  Robinson, 
of  Windham,  Connecticut;  Priscilla,  born 
April  3,  1709,  married,  January  2,  1726,  Mat- 
thias Marsh,  of  Coventry,  Connecticut;  Levi- 
nah,  born  August  31,  1711,  died  March  8,  1749, 
married,  December  16,  1729,  John,  son  of  John 
and  Mary  (Brigham)  Fay;  Prudence,  born 
January  28,  1715,  died  February  3,  1715;  El- 
nathan (2),  referred  to  below;  Paul,  died  May 
3,  1746,  married,  July  i,  1741,  Catherine  Tur- 
ner; Uriati.  born  about  1723.  died  January  25, 
1777,  married  (first)  Lydia  Ward,  and  (sec- 
ond) Ann  Richardson. 

(IV)  Elnathan  (2),  son  of  Elnathan  (i) 
and  Bethiah  (Ward)  Brigham.  was  born  in 
Marlboro.  Massachusetts.  April  7,  1716,  and 
died  in  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  September  2, 
1802.  He  settled  on  the  homestead  in  Mans- 
field. His  wife's  name  is  unknown.  Children, 
born  in  Mansfield :  Stephen,  referred  to  be- 
low;  Elnathan  (3),  born  about  1757,  died  in 
1835.  married  Mary . 

(V)  Stephen,  son  of  Elnathan  (2)  Brigham, 
was  born  in  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  about 
1744,  and  died  May  7,  1816.  In  September, 
1777,  he  was  permitted  to  transport  to  Boston 
by  land  1,600  pounds  of  rye  and  wheat  flour, 
400  pounds  of  cheese,  and  200  pounds  of  but- 
ter, to  be  exchanged  for  iron  and  steel ;  also 
to  exchange  for  salt  2  tons  of  rye  and  wheat 
flour,  1,400  pounds  of  cheese,  and  600  pounds 
of  butter;  also  to  drive  to  Boston  40  fat  cattle 
and  250  fat  sheep.  In  May.  1779,  he  was  ap- 
pointed ensign  in  the  Eighth  Company,  Fifth 

State  Regiment.     He  married  (first)   , 

and  (second)  Hannah,  daughter  of  Bennet  and 
Elizabeth  (Spofford)  Field,  who  was  born 
May  26,  1747.  Children,  four  by  first  mar- 
riage, all  born  in  Mansfield :  Eunice,  born 
February  15,  1776,  died  June  9,  1841,  married 
February  23,  179-,  Elijah  Royce,  of  Wood- 
stock ;  Asenath,  married Wright ;  Anna, 

married    Parker;    Lucretia,    married 

Isaac  Morey ;  Elizabeth,  died  in  1845,  married 
in  1798,  Samuel  Augustus  Spalding,  of  Mans- 
field ;  Stephen,  born  February  5,  1774,  married 
(first)  Huldah  Freeman  and  (second)  Eliza- 
beth Huntington  ;  Hannah,  died  unmarried ; 
Clarissa,  married  (first)  Gerry  Russ,  and  (sec- 


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ond)  Raphael  Storrs;  Elisha,  referred  to  be- 
low; Spofiford,  married Myrick;  Polly, 

born  about  1785,  died  April  27,  1807,  married 
Cephas  Dunham;  Sally,  born  about  1788,  died 
June  27,  1808. 

(VI)  Elisha,  son  of  Stephen  and  Hannah 
(Field)  Brigham,  was  born  in  Willington, 
Connecticut,  in  1782,  and  died  in  1840,  while 
on  a  visit  to  the  same  place.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent resident  in  Willington  for  many  years, 
where  he  owned  considerable  real  estate,  and 
acted  as  executor  for  many  estates  in  the 
neighborhood.  In  middle  life  removed  to  El- 
lenville,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  where  he 
established  a  glass  factory,  in  partnership  with 
a  Mr.  Gilbert,  which  he  conducted  until  his 
death.  He  married  Lucinda  Dexter,  who  was 
born  in  1790,  and  died  February  19,  1863. 
Children :  Jane,  married  Emory  Healy ;  Har- 
riet, married  George  B.  Hibbard;  Elisha  M., 
referred  to  below. 

(VII)  Elisba  M.,  son  of  Elisha  and  Lucinda 
(Dexter)  Brigham,  was  born  in  Willington, 
Connecticut,  May  i,  1822.  and  died  in  King- 
ston, Ulster  county,  New  York,  December  10, 
1901.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  when 
fifteen  years  of  age  removed  with  his  father  to 
Ellenville,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  later  be- 
coming a  clerk  in  his  father's  store.  After  a 
few  years  he  removed  to  Kingston,  Ulster 
county.  New  York,  where  he  conducted  a  gen- 
eral store  for  some  years,  and  which  he  later 
sold  and  engaged  in  the  carriage  business.  He 
afterwards  became  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Kingston  and  Rosendale  Lime  and  Cement 
Company,  which  business  was  subsequently 
greatly  enlarged  and  the  title  changed  to  the 
Hudson  River  Cement  Company,  and  in  which 
he  was  actively  interested  until  a  few  years 
prior  to  his  death,  when  he  retired  from  busi- 
ness life.  He  was  one  of  the  most  widely 
known  and  most  experienced  men  in  the  ce- 
ment business  of  the  state.  He  was  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  and  served  for  two  terms  as 
county  treasurer  of  Ulster  county,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  board  of  education  over  twenty 
years,  city  of  Kingston,  and  president  of 
the  board  over  ten  years.  He  was  a  Baptist  in 
religion,  and  was  a  deacon  of  the  church  in 
Kingston.  He  married  (first)  Margaret  Scott, 
(second)  Arietta  Halsey,  (third)  Isabella, 
daughter  of  Reuben  and  Anna  (Garrett) 
Nichols.     Children  by  second  wife:  Jane  Lu- 


cinda, born  February  4,  1846;  Oliver,  born  in 
1848,  married  Emma  Cogswell.  Children  by 
third  wife:  Henry  R.,  referred  to  below; 
William  H.,  born  August  24,  1862,  married 
Susan  O'Neil,  child,  Mary  Hester. 

(VIII)  Henry  R.,  son  of  Elisha  M.  and  Isa- 
bella (Nichols)  Brigham,  was  born  in  King- 
ston, Ulster  county,  New  York,  August  3, 
1859,  and  is  now  (1913)  living  there.  He  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  public  school 
of  his  native  town,  and  graduated  from  the 
Kingston  Academy  in  1878,  and  was  then  for 
one  year  a  student  at  Colgate  College.  He  en- 
tered the  employ  of  the  Wabash  railroad  as 
accountant,  at  Logansport,  Indiana,  remaining 
in  that  position  until  1880,  when  he  resigned 
and  returned  to  Kingston,  where  he  became 
secretary  and  general  sales  agent  of  the  Hud- 
son River  Cement  Company,  continuing  in  that 
occupation  for  ten  years.  He  then  formed  a 
partnership  with  his  brother,  William  H.  Brig- 
ham, and  established  general  stores  at  Creek 
Locks  and  East  Kingston,  New  York,  and  in 
1892  the  firm  entered  the  brick  manufacturing 
business,  at  East  Kingston,  New  York,  in 
which  he  still  continues.  The  firm  erected  in 
1912  a  new  factory  and  established  a  process 
of  drying  by  steam  which  enables  them  to 
manufacture  brick  at  all  seasons  of  the  year, 
and  the  business  has  expanded  from  an  initial 
output  of  six  million  brick  per  annum  to  an 
annual  output  of  forty-five  million  brick,  and 
gives  employment  to  four  hundred  men.  He 
also  conducts  a  cement-brick  commission  busi- 
ness in  New  York  City.  He  is  a  director  of 
the  Greater  New  York  Brick  Company,  New 
York  City;  vice-president  of  the  Ulster  County 
Savings  Bank  in  Kingston ;  is  one  of  the  direc- 
tors of  the  State  of  New  York  National  Bank, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education 
in  Kingston  for  eight  years.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  of  Kingston,  and 
is  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
church.  He  married,  October  4,  1882,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Derrick  W.  Sparling,  of  Kingston. 
New  York.  Child:  Harold  S.,  born  in  18S3, 
married,  in  1906,  Charlotte  Rouse,  of  Catskill. 
New  York. 


Samuel  Boice,  the  first  member  of 
BOICE     this  family  of  whom  we  have  any 

definite  information,  was  a  far- 
mer, and  one  of  tlie  leading  men  of  liis  day  in 
Olive    township,    Ulster    county.    New    York. 


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The  family  is  of  Dutch  origin,  the  original 
spelling  of  the  name  being  Buys ;  and  Samuel 
Boice  is  probably  a  descendant  of  Jan,  Hen- 
drick,  or  Abraham  Buys,  all  three  of  whom 
were  living  in  Poughkeepsie  as  early  as  1717- 
18.  Abraham  was  married  in  the  Dutch  church 
in  Kingston,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  and  the 
three  had  children  baptized  there,  but  the  rec- 
ords at  present  available  are  insufficient  to  es- 
tablish the  exact  line  of  descent.  Among  the 
children  of  Samuel  Boice  was  Lemuel,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(II)  Lemuel,  son  of  Samuel  Boice,  was  born 
in  Shokan,  Olive  township,  Ulster  county. 
New  York,  May  5,  1819,  in  the  old  stone 
house,  where  his  grandfather  was  born,  and 
lived  on  his  farm  in  Olive  township.  He  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  public  schools, 
then  engaged  in  farming,  and  later  became  in- 
terested in  the  preparation  of  bark  for  tanneries 
and  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  and  built 
a  tannery  at  Boiceville  (which  place  was 
named  in  his  honor),  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  in  which  occupation  he  continued  until 
1866.  He  now  returned  to  the  homestead  and 
again  engaged  in  farming,  and  also  in  operat- 
ing several  saw-mills  which  'he  had  bought, 
conducting  them  until  1870,  when  he  purchased 
the  property,  where  he  erected  the  "Hamilton 
House"  and  also  cultivated  a  farm.  In  1876 
he  received  the  contract  for  grading  the  road- 
bed and  constructing  the  arches  and  bridge  on 
the  railroad  between  Arkville  and  Delhi,  New 
York,  and  he  continued  the  work  until  the 
project  was  abandoned,  and  then  returned  to 
Shokan  and  engaged  in  business  until  1885, 
when  he  retired  from  active  life.  He  was  a 
man  of  great  strength  of  character,  and  was 
considered  one  of  the  men  best  informed  in 
general  topics  in  the  township.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Republican  and  active  in  the  affairs  of 
the  party,  and  in  1858  was  elected  supervisor 
of  the  township.  He  married  (first)  Mary 
Ann  Brinck,  of  Olive  township,  Ulster  county. 
New  York,  who  died  June  — ,  1874.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  March  30.  1876,  Mary  C.  Hill. 
Children,  all  by  first  marriage:  i.  Horace, 
born  July  24,  1843,  "ow  living  in  Kingston, 
New  York.  2.  Nancy,  born  January  23,  1845  ; 
married  Alonzo  G.  Davis.  3.  Ellen,  born 
March  6,  1847  '•  married  W.  S.  Brown.  4. 
Lewis,  born  September  23,  1849.  5-  Elizabeth, 
born  January  6,  1852;  married  Isaac  M.  Davis. 
6.  Leland,  born  June  14,  1854.    7.  Zadoc  Pratt, 


referred  to  below.     8.  Orpha,  deceased;  mar- 
ried George  Siemons. 

(Ill)  Zadoc  Pratt,  son  of  Lemuel  and  Mary 
Ann  (Brinck)  Boice,  was  born  July  29,  1858, 
and  is  now  living  in  Kingston,  Ulster  county, 
New  York.  He  received  his  early  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  Shokan,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age, 
when  he  was  for  one  winter  a  pupil  at  the 
private  school  of  Miss  Sally  Inghram.  He  then 
worked  for  his  father  for  a  few  years,  and  was 
also  in  the  employ  of  C.  C.  Winnie  for  a  short 
time.  In  1878  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
D.  W.  Ennist  and  engaged  in  the  grocery  busi- 
ness, in  which  he  continued  until  October  i, 
1885,  when  he  purchased  the  estate,  consisting 
of  eighteen  pieces  of  property  at  West  Shokan, 
which  had  formerly  been  owned  by  his  father. 
He  is  an  extensive  owner  of  real  estate  and  a 
progressive,  successful  business  man.  In  June, 
1894,  he  was  elected  one  of  the  directors  of 
the  State  of  New  York  National  Bank  in  King- 
ston, an  office  he  still  holds,  and  he  is  also  one 
of  the  trustees  of  the  Ulster  County  Savings 
Bank.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  has 
been  a  member  of  the  county  central  commit- 
tee for  many  years.  In  1893  he  was  elected 
supervisor,  and  re-elected  to  that  office  in  1894 
for  a  term  of  two  years ;  and  in  1906  he  was 
elected  by  an  overwhelming  majority  to  the 
office  of  sheriff  of  Ulster  county.  He  is  a 
member  of  Kingston  Lodge,  No.  10,  of  the 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  is  also  a  mem- 
brr  of  Mountain  Gate  Lodge,  No.  299.  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  at  West  Shokan.  He  mar- 
ried, October  6,  1880.  Delia  Elmendorf,  of 
Olive  township,  Ulster  county.  New  York. 
Children:  i.  Lena,  born  February  12.1883.  2. 
Delta,  born  September  2,  1891. 


Thomas  Pettit,  the  founder  of 
PETTIT     this  family,  was  born  in  Suffolk 

county,  England,  and  died  in 
^^'estchester  county.  New  York,  in  1861.  He 
immigrated  to  New  York  City  in  1832  and  en- 
gaged in  the  trade  of  carpenter  and  millwright. 
The  following  year  he  was  joined  by  his  wife 
and  children,  and  in  1839  the  family  removed 
to  Kingston,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  where 
Mr.  Pettit  followed  the  trade  of  a  cabinet- 
maker for  a  number  of  years.  Later  he  re- 
moved to  Westchester  county,  where  he  lived 
until  his  death.  In  religion  he  was  a  Baptist. 
He  married,   in   England,   Ann   Borrem,  who 


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died  in  Westchester  county,  New  York,  in 
1886.  Children  :  Ann  ;  Thomas  ;  WilHam,  liv- 
ing in  Kingston,  New  York,  in  1896;  George, 
living  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  in  1896.  John, 
referred  to  below;  Elizabeth,  born  about  1820. 
now  living  in  Bristol,  England  ;  Mary,  living  in 
Westchester  county.  New  York,  in  1896; 
Rockwell,  living  in  Westchester  county.  New 
York,  in  1896;  Henry;  Charlotte;  Sarah. 

(H)  John,  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  (Bor- 
rem)  Pettit,  was  born  in  Suffolk,  England, 
February  28.  1828,  and  died  in  Kingston,  Ul- 
ster county.  New  York,  October  8,  1905.  He 
was  brought  to  America  by  his  mother  in  1833, 
and  when  the  family  settled  in  Kingston,  New 
York,  he  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  there.  He  then  learned  the  trade  of 
carpenter  and  millwright  from  his  father,  with 
whom  he  worked  until  he  was  twenty-one  years 
old,  when  he  went  into  the  sash  and  blind- 
making  business,  and  had  his  shop  on  Wilbur 
avenue,  in  Kingston,  until  i860.  He  now  be- 
gan the  manufacture  of  powder-kegs  for  the 
Smith,  Rand  Powder  Company,  and  gave  his 
whole  time  to  this  occupation  until  he  retired 
from  business  in  1902.  An  upright,  honest, 
self-made  man,  who  started  in  business  with 
no  assistance  from  anyone,  through  his  energy, 
industry  and  good  management  he  became  one 
of  the  most  successful  manufacturers  of  King- 
ston. He  was  a  Baptist  in  religion,  and  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  was  elected  four  times 
on  the  Republican  ticket  as  alderman  of  King- 
ston. 

Mr.  Pettit  married,  September  5,  1853, 
Amanda  M.,  daughter  of  Amor  and  Loviiia 
(Clark)  Richardson,  who  was  born  in  Albany, 
New  York,  May  17,  1836,  and  is  now  living  in 
Kingston.  Children:  i.  Lovina  A.,  married 
C.  Beekman  Jansen,  of  Kingston ;  children : 
Edna,  married  Edwin  Van  Wart ;  Grace  E  , 
now  teaching  in  the  public  schools  of  Hoboken, 
New  Jersey ;  and  Mary  Emma.  2.  Minnie  E.. 
married  Walter  S.  Darling,  of  Kingston,  New 
York. 


The  Case  family  of  Connecticut  is 
CASE  of  English  origin  and  is  distinct 
from  the  family  of  the  same  name 
which  is  now  found  side  by  side  with  it  in 
many  parts  of  the  United  States,  but  whose 
origin,  as  the  original  spelling  of  the  name, 
Kase,  implies,  was  German.  John  Casse  or 
Case,  according  to  Drake's  "Founders  of  New 


England,"  sailed  from  Gravesend,  England,  in 
the  ship  "Dorset,"  John  Flower,  master,  Sep- 
itniber  3,  1635,  for  the  Bermudas,  when  only 
nineteen  years  old.  In  1640  he  is  found  at 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  August  13,  1656, 
he  was  one  of  the  inhabitants  of  Maspeth  Kills 
(now  Newtown),  Long  Island.  In  the  follow- 
ing year  he  joined  the  new  colony  of  Windsor, 
on  the  Connecticut  river,  eight  or  nine  miles 
above  Hartford,  and  in  1667  he  was  one  of  the 
twenty  to  whom  the  first  grants  of  land  there 
were  made.  Two  years  later,  with  thirteen 
others,  he  removed  to  Massacoe  (later  Sims- 
bury),  and  in  1670  was  sent  to  the  general 
court  as  a  delegate.  He  settled  in  the  south 
part  of  Simsbury,  then  known  as  Weatogue, 
and  served  in  several  of  the  town  offices  from 
time  to  time,  until  his  death.  He  died  Febru- 
ary 21,  1703-04.  He  married  (first)  Sarah, 
daughter  of  William  and  Agnes  Spencer,  of 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  who  was  born  in  1636, 
and  died  in  1691.  He  married  (second)  Eliza- 
beth, widow  of  Nathaniel  Loomis,  of  Windsor, 
Connecticut,  who  died  in  1728,  aged  ninety 
years.  Children  (all  by  first  marriage)  :  Eli- 
zabeth, born  1658,  died  in  1718,  married 
(first)  Joseph  Lewis,  (second)  John  Tuller; 
Mary,  born  in  1660.  died  in  1725,  married 
(first)  William  Alderman,  (second)  James 
Hillyer;  John  (2),  referred  to  below;  William, 
born  in  1665,  died  in  1700,  married  Elizabeth 
Holcomb :  Samuel,  born  in  1667,  died  in  1725, 
married  (first)  Mary  Westover,  (second)  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  (Owen)  Thrall;  Richard,  born  in 
1669,  died  in  1746,  married,  September  i, 
1701.  Amy  Reed:  Bartholomew,  born  in  Oc- 
tober, 1670,  died  in  1725,  married,  December 
7,  1699,  Mary  Humphries;  Joseph,  born  April 
6,  1674,  died  in  1748,  married,  April  6,  1699, 
Anna  Eno ;  Sarah,  born  April  20,  1676,  died 
in  1704,  married  Joseph  Phelps,  jr. ;  Abigail, 
born  May  4,  1682,  married,  September  i,  1701, 
Jonah  Westover,  Jr. 

(II)  John  (2).  son  of  John  (i)  and  Sarah 
(Spencer)  Case,  was  born  in  Connecticut  in 
1662.  and  died  in  Simsbury,  Connecticut,  May 
22,  1733.  He  married  (first)  September  12, 
1684,  Mary,  daughter  of  Mary  Olcutt,  of 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  (second)  Mary 
Holcomb.  Children  (one  by  first  marriage)  : 
John,  born  August  6,  1685,  died  young;  John 
(2),  born  August  22,  1694,  died  December  2, 
1752,  married.  January  24,  17 16,  Abigail  Hum- 
phries ;  Daniel,  referred  to  below ;  Jonathan, 


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born  April  15,  1701,  married.  May  10,  1721, 
Mary  Beaman. 

(III)  Daniel,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Mary 
(Holcomb)  Case,  was  born  in  Simsbury,  Con- 
necticut, March  7,  1695,  and  died  there  May 
28,  1733.  He  married.  May  7,  1719,  Penelope 
Butler,  of  Simsbury.  Children  (all  born  in 
Simsbury)  :  Daniel,  born  January  31,  1719-20, 
married,  February  22,  1750,  Mary  Watson; 
Mindwell,  born  October  24,  1721  ;  Dudley,  re- 
ferred to  below ;  Susannah,  born  September 
20,   1726;  Ezekiel,  born   September  30,   1731, 

married   (first)    Lucy  ,   (second)    May 

16,  1771,  Mrs.  Mary  (Allin)  Hoskins. 

(IV)  Dudley,  son  of  Daniel  and  Penelope 
(Butler)  Case,  was  born  in  Simsbury,  Connec- 
ticut, November  3,  1723.     He  married,  April 

14,  1743,  Dorcas  Humphrey.  Children  (all 
born  in  Simsbury)  :  Dudley  (2),  born  Octo- 
ber 28,  1744;  Elisha,  born  December  10,  1747, 
died  young;  Ozias,  born  June  7,  1749,  died 
young;  Elias,  born  March  5,  1753,  died 
young;  EHsha,  born  April  30,  1755;  Ozias, 
born  July  24,  1757;  Elias,  born  April  15,  1759; 
Daniel,  referred  to  below ;  Dorcas,  born  Au- 
gust 14,  1764;  Truman,  born  January  22,  1767; 
Emanuel,  born  March  25,  1769. 

(V)  Daniel,  son  of  Dudley  and  Dorcas 
(Humphrey)  Case,  was  born  in  Simsbury, 
Connecticut,  March  5,  1761.  Among  his  chil- 
dren was  Daniel  (2),  referred  to  below. 

(VI)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (i)  Case, 
was  born  in  Connecticut,  May  19,  1784,  and 
died  in  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  in  Novem- 
ber, 1864.  He  remained  with  his  parents  until 
eleven  years  of  age,  and  then,  owing  to  dis- 
agreements with  his  father,  removed  to  Sho- 
kan,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  where  he 
worked  on  a  farm  and  learned  the  trade  of  a 
tanner,  which  he  followed  for  many  years  in 
different  localities,  and  principally  in  Spencer- 
town,  Columbia  county,  New  York,  where  the 
majority  of  his  children  were  born.  He  mar- 
ried, September  15,  1808,  Sylvia  Barber,  who 
was  born  July  19,  1787,  and  died  in  January, 
1861.     Children:     Sherman,  born   September 

15,  1809;  Laura,  born  September  8,  1811; 
Chauncey,  referred  to  below ;  Harriet,  born 
October  16,  1815,  died  July  6,  1892;  Henry, 
born  January  18,  1819,  drowned  in  1852;  Cal- 
vin, born  March  16,  1821 ;  Austin,  born  April 

16,  1823,  died  December  6,  1902  ;  George,  born 
July  10,  1826. 

(VII)  Chauncey,   son   of   Daniel    (2)    and 


Sylvia  (Barber)  Case,  was  born  in  Spencer- 
town,  Columbia  county.  New  York,  July  11, 
1813,  died  while  on  a  visit  to  Minneapolis, 
Minnesota,  May  8,  1875,  and  is  buried  in  King- 
ston, Ulster  county,  New  York.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  and 
then  learned  the  trade  of  a  tanner  with  his 
father,  at  Shokan,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
remaining  there  until  after  his  marriage,  when 
he  settled  in  Mariaville,  Hancock  county, 
Maine,  where  he  engaged  for  many  years  in 
the  tannery  and  bark  business,  until  failing 
health  compelled  his  retirement  from  active 
life.  He  was  a  Congregationalist  in  religion, 
and  was  one  of  the  officers  of  the  church  in 
Mariaville.  He  married,  October  15,  1839, 
Margaret  E.  Dunnagan,  who  was  bom  in 
Rhinebeck,  Dutchess  county.  New  York,  Jan- 
uary 17,  1815,  died  July  26,  1895.  Children: 
Augusta  M.,  married  Arthur  A.  Pond,  of  Ban- 
gor, Maine,  and  had  a  child,  Chauncey  L. 
(Pond)  ;  Chauncey  H.,  died  August  4,  1856; 
Harriet  Lillian,  now  living  in  Kingston,  Ulster 
county,  New  York ;  Margaret  Ellen,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 


Luke  Noone,  son  of  Martin  and 
NOONE  Ann  (Gately)  Noone,  was  born 
in  Ahasceragh,  County  Gal  way, 
Ireland,  November  24,  1822.  He  spent  his 
boyhood  at  home,  received  a  common  school 
education,  and  then  learned  the  business  of 
stone-cutting  from  his  father,  who  was  a  con- 
tractor. 

In  March,  1848,  with  his  sister  Mary,  he 
sailed  from  Liverpool  in  the  ship  "James 
Stephens,"  and  landed  at  Boston.  He  soon 
became  engaged  in  stone-cutting  and  con- 
tracting for  jobs  on  the  New  York  &  Erie 
railroad.  On  November  11,  1848,  he  went  to 
Kingston,  New  York,  in  which  place  and  in 
Troy,  New  York,  he  spent  the  next  two  years 
at  his  trade.  In  1850  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  three  other  men,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Edward  Murray  &  Company,  and  superin- 
tended the  construction  of  the  way-lock 
at  West  Troy.  In  1852  he  took  the  con- 
tract and  furnished  the  stone  for  the 
Second  Reformed  Church  in  Kingston 
New  York.  The  firm,  the  name  now 
changed  to  Noone  &  Fitzgerald,  also  took 
the  contract  for  Lock  Number  2  on  the  Erie 
Canal,  near  Albany,  and  from   1855  to   1857 


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furnished  cut  stone  for  and  contracted  the 
lower  lock  at  Fort  Ann,  New  York.  After 
this  Mr.  Noone  continued  the  business  for 
many  years,  and  among  his  most  important 
contracts  were  furnishing  cut  stone  for  a 
portion  of  the  Harlem  Bridge  in  New  York 
City ;  a  way-lock  on  Champlain  Canal,  above 
Waterford,  New  York  ;  guard-lock  at  Cohoes  ; 
a  blast-furnace  for  the  firm  of  Henry  Burden 
&  Son,  of  Troy ;  the  stone  for  the  river  wharf 
of  Watervliet  Arsenal,  at  Watervliet,  New 
York ;  the  stone  for  the  sea-wall  for  the  Bat- 
tery in  New  York  City ;  a  part  of  the  cut-stone 
for  the  fort  at  Sandy  Hook,  in  charge  of 
General  Delafield ;  a  portion  of  the  stone  used 
in  the  construction  of  the  Capitol  in  Albany, 
and  for  the  bridge  across  the  Hudson  at  Al- 
bany ;  also  two  stones  weighing  some  fourteen 
tons  each  for  the  Dudley  Observatory  at  Al- 
bany. In  1870  he  took  Frank  Madden  into 
partnership  with  him,  the  firm  name  becoming 
Noone  &  Madden.  They  kept  in  almost  con- 
stant employment  one  hundred  and  thirty  men 
and  from  eighteen  to  twenty-four  teams, 
quarrying  their  stone  in  Kingston,  hauling  it 
to  the  Hudson,  and  shipping  by  water  to  dis- 
tant points  for  the  construction  of  both  public 
and  private  works,  among  which  should  be 
mentioned  the  East  River  Bridge  between 
New  York  and  Brooklyn.  Mr.  Noone  was 
one  of  the  most  successful  and  prominent  men 
in  the  development  of  the  stone  products  of 
Ulster  county.  He  was  director  and  vice- 
president  of  the  Kingston  National  Bank,  and 
since  the  organization  of  the  Kingston  Sav- 
ings Bank  he  was  successively  trustee,  vice- 
president  and  president  of  that  institution.  He 
was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  served  as  trustee 
of  the  village  of  Kingston  for  two  years,  as 
super\'isor  for  the  city  of  Kingston,  a  dele- 
gate to  the  Democratic  State  Convention  held 
in  Albany  in  1877,  and  to  the  State  Conven- 
tion held  in  Syracuse  in  1879. 

In  1867  Mr.  Noone  purchased  of  the  State, 
through  General  Gates,  the  present  St.  Jo- 
seph's Church  property,  which  was  then  a 
State  Armory.  He  held  the  property  for  two 
years,  when  it  was  deeded  to  St.  Joseph's  con- 
gregation. With  characteristic  reticence  he 
never  talked  of  the  matter,  so  it  was  not  gen- 
erally known  by  whom  the  purchase  was  made, 
until  the  consecration  of  the  church  in  1908, 
when  Archbishop  Farley  called  upon  Mrs. 
Noone   and    received    from   her   the    deed   bv 


which  the  transaction  had  been  consummated 
nearly  forty-two  years  before. 

In  1870  Mr.  Noone  and  his  wife  visited  his 
old  home  in  Ireland.  February  16,  1854,  he 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  James  and  Jane 
(  Downey)  Diamond  of  Rondout,  New  York. 
He  died  March  17,  1905,  and  is  survived  by 
his  wife  and  two  daughters :  Jane,  who  mar- 
ried William  J.  O'Leary,  M.D.,  of  Kingston; 
and  Anna,  who  married  Edward  Howard  Tin- 
dale,  of  New  York. 

No  better  estimate  of  Mr.  Noone's  character 
can  be  given  than  in  the  words  of  his  business 
associates :  "We  have  found  in  Mr.  Noone  a 
man  of  kindly  nature,  strict  integrity,  and 
wise  and  conservative  counsel.  For  over  fifty 
years  he  has  been  known  in  this  community 
as  one  of  our  most  reliable,  conservative  and 
trustworthy  citizens.  No  man  has  been  more 
trusted,  and  no  man  has  more  fully  met  and 
discharged  the  trusts  reposed  in  him." 


According  to  Lower,  a  first 
BARNES     authority,  the  surname   Barnes 

is  in  origin  the  same  as  Berners. 
The  famous  Domesday  Book  of  England  rec- 
ords Hugh  de  Berners  as  a  tenant  in  chief 
holding  Eversdan,  County  Cambridge,  Eng- 
land. The  Itin.  Norm,  has  mention  of  six 
localities  called  Bernierres,  in  different  parts 
of  Normandy,  but  which  of  them,  if  any,  is 
the  cradle  of  the  race,  is  not  known.  There 
are  several  Barnes  families  in  the  United 
States,  but  not  traceable  to  a  common  origin. 

(I)  James  Barnes,  the  first  member  of  this 
immediate  family  in  the  United  States,  was 
a  resident  of  Colchester,  Essex  county,  Eng- 
land, where  he  died.  He  was  a  farmer,  and 
a  man  of  excellent  repute.  The  name  of  his 
wife  is  unknown.  Children:  Thomas,  and 
George,  of  whom  further. 

(II)  George,  son  of  James  Barnes,  was 
born  in  Colchester,  Essex  county,  England, 
September  q.  1805.  and  died  in  Kingston,  Ul- 
ster county.  New  York,  in  1884.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  schools  of  his  native 
town,  and  in  1832  came  to  America  and  set- 
tled in  New  York  City,  where  for  two  years 
he  was  engaged  in  the  shoe  business.  In  1834 
lie  removed  to  Kingston,  where  he  established 
a  similar  business,  which  he  continued  for 
many  years.  During  this  time  he  was  or- 
dained to  the  ministry  of  the  Baptist  church, 
and  preached  in  the  churches  of  Kingston  and 


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the  surrounding  country.  He  was  one  of  the 
reorganizers  of  the  Bethany  Mission,  of  which 
he  became  superintendent,  and  was  noted  for 
his  work  in  the  missionary  field,  and  as  an 
earnest  and  zealous  Christian  man.  He  mar- 
ried, in  the  North  Baptist  Church,  in  New 
York  City,  December  16,  1831,  Charlotte 
Twitchett,  who  was  born  May  24,  1807,  in 
Kelvedon,  England,  and  died  in  1894,  in  King- 
ston. Children :  George  T.,  born  September 
16,  1832;  Joseph  E.,  June  28,  1834:  James  T., 
February  11,  1836;  Elizabeth  G.,  August  14, 
1837;  Emily  B.,  April  3,  1839;  Charlotte  A., 
January  i,  1841 ;  Anna  D..  January  26,  1843; 
Andrew  N.,  of  whom  further;  Josephine  P., 
January  25,  185 1. 

(HI)  Andrew  N.,  son  of  George  and  Char- 
lotte (Twitchett)  Barnes,  was  born  in  King- 
ston, New  York,  November  18,  1847,  ^n<i  is 
now  living  there.  He  was  educated  at  the 
Kingston  Academy,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
years  entered  the  drygoods  house  of  Merritt 
&  Crosby,  in  Kingston,  and  was  later  pro- 
moted to  the  position  of  confidential  book- 
keeper, and  manager  of  the  branch  of  the 
firm  at  Rondout,  New  York.  In  1873  he  pur- 
chased an  interest  in  the  drygoods  firm  of 
James  O.  Merritt,  Brodhead  &  Company.  In 
1877  he  was  appointed  postmaster  at  Rondout, 
New  York,  by  President  Hayes,  was  reap- 
pointed by  President  Arthur,  and  retired  from 
office  in  1886.  He  then  purchased  an  interest 
in  the  wholesale  furniture  business  of  Knight 
&  Gregory,  in  Kingston,  the  firm  becoming 
Knight,  Gregory  &  Barnes,  and  so  continuing 
until  1887,  when  Mr.  Knight  disposed  of  his 
interest,  and  the  firm  became  Gregory  & 
Barnes,  and  remained  so  until  Mr.  Barnes 
sold  his  interest  in  the  firm  and  retired  from 
active  business  in  1912.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  and  was  alderman  from  the  second 
ward  of  Kingston  from  1895  to  1897.  For 
twenty-five  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Kingston  Board  of  Trade,  and  for  twelve 
years  a  director.  He  is  a  member  of  King- 
ston Lodge,  No.  10,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons.  At  one  time  he  was  president  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association ;  and  since 
1874  he  has  been  president  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Albany  Avenue  Baptist  Church, 
and  for  fourteen  years  was  superintendent  of 
its  Sunday  school.  Mr.  Barnes  married,  June 
20,  1871.  Sarah  K.,  born  August  27.  1846, 
daughter  of  John  S.  and  Anne  Eliza  (Cramer) 


Willis.  Her  father,  a  merchant  and  cracker 
manufacturer  in  Kingston,  died  February  25, 
1884;  her  mother  was  born  December  12,  1822, 
and  died  March  24,  1892.  Child  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Barnes :    C.  Everett,  of  whom  further. 

(IV)  C.  Everett,  only  child  of  Andrew  N. 
and  Sarah  K.  (Willis)  Barnes,  was  born  in 
Kingston,  New  York,  May  5,  1872,  and  is  now 
living  there.  He  received  his  early  education 
in  the  Kingston  Academy,  and  then  entered 
the  New  York  Homoeopathic  College,  but  was 
obliged  to  relinquish  his  studies,  owing  to  im- 
paired health.  Returning  to  Kingston,  he 
later  became  associated  with  his  father  in  the 
furniture  busines.  He  married,  March  12, 
1898,  Helen  Brodhead.  Child:  Gordon  Wil- 
lis, born  October  30,  1903. 


Philip  Shafer,  the  founder  of 
SHAFER     the  family  in  this  country,  was 

born  in  Holland,  December  12, 
1764,  and  died  in  Andes,  Delaware  county. 
New  York,  October  8,  1838.  He  emigrated 
from  Holland  to  America  about  1784,  and  set- 
tled near  the  east  branch  of  the  Delaware 
river  in  Delaware  county,  where  he  cleared 
a  farm  of  three  hundred  acres,  which  he  cul- 
tivated until  his  death.    He  married  Catherine 

,   born   in    1761,   died  in   Andes,    New 

York,  July  6,  1837.  Among  his  children  was 
Philip   (2),   referred  to  below. 

(II)  Philip  (2),  son  of  Philip  (i)  and 
Catherine  Shafer,  was  born  on  his  father's 
farm  at  Andes,  Delaware  county.  New  York, 
December  12,  1794,  and  died  in  Delaware 
county,  September  21,  1873.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  stock-raiser,  and  also  engaged  in  the 
lumbering  business.  He  served  in  the  United 
States  army  during  the  Mexican  war.  He 
married.  May  13,  1824,  Sarah  Melvina, 
daughter  of  Ezra  and  Sarah  (Clarke)  Bene- 
dict, who  was  born  June  22,.  1805,  and  died 
April  II,  1880  (see  Benedict  VI).  Children: 
William  P.,  born  September  14,  1825;  Bene- 
dict, referred  to  below ;  Mary  Jane,  born  Sep- 
tember 27,  1829 ;  Sarah  C,  born  September 
24,  1832 ;  Ezra  B.,  born  August  3,  1835  ;  Mar- 
cus P.,  born  July  21,  1837;  Andrew  C,  born 
December  29,  1839;  Frances  Ann,  born  May 
10,  1842 ;  Francis  Marion,  born  March  10, 
1846;  Frances  Maria,  twin  with  Francis 
Marion,  bom  March  10,  1846. 

(III)  Colonel  Benedict  Shafer,  son  of 
Philip    (2)    and    Sarah    Melvina    (Benedict) 


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Shafer,  was  born  in  Andes,  Delaware  county, 
New  York,  March  18,  1827,  died  October  23, 
1909,  at  Kingston.  He  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  and  the  Andes 
Academy,  and  in  1849  entered  the  general 
hardware  business  in  Andes  and  later  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  tinware,  in  which  he 
continued  until  1855,  when  he  disposed  of  his 
interests  and  removed  to  Eddyville,  Ulster 
county.  New  York,  and  assumed  charge  of  the 
cement  works  of  Thomas  W.  Cornell  &  Com- 
pany. In  1871  he  purchased  a  one-half  inter- 
est in  the  business  and  in  partnership  with 
Henry  C.  Connelly  established  the  firm  of  Con- 
nelly &  Shafer,  and  engaged  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  Rosendale  cement  and  the  conducting 
of  a  general  store.  In  1899  the  cement  manu- 
facturing interests  were  sold  to  the  Consoli- 
dated Cement  Company,  and  the  firm  con- 
tinued in  the  general  merchandise  business 
until  the  death  of  Colonel  Shafer.  He  served 
as  a  commissioner  and  secretary  of  the  board 
of  the  Ulster  and  Delaware  railroad  until  the 
bonded  indebtedness  of  that  road  was  liqui- 
dated. He  was  for  many  years  adjutant  of 
the  Twenty-sixth  Regiment  National  Guard  of 
the  State  of  New  York.  He  married,  Septem- 
ber 23,  1857,  Jane  Frances,  daughter  of 
Thomas  W.  and  Emeline  (Lawrence)  Cornell, 
of  Eddyville,  New  York,  who  was  born  Janu- 
ary 26,  1835.  Children:  William  Cornell,  re- 
ferred to  below;  Emma  F.,  born  April  16, 
1861,  died  in  infancy;  Emma  F.,  born  July  16, 
1863,  died  young;  Mary  J.,  born  September 
19,  1866,  now  living  in  New  York  City,  mar- 
ried, in  1890,  Leonidas  Dennis;  Emeline  C, 
born  February  26,  1869,  died  young. 

(IV)  William  Cornell,  son  of  Colonel  Bene- 
dict and  Jane  Frances  (Cornell)  Shafer,  was 
born  in  Andes,  Delaware  county.  New  York, 
September  18,  1858,  and  is  now  living  in  King- 
ston, New  York.  He  received  his  early 
education  in  private  schools  at  Andes  and 
later  graduated  from  the  Kingston  Academy, 
and  then  engaged  in  the  coal  business 
in  Eddyville,  New  York,  for  four  years, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  he  disposed 
of  his  business  and  became  superintendent  for 
the  Connelly  &  Shafer  Cement  Company  in 
Eddyville.  in  which  position  he  remained  until 
1900.  He  then  engaged  in  the  business  of 
haberdasher  and  boot  and  shoe  store  for  three 
years,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  retired  from 
active  business  life.    He  is  one  of  the  directors 


of  the  Ulster  County  National  Bank;  also  of 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  in 
Kingston,  and  is  a  member  of  the  building 
committee  of  the  association.  He  is  a  Method- 
ist in  religion,  and  is  a  member  of  the  official 
board  of  the  Saint  James  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Kingston 
Club ;  the  Dutch  Arms  Club  of  Kingston ;  the 
Automobile  Club  of  Kingston,  and  of  the  Dela- 
ware Valley  Society  of  New  York.  He  mar- 
ried, April  20,  1898,  Minnie,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam H.  and  Nettie  M.  (Winter)  Whitney, 
born  in  Shandaken,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  June  9,  1874.  Child :  Ruth  W.,  born 
December  28,    1899. 

(The  Benedict  Line.) 

Thomas  Benedict,  the  founder  of  the  family 
in  this  country,  was  born  about  1617,  and  died 
between  February  28  and  March  18,  1689-90, 
at  Norwalk,  Connecticut.  He  emigrated  in 
1638  to  the  Massachusetts  Bay  colony,  and  in 
1640  removed  to  Southold,  Connecticut.  In 
1657  he  was  a  resident  in  Huntington,  Long 
Island,  and  later  removed  to  Danbury,  and 
finally  to  Norwalk.  He  married  Mary  Brid- 
gem.  Children  :  Thomas,  died  November  20, 
1688-9,  married  in  January,  1665,  Mary  Mes- 
senger; John,  married  Phebe  Gregory,  Sam- 
uel,   died    in    1719,    married    (first)    

,     and     (second)     Rebecca     Andrews; 

James,  referred  to  below ;  Daniel,  married 
Mary  Marvin ;  Elizabeth,  married  John  Slau- 
son ;  Mary,  married  John  Olmsted ;  Sarah, 
married  James  Beebe ;  Rebecca,  married  Dr. 
Samuel  Wood. 

(II)  James,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(Bridgem)  Benedict,  was  born  in  Southold, 
Long  Island,  and  died  after  August,  1717. 
He  married  (first)  May  10,  1676,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Gregory,  who 
was  born  December  3,  1652.  He  married 
(second)  Sarah,  born  December  20,  1657, 
daughter  of  Robert  Porter  and  widow  of 
Abraham  Andrus.  He  was  one  of  the  eight 
who  bought  and  settled  Danbury,  Connecticut. 
Children  (all  by  first  marriage)  :  Sarah,  born 
June  16,  1677;  Rebecca,  born  in  1679,  died  | 
March  20.  i7og,  married  January  17,  1704-05, 
Samuel  Keeler,  Tr. ;  Phebe,  married  Thomas  1 
Taylor;  James,  born  in  1685,  married  Mary 
Andrus;  John,  born  in  October,  1689,  died  in 
February,  1771,  married  (first)  Rachel 
and   (second)   Ruth  ;  Thomas, 


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referred   to   below ;   Elizabeth,   born   in   July, 
1696,  married  Samuel  Taylor. 

(III)  Deacon  Thomas  Benedict,  son  of 
James  and  Sarah  (Gregory)  Benedict,  was 
bom  in  Danbury,  Connecticut,  November  9, 
1694,  died  before  July  4,  1776.  He  married 
Abigail,  daughter  of  John  Hoyt.  Children: 
Sarah;  Molly,  died  in  1745,  married  Joseph 
Starr;  Thomas,  born  in  1727,  died  May  15, 
181 1,  married  Mercy  Knapp ;  Theodorius, 
born  November  i,  1728,  died  January  20,  1805, 
married  (first)  February  2,  1747,  Abigail 
Starr,  (second)  Mrs.  Catherine  Dibble;  Eliza- 
beth, born  1729,  married  James  Taylor;  Eli- 
sha,  born  April  2,  1736,  died  August  26,  1798, 

married  (first) ,  (second)  Mrs. 

Jerusha   (Starr)    Barnum ;  Margaret,  born  in 
1743,  died  April  25,  1808;  Robert,  referred  to 

below  ;  Mindwell,  married  Hamilton  ; 

Thankful,  married  April  2,  1760,  Nathan  Gre- 
gory; Hannah,  married  (first) , 

and    (second)    Samuel    Perry;   Jemima,  mar- 
ried    Hamilton. 

(IV)  Robert,  son  of  Thomas  and  Abigail 
(Hoyt)  Benedict,  was  born  in  1744,  and  died 
at  Charlton,  Saratoga  county.  New  York,  in 
1828.  He  married  Sarah  Ketchum.  Chil- 
dren :  Robert,  born  July  14,  1770,  died 
March  3,  1862,  married,  January  10,  1799. 
Phebe  Paris;  Sally,  married  John  Dunning; 
Reuben ;  Ezra,  referred  to  below ;  Betsy,  born 
December  25,  1778,  died  December  30,  1851, 
married,  March  27,  1796,  Henry  \'an  Heusen  ; 
Czar,  died  young;  Czar,  died  young;  a  son, 
died  young;  Cynthia,  married  James  King; 
Rebecca,  married  Peter  Howe. 

( VI  Ezra,  son  of  Robert  and  Sarah 
(Ketchum)  Benedict,  was  born  at  Charlton, 
Saratoga  county,  New  York,  July  7,  1776, 
died  in  Andes,  Delaware  county.  New  York, 
April  26,  1849.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter 
of  William  Clarke,  who  died  March  28,  1859. 
Children :  William  Clarke,  born  September 
2"/,  1802,  married,  March  22,  1831,  Electa 
Dodge ;  Sarah  Melvina,  referred  to  below ; 
Henry,  born  July  12.  1807,  died  August  8, 
1808;  Sarah  Ann,  born  July  13,  1809,  married 
May  12,  1830,  Elijah  Churchill;  Henry,  born 
October  11,  1811,  died  December  11,  1811. 

(VI)  Sarah  Melvina,  daughter  of  Ezra  and 
Sarah  (Clarke)  Benedict,  was  born  June  23, 
1805,  and  died  April  11,  1880.  She  married 
May  13,  1824,  Philip  (2),  son  of  Philip  (i) 
and  Catherine  Shafer,  referred  to  above. 


The  Rev.  Matthew  Cantine 
CANTINE  Julien,  in  his  "PreHminary 
Statement  of  the  Cantine 
Genealogy,"  says  that  the  original  home  of 
the  family  was  Royan,  a  small  town  on  the 
north  side  of  the  Gironde,  the  wide  arm  of 
the  sea  which  reaches  from  the  city  of  Bor- 
deaux to  the  French  coast,  and  into  which 
the  Garonne  river  empties  itself.  Here  Moses 
Cantine,  or  as  he  himself  writes  his  name  in 
the  early  records  that  have  come  down  to  us, 
Moyse  Quantain,  lived,  and  when  the  persecu- 
tion of  the  Huguenots  began  again  in  France 
in  1685,  he  "left  the  land  of  his  fathers  in 
one  of  the  smaller  coasting  vessels  of  his  na- 
tive village,  and  was  taken  on  board  of  some 
one  of  the  numerous  English  ships  which,  at 
that  time,  were  making  a  business  of  trans- 
porting for  a  remuneration,  those  Protestant 
Frenchmen  who  sought  relief  from  persecu- 
tion in  flight."  Whether  he  came  straight  to 
America  or  stopped  for  a  while  on  his  way 
in  England,  is  unknown.  His  name  appears 
for  the  first  time  in  the  sheriff's  lists  of  the 
inhabitants  of  Ulster  county,  New  York,  as 
early  as  1689,  and  Mr.  Julien  says  that  there 
is  evidence  of  his  presence  in  the  county  at 
a  still  earlier  date.  Later  he  became  a  resi- 
dent of  New  Paltz,  Ulster  county,  where  he 
remained  until  the  children  of  his  second 
wife's  first  marriage  were  grown  up,  and  then 
removed  to  Ponckhockie.  In  1700  his  name 
appears  on  the  records  of  New  Paltz  as  a 
lieutenant  in  a  military  company.  He  died  in 
1743,  and  was  buried  in  the  yard  of  the  Dutch 
church   at    Marbletown,    Ulster   county,    New 

York.     He  married  (first)   in  France,  

,    who    died    during    the    passage    to 

America.  He  married  (second)  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Christian  Deyo  and  widow  of 
Simon  Le  Fevre.  Her  father  was  one  of  the 
original  twelve  patentees  of  the  town  of  New 
Paltz,  as  was  also  Isaac  Le  Fevre,  the  father 
of  her  first  husband.  He  married  (third) 
September  20,  1703,  Marytje,  widow  of 
Boudewyn  de  Witt,  whose  first  husband  had 
been  sheriff  of  Ulster  and  Dutchess  counties 
in  1701.  One  child  by  second  marriage: 
Peter,  referred  to  below ;  no  children  by  first 
and  third  marriages. 

(II)  Peter,  son  of  Moses  and  Elizabeth 
(Deyo-Le  Fevre)  Cantine,  was  born  in  New 
Paltz,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  and  was 
baptized  in  the  French  church  there  May  21, 


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1693.  He  was  one  of  the  trustees  of  the 
town  of  Kingston,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
from  1720  to  1726,  and  he  also  held  several 
other  public  offices.  After  1728  he  removed 
from  Kingston  to  Marbletown,  where  he  was 
one  of  the  trustees  from  1750  to  1761.  He 
also  became  a  large  landowner,  purchasing  at 
one  time  a  tract  from  Claes  van  Schoonhoven, 
and  receiving  through  his  wife  a  large  tract 
on  both  sides  of  the  Esopus  creek.  He  mar- 
ried, June  16,  1715,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Matthys  and  Margaret  (Schoonhoven)  Blan- 
shan.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  baptized  Jan- 
uary 29,  1716,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Moses, 
baptized  January  13,  1717,  died  in  1776;  mar- 
ried Maria  Sleght ;  no  children.  3.  Margaret, 
born  July  23,  1718,  and  baptized  August  24, 
1718.  4.  Elizabeth,  baptized  February  21, 
1720,  died  about  1751  ;  married,  March  8,  1746, 
William  Nottingham.  5.  Matthew,  baptized 
October  15,  1721  ;  married  (first)  December 
9,  1744,  Catharine  Nottingham,  and  (second) 
Elizabeth  Depuy.  6.  Maria,  baptized  January 
27,  1723 ;  married  Hendricus  Jansen.  7.  Na- 
thaniel (his  name  sometimes  written  Daniel 
in  the  early  records),  baptized  October  25, 
1724,  married  (first)  Gertrude  Delameter, 
(second)  Sara  Rutsen,  and  (third)  Dorothea 
Nieuwkerck.  8.  Catharine,  baptized  March 
20,  1726,  died  February  28,  1799 ;  married  in 
March,  1751,  Daniel  Le  Fevre.  9.  Abraham, 
referred  to  below.  10.  Peter  (2),  baptized 
December  29,  1729,  died  November  28,  1813; 
married,  November  14,  1760,  Magdalena  Le 
Fevre.  11.  Cornelia,  baptized  April  2,  1732. 
12.  Johannis,  baptized  November  16,  1735, 
died  in  1807 ;  married  Maria  Brodhead. 

(HI)  Abraham,  son  of  Peter  and  Elizabeth 
(Blanshan)  Cantine,  was  born  in  Kingston, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  December  8,  1727, 
baptized  there  January  14,  1728,  and  died  De- 
cember 26,  1814.  He  married  Elizabeth  Dela- 
meter, who  was  born  in  1735  and  died  Sep- 
tember 6,  1805.  Children :  Four,  among 
whom  was  Peter  A.,  referred  to  below. 

(IV)  Peter  A.,  son  of  Abraham  and  Eliza- 
beth (Delameter)  Cantine,  was  born  August 
24,  1765,  and  died  in  October,  1843.  He  was 
a  successful  farmer  and  owned  a  grist  and 
saw  mill.  His  district  he  represented  twice  in 
the  state  assembly,  and  he  held  various  local 
public  offices.  He  married,  February  19,  1790, 
Jane  Sammons,  of  Montgomery  county,  New 
York.     Children :     Seven,  among  whom  was 


Martin,   the  youngest,   referred  to  below. 

(V)  Martin,  son  of  Peter  A.  and  Jane 
(Sammons)  Cantine,  was  born  April  14,  1808, 
and  died  August  14,  1891.  He  inherited  his 
father's  lands  and  mills  and  was  a  farmer  all 
his  life.  He  married,  February  2J,  1830,  Ly- 
dia  Elmendorf,  who  died  September  22,  1881. 
Children :  Four,  among  whom  was  Peter, 
referred  to  below. 

(VI)  Peter,  son  of  Martin  and  Lydia  (El- 
mendorf) Cantine,  was  born  December  27, 
1831,  and  died  December  21,  1900.  He  was 
born  on  a  farm  on  the  south  side  of  Esopus 
creek  in  the  town  of  Marbletown,  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  and  received  the  meagre 
education  of  the  country  schools  there.  In 
1853  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office 
of  Stephen  Sammons.  of  Fonda,  New  York. 
The  following  year  he  returned  to  Kingston 
and  continued  his  studies  in  the  office  of  Wil- 
liam S.  Kenyon,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  New  York  state,  at  Albany,  in  February, 
1855.  For  a  short  time  he  resided  at  Fonda, 
but  soon  came  to  Saugerties,  where  he  became 
a  resident  and  practised  his  profession  in  both 
the  circuit  and  supreme  courts  of  the  state. 
He  was  an  ardent  Republican  in  politics  and 
served  his  town  and  village  as  trustee.  From 
1872  to  1878,  he  was  surrogate  of  Ulster 
county,  and  he  was  the  Republican  nominee 
for  justice  of  the  supreme  court  in  a  strong 
Democratic  judicial  district,  where  he  was  de- 
feated. He  was  also  delegate  to  the  state  as- 
sembly and  to  the  congressional  state  and  ju- 
dicial assemblies.     He  married,  December  29, 

1857,  Sarah  Ann  Starin.  Children:  Charles 
F.,  referred  to  below;  De  Lancey  S.,  Martin, 
referred  to  below ;  Lydia,  married  George  E. 
French,  of  the  United  States  army. 

(VII)  Judge  Charles  F.  Cantine,  son  of 
Peter  and  Sarah  Ann  (Starin)  Cantine,  was 
born  at  Saugerties,  New  York,  November  4, 

1858.  He  received  an  excellent  preparatory 
education  at  the  Saugerties  Academy,  and  later 
pursued  advanced  studies  at  Rutgers  College, 
New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1880.  He  studied  law  for 
a  few  months  with  his  father  at  Saugerties 
and  then  entered  Columbia  Law  School,  from 
which  he  was  graduated,  and  in  May,  1882, 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Ithaca,  New 
York.  He  formed  a  partnership  with  his 
father  under  the  firm  name  of  P.  &  C.  F. 
Cantine,  and  the  same  year  came  to  Kingston 


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and  opened  an  office  in  Rondout.  In  due 
course  of  time  he  acquired  an  extensive  and 
remunerative  practice,  but  during  his  second 
term  as  district  attorney  he  was  forced  to  re- 
linquish a  considerable  portion  of  his  trial 
work  in  civil  cases  in  order  to  devote  his  time 
more  fully  to  his  duties,  and  after  his  election 
as  county  judge  he  declined  to  take  up  matters 
which  would  require  his  appearance  as  a  trial 
lawyer  in  the  supreme  court.  He  never  en- 
couraged litigation,  but  effected  many  settle- 
ments in  cases  where  he  believed  the  best  in- 
terests of  all  parties  would  be  thus  served 
best.  He  was  candid  in  expressing  his  opin- 
ions at  all  times,  and  in  cases  where  he  be- 
lieved his  client  was  in  the  wrong  it  was  his 
custom  to  advise  the  client  fully  of  the  legal 
and  moral  aspects  of  the  case,  and  to  prevent 
needless  and  costly  litigation. 

He  took  an  active  interest  in  politics,  giv- 
ing his  allegiance  to  the  candidates  and  poli- 
cies of  the  Republican  party.  In  November, 
1895,  he  was  elected  district  attorney,  re- 
elected in  1898  and  again  in  1901,  this  fact  am- 
ply testifying  to  his  efficiency  and  popularity. 
His  term  as  district  attorney  was  marked  with 
success.  His  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  un- 
fortunate led  him  into  paths  not  taken  by  any- 
one else.  He  was  a  close  student  of  the  in- 
fluence of  heredity,  and  his  work  in  the  dis- 
trict attorney's  office  opened  a  wide  field  for 
study.  The  hereditary  influence  in  cases  of 
criminals  whom  he  prosecuted  he  traced  care- 
fully, and  being  a  firm  believer  in  the  bene- 
ficial effects  of  environment,  he  began  in  the 
early  part  of  his  career  to  take  up  the  matter 
of  caring  for  the  children  of  these  people, 
and  placing  them  amid  new  surroundings, 
where  the  best  that  was  in  them  might  have 
opportunity  for  development.  To  this  end  he 
instituted  proceedings  to  place  children  whose 
parents  were  unwilling  or  incapable  of  car- 
ing for  them  properly,  in  institutions  or  fam- 
ilies where  they  would  receive  the  attention 
and  care  they  deserved,  and  when  once  they 
were  so  placed  and  were  improving,  he  re- 
sisted, both  as  a  private  citizen  and  in  his 
capacity  as  a  lawyer,  efforts  to  have  the  chil- 
dren returned,  to  surroundings  marked  by 
crime  or  squalor.  In  order  that  he  miglit 
carry  on  more  effectively  the  work  on  behalf 
of  unfortunate  children,  he  became  actively 
interested  in  the  Industrial  Home,  of  which 
he  was  elected  a  trustee  a  number  of  vears 


ago.  Here  he  gave  invaluable  aid  by  personal 
investigation  and  active  endeavor,  also  finan- 
cially. In  addition  to  this  work  he  carried  on 
many  private  charities  in  individual  cases.  As 
district  attorney  he  prosecuted  with  all  the 
vigor  he  possessed  criminal  cases  in  which  he 
thought  conviction  and  punishment  were  mer- 
ited. He  possessed  an  analytical  mind,  and 
in  every  case  that  came  before  him,  either  as 
district  attorney  or  county  judge,  or  in  his 
private  practice,  he  sought  always  to  arrive  at 
the  truth.  Prior  to  his  election  as  district  at- 
torney, in  1892-93,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Republican  state  committee,  and  in  1893-94 
he  was  chairman  of  the  Republican  county 
committee  of  Ulster  county. 

He  was  elected  county  judge  in  1904,  and 
was  re-elected  in  1910  for  a  term  of  six  years. 
He  was  absolutely  fair  and  impartial  in  his 
decisions,  losing  sight  of  personalities  in  his 
search  for  truth.  His  ability  was  recognized 
beyond  the  bounds  of  Ulster  county,  and  he 
was  often  requested  by  the  county  judges  of 
Kings  county  to  come  to  Brooklyn  and  hold 
court  there  when  the  criminal  cases  became 
too  numerous  for  the  Kings  county  judges. 
In  February,  19 12,  he  held  court  in  Brooklyn 
for  an  entire  month,  with  satisfaction  to 
everyone.  Several  years  previous  he  held  a 
term  of  court  in  Orange  county,  and  made  a 
record  for  the  trial  of  more  than  two  score 
of  important  criminal  cases.  The  human  in- 
terest in  every  case  appealed  to  him.  He  was 
choice  in  the  use  of  English,  and  his  charges 
to  juries  were  models  of  elegant  diction,  and 
clear  and  comprehensive  statements  of  the 
facts  in  the  case  and  the  law  applicable  to 
them.  In  all  his  charges  he  was  absolutely 
fair,  impartial  and  fearless,  and  lawyers  with- 
out exception  took  delight  in  trying  cases  be- 
fore him.  Fearlessness  of  action  when  a  ques- 
tion of  right  or  principle  were  concerned,  re- 
gardless of  personal  discomfort  or  conse- 
(juences,  was  one  of  the  marked  characteris- 
tics of  his  entire  life.  He  never  lost  his  tem- 
per; while  insistent  where  right  was  con- 
cerned he  was  extremely  gentle;  in  all  crim- 
inal cases  where  he  believed  mercy  should  be 
shown,  he  extended  it,  and  more  than  any 
other  man  whom  Ulster  county  knows  he 
filled  the  description  once  given  by  Senator 
Benjamin  Tilman,  of  South  Carolina,  regard- 
ing a  colleague :  "He  was  one  of  God  Al- 
mighty's  gentlemen." 


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Judge  Cantine  took  an  active  interest  also 
in  all  literary  and  historical  matters.  For 
several  years  he  was  one  of  the  trustees  of 
the  Kingston  City  Library,  and  during  that 
period  he  presented  many  volumes  to  the 
library,  especially  books  relating  to  historical 
matters.  He  was  deeply  interested  in  history, 
especially  relating  to  New  York  state,  which 
he  had  studied  extensively  and  critically.  He 
was  more  particularly  interested  in  the  his- 
tory of  Ulster  county,  and  at  different  times 
delivered  several  historical  addresses.  His 
last  historical  address  was  delivered  at  the  Old 
Home  Week  Celebration  at  Saugerties  in 
191 1.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  New  York 
State  Historical  Association,  and  it  was  due 
principally  to  his  efforts  that  the  association 
held  its  annual  meetings  in  Kingston.  He  was 
one  of  the  state  board  of  regents  of  Kingston 
Academy.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Univer- 
sity and  Manhattan  clubs  of  New  York  City, 
the  Kingston  Club,  Rondout  Club,  Twaalfskill 
Club,  Winnisook  Club  and  Saugerties  Club. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Holland  So- 
ciety of  New  York,  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution,  the  Huguenot  Society  of  America, 
and  Rondout  Lodge,  No.  343,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons. 

Judge  Cantine  married  (first)  December  21, 
1882,  Mary  C.  Sheffield,  of  Saugerties,  New 
York.  She  died  February  27,  1889,  leaving  a 
daughter,  Agnes  L.,  who  is  living  at  the  pres- 
ent time.  He  married  (second)  September  i, 
1893,  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  William  and 
Eleanor  (Sackett)  Post,  of  Brookhaven,  New 
York,  by  whom  he  is  survived. 

Judge  Cantine  died  at  his  home  on  Albany 
avenue,  Kingston,  July  14,  1912,  and  the 
funeral  services  were  conducted  in  the  First 
Reformed  Dutch  Church,  of  which  he  was  a 
member.  His  demise  was  sincerely  mourned 
by  all  who  knew  him,  as  he  was  a  man  of  sin- 
cerity, integrity  and  unquestioned  ability, 
loyal  to  his  friends,  but  first  loyal  to  truth 
and  what  he  believed  was  right.  He  was  a 
man  to  whom  a  public  or  a  private  trust  was 
as  sacred  as  the  most  solemn  oath,  and  his 
entire  life  bore  witness  to  the  conscientious 
carrying  out  of  this  belief  and  the  soundness 
of  his  view.  His  simplicity  and  modesty  were 
unusual.  He  detested  shams,  and  loved  truth 
for  truth's  sake.  He  had  old-fashioned  ideas 
regarding   honesty    and   morality,   and    he   in- 


stilled these  ideas  into  others  in  a  quiet  and 
unobtrusive  way  that  was  most  effective. 

(VH)  Martin,  son  of  Peter  and  Sarah  Ann 
(Starin)  Cantine,  was  born  at  Saugerties, 
New  York,  January  22,  1866,  and  is  now  liv- 
ing there.  After  receiving  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  academy  at  Saugerties  and  the 
Seventeenth  street  grammar  school  in  New 
York  City,  he  secured  employment  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  years,  with  J.  B.  Sheffield  &  Son, 
paper  manufacturers,  where  he  remained 
about  five  years.  In  1888  he  purchased  the 
plant  of  the  Alston-Adams  Company  at  Al- 
bany, New  York,  and  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  paper  for  himself.  He  organized 
the  firm  of  Martin  Cantine  &  Company,  and 
January  i,  1889,  began  operations  in  Sauger- 
ties. In  1890  the  firm  became  incorporated, 
and  Mr.  Cantine  was  chosen  president,  a  posi- 
tion he  has  held  ever  since,  at  the  same  time 
personally  managing  the  entire  business.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  has  served 
several  terms  as  director  and  two  years  as 
president  of  the  village,  the  last  office  being 
from  1896  to  1897.  Since  1900  he  has  been 
president  of  the  board  of  education,  and  in 
1899  he  was  the  chief  engineer  of  the  fire  de- 
partment. In  1900  he  was  also  president  of 
the  Saugerties  Board  of  Trade,  and  he  has 
always  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
best  and  most  important  business  and  social 
interests  of  the  village.  He  is  the  president 
of  the  American  Coated  Paper  Manufacturers 
Association  of  the  United  States  and  of  the 
Tissue  Company,  manufacturers  of  crepe 
paper,  and  president  of  the  Saugerties  Build- 
ing &  Loan  Association.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Saugerties  and  Kingston  clubs  and  of  the 
Republican  Club  of  New  York  City.  In  re- 
ligion he  is  a  member  of  the  Reformed  church 
of  Saugerties.  Mr.  Cantine  married,  in  June, 
1900,  Fanny,  daughter  of  General  William  B. 
Rudd,  of  Lakeville.  Connecticut.  Children: 
Hollev  Rudd ;  and  Frances. 


(Ill)  Peter  (2)  Cantine,  sot 
CANTINE  of  Peter  (i)  Cantine  (q.  v.) 
and  Elizabeth  (Blanshan) 
Cantine.  was  born  in  Kingston,  Ulster  county. 
New  York,  November  28,  1729,  being  baptized 
there  December  29,  of  the  same  year,  and  died 
near  Marbletown,  Ulster  county.  New  York, 
November  28,  1813. 

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occupation,  and  resided  with  most  of  his 
brothers  in  the  town  of  Marbletown,  near  the 
place  now  known  as  Stone  Ridge.  His  de- 
scendants still  reside  there  in  large  part,  but 
according  to  the  "Preliminary  Statement  of 
the  Cantine  Genealogy,"  referred  to  "  ove, 
many  of  them  are  also  residing  farther  up  the 
valley  of  the  Rondout,  in  Napanoch  and 
Leurenkill.  Peter  married  November  14, 
1760.  Magdalena  Le  Fevre. 

(IV)  Jacob,  son  of  Peter  (2)  and  Magda- 
lena (Le  Fevre)  Cantine,  was  born  near  Mar- 
bletown, Ulster  county,  New  York,  November 
I,  1779.  and  died  in  1852,  at  Ellenville,  Ulster 
county,  New  York.  Jacob  was  brought  up  on 
the  farm  of  his  father  and  gave  his  attention 
to  farming  and  blacksmithing  until  about  the 
middle  of  his  life,  when  he  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  tilling  the  soil.  In  politics  he  was 
what  is  termed  an  old  line  Whig,  and  held 
the  office  of  assessor  in  his  town  for  many 
years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church  of  Ellenville,  and  was  a  worthy 
and  very  useful  man.  He  married,  December 
19,  1799,  Ann,  daughter  of  Richard  Brod- 
head,  of  Wawarsing  township,  she  being  born 
March  6,  1782,  died  January  21,  1875.  Chil- 
dren: Richard,  born  March  19,  1801,  died  in 
infancy;  Jane,  July  27,  1803,  died  January  21, 
1875,  remained  single ;  Peter,  born  July  2, 
1806,  died  May  31,  1866,  a  farmer  and  specu- 
lator, residing  in  Wawarsing  township;  Mat- 
thew, mentioned  below ;  Magdalena,  October 
27,  1813,  died  March  2'2,  1871,  remained  un- 
married; Catherine,  May  4,  1821,  died  De- 
cember 29,  1890,  married  William  Corwin,  a 
farmer  in  Wawarsing  township ;  Richard  H., 
November  4,  1822,  died  December  29,  1890. 

(V)  Matthew,  son  of  Jacob  and  Ann 
(Brodhead)  Cantine,  was  born  at  Leurenkill, 
Wawarsing  township,  Ulster  county,  New 
York,  April  13.  1808,  and  died  February  21, 
1880,  at  his  native  place.  Matthew  Cantine 
was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  and  was 
educated  in  the  district  schools  of  Leurenkill. 
He  engaged  in  early  life  in  the  butcher  busi- 
ness and  later  purchased  a  farm  of  about 
seventy  acres  in  Leurenkill,  where  he  lived 
and  engaged  in  its  cultivation  and  develop- 
ment for  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was  moder- 
ately active  in  the  public  affairs  of  the  town, 
and  was  a  Republican  in  politics.  As  mem- 
bers of  the  Reformed  church  the  members 
of  his  family  held  a  leading  place,  Mr.  Can- 


tine being  deacon  for  a  number  of  years.  He 
married,  December  2,  1832,  Caroline,  born 
October  i,  1809,  in  Dutchess  county,  New 
York,  died  October  9,  1885,  daughter  of 
George  La  Moree,  a  prominent  citizen  in  that 
part  of  the  country,  the  descendant  of  an- 
cestors who  came  originally  from  France  to 
the  New  World.  Children:  Juliette,  born 
October  11.  1833.  died  Jime  21,  1895;  Jacob, 
born  January  18.  1836,  died  March  17,  1907, 
a  resident  of  Napanoch ;  Mary  Jane,  October 
5,  1837,  died  October  8,  1841 ;  Ann  B.,  Au- 
gust 10,  1842,  married  Egbert  Hoornbeck,  a 
farmer  residing  near  Napanoch ;  Peter  N., 
mentioned  below :  Mary,  May  4,  1853,  mar- 
ried Eugene  Burhans,  of  Ellenville. 

(VI)  Peter  N.,  son  of  Matthew  and  Caro- 
line (La  Moree)  Cantine,  was  born  January 
21,  1845,  at  Leurenkill,  in  Wawarsing  town- 
ship, Ulster  county.  New  York.  He  received 
a  sound  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
the  district,  as  well  as  at  the  Ellenville  Acad- 
emy, and  after  he  left  school  worked  for  a 
time  as  a  helper  to  his  father  on  the  family 
property.  Following  that  he  occupied  the  po- 
sition of  clerk  in  the  store  of  Townsend 
Holmes  for  a  period  of  about  two  years,  and 
then  in  the  year  1869  removed  to  Napanoch 
and  there  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr. 
Cudney,  as  dealers  in  general  merchandise. 
The  style  and  title  of  the  firm  was  Cudney 
&  Cantine,  and  at  the  end  of  a  period  long 
enough  to  indicate  the  promise  of  business 
conditions  under  the  state  of  things  then  pre- 
vailing, they  had  an  opportunity  of  turning 
their  business  into  cash,  and  dissolved  part- 
nership to  try  their  fortunes  in  other  fields. 
Mr.  Cantine  then  became  connected  with  A. 
S.  Schoonmaker  of  Napanoch  and  remained 
with  his  store  for  a  period  of  three  years.  He 
then  went  into  the  butcher  business  and  in 
the  course  of  a  few  years  had  one  of  the 
leading  meat  markets  of  the  town,  finally,  at 
the  end  of  thirty-five  years,  retiring  from  busi- 
ness and  devoting  himself  to  his  interests  and 
hobbies  in  other  directions.  Mr.  Cantine  is  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  has  held  several 
local  offices.  He  is  an  attendant  and  sup- 
porter of  the  Reformed  church,  and  is  a  man 
of  large  acquaintance,  greatly  respected  in  the 
neighborhood.  He  married,  October  18,  1877, 
Henrietta  Sagendorph,  born  May  17,  1845,  '" 
Shandaken,  Ulster  county.  Her  grandfather, 
Adam  Sagendorph,  came  to  this  country  from 


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Germany  when  a  young  man.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Heavener,  of  German  descent,  and 
settled  in  Columbia  county,  where  his  son  An- 
drew, Mrs.  Cantine's  father,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 16,  1820.  Andrew  Sagendorph  married 
Amanda  Trites,  a  descendant  of  an  old  Hol- 
land family,  who  was  born  February  24,  1823, 
and  Mrs.  Cantine  was  the  second  in  their 
family  of  four  children.  Louise,  the  eldest, 
married  Byron  Dutcher,  a  farmer  and  mer- 
chant, of  Big  Indian,  Ulster  county;  two 
younger  children,  Horatio  and  Harriet,  died 
in  infancy.  Mrs.  Cantine's  father  died  April 
4,  1882,  her  mother  January  24,  1893.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Cantine  have  no  children. 


Robert  Seeley,  the  founder  of 
SEELEY  this  family,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, and  according  to  Savage 
came  to  America  with  Winthrop  in  1630.  He 
settled  first  at  Watertown,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  made  freeman  May  18,  1631, 
and  town  surveyor  in  1634.  In  1636,  he  re- 
moved to  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  where  he 
served  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  Pequod  war,  in 
1637,  and  is  mentioned  for  gallant  action  in 
the  fight  at  Mystic.  June  2.  1637,  he  com- 
manded thirty  men  appointed  to  guard  the 
Connecticut  river  plantations.  He  was  a  char- 
ter member  of  the  first  church  at  New  Haven 
in  1639,  a  member  of  the  general  assembly 
in  the  same  year  and  also  marshal  of  the 
colony.  In  1654  he  visited  England,  but  re- 
turned in  time  to  command  the  New  Haven 
forces  under  Sedgwick  and  Leverett,  raised 
to  operate  against  the  Dutch  in  New  Amster- 
dam. He  was  at  Saybrook  in  1662,  at  Strat- 
ford in  1663,  and  was  commissioner  for  Con- 
necticut at  Huntington,  Long  Island,  in  1662, 
and  head  of  the  militia.  He  is  said  to 
have  died  in  New  York  City.  October 
19,  1668,  his  widow  Mary  administered  his 
estate  and  the  sons  named  are:  Obadiah, 
who  died  at  Stamford.  Connecticut,  August 
25.  1757.  married  the  widow  of  John  Miller 
of  Stamford  ;  Nathaniel,  married  Mary  Tur- 
ney :  John,  who  lived  in  Fairfield,  Connecticut, 
married  Sarah  Squire;  from  one  of  these  is 
descended  Jonathan,  referred  to  below. 

(I)  Jonathan  Seeley  was  born  in  Rhode 
Island  and  died  in  Ohio.  About  1780.  accom- 
panied by  three  of  his  brothers,  Ephraim, 
John  and  Israel,  he  settled  in  Danby,  Ver- 
mont, where  he  rose  to  a  prominent  position, 


became  a  man  of  wealth  and  influence  and 
one  of  the  largest  landholders  in  the  town. 
He  was  a  great  speculator  and  something  of 
a  broker,  and  he  held  prominent  offices  both 
in  town  and  church  for  a  long  series  of  years. 
In  1784  he  was  constable.  He  was  selectman 
for  five  years,  lister  for  five  years,  and  a 
justice  of  the  peace  for  ten  years.  Later  he 
removed  to  Saint  Lawrence  county.  New 
York,  and  finally  to  Ohio,  where  he  died.  He 
married  (first)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Bromley,  senior,  and  (second)  Freelove, 
daughter  of  William  Bromley,  junior.  Chil- 
dren: Hannah,  married  Peleg  Harrington; 
Ira,  born  about  1783,  died  in  1850,  married 
Nancy  Vail;  Bromley,  born  about  1790,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Herrick ;  Elizabeth,  married 
Daniel  Saulsbury ;  Jonathan,  referred  to  be- 
low ;  Hiram,  married Carpenter ;  Lucy, 

married  (first)  Jared  Burdick,  and  (second) 
Thomas  Page ;  Benjamin,  married  Lydia 
Kelly ;  Isaac,  married  Nichols. 

(II)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
Seeley.  died  in  Middlebury,  Vermont,  in  1869. 
He  removed  from  Danby,  first  to  Brandon, 
and  later  to  Middlebury,  Vermont.  He  raised 
a  company  in  Danby  and  served  in  the  war 
of  1812,  being  stationed  first  at  Vergennes, 
Vermont,  and  later  on  Lake  Champlain,  and 
took  part  in  the  battle  at  Plattsburgh,  New 
York.  He  married,  in  1813,  Rhoda  Kelly,  of 
Rutland,  Vermont.  Children:  Daniel;  John; 
Smith;  Isaac;  Frank,  referred  to  below;  Jen- 
nie,  and  Louise. 

(III)  Rev.  Frank  Seeley,  son  of  Jonathan 
(2)  and  Rhoda  (Kelly)  Seeley,  was  born  in 
Middlebury,  Vermont.  August  3,  1839,  and  is 
still  living.  He  received  his  college  prepara- 
tory education  at  Burr  and  Burton  Seminary, 
at  Manchester,  Vermont,  graduated  from  Mid- 
dlebury College  in  1863,  and  then  entered  the 
Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1866,  and  was  ordained  to  the 
ministry  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  was 
pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Rich- 
field Springs,  New  York,  from  1866  to  1872, 
and  then  became  pastor  of  the  church  at  Delhi, 
New  York,  in  which  charge  he  remained  for 
thirty  years,  until  he  retired  from  active  duty 
in  the  ministry  in  1912.  He  married  (first) 
June  20,  1866.  Martha,  daughter  of  Ebenezer 
and  Elizabeth  (Dyer)  Weeks,  of  Salisbury, 
Vermont,  who  died  May  10,  1872.  He  mar- 
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penter,  who  died  March  29,  1903.  He  mar- 
ried (third)  October  21,  1905,  Henrietta  K. 
Goerk,  of  Chicago,  Illinois.  Children  (three 
by  first,  two  by  second  marriage)  :  George, 
born  June  19,  1868 ;  Louise,  born  May  6, 
1870;  Frank  B.,  referred  to  below;  Ralph, 
born  October  24,  1884;  Carl,  bom  May  27, 
1886. 

(IV)  Rev.  Frank  B.  Seeley,  son  of  Rev. 
Frank  and  Martha  (Weeks)  Seeley,  was  born 
May  10,  1872,  and  is  now  living  in  Kingston, 
New  York.  He  was  educated  at  the  Dela- 
ware Academy,  in  Delhi,  New  York,  and 
graduated  from  Middlebury  College  in  1893 ; 
then  entered  Union  Theological  Seminary  in 
New  York  City,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1896.  He  was  licensed  and  ordained  to  the 
ministry  by  the  Otsego  Presbytery  in  May, 
1896,  and  was  pastor  of  the  church  at  Mar- 
garetville,  Delaware  county.  New  York,  from 
May,  1896,  to  April,  1897.  On  April  i,  1898, 
he  assumed  the  charge  of  the  Fair  Street  Re- 
formed Church,  in  Kingston,  New  York,  in 
which  pastorate  he  still  continues.  He  is  a 
member  of  Kingston  Lodge,  No.  10,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  of  which  he  is  a  pastmaster. 
He  married,  June  4,  1896,  Virginia  St.  Clair, 
daughter  of  Hewitt  and  Caroline  (St.  Clair) 
Boice  (see  Boice).    One  child  died  in  infancy. 


Peter  Boice,  the  first  member  of 
BOICE     this  family  of  whom  we  have  any 

definite  information,  lived  in 
Boiceville,  Olive  township,  Ulster  county.  New 
York.  The  family  is  of  Dutch  origin,  the 
original  spelling  of  the  name  being  Buys ;  and 
Peter  Boice  is  probably  a  descendant  of  Jan, 
Hendrick,  or  Abraham  Buys,  all  three  of 
whom  were  living  in  Poughkeepsie  as  early  as 
1717-8.  Abraham  was  married  in  the  Dutch 
church  in  Kingston,  Ulster  county,  and  the 
three  had  children  baptized  there,  but  the 
records  at  present  available  are  insufficient  to 
establish  the  exact  line  of  descent.  Among 
the  children  of  Peter  Boice  was  William  V. 
N.,  referred  to  below. 

(H)  William  V.  N.,  son  of  Peter  Boice, 
was  born  in  1814,  in  Olive  township,  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  and  died  in  1900.  He 
was  a  farmer,  a  lumberman  and  tanner,  and 
also  conducted  a  general  merchandise  store  at 
Samsonville,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  in 
partnership  with  his  son  Hewitt.  In  religion 
he  was  a  Baptist  and  in  politics  a  Republican, 


and  for  several  terms  he  served  as  supervisor 
of  his  township.  He  married  Jane  D.  Davis, 
of  Olive  township,  who  was  born  in  1813, 
and  died  in  1906.  Children:  i.  Peter,  now 
living  in  Rondout,  Ulster  county,  New  York. 
2.  Hewitt,  referred  to  below.  3.  Samuel, 
served  in  the  United  States  army,  and  was 
killed  during  the  civil  war.  4.  John  J.,  now 
living  at  Kingston,  New  York. 

(Ill)  Hewitt,  son  of  William  V.  N.  and 
Jane  D.  (Davis)  Boice,  was  born  at  Boice- 
ville, Olive  township,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  September  10,  1846,  and  is  now  living 
in  Kingston,  Ulster  county,  New  York.  He 
received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools,  and  then  in  partnership  with  his  father 
and  his  brother  Peter,  under  the  firm  name  of 
William  V.  N.  Boice  &  Sons,  conducted  a 
tannery  and  blue-stone  business  at  Samson- 
ville, Ulster  county.  New  York,  until  1875, 
when  he  established  a  blue-stone  business  of 
his  own  at  Brodhead's  Bridge,  which  he  con- 
ducted for  two  years.  In  1877  he  removed  to 
Kingston,  and  purchasing  a  property  of  three 
hundred  feet  frontage  on  East  Strand,  Ron- 
dout, he  established  the  nucleus  of  his  present 
mammoth  blue-stone  business,  which  has  de- 
veloped to  an  average  of  four  hundred  and 
sixty  thousand  dollars  annually,  and  even  in 
years  of  business  depression  has  reached  three 
hundred  thousand  dollars  annually.  He  re- 
tired from  active  business  life  in  1903.  He  is 
president  of  the  Kingston  Iron  and  Ore  Com- 
pany, is  president  of  the  Lake  Superior  Cop- 
per and  Zinc  Company,  and  is  vice-president 
and  one  of  the  directors  of  the  L.  B.  Van 
Wagenen  Company.  He  is  also  one  of  the 
directors  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Ron- 
dout, of  the  United  States  Gypsum  Company, 
of  the  Elmhurst  Southern  Realty  Company, 
and  of  the  Atlas  Chain  Company.  In  the  Fair 
Street  Reformed  Church  he  is  an  elder,  and  he 
is  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  in  Kingston.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Dutch  Arms  Club,  of  the  Au- 
tomobile Club,  of  the  Republican  Club,  of  the 
Kingston  Club,  and  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Kingston.  He  af- 
filiates with  the  Free  and  Accepted  Masons. 

Mr.  Boice  married  (first)  in  1866,  Caroline 
St.  Clair,  and  they  had  one  child,  Virginia 
St.  Clair,  now  the  wife  of  Rev.  F.  B.  Seeley, 
of  Kingston.  Mrs.  Boice  died  in  1899.  In 
1901  Mr.  Boice  married  (second)  Kathryn  Du 


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Bois  Deyo,  daughter  of  S.  Du  Bois  and  Anna 
Brown  Deyo,  of  Kingston. 


The  Scoresby  family  has 
SCORESBY     been  one  of  note  in  England, 

and  one  line  of  it  can  be 
traced  back  as  far  as  the  fourteenth  century. 
The  leading  part  of  the  family  name  has  been 
derived  from  the  obsolete  word  "skawer,"  of 
which  it  appears  to  be  a  corruption,  and  which 
Halliwell  defines  in  meaning  as  a  jurat.  There 
is  a  kindred  Anglo-Saxon  word  having  the 
meaning  of  "a  beholder,  spectator,  or  spy." 
Skawers  are  mentioned  in  connection  with 
Pevensey  Marsh  in  the  fifteenth  century,  and 
Dugdale  uses  the  word  in  his  "History  of  Im- 
banking,"  printed  in  1662.  The  word  has  also 
the  meaning  of  a  deep,  narrow,  rugged  inden- 
tation on  the  side  of  a  hill,  and  is  allied  with 
the  Icelandic  word,  shor,  having  the  significa- 
tion of  the  Latin  word,  fissura.  The  first 
bearer  of  the  name  of  Scoresby  appearing  in 
history  was  one  Walter  de  Scoresby,  who  en- 
joyed the  distinction  of  being  "Bayliffe  of 
York"  in  the  year  131Z.  There  was  also  Nich- 
olas de  Scoresby,  who  represented  the  ancient 
city  of  York  in  the  parliament  of  Edward  HI., 
while  Thomas  occupied  the  civic  chair  in  1463. 
(I)  Captain  William  Scoresby,  ancestor  of 
the  Scoresby  family,  was  born  at  Cropton, 
England,  in  1760,  died  in  1828.  At  the  age  of 
nineteen  he  was  apprenticed  as  a  seaman,  and 
ten  years  later  was  in  command  of  a  Green- 
land whaling  ship,  in  which  capacity  he  made 
voyages  in  the  Arctic  Sea.  He  gained  great 
celebrity  through  his  explorations  and  dis- 
coveries in  those  regions,  and  became  an  au- 
thority on  all  matters  relating  to  arctic  navi- 
gation, while  his  observations  and  conclusions 
were  of  great  service  in  the  cause  of  science. 
Captain  William  Scoresby  retired  from  the  sea 
in  1823  with  a  handsome  fortune,  spending 
the  remainder  of  his  days  at  Whitby,  where  he 
look  an  active  part  in  improving  the  harbors 
for  the  safety  of  the  vessels  while  in  port.  He 
wrote  and  published  several  essays  on  sanitary 
reform,  and  on  various  projects  designed  to 
promote  the  safety  and  welfare  of  men  of  the 
seafaring  class.  Children:  i.  The  Rev.  Wil- 
liam Scoresby,  who  took  his  father's  profes- 
sion and  for  many  years  engaged  in  the  whal- 
ing business.  During  the  whole  of  the  period 
in  which  he  was  engaged  in  whaling  he  car- 
ried  on   a   series   of   investigations    regarding 


the  laws  of  magnetism  and  communicated  the 
results  to  the  world  in  a  series  of  scientific 
papers.  Retiring  from  the  sea  he  entered  the 
church  and  rose  to  eminence  as  a  divine.  In 
the  meantime  he  pursued  his  inquiries  into 
scientific  subjects  and  became  one  of  the  lead- 
ing savants  of  the  day.  He  visited  Australia 
as  a  member  of  a  scientific  commission  ordered 
by  the  British  government.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Royal  societies  of  Edinburgh  and  Lon- 
don, as  well  as  of  the  Royal  institutes  of 
Paris,  and  the  American  Institute  of  Phila- 
delphia. He  visited  America  in  1844,  1847, 
1848,  and  1857.  2.  Mary,  who  married  John 
Clark,  of  Whitby,  England,  who  was  largely 
engaged  in  the  iron  trade.  After  his  death  in 
1834  Mrs.  Clark  succeeded  to  the  management 
of  the  business,  and  until  her  death  in  1876 
her  operations  were  among  the  heaviest  in 
England,  and  all  conducted  by  herself.  3. 
Arabella,  who  married  Captain  Thomas  Jack- 
son, a  shipping  merchant  of  Whitby.  4. 
Thomas,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Dr.  Thomas  Scoresby,  son  of  Captain 
William  Scoresby,  was  born  in  York,  England, 
in  1804,  died  in  March,  1866.  He  made  several 
voyages  to  the  arctic  seas  with  his  father  and 
his  brother,  William,  filling  the  capacity  of 
second  officer  during  these  voyages.  He  made 
surveys  of  the  east  coast  of  Greenland  and 
from  his  notes,  "Scoresby 's  History  of  the 
Arctic  Seas,"  was  compiled  at  intervals. 
Thomas  Scoresby  also  studied  medicine  and 
took  his  degree  at  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons.  Edinburgh,  Scotland.  Dr. 
Scoresby  practiced  medicine  until  1834  at 
Whitby  and  Doncaster.  a  period  of  six  years 
after  his  graduation,  and  then  came  to  America 
and  settled  at  Port  Jervis.  There  he  met  an 
English  friend  named  Bragg,  who  induced  him 
to  settle  at  Fallsburg,  Sullivan  county.  New 
York,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  for 
a  number  of  years.  In  the  year  1840  he  re- 
moved to  Ellenville,  New  York,  and  there 
practiced  until  his  death.  Dr.  Scoresby  was 
a  man  of  wide  and  liberal  culture,  and  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  was  always  ruled  by 
high  principles.  He  gave  as  much  care  to 
cases  of  lesser  importance  as  those  that  prom- 
ised goodly  fees,  and  the  poor  always  found 
in  him  a  good  friend.  He  married,  in  1828, 
the  year  in  which  he  took  his  degree,  Louisa, 
born  at  London,  1804,  died  at  Ellenville,  New 
York,  February  ig,  1875,  daughter  of  George 


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Richardson,  of  London.  Their  children  were 
five:  Thomas,  born  in  England,  a  farmer  in 
Kansas ;  two  daughters,  who  married  and  be- 
came widows,  occupying  the  old  family  resi- 
dence at  Ellenville;  William  Frederick,  men- 
tioned below ;  Horatio,  living  at  Ellenville  on 
a  farm  adjoining  the  homestead  of  the  Scores- 
by  family. 

(HI)  Dr.  William  Frederick  Scoresby,  son 
of  Dr.  Thomas  and  Louisa  (Richardson) 
Scoresby,  was  born  at  Fallsburg,  Sullivan 
county,  New  York,  January  2,  1840.  He  re- 
ceived an  academic  education  at  Ellenville  un- 
der the  tuition  of  Prof.  A.  A.  Law  Post.  He 
then  studied  medicine  under  his  father  and  Dr. 
George  Edwards,  of  New  York  City,  graduat- 
ing from  the  Columbia  College  Medical 
Department,  New  York  City,  in  1864.  In 
1865  he  began  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  association  with  his  father  at  Ellenville. 
He  early  manifested  an  enthusiastic  aptitude 
and  skill  in  his  profession,  and  even  in  the 
restricted  field  of  a  country  practice  his  suc- 
cess was  large  and  tlattering.  He  advanced 
rapidly  in  his  profession,  and  he  was  soon  rec- 
ognized as  one  of  the  leading  physicians  in 
his  section  of  the  county.  More  particularly 
as  a  surgeon  were  his  services  sought  through- 
out the  surrounding  country  in  delicate  and 
severe  operations.  His  first  public  ofifice  was 
that  of  health  officer,  which  he  entered  in  the 
spring  of  1866  and  which  he  filled  also  in  the 
year  1869.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  Ellenville,  a  position  which 
he  held  most  of  the  time  until  he  resigned  in 
1879.  He  was  president  of  the  village  for  a 
period  of  one  year.  He  took  great  interest 
in  various  constructive  measures  and  was  iden- 
tified with  the  erection  of  the  water  works,  and 
for  years  was  a  member  of  the  Ulster  County 
Medical  Society. 

Up  to  the  year  1872  Dr.  Scoresby  was  iden- 
tified with  the  interests  of  the  Republican 
party,  but  joining  in  the  liberal  bolt  of  that 
year  he  was  chosen  a  delegate  to  the  Liberal 
state  convention  at  Syracuse  and  was  one  of 
the  vice-presidents,  being  also  subsequently 
nominated  for  state  senator  on  the  Liberal 
ticket  (counties  Ulster  and  Greene)  fourteenth 
district.  The  nomination  was  promptly  en- 
dorsed by  the  Democrats,  but  he  declined  for 
he  had  little  inclination  for  an  honor  that  was 
bound  in  a  great  degree  to  impair  his  useful- 
ness  in   his   profession.      Great   efiforts   were, 


however,  made  to  turn  him  from  his  decision, 
which  would  indeed  have  continued  in  its 
negative  character  had  not  something  hap- 
pened which  called  up  a  sense  of  duty,  stronger 
than  his  desire  for  public  distinction.  The 
success  of  Grant  and  his  adherents  made  him 
feel  that  it  would  not  be  possible  for  him  to 
retire  in  the  face  of  what  looked  like  certain 
defeat.  He  therefore  threw  himself  into  the 
fray,  and  by  his  exertions  and  the  general  es- 
teem in  which  his  character  was  held  was  en- 
abled to  win  all  along  the  line,  while  his  col- 
leagues were  being  defeated  in  the  state  and 
in  the  country.  During  his  term  as  state 
senator  (1872-73)  he  made  an  honorable  rec- 
ord, and  in  1877  was  elected  supervisor  by  the 
Democrats  by  a  large  majority,  being  again 
elected  in  1878. 

Both  in  professional  and  public  life  Dr. 
Scoresby  had  a  career  that  was  successful  and 
honorable.  He  never  practiced  the  art  of 
flattery  or  conciliation  to  gain  advancement. 
His  field  was  that  of  action  and  his  popu- 
larity and  reputation  were  based  on  services 
and  sacrifices  of  a  practical  kind  that  speak 
louder  than  words  or  outward  profession  of 
his  real  qualities  of  heart  or  mind. 

He  married  (first)  January  29,  1867,  LilHe, 
daughter  of  Captain  John  Ernhout,  of  Sand- 
burg, Sullivan  county,  New  York,  whose  edu- 
cation was  conducted  under  the  supervision  of 
her  uncle.  Prof.  John  F.  Stoddard,  and  com- 
pleted at  Willard  Seminary,  Troy,  New  York. 
She  died  September  17,  1867,  a  few  months 
after  her  marriage.  He  married  (second) 
May  24,  1877.  Grace  A.,  daughter  of  W.  G. 
Rayner,  of  Bloomfield,  New  York. 

(The  Eastgate  Line.) 
Dr.  J.  F.  Scoresby  Eastgate,  nephew  of  Dr. 
William  Frederick  Scoresby,  was  born  at  El- 
lenville, New  York,  October  29,  1857,  died 
June  2,  1906,  in  his  native  town.  He  was  the 
son  of  Thomas  Eastgate,  born  November  11, 
1826,  died  October  19,  1858,  and  Mary 
(Scoresby)  Eastgate,  born  in  1834,  and  now 
residing  in  Ellenville,  New  York.  For  more 
than  twenty  years  Dr.  Scoresby  Eastgate  was 
one  of  the  most  prominent,  respected  and 
popular  physicians  in  Ulster  county.  His  fa- 
ther died  when  he  was  but  an  infant,  but  by 
bent,  environment  and  training  his  career  was 
shaped  in  the  direction  of  the  medical  profes- 
sion, of  which  he  subsequently  became  an  or- 


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nament.  He  was  bright  and  genial  in  youth 
and  disclosed  at  an  early  age  excellent  powers 
which  kept  him  abreast  of  his  fellows  in  the 
various  branches  of  learning.  He  left  the  high 
school  and  entered  a  New  England  seminary, 
and  finally  graduated  from  Columbia  Medical 
College,  New  York,  March  12,  1880.  Under 
the  training  of  his  uncle.  Dr.  William  Freder- 
ick Scoresby,  he  entered  into  practice,  finally 
succeeding  him  in  his  territory  and  clientele, 
and  for  a  number  of  years  enjoyed  a  very 
large  and  lucrative  practice,  commanding  hon- 
orable rank  among  the  members  of  his  pro- 
fession. Dr.  Scoresby  Eastgate  had  a  large 
number  of  personal  friends,  who,  with  the 
public,  sincerely  lamented  his  short  career,  re- 
moving from  the  field  of  professional  and 
social  business  activity  one  well  fitted  for  emi- 
nent usefulness  and  honor. 


Both  the  Snyder  and  Myer 
SNYDER  families  are  descended  from  old 
Palatinate  Germans,  who  emi- 
grated to  New  York  in  the  early  part  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  The  first  of  these  Pala- 
tinates to  settle  at  what  is  now  Saugerties, 
New  York,  was  the  Myer  family,  and  the  sec- 
ond, the  Snyder  family.  Since  then  both  fam- 
ilies have  been  prominent  in  local  and  public 
affairs. 

Henry  Martin  Snyder,  the  founder  of  the 
family  at  present  under  consideration,  came 
to  Saugerties,  according  to  the  "History  of 
Greene  County,  New  York,"  in  March,  1726, 
and  died  in  Saugerties  in  1777.  He  was  a 
man  of  great  force  of  character,  and  through 
his  efforts  was  founded  the  German  Lutheran 
church,  still  known  as  the  Katsbaan  Church. 
Of  his  fourteen  children,  eleven  sons  grew  to 
maturity,  married  and  left  descendants,  most 
of  whom,  after  the  revolutionary  war,  settled 
in  other  parts  of  the  country,  some  being 
found  today  in  Albany  and  Greene  counties. 
New  York,  and  in  Ohio.  One  of  the  sons  was 
a  Tory  and  left  the  country,  but  the  others 
all  served  in  the  revolutionary  war.  From  one 
of  these  sons  is  descended  Robert  Snyder,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

( I )  Robert  Snyder,  a  descendant  and  prob- 
ably a  great-grandson  of  Henry  Martin  Sny- 
der, was  born  in  Saugerties,  New  York,  Au- 
gust I,  181 1,  and  died  there  December  3,  '1836. 
He  was  a  contractor  and  builder,  and  lived 
for  many  years  in  Poughkeepsie,  New  York. 


He  married  Sophia  Myers,  of  Dutchess  county, 
New  York,  who  was  bom  April  14,  1814,  and 
died  July  6,  1895.  Among  his  children  was 
Robert  A.,  referred  to  below. 

(H)  Robert  A.,  son  of  Robert  and  Sophia 
(Myers)  Snyder,  was  born  in  Poughkeepsie, 
New  York,  May  18,  1836,  and  is  now  living 
in  Saugerties.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  district  schools.  When  eleven 
years  of  age  he  became  a  cabin-boy  on  the 
Hudson  river,  between  Tivoli  and  New  York 
City,  and  when  fifteen  years  old  held  a  posi- 
tion on  the  ferryboat,  "Chelsea,"  of  which  he 
later  became  pilot  and  then  captain.  He  was 
afterwards  a  fireman  on  the  steamers,  "Erie" 
and  "New  Haven,"  and  later  in  the  employ  of 
the  Fall  River  Line,  and  eventually  he  became 
owner  of  one  of  the  larger  boats  plying  be- 
tween Albany  and  Buffalo.  Finally  he  settled 
in  Saugerties  and  purchased  the  ferryboat  ply- 
ing between  that  place  and  Tivoli.  He  has 
been  active  in  the  public  affairs  of  the  town 
and  is  a  stockholder  in  many  of  the  leading 
industries  of  Saugerties.  He  is  president  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Saugerties,  and  is 
also  the  president  of  the  Saugerties  Manufac- 
turing Com{fany,  and  president  of  the  Sau- 
gerties Steamboat  Company.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  was  collector  of  the 
town  of  Saugerties  prior  to  1874,  in  which 
year  he  was  elected  supervisor  of  the  town, 
and  was  also  elected  a  member  of  the  assem- 
bly of  New  York  state.  In  1878  he  was  ap- 
pointed postmaster  of  the  assembly  by  Speaker 
Alvord,  and  in  the  same  year  was  elected 
sheriff  of  Ulster  county.  In  1884  he  was 
elected  financial  agent  of  the  assembly,  and 
he  was  a  member  of  that  body  for  six  terms, 
1874,  1885,  1889,  1890,  1891  and  1892,  and 
during  his  terms  of  office  served  on  the  ways 
and  means  committee,  and  for  two  years  as 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  commerce  and 
navigation.  He  married,  March  5,  1863,  Jane 
S..  daughter  of  William  and  Sarah  Morgan,  of 
Wales,  who  died  July  15,  1913,  at  Sauger- 
ties. New  York.  Children:  i.  John  A.,  now 
chairman  of  the  board  of  supervisors,  county 
of  Ulster.  2.  Florence  M.,  married  B.  L. 
Davis.    3.  Sarah  E. 


Nisbet,    in    his    "System    of 

FORSYTH     Heraldry."  has  the  following 

notice:      "For   the    antiquity 

of  the  name,  there  is  a  charter  in  the  Earl  of 


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Haddington's  collections,  page  67,  granted  by 
King  Robert  the  Bruce,  Osberto  filio  Roberti 
de  Forsyth,  scrvienti,  nostra,  of  an  hundred 
solidates  terrae  in  tenemento  de  Salekill  in 
the  Sheriffdom  of  Stirling."  Stoddart  ("Scot- 
tish Arms")  states  that  "William  de  Forsith 
was  a  Bailie  of  Edinburgh  in  1365,"  also  that 
"Robert  H.  granted  one  hundred  per  annum 
out  of  the  lands  of  Polmaise-Marischal,  in  the 
county  of  Stirling,  to  Forsyth  or  Fersith, 
clerk,  who  in  1364  renders  accounts  of  the 
Custumars  of  Stirling;  Fersith  was  Constable 
of  Stirling  Castle  before  1368.  Thomas  de 
Forsith,  Canon  of  Glasgow,  1487,  sealed  with 
two  buckles  on  the  hind.  In  the  fifteenth  cen- 
tury John  Forsyth  held  lands  in  Aberdeen- 
shire, and  branches  of  the  family  settled  at 
Milligue,  in  Banffshire,  and  at  Forres,  for 
which  burgh  William  sat  in  parliament,  1621. 
John,  in  1652,  was  deputy  for  the  Burgh  of 
Cullen  to  treat  with  the  English.  Captain 
Forsyth  was  one  of  the  prisoners  who  es- 
caped, when  detained  by  the  English  in  the 
vault  below  the  Parliament  House,  17th  May, 
1654.  Dykes  was  in  Lanarkshire,  where 
David  Forsyth  held  lands  in  1494,  and  he,  or 
a  namesake  designated  scutifer,  is  a  witness 
there  in  147 1.  Robert  de  Forsyth  witnessed 
a  charter  of  Robert  Keith,  Marischal  of  Scot- 
land, 1426.  David,  of  Gilcamstoun,  County 
Aberdeen,  1490,  was  probably  direct  ancestor 
of  John  of  Dykes,  who  in  1541  sold  Gilkem- 
stoun  to  Gordon,  of  Pitlurg.  Henry  was  rec- 
tor of  Monymusk,  1543;  David  of  Dykes, 
1488-1507;  John  of  Halehill,  1540-56;  James 
of  Dykes,  Commissary  of  Glasgow.  1608-13, 
and  his  son  Matthew,  of  Auchengray.  advo- 
cate; William  of  Dykes.  1615:  William  of 
Dykes,  1640;  and  Barbara,  heiress  of  the  fam- 
ily, wife  in  1656  of  Patrick  Kells.  are  in  the 
line  of  this  family.  William  of  Nydie.  1434, 
and  Alexander  of  Nydie,  1604,  are  the  first 
and  last  we  find  of  the  Fifeshire  branch." 
Nisbet  gives  as  the  arms  of  Forsyth,  of 
Nydie:  Argent,  a  chevron  engrailed,  gules 
between  three  griffins  rampant  vert,  mem- 
bered  and  armed  gules.  He  states  that  the 
same  arms  are  given  by  Lyon  in  the  New 
Register  to  Mr.  James  Forsyth  of  Tailzerton. 
sometime  minister  of  Stirling,  descended  of 
the  family  of  Dykes,  commonly  designated 
of  Hallhill,  and  for  crest :  A  demi-griffin 
vert,  with  the  motto,  Instaurator  Ruinae.  The 
motto   is   said   to   have   been   given   in   honor 


of  some  deed  of  valor,  holding  the  breach  and 
so  saving  the  day  ("restorer  of  the  breach"), 
at  Bannockburn,  Stoddard  refers  to  Sir 
David  Lindsay's  manuscript  (1542)  and  to 
Forman's  Roll  (1562),  both  in  the  Advo- 
cates' Library,  as  to  the  arms  of  Forsyth  of 
Nydie.  He  also  refers  to  Workman's  manu- 
script in  Lyon  Office,  compiled  1565-66,  and 
to  Sir  David  Lindsay's  manuscript.  No.  H, 
1603,  belonging  to  the  Earl  of  Crawford  and 
Balcarres.  He  states  that  the  seal  of  David 
Forsith,  of  Dykes,  1488,  "is  a  fess  between 
three  cross  crosslets  fitchee,  and  charged  with 
as  many  lozenges."  The  family  seems  to  have 
spread  from  Stirling  along  the  coast  to  the 
far  north.  The  oldest  existing  charter  of  the 
lands  of  Gilcumstane,  Aberdeen  (1530),  con- 
tains an  assignation  of  John  Forsith,  of 
Dykes,  son  and  heir  of  David  Forsyth,  of 
Gilcumstane  and  Creveckin,  in  favor  of  John 
Gordon  of  Pitlurg,  assigning  to  said  John 
Gordon  his  right  to  a  bank  bond  and  letter 
of  reversion  of  1530,  granted  to  his  said 
father  by  Robert  Elsphinston,  Canon  of  Glas- 
gow and  Aberdeen.  There  is  a  district  in 
Aberdeen  which  still  bears  the  name  of  For- 
syth's Fields,  and  the  name  is  explained  by 
this  charter. 

It  is  said  that  in  1296  William  Frisith  of 
the  county  of  Peebles  did  homage  to  Edward 
I.  On  the  other  hand,  Forsyth,  constable  of 
Stirling,  refused  to  take  the  oath  of  fealty, 
and  was  deprived  of  his  office.  As  showing 
the  position  held  by  Forsyths  in  the  north,  it 
may  be  mentioned  that  John  Forsyth  was  a 
macer  at  Elgin  in  1539;  William  Forsyth, 
Friar  of  Kinloss,  1584;  and  John  Forsie,  Com- 
missioner of  Justiciary  to  George,  Earl  of 
Huntly  (with  him  John  Grant  of  Freuchie), 
to  try  Allen  M'Connel  Dow,  Captain  of  Clan 
Cameron,  in  Lochaber.  1584.  It  is  worth 
noticing  that  the  name  in  the  last  instance  is 
given  according  to  the  Gaelic  form,  and  it 
may  be  connected  with  the  famous  Irish  Saint 
Forsey,  or  Forsaidh.  To  carry  the  name  fur- 
ther back,  it  is  alleged  by  the  Irish  genealog- 
ists that  "Fenius  Farsaidh  was  a  schoolmaster 
as  well  as  King  of  Scythia.  His  son  Nial  mar- 
ried Scota,  Pharaoh's  daughter,  and  this  man 
taught  science  to  the  Egyptians  at  the  time  of 
the  Exodus.  After  many  wanderings,  the  de- 
scendants of  the  Royal  schoolmaster  found 
their  way  to  Ireland,  bringing  their  learning 
along    with    them.      The    people    were    called 


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Gowels  or  Gaels,  and  their  language  Gaelic." 
(See  Professor  Mackinnon's  article  in  Scots- 
man, 26th  September,  1889.)  For  further  in- 
formation reference  may  be  made  to  Sir 
George  Mackenzie's  "Heraldry,"  and  the  "Dic- 
tionary of  National  Biography  " 

(I)  John  Forsyth,  the  immigrant  ancestor  in 
America  of  the  Forsyth  family  here  dealt  with, 
was  born  in  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  in  1786  or 
1787,  and  died  at  Newburgh,  Orange  county. 
New  York,  in  1854.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Aberdeen,  and  had  for  a 
schoolmate  Lord  Byron.  He  came  to  this 
country  in  1805,  intending  to  go  to  Georgia  to 
join  his  cousin  John  Forsyth,  but  some  of  his 
father's  friends  had  settled  in  New  York  state 
years  before,  and  he  remained  in  New  York 
City  for  a  time.  Finally,  by  the  advice  of 
Professor  Kemp,  of  Columbia  College,  he  set- 
tled in  Newburgh,  New  York,  and  found  em- 
ployment there.  He  began  to  live  in  Newburgh 
in  the  year  1810,  and  he  continued  in  his  first 
position  until  1825,  in  which  year  he  became 
a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Law,  Beveridge  & 
Company.  His  association  with  this  firm  and 
business  continued  until  the  time  of  his  death 
in  1854.  He  had,  however,  various  other  in- 
terests, and  was  director  of  the  National  Bank 
of  Newburgh,  trustee  of  the  Newburgh  Acad- 
emy, and  was  prominently  connected  with  the 
Newburgh  Steam  Mills.  He  was  for  a  long 
long  time  an  elder  in  the  Associate  Reformed 
Church,  and  was  a  generous  and  zealous  mem- 
ber. He  married  (first)  Jane,  eldest  daughter 
of  John  Currie.  He  married  (second)  Anna, 
youngest  daughter  of  John  Brown.  Children : 
John ;  Robert  Alexander ;  James  Christie,  of 
whom  further. 

(H)  Hon.  James  Christie  Forsyth,  son  of 
John  and  Jane  (Currie)  Forsyth,  was  born 
March  6,  1819,  and  died  December  2,  1855. 
He  was  educated  at  Rutgers  and  Union  col- 
leges, graduating  from  the  latter  in  1835.  He 
began  the  study  of  law  with  A  C.  Nivin,  of 
Monticello,  New  York,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1838,  and  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Kingston  with  Judge  Gabriel 
Ludlum,  and  afterward  formed  a  partnership 
with  Hon.  James  O.  Linderman,  both  of  which 
connections  proved  congenial  and  remunera- 
tive. In  1841  he  was  elected  judge  of  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  on  the  Whig  ticket,  dis- 
charging the  duties  connected  therewith  with 
efficiency  and  promptness.     He  was  a  member 


of  the  constitutional  convention  in  1846,  and 
a  candidate  for  secretary  of  state  in  185 1,  but 
defeated.  He  married,  June  26,  1839,  Mary, 
born  November  6,  1815,  daughter  of  Severyn 
and  Catherine  (Hasbrouck)  Bruyn.  Chil- 
dren :  Mary  Isabella ;  Catherine  Bruyn  ;  Pe- 
tronella  Bruyn ;  Severyn  Bruyn,  of  whom  fur- 
ther ;  Jane  Currie ;  John,  of  whom  further. 

(Ill)  Severyn  Bruyn  Forsyth,  son  of  Hon. 
James  Christie  and  Mary  (Bruyn)  Forsyth, 
was  born  December  6,  1846,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 13,  1902.  He  attended  the  Kingston 
Academy  and  Princeton  University,  graduat- 
ing from  the  latter  in  the  class  of  1867.  He 
studied  law  at  the  Columbia  Law  School,  and 
in  1880  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  was  con- 
ferred on  him  by  Princeton  University.  He 
was  a  man  of  integrity  and  character.  He 
served  in  the  capacity  of  president  of  the 
Ulster  County  Branch  of  the  State  Charities 
and  Aid  Society,  and  for  twenty-five  years 
was  trustee  of  the  Industrial  Home  for  Chil- 
dren. He  was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution. 

(Ill)  John  Forsyth,  son  of  Hon.  James 
Christie  and  Mary  (Bruyn)  Forsyth,  was 
born  June  22,  1850,.  and  died  June  19,  1912. 
He  received  an  excellent  education  through 
private  schools  and  tutors.  In  1877  he  en- 
gaged in  the  book  business  with  the  late  Rob- 
ert Wilson,  the  firm  being  known  as  Forsyth 
&  Wilson.  The  store  became  the  literary 
center  of  Kingston,  and  continued  such  for 
many  years.  When  Mr.  Wilson  retired  from 
the  firm  he  was  succeeded  by  William  M. 
Davis,  and  the  name  of  the  firm  was  then 
changed  to  Forsyth  &  Davis.  The  firm,  in  ad- 
dition to  its  extensive  book,  stationery  and 
paper  business,  the  latter  having  been  added 
in  1903,  when  Mr.  Forsyth  purchased  the 
Bruyn  Paper  Company,  also  engaged  in  the 
automobile  business,  and  erected  the  Eagle 
Garage  on  Main  street.  For  a  number  of 
years  prior  to  his  death  Mr.  Forsyth  was 
prominently  identified  with  all  charitable  and 
philanthropic  enterprises.  He  was  president 
of  the  local  branch  of  the  State  Charity  Aid 
Society,  and  died  while  holding  that  office. 
For  many  years  he  was  an  active  member  of 
the  First  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  of  King- 
ston. He  was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution,  and  of  the  Kingston 
Club.  He  married  in  June,  1881,  Mary  L., 
born  April  4,  1850.  daughter  of  Stephen  and 


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Mary  Falconer  Tomlinson.     She  was  a  resi- 
dent  of  Bridgeport,  Connecticut. 


This  name  has  been  especially 
NORTH     identified    with    the    history    of 

Connecticut  from  the  earliest 
period,  and  from  that  colony  and  state  the 
family  has  spread  to  many  sections  of  the 
United  States.  It  has  furnished  many  useful 
and  worthy  citizens  and  is  still  identified  with 
the  national  progress. 

(I)  John  North  came  to  New  England  in 
1635,  being  then  twenty  years  of  age,  in  the 
ship  "Susan  and  Ellen,"'  which  landed  at  Bos- 
ton. He  was  among  the  proprietors  and  early 
settlers  of  the  town  of  Earmington,  Connec- 
ticut, the  first  off-shoot  of  the  church  founded 
by  Thomas  Hooker  at  Hartford.  In  1653, 
John  North  received  a  grant  of  land  at  Earm- 
ington and  he  and  his  sons,  John  and  Samuel, 
were  included  among  the  eighty-four  original 
land-owners,  among  whom  the  unoccupied 
lands  of  Earmington  were  distributed  in  1676. 
He  died  in  1691  at  the  age  of  seventy-six 
years.  His  wife,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Bird,  united  with  the  Earmington 
Church  in  1656,  and  both  were  among  its  most 
substantial  members.  Children :  John,  born 
1641  ;  Samuel  and  Mary,  twins,  1643  ;  James. 
1647;  Thomas,  mentioned  below;  Sarah,  bap- 
tized 1653;  Nathaniel,  June  29,  1656;  Lydia, 
May  9,  1658;  Joseph,  1660,  died  1731.  In  the 
distribution  of  Thomas  Bird's  estate,  August- 
September,  1662,  portions  were  set  to  Mary 
Northe  and  Hannah  Scott,  again  March  3, 
1663,  mentioned  as  Goodwife  Northe  and 
Hanna  Scott  (Connecticut  Probate  Records, 
vol.  I,  p.  97). 

(II)  Thomas,  fourth  son  of  John  arid  Han- 
nah (Bird)  North,  was  born  in  1649,  prob- 
ably at  Hartford,  and  was  a  soldier  of  the 
Indian  wars,  receiving  a  grant  of  land  for  his 
military  service.  He  settled  in  the  north  part 
of  Earmington,  now  the  town  of  Avon,  where 
he  died  in  1712.  He  married  Hannah  Newell, 
born  in  1656,  died  in  1757,  more  than  a  cen- 
tury old. 

(III)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i)  and 
Hannah  (Newell)  North,  was  born  in  1673, 
in  Avon,  and  resided  in  what  is  now  Berlin, 
Connecticut,  where  he  died  in  1725.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Congreg^ational 
church  there  in  1707.  He  married  in  1698, 
Martha,    daughter    of    Isaac    and    Elizabeth 


(Lathrop)  Royce,  or  Rice,  of  Wallingford, 
Connecticut,  granddaughter  of  Rev.  John 
Lathrop,  who  came  from  England  to  Scituate, 
Massachusetts,  in  1634. 

(IV)  Thomas  (3),  son  of  Thomas  (2)  and 
Martha  (Rice)  North,  was  born  about  1700 
in  Berlin,  and  resided  for  a  time  in  Wethers- 
field,  Connecticut,  probably  that  part  now  the 
town  of  Rocky  Hill.  In  1743  he  removed 
from  Wethersfield  to  Sharon,  Oonnecticult, 
and  was  one  of  the  first  proprietors  of  the 
iron  works  in  the  hollow,  his  home  being  on 
the  twenty-sixth  home  lot  in  that  town.  Eor 
several  years  he  served  as  selectman  of  Sha- 
ron, and  in  1753  sold  out  and  removed  to  the 
state  of  New  York.  Sharon  records  show  that 
his  wife's  name  was  Elizabeth,  and  record 
two  children  born  in  Wethersfield  and  one  in 
Sharon,  namely:  Elizabeth,  July  4,  1731 ; 
Ruth,  November  6,  1741 ;  Thomas,  February 
3,  1746. 

(V)  Samuel,  probably  a  son  of  Thomas  (3) 
and  Elizabeth  North,  was  born  about  1750-53, 
perhaps  in  Little  Nine  Partners,  Dutchess 
county.  New  York.  There  were  undoubtedly 
several  children  of  Thomas  (3)  North,  born 
in  that  section,  but  as  the  state  of  New  York 
made  no  effort  to  preserve  vital  statistics,  no 
record  can  now  be  discovered.  Samuel  North 
had  brothers,  Daniel  and  Benjamin,  the  for- 
mer of  whom  removed  to  Ulster  county,  New 
York,  and  the  latter  to  Otsego  county,  the 
same  state.  Samuel  resided  for  some  time 
in  Little  Nine  Partners  and  finally  settled  in 
the  town  of  Olive,  Ulster  county.  New  York, 
where  he  bought  and  cleared  a  large  farm. 
He  married  Betsey  Avery.  Children :  John 
S.,  referred  to  below  ;  Samuel ;  Daniel ;  Rob- 
ert;  Benjamin;  William;  Polly,  married  

Yerpenning;  Catherine,  married  Andrew  Hill; 

Rachel,   married   Hurd,   of    Bridgeport, 

Connecticut ;  Sally,  married  John  Smith. 

(VI)  John  S.,  son  of  Samuel  and  Betsey 
(Avery)  North,  was  born  in  Little  Nine  Part- 
ners, Dutchess  county.  New  York,  in  Febru- 
ary, 1775,  and  died  in  the  town  of  Olive,  Ul- 
ster county.  New  York,  April  10,  1855,  in  his 
seventy-first  year.  On  March  12,  1810,  he 
was  appointed  ensign  in  the  Ulster  County 
Regiment  of  militia  under  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Frederick  Westbrook,  his  commission  being 
dated  April  27,  1810,  and  on  March  2,  1814, 
he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant  in 
the  same  regiment.     On  March  22,   1816,  he 


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was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain  in  the 
One  Hundred  and  Thirty-first  Regiment  of 
infantry  under  Lieutenant-Colonel  Derick  Du 
Bois.  His  original  commission  as  ensign, 
signed  by  His  Excellency  the  Governor,  Daniel 
D.  Tompkins,  is  now  in  the  possession  of  his 
grandson,  Isaac  M.  North,  of  Kingston,  Ul- 
ster county.  New  York.  He  married  Polly 
Hill,  of  Fishkill,  New  York,  who  was  born  in 
1779  and  died  September  2,  1856.  Children: 
Uriah;  Samuel;  Albert,  referred  to  below; 
Gordon  ;  Abel ;  Mary,  married  Henry  J.  Krom ; 
Anna,  married  Dr.  'Bernard  McClellan  ;  Judy, 
died  unmarried;  Betsey,  married  Simon 
Krom,  of  Ulster  county.  New  York. 

(VII)  Albert,  son  of  John  S.  and  Polly 
(Hill)  North,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Olive, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  February  14,  1814, 
and  died  in  Shokan,  Ulster  county.  New  York, 
February  5,  1880.  He  was  brought  up  on  a 
farm,  and  later,  upon  the  death  of  his  father- 
in-law,  settled  on  his  property,  which  he  culti- 
vated until  his  death.  He  was  a  man  of 
prominence  and  held  in  high  esteem  by  the 
community.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican 
and  at  one  time  supervisor  of  the  township, 
and  in  religion  a  Methodist.  He  married  Ma- 
ria De  La  Montanye.  Children:  Clark,  born 
December  10,  1837;  Isaac  M.,  referred  to 
below;  Mary,  born  February  14,  1841,  mar- 
ried David  Woodworth ;  James,  iDorn  May  4, 
1843,  died  December  i,  1885;  Almira,  born 
February  11,  1845,  died  May  7,  1851  ;  Nathan, 
born  August  13,  1847,  now  a  clergyman  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  living  in 
Rochester,  New  York. 

(VIII)  Isaac  M.,  son  of  Albert  and  Maria 
(De  La  Montanye)  North,  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Olive,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
August  2,  1839,  and  is  now  living  in  Kingston, 
Ulster  county,  New  York.  He  received  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  township,  and  when  fifteen  years  of 
age  became  a  clerk  in  a  store  at  Shokan,  and 
remained  in  that  position  for  two  years,  when 
he  became  bookkeeper  for  a  tannery  in  Boice- 
ville,  New  York.  In  April,  1862,  he  removed 
to  Rondout,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  and 
entered  the  employ  of  Thomas  Cornell  as 
bookkeeper,  continuing  in  that  capacity  for 
ten  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  suc- 
ceeded Joseph  Cornell  in  the  office  of  superin- 
tendent of  the  Cornell  Steamboat  Company, 
which  position  he  still  occupies.     He  is  one  of 


the  directors  of  the  Cornell  Steamboat  Com- 
pany, and  also  of  the  Rondout  National  Bank. 
He  is  president  and  one  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Rondout  Savings  Bank.  In  politics  he  is  a 
Republican,  and  he  served  for  sixteen  years 
as  alderman  from  the  sixth  and  seventh  wards 
of  Kingston.  He  is  a  Methodist  in  religion, 
and  is  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  church.  He 
married  in  September,  1863,  in  Olive  town- 
ship, Ulster  county,  New  York,  Ella,  daughter 
of  Peter  Du  Bois.  Children :  Anna,  married 
John  G.  Van  Etten,  of  Kingston,  New  York; 
Hazel,  married  James  Elgar,  of  White  Plains, 
New  York. 


This  family,   for  many  years 
SCHANTZ     prominent   in   the   history   of 

Ulster  county.  New  York,  is 
of  German  descent,  and  traces  its  ancestry  to 
George  Schantz,  who  was  born  in  Wurtem- 
berg  and  there  resided  until  his  death.  He 
received  a  good  education,  and  at  an  early 
date  learned  the  miller's  and  millwright's 
trades,  avocations  followed  by  members  of 
the  family  for  more  than  five  generations.  He 
met  with  marked  success  in  his  business  and 
acquired  a  valuable  property.  He  had  nine 
children,  eight  daughters  and  one  son,  Peter, 
mentioned  below. 

(II)  Peter,  son  of  George  Schantz,  was 
born  in  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  in  1830.  and 
died  in  Lloyd,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  in 
November,  191 1.  He  attended  the  schools  of 
his  native  city,  and  at  an  early  age  learned 
the  miller's  and  cabinet-making  trades,  at 
which  avocations  he  worked  in  his  native 
country  until  about  1854,  when  he  immigrated 
to  America,  locating  first  in  Perth  Amboy, 
New  Jersey,  where  several  of  his  relatives 
were  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  fire  brick. 
He  became  associated  with  them  in  this  line 
of  work,  but  finding  the  climate  did  not  agree 
with  him,  he  removed  to  Lloyd,  LHster  county, 
New  York.  Here  he  engaged  in  the  milling 
business  for  several  years  in  company  with 
John  Saxton.  He  subsequently  engaged  in 
the  same  line  of  work  at  Lloyd  Hollow.  In 
a  few  years  he  purchased  the  Blue  Mills  in 
Highland,  New  York,  which,  after  managing 
for  a  short  time,  he  sold,  and  went  to  Red 
Hook,  where  he  was  superintendent  of  the 
Oriole  Mills  for  a  number  of  years.  About 
1890  he  retired  from  active  business  and  re- 
turned to  the  town  of  Lloyd,  where  he  made 


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his  home  until  his  death.  He  was  an  able 
business  man  and  met  with  success  in  his  vari- 
ous business  enterprises.  He  married,  in  1856, 
Louisa  Martin,  daughter  of  Gabriel  Martin, 
of  Rhincrief,  Newfeldt,  Germany.  She  was 
bom  November  15,  1833,  and  died  November 
20,  1908.  Her  father  was  a  prosperous  cabinet 
manufacturer  in  Newfeldt.  Eight  children 
were  born  to  Peter  and  Louisa  (Martin) 
Schantz :  Philip,  mentioned  below ;  Mary, 
Joseph,  Nellie,  Lorin,  Martin,  Rose  and 
Sophia. 

(HI)  Philip,  son  of  Peter  and  Louisa 
(Martin)  Schantz,  was  born  in  Lloyd,  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  June  6,  1858.  He  attended 
the  district  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  at 
an  early  date  learned  the  miller's  trade  of  his 
father.  He  then  was  employed  for  seven 
years  by  George  W.  Pratt,  of  Lloyd,  in  his 
milling  business.  In  1879  he  formed  a  part- 
nership with  Mr.  Pratt  and  continued  in  busi- 
ness with  him  until  1883,  when  the  partnership 
was  dissolved.  Mr.  Schantz  entered  the  Fort 
Edward  Institute  in  Washington  county.  New 
York,  where  for  one  year  he  pursued  a  special 
course.  During  the  time  with  Mr.  Pratt  he 
attended  the  Ft.  Edward  Institute.  In  1884 
he  returned  to  Ulster  county  and  leased  the  ice 
houses  and  pond  of  Z.  Eckert,  one  mile  south 
of  Highland.  In  1886  he  purchased  this  prop- 
erty, and  in  1888  also  purchased  the  grist  mills 
formerly  owned  by  Mr.  Eckert.  In  1890  he 
bought  the  Highland  Cold  Storage  Plant,  and 
in  the  same  year  the  mill  owned  by  Mr.  Ec- 
kert on  the  New  Paltz  Turnpike.  Mr.  Schantz 
still  operates  these  mills.  He  is  prominently 
identified  with  many  business  enterprises,  being 
president  of  the  Highland  Knitting  Mills 
Company,  the  Poughkeepsie  Elevator  Com- 
pany, the  Highland  Water  Company,  and  the 
Pratt  Investment  Company  of  Long  Island. 
He  has  served  for  several  years  as  treasurer 
of  the  Jackson  Heights  Realty  Company  of 
Long  Island,  and  is  now  director  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Highland,  and  one  of  the 
incorporators.  In  politics  Mr.  Schantz  is  a 
Republican,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years 
was  elected  collector  of  the  town  of  Lloyd, 
and  in  1890  was  elected  supervisor.  He  con- 
tinuously held  this  offiice  until  1894,  when  he 
was  elected  sheriff  of  Ulster  county  by  a  ma- 
jority of  one  thousand,  two  hundred  and 
eighty-five  votes.  On  the  expiration  of  his 
term  of  service  as  sheriff  he  was  again  elected 


supervisor  of  the  town  of  Lloyd,  which  office 
he  has  held  up  to  date.  He  has  frequently 
represented  his  district  in  the  state  assembly 
and  county  conventions  of  his  party.  He  is 
also  prominent  in  the  Masonic  Order,  being 
a  member  of  Highland  Lodge,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons;. Kingston  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons ;  Rondout  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar;  and  Mecca  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine, 
New  York  City.  He  is  a  charter  member  of 
Highland  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  the  Ben- 
evolent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 

Mr.  Schantz  married,  March  9,  1892, 
Martha  Cluett,  of  Poughkeepsie.  Child: 
Cluett  born  March  i,  1900.  Mrs.  Schantz 
is  a  granddaughter  of  Thomas  Cluett,  who 
was  born  on  the  Isle  of  Guernsey,  Eng- 
land, and  there  made  his  home  until  his 
death.  He  was  a  man  of  prominence  and  in- 
fluence. He  married  Martha  Ingroville,  and 
their  son,  George  William  Cluett,  born  on  the 
Isle  of  Guernsey,  England,  was  the  father  of 
Mrs.  Schantz.  He  received  a  liberal  education 
and  in  1850  immigrated  to  America,  settling 
first  in  Brooklyn,  New  York.  A  few  years 
later  he  removed  to  Poughkeepsie,  New  York, 
where  he  is  still  engaged  in  mercantile  pur- 
suits. He  married  Lavinia  Bray.  Children: 
George  T. ;  Lavinia ;  and  Martha,  mentioned 
above.  Mrs.  George  William  Cluett  was  born 
on  the  Isle  of  Jersey,  England,  and  is  a  grand- 
daughter of  John  Bray,  a  famous  musician, 
composer  and  bandmaster,  who  conducted 
many  concerts  in  England,  and  made  a  trip 
around  the  world  with  his  band  of  noted 
musicians. 


(HI)  Lorin  Schantz  son  of 
SCHANTZ     Peter     (q.     v.)     and     Louisa 

(Martin)  Schantz,  was  born 
in  Highland,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  Janu- 
ary 23,  1867.  He  received  his  education  in 
the  district  school  and  worked  with  his  father 
on  the  farm  until  he  was  fourteen,  when  he 
became  connected  with  W.  H.  Deyo  in  the 
fruit  business.  Later  he  joined  his  brother 
Philip  in  the  ice  business,  and  continued  this 
until  1895  when  he  was  appointed  deputy 
sheriff  and  jailer  at  Kingston,  Ulster  county. 
New  York.  He  retired  from  this  office  in 
1898,  having  served  his  county  faithfully  and 
well.  He  then  purchased  his  brother's  interest 
in  the  ice  business  and  conducted  it  alone.     In 


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1900  he  bought  the  Latson  farm  of  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty-one  acres,  and  he  has  brought 
it  to  a  high  state  of  productiveness,  and  on  it 
does  general  farming.  In  1904  he  added  the 
Lewis  Parmenter  place  to  his  land  holdings, 
containing  seventy-four  fertile  acres,  devoting 
it  to  general  farming  and  dairying.  Mr. 
Schantz  is  not  only  a  prominent  and  influential 
business  man,  but  also  a  successful  farmer, 
engaging  largely  in  trucking.  He  is  a  Mason, 
a  member  of  Highland  Lodge,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  Highland,  New  York,  Pough- 
keepsie  Council  and  Poughkeepsie  Chapter.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Grange,  of  the  Elks  and  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  standing 
high  in  the  councils  of  each ;  and  he  is  also  a 
member  of  J.  O.  U.  M.,  P.  H.  C,  and  Loyal 
Americans.  With  his  wife  he  attends  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church.  The  house  in 
which  Mr.  Schantz  resides  was  built  by  An- 
dries  Du  Bois  two  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago, 
and  is  one  of  the  most  interesting,  historically, 
in  that  locality.  It  was  at  this  house  that  the 
British  army  stopped  and  butchered  their  stock 
during  the  revolutionary  war.  There  are  many 
other  historic  associations  connected  with  it. 
Mr.  Schantz  married.  September  24,  1892, 
Grace  M.  Traver,  daughter  of  Philetus  S.  and 
Catherine  Elizabeth  (Hapmen)  Traver,  of 
Red  Hook,  Dutchess  county,  New  York.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Phillip  T.,  born  May  5,  1895.  2. 
Catherine  Schantz,  born  February  19,  1901. 


This  name  is  undoubtedly  of 
ABRAMS     Dutch  origin,  arising  from  the 

use  of  the  father's  baptismal 
name  as  a  surname  for  the  son.  In  the  Dutch 
usage  the  syllable  "sen"  is  most  often  added, 
sometimes  only  the  letters  "se,"  and  in  many 
cases  simply  the  letter  "s"  is  added  to  the 
father's  name  to  make  a  surname  for  the  son. 
The  baptismal  records  of  the  Dutch  church 
at  Kingston,  New  York,  show  that  Abram 
Abramsen  was  there  in  November,  1696.  when 
he  witnessed  a  baptism.  There  was  a  family 
bearing  the  name  of  Abrams  in  what  is  now 
the  town  of  Greenville,  Greene  county.  New 
York,  about  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury. The  name  of  the  original  settler  and 
farmer  has  not  been  preserved,  but  he  had  a 
son  Benjamin,  who  lived  and  died  in  Green- 
ville, a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church.  It  is  possible  that  the  family  herein 
mentioned   is   an   off-shoot   of   that    living   in 


Greene  county.  Kingston  and  New  Paltz  were 
the  initial  settlements  of  Ulster  county  and  had 
churches  where  very  early  records  were  made. 
No  mention  can  be  found  in  either  except  that 
above  referred  to. 

(I)  John  Abrams,  the  first  of  whom 
knowledge  can  now  be  discovered  of  this  fam- 
ily, resided  in  or  near  Marbletown,  Ulster 
county.  New  York,  and  died  July  15,  1829. 
Unfortunately  his  age  at  this  time  has  not  been 
recorded.  His  wife  Hannah  died  March  2, 
1843. 

(IIj  Harvey,  son  of  John  and  Hannah 
Abrams,  was  born  March  16,  1803.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  landowner,  residing  in  Marble- 
town,  New  York,  where  he  died  January  21, 
1863.  He  married,  July  7,  1825,  Elizabeth  De 
Witt,  born  May  9,  1804.  Children,  all  born  at 
Marbletown:  Frederick  De  Witt,  March  3, 
1826,  died  thirteen  months  old  ;  Cornelia  Horn- 
beck,  January  21,  1828,  died  unmarried  April 
29,  i860;  Catherine  De  Witt,  January  11,  1830, 
died  April  16.  1855  ^  Thomas  De  Witt,  May  30, 
1834,  many  years  a  commander  of  Hudson 
river  boats,  died  July  18,  1898  ;  Matthew,  men- 
tioned below. 

(III)  Matthew,  youngest  son  of  Harvey  and 
Elizabeth  ( De  Witt)  Abrams,  was  born  Oc- 
tober 17,  1840,  in  Marbletown,  New  York, 
where  he  died  May  12,  1872.  In  youth  and 
early  manhood  he  participated  in  the  cultiva- 
tion of  the  homestead  farm,  of  which  he  ul- 
timately became  the  owner,  and  he  continued 
to  reside  thereon,  engaged  in  its  cultivation 
until  his  death.  He  volunteered  as  a  soldier  of 
the  civil  war,  but  was  rejected  on  account  of 
a  slight  deformity  incurred  in  early  youth.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  and 
throughout  his  life  sustained  the  Republican 
party  in  political  matters.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber 17,  i860,  Louisa  Jane  Turner,  born  May 
II,  1842,  at  Clintondale,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  died  April  28,  1905,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Pamelia  (Roberts)  Turner.  Chil- 
dren :  Sanford,  Lincoln,  Roselthia  and  Wil- 
liam, all  of  whom  died  in  infancy;  Thomas  De 
Witt,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Thomas  De  Witt,  son  of  Matthew  and 
Louisa  J.  (Turner)  Abrams,  was  born  April 
3,  1872,  at  Marbletown,  Ulster  county.  New 
York.  At  the  age  of  five,  his  father  being 
then  dead,  he  settled  with  his  mother  at  High 
Falls,  New  York,  where  he  received  his  pre- 
liminarv    education    in    the    district    schools. 


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Later  he  took  a  two  years'  course  at  Albany 
Business  College.  After  leaving  college  he 
became  a  clerk  in  Thomas  Snyder's  general 
store  at  High  Falls,  and  continued  in  that  posi- 
tion for  some  years.  In  1893  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one  he  was  appointed  postmaster  at 
High  Falls  by  President  Cleveland.  At  the 
expiration  of  his  term  in  the  postmastership 
(in  1897)  he  settled  in  Walden,  Orange  coun- 
ty, New  York,  and  became  engaged  in  the  gro- 
cery business  with  his  brother.  This  connec- 
tion continued  for  the  next  six  years.  On  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1905,  Mr.  Abrams  went  to  Kingston, 
New  York,  and  became  interested  in  the  auto- 
mobile business,  continuing  in  this  industry 
until  he  retired  after  a  period  of  five  years. 
In  1905  he  became  one  of  the  incorporators  of 
the  Brown  Manufacturing  Company,  and  was 
elected  treasurer,  a  position  he  still  retains, 
becoming  actively  engaged  in  the  management 
of  the  company  in  1913.  Mr.  Abrams  is  also 
interested  in  several  corporations  in  Walden, 
and  is  a  prominent,  progressive  man  of  the 
younger  class.  He  is  an  attendant  of  the  Fair 
Street  Reformed  Church  of  Kingston.  Among 
societies  he  is  a  member  of  Kingston  Lodge, 
No.  10,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  of  Mount 
Horeb  Chapter,  No.  75 ;  of  Rondout  Com- 
mandery.  No.  52 ;  of  Mecca  Temple,  A.  A. 
O.  N.  M.  Shrine,  New  York  City;  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Walden,  New  York;  and 
of  the  Elks  and  Kingston  clubs  of  Kingston, 
New  York.  He  married,  April  26,  1893,  ^t 
High  Falls,  New  York,  Fanny,  daughter  of 
William  Oscar  and  Elvira  (Hasbrouck) 
Church,  of  High  Falls,  New  York,  mentioned 
below.  Children :  Oscar  Evans,  born  January 
5,  1894,  and  now  attending  Rutgers  College; 
Wilma,  June  26,  1896. 

(The  Church  Line.) 
The  surname  Church  is  supposed  to  be  de- 
rived, in  the  case  of  the  original  bearer  having 
descendants  bearing  the  name,  from  the  fact 
of  his  residence  near  a  church.  A  connection 
has  been  traced  between  the  word  in  some  cases 
and  the  French  word  "Chercher"  meaning  to 
search  or  to  seek,  and  the  form  Le  Cherche- 
man  is  said  to  occur  in  the  Hundred  Rolls, 
which  contains  a  large  number  of  Norman 
names  in  England.  In  the  same  document  the 
name  is  found  under  various  other  forms  such 
as  Atte  Chirche,  De  La  Chirche,  Ecclesia,  De 


Ecclesia  and  Ad  Ecclesiam.  "Ecclesia"  is  the 
Latin  word  for  "church"  and  it  is  possible  that 
the  name  may  have  been  borne  in  some  cases 
by  Normans  or  Norman  Englishmen,  who 
were  in  some  special  way  connected  with  a 
particular  church,  and  that  in  course  of  time 
the  term  "Ecclesia"  was  translated  into  its 
English  equivalent,  "church."  The  name  is 
found  as  part  of  a  compound  also,  and  its 
origin  in  those  cases  was  probably  similar, 
some  of  the  compounds  being:  Churcher, 
Churchman,  Churchwarden,  and  even  Church- 
yard. It  is  quite  likely  that  in  some  cases  these 
compound  surnames  were  shortened  to  Church. 

(I)  Constance  (or  Constant)  Church,  an- 
cestor of  the  Church  family,  was  born  in  1757, 
died  about  1835.  His  early  days  were  spent 
in  New  Hampshire,  from  which  he  migrated 
to  locate  in  Ohioville,  eventually  making  his 
home  with  his  son.  By  occupation  he  was  a 
farmer.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolutionary 
war,  and  was  wont  to  tell  many  stories  con- 
cerning the  events  of  that  exciting  time.  He 
was  a  man  of  high  character  and  sterling 
worth,  laborious,  conscientious,  and  able.  He 
married  Deborah  Wheeler,  who  was  also  born 
in  New  Hampshire.  Children :  Samuel,  who 
lived  at  Scranton,  Pennsylvania;  John  W., 
mentioned  below ;  Philena,  married  John 
Pratt ;  Orpha,  married  Hiram  Bainey  ;  Eunice, 
married  Samuel  Judkin ;  Berne,  married  Maria 
Pryor;  and  some  other  children,  who  died  in 
infancy. 

(II)  John  W.,  son  of  Constance  (or  Con- 
stant) and  Deborah  (Wheeler)  Church,  was 
born  in  New  Hampshire,  in  1791.  and  died  in 
1847  ^t  Ohioville,  being  buried  in  Elting  ceme- 
tery. He  acquired  a  good  education  in  the 
public  schools,  being  a  very  well  informed  man, 
and  in  his  younger  days  he  was  a  teacher  in 
the  schools  of  the  district.  From  his  native 
state  he  removed  to  Dutchess  county,  New 
York,  where  he  spent  several  years,  and  about 
1828  went  to  Ohioville.  Ulster  county,  where 
he  purchased  land,  and  followed  farming  until 
the  year  1841.  He  then  went  to  Rosendale 
Plains,  where  he  purchased  a  farm,  but  after 
a  short  time  removed  to  the  home  in  which  he 
spent  his  remaining  days.  He  was  a  man  of 
good  judgment  and  keen  perception,  and  was 
quite  successful  in  his  business.  In  politics 
he  was  an  ardent  Whig,  a  strong  supporter  of 
William  Henry  Harrison,  and  an  anti-slavery 
man.     He  married    (first)    Mary  Landon,  of 


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New  Hampshire,  who  died  in  1835;  (second) 
Elizabeth  Van  Nostrand,  a  widow.  Children : 
I.  Augusta.  2.  William  Oscar,  mentioned  be- 
low. 3.  John  Franklin,  born  June  10,  1830, 
married  (first)  in  1856,  Catherine,  daughter  of 
Andrew  S.  Wood,  who  died  leaving  a  son, 
Andrew  Snyder;  married  (second)  Harriet 
Dewey,  by  whom  he  had  three  children.  John 
W.  Church  had  by  the  second  marriage  Mary 
Elizabeth,  who  married  Morris  Dewey. 

(HI)  William  Oscar,  son  of  John  W.  and 
Mary  (Landon)  Church,  was  born  January 
5,  1827.  He  spent  his  childhood  on  the  family 
farm,  but  in  1841  went  to  Poughkeepsie  to 
learn  the  carpenter's  trade,  remaining  there 
until  1847,  while  his  brother  John  went  to  live 
with  his  uncle,  John  Pratt,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained four  years.  In  the  year  1847  the 
brothers  went  up  to  High  Falls.  After  a  short 
time,  however,  John  secured  employment  on 
the  farm  of  Andrew  S.  Wood,  where  he  con- 
tinued for  four  years,  but  after  1851,  he  was 
a  permanent  resident  of  the  place.  Together 
the  brothers  worked  at  carpentry  for  a  time 
and  then  engaged  with  a  canal  company  for 
several  years.  In  1870  John  embarked  in  the 
butchering  business,  which  he  henceforth  car- 
ried on  continuously,  having  a  farm  to  add  a 
little  to  his  income.  William  O.  continued 
with  the  canal  company  until  1873,  after  which 
time  he  dealt  in  coal.  Both  were  very  suc- 
cessful in  business  and  were  selfmade  men, 
whose  prosperity  was  due  entirely  to  their 
own  diligence,  perseverance  and  well  directed 
efforts.  They  were  men  of  high  standing,  re- 
spected by  all.  William  was  a  stalwart  Re- 
publican, and  was  for  a  long  time  the  only 
survivor  of  the  four  voters  in  High  Falls. 
who  supported  John  C.  Fremont  for  the  presi- 
dency in  1856.  He  was  recognized  as  a  leader 
in  the  party,  doing  all  in  his  power  for  its 
support,  and  his  brother,  John,  served  as  high- 
way commissioner  in  1886.  William  belonged 
to  the  Odd  Fellows  Society.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Reformed  church  and  was  very 
active  in  its  work.  He  was  a  public  spirited 
citizen,  who  gave  his  aid  willingly  and  freely 
to  enterprises  calculated  to  advance  the  com- 
munity's best  interests.  He  married,  Novem- 
ber 9,  1854,  Elvira  Hasbrouck.  Children  :  John, 
died  in  1894;  Walter,  married  Cora  Sammons ; 
Wilmer,  married  Laura  D.  Roberts ;  Augusta, 
married  J.  DePew  Hasbrouck ;  Fanny,  men- 
tioned below ;  Arthur. 


(IV)  Fanny,  daughter  of  William  Oscar 
and  Elvira  (Hasbrouck)  Church,  married 
Thomas  De  Witt  Abrams  (see  Abrams). 


Numerically  speaking,  the   Pratt 
PRATT     family  as  a  whole  is  a  large  one 

and  has  many  branches.  Many 
of  these  are  the  posterity  of  one  common  an- 
cestor— Matthew  Pratt  of  Weymouth,  Massa- 
chusetts— and  his  male  descendants  established 
branch  families  in  various  towns  in  Norfolk, 
Plymouth  and  Bristol  counties.  The  Pratts 
of  America  are  undoubtedly  of  EngHsh  origin, 
but  thus  far  little  or  no  investigation  has  been 
made  relative  to  their  history  prior  to  the  set- 
tlement of  New  England.  There  were  several 
early  immigrants  beside  the  one  above  named, 
all  of  whom  have  many  descendants  now 
scattered  over  the  United  States. 

(I)  Matthew  Pratt  was  born  in  England 
about  1600.  He  probably  came  to  New  Eng- 
land with  the  Gorges  company  in  1623,  though 
genealogists  fail  to  find  positive  evidence. 
Joshua  and  Phinehas  Pratt,  brothers,  came  in 
the  ship  "Anne"  to  Plymouth  in  1623. 
Phinehas  went  to  Weymouth  later  and  our 
first  record  of  Matthew  was  at  Weymouth. 
The  family  tradition  of  descendants  of  Mat- 
thew says  they  were  related.  He  may  have 
been  a  younger  brother  or  nephew.  Matthew's 
name  appears  on  the  list  of  "old  residents" 
about  1643.  It  is  apparent  that  he  was  in 
Weymouth  before  1628,  as  the  town  records 
state  that  he  married  there  and  had  a  son  born 
prior  to  that  year.  He  may  have  landed  at 
Plymouth,  but  there  is  no  record  of  his  ar- 
rival there  or  anywhere  else.  A  company  of 
colonists  was  sent  over  by  Thomas  Weston  in 
1622,  and  Matthew  Pratt  may  have  been 
among  these.  His  land  in  Weymouth  was 
located  among  the  grants  of  the  original  set- 
tlers. His  name  was  spelled  Macute  and  in 
similar  ways,  but  the  weight  of  evidence  proves 
that  Matthew  was  the  correct  form.  He  re- 
ceived a  grant  from  the  general  court,  De- 
cember 7,  1636,  of  twenty  acres,  and  became 
one  of  the  prominent  citizens  of  Weymouth 
and  was  often  townsman  or  selectman.  He 
had  other  grants  of  land  from  time  to  time 
and  became  a  large  landed  proprietor.  His 
will,  dated  March  25,  1672,  and  proved  April 
30,  1673,  mentions  his  wife  Elizabeth,  his  chil- 
dren and  grandchildren.     He  died  August  26, 


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1672.  He  married  Elizabeth  Bate.  Children: 
Thomas,  born  before  1628,  died  April  19,  1676; 
Matthew,  1628,  died  January  12,  1713;  John, 
died  October  3,  1716;  Samuel,  mentioned  be- 
low; Joseph,  June  10,  1637;  Elizabeth,  died 
February  26,  1726;  Mary. 

(H)  Samuel,  fourth  son  of  Matthew  and 
Elizabeth  Pratt,  was  born  about  1633  in  Wey- 
mouth, and  died  there  in  1678.  Like  his 
brothers  he  was  a  town  officer  and  large  land- 
holder, his  estate  being  valued  at  two  hundred 
and  seventy-five  pounds,  twelve  shillings.  He 
married,  July  19,  1660,  Hannah  Rogers,  who 
died  October  16,  171 5.  No  record  of  her  birth 
or  parentage  has  been  discovered.  Children : 
I.  Judith,  born  July  25,  1661.  2.  John,  August 
17,  1663,  died  February  8,  1744.  3.  Hannah, 
December  21,  1665.  4.  Mary,  March  3,  1668, 
married  William  Dyer.  5.  Samuel,  mentioned 
below.  6.  Experience,  January  8,  1672.  7. 
Ebenezer,  1674. 

(HI)  Samuel  (2),  second  son  of  Samuel 
(i)  and  Hannah  (Rogers)  Pratt,  was  born 
November  15,  1670,  in  Weymouth,  and  settled 
in  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  about  1696.  The 
destruction  by  fire  of  the  records  of  that  town 
have  made  very  difficult  the  discovery  of  facts 
concerning  this  and  hundreds  of  other  fam- 
ilies. He  had  early  land  grants  in  Taunton, 
and  subsequent  grants  in  that  portion  of  the 
town  which  is  now  Norton,  and  left  a  large 
estate.  His  will,  made  July  31,  1728,  dis- 
poses of  property  worth  about  three  hundred 
pounds.  His  wife  Patience  was  born  about 
1675  and  died  January  8,  1735.  Children: 
Judith,  born  November  23,  1695,  recorded  in 
Weymouth  ;  Samuel ;  Josiah  ;  Jonathan  ;  Ben- 
jamin, born  1705  ;  Paul ;  Hannah  ;  Peter,  171 1  ; 
Patience,  married  Moses  Knapp,  January  2, 
1734- 

(IV)  Josiah,  probably  tiie  second  son  of 
Samuel  (z)  and  Patience  Pratt,  born  about 
1700,  resided  in  Norton,  where  his  will  was 
made  in  1745.  He  presumably  died  about  that 
time.  He  married  (first),  November  22, 
1716,  Sarah  Jones,  who  died  March  2,  1724, 
and  he  married  (second),  May  20,  1725,  Tabi- 
tha  Smith,  of  Norton.  She  survived  him  many 
years,  dying  January  16.  1772.  Children  of 
first  wife:  Josiah,  born  February  14,  1719; 
Neome,  March  18,  1721  ;  Nehemiah,  mentioned 
below.  Children  of  second  wife :  Judah,  born 
July  30,  1727;  Zephaniah,  July  5,  1729;  Sam- 
uel, July  23,  1731  ;  Sarah.  February  22,  1736; 


Mercy,  February  13,  1738;  Charity,  November 
18,  1742;  John,  June  19,  1744. 

(V)  Nehemiah,  second  son  of  Josiah  and 
Sarah  (Jones)  Pratt,  was  born  February  9, 
1723,  in  Norton,  where  he  made  his  home.  He 
married  there,  June  28,  1748,  Abigail  New- 
land,  born  November  12,  1730,  daughter  of 
Josiah  and  Abigail  (Grover)  Newland.  Chil- 
dren: Nehemiah,  born  April  11,  1749;  David, 
March  8,  1751 ;  Naomi,  February,  1753;  Abiel, 
mentioned  below;  Anne,  August  18,  1757; 
Mary,  November  28,  1759;  Daniel,  June  15, 
1765- 

(VI)  Abiah  or  Abiel,  third  son  of  Nehe- 
miah and  Abigail  (Newland)  Pratt  (some- 
times mistakenly  written  Abigail),  was  born 
May  4,  1755,  in  Norton,  and  resided  in  Med- 
way,  Massachusetts,  in  early  life.  He  was  a 
soldier  of  the  revolution,  and  was  credited  to 
Wrentham  and  Medway ;  served  at  the  siege  of 
Boston  from  April,  1775,  to  December  31,  of 
the  same  year.  His  intention  of  marriage 
to  Grace  Metcalf  was  published  in  Bellingham, 
Massachusetts,  November  23,  1777,  and  the 
marriage  took  place  in  Medway,  January  29, 
following.  She  was  born  June  14,  1749,  in 
Bellingham,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Met- 
calf, of  that  town.  Before  1781,  they  settled 
in  Chesterfield,  New  Hampshire,  where  Abiel 
died  in  1788.  Three  children  are  recorded  in 
that  town:  Nancy,  born  June  16,  1781 ;  died 
unmarried  in  Chesterfield.  1848;  John,  men- 
tioned below;  Abiel,  February  15,  1785,  was 
killed  by  accident  in  1822. 

(VII)  John,  elder  son  of  Abiel  and  Grace 
(Metcalf)  Pratt,  was  born  January  18,  1783, 
in  Chesterfield,  and  settled  in  Ulster  county. 
New  York,  in  1814,  removing  thence  to  Check- 
erberry  Green  on  the  Lamoile  river  in  Ver- 
mont. Seven  years  later  he  returned  to  Ulster 
county,  and  settled  on  a  farm  in  what  was  then 
the  town  of  New  Paltz,  about  two  miles  south 
of  Highland,  where  he  died  October  26,  1856. 
In  early  years  he  was  a  Whig,  but  in  later  life 
affiliated  with  the  Democratic  party.  His  wife, 
Phila  Church,  was  born  February  4,  1785,  in 
New  Hampshire.  Children:  Alden  J.,  men- 
tioned below:  Betsy  Alvira,  born  March  i, 
181 1  ;  Fanny,  November  18,  1813;  married 
Luther  Deyo ;  Nancy,  September  26,  1817, 
married  Edwin  Cornell ;  Charles,  July  17,  1820, 
is  now  living  at  Highland,  New  York;  John, 
October  27,  1826,  is  now  deceased. 

(VIII)  Alden  J.,  eldest   son  of  John   and 


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Phila  (Church)  Pratt,  was  born  September 
9,  1808,  in  Chesterfield,  and  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools  in  early  boyhood.  After  the 
permanent  settlement  of  the  family  in  Ulster 
county,  he  was  for  some  time  a  student  at 
New  Paltz  academy.  After  leaving  school,  he 
taught  school  in  the  vicinity  for  eight  years. 
He  then  purchased  a  farm  north  of  Ohioville, 
which  he  cultivated  for  three  years  and  then 
sold,  after  which  he  purchased  what  was 
known  as  the  Lake  Place,  a  farm  of  ninety- 
three  acres,  on  which  he  lived  twenty  years. 
Disposing  of  this  property,  he  purchased  a 
fruit  farm  of  sixteen  acres  on  which  he  lived 
until  his  death.  He  married  Derenda  Ran- 
som. Children  :  Mary  Louise  ;  George  Wash- 
ington ;  Helen  Ermina  (married  John  Har- 
court)  ;  Caroline;  Louise  Josephine  (married 
Albert  P.  Ford)  ;  Alice  M. ;  John  L. ;  and 
Harriet  P. 

(IX)  George  Washington,  son  of  Alden  J. 
and  Derenda  ( Ransom )  Pratt,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 22,  1840,  in  the  town  of  Lloyd,  former- 
ly New  Paltz,  and  grew  up  on  his  father's 
farm,  attending  the  district  schools  in  boyhood 
and  youth.  For  two  years  he  was  a  student  at 
Fort  Plain  Academy,  and  two  years  at  Clave- 
rack  Institute.  On  attaining  his  majority,  Mr. 
Pratt  engaged  in  the  flour  milling  business  with 
Philip  Le  Roy.  and  at  the  end  of  one  year  pur- 
chased the  interest  of  his  partner.  For  many 
years  he  successfully  conducted  operations, 
and  in  1889,  in  partnership  with  his  son,  Har- 
court  Pratt,  he  began  the  manufacture  of  fruit 
packages,  and  also  dealt  in  coal,  lumber  and 
grain,  building  up  the  largest  business  of  its 
kind  in  the  neighborhood. 

Mr.  Pratt  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  and  of  the  Masonic  Lodge  at  Highland, 
New  York,  of  which  he  is  a  trustee.  Political- 
ly he  is  a  staunch  Republican,  and  served  fif- 
teen years  as  a  member  of  the  county  central 
committee.  He  has  acted  as  town  trustee  and 
in  1872-3  was  town  supervisor.  He  is  presi- 
dent of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Highland, 
New  York.  He  married,  December  21,  1865. 
Adelaide  Harcourt,  born  May  10,  1845,  died 
October  g,  1909,  daughter  of  Matthew  T.  and 
Sarah  (Deyo)  Harcourt.  Children  :  Harcourt 
J.,  mentioned  below ;  Jennie  C,  wife  of  Homer 
Howgate :  Alden  J.,  deceased ;  and  Bessie,  who 
married  Lieutenant  Homer  Ray  Oldfield,  U.  S. 
A.,  now  Professor  of  Mathematics  at  West 
Point. 


(X)  Harcourt  J.,  eldest  child  of  George  W. 
and  Adelaide  (Harcourt)  Pratt,  was  born  Oc- 
tober 22,  1866,  in  Lloyd  township,  and  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools  and  Claverack 
Institute.  When  seventeen  years  old  he  was 
appointed  a  page  in  the  state  assembly,  and 
one  year  later  became  clerk's  messenger  in  the 
state  senate,  filling  that  position  for  six  years. 
In  1886  he  embarked  in  the  manufacture  of 
fruit  packages  and  three  years  later  became  a 
partner  with  his  father  in  the  conduct  of  that 
business,  and  also  a  general  coal,  lumber,  and 
grain  trade,  the  firm  being  known  as  George 
W.  Pratt  &  Son.  In  1895  he  was  elected  town 
supervisor  and  re-elected  in  1896.  In  the  latter 
year  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  assembly 
on  the  Republican  ticket  from  the  second  Ul- 
ster district.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Captain  J.  D.  B.  Hasbrouck,  of  Humeston, 
Iowa.  Children :  George  W.,  born  December 
4,  1891.  married  Florence  Deyo,  October  8, 
1913;  Augusta,  born  December  15.  1895;  J^"" 
nie.  born  July  15,  1897;  and  Rowena.  born 
December  8,  19 13. 


This  name  is  German  in  origin,' 
FINGER  and  it  is  quite  possible  that  in 
'  its  original  meaning  it  was  a 
nickname  or  sobriquet  of  some  kind,  given  as 
a  result  of  some  accident  in  which  a  finger  had 
part,  for  the  German  and  the  English  word 
are  alike  in  meaning.  An  objection  to  this 
derivation  is  found  in  the  fact  that  the  name  is 
found  in  several  difi^erent  forms,  and  com- 
pounded with  other  terms  which  seem  to  in- 
dicate a  local  origin.  Some  of  these  forms  are 
Fingar,  Fenger,  and  V'ingar,  while  the  com- 
pound includes  Fingerling.  Fengerling.  Fin- 
gerhuth.  Fengerhuth,  and  so  on.  The  name 
is  not  very  widespread  in  America,  though  it 
is  prevalent  in  both  Germany  and  Holland.  It 
seems  first  to  have  become  known  in  this 
country  in  the  very  early  part  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  when  in  or  about  the  year  1710  Jo- 
hannes Finger  or  Vingar  came  from  Germany 
and  was  one  of  the  Palatine  colony  that  settled 
in  New  York  at  that  time,  his  descendants  now 
dwelling  for  the  most  part  in  Germantown, 
New  York,  or  having  affiliations  with  that  dis- 
trict. About  the  same  time  Michael  Finger, 
who  was  born  in  Germany,  and  married  Mary 
or  Margaret  Mosher,  came  to  America  and  set- 
tled at  Copake.  Columbia  county,  in  the  state 
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were  others  of  the  name,  but  these  in  their 
after  connections  appear  among  the  more  im- 
portant. Whether  the  family  here  under  con- 
sideration were  affihated  in  any  way  with  the 
famihes  of  the  immigrants  mentioned,  it  has 
not  been  possible  satisfactorily  to  ascertain. 
A  connection  of  some  kind  seems  likely,  which 
if  not  consummated  on  American  soil,  may 
date  from  some  period,  near  or  remote,  in  the 
Fatherland.  All  these  families  have  been 
mainly  situated  in  New  York  state  from  the 
time  of  their  landing,  and  many  of  their  mem- 
bers have  arisen  to  prominence  in  various  com- 
mercial and  professional  fields. 

(I)  Adam  Finger,  immigrant  ancestor  of 
this  Finger  family,  was  born  in  1793,  died  at 
Saugerties,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  April 
II,  1871.  He  passed  the  better  part  of  his  life 
in  Ulster  county,  where  he  was  a  farmer.  Dur- 
ing his  earlier  years  he  lived  in  Dutchess  coun- 
ty, in  what  is  now  the  town  of  Red  Hook, 
whence  about  1826  he  moved  to  Ulster  county, 
and  purchased  a  farm  at  what  is  now  the 
northern  part  of  the  village  of  Saugerties, 
whereon  the  rest  of  his  days  were  passed  in 
agricultural  pursuits.  He  was  a  leading 
farmer  in  his  section  of  the  county,  a  Demo- 
crat in  politics,  and  a  promient  member  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  of  Saugerties.  He 
married  Jane,  daughter  of  Conrad  Lasher. 
Children:  John  Nelson;  Conrad  B.  Lansing; 
Henry  L.,  mentioned  below;  Bryan;  Maria, 
married  Rev.  Nathan  H.  Cornell ;  Amanda, 
who  married  Daniel  Hitchcock  ;  Robert ;  Sarah 
B.,  who  married  Virgil  Staats  of  Dutchess 
county ;  Adam,  who  died  during  the  civil  war ; 
Gilbert ;  Jeremiah ;  Eliza,  married  David  B. 
Castice,  of  Saugerties ;  and  Daniel. 

(II)  Henry  L.,  son  of  Adam  and  Jane 
(Lasher)  Finger,  received  his  education  partly 
in  Dutchess  county,  and  partly  in  Ulster  coun- 
ty, mainly  at  Saugerties,  where  he  was  born, 
his  advantages  in  this  respect  being  somewhat 
limited  however.  After  leaving  school  at  the 
age  of  thirteen  he  went  to  work  in  the  store  of 
Joseph  H.  Fields,  in  Saugerties,  with  whom  he 
remained  five  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time, 
he  accepted  a  similar  position  in  the  store  of 
Elias  Woodruff  in  the  same  village,  which  in- 
cumbency he  held  three  years.  He  then  in 
1846  embarked  in  a  grocery  business  at  Saug- 
erties, in  partnership  with  Joseph  Kerr,  who 
later  went  to  Kansas  during  the  Kansas-Ne- 
braska troubles.     In  1847  he  bought  out  his 


partner's  interest  and  continued  the  business 
alone  (together  with  the  manufacture  of 
candles)  until  1853,  during  part  of  which  time 
he  had  as  a  partner  William  J.  Snyder,  to 
whom  in  that  year  he  sold  out,  at  the  same 
time  buying  a  half  interest  in  the  hat  and  cap, 
boot  and  shoe  business  of  John  W.  Davis,  on 
the  corner  where  is  now  located  the  Davis 
clothing  and  shoe  store  in  Saugerties.  During 
part  of  the  time,  about  a  period  of  one  year, 
he  owned  the  whole  concern,  owing  to  the  re- 
tirement of  Mr.  Davis,  and  had  in  his  employ 
over  fifteen  hands,  manufacturing  boots  and 
shoes  extensively.  In  1856  Captain  Finger  sold 
out  his  entire  interest  in  the  business  to  J.  W. 
Davis  and  Oziah  Cooper  and  bought  the  sloop 
"Livingston,"  which  remained  in  the  freight 
business,  running  between  Saugerties  and  New 
York,  until  1864.  In  the  same  year  he  bought 
of  T.  J.  Barrett  the  ferry  boat  "Air  Line," 
plying  between  Saugerties  and  Tivoli,  and 
about  the  same  time,  together  with  J.  H.  Van 
Keuren,  purchased  the  foundry  on  Livingston 
street,  Saugerties.  In  1874  he  took  over  Mr. 
Van  Keuren's  interest,  and  along  with  his  son, 
Howard,  operated  the  foundry  under  the  firm 
name  of  H.  L.  Finger  &  Son.  In  1868  Cap- 
tain Finger  became  interested  in  the  propeller, 
"Eagle,"  along  with  his  brother-in-law,  Wil- 
liam J.  Snyder,  and  two  years  later  bought  the 
propeller,  "Leader,"  his  personal  attention 
being  given  chiefly  to  the  propellers,  his  son. 
Howard,  attending  to  the  factory  or  foundry. 
At  this  time  he  was  doing  all  the  towing  busi- 
ness on  the  Esopus  creek  at  Saugerties.  In 
1872  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  and  coal  busi- 
ness, where  Finger  &  Lewis  have  succeeded 
him,  which  business  has  seen  various  changes 
in  firm  styles,  first  Finger  Brothers  (Henry 
L ,  Robert,  Bryan,  and  Daniel  at  various 
times),  finally  in  1884,  Finger  &  Lewis,  Henry 
L.  Finger  selling  out  to  Mr.  Lewis.  In  1884, 
along  with  Wellington  Porter,  Mr.  Finger  pur- 
chased the  "Ansonia,"  (in  1886  buying  the 
latter's  interest),  which  he  ran  on  the  river 
until  1888,  in  that  year  selling  her.  In  1888 
he.  with  Robert  A.  Snyder,  purchased  the  dock 
property  of  the  estate  of  William  R.  Renwick, 
also  the  steamer  "Saugerties,"  of  the  Old 
Dominion  Steamship  Company  of  New  York, 
and  in  1889  organized  the  Saugerties  and  New 
York  Steamboat  Company,  the  stockholders 
being  Henry  L.  Finger.  Robert  A.  Snyder, 
Maxwell  Brothers  and  Seamon  Brothers.     In 


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the  spring  of  1891  they  bought  the  steamer 
"Ansonia,"  already  mentioned,  took  her  to 
pieces  and  built  the  steamer  "Ulster,"'  the  com- 
pany thereby  having  a  couple  of  fine  freight 
and  passenger  boats,  Mr.  Finger  being  captain 
of  the  "Saugerties"  up  to  1895,  and  after  1889 
general  manager  of  the  line.  In  all  the  various 
enterprises  in  which  Captain  Finger  was  more 
or  less  identified  and  interested  he  met  with 
rare  success,  due  in  the  main  to  his  keen  judg- 
ment, innate  shrewdness,  and  indomitable  per- 
severance. In  his  political  preferences  Mr. 
Finger  was  originally  a  Whig,  and  was  a  Re- 
publican after  the  formation  of  that  party,  but 
he  never  took  any  active  part  in  politics.  In  an 
early  day  he  was  clerk  of  the  town  of  Sauger- 
ties, and  by  appointment  served  as  its  super- 
visor. He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  and  for  several  years  one 
of  its  trustees ;  a  director  of  the  First  National 
Bank,  and  for  several  years  was  affiliated  with 
the  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  as  a  member 
of  Ulster  Lodge,  No.  193.  Captain  Finger 
filled  a  well  rounded  business  life,  during 
which  he  honorably  achieved  the  well  merited 
confidence  and  respect  which  he  enjoyed.  He 
married,  in  1849,  Anne  Christina,  daughter  of 
Captain  Henry  Snyder.  Children  :  Howard  ; 
Edson,  superintendent  of  the  blank  book  de- 
partment of  the  Saugerties  Manufacturing 
Company;  Alice;  George  G.,  died  young;  Wil- 
liam L.,  captain  of  the  steamer  "Saugerties :" 
Daniel  M.,  agent  for  the  steamboat  line  at 
Saugerties;  Henrietta,  married  Benjamin  F. 
Fellows,  of  Saugerties ;  J.  Gilbert,  mentioned 
below. 

(Ill)  J.  Gilbert,  son  of  Henry  L.  and  Anne 
Christina  (Snyder)  Finger,  was  born  at  Saug- 
erties, Ulster  county,  New  York,  July  7.  1864. 
He  was  educated  in  the  Saugerties  schools  and 
connected  with  his  father  in  the  steamboat 
business  for  years.  Later  he  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile pursuits  of  various  kinds,  but  is  now 
retired.  He  married,  July  15,  1885,  Ada, 
daughter  of  John  Sutton,  mentioned  below. 
There  is  one  (adopted)  daughter,  Mildred. 

John  Sutton,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Ada  (Sut- 
ton) Finger,  wife  of  Mr.  J.  Gilbert  Finger, 
mentioned  above,  was  born  at  Plattekill.  L'l- 
ster  county,  New  York,  in  1833,  died  June, 
1898,  at  Coeymans,  Albany  county.  New  York. 
Mr.  Sutton  was  educated  in  the  country 
schools  of  his  native  town,  and  learned  the 
brick  maker's  trade,  and  eventually  engaged  in 


the  manufacture  of  brick.  His  connection  with 
this  industry  continued  until  the  close  of  the 
civil  war,  or  about  that  time,  when  he  sold  out, 
purchased  a  farm,  and  engaged  in  several  in- 
terests connected  with  the  cultivation  of  the 
land,  and  agriculture  in  general.  He  followed 
this  occupation  for  about  twenty  years,  and 
then  in  1886  or  1885  he  settled  in  Coeymans, 
New  York,  and  again  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  brick.  He  was  a  strict  churchman, 
and  a  trustee  and  steward  of  the  Glasco  Meth- 
odist Church,  for  a  number  of  years.  He  was 
a  layman  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church 
and  licensed  to  preach.  He  also  assisted  in 
revival  services  in  his  neighborhood.  He  was 
a  Prohibitionist,  and  intensely  interested  in  the 
cause  of  temperance,  a  man  of  high  character, 
and  a  thorough  Christian.  He  married 
Phoebe,  born  in  1835,  died  in  1893,  daughter 
of  Jefiferson  Halstead,  of  Plattekill.  Children : 
Alice,  married  C.  F.  Suderly ;  Isdora,  mar- 
ried Louis  Vrooman ;  John,  married  Jeanette 
Seaman ;  Ada,  mentioned  above,  married  J. 
Gilbert  Finger;  Ella,  married  J.  L.  Bishop; 
Fannie,  married  J.  L.  Bishop. 


The  derivation  of  the 
MONTGOMERY     name  Montgomery  can 

be  but  a  matter  of  con- 
jecture. It  is  suggested,  however,  by  one 
writer  that  it  may  be  a  corruption  of  the  Latin 
Mons  Gomeris,  meaning  Gomer's  Mount. 
Gomer,  the  son  of  Japhet,  being  the  hereditary 
name  of  the  Gauls,  there  was  more  than  one 
locality  in  Europe  bearing  this  designation. 
The  spelling  of  the  name  has  been  various, 
Montgomerie  and  Mundegumbrie  were  the 
forms  most  frequently  in  use  in  the  earlier 
generations,  but  later  Montgomerie  was  em- 
ployed altogether,  until  within  a  century,  when 
many  branches  of  the  family,  or  rather  many 
of  the  families  bearing  the  name,  substituted 
Montgomery  for  the  form  having  the  terminal 
of  "ie."  The  name  is  well  known  in  Britain, 
and  more  particularly  in  Ireland  where  it  is 
sometimes  an  Anglicized  approximation  or 
translation  of  Maol.geimridh  (  Mulgenery  ) ,  the 
appellation  of  chieftains  and  clans  of  Tir- 
Owen,  or  Tyrone,  who  possessed  two  terri- 
tories of  Cineal  Feraidaidh  (Anglicised  Far- 
ada,  or  Faraday)  in  the  east  of  Tyrone.  Sev- 
eral of  the  Montgomerys  of  the  British  Isles 
are  said  to  be  sprung  from  Count  d'Ermes,  or 
de    Hermes,    of    Normandv.    of    whom    were 


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Saint  Godegrand,  Bishop  of  Siezand,  and 
Sainte  Opportune,  his  sister,  living  in  the  time 
of  King  Pepin,  and  of  the  Emperor  Charle- 
magne in  760.  They  were  lords  of  France 
at  a  later  period.  When  William  the  Con- 
queror went  to  England,  Roger,  a  kinsman, 
was  with  him.  and  at  the  defeat  of  the  Eng- 
lish at  Hastings,  led  the  Norman  van.  Philip 
Montgomeiy  settled  in  Scotland  in  the  time  of 
Henry  I.  of  England.  John  Montgomery 
fought  at  Otterbourns,  1388,  and  took  Percy 
prisoner.  He  married  Elizabeth,  a  descendant 
of  Eglin,  lord  of  Eglinton.  Eglinton  was  a 
lordship  and  castle  in  the  county  of  Ayr,  Scot- 
land, whence  its  owner  assumed  a  title  name  in 
the  reign  of  the  Gaelic  King  Malcolm.  Eglin, 
lord  of  Eglinton,  had  Bryce,  and  he  a  son 
Hugh,  who  married  Giles,  daughter  of  Walter, 
the  justician,  and  sister  of  Robert  HI., 
descended  through  Margaret,  wife  of  Mal- 
colm HI.  From  Egbert,  a  son,  came  Elizabeth, 
wife  of  John  Montgomery.  This  marriage 
united  the  families  of  Montgomery  and  Eglin- 
ton. The  arms  borne  by  some  of  the  Irish 
Montgomerys,  who  follow  the  tinctures  borne 
by  the  Earls  of  Eglinton  of  the  present  are: 
First  and  fourth,  azure,  three  fleurs-de-lis,  or, 
for  Montgomery ;  second  and  third  gules,  three 
amulets,  gemmed  azure  for  Eglinton.  These 
arms  were  borne  by  General  Richard  Mont- 
gomery. The  motto  is :  Honneur  sans  repos. 
John  and  Elizabeth  Montgomery  had  Sir  John, 
whose  son  Alexander  was  the  first  baron,  and 
in  1449  was  made  Lord  Montgomerie.  Alex- 
ander, master  of  Montgomerie,  had  a  son 
Alexander,  who  became  the  second  baron.  His 
son  Hugh  was  the  third  baron  and  the  first 
earl  of  Eglinton  created  in  1507;  married 
Helen,  daughter  of  Colin,  Earl  of  Argyle.  He 
died  in  1547. 

Hugh,  the  second  earl,  married  Marrietta 
Seton.  Hugh,  the  third  earl,  fought  for  Queen 
Mary  at  Langside  in  1568.  Hugh,  the  fourth 
earl,  had  a  sister  Margaret,  who  married  the 
first  earl  of  Winton.  Hugh,  the  fifth  earl, 
married,  but  had  no  issue ;  obtaining  royal 
permission  to  will  his  honors  to  the  three 
youngest  sons  of  his  aunt,  Margaret,  wife  of 
the  Earl  of  Winton.  The  sixth  earl,  Alex- 
ander Seaton  (nicknamed  "Gransteel"), 
fought  for  parliament  at  Marston  Moor,  but 
afterwards  sided  with  the  king.  He  died  in 
1661.  The  seventh  earl,  Hugh,  a  royalist. 
fought  with  the  king  at  Marston  Moor,  and 


against  his  father.  He  had  a  younger  brother, 
James,  of  Coylesfield,  whose  grandson,  Alex- 
ander, became  the  twelfth  earl.  The  eighth 
earl,  was  Alexander,  succeeded  by  his  son, 
Alexander,  the  ninth  earl.  His  son,  Alex- 
ander, the  tenth  earl,  was  slain  in  a  dispute. 
His  son,  Archibald,  the  next  earl,  had  no  sons 
and  the  title  reverted  to  Hugh,  the  grandson 
of  James,  of  Coylesfield,  who  became  the 
twelfth  earl.  His  son,  Archibald,  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Archibald,  the  eleventh  earl 
of  Eglinton,  his  cousin,  and  became  the  thir- 
teenth earl  of  Eglinton,  and  was  created  earl 
of  Winton.  The  fourteenth  earl,  Archibald 
William,  served  in  parliament  as  the  earl  of 
Winton. 

Alexander  Montgomery,  of  Hazelhead,  Ayr- 
shire. Scotland,  was  one  of  the  first  of  this 
particular  family  to  settle  in  Ireland.  He  was 
prebendary  of  Doe,  county  Donegal,  but  later 
became  a  soldier  and  commissioned  officer.  He 
had  sons,  John  and  William.  John  married 
and  had  a  daughter  Margaret,  who  married 
the  Rev.  George  Leslie  and  had  a  son,  John 
(2). 

John  (2),  by  a  first  wife,  had  Colonel  Alex- 
ander of  Convoy,  county  Donegal,  and  Bally- 
connell,  county  Cavan ;  died  {s.  p.)  1729,  hav- 
ing devised  his  Donegal  estates  to  his  cousin, 
Alexander  Montgomery,  of  Convoy.  John 
(2),  by  a  second  wife,  had  a  son  John  (3). 

John  (3)  had  three  sons:  John,  whose  male 
line  became  extinct ;  Alexander,  died  1722,  and 
Robert,  of  Anared,  the  ancestor  of  the  Mont- 
gomerys, of  Bessmount,  county  Donegal. 

Alexander,  son  of  John  (3),  had  sons: 
Thomas,  member  of  parliament  for  Lifford ; 
was  disinherited  for  marrying  without  con- 
sent, Mary  Franklin.  One  of  his  sons,  Rich- 
ard, born  near  Swords,  Ireland,  December  2, 
1736,  came  to  America,  1772,  joined  the  Amer- 
ican army,  was  commissioned  general  and  was 
killed  at  the  seizure  of  Quebec,  December  21, 
1775;  married,  August  4,  1773,  Janet,  the 
daughter  of  Robert  Livingston,  lord  of  Liv- 
ingston Manor,  Columbia  county,  New  York. 
A  brother  of  General  Richard  Montgomery, 
Alexander  John,  was  captain  in  the  army,  and 
for  thirty-two  years  member  of  Parliament 
from  county  Donegal.  He  inherited  the  Con- 
voy estates  of  his  cousin,  Alexander  Mont- 
gomery, great-grandfather  of  the  wife  of  Dr. 
Scott.  Alexander,  son  of  John  (3)  had  other 
sons:  John   (4),  mentioned  below;  Matthew, 


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and  Robert,  of  Brandium,  county  Monaghan. 
John  (4)  Montgomery  was  of  county  Mona- 
ghan, where  he  died  in  1732.  Alexander,  son 
of  John  (4)  Montgomery,  married  (first) 
Catherine,  daughter  of  Colonel  Hugh  Mont- 
gomery, of  Willoughby,  last  heir  in  entail  to 
the  honors  of  the  earls  of  Mount  Alexander. 
He  married  (second)  Eleonora,  daughter  of 
Acheson  Moore,  Esq.,  of  Garvey,  county  Ty- 
rone. His  son,  Nathaniel,  by  this  marriage 
assumed  in  right  of  his  mother  the  surname 
and  arms  of  Moore;  he  died  1834.  By  his 
first  marriage  Alexander  had  sons :  John,  of 
county  Monaghan,  member  of  militia  and 
member  of  parliament  from  Monaghan,  died 
(s.  p.)  in  1795;  Hugh,  colonel  of  the  Madras 
army,  died  1795,  leaving  a  daughter;  Rev. 
Rubert,  of  Beaulieu,  died  in  1825,  leaving  a 
son,  the  Rev.  Alexander  Montgomery  of 
Beaulieu,  whose  son,  Richard  Thomas  Mont- 
gomery, his  heir,  is  now  of  the  Beaulieu  seat, 
near  Drogheda,  Ireland. 

(I)  John  Montgomery,  representative  of 
the  American  branch  of  the  family,  came  to 
the  American  colonies  with  a  brother,  Alex- 
ander, and  another  relative,  Robert,  about 
1750.  He  settled  in  Connecticut,  where  Alex- 
ander married  Sarah,  the  daughter  of  Gers- 
hom  Lockwood,  who  willed  them  property. 
During  the  revolution  the  brothers  appear  to 
have  lived  in  New  York  City,  later  living  in 
Connecticut,  and  from  there  going  to  Dela- 
ware county.  New  York.  The  cousin.  Robert, 
was  for  a  time  in  Vermont,  coming  from  there 
to  live  at  Salem.  Washington  county.  New 
York,  where  he  died,  some  of  his  sons  later 
settling  at  Roxbury,  Delaware  county.  Alex- 
ander, with  his  son  Hugh,  and  William  Still- 
well,  went  into  the  Big  Sandy  region  and  final- 
ly settled  in  Jefferson  county.  New  York,  at 
Ellisburg.  John  made  his  home  in  Delaware 
county. 

(H)  Thomas,  son  of  John  Montgomery, 
lived  most  of  his  early  life  at  Roxbury,  Dela- 
ware county,  New  York,  where  he  attended 
the  district  schools  and  grew  to  manhood. 
From  Roxbury  he  went  to  Stamford,  Dela- 
ware county.  New  York,  where  he  conducted 
the  old  Stage  House,  and  later  in  life  he  set- 
tled at  Prattsville,  Greene  county,  where  he 
passed  the  remainder  of  his  days.  He  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Beers.  Children:  Thomas  E., 
mentioned  below;  Henry  B.,  Amelia,  and 
Mary. 


(HI)  Thomas  E.,  son  of  Thomas  Mont- 
gomery, was  born  at  Roxbury,  Delaware 
county.  New  York,  March  26,  1816,  died 
at  Prattsville,  Greene  county.  New  York, 
August  15,  1885.  He  became  a  physician 
and  practiced  in  that  profession,  having 
early  in  life  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  N.  T. 
Cowles,  of  Durham,  Greene  county,  and 
graduated  from  the  Medical  School  at  Ge- 
neva, New  York.  He  did  not,  however, 
confine  himself  solely  to  his  profession,  for 
shortly  after  his  marriage  he  purchased  a 
farm  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  acres  in  Big 
Hollow,  Greene  county,  and  engaged  to  some 
extent  in  agricultural  pursuits.  Later  he  gave 
up  farming  and  practiced  in  the  towns  of 
Saugerties,  Palenville  and  Woodstock,  where 
he  died.  He  married,  in  November,  1847,  Jean 
McGlashen,  who  was  born  in  1828,  at  Perth, 
Scotland,  and  died  at  Flatbush,  in  1904.  Chil- 
dren :  Charles  T.,  mentioned  below ;  Mary  A., 
married  Charles  Streeter ;  Helen  A.,  married 
J.  W.  Burhans. 

(IV)  Dr.  Charles  T.  Montgomery,  son  of 
Thomas  E.  and  Jean  (McGlashen)  Montgom- 
ery, was  born  at  Big  Hollow,  Greene  county. 
New  York,  February  17,  1849.  He  is  a  phy- 
sician by  profession.  Dr.  Montgomery  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  and  at  Pratts- 
ville. He  studied  medicine  with  his  father, 
and  graduated  from  Albany  Medical  College 
in  1874.  Following  his  graduation  he  began 
to  practice  in  the  Albany  Hospital,  and  after 
a  short  time  transferred  his  activities  to  Glas- 
co.  New  York,  where  he  practiced  from  1875 
to  1900.  He  then  went  to  Saugerties.  where 
he  now  resides  and  practices  his  profession, 
being  generally  acclaimed  as  one  of  the  leading 
practitioners  of  the  Hudson  Valley.  Dr.  Mont- 
gomery is  a  Mason,  and  a  member  of  Sauger- 
ties Club.  He  married  Margaret  M.  Maginnis, 
born  1849,  died  August  13,  1909. 


This  family  is  of  ancient 
SIMMONS  English  ancestry  dating  back 
to  the  time  of  William  the 
Conqueror.  The  name  is  variously  spelled 
Simons,  Simonds,  Symonds  and  Simmons.  The 
family  at  an  early  date  appeared  in  Massachu- 
setts and  other  colonies  in  New  England. 

(I)  The  first  of  the  family  to  immigrate  to 
America  was  John  Simmons,  born  in  Deep- 
field,  Straffordshire,  England,  May  22.  1799. 


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His  father  was  a  prominent  ironworker  and 
for  many  years  manager  of  the  High  Field 
Iron  Works  near  Bilston  in  Straffordshire. 
John,  at  an  early  age.  learned  the  trade  of  his 
father,  and  was  employed  in  his  iron  works 
until  1828,  when  he  immigrated  to  America, 
locating  first  in  New  York  City,  where  he 
found  employment  at  his  trade.  Soon  after 
arriving  in  New  York  he  made  the  acquain- 
tance of  Henry  Carey  and  William  Young, 
who,  with  a  few  other  parties,  were  interested 
in  the  iron  plant  of  Henry  Barclay  in  Sauger- 
ties.  New  York,  then  known  as  the  Ulster  Iron 
Company.  Mr.  Simmons  accompanied  these 
gentlemen  to  Saugerties,  where  on  April  18, 
1828,  he  entered  into  a  contract  with  the  com- 
pany to  become  its  manager,  which  position  he 
retained  until  the  spring  of  1842.  Mr.  Sim- 
mons, through  his  executive  ability  and 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  iron  industry, 
greatly  increased  the  business  of  the  company 
and  placed  its  affairs  on  a  paying  basis.  He 
made  many  reforms  in  the  management  of  the 
company,  one  of  the  most  important  being  the 
enforcement  of  a  regular  pay  day  for  the  em- 
ployees of  the  company.  At  that  time  the  pay- 
ment of  help  at  the  various  manufacturing 
companies  of  the  country,  was  not  made  at 
any  regular  time ;  and  so  far  as  known,  Mr. 
Simmons  was  one  of  the  first  in  America  to 
thus  recognize  the  necessities  of  employees. 
In  the  spring  of  1842  he  accepted  the  manage- 
ment of  an  iron  manufacturing  business  at 
Frostburg,  Maryland,  where  he  erected  a  plant 
after  his  own  design,  which  at  that  time  was 
the  most  complete  in  the  country.  Here  he 
remained  for  two  years,  and  during  this  time 
received  several  tempting  offers  to  resume  his 
former  position  as  manager  of  the  Iron  Works 
in  Saugerties.  In  1844  he  finally  accepted  the 
offer  of  the  company  and  returned  to  Sauger- 
ties, wherein  he  continued  the  active  manage- 
ment until  i860,  when  he  retired.  His  brother, 
Edward,  and  his  son,  Ovid  T.,  continued  the 
business  until  July  i,  1863,  when  the  connec- 
tion of  the  family  with  the  iron  works  ceased. 
Mr.  Simmons  possessed  great  inventive  genius, 
and  to  his  investigations  and  practical  im- 
provements, the  iron  manufacturers  of  the 
country  owe  much.  He  was  a  man  of  large 
stature,  and  was  distinguished  for  his  honesty 
and  uprightness  of  character.  He  took  a  deep 
interest  in  the  affairs  of  his  community,  and 
gave  generously  of  his  time  and  means  to  pro- 


mote all  measures  for  its  upbuilding.  His 
death  occurred  in  Saugerties,   New  York. 

Mr.  Simmons  married  (first)  in  183 1,  Mrs. 
Nancy  Minor  Dewey,  who  died  the  same  year. 
He  married  (second)  January  22,  1834,  Caro- 
line Campbell,  of  Southwick,  Massachusetts, 
daughter  of  Noble  and  Lucy  (Miller)  Camp- 
bell, and  great-granddaughter  of  Robert 
Campbell,  a  native  of  Scotland,  who  immi- 
grated to  America  and  settled  in  Southwick, 
Massachusetts,  about  1750.  Mrs.  Simmons 
died  March  31,  1878.  Five  children  were  born 
to  John  and  Caroline    (Campbell)    Simmons. 

(II)  Ovid  Topham,  son  of  John  and  Caro- 
line (Campbell)  Simmons,  was  born  in  Saug- 
erties, New  York,  May  i,  1835,  and  died  there 
December  16,  1897.  He  attended  the  schools 
of  his  native  town  until  he  was  nine  years  of 
age,  when  he  went  to  a  select  school  for  some 
time.  Subsequently  for  eighteen  months  he 
was  a  student  at  a  private  school  at  West 
Point.  He  then  attended  the  College  Hill 
School  at  Poughkeepsie  for  two  years.  The 
completion  of  his  education  was  received  at  the 
Polytechnic  School  at  Troy,  New  York.  In 
the  year  1852  he  went  to  New  York  City, 
where  for  one  year  he  was  employed  as  a 
clerk  in  an  attorney's  office.  He  then  returned 
to  Saugerties  and  became  an  accountant  in  the 
office  of  the  Ulster  Iron  Works,  of  which  com- 
pany his  father  was  manager.  In  1854  he  went 
to  Camden,  New  Jersey,  where  he  established 
a  steam  cooperage.  In  1856  his  plant  was 
burned,  and  returning  to  his  native  town,  he 
re-entered  the  employ  of  the  iron  works,  and 
acted  until  i860  as  his  father's  assistant,  thus 
relieving  him  largely  of  the  burden  of  the 
work.  With  his  uncle  Edward,  he  became  con- 
tractor for  the  iron  works  in  i860,  and  held 
the  position  until  July,  1863.  In  the  summer 
of  1863  Mr.  Simmons  purchased  the  "Rip  Van 
Winkle,"  and  engaged  in  the  shipping  business. 
The  following  winter  he  opened  a  line  from 
Albany  to  New  York  City  in  opposition  to  the 
"People's  Line"  of  Albany:  but  terms  were 
made  with  the  latter  company  under  which  the 
"Rip  Van  Winkle"  could  run  on  the  river, 
south  of  Castleton.  New  York.  In  1867  he 
placed  this  boat  in  the  excursion  trade,  carry- 
ing fishing  excursionists  from  New  York.  The 
"Rip  Van  Winkle"  was  the  first  large  boat 
used  on  the  river  exclusively  for  family  ex- 
cursions. In  1871  he  sold  this  steamboat  busi- 
ness to  Major  Cornell  and  retired  from  active 


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business.  He  was  connected  with  several  other 
business  enterprises,  serving  for  many  years 
as  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  and  the 
Saugerties  Savings  Bank.  Captain  Simmons 
was  a  Whig  in  politics  until  185 1,  when  he 
became  a  Democrat.  He  was  a  candidate  for 
the  general  assembly  in  1879  and  in  1880, 
against  General  Sharp,  the  Republican  nom- 
inee. He  was  also  for  two  years  president  of 
the  Board  of  Trade  of  Saugerties.  In  educa- 
tional matters  he  took  deep  interest  and  served 
for  two  years  as  president  of  the  board  of 
education.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
Lodge  and  held  many  offices  in  that  order. 

Captain  Simmons  married  (first)  Julia  Pel- 
letrau,  who  died  in  1865.  They  had  one  child, 
a  daughter,  who  died  at  the  age  of  thirteen 
months.  He  married  (second)  Eva  L. 
Schoonmaker,  daughter  of  Peter  P.  Schoon- 
maker  of  Saugerties.  Children:  i.  Emma 
Campbell,  born  February  6,  1881 ;  married 
Edward  A.  Sidman,  now  an  attorney  in 
Brooklyn,  New  York;  one  daughter,  Evelyn 
Ardelle  Sidman.  2.  Ovid,  born  December  2, 
1882,  died  suddenly  July  15,  1912.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Saugerties  high  school;  and 
for  several  years  previous  to  his  death  man- 
aged his  father's  estate.  He  resided  with  his 
mother  at  the  old  homestead,  where  he  lived 
a  quiet  and  retired  life,  devoting  his  time  out- 
side of  business  cares  to  the  enjoyments  of 
•his  library.  In  religion  he  was  a  member  of 
Trinity  Episcopal  Church  of  Saugerties.  He 
was  respected  and  esteemed  by  all  who  knew 
him. 


William  D.  Brinnier,  lawyer 
BRINNIER     and  ex-mayor  of  the  city  of 

Kingston,  New  York,  is  em- 
phatically a  man  of  the  people,  with  whom  he 
has  always  mingled  freely,  and  whose  inter- 
ests he  has  always  been  ready  to  maintain  and 
defend.  He  has  been  engaged  in  many  im- 
portant litigations,  and  has  been  largely  suc- 
cessful in  them.  His  clear  and  acute  mind  and 
remarkable  tenacity  of  purpose,  combined  with 
his  intense  devotion  to  the  interests  of  his 
clients,  have  made  him  a  most  efficient  advisor 
and  advocate.  His  family  has  long  been  an 
honored  one  in  Germany,  although  the  form 
of  the  name  would  lead  one  to  suppose  that 
the  earliest  members  came  from  France. 

John  M.  Brinnier,  father  of  the  man  whose 
name  heads  this  sketch,  was  a  native  of  Ger- 


many, which  he  left  at  the  early  age  of  sixteen 
years  in  order  to  make  his  home  in  the  United 
States.  He  decided  upon  Kingston,  New 
York,  as  a  place  of  residence,  and  there  mar- 
ried Letitia  Lundy,  a  native  of  Ireland,  who 
had  come  to  this  country  with  her  parents  and 
also  settled  in  Kingston. 

William  D.  Brinnier  was  born  in  Kingston, 
New  York,  January  4,  1859,  where  he  received 
his  early  education  in  the  common  schools  and 
at  the  Kingston  Academy.  Naturally  possessed 
of  the  power  of  reasoning  in  a  clear  and  cogent 
manner,  the  profession  of  law  had  always  had 
a  peculiar  fascination  for  him  and  he  com- 
menced the  study  of  it  in  July,  1877,  in  the 
office  of  D.  W.  Sparling,  remaining  with  this 
gentleman  and  studying  under  his  preceptor- 
ship  until  September,  1880,  when  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar.  He  at  once  established  him- 
self in  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession 
in  his  native  town,  and  was  successfully  en- 
gaged in  this  manner  until  1889,  when  he  be- 
came associated  with  A.  S.  Newcomb,  the  firm 
carrying  on  their  practice  under  the  name  of 
Brinnier  &  Newcomb.  At  the  end  of  ten  years 
there  was  a  dissolution  of  this  partnership  and 
the  firm  of  Brinnier  &  Searing  was  founded, 
and  continued  in  existence  until  1905,  at  which 
time  Mr.  Brinnier  had  again  decided  to  prac- 
tice independently.  The  extensive  practice 
which  has  engaged  his  attention  and  talents 
since  that  time  amply  testifies  to  the  wisdom 
of  this  decision.  The  judges  and  lawyers  be- 
fore whom  and  with  whom  he  has  been  called 
to  practice  speak  of  him  in  the  highest  terms. 
Prominent  in  political  circles,  Mr.  Brinnier 
has  been  honored  with  a  number  of  official 
preferments,  in  all  of  which  he  has  discharged 
the  duties  of  the  position  with  distinction  and 
ability.  He  was  appointed  on  the  Reservoir 
Commission  No.  5,  by  the  supreme  court,  and 
was  chosen  to  the  post  of  chairman  of  this 
body,  which  was  one  of  the  very  few  commis- 
sions from  whose  decisions  there  has  never 
been  any  appeal.  In  1884  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  common  council  of  Kingston, 
and  was  re-elected  five  times  in  succession.  In 
1896  he  had  the  honor  of  being  a  Democratic 
elector,  and  in  1897,  the  Democratic  party 
elected  him  mayor  of  Kingston,  in  what  was 
probably  the  most  hotly  contested  election  ever 
held  in  the  city.  Mr.  Brinnier  is  largely  inter- 
ested in  farming  and  owns  a  200-acre  well- 
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New  York,  and  a  plantation  in  the  Isle  of 
Pines,  West  Indies,  where  he  raises  pineapples 
and  grapefruit  in  large  quantities.  He  is  also 
greatly  interested  in  real  estate,  being  one  of 
the  largest  owners  of  real  estate  in  the  city  of 
Kingston.  Mr.  Brinnier  is  affiliated  with  a 
large  number  of  organizations  of  various 
kinds,  among  them  being:  The  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows ;  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks ;  Order  of  Moose ; 
Knights  of  Pythias ;  Red  Men  of  the  World ; 
Foresters  of  America  ;  Saugerties  Club  ;  Dem- 
ocratic National  Club ;  and  the  State  and 
County  Bar  associations. 

Mr.  Brinnier  has  five  sons:  Frederick  J., 
William  D.  Jr.,  Grant  M.,  Parker  K.  and 
Augustus.  Mr.  Brinnier  is  a  man  well  quali- 
fied by  nature  and  education  for  his  chosen 
field  of  labor,  and  yet  higher  honors  than  he 
has  thus  far  enjoyed  are  undoubtedly  awaiting 
him.  If  self-sacrificing,  steady,  efficient  and 
brilliant  service  for  a  political  party  entitles 
a  man  to  any  reward,  then  he  has  surely  dem- 
onstrated his  desert.  Yet  he  has  not  sought 
office  for  himself,  and  the  positions  to  which 
he  has  been  called  were  given  him,  not  upon 
personal  solicitation,  but  in  recognition  of  his 
true  and  tried  service  for  the  party.  He  has 
aided  to  the  best  of  his  ability  in  fostering 
every  plan  for  the  benefit  of  the  public,  and 
has  gained  its  respect  by  his  manly,  upright 
life. 


The  name  Schoon- 
SCHOONMAKER     maker  belongs  to  the 

class  of  trade  names, 
and  like  many  other  names  of  its  kind  was 
not  employed  by  the  Dutch  as  a  surname  until 
two  or  three  generations  of  the  family  had 
lived  and  died  in  this  country.  Hendrick 
Jochemsen,  the  founder  of  the  family,  was, 
according  to  an  old  diary  said  to  be  still  in 
existence,  a  shoemaker  of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
Giving  up  his  trade,  he  entered  the  military 
service  of  Holland  and  settled  at  Albany,  New 
York,  prior  to  1654.  The  early  records  of 
Albany  frequently  mention  his  name,  and  show 
him  to  have  been  a  man  of  considerable  finan- 
cial standing  and  even  to  have  loaned  money 
to  Director-General  Stuyvesant  in  time  of 
need.  Another  record  calls  him  "Lieutenant 
in  the  company  of  his  Noble  Honor  the  Di- 
rector General."  In  1659  this  company  went 
to  Esopus  to  help  the  settlers  defend  them- 


selves from  the  Indians  and  while  there  it  was 
disbanded  and  Stuyvesant  offered  the  soldiers 
grants  of  land  to  settle  there.  Jochemsen  be- 
came a  resident  of  Wiltwyck,  October  24,  1661, 
and  the  following  year  received  the  first  of 
the  promised  lots.  He  was  several  times  ap- 
pointed magistrate  of  the  place  and  May  30, 
1662,  when  the  burgher  guard  was  organized 
he  became  its  lieutenant.  At  the  massacre  of 
Wiltwyck,  June  7,  1663,  he  took  an  active  part 
in  the  defense,  although  twice  wounded  at  the 
first  attack.  His  eldest  son  Jochem  was  cap- 
tured by  the  Indians  the  same  day,  while  visit- 
ing at  the  home  of  his  uncle,  Volckert  Jansen 
Douw,  in  New  Dorp  (Hurley).  Several  years 
later  he  became  the  leader  of  the  demonstra- 
tion against  the  English  conquerors  of  the 
New  Netherlands  known  as  the  "Esopus  meet- 
ing of  1667."  The  demonstration  had  been 
precipitated  by  the  arrest  and  imprisonment 
of  Cornelis  Barentsen  Schleght,  who  later  be- 
came the  third  husband  of  Jochemsen's  widow. 
Hendrick  Jochemsen  married,  probably  in  New 
York  City,  Elsje  Jans,  daughter  of  Jan  Janse 
van  Breestede  and  Enjeltje  Janse,  and  widow 
of  Adrien  Pietersen  Van  Alcmaer.  She  mar- 
ried (third),  September  26,  1684,  Cornelis 
Barentsen  Schleght.  Children:  Jochem,  re- 
ferred to  below;  Egbert,  married  October  13, 
1683,  Anna  Berry;  Enjeltje,  baptized  March 
18,  1663,  married  (first)  Nicholas  Anthony, 
married  (second)  April  17,  1699,  Stephen 
Gasherie;  Hendrick  (2)  baptized  May  17, 
1665,  died  in  1712,  married,  March  24,  1688, 
Gertruy  De  Witt;  Volckert,  twin  with  Hend- 
rick, baptized  May  17,  1665  ;  Hilletje,  baptized 
October  20,  1669. 

(II)  Jochem  Hendricksen  Schoonmaker,  son 
of  Hendrick  Jochemsen  and  Elsje  Janse  (Van 
Breestede-Van  Alcmaer)  Schoonmaker,  was 
born  probably  at  Albany,  and  died  at  Kingston, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  between  December 
9,  1729,  and  November  7,  1730,  the  dates  of 
the  writing  and  proving  of  his  will.  He  was 
undoubtedly  the  eldest  son  and  was  one  of  the 
first  or  charter  trustees  of  Rochester,  Ulster 
county.  New  York,  under  letters  patent  from 
Queen  Anne,  June  25,  1703.  He  held  this  office 
until  1715.  As  before  stated  he  was  captured 
by  the  Indians  at  the  massacre  of  Wiltwyck 
in  1663  and  suffered  much  torture  before  he 
was  restored  to  his  family  when  the  other 
prisoners  taken  were  returned.  He  married 
(first),  August  16,  1679,  Petronella,  daughter 


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of  Cornells  Barentsen  Schleght  and  Tryntje 
Tysen  Bos,  who  died  about  1687.  He  mar- 
ried (second),  April  28,  1689,  Anna  Horsi 
(or  Hussey),  daughter  of  Frederick  and  Mar- 
garet Hussey,  who  was  baptized  June  27,  1670. 
Children  (five  by  first  marriage)  :  Cornells, 
baptized  January  15,  1682,  died  October  14, 
1757,  married,  November  25,  171 1,  Enjeltje 
Roosa;  Hendrick,  baptized  August  17,  1683, 
married,  November  25,  1704,  Heyltje  Decker; 
Tryntje,  baptized  November  22,  1684,  died 
August  27,  1763,  married  November  18,  1704, 
Jacobus  Bruyn;  Eltje,  baptized  December  12, 
1685,  died  June  27,  1764,  married,  October 
27,  1706,  Joseph  Hasbrouck;  Jacomyntje,  bap- 
tized April  29,  1687,  married,  September  22, 
1726,  Johannis  Miller;  Rebecca,  baptized  Au- 
gust 24,  1690;  Frederick,  referred  to  below; 
Jan,  baptized  June  3,  1694,  married,  June  7, 
1730,  Margaret  Hoornbeck ;  Margriet,  bap- 
tized December  25,  1695,  married,  February 
14,  1716,  Moses  DePuy,  Jr.;  Jacobus,  baptized 
May  8,  1698,  married,  October  15,  1729,  Maria 
Rosenkrans;  Elizabeth,  baptized  February  18, 
1700,  married,  September  3,  1719,  Benjamin 
DePuy;  Benjamin,  baptized  April  19,  1702, 
married.  May  10,  1722,  Catherine  DePuy; 
Antje  (or  Heyltje),  baptized  August  11,  1706, 
married,  October  12,  1729,  Cornelis  Wynkoop; 
Sara,  baptized  June  20.  1708,  married,  August 
26,  1725,  Jacobus  DePuy;  Jochem,  referred 
to  below;  Daniel,  baptized  February  22,  1713, 
married,  October  26,  1733,  Magdalena  Jansen. 
(HI)  Jochem,  son  of  Jochem  Hendricksen 
and  Anna  (Hussey)  Schoonmaker,  was  bap- 
tized at  Kingston,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
October  12,  1710,  and  died  in  the  township  of 
Rochester,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  between 
July  14,  1789,  and  March  i,  1790,  the  dates  of 
the  writing  and  proving  of  his  will.  He  mar- 
ried, May  II,  1730,  Lydia,  daughter  of  Dirck 
R.  and  Wyntje  (Kierstede)  Rosenkrans,  who 
was  baptized  May  3,  1713.  Children  named  in 
will :  Martinus,  licensed  as  a  clergyman  in 
1765,  and  officiated  in  Gravesend  and  Harlem 
from  1765  to  1784,  and  in  Flatbush,  Brooklyn, 
New  Utrecht,  Flatland,  Bushwick,  and  Graves- 
end,  from  1784  to  1824,  died  in  1824,  aged 
eighty-seven  years  ;  Daniel ;  John  ;  Jacobus  ; 
Catherine,  married  Jochem  Schoonmaker  Jr. ; 
Antje,  married  Ephraim  DePuy ;  Elizabeth,  re- 
ferred to  below;  Wyntje,  married  Thomas 
Schoonmaker ;  Lena,  married  John  Wansa. 
(IV)    Elizabeth,    daughter   of   Jochem   and 


Lydia  (Rosenkrans)  Schoonmaker,  was  born 
in  Rochester,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  in 
1738,  and  died  September  7,  1818.  She  mar- 
ried, in  1760,  Frederick  (2),  son  of  Fred- 
erick (i)  and  Eva  (Swartwout)  Schoon- 
maker, referred  to  below. 

(HI)  Frederick,  son  of  Jochem  and  Anna 
(Hussey)  Schoonmaker,  was  born  in  Kings- 
ton, Ulster  county.  New  York,  and  baptized 
there  January  28,  1692.  During  the  revolu- 
tionary war  he  raised  two  companies  of  sol- 
diers, one  of  mounted  volunteers  which  he 
commanded  himself  as  captain.  He  owned 
some  forty  improved  farms  in  the  town  of 
Marbletown  which,  when  his  income  was  ex- 
hausted, he  mortgaged  to  raise  the  money  to 
pay  the  men  of  his  company  and  also  to  send 
provisions  and  other  necessaries  to  the  Con- 
tinental army.  He  was  at  Fort  Montgomery 
when  the  chain  was  placed  across  the  Hudson, 
and  sold  a  favorite  saddle-horse  in  order  to 
help  pay  the  expenses  of  the  job.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  March  i,  1713,  Anne,  daughter  of 
Jacob  and  Greitje  (Vernooy)  DeWitt,  who 
was  baptized  March  15,  1696,  and  died  in  1715. 
He  married  (second)  February  6,  17 17,  Eva, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Gardiner) 
Swartwout,  who  was  baptized  November  16, 
1694.  Children  (one  by  first  marriage)  : 
Jochem,  baptized  October  23,  171 5,  died  before 
1775,  married.  May  21,  1741,  Sarah  DePuy; 
Antjen,  baptized  January  5,  1718,  married, 
November  28,  1735,  Hermanns  Rosenkrans; 
Elizabeth,  baptized  November  8,  17 19,  mar- 
ried, October  20,  1738,  Abraham  Clearwater; 
Thomas,  baptized  July  i,  1722,  married,  Sep- 
tember 14,  1753,  Wyntje,  daughter  of  Jochem 
and  Lydia  (Rosenkrans)  Schoonmaker,  re- 
ferred to  above ;  Jesyntjen,  baptized  June  24, 
1724.  married,  August  24.  1745.  \\'illiam 
\Vood :  Rachel,  baptized  January  16,  1726, 
married  Samson  Sammons ;  Sarah,  baptized 
August  27,  1727.  married,  April  8,  1743,  Jo- 
hannes Rosenkrans;  Lydia,  baptized  May  11, 
1729,  married,  November  27,  1752,  Benjamin 
Hasbrouck;  Hester,  baptized  about  1731.  mar- 
ried Jacobus  Elmendorf  Kool ;  Maria,  baptized 
January  28,  1733,  married,  October  21,  1748, 
Andries  Roosa ;  Magdalena,  born  February  2, 
1735,  died  before  1775,  probably  unmarried; 
Frederick  (2),  referred  to  below. 

(IV)  Frederick  (2),  son  of  Frederick  (i) 
and  Eva  (Swartwout)  Schoonmaker,  was  bap- 
tized  in    Rochester   township,   Ulster   county. 


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New  York,  January  13,  1740,  and  died  Decem- 
ber 2,  1819.  He  married,  in  1760,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Jochem  (2)  and  Lydia  (Rosen- 
krans)  Schoonmaker,  referred  to  above.  Chil- 
dren: Wyntje,  born  June  13,  1761,  married 
Levi  DeWitt;  Eva,  born  September  16.  1763, 
married  Frederick  Schoonmaker  Elmendorf ; 
Lydia,  born  August  19,  1766,  died  February 
II,  185 1,  married  Doctor  Andrew  Snyder; 
Frederick  (3),  born  April  27,  1769,  died  in 
infancy;  Thomas,  born  July  5,  1771,  died 
young;  Sarah,  born  October  22,  1777,  mar- 
ried, in  1796,  Jacob  Schoonmaker;  Thomas, 
born  February  19,  1780,  married  (first)  Char- 
ity Davis,  and  married  (second)  in  181 1,  Kath- 
arine Louw;  Jacobus,  born  November  13,  1783, 
died  April  28,  1863,  married  Maria  Davis ; 
Egbert  du  Mont,  referred  to  below. 

(V)  Egbert  du  Mont,  son  of  Frederick  (2) 
and  Elizabeth  (Schoonmaker)  Schoonmaker, 
was  born  in  Marbletown,  Ulster  county,  New 
York,  July  8,  1788,  died  September  7,  1879. 
He  served  during  the  war  of  1812  as  sergeant 
in  Captain  Louis  Bevier's  company.  He  mar- 
ried (first),  October  20,  1807,  Ann,  daughter 
of  William  and  Syntje  (Elmendorf)  Benson. 
who  died  July  11,  1827.  He  married  (second), 
in  1829,  Hannah,  born  June  18,  1792,  daughter 

of  Samuel  and (Winfield)  Miller,  and 

widow  of  Anderson.     Children   (five  by 

first  marriage)  ;  John  B.,  Elizabeth,  Hiram,  re- 
ferred to  below;  William  F.,  Ann,  Lucas  E., 
Mary  Ann. 

(VI)  Hiram,  son  of  Egbert  du  Mont  and 
Ann  (Benson)  Schoonmaker,  was  born  in 
Rosendale,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  in  1817, 
died  in  Kingston,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
in  1877.  He  was  appointed  deputy  sheriflf 
by  Sheriff  DuBois  in  1840,  and  served  also 
in  that  office  under  Sheriff  Schryver,  taking 
an  active  part  in  the  suppression  of  the  anti- 
rent  riots ;  he  was  later  a  candidate  for  the 
office  of  sheriff  and  failed  of  election  by  only 
a  few  votes.  In  1848  he  settled  in  Rondout, 
and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  on  the 
site  of  the  present  Cornell  Building,  becoming 
one  of  the  most  extensive  operators  in  flour 
and  grain  in  the  county,  and  also  conducted 
a  large  milling  business  at  High  Falls.  On 
the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war  in  1861,  he  was 
appointed  as  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Twen- 
tieth Regiment,  New  York  Volunteer  In- 
fantry, and  accompanied  the  regiment  to  the 
front,  but  owing    to    business    reasons    was 


forced  to  resign  his  commission.  When  the 
city  government  of  Kingston  was  organized 
he  was  appointed  one  of  the  alms  commis- 
sioners, and  later  was  elected  president  of 
the  board  of  alms  commissioners,  and  held 
that  office  until  his  death.  He  was  a  Bap- 
tist in  religion,  and  was  for  more  than 
twenty-five  years  superintendent  of  the 
Sunday-school  in  Rondout,  and  contributed 
largely  to  the  growth  and  prosperity  of 
the  school.  In  his  business  relations  he  was 
the  soul  of  honor,  gathered  about  him  hosts 
of  friends  and  possessed  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  the  community.  In  his  do- 
mestic and  social  relations  he  was  an  ex- 
emplar of  all  that  pertains  to  the  true  Chris- 
tian gentleman.  He  married  (first)  in  1847, 
Hannah,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Peter  Cornell, 
of  Rosendale,  who  died  in  i860.  He  married 
(second)  Gazena  Hardenburgh,  of  Caugh- 
nawaga,  Montgomery  county.  New  York. 
Children  (four  by  each  marriage):  Hiram, 
died  in  infancy ;  Thomas,  Peter,  Anna,  Emma, 
Sarah,  John  D.,  referred  to  below ;  Kate,  died 
in  1865. 

(VII)  John  Davis  Schoonmaker,  son  of 
Hiram  and  Gazena  (Hardenburgh)  Schoon- 
maker, was  born  in  Kingston,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  May  10,  1864,  and  is  now  living 
there.  At  an  early  age  he  became  connected 
with  the  Cornell  Steamboat  Company,  and  is 
still  actively  and  largely  interested  in  trans- 
portation business  on  the  Hudson  river.  He 
was  president  of  the  American  Ice  Company 
in  1901,  1902  and  1903,  and  is  now  largely 
interested  in  the  Foster  Scott  Ice  Company 
of  New  York  City,  and  the  Steep  Rocks  Ice 
Company  of  Kingston,  and  is  regarded  as 
one  of  the  foremost  men  in  the  ice  business 
in  New  York  state.  He  is  one  of  the  trustees 
of  the  Rondout  Savings  Bank,  and  is  vice- 
president  of  the  Kingston  Club;  member  of 
the  Rondout  Club,  the  Winnisook  Club,  the 
Twaalfskill  Country  Club,  and  trustee  of 
the  Kingston  Industrial  Home.  He  married, 
June  22,  1898,  Alberta  Lewis,  daughter  of 
Thomas  E.  and  Frances  M.  ( Ackerly-Freer) 
Benedict,  of  Ellenville,  New  York,  who  was 
born  in  Montgomery,  New  York,  January  3, 
1870  (see  Benedict  VIII).  Children  of  John 
D.  and  Alberta  Lewis  (Benedict-French) 
Schoonmaker:  Louise  Burt,  born  April  30, 
1899;  John  Davis,  born  July  2,  190T. 


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(The  Benedict  Line.) 

(I)  Thomas  Benedict  was  born  in  Notting- 
hamshire, England,  in  1617.  According  to 
family  tradition,  apparently  verified,  he  was 
the  only  representative  of  his  family  when  he 
came  to  America  in  1638.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  colonial  convention  at  Hempstead, 
1665,  by  order  of  the  colonial  governor  of 
New  York  by  authority  of  the  English  king. 
He  married  Mary  Bridgum,  who  came  to 
America  on  the  same  ship.  Children : 
Thomas,  died  November  20,  1688-89;  John, 
of  whom  further;  Samuel,  James,  Daniel, 
Elizabeth,  married  John  Slauson ;  Mary,  mar- 
ried John  Olmstead ;  Sarah,  married  James 
Beebe ;  Rebecca,  married  Dr.   Samuel  Wood. 

(H)  John,  second  son  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  Benedict,  was  born  in  1640,  at  South- 
hold,  Long  Island.  He  moved  with  his  father 
to  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  where  he  was  made 
a  freeman  in  1680,  and  was  a  selectman  in 
1689-91-94-99.  In  1722-23  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Connecticut  legislature,  and  was  long 
a  deacon  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He 
married,  November  11,  1670,  at  Norwalk, 
Phebe  Gregory.  Children :  Sarah,  Phebe,  John, 
Jonathan,  Benjamin,  Joseph,  James,  of  whom 
further ;  Thomas. 

(III)  James,  son  of  John  and  Phebe 
(Gregory)  Benedict,  was^  born  January  5, 
1685,  died  November  25,  1762.  He  married 
Sarah  Hyatt.  Among  their  children  was 
James,  of  whom  further. 

(IV)  James  (2),  son  of  Jam€s  (i)  and 
Sarah  (Hyatt)  Benedict,  was  born  in  1719. 
He  married  Mary  Blackman.  Among  their 
children  was  James,   of  whom   further. 

(V)  James  (3),  son  of  James  (z)  and 
Mary  (Blackman)  Benedict,  was  born  in 
1745.  He  married  Mary  Wood.  Among  their 
children  was  William,  of  whom  further. 

(VI)  William,  son  of  James  (3)  and 
Mary  (Wood)  Benedict,  was  born  in  1779. 
He  married  Martha  Wood.  Among  their 
children  was  William  L.,  of  whom  further. 

(VII)  William  L.,  son  of  William  and 
Martha  (Wood)  Benedict,  was  born  in  1814, 
died  July  20,  1882.  He  was  a  member  of 
assembly  from  Orange  county.  New  York, 
in  1846.  He  married  Phoebe  Burt,  a  grand- 
daughter of  James  Burt,  who  was  the  young- 
est commissioned  ofificer  of  the  revolutionary 
army  of  1776;  state  senator  and  assemblyman 
from  1796  to  1823  :  twice  member  of  the  state 


committee  of  appointment  and  twice  of  the 
electoral  college.  Among  the  children  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Benedict  was  Thomas  E.,  of  whom 
further. 

(VIII)  Thomas  E.,  son  of  William  L.  and 
Phoebe  (Burt)  Benedict,  was  born  at  War- 
wick, New  York,  in  1839.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  assembly  in  1880-81-82-83  from  Ulster 
county ;  chairman  of  the  Democratic  state  con- 
vention in  1883,  and  a  member  of  the  Demo- 
cratic state  committee  several  years ;  was 
deputy  comptroller  of  the  state,  1884-85-86; 
was  public  printer  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  from 
1886  to  .1889,  and  from  1894  to  1897,  ap- 
pointed by  President  Cleveland ;  deputy  secre- 
tary of  state,  1890  to  1894.  He  married 
Frances  M.  (Ackerly)  Freer,  who  bore  him 
six  children,  among  whom  was  Alberta  Lewis, 
born  1870,  being  of  the  ninth  generation  from 
Thomas  Benedict,  born  1617.  She  married 
(first)  George  K.  French,  by  which  marriage 
she  had  issue,  Dorothy  Webster  French,  born 
February  25,  1890;  she  married  (second) 
John  Davis  Schoonmaker   (see  Schoonmaker 

"vin. 


The   name   Matthew    hav- 
MATTHEWS     ing  belonged  to  one  of  the 

Twelve  Apostles  it  was 
adopted  by  a  great  number  of  persons  in  early 
Christian  times,  and  with  its  variations  and 
derivations  is  borne  today  by  many  families 
who  are  wholly  unrelated.  It  was  formerly 
also  spelled  Matthes,  Mathes,  Mathis, 
Mathews,  and  in  various  other  ways.  At  least 
eight  emigrants  of  the  name  were  in  Massa- 
chusetts prior  to  1650.  There  were  many 
others  bearing  the  name  who  emigrated  to 
America  and  settled  in  various  sections  of  the 
country,  and  in  the  early  part  of  the  nine- 
teenth century  in  Erie  county.  New  York, 
were  two  brothers  named  Matthews.  David, 
who  married  and  had  a  large  family,  and 
Stephen,  see  forward. 

(I)  Stephen  Matthews,  the  first  member 
of  the  family  of  whom  we  have  definite  in- 
formation, was  born  in  Erie  county.  New 
York,  and  died  in  Shokan,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years.  He 
married  Sophia  Orsborn,  who  died  about  the 
age  of  eighty-two.  They  had  children :  Jere- 
miah, see  forward  ;  Egbert  R.,  whose  sketch 
follows  :  .Alanson  :  Martha  ;  Sarah  ;  Augusta  N. 


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(II)  Jeremiah,  son  of  Stephen  and  Sophia 
(Orsborn)  Matthews,  was  born  in  Shokan, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  May  13,  1827, 
died  in  Kingston,  New  York,  October  i,  1898. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools,  and  then  engaged  in  business  with  his 
father  as  a  wagon  maker  and  painter  until 
about  1870,  when  he  removed  to  Olive,  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  and  there  established  a 
general  merchandise  store,  which  he  con- 
ducted until  1896,  when  he  retired  from  active 
business.  He  served  as  justice  of  the  peace 
for  the  town  of  Olive  for  a  period  of  twenty- 
four  years.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics, 
and  served  as  supervisor  of  the  town  from 
1881  to  1886.  He  was  an  ordained  minister 
of  the  Primitive  Baptist  church,  and  preached 
throughout  Ulster  county  and  the  surround- 
ing country.  He  married  Angelina  Philips, 
born  in  May,  1826,  died  July  20,  1905.  He 
had  children:  Laura,  born  in  1849,  died  in 
1853;  John  W.,  born  in  1854,  died  in  1910; 
Elmer  E.,  born  in  1857 :  Ella,  twin  of  Elmer 
E.,  died  October  10,  1896;  Frank  B.,  see  for- 
ward. 

(III)  Frank  B.,  son  of  Jeremiah  B.  and 
Angelina  (Philips)  Matthews,  was  born  in 
Olive,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  October  29, 
1866,  and  is  now  (1913)  living  in  Kingston, 
Ulster  county,  New  York.  The  public  schools 
of  his  section  furnished  his  early  education, 
and  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years  he  went  to 
work  on  a  farm,  later  entering  his  father's 
store.  In  1890  he  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business  for  a  time,  then  became  a  salesman 
for  the  grocery  firm  of  J.  W.  Matthews  Com- 
pany, in  Newburgh,  New  York,  in  which  posi- 
tion he  remained  two  years  and  then  became  a 
member  of  the  firm,  with  which  he  remained 
five  years.  He  then  settled  in  Kingston  and 
established  the  firm  of  Matthews  &  Harrison, 
in  the  wholesale  grocery  business,  which  was 
incorporated  the  following  year  and  which  is 
still  in  existence.  Mr.  Matthews  is  one  of 
the  directors  of  the  State  of  New  York  Na- 
tional Bank ;  is  vice-president  and  one  of  the 
directors  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  As- 
sociation in  Kingston ;  and  is  treasurer  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church,  in  Kingston,  of  which 
he  is  also  one  of  the  trustees.  He  married, 
September  27,  1887,  Mary,  born  June  14, 
1866,  a  daugfhter  of  Conrad  and  Thankful 
(Johnson)  Elmendorf.  Children  born  to 
them:      John,   born    June    16,    1888,    married 


Barbara  Brink;  Stanley,  born  August  4,  1895; 
Ella,  July  10,  1897;  George,  August  2,  1901. 


(II)  Egbert  R.  Matthews, 
MATHEWS  son  of  Stephen  (q.  v.)  and 
Sophia  (Orsborn)  Mat- 
thews, was  born  in  Shokan,  Ulster  county. 
New  York,  September  11,  1828,  died  there  in 
191 1.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  and  passed  all  of  his  life  in 
Ulster  county,  with  the  exception  of  three 
years  during  which  he  lived  in  New  York 
City.  He  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  and 
in  farming  and  quarrying,  during  which  time 
he  cut  the  "Gulf"  road  across  the  Catskill 
mountains  from  Shokan  to  Greshamville.  He 
also  dealt  extensively  in  Canadian  horses,  but 
later  disposed  of  his  business  and  purchased 
the  general  merchandise  store  of  Hoyt  Broth- 
ers, in  Shokan,  New  York,  which  he  con- 
ducted for  one  year,  and  then  removed  to 
West  Shokan,  where  he  established  a  mer- 
cantile business,  which  he  finally  sold  to  his 
son,  Delancey  N.,  and  his  son-in-law,  James 
H.  North,  and  retired  from  active  pursuits. 
He  was  the  first  man  to  ship  coal  into  West 
Shokan.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
served  for  two  terms  as  assessor  of  the  town 
of  Hurley,  Ulster  county.  New  York.  He 
married,  February  18,  1848,  Sarah  E.  North, 
who  was  born  June  25,  1831,  and  died  in  1881. 
They  had  children:  Delancey  N.,  see  for- 
ward ;  Olivia  Ann,  Watson,  William,  Samuel, 
Mary,  Everett,  Cora  |.,  Ward,  Frederick  and 
Dart. 

(Ill)  Delancey  N.  Mathews,  son  of  Eg- 
bert R.  and  Sarah  E.  (North)  Matthews,  was 
born  in  Hurley.  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
November  29,  1849,  ^rid  is  now  (1913)  living 
in  Kingston,  Ulster  county.  New  York.  He 
spells  his  family  name  Mathews.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools,  and 
at  an  early  age  removed  to  Brooklyn.  New 
York,  where  he  secured  a  position  as  errand 
boy  in  the  United  States  Custom  House.  In 
i86s  he  settled  in  Olive,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  and  in  1871  formed  a  partnership  with 
his  brother-in-law,  James  H.  North,  and  pur- 
chased his  father's  mercantile  business,  which 
he  conducted  until  the  firm  was  dissolved  by 
the  death  of  Mr.  North  in  1885.  He  is  vice- 
president  of  Matthews  &  Harrison  Wholesale 
Grocery  Company,  Kingston,  New  York.     In 


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1886  Mr.  Mathews  was  elected  director  of  the 
State  of  New  York  National  Bank  in  Kings- 
ton;  in  1902  vice-president  and  in  1903  presi- 
dent, which  office  he  still  holds.  He  is  treas- 
urer of  the  Co-operative  Insurance  Company 
of  West  Shokan,  New  York.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  was  postmaster  of 
Shokan  under  President  Grant,  and  served 
as  supervisor  of  the  town  in  1889,  1890  and 
1892.  In  religious  belief  he  is  a  Baptist.  His 
fraternal  membership  is  with  the  order  of 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons  and  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  and  he  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Kingston  Club.  Mr.  Mathews  married,  Oc- 
tober II,  1870,  Sarah  M.  Dart,  of  Roxbury, 
Delaware  county.  New  York,  who  died  in 
1888,  at  West  Shokan,  New  York.  They  had 
children:  Bertha,  born  October  21,  187 1,  and 
Lucy,  who  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Mathews 
married  (second)  in  1900,  Carrie  S.  Smith,  of 
Clinton,  New  York. 


The  first  member  of  this 
HASBROUCK     family  of  whom  we  have 

definite  information  was 
a  native  of  Calais,  France,  who  with  his  family 
and  other  Huguenots  fled  from  persecution  to 
the  Lower  Palatinate  and  made  their  home  in 
Mannheim.  Among  his  children  were :  Jean, 
referred  to  below,  and  Abraham,  who  emi- 
grated to  Boston,  Massachusetts,  in  1675,  later 
joined  his  brother  Jean,  at  Esopus,  and  with 
him  and  others  became  a  patentee  of  New 
Paltz,  Ulster  county.  New  York.  He  died 
March  7,  1717:  he  married  Maria,  daughter 
of  Christian  Deyo. 

(11)  Jean,  brother  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck, 
died  in  New  Paltz,  Ulster  county.  New  York, 
between  August  26,  1712,  and  August  14, 
1714,  the  dates  of  the  writing  and  proving  of 
his  will.  He  emigrated  to  Esopus,  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  in  1673,  with  his  wife  and 
two  unmarried  daughters,  bringing  with  him 
a  certificate  of  church  membership  from 
Mannheim.  In  1675  he  was  joined  by  his 
brother  Abraham  and  two  years  later,  April 
28,  1677,  they  became  patentees  of  the  town 
of  New  Paltz.  Here  he  settled,  and  his  house 
built  in  1712,  across  the  street  from  the  site 
of  the  first  stone  church,  is  still  standing;  it 
was  purchased  in  1899  by  the  New  Paltz 
Huguenot  Memorial  Society  as  a  storehouse 
for  relics  and  ancient  documents  and  to  pre- 


serve the  memory  of  the  early  settlers.  He 
married  in  Mannheim,  Anna,  daughter  of 
Christian  Deyo,  and  sister  to  the  wife  of  his 
brother  Abraham,  and  also  to  Pierre  Deyo, 
another  patentee  of  New  Paltz.  Children : 
I.  Maria,  born  in  Mannheim,  Germany,  mar- 
ried at  Kingston,  New  York,  June  i,  1683, 
Isaac  Du  Bois.  2.  Hester,  born  in  Mannheim ; 
married  at  Kingston,  April  18,  1692,  Pierre 
Guimard.  3.  Abraham,  baptized  at  Kingston, 
March  31,  1678,  removed  to  and  settled  in 
England.  4.  Isaac,  died  while  serving  under 
Captain  Wessel  Ten  Broeck  in  the  campaign 
against  Canada,  in  171 1.  5.  Elizabeth,  bap- 
tized at  New  Paltz,  April  4,  1685,  married  at 
Kingston.  June  2,  1713,  Louis  Bevier.  6. 
Jacob,   referred   to   below. 

(III)  Jacob,  son  of  Jean  and  Anna  (Deyo) 
Hasbrouck,  was  baptized  at  New  Paltz,  Ulster 
county.  New  York,  April  15,  1688.  He  in- 
herited the  old  homestead.  He  married  in 
Kingston,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1717,  Hester  (or  Esther),  daughter  of 
Louis  and  Maria  (Le  Blanc)  Bevier,  who  was 
born  November  16,  1686.  Her  father  was 
born  at  Lille,  France,  about  1648,  removed 
previous  to  1675  to  Frankenthal,  came  to  New 
York  City  in  1675-6,  went  to  England  in 
1710,  where  he  procured  denization  papers  and 
returned  to  New  Paltz.  He  married,  in  1673, 
Maria  Le  Blanc,  and  died  before  July  4,  1720 
Children  of  Jacob  and  Hester  (Bevier)  Has- 
brouck: Jacob  (2),  married  Jannetje  Du 
Bois ;  Isaac,  referred  to  below ;  Benjamin, 
killed  by  falling  tree  in  1747. 

(IV)  Isaac,  son  of  Jacob  and  Hester 
(Bevier)  Hasbrouck,  was  baptized  at  New 
Paltz,  Ulster  county,   New  York,  March    11. 

1722,  and  died  intestate  before  August  5. 
1789,  when  letters  on  his  estate  were  granted 
to  his  two  sons.  Jacob  I.  and  Jacobus  Bruyn 
Hasbrouck.  He  removed  from  New  Paltz 
to  Marbletown  and  lived  in  the  house  in  which 
his  son  Severyn  afterwards  resided,  which  is 
still  standing  about  a  mile  east  of  Stone 
Ridge:  has  been  lately  the  home  of  Alice 
Pine.  He  married.  August  ,30,  1745,  Maria, 
daughter  of  Jacobus  B.  and  Wyntje  (Schoon- 
maker)    Bruyn.    who   was   baptized   June   23, 

1723.  and  died  October  8,  1776.  Children:  i. 
Jacob  I.,  referred  to  below.  2.  John  J.,  bap- 
tized February  19,  1749;  married  Maria, 
daughter  of  Jacob  A.  Hasbrouck.  3.  Jacobus 
Bruyn,  baptized  December  i,  1753.  at  Marble- 


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town;  married  Annetje  Abeel.  4.  Severyn, 
baptized  at  Kingston,  January  i,  1756;  mar- 
ried (first)  Maria  De  Puy,  and  (second) 
Maria  Conklin.  5.  Maria,  baptized  at  New 
Paltz.  February  5,  1758.  6.  Hester,  baptized 
at  Marbletown,  August  12,  1762.  7.  Benjamin 
J.,  baptized  April  3,  1764,  died  in  1843  ;  mar- 
ried (first)  Catrina  Smedes,  and  (second) 
Rachel,  daughter  of  David  Hasbrouck.  8. 
Louis,  baptized  February  5,  1767.  9.  Anna, 
baptized  June  25,  1769. 

(V)  Jacob  I.,  son  of  Isaac  and  Maria 
(Bruyn)  Hasbrouck,  was  baptized  at  New 
Paltz,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  October  5, 
1746,  and  died  in  Marbletown,  Ulster  county. 
New  York,  between  June  21  and  August  14, 
1818.  He  located  at  Colabargh,  in  the  town 
of  Marbletown,  about  a  mile  north  of  Stone 
Ridge.  The  property  descended  to  Dr.  Josiah 
Hasbrouck  (  i ) ,  referred  to  below.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Anna 
Margaret  (Hooghteling)  Du  Bois,  who  was 
baptized  October  4.  1747  (see  Du  Bois). 
Children:  Isaac,  born  in  1769;  Margaret, 
born  in  1773,  married  Dr.  William  Peters; 
Wilhelmus,  born  in  1775 ;  Jacobus,  born  in 
1777:  Cornelius,  born  in  1778.  married  Han- 
nah Van  Wagenen ;  Jacob  I.  (2),  born  June 
7,  1780,  married  November  18,  1809,  Cath- 
erine Knickerbocker;  Josiah.  referred  to  be- 
low; Louis  J.,  born  in  1785.  married  Margaret 
\'an  Vleck ;  Abraham,  born  in  1787,  Maria, 
born  in  1789,  married  Dr.  Matthew  De  Witt. 

(VI)  Josiah.  son  of  Jacob  I.  and  Sarah 
(Du  Bois)  Hasbrouck,  was  born  in  Colabargh, 
town  of  Marbletown,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  and  died  there.  He  married  (first) 
Broadhead,  and  after  her  death,  Cor- 
nelia, daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Maria  (Le 
Fevre)  Deyo,  of  Bontecoe.  Only  child:  Jacob 
Du  Bois,  referred  to  below. 

(VII)  Jacob   Du   Bois,   son  of   Josiah   and 

(  Broadhead)   Hasbrouck.  was  born  at 

Colabargh,  town  of  Marbletown,  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  January  i.  1808,  and  died 
at  Marbletown,  August  25,  i86_s.  He  married 
Ann,  sister  of  Dr.  James  Oliver,  who  was 
born  January  17,  1809.  and  was  living  in 
Westfield,  New  Jersey,  in  March,  1880.  Chil- 
dren :  Josiah,  referred  to  below ;  Jane  Elting, 
married  Alex  S.  Clark ;  Mary  Cornelia,  de- 
ceased ;  Elizabeth  J. 

(Villi  Dr.  Josiah  Hasbrouck.  son  of  Jacob 
Du  Bois  and  Ann   (Oliver)   Hasbrouck.   was 


born  in  Marbletown,  Ulster  county,  New 
York,  January  i,  1830,  and  died  at  Port  Ewen, 
Ulster  county,  New  York,  March  25,  1889. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  and  when  fifteen  years  of  age  entered 
the  academy  of  Professor  Charles  F.  Maurice, 
at  Napanoch,  where  he  remained  for  several 
terms,  and  then  entered  the  Mount  Pleasant 
Academy  in  Sing  Sing,  New  York.  From 
1849  to  1852  he  taught  school  at  Marbletown 
and  Rochester,  and  also  during  a  portion  of 
that  time  was  the  principal  of  a  select  school 
at  Stone  Ridge.  He  then  began  the  study  of 
medicine  with  Dr.  D.  G.  Perry,  of  Marble- 
town, and  in  1854  entered  the  office  of  Dr. 
Moses  C.  Hasbrouck,  in  Nyack,  New  York, 
where  he  remained  for  one  year,  then  pursued 
a  course  of  study  in  Bufifalo,  New  York,  and 
later  in  Albany,  New  York,  where  he  com- 
pleted his  studies  and  graduated  in  June,  1855. 
He  then  practiced  his  profession  for  one  year 
in  Woodbourne,  Sullivan  county.  New  York, 
at  the  end  of  that  time  removed  to  the  town  of 
Esopus,  and  in  1857  settled  in  Port  Ewen. 
where  he  built  up  an  extensive  practice  and 
occupied  a  high  rank  in  his  profession  until 
his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New 
York  State  Medical  Society,  and  of  the  Ulster 
County  Medical  Society,  of  which  he  was 
the  president  in  1876.  He  was  a  Republican 
in  politics,  and  served  as  supervisor  in  i860, 
1864  and  1865.  He  was  appointed  loan-com- 
missioner by  the  governor  of  New  York,  and 
held  that  office  for  many  years.  He  belonged 
to  the  Reformed  Dutch  church  and  was  a 
prominent  and  influential  member  there.  He 
married,  January  i,  1856,  Ellen  Tane,  daugh- 
ter of  Gilbert  D.  and  Maria  (Mabie)  Blau- 
velt,  of  Rockland  county,  New  York,  who  was 
bom  January  17.  1839.  Children:  i.  Gilbert 
B..  born  September  30,  1856.  died  in  infancy. 
2.  Walter  D..  born  June  5,  1858.  3.  Gilbert 
D.  B.,  born  February  19,  i860,  judge  of  the 
supreme  court  of  the  state  of  New  York.  4. 
John  M.,  born  October  22,  1862.  5.  Josiah 
(2).   referred  to  below. 

(IX)  Dr.  Josiah  (2)  Hasbrouck.  son  of 
Dr.  Josiah  (i)  and  Ellen  Jane  (Blauvelt) 
Hasbrouck.  was  born  at  Port  Ewen.  town  of 
Esopus,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  April  27, 
1864,  and  died  March  2.S,  1913.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools,  at 
the  Kingston  Academy,  and  the  seminary  at 
Williston.    Massachusetts ;    then   took   up   the 


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study  of  medicine  at  the  Albany  Medical  Col- 
lege in  Albany,  New  York,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1885.  He  became  an  interne  in 
the  Post  Graduate  Hospital  in  New  York 
City,  and  also  served  in  the  out-patient  depart- 
ment of  Bellevue  Hospital,  in  the  same  city, 
and  then  began  the  active  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Somerville,  New  Jersey,  later  re- 
turned to  Port  Ewen  and  became  associated  in 
practice  with  his  father,  succeeding  him  at 
his  death  in  1889,  and  engaged  in  the  active 
practice  of  his  profession  until  his  death.  He 
was  prominently  identified  with  the  New  York 
State  Medical  Society,  and  with  the  Ulster 
County  Medical  Society  of  which  he  was  at 
one  time  the  president.  He  was  prominent  in 
the  public  affairs  of  the  town,  and  at  one  time 
was  president  of  the  Port  Ewen  Improvement 
Association.  He  served  for  one  year  as  a 
member  of  the  Ulster  County  Board  of  Super- 
visors, and  in  1900  was  elected  sheriff  of 
Ulster  county.  He  was  a  member  of  Rondout 
Lodge,  No.  343,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  also  of  Hope  Lodge,  No.  65,  in  Port 
Ewen.  He  was  a  trustee  and  director  in  a 
number  of  institutions  and  was  a  member  of 
several  clubs.  During  his  term  as  sheriff 
of  Ulster  county  he  made  a  tour  of  Europe 
with  his  brother.  Judge  Gilbert  D.  B.  Has- 
brouck,  and  in  1903  he  purchased  the  Sleight 
property,  including  the  ferry  at  Sleights- 
burg,  of  which  he  obtained  the  control,  and 
which  showed  a  marked  improvement  in 
service  and  efficiency  under  his  manage- 
ment. He  married  and  had  children :  John 
Hutton,  now  a  student  at  the  Peekskill 
Academy,  Peekskill,  New  York,  and  Cathryn, 
residing  with  Mrs.  Klingenberg,  at  Brooklyn, 
New  York. 


The  De  La  Vergne 
DE  LA  VERGNE     family       originally 

came  from  France, 
where  the  family  records  go  back  prior 
to  the  year  1200.  They  are  allied  by  mar- 
riage to  some  of  the  noblest  houses  of 
France,  among  them  being  those  of  de 
Clermont,  de  la  Fayette  and  d'Aubusson. 
They  were  related  to  General  LaFayette ;  the 
older  members  of  the  family  always  spoke  of 
him  as  "Cousin,"  and  at  a  public  reception 
given  him  in  Poughkeepsie,  when  he  revisited 
this  country  in   1825.  special  seats  were  pro- 


vided for  them  upon  the  platform.  Records 
and,  traditions  show  that  members  of  this 
family  were  crusaders,  that  during  many  cen- 
turies they  were  a  race  of  brave  and  loyal 
knights,  and  that  among  them  were  men  who 
bore  the  titles  of  marquis,  count,  baron  and 
chevalier.  It  is  clearly  shown  that  they  have 
always  been  intensely  patriotic,  gallant  sol- 
diers, and  a  number  of  ministers  of  the  church 
are  also  to  be  found  in  the  family. 

(I)  Dr.  Nicholas  De  La  Vergne,  the  immi- 
grant ancestor,  came  to  this  country  about 
1720.  He  had  served  as  a  surgeon  on  board 
of  a  warship  and  when  mustered  out  of  serv- 
ice, resided  for  a  time  in  the  city  of  New 
York.  Later  he  removed  to  Washington 
township,  Dutchess  county,  New  York,  his 
home  being  at  what  is  now  known  as  Mill- 
brook  ;  the  farm  which  is  on  the  west  side  of 
the  road  and  which  runs  past  "The  Inn,"  is  at 
present  in  the  possession  of  Oakleigh  Thorne. 
Dr.  De  La  Vergne  was  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  medicine  throughout  the  county,  and  his 
son,  Dr.  Benjamin  De  La  Vergne,  and  he  were 
known  as  "The  French  Doctor  and  the  Old 
French  Doctor."  In  1763  Dr.  Nicholas  De  La 
Vergne  was  justice  of  the  peace ;  and  his  name 
is  found  on  many  of  the  records  of  Dutchess 
county.  He  also  held  office  as  probate  judge. 
A  man  of  much  business  ability  and  fore- 
sight, he  purchased  and  sold  large  tracts  of 
land,  his  business  connections  being  with  all 
the  wealthy  and  well  known  men  of  the  time 
in  the  county.  His  death  occurred  in  the  vear 
1782. 

Dr.  De  La  Vergne  married  (first)  in  1737, 
Fannie  Warner,  and  had  children :  Louis, 
Frances,  and  Benjamin  (see  forward).  He 
married  (second)  in  1747,  Mary  Husted,  of 
Washington  precinct,  and  by  her  had  eleven 
children. 

(II)  Dr.  Benjamin  De  La  Vergne,  son  of 
Dr.  Nicholas  De  La  Vergne  and  Fannie 
(Warner)  De  La  Vergne.  was  born  in  1742, 
died  in  1830,  and  was  buried  at  Washington 
Hollow.  He  received  his  education  in  Boston. 
Massachusetts,  and  was  engaged  in  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  eastern  Dutchess 
county.  Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  revolu- 
tionary war  he  enlisted  in  the  Sixth  Regiment. 
Dutchess  County  Militia,  was  made  captain  of 
the  Seventh  Company,  and  commissioned  Oc- 
tober 7,  1775.  Later  he  was  made  major  of 
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Militia ;  and  his  service  altogether  extended 
for  a  period  of  seven  years.  On  May  18, 
1776,  he  was  a  delegate  from  Dutchess  county 
to  the  Third  Provincial  Congress,  which  con- 
vened at  New  York.  Dr.  De  La  Vergne  was 
also  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Dutchess 
County  Medical  Society,  whose  first  meeting 
was  held  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  in  1806, 
at  which  he  was  elected  chairman  and  the  first 
vice-president. 

Dr.  De  La  Vergne  married,  in  1768,  Anne, 
born  in  1752,  died  in  1792,  daughter  of  Isaac 
Baldwin,  of  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  and 
they  had  children :  Isaac,  see  forward  ;  John, 
died  in  1850;  Henry;  Anna  Maria,  married 
Joshua  Hallock;  Susan,  born  in  1787,  died 
in  i860,  married  Jacob  Husted;  Alonzo,  born 
in  1789,  died  in  1866. 

(HI)  Dr.  Isaac  De  La  Vergne,  son  of  Dr. 
Benjamin  de  La  Vergne  and  Anne  (Baldwin) 
De  La  Vergne,  was  born  in  Washington  Hol- 
low, Dutchess  county,  New  York,  August  11, 
1 77 1,  and  died  in  Fishkill,  New  York,  Novem- 
ber I,  1822,  having  practiced  medicine  in  that 
town  throughout  the  active  years  of  his  life. 
He  was  married  three  times ;  his  first  wife, 
Mary  Bedel,  was  born  in  1769,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 23,  1801.  Children:  Benjamin,  born 
August  12,  1793,  died  in  1865;  Anna,  born 
August  28,  1794,  died  May  22,  1823,  married 
Samuel  Baker,  of  Fishkill ;  Peter,  see  forward. 

( IV)  Peter,  son  of  Dr.  Isaac  De  La  Vergne 
and  Mary  (Bedel)  De  La  Vergne,  was  born 
in  Fishkill,  New  York,  in  1796,  and  died  Jan- 
uary 16,  1843.  He  was  educated  in  Fishkill, 
where  he  became  associated  with  his  uncle  in 
the  milling  business.  Subsequently  he  operated 
grist  mills  at  Hyde  Park,  Napanoch  and 
Eddy^'ille.  He  held  membership  in  the 
Masonic  fraternity.  He  married,  March  9, 
1825,  Anne  Yates,  born  March  22,  1800,  died 
February  29,  1852'.  Children:  Isaac,  see  for- 
ward; Alonzo,  born  March  14,  1829.  died  No- 
vember 28,  i860,  married  Harriet  Vail ;  John 
P.,  born  June  4,  1831.  died  June  20.  1853: 
Mary,  born  May  4,  1836,  died  April  20.  1890; 
William  Yates,  born  February  26,  1841,  died 
November  i,  1869,  married,  November  4, 
1865,  Harrietta  Merritt. 

(V)  Isaac,  son  of  Peter  and  Anne  (Yates) 
De  La  Vergne,  was  born  at  Hughsonville, 
Dutchess  county,  New  York,  January  26, 
1827,  and  died  at  Kingston,  New  York,  De- 
cember 12,  191 1.     His  early  years  were  spent 


at  Eddyville,  where  he  was  educated,  and  in 
1845  obtained  a  clerkship  in  the  general  store 
of  Thomas  Cornell.  Two  years  later  he  re- 
ceived an  appointment  as  purser  on  the  steam- 
er, "'Norwich."  In  1853  he  became  purser  on 
the  steamer,  "North  America,"  a  position  he 
held  until  1863,  when  he  was  transferred  to  a 
similar  position  on  the  steamer,  "James  W. 
Baldwin."  He  remained  with  the  Romer  & 
Tremper  Steamboat  Company  until  they  went 
out  of  business  in  1898,  when  he  retired  to 
private  life,  and  until  his  death,  made  his 
home  with  his  daughter.  Mr.  De  La  Vergne 
was  a  well  known  figure  throughout  the  Hud- 
son valley.  In  political  opinion  he  adhered  to 
the  Republican  party,  and  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  the  Rondout  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar.  He  married,  February  14,  1850, 
Mary  Ann  Cocks,  born  January  14,  1829,  died 
March  10,  1902.  Children:  Catherine  A., 
born  January  7,  1851,  died  March  24,  1900; 
Isaac  C,  born  September  6,  1852,  died  Feb- 
ruary I,  1892;  Charles  H.,  see  forward;  Min- 
nie, born  October  6,  1861,  married,  November 
25,  1884,  Frank  D.  Dewey,  of  Kingston,  New 
York. 

(VI)  Charles  H.,  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary 
Ann  (Cocks)  De  La  Vergne,  was  born  at 
Rondout,  New  York,  October  3,  1858.  His 
education,  which  was  an  excellent  one,  was 
acquired  at  the  public  school  of  his  district, 
and  at  the  Ulster  Academy.  For  a  quarter  of 
a  century  he  was  connected  with  the  Delaware 
and  Hudson  Canal  Company,  and  then  he  held 
the  position  of  auditor  of  the  Hudson  River 
Bluestone  Company  until  his  resignation  at  the 
end  of  ten  years,  when  he  was  called  upon  to 
accept  the  still  more  responsible  position  of  as- 
sistant treasurer  of  the  Kingston  Savings 
Bank.  He  also  holds  important  offices  in  other 
corporations.  He  is  the  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Wiltwyck  Cemetery  Association, 
secretary  of  the  Twaalf skill  Club,  and  a  char- 
ter member  of  the  Kingston  Club.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  Rondout  Lodge,  No.  343,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons. 

Mr.  De  La  Vergne  married.  May  11,  1892, 
Anna  Field,  a  daughter  of  Elijah  Du  Bois,  and 
a  lineal  descendant  of  Louis  Du  Bois,  one  of 
the  original  patentees  of  New  Paltz,  Ulster 
county.  Their  children  are :  Louis  Du  Bois, 
born  March  10.  1893,  now  a  student  at  Union 
University;  and  Charles,  born  August  9,  1896. 


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The  name  Washburn  is 
WASHBURN  derived  from  two  simple 
words,  wash,  which  appHes 
to  the  swift  moving  current  of  a  stream,  and 
burn  or  bourne,  a  brook  or  small  stream.  It 
has  been  said  of  the  family,  whose  origin  is  in 
England,  that  the  posterity  of  John  Wash- 
burn, the  first  immigrant  of  the  name  to  locate 
in  New  England,  "will  seldom  find  occasion 
to  blush  upon  looking  back  upon  the  past  lives 
of  those  from  whom  they  have  descended. 
Fortunate,  indeed,  may  the  generations  now  in 
being,  esteem  themselves,  if  they  can  be  sure 
to  bequeath  to  their  posterity  an  equal  source 
of  felicitation."  In  this  illustrious  family  have 
been  found  some  of  our  nation's  greatest  char- 
acters in  public  and  private  life,  statesmen  and 
military  men  in  all  of  the  American  wars. 
Maine,  Vermont,  Massachusetts  and  Wiscon- 
sin have  all  had  governors  from  the  Washburn 
family,  and  three  brothers  served  as  congress- 
men from  three  states  at  the  same  time,  and 
all  with  much  ability.  Authors  and  college 
graduates  may  be  found  to  a  score  or  more, 
who  have  left  their  impress  upon  the  world. 
In  England  a  John  Washburn  was  the  first 
secretary  of  the  Council  of  Plymouth,  and 
was  succeeded  in  office  in  1628  by  William 
Burgess ;  but  it  is  not  known  that  he  was 
identical  with  John  Washburn,  of  Duxbury,  in 
1632 :  nor  is  it  known  that  the  New  England 
Washburns.  the  descendants  of  John,  were 
of  kin  to  William,  Daniel  and  John  Washbum, 
who  had  land  upon  Long  Island  as  early  as 
165,^,  but  they  were  undoubtedly  of  the  same 
family  blood. 

(I)  Sir  Roger,  of  Little  Washbourne, 
county  Worcester,  England,  flourished  in  the 
latter  half  of  the  thirteenth  century.  He  is 
mentioned  in  the  inquisition  of  1259  and  was 
livin?  in  1299.     He  married  Joann . 

(ID  Sir  John,  son  of  Sir  Roger,  was 
known  during  the  life-time  of  his  father  as 
John  de  Dufiford  He  was  knight  of  the  shire, 
and  died  before  Michaelmas,  1 3 19.  He  mar- 
ried Isabella  . 

(III)  Sir  Roger  (2),  son  of  Sir  John,  mar- 
ried, as  early  as    1316,   Margaret  .      He 

was  Lord  of  Washbourne. 

(IV)  John  (2)  Washburn,  son  of  Sir 
Roger,  was  a  younger  son.  He  had  an 
elder  brother,  also  named  John,  who  died 
without  issue,  and  consequently  the  estate  and 
manner  of  Washbourne  was  confirmed  to  the 


younger  son  by   his   father,   Sir  Roger.      He 

married  Isabelle  . 

(Vj  Peter  Washborne,  son  of  John  (2) 
Washburn,  married  Isolde  Hanley  in  the 
twenty-ninth  year  of  the  reign  of  Edward  III. 
He  had  sons :  John,  mentioned  below,  and 
William. 

(VI)  John  (3)  Washborne,  son  of  Peter 
Washborne,  married  (first)  Joan  Musard,  and 
(second  J  Margaret  Poher,  or  Powre,  of 
Wichenford.  He  was  knight  of  the  shire, 
escheator,  and  vice-comes.  He  was  the  last 
of  the  name  to  own  Stanford,  and  the  first  in 
Wichenford,  and  was  living  in  July,  in  the 
fifth  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VI.  Chil- 
dren: Isolde  (by  first  wife),  Norman,  John, 
Elynor. 

(VII)  Norman  Washburn,  son  of  John  (3) 
Washborne ;  married  Elizabeth  Knivton.  As 
son  and  heir  he  had  a  grant  of  the  manor  of 
Washborne  from  his  father  in  the  fifth  year 
of  the  reign  of  Henry  VI.  He  died  before 
1479.  Children:  John,  mentioned  below; 
Eleanor ;  other  daughters. 

(VIII)  John  (4),  son  of  Norman  Wash- 
burn, died  in  May,  15 17.  He  was  probably 
born  as  early  as  1454.  He  was  a  commis- 
sioner. He  married  (first)  Joan  Mitton,  of 
Weston,  county  Stafford,  and  (second)  Eliza- 
beth Monington,  of  Butters,  county  Hereford, 
who  was  buried  at  Bosbury.  His  will  was 
dated  May  3,  15 17,  and  he  died  May  6,  fol- 
lowing. He  was  buried  in  Wichenford 
Church.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Robert, 
died  in  the  lifetime  of  his  father.  2.  John, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Walter,  executor  of  his 
father's  will.  4.  Francis.  Children  of  second 
wife :     5.  Anthony,  of  Bosbury.  6.  Richard. 

(IX)\john  (5).  son  of  John  (4)  Wash- 
burn, was  founder  of  what  is  known  as  the 

Bengeworth  branch,  and  married  Emme  , 

who  lived  at  Bengeworth,  a  few  miles  distant 
from  Little  Washljourne.  His  will  was  dated 
December  27,  1546,  and  he  died  soon  after- 
ward. His  wife  made  her  will  May  i,  1547. 
Children:  i.  John,  mentioned  below.  2.  Wil- 
liams, married  Margaret  Harward. 

(X)  John  (6),  son  of  John  (5)  Washburn, 
of  Bengeworth,  married  (first)  in  1542,  Jone 
Bushell.  He  married  (second)  in  1561,  Jone 
Whitehead,  who  was  buried  in  1567.  He  was 
buried  in  1593.  Child,  John,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(XI)  John   (7),  son  of  John    (6)    Wash- 


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burn,  was  of  Bengeworth,  and  married,  in 
1596,  Martha  Stevens,  whose  will  was  proved 
in  1 626.  He  was  buried  in  1624.  His  will 
was  dated  August  3,  1624.  Children:  i. 
John,  baptized  July  2,  1597,  the  Duxbury  set- 
tler. 2.  Jane,  baptized  December  2,  1599. 
3.  William,  baptized  November  9,  1601.  4. 
Jone,  baptized  April  11,  1604,  buried  1636. 

(I)  William  Washburn,  above  mentioned 
as  having  land  on  Long  Island  before  the  mid- 
dle of  the  seventeenth  century,  settled  at 
Stratford,  Connecticut,  as  early  as  1655,  and 
about  1660  removed  with  his  eldest  son  to 
Hempstead,  Long  Island,  where  he  was  for 
some  time  engaged  in  business.  He  was  prob- 
ably well  advanced  in  years  at  the  time  of  his 
removal  to  Hempstead.  He  had  sons  John 
and  Hope,  and  a  daughter  Sarah,  who  mar- 
ried Robert  Williams,  of  Jericho,  Long  Island. 

(II)  Hope,  second  son  of  William  Wash- 
burn, was  associated  with  his  father  in  busi- 
ness for  some  years  at  Oyster  Bay,  Long 
Island,  and  settled  in  Stratford  as  early  as 
1666.  He  owned  a  large  amount  of  land  in 
the  section  called  Oronoke,  in  the  town  of 
Stratford,  and  removed  about  1675  to  Derby, 
Connecticut,  where  he  died  in  1696.  He  mar- 
ried, about  1660,  Mary,  daughter  of  Francis 
and  Joann  Stiles,  of  Windsor  and  Stratford. 
Francis  Stiles  came  to  Windsor  as  the  steward 
or  representative  of  Sir  Richard  Saltonstall, 
who  was  active  and  influential  in  the  early 
settlement  of  Connecticut.  He  probably  re- 
sided but  a  short  time  in  Stratford,  and  most 
of  his  life  on  this  side  of  the  ocean  was  passed 
at  Windsor.  Children  of  Hope  Washburn : 
Sarah,  born  in  December,  1661 ;  John,  May, 
1666 ;  William,  mentioned  below :  Ephraim, 
August  31.  1673;  Samuel,  March  i,  1677, 
and  Mary,  born  probably  at  Derby. 

(HI)  William,  second  son  of  Hope  and 
Mary  (Stiles)  Washburn,  was  born  March  8. 
1668,  in  Stratford,  and  resided  from  early 
childhood  in  Derby,  where  he  died  January 
28,  1741.  He  married,  August  20,  1696, 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Tabitha 
(Tomlinson)  Wooster,  who  died  April  i, 
1737-  Children:  Ephraim,  born  1701  ;  John, 
mentioned  below;  Edward,  born  June  17, 
1708;  Hannah,  171 1  ;  Gideon,  1714. 

(IV)  John,  second  son  of  William  and 
Hannah  (Wooster)  Washburn,  was  born  in 
1705,  in  Derby,  and  about  1730  settled  in  the 
town   of    North    Castle,    Westchester   county, 


New  York,  being  among  the  pioneers  of  that 
town.  He  married,  in  Derby,  November  5, 
1729,  Sarah  Gunn,  born  April  3,  1713,  in 
Derby,  second  daughter  of  Sergeant  Abel  and 
Agnes  (Hawkins)  Gunn.  Owing  to  the  lack 
of  vital  records  in  the  state  of  New  York,  it 
is  impossible  to  trace  his  children  definitely. 
Two  are  recorded  in  Derby.  It  is  supposed 
that  he  was  the  father  of  Joseph  Washburn, 
Sr.,  who  appears  in  the  census  of  Westchester 
county  in  1790. 

(V)  Joseph  Washburn  had  in  his  family 
three  males  over  sixteen  years  of  age  and  one 
under  that  age,  according  to  the  census  of 
1790.  There  appear  as  heads  of  families 
about  the  same  time,  Joseph  Washburn,  Jr., 
Reuben  and  John  Washburn.  Possibly  this 
family  also  included  James  Washburn,  who 
was  too  young  at  that  time  to  be  the  head  of 
a  family. 

(VI)  James  Washburn  resided  in  West- 
chester county  and  settled  with  two  of  his 
brothers  in  the  vicinity  of  Sing  Sing,  now 
Ossining,  in  the  town  of  New  Castle.  Little 
can  be  learned  concerning  him,  but  he  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  a  farmer. 

(VII)  Benjamin  K.,  son  of  James  Wash- 
burn, was  born  August  16,  1805,  in  West- 
chester county,  and  died  October  30,  1878,  at 
Glasco,  in  Ulster  county.  New  York.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  north  of  Port 
Chester  and  learned  the  trade  of  tanner. 
About  1839  he  settled  near  the  village  of 
Haverstraw,  in  Rockland  county.  New  York, 
where  he  operated  a  large  tannery  many  years. 
In  1867  he  joined  his  sons  who  were  in  busi- 
ness at  Glasco,  and  lived  retired  from  active 
business  until  his  death.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth Vail,  of  Westchester  county,  March  18, 
1828;  she  died  April  9,  1872.  Children:  i. 
Uriah,  born  January  25,  1829,  a  brick  manu- 
facturer at  Haverstraw,  died  September  28, 
1892.  2.  Richard,  born  October  19,  1831,  died 
December  3,  1900;  was  president  of  the  Hud- 
son County  Bank,  at  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey. 
3.  Elizabeth,  born  December  12,  1833,  became 
the  wife  of  John  Knapp,  of  Stony  Point,  New 
York,  and  died  August  25,  1899.  4.  Harriet, 
born  May  10,  1836,  died  February  16,  1906. 
5.  John  T.  (q.  v.).  6.  George  W.,  mentioned 
below. 

(VIII)  George  Washington,  youngest  child 
of  Benjamin  K.  and  Elizabeth  (Vail)  Wash- 
burn, was  born  September  28,  1842,  at  Haver- 


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straw,  and  received  his  education  in  the  pub- 
lic sciiools  of  his  native  town.  He  was  early 
identified  with  the  manufacture  of  brick, 
working  some  years  in  a  yard  at  Haverstraw, 
until  he  had  gained  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
the  business.  In  i860,  in  association  with  his 
elder  brother,  John  T.  Washburn,  he  began 
the  manufacture  of  brick,  in  which  they  con- 
tinued seven  years  and  then  sold  out  their 
plant.  They  then  established  a  brick  yard  at 
Glasco  and  later  others  at  East  Kingston  and 
Catskill,  New  York.  Mr.  Washburn  now  re- 
sides at  Saugerties  and  is  an  influential  mem- 
ber of  the  Reformed  church  there,  in  which  he 
was  twelve  years  an  elder.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  affiliating  with 
Ulster  Lodge,  No.  193,  of  Saugerties.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  that 
town ;  vice-president  of  the  Ulster  County 
Savings  Bank  of  Kingston ;  president  of  the 
Washburn  Brothers  Company  of  New  York, 
the  Washburn  Brothers  Company  of  New 
Jersey,  and  the  G.  W.  Washburn  Company  of 
Catskill,  New  York.  Ever  since  his  majority 
Mr.  Washburn  has  been  actively  identified 
with  the  Republican  party  and  has  been  ten- 
dered nomination  for  member  of  congress 
from  his  district,  which  he  refused.  He 
served  as  chairman  of  the  county  committee 
and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  and 
influential  citizens  of  his  section 

He  married,  in  Glasco,  January  12,  1870, 
Alicia  A.  Maginnis,  born  February  23,  1845, 
died  January  7,  1903.  Children:  Mary  E., 
born  November  i,  1870;  William  M.,  May  lo,' 
1872;  Harriet  C,  September  5,  1873,  died 
February  21,  1903;  Catherine  F.,  December 
10.  1875,  married  Edgar  Clark  Reed;  Carrie 
L.,  October  24,  1877:  George  W.,  July  10, 
1879;  Edward  A.,  December  28,  1881,  married 
Helen  G.  Seaman;  Richard  C.,  March  24, 
1884;  Laura  V.,  December  i,  1885. 


(Vni)  John  Tyler,  third 
WASHBURN     son      of      Benjamin      K. 

Washburn  (q.  v.)  and 
Elizabeth  (Vail)  Washburn,  was  born  March 
15,  1840,  at  Haverstraw,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 18,  191 1,  at  Tampa,  Florida.  His  edu- 
cational opportunities  were  limited,  and  at 
the  age  of  fifteen  years  he  took  employment 
in  the  brick  yard  of  Peckham  &  Briggs,  at 
Haverstraw.  and  was  later  employed  bv  his 
elder  brother  at  that  place.     Before  attaining 


his  majority  he  joined  his  younger  brother, 
George  W.  Washburn,  in  establishing  a  brick- 
yard, in  which  they  were  successful  from  the 
beginning.  For  seven  years  they  continued  in 
business  at  Haverstraw,  and  in  1867  removed 
to  Glasco,  Ulster  county,  where  they  estab- 
lished a  yard,  and  became  the  largest  and  most 
successful  manufacturers  in  their  line  at  that 
time.  Mr.  Washburn  continued  successfully 
in  this  business  until  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
was  a  most  public-spirited  citizen,  ever  ready 
to  assist  any  enterprise  calculated  to  promote 
the  public  welfare.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  church  and  a  liberal  sup- 
porter of  other  churches,  and  was  affiliated 
with  the  Masonic  order.  Politically,  he  was 
a  Democrat  with  independent  tendencies,  but 
neither  sought  nor  accepted  public  station,  be- 
yond the  service  as  trustee  of  the  village  of 
Saugerties,  which  he  naturally  accepted  as  a 
good  citizen.  A  well-read  man,  he  made  up 
for  the  deficiencies  of  his  early  education  and 
was  considered  among  the  most  intelligent  and 
progressive  men  of  the  community  in  his  time. 
No  trust  reposed  in  him  was  ever  betrayed  and 
he  was  universally  esteemed  for  his  integrity 
and  sterling  worth.  He  married  (first)  Jan- 
uary 28,  1868,  Emma  A.  Searles,  daughter  of 
Ward  Searles,  born  at  Pleasantville,  West- 
chester county,  New  York.  Children :  George, 
mentioned  below ;  John  T.,  mentioned  below ; 
Emma,  deceased,  and  Ward  S.  John  T. 
\\'ashburn  married  (second)  February  28, 
1900,  Hannah  Margaret,  daughter  of  Jacob 
and  Margaret  Engle,  of  Haverstraw,  New 
York. 

(IX)  George,  eldest  son  of  John  Tyler  and 
Emma  A.  (Searles)  Washburn,  was  born 
November  11,  1868,  in  Glasco,  educated  in 
the  district  schools  and  Saugerties  Academy, 
and  early  in  life  became  associated  with  his 
father  in  the  brick  industry.  In  1891  he  re- 
moved to  Kingston  and  purchased  the  brick 
manufacturing  plant  of  the  J.  H,  Kerr  Brick 
Company,  of  which  he  was  placed  in  charge, 
and  on  the  death  of  his  father,  became  head  of 
the  establishment.  The  concern  is  now  owned 
and  conducted  by  George  and  Lucien  H. 
Washburn.  Mr.  Washburn  is  also  engaged 
in  the  freighting  of  brick  to  New  York.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  the 
Benevolent  Protective  Order  Elks,  the  Ron- 
dout  Club  of  King.ston.  the  Albany  Club,  and 
the  Transportation  Club  of   New  York  City. 


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He  married  Eleanor  K.  Hutton,  daughter  of 
William  Hutton,  of  Kingston. 

(IX)  JohnT.  (2),  second  son  of  John  T.  (i) 
Washburn,  was  born  at  Glasco,  New  York, 
May  13,  1873.  He  was  educated  at  Sauger- 
ties  Academy,  then  became  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  manufacture  of  brick,  at 
Glasco,  until  the  latter's  death,  and  is  still 
engaged  in  the  same  business.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Saugerties  Club,  and  the  Masons. 
He  married,  December  28,  1898,  Maude  M. 
MacFarland,  of  Oswego,  New  York. 


The  surname  or  family  name  of 
BAUER  Bauer  is  German  in  origin,  and 
stands  for  "husbandman."  It  is 
a  name  well  known  in  Germany,  and  in  Ger- 
man-speaking lands,  and  though  borne  by  a 
good  many  people  of  modest  station  has 
nevertheless  had  a  goodly  number  of  distin- 
guished bearers  in  social,  political  and  military 
life.  A  great  many  families  bearing  the  name 
of  Bauer  or  Von  Bauer  in  the  old  land  have 
the  right  to  bear  arms.  The  name  was  con- 
spicuous among  the  lists  of  the  early  and 
large  German  emigration  from  the  Father- 
land into  America  in  the  last  and  preceding 
centuries,  while  in  some  cases  in  this  country 
it  has  lost  its  native  orthography  and  is  now 
known  as  Bower  or  some  similar  form. 

(I)  Frederick  William  Bauer,  the  immi- 
grant ancestor  of  the  Bauer  family  in  Amer- 
ica here  dealt  with,  was  born  in  Schleiz. 
Germany,  January  4,  1843.  ^^  was  a  son  of 
Frederick  William  and  Sophia  (John)  Bauer, 
the  latter  born  in  Schmaellen  Saxe  Altenburg, 
Thuringen,  Germany.  Besides  Frederick  Wil- 
liam here  mentioned  there  were  other  children 
as  follows :  Emmeline,  Augusta,  Mary,  Robert, 
Henry. 

Frederick  William  Bauer  was  a  teacher  in 
the  high  schools  and  colleges  in  several  cities 
in  Germany  and  Russia  and  travelled  exten- 
sively on  the  European  continent  and  Siberia 
until  the  year  1869,  when  he  came  to  New 
York  City.  After  several  brief  temporary 
residences  he  came  to  Piermont,  where  he 
since  has  remained,  becoming  first  principal  in 
the  Palisades  and  Piermont  public  schools, 
afterward  opening  the  Sparkill  Academy,  a 
high-class  private  school  which  he  conducted 
successfully  for  a  number  of  years  until  de- 
stroyed by  fire.  He  then  engaged  in  the  busi- 
ness of  manufacturing  jeweler  in  Jersey  City, 


New  Jersey,  in  partnership  with  William  T. 
R.  Miller,  under  the  firm  name  of  Miller  & 
Bauer,  and  continued  therein  for  a  consider- 
able number  of  years  until  the  financial  fail- 
ures of  Cleveland's  administration  caused  him 
to  retire.  He  then  engaged  in  the  life  insur- 
ance business  in  the  offices  of  the  New  York 
Life  Insurance  Company,  where  he  remained 
for  twenty-three  years,  finally  entering  the 
service  of  the  Niagara  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, where  he  is  now  as  superintendent  of 
agencies.  Mr.  Bauer  has  filled  many  local 
offices  of  honor;  was  five  times  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  village  of  Piermont.  retiring  at  his 
own  wish.  He  was  loan  commissioner  of 
Rockland  county  for  many  years,  and  has  held 
other  offices,  both  political  and  private,  of 
trust  and  honor.  He  is  a  staunch  Republican 
in  politics,  a  member  of  several  organizations, 
including  the  Masonic  fraternity.  He  mar- 
ried, October  24,  1882,  in  Piermont,  Maria 
Lavinia,  daughter  of  John  Adrian  and 
Amanda  (Iserman)  Ackerman,  born  Decem- 
ber 7,  1853,  in  Piermont,  New  York.  The 
only  child  was  Oswald  Ackerman,  mentioned 
below. 

(II)  Oswald  Ackerman,  the  only  child  of 
Frederick  William  and  Maria  Lavinia  (Acker- 
man) Bauer,  was  born  in  Piermont,  Rock- 
land county.  New  York,  January  13,  1885. 
He  attended  the  local  private  and  public 
schools  in  Piermont,  the  Nyack  high  school, 
graduating  in  1902.  He  then  entered  the 
Columbia  University  Law  School,  completing 
a  special  extended  course  of  four  years.  Mr. 
Bauer  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  Protestant, 
and  a  member  of  many  fraternal  and  learned 
societies,  including  the  Masonic  and  Odd 
Fellows  fraternities,  the  American  Historical 
Society,  the  American  Numismatic  Society, 
New  York  Zoological  Society,  American  So- 
ciety of  Curio  Collectors  and  Antiquarians, 
National  Geographic  Society,  Rockland 
County  Bar  Association,  the  State  Museum 
Society,  Ohio  State  Numismatic  Society,  the 
Lincoln  Fellowship,  etc.,  as  well  as  a  number 
of  patriotic  societies.  He  is  a  well-known 
collector  and  an  authority  on  the  early  history 
of  the  county  of  Rockland,  particularly  the 
aboriginal  occupation  thereof  of  which  he  has 
made  a  study.  He  has  been  for  seven  years 
a  magistrate  of  the  county  for  Orangetown,  a 
member  of  the  town  board  of  Orangetown 
and  the  holder  of  many  local  offices  of  honor 


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in  his  home  town.  He  is  active  in  local  poli- 
tics and  an  officer  of  the  executive  committee 
of  the  Republican  County  Organization.  He 
is  a  practising  attorney,  having  his  place  of 
business  at  Sparkill,  New  York,  where  he  has 
been  markedly  successful. 

He  married,  February  22,  191 2,  in  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  at  Spring  Valley, 
New  York,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Edgar  Tilton,  of  the 
Reformed  Church  of  Harlem,  officiating,  Pau- 
line Mae  Eckerson,  born  May  21,  1887,  in 
New  York  City.  Mrs.  Pauline  Mae  (Ecker- 
son) Bauer  was  the  daughter  of  Peter  Quick 
and  Pauline  (Smith)  Eckerson.  Mr.  Ecker- 
son was  born  in  Clarkstown,  Rockland 
county.  New  York,  Noverpber  19,  1839,  died 
January  10,  1904.  He  was  a  prominent  law- 
yer in  New  York  City  for  many  years  and 
connected  with  many  enterprises  of  note.  His 
wife,  Pauline  (Smith)  Eckerson,  was  born 
July  31,  1855,  and  married  Peter  Q.  Eckerson 
in  1876,  being  his  second  wife.  The  children 
of  Peter  Q.  Eckerson  were:  Frank  L.,  born 
October,  1868;  Pauline  Mae  (above  men- 
tioned) ;  Pauline  Annetta,  born  March  21, 
1879;  William  DeWitt,  born  December,  1889, 
and  Peter  Q.,  Jr.  Of  these,  Frank  L.,  the 
eldest,  now  deceased,  graduated  from  the  Col- 
lege of  the  City  of  New  Y'ork  and  the  Colum- 
bia Law  School.  He  was  a  young  man  of 
brilliant  attainments  and  prominent  in  political 
life,  being  president  of  the  Harlem  Demo- 
cratic Club  of  New  York  City  and  connected 
with  many  other  organizations. 


The  original  meaning  of  the 
FLEMMING  term  or  appellation,  Flem- 
ing, appears  to  have  been 
a  "native  of  Flanders."  That  is  the  meaning 
of  the  word  "Fleming"  to-day,  and  it  seems 
quite  likely  that  the  obvious  meaning  of  the 
word  has  been  the  signification  all  along  of 
the  surname,  from  its  origin  to  the  present 
time.  There  were  Flemings  in  England  and  in 
other  countries  at  an  early  date,  and  many 
natives  of  the  country  of  Flanders  accom- 
panied William  the  Conqueror  in  the  invasion 
of  England  and  several  were  in  the  Norman 
army  that  defeated  the  English  or  Anglo- 
.Saxons  at  Hastings.  Several  persons  desig- 
nated Flandrensis  occur  in  Domesday  Book, 
thus :  W^inemar  Flandrensis  was  a  tenant  in 
chief  in  county  Buckinghamshire,  and  Hugo 
Flandrensis    in    Bedfordshire.      Walter   Flan- 


drensis was  a  tenant  in  chief  in  Hertford- 
shire, Buckinghamshire,  and  Bedfordshire, 
etc.  He  "assumed  this  surname  in  regard  he 
came  from  Flanders,  and  assisted  William  at 
the  battle  of  Hastings.  Walter  Bek,  who 
came  over  with  the  Conqueror,  had  a  large 
inheritance  in  Flanders,  and  had  several  lord- 
ships given  to  him  in  England;  but  whether 
Walter  Flandrensis  and  Walter  Bek  were 
one  and  the  same  person  does  not  sufficiently 
appear" — thus  runs  a  statement  in  Kelham's 
Domesday.  There  were  numerous  settlements 
of  Flemings  at  subsequent  periods,  and  Le 
Fleming  was  a  very  common  surname  in  Eng- 
land throughout  the  Middle  Ages.  Fland- 
rensis is  simply  the  name  Fleming  Latinized 
according  to  the  custom  of  the  times  in  many 
documents.  Flanders,  which  is  really  the 
name  of  Fleming  in  its  Latinized  form,  is  a 
name  well  known  in  America,  and  the  immi- 
grant ancestor  was  Stephen  Flanders,  who 
was  a  pioneer,  in  Salisbury,  Massachusetts,  as 
early  as  1640,  and  proprietor  of  that  town 
from  1646  to  1677.  He  is  the  ancestor,  it  is 
claimed,  of  all  the  colonial  families  of  the 
name  in  Massachusetts,  Maine,  and  possibly 
of  the  whole  country.  There  is  a  branch  of 
the  Flemings  who  intermarried  with  the  Reil- 
leys  of  New  Jersey,  and  the  New  Jersey 
Flemings  are  descendants  of  Samuel  Fleming, 
who  built  the  first  house  and  founded  the  now 
prosperous  town  of  Flemington,  New  Jersey. 
Samuel  Fleming's  wife  was  named  Esther,  and 
she  was  of  French  descent.  In  Ireland  and 
Scotland  the  name  is  well  known  under  vari- 
ous forms,  such  as  Flems,  Flemish,  Flem,  as 
well  as  Fleming.  In  England  the  name  has 
been  associated  with  considerable  honors  and 
distinctions,  and  has  been  the  family  name  of 
persons  of  distinction,  who  have  also  borne 
territorial  titles  of  various  kinds. 

( I )  Robert  W.  Flemming,  immigrant  an- 
cestor of  this  Flemming  family,  was  born  in 
county  Kent,  south  of  England,  1840,  died  at 
Rondout,  New  York,  1898.  He  served  in  the 
English  navy  in  the  war  between  England  and 
China,  known  as  the  opium  war,  and  subse- 
quentlv  settled  in  Australia.  He  later  re- 
turned to  England  and  came  to  America  from 
county  Kent,  England,  in  1868.  settling  at 
Rondout,  New  York.  He  married  Elizabeth 
O'Brien,  a  native  of  countv  Kent.  England. 
Children:  Robert  W  ;  Harry  Hardwicke, 
mentioned  below ;  Anna  A. ;  Thomas  W. 


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(II)  Harry  Hardwicke,  son  of  Robert  W. 
and  Elizabeth  (O'Brien)  Fleming,  was  born 
at  Rondout,  New  York,  February  13,  1874. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  and 
graduated  from  Ulster  Academy  in  1891.  On 
leaving  school  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Ulster  and  Delaware  Railroad  Company,  but 
in  the  year  1899  he  commenced  the  study  of 
the  law,  completing  his  studies  at  the  Albany 
Law  School  in  1902.  He  was  admitted  to 
practice  as  an  attorney  and  counsellor  at  law 
in  the  same  year,  and  has  continued  practicing 
at  Kingston  ever  since.  Mr.  Flemming  is  a 
member  of  the  Ulster  County  Bar  Associa- 
tion, the  New  York  State  Bar  Association, 
and  the  American  Bar  Association.  He  is 
secretary  of  the  Ulster  and  Delaware  Rail- 
road Company,  secretary  of  the  Cornell 
Steamboat  Company,  trustee  of  the  Rondout 
Savings  Bank,  director  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Rondout,  trustee  of  the  Trinity 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Kingston, 
president  of  the  Central  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association  of  Kingston,  member  of  the 
State  Committee  of  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
and  member  of  the  Rondout  Lodge,  No.  343, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  In  politics  Mr. 
Flemming  is  a  Republican.  He  married,  April 
20,  1904,  Harriet  N.,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Henry  W.  and  Anna  Sherwood.  Children : 
Arthur  Sherwood,  born  in  1905 ;  Elizabeth, 
born  in  191 1. 


The  Staples  family  has  been 
STAPLES     prominent    in    Ulster    county. 

New  York,  for  several  gen- 
erations. David  Staples,  the  first  member  of 
the  family  of  whom  we  have  definite  informa- 
tion, is  said  to  have  been  the  first  judge  of 
Ulster  county.  Among  his  children  was 
Stephen,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Stephen,  son  of  David  Staples,  settled 
in  Kingston.  Ulster  county.  New  York,  in 
1840.  and  died  there.  He  married  Jane  Case. 
Among  his  children  was  Alva  S.,  referred  to 
below. 

(III)  Alva  S..  son  of  Stephen  and  Jane 
(Case)  Staples,  was  born  in  Marlboro,  Ulster 
county,  New  York.  April  25.  1832.  died  in 
Kingston,  New  York,  September  16.  1906. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Kingston,  New  York,  to  which 
place  he  removed  with  his  parents  when  eight 


years  of  age,  and  afterwards,  from  1852  to 
i860,  he  was  engaged  in  the  general  mercantile 
business  there,  and  a  few  years  later  estab- 
lished the  flour,  feed  and  grain  business  which 
he  conducted  until  his  death.  In  1876  he  op- 
erated the  Arcade  Mills,  and  developed  an 
extensive  business  throughout  the  state ;  he 
also  established  a  brick  manufactory  at  East 
Kingston,  and  another  at  Port  Ewen,  Ulster 
county.  New  York.  He  was  for  twenty-five 
years  the  president  of  the  Rondout  Savings 
Bank,  and  for  the  same  length  of  time  was 
one  of  the  directors  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Rondout.  He  was  one  of  the  direc- 
tors of  the  Ulster  and  Delaware  railroad,  and 
was  president  of  the  Mount  Repose  cemetery. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  and  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
a  Presbyterian  in  religion.  He  married.  Sep- 
tember 8,  1856,  Mary  Stitt  Rouse,  born  in 
1834,  died  December  18,  1912.  Children: 
Carrie  S.,  married  John  Cadwell :  Alvaet^a, 
married  J.  Wilton  Morse;  Anne  R.,  married 
B.  Morse  Tremper ;  Seth  S.,  referred  to  be- 
low;  Alva  S.  (2),  referred  to  below. 

(IV)  Seth  S.,  son  of  Alva  S.  and  Mary 
Stitt  (Rouse)  Staples,  was  born  in  Kingston, 
New  York,  August  28,  1868,  and  is  now  living 
there.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  Kingston,  then  graduated 
from  St.  Luke's  Academy,  at  Wayne,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  then  became  associated  with  his 
father  in  the  manufacture  of  brick  in  Kings- 
ton, which  business  he  continued  after  the 
death  of  his  father  in  1906,  and  still  conducts 
in  partnership  with  his  brother.  He  married. 
December  7.  1898,  Rebecca,  daughter  of 
William  H.  and  Ellen  (Wing)  Campbell,  of 
New  Hampshire.  Child:  Campbell,  born  Sep- 
tember 29,  1912. 

(IV)  Alva  S.  (2),  son  of  Alva  S.  (i)  and 
Mary  Stitt  (Rouse)  Staples,  was  born  in 
Kingston,  New  York,  April  24,  1873.  and  is 
now  living  there.  He  received  his  early  edu- 
cation at  the  Ulster  Academy  and  later  was  a 
student  at  Cornell  University,  at  Ithaca,  New 
York.  He  then  became  associated  with  his 
father  in  the  flour,  feed  and  grain  business  in 
Kingston,  in  which  he  still  continues  in  part- 
nership with  his  brother,  and  also  in  1906  en- 
gaged in  the  brick  manufacturing  industry  at 
Maiden,  New  York,  which  he  still  conducts 
and  which  he  has  developed.  He  is  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Staples  Brick  Company, 


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and  is  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Rondout 
National  Bani<.  He  is  a  RepubHcan  in  politics, 
and  is  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  in  Rondout.  He  married,  January  19, 
1909,  Cora  Matilda,  daughter  of  Albert  and 
Matilda  (Ostrander)  Terry.  Children:  Mary 
Matilda  and  Terry. 


The  Lamb  family  is  one  of  the 
LAMB  most  numerous  in  England  to-day, 
and  has  been  for  countless  genera- 
tions. To  it  belong  Charles  Lamb,  of  delight- 
ful literary  fame,  and  to  it  have  belonged 
statesmen,  lords  and  gentlemen.  Among  its 
members  are  many  yeomen,  the  bulwark  of 
England  at  this  time,  as  they  have  been  in  the 
past.  In  Devonshire  and  Yorkshire,  England, 
it  is  said  that  every  twentieth  person  may  be 
called  Lamb  with  the  certainty  of  using  the 
correct  name.  Ireland,  also,  lays  claim  to 
having  many  of  the  name  within  its  green  bor- 
ders ;  and  Germany  has  hundreds  of  Lambs 
as  subjects.  It  most  probably  originated 
among  the  shepherds  who  tended  the  flocks 
in  a  forgotten  era,  as  it  was  customary  cen- 
turies ago  to  designate  men  by  their  given 
names  attached  to  that  of  their  occupations. 
There  are  Lambs  in  every  state  of  the  Union, 
and  it  would  be  futile  to  undertake  to  trace 
them  all  to  one  source.  The  name  appears 
among  those  of  the  early  settlers  of  the  pro- 
vince of  New  Jersey,  and  the  annals  of  Massa- 
chusetts show  that  men  of  the  name  landed  on 
those  wild  shores  in  1673. 

(I)  Edward  Lamb,  the  emigrant  ancestor 
of  Charles  H.  Lamb  and  his  sister,  Miss  Julia 
E.  Lamb,  was  born  in  Ireland  of  well-to-do 
parents,  and  was  given  an  excellent  educa- 
tion for  that  day.  In  Ireland  he  entered  into 
commercial  life  as  a  linen  merchant.  He  pros- 
pered greatly  and  married  Barbara,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Fitzpatrick.  With  each  returning  ves- 
sel from  the  New  World  he  heard  stories  of 
the  wonderful  opportunities  of  that  country 
and  prepared  to  leave  for  it.  In  this  he  was 
aided  and  abetted  by  his  wife,  a  woman  of 
brave  spirit  and  indomitable  will.  They  had 
several  children  at  the  time  of  their  embarka- 
tion for  America,  1820,  and  many  were  born 
after  they  had  settled  in  New  York,  in  all, 
twelve.  He  landed  in  New  York,  later  lo- 
cated in  Newburgh,  Orange  county.  New 
York,  and  began  the  manufacture  of  gun- 
powder.    He  was  fast  accumulating  what  at 


that  time  would  have  been  an  immense  for- 
tune when  he  was  killed  in  an  unaccountable 
explosion.  Among  his  children  was  Daniel,  of 
whom  further. 

(II)  Daniel,  son  of  Edward  and  Barbara 
(Fitzpatrick)  Lamb,  was  born  in  Newburgh, 
New  York,  November  14,  1829.  His  father 
died  at  Newburgh  when  Daniel  was  six  years 
of  age,  and  the  latter  moved  with  his  mother 
to  New  York  City  and  later  became  engaged 
in  business  with  an  older  brother.  He  moved 
to  Saugerties  when  nineteen  years  old,  en- 
gaged with  John  Welch  in  business,  and  re- 
mained with  him  until  1864,  when  he  estab- 
lished a  hardware  business  with  Mr.  Kipp, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Lamb  &  Kipp.  They 
did  a  prosperous  business  for  nineteen  years, 
at  the  expiration  of  which  time  Mr.  Lamb  pur- 
chased the  junior  partner's  interest.  He  con- 
ducted business  for  over  forty  years  in  the 
store  now  occupied  by  his  son  in  Saugerties 
He  died  May  7,  1912,  and  was  succeeded  by 
his  son,  Charles  H.  Lamb.  For  sixty-three 
years  he  was  a  member  of  Confidence  Lodge, 
No.  51,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
of  Saugerties,  and  held  every  office  in  the  gift 
of  the  lodge.  He  was  a  Democrat  and  worked 
indefatigably  for  the  party,  but  never  ac- 
cepted public  office,  though  pressed  to  do  so 
on  many  occasions.  He  was  one  of  the  most 
highly  esteemed  and  respected  men  in  Sau- 
gerties, and  his  death  was  greatly  and  widely 
lamented.  He  was  a  director  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Saugerties,  trustee  of  the 
Saugerties  Savings  Bank,  director  of  the  Sau- 
gerties Manufacturing  Company,  and  an  at- 
tendant of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  He 
married,  in  1859,  Ellen,  born  October  14. 
1838,  died  August  30,  1908,  daughter  of 
Charles  N.  and  Gertrude  Maria  (Post)  Hum- 
mel, of  Saugerties,  and  a  descendant  of  revo- 
lutionary ancestry.  She  was  one  of  the 
brainy  women  of  her  day.  and  a  devout  mem- 
ber of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Annie,  deceased.  2.  Julia  E.,  born 
December  17,  i860;  she  is  one  of  the  pro- 
gressive and  intellectual  women  of  Saugerties, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  being  a  lineal  descend- 
ant of  the  gallant  Colonel  Johannes  Snyder, 
of  revolutionary  fame.  3.  Charles  H.,  of 
whom  further.  4.  Arthur  D.,  deceased.  5. 
Gertrude  M.,  born  August  9,  1875 ;  also  a 
Daughter  of  the  American  Revolution. 


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(III)  Charles  H.,  son  of  Daniel  and  Ellen 
(Hummel)  Lamb,  was  bv..n  December  7, 
1862,  in  Saugerties,  New  York.  He  received 
his  education  at  the  Saugerties  Academy  and 
on  leaving  school  became  the  able  assistant  of 
his  father  in  the  hardware  business,  which  had 
at  that  time  incorporated  with  it  building  sup- 
plies. In  1906  he  was  admitted  as  partner, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Daniel  Lamb  &  Son, 
now  known  as  D.  Lamb's  Son.  Mr.  Lamb  is 
recognized  as  one  of  the  progressive  citizens 
and  business  men  of  Saugerties,  and  is  identi- 
fied with  the  best  interests  of  the  town.  He 
is  a  trustee  of  the  Saugerties  Savings  Bank, 
a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank,  and  a 
director  of  the  Saugerties  Manufacturing 
Company.  He  married,  in  September,  1890, 
Clara,  daughter  of  William  E.  Myers,  of 
Saugerties.  Children :  Arthur  D.,  born  Au- 
gust q,  1891  ;  Catherine  M.,  June  5,  1899. 


In  the  year  1677  a  commission, 
WOOD  composed  of  nine  men,  appointed 
by  the  proprietors  to  take  charge 
of  afifairs  in  the  province  of  West  Jersey,  left 
England  in  company  with  a  large  number  of 
settlers,  most  of  them  members  of  the  Society 
of  Friends.  The  company  of  settlers  arrived 
at  New  Castle  (Delaware)  on  the  i6th  of 
August,  while  the  commission  went  on  to  New 
York  to  wait  on  Governor  Andros.  These 
settlers,  shortly  after  their  arrival  at  New 
Castle,  encamped  at  the  mouth  of  the  Narriti- 
con.  or  Raccoon  Creek,  where  a  few  Swedes 
had  previously  settled. 

After  many  difficulties  with  Governor  An- 
dros, the  commission  rejoined  these  settlers 
and  proceeded  in  the  discharge  of  a  part  of 
their  trust.  They  purchased  from  the  natives 
there  several  portions  of  land  upon  the  Dela- 
ware river,  the  whole  reaching  from  the  As- 
sunpink,  on  the  north,  to  Oldman's  Creek,  on 
the  south.  The  West  Jersey  proprietors  had 
entered  into  a  contract  or  agreement  with  five 
individuals  of  the  county  of  York,  England, 
directing  this  commission  to  grant  to  the  five 
persons  in  question  the  privilege  of  choosing 
any  one  of  the  tenth  parts  or  shares  into  which 
the  land  they  had  purchased  should  be  divided. 
The  representatives  of  the  Yorkshire  interests 
chose  the  land  extending  from  Rankokus  to 
the  falls  of  the  Delaware,  and  this  portion  was 
accordingly  assigned  to  them  by  the  commis- 


sion as  the  first  tenth,  sometimes  called  the 
"Yorkshire  tenth." 

This  was  the  first  tenth  disposed  of,  and 
was  naturally  settled  largely  by  Yorkshire 
families.  The  order  of  apportioning  the  land 
to  the  several  settlers  was  determined  by  the 
date  of  the  applicant's  arrival,  advantages  be- 
ing allowed  to  early  applicants,  and  also  ac- 
cording to  the  number,  age  and  condition  of 
the  persons  who  were  brought  to  the  prov- 
inces. 

Among  these  early  English  settlers  who 
came  to  West  Jersey  there  were  more  persons 
of  the  name  of  Wood  than  of  any  other.  They 
must  have  been  pleased  with  the  scheme  of 
settlement  as  laid  down  by  the  commissioners 
and  proprietors,  and  must  have  made  its  suc- 
cess certain  from  the  beginning.  They  were 
men  of  some  estate,  as  they  purchased  their 
property  rights  before  leaving  their  native 
land ;  they  were  men  of  education,  for  they 
at  once  took  part  in  the  management  and  con- 
trol of  the  new  government.  Most  of  them 
were  Quakers,  and  a  perusal  of  Besse's  his- 
tory of  that  sect  will  show  the  reason  why  they 
were  so  anxious  to  break  up  their  homes  in 
England  and  brave  the  wilds  and  hardships  of 
America. 

From  1654  to  1683,  persons  of  the  name  of 
Wood  were  imprisoned  in  the  Hartfordshire, 
Lancashire,  Yorkshire,  Durham  and  Cumber- 
land jails  for  attending  Quaker  meetines,  and 
from  these  sections  came  most  of  the  Woods 
who  settled  in  West  Jersey,  of  whom  was  this 
particular  family.  It  is  thus  not  alone  in- 
teresting: to  know  whence  they  came  and 
where  they  settled ;  but  also  the  reason  there- 
for. 

William  Wood  was  the  first  to  arrive  in  this 
new  colony.  He  landed  at  Burlington,  in  1677, 
having  come  over  in  the  "Willing  Mind."  com- 
manded by  John  Newcomb,  and  in  1680  he 
located  thirty-six  acres  in  the  town  of  Bur- 
lington. He  was  followed  in  eleven  months 
by  John  Wood,  of  Yorkshire,  who  arrived  in 
the  Delaware,  in  the  tenth  month  of  1678,  in 
the  ship  "Shield,"  of  Hull,  commanded  by 
Daniel  Tods.  In  1682.  another  John  Wood, 
of  Lancashire,  a  Quaker,  came  to  West  Jer- 
sey, and  settled  at  Burlington  on  three  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  at  the  mouth  of  the  Wood- 
bury Creek.  He  married  and  had  five  chil- 
dren. This  family  always  remained  at  Burl- 
ington.     One    can   consider,   then,   that   these 


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three  men  were  the  first  of  their  name  to  settle 
in  this  part  of  the  province. 

Later  on,  a  Henry  Wood,  of  Rhode  Island, 
moved  to  West  Jersey,  and  settled  at  Burling- 
ton, in  1687.  He  was  the  son  of  William  Wood, 
author  of  "New  England  Prospect."  pubhshed 
in  London  in  1634.  Most  of  the  literature  on 
the  early  English  settlers  of  West  Jersey  con- 
fuses the  above  two  John  W'oods  and  their 
families,  and  as  a  number  of  their  respective 
children  bore  the  same  Christian  names  the 
confusion  has  increased,  until  it  is  only  after 
long  and  exhaustive  search  that  we  are  able 
to  distinguish  at  all  accurately  their  respective 
places  in  the  history  of  this  early  colony. 

It  is  safe  to  assume  that  these  two  John 
Woods  were  in  no  way  related,  and  especially 
as  they  came  from  dififerent  parts  of  England. 
John  Wood  of  Yorkshire  was  the  only  known 
English  settler  in  the  county  of  Bucks,  Penn- 
sylvania, in  1678,  and  some  historians  state 
that  he  was  one  of  the  first  Quaker  settlers  in 
this  country ;  but  this  can  be  shown  otherwise. 

The  "Shield"  was  the  first  English  vessel 
to  pass  up  the  Delaware  as  far  as  Burlington 
and,  arriving  in  the  night,  tied  up  to  a  tree 
to  await  the  morning.  During  the  night  the 
weather  became  extremely  cold,  and  by  morn- 
ing the  river  was  frozen  so  solid  that  the  pas- 
sengers walked  ashore  on  the  ice. 

(T)  John  Wood,  of  Attercliffe,  in  the  parish 
of  Sheffield,  Yorkshire,  in  the  year  1677,  pur- 
chased of  George  Hutchinson,  of  that  place,  a 
quantity  of  proprietary  rights,  including  a 
sixty-fourth  share  in  the  province  of  West 
Jersey,  to  be  enjoyed  by  him  upon  his  arrival 
there.  The  ship-book  of  the  "Shield"  shows 
that  he  was  a  passenger  on  that  boat  with  his 
five  children,  viz. :  John,  Joseph,  Ester,  Mary 
and  Sarah.  Nothing  is  said  as  to  his  wife,  so 
it  may  safely  be  assumed  that  she  died  prior 
to  his  departure  for  America,  otherwise  there 
would  surely  have  been  some  reference  to  her 
in  the  ship's  book.  It  is  of  interest  to  note 
that  Thomas  Wood,  a  brother  of  John  Wood, 
came  on  the  same  ship,  and  settled  at  Burling- 
ton, New  Jersey.  John  Wood  settled  tempor- 
arily on  lands  purchased  from  Richard  Ran- 
dall and  John  Champion,  on  Creswick  Creek; 
but  shortly  afterward  moved  across  the  Dela- 
ware to  a  place  called  Falls,  in  Crookhorn  Dis- 
trict, Bucks  county,  and  settled  on  a  tract  of 
478  acres,  together  with  an  island  lying  oppo- 
site the  same  in  the  Delaware  river. 


John  Wood  was,  with  Richard  Noble  and 
William  Ridgeway,  a  representative  of  the  ex- 
treme eastern  end  of  the  county,  before  what 
was  called  the  "Upland  Court,"  held  Septem- 
ber 13,  1681, — William  Biles  and  Robert  Lu- 
cas on  the  bench.  The  former  was  the  first 
constable  at  Falls,  April  19,  1693.  In  1680, 
Thomas  Loyd  was  informed  by  Benjamin 
Fletcher  of  New  York  province :  "We  have 
received  their  Majesties'  commission  for  the 
government  of  Pennsylvania,"  and  on  May  31, 
1684,  John  A\'ood  received  a  patent  from 
William  Penn  confirming  the  previous  grant 
of  his  478  acres  of  land  and  the  island  men- 
tioned, made  to  him  by  Governor  Edmond 
Andros,  in  1679. 

John  Wood's  lands  comprised  a  part  of  the 
present  site  of  Morrisville,  Pennsylvania,  and 
had  a  river-front  of  one  mile  His  estates 
must  have  been  rather  extensive,  because  a  re- 
port of  the  jury  laying  out  the  townships  of 
Bucks  county,  in  1692,  bounds  the  towns  both 
of  Wakefield  and  Falls  by  lands  of  John 
Wood.  He  also  owned  large  tracts  of  land  in 
West  Jersey.  The  original  Indian  title  of  his 
land  in  Bucks  county  was  extinguished  by 
private  purchase  on  July  15,  1682,  at  which 
time  the  name  "Grey  Stone"  was  applied  to 
his  tract.  The  report  that  he  raised  cattle  is 
true,  for  the  records  of  1684  show  that  "John 
Wood  had  cattle  in  Bucks  County."  and  he 
was  also  a  carpenter. 

John  Wood  was  the  only  known  English 
settler  in  the  county  of  Bucks  in  1678.  He 
was  a  member  of  assembly  in  1682-83.  His 
eldest  son,  John,  died  prior  to  1687,  for  in  a 
deed  on  that  date  his  father  refers  to  his  "only 
son,  Joseph  Wood."  His  will  bears  date 
March  20,  1692;  admitted  September  12, 
1692.  His  executors  were  his  son,  Joseph,  and 
his  son-in-law,  Isaac  Smalley :  but  as  the  lat- 
ter did  not  qualify,  the  duty  of  settling  the 
estate  devolved  entirely  upon  the  son.  Thus 
the  land  received  from  William  Penn  became 
Joseph  Wood's  by  deed  of  January  26,  1687. 

It  is  reasonable  to  supose  that  John  Wood 
was  not  a  Quaker,  for  in  his  will  he  named 
his  son  as  an  executor  and  in  deeds  of  the 
same  year  refers  to  him  in  the  most  loving 
and  endearing  terms,  which  would  not  likely 
be  the  case  if  a  Quaker  because  of  the  very 
positive  views  held  by  the  Friends.  Besides, 
his  son  was  baptized  in  1691  and  entered  the 
Baptist  ministry  a  few  years  later. 


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John  Wood's  brother,  Thomas,  who  came 
with  him  from  Yorkshire,  England,  in  the 
"Shield,"  in  1678,  settled  at  Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  married  Mary  Howli  in  1685, 
and  by  her  had  two  sons  and  three  daughters. 
He  was  the  owner  of  large  tracts  of  land  bor- 
dering Allowaynes  Creek,  which  he  willed  to 
his  wife  and  children.  He  died  between  1709 
and  1713,  his  will  having  been  probated  in 
the  latter  year,  his  son.  Thomas,  named  sole 
executor.  This  branch  of  the  family  seems 
to  have  died  out  about  1750,  but  his  children 
were:  Thomas,  Elizabeth,  Joseph,  Sarah  and 
Martha. 

The  children  of  John  Wood  were;  i.  John, 
died  prior  to  1687.  2.  Joseph  (see  forward). 
3.  Ester,  married  Isaac  Smalley.  of  Piscata- 
way.  New  Jersey,  and  had  a  son  named  after 
his  father.  She  received  300  acres  of  land  in 
West  Jersey,  besides  the  first  land  which  her 
father  owned  upon  arrival,  near  Burlington, 
New  Jersey.  4.  Sarah,  married  Charles  Biles, 
a  prominent  farmer  of  Falls,  Pennsylvania ; 
received  no  land  from  her  father,  probably 
because  her  husband  owned  much  land  and 
her  brothers-in-law  were  less  fortunate.  He 
died  prior  to  1692.  5.  Mary,  married  Thomas 
Coleman. 

(H)  Joseph  Wood,  son  of  John  Wood,  was 
born  at  Hull,  Yorkshire,  England,  in  the  year 
1659.  He  came  to  this  country  with  his  father, 
in  1678,  and  settled  with  him  at  Falls,  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  baptized  by 
Mr.  Keach  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  on 
April  2,  1691.  On  September  25,  1708,  he 
was  ordained  a  minister  of  the  Baptist  church. 
Prior  to  that  time  he  had  attended  a  little 
church  at  Cold  Spring,  near  Falls,  founded  by 
Thomas  Dungan,  of  Rhode  Island,  which 
church  broke  up  in  1702.  He  also  attended  a 
church  at  Burlington,  but  that  church  dis- 
banded in  1699.  On  October  9,  1699,  he 
joined  Pennepek  church,  of  which  he  had 
been  elected  a  deacon  on  October  6th.  This 
was  the  first  Baptist  church  of  any  note  and 
permanency  in  the  province.  The  name  "Pen- 
nepek" was  formerly  written  "Pemmepeka," 
which  is  the  name  of  a  little  stream  running 
near  the  place  of  worship.  The  house  was  a 
stone  building,  thirty-three  by  thirty  feet,  with 
pews,  galleries  and  a  stove.  In  one  corner 
of  it  stood  the  pulpit,  and  the  galleries  in  the 
opposite  angles.  The  house  was  erected  in 
1707  on  a  lot  of  one  acre,  given  by  the  Rev. 


Samuel  Jones,  in  the  township  of  Lowerdub- 
lin,  in  the  county  of  Philadelphia,  eleven  miles 
north  of  that  city.  The  first  preacher  was 
Elias  Keach ;  then  John  Watts ;  then  Samuel 
Jones;  and,  in  1708,  Joseph  Wood.  He  was 
reckoned  a  good  preacher,  but  in  the  latter 
part  of  his  life  his  influence  was  lessened  by 
personal  unhappiness.  His  successor  was 
Abel  Morgan,  appointed  in  171 1. 

Joseph  Wood  was  a  carpenter  by  trade.  He 
received  from  his  father,  in  1684,  a  tract  of 
470  acres  together  with  an  island.  On  June 
21,  1703,  a  patent  was  issued  to  him  for  664 
acres  across  the  falls,  by  commissioners  of 
William  Penn.  The  original  land,  from  his 
father,  he  deeded  in  part  to  his  sons,  Jabez, 
Josiah  and  Benjamin.  Benjamin,  by  will  of 
October  25,  1725,  divided  his  share  of  this 
land  between  his  brothers,  Jabez  and  Josiah, 
and  this  land,  all  or  in  part,  remained  in  the 
family  until  1764,  when  the  last  seventy  acres 
and  the  island  were  sold  to  Adam  Hooper. 

He  was  justice  of  the  peace,  Bucks  county, 
July  13,  1693,  and  in  1717  petitioned  for  leave 
to  start  a  ferry  across  the  Delaware  at  the 
falls.  In  some  manner  he  was  associated  with 
Mr.  George  Keith  in  1691,  when  the  latter's 
followers,  known  as  "Keithan  Quakers,"  broke 
away  from  the  Quaker  church  through  dififer- 
ence  of  opinion  on  the  question  whether  a  man 
has  not  within  himself  the  sufficiency  for  his 
own  salvation.  He  died  September  15,  1747, 
and  his  will  does  not  seem  on  record. 

Joseph  Wood  married   (first)   Elizabeth,  in 

1687.  who  was  baptized  at  Burlington,  March 
16,  1700,  died  May  26,  1704,  and  buried  at 
Falls.  He  married  (second),  March  5,  1706, 
Katharine  Godfrey,  who  died  about  1729. 
About  1733,  he  married  (third)  Katharine 
Siverts,  daughter  of  Cornelius  Siverts,  of 
Philadelphia.    Children:  i.  Joseph,  born  about 

1688,  died  young.  2.  Jabez,  born  about  1690, 
died  1763.  3.  Josiah,  born  about  1691,  died 
in  1764.  4.  Tabitha,  born  about  1692.  died 
young.  5.  Benjamin,  born  about  1694,  died 
in  1729.  6.  John  (see  forward).  7.  Samuel. 
S.  William.    9.  Hannah. 

(Ill)  John  (2)  Wood,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Elizabeth  Wood,  was  born  at  Falls,  about 
1605,  and  later  removed  to  Hempstead,'  Long 
Island  As  the  first  three  of  his  four  children 
were  all  baptized  together  at  St.  George's 
Church  in  that  place,  on  February  22.  1736,  it 
would  seem  that  he  did  not  join  the  Episcopal 


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church  until  eight  years  after  his  marriage,  as 
the  church  would  not  b?r.^ize  children  unless 
at  least  one  of  the  parents  was  a  church  mem- 
ber. John  Wood  registered  his  earmark  in 
1729,  and  in  1748  he  was  appointed  a  justice 
of  the  peace.  In  1754  he  was  made  commis- 
sioner of  highways.  He  was  a  farmer  by  oc- 
cupation, and  besides  acting  in  many  public 
capacities  was  a  man  of  some  prominence. 
Evidently  he  broke  away  from  other  mem- 
bers of  his  family  residing  in  Pennsylvania, 
for  there  are  no  records  to  show  that  there 
was  any  family  intercourse  as  between  others 
of  his  own  brothers.  He  died  at  Hempstead, 
Long  Island,  between  April  and  October,  1765, 
and  is  buried  there.  His  personal  estate  was 
divided  by  will  dated  April  26,  1765,  among 
the  surviving  three  children,  Hannah,  Mary 
and  Catherine,  with  a  small  remembrance  to 
his  grandson,  Samuel  Wood. 

John  Wood  married,  at  Hempstead,  Long 
Island,  August  24,  1728,  Mary  Carman, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Carman.  Children:  i. 
Hannah,  born  September  7,  1729,  at  Hemp- 
.stead.  Long  Island,  baptized  February  22, 
1736;  married  (first),  February  2,  1763,  Ben- 
jamin Barker;  married  (second)  a  Mr.  De 
Motte ;  by  her  first  husband  had  two  children, 
John  and  William.  2.  Mary,  born  at  Hemp- 
stead, Long  Island,  about  1733,  baptized  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1736;  married.  May  i,  1775,  Daniel 
Ward;  died,  without  issue,  November  13, 
1772.  3.  Samuel  (see  forward).  4.  Cathe- 
rine, born  at  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  May  4, 
1738;  married,  February  3,  1770,  Walter  Skid- 
more,  and  died  without  issue. 

(IV)  Samuel  Wood,  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Mary  (Carman)  Wood,  was  born  at  Hemp- 
stead, Long  Island,  May  6,  1735,  died  in  1762 
Little  is  possible  to  ascertain  regarding  his 
life,  for  he  died  in  his  twenty-seventh  year. 
The  tradition  is  that  he  was  drowned  in 
Hempstead  Bay.  Samuel  Wood  married,  Oc- 
tober 8.  1759,  Freelove  Wright,  and  they  had 
one  child.  William,  whose  name  was  changed 
to  Samuel. 

(V)  Samuel  (2)  Wood,  son  of  Samuel  ( i) 
and  Freelove  (Wright)  Wood,  was  born  at 
Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island,  July  17,  1760,  died 
May  5,  1844.  Although  originally  christened 
"William,"  on  the  death  of  his  father,  while 
a  babe,  his  widowed  mother  changed  his  name 
to  that  of  his  parent.  He  was  early  thrown 
upon  his  own   resources,  and  had  a  struggle 


to  gain  an  education,  but  his  thirst  for  know- 
ledge and  love  for  books  thus  aroused  induced 
him  to  elect  to  be  first  a  schoolteacher  and  then 
a  bookseller.  School-teaching  yielded  inade- 
quate returns  upon  which  to  marry,  hence  he 
tried  several  callings,  living  successively  at 
Clinton  Town,  Nine  Partners,  New  York, 
1794;  New  Rochelle,  1796;  and  finally  remov- 
ing to  New  York  City  in  December,  1803, 
where  he  opened  a  book-shop  in  a  two-story 
brick  building  at  No.  362  Pearl  street.  At 
first  he  sold  miscellaneous  books  and  a  great 
many  of  the  second-hand  variety.  His  busi- 
ness included  paper  and  cotton  goods  con- 
signed by  Almy  &  Brown  of  Providence, 
Rhode  Island.  When  these  lines  proved  un- 
profitable, he  discarded  them  and  added  a 
printing  plant,  which  he  placed  in  charge  of 
his  two  sons,  and  published  books  on  his  own 
account. 

Observing  that  what  little  literature  was 
produced  for  children  was  uninteresting,  if  not 
in  some  cases  even  improper,  from  a  strict  re- 
ligious standpoint,  he  began  the  preparation 
and  reprinting  of  books  and  leaflets  for  youth- 
ful readers.  His  first  publication  is  said  to 
have  been  "The  Young  Child's  A  B  C,  or 
First  Book,"  a  little  affair  of  sixteen  pages, 
about  three  inches  square,  and  written  by  him- 
self. This  was  followed  by  numerous  others 
in  similar  style,  most  of  them  illustrated  by 
copper-plate  engravings,  often  colored  by 
hand.  Many  of  these  little  books  seem  to  have 
been  made  for  free  distribution,  as  Samuel 
Wood  is  known  to  have  been  in  the  habit  of 
going  about  with  his  pockets  full  of  them,  and 
of  giving  them  freely  to  the  children  whom  he 
met.  His  purpose  in  this  was  plainly  philan- 
thropic, and  the  little  books  abounded  in 
moral  prose  and  verse 

.  In  1810  he  removed  his  store  to  larger  quar- 
ters at  No.  357  Pearl  street.  In  this  year  was 
brought  out  his  first  important  publication,  an 
edition  of  Fox's  "Book  of  Martyrs,"  a  full 
octavo,  of  611  pages,  with  engraved  frontis- 
piece and  a  list  of  over  four  thousand  subscrib- 
ers, in  fact,  the  first  American  edition  of  this 
renowned  work.  At  about  this  time  he  pub- 
lished a  series  of  readers,  following  the  gen- 
eral plan  of  "The  Young  Child's  A  B  C," 
which  headed  the  list,  and  entitled  respectively 
"The  New  York  Primer,"  "The  New  York 
Preceptor,"  "The  New  York  Spelling-bonk," 
and  "The  New  York  Expositor." 


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Numerous  books  of  a  religious  or  devotional 
character,  such  as  books  of  sermons,  memoirs 
of  famous  Quakers,  "Instances  of  Early 
Piety,"  etc.,  were  published.  About  this  time 
Alexander  Anderson,  the  "father  of  American 
wood-engraving,"  was  just  becoming  known 
and  appreciated,  so  Samuel  Wood  employed 
his  art  to  embellish  most  of  his  books,  and  in 
some  of  the  old  advertisements  it  is  mentioned 
that  these  are  "adorned  with  cuts  by  the  in- 
genious Anderson." 

About  181 1  was  commenced  the  publication 
of  "  Wood's  Almanac,"  compiled  by  Joshua 
Sharp,  and  this  was  continued  until  1834.  In 
1815,  Samuel  Wood  took  into  partnership  two 
of  his  sons,  Samuel  S.  and  John  Wood,  and 
the  firm  name  became  Samuel  Wood  &  Sons. 
In  1818,  Samuel  S.  Wood  opened  a  store  in 
Baltimore,  which  was  kept  for  about  two 
years,  but  finally  closed.  In  1822  Samuel 
Wood  &  Sons  moved  again,  to  No.  261  Pearl 
street,  a  property  belonging  to  Samuel  Wood, 
and  another  son,  William,  was  admitted,  John 
Wood  retiring  from  the  firm.  The  business 
was  increased  considerably,  and  had  become 
to  a  large  extent  wholesale,  all  kinds  of  books, 
as  well  as  stationery,  being  dealt  in.  The  busi- 
ness increasing  yet  more,  they  moved  tempor- 
arily to  a  place  in  Fulton  street,  tore  down  the 
building  at  No.  261  Pearl  street,  and  erected 
the  substantial  five-story  building,  which  was 
standing  there  in  1903.  It  was  at  the  time 
considered  a  very  large  building  to  be  devoted 
exclusively  to  the  book  business.  In  1836 
Samuel  Wood  sold  his  interest  to  his  sons. 
Samuel  S.  and  William  Wood,  and  the  re- 
maining years  of  his  life  were  devoted  to  the 
philanthropic  and  charitable  labors  he  had  ever 
loved.  Samuel  Wood  was  christened  in  the 
Church  of  England,  but  in  early  life  joined 
the  "Society  of  Friends,"  or  Quakers,  of 
which  religious  body  he  remained  an  active 
and  influential  member  until  his  death. 

In  company  with  many  of  the  philanthro- 
pists of  his  day.  he  took  part  in  founding  the 
Savings  Bank,  the  House  of  Refuge,  and  the 
Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Pauperism.  He 
was  an  active  member  of  these,  as  well  as  of 
the  Manumission  Society,  the  Society  of  the 
New  York  Hospital  and  other  benevolent  in- 
stitutions. As  a  trustee  of  the  public  schools. 
he  was  untiring  in  his  efforts  to  better  the 
condition,  physical  as  well  as  educational,  of 
the  children  of  the  city.    About  1827  or  1828, 


he  observed  that  opthalmia  was  extremely 
prevalent  among  the  pupils  of  the  school  at 
Bellevue,  and  that  some  of  them  became  to- 
tally and  incurably  blind.  Touched  by  their 
forlorn  and  helpless  condition,  he  appealed  to 
the  public  through  the  newspapers,  urging  the 
adoption  of  speedy  measures  for  the  relief 
of  the  sightless  children  of  poverty.  Dr. 
Samuel  Akerly  also  espoused  the  cause,  and 
to  the  exertions  of  these  two  men  the  city  is 
indebted  for  the  Institution  for  the  Blind. 
From  1839  until  his  death.  May  5,  1844,  he 
had  been  partially  paralyzed,  and  his  friends 
believed  the  end  must  have  been  a  welcome 
surcease  to  his  activities  suddenly  stopped  by 
sickness.  His  grave  is  in  the  Friends'  Bury- 
ing Ground  now  incorporated  in  Prospect 
Park,  Brooklyn. 

Samuel  Wood  married,  August  8,  1782, 
Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Searing, 
by  whom  he  had  seven  sons  and  six  daughters. 
She  was  born  at  Searing  Town,  Long  Island, 
December  12,  1764,  and  died  in  Brooklyn, 
June  19,  1855.  Children:  i.  Phebe,  born  at 
Searing  Town,  Long  Island,  July  20,  1783, 
died  February  21,  1864;  married,  July  14, 
1819,  Isaac  Hatch.  2.  Sarah,  born  July  2, 
1785,  died  April  22,  1867.  3.  Silas,  born  at 
Cow  Neck,  Long  Island,  May  16,  1787,  died 
June  30,  1852;  married  Julia  Ann  Chew 
Brock,  April  17,  1816,  at  Fredericksburg, 
Virginia.  4.  Samuel  S..  born  at  Cow  Neck. 
Long  Island,  May  9,  1789,  died  September  24. 
1861  ;  unmarried.  5.  John,  born  April  20. 
1791,  died  July  25,  1850.  6.  Isaac,  born  Au- 
gust 21,  1793,  died  March  25,  1868.  7.  Mary, 
born  at  Clinton  Town,  New  York,  July  7, 
1795,  died  May  17,  1878;  married,  June  5, 
1823,  Dr.  Manning  L.  Seymour.  8.  William, 
see  forward.  9.  Ann,  born  March  21,  1799, 
died  in  1879.  lO-  Richard,  born  at  New 
Rochelle,  New  York,  January  9,  1801,  died 
January  19,  1861 ;  married,  June  12,  1837, 
Evelina  Bridges.  11.  George  S.,  born  at  New 
Rochelle,  August  28,  1802,  died  March  16, 
1865 ;  married,  May  22,  1845,  Eliza  Harris, 
of  Virginia.  12.  Lydia,  born  August  18, 
1803,  date  of  death  unknown.  13.  Hannah, 
born  December  15,  1804,  died  September  29, 
1805. 

(VI)  William  Wood,  son  of  Samuel-  (2) 
and  Mary  (Searing)  Wood,  was  born  at  New 
Rochelle,  New  York,  May  6.  1797,  and  died 
April  9,  1877.     When  Samuel  Wood  &  Sons. 


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publishers  and  booksellers,  removed  to  No. 
261  Pearl  street,  in  1822,  he  was  admitted 
into  the  firm.  He  was  always  much  inter- 
ested in  medicine  and  medical  books,  conse- 
quently he  was  active  in  developing  that 
department  of  their  business.  He  was  one 
of  the  young  men  who,  in  1819,  made 
the  first  movement  toward  establishing  a 
mercantile  library,  and  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  New  York  Mercantile  Li- 
brary. He  was  always  a  very  prominent 
Friend,  acting  as  clerk  of  meetings,  including 
the  New  York  Yearly  Meeting,  for  over  thirty 
years,  the  latter  position  being  equivalent  to 
that  of  bishop  in  other  denominations.  To  a 
kindly,  genial  disposition  was  added  a  conser- 
vative soundness  of  judgment  and  an  intellect 
of  no  mean  order.  Unselfish,  generous  and 
self-denying,  he  was  the  member  of  the  family 
to  whom  all  turned  for  advice  or  assistance. 

William  Wood  married,  in  the  Cherry 
Street  Meeting-House,  New  York  City,  No- 
vember II,  1834,  Mary  S.  Underbill.  She  was 
born  September  8,  1805,  died  April  10,  1894, 
and  was  the  daughter  of  Joshua  Underbill, 
born  July  7,  1765,  died  February  14,  1839,  who 
married,  October  13,  1789,  Mary  Sutton,  born 
March  7,  1767,  died  December  12.  1820. 
Children:  i.  Frederick,  born  September  9, 
1837,  died  September  25,  1839.  2.  William 
H.  S.,  see  forward.  3.  Elisabeth  Underbill, 
born  at  No.  37  Vandewater  street,  New  York 
City,  April  7.  1842:  married,  October  21,  1869, 
David  S.  Taber,  by  whom:  Augustus  Fred- 
erick, born  January  16,  1871,  died  June  26, 
1872;  David  Shearman,  born  June  6,  1873; 
William  Wood,  born  August  19,  1878,  died 
January  22,  1879;  Eleanor  Wood,  born  April 
30,  1884. 

(VH)  William  H.  S.  Wood,  son  of  William 
and  Mary  (Underbill)  Wood,  was  born  at  No. 
37  Vandewater  street.  New  York  City,  on 
April  13,  1840  He  was  educated  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  the  City  of  New  York  and  at  Hav- 
erford  College.  In  1859  he  entered  his 
father's  business,  and  in  1865  was  admitted 
to  partnership,  the  firm  then  adopting  the 
style  of  William  Wood  &  Company.  Follow- 
ing the  policy  inaugurated  by  his  father,  who 
had  retired  in  1870,  he  steadily  built  up  the 
medical  publishing  business  until  the  firm  be- 
came the  first  in  its  line  in  this  country.  He 
was  elected  trustee  of  the  Bowery  Savings 
Bank  in   1872.  a  manager  of  the  New  York 


Bible  Society  in  1878,  and  a  director  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  in  1871. 
On  January  15,  1903,  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  Bowery  Savings  Bank.  He  became  in- 
tensely interested  in  its  affairs,  and  under  his 
administration,  as  a  result  of  his  character- 
istic energy  and  good  judgment,  within  three 
years  of  his  assuming  office,  it  reached  the 
hundred-million  mark  as  to  deposits.  His 
favorite  recreations  were  horticulture,  natural 
sciences  and  yachting.  His  death  followed  an 
illness  of  about  three  weeks. 

William  H.  S.  Wood  married  (first)  Sep- 
tember 5,  1865,  Emma  Congdon.  She  was 
born  January  10,  1844,  died  November  26, 
1896,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Gilbert  Cong- 
don, who  married,  December  14.  1842,  Mary 
Hopkins,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland,  a  sister  of 
Johns  Hopkins.  He  married  (second)  Janu- 
ary 12,  1907.  at  St.  Bartholomew's  Church, 
New  York  City,  by  Rev.  Leighton  Parks, 
Cornelia  ( Underhill)  Elliott,  widow  of  Wil- 
liam L.  Elliott,  of  Baltimore.  Maryland.  She 
was  born  March  15,  1846,  and  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Abraham  S.  Underhill.  The  children 
of  William  H.  S.  Wood  and  Emma  Congdon 
were:  i.  William  Congdon,  born  at  Mt. 
Kisco,  New  York,  July  22,  1866;  graduate  of 
Haverford  College,  class  of  1887;  admitted 
into  partnership  with  his  father  in  the  pub- 
lishing house  of  William  Wood  &  Company, 
in  1890,  and  in  March,  1908,  was  elected  a 
trustee  of  the  Bowery  Savings  Bank.  2.  Gil- 
bert Congdon.  born  at  No.  129  East  Sixty- 
first  street.  New  York  City,  June  21,  1869; 
graduated  from  Haverford  College  in  1889; 
admitted  into  partnership  in  the  firm  of  Wil- 
liam \Vood  &  Company  in  1891  ;  at  Green- 
wich, Connecticut,  December  18,  1905,  mar- 
ried Beulah  L.  Field,  of  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, born  July  20.  1880,  by  whom  Beulah, 
born  June  23,  1907.     3.  Arnold,  see  forward. 

4.  Philip  Hopkins,  born  May  22,  1876,  died 
May  10.  1882.  5.  Mary  Underhill,  born  at 
Mt.  Kisco,  New 'York,  July  19,  188 1  :  mar- 
ried. New  York  City,  April  7.  1908,  Merrill 
Edwards  Gates,  Jr..  attorney,  who  was  born 
at  Warsaw,  New  York.  February  2.  1874,  and 
was  the  son  of  Merrill  Edwards  Gates,  born 
at  Warsaw.  New  York,  April  6.  1848.  who 
married  Mary  C.  Bishop,  born  at  Rochester, 
New  York,  Februarv  14,  1843. 

fVni)    Arnold  Wood,  son  of  William  H. 

5.  and  Emma  (Congdon")  ^^'ood,  was  born  at 


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No.  129  East  Sixty-first  street,  New  York 
City,  September  23,  1872.  He  was  originally 
named  Edward  Arnold,  but  this  was  changed 
later.  He  was  admitted  into  partnership  in 
the  publishing  house  of  William  Wood  & 
Company,  in  1896,  and  is  the  author  of 
"Bibliography  of  the  Complete  Angler."  Later 
he  retired  from  this  firm  and  has  devoted 
most  of  his  time  to  hospital  work  in  New 
York  City.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union, 
Racquet  and  Tennis,  D.  K.  E.,  New  York 
Yacht  and  Sleepy  Hollow  Country  clubs,  and 
the  University  Club  of  Philadelphia,  as  well 
as  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  and  St. 
Nicholas  Society.  His  residence  is  No.  42 
East   Sixty-fifth  street.   New  York  City. 

Arnold  Wood  married.  New  York  City, 
November  11,  1896,  Ethel  Hartshorne,  who 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  April  8,  1872, 
and  was  the  daughter  of  James  Mott  and 
Sarah  L.  (Taylor)  Hartshorne.  She  is  a 
member  of  the  Colony  Club  and  the  Society 
of  Colonial  Dames.  Children:  i.  Arnold, 
born  at  Winter  Harbor,  Maine,  August  27, 
1899.  2.  Congdon,  born  at  New  York  City, 
April  3,  1903;  died  there  April  10,  1909.  3. 
Louise  Hartshorne,  born  at  New  York  City, 
April  4,  1907. 


The  Read  family  may  be  traced  far 
READ     back   in    foreign   countries  and   in 

America  has  maintained  an  emin- 
ence by  reason  of  what  its  members  in  succes- 
sive generations  have  accomplished.  Both 
abroad  and  here  the  men  of  the  name  have  been 
persons  of  standing,  and  have  participated  in 
prominent  affairs  in  their  communities.  The 
name  has  been  spelled  in  a  variety  of  ways,  yet 
all  of  one  clan,  and  probably  the  oldest  form  is 
Rede,  in  use  by  the  Redes  of  Troughend  as 
long  ago  as  1542;  but  changed  to  Reed  later, 
and  appearing  as  Rede,  Reade  and  Read  in 
the  Barton  Court  family,  while  those  who 
came  to  this  country  preferred  to  write  it 
Read.  There  exists  a  manuscript  of  the  time 
of  Queen  Elizabeth  which  contains  this  pas- 
sage :  "Ye  Laird  of  Troughend,  the  chief  of 
the  name  of  Reed  and  divers  followers."  In 
the  Elsdon  church  at  Redesdale  is  a  stone 
tablet  above  a  carving  of  the  arms  of  that 
family,  which  have  only  three  garbs,  but  the 
field  is  gules  as  in  the  Barton  Court  family: 
"The  ancient  family  of  Troughend  for  above 
eight  hundred  years,"  and  Ellerington  Reed, 


who  died  in  1829,  was  the  last  of  the  Trough- 
end  chiefs.  According  to  this  statement,  the 
record  would  establish  the  clan  as  far  back  as 
the  year  1,000,  for  this  tablet  was  placed  there 
in  memory  of  the  Ellerington  Reed  who  died 
January  5,  1758. 

The  founder  of  the  Barton  Court  line  of 
the  Reade  family  was  Thomas  Rede,  son  of 
Willyam  Rede  or  Read,  who  acquired  Barton 
Court  in  1550.  The  American  family,  start- 
ing with  Colonel  John  Read,  who  was  born 
in  Dublin,  Ireland,  in  1668,  traces  through  his 
father,  Henry  Read,  Esq.,  grandson  of  Sir 
Charles  Read,  to  this  ancient  family  of  Barton 
Court  of  Oxfordshire,  and  the  progenitor  in 
America  was  therefore  in  line  of  descent  from 
Thomas  Read,  Lord  of  the  Manors  of  Barton 
Court  and  Breedon,  in  Berkshire,  and  high 
sheriff  of  Berks  in  1581,  a  direct  descendant 
from  Rede  of  Troughend.  Barton  Court  was 
attacked  by  Cromwell's  army  in  1644,  but  was 
gloriously  defended,  for  the  storming  party 
gained  access  only  by  applying  the  torch, 
which  resulted,  however,  in  reducing  the 
stately  pile  to  a  heap  of  ruins.  Barton  Court 
is  located  on  the  west  shore  of  the  Thames 
river,  in  England,  a  short  distance  north  of 
Abingdon. 

Richard  Read  of  Culham  rectory,  Oxford- 
shire, ancestor  of  the  family  in  this  country, 
was  the  third  son  of  Thomas  Reade,  who  died 
in  1604,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Stonehouse,  who 
died  in  1625,  and  he  was  the  grandson  of 
Thomas  Rede  or  Read,  first  lord  of  Barton 
Court.  Richard  Read  married  Helen,  eldest 
child  of  Sir  Alexander  Cave,  of  Bargrave 
and  Rotherby,  Leicester.  His  second  son.  Sir 
Charles  Read,  born  in  1622,  died  in  1674,  of 
Whitefriars,  London,  and  Dublin,  married 
Catherine  Russell,  kinswoman  of  his  cousin, 
Sir  William  Russell.  Sir  Charles  Read's  eld- 
est son  Henry  married  Mary  MacMolines, 
descendant  of  the  old  Oxfordshire  house  of 
De  Molines,  which  survives  in  Lord  Ventry. 
Henry  Read's  only  son  John  was  of  the  sixth 
generation  from  Thomas  Reade,  first  lord  of 
Barton  Manor  and  of  the  third  generation 
from  Richard  Read  of  Culham  rectory,  and 
of  the  tenth  generation  from  Edward  Read, 
in  1439  the  high  sheriff  of  Berks. 

fl)  Colonel  John  Read,  only  son  of  Henry 
and  Mary  (Molines)  Read,  was  the  progeni- 
tor of  this  family  in  America.  He  was  Dom 
in  Dublin,  Ireland,  January  15,  1688,  and  died 


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at  his  home  in  Christiana,  New  Castle  county, 
Delaware,  June  15,  1756. 

Before  coming  to  this  country  he  loved  a 
beautiful  girl,  his  cousin,  to  whom  he  was  en- 
gaged; but  she  died  before  the  marriage  day, 
and  this  largely  shaped  his  future,  for  he  de- 
sired a  change  of  scene  that  he  might  over- 
come his  grief,  and  crossed  to  Maryland,  de- 
spite the  wishes  of  his  parents.  Here  he  pur- 
chased land  in  several  counties  of  what  was 
then  an  English  province,  and  gradually  ex- 
tended his  estate  to  places  in  Delaware  and 
Virginia.  He  erected  a  spacious  brick  man- 
sion upon  his  manor,  Kinsley,  in  Cecil  county, 
Maryland,  which  has  since  been  destroyed  by 
fire.  It  is  known  that  he  was  of  a  most  hos- 
pitable nature,  was  generous,  and  fond  of 
the  hunt.  So  generous  was  he  that  he  en- 
dowed the  churches  in  both  Delaware  and 
Maryland  with  his  land,  and  throughout  his 
career  his  acts  were  honorable.  Colonel  Read 
was  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  the  city 
of  Charlestown,  at  the  head  of  the  Chesapeake 
bay.  It  was  to  his  house  at  Christiana,  Dela- 
ware, that  General  Washington,  when  a  major 
in  the  army,  paid  a  visit.  He  was  appointed 
by  the  legislature  of  the  colony  one  of  the  com- 
missioners to  lay  out  and  govern  the  new 
town.  He  held  a  number  of  military  commis- 
sions during  his  life,  and  his  whole  career  was 
an  active  one.  He  somewhat  resembled  his 
English  ancestors,  being  rather  full  in  form ; 
was  remarkably  handsome,  as  is  known  from 
his  portraits ;  was  six  feet  in  height,  possessed 
a  ruddy  complexion  and  had  dark,  expressive 
eyes.  In  physique,  he  was  a  powerful  man, 
and  his  intellectual  qualities  counterbalanced 
his  strength.  Two  portraits  of  him  have 
been  handed  down ;  the  one  made  of  him 
when  in  his  youth,  shows  him  in  the  costume 
which  was  worn  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne, 
and  the  other,  made  in  middle  life,  depicts 
him  in  the  wig  and  dress  of  the  time  of 
George  II. 

Colonel  John  Read  married,  April  16,  1731. 
Mary  Howell.  She  was  a  Welsh  woman  of 
charming  character,  born  in  171 1.  and  died 
September  22.  1784.  Her  parents  brought  her 
to  Delaware  from  Wales  when  a  young  girl, 
and  her  father  became  a  planter.  Her  uncle 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  Newark,  Dela- 
ware, and  her  nephew.  Colonel  Richard 
Howell,  was  a  distinguished  revolutionary  of- 
ficer  and   for   eight   years   governor   of    New 


Jersey.  Colonel  Howell  was  the  ancestor  of 
Chief  Justice  Agnew,  of  Pennsylvania ;  of 
Rear  Admiral  John  Gumming  Howell,  dis- 
tinguished during  the  civil  war;  and  of  Verina 
Howell,  who  married  Jefferson  Davis,  presi- 
dent of  the  Southern  Confederacy.  Children: 
I.  George,  see  forward.  2.  William,  resided 
for  a  time  in  Philadelphia ;  removed  to 
Havana,  where  he  was  assassinated  in  1763; 
married  Elizabeth  Chambers,  by  whom  a 
daughter,  Mary.  3.  John,  became  a  planter  in 
Cecil  county,  Maryland ;  died  unmarried.  4. 
Thomas,  Commodore,  see  forward.  5.  James, 
Colonel,  see  forward.  6.  Andrew,  was  a 
planter  in  Cecil  county,  Maryland ;  died  un- 
married. 7.  Mary,  married  Gunning  Bedford, 
Sr.,  lieutenant  in  the  war  against  France  in 
1775,  and  an  active  participant  in  the  revolu- 
tion; commissioned  major  and  lieutenant- 
colonel,  and  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of 
White  Plains ;  was  muster-master  general, 
member  of  the  continental  congress,  and  gov- 
ernor of  Delaware ;  no  issue. 

(II)  Hon.  George  Read,  eldest  son  of 
Colonel  John  and  Mary  (Howell)  Read,  was 
born  on  his  father's  plantation  in  Cecil  county, 
Maryland,  September  18,  1733,  and  died  in 
his  mansion  in  New  Castle  county,  Delaware, 
September  21,   1798. 

The  title  "Father  of  the  State  of  Delaware" 
might  well  be  applied  to  him,  for  he  was 
author  of  the  state's  first  constitution,  1776, 
as  well  as  of  the  first  edition  of  the  laws  of 
that  state.  He  was  in  the  Delaware  assembly 
for  twelve  years :  was  vice-president  of  the 
state,  and  also  acting  chief  magistrate  at  one 
time.  He  penned  the  address  from  Delaware 
to  King  George  HI,  which  so  impressed  him 
that  Lord  Shelbourne  has  said  "he  read  it 
over  twice."  He  was  one  of  the  two,  and  the 
only  southern  statesman,  who  signed  all  three 
of  the  great  state  papers  on  which  our  history 
is  based,  viz.,  the  original  petition  to  the  king 
from  the  congress  of  1774.  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  and  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States 

Hon.  George  Read  received  a  good  classi- 
cal education  under  Dr.  Francis  .Mlison.  then 
.studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Phila- 
delphia bar  at  the  youthful  age  of  nineteen. 
He  removed  to  New  Castle,  Delaware,  in 
T754:  was  aDpointed  attorney-general  of  that 
state  under  the  crown  when  twenty-nine.  He 
warned   the   British  government   of  the   seri- 


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ous  danger  of  attempting  to  tax  the  colonies 
without  allowing  them  due  representation  in 
parliament,  and  upon  finding  no  change  in 
that  nation's  attitude  towards  the  colonies,  he. 
resigned  his  office  and  accepted  a  seat  in  the 
first  congress,  which  met  at  Philadelphia  in 
1774.  Nevertheless,  he  continued  to  hope  for 
reconciliation,  and  voted  against  the  motion 
for  independence ;  but  when  he  found  there 
was  no  way  in  which  to  make  the  English 
heed  their  wishes,  he  signed  the  Declaration, 
and  from  that  time  on  was  an  ardent  sup- 
porter of  all  measures  in  support  of  the  claim 
by  the  colonies.  He  was  president  of  the  con- 
stitutional convention  in  1776,  and  in  1782 
was  appointed  by  congress  a  judge  in  the  na- 
tional court  of  appeals  in  admiralty.  He  was 
a  delegate  to  the  convention  which  met  at  An- 
napolis in  1786  and  culminated  in  the  calling 
together  of  the  convention  at  Philadelphia  in 
1787  to  frame  the  constitution  of  the  United 
States.  In  this  great  assemblage  he  was  a 
prominent  figure.  After  the  adoption  of  the 
constitution,  which  the  state  of  Delaware  was 
the  first  to  ratify,  George  Read  was  elected 
to  the  United  States  senate,  and  at  the  close 
of  his  term  was  re-elected.  He  resigned  in 
1793  to  become  chief  justice  of  Delaware, 
which  high  office  he  held  until  his  death.  He 
was  known  to  the  people  as  "the  honest 
lawyer,"  and  it  goes  without  saying  that  his 
integrity  was  of  the  highest,  while  his  courtly 
way  and  intellectual  attainments  gathered 
about  him  many  admirers.  After  John  Dick- 
inson had  declined  to  sign  the  Declaration  he 
lost  all  popularity ;  but  Read,  remaining  stead- 
fast to  a  friend,  exerted  his  influence  with  the 
result  that  in  time  Dickinson  was  not  only  re- 
stored to  standing,  but  became  president  of 
the  states  of  Delaware  and  Pennsylvania  suc- 
cessively, and  one  of  the  delegates  to  the  con- 
vention framing  the  national  constitution.  His 
portrait  may  be  seen  in  the  historical  painting 
by  John  Trumbull,  "The  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence," in  the  national  capitol. 

Hon.  George  Read  married,  January  11, 
1763,  Gertrude,  daughter  of  Rev.  George 
Ross,  'who  was  rector  of  Emanuel  Church  at 
New  Castle  for  nearly  half  a  century.  She 
died  September  2,  1802.  Her  brother  had 
been  attorney-general  for  Delaware,  and  an- 
other. Rev.  A.  Ross,  was  celebrated  as  the 
author  of  patriotic  sermons  during  the  revolu- 
tion. A  third  brother.  Colonel  George  Ross,  was 


an  eminent  judge  and  also  a  signer  of  the  Dec- 
laration. She  was  a  granddaughter  of  David 
Ross  of  Ballblair,  Rosshire,  Scotland,  a  direct 
descendent  of  the  ancient  Earls  of  Ross,  the 
progenitor  of  which  family  in  this  country 
was  Rev.  George  Ross,  who  came  to  America 
in  1703  as  a  missionary  of  the  Society  for  the 
Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts, 
and  located  at  New  Castle ;  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Edinburgh  and  the  Divinity 
School  of  that  city. 

Arms  of  Ross:  Gules  three  lions  rampant 
argent.  Crest :  A  demi-lion  rampant  gules. 
Motto :  Nobilis  est  Ira  Leonis. 

Children  of  Hon.  George  Read:  i.  John, 
died  in  infancy.  2.  George,  held  the  office 
of  United  States  district-attorney  of  Dela- 
ware for  thirty  years ;  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  General  William  Thompson,  and 
had  issue.  3.  William,  consul-general  of 
Kingdom  of  Naples ;  married  Anna  McCall, 
and  had  issue.  4.  John,  see  forward.  5. 
Mary,  married  Matthew  Pearce,  and  had  issue. 

(II)  Commodore  Thomas  Read,  fourth 
child  of  Colonel  John  and  Mary  (Howell) 
Read,  v/as  born  at  New  Castle,  Delaware,  in 
1740;  died  at  White  Hill,  New  Jersey,  Oc- 
tober 26,  1788.  He  was  the  first  officer  of 
that  rank  in  command  of  the  American  fleet, 
having  been  made  commodore  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania navy  on  October  23,  1775,  and  on 
June  7,  1776,  was  appointed  to  the  highest 
grade  in  the  continental  navy,  assigned  to  one 
of  the  four  largest  ships,  the  32-gun  frigate 
"George  Washington" ;  but  the  ship  not  being 
ready  to  be  placed  in  commission,  he  volun- 
teered for  land  service  and  was  directed  to 
join  General  Washington.  Accordingly  he 
rendered  valuable  assistance  in  the  famous 
crossing  of  the  Delaware  by  Washington's 
army,  and  following  that  commanded  a  battery 
in  the  battle  of  Trenton,  making  use  of  guns 
taken  from  his  own  frigate.  Having  rendered 
much  service  by  sea  and  land,  he  resigned  and 
retired  to  his  country-seat  at  White  Hill,  New 
Jersey,  where,  as  a  member  of  the  Order  of 
the  Cincinnati,  he  frequently  dispensed  hospi- 
tality to  former  comrades.  His  friend, 
Robert  Morris,  having  purchased  the  old 
frigate  "Alliance,"  persuaded  him  to  take  com- 
mand and  make  a  joint  adventure  to  Chinese 
seas.  His  first  officer  was  Richard  Dale, 
afterwards  a  commodore  in  the  navy.  On  the 
way   to  Canton    he    discovered    two    islands 


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which  he  named  Alliance  and  Morris,  in  the 
Caroline  Islands  group.  He  arrived  back  at 
Philadelphia,  September  17,  1788,  only  about 
five  weeks  before  his  death.  His  obituary  by 
Robert  Morris  ended  with  this  thought: 
"While  integrity,  benevolence,  patriotism  and 
courage,  united  with  the  most  gentle  man- 
ners, are  respected  among  men,  the  name  of 
this  valuable  citizen  and  soldier  will  be  re- 
vered and  loved."  Commodore  Thomas 
Read  married,  at  White  Hill,  New  Jersey, 
September  7,  1779,  Mrs.  Mary  Peale  Field, 
widow ;  no  issue. 

(H)  Colonel  James  Read,  fifth  child  of 
Colonel  John  and  Mary  (Howell)  Read,  was 
born  in  New  Castle,  Delaware,  in  1743,  and 
died  in  Philadelphia,  December  31,  1822.  He 
was  another  son  of  a  famous  father  who  gave 
his  best  service  to  the  patriotic  cause  during 
the  revolution.  He  passed  through  all  the 
grades  to  first  lieutenant,  and  by  reason  of 
gallant  service  in  the  battles  of  Trenton, 
Princeton,  Brandywine  and  Germantown,  was 
regularly  appointed  colonel.  As  first  lieuten- 
ant he  was  in  Delaney's  company  of  Phila- 
delphia "Associators,"  or  volunteers,  whose 
first  service  was  with  Washington  on  that 
memorable  Christmas  night  in  1776  which 
preceded  the  victory  at  Trenton.  Congress  ap- 
pointed him  one  of  the  three  commissioners 
of  the  navy  for  the  middle  states,  November 
4,  1778,  and  on  January  11,  1781,  invested 
him  with  sole  power  to  conduct  the  navy 
board.  Following  the  close  of  the  war  he  en- 
gaged in  business  in  Philadelphia,  where  he 
likewise  held  public  position.  He  was  flour 
inspector:  one  of  four  commissioners  to  settle 
the  conflicting  claims  of  Connecticut  and 
Pennsylvania  concerning  large  tracts  of  land 
in  the  latter  state ;  member  of  the  select  coun- 
cil many  years ;  director  of  the  City  Library 
Company  and  Bank  of  North  America :  presi- 
dent of  the  Mutual  Assurance  Company ;  and 
a  communicant  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Philadelphia.  Col.  James  Read 
married,  about  1772,  Susan  Corey,  of  Phila- 
delphia, by  whom  Maria,  who  died  aged 
twenty-five  years,  and  two  children  who  died 
in    infancv. 

(IH)  Hon.  John  Read,  son  of  Hon. 
George  Read,  the  signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  and  fiertrude  Ross,  his  wife, 
was  born  at  New  Castle,  Delaware,  July  17, 
1796,  in  the  Read  mansion. 


He  studied  law  in  his  father's  ofiice,  and 
after  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  he  removed 
to  Philadelphia.  President  John  Adams  ap- 
pointed him  in  1797  agent  general  of  the 
United  States  under  Jay's  treaty,  in  which  of- 
fice he  was  continued  under  Thomas  JeflFer- 
son  until  1809.  He  published  at  this  time  a 
volume  entitled  "British  Debts."  His  career 
was  filled  with  important  activities,  such  as 
city  solicitor  of  Philadelpha,  member  of  both 
common  and  select  councils,  active  in  defense 
of  the  Delaware  against  British  invasion  in 
1812,  state  senator  1816-17,  state  director  of 
the  Philadelphia  Bank  by  appointment  of  the 
legislature  and  later  its  president,  serving 
until  1841  ;  an  active  churchman,  figuring 
prominently  in  the  national  councils  of  the 
Episcopal  church ;  for  many  years  rector's 
warden  of  Christ  Church,  St.  Peter's  and  St. 
James's.  He  manifested  humanity  and  phil- 
anthropy during  the  yellow  fever  scourge  in 
Philadelphia  in  1793  by  contributing  from  his 
purse  and  exposing  himself  to  attack.  He  was 
a  collector  of  rare  books  and  fond  of  litera- 
ture.    Sully  painted  his  portrait. 

Hon.  John  Read  married,  1796,  Martha, 
eldest  daughter  of  General  Samuel  Meredith, 
ex-treasurer  of  the  United  States,  and  by  this 
marriage  allied  the  ancient  families  of  Read, 
Ross  and  Meredith.  Her  uncle  was  George 
Clymer,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  and  a 
framer  of  the  constitution,  while  her  mother 
was  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas,  sister  of  Gen- 
eral John  and  Colonel  Lambert  Cadwalader. 
Her  grandfather  Reese,  son  of  Reese  Mere- 
dith, of  the  county  of  Radnor,  was  born  in 
Wales,  1705,  emigrated  to  Philadelphia.  1727, 
and  married  the  daughter  of  Samuel  Carpen- 
ter, proprietor  of  the  "Slate  Roof  House." 
partner  of  William  Penn  and  one  of  the  ex- 
ecutors of  his  will.  Reese  Meredith  descended 
from  the  very  ancient  Cambrian  family  of 
Meredith  to  which  belong  Lord  Athlumney 
and  Meredith,  as  well  as  the  Merediths, 
baronets  of  Greenhills  and  Carlandstown, 
County  Meath.  Ireland,  was  one  of  the 
wealthiest  men  of  his  day.  Children:  i.  John 
Meredith,  see  forward.  2.  Edward,  died  in 
infancy.  3.  Henry  Meredith,  A.  M.,  M.  D  , 
graduate  of  Princeton,  1820.  and  of  Medical 
School,  University  of  Pennsylvania :  died 
March  16,  1826,  aged  twenty-six  years:  un- 
married. 4.  Margaret  Meredith,  died  in  in- 
fancy.    5.   Margaret   Meredith,   a   woman   of 


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rare  accomplishments  and  society  favorite, 
died  March  13,  1854,  aged  forty-seven  years ; 
unmarried. 

(IV)  Hon.  John  Meredith  Read,  LL.D., 
son  of  Hon.  John  and  Martha  (Meredith) 
Read,  was  born  in  his  father's  house  on  the 
south  side  of  Chestnut  street,  opposite  Inde- 
pendence Hall,  July  21,  1797,  and  died  in 
Philadelphia,  November  29,  1874.  At  the  age 
of  fifteen  he  was  graduated  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1818 ;  was  elected  to  the  Pennsyl- 
vania legislature  in  1822  and  in  1823;  was  city 
solicitor  and  member  of  the  select  council ; 
United  States  district-attorney  of  eastern  dis- 
trict of  Pennsylvania,  1837,  and  for  eight 
years ;  was  solicitor-general  of  the  treasury 
department,  and  attorney-general  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

Although  his  family  had  been  eminent  and 
powerful  Federalists,  he  early  became  a 
Democrat,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
"Free  Soil"  wing  of  that  party.  He  was  an 
ardent  advocate  of  the  annexation  of  Texas 
and  the  building  of  railroads  to  the  Pacific. 
Although  he  had  actively  assisted  President 
Jackson  in  his  move  against  the  United  States 
Bank,  yet  after  its  downfall  Nicholas  Biddle 
requested  him  to  be  his  counsel.  Judge  Read 
was  engaged,  with  Hon.  Thaddeus  Stevens 
and  Judge  Joseph  J.  Lewis,  for  the  defense  in 
the  celebrated  trial  of  Castner  Hanway  for 
treason,  and  his  argument  was  so  masterly 
that  Mr.  Stevens  declared  he  had  nothing  to 
add  for  his  colleague's  speech  had  "settled  the 
law  of  treason  in  this  country."  This  gave 
Judge  Read  an  international  reputation. 
Judge  Read  was  an  ardent  anti-slavery  advo- 
cate, and  presented  the  following  forceful 
resolution  at  the  Democratic  convention, 
Pittsburgh,  1840:  "Esteeming  it  a  violation  of 
states  rights  to  carry  it  (slavery)  beyond  state 
limits,  we  deny  the  power  of  any  citizen  to 
extend  the  area  of  bondage  beyond  the  pres- 
ent dimension ;  nor  do  we  consider  it  a  part 
of  the  constitution  that  slavery  should  forever 
travel  with  the  advancing  column  of  our  ter- 
ritorial progress."  It  was  natural  for  him  to 
become  a  founder  of  the  Republican  party, 
and  at  the  start  of  the  campaign  of  1856,  de- 
livered his  famous  oration  on  "The  Power  of 
Congress  Over  Slavery  in  Our  Territories," 
which  proved  the  keynote  of  that  campaign. 
He  was  elected  judge  of  the  Supreme  Court 


of  Pennsylvania  by  a  majority  of  30,000 
votes.  The  success  of  Judge  Read  in  the  first 
Republican  campaign  gave  him  prominence  as 
a  candidate  for  the  presidency,  but  this  was 
opposed  by  Simon  Cameron,  and  Judge 
Read's  supporters  were  defeated  in  conven- 
tion. Although  he  had  thrown  his  votes  at 
the  Chicago  convention  in  favor  of  Lincoln, 
nevertheless  there  were  some  delegates  who 
persisted  in  voting  for  him.  He  was  regarded 
as  an  able  judge,  and  his  decisions  run 
through  forty-one  volumes;  he  was  dignified, 
yet  affable  and  courteous;  a  man  of  integrity 
and  independence  of  character.  More  than 
once  were  his  legal  opinions  of  far-reaching 
bearing.  One  of  these  became  the  basis  of 
the  Act  of  March  31,  1863,  authorizing  the 
President  to  suspend  the  writ  of  habeas 
corpus  during  the  civil  war.  Another  opinion 
forever  relieved  "Independence  Square,"  in 
Philadelphia,  from  taxation.  He  was  grand 
master  of  Masons  in  Pennsylvania,  and  grand 
high  priest  of  the  grand  chapter.  This  was  in 
line  with  family  traditions,  for  his  grand- 
father. Dr.  Thomas  Cadwalader,  was  a 
founder  of  Masonry  in  that  province,  and  the 
Reads  had  filled  high  offices  in  Delaware 
Masonry.  The  miniature  of  Judge  Read  by 
Henry  Brown  was  engraved  by  the  famous 
expert.  Samuel  Sartain,  and  a  copy  of  it  ap- 
peared in  The  London  Graphic,  accompanied 
by  remarks  by  Charles  Reade,  kinsman  and 
English  novelist. 

Chief  Justice  John  Meredith  Read  married 
(first)  March  20,  1828,  Priscilla,  daughter  of 
Hon.  J.  Marshal,  of  Boston,  who  was  born 
December  19,  1808,  and  died  in  Philadelphia, 
April  18,  1841.  Her  grandfather  was  Lieu- 
tenant Marshal,  of  the  revolutionary  army, 
and  eighth  in  descent  from  a  captain  in  Crom- 
well's army  who  was  promoted  for  bravery 
at  the  siege  of  Leicester.  Both  Mrs.  Read 
and  her  sister,  Emily  Marshal  (Mrs.  Otis), 
were  famous  belles  of  their  day.  The  chil- 
dren numbered  one  son  and  six  daughters, 
and  only  one  of  the  latter  survived  infancy, 
Emily  Marshal  Read,  who  married,  in  1849. 
William  Henry  Hyde,  who  died,  leaving  a 
daughter,  Emma  H.,  who  married  George  W. 
Wurts,  first  secretary  of  legation  and  charge 
d'afifairs  at  Rome.  He  married  (second) 
Amelia,  daughter  of  Edward  Thompson  and 
sister  of  Hon.  John  R.  Thompson,  of  New 
Jersey,   and   Admiral   Edward   Thompson   of 


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the  United  States  navy.     She  died  September 
14,  1886,  without  issue. 

(V)  General  John  Meredith  Read,  only  son 
of  Chief  Justice  John  Meredith  and  Priscilla 
(Marshal)  Read,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
February  21,  1837,  and  died  in  Paris,  France, 
December  27,  1896.  His  earliest  education 
was  received  at  a  military  school,  which  fitted 
him  to  enter  Brown  University,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  A.  M.  in  1859 ;  subsequently 
at  the  Albany  Law  School  of  Union  Uni- 
versity, LL.  B.  He  studied  civil  and  interna- 
tional law  in  Europe,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  Philadelphia,  but  removed  to  Al- 
bany. At  the  age  of  twenty  he  was  appointed 
aide-de-camp  to  the  governor  of  Rhode 
Island,  with  rank  of  colonel.  In  the  presi- 
dential campaigns  of  1856  and  i860  he  was 
active,  in  the  latter  organizing  the  "Wide 
Awake"  movement  in  New  York,  which  car- 
ried that  state  for  Lincoln.  When  twenty- 
three  he  was  appointed  adjutant-general  of 
New  York  state,  with  rank  of  brigadier-gen- 
eral. When  Fort  Sumter  was  fired  on,  he  was 
made  chairman  of  a  committee  of  three  to 
draft  a  bill  appropriating  $3,000,000  for  pur- 
chase of  arms  and  ammunition,  and  he  re- 
ceived the  thanks  of  the  War  Department  for 
his  "energ}',  ability  and  zeal"  for  his  service 
in  organizing  troops  during  the  civil  war.  Gen- 
eral Read  was  active  in  the  election  of  Gen- 
eral Grant  to  the  presidency  in  1868,  and  the 
latter  appointed  him  consul-general  for 
France  and  Algeria,  with  residence  in  Paris. 
He  also  acted  as  consul-general  in  Germany 
during  the  Franco-Prussian  war,  directing  all 
consular  affairs  of  the  German  empire  in 
France  for  nineteen  months,  and  was  conse- 
quently present  throughout  the  sieges  of 
Paris  in  both  1870  and  in  1871,  for  which 
service  he  received  the  commendation  of 
President  Grant  and  the  thanks  of  both  the 
French  and  German  nations.  Although  the 
emperor  took  steps  to  confer  upon  him  an 
order  of  knighthood,  that  of  the  Red  Eagle, 
and  make  a  handsome  gift,  a  splendid  vase 
with  inscription,  and  other  ornaments  of 
Dresden  China,  because  of  one  vote  Congress 
failed  to  allow  the  reward.  The  French  min- 
ister of  war  invited  him  to  preside  over  a 
commission  to  determine  the  expediency  of 
introducing  the  English  language  in  the 
French  army  and  the  French  government 
thanked   him    for   his   action.      General    Read 


was  the  guest  of  the  then  Prince  and 
Princess  of  Wales,  at  Sandringham,  a  num- 
ber of  times  and  a  constant  guest  of  theirs 
on  their  yacht,  the  "Osborn."  On  one  of 
these  occasions  a  dinner  was  given  by  the 
Princess  to  General  Read  and  royalty  be- 
ing present  she  asked  him  to  waive  the  prece- 
dency and  let  the  general  take  her  into  dinner, 
which  he  did.  The  next  distinction  conferred 
upon  General  Read  was  his  appointment  as 
United  States  minister  to  Greece,  and  his  in- 
terest in  promoting  commercial  relations  se- 
cured from  King  George  his  personal  endur- 
ing friendship,  while  the  United  States  ac- 
knowledged the  benefits  of  his  mission  after 
his  resignation.  Because  of  his  untiring  ef- 
forts in  pleading  the  cause  of  Greece  before 
the  courts  of  Europe,  resulting  in  the  return 
to  Greece  by  the  Berlin  Congress  of  her  an- 
cient possessions.  King  George  created  Gen- 
eral Read  a  Knight  Grand  Cross  of  the  Order 
of  the  Redeemer,  the  highest  dignity  in  the 
gift  of  the  Greek  government.  His  services 
during  the  Rebellion  received  recognition  by 
his  being  named  honorary  companion  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  Upon 
his  return  to  the  United  States  in  1874,  ban- 
quets were  given  in  his  honor  in  Washington. 
Philadelphia,  New  York  and  Albany,  and  no 
less  courtesy  was  shown  to  him  at  the  hands 
of  Queen  \'ictoria  and  the  royal  household. 

The  literary  and  scientific  services  he  ren- 
dered brought  forth  the  thanks  of  the  United 
States  Department  of  State,  the  National 
.Academy  of  Design,  of  the  English  East 
India  Company,  the  Russia  Company,  the  So- 
ciety of  Antiquaries,  the  Archaeological  So- 
ciety of  Greece  and  the  French  Academy.  He 
was  chosen  president  of  the  American  Social 
Science  Congress  at  .\lbany  in  186S,  and  vice- 
president  of  the  British  congress  of  the  same, 
Plymouth,  1870.  He  joined  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity and  attained  the  thirty-second  degree. 
In  his  spare  time  he  devoted  himself  to 
authorship,  writing  a  studious  book  entitled 
"An  Important  Historical  Inquiry  Concerning 
Henry  Hudson,  Discoverer  of  the  Hudson 
River,"  and  was  the  author  of  many  public 
addresses,  reports  and  learned  papers.  He 
also  wrote  a  very  learned  book  in  two  volumes 
called  "Historic  Studies  in  \^aud.  Berne  and 
Savoie" :  manv  of  his  writings  remain  unpub- 
lished. 

General    John    Meredith   Read   married,   at 


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Albany,  New  York,  April  7,  1859,  Delphine 
Marie,  daughter  of  Harmon  Pumpelly  and 
Delphine  Drake.  She  was  born  in  Owego, 
New  York,  April  6,  1833,  and  died  at  No.  128 
Rue  La  Boetie,  Champs  Elysees,  Paris, 
France,  May  28,  1902.  She  was  present  with 
her  husband  throughout  the  two  sieges  of 
Paris,  and  held  herself  most  courageously. 
Her  father,  Harmon  Pumpelly,  was  born  in 
Salisbury,  Connecticut,  August  i,  1795,  and 
died  in  Albany,  September  28,  1882.  He  was 
a  foremost  citizen  of  the  latter  city,  where  he 
was  president  of  the  Albany  Savings  Bank, 
the  Albany  Insurance  Company  and  the  Al- 
bany Gaslight  Company,  the  three  largest  in- 
stitutions in  the  city,  and  was  senior  warden 
of  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  Church  there.  He 
married,  at  Owego,  November  16,  1830,  Del- 
phine Drake,  born  in  Owego,  April  11,  1811; 
died  there,  February  27,  1839,  daughter  of 
Judge  John  Reuben  Drake  (born  in  Pleasant 
Valley,  New  York,  November  28,  1782,  died 
in  Owego,  March  24,  1857)  and  his  wife, 
Jerusha  Roberts.  Harmon  Pumpelly  was  the 
son  of  John  Pumpelly,  who  married  Hannah 
Bushnell,  of  Salisbury,  Connecticut,  her  birth, 
1756;  death,  Owego,  December  31,  1832, 
daughter  of  Captain  Samuel  Bushnell  from 
Saybrook.  John  Pumpelly  was  born  in  1727, 
and  died  at  Danby,  Broome  county.  New 
York,  July  11,  1819.  He  was  an  active  par- 
ticipant in  the  colonial  wars,  enlisting  as  a 
drummer  boy  September  15,  1755,  in  Captain 
John  Loring's  company  of  His  Majesty's 
Foot,  and  serving  until  December  17,  1755. 
He  re-enlisted  time  and  again,  and  made  the 
entire  campaign  of  the  French  and  Indian 
war.  For  his  bravery  in  carrying  despatches 
in  the  Lake  George  region  to  Fort  William 
Henry  when  the  place  was  filled  with  savage 
hordes,  he  was  made  a  sergeant ;  was  one  of 
the  Crown  Point  expedition  and  a  member  of 
Rogers'  Rangers ;  was  present  at  the  siege  of 
Louisburg,  and  at  the  side  of  General  Wolfe 
when  he  fell  on  the  Heights  of  Abraham, 
1759.  At  the  time  of  the  battle  of  Saratoga 
against  Burgoyne,  October,  1777,  he  was  com- 
missary. 

General  John  Meredith  Read  and  Delphine 
Marie  Pumpelly  had  four  children :  Harmon 
Pumpelly,  Emily  Meredith,  John  Meredith, 
Marie  Delphine  Meredith. 

(VI)  Major  Harmon  Pumpelly  Read,  old- 
est child  of  General  John  Meredith  and  Del- 


phine Marie   (Pumpelly)    Read,  was  born  at 
Albany,  New  York,  July  13,  i860. 

His  earliest  education  was  received  in  the 
schools  of  Paris,  France,  and  Athens,  Greece, 
following  which  he  attended  St.  John's  Mili- 
tary School  at  Sing  Sing,  and  then  entered 
Trinity  College,  at  Hartford,  Connecticut.  He 
has  devoted  much  time  to  writing,  and  has 
contributed  books  which  exhibit  indefatigable 
historical  research.  He  is  the  author  of  the 
large  and  handsomely  prepared  volume  "Ros- 
siana,"  which  is  an  exhaustive  history  of  the 
Ross,  Read  and  co-related  families.  Being 
the  highest  authority  on  symbolism  and  her- 
aldry in  the  United  States,  his  contributions 
of  a  number  of  reliable  papers  have  been 
found  of  great  value  to  the  fraternity.  In 
Masonry  he  has  long  been  deeply  interested, 
and  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree, 
Scottish  Rite,  and  captain-general.  Knights 
of  the  Golden  Cord,  Ancient  French  Rite. 
As  one  of  the  most  learned  members  of  the 
craft,  his  advice  is  frequently  sought.  His 
father  received  the  highest  degree  of  Scottish 
Rite  Masonry,  the  thirty-third  degree,  in 
Greece.  In  politics,  he  has  been  an  ardent 
supporter  of  the  Republican  party.  He  was  a 
candidate  for  member  of  the  assembly;  but 
residing  in  a  strongly  Democratic  district  was 
defeated,  although  he  received  an  unusually 
large  and  very  flattering  vote.  His  commis- 
sion as  inspector  of  rifle  practice  of  the  state 
of  New  York  brought  to  him  the  rank  of 
major,  and  enlisted  his  interest  in  military 
affairs.  He  is  the  first  national  guard  of- 
ficer to  receive  official  recognition  as  such  in 
France.  He  was  acting  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee appointed  by  Mayor  John  Boyd 
Thacher,  of  Albany,  to  welcome  and  entertain 
the  Duke  de  Veragua  when  he  visited  the  city 
during  his  travels  in  the  year  of  the  Colum- 
bian Exposition,  and  was  secretary  of  the 
committee  to  receive  the  Postal  Congress. 
When  he  was  president  of  the  Young  Men's 
Association,  it  received  the  munificent  Har- 
manus  Bleecker  fund  which  permitted  the 
erection  of  the  largest  hall  in  Albany,  named 
in  honor  of  the  donor.  For  three  years  he 
was  regent  of  Philip  Livingston  Chapter, 
Sons  of  the  Revolution ;  has  been  a  valued 
officer  of  the  Knights  of  Albion  as  captain 
and  governor-general;  is  a  member  of  the 
Order  of  the  Cincinnati  of  Delaware,  Descen- 
dants of  the  Signers,  of  the  Mayflower  De- 


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scendants,  of  the  Order  of  Colonial  Wars,  the 
Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  a  New 
York  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Geographical  So- 
ciety of  London  and  of  the  Geographical  So- 
ciety of  Paris. 

Major  Harmon  Pumpelly  Read  married,  at 
St.  John's  Church,  Stamford,  Connecticut, 
August  24,  1889,  Rev.  W.  Tatlock,  D.  D.,  of- 
ficiating, M'lle  Marguerite  de  Carron  d'Allon- 
dans,  of  distinguishel  French  lineage.  Her 
father.  Monsieur  Jacques  Frederic  de  Carron 
d'Allondans,  born  in  1835,  died  in  1870; 
municipal  councillor,  married.  October.  1865, 
Catherine  Marguerite  Pillard,  and  he  was  the 
son  of  Monsieur  Georges  Frederic  de  Carron 
d'Allondans,  warden  of  the  Lutheran  church, 
municipal  councillor,  a  man  of  fine  character 
and  well  respected. 

(VI)  Emily  Meredith  Read,  daughter  of 
General  John  Meredith  and  Delphine  Marie 
(Pumpelly)  Read,  was  born  in  Albany,  New 
York,  January  7.  1863.  She  married,  at  her 
father's  residence.  Newport.  Rhode  Island, 
August  21,  1884,  Hon.  Francis  Aquilla  Stout, 
of  New  York  City,  president  of  the  Nica- 
ragua Canal  Company,  "Father  of  the  New 
York  state  survey."  Francis  A.  Stout  was 
born  October  21,  1833,  and  died  July  18,  1892. 
He  was  the  son  of  Aquilla  Giles  Stout  (born 
January  22,  1799,  died  June.  1858),  who  mar- 
ried. May  24,  1827,  Anne  Morris  (born 
1806,  died  July  2.  1900),  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant William  Walton  Morris,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
his  wife,  Sarah  Carpender,  granddaughter  of 
Colonel  Lewis  Morris,  a  signer  of  the  Dec- 
laration of  Independence.  He  was  a  man  of 
good  executive  ability,  fond  of  art  in  every 
form,  had  traveled  extensively,  and  his  kindly, 
humanitarian  ways  found  often  their  expres- 
sion in  quiet  philanthropy.  She  married 
(second)  at  Paris.  France,  Edwards  Spencer, 
a  descendant  of  Jonathan  Edwards.  Her  city 
house  is  at  No.  11  West  Sixteenth  street,  and 
her  country  seat  is  Shipton  Court.  Lenox. 
Massachusetts. 

(VI)  John  Meredith  Read,  son  of  Gen- 
eral John  Meredith  and  Delphine  Marie 
(Pumpelly)  Read,  was  born  in  Albany,  New 
York.  June  27.  1869.  During  the  Spanish- 
American  war  he  recruited  a  regiment  of 
2.700  men,  fully  a  third  of  whom  were  from 
Albany  and  possessed  a  patriotic  spirit,  and 
many  of  them  saw  fighting  in  Cuba  during  the 
summer  of  1898.    He  is  a  member  of  the  his- 


torical societies  of  New  York  and  Pennsyl- 
vania, of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and 
various  other  organizations,  including  the 
Masonic  fraternity.  He  married,  at  Rome, 
Italy,  in  1900.  Countess  Alix  de  Foras 
( daughter  of  Count  Amede  de  Foras,  of  the 
Castle  of  Thuyset),  who  was  born  at  Thuyset, 
in  1866;  by  whom:  John  Meredith  (4),  born 
at  Pontoise,  November  12,  1901,  presented  to 
deputy  mayor.  November  15.  1901. 

(VI)  Marie  Delphine  Meredith  Read, 
daughter  of  General  John  Meredith  and  Del- 
phine Marie  (Pumpelly)  Read,  was  born  in 
Paris.  France,  while  her  father  was  consul- 
general  from  the  United  States.  March  9. 
1873.  and  was  christened  in  the  American 
Episcopal  Church  in  the  Rue  Bayard,  her 
godfather  being  Sir  Bernard  Burke.  She 
married,  in  the  Church  of  St.  Phillipe  du 
Roule,  Paris.  November  5,  1895.  Count  Max 
de  Foras,  Knight  of  St.  Maurice  and  Lazare, 
son  of  Count  Amede  de  Foras.  Knight  of  the 
Sovereign  Order  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem. 
Their  children  are:  Countess  Huguette, 
Countess  Delphine.  Count  Joseph. 

"The  founder  of  the  clan  of  Read  or  Rede  was 
Cairbre  Reada.  who  established  the  kingdom  of  Dal- 
riada,  on  the  western  coast  of  Scotland.  Nine  Reads 
ruled  over  it.  When  the  ninth  (termed  by  Bede 
Reuda,  others  Reada,  by  Fordun,  Adan  Reuther) 
after  his  defeat  by  Kenneth,  settled  in  Redesdale, 
where  he  founded  the  clan. 

"Post  cujus  (i.  e..  Fergusii)  vero  regumque  quo- 
rimdam  decessum,  abnepos  ejus  Reuther,  quern  Beda 
Readam  vorat,  ad  regimen  regni  Scotorum  Albionen- 
sium  succedens  ex  terris  Britorum  quasdam  extrimi 
limitis  provincias  versus  Boream  suo  dominio  subjugare. 
.  .  .  Ubi  procursu  modiei  temporis  cum  suis  resi- 
ilens  parti  cuidam  regionis  qua  fix  it  tentoria  de  nomine 
suo  Retherdale,  Anglice  Riddisdale,  inditum  est  nomen 
hodiernum." — Fordun    Scotchronicon,    lib.    2,   cap.    12,    13. 

The  Redes.  Reades  or  Reads,  of  Shipton  Court, 
Barton  Court,  etc.,  came  from  the  Redes  of  Redes- 
dale by  way  of  the  Morpeth  Reads. 

"Merrily  flashed  the  sunrays  on 


Merrier  within  the  court,  the  din 

Of  arming  warriors   rose. 
For   Sir   Reginald    Read 
On  his  mailed   steed 

To  the  Border  forays  goes." 

Arms  of  Read  and  allied  families. — .'Krms  of  Read: 
Gules  a  saltire  between  four  garbs  or.  Crest :  On 
the  stump  of  an  oak  tree  vert  with  a  sprig  growing 
from  it,  a  falcon  rising  ppr.,  belled  and  jessed  or. 
Motto;  Ccdant  arma  togae.  Arms  of  Ross:  Gules 
three  lions  rampant  argent.  Crest:  A  demi-lion 
rampant  gules.  Motto  :  Nohilis  est  Ira  Lcpnis.  .\rms 
of  Meredith,  engraved  on  family  silver  and  on  Mr. 
Samuel  Meredith's  chariot  are :  Argent  a  lion  ram- 
pant, unguled  gules,  collared  and  chained  or.    Crest: 


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A  demi-lion  of  the  same.  Cadwalader  arms:  Azure 
a  cross  pattee  fitche  or.  The  family  is  one  of  the 
oldest  in  England,  going  back  to  the  early  British 
Princes  of  Wales.  Arms  of  Carron :  Azure  three 
tiles  or.  Arms  of  Foras:  Or  a  cross  azure  sur- 
mounted by  a  count's  coronet. 


This  family  is  of  German  origin. 
RIKER     It  was  located  in  Lower  Saxony 

several  centuries  ago.  At  that 
time  the  independence  the  family  enjoyed  was 
equivalent  to  nobility.  It  was  there  that  they 
owned  the  estate  called  Ryken.  Thus  was 
the  name  derived,  and  those  migrating  from 
there  wrote  their  surname  "von  Ryken," 
sometimes  "von  Rycken."  The  name  ex- 
perienced changes,  such  as  de  Ryk,  de  Rycke, 
Rycke  and  Riecke ;  but  on  coming  to  America 
the  form  adopted  was  Riker.  It  merits  notice 
that  the  capital  of  Iceland  is  the  city  named 
Reykjavik,  located  west  of  Mt.  Helka,  and 
there  is  a  town  called  Reykir  on  the  Olfusu 
river,  connected  with  which  is  the  story  that 
four  nobles  of  the  name  of  Riker  or  Reykir 
went  to  Iceland  from  Norway,  and  were  pos- 
sibly those  from  the  original  Ryken  settle- 
ment, or  of  the  family  which  passed  north- 
ward from  Saxony  into  Holland,  when  an- 
other desire  to  move  took  them  into  Norway 
and  then  across  the  water.  The  Riker  arms : 
A  white  rose  between  three  golden  stars  or 
spur  rowels,  upon  an  azure  (blue)  field. 
Crest:  A  white  rose  between  a  pair  of  horns 
upright.     Motto:  Honor  virtutis  pracinium. 

Hans  von  Ryken  was  lord  of  the  estate  or 
Manor  of  Ryken,  and  is  recorded  as  a  valiant 
knight  who  participated  in  the  first  crusade  to 
the  Holy  Land,  in  1096,  at  the  head  of  eight 
hundred  crusaders  in  the  army  of  Walter  the 
Penniless,  accompanied  by  his  cousin,  Mel- 
chior  von  Rycken,  of  Holland.  Hans  was 
killed  while  on  the  expedition ;  but  the  latter 
returned.  It  is  believed  that  the  family  in 
this  country  is  descended  from  those  who 
lived  in  Amsterdam,  Holland,  where  they 
were  people  of  wealth  and  position,  until  the 
war  with  Spain  brought  dire  disaster.  Cap- 
tain Jacob  Simonz  de  Rycke,  a  wealthy  corn 
merchant  of  Amsterdam,  distinguished  him- 
self in  this  war,  and  from  the  best  research 
possible  to  make,  figures  as  the  grandfather  of 
the  immigrant  ancestor,  for  his  Christian 
name  was  carried  down  by  him,  and  the  fam- 
ily tradition  here  was  to  the  effect  that  the 


grandfather  was  a  zealous  supporter  of  Wil- 
liam of  Nassau,  and  distinguished  himself. 

(I)  Guisbert  Riker  (or  van  Rycken)  was 
the  progenitor  of  this  family  in  America,  ar- 
riving here  in  1630,  in  a  vessel  of  the  Dutch 
West  India  Company.  He  received  a  patent 
for  land  at  the  Poor  Bouwerie  in  1632.  There 
were  in  this  country  at  about  this  time  four 
male  members  bearing  the  family  name.  These 
were  Abraham,  Guisbert  (or  Gysbert), 
Rynier  and  Hendrick.  Rynier  was  an  in- 
telligent merchant  in  New  Amsterdam,  and 
was  named  a  church  member  in  1649,  living 
on  Waal  straat  in  1665.  Hendrick  settled  on 
Long  Island,  where  his  sons  assumed  the 
name  of  Suydam.  Guisbert  probably  died 
about  1640,  as  nothing  further  was  heard 
about  him,  leaving  a  son,  Abraham,  and  a 
single  daughter. 

(II)  Abraham  Riker,  son  of  Guisbert  van 
Rycken,  the  progenitor  of  the  family,  wrot^ 
his  name  also  "de  Rycke,"  so  indiscriminately 
that  one  cannot  declare  which  form  he  re- 
garded as  the  correct  one ;  but  in  the  third 
generation  the  present  mode  of  spelling  was 
so  universally  in  use  by  members  of  the  fam- 
ily that  it  will  be  considered  the  proper  form 
in  this  narrative.  He  received  an  allotment 
of  land  from  Governor  Kieft  in  1638,  for 
which  he  obtained  a  patent  dated  August  8, 
1640.  The  tract  was  located  at  the  Wallabout. 
He  was  residing  in  New  Amsterdam  in  1642, 
on  the  Heeren  Gracht,  now  Broad  street  in 
New  York  City.  He  obtained  more  land  by 
a  grant  dated  February  26,  1654,  at  the  Poor 
Bouwerie  (or  Bowery),  whither  he  removed 
and  added  the  island  known  as  Riker's  Island, 
the  sale  of 'which  was  confirmed  by  Governor 
Nicoll  on  December  24,  1667.  He  had  made 
this  acquisition  August  19,  1664.  It  was  also 
commonly  called  Round  Island,  and  later  on 
Berrien's,  because  bought  by  Ezra  N.  Berrien 
about  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  century. 
The  original  confirmation  of  the  sale  of 
Riker's  Island  was  made  by  the  sagamore. 
Mattano,  chief  of  Staten  Island  and  Nyack, 
December  5.  1664.  when  he  received  in  pay- 
ment fifty-eight  fathom  of  wampum,  seven 
coats,  one  blanket  and  four  kettles.  It  was 
likewise  named  Hewlett's  Island  for  a  time, 
after  the  family  of  that  name  living  on  Long 
Island :  but  throughout  the  centuries  every- 
body has  known  it  as  Riker's  Island.  It  con- 
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from  the  Long  Island  shore.  He  was  a  trader 
dealing  in  furs,  for  it  appears  in  documents 
that  in  1656  he  made  a  voyage  to  the  Dela- 
ware river  with  the  idea  of  purchasing  beaver 
skins,  which  were  then  the  leading  article  of 
traffic,  almost  all  of  which  was  shipped  to 
England.  This  voyage  was  unfortunate,  for 
upon  ascending  the  river  during  the  night  the 
bark  in  which  he  was  voyaging  stranded  near, 
the  falls.  It  was  unloaded,  and  after  some 
time  was  caused  to  float.  During  this  opera- 
tion the  passengers  were  obliged  to  live  in 
tents  ashore.  He  visited  Fort  Casimir,  near 
the  present  city  of  New  Castle,  and  returned, 
unable  to  secure  any  peltry.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Dutch  church,  for  his  name  is  on 
the  list  of  1649,  and  his  children  were  bap- 
tized in  the  church  built  within  Fort  Amster- 
dam. He  died  in  1689,  having  attained  an  age 
of  over  seventy  years.  His  will  was  dated 
March  9,  1689,  and  the  inventory  was  taken 
on  April  5th.  It  is  recorded  in  the  County 
Clerk's  Office,  at  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  in 
Liber  A.,  page  36.  A  very  old  copy  of  the 
will  and  the  original  Dutch  patents  for  his 
farm  and  island  passed  into  possession  of 
John  Lawrence  Riker,  who  was  the  owner  of 
these  interesting  documents  in  1850,  and  half 
a  century  later  they  were  in  existence. 

Abraham  Riker  married  Grietje,  daughter 
of  Hendrick  Harmensen,  the  pioneer  farmer 
of  Long  Island,  who  located  his  farm  in  1638, 
at  Sanford's  Point,  Flushing  Bay,  and  both 
Hendrick  and  his  wife  were  members  of  the 
Dutch  church,  as  was  their  daughter.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Ryck  Abramsen;  adopted  the  name 
of  Lent  and  lived  on  Long  Island.  2.  Jacob, 
born  in  1640;  died  in  infancy.  3.  Jacob,  born 
in  1643.  4.  Hendrick,  born  in  1646;  died 
young.  5.  Mary,  born  in  1649;  married 
Sibout  H.  Krankheyt.  6.  John,  born  in  1651  ; 
married,  in  1691,  Sarah  Schouten,  widow  of 
Paulus  Vanderbeeck ;  by  whom :  Abraham, 
born  in  1695,  who  settled  in  Essex  county. 
New  Jersey.  7.  Aletta,  born  in  1653 ;  mar- 
ried Captain  John  Harmensen.  8.  Abraham, 
see  forward.  9.  Hendrick,  born  in  1662; 
adopted  the  name  of  Lent. 

(Ill)  Abraham  (2)  Riker,  son  of  Abraham 
(i)  and  Grietje  (Harmensen)  Riker,  was 
born  at  New  Amsterdam  (New  York  City), 
in  1655,  and  died  at  his  place  in  Newtown, 
Long  Island,  August  20,  1746.  He  was 
buried  in  the  Poor  Bouwerie  cemetery  owned 


by  the  Riker  family.  When  he  was  a  child 
his  parents  took  him  to  their  farm  in  New- 
town, and  when  he  grew  up  he  began  by  man- 
aging it.  Later,  he  obtained  the  property  by 
inheritance.  He  increased  his  domain  con- 
siderably by  purchasing  one-third  of  the  Tu- 
dor patent,  on  November  2,  i(388,  described 
as  follows :  "Bounded  on  the  south  by  the 
line  of  the  Indian  purchase ;  to  the  eastward 
by  the  Poor's  Boweries ;  to  the  westward  by 
the  line  of  the  patents  belonging  to  the  inhabi- 
tants of  the  Mespat  Kills;  and  to  the  north 
by  the  land  of  William  Hallett."  This  patent 
was  obtained  by  John  Tudor,  March  18,  1686. 
He  possessed  intelligence  beyond  the  average, 
and  managed  most  capably.  He  settled  his 
estate  upon  his  sons,  Abraham  and  Andrew, 
November  10,  1733.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  was  in  his  ninety-first  year,  and  for  some 
time  had  suffered  the  loss  of  his  eyesight. 
He  was  accustomed  to  sit  on  the  lawn  under 
an  old  pear  tree,  and  while  resting  there  on 
August  20.  1746,  he  was  surprised  by  the  re- 
covery of  his  sight.  He  hastened  to  the  house 
that  he  might  once  more  behold  his  sons  and 
grandchildren,  never  having  seen  the  latter, 
when  on  returning  to  his  seat  beneath  the 
tree,  he  expired.  Abraham  Riker  married, 
January  10.  1682,  Grietje,  daughter  of  Jan 
Gerritse  Van  Buytenhuysen,  of  New  York 
City,  and  Tryntje  Van  Luyt,  of  Holland.  She 
died  November  15,  1732,  aged  seventy-one 
years.  Children:  i.  Catherine.  2.  Margaret, 
married  (first)  Peter  Braisted,  (second) 
Thoinas  Lynch,  (third)  Anthony  Duane, 
father  of  Hon.  James  Duane,  mayor  of  New 
York  city.  3.  Mary,  married  Hasuelt  Van 
Keuren,  of  Kingston.  New  York.  4.  Abra- 
ham, born  in  1691  ;  died  February  23,  1770; 
located  on  a  part  of  the  Tudor  patent  of  his 
father's  property ;  married  Geesie,  daughter 
of  Johannes  Van  Alst,  of  the  Dutch  Kills, 
who  died  October  20,  1758;  by  whom:  Aletta, 
Johannes,  Alargaret,  Abraham,  Peter,  Grace, 
Andrew,  Joris,  Jacobus  and  Hendrick.  5. 
John,  died  in  1783.  aged  ninety  years;  re- 
moved to  Closter,  Rockland  county.  New 
York  (now  in  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey)  ; 
married  Geertje,  daughter  of  Teunis  Wiltsee, 
of  Newtown ;  by  whom :  Abraham,  John,  Ge- 
rardus,  Deborah,  Margaret.  Alary,  Elizabeth, 
and  Catherine.  6.  Hendrick,  died  July  27, 
1 761,  aged  sixty-five;  removed  to  New  York 
city ;  was  a  blacksmith  at  Burling  slip,  where 


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he  manufactured  such  metal  objects  as  were 
used  in  building  or  about  the  house,  owned 
property  there  and  became  an  alderman ;  mar- 
ried, October  20,  1722,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
John  Peek,  who  died  at  her  home  in  Chat- 
ham Square,  New  York  City,  August  6,  1791. 
aged  ninety-two  years ;  by  whom :  Abraham, 
John,  Henry  and  James.  7.  Andrew,  see  for- 
ward.   8.  Jacob. 

(IV)  Andrew  Riker,  son  of  Abraham  (2) 
and  Grietje  (Yan  Buytenhuysen)  Riker,  was 
born  at  the  homestead  at  Bowery  Bay,  New- 
town, Long  Island,  in  1669,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 12,  1763,  according  to  the  Presbyterian 
church  records,  although  the  date  upon  his 
tombstone  is  April  11,  1762.  He  was  named 
after  his  uncle,  Andrew  Van  Buytenhuysen. 
Although  the  seventh  child  and  fourth  son, 
he  inherited  the  homestead  property.  He  was 
regarded  in  his  day  as  a  gentleman  of  means 
and  was  probably  the  most  influential  citizen 
of  the  locality.  He  and  his  wife  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Dutch  church,  and  their  house  was 
frequently  visited  by  the  dominies,  although 
there  were  many  Quakers  residing  in  the 
vicinity.  His  house  was  the  abode  of  the 
French  officers  during  the  winter  succeeding 
the  campaign  of  1756,  when  a  detachment  of 
the  King's  Regulars  was  quartered  at  New- 
town, which  was  the  period  when  the  French 
and  Indian  wars  were  engaging  attention  in 
the  northern  part  of  the  province. 

Andrew  Riker  married,  November  13,  1733, 
Jane,  daughter  of  John  Berrien,  who  was  then 
the  widow  of  Captain  Dennis  Lawrence.  Her 
father  was  the  son  of  Cornells  Jansen  Ber- 
rien, a  French  Huguenot,  who  settled  in  Flat- 
bush,  in  1669,  and  married  Jannetje,  daughter 
of  Jan  Stryker.  Jane  Berrien  Riker  died  Sep- 
tember 26,  1775,  aged  seventy-two  years. 
Children:  i.  Margaret,  died  unmarried,  April 
3,  1760,  aged  twenty-five  years.  2.  John 
Berrien,  born  in  1738;  died  at  Newtown, 
Long  Island,  September  5,  1794:  educated  at 
Princeton,  and  became  eminent  as  a  physician ; 
located  at  Newtown ;  but  fled  when  the  British 
entered  that  place,  and  joined  the  army  under 
Washington,  with  whom  he  continued  as  sur- 
geon during  the  entire  war,  having  been  com- 
missioned February  18,  1777,  in  the  4th 
Battalion  of  New  Jersey  troops;  married, 
November  19,  1771,  Susannah,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  Fish,  and  she  died  in  New  York 
city,    December   6,    1836,    in   her   eighty-third 


year ;  by  whom :  John,  born  September  29, 
1772,  died  at  Hamburg,  November  3,  1797; 
Nathaniel,  born  April  17,  1775,  a  physician, 
died  at  sea  in  the  West  Indies,  August  24, 
1802;  Jane,  born  June  24,  1780;  Abraham, 
born  February  4,  1785,  a  druggist,  died  in 
New  York  City,  February  6,  1826.  3.  Abra- 
ham, born  in  1740;  died  at  Valley  Forge,  New 
Jersey,  May  7,  1778;  remained  in  Newtown 
until  the  Revolution,  when  he  was  commis- 
sioned a  captain  in  the  American  army,  and 
was  present  at  the  fall  of  General  Montgom- 
ery at  Quebec;  married,  September  2,  1766, 
Margaret,  his  cousin,  daughter  of  Jacob 
Riker,  and  she  died  at  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
November  19,  1835 ;  by  whom :  Jane,  born  in 
1768,  married,  June  8,  1791,  Rev.  Asa  Hill- 
yer.  4.  Samuel,  see  forward.  5.  Ruth,  mar- 
ried Major  Jonathan  Lawrence,  who  was 
born  October  4,  1737,  and  was  the  son  of 
John  and  Patience   (Sackett)    Lawrence. 

(V)  Samuel  Riker,  son  of  Andrew  and 
Jane  (Berrien-Lawrence)  Riker,  was  born 
April  8,  1743,  and  died  May  19,  1823.  After 
receiving  his  education,  he  entered  upon  a 
mercantile  career;  but  having  experienced  a 
clerkship  for  several  years  in  New  York  and 
tiring  of  city  life,  he  returned  to  the  home- 
stead at  Newtown.  It  was  not  long  after- 
ward that  the  Revolution  was  engaging  the 
attention  of  the  country,  and  Samuel  Riker 
was  prompt  in  the  role  of  a  patriot.  The  in- 
habitants of  Newtown  assembled  in  the  town- 
house  on  December  10,  1774,  and  there  list- 
ened to  the  reading  of  the  resolutions  which 
had  been  passed  at  Jamaica.  When  they  had 
been  read  and  fully  discussed,  the  response 
was  unanimous  in  favor  of  their  adoption, 
and  this  led  to  the  organization  of  a  com- 
mittee of  correspondence.  Among  the  prom- 
inent citizens  enrolled  from  Newtown  were 
Samuel  Riker  and  his  friends,  Richard  Alsop, 
John  Albertis,  Jacob  Blackwell,  Abraham 
Brinckerhoff',  Jonathan  Coe,  Philip  Edsall, 
William  Firman,  William  Howard,  Thomas 
Lawrence,  Daniel  Lawrence,  Jonathan  Law- 
rence, Samuel  Moore,  Samuel  Morrill,  Daniel 
Rapelje  and  Jeremias  Remsen.  They  pres- 
ently organized  the  Newtown  Troop  of  Light 
Horse,  which  consisted  of  forty-four  men. 
It  was  commanded  by  Captain  Richard  Law- 
rence, with  Daniel  Lawrence  as  its  first  lieu- 
tenant ;  Samuel  Riker,  second  lieutenant ; 
Jonathan  Coe,  cornet ;  Peter  Rapelje,  quarter- 


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master.  When  Captain  Lawrence  resigned, 
the  promotions  made  Samuel  Riker  the  first 
heutenant. 

Samuel  Riker's  brother,  Abraham,  was  cap- 
tain of  a  company  of  the  New  York  Conti- 
nental Line.  He  had  participated  in  the 
storming  of  Quebec  the  previous  year,  and 
was  now  actively  raising  a  company.  When 
he  accomplished  this,  his  command  was  at- 
tached to  Colonel  Reitzman's  regiment,  form- 
ing a  portion  of  the  brigade  of  Major-General 
William  Alexander,  Lord  Stirling.  It  fell  to 
Lieutenant  Samuel  Riker's  lot  to  guard  the 
outposts  of  the  patriot's  army;  but  they  were 
driven  along  by  the  British  army.  He  man- 
aged to  escape  after  the  notable  battle  of  Long 
Island :  but  on  his  return  was  discovered  by 
the  British  and  made  a  prisoner.  After  the 
close  of  the  war,  Samuel  Riker  returned  to 
live  at  Newtown,  and  was  repeatedly  honored 
by  public  office.  He  was  supervisor  of  the 
county,  served  in  the  assembly  in  1784,  was 
congressman  in  1808-9,  as  well  as  having  oc- 
cupied a  seat  in  the  house  earlier  in  his  ca- 
reer. Those  who  had  dealings  with  him  to 
know  him  well,  said  he  possessed  excellent 
judgment  in  his  acts,  and  had  a  remarkably 
retentive  memory,  while  to  those  in  need  he 
hearkened  sympathetically  and  was  never  loth 
to  assist. 

Samuel  Riker  married,  January  17,  1769, 
Anna  Lawrence.  She  was  born  at  Newtown, 
Long  Island,  November  27,  1749,  and  died 
January  5,  1833,  at  the  ripe  age  of  eighty- 
three  years.  Her  parents  were  Joseph  Law- 
rence, who  was  born  March  21,  1723,  died  at 
Newtown,  January  28,  1793  (son  of  John 
Lawrence  and  Patience  Sackett),  who  mar- 
ried Patience  Moore,  born  October  18,  1727, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Moore  and  Anna  Sac- 
kett. Children:  i.  Joseph  Lawrence,  born 
March  26,  1770;  led  a  maritime  life,  and  died, 
unmarried,  at  Jamaica,  \\'est  Indies,  July  20, 
1796.  2.  Captain  Andrew,  born  September 
21,  1771  ;  died  at  Port  au  Prince,  Hayti,  West 
Indies,  October  17,  1817:  commanded  a  vessel 
in  the  European  and  West  Indian  trade:  in 
the  last  war  with  Great  Britain  engaged  in 
privateering,  and  in  command  of  the  "Sara- 
toga" and  the  "Yorktown"  was  eminently  dar- 
ing and  successful,  but  in  the  end  was  cap- 
tured, off  Newfoundland,  soon  afterwards 
paroled,  so  that  he  could  resume  his  sea 
life;    married,    February    6,    180Z,    Margaret, 


daughter  of  Nathaniel  Moore,  born  June  23, 
1784;  died  at  Astoria,  Long  Island,  Septem- 
II,  1842.  Issue:  i.  Samuel,  born  in  1805; 
died  in  1849.  ii.  Andrew,  born  in  1808;  died, 
unmarried,  in  1837.  iii.  Martha  Moore,  born 
June  II,  181 1  ;  died  at  Oakhill,  Newtown, 
March  13,  1889;  married,  November  18,  1834 
John  Clews  Jackson.  iv.  Anna  Lawrence, 
born  September  26,  1812;  died,  unmarried,  at 
Seabright,  New  Jersey,  November  3,  1889.  v. 
Abraham,  born  September  26,  1812;  died,  un- 
married, at  Jonesborough,  Texas,  July  7, 
1839.  vi.  Margaret  S.,  born  August  17, 
1816;  died,  unmarried,  at  Oakhill,  February 
22,  1864.  vii.  Nathaniel  Moore,  died,  un- 
married, in  Texas,  between  1842  and  1850. 
3.  Richard,  born  at  Bowery  Bay,  Newtown, 
September  9,  1773;  died  September  26,  1842; 
was  educated  under  the  tuition  of  Rev.  Dr. 
Witherspoon,  of  Nassau  Hall,  New  Jersey; 
in  1 79 1  entered  the  law  office  of  the  elder 
Jones,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1793: 
district-attorney  of  New  York  in  1802-15; 
recorder  in  1815;  was  known  for  his  eminent 
talents  and  profound  knowledge ;  married, 
April  23,  1807,  Janet,  daughter  of  Daniel 
Phoenix,  treasurer  of  the  city  of  New  York. 
Issue:  i.  Daniel  Phoenix,  died  April  30,  1868, 
aged  sixty  years.  ii.  Anna  Exceen,  born 
April  13,  1809;  died  January  22,  1896:  mar- 
ried Dr.  Samuel  Spring,  iii.  Elizabeth  Piatt, 
born  October  4,  1810;  died  February,  1901  ; 
married  Dr.  Edward  Spring.  iv.  Janette, 
born  October  21,  1816;  died  October,  1900; 
married,  June,  1839,  Harris  Wilson,  v.  John 
Hancock,  born  July  4,  1818;  died  January  26, 
1894;  married,  September  i,  1858,  Anna 
Brevoort.  vi.  Rebecca  Phoenix,  born  Febru- 
ary 19,  1822;  died  March  4,  1868.  4.  Abra- 
ham, born  May  24,  1776;  remained  upon  the 
paternal  farm;  during  the  war  of  1812  was 
a  captain  of  marines  under  his  brother,  An- 
drew ;  was  drowned  in  the  East  river,  Au- 
gust 25,  1821  ;  married  Hannah  Pierson.  Is- 
sue :  i.  Hannah,  ii.  Alpheus  B.  iii.  Mary  B. 
iv.  Adriana.  5.  Patience  Lawrence,  born 
May  10,  1778;  married  John  Lawrence.  6. 
Samuel,  born  March  3,  1780;  died  September 
17,  1811  ;  educated  at  Columbia  College,  class 
of  1799;  practiced  law  in  New  York  City.  7- 
Tane  Margaret,  born  April  4,  1782;  married 
"(first)  John  Thom;  married  (second)  Dr. 
William"  James  MacNeven.     8.  Anna  Elvira, 


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born  May  i,  1785;  married  Dr.  Dow  Ditmars. 
9.  John  Lawrence,  see  forward. 

(VI)  John  Lawrence  Riker,  son  of  Samuel 
and  Anna  (Lawrence)  Riker,  was  born  at 
Bowery  Bay,  Newtown,  Long  Island,  April  9, 
1787.  He  was  educated  at  Erasmus  Hall  in 
Flatbush,  Long  Island,  and  when  sixteen 
years  old  entered  his  brother  Richard's  law 
office,  where  he  studied  law  for  five  years, 
and  then  began  his  practice  in  New  York 
City,  which  course  was  eminently  successful 
in  every  manner.  He  resided  in  that  city  until 
1825,  when  he  purchased  the  old  homestead 
and  continued  to  reside  there  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  It  was  his  customary  habit  to 
ride  daily  to  the  Fulton  ferry  on  horseback, 
and  leave  his  horse  there  until  his  return  in 
the  evening.  He  enjoyed  country  life  ex- 
ceedingly. His  manner  was  most  engaging, 
and  this  was  partly  the  reason  why  he  won 
and  retained  so  many  clients.  He  was  per- 
sistent and  painstaking  with  every  cause,  and 
persevered  in  study  until  he  was  invariably 
certain  to  win  his  suit.  In  this  way  he  gained 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  numerous 
clients.  He  was  a  patriot,  and  volunteering 
his  service  in  the  war  of  1812,  was  commis- 
sioned a  captain  of  the  97th  Regiment  of  In- 
fantry, August  II,  1812. 

John  Lawrence  Riker  married  (first)  Maria 
Smith,  daughter  of  Sylvanus  Smith  ("son  of 
Sylvanus,  the  son  of  John),  of  North  Hemp- 
stead, Long  Island,  by  whom  he  had  four 
children,  and  he  married  (second)  Lavinia 
Smith,  her  sister,  by  whom  he  had  seven 
children.  Children:  i.  Henry  Lawrence,  died, 
unmarried,  in  1861.  2.  Sylvanus  Smith,  mar- 
ried Helen  Bowne.  3.  Mary  Ann,  died,  un- 
married, in  1865.  4.  Lavinia,  married  Abra- 
ham D.  Ditmars.  5.  John  Lawrence,  see  for- 
ward. 6.  Samuel,  born  at  Bowery  Bay,  New- 
town, Long  Island,  April  10,  1832 ;  read  law 
in  the  office  of  J.  H.  &  H.  L.  Riker,  and  was 
admitted  in  May,  1853;  married,  in  1865, 
Mary  Anna,  daughter  of  Jacob  P.  and  Mary 
R.  Stryker,  of  Newtown.  7.  Richard,  died  in 
1853.  8.  Daniel  Smith,  see  forward.  9  Jane, 
married  Arthur  B.  Graves.  10.  William 
James,  born  at  Bowery  Bay,  Long  Island : 
graduated  from  Flushing  Institute  in  1858 : 
married,  in  1865,  Charlotte  Lawrence,  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Jacob  P.  Stryker  (son  of  Garret 
Stryker)  and  Anne  Polhemus.  11.  Julia 
Lawrence,  married  Charles  D.  Leverich. 


(VII)  John  Lawrence  (2)  Riker,  son  of 
John  Lawrence  (i)  and  Lavinia  (Smith) 
Riker,  was  born  at  the  homestead  in  New- 
town, Long  Island,  November  23,  1830,  and 
died  at  Seabright,  New  Jersey,  July  6,  1909. 
Having  completed  his  education,  he  came  to 
New  York  City,  where  he  entered  the  large 
drug  firm  of  Lawrence  &  Hicks,  with  the  in- 
tention of  leading  a  mercantile  life.  Later, 
he  was  associated  with  Benjamin  H.  Field, 
dealer  in  wholesale  chemicals  and  dyes,  and 
in  1854,  due  to  his  energy  and  careful  atten- 
tion, was  made  a  partner.  He  continued  as 
such  until  December  31,  i860,  when  he  retired 
and  formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother 
Daniel.  This  was  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War,  and  not  only  did  they  pass  through  the 
critical  period,  but  greatly  enlarged  their 
business.  He  remained  the  senior  partner 
until  1903,  when  he  retired,  and  the  control 
of  the  business  devolved  upon  his  son,  John 
Jackson  Riker.  The  extensive  scope  of  so 
large  a  business  brought  him  into  contact  with 
men  of  affairs,  and  appreciative  of  his  ability 
they  sought  his  co-operation  and  advice  in 
the  management  of  several  institutions.  He 
was  made  vice-president  of  the  Bank  of  New 
York,  vice-president  of  the  Second  National 
Bank,  vice-president  of  the  Atlantic  Trust 
Company,  and  vice-president  of  the  Laflin  & 
Rand  Powder  Company.  He  was  also  an 
officer  of  the  Metropolitan  Trust  Company, 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Continental 
Insurance  Company  and  other  corporations. 
Mr.  Riker  was  a  member  of  the  St.  Nicholas 
Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars,  vice-president  of  the  Holland 
Society,  and  of  the  Union  League,  Metropoli- 
tan and  St.  Nicholas  clubs.  He  was  vestry- 
man and  then  senior  warden  of  the  Church  of 
the  Incarnation  for  over  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury. 

John  Lawrence  Riker  married,  at  St.  James' 
Church,  Newtown,  Long  Island,  June  17, 
1857,  Mary  Jackson,  the  Rev.  Dr."  Shelton 
officiating.  Mary  Jackson  was  born  in  the 
country  place  formerly  occupied  by  De  Witt 
Clinton  at  Bloomingdale,  New  York.  Decem- 
ber 16.  1835,  and  died  at  No.  19  West  S7th 
street,  January  3,  1909.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  John  Clews  Jackson  (son  of  William,  the 
son  of  Job  Jackson),  who  was  born  at  Burs- 
lem,  Staffordshire.  England,  April  7.  180Q ; 
died  at  Seabright,  New  Jersey,  September  18, 


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1889;  married,  November  18,  1834,  Martha 
Moore  Riker,  born  June  11,  1811;  died  at 
'"Oakhill,"'  Newtown,  Long  Island,  March  15, 
1889. 

John  Clews  Jackson  was  descended  from  a 
highly  respected  family  in  England,  one  of 
whom  was  knighted  for  his  service  to  his 
sovereign,  and  was  awarded  the  following 
arms :  Argent,  a  lion  passant  gules ;  on  a  chief 
of  the  second,  three  poleaxes  of  the  first. 
Crest :  An  arm  in  armor,  embowed,  holding  a 
battleaxe,  all  proper.  He  came  to  New  York 
City  in  January,  1830,  to  represent  the  firms 
of  John  Davenport  &  Company  and  John 
Wedgwood,  and  established  trade  throughout 
the  country,  with  the  chief  place  of  business 
on  Water  street,  whence  he  removed  to  Bar- 
clay street,  where  he  became  one  of  the  most 
successful  merchants  of  New  York.  At  the 
close  of  the  civil  war  he  retired.  He  was 
greatly  interested  in  the  breeding  of  fine  stock, 
and  allying  his  interests  with  the  New  York 
State  Agricultural  Society,  was  made  its  vice- 
president  in  1854  and  the  following  year.  In 
1840,  he  purchased  the  homestead  and  farm 
known  as  "Oak  Hill,"  in  Newtown,  which 
property  was  formerly  owned  by  Andrew 
Riker,  the  father  of  his  wife.  It  consisted 
of  about  forty  acres,  and  is  beautifully  situ- 
ated on  an  eminence  giving  an  excellent  view 
of  the  country.  The  house,  more  than  a  cen- 
tury old,  is  surrounded  by  enormous  trees, 
and  its  large,  well-lighted  rooms  are  furnished 
in  antique  style. 

Children  of  John  Lawrence  Riker:  i.  John 
Jackson,  born  at  "Oak  Hill,"  Newtown,  Long 
Island,  April  6,  1858;  married,  at  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  April  20,  1881,  Edith,  born  Feb- 
ruary 8,  1862,  daughter  of  Samuel  Blackwell 
Bartow,  of  New  York  City,  grandson  of  Col- 
onel Jacob  Blackwell  of  the  Revolution.  2. 
Henry  Laurens,  born  at  "Oak  Hill."  New- 
town, Long  Island,  June  20.  i860:  died  at 
Seabright,  New  Jersey,  unmarried,  August  13, 
1900;  graduated  from  Columbia  College  in 
1880;  entered  his  father's  counting-room,  and 
because  of  his  literary  and  musical  tastes  as 
well  as  his  interest  in  the  poor,  became  a 
person  who  was  much  beloved.  3.  Margaret 
Moore,  born  at  "Oak  Hill,"  Newtown,  Long 
Island,  March  17,  1864:  married,  at  New 
York  City,  December  9,  1891,  Jonathan 
Amory  Haskell,  who  was  born  at  Astoria, 
Long  Island,  July  7,  1861,  son  of  Samuel  and 


Mary  Frances  (Amory)  Haskell.  Issue:  i. 
Mary  Riker  Haskell,  born  November  25, 
1892.  ii.  Amory  Lawrence  Haskell,  born 
October  23,  1893.  "^-  Margaret  Riker  Has- 
kell, born  November  26.  1899;  all  born  in 
New  York  City  (see  Haskell).  4.  Lavinia, 
born  at  "Oak  Hill,"  Newtown,  Long  Island, 
August  I,  1866;  married,  at  New  York  City, 
June  I,  1892,  James  Remsen  Strong,  who  was 
"born  in  New  York  City.  October  28,  1861,  son 
of  Benjamin  Woodhull  and  Frances  (Hoff- 
man) Strong.  Issue:  i.  Margaret  Lawrence 
Strong,  born  March  19,  1893.  ii.  Charlotte 
Remsen  Strong,  born  October  29,  1895  ;  both 
born  in  New  York  City  (see  Strong).  5. 
Samuel,  see  forward.  6.  Sylvanus,  born  at 
Paris,  France,  May  17,  1868  (twin)  ;  died  at 
"Oak  Hill,"  Newtown,  Long  Island,  Septem- 
ber 28,  1869.  7.  Martha  Jackson,  born  in 
New  York  City,  March  4,  1870:  married,  at 
New  York  City,  April  28,  1897,  James  Howe 
Proctor,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  born  Sep- 
tember 19,  1867,  son  of  Thomas  E.  Proctor. 
8.  Charles  Lawrence,  born  in  New  York  City, 
March  27,  1873;  married,  at  Pelham  Manor, 
Westchester  county.  New  York.  October  16, 
1900,  Selina  Richards  Schroeder,  who  was 
born  in  September,  1875,  daughter  of  Gilliat 
Schroeder.  9.  Mary  Jackson,  born  at  Sea- 
bright,  New  Jersey,  August  18,  1876;  mar- 
ried, at  New  York  City,  April  29.  1903,  Henry 
Ingersoll  Riker,  son  of  Daniel  Smith  and 
Joanna  Cooper  (Field)   Riker,  see  forward. 

(VIII)  Samuel  Riker.  son  of  John  Law- 
rence (2)  and  Mary  (Jackson)  Riker.  was 
born  at  Paris,  France,  May  17,  1868,  and  re- 
sides in  New  York  City.  He  was  educated  at 
Everson's  School,  and  pursued  his  profes- 
sional studies  at  the  Columbia  Law  School, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1888,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  State 
in  March,  1890.  He  adopted  general  prac- 
tice and  has  offices  at  No.  19  Cedar  street, 
New  York  City.  He  is  a  Democrat,  and  at- 
tends the  Episcopal  church,  being  a  vestry- 
man of  the  Church  of  the  Incarnation.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Manhattan,  City,  Union, 
Midday,  Racquet  and  Tennis,  and  Rumson 
Country  clubs,  the  Down  Town  Association, 
Sons  of  the  Revolution  and  St.  Nicholas  So- 
ciety. His  summer  home  is  at  Middletown, 
New  Jersey.  Samuel  Riker  married,  at  Law- 
rence, Long  Island,  November  18,  1896, 
Frances  Mortimer  Townsend,  who  was  born 


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in  New  York  City,  April  2,  1873,  and  is  the 
daughter  of  Frederick  R.  Townsend  (son  of 
James,  the  son  of  George,  of  Benjamin,  of 
Jacob,  of  James,  of  John,  of  John  Townsend) 
and  Annie  Talman  Mortimer  (see  Town- 
send).  Children:  i.  Frances  Townsend,  born 
at  Seabright,  New  Jersey,  July  13.  1897.  2. 
Audrey  Townsend,  born  at  Seabright,  New 
Jersey,  June  24,  1899.  3.  Samuel,  born  at 
Seabright,  New  Jersey,  September  22,  1905. 
4.  Lavania,  born  at  New  York  City,  Decem- 
ber 6,  1909. 

(VII)  Daniel  Smith  Riker,  son  of  John 
Lawrence  (i)  and  Lavinia  (Smith)  Riker, 
was  bom  at  the  old  Bowery  Bay  homestead, 
Newtown,  Long  Island,  October  8,  1835,  and 
died  there,  June  10,  1890.  He  was  educated 
at  his  native  town,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen 
entered  the  employ  of  Benjamin  H.  Field,  a 
leading 'metropolitan  merchant.  Later  on,  he 
founded  the  firm  of  J.  L.  &  D.  S.  Riker.  He 
was  a  Republican,  and  attended  the  Episcopal 
church.  His  city  residence  was  at  No.  303 
Madison  avenue.  Daniel  S.  Riker  married, 
at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  October  3,  1866, 
Rev.  Dr.  John  Scarborough  officiating,  Joanna 
Cooper  Field,  who  was  born  at  Poughkeepsie, 
July  3,  1846,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Dr. 
Henry  Arthur  and  Gertrude  (Ingersoll) 
Field. 

Children:  i.  Gertrude,  born  at  New  York 
City,  July  3,  1868 ;  married  there.  April  20, 
1892,  Joseph  Blatchley  Hoyt.  She  died  March 
8,  1913.  Issue:  i.  Gertrude  Riker  Hoyt,  born 
June,  1894.  ii.  Joseph  Blatchley  Hoyt,  Jr., 
born  June,  1897.  2.  William,  born  at  New 
York  City,  in  1870;  died  there,  in  1871.  3. 
Henry  Ingersoll,  see  forward.  4.  Anna 
Mary,  born  at  New  York  City,  October  14, 
1874;  married  (first),  in  October,  1902,  Dr. 
William  Duflf  Bullard,  who  died  in  June, 
1906;  married  (second),  February,  191 1, 
Samuel  Townsend  Gilford.  5.  Herbert  Lau- 
rens, born  at  New  York  City,  February  22, 
1880.  6.  Daniel  Smith,  born  at  New  York 
City.  April  16,  1887. 

(VIII)  Henry  Ingersoll  Riker,  son  of 
Daniel  Smith  and  Joanna  Cooper  (Field) 
Riker,  was  born  at  New  York  City,  May  6, 
1872,  and  resides  at  No.  1016  Madison  ave- 
nue. He  was  educated  at  the  Wilson  &  Kel- 
logg School,  and  entered  the  Columbia  Law 
School  in  1890,  receiving  the  degree  of  Bache- 
lor of  Laws,  New  York  Law  School,  in  1892. 


After  spending  one  year  at  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  York 
Bar,  1894;  but  in  1897  discontinued  the  law 
as  his  profession  and  was  employed  by  the 
banking  firm  of  Redmond,  Kerr  &  Company. 
In  1898,  he  participated  in  the  Spanish  War 
as  a  member  of  Troop  A,  New  York  Cavalry, 
and  served  in  the  Porto  Rico  campaign  as 
guidon.  In  1901,  he  was  the  head  of  the 
bond  department  of  Hurlbutt,  Hatch  &  Com- 
pany, and  in  1903  went  into  the  bond  business 
on  his  own  account  at  No.  74  Pine  street.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars, 
the  Holland  Society,  Rumson  Country,  Rid- 
ing, Racquet  and  Tennis  and  several  other 
organizations.  For  twenty  years  he  has  been 
a  vestryman  of  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer 
at  Astoria,  Long  Island.  Henry  I.  Riker 
married,  at  the  Church  of  the  Incarnation, 
New  York  City,  Rev.  Dr.  Grosvenor  officiat- 
ing, April  29.  1903,  Mary  Jackson  Riker.  She 
was  born  at  Seabright.  New  Jersey.  August 
18,  1876,  and  was  the  daughter  of  John  Law- 
rence and  Mary  (Jackson)  Riker.  Children 
(all  born  in  New  York  City)  :  i.  John  Law- 
rence, born  October  8,  1904.  2.  Henry  Inger- 
soll, born  November  21,  1908.  3.  Mary  Jack- 
son, born  November  21,  1908. 


Former     Supreme     Court 
VAN    WYCK    Justice       Augustus      Van 

Wyck,  one  of  the  ablest 
lawyers  of  the  State  and  a  most  representative 
citizen  of  Brooklyn,  is  a  son  of  William  and 
Lydia  A.  (Maverick)  Van  Wyck.  His  father 
was  a  distinguished  lawyer,  public  man  and 
judicial  officer.  He  is  a  descendant  in  the 
seventh  generation  on  his  father's  side  from 
an  old  Holland  family  who  settled  in  Kings 
county  in  1660;  and  on  his  mother's  side  he 
is  descended  from  Samuel  Maverick  and  Gen- 
eral Robert  Anderson,  two  distinguished  rep- 
resentatives of  Southern  families  who  settled 
in  South  Carolina  about  1630.  The  successful 
career  of  Augustus  Van  Wyck  as  a  lawyer, 
jurist  and  citizen  is  attributable  to  his  natural 
gifts  and  in  a  large  measure  to  the  circum- 
stance that  he  has  blended  harmoniously  in  his 
person  the  best  attributes  of  the  northland  and 
the  southland — the  practical  strength  of  the 
one  and  the  charming  manners  of  the  other. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Phillips  Exeter 
Academy  and  graduated  with  high  honors 
from  the  University  of  North  Carolina.     He 


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reached  eminence  at  the  bar  before  he  went 
upon  the  bench,  although  a  very  young  man, 
and  took  an  active  interest  always  in  public 
questions  and  public  affairs.  He  is  a  gentle- 
man of  great  culture  and  acquirements  and  a 
forceful  speaker.  He  became  the  head  of  the 
reorganized  democracy,  which  movement  led 
to  the  nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland  for 
governor,  whose  campaign  he  conducted,  re- 
sulting in  Mr.  Cleveland's  election.  The 
power  of  the  democracy  thus  regained  con- 
tinued for  over  twelve  years.  He  was  a  dele- 
gate to  the  National  Convention  and  was  in- 
strumental in  inducing  his  associates  of  Kings 
county  to  cast  their  votes  for  Mr.  Cleveland 
for  President,  which  under  the  unit  rule  re- 
sulted in  his  nomination.  He  again  conducted 
the  campaign  for  Mr.  Cleveland.  Thereafter 
he  was  elected  to  the  bench,  where  he  re- 
mained until  he  resigned  his  position  as  Jus- 
tice of  the  Supreme  Court  to  make  the  race 
for  governor  against  Mr.  Roosevelt,  he  ap- 
parently being  the  only  one  the  democracy 
could  at  that  time  unhe  upon.  He  loved  his 
work  on  the  bench ;  it  was  congenial  and  he 
was  especially  fitted  therefor,  and  regretted 
retiring  therefrom,  though  he  refused  several 
nominations  thereafter  which  would  have  re- 
turned him  to  that  service.  He  at  once,  after 
this  campaign,  became  a  vigorous  and  success- 
ful practitioner  at  the  bar,  of  which  he  is  now 
one  of  the  acknowledged  leaders.  He  can  be 
seen  daily  in  our  courts,  conducting  a  general 
practice  of  his  profession.  He  stands  high 
before  all  the  courts  of  the  State,  both  trial 
and  appellate,  as  well  as  the  United  States 
courts. 

He  has  always  been  ready  to  help  his  party 
by  advice  and  in  the  forum.  He  has  attended 
many  local,  state  and  national  conventions, 
urging  the  best  action  for  country  and  party. 
In  the  national  convention  of  1900,  he  was 
selected  as  New  York's  member  of  the  Plat- 
form Committee,  which  he  held  in  consecu- 
tive session  for  about  fourteen  hours  in  the 
di=cussion  of  his  views  in  the  interest  of  har- 
monizing his  party  upon  the  platform.  It  was 
a  memorable  contest.  He  was  for  a  number 
of  years  a  member  of  the  Democratic  State 
Committee,  and  has  always  given  earnest  suf)- 
port  to  his  party,  but  always  been  insistent 
upon  high  ideals.  Again  he  suggested  a  plan 
for  the  restoration  of  his  party  to  power  in 
Kings  county  in   1909,  and  consented,  though 


at  great  cost  to  himself  in  the  loss  of  pleasure 
and  comfort  of  his  library,  as  well  as  his 
work  in  the  courts,  to  head  the  committee  to 
take  charge  of  party  affairs,  confided  to  him 
and  his  associates  by  the  unanimously  com- 
bined action  of  the  regular  county  leader 
and  the  district  leaders.  This  resulted  in 
the  election  of  the  local  ticket  and  contributed 
to  the  election  of  Judge  Gaynor  as  mayor  of 
New  York  City.  He  then  consented  to  help 
as  a  private  in  the  New  York  State  League, 
which  was  modeled  after  his  Kings  county 
plan,  and  which  was  doubtless  very  helpful  to 
the  success  of  the  state  ticket  in  the  succeed^ 
ing  year. 

Judge  Van  Wyck  was  chief  counsel  for 
Senator  Conger  in  the  trial  of  his  charges 
against  Senator  Allds  which  terminated  in  the 
conviction  of  Allds  by  the  Senators,  who  had 
less  than  three  months  before  elected  him  as 
president  pro  tem  of  that  body,  clothing  him 
thereby  with  all  powers  of  leadership  of  the 
then  majority  party.  This  conviction  is  a 
unique  exception  to  the  usual  result  of  such 
trials,  to  the  great  and  lasting  honor  of  the 
Senate  of  New  York  State. 

Judge  Van  Wyck  has  always  been  active, 
also,  along  the  lines  of  educational,  charitable, 
church  and  social  work.  He  has  been  trustee 
of  schools  and  collegiate  institutions  and  hos- 
pitals, and  a  leading  lay  member  of  the  stand- 
ing committee  of  the  Diocese  of  Long  Island 
of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

He  has  been  president  of  the  New  York 
Holland  Society,  the  Southern  Society,  the 
North  Carolina  Society,  the  South  Carolinians 
and  the  New  York  Alumni  Association  of 
North  Carolina  University,  as  well  as  grand 
master  of  Zeta  Psi  fraternity  of  North 
America,  a  Greek  letter  society  of  the  colleges, 
and  trustee  of  the  New  England  Society  of 
Brooklyn.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Lincoln, 
Oxford,  Brooklyn,  Crescent  Athletic,  Hamil- 
ton and  Montauk  clubs  of  Brooklyn,  and  of 
the  Lawyers,  Manhattan,  and  National  Demo- 
cratic clubs  of  Manhattan. 

He  married  Leila  G.  Wilkins,  of  Richmond, 
Virginia.  They  have  two  children :  William 
Van  Wyck,  of  Brooklyn,  formerly  assistant 
district  attorney  of  Kings  county,  and  Mrs. 
James  W.  Osborne,  of  New  York  City,  wife 
of  James  W.  Osborne,  formerly  assistant  dis- 
trict attorney  of  New  York  county.  His 
only  living  brother  is  Judge  Robert  Anderson 


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Van  Wyck,  first  mayor  of  Greater  City  of 
New  York ;  and  his  only  living  sister  is  the 
wife  of  General  Robert  F.  Hoke,  of  Raleigh, 
North  Carolina.  Judge  Van  Wyck  has  a  most 
extensive  acquaintance  in  all  parts  of  the 
country. 

Robert  Anderson  Van  Wyck  was  born  in 
the  City  of  New  York,  son  of  William  and 
Lydia  A.  (Maverick)  Van  Wyck.  He  was 
prepared  for  college  at  the  celebrated  Wilson 
Academy  in  North  Carolina  and  later  gradu- 
ated from  Columbia  College  and  was  vale- 
dictorian of  his  class.  He  then  passed  a 
number  of  years  in  banking  and  mercantile 
life,  after  which  he  became  an  able  lawyer 
and  enjoyed  a  large  practice  for  many  years. 
He  was  active  in  politics  and  took  a  very  im- 
portant part  therein,  attending  many  conven- 
tions, state  and  national.  He  and  a  few  other 
warm  and  admiring  friends  of  General  Win- 
field  Scott  Hancock,  without  political-organ- 
ized backing,  succeeded  in  nominating  General 
Hancock  for  President  by  taking  advantage 
of  a  division  in  the  forces  of  the  Hon.  Samuel 
J.  Tilden — those  who  insisted  upon  the  nomi- 
nation of  Governor  Tilden,  and  those  who 
supported  either  Senator  Payne,  of  Ohio,  or 
the  Hon.  Samuel  J.  Randall,  speaker  of  the 
House  of  Representatives  and  leader  therein 
to  the  Democratic  party.  Later,  Mr.  Van 
Wyck  was  elected  judge  of  the  City  Court  of 
New  York,  becoming  the  chief  justice  thereof. 
He  resigned  to  .accept  the  democratic  nomi- 
nation of  the  mayor  of  Greater  New  York 
and  was  elected  by  a  very  large  majority  and 
thus  became  the  first  mayor  of  the  Greater 
City.  As  such  mayor  he  performed  the  great 
task  of  bringing  together  the  innumerable 
municipal  corporations  comprising  the  greater 
city,  adjusting  their  finances  and  bringing 
order  out  of  what  almost  seemed  chaos.  He 
also  caused  to  be  constructed  thp  first  subway 
railroad  in  Manhattan  and  provided  for  the 
construction  of  the  tunnel  to  Brooklyn  and 
the  first  subway  in  that  borough.  He  advo- 
cated the  connection  of  that  borough  with  that 
of  Manhattan  by  sufficient  bridges  and  tunnels 
to  accommodate  the  great  moving  public  be- 
tween these  boroughs.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Holland  Society,  of  which  he  was  president. 
He  belonged  to  many  of  the  social  clubs  of  the 
city  and  was  prominent  in  Masonic  circles, 
being  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Lodge  of  New 
York  City. 


By  intermarriage  the  Van  Wyck  family  are 
connected  with  the  most  of  the  old  families 
of  the  State  of  New  York,  namely,  Van  Cort- 
landt,  Livingston,  Van  Rensselaer,  Beekman, 
Hewlett,  Leflferts,  Lot,  Lorillard,  Ludlow, 
Polhemus,  Governor  Seymour  and  Chancellor 
James  Kent,  Stuyvesant,  Van  Vechten,  Ver 
Plank  and  others. 

The  constant,  intimate  and  afifectionate  as- 
sociation of  the  two  brothers.  Judge  Augustus 
\'an  Wyck  and  Judge  Robert  A.  Van  Wyck, 
has  been  of  such  a  character  that  it  has  at- 
tracted the  pleasant  observation  of  the  general 
public.  For  some  years  Mr.  Van  Wyck  has 
been  intensely  fond  of  travelling,  and  he  and 
Mrs.  Van  Wyck  have  indulged  in  that  pleasure 
to  a  very  large  extent. 


The  family  name  of  Bre- 
BREVOORT  voort  was  also  written 
Bredevoort  some  centuries 
ago,  for  the  family  resided  in  the  town  of 
Bredevoort  in  Guelderland,  and  when  they 
came  to  this  country  used  the  form  van 
Bredevoort,  which  was  presently  contracted 
into  van  Brevoort,  after  which  it  sufifered  the 
further  contraction  which  made  the  name 
simply  Brevoort,  the  form  adopted  by  all 
branches  of  this  family.  In  its  origin  the 
name  signifies  Broadford,  and  is  the  same  as 
the  English  Bradford. 

(I)  Hendrick  Jansen  van  Brevoort,  or 
Bredevoort,  was  the  progenitor  of  this  family 
in  America.  It  is  a  family  which  will  ever 
be  associated  with  New  York  city  life,  for  as 
it  was  the  home  of  the  family  through  the  first 
three  centuries  of  the  existence  of  the  me- 
tropolis the  name  became  established  both 
with  the  founding  of  the  city  and  its  growth. 
However,  instead  of  ramifying  through  a 
number  of  branches,  who  would  carry  the 
name  along,  its  condition  numerically  is  such 
that  it  follows  the  predicament  of  many  an- 
other prominent  family,  once  great  but  now 
dangerously  near  extinction,  yet  will  it  live  as 
a  significance  of  more  than  common  import 
in  the  records. 

He  was  a  religious  refugee,  and  came  to 
this  country  about  1630.  It  is  believed  that 
he  was  of  Flemish  Albigense  extraction.  The 
Brevoorts  had  settled  in  the  Amersfoort  dis- 
trict of  Holland,  where  the  name  appears  for 
several  centuries  on  the  records.  As  a  race, 
they  followed  mercantile  and  agricultural  pur- 


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suits;  were  likewise  religious  and  soldierly,  at 
least  so  far  as  the  records  of  their  acts  on 
military  and  church  rolls  reveal  the  informa- 
tion which  assists  one  in  writing  their  history. 
Possibly,  on  his  arrival,  he  was  attracted  for 
this  reason  to  the  settlement  on  Long  Island, 
named  New  Amersfort,  now  included  in 
Brooklyn,  and  after  a  short  sojourn  moved  to 
Maspeth  kill,  later  known  as  Newtown  creek, 
and  later  on  he  removed  to  New  Haarlem,  on 
Manhattan  Island.  Already,  a  Danish  gentle- 
man. Captain  Jochiem  Pietersen  Kuyter,  at- 
tracted by  the  fertility  of  the  soil,  was  farm- 
ing there,  and  was  seeking  to  delevop  the  tract 
where  he  had  located,  hence  was  desirous  of 
having  colleagues. 

(II)  Johannes  Hendrick  Brevoort,  son  of 
Hendriciv  Jansen  van  Brevoort,  was  a  boy  of 
only  fourteen  years  when  the  then  insignifi- 
cant village  of  Harlem  was  being  settled.  The 
records  tell  us  that  he  was  "aged  about  sixty 
years'"  on  the  eighth  day  of  June,  1690  (there- 
fore was  probably  born  in  1630),  on  which 
day  his  deposition  was  taken  before  the  mayor 
of  New  York,  respecting  an  assault  upon 
Lieutenant-Governor  Jacob  Leisler,  the  fa- 
mous usurper.  He  lived  at  Bushwick  with 
his  father,  who  had  leased  a  farm  from  Reyer 
Moll,  owned  later  by  Jean  Mesurolle.  This 
was  upon  an  eminence  called  "Kyckuyt," 
meaning  "Lookout,"  and  his  place  was  known 
as  the  Kyckuyt  Farm.  As  its  owner  resided 
there  from  1659  to  1665,  he  was  commonly 
distinguished  as  Hendrick  Jansen  Kyckuyt. 
For  this  reason  one  who  delves  in  the  earliest 
records  should  not  expect  to  find  the  material 
for  a  history  solely  under  the  name  Brevoort. 
His  motive  for  locating  where  he  did  was 
because  he  desired  to  be  near  his  wife's  pa- 
rents, and  his  father  followed  him,  selling  the 
farm  at  Newtown  to  Laurens  Cornelisz,  about 
1675,  who  shortly  conveyed  it  to  his  neighbor, 
Joris  Stevens  van  Alst,  whose  dausrhter  was 
the  wife  of  Hendrick's  son,  Frans  Hendricks. 
This  farm  at  Newtown  had  been  laid  out  for 
the  father  by  Jacques  Cortelyou,  the  surveyor, 
by  order  of  Peter  Stuyvesant  and  was  con- 
firmed to  him  by  Governor  Lovelace,  May  20, 
1672,  which  tract  was  between  lands  then 
owned  by  Jan  Hendricks  and  Frans  Hend- 
ricks. As  Hendricks'  daughter,  Marritje,  had 
married  Hendrick  Bastiaens,  of  New  York, 
brother  of  Annetje  Bastiaens,  in  1673,  and 
also    as    Metje    Bastiaens,    wife    of    Comelis 


Jansen,  of  Harlem,  being  a  sister  of  Annetje, 
there  may  be  this  reason  of  relationship  to 
explain  why  Jan  Hendricks  Brevoort  went 
to  Harlem,  New  York.  The  three  bearing  the 
name  of  Bastiaen  were  children  of  Bastiaen 
Elyessen,  a  wheelwright  from  Werckhoven, 
and  by  several  purchases  the  latter,  in  1684, 
became  owner  of  forty  acres  west  of  the  old 
Bouwerie  Road  (Fourth  avenue),  extending 
from  Tenth  street  northwards,  which  subse- 
quently formed  a  portion  of  the  Brevoort 
estate. 

Johannes  Hendricks  Brevoort,  or  Kyckuyt, 
living  in  New  York  in  1673,  when  the  city 
was  captured  by  the  Dutch,  was  among  the 
patriotic  carmen  who  volunteered  to  work 
gratuitously  on  the  defenses  one  day  in  a 
week.  The  city  being  restored  to  the  English, 
he  was  sworn  anew  as  carman,  November  13, 
1674,  and  removed  next  year  to  Harlem,  tak- 
ing the  farming  lot  of  Pierre  Cresson  on 
March  13,  1676,  on  a  four  years'  lease;  but 
bought  him  out  March  23,  1677,  house  and 
house-lot,  said  lot  on  Jochem  Pieters  tract 
and  No.  20  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  with  mead- 
ows at  Sherman's  Creek.  The  same  year,  he 
drew  No.  i,  of  the  "New  Lots."  It  was  at 
this  time  that  he  began  to  be  known  as  Bre- 
voort, and  the  clerk  sometimes  entered  his 
name  as  Jan  Hendricks  van  Brevoort,  alias 
Kyckuyt. 

As  he  had  inherent  ability,  this  quality  made 
up  for  what  he  might  have  lacked  in  educa- 
tion, for  he  rose  to  be  overseer  of  Harlem 
in  1678,  and  was  reappointed  the  following 
year.  He  took  an  active  part  in  building  the 
church  in  1686,  and  in  various  ways  gave  rea- 
son to  be  considered  a  substantial  man  of  the 
place.  In  1691,  he  drew  lot  No.  6,  on  Jochem 
Pieters  Hills,  fourteen  morgen  in  length,  and 
by  purchase  from  Jacques  Tourneur,  on  May 
27,  1698,  added  No.  7,  of  ten  morgen.  There 
he  was  residing  February  21,  1701,  when  he 
sold  it  to  Johannes  Myer.  On  November  15, 
1 701,  he  bought  the  farm  of  his  father-in-law, 
Bastiaen  Elyessen,  and  removed  thither,  he 
and  his  wife,  Anna,  selling  their  remaining 
lands  and  interests  to  their  son-in-law,  Zacha- 
rias  Sickels,  February  20,  1705.  He  doubled 
his  acreage  by  a  purchase  of  forty-five  acres 
of  adjoining  land,  which  ran  to  Eighteenth 
street.  Johannes  Hendricks  Brevoort  was 
elected  alderman  of  the  "Out  Ward"  in  1702, 
and  filled  the  office  from   1707  to  1713.     He 


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died  in  1714,  leaving  four  children,  to  whom 
he  left  an  equal  share  of  the  estate,  appraised 
at  four  hundred  English  pounds.  He  married 
Annatje  Bastiaens.  Children:  i.  Hendrick, 
see  forward.  2.  Marritje,  born  in  1673;  mar- 
ried Zacharias  Sickels.  3.  Elias,  born  June 
21,  1676;  freeman  in  1698;  carpenter  by 
occupation ;  married  Margaret  Sammans, 
daughter  of  John  Sammans;  by  whom  eight 
children,  the  last  two  being  sons,  John,  born 
September  8,  1715,  baptized  September  14; 
was  a  goldsmith,  and  married  Louisa  Kocker- 
thal;  Elias,  baptized  March  30,  1718.  4.  Jan- 
netje,  born  in  1679;  married  Thomas  Sickels. 

(HI)  Hendrick  Brevoort,  son  of  Johannes 
Hendrick  and  Annatje  (Bastiaens)  Brevoort, 
was  born  in  Harlem,  New  York,  where  he 
was  baptized,  December  17,  1670,  and  he  died 
in  1718.  The  large  estate,  or  farm  of  his 
father,  running  from  below  Tenth  street 
northward  to  Eighteenth  street,  along  Broad- 
way and  the  Bowery,  was  offered  for  sale 
when  the  latter  died,  but  there  was  no  pur- 
chaser, except  Hendrick,  who  already  owning 
one-fourth,  acquired  the  entire  tract.  His 
brother,  Elias,  who  was  a  carpenter  in  New 
York,  where  he  was  admitted  a  freeman  in 
1696,  was  executor  of  his  father's  estate  in 
conjunction  with  Hendrick,  whom  he  sur- 
vived. Hendrick  was  brought  up  as  a  weaver, 
for  in  those  days  every  man  was  obliged  to 
learn  a  trade.  He  preferred  farming,  how- 
ever, and  followed  his  inclination.  He  was  an 
assistant  alderman  in  1702-03,  1707-8,  1708-9, 
and  1713-14.  In  1700,  he  was  an  ensign,  and 
his  name  appears  on  the  petition  dated  at  New 
York,  September  12,  1737,  demanding  the  re- 
moval of  the  sheriff. 

Hendrick  Brevoort  married,  in  1699,  Maria 
(or  Mary),  daughter  of  Johannes  Van  Cou- 
wenhoven,  late  secretary  between  Harlem 
and  Bowery,  and  in  1705  he  married  (second) 
Jacobmina,  daughter  of  Abraham  Bokee. 
When  he  died,  he  left  one  child  by  his  first 
wife  and  four  by  the  second.  His  widow,  in 
1721,  married  Jacob  Harsen,  of  Harlem. 
Children:  i,  Johannes,  baptized  June  2,  1700; 
was  the  first  goldsmith  in  Manhattan,  and 
executed  exceedingly  artistic  designs  in  jew- 
ely,  some  of  which  are  preserved  as  examples 
of  early  American  art;  married  (first)  Octo- 
ber 8,  1726.  Annatje,  daughter  of  Eide  van 
Huyse,  of  Bloomingdale ;  by  whom  a  daugh- 
ter, Mary;  his  wife  died  May  20,  1730,  and 


he  married  (second)  and  had  a  son,  Henry, 
baptized  February  12,  1735,  who  married 
Maria  Anthony  (born  June  24,  1762,  died 
November  12,  1794),  and  died  October  2, 
1782.  Another  child  of  Johannes,  Charlotte, 
was  a  belle  and  was  won  by  Hon.  Whitehead 
Hicks,  mayor  of  New  York,  1766-73.  2. 
Abraham,  baptized  June  23,  1706,  died  young. 
3.  Abraham,  baptized  September  24,  1707.  4. 
Henry,  see  forward.  5.  Elias,  baptized  July 
8,  1713,  died  young.  6.  Elias,  baptized  May 
I,  1715;  married  Lea  Persel.  7.  Jacob,  bap- 
tized October  2,  1717,  died  in  1719. 

(IV)  Henry  Brevoort,  son  of  Hendrick 
and  Maria  (Van  Couwenhoven)  Brevoort, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  where  he  was 
baptized  December  9,  1717,  and  he  died  in 
1 77 1.  He  was  a  wealthy  landowner,  and  led 
a  life  of  comparative  leisure.  Henry  Bre- 
voort married,  September  29,  1739,  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Abraham  De  la  Mater,  or  Dela- 
maitre,  of  a  renowned  Huguenot  family,  and 
she  died  before  her  husband.  Children:  i. 
Henry,  see  forward.  2.  Abraham.  3.  Elias, 
baptized  December  6,  1749;  married  Maria 
Stoutenburg.  4.  John,  baptized  April  16, 
1755;  married  Mary  Tweedle.  5.  Isaac,  bap- 
tized June  II,  1758.  6.  Anna.  7.  Catherine. 
8.  Jemima. 

(V)  Henry  (2)  Brevoort,  son  of  Henry 
(i)  and  Catherine  (De  la  Mater)  Brevoort, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  October  19  and 
baptized  October  29,  1747,  died  in  1841.  He 
resided  on  the  Brevoort  estate,  which  at  that 
time  was  beyond  the  northern  limits  of  the 
city,  although  at  Tenth  street.  In  1762,  the 
portion  of  the  farm  north  of  Sixteenth  street 
was  sold  to  Mr.  Dawson,  and  contained  about 
twenty-three  acres.  The  portion  between 
Fourteenth  and  Sixteenth  streets  contained 
about  twenty-two  acres,  and  was  conveyed 
about  the  same  time  by  Elias  Brevoort  to  John 
Smith,  whose  executors  sold  it  to  Henry 
Spingler,  in  1788.  Mrs.  Spingler  was  Jane 
Sloo,  half  sister  of  Mrs.  Adam  Todd  and 
sister  of  Mrs.  James  Duffie.  The  Spingler 
homestead  was  located  at  the  southeast  corner 
of  Fourteenth  street  and  University  place. 
The  remainder  of  the  estate  fell  to  the  share 
of  Henry  Brevoort's  father,  Henry.  This 
was  divided  into  six  shares  and  Henry  re- 
ceived the  most  southerly  one,  with  the  old 
house  thereon,  and  soon  afterwards  he  pur- 
chased the  adjoining  shares  from  his  brother. 


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Charles. 

It  is  a  matter  of  general  historic  interest 
to  the  people  of  New  York  City  to  note  the 
location  of  the  old  Brevoort  homestead  and 
consider  what  a  great  part  it  took  in  shaping 
the  enormously  valuable  real  estate  north  of 
Fourteenth  street,  by  its  directing  the  course 
of  New  York's  most  important  business  thor- 
oughfare. Grace  Episcopal  Church  now  oc- 
cupies its  site.  The  legislature  passed  an  act 
on  April  3,  1807,  "relative  to  the  improve- 
ments touching  the  laying  out  of  streets  and 
roads  in  the  City  of  New  York."  At  that  time 
the  city  terminated  near  Houston  street,  as 
its  most  northerly  limit  for  business  purposes, 
although  there  were  highways,  lanes  and 
paths  to  the  north,  through  woods  and  pas- 
lures,  the  main  ones  leading  to  Albany  and 
Boston,  and  known  as  "post  roads."  With 
the  idea  that  the  city  might  possibly  in  time 
expand  northward  of  Houston  street,  the 
commission  was  appointed  to  take  steps  to 
consider  what  was  best  in  shaping  any  exten- 
sion of  streets.  These  commissioners  were 
men  of  probity,  Gouverneur  Morris,  states- 
man; Simeon  DeWitt,  the  eminent  engineer 
who  was  once  on  General  Washington's  staff, 
and  John  Rutherford,  formerly  United  States 
senator  for  New  Jersey.  Their  final  report 
was  submitted  in  March,  181 1,  and  the  deci- 
sion was  in  favor  of  rectangular  blocks  rather 
than  circles,  or  star-shape,  and  it  was  then 
decided  to  begin  numbering  those  running 
north  and  south  as  avenues,  and  those  extend- 
ing east  and  west  as  streets.  Broadway  was 
to  terminate  at  Twenty-third  street  in  a  Park 
Ground,  larger  than  Madison  Square.  Prob- 
ably Broadway  would  never  have  run  to  the 
localities  it  now  reaches,  had  not  Henry  Bre- 
voort stood  out  resolutely  for  the  preserva- 
tion of  his  house  as  a  matter  of  sentiment, 
and  due  also  to  the  fact  that  at  that  time  pri- 
vate property  seemed  to  maintain  a  right  far 
greater  than  the  weal  of  a  million  persons. 

The  Brevoort  mansion  was  built  of  stone 
and  was  so  situated  that  Broadway,  if  pro- 
longed in  a  straight  line  from  Tenth  street, 
would  have  come  inconveniently  close  to  it, 
while  Eleventh  street,  if  opened,  would  have 
removed  the  house  entirely.  The  old  farm 
of  some  eighty  acres,  at  that  place,  known  as 
the  Brevoort  farm,  was  acquired  by  Henry 
Brevoort  as  an  inheritance,  following  the  sub- 
division   of   the    family   estate.      The   bounds 


would  be  practically  Third  and  Sixth  avenues, 
Ninth  and  Eighteenth  streets.  The  house  was 
located  almost  in  the  center  of  this  enormous 
farm.  He  had  remodeled  all  of  the  house  ex- 
cepting the  room  in  which  he  was  born,  re- 
garding which  he  had  a  strong  sentiment. 
By  taking  an  uncompromising  stand,  Mr.  Bre- 
voort was  responsible  for  directing  the  line 
of  Broadway  in  the  direction  it  now  follows. 

Henry  Brevoort  married,  June  16,  1778, 
Sarah  Whetten  (or  Whetton).  The  marriage 
license  or  contract  bears  the  date  May  25, 
1779,  and  it  is  to  be  noted  that  her  family 
name  is  written  "Wheaton"  in  two  places  in 
this  document.  Their  marriage  took  place 
whilst  the  enemy  was  in  possession  of  the  city, 
and  the  farm  next  adjoining  on  the  south,  and 
toward  the  city  proper,  had  been  purchased 
by  Andrew  Elliott,  son  of  Gilbert  Elliott, 
Lord  Chief  Justice,  Clerk  of  Scotland,  who 
was  appointed  a  collector  and  receiver-general 
of  the  Province  of  New  York,  and  in  1780 
was  lieutenant-governor. 

Sarah  Whetten  was  born  June  16,  1758,  and 
died  in  1840.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain William  \Mietten,  a  native  of  Devonshire, 
England,  who  died  in  New  York,  and  was 
buried  in  the  grounds  of  St.  George's  Chapel, 
at  the  corner  of  Beekman  and  Cliff"  streets, 
adjoining  his  residence,  which  was  on  Cliff 
street.  Captain  William  Whetten  married, 
September  6,  1756,  Margaret  Todd,  who  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  in  1736,  died  there, 
March,  i8og,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Adam 
and  Sarah  (Cox)  Todd.  When  the  British 
ship  "Asia"  fired  on  New  York,  August  23, 
1776,  Captain  Whetten  removed  with  his  fam- 
ily to  New  Rochelle,  and  here  was  again  in 
the  midst  of  fighting  when  occurred  the  bat- 
tle of  Long  Island.  Children:  i.  Henry,  see 
forward.  2.  William  Whetten,  see  forward. 
3.  Margaret  Anne,  born  May  5,  1794;  mar- 
ried, October  10,  1816,  James  Remvick, 
LL.D.,  professor  of  Philosophy  and  Chemis- 
iry  in  Columbia  College,  and  published  many 
historical  and  scientific  books.  Issue :  i. 
Henry  Brevoort  Renwick,  born  September  4, 
1817;  civil  engineer;  married,  June  22,  1852, 
Margaret  Jauncy ;  by  whom:  Margaret  Bre- 
voort Renwick,  born  November  13,  1854,  and 
James  Armstrong  Renwick,  born  January  30, 
1857.  ii.  James  Renwick,  born  November  i, 
1818;  architect;  married,  December  ifi.  1851. 
Anna  Lloyd  Aspinwall,  no  issue,    iii.  Edward 


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Sabine  Renwick,  born  January  3,  1823 ;  mar- 
ried, June  4,  1862,  Alice,  daughter  of  Henry 
Brevoort ;  by  whom :  Edward  Brevoort  Ren- 
wick, born  April  21,  1863;  William  Whetten 
Renwick,  born  October  30,  1864;  Elizabeth 
Renwick,  born  January  5,  1867.  iv.  Laura, 
born  July  21,  1826;  married,  April  26,  1854, 
John  Augustin  Monroe ;  by  whom.  Augustin 
Monroe,  born  December  6,  1854.  4.  John, 
born  February  13,  1797,  died,  unmarried,  at 
New  Orleans,  Louisiana.  5.  Elias,  born  Au- 
gust 22,  1802  ;  married  Mary  Brown,  of  West- 
chester county.  New  York.  Issue :  i.  James 
Renwick  Brevoort,  artist ;  married  Anna  Au- 
gusta Tuthill,  no  issue,  ii.  Henry  Brevoort, 
died  December  20,  1895 ;  married  Sarah 
Thompson ;  resided  in  Yonkers,  New  York. 

(VI)  Henry  (3)  Brevoort,  son  of  Henry 
(2)  and  Sarah  (Whetten)  Brevoort,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  September  25,  1782, 
died  there,  May  17,  1848,  and  was  buried  in 
Trinity  Cemetery.  He  was  the  head  of  the 
family  in  his  generation,  and  inherited  much 
of  the  estate.  He  possessed  refinement  to  a 
degree  and  had  strong  literary  tastes.  Fre- 
quently he  displayed  his  literary  skill  with  his 
pen ;  but  while  he  was  not  ambitious  to  make 
his  own  mark,  he  was  ever  glad  to  help  art  as 
a  patron.  Among  his  associates  were  Sir 
Walter  Scott  and  Washington  Irving,  and  it 
is  said  that  Irving  owed  something  to  him  for 
his  fame  and  happiness  of  mind,  for  there 
were  times  when  Irving's  pen  did  not  yield 
the  returns  his  ability  commanded.  He  took 
a  strong  fancy  to  "Knickerbocker's  History 
of  New  York,"  and  presented  many  copies  to 
friends  who  were  likely  to  speak  well  of  the 
work  which  has  since  brought  undying  fame 
to  Irving.  Henry  Brevoort  married,  Septem- 
ber, 1817,  Laura  Carson,  who  was  born  in 
1799.  Children:  i.  James  Carson,  born  July 
10,  1818;  a  regent  of  the  University  of  New 
York :  chairman  of  the  executive  committee 
and  trustee  of  the  Astor  Library,  of  which  he 
was  superintendent  two  years ;  president  of 
the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to 
Animals;  president  of  the  Long  Island  His- 
torical Society ;  was  a  savant,  much  interested 
in  history ;  after  receiving  his  education  in  this 
country,  studied  in  France  and  Switzerland, 
closing  at  the  Ecole  Centrale  des  Arts  et  Man- 
ufactures in  Paris ;  on  returning  home  passed 
a  year  in  the  West  Point  Foundry  to  gain  a 
practical    knowledge    of    the    manufacture    of 


steel  and  iron,  and  in  1841  was  engaged  upon 
the  Northern  boundary  survey,  under  Pro- 
fessor James  Renwick;  accompanied  Wash- 
ington Irving  when  he  went  to  Spain  as 
United  States  Minister,  as  private  secretary; 
was  a  member  of  the  charter  convention  and 
of  the  board  of  education ;  married,  October 
8,  1845,  Elizabeth  Dorothea,  daughter  of  Hon. 
Leffert  Lefferts,  who  was  born  May  4,  1824. 
Issue:  Henry  Lefferts,  born  January  27,  1849, 
who  married  Elizabeth  Schermerhom.  2. 
William  Augustus,  born  December  24,  1819, 
died  aged  thirteen  years.  3.  Elizabeth  Ne- 
ville, born  January  3,  1821 ;  married  at  Grace 
Church,  New  York,  July  14,  1849,  Frederic 
W.  Coolidge,  who  was  born  at  Boston,  April 
15,  1816,  died  there,  February  12,  1861 ;  and 
was  the  son  of  Samuel  F.  and  Nancy  (San- 
derson) Coolidge.  Issue:  i.  William  Augus- 
tus Brevoort  Coolidge,  born  at  Hell  Gate, 
Long  Island,  August  28,  1850.  ii.  Laura 
Sanderson  Coolidge,  born  at  New  York  City, 
October  25,  1853,  died  at  Penataquit,  Long 
Island,  July  20,  1861.  iii.  Frederic  Coolidge, 
born  at  New  York  City,  June  27,  1855,  died 
there,  April  25,  i860,  iv.  Elizabeth  Brevoort 
Coolidge,  born  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island, 
August  24,  1857.  4.  Laura  Whetten,  born 
October  6,  1823,  died  in  Europe,  i860;  mar- 
ried, in  1847,  Charles  Astor  Bristed,  poet  and 
journalist,  son  of  the  Rev.  John  and  Mag- 
dalen Bristed.  Issue:  John  Jacob  Astor  Bris- 
ted, born  December  20,  1847.  5-  Margaret 
Claudia,  born  November  4,  1825,  died  unmar- 
ried. 6.  Constance  Irving,  born  May  22, 
1828;  married,  November  26,  1850,  William 
Ellery  Sedgwick,  son  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth 
(Dana)  Sedgwick,  who  was  born  March  28, 
1825.  Issue:  i.  Robert  Sedgwick,  born  in 
New  York  City,  January  12,  1852.  ii.  Henry 
Brevoort  Sedgwick,  born  at  Lenox,  Massa- 
chusetts, August  I,  1853,  died  May  18,  1854. 
iii.  Francis  Edward  Sedgwick,  born  at  New 
Rochelle,  New  York,  September  i,  1854.  iv. 
William  Ellery  Sedgwick,  born  at  New  York 
City,  September  15,  1856.  v.  Laura  Brevoort 
Sedgwick,  born  at  Lenox,  Massachusetts, 
January  26,  1859.  vi.  Helen  Ellery  Sedg- 
wick, born  at  Lenox,  September  5,  1861.  7. 
Henry  Wortley,  born  February  20,  183 1,  died, 
unmarried.  8.  Edith,  born  July  10,  1832; 
married,  September  29,  1853,  Lieutenant- 
Coloned  Pierre  C.  Kane,  commanding  the 
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unteers;  born  July  8,  1828,  son  of  Oliver 
Grenville  and  Elizabeth  Corne  (de  Giron- 
court)  Kane.  Issue:  i.  Grenville  Kane,  bom 
July  12,  1854.  ii.  Meta  Kane,  born  August 
5,  1856.  iii.  Elizabeth  Gironcourt  Kane,  born 
November  28,  1859,  died  September  3,  1861. 
iv.  Henry  Brevoort  Kane,  born  February  5, 
1866. 

(VI)  William  Whetten  Brevoort,  second 
son  of  Henry  (2)  and  Sarah  (Whetten)  Bre- 
voort, was  born  September  17,  1784.  He 
married  Sarah  Nash.  Child:  Henry,  see  for- 
ward. , 

(VII)  Henry  (4)  Brevoort,  son  of  William 
Whetten  and  Sarah  (Nash)  Brevoort,  was 
born  August  3,  181 1.  He  resided  at  Allen- 
town,  Pennsylvania.  He  married,  November 
19,  1833,  Bridget  Seely.  Children:  i.  Sarah, 
born  at  Boonton,  New  Jersey,  August  14, 
1834,  died  at  New  York  City,  January  7,  1905  ; 
married,  at  Lenox,  Massachusetts,  October 
10,  1857,  Hon.  Frederic  Augustus  Potts,  who 
was  born  at  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania,  April  4, 
1836,  died  at  New  York  City,  November  9, 
1888,  and  was  the  son  of  George  Alexander 
Henry  Potts  and  Mary  Gumming.  Issue :  i. 
George  Henry  Potts,  .born  at  Lenox,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  17,  1857,  died,  unmar- 
ried, at  Paris,  France,  May,  1881.  ii.  Fred- 
eric Augustus  Potts,  born  at  Lenox,  July  2, 
i860.  2.  William  Whetten,  born  at  Boonton, 
New  Jersey,  March  19,  1838;  married,  at 
Bloomsburg,  New  Jersey,  Ella  Gardner.  3. 
Alice,  born  at  Boonton,  New  Jersey,  August 
23,  1839,  died  at  Short  Hills,  New  Jersey, 
January  13,  1883;  married,  at  New  York  City, 
June  4,  1862,  Edward  Sabin  Renwick,  who 
was  born  at  New  York  City,  January  3,  1823, 
died  at  Short  Hills,  New  Jersey,  March  19, 
1912,  and  was  the  son  of  Professor  James  Ren- 
wick, LL.D.,  and  his  wife,  Margaret  Ann  Bre- 
voort, daughter  of  Henry  Brevoort.  Issue :  i. 
Edward  Brevoort  Renwick,  born  at  New  York 
City,  April  21,  1863;  married,  at  Flushing. 
Long  Island,  August  2,  1900,  Emily  Dilworth 
Hicks,  ii.  William  Whetten  Renwick,  born 
at  Lenox,  Massachusetts,  October  30,  1864; 
married,  at  Flushing,  Long  Island,  April  25, 
1902,  Maris  Ilka  Howels.  iii.  Elizabeth  Ren- 
wick, born  at  New  York  City,  January  5. 
1867;  married,  at  New  York  City,  June  4. 
1890,  Walton  Condit  Whittingham.  iv.  Allan 
Geofifrey  Renwick,  born  at  Short  Hills,  New 
Jersey,    August    10,    1875,    died,    unmarried, 


there,  August  30,  1876.  4.  Henry  Seely,  born 
April  9,  1843.  5.  Emily,  born  at  Danville, 
Pennsylvania,  January  29,  1846;  residing  at 
Caldwell,  New  Jersey ;  married,  at  New  York 
City,  June  4,  1868,  William  Rockhill  Potts, 
who  was  born  at  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania, 
August  II,  1841,  and  was  the  son  of  George 
H.  Potts  and  Emily  Dilworth  Gumming.  Is- 
sue: i.  Robert  Barnhill  Potts,  born  at  Green- 
ville, Tennessee,  February  19,  1869;  married, 
at  New  York  City,  October  22,  1902,  Helen 
Jacquelin.  ii.  Edith  Brevoort  Potts,  born  at 
"Somerville,  New  Jersey,  July  27,  1871 ;  mar- 
ried, at  New  York  City,  May  25,  1901,  How- 
ard Walton,  iii.  Hugh  Rockhill  Potts,  bom 
at  Monmouth  Beach,  New  Jersey,  June  16, 
1876;  married,  at  New  York  City,  November 
22,  1902,  Florence  McAnerney.  iv.  Emily 
Brevoort  Potts,  born  at  Plainfield,  New  Jer- 
sey, March  31,  1879;  unmarried,  v.  George 
Henry  Potts,  born  at  Monmouth  Beach,  New 
Jersey,  July  10,  1881,  died  at  New  York  City, 
November  i,  191 1;  married,  at  Monmouth 
Beach,  September,  1904,  Selina  Fanshawe.  6. 
Edward  Renwick,  see  forward.  7.  Elizabeth, 
born  April  29,  1849;  married  Robert  L.  Pirs- 
son.  8.  Laura,  born  November  23,  1853 ;  re- 
siding at  Larchmont,  New  York ;  married 
Gerard  M.  Barretto. 

(VIII)  Edward  Renwick  Brevoort,  son  of 
Henry  (4)  and  Bridget  (Seely)  Brevoort, 
was  born  May  5,  1847.  He  married  Mary 
Butler.  Children:  i.  John  Butler,  bom  at 
Plainfield,  New  Jersey,  February  25,  1871, 
died  at  Johnsonburg,  Pennsylvania,  Febru- 
ary 22,  1903.  He  was  educated  in  private 
schools  in  New  York  City,  and  deciding  upon 
the  law  as  his  profession,  took  the  course  at 
Columbia  College  Law  School,  after  which 
he  entered  the  law  office  of  Wilson  M.  Pow- 
ell, on  Wall  street.  New  York  Citv.  He  mar- 
ried Susette  Terhune.  Issue:  i.  Susette  Ter- 
hune  Brevoort.  2.  Alice  Renwick.  bom  at 
Plainfield,  New  Jersey,  February  22,  1873 ; 
unmarried ;  residing  in  New  York  City.  3. 
Edward  Renwick,  see  forward 

(IX)  Edward  Renwick  (2)  Brevoort,  son 
of  Edward  Renwick  (i)  and  Mary  (Butler) 
Brevoort,  was  born  at  Millburn,  New  Jer- 
sey, April  19,  1875,  and  resides  at  No.  880 
St.  Nicholas  avenue.  New  York  City.  When 
he  was  about  five  years  old,  his  parents  re- 
moved to  the  metropolis,  and  he  was  sent  to 
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the  wholesale  coal  office  of  F.  A.  Potts  & 
Company,  at  No.  143  Liberty  street,  New 
York  City,  of  which  his  uncle,  William  Rock- 
hill  Potts,  was  the  head,  and  in  the  year  1910 
he  was  taken  into  that  firm.  He  is  an  inde- 
pendent voter  in  politics,  although  formerly  a 
Republican,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Episco- 
pal church.  Edward  Renwick  Brevoort  mar- 
ried, at  New  York  City,  June  9,  1898,  Mary 
Burnside  Waldie,  who  was  born  at  Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania,  April  3,  1876,  a  de- 
scendant of  General  Burnside,  of  the  Union 
army,  daughter  of  James  and  Mary  (Ewing) 
Waldie.  Children:  i.  Alice  Ewing,  born  at 
New  York  City,  May  10,  1902.  2.  Jean  Ren- 
wick, born  at  New  York  City,  August  22, 
1907. 


The  family  name  of  Ver- 
VERPLANCK  planck  has  undergone  a 
number  of  changes  dur- 
ing the  centuries  it  has  been  borne  by  those 
who  were  of  one  family  once.  It  is  thought, 
with  some  degree  of  reason,  that  this  family 
originated  in  France,  and  with  others  of  that 
period  of  persecution  sought  refuge  in  Hol- 
land. On  the  Continent,  and  in  Holland 
particularly,  it  was  known  as  Verplancken, 
which  is  the  form  adhered  to  for  several  gen- 
erations in  the  records  of  the  Dutch  churches 
in  New  Netherland  when  making  a  statement 
of  births,  deaths  and  marriages.  The  pro- 
genitor of  the  family,  Abraham,  the  son  of 
Isaac  \''erplancken,  of  Holland,  reduced  the 
spelling  to  Planck;  but  also  not  infrequently 
wrote  his  own  name  simply  Abraham  Isaacse, 
and  later  in  life  settled  upon  the  present 
form,  Verplanck.  "Vander"  (meaning  from 
or  of )  was  made  brief  by  writing  it  "ver," 
without  changing  the  significance.  Other 
forms  of  surname,  such  as  Plancque  and 
Planche,  were  in  use  on  the  Continent  and  in 
England.  The  French  families  alter  the 
"vander"  or  "ver"  by  writing  it  de  la  Planche 
and  des  Planche. 

The  arms  of  the  Verplanck  family:  Er- 
mine, on  a  chief  engrailed  sable ;  three  mul- 
lets argent.  Crest:  A  demi-wolf,  proper. 
Motto  :  Ut  vita  sic  mors. 

(I)  Abraham  Verplanck  was  the  progeni- 
tor of  this  family  in  America.  At  the  time 
of  his  coming,  which  was  about  the  year  1633, 
there  were  families  of  the  name  living  in 
Amsterdam,   as   appears   by   a   list   of   payers 


there,  dated  1631,  the  one  in  particular  being 
Meijntije  Ver  Plancken,  and  there  were  Ver 
Plankens  at  Antwerp  and  Rotterdam,  whose 
descendants  removed  to  Michigan.  At  the 
time  Henry  Hudson  sailed  for  America,  1609, 
there  was  a  famous  cartographer,  his  adviser 
in  Holland,  named  Petrus  Plancius,  undoubt- 
edly of  the  same  stock.  Abraham  Verplanck 
often  wrote  his  name  Abram  Planck,  and 
sometimes  merely  Abraham  Isaacse ;  but  be- 
fore his  death  ■  fixed  upon  the  form  Ver- 
planck. 

He  obtained  from  Governor  Kieft,  in  1638, 
a  patent  for  land  at  Paulus  Hoeck,  which  had 
previously  been  granted  to  a  director  of  the 
Dutch  West  India  Company  named  Pauw, 
who  gave  it  the  Latin  name,  Pavonia,  which 
was  a  translation  of  his  own  name,  which 
meant  peacock.  It  was  thereon  that  Abraham 
Verplanck  established  a  settlement,  part  of 
which  he  used  as  a  tobacco  plantation,  also 
for  farming  and  dairy  purposes.  The  origi- 
nal deed  was  long  on  file  in  a  state  department 
at  Albany,  and  reads : 

This  day  underwritten  before  me,  Cornells  van 
Tienhooven,  Secretary  of  New  Netherland,  ap- 
peared the  Honorable,  wise  and  prudent  Mr.  Kieft, 
Director-General  of  New  Netherland,  of  one  part, 
and  Abraham  Isaacsen  Planck,  of  the  other  part, 
and  mutually  agreed  and  contracted  for  the  pur- 
chase of  a  certain  parcel  of  land  called  Pouwel's 
Hook,  situate  westward  of  the  Island  Manhates, 
and  eastward  of  Ahasimus.  extending  from  the 
North  River  into  the  valley  which  runs  around  it 
there,  which  land  Mr.  Kieft  has  sold  to  Abram 
Planck,  who  also  acknowledges  to  have  bought  the 
aforesaid  land  for  the  sum  of  550  guilders, — the 
guilder  at  20  stivers, — which  sum  the  aforesaid 
Abraham  Planck  promises  to  pay  to  the  Honorable 
Mr.  Kieft  or  his  order,  in  three  installments,  the 
first  at  the  Fair,  A'o  1638,  the  second  A'o  1639,  and 
the  third  and  last  installment  at  the  Fair  A'o  1640, 
and  in  case  he  remains  in  default  of  payment, 
Jacob  Albertsen  Planck,  Sheriff  of  the  Colony  of 
Rensselaerswyck,  substitutes  himself  as  bail  and 
principal  for  the  purchase,  promising  to  pay  the 
aforesaid  550  fl.  free  of  costs  and  charges.  For 
all  of  which  the  aforesaid  purchaser  and  bonds- 
men pledge  their  persons  and  property,  real  and 
personal,  present  and  future,  without  exception, 
submitting  to  the  Provincial  Court  of  Holland,  and 
all  other  Courts.  Judges,  and  Justices,  and  in  ac- 
knowledgment and  token  of  the  truth  of  these 
presents  are  signed  by  the  parties  respectively.  This 
done  at  Fort  Amsterdam,  N.  N.,  the  first  day  of 
May,  1638. 

For  this  land  he  gave  his  note  for  520  flor- 
ins, and  30  florins  in  cash.  Signed  upon  the 
note  as  surety  was  the  name  of  Jacob  Planck, 
who  was  Jacob  Albertsen  Ver  Planck,  and  as 


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he  was  not  the  brother  of  Abraham,  who  was 
Abraham  Isaacse  (son  of  Isaac),  he  undoubt- 
edly was  the  son  of  Albert  Verplanck,  and 
most  likely  a  cousin  of  Abraham. 

Abraham  Verplanck  married  Maria,  daugh- 
ter of  Guleyn  Vigne,  or  Vinge.  She  was  then 
the  widow  of  Jan  Roos ;  but  whether  he  mar- 
ried soon  after  his  arrival  here,  or  shortly 
before  immigrating  to  America,  is  unknown, 
for  although  the  names  of  his  two  children, 
Abigail  and  Gulian  (the  latter  born  January 
I,  1637),  do  not  appear  upon  the  records  of 
the  Dutch  church  in  New  Netherlands  is  not 
determinate  of  the  facts,  for  the  records  begin 
in  1639. 

The  parents  of  the  wife  of  Abraham  Ver- 
planck were  Guleyn  Vigne  and  Ariaantje 
Cuilyie,  or  Cuvel,  which  latter  names  are  also 
written  in  other  forms.  The  father,  Guleyn, 
had  his  bouwerie,  or  farm,  below  what  is  now 
Wall  street,  and  east  of  Broadway,  or  the 
Breede  Weg,  as  it  was  then  called.  Somewhat 
to  the  north  of  it,  and  extending  nearly  across 
the  island,  was  the  farm  of  Jan  Jansen  Damen. 
It  was  bounded  on  the  south  by  the  King's 
Farm,  on  the  north  by  the  present  Canal 
street,  on  the  east  by  the  Vresche  Water, 
afterwards  called  the  Collect,  and  on  the  west 
by  the  present  Church  street.  It  was  a  farm 
commonly  known  as  Chalkie,  Calk  Hook 
Farm  or  the  Kolk,  on  account  of  a  supposed 
resemblance  to  a  whirlpool,  and  occupied  the 
site  of  the  old  Tombs  building,  the  former  city 
prison.  Following  the  death  of  Guleyn  Vigne, 
his  widow,  Ariaantje,  married  Jan  Jansen 
Damen,  who  owned  this  farm,  and  in  order 
to  provide  for  children  by  her  first  husband, 
the  following  paper  was  drawn  and  signed  at 
New  Netherland.  April  30,  1632.  Noticing 
the  wording  of  the  same,  one  discovers  that 
upon  this  date,  Maria  Vigne  was  married.  She 
survived  Damen,  and  became  the  heiress  of 
Calk  Hook  farm.  Damen  had  secured  it  from 
Kieft  in  1646. 

We,  the  underwritten.  Willem  Wyman,  black- 
smith, and  Jan  Thomassen  Groen,  as  good  men  do 
attest  and  certify  that  before  us  appeared  Dirck 
Volckersen,  the  Xorman,  and  Ariaentje  Cevelyn, 
his  wife's  mother,  in  order  to  agree  with  her  chil- 
dren by  her  lawful  husband,  deceased:  she  gives 
to  Maria  Vienje  and  Cristina  Vienje,  both  mar- 
ried persons,  each  the  sum  of  200  guilders  as  their 
share  of  their  father's  estate.  To  Resel  (Rachel) 
Vienje  and  Jan  Vienje.  both  minor  children,  each 
the  sum  of  300  guilders,  under  the  condition  that  to- 
gether with  her  future  husband,  Jan  Jansen   Damen. 


she  shall  be  held  to  keep  the  said  two  children  m 
good  support,  until  they  come  of  age,  and  that  she 
shall  be  obliged  to  clothe  and  feed  them  and  make 
them  go  to  school  as  good  parents  are  bound  to  do. 

Ariaantje  Cuvel,  or  Cuilyie,  was  a  strenu- 
ous woman,  of  severe  type,  and  it  is  said  that 
she  incited  her  sons-in-law  to  massacre  the 
Indians,  for  it  is  recorded  that  she  danced 
through  the  town  kicking  before  her  the  sev- 
ered head  of  a  murdered  redskin.  The  rec- 
ords show  that  Abram  Verplanck,  Jan  Jansen 
Damen  and  Mary  Andriensen  petitioned  Gov- 
ernor Kieft,  in  February,  1642,  to  attack  the 
Indians,  who  were  no  doubt  very  annoying  to 
those  then  residing  so  far  to  the  north  as  the 
present  Canal  street  and  unprotected  by  the 
small  guns  of  the  fort  at  the  southern  end  of 
New  York,  as  well  as  those  residing  upon  the 
Pavonia  plantation.  The  governor  consented 
reluctantly,  and  the  party  shortly  after  sur- 
prised the  Indians  during  night-time,  near  Pa- 
vonia. As  many  as  eighty  Indians  were 
slaughtered,  and  as  a  result  there  was  a  gen- 
eral uprising  of  the  Indians  on  both  sides  of 
the  river,  and  the  fighting  extended  even  as 
far  as  to  the  tribes  on  Long  Island.  In  retalia- 
tion, the  savages  committed  great  ravage, 
burning  and  otherwise  destroying  the  planta- 
tions, almost  as  far  as  the  "Walls."  or  Wall 
street  of  to-day.  As  a  result  of  the  turmoil, 
which  lasted  a  long  time,  Abraham  Verplanck 
and  two  others  were  summoned,  in  1649,  to 
The  Hague,  to  answer  charges  of  inaugurat- 
ing warfare  to  the  detriment  of  the  inhabi- 
tants of  New  Amsterdam.  It  is  not  believed 
that  he  crossed  the  water,  but  sent  several 
explanatory  replies  in  certified  form  during 
the  year  1650. 

He  removed  to  New  Amsterdam  shortly 
after  this  episode,  for  as  early  as  1641  he  was 
of  the  Council  of  the  Twelve  Men,  which 
was  the  representative  assembly  of  the 
Dutch,  and  bought  other  land  in  1649, 
near  the  gate  to  the  fort,  now  the  site  of 
Bowling  Green.  Not  infrequently  one  may 
find  his  name  upon  ancient  official  docu- 
ments, for  he  was  given  to  assertion  of 
what  he  thought  his  privileges,  and  as  a  re- 
sult of  tearing  down  an  official  notice  posted 
on  the  fort,  he  was  arrested  for  slandering 
the  authorities  and  fined  300  guilders.  His 
property  was  later  taken  by  the  authorities  as 
a  place  for  holding  fairs  or  markets.  From 
1649  to  1664,  when  New  Amsterdam  surren- 


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dered  to  the  Dutch,  he  continued  to  Hve  in 
Smith's  Valley,  but  removed  to  Albany  for 
temporary  stay,  again  residing  in  the  valley 
until  his  death  in  1690.  His  occupation  was 
that  of  trader  in  beaver-skins. 

Abraham  Verplanck  accompanied  Pieter 
Stuyvesant  upon  an  expedition  against  the 
Swedes  on  the  South,  or  Delaware  river,  and 
was  witness  to  a  treaty  with  the  Indians  there 
in  1656,  by  which  the  latter  obtained  a  grant 
of  land,  and  in  his  turn,  Verplanck  received 
an  extensive  tract.  He  and  several  other 
prominent  citizens,  in  1664,  signed  the  petition 
to  the  governor  to  surrender  the  city  to  the 
English,  when  they  found  they  were  com- 
pelled to  take  this  position  on  account  of  the 
defenceless  character  of  the  place  and  the 
number  of  foreign  warships  about  to  attack. 
With  several  hundred  others  of  his  comrades, 
he  then  swore  allegiance  to  the  new  govern- 
ment, Governor  Nicolls  being  at  the  head  of  it. 
Children:  i.  Abigel  (Abigail),  married  Ad- 
rian van  Laer.  2.  Gelyn  (Gulian),  see  for- 
ward. 3.  Catalyna,  married,  October  13,  1657, 
David  Pieterse  Schuyler,  one  of  two  brothers 
who  came  from  Holland  and  settled  at  Rens- 
selaerswyck  (Albany,  New  York),  who  died 
February  9,  i6go,  and  she  died  October  8, 
1708;  by  whom:  Pieter,  born  April  18,  1659; 
Geertruy,  September  19,  1661  ;  Abraham  Da- 
vidse.  born  August  16, 1663  ;  Maria,  September 
29,  1666;  David  Davidse,  June  11,  1669;  Myn- 
dert,  January  16,  1672;  Jacobus,  June  14, 
1675 ;  Catlyn,  January  14,  1678.  4.  Isaak 
(Isaac),  baptized  in  New  Amsterdam,  June 
26,  1641,  died  young.  5.  Susanna,  baptized 
May  25,  1642;  married,  December  4,  1660, 
Marten  van  Waert.  6.  Jacomyntje,  baptized 
July  6,  1644,  died  in  infancy.  7.  Ariaantje 
(Ariantia),  baptized  December  2,  1646;  mar- 
ried, December  4,  1660,  Melgert  Wynantse 
Van  der  Poel,  son  of  Wynant  Gerritse  Van 
der  Poel  and  Tryntje  Melgers ;  by  whom: 
Melgert,  married,  May  17.  1696,  Catherine 
Van  Alen  ;  Maria  ;  Trinke  ;  Abraham,  married, 
January  3,  1713,  Antje  Van  den  Bergh ;  Wy- 
nant, baptized  October  14,  1683,  married, 
August  17,  1706,  Catharina  de  Hoogen  or  de 
Hooges :  Gelyn,  baptized  May  17,  1685;  Jaco- 
bus, or  James,  baptized  March  9,  1687;  Hen- 
drick,  baptized  June  2,  1689.  8.  Hillegond, 
baptized  November  i,  1648;  married,  at  Al- 
bany, David  Ackerman.  9.  Isaak  ^ Isaac), 
baptized  February  26,   1651 ;  married,  at  Al- 


bany, Abigel  Uyten  Bogaardt,  Bogart  or  Bo- 
gardus. 

(II)  Gulian  Verplanck,  son  of  Abraham 
and  Maria  (Vigne)  Verplanck,  was  born  Jan- 
uary I,  1637,  died  April  23,  1684.  As  a  boy, 
he  went  first  as  an  apprentice  into  the  house 
of  one  Allard  Anthony,  a  prominent  merchant, 
owning  a  warehouse  in  New  Amsterdam. 
This  man  assumed  relationship  to  Gulian  by 
taking  to  wife  Henrica  Wessels,  April,  1656, 
the  aunt  of  young  Gulian's  wife,  Hendrickje 
Wessels.  It  was  at  the  time  that  Gulian  was 
approaching  his  twentieth  year  and  about  the 
time  of  the  marriage  referred  to,  that  he  had 
a  most  unpleasant  experience  in  the  latter's 
home,  for  Anthony  ill-treated  Gulian  in  some 
conflict  over  the  former's  dog,  and  Anthony 
curtly  told  him  that  he  should  get  out  and  re- 
pair to  his  father's  home.  As  a  result,  Gulian 
brought  suit  to  recover  payment  he  would 
have  earned  had  he  remained  a  year  or  more 
according  to  the  binding-out  contract,  and  An- 
thony put  in  a  reply  that  Gulian  had  not  cared 
to  live  there  because  he  had  admonished  him 
sharply.  It  is  related  that  Gulian's  father, 
Abraham,  struck  Anthony,  when  he  learned 
about  the  row,  and  the  result  was  that  Gulian 
entered  the  employ  of  Pieter  Cornelise  Van- 
der  Veen,  while  the  court  took  up  the  matter. 
Two  years  later,  Gulian  was  engaged  in  trade 
on  his  own  account,  dealing  in  beaver-skins, 
and  like  his  father  was  in  trouble  with  the 
authorities  on  the  charge  of  smuggling  pelt. 
but  was  acquitted  in  September,  1658.  After 
Vander  Veen  died,  Govert  Loockermans,  his 
representative  or  executor,  sued  Gulian  for  an 
accounting  of  all  money  which  had  been 
handled  by  him  as  clerk ;  but  Gulian  demurred 
that  he  had  made  such  accounting  while  his 
master  was  alive. 

Gulian  Verplanck  became  one  of  the  prom- 
inent merchants  of  his  times,  and  had  a  large 
trade  in  beaver-skins  with  Holland,  England 
and  the  West  Indies.  His  residence  and  ware- 
house were  located  on  the  "Strant,"  which 
later  became  Pearl  street,  between  Broad  and 
Whitehall  streets,  and  they  faced  on  the  river. 
He  participated  in  the  government  of  the  city, 
both  under  the  Dutch  and  English  regimes, 
serving  as  "schepen"  and  alderman,  and  while 
the  place  was  held  temporarily  by  the  Dutch 
he  served  as  an  ensign  in  the  garrison.  In 
1673  he  was  appointed  to  liquidate  the  estate 
of  the  late  Francis  Lovelace,  the  English  gov- 


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ernor,  which  shows  the  confidence  reposed  in 
his  ability  and  honesty;  but  in  the  following 
year  he  was  accused  and  sued  for  trading 
with  the  enemy,  contrary  to  proclamation,  the 
chief  offence  being  that  he  had  gone  into  New 
England  on  a  matter  of  business,  and  the  court 
considering  it  an  act  performed  through  ig- 
norance merely  fined  him  50  florins.  He  like- 
wise suffered  an  experience  at  Boston,  where 
his  merchandise  was  seized  as  the  property  of 
Dutch  enemies  in  New  York. 

The  most  important  act  in  the  life  of  Gulian 
Verplanck  was  his  acquisition  of  the  property 
near  Fishkill,  New  York.  It  was  enormous  in 
extent,  and  subsequently  became  known  on 
maps  as  the  Rombout  Patent.  Merely  as  a 
curious  document,  it  would  be  considered  val- 
uable, for  it  is  a  paper  drawn  in  the  strange 
manner  of  those  days  and  bears  the  marks  and 
names  of  any  number  of  Indians  as  original 
owners  of  the  land  above  New  York  city. 

According  to  the  practice  of  the  day,  Gulian 
\'erplanck  and  Francis  Rombout  filed  a  peti- 
tion and  obtained  a  license  to  purchase  from 
the  Indians  in  possession  of  it,  certain  lands 
"above  the  Highlands  on  Hudson's  River." 
The  law  of  the  colony  at  that  time  made  the 
issuing  of  a  patent  conditional  on  a  prior  set- 
tlement with  the  Indians ;  at  the  same  time  the 
title  to  the  soil  was  asserted  to  be  in  the  Sov- 
ereign by  right  of  conquest  or  discovery,  and 
not  in  the  Indians.  The  right  is  analagous 
to  the  one  which  the  Federal  government  as- 
serts to  the  Indians'  lands.  One  of  the  regu- 
lations of  those  times  made  after  the  Rombout 
patent,  was  that  no  one  should  take  up  more 
than  one  thousand  acres.  This  regulation, 
however,  was  generally  evaded,  if  not  openly 
violated.  The  land  in  question  was  obtained 
through  legal  title  of  deed  from  the  Wap- 
pingers  and  other  local  tribes.  It  does  not 
appear  that  at  any  later  time  any  other  Indians 
attempted  to  oust  the  owners.  This  deed  was 
in  the  form  of  a  transport,  and  was  dated 
August  8,  1683.  It  was  filed  among  state 
papers  at  Albany.  The  text  begins:  "To  all 
Christian  People  to  whom  this  Present  Write- 
ing  shall  Come  Sackoraghkigh  for  himselfe 
and  in  the  name  of  Megriesken  Sachem  of  the 
Wappingir  Indians  Queghsjehapaein  Niessja- 
wejahos  Queghout  Asotews  Wappegereck," 
etc.,  whereafter  follow  the  peculiar  names  of 
as  many  as  a  score  of  Indians.  More  im- 
portant than   repeating  such  an   unpronounc- 


able  list  is  to  note  the  boundaries  of  the  tract. 

All  that  Tract  or  Parcell  of  Land  Scituate  Lye- 
ing  and  being  on  the  East  side  of  Hudson's  River 
at  the  North  side  of  the  High  Lands  Beginning 
from  the  South  side  of  A  Creek  Called  the  fresh 
Kill  and  by  the  Indians  Matteawan  and  from 
thence  Northward  along  said  Hudsons  River  five 
hund'd  Rodd  bejond  the  Create  Wappins  Kill 
Called  by  the  Indians  Mawenawasigh  being  the 
Northerly  Bounds  and  from  thence  into  the  Woods 
fouer  Houers  goeing  alwayes  keeping  five  hund'd 
Rodd  Distant  from  the  North  side  of  said  Great 
Wapinga  Creeke  however  it  Runns  as  alsoe  from 
the  said  fresh  Kill  or  Creeke  Called  Matteawan 
along  the  said  fresh  Creek  into  the  Woods  att  the 
foot  of  the  said  High  Hills  including  all  the  Reed 
or  Low  Lands  at  the  South  side  of  said  Creeke 
with  an  Easterly  Line  fouer  Houers  Goeing  into 
the  Woods  and  from  thence  Northerly  to  the  end 
of  the  fouer  Houers  Goeing  or  Line  Drawne  att 
the  North  side  of  the  five  hund'd  Rodd  Bejoyond 
the  Create  Wappinger  Creeke  or  Kill  Called  Ma- 
wenawasigh togather  with  all  the  Lands  Soyles 
Meadows  both  fresh  and  salt  Pastures  Commons 
Wood  Land  Marshes  Rivers  Rivoletts  Streams 
Creekes  Waters  Lakes  and  whatsoever  else  to  the 
said  Tract  or  Parcell  of  Land  within  the  Bounds 
and  Limitts  aforesaid  is   Belonging. 

Regarding  the  price  paid: 

A  ScheduU  or  Perticuler  of  Mony  Wampum  and 
other  Goods  Paid  by  ffrancis  Rumbouts  and  GulvTie 
Ver  Planke  for  the  Purchase  of  the  Land  in  the 
Deed  hereunto  .■\nnexed.  One  hund.  Royalls  Two 
Hund.  fathom  of  white  Wampum.  One  Hund. 
fathom  of  black  Wampum  thirty  Gunns  twenty 
Blanketts  forty  fathom  of  Duffills  Forty  Hatches 
forty  Howes  forty  Shirts  fortv  p  stockins  twelve 
Coates  of  R.  b:  &  C:  One  hund.  Pound  Powder 
One  Hund.  Barrs  of  Lead  thirty  tobacco  boxes 
ten  Drawing  knives  forty  earthen  Juggs  forty 
Bottles  forty  Knives  fouer  ankers  Rum  ten  halfe 
fatts  Beere  two  hund.  tobacco  Pipes  and  Eighty 
Pound  Tobacco.  .A.nthony  Brockholls,  John  West 
and  Stephanus  Van  Cortlandt  signed  that  The 
above  Perticulers  were  Delivered  to  the  Indians  in 
the  Bill  of  Sale  Menconed  in  the  pr'sence  of  us. 

It  is  estimated  that  the  actual  value  inherent 
in  the  articles  of  trade  reached  $1,250.  The 
area  of  the  land  described  in  the  peculiar  inan- 
ner  covered  85,000  acres  in  Dutchess  county, 
and  comprised  the  towns  of  Fishkill,  East 
Fishkill,  Wappingers,  the  west  part  of  La- 
Grange,  and  9,000  acres  on  the  southeastern 
side  of  Poughkeepsie,  along  the  Wappinger 
creek.  The  patent  did  not  issue  until  October 
17,  1685.  at  which  time  Gulian  Verplanck  was 
dead  and  his  widow  married  to  Jacobus  (or 
James)  Kip,  hence  the  patent  ran  to  Francis 
Rombout,  Jacobus  Kip  (representing  the 
Widow  Verplanck)  and  Stephanus  Van  Cort- 
landt.     The    patent    was    issued    by    Thomas 


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Dongan,  lieutenant-governor  of  the  province 
of  New  York.  Francis  Rombout,  or  Rum- 
bouts,  was  probably  a  Frenchman.  He  came 
over  as  supercargo  in  1654,  and  became  a  mer- 
chant. He  married  three  times,  (first)  Aeltje 
Wessels,  on  May  31,  1665;  (second)  Anna 
Elizabeth  Maschop,  or  Maschutt,  widow  of 
Warnart  Wessels,  on  August  8,  1675;  (third) 
Helena  Teller,  daughter  of  Willem  Teller,  of 
Rensselaerswyck  (Albany),  on  September  8, 
1683,  and  his  children  were:  Johannes,  bap- 
tized August  12,  1666;  Jannetje,  baptized  Sep- 
tember 5,  1684;  Catharina,  baptized  May  25, 
1687;  Johannes,  baptized  June  12,  1689.  All 
of  these  died  young,  excepting  Catharina,  who 
married  Roger  Brett,  November  25,  1703. 
Catharina  was  only  sixteen  years  old  when  she 
married  Brett,  who  was  a  lieutenant  in  the 
English  navy,  and  after  the  partition  of  the 
Rombout  patent,  in  1706,  they  went  to  live 
there,  and  buih  the  manor  house  in  1709, 
known  as  the  Teller  homestead  in  Matteawan. 
She  was  later  known  as  Madame  Brett,  and 
died  in  1764,  owner  of  the  lower  part  of  the 
patent,  extending  from  Fishkill  creek  north- 
ward, containing  20,000  acres. 

Gulian  Verplanck  married,  when  thirty-one 
years  old,  Hendrika.  or  Hendrickje  Wessels, 
daughter  of  Metje  Wessels,  a  famous  land- 
lady of  those  days,  who  had  a  tavern  on  the 
road  to  the  north  over  which  route  many  fur 
traders  passed  coming  from  Albany  to  New 
Amsterdam  with  the  skins.  The  banns  of 
their  marriage  were  recorded  in  the  Dutch 
church  of  New  Amsterdam,  June  i,  1668, 
wherein  is  set  forth  that  his  bride  was  a  young 
woman  from  Aernheim  in  Gelderland.  His 
name  is  there  written  "Galeyn."  By  this  mar- 
riage he  allied  himself  with  one  of  the  richest 
families.  In  his  Bible  he  wrote  that  his  wife 
was  twenty-three  years  old  the  previous  Sep- 
tember, and  that  the  marriage  formula  was 
read  to  them  by  Dominie  Samuel  Drisius,  or 
Driesyes,  the  latter  being  the  way  he  wrote  it. 
After  his  death,  she  married.  May  9,  1685. 
Jacobus  (or  James)  Kip,  a  merchant  of  con- 
siderable wealth  and  respectability,  an  exten- 
sive landowner  in  New  York  City  and  on  Long 
Island.  He  was  also  a  brewer,  and  resided 
with  ■  her  in  Newtown.  Gulian's  last  child,  a 
daughter,  who  was  born  after  his  death,  lived 
with  her  stepfather,  and  evidently  upon  the 
best  of  terms,  for  it  is  recorded  that  Jacobus 


Kip  and  his  wife  gave  "to  our  daughter  Ge- 
lyna  Verplank"  a  "negro  wench  called  Puifra." 
When  eighteen  years  old,  this  daughter  died, 
unmarried.     Kip  died,  without  issue,  in  1702. 

Children:  i.  Samuel,  see  forward.  2.  Ja- 
cobus, born  December  i,  1671,  died  October 
30,  1699;  married;  at  Albany,  September  8, 
1691,  Margrietta  Schuyler,  who  was  born  at 
Rensselaerswyck  (Albany),  January  2,  1672, 
died  May  15,  1748,  daughter  of  Philip  Pie- 
terse  Schuyler  and  Margarita  Van  Schlecht- 
enhorst ;  by  whom:  Jannetje,  baptized  at  Al- 
bany, April  13,  1693:  Philip,  baptized  in  New 
York,  June  3,  1695.  3.  Abraham,  born  at 
New  Orange  (New  York),  January  3,  1674; 
baptized  the  24th;  on  June  7,  1695,  sailed  for 
Newfoundland  on  the  "Brothers  Adventure" 
as  mate  and  was  never  heard  from  again.  4. 
Johannes,  born  March  23,  1676;  baptized  the 
26th;  died  July  14,  1676.  5.  Benjamin,  born 
March  17,  1678;  baptized  the  20th;  died  in 
New  York,  August  4,  1678.  6.  Benjamin, 
born  July  20,  1679;  baptized  the  27th;  died 
July  21,  1680.  7.  Anna,  born  September  2, 
1680;  baptized  the  5th;  married  Andrew  Tel- 
ler. 8.  Gulena,  born  June  22,  1684,  died  No- 
vember 30,  1701. 

(Ill)  Samuel,  son  of  Gulian  and  Hen- 
drickje (Wessels)  Verplanck,  was  born  De- 
cember 16.  1669,  at  4  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
in  New  York  City,  and  he  was  baptized  on 
Sunday,  December  19,  by  Dominie  Drisius, 
the  witnesses  Nicholas  Packer,  Johannes  van 
Bruggen  and  Maria  Verplanck,  the  latter  be- 
ing the  mother  of  Samuel  Verplanck.  He 
died  while  making  a  commercial  voyage  to 
the  West  Indies,  when  in  his  twenty-ninth 
year,  according  to  an  entry  in  his  father's 
Bible,  while  at  sea.  His  will  was  dated  Sep- 
tember 8,  1698,  and  was  probated  in  New 
York  county,  in  April,  1699. 

He  carried  on  his  father's  business  of  a 
merchant  and  trader,  and  probably  lived  in 
the  same  house  on  Pearl  street,  in  ISTew  York 
City,  and  no  doubt  employed  the  same  ware- 
house, between  Broad  and  Whitehall  streets. 
His  will  would  seem  to  demonstrate  his  relig- 
ious inclination,  for  it  contains  an  unusually 
long  preamble  of  pious  expressions  and  de- 
votional sentiment,  as  well  as  professing  a  full 
belief  in  the  Trinity.  To  his  eldest  son.  Gulyn, 
he  bequeathed  five  pounds  on  reaching  his 
majority  or  "when  he  may  happen  to  marry"; 
to  his  wife,  Ariantje,  during  widowhood,  he 


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gave  "the  use  of  all  my  real  and  personal  es- 
tate, whether  in  possession  or  inheritance 
from  my  honorable  father,  Mr.  Gulyn  Ver 
Plank,  dec'd,  or  inheritance  from  my  honor- 
able mother  Hendrika  Ver  Planck,  now  the 
wife  of  Jacob  Kip."  Ariantje,  Samuel's 
widow,  afterwards  married  Samuel  Warm- 
stall  and  lived  to  an  advanced  age  in  New 
York. 

Samuel  Verplanck  married,  October  27, 
1691,  in  the  house  of  Balthazar  Bayard,  the 
bride's  father,  in  New  York  City,  Ariaantje 
Bayard,  Dominie  Selyn  officiating.  Her  father 
was  one  of  the  foremost  men  in  the  metropo- 
lis. His  name  appears  in  the  list  of  Dutch 
church  members  in  1686,  and  his  residence 
was  given  then  as  Breede  Weg.  His  mother, 
Anna,  was  the  sister  of  Pieter  Stuyvesant,  the 
Dutch  governor  of  the  province,  which  guar- 
anteed eminent  respectability.  Before  she  left 
Holland  with  her  three  sons,  Balthazar,  Pieter 
and  Nicholas,  she  was  a  person  of  high  posi- 
tion, and  after  her  husband  died,  she  decided 
to  visit  the  colony  of  New  Netherland.  Aria- 
antje Bayard  was  born  at  Bergen,  now  in  New 
Jersey,  at  3  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  Novem- 
ber 18,  1667,  and  her  godparents  were  her 
uncle,  Nicholas  Bayard,  and  grandmother, 
Maritje  Jans.  Children:  i.  Maria,  born  Au- 
gust 31,  1692;  sponsors.  Jacobus  Kip  and 
mother  Hendrika  Kip ;  married  Henry  Brock- 
holls,  and  died  without  issue.  2.  Henderieck 
(or  Hendrika),  born  August  18,  1694;  spon- 
sors, father  and  mother  Bayard ;  died  in  in- 
fancy. 3.  Anna,  born  June  10,  1696;  spon- 
sors, Nicholas  Bayard  and  Margarieta  Ver- 
planck; died  February  11,  1760.  4.  Gulian, 
see  forward. 

(IV)  Gulian  (2),  son  of  Samuel  and  Aria- 
antje (Bayard)  Verplanck,  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  May  31,  1698,  and  when  baptized 
in  the  Dutch  church  there,  his  sponsors  were 
Samuel  Bayard  and  his  grandmother,  Hen- 
drika Kip.  He  died  suddenly  in  New  York 
City,  November  11,  175 1,  and  was  interred  in 
the  New  Dutch  Church.  He  was  a  merchant 
and  had  extensive  foreign  trade  with  Holland 
and  the  West  Indies.  In  the  former  place,  his 
correspondents  were  the  Crommelins  of  Am- 
sterdam, prominent  merchants  there.  He  sat 
in  the  colonial  legislature  of  1737-38,  and  Rip 
Van  Dam  was  one  of  his  contemporaries.  He 
made  his  home  in  a  house  on  Wall  street,  a 
large  building  of  yellow  Dutch  brick,  with  a 


garden  adjoining  the  City  Hall,  now  the 
United  States  Treasury.  Besides  this  city 
property,  he  owned  large  landed  interests  in 
Dutchess  county,  derived  through  his  share  of 
the  Rombout  Patent,  extending  his  holdings 
also  into  Ulster  and  Albany  counties.  In  his 
will  he  made  mention  of  Mount  Gulian,  but 
this  did  not  refer  to  the  location  of  the  newer 
house  at  Fishkill.  It  was  dated  July  5,  1750, 
and  probated  March  9,  1752.  His  affection 
for  his  mother  is  shown  by  the  first  provision 
in  it,  bequeathing  to  her  an  annuity  of  sixty 
pounds,  and  a  like  devotion  is  exhibited 
towards  his  wife,  who  receives  all  the  house- 
hold furniture,  jewels,  plate,  etc.,  four  negro 
slaves,  and  an  annuity  of  two  hundred  pounds, 
together  with  the  rental  of  his  house  in  Wall 
street,  until  she  marry  again  or  his  eldest  son, 
Samuel,  reached  the  age  of  twenty-three 
years. 

Gulian  Verplanck  married,  at  the  home  of 
the  bride's  father,  in  New  York  City,  Sep- 
tember 8,  1737,  Mary  Crommelin.  She  was 
born  July  17,  17 12,  and  was  the  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Anne  ( Sinclair)  Crommelin.  of 
Amsterdam,  Holland.  The  Crommelins  were 
originally  of  Holland  and  fled  to  France, 
where  part  of  the  family  settled  to  avoid  the 
troublesome  times  under  Charles  V.  and 
Philip  II.,  while  the  Sinclair,  or  Sincklaar, 
family  trace  their  lineage  to  the  Earl  of  Ork- 
ney, a  natural  son  of  James  V.,  of  Scotland. 
Charles  Crommelin,  son  of  Daniel,  was  born 
at  Paris  in  1678,  and  died  in  New  York  in 
1740.  Children:  i.  Samuel,  born  August  30, 
1738,  died  September  9,  1738.  2.  Samuel,  see 
forward.  3.  Charles,  born  August  29,  1741, 
died  March  8,  1749.  "after  dinner  he  went  to 
school  very  merry  and  about  one  of  ye  clock 
he  was  a  dead  corps.  He  is  interred  in  the 
old  Dutch  church."  4.  Ann,  born  October  11, 
1743;  married,  September  3,  1760,  Gabriel 
Ludlow.  5.  Mary,  born  December  18,  1745  ; 
married,  April  13,  1763,  Charles  McEvers.  6. 
Aryaentje,  or  Adrina,  born  July  2.  1748,  died 
January  15,  1752.  7.  Gulian.  born  February 
10,  1751,  died  November  20,  1799:  graduated 
from  King's  College  in  the  class  of  1768,  with 
Gouverneur  Morris  and  Bishop  Moore :  was 
sent  abroad  by  his  elder  brother  for  mercantile 
training  under  his  uncle,  Daniel  Crommelin, 
at  Amsterdam,  and  on  his  return  became  a 
noted  man ;  was  a  close  companion  of  the 
young  Duke  of  Clarence,  afterwards  William 


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1\'.,  on  his  visit  to  New  York;  was  a  regent 
of  the  State  University,  and  president  of  the 
Bank  of  New  York,  then  the  only  one  in  the 
city,  which  began  business  in  the  old  Walton 
House  in  1784,  on  Pearl  street:  was  president 
and  officiated  at  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone 
of  its  new  building  at  the  northeast  corner 
of  Wall  and  William  streets,  1797;  was  a 
merchant,  and  traded  principally  with  Hol- 
land ;  resided  on  the  south  side  of  Wall  street, 
adjoining  Gabriel  Ludlow's,  in  a  house  which 
he  bought  in  September,  1795,  from  Alexan- 
der Hamilton,  paying  $12,000  therefor;  was 
an  original  trustee  of  the  Tontine  Coffee 
House,  founded  in  1792 ;  married,  March  29, 
1784,  Cornelia,  daughter  of  David  Johnstone 
and  Magdalena  Walton.  Issue :  i.  Maria  Cor- 
nelia, born  January  25,  1785,  died  at  Hyde 
Park,  New  York,  February  9,  1825  ;  married 
William  Allen.  ii.  Eliza  Magdalena,  born 
February  16,  1786,  died,  unmarried,  at  Ron- 
dout.  New  York,  January  23,  1861.  iii.  Anna 
Sophia,  born  September  24,  1787,  died  Sep- 
tember 13,  1819.  iv.  David  Johnstone,  born 
January  18,  1789,  died  at  New  York;  fnarried 
Louisa  A.  Gouverneur.  v.  Emily,  born  at 
New  York,  January  11,  179 1,  died  February 
12,  1869:  married,  April  29,  1822,  Claude  Syl- 
vaine  Quilliard.  vi.  Charlotte  de  Lancey, 
born  September  25,  1792,  died  1857. 

(V)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Gulian  (2)  and 
Mary  (Crommelin)  Verplanck,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  September  19,  1739,  died  in 
his  home.  Mount  Gulian,  Fishkill,  New  York, 
January  2y,  1820.  At  the  time  of  his  father's 
death,  he  was  in  his  thirteenth  year,  and  six 
years  later  he  was  graduated  from  King's  Col- 
lege in  its  first  graduating  class,  1758.  Among 
his  classmates  were  Samuel  Provoost,  after 
wards  the  first  bishop  of  New  York,  and 
Philip  Van  Cortlandt,  colonial  lieutenant-gov- 
ernor during  the  revolution.  He  then  went  to 
Holland,  where  he  remained  in  the  counting- 
room  of  his  maternal  uncle,  Daniel  Crom- 
melin, then  the  head  of  the  great  banking- 
house  of  Daniel  Crommelin  &  Sons,  Amster- 
dam. After  extensive  foreign  travel,  he  re- 
turned to  New  York,  in  1763,  and  established 
himself  as  a  wholesale  importer  and  banker. 
He  was  one  of  the  twenty-four  founders  of 
the  New  York  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  1768, 
and  in  1770  was  appointed  one  of  the  gov- 
ernors of  his  alma  mater.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Committee  of   Safety,   who  were  ap- 


pointed to  take  charge  of  the  city  government 
upon  the  seizure  of  the  public  buildings,  in 
May,  1775.  He  removed  to  Fishkill,  where  he 
was  a  large  landowner,  when  the  unsettled 
state  of  the  country  and  his  impaired  health 
demanded  his  withdrawal  from  his  business. 

During  the  revolution,  VerPlanck's  Point 
and  Stony  Point,  opposite,  were  occupied 
successively  by  the  English  and  Americans, 
and  he  suffered  from  the  conflict.  Mount 
Gulian,  which  he  received  by  gift  from  his 
father,  was  occupied  during  the  war  by  Baron 
Steuben,  one  of  Washington's  chief  officers, 
as  a  headquarters,  and  it  was  herein  that  the 
Order  of  the  Cincinnati  was  established,  in 
May,  1783.  While  he  remained  in  the  com- 
munion of  the  Dutch  church,  he  was  also  in 
sympathy  with  the  Episcopal,  and  both 
churches  at  Fishkill  received  his  bounty  in 
gifts,  such  as  similar  silver  flagons,  not  to 
mention  land. 

Samuel  Verplanck  married  while  sojourn- 
ing in  Amsterdam,  Holland,  in  April,  1761, 
Judith  Crommelin.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
his  rich  uncle,  Daniel  Crommelin,  of  that  city, 
and  when  he  had  accomplished  the  purpose  of 
his  European  visit,  he  brought  his  bride  back 
to  New  York.  They  first  occupied  his  father's 
home,  which  was  on  the  north  side  of  Wall 
street,  now  the  site  of  the  United  States  Assay 
Office,  and  their  stable  was  at  the  rear,  on 
Pine  street.  He  had  a  frontage  of  nearly 
seventy-five  feet,  of  which  about  forty  was  oc- 
cupied by  the  house.  The  articles  of  her 
handsome  dowry  were  preserved  long  as  heir- 
looms on  account  of  their  value  and  artistic 
merit.  Here  Lord  Howe  was  entertained 
when  the  city  was  occupied  by  the  British. 
She  died  in  September,  1803,  and  was  buried 
on  the  17th  in  Trinity  Churchyard.  Children: 
I.  Daniel  Crommelin,  see  forward.  2.  Mary, 
born  July  3,  1763,  died  in  infancy. 

(VL)  Daniel  Crommelin,  son  of  Samuel 
(2)  and  Judith  (Crommelin)  Verplanck,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  March  19,  1762,  and 
was  baptized  in  Trinity  Church,  on  which  oc- 
casion his  grandfather,  Daniel  Crommelin, 
gave  him  a  large  silver  kettle  and  stand,  which 
has  been  preserved  in  the  family  ever  since. 
He  died  at  Fishkill,  New  York,  March  29, 
1834.  Like  his  father,  he  was  thorough  in  his 
education,  for  after  his  preparatory  studies  he 
entered  Columbia  and  graduated  in-  1788  with 
the  degree  of  A.  M.     He  was  a  man  of  great 


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liberality  and  was  universally  popular.  With 
his  uncle,  Gulian  Verplanck,  he  was  an  orig- 
inal subscriber  in  1794  to  two  shares  of  stock 
in  the  Tontine  Building.  He  was  a  represen- 
tative in  congress  from  1802  until  1809,  and 
subsequently  a  judge  of  the  court  of  common 
pleas  of  Dutchess  county,  resigning  his  seat 
on  the  bench  in  1828.  His  portrait  was 
painted  by  Copley  when  he  was  a  lad  of  seven 
years.  He  dwelt  in  the  same  house  on  Wall 
street  as  had  his  father  and  grandfather,  but 
in  1804  he  moved  to  Fishkill,  where  he  built 
an  addition  to  Mount  Gulian,  but  unfortu- 
nately he  did  not  follow  the  original  style  of 
its  quaint  architecture.  Here  he  was  wont  to 
keep  open  house  both  summer  and  winter, 
welcoming  any  number  of  important  guests. 
He  was  fond  of  collecting  silver  plate,  and 
was  an  excellent  judge  of  wine,  importing  an 
immense  amount  of  Madeira  in  1804,  which  in 
later  years  was  in  use  only  on  ceremonial  oc- 
casions. He  sold  his  house  on  Wall  street  in 
1822  to  the  Bank  of  the  United  States  for 
$40,000,  accepting  part  payment  in  the  stock, 
which  paid  well. 

Daniel  C.  Verplanck  married  (first).  New 
York  City,  October  29,  1785,  EHzabeth  John- 
son. She  was  the  daughter  of  William  Samuel 
Johnson,  D.D.,  the  first  president  of  Colum- 
bia College,  who  also  held  the  offices  of  judge 
of  the  supreme  court  of  Connecticut  and 
agent  extraordinary  of  the  Colony  of  Con- 
necticut to  England.  By  this  marriage  he  had 
two  children,  and  his  wife  died  February  6, 

1789,  in  her  twenty-fifth  year.  He  married 
(second)    at   New  York  City,   November   17, 

1790,  Ann,  only  daughter  of  William  and 
Mary  (de  Lancey)  Walton.  Her  father  was 
born  in  New  York  in  1731,  died  there,  in 
1796.  and  married  Mary,  daughter  of  James 
and  Anne  (Heathcote)  de  Lancey.  She  died 
June  2,  1843.  Children:  i.  Gulian  Cromme- 
Hn,  see  forward.  2.  Ann,  born  May  20,  1788, 
died  1789.  3.  Samuel,  born  August  i,  1792, 
died  August  21,  1792.  4.  Mary  Ann,  born 
August  30,  1793,  died  December  i,  1856.  5. 
Louisa,  born  February  22,  1796,  died  August 
6,  1802.  6.  Samuel,  born  October  15,  1798, 
died  February  8,  1861  ;  married,  June  25, 
1850,  Mary  Hobart,  daughter  of  Bishop  John 
Henry  Hobart;  no  issue.  7.  Elizabeth,  born 
December  3,  1800,  died  July  5,  1888;  married 
John  W.  Knevels.  8.  William  Walton,  born 
February    19,    1803,    died   May   24,    1870.     9. 


James  de  Lancey,  born  February  2,  1805; 
married  Julia  Agnes,  daughter  of  Peter  Cav- 
erly.  10.  Anne  Louisa,  born  December  4, 
1807,  died  October  15,  1836. 

(VH)  Guhan  Crommelin,  son  of  Daniel 
Crommelin  and  Elizabeth  (Johnson)  Ver- 
planck, was  born  in  his  father's  house  on  Wall 
street,  New  York,  August  6,  1786;  was  bap- 
tized in  St.  Peter's  Chapel  of  Trinity  Parish, 
and  died  in  his  home  on  Fourteenth  street, 
New  York,  March  18,  1870.  On  account  of 
his  father's  remarriage  when  he  was  three 
years  old,  he  was  brought  up  by  his  grand- 
mother, Judith  Crommelin  Verplanck,  and 
also  passed  some  time  with  his  Grandfather 
Johnson  at  Stratford,  Connecticut.  When 
eleven  years  old,  he  entered  Columbia  College, 
graduating  in  1801.  He  then 'studied  law  in 
the  office  of  Edward  Livingston,  and  was  ad- 
mitted in  1807,  but  never  seemed  anxious  to 
develop  a  large  clientele.  In  1816  he  toured 
Europe  for  the  benefit  of  his  wife's  health, 
not  returning  until  the  fall  of  18 18,  and  his 
letters  from  abroad  were  so  entertaining  that 
they  were  edited  and  then  delivered  as  lec- 
tures by  Mr.  Hart.  He  was  fond  of  reading 
and  politics,  so  quite  naturally  he  contributed 
several  articles  along  that  line,  his  principal 
work  being  "The  Bucktail  Bards,  or  The  State 
Triumvirate,"  in  1819.  This  book  was  a  po- 
litical satire  upon  Governor  DeWitt  Clinton, 
and  to  preserve  the  secrecy  of  authorship  of 
these  satirical,  epigrammatic  verses,  the  vol- 
ume was  inscribed  "to  G.  C.  V."  In  1819  he 
went  to  the  legislature,  and  sat  there  four 
years.  In  1825  he  was  sent  to  congress,  re- 
maining there  through  four  terms,  and  one  of 
his  leading  acts  was  to  secure  the  extension 
of  the  period  of  copyright.  While  there  he 
agitated  the  right  of  congress  to  impose  a 
protective  taritif,  and  came  into  direct  conflict 
with  the  redoubtable  Henry  Clay.  From  1837 
to  1841  he  was  a  state  senator.  Following 
that  period,  on  the  request  of  Harper  Bro- 
thers, he  edited  a  set  of  Shakespeare.  He 
was  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  Emigration, 
and  one  of  the  hospitals  on  Ward's  Island  has 
been  named  in  his  memory.  He  was  an  anti- 
slavery  Democrat  during  the  Rebellion,  and  a 
firm  believer  in  state  rights.  He  was  a  warden 
of  Trinity  Church  in  New  York  City,  and 
was  buried  in  the  cemetery  of  Trinity  Church, 
Fishkill. 

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City,  October  2,  181 1,  Mary  Elizabeth  Fenno, 
daughter  of  John  Ward  and  Mary  (Curtis) 
Fenno.  Her  father  was  originally  of  Boston, 
but  later  of  Philadelphia,  where  he  published 
a  newspaper  in  the  interest  of  the  Federal 
party,  called  The  United  States  Gazette.  She 
was  of  weak  constitution,  and  dying  at  Paris, 
France,  April  29,  18 17,  was  buried  in  the 
cemetery  of  Pere  La  Chaise.  Children:  i. 
William  Samuel,  see  forward.  2.  Gulian,  born 
April  29,  181 5,  died,  unmarried,  November  19, 

1845- 

(Vni)  William  Samuel,  son  of  Gulian 
Crommelin  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Fenno)  Ver- 
planck,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  October 
15,  1812,  and  the  baptismal  entry  is  among 
the  records  of  Trinity  Church.  He  died  De- 
cember 23,  1885,  and  was  buried  with  his  wife 
in  the  Rural  Cemetery  at  Fishkill,  New  York. 
After  graduating  at  Columbia  College  in  1832, 
he  read  law  in  the  office  of  Johnson  &  Kent,  a 
prominent  law  firm  in  New  York,  the  latter 
being  William  Kent,  son  of  the  Chancellor, 
afterwards  judge  of  the  supreme  court.  He 
practiced  but  a  short  time,  and  part  of  it  at 
Newburgh,  when  he  accepted  his  father's  ad- 
vice to  engage  in  agriculture,  and  took  charge 
of  the  Mount  Gulian  farm,  later  on  also  of 
his  father's  lands  at  Fishkill  Plains.  The  mat- 
ter of  laying  the  tracks  of  the  New  York 
Central  railroad  along  his  property  excited 
him,  but  despite  action  in  the  court  for  dam- 
ages, the  first  engine  reached  Fishkill  on  De- 
cember I,  1849.  It  shut  ofif  his  boat  and  bath- 
house, which  he  had  enjoyed  as  a  sportsman, 
fond  of  hunting  along  the  river,  for  at  that 
time  the  shooting  was  good.  His  father,  in 
1845,  bought  a  part  of  the  farm  of  Garrett 
Brinckerhoff,  some  eighty  acres,  situated  on 
the  Hudson  river  about  a  mile  north  of  Mount 
Gulian,  and  thereon  was  built  a  house,  in  1846, 
called  "New  Place,"  into  which  William  Sam- 
uel moved  his  family,  and  established  a  nice, 
private  library,  all  of  which  was  much  to  his 
liking. 

William  Samuel  Verplanck  married,  No- 
vember 17,  1837,  Anna  Biddle  Newlin,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  and  Mary  (Brown)  Newlin,  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Ten  Broeck,  rector  of  St.  Ann's 
Church,  Matteawan,  officiating.  Robert  New- 
lin, son  of  Cyrus  Newlin,  was  born  January 
17,  1770;  owned  land  on  the  north  side  of 
Fishkill  creek  near  its  mouth ;  died  December 
9,    1840;    married,    March    13,    1799,    Mary 


Brown,  who  died  May  17,  1847,  ^^'^  was  the 
sister  of  Major-General  Jacob  Brown,  of  the 
War  of  1812.  Children:  i.  Eliza  Fenno,  born 
at  Mount  Gulian,  September  16,  1838 ;  mar- 
ried, September  30,  1862,  Benjamin  Richards, 
of  New  York.  2.  Mary  Newlin,  born  at 
Mount  Gulian,  October  18,  1840;  married, 
December  18,  1866,  Samuel  William  Johnson, 
her  cousin,  who  died  December  13,  1881.  3. 
Robert  Newlin,  see  forward.  4.  Daniel  Crom- 
melin, born  at  Mount  Gulian,  April  13,  1845, 
died  April  8,  1854.  5.  Anna,  born  at  Mount 
Gulian,  November  27,  1846;  married,  June 
13,  1872,  Samuel  Hicks  Clapp,  who  died  June 
27,  1891.  6.  Jeannette,  born  at  New  Place, 
March  7,  1849;  married,  March  8,  1886,  Theo- 
dore M.  Etting,  of  Philadelphia.  7.  Gelyna, 
born  at  New  Place,  January  23.  1852 ;  mar- 
ried, September  12,  1872,  Louis  Fitzgerald,  of 
New  York  City.  8.  William  Edward,  born 
at  New  Place,  Fishkill,  New  York,  April  8, 
1856;  resides  at  Mount  Gulian  in  the  summer 
and  in  New  York  in  the  winter ;  married,  Jan- 
uary 6,  1880,  Virginia  Eliza,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Henry  Darby.  Issue:  William  Everett,  born 
October  16,  1880.  Virginia  Darby,  born  June 
II,  1883.  Edward  Fenno,  born  December  5, 
1886,  died  August  13,  1887.  Edward,  born 
November  5,  1890. 

(IX)  Robert  Newlin,  son  of  William  Sam- 
uel and  Anna  Biddle  (Newlin)  Verplanck, 
was  born  at  Fishkill,  New  York,  November 
18,  1842,  died  at  Orange,  New  Jersey.  Janu- 
ary 10,  1908.  After  graduating  at  Harvard 
University  in  the  class  of  1863,  he  entered 
the  northern  army  and  participated  in  the  civil 
war  until  the  termination  of  hostilities,  attain- 
ing the  rank  of  major.  He  then  took  up  his 
residence  at  Fishkill.  Robert  N.  Verplanck 
married,  at  Brinckerhoff,  New  York,  February 
24,  1876,  Katharine,  daughter  of  Matthew 
Van  Bensehoten  and  Mary  Willis  (Franklin) 
Brinckerhoff,  who  was  born  at  Brinckerhoff, 
New  York,  February  24,  1857,  living  at  the 
present  time  (1913).  Children:  i.  Gulian 
Crommelin,  see  forward.  2.  Judith  Cromme- 
lin, born  April  14,  1878,  at  Fishkill  Plains. 
3.  Mary  Brinckerhoff,  born  September  28, 
188 1  ;  married,  October  24,  1903,  at  Fishkill. 
New  York,  James  Kent,  grandson  of  Chancel- 
lor Kent.  4.  William  Samuel,  born  March  20, 
1884;  married,  July  18,  1912.  at  New  York- 
City,  Katharyn  Tracy.  5.  Robert  Sinclair, 
born  August  15,  1885. 


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(X)  Gulian  Crommelin,  son  of  Robert 
Newlin  and  Katharine  (Brinckerhoff)  Ver- 
planck,  was  born  at  Fishkill  Plains,  New 
York,  December  9,  1876,  and  now  resides  at 
Orange,  New  Jersey.  He  received  his  educa- 
tion at  Fishkill-on-Hudson,  and  immediately 
thereafter  entered  the  employment  of  the  Mu- 
tual Life  Insurance  Company,  at  No.  32  Nas- 
sau street,  one  of  the  greatest  institutions  of 
its  kind  in  any  country.  Beginning  in  1893, 
he  was  promoted  during  the  score  of  years  by 
various  steps  until  he  is  now  assistant  to  the 
vice-president,  and  thoroughly  conversant 
with  the  entire  operation  of  the  large  business. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church,  and 
belongs  to  the  Democratic  party. 


The  family  name  of 
BLEECKER  Bleecker  is  derived  from 
the  Dutch,  and  its  signifi- 
cance is  one  who  is  a  bleacher  by  trade  or  is 
engaging  in  bleaching,  in  those  early  days 
conducting  the  business  by  the  side  of  a 
stream  with  a  number  of  employees.  The 
name  is  similar  to  the  English  name  Fuller. 

The  Bleecker  family  arms:  Per  pale,  azure 
and  argent ;  on  the  first  two  chevronels,  em- 
battled counterembattled  or;  on  the  second  a 
sprig  of  roses  vert  flowered  gules.  Crest:  A 
pheon  or.  Motto:  Fide  et  constantia.  An- 
other authority  substitutes  for  the  sprig  of 
roses  "an  oak  branch  proper,  fruited  or." 

(I)  Jan  Jansen  Bleecker  was  the  first  one 
of  this  family  to  come  to  America.  He  was  a 
native  of  Meppel,  province  of  Overyssel,  Hol- 
land, and  was  born  there,  July  9,  1641.  His 
father  was  Jan,  or  John  Bleecker.  On  arriv- 
ing in  this  country,  in  1658,  he  settled  in  New 
Amsterdam,  now  New  York  City,  but  not 
long  afterwards  removed  to  Beverwyck,  now 
.\lbany.  New  York.  At  the  latter  place  he 
engaged  in  commercial  enterprises,  in  which 
he  was  eminently  successful,  so  that  he  event- 
ually became  a  leader  in  the  community.  He 
was  not  only  a  wealthy  trader,  but  was  widely 
known  because  of  his  dealings  reaching  to 
New  York,  but  was  of  considerable  promin- 
ence from  the  fact  that  he  held  a  great  num- 
ber of  public  offices.  At  the  time  Albany  be- 
came a  city,  receiving  its  charter  on  July  22, 
1 686,  he  stood  so  well  in  the  community  that 
he  was  thereupon  appointed  the  first  city 
chamberlain,  or  treasurer.     He  also  served  as 


an  alderman,  and  reached  the  highest  condi- 
tion of  city  government  when  the  Earl  of 
Bellomont,  representing  the  English  Crown, 
appointed  him  the  seventh  mayor  of  the  city 
of  Albany,  which  office  he  held  through  the 
years  1700  and  1701.  Previously,  from  1696 
to  1700,  he  had  been  the  city  recorder.  He 
was  a  captain  of  militia,  in  1689,  and  served 
on  the  important  Indian  commission  from 
1691  through  1694.  In  1697  he  was  justice 
of  the  peace,  and  represented  his  section  as  a 
member  of  Leisler's  assembly  in  1690,  as  well 
as  the  provincial  assemblies  of  1698-1701. 

He  was  associated  in  several  extensive  busi- 
ness operations  in  company  with  such  men  of 
his  day  as  Peter  Philipse  Schuyler,  and  his 
brother,  David  Pieterse  Schuyler,  men  of  the 
highest  position  in  the  Rensselaerwyck  colony 
(Albany),  with  Johannes  Wendell,  Dirck 
W^essels,  Cornelius  Van  Dyck  and  Robert 
Livingston.  One  large  tract  of  land  of  which 
he  was  a  part  owner,  was  the  "Sarachtogie" 
or  Saratoga  patent,  bought  on  July  26.  1683, 
to  the  north  of  Albany,  and  selected  because 
of  its  fertility,  its  woods  and  the  excellent 
water  advantages,  thus  securing  power  for 
mills,  lumber,  and  any  quantity  of  animals  for 
their  pelt.  This  tract  rested  on  both  sides  of 
the  Hudson  river,  from  Mechanicsville,  New 
York,  northward  to  the  historic  Battenkill 
creek,  flowing  into  the  Hudson  from  the  east 
(north  of  Schuylerville  about  two  miles), 
which  latter  locality  is  now  known  as  Thom- 
son, New  York.  Its  dimensions,  north  and 
south,  were  twenty-two  miles,  and  east  and 
west,  twelve  miles.  Its  area  was  thus  much 
more  than  the  ordinary  county  of  to-day  in 
New  York  state.  Two  years  later  the  paten- 
tees made  a  division  of  these  lands,  and  it  is 
related  that  one  child  of  each  patentee  drew  a 
ticked  from  a  hat  in  order  to  determine  which 
share  each  of  the  men  should  possess.  Lot 
No.  II  fell  to  the  share  of  Jan  Jansen 
Bleecker.  It  was  on  this  lot  at  Bemis  Heights 
that  one  of  the  decisive  battles  of  the  revolu- 
tion, the  battle  of  Saratoga,  was  fought,  the 
articles  of  surrender  by  General  Burgoyne  be- 
ing signed  on  October  17,  1777. 

The  Westenhook  patent  was  another  exten- 
sive tract  of  land  which  he  possessed  as  a 
shareholder  Its  locality  was  east  of  Kinder- 
hook.  Columbia  county.  New  York,  and  south 
of  Rensselaerwyck  (Albany)  ;  bounded  on  the 
east  by  the  Massachusetts  line,  and  upon  the 


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south  it  bordered  the  large  estate  of  the  Van 
Rensselaer  and  Livingston  families  known  as 
Claverack.  In  fact,  if  one  included  the  prop- 
erty southward  of  Van  Cortlandt  and  Ver- 
planck,  it  will  be  seen  that  Bleecker's  holdings 
were  among  the  estates  held  by  a  very  few 
rich  men  whose  tracts  extended  from  the  city 
of  New  York  to  Saratoga.  Bleecker's  share 
was  vested  in  six  of  his  descendants,  as  was 
also  his  interest  in  the  Saratoga  patent,  which 
went  to  his  children  upon  his  death.  He  was 
a  colonial  fighter,  which  entitles  those  of  his 
descent  to  enjoy  the  privileges  of  various 
colonial  or  patriotic  organizations  of  to-day. 
He  participated  in  the  war  against  the  Indians 
and  French,  at  a  time  it  was  extremely  dan- 
gerous to  be  a  member  of  the  militia,  and  was 
made  a  captain.  When  he  was  made  a  justice 
of  the  peace,  it  was  his  duty  to  administer  to 
the  soldiers  the  oath  of  fidelity  to  William  and 
Mary.  He  belonged  to  the  Reformed  Protes- 
tant Dutch  Church  of  America,  and  dying  at 
Albany  on  November  21,  1732.  was  buried  in 
the  church,  as  was  the  custom  of  those  days. 
Hon,  Jan  Jansen  Bleecker  married,  at  Albany, 
New  York,  January  2,  1667,  Margariet  (Mar- 
garet or  Greitjen,  as  she  was  called),  daughter 
of  Rutger  Jacobsen  Van  Schoenderwoert  and 
his  wife,  Tryntje  Van  Breestede.  She  was 
born  at  Albany  in  1647,  and  died  there  in 
1733.  After  his  death,  when  there  was  a  sale 
of  his  efifects  by  the  administrators,  several 
costly  paintings  and  jewelry  of  considerable 
value  were  disposed  of,  and  some  treasures 
of  his  household  were  handed  down  as  heir- 
looms. To  Bleecker  and  his  wife  were  born 
ten  children,  but  out  of  this  unusually  large 
family  there  were  only  two  sons  who  were  to 
perpetuate  the  family  name,  viz. :  John,  whose 
descendants  still  mostly  reside  about  Albany, 
and  Rutger,  whose  descendants,  through  his 
son,  James,  are  the  New  York  City  and  vicin- 
ity Bleeckers.  Children:  i.  Johannes,  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Caatje,  or  Catherine,  born  at  Al- 
bany, New  York,  May  i,  1670,  died  April  8, 
1734:  buried  in  the  Albany  church,  April  11, 
1734;  married,  in  the  Dutch  church  at  Al- 
bany. November  17,  i68q,  Abraham,  son  of 
Hendrick  Cuyler  and  Anna  Schepmoes,  a 
trader  and  justice  of  the  peace,  who  was 
buried  in  the  Albany  church,  July  14,  1747 
(see  Cuyler  Family).  3.  Rutger,  see  forward. 
4.  Nicholas.  5.  Jane.  6.  Margaret.  7.  Hen- 
drick, baptized  April,   1686.     8.  Rachel,  bap- 


tized November  14,  1688.    9.  Maria,  baptized 
February  7,  1692. 

(II)  Johannes  Bleecker,  son  of  Jan  Jansen 
and  Margariet  Rutsen  (Van  Schoenderwoert) 
Bleecker,  was  born  at  Beverwyck  (Albany), 
New  York,  in  1668,  and  dying  at  Albany,  New 
York,  on  December  20,  1738,  was  buried  in 
the  Dutch  church  there,  December  23.  He 
was  one  of  the  leading  men  of  that  city,  as  his 
record  in  official  life  demonstrates.  He  was 
recorder  of  the  city  of  Albany  in  1700;  was 
appointed  Indian  interpreter,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  general  assembly,  1701-2.  Lieuten- 
ant-Governor John  Nanfan,  acting  for  the 
Crown,  commissioned  him  mayor  of  Albany, 
which  office  he  held  through  1701  and  1702. 
He  made  his  will  December  18,  1738,  at 
which  time  his  wife  and  all  their  children,  ex- 
cepting Hendrick,  were  living.  He  owned  a 
lot,  in  1720,  on  the  west  corner  of  North 
Pearl  street  and  Maiden  Lane,  in  Albany, 
which  ran  westward  through  to  Chapel  street. 
In  1686,  when  eighteen  years  old,  he  had  a 
dangerous  experience  with  the  Indians.  While 
he  was  on  a  trading  expedition  with  several 
others  among  the  Indians  of  the  northwest, 
they  captured  him,  and  the  French  had  him 
carried  into  Canada ;  but  he  was  returned  Oc- 
tober 23,  1687.  He  was  thoroughly  familiar 
with  the  Indian  tongue,  and  any  number  of 
times  was  employed  to  attend  negotiations 
with  the  aborigines. 

Hon.  Johannes  Bleecker  married,  at  Al- 
bany, October  29,  1693,  Anna  Coster  (Costar 
or  Koster).  She  was  the  daughter  of  Hen- 
drick Coster  and  Geertje  Goosense  Van 
Schaick.  After  Hendrick  Coster  died,  in 
1678,  his  widow  married  Johannes  Lansing. 

Children  of  Johannes  Bleecker:  i.  Jo- 
hannes, born  at  Albany,  New  York ;  baptized 
there,  August  26,  1694;  died  at  Albany;  bur- 
ied there.  May  10,  1757;  married  (first)  De- 
cember 13,  1724,  Jannetje  (or  Janneke)  Ten 
Eyck,  who  was  baptized  at  Albany,  December 
12,  1705,  daughter  of  Barent  and  Neeltje 
(Schermerhorn)  Ten  Eyck,  and  died  Decem- 
ber 12,  1738;  he  married  (second)  January 
10,  1741,  Eva  Bries,  who  was  buried  Decem- 
ber 4,  1752.  Issue:  i.  Johannes  Johannese, 
baptized  August  22,  1725;  died  June  19,  181 1  ; 
married  Gerritje  Van  Schaick,  who  was  born 
April  23,  1738.  daughter  of  Sybrant  and  Anna 
(Roseboom)  Van  Schaick.  ii.  Geertje,  bap- 
tized at   Albany,   March   5,    1727.     iii.   Jacob, 


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baptized  September  22,  1728;  died  October 
5,  1802.  iv.  Johannes,  baptized  May  9,  1731 ; 
died  June  19,  181 1.  v.  Geertruy,  baptized  Oc- 
tober 2,  1733.  vi.  Anna,  baptized  March  7, 
1742.  vii.  Catharina,  baptized  October  19, 
1744.  2.  Geertruy,  baptized  November  15, 
1696;  died  May  29,  1786;  married,  October  24, 
1736,  Abraham  Wendell,  who  was  born  at  Al- 
bany, April  I,  1693;  died  June  28,  1753,  son 
of  Evert  and  Elizabeth  (Glen)  Wendell.  Is- 
sue: Elizabeth,  born  September  2,  1738;  mar- 
ried, August  27,  1 761,  Thomas  Hun.  3.  Hen- 
drick,  born  at  Albany ;  baptized  there,  Sep- 
tember 8,  1699.  4.  Nicolaas  (or  Nicholas), 
baptized  at  Albany,  September  20,  1702 ;  died 
there,  buried  in  the  church,  January  4,  175 1 ; 
married,  April  10,  1728,  Margarita  Roseboom, 
daughter  of  Johannes  and  Gerritje  (Coster) 
Roseboom,  who  was  born  at  Albany,  baptized 
there,  April  21,  1706,  and  died  at  Albany,  Au- 
gust 16,  1794,  aged  eighty-eight  years,  three 
months,  sixteen  days.  Issue:  i.  Hendrick,  born 
in  1729;  married  Catalina  Cuyler.  ii.  Gerritje, 
baptized  August  30,  1730.  iii.  Gerritje,  bap- 
tized June  4,  1735.  iv.  Anna,  baptized  Au- 
gust 15,  1737.  v.  Johannes,  baptized  August 
26,  1739;  died  October  23,  1825;  married 
Margarita  Van  Deusen,  who  died  April  13, 
1794,  aged  forty-seven,  vi.  Nicolaas,  baptized 
April  25,  1742;  died  unmarried,  vii.  Berritje, 
baptized  February  21,  1748.  5.  Hendrick, 
born  at  Albany,  baptized  there,  June  2,  1706; 
died  October  21,  1724,  while  among  the 
Seneca  Indian  tribe.  6.  Margarita,  born  at 
Albany,  baptized  there,  March  9,  1709:  mar- 
ried, December  22.  1730,  Gerrit  Marselis,  son 
of  Gysbert  and  Barbara  (Groesbeck)  Mar- 
selis, who  was  baptized  February  16,  1698. 
Issue:  i.  Gysbert  Marselis,  baptized  Septem- 
ber 26,  1731  ;  died  January  28,  1732.  ii. 
Gysbert  Marselis,  baptized  November,  1732; 
married,  February  5,  1761,  .\nnatje  Staats. 
iii.  Johannes  Marselis,  baptized  September 
22,  1734.  iv.  Barbara  Marselis.  baptized 
April  30,  1737.  V.  Nicolaas  Marselis,  bap- 
tized May  25,  1740:  married,  August  9, 
1766,  Margarita  Groesbeck  vi.  Jacob  Mar- 
selis, baptized  September  12.  1742;  died  Sep- 
tember 9,  1747.  vii.  Jacob  Marselis,  baptized 
March  27,  1748;  died  March  31,  1748.  viii. 
Anna  Marselis,  baptized  April  29,  1750.  7. 
Anna,  born  at  /Mbany.  April  8,  1712.  8.  Ja- 
cob, born  at  Albany,  March  i,  1715;  died 
there,  and  was  buried  July  14,  1747;  married. 


Albany,  January  6,  1745,  Margaret  Ten  Eyck, 
who  was  baptized  at  Albany,  May  10,  1715; 
died  in  1777,  daughter  of  Hendrick  and  Mar- 
garita (Bleecker)  Ten  Eyck.  Issue:  i.  Jacob, 
born  July  22,  1747.  9.  Anthony,  born  at  Al- 
bany, baptized  there,  January  11,  1718. 

(II)  Rutger  Jansen  Bleecker,  son  of  Jan 
Jansen  and  Margariet  Rutsen  (Van  Schoen- 
derwoert )  Bleecker,  was  born  at  Albany,  New 
York,  May   13,   1675,  and  died  there.  August 

4,  1756.  He  was  a  merchant  of  his  native 
city,  dealing  mostly  in  furs  which  he  secured 
by  barter  with  the  Indians  and  shipped  them 
by  sailing  vessel  to  New  York  for  the  foreign 
trade.  He  became  a  man  of  considerable 
means,  and  like  many  of  his  near  relatives, 
was  honored  by  the  colonists  with  several 
civic  positions  of  responsibility.  He  was 
chosen  the  city  recorder,  in  1725.  His  father 
and  brother  having  held  the  office  of  mayor  of 
Albany,  it  fell  to  his  '.ot  to  be  equally  hon- 
ored, and  Colonial  Governor  William  Burnet 
commissioned  him  on  behalf  of  the  Crown  the 
fifteenth  mayor  of  that  city.  His  term  com- 
prised the  period  from  November  8,  1726,  to 
November  10,  1729,  being  successively  ap- 
pointed three  times.  Rutger  Bleecker  mar- 
ried, at  Albany,  New  York,  May  26,  1712, 
Catalina  (or  Catlyn)  Schuyler,  born  at  Al- 
bany, where  she  was  baptized  October  10, 
1686;  died  there,  was  buried  in  the  Dutch 
church,  October  25,  1747.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  David  Pieterse  Schuyler,  from 
Holland,  died  at  Albany,  February  9,  1690, 
who  married,  October  13,  1657,  Catalyn  Ver 
Planck,  died  October  8,  1718,  then  the  widow 
of  Johannes  Abeel,  the  late  second  mayor  of 
Albany  (October  14,  1694-October  14,  1695), 
whom  she  married  April  10.  1694;  he  died  at 
Albany,  January  28,  171 1. 

Children:  i.  Johannes  Ruth  (or  Rut- 
gerse),  commonly  known  as  John  R.  Bleecker, 
was  born  at  Albany,  baptized  there,  February 
8.  1713,  and  died  there  in  1800.  He  was  a 
surveyor,  and  made  the  important  early  maps 
of  Albany.     He  married,  at  Albany,  August 

5,  1743,  Elizabeth  Staats.  She  was  born  there, 
October  3.  1725.  and  was  the  daughter  of  Ba- 
rent  and  Neeltje  Gerritse  (Van  den  Berg) 
Staats.  Issue:  i.  Rutger,  baptized  at  Albany, 
July  5.  1745;  rfied  there,  March  17,  1831 ; 
married  Catherine  Elmendorf.  ii.  Barent, 
baptized  at  Albany,  June  5,  1748.  iii.  Barent, 
baptized  at  Albany,  November  18,   1750.     iv. 


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Barent.  baptized  at  Albany,  November  12, 
1752;  buried  there,  November  5,  1756.  v. 
Jacobus  (or  James),  born  at  Albany,  October 
14.  1/55;  baptized  there,  October  23rd;  died 
there,  February  18,  1825;  married,  Novem- 
ber 18,  1782,  Rachel  Van  Santen,  who  was 
born  in  1759  and  died  March  22,  1837.  vi. 
Catalina,  baptized  October  15,  1758.  vii.  Ba- 
rent, baptized  June  9,  1760;  died  June  i,  1840; 
married,  December  17,  1787,  Sarah  Lansing, 
who  was  born  June  22,  1763 ;  died  October  12, 
183 1,  daughter  of  Gerrit  Jacob  and  Jane 
(Waters)  Lansing,  viii.  Johannes,  born  Oc- 
tober 4,  1763;  died  December  29,  1833;  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Van  Rensselaer,  who  died 
March  29,  1841.  2.  Margarita  (or  Margaret), 
born  at  Albany,  where  she  was  baptized  Oc- 
tober 8,  1714;  married,  at  Albany,  December 
II,  1733,  by  Dominie  Petrus  Van  Dryssen, 
Edward  Collins,  a  lawyer  and  man  of  influ- 
ence. He  was  born  July  13,  1704;  baptized 
July  30th,  Lord  Cornbury,  godfather,  and 
Maria  Schuyler,  godmother ;  died  March  — , 
1753,  and  was  the  son  of  John  Collins,  a  lieu- 
tenant in  Captain  Henry  Holland's  company 
of  the  English  Army  stationed  at  Albany  bar- 
racks or  fort,  who  married  (November  2, 
1701)  Mrs.  Margaret  Ver  Planck,  widow  of 
Jacobus  (or  James)  Ver  Planck,  and  daugh- 
ter of  Philip  Schuyler.  There  was  no  issue, 
and  the  lineage  of  John  Collins  in  the  direct 
line  was  also  extinguished  by  the  death  of  his 
son,  Edward,  although  his  daughter,  Mar- 
garet, married  Hitche  Holland,  an  EngHsh  of- 
ficer at  Oswego ;  by  whom  three  children.  3. 
Jacobus  (or  James),  see  forward.  4.  Myndert, 
born  at  Albany,  where  baptized  July  3,  1720. 
(HF)  Jacobus  (or  James)  Bleecker,  son  of 
Hon.  Rutger  and  Catalina  (Schuyler) 
Bleecker,  was  born  at  Albany,  New  York,  on 
December  9,  17 16.  Upon  his  coming  of  age, 
he  proceeded  to  make  a  European  tour,  and 
that  he  might  first  obtain  a  better  knowledge 
of  the  French  language  he  was  sent  to  spend  a 
few  weeks  at  the  French  Huguenot  settlement 
at  New  Rochelle,  in  Westchester  county. 
While  there,  he  met  and  fell  in  love  with  Miss 
Abigail  Lispenard,  whom  he  later  married, 
July  6,  1740.  Abigail  was  the  daughter  of 
Anthony  Lispenard,  son  of  Antoine  L'Espi- 
nard,  who  was  born  in  France  in  1643,  ^nd 
came  to  America  as  early  as  1670,  living  for 
a  time  at  Albany,  and  marrying  (September 
20,  1671)  Abeltia  Forge,  and  in  1684,  moving 


to  New  Rochelle.  In  1687,  he  was  commis- 
sioned by  Governor  Thomas  Dongan  to  carry 
to  Canada  the  national  treaty  between  France 
and  England,  under  James  IL  His  son,  An- 
thony Lispenard,  married,  November  3,  1705, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Leonard  de  Klyn,  of 
New  York,  who  had  married,  April  25,  1683, 
Magdalena  Wolsum,  widow  of  Cornelius  Van- 
deveen.  This  Leonard  de  Klyn  was  the  son 
of  Hugh  Barent  de  Klyn,  who  came  from  Bu- 
ren,  in  May,  1661,  aboard  the  ship  "Beaver," 
and  who  married  Maria  Bartels.  Anthony 
Lispenard  died  in  1758  at  an  advanced  age 
and  left  five  children.  There  are  none  living 
now  who  bear  this  family  name ;  but  it  has 
representatives  in  the  families  of  Bleecker, 
Stewart,  Webb,  Leggett,  Livingston,  Le  Roy, 
and   Winthrop. 

After  James  Bleecker  married,  he  made 
New  Rochelle  his  residence.  His  house,  still 
standing  on  Davenport  Neck,  was  used  by  the 
British  as  a  military  hospital  during  the  revo- 
lutionary war.  Children:  i.  Anthony  Lis- 
penard, see  forward.  2.  Rutger.  3.  John  J. 
married  (first)  Elizabeth  Schuyler,  married 
(second)  Esther  Rhinelander.  4.  James.  5. 
David,  married  August  18,  1773,  Susanna  Re- 
noud.  6.  James,  married,  April  18,  1772, 
Catherine  de  Lancey.  7.  Elizabeth,  married, 
October  11,  1769,  Colonel  William  de  Hart, 
aide  to  General  Washington.  8.  Leonard, 
married  (first),  November  12,  1783,  Johanna 
Abeel;  married  (second),  Grace  More  Berian. 
9.  Andrew. 

(IV)  Anthony  Lispenard  Bleecker,  son  of 
James  and  Abigail  (Lispenard)  Bleecker,  was 
born  at  New  Rochelle,  Westchester  county. 
New  York,  June  13,  1741,  and  died  in  New 
York  City,  April  26.  1816.  He  was  buried  in 
the  new  vault  which  he  built  in  Trinity  church- 
yard in  1790,  which  may  be  located  some 
twenty  feet  to  the  southwest  of  the  church, 
at  the  vestry  entrance.  He  was  a  prominent 
and  wealthy  shipping  merchant  and  also  an 
auctioneer.  For  many  years  he  resided  on 
Broadway,  opposite  Rector  street,  his  garden 
and  stable  reached  by  a  carriage-drive  from 
Wall  street.  He  also  owned  a  summer  home 
in  the  vicinity  of  the  present  Second  avenue 
and  loth  street,  being  a  neighbor  of  Mr.  Stuy- 
vesant.  He  was  the  owner  of  other  large 
properties,  notably  twenty  acres  on  both  sides 
of  Broadway,  intersected  by  the  street  named 
by  the  city  in  his  honor,  i.  e.,  Bleecker  street. 


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For  many  years  he  was  a  vestryman  of  Trin- 
ity Church,  and  when  he  died  was  a  warden. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  historic  Tontme  So- 
ciety. General  Washington  considered  him 
one  of  his  best  friends,  and  when  Washington 
returned  to  New  York  upon  the  evacuation 
of  the  British,  he  was  one  of  the  committee, 
on  horseback,  to  meet  the  general  and  his  offi- 
cers to  extend  to  them  the  welcome  of  the  city. 

Anthony  L.  Bleecker  married,  in  New 
York  City,  May  lo,  1763,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Gerard  (or  Garret)  Noel.  She  was  born  in 
Cadiz,  Spain,  November  5,  1743.  and  died  in 
New  York  City,  August  25,  1828.  Her  father, 
Gerard  Noel,  born  in  171 1,  was  a  member  of 
a  distinguished  English  family,  to  which  the 
Earl  of  Gainsboro  also  belonged,  and,  with  his 
brother,  Alexander,  emigrated  to  Spain,  in 
1740,  where  he  married  Frances,  daughter  of 
Mrs.  Patricia  Jayme.  Three  children  were 
born  to  him  in  Spain,  viz. :  Mary,  Alexander 
and  Josepha  Matilda;  but,  his  wife  dying,  he 
left  Cadiz  for  America,  in  1750,  bringing 
Mary  and  Alexander,  and  leaving  Josepha  Ma- 
tilda wjth  her  mother's  relatives,  and  she  later 
married  Captain  Antonio  De  Aliera.  On  Jan- 
uary 7,  1 75 1,  Gerard  Noel  opened  a  classical 
school  in  New  York,  at  the  lower  end  of 
Broad  street ;  three  years  later  went  into  the 
mercantile  business,  selling  books,  with  Ebe- 
nezer  Hazard,  who  was  made  the  first  post- 
master-general under  Washington.  Children 
of  Anthony  L.  Bleecker:  i.  James,  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Frances,  married,  August  6,  1798, 
Commodore  Francis  H.  Ellison.  3.  Garret 
Noel,  married,  September  27,  1799.  Jane  By- 
vanck  Youle.  4.  Anthony,  one  of  the  eleven 
founders  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society. 
5.  William,  married,  January  7,  1796,  Eliza- 
beth Robinson.  6.  John,  married.  November 
27,  1802,  Phoebe  Smith.  7.  Alexander,  mar- 
ried, March  2,  1803,  Frances  Wade.  8.  Mary, 
unmarried.  9  Abigail,  married,  February  19, 
1798,  John  Neilson,  M.  D.  10.  Elizabeth  De 
Flart,  married,  April  8,  i8cx),  Alexander  L. 
McDonald.  11.  Alice,  unmarried.  12.  Leon- 
ard Augustus,  married,  March  18,  181 1,  Sarah 
Popham.     13.  Josepha  Matilda,  unmarried. 

(V)  James  Bleecker,  son  of  Anthony  Lis- 
penard  and  Alary  ( Noel )  Bleecker,  was  a 
prominent  merchant  of  New  York  City.  For 
many  years,  he  was  a  vestryman  of  Trinity 
Church.     He   married    (first)    September   28, 


1788,  Elizabeth  G.  Bache,  and  after  her 
death  he  married  her  sister,  Sarah  Bache. 
Children,  all  by  the  second  wife:  i.  Mary, 
married  Thomas  W.  Gierke.  2.  Helena,  mar- 
ried Rev.  Cornelius  Roosevelt  Dufifie.  3.  An- 
thony James,  see  forward.  4.  Theophilac 
Bache,  married  Lydia  De  Witt.  5.  Sarah, 
married  ( first )  Theodore  Low  ;  married  ( sec- 
ond) William  P.  Hansford. 

(VI)  Anthony  James  Bleecker,  son  of 
James  and  Sarah  (Bache)  Bleecker,  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  October  20,  1799,  at  a 
country-house  which  stood  on  the  present  site 
of  the  New  York  Hotel,  and  he  died  in  the 
same  city,  January  17,  1884,  in  the  residence 
of  his  son  James.  He  was  the  best  known 
real  estate  auctioneer  New  York  ever  had. 
He  was  educated  at  Dr.  Eiginbrodt's  Acade- 
my, in  Jamaica,  Long  Island.  Among  his 
schoolmates  was  James  H.  Haskett,  the  great 
Shakespearian  impersonator,  who  once  told 
Edwin  Forrest,  the  great  actor,  that  "Tony" 
Bleecker  had  forgotten  more  Shakespeare 
than  either  of  them  knew.  His  recollections 
of  early  New  York  were  very  interesting  and 
he  was,  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  a  well- 
known  authority  on  these  subjects — in  fact. 
as  a  raconteur  he  was  unsurpassed.  He  was 
wont  to  give  entertaining  accounts  of  his  boy- 
hood days,  such  as  that  at  one  time  he  swam 
in  the  canal,  from  which  the  present  street 
takes  its  name ;  how  he  found  the  dead  body 
of  a  negro  in  the  Collect  Pond,  the  site  of  the 
Tombs,  and  ran  for  the  only  coroner  the  city 
l^ossessed ;  how  he  was  offered  lots  in  Brook- 
lyn, at  the  present  landing-place  of  the  South 
Ferry,  in  payment  of  a  debt  of  $250;  but  de- 
cHned.  He  related  how  he  sold  lots  at  Fifth 
avenue  and  14th  street  at  $1,200,  and  at  Fifth 
avenue  and  60th  street,  just  after  the  Central 
Park  was  laid  out,  for  $700  in  cash  each.  He 
was  a  prominent  figure  in  politics,  a  sachem 
of  Tammany  Hall  to  the  day  of  his  death, 
though  he  ne\'er  affiliated  with  that  institu- 
tion after  1855,  when  he  was  instrumental  in 
founding  the  Republican  party.  In  1856  he 
ran  for  mayor;  but  was,  of  course,  defeated 
by  the  Democrats.  He  was  United  States 
marshal  under  President  \'an  Buren ;  was  one 
of  the  five  commissioners  who  laid  out  the 
Hudson  River  railroad  to  Albany ;  was  Uni- 
ted States  assessor  of  internal  revenue  for 
New  York,  under  Lincoln,  during  the  civil 
war ;  trustee  of  the  General  Theological  Semi- 


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nary  of  the  Episcopal  church ;  trustee  of  Trin- 
ity School,  and  vestryman  of  Trinity  parish. 
Anthony  J.  Bleecker  married,  at  Pough- 
keepsie,  New  York,  November  24,  1824,  Cor- 
nelia Van  Benthuysen.  Children:  i.  John 
Van  Benthuysen,  married  Rosalie  Lynch.  2. 
Sarah  Bache,  married  Anthony  Lispenard 
Bleecker.  3.  Helena,  died  in  infancy.  4. 
James,  see  forward. 

(VH)  James  Bleecker,  son  of  Anthony 
James  and  Cornelia  (Van  Benthuysen) 
Bleecker,  was  born  at  New  York  City,  Au- 
gust 9,  1834,  and  resides  at  No.  115  West 
Ninety-fourth  street.  He  was  educated  at  the 
old  and  then  well-known  Coudert  School,  in 
New  York,  and  afterwards  went  abroad.  On 
his  return,  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness, and  was  latterly  located  at  No.  156 
Broadway ;  but  retired,  leaving  the  business 
in  charge  of  his  son,  William  Hill  Bleecker. 
During  the  civil  war  he  was  a  member  of 
Company  K,  Seventh  Regiment,  enlisting  on 
both  the  first  and  second  calls ;  was  a  cor- 
poral in  the  engineering  division,  and  is  now 
a  member  of  Lafayette  Post,  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic,  being  among  the  very  few  to  at- 
tend the  fiftieth  reunion  in  1913.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican, and  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
church,  attending  Trinity  Church. 

James  Bleecker  married,  at  Scarsdale,  New 
York,  March  8,  1856,  Jane  Clarkson  Hill,  who 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  January  2,  1837 ; 
died  at  Flushing,  New  York,  December  16, 
1907,  and  was  the  daughter  of  William  Stuart 
and  Jane  (Clarkson)  Hill.  Children:  i.  Ale- 
thea  Blanche,  born  in  New  York  City,  De- 
cember 15,  1856.  2.  Alice  Stuart,  born  in  New 
York  City,  June  27,  i860;  died  May,  1862. 
3.  Anthony  James,  see  forward.  4.  William 
Hill,  see  forward.  5.  Helen  Stuart,  born  in 
Scarsdale,  New  York,  June  27,  1869 ;  died 
there,  August  9,  1872.  6.  Edward  Nelson, 
born  in  Scarsdale,  New  York,  August  19, 
1876;  died  in  New  York,  December  26,  1887. 

( Vni)  Anthony  James  (2)  Bleecker,  son  of 
James  and  Jane  Clarkson  (Hill)  Bleecker, 
was  born  at  Scarsdale,  Westchester  county, 
New  York,  September  15,  1864,  and  resides 
at  Palisades,  Rockland  county.  New  York  He 
was  educated  at  the  Trinity  School,  in  New 
York  City.  He  joined  Company  K,  Seventh 
Regiment,  National  Guard  New  York,  March 
26,  1884;  was  promoted  to  corporal,  then  be- 
came second  lieutenant  of  Company  G,  Sev- 


enty-first Regiment;  then  captain,  and  finally 
major.  During  the  war  with  Spain,  he  was 
captain  of  Company  G,  Seventy-first  New 
York  Volunteers,  participating  in  the  Santiago 
campaign.  He  is  a  Republican,  and  attends 
the  Episcopal  church.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Holland  Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 
Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  Society  of  Foreign 
Wars,  Santiago  Society,  War  Veteran  Society, 
Seventh  Regiment,  and  the  Tappan  Zee  Yacht 
Club. 

Since  February,  1897,  he  has  been  the  su- 
perintendent of  the  Singer  Building,  at  No. 
149  Broadway,  New  York  City.  Anthony  J. 
Bleecker  married,  at  Palisades,  New  York, 
September  8,  1892,  Bertha  de  la  Vergne  Gil- 
man.  She  was  born  in  New  York  City  at  No. 
9  East  Thirty-eighth  street,  June  8,  1863,  and 
is  the  daughter  of  Winthrop  Sargent  and 
Anna  Canfield  (Park)  Gilman.  Children:  i. 
Anthony  Lispenard,  born  in  New  York  City, 
November  5,  1893.  2.  Winthrop  Gilman.  born 
in  New  York  City,  October  18,  1897.  3.  He- 
lena Roosevelt,  born  in  New  York  City,  Jan- 
uary 30,  1899. 

(VHI)  William  Hill  Bleecker,  son  of  James 
and  Jane  Clarkson  (Hill)  Bleecker,  was  born 
at  Scarsdale,  New  York,  May  15,  1867,  and 
now  resides  at  Flushing,  Long  Island.  He 
conducts  the  real  estate  business  begun  by  his 
grandfather  and  continued  by  his  father,  with 
his  office  at  No.  156  Broadway,  New  York. 
William  H.  Bleecker  married,  at  Cooperstown, 
New  York,  April  2,  1891,  Emma  White  "Fish. 
She  was  born  at  Flushing,  Long  Island,  No- 
vember 10,  1866;  died  there,  January  7,  191 1, 
and  was  the  daughter  of  Stephen  Bayard  Fish 
and  Levantia  (White)  Fish.  Children:  i. 
William  Hill,  born  at  Scarsdale,  New  York, 
January  4,  1892.  2.  James  Barclay,  born  at 
Scarsdale,  New  York,  May  2,  1893.  3.  Laura 
Frances,  born  at  Scarsdale,  New  York,  Octo- 
ber 9,  1895.  4.  Kenneth  Bayard,  born  at  Elm- 
hurst,  New  York,  October  13,  1900.  5.  John 
Crosby,  born  at  Elmhurst,  New  York,  June 
II,  1904.  6.  Malcolm  Stuart,  born  at  Elm- 
hurst, New  York,  October  7,  1906.  7.  Emma 
Fish,  born  at  Flushing,  Long  Island,  Decem- 
ber 25,  1910. 


In    the    Domesday    Book, 

WOODHULL     where   one   finds   the   first 

written     record     of     this 

family  name,  it  appears  as  "de  Wahulle,"  when 


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the  entry  was  made  for  Walter  Flandrensis, 
who  held  estates  in  Bedfordshire,  Northamp- 
tonshire and  Buckinghamshire  as  a  feudal 
lord.  He  was  also  known  as  Walter  de 
Wahulle,  and  as  Walter,  Baron  of  Wahull, 
likewise  spelled  Wahul.  It  is  a  fact  that  in 
these  same  records  of  this  person,  at  a  time 
before  America  was  discovered;  namely,  in 
the  fifteenth  century,  the  name  was  spelled  in 
another  place  as  the  family  writes  it  to-day, 
Woodhull.  Various  branches  of  this  family 
have  written  the  name  as  follows :  Wodhull, 
Wodehull,  Wodehill,  Wodhill,  Wodel,  Wodil, 
Odell  and  Odill,  yet  all  are  of  the  same  orig- 
inal stock  when  traced  to  the  year  1450,  in 
England.  In  the  centuries  embraced  by  the 
years  1500  and  1700,  the  most  common  form 
of  the  spelling  in  England  was  Wodhull;  but 
unquestionably  the  American  family,  from 
the  start,  preferred  to  spell  it  Woodhull. 

The  Woodhull  arms :  On  a  shield  or,  three 
crescents  gules.  Motto:  Sequor  nee  inferior 
(I  follow,  but  am  not  inferior.) 

The  Manor  of  Thenford  was  bought  by 
Fulk  Wodhull,  gent.,  Lord  of  Langford  and 
Somerton  Manors,  on  August  7th,  in  the  reign 
of  Queen  Elizabeth  (1565),  and  it  is  reported 
as  having  been  a  noble  one.  A  little  previous 
to  that  time,  Nicholas  Wodhull,  great-great- 
grandson  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Chetwode, 
by  his  will,  dated  March  22nd,  in  the  twenty- 
second  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII. 
(1531),  bequeathed  his  body  "to  be  buried  in 
the  Chapel  of  Our  Lady,  in  the  church  of 
Warkworth,"  and  directed  his  executors  to 
provide  an  honest  priest  of  good  conversation 
with  a  yearly  salary  of  8  marks,  to  say  and 
sing  masses  for  his  soul  and  the  souls  of  his 
father  and  mother  for  twelve  years.  He  also 
bequeathed  ten  pounds,  English,  toward  re- 
building the  steeple,  a  gown  of  black  satin  to 
make  a  cope  thereof,  and  his  wife's  apparel  to 
be  made  into  vestments  and  other  ornaments 
to  the  honor  of  God  and  said  church.  The 
ancient  church  of  St.  Mary  is  at  Thenford, 
four  miles  east  of  Banbury,  Northampton- 
shire, quaint  in  its  simple  architecture  of  the 
fourteenth  century,  and  beneath  an  upper  win- 
dow of  the  north  aisle  is  a  monument  with 
effigy  assigned  to  Fulk  \\''odhull,  who  died  in 
1613,  Lord  of  Thenford  Manor.  In  the 
church  tower,  one  of  the  five  bells  is  inscribed 
to  Michael  Wodhull,  benefactor,  1731. 


(I)  Richard  Woodhull  was  the  progenitor 
of  the  family  in  America.  He  was  born  at 
Thenford,  Northamptonshire,  England,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1620,  according  to  the  most  reliable 
search  and  record.  He  arrived  in  this  country 
prior  to  April  29,  1648,  when  he  wrote  his 
name  as  witness  to  a  deed  at  Easthampton, 
Long  Island,  which  would  place  him  among 
the  earliest  settlers  of  that  locality.  He  was 
first  at  Jamaica,  but  having  a  dislike  for  the 
Dutch  government  and  finding  himself  too 
close  to  the  seat  of  administration,  he  removed 
to  another  part  and  settled  permanently  at  Se- 
tauket  Harbor,  then  known  as  Cromwell  Bay, 
or  Ashford.  This  was  in  the  year  1656.  He 
acquired  land  at  Brookhaven,  or  Setauket, 
Long  Island,  from  the  Indians,  the  deed  for 
which  bears  date  November  9,  1675.  This 
document  reads  in  part  as  follows :  "I,  Gie  of 
Setauket,  Sachem,  now  living  in  Setauket,  in 
the  east  riding  of  Yorkshire,  with  all  my  as- 
sociates that  have  been  the  native  proprietors 
of  all  the  lands  of  Setauket,  doth  fully  and 
absolutely  ratify  and  confirm  unto  the  paten- 
tees and  their  associates  of  Brookhaven,  else 
Setauket,  all  those  parcels  of  land  that  have 
been  bought  of  any  of  us  or  our  ancestors, 
that  is  to  say,  from  the  west  line  that  runs 
from  Stoney  Brook  to  the  North  Sea.  and 
South  to  the  middle  of  the  island,  and  so  to 
extend  to  the  Wading  River  or  Red  Brook, 
and  to  the  middle  of  the  island  south,  and  so 
to  the  North  Sea  or  Sound."  The  seals  and 
names  afifixed  thereto  are  Gie,  Sachem ;  Mar- 
tuse,  John  Mahue,  Massecarge  and  Oche- 
douse. 

Sir  Edmund  Andros,  colonial  governor  of 
the  province  of  New  York,  issued  a  patent 
to  him  for  this  property,  which  bears  the  date 
September  29,  1677.  His  knowledge  of  sur- 
veying, in  those  primitive  times,  would  have 
made  him  a  man  of  great  value  to  the  com- 
munity ;  but  beyond  this  ability  he  helped  in  a 
very  great  measure  to  create  the  moral  and  re- 
ligious sentiment  of  the  place  and  the  fulfill- 
ment of  the  law.  He  represented  Setauket  at 
the  general  court  of  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
in  1663.  against  the  usurpation  of  the  Dutch, 
and  in  1666  he  was  one  of  his  majesty's  jus- 
tices of  the  honorable  court  of  assize.  In  1673 
he  became  deputy  to  the  Dutch  commissioners 
in  New  York,  and  was  commissioned  by  them 
a  magistrate  of  Brookhaven. 

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Woodhull,  Esq.,  of  Thenford,  England,  mar- 
ried, presumably  before  coming  to  this  coun- 
try, Deborah .     He  died  at  Setauket, 

Long  Island,  October  17,  i6gi.  Children:  i. 
Richard,  of  whom  further.  2.  Nathaniel,  died, 
unmarried,  June  16,  1680.  3.  Deborah,  born 
in  1654;  died  January  6,  1742;  married  Cap- 
tain John  Lawrence,  of  Newtown,  Long  Isl- 
and, son  of  Major  Thomas  Lawrence  and 
grandson  of  Thomas  Lawrence,  who  came 
from  Great  St.  Albans,  Hertfordshire,  Eng- 
land, in  1635.  4.  Ann,  born  in  1659;  married, 
in  1683,  Daniel  Tourneur,  of  Harlem,  New 
York ;  issue :  Ann  Tourneur.  Woodhull  Tour- 
neur, married  his  cousin,  Hannah  Lawrence, 
May  13,  1715,  and  removed  to  Rockland 
county,  New  York ;  Daniel  Tourneur.  5. 
Ruth,  married,  about  1678,  Samuel  Edsall, 
who  came  from  Reading,  Berkshire,  England, 
in  July,  1648;  issue:  Ruth,  married  (first) 
John  Berrien,  of  Newtown,  Long  Island ;  mar- 
ried  (second)   Samuel  Fish. 

(II)  Richard  (second),  son  of  Richard 
(third)  and  Deborah  Woodhull,  was  born  Oc- 
tober 9,  1649;  died,  October  18,  1699.  He  was 
a  justice  of  the  honorable  court  of  assize  in 
1678,  and  was  colonial  captain  in  the  King's 
Troops  in  1685.  "His  knowledge  and  upright 
character  endeared  him  to  the  people,  and  he 
died  greatly  lamented."  His  will,  dated  Oc- 
tober 13,  1699,  mentions  his  "beloved  wife" 
and  their  children.  Hon.  Richard  Woodhull 
married,  at  Southampton,  Long  Island,  Au- 
gust 19,  1680,  Temperance,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Jonah  Fordham.  of  that  place,  who  in- 
herited the  paternal  estate.  Children:  i. 
Richard,  of  whom  further.  2.  Nathaniel,  mar- 
ried, in  1716,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Richard 
Smith,  of  Smithtown,  Long  Island,  and  died 
March  9,  1760:  Issue:  Hannah,  born  Febru- 
ary 25,  1718;  Temperance,  born  March  15, 
1720;  Nathaniel,  born  December  30.  1722: 
Dorothy,  born  November  29,  1724 ;  Sarah, 
born  February  9.  1726;  Richard,  born  May 
22,  1729;  Jesse,  born  February  10,  1735;  Juli- 
ana, born  April  6,  1737;  Deborah,  born  March 
5,  1738;  Ruth,  born  December  5,  1740:  Ebe- 
nezer,  born  February  2,  1742.  3.  Josiah,  born 
September  9,  1695 ;  married  Clementine, 
daughter  of  John  Homan :  issue ;  John,  born 
February  24,  1727;  Josiah,  born  in  1733: 
Zebulon.  born  January  2,  1737;  Benjamin, 
born  March  14,  1741  ;  Clementine,  married 
Benjamin  Tuthill ;  Charity  married  


Albertson;  Temperance,  married  Brew- 
ster;   ,  married  Raynor  ;  4. 

John,  his  descent  not  discovered.  5.  Dorothy, 
married  William  Helme,  son  of  Thomas 
Helme,  of  Brookhaven,  Long  Island;  issue: 
Phineas  Helme,  married  Mary  Moffatt,  of 
Blooming  Grove,  Orange  county,  New  York ; 
a  son,  name  unknown,  a  trader  in  New  York 
City  and  the  West  Indies,  captured  during  the 
revolution,  and  died  in  an  English  prison ; 
William  Helme.  6.  Temperance,  born  in  1697, 
was  unmarried  in  the  year  1717. 

(Ill)  Richard  (3),  son  of  Richard  (2)  and 
Temperance  (Fordham)  Woodhull,  was  born 
November  2,  1691  ;  died  November  24,  1767. 
He  inherited  his  father's  estate  at  Brookha- 
ven, Long  Island,  and  like  his  father,  was  a 
magistrate  for  many  years,  so  he  was  usually 
styled  "Justice  Woodhull."  He  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  Homan,  who  survived  him 
about  one  year.  She  was  born  in  1693,  died, 
December  27,  1768.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born 
April  II,  1711;  married,  September  30,  1734, 
Jonathan,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah 
(Brewster)  Thompson;  they  resided  at  Setau- 
ket, Long  Island;  Mr.  Thompson  was  born 
October  25,  1710;  died  June  5,  1786,  and  she 
died  January  30,  1801  ;  issue :  Mary  Thomp- 
son, born  November  25,  1735;  Isaac  Thomp- 
son, born  January  18,  1743;  Jonathan,  born 
February  14,  1745 ;  Hannah  Thompson,  born 
October  5,  1747;  Nathan  Thompson,  died  in 
infancy.  2.  Richard,  born  October  11,  1712; 
died  October  13,  1788;  inherited  the  paternal 
estate;  married,  in  1738,  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Edmund  and  Susannah  (Floyd)  Smith, 
who  was  born  in  1714,  died  October  6,  1803; 
issue:  Susannah,  born  March  10,  1739:  Rich- 
ard, born  June  3,  1741 ;  Mary,  born  June  12, 
1743;  Adam,  born  October  12,  1747;  Abra- 
ham, born  October  7,  1750.  3.  John,  of  whom 
further.  4.  Nathan,  born  July  5,  1720;  died 
at  Setauket,  Long  Island.  October  27.  1804; 
married  (first)  Joanna,  daughter  of  Isaac 
Mills,  by  whom  six  children;  married  (sec- 
ond) Elizabeth  Smith,  by  whom  a  child;  is- 
sue: Phoebe,  born  December  24,  1752;  Jo- 
anna, bom  October  2-7,  1754;  Nathan,  born 
June  28,  1756;  Sarah,  born  September  15, 
1758:  Nathaniel,  born  May  13,  1761  ;  Benja- 
min, born  June  17,  1764;  David,  born  March 
17,  1767.  5.  Stephen,  born  March  17,  1722; 
died  August,  1775  ;  married  in  1745,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Abraham  Cooper,  of  Southamp- 


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ton,  Long  Island,  who  was  born  in  1726,  died 
January  11,  1814;  issue:  Abraham  Cooper, 
born  December  20,  1753;  Stephen,  born  in 
1757;  Hannah,  born  June  21,  1758;  Mary, 
born  December  22,  1759;  John,  born  in  1760; 
died  February  4,  1805  ;  Susannah  ;  Oliver,  died 

in  1832.     6.  Henry,  married  Biggs ; 

issue:  Abel  James.  7.  Phoebe,  died,  unmar- 
ried, October  17,  1734. 

(IV)  Hon.  John  Woodhull,  son  of  Hon. 
Richard  (3)  and  Mary  (Homan)  Woodhull, 
was  born  January  15,  1719;  died  January  3, 
1794.  He'  purchased  an  estate  at  Miller's 
Place,  Long  Island,  in  1740.  He  was  a  judge 
of  the  court  of  common  pleas  in  1763,  and 
was  described  as  "a  gentleman  of  wealth,  pro- 
bity and  distinction."  In  1775  he  signed  the 
famous  "Associators"  oath,  viz.:  "Persuad- 
ed that  the  salvation  of  the  Rights  and  Liber- 
ties of  America  depend  under  God,  on  the  firm 
union  of  its  inhabitants.  We,  the  Freemen 
inhabitants,  etc.,  being  greatly  alarmed  at  the 
avowed  design  of  the  Ministry,  to  raise  a  reve- 
nue in  America,  and  shocked  by  the  bloody 
scene  now  acting  in  Massachusetts  Bay.  Do 
resolve  never  to  become  slaves — and  do  asso- 
ciate— to  carry  into  execution,  whatever  meas- 
ures may  be  recommended  by  the  Continental 
Congress  and  opposing  the  execution  of  the 
several  arbitrary  acts  of  the  British  Parlia- 
ment." He  was  chairman  of  the  "Joint  Com- 
mittee of  Brookhaven,"  which,  on  May  13, 
1776,  met  to  "institute  proceedings  against  To- 
ries." Hon.  John  Woodhull  married,  Novem- 
ber 27,  1740,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Major 
William  Henry  Smith,  of  Long  Island. 
Children:  i.  William,  born  December  3, 
1741 ;  died  October  24,  1824;  married.  May 
3,  1767,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William 
Hedges,  of  Easthampton,  Long  Island,  who 
was  born  March  27,  1749,  died  September  13. 
1825.  2.  John,  of  whom  further.  3.  Caleb, 
born  October  30,  1745,  died,  unmarried, 
March  26,  1791.  4.  Merritt  Smith,  born  May 
23,  1748,  died  November  29,  1815;  married, 
March  i,  1778,  Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Davis,  who  was  born  December  12,  1757,  died 
March  26,  1840.  5.  Henry,  born  June  25, 
1750,  died  August  14,  1775.  6.  James,  born 
October  3.  1752,  died  September  11,  1798; 
married  (first),  September  16,  1782,  Keturah, 
daughter  of  Selah  Strong,  of  New  York  City, 
who  was  born  November  4,  1761,  died  August 
13.    1790;   by    whom   two    children;    married 


(second)  Hannah,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Helme,  who  was  born  in  1757,  died  in  1831; 
by  whom  one  child.  7.  Elizabeth,  born  Oc- 
tober 2,  1754,  died  November  9,  1795  ;  mar- 
ried, November  6,  1780,  Samuel  Hopkins,  of 
Miller's  Place,  Long  Island,  who  was  born 
April  4,  1744,  died  September  7,  1807.  8. 
Gilbert,  born  April  2,  1756,  died  April  14, 
1799  ;  married,  December  3,  1797,  Ann,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Cowley,  who  was  born  Novem- 
ber 16,  1771,  died  in  1802,  without  issue.  9. 
Jeffrey  Amherst,  born  January  i,  1759,  died 
January  19,  1839 ;  married,  November  3,  1784, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  Davis,  who 
was  born  October  16,  1765,  died  February  9, 

1843- 

(V)  Rev.  John  (2)  Woodhull,  son  of  Hon. 
John  (I)  and  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Woodhull, 
was  born  at  Miller's  Place,  Long  Island,  Jan- 
uary 26,  1744,  died  December  22,  1824.  He 
was  prepared  for  college  under  his  maternal 
uncle,  Rev.  Caleb  Smith,  of  Newark  Moun- 
tain (Orange),  New  Jersey,  and  in  1766  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  A.  B.  from  the  College 
of  New  Jersey,  now  Princeton  University.  He 
pursued  his  theological  studies  at  Fagg's 
Manor,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  and 
was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of 
New  Castle,  August,  1768.  He  was  ordained 
and  installed  August  i,  1770,  minister  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  at  Leacock,  Lancaster 
county,  Pennsylvania.  He  thereupon  bought 
one  hundred  and  thirty-eight  acres  from  Da- 
vid Orner,  upon  which  property  he  erected  a 
substantial  residence.  He  preached  there  for 
the  next  ten  years,  and  when  the  revolution 
broke  out  he  was  seized  with  the  fever  of 
patriotism  and  went  as  the  chaplain  of  the 
Seventh  Battalion  of  Lancaster  Militia,  under 
Colonel  John  Boyd.  He  participated  in  the 
Germantown  and  the  Jersey  campaign,  and 
when  on  an  occasion  at  the  battle  of  Mon- 
mouth the  cannoneer  fell  near  by,  he  assisted 
in  serving  the  cannon.  In  1779  he  accepted 
a  call  to  the  church  near  Freehold,  New  Jer- 
sey, long  known  as  the  "Old  Tennent  Church," 
and  here  he  officiated  for  a  period  of  no  less 
than  forty-four  years.  Yale  College,  in  1778, 
bestowed  upon  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Divinity.  He  also  found  time  to  conduct  a 
grammar  school,  which  was  very  successful, 
and  when  Princeton  Theological  Seminary 
was  established  he  was  chosen  a  director  and 
was    elected   vice-president   of    the   board,    in 


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which  capacity  he  served  until  his  death.  He 
was  one  of  the  earhest  members  of  the  Clio- 
sophic  Society  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey, 
and  was  a  trustee  of  that  institution  for  forty- 
four  years.  Amidst  his  varied  duties  as 
preacher,  chaplain,  classical  teacher  and  theo- 
logical instructor,  he  kept  up  a  deep  and  lively 
interest  in  affairs  of  state  and  union.  As  a 
pastor  he  was  exceedingly  popular,  so  much 
so  that  some  pulpits  preferred  to  be  satisfied 
if  he  made  them  quarterly  or  even  half  year- 
ly visits,  rather  than  engage  a  steady  pulpit 
occupant. 

Rev.  John  Woodhull  married,  May  28,  1772, 
Sarah,  only  child  of  Captain  George  Spof- 
ford,  of  the  Royal  navy.  She  was  a  woman 
of  fine,  capable  mind  and  noble  character, 
looked  upon  as  an  ideal  pastor's  wife,  filled 
with  zeal  and  helpfulness  in  the  parish  work. 
She  was  born  October  26,  1749,  died  October 
14,  1827.  Children:  i.  George  Spofford, 
born  March  31,  1773,  died  December  25,  1834; 
married,  June  4,  1799,  Gertrude,  daughter  of 
Colonel  John  Neilson,  who  died  February  13, 
1863.  2.  John,  born  July  10,  1776,  died  the 
same  day.  3.  William  Henry,  born  Decem- 
ber I,  1778,  died  September  6,  1798.  4.  Sarah, 
born  March  28,  1781 ;  died  November  13, 
i8ii;  married,  September  2,  1806,  Major 
William  Gordon  Forman,  of  Shrewsbury, 
New  Jersey,  who  was  born  June  22,  1770, 
died  October  3,  1812.  5.  John  Tennent,  of 
whom  further.  6.  Gilbert  Smith,  born  Janu- 
ary II,  1794,  died  October  13,  1830;  married, 
November  25,  1817,  Charlotte,  daughter  of 
Williarn  and  Hannah  (Scudder)  Wikoff,  of 
Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  who  was  born 
April  15,  1795,  died  January  11,  1862. 

(VI)  John  Tennent,  son  of  Rev.  John  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Spofford)  Woodhull,  was  born  in 
the  "Old  Tennent  Parsonage,"  near  Free- 
hold, New  Jersey,  August  24,  1786,  died  on 
Thanksgiving  Day,  November  18,  1869,  at  the 
home  of  his  oldest  son,  Hon.  George  Spofford 
Woodhull.  of  Camden,  New  Jersey.  He  re- 
ceived a  classical  education  from  his  father, 
after  which  he  was  graduated,  in  1809,  from 
the  medical  department  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  later,  in  1812,  he  received 
the  degree  of  A.  M.  from  the  College  of  New 
Jersey,  now  Princeton  University.  For  half 
a  century  he  enjoyed  a  high  reputation  in 
Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  as  a  physician 


of  skill  and  ability.  His  life  was  notably 
pure,  and  he  was  generous  almost  to  a  fault. 
He  detested  shams,  being  a  hearty  sympa- 
thizer in  all  that  elevates  and  improves  the 
condition  of  humanity,  which  is  attested  by 
the  fact  that  he  freed  his  faithful  slaves  some 
years  before  slavery  became  illegal,  and  did 
all  in  his  power  to  educate  and  uplift  them. 
From  1821  to  1827  he  was  a  member  of  the 
general  assembly  of  New  Jersey,  and  was 
state  senator  in  1825.  He  likewise  served  as 
a  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas.  In 
politics  he  was  a  staunch  Whig,  and  to  the 
end  of  his  life  took  the  liveliest  interest  in  all 
political  matters.  In  appearance,  he  was 
above  six  feet  in  height,  wore  his  iron  gray 
hair  in  a  queue,  and  was  distinguished  for  his 
dignified  and  courtly  bearing.  He  possessed 
a  vigorous  intellect,  which  he  retained  to  the 
end.  No  man  knew  his  Bible  and  Shakes- 
peare better  than  did  he.  Many  years  he  was 
an  elder  in  Old  Tennent  Church  where  his 
father  preached. 

Dr.  John  Tennent  Woodhull  married,  Jan- 
uary 22,  1812,  Anne,  born  July  5,  1793,  died 
February  3,  1852,  daughter  of  William 
and  Hannah  ( Scudder)  Wikoff.  The  latter 
was  the  daughter  of  Hon.  Nathaniel  Scudder. 
M.  D.,  Colonel,  of  Monmouth  county.  New 
Jersey.  Children:  i.  William  Wikoff,  born  in 
1812,  died  June  16,  1813.  2.  Matilda  Wikoff, 
born  November  3,  1813,  died  May  24,  1864: 
married,  September  21.  1836,  Joseph,  son  of 
Elijah  Combs,  of  Monmouth  county.  New 
Jersey,  who  was  born  September  21,  1836; 
lawyer;  died  January  5,  1876;  issue:  Ann 
Amelia  Combs,  born  June  27,  1837,  died  No- 
vember 9,  1842;  John  Woodhull  Combs,  born 
January  16,  1840,  died  December  28,  1842; 
William  Sutphen  Combs,  M.  D.,  born  Febru- 
ary 15,  1842,  married,  July  5,  1871,  Virginia 
Conover;  Julia  Woodhull  Combs,  born  Au- 
gust 26,  1847,  married,  December  4.  1873, 
Charles  Ridgway ;  George  Woodhull  Combs, 
born  March  23,  1853,  died  December  31,  1854. 
3.  George  Spofford,  born  December  25,  1814, 
died  March  4,  1881  ;  married,  April  7,  1847, 
Caroline  Mandeville,  daughter  of  Guysbert 
Bogert  Vroom  and  Catalina  Delamater ;  issue  : 
Catalina  Delamater,  born  January  19,  1848, 
died  March  3,  1853;  John  Tennent,  born  Julv 
12,  1850;  Elizabeth  Vroom,  born  December 
II,  1853;  George  Spofford,  born  January  18. 
1855,  died  in  January,  1855  ;  William  Wikoff, 


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born  July  12,  1858,  lawyer,  died  February  9, 
1882;  Mary  Gould,  born  April  21,  1861  ; 
Charles  Frederick,  born  October  22,  1863; 
Schuyler  Colfax,  born  October  22,  1863,  twin. 
4.  Julia,  born  March  25,  1816,  died  December 
16,  1840;  married,  November,  1837,  Rev. 
James  Clarke,  D.  D.,  president  of  Washington 
College;  issue:  Anna  Julia  Clarke,  born  De- 
cember, 1839,  died  October  29,  1840;  Robert 
Woodhull  Clarke,  M.  D.,  born  November  27, 
1840,  surgeon  in  United  States  army,  died 
unmarried.  5.  William  Wikoff,  born  July  28, 
1817;  head  master  of  Trenton  Academy;  mar- 
ried, April  6,  1852,  Ellen  Conover  Wikofif,  of 
Freehold,  New  Jersey;  no  issue.  6.  John, 
born  January  25,  1819,  died  September  13, 
1822.  7.  Maria  Scudder,  born  March  20, 
1820,  died  June  2,  1873;  married,  July  12, 
1849,  Gilbert,  son  of  Elijah  Combs,  who  was 
born  January  29,  1820;  lawyer;  issue:  John 
Woodhull  Combs,  born  February  14,  1851, 
died  March  31,  1903,  married,  October  15, 
1874,  Abbie,  daughter  of  William  E.  Corey; 
Gilbert  Tennent  Combs,  born  March  9,  1853, 
died  January  24,  1854;  Annie  Wikoff  Combs, 
born  August  5,  1854,  married,  January  ig, 
1876,  David  Schenck  Crater,  son  of  John  A. 
Crater  and  Katharine  Jeroloman ;  Julia  Wood- 
hull  Combs,  born  February,  1856,  died  June 
18,  1856.  8.  Charles  Frederick,  born  August 
4,  1821  ;  graduated  from  Princeton  in  1842; 
died  at  Lincoln  University,  February  27,  1890. 
9.  John,  born  April  5,  1823 ;  married,  Novem- 
ber 9,  1871,  Margaret  Schureman,  daughter 
of  James  Schureman  Nevius  and  Hannah 
Bowne,  who  was  born  September  14,  1846, 
died  July  24,  1902;  issue:  Hannah  Estella, 
born  September  21,  1872,  died  May  2,  1886; 
Margaret  Nevius,  born  March  22,  1879,  mar- 
ried, at  Tennent,  New  Jersey,  September  26, 
1906,  Eugene  Livingston  Delafield,  son  of 
Matu'rin  Livingston  and  Mary  Coleman  ( Liv- 
ingston) Delafield,  who  was  born  at  "Suns- 
wyck,"  Westhampton,  Long  Island,  August 
16,  1882;  Caroline  Vroom,  born  May  7,  1880, 
died  March  3,  1884.  10.  Hannah  Wikofif,  born 
January  24,  1826,  died  May  10,  1891.  11. 
Gilbert  Tennent,  born  February  18,  1827,  died 
February  11,  1898;  married.  May  14,  1862, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  Besley  Waldo 
and  Jane  Ann  Bruce,  of  Fishkill,  New  York. 
12.  Ann  Amelia,  born  October  7,  1829,  died 
January    16,    1831.      13.  Sarah   Wikofif,   born 


April  I,  1830,  died  January  16,  1831.     14.  Ad- 
dison Waddell,  of  whom  further. 

(VH)  Dr.  Addison  Waddell  Woodhull,  son 
of  John  Tennent  and  Anne  (Wikoff)  Wood- 
hull,  was  born  at  Manalapan,  Monmouth 
county.  New  Jersey,  August  13,  1831,  died  at 
his  home  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  May  14, 
1876.  He  was  buried  in  the  Old  Tennent 
churchyard. 

He  was  graduated  from  the  College  of  New 
Jersey,  now  Princeton  University,  in  1854, 
and  then  studied  medicine  under  his  father's 
direction  as  well  as  under  the  famous  physi- 
cians, Valentine  Mott  and  Van  Buren,  receiv- 
ing the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1856.  Soon  after- 
ward he  was  appointed  physician  to  the  peni- 
tentiary on  Blackwell's  Island,  performing  the 
duties  for  one  year.  He  removed  to  Newark 
in  1857,  and  there  established  himself  in  his 
profession,  which  he  left  at  the  commence- 
ment of  the  civil  war  to  accept  the  appoint- 
ment of  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Fifth  New 
Jersey  Volunteers,  with  which  organization  he 
remained  until  February  6,  1862,  when  he 
was  promoted  surgeon  of  the  Ninth  Regiment. 
In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  was  commissioned 
surgeon-in-charge  of  the  Hammond  General 
Hospital,  at  Beaufort,  where  he  remained  un- 
til he  was  again  called  into  the  field  by  the 
departure  of  General  Heckman  for  South 
Carolina,  when  he  was  made  surgeon  of 
Heckman's  Star  Brigade.  He  superintended 
the  erection  of  the  Mansfield  General  Hospital 
at  Morehead  City.  North  Carolina,  which  was 
pronounced  a  model  of  its  kind.  He  was  with 
Burnside  and  with  Rosecrans,  and  also  with 
General  Sherman  during  the  latter  part- of  his 
memorable  journey  to  the  sea ;  was  wounded 
twice,  one  ball  disabling  an  arm,  another, 
which  was  never  extracted,  breaking  one  of 
his  ribs.  At  the  close  of  the  war.  he  returned 
to  Newark  to  resume  his  practice,  and  met 
with  a  hearty  welcome.  He  was  made  presi- 
dent of  the  District  Medical  Society  of  Essex 
County,  also  of  the  Newark  Medical  Associa- 
tion ;  was  one  of  the  staff  of  physicians  of  St. 
Michael's  Hospital ;  member  of  the  board  of 
examiners  for  pensions  and  medical  examiner 
of  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany. He  was  ruling  elder  and  a  prominent 
member  of  the  South  Park  Presbyterian 
Church. 

Dr.  Addison  Waddell  Woodhull  married, 
at  Freehold,  New  Jersey,  November  23,  1859, 


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Emma  Taylor  Ellis,  daughter  of  Daniel  Hen- 
dricks and  Catherine  Ann  (Holmes)  Ellis,  who 
was  born  at  Freehold,  December  29,  1832,  died 
at  Lakeville,  Connecticut,  August  30,  1910, 
buried  at  Tennent,  New  Jersey.  Children : 
I.  Addison  Waddell,  born  at  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  August  24,  1861,  died  at  Newark.  New 
Jersey,  September  24,  1909,  buried  at  Ten- 
nent, New  Jersey.  2.  Lillian  Ellis,  born  at 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  February  12,  1867.  3. 
Daniel  Ellis,  of  whom  further.  4.  Gilbert 
Tennent,  born  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1871  ;  merchant  in  New  York  City; 
married,  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  February 
13,  1902,  Katharine  Foster,  daughter  of  John 
L.  Salter  and  Mabel  Shores,  of  Brooklyn, 
New  York. 

(VHI)  Daniel  Ellis,  son  of  Dr.  Addison 
Waddelland  Emma  Taylor  (Ellis)  Woodhull, 
was  born  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  February 
3,  1869,  and  resides  in  New  York  City.  He 
was  educated  in  private  schools  of  Freehold 
and  the  public  schools  of  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  after  graduating  from  the  Newark 
high  school,  accepted  a  position  as  junior  clerk 
in  the  office  of  the  American  Bank  Note  Com- 
pany, of  New  York  City.  He  gradually 
worked  his  way  upward  until  in  1903  he  was 
elected  assistant  secretary.  In  the  same  year 
this  company  sent  him  to  London  to  take 
charge  of  Bradbury,  Wilkinson  &  Company, 
a  subsidiary  of  the  x^merican  Bank  Note 
Company,  with  the  title  of  chairman.  He 
remained  in  England  four  years,  when  he 
was  recalled  to  New  York  as  one  of  the  two 
vice-presidents.  In  191 1,  he  was  elected  first 
vice-president,  and  also  a  member  of  the 
board  of  directors.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  of  the  Military  Or- 
der of  the  Loyal  Legion,  Lotos,  Lawyers,  and 
Whitehall  Lunch  clubs  of  New  York  City,  and 
of  the  Kennebunk  River  Boat  Club  of  Maine 
and  the  Arundel  Golf  Club  of  Kennebunkport, 
Maine. 

Daniel  Ellis  Woodhull  married,  at  Warling- 
ham,  Surrey,  England,  on  January  12,  1907, 
Mabel  Evelyn  Altman,  born  June  6,  1877, 
daughter  of  Sir  Albert  Altman  and  his  wife, 
Lady  Margaret  Eliza  Vernon,  of  London, 
England.  Children,  all  born  in  New  York 
City:  I.  Daniel  Ellis,  born  May  13,  1908.  2. 
John  Vernon,  born  June  10,  1910.  3.  William 
Tennent,  born  December  31,  191 1. 


This  family  is  of  ancient 
VAN  TUYL  Dutch  origin,  coming  from 
the  small  town  of  Tiel.  in 
Holland,  and  settling  in  New  Amsterdam  in 
pre-revolutionary  times,  the  proper  part  of  the 
name  having  been  changed  in  its  spelling,  but 
following  closely  the  old  foreign  way  of  pro- 
nunciation, and  "van"  signifying  that  the  orig- 
inal ancestor  in  this  country  had  come  across 
the  water  from  there. 

The  arms  of  this  family,  when  used  in  this 
country,  are  unusually  interesting,  and  espe- 
cially attractive  because  of  the  elaborate  sup- 
porters, which  are  so  seldom  seen.  Technic- 
ally, the  arms  are  described :  Argent,  three 
talbots'  heads,  couped,  gules.  Crest:  A  tal- 
bot's  head,  couped,  gules.  On  a  silver  shield, 
three  red  dogs'  heads,  cut  ofif  even  at  the 
throat.  Crest :  A  dog's  head,  cut  off  even  at 
the  throat.  The  helmet  is  that  of  a  lord.  The 
supporters  are  two  savages  or  Indians,  paint- 
ed in  proper  (natural)  colors,  wreathed  about 
head  and  loins  with  laurel,  of  proper  color; 
holding  in  exterior  hand  a  four-petaled  red 
flower,  with  two  green  leaves  on  a  green  stalk ; 
over  the  flower  is  a  gold  crown,  surmounted 
by  a  cross,  also  in  gold ;  behind  the  savages  a 
club  in  proper  colors. 

(I)  John  Van  Tuyl  was  born  in  Orange 
county.  New  York,  in  1753.  He  lived  for  a 
time  at  Cooperstown,  Otsego  county,  and  late 
in  life  removed  to  Auburn,  or  rather  the  site 
of  that  city  in  Cayuga  county,  for  on  his  go- 
ing there  it  was  regarded  as  a  region  of  the 
west,  where  there  were  but  few  settlers,  yet 
the  locality  was  highly  regarded  as  affording 
excellent  facilities  for  farming.  He  died  at 
Auburn,  New  York,  in  1812. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Van  Tuyl, 
was  born  at  Auburn,  New  York,  December 
15,  1789,  died  there,  September  4,  1851,  and 
was  buried  in  the  cemetery  of  that  place.  He 
married,  at  Auburn,  Jane  Reighter,  a  resident 
of  the  place. 

(III)  William  Henry,  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Jane  (Reighter)  Van  Tuyl,  was  born  at 
Cooperstown,  New  York,  December  20,  1812, 
the  year  of  the  war  with  Great  Britain  and 
the  same  year  of  his  grandfather's  death.  He 
resided  at  Auburn  the  greater  part  of  his  life, 
where  he  was  an  architect,  enjoying  a  good 
business.  In  politics  he  was  a  member  of  the 
old    Whig    party ;    attended    the    Universalist 


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church,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows. He  died  at  Auburn,  December  26,  1876, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Fort  Hill  cemetery  of 
that  place.  William  Henry  Van  Tuyl  mar- 
ried, at  Auburn,  September  24,  1835,  Emeline 
Perry  Casey.  She  was  born  at  Dover,  Dutch- 
ess county,  New  York.  June  26,  1809,  died  at 
Auburn,  November  24,  1872.  Her  parents 
were  George  and  Jane  (Dutcher)  Casey. 
Children:  i.  Mary  Jane,  born  at  Auburn, 
New  York,  November  7,  1836;  married,  at 
Auburn,  February  12,  1857,  Norman  Hulbert 
Kennedy,  who  was  born  at  Columbus,  New 
York,  Tune  6,  1833,  and  was  the  son  of  Sid- 
ney Righter  and  Julia  Ann  (White)  Kennedy, 
by  whom:  Emma  Louise,  born  April  30,  1859; 
Harry  Bordwell,  born  December  5,  1865  ;  Bes- 
sie, born  December  19,  1868;  Arlene,  born 
April  28,  1872,  died  in  1875  at  Auburn;  Nor- 
ma, born  October  26,  1876.  2.  John  Adams, 
born  at  Auburn,  New  York,  January  19,  1838 ; 
now  a  resident  of  Webster,  Keokuk  county, 
Iowa,  where  for  some  years  he  was  engaged 
in  farming  on  a  large  scale  and  has  held  sev- 
eral important  offices.  He  married,  at  Au- 
burn, May  3,  1865,  Lavinia  Curtis.  3.  George 
Casey,  see  forward.  4.  W'illiam  Henry,  born 
at  Auijurn,  September  7,  1843,  died  there,  un- 
married, April  30,  1862.  5.  CaroHne  EHza- 
beth,  born  at  Auburn,  April  6,  1847,  died  at 
Central  Lake,  Michigan,  November  2,  191 1; 
married,  at  Auburn,  April  2T,  1871,  Darius  L. 
Swasey.  6.  Emma  Casey,  born  at  Auburn, 
November  23,  1850,  died  there,  October  10, 
1851. 

(IV)  George  Casey,  son  of  William  Henry 
and  Emeline  Perry  (Casey)  Van  Tuyl,  was 
born  in  Auburn,  Cayuga  county.  New  York, 
March  7,  1841,  and  resides  at  No.  352  State 
street,  Albany,  New  York.  He  received  a 
good  education  in  the  city  of  his  birth,  and 
thereafter  engaged  in  the  hardware  business. 
Subsequently  he  was  persuaded  by  Mr.  Wood- 
ruff that  there  were  greater  opportunities  in 
a  city  of  the  size  and  location  of  Albany,  and 
hence  he  decided  to  remove  to  that  place.  The 
largest  firm  in  the  city  then  was  that  of  Viele, 
Coles  &  WoodrufT,  located  at  Nos.  39-41  State 
street,  and  Mr.  Van  Tuyl  associated  himself 
with  them,  where  he  has  remained  ever  since. 
After  some  years  the  business  was  conducted 
solely  by  Maurice  E.  Viele,  a  man  of  high 
standing  in  the  community,  and  when  he  died 


the  concern  was  entirely  reorganized,  yet  re- 
maining at  the  same  location,  under  the  title 
of  the  Albany  Hardware  &  Iron  Company. 
It  was  placed  on  a  much  better  basis,  and  had 
grown  extensively.  It  engaged  a  separate 
building  across  the  street  for  its  sporting 
goods  and  leased  an  enormous  building  in 
which  to  conduct  its  iron  and  steel  business  in 
a  large  way.  Mr.  Van  Tuyl  was  given  com- 
plete charge  of  the  latter  department  at  Ham- 
ilton and  Dallius  streets,  and  is  indefatigable 
in  promoting  its  affairs.  It  controls  that  en- 
tire line  in  the  city  of  Albany.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican, and  attends  the  Episcopal  Church. 
Quiet  and  steadfast,  a  man  of  true  integrity 
and  most  affable,  he  has  naturally  many  excel- 
lent friends.  He  married,  at  Albany,  October 
2,  1866,  Angeline  Elizabeth  Hawley.  She 
was  born  in  Albany,  November  2,  1843,  is  liv- 
ing there,  and  is  the  daughter  of  George  and 
Katharine  (Payn)  Hawley. 

(V)  William  Henry  (2),  son  of  George 
Casey  and  Angeline  Elizabeth  (Hawley)  Van 
Tuyl,  was  born  in  Albany,  New  York,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1868,  and  is  a  resident  of  New  York 
City.  He  was  educated  in  his  native  city,  and 
on  graduation  entered  the  employ  of  the  Del- 
aware &  Hudson  Railroad  Company,  March 
10,  1886,  in  their  Albany  office.  He  resigned 
in  the  summer  of  1887,  and  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile business.  On  June  i,  1888,  he  accept- 
ed a  position  with  the  National  E.xpress 
Company  in  its  Albany  office,  and  has  been 
identified  with  that  company  in  various  ca- 
pacities ever  since,  at  the  present  time  hold- 
ing the  position  of  assistant  to  vice-president 
and  general  manager,  with  office  in  New  York 
City  at  No.  141  Broadway.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican :  attends  the  Episcopal  church,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  .Liederkranz  Club  of  New 
York  City.  William  H.  Van  Tuyl  married 
(first)  at  Albany,  August  14,  1895,  Alice  Fla- 
vcll  Jones.  She  was  born  at  Albany,  July  24, 
7871,  died  there,  May  23,  1896,  and  was  the 
daughter  of  Edgar  and  Maria  (Flavell)  Jones. 
He  married  (second)  at  New  York  City,  Oc- 
tober 26,  1904,  Elizabeth  Outcalt,  who  was 
born  in  that  city.  May  2,  1876,  and  is  the 
daughter  of  John  Voorhees  and  Mary  Helen 
(Youngs)   Outcalt. 

(V)  Hon.  George  Casey  (2)  Van  Tuyl,  son 
of  George  Casey  (i)  and  Angeline  Elizabeth 
( Hawley)  Van  Tuyl,  was  born  in  Albany, 
New  York,  April  3,  1872. 


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After  being  educated  in  the  city  of  his 
birth,  he  commenced  his  career  by  entering 
the  National  Exchange  Bank  of  Albany  in  a 
minor  capacity,  and  passing  through  the  vari- 
ous grades  rose  to  be  the  teller  of  that  insti- 
tution. John  D.  Parsons,  Jr.,  was  the  presi- 
dent of  the  bank,  and  when  he  organized  the 
Albany  Trust  Company,  the  first  organization 
of  its  nature  in  the  Capitol  City,  in  1900, 
knowing  the  capacity  of  Mr.  Van  Tuyl  and 
appreciating  the  necessity  of  starting  a  new 
enterprise  with  a  good  official  staff,  he  made 
Mr.  Van  Tuyl  its  secretary  and  treasurer. 
Having  filled  the  position  capably,  according 
to  the  conception  of  the  board,  in  October, 
1906,  they  made  him  vice-president.  The  rec- 
ord shows  for  itself  that  it  prospered  and  the 
business  expanded  to  such  a  degree  that  an- 
other trust  company  was  formed  in  the  same 
city,  with  the  flattering  result  to  Mr.  Van  Tuyl 
that  when  Mr.  Horace  G.  Young  retired,  he 
was  made  its  president,  July  3,  1908.  It  is 
unnecessary  to  expand  upon  the  work  and 
achievements  of  Mr.  Van  Tuyl ;  but  his  suc- 
cess may  be  set  down  merely  as  a  record  in 
his  own  family  history,  forming  part  of  the 
biography,  and  it  should  be  well  considered  by 
other  young  men  who  may  lack  the  element 
of  backing,  that  by  their  own  perseverance, 
interest  in  their  work  and  courteous  considera- 
tion of  customers,  they  may  accomplish  by 
their  own  efiforts.  He  made  the  institution  of 
which  he  was  an  officer  expand  to  the  point 
of  pronounced  prosperity,  and  it  was  the  com- 
pany which  desired  the  benefit  of  his  work. 

Besides  being  the  president  and  a  director 
of  the  Albany  Trust  Company,  men  of  high- 
est business  standing  then  chose  him  a  trustee 
of  the  Albany  Exchange  Savings  Bank,  di- 
rector of  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, of  the  Niagara  Falls  Trust  Company,  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Ravena,  New 
York;  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Albany 
and  Adirondack  Trust  Company,  Saratoga 
Springs.  It  became  of  importance  to  each  of 
these  to  enlist  his  service  and  advice  upon 
these  boards. 

When  John  A.  Dix  was  made  governor  of 
New  York,  he  had  only  one  man  in  mind  to 
fill  the  post  of  State  Superintendent  of  Banks, 
and  although  influence  was  brought  to  bear 
to  make  the  appointment  to  others  as  a  re- 
ward for  party  service  in  the  heated  campaign, 


Governor  Dix  appointed  Mr.  Van  Tuyl  to  that 
office  on  May  i,  191 1,  and  the  senate  con- 
firmed the  nomination  on  May  i8th.  There- 
upon he  severed  his  connection  with  the  Al- 
bany Trust  Company  and  assumed  control  of 
all  the  banks  in  the  state  of  New  York.  It  is 
unnecessary  to  comment  upon  the  fact  that 
a  person  in  this  position  who  holds  large  in- 
stitutions to  a  strict  adherence  to  the  law, 
meets  with  enemies,  nevertheless,  he  many 
times  enforced  the  law  where  another  might 
have  heeded  the  soft  persuasion,  and  was  re- 
garded with  favor  by  the  incoming  adminis- 
tration of  Governor  Sulzer.  This  was  at  a 
time  when  investigations  of  any  number  of 
state  departments  were  rife,  and  past  super- 
intendency  discredited ;  but  there  was  nothing 
unfavorable  to  be  said  about  his  record.  He 
had  introduced  many  innovations,  and  while 
they  were  somewhat  unwelcome  because  tend- 
ing to  a  stringency  and  strengthening  of  reg- 
ulations, the  bankers  as  a  rule  regarded  them 
as  just  and  as  being  in  the  interest  of  the 
people. 

Superintendent  of  Banks  Van  Tuyl  set 
himself  to  work  to  improve  the  status  of  the 
state's  institutions  by  a  careful  study  of  the 
banking  law,  searching  for  its  weak  points 
and  then  endeavoring  to  rectify  by  logical 
method  of  amendments.  He  had  had  experi- 
ence in  every  grade  of  banking  from  the  low- 
est round  of  the  ladder  to  the  highest,  and 
seemed  fortified  abundantly  to  execute  such 
a  project.  He  was  not  satisfied  with  the  mere 
change  of  phraseology,  but  sought  for  the 
actual  reconstruction,  hence  he  reported  to 
the  legislature  in  1913  in  somewhat  forceful 
strain :  "The  amendments  made  as  a  result  of 
the  work  of  the  Statutory  Consolidation  Com- 
mission, adopted  in  the  year  1909,  were  not 
intended  to  do  more  than  correct  verbal  and 
grammatical  inaccuracies.  As  a  result  of 
the  manner  in  which  it  was  compiled  and 
amended,  the  banking  law  of  the  state  to- 
day is  full  of  incongruities  and  ambiguities. 
In  fact,  the  language  used  is  in  many  in- 
stances both  crude  and  prolix.  So  many  of 
its  provisions  are  capable  of  dififerent  inter- 
pretations that,  in  order  to  know  what  the 
law  with  reference  to  any  particular  subject 
is,  it  is  necessary  to  have  a  comprehensive 
knowledge  of  the  opinions  of  the  attorney- 
general  interpreting  it,  rather  than  to  be 
familiar  with  the  law  itself."     In  saying  this 


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he  struck  a  note  which  well  might  be  re- 
sounded in  many  another  state  department 
and  in  regard  to  the  laws  in  general  He  was 
striking  at  the  root  of  an  evil  which  one  must 
admit  has  been  growing  rapidly  during  the 
last  score  of  years.  He  wanted  the  laws  to 
stand  clearly  for  what  they  meant,  without 
need  of  interpretation  by  one  court  following 
another  with  decisions  and  reversals.  His 
training  exposed  to  mind  the  hodge-podge  of 
it  all.  ' 

Mr.  Van  Tuyl  reached  the  conclusion,  after 
carefully  sifting  the  matter  and  with  the  calm 
reflection  of  two  years  devoted  to  the  systems 
which  had  been  in  vogue,  that  in  view  of  the 
great  development  that  has  obtained  in  the 
business  of  banking  in  recent  years  and  the 
changed  conditions  under  which  that  business 
is  transacted,  it  must,  moreover,  be  evident, 
even  to  a  casual  observer  of  such  conditions, 
who  is  only  occasionally  engaged  in  the  study 
of  banking  problems,  that  laws  that  were 
adapted  to  conditions  existing  twenty,  thirty 
or  forty  years  ago  are  at  the  present  time 
practically  obsolete.  It  may  seem  that  it  did 
not  require  a  man  of  experience  in  the  world 
of  finance  to  expound  such  a  theory;  but  the 
fact  is  he  was  the  one  to  expound  the  fallacy 
of  attempting  to  regulate  business  by  anti- 
quated government,  and  his  remarks  brought 
him  greater  respect  among  bankers  instead  of 
condemning  criticism  resulting  from  fear  of 
a  tyrant  as  a  master. 

He  has  devoted  his  time  to  the  study  of 
systems,  and  as  a  consequence  up-to-date 
methods  have  been  introduced.  In  pursuance 
of  the  true  purpose  of  the  department  to 
secure  the  best  examination  system  possible, 
he  gave  careful  consideration  during  the  early 
months  of  1912  to  plans  evolved  for  estab- 
lishing a  closer  relationship  between  the  direc- 
tors of  the  institutions  under  supervision  and 
the  work  of  the  examiners.  The  most  im- 
portant of  the  innovations  adopted  was  a 
regulation  providing  for  the  calling  of  meet- 
ings of  boards  of  directors  to  pass  upon  the 
loans  and  general  condition  of  institutions  at 
each  examination.  This  plan  has  been  suc- 
cessful. Although  in  scattered  instances  some 
opposition  was  met,  fuller  understanding  of 
the  purpose  and  benefits  of  such  a  review  of 
the  afifairs  of  an  institution  have  earned  an 
unqualified  commendation  from  the  directors 
of    the    institutions.      At    every    examination. 


members  of  the  boards  of  directors  are  re- 
quired to  pass  upon  the  genuineness  and 
worth  of  every  loan  and  discount  in  the  in- 
stitution and  to  assure  the  examiner  that  the 
attendant  conditions  surrounding  such  loans 
are  satisfactory.  The  directors  also  discuss 
with  the  examiner  the  policies  and  tendencies 
affecting  the  condition  of  the  institution. 
Thus  the  responsibility  for  the  standing  of 
the  bank  is  placed  squarely  upon  the  board 
of  directors,  where  it  properly  belongs.  In 
other  words,  the  state  superintendent  of 
banks  is  insistent  upon  directors  assuming 
the  responsibilities  for  which  they  were 
chosen.  So  important  is  this  matter  in  the 
eyes  of  those  most  concerned  that  it  is  inter- 
esting to  note  that  the  Comptroller  of  the 
United  States  Currency  has  taken  a  similar 
position  in  the  supervision  of  the  aft'airs  of 
the  national  banks.  He  severely  criticised 
absenteeism  from  regular  meetings  of  direc- 
tors, an  innovation  which  has  the  universal 
approval  of  the  more  active  directors,  who 
agree  that  the  benefits  accruing  to  the  institu- 
tions and  to  the  department  from  this  policy 
have  been  numerous. 

Mr.  Van  Tuyl  inaugurated  a  plan  never 
before  attempted  by  the  state  department, 
when  he  sought  to  protect  banks  against  the 
over-extension  of  borrowers,  by  instituting 
the  practice  of  making  a  simultaneous  exam- 
ination of  all  the  banks  located  in  certain  dis- 
tricts. The  new  method  earned  the  approval 
of  the  local  bankers  in  every  instance.  The 
results  obtained  gave  reasons  for  increased 
confidence  in  the  stability  of  the  various  in- 
stitutions and  justified  the  efforts  of  the  de- 
partment to  safeguard  them  by  a  comprehen- 
sive analysis  and  careful  scrutiny  of  all  trans- 
actions. An  investigation  of  the  values  of 
the  collateral  taken  in  connection  with  related 
loans  made  to  a  single  coterie  of  borrowers 
by  different  banks  corrects  any  tendency  to 
over-extension.  Especially  was  increased 
local  confidence  inspired  by  the  fact  that  the 
examiners  were  known  to  be  working  in  con- 
junction with  the  representatives  of  the 
Comptroller  of  the  Currency,  who  simultane- 
ously examined  the  national  banks  in  the  same 
territory. 

Perhaps  no  greater  innovation  was  secured 
in  a  score  of  years  than  Superintendent  Van 
Tuyl's  idea  of  a  credit  bureau.  For  a  long 
time   a   need    was    felt    for   a   central   bureau 


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which  would  aid  examiners  in  determining 
the  vaUie  of  notes  and  investments,  a  place 
where  it  would  be  possib'e  to  ascertain  the 
financial  responsibilities  of  directors  and  bor- 
rowers, where  a  record  would  be  kept  of  the 
co-partnership  and  corporate  afifiliations  of 
directors,  where  data  would  be  available  as 
to  securities  of  questionable  value  and  where 
information  with  reference  to  the  credit  of 
bank  borrowers  and  its  effect  upon  the  sol- 
vency of  banks  could  be  collected  and  com- 
piled. To  meet  this  need,  the  credit  bureau 
was  established  by  Mr.  Van  Tuyl  in  January, 
1912,  located  in  the  New  York  office,  at  No. 
60  Broadway.  There  a  record  was  kept  of 
borrowers  of  large  amounts  in  state  institu- 
tions. Records  are  likewise  kept  of  group 
loans,  persons  borrowing  by  means  of  the  use 
of  corporate  titles  and  trade  names,  in  order 
to  secure  extra  accommodation ;  dummy  bor- 
rowers, or  clerks  signing  notes  for  the  benefit 
of  others ;  holding  companies,  apparently  or- 
ganized for  the  purpose  of  protecting  the 
institutions,  but  in  many  instances  used  for 
the  benefit  and  personal  profit  of  officers  and 
directors.  Records  are  kept  of  bank  stock 
hypothecations,  by  which  means  the  depart- 
ment is  informed  if  the  stock  of  the  institu- 
tion is  lodged  in  strong  or  weak  hands,  and 
also  if  the  control  of  the  institution  is  being 
carried  on  borrowed  money.  In  this  way  it 
is  able  to  check  the  activities  of  ambitious 
promoters  who  purchase  control  of  banking 
institutions  in  order  to  obtain  additional  facil- 
ities to  further  their  own  speculations.  The 
operations  of  undesirable  and  irresponsible 
borrowers  are  watched.  This  class  is  very 
eager  to  prey  upon  the  country  institutions, 
obtaining  loans  based  upon  worthless  col- 
lateral, or  upon  notes  of  fictitious  or  decay- 
ing corporations;  so-called  note  brokers,  sell- 
ing second-class  commercial  paper  to  country 
institutions. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  Mr.  Van  Tuyl  hit 
the  irresponsible  speculator,  the  conscience- 
less man,  a  severe  blow  by  making  these  in- 
novations. They  occurred  to  him  by  investi- 
gating organizations  which  had  been  wrecked 
by  unscrupulous  management.  He  proceeded 
then  to  investigate  the  relationship  between 
director  and  institution.  He  scrutinized 
equivocal  dealings  brought  to  his  attention  by 
failures  and  found  that  in  some  instances  di- 
rectors appeared  to  be  large  stockholders  in 


their  banks,'  but  the  majority  of  the  stock 
which  they  owned  was  hypothecated  in  other 
institutions.  Occasionally  they  even  had  gone 
so  far  as  to  borrow  upon  their  qualifying 
shares.  He  found  that  some  persons  did  not 
hesitate  to  cause  large  loans  to  be  made  to 
themselves  and  to  their  companies  as  well  as 
to  individuals  with  whom  they  were  asso- 
ciated, without  giving  the  proper  security  to 
the  bank. 

He  pronounces  over-extended  borrowers  a 
most  dangerous  class,  and  sought  to  make  it 
impossible  to  continue  such  financing.  He 
claimed  that  they  secure  accommodation 
through  false  statements  made  to  the  banks 
as  to  the  extent  of  their  loans ;  that  they  bor- 
row large  amounts  from  a  number  of  institu- 
tions, each  institution  making  its  loan  upon 
the  assumption  that  it  is  the  only  large  credi- 
tor. By  means  of  this  system  of  collecting 
and  compiling  such  information,  the  superin- 
tendent is  enabled  to  ascertain  the  number  of 
banks  from  which  they  are  borrowing  and 
also  the  aggregate  of  their  loans.  In  the  event 
of  flagrant  abuse,  banks  are  advised  of  the 
condition  of  the  borrower  in  order  that 
further  extension  may  be  prevented.  It  is  a 
fact  that  he  discovered  one  case  in  which  the 
borrower  maintained  loan  accounts  in  twenty- 
nine  institutions,  and  in  another  instance  he 
found  that  one  individual  was  borrowing 
money  in  the  name  of  thirty  different  indi- 
viduals and  corporations.  It  was  a  hard  blow 
to  the  unprincipled  man  who  was  striving  for 
riches  by  juggling;  but  a  wise  move  for  the 
state  and  in  the  interest  of  the  greater  num- 
ber. Such  a  record  could  not  help  being  en- 
dorsed by  the  banker  who  believed  in  conser- 
vative methods  and  was  content  with  honest 
success.  In  forcing  success  upon  others,  Mr. 
Van  Tuyl  has  experienced  it  himself. 

Hon.  George  C.  Van  Tuyl,  Jr.,  married,  at 
Albany,  New  York,  October  14,  1903,  Geor- 
gina  Birch.  She  was  born  in  that  city,  No- 
vember 18,  1873,  died  there.  May  17,  igo6, 
and  was  the  daughter  of  George  Archibald 
and  Sarah  Ann  (Cook)  Birch. 


The    family    name    of    Jay    is    of 
JAY     French  origin,  and  was  possibly  de- 
rived   from   the  name   of   a   district 
in  France. 

(T)  Pierre  Jay,  a  wealthy  Protestant  mem- 
ber of  La  Rochelle,  France,  was  the  ancestor 


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of  a  family  which  for  two  hundred  years  and 
over  has  been  the  accepted  representative  of 
the  Huguenots  in  America,  and  which  has 
furnished  men  of  the  highest  eminence  in 
their  adopted  country. 

The  Jay  family  of  La  Rochelle  traced  their 
descent  from  a  family  of  the  same  name  in 
the  Province  of  Poictou,  the  family  of  the 
Seigneurs  de  Montonneau,  whose  seat  was  at 
the  Chateau  Garnier,  near  Civray,  in  Upper 
Poictou.  As  early  as  the  year  1565,  Jean  Jay, 
who  had  embraced  the  Protestant  faith,  was 
residing  in  La  Rochelle. 

Pierre  Jay,  the  father  of  Augustus  Jay,  the 
American  ancestor  of  this  family,  was  en- 
gaged in  mercantile  and  shipping  enterprises 
in  La  Rochelle,  owning  a  number  of  vessels. 
During  the  religious  troubles  of  the  period, 
he  despatched  his  wife  and  three  of  their 
children  to  England,  he  being  imprisoned  for 
a  brief  period,  but  he  was  later  able  to  join 
his  family  in  England,  where  he  passed  the 
remainder  of  his  life,  his  possessions  in 
France  being  confiscated  after  his  departure. 
Pierre  Jay  married  Judith  Francois  and  had 
four  children :  Francis ;  Augustus,  see  for- 
ward ;  Isaac ;  Frances,  who  married  Monsieur 
Pelloquin, 

(H)  Augustus  Jay,  son  of  Pierre  Jay,  was 
the  progenitor  of  this  family  in  America.  He 
was  born  at  La  Rochelle,  France,  March  23, 
1665,  and  died  in  New  York  City,  March  10, 
175 1.  He  was  the  only  one  of  the  family 
who  did  not  join  in  the  emigration  to  Eng- 
land, being  absent  at  the  time  on  a  voyage 
in  African  waters.  He  was  also  the  only 
male  member  of  the  family  of  Pierre  Jay 
who  left  descendants,  and  this  places  him  in 
a  prominent  light  regarding  the  family  his- 
tory. Soon  after  his  return  to  La  Rochelle, 
he  sailed  for  America  by  way  of  the  West 
Indies,  landing  at  Charleston,  South  Caro- 
lina, and  from  there  going  to  Liverpool  and 
New  York  ultimately.  In  the  latter  city,  he 
at  once  embarked  in  mercantile  transactions, 
and  with  such  success  that  he  was  soon  in 
the  enjoyment  of  a  comfortable  fortune.  His 
position  was  enhanced  by  his  marriage,  in 
1697,  with  Anna  Maria,  daughter  of  Bal- 
thazar and  Maria  (Loockermans)  Bayard, 
who  was  the  granddaughter  of  Samuel  Bay- 
ard by  his  wife,  Anna  Stuyvesant,  sister  of 
Governor  Peter  Stuyvesant.  This  alliance 
gave  him  connection  with  all  the  families  of 


wealth  and  position  in  Dutch  circles  in  New 
York  City,  they  being  the  controlling  factor. 
Their  children:  i.  Peter,  see  forward.  2. 
Judith,  born  August  29,  1698;  married  Cor- 
nelius Van  Home,  April  6,  1735  ;  died  August 
17.  1757-  3-  Mary,  born  August  31,  1700; 
married  Peter  Valette,  June  27,  1723;  died 
June  5,  1762.  4.  Frances,  born  February  26, 
1702;  married  Frederick  Van  Cortlandt,  Jan- 
uary 19,  1724.    5.  Ann,  died  young. 

(Ill)  Peter  Jay,  son  of  Augustus  and 
Anna  Maria  (Bayard)  Jay,  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  November  3,  1704,  and  died  at 
Poughkeepsie.  April  17,  1782.  He  was  a 
prosperous  merchant  of  the  metropolis,  but 
at  the  age  of  forty  he  retired  from  business 
and  purchased  property  in  Rye,  Westchester 
county.  New  York,  where  he  resided  for  the 
remainder  of  his  days.  He  is  described  by 
Baird,  the  historian  of  Rye,  as  "a  man  of 
sincere  and  fervent  piety,  of  cheerful  temper, 
warm  affection,  and  strong,  good  sense" ;  by 
Smith,  the  Tory  historian  of  New  York,  as 
"a  gentleman  of  opulence,  character  and  rep- 
utation." He  took  no  part  in  public  affairs, 
preferring  the  quietude  of  domestic  life. 
Several  of  his  family  were  stricken  with  the 
smallpox,  from  the  effects  of  which  two  of 
his  children  became  blind,  and  to  their  care 
and  education  he  and  his  wife  very  tenderly 
devoted  themselves. 

Peter  Jay  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Jaco- 
bus and  Eve  (Philipse)  Van  Cortlandt,  Janu- 
ary 20,  1728.  By  this  union  the  Jay  family 
came  into  possession  of  an  estate  of  some 
thirteen  hundred  acres  in  the  town  of  Bed- 
ford, Westchester  county.  This  was  his 
wife's  share  of  the  lands  purchased  by 
her  father  from  the  Indians  early  in  the 
eighteenth  century,  other  shares  being  be- 
queathed by  Jacobus  to  his  son,  Frederic, 
and  his  daughter,  Margaret,  wife  of  Abra- 
ham de  Peyster,  and  Anne,  wife  of  John 
Chambers.  The  Jay  property  in  Bedford 
was  ultimately  acquired  by  Chief  Justice 
John  Jay,  son  of  Peter  Jay,  and  by  him  de- 
vised to  his  younger  son.  Judge  William  Jay, 
in  whose  line  it  has  since  been  owned.  It 
comprises  the  historic  mansion  and  about 
seven  hundred  acres.  Their  children:  i.  Eve. 
born  November  9,  1728,  died  April  7,  1810; 
married,  March  31,  1766,  Rev.  Harry  Munro. 
2.  Augustus,  born  April  12,  1730.  died  De- 
cember 23,   1801,  unmarried.     3    James,  died 


JOHN    JAY. 
Delegate  to  Continental   Congress,    1774-6,   1778-9:    Special  Minister 
Great  Britain,  1794-5;  First  Chief  Justice  U.  S.  Supreme 
Court,   1789-95;   Governor,   1795-1801. 


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young.  4.  James,  born  October  16,  1732; 
was  a  physician,  lived  in  England,  was 
knighted,  returned  to  New  York,  where  he 
lived  until  time  of  his  death,  October  20, 
1815.  5.  Peter,  born  December  19,  1734,  died 
July  8,  1813;  married,  in  1789,  Mary  Duyc- 
kinck.  6.  Frederick,  died  young.  7.  Anna 
Maricka,  born  October  20,  1737,  died  Sep- 
tember 4,  1791.  8.  John,  see  forward.  9. 
Frederick,  born  April  19,  1747,  died  Decem- 
ber 14,  1799;  married  (first)  November  17, 
1773.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Andrew  Barc- 
lay, who  died  October  28,  179 1,  aged  thirty- 
nine;  married  (second)  Euphemia  Duns- 
combe,  who  died  February  26,  1817.  10. 
Mary,  born  November  10,  1748,  died  May  18, 

1752- 

(IV)  John  Jay,  son  of  Peter  and  Mary 
(Van  Cortlandt)  Jay,  was  born  December 
12,  1745,  and  died  May  17,  1829.  His  early 
education  was  received  at  a  boarding-school 
at  New  Rochelle,  New  York,  kept  by  the  pas- 
tor of  the  French  Huguenot  Church,  and  in 
1760,  he  entered  King's  College,  New  York 
City,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1764. 
He  then  studied  law  with  Benjamin  Kissam, 
of  New  York,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  after 
a  probation  of  four  years,  although  five  years 
was  the  required  period  of  study  in  those 
days.  He  practiced  his  profession  assidu- 
ously until  obliged  by  his  connection  with 
public  afifairs  to  devote  his  entire  energies  to 
the  service  of  his  country.  For  a  time,  he 
was  associated  in  professional  practice  with 
Robert  R.  Livingston,  afterwards  chancellor. 
In  the  events  preceding  the  outbreak  of  hos- 
tilities with  Great  Britain,  he  took  part  from 
the  first,  being  a  delegate  to  the  Continental 
Congress  of  1774  and  1775.  While  a  member 
of  the  latter,  he  was  elected  to  the  New 
York  Provincial  Congress,  and  drafted  the 
first  Constitution  of  the  State.  In  1778,  he 
was  president  of  Congress;  in  1780,  he  be- 
came United  States  Minister  to  Spain,  and 
in  1782,  was  one  of  the  commissioners  who 
negotiated  the  peace  between  the  United 
States  and  Great  Britain.  He  co-operated 
with  Alexander  Hamilton  and  President 
Madison  in  the  authorship  of  "The  Federal- 
ist," and  on  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution, 
in  1789,  was  appointed  the  first  Chief  Justice 
of  the  United  States,  in  1794.  While  still 
holding  the  office  of  Chief  Justice,  he  was 
envoy  to  England,  and  completed  his  political 


career  by  service  as  Governor  of  New  York 
State  from  1798  to  1801,  resigning  the  chief 
justiceship  to  become  governor. 

The  remainder  of  his  life,  until  his  death 
in  1829,  was  passed  at  the  mansion  he  built, 
Bedford  House,  Katonah,  New  York,  an  es- 
tate inherited  from  his  Van  Cortlandt  ances- 
tors. John  Jay  was  an  ardent  believer  in  the 
manumission  of  the  slaves,  and  he  was  the 
first  president  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society.  He 
also  served  as  president  of  the  American  Bible 
Society.  His  personal  character  has  been  de- 
scribed by  all  as  eminently  noble  and  pure.  The 
tribute  of  Daniel  Webster  is  familiar  to  every- 
one versed  in  American  history.  "When  the 
spotless  ermine  of  the  judicial  robe  fell  on 
John  Jay,  it  touched  nothing  less  spotless  than 
itself."  Another  has  said:  "It  is  hard  to  dis- 
tinguish the  real  features  of  some  of  his  con- 
temporaries through  the  mist  of  legend.  No 
mists  have  grown  around  John  Jay.  He  lives 
in  our  memories  a  flawless  statue,  whose  noble 
lineaments  have  everything  to  gain  from  the 
clear  light  of  history." 

John  Jay  married,  at  "Liberty  Hall,"  Eliza- 
bethtown.  New  Jersey,  April  28,  1774,  Sarah 
Van  Brugh,  daughter  of  William  Livingston, 
who  two  years  later  became  the  first  governor 
of  New  Jersey.  Their  children:  i.  Peter  Au- 
gustus, see  forward.  2.  Susan,  died  young.  3. 
Maria,  born  February  20,  1782,  at  Madrid, 
died  November  21,  1856;  married,  April  22, 
1801,  Goldsborough  Banyar.  4.  Ann,  born  at 
Passy,  France,  August  13,  1783,  died  Novem- 
ber 13,  1856.  5.  William,  born  June  16,  1789, 
died  October  14,  1858,  at  Bedford;  married 
Augusta  McVicker.  6.  Sarah  Louisa,  born 
February  20,  1792,  died  April  22,  1818. 

(V)  Peter  Augustus  Jay,  eldest  son  of  John 
and  Sarah  V.  (Livingston)  Jay,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 24,  1776,  and  died  February  20,  1843.  He 
was  graduated  from  Columbia  College  in  1794, 
and  in  the  same  year  accompanied  his  father 
to  Europe  as  his  secretary.  Upon  his  return 
he  studied  law;  was  admitted  to  the  bar; 
engaged  in  practice,  and  attained  a  high  repu- 
tation in  his  profession.  He  held  several  im- 
portant public  offices,  including  those  of  Mem- 
ber of  Assembly,  1816;  recorder  of  New  York 
City,  18 17- 182 1  ;  member  of  the  Constitutional 
Convention,  of  1821.  While  in  the  Assembly, 
he  was  active  in  favoring  the  Erie  Canal  legis- 
lation and  measures  for  the  abolition  of 
slavery  in  New  York.     He  took  an  especial 


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interest  in  Columbia  College  and  the  New 
York  Historical  Society.  He  was  one  of  the 
trustees  of  the  former  institution  from  1812 
to  1817,  and  1823  to  1843,  ^"d  was  president 
of  the  board  of  trustees  in  1832.  From  1840 
to  1843,  he  served  as  president  of  the  New 
York  Historical  Society,  to  which  he  pre- 
sented many  books  and  newspapers  of  the 
Colonial  and  Revolutionary  periods.  He  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Harvard,  in 
183 1,  and  from  Columbia,  in  1835. 

He  had  a  country  residence  at  Rye.  The 
dwelling  stands  upon  the  site  of  the  previous 
home  of  Peter  Jay,  the  estate  being  purchased 
in  1745.  Here  it  was  that  Chief  Justice  Jay 
spent  his  boyhood.  The  Rye  place  descended 
on  the  death  of  Peter  Jay  to  his  son,  Peter, 
who  was  blind,  and  on  the  death  of  the  latter 
to  John  Jay,  who  in  turn  devised  it  to  his  eld- 
est son,  Peter  Augustus  Jay. 

Peter  Augustus  Jay  married,  July  29,  1807, 
Mary  Rutherfurd,  daughter  of  General  Mat- 
thew and  Mary  (Rutherfurd)  Clarkson.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John  Clarkson,  see  forward.  2. 
Mary  Rutherfurd,  born  April  16,  1810,  died 
September  9,  1835  ;  married,  April  30,  1829, 
Frederick  Prime.  3.  Sarah,  born  December 
19,  181 1,  died  January  9,  1846;  married,  Feb- 
ruary II,  1836,  William  Dawson.  4.  Cather- 
ine Helena,  born  June  11,  1815;  married,  De- 
cember 17,  1835,  Henry  Augustus  Du  Bois.  5. 
Anna  Maria,  born  September  12,  1819;  mar- 
ried, December  i,  1841,  Henry  E.  Pierrepont. 
6.  Peter  Augustus,  born  October  23,  1821, 
died  October  31,  1855;  married,  January  13, 
1848,  Josephine  Pearson.  7.  Elizabeth  Clark- 
son, born  July  2,  1823;  unmarried.  8.  Susan 
Matilda,  born  November  29,  1827;  married, 
April  14,  1852,  Matthew  Clarkson. 

(VI)  John  Clarkson  Jay,  M.D.,  eldest  son 
of  Peter  Augustus  and  Mary  Rutherfurd 
(Clarkson)  Jay,  was  born  September  11,  1808, 
in  New  York  City,  and  died  at  Rye,  West- 
chester county.  New  York,  November  15, 
1891.  In  his  early  life  he  resided  in  New 
York  City,  but  removed  to  Rye,  having  inher- 
ited his  father's  estate  of  about  four  hundred 
acres  there  situated.  He  was  graduated  from 
Columbia  College  in  1827,  and  from  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  1831,  serv- 
ing as  an  interne  at  the  New  York  Hospital. 
For  a  time  he  practiced  his  profession,  but  re- 
tired and  for  several  years  was  engaged  in 
banking,   finally  abandoning  that   when   com- 


paratively young  to  devote  his  time  to  scien- 
tific studies,  in  the  end  becoming  distinguished 
as  a  scientist.  He  was  especially  learned  in 
conchology,  and  his  valuable  collection  of 
shells,  now  in  the  American  Museum  of 
Natural  History,  was  the  most  noted  in  its 
line  in  the  United  States,  and  is  known  as  the 
"Jay  Collection."  These  and  his  exceedingly 
valuable  library  on  this  subject  were  pur- 
chased by  Miss  Catherine  Lorillard  Wolfe, 
and  presented  to  the  museum. 

Mr.  Jay  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Lyceum  of  Natural  History,  which  became  the 
New  York  Academy  of  Science,  having  been 
elected  a  Fellow  thereof  in  1832,  and  serving 
as  librarian  in  1833  ^"d  treasurer  from  1836 
to  1843.  It  was  mainly  through  his  efforts 
that  land  was  acquired  by  the  Lyceum  in  New 
York  City  at  a  moderate  cost  and  a  fine  build- 
ing erected,  although  the  property  was  sold 
later  at  a  sacrifice.  From  1859  to  1880,  he 
was  one  of  the  trustees  of  Columbia  College. 
He  was  a  founder  of  the  New  York  Yacht 
Club,  and  its  first  secretary  as  well  as  one  of 
the  early  presidents  of  the  old  New  York 
Club,  and  one  of  the  early  members  of  the 
Union  League  Club.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  In  his 
religious  faith,  he  was  an  Episcopalian,  and 
was  a  warden  of  Christ  Church  at  Rye,  New 
York. 

John  Clarkson  Jay,  M.D.,  married,  in  New 
York  City,  November  8,  1831,  Laura,  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  and  Cornelia  (Sands)  Prime. 
She  was  born  in  New  York  City,  February  17, 
1812,  and  died  at  Rye,  New  York,  July  30, 
1888.  Children:  i.  Laura,  born  at  Hell  Gate, 
New  York,  August  10,  1832,  died  at  Hono- 
lulu, Hawaii,  September  17,  1910;  married,  at 
Rye,  New  York,  February  8,  1854,  Charles 
Pemberton  Wurtz.  2.  John,  born  at  New 
York  City,  November  14,  1833,  died  there, 
June  16,  1841.  3.  Augustus,  born  at  New 
York  City,  October  14,  1836.  died  at  Hell  Gate, 
New  York,  June  27,  1837.  4.  Mary  J.,  born 
at  New  York  City,  June  3,  1837,  died  at  Ridge- 
field,  Connecticut.  June,  1897 ;  married,  at 
Rye,  New  York,  June  5,  1861,  Jonathan  Ed- 
wards. 5.  Cornelia,  born  at  New  York  City, 
April  3,  1839,  died  there,  October  18,  1907.  6. 
Peter  Augustus,  born  at  New  York  City,  June 
16,  1841,  died  at  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  Oc- 
tober II,  1875;  married,  at  New  York  City, 
March  30,    1869,  Julia  Post;  served  in  Civil 


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War  as  captain,  Companj'  A,  Eighteenth  Regi- 
ment, New  York ;  ordained  to  the  ministry, 
Protestant  Episcopal  church,  by  Bishop  Pot- 
ter, 1869  ;  four  children  :  i.  Pierre,  born  May  4, 
1870,  graduate  of  Yale,  class  of  1892 ;  became 
banker  ;  appointed  bank  commissioner,  State  of 
Massachusetts ;  now  vice-president  of  the  Bank 
of  Manhattan,  New  York;  married  Louisa 
Barlow;  three  children,  ii.  Mary  Rutherford, 
born  August  16,  1872.  iii.  Laura  Prime,  born 
New  Haven,  August  30,  1874;  married,  Oc- 
tober 16,  1899,  Judge  Frederick  DeW.  Wells; 
three  children,  iv.  John,  born  November  19, 
1875;  graduate  of  Yale  College,  class  of  1898. 

7.  Ann  Maria,  born  at  New  York  City,  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1843,  died  there,  December  3,  1858. 

8.  John  Clarkson,  see  forward.  9.  Alice, 
born  at  Rye,  New  York,  July  12,  1846.  10. 
Sarah,  born  at  Rye,  New  York,  January  12, 
1848;  died  April  24,  1883.  11.  Matilda  Cos- 
ter, born  at  Rye,  New  York,  July  5,  1850; 
died  there,  December  28,  1856. 

(VH)  John  Clarkson  (2)  Jay,  M.D.,  son 
of  Dr.  John  Clarkson  (i)  and  Laura  (Prime) 
Jay,  was  born  at  Rye,  New  York,  October  20, 
1844.  He  received  his  primary  education  at 
the  Lewis  J.  Dudley  Collegiate  Institute, 
Northampton,  Massachusetts,  after  which  he 
attended  the  Columbia  College  Grammar 
School;  also  Charlier's  French  Institute  and 
then  entered  Columbia  College,  but  left  there 
at  the  close  of  his  freshman  year,  while  stand- 
ing sixth  in  his  class,  to  begin  the  study  of 
medicine  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1865.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Seventy-first  Regi- 
men, New  York  Volunteers,  and  became  act- 
ing assistant  surgeon  in  the  United  States 
Army,  serving  in  the  Armory  Square  General 
Hospital,  at  Washington,  D.  C.  Later  he 
served  at  the  Sedgwick  United  States  Army 
General  Hospital  at  New  Orleans.  He  then 
took  a  post-graduate  course  of  study  at 
Vienna  and  Prague.  He  practiced  in  New 
York  City,  and  rose  to  a  high  standard  in  his 
profession.  For  several  years  he  was  attend- 
ing physician  at  the  New  York  Dispensary, 
and  was  for  twelve  years  attending  physician 
to  the  out-patient  department  of  the  New 
York  Hospital.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  New  York  Free  Dispensary  for  Sick 
Children,  and  was  state  examiner  in  lunacy. 
Finally  he  retired  from  active  work.     He  is 


the  author  of  several  volumes,  among  them 
being  some  of  the  standard  reference  works, 
many  of  them  being  translations  from  the 
French  and  German.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Episcopal  church,  and  was  clerk  of  the  vestry 
of  the  Church  of  Heavenly  Rest  in  New  York 
City.  He  belongs  to  many  associations,  among 
them  the  Century  Club  and  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution.  His  residence  of  late  years  has 
been  at  No.  106  East  Seventy-ninth  street. 
New  York. 

Dr.  John  Clarkson  Jay  married,  at  New 
York  City,  December  12,  1872,  Harriette  Ar- 
nold Vinton.  She  was  born  at  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  October  3,  1849,  and  was  the  daughter 
of  Major-General  David  Hammond  Vinton 
and  his  wife,  Eliza  Arethusa  (Arnold)  Vin- 
ton. Children:  i.  Maria  Arnold,  born  at  New 
York  City,  September  18,  1873,  died  there, 
January  2,  1877.  2.  Edith  Van  Cortlandt, 
born  at  New  York  City,  June  2,  1875.  3.  John 
Clarkson,  see  forward.     • 

(VIII)  John  Clarkson  (3)  Jay,  son  of  Dr. 
John  Clarkson  (2)  and  Harriette  Arnold 
(Vinton)  Jay,  was  born  at  New  York  City, 
January  20,  1880.  He  was  educated  at  St. 
Paul's  School,  in  Concord,  New  Hampshire, 
and  then  entered  Williams  College,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1901. 
He  entered  the  works  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Steel  Company,  at  Steelton,  Pennsylvania,  as 
an  apprentice.  He  is  the  general  manager  of 
sales  of  this  company,  with  headquarters  in 
Philadelphia.  He  belongs  to  the  University, 
Racquet,  Alpha  Delta  Phi  and  the  Engineers' 
clubs;  also  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  He 
married,   at   Harrisburg,   Pennsylvania,   April 

20,  1903,  Marguerite  Montgomery  Soleliac, 
who  was  born  at  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  June 

21,  1878,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Jane  Kip  (Anthony)  Soleliac.  Children:  i. 
Sarah  Livingston,  born  at  New  York  City, 
March  13,  1904.  2.  Marguerite  Montgomery, 
born  at  Pelham  Manor,  New  York,  May  5, 
1907.  3.  Alice,  born  at  Pelham  Manor,  New 
York,  November  5,  1908. 


The  progenitor  of  this  family 
DE  RHAM     in  America  was  Henry  Casi- 

mir  de  Rham,  who  arrived  in 
this  country  in  1805  and  settled  in  New  York 
City.  For  more  than  a  century  he  and  his 
descendants  have  been  identified  with  the  life 
of  the  metropolis,  and  it  is  peculiar  that  no 


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member  of  the  family  has  removed  to  any 
other  city  throughout  all  that  time. 

Henry  Casimir  de  Rham  was  the  son  of 
Wilhelm  de  Rham,  of  Brunswick,  northern 
Germany,  and  his  wife,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir 
James  Kiniock,  Bart.,  of  Gilmerton,  Scotland. 
He  was  born  at  Giez,  near  Yverdon,  Switzer- 
land, July  15,  1785,  so  that  sentiments  closely 
connected  with  Germany,  Scotland  and  Swit- 
zerland were  associated  with  him  before  he 
reached  America  in  the  year  he  came  of  age, 
and  four  countries  claimed  his  interest.  He 
took  position  at  once  as  a  good  citizen  of  the 
United  States,  and  when  his  long  life  had 
ended  he  had  merited  the  esteem  of  his  fellow- 
men. 

He  was  educated  at  the  military  school  at 
Munich,  Germany,  and  apparently  was  by 
training  or  inheritance  of  intellect  abundantly 
able  to  look  out  for  himself  as  a  youth  in  a 
strange  land,  for  it  was  not  long  after  his 
arrival  here  that  he"  established  the  banking- 
house  of  de  Rham,  Iselin  &  Moore,  which  was 
later  known  as  de  Rham  &  Moore,  but  at  the 
time  of  his  death  as  de  Rham  &  Company. 
Their  office  was  located  at  William  and  Cedar 
streets,  New  York  City,  and  was  known  as 
one  of  the  city's  most  conservative  financial 
houses.  For  a  long  time  he  was  the  Swiss 
consul-general  at  New  York  City,  and  he  was 
considered  for  a  large  part  of  the  last  century 
a  true  friend  and  excellent  adviser  not  only 
of  the  Swiss,  but  of  many  influential  men  in 
France  and  Switzerland,  whose  material  in- 
terests in  this  country  were  largely  guided  by 
him. 

He  was  a  man  of  splendid  physique,  which 
made  him  attractive  even  in  his  old  age,  but 
this  quality  was  fully  matched  by  a  fine  brain 
and  a  kind,  sympathetic  heart.  He  continued 
to  the  end  of  his  days  to  take  a  lively  inter- 
est in  the  current  events,  and  being  a  great 
reader  became  a  charming  companion  and 
friend.  To  those  of  the  younger  set  it  was  a 
satisfaction  to  him  to  impart  information  from 
his  well-stocked  storehouse  of  knowledge,  and 
his  courtly  ways  commanded  an  unusual  de- 
gree of  respect  from  the  young  and  strangers, 
while  those  of  his  own  years  were  wont  to 
seek  advice  when  facing  problems.  He  was 
particularly  fond  of  whist  as  a  recreation,  even 
when  past  eighty  years  of  age,  exhibiting  ex- 
actness, and  organized  the  Thursday  Evening 
Whist  Club  among  his  intimates. 


Henry  Casimir  de  Rham  married  Maria, 
daughter  of  Dr.  William  Moore,  the  brother 
of  Bishop  Benjamin  Moore,  and  his  wife, 
Jane  (Fish)  Moore.  She  was  born  December 
30,  1784,  and  died  at  New  York,  March,  1855. 
Mr.  de  Rham  survived  her  some  eighteen 
years,  and  died  at  New  York,  October,  1873. 
Both  were  interred  in  the  family  vault  at  St. 
Mark's  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Bowery. 

(H)  Charles  de  Rham,  son  of  Henry 
Casimir  and  Maria  (Moore)  de  Rham,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  October  20,  1822,  and 
died  there,  February  23,  1909.  He  resided 
practically  his  entire  life  in  the  large  brown- 
stone  house.  No.  24  Fifth  avenue,  at  the  north- 
west corner  of  Fifth  avenue  and  Ninth  street. 
He  married,  at  Grace  Episcopal  Church  in 
New  York  City,  May  30,  1849,  Laura  Schmidt. 
She  was  born  in  that  city,  June  24,  1828,  and 
died  at  her  home  there,  May  5,  1899.  She  was 
a  woman  of  most  lovable  character,  and 
brought  up  her  children  to  appreciate  the  re- 
finements of  the  old  school  of  the  best  New 
York  families.  Her  parents  were  John  W. 
Schmidt  and  Eliza  A.  Bache. 

John  W.  Schmidt  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Georg 
Schmidt,  court  physician  to  Queen  Louise  of 
Prussia,  who  discovered  the  healing  qualities 
of  the  waters  of  Alexandersbad,  then  in  Prus- 
sia, now  in  Bavaria.  He  was  born  in  Wunsie- 
del,  a  small  town  near  the  baths,  September 
II,  1781.  According  to  the  custom  of  those 
days,  Mr.  Schmidt,  when  quite  young,  was 
sent  to  Nuremberg  to  begin  a  mercantile  ca- 
reer and  also  to  learn  the  language.  He  ac- 
quitted himself  so  well  that  after  a  few  years 
he  went  to  Leeds,  England,  where  broadcloth 
is  extensively  produced,  and  in  1805  decided 
to  go  to  New  York,  Henry  Casimir  de  Rham 
being  a  passenger  on  the  same  sailing  vessel. 
It  was  his  purpose  to  represent  his  house  in 
America.  In  18 10  he  founded  the  firm  of  J. 
W.  Schmidt  &  Company,  which  continued  in 
business  until  1865.  His  counting-house  was 
at  No.  69  Pine  street,  and  his  residence  at  No. 
106  Greenwich  street.  Not  far  distant,  stood 
the  handsome  home  of  Charles  McEvers,  at 
the  northeast  corner  of  Wall  and  William 
streets,  later  the  site  of  the  Bank  of'  New 
York.  Living  with  him  was  the  pretty  grand- 
daughter of  Theophylact  Bache,  daughter  of 
William  Bache.  He  fell  in  love  with  her,  and 
at  the  end  of  five  years,  married  her,  in  Trinity 
Church,  New  York  City,  December  14,  181 5. 


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He  became  Consul-General  and  Privy-Coun- 
sel of  Prussia  and  Privy  Counsel-General  and 
Charge  d'Affaires  of  Saxony,  Baden,  Olden- 
burg and  Hamburg,  wdiich  positions  he  held 
for  half  a  century.  He  was  kindly  and  court- 
ly, and  possessed  a  degree  of  regard  for  things 
American  which  would  surprise  many  a  so- 
called  patriot.  He  died  at  his  country-seat. 
Locust  Island,  New  Rochelle,  New  York,  Au- 
gust 12,  1865,  and  was  buried  in  Trinity 
Cemetery.  His  wife  died  in  Berlin,  Germany, 
April  10,  1874,  and  was  buried  beside  her  hus- 
band. 

The  children  of  Charles  and  Laura 
(Schmidt)  de  Rham  were:  i.  Elise,  born  in 
New  York  City,  July  18,  1850,  died  at  New 
York  City,  October  10,  1879;  married,  in  the 
Church  of  the  Ascension,  New  York  City, 
April,  1876,  John  Jay  Pierrepont,  who  was 
born  December  3,  1849 ;  resides  at  No.  1 
Pierrepont  Place,  Brooklyn,  New  York ;  son 
of  Henry  Evelyn  Pierrepont,  born  August  8, 
1808,  died  March  28,  1888,  who  married,  De- 
cember I,  1841,  Anna  Maria  Jay,  born  Sep- 
tember 12,  1819,  died  January  2,  1902.  (See 
Pierrepont  and  Jay  Families.)  2.  Henry  Casi- 
mir,  died  in  infancy.  3.  Charles,  see  forward. 
4.  Henry  Casimir,  see  forward.  5.  William, 
born  at  New  York  City,  April  3,  1857,  died  at 
Pau,  France,  January  29,  1881. 

(HI)  Charles  (2)  de  Rham,  son  of 
Charles  (i)  and  Laura  (Schmidt)  de  Rham, 
was  born  at  his  father's  home,  No.  24  Fifth 
avenue.  New  York  City,  January  30,  1854, 
and  resides  there.  His  country-home  is  at 
Cold  Spring,  New  York.  His  office  is  at  No. 
44  Wall  street,  where  he  also  cares  for  real 
estate  investments,  mainly  the  property  of  his 
family  and  of  relatives.  He  attends  the  Epis- 
copal church,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Knick- 
erbocker Club  and  the  Down  Town  Associa- 
tion. 

Charles  de  Rham  married,  in  the  Church 
of  the  Ascension,  New  York  City,  April  13, 
1880,  Emily  Hone  Foster,  who  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  June  6,  1857,  and  is  the 
daughter  of  Frederic  Giraud  and  Emily 
(Hone)  Foster.  Children:  i.  Henry  Casimir, 
2nd,  born  in  New  York  City,  February  2, 
1882,  graduated  from  Harvard,  1904,  married 
at  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  January  25, 
1905,  Frances  Appleton  Dana,  who  was  born 
May  25,  1883.  daughter  of  Richard  Henry 
Dana,  lawyer  of  Boston,  born  in  Cambridge, 


Massachusetts,  January  3,  185 1,  only  son  of 
Richard  Henry  Dana,  Jr.,  author,  born  in 
Cambridge,  August  i,  1815,  died  in  Rome, 
Italy,  January  6,  1882,  who  married,  August 
25,  1841,  Sarah  Watson,  born  May  6,  1814, 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Marsh)  Wat- 
son, of  Hartford,  Connecticut.  Richard  H. 
Dana,  father  of  Mrs.  de  Rham,  married,  Jan- 
uary 10,  1878,  Edith  Longfellow,  daughter 
of  Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow,  the  poet, 
and  his  wife,  Frances  (Appleton)  Longfellow. 
Issue:  i.  Henry  Longfellow,  born  at  Cold 
Spring,  New  York,  September  6,  1905.  ii. 
Richard  Dana,  born  at  Cambridge,  Massachu- 
setts, March  25,  191 1.  2.  Frederic  Foster, 
born  at  Cold  Spring,  New  York,  June  18, 
1883 ;  graduated  from  Harvard  University, 
1905;  Harvard  Law  School,  LL.B.,  1907; 
married,  at  Neuilly,  France,  May  15,  1911, 
Nathalie  Mary  Howland,  who  was  born  at 
Bayside,  New  York,  June  19,  1887,  daughter 
of  Louis  Meredith  Howland  and  his  wife, 
Virginia  (Lawrence)  Howland.  Issue:  Eliz- 
abeth, born  at  Bayside,  New  York,  August  18, 
1912.  3.  Laura,  born  at  New  York  City, 
January  22,  1887,  died  at  Cold  Spring,  New 
York,  May  18,  1906.  4.  Charles,  born  at 
New  York  City,  April  27,  1888;  graduated 
from  Harvard,  1910.  5.  Giraud  Foster,  born 
at  New  York  City,  December  12,  1897.  6. 
Emily  Clarisse,  born  at  New  York  City,  De- 
cember 31,  1902. 

(Ill)  Henry  Casimir  de  Rham,  son  of 
Charles  (i)  and  Laura  (Schmidt)  de  Rham, 
was  born  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  August  12, 
1855.  He  has  traveled  in  Europe  and  exten- 
sively throughout  the  West.  He  is  an  Episco- 
palian, belongs  to  the  Republican  party,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  Knickerbocker,  Union, 
New  York  Yacht,  and  Tuxedo  clubs.  He  re- 
sides at  Tuxedo,  New  York,  and  has  a  sum- 
mer residence  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island.  He 
married  (first)  at  Troy,  New  York,  April  28, 
1885,  Anna  Tayloe  Warren.  She  was  born  in 
that  city,  October  23,  1863,  where  she  was 
educated  in  a  private  school  and  at  the  Emma 
Willard  Seminary,  and  died  at  Lake  Luzerne, 
Warren  county.  New  York,  November  7, 
1892.  She  was  the  daughter  of  George  Bow- 
ers Warren,  born  at  Troy,  June  9,  1828,  died 
there,  October  8,  1905,  and  Eugenia  Phebe 
(Tayloe)  Warren,  the  latter  being  the  fifth 
child  of  Benjamin  Ogle  Tayloe,  of  Washing- 
ton. D.  C.     George  Bowers  Warren  was  the 


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son  of  George  Bouton  and  Mary  Myer 
(Bowers)  Warren,  of  Norwalk  Connecticut. 
No  issue.  He  married  (second)- at  New  York 
City,  April  23,  1895,  Georgiana  Berryman, 
who  was  born  at  tliat  place,  June  28,  1866, 
daughter  of  Charles  H.  and  Harriet  (Whit- 
ney) Berryman,  of  Lexington,  Kentucky. 
Mrs.  Harriet  (Whitney)  Berryman  was  the 
daughter  of  Stephen  Whitney,  of  New  Haven, 
Connecticut,  where  she  was  born,  and  his 
residence  was  at  Bowling  Green  and  White- 
hall street.  New  York  City,  part  of  the  site 
of  the  United  States  Custom  House.  Stephen 
Whitney  married  Hannah  Eugenia  Law- 
rence. Children:  i.  Casimir,  born  at  New- 
port, Rhode  Island,  August  3,  1896.  2.  Wil- 
liam, born  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  Sep- 
tember 28,  1901.  3.  Marion  Elise,  born  at 
New  York  City,  February  12,  1903.  4.  Ste- 
phen Whitney,  born  at  New  York  City,  Octo- 
ber 7,  1905. 


William  Partridge  was  the 

PARTRIDGE  first  one  of  this  family  to 
come  to  America.  He  came 
from  Berwick-on-the-Tweed,  England,  and 
was  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  Hartford, 
Connecticut.  Although  he  wrote  his  name 
"Partrigg,"  a  usual  termination  with  the 
Scotch  and  English  of  his  time,  ever  since  his 
day  the  family  has  followed  the  other  form 
of   Partridge. 

In  the  marriages  of  the  descendants  of 
William  Partridge  through  eight  generations 
therefrom,  nothing  but  Massachusetts  and 
Connecticut  are  represented,  so  that  present- 
day  descendants  may  be  said  to  be  of  pure 
New  England  stock,  and  they  possess  no  fewer 
than  fifty-four  ancestors  who  had  military 
service  during  our  Colonial  period. 

It  has  been  a  family  pronounced  in  two 
distinct  ways,  noted  for  its  longevity,  in  one 
instance  only  three  lives  extending  from  the 
year  1645  to  1900,  or  two  hundred  and  fifty- 
five  years,  and  on  the  other  hand  members  of 
each  generation  have  either  been  chosen  by 
vote  of  their  communities  in  which  they  lived 
to  occupy  office,  or  the  executive  of  city  or 
state  has  selected  one  by  appointment  to  man- 
age affairs  which  required  sound  judgment, 
tact  and  executive  ability.  The  above-men- 
tioned facts  indicate  a  strain  of  blood  superior 
in  both  physical  and  mental  power. 

William    Partridge   was    a   member   of   the 


First  Church  of  Hartford,  which  was  pre- 
sided over  at  that  period  by  the  well-known 
and  erudite  preacher,  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Hooker,  and  later  on  by  Rev.  Samuel  Stone. 
Both  of  these  divines  figure  largely  in  every 
history  of  the  early  days  of  Hartford.  A 
dissension  arose,  and  Partridge  being  one  of 
the  principal  men  of  the  congregation,  was 
naturally  concerned  in  it.  He  took  the  side 
of  what  was  termed  the  "strict  Congregation- 
alists."  This  was  during  Rev.  Stone's  pasto- 
rate, and  he  preferred  withdrawal  from  the 
church  as  a  settlement  of  the  argument  so  far 
as  he  was  concerned ;  consequently,  on  April 
18,  1659,  William  Partridge  and  fifty-nine 
others  entered  into  articles  for  settling  a  new 
community,  and  the  site  they  selected  was 
named  Hadley,  Massachusetts.  This  place 
Partridge  and  his  friends  laid  out,  and  he  be- 
came one  of  the  first  auditors  of  the  settle- 
ment; in  1661,  and  in  1668,  was  made  a 
selectman.  He  held  other  positions,  and  died 
there,  June  27,  1668. 

William  Partridge  married,  at  Hartford, 
Connecticut,  December  12,  1644,  Mary  Smith, 
of  that  place.  She  was  born  in  1625,  and  died 
July  20,  1680.  Children:  i.  Samuel,  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Mary,  married  (first)  John,  son  of 
Lieutenant  Samuel  Smith,  who  came  from 
England  in  the  "Elizabeth,"  in  1634,  and  she 
married  (second)  Peter  Montague. 

(II)  Colonel  Samuel  Partridge,  son  of  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  (Smith)  Partridge,  was  born 
at  Hartford,  Connecticut,  October  15.  1645, 
and  died  at  Hatfield,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber 25,  1740.  He  removed  with  his  parents 
when  they  went  to  establish  the  town  of  Had- 
ley, and  became  a  man  of  commanding  influ- 
ence at  the  latter  place.  Even  his  bold,  clear 
handwriting,  to  be  seen  on  the  numerous  rec- 
ords, confirms  the  fact  that  he  was  a  man 
possessing  force  of  character.  In  1681,  when 
only  thirty-six  years  old,  his  name  was  the 
third  on  the  list  of  taxpayers.  He  served  as 
representative  to  the  General  Court  of  Massa- 
chusetts, 1685-86.  The  following  year,  he  re- 
moved to  Hatfield,  a  new  community,  set  of? 
from  Hadley,  where  he  was  a  leading  inhabi- 
tant ;  was  judge  of  the  probate  court ;  mem- 
ber of  the  governor's  council ;  judge  of  the 
court  of  common  pleas,  and  attained  distinc- 
tion in  military  service,  rising  to  the  rank  of 
colonel,  so  vigorous  of  constitution  that  when 
eighty  years  old  he  was  able  to  take  the  field 


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as  commander-in-chief.  He  was  known  as 
"one  of  the  three  Connecticut  River  Gods," 
vide  "History  of  Western  Mass."  by  J.  G. 
Holland. 

Colonel  Samuel  Partridge  married  (first) 
September  24,  1668,  Mehitable  Crow,  who 
was  born  about  1652,  and  died  December  8, 
1730,  daughter  of  John  Crow,  of  Hartford; 
married  (second)  December  28,  1731,  Mrs. 
Hannah  Edwards,  no  issue  by  the  latter. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  William,  born  No- 
vember 16,  1669,  died  at  Wallingford,  Con- 
necticut, September,  1693;  graduated  Har- 
vard, 1689;  clergyman.  2.  Samuel,  see  for- 
ward. 3.  Mehitable.  born  May  i,  1674,  died 
young.  4.  Mehitable,  born  August  26,  1675  ; 
married,  December  9,  1693,  Nathaniel  Dwight. 
5.  A  child,  born  in  1677,  died  young.  6. 
Mary,  born  1678 ;  married  December  4, 
1695,  Rev.  Josiah  Dwight.  7.  Jonathan, 
born  April  5,  1681,  died  young.  8.  Ed- 
ward, born  April  26,  1683,  died  December  26, 
1757;  married.  May  14,  1707,  Martha  Wil- 
liams. 9.  Jonathan,  born  September  18,  1685, 
died  young.  10.  John,  born  in  1686,  died  at 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  1717;  Harvard, 
1705.  II.  Elizabeth,  born  October  7,  1688; 
married  John  Hamlin,  Jr. 

Only  two  of  Colonel  Samuel  Partridge's 
sons,  above  mentioned,  viz.,  Samuel  and  Ed- 
ward, lived  to  have  families  and  these,  respec- 
tively, constitute  the  elder  and  younger 
branches  of  the  family.  The  succeeding  facts, 
herein  recorded,  relate  to  the  descendants  of 
Samuel,  Jr.,  the  elder  brother.  The  history  of 
the  descendants  of  Edward,  the  younger 
brother,  is  closely  identified  with  that  of  Berk- 
shire county,  Massachusetts.  Two  sisters  in 
the  generation  above  mentioned,  viz.,  Mehit- 
able and  Mary,  married,  respectively,  Nathan- 
iel Dwight,  of  Northampton,  Massachusetts, 
and  Rev.  Josiah  Dwight,  of  Woodstock,  Con- 
necticut, who  were  brothers  and  had  large 
families.  In  this  way  it  arises  that  about  one- 
half  of  all  bearing  the  name  of  "Dwight"  pos- 
sess Partridge  blood.  The  elder  President 
Dwight  of  Yale  was  a  descendant  of  Mehit- 
able Partridge. 

(HI)  Samuel  (2)  Partridge,  son  of  Colonel 
Samuel  (i)  and  Mehitable  (Crow)  Partridge, 
was  born  at  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  January 
21,  1672,  and  died  there,  June  23,  1729.  He 
resided  in  the  place  of  his  nativity  all  his  life. 
Samuel  Partridge  married,  May  2,  1695,  Mrs. 


Mary  (Cotton)  Atwater,  who  was  born  April 
22,  1670,  and  died  June  23,  1729.  She  was  a 
descendant  of  John  Cotton,  also  of  Governor 
Simon  Bradstreet  and  of  Governor  Thomas 
Dudley.  Children:  i.  William,  born  January 
9,  1696,  died  young.  2.  Samuel,  born  June  i, 
1697.  3.  Mary,  born  June  15,  1698;  married 
Isaac  Mattoon,  of  Northfield.  4.  Elizabeth, 
born  September  22,  1701  ;  married  Ezekiel 
Kellogg,  of  New  Salem.  5.  Dorothy,  born 
March  2,  1703,  died  young.  6.  Cotton,  see 
forward.  7.  Mehitable,  born  October  8,  1707; 
married  Thomas  Barnard,  of  Tolland,  Con- 
necticut. 8.  William,  born  September  15, 
1710;  Yale,   1729;  secretary  of  Nova  Scotia. 

(IV)  Cotton  Partridge,  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
and  Mary  (Cotton)  Partridge,  was  born  at 
Hadley,  Massachusetts,  October  13,  1705,  and 
died  there,  September  28,  1733.  He  resided 
at  his  native  place  throughout  his  life,  which 
was  a  short  one  in  comparison  with  members 
of  his  family,  for  he  died  in  his  twenty-eighth 
year.  Cotton  Partridge  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Captain  Moses  and  Mary  (Bar- 
nard) Cook.  She  was  born  March  18,  171 1. 
Captain  Moses  Cook  was  the  son  of  Captain 
Aaron  Cook,  of  Hadley,  and  the  grandson  of 
Major  Aaron  Cook,  of  Hartford,  Westfield 
and  Northampton.  Captain  Moses  Cook  mar- 
ried, July  4,  1698,  Mary  Barnard,  who  was 
born  August  11,  1681,  and  died  in  1753, 
daughter  of  Captain  Samuel  Barnard,  of  Had- 
ley. Children:  i.  Samuel,  see  forward.  2. 
Sybil,  born  October  7,  1732;  married  Josiah 
Dickinson. 

(V)  Lieutenant  Samuel  (3)  Partridge,  son 
of  Cotton  and  Margaret  (Cook)  Partridge, 
was  born  at  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  July  3, 
1730,  and  died  at  Hatfield,  April  4.  1809.  He 
resided  at  Hatfield  most  of  his  life  and  par- 
ticipated in  the  French  and  Indian  War  as  a 
lieutenant  of  a  company  of  foot,  in  the  regi- 
ment of  Colonel  William  Williams,  raised  by 
Massachusetts  for  the  reduction  of  Canada, 
and  was  present  at  the  fall  of  Quebec.  Lieu- 
tenant Samuel  Partridge  married,  at  Hatfield, 
January  18,  1754,  Abigail  Dwight.  She  was 
Ijorn  September  19,  1733,  died  February  26, 
181 6,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Captain  Seth 
and  Abigail  (Strong)  Dwight.  .granddaughter 
of  Captain  Henry  and  Lydia  (Hawley) 
Dwight,  great-granddaughter  of  Captain  Tim- 
othy and  Anna  (Flint)  Dwight,  and  thus  in 
a  third  branch  of  the  "Dwight"  family  there 


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occurred  a  marriage  of  those  of  the  names  of 
"Dwight"  and  "Partridge."  Children:  i. 
Esther,  born  March  26,  1761,  died  December 
22,  1834.  2.  Cotton,  see  forward.  3.  Samuel, 
born  1767,  died  young.  4.  Samuel,  born 
1776;  married,  September  8,  1796,  Mabel, 
daughter  of  General  Lemuel  Dickinson ;  she 
died  November  4,  1841,  aged  sixty-five  years, 
and  he  died  in  1856. 

(VI)  Cotton  (2)  Partridge,  son  of  Lieu- 
tenant Samuel  (3)  and  Abigail  (Dwight) 
Partridge,  was  born  December  i,  1765,  and 
died  at  Hatfield,  Massachusetts,  November  13, 
1846,  where  he  resided  all  his  life.  Cotton 
Partridge  married  (first)  Sophia  Arms, 
daughter  of  Deacon  Arms,  of  Deerfield,  Mass- 
achusetts, and  she  died  June  29,  1793  ;  he  mar- 
ried (second)  June  2;>^,  1796,  Hannah  Lyman, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Joseph  Lyman,  D.D.,  and 
Hannah  (Huntington)  Lyman,  who  was  born 
July  20,  1773,  and  died  May  10,  1835,  thus  a 
relationship  was  established  with  the  North- 
ampton "Lymans,"  and  the  Norwich,  Connec- 
ticut, "Huntingtons,"  also  a  descent  from  Gov- 
ernor John  Webster.  Children,  two  by  first 
marriage:  i.  Dwight,  born  May  30,  1789,  died 
at  Phelps,  New  York,  November  13, 1817  ;  mar- 
ried Betsey  Sabin.  2.  Theodore,  born  October 
26,  1791 ;  married,  at  Raleigh,  North  Carolina, 
July  4,  1848,  Electa,  daughter  of  John  Part- 
ridge. 3.  Sophia  Arms,  born  May  7,  1797, 
died  March  5,  1863;  married  Moses  Morton, 
of  Hatfield,  Massachusetts,  son  of  Josiah  and 
Phebe  Morton,  of  Longmeadow.  4.  Eunice, 
born  June  16,  1800;  married,  June  19,  1823, 
Horace  Janes,  of  St.  Albans,  Vermont.  5. 
Hannah  Huntington,  born  March  8,  1802; 
married  (first)  David  S.  Whitney,  of  North- 
ampton: married  (second)  Joseph  H.  Brain- 
erd,  of  St.  Albans.  6.  Joseph  Lyman,  see  for- 
ward. 7.  Abigail  Dwight,  born  April  25,  1806, 
died  November  25,  1745;  married  (first)  Rev. 
Levi  Pratt,  of  Medford,  Massachusetts,  no 
issue;  married  (second)  Februarv  25,  1839, 
Lebbeus  B.  Ward,  of  New  York  City.  8. 
Maria  Cotton,  born  November  28.  1808,  died, 
unmarried,  1897.  9.  Fanny,  born  March  22, 
181 1,  died  in  1848;  married.  May,  1839, 
Joseph  H.  Brainerd,  of  St.  Albans,  Vermont, 
who  was  born  in  1801  ;  resided  there;  Yale, 
1822;  state  senator  and  for  thirty-eight  years 
clerk  of  the  court;  d;':d  March  28,  1879.  10. 
George  Cotton,  born  August  27,  1813,  died  in 
1893;    Amherst,    1833:    Andover    Theological 


Seminary,  1838 ;  married,  in  1840,  Sophia 
Harmer  Johns,  daughter  of  Rev.  Evans  Johns, 
of  Canandaigua,  New  York,  and  Fanny  (Ly- 
man) Johns.  II.  Harriet,  born  November  17, 
1815,  died  in  1882;  married,  1836,  Albert 
Woodrufif,  merchant  of  New  York.  12. 
Henry  Dwight,  born  in  1818,  died  in  1822. 

(VH)  Joseph  Lyman  Partridge,  son  of 
Cotton  (2)  and  Hannah  (Lyman)  Partridge, 
was  born  at  Hatfield,  Massachusetts,  June  7, 
1804,  and  died  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1900.  He  was  graduated  from  Wil- 
liams College  in  1828.  Returning  to  Williams- 
town,  Massachusetts,  1829,  he  was  a  tutor 
during  two  years  and,  later,  for  the  same 
length  of  time  at  the  Berkshire  Gymnasium, 
Pittsfield,  Massachusetts.  It  was  his  intention 
to  enter  the  ministry,  and  with  this  object  in 
view  went  to  Andover  Theological  Seminary, 
but  poor  health  and  the  prospect  of  a  seden- 
tary life,  led  him  to  relinquish  theological 
study.  From  1834  to  1841  he  was  the  prin- 
cipal of  the  Leicester  Academy,  which  was 
then  an  institution  of  prominence  in  Massa- 
chusetts. Subsequently  he  lived  in  Boston 
and  later  spent  six  years  in  Auburndale,  Mass- 
achusetts. He  laid  out  this  town  and  built  a 
house  there,  in  1848,  the  first  residence  in  that 
place.  He  was  then  editor  of  The  Puritan 
Recorder,  of  Boston.  From  1853  to  1858  he 
resided  in  Brooklyn,  in  business  with  \\'ood- 
ruff  &  Robinson ;  then  removed  to  Lawrence, 
Massachusetts,  where  for  two  years  he  was 
engaged  in  manufacture  of  paper.  On  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  W^ar,  President  Lincoln 
appointed  him  collector  of  internal  revenue, 
and  he  remained  such  until  the  war  taxes  were 
removed.  Thereafter  he  was  treasurer  of  the 
J.  C.  Hoadley  Steam  Engine  Company,  living 
in  Lawrence,  Massachusetts.  He  retired  from 
activities  in  1878,  being  seventy-four  years 
old,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  in 
Brooklyn,  New  York.  For  more  than  twenty 
years  he  was  a  member  and  senior  official  of 
the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims  in  Brooklyn,  Rev. 
Dr.  Richard  Storrs,  pastor.  He  was  a  man  of 
scholarly  attainments,  and  every  Sunday  was 
accustomed  until  his  ninetieth  year  to  read  a 
chapter  of  the  Greek  Testament,  while  in  the 
summer  he  reread  Virgil.  Until  he  entered 
his  ninety-sixth  year  he  retained  remarkable 
physical  activity,  suff^ering  no  impairment  of 
sight  or  hearing,  and  with  unimpaired  intellect, 
riding  a  horse  at  ninety-two  years. 


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Joseph  Lyman  Partridge  married,  at  Lei- 
cester, Massachusetts,  August  9,  1837,  Zibiah 
Nelson  Willson,  daughter  of  Rev.  Luther  and 
Sally  (Bigelow)  Willson.  She  was  born  at 
Brooklyn,  Connecticut,  September  18,  1818, 
and  died  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  December  8, 
1903,  after  sixty-two  years  of  their  married 
life.  Rev.  Luther  Willson,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Sarah  (Matthews)  Willson,  was  born  in  New 
Braintree,  Massachusetts,  April  26,  1783,  died 
at  Petersham,  Massachusetts,  November  20, 
1864;  graduate  of  Williams  College,  1807; 
principal  of  Leicester  Academy ;  installed  pas- 
tor of  the  First  Church  of  Petersham,  June 
23,  1819 ;  married,  November  30,  1806,  Sally 
Bigelow  (of  the  Watertown  and  Waltham 
"Bigelow"  family),  who  was  born  July  6, 
1783,  died  January  29,  1826,  daughter  of  Abi- 
jah  and  Mercy  Amelia  (Spring)  Bigelow. 
Children:  i.  John  Nelson,  see  forward.  2. 
Joseph  Lyman,  born  March  11,  1845,  ^'^d 
September  23,  1849.  3.  Edward  Lasell,  see 
forward. 

(VIII)  Colonel  John  Nelson  Partridge,  son 
of  Joseph  Lyman  and  Zibiah  Nelson  (Will- 
son)  Partridge,  was  born  at  Leicester,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  28,  1838,  residing  in 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  until  1904,  then  retir- 
ing to  Westport,  Connecticut.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  Leicester  Academy  and  entered  a 
mercantile  establishment  in  Boston,  where  he 
remained  until  1861,  when,  at  the  beginning 
of  the  Civil  War,  he  decided  to  participate  in 
defense  of  the  Union.  On  September  2,  1861, 
aged  twenty-three  years,  he  was  appointed 
first  lieutenant  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers.  His  first  service  was  in 
the  Burnside  expedition  to  North  Carolina. 
He  was  engaged  with  his  regiment  in  the  bat- 
tles of  Roanoke  Island  and  Newbern ;  later 
on,  at  Kinston,  Whitehall  and  Goldsborough. 
From  December,  1862,  until  September  of  the 
next  year  he  served  in  operations  under  Gen- 
erals Hunter  and  Gilmore  in  South  Carolina, 
which  culminated  in  the  siege  and  capture  of 
Forts  Wagner  and  Sumter.  He  was  promoted 
to  a  captaincy  in  April,  1864,  and  assigned  to 
the  Army  of  the  James,  co-operating  with  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac  under  Grant  in  opera- 
tions around  Petersburg  and  Richmond.  He 
was  wounded  at  Drury's  Bluff,  May  12,  1864, 
and  was  honorably  discharged  in  September, 


By  appointment  of  Governor  Theodore 
Roosevelt,  he  became  state  superintendent  of 
public  works,  January  i,  1899,  and  he  was 
reappointed  by  Governor  Odell.  He  conduct- 
ed the  department  in  a  manner  so  satisfactory 
to  the  public  that  the  record  stands  as  one  to 
be  emulated  by  others,  and  of  him,  President 
Roosevelt  says  in  his  autobiography,  "I  doubt 
if  there  ever  was  an  important  department  of 
the  New  York  state  government  run  with  a 
higher  standard  of  efficiency  and  integrity." 
Seth  Low,  when  mayor  New  York,  appointed 
him  commissioner  of  police,  January  i,  1901. 
His  record  in  the  National  Guard  notes  a  ser- 
vice of  twenty-five  years  in  the  Twenty-third 
Regiment,  during  ten  of  which  he  was  colonel. 
He  engaged  in  the  warehouse  business  in 
Brooklyn,  in  which  city  he  was  fire  commis- 
sioner and  police  commissioner,  1882  to  1885 
under  Seth  Low,  then  mayor  of  Brooklyn ; 
later  was  president  of  the  Brooklyn  City  and 
Newtown  Railroad  Company,  1886-97. 

Colonel  John  N.  Partridge  married  (first) 
September  28,  1865,  Sarah  Howard  Manning, 
of  Boston,  daughter  of  Francis  C.  and  Abby 
(Howard)  Manning,  who  was  born  January 
25,  1840,  and  died  October  12,  1887.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  at  Westport,  Connecticut,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1906,  Charlotte,  daughter  of 
William  Leonard  and  Anna  Elizabeth  Held. 
Child :  Nelson  Howard,  born  at  Boston,  Mass- 
achusetts, November  i,  1868;  Williams  Col- 
lege, class  of  1890;  in  1914  resided  at  Denver, 
Colorado ;  married,  at  Colorado  Springs,  Col- 
orado, November  14,  1893,  Emily  Blanche 
Jones,  daughter  of  Joseph  Stanley  and  Emily 
Blanche  (Browne)  Jones,  of  Washington, 
D.  C,  by  whom :  i.  Nelson  Howard,  Jr.,  born 
at  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado,  October  14, 
1894;  attended  Thatcher  School,  NordhoflF, 
California;  afterwards  Harvard,  class  of 
1907.  ii.  Josephine  Stanley,  born  Colorado 
Springs,  Colorado,  September  19,  1895 ;  edu- 
cated at  Quincy  Mansion  School,  Wollaston, 
Massachusetts. 

(VIII)  Dr.  Edward  Lasell  Partridge,  son 
of  Joseph  Lyman  and  Zibiah  Nelson  (Will- 
son)  Partridge,  was  born  at  Auburndale,  now 
a  part  of  Newton,  Massachusetts,  September 
27,  1853,  and  resides  at  No.  19  Fifth  avenue. 
New  York  City.  He  was  graduated  from  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  New 
York   in    1875,   with   subsequently  a  hospital 


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service,  and  entered  upon  his  professional  ca- 
reer of  general  practice,  with  special  attention 
to  obstetrics.  He  is  the  author  of  "Manual 
of  Obstetrics,"  1884,  and  many  contributions 
to  current  medical  literature,  as  well  as  the 
American  editor  of  "Verrier's  Manual,"  1884. 
Williams  College  conferred  on  him  the  degree 
of  M.A.,  in  1880.  He  has  been  closely  identi- 
fied with  several  New  York  institutions,  hav- 
ing been  visiting  physician,  1888,  later  consult- 
ing physician  to  the  New  York  Hospital,  1893, 
total  service  of  twenty-five  years  to  date  of 
this  writing. 

He  was  appointed  visiting  physician  to  the 
New  York  Nursery  and  Child's  Hospital  in 
1882,  later  becoming  consulting  physician,  a 
director,  and  chairman  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee, a  service  with  this  hospital  for  more 
than  thirty  years ;  was  professor  of  obstetrics, 
New  York  Post-Graduate  Medical  School, 
1883-84;  professor  of  obstetrics  in  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  medical  depart- 
ment of  Columbia  University  until  his  resig- 
nation, 1885-90;  visiting  physician  to  the  New 
York  City  Maternity  Hospital  for  two  years ; 
then  to  the  Sloane  Maternity  Hospita'l  and 
member  of  the  board  of  managers  for  five 
years. 

He  has  membership  in  the  State  Medical; 
the  Practitioners ;  the  New  York  Medical  and 
Surgical  Society;  the  Academy  of  Medicine; 
and  is  honorary  member  Society  of  the  New 
York  Hospital,  and  of  the  Sloane  Hospital 
for  Women.  Pie  is  member  and  trustee  of  the 
Century  Club ;  member  of  the  University  and 
of  the  Riding  clubs;  member  of  the  Council 
and  surgeon  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars ; 
member  of  the  Huguenot  Society.  He  serves 
as  trustee  or  director  of  the  following:  Amer- 
ican Scenic  and  Historic  Preservation  Soci- 
ety; the  New  York  Institute  for  the  Educa- 
tion of  the  Blind;  the  Washington  Square 
Home  for  Friendless  Girls,  president  1913; 
the  Washington  Square  Association,  a  foun- 
der; the  New  York  Dispensary;  the  Northern 
Dispensary;  the  New  England  Society;  was 
"Hudson-Fulton"  commissioner,  1909. 

With  a  keen  interest  in  the  natural  beauty 
of  the  Hudson  river,  he  was  "a  pioneer  in 
the  movement  which  led  to  the  creation  of  the 
Highlands  of  the  Hudson,  Forest  Reserva- 
tion," and  later,  through  appointment  of  the 
governors  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey    be- 


came a  commissioner  of  the  Palisades  Inter- 
state Park  and  of  the  Harriman  Park. 

Dr.  Edward  L.  Partridge  married,  at  Clin- 
ton, Oneida  county.  New  York,  September  18, 
1884,  Gertrude  Edwards  Dwight.  She  was 
born  at  Clinton,  New  York,  September  24, 
1856,  died  at  Cornwall-on-Hudson,  September 
7,  1907,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Professor 
Theodore  W.  Dwight,  LL.D.,  and  Mary  Bond 
(Olmstead)  Dwight.  Professor  Dwight  was 
founder,  and  for  more  than  thirty  years  the 
head  of  Columbia  College  Law  School,  and 
this  marriage  was  the  fourth  between  those  of 
the  names  of  "Dwight"  and  "Partridge,"  two 
of  these  marriages  having  taken  place  two  hun- 
dred years  before.  The  homes  of  Dr.  Partridge 
have  been  New  York  City  and  "Storm  King," 
Cornwall  -  on  -  Hudson.  Child  :  Theodore 
Dwight,  born  in  New  York  City,  December 
26,  1890;  educated  at  private  schools,  then 
Yale,  class  of  1912,  after  which  he  entered 
Harvard  Law  School. 


The  family  name  of  Thacher 
THACHER  is  derived  from  the  occupa- 
tion of  thatching,  which  was 
a  calling  followed  in  England  by  a  great  many 
in  the  time  of  Alfred  the  Great,  when  the  per- 
son who  placed  the  thack  or  thatch  upon  a 
dwelling  was  in  demand  every  time  a  house 
was  built.  When  the  clerks  wrote  the  name 
of  the  person  who  followed  that  calling,  he 
made  the  surname  "le  Thacher,"  or  "le 
Thatcher,"  and  sometimes  "le  Thachere,"  as 
found  in  the  Hundred  Roll  and  in  old  parlia- 
mentary writs,  one  also  finds  "le  Thacher," 
quite  commonly.  It  is  true  that  since  those 
times  descendants  of  the  same  family  have 
made  changes  to  suit  themselves,  such  as 
Thacker,  Thackery,  Thakeray,  and  Thacku- 
ray.  Even  the  family  names  of  Thaxter  and 
Thackstere  are  to  be  traced  to  the  same  origin 
in  old  English  days. 

Considering  the  families  living  in  England 
to-day,  one  must  reach  the  conclusion  that  the 
prevailing  form  of  spelling  the  name  in  almost 
every  locality  of  that  country  is  "Thatcher." 
The  Yarmouth-Boston  branch  of  the  Somer- 
set, England,  family  spell  the  name  "Thacher," 
claiming  that  it  is  the  correct  form  as  the  emi- 
grant ancestor  and  the  four  successive  genera- 
tions accepted  and  adhered  to  it.  After  that 
period,  of  about  a  century,  those  residing  in 
Boston  and  the  Cape  Cod  region  continued  so 


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to  spell  the  name ;  but  many  who  removed  to 
other  parts  of  the  country  harked  back  to  the 
English  form.  One  has  only  to  examine  the 
will  of  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  signed  by  him 
on  February  i,  164 1,  on  file  in  the  Prerogative 
Court  of  Canterbury,  to  be  satisfied  that  he 
wrote  it  "Thacher." 

The  Thacher  family  arms:  Gules,  a  cross 
moline  argent;  on  a  chief  or,  three  grasshop- 
pers, proper.  Crest :  .\  grasshopper,  proper, 
resting  upon  a  helmet,  visor  closed  in  profile, 
proper. 

(I)  The  family  is  of  English  origin,  and 
those  in  America  trace  descent  to  the  family 
which  dwelt  in  Somersetshire,  England.  The 
positive  ancestor  was  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  who 
was  installed  vicar  of  St.  Barnabas'  Church 
at  Queen  Camel,  on  December  4,  1574.  As 
the  laws  of  the  Church  of  England  then  re- 
quired that  the  candidate  for  holy  orders  be 
over  twenty-three  years  old  and  could  not  be 
made  a  priest  until  two  years  after,  he  must 
have  been  born  some  time  previous  to  1549. 
The  children  of  Rev.  Peter  Thacher  were:  i. 
Rev.  Peter,  born  in  Queen  Camel,  Somerset, 
England,  previous  to  March  6,  1588,  who  left 
Queen's  College  to  enter  Corpus  Christi  Col- 
lege of  the  same  university;  elected  a  scholar 
on  the  Somerset  foundation,  July  19,  1603; 
received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1609 ;  degree  of  Master  of  Arts, 
March  14,  161 1  ;  admitted  to  the  Bodleian 
Library,  at  Oxford,  October  10,  1610;  or- 
dained a  deacon  of  the  Church  of  England, 
June  7,  1612,  by  Rev.  John  King,  Lord  Bishop 
of  London ;  instituted  vicar  of  Milton  Cleve- 
don,  in  the  diocese  of  Bath  and  Wells,  St. 
James'  Church,  August  9,  1616,  about  twelve 
miles  from  Queen  Camel;  made  his  will  Feb- 
ruary I,  1641,  and  it  was  probated  August  5, 
1641  ;  died  February  16,  1641.  2.  Antony,  see 
forward.    3.  John,  born  in  1591,  died  in  1653; 

married   Rebecca  .     4.  Giles,   born   in 

1592,  died  August,  1602,  and  was  buried  at 
Queen  Camel.  5.  Thomas,  born  between 
1593   and    1600,   died  August,    1650;   married 

(first)  Alice ;  married  (second)  Marie 

Lokier. 

(II)  Antony  Thacher,  son  of  Rev.  Peter 
Thacher,  of  Queen  Camel,  county  Somerset, 
England,  was  born  there  in  1589.  He  died 
between  the  date  of  signing  a  paper  on  June 
30,  1667,  and  the  day  of  the  inventory  of  his 


estate,  August  22,  1667.  He  set  sail  from 
Southampton,  England,  on  April  5,  1635, 
aboard  the  ship  "James,"  of  London,  which 
arrived  at  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  June  4, 
1635.  In  the  ship's  clearance,  he  was  put 
down  as  "tayler" ;  but  this  form  of  entry  was 
probably  for  deceptive  purposes  to  avoid  re- 
ligious persecution,  for  he  was  a  curate  of 
the  Church  of  England  at  the  time  of  his 
departure.  It  is  believed  that  his  cousin.  Rev. 
Joseph  Avery,  with  his  wife  and  six  children, 
and  his  nephew,  Thomas  Thacher,  also  Peter 
Higden,  a  servant,  accompanied  him  on  the 
voyage,  although  only  the  names  of  Antony 
and  Higden  appear  on  the  list  of  passengers. 
Antony  Thacher  remained  a  short  time  at 
Ipswich,  when  Rev.  Joseph  Avery  received  an 
invitation  to  preach  at  Marblehead,  Massa- 
chusetts, so  they,  with  their  respective  fami- 
lies (except  his  nephew,  Thomas,  then  fifteen 
years  old,  who  preferred  to  travel  by  land), 
embarked  for  that  place  on  August  11,  1635. 
They  suffered  a  terrible  wreck  when  ofif  Cape 
Cod.  and  all  but  Antony  and  his  wife  were 
drowned.  Antony  wrote  a  full  account  of  the 
sad  misfortune  to  his  brother  Peter,  in  which 
among  other  things  he  said  : 

I  must  turn  my  drowned  pen  and  shaking  hand 
to  indite  the  story  of  such  sad  news  as  never  be- 
fore has  happened  in  New  England.  There  was  a 
league  of  perpetual  friendship  between  my  cousin 
Avery  and  myself,  never  to  forsake  each  other  to 
the  death ;  but  to  be  partakers  of  each  other's 
misery  or  welfare,  as  also  of  habitation  in  the 
same  place.  Now  upon  our  arrival  at  New  Eng- 
land, there  was  an  offer  made  unto  us.  My  cousin 
Avery  was  invited  to  Marblehead  to  be  their  pastor 
in  due  time;  there  being  no  church  planted  there 
as  yet,  but  a  town  appointed  to  set  up  the  trade 
of  fishing.  Because  many  there  (the  most  being 
fishermen)  were  something  loose  and  remiss  in 
their  behavior,  my  cousin  Avery  was  unwilling  to 
go  thither,  and  so  refusing,  we  went  to  Newbury, 
intending  there  to  sit  down.  But  being  solicited 
so  often,  both  by  the  men  of  the  place  and  by  the 
magistrates,  and  by  Mr.  Cotton,  the  most  of  the 
ministers,  who  alleged  what  a  benefit  we  might  be 
to  the  people  there,  and  also  to  the  country  and 
commonwealth,  at  length  we  embraced  it,  and 
thither  consented  to  go.  They  of  Marblehead 
forthwith  sent  a  pinnace  for  us  and  our  goods. 
We  embarked  at  Ipswich,  August  11,  1635.  with  our 
families  and  substance,  bound  for  Marblehead,  we 
being  in  all  twenty-three  souls,  viz. :  eleven  in  my 
cousin's  family,  seven  in  mine,  and  one,  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Elliott,  sometime  of  New  Sarum,  and  four 
mariners. 

The  next  morning,  having  commended  ourselves 
to   God   with   cheerful   hearts,   we   hoisted   sail;    but 


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the  Lord  suddenly  turned  our  cheerfulness  into 
mourning  and  lamentations,  for,  on  the  fourteenth 
of  August,  1635,  about  ten  at  night,  having  a  fresh 
gale  of  wind,  our  sails  being  old  and  done,  were 
split,  the  mariners,  because  it  was  night,  would  not 
put  to  her  new  sails ;  but  resolved  to  cast  anchor 
till  the  morning.  But  before  daylight  it  pleased 
the  Lord  to  send  so  mighty  a  storm  as  the  like  was 
never  known  in  New  England  since  the  English 
came,  nor  in  the  memory  of  any  of  the  Indians. 

It  was  so  furious  that  our  anchor  came  home, 
whereupon  the  mariners  let  out  more  cable,  which 
slipped  away.  Then  our  sailors  knew  not  what  to 
do;  but  we  were  driven  before  the  wind  and  waves. 
My  cousin  and  I  perceived  our  danger,  and  sol- 
emly  recommended  ourselves  to  God,  the  Lord  both 
of  earth  and  seas,  expecting  with  every  wave  to 
be  swallowed  up  and  drenched  in  the  deep ;  and  as 
my  cousin,  his  wife,  and  my  tender  babes  sat  com- 
forting and  cheering  one  the  other  in  the  Lord 
against  ghastly  death,  which  every  moment  stared 
us  in  the  face,  and  sat  triumphing  upon  each  one's 
forehead,  we  were,  by  the  violence  of  the  waves 
(by  the  Lord's  permission),  lifted  up  upon  a  rock, 
between  two  high  rocks,  yet  all  was  one  rock;  but 
it  raged  with  the  stroke  which  came  into  the  pin- 
nace, so  as  we  were  presently  up  to  our  middles 
in  water  as  we  sat.  The  waves  came  furiously  and 
violently  over  us  and  against  us ;  but  by  reason 
of  the  rocks'  position  could  not  lift  us  off;  but 
beat  her  all  to  pieces.  *  *  * 

But  I  must  go  on  to  the  end  of  this  woeful  re- 
lation. In  the  same  room  whereat  he  sat,  the  mas- 
ter of  the  pinnace  not  knowing  what  to  do,  our 
foremast  was  cut  down,  our  mainmast  broken  in 
three  pieces,  the  fore  part  of  the  pinnace  beat  away, 
our  goods  swimming  about  the  seas,  my  children 
bewailing  me  as  not  pitying  themselves,  and  myself 
bemoaning  them,  poor  souls,  whom  I  had  occa- 
sioned to  such  an  end  in  their  tender  years,  when 
as  they  could  scarce  be  sensible  of  death.  *  *  * 

Now  as  I  was  sitting  in  the  cabin  room  door, 
with  my  body  in  the  room,  when  lo.  one  of  the 
sailors  by  a  wave,  being  washed  out  of  the  pinnace, 
was  gotten  in  again,  and  coming  into  the  cabin 
room  over  my  back,  cried  out.  We  are  all  cast 
away,  the  Lord  have  mercy  upon  us.  I  have  been 
washed  overboard  into  the  sea,  and  gotten  in 
again.  His  speech  made  me  look  forth,  and  look- 
ing towards  the  sea.  and  seeing  how  we  were.  I 
turned  myself  to  my  cousin  and  the  rest,  and  spake 
these  words, — Oh.  cousin,  it  hath  pleased  God  to 
cast  us  here  between  two  rocks,  the  shore  not  far 
off  from  us,  for  I  saw  the  tops  of  trees  when  I 
looked  forth.  Whereupon  the  master  of  the  pin- 
nace, looking  up  to  the  scuttle-hole  of  the  quarter- 
deck, went  out  at  it:  but  I  never  saw  him  after- 
ward. Then  he  that  had  been  in  the  sea  went  out 
again  by  me  and  leaped  overboard  towards  the 
rocks,  whom  afterwards  also  I  could  not  see. 

Now  none  were  left  in  the  barque  that  I  knew 
or  saw,  hut  my  cousin,  his  wife  and  children,  my- 
self and  mine  and  his  maid-servant.  *  *  *  By  a 
mighty  wave.  I  was  with  a  piece  of  the  barque, 
washed  out  upon  part  of  the  rock  where  the  wave 
left  me,  almost  drowned:  but  recovering  my  feet, 
I   saw   above  me   on   the   rock,   mv   daughter    Marv, 


to  whom  I  had  no  sooner  gotten,  but  my  cousin 
Avery  and  his  eldest  son  came  to  us,  being  all 
four  of  us  washed  out  by  one  and  the  same  wave. 

We  all  went  to  a  small  hole  on  the  top  of  the 
rock,  whence  we  called  to  those  in  the  pinnace  to 
come  unto  us,  supposing  we  had  been  in  more 
safety  then  than  they  were  in.  JMy  wife  seeing  us 
there  crept  up  into  the  scuttle  of  the  quarter-deck 
to  come  to  us;  but  presently  came  another  wave, 
and  dashing  the  pinnace  all  to  pieces,  carried  my 
wife  away  in  the  scuttle  as  she  was,  with  the 
greater  part  of  the  quarter-deck  unto  the  shore, 
where  she  was  cast  safely;  but  her  legs  was  some- 
thing bruised,  and  much  timber  of  the  vessel  being 
there  also  cast,  she  was  some  time  before  she  could 
get  away,  being  washed  by  the  waves.  All  the  rest 
that  were  in  the  barque  were  drowned  in  the  merci- 
less seas.  We  four  by  that  wave  were  clean  swept 
away  from  off  the  rock  also,  into  the  sea,  the  Lord 
in  one  instant  of  time  disposing  of  fifteen  souls  of 
us  according  to  his  good  pleasure  and  will.     *     *     * 

When  we  were  come  each  to  the  other  we  went 
and  sat  down  on  the  bank.  But  fear  of  the  seas' 
rolling  and  our  coldness,  would  not  suffer  us  there 
to  remain.  But  we  went  up  into  the  land  and  sat 
us  down  under  a  cedar  tree,  which  the  wind  had 
thrown  down,  where  we  sat  about  an  hour  almost 
dead  with  cold.  But  now  the  storm  was  broken 
up,  and  the  wind  was  calm ;  but  the  sea  remained 
rough  and  fearful  to  us.  My  legs  were  much 
bruised,  and  so  my  head  was;  other  hurt  I  had 
none,  neither  had  I  taken  in  much  quantity  of 
water ;  but  my  heart  would  not  let  me  sit  still  any 
longer. 

I  would  go  to  see  if  any  more  were  gotten  to 
the  land  in  safety,  especially  hoping  to  have  met 
with  some  of  my  own  poor  children;  but  I  could 
find  none,  neither  dead  nor  yet  living.  You  con- 
dole with  me  my  miseries  who  now  begin  to  con- 
sider my  losses.  Now  came  to  my  remembrance 
the  time  and  manner  how  and  when  I  last  saw 
and  left  my  children  and  friends.  One  was  severed 
from  me  sitting  on  the  rock  at  my  feet,  the  other 
three  in  the  pinnace.  My  little  babe,  (ah,  poor 
Peter),  sitting  in  his  sister  Edith's  arms,  who  to 
the  utmost  of  her  power  sheltered  him  from  the 
waters.  My  poor  William  standing  close  unto 
them,  all  three  of  them  looking  ruefully  on  me,  on 
the  rock,  their  very  countenances  calling  unto  me 
to  help  them,  whom  I  could  not  go  unto,  neither 
could  they  come  at  me,  neither  would  the  merci- 
less waves  afford  me  space  of  time  to  use  any 
means  at  all,  either  to  help  them  or  myself.  Oh,  I 
yet  see  their  cheeks,  poor  silent  lambs,  plead  pity 
and  help  at  my  hands. 

Antony  Thacher's  loss  was  severe  not  only 
in  the  way  of  loss  of  his  nearest  of  kin,  but 
whatsoever  his  family  possessed  was  gone. 
He  had  to  start  without  anything,  and  sym- 
pathetically realizing  his  misfortune  the  in- 
habitants set  about  to  assist.  It  appears  upon 
the  records,  under  date  of  September  3,  1635 : 
"It  is  ordered  that  there  shall  be  fforty 
markes  given  to  Mr.  Thacher  out  of  the  treas- 


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ury  towards  his  greate  losses."  Under  date 
of  March  9,  1636-37,  appears :  "Mr.  Anthony 
Thacher  had  granted  him  the  small  iland  at 
the  head  of  Cape  Ann  (upon  w'ch  hee  was 
pserved  from  shipwrack )  as  his  pp  inherit- 
ance." Governor  Winthrop's  Journal  states: 
"the  General  Court  gave  Mr.  Thacher  £26, 
13s.  4d.  towards  his  losses,  and  divers  good 
people  gave  him  besides." 

He  probably  remained  in  Marblehead  for  a 
time,  as  his  son,  John,  was  born  there  in 
1638-39.  A  grant  of  land  was  made  to  him 
at  Alattacheeset  (later  known  as  Yarmouth), 
on  January  7,  1638-39,  and  he  is  recorded 
under  date  of  March  5,  1639,  one  of  a  com- 
mittee for  the  division  of  land.  His  house 
was  erected  on  the  north  side  of  Yarmouth, 
near  the  salt  march,  upon  a  knoll.  From  the 
preference  given  his  name  upon  the  records, 
it  is  to  be  inferred  that  he  was  regarded  as 
the  most  important  one  of  the  three  original 
grantees. 

He  was  admitted  a  freeman  at  a  General 
Court  at  Plymouth,  December  3,  1639.  That 
same  year  he  was  made  town  clerk  and  town 
treasurer  of  Yarmouth,  remaining  in  such  ca- 
pacity until  his  death  in  1667,  when  he  was 
succeeded  by  Edmund  Hawes.  At  the  Gen- 
eral Court  of  election  at  Plymouth,  June  7, 
1642,  he  was  sworn  in  as  a  member  of  the 
grand  inquest,  and  at  that  place,  September 
27,  1642,  he  was  appointed  by  the  court  one 
of  the  council  of  war.  He  was  also  on  the 
list  of  freemen  of  Yarmouth,  and  on  the  roll 
of  those  liable  to  bear  arms  there.     On  June 

6,  1643,  he  was  elected  deputy  to  the  Gen- 
eral Court  from  Yarmouth,  and  on  October 
loth  of  that  year,  he  was  appointed  one  of  a 
committee  "to  provide  a  place  of  defence  for 
the  town  of  Yarmouth  against  sudden  as- 
sault." The  General  Court  at  Plymouth,  on 
June  5,  1644,  appointed  him  "Surveyor  of 
Highways  for  the  town  of  Yarmouth,  and 
also  licensed  by  Court  to  draw  wine  in  Yar- 
mouth." 

Pie  was  awarded  one  hundred  and  ten  acres 
of  upland  and  twenty-six  acres  of  meadow 
land  by  the  General  Court  of  Plymouth,  June 

7.  1648,  as  "his  allotment  for  discovering, 
purchasing  and  other  charges  in  the  settle- 
ment of  Yarmouth."  In  1651,  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  court  to  try  certain  Indians  on 
complaint  made  by  Richard  Sears,  and  in 
1652,  he  laid  out  the  highway  from  Sandwich 


to  Plymouth.  He  died  August  22,  1667,  sur- 
vived by  his  second  wife,  and  was  buried  at 
Yarmouth,  not  far  from  the  marsh  and  be- 
side a  pear  tree  he  had  planted.  Inventory  of 
his  estate  was  taken  the  day  of  his  death.  He 
died  intestate. 

Antony  Thacher  married  (first)  in  1619, 
Mary,  who  died  at  Salisbury,  England,  in 
July,  1634,  and  was  buried  from  St.  Ed- 
mund's Church,  Salisbury,  July  26,  1634, 
probably  in  the  churchyard  there.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  February,  1635,  about  six 
weeks  before  setting  sail  for  America,  Eliza- 
beth Jones,  a  sister  of  Richard  Jones,  of  Dor- 
chester, Massachusetts,  who  came  from  Din- 
der,  England,  sailing  from  VVaimouth,  Eng- 
land, March  20,  1635.  By  first  marriage  five, 
and  by  second,  three  children.  Children:  i. 
William,  born  previous  to  1620;  came  to 
America  with  his  father,  and  was  drowned  in 
the  shipwreck,  August  15,  1635.  2.  Edith, 
born  at  Queen  Camel,  England,  about  Febru- 
ary I,  1622;  was  baptized  there  by  Rev.  Peter 
Thacher,  February  7,  1622;  died  August  15, 
1635,  when  in  the  shipwreck,  and  body  not 
recovered.  3.  Mary,  died  August  15,  1635, 
in  the  shipwreck.  4.  Peter,  died  August  15, 
1635,  in  the  shipwreck.  5.  Benjamin,  born  at 
Salisbury,  England,  April  13,  1634,  died  there, 
about  September  i,  1639;  buried  from  St.  Ed- 
mund's Church,  September  4th ;  was  left  in 
care  of  his  uncle.  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  when 
his  father  departed  for  America.  6.  John, 
see  forward.  7.  John,  died  at  Yarmouth,  No- 
vember 4,  1676:  married  Mary  Thornton.  8. 
Bethia,  died  probably  at  Bristol,  Rhode  Is- 
land, December  19,  1725  ;  married  Jabez  How- 
land. 

(Ill)  Colonel  John  Thacher,  son  of  Antony 
and  Elizabeth  (Jones)  Thacher,  was  born  at 
Marblehead  (then  Salem),  Massachusetts, 
March  17,  1638-39,  died  at  Yarmouth,  Massa- 
chusetts, May  8,  1713;  buried  there  with  mili- 
tary honors.  He  was  a  statesman  and  soldier, 
and  was  generally  known  as  the  Hon.  John 
Thacher.  He  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Yarmouth  about  1640.  In  1668,  he  was 
chosen  a  deputy  to  the  General  Court  at  Ply- 
mouth, and  served  annually  to  the  year  1681, 
excepting  the  years  1672,  1675  and  1677.  He 
was  elected  a  selectman  of  Yarmouth  in 
1668,  and  served  several  years.  He  was 
appointed  a  member  of  the  council  of 
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From  1682  to  1692  he  was  assistant  to 
the  governor  of  the  colony.  In  1692,  he  was 
elected  a  representative,  and  subsequently  an 
assistant  or  councilor  to  the  provincial  coun- 
cil, serving  until  1707.  He  joined  the  militia 
and  attained  the  rank  of  colonel.  He  was 
sworn  as  a  member  of  the  grand  inquest, 
June  5,  1666.  He  was  the  recipient  of  the 
fund  contributed  in  1677  by  Ireland  for  the 
relief  of  those  made  destitute  by  the  Indian 
war,  which  he  distributed  at  Yarmouth.  Col- 
onel John  Thacher  made  his  will  April  25, 
1713.  which  was  probated  July  27,  1713. 

Colonel  John  Thacher  married  (first)  at 
Marshfield,  Massachusetts,  November  6,  1661, 
Rebecca  Winslow,  of  that  place.  She  was 
born  there,  July  15,  1643,  and  died  at  Yar- 
mouth, July  15,  1683.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Josiah  Winslow  (born  at  Droitwich,  Eng- 
land, February  11,  1606,  died  December  i, 
1674),  a  brother  of  Governor  Edward  Wins- 
low, and  of  his  wife,  Margaret  Bourne,  who 
was  buried  at  Marshfield,  October  2,  1683. 
By  this  first  marriage  he  had  nine  children. 
He  married  (second)  at  Yarmouth,  Massa- 
chusetts, January  i,  1684,  Lydia  Gorham,  of 
Barnstable,  Massachusetts,  who  was  born 
there,  November  6,  1661,  and  died  at  Yar- 
mouth, August  2,  1744,  where  she  was  buried; 
daughter  of  Colonel  John  Gorham  and  his 
wife.  Desire  Howland,  both  of  Barnstable, 
Massachusetts.  By  the  second  marriage  he 
had  twelve  children.  Children:  i.  Peter,  born 
May  20,  1665,  died  at  Yarmouth,  February 
12,  1736;  statesman  and  judge;  married  there, 
about  1693,  Thankful  Sturgis.  2.  Deacon 
Josiah,  born  April  26,  1667,  died  at  Yarmouth, 
May  12,  1702;  was  a  deacon;  married  there, 
February  25,  1690,  Mary  Hedge.  3.  Rebecca, 
born  June  i,  1669,  died  at  Barnstable,  April 
10,  1734;  married  (first)  James  Sturgis;  mar- 
ried (second)  at  Yarmouth,  February  28, 
1720,  Ebenezer  Lewis.  4.  Bethia,  born  July 
10,  1 67 1,  died  at  Barnstable,  July  7,  1734; 
married,  at  Yarmouth,  April  9,  1691,  James 
Paine.  5.  John,  born  January  28.  1675,  died 
at  Barnstable,  March  26,  1764 ;  colonel  of  mil- 
itia and  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas ; 
married,  at  Barnstable,  November  10.  1698, 
Desire  Sturgis,  widow  of  Captain  Dimmock. 

6.  Elizabeth,  born  June  ig,  1677,  died  at  Fal- 
mouth. Massachusetts,  May  18,  1710;  married 
there,  October  18,  1699,  Deacon  Moses  Hatch. 

7.  Hannah,  born  August   19,   1679,  died  July 


II,  1689.  8.  Mary,  born  August  3,  1682,  died 
September  7,  1682.  9.  Child,  sex  not  given, 
mentioned  in  a  poem  written  by  its  father. 
10.  Lydia,  born  February  11,  1685,  died  at 
Harwich,  September  3,  1724;  married,  at  Yar- 
mouth, October  13,  1709,  Captain  Joseph 
Freeman.  11.  Mary,  born  February  5,  1687, 
died  at  Barnstable,  June  28,  1778 ;  married, 
at  Yarmouth,  December  23,  1708,  Shubael 
Gorham.  12.  Desire,  born  December  24,  1688, 
died  May  6,  1723;  married  Josiah  Crocker. 
13.  Hannah,  born  October  9,  1690.  died  at 
Colchester,  Connecticut,  May  6,  1780;  mar- 
ried, at  Yarmouth,  probably  1716,  Nathaniel 
Otis.  14.  Mercy,  born  July  23,  1692,  died 
August  27,  1692.  15.  Judah,  see  forward. 
16.  Mercy,  born  December  28,  1695,  died  Au- 
gust 22,  1696.  17.  Ann,  born  Alay  7,  1697, 
died  March  13,  1756;  married.  May  31,  1722, 
John  Lothrop.  18.  Joseph,  born  July  11, 
1699,  died  at  Yarmouth,  June  17,  1763;  mar- 
ried there,  February  24,  1727,  Ruth  Hawes. 
Colonel  Joseph  Thacher  became  a  popular 
character  and  served  in  the  French  and  In- 
dian war.  Principally  through  his  influence  a 
company  of  forty  scouts,  thirteen  of  whom 
were  Indians,  was  raised  to  accompany  the 
Cape  Breton  expedition  in  1745.  The  mem- 
bers of  the  company  made  it  a  condition  of 
their  enlistment  that  Mr.  Thacher  should  be 
their  captain.  It  is  remarkable  that  of  the 
Indians,  three  only  lived  to  return,  two  being 
killed  by  the  enemy  and  eight  dying  of  dis- 
ease; and  that  the  rest  of  the  company, 
though  exposed  to  great  hardship,  lived  to  re- 
turn after  participating  in  the  reduction  of 
Louisburg.  the  strongest  fortress  in  America. 
One  of  Thacher's  Indians,  hired  by  Colonel 
Vaughan  for  a  bottle  of  brandy,  was  the  first 
of  the  provincials  to  enter  the  grand  battery 
at  Louisburg.  He  crawled  in  at  an  embrasure 
and  opened  the  gate,  which  Vaughan  immedi- 
ately entered.  Captain  Thacher  was  later  pro- 
moted to  be  a  colonel.  19.  Benjamin,  born 
June  25,  1702;  seafarer  and  innkeeper;  died 
at  Harwich,  Massachusetts,  August  9,  1768; 
married,  at  Barnstable,  Hannah  Lumbert.  20. 
Mercy,  born  February  7.  1703;  married,  1738, 
James  Harris.  21.  Thomas,  born  April  2, 
1705,  died  at  Annapolis,  Nova  Scotia,  De- 
cember 20,  1746;  mariner;  married,  Febru- 
ary, 1731,  Thankful  Baxter.  Of  these  twenty- 
one  children,  sixteen  married  and  left  issue. 
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and  Lydia  (Gorham)  Thacher,  was  born  at 
Yarmouth,  Massachusetts,  August  20,  1693, 
died  there,  January  8,  1775,  and  was  buried 
in  the  "Old  Cemetery"  burial-ground  of  that 
place,  where  a  tombstone  marked  the  grave. 
He  resided  at  Yarmouth,  where  he  was  a 
prominent  merchant.  He  was  representative 
to  the  General  Court  in  1737;  selectman  from 
1737  for  five  years;  town  treasurer,  from  1737 
for  twelve  years;  town  clerk,  from  1740,  for 
eight  years.  His  house  was  on  the  south  side 
of  the  triangular  common  on  Strawberry 
lane,  in  Yarmouth  Port.  His  will  was  dated 
August  7,  1773,  and  was  probated  at  Barn- 
stable, Massachusetts.  Hon.  Judah  Thacher 
married,  at  Yarmouth,  June  4,  1724,  Sarah 
Crosby,  who  was  born  at  that  place,  February 
4,  1702,  died  there,  October  20,  1771,  and  was 
buried  in  the  cemetery  with  her  husband.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mehitable 
(Miller)  Crosby,  of  Yarmouth,  who  were 
married  there,  February  16,  1693.     Children: 

1.  A  daughter,  born  March  27,  1725.  died 
same  day,  buried  at  Yarmouth,  Massachusetts. 

2.  Joseph,  see  forward.  3.  David,  born  May 
30,  1728,  died  July  29,  1729.  4.  David,  born 
March  14,  1730,  died  November  9,  1801  ;  mar- 
ried Abigail  Russell.  He  was  a  representa- 
tive for  thirty  years  and  also  senator  in  the 
General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  and  was 
often  appointed  to  committees  where  his 
great  experience  and  mature  judgment  were 
of  great  value  to  the  Commonwealth.  He 
held  public  office  during  the  greater  part  of 
his  life ;  he  was  a  member  of  the  committee 
of  safety  during  the  War  of  the  Revolution, 
and  for  fifteen  years  was  a  judge  of  the  court 
of  common  pleas  for  the  county  of  Barn- 
stable. He  was  also  a  member  of  the  conven- 
tions for  forming  and  adopting  the  state  and 
federal  constitutions.  5.  Josiah,  born  Febru- 
ary 2,  1732,  died  January  19,  1802;  married 
(first)  Desire  Crowell ;  married  (second) 
Mary  Miller,  widow  of  Deacon  Isaac  Hedge. 
6.  Judah,  born  January  29,  1734,  died,  un- 
married, at  Halifax.  7.  Sarah,  born  August 
17'  '^7Z7  \  married  (first)  Prince  Hawes ;  mar- 
ried (second)  Thomas  Palmer.  8.  John,  born 
August  25,  1739,  died  August  12,  1799;  mar- 
ried Hannah  Matthews.  9.  William,  born 
March  30,  1743,  died  May  24,  1829;  married 
Thankful  Hedge. 

(V)    Joseph    Thacher,    son    of    Judah    and 
Sarah   (Crosby)  Thacher,  was  born  Septem- 


ber 10,  1726,  and  died  at  Yarmouth,  Massa- 
chusetts, December  2'4,  1771.  Letters  of  ad- 
ministration were  granted  to  his  brother, 
David  Thacher,  April  9,  1772.  Joseph 
Thacher  married,  at  Yarmouth,  July  27,  1749, 
Abigail  Hawes,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Hawes, 
who  was  born  at  that  place,  September  16, 
1730,  died  June  21,  1789.  Ebenezer  Hawes 
was  born  at  Yarmouth,  July  15,  1705,  and 
married,  January  16,  1729,  Sarah  Hedge. 
Children:  i.  Solomon,  born  April  3, '  1750, 
died  October  25,  1798;  married  Susannah 
Crosby.  2.  Peleg,  born  November  22,  1751, 
died  August  12,  1817;  married  Mercy  Mat- 
thews. 3.  Ebenezer,  born  June  2,  1754,  died 
April  I,  1831  ;  married  Tamsen  Taylor.  4. 
Lydia,  born  January  22,  1756,  died  March  9, 
1838;  married  Charles  Hallett.  5.  Isaac,  born 
September  6,  1757,  died  unmarried.  6.  Jo- 
seph, born  April  16,  1759;  married  Abigail 
Gorham.  7.  Sarah,  born  May  10,  1761,  died 
July  27,  1847;  married  Joseph  Vincent.  8. 
Temperance,  born  December  22,  1762,  died 
June  14,  1791.  9.  Daniel,  born  April  29, 
1765,  died  young.  10.  Barnabas,  see  forward. 
II.  Ezekiel,  born  January  26.  1772,  died,  un- 
married, in  1785. 

(\T)  Barnabas  Thacher,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Abigail  (Hawes)  Thacher,  was  born  at  Yar- 
mouth, Massachusetts,  August  26,  1768,  and 
died  September  26,  1836.  Barnabas  Thacher 
married,  April  18,  1793,  Mary  Howes,  of  Yar- 
mouth, who  died  August  11,  1838.  Children: 
I.  Ezekiel,  born  May  i,  1794.  2.  George, 
born  April  2,  1796;  married  and  died  in 
Boston.  3.  Sarah,  born  March  10,  1798.  4. 
Barnabas,  born  April  4,  1800;  married  Mary 
Gray,  of  Yarmouth,  August  13,  1822.  5.  Ed- 
ward, born  January  25,  1802,  died  in  1871 ; 
was  a  manufacturer  of  railroad  spikes  in  Bos- 
ton, and  later  had  salt  works  in  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts;  married  (first)  at  Yarmouth, 
August  13,  1822,  Lydia  T.  Gray,  who  died 
July  4,  1835,  aged  thirty-three  years;  married 
(second)  Melinda  Crowell.  6.  Olive,  born 
December  14,  1803.  7.  Anna,  born  March  14, 
1806.    8.  Isaac,  see  forward.    9.  Mary. 

(VII)  Isaac  Thacher,  son  of  Barnabas  and 
Mary  (Howes)  Thacher,  was  born  July  7, 
1808,  and  died  at  Boston,  February  5,  1883. 
He  was  a  merchant  of  Boston,  where  he  was 
a  man  of  standing,  and  noted  for  his  liberal- 
ity and  general  benevolence.  He  was  a  trus- 
tee and  director  of  numerous  banking  institu- 


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tions  and  charities.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  George  Thacher  &  Company,  East 
India  merchants,  and  later  of  Fearing, 
Thacher  &  Company,  cotton  merchants,  in 
Boston.  Isaac  Thacher  married,  at  Boston, 
November  5,  1835,  EHza  Hichborn.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Sarah  Eliza,  born  January  21,  1842, 
at  Boston,  where  she  died  unmarried,  Febru- 
ary 8,  1886.    2.  George,  see  forward. 

(VIII)  George  Thacher,  son  of  Isaac  and 
Eliza  (Hichborn)  Thacher,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 7,  1843,  at  Boston,  and  died  April  4,  1905, 
at  New  York.  Until  1901  he  was  a  resident 
of  Boston ;  he  then  removed  with  his  family 
to  New  York  City  where  he  resided  until  his 
death.  He  was  not  engaged  in  active  business, 
but  was  a  director  or  trustee  in  numerous 
banking  and  charitable  institutions  and  corpo- 
rations. George  Thacher  married  at  Paris, 
France,  June  21,  1873,  Isabel  Gourhe  (or 
Gourlay),  daughter  of  Archibald  Gourlie  and 
Eliza  Connor,  of  New  York.  Children:  i. 
Archibald  Gourlay,  see  forward.  2.  George 
Oxenbridge,  born  September  6,  1878,  at  New- 
port, Rhode  Island ;  educated  at  Hopkinson's 
School.  Boston,  and  in  Europe :  graduated 
from  Harvard  College,  degree  of  A.B.,  1901  ; 
member  of  the  University  Club  and  of  the 
Harvard  Club,  New  York;  interested  in  fruit 
growing  at  Stevensville,  Montana.  3.  Hamil- 
ton, born  March  9,  1882,  at  Boston;  educated 
at  Hopkinson's  School  and  graduated  from 
Harvard  College,  degrees  of  A.B.  and  M.A., 
1904,  and  from  Harvard  Law  School,  degree 
of  LL.B.  in  1907;  president  of  Bitter  Root 
Valley  Orchards,  Inc.,  and  resides  at  Corval- 
lis,  Montana ;  member  of  the  Harvard  Club, 
New  York;  married,  at  Anaconda,  Montana, 
November  8,  1909,  to  Elizabeth  Isabel  Mc- 
Bain.  Children :  Hamilton,  born  at  Corvallis, 
March  i,  1911;  Elizabeth  Gourlay,  born  at 
Corvallis,  July  18,  1912. 

(IX)  Archibald  Gourlay  Thacher,  son  of 
George  and  Isabel  (Gourlie  or  Gourlay) 
Thacher,  was  born  at  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
January  16,  1876,  and  resides  at  No.  49  East 
Fifty-first  street.  New  York  City.  He  was 
educated  at  Hopkinson's  School,  at  Boston, 
and  in  Europe.  He  then  entered  Harvard, 
and  received  the  degree  of  A.B.,  on  gradua- 
tion in  1897,  magna  cum  laude.  After  gradu- 
ating from  the  Harvard  Law  School  (LL.B., 
1900)  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Butler.  Not- 
man,  Joline  &  Mynderse,  successors  to  Butler, 


Stillman  &  Hubbard,  in  August,  1900;  became 
a  partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Butler,  Notman  & 
Mynderse  on  January  i,  1905,  and  remained 
a  member  of  its  successor  firm,  Wallace,  But- 
ler &  Brown,  until  the  dissolution  of  that  firm 
on  May  11,  1913,  when  he  became  a  member 
of  Barry,  Wainwright,  Thacher  &  Symmers, 
with  law  offices  at  No.  59  Wall  street.  He 
has  given  special  attention  to  admiralty  and 
maritime  law,  as  well  as  to  practice  in  the 
federal  courts.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Amer- 
ican &  Foreign  Marine  Insurance  Company, 
of  the  Bancroft  Realty  Company  and  of  the 
Bitter  Root  Valley  Orchards,  Inc.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Union,  Racquet  and  Tennis, 
University,  Tuxedo,  and  Harvard  clubs,  of 
the  Down  Town  Association,  of  the  Associa- 
tion of  the  Bar  of  the  City  of  New  York, 
New  York  County  Lawyers'  Association,  New 
York  State  Bar  Association  and  American 
Bar  Association.  Previous  to  coming  to  New 
York,  he  resided  in  Boston. 

Archibald  Gourlay  Thacher  married,  at 
Newport,  Rhode  Island,  August  9,  igo.?.  Ethel 
Davies.  She  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
March  19,  1876,  and  is  the  daughter  of  Julien 
Tappan  Davies  and  his  wife,  Alice  (Martin) 
Davies.  Children:  i.  Alice  Davies,  born  in 
New  York  City,  December  21,  1906,  died 
there  January  20,  1907.  2.  Archibald  Gour- 
lay, born  in  New  York  City,  November  24, 
1907.  3.  Isabel  Davies,  born  in  New  York 
City,  June  4,  1910. 

The  Massachusetts  branch  of  the  Thachers 
is  one  of  the  earliest  of  the  New  England 
families  to  send  its  sons  to  Harvard  College. 
The  first,  Peter  Thacher,  graduated  in  1671, 
thirty-five  years  after  the  college  was  founded. 
In  the  interval  between  that  time  and  1909, 
thirty-one  members  of  the  Thacher  family 
have  received  degrees  from  Harvard  College. 


The  family  name  of  Haskell 

HASKELL     is  of  Welsh  origin,  signifying 

a   sedgy   place   on   the   moor. 

The  Haskell  family  arms :  Vaire  argent  and 

sable.      Crest :    On    a    moimt    an    apple-tree, 

fruited  proper. 

Roger,  William,  and  Mark  Haskell,  brothers, 
came  to  New  England  in  1637,  at  the  time 
when  so  many  English  families  were  immigrat- 
ing to  a  place  where  they  might  enjoy  greater 
liberty,  evidently  induced  also  by  the  stories 
reaching  the  home  country,  which  told  of  the 


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possibilities  for  families  to  acquire  their  own 
plantations  in  a  fertile  region.  One  brother, 
William,  left  the  others  and  went  to  live  at 
Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  where  he  founded 
a  family  of  large  descent,  while  Roger  and 
Mark  settled  at  Beverly,  Massachusetts.  Mark 
Haskell  was  a  mariner,  following  the  calling 
of  his  ancestors  in  England,  and  likewise  en- 
gaged in  fishing  for  the  market.  In  this  way 
he  was  able  to  support  himself  in  manner  of 
living  equal  to  others  of  his  day,  and  when  he 
died,  in  1689,  left  an  estate  inventoried  at 
$1,850,  which,  according  to  the  times,  would 
have  provided  him  with  considerable  land. 
His  descendants  removed  to  Marblehead. 

Roger  Haskell  came  from  England  to  New 
England  in  the  year  1637.  He  resided  in 
Beverly,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged as  a  mariner,  a  calling  common  to  most 
of  his  acquaintances.  He  was  the  principal 
one  of  the  three  brothers,  and  evidently  placed 
his  money  in  real  property,  for  the  records 
show  that  he  acquired  land  at  various  times. 
When  the  first  division  of  the  real  estate  took 
place  at  Beverly,  he  was  allotted  twenty  acres. 
Later  on,  he  requested  to  be  allowed  to  in- 
crease his  holdings,  and  was  granted  "six 
acres  of  meadow  land  if  it  be  had  on  the  great 
meadow."  He  was  directed  to  "call  upon  the 
neighbors  about  Esse  river  head  to  make  the 
twoe  bridges  w'ch  are  decayed  being  the  coun- 
try way  and  the  way  w'ch  was  formerly  made 
leading  from  Joe  Porters  ffarme  to  Wenham." 
He  and  four  others  were  named  at  a  meeting 
of  the  freemen,  April  13,  1655,  to  serve  on 
jury  trials,  and  he  was  chosen  on  the  grand 
jury,  July  4-6,  1656.  On  June  22,  1657,  he 
was  elected  a  constable  at  the  general  town 
meeting,  for  the  Cape  Ann  side.  A  peculiar 
entry  in  the  old  records  reads :  "It  is  further 
ordered  that  whereas  some  of  the  neighbors 
on  Cape  an  syde  doe  desyre  a  way  from  the 
said  meeting-house  to  the  mill  through  the 
properties  of  Roger  Haskell  and  others  that 
theyre  desyres  are  granted  provided  that  be- 
fore they  shall  make  any  Claym  thereunto 
there  shall  be  paid  unto  the  said  Roger  Has- 
kell and  the  rest  of  the  proprietors  full  satis- 
faction as  2  men  chosen  by  the  selectmen  shall 
appoint,  the  said  way  not  including  4  (poale) 
ft'ote  in  any  pt  of  it  and  be  made  and  men- 
tayned  by  those  who  make  use  thereof."  He 
owned  property  in  Salem,  as  shown  by  this 
record:   "Roger  Haskell  of   Bass   river,  hus- 


bandman, within  the  bounds  of  Salem  for 
eight  pounds  hath  sold  to  Richard  Dodge  of 
do.,  husbandman,  forty  acres,  Beaver  pond  on 
one  side  and  said  Dodge  bounds  on  the  other, 
only  six  acres  of  meadow  that  lyith  within 
this  compass  and  said  Richard  is  to  have  a 
watering  place  of  the  said  Roger  for  his  cat- 
tle all  in  Salem  by  Deed  28  Feb.  1654." 

Roger  Haskell  married  (first)  a  daughter 
of  John  and  Abigail  Stone,  and  he  married 
(second)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  Hardy.  Children:  i.  John,  died  in 
Middleboro,  Massachusetts.  2.  William,  born 
in  1646,  married  Ruth,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Werp.  3.  Mark,  removed  to  Rochester,  Ply- 
mouth county,  Massachusetts  ;  married,  March 
20,  1667,  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Goodale)  Smith,  of  Salem,  Massachu- 
setts; by  whom:  Roger,  born  October  17, 
1680;  John,  February  14,  1682:  Mark,  Febru- 
ary 5,  1683;  Elizabeth,  November  10,  1686; 
Mary,  April  23,  1689;  Joseph,  November  3, 
1692.  4.  Elizabeth,  baptized  April  14,  1676; 
married  William  Dodge.  5.  Hannah,  bap- 
tized May  14,  1676.  6.  Isaiah,  born  in  1658, 
died  May  9,  1684;  married,  November  22, 
1682,  Sarah  Griggs,  of  Gloucester,  Massachu- 
setts, who  was  admitted  to  the  church  at  Bev- 
erly, August  17,  1684;  by  whom:  Abigail,  born 
August  16,  1683;  married  (first)  Sands  Stan- 
ley, of  Beverly;  (second)  William,  son  of 
Richard  Keith,  of  Beverly.  7.  Roger,  bap- 
tized May  14,  1676;  married  Hannah,'  daugh- 
ter of  William  Woodbury.  Issue :  Abigail, 
born  October  18,  168 1 ;  Josiah,  August  16, 
1685;  Hannah,  June  23,  1687;  Mary,  April 
23,  1689;  Judith,  June  8,  1690;  Daniel,  June 
II,  1691  ;  Roger,  October  16,  1697,  removed 
to  Norwich,  Connecticut ;  Elizabeth,  baptized 
May  14,  1699;  Judith,  baptized  May  14,  1699 
(twins)  ;  Sarah,  baptized  August  9,  1701.  8. 
Samuel,  baptized  May  14,  1676.     9.  Sarah. 

(I)  Nathaniel  Haskell,  a  descendant  of 
Roger  Haskell,  was  born  at  Beverly,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1741.  He  was  a  merchant  of  that 
place,  and  was  also  engaged  in  shipping  in- 
terests, for  he  was  the  owner  of  several  ves- 
sels. By  these  means  he  was  successful  in 
accumulating  what  was  then  considered  a 
comfortable  fortune,  but  he  owned  no  real 
estate.  The  inventory  of  his  possessions 
which  was  made  after  his  death  showed  that 
he  had  the  following  property:  Personal  es- 
tate,   $1,423.41  ;    sales    of    personal    estate    at 


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public  auction,  $30.95  ;  by  cash  received  for  a 
draft  on  the  Baring  Brothers  &  Co.,  of  Lon- 
don, for  balance  due  from  them  on  account 
of  remittance  to  them  by  John  Leach,  master 
of  the  brig  "William,"  for  the  deceased, 
$322.61 ;  total  amount  of  assets  credited  to 
the  estate,  $5,832.97;  amount  of  debits,  $1,- 
670.89;  leaving  a  balance  to  the  credit  of 
heirs,  $4,162.08.  At  the  time  of  his  death, 
many  of  his  children  were  dead.  Children: 
I.  Elizabeth,  married  Ebenezer  Ray;  by 
whom:  Betsey,  Hetty,  Ebenezer,  Louisa, 
Isaac,  Alfred,  Lucy  and  Caroline.  2.  Hannah, 
married  Rochel  Ober.  3.  Sophia,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 4.  Lucinda,  died  in  infancy.  5.  Anna, 
married  Isaac  Ober.  6.  Daniel,  born  March 
26,  1777;  married,  November  24,  1790,  Nabby 
Foster.  7.  Abigail,  married  Nathaniel  Aus- 
tin. 8.  Nathaniel,  born  September  26,  1774; 
married  Hetty  r.  9-  Samuel,  see  for- 
ward. 

(II)  Captain  Samuel  Haskell,  son  of  Na- 
thaniel Haskell,  was  born  at  Beverly,  Massa- 
chusetts, June  15,  1779.  He  was  a  seafaring 
man,  and  there  is  a  record  showing  that  the 
pastor  of  the  Beverly  church  accompanied 
him  on  one  of  his  numerous  voyages  to  the 
West  Indies,  where  Captain  Haskell  was  en- 
gaged in  trade,  in  order  to  improve  his  health ; 
but  the  pastor  died  on  the  trip.  While  it  is 
believed  that  his  accustomed  route  took  him 
to  the  West  Indies,  he  made  occasional  voy- 
ages to  New  Orleans.  He  did  not  succeed 
in  becoming  rich,  for  from  the  accounts  hand- 
ed down  he  appears  simply  to  have  covered 
expenses.  ,  Captain  Samuel  Haskell  married 
(first)  Peggy  Thissell,  who  died  August  28, 
1829;  by  whom  he  had  eight  children.  He 
married  (second)  Hannah  Woodbury,  who 
survived  him.  In  the  application  for  admin- 
istration of  his  estate,  she  testified  that  she 
was  forty  years  of  age,  and  had  no  children 
of  her  own ;  but  was  bringing  up  four  of  her 
husband's,  the  youngest  of  which  was  four 
years  old,  one  who  was  aged  seven  and  the 
next  eleven.  Her  inheritance  consisted  of 
two  pews  in  a  meeting-house.  Children : 
Mary,  born  July  12,  1805 ;  Augusta,  Novem- 
ber 16,  1807;  Elizabeth,  April  3,  1810;  Sam- 
uel. August  24.  1814,  died  in  infancy;  Joseph 
Thissell,  September  15,  1816;  Samuel,  see 
forward;  John  Thissell,  March  5,  1820;  Mary 
Ann,  October  25,  1822. 

(Ill)   Samuel   (2)   Haskell,  son  of  Captain 


Samuel  (i)  and  Peggy  (Thissell)  Haskell, 
was  born  at  Beverly,  Massachusetts,  July  13, 
1818,  and  died  at  Helvetia,  Pennsylvania, 
April  24,  1892.  He  married  Mary  Frances 
Amory,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Letitia 
(Austin)  Amory.  Children:  i.  Samuel,  born 
April  16,  1857,  died  April  20,  1867.  2.  Jona- 
than Amory,  see  forward.  3.  Harry  Garner, 
born  in  New  York  City,  September  30,  1870; 
residing  in  Wilmington,  Delaware  ;  managing- 
director  of  the  high  explosives  department  of 
the  Du  Pont  Powder  Company. 

(IV)  Jonathan  Amory  Haskell,  son  of 
Samuel  (2)  and  Mary  Frances  (Amory) 
Haskell,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  July  7, 
1861.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  that  city  and  at  the  Military  Institute  at 
Sing  Sing  (Ossining),  New  York,  where  he 
obtained  a  military  training  in  conjunction 
with  his  studies.  He  began  his  business  career 
in  the  office  of  A.  &  L.  Neilson,  in  New  York 
City,  and  four  years  later,  1883,  became  asso- 
ciated with  the  Rochester  and  Pittsburgh  Coal 
and  Iron  Company,  with  headquarters  in  the 
metropolis.  He  served  in  the  various  depart- 
ments, acquiring  a  full  knowledge  of  all  its 
details,  and  then  was  made  general  manager 
and  treasurer  of  the  company.  During  1890- 
92,  he  was  general  manager  of  the  Helvetia 
mines  at  Helvetia,  Pennsylvania,  resigning 
that  position  to  become  president  of  the  Re- 
pauno  Chemical  Company,  of  Wilmington, 
Delaware.  In  1895,  he  became  financially  in- 
terested in  the  Laflin  &  Rand  Powder  Com- 
pany, one  of  the  oldest  and  largest  producers 
of  gunpowder  in  the  United  States,  and 
served  as  its  president  from  1895  until  its 
dissolution  in  1912.  He  is  now  vice-president 
and  a  director  of  the  E.  I.  du  Pont  de  Ne- 
mours Powder  Company.  Mr.  Haskell  has 
found  time  to  devote  to  other  institutions, 
such  as  the  Manhattan  Eye,  Ear  and  Throat 
Hospital,  of  which  he  is  the  president,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society, 
the  Metropolitan,  Riding.  City  Midday  and 
the  Racquet  and  Tennis  clubs.  The  office  of 
his  company  is  at  No.  90  West  street,  and  his 
home  is  at  No.  130  East  Sixtv-first  street. 
New  York  City. 

J.  .A^mory  Haskell  married,  at  New  York 
City,  December  9,  1891,  Margaret  Moore 
Riker,  daughter  of  John  Lawrence  and  Mary 
(Jackson)  Riker.  She  was  born  at  "Oak 
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Children,  all  born  in  New  York  City :  Mary 
Riker,  born  November  25,  1892;  Amory  Law- 
rence, October  23,  1893 ;  Margaret  Riker,  No- 
vember 26,  1899. 

(The  Amory  Line.) 
The  Amory  family  in  America  is  believed 
to  be  a  branch  of  the  Montfort  I'Amaury 
family  of  France,  for  Dr.  Robert  Amory,  in 
his  notice  of  his  father,  published  in  a  London 
newspaper  in  1788,  there  says:  "We  are  line- 
ally descended  from  Amory  de  Montfort, 
brother-in-law  of  King  Henry  HL"  In  the 
English  family  they  were  prominent  people, 
Sir  Roger  d'Amory  marrying  the  grand- 
daughter of  Edward  L,  himself  a  leading 
character  in  the  wars  of  Edward  HL,  and  Sir 
Robert  fought  at  Crecy,  while  the  stirring 
adventures  of  Sir  John  may  be  read  in  the 
Froissart. 

(I)  The  American  progenitor  was  Jonathan 
Amory,  born  in  Somerset,  England,  one  of 
the  six  sons  and  two  daughters  left  by  his 
father  when  he  died  in  1650.  He  was  the 
youngest  son,  and  was  brought  up  by  his  elder 
brother.  He  lived  for  a  time  in  Dublin,  where 
he  was  a  merchant ;  removed  to  the  West  In- 
dies, where  he  married  Rebecca  Houston,  who 
died  in  1685,  and  he  then  went  to  live  in 
Charleston,  South  Carolina,  where  he  bought 
much  land  and  was  chosen  speaker  of  the 
Colonial  legislature ;  afterwards  treasurer  of 
the  province.  Here  he  married  Martha 
,  and  died  in  1699,  of  yellow  fever. 

(II)  Thomas  Amory,  son  of  Jonathan  and 
Rebecca  (Houston)  Amory,  was  born  in 
Limerick,  Ireland,  in  1682,  and  followed  his 
father  to  South  Carolina,  but  was  sent  back 
to  England  with  his  sister,  Ann,  to  be  edu- 
cated, and  attended  the  Westminster  School. 
He  remained  for  a  time  with  Ozell  &  Frinds, 
London  merchants,  and  in  1709,  went  to  the 
Azores,  where  he  was  a  merchant  and  the 
English  consul.  He  settled  in  Boston,  July 
13,  1719,  and  bought  property.  He  married, 
in  1721,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Francis  Holmes, 
of  Boston,  and  died  there  in  1728. 

(III)  Thomas  Fisher  Amory,  son  of 
Thomas  and  Rebecca  (Holmes)  Amory,  was 
born  April  22,  1722.  He  graduated  from  Har- 
vard, and  studied  divinity,  but  did  not  take 
orders ;  engaged  in  commerce,  and  had  it  not 
been  for  the  Revolution  would  have  had  large 
property.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
William  Coffin,  and  buying  the  house  of  Gov- 


ernor Belcher,  at  Harvard  and  Washington 
streets,  resided  there  until  he  died,  August  18, 
1784. 

(IV)  Jonathan  Amory,  son  of  Thomas 
Fisher  and  Elizabeth  (Coffin)  Amory,  was 
born  in  1770,  died  in  1828.  He  graduated 
from  Harvard  in  1787,  and  entered  the  count- 
ing-house of  his  uncles,  J.  &  J.  Amory,  after- 
wards engaging  in  business  with  James  Cutler, 
He  married  (first)  Ann  Wyer,  who  died  in 
1795;  married  (second)  Mehetable  Sullivan, 
daughter  of  Governor  James  Sullivan  and 
niece  of  General  John  Sullivan,  of  Revolution- 
ary fame,  who  was  the  widow  of  his  partner, 
James  Cutler. 

(V)  Jonathan  (2)  Amory,  son  of  Jonathan 
(1)  and  Mehetable  (Sullivan)  Amory,  was 
born  in  Boston,  November  5,  1802,  died  in 
Pomfret,  Connecticut,  September  4,  1885.  He 
married,  November  7,  1826,  Letitia  Austin, 
who  was  born  at  Demerara,  August  18,  1809, 
died  in  Jamaica  Plain,  Massachusetts,  1875. 
Their  daughter,  Mary  Frances  Amory,  mar- 
ried Samuel  Haskell  (see  Haskell  HI.). 


It  is  believed  that  the  family 
PEASE  name  had  its  foundation  in  the 
Latin  language,  and  was  written 
Pise  originally  by  Italians ;  the  family  was 
found  in  Germany  in  the  year  972,  where  the 
orthography  makes  it  Pies  or  Pees.  Remov- 
ing from  Germany  into  England,  members  of 
the  family  made  the  name  conform  to  the 
Anglo-Saxon  and  it  then  appeared  as  Pease. 
As  to  its  meaning,  it  is  to  be  noticed  in  the 
coat-of-arms  which  was  granted  by  Otho  II. 
that  its  crest  has  an  eagle's  head  erased,  the 
beak  holding  a  stalk  of  pea-haulm,  and  from 
this  one  would  naturally  suppose  that  the 
Pease  family  was  in  some  manner  at  an  early 
date  associated  with  the  pea-plant.  In  Eng- 
land and  America  the  usual  form  for  spelling 
the  name  is  Pease. 

Arms  of  the  Pease  family :  Per  fesse  argent 
and  gules,  an  eagle  displayed  counterchanged. 
Crest :  An  eagle's  head  erased,  the  beak  hold- 
ing a  stalk  of  pea-haulm,  all  proper.  Motto : 
Optitne  de  Patria  Meruit.  This  coat-of-arms 
was  granted  under  the  reign  of  Otho  II., 
Emperor  of  Germany ;  was  continued  in  Eng- 
land, and  used  by  members  of  the  family  on 
coming  to  America. 

The  family  was  common  to  England  for 
about   three   centuries   before   coming  to   this 


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country,  that  is,  as  far  back  as  there  are  parish 
registers  to  show  it.  A  work  published  in 
England  as  early  as  1472,  mentions  the  name 
of  John  Pease,  LL.D.  Persons  of  the  name 
in  England  are  to  be  found  there  in  all  ranks 
of  society,  from  the  most  respectable  yeo- 
manry to  ministers  of  the  gospel,  bankers, 
projectors  of  the  first  railways,  members  of 
Parliament,  etc.  The  English  family  of  Pease 
is  traced  to  German  origin,  and  their  emigra- 
tion is  placed  at  a  much  later  period  than 
when  the  Saxons  made  their  conquest  in  Eng- 
land. One  publication  in  an  English  book 
gives  the  date  of  their  coming  from  England 
as  about  the  year  1400. 

(I)  Robert  Pease  was  the  progenitor  of 
this  family  in  America.  He  is  supposed  to 
have  been  the  son  of  Robert  and  Margaret 
Pease,  of  Great  Baddow,  Essex  county,  Eng- 
land. He  same  to  this  country  in  the  ship 
"Francis,"  from  the  port  of  Ipswich,  England, 
the  latter  part  of  April,  in  1634,  and  he  landed 
at  Boston,  Massachusetts.  He  was  accom- 
panied by  his  brother  John,  and  his  own  eldest 
son,  Robert.  It  is  "thought  that  his  wife, 
Marie,  and  other  members  of  the  family,  came 
out  in  a  later  ship.  The  ages  of  Robert  and 
John  Pease,  as  stated  upon  the  books,  were 
twenty-seven  years  each.  John  Cutting  was 
the  master  of  the  ship.  It  has  been  supposed 
that  Robert  Pease  was  the  elder,  and  it  may 
be  that  the  ages  of  passengers  were  set  down 
by  the  officers  without  questioning.  The 
vessel  was  reported  back  at  Ipswich  as  having 
arrived  at  Boston  without  the  loss  of  a  single 
passenger.  Neither  of  the  men  mentioned 
had  a  wife  with  him,  and  it  is  inferred  that 
they  joined  their  husbands  after  learning 
whether  they  intended  to  remain  in  America. 

A  boy,  aged  three  years,  named  Robert 
Pease,  was  among  the  list  of  passengers  of 
the  ship  "Francis."  It  had  been  supposed 
that  this  child  belonged  to  John  Pease,  be- 
cause of  the  proximity  of  their  names  upon 
the  book,  but  the  development  of  additional 
facts  shows  that  he  must  have  been  the  son 
of  Robert  Pease.  For  more  than  thirty  years 
after  this  emigration,  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
is  the  only  place  where  the  name  of  Robert 
Pease  is  found  in  the  history  of  this  country. 
In  January,  1637,  both  Robert  and  John 
Pease  had  land  granted  to  them  at  Salem. 
From  a  transaction  growing  out  of  these 
grants    it    is    demonstrated   beyond    all    douljt 


that  the  two  men  were  brothers,  and  that  they 
were  the  men  who  came  on  the  ship  "Francis." 

Regarding  the  place  they  came  from  in 
England  and  their  births,  extracts  from  the 
parish  registers  at  Great  Baddow,  in  Essex 
county,  show :  "Robert  Pease,  County  of  Es- 
sex, locksmith,  will  dated  May  10,  1623; 
mentions  his  wife,  Margaret,  their  sons,  Rob- 
ert and  John,  daughter  Elizabeth,  son-in-law 
Abraham  Page,  and  brother-in-law  Francis 
King;  will  proved  June  12,  1623."  From  a 
long  list  of  baptisms,  marriages  and  burials, 
dating  from  1540  to  1623,  the  following  are 
useful  in  this  connection :  "John,  son  of 
Robert  Pease,  baptised  May  24,  1593.  John, 
infant  son  of  Robert  Pease,  buried  January 
10,  1599.  John,  son  of  Robert  Pease,  baptised 
November  20,  1608." 

As  there  is  no  record  of  the  birth  of  Robert, 
the  other  son  mentioned  in  the  will,  it  is  be- 
lieved that  he  was  baptized  in  s.ome  other 
parish.  Great  Baddow  is  in  what  is  called 
the  Hundred  of  Chelmsford,  about  thirty 
miles  northeast  from  London,  on  the  thor- 
oughfare to  Ipswich,  the  most  convenient 
point  of  embarkation  from  that  neighborhood, 
and  old  Norfolk  and  Essex,  in  this  country, 
were  settled  chiefly  by  people  from  counties 
of  the  same  name  in  England. 

The  grant  of  land  made  on  January  2,  1637, 
consisted  of  ten  acres  to  Robert  Pease  and 
twenty  to  John.  It  need  not  be  inferred  that 
they  did  not  hold  property  at  an  earlier  date, 
for  the  records  at  Salem  for  the  few  years 
previous  are  non-existant,  and  it  is  known 
that  people  were  living  at  Salem  earlier  than 
1635.  Robert  Pease  died  at  Salem  in  1644. 
and  was  only  thirty-seven  years  of  age.  He 
then  owned  eleven  acres  at  that  place.  On 
the  record  of  February  13,  1652,  it  is  stated 
that  "Robert  Goodell  having  forty  acres  of 
land  granted  him  long  since  by  the  town  and 
he  having  bought  land  of  several  other  per- 
sons that  had  land  granted  them,  in  the  whole 
480  acres,  it  is  ordered  that  the  said  Goodell 
shall,  enjoy  the  said  480  acres,  etc."  On  the 
list  of  persons  who  had  sold  land  above  stated 
to  Goodell  appears  "Robert  Pease  and  brother, 
30  acres." 

Robert  Pease  joined  the  First  Church  at 
Salem,  October  i,  1643.  Two  weeks  later 
three  of  his  children,  viz.,  Nathaniel,  Sarah 
and  Mary,  were  baptized.  The  inventory  of 
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brought  into  court  at  Salem,  August  27,  1644. 
The  given  name  of  the  wife  of  Robert 
i'ease  was  Marie,  which  being  the  French 
orthography  for  Mary,  furnishes  the  clue  that 
her  parents  were  Protestant  refugees  from 
France.  Her  name  does  not  appear  upon  the 
records  in  other  places  except  in  connection 
with  the  settlement  of  her  husband's  estate 
and  the  inventory  of  her  mother's.  Children : 
I.  Robert,  born  about  1628,  in  England.  2. 
John,  see  forward.  3.  Nathaniel,  baptized  at 
Salem,  Massachusetts,  in  1643,  but  probably 
Ijorn  in  England;  participant  of  the  French 
and  Indian  war  in  1675,  and  was  living  in 
1714.  Married,  March  15,  1668,  Mary  Hobbs. 
It  is  believed  that  the  Mary  Pease  who  was 
implicated  in  the  Salem  witchcraft  in  1692  was 
his  wife ;  but  that  they  had  children  is  un- 
known, there  being  no  record  of  issue.  4. 
Sarah,  married,  at  Beverly,  Massachusetts, 
(Jctober  22,  1667,  John  Sampson,  of  that 
])lace,  and  died  before  1677.  5.  Mary,  prob- 
ably married  Hugh  Pasco,  as  his  second  wife, 
he  having  bought  the  house,  barn  and  out- 
buildings of  John  Pease,  Sr.,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Enfield.  6.  Isaac.  For  various 
reasons  it  is  believed  that  this  name  should  be 
included  among  the  children. 

(II)  John  Pease,  son  of  Robert  and  Marie 
Pease,  was  born  in  England,  probably  in  1630, 
for  he  was  aged  five  years  when  his  father 
brought  him  to  this  country,  and  died  at  En- 
field, Massachusetts,  July  8,  1689.  The  first 
notice  regarding  him  is  found  in  the  court 
records  at  Salem,  in  the  settlement  of  the 
estate  of  his  father,  under  date  of  August  27, 
1644.  From  that  time  on  until  he  died  there 
is  no  trouble  to  learn  all  about  him,  as  he  was 
one  of  the  principal  settlers  of  Enfield.  He 
appears  to  have  been  a  favorite  of  his  grand- 
mother, Margaret  Pease,  as  shown  by  her  will, 
which  was  brought  into  court  soon  after  ac- 
tio"n  was  taken  in  the  settlement  of  his  father's 
property.  The  will  is  peculiar  in  its  construc- 
tion, and  reads : 

The  will  of  Margaret  Pease,  the  first  day  7 
month  1644.  This  is  the  last  will  of  Margaret 
Pease  that  is  her  grand  chile  John  Pease  the  son 
of  Robert  Pease  shall  with  the  rest  of  her  goods 
be  put  over  to  Thomas  Wadsson  of  Salem  to  be 
as  her  true  feoffee  off  trust  to  dispose  off  her 
estate  as  she  directeth  at  this  time  being"in  par- 
fite  memory.  First  as  before  that  the  said  John 
Pease  shall  be  given  frely  to  the  said  Thotnas 
Wadsson,  that  he  shall  dispose  of  him  as  his  own 
child  and  secondly  that  the  house  she  liffs  in  with 


the  ground  belonging  therto  shall  be  given  to  the 
said  John  Pease,  also  halfe  an  acker  of  Indian 
Corne.  alsoe  that  he  is  to  have  my  heifer,  allsoe 
that  John  shal  have  my  bede  and  all  that  belongs 
to  it  also  that  her  grandchildren  the  children  of 
Robert  Pease  her  sonne  shall  give  to  the  rest  of 
them  the  tow  goattes  and  kid  to  be  equally  dis- 
posed among  them  and  for  all  her  mouffeable 
goods  are  to  be  at  Thomas  Wadsson's  disposal  for 
the  good  of  John,  alsoe.  her  grand  childe  Robert 
Pease  shall  have  her  lesser  chist  and  that  if  that 
the  said  John  die  then  his  brother  Robert  Pease 
shall  have  the  rest  of  the  estate,  and  all,  that  her 
daughter  Pease  the  wife  of  Robert  Pease  is  to 
have  my  best  cloth  gowne,  and  all  perticlers  are 
not  set  down  the  same  must  Thomas  Wadsson  to 
dispose   for  the  good  of  John  her  grand  child. 

He  was  made  freeman  on  April  29,  1668, 
by  the  general  court,  and  took  the  oath  before 
the  county  court,  June  30th,  following.  He 
joined  the  First  Church  at  Salem,  to  which 
his  father  and  grandmother  had  belonged, 
July  4,  1667.  On  October  6,  1681,  being  sac- 
rament day,  he  and  his  wife  had  a  letter  of 
recommendation  granted  to  the  church  at 
Springfield.  Not  far  from  this  last  date,  he 
and  his  family,  his  two  eldest  sons'  families 
and  numerous  neighbors  removed  to  Fresh 
Water  Brook,  then  a  part  of  Springfield, 
where  he  and  his  two  sons  had  had  land 
granted  to  them  July  23rd  of  the  previous 
year. 

The  records  show  that  he  was  back  at 
Salem,  November,  1682,  when  he  sold  his 
"house,  barn  and  outbuildings,  and  parcels  of 
land,"  and  acknowledged  the  deed  before  a 
Salem  justice  of  the  peace.  In  this  deed,  he 
states:  "late  of  Salem,  now  of  Enfield."  He 
was  again  there,  February  26,  1683,  to  give 
evidence  in  a  suit  at  law,  involving  a  boun- 
dary line  of  land  once  owned  and  laid  out  by 
his  "father-in-law  Goodell''  He  then  stated 
that  he  was  "aged  about  53  years."  In  Sep- 
tember, 1684,  he  was  appointed  administrator 
on  the  estate  of  Lot  Killam,  a  townsman  of 
his  when  in  Salem,  and  one  of  the  first  per- 
sons who  died  at  the  new  settlement. 

His  relation  to  the  church  on  his  removal 
to  Enfield  was  an  active  one,  and  he  stood 
foremost  to  assist  in  maintaining  the  worship 
there  after  it  became  incorporated.  Soon  after 
Enfield  was  set  off  from  Springfield,  the 
town  took  the  necessary  steps  to  have  relig- 
ious meetings  on  the  Sabbath,  and  the  early 
town  records  show  the  part  taken  by  John 
Pease.  "July  15,  1683,  the  Committee  went 
to  Enfield   (the  members  residing  in  Spring- 


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field)  to  settle  some  way  for  carrying  on  the 
worshipping  of  God  on  the  Sabbath,  and  hav- 
ing a  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  it  was  put  to 
a  vote  and  past,  that  they  would  assemble 
together  on  the  Sabbath  forenoon  and  after- 
noon, except  such  as  might  goe  to  Springfield 
or  Suffield,  and  carry  on  the  day  by  Prair 
and  singing  and  reading  sum  good  orthodox 
book,  till  they  might  get  a  supply  of  minister; 
and  the  persons  appointed  thereunto  by  a  full 
voat  were  John  Pease,  Sen.,  Israel  Meecham 
and  Thomas  Bancroft,  who  are  to  agree 
amongst  themselves  how  and  who  to  manage 
prayer  and  reading." 

John  Pease  married  (first)  Mary,  daughter 
of  Robert  Goodell,  of  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
who  died  January  5,  1669,  three  days  after 
the  birth  of  her  fifth  child;  married  (second) 
Ann,  daughter  of  Isaac  Cummings,  of  Tops- 
field,  Massachusetts,  who  '  died  at  Enfield, 
June  29,  1689;  by  whom  he  had  three  chil- 
dren: I.  John,  born  at  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
May  30,  1654,  died  at  Enfield,  Connecticut, 
1734;  married,  at  Ipswich,  Massachusetts, 
January  30,  1677,  Margaret  Adams.  2.  Rob- 
ert, born  at  Salem,  May  14,  1656,  died  at 
Enfield,  in  1744;  married,  December  16, 
1678,  Abigail  Randall.  3.  Mary,  born  at  Sa- 
lem, October  8,  1658.  4.  Abraham,  born  at 
Salem,  June  5,  1662 ;  married  Jane  Mentor, 
and  died  in  1735,  witliout  issue.  5.  Jonathan, 
born  at  Salem,  January  2,  1669,  died  in  1721  ; 
married,  October  11,  1692,  Elizabeth  Booth, 
probably  the  daughter  of  Simeon  Booth,  who 
came  to  Enfield  from  \A'ales  in  1680.  6. 
James,  born  at  Salem,  December  23,  1670, 
died  at  Enfield,  in  1748 ;  married,  October  18, 
1695,  Hannah  Harmon.  7.  Isaac,  see  for- 
ward. 8.  Abigail,  born  at  Salem,  December 
15,  1675,  died  at  Enfield,  July  9,  1689. 

(Ill)  Isaac  Pease",  son  of  John  and  Ann 
(Cummings)  Pease,  was  born  at  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  July  15,  1672,  and  died  at 
Enfield,  July  9,  173 1,  where  he  was  buried  in 
the  burial-ground  to  the  north  of  the  central 
meeting-house.  He  settled  in  the  northeast- 
ern part  of  Enfield,  not  far  from  where  the 
Shaker  village  was  located  later.  He  was  an 
extensive  landholder,  and  was  among  the  first 
to  hold  the  office  of  deacon  in  the  Congrega- 
tional church  in  that  town.  Isaac  Pease 
married,  in  1691,  Mindwell  Osborn.  Chil- 
dren, all  born  at  Enfield,  Connecticut. 
I.  Lsaac,  born   May  2,   1693,  died  at  Enfield, 


in  1757;  married,  November  8,  1722,  Amy 
French.  2.  Abraham,  born  in  1695,  ^i^^  ^^ 
Enfield,  in  1750;  married  (first)  December  3, 
1719,  Mary  Booth;  married  (second)  August, 
^72)i<  the  Widow  Abigail  Warner,  of  Spring- 
field. 3.  Mindwell,  born  about  1697.  4.  Abi- 
gail, born  about  1699,  died  August  28,  1723. 
5.  Israel,  born  in  1702,  lived  and  died  in 
Enfield;  married,  in  1726,  Sarah  Booth.  6. 
Ann,  born  February,  1705 ;  married  Nathaniel 
Prior.  7.  Benjamin,  born  in  1707,  died  at 
Enfield,  in  1768;  married,  April  19,  1739, 
Abigail  Rose.  8.  Ezekiel,  see  forward.  9. 
Timothy,  born  in  1713;  was  a  soldier  in  the 
old  French  war ;  settled  half  a  mile  north  of 
French  Water  Brook,  where  he  died  in  1794; 
married,  December  22,  1736,  Mary,  daughter 
of  Henry  Chandler.  10.  Cummings,  born 
November  15,  1715,  died  in  East  Long- 
meadow,  in  1808;  became  a  Baptist  and  a 
deacon  in  that  church;  married  (first)  in 
1737,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Pease,  of 
Enfield;  married  (second)  September  25, 
1755,  Sarah  Hale,  of  Springfield. 

(IV)  Ezekiel  Pease,  son  of  Isaac  and 
Mindwell  (Osborn)  Pease,  was  born  at  En- 
field, Connecticut,  June  20,  1710,  and  died 
there,  in  1799.  He  was  highly  esteemed  as  a 
citizen  and  a  Christian,  leading  a  devout  and 
consistent  life.  By  occupation  he  was  a 
school-teacher  and  also  a  tailor.  For  about 
fifteen  years  he  was  the  town  clerk,  when  he 
was  known  both  as  "Master"  and  "Clerk" 
Pease.  He  settled  in  the  eastern  part  of  the 
town  of  Enfield,  near  the  Scantic  river.  Eze- 
kiel Pease  married,  February  10,  1732,  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Henry  Chandler,  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  Enfield.  Children,  all  born 
at  Enfield.  i.  Hannah,  born  January  11, 
^7Z^''  married  Job  Gleason.  2.  Ezekiel,  see 
forward.  3.  Abiah,  born  August  11,  1736; 
married  Samuel  Gowdy.  4.  Henry  C,  ^orn 
February  11,  1738;  removed  to  .Sandisfield, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  died,  September, 
1812;  married  Ruth  Chapin.  5.  Eleanor, 
born  March  15,  1741  ;  married  a  Mr.  Holt.  6. 
Jane,  born  August  13,  1743;  married  Obadiah 
Hurlbut.  7.  Mehitabel,  born  September  23, 
1745;  married  Edward  Parsons.  8.  Sarah, 
born  February  2,  1747;  married  Jehiel  Mark- 
ham.  9.  Abigail,  born  March  15,  1749.  10. 
Isaac,  bom  June  i,  1752;  settled  at  Scitico, 
near  Enfield,  where  he  died  in  1S20;  married 
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of  Hezekiah  Spencer,  of  Somers ;  married 
(second)  Mrs.  Rachel  (Brooks)  Williams. 
II.  Oliver,  born  September  6,  1754;  died 
probably  in  the  Revolutionary  army,  at  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts,  in  1774. 

(V)  Ezekiel  (2)  Pease,  son  of  Ezekiel  (i) 
and  Hannah  (Chandler)  Pease,  was  born  at 
Enfield,  Connecticut,  August  18,  1734.  He 
removed  to  Weston,  Vermont,  previous  to  the 
Revolution,  where  he  died  in  1807.  He  mar- 
ried, January  23,  1755,  Jemima  Markham. 
Children,  all  born  at  Enfield,  Connecticut:  i. 
Ezekiel,  born  March  22,  1756,  died  at  Starks- 
boro,  Vermont,  February  8,  1838 ;  married. 
May  8,  1782,  Lydia  Pease,  daughter  of  Tim- 
othy Pease.  He  removed  to  Weston,  Ver- 
mont. 2.  Hannah,  born  December  22,  1757. 
3.  Rhoda,  born  May  11,  1764;  married 
Joshua  Dale,  Sr.  4.  Obadiah,  born  Septem- 
ber 8,  1766;  settled  in  Landgrove,  Vermont; 
married  Achsah  Bement,  of  Chicopee,  Massa- 
chusetts. 5.  Elijah,  see  forward.  6.  Am- 
brose, probably  born  in  Weston,  Vermont, 
and  after  residing  for  a  time  at  Sackett's  Har- 
bor, New  York,  removed  to  Canada,  with 
his  family,  consisting  of  a  wife  and  three 
daughters.     7.  Abigail,  married  Jonas  Negus. 

8.  Jemima,  married  Wickham.     9.  A 

daughter,  who  went  to  live  with  the  Shakers. 

(VI)  Elijah  Pease,  son  of  Ezekiel  (2)  and 
Jemima  (Markham)  Pease,  was  born  at  En- 
field, Connecticut,  July  13,  1770,  and  died  at 
Weston,  Vermont,  February  i,  1856.  He 
married  (first)  March  21,  1796,  Polly  Allen, 
by  whom  all  his  children;  married  (second) 
Polly  Foster.  Children,  all  born  at  Weston, 
Vermont:  i.  Elijah,  born  December  8,  1796, 
died  March  24,  1867;  was  a  farmer;  married, 
October  5,  1823,  Roby  Arnold.  2.  Mary,  born 
August  29,  1798 ;  married,  September  7,  1823, 
J  A.  McLaughlin ;  settled  in  Troy,  New 
York,  and  died  in  1876.  3.  Melinda,  born 
June  5,  1800;  married  Albert  Dale.  4.  Anson, 
born  February  15,  1802.  5.  Lucy,  born  June 
18,  1804;  married  Addison  Foster,  and  settled 
at  LaGrange,  Ohio.  6.  Albert,  see  forward. 
7.  Enoch,  born  January  13,  1809,  died  June, 
1890;  resided  for  a  time  at  Troy,  but  returned 
to  Weston,  Vermont;  married,  July  2,  1835, 
Louisa  Hobart,  who  died  February,  1890.  8. 
Ira,  born   September   10,   1812,  died  in   1826. 

9.  Harmon,  born  June  24,  i8i6;  physician; 
settled  in  Schenectady,  New  York ;  married, 
April    25,    1839,    Martha   Ann    Murray.      10. 


Samuel,    born    December    19,    18 19,    died    in 
1883 ;  married,  May  2,  1850,  Abby  C.  Sawyer. 

(VII)  Albert  Pease,  son  of  Elijah  and 
Polly  (Allen)  Pease,  was  born  at  Weston, 
Vermont,  March  22,  1806.  He  removed  to 
Troy,  New  York,  where  he  resided  for  a  time, 
but  returned  to  Weston,  and  died  November, 
i860. 

Albert  Pease  married,  November  29,  1832, 
Almira  Hobart,  who  was  born  at  Hollis,  New 
Hampshire,  March  26,  181 1,  and  died  at  Troy, 
New  York,  September  6,  1846.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Solomon  Hobart,  born  in  New 
Hampshire,  April  18,  1782,  and  died  at 
Londonderry,  Vermont,  December  14,  1854, 
who  married  Hannah  Farley.  The  parents  of 
Solomon  Hobart  were  Gershom  and  Lydia 
(Nutting)  Hobart.  Gershom  Hobart  was  the 
son  of  Gershom,  born  July  17,  1717,  the  son 
of  Gershom,  born  at  Groton,  Massachusetts, 
in  1685,  the  son  of  Gershom,  born  at  Hing- 
ham,  Massachusetts,  December,  1645,  died  at 
Groton,  December  18,  1707 ;  the  son  of  Peter, 
born  at  Hingham,  October  13,  1605,  died  at 
Hingham,  January  20,  1679,  the  son  of  Ed- 
mund Hobart,  born  at  Hingham,  England,  in 
1570,  died  at  Hingham,  Massachusetts,  March 
8,1646.  Children:  i.  Walter  Albert,  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Hannah  E.,  born  at  Troy,  New 
York,  August  7,  1836,  died  at  Westminster, 
Vermont,  September  6,  1900;  married,  at 
Weston,  Vermont,  Joseph  C.  Fenn ;  no  issue. 

(VIII)  Walter  Albert  Pease,  son  of  Albert 
and  Almira  (Hobart)  Pease,  was  born  at 
Troy,  New  York,  October  13,  1833.  He  be- 
came a  wholesale  dealer  in  flour,  in  the  firm 
of  Joseph  Allen  &  Company,  of  New  York 
City.  Walter  Albert  Pease  married,  at  New 
York  City,  September  23,  1863,  Mary  Louise 
Hollister,  who  was  born  at  Windsor,  Connec- 
ticut, April  17,  1834,  died  August  7,  1908.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Edmund  Hollister,  who 
was  born  at  Andover,  Connecticut,  in  1800, 
died  at  Windsor,  Connecticut,  in  1870;  mar- 
ried Gratia  Buell,  who  was  born  at  Andover, 
Connecticut,  in  1801,  and  was  the  daughter  of 
Major  John  H.  Buell,  an  officer  in  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution.  Children:  i.  Henry  Hollis- 
ter, see  forward,  2.  Walter  Albert,  Jr.,  see 
forward. 

(IX)  Henry  Hollister  Pease,  son  of  Walter 
Albert  and  Mary  Louise  (Hollister)  Pease, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  September  i, 
1868.     He  graduated  from  Harvard,  class  of 


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1890.  Married  at  Lenox,  Massachusetts,  Oc- 
tober 5,  1895,  Katharine  di  Pottone,  daughter 
of  Count  Pottone,  of  Turin,  Italy,  and  Ca- 
milla (Brown)  Pottone,  daughter  of  Augus- 
tus L.  Brown,  of  New  York. 

(IX)  Walter  Albert  {2)  Pease,  son  of  Wal- 
ter Albert  (i)  and  Mary  Louise  (Hollister) 
Pease,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  December 
14,  1871,  and  resides  at  "Bethpage,"  Hemp- 
stead, Long  Island.  He  attended  Everson's 
Collegiate  School  of  New  York  City,  and  then 
.entered  Harvard  University,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1893.  He  enlisted  in  Squad- 
ron A,  of  the  National  Guard,  New  York,  his 
five  years  of  service  ending  in  19CX).  He  is  a 
Republican,  and  attends  St.  George's  Episco- 
pal Church  of  Hempstead.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Harvard,  Meadow  Brook,  Turf  &  Field 
and  St.  Nicholas  Clubs.  In  the  year  1897  he 
entered  the  real  estate  field,  and  formed  a 
partnership  under  the  firm  style  of  Pease  & 
Elliman,  and  in  1901  it  was  incorporated  as 
"Pease  &  Elliman."  The  main  office  is  at  No. 
340  Madison  avenue,  but  so  successful  has  the 
company  been  that  a  number  of  branch  offices 
have  been  opened. 

Walter  Albert  Pease  Jr.  married,  at  Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania,  June  8,  1899,  Martha 
Chambers  Rodgers.  She  was  born  in  that 
city,  and  is  the  daughter  of  Captain  Calbraith 
Perry  Rodgers  and  Maria  (Chambers)  Rod- 
gers, and  a  great-granddaughter  of  Commo- 
dore Perry.  Children  :  i.  Calbraith  Perry  Rod- 
gers.    2.  Perry  Rodgers.     3.  Martha  Carroll. 


Few  families  are  better  known, 
FONDA     or  more  favorably,  the  length  of 

the  Mohawk  valley  and  in  other 
parts  of  the  state,  than  that  of  Fonda.  With 
its  start  in  Albany,  centuries  ago,  then  remov- 
ing westward  as  its  descendants  sought  new 
fields,  locating  at  Schenectady  and  then  at 
more  distant  places,  it  has  left  families  of  the 
name  who  are  prosperous  and  prominent  in 
their  localities.  The  state  of  New  York  has 
bestowed  the  name  upon  one  of  its  cities,  a 
prosperous  place  in  Montgomery  county.  As 
a  rule,  their  intermarriages  were  fortunate, 
and  thus  kept  considerable  property  under  the 
family  name,  and  it  is  for  this  reason  they 
can  point  to  many  of  the  old  and  respected 
families  of  the  Dutch  regime  as  kindred,  such 
as  Lansing,  Hun,  Ten  Broeck,  Ten  Eyck,  De- 
Forest,     Visscher,     Vrooman,     Veeder,     Van 


Santvoord  and  Van  Alen.  This  family  has 
not  only  furnished  men  to  fight  during  the  co- 
lonial period,  the  soldier  who  defended  the 
settler;  but  several  patriots  who  were  either 
massacred  by  the  aborigine,  or  gave  life  in  the 
revolution  for  the  cause  of  independence. 
While  there  are  established  families  of  the 
name  in  several  cities,  where  it  has  been 
known  for  more  than  a  century  as  a  reputable 
landmark,  others  may  now  be  found  at  far 
distant  points ;  but  all  must  trace  descent  to 
New  York,  where  the  family  had  its  rise. 

(I)  Jellis  Douwse  Fonda  was  the  first  of  the 
name  to  come  to  America.  He  dwelt  original- 
ly in  Holland,  and  emigrated  with  the  Dutch 
who  founded  the  colony  of  New  York.  He 
was  first  recorded  as  a  resident  of  ancient 
Beverwyck,  now  known  as  Albany,  New  York. 
Here  he  lived  in  1654,  which  places  the  name 
of  Fonda  in  the  annals  of  the  Capitol  City  at 
a  period  when  it  was  being  settled.  He  en- 
gaged in  the  whaling  business.  His  wife  Hes- 
ter survived  him,  for  her  name  appears  in 
1666  as  widow  of  Barent  Gerritse.  A  lawsuit 
was  brought  against  her  in  that  year  for  re- 
moving the  petticoat  of  the  wife  of  Ludovicus 
Cobes  from  the  fence,  the  defendant  averring 
that  plaintifif  pawned  the  article  for  beaver, 
and  the  case  was  then  put  over.  In  1664,  Hes- 
ter Douwse,  assisted  by  her  son,  Douw  Jellis 
(or  Gillise),  and  daughter,  Greetjen  Gillise, 
sold  to  Jan  Coster  Van  Aecken  two  distiller's 
kettles   for  400  guilders  sewant.     It  may  be 

-  that  widow  and  children  were  disposing  of 
property  of  the  deceased  if  the  heirs  were  too 
young  or  indisposed  to  make  use  of  them. 

(II)  Douw  Jellis  Fonda,  son  of  Jellis 
Douwse  and  Hester  Fonda,  became  the  owner 
of  property  at  Lubberde-land,  now  Troy,  New 
York,  in  1676.    His  death  occurred  November 

24,1700.   He  married  Rebecca .  Children: 

Jan,  born  1668;  Jellis  Adam  (see  forward); 
Isaac,  baptized  March  9,  1684;  Rebecca,  bap- 
tized March  17,  1686;  Anna,  baptized  Febru- 
ary 2,  1690;  Claas. 

(HI)  Jellis  Adam  Fonda,  son  of  Douw  Jel- 
lis and  Rebecca  Fonda,  was  born  in  Albany, 
about  1670.  In  the  year  1700,  when  he  was 
about  thirty  years  of  age,  he  struck  out  for 
himself,  removing  to  what  was  then  a  wilder- 
ness, now  the  city  of  Schenectady,  New  York, 
a  place  which  Arent  Van  Curler  had  started 
about  ten  years  previous  in  a  small  way,  and 
now  the  people  of  Albany  were  moving  thither 


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in  numbers,  acquiring  tracts  along  the  flats  of 
the  Mohawk.  The  location  of  the  site  was  be- 
lieved advantageous  because  the  Indians  in 
bringing  furs  to  barter  with  the  traders  at 
Albany,  where  they  were  shipped  down  the 
Hudson  to  New  York  to  supply  the  European 
markets,  came  first  to  the  newer  settlement, 
therefore  were  intercepted  for  bargains,  and 
instead  of  going  afoot,  as  outrunners,  from 
Albany,  it  was  deemed  expedient  to  live  there 
permanently.  Jellis  knew  that  they  had  to  em- 
ploy guns  in  their  business,  and  consequently 
engaged  in  the  making  and  repair  of  guns.  He 
was  the  ancestor  of  the  numerous  families  of 
the  name  which  grew  up  in  Schenectady,  Ful- 
ton and  Montgomery  counties.  He  probably 
died  September  8,  1737,  which  was  the  date  he 
made  his  will.  He  married,  at  Albany,  New 
York,  December  11,  1695,  Rachel,  daughter  of 
Pieter  Winne.     Children  (dates  of  baptism)  : 

I.  Douw,  born  in  Albany,  August  23,  1696; 
died  young.  2.  Tanneken,  born  in  Albany, 
March  9,  1698 ;  married  Johannes  Clute,  of 
Schenectady.  3.  Douw  Jellis  (see  forward).  4. 
Rebecca,  December  25,  1702.  5.  Lena,  April 
22,  1705 ;  married  Pieter  Brouwer,  of  Sche- 
nectady. 6.  Eva,  October  16,  1707;  married 
Joseph  Yates,  of  Schenectady.  7.  Pieter, 
March  6,  171 1;  married  Alida  Nak.  8.  Sara, 
May  3,  1713;  married  Jacobus  (or  James) 
Van  Vorst.  9.  Abraham,  July  17,  1715;  mar- 
ried (first)  Maria  Mabie;  married  (second) 
Rachel  Vrooman.    10.  Rachel,  March  28,  1719. 

II.  Jacob,  February  11,  1722. 

(IVj  Douw  Jellis  Fonda,  son  of  Jellis  Adam 
and  Rachel  (Winne)  Fonda,  was  born  in  Al- 
bany, New  York,  August  22,  1700;  baptized 
in  Schenectady,  New  York,  September  i,  1700, 
and  died  at  Fonda,  New  York,  May  22,  1780. 
He  removed  from  Schenectady  about  175 1 
and  settled  in  Caughnawaga,  now  known  as 
Fonda,  New  York.  In  1780  he  was  an  aged 
widower,  and  resided  in  a  large  stone  dwelling. 
His  three  sons,  John,  Jellis  and  Adam,  lived 
in  the  neighborhood.  He  had  been  a  warm 
friend  of  Sir  William  Johnson  and  his  Indian 
cohorts ;  but  on  May  22,  1780.  the  Indians  of 
Sir  John  Johnson  made  a  raid  through  the 
valley,  scalped  the  aged  man,  founder  of  the 
town  of  Fonda,  plundered  his  dwelling  and 
outhouses  of  all  valuables,  and  then  destroyed 
his  property  by  fire.  John  and  Adam  were 
captured  and  carried  off  into  Canada,  and 
their    houses    were    likewise    burned    to    the 


ground.  Douw  Jellis  Fonda  married,  at  Schen- 
ectady, Dctober  29,  1725,  Maritje  Vrooman, 
born  September  i,  1699,  died  1756,  and  her 
tombstone  in  the  old  Caughnawaga  (Fonda) 
cemetery  bears  the  record  in  Dutch.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Adam  Vrooman  and  Grietje 
Takelse  Heemstraat,  who  were  married  in  Al- 
bany, January  13,  1697.  Adam  Vrooman  was 
one  of  the  important  first  settlers  of  Schenec- 
tady. He  was  born  in  Holland  in  1649,  came 
to  this  country  with  his  parents,  and  in  1683 
built  a  mill  in  Schenectady  on  the  Sand  kil, 
now  known  as  Brandywine  creek.  He  saved 
himself  at  the  time  of  the  great  massacre  of 
Schenectady  in  1690  by  the  French  Indians, 
by  bravely  defending  his  house  at  the  corner 
of  Church  and  Front  streets.  Children;  i. 
Jellis,  born  March  24,  1727.  2.  Adam,  bap- 
tized November,  1730;  died  young.  3.  Adam, 
baptized  October  29,  1732;  died  young.  4. 
Margrietje,  baptized  November  10,  1734; 
married  Barent  M.  Wemple.  5.  Adam,  bap- 
tized December  26,  1736;  died  November  8, 
1808;  see  forward.  6.  Pieter,  baptized  Janu- 
ary, 1739-  7-  Johannes,  baptized  March  8, 
1741  ;  died  February  19,   1815. 

(V)  Adam  Fonda,  son  of  Douw  Jellis  and 
Maritje  (Vrooman)  Fonda,  was  born  De- 
cember 26,  1736,  and  died  November  8,  1808. 
During  the  troublous  times  of  the  French  and 
Indian  wars  in  New  York  colony  he  was  a 
faithful  officer  of  Sir  William  Johnson,  who 
was  able  to  rally  the  redmen  to  his  support 
with  surprising  power.  At  the  outbreak  of 
the  revolution  he  received  many  flattering 
offers  to  join  the  cause  of  the  British,  but 
continued  stolidly  to  reject  them,  ever  true 
to  the  colonists.  He  enlisted  in  the  Third 
Tryon  County  Regiment,  and  shortly  became 
a  captain.  He  was  a  courageous  officer,  and 
proved  his  worth  in  the  battle  of  Oriskany, 
and  for  his  bravery  therein  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel.  When  Sir 
John  Johnson  with  his  band  of  mendacious 
savages  raided  the  Mohawk  Valley,  in  1780, 
the  place  where  he  lived,  Caughnawaga 
(Fonda)  suffered  severely.  After  the  In- 
dians had  scalped  Colonel  Frederick  Visscher 
and  killed  Adam's  father,  they  burned  his 
home  and  took  him  a  prisoner  to  Canada 
along  with  his  brother  John.  At  the  close  of 
the  war  he  was  allowed  to  return,  and  he 
rebuilt  his  house,  part  of  which  remains  to 
this    day.      He    was    made    a    Tryon    countv 


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judge,  and  later  was  member  of  assembly,  re- 
maining a  prominent  political  figure  to  the 
end  of  his  life.  For  many  years  he  served 
also  on  the  committee  of  safety.  Adam  Fonda 
married  Nieltje  (or  Nellie)  Breese.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Douw  Adam,  see  forward.  2. 
Henry,  born  August  20,  1766;  died  in  1827; 
fought  in  war  of  i8i2;was  member  of  legis- 
lature, 1807-16-19;  married,  February  14, 
1790,  Hester  Mabie,  and  had  nine  children. 

( VI )  Douw  Adam  Fonda,  son  of  Adam 
and  Nellie  (Breese)  Fonda,  was  born  De- 
cember 30,  1774,  and  died  July  5,  1855.  He 
was  a  mere  lad  of  six  years,  living  at  Caugh- 
nawaga  (Fonda,  New  York),  when  the  In- 
dians of  Sir  John  Johnson's  raiding  party 
swept  through  the  Mohawk  Valley  and  de- 
stroyed his  home  with  fire,  carrying  his 
parent  off.  His  life  thus  began  with  most 
frightful  adventure,  and  before  he  became  of 
age  he  passed  through  all  the  excitement  of 
the  revolution,  but  was  too  youthful  to  par- 
ticipate. It  is  related  that  at  the  time  of  the 
famous  "raid,"  one  of  the  Tories,  in  search- 
ing his  parents'  home,  would  have  made  away 
with  the  family  tea-kettle,  a  massive  one  made 
of  copper.  He  filled  it  with  butter,  recently 
churned,  and  concealed  it  beneath  the  old 
Cayadutta  bridge,  expecting  to  return  for  it 
after  prosecuting  further  depredations.  He 
never  secured  it,  for  it  was  discovered  by 
some  children  at  play  beneath  the  bridge,  and 
it  passed  finally  into  the  possession  of  a  lady 
residing  at  Tribes  Hill,  New  York.  Douw 
Adam  Fonda's  nephew,  the  son  of  his 
brother  Jellis,  also  performed  military  service, 
as  the  following  interesting  document,  never 
before  in  print,  will  show: 

I,  John  Sanders  of  the  town  of  Glenville  (Scotia, 
Schenectady,  N.  Y.)  in  the  County  of  Schenectady, 
do  hereby  certify  that  I  am  well  acquainted  with 
Douw  Fonda,  now  a  resident  in  the  City  of  Al- 
bany. That  during  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  the 
said  Douw  Fonda  resided  in  the  now  City  of  Sche- 
nectady, in  the  house  adjoining  to  the  residence 
of  the  subscriber,  till  the  last  two  years  of  the  War 
the  subscriber  moved  to  the  opposite  side  of  the 
same  street  and  continued  there  to  reside  till  peace, 
and  that  he  has  seen  the  said  Douw  Fonda  per- 
form Military  duty  in  the  Militia  of  the  said  Town 
repeatedly,  that  he  was  always  considered  to  hold 
decided  Whig  principles ;  that  I  believe  liim  to  be 
entitled  to  the  provisions  made  for  the  Old  Revo- 
lutionary Soldiers;  that  I  believe  him  to  be  Sixty- 
Nine  Years  Old.  That  at  the  time  the  Mohawk 
River  Settlements  were  attacked,  destroyed  and 
burnt,    he    was    with    his    mother    up    the    Mohawk 


River  to  bring  down  his  mother  from  one  of  his 
Father's  (Jellis  Fonda)  farms;  that  at  the  time 
of  the  attack  he  fled  toward  a  stockaded  Fort, 
found  it  abandoned;  that  himself  and  mother,  un- 
der cover  of  a  very  thick  fog,  succeeded  to  cross 
the  River,  and  take  shelter  in  the  woods ;  they 
became  separated  at  the  River ;  that  the  Grand 
Father,  (Douw  Jellis  Fonda)  a  very  aged  man, 
was  murdered;  that  the  two  only  Brothers  (John 
and  Adam)  of  his  Father  (Jellis  Fonda)  were 
taken  prisoners  at  the  time,  and  that  his  Father, 
at  the  time  of  this  Occurrence,  was  a  member  at- 
tending the  Legislature  then  in  session  at  Pough- 
keepsie,  and  his  Brothers  and  Uncles  were  always 
with  there  connections  firm  determined  patriotic 
Whigs;  that  what  is  herein  Stated  I  can  and  will  if 
necessary  verify  by  affidavit.  Glenville,  l8th  Sep- 
tember, 1832.  John  Sanders. 
Attest :   Barent  Sanders. 

Douw  Adam  Fonda  had  a  son,  whom  he 
named  Garret  Teunis  Breese  Fonda,  see  for- 
ward. 

(VII)  Garret  Teunis  Breese  Fonda,  son  of 
Douw  Adam  Fonda,  was  born  April  5,  1808, 
and  died  August  7,  1878,  at  Fonda,  New 
York.  He  was  connected  for  many  years 
with  the  Schenectady  &  Utica  railroad,  now 
the  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  rail- 
road, in  the  capacity  of  passenger  agent.  Gar- 
ret T.  B.  Fonda  married  Rachel  Polhemus,  at 
Fonda,  New  York ;  she  was  born  September 
15,  1809,  and  died  July  5,  1844.  Children:  i. 
Garret,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Douw  Henry, 
born  September  10,  1830.  3.  Lavina  Elea- 
nor, born  September  24,  1833.  4.  William 
Breese,  born  May  22,  1835.  5.  Ten  Eyck 
Hilton,  see  forward.  6.  Elizabeth  Ann,  born 
April  19,  1842. 

(VIII)  Ten  Eyck  Hilton  Fonda,  son  of 
Garret  Teunis  Breese  and  Rachel  ( Polhe- 
mus) Fonda,  was  born  at  Fonda,  New  York, 
December  14,  1838,  and  in  1913  was  residing 
in  Omaha,  Nebraska.  He  was  educated  in 
the  schools  of  his  native  place,  and  at  the  time 
he  was  reaching  manhood  the  civil  war  broke 
out.  He  became  military  telegraph  operator, 
and  saw  service  from  1862  until  1865.  He 
then  took  the  position  of  ticket  agent  at 
Fonda,  from  1865  to  1871,  from  which  time 
until  1879  he  was  with  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
railroad.  From  then  until  1905,  when  he  re- 
tired, he  was  with  the  C.  B.  &  Q.  railroad. 
He  was  a  Republican  until  the  formation  of 
the  National  Progressive  party  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1912,  and  attends  the  Christian  Sci- 
ence church.  Ten  Eyck  Fonda  tnarried,  at 
Broadalbin,    New    York,    October    15,    1868, 


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Harriet  McNeill,  born  at  Charleston-Four- 
Corners,  New  York,  February  25,  1848, 
daughter  of  James  McNeill  and  Eliza  Ann 
McNeill.  Children:  i.  Mabel,  born  at  Fonda, 
August  8,  1869;  married,  at  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, April  15,  1905,  Oscar  Gareissen,  born 
at  Monterey,  Mexico,  June  6,  1866,  son  of 
Oscar  Gareissen  and  Marie  Louise  von  Butt- 
lar.  2.  Ten  Eyck  Hilton,  born  at  Fonda, 
March  24,  187 1 ;  married,  at  Milwaukee,  Wis- 
consin, July  15,  1905,  Ethelyn  Hinners,  born 
there,  December  26,  1879,  daughter  of  Au- 
gustus F.  Hinners  and  Ada  Dexheimer ;  by 
whom,  born  at  Omaha,  Nebraska :  Virginia 
McNeill,  born  June  10,  1906:  Ten  Eyck  Hil- 
ton, February  14,  1908 ;  Douw,  September 
30,  1912.  3.  Douw  Henry,  see  forward.  4. 
William  Brace,  born  at  Omaha,  February  12, 
1879;  married  there,  June  10,  1903,  Herberta 
Jaynes,  born  at  Hudson,  Wisconsin,  June  26, 
1879,  son  of  Henry  S.  Jaynes  and  Elma  Lan- 
phear ;  by  whom :  Henry  Jaynes,  born  at 
Grand  Island,  Nebraska,  May  16,  1905  ;  Har- 
riet McNeill,  born  at  Omaha,  March  18,  1907; 
Herberta  Jane,  born  at  Omaha,  September  18, 
1909.  5.  Edwin  McNeill,  born  at  Omaha, 
November  19,  1882;  died  there,  July  29,  1883. 
6.  Rachel  Eliza,  born  at  Omaha,  May  3,  1885 ; 
died  there  the  same  day. 

(IX)  Douw  Henry  Fonda,  son  of  Ten 
Eyck  Hilton  and  Harriet  (McNeill)  Fonda, 
was  born  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  April  4,  1875. 
He  was  educated  in  the  Albany  Academy  at 
Albany,  New  York,  where  he  continued  to 
live  until  he  was  of  age,  when  he  removed  to 
New  York  City,  and  resides  at  No.  155  East 
Seventy-second  street.  He  is  the  president 
of  the  Corrizo  Extract  Co.,  with  ofSce  and 
manufactory  at  No.  211  West  Twentieth 
street,  manufacturing  flavoring  extracts.  He 
served  five  years  in  the  National  Guard  of 
New  York  State.  Third  Signal  Corps.  He 
attends  the  Episcopal  church,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Calumet  Club.  Douw  Henry 
Fonda  married,  at  St.  Mary's  Church,  New 
York  City,  August  9,  191 1,  Caroline  Mar- 
garet Wyman.  She  was  born  at  Evanston, 
Illinois,  August  28,  1881,  daughter  of  Walter 
Channing  Wyman  and  Julie  Loretta  Moran. 
Mr.  Wyman  was  born  at  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, September  24,  1850,  son  of  Richard 
Frothingham  and  Harriet  Louise  (Hoppin) 
Wyman,  and  he  married  Miss  Julie  L.  Moran 
(born   at   Joliet,   Illinois,   June  30,    i860),   in 


New  York  City,  November  2,  1879.  He  is 
engaged  in  coal  mining  operations  in  Illinois, 
Ohio  and  Pennsylvania,  in  connection  with 
railroad  supplies;  is  a  Republican  and  an 
Episcopalian,  treasurer  and  librarian  of  St. 
James  Sunday  School  in  Chicago,  where  he 
resided  before  removing  to  New  York  City. 
He  has  made  the  finest  collection  of  pre- 
historic copper  implements  and  stone  objects 
in  the  world,  now  on  exhibition  in  the  Field 
Natural  History  Museum,  Chicago,  and  Na- 
tional Museum,  Berlin,  Germany.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  and 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  as  well  as  of  the 
prominent  clubs  of  Chicago. 


The  family  name  of  Dela- 
DELAFIELD     field  is  of  Norman  origin. 

It  was  at  first  written  "de 
la  ffelde,"  and  in  Latin  "de  ffelda,"  in  time 
changing  to  "Delafeld"  and  "Delafield."  The 
first  person  who  had  the  name  doubtless  came 
from  some  town  or  place  called  "ffeld"  or 
"La  fifeld,"  after  which  he  was  named.  It 
had  become  a  well-established  surname  by 
1 198.  At  that  time  Richard  de  la  ffelde  went 
from  England  to  Ireland  with  the  Normans, 
there  obtaining  large  grants  of  land  in  County 
Dublin.  Since  his  time,  the  family  has  al- 
ways maintained  the  French  form  of  spelling, 
and  may  thus  be  distinguished  from  a  number 
of  other  families  whose  names  were  really 
"atte  ffeld,"  "in  the  ffeld,"  "of  the  ffeld," 
and  the  like,  though  often  written  "de  la 
ffelde"  in  French  or  Latin  documents  prior 
to  the  year  1400.  Such  families  generally 
dropped  the  prefixes  from  their  surnames  and 
are  the  ancestors  of  the  many  families  which 
now  have  the  name  "Field."  Between  the 
years  1370  and  1400  a  transition  took  place, 
due  to  the  disuse  of  the  French  language  in 
the  speech  of  the  higher  classes,  and  the 
clerks,  no  longer  knowing  French  as  they  had 
formerly,  began  to  write  the  name  in  one 
word,  "Delafeld."  This,  however,  did  not 
change  the  pronunciation,  for  the  "e"  in 
"Feld"  was  then  the  long  "e,"  and  sounded 
as  when  spoken,  "Delafield,"  or  as  when  one 
speaks  of  a  field. 

About  1374,  William  Delafeld,  an  attorney- 
at-law,  came  from  Ireland  to  Buckingham- 
shire, England.  He  was  the  direct  ancestor 
of  the  family  now  living  in  this  country.  His 
name  is  to  be  found  in  -more  than  eighty  court 


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records,  written  sometimes  in  three  words 
and  more  often  as  one,  but  the  name  of  his 
son,  Robert,  was  invariably  written  as  one 
word.  During  the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth 
centuries  the  name  was  often  carelessly  writ- 
ten "Dalafeld"  and  "Dalefield,"  but  since 
about  1620  the  spelling  has  crystallized  into 
the  present  form.  The  de  la  ffeldes  who  re- 
mained in  Ireland  began  about  the  year  1400 
to  drop  the  prefixes  from  their  name,  there- 
after spelling  it  "Feld"  or  "Field."  A  few 
of  them  living  there  at  the  present  time  seem 
to  be  unsettled  as  to  the  form,  employing  the 
longer  for  all  formal  purposes  and  writing 
the  shorter  when  conducting  the  ordinary 
affairs  of  business  life. 

The  arms  of  the  Delafield  family  in  Eng- 
land and  this  country  are:  Sable,  a  cross  flory 
(or  patonce)  or.  Crest:  A  dove  displayed, 
holding  in  its  beak  an  olive  branch,  proper. 

The  line  of  descent  leads  back  to  Richard 
de  la  fifeld,  first  mentioned  circa  1196-98.  He 
received  in  the  year  1201  large  grants  of  land 
in  Ireland  from  King  John.  Previously  he 
had  bought  other  land  in  County  Dublin  from 
an  Irish  chieftain.  A  portion  of  his  property 
in  Ireland  was  named  Glynsurd,  which  subse- 
quently (about  1350)  became  known  as  Felde- 
ston,  and  this  was  finally  written  "Fields- 
town."  This  name  meant  originally  the  en- 
closed or  fortified  manor  of  the  de  la  ffeldes. 
He  settled  in  Ireland,  where  his  services  were 
required  by  the  crown  in  connection  with  the 
exchequer.  In  one  record  he  is  referred  to 
as  "the  Queen's  servant."  The  property  at 
Fieldstown  or  Fieldston  first  passed  to  his 
eldest  son,  Nicholas,  and  remained  the  prop- 
erty of  his  descendants  until  after  the  middle 
of  the  fifteenth  century,  when  it  passed  to 
the  Barnewalls  of  Trimelstown  through  the 
marriage  of  the  only  child  and  heiress  of  John 
Delafield. 

During  the  thirteenth  century,  the  holdings 
of  the  family  were  increased,  and  the  Manors 
of  Wimbleton,  Knightstown,  Skydeuth,  Cul- 
dufife,  Ballymolthan,  Painstown  and  Villa  de 
la  flfelde,  were  added  to  the  lands  already 
owned  by  members.  Several  of  these  manors 
were  held  by  younger  sons  and  their  descend- 
ants, who  became  landowners  in  various  parts 
of  Dublin,  Meath  and  Louth.  From  this 
family  came  William  de  la  fifelde,  or  Dela- 
feld,  an  attorney-at-law,  who  removed  to 
Westcote  in  Buckinghamshire,  England,  about 


1374,  and  founded  the  family  there.  The 
record  of  his  denization  appears  in  the  Patent 
Rolls  of  1394,  in  a  list  of  persons  born  in  Ire- 
land who  then  took  out  their  denization  pa- 
pers. One  of  his  descendants  in  the  thirteenth 
generation  was : 

(I)  John  (2)  Delafield,  eldest  son  of  John 
(  I )  and  Sarah  (Goodwin)  Delafield,  was  born 
at  his  father's  residence,  No.  62  Whitecross 
street,  St.  Giles,  without  Cripplegate,  London, 
June  9,  1718.  Shortly  after  he  came  of  age,  he 
was  made  free  of  the  Leathersellers  Company 
by  patrimony,  the  date  of  the  entry  being  Oc- 
tober 19,  1742.  This  company  was  one  of  the 
principal  guilds  of  London.  His  father  had 
joined  it  many  years  before,  and  he  was  ad- 
mitted by  right  of  his  father's  membership. 
He  carried  on  his  father's  business  as  whole- 
sale cheesemonger  in  London,  and  continued 
to  hold  the  then  very  profitable  waterworks, 
which  supplied  the  town  of  Aylesbury,  in 
Buckinghamshire. 

John  Delafield  married  Martha,  daughter 
of  Jacob  and  Susannah  Dell,  of  Aylesbury,  at 
that  place,  in  June,  1747.  He  died  March  9, 
1763,  and  was  buried  under  the  chancel  in 
the  church  at  Aylesbury,  March  16.  His  wife, 
who  was  born  March  9,  17 19,  died  November 
26,  1 76 1,  and  was  buried  at  the  same  place, 
November  27.  The  children  of  John  and 
Martha  (Dell)  Delafield  were:  i.  John,  see 
forward.  2.  Joseph,  born  in  London,  May 
14,  1749,  died  in  Hastings,  England,  Septem- 
ber 3,  1820;  married,  January  4,  1790, 
Frances,  daughter  of  Harvey  and  Christian 
(Jarman)  Combe,  of  Andover  Hants,  a  sister 
of  his  partner,  Harvey  Christian  Combe,  Lord 
Mayor  of  London,  which  family  may  be 
traced  back  to  an  early  period  in  English 
history.  They  left  issue.  3.  Martha,  born 
June  29,  1750;  married,  April  6,  1779,  Wil- 
liam Arnold,  of  Slatswood,  Isle  of  Wight,  col- 
lector of  customs  at  Cowes,  son  of  Matthew 
Arnold,  of  Lowestofift.  One  of  her  children, 
Lydia,  married  the  Earl  of  Cavan ;  another 
was  the  celebrated  Thomas  Arnold,  head 
master  of  Rugby,  father  of  Matthew  Arnold 
and  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Humphrey  Ward. 
4.  Mary,  born  February  2,  1752.  died,  un- 
married, November  i,  1804.  5.  William  Uns- 
worth,  born  February  19,  1753;  became  a 
midshipman  in  the  East  India  Company  ser- 
vice, and  died  of  fever  at  Bengal,  in  1771.  6. 
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1/57;  resided  most  of  her  life  with  her  sister, 
Martha  Arnold,  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  and 
died,  unmarried,  November  14,  1836.  7. 
Sarah,  born  in  Aylesbury,  September  13,  1758, 
buried  at  the  same  place,  July  7,  1768. 

(II)  John  (3)  Delafield,  eldest  child  of 
John  (2)  and  Martha  (Dell)  Delafield,  was 
born  in  his  father's  house,  No.  62  Whitecross 
street,  St.  Giles,  without  Cripplegate.  Lon- 
don, England,  March  16,  1748.  He  took  pas- 
sage on  the  British  letter-of-marque  "Vigi- 
lant," Captain  Barnewell,  and  landed  in  New 
York  City,  Saturday,  April  5,  1783.  He 
brought  with  him  a  manuscript  copy  of  the 
text  of  the  provisional  treaty  of  peace  be- 
tween England  and  the  United  States,  the 
official  copy  having  been  forwarded  by  an- 
other vessel  which  reached  America  after  the 
"Mgilant"  had  been  in  port  some  time.  He 
also  brought  with  him  letters  of  introduction 
to  the  principal  citizens  of  New  York,  Boston 
and  Philadelphia,  and  to  English  officers  sta- 
tioned in  New  York,  some  of  whom  he  had 
known  in  England,  and  who  vouched  for  his 
identity. 

John  Delafield  was  admitted  as  a  citizen 
of  the  United  States  by  an  act  of  the  legisla- 
ture. May  4,  1784,  and  as  a  freeman  of  the 
city  of  New  York,  June  16,  1784.  He  began 
business  as  a  merchant,  to  which  he  added 
that  of  marine  underwriting,  in  1796.  He 
was  one  of  the  founders  and  was  made  a 
director  of  the  Mutual  Insurance  Company 
of  New  York,  June  15,  1787,  and  on  January 
12,  1792,  was  appointed  one  of  the  directors 
of  the  New  York  branch  of  the  United  States 
Bank,  which  had  just  been  established.  In 
1794  he  became  one  of  the  founders  and  a 
member  of  the  first  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Tontine  Coffee  House.  February  i,  1796,  he 
was  a  founder  and  one  of  thirty-nine  New 
York  capitalists  to  subscribe  ten  thousand 
dollars  each  to  capitalize  the  United  Insur- 
ance Company,  of  which  concern  he  was  made 
a  director  and  was  subsequently  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  company,  an  office  he  held  for  a 
great  many  years.  He  was  the  pioneer  ma- 
rine underwriter  in  New  York,  and  became 
the  head  of  the  private  underwriters  of  the 
city.  The  war  between  France  and  England, 
at  the  close  of  the  eighteenth  century,  brought 
great  disaster  to  American  shipping,  which 
loss  fell  heavily  on  the  New  York  marine  un- 
derwriters, but  Mr.   Delafield  paid  his  losses 


at  the  sacrifice  ot  most  of  his  fortune  and  the 
mortgaging  of  much  of  his  real  estate.  His 
holdings  were  in  New  York,  on  Long  Island, 
and  in  the  townships  of  Hague  and  Cambray 
in  St.  Lawrence  county. 

In  the  summer  of  1791,  he  purchased  the 
Blackwell  farm  of  one  hundred  and  forty  acres 
on  the  east  bank  of  the  East  River,  opposite 
Blackwell's  Island,  and  here  he  built  a  large 
country  residence.  He  named  the  place 
'"Sunswick."  It  presently  became  one  of  the 
best-kept  country  seats  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
metropolis,  and  its  fruits  and  flowers  gained 
a  wide  reputation.  Physically,  he  was  a  tall 
man,  with  a  strong  and  active,  though  slender, 
figure.  He  had  dark  brown  eyes  and  hair, 
which  he  kept  powdered  after  the  fashion  of 
the  day,  and  he  was  particularly  neat  and 
careful  regarding  his  dress.  He  died  at  his 
residence,  No.  9  Pearl  street.  New  York  City, 
July  3,  1824,  and  was  buried  in  Trinity  Church 
burial  ground  on  Hudson  street,  but  his  re- 
mains were  removed  later  to  the  vault  of  his 
son,  John  Delafield,  at  St.  Thomas'  Church, 
Broadway  and  Houston  street,  and  in  1857 
were  deposited  in  the  Delafield  family  vault 
in  Greenwood  Cemetery. 

John  Delafield  married,  December  11,  1784, 
Ann  Hallett,  who  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  February  24,  1766,  and  died  in  New 
York  City,  March  6,  1839.  She  was  a  woman 
of  medium  height,  had  very  dark  blue  eyes 
and  dark  hair,  tinged  slightly  with  auburn. 
Mrs.  Delafield  was  the  third  daughter  and  co- 
heiress of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Hazard) 
Hallett.  Joseph  Hallett  and  his  sister,  Lydia, 
the  wife  of  Colonel  Jacob  Blackwell,  were  the 
only  children  of  Joseph  and  Lydia  Hallett,  he 
being  the  descendant  in  the  oldest  line  of  Wil- 
liam Hallett,  of  Dorsetshire,  England,  who 
settled  on  Long  Island  as  the  grantee  of  the 
patent  of  Hallett's  Point. 

William  Hallett  came  to  this  country  from 
Dorsetshire,  England.  He  first  settled  in 
Greenwich,  Connecticut,  and  later  removed  to 
Lon,g  Island,  his  estate  at  the  latter  place 
overlooking  Hell  Gate,  in  Hallett's  Cove.  The 
Indians  drove  him  away  from  there,  so  he 
established  his  home  in  Flushing,  in  1655.  He 
fell  into  disfavor  with  Governor  Peter  Stuy- 
vesant,  and  then  gave  his  allegiance  to  the  Con- 
necticut colony,  which  was  seeking  to  establish 
authority  over  Long  Island.  He  was  sherif?, 
a  delegate  to  the  general  court  and  justice  of 


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the  peace  of  the  colony.  He  died  about  1706. 
He  married  EHzabeth  (Fones)  Feake,  who 
had  first  been  the  wife  of  her  cousin,  Henry 
Winthrop,  and  then  of  Robert  Feake.  Their 
son,  WilHam,  born  in  New  London  in  1648, 
died  in  Newtown,  August  18,  1729;  received 
lands  from  his  father  in  Newtown,  Long 
Island,  and  about  1669  married  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  George  and  Rebecca  (Cornell)  Wool- 
sey,  the  pioneer  of  Jamaica,  Long  Island.  She 
was  baptized  in  New  Amsterdam,  August  7, 
1650.  He  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  and  cap- 
tain of  a  foot  company.  His  oldest  surviving 
son,  Joseph,  born  May  4,  1678,  died  Novem- 
ber 23,  1750;  a  justice  of  the  peace;  married 
(first)  December  23,  1702,  Lydia,  daughter 
of  Robert  Blackwell;  married  (second)  Au- 
gust 22,  1728,  Mary  (Lawrence)  Greenoak, 
widow  of  John  Greenoak.  His  only  son, 
Joseph,  born  August  14,  1704,  died  Decem- 
ber 14,  173 1  ;  married  Lydia  Alsop.  His  only 
son,  Joseph,  born  January  26,  1731,  died  in 
New  York,  August  9,  1799 ;  merchant,  revo- 
lutionary patriot,  member  of  committees  of 
safety  and  of  the  provincial  congresses ; 
married,  December  11,  1761,  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Drummond) 
Hazard ;  she  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Au- 
gust 29,  1740,  and  died  in  New  York  City, 
November  9,  1814,  by  whom,  Ann,  who  mar- 
ried John  Delafield. 

Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Delafield :  i.  John, 
born  in  New  York  City,  January  22,  1786, 
died  at  his  farm,  "Oaklands,"  near  Geneva, 
New  York,  October  22,  1853,  buried  there; 
married  (first)  in  England,  January  22,1812, 
Mary  Roberts  (his  cousin),  only  child  of  John 
and  Mary  (Dell)  Roberts,  of  Whitchurch, 
Bucks,  England,  who  died  March  19,  1818; 
married  (second)  November  27,  1821,  Har- 
riet Wadsworth  Tallmadge,  second  daughter 
of  Colonel  Benjamin  and  Mary  ( Floyd)  Tall- 
madge, of  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  who  was 
born  April  3,  1797.  Children  by  first  wife : 
John,  Mary  Ann,  Charles,  Emma ;  by  second 
wife :  Harriot,  Tallmadge,  Clarence,  Mary 
Floyd.  2.  Ann  Eliza,  born  March  11,  1787, 
died,  unmarried,  October  4,  i8zi.  3.  Emma, 
born  May  13,  1789,  died,  unmarried,  October 
13,  1846.  4.  Joseph,  see  forward.  5.  Henry, 
born  at  Sunswick,  Long  Island,  New  York, 
July  19,  1792,  died  February  15,  1875;  prom- 
inent merchant  of  New  York ;  married,  Feb- 
ruary  9,    1865,    Mary    Monson.    daughter    of 


Judge  Levinus  Monson,  who  died  May  lO, 
1870;  by  whom:  Mary  Frances  Henrietta, 
born  June  9,  1869,  died,  unmarried,  October 
27,  1886.  6.  William,  born  July  19,  1792 
(twin  of  Henry),  died,  unmarried,  November 
20,  1853.  7.  Edward,  see  forward.  8. 
Charles,  born  May  11,  1796,  died  August, 
1804.  9.  Richard,  born  in  New  York  City, 
September  i,  1798,  died  November  5,  1873; 
brigadier-general  and  chief  of  engineers  of 
the  United  States  Army,  April  22,  1864; 
brevet  major-general,  United  States  Army, 
March  13,  1865 ;  for  many  years  superin- 
tendent of  the  United  States  Military  Acad- 
emy at  West  Point;  married  (first)  July  24, 
1824,  Helen  Summers,  daughter  of  Andrew 
Summers,  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  who 
died,  without  issue,  November  23,  1824;  mar- 
ried (second)  June  2,  1833,  Harriet  Baldwin 
Covington,  daughter  of  General  Elijah  M. 
Covington,  of  Covington,  Kentucky ;  by 
whom:  Henry,  Susan  Parish,  Juliet  Coving- 
ton, Cornelia,  Emma,  Laura,  Albert.  Harriet 
Cecil.  10.  Caroline  Augusta,  born  February 
19,  1800,  died,  unmarried,  October  17,  1821. 
II.  Rufus  King,  see  forward.  12.  Susan 
Maria,  born  February  25,  1805;  married,  Oc- 
tober 7,  1829,  Henry  Parish ;  no  issue  ( see 
Parish  family).     She  died  June  16,  1861. 

(Ill)  Major  Joseph  Delafield,  second  son 
of  John  (3)  and  Ann  (Hallett)  Delafield,  was 
born  in  New  York  City.  August  22,  1790,  and 
died  at  his  house.  No.  473  Fifth  avenue.  New 
York  City,  February  12,  1875.  His  early 
years  were  passed  in  New  York  and  at  Suns- 
wick, on  the  east  bank  of  the  East  River,  op- 
posite Blackwell's  Island,  the  country  seat  of 
his  father.  He  received  his  preliminary  edu- 
cation at  the  private  school  of  Rev.  Mr.  Smith, 
in  Pine  street,  and  later  attended  a  school  in 
Stamford,  Connecticut.  Among  his  fellow 
students  were  Herman  LeRoy,  M.  and  J. 
Gouverneur.  William  Wilkes  and  William  B. 
Astor.  Leaving  Stamford,  he  entered  the 
school  of  Professor  Davis  at  Yale,  and  when 
fourteen  became  a  student  at  that  college.  He 
was  graduated  in  1808.  with  the  degree  of 
B.A.,  and  thereupon  began  to  read  law  in  the 
office  of  Josiah  Ogden  HoiTman.  He  was 
admitted  to  practice  in  the  supreme  court  of 
New  York  state,  October  29,  181 1.  He  took 
full  charge  of  the  affairs  of  that  office,  but 
his  interest  and  activities  extended  beyond 
the   field   of   law.      When   a   student,   he   had 


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received  a  commission  as  lieutenant  in  the 
Fifth  Regiment,  First  Brigade,  New  York 
State  MiHtia.  On  February  4,  1812,  he 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain.  Upon 
the  declaration  of  war,  in  the  spring  of 
that  year,  he  raised  a  full  company  of  vol- 
unteers from  the  city  and  river  counties, 
and  with  these  joined  the  command  of  Colonel 
Hawkins,  whose  regiment  of  volunteers  were 
ordered  to  Sandy  Hook,  where  they  remained 
one  year,  after  which  time  Captain  Delafield, 
with  others,  recruited  a  regiment  for  the  reg- 
ular army,  known  as  the  Forty-sixth  Infantry, 
of  which  he  was  made  major.  One  of  the 
first  acts  of  the  organizers  was  to  obtain  com- 
missions from  the  national  government.  This 
regiment  was  stationed  at  Governor's  Island 
and  elsewhere  near  New  York  City.  In  181 7 
he  was  attached  to  the  commission  appointed 
under  the  treaty-of  Ghent  for  the  settlement 
of  the  northwestern  boundary.  He  was  ap- 
pointed full  agent  under  the  sixth  and  seventh 
articles  of  the  treaty,  on  January  i,  1821,  a 
post  he  retained  until  June,  1828.  A  differ- 
ence arose  between  Messrs.  Porter  and  Haw- 
kins, the  American  commissioners,  with  the 
result  that  Major  Delafield  had  sole  command 
of  the  work  in  the  field.  During  this  period 
he  spent  his  summers  on  the  northwestern 
border,  establishing  the  line  between  St.  Regis 
on  the  St.  Lawrence  and  the  Lake  of  the 
Woods.  His  famous  collection  of  minerals 
was  commenced  during  these  expeditions.  His 
winters  were  passed  in  New  York  and  Wash- 
ington. During  his  long  and  active  career, 
he  served  as  president  of  the  Lyceum  of  Na- 
tural History  of  New  York,  later  known  as 
the  Academy  of  Sciences,  from  1827  to  1866; 
was  vestryman  of  Trinity  Church ;  trustee  of 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons ;  of 
the  Society  Library ;  of  the  Eye  and  Ear  In- 
firmary, and  of  other  institutions.  In  1829 
he  purchased  and  laid  out  a  farm  of  about 
two  hundred  and  fifty  acres,  located  between 
Spuyten  Duyvil  and  Yonkers,  on  the  banks 
of  the  Hudson,  and  named  it  Fieldston,  after 
a  family  seat  in  Ireland.  He  built  a  lime  kiln 
there  in  1830,  which  was  the  first  in  this 
country  constructed  after  the  French  model. 
It  was  on  this  farm  that  he  built  his  summer 
home,  which  overlooked  the  Hudson  at  one 
of  its  most  picturesque  spots.  Mr.  Delafield 
was  of  medium  height,  with  dark  auburn  hair 
and  blue  eyes. 


Major  Joseph  Delafield  married,  in  New 
York  City,  December  12,  1833,  Julia  Living- 
ston, who  was  born  at  Staatsburg,  New  York, 
September  15,  1801,  and  died  at  Rhinebeck, 
New  York,  June  23,  1882.  She  was  the  eldest 
daughter  of  Maturin  and  Margaret  (Lewis) 
Livingston,  of  Staatsburg,  New  York,  her 
mother  being  the  only  child  of  General  Mor- 
gan Lewis,  who  was  on  General  Washington's 
staff,  was  present  at  old  Saratoga  (Schuyler- 
ville,  New  York)  when  General  Burgoyne 
surrendered,  October  17,  1777,  and  later  was 
governor  of  New  York  state,  and  she  was  the 
granddaughter  of  Francis  Lewis,  a  signer  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence  (see  Living- 
ston Family).  Children:  i.  Lewis  Living- 
ston, see  forward.  2.  Maturin  Livingston,  see 
forward.  3.  Julia  Livingston,  born  in  New 
York  City,  September  10,  1837.  4.  Joseph, 
born  in  New  York  City,  August  5,  1839,  died 
in  New  York  City,  February  24,  1848. 

(IV)  Lewis  Livingston  Delafield,  eldest  son 
of  Major  Joseph  and  Julia  (Livingston)  Dela- 
field, was  born  at  his  father's  house  in  Park 
place,  New  York  City,  November  3,  1834.  He 
was  given  the  name  Morgan  Lewis  Delafield 
at  his  christening,  but  a  few  years  later  his 
name  was  changed  to  Lewis  Livingston  Dela- 
field. Entering  Columbia  College,  he  was 
graduated  with  honors,  receiving  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts,  and  the  degree  of  Master 
of  Arts  in  1855.  On  leaving  college,  he  studied 
law  in  the  office  of  Alexander  Hamilton,  Jr., 
and  in  1857  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  In  1876 
he  became  counsel  to  the  Society  for  the  Pre- 
vention of  Cruelty  to  Children,  in  which  he 
took  an  active  interest  until  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  compiled  a  volume  of  laws  relating 
to  children.  His  private  legal  practice  was 
large,  and  he  appeared  in  a  number  of  im- 
portant cases.  In  1870  he  helped  to  found  the 
Bar  Association  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and 
later,  while  acting  as  chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Law  Reporting,  urged  and  carried 
through  an  important  reform  in  the  practice 
of  law  reporting.  He  also  took  part  in  the 
establishment  of  the  State  Bar  Association, 
and  was  largely  instrumental  in  changing  the 
requirements  of  admission  to  the  bar.  He 
took  an  active  part  in  the  campaign  against 
the  Tweed  Ring.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the 
School  of  Mines,  Columbia  College ;  a  vestry- 
man of  Calvary  Protestant  Episcopal  Church 
on  Fourth  avenue,  and  of  Christ  Church  at 


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Riverdale.  He  died  at  his  house.  No.  24  West 
Seventeenth  street.  New  York  City,  March  28, 
1883. 

Lewis  Livingston  Delafield  married,  at 
Trinity    Chapel,    New    York    City,    April   23, 

1862,  Emily  Prime,  daughter  of  Frederick 
and  Lydia  (  Hare )  Prime.  Lydia  Hare  was  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  Robert  Hare,  of  Philadelphia. 
Mrs.-  Delafield  died  at  her  residence,  No.  30 
East  Sixtieth  street,  New  York  City,  March 
I,  1909.  Children:  i.  Lewis  Livingston,  see 
forward.  2.  Robert  Hare,  see  forward.  3. 
Frederick  Prime,  see  forward.  4.  Emily,  see 
forward. 

(V)  Lewis  Livingston  (2)  Delafield,  eldest 
child  of  Lewis  Livingston  ( i )  and  Emily 
(Prime)  Delafield,  was  born  at  No.  9  East 
Thirtieth  street.  New  York  City,  January  30, 

1863.  He  was  educated  at  St.  Paul's  School, 
Concord,  New  Hampshire,  Columbia  College, 
the  Harvard  Law  School,  and  the  Columbia 
Law  School,  from  which  institution  he  was 
graduated  LL.B.,  in  1884,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  the  same  year.  In  1894  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Committee  of  Seventy  and  of 
the  executive  committee  of  that  body.  In  1906 
he  was  nominated  by  the  lawyers  in  New 
York  City  and  by  the  Republican  party  for 
justice  of  the  Supreme  Court.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Association  of  the  Bar  of  the  City 
of  New  York  and  has  been  chairman  of  its 
executive  committee,  and  he  has  also  been 
elected  for  several  terms  a  vice-president  of 
the  State  Bar  Association  and  chairman  of 
the  executive  committee  of  that  organization. 
He  is  a  partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Hawkins, 
Delafield  &  Longfellow,  and  resides  at  No. 
20  West  Fifty-eighth  street,  New  York  City. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  Club,  the  Cen- 
tury Association,  the  Tuxedo  Club,  the  Sleepy 
Hollow  Country  Club,  the  American  Alpine 
Club,  and  of  a  number  of  minor  associations 
formed  for  scientific,  literary  and  charitable 
purposes. 

Lewis  Livingston  Delafield  married,  at 
Calvary  Church,  New  York,  April  25,  1885, 
Charlotte  Hoffman  Wyeth,  daughter  of  Leon- 
ard J.  and  Charlotte  (Prime)  Wyeth.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Lewis  Livingston,  born  at  Fieldston, 
New  York  City,  October  27,  1886:  graduate 
of  Harvard,  A.B.  (cum  laude.  and  with  spe- 
cial distinction  in  economics),  igog;  Harvard 
Law  School,  LL.B.  (cum  laude).  1911.  2. 
Charlotte,  bom  at  Fieldston,  New  York  City, 


April  6,  1889.  3.  Emily,  born  at  Cazenovia, 
New  York,  July  25,  1900. 

(V)  Robert  Hare  Delafield,  second  child 
of  Lewis  Livingston  (i)  and  Emily  (Prime) 
Delafield,  was  born  at  his  grandfather's  house, 
"Edgewood,"  New  Rochelle,  Westchester 
county.  New  York,  July  13,  1864,  and  died  at 
New  York  City,  November  20,  1906.  He 
married,  at  San  Francisco,  California,  August 
14,  1889,  Anne  Shepard  Lloyd,  daughter  of 
George  Francis  and  Mary  P.  (Hammond) 
Lloyd,  of  Alexandria,  Virginia.  She  married 
(second)    at   Seattle,   Washington,  September 

1,  1909,  John  Thomas  Dovey.  Children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Delafield:  i.  Robert  Hare,  born 
at  San  Francisco,  California,  January  25,  1894. 

2.  Mary  Hammond,  born  at  San  FrancisCo, 
California,  April  2,  1895. 

(V)  Frederick  Prime  Delafield.  third  child 
of  Lewis  Livingston  (i)  and  Emily  (Prime) 
Delafield,  was  born  at  No.  475  Fifth  avenue. 
New  York  City,  February  2,  1868.  He  was 
educated  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  New 
Hampshire,  Adams  Academy,  Quincy,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  Columbia  Law  School,  from 
which  he  graduated  LL.B  in  1888.  In  1891 
he  became  a  law  clerk  in  the  office  of  Hoadley, 
Lauterbach  &  Johnson,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  the  same  year.  In  1895  he  began  the 
practice  of  law  in  New  York  City,  and  has 
been  successively  a  member  of  the  firms  of 
Delafield  &  Gould :  Delafield,  Gould  &  Long- 
fellow ;  Delafield  &  Longfellow,  and  is  now 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hawkins,  Delafield  & 
Longfellow,  No.  20  Exchange  place.  New 
York  City.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union 
Club,  City  Club,  Tuxedo  Club,  Sleepy  Hol- 
low Country  Club,  the  Riding  Club,  Down 
Town  Association,  Recess  Club,  and  a  number 
of  minor  associations.  His  city  residence  is 
No.  121  East  Seventy-fourth  street.  New  York 
City. 

Frederick  Prime  Delafield  married,  at 
Trinity  Chapel,  New  York  City.  November 
10,  1898,  Elsie  Barber,  who  was  born  at  No. 
313  West  Twenty-third  street.  New  York 
City,  June  13,  1874,  and  was  the  dauehter  of 
Charles  Gibbs  and  Georgiana  (Williams) 
Barber.  Children:  i.  Frederick  Prime,  horn 
at  Fieldston,  New  York  City,  September  2, 
1902.  2.  Charles  Barber,  born  at  Fieldston, 
New  York  City,  June  28,  1905. 

(V)  Emily  Delafield,  fourth  child  of  Lewis 
Livingston  (i)  and  Emily  (Prime)   Delafield. 


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was  born  at  New  York  City,  September  lo, 
1870.  She  married,  at  Fieldston,  New  York 
City,  June  21,  1901,  Dr.  Rolfe  Floyd,  only 
child  of  Augustus  and  Emma  (Cooper)  Floyd, 
of  Mastic,  Long  Island.  Children:  i.  Rolfe 
Floyd,  born  July  13,  1902.  2.  Richard  Floyd, 
born  May  4,  1904,  died  at  New  York  City, 
February  16,  1905.  3.  Emily  Delafield,  born 
July  31,  1905.  4.  William  Floyd,  born  June  5, 
1 9 10. 

(IV)  Maturin  Livingston  Delafield,  second 
son  of  Major  Joseph  and  Julia  (Livingston) 
Delafield,  was  born  at  his  father's  house.  No. 
104  Franklin  street,  New  York  City,  February 
17,  1836.  He,  together  with  his  brother  and 
sister,  received  his  early  education  at  home 
with  the  aid  of  private  tutors.  He  was  gradu- 
ated from  Columbia  College,  and  received  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts,  in  1856.  He  en- 
tered the  counting  house  of  his  uncle,  Henry 
Delafield,  and  remained  there  two  years.  At 
this  time  he  made  a  voyage,  as  supercargo  of 
the  brig,  "Bohio,"  to  Porto  Rico  and  Hayti. 
Later  he  engaged  in  the  West  India  trade  on 
his  own  account,  and  having  acquired  a  com- 
petence, retired  from  active  business  life.  He 
was  the  first  treasurer  and  director  of  the  In- 
ternational Ocean  Telegraph  Company,  which 
laid  the  first  submarine  cable  to  Cuba.  After 
a  few  years  he  and  most  of  his  friends  sold 
their  interests  in  this  company  to  the  Western 
Union  Telegraph  Company.  At  Fieldston  he 
built  a  stone  house  for  his  residence  in  1869, 
and  a  summer  home  at  Sunswyck,  Westhamp- 
ton.  Long  Island,  in  1876.  His  city  home  is 
at  No.  82  East  Seventy-ninth  street.  Mr. 
Delafield  is  about  six  feet  in  height,  has  blue 
eyes  and  light  hair.  His  club  memberships 
include  the  Metropolitan  and  Union  clubs,  and 
he  is  a  member  of  the  Museum  of  Natural 
History  and  of  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of 
Art  in  New  York  City,  and  of  the  New  York 
Historical  Society,  the  New  York  Genealog- 
ical and  Biographical  Society,  of  the  Society 
of  the  War  of  1812,  and  he  is  a  fellow  of  the 
American  Geographical  Society. 

Maturin  Livingston  Delafield  married,  at 
Trinity  Chapel,  New  York  City,  ceremony 
performed  by  Rev.  Henry  A.  Neely,  bishop  of 
Maine,  and  Rev.  Walter  Delafield,  December 
I,  1868,  Mary  Coleman  Livingston,  the  only 
surviving  child  of  Eugene  Augustus  Living- 
ston, of  Clermont-on-Hudson,  New  York,  by 
his  first  wife,  Harriet,  the  only  child  of  Ed- 


ward and  Mary  Jane  (Ross)  Coleman,  of 
Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  who  has  left  de- 
scendants. She  was  born  at  Teviot,  Tivoli, 
Dutchess  county.  New  York,  August  17,  1847. 
She  is  tall,  with  black  hair  and  dark  brown 
eyes. 

Eugene  Augustus  Livingston,  her  father, 
was  born  at  Clermont-on-Hudson,  Columbia 
county.  New  York,  August  30,  1813,  died  at 
Nice,  France,  December  22,  1893.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  at  Philadelphia,  December  7,  1841, 
Harriet  Coleman,  born  at  Lancaster,  Pennsyl- 
vania, July  5,  1820,  died  at  Philadelphia,  May 
3,  1848:  married  (second)  at  Philadelphia, 
June  23,  185 1,  Elizabeth  Rhodes  Fisher,  born 
at  Philadelphia,  June  5,  1828,  died  at  New 
York  City,  May  5,  1878,  daughter  of  Coleman 
and  Mary  (Read)  Fisher.  He  was  the  son 
of  Robert  L.  Livingston  and  his  wife,  nee 
Margaret  Maria  Livingston,  who  was  the  son 
of  Judge  Walter  and  Cornelia  (Schuyler) 
Livingston,  of  Albany  and  New  York  City, 
whose  father  was  Robert  Livingston,  the  third 
and  last  lord  of  the  Manor  of  Livingston  (see 
Livingston  family).  Margaret  Maria  Living- 
ston was  the  youngest  daughter  and  co-heiress 
of  Chancellor  Robert  R.  Livingston. 

Harriet  Coleman,  her  mother,  who  was 
born  July  5,  1820,  died  May  3,  1848,  was  the 
daughter  of  Edward  Coleman,  born  at  Lan- 
caster, Pennsylvania,  July  4,  1792,  died  at 
Philadelphia,  June  6,  1841,  who  married,  at 
Pittsburgh,  October  7,  1816,  Mary  Jane  Ross, 
born  at  Pittsburgh,  June  28,  1797,  died  at 
Lancaster,  September  27,  1825,  daughter  of 
Senator  James  and  Ann  (Woods)  Ross.  Ed- 
ward Coleman  was  a  member  of  assembly  and 
of  the  senate  of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  the 
son  of  Robert  Coleman,  born  at  Castlefinn, 
County  Donegal,  Ireland,  November  4,  1748, 
died  at  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  August  14, 
1825 ;  who  acquired  large  iron  mines  and 
smelting  furnaces,  of  which  the  Cornwall 
mines  near  Lebanon  are  still  famous,  and 
besides  serving  in  the  Revolution  as  a  lieu- 
tenant, supplied  the  army  with  cannon-balls 
and  implements ;  was  a  member  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania legislature,  1783-84;  member  of  the 
state  constitutional  convention,  1790;  associ- 
ate judge  of  Lancaster  county  in  1791  and 
for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  thereafter, 
most  of  the  time  as  presiding  justice,  and  was 
presidential  elector  in  1792  and  1796.  He 
married,  at  Reading  Furnace,  Chester  county, 


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Pennsylvania,  October  4,  1775,  Ann,  daughter 
of  James  and  Margaretta  (Davies)   Old. 

Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Delafield :  i. 
Maturin  Livingston,  born  at  No.  475  Fifth 
avenue.  New  York  City,  September  29,  1869; 
entered  Columbia  University  in  the  class  of 
1893,  but  withdrew  to  engage  in  business; 
married  (first)  at  Trinity  Chapel,  New  York 
City,  November  21,  1893,  Lettice  Lee  Sands, 
eldest  daughter  of  Charles  Edwin  and  Letitia 
(Campbell)  Sands;  no  issue;  married  (sec- 
ond) at  Dover,  England,  October  21,  1909, 
Honorine  Julia  Elizabeth  Daniel  de  Pernay, 
born  at  Paris,  France,  April  11,  1869.  only 
child  of  Count  Alphonse  Pierre  Eugene  Daniel 
de  Pernay  and  Joanna  Anna  Amelia  ( de  Cor- 
rea)  de  Pernay.  and  they  reside  at  "Villa 
Guardamunt,"  St.  Moritz,  Switzerland.  2. 
Joseph  Livingston,  born  at  No.  475  Fifth 
avenue.  New  York  City,  March  19,  1871 ; 
studied  at  Columbia  and  after  being  gradu- 
ated from  the  New  York  Law  School  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  New  York  bar  in  July,  1895 ; 
member  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the 
Nursery  and  Child's  Hospital ;  secretary  of 
the  Washington  Square  Association  and  of 
the  Tree  Planting  Association.  Married,  at 
the  Brick  Church,  Fifth  avenue,  New  York 
City,  May  5,  1906,  Mary  Renwick  Sloane, 
who  was  born  at  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  May 
14,  1879,  and  was  the  daughter  of  William 
Milligan  and  Mary  Espy  (Johnston)  Sloane; 
by  whom:  Joseph  Livingston,  born  at  New 
York  City,  January  20,  19 10;  Mary  Johnston, 
born  at  Quogue,  Long  Island,  New  York, 
June  4,  1912;  and  Julia  Livingston,  born  at 
Quogue,  Long  Island,  September  15,  1913.  3. 
John  Ross,  see  forward.  4.  Julia  Livingston, 
born  at  Fieldston,  New  York  City,  October 
14,  1875 ;  married,  at  No.  475  Fifth  avenue, 
New  York  City,  April  30,  1901,  Frederick 
William  Longfellow,  who  was  born  at 
Machias,  Maine,  February  13,  1870,  son  of 
Clark  and  Amanda  B.  (Gardner)  Longfellow  ; 
lawyer,  practising  in  New  York  City ;  by 
whom :  Juliette  Delafield,  born  at  Fieldston, 
New  York  City,  April  28,  1902 ;  Frederick 
Livingston,  born  at  Roque  Bluff,  Maine,  Au- 
gust 18,  1903;  Elizabeth  Delafield,  born  at 
New  York  City.  February  14,  1905.  5.  Ed- 
ward Coleman,  see  forward.  6.  Mary  Liv- 
ingston, born  at  Fieldston,  New  York  City, 
November  23,  1878;  married,  at  Fieldston, 
l-iMuary  18,  1913,  Edward  Ridley  Finch,  who 


was  born  at   New  York  City,   November   15, 

1873,  and  was  the  eldest  son  of  Edward  L. 
and  Annie  Ridley  (Crane)  Finch.  He  gradu- 
ated from  Yale,  A.B.,  1895,  and  from  the 
Columbia  Law  School,  LL.B.,  1898;  member 
of  the  firm  of  Finch,  Coleman  &  Baird ;  as- 
semblyman in  1901-02-03.  7.  Harriet  Cole- 
man, born  at  Fieldston,  New  York,  May  7, 
1880;  married,  at  Church  of  the  Heavenly 
Rest,  Fifth  avenue.  New  York  City,  April 
28,  1906,  Jarvis  Pomeroy  Carter,  who  was 
born  at  New  York  City,  October  30,  188 1,  and 
was  the  son  of  Dr.  Henry  Skilton  and  Flor- 
ence (Russell)  Carter;  graduate  of  Columbia 
University,  A.B.,  1902,  and  of  the  Columbia 
Law  School,  LL.B.,  in  1905  ;  by  whom:  Jarvis 
Delafield,  born  at  New  York  City,  May  16, 
1907;  Harriet  Delafield,  born  at  New  York 
City,  March  20,  1909.  8.  Eugene  Livingston, 
born  at  Sunswyck,  Long  Island,  August  16, 
1882 ;  married,  at  Tennent,  New  Jersey,  Sep- 
tember 26,  1906,  Margaret  Nevius  Woodhull, 
who  was  born  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  March 
22,  1879,  and  was  the  daughter  of  John  Ten- 
nent and  Margaret  Schurman  (Nevius) 
Woodhull,  by  whom :  Eugene  Livingston,  born 
at  Glen  Ridge,  New  Jersey,  November  6,  1907. 
Mr.  Delafield  is  a  graduate  of  Stevens  Institute 
of  Technology,  M.E.,  1905,  and  president  of 
Delafield  &  Company,  contractors. 

(V)  John  Ross  Delafield,  third  son  of  Ma- 
turin Livingston  and  Mary  Coleman  (Living- 
ston) Delafield,  was  born  at  his  father's  resi- 
dence,   Fieldston,    New    York    City,    May   8, 

1874.  Passing  the  entrance  examinations  for 
both  Columbia  University  and  the  College  of 
New  Jersey,  or  Princeton,  he  decided  to  enter 
the  latter.  He  was  especially  interested  in 
history  and  jurisprudence,  and  his  determina- 
tion to  become  a  lawyer  was  strengthened  by 
the  teaching  and  advice  of  Professor  Wood- 
row  Wilson,  then  the  professor  of  jurispru- 
dence at  Princeton.  He  graduated  with 
honors,  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Arts  in  1896  and  the  Master's  degree  in  1899. 
He  then  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  LL.B.  in  1899. 
He  became  a  member  of  the  New  York  bar 
in  January,  1899,  and  in  the  autumn  of  that 
year  became  a  clerk  in  the  law  office 
of  Strong  &  Cadwallader.  About  a  year 
later  he  opened  a  law  office  at  No. 
25  Broad  street.  New  York,  at  first  with  Wirt 
Howe,   a   fellow  student  and  graduate   from 


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Harvard  Law  School,  and  subsequently,  at 
the  same  address,  with  John  H.  Iselin.  He 
was  the  candidate  of  the  Republicans  and 
Independent  Democrats  for  alderman  of  his 
home  district  in  1903,  but  was  defeated  by 
Tammany.  Shortly  after  his  marriage  he 
built  a  house  at  Fieldston,  which  remains  his 
residence,  but  he  occupies  his  town  house.  No. 
17  East  Seventy-ninth  street,  during  the  win- 
ter months.  He  is  about  six  feet  and  five 
inches  in  height,  weighs  about  two  hundred 
pounds,  and  has  dark  brown  hair  and  eyes. 
He  is  president  of  the  Delafield  Estate  and  of 
the  Parkway  Heights  Company ;  a  director  of 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of 
New  York  City ;  a  vestryman  of  Christ 
Church  at  Riverdale ;  a  member  of  the  board 
of  governors  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution ; 
a  member  of  the  Council  of  Administration  of 
the  Society  of  the  War  of  1812  and  Veteran 
Corps  of  Artillery ;  an  officer  of  the  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars ;  a  member  of  the  Union,  Uni- 
versity and  Riding  clubs,  of  the  Down  Town 
Association ;  an  officer  of  the  St.  Nicholas 
Society;  a  member  of  St.  Andrew's  Golf  Club, 
the  Association  of  the  Bar  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Bio- 
graphical Society,  and  the  New  York  Histor- 
ical Society.  In  the  spring  of  1912  he  was 
instrumental,  in  conjunction  with  his  cousin, 
Richard  Delafield,  in  organizing  the  Delafield 
Family  Association,  of  which  he  is  secretary. 

John  Ross  Delafield  married,  at  the  Church 
of  the  Heavenly  Rest,  New  York  City,  Rev. 
Dr.  Morgan  Dix  and  Rev.  D.  Parker  Morgan 
officiating,  June  14,  1904,  Violetta  Susan  Eliza- 
beth White,  who  was  born  at  Florence,  Italy, 
May  19,  1875,  daughter  of  John  Jay  and 
Louise  Lawrence  (Wetmore)  White. 

John  Jay  White  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  December  6,  1829,  died  at  his  residence, 
No.  560  Fifth  avenue,  December  31,  1902; 
was  a  graduate  from  Columbia  in  1849 ;  law- 
yer; married,  February  11,  1858,  Louise 
Lawrence  Wetmore,  eighth  child  of  General 
Prosper  M.  Wetmore  and  Louise  Ann  (Ogs- 
bury)  Wetmore.  He  was  the  son  of  Eli 
White,  born  at  Danbury,  Connecticut,  Septem- 
ber 26,  1791,  died  in  New  York  City,  Decem- 
ber 4,  1873 :  merchant ;  married  his  cousin, 
Caroline  White,  eldest  child  of  Russell  and 
Susanna  (Burr)  White.  Eli  White  was  the 
son  of  Ebenezer  Booth  White,  born  at  Dan- 
bury,   September   11,    1771,   died  there,   April 


15,  1817;  married,  at  Danbury,  March  23, 
1791,  Betsey  Mygatt,  daughter  of  Eli  and 
Phoebe  (Judson)  Mygatt.  Ebenezer  B. 
White  was  the  son  of  Joseph  Moss  White, 
born  at  Danbury,  September  13,  1741,  died 
there,  July  15,  1822;  farmer  and  surveyor; 
Yale,  1760;  member  of  constitutional  conven- 
tion; married  Rachel  Booth,  daughter  of 
Ephraim  and  Sarah  (Fairchild)  Booth.  Jo- 
seph M.  White  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Ebenezer 
White,  born  at  Weymouth,  Massachusetts, 
December  21,  1709,  died  at  Danbury,  Septem- 
ber II,  1779;  Yale,  1733;  ordained  a  minister, 
March  10,  1736;  married  (first)  Mary  Moss, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Joseph  Moss,  Jr.,  and  Abi- 
gail (Russell)  Moss,  of  Derby,  Connecticut. 
Rev.  Ebenezer  White  was  the  son  of  Thomas 
White,  born  at  Weymouth,  August  19,  1673, 
died  there,  April  28,  1759;  was  known  as 
Deacon  White;  married  Mary  White,  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  James  and  Sarah  (Baker) 
White.  Thomas  White  was  the  son  of  Ebene- 
zer White,  born  at  Weymouth,  in  1648,  died 
there,  July  24,  1703 ;  captain  of  militia ;  mar- 
ried Hannah,  daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Han- 
nah (Salter)  Phillips.  Ebenezer  White  was 
the  son  of  Thomas  White,  who  was  born  in 
Great  Britain  and  came  to  the  Massachusetts 
Colony  in  1630  or  earlier;  was  a  captain  of 
militia  and  represented  his  town  in  the  general 
court  of  Boston  in  1637,  1657  and  1671 ;  died 
at  Weymouth,  in  August,  1679. 

Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Delafield:  i. 
John  White  Ross,  born  in  New  York  City, 
May  12,  1905.  2.  Richard  Montgomery,  born 
in  New  York  City,  January  9,  1909. 

(V)  Edward  Coleman  Delafield,  fifth  child 
of  Maturin  Livingston  and  Mary  Coleman 
( Livingston )  Delafield,  was  born  at  Suns- 
wyck,  Westhampton  Beach,  Long  Island,  New 
York,  July  10,  1877.  He  was  graduated  from 
Princeton,  A.B.,  in  1899,  and  for  a  number  of 
years  thereafter  was  connected  with  the  New 
Jersey  Zinc  Company,  from  which  position  he 
resigned  to  become  secretary  and  manager  of 
the  Delafield  Estate  and  of  the  Parkway 
Heights  Company.  Mr.  Delafield  is  about  six 
feet  three  inches  in  height,  and  has  light  brown 
hair  and  gray  eyes.  His  home  is  at  Fieldston, 
New  York  City,  and  his  town  house  at  No.  126 
East  Thirty-sixth  street.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Union  and  University  clubs,  the  Down 
Town  Association,  is  an  officer  of  the  Society 
of  Colonial  Wars,  a  member  of  the  Society 


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of  the  War  of  1812  and  of  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  and  treasurer  of  the  Delafield 
Family  Association. 

Edward  Coleman  Delafield  married,  at  St. 
Thomas'  Episcopal  Church,  New  York  City, 
April  30,  1900,  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  Dix,  of 
Trinity  Church,  assisted  by  Rev.  Dr.  John 
Brown  and  Rev.  Henry  Lubeck,  officiating, 
Margaretta  Stockton  Beasley.  She  was  born 
at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  November  2,  1878, 
and  was  the  daughter  of  Mercer  Beasley,  jr., 
and  his  wife,  Mary  Potter  (Stockton)  Beas- 
ley (see  Stockton  family). 

Mercer  Beasley,  Jr.,  was  born  at  Trenton, 
New  Jersey,  March  2,  1845,  died  there,  Sep- 
tember 16,  1887;  was  prosecutor  for  the  state 
of  New  Jersey ;  married,  June  14,  1877,  Mary 
Potter  Stockton,  daughter  of  General  Robert 
Field  Stockton  and  Anna  Margaretta  (Pot- 
ter) Stockton,  and  granddaughter  of  Commo- 
dore Robert  Field  Stockton.  The  father  of 
Mercer  Beasley,  Jr.,  was  Chief  Justice  Mercer 
Beasley,  born  March  27,  1815,  died  at  Tren- 
ton, New  Jersey,  February  19,  1897,  who  for 
over  forty  years  was  chief  justice  of  New 
Jersey;  married,  July  13,  1842,  Frances  Hig- 
bee,  born  April,  1817,  died  at  Trenton,  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1852,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Char- 
lotte (Townsend)  Higbee,  of  Long  Island. 
The  father  of  Justice  Beasley  was  Rev.  Dr. 
Frederick  Beasley,  born  at  Edenton,  North 
Carolina,  in  1777,  died  at  Elizabethtown,  New 
Jersey,  November  2,  1845 ;  Princeton,  1797 ; 
ordained  in  Episcopal  church,  1801  ;  rector  of 
St.  Michael's  at  Trenton,  1830-36;  provost 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  1813-28;  married, 
June  29,  1807,  Maria  Williamson,  daughter 
of  Matthias  Williamson,  Jr.,  son  of  General 
Matthias  Williamson,  of  Revolutionary  fame, 
who  was  baptized  at  Elizabethtown,  Novem- 
ber 3,  175 1,  and  Henrietta  Levy,  his  wife. 
Rev.  Dr.  Frederick  Beasley  was  the  son  of 
John  Baptist  Beasley,  vestryman  and  warden 
of  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Edenton,  North  Caro- 
lina; married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Colonel 
John  and  Sarah  E.  (Vail)  Blount,  Colonel 
Blount  having  been  member  of  assembly,  jus- 
tice of  the  peace,  and  son  of  John  Blount,  a 
Lords  Proprietors  deputy,  the  son  of  Captain 
James  Blount,  who  held  similar  office.  John 
B.  Beasley  was  the  son  of  Robert  Beasley,  ves- 
tryman of  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Edenton,  1752; 
gave  land  to  the  church  for  a  chapel.  He  was 
son  of  James  Beasley,  of  Chowan,  North  Caro- 


lina, who  appears  in  the  vestry  book  of  that 
parish  in  1707;  member  of  House  of  Bur- 
gesses, Perquimans  Precinct,  North  Carolina, 
October  11,  1709;  his  will,  dated  April  10, 
1720,  was  probated  August  6,  1720. 

Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Delafield,  all  born 
in  New  York  City:  i.  Maturin  Livingston, 
born  March  17,  1901.  2.  Margaretta  Stock- 
ton, born  November  3,  1904.  3.  Edward  Cole- 
man, born  February  14,  1906.  4.  Mary,  born 
November  24,  191 1. 

(HI)  Dr.  Edward  Delafield,  seventh  child  of 
John  (3)  Delafield,  the  progenitor  of  the  fam- 
ily in  America,  and  his  wife,  Ann  (Hallett) 
Delafield,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  May  17, 
1794,  died  at  his  residence.  No.  i  East  Seven- 
teenth street,  New  York  City,  Saturday,  Febru- 
ary 13,  1875.  He  acquired  his  preliminary  ed- 
ucation in  New  York  and  then  entered  Yale 
University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
the  class  of  1812.  Two  years  later  he  was  a 
surgeon  in  the  United  States  army.  Determin- 
ing upon  a  career  in  medicine,  he  studied  in 
the  office  of  the  late  Samuel  Barrows,  M.  D., 
then  a  leading  practitioner  in  New  York  City, 
and  took  the  course  at  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons,  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1816.  Thereupon  he  entered  upon  a 
regular  term  of  service  at  the  New  York  Hos- 
pital, and  in  1817  went  abroad,  where  he  stud- 
ied under  Sir  Astley  Cooper  and  Dr.  Aber- 
nethy  in  London,  and  by  the  advice  of  his  pre- 
ceptors he  devoted  considerable  time  to  work 
in  the  hospitals  of  Paris  for  further  advance- 
ment in  his  profession.  Upon  his  return  to 
this  country,  he  established  the  New  York  Eye 
and  Ear  Infirmary,  in  November,  1820,  in  con- 
junction with  Dr.  John  Kearney  Rodgers.  He 
served  as  attending  surgeon  of  that  institution 
until  1850,  when  he  was  elected  consulting 
surgeon  and  officiated  as  such  for  a  score  of 
years,  1850-70,  and  in  the  latter  named  year 
was  made  vice-president.  A  short  time  after 
the  foundation  of  the  infirmary,  he  became  as- 
sociated in  practice  with  Dr.  Barrows,  and 
from  the  first  enjoyed  a  large  practice.  In 
1835  he  was  called  to  the  chair  of  obstetrics 
and  diseases  of  women  and  children  in  the  Col- 
kge  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  a  position 
he  occupied  from  1835  to  1838.  In  1834  he 
was  chosen  an  attending  physician  to  the  New 
York  Hospital,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for 
four  years.  He  founded,  in  1842,  the  Society 
for  the  Relief  of  the  Widows  and  Orphans 


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of  Medical  Men,  and  was  made  its  first  presi- 
dent. By  virtue  of  this  office,  he  became,  un- 
der the  will  of  Mr.  Roosevelt,  a  member  of 
the  board  of  governors  of  the  Roosevelt  Hos- 
pital, which  he  helped  to  organize  in  1867,  and 
was  chosen  the  first  president  of  its  board.  He 
also  acted  as  chairman  of  the  building  commit- 
tee, and  worked  hard  in  perfecting  the  details 
of  the  edifice  and  in  the  organization  of  the 
hospital  when  it  was  opened.  In  1858  he  be- 
came the  senior  consulting  physician  in  St. 
Luke's  Hospital,  and  held  the  position  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  occupied  the  same  post 
at  the  Women's  Hospital,  from  its  foundation 
m  1872,  and  later  was  chosen  president  of  the 
medical  board.  He  also  held  the  same  office 
in  the  medical  board  of  the  Nursery  and 
Child's  Hospital  from  1854  to  1875.  His  great 
medical  capacity,  combined  with  his  extensive 
and  solid  scientific  acquirements,  secured  suc- 
cess for  him  in  the  management  of  diseases 
which  few  have  rivalled,  and  the  kindly  and 
devoted  interest  which  he  felt  in  the  sick  en- 
trusted to  his  skill,  together  with  the  tender 
and  sympathizing  care  with  which  he  met  their 
demands  upon  his  resources,  brought  him  to 
a  great  degree  that  best  of  all  professional  re- 
wards— the  love  and  afifection,  as  well  as  the 
gratitude,  of  those  to  whom  he  ministered. 
In  personal  appearance  he  was  a  man  of  me- 
dium height,  with  reddish  hair  and  blue  eyes. 
Dr.  Edward  Delafield  married  (first)  Oc- 
tober 12,  182 1,  Elinor  Elizabeth  Langdon 
Elwyn,  who  was  born  July  19,  1799,  died  April 
24,  1834,  daughter  of  Thomas  Elwyn,  of 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  whose  wife  was 
daughter  of  Hon.  John  Langdon,  governor  of 
New  Hampshire  in  1788,  and  in  1789  presid- 
ing officer  of  the  United  States  Senate,  whose 
duty  it  was  to  notify  General  Washington  of 
his  election  as  President.  Hon.  Woodbury 
Langdon  was  born  in  1738,  died  January  13, 
1805,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Hall)  Lang- 
don, and  married  at  Portsmouth,  New  Hamp- 
shire, March  18,  1765,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Henry  and  Sarah  (Warner)  Sherburne.  By 
this  marriage  Dr.  Delafield  had  six  children, 
all  born  in  New  York  City,  and  died  unmar- 
ried:  I.  Caroline  Augusta,  born  March  t^, 
1823,  died  April  27,  1845.  2.  Edward  Henry, 
born  June  9,  1824,  died  April  25,  1848.  3.  Eli- 
nor, born  December  22,  1825,  died  December 
24,  1846.  4.  Alfred  William,  born  June  17, 
1827,  died  July  30,  185 1.    5.  Ann  Hallett,  born 


August  30,  1828,  died  June  2,  1862.  6.  George, 
born  June  11,  1830,  died  December  7,  1846. 

Dr.  Edward  Delafield  married  (second) 
January  31,  1839,  Julia  Floyd,  born  at  Mas- 
tic, Long  Island,  July  4,  1808,  died  August 
18,  1879,  at  Darien,  Connecticut,  daughter  of 
Colonel  Nicoll  Floyd,  born  at  Mastic,  Long 
Island,  October  4,  1762,  died  there  February 
18,  1852,  married,  October  10,  1789,  Phoebe 
Gelston,  daughter  of  David  and  Phoebe  Gel- 
ston,  of  New  York  City. 

The  Floyd  family  was  among  the  early  set- 
tlers on  Long  Island,  and  in  early  generations 
connected  by  marriage  with  another  family 
long  settled  there — the  Nicoll.  Richard 
Floyd,  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  Amer- 
ica, came  from  Wales  in  1654,  and  was  one  of 
the  fifty-five  original  proprietors  of  Brook- 
haven,  Long  Island.  He  died  in  Setauket, 
Long  Island,  about  1700,  and  his  wife,  Su- 
sanna, died  in  1706.  His  son  Richard  was  born 
May  12,  1665,  died  February  z8,  1728;  he 
was  a  magistrate  and  colonel  of  militia ;  mar- 
ried Margaret,  daughter  of  Matthias  Nicoll, 
colonial  secretary,  mayor  of  New  Amsterdam, 
1672,  member  of  governor's  council  and  judge 
of  assizes,  who  died  in  December,  1687,  and 
Margaret  Nicoll  Floyd,  died  February  i,  1718. 
His  son,  Nicoll  Floyd,  was  born  August  27, 
1705,  died  March  8,  1752;  married  Tabitha 
Smith,  born  1705,  died  January  17,  175S, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  Smith,  of  Smithtown, 
Long  Island.  His  son.  General  William  Floyd, 
signer  of  the  Declaration,  was  born  in  Mastic, 
Long  Island,  December  17,  1734,  died  in  Wes- 
ton, Oneida  county.  New  York,  August  4, 
182 1  ;  was  a  distinguished  patriot  of  the  pre- 
revolutionary  and  revolutionary  periods,  mem- 
ber of  first  Continental  Congress ;  member  of 
Congress,  1775-77-78-79-89;  major-general  of 
militia ;  signer  of  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence;  State  Senator,  1777;  delegate  to  State 
Constitutional  Convention,  1801.  He  married 
(first)  Hannah,  daughter  of  William  Jones,  of 
Southampton,  Long  Island;  (second)  Joanna, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Strong,  of  Setauket. 
His  son.  Colonel  Nicoll  Floyd,  married  Phoebe 
Gelston,  and  their  daughter  was  Julia,  who 
married  Dr.  Edward  Delafield.  Children  of 
Dr.  Edward  Delafield  and  Julia  Floyd,  born  in 
New  York  City:  i.  Catherine  Floyd,  born 
November  8,  1839,  died  at  Sewaren,  New  Jer- 
sey, March  24,  1912;  married,  in  New  York 
City,  April  7,  1863,  Edward  Markoe  Wright, 


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born  November  i,  1837,  son  of  James  and 
Sarah  (Markoe)  Wright,  by  whom:  Edward 
Delafield  Wright,  married  Ella  B.  Pratt ;  Emily 
H.  Wright,  married  Robert  Livingston  Clark- 
son  ;  Frances  Delafield  Wright,  married  Mer- 
riam  B.  Carpenter.  2.  Francis,  of  whom  fur- 
ther. 3.  Emma  Harriot,  born  May  26,  1844; 
resides  in  Darien,  Connecticut.  4.  Augustus 
Floyd,  born  January  2,  1847,  died  at  Noroton, 
Connecticut.  July  18,  1904.  5.  Alice,  born 
March  3,  1849;  married,  in  New  York  City, 
April  21,  1868,  Howard  Clarkson;  he  was  born 
at  Saugerties,  New  York,  October  15,  1840; 
graduate  of  Columbia,  i860;  was  son  of  Wil- 
liam Bayard  Clarkson,  born  October  3,  1798, 
died  in  New  York  City,  March  19,  1875 ;  who 
married,  at  Clermont,  New  York,  November 
23,  1826,  Adelaide  Margaret  Livingston,  bom 
at  Clermont,  October  10,  1806,  died  in  New 
York  City,  December,  1885,  by  whom,  all  bom 
in  New  York  City:  Adelaide  Livingston 
Clarkson,  born  January  29,  1870,  married,  New 
York  City,  April  11,  1898,  Clermont  Living- 
ston Clarkson,  born  August  9,  1861,  son  of 
Thomas  Streatfield  and  Mary  (Whitmarsh) 
Clarkson ;  Alice  Delafield  Clarkson,  born  Jan- 
uary 9,  1872,  married.  New  York  City,  No- 
vember 9,  1906,  John  Henry  Livingston,  born 
at  Oakhill,  Columbia  county.  New  York ;  Julia 
Floyd  Clarkson,  born  October  23,  1875,  mar- 
ried, New  York  City,  April  28,  1897,  Eugene 
Dexter  Hawkins,  son  of  Dexter  A.  and  Sophie 
T.  (Meeks)  Hawkins;  Cornelia  Livingston 
Clarkson,  born  April  19,  1878;  Emily  Delafield 
Clarkson,  born  April  19,  1878,  died  in  New 
York  City,  December  9,  1887. 

(IV)  Dr.  Francis  Delafield,  son  of  Dr.  Ed- 
ward and  Julia  (Floyd)  Delafield,  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  August  3,  1841. 
He  was  educated  at  Yale  University, 
graduating  in  i860.  He  then  entered 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  and 
was  graduated  therefrom  with  the  degree  of 
M.  D.  in  1863.  For  a  period  succeeding  his 
graduation,  he  was  on  the  staff  of  the  Bellevue 
Hospital,  subsequently  taking  post-graduate 
courses  in  Paris,  Berlin  and  London.  Taking 
up  his  practice  in  New  York  City,  he  soon  rose 
to  standing  in  the  profession,  and  the  vari- 
ous positions  he  has  been  called  to  occupy  be- 
speak his  ability  and  rank.  He  was  curator  to 
Bellevue  Hospital  in  1866,  visiting  physician  to 
the  same,  1875-86;  and  consulting  physician 
about   1886.     He  has  been  surgeon   and  con- 


sulting physician  to  the  New  York  Eye  and 
Ear  Infirmary,  and  consulting  physician  to  St. 
Mary's  Hospital;  adjunct  professor  in  1876 
under  Dr.  Alonzo  Clark,  and  in  1882  professor 
of  pathology  and  practice  of  medicine  in  the 
New  York  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons, in  which  he  was  afterward  emeritus 
professor  of  practice  of  medicine.  Not  alone 
as  a  practicing  and  consulting  physician  has 
he  achieved  a  high  reputation,  but  he  is  also 
known  as  a  pathologist  both  in  the  United 
States  and  in  Europe.  In  1886  he  was  the  first 
president  of  the  American  Association  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Pathologists. 

Dr.  Delafield  is  the  author  of  several  med- 
ical works  which  are  regarded  as  standard 
books  of  reference.  His  first  important  work 
was  a  "A  Handbook  of  Post-mortem  Exami- 
nations and  Morbid  Anatomy,"  which  ap- 
peared in  1872,  and  later  was  rewritten  and 
enlarged  in  collaboration  with  Dr.  T.  M.  Prud- 
den,  when  it  was  issued  in  1885  under  the 
title,  "A  Handbook  of  Pathological  Anatomy 
and  Histology."  It  has  been  adopted  as  a 
text-book  by  nearly  all  medical  colleges  in  the 
United  States.  His  "Studies  in  Pathological 
Anatomy"  extended  over  a  period  of  ten  years. 
It  is  a  work  profusely  illustrated  with  large 
drawings — microscopic  delineations  of  dis- 
eased tissues — made  by  himself.  He  is  also 
puthor  of  an  elaborate  treatise,  "Renal  Dis- 
eases," which  was  read  before  the  Congress  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Washington,  D. 
C,  in  1892.  Yale  conferred  upon  him  the  de- 
gree of  LL.D.  in  1890.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Century  Association ;  the  Riding,  Sea- 
wanhaka  Corinthian  Yacht,  and  Morris 
County  Golf  clubs,  and  of  the  St.  Nicholas 
Society.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Associa- 
tion of  the  Alumni  of  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons,  the  New  York  Academy 
of  Medicine,  the  City  Medical  Society,  and 
other  professional  associations.  His  resi- 
dence is  at  No.  5  \\'est  Fiftieth  street,  New 
York  City. 

Dr.  Francis  Delafield  married,  in  New  York 
City.  January  17.  1870,  Katherine  \'an  Rens- 
selaer, daughter  of  Henry  Bell  and  Elizabeth 
Ray  (King)  Van  Rensselaer.  Her  father, 
General  Henry  Bell  \'an  Rensselaer,  was  born 
in  Albany,  New  York,  May  10,  18 10,  died  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  March  2t,,  1864;  married 
August  22,  1833,  Elizabeth  Ray  King,  born 
August    17,    1815,    died   in    New    York    City, 


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March  14,  1900,  daughter  of  Governor  John 
Alsop  King,  of  New  York  state,  and  his  wife, 
Mary  Ray  (see  King).  General  Henry  Bell 
Van  Rensselaer  was  the  eighth  child  of  Gen- 
eral Stephen  Van  Rensselaer,  eighth  patroon 
of  the  Manor  of  Rensselaerwyck,  at  Albany, 
born  in  New  York  City,  in  the  house  of  his 
maternal  grandfather,  Philip  Livingston,  sign- 
er of  Declaration,  November  i,  1764,  died  in 
the  Manor  House,  Albany,  January  26,  1839; 
married  (second)  New  Brunswick,  New  Jer- 
sey, May  17,  1802,  Cornelia  Paterson,  born 
June  4,  1780,  died  in  New  York  City,  August 
6,  1844,  daughter  of  Chief  Justice  William  and 
Cornelia  (Bell)  Paterson,  of  New  Brunswick 
(see  Van  Rensselaer). 

Children  of  Dr.  Francis  Delafield,  all  born 
in  New  York  City:  i.  Elisabeth  Ray,  born 
September  15,  1872.  2.  Julia  Floyd,  born 
August  2,  1874;  married,  in  New  York  City, 
November  11,  1896,  Frederick  Van  Schoon- 
hoven  Crosby,  son  of  Edward  Nicoll  and  Eliz- 
abeth Maria  (Van  Schoonhoven)  Crosby, 
born  at  Troy,  New  York,  March  15.  i860;  by 
whom :  Katherine  Van  Rensselaer  Crosby, 
born  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado,  Septem- 
ber I,  1897;  Floyd  Delafield  Crosby,  born  in 
New  York  City,  December  12,  1899.  3.  Cor- 
nelia \'an  Rensselaer,  born  February  22,  1876; 
residing  in  New  York  City.  4.  Edward 
Henry,  born  December  23,  1880;  graduated 
from  Yale,  1902 ;  married,  in  Lenox,  Massa- 
chusetts, October  i,  1904,  Winifred,  daughter 
of  George  Winthrop  Folsom  and  Frances 
Hastings  Fuller,  of  Boston ;  by  whom :  Wini- 
fred Folsom,  born  at  Noroton,  Connecticut, 
October  21,  1906;  Elizabeth  Van  Rensselaer, 
born  at  Noroton,  September  16,  1908. 

{Ill)  Rufus  King  Delafield,  eleventh  child 
of  John  (3)  Delafield,  the  progenitor  of  the 
family  in  America,  and  his  wife,  Ann  (Hallett) 
Delafield,  was  born  at  the  father's  residence, 
No.  16  Wall  street.  New  York  City,  Novem- 
ber 18,  1802.  He  engaged  in  business  in  this 
city,  becoming  an  officer  in  the  Phoenix  Bank, 
which  position  he  occupied  from  November 
10,  1833,  to  June  10,  1835,  when  he  was  ap- 
pointed actuary  and  secretary  of  the  Farmers' 
Loan  &  Trust  Company.  He  held  this  posi- 
tion until  July,  1852,  when  he  purchased  a 
large  interest  in  hydraulic  cement  works  at 
High  Falls,  Rosendale,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  and  in  1871  formed  a  stock  corporation 
which  took  over  the  business.     He  succeeded 


his  oldest  brother  John  as  a  trustee  of  the 
State  Agricultural  College  of  New  York,  and, 
like  his  brothers,  he  enjoyed  life  in  the  coun- 
try, removing  in  middle  age  from  New  York 
City  to  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  where 
he  brought  his  country  seat  to  the  highest 
state  of  cultivation.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  was  still  president  of  the  Delafield  &  Bax- 
ter Cement  Company.  He  was  a  man  of 
marked  scholarly  tastes,  and  interested  in  the 
intellectual  activities  of  his  time.  He  was  a 
man  of  medium  height,  with  dark  hair  and 
dark  brown  eyes.  He  died  at  No.  253  Fifth 
avenue,  New  York  City,  the  residence  of  his 
son-in-law,  February  6,  1874,  and  was  buried 
from  Trinity  Church.  He  married,  November 
8,  1836,  EHza  Bard,  daughter  of  William 
Bard,  of  Hyde  Park,  New  York,  by  his  wife, 
Catherine,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Cruger,  of 
Santa  Cruz,  West  Indies,  later  a  merchant  in 
New  York  City.  She  was  born  at  Hyde 
Park,  November  27,  1813,  and  died  in  New 
York  City,  May  6,  1902. 

The  Bard  family  was  of  Huguenot  origin, 
and  came  to  this  country  with  other  French 
families  of  Protestant  faith  after  religious 
persecution  had  driven  them  from  their  an- 
cestral homes.  The  pioneer  of  the  branch 
from  which  the  Bard  family  of  New  York  is 
descended,  settled  in  New  Jersey.  John  Bard, 
son  of  the  pioneer,  was  born  in  Burlington, 
New  Jersey,  February  i,  1716;  he  received 
a  classical  education,  and  was  apprenticed  to 
a  surgeon  in  Philadelphia.  Established  in  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  New  York  City  in 
1746,  he  rose  to  be  one  of  the  most  distin- 
guished physicians  in  America.  His  activity 
and  success  were  remarkable,  and  beyond  this 
he  was  greatly  concerned  in  all  efforts  for  the 
promotion  of  the  public  health.  In  1759,  dur- 
ing the  epidemic  of  malignant  fever,  he  im- 
pressed upon  the  city  authorities  the  necessity 
of  establishing  a  hospital  on  Bedlow's  Island, 
in  charge  of  which  he  was  placed.  He  found- 
ed and  was  president  of  the  New  York  Hos- 
pital, and  his  portrait  hung  in  the  building 
when  it  was  located  on  Worth  street.  He  was 
the  first  president  of  the  New  York  Medical 
Society,  and  notwithstanding  his  busy  prac- 
tice, found  opportunity  to  contribute  many 
valuable  papers  to  the  medical  journals,  on 
subjects  relating  to  his  profession.  He  died 
at  his  country   seat  in  Hyde   Park,  April    i 


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1799.  He  married,  in  1737,  Susanna  Valleau, 
born  July  19,  1721.     Their  son, 

Samuel  Bard,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
April  6,  1742.  He  graduated  from  King's 
(Columbia)  College,  in  1768,  and  studied 
medicine  in  Edinburgh.  Returning  well 
equipped  for  professional  life,  he  entered  upon 
the  practice  of  medicine,  in  connection  with 
his  father,  in  New  York  City.  He  became  a 
physician  of  unusual  distinction,  rivalling  even 
the  reputation  of  his  famous  father.  By  his 
exertions  a  medical  school  was  established  in 
conjunction  with  Columbia  College,  and  he 
became  the  first  professor  of  the  practice  of 
medicine  in  that  institution,  and  dean  of  the 
faculty  later  on.  During  and  after  the  revo- 
lution, he  was  physician  of  General  Washing- 
ton. In  1798  he  retired  from  practice  to  his 
estate  in  Hyde  Park,  and  devoted  himself  to 
the  life  of  a  cultured  gentleman  of  leisure, 
taking  up  agriculture  as  a  recreative  pleasure. 
In  1813  he  was  the  first  president  of  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He  was  the 
author  of  many  medical  papers.  He  died  at 
Hyde  Park,  May  24,  1821.  He  married,  May 
14,  1770,  Mary,  daughter  of  Peter  Bard. 
Their  son,  William,  was  born  April  4,  1778. 
He  became  active  in  business  aflfairs  in  New 
York  City,  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in 
life  insurance  in  America.  Upon  the  founda- 
tion of  the  New  York  Life  Insurance  and 
Trust  Company,  in  1830,  he  became  its  first 
president,  an  office  he  held  for  twelve  succeed- 
ing years.  He  died  October  17,  1853.  He 
married,  October  7,  1802,  Catherine  Cruger, 
born  May  7,  1781,  died  October  14,  1868,  and 
their  daughter  Eliza  married  Rufus  King 
Delafield. 

The  Cruger  family  was  settled  as  far  back 
as  the  middle  ages  in  Germany,  Holland,  Den- 
mark and  England.  The  name  was  probably 
derived  from  Cruciger,  or  Cross-Bearer.  Sir 
Philip  de  Cruciger,  from  whom  the  English 
branches  trace  descent,  was  a  companion  of 
King  Richard  I.  on  that  monarch's  crusade  to 
the  Holy  Land.  John  Cruger,  progenitor  of 
the  family  in  America,  came  to  this  country  in 
1700.  He  was  alderman  of  New  York  City, 
1712-33,  and  was  made  mayor  in  1739,  hold- 
ing that  office  until  his  death,  in  1744.  He 
married,  March  5,  1703,  Maria  Cuyler,  born 
1678,  died  September  14,  1724,  daughter  of 
Major  Hendrick  Cuyler,  progenitor  of  that 
family,   who   settled    in    Albany.      Their   son. 


Henry,  born  November  25,  1707,  died  1780, 
was  member  of  assembly,  1745-59,  and  sub- 
sequently a  member  of  the  council  of  the 
province.  He  went  to  England  in  1775,  where 
he  died.  His  brother  John,  second  of  the 
name,  born  1710,  died  1791,  was  mayor  of 
New  York,  1756-66,  and  from  his  pen  came 
the  declaration  of  fights  and  grievances  of  the 
Stamp  Act  Congress  in  1765.  He  organized 
and  was  first  president  of  the  New  York 
Chamber  of  Commerce.  Henry  Cruger  mar- 
ried (first)  Hannah  Slauter;  (second)  Eliza- 
beth Harris,  of  Jamaica,  West  Indies.  One 
of  his  sons  by  the  latter  was  Henry  Cruger, 
born  1739,  died  1827,  second  of  the  name,  ed- 
ucated in  Kings  College,  New  York,  and  in 
1757  engaged  in  business  in  Bristol,  England, 
and  mayor  of  that  city,  1781  ;  in  1774  he  was 
chosen  to  represent  Bristol  in  parliament  as 
a  colleague  of  Edmund  Burke,  and  was  elected 
again  in  1784.  About  1790  he  returned  to 
his  native  city  and  in  1792  was  a  member  of 
the  New  York  Senate.  Nicholas,  son  of  Henry 
and  Elizabeth  (Harris)  Cruger,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  March  5,  1743,  died  1800; 
he  was  a  merchant  in  both  New  York  and 
Santa  Cruz,  West  Indies.  His  estate  in  New 
York,  known  as  Rose  Hill,  then  in  the  sub- 
urbs, is  now  in  the  center  of  the  metropolis. 
He  was  a  patron  of  Alexander  Hamilton,  who 
served  in  his  counting  room  and  had  come  to 
New  York  at  his  instance.  He  was  likewise 
the  close  friend  of  Washington.  In  1772  he 
married  Anna  de  NuUy,  born  1747,  died  in 
November,  1784,  daughter  of  Bertram  Pierre 
de  Nully,  of  Santa  Cruz,  and  his  wife,  Cath- 
erine, daughter  of  General  Pierre  Heylager, 
governor  of  the  Danish  West  Indies.  Their 
daughter,  Catherine  Cruger,  married  William 
Bard,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  Eliza  Bard, 
who  married  Rufus  King  Delafield. 

Children  of  Rufus  King  and  Eliza  (Bard) 
Delafield:  i.  Edward,  born  at  No.  2  College 
Place,  New  York  City,  October  13,  1837,  died 
at  his  country  seat,  Lenox,  Massachusetts,  No- 
vember 28,  1884.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
New  York  Stock  Exchange,  and  a  trustee  of 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He 
married,  October  3,  1861.  Elizabeth  Remsen, 
daughter  of  Frederick  and  Catherine  A. 
'Remsen)  Schuchardt.  After  the  death  of 
her  husband  she  resided  in  Plainfield,  New 
Jersey.  Their  oldest  son,  Rufus,  born  June 
5,    1863,    married,    April    27.    1886,    Elizabeth 


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Breeze,  daughter  of  Sidney  E.  and  Anna  M. 
(Church)  Morse;  no  issue.  Their  second  son, 
Frederick  Schuchardt,  born  April  8,  1865, 
married,  October  16,  1894,  Annie  Oakley, 
daughter  of  Frederick  W.  Brooks.  Child, 
Anne  Oakley,  born  in  New  York  City,  Decem- 
ber 16,  1897.  2.  William  Bard,  born  at  No. 
2  College  Place,  New  York  City,  October  11, 
1838,  died  unmarried,  at  Staten  Island,  June 
I,  1862.  3.  Rufus,  born  at  No.  2  College  Place, 
New  York  City,  July  3,  1840;  he  entered  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons;  was  ap- 
pointed surgeon  of  Sixteenth  Regiment  New 
York  Volunteers,  1861,  and  participated  in 
battle  of  Bull  Run;  was  detailed  to  General 
Hospital,  Alexandria,  Virginia,  where  he 
died  of  typhoid  fever,  December  28,  1861  ;  un- 
married. He  was  possessed  of  a  singularly 
attractive  personality,  was  remarkably  hand- 
some, of  marked  ability,  and  had  charming 
manners.  4.  Henry  Parish,  born  at  No.  2 
College  Place,  New  York  City,  July  18,  1842, 
died  at  his  country  seat.  Stone  Ridge,  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  July  i,  1904.  He  was  sec- 
retary of  the  Delafield  &  Baxter  Cement  Com- 
pany. He  married  (first)  November  13,  1883, 
Elizabeth  Blake,  daughter  of  Daniel  E.  Mo- 
ran;  (second)  January  25,  1896,  Marguerite 
Marie  Dewey,  Children  of  first  wife:  Eliza- 
beth Bard,  born  August  2,  1884;  Nina  Mo- 
ran,  twin  of  Elizabeth  Bard,  married,  January 
9,  191 2,  Arthur  Lapsley.  5.  Bertram  de  Nully, 
born  at  No.  21  Walker  street,  New  York  City, 
November  6,  1844,  died  July  24,  1865,  as  re- 
sult of  accidental  gunshot  wound  while  hunt- 
ing. 6.  Catherine  Cruger,  born  at  No.  21 
Walker  street,  New  York  City,  January  16, 
1847;  married,  December  28,  1871.  John  T. 
Hall,  eldest  son  of  Valentine  G.  Hall,  who 
died  November  6,  1895.  Children:  Eliza 
Bard,  born  in  New  York  City,  November  14, 
1873 ;  Susie  Tonnele,  born  in  Stone  Ridge, 
New  York,  August  6,  1875,  married,  Novem- 
ber 2,  1905,  Bryce  Metcalf ;  Catherine  Cruger 
Delafield,  born  in  New  York  City,  November 
30,  1879,  married,  December  8,  1910,  W.  S. 
Groesbeck  Fowler,  issue:  Cruger  Delafield 
Groesbeck  Fowler.  7.  Richard,  of  whom  fur- 
ther. 

(IV)  Richard  Delafield,  seventh  child  of 
Rufus  King  and  Elizabeth  (Bard)  Delafield, 
was  born  at  the  country  seat  of  his  father,  in 
New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  September  6, 
1853.     He  was  educated  in  the  one-time  fa- 


mous grammar  school  of  Dr.  Charles  Anthon, 
of  New  York  City.  In  1873  he  entered  mer- 
cantile life  as  a  clerk,  and  was  advanced  to 
manager.  Later  he  became  an  active  and  suc- 
cessful merchant,  having  founded  in  1880  a 
firm  in  New  York,  Chicago  and  San  Francisco, 
to  engage  in  the  California  trade,  of  which  firm 
he  was  senior  partner.  In  1890  he  was  made 
a  director  of  the  National  Park  Bank,  and 
from  1896  to  1900  served  as  vice-president, 
finally  becoming  president  in  June,  1900,  suc- 
ceeding Edward  E.  Poor.  He  was  made  a  di- 
lector  of  the  Mount  Morris  Bank,  the  Plaza 
Bank,  the  Mutual  Bank  and  the  Yorkville 
Bank ;  director  of  the  Colonial  Trust  Com- 
pany; of  the  Westinghouse  Electric  Company, 
and  a  director  in  many  other  important  cor- 
porations. He  was  a  member  and  for  a  time 
president  of  the  New  York  Mercantile  Ex- 
change; was  a  commissioner  from  the  State 
of  New  York  to  the  World's  Columbian  Ex- 
position at  Chicago  in  1893,  and  a  member  of 
the  committee  of  one  hundred  which  had 
charge  of  the  New  York  Columbian  Quadro- 
Centennial. 

Mr.  Delafield  is  largely  interested  in  various 
charitable  institutions,  being  president  of  the 
Seaside  Home  of  Long  Island,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Varick  Street  Hospital.  He  is  a  member  and 
vestryman  of  Trinity  Church,  and  a  trustee  of 
Trinity  Corporation ;  member  of  Society  of 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  Union  League,  and 
the  Church,  Tuxedo,  Racquet,  Metropolitan, 
Riding,  and  other  clubs.  He  has  traveled  ex- 
tensively both  in  his  own  and  foreign  countries, 
is  devoted  to  music  and  art,  and  has  served 
as  president  of  the  Staten  Island  Philharmonic 
Society,  as  well  as  secretary  of  the  New  York 
Symphony  Society.  Richard  Delafield  mar- 
ried (first)  at  St.  Mary's  Church,  Staten  Isl- 
and, April  6,  1880,  Clara  (Foster)  Carey,  who 
died  at  Tuxedo  Park,  September  6,  1909, 
daughter  of  Frederick  G.  Foster,  and  widow 
of  George  Herbert  Carey ;  no  issue.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  in  New  York  City,  February  i, 
1913,  Edith  Pauline,  daughter  of  Edward  and 
Antonia  E.  (Lentilhon)  Fesser. 

In  conjunction  with  his  cousin,  John  Ross 
Delafield,  he  founded  the  Delafield  Family  As- 
sociation, a  corporation  of  purely  family  in- 
terest. It  is  a  mutual  benefit  association, 
formed  for  the  object  of  assisting,  whenever 
occasion  may  require,  needy  members  of  the 


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family,  caring  for  neglected  burial  places,  and 
assisting  in  educational  facilities.  It  is  based 
upon  and  embodies  the  belief  of  John  Dela- 
field,  the  founder  of  the  family  in  America, 
that  a  good  education,  combined  with  reason- 
able energy,  is  a  sufficient  equipment  for  suc- 
cess in  life.  The  directors  named  in  the  in- 
corporation papers  were:  Richard  Delafield, 
president ;  Maturin  Livingston  Delafield,  vice- 
president  ;  Edward  Henry  Delafield.  Noroton, 
Connecticut;  Wallace  Delafield,  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  and  Edward  Coleman  Delafield,  New 
York  City;  John  Ross  Delafield,  New  York 
City,  secretary. 


The  family  name  of  Dix  is  of  the 
DIX  same  significance  as  the  name  Dicks 
or  Dickens,  the  final  letter,  "s,"  be- 
ing a  contraction  of  "son,"  meaning  the  son 
of  Dick,  or  of  Richard.  Dick,  the  familiar 
abbreviation  of  Richard,  is  thought  to  be 
derived  from  the  Dutch  word  "Dyck"  or 
"Dijck,"  a  bank  or  dyke,  mound  or  ditch  of 
earth,  sand  or  stone  reinforced,  thrown  up  to 
prevent  low  land  in  Holland  from  being  inun- 
dated by  the  sea  or  river.  The  reason  for  in- 
cluding the  meaning  "ditch"  in  connection 
with  mound  is  because,  in  the  act  of  creating 
a  barrier  or  diking,  a  ditch  is  created  at  the 
self-same  time ;  but  the  intention  being  to 
create  a  wall  of  earth,  chief  thought  is  there- 
fore directed  to  that  meaning  of  the  word. 
Based  accordingly  on  this  idea  of  the  signifi- 
cance of  the  name's  derivation,  the  conclusion 
cannot  be  otherwise  than  that  this  family,  be- 
fore coming  to  America,  dwelt  near  a  dyke 
in  Holland,  in  the  lowlands  as  they  are  called, 
undoubtedly  along  the  coast.  The  name  is 
found  in  the  spellings  Dix,  Dikx,  Diks.  Dicks, 
Dyck,  Dyk.  Dijck  and  Dyke,  and  some  fami- 
lies in  this  country  show  that  they  came  orig- 
inally from  such  a  locality  in  Holland  by  em- 
ploying the  prefix  "van"  or  "von,"  as  Van 
Dyke. 

The  Dix  coat-of-arms  of  the  Amsterdam 
family  is  as  follows :  D'azur  a  trois  tetes  et  cols 
de  cygne  d'argent,  accompagne  de  deux  roses 
d'or  en  flancs.  The  arms  of  the  Harlem  line 
is  as  follows :  D'or  a  la  fasce  d'azur,  accom- 
pagne de  trois  corneilles  de  sable,  souvent 
ecarteie  degules  au  chevron,  accompagne  en 
chef  de  deux  etoiles  et  en  pointe  d'un  crois- 
sant tourne.  le  tout  d'or.  Crest:  Une  corneille 
de  sable  entre  un  vol  d'or  et  d'azur. 


Four  distinct  branches  of  the  Dix  family 
were  started  in  America  in  early  times.  These 
were  the  lines  instituted  by  Leonard  Dix,  of 
Wethersfield,  Connecticut;  Anthony  Dix,  of 
Plymouth,  Massachusetts ;  Edward  Dix,  of 
Watertown,  Massachusetts,  and  the  Dix  fam- 
ily of  Accomac  county  in  Virginia.  It  is  not 
known  that  anybody  has  succeeded  in  demon- 
strating the  relationship  reliably.  Undoubt- 
edly they  were  connected  by  the  generation 
just  previous  to  any  one  of  them  coming  to 
America. 

(I)  Leonard  Dix  was  born  in  England, 
1624.  His  mother,  Deborah  Dix,  a  widow, 
with  her  chree  children,  Leonard,  John  and 
William,  moved  from  Watertown,  Massachu- 
setts, to  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  between 
1630  and  1645.  He  was  known  to  be  in 
Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  after  which  he  was 
in  Branford,  Connecticut,  where  he  received 
a  grant  of  land ;  soon  afterwards  was  again 
at  Wethersfield,  where  he  also  had  grants  of 
very  good  land  and  a  lot  in  the  village  on 
which  he  resided  from  about  1650  until  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  prominent  man- 
of  that  place,  constable  in  1672,  and  surveyor 
of  highways  in  1684.  On  his  death,  he  left 
considerable  land  on  the  east  side  of  the  Great 
River,  "between  the  Indian  Purchase,"  a 
horse,  two  cows,  a  heifer,  swine,  agricultural 
implements,  mechanical  tools,  a  "great  mus- 
ket," a  long  fowling-piece,  swords,  belts,  etc., 
appraised  at  £53.  He  died  December  7,  1697, 
and  his  will  bore  date  March  24,  1697.  He 
married,    in     1645,    ^t    Wethersfield,    Sarah 

,  who  died  in   1709.     Children:  Sarah, 

born  1658,  died  April  3,  1682,  married,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1680,  John  Francis ;  John,  see  for- 
ward;  Mercy,  died  December  20,  1711,  mar- 
ried,   1687,    Moses    Gofif;    William,    married 

Vincent;  Hannah,  died  April  7,17^,^,, 

married,  November,  1693,  John  Reynolds; 
Samuel ;  Elizabeth. 

(II)  John  Dix,  eldest  son  of  Leonard  and 
Sarah  Dix.  was  born  at  Wethersfield,  Con- 
necticut, in  1661,  and  died  November  2,  171 1. 
He  was  hayward  in  1686,  and  surveyor  of 
highways  in  1704.  His  sons,  John  and  Leon- 
ard, were  administrators  of  his  estate,  and 
reported  on  the  inventory,  January  27,  1712, 
that  it  amounted  to  eighty-three  dollars.  His 
wife  was  named  Rebecca,  and  she  died  No- 
vember 17,  1711,  aged  sixty  years.  Children: 
John,  see  forward;  Rebecca,  born  March  17. 


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1687;  Leonard,  January  27,  1688-89;  Eliza- 
beth, April  3,  1691. 

(Ill)  John  (2)  Dix,  eldest  son  of  John  (i) 
and  Rebecca  Dix,  was  born  at  Wethersfield, 
Connecticut,  February  17,  1684-85,  and  died 
September  4,  1755.  He  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  John  Waddams,  June  9,  1709. 
She  died  August  i,  1741.  Children:  i.  Sam- 
uel, see  forward.  2.  John,  born  August  6, 
1713.  3.  Sarah,  born  March  30,  1721  ;  mar- 
ried, December  2,  1741,  Joseph  Smith.  Issue: 
Roger  Smith,  born  July  7,  1742 ;  Sarah  Smith, 
born  February  26,  1747.  4.  Moses,  born 
March  15,  1724,  died  September  25,  1798; 
married,  September  i,  1744,  Hannah  Dickin- 
son. Issue:  i.  Jerusha,  born  November  nth, 
baptized  November  18,  1744.  ii.  Rhoda,  born 
August  13,  1746;  married,  December  19,  1764, 

Rhodes,      iii.  John,    born    September 

26,  1748,  iv.  Ozias,  born  December  6,  1750; 
married,  October  22,  1771-72,  Lucy  Hatch, 
who  was  born  May  6,  1753.  v.  Hannah,  born 
May  26,  1753,  died  September  30,  1753.  vi. 
Hannah,  born  December  3,  1754.  vii.  Re- 
becca, baptized  September  23,  1759.  viii. 
Mary,  baptized  May  9,  1762.  ix.  Daughter 
(probably  named  Mary),  aged  thirteen  years 
when  buried,  December  3,  1776.  x.  Son,  aged 
twelve  years  when  buried,  October  23,  1776. 
xi.  Moses,  married,  November  7,  1792,  Ruth 
Crane.  5.  Benjamin,  born  May  ■zj,  1729, 
died  September  4,  1755. 

(IV)  Samuel  Dix,  eldest  son  of  John  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Waddams)  Dix,  was  born  at 
Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  February  28,  171 1, 
and  died  January  8,  1779.  He  married,  Feb- 
ruary 7,  1739-40,  Mary  Williams,  widow, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Stebbins.  She 
died  February,  1779.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth, 
born  May  16.  1741,  died,  unmarried,  Novem- 
ber 22,  1822.  2.  Sarah,  born  August  2,  1742, 
died  April  i,  1794;  married  Captain  Thomas 
Newson,  who  died  in  181 1  aged  forty-six 
years.  Issue:  i.  John  Newson,  born  in  1760, 
died  in  1806.  ii.  Sarah  Newson,  born  in 
1765,  died  in  181 1;  married  Captain  Elisha 
Williams,  Jr.  iii.  Elizabeth  Newson,  born  in 
1768,  died  in  1808.  iv.  Mary  Newson,  born 
in  1774.  died  in  1793.  v.  Lydia  Newson,  born 
in  1779,  died  in  1819.  vi.  Nancy  Newson, 
born  in  1786,  died  in  1812.  3.  Leonard,  born 
in  1743.  4.  John,  born  in  1745.  5.  Samuel, 
see  forward.    6.  Mary,  born  in  1750. 

(V)  Samuel  (2)  Dix,  third  son  of  Samuel 


and  Mary  (Stebbins- Williams)  Dix,  was  born 
at  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  where  he  was 
baptized  August  2,  1747,  and  died  at  that 
place,  September  17,  1778.  He  married.  May 
15.  177s.  Sarah  Palmer.  After  his  death,  she 
married,  July  26,  1798,  Benjamin  Roberts,  of 
East  Hartford,  Connecticut.  Children:  i. 
Abigail,  baptized  February  18,  1776;  married 
Charles  Crane.  2.  John,  see  forward.  3. 
Mary,  baptized  May  2,  1779,  died  November 
14,  i860;  married,  June  27,  1797,  Samuel 
Rhodes.  Issue :  i.  Emily  Rhodes,  born  Feb- 
ruary 8,  1799,  died  December  7,  1824.  ii. 
Samuel  Rhodes,  born  May  2,  1803,  died  June 
13,  1804.  iii.  Mary  Rhodes,  born  Septem- 
ber 7,  1805,  died  September  25,  1805.  iv. 
Mary  Rhodes,  born  December  15,  1806,  died 
in  1873 ;  married  Henry  Hale.  v.  Samuel 
Rhodes,  born  September  18,  1808,  died  at 
Buffalo.  September  17,  1861.  vi.  Sarah 
Rhodes,  born  June  18,  1810,  died  June  23, 
1842.  vii.  John  Rhodes,  born  March  28, 
1812;  married  Janet  Jerome,  viii.  Marcia 
Rhodes,  born  February  14,  1814,  died  March 
12,  1819.  ix.  Louisa  A.  Rhodes,  born  April 
2,  1818,  died  February  8,  1881 ;  married 
Joseph  Treat,  x.  Jonathan  W.  Rhodes,  born 
March  31,  1823,  died,  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
February  13,  1850. 

(VI)  John  (3)  Dix,  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Palmer)  Dix,  was  born  at  Weth- 
ersfield, Connecticut,  March  16,  1777.  and 
died  at  Springport,  New  York,  April  8,  1841. 
He  removed  to  Champlain,  New  York,  some 
time  previous  to  1805,  and  there  married,  Oc- 
tober 9,  1806,  Sarah  Dunning.  Children:  i. 
Lucy  Matilda,  born  August  15,  1807,  died 
September  17,  1855 ;  married,  lanuary  12, 
1832,  at  Seneca  Falls.  New  York,  Philip 
Church  Schuyler.  2.  Camilla,  born  Septem- 
ber 27,  1808,  died  September  7,  1888,  unmar- 
ried. 3.  Mary  Augusta,  born  January  2,  1810, 
died  December  8,  1881 ;  married  at  Ithaca, 
New  York,  February  25,  1838,  William 
Henry  Gray.  4.  Martha,  born  August  10, 
181 1,  died  June.  1881  ;  married,  at  Ithaca, 
New  York,  September  6,  1837,  Colvin  C. 
Godly.  5.  Fidelia,  born  April  25.  1813.  died 
January  12.  1838.  unmarried.  6.  John  Dun- 
ning, see  forward.  7.  James  Hedden,  born 
November  20.  1816,  died  November  29,  1843. 
unmarried.  8.  Elizabeth,  born  December  24. 
1818,  died  April  i,  1835,  unmarried.  9. 
Sophia,  born  January  14,  1821,  died  October 


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25,  1856;  married,  at  Ithaca,  New  York,  Oc- 
tober I,  1838,  James  Robbins.  10.  Caroline, 
born  May  24,  1824;  married,  at  Ithaca,  New 
York,  August  10.  1846,  William  Parke  Pew. 
II.  Edwin,  bom  September  23,  1826,  died 
September  28,  1828. 

(VII)  John  Dunning  Dix,  son  of  John  (3) 
and  Sarah  (Dunning)  Dix,  was  born  at  Ball- 
ston  Spa,  New  York.  April  23,  1815,  and  died 
at  Clifton,  Staten  Island,  New  York,  August 
22,  1887.  He  married  (first)  at  Ithaca,  New 
York,  April  11,  1839,  Catharine  Lewis  Evert- 
son,  daughter  of  George  Bloom  and  Frances 
Mary  (Nicoll)  Evertson.  She  was  born  at 
Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  February  18,  18 16, 
and  died  at  Clifton,  New  York,  April  26,  1855, 
He  married  (second)  at  New  York  City,  Oc- 
tober 12,  1857,  Lorinda  Morris  Kingsley.  By 
the  first  marriage  he  had  seven  children,  and 
two  by  the  second.  Children  by  first  wife:  i. 
Adelaide  Frances,  born  March  14,  1840,  died 
May  17,  1844.  2.  William  Woodward,  born 
October  7,  1841,  died  May  22,  1844.  3.  Mary 
Evertson,  born  November  19,  1843.  d'ed  No- 
vember 2,  1844.  4.  George  Woodward,  see 
forward.  5.  John  James,  born  July  19,  1848, 
died  February  24,  1857.  6.  Lena  Augusta, 
born  December  15,  1849.  7-  Ellen  Elizabeth, 
bom  July  15,  1852.  died  October  8,  1853.  By 
second  wife:  i.  Joseph  Kingsley.  born  Janu- 
ary 21,  1859,  died  June  16,  1884.  2.  Samuel 
Morris,  born  July  22.  i860;  married,  at  Ben- 
nington, Vermont,  July  22.  1908,  Harriet  Ed- 
son  Wilcox. 

(VIII)  George  Woodward  Dix,  son  of 
John  Dunning  and  Catherine  Lewis  (Evert- 
son) Dix,  was  born  at  New  York  City,  No- 
vember 21,  1845. 

He  was  educated  at  Hamden  Rectory 
School  and  Yale  College,  class  of  1866.  He 
married,  at  New  Brighton,  New  York,  No- 
vember 14,  1872.  Elise  Woodrufif,  who  was 
born  at  Buflfalo,  New  York,  August  19,  1843, 
and  is  the  daughter  of  General  Israel  Carle 
Woodruff,  United  States  Army,  and  Caroline 
Augusta  (Mayhevv)  Woodruff.  Children:  1. 
John  Woodruff,  bom  at  New  Brighton,  New 
York,  August  4,  1873.  2.  George  Evertson, 
born  at  New  Brighton,  New  York,  February 
13,  1878 ;  married,  at  Raleigh,  North  Carolina, 
April  19,  191 1,  Janet  Dortch,  who  was  born 
at  Raleigh,  North  Carolina,  August  13,  1881, 
and  is  the  daughter  of  Isaac  F.  Dortchand  his 
wife,    Lucy    (Hogg)    Dortch;'  child,    George 


Evertson,  Jr.,  bom  at  Evanston,  Illinois,  April 
6,  1912. 

(Descent  of  Elise  Woodruff,  wife  of  George  Wood- 
ward Dix.) 

(I)  Thomas  Woodrove,  of  Fordwich,  Kent, 
England,  .a.d.  1508,  died  1552,  had  a  son. 

(II)  William  Woodroffe,  who  was  jurat  at 
Fordwich,  1579;  died  1587;  his  eldest  son. 

(HI)  Robert  Woodroffe,  was  jurat  and 
churchwarden  at  Fordwich,  1584;  died  161 1; 
married  Alice  Russell  of  St.  Mary,  Northgate, 
1573;  (had  a  brother  William,  whose  family 
became  extinct  at  Fordwich,  1673). 

(IV)  John  Woodroffe,  eldest  son  of  Rob- 
ert Woodroffe  and  Alice  (Russell)  Wood- 
roffe, born  at  Fordwich,  Kent,  in  1574;  died 
1611 ;  married  Elizabeth  Cartwright,  1601. 

(V)  John  Woodruff,  only  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Cartwright)  Woodroffe,  was  bap- 
tized at  St.  Mary,  Northgate,  1604;  church- 
warden at  Fordwich,  in  1636;  married  Anne 
Hyde,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Gos- 
mer;  came  to  Massachusetts  Bay  in  1638; 
moved  to  Long  Island  and  settled  at  South- 
ampton, 1639- 1640;  died  1690.   His  eldest  son. 

(VI)  John  Woodruff,  was  baptized  at 
Sturry,  Kent,  1637;  came  to  Southampton, 
Long  Island,  with  his  father ;  married  Mary 
Ogden  (of  Elizabeth),  1659,  daughter  of  John 
and  Jane  (Bond)  Ogden;  moved  to  Elizabeth, 
New  Jersey,  about  1665,  and  acquired  planta- 
tion of  1,000  acres  near  Elizabeth,  still  known 
as  "Woodruff  Farms" ;  took  oath  of  allegiance 
at  Elizabeth.  February  19,  1665  ;  military  en- 
sign, 1673  ( September  14)  ;  sheriff',  1684 
(November  28)  ;  died  1694.  Children — nine 
sons,  two  daughters. 

(VII)  John  A\'oodruff,  son  of  John  and 
Mary  (Ogden)  Woodruff,  born  1662.  died 
1749;  married,  1683,  Sarah  Cooper,  daughter 
of  Timothy  and  Elizabeth  (Munson)  Cooper, 
who  was  son  of  Lieutenant  Thomas  Cooper, 
born  in  England.  The  Cooper  family  lived 
at  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  Thomas  Mun- 
son (the  father  of  Elizabeth)  was  deputy  to 
general  court  for  many  years,  also  member  of 
general  assembly  and  commissioner  of  the 
Connecticut  Colony.  He  was  in  command  of 
the  New  Haven  troops  at  the  defense  of  Say- 
brook  in  King  Philip's  war,  February.  1676. 
Lieutenant  Cooper  was  killed  by  the  Indians 
when  Springfield  was  burned,  October  5,  1675. 
Children — eight  sons. 

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Sarah  (Cooper)  Woodruff;  married  Eunice 
Ward,  of  Elizabeth;  children — eleven  sons  and 
one  daughter. 

(IX)  Elias  Woodruff,  son  of  David  and 
Eunice  (Ward)  Woodruff,  born  1738;  mar- 
ried, November,  1761,  Mary  Joline,  daughter 
of  John  and  Phebe  (Price)  Joline.  Children: 
Aaron  Dickinson,  Abner,  George  W.,  Eliza- 
beth, married  Rev.  Thomas  Howe ;  Susannah, 
married  John  Dowers;  Phebe,  Polly,  Sarah, 
Maria,  married  Robert  G.  Thompson. 

(X)  Aaron  Dickinson  Woodruff,  eldest  son 
of  Elias  and  Mary  (Joline)  Woodruff,  born 
in  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  September  12,  1762; 
died  in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  June  24,  1817; 
graduated  at  Princeton,  1779 ;  mayor  of  Tren- 
ton, 1794-1797;  attorney-general  of  State  of 
New  Jersey,  1792-1816;  married,  1786,  Grace 
Lowrey,  daughter  of  Gen.  Thomas  Lowrey 
and  Esther  Fleming.  Children :  Elias  D., 
Thomas  Lowrey,  Aaron  D.,  Susan,  married 
George  Thompson  ;  Esther,  born  1803,  married 
Rev.  John  Smith  ;  Mary. 

(XI)  Thomas  Lowrey  Woodruff,  son  of 
Aaron  Dickinson  and  Grace  (Lowrey)  Wood- 
ruff, born  April  11,  1790;  died  March  8,  185 1  ; 
graduated  at  Princeton,  1806;  physician,  bank 
president;  married,  April  6,  1814,  Aaron  E. 
Carle  (born  October  12,  1795,  died  February 
10,  1849),  daughter  of  Major  Israel  Carle  and 
Lydia  Green.  Children :  Israel  Carle  ;  Aaron 
Dickinson,  born  January  6,  1819,  died  March 
27,  1891  ;  Anna,  born  January,  1823,  died  1832  ; 
Thomas  E.,  born  September,  1825 ;  Lydia 
Carle,  born  January  21,  1829;  George,  born 
1836,  died  July,  1863. 

(XII)  Israel  Carle  Woodruff,  eldest  son  of 
Thomas  Lowrey  and  Anna  (Carle)  Woodruff, 
born  August  22,  1815;  died  December  10, 
1878;  graduated  at  West  Point,  1836;  colonel 
of  engineers,  U.  S.  A.,  and  brevet  brigadier- 
general  ;  married  at  Buffalo,  September  7, 
1840,  Carolin  Mayhew  (born  July  19,  1822, 
died  March  7,  1909),  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Mayhew  and  Eliza  Cooke.  Children:  Carle 
A.,  born  August  8,  1841,  died  Raleigh,  North 
Carolina,  July  20,  1913,  brigadier-general, 
U.  S.  A.;  medal  of  honor;  Elise,  born  August 
19,  1843 '  Virginia  Southard,  born  September 
7,  1845,  married,  August  30,  1866,  Major  W. 
R.  King,  U.  S.  A. ;  Thomas  Mayhew,  born 
January  14,  1849,  died  in  Cuba,  July  11,  1899, 
captain  Fifth  Infantry;  Edward  Lowrey,  born 
October  8,  185 1 ;  Isabella  M.,  born  September 


29,  1853,  died  December  29,  1904,  unmarried. 
(XIII)  Elise  Woodruff',  daughter  of  Gen. 
Israel  Carle  and  Caroline  (Mayhew)  Wood- 
ruff; married  George  Woodward  Dix,  No- 
vember 14,  1872,  at  New  Brighton,  Staten 
Island. 

(Descent    of    Catherine    Lewis    Evertson,    wife    of 
John  Dunning  Dix.) 

( I )  Eahlmund,  King  in  Kent,  had 

(II)  Ecgbert,  King  of  West  Saxons,  suc- 
ceeded to  throne  .\.l.  802,  died  839;  he  had 

(III)  Aethelwulf,  King  of  West  Saxons, 
reigned  839-858;  he  had  by  wife  Osburga : 

(IV)  Alfred  the  Great,  fifth  son  of  Aethel- 
wulf, born  848,  died  October  26,  900,  King  of 
England,  871-900;  had  by  wife  Lady  Elswitha, 
daughter  of  Ethelran  the  Great,  Earl  of  Mer- 
cia: 

(V)  Edward  the  Elder,  King  of  England, 
901-925,  had  by  his  third  wife.  Queen  Edgiva, 
daughter  of  the  Saxon  Earl,  Sigeline : 

(VI)  Edmund  I.,  King  of  England,  940- 
946,  married  Elgiva,  granddaughter  of  Alfred 
the  Great,  and  had : 

(VII)  Edgar  the  Peaceful,  King  of  Eng- 
land, 958-975,  married  Elfrida,  daughter  of 
Ordgar,  Earl  of  Devon,  and  had: 

( VIII)  Ethelred  the  Unready,  King  of  Eng- 
land, 979-1016,  had  by  wife  Elgifa,  daughter 
of  Earl  Thorad : 

(IX)  Edmund  Ironsides,  King  of  England, 
1016,  had  by  wife  Lady  Algitha,  of  Denmark: 

(X)  Prince  Edward  the  Exile,  of  England, 
married  Lady  Agatha,  of  Germany,  and  had: 

(XI)  Princess  Margaret  of  England,  mar- 
ried Malcolm-Canmore,  King  of  Scotland,  and 
had: 

(XII)  Princess  Matilda  of  Scotland,  mar- 
ried Henry  I.,  King  of  England,  a.d.  iioo- 
1135,  and  had: 

(XIII)  Empress  Maud,  widow  of  Henry  V., 
Emperor  of  Germany,  married,  1127,  Geoffrey 
Plantagenet,  Count  of  Anjou,  and  had: 

(XIV)  Henry  II.,  King  of  England,  1154- 
1189,  married  Princess  Eleanor,  Countess  of 
Poitou  and  Dutchess  of  Aquitaine,  daughter 
and  heir  of  William,  Duke  of  Guienne,  and 
Earl  of  Poitou,  and  had: 

(XV)  John,  King  of  England,  1199-1216, 
who  had  by  his  second  wife,  Lady  Isabel  de 
Taillefer,  daughter  of  Aymer,  Count  D'An- 
gouleme : 

(XVI)  Henry  III.,  King  of  England,  1216- 
1272,  had  by  wife  Lady  Eleanor,  daughter  of 


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Raymond  de  Berenger,  Count  of  Provence: 

(XVII)  Edmund  Plantagenet  (second  son 
of  Henry  III.),  Earl  of  Leicester,  Lancaster 
and  Chester,  lord  high  steward,  had  by  second 
wife,  Lady  Blanche,  granddaughter  of  Louis 
VIII.,  King  of  France: 

(XVIII)  Henry  Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Lan- 
caster and  Leicester,  married  Lady  Maud, 
daughter  of  Patrick  de  Chaworth,  1253-1282, 
and  had : 

(XIX)  Lady  Eleanor  Plantagenet,  married 
secondly  (his  second  wife).  Sir  Richard  Fitz- 
Alan,  K.G.,  ninth  Baron  Fitz-Alan,  Earl  of 
Arundel  and  Surrey,  and  had: 

(XX)  Lady  Alice  Fitz-Alan,  married  Sir 
Thomas  de  Holland,  K.G.,  great-grandson  of 
Edward  I.,  second  Earl  of  Kent,  marshal  of 
England,  and  had : 

(XXI)  Lady  Eleanor  de  Holland,  married 
(first  wife)  Thomas  de  Montacute,  last  Earl 
of  Salisbury,  and  had: 

(XII)  Lady  Alice  de  Montacute,  married 
Sir  Richard  de  Nevill,  K.G.,  created  Earl  of 
Salisbury,  4th  May,  1442,  lord  great  chamber- 
lain of  England,  who  was  beheaded  for  siding 
with  the  Yorkists  in  1461,  and  his  head  was 
fixed  upon  a  gate  of  the  city  of  York,  and  had : 

(XXIII)  Lady  Alice  de  Neville  (sister  of 
Richard  Neville,  K.G.,  Earl  of  Salisbury  and 
Warwick,  the  renowned  "King  maker"'),  mar- 
ried Henry,  fifth  Baron  Fitzhugh,  of  Ravens- 
worth,  steward  of  the  honor  of  Richmond 
and  Lancaster,  died  1472,  and  had : 

(XXIV)  Lady  Elizabeth  Fitz-Hugh,  mar- 
ried Sir  William  Parr,  K.G.,  constable  of  Eng- 
land, and  had: 

(XXV)  William,  Lord  Parr,  of  Horton, 
Northampton,  died  1546,  who  was  uncle  of 
Katherine  Parr,  last  wife  of  Henry  VIII.,  of 
England.  He  was  chamberlain  to  Her  Ma- 
jesty, and  was  advanced  to  the  peerage.  23d 
December,  1543.  He  married  Lady  Mary, 
daughter  of  Sir  William  Salisbury,  and  had : 

(XXVI)  Lady  Elizabeth  Parr '(also  called 
Alice),  married  (his  second  wife)  Sir  Nicho- 
las Woodhull,  Lord  of  Woodhull,  county  of 
Bedford,  died  1532,  and  had  by  her  (see 
Northamptonshire  Visitations,  1564  and  1618; 
the  Yorkshire  Visitations,  1584;  and  Dugdale's 
"Baronage")  : 

(XXVII)  Fulke  Woodhull,  of  Thenford 
Manor,  Northamptonshire,  second  son  and 
heir,  and  eldest  son  by  his  father's  second 
wife,  who  married  Alice,  daughter  of  William 


Coles,  or  Colles,  of  Lye  or  Leigh,  county  of 
Worcester,  and  had : 

(XXVIII)  Lawrence  Woodhull,  younger 
son  (brother  of  Nicholas,  eldest  son  and  heir 
apparent  in  1618,  who  had  five  sons  then  liv- 
ing, his  apparent  heir  being  son  Gyles,  born 
1582  (see  "Miscellanae  Geneal,  et  Heraldica," 
iv.,  417),  father  of: 

(XXIX)  Mary  Woodhull,  married  (his  sec- 
ond wife)  WilHam  Nicolls,  of  Islippe,  North- 
amptonshire, and  had  (see  Nicoll  II)  : 

(XXX)  John  Nicolls,  married  Joane,  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  George  Grafton,  and  had : 

(XXXI)  Rev.  Matthias  Nicolls,  married, 
1630,  Martha  Oakes,  of  Leicestershire,  and 
had: 

(XXXII)  Captain  Matthias  Nicolls,  born 
at  Islippe,  Northamptonshire,  1621  ;  was  grad- 
uate of  Cambridge  University,  and  a  lawyer 
of  the  Inner  Temple.  He  was  appointed  sec- 
retary of  the  commission  "to  visit  the  colonies 
and  plantations  known  as  New  England,"  and 
commissioned  captain  of  the  military  force, 
before  leaving  England,  1664 ;  was  secretary 
of  the  province  of  New  York,  1664-1687; 
member  of  King's  Council,  1667-80:  speaker 
of  Provincial  Assembly.  1683-4:  judge  of 
Court  of  Admiralty,  1686:  mayor  of  New 
York,  1672:  died  December  22,  1687,  and  was 
buried  at  Cow  Neck,  Long  Island.  He  mar- 
ried Abigail  Jones,  who  administered  on  his 
estate,  22d  July,  1693,  and  had : 

(XXXIli)  Hon.  William  Nicoll,  commonly 
called  "the  Patentee,"  born  1657,  at  Islippe, 
Northamptonshire,  and  educated  for  the  bar. 
He  came  to  America  with  his  father  in  1664, 
and  was  a  lawyer  of  great  prominence  at  New 
York.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Governor's 
Council,  New  York,  1691-8:  attorney-general 
of  the  province,  1687 :  member  of  Provincial 
Assembly,  1701-23,  and  speaker,  1702-18.  He 
purchased,  29th  November,  1683,  from  Win- 
nequaheagh.  Sachem  of  Connectquut,  a  tract 
of  land  on  Long  Island,  embracing  one  hun- 
dred square  miles,  but  in  consequence  of  sales 
made  the  quantity  now  owned  by  the  family 
does  not  exceed  40,000  acres,  comprising  the 
Nicoll  Manor  at  IsHp,  Long  Island.  He  also 
owned  one-half  of  Shelter  Island  He  was 
vestryman  of  Trinity  Church,  New  York, 
1698-1702,  and  died  at  Nicoll  Manor,  in  IMay. 
1723.  He  married,  1693,  Anne,  daughter  of 
Jeremias  Van  Rensselaer  (See  Van  Rensse- 
laer III.,  Van  Cortlandt  IV.)   and  widow  of 


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her  cousin,  Kiliaen  Van  Rensselaer,  of  Water- 
vliet.  New  York,  patron  of  the  lordship  and 
manor  of  Rensselaerswyck  (called  "The 
Great  Patroon"),  and  had: 

(XXXIV)  Benjamin  Nicoll,  Esq.,  born  at 
Islip,  Long  Island,  1694,  who  inherited  from 
his  father  the  Islip  estate,  known  as  Nicoll 
Manor,  and  devoted  himself  to  its  care,  and 
died  in  1724.  He  married,  1714,  Charity,  his 
first  cousin,  daughter  of  his  aunt,  Margaret 
Nicoll,  and  Richard  Floyd  (See  Floyd  V.), 
of  Setauket,  Long  Island  (who  married  sec- 
ondly, September  26,  1725,  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel 
Johnson,  first  president  of  King's  (afterwards 
Columbia)  College,  New  York,  and  their  son. 
Dr.  William  Samuel  Johnson,  was  first  presi- 
dent of  Columbia  College,  New  York),  and 
had: 

(XXXV)  Benjamin  Nicoll,  Jr.,  born  at 
Islip,  Long  Island,  17th  March,  1718;  gradu- 
ated at  Yale  College,  1734.  He  was  a  lawyer, 
and,  successively,  incorporator,  trustee,  and 
governor  of  King's  College,  New  York;  a 
founder  and  trustee  of  the  Society  Library, 
New  York,  1754;  and  a  vestryman  of  Trinity 
Church,  New  York,  1751-60;  and  died  isth 
April,  1760.  It  was  said  that  "never  in  the 
memory  of  man  at  New  York  was  anyone  so 
much  lamented."  "His  death  was  the  severest 
misfortune  which  had  befallen  the  College.  It 
filled  its  friends  with  consternation,  for  none 
was  more  able,  wise  and  zealous  than  he."  He 
married  Mary  Magdalen,  daughter  of  Hon. 
Edward  Holland  (See  Holland  VII.,  Boudinot 
VII.,  Beekman  VIII. ),  mayor  of  the  city  of 
New  York,  and  had: 

(XXXVI)  Dr.  Samuel  Nicoll,  born  August 
19,  1754,  died  February  2,  1796.  He  was  a 
graduate  of  the  Edinburgh  XJniversity,  1776, 
and  completed  his  medical  studies  in  Paris, 
and  was  professor  of  chemistry  in  Columbia 
College,  New  York,  1792-96.  He  married 
(first)  June  i,  1782,  Anne,  his  second  cousin, 
daughter  of  Captain  Winter  Fargie,  of  the 
British  army,  and  Eve  Holland,  his  wife. 
Children:  i.  Frances  Mary,  born  December 
17.  1785  ;  married  George  Bloom  Evertson.  2. 
William  Henry,  born  November  4,  1787;  sur- 
geon in  U.  S.  A. ;  died  March  5,  1831.  5. 
Eliza  Ann.  He  married  (secondly)  his  second 
cousin,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Colonel  Francis 
Nicoll,  of  Bethlehem,  Albany  county.  New 
York,  and  widow  of  Captain  Richard  Sill. 

(XXXVII)  Frances  Mary  Nicoll,  born  at 


Stratford,  Connecticut,  December  17,  1785, 
died  March  24,  1861  ;  married,  April  13,  1809 
(his  second  wife),  George  Bloom  Evertson 
(see  Evertson  IX.,  Van  Baal  X.,  Tellar  XL), 
son  of  Jacob  Evertson  (descended  from  Ad- 
miral John  Evertson,  lieutenant-admiral  of 
Zeeland,  killed  in  battle  against  the  English, 
1666),  and  his  wife  Margaret,  daughter  of 
George  Bloom,  and  had : 

(XXXVIII)  Catharine  Lewis  Evertson, 
born  February  18,  1816,  died  April  26,  1855; 
married,  April  11,  1839,  to  John  Dunning  Dix, 
by  whom  she  had  (second  son  and  fourth 
child)  : 

(XXXIX)  George  Woodward  Dix. 
References:   Ancestors  eligible  to   Colonial 

Dames  Society.  —  Matthias  Nicolls,  Mrs. 
Lamb's  "Hist,  of  New  York,"  vol.  i,  pp.  208, 
Z20,  243,  253,  302,  303 ;  Thompson's  "History 
of  Long  Island,"  vol.  ii,  p.  390;  Valentine's 
"Hist.  City  of  New  York,"  1853,  p.  239;  N.  Y. 
Civil  List,  1869,  pp.  26,  36,  38,  56,  61.  William 
Nicoll,  Mrs.  Lamb's  "Hist,  of  New  York," 
vol.  i,  pp.  374,  417,  465,  476,  468,  487,  497, 
507;  Thompson's  "Hist.  Long  Island,  p.  390, 
etc.;  N.  Y.  Civil  List,  1869,  pp.  26,  36,  56,  34; 
Annual  Register  Colonial  Wars,  N.  Y.  Ben- 
jamin Nicoll,  Jr.,  Mrs.  Lamb's  "Hist,.  N.  Y.," 
vol.  i,  pp.  642,  647 ;  Beardsley's  "Life  of  Dr. 
Samuel  Johnson,"  1874,  pp.  58,  195,  248;  Ber- 
rian's  "Hist.  Trinity  Ch.,  N.  Y.,"  1847,  p. 
353.  The  Charter  and  Bye  Laws,  N.  Y. ;  So- 
ciety Library,  1773,  p.  4. 


The  name  of  this  family  in 
TALMADGE  the  United  States  is  at  pres- 
ent spelled  in  three  ways, 
"Talmadge,"  "Tallmadge,"  and  "Talmase." 
The  first  is  the  spelling  used  by  the  earliest 
members  of  the  family  to  whom  any  of  the 
American  family  can  trace  without  a  break 
m  the  descent,  i.  e.,  John  Talmadge,  of  New- 
ton Stacey,  Hants,  and  Simon  Talmadge,  of 
Wherwell,  Hants.  Generally  speaking  the 
spelling  "Tallmadge"  is  used  by  descendants 
of  Robert  Talmage,  who  settled  at  New  Ha- 
ven, Connecticut,  in  1644,  and  the  spelling 
"Talmage"  is  generally  used  by  descendants 
of  Thomas  Talmage,  of  Easthampton,  Lonrj 
Island,  the  older  brother  of  the  Robert  above 
referred  to. 

A  very  striking  example  of  the  differ- 
ent spellings  is  shown  in  the  records  of  the 
first  church  of  New  Haven,  where  the  follow- 


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ing  spellings  occurred  during  the  ministry  of 
Mr.  Joseph  Noyes :  "Talmaig,"  "Talmag," 
'"Talmadge,"  "Talmig,"  "Talmage,"  and 
"Thammage."  Other  unusual  spellings  that 
occur  in  the  American  records  are  "Talmidge," 
"Tallmage"  and  "Toelmag." 

In  England  the  name  has  undergone  a  great 
variety  of  changes  and  the  best  known  branch 
of  the  family,  the  one  that  now  spells  the  name 
"Tollemache,"  and  inherited  the  earldom  of 
Dysart,  is  a  striking  illustration,  as  is  shown 
by  the  preface  of  "Ham  House,  Its  History 
and  Art  Treasures,"  by  Mrs.  Charles  Roun- 
dell.  This  lady  is  a  granddaughter  of  the  late 
Admiral  Halliday  and  of  Lady  Jane  Tolle- 
mache, sister  of  the  fifth  earl  of  Dysart. 

This  preface  reads:  "The  spelling  of  the 
family  surname  has  undergone  several 
changes ;  at  one  time  it  was  spelt  'Talemasche,' 
later  it  became  'Talemash,'  then  'Talmash,' 
and  finally  the  name  settled  into  'Tollemache.' 
In  the  United  States  the  name  exists  as  'Tal- 
mage.' There  is  evidence  to  believe  these  Tol- 
lemaches  are  descended  from  people  who  used 
the  American  spelHng  of  'Talmage.'  " 

The  name  is  of  Saxon  origin  and  has  been 
widely  published  as  coming  from  the  Saxon 
word  Tollmack,  meaning  the  ringing  of  the 
bell,  but  the  late  J.  M.  B.  Dwight,  of  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  who  was  connected  by 
marriage  with  the  Tallmadge  family  of  New 
Haven,  made  a  careful  search  extending  over 
a  long  period  of  the  early  ancestry  of  the  fam- 
ily and  he  wrote  that  the  English  Tollemaches 
told  him  that  the  name  was  that  of  the  Saxon 
Viking,  Toadmag,  meaning  Mankiller.  This 
spelling  is  said  to  occur  in  Doomsday  Book, 
though  other  reports  say  the  spelling  there  is 
Toelmag  and  that  King  Stephen  of  England 
was  descended  from  this  Toelmag  of  Dooms- 
day Book.  However  this  may  be.  King  Ste- 
phen was  a  son  of  the  famous  Count  of  Blois 
and  a  son-in-law  of  William  the  Conqueror, 
and  if  he  is  reckoned  a  member  of  this  family 
his  distinguished  sister,  the  Queen  of  France, 
and  many  other  notable  persons  might  doubt- 
less be  included. 

As  King  Stephen  was  a  Norman  it  is  inter- 
esting to  note  that  there  is  at  present  a  family 
of  very  ancient  lineage  settled  in  France  by 
the  name  of  Tollemache,  and  it  is  of  course 
possible  that  some  of  Stephen's  Saxon  cousins 
may  have  been  induced  to  try  their  fortune  in 
Normandy,  where  they  would  have  the  advan- 


tage of  great  and  friendly  power  and  that  the 
French  tongue  transformed  their  harsh  Saxon 
surname  just  as  its  influence  through  Norman 
conquest  softened  the  name  in  England. 

Suffolk  county,  England,  seems  to  be  the 
birthplace  of  the  family,  for  long  before  we 
find  records  of  the  family  in  Hampshire  or 
ether  places  where  they  located,  Suffolk 
county  seems  to  have  possessed  Talmadges, 
Talmages,  Talmachs,  etc.,  who  were  people  of 
position.  Burke's  Peerage,  in  speaking  of  the 
ancestry  of  the  earls  of  Dysart,  says:  "The 
Tollemaches  have  flourished  with  the  greatest 
honour  in  the  County  of  Suffolk  since  the  ar- 
rival of  the  Saxons  in  England,  a  period  of 
more  than  thirteen  centuries."  Tollemache, 
Lord  of  Bentley  in  Suffolk  county,  and  Stoke- 
Tollemache  in  Oxfordshire,  lived  in  the  sixth 
century.  There  is  a  much  and  variously  quot- 
ed inscription  on  the  old  Manor  house  at  Bent- 
ley  to  the  effect  that  "when  the  Normans  into 
England  came,  Bentley  was  my  home  and  Tal- 
mach  was  my  name." 

Hugh  de  Tollemache  subscribed  the  char- 
ter sans  date  (about  the  time  of  King  Ste- 
phen), made  by  John  de  St.  John  to  Eve,  the 
first  Abbess  of  Godstow  in  Oxfordshire.  This 
Hugh  in  his  old  age  assumed  the  cowl  at  Glou- 
cester and  bestowed  upon  that  monastery  a 
moiety  of  the  town  of  Hampton,  which  his 
son  Peter  confirmed  in  the  time  of  the  Abbott 
Hamblin. 

A  descendant  of  Peter  was  Sir  Hugh  de 
Tollemache,  who  held  of  the  crown  in  the 
twenty-fifth  year  of  Edward  I.  the  Manor  of 
Bentley  and  a  foifrth  part  of  the  village  of 
Aketon  by  knight's  service. 

In  the  twenty-ninth  year  of  Edward  I,,  Wil- 
liam and  John  Tollemache  were  among  those 
summoned  to  attend  the  King  at  Berwick- 
upon-Tweed  before  his  expedition  into  Scot- 
land. This  John  took  the  black  cross  and  his 
arms  are  now  remaining  at  the  minster  of 
York. 

The  foregoing  is  an  indication  of  the  early 
prominence  of  the  family  in  Suffolk,  though 
little  faith  can  be  put  in  the  spelling,  as  the 
names  are  copied  from  Burke's  Peerage,  where 
all  the  names  are  made  to  conform  in  spelling 
to  that  used  by  the  more  recent  earls  of  Dy- 
sart. Mr.  Dwight  wrote  that  Stoke-Talmage 
in  Oxfordshire  belonged  to  the  Talmage  or 
Tollemache  family  of  Bentley. 

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ords  and  Collections  of  the  Heralds  College 
— London — takes  the  record  of  the  Talmach 
family  of  Bentley,  Suffolk,  from  1620  back- 
ward for  fourteen  generations  to  about  1200, 
a  remarkably  early  date  from  which  to  be  able 
to  trace  a  line  of  ancestry  without  a  break. 
They  seem  to  have  been  people  of  wealth  and 
position  with  their  permanent  residence  at 
Bentley  all  these  centuries. 

"The  History  of  Suffolk  County  Thingoe 
Hundred,"  by  John  Gage,  Esq.,  F.R.S.,  Lon- 
don, 1838,  has  some  references  to  the  family 
that  are  interesting  as  showing  the  spellings 
used  at  a  very  early  date  and  the  position  of 
the  family  in  that  locality,  thus : 

Simon  Abbot,  of  St.  Edmunds,  who  gov- 
erned the  monastery  from  1237  to  1279  had 
the  wardship  of  the  heir  of  Sir  Robert  de  Hal- 
sted;  after  whose  decease  the  fee  became  the 
property  of  Sir  William  Talmach  and  Cecily, 
his  wife,  probably  the  heir  of  the  Halsted 
family. 

Cecily,  widow  of  Sir  William  Talmach,  died 
at  Hawsted  in  the  ninth  year  of  Edward  L 
(1281),  leaving  William,  her  son,  and  Gil- 
bert de  Melton,  her  chaplain,  executors  of  her 
will. 

(The  family  in  America.) 
(I)  Thomas  Talmage  was  the  first  of  the 
family  to  come  to  America.  He  had  resided 
at  Newton  Stacey,  Hants,  England,  and  is  re- 
ported to  have  come  over  in  the  fleet  with  Gov- 
ernor Winthrop  in  1630  or  1631  in  the  ship 
"Plough."  He  landed  at  Charlestown,  but  re- 
moved to  Boston  and  afterwards  to  Lynn.  On 
May  14,  1634,  the  general  court  at  Lynn  made 
him  a  freeman.  A  committee  consisting  of 
Daniel  Howe,  Richard  Walker  and  Henry 
Collins,  in  1638,  allotted  a  farm  of  two  hun- 
dred acres  to  him,  also  one  of  twenty  acres,  to 
bis  son,  Thomas  Talmage,  Jr. 

The  town  of  Southampton  on  Long  Island 
was  settled  in  1640,  and  most  of  its  people 
came  from  Lynn.  Thomas  Talmage  came 
thither  with  them,  and  in  1642  was  granted 
a  home  lot.  By  order  of  the  court,  March  7, 
1644,  the  town  was  divided  into  four  wards, 
and  he  lived  in  the  first,  while  his  sons, 
Thomas  and  Robert,  resided  in  the  second. 
Among  the  freemen  of  March  8,  1649,  was 
Thomas  Talmage.  On  May  10,  1649,  he  was 
number  13  in  such  a  list ;  but  as  he  was  not  in 
the  list  of  inhabitants  of  1657,  he  must  have 
left  about  1650,  going  to  Easthampton,  his  son. 


Thomas,  being  one  of  the  founders  in  1649. 
He  probably  died  in  1653,  for  on  December 
9,  1653,  the  town  records  show  it  was  "ordered 
that  the  share  of  whale  in  controversy  be- 
tween Widowe  Talmage  shall  be  divided  even 
as  the  lott  is."  Children:  i.  Simon,  lived  and 
died  in  England,  where  he  was  chief  heir  of 
his  uncle,  John  Talmage,  of  Newton  Stacey,  at 
Hants;  married  Katharine  Hay,  and  died  be- 
fore September,  1640.  2.  William,  is  supposed 
to  have  come  from  England  in  the  fleet  with 
Governor  Winthrop,  in  1630,  or  in  1631,  in 
the  ship  "Plough,"  with  his  father;  his  first 
wife,  named  Elizabeth,  died  December  20, 
1660,  at  Lynn,  whereafter  he  married  Eliza- 
beth Peirce.  He  was  a  member  of  Rev.  El- 
liot's church  at  Roxbury.  3.  Christian,  born 
in  England,  married  a  man  named  Wormlum ; 
but  probably  came  to  America  about  1640,  for 
she  married  Edward  Belcher  at  Boston.  4. 
Jane,  born  in  England,  about  1638,  married 
Richard  Walker,  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts ;  she 
died  before  September  3,  1640.  5.  Thomas, 
see  forward.  6.  Robert,  born  in  England ;  was 
in  Boston  as  early  as  September  3,  1640;  on 
March  7,  1644,  was  at  Southampton,  Long  Isl- 
and ;  took  freeman's  oath  at  New  Haven,  Con- 
necticut, July  I,  1644;  married  Sarah  Nash, 
about  1648 ;  in  1687  she  was  a  widow.  7.  Da- 
vis, born  in  1630,  in  England ;  granted  land  at 
Easthampton,  May  24,  1655  ;  died  May,  1708. 
(II)  Captain  Thomas  (2)  Talmage,  son  of 
Thomas  (i)  Talmage,  the  progenitor  of  the 
family  in  America,  was  born  in  England  and 
came  to  America  with  his  father  while  still 
young.  He  was  allotted  twenty  acres  at  Lynn, 
in  1637,  when  the  committee  was  dividing  the 
place  into  farms.  Shortly  after  Southampton, 
Long  Island,  was  settled,  1640,  he  went  there 
with  his  father,  and  in  1642  was  granted 
land  there.  When  the  place  was  divided  into 
four  wards,  he  resided  in  the  second  ward 
with  his  brother,  Robert.  He  left  there,  in 
1649,  and  with  seven  other  men  founded  the 
town  of  Easthampton,  where  he  continued  to 
live  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  elected 
the  first  recorder,  or  secretary  at  that  place, 
and  held  the  position  many  years,  until  he  died 
in  1691.  Judging  by  his  handwriting  as  ap- 
pearing in  the  records,  he  had  been  well  edu- 
cated. When  they  organized  a  force  of  fight- 
ing men  he  was  chosen  the  leader,  and  on 
February  5,  1660,  was  elected  a  lieutenant,  and 
later  was  made  captain.     In   1674  he  joined 


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with  others  in  a  petition  to  the  king  to  allow 
them  to  remain  under  the  government  of  Con- 
necticut. In  1686  Governor  Thomas  Dongan 
granted  a  patent  for  the  town  of  Easthampton 
to  Thomas  Talmage  and  others,  as  freehold- 
ers. When  he  died  in  1691,  he  was  the  richest 
man  of  the  place.  His  wife,  Elizabeth,  was 
still  living.  Children  :  Nathaniel,  see  forward, 
John,  drowned;  Naomi,  Mary,  Hanna,  Sarah, 
Shubeall,  born  1657;  Onesimuss,  born  in  1662. 

(HI)  Nathaniel  Talmage,  son  of  Captain 
Thomas  (2)  and  Elizabeth  Talmage,  was  born 
at  Southampton,  Long  Island,  in  1643,  ^"^ 
died  August  3,  1716.  When  his  father  made 
his  will,  in  1687,  he  was  the  oldest  living  son. 
He  removed  with  his  father,  when  a  boy,  to 
Easthampton,  and  there  spent  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  His  name  appears  as  a  recording 
witness  there  September  27,  1668,  and  June 
28,  1676,  he  sold  a  house.  In  1678  he  owned 
land  south  of  Benjamin  Conkling,  at  Wain- 
scott.  He  was  elected  a  town  constable,  in 
1687,  in  those  days  regarded  by  the  inhabitants 
as  an  office  of  considerable  importance.  He 
was  a  town  trustee  in  1689-92- 170 1-03-05.  He 
made  his  will,  which  bears  the  date,  July  24, 
1716.  and  which  was  filed  in  the  New  York 
county  surrogate's  office. 

Nathaniel    Talmage    married,    about    1677, 

Rebecca  ,  who  was  born  in  1658,  and 

died  April  15,  1743.  Children:  i.  Thomas, 
born  in  1677;  inherited  the  original  Talmage 
home  at  Easthampton,  Long  Island,  where  he 
lived  and  died  October  24,  1764.  2.  John,  see 
forward.  3.  Elizabeth  Joan,  born  about  1685, 
died,  unmarried,  in  1716.  4.  Martha,  born 
about  1688,  at  Easthampton,  Long  Island; 
married,  July  28,  1708,  Samuel  Russell,  the 
Rev.  Nathaniel  Hunting  officiating.  5.  Enos, 
born  at  Easthampton,  Long  Island,  about 
1690,  died  April  3,  1723 ;  married,  December 
14,  1721,  Katharine  Baker,  Nathaniel  Hunt- 
ing officiating.  6.  Daniel,  born  at  Easthamp- 
ton, Long  Island,  in  1693.  died  at  Elizabeth- 
town,  New  Jersey,  1725.  7.  Rebecca,  born  at 
Easthampton,  Long  Island,  about  i6g8;  mar- 
ried there,  January  24,  17 17,  John  Conkling. 
8.  Naomi,  baptized  at  Easthampton,  Long  Isl- 
and, May  4,  1701  :  married,  1730,  at  East- 
hampton, Elisha  Halsey,  of  Southampton. 

(IV)  John  Talmage,  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
Rebecca  Talmage,  was  born  at  Easthampton, 
Long  Island,  New  York,  in  1678.  In  1716,  he 
and  his  brother,  Thomas,  inherited  the  greater 


part  of  their  father's  estate,  John's  share  lying 
largely  in  the  parish  of  Bridgehampton.  He 
resided  at  Wainscott,  about  six  miles  west  of 
Easthampton.  He  died  November  2,  1764, 
aged  eighty-six  years.  John  Talmage  married 
(first),  December  25,  1702,  Experience  Miller, 
Rev.  Nathaniel  Hunting,  the  second  minister 
at  Easthampton,  officiating,  who  noted  that 
they  were  the  twentieth  couple  he  had  married. 
Mr.  Hunting  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1693 
and  was  for  fifty  years  a  minister  at  East- 
hampton, where  he  officiated  at  baptisms,  mar- 
riages and  deaths  of  members  of  the  Talmadge 
family,  spreading  over  five  generations.  Ex- 
perience died  August  30,  1723,  and  was  un- 
doubtedly the  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Jeremy 
Miller,  of  Easthampton.  John  Tallmadge  mar- 
ried (second)  about  1725,  Ann,  who  died  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1788.  According  to  church  records, 
John  Talmage  "owned  Covenant  December  5, 
1703,"  when  he  was  baptized  and  promised  to 
bring  up  his  children  in  the  Gospel.  He  is 
among  those  restored  or  admitted  to  com- 
munion, February  19,  1727,  by  the  Rev.  Na- 
thaniel Hunting,  and  again,  in  1764,  Rev.  Mr. 
Buell,  the  third  minister  oit  Easthampton,  re- 
stored John  Talmage  to  communion.  He  was 
a  trustee  of  the  town  in  1732,  and  his  name 
appears  as  a  member  of  the  Suiifolk  Regiment, 
about  1715,  among  the  soldiers  of  Easthamp- 
ton. He  left  most  of  his  property  to  his  sons, 
John  and  Enos,  the  two  eldest  sons  of  his  two 
wives. 

Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  baptized  at  East- 
hampton, Long  Island,  by  Rev.  Nathaniel 
Hunting,  December  5,  1703;  died  April  18, 
1772;  married,  December  4,  1723,  John 
Hedges  Jr.,  who  was  born  in  1702.  and  died 
March  25,  1786.  2.  John,  born  and  baptized 
at  Easthampton,  the  latter,  August  10,  1707; 
died  July  16,  1781 ;  married,  October  13.  1737, 
Sarah  Hand.  3.  Experience,  baptized  at  East- 
hampton, October,  1708  ;  married,  July  2.  1732, 
Samuel  Hedges  Jr.,  who  died  August  27.  1735, 
aged  about  twenty-eight  years,  and  she  re-mar- 
ried, June  5.  1746,  Daniel  Edwards,  of  Pat- 
chogue.  4.  Jeremiah,  baptized  April  9,  1710, 
died  February  17,  1773;  married  (first),  No- 
vember 10,  1737.  Damaris  Hand,  who  died 
August  24,  1759;  he  married   (second)   Mary 

.  whom  he  mentioned  in  his  will,  and 

who  died  October,  1797.  5.  Nathaniel,  bap- 
tized July  I,  1711,  died  April  24,  1785:  mar- 
ried, September  18.  1734,  Mary  Fithian,  who 


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was  born  in  1715,  and  died  April  18,  1789.  6. 
Josiah,  see  "forward.  7.  Joseph,  baptized  Jan- 
uary 9,  171 5,  died  at  Wainscott,  November, 
1753;  married  (first),  June  22,  1739,  Hanna 
Harrington,  who  died  April  16,  175 1 ;  married 
(second),  January  i,  1752,  Chloe  Seward,  of 
Durham.  8.  Daniel,  baptized  September  2, 
1716;  was  still  living  in  July,  1776;  married, 
and  resided  at  Bridgehampton.  9.  Rebecca, 
baptized  March  30,  1718;  married  (first).  May 
7,  1739,  Eleakin  Conklin,  who  was  born  in 
1713,  and  died  May  5,  1746;  married  (second), 
December,  1748,  Adam  Cady.  10.  Abigail, 
baptized  February  28,  1720;  married,  at  East- 
hampton,  April   17,   1738,  Jonathan  Conkling. 

11.  Margery,  baptized  January  28,  1722;  mar- 
ried, 1742,  John  Butler,  of  Branford,  Connec- 
ticut. 12.  Martha,  baptized  July  28,  1723,  died 
August  29,   1729.     13.  Enos,  born  November 

12,  1725,  baptized  January  2,  1726;  joined  the 
formation  of  a  General  Association  for  the 
patriotic  cause,  1775,  and  late  in  life  removed 
to  Ballston,  New  York;  married  November 
23,  1752,  Mary  Hand ;  died  at  Ballston  in  1804. 
14.  Hanna,  born  September  9,  1727,  baptized 
at  Easthampton,  October  8,  1727 ;  married 
Daniel  Leek.  15.  Martha,  born  October  2, 
1729,  baptized  at  Easthampton,  October  5, 
1729;  married  John  Strong,  who  was  born  No- 
vember 9,  1726,  died  May  20,  1808;  she  died 
July  25,  1801.  16.  David,  born  at  Easthamp- 
ton, August  5,  173 1,  baptized  there,  August  29, 
1731,  died  May  13,  1809;  married,  October  29, 
1759,  Lydia  Pike,  who  died  February  23,  1812. 
17.  Anne,  baptized  at  Easthampton,  August  17, 
1735,  died  October  5,  1740.  18.  Rachel,  born 
at  Easthampton,  February  20,  1737,  baptized 
April  3,  1737;  was  unmarried  in  1760. 

(V)  Josiah  Talmage,  son  of  John  and  Ex- 
perience (Miller)  Talmage,  was  born  at  East- 
hampton, Long  Island,  New  York,  and  was 
baptized  there  by  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Hunting, 
as  an  infant,  on  April  19,  1713.  He  died  Oc- 
tober 22,  1792.  By  the  will  of  his  father,  dated 
in  1760,  he  received  a  small  sum  of  money. 
He  married  (first),  at  Easthampton,  October 
14,  1735,  Rev.  Mr.  Hunting  officiating,  Phoebe 
Dibble,  and  they  went  to  Branford,  Connecti- 
cut, to  live,  where  she  died,  January  28,  1747, 
and  he  married  (second),  at  Branford,  in  July, 
1748,  Hanna  Williams,  who  died  July  17,  1793. 
By  the  first  wife  he  had  five  children,  and  nine 
by  the  second.  After  the  second  marriage  he 
and  his  wife  settled  at  Wolcott  Center,  about 


1759,  at  that  time  a  part  of  Waterbury.  Con- 
necticut. The  first  ten  children  born  at  Bran- 
ford, Connecticut,  were: 

Children:  i.  Josiah,  see  forward.  2.  Jo- 
seph, born  April  4,  1739,  died  at  Williamstown, 
Massachusetts,  November,  1818;  married 
(first),  Martha  Marks,  who  died  in  1779;  in 
1780  he  married  (second)  Rachel  Bliss,  of 
Dutchess  county,  New  York,  who  died  in  1822; 
children  by  his  first  wife  only.  3.  Jonathan, 
born  March  30,  1742;  resided  near  Fishkill, 
New  York;  died  about  1813;  married  Mary 
Wilsey.  4.  Phoebe,  born  August  4,  1744  ;  lived 
and  died  at  Cheshire,  Connecticut ;  married 
Caleb  Atwater.  5.  Ichabod,  born  January  18, 
1747;  corporal  of  militia,  serving  through  en- 
tire period  of  the  Revolution;  paid  for  services 
up  to  December  31,  1781,  and  died  of  sick- 
ness contracted  in  the  army;  married,  March 
9,  1774,  Hannah  Minor,  and  lived  with  her  at 
Wolcott,  Connecticut.  6.  Jacob,  born  Septem- 
ber 2,  1749:  settled  at  Wolcott;  removed  to 
Plymouth,  Connecticut,  then  to  Monroe 
county,  New  York,  where  he  died,  February 
16,  1824;  farmer,  and  soldier  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, receiving  a  wound;  married  (first)  Eliza- 
beth Gaylord,  who  died  May  23,  1786;  married 
(second),  March  8,  1789,  Ruth  Osborne.  7. 
Hanna,  born  in  1751  ;  resided  at  Wolcott;  died 
in  Canada;  married,  December  20,  1774,  Phile- 
mon Bradley.  8.  Lois,  born  in  1753,  died  at 
Waterbury,  Connecticut ;  married  Benjamin 
Hitchcock.  9.  John,  born  March  8,  1755,  died 
at  Southwick,  Massachusetts,  January  8,  1837; 
farmer ;  participated  in  the  Revolution ;  mar- 
ried, before  November  i,  1781,  Lucretia  Moul- 
throp,  of  East  Haven.  10.  Sally,  born  August 
4,  1759;  was  living  at  Southampton,  Massa- 
chusetts, 1846:  married,  December  25,  1783, 
Farrington  Barnes,  who  was  born  December 
2,  1760,  and  resided  at  Wolcott.  11.  Margery, 
born  at  Wolcott,  Connecticut,  June  21,  1760; 
lived  and  died  at  Westfield,  Massachusetts ; 
married,  December  13,  1781,  Chauncey  At- 
kins. 12.  Nathaniel,  born  at  Wolcott,  July  24, 
1763 ;  served  in  the  Revolution ;  resided  af- 
terwards at  Amherst,  Chicopee,  and  finally,  in 
1706,  at  Ludlow,  Massachusetts ;  died  at  Lud- 
low, October  17,  1835;  married  (first),  about 
1789,  Austis  Hubbard,  who  died  about  1809; 
married  (second),  December,  1811,  Naomi 
Town,  who  died  September  10,  1835.  13. 
Isaac,  born  October  16,  1765,  at  Wolcott,  died 
September  20,  1829;  married,  October  6,  1791, 


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Olive  Ensign,  of  West  Hartford.  14.  Daniel, 
bom  at  Wolcott,  and  when  he  died,  about 
1825,  was  between  forty-five  and  fifty  years 
old ;  married,  at  Meriden,  Connecticut,  Sally 
Bellamy,  and  continued  to  reside  there. 

(VT)  Josiah  (2)  Talmage,  son  of  Josiah  (i) 
and  Phoebe  (Dibble)  Talmage,  was  born  at 
Branford,  Connecticut,  where  he  was  baptized 
by  Rev.  Nathaniel  Hunting,  of  Easthampton, 
Long  Island,  May  i,  1737,  and  he  died  at  Che- 
shire. Connecticut,  in  1784.  About  1762  he 
and  his  wife,  with  their  one  child,  removed 
from  Branford  to  Cheshire.  He  is  reported  to 
have  participated  in  the  Revolution,  as  his 
brothers  did,  as  was  related  by  his  sister,  Sally, 
to  Henry  Talmadge,  on  August  12,  1846,  in  the 
following  language  which  Mr.  Talmage  re- 
corded at  the  time: 

When  the  news  came  to  Branford  that  the  British 
had  landed  at  New  Haven,  Josiah  Talmage,  your 
great-grandfather,  immediately  mounted  his  horse, 
took  his  gun  and  powder  and  ball  and  provisions, 
and  started  for  New  Haven,  and  met  them  in  Mark 
Lane.  He  fought  till  they  got  his  horse  from  him, 
and  then  he  fought  till  he  recovered  his  horse,  and 
the  British  retreated  to  their  ships.  He  fired  at 
them  from  behind  a  post  which  stood  for  several 
years  with  the  bullet  holes  in  it.  He  returned  home 
in  safety,  after  being  absent  three  or  four  days. 

The  history  of  the  taking  of  New  Haven 
shows  that  this  is  a  typical  instance  of  inde- 
pendent resistance  to  the  British. 

Josiah  Talmage  married,  the  town  clerk  of 
Branford  officiating,  on  March  15,  1759,  Sybil, 
daughter  of  Stephen  Todd,  she  died  at  Che- 
shire, April  23,  1778,  aged  thirty-six  years. 
Children:  i.  Samuel,  born  at  Branford,  Feb- 
ruary 2,  1760,  died  at  Cheshire,  September  15, 
1844 ;  fought  in  the  Revolution  and  in  the  Con- 
necticut militia  in  the  War  of  1812;  married, 
December  13,  1781,  Phoebe  Hall.  2.  Josiah, 
born  at  Wallingford,  later  known  as  Cheshire, 
Connecticut.  June  5,  1763,  died  at  Wolcott, 
Connecticut:  married,  at  Cheshire,  March  13, 
1783,  Hannah  Blakley.  3.  Amzi, 'see  forward. 
4  Stephen  Todd,  born  at  Cheshire,  February 
15'  I775'  died  at  Plymouth.  Connecticut,  Au- 
gust 30,  1830;  married,  at  Litchfield,  Connecti- 
cut, November  10,  1795,  Sarah  Goodwin,  who 
was  born  in  1779.  and  died  in  1866.  5.  Sybil, 
born  at  Cheshire,  died  at  Litchfield,  Connecti- 
cut :  married  Amos  Galpin. 

(VII)  Amzi  Talmage,  son  of  Josiah  (2)  and 
Sybil  (Todd)  Talmage,  was  born  at  Cheshire, 
Connecticut,   February  8,    1770,   and  died  at 


Plymouth,  Connecticut,  July  17,  1845.  He  was 
left  an  orphan  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  and 
marrying  young,  built  a  house  for  himself  by 
February,  1794,  at  Plymouth,  in  which  his  eld- 
est child,  Elisha,  was  born,  which  house  was 
standing  in  good  condition  in  1906,  a  large 
and  comfortable  dwelling  for  the  period  in 
v/hich  it  was  built.  Amzi  Talmage  married, 
November  7,  1792,  Rosetta  Warner.  She  was 
born  February  25,  1773,  and  died  January  i, 
1857.  Her  parents  were  Elijah  Warner,  bom 
in  1746,  died  at  Plymouth,  Connecticut,  June 
9,  1834,  and  Esther  Fenn,  who  was  born  in 
1743,  and  died  September  26,  1816.  Children: 
I.  Elisha  Galpin,  see  forward.  2.  Rosetta,  born 
at  Plymouth,  April  17,  1796,  died  there,  No- 
vember 8,  1825;  married,  June  3,  1816,  Ste- 
phen Mix  Mitchell.  3.  Major  Edwin,  bom  at 
Plymouth,  April  26,  1801,  died  April  21,  1871 ; 
married,  November  12,  1823,  Adaline  H. 
Mitchell,  who  was  born  in  1803,  and  died  No- 
vember 30,  1876.  4.  Appolos,  born  at  Ply- 
mouth, March  29,  1803,  died  December  15, 
1805.  5.  Mary  Ann,  born  at  Plymouth,  April 
5,  1809;  was  living  in  Chicago,  in  1875;  mar- 
ried (first),  December  18,  1826,  Stephen  Mix 
Mitchell,  who  died  June  29,  1844:  married 
(second),  October,  1855,  Rev.  William  Wat- 
son, an  Episcopal  clergyman,  of  Hudson,  New 
York,  who  died  October,  1863. 

(VIII)  Elisha  Galpin  Talmadge,  son  of 
Amzi  and  Rosetta  (Warner)  Talmage,  was 
born  at  Plymouth,  Connecticut,  February  16, 
1794,  and  died  at  Westfield,  Massachusetts, 
July  28,  1855.  He  changed  the  spelling  of  his 
name  from  Talmage  to  Talmadge.  He  re- 
moved from  his  native  place  to  Westfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts. When  only  twenty  years  old,  he 
was  appointed  quartermaster-sergeant  of  the 
Twenty-sixth  Regiment  of  Connecticut  State 
Militia,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Daniel  Mills  com- 
mandant, signing  the  document  at  Plymouth, 
en  July  4,  1814.  At  this  time,  the  War  of  1812 
was  in  its  most  critical  stage,  and  he  was  soon 
promoted  to  sergeant-major. 

Elisha  Galpin  Talmadge  married,  October 
27,  1818,  Clarissa  Terry,  of  South  Windsor, 
Connecticut.  She  was  born  at  that  place,  Oc- 
tober 15,  1793,  died  at  Westfield,  Massachu- 
setts, May  6,  1873,  and  was  the  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Huldah  (Burnham)  Terry,  of 
South  Windsor.  She  was  a  descendant  of 
Samuel  Terry,  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  of  Governor  William  Bradford  of  the  Ply- 


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mouth  Colony,  and  of  his  son,  Deputy-Gover- 
nor WilHam  Bradford,  of  the  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony,  Children:  i.  Elisha,  born  at 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  October  20,  1819, 
died  at  that  place,  while  on  a  visit  to  his 
mother,  August  6,  1858 ;  resided  at  Troy,  New 
York;  married,  May  25,  1841,  Elizabeth 
Avery,  who  died  October  11,  1904.  Issue:  i. 
John  Henry,  born  at  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
February  15,  1842,  died  unmarried,  at  West- 
field,  Massachusetts,  December  31,  1881  ;  was 
much  interested  in  the  family  genealogy,  ii. 
Junius  Avery,  born  at  Troy,  New  York,  April 
9,  1844 ;  started  as  a  bank  clerk,  went  west  and 
engaged  in  mining;  but  returned  to  the  East 
and  became  concerned  in  manufacturing  com- 
panies ;  married,  at  Meriden,  Connecticut,  De- 
cember 30,  1875,  Candora  A.  Parker,  iii.  Eliz- 
abeth Clarissa,  born  at  Troy,  New  York,  Oc- 
tober 7,  1847;  married,  October  7,  1868,  Wil- 
liam B.  Todd  Jr.,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  Z. 
Henry,  see  forward. 

(IX)  Henry  Talmadge,  son  of  Elisha  Gal- 
pin  and  Clarissa  (Terry)  Talmadge,  was  born 
■at  Westfield,  Massachusetts,  June  25,  1824,  and 
died  at  New  York  City,  March  19,  1907.  His 
father  took  him  to  Plymouth,  Connecticut, 
where  the  former  was  born,  to  be  baptized  in 
St.  Peter's  Church,  there  being  no  Episcopal 
Church  at  that  time  at  Westfield.  At  the  age 
of  sixteen,  he  graduated  from  the  Westfield 
Academy,  and  accepted  a  position  in  a  bank  at 
Hartford.  Later,  he  went  into  business  at 
Troy,  New  York,  with  his  elder  brother,  Eli- 
sha, but  shortly  left  there  to  take  a  position 
in  a  bank  in  New  York  City.  In  1852  he  went 
to  Memphis,  Tennessee,  where  he  became  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Cossitt,  Hill  &  Tal- 
madge, successful  wholesale  merchants.  Slave- 
holding  being  very  distasteful  to  him,  he  decid- 
ed to  return  to  New  York,  in  1858,  and  for  a 
time  resided  on  the  heights  of  Weehawken, 
New  Jersey,  together  with  his  brother-in-law, 
Frederick  H.  Cossitt.  In  i860  he  moved  to 
New  York  City,  where  he  continued  to  live  un- 
til his  death.  He  engaged  in  banking  in  1865 
and  in  1872  formed  the  firm  of  Henry  Tal- 
madge &  Company,  of  which  his  son,  Henry 
P.  Talmadge,  is  now  the  head.  For  a  score  of 
years  he  had  been  a  trustee  of  the  Central 
Trust  Company,  and  was  a  director  of  the 
Mechanics'  National  Bank  of  New  York  City 
for  twenty-one  years.     He  was  senior  elder  at 


the  Church  of  St.  Nicholas  at  Fifth  avenue 
and  Forty-eighth  street,  where  he  had  been  a 
member  of  the  consistory  for  thirty  years. 
Through  a  period  of  a  quarter  of  a  century 
he  was  a  director  and  the  treasurer  of  the  New 
York  Juvenile  Asylum.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Mayflower  Society,  and  the  Society  of 
Descendants  of  Colonial  Governors,  being  a 
descendant  of  Governor  William  Bradford  of 
the  Plymouth  Colony  or  Plantation. 

Henry  Talmadge  married  (first),  at  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  May  27,  1846.  Frances 
Anna  Cossitt.  She  was  born  at  Westfield, 
Massachusetts,  December  12,  1819,  died  at 
New  York  City,  November  30,  1893,  and  was 
the  daughter  of  Asa  Cossitt  Jr.  and  Rachel 
(Steele)  Cossitt.  Asa  Cossitt  Jr.  was  born  at 
Granby,  Connecticut,  May  24,  1783,  died  June 
30,  1826,  and  his  wife,  Rachel  Steele,  was 
born  at  West  Hartford,  Connecticut,  Septem- 
ber 17,  1784,  died  on  Staten  Island,  October 
5,  1850.  She  was  a  descendant  of  Governor 
William  Bradford  of  the  Plymouth  Colony. 
Henry  Talmadge  married  (second),  May  21, 
1896,  Helen  Atwood  White.  She  was  born 
March  11,  1855,  died  June  26,  1905,  and  was 
the  daughter  of  Heman  Lincoln  and  Lucy 
Macintosh  (Dunbar)  White.  Children:  i. 
Henry  Pearl,  see  forward.  2.  Frances  Rachel 
Steele,  born  at  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  Au- 
gust 26,  1852,  died  at  New  York  City,  July  28, 
1901 ;  married,  New  York  City,  May  23,  1878, 
William  Lambert;  no  issue.  3.  Clara  Terry, 
born  at  Memphis,  Tennessee,  August  4,  1854, 
died  there,  June  16,  1856. 

(X)  Henry  Pearl  Talmadge,  son  of  Henry 
and  Frances  Anna  (Cossitt)  Talmadge,  was 
born  at  Troy,  New  York,  March  10,  1847.  He 
went  to  Harvard  University,  where  he  gradu- 
ated in  1868.  He  entered  his  father's  banking- 
house  the  year  of  his  graduation,  and  in  1872 
became  a  partner,  and  is  now  continuing  the 
business.  He  served  seven  years  as  a  member 
of  the  Seventh  Regiment,  and  belongs  to  the 
Union,  University  and  other  clubs.  He  has 
an  excellent  library,  consisting  chiefly  of  his- 
torical works,  and  books  pertaining  to  the  far 
East.  Since  March  i,  1877,  he  has  resided  at 
Netherwood,  New  Jersey. 

Henry  P.  Talmadge  married,  April  18,  1872, 
Lucy  White.  She  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
May  22,  1852,  and  is  the  daughter  of  Heman 
Lincoln  and  Lucy  Macintosh  (Dunbar)  White, 


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the  latter  named  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Duncan 
Dunbar,  of  New  York  City.  Heman  Lincoln 
White  was  a  merchant  of  New  York,  a  de- 
scendant of  William  White,  of  Haverhill,  Mas- 
sachusetts, who  came  to  America  in  1636.  He 
was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Lieutenant-Gover- 
nor Samuel  Symonds,  of  Massachusetts,  of 
Samuel  Appleton,  of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts, 
of  Rev.  George  Phillips  and  Rev.  John  Emer- 
son, founders  of  the  well  known  families  bear- 
ing these  names,  and  of  "Richard  Warren 
Gent,"  of  the  "Mayflower."  Rev.  Duncan 
Dunbar  was  many  years  pastor  of  the  Mac- 
Dougal  Street  Church  in  New  York.  He  was 
a  Scotchman  from  Granttown  on  the  Spey. 
Children:  i.  Lucy  White,  born  at  New  York 
City,  September  22,  1873.  2.  Henry,  born  at 
Netherwood,  New  Jersey,  May  15,  1877;  grad- 
uated from  Harvard  in  1899;  lawyer;  member 
of  the  Bar  Association  and  the  University 
Club.  3.  Arthur  White,  born  at  Netherwood, 
February  25,  1880,  died  at  Prescott,  Arizona, 
January  10,  1910;  graduated  from  Harvard, 
in  1902,  and  belonged  to  the  University  Club. 
4.  Helen  Dunbar,  born  at  Netherwood,  August 
30,  1881 ;  married  there,  April  26,  1905,  Daniel 
Runkle.  Issue:  Helen  Talmadge  Runkle,  born 
New  York  City,  January  29,  1906.  Harry  G. 
Runkle,  born  Easthampton,  Long  Island,  Au- 
gust 15,  1910.  5.  Frank  Cossitt,  born  at  Neth- 
erwood, January  19,  1884. 

Thomas  Talmage  Sr.  brought  his  coat  of 
arms  on  parchment  with  him  to  the  colonies  in 
1630,  or  1631.  Thomas  Talmage  Sr.  left  this 
coat-of-arms  to  his  son,  Thomas  Talmage  Jr., 
who  inherited  his  homestead.  Thomas  Jr.  left 
all  his  homestead  goods  and  the  homestead  to 
his  son.  Captain  Onessimus.  Captain  Onessi- 
mus  was  survived  by  daughters  only — his 
daughter,  Phebe  Talmage,  married  Severns 
Gold,  or  Gould,  and  apparently  inherited  the 
estate.  From  Phebe  Talmage  Gould  the  coat- 
of-arms  passed  to  her  son,  Patrick  Arter 
Gould,  then  to  his  son,  Patrick  T.  Gould,  and 
to  his  son,  Jonathan  Gould,  all  of  Easthamp- 
ton. It  was  still  at  Easthampton  in  1910  in  the 
possession  of  Mrs.  Jonathan  Gould. 

The  arms  of  Thomas  Talmage  are  described 
"Gules  between  three  choughs  or,  a  chevron 
rzure  bearing  five  mullets.  Crest :  On  a  wreath 
or  and  gules,  a  chough  of  the  first  plucking 
fruit  gules  from  a  bough  leaved  vert  of  a 
branch  issuing  from  the  dexter  side  of  the 
wreath." 


The    arms    of    the    Tyng    family: 

TYNG  Argent,  on  a  bend  between  two 
bendlets  sable,  three  martlets  prop- 
er. Crest :  A  martlet  proper,  footless,  as  in 
the  arms.  That  is  declared  to  be  the  proper 
and  oldest  form;  but  a  variation  of  the  same 
and  more  attractive  in  some  respects,  as  used 
by  some  members  of  this  family  in  America, 
is  as  follows :  Argent,  on  a  bend  sable,  three 
martlets  or.  Crest:  A  wolf's  head  erased 
sable. 

From  the  time  the  first  member  of  this  fam- 
ily came  to  America,  in  1638,  up  to  the  year 
1800,  not  to  mention  their  records  since  then 
as  individuals,  they  were  a  noteworthy  people 
m  the  annals  of  New  England,  whether  re- 
garded in  their  political,  military,  social  or 
financial  relations  to  the  community.  They,  as 
a  close  rule,  were  men  of  trust  and  high  con- 
sideration on  every  hand,  while  their  social 
standing  receives  additional  attestation  by  the 
women  whom  they  married,  and  by  the  men 
their  sisters  and  daughters  married.  The  fre- 
quency with  which  the  latter  eff'ected  alliances 
with  clergymen,  army  officers  and  men  holding 
political  office  of  every  grade,  attests  their  uni- 
form attractiveness  to  men  of  education,  re- 
finement and  solid  character. 

Captain  Joseph  Atkins,  son  of  Andrew  and 
Sara  Adkins,  was  the  first  of  this  family  to 
come  to  America.  He  was  born  in  a  place 
called  Sandwich,  Kent,  England,  in  1680,  and 
was  christened  at  St.  Clement's  Church  in  that 
ancient  seaport,  on  November  4th  of  that  year. 
In  the  palmy  days  of  the  British  Navy,  he  was 
a  member  of  it,  and  it  is  declared  that  he  was 
present  in  the  famous  seafight  between  the 
English  and  French,  in  1692 ;  was  at  the  taking 
of  Gibraltar,  and  was  a  noted  captain  in  the 
merchant  marine  service.  One  must  therefore 
believe  he  was  a  lad  of  barely  more  than 
twelve  at  the  time  of  the  first  conflict  men- 
tioned, and  aged  twenty-four  when  the  other 
transpired  in  1704;  but  in  those  days  a  youth 
fond  of  the  sea  and  adventure  might  board 
a  ship  to  lend  a  useful  hand  in  capacity  suited 
to  his  years,  for  the  noted  admirals  of  old  were 
hardly  more  than  youths  when  they  made  their 
names  famous  in  history. 

It  will  be  noted  that  it  is  said  he  was  the 
son  of  Andrew  Adkins,  not  Atkins.  The 
name  was  quite  commonly  spelled  Adkins  in 
England  and  America  in  the  seventeenth  and 
eighteenth  centuries.     It  is  found  so  spelled  in 


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connection  with  the  family  here  dealt  \Yith,  in 
both  the  St.  Clement's  Church  records  at  Sand- 
wich, and  in  the  diary  of  Joseph  Atkins'  son, 
William,  at  Newburyport.  The  significance 
of  the  name  is  "little  Arthur,"  which  is  equiv- 
alent to  "son  of  Arthur"  in  some  instances. 

Joseph  Atkins  came  to  this  country,  sailing 
from  the  Isle  of  Wight,  it  is  thought,  in  the 
year  1728,  when  he  was  twenty-two  years  old, 
and  settled  in  Newburyport,  Massachusetts. 
He  was  a  mariner,  and  was  one  of  the  most 
liberal  supporters  of  the  church  there,  helping 
by  his  contribution  of  $250,  large  for  these 
days  among  people  of  seafaring  settlements,  to 
build  the  church  in  1738.  In  his  will  he  states 
that  he  had  followed  the  calling  of  a  mariner. 
That  he  had  been  married  prior  to  1755,  and 
had  no  consort  at  that  date,  is  intelligence  con- 
veyed by  his  father's  will.  The  value  of  the 
property  he  accumulated  is  not  made  public  by 
him,  and  he  made  his  younger  brother,  Wil- 
liam, the  sole  heir.  He  died  January  21,  1773, 
aged  ninety-two  years,  and  his  tombstone 
reads :  "This  Stone  is  erected  to  the  Memory 
of  Joseph  Atkins  Esquire,  One  of  the  Found- 
ers and  a  Generous  Benefactor  of  this  Church, 
An  Eminent  Merchant  in  this  town,  and  high- 
ly esteemed  by  those  who  knew  him.  He  de- 
parted this  life  January  21,  1773."  His  will 
was  executed  July  14,  1761,  and  was  probat- 
ed February  23,  1773,  at  Essex,  Massachusetts. 

Captain  Joseph  Atkins  married,  in  1730, 
Mary  (Dudley)  Wainwright.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Governor  Joseph  Dudley  and  Re- 
becca (Tyng)  Dudley.  She  was  born  Novem- 
ber 2,  1692,  and  died  November  12,  1774.  Her 
first  husband  was  Francis  Wainwright.  Gov- 
ernor Joseph  Dudley  was  born  at  Roxbury, 
Massachusetts,  September  23,  1647,  died 
there,  April  2,  1720;  married  Rebecca  Tyng, 
who  was  born  about  165 1,  died  September  21, 
1722,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Hon.  Edward 
Tyng.  Governor  Dudley  was  the  son  of  Gov- 
ernor Thomas  Dudley,  born  in  England  in 
1576;  came  to  America  in  1630;  died  July  31, 
1653 ;  who  married,  at  Roxbury,  Massachu- 
setts, Catherine,  daughter  of  a  man  named 
Dighton  and  widow  of  Samuel  Hackburn. 
Governor  Thomas  Dudley's  father  was  Roger 
Dudley,  a  captain  in  the  wars  under  Queen 
Elizabeth. 

(II)  Dudley  Atkins,  son  of  Captain  Joseph 
and  Mary  (Dudley)  Atkins,  was  the  first 
American-born    of    the    Sandwich,    England, 


liiie.  The  date  of  his  birth  was  probably  Jan- 
uary, 1731,  and  he  died  September  24,  1767. 
His  mother  being  the  widow  of  Mr.  Wain- 
wright, she  appears  on  the  records  as  Mary 
Dudley  Wainwright.  He  was  sent  to  school  at 
Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  and  was  gradu- 
ated from  Harvard  in  1748,  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enteen years.  He  naturally  entered  the  society 
of  the  Wainwrights,  Kents,  Dudleys,  Sewalls 
and  Russells,  in  Boston,  by  reason  of  his  birth 
or  blood  relationship,  and  it  is  no  wonder  that 
he  turned  out  a  man  of  culture,  also  possessing 
the  traits  of  generosity  and  genial  good  na- 
ture. He  was  a  warden  of  St.  Paul's  Church, 
and  a  hearty  supporter  of  the  Episcopacy. 
Though  not  given  to  enter  the  field  of  politics, 
he  was  made  assessor  in  1764;  selectman  and 
moderator  in  1767,  and  represented  Newbury 
in  the  general  court  at  Boston,  in  1765.  In  this 
capacity  he  was  the  recipient  of  any  number 
of  communications  from  constituents  request- 
ing him  to  take  action  against  the  "Stamp 
Act."  He  wore  a  wig  with  a  queue  and  pow- 
dered his  hair.  In  appearance  he  was  distin- 
guished looking,  and  an  excellent  portrait  of 
him  exists.  His  father  provided  well  for  him 
in  his  will,  leaving  him  half  the  mansion,  barn 
and  outhouses ;  half  of  certain  land,  and  one- 
sixth  of  the  household  plate, — "I  now  give 
unto  my  said  son  Dudley  my  man  Jack,  if  then 
alive,  and  my  riding  chair  and  all  the  utensils 
to  it  belonging  I  also  give  him  the  pew  he  now 
sits  in  in  the  St.  Paul's  church.  I  also  give  him 
my  silver  watch,  my  silver-hilted  sword,  my 
silver  snuff-box,  my  silver  spurs  and  all  my 
firearms  and  what  to  them  belongs.  I  also 
give  him  the  two  volumes  of  Chambers'  Dic- 
tionary and  one-third  part  of  all  my  books  in 
my  book-case." 

Dudley  Atkins  married  Sarah  Kent.  She 
died  in  1810  It  was  said  of  her :  "Among 
several  excellent  women  in  the  family,  whether 
of  the  Atkins  blood  or  married  into  the  line, 
no  other  seems  to  have  made  so  large  an  im- 
press upon  the  family  record  as  Sarah  Kent. 
Others  may  have  shone  more  brilliantly  in  the 
drawing-room  a  century  back,  or  may  have 
excelled  her  in  the  learning  derived  from 
books  or  in  that  acquired  by  travel ;  some  sure- 
ly had  the  personal  beauty  she  lacked,  or  were 
happier  in  length  of  days  lived  with  the  hus- 
bands of  their  youth ;  but  it  is  true  that  the 
memory  of  the  best  and  most  brilliant  has  not 
been  cherished  and  treasured  as  that  of  this 


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fine  old  Sarah  Kent."  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Richard  Kent,  who  married  Hannah  Gookin. 
He  was  the  son  of  John  Kent,  the  son  of 
James  Kent,  from  England,  son  of  Richard 
Kent.  Hannah  Gookin  was  the  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  Gookin,  who  was  the  fifth  son  of 
General  Daniel  Gookin,  and  was  born  in  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts,  October  22,  1656;  grad- 
uated from  Harvard  in  1675;  was  a  tutor  and 
"Resident  Fellow";  ordained  over  the  First 
Church  in  Cambridge,  November  15,  1682,  and 
died  August  7,  1692.  His  father,  Major-Gen- 
eral  Daniel  Gookin,  was  born  in  Kent,  Eng- 
land, in  1612,  and  came  to  America  with  his 
father,  also  Daniel,  settling  in  1621,  at  Hamp- 
ton Roads,  Virginia,  holding  a  grant  of  land 
at  Maries  Mount,  Newport  News.  He  with- 
stood the  fierce  Indian  massacre  of  1622.  The 
son,  Daniel,  quit  Newport  News  in  1644,  be- 
cause the  Indians  were  too  troublesome,  and 
removed  to  Massachusetts,  selecting  Cam- 
bridge for  his  home,  and  held  many  important 
offices,  including  representative  in  1649  and 
1651;  selectman,  1660-72;  speaker  of  the 
house;  superintendent  of  Indians,  1656,  and 
elected  major-general  of  the  colonial  militia  in 
1681.  Daniel  Gookin  Sr.  was  the  son  of  John 
Gookin,  Lord  of  Ripple  Court  in  County  Kent, 
and  brother  of  Sir  Vincent  Gookin.  John 
Gookin  married  Katherine,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Den,  of  Kingston,  England,  whose  noble 
line  leads  to  the  days  of  Edward  the  Confes- 
sor. John  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Gookin,  in 
turn  the  son  of  Arnold  Gookin,  in  the  time 
of  Henry  VII. 

Children:  i.  Mary  Russell,  born  in  1753 
died  in  1836;  married,  in  1779,  George  Searle 
n^erchant  of  Boston,  who  died  in  1796,  aged 
forty-four  years.  Issue:  i.  George  Searle 
born  in  1780,  died  in  1787.  ii.  Catherine  Searle 
born  in  1781,  died  in  1818.  iii.  Francis  Searle 
born  in  1783,  died  in  185 1,  iv.  Mary  Searle, 
born  in  1785,  died  in  1787.  v.  Margaret 
Searle,  born  in  1787,  died  June  28.  1877 
married,  1816,  Samuel  Curson.  vi.  George 
Searle,  born  in  1788;  merchant;  died  in  1858 
married  (first)  April  20,  1824,  Susan  Cleve- 
land Perkins,  who  died  April  8,  1825 ;  mar- 
ried (second)  January  15,  1835,  Susan  Coffin 
Hooper,  vii.  Mary  Searle,  born  in  1790,  died 
in  1807.  viii.  Sarah  Searle,  born  in  1792,  died 
in  1881.  ix.  Lucy  Searle.  born  in  1794,  died 
in  1863.  X.  Thomas  Searle,  born  in  179.S, 
died  in  1843;  merchant  and  banker;  married. 


March  29,  1834,  Anne  Noble,  of  England, 
who  died  December  16,  1841.  2.  Joseph,  bom 
in  1755,  died  in  1787,  without  issue.  3.  Han- 
nah, born  in  1757,  died  in  1771,  without  issue. 
4.  Catherine,  born  in  1758,  died  in  1829;  mar- 
ried Samuel  Eliot,  who  was  born  in  1738, 
died  in  1820.  Issue:  i.  Mary  Harrison  Eliot, 
born  1788,  died  1846;  married  Edmund 
Dwight,  who  was  born  in  1780,  died  in  1849. 
ii.  Elizabeth  Eliot,  born  1790,  died  1874; 
married  Benjamin  Guild,  who  was  born  in 
1858,  died  aged  seventy-two  years,  iii.  Rev. 
Charles  EHot,  born  1791,  died  1813;  Harvard, 
1809;  minister.  iv.  Catherine  Eliot,  born 
1793,  died  1879;  married  Professor  Andrews 
Norton,  of  Harvard,  bom  1786,  died  1853; 
Harvard,  1804.  v.  William  Harvard  Eliot, 
born  1795,  died  1831 ;  Harvard,  1815;  mar- 
ried Margaret  Boies  Bradford,  who  died  in 
1864.  vi.  Samuel  Atkins  Eliot,  born  in  1798, 
died  1862;  Harvard,  1817;  married  Mary 
Lymna,  who  was  born  1802,  died  1875.  vii. 
Anna  Eliot,  born  1800,  died  1885 ;  married 
George  Ticknor.who  was  born  I79i,died  1871 ; 
Dartmouth,  1805.  5.  Dudley,  see  forward. 
6.  Rebecca,  born  in  1767,  died,  unmarried, 
June  23,  1842;  was  reared  with  rare  solicitude 
by  her  mother ;  but  never  cared  to  marry,  and 
in  turn  cared  for  her  mother  so  long  as  she 
lived,  after  which  she  occupied  the  home  at 
Newburyport,  which  became  the  family  resor 
for  all  to  go  on  visits  to  their  dear  "Aunt 
Becky." 

(lil)  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng,  second  son  of 
Dudley  and  Sarah  (Kent)  Atkins,  was  born 
at  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  September  3, 
1760,  and  died  at  Boston.  August  i.  1829. 
Reared  with  fondness  and  great  care  by  his 
devoted  mother,  he  grew  up  in  an  atmosphere 
of  refinement,  and  his  two  elder  sisters,  both 
women  of  superior  taste  and  judgment,  fos- 
tered his  correct  development.  His  scholastic 
learning  was  acquired  under  the  supervision 
of  the  eccentric  but  admirable  pedagogue. 
Master  Moody.  He  was  sent  to  Harvard, 
and  by  natural  inclination  was  one  of  the  suc- 
cessful students,  graduating  there  in  1781.  He 
was  selected,  with  John  Davis,  to  be  one  of 
the  two  assistants  to  Dr.  Williams,  professor 
of  astronomy  at  Harvard,  in  an  expedition 
to  Penobscot  Bay.  with  the  consent  of  the 
British  commander  there,  to  observe  the  total 
eclipse  of  the  sun,  in  1780  Soon  after  his 
graduation,  he  was  made  a  Master  of  Arts. 


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and  received  the  same  honor  from  Dartmouth 
in  1794. 

Judge  John  Lowell  wrote  this  estimate  of 
him: 

The  college  was  shaken  to  its  centre  by  the  Rev- 
olutionary war.  Its  students  were  for  a  time  dis- 
persed, its  funds  dilapidated  and  sunk  by  depre- 
ciated paper.  The  old  race  of  ripe  scholars  had 
disappeared  and  nothing  but  the  shadow  of  its  past 
glories  remained.  The  successive  administrations 
of  Locke  and  Langdon  had  completed  the  ruin 
which  civil  commotions  had  begun.  That  Mr. 
Tyng  should  have  made  himself  a  sound  scholar 
under  such  disadvantages  is  the  best  proof  of  the 
vigor  of  his  mind  and  the  intensity  of  his  appli- 
cation. That  he  was  such  a  scholar,  to  all  the  use- 
ful purposes  of  life,  we  all  know.  He  had  a  ripe 
and  chaste  taste  in  literature.  He  was  well  con- 
versant with  English  history  and  belles-lettres.  His 
conversation  and  writings  afford  abundant  proof 
of  it. 

Having  profited  by  his  studies,  as  has  been 
said,  he  proceeded  at  once  to  Virginia,  where 
he  became  a  tutor  in  the  family  of  Mrs.  Sel- 
den,  sister  of  Judge  Mercer,  a  member  of 
the  highest  condition  in  the  Old  Dominion. 
He  entered  the  judge's  office  as  a  law  student, 
and  there  laid  the  foundation  for  his  legal 
knowledge.  He  was  admitted  in  Virginia,  but 
came  north  in  1784,  and  on  December  i,  1785, 
by  the  effective  exertions  of  his  early  friend 
and  instructor.  Chief  Justice  Parsons,  was 
admitted,  in  1791,  to  the  Essex  bar,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  was  shortly  appointed  justice  of 
the  peace  for  the  county  of  Essex. 

It  was  at  this  period  of  his  life  that  a 
change  transpired,  which  has  borne  its  result 
to  this  day,  although  it  did  not  materially 
benefit  him,  as  was  then  to  be  supposed.  The 
message  was  conveyed  to  him  that  a  relative 
contemplated  making  him  her  heir.  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Eleazur  Tyng,  had  married  John 
Winslow,  of  Boston ;  but,  widowed,  childless 
and  aging,  while  holding  dear  her  own  family 
name  which  was  disappearing  from  New  Eng- 
land, she  desired  to  transmit  it  to  the  young, 
ambitious  and  worthy  Dudley  Atkins,  for  he 
was  of  equal  blood  descent  as  herself  from 
the  Hon.  Edward  Tyng.  She  was  glad  to 
.  give  him  a  large  portion  of  the  Tyng  estate  if 
he  complied.  He  agreed  to  the  proposition, 
and  by  the  act  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  on  January  16,  1790,  it  was 
legally  and  ofificially  consummated  that  hence- 
forth he  should  be  rightfully  known  as  Dud- 
ley Atkins  Tyng.  His  benefactor,  Mrs.  Wins- 
low,  died  in   1 79 1.     It  is  said  that  the  land 


amounted  to  one  thousand  acres,  but  was  of 
inferior  quality,  and  speedily  consumed  all 
available  capital  in  convincing  him  of  the  fu- 
tility of  his  further  tenure  of  it.  Judge  Low- 
ell describes  the  unfortunate  situation  thus : 

Our  excellent  friend  and  associate,  whose  deli- 
cacy was  pre-eminent  above  his  other  virtues,  never 
lisped  one  complaint.  He  took  possession  of  his 
farm  of  very  indifferent  soil,  generally,  and  with 
scientific  skill  he  tried  its  capacities  till  he  found 
ruin  the  inevitable  consequence.  His  pride,  and 
no  man  had  a  greater  share  of  that  honorable 
quality  (honorable,  when  modified  by  good  sense), 
induced  him  to  persevere  until  all  his  friends  de- 
manded a  change.  He  sold  the  place,  but  I  have 
been  told  that  it  subsequently  acquired  great  value 
as  residence  and  business  property. 

He  resided  on  the  place  from  1791  to  1795, 
and  took  great  interest  in  the  afifairs  of  Tyngs- 
borough,  and  he  promoted  the  building  of  the 
first  canal  in  Massachusetts,  viz.,  around  Pa- 
tucket  Falls  in  the  Merrimac,  of  great  impor- 
tance then  to  his  county,  and  to-day  the  site 
of  the  most  wonderful  manufacturing  estab- 
lishments in  this  country. 

In  1795  he  accepted  President  Washing- 
ton's proiifer  of  the  post  of  collector  of  the 
port  of  Newburyport,  then  of  importance  in 
a  commercial  way,  and  it  is  said  "no  man  in 
the  United  States,  from  Maine  to  Georgia, 
ever  performed  the  duties  of  collector  with 
greater  fidelity,  exactitude  and  ability,  than 
he  performed  them.  He  left  that  office  with 
a  reputation  as  spotless  as  that  with  which, 
thirty-four  years  afterward,  he  left  the 
world." 

He  was  appointed  reporter  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  in  1803,  and  he  removed  to  Boston. 
This  was  the  chief  work  of  his  life,  and  crit- 
ics have  since  said  that  the  preparation  of 
modern  reports  were  not  comparable  with  the 
thoroughness  of  his  execution  of  his  seventeen 
volumes  of  "Cases  Argued  and  Determined 
in  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court  of  the  Com- 
monwealth of  Massachusetts.  September. 
1804,  to  March,  1822."  It  will  ever  reinain 
a  monument  to  him  and  a  matter  of  pride  to 
his  descendants.  He  was  a  valued  member  of 
the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  from 
April  30,  1793,  until  he  died.  He  took  a  lively 
interest  in  Harvard,  and  that  institution  con- 
ferred on  him  the  degree  of  DD.L.,  in  1823, 
and  he  was  an  overseer,  1815  to  1821.  He 
was  a  trustee  and  alumnus  of  Dummer 
Academy. 

Professor  Andrews   Norton,   of   Harvard, 


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wrote  his  epitaph  in  Latin,  which  reads  thus 
when  translated : 

Dudley  Atkins  Tyng,  well  skilled  in  the  law,  to 
whom  was  assigned  by  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts  the  office  of  recording  in  registers 
the  acts  and  decrees  of  the  judges;  remarkable 
for  dignity  and  steadfastness,  of  singular  benefi- 
cence, of  eminent  probity,  of  pure  faith  in  Christ 
the  Master,  he  worshipped  God  religiously.  With 
his  life  well  perfected,  he  died  in  the  year  of  Our 
Lord,   1829,  August  ist,  the  year  of  his  nativity  69. 

Dudley  Atkins  Tyng  married  (first)  Octo- 
ber 18,  1792,  Sarah  Higginson.  She  was  born 
in  1766,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Stephen 
Higginson,  an  eminent  merchant  of  Boston, 
and  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress. 
She  died  at  their  residence  on  Federal  street, 
in  Boston,  in  1808,  and  was  long  remembered 
as  "a  very  bright,  lovely  woman;  very  cheer- 
ful and  happy.  She  maintained  this  character 
in  the  midst  of  trials ;  she  became  the  mother 
of  ten  children  in  fifteen  years,  to  all  of  whom 
she  devoted  herself,  always  in  the  nursery  and 
always  happy."  Her  remains  were  deposited 
in  the  burial-ground  on  Boston  Common. 
Dudley  Atkins  Tyng  married  (second)  De- 
cember 18,  1809,  Elizabeth  Higginson,  the 
sister  of  his  first  wife,  who  had  brought  up 
his  children.  She  survived  him,  and  married 
(second)  in  January,  1841,  Rev.  James  Morss, 
D.D.,  of  Newburyport,  and  died  childless. 

Stephen  Higginson,  father  of  Mrs.  D.  A. 
Tyng,  was  born  in  1743;  resided  in  Salem 
and  Boston ;  was  a  merchant  of  prominence ; 
representative  to  the  General  Court;  member 
of  Continental  Congress,  and  navy  agent  un- 
der George  Washington ;  married  Susanna, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Aaron  and  Susanna  (Por- 
ter) Cleveland.  His  father  was  Stephen  Hig- 
ginson, born  in  1716,  died  in  1761  ;  merchant 
of  great  repute;  resided  at  Salem;  held  prin- 
cipal town  offices ;  was  a  generous  patron  of 
learning.  He  was  the  son  of  John  Higginson, 
born  in  1675,  died  in  1718;  merchant  of 
Salem.  His  father  was  John  Higginson,  born 
in  1646,  died  1719;  merchant  of  Salem;  lieu- 
tenant-colonel, and  held  inany  town  ofiices. 
His  father  was  Rev.  John  Higginson,  born  in 
1616,  in  England,  where  he  died  in  1708;  a 
distinguished  divine ;  son  of  Rev.  Francis 
Higginson,  born  in  1587,  died  in  16^0;  A.M., 
Cambridge,  England ;  the  son  of  Rev.  John 
Higginson,  of  England. 

Children  of  Dudley  A.  Tyn?:  i.  Sarah 
W'inslow,  born  March  t8,  1704,  died  January 


2,  18—;  married  (first)  June  28,  1814,  Charles 
Head,  who  was  born  in  1790,  died  in  1822; 
married  (second)  Joseph  Marquand,  who 
was  born  1793.  Issue:  i.  Charles  Dudley 
Head,  born  March  19,  1815,  died  October  23, 
1889;  merchant;  married,  September  3,  1839, 
Frances  S.  Higginson ;  by  whom :  Elizabeth 
Frazier  Head,  born  September  9,  1850,  and 
James  Higginson  Head,  born  November  26, 
1852,  died  August,  1875.  ii.  Edward  Francis 
Head,  born  December  3,  1818,  died  May, 
1890;  lawyer;  married  (first)  Mary  Hall 
Bangs,  born  July  29,  1821,  died  June  27,  1854; 
married  (second)  May  7,  1856,  Eliza  A.  Cle- 
ment, who  was  born  September  6,  1828.  iii. 
Elizabeth  Frazier  Head.  iv.  Joseph  Mar- 
quand, born  in  1829.  v.  John  P.  Marquand, 
born  October  16,  1831  ;  married  (first)  Laura 
Wood,  born  July  20,  1833,  died  September  17, 
1858;  married  (second)  December  6,  i860, 
Margaret  Searle  Curson.  2.  Susanna  Cleve- 
land, born  October  25,  1795,  died  July  8, 
1882;  married,  July  13,  1837,  Edward  A. 
Newton,  who  died  August  18,  1862.  Issue: 
Elizabeth  Stuart  Newton,  born  September  9, 
1838.  died  June  24,  1891.  3.  Dudley,  born 
June  12,  1798,  died  April  6,  1845  ;  Harvard, 
1816;  M  D.,  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
1820;  married,  August  30,  1825,  Ann  Maria 
Bowman,  born  1801,  died  1881  ;  resumed  the 
name  Atkins.  Issue :  i.  Sarah  Elizabeth  At- 
kins, born  July  19,  1826;  married  William  C. 
Draper,  ii.  Caroline  Bowman  Atkins,  born 
February  23,  1828,  died  September  i,  1886; 
married  (first)  March  16,  1853.  Heinrich 
Ries,  of  Bremen,  Germany,  who  died  1875 ; 
married  (second)  October  16.  1880,  George 
Richter.  iii.  Mary  Dudley  Atkins,  born  Oc- 
tober I,  1829;  married,  October  14,  1846, 
John  Charles  Coxe,  born  April  25,  1814.  iv. 
George  Tyng  Atkins,  born  July  29,  1837; 
inarried.  May  19,  1875,  Elizabeth  Mayo  Har- 
rison, born  in  Virginia,  in  1852.  v.  Thomas 
Astley  Atkins,  born  April  8,  1839;  Harvard 
Law  School,  i860,  LL.B. ;  married,  October 
25,  i860,  Julia  Fenton  Rockwell,  vi.  Francis 
Higginson  Atkins,  born  April  15,  1843;  Har- 
vard Scientific  School,  1861,  S.B. ;  Long 
Island  College  Hospital,  M  D.,  1865  ;  married, 
September  18.  1866,  Sarah  Edmonds,  of  Eng- 
land. 4.  Stephen  Higginson,  see  forward.  5. 
Charles,  born  August  24,  1801,  died  June  20, 
1870;  married  (first)  1825,  Anna  S.  Arnold, 
who  died  in  1830;  inarried  (second)   Novem- 


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ber  II,  1833,  Anna  A.  McAlpine,  born  Oc- 
tober, 1816,  died  September  5,  1885.  Issue: 
i.  Charles  Dudley,  born  May  2,  1836.  ii. 
Anita  E.,  born  February  4,  1838;  M.D.,  Wo- 
men's Medical  College  of  Pennsylvania,  iii. 
Julia  Gertrude,  born  in  1840,  died  in  1841. 
iv.  George,  born  May  12.  1842;  married,  July 
15,  1869,  Elena  A,  Thompson,  v.  Julia  Ger- 
trude, born  in  1844,  died  in  1846.  6.  George, 
born  in  1803,  died,  unmarried,  April  2,  1823; 
Harvard,  1822.  7.  Mary  Cabot,  born  May  4, 
1804,  died  in  Michigan,  July  25,  1849;  ni^''- 
ried,  October  25,  1829,  Robert  Cross;  lawyer; 
Harvard,  1819,  born  July  3,  1799,  died  No- 
vember 9,  1859.  Issue :  i.  Mary  Ruth  Cross, 
born  August  24,  1830,  died  August  30,  1854. 
ii.  Robert  Dudley  Cross,  born  February  23, 
1832 ;  married,  in  1856,  Maria  Wans.  iii. 
Ralph  Cross,  born  August  18,  1833 ;  died 
April  19,  1850.  iv.  Charles  Edward  Cross, 
born  September  24,  1837 ;  West  Point,  1861  ; 
United  States  lieutenant  of  engineers ;  killed 
in  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  June  5,  1863.  8. 
James  Higginson,  born  May  12,  1807,  died 
April  6,  1879;  married,  January  i,  1830,  Ma- 
tilda Degen,  born  June  12,  1810,  died  June, 
1883.  Issue:  Emma  Degen,  born  October  4, 
1836;  married,  October  i,  1856,  Richard  M. 
Upjohn,  native  of  Shaftesbury,  England, 
world  -  renowned  architect,  born  March  7, 
1828;  son  of  the  builder  of  Trinity  Church 
on  Broadway,  New  York,  and  he  himself  the 
architect  of  the  Capitol  at  Hartford  and  St. 
Peter's  Episcopal  Church  at  Albany,  New 
York;  by  whom:  Maude  Elizabeth  Upjohn, 
born  August  12,  1857;  Richard  Russell  Up- 
john, born  April  28,  1859;  Francis  James 
Upjohn,  born  June  23,  1861  ;  Grace  Degen 
Upjohn,  born  in  1862,  died  in  1863;  Anna 
Michel  Upjohn,  born  July  29,  1864;  Charles 
Babcock  Upjohn,  born  June  26,  1866;  Emma 
Tyng  Upjohn,  born  September  5,  1868 ;  Ed- 
win Parry  Upjohn,  born  July  12,  1870;  Dud- 
ley Tyng  Upjohn,  born  November  2,  1872 ; 
Fanny  Tyng  Upjohn,  born  in  1874,  died  in 
1875;  Hobart  Brown  Upjohn,  born  May  2, 
1876;  Russell  Degen  Upjohn,  born  in  1883. 

(IV)  Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  Higginson  Tyng, 
son  of  Dudley  Atkins  and  Sarah  (Higginson) 
Tyng,  was  born  at  Newburyport,  Massachu- 
setts, March  i,  1800,  and  died  at  his  home  in 
Irvington,  New  York,  December  3,  1885.  He 
was  educated  primarily  at  several  schools 
about  Boston,  at  the  Phillips  Academy,  and 


under  Dr.  Benjamin  Allen,  of  Brighton,  a 
teacher  of  exceptional  ability,  with  whom 
Stephen  H.  made  rapid  progress.  He  entered 
Harvard  and  was  graduated  therefrom  in 
1817.  The  basis  for  his  future  scholastic  life 
was  well  grounded,  for  he  paid  particular  at- 
tention to  the  Hebrew  and  Syriac  languages, 
besides  the  ordinary  curriculum.  His  work 
at  college  was  prosecuted  in  a  thorough  man- 
ner, as  one  pursues  a  course  in  which  they 
are  deeply  concerned,  besides  he  had  abund- 
ance of  native  talent.  For  the  first  two  years 
after  leaving  college  he  followed  commerce, 
with  his  uncle's  firm,  Samuel  G.  Perkins  & 
Company,  East  India  traders,  of  Boston,  and 
his  prospects  were  brilliant.  His  conscience 
dictated  that  he  should  abandon  this  career 
in  the  mercantile  world,  to  embrace  the  min- 
istry. The  decision  was  not  satisfactory  by 
any  means  to  his  father,  yet  in  1819  he  began 
his  special  studies  as  a  divinity  scholar.  To 
a  relative  he  wrote  on  August  5.  1819,  at  a 
period  of  perplexity  and  promise : 

And  now  I  have  the  most  need  of  your  support, 
when  I  have  just  commenced  an  undertaking  which 
has  exposed  me  to  much  censure;  but  while  my 
own  heart  approves  I  care  not  for  the  animad- 
versions of  the  world.  I  have  relinquished  the  pur- 
suit of  trade  and  have  commenced  the  study  of 
Divinity.  This  you  will  at  first  say  is  a  strange 
measure,  and  perhaps  will  accuse  me  of  rashness: 
but  stay  )-our  condemnation  till  I  give  you  all  my 
reasons  for  the  change.  I  enclose  you  a  copy  of 
a  letter  which  I  handed  to  my  Father,  who  now 
acquiesces  in  the  proposal.  Susan  attempts  to  dis- 
courage me;  but  my  prayer  to  God  is  that  He  will 
not  allow  me  to  be  swayed  by  the  censure  or  ridi- 
cule which  may  be  heaped  upon  me ;  but  will 
strengthen  me  in  my  purpose.  To  you  I  will  sav 
that  I  have  a  motive  which  I  have  not  stated  to  my 
father,  as  he  would  consider  it  foolish;  but  it 
nevertheless  has  had  considerable  influence  over 
my  conduct.  It  is  that  the  peculiar  disappoint- 
ments I  have  met.  have  given  me  a  dislike  to  the 
active  scenes  of  the  world,  and  made  me  anxious 
to  lead  a  retired  life  apart  from  the  amusements 
and  excitements  which  only  serve  to  make  me  un- 
comfortable. This  you  may  call  a  weakness;  but  I 
cannot  overcome  it.  I  am  tired  of  the  world  and 
am  determined  to  spend  the  residue  of  my  exist- 
ence in  the  service  of  my  God  and  for  the  good 
of  my  fellow  creatures.  This  is  not  romance;  this 
is  not  mere  language,  for  God  is  the  witness  of 
my  sincerity.  If  I  succeed  as  I  expect,  I  shall  be 
happy;  but  happiness  I  can  never  enjoy  in  my 
present  situation. 

He  presented  pertinent  reasons  to  his  father, 
telling  him  by  letter  of  "an  early  and  strong 
prepossession  in  favor  of  the  profession" ; 
commenting  on  certain  discouragements  con- 


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nected  with  the  business  prospects  of  the  age ; 
remarking  on  the  lack  of  capital  properly  to 
engage  in  trade  on  its  new  basis ;  his  disrelish 
of  the  disagreements  incident  to  mercantile 
life;  his  "extremely  quick  and  violent  feel- 
ings," for  he  had  severe  self-conflicts  to  be- 
come the  perfect  master  he  was  in  the  end. 
His  determination,  a  veritable  forecast  of  an 
optimist,  was  expressed  in  the  sentence:  "No, 
I  am  perfectly  sensible  of  the  importance  of 
applying  myself  now  to  whatever  I  undertake, 
and  I  am  determined  to  make  myself  such  as 
that  I  shall  neither  be  ashamed  of  myself  nor 
cause  any  such  feeling  in  you.  The  censure 
to  which  I  shall  be  exposed  for  imaginary 
fickleness  will  be  of  short  duration,  and  must 
hide  itself  when  I  have  attained  that  standing 
short  of  which  I  am  determined  not  to  stop." 
The  change  being  to  so  noble  and  exalted 
a  walk,  he  defied  all  the  adverse  criticism  of 
his  fellows  and  rested  his  case  with  his  Maker. 
His  father  was  much  discouraged  and  dis- 
concerted, for  he  wrote  on  August  27th,  as 
follows :  "I  tremble  at  this  instability  in  his 
character.  It  he  perseveres  he  may  be  happy 
enough ;  but  there  is  much  hazard  in  his  sud- 
den impressions  and  violent  changes.  We 
must  hope  for  the  best."  In  a  little  while 
the  father  was  growing  reconciled.  In  Oc- 
tober, he  wrote  regarding  his  son:  "Stephen 
applies  very  closely  to  his  studies  yet.  He 
can  find  no  place  here ;  but  if  he  should  be 
popular  he  may  find  a  place  in  the  south." 
A  little  later,  he  was  more  hopeful,  on  Janu- 
ary 20,  1820,  writing:  "I  begin  to  feel  en- 
couraging hopes  for  him."  By  April  6,  1820, 
he  was  able  to  report :  "Stephen  is  full  of  zeal 
in  his  studies." 

Rev.  Dr.  Tyng's  career  was  eminently  suc- 
cessful ;  his  stupendous  energy,  his  clear  think- 
ing, the  absolute  avoidance  of  all  those  will-o'- 
the-wisps  and  pitfalls  that  have  impaired  the 
influence  of  other  prominent  men ;  his  intense 
philanthropy,  rendering  him  the  friend  of  the 
people ;  his  single  devotion  through  all  those 
years  to  the  loftiest  interests  of  his  profession, 
all  combined  to  initiate,  develop  and  mature 
a  clerical  success  perhaps  not  to  be  excelled 
in  America. 

He  studied  with  the  good  Bishop  Alex. 
Viets  Griswold,  at  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  and 
by  1 82 1  became  an  ordained  minister.  His 
fields  of  labor  were  St.  George's,  at  George- 
town,   D.    C.,    two   years ;    at    Prince   George 


county,  Maryland,  St.  Anne's  Parish,  six 
years ;  Philadelphia,  St.  Paul's,  four  years ; 
and  Epiphany,  Boston,  twelve  years.  He 
then  accepted  a  call  to  St.  George's  Church 
in  New  York  City,  in  1845,  ^"d  while  there 
completed  his  nearly  sixty  years  of  profes- 
sional life,  resigning  in  1878,  under  the  pres- 
sure of  advancing  age.  His  grateful  congrega- 
tion appointed  him  pastor  emeritus  and  con- 
tinued a  fair  salary  to  him  until  his  death. 
When  well  on  in  years,  he  removed  to  Irv- 
ington.  New  York.  He  was  a  powerful  an- 
tagonist of  slavery,  a  diligent  promoter  of  the 
temperance  reform  movement,  and  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Episcopal  Church,  the  foremost 
apostle  of  the  "Low  Church"  principles,  hence 
bore  an  undying  hostility  to  ritualistic  varia- 
tions from  the  simplicity  he  loved. 

Rev.  Dr.  Tyng  was  a  prominent  candidate 
for  the  episcopate  of  Pennsylvania,  to  succeed 
Onderdonk,  in  1845.  The  balloting  was  close, 
and  Dr.  Samuel  Bowman,  a  kinsman,  received 
a  small  majority;  but,  the  laity  not  concurring, 
upon  further  eflfort,  Dr.  Alonzo  Potter  was 
elected,  and  Dr.  Bowman  subsequently  became 
assistant  bishop  of  that  diocese. 

At  the  funeral  of  Dr.  Tyng,  Bishop  Lee.  of 
Delaware,  said,  naming  several  great  lights  of 
the  church : 

In  some  points  our  departed  brother  was  not  be- 
hind the  chiefest.  There  was  intense  energy,  burn- 
ing zeal,  direct  and  appointed  application,  which 
powerfully  effected  his  hearers.  He  was  remark- 
ably gifted  as  an  extemporaneous  speaker.  His 
words  flowed  in  an  unbroken  stream,  a  torrent  of 
thought  and  feeling  that  carried  congregations  with 
him.  He  never  hesitated  for  a  word,  and  the  words 
used  seemed  always  the  most  fitting.  His  sen- 
tences were  as  well  rounded  and  complete  as  if 
carefully  elaborated  at  the  desk.  But  while  so 
fluent  in  utterance,  he  did  not  become  merely 
rhetorical  or  declamatory.  His  sermons  were  en- 
riched by  the  fruits  of  patient  study  and  previous 
preparation.  A  marked  characteristic  of  Dr. 
Tyng's  sermons,  and  of  his  whole  bearing,  was 
fearlessness.  If  he  was  for  many  years,  in  the 
best  sense,  a  popular  preacher,  he  never  sought 
popularity  by  concealment  or  compromise  of  his 
views  of  truth  and  duty.  He  never  consulted  the 
prejudices  of  his  hearers,  nor  kept  back  aught  that 
was  profitable  lest  he  should  give  offence.  Under 
all  circumstances  his  courage  was  unfailing.  Had 
he  chosen  another  calling,  embarked,  for  instance, 
in  political  life,  he  w'ould  have  been  one  to  sway 
by  his  impetuous  and  fiery  eloquence,  great  masses 
of  men,  as  well  as  to  command  the  attention  of 
listening  senates. 

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Bishop  Bedell,  of  Ohio,  who  said  at  the  same 
occasion : 

Dr.  Tyng  was  a  man  of  impressive  presence,  of 
quick  decision,  of  true  spirituality;  blessed  with  an 
accurate  and  retentive  memory;  of  remarkable 
self-reliance  and  firmness  of  purpose.  Combining 
these  qualities,  he  was  a  judicious  autocrat.  Con- 
sequently he  was  a  leader  of  men.  In  any  other 
sphere  of  activity  he  would  have  been  foremost 
in  his  age.  A  distinguished  orator.  On  the  plat- 
form Dr.  Tyng  was  almost  unrivalled  in  his  day. 
A  fine  figure,  manly,  firm,  with  a  clear  utterance 
and  sonorous  voice,  whenever  he  rose  to  speak, 
men  stirred  themselves  to  hearken,  some  prepared 
themselves  to  resist.  His  were  not  honeyed  words, 
nor  were  they  tempered  by  the  temper  of  his  audi- 
ence. They  were  truths  as  they  appeared  to  him- 
self, and  being  convictions,  carried  in  their  utter- 
ance all  the  force  of  his  own  decision,  and  the 
added  persuasion  that  all  men  ought  to  believe 
them. 

Rev.  Dr.  Theodore  Ledyard  Cuyler,  the 
distinguished  Presbyterian  divine  of  Brook- 
lyn and  with  a  reputation  on  two  continents, 
has  said  of  Dr.  Tyng: 

If  all  the  people  in  America  who  have  been  in- 
structed and  blessed  by  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  could 
gather  now  to  pay  him  their  grateful  homage,  that 
Stuyvesant  Park  before  his  door  would  not  contain 
the  multitude.  He  was  in  my  judgment,  the  prince 
of  platform  speakers.  His  ready  and  rapid  utter- 
ance, his  hearty  enthusiasm,  his  courageous  style  of 
speech,  and  his  fervent  projectile  power  of  reach- 
ing the  hearts  of  his  audience,  gave  him  this  un- 
disputed supremacy.  One  evening  a  complimentary 
reception  was  given  to  John  B.  Gough,  in  Niblo's 
Garden  Hall.  A  large  number  of  eminent  speakers 
participated.  After  Henry  Ward  Beecher  and  I 
had  finished  our  brief  addresses,  we  took  a  seat 
over  by  the  wall  and  listened  to  Dr.  Tyng,  who 
was  in  one  of  his  happiest  moods.  While  he  was 
speaking,  I  whispered  to  Mr.  Beecher,  "Is  not  that 
superb  platforming?"  Beecher  replied:  "Yes,  it  is 
indeed.  He  is  the  one  man  I  am  afraid  of.  I 
never  want  to  speak  after  him,  and  if  I  speak  first, 
then  when  he  gets  up,  I  wish  I  had  not  spoken 
at  all."  Some  of  the  rest  of  us  felt  just  as  Mr. 
Beecher  did.  The  printed  reports  of  his  popular 
addresses  do  him  no  adequate  justice.  He  spoke 
too  rapidly  for  the  average  reporter,  and  no  pen 
or  paper  could  transfer  the  electric  voice  or  power- 
ful elocution  of  the  orator.  He  was  always  the 
man  to  be  heard,  and  not  to  be  read.  His  personal 
magnetism  was  wonderful.  I  count  it  to  have 
been  a  constant  inspiration  to  have  heard  him  so 
often,  and  a  blessed  privilege  to  have  enjoyed  his 
intimate   friendship. 

When  his  vigorous  course  excited  animad- 
version in  Philadelphia,  his  friends  said  that 
he  might  have  walked  from  his  pulpit  to  the 
street  on  the  heads  of  the  packed  throng  al- 
ways gathered  to  hear  him.  He  was  espe- 
cially skilled  in  Sunday  School  administration, 


and  in  extending  city  missions,  yet  his  church 
gave  heavily  to  foreign  missions.  He  pub- 
lished considerable  material — in  1839,  a  vol- 
ume of  "Sermons" ;  later,  "Lectures  on  the 
Law  and  Gospels" :  "Recollections  of  Eng- 
land" ;  "Family  Commentary  on  the  Four 
Gospels";  "The  Rich  Kinsman";  "Captive 
Orphan";  "Forty  Years'  Experience  in  Sun- 
day Schools,"  etc.  He  received  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity  from  Jefferson  College, 
Philadelphia,  in  1832,  and  in  1851,  again  from 
Harvard.  He  was  several  times  in  Europe 
and  made  a  journey  to  the  Holy  Land. 

Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  H.  Tyng  married  (first) 
August  5,  1821,  Anne  Griswold,  who  was  born 
October  5,  1805,  and  died  May  16,  1832.  He 
married  (second)  July,  1833,  Susan  W.  Mit- 
chell, who  was  born  in  1812,  and  was  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  Mitchell.  She  was  a  lady 
of  vigorous  intellect  and  unfailing  devotion  to 
duty.  By  the  former  marriage  he  had  four 
children,  and  five  by  the  latter.  Children:  i. 
Anna  E.,  born  December  9,  1822,  died  April, 
1881 ;  married  George  M.  Higginson,  who 
was  born  April  24,  1815.  Issue:  i.  Charles 
M.  Higginson,  born  July  11,  1846;  attended 
the  Lawrence  Scientific  School  of  Harvard 
University ;  engaged  in  railroad  work ;  mar- 
ried, April  12,  1870,  Katharine  M.  Nihen ;  by 
whom :  Anne  Griswold  Higginson,  born  April 
15,  1871 ;  George  M.  Higginson,  born  No- 
vember II,  1877;  Norton  F.  Higginson,  born 
August  5,  1879.  ii.  Dudley  Tyng  Higginson, 
born  July  5,  1850;  University  of  Chicago; 
engaged  in  mercantile  life;  married,  March 
7,  1880,  Ida  Vallery;  by  whom:  Francis  Val- 
lery  Higginson,  born  December  15,  1882; 
Anna  E.  Higginson,  born  March  17,  1885; 
Dudley  L.  Higginson,  born  July  16,  1887; 
Harold  Higginson,  born  July  16,  1887 ;  Har- 
old Higginson,  born  May  19,  1891.  iii.  Alex- 
ander Griswold  Higginson,  born  May  8,  1855, 
died  January  23,  1891 ;  University  of  Michi- 
gan ;  editor  of  a  trade  journal ;  married  Celma 
Balcombe.  2.  Dudley  Atkins,  born  at  Prince 
George's  county,  Maryland,  January  12,  1825, 
died  April  20,  1858 ;  graduated  from  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania,  1843 ;  Alexandria.  Vir- 
ginia, Theological  Seminary ;  took  orders  in 
1846;  was  assistant  at  St.  George's  Episcopal 
Church  on  Stuyvesant  square.  New  York 
City,  with  his  father,  and  had  charges  at  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio;  Charlestown,  Virginia;  Cin- 
cinnati, and  was  rector  of  Epiphany  Church, 


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Philadelphia,  1854-56.  His  intense  hostility 
to  slavery  and  his  fearless  denunciation  of  the 
same  led  to  his  withdrawal  from  the  last- 
named  church,  and  with  a  large  following  he 
became  rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Covenant 
at  Philadelphia.  As  a  lecturer  upon  social 
and  philanthropic  subjects  he  was  very  suc- 
cessful. It  was  said  of  him  that  "the  charm 
of  his  ready  extemporaneous  oratory,  to- 
gether with  the  fervid  earnestness,  directness 
and  clear  method  of  his  preaching,  uniformly 
drew  to  his  ministrations  a  congregation 
which  in  numbers  and  united  sympathy  with 
a  loyal  and  honored  rector  was,  perhaps,  with- 
out parallel  in  the  Episcopal  church.  He  was 
able  to  combine  loyalty  to  his  own  communion 
with  fraternity  toward  the  universal  com-  . 
munion  of  the  saints."  Unfortunately,  he  was 
killed  by  a  threshing-machine  accident,  and 
his  death  was  regarded  as  a  serious  loss  to 
evangelical  work,  for  he  had  promptly  made 
his  mark  in  the  world  and  in  coping  with 
the  problems  of  the  day  was  a  man  neither 
less  gifted  nor  less  daunted  than  his  distin- 
guished father.  He  married,  in  1847,  Cathe- 
rine Maria  Stevens,  of  New  Jersey,  who  sur- 
vived him  until  April  21,  1888.  Issue:  i.  Rev. 
Theodosius  Stevens,  born  November,  1849; 
rector  of  St.  James,  at  North  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts,  and  went  to  Japan  as  a  mis- 
sionary; married,  1879,  Ida  May  Drake;  by 
whom:  Dudley,  born  October  28,  1880;  Ar- 
thur, born  August  31,  1882;  Mary,  born  Sep- 
tember 18,  1883;  Julian,  born  July  17,  1885; 
Katharine,  born  June  30,  1888.  ii.  Stephen 
Higginson,  born  August  2,  1851 ;  graduated 
University  of  Michigan;  lawyer;  resided  in 
Boston ;  active  in  independent  politics  and 
striving  to  purify  the  old  parties;  married, 
September  8.  1880,  Lizzie  Walworth;  by 
whom:  Ethel  Walworth,  born  and  died  in 
1882;  Griswold,  born  August  13,  1883;  Wal- 
worth, born  January  3,  1885.  iii.  Maria  Fow- 
ler, born  1852.  iv.  Anna  Griswold,  born 
1854.  V.  James  Alexander,  born  April,  1856; 
graduated  Harvard,  1876.  3.  Alexander 
Griswold,  born  July  28,  1827 ;  married,  Janu- 
ary 9,  185 1,  Lucie  C.  Brotherson,  who  was 
born  April  12,  1834.  Issue:  i.  Alexander 
Griswold,  born  March  31,  1852;  married, 
September  3,  1874,  Alice  Riggs.  ii.  Annie 
Griswold,  born  1858,  died  1870.  iii.  Dudley 
Atkins,  born  November  30,  1863 ;  married, 
October    5,    1887,    Sada    Tracy,      iv.  Philip 


Brotherson,  born  October  31,  1866.  v.  Pierre 
Kissam,  born  April  21,  1868.  vi.  Lucien 
Hamilton,  born  November  11,  1873.  There 
were  four  others  who  died  young.  4.  Julia 
Griswold,  born  September  4,  1829,  died  Au- 
gust 8,  1882;  married,  June  14,  1849,  William 
Ward,  who  was  born  April  23,  1821.  Issue: 
i.  Walworth  Ward,  born  November  16,  1850; 
manufacturer;  married,  November  17,  1874, 
Stella  Moody;  by  whom:  Marguerite  Estelle 
Ward,  born  September  17,  1882;  Albert  E.  S- 
Ward,  born  October  30,  1884.  ii.  Irving 
Ward,  born  April  13,  1852;  graduate  from 
Columbia  Law  School,  1871 ;  corporation  at- 
torney, at  Idaho  Springs,  Colorado,  1881 ; 
president  American  Midland  Railroad  Com- 
pany, 1883 ;  married,  November  29,  1889, 
Sarah  E.  Troup.  5.  Thomas  Mitchell,  born 
May  I,  1834;  married  (first)  April  10,  1867, 
Elizabeth  Newell  Richmond,  who  died  Au- 
gust 23,  1870;  married  (second)  April  18, 
1872,  Emma  Louisa  Mofifett,  a  magazine- 
writer;  no  issue.  6.  Susan  Maria,  born  Au- 
gust 3,  1835;  married,  November  12,  1861, 
Rev.  James  E.  Homans,  who  was  born  May 
21,  1833.  Issue:  i.  James  Edward  Homans, 
born  June  22,  1865.  ii.  Susan  Tyng  Homans, 
born  June  17,  1867.  iii.  Rockland  Tyng 
Homans,  born  April  13,  1872.  iv.  A  child, 
who  died  young.  7.  Stephen  Higginson.  see 
forward.  8.  Morris  Ashhurst,  born  Decem- 
ber 29,  1841  ;  graduated  from  Williams  Col- 
lege in  1861,  and  from  Columbia  Law  School 
in  1863,  LL.B. ;  after  practicing  law  some 
years,  he  took  orders  in  the  Episcopal  church, 
1870,  and  was  professor  of  biblical  literature 
and  interpretation,  Protestant  Episcopal  The- 
ological Seminary,  Gambier,  Ohio,  1870-73; 
later  returned  to  practice  of  law ;  in  1866,  was 
a  member  of  the  board  of  councilmen  of  New 
York  City;  married,  January  9,  1687,  Euphe- 
mia  Welles  Christie.  Issue :  i.  Elizabeth  Mc- 
Jimsey,  born  October  11,  1867.  ii.  Effie  Chris- 
tie, born  October  27,  1868,  died  February  I, 
1891.  iii.  Caroline  \\'heelwright,  born  June  5, 
1870.  iv.  Susan  Wilson,  born  August  11,  1871 ; 
V.  Mason,  born  and  died  in  1873.  9.  Charles 
Rockland,  born  January  14,  1844;  he  was 
graduated  from  Columbia  College,  after 
which  he  engaged  in  business :  published,  in 
1890,  a  biography  of  his  father,  under  the  title 
"Record  of  the  Life  and  Work  of  the  Rev. 
Stephen  Higginson  Tyng,  D.D." ;  married 
(first)   March  5,  1867.  Mary  Edmonds,  who 


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was  born  November  30,  1843;  married  (sec- 
ond)   .  Issue:  i.  Francis  William  Ed- 
monds, born  August  20,  1868.  ii.  Mary  Rock- 
land, born  June  5,  1870. 

(V)  Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  Higginson  Tyng 
(2),  son  of  Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  Higginson  Tyng 
(i)  and  Susan  W.  (Mitchell)  Tyng,  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  June  29,  1839, 
died  November  17,  1898.  After  receiving  his 
primary  education,  he  entered  Williams  Col- 
lege, where  he  graduated  in  1858,  and  then, 
following  in  the  footsteps  of  both  father  and 
grandsire,  he  decided  upon  entering  the  min- 
istry. He  pursued  his  religious  studies  at  the 
Episcopal  Theological  Seminary,  near  Alex- 
andria, Virginia,  and  was  ordained  in  1861. 
For  two  years  he  acted  as  assistant  to  his 
father,  at  St.  George's  Church  in  New  York 
City;  was  rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Medi- 
ator, also  in  that  city,  in  1863 ;  was  chaplain 
of  the  New  York  Volunteers  in  1864,  and 
became  rector  of  Holy  Trinity  Church  in  New 
York  City,  which  he  organized  in  1865.  In 
188 r,  he  resigned  because  of  poor  health,  but 
accepted  the  agency  for  the  Equitable  Life 
Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  at  Paris, 
France.  For  a  number  of  years  he  edited  the 
weekly  publication  known  as  "The  Working 
Church."  It  is  common  verdict  that  "he  has 
shown  rare  gifts  in  the  organization  of  the 
various  benevolent  instrumentalities  in  con- 
nection with  his  church,  which  have  accom- 
plished an  immense  work  of  good." 

An  important  episode  in  his  remarkable 
ecclesiastical  career,  worthy  of  notice,  was 
his  trial  under  the  canon  laws  of  the  church, 
in  which  the  charge  or  claim  was  for  "ex- 
ercising his  ministry  in  another  parish  or  cure 
without  the  express  permission  of  the  resident 
ministers."  Rev.  Dr.  Tyng,  while  visiting  in 
New  Jersey,  was  invited  to  preach  in  a  Meth- 
odist church,  and  did  so  with  the  broad-souled 
liberality  characteristic  of  father  and  son ;  but 
in  spite  of  the  preliminary  protests  of  two 
high  church  clergymen  who  forbade  him  to 
preach  within  their  cure.  A  court  was  or- 
dered, and  the  ablest  legal  counsel  employed 
on  each  side.  As  the  defendant  was  noted 
for  the  large,  benevolent  work  he  was  doing 
and  the  charge  seemed  trifling  to  most  per- 
sons, the  sympathy  of  the  public  was  over- 
whelmingly with  Dr.  Tyng,  while  the  fact  that 
the  two  protesting  clerics  bore  the  plebian 
titles  Stubbs  and  Boggs  was  seized  upon  by  a 


humorous  public  and  much  sport  made  to 
their  disadvantage.  Although  Dr.  Tyng  was 
actually  found  guilty  of  the  technical  charge 
and  condemned  to  episcopal  admonition,  the 
affair  ended  to  the  great  and  favorable  en- 
hancement of  his  fame,  although  somewhat  to 
the  discredit  and  dishonor  of  the  church.  It 
is  well,  at  this  point,  to  reflect  upon  the  zeal 
and  religious  enterprise  or  fervor  of  Dr. 
Tyng's  church,  Holy  Trinity,  with  the  condi- 
tions of  the  combined  five  parishes  of  those 
who  condemned  him,  and  one  may  readily 
understand  how  much  greater  was  the  work 
and  influence  of  Dr.  Tyng,  compared  with 
any  one  of  the  five,  probably  fourfold  would 
not  be  an  exaggeration.  Whereas  the  united 
ages  of  the  five  condemning  parishes  was  195 
years  (an  average  of  thirty-nine  years),  Dr. 
Tyng's  had  existed  barely  four  years.  The 
five  parishes  had  1,698  communicants,  an 
average  of  366,  while  Dr.  Tyng's  church  had 
650,  or  nearly  twice  as  many;  there  were 
1,974  Sunday  school  scholars  attending  at  the 
five  (averaging  395)  to  1,037  ^^  Holy  Trinity; 
the  five  parishes  held  523  services  in  that  year, 
whereas  Dr.  Tyng's  conducted  624,  or  more 
than  all  the  others  combined,  and  while  the 
five  raised  $41,389  for  benevolent  objects, 
Holy  Trinity  raised  $35,893. 

In  those  days  it  did  not  take  more  than  the 
average  news  of  the  day  or  the  common  gos- 
sip of  the  metropolis  to  inspire  the  muse 
to  explain  it  all  in  verse,  and  not  infrequently 
the  contributors  of  such  efifusion  to  the  news- 
papers displayed  a  degree  of  humor  sufficient 
to  create  the  small  talk  of  the  drawing-room. 
William  Allen  Butler,  John  Godfrey  Saxe 
and  Nathaniel  P.  Willis  were  among  the 
adepts.  It  is  no  wonder  that  "P.  R.  S.,"  of 
Flushing  Bay,  Long  Island,  tried  his  skill  to 
set  forth  the  features  of  the  controvery  in 
poetic  vein,  and  contributed  seven  stanzas  to 
The  Evening  Post.  February  21,  1868.  As 
the  facetious  poetry  is  closely  interwoven  as 
an  incident  in  the  life  of  Dr.  Tyng,  and  it  is 
nearly  half  a  century  since  the  same  appeared, 
four  of  them  are  given : 

TYNG-A-LING-TING. 
Oh  sav !  Brother  Stubbs,  have  vou  heard  how  they 

talk 
Of  this  horrid  Low  Churchman  who's  coming  from 

"York," 
And    who    vows    that,    next    Sunday,    he'l!    preach 

without  gown, 
In  the  Methodist  meeting-house  here  in  our  town? 


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Why,  it's  all  in  the  papers,  and  men,  as  they  run, 
Can  read  of  the  deed  that  will  shortly  be  done ; 
It  will  empty  our  churches,  for  most  of  our  sheep 
Will  take  the  occasion  to  listen  and  peep ; 
And  for  many  a  day  will  our  parishes  ring, 
With   the   tiresome  jingle  of  Tyng-a-ling-ting ! 

Oh,    what's    to    be    done?      Can't    this    outrage    be 

stopped  ? 
Can't     our    tottering     pulpits,     in     some     way,     be 

propped? 
Let's  run  to  our  Bishop,  and  tell  him  the  news : 
His  Reverence,  doubtless,  will   shake  in  his   shoes. 
When  he  hears  that  without,  nay  against,  our  con- 
sent, 
A  son  of  the  Church  has  declared  his  intent 
To    follow,   so   blindly,   his   Master's   command, 
And  to   sow  his   good   seed  on  another  man's  land. 
Come  on,  let  us  hurry  to  settle  the  thing, 
By  stifling  the  chorus  of   Tyng-a-ling-ting! 

So  the  Bishop  he  delves,  and  the  Bishop  he  grubs 
And,  bv  dint  of  assistance   from  Boggs  and   from 

Stubbs, 
The  canon   is  dug   from  the  rubbish  which  chokes 
Its  ugly  old  muzzle,  and  loud  are  the  jokes 
Which    its    obsolete    pattern    and    straight,    narrow 

bore 
Excite  in  the  crowd  who  are  waiting  its  roar; 
And  then  they  compel  our  good  Bishop  of  "York" 
To  hear  all  the  grievance,  and  stand  all  the  talk; 
And  by  night  and  by  day  dreary  charges  they  ring, 
As   they   chime   their   sad   anthem   of   Tyng-a-ling- 
ting! 

Oh !  servants  of  Him  whose  sole  mission  was  Love, 

Do  ve  still  bear  as  emblems  the  Lamb  and  the 
Dove? 

When  you  read  from  your  desks  the  sweet  records 
that  tell 

How  He  preached  in  the  Temple  and  taught  at  the 
well. 

Do  the  sapient  eyes  of  your  wisdom  detect 

That  he  bounded  your  duties  by  parish  or  sect? 

Oh!  bid  these  small  envies  and  jealousies  cease; 

Join  all  in  one  brotherly  anthem  of  peace; 

And  when  your  glad  voices  in  harmony  ring, 

They'll  drown  the  harsh  discord  of  Tyng-a-ling- 
ting. 

Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  Higginson  Tyng  married, 
at  Church  of  the  Ascension,  New  York  City, 
on  December  i6,  1863,  Fanny  RolHns  Tappan. 
She  was  born  at  New  York,  June  3.  1838. 
and  was  the  daughter  of  Jeremiah  P.  Tappan 
and  his  wife,  Lydia  (BaJch)  Tappan.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Stephen  Higginson,  see  forward.  2. 
Sewall  Tappan,  see  forward. 

(VI)  Stephen  Higginson  (3)  Tyng,  son  of 
Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  Higginson  (2)  and  Fanny 
Rollins  (Tappan)  Tyng,  was  born  in  New 
York  City.  September  25,  1864.  After  re- 
ceiving his  primary  education  preparing  him 
for  college,  he  entered  Williams  College,  froin 


which  he  was  graduated  in  1886.  While  there 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi 
fraternity.  Upon  leaving  college,  he  engaged 
in  the  real  estate  business,  and  located  at  No. 
41  Union  Square,  in  New  York,  and  now  con- 
ducts one  of  the  largest  and  best-known  offices 
in  the  city.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
church,  in  which  both  father  and  grandfather 
had  made  names  of  national  repute.  He  is  a 
Republican,  and  belongs  to  the  Union  League, 
University,  Rockaway  Hunt,  Players,  Auto- 
mobile, and  Seawanhaka  Corinthian  Yacht 
clubs.  His  city  residence  is  at  No.  615  Fifth 
avenue.  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  Jr.,  married,  in 
St.  Bartholomew's  Church,  New  York  City, 
June  6,  1894,  Juliet  Augusta  Kemp,  who  was 
born  in  that  city,  and  is  the  daughter  of 
George  and  Juliet  (Tryon)  Kemp.  Child: 
Stephen  Higginson  (4)  Tyng,  born  in  New 
York  City,  January  27,  1897. 

(VI)  Sewall  Tappan  Tyng,  son  of  Rev.  Dr. 
Stephen  Higginson  (2)  and  Fanny  Rollins 
(Tappan)  Tyng,  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
August  30,  186&,  and  died  at  his  home,  No. 
512  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  on  April  3, 
1913.  After  his  preparatory  education,  he 
entered  Williams  College,  and  while  there 
was  a  member  of  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  fra- 
ternity. He  graduated  in  1888,  and  de- 
cided upon  law  as  his  profession.  For 
this  he  prepared  at  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  and  in  1890  was  admitted  to  the 
bar.  He  opened  his  office  at  No.  15  William 
street.  New  York.  He  was  a  Democrat,  at- 
tended the  Episcopal  Church,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  University  Club.  He  was  a  man 
admired  for  his  culture  and  character,  and  his 
cordial,  courteous  manners  gathered  to  him 
many  steadfast  friends.  Sewall  Tappan  Tyng 
married,  at  St.  Bartholomew's  Church  in  New 
York  City,  May  29,  1894.  Edith  May  Gale, 
daughter  of  John  Baird  and  Cornelia  K. 
(Clark)  Gale.  Child:  Sewall  Tappan  (2) 
Tyng,  born  in  New  York  City.  April  30.  1895; 
student  at  Groton  School. 


It  is  said  that  the  family  name 
COSTER     of  Coster  is  derived  from  the 

Dutch  word  "koster,"  it  being 
a  family  of  Holland,  meaning  a  sexton.  The 
name  is  also  to  be  found  spelled  Costar,  Kos- 
ter and  Costa  in  the  old  records.  Bardsley, 
of  England,  a  painstaking  authority  on  the 
derivation  of  names,  declares  that  in  his  coun- 


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try  the  name  of  Coster  is  regarded  as  a  nick- 
name, signifying  roundheaded,  like  a  costard 
or  apple,  with  the  final  letter  "e"  elided,  ex- 
plaining this  by  analogy,  that  the  word  coster- 
monger  stands  for  costard-monger. 

(I)  Christian  Bernard  Coster  was  born  in 
Holland,  in  1689,  died  in  that  country,  in  1741. 
}iis  wife's  name  was  Taletta.  They  had  five 
children,  one  of  them  named  John  Henry,  of 
whom  further. 

(H)  John  Henry  Coster,  son  of  Christian 
Bernard  Coster,  resided  all  his  life  in  Holland, 
where  he  died  in  1776.  He  married  Anna 
Catherine  Vieneeke,  and  they  had  nine  chil- 
dren. Two  of  their  children,  Henry  A.  and 
John  Gerard,  of  whom  further,  came  to  this 
country  from  Amsterdam,  Holland,  in  1786, 
and  located  in  New  York  City.  At  the  time 
they  arrived  here  they  had  independent  for- 
tunes, and  became  the  merchant  princes  of 
their  day  in  the  metropolis.  Both  brothers 
married  after  reaching  this  country,  and  they 
had  large  families,  whose  descendants  have 
been  persons  of  estimable  qualities. 

(HI)  John  Gerard  Coster,  son  of  John 
Henry  Coster,  married  Catherine  Margaret 
Holsman.  Among  their  children  was  Gerard 
Holsman,  of  whom  further. 

(IV)  Gerard  Holsman  Coster,  son  of  John 
Gerard  and  Catherine  Margaret  (Holsman) 
Coster,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  January, 
1808,  and  died  at  the  Brevoort  House  there, 
September  4,  1880.  He  lived  most  of  his  life 
in  Paris  and  Versailles.  He  was  very  ill 
when  he  returned  from  Paris,  and  died  short- 
ly after  reaching  New  York.  Gerard  Hols- 
man Coster  married,  in  Grace  Church,  New 
York  City,  June  9,  183 1,  Matilda  Prime, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Cornelia  (Sands) 
Prime,  of  New  York  (see  Prime  VI.).  The 
children  of  Gerard  Holsman  and  Matilda 
(Prime)  Coster  were:  i.  John  Gerard,  born 
in  New  York  City,  May  12,  1832,  died  at 
White  Plains,  New  York,  November  22,  1910, 
unmarried.  2.  Edward  Henry,  of  whom 
further.  3.  Gerard  Heckscher,  born  in  New 
York  City,  December  12,  1836,  died,  unmar- 
ried, at  Neuilly-sur-Seine,  France,  March  i, 
1885. 

(V)  Edward  Henry  Coster,  son  of  Gerard 
Holsman  and  Matilda  (Prime)  Coster,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  July  7,  1833,  and  died 
at  his  residence,  145  West  Fourteenth  street, 
in  that  city,  March  28,  1892.     He  was  a  typ- 


ical "gentleman  of  leisure"  of  the  old  school, 
and  yet  a  man  active  in  his  interests,  a  fine 
type  of  one  who  loves  his  fellowmen.  His 
education  was  acquired  at  schools  in  Switzer- 
land and  Germany,  and  having  traveled  ex- 
tensively through  Europe,  entered  Harvard 
College,  where  he  took  the  course  of  the  Law- 
rence Scientific  School,  but  was  not  a  candi- 
date for  a  professional  degree,  merely 
desiring  to  perfect  his  education.  He  was 
particularly  interested  in  architecture,  and  had 
excellent  taste  in  buildings.  While  at  the 
Lawrence  Scientific  School,  he  became  a  pro- 
ficient architectural  draftsman,  executing 
drawings  shaded  in  sepia  with  unusual  skill. 
His  taste  in  literature,  music,  painting  and 
jewelry  was  of  a  high  order,  and  in  his  youth 
he  played  the  piano  extremely  well,  but  this 
latter  accomplishment  was  entirely  abandoned 
in  later  life.  He  was  also  an  excellent  lin- 
guist, speaking  French,  German  and  Italian 
with  the  fluency  of  a  native  of  those  coun- 
tries. Besides,  he  had  a  good  knowledge  of 
Spanish.  He  traveled  a  great  deal  abroad, 
visiting  every  country  in  Europe,  from  Eng- 
land to  Russia,  and  from  Holland,  where  he 
visited  relatives,  to  Spain  and  Italy.  He  was 
much  liked  and  popular  in  society,  both  in 
Paris  and  New  York,  and  he  was  in  Paris 
at  the  time  of  the  last  Empire,  where  he  used 
to  attend  the  court  balls  in  the  uniform  and 
adorned  with  the  sword  specified  for  such  oc- 
casions. It  was  considered  in  those  days  that 
America  was  somewhat  crude  in  comparison 
with  Europe,  and  both  his  temperament  and 
education  (many  years  of  his  early  life  hav- 
ing been  spent  in  European  capitols)  had  a 
tendency  to  cause  him  to  draw  comparisons 
between  European  and  American  civilization, 
to  the  detriment  of  the  latter,  but  not  in  an 
objectionable  sense.  He  never  engaged  in 
business  beyond  the  management  of  his  own 
property,  but  in  this  he  was  very  conservative, 
far-sighted,  and  he  had  most  excellent  judg- 
ment. He  possessed  an  unerring  instinct  as 
to  whom  he  should  employ  for  all  professional 
advice,  medical,  legal,  or  of  any  other  nature, 
and  in  every  such  case  his  fixed  policy  was 
to  seek  the  best  talent,  regardless  of  cost. 
This  was  a  marked  characteristic.  He  was 
interested  in  medical  science,  and  although  he 
never  seriously  studied  medicine,  he  possessed 
a  curious  instinct  as  to  fitness  in  medical  mat- 
ters and  in  what  to  do  in  case  of  illness.    This 


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instinct  was  so  strong  in  him  that  it  has  been 
inherited  by  his  son,  and  also  in  turn  by  his 
eldest  granddaughter.  He  never  failed  to  be 
deeply  interested  in  charitable  organizations 
in  New  York,  both  American  and  French,  and 
quietly  contributed  freely  to  their  support. 
He  also  did  much  to  assist  individual  cases 
of  persons  in  distress,  who  needed  financial 
help  to  tide  them  over  their  difficulties.  He 
disliked  publicity  intensely,  and  never  men- 
tioned his  many  philanthropic  acts,  the  knowl- 
edge of  which  has  reached  the  world  only 
through  indirect  channels.  Mr.  Coster  was 
beyond  all  else  a  man  of  high  education  and 
great  culture,  so  that  his  refinement  drew  and 
held  friends.  His  natural  abilities  were  such 
that  had  the  spur  of  necessity  been  present, 
he  could,  no  doubt,  have  attained  eminence  in 
one  of  the  professions,  probably  architecture 
or  medicine,  but  being  distinctly  of  a  scientific 
and  literary  turn  of  mind,  a  commercial  ca- 
reer would  never  have  been  sympathetic  to 
him,  and  it  may  be  doubted  whether  he  would 
have  been  successful  in  it.  As  it  was,  lived 
according  to  his  own  ideals,  his  life  may  be 
regarded  as  a  success,  but  not  from  a  com- 
mercial standpoint  of  a  man  of  business.  He 
was  a  Democrat,  and  attended  the  Episcopal 
Church,  but  held  no  office  in  either  the  polit- 
ical or  religious  field.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Union  Club,  and  his  legal  residence  was 
New  York  City. 

Edward  Henry  Coster  married,  in  New 
York,  June  6,  1865,  Margaret  Livingston 
Lowndes.  She  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
January  18,  1835,  died  at  Morristown,  New 
Jersey,  August  21,  1884,  and  was  the  daughter 
of  William  Price  and  Susan  Mary  Elizabeth 
(Livingston)  Lowndes.  William  Price 
Lowndes  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 
(Bond)  Lowndes,  of  Charleston,  South  Caro- 
lina. He  was  born  at  Charleston,  South 
Carolina,  September  21,  1806,  died  at  Morris- 
town,  New  Jersey,  February  2,  1887;  married, 
October  30,  1833,  Susan  Mary  Elizabeth  Liv- 
ingston, who  was  born  November  29,  1809, 
died  February  10,  1875,  ^"^  was  the  daughter 
of  Maturin  and  Margaret  (Lewis)  Living- 
ston. Children:  i.  A  son,  unnamed,  born  in 
New  York  City,  October  27.  1866,  died  there, 
November  16,  1866.  2.  Edward  Livingston, 
of  whom  further. 

(VL)  Edward  Livingston  Coster,  son  of 
Edward     Henry    and     Margaret    Livingston 


(Lowndes)  Coster,  was  born  at  No.  145  West 
Fourteenth  street,  New  York  City,  February 
28,  1870.  He  was  first  educated  by  private 
tutors,  special  emphasis  being  given  to  mathe- 
matics and  physics.  He  then  studied  applied 
sciences  and  mechanical  engineering  by  him- 
self, with  some  assistance  from  practicing 
mechanical  engineers.  He  early  made  a  spe- 
cialty of  locomotive  engineering,  particularly 
the  scientific  side  of  the  subject,  and  obtained 
practical  experience  of  locomotive  operation 
by  firing  and  running  locomotives.  He  is  a 
close  student  of  locomotive  engineering,  and 
has  for  years  devoted  many  hours  daily  to 
this  line  of  work,  entirely  from  the  love  of 
the  subject,  as  financially  it  was  unnecessary. 
From  July  i,  1898,  to  June  30,  1900,  he  was 
assistant  in  mechanical  engineering  at  Colum- 
bia University,  the  position  being  without 
compensation.  He  has  written  and  published 
some  forty-five  or  more  articles  upon  loco- 
motive engineering,  which  have  appeared  in 
the  "American  Engineer  and  Railroad  Jour- 
nal," of  New  York;  "The  Railway  Master 
Mechanic,"  of  Chicago ;  "The  Engineer,"  of 
London,  and  in  the  "Proceedings  of  The 
American  Railway  Master  Mechanics'  Asso- 
ciation." He  has  served  upon  two  commit- 
tees of  investigation  of  the  latter  association, 
upon  locomotive  appliances.  He  is  a  life 
associate  member  of  the  American  Society  of 
Mechanical  Engineers ;  a  life  member  of  the 
American  Association  for  the  Advancement 
of  Science ;  of  the  Franklin  Institute  of  the 
State  of  Pennsylvania ;  of  the  Society  for  the 
Promotion  of  Engineering  Education ;  and  of 
the  American  Railway  Master  Mechanics' 
Association  (honorary  member  thereof)  ;  and 
a  member  of  the  Railroad  Club  of  New  York ; 
of  the  Automobile  Club  of  America ;  of  the 
Balsam  Lake,  and  the  Onteora  clubs ;  a  direc- 
tor of  the  latter;  and  annual  member  of  the 
New  York  Zoological  Society,  and  of  the 
American  Museum  of  Natural  History.  He 
belongs  to  the  Democratic  party,  and  attends 
the  Episcopal  Church.  He  resides  on  his 
estate,  called  "Beech  Lawn,"  at  Irvington-on- 
Hudson,  and  at  his  summer  home.  "The  Shel- 
ter," Onteora  Club,  Tannersville,  New  York, 
in  the  Catskill  Mountains. 

Edward  Livingston  Coster  married,  at  Bal- 
timore, Maryland,  January  12,  1892,  Frances 
Liirman  Stewart.  She  was  born  in  that  city, 
March  2,  1867,  and  is  the  daughter  of  Charles 


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Morton  and  Josephine  (Liirman)  Stewart. 
Charles  Morton  Stewart,  son  of  David  and 
Mary  Adelaide  (Morton)  Stewart,  was  born 
at  Baltimore,  July  16,  1828,  died  at  Old  Point 
Comfort,  Virginia,  August  13,  1900;  married, 
at  Baltimore,  April  30,  1866,  Josephine  Liir- 
man, of  that  city,  who  was  born  January  2"], 
1847,  resides  at  Baltimore,  and  is  the  daugh- 
ter of  Gustav  Wilhelm  and  Frances  Lyman 
(Donnell)  Liirman.  Children:  i.  Josephine 
Liirman,  born  at  New  York  City,  February 
6,  1894.  2.  Margaret  Lowndes,  born  at  Bal- 
timore, Maryland,  February  16,  1896.  3. 
Gerard  Holsman,  born  at  Narragansett, 
Rhode  Island.  September  3,  1898.  4.  Eliza- 
beth Custis,  born  at  Irvington,  New  York, 
August  24,  1899.  5.  Cornelia  Prime,  born  at 
New  York  City,  February  6,  1901.  6.  Mary 
Livingston,  born  at  Irvington,  New  York, 
January  6,  1903.  7.  Edward  Livingston,  born 
at  Irvington,  New  York,  February  24,  1910. 

(The  Prime  Line.) 
The  line  of   descent   of  the   Prime   family 
reaching  to  that  of  the  Coster,  is  as  follows : 

(I)  Mark  Prime,  who  was  born  in  England, 
came  to  America  and  settled  at  Rowley, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  was  among  the  early 
settlers  of  the  town,  and  he  was  buried  there, 
December  21,  1683.  His  wife,  Anne,  was 
also  buried  there,  September  6,  1672.  They 
had  only  two  children,  one  being  a  son,  and 
through  him  alone  is  the  Prime  descent. 

(II)  Samuel  Prime,  only  son  of  Mark  and 
Anne  Prime,  was  born  at  Rowley,  Massachu- 
setts, August  14,  1649,  ^"d  died  there,  March 
18,  1684.  He  married,  at  Rowley,  January  i, 
1674,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Samuel  Platts.  She 
was  born  at  Rowley,  October  16,  1654,  and 
died  there,  before  1696.  They  had  four  chil- 
dren: Samuel,  Sarah,  Mark,  Anne. 

(III)  Samuel  (2)  Prime,  son  of  Samuel 
(i)  and  Sarah  (Platts)  Prime,  was  born  at 
Rowley,  Massachusetts,  December  29,  1675, 
and  died  there,  March  4,  1718.  He  married 
(date  of  publication  notice),  March  23,  1706, 
Sarah,,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ruth  (Wood) 
Jewett.  She  was  born  there,  February  3, 
1690,  and  died  at  that  place,  November  20, 
1722. 

(IV)  Joshua  Prime,  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Jewett)  Prime,  was  born  at  Row- 
ley, Massachusetts,  September  28,  1712,  and 
died  at  Sutton,  Massachusetts,  July  26,  1770. 


He  married  (first)  Mehitable,  daughter  of 
Moses  and  Hannah  Platts,  who  was  born  at 
Rowley,  November  11,  1712,  and  died  there, 
October  17,  1751;  he  married  (second),  date 
of  publication,  June  18,  1752,  Bridget,  daugh- 
ter of  Nathaniel  Hammond,  of  Ipswich,  parish 
of  Rowley. 

(V)  Nathaniel  Prime,  son  of  Joshua  and 
Bridget  (Hammond)  Prime,  was  born  at 
Rowley,  Massachusetts,  January  30,  1768; 
baptized  there  the  next  day;  died  in  New 
York  City,  November  26,  1840;  was  buried 
in  the  churchyard  of  St.  Mark's-in-the-Bow- 
ery,  but  remains  removed  in  1845  to  the 
churchyard  of  St.  Paul's,  at  Eastchester,  New 
York.  He  married,  at  New  York  City,  June 
3,  1797,  Rev.  Dr.  Lynn  officiating,  Cornelia 
Sands,  daughter  of  Comfort  and  Sarah 
(Dodge)  Sands.  She  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  November  8,  1773,  and  died  at  the  resi- 
dence of  her  son,  Edward  Prime,  No.  17  East 
Sixteenth  street.  New  York,  April  21,  1852, 
and  her  remains  were  interred  in  the  church- 
yard at  Eastchester,  New  York. 

(VI)  Matilda  Prime,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Cornelia  (Sands)  Prime,  was  born  at  No. 
I  Broadway,  New  York  City,  July  2,  1810; 
was  baptized  in  Grace  Episcopal  Church,  New 
York,  February  2.J,  181 1;  died  at  Paris, 
France,  April  19,  1849,  and  was  buried  in 
Greenwood  Cemetery.  Matilda  Prime  mar- 
ried, in  Grace  Episcopal  Church,  New  York 
City,  June  9,  1831,  Gerard  Holsman  Coster 
(see  Coster  IV.). 


In  the  early  records  this 
THORNE     name  appears   interchangf>?,bly 

Thorn,  or  Thorne.  The  Ir.cter 
seems  to  be  the  preferred  modern  spelling. 
Several  of  the  family  are  found  among  the 
earliest  American  immigrants,  especially  in 
Virginia.  February  16,  1623,  Henry  Thorne 
was  living  in  the  household  of  "Ensign  Isack 
Chaplaine.  Chaplaine's  Choise,  Charles  Cittie, 
Virginia."  Thomas  Thorne,  aged  thirteen, 
embarked  in  the  "Safety"  for  that  colony,  and 
Henry  Thorne  arrived  in  the  "James"  in  1622. 
The  ancestor  of  the  New  England  Thornes  is 
probably  Peter,  who  at  the  age  of  twenty 
sailed  from  England  in  the  "Elizabeth"  of 
London,  April  10,  1635,  and  settled  either  in 
Lynn  or  Salem,  Massachusetts.  John  Thorne, 
probably  the  son  of  Peter,  with  his  brother, 
Israel  Thorne,   was  in  King  Philip's  war  in 


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1655.  Ten  years  later,  August  21,  1665,  he 
was  enrolled  at  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  un- 
der Captain  Daniel  Henchman,  in  another  ex- 
pedition against  King  Philip.  It  is  thought 
that  William,  mentioned  in  the  next  paragraph, 
may  have  been  a  brother  of  John.  As  it  has 
been  impossible  fully  to  authenticate  these 
early  ancestors,  the  line  begins  with  a  later 
generation. 

(I)  William  Thorne,  who  was  probably 
from  Dedham,  in  the  county  of  Essex,  Eng- 
land, was  possibly  a  brother  of  Peter  Thorne ; 
was  'made  a  freeman  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts, 
April  2,  1638,  and  in  the  same  year  was  ap- 
portioned forty  acres  of  land  in  that  town. 
He  was  one  of  the  eighteen  original  patentees 
of  the  town  of  Flushing.  New  York,  the  grant 
being  made  by  Governor  Kieft,  October  19, 
1645,  and  it  is  probable  that  William  Thorne 
was  there  the  previous  year.  In  1646  he  was 
granted  a  plantation  lot  at  Gravesend,  and  in 
1657  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of  Jamaica, 
Long  Island,  where  he  probably  resided  for 
some  years.  On  December  27,  in  that  year, 
he  signed  a  remonstrance  with  thirty  others 
against  severe  treatment  of  the  Quakers. 
Children :  Wilham,  John,  Joseph,  Samuel  and 
Susanna,  and  probably  others.  The  marriage 
of  the  daughter  to  John  Lockerson  or  Ocker- 
son  is  recorded  at  Jamaica. 

(II)  William  (2)  Thorne,  son  of  William 
(i)  Thorne,  settled  early  at  Great  Neck,  in 
the  town  of  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  and  his 
homestead  is  still  in  possession  of  his  descend- 
ants. In  1685  he  was  a  freeholder  there  and 
taxed  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  land. 
He  died  about  1688  and  was  buried  on  the  hill 
above  his  house  in  a  cemetery  which  has,  in 
recent  years,  been  converted  into  a  lawn  cov- 
ering the  gravestones.  He  signed  the  same 
remonstrance  with  his  father  against  cruelty 
to  the  Quakers.  Subsequent  to  1657  he  mar- 
ried, the  baptismal  name  of  his  wife  being 
Winifred,  had  a  son  Richard,  a  daughter 
Margaret,  and  probably  others.  The  latter 
married  a  Ratton. 

(III)  Richard  Thorne,  son  of  William  (2) 
and  Winifred  Thorne,  resided  at  Great  Neck, 
where  he  died  in  1706,  making  his  will  No- 
vember 28  of  that  year,  and  this  was  proved 
before  the  close  of  the  year.  He  owned  land 
at  Westchester  and  Maidenhead,  New  Jersey. 
He  received  a  marriage  license  in  New  York, 


August  29,  1699,  and  married  Phebe  Denton. 
Children :  Richard,  Hannah,  Mary  and  Phebe. 
(IVj  Richard  {2)  Thorne,  son  of  Richard 
(i)  and  Phebe  (Denton)  Thorne,  was  born 
about  1700,  and  resided  on  the  paternal  home- 
stead at  Great  Neck,  where  he  died,  February 
5,  1763.  He  married,  May  6,  1720,  Altje  Van 
Wyck,  born  May  19,  1706,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Theodorus  and  Margrietia  (Brinckerhoff) 
Van  Wyck,  died  July  29,  1798.  They  had 
children :  John,  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
John  Allen ;  Richard,  mentioned  below ;  Wil- 
liam, married  Martha,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Cornell,  and  Daniel.  The  last  two  settled, 
about  1790,  in  Goshen,  New  York. 

(V)  Major  Richard  (3)  Thorne,  son  of 
Richard  (2)  and  Altje  (Van  Wyck)  Thorne, 
was  born  about  1730,  and  was  deputy  to  the 
first  provincial  congress  in  New  York,  in 
1775.  He  rendered  distinguished  service  in 
the  War  of  the  Revolution,  rising  to  the  rank 
of  major,  and  was  inhumanly  treated  by  the 
Hessians  while  a  prisoner.  After  this  he  set- 
tled at  Great  Neck,  where  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, and  was  prominent  in  civil  affairs  and  in 
the  Episcopal  Church.  The  house  in  which 
he  lived  is  still  standing.  He  married  Sarah 
Waters,  of  Goshen,  and  had  children :  Maria, 
Letitia.  Betsey,  Phoebe,  William,  Daniel, 
Richard,  Thomas,  John  Waters,  Edward, 
Sarah.  One  of  these  sons,  Thomas,  went  to 
Goshen  with  his  uncles,  about  1790,  and  it  is 
probable  that  Daniel,  another  son,  settled  there 
about  the  same  time. 

(VI)  Daniel  Thorne,  son  of  Major  Richard 
(3)  and  Sarah  (Waters)  Thorne,  married 
Mary  Jones,  and  among  their  children  was 
William  Edward. 

(VII)  William  Edward  Thorne,  son  of 
Daniel  and  Mary  (Jones)  Thorne,  married 
Catherine  Conway  and  had  four  daughters 
and  two  sons,  William  and  Ogden  Hoffman : 
William,  who  died  unmarried,  in  1856,  was 
one  of  the  well-known  "Berkeley  Brothers" 
who  compiled  a  now  rare  and  valuable  "Life 
of  Napoleon." 

(VIII)  Ogden  Hoffman  Thorne,  son  of 
William  Edward  and  Catherine  (Conway) 
Thorne,  was  born  February,  1832,  and  died 
in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  August  22,  1898. 
His  entire  active  business  career  was  in  the 
wholesale  dry  goods  district  of  New  York 
City.     He  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the 


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firm  of  Thorne  &  De  Camp,  and  was  later 
associated  with  the  firms  of  Wilmerding  & 
Hoguet ;  Wilmerding,  Morris  &  Mitchel,  and 
Townsend  &  Montant,  all  auctioneers  and 
commission  merchants  of  New  York  City.  He 
married,  February  23,  1861.  Emily  Maria 
Benson,  of  old  Knickerbocker  stock,  and  had 
two  sons,  Robert  and  Harold  Benson.  Harold 
Benson  Thorne  resides  in  Montclair,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  is  one  of  the  vice-presidents  of  the 
Bankers  Trust  Company  of  New  York. 

(IX)  Robert  Thorne,  son  of  Ogden  Hoff- 
man and  Emily  Maria  (Benson)  Thorne,  was 
born  November  17,  1864,  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  and  was  educated  in  Trinity  Church 
School  of  New  York  City,  and  Trinity  Col- 
lege, Hartford,  Connecticut,  receiving  from 
the  latter  institution  the  degree  of  A.B.  in 
1885,  and  A.M.  in  1888.  He  was  graduated 
from  Columbia  Law  School  in  1891,  with  the 
degree  of  LL.B.,  and  has  since  been  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  law  in  New  York  City.  His 
religious  views  conform  to  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  and  in  political  principles 
he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  trustee  of  Trinity 
College  and  a  member  of  numerous  clubs,  in- 
cluding the  Century,  University,  St.  Anthony, 
and  Down  Town  Association.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  and 
Sons  of  the  Revolution.  His  home  is  on  Park 
avenue,  New  York  City.  He  married,  in  that 
city,  April  15,  1902,  Ruth  Huntington  Bond, 
daughter  of  Henry  Richardson  and  Mary 
Perit  (Ripley)  Bond,  of  New  London,  Con- 
necticut. 


Of  the  many  families  in 
VANDERBILT  this  country  who  trace 
their  ancestry  to  Hol- 
land, none  have  gained  a  wider  distinction  in 
the  financial  and  social  world  than  the  Van- 
derbilt  family.  The  name  was  originally 
spelled  Van  Der  Bilt,  and  like  many  of  the 
early  surnames  takes  its  form  from  a  locality. 
The  words  signify  from  the  hill. 

(I)  The  progenitor  of  this  family  in  Amer- 
ica was  Jan  Aertson  Van  Der  Bilt,  who  lived 
in  Utrecht,  Holland.  The  exact  date  of  his 
arrival  in  this  country  is  not  definitely  known, 
but  records  show  he  was  residing  here  as  early 
as  1650.  He  resided  in  New  Amsterdam  in 
1663.  and  later  removed  to  Flatbush,  where 
on  February  2,  1667,  he  m.ortgaged  his  farm, 
signing  the  document  with  his  mark,  which  re- 


sembled a  window  sash  with  four  panes  of 
glass.  He  later  removed  to  Bergen,  New  Jer- 
sey, where  in  1694  he  owned  land,  and  where 
he  made  his  residence  until  his  death,  Febru- 
ary 2,  1705.  He  married  (first),  February 
6,  1650,  Anneken  Hendricks,  who  was  born  in 
Bergen,  Norway;  (second)  Dierber  Cornells; 
(third),  December  16,  1681,  Magdalena 
Hanse,  widow  of  Hendrick  Jansen  Spier  of 
Bergen,  New  Jersey.  Children  of  last  mar- 
riage :  Aris,  Geertje,  Jacob,  Marretje  and 
Jan. 

(H)  Jacob  Janse,  son  of  Jan  Aertson  and 
Magdalena  ( Hanse )  Van  Der  Bilt,  resided  in 
Flatbush,  where  his  name  appears  on  the  as- 
sessment rolls  from  1675  to  1683.  In  1687  he 
signed  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  British 
government  with  his  mark.  He  married,  Au- 
gust 13,  1687,  Marretje,  widow  of  Andrees 
Onderdonk,  and  daughter  of  Derick  Jance  Van 
Der  Vliet.  Children :  Jacob,  mentioned  be- 
low ;  Derick,  born  in  Flatbush,  April  25,  1696. 
Antje,  married  Isaac  Symonse,  of  Long  Isl- 
and ;  John,  lived  in  Hempstead :  Femmetje, 
married  Gozen  Adriaens  of  Long  Island. 

(Ill)  Jacob  (2),  son  of  Jacob  (i)  and 
Marretje  (Van  Der  Vliet)  Van  Der  Bilt,  was 
born  January  25,  1692,  and  died  on  Staten  Isl- 
and, December  14,  1760.  He  settled  on  Staten 
Island,  near  New  Dorp,  where  in  17 18  he 
bought  a  farm,  and  there  made  his  home  until 
his  death.  The  cemetery  at  New  Dorp  is  on 
land  which  once  belonged  to  his  farm.  He 
was  at  first  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church,  and  about  1756  was  a  member  of  the 
Moravian  denomination.  His  will  was  made 
May  19,  1759,  and  proved  February  9,  1761. 
At  this  time  he  wrote  his  name  Vanderbilt,  in 
which  form  it  has  since  been  written  by  his 
descendants.  He  married  Neeltje  Denyse, 
born  February  10,  1698.  Children:  Aris, 
born  February  2,  1716;  Dennis,  or  Denyse, 
September  5,  1717,  in  Gravesend,  baptized  22d 
of  same  month,  settled  in  Raritan,  New  Jer- 
sey; Hilletje,  born  March  22,  1720,  on  Staten 
Island,  baptized  27th  of  same  month ;  Jacob, 
mentioned  below ;  Helena,  or  Magdalena,  born 
December  i,  1725,  on  Staten  Island,  baptized 
December  25,  same  year,  married  Cornelius 
Ellis,  of  Staten  Island ;  John,  born  November 
15,  1728;  Cornelius,  September  22,  1731,  on 
Staten  Island,  married  Eleanor  Van  Tile.  He 
and  his  brother  John  were  baptized  December 
25,    1731 ;  Ann,   February   11,    1734,  baptized 


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24th  of  same  month;  Phebe,  born  April  27, 
1737,  married  Christopher  Gerretsen,  of  Staten 
Island;  Anthea,  January  31,  1739;  Neeltje, 
baptized  September  13,  1742;  Adrian,  lived  on 
Staten  Island. 

(IV)  Jacob  (3),  son  of  Jacob  (2)  and 
Neeltje  (Denyse)  Vanderbilt,  was  born  on 
Staten  Island,  January  6,  1723.  He  engaged 
in  agricultural  pursuits  there,  and  here  made 
his  home  until  his  death.  He  married,  in  Tren- 
ton, New  Jersey,  Mary  Sprague,  born  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1729.  Children:  Eleanor,  born 
1747,  married  a  Mr.  Johnson;  Jacob,  January 
6,  1750;  John,  May  9,  1752;  Dorothy,  July  29, 
1754;  Olive,  June  16,  1757;  Joseph,  September 
6,  1761  ;  Cornelius,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Cornelius,  son  of  Jacob  (3)  and  Mary 
(Sprague)  Vanderbilt,  was  born  on  Staten 
Island,  New  York,  August  25,  1764,  and  died 
at  Stapleton,  May  20,  1832.  He  attended  the 
schools  of  Staten  Island,  and  at  an  early  age 
began  the  life  of  a  farmer.  Through  his  great 
thriff-  and  business  ability  he  acquired  valuable 
real  estate  holdings.  At  an  early  age  recogniz- 
ing the  opportunity  for  market  gardening  and 
selling  his  produce  in  the  growing  city  of  New 
York,  he  secured  a  boat  for  the  transportation 
of  his  produce  and  soon  built  up  a  thriving 
trade.  He  married  Phebe  Hand,  born  April 
15.  1767,  died  June  22,  1854.  Children: 
Mary,  born  December  21,  1787,  married 
Charles  M.  Simonson;  Jacob,  August  28, 
1789;  Charlotte,  December  29,  1790,  married 
Captain  John  De  Forrest ;  Cornelius,  men- 
tioned below ;  Phebe,  died  young ;  Jane,  Au- 
gust I,  1800,  married  (first)  a  Mr.  Van 
Duzer,  (second)  Colonel  Samuel  Barton; 
Eleanor,  January  4,  1804;  Joseph  Hand,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1807;  Phebe,  February  9,   1810. 

(VI)  Cornelius  (2),  son  of  Cornelius  (i) 
and  Phebe  (Hand)  Vanderbilt,  was  born  at 
Port  Richmond,  Staten  Island,  New  York, 
May  27,  1794,  and  died  in  New  York  City, 
January  4,  1877.  He  attended  the  schools  of 
his  native  town,  and  at  an  early  age  ■  began 
assibting  his  father  in  work  on  his  farm  and 
in  selling  his  garden  produce  in  the  city  of 
New  York.  He  made  many  trips  to  the  city 
in  his  father's  boats,  and  here  showed  the 
commercial  instinct  that  was  in  after  years  to 
make  him  a  colossal  figure  in  the  financial  af- 
fairs of  America.  He  obtained  his  father's 
consent  to  sell  the  produce  of  the  neighbors  in 
the  city,  and  in  a  short  time  worked  up  a  valu- 


able business  for  himself.  When  he  was  six- 
teen years  of  age  he  obtained  his  father's  con- 
sent to  cultivate  an  eight-acre  lot,  and  bor- 
rowed $100  from  his  mother  to  purchase  a 
boat  to  take  his  produce  to  the  city.  His  busi- 
ness venture  proved  a  success,  and  in  three 
years  he  was  able  to  clear  $3,000,  a  large  part 
of  which  he  gave  to  his  mother,  but  retained 
enough  to  purchase  two  more  boats.  He  now 
became  master  of  three  boats,  one  being  capa- 
ble of  carrying  twenty  passengers.  These 
boats  he  operated  for  several  years,  and  net- 
ted him  a  good  income.  His  charge  for  con- 
veying a  passenger  from  Staten  Island  to 
New  City  was  eighteen  cents.  In  1814  he  se- 
cured a  contract  with  the  government  for  car- 
rying men  and  supplies  to  the  harbor  forts. 
Soon  after  his  marriage,  in  1813,  recog- 
nizing the  importance  of  New  York  City  as 
a  center  of  commercial  enterprise,  he  removed 
there,  and  continued  running  his  boats  to 
Staten  Island  for  several  years.  He  was 
quick  to  grasp  the  opportunity  for  business 
in  the  growing  trade  in  New  York.  In  1815, 
in  partnership  with  a  brother-in-law,  he  pur- 
chased the  schooner  Charlotte,  and  engaged 
in  the  coasting  trade  until  1818.  He  also 
owned  several  other  boats  which  he  employed 
in  coasting  trade  for  several  years.  About  this 
time,  Robert  Fulton  and  others  were  develop- 
ing the  steamboat  as  a  carrier  of  freight  and 
passengers,  and  Mr.  Vanderbilt,  who  was  ever 
on  the  alert  for  business  opportunities,  saw 
the  practicability  of  the  new  method  of  ship- 
ping, and  recognized  that  the  steamboat  would 
soon  supplant  the  sailing  vessel.  He  sought 
employment  in  the  new  line  of  navigation,  and 
in  1818  accepted  the  place  of  captain  of  the 
steamboat  Bellona,  at  a  salary  of  $1,000  a 
year.  The  boat  was  owned  by  a  company  of 
which  Thomas  Gibbons,  of  New  Jersey,  was 
the  president.  He  remained  in  the  employ  of 
this  company  twelve  years  and  during  the  first 
six  years  of  his  service  he  took  part  in  many 
exciting  experiences.  The  state  of  New  York 
had  given  Fulton  and  Livingston  the  exclu- 
sive right  to  navigate  the  waters  of  New 
York  with  their  steamboats,  and  trespassers 
were  liable  to  arrest  and  their  boats  confis- 
cated. The  Gibbons  Company  fought  the  mo- 
nopoly with  great  energy,  and  Mr.  Vanderbilt 
entered  the  contest  with  his  characteristic  zeal, 
and  invented  many  strategems  for  outwitting 
the  enemy  and  landing  the  company's  boats  in 


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New  York.  The  contest  was  settled  in  1824 
by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  which  decreed  that  the  original  grant 
was  unconstitutional. 

About  1820  he  removed  to  New  Brunswick, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  resided  until  1830, 
when  he  returned  to  New  York,  and  there 
made  his  home  until  his  death.  In  1827  Mr. 
Vanderbilt  leased  the  line  of  ferry  boats  be- 
tween New  York  and  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey. 
In  1829  he  received  flattering  offers  to  be- 
come a  partner  in  various  navigation  compa- 
nies, but  refused  to  accept  them,  as  he  had  de- 
termined to  engage  in  the  business  alone.  He 
had  saved  about  $30,000,  and  with  this  as  a 
working  capital  he  began  extensively  in  the 
shipping  business.  His  first  boat  was  the  his- 
toric Caroline,  which  during  the  Canadian  re- 
bellion of  1837  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  reb- 
els, and  was  captured  by  the  Canadian  au- 
thorities, while  at  a  wharf  on  the  American 
shore,  this  causing  an  international  episode 
which  brought  an  apology  from  England.  He 
was  for  several  years  active  in  the  shipping 
business  on  the  Hudson  river,  finally  selling 
his  interest  to  Robert  L.  Stevens.  He  also 
had  a  number  of  steamboats  on  Long  Island 
Sound.  From  1829  until  1849  he  established 
a  number  of  new  lines  for  coastwise  and  river 
trade,  in  face  of  strong  opposition.  In  this 
last  year  the  discovery  of  gold  in  California 
caused  an  unprecedented  tide  of  emigration  to 
the  New  Eldorado.  The  principal  route  to 
California  was  via  the  Isthmus  of  Panama. 
A  monopoly  of  trade  by  this  route  having  been 
secured  by  various  companies,  Mr.  Vander- 
bilt determined  to  secure  a  new  route  to  the 
Pacific  coast,  and  with  the  fine  new  ship,  the 
Prometheus,  he  sailed  in  1850  to  Nicaragua. 
Here  he  secured  concessions  from  the  gov- 
ernment, and  personally  explored  a  new  route 
across  the  country  to  the  Pacific  coast.  In 
185 1  he  organized  the  Nicaragua  Transit 
Company,  which  operated  a  semi-monthly  line 
from  New  York  to  Nicaragua,  of  which  com- 
pany he  acted  at  first  as  agent  and  later  as 
president.  In  1853  he  sold  his  interests  in 
the  company  and  with  his  family  went  to 
Europe,  sailing  on  his  palatial  ship,  the  North 
Star.  He  travelled  extensively  in  the  British 
Isles,   and  the  Continent. 

Upon  his  return  to  America  he  found  that 
the  parties  who  has  purchased  his  interest  in 
the  Nicaragua  Transit  Company  were  not  fol- 


lowing the  terms  of  the  sale,  and  with  his 
characteristic  energy  he  perfected  plans  to 
force  the  company  to  fulfil  the  original  con- 
tract. He  established  steamship  lines  from 
New  York  to  Aspinwall  and  from  New  Or- 
leans to  Galveston,  and  after  a  fierce  struggle 
with  the  rival  company,  forced  it  into  bank- 
ruptcy. During  the  years  1854-65  he  is  said 
to  have  cleared  over  $11,000,000  in  profits. 

On  the  breaking  out  of  the  Crimean  war, 
he  undertook  to  establish  a  line  of  steamships 
from  New  York  to  Europe,  with  the  patriotic 
intention  of  securing  to  the  American  flag  the 
largest  Atlantic  trade,  believing  the  American 
interests  would  outrival  European  competi- 
tion. His  proposition  to  the  United  States 
government  to  allow  him  to  alternate  the  run- 
ning of  his  steamers  to  England  with  the  Col- 
lins line  was  not  accepted,  and  he  established 
a  Hne  to  Havre,  France.  By  his  carrying  the 
United  States  mail  without  charge,  he  suc- 
ceeded in  forcing  the  Collins  &  Mills  lines 
from  the  European  business.  But  he  underes- 
timated the  power  of  the  European  lines, 
which  were  heavily  subsidized,  and  he  was 
soon  forced  to  suspend  operations,  as  he 
found  that  he  could  not  conduct  the  business 
of  the  company  at  a  profit.  In  1862  he  patri- 
otically presented  to  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment, the  Vanderbilt,  then  the  finest  and 
swiftest  steamer  afloat,  which  had  been  oper- 
ated in  his  line  to  Havre.  The  steamer  was 
converted  into  a  cruiser  and  used  until  the 
close  of  the  war.  In  1866  Mr.  Vanderbilt  re- 
ceived the  thanks  of  Congress  and  a  gold 
medal  with  the  inscription:  "A  grateful 
country  to  her  generous  son." 

During  Mr.  Vanderbilt's  activity  on  the  sea 
he  built  the  following  steamers :  Ariel,  Cham- 
pion, Costa  Rica,  Daniel  Webster,  Galveston, 
Grenada,  New  York,  Northern  Light,  North 
Star,  Ocean  Queen,  Opelousas,  Port  Jack- 
son, Prometheus,  Star  of  the  West,  Matagor- 
da, Magnolia,  and  the  Vanderbilt.  Mr.  Van- 
derbilt's business  activities  were  not  confined 
to  the  sea.  At  an  early  date  he  recognized  the 
growing  importance  of  the  railroad  as  a  finan- 
cial investment,  and  as  early  as  1854  he  had 
quietly  purchased  shares  in  the  New  York  & 
Harlem  railroad,  at  prices  ranging  from  $8  to 
$10  a  share.  In  i860  he  secured  control  of 
this  road  and  was  elected  its  president.  He 
also  acquired  extensive  holdings  in  the  New- 
York  &  New  Haven  railroad,  and  one  of  his 


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first  operations  in  Wall  street  was  a  corner  in 
the  stock  of  the  Norwich  &  Worcester  rail- 
road. In  1861  he  secured  control  of  the  Hud- 
son River  railroad,  and  shortly  afterward 
united  it  with  the  New  York  &  Harlem  rail- 
road under  one  management.  In  1865,  through 
a  carefully  planned  campaign,  he  secured  con- 
trol of  the  New  York  Central  railroad,  and  in 
1867  he  became  its  president.  He  soon  per- 
fected a  consolidation  of  the  New  York  Cen- 
tral with  the  Hudson  River  railroad,  having 
a  trackage  of  1,000  miles  and  a  capital  of  over 
$100,000,000.  In  1869  he  was  made  president 
of  the  consolidated  roads.  In  1868  he  secured 
control  of  the  Lake  Shore  railroad,  thus  giv- 
ing him  control  of  the  entire  line  from  New 
York  to  Chicago.  Upon  gaining  control  of 
these  roads  he  instituted  many  improvements, 
new  depots  were  built,  new  trains  were  in- 
stalled, double  tracks  were  laid,  useless  offi- 
cials were  discharged,  and  economy  of  oper- 
ation was  instituted  in  all  the  departments  of 
the  great  line.  Through  his  able  management 
the  stockholders  made  great  profits  on  their 
investments.  Of  his  many  great  financial  bat- 
tles, none  was  more  spectacular  than  the  his- 
toric Erie  road  contest.  Mr.  Vanderbilt  need- 
ed this  road  to  secure  him  the  control  of  the 
railway  systems  of  the  state  of  New  York. 
He  accordingly  determined,  at  any  cost,  to  se- 
cure control  of  the  stock.  He  secured  the  co- 
operation of  Daniel  Drew,  the  largest  stock- 
holder in  the  road,  but  later  it  developed  that 
Mr.  Drew  had  not  fulfilled  his  promise,  and 
Mr.  Vanderbilt  determined  to  corner  the 
Drew  interests.  Mr.  Drew  and  his  associates, 
who  had  control  of  the  company,  had  the  right 
to  issue  new  stock  to  meet  any  emergencies, 
and  they  placed  50,000  shares  of  stock  on  the 
market.  Mr.  Vanderbilt  bought  all  this  new 
stock,  with  the  result  that  the  value  of  the 
shares  dropped  from  $83  to  $71.  The  Erie 
directors  fled  to  Jersey  City  with  $7,000,000  of 
Mr.  Vanderbilt's  money.  The  contest  was  then 
precipitated  into  the  courts  and  many  legal 
complications  ensued.  Mr.  Vanderbilt  gained 
control  of  100.000  shares  of  the  stock,  and 
after  a  hopeless  maze  of  injunctions  and  coun- 
ter injunctions,  and  trials  in  various  courts, 
Mr.  Vanderbilt  and  Mr.  Drew  settled  their 
differences  out  of  court.  During  the  contest, 
Jay  Gould  and  James  Fisk  Jr.  gained  control 
of  the  road.  In  this  contest  Mr.  Vanderbilt 
lost  about  $2,000,000.     In  1872  Mr.  Vander- 


bilt became  a  large  purchaser  of  stock  in  the 
Western  Union  Telegraph  Company. 

Mr.  Vanderbilt  continued  his  interests  in 
agricultural  matters.  He  was  especially  fond 
of  horses,  and  delighted  to  recall  his  boyhood 
days,  when  as  a  lad  of  six  years  he  had  driven 
a  race  horse  at  full  speed.  He  was  a  tall 
man,  being  six  feet  in  height,  and  athletic.  In 
his  early  days  he  delighted  in  swimming  and 
rowing,  and  in  his  later  years  in  driving  his 
fine  horses.  He  maintained  a  fine  stable,  own- 
ing many  of  the  finest  road  animals  in  the 
country.  His  favorite  drivers  were :  Moun- 
tain Boy,  Post  Boy,  Plow  Boy,  Mountaineer, 
Mountain  Girl,  Doctor,  Flying  Dutchman  and 
the  Princess.  He  made  his  home  in  a  modest 
brick  house  in  Washington  Square  and  here 
lived  a  simple  life,  being  very  abstemious  in 
his  habits.     He  took  no  active  part  in  politics. 

Mr.  Vanderbilt  inherited  the  thrift  of  his 
Dutch  ancestors.  No  detail  of  his  business 
was  too  small  for  him  to  investigate.  He  was 
quick  to  grasp  a  business  opportunity,  and  was 
untiring  in  his  labors  to  make  whatever  he  un- 
dertook a  success.  He  possessed  remarkable 
administrative  ability.  His  judgment  of  men 
was  accurate,  and  his  ability  in  rightly  choos- 
ing his  associates  in  the  business  world  and 
his  employees,  was  one  of  the  greatest  factors 
in  gaining  his  success.  When  he  laid  aside 
the  active  duties  of  his  business  life,  he  had 
accumulated  the  princely  fortune  of  about 
$100,000,000,  being  at  the  time  one  of  the 
richest  men  in  the  world.  He  made  many 
benefactions,  the  most  important  being  the 
gift  of  $1,000,000  to  the  Vanderbilt  Univer- 
sity in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  the  Mercer 
Street  Church,  erected  in  honor  of  Rev. 
Charles  F.  Deems,  its  pastor. 

Mr.  Vanderbilt  was  twice  married — (first) 
in  December,  1813,  to  Sophia  Johnson,  a  na- 
tive of  Staten  Island,  who  died  in  August, 
1868.  Thirteen  children  were  born  of  this 
marriage:  i.  Phebe  Jane,  married  James  M. 
Cross,  of  New  Dorp  and  New  York  City.  2. 
Ethelinda,  married  Daniel  B.  Allen,  of  Staten 
Island.  3.  Elizabeth,  married  George  A.  Os- 
good, of  Clifton,  Staten  Island.  4.  Emily, 
married  William  K.  Thorne,  of  New  York 
City.  5.  William  Henry,  mentioned  below.  6. 
Frances,  died  unmarried  at  the  age  of  forty 
years.  7.  Maria  Louise,  married  Horace  F. 
Clark,  of  New  York  City.  8.  Mary  Alicia, 
married    (first)    Nicholas   La   Bau.   of   Staten 


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Island,    and     (second) 


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Sophia  J.,  married  Daniel  Torrance,  of  New 
York.  10.  George  W.,  died  young.  11. 
George  W.  (2),  who  served  in  the  Union 
army  during  the  civil  war,  and  died  of  a  dis- 
ease contracted  in  the  Corinth  campaign.  12. 
Cornelius  Johnson.  13.  Catherine,  married 
(first)  Smith  Barker,  Jr.  (second),  a  French- 
man, La  Fitte.  Mr.  Vanderbilt  was  married 
the  second  time  to  Frankie  A.  Crawford,  of 
London,  Canada. 

(VII)  WilHam  Henry,  son  of  Cornelius 
and  Sophia  (Johnson)  Vanderbilt,  was  born 
in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  May  8,  1821, 
and  died  at  his  residence  in  New  York,  De- 
cember 8,  1885.  The  first  nine  years  after  his 
birth  he  passed  in  New  Brunswick,  where  he 
attended  the  public  schools.  When  his  father 
removed  to  New  York  in  1830,  he  entered 
the  Columbia  College  Grammar  School,  re- 
maining until  about  1838.  He  began  his  busi- 
ness career  by  entering  a  ship  chandlery  con- 
ducted by  a  relative.  After  a  service  here  of 
one  year  he  entered  the  employ  of  Drew,  Rob- 
inson &  Company,  bankers  and  stock  brokers, 
as  a  clerk.  Here  he  soon  mastered  the  details 
of  the  business  and  so  energetically  applied 
himself  to  his  work  that  in  two  years  the  com- 
pany offered  him  a  junior  partnership,  but 
owing  to  failing  health  caused  by  close  appli- 
cation to  office  work,  he  was  forced  to  de- 
cline this  ofifer  and  seek  outdoor  employment. 
Through  the  assistance  of  his  father  he  pur- 
chased an  unimproved  tract  of  seventy-five 
acres  of  land  on  Staten  Island.  He  applied 
himself  to  his  new  occupation  with  his  char- 
acteristic industry,  and  in  a  short  time  had 
his  farm  in  cultivation.  Through  his  thrift  and 
good  business  ability  he  was  enabled  to  buy 
more  land  until  he  had  a  fine  farm  of  about 
350  acres,  and  was  clearing  over  $12,000  an- 
nually. In  1853  he  traveled  extensively  in 
Europe  with  his  father  and  family. 

In  1856  the  Staten  Island  railroad,  in  which 
his  father  was  a  heavy  stockholder,  became 
bankrupt,  and  the  directors  having  witnessed 
William's  business  ability,  appointed  him  re- 
ceiver of  the  road.  This  trust  be  accepted.  He 
reorganized  the  road,  and  in  two  years  had 
paid  off  the  debts  and  made  the  line  a  paying 
proposition.  In  recognition  of  his  services  he 
was  made  president  of  the  road,  which  office 
he  held  but  a  short  time.  The  experience 
learned  on  this  small  road  proved  of  the  great- 


est value  to  him  in  after  life,  when  he  was 
managing  great  railway  systems.  In  1864  he 
was  elected  vice-president  of  the  New  York 
&  Harlem  railroad,  and  in  1865  to  the  same 
office  in  the  Hudson  Valley  road.  In  these 
new  positions  he  rendered  his  father  valuable 
service  in  managing  these  roads.  He  rendered 
valuable  aid  in  consolidating  the  Hudson 
River  and  the  New  York  Central  railroads  in 
1869 ;  and  in  this  year  was  elected  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  consolidated  roads,  virtually  be- 
coming the  executive  officer.  Upon  his  fath- 
er's death  in  1877  he  was  elected  president  of 
the  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  rail- 
road. Under  his  able  management  the  facili- 
ties of  the  road  were  enormously  increased. 
In  1869  the  tonnage  moved  was  3,190,840,  at 
a  cost  of  $2.38  per  mile,  and  in  1881  about 
12,000,000  at  a  cost  of  about  74  cents.  Mr. 
Vanderbilt  also  served  as  president  of  the 
Lake  Shore  and  Michigan  Southern  and  the 
Michigan  Central  railroads.  In  May,  1883,  he 
resigned  the  presidency  of  these  roads.  The 
board  of  directors  of  the  New  York  Central 
passed  the  following  resolutions  in  regard  to 
his  resignation : 

Resolved,  That  the  directors  learn  with  regret 
the  determination  of  William  H.  Vanderbilt  to 
no  longer  act  as  president  of  the  Company.  For 
nineteen  years  his  administration — first  of  the 
Hudson  River  Railroad  Company,  and  subse- 
quently of  the  consolidated  New  York  Central 
and  Hudson  River  corporation — has  met  the 
unanimous  approval  of  the  stockholders.  The 
record  shows  a  business  succ_ess  unexampled  in 
the  management  of  companies  of  this  charac- 
ter, due  mainly  to  the  skill  and  fidelity  with 
which  he  has  conducted  the  affairs  of  the  cor- 
porations. The  history  of  the  New  York  Central 
and  its  allied  system  during  the  period  of  Mr. 
Vanderbilt's  presidency  is  the  story  of  the  de- 
velopment of  this  country  by  the  railroads,  and 
of  the  successful  struggle  to  maintain  the  com- 
mercial supremacy  of  New  York  against  the 
most  able  and  energetic  rivalry.  While  we  rec- 
ognize the  force  of  the  reasons  given  for  his 
retirement,  we  hail  with  pleasure  his  statement 
that  he  will  remain  a  member  of  the  Board,  and  give 
to  it  the  benefit  of  his  experience  and  cordial  co- 
operation. 

Mr.  Vanderbilt  made  his  home  in  his  pala- 
tial mansion  on  Fifth  avenue,  New  York,  be- 
tween 51st  and  52d  streets.  His  residence  is 
a  beautiful  specimen  of  the  architect's  skill. 
It  cost  about  $2,500,000,  and  in  its  construc- 
tion was  used  material  procured  in  many  parts 
of  the  world.  The  doors,  which  were  im- 
ported from  Paris,  cost  over  $20,000. 


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Mr.  Vanderbilt  managed  to  find  the  time 
from  his  busy  Hfe  to  devote  to  literature  and 
the  fine  arts.  He  possessed  a  very  large  and 
well  selected  library,  but  his  main  interest  was 
for  the  paintings  of  the  great  masters.  His 
collection  contained  some  two  hundred  works, 
among  them  being  specimens  of  such  distin- 
guished artists  as  Bouguereau,  Corot,  De  Neu- 
ville,  Detaille,  Delacroix,  Fortung,  Gerome, 
Landseer,  Millett,  Meissonier,  Munkaczy,  Rosa 
Bonheur  and  Zamdeois. 

Mr.  Vanderbilt  was  a  public  spirited  citizen 
and  gave  largely  of  his  great  wealth  to  many 
public  and  charitable  institutions.  In  1880  he 
generously  contributed  the  money  necessary 
to  remove  to  the  Central  Park  in  New  York 
the  historic  obelisk,  the  Cleopatra's  Needle, 
which  was  presented  to  the  United  States  by 
Ismail  Pasha,  the  Khedive  of  Egypt.  This 
famous  obelisk,  executed  for  Thotmes  III.,  was 
first  erected  in  Heliopolis  and  afterwards  re- 
moved to  the  city  of  Alexandria,  Egypt.  The 
cost  of  removing  this  great  monolith  to  this 
country  was  over  $100,000.  In  the  same  year 
he  donated  $100,000  for  the  erection  of  the 
Theological  Hall  of  Vanderbilt  University. 
In  1884  he  made  the  princely  gift  of  $1,000,000 
to  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of 
New  York.  He  contributed  liberally  to  the 
Deers  fund  for  the  assistance  of  needy  stu- 
dents at  the  University  of  North  Carolina; 
also  made  several  donations  to  the  University 
of  Virginia.  By  his  will  he  left  $300,000  for 
Episcopal  missions;  also  $100,000  to  the  fol- 
lowing institutions:  Metropolitan  Museum  of 
Art,  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association, 
St.  Luke's  Hospital  and  the  United  Breth- 
ren's Church  on  Staten  Island ;  also  $500,000 
to  various  other  institutions,  making  a  total 
of  fully  $1,000,000.  One  of  his  most  gener- 
ous acts  was  the  financial  assistance  given 
General  U.  S.  Grant  in  1885.  In  return  for 
the  loan  made  General  Grant,  his  historic  col- 
lections of  swords,  medals,  testimonials  and 
other  gifts  became  the  property  of  the  United 
States  government. 

He  was,  like  his  father,  a  great  lover  of  fine 
horses.  He  maintained  an  extensive  stable  at 
52nd  street  and  Madison  avenue  and  nothing 
gave  him  greater  delight  than  driving  one  of 
his  fine  horses  on  the  roadways  of  upper  New 
York.  He  was  considered  one  of  the  best 
drivers   and   horsemen   of   his   time.     Among 


his  noted  horses  were :  Lady  Mac,  Small 
Hopes,  Aldine  and  Maud  S.  He  drove  Maud 
S.  and  Aldine  over  the  Fleetwood  Park  Track 
at  the  unprecedented  time  of  2.is>4. 

Mr.  Vanderbilt  was  married,  September  28, 
1841,  to  Maria  Louisa  Kissam,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Samuel  Kissam,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 
She  died  November  6,  1896.  Eight  children 
were  born  to  them:  i.  Cornelius,  November 
27,  1843  •  married  Alice  Gwynne,  daughter  of 
Abram  E.  Gwynne.  2.  William  Kissam,  De- 
cember 12,  1849;  married  (first)  Alva  Smith, 
of  Mobile,  Alabama,  and  (second)  Mrs.  L.  M. 
Rutherford,  of  London,  England.  3.  Fred- 
erick William,  born  in  1856;  married  Mrs. 
Alfred  (Anthony)  Torrence.  4.  George 
Washington,  mentioned  below.  5.  Emily 
Thorn,  married  William  D.  Sloane,  of  New 
York.  6.  Margaret  Louisa,  married  Edward 
Elliott  F.  Shepard,  of  New  York.  7.  Florence 
Adele,  married  Hamilton  McKown  Twombly, 
of  New  York  City.  8.  Elizabeth  Osgood,  mar- 
ried Dr.  William  Seward  Webb,  of  New  York 
City,  and  Shelburne,  Vermont. 

(\TII)  George  Washington,  son  of  William 
Henry  and  Maria  Louisa  (Kissam)  Vander- 
bilt, was  born  in  New  Dorp,  Staten  Island, 
New  York,  November  14,  1862.  He  received 
instructions  from  private  tutors  and  complet- 
ed his  education  in  private  schools.  He  has 
traveled  extensively  in  Europe.  He  purchased 
100.000  acres  of  land  on  the  French  Broad 
river  at  Biltmore,  near  Asheville,  North  Caro- 
lina, which  he  has  highly  improved  by  scien- 
tific forestry,  until  at  this  time  it  is  the  finest 
park  in  America.  Here  he  has  erected  a  fine 
mansion  and  extensive  stables.  He  takes  great 
interest  in  forestry  and  has  extensive  dairy 
farms.  Mr.  Vanderbilt  makes  his  home  at 
Biltmore.  He  also  maintains  residences  at 
Nos.  1 61 2  K  street,  Washington,  D.  C,  and 
Bar  Harbor,  Maine.  Mr.  Vanderbilt  has  made 
many  benefactions.  He  presented  to  the 
Teachers  College  its  beautiful  site  at  Morn- 
ingside  Heights.  He  built  and  equipped  the 
13th  street  branch  of  the  New  York  Public 
Library.  He  also  presented  the  beautiful 
building,  the  Vanderbilt  Gallery,  to  the  Amer- 
ican Society  of  Fine  Arts.  He  was  married, 
June  2.  1898,  to  Edith  Stuyvesant  Dresser. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Cornelia  Stuyvesant, 
born  August  22,  1900. 

As  these  pages  were  passing  through  the 
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occurring  at  Washington  City,  March  6,  1914, 
following  a  long  illness. — Editor. 

In  the  early  records  of 
VAN  BEUREN  the  First  Dutch  Church 
of  New  York  this  name 
appears  under  many  spellings,  such  as  Van 
Buren,  Van  Buuren,  Van  Bueren,  as  well  as 
Van  Beuren,  the  form  which  is  now  generally 
adopted  by  the  descendants  of  this  family.  It 
has  no  connection  on  this  side  of  the  water 
with  the  noted  family  of  the  Upper  Hudson, 
which  furnished  the  eighth  president  of  the 
United  States.  The  ancestor  who  took  the 
surname  manifestly  came  from  Buren,  a  vil- 
lage in  the  province  of  Gelderland,  Holland, 
or  was  a  native  of  that  place.  It  was  not  the 
custom  among  the  earliest  Dutch  immigrants 
to  have  a  family  name,  except  in  rare  cases 
where  some  important  achievement  entitled 
one  to  assume  a  name,  perpetuating  the  record 
thereof. 

(I)  Dr.  Jan  (often  written  Johannes),  or 
John  Van  Beuren,  the  original  settler  of  this 
family  in  America,  is  supposed  to  have  been 
born  about  1678  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  and 
graduated  from  the  University  of  Leyden.  In 
1700  he  came  to  New  York,  and  about  twenty 
years  later  removed  with  his  family  to  Flat- 
bush,  Long  Island,  where  he  continued  in 
practice  some  five  or  six  years,  returning  to 
New  York  in  1729.  Here  he  continued  to 
reside  until  his  death.  He  was  living  July  31, 
1751,  and  died  before  October  16,  1757.  He 
was  survived  by  his  wife  and  at  least  five  of 
his  large  family  of  children.  He  was  one  of 
the  principal  physicians  of  the  city,  and  was 
much  respected.  The  record  of  his  marriage 
"  in  the  Dutch  Church  reads,  "Johannes  Van 
Beuren,  a  young  man  from  Amsterdam,  with 
Maria  Meier,  a  young  woman  from  New 
York,  June  15,  1707."  His  children,  baptized 
in  New  York,  were :  Pieter,  September  18, 
1709,  died  young;  Christina,  March  2,  171 1, 
died  young;  Pieter  and  Maria,  twins,  January 
21,  1713;  Michael,  January  26,  1715,  died 
young;  Cornelia  and  Elizabeth,  January  30, 
1717;  Catharina,  August  31,  1718;  Elizabeth, 
February  i,  1721  ;  Michael,  mentioned  below; 
Jacobus  and  Christina,  August  3,  1729,  Beek- 
man,  November  5,  1732.  The  last  named  was 
a  well-known  physician  of  New  York.  Be- 
side the  above  children,  he  had  two  at  Flat- 
bush:  John  and  Hendrick,  the  last  born  No- 


vember   12,    1725,    a    practicing   physician    at 
Flatbush. 

(II)  Michael  Van  Beuren,  son  of  Dr.  John 
and  Maria  (Meier)  Van  Beuren,  was  baptized 
January  i,  1723,  in  New  York,  and  was  a 
cordwainer,  living  in  that  city,  where  he  was 
admitted  a  freeman  in  1765.  No  record  of 
his  marriage  appears  in  the  Dutch  Church,  but 
the  baptisms  of  his  children  show  his  wife  was 
Jannetje  Hendrickse.  Children  baptized  in 
New  York:  Johannes,  May  19,  1757,  died 
young;  Elizabeth,  January  31,  1759,  died 
young;  Johannes,  December  17,  1760;  Daniel, 
November  10,  1762;  Elizabeth,  September  16, 
1764,  died  young;  Beekman,  August  31,  1766; 
Michael,  mentioned  below ;  Elizabeth,  Septem- 
ber 22,   1772. 

(III)  Michael  (2)  Van  Beuren,  youngest 
son  of  Michael  (i)  and  Jannetje  (Hen- 
drickse) Van  Beuren,  was  baptized  Septem- 
ber 15,  1770,  in  New  York,  and  resided  in  that 
city.  He  married,  December  5,  1795,  at  the 
Dutch  Church  of  New  York,  Eliza  or  Eliza- 
beth Van  Beuren,  probably  a  remote  relative. 
No  record  of  her  baptism  appears  on  the  New 
York  Church  records.  Two  of  their  children 
are  recorded:  Blondina,  born  September  11, 
1796,  and  Michael,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Michael  (3)  Van  Beuren,  son  of  Mi- 
chael (2)  and  Ehza  (Van  Beuren)  Van  Beu- 
ren, was  born  April  22,  and  baptized  June  i, 
1800,  in  New  York  City.  He  married,  in  New 
York,  about  1821,  Mary  Spingler  Fonerden 
(originally  Van  Erden),  born  in  New  York, 
died  in  that  city,  daughter  of  James  and  Eliza 
(Spingler)  Fonerden.  Children:  Elizabeth 
Spingler,  Mary  Louise,  Henry  Spingler,  Jose- 
phine Fredericka,  Emily  Augusta,  Michael  M., 
Clarence,  Frederick  Theodore,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(V)  Frederick  Theodore  Van  Beuren, 
youngest  child  of  Michael  (3)  and  Mary  S. 
(Fonerden)  Van  Beuren,  was  born  in  1845, 
at  the  home  of  his  parents  on  Fourteenth 
street,  in  New  York.  He  was  educated  in 
private  schools,  and  was  chiefly  occupied 
through  life  in  the  management  of  the  Sping- 
ler and  Van  Beuren  estates.  The  old  Spingler 
farm  at  Fifth  avenue  and  Fourteenth  street 
was  under  his  management  for  many  years, 
and  the  ukimate  plotting  of  this  farm  in  city 
lots  secured  to  the  heirs  a  generous  income. 
He  married,  at  San  Francisco,  California,  Au- 
gust   26,    1869,    Elizabeth    Ann    Potter,    born 


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April  12,  1846,  on  Clinton  street,  Brooklyn, 
daughter  of  Charles  R.  and  Elizabeth  (Lam- 
bert) Potter,  who  were  married  at  Weehaw- 
ken,  New  Jersey,  about  1844.  Children :  1, 
Mary  Spingler,  born  July  9,  1870,  in  New 
York;  married  in  that  city,  Willard  B.  King. 
2.  Michael  M.,  March  31,  1873,  in  New  York; 
married,  at  Tarrytown,  New  York,  Mary  La- 
vinia  Archibold.  3.  Elizabeth  Josephine,  June 
25,  1874,  at  Morristown,  New  Jersey ;  mar- 
ried, in  New  York  City,  Homer  T.  Joy.  4. 
Frederick  Theodore,  mentioned  below.  5. 
Louise  Davis,  July  9.  1882,  in  Morristown ; 
married,  in  New  York,  Howard  Bayne. 

(VI)  Dr.  Frederick  Theodore  (2)  Van 
Beuren,  second  son  of  Frederick  Theodore 
(i)  and  Elizabeth  A.  (Potter)  Van  Beuren, 
was  bom  February  10,  1876,  at  the  family 
home  on  West  Fourteenth  street,  in  New  York 
City,  and  passed  his  boyhood  in  his  native 
city.  He  attended  Moss'  Private  School  in 
New  York,  and  graduated  from  Yale  with  the 
degree  of  A.B.  in  1898.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Wolf's  Head  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  He 
subsequently  graduated  from  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, and  in  1902  from  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons  of  New  York,  and  grad- 
uated from  Roosevelt  Hospital  in  1905.  His 
time  is  given  entirely  to  surgery,  and  since 
1907  he  has  maintained  an  office  on  Park  ave- 
nue. He  is  attending  physician  at  Roosevelt 
and  Lincoln  Hospitals.  In  1899  he  joined 
Squadron  A,  National  Guard,  State  of  New 
York,  as  assistant  surgeon,  with  the  title  of 
captain.  Since  1910  he  has  been  first  lieuten- 
ant in  the  medical  reserve  corps  of  the  United 
States  Army,  commissioned  by  Secretary  of 
War,  J.  M.  Dickinson.  He  is  affiliated  relig- 
iously with  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 
Dr.  \'an  Beuren  has  contributed  numerous 
original  articles  for  the  medical  press,  includ- 
ing "Some  Experiments  with  Radium  on  Bac- 
teria" ;  "From  the  Student's  Point  of  View" ; 
"Surgery  of  the  Blood  Vessels  in  Surgical 
Therapeusis,"  edited  by  Alexander  Johnson. 
He  is  affiliated  with  several  clubs,  including 
the  University,  Riding,  Yale,  Morris  County 
Golf,  Somerset  Hills  Country  and  Indian 
clubs. 

He  married,  at  the  Church  of  the  Heavenly 
Rest,  New  York,  May  26,  1905,  Jessica  The- 
resa Mohlman,  born  August  12,  1882,  at 
Spietz,  Switzerland,  daughter  of  John  Henry 
and   Louise   Clara    (Hahn)    Mohlman.     John 


Henry  Mohlman  was  born  November  8,  1853, 
at  No.  15  Greenwich  street,  New  York,  and 
died  at  Buell,  New  Jersey,  September  28,  1890. 
He  married,  at  No.  287  State  street,  Brooklyn, 
May  12,  1880,  Louise  Clara  Hahn,  born  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1855,  at  No.  103  Oliver  street,  New 
York  City.  Children :  Frederick  Theodore, 
born  May  22,  1906;  Jessica,  October  16,  1908; 
Michael  Murray,  March  18,  1910. 


This  is  an  English  name, 
CUTTING  brought  to  this  country  before 
the  Revolution,  and  has  been 
prominently  identified  with  the  history  of  New 
York  City  for  several  generations.  The  name 
has  been  especially  prominent  in  philanthropic 
work,  and  is  credibly  borne  by  numerous  de- 
scendants now  in  New  York. 

(1)  Leonard  Cutting  was  born  in  1724.  at 
Great  Yarmouth,  county  Norfolk,  England,  of 
an  ancient  and  respectable  family,  which  had 
been  long  seated  there,  and  had  furnished  sev- 
eral high  sheriffs  and  other  officials  to  the 
county.  At  the  age  of  nine  years  he  was  left 
an  orphan  in  the  care  of  an  aunt,  who  care- 
fully arranged  for  his  education.  After  a 
preparation  at  Eton  he  was  admitted  to  Pem- 
broke College  (Cambridge  University),  and 
received  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1747.  His  lit- 
tle inheritance  had  been  consumed  by  the  ex- 
penses of  his  education,  and  he  resolved  to 
try  his  fortunes  in  the  New  \\'orld.  So  small 
was  his  means,  that  he  became  bound  to  the 
captain  on  the  vessel  on  which  he  sailed,  for 
his  passage  money.  During  the  voyage  he 
gained  the  favor  of  the  captain  by  his  straight- 
forward and  manly  bearing,  and  the  latter 
found  for  him  employment  as  manager  of  a 
plantation  in  Virginia.  Thence  he  went  to 
New  Jersey,  and  after  living  some  time  in  the 
latter  state  met  a  former  college  friend.  Rev. 
Samuel  Cook,  through  whose  influence  he 
found  a  more  congenial  occupation,  and  be- 
came tutor  of  Greek  and  Latin  at  King's  Col- 
lege, now  Columbia  University,  from  which 
institution  he  received  the  degree  of  A.  M.  in 
1758.  He  continued  there  as  tutor  until  1763, 
in  the  meantime  pursuing  a  course  in  prepara- 
tion for  the  ministry.  With  a  letter  from  Dr. 
Samuel  Johnson,  president  of  King's  College, 
he  went  "to  England,  and  applied  to  the  Society 
for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign 
Parts   for  a  mission.     He  was   ordained  De- 


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cember  21,  1763,  and  early  in  the  following 
year  returned  to  America,  and  took  charge  cf 
an  Episcopal  mission  at  New  Brunswick,  New 
Jersey.  Here  he  continued  two  years,  and  was 
then  placed  in  charge  of  the  mission  at  Hemp- 
stead, New  York.  This  mission  embraced  a 
large  territory,  including  Oyster  Bay,  where 
he  held  services  once  in  three  weeks.  The 
parishioners  were  not  wealthy,  and  the  support 
of  the  minister  was  meagre,  and  Mr.  Cutting 
continued  a  classical  school  which  had  been 
established  by  his  predecessor  as  a  means  of 
eking  out  a  livelihood.  He  was  installed  as 
pastor  at  Hempstead,  August  11,  1766,  and 
continued  there  until  about  1782.  The  church 
suffered  many  hardships  during  the  Revolu- 
tion, not  only  from  the  exactions  of  the  Amer- 
icans, who  forbade  the  prayers  for  the  king  and 
his  family  and  stopped  the  services  for  a  short 
time  by  that  means,  but  from  the  depredations 
of  its  supposed  friends,  the  British  soldiery. 
Mr.  Cutting  persevered,  baptizing  as  occasion 
required,  and  doing  his  best  for  his  scattered 
parishioners.  For  a  time  he  was  in  charge  of 
a  parish  at  Snow  Hill,  Maryland,  and  in  1783, 
when  he  signed  the  recommendation  for  Dr. 
William  Smith  as  bishop,  he  registered  from 
All  Hallows  Church,  \Vorcester  county,  Mary- 
land. For  about  eight  years  he  was  in  charge 
of  Christ  Church  Parish,  New  Bern,  North 
Carolina,  and  in  1792  was  appointed  secretary 
to  the  House  of  Bishops,  which  brought  him 
to  New  York  City.  Here  he  continued  until 
his  death,  January  25,  1794.  In  noting  this 
event,  the  Daily  Advertiser  said :  "For  learn- 
ing, probity,  unaffected  piety,  and  a  gen- 
erous spirit  of  independence,  respected, 
esteemed  and  beloved  equally  by  his  pupils, 
his  parishioners  and  his  friends."  Mr.  Cutting 
is  described  as  of  short  stature  and  slender 
frame,  and  most  amiable  and  cheerful  dispo- 
sition. He  wore  a  powdered  wig  and  three- 
cornered  hat,  according  to  the  vogue  of  his 
time.  He  married  Frances  Gambauld,  a  grand- 
daughter of  John  Pintard,  alderman  oit  New 
York  in  1738,  and  representative  of  a  family 
of  Huguenot  descent,  which  settled  early  at 
New  Rochelle.  Two  children  of  this  marriage 
are  recorded :  William,  baptized  September  5, 
1773:  Charles  Spencer,  May  19,  1782,  at 
Hempstead. 

(H)  William  Cutting,  born  1773,  graduated 
from  Columbia  College  at  the  age  of  twenty 
years,  and  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law,  in 


which  he  was  eminently  successful,  being  as- 
sociated in  practice  with  F.  R.  Tillou.  In 
1807-8  he  was  sheriff  of  New  York  county, 
and  he  was  associated  with  his  brother-in-law, 
Robert  Fulton,  in  promoting  steam  navigation. 
He  secured  the  franchise  for  a  term  of  years 
for  the  ferry  between  New  York  and  Brook- 
lyn, at  the  foot  of  the  present  Fulton  street. 
He  died  in  1820.  He  married,  in  1800,  Ger- 
trude, daughter  of  Walter  and  Cornelia 
(Schuyler)  Livingston,  whose  sister  married 
Robert  Fulton.  Cornelia  Schuyler  was  a 
daughter  of  Peter  Schuyler,  and  a  niece  of 
Chancellor  Livingston.  Gertrude  Livingston 
was  descended  from  Robert  Livingston,  the 
founder  of  the  family,  whose  history  is  told 
elsewhere  in  this  work.  His  son,  Philip  Liv- 
ingston, was  the  father  of  Robert  Livingston, 
of  Livingston  Manor,  speaker  of  the  State  As- 
sembly, regent  of  the  University,  county  judge 
and  a  trustee  of  Columbia  College.  His  son, 
Walter  Livingston,  was  the  father  of  Ger- 
trude Livingston,  as  above  noted.  Among  the 
sons  of  William  Cutting  were:  The  Hon. 
Francis  Brockholst  Cutting,  a  prominent  attor- 
ney, and  member  of  Congress  from  1853  to 
1855  ;  Robert  Livingston  Cutting,  an  eminent 
banker  of  New  York;  Fulton  Cutting,  men- 
tioned below. 

(HI)  Fulton  Cutting,  fifth  son  of  William 
and  Gertrude  (Livingston)  Cutting,  was  born 
181 2,  in  New  York  City,  where  he  grew  to 
manhood.  He  married,  1840,  Elsie  Justine 
Bayard,  born  August  16,  1823,  in  Le  Roy, 
New  York,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth 
(McEvers)  Bayard,  of  Le  Roy  (see  Bayard 
VH  ) .  Children  :  William  Bayard  and  Robert 
Fulton,  both  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  William  Bayard,  son  of  Fulton  and 
Elsie  Justine  (Bayard)  Cutting,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 12,  1850,  in  New  York,  where  he  grew 
up,  receiving  his  primary  education  in  the  Mc- 
Mullen  School  of  this  city.  Entering  Colum- 
bia College  he  was  graduated  in  1869  with  the 
degree  of  A.  B.,  and  subsequently  pursued  the 
study  of  law  in  the  law  school  of  that  insti- 
tution, receiving  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  1872. 
He  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law,  and  also 
devoted  much  time  to  the  cause  of  progress 
in  the  city's  administration,  taking  a  leading 
part  in  movements  for  reform.  He  served 
some  years  as  civil  service  commissioner  of 
the  city.  He  was  an  officer  in  many  important 
corporations.     As  president  of  the  Improved 


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Dwellings  Association,  he  contributed  to  the 
improvement  of  living  conditions  among  the 
citizens  in  the  city.  He  was  treasurer  of  the 
South  Brooklyn  Railroad  &  Terminal  Com- 
pany; a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  New  York  Chamber  of  Commerce;  mem- 
ber of  the  advisory  committee  of  the  Audit 
Company;  a  director  of  the  American  Ex- 
change National  Bank;  the  City  &  Suburban 
Homes  Company;  the  New  York  &  South 
Brooklyn  Ferry  &  Steam  Transportation 
Company;  the  Florida  Central  &  Peninsula 
Railroad  Company,  and  the  Tropical  Land 
Company.  Mr.  Cutting  was  identified  with 
many  local  clubs,  including  the  Union,  Met- 
ropolitan, Tuxedo,  City,  University,  Riding, 
Church,  Players',  Grolier,  Lawyers',  Delta 
Phi,  Southside  Sportsmen's,  and  Westminster 
Kennell,  the  Patriarchs',  the  Downtown  As- 
sociation, and  the  Columbia  College  Alumni 
Association.  Pie  married  Olivia,  daughter  of 
Bronson  and  Anne  E.  (Peyton)  Murray,  and 
granddaughter  of  James  B.  and  Maria  (Bron- 
son) Murray.  Sons:  WilHam  Bayard  Cutting 
and  Bronson  Murray  Cutting. 

(IV)  Robert  Fulton  Cutting,  son  of  Fulton 
and  Elsie  Justine  (Bayard)  Cutting,  was  born 
in  June,  1852,  in  New  York  City,  and  gradu- 
ated at  Columbia  College  in  1871.  He  has 
given  much  attention  to  municipal  problems, 
and  has  been  active  in  various  lines  of  en- 
deavor for  the  promotion  of  the  general  wel- 
fare and  the  improvement  of  living  conditions. 
He  has  also  taken  an  active  part  in  political 
movements,  serving  as  head  of  the  Citizens' 
Union  in  various  campaigns,  beginning  with 
1897.  He  is  also  engaged  in  business  enter- 
prises, and  is  a  director  of  several  large  cor- 
porations. He  is  president  of  the  New  York 
Trade  School,  and  of  the  Association  for  Im- 
proving the  Condition  of  the  Poor,  and  a  di- 
rector of  the  City  &  Suburban  Homes  Com- 
pany. His  religious  affiliations  are  with  the 
Episcopal  church.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Delta  Phi  college  fraternity,  Columbia  Uni- 
versity Alumni  Association,  American  Mu- 
seum of  Natural  History,  and  American  Eco- 
nomic Association.  The  principal  clubs  with 
which  he  is  affiliated  are  the  Century,  City, 
Delta  Phi,  Church,  and  Tuxedo.  He  mar- 
ried (first),  1874,  Natalie  C.  P.  Schenck,  who 
died  in  1875;  he  married  (second),  January, 
1883,  Helen  Suydam,  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Anne    (Schermerhorn)     Suydam.      Children: 


Robert  Bayard,  Helen,  Ehzabeth  M.,  Fulton, 
C.  S.,  and  Ruth. 

(The  Bayard  Line). 
The  ancestry  of  this  family,  so  famous  in  the 
history  of  New  York,  can  be  traced  back  to  a 
very  remote  antiquity.  Those  who  take  an  in- 
terest in  antiquarian  investigations  have  traced 
its  origin  to  the  Province  of  Dauphine,  now 
the  Department  of  the  Isere  in  the  south- 
eastern part  of  France;  about  six  miles  from 
Grenoble,  the  ruins  of  the  Chateau  Bayard, 
crowning  a  hill  which  commands  one  of  the 
noblest  prospects  in  that  romantic  region, 
marks  what  is  regarded  as  the  cradle  of  the 
race.  They  were  distinguished  from  the  earli- 
est times  for  courage  in  war  and  fidelity  to 
tlieir  sovereign.  A  Signeur  de  Bayard,  then 
the  head  of  the  house,  was  slain  at  the  bat- 
tie  of  Poitiers  in  the  vain  attempt  to  prevent 
the  capture  of  King  John  the  Good  by  the 
English.  His  son  fell  in  combat  with  the  same 
enemy  at  Agincourt,  and  his  grandson  at 
Montlhery.  The  second  in  descent  from  this 
last  has  furnished  to  posterity  an  illustrious 
example  of  the  perfect  knight  "without  fear 
and  without  reproach,"  the  famous  Chevalier 
Bayard,  the  captain  of  Charles  VIII,  Louis 
XII  and  Francis  I,  the  latter  of  whom  would 
receive  the  honor  of  knighthood  from  no  hand 
but  his.  In  1505,  single-handed,  he  kept  the 
bridge  of  the  Carigliano  against  the  Spaniards 
and  saved  the  whole  French  army.  In  the 
wars  between  Francis  and  the  Empero>- 
Charles  V  he  was  the  most  trusted  French 
leader,  and  fell  while  conducting  the  retreat 
at  the  passage  of  the  Sesia,  April  30,  1524. 
He  left  no  heirs  and  his  rank  and  estates  de- 
scended to  the  next  of  kin,  but  fame  will 
keep  his  honored  name  in  remembrance  down 
to  the  latest  ages.  The  family  name  Du  Ter- 
rail  was  merged  in  the  territorial  name  Bayard. 
Nicholas  Bayard,  the  ancestor  of  the  Amer- 
ican family,  was  descended  from  an  uncle  of 
the  Chevalier,  who  went  to  Languedoc,  em- 
braced the  Protestant  faith  and  became  a 
minister.  Like  thousands  of  others  he  fled  to 
England  to  escape  Roman  Catholic  persecu- 
tion, was  pastor  of  Norwich  and  was  connect- 
ed with  the  churches  of  "The  Olive."  He 
was  pastor  of  Antwerp,  1591,  and  at  Zierick- 
see,  1594-1613,  at  which  place  he  died  in  1617. 
He  married  Blandina  Conde.  Their  son,  La- 
zare  Bayard,  was  also  a  minister  and  was  as- 


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sistant  to  his  father  at  Ziericksee  in  1601.  He 
was  adopted  by  the  churches,  and  was  sent  to 
Leyden  for  his  education.  He  belonged  to  the 
church  of  "The  Olive,"  and  visited  several 
churches.  He  was  at  Breda  during  the  siege, 
1607,  was  at  Amsterdam  in  1632,  returned  to 
Breda  in  1637,  and  died  there  in  1643.  He 
married  Judith  De  Vos,  at  Ziericksee,  and  had 
children:  Judith,  baptized  November  16,  1608; 
and  Samuel,  baptized  at  Breda,  September, 
1609.  Judith  married  Peter  Stuyvesant,  at 
Amsterdam,  in  1646.  Samuel  Bayard  married 
Anna,  sister  of  Peter  Stuyvesant,  and  lived  in 
Holland,  dying  in  middle  life.  His  widow, 
with  their  three  sons,  Belthazar,  Petrus  and 
Nicholas,  came  to  New  Amsterdam  with  Gov- 
ernor Stuyvesant,  arriving  May  11,  1647. 
Each  of  the  sons  left  numerous  descendants 
in  this  country.  Belthazar  married  Maritje 
Lockermans,  and  made  his  will  March  4,  1699, 
in  which  he  mentions  his  wife  and  children, 
Ariantie  ver  Planck;  Anna  Maria,  wife  of  Au- 
gustus Jay;  Jacobus,  Convert  and  Judy.  This 
will  was  proved  February  19,  1706.  Petrus 
and  descendants  receive  extended  mention  in 
this  work. 

(I)  Nicholas  Bayard,  youngest  son  of  Sam- 
uel and  Anna  (Stuyvesant)  Bayard,  was  born 
in  1644,  in  Alphen,  Holland,  and  was  a  small 
child  when  he  accompanied  his  widowed 
mother  to  this  country.  He  achieved  the  great- 
est distinction  of  any  member  of  the  family 
under  the  Dutch  administration.  In  1664  he 
was  appointed  clerk  of  the  common  council, 
subsequently  became  Stuyvesant's  private  sec- 
retary, and  was  made  surveyor  of  the  prov- 
ince. When  the  Dutch  reconquered  New  York 
in  1672,  he  was  made  secretary  of  the  colony. 
Under  the  British  Governor  Dpngan,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  governor's  council,  and  is  said 
to  have  drafted  Dongan's  charter  granted  in 
the  year  when  Bayard  was  mayor  of  New 
York,  1685.  As  councilor,  the  latter  was  a 
member  of  Dongan's  court  of  exchequer,  con- 
stituted in  that  year.  He  served  frequently  as 
alderman,  and  was  colonel  in  command  of  the 
New  York  militia.  In  1688-9  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  council  of  Lieutenant-Governor 
Nicholson,  who  held  office  under  James  II. 
About  this  time  the  latter  was  succeeded  by 
William  of  Orange,  and  the  officials  acting  un- 
der James  II.  fell  into  disfavor.  The  militia 
officers  signed  an  agreement  in  support  of  Wil- 
liam before  the  knowledge  of  his  accession  had 


reached  this  country,  and  refused  to  recognize 
the  authority  of  Nicholson  and  his  council. 
Bayard,  Philipse  and  Van  Cortlandt  were  re- 
fused recognition  by  the  new  government,  and 
a  committee  of  safety  was  appointed  to  main- 
tc^in  law  and  order  until  a  duly  credited  officer 
from  William  should  arrive.  Bayard  violent- 
ly opposed  this  government,  and  was  lodged 
in  jail  for  a  year.  Bayard  was  a  man  of  bril- 
liant intellect,  but  through  political  disfavor, 
his  last  years  were  passed  under  a  cloud.  His 
will  was  made  May  9,  1707,  and  proved  April 
19,  171 1,  and  he  probably  died  near  the  latter 
date.  His  estate  was  left  to  his  wife  and  son 
Samuel.  The  latter  is  the  only  child  recorded 
in  the  Old  Dutch  Church  of  New  York.  He 
married,  May  23,  1666,  Judith  Verlet. 

(II)  Samuel,  only  son  of  Nicholas  and  Ju- 
dith (Verlet)  Bayard,  was  baptized  September 
5,  1669,  in  the  Dutch  Church  of  New  York, 
and  resided  in  this  city.  His  wife  received 
from  her  father  a  house  and  lot  on  the  east 
side  of  Broad  street,  next  south  of  the  house 
given  to  her  sister,  Mrs.  Stephen  De  Lancey, 
better  known  in  later  years  as  Fraunces  Tav- 
ern. He  married,  March  12,  1696,  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Stephen  Van  Cortlandt,  and  they 
lived  in  the  house  above  mentioned,  on  the  east 
side  of  Broad  street,  and  it  is  apparent  that 
Samuel  Bayard  was  possessed  of  considerable 
property,  which  he  disposed  of  by  will.  His 
eldest  child,  Judith,  married  Richard  \'an 
Dam,  received  a  house  and  lot,  which  is  now 
the  southeast  corner  of  Stone  street  and  Han- 
over Square.  To  his  daughter  Gertrude,  wife 
of  Peter  Campbell,  he  left  property  in  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey.  His  son  Nicholas 
received  a  house  and  lot  on  Broad  street.  His 
son  Samuel,  inherited  "my  house  and  lot 
where  I  now  live ;  extending  from  Duke  street 
to  Princess  street."  This  was  a  large  lot  on 
the  north  side  of  Stone  street,  east  of  the  nar- 
row lane  called  "Jews  Alley,"  and  extending 
to  Beaver  street.  South  William  street  was 
extended  through  this  lot  in  1826.  The  son 
Samuel  also  received  a  garden  on  the  north 
side  of  Princess  street.  The  daughter  Mar- 
garet, who  married  James  Van  Home,  inher- 
ited two  houses  and  lots  extending  from  Dock 
street  to  Duke  street.  This  is  now  Pearl 
street.  An  unmarried  daughter,  Anna,  re- 
ceived two  houses  and  lots  on  the  north  side 
of  Wall  street.  The  children  recorded  in  the 
Dutch  Church  of  New  York  are :    Judith,  bap- 


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tized  December  13,  1696;  Nicholas,  August  28, 
1698;  Stephanus,  May  31,  1700;  Margareta, 
December  4,  1706,  died  young;  Margareta,  De- 
cember 15,  1708,  died  young;  Samuel  and  Ja- 
cobus (twins),  July  i,  1711;  Samuel,  July  24, 
1715;  Margareta,  May  24,  1719;  Anna,  Au- 
gust 3,  1720. 

(III)  Stephen,  second  son  of  Samuel  and 
Margaret  (Van  Cortlandt)  Bayard,  was  bap- 
tized May  31,  1700,  in  the  Dutch  Church  of 
New  York.  He  was  mayor  of  New  York  in 
1744,  and  member  of  the  governor's  council  in 
1746-7.  His  last  years  were  spent  in  Bergen 
county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  died  in  1757. 
His  will  directs  "my  body  to  be  privately  in- 
terred and  none  but  my  relations  to  be  invited, 
and  none  more  remote  than  Cousins  German." 
He  married  (first),  March  12.  1725,  Alida, 
daughter  of  Col.  Samuel  and  Margaret  (Liv- 
ingston) Vetch.*  He  married  (second)  Eve 
Schuyler.  His  children,  recorded  in  New 
York,  were :  Samuel,  baptized  January  16, 
1726;  Nicholas,  November  22,  1727;  William, 
June  15,  1729;  Stephen,  March  5,  1731  ;  Ste- 
phanus, October  15,  1732;  Nicholas,  April  16, 
1735;  Vetch.  September  15,  1736;  Nicholas, 
April  26,  1738;  Robert,  July  15,  1739;  Mar- 
garita, August  30,  1741.  Only  three  of  these 
survived:  William,  Margarita  and  Robert. 
The  last  named  was  known  as  Mayor  Robert 
Bayard.  He  married  Rebecca,  daughter  of 
Hon.  Charles  Apthorpe  of  Boston.  By  his 
father's  will,  he  received  a  farm  at  Weehaw- 
ken,  with  the  ferry. 

(IV)  \\'illiam,  oldest  surviving  son  of  Ste- 
phen and  Alida  (Vetch)  Bayard,  was  born 
June  I.  1729,  and  baptized  June  15  of  the  same 
year,  in  New  York.  He  was  an  active  and 
useful  citizen  for  many  years.  In  1761  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and 
from  that  year  until  1768  was  a  member  of 
the  State  Assembly.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  provincial  legislature  in  1774  and  served 
on  its  committee  of  correspondence,  in  which 
capacity  he  visited  Massachusetts  and  persuad- 
ed the  legislature  of  that  colony  to  address  a 
protest  to  the  British  government  against  un- 
just taxation,  similar  to  one  previously  adopt- 
ed  by   the    New   York    legislature.      He   was 

*  Col.  Samuel  Vetch  was  a  Scotchman,  re- 
siding in  Boston;  was  a  commissioner  for  trea- 
ties for  Massachusetts  in  1705,  and  adjutant  gen- 
eral in  1709.  He  was  a  colonel  in  command  of 
the  Massachusetts  forces  in  the  expedition 
against  Canada  in  1709-11. 


also  a  member  of  the  first  Continental  Con- 
gress, known  as  the  "Stamp  Act  Congress," 
and  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  commit- 
tee of  fifty-one  in  1774,  at  which  time  he  joined 
the  Sons  of  Liberty.  When  war  became  cer- 
tain, however,  he  abandoned  the  Continental 
cause,  and  became  intimate  with  General  Gage, 
the  British  commander.  Two  of  his  sons, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  John  Bayard  and  Major 
Samuel  \'etch  Bayard,  were  British  officers 
during  the  revolution.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  the  father  was  attainted,  and  his  large  es- 
tates in  New  York  City  and  on  the  site  of  the 
present  Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  were  confiscat- 
ed. He  went  abroad  and  died  at  Southamp- 
ton. England,  in  1804.  His  New  York  home 
was  in  the  section  known  as  the  village  of 
Greenwich.  Here  he  had  a  fine  tract  of  three 
acres,  fronting  the  river,  which  he  purchased 
before  1770.  After  the  revolution  it  was  con- 
fiscated and  sold  to  Dr.  Charles  McKnight. 
It  was  probably  purchased  from  him  by  Wil- 
liam Bayard,  Jr..  as  it  was  his  country  seat. 
It  was  in  this  house  that  Alexander  Hamihon 
died  after  his  fatal  duel  with  Aaron  Burr. 
In  1833  the  heirs  of  William  Bayard  Jr.  sold 
the  house  and  land  to  Francis  B.  Cutting  for 
about  $50,000.  In  April,  1835,  it  was  divided 
into  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  lots  and  sold 
at  auction  for  $225,000.  Streets  were  extend- 
ed through  it  and  the  place  where  the  mansion 
stood  is  now  No.  82  Jane  street.  A  New  York 
newspaper  of  1775  contains  the  following 
item:  "Last  Sunday  week  (June  10.  1775) 
the  House  of  William  Bayard,  Esq.,  at  Green- 
wick,  was  struck  by  Lightning,  which  occa- 
sioned considerable  darnage.  In  several  apart- 
ments large  Pier  glasses  were  broken,  and  a 
quantity  of  silver  plate  contained  in  a  chest 
was  pierced  and  otherwise  affected  without 
doing  the  least  injury  to  the  chest." 

He  married,  June  13,  1750.  Catherine, 
daughter  of  John  McEvers.  The  children 
who  survived  him  were:  John  Bayard,  lieu- 
tenant-colonel in  the  British  army ;  Alida,  wife 

of Johnson ;  Catherine,  wife  of 

Roberts;  Samuel  \'etch,  major  in  the  British 
army ;  William,  Robert,  and  Mary,  afterwards 
Lady  Arnold. 

(V)  \\'illiam  (2).  son  of  William  (i)  and 
Catherine  (McEvers)  Bayard,  was  born  in 
New  York,  and  became  a  very  successful  busi- 
ness man  of  that  city.  For  many  years  he  was 
head  of  the  leading  mercantile  firm  of  Bayard. 


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Le  Roy  &  McEvers.  He  was  a  director  of  the 
Bank  of  America,  and  president  of  a  savings 
bank  at  its  beginning  in  1819.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  governor 
of  the  New  York  Hospital,  president  of  the 
Sailors'  Snug  Harbor,  a  member  of  the  New 
York  Society  Library  and  of  St.  John's  So- 
ciety, and  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Tontine 
Coffee  House.  For  many  years  he  resided  at 
No.  43  Wall  street,  but  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
September  18,  1826,  his  home  was  on  State 
street.  He  married,  October  4,  1783,  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Samuel  and  Susanna  (Map- 
son)  Cornell.  She  died  in  1854,  probably  over 
ninety  years  of  age.  Children :  Susan,  wife 
of  Woolsey  Rogers;  Catherine,  first  wife  of 
Duncan  P.  Campbell;  Maria,  second  wife  of 
same ;  William,  married  Catherine  Hammond, 
and  left  no  issue ;  Justine,  wife  of  Joseph 
Blackwell ;  Robert,  mentioned  below ;  Harriet 
(Mrs.  Stephen  Van  Rensselaer). 

(VI)  Robert,  junior  son  of  William  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Cornell)  Bayard,  was  born  in 
1797,  in  New  York,  and  last  of  his  line  in  that 
city.  He  removed  to  Le  Roy,  New  York, 
where  he  continued  several  years,  but  returned 
to  the  city,  where  he  died  February  4,  1878, 
in  his  eighty-first  year.  He  married  Elizabeth, 
only  child  of  James  and  Ruth  (Hunter) 
McEvers.  The  last  named  was  very  young  at 
the  time  of  her  marriage  to  Mr.  McEvers. 
Mrs.  McEvers  was  seized  with  consumption 
and  went  with  her  husband  to  Europe  in  hope 
of  recovering.  She  died  in  Rome,  and  was 
buried  in  the  same  cemetery  where  rest  the  re- 
mains of  the  poet  Keats.  There  were  three 
children:  William,  born  February  16,  1821, 
died  May  25,  1842,  without  issue ;  Ruth  Hunt- 
er, June  22,  1822,  married  Alexander  Spiers 
Brown ;  Elsie  Justine,  mentioned  below. 

(VH)  Elsie  Justine,  youngest  child  of  Rob- 
ert and  Elizabeth  (McEvers)  Bayard,  was 
born  August  16,  1823,  in  Le  Roy,  New  York, 
and  became  the  wife  of  Fulton  Cutting,  of 
that  city  (see  Cutting  III). 


This  family  is  of  ancient 
GERARD     French  ancestry.     Many  of  its 

members  were  prominent  in  the 
civil  and  religious  history  of  the  country.  Dur- 
ing the  reign  of  Louis  XVT.  of  France,  many 
families  were  obliged  to  flee  from  the  country 
to  escape  religious  persecutions.  Among  the 
persons  to  find  an  asylum  in   Scotland  were 


Robert  and  Elizabeth  Gerard.  In  1774  they 
resided  at  Mill  of  Carnousie,  near  Banff,  and 
here  their  son  William  was  born. 

(I)  William  Gerard,  son  of  Robert  and  Eliz- 
abeth Gerard,  was  born  near  Banff",  Scotland. 
He  received  a  liberal  education  and  for  sev- 
eral years  resided  in  Gibraltar.  From  there  he 
removed  to  America,  previous  to  1780,  settling 
in  New  York  City,  where  he  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile pursuits  for  many  years.  He  met  with 
marked  success  in  his  business  ventures  and 
acquired  a  large  property.  He  took  a  promi- 
nent part  in  the  affairs  of  his  city  and  was 
highly  respected  by  the  citizens  of  New  York. 
Soon  after  his  arrival  in  New  York  he  married 

Christina  Glass,  daughter  of  John  and  

(Monroe)  Glass.  Her  father  was  a  native  of 
Tain,  England,  and  her  mother  was  from 
Ross-shire.  She  was  a  grand-niece  of  Sir 
Thomas  Hector  Monroe,  governor  of  the  East 
Indies.  Her  uncle.  Dr.  Alexander  Monroe, 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  University  of 
Edinburgh,  Scotland.  Her  brother,  Alexander 
S.  Glass,  was  a  prosperous  merchant  and  high- 
ly respected  citizen  of  the  city  of  New  York 
in  the  early  part  of  the  nineteenth  century. 
Her  mother  came  to  New  York  City  shortly 
before  the  Revolutionary  War  with  her  family 
of  children,  and  a  short  time  after  arriving  in 
this  country  she  married  Dr.  Alexander 
McLean,  surgeon  in  the  British  army.  A  son 
of  this  marriage  was  Hugh  Monroe  McLean, 
who  became  a  prominent  physician  in  New 
Y^ork.  He  resided  with  his  two  half-sisters  on 
Beekman  street  and  later  on  Warren  street. 
He  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  citizens  of 
the  city.  He  dispensed  liberal  hospitality  and 
his  residence  was  a  social  center  of  the  city. 
Seven  children,  three  sons  and  four  daughters 
were  born  to  William  and  Christina  (Glass) 
Gerard.  Among  them  were:  Ann,  married 
Andrew  Hosie ;  Christina,  married  Dr.  Jere- 
miah Fisher,  who  served  as  surgeon  in  the 
United  States  army  during  the  war  of  1812; 
James  Watson,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  James  Watson  Gerard,  son  of  William 
and  Christina  (Glass)  Gerard,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  1794,  and  died  in  1874.  He 
prepared  for  college  in  the  private  schools  of 
his  native  city,  and  in  1807  entered  Kings  Col- 
lege, now  Columbia  University,  and  graduated 
in  181 1  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts. 
In  1816  his  alma  mater  conferred  upon  him 
the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  course.     In 


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1812  he  joined  the  "Iron  Greys,"  a  company 
organized  for  service  in  the  defence  of  New 
York  City.  He  served  in  this  company  until 
the  close  of  the  war.  He  then  studied  law 
with  Hon.  George  Griffin,  one  of  the  most 
prominent  members  of  the  New  York  bar.  In 
1816  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  at  once 
began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  his  na- 
tive city.  He  met  with  marked  success  in  his 
profession  and  was  one  of  the  ablest  attorneys 
of  the  city.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in  all  mat- 
ters pertaining  to  the  upbuilding  of  the  city. 
It  was  largely  through  his  influence  that  the 
city  of  New  York  established  in  1825  the  first 
House  of  Refuge.  He  was  deeply  interested 
in  the  police  system  of  the  city  and  did  much 
to  promote  its  efficiency.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  to  advocate  the  uniforming  of  the  city 
police.  He  was  especially  interested  in  the  ed- 
ucational matters  and  gave  liberally  of  his  time 
and  money  to  assist  in  improving  the  school 
system  of  New  York  City.  He  served  for  sev- 
eral years  as  member  of  the  school  board  and 
inspector. 

He  married  Eliza,  daughter  of  Hon.  In- 
crease and  Elizabeth  Sumner,  of  Boston.  Her 
father  was  one  of  the  ablest  attorneys  of  his 
time,  and  served  as  governor  of  the  state  and 
as  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court.  Her 
brother,  William  H.  Sumner,  was  prominent 
in  the  affairs  of  his  state  and  during  the  war 
of  1812  was  an  officer  of  the  staff  of  Gover- 
nor Strong.  Four  children  were  born  to 
James  Watson  and  Eliza  (Sumner)  Gerard: 
William  Sumner,  died  young;  Ida,  married 
(first)  Frederick  Wiggin,  of  England,  and 
(second)  Sir  George  Buckley  Matthew,  a  dis- 
tinguished diplomat ;  Juliette  Ann,  married 
Thomas  C.  T.  Buckley,  a  law  partner  of  her 
father's ;  James  Watson,  mentioned  below. 

(Ill)  James  Watson  (2)  Gerard,  son  of 
James  Watson  (i)  and  Eliza  (Sumner)  Ge- 
rard, was  born  in  New  York  City,  and  died 
at  his  residence  in  Gramercy  Park,  1890.  He 
prepared  for  college  in  the  schools  of  his  city 
and  in  1839  entered  Columbia  University  and 
graduated  as  valedictorian  of  his  class  in 
1843  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts. 
In  1892  his  alma  mater,  in  recognition  of  his 
literary  and  historical  work,  conferred  upon 
him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws.  He 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1845.  He  practiced  his  profession  in  New 
York  for  several  years,  meeting  with  marked 


success.  He  was  one  of  the  ablest  lawyers 
of  the  city.  He  made  a  specialty  of  real  es- 
tate and  property  law,  in  which  line  he  was  a 
recognized  authority.  He  was  deeply  inter- 
ested in  educational  matters  and  served  as  one 
of  the  commissioners  of  education.  He  also 
served  as  state  senator  in  1876-77.  He  pos- 
sessed great  literary  ability  and  was  the  author 
of  several  valuable  historical  works.  His 
"Titles  to  Real  Estate  in  the  State  of  New 
York"  is  a  standard  work  on  the  subject. 
His  most  important  historical  work  was  "The 
Peace  of  Utrecht."  He  delivered  many  lec- 
tures before  the  New  York  Historical  So- 
ciety. He  also  prepared  for  the  Harper's 
Magazine  a  very  exhaustive  article  upon 
Annetje  Jans  and  the  claim  of  her  descend- 
ants to  the  Trinity  Church  property.  Mr. 
Gerard  resided  at  No.  17  Gramercy  Park. 
The  lot  on  which  the  mansion  was  located  was 
first  sold  to  Elihu  Townsend,  "banker,"  about 
1832  by  Samuel  B.  Ruggles.  On  March  25, 
1844,  Mr.  Gerard  purchased  the  lot  of  Mr. 
Townsend  and  soon  afterward  erected  his 
fine  mansion,  the  only  residence  on  Gramercy 
Park  that  is  at  this  time  owned  and  occupied 
by  the  family  who  built  it.  Mr.  Gerard  was 
a  member  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society, 
and  the  Players,  Tuxedo,  St.  Nicholas  and 
Union  clubs. 

He  married,  October  31,  1866,  Jenny  J. 
Angel,  daughter  of  Hon.  Benjamin  F.  Angel, 
a  former  minister  to  Sweden.  Her  mother 
was  Julia  (Jones)  Angel,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Horatio  Jones.  Three  children  were  born 
to  James  Watson  and  Jenny  J.  (Angel)  Ge- 
rard :  James  Watson,  mentioned  below ;  Sum- 
ner;  Julian  M.,  mentioned  below.  Mrs. 
Gerard  survives  her  husband.  She  is  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Society  of  Colonial 
Dames  and  served  for  some  time  as  vice- 
president  of  the  society.  She  is  a  direct  de- 
scendant of  Elder  William  Brewster,  who 
came  to  this  country  in  the  historic  "May- 
flower" and  became  prominent  in  the  history 
of  Massachusetts. 

(IV)  James  Watson  (3)  Gerard,  son  of 
James  Watson  (2)  and  Jenny  J.  (Angel) 
Gerard,  was  born  in  Geneseo,  New  York,  Au- 
gust 28,  1867.  He  prepared  for  college  at 
St.  Paul's  School,  Garden  City,  Long  Island, 
New  York,  and  entered  Columbia  University 
in  1886,  graduating  in  1890  with  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Arts.     In  1891  he  received  the 


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degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  his  alma  mater. 
In  1890  he  entered  the  New  York  Law  School 
and  graduated  in  1892  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Laws.  Soon  after  his  graduation 
he  entered  the  law  office  of  Bowers  &  Sands, 
and  in  1899  he  was  admitted  to  partnership 
in  the  firm.  He  has  won  distinction  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  He  is  the  attorney 
for  several  large  corporations  and  financial  in- 
stitutions. He  has  been  connected  with  many 
noted  cases,  the  most  important  being;  Sus- 
thal  versus  Mayor  William  Strong,  a  case 
involving  the  validity  of  the  Kings  Bridge 
franchise  granted  the  Third  Avenue  Railroad ; 
Press  Publishing  Company  versus  the  Ram- 
apo  Water  Company.  He  takes  great  interest 
in  the  state  militia.  He  was  commissioned 
second  lieutenant  in  Company  F,  Twelfth 
Regiment,  New  York  National  Guard.  He 
was  promoted  captain,  1892.  On  the  breaking 
out  of  the  Spanish-American  war  he  was 
commissioned  captain  and  served  on  the  staff 
of  Major-General  McCoskry.  In  June,  1900, 
he  was  appointed  quartermaster  with  rank  of 
major  of  the  First  Brigade,  New  York  Na- 
tional Guard.  He  is  president  of  the  Lawyers' 
Advertising  Company.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Bar  Association  of  the  City  of  New  York ; 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and  the 
Union,  Tuxedo,  Country,  University,  New 
York  Athletic,  Riding,  Fencers'  and  Demo- 
cratic clubs. 

(IV)  Julian  M.  Gerard,  son  of  James 
Watson  (2)  and  Jenny  J.  (Angel)  Gerard, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  May  12,  1875. 
He  attended  the  schools  of  Geneseo,  New 
York,  and  New  York  City,  and  completed  his 
preparation  for  college  at  the  celebrated  Gro- 
ton  School,  Groton,  Massachusetts.  He  en- 
tered Yale  University  in  1893  ^"^  graduated 
in  1897  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts. 
During  1897-98  he  traveled  extensively  in  the 
western  states,  and  in  this  last  year  entered 
the  Knickerbocker  Trust  Company  of  New 
York  City.  In  1903  he  was  made  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  company,  which  office  he  held  until 
1906,  when  he  resigned  to  become  a  member 
of  a  stock  exchange  firm.  In  1908  he  with- 
drew from  this  company  and  during  the  fol- 
lowing two  years  traveled  extensively  in  Co- 
lombia and  Equador.  South  America.  In 
1910  he  returned  to  the  Knickerbocker  Trust 
Company  as  vice-president,  which  position  he 
still  retains.     He  is  also  connected  with  many 


business  enterprises.  He  is  president  of  the 
Globe  Lithographing  Company,  and  is  a  direc- 
tor of  the  Commonwealth  Trust  Company  of 
Buffalo,  the  Schenectady  Trust  Company,  Se- 
curity Transfer  and  Register  Company,  Wash- 
ington Trust  Company  of  Seattle,  Washing- 
ton, and.  the  Banque  Franco-Americaine, 
Paris.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church, 
and  the  Union.  University,  St.  Anthony,  Sea- 
wanhaka-Corinthian,  Racquet,  Riding,  Yacht, 
and  Yale  clubs. 

He  married,  October  27,  1909,  Elizabeth 
Schedd,  a  native  of  New  York,  and  daughter 
of  Charles  Schedd.  They  have  one  child : 
Elizabeth,  born  October  15,  191 1. 


The     family     name     of 

WADS  WORTH  Wa  d  s  w  o  r  t  h  signifies 
Woods  Court,  or  court 
in  the  woods,  from  which  it  is  inferred  that 
the  one  upon  whom  this  surname  was  origin- 
ally bestowed  held  court  in  the  woods.  Such 
is  the  literal  interpretation.  In  the  German 
it  would  be  written  Waldes-hoff,  and  in  the 
Anglo-Saxon  Waldes-weorth.  Lower,  the 
expert  in  these  matters,  states  that  "worth" 
may  likewise  mean  a  possession,  such  as  a 
farm,  a  fort,  an  island,  etc.  Arthur,  another 
authority,  asserts  that  the  name  is  similar  to 
Woodsworth,  meaning  a  place  or  farm  in  the 
woods,  that  is  to  say,  a  clearing.  That  leads 
to  the  conclusion  that  the  first  user  of  the 
name  was  some  such  a  person  as  a  forester, 
as  in  the  days  of  Robin  Hood,  /.  e.,  not  a 
townsman  or  a  farmer.  It  is  also  maintained 
that  the  name  Walworth  is  merely  a  change  or 
corruption  brought  about  by  members  of  this 
same  family. 

Far  back  in  the  time  of  Edward  II.,  we 
find  another  spelling  of  the  name,  as  written 
by  Peter  de  Waddeworth,  and  in  1379.  Alicia 
de  Waddesworth,  both  in  England.  Thomas 
C.  Gentry,  in  his  book,  "Family  Names,"  de- 
clares the  derivation  is  Wades,  genitive  of 
wad — a  ford ;  and  weorth,  value,  price ;  valu- 
able, or  useful  ford. 

The  Wadsworth  Family  Arms :  Gules,  three 
fleur-de-lys  argent.  Crest:  On  a  globe  of  the 
world  winged  proper,  an  eagle  rising  or. 
Motto :  Aquila  non  captat  muscas. 

The  arms  date  back  to  the  battle  of  Cressy, 
France,  fought  there,  August  6,  1346,  between 
an  army  of  about  20.000  English,  under  Ed- 


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ward  III.,  and  between  50,000  and  60,000 
French,  under  Philip  VL,  when  the  soldiers 
were  archers.  The  motto  signifies  that  the 
bearer  of  these  arms  does  not  stoop  to  small 
things,  for  the  literal  translation  is,  "The  eagle 
does  not  catch  flies." 

(I)  William  Wadsworth  was  the  progenitor 
of  the  family  in  America.  The  ship  "Lion" 
cast  anchor  in  Boston  harbor,  Sunday  evening, 
September  16,  1632.  Winthrop's  record  states 
that  she  brought  "one  hundred  and  twenty- 
three  passengers,  whereof  fifty  were  children, 
all  in  good  health."  They  had  been  aboard 
twelve  weeks,  and  eight  weeks  from  Land's 
End.  The  ship  first  made  land  at  Cape  Ann, 
and  it  being  foggy,  could  move  only  by  using 
the  lead.  She  was  five  days  in  Massachusetts 
Bay  before  coming  to  anchor  before  Boston. 
Of  the  entire  list  of  passengers,  the  names  of 
only  thirty  are  preserved,  and  William  Wads- 
worth's  heads  the  list,  stating  his  family  con- 
sists of  four.  Christopher  Wadsworth  landed 
at  about  the  same  time ;  but  it  is  uncertain  that 
he  was  aboard  the  same  ship,  and  he  went  to 
Duxbury,  Massachusetts. 

These  settlers  were  not  of  the  laboring  class, 
as  was  the  case  of  a  number  coming  about  this 
time  or  earlier;  but  were  separatists,  coming 
here  in  order  to  withdraw  from  the  com- 
munion of  the  national  church.  On  the  other 
hand,  few  of  them  had  been  raised  in  opu- 
lence or  had  had  the  benefit  of  extended  edu- 
cation;  but  were  of  sturdy,  steadfast  middle 
class  of  English,  with  the  trait  of  exemplary 
morals. 

William  Wadsworth  took  his  family  to 
Newtown,  now  Cambridge.  Massachusetts. 
He  was  a  man  of  middle  age ;  but  the  date  of 
his  birth  is  unknown,  although  placed  conser- 
vatively at  1600.  It  is  probable  that  as  he 
induced  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hooker  to  come  to  the 
colony  from  his  pastoral  charge  in  Chelms- 
ford, about  twenty  miles  north  of  the  London 
district,  he  knew  and  loved  him  as  a  friend 
from  the  same  place. 

Soon  after  arriving  at  Cambridge,  he  was 
the  pioneer  of  a  house,  located  on  the  westerly 
side  of  Holyoke  street,  near  Harvard  Square. 
On  his  removal  to  Hartford,  Connecticut,  he 
sold  his  house  to  Elder  Champney.  He  was 
made  a  freeman,  November  6,  1632.  and  when 
the  town  organized,  he  was  chosen  a  member 
of  the  first  board  of  selectmen,  holding  that 
office    1634-35.      During   these   years    reports 


were  coming  to  him  of  the  rich,  unoccupied 
lands  on  the  Connecticut  river,  and  Mr. 
Hooker,  resolving  to  remove  thither  as  early 
as  1635,  was  an  inducement  for  Mr.  Wads- 
worth to  make  the  attempt  also.  As  there 
were  no  bridges  across  the  streams  and  forests 
practically  impenetrable,  progress  was  tedious, 
and  the  weaker  ones  had  to  be  carried  on  lit- 
ters, it  is  reported,  for  children  could  not  be 
expected  to  tramp  the  entire  distance. 

After  settling  at  Hartford,  William  Wads- 
worth was  chosen  collector,  in  1637,  and  from 
1642  to  1647  was  one  of  the  selectmen. 
Throughout  his  life  he  was  most  active  in 
affairs  of  the  colony  and  of  the  church.  He 
died  there  in  1675,  survived  by  his  second 
wife  and  their  children. 

William  Wadsworth  married  before  he  left 
England,  and  possibly  his  wife  died  before 
he  came  to  this  country.  By  her,  name  un- 
known, he  had  four  children.  In  1644  he 
married  (second)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Samuel  Stone,  and  by  her  he  had  six  children. 
She  died  in  1682.  Children:  Sarah,  married 
John  Wilcox:  William,  died  in  infancy;  Mary, 
married  Thomas  Stoughton ;  John,  see  for- 
ward;  Elizabeth,  born  in  1645,  married  John 
Terry;  Samuel,  born  in  1646;  Joseph,  born  in 
1650;  Sarah,  born  in  1650,  married  Jonathan 
Ashley;  Thomas,  born  in  1651 ;  Rebecca,  born 
in  1656. 

(II)  Sergeant  John  \\'adsworth,  son  of 
William  Wadsworth,  the  progenitor  of  the 
family,  was  born  in  England  and  came  to  this 
country  on  the  ship  "Lion,"  in  1632,  with  his 
father.  The  family  having  settled  at  New- 
town, or  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  he  early 
removed  to  Farmington,  Connecticut.  It  is 
supposed  that  upon  his  withdrawal  from  the 
family  circle  his  father  gave  him  a  certain 
allotment  or  financial  assistance,  for  he  re- 
ceived no  legacy  under  the  will.  He  resided 
at  the  latter  place  until  his  death,  in  1689,  his 
widow  surviving.  Not  only  was  he  one  of 
the  foremost  men  of  the  place,  but  he  became 
the  wealthiest  citizen  of  Farmington.  In 
1669  there  were  eighty-four  taxable  estates, 
and  his  was  the  third  in  greatest  value,  being 
rated  at  183  English  pounds.  His  name  ap- 
pears upon  the  records  as  Sergeant  John 
Wadsworth.  He  was  a  member  of  what  is 
now  the  state  senate,  and  was  present  when 
his  brother,  Joseph  Wadsworth,  seized  the 
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Sergeant  John  Wadsworth  married,  in  1652, 
Sarah  Stanley,  of  Hartford,  and  she  died  a 
widow  in  1718.  Children:  Sarah,  born  in 
1657,  married  Stephen  Root ;  Samuel,  born  in 
1660;  John,  born  in  1662;  Mercy,  born  in 
1665,  died  in  infancy;  William,  born  in  1671 ; 
Nathaniel,  born  in  1677;  James  (twin),  see 
forward;  Thomas,  born  in  1680;  Hezekiah, 
born  in  1683. 

( HI )  Captain  James  Wadsworth,  son  of 
Sergeant  John  and  Sarah  (Stanley)  Wads- 
worth, was  born  at  Farmington,  Connecticut, 
in  1677,  a  twin  brother  of  Nathaniel,  and  died 
at  Durham,  Connecticut,  in  1756.  He  obtained 
a  patent  with  thirty-four  others  in  1708,  con- 
ferring on  them  the  proprietorship  of  the  land 
in  Durham ;  but  previous  to  this  time  he  had 
removed  thither  from  Farmington.  He  was 
familiarly  known  both  as  "Major"  and  "Col- 
onel." By  profession  he  was  a  lawyer,  and 
by  his  ability  and  unusual  qualifications  held 
as  many  of  the  ofifices  of  Durham  as  he  de- 
sired, consequently  he  received  several  ap- 
pointments of  trust  and  honor  from  the  col- 
ony. He  was  the  first  military  captain,  and 
the  first  justice  of  the  peace,  a  judge  of  the 
court,  and  from  1710-1718  he  was  representa- 
tive. Captain  James  Wadsworth  married 
Ruth  Noyes.     Child :  James,  see  forward. 

(IV)  Hon.  James  (2)  Wadsworth,  son  of 
Captain  James  (i)  and  Ruth  (Noyes)  Wads- 
worth, was  born  at  Durham,  Connecticut, 
about  1700,  and  died  there  in  1777.  He  was 
familiarly  known  as  "Squire"  James  Wads- 
worth. He  held  a  great  number  of  important 
positions,  among  them  being  representative  for 
about  twenty  years,  beginning  with  1738.  In 
1759  he  and  his  son  James  were  representa- 
tives to  the  General  Court  from  Durham. 
Hon.  James  Wadsworth  married  Abigail  Pen- 
field.  Children:  i.  James,  born  in  Durham, 
in  the  revolution,  promoted  to  brigadier- 
general  in  1776,  and  major-general  in  1777 ; 
member  of  the  Continental  Congress ;  revised 
the  militia  laws  of  Connecticut;  died  in  1816; 
married  Catherine  Guernsey.  2.  John  Noyes, 
see  forward.     3.  Ruth,  born  in  1743. 

(V)  John  Noyes  Wadsworth,  son  of  Hon. 
James  (2)  and  Abigail  (Penfield)  Wads- 
worth, was  born  at  Durham,  Connecticut,  in 
1732,  and  died  there  in  1786.  He  owned  and 
operated  a  large  farm  at  Durham,  where  he 
continued  to  reside  all  his  life.  John  Noyes 
Wadsworth  married,  in  1757,  Esther  Parsons. 


Children:  i.  John  Noyes,  born  in  1758  at 
Durham ;  was  a  farmer ;  married  Susan  Camp ; 
by  whom:  John,  born  in  1781,  and  Wedworth, 
born  in  1782.  2.  William,  born  in  1761 ;  re- 
moved to  Geneseo,  New  York;  achieved  mili- 
tary fame  and  was  an  active  man ;  never  mar- 
ried, and  died  in  1833.    3.  James,  see  forward. 

(VI)  James  (3)  Wadsworth,  son  of  John 
Noyes  and  Esther  (Parsons)  Wadsworth, 
was  born  in  Durham,  Connecticut,  April  20, 
1768,  and  died  in  Geneseo,  New  York,  June  8, 
1844.  His  father  died  during  his  collegiate 
education,  and  he  graduated  at  Yale  in  1787. 
He  became  possessed  of  a  fair  estate,  though 
not  sufficient  to  be  considered  a  competency 
even  in  those  days.  He  and  his  elder  brother, 
William,  heard  of  the  opportunities  to  be 
gained  by  removing  to  the  western  part  of 
New  York  state.  Colonel  Jeremiah  Wads- 
worth, of  Hartford,  a  relative,  having  ac- 
quired an  interest  in  the  Genesee  Valley  tract 
about  1790,  or  earlier,  and  he  proposed  to  the 
two  youths  that  they  go  out  there  and  assume 
its  management.  They  departed  in  1790  for 
their  enterprise  on  the  eastern  bank  of  the 
Genesee  river,  the  locality  where  Geneseo 
now  stands.  They  were  full  of  courage  to 
undertake  the  adventure,  and  their  enterprise 
bore  abundant  fruitage.  There  was  hardly 
a  clearing  at  that  time  west  of  Little  Falls, 
and  the  remainder  of  the  way  was  through 
a  route  infested  with  wild  beasts  and  savages. 
In  order  to  make  their  way,  they  took  along 
several  laborers  and  on  arrival  erected  log 
houses.  They  ascended  the  Hudson  by  boat 
and  followed  the  Mohawk,  and  at  the  end  of 
the  trip  by  boat  purchased  livestock  to  lead 
with  them.  When  they  found  an  open  prairie 
beside  the  Genesee,  they  rested,  and  thus  has 
sprung  up  the  thriving  town.  Fever  and  ague 
seized  the  workmen  in  the  fall,  and  they  hast- 
ened back  to  Connecticut,  but  the  Wadsworth 
brothers  remained. 

The  following  year,  1791,  they  built  houses 
to  be  more  comfortable,  and  also  erected  a 
grist  and  sawmill,  run  by  the  water  of  the 
Genesee  river.  The  business  of  disposing  of 
some  of  their  land  to  those  desiring  farms  in 
that  fertile  region,  growing  somewhat  exten- 
sive, James  took  up  the  work  of  the  land 
office  while  William  attended  to  the  farming 
interests.  They  made  profit  not  alone  at  the 
mill  with  flour  and  lumber,  but  their  stock 
having  increased,  they  were  in  the  market  to 


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sell  to  others.  Their  original  tract  contained 
over  two  thousand  acres,  and  it  was  not  many 
years  before  they  were  the  largest  sheep  and 
wool  producers  in  the  United  States,  ranking 
with  General  Wade  Hampton,  of  South  Caro- 
lina, who  produced  his  results  with  help  of 
slaves,  while  the  Wadsworths  did  not.  His 
latter  years  were  saddened  by  the  loss  of  his 
wife,  brother  and  an  affectionate  daughter. 
His  whole  life  was  one  of  industry  and  careful 
economy,  and  yet  he  differed  from  many  men 
of  great  fortune,  for  he  was  uniformly  the 
poor  men's  friend  in  distress,  provided  the 
wants  merited  his  help.  Strictly  speaking,  he 
was  one  of  the  early  scientific  planters,  and  he 
wrote  on  agricultural  subjects  in  order  to 
benefit  others.  He  was  a  great  benefactor  by 
promoting  education,  seeing  the  need  and  the 
result  to  be  derived  thereby.  He  wrote, 
printed  and  circulated  at  his  own  expense, 
publications  along  educational  lines,  and  em- 
ployed persons  to  lecture  thereon,  offering 
premiums  to  the  towns  which  should  first  es- 
tablish school  libraries.  In  1838  he  procured 
the  enactment  of  the  school  library  law, 
founded  a  library  and  institution  for  scientific 
lectures  at  Geneseo,  endowing  it  with  $10,000. 
In  his  sales  of  land  he  always  stipulated  that 
a  tract  of  125  acres  in  each  township  should 
be  granted  free  for  a  church,  and  another,  of 
same  size  for  a  school.  His  donations,  before 
1844,  when  men  were  not  figured  in  the  mill- 
ions as  now,  exceeded  $90,000  for  the  cause 
of  education. 

James  Wadsworth  married  Naomi  Wolcott, 
of  East  Windsor,  Connecticut.  Children:  i. 
Harriet,  born  in  1805,  died  in  1835;  married 
Hon.  Martin  Brimmer,  of  Boston.  2.  James 
Samuel,  see  forward.  3.  William  Wolcott, 
bom  in  Geneseo,  in  1810,  died  in  1852;  mar- 
ried, in  1846,  Emeline  Austin,  of  Boston;  by 
whom:  i.  William  Austin,  born  in  1847.  ii. 
Livingston,  born  in  1849,  died  in  1855.  iii. 
Herbert,  born  in  185 1.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  at 
Geneseo,  in  1815.  died  in  1851 ;  married  Au- 
gustus Murray,  member  of  Parliament  from 
Hastings. 

(VH)  General  James  Samuel  Wadsworth, 
son  of  James  (3)  and  Naomi  (Wolcott) 
Wadsworth,  was  born  in  Geneseo,  New  York, 
October  30,  1808,  and  was  killed  at  the  battle 
in  the  Wilderness,  May  8,  1864.  His  early 
years  gave  promise  of  what  his  manhood 
would  be.     Although   never  quarrelsome,   he 


was  ever  ready  to  resent  insult  or  resist  op- 
pression. His  friendships  were  fixed  and  un- 
wavering; and  to  serve  a  friend,  he  would 
risk  either  person  or  property.  He  resided 
all  his  lifetime  on  the  Wadsworth  homestead 
property  where  he  was  born,  and  his  domestic 
relations  were  most  happy,  for  he  was  a  most 
affectionate  husband  and  father.  His  hospi- 
tality was  unbounded,  and  as  a  host  he  was 
the  possessor  of  a  pleasing  faculty  for  enter- 
taining, his  conversation  being  always  ani- 
mated, amusing  and  instructive.  He  lived  a 
truly  Christian  life,  although  not  a  professor 
of  religion,  and  loved  well  his  fellowmen.  It 
was  his  delight  to  benefit  the  human  family 
so  far  as  coming  within  his  field,  and  he  was 
especially  liberal  to  his  numerous  tenants 
when  adversity  overtook  them  in  the  rearing 
of  stock  or  crops.  Highly  educated,  he  pos- 
sessed all  the  qualities  which  make  men  good 
and  great.  Many  remember  him  as  a  man 
of  strictest  sincerity  in  words  and  deeds, 
genial,  cordial  and  affable  to  men  in  all  walks 
of  life;  frank  of  expression,  yet  fearing  to 
offend.  His  character,  while  pre-eminently 
one  of  integrity,  coupled  vigorous  common 
sense  with  ready  judgment  and  tact.  Nobody 
ever  connected  his  name  with  an  act  of  in- 
justice, or  of  anything  approaching  oppression 
in  his  dealings,  public  or  private. 

He  was  educated  at  Hamilton  College,  after- 
wards at  Harvard  University,  and  then  studied 
law  at  Yale,  completing  his  work  in  this  line 
in  the  ofiice  of  Daniel  Webster,  and  was  ad- 
mitted in  1833.  He  inherited  his  Uncle  Wil- 
liam's 15,000  acres,  the  same  year,  and  deter- 
mined to  look  after  these  interests. 

He  was  president  of  the  State  Agricultural 
Society  in  1842 ;  was  a  participant  in  the  not- 
able free  soil  movement  in  1848;  an  elector  in 
the  Republican  ticket  in  1856  and  i860;  was 
a  delegate  to  the  peace  conference  of  Febru- 
ary, 1861  ;  ran  against  Hon.  Horatio  Seymour 
for  governor  of  New  York  in  1862. 

The  early  part  of  1861  found  Mr.  Wads- 
worth at  his  temporary  home  in  New  York 
City.  The  President  had  called  for  troops  to 
defend  the  seat  of  government,  for  the  na- 
tional treasury  had  suffered  and  the  navy  was 
sent  abroad,  leaving  it  unprotected  from  the 
rebels.  With  his  own  purse  and  credit  he 
rushed  to  the  country's  rescue,  furnishing  a 
vessel  with  a  cargo  of  army  supplies,  and 
going  with  it  to  Annapolis,  where  he  person- 


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ally  superintended  its  distribution  among  the 
troops  summoned  to  protect  Washington.  He 
then  offered  his  services  in  any  capacity  in 
which  he  might  be  useful,  and  from  that  time 
abandoned  his  private  affairs.  As  a  volunteer 
aide  to  General  McDowell,  he  engaged  in  the 
first  battle  of  Bull  Run,  and  by  his  courage 
retrieved  much  of  the  disaster.  In  July,  1861, 
he  was  appointed  a  brigadier-general,  and  as- 
signed to  a  command  in  the  Army  of  the  Po- 
tomac. In  March,  1862,  he  was  ordered  to 
Washington  to  be  military  governor  of  the 
city,  serving  thus  for  nine  months.  At  his 
own  request,  in  December,  1862,  he  was  or- 
dered to  the  field,  reporting  to  Major-General 
Reynolds,  commanding  the  First  Corps,  and 
was  assigned  to  the  command  of  his  first  divi- 
sion, which  helped  in  the  battle  of  Chancel- 
lorsville.  At  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  his  was 
the  first  infantry  division  engaged,  fighting 
valiantly  from  nine  in  the  morning  until  four 
in  the  afternoon,  in  the  fiercest  of  that  memor- 
able struggle.  His  exploits  on  the  field  there 
placed  him  second  to  none  in  the  entire  army. 
General  Wadsworth  took  an  active  part  in 
the  arrangements  of  the  campaign  of  General 
Grant  in  the  spring  of  1864  against  the  Vir- 
ginia Army,  and  he  was  charged  with  a  lead- 
ing command.  A  very  decisive  work  lay  be- 
fore the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  The  country 
was  in  bad  condition,  anxiously  awaiting  a 
change  from  the  serious  reverses.  He  re- 
sponded to  this  feeling  with  determination. 
He  was  in  charge  of  the  Fourth  Division, 
Fifth  Corps.  He  crossed  the  Rapidan  on 
May  4th,  and  on  the  following  evening  his 
command  was  engaged  for  several  hours, 
losing  heavily.  On  the  morning  of  the  sixth, 
General  Winfield  Scott  Hancock  ordered  him 
into  action  on  the  right  of  the  corps.  He  made 
several  charges  with  his  division,  and  finally 
carried  an  important  position,  but  was  unable 
to  hold  it,  the  enemy  coming  on  in  superior 
numbers.  The  fighting  had  commenced  at 
daylight,  and  at  eight  o'clock  was  terrific. 
General  Hancock  consulted  with  him,  and  al- 
lotted six  brigades  to  carry  a  certain  position. 
Three  or  four  assaults  were  made  without  suc- 
cess, and  his  horse  was  killed  under  him.  At 
eleven  o'clock  Hancock  ordered  a  cessation  of 
the  terrible  task,  and  the  enemy  was  indis- 
posed to  attack.  At  noon  Longstreet  precipi- 
tated his  corps  on  General  Wadsworth's  left, 
creating  confusion.     He  was  worried  by  this, 


and  immediately  threw  his  division  forward, 
and  while  thus  trying  to  hold  his  line  was 
mortally  wounded.  The  enemy  was  charging 
at  the  time,  and  got  possession  of  the  ground 
before  the  general  could  be  moved.  He  was 
carried  to  the  rebel  hospital  that  Friday  after- 
noon, and  lived  until  Sunday  morning.  His 
undaunted  bravery  is  proved  by  three  horses 
being  shot  and  killed  beneath  him  on  that 
single  morning.  He  was  buried  at  Geneseo, 
and  a  monument  erected.  Horace  Greeley  said 
of  him:  "The  country's  salvation  claimed  no 
nobler  sacrifice  than  that  of  James  S.  Wads- 
worth." 

General  James  Samuel  Wadsworth  married 
Mary  Craig  Wharton.  Children:  i.  Charles 
Frederick,  born  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
in  1835 ;  engaged  in  iron  manufacture  and 
farming;  in  the  civil  war  was  attached  to  the 
Department  of  the  Gulf,  serving  as  captain 
under  General  Banks,  and  participating  in  the 
attack  on  Port  Hudson;  after  a  year  of  active 
service,  resigned  on  account  of  imperative 
duties  at  home ;  married,  in  1864,  Jessie  Bur- 
den ;  child :  Mary  Wharton,  born  in  1866.  2. 
Cornelia,  born  in  1839;  married  (first)  Mont- 
gomery Ritchie;  married  (second)  John 
Adair.  3.  Craig  Wharton,  born  in  1841 ;  in 
the  civil  war  was  attached  to  his  father's  staff 
for  a  time,  afterwards  holding  responsible  and 
hazardous  positions  in  other  departments.  4. 
Nancy,  born  in  1843;  married  Edward  M. 
Rogers.  5.  James  Wolcott,  see  forward.  6. 
Elizabeth,  born  in  1848;  married  (first)  Ar- 
thur Post;  married  (second)  Arthur  Smith 
Barry,  Lord  Barrymore. 

(VIII)  Hon.  James  Wolcott  Wadsworth, 
son  of  General  James  Samuel  Wadsworth  and 
Mary  Craig  (Wharton)  Wadsworth,  was  born 
at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  October  16, 
1846,  and  resides  on  the  old  estate  in  Geneseo, 
New  York,  which  his  grandfather  secured  in 
1790.  He  entered  Yale  Scientific  School,  but 
in  1864,  after  the  death  of  his  gallant  father, 
being  then  seventeen  years  old,  he  entered  the 
army  as  aide-de-camp  on  the  stafif  of  General 
Gouverneur  Kemble  Warren,  commanding  the 
Fifth  Army  Corps  of  the  Army  of  the  Poto- 
mac, and  continued  in  active  service  until  the 
close  of  the  Rebellion.  He  then  assumed 
charge  of  the  family  estate  at  Geneseo,  and 
for  three  terms  represented  that  place  in  the 
board  of  supervisors.  He  was  eleced  a  mem- 
ber of  assembly  in  1878  and  1879,  where  he 


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was  on  the  committee  of  ways  and  means 
and  other  important  committees,  as  well  as  of 
the  railroad  investigating  committee  of  1879. 
He  was  elected  state  comptroller  in  1879,  on 
the  same  ticket  with  Hon.  Alonzo  B.  Cornell, 
and  ran  far  ahead  of  the  other  candidates, 
notably  of  the  candidate  for  governor,  Cor- 
nell. He  was  the  youngest  comptroller  ever 
in  office  in  New  York.  He  was  elected  to  fill 
out  the  unexpired  term  of  Representative 
Lapham  in  the  forty-seventh  congress. 

So  able  has  Mr.  Wads  worth  been  as  a  party 
leader,  that  Livingston  county  has  gone  Re- 
publican for  a  quarter  of  a  century  or  more, 
electing  nearly  everyone  on  the  ticket,  no  mat- 
ter what  the  office.  The  true  significance  back 
of  this  is  that  the  people  of  his  county  have 
been  pleased  by  his  conduct  of  the  offices  he 
has  held  and  have  approved  of  his  choice. 
While  in  the  assembly  he  was  continually  in 
evidence,  with  the  result  that  he  was  regarded 
as  a  character  of  state  importance,  and  equally 
so  was  his  effort  in  the  forty-seventh,  forty- 
eighth,  fifty-second,  fifty-third,  fifty-fourth, 
fifty-fifth,  fifty-sixth,  fifty-seventh,  fifty- 
eighth  and  fifty-ninth  congresses.  While  it 
is  said  that  he  dominated  the  party  in  his  dis- 
trict, or  that  he  was  continuously  proposed 
for  office,  the  real  fact  is  that  the  people  nom- 
inated him  as  unanimous  choice  and  he  ac- 
cepted the  call  from  home  to  keep  in  service. 
His  greatest  desire  seemed  to  be  the  upbuild- 
ing and  maintaining  a  local  government  which 
would  be  beyond  reproach,  and  his  friends  tell 
how  he  has  demanded  that  men  seeking  office 
must  be  clean  in  record  to  have  his  help.  His 
confreres  in  congress,  believing  in  his  sincer- 
ity, have  made  it  possible  for  him  to  achieve 
practically  anything  he  undertakes.  For  many 
years  he  rendered  inestimable  benefit  by  his 
efforts  as  chairman  of  the  committee  of  agri- 
culture, and  this  may  be  because  there  was  no 
inclination  as  incentive.  When  in  office,  he 
was  able  to  sink  personal  desires,  and  modesty 
became  his  second  nature  the  more  abundant 
grew  his  accomplishments,  or  rather,  when  he 
achieved  he  felt  that  the  net  result  was  all 
the  praise  or  thanks  he  needed.  He  had  the 
moral  courage  not  to  allow  either  expediency 
or  personal  consequences  to  blind  or  befog 
his  clear  conception  of  the  right.  He  was 
quick  in  making  a  decision  in  most  matters, 
and  difficult  to  dissuade  once  he  had  decided. 

Hon.  James  W.   Wadsworth,   Sr.,  married. 


at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  in  1876,  Louisa 
Travers,  daughter  of  William  R.  Travers  and 
his  wife,  Mary  (Johnson)  Travers,  daughter 
of  Hon.  Reverdy  Johnson,  of  Maryland. 
Children:  James  Wolcott,  see  forward;  Har- 
riet Travers,  see  forward. 

(IX)  Hon.  James  Wolcott  (2)  Wadsworth, 
son  of  Hon.  James  Wolcott  (i)  and  Louisa 
(Travers)  Wadsworth,  was  born  at  his 
father's  home  in  Geneseo,  Livingston  county. 
New  York,  August  12,  1877,  and  resides  near 
Mount  Morris,  New  York.  He  was  educated 
at  St.  Mark's  School,  in  Southboro,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  after  careful  preparation  for 
college,  he  entered  Yale  University  in  1894, 
and  was  graduated  therefrom,  B.A.,  in  June, 
1898.  While  there  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity  in  his  junior 
year,  and  was  chosen  by  the  Skull  and  Bones 
Society.  In  athletics  he  was  on  the  university 
baseball  team.  At  the  time  of  his  graduation 
from  Yale,  the  Spanish-American  war  was 
in  progress,  and  he  enlisted  in  Battery  A, 
Pennsylvania  Light  Artillery,  one  of  the  bat- 
teries of  General  Fred  Dent  Grant's  brigade 
which  saw  service  in  Porto  Rico.  At  the  ter- 
mination of  the  war  he  was  discharged  from 
the  volunteer  service;  but  early  in  1899  made 
a  voyage  with  three  classmates  to  the  Philip- 
pines, and  saw  active  service  there.  On  his 
return  to  this  country  he  took  up  scientific 
farming  on  his  estate  at  Mount  Morris. 

His  political  life  began  in  1904,  when  the 
Republicans  of  Livingston  county  nominated 
him  and  he  was  the  first  time  elected  to  the 
assembly,  being  then  twenty-seven  years  old, 
on  which  occasion  he  received  a  plurality  of 
2,372  votes.  The  following  year  he  was  re- 
elected with  a  plurality  of  1,648  votes.  In 
1906  he  had  a  plurality  of  1,748  votes ;  in  1907 
his  plurality  was  1,402;  in  1908  it  was  1,844, 
and  in  1909,  due  to  an  unpleasant  conflict  with 
his  party,  with  two  tickets  in  the  field,  his 
plurality  was  reduced  to  286  votes. 

He  was  elected  speaker  of  the  assembly 
for  the  first  time  in  1906,  when  twenty-eight 
years  old,  despite  the  fact  that  there  were 
many  leaders  clamoring  for  self  or  friends, 
and  in  1907,  1908,  1909  and  1910.  he  was  re- 
elected speaker.  Governer  Higgins  had  de- 
manded that  his  administration  be  sustained 
by  the  excellence  of  the  men  who  were  placed 
in  office,  and  was  insistent  that  Mr.  Wads- 
worth take  the  chair.     In  the  summer  of  190S 


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he  was  suggested  in  various  parts  of  the  state 
for  the  nomination  of  governor,  but  the  weight 
of  delegates  forced  the  nomination  for  Charles 
E.  Hughes,  who  was  backed  by  Theodore 
Roosevelt,  and  it  became  a  matter  of  expedi- 
ency with  the  party  to  yield.     He  declined  in 

1910  to  participate  in  any  prominent  way  in 
politics,  although  faithful  in  making  speeches, 
the  year  that  Roosevelt  demanded  at  the  Sara- 
toga convention  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Stim- 
son,  and  the  Republicans  met  their  defeat  in 
the   election  of   Governor   John   A.   Dix.     In 

191 1  he  went  abroad  to  enjoy  an  extended 
European  journey. 

Having  spoken  of  him  as  a  political  per- 
sonage, to  those  who  have  been  honored  by 
his  friendship,  no  words  regarding  him  as 
the  man  are  at  all  necessary.  Commencing 
his  career  with  clear  conception  of  official 
duty,  possessing  the  passion  and  power  with 
which  to  execute,  it  is  no  wonder  that  for  the 
time  he  has  sought  retirement  to  private  life. 
He  inspired  his  associates.  Men  of  evil  de- 
sign dared  not  to  broach  their  subjects.  Foes 
had  faith  in  his  fairness.  He  used  his  power 
only  when  a  proposition  was  practical,  and  he 
legislated  along  lines  which  were  logical. 

He  has  been  interested  in  farming  all  his 
life,  devoting  much  of  his  time  to  it.  He  was 
a  trustee  of  New  York  Public  Buildings ;  com- 
missioner of  the  State  Land  Office;  trustee 
of  Cornell  University ;  director  of  the  Genesee 
Valley  National  Bank ;  member  of  the  Metro- 
politan Club,  of  Washington,  D.  C. ;  the  Re- 
publican Club,  of  New  York  City;  and  the 
Fort  Orange  Club,  of  Albany.  He  is  an  at- 
tendant of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  a  helper 
of  its  benefactions. 

Hon.  James  W.  Wadsworth,  Jr.,  married, 
at  Newbury,  New  Hampshire,  September  30, 
1902,  Alice  Hay.  She  was  born  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  January  6,  1880,  and  was  the  daughter 
of  Hon.  John  Hay,  late  United  States  Secre- 
tary of  State,  and  his  wife,  Clara  (Stone) 
Hay.  Children :  Evelyn,  born  at  Mount  Mor- 
ris, New  York,  July  7,  1903 ;  James  Jeremiah, 
born  at  Mount  Morris,  June  8,  1905. 

Hon.  John  Hay  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Charles 
and  Helen  (Leonard)  Hay.  He  was  born  at 
Salem,  Indiana,  October  8,  1838,  and  died  at 
Newbury,  New  Hampshire,  July  i,  1905.  He 
was  educated  at  Warsaw  and  Springfield,  Illi- 
nois, and  graduated  from  Brown  University, 
A.M.,    in    1858;    was    made    LL.D.    by    both 


Princeton  and  Western  Reserve  universities; 
studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He 
was  private  secretary  to  President  Lincoln; 
was  made  brevet-colonel  of  United  States  Vol- 
unteers;  assistant  adjutant-general;  secretary 
of  legation  at  Paris,  Madrid,  and  Vienna ;  also 
charge  d'affaires  at  Washington;  then  in  1881, 
secretary  to  the  International  Sanitary  Con- 
ference; in  1897-98,  United  States  ambassa- 
dor to  England,  and  President  McKinley  ap- 
pointed him  secretary  on  the  formation  of  his 
cabinet  in  1898.  It  fell  to  his  lot  to  conceive 
the  policy  and  direct  the  great  affairs  between 
the  powers  of  the  world  in  1898,  during  the 
war  with  Spain,  and  he  accomplished  all  this 
in  a  manner  to  leave  his  name  imperishable. 
He  continued  to  hold  the  cabinet  position  -un- 
der Roosevelt,  and  was  reappointed  by  him. 
He  was  a  highly  cultured  man  and  one  very 
fond  of  literature.  Among  the  books  he  wrote 
are  "Castillian  Days,"  1871  ;  "Pike  County 
Ballads,"  1871  ;  "Abraham  Lincoln,  a  His- 
tory," 1890.  Hon.  John  Hay  married  Clara 
Stone,  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in  1874,  daughter 
of  Amasa  Stone  and  his  wife,  Julia  Ann 
(Gleason)  Stone. 

(IX)  Harriet  Travers  Wadsworth,  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  James  Wolcott  (i)  Wadsworth 
and  Louisa  (Travers)  Wadsworth,  was  born 
in  1881.  She  married,  in  St.  Michael's  Church 
at  Geneseo,  New  York,  October  4,  1913,  Rev. 
J.  W.  D.  Cooper  officiating,  Fletcher  Harper, 
son  of  Joseph  Henry  and  Mary  S.  (Hoe) 
Harper,  of  "Brightside,"  Allenhurst,  New 
Jersey,  formerly  of  New  York  City.  He  is  a 
graduate  of  Harvard  University,  class  of 
1898 ;  member  of  the  Racquet  and  Tennis  and 
the  Rockaway  Hunt  clubs,  and  resides  at  Mill- 
brook,  New  York. 


The  root  of  the  patrony- 
DE  FOREST  mic  De  Forest  is  the  Teu- 
tonic word  "forst,"  pro- 
nounced by  the  Hollanders  and  the  Flemings, 
"Vorst."  It  was  brought  over  the  Rhine  by 
conquering  Germanic  hordes,  and  was  ere  long 
latinized  by  their  Gallo-Roman  subjects  into 
"forestus,"  which  in  its  earlier  usage  meant  a 
hunting  park,  and  not  merely  a  region  cov- 
ered with  trees.  The  Prankish  kings  estab- 
lished many  such  parks  in  their  dominions, 
some  for  their  pleasure,  others  for  the  benefit 
of  monasteries,  others  for  favorite  officers 
and  courtiers.     It  resulted  that  in  France  and 


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the  French  Netherlands  there  sprang  up  near- 
ly forty  villages  and  hamlets  variously  called 
Forest,  La  Forest,  and  Le  Forest.  Hence, 
too,  in  the  course  of  centuries  came  many  . 
families  who  styled  themselves  De  Forest,  de 
la  Forest,  and  du  Forest,  most  of  them  lordly 
possessors  of  demesne  and  castle,  but  others 
simple  burghers  or  perhaps  peasants.  De 
Forest  is  a  very  ancient  name  in  France  and 
the  French-speaking  Netherlands.  Jean  le 
Carpentier,  who  in  1660  published  a  history 
of  the  Cambrensis,  assigns  to  the  year  1096  a 
knight  called  Herbertus  de  Foresto,  on  the 
faith  of  a  document  known  as  "The  Tourney 
of  Anchin,"  perhaps  no  more  reliable  than  the 
Battle  Abbey  Roll  of  England.  But  there  are 
various  authentic  entries  of  the  name  in  the 
twelfth  and  thirteenth  centuries.  Thus  be- 
tween nil  A.D.  and  1 120  A.D.,  the  exact  date 
not  being  discoverable,  Gerrardus  Forest 
(without  the  de)  witnessed  a  donation  made 
to  St.  Amend-lez-puers  by  Clemence,  countess 
of  Flanders  and  duchess  of  Lorraine.  This 
entry  is  contained  in  the  Cartulaire  of  St. 
Amand,  at  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale  at 
Paris,  and  there  are  a  great  many  other  entries 
of  a  similar  kind,  in  which  the  name  of 
Forest  or  De  Forest  is  contained.  The  name 
under  the  Dutch  in  this  country  took  the  form 
of  De  Forest,  but  the  family  bearing  it  is 
quite  distinct  from  those  of  De  La  Forest 
and  Van  Foreest,  the  last  an  old  titled  family 
of  Holland.  The  De  Forests  of  America  are 
Huguenots  in  origin  and  were  among  the 
pioneer  settlers  of  New  Amsterdam.  Mel- 
chior  De  Forest,  of  Asvesnes,  France,  was 
the  father  of  Jean  de  Forest,  the  first  to  be- 
come a  Protestant  in  the  De  Forest  family, 
and  was  the  grandfather  of  the  first  De  Forest 
emigrant  to  America.  He  married  Catherine 
du  Fosset,  of  Mons.  Jean,  their  youngest 
son,  married  Anne  Maillard,  and  settled  in 
Holland  along  with  thousands  of  his  country- 
men, Walloons  and  Huguenots. 

(I)  Jesse,  son  of  Jean  and  Anne  (Maillard) 
De  Forest,  and  the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the 
De  Forest  family,  was  born  about  1575. 
There  is  no  important  information  concerning 
him  after  December  i,  1623,  when  in  a  tax 
list  of  Leyden,  Holland,  opposite  his  name,  is 
the  entry  "gone  to  the  West  Indies,"  which 
may  have  meant  anywhere  in  North  or  Cen- 
tral America.  Up  to  1606  he  appears  as  a 
merchant   residing  at   Sedan,   France,  and  in 


1615  he  appears  in  the  Walloon  registers  of 
Leyden,  where  he  was  residing  in  1620,  the 
time  of  the  departure  of  the  Pilgrim  fathers 
to  America.  He  conceived  the  design  of 
planting  a  colony  of  his  own  people  in  the 
New  World,  and  this  design  he  carried  out 
from  year  to  year  and  from  state  to  state  un- 
til he  had  brought  it  into  execution.  He 
gathered  a  colony  of  fifty  or  sixty  Walloons 
and  French  families,  "all  of  the  Reformed 
faith,"  and  prayed  the  King  of  England  to 
grant  them  a  settlement  in  Virginia  and  "to 
maintain  them  in  their  religion"  by  under- 
taking their  protection  and  defence.  The  peti- 
tion or  demand  was  signed  by  fifty-six  men, 
mostly  heads  of  families,  the  first  of  whom 
was  Jesse  De  Forest.  They  prayed  the  king 
that  he  would  grant  them  a  territory  six- 
teen miles  in  diameter  where  they  might  culti- 
vate fields,  meadows,  vineyards,  etc.,  and 
article  seventh  of  the  petition  reads  :  "Whether 
they  would  be  permitted  to  hunt  all  game, 
whether  furred  or  feathered ;  to  fish  in  the 
sea  and  rivers,  and  to  cut  heavy  and  small 
timber,  as  well  for  navigation  as  for  other 
purposes,  according  to  their  desire ;  in  a  word, 
whether  they  might  make  use  of  everything 
above  or  below  ground,  according  to  their 
will  and  pleasure,  saving  the  royal  rights  and 
trade  in  everything  with  such  persons  as 
should  be  there  to  privilege."  The  petition 
was  not  acted  upon  favorably.  He  continued 
his  enrolling,  and  looked  for  aid  from  Holland 
in  getting  the  colony  to  America.  Here  Jesse 
De  Forest  disappears  from  distinct  sight.  It 
seems  clear,  however,  that  his  first  and  per- 
haps only  colonizing  adventure  was  to  that 
part  of  America  which  the  Dutch  called  the 
"wild  coast,"  or  Guinea.  To  this  region  two 
successive  bands  of  settlers  were  despatched 
from  Leyden,  December  23,  1623.  Nothing 
further  is  known  of  him.  He  was  a  man  of 
fixed  purpose,  which  he  always  aimed  at  car- 
rying into  execution,  but  whether  he  sleeps 
besides  the  Oaypok  or  beside  the  Hudson  is 
not  known.  He  had  aroused  and  directed  the 
emigrants  who  founded  New  York  as  well  as 
those  who  established  a  dwelling  place  in 
Guinea  and  among  the  Carribean  Islands.  He 
married  Marie  du  Cloux,  and  their  seventh 
recorded  child,  Isaac,  is  the  founder  in  Amer- 
ica of  the  De  Forests  of  Schenectady. 

(II)    Isaac,   son   of   Jesse   and   Marie    (du 
Cloux)    De  Forest,  was  baptized  at  Leyden, 


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Holland,  July  10,  1616.  With  his  brother 
Henry,  then  thirty  years  of  age,  Isaac,  who 
was  ten  years  his  junior,  quitted  Amsterdam, 
October  i,  1636,  in  a  small  vessel  called  the 
"Rensselaerwyck,"  which  belonged  to  Kiliaen 
Van  Rensselaer,  the  first  patroon.  They 
reached  New  Amsterdam  in  safety  and  settled 
upon  the  broad  fertile  flat  called  "Mustoota," 
now  the  site  of  Harlem,  upper  New  York 
City.  Henry  had  a  grant  of  two  hundred 
acres;  Isaac,  a  strip  of  one  hundred  acres 
along  the  Harlem  river,  and  part  of  the  later- 
day  Morris  Park.  Henry,  the  wealthier  and 
apparently  the  abler  of  the  two  brothers,  died 
July  26,  1637.  The  interests  of  his  widow 
were  safeguarded  by  Dominie  Evarardus 
Bogardus  as  her  attorney.  She  married  again ; 
Isaac  was  still  unmarried,  and  for  many  years 
remained  at  Harlem  raising  tobacco  and  sell- 
ing it  at  New  Amsterdam  for  transport  to 
Holland.  On  June  9,  1641,  he  married 
"Sarah  du  Trieux  of  New  Amsterdam,"  spin- 
ster," daughter  of  Philip  du  Trieux  and 
Jaqueline  Noiret,  founders  of  the  Truax  fam- 
ily of  America.  He  became  a  wealthy  to- 
bacco dealer  and  brewer  of  New  Amsterdam, 
and  was  appointed  in  1658  by  Governor  Stuy- 
vesant  and  council  a  "great  burgher."  When 
the  English  fleet  took  New  York  in  1664  he 
was  one  of  the  persons  of  distinction  seized 
and  held.  His  will  is  dated  June  4,  1672. 
He  died  in  1674,  and  his  widow  in  1692. 
Children:  Jesse,  born  1642,  died  young;  Su- 
sannah, 1645,  married  Peter  de  Reimer; 
Gerrit,  1647,  died  young;  Michael,  1649,  died 
young;  John,  1650,  "chirurgeon,"  or  phy- 
sician; Philip,  1652,  a  cooper;  Isaac,  1655,  a 
baker;  Hendrick,  1657,  a  glazier;  Maud,  1666, 
married  Bernard  Darby;  and  David,  men- 
tioned below. 

(Ill)  David,  son  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  (du 
Trieux)  De  Forest,  was  born  in  New  Amster- 
dam, in  1669.  His  brother  Philip,  who  be- 
came the  founder  of  the  Albany  branch  of  the 
De  Forests,  married,  January  5,  1676,  Tryntje, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Kip,  and  removed  to  Al- 
bany. There  Philip  served  as  high  sherif?, 
and  held  many  offices,  dying  in  1727,  and 
having  a  family  of  nine  children.  David 
moved  to  Stratford  and  thus  became  the 
founder  of  the  Connecticut  branch  of  the 
family.  He  married,  in  1695,  Martha,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Mary  Blagge,  she  dying  in 
Stratford,  February  7,  1740.     David  himself 


died  April  20,  1721.  Children:  Mary,  born 
January  27,  1696;  Sarah,  November  9,  1697; 
Martha,  April  13,  1700;  David,  April  24, 
1702;  Samuel,  mentioned  below;  Isaac,  April 
14, 1706 ;  Edward,  July  25, 1708 ;  Henry,  July  4, 
1710;  Elizabeth,  June  4,  1714;  and  Benjamin, 
May  8,  1716. 

(IV)  Samuel,  son  of  David  and  Martha 
(Blagge)  De  Forest,  was  born  April  4,  1704, 
and  died  in  1777.  He  married  Abigail  Peat, 
December  30,  1725.  Children  :  Martha,  born 
November  24,  1726;  Mary,  baptized  Febru- 
ary 3,  1728;  Joseph,  November  17,  1731,  mar- 
ried, August  18,  1757,  Susanna  Mills;  Hep- 
ziba,  May  29,  1734;  Elizabeth,  March  28, 
1737;  Samuel,  November  18,  1739;  Nehemiah, 
mentioned  below;  David,  July  9,  1745;  and 
Josiah,  died  young. 

(V)  Nehemiah,  son  of  Samuel  and  Abi- 
gail (Peat)  De  Forest,  was  born  January  24, 
1743,  and  died  in  Easton,  December  9,  1801. 
He  married  (first)  December  20,  1769,  Mary 
Lockwood,  who  died  October  17,  1790;  and 
(second)  August  28,  1793,  Eleanor  Hickock, 
of  Woodbury.  Children :  Abby,  born  in 
March,  1771,  married  Legrand  M.  Lewis; 
William,  June  13,  1773 ;  Lockwood,  mentioned 
below;  Polly,  April  27,  1777;  married  Samuel 
M.  Munson;  Philo,  July  21,  1779;  De  Lau- 
zun,  June  30,  178 1 ;  Betsey,  January  16,  1785, 
died  unmarried;  (by  the  second  marriage) 
Charles,  who  died  young;  and  Charles  (2) 
born  August  10,  1795,  died  July  28,  1865. 

(VI)  Lockwood,  son  of  Nehemiah  and 
Mary  (Lockwood)  De  Forest, was  born  March 
5,  1775.  He  resided  at  Monroe,  Fairfield, 
New  Haven,  Bridgeport,  and  New  York,  be- 
coming in  the  latter  city  one  of  the  leading 
merchants.  In  1824  he  was  a  member  of  the 
committee  composed  of  the  most  prominent 
men  of  New  York,  appointed  to  convey  to 
De  Witt  Clinton  the  condemnation  of  the  peo- 
ple of  the  metropolis  of  his  removal  from  the 
position  of  canal  commissioner  by  his  polit- 
ical opponents.  He  married,  in  1793,  Mehet- 
abel,  daughter  of  Nathan  Wheeler.  Children : 
William  Wheeler,  born  1794,  later  an  emi- 
nent South  street  merchant  engaged  in  the 
South  American  trade ;  Mary  Lockwood, 
1796,  married  Roger  Sherman  Skinner;  Su- 
san, 1798,  married  Daniel  Lord;  Jane,  1800, 
married  Burr  Wakeman ;  Alfred,  1802.  died 
young ;  Frederick  Lockwood,  1804,  died  young ; 
George  B.,  1806,  died  in  1865,  married  Mary, 


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daughter  of  Benjamin  De  Forest;  Elizabeth, 
1808.  married  Samuel  Downer;  Sarah,  1810, 
marriel  Walter  Edwards;  Anne,  1812,  mar- 
ried Simeon  Baldwin;  Louisa,  1814,  married 
(first)  Samuel  Woodrufif,  and  (second) 
Thomas  F.  Cock;  Henry  G.,  mentioned  below; 
James  G.,  1822;  and  Frederick  L.,  1825. 

(VH)  Henry  Grant,  son  of  Lockwood  and 
Mehetabel  (Wheeler)  De  Forest,  was  born 
in  1820.  He  attained  prominence  as  a  lawyer, 
and  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Weeks  &  De 
Forest.  He  married  Julia  M.  Weeks.  Chil- 
dien  of  Henry  Grant  and  Julia  (Weeks)  De 
Forest:  i.  Robert  Weeks,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Lockwood,  of  whom  further.  3.  Julia 
Brasher,  born  in  New  York  City,  October  29, 
1853,  died  unmarried.  4.  Henry  Wheeler, 
born  in  New  York  City,  October  29,  1855, 
partner  with  his  brother  in  De  Forest 
Brothers. 

( Vni)  Robert  Weeks,  son  of  Henry  Grant 
and  Julia  (Weeks)  De  Forest,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  April  25,  1848.  He  was 
graduated  from  Yale  University  with  the  de- 
gree of  A.B.  in  1870,  later  with  the  degree 
of  A.M.,  and  attained  in  1904  the  degree  of 
LL.D.  He  became  in  1872  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Weeks,  Forster  &  De  Forest,  and 
later  became  a  partner  in  De  Forest  Brothers, 
in  which  he  was  associated  with  his  brother, 
H.  W.  De  Forest,  and  his  sons,  Johnston  and 
Henry  L.  De  Forest  His  activities  have  ex- 
tended beyond  the  lines  of  his  profession  into 
the  spheres  of  philanthropy  and  art.  He  has 
been  president  of  the  New  York  Charity  Or- 
ganization Society  since  1883.  He  was  chair- 
man of  the  New  York  State  Tenement  House 
Commission  of  1900,  and  served  as  the  first 
tenement  commissioner  of  the  city  of  New 
York  in  1902  and  1903.  He  was  president  of 
the  National  Conference  of  Charities  which 
met  at  Atlanta  in  1903.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  and  first  president  of  the  Provident 
Loan  Society,  and  later  of  the  Chattel  Loan 
Society,  the  remedial  loan  institutions  of  New 
York.  He  was  the  adviser  of  Mrs.  Russell 
Sage  in  the  organization  of  the  Russell  Sage 
Foundation  for  the  Improvement  of  Social 
and  Living  Conditions,  and  is  its  vice-presi- 
dent. In  the  world  of  art  he  has  been  trustee 
of  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art  since 
1889.  After  successively  being  its  secretary 
and  vice-president,  he  succeeded  J.  Pierpont 
Morgan   as    president    in    191 3.      He    became 


president  of  the  American  Federation  of  Arts 
in  1912,  and  has  been  a  member  and  president 
of  the  Art  Commission  of  the  City  of  New 
York  since  1905. 

In  the  business  world  he  has  been  officially 
connected  with  the  Central  Railroad  Company 
of  New  Jersey  since  1874,  and  in  recent  years 
has  been  vice-president  and  general  counsel 
as  well  as  director.  He  has  been  president 
of  the  Hackensack  Water  Company  many 
years,  and  is  trustee  or  director  in  different 
corporations,  among  them  being  the  New 
York  Trust  Company,  the  Niagara  Fire  In- 
surance Company,  the  Metropolitan  Life  In- 
surance Company,  the  Hudson  Trust  Com- 
pany of  New  Jersey,  and  others.  He  belongs 
to  the  University,  Century,  and  other  clubs. 

He  married,  in  New  York  City,  November 
12,  1872,  Emily  Johnston,  eldest  daughter  of 
John  Taylor  Johnston.  Children  :  Johnston  ; 
Henry  L. ;  Ethel,  married  Allen  E.  Whitman ; 
and  Frances  Emily,  married  W.  A.  W. 
Stewart. 

(VIH)  Lockwood,  son  of  Henry  Grant  and 
Julia  (Weeks)  De  Forest,  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  in  1850.  He  was  an  artist  by  pro- 
fession. He  studied  with  Hermann  Corrodi 
in  Rome  in  1869:  with  Frederick  E.  Church 
and  James  M.  Hart,  in  1870:  in  Egypt.  Syria 
and  Greece  in  1875  and  1876;  Greece  and 
Egypt  in  1877  and  1878 ;  and  was  associated 
with   Mr.    Louis   C.   TifTany  in   decoration   in 

1879.  In  1881  he  went  to  India  and  there 
studied  oriental  art  and  collected  many  ex- 
amples of  interest.  He  was  at  the  Lahore 
Exhibition  in  1882,  and  exhibited  several  ex- 
amples of  Indian  wood  carving  made  under 
his  direction.  Examples  of  work  done  by 
him  or  under  his  direction  were  represented 
at  other  exhibitions,  and  he  received  medals 
for  Indian  carving  in  the  Colonial  Exhibition 
in  London,  and  at  the  World's  Fair  at  Chi- 
cago in  1893.  He  was  made  an  associate  of 
the  National  Academy  of  Design  in  1891.  and 
an    academician    in    1898.      He    married,    in 

1880,  Meta  Kemble,  of  New  York.  Mr.  De 
Forest  is  a  fellow  of  the  Metropolitan  Mu- 
seum of  Art,  the  Artists'  Fund  Society,  the 
Artists'  Aid  Society,  the  Architectural  League, 
and  the  Arts  and  (I^rafts,  Boston,  etc. 


Of    French    origin,    this    name 

5AYARD     has   been   highly   distinguished 

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states.  Presumably  the  ancestor  who  came 
from  Holland  was  either  driven  thither  by 
religious  persecution  in  his  native  France,  or 
was  the  son  of  the  man  who  had  that  experi- 
ence. The  name  has  been  especially  identified 
with  jurisprudence  in  this  country  and  with 
the  national  legislature. 

(I)  Samuel  Bayard  died  in  Holland.  He 
married  Anna  Stuyvesant,  sister  of  Governor 
Petrus  Stuyvesant,  who  survived  him  and  ac- 
companied the  governor  to  this  country  in 
1647,  bringing  her  four  children  (see  Stuy- 
vesant). She  was  a  cultured  lady  and  taught 
her  children  Latin,  French  and  English,  and 
they  were  fitted  to  become,  and  did  become, 
highly  useful  citizens  of  the  country. 

(II)  Petrus,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  and  Anna 
(Stuyvesant)  Bayard,  was  probably  born 
about  1630,  in  Holland,  and  resided  for  some 
years  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Broadway 
and  Exchange  place,  in  the  city  of  New  York. 
In  1667  he  bought  land  in  Ulster  county  and 
received  a  grant  December  27,  1675,  from 
Governor  Andros,  of  an  island  covering  six 
hundred  acres  in  the  Delaware  river.  He 
completed  title  to  this  land  by  purchase  from 
the  Indians,  May  4,  1679.  This  was  known 
and  is  still  known  as  Bombay  Hook  Island. 
Soon  after  this  Bayard  joined  the  followers  of 
Jean  de  Labadie,  a  religious  enthusiast  in 
New  York  City,  who  planned  a  settlement, 
and  in  1684  Bayard  helped  to  purchase  the 
four  necks  of  land  in  what  is  now  Cecil 
county,  Maryland,  long  known  as  the  Labadie 
tract.  Soon  after  he  sold  out  his  interest  in 
this  colony  and  returned  to  New  York,  where 
he  died  in  1699.  Beside  the  property  pre- 
viously mentioned  in  the  city,  he  was  owner 
of  what  is  now  known  as  No.  i  Broadway, 
which  extended  to  the  Hudson  river,  and  here 
he  erected  a  beautiful  mansion  which  com- 
manded then  a  view  of  the  New  Jersey  hills. 
This  tract  was  sold  by  his  descendants  in 
1745.  He  married,  November  4,  1674,  Blan- 
dina  Kierstede,  daughter  of  Dr.  Hans  and 
Sarah  (  Roelofs)  Kierstede,  granddaughter  of 
Jans  Roelofs  and  his  wife,  Anneke  Jans, 
whose  name  has  since  become  very  conspicu- 
ous in  history  as  heiress  of  a  great  estate  of 
New  York.  Their  children,  baptized  in  New 
Amsterdam:  Samuel,  mentioned  below;  Anna 
Maria,  June  25,  1679;  John,  April  19,  1681 ; 
Sarah,  March  11,  1683;  and  also  Peter,  men- 
tioned in  his  father's  will. 


(III)  Samuel  (2),  eldest  child  of  Peter  and 
Blandina  (Kierstede)  Bayard,  was  baptized 
October  12,  1675,  ™  New  York,  and  in  1698 
purchased  the  four  necks  in  Maryland,  pre- 
viously mentioned  as  the  Labadie  tract,  in 
partnership  with  his  brother-in-law,  Hendrick 
Sluyter.  This  they  divided  in  17 16,  and 
Samuel  Bayard  erected  what  was  for  many 
generations  known  as  the  "Great  House,"  a 
spacious  mansion  of  brick,  with  wide  veranda 
and  many  desirable  features.  Beside  the  cul- 
tivation of  his  large  estate  he  engaged  in 
commerce,  and  amassed  what  was  considered 
a  very  handsome  fortune  in  his  day.  He  died 
in  1721.  He  married,  in  1699,  Susannah 
Bouchelle,  who  survived  him.  She  was  a 
woman  of  much  culture,  speaking  and  writing 
Latin,  French,  Dutch  and  English,  and  was 
very  active,  being  able  to  mount  her  horse 
with  agility  at  the  age  of  seventy  years.  Chil- 
dren :  James,  Peter,  Samuel,  and  Mary  Ann. 

(IV)  James,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  (2)  and 
Susannah  (Bouchelle)  Bayard,  was  born  about 
1700,  and  inherited  the  estate  of  his  father 
at  Bohemia  Manor  in  Cecil  county,  Maryland, 
residing  in  the  "Great  House."  He  married 
Mary  Asheton,  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
twin  sons  and  a  daughter.  The  latter  died  in 
her  seventeenth  year.  The  sons  were  early 
deprived  of  a  father's  care,  but  were  the  ob- 
jects of  great  attention  on  the  part  of  their 
grandmother,  Mrs.  Samuel  (2)   Bayard. 

(V)  John,  elder  son  of  James  and  Mary 
(Asheton)  Bayard,  was  born  August  11,  1738, 
in  the  "Great  House,"  and  with  his  twin 
brother  was  educated  at  Nottingham  Institute, 
Maryland,  under  charge  of  Rev.  Samuel  Fin- 
ley,  D.D.,  who  subsequently  became  president 
of  Princeton  College.  It  was  an  idea  of  Dr. 
Finley  that  a  sound  thrashing  every  Monday 
morning  was  conducive  to  the  welfare  of  the 
boys,  and  he  faithfully  carried  out  this  theory. 
After  leaving  the  institute  they  pursued  their 
studies  under  a  private  tutor  at  Bohemia 
Manor,  Rev.  George  Duffield.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  years  they  proceeded  to  Philadelphia, 
where  John  began  his  business  career  and 
James  Asheton,  his  brother,  took  up  the  study 
of  medicine,  and,  after  attaining  some  stand- 
ing in  the  profession,  died,  January  8,  1770, 
in  his  thirty-second  year.  His  wife  died  soon 
afterward,  and  his  children  were  adopted  by 
his  elder  brother. 

John  Bayard  entered  the  counting  house  of 


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Jonathan  Rhea,  an  opulent  and  respected  mer- 
chant of  Philadelphia,  and  in  a  few  years 
became  known  as  one  the  leading  merchants 
of  that  city.  He  was  among  the  first  signers 
of  the  non-importation  agreement  made  Octo- 
ber 25,  1765,  by  three  hundred  and  seventy- 
five  merchants  of  Philadelphia — "the  first 
declaration  of  independence."  He  early  be- 
came a  communicant  of  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Philadelphia,  of  which  he 
was  successively  trustee  and  ruling  elder.  He 
was  among  the  first  to  take  action  against  op- 
pressions of  the  mother  country,  as  previously 
indicated,  and  gave  much  of  his  time  to  the 
interests  of  the  American  colonists.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  provincial  congress  at  Phila- 
delphia in  July,  1774,  and  a  member  of  the 
council  of  the  province  in  January,  1775.  He 
early  joined  the  Sons  of  Liberty,  and  was 
among  those  who  actively  urged  the  appoint- 
ment of  Washington  as  commander-in-chief 
of  the  colonial  armies.  He  was  chairman  of 
the  inspection  committee  of  Philadelphia,  and 
called  to  order  a  mass  meeting  in  1776  to 
compel  the  legislature  to  carry  out  the  will 
of  the  people  regarding  allegiance  to  the 
mother  country.  He  is  described  by  Bancroft, 
the  historian,  as  "a  patriot  of  singular  purity 
of  character  and  disinterestedness,  fearless, 
brave,  earnest  and  devout."  His  firm,  Hodge 
&  Bayard,  was  engaged  in  furnishing  arms 
to  the  congress,  and  a  privateer,  fitted  out 
jointly  by  Bayard  and  General  Roberdeau, 
captured  the  first  valuable  British  prize  in  the 
revolutionary  struggle.  He  was  appointed  to 
superintend  the  erection  of  powder  mills  by 
the  colony,  and  in  June,  1776,  was  a  member 
of  the  committee  of  conference.  In  Septem- 
ber, following,  he  was  appointed  a  member  of 
the  council  of  safety,  which  included  Benja- 
min Franklin,  Anthony  Wayne,  Morris,  Cad- 
walader,  and  other  prominent  men  of  the  time. 
In  October  of  the  same  year  he  was  chairman 
of  the  public  meeting  called  to  discuss  the 
proposed  new  constitution  of  the  province, 
and  in  November  took  his  seat  as  a  member 
of  the  assembly  chosen  under  that  constitu- 
tion. He  was  chosen  colonel  of  the  second 
battalion  of  infantry,  organized  in  Philadel- 
phia, with  which  he  went  into  camp  at  Amboy, 
August,  1776.  Early  in  the  following  winter 
he  was  in  the  field  with  his  men  and  partici- 
pated in  the  battles  of  Brandywine,  German- 
town  and  Princeton,  and  was  personally  com- 


plimented by  General  Washington,  who  led 
his  battalion  in  the  battle  of  Princeton.  He 
was  appointed  March  13,  1777,  a  member  of 
the  state  board  of  war,  and  four  days  later 
was  elected  speaker  of  the  state  assembly, 
being  re-elected  in  the  following  year.  In 
1780  he  was  on  the  committee  to  report  the 
causes  of  the  falling  off  of  state  revenues,  and 
in  1781  was  a  member  of  the  supreme  execu- 
tive council.  In  1785  he  was  a  member  of 
the  continental  congress  which  met  in  New 
York  City.  During  the  troublous  times  of 
the  revolution,  in  order  to  provide  for  the 
safety  of  his  family,  he  purchased  a  farm  at 
Plymouth,  eighteen  miles  from  Philadelphia, 
on  the  Schuylkill  river,  to  which  the  family 
was  removed.  They  were  again  compelled  to 
move  on  account  of  the  approach  of  British 
forces.  His  eldest  son  James  was  taken  a 
prisoner  by  marauders  while  on  his  way  home 
from'  Princeton  College,  and  was  for  some 
time  held  as  a  rebel  and  the  son  of  a  rebel, 
but  through  the  efforts  of  his  mother,  who 
had  influential  friends  in  Philadelphia,  he  was 
finally  released.  The  house  at  Plymouth  was 
plundered  by  the  soldiers,  but  was  subsequent- 
ly refurnished,  and  for  a  short  time  occupied 
by  the  family.  Here  he  built  a  schoolhouse 
for  the  education  of  his  children  and  those  of 
his  neighbors.  In  1788  he  removed  to  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  having  in  the  mean- 
time sold  his  paternal  estate  at  Bohemia 
Manor.  At  New  Brunswick  he  built  a  hand- 
some and  commodius  residence  on  Albany 
street,  where  many  notable  men  of  the  nation 
were  entertained.  He  was  elected  mayor  of 
New  Brunswick  in  1790.  and  was  subsequently 
appointed  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas 
for  Somerset  county.  He  died  at  New  Bruns- 
wick, January  7,  1807.  He  was  elected  trus- 
tee of  the  College  of  New  Jersey  (now 
Princeton)  in  1778,  and  continued  over  thirty 
years  in  that  position.  For  nearly  forty  years 
he  attended  as  delegate  the  meetings  of  the 
General  Presbyterian  Church.  In  1791  he 
was  an  incorporator  of  a  company  with  a  capi- 
tal of  $1,000,000,  including  Alexander  Ham- 
ilton and  other  prominent  men,  for  the  manu- 
facture of  cotton  cloth  at  Paterson,  New 
Jersey.  This  was  abandoned  in  1796.  In 
1803,  Colonel  Bayard  visited  Albany  and  was 
entertained  by  Patroon  Van  Rensselaer  at  the 
old  manor  house  there,  where  he  met  many 
notable  citizens.     In   1805  he  visited  for  the 


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last  time  his  native  place  in  Maryland.  He 
married  (first)  in  1759-60,  Mary  Hodge,  born 
1740,  died  April  13,  1780,  eldest  of  the  fifteen 
children  of  Andrew  and  Jane  (McCullough) 
Hodge.  He  married  (second)  May  5,  1781, 
Mary,  widow  of  John  Hodgson.  She  died 
August  13,  1785,  leaving  a  son,  who  soon 
passed  away.  Colonel  Bayard  married  (third) 
in  1783,  Johanna,  daughter  of  Colonel  An- 
thony White.  Children,  all  born  of  the  first 
wife:  James  Asheton,  May  5,  1760;  Andrew, 
February  24,  1762;  John  Murray,  March  11, 
1766;  Samuel,  mentioned  below;  Jane,  July 
12,  1772;  Nicholas,  August  8,  1774;  Mar- 
garet, February  20,  1778 ;  Anna  Maria,  March 
22,  1779.  The  adopted  children  of  his  brother 
were  :Jane,  born  about  1763;  John  Hodge, 
about  1765;  James  Asheton,  July  28,  1767. 

(VI)  Samuel  (3),  fourth  son  of  Colonel 
John  and  Mary  (Hodge)  Bayard,  was  born 
January  11,  1767,  in  Philadelphia,  and  was 
graduated  from  Princeton  University  in  1784. 
He  pursued  the  study  of  law,  and  at  the  age 
of  twenty-four  years  was  appointed  a  clerk 
of  the  United  States  supreme  court.  From 
1794  to  1798  he  represented  the  American 
government  in  England  in  prosecuting  claims 
of  its  citizens  on  account  of  the  revolutionary 
war.  On  returning  to  his  native  land  he  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  law  at  New  Rochelle, 
New  York,  and  was  made  presiding  judge  of 
Westchester  county.  From  1803  to  1806  he 
practised  in  New  York,  and  during  that  time 
helped  to  establish  the  New  York  Historical 
Society.  He  was  also  instrumental  in  the 
organization  of  the  American  Bible  Society 
and  the  New  Jersey  Bible  Society.  In  1806 
he  removed  to  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  and 
soon  after  served  as  a  member  of  the  state 
assembly.  He  died  in  Princeton,  May  11, 
1840.  He  was  the  author  of  various  works 
pertaining  to  law,  including  an  "Abstract  of 
the  Laws  of  the  United  States,"  and  also  pub- 
lished works  on  other  subjects,  including  an 
oration  on  the  death  of  Washington.  He 
married  Martha,  daughter  of  Lewis  and  Susan 
(Stockton)  Pintard.  Children:  Lewis  Pin- 
tard,  of  whom  further;  Susan  Maria,  Samuel 
John,  William  Marsden,  Elizabeth  Juliet,  and 
Caroline  Smith. 

(VII)  Lewis  Pintard,  eldest  son  of  Samuel 
(3)  and  Martha  (Pintard)  Bayard,  was  born 
July  23,  1791,  at  the  residence  of  his  great- 
uncle,    Elias    Boudinot,    at    Frankford,    near 


Philadelphia.  He  was  graduated  from  Prince- 
ton University  in  1808;  was  ordained  priest 
in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church  in  1815; 
was  at  one  time  rector  of  Trinity  Church, 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  and  later  of  St.  Cle- 
ment's Church,  New  York.  The  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity  was  conferred  upon  him 
in  1834.  On  April  29,  1813,  he  married  Cor- 
nelia Matilda  Rhea,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Jonathan  Rhea,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey.  He 
died  September  21,  1840,  at  the  island  of 
Malta,  on  his  way  home  from  a  visit  to  the 
Holy  Land. 

(VIII)  Lewis  Pintard  (2),  eldest  son  of 
Lewis  Pintard  (i)  and  Cornelia  M.  (Rhea) 
Bayard,  was  born  March  31,  1816,  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey.  He  was  educated  there  and  at 
Princeton  University,  and  during  his  lifetime 
was  employed  in  business  in  New  York.  He 
married  Francena  Cornelia  Brown,  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  Marston  Brown,  May  20,  1846, 
and  died  at  Edgewater,  Staten  Island,  May  3, 
1868. 

(IX)  Louis  Pintard,  son  of  Lewis  Pin- 
tard (2)  and  Francena  Cornelia  (Brown) 
Bayard,  was  born  October  29,  1847,  in  New 
York  City,  and  was  educated  at  Edgewater 
schools.  In  1863,  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years, 
he  entered  the  office  of  the  Hope  Insurance 
Company,  then  located  at  No.  92  Broadway. 
Following  this  he  was  secretary  of  the  Ster- 
ling Insurance  Company,  and  in  January, 
1889,  joined  the  Phoenix  Assurance  Company 
of  London  as  one  of  its  United  States  man- 
agers. In  the  same  year  he  was  made  vice- 
president  of  the  Pelican  Insurance  Company 
of  New  York,  and  in  1910  became  its  presi- 
dent. While  he  does  not  give  much  attention 
to  political  movements,  he  is  a  consistent 
supporter  of  the  Democratic  party  in  public 
affairs.  He  is  a  member  of  several  clubs, 
including  the  Union,  Midday,  and  Seawan- 
haka  Yacht  clubs,  and  is  president  of  the 
Baltusrol  Golf  Club  of  New  Jersey.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Edgewater,  Staten  Island,  April  22, 
1874,  Mildred  Lea,  born  November  12,  1851, 
in  Troy,  Missouri,  daughter  of  Dr.  Isaac  Lea. 
Children:  Louis  Pintard  (4),  born  1875,  at 
Edgewater ;  Eleanor,  and  Harry  Lea,  born  at 
Short  Hills,  New  Jersey;  the  latter  died  in 
infancy.  The  surviving  son  married  Lucy 
Forbes  Bullard,  and  is  the  father  of  Louis 
Pintard  Bayard  (5),  Alici  Hathaway  Bayard 
and  Martha  Pintard  Bayard. 


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Goodrich,  like  most  other 
GOODRICH  family  names,  has  been  sub- 
ject to  a  variety  of  changes 
and  modifications,  all  of  them,  however,  re- 
taining in  part  at  least  the  original  Teutonic 
or  Saxon  significance.  It  is  certain  that  Good- 
rich was  originally  Godric,  from  which  came 
Godricus,  Godryke,  Goodryke  and  Guthridge. 
In  the  correspondence  between  Colonel  Birch, 
commander  of  the  parliamentary  forces  in 
England  on  one  occasion  in  the  siege  of  Good- 
rich Castle,  and  Sir  Henry  Lingen,  who  de- 
fended it,  the  latter  calling  it  Guthridge  Castle, 
while  Birch  called  it  Goodrich  Castle.  Some 
of  these  diversities  were  doubtless  occasioned 
by  attempts  to  Latinize  or  Anglicise  the  orig- 
inal Teutonic  name  or  grew  out  of  the  pro- 
vincial pronunciation,  but  in  whatever  form 
the  name  is  found  the  radical  word  is  always 
preserved.  The  Saxon  word,  God,  is  clearly 
the  primary  root  of  the  name,  and  has  the 
same  meaning  as  the  Gothic  word,  guth,  and 
the  Danish,  gud,  the  u  having  the  sound  of  oo. 
In  Anglo-Saxon  the  words  God  and  good 
were  written  in  exactly  the  same  way,  and  as 
the  word  good  was  used  not  only  to  signify 
the  Deity,  but  rule  or  ruler,  it  probably  had 
the  latter  meaning  when  applied  to  persons, 
and  though  the  names  were  spelled  Godric, 
Goodrich,  Guthrich,  Goodridge,  and  other- 
wise, if  the  primary  word  God,  good,  or  guth, 
were  retained,  the  meaning  was  the  same. 
Whether  the  suffix  ric,  rick,  or  rich  really 
meant  rich,  or  had  the  same  meaning  as  when 
added  to  bishop,  or  bishopric,  signifying  do- 
minion or  rule  over  a  district,  is  not  certain. 

(I)  Alfred  Goodrich  was  born  at  Wethers- 
field,  Connecticut,  January  ii,  1817,  died  at 
Newburgh,  New  York,  December  6,  1886.  He 
spent  his  younger  days  in  Connecticut,  and 
when  yet  a  boy  he  went  to  live  on  the  farm 
of  his  uncle,  Jarvis  Knapp,  at  Little  Britain. 
Orange  county,  New  York.  Later  he  settled 
in  Newburgh,  where  he  entered  the  constabu- 
lary, and  in  time  became  chief  of  police  and 
also  superintendent  of  Washington's  Head- 
quarters. In  young  manhood  Mr.  Goodrich 
married  Catherine  Ann,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Carlisle,  who  was  drowned  from  the  sloop 
"Neptune,"  commanded  by  Captain  W^oolsey. 
when  that  vessel  was  captized  in  the  High- 
lands, November  23,  1824.  Among  their  chil- 
dren was  Charles  T.,  of  whom  further. 

(II)  Charles  T.,  son  of  Alfred  and  Cathe- 


rine Ann  (Carlisle)  Goodrich,  was  born  at 
Newburgh,  New  York,  December  5,  1846, 
died  at  the  same  place,  July  6,  191 1,  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Newburgh, 
and  at  an  early  age  became  connected  with  the 
Netvburgh  Daily  News.  Later  he  engaged  in 
railroading,  working  as  fireman  on  the  Erie 
road,  but  in  1865  an  accident  of  a  rather  seri- 
ous kind  occurred  and  he  was  severely  in- 
jured, losing  one  of  his  limbs.  As  soon  as  he 
was  sufficiently  recovered  he  decided  to  go 
into  telegraphing  work,  studying  telegraphy, 
and  finally  qualifying  for  a  position  as  station 
agent  and  telegraph  operator.  He  was  also 
for  some  time  with  the  Western  Union  Tele- 
graph Company.  He  later,  however,  drifted 
back  to  journalism  and  became  editor  and 
manager  of  the  Nezvburgli  Telegraph,  combin- 
ing with  that  the  work  of  correspondent  for 
the  New  York  papers.  Subsequently  he  was 
actively  connected  with  the  Newburgh  Jour- 
nal. In  1870  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate  and 
insurance  business,  and  in  this  he  prospered, 
having  one  of  the  largest  agencies  between 
New  York  and  Albany,  continuing  in  this 
work  until  his  death.  During  his  career  Mr. 
Goodrich  held  many  responsible  positions,  of 
which  the  bare  narrative  of  his  life  gives  little 
inkling.  He  was  prominently  connected  with 
the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  was  for  many 
years  a  national  figure  in  that  organization. 
He  was  grand  chancellor  of  the  state,  and 
supreme  representative  to  the  national  body 
several  times.  Among  civil  and  municipal 
positions  he  was  city  collector,  assessor  and 
clerk  of  the  board  of  supervisors.  He  was 
also  a  director  of  Staples  and  Hanford  Manu- 
facturing Company,  of  the  J.  W.  Matthews 
Company,  wholesale  grocers,  of  the  Highland 
National  Bank,  and  of  the  Newburgh  Light. 
Heat,  and  Power  Company,  in  which  he  also 
acted  as  treasurer.  He  was  a  charter  member 
and  one  of  the  organizers,  as  well  as  president, 
of  the  New  York  State  Local  Fire  Insurance 
Agents'  Association,  and  he  was  on  several 
occasions  representative  to  the  National  Asso- 
ciation of  Local  Fire  Insurance  Agents.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Newburgh  Board  of 
Trade,  and  also  president  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  New- 
burgh. The  following  is  taken  from  the  book, 
"Newburgh":  "Mr.  Goodrich  joined  Brewster 
Hook  and  Ladder  Company  in  1863  and  con- 
tinued  therein   until    1883,   and    for   fourteen 


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years  was  its  representative  in  the  fire  depart- 
ment fund.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was 
secretary  of  the  fund,  and  his  knowledge  of 
the  insurance  business  was  of  great  value  to 
the  board,  it  being  in  no  small  part  through 
his  efforts  that  so  large  a  fund  was  accumu- 
lated." 

Mr.  Goodrich  married,  in  October,  1881, 
Harriet  E.,  born  in  1848,  died  February  8, 
1912,  daughter  of  Captain  Isaac  Jenkinson, 
who  was  lieutenant  in  1857  and  captain  in 
1858  of  the  Washington  Continental  Guards 
of  Newburgh,  and  he  was  also  the  government 
recruiting  officer  at  Newburgh.  Captain  Jen- 
kinson was  the  son  of  Isaac  Jenkinson,  of 
New  York  City,  who  had  two  other  children, 
Jane  and  Joseph.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Goodrich  had 
one  child,  Samuel  Carlisle,  of  whom  further. 

(Ill)  Samuel  Carhsle,  son  of  Charles  T.  and 
Harriet  E.  (Jenkinson)  Goodrich,  was  born 
at  Newburgh,  New  York,  August  6,  1882.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  acade- 
my of  Newburgh,  and  was  graduated  from 
Brown  University  in  the  class  of  1905  with 
the  degree  of  Ph.  B.  While  there  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Delta  Phi  fraternity.  He  im- 
mediately became  associated  with  his  father  in 
the  real  estate  and  insurance  business,  and  in 
1906  he  became  a  partner,  the  title  of  the  firm 
being  Chas.  T.  Goodrich  &  Son.  On  the  death 
of  his  father,  it  came  into  his  possession  and 
he  now  conducts  the  business  under  the  name 
given  to  it  in  the  beginning,  Chas.  T.  Goodrich 
&  Son.  Mr.  Goodrich  is  a  director  of  the 
Highland  National  Bank,  Staples  and  Han- 
ford  Manufacturing  Company,  and  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association ;  trustee  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Newburgh ;  vice- 
president  of  the  State  Association  of  Local 
Fire  Insurance  Agents,  the  Newburgh  Local 
Board  of  Fire  Insurance  Agents,  the  New- 
burgh Chamber  of  Commerce,  a  member  of 
the  Newburgh  City  Club,  and  of  Company 
E,  First  Regiment,  New  York  State  Militia. 
He  is  a  Mason,  and  past  chancellor  command- 
er of  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

Mr.  Goodrich  married,  at  Newburgh,  June 
2,  1909,  Mary  T.,  daughter  of  Joseph  Volney 
and  Anna  L.  (Leeper)  Jordan.  Mr.  Jordan 
is  the  president  of  the  Hudson  Valley  Dairy 
Company,  director  of  the  Newburgh  National 
Bank,  and  of  the  Orange  County  Traction 
Company,  and  is  also  connected  with  many 
other  business  enterprises  in   Newburgh  and 


New  York.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Goodrich  have  two 
children :  Samuel  CarHsle  Jr.,  born  May  26, 
1910.  at  Newburgh,  and  Richard  Jordan,  born 
July  I,  1913,  at  Newburgh. 


This  old  French  name  has  had  a 
DEYO  multitude  of  spellings  in  the  orig- 
inal records  of  this  state,  at  King- 
ston and  New  Paltz,  including  Doyau,  Doioie, 
Doyo,  Daiau,  Dyeo  and  Deyoe.  As  early  as 
1050  there  were  chieftains  in  the  Jura,  a  pass 
between  Switzerland  and  France,  known  as 
the  Sixes  De  Ion,  who  possessed  the  Chateau 
De  Ion.  From  them  has  descended  this  fam- 
ily; they  included  crusaders,  grandees  and 
Huguenots. 

(I)  The  first  in  this  country  was  Christian 
Deyo,  a  native  of  Calais,  France,  who  went 
to  Mannheim,  Germany,  about  1660,  to  es- 
cape religious  persecution.  Thence  he  re- 
moved to  America  in  1673,  settling  at  Esopus, 
now  Kingston,  New  York.  He  was  one  of 
the  twelve  patentees  of  New  Paltz,  where  the 
Huguenot  immigrants  set  up  a  church,  con- 
ducted in  their  own  language,  and  founded 
the  present  prosperous  village  of  New  Paltz, 
where  he  settled  in  1677,  and  died  in  1687.  In 
the  treaty  with  the  Indians  from  whom  they 
first  purchased  the  land  in  1677,  Christian 
Deyo  made  his  mark  in  signature,  and  the 
name  was  written  De  Yoo.  His  son  at  the 
same  time  wrote  the  name  Doyo.  This  pur- 
chase was  approved  by  Governor  Andros, 
April  28,  1677.  The  records  of  the  church 
from  1683  to  1702  are  written  in  French  and 
show  many  births,  marriages  and  deaths  in 
the  family  of  Deyo.  Christian  Deyo  made 
his  will  February  i,  1687,  and  must  have  been 
at  that  time  a  very  old  man.  His  wife,  Jeanne 
Vebeau,  was  probably  dead  when  he  came  to 
this  country ;  at  least  there  is  no  record  of 
her  here.  Children:  i.  Pierre,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Anna,  married  Jan  Hasbrouck,  and 
died  in  1691,  at  the  age  of  fifty-six  years.  3. 
Mary,  married  in  1676,  Abram,  brother  of  Jan 
Hasbrouck,  and  died  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
eight  years.  4.  Elizabeth,  married  in  the  same 
year.  Simeon  Le  Fevre.  5.  Margaret,  married 
Abram  Du  Bois.  All  the  males,  above  men- 
tioned, were  among  the  twelve  patentees  of 
New  Paltz. 

(II)  Pierre,  or  Peter,  only  son  of  Christian 
Deyo,  was  born  between  1646  and  1650,  prob- 
ably at  Saint  Pol,  in  Artois,  France,  and  fol- 


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lowed  his  father  to  America  before  the  set- 
tlement of  New  Paltz.  He  married  and  left 
four  sons  and  two  daughters.  In  1675  he  was 
still  in  the  Palatinate  of  Germany,  as  shown 
by  his  certificate  of  good  standing,  yet  pre- 
served in  the  family:  "This  is  to  certify  that 
Peter  Doio  and  Agatha  Nickol,  both  in  honor 
living  in  Curr  Pfalz,  Mutterstadt,  circuit,  of 
Newstadt,  have  been  united  in  marriage,  the 
intent  of  such  marriage  having  been  an- 
nounced three  times  from  the  pulpit ;  that  they 
are  members  of  the  Reformed  Church  and  as 
far  as  we  know  the  same  are  well  behaved 
people.  Mutterstadt.  Curr  Pfalz  21  January, 
1675.  Jacob  Amyot,  Pastor."  Children:  i. 
Christian,  resided  in  New  Paltz,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Abraham,  born  at  Hurley,  New 
York,  October  16,  1676;  married  in  1702,  El- 
sie Clearwater;  he  died  in  1725,  leaving  a  son 
Abraham,  and  daughters,  Marytje  and 
Wyntje.  Abraham  (2)  was  the  father  of 
Abraham   Deyoe   of   the   revolutionary   army. 

3.  Pierre,  baptized  at  New  Paltz,  New  York, 
in  1683 ;  grew  to  man's  estate ;  left  no  issue. 

4.  Hendricus.  Of  the  two  daughters  of  Pierre 
Deyoe,  Mary,  the  eldest,  born  in  1679,  mar- 
ried Jacob  Clearwater,  settled  at  Bontecoe, 
and  had  a  son,  Abraham,  baptized  at  New 
Paltz  in  1699.  Margaret,  the  second  daugh- 
ter, left  no  issue. 

(HI)  Christian  (2),  eldest  child  of  Peter 
and  Agatha  (Nickol)  Deyo,  was  baptized 
April  17,  1681,  in  the  Kingston  Dutch  Church, 
by  the  Rev.  Casporous  Van  Zunen,  who  was 
a  "supply"  from  Brooklyn.  The  dominie 
omitted  note  of  the  baptism  on  the  Kingston 
records,  and  entered  it  in  the  Brooklyn  Dutch 
Church  records.  The  witnesses  at  the  bap- 
tism were  his  paternal  grandparents.  Chris- 
tian (2)  Deyo  resided  at  New  Paltz,  and  mar- 
ried, February  21,  1701,  Marie  Lecomte, 
daughter  of  Jean  Lecomte,  who  came  with 
Governor  Andros  in  1674,  and  settled  in  Har- 
lem, New  York,  where  he  died  soon  after  his 
arrival.  His  children  removed  to  Esopus.  It 
is  presumable  that  Christian  Deyo  and  his 
family  came  in  the  same  ship.  Children : 
Peter,  baptized  May  31,  1702;  Jacobus,  Jan- 
uary 16,  1704;  Moses,  mentioned  below:  Ma- 
ria, September  11,  1709;  Ester,  February  27, 
1715  :  all  at  Kingston. 

(IV)  Moses,  third  son  of  Christian  (2)  and 
Marie  (Lecomte)  Deyo,  was  baptized  Janu- 
ary 26,  1707,  in  Kingston.     He  married,  April 


17,  1728,  in  Kingston,  Claartjen  Stookraad, 
a  native  of  Hoogduytsland,  Germany,  both 
then  residing  at  New  Paltz.  She  was  prob- 
ably descended  from  one  of  the  refugees  from 
the  German  Palatinate,  named  Hans  Willem 
Stookraad.  who  was  one  of  the  heads  of  fam- 
families,  aged  thirty-seven,  when  he  arrived  in 
the  city  of  New  York  in  1710.  Children: 
Christian,  mentioned  below ;  Rachel,  baptized 
February  12.  1738:  Johannes,  October  28, 
1739;  Elizabeth.  January  17,  1742;  Gael 
(Grael).  January  12,  1746;  all  at  Kingston. 

(V)  Christian  (3),  eldest  child  of  Moses 
and  Claartjen  (Stookraad)  Deyo,  was  bap- 
tized February  12,  1738,  in  Kingston,  and 
married.  May  i,  1762,  at  Shawangunk,  Alida 
Terwilliger,  of  that  town.  Children :  Josiah, 
mentioned  below ;  Jonathan,  baptized  Febru- 
ary 2,  1766;  Moses,  June  5,  1768;  Maria, 
April  24,  1770;  Claartje,  October  30,  1772; 
Matheus,  January  5.  1777;  all  at  New  Paltz. 

(VI)  Josiah,  eldest  child  of  Christian  (3) 
and  Alida  (Terwilliger)  Deyo,  was  baptized 
May  I,  1763,  at  New  Paltz.  He  married 
Catharine  Blauchau.  While  the  marriage  is 
not  recorded,  the  baptism  records  of  the  New 
Paltz  Church  show  that  to  be  her  name,  and 
this  information  is  confirmed  by  the  Deyo 
family  records.  She  was  descended  from  Ma- 
these  Blauchau,  who  was  one  of  the  Huguenot 
refugees  in  1648,  with  Christian  (i)  Deyo,  at 
Mannheim,  and  was  also  among  the  settlers  at 
New  Paltz.  He  arrived  from  Germany  at  New 
Amsterdam  in  the  "Gilded  Otter,"  April  27, 
1660,  and  reached  Esopus  in  the  following 
December.  Only  one  child  of  Josiah  Deyo 
appears  on  the  New  Paltz  baptismal  records, 
namely.  Christian,  born  at  Springtown.  near 
New  Paltz,  February  9,  1789. 

(VII)  Christian  (4),  son  of  Josiah  and 
Catharine  (Blauchau)  Deyo,  was  a  farmer,  a 
quiet  man.  of  unostentatious  nature,  who  died 
young.  He  married  Seleta  Weaver.  At  the 
time  set  for  the  marriage,  there  was  a  storm 
and  freshet  which  carried  away  bridges,  and 
the  minister  was  unable  to  reach  them,  so 
they  were  joined  by  a  justice  of  the  peace. 
Of  their  thirteen  children,  five  grew  up,  name- 
ly: Peter  \\^eaver.  married  Charlotte  Freer; 
Jacobus  Dietz.  married  Elizabeth  Travers  Ter- 
williger :  William  Henry  Harrison,  mentioned 
below ;  Huldah.  married  John  Kinney ;  Eliza- 
beth, married  Samuel  Teller. 

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of  Christian  (4)  and  Seleta  (Weaver)  Deyo, 
was  born  September  25,  1834,  in  the  town  of 
Rosendale,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  and  at- 
tended the  local  schools  of  the  vicinity.  He 
then  learned  the  trade  of  paper  making,  which 
occupied  his  attention  for  a  period  of  six 
years,  after  which  he  went  to  Ellenville,  New 
York,  and  was  employed  in  boating  on  the 
Delaware  and  Hudson  Canal.  In  1872  he  be- 
came associated  with  E.  J.  Bailey,  in  the  pur- 
chase of  a  lumber  business,  and  since  that  time 
they  have  conducted  this  business  with  suc- 
cess under  the  title  of  Bailey  &  Deyo.  Mr. 
Deyo  is  actively  interested  in  the  welfare  and 
progress  of  the  community,  has  served  ten 
years  as  trustee  of  the  village  of  Ellenville, 
and  also  as  president.  In  1878-79  he  was 
elected  supervisor  on  the  Republican  ticket, 
representing  the  town  of  Wawarsing  in  the 
county  board.  He  is  the  vice-president  of  the 
Ellenville  Savings  Bank,  and  his  business  ca- 
reer has  ever  been  marked  by  the  most  up- 
right and  honorable  methods,  which  have  se- 
cured to  him  the  esteem  of  his  contemporaries, 
and  will  be  a  blessed  heritage  to  his  descend- 
ants. He  is  a  member  of  Wawarsing  Lodge, 
No.  582,  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  in 
politics  has  been  throughout  his  life  a  stanch 
Republican.  He  married,  November  21,  1857, 
Susan  Van  Wyck  Haight.  Children :  George, 
mentioned  below ;  Lelia,  married  John  C. 
Johnson;  and  Helen  married  William  R.  Du 
Bois. 

(IX)  George,  only  son  of  William  H.  H. 
and  Susan  Van  Wyck  (Haight)  Deyo,  was 
born  March  4,  1862,  in  Ellenville,  in  which 
village  he  grew  up,  receiving  his  education  in 
the  public  schools  and  academy.  Early  in  life 
he  entered  the  employ  of  Bailey  &  Deyo,  lum- 
ber dealers,  in  which  his  father  was  a  part- 
ner, and  continued  in  this  association  several 
years.  He  early  began  giving  attention  to 
public  affairs,  and  has  ever  been  an  ardent 
supporter  of,  and  active  in  the  councils  of, 
the  Republican  party.  In  1895  he  was  elected 
treasurer  of  Ulster  county  on  the  Republican 
ticket,  and  was  re-elected  in  1898,  resigning  in 
January,  1901,  to  accept  the  position  of  war- 
den of  Clinton  Prison,  at  Dannemora,  New 
York.  He  continued  there  until  November 
I,  1906,  when  he  resigned  his  position  to  be- 
come superintendent  of  the  New  York  State 
Reformatory  at  Napanoch,  New  York,  near 
his   native  home.     This   position  he   still   re- 


tains. Mr.  Deyo  was  appointed  a  commis- 
sioner of  the  Reformatory  by  Governor  Flow- 
er, during  whose  administration  he  held  that 
position.  He  was  twice  a  supervisor  of  the 
town  of  Wawarsing.  At  present  he  is  vice- 
president  and  director  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Ellenville,  and  a  trustee  of  the  Ma- 
sonic Building  Association.  He  is  a  member 
and  past  master  of  Wawarsing  Lodge,  No. 
582  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  past  high 
priest  of  Wawarsing  Chapter,  No.  246,  Royal 
Arch  Masons,  of  Ellenville.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Kingston,  Rondout  and  Elks'  Clubs, 
and  in  religion  is  affiliated  with  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church.  The  above  list  of  activities 
indicates  the  energy  and  executive  ability  of 
Mr.  Deyo;  his  affiliation  with  benevolent  and 
fraternal  bodies  proves  his  large  heart  and 
kindly  nature ;  and  his  elevation  to  the  offices 
named  shows  the  confidence  and  esteem  with 
which  he  is  regarded  by  his  fellow  citizens 
and  the  powers  at  large  in  the  state. 

Mr.  Deyo  married,  September  17,  1890, 
Nora  Bates,  daughter  of  Hiram  Bates,  of 
Madison  county.  New  York,  and  they  have 
two  children :  Barbara  Valette  and  William 
Hoornbeek. 


(Ill)  Hendricus,  or  Henry,  Deyo, 
DEYO  fourth  son  of  Pierre  or  Peter  Deyo 
(q.  v.),  was  baptized  in  Kingston, 
October  12,  1690,  and  resided  at  Bontecoe, 
four  miles  north  of  New  Paltz.  The  stone 
house  which  he  or  his  son  built  there  was 
until  very  recently  in  possession  of  his  de- 
scendants. He  married  at  Kingston,  Decem- 
ber 31,  1715,  Margaret  Von  Bummel,  baptized 
at  Kingston  in  1693.  In  the  old  graveyard  at 
New  Paltz  is  a  gravestone  believed  to  mark 
her  burial  place.  Children :  Deborah,  Peter, 
Isaac,  Benjamin,  Johann,  Christoffel,  Hagetea, 
Hendricus.  Sarah  and  David. 

(IV)  Benjamin,  third  son  of  Hendricus  or 
Henry  and  Margaret  (Von  Bummel)  Deyo, 
was  born  May  3,  1725,  in  Bontecoe,  and  was 
a  farmer  residing  on  the  paternal  homestead. 
He  married  Jannetji  Van  Vliet  and  had  chil- 
dren :  Johannes,  born  January  4,  1755  ;  Abram, 
July  21-,  1758;  William,  January  4,  1761 ;  Ben- 
jamin. 

(V)  Johannes,  or  John,  eldest  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Jannetji  (Van  Vliet)  Deyo,  was 
born  January  4,  1755,  at  Bontecoe,  and  was 
a  farmer  residing  in  the  vicinity  of  his  birth- 


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place.  His  last  farm  was  east  of  the  Bon- 
tecoe  school  house.  He  married  Cathrina 
Kritsinger,  and  had  sons  Stephen,  Benjamin 
L.,  John,  Levi,  Moses  and  Christian. 

(VI)  Stephen,  eldest  son  of  Johannes  or 
John  and  Cathrina  (Kritsinger)  Deyo,  was 
born  May  4,  1798,  at  Bontecoe,  and  died  in 
Southern  Esopus,  May  5,  1874.  He  owned 
a  large  farm  in  Clintondale  and  was  an  indus- 
trious and  prosperous  citizen.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Blanshan,  daughter  of  Jacob  Blans- 
han,  a  descendant  from  Matthys  Blanshan, 
who  was  a  native  of  Artois,  France,  whence 
he  sailed  April  27,  1660,  on  the  ship  "Gilded 
Otter"  with  his  wife  and  three  children,  and 
settled  at  Esopus.  Matthys  (2),  son  of  Mat- 
thys (i)  Blanshan,  married  March  30,  1679, 
Margaret  Claason  Van  Schoonhoven.  Nich- 
olas, son  of  Matthys  (2)  and  Margaret  Claa- 
son (Van  Schoonhoven)  Blanshan,  was  bap- 
tized July  2,  1682,  at  Kingston,  and  married 
Maria  Hornbeck.  Matthys  (3),  son  of  Nich- 
olas and  Maria  (Hornbeck)  Blanshan,  mar- 
ried March  17,  1738,  Annetje  Freer.  Jacob, 
son  of  Matthys  (3)  and  Annetje  (Freer) 
Blanshan,  was  baptized  January  11,  1767,  at 
Kingston,  and  married  February  12,  1789, 
Marietje  Keermanse.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Jacob  and  Marietje  (Keermanse)  Blanshan, 
was  born  October  19,  1798,  became  the  wife 
of  Stephen  Deyo,  as  above  noted,  and  died 
April  28,  1880.  Children:  Clinton,  born  Jan- 
uary 31,  1820;  Maria,  January  20,  1822;  Sarah 
Ann,  January  24,  1824;  Eliza,  August  30, 
1830;  Elma,  March  14,  1833;  Richard  S.,  Au- 
gust 15,  1836;  Charles  Wesley,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(VH)  Dr.  Charles  Wesley  Deyo,  youngest 
child  of  Stephen  and  Elizabeth  (Blanshan) 
Deyo,  was  born  August  5,  1839.  in  Clinton- 
dale,  and  died  August  31,  1896.  He  was 
reared  upon  his  father's  farm  at  Clintondale, 
attending  the  common  schools  in  early  life, 
and  was  several  years  a  student  at  the  New 
Paltz  Academy.  In  1861  he  began  the  study 
of  medicine  with  Dr.  David  Wurtz,  who  died 
in  1862,  and  young  Deyo  continued  his  studies 
with  his  brother,  Maurice  Wurtz.  In  the  fall 
of  1861  Mr.  Deyo  entered  Geneva  -Medical 
College,  and  in  September,  1862,  entered  Bel- 
levue  Hospital  Medical  College  of  New  York 
City,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  March, 
1863,  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  imme- 
diately began  the  practice  of  his  profession 


at  New  Paltz  in  which  he  continued  until  Jan- 
uary I,  1868.  In  the  previous  year  he  had 
been  elected  county  clerk  on  the  Democratic 
ticket,  and  served  three  years,  after  which  he 
was  re-elected  and  served  another  three  years. 
In  the  spring  of  1871  he  removed  to  King- 
ston, where  he  engaged  in  medical  practice 
and  returned  to  New  Paltz  in  1874,  and  pur- 
chased the  drug  store  of  his  brother-in-law, 
Jacob  D.  Wurtz.  This  he  sold  in  the  autumn 
of  that  year  and  resumed  practice.  In  Janu- 
ary, 1875,  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  Huguenot 
National  Bank  at  New  Paltz,  and  was  pro- 
moted to  cashier  at  the  end  of  that  year,  con- 
tinuing eleven  years  in  that  capacity.  At  the 
end  of  this  time,  in  1887,  he  was  appointed 
cashier  of  the  City  of  New  York  National 
Bank  at  Kingston,  which  position  he  contin- 
ued to  fill  until  his  death.  At  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Ulster  County  Savings  Institution 
in  November,  1893,  he  became  its  president, 
and  was  thus  identified  with  two  of  the 
strongest  financial  institutions  of  Ulster  coun- 
ty during  the  remainder  of  his  life.  In  the 
years  of  his  active  practice  he  was  a  member, 
and  for  several  years  secretary,  of  the  Ulster 
County  Medical  Society.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Water  Commissioners  of  the 
City  of  Kingston,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
local  board  of  trustees  of  the  State  Normal 
School  at  New  Paltz,  being  several  years 
treasurer  of  the  board.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  and  supported 
Democratic  principles  in  politics. 

He  married  February  8,  1868,  Cornelia 
Wurtz,  born  October  31.  1843,  in  New  Paltz, 
where  she  now  resides.  She  is  a  descendant 
from  Rev.  Johannes  Conrad  Wurtz,  who  came 
from  Zurich,  Switzerland,  and  settled  in  New 
Jersey,  in  1734.  His  son,  Dr.  George  Wurtz, 
was  the  father  of  Dr.  Jacob  Wurtz,  whose  son 
Dr.  David  Wurtz,  was  born  July  27,  1813,  in 
New  Paltz,  where  he  was  educated  in  the  lo- 
cal academy.  He  studied  medicine  with  his 
father  and  subsequently  graduated  from  the 
medical  college  at  Fairfield,  New  York,  Feb- 
ruary 2,  1836.  He  had  an  extensive  practice 
at  New  Paltz  and  in  the  surrounding  towns, 
and  died  July  25,  1862.  He  married,  July  21, 
1841,  Albina,  daughter  of  Jacob  J.  Hasbrouck, 
who  was  born  in  1767,  and  married  Anna  Du 
Bois,  daughter  of  Jacob  J.  and  Jannetje  Du 
Bois.'  Dr.  David  and  Albina  Wurtz  were  the 
parents  of  Cornelia  Wurtz,  who  became  the 


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wife  of  Dr.  Charles  W.  Deyo,  as  previously 
shown.  Children:  Albina  Wurtz,  born  Janu- 
ary. 1869,  became  the  wife  of  Rowland  A. 
Dennison;  Elizabeth,  bom  March  26,  1871, 
wife  of  William  M.  Davis ;  Morris,  born  May 
6,  1873 ;  Charles  David,  mentioned  below. 

(VIII)  Charles  David,  junior  son  of  Dr. 
Charles  Wesley  and  Cornelia  (Wurtz)  Deyo, 
was  born  March  12,  1877,  in  New  Paltz,  and 
attended  the  public  schools  of  that  place  until 
1888,  when  his  father  removed  to  Kingston. 
There  he  attended  the  grammar  school  and 
Kingston  Academy  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated with  the  class  of  1895.  I"  1896  he  en- 
tered Yale  College  and  at  the  end  of  his  sopho- 
more year  in  1898  received  his  diploma.  He 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  John  W.  Searing 
in  Kingston,  and  later  in  the  office  of  New- 
comb  &  Metzger  in  the  same  city,  and  entered 
the  Albany  Law  School  in  1899,  graduating 
in  1902.  In  that  year  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  before  the  supreme  court  and  opened  a  law 
office  on  John  street,  in  Kingston,  since  which 
time  he  has  been  continuously  engaged  in  gen- 
eral practice  there.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  and  acts  politically 
with  the  Democratic  party.  In  November, 
191 1,  he  was  elected  recorded  of  the  city  of 
Kingston  to  serve  three  years. 


Pye  is  one  of  the  many  surnames 
PYE  derived  from  the  personal  or  Chris- 
tian name,  Hugh,  as  Ap-Hugh  has, 
in  some  parts  of  Wales,  been  corrupted  to 
Pye.  The  surname  may,  however,  in  some 
cases  be  derived  from  the  bird,  now  called 
the  Mag-pie,  the  first  syllable  of  which  is  a 
puerile  addition,  like  Tom  and  Robin  in  "Tom 
Cat"  and  "Robin  Redbreast."  Pye  is  the  true 
name  of  the  bird  in  Old  English,  as  found  in 
mediaeval  literature  -.e.g.: 

"I  had  wonder  at  whom 

And  where  the  Pye  lerned 

To  leye  the  stikkes 

In  which  she  layeth  and  bredeth, 

Ther  nys  wrighte,  as  I  ween, 

Sholde  wercke  hir  nestes  to  pave ; 

If  any  mason  made  a  molde  thereto, 

Much  wonder  it  were." 

— Piers  Plowman. 
The  name  has  in  some  cases  been  com- 
pounded with  others,  as  in  the  case  of  the  lo- 
cal name,  Pyecraft,  which  stood  for  the  croft 
frequented  by  magpies.  There  is  also  the 
name  Pyefinch,  which  is  another  form  of  chaf- 


finch. In  Burke's  "General  Armory"  there 
are  given  eight  families  bearing  the  name  and 
having  the  right  to  have  arms.  There  is  a 
Pye  family  of  Farringdon  county,  Bucking- 
hamshire, England,  afterwards  of  Clifton 
Hall,  county  Staffordshire,  England,  the  mod- 
ern representatives  being  descended  from  Sir 
Robert  Pye,  Knight,  Auditor  of  the  Receipt  of 
the  Exchequer  to  James  I.  and  Charles  I.,  and 
second  son  of  Roger  Pye,  Esquire,  of  the 
Mynde  temp.  Queen  Elizabeth,  Visit,  Mid- 
dlesex, 1663.  I'he  Arms  of  this  family  are 
described  heraldically :  "Quatering,  ist,  sa.  a 
Lion  pass.  ar. ;  2nd,  per  pale  ar.  and  sa.  a  lion 
ramp,  counterchanged  supporting  with  the 
f orepaws  a  tree  eradicated  vert ;  3rd,  gu.  three 
stirrups  with  leatherf s  or ;  4th,  ar.  on  a  cheval 
engr.  between  three  birds  sa.  as  many  escal- 
lops or.  Crest — A  cross  crosslet  fitchee  gu. 
between  two  wings  displayed  ar."  Motto:  In 
crnce  gloriar. 

(I)  David  Pye,  the  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  Pye  family  in  America  here  dealt  with, 
was  born  in  England  and  died  August  28, 
1804.  He  was  by  profession  a  lawyer,  and 
came  to  America  in  1757  on  legal  business,  in- 
tending to  return  again  to  his  native  country. 
Being  left  without  means  he  remained  in 
America  and  soon  after  settled  in  Rockland 
county.  He  was  among  the  early  settlers  in 
the  town  of  Clarkstown.  He  did  an  exten- 
sive business  as  a  surveyor  and  also  settled 
many  estates.  Previous  to  the  erection  of  the 
county,  deeds,  records,  etc.,  were  placed  in  his 
hands  for  safekeeping,  and  upon  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  county  in  1798  he  became  the  first 
county  clerk.  He  was  also  clerk  of  the  first 
board  of  supervisors  of  Rockland  county.  He 
filled  many  other  important  positions,  among 
which  may  be  mentioned :  Member  of  the 
provincial  congress,  state  senator,  member  of 
the  council  of  appointment,  member  of  the 
assembly,  supervisor,  etc.  He  was  a  man  of 
superior  ability  and  was  widely  known  and 
universally  respected.  He  married  (first)  on 
December  30,  1762,  Mary  Martin,  of  western 
New  Jersey,  the  Rev.  John  Hanse  officiating. 
She  died  January  20,  1783,  aged  forty-three 
years.  David  Pye  married  (second)  on  Oc- 
tober 22,  1783,  Cathrena,  daughter  of  David 
and  Elizabeth  Cooper,  of  Bergen  county,  New 
Jersey.  Children,  by  the  first  marriage: 
Sarah,  born  March  24,  1764;  John,  born  April 
17,  1766;  James,  born  May  13,  1768;  Benja- 


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min,  born  August  3,  1770 ;  Ann,  born  Septem- 
ber 20,  1771 ;  David  D.,  mentioned  below ;  and 
(by  the  second  marriage)   Isaac. 

(II)  David  D.,  son  of  David  and  Mary 
(Martin)  Pye,  was  born  at  Clarkstown.  Rock- 
land county,  New  York,  February  14,  1776, 
died  September  27,  1852,  and  was  buried  in 
Oak  Hill  Cemetery.  He  was  a  civil  engineer 
and  had  charge  of  the  settlement  of  many 
estates.  His  influence  in  matters  of  public 
importance  was  widely  felt.  His  advice  in 
legal  matters  was  often  sought,  and  many  con- 
troversies were  settled  through  his  influence 
without  having  recourse  to  the  courts  of  law. 
If  public  estimation  be  made  a  criterion  of 
merit,  he  was  excelled  by  few,  since  for  many 
years  he  was  honored  with  the  office  of  county 
clerk,  and  also  had  very  many  other  positions 
of  trust.  He  married,  April  10,  1799,  Sarah 
Acker,  the  Rev.  Nicholas  Lansing  officiating. 
Children:  David  D.,  born  October  30,  1800, 
died  June  24,  1867 ;  Catharine,  born  March  3, 
1802,  died  December  9,  1851 ;  John  D.,  men- 
tioned below;  Isaac,  born  December  21,  1813, 
married  Elizabeth  Ann  Van  Houten ; 
Matthew,  born  March  8,  1816,  died  February 
8,  1870;  Sarah,  born  July  20,  1818;  Edwarcl, 
and  Jeremiah,  born  November  10,  1826. 

(III)  John  D.,  son  of  David  D.  and  Sarah 
(Acker)  Pye,  was  born  in  Clarkstown,  Rock- 
land county.  New  York,  December  17,  1806, 
and  died  January  30,  1864.  He  received  a 
common  school  education,  and  was  for  sev- 
eral years  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
woolen  goods  at  Clarksville.  In  1841  he  re- 
moved to  the  farm  near  New  City,  later  owned 
and  occupied  by  his  son,  Isaac  E.  There  he 
spent  the  remainder  of  his  days,  being  actively 
engaged  in  the  farming  and  lumber  business. 
He  was  also  engaged  in  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness in  New  City.  He  was  a  man  of  good 
business  abilities  and  was  highly  esteemed  in 
the  community.  He  was  in  politics  a  Republi- 
can, and  belonged  to  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church.  He  married,  September  5.  1835, 
Clara,  born  March  16,  1818,  daughter'of  John 
Clasia  and  Maria  (Blauvelt)  Van  Houten. 
Children:  Neplin ;  Mary  H.,  born  in  1839; 
Isaac  Edward,  mentioned  below ;  James 
Henry;  and  John  Henry,  born  August  14, 
1 85 1,  married  Epiily  Ferguson. 

(IV)  Isaac  Edward,  son  of  John  D.  and 
Clara  (Van  Houten)  Pye,  was  born  at  Clarks- 
town, Rockland  county.  New  York,  January 


29,  1841.  He  attended  the  district  schools  in 
Waldberg,  now  Congers,  beginning  when  he 
was  five  years  old,  and  remained  there  one 
year,  and  then  went  to  New  City  district 
school,  continuing  there  until  he  was  ten  years 
old.  At  that  age  he  began  to  attend  the  Hord- 
castle  Academy,  at  Haverstraw,  remaining  one 
year,  when  he  graduated  with  his  class.  He 
then  returned  to  the  old  Pye  farm  in  Clarks- 
town, and  remained  there  until  1859.  Then 
he  went  to  New  City  and  engaged  in  the  busi- 
ness of  general  grocery  and  its  allied  trades, 
remaining  so  engaged  for  nearly  three  years, 
when  he  disposed  of  the  business,  and  again 
returned  to  the  old  farm  and  remained  there 
for  six  months. 

Mr.  Pye  has  a  most  excellent  civil  war  rec- 
ord. He  enlisted,  August  12,  1862,  in  the 
128th  Regiment  New  York  Volunteers,  at 
Poughkeepsie.  He  served  with  this  regiment 
in  the  Nineteenth  Army  Corps,  commanded 
by  Major-General  Nathaniel  P.  Banks,  and 
participated  in  the  operations  in  Louisiana, 
and  in  the  famous  siege  of  Port  Hudson,  Mis- 
sissippi, the  latter  event  taking  place  at  the 
same  time  as  General  Grant's  siege  of  Vicks- 
burg,  in  1863.  He  also  served  in  the  arduous 
Red  river  campaign.  With  his  command  he 
then  returned  to  Washington,  and  passed  un- 
der the  command  of  General  Sheridan,  and 
under  that  distinguished  officer  participated  in 
the  battle  of  Winchester,  September  19,  1864, 
and  Cedar  Creek,  October  19,  same  year.  His 
command  was  then  forwarded  to  the  Atlantic 
coast  and  made  a  junction  with  General 
Sherman's  army  immediately  after  its  "March 
to  the  Sea."  He  was  in  service  with  this 
command  until  the  close  of  the  war  in  1865, 
and  was  honorably  discharged. 

In  that  year  (1865)  he  returned  to  the  farm 
where  he  remained  until  1887.  In  the  latter 
year  he  moved  to  Nyack,  and  engaged  in  the 
grocery  and  grain  business,  and  continued  in 
that  business  until  the  year  1898,  when  he 
engaged  with  George  Washington  Onderdonk 
in  the  coal  business  in  Nyack.  The  firm  is 
now  Onderdonk  &  Company.  They  are  do- 
ing a  large  business  and  the  partners  of  the 
firm  are  highly  respected  by  their  fellow 
townsmen.  Mr.  Isaac  Edward  Pye  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  in  1890  was  elected 
village  president,  to  serve  for  one  year.  He 
was  a  trustee  of  the  village  from  1888  to  1890. 
He   also   was   a   commissioner  of   the   village 


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water  board,  and  served  for  six  years.  He 
then  became  town  auditor  and  served  for  two 
terms,  six  years  in  all. 

Mr.  Pye  is  now  commander  of  Waldron 
Post,  No.  82,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
Nyack ;  a  member  of  Rockland  Lodge,  No. 
713,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  Nyack;  a 
member  of  Rockland  Chapter,  No.  204,  Royal 
Arch  Masons,  Nyack;  a  member  of  the  Rock- 
land County  Industrial  Society,  and  is  now 
its  vice-president.  In  religious  matters  he  be- 
longs to  the  Presbyterian  church. 

He  married  (first)  July  25,  1866,  in  New 
York  City,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Striker  officiating,  at 
the  bride's  home,  Sarah  Annie,  born  August  6, 
1847,  daughter  of  John  and  Jane  (Bell) 
Dixon.  He  married  (second)  Ada  Elizabeth, 
born  February  11,  1849,  daughter  of  Peter 
and  Amanda  (Fitch)  Stephens.  Children  of 
John  and  Jane  Dixon  were  :  Martha ;  Sarah 
Annie;  Elizabeth,  and  Emily.  The  children 
of  Peter  and  Amanda  (Fitch)  Stephens  were: 
Ada  Elizabeth;  Charles  H.,  and  Estella  G. 
The  children  of  Isaac  Edward  Pye  were: 
Jennie  Dixon,  born  July  2,  1868,  died  in  1889 ; 
and  James  Henry,  born  February  10,  1870, 
died  in  1872. 


This  is  a  family  which 
DE  NOYELLES     has    been    distinguished 

in  the  military  service 
of  France,  in  both  the  old  world  and  the  new. 
The  name  is  a  place  name,  the  prefix  "De" 
signifying  "of."  There  are  several  places  in 
France  bearing  the  name  Noyelle  or  Noyelles. 
The  family  has  been  identified  with  the  church 
as  well  as  the  military  matters,  and  in  early 
times  seems  to  have  been  very  loyal  to  the 
ruling  sovereign  and  to  the  Catholic  church. 
In  later  generations  they  were  Huguenots,  and 
undoubtedly  the  family  herein  traced  belonged 
to  this  class. 

The  family  claim  that  the  name  was  orig- 
inally De  Noailles  and  that  it  was  anglicized 
by  John  DeNoyelles  on  his  arrival  in  this 
country  from  France,  which  probably  ac- 
counts for  the  accusation  that  some  of  the  al- 
legations in  his  petition  for  naturalization 
were  untrue,  for  no  doubt  he  was  desirous  to 
conceal  his  identity.  It  is  claimed  that  he  is 
a  descendant  of  Phillipe  de  Noailles,  Due  de 
Mouchy,  a  French  Marshal,  born  in  1715, 
served  in  the  war  of  the  Austrian  Succession ; 
also  in  the  seven  years  war  and  was  one  of 


the  victims  of  the  Reign  of  Terror,  being 
guillotined  June  27,  1794.  In  order  to  escape 
the  calamities  which  befell  this  persecuted 
race,  three  of  the  sons  sought  refuge  in  the 
new  world — Edward,  Pierre,  and  John  (a 
younger  sister  of  whom  afterward  married 
the  Marquise  de  Lafayette)  ;  another  brother, 
Louis  Marie,  was  a  French  general  and  poli- 
tician, born  in  1756,  came  to  America  in  1778 
or  1779,  a  volunteer  accompanied  by  Lafayette. 
He  was  elected  to  the  states  general  in  1789, 
but  emigrated  at  the  beginning  of  the  Reign 
of  Terror,  and  accepted  a  command  under  Ro- 
chambeau  in  Santo  Domingo  and  was  mortally 
wounded  in  an  engagement  with  the  English. 
Pierre  settled  in  Vermont  and  owned  large 
tracts  of  land.  Edward  was  granted  lands  in 
the  vicinity  of  Schoharie  county.  New  York, 
and  whose  descendants  are  still  to  be  found  in 
that  section.  The  remaining  brother  and  an- 
cestor of  this  branch  of  the  family  was  John, 
of  whom  further. 

(I)  John  DeNoyelles  was  a  French  officer 
in  the  service  of  the  British  king,  in  America, 
and  decided  to  settle  in  New  York.  He  ap- 
plied for  naturalization  as  a  British  subject 
before  April  14,  1761,  as  shown  by  a  letter 
of  that  date  written  by  Secretary  Pownall  to 
Lieutenant-Governor  Cadwallader  Colden. 
Subsequent  documents  show  that  the  authori- 
ties held  some  of  the  allegations  in  his  peti- 
tion to  be  untrue.  However,  it  is  probable  that 
his  petition  was  granted,  as  he  settled  here  and 
is  found  of  record  in  New  York  City  as  early 
as  1763.  By  the  family  record  it  appears  that 
he  settled  at  Haverstraw,  not  far  from  that 
date,  and  died  there  January  11,  1775,  at  the 
age  of  forty-one.  He  purchased  from  the 
heirs  of  Nicholas  Kuyper,  in  1769,  the  partial 
ownership  of  the  De  Harte  patent  at  Haver- 
straw; Joseph  Allison  also  had  rights  in  it. 
By  informal  agreement,  John  DeNoyelles  had 
the  southern  part  of  the  patent,  but  division 
between  the  DeNoyelles  and  the  Allison  hold- 
ings was  not  formally  made  until  May  29, 
1792;  each  part  is  now  of  great  and  increas- 
ing value.  On  his  land  he  established  his 
home  on  what  was  then  the  high  bank  of  the 
river,  the  house  standing  nearly  opposite  the 
middle  of  the  present  coffer  dam.  This  house 
was  burned  by  the  British,  in  the  night  of 
June  20,  1781  ;  another  was  erected  a  little 
south  of  the  old  site,  and  a  little  way  back  from 
the  river,  and  it  was  here  the  early  Methodists 


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of  this  section  met  for  religious  purposes;  this 
second  mansion  existed  until  recently,  but  ex- 
tensive brick  yards  now  occupy  the  site.  John 
DeNoyelles  was  a  very  prominent  man  in  the 
old  Orange  county,  of  which  Rockland  was 
still  a  part.  From  1764  to  1771  he  was  su- 
pervisor of  Haverstraw ;  he  was  one  of  the 
commissioners  on  the  part  of  Kakiat  to  deter- 
mine the  boundary  between  that  patent  and 
Cheesecock's  patent,  and  was  elected  to  the 
provincial  assembly,  representing  the  county 
of  Orange  in  1769,  serving  until  his  death. 
He  was  also  one  of  the  three  commissioners 
appointed  by  the  assembly  of  the  province  of 
New  York  to  act  with  commissioners  appoint- 
ed in  New  Jersey,  for  the  purpose  of  ascer- 
taining and  marking  the  boundry  line  between 
New  York  and  New  Jersey.  He  enlisted  in 
the  Second  Regiment,  Orange  county  militia. 
His  remains  were  at  first  interred  in  the  fam- 
ily burying  ground,  from  which  they  were  re- 
moved, in  1898,  under  the  direction  of  Daniel 
DeNoyelles,  to  Mount  Repose  cemetery ;  other 
corpses  were  removed  also,  with  monument 
and  headstones,  and  they  occupy  one  large 
plot,  of  about  two  hundred  graves.  The  old 
family  cemetery  occupied  a  high  hill,  the  last 
part  left  of  the  elevated  land  which  once  ex- 
tended all  along  the  river. 

He  married,  in  New  York  City,  August  30, 
1763,  Rachel  Shatford.  She  was  probably  the 
daughter  of  Daniel  and  Rachel  (VanDyk) 
Shatford.  The  puzzling  variation  in  the  spell- 
ing of  names  in  the  Dutch  records  is  striking- 
ly illustrated  in  regard  to  this  name ;  orthog- 
raphy was  then  free,  and  the  attempts  to  rep- 
resent the  sounds  of  foreign  names  in  Dutch 
often  led  to  fantastic  and  singular  results. 
This  name  is  entered,  in  the  baptism  of  one 
of  the  children,  as  Crafort,  but  in  the  others 
as  Shetford  or  Shetvort.  The  form  here 
adopted  is  the  one  which  appears  in  the  mar- 
riage entry.  She  married  (second)  Colonel 
John  Roberts,  who  was  living  in  the  house  at 
the  time  of  its  destruction  by  the  British. 
Children  of  John  and  Rachel  (Shatford) 
DeNoyelles:  i.  John  Jacob,  of  whom  further. 
2.  Peter,  baptized  November  4,  1767,  died 
May  6,  1829;  married,  March  3.  1788,  Dereka, 
daughter  of  Theodoras  Snedeker;  children: 
John,  Daniel,  Theodore,  William,  Peter,  As- 
bury,  George,  Charlotte,  married  John  Coe ; 
Efifie,  married  Garret  De  Forest ;  Sarah,  mar- 
ried   Joseph    Thiell ;    Rachel,    married    Odell 


Lawrence,  and  Mary,  married  John  Haring. 

3.  Sarah,  died  October   10,   1770,  unmarried. 

4.  Charlotte,  born  about  July  15,  1771  ;  mar- 
ried Matthew  Coe.  5.  Edward  William,  born 
January  10,  1774. 

(H)  John  Jacob,  son  of  John  and  Rachel 
(Shatford)  DeNoyelles,  was  baptized  in  New 
York  City,  October  17,  1765,  died  August  9, 
1832.  He  inherited  a  large  share  of  his 
father's  estate  and  bought  the  dock  and  land- 
ing, the  first,  and  long  the  only,  ones  in  Haver- 
straw, with  the  storehouse  and  dwelling 
house,  November  7,  1801.  Unlike  liis  brother 
Peter,  who  was  a  member  of  the  New  York 
state  legislature,  elected  in  1802  and  re-elected 
in  1803,  and  a  member  of  the  United  States 
congress  from  1813  to  18 14,  he  was  apparent- 
ly not  active  in  public  affairs.  He  married 
Deborah,  daughter  of  Thomas  Lawrence,  who 
was  born  about  1769,  died  November  16,  1815. 
Her  father  was  a  cousin  of  the  distinguished 
Captain  Lawrence,  of  the  war  of  1812.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Lawrence,  born  about  1797,  died 
May  3,  1842;  married,  April  31,  1823,  Su- 
sanna Coe ;  no  issue.  2.  John,  died  unmar- 
ried, July  13,  1843,  aged  fifty-four  years  and 
three  months.  3.  Levi,  married  Henrietta  M. 
Baker;  children:  Edwin,  Levi  L.,  Deborah, 
Daniel,  Carrie.  4.  Edward,  born  December 
21,  1788,  died  September  6,  1863;  he  was  a 
member  of  the  New  York  state  legislature  in 
1841,  and  re-elected  in  1842;  he  married, 
June  9,  1821,  Rebecca  Blauvelt;  no  issue.  5. 
Robert,  married  Katy  Low ;  children :  Thomas 
L.,  Edward,  George,  Emily,  Elizabeth.  6. 
Daniel,  of  whom  further.  7.  Eliza,  married 
James  Frederick.     8.  Rachel,  married  Walter 

5.  Coe.  9.  Charlotte,  married  Henry  Chris- 
tie. 10.  Emily,  married  Thomas  Green.  11. 
Mary,  born  about  1800,  died  March  7,  1839; 
married  John  Riker. 

(HI)  Daniel,  son  of  John  Jacob  and  De- 
borah (Lawrence)  DeNoyelles,  was  born  at 
Haverstraw,  New  York,  October  6,  1805, 
died  August  6,  1836.  He  was  a  merchant 
and  a  manufacturer  of  bricks,  and  was  a  very 
large  owner  of  sailing  vessels  and  sloops 
which  plied  along  the  Hudson  river  between 
New  York  City  and  Albany,  and  had  a  large 
carrying  trade  for  those  days.  He  was  a 
Whig  in  politics,  in  religion  a  Methodist.  He 
married  Martha,  daughter  of  Andrew  A. 
Hopper,  born  at  Haverstraw,  October  19, 
1809,    died    January    13,    1872.      Children:    i. 


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John  Lawrence,  born  October  6,  1828,  died 
May  29,  1889;  he  was,  in  i860,  elected  super- 
visor and  president  of  the  village  of  Haver- 
straw,  and  the  latter  position  he  held  for 
twenty-five  years  consecutively ;  he  married,  in 
November,  1852,  Emily,  daughter  of  Leonard 
Gurnee;  children:  Charles  A.,  Martha  R., 
John  Lawrence,  Jr.  2.  Martha  Adelaide, 
born  in  1833,  deceased.  3.  Daniel,  of  whom 
further. 

(IV)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (i)  and 
Martha  (Hopper)  DeNoyelles,  .was  born  at 
Haverstraw,  New  York,  September  30,  1836. 
From  1882  to  1897  he  Hved  in  New  York 
City;  during  this  period  he  was  connected 
with  various  business  interests,  but  was  also 
largely  interested  in  the  brick  business  in 
Haverstraw.  In  1897  he  returned  to  Haver- 
straw, where  he  has  since  that  time  resided. 
He  is  an  extensive  property  owner,  most  of 
his  real  estate  holdings  being  of  brick  yards. 
He  married,  at  Haverstraw,  April  19,  1864, 
Mary  A.,  daughter  of  Peter  R.  and  Mary 
(Jones)  Gaynor,  who  was  born  in  New  York 
City  January  24,  1838,  died  September  25, 
1912.  Children:  i.  Frank,  of  whom  further. 
2.  Daniel  Irving,  born  December  18,  1866, 
died  August  21,  1867.  3.  Mary  Adelaide, 
born  August  26,  1868;  married  Douglas  Sheri- 
dan. 4.  Griffith,  born  January  13,  1871.  5. 
Charles  Augustus,  born  March  21,  1873,  died 
August  22,  1877.  6.  Grace  Gaynor,  born 
April  16,  1875,  died  September  8,  1876.  7. 
Edward  Freeman,  born  November  18,  1877, 
died  July  29,  1881.  8.  Nina,  born  January 
21,  1881 ;  married  Sidney  H.  Gurnee. 

(V)  Frank,  son  of  Daniel  (2)  and  Mary 
A.  (Gaynor)  DeNoyelles,  was  born  at  Haver- 
straw, New  York,  July  i,  1865.  First  he  at- 
tended a  private  school,  where  he  remained 
until  1876,  when  he  entered  the  Mountain 
Institute,  and  from  this  he  graduated  with 
honors  with  his  class  in  June,  1881.  In  Oc- 
tober of  the  same  year  he  entered  the  em- 
ployment of  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad 
Company,  in  whose  service  he  remained  for 
one  year.  After  this  he  was  employed  by 
the  White  Star  Steamship  Company,  and  re- 
mained with  them  until  1883.  He  then  en- 
gaged with  the  firm  of  George  Hazelton  & 
Company,  importers  of  linen  and  allied  goods, 
and  remained  in  their  employment  until  1886. 
Returning  in  that  year  to  Haverstraw,  he 
took  over  his  father's  brick  business,  and  he 


had  the  care  of  this  for  about  seven  years. 
Then,  until  1898,  he  was  superintendent  of 
the  ice  plant  of  Jacob  Ruppert,  on  Third  ave- 
nue. New  York  City.  At  about  that  time  he, 
with  Mr.  Frank  Ruppert  incorporated  the 
Continental  Ice  Company,  of  which  he  was 
vice-president  and  secretary.  This  company 
was  afterwards  consolidated  with  the  Amer- 
ican Ice  Company,  of  which  he  was  cashier, 
and  in  1900  general  sales  agent.  In  1902  he 
was  made  assistant  manager  of  Branch  B 
of  the  above  company,  and  in  1904  manager 
of  Branch  C,  which  position  he  resigned  in 
1906  to  return  to  Haverstraw.  About  that 
time  he  with  his  father  and  cousins,  Martha 
(DeNoyelles)  Anness  and  John  Lawrence 
DeNoyelles,  incorporated  the  DeNoyelles 
Brick  Company,  of  which  he  is  a  director, 
vice-president  and  secretary.  This  plant  is 
one  of  the  largest  and  most  modern  equipped 
on  the  Hudson  river,  and  is  situated  on  the 
land  purchased  by  John  DeNoyelles  in  1769, 
which  has  passed  down  by  inheritance  to  the 
present  generation  of  DeNoyelles.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Greater  New 
York  Brick  Company,  with  offices  at  103  Park 
avenue.  New  York,  of  which  he  is  at  present 
a  director  and  secretary.  He  is  a  member 
of  Stony  Point  Lodge,  No.  313,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  and  at  present  master  of 
this  lodge ;  past  high  priest  of  Hudson  Valley 
Chapter,  No.  295,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  district 
deputy  grand  master  of  the  thirteenth  Masonic 
district  of  New  York  state ;  and  a  member  of 
Haverstraw  Lodge,  No.  877,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  is  a  Democrat, 
and  in  1908  was  elected  a  member  of  the  New 
York  state  assembly.  With  his  family,  he  is 
a  Methodist. 

He  married,  at  Rockland  Lake,  Rockland 
county.  New  York,  September  18,  1900,  Har- 
riet, daughter  of  Henry  and  Anna  (Bett- 
freund)  Vorrath,  who  was  born  in  Hamburg, 
Germany,  November  5,  1876.  Both  her  par- 
ents were  born,  and  they  were  married,  at 
Lieb,  Schleswig  -  Holstein,  Germany ;  her 
father  is  a  farmer.  Their  children  are :  Har- 
riet, Frederick,  Dorothy.  Children  of  Frank 
and  Harriet  (Voorath)  DeNoyelles:  Harriet 
Adelaide,  born  November  13,  1901 ;  Frances, 
July  I,  1903;  Daniel,  August  31,  1904;  Dor- 
othy, May  27,  1906;  Griffith  Gaynor,  Septem- 
ber 23,  1908;  Frank,  June  6,  1910. 


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This  early  New  England  name 
MINARD     first  appears  in  New  London, 

Connecticut,  where  it  is  fre- 
quently confounded  with  Miner,  another  pio- 
neer name  there,  and  also  with  Maynard, 
which  is  a  name  frequently  found  in  New 
England.  This  name  is  often  written  Mynard. 
It  has  been  identified  with  the  early  settlement 
of  western  New  York  and  is  there  still  ably 
represented. 

(I)  William  Mynard,  an  immigrant  from 
Great  Britain,  settled  in  New  England, 
where  he  married,  November  15,  1678,  Lydia 
Richards,  baptized  in  the  First  Church  of 
New  London,  March  26,  1671,  daughter  of 
John  Richards,  whose  wife  is  supposed  to  be 
Lydia  Beman.  John  Richards  was  at  Ply- 
mouth, Massachusetts,  in  1637,  and  removed 
about  1658  to  New  London,  where  he  died 
in  1687.  William  Mynard  died  in  171 1,  and 
at  his  death  left  sons  William,  George,  David 
and  Jonathan  (whose  name  was  indifferently 
written  Mynard,  Minard,  Maynard,  Mainer). 
These  were  all  householders  about  1730.  The 
church  records  of  New  London  show  bap- 
tisms of  David's  children,  but  of  none  of  the 
others. 

(II)  The  records  of  New  London  have  fre- 
quent mention  of  William  (2)  Minard,  but 
there  is  nothing  to  show  the  name  of  his  wife 
or  children.    He  was  born  November  16,  1680. 

(III)  William  (3),  probably  the  son  of  Wil- 
liam (2)  Minard,  was  born  in  New  London, 
about  1 7 10. 

(IV)  William  (4)  Minard,  born  in  or  near 
New  London,  about  1735,  settled  in  Rocking- 
ham, Vermont,  in  1786,  and  had  probably  pre- 
viously resided  in  Massachusetts,  though  no 
record  of  him  in  that  state  has  been  discovered 
after  long  and  patient  search.  In  1786-87  Eli- 
jah Knight  was  clerk  of  the  town  of  Rocking- 
ham, and  he  copied  on  the  records  of  that 
town  a  church  certificate  of  William  Minard. 
which  was  at  that  time  much  worn  and  par- 
tially  illegible.      The   surname   of    the   pastor 

Elijah  is   illegible,  as  is  also  that   of 

George  N ,  committee.     The  certificate 

reads  as  follows :  "Waterborough,  March  22, 
1769.  These  may  certify,  any  person  or  per- 
sons who  it  may  concern  that  William  Minard 
of  Waterborough  hath  joined  the  church  and 
doth  administer  thereto  the  support  of  the 
gospel  in  this  place."  It  is  practically  certain 
that    Waterborough    is    an    error    in    copying 


Waterford,  and  that  William  Minard  joined 
the  church  in  Waterford,  Connecticut.  Upon 
settling  in  Rockingham  he  built  a  log  house 
south  of  Minard's  pond,  so  named  in  his 
honor,  and  here  his  descendants  resided  for 
many  years.  Later  he  owned  what  is  known 
as  the  Barber  Park  farm,  where  he  built  a 
frame  house.  His  wife's  baptismal  name  was 
Abigail,  and  they  had  children:  William,  Abi- 
gail, Elsa,  Charlotte,  Betsy,  Polly,  Ichabod, 
Isaac,  Susanna,  Miriam,  Mahlon  and  George. 

(V)  Isaac,  third  son  of  William  (4)  and 
Abigail  Minard,  was  born  March  30,  1773. 
died  in  Rockingham,  July  5,  1829.  He  settled 
on  the  "Valley  road"  between  Rockingham 
and  South  Rockingham,  on  a  farm  now  known 
as  the  Christy  place,  where  he  built  a  house 
which  is  still  in  use.  He  married  Lucy  Waite, 
bom  April  29,  1770,  died  June  13,  1838.  Chil- 
dren, all  born  in  Rockingham:  John,  Betsy, 
George,  Lucy,  Isaac,  Luke  L.,  Roswell,  Mary, 
Huldah. 

(VI)  George,  second  son  of  Isaac  and  Lucy 
(Waite)  Minard,  was  bom  May  31,  1802,  in 
Rockingham,  died  April  i,  1858,  in  Hume,  Al- 
legheny county.  New  York,  where  he  settled 
in  early  life.  He  received  a  common  school 
education,  remaining  at  home  until  he  attained 
his  majority,  when  he  went  to  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  assisted  in  preparing  the  foun- 
dation for  cotton  mills.  By  careful  saving  of 
his  earnings  he  secured  a  small  capital,  and  in 
1828  settled  on  lot  No.  53  of  the  Caneadea 
Indian  reservation  in  the  town  of  Hume,  pur- 
chasing the  interest  of  Isaac  and  Chester 
Gibbs.  Mr.  Minard  was  an  industrious  and 
thrifty  farmer,  a  man  of  liberal  mind,  large 
heart,  and  much  force  of  character,  scrupu- 
lously honest  and  esteemed  by  his  contempo- 
raries. He  supported  the  principles  of  the 
Whig  party;  was  three  times  elected  super- 
visor of  the  town,  and  exercised  considerable 
political  influence  in  the  county.  Both  he  and 
his  wife  were  Universalists  in  religion.  He 
married  (first)  Irene  Blanchard,  who  lived  but 
a  short  time  after  their  marriage.  He  married 
(second)  September  19.  1832,  Maria  Stearns, 
of  Rockingham,  daughter  of  John  Burt  and 
Ruth  (Eastman)  Stearns,  born  January  19, 
1801,  in  Rockingham,  died  1875,  in  Hume. 
They  were  the  parents  of  four  children. 

(VII)  John  Stearns,  eldest  son  of  George 
and  Maria  (Stearns)  Minard,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 31,  1834.  in  Hume,  New  York,  where  he 


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grew  to  manhood  on  the  paternal  farm,  begin- 
ning his  education  in  the  log  school  house  era 
of  that  region.  He  subsequently  attended 
Hume  Union  School  and  Castile  Scientific  and 
Mathematical  Institute,  conducted  by  Pro- 
fessor Davis  W.  Smith,  a  noted  educator,  from 
1840  to  1855.  He  was  later  a  student  at 
Genesee  Wesleyan  Seminary,  and  at  the  age 
of  nineteen  was  compelled  to  abandon  further 
studies  by  the  death  of  his  father.  He  had, 
however,  in  the  meantime  made  a  thorough 
study  of  surveying,  and  since  1853  has  done 
much  work  throughout  his  native  region,  be- 
ing often  called  as  an  expert  on  lines  and 
boundaries.  Being  the  eldest  of  the  family, 
the  responsibility  of  the  farm  came  upon  him 
at  the  death  of  his  father,  and  he  remained 
upon  the  homestead  until  1871,  when  he  sold 
his  share  in  it.  In  1873  he  joined  John  M. 
Hammond  and  George  VV.  Marvin  in  the  con- 
duct of  a  general  store  at  Hume  under  the 
style  of  J.  M.  Hammond  &  Company.  This 
continued  three  years,  when  the  firm  was  dis- 
solved. In  1876  he  again  engaged  in  business, 
conducting  a  store  in  Mechanics'  Hall,  at 
Hume.  Two  years  later  he  built  a  large  store 
on  Main  street  of  that  village  and  continued 
in  business  until  December,  1885,  when  he 
sold  out  to  ^^'ells  &  Minard.  About  1882,  in 
conjunction  with  Simon  B.  Clark,  he  made 
an  extensive  investment  in  timber  lands  and 
engaged  on  a  large  scale  in  lumbering,  which 
resulted  in  losses  and  financial  embarrassment. 
Mr.  Minard  always  felt  a  keen  interest  in 
the  progress  of  his  native  town  and  state, 
serving  some  years  as  a  justice  of  the  peace, 
was  supervisor  of  the  town,  and  acted  as  its 
agent  in  the  matter  of  railroad  bonds.  He 
has  always  been  an  enthusiast  in  matters  of 
local  history  and  antiquities.  It  was  largely 
through  his  activities  that  the  Allegheny 
county  centennial  celebration  was  arranged 
and  carried  through.  Mr.  Minard  has  been 
a  voluminous  contributor  to  the  press,  mainly 
on  historical  subjects.  He  has  been  corre- 
sponding member  of  the  Bufl^alo  Historical 
Society  for  more  than  forty  years,  honorary 
member  of  the  Rochester  Historical  Society, 
corresponding  member  of  the  New  York 
Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society,  and 
president  of  the  Allegheny  County  Historical 
Society.  He  delivered  the  historical  ad- 
dresses at  the  Allegheny  centennial  at  Wells- 
ville  in  1895,  the  Big  Tree  centennial  at  Gene- 


seo  in  1897,  and  the  unveiling  of  the  boulder 
and  tablet  at  Ga-o-ya-de-o  (Caneadea)  in 
1908.  He  is  the  author  of  the  "Hume  Pio- 
neer Sketches,"  1888-89;  editor  and  author  of 
"Life  of  Major  Moses  Van  Campen,"  in  1893 ; 
author  of  "General  History  of  Allegheny 
County  and  Ten  of  Its  Towns,"  1895;  of  "Ye 
Old  Log  School  House  Tymes,"  in  1905 ;  and 
"Civic  History  and  Illustrated  Progress  of 
Cuba,"  in  1910.  He  has  read  several  papers 
before  the  Rochester  Historical  Society,  and 
the  Allegheny  Society  of  Buffalo;  and  has 
made  farm  township  maps  of  Hume,  Canea- 
dea, Belfast  and  Cuba. 

He  married,  October  18,  1858,  Mary  A. 
Nye,  a  native  of  Hume,  who  died  in  Cuba, 
New  York,  August  12,  191 1. 


This  name  appears  under  a 
HURLBUT     variety    of    spellings    in    the 

early  records  of  Connecticut, 
including  Hulbert,  Hulburt,  Hulbut.  The 
family  of  this  name  in  England  had  a  coat-of- 
arms,  but  no  connection  can  be  discovered  be- 
tween the  immigrants  in  this  country  and  the 
English  family.  It  is  sufficient  to  say  that  in 
America  the  name  has  been  borne  by  many 
worthy  citizens  in  all  the  walks  of  life,  and 
the  descendants  generally  have  borne  their  full 
share  in  moral  and  material  progress. 

(I)  Thomas  Hurlbut  is  supposed  to  have 
been  one  of  the  eleven  passengers  on  the  ship 
which  came  with  Lion  Gardiner  in  1635. 
Gardiner  was  employed  under  English  gran- 
tees to  set  up  a  fort  at  the  mouth  of  the  Con- 
necticut river  and  thus  hold  claim  to  the  lands 
which  were  claimed  by  the  Dutch  settlers  at 
New  York.  Gardiner  remained  here  some 
years  and  made  expeditions  with  his  men  in 
the  country  in  the  vicinity  of  the  fort.  On 
one  of  these  occasions  Lieutenant  Thomas 
Hurlbut  was  shot  in  the  thigh  with  an  arrow 
and  was  protected  by  his  comrades  in  their 
retreat  to  the  fort,  when  their  little  band  of 
ten  was  attacked  by  one  hundred  Indians. 
Lieutenant  Hurlbut  was  a  blacksmith  by  trade, 
and  was  probably  brought  in  this  expedition 
because  of  his  ability  in  manufacturing  nails 
and  other  ironware  necessary  in  building  op- 
erations. Before  1640  he  settled  in  Wethers- 
field,  Connecticut,  where  he  was  clerk  of  the 
train  band  in  that  year.  He  was  among  the 
first  settlers  of  the  town,  and  the  first  black- 
smith there.     In  the  various  divisions  of  land 


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he  received  his  share  as  shown  by  a  record 
made  in  1647.  In  1660  the  town  granted  to 
him  lot  39,  one  of  the  "four-score-acre  lots" 
in  Naubec,  on  the  east  side  of  the  river  in  that 
portion  of  Wethersfield  which  is  now  Glasten- 
bury.  This  land  he  afterwards  sold.  For  his 
service  in  the  Indian  wars  the  assembly 
granted  him  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of 
land,  October  12,  1671.  It  is  supposed  that 
he  died  soon  after  this,  as  the  land  was  not 
set  off  to  him  or  any  of  his  children,  but  was 
granted  on  petition  of  his  grandson,  John 
Hurlbut,  in  1694.  His  wife's  baptismal  name 
was  Sarah  and  they  had  sons :  Thomas, 
John,  Samuel,  Joseph,  Stephen  and  Cor- 
nelius. 

(II)  Joseph,  fourth  son  of  Thomas  and 
Sarah  Hurlbut,  was  born  about  1646,  in 
Wethersfield,  and  settled  about  1682  in  the 
"north  purchase"  of  Woodbury,  Connecticut, 
where  he  died,  July  13,  1732,  the  record  de- 
scribing him  as  "Joseph  Hurlbut  the  aged." 
His  wife  Rebecca  died  February  2,  1712. 
Their  first  six  children  were  baptized  as  adults 
in  Woodbury,  the  first  three  in  August,  1697, 
and  the  next  three  in  March,  1705.  The  last 
two  were  baptized  in  April  of  the  same  year 
and  were  probably  about  half  grown  at  that 
time.  They  were:  Jospeh,  born  about  1677, 
died  in  Woodbury,  June  21,  1729;  John,  about 
1680,  settled  in  that  part  of  Woodbury  which 
is  now  Roxbury,  Connecticut,  was  ensign  of 
militia,  and  died  September  27,  1737;  Sarah, 
no  further  record ;  Cornelius,  a  farmer  of 
Woodbury,  died  in  Roxbury  parish,  August 
19.  175 1  ;  Jonathan,  mentioned  below;  Re- 
becca, probably  died  young;  Mary,  baptized 
April,  1705,  married  Josiah  Minor,  and  died 
without  issue ;  Phebe,  baptized  at  the  same 
time,  married  Josiah  Walker,  together  they 
owned  the  covenant  at  Woodbury  church, 
July  24,  1720,  and  later  removed  to  Litchfield, 
Connecticut. 

(III)  Jonathan,  fourth  son  of  Joseph  and 
Rebecca  Hurlbut,  was  baptized  in  March, 
1705,  and  died  March  15,  1767.  He  joined 
the  first  church  of  Woodbury  with  his  first 
wife,  February  3,  1723.  His  first  wife,  Mary, 
died  March  20,  1727,  and  he  married  (second) 
December  11,  1728,  Mary  Drakeley,  baptized 
in  July,  1709,  in  Woodbury,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Lydia  (Brooks)  Drakeley.  Chil- 
dren of  first  marriage:  Eunice,  born  October 
24,  1713,  died  1716;  Consider,  July  14,  1716, 


died  in  Roxbury,  April  20,  1766;  Gideon, 
March  24,  1719,  lived  in  Roxbury,  where  he 
joined  the  first  church  in  1742;  Jonathan  and 
Ebenezer,  twins.  May  15,  1722,  died  in  the 
following  month ;  Jonathan,  baptized  August 
2"],  1723,  died  young;  Zadock,  born  in  Febru- 
ary, baptized  March  6,  1726,  was  a  member  of 
the  church  in  Woodbury  in  1742,  probably  left 
no  issue.  Children  of  second  marriage:  Amos^ 
born  January  7,  1730,  was  a  revolutionary 
soldier  and  died  in  Roxbury,  1804;  Eunice, 
June  23,  173 1  ;  Jonathan,  baptized  May  6, 
1733,  lived  in  Woodbury;  Ebenezer,  mentioned 
below;  Mary,  born  May  13,  1737,  married, 
December  29,  1767,  in  Roxbury,  Eliada  Pettit ; 
Thomas,  baptized  in  May,  1739 ;  Robert,  born 
September  14,  1744,  a  revolutionary  soldier, 
died  in  Roxbury  in  1784. 

(IV)  Ebenezer,  ninth  son  of  Jonathan  Hurl- 
but, and  fourth  child  of  his  second  wife,  Mary 
(Drakeley)  Hurlbut,  was  baptized  January  21, 
1736,  in  Wodbury,  in  died  in  Roxbury,  No- 
vember 10,  1788.  There  were  two  of  his  name 
in  the  revolutionary  service  from  Woodbury, 
and  he  was  undoubtedly  one  of  these.  He 
was  with  the  force  which  marched  for  the 
relief  of  Fort  Henry,  in  1757.  He  married, 
in  Roxbury,  August  8,  1765,  Comfort  Baker, 
born  about  1740,  baptized  April  24,  1744, 
daughter  of  Elijah  and  Thankful  Baker.  Eli- 
jah Baker  was  a  revolutionary  soldier  and 
drew  a  pension  for  this  service  in  his  old  age. 
Ebenezer  Hurlbut  had  three  children :  Dorcas, 
born  April  25,  1765  ;  Ebenezer,  April  25,  1767, 
died  in  Roxbury,  September  24,  1848;  Jesse, 
mentioned  below. 

(V)  Jesse,  youngest  known  child  of  Eben- 
ezer and  Comfort  (Baker)  Hurlbut,  was  born 
March  20,  1769,  in  Woodbury,  and  settled  in 
the  town  of  Otego,  Otsego  county.  New 
York,  in  1798.  At  the  time  of  his  settlement 
there  this  region  was  a  wilderness,  and  he  and 
his  young  wife  endured  many  hardships.  By 
industry  they  came  in  time  to  be  prosperous, 
and  accumulated  a  competence,  being  enabled 
to  assist  their  children  as  they  entered  upon 
the  struggles  of  life.  "In  death  they  were  not 
divided,  as  in  one  day,  in  one  coffin,  they  were 
laid  in  one  grave,  which  was  a  true  figure  of 
the  harmony  and  union  of  their  lives."  He 
married,  in  1797,  Sarah  Atwell.  Children: 
Sally,  married  E.  I.  Starr;  Anna,  died  when 
three  years  old;  Zillah,  married  a  Brimmer; 
Harriet,   married   a   Murray;   Jesse   S.,   men- 


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tioned    below;    Roxy    A.,    married    a    Hyatt; 
Amos  R.,  and  Harmon  D. 

(VI)  Jesse  S.,  eldest  son  of  Jesse  and  Sarah 
(Atwell)  Hurlbut,  was  born  July  7,  1805,  in 
Otego,  New  York,  and  died  at  the  age  of  forty- 
five  years.  He  married,  May  27,  1833,  in 
Franklin,  New  York,  Almira  Miller,  born  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1814,  in  that  town.  Children  ;  Anson 
H.,  born  December  22,  1834;  John  A.,  men- 
tioned below. 

(VH)  John  Atwell,  second  son  of  Jesse  S. 
and  Almira  (Miller)  Hurlbut,  was  born  March 
20,  1840,  in  Otego.  He  completed  his  educa- 
tion at  the  Delaware  Literary  Institute, 
Franklin,  New  York.  Up  to  the  age  of  thirty 
years  he  was  employed  as  a  teacher,  and  after 
that  time  engaged  successfully  in  farming,  in 
the  town  of  Laurens,  Otsego  county.  New 
York.  He  served  as  supervisor  of  the  town, 
and  also  as  justice  of  the  peace.  Politically 
he  was  a  Democrat,  and  in  religious  faith  a 
Universalist.  He  was  affiliated  with  the  Ma- 
sonic fraternity.  He  married,  September  22, 
1880,  in  Laurens,  New  York,  Mary  Ann  John- 
son, born  May  18,  1846,  in  that  town,  daughter 
of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Carr)  Johnson.  There 
was  only  one  child  of  this  marriage. 

(VIII)  Claire  Almyra.  only  child  of  John  A. 
and  Mary  A.  (Johnson)  Hurlbut,  was  born 
April  5,  1883,  in  Laurens.  After  attending 
the  district  schools  in  the  vicinity  of  her  home, 
she  entered  the  Morris  High  School  at  the 
age  of  fifteen  years  and  was  graduated  in 
1900.  For  one  year  she  was  a  student  at  the 
Oneonta  State  Normal  School,  and  subse- 
quently pursued  the  course  of  the  Albany  Busi- 
ness College,  graduating  in  1905.  Following 
this  she  held  the  position  of  stenographer  and 
bookkeeper  in  an  Albany  business  house,  and 
afterwards  spent  a  year  in  California.  For 
six  years  following  this  she  was  librarian  at 
the  Oneonta  Normal  School,  and  in  the  fall 
of  1912  entered  the  Teachers'  College  of  New 
York  City.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Clionian 
Society  of  Oneonta  Normal  School,  and  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  of  Oneonta. 

(The  Johnson  Line.) 
There  were  many  immigrants  of  this  name 
among  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Massachusetts, 
and  among  these  were  brothers :  Edward, 
John,  and  probably  Stephen.  There  were  also 
two  of  the  name,  John  and  Robert,  very  early 
at  New  Haven,  Connecticut.    All  have  left  a 


progeny  distinguished  for  the  energy,  ability 
and  moral  uprightness  which  were  general 
features  of  the  New  England  character.  An- 
other family  of  this  name  was  early  estab- 
lished in  Rhode  Island,  but  the  defective  rec- 
ords of  that  state  make  it  impossible  to  trace 
the  line  continuously  in  the  earlier  generations. 
There  was  a  John  Johnson  in  Newport  as  early 
as  1638,  and  John  Johnson  appears  there  as  a 
freeman  in  1675. 

(I)  The  first  of  whom  record  is  now  found 
in  this  line  was  Ezekiel  Johnson,  who  resided 
in  North  Kingstown,  Rhode  Island,  and  was  a 
freeman  of  Coventry  in  1756.  He  had  a  wife 
Ann,  and  the  following  children  are  recorded 
in  North  Kingstown  :  Ann,  born  July  24,  1718  ; 
Elizabeth,  March  5,  1720;  Benjamin,  men- 
tioned below. 

(II)  Benjamin  Johnson,  son  of  Ezekiel  and 
Ann  Johnson,  was  born  May  5,  1722,  in  North 
Kingstown,  and  resided  in  Warwick,  Rhode 
Island.  He  was  presumably  father  of  the  next 
mentioned. 

(III)  Benjamin  (2)  Johnson  was  born 
June  30,  1745,  according  to  the  family  records, 
which  also  state  that  he  was  married  on  Christ- 
mas Day,  1765,  to  Waity  Yates.  Her  birth  is 
not  recorded  anywhere  in  Rhode  Island,  nor 
in  many  other  records  that  have  been  searched. 
Benjamin  Johnson  appears  as  lieutenant  of 
the  senior  class  militia  company  in  West 
Greenwich  in  1780  and  1784. 

(IV)  Jonathan,  son  of  Benjamin  (2)  and 
Waity  (Yates)  Johnson,  was  born  July  28, 
1767.  He  married  in  February,  1806,  Sarah 
Roberts,  born  September  25,  1765.  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Martha  (Johnson)  Roberts. 

The  Roberts  family  was  early  in  Rhode 
Island,  and  Sarah  Roberts  was  a  descendant 
of  Peter  Roberts,  who  resided  in  Providence, 
where  he  died  after  1706.  In  that  year  he 
deeded  to  his  eldest  son  every  thing  except 
his  bed,  bedding  and  chest,  the  condition 
being,  the  maintenance  of  himself  for  the 
balance  of  his  life.  He  was  taxed  September 
I,  1687,  his  tax  being  six  shillings.  He  had 
sons:  William,  who  died  in  1726  in  Provi- 
dence; Peter;  and  probably  Mark,  of  War- 
wick. (II)  Mark  Roberts  married  in  War- 
wick, January  i,  1682,  Mary  Baker.  They  had 
recorded  in  Warwick:  Mark,  born  April  10, 
1683,  and  John,  December  4,  1685.  (Ill) 
John  Roberts  was  made  a  freeman  of  the  col- 
ony, with  others.  May  2,  1727,  being  a  resi- 


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dent  of  Warwick.  (IV)  John  Roberts,  pre- 
sumably a  son  of  John,  born  about  1708-10, 
in  Warwick,  was  made  a  freeman  of  East 
Greenwich,  Rhode  Island,  May  6,  1746.  His 
children,  recorded  in  that  town  were :  Christy, 
born  September  15,  1732;  Phebe,  October  5, 
1734;  James,  April  18,  1737;  Elizabeth,  March 
3.  1739;  Jonathan,  mentioned  below;  Sarah, 
February  26,  1743;  Benjamin,  May  17,  1745; 
Mary,  May  26,  1747;  Mercy,  May  25,  1749; 
Catherine,  August  23,  1751.  (V)  Jonathan, 
third  son  of  John  Roberts,  was  born  March 
20,  1741,  in  Warwick.  He  resided  in  Crans- 
ton, Rhode  Island,  at  the  time  of  his  marriage 
in  East  Greenwich,  May  13,  1764,  to  Martha 
Johnson,  of  that  town,  born  February  12,  1742, 
in  West  Greenwich,  daughter  of  Isaac  and 
Martha  (Johnson)  Johnson.  Isaac  was  a  son 
of  Elisha  Johnson,  who  came  from  Wales  and 
settled  at  Frenchtown  in  the  town  of  East 
Greenwich,  where  he  built  a  fulling  and  spin- 
ning mill.  He  married  Deborah  Sprague. 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Martha 
(Johnsonj  Johnson,  born  September  25,  1765, 
became  the  wife  of  Jonathan  Roberts,  as  above 
noted.  There  is  no  record  of  Jonathan  Rob- 
erts in  Cranston,  and  he  probably  removed  to 
some  other  town. 

(V)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
and  Sarah  (Roberts)  Johnson,  is  said  to  have 
been  born  in  Pawtucket,  which  was  a  part  of 
Providence  at  the  time  of  his  birth.  There 
are  no  children  of  Jonathan  (i)  Johnson  re- 
corded in  Providence,  or  elsewhere  in  Rhode 
Island,  or  in  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  where 
many  Rhode  Island  families  figure.  Jonathan 
(2)  Johnson  settled  in  Laurens,  Otsego 
county,  New  York.  He  married  (first)  Lu- 
cina  Delila  Griffith,  and  one  daughter,  Sarah, 
was  born  to  them.  She  married  Dr.  Addison 
P.  Strong,  of  Laurens,  and  had  one  son,  Dr. 
Philip  Kearny  Strong.  Jonathan  Johnson 
married  (second)  Mary  Carr,  and  had  chil- 
dren: William,  married  Maryetta  Gilbert  and 
had  two  daughters,  Edna  Victoria  and  Vinnie 
Claudine;  Mary  Ann. 

(VI)  Mary  Ann,  youngest  child  of  Jonathan 
(2)  and  Mary  (Carr)  Johnson,  was  born  May 
18,  1846,  in  Laurens,  and  was  a  teacher  in 
early  life.  She  was  married,  September  22, 
1880,  in  her  native  town,  to  John  Atwell  Hurl- 
but  (see  Hurlbut  VII.).  She  survives  him, 
and  now  resides  in  Oneonta,  New  York. 


The  family  of  Tompkins 
TOMPKINS     has  been  identified   from  a 

very  early  day  with  West- 
chester county.  New  York,  and  has  spread  out 
thence  over  a  wide  area.  The  form  of  the 
name  would  suggest  a  Welsh  origin,  but  this 
is  not  undisputed.  The  immigrant  ancestor 
settled  in  Concord,  Massachusetts,  and  after- 
ward in  Fairfield,  Connecticut.  In  the  next 
generation  the  family  is  found  in  Westchester 
county.  One  of  its  members  served  in  con- 
gress, as  governor  of  New  York,  and  as  vice- 
president  of  the  United  States. 

(I)  The  first  member  of  this  family  about 
whom  we  have  definite  information  was  born 
in  Putnam  county,  New  York,  in  1799,  and 
died  in  1845.  He  came  to  Ossining  when  he 
was  ten  years  old,  and  he  was  for  many  years 
an  officer  in  the  prison.  He  was  a  farmer. 
In  religion  he  was  a  Methodist,  a  member  of 
the  congregation  on  Spring  street.  He  mar- 
ried Fanny  Ann  Halfield,  born  at  New  Castle, 
Westchester  county.  New  York,  in  1802.  Chil- 
dren:  Lucita,  Martha,  Daniel  H.,  Homer  A., 
May  B.,  Louisa,  J.  Arthur,  Calvin,  and  Gilbert, 
who  died  in  infancy. 

(II)  J.  Arthur  Tompkins  was  born  March 
22,  1844.  He  has  been  for  forty  years  en- 
gaged with  the  American  News  Company  in 
New  York.  For  three  years  he  was  sergeant 
at  Sing  Sing.  In  1864  he  enlisted  in  the  Sixth 
New  York  Heavy  Artillery,  and  served  under 
Generals  Sheridan  and  Otis,  being  mustered 
out  in  July,  1865.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Westchester  Masonic  lodge,  and  toastmaster 
of  the  Royal  Arcanum.  He  married  Sarah  L., 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Edwards) 
Baker,  of  Ossining,  who  died  June  i,  191 1. 
Her  father  came  from  Colchester,  Connecticut, 
and  was  a  communicant  of  St.  Paul's  Episco- 
pal Church. 

(HI)  Daniel  D.,  son  of  J.  Arthur  and  Sarah 
L.  (Baker)  Tompkins,  was  born  at  Ossining, 
May  6,  1875.  He  graduated  from  the  high 
school,  and  in  1897  from  the  University  of 
New  York.  He  is  teller  in  the  First  National 
Bank  at  Ossining,  a  member  of  the  board  of 
education  and  a  fireman,  and  was  in  1900  a 
member  of  the  library  board.  He  is  a  Mason 
and  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  also  of 
the  Sons  of  Veterans  and  of  a  Greek  letter 
society.  Active  in  politics  as  a  Republican, 
he  is  a  member  of  the  town  and  county  com- 
mittees of  the  party.    He  married  Mary  Cart- 


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877 


Wright,  daughter  of  Chester  D.  Swain,  of 
Ossining.  The  family  now  lives  in  the  old 
house  of  George  W.  Cartwright.  Children,  all 
born  at  Ossining:  Daniel  D.,  Theodore  S., 
Florence  L. 


In  the  latter  half  of  the  thir- 
KLOCK  teenth  century,  when  William  of 
Holland  was  acknowledged  as 
king  by  many  of  the  cities  of  northern  Ger- 
many, many  of  his  soldiers  were  stationed  in 
this  new  territory,  and  among  them  was  one 
Henry  Klock.  It  is  related  in  the  archives  of 
the  family  that  bandits  stole  the  king's  daugh- 
ter, whereupon  the  latter  proclaimed  that  he 
would  give  her  rescuer  whatever  he  might  de- 
mand. Henry  Klock,  after  adventures  more 
appropriate  to  a  dime  novel  than  to  sober 
history,  personally  effected  the  rescue,  and, 
taking  the  king  at  his  word,  demanded  the 
daughter  in  marriage.  Being  informed  that 
it  was  against  the  law  for  a  princess  to  marry 
a  commoner,  he  pleaded,  Prend  moi  tel  que 
je  suis  (Take  me  just  as  I  am).  Neverthe- 
less, the  king  raised  him  to  the  nobility  and 
the  words  of  the  suitor  became  the  motto  in 
the  Klock  coat-of-arms.  Of  course,  the  wed- 
ding took  place.  It  should  also  be  noted  that 
in  those  days  the  family  name  was  VanKlock, 
but  the  prefix  has  now  been  dropped  by  nearly 
all  of  the  Klocks.  King  William  died  soon 
after,  but  Henry  Klock  and  his  descendants 
remained  in  Germany,  being  the  play  of  vary- 
ing fortunes  for  centuries  to  come. 

One  of  the  descendants  of  the  family, 
Johannes  Klock  (1696-1780),  emigrated  to 
the  colony  of  New  York,  settling  in  the  Mo- 
hawk Valley.  He  was  the  father  of  Johannes 
I.,  who  was  the  father  of  Major  John  J. 
(1740-1810),  who  gained  his  title  in  the  revo- 
lutionary war.  His  son,  John  J.,  Jr.,  was  the 
father  of  Daniel  Klock,  who  married  Nancy 
Nellis  and  removed  to  a  farm  in  the  town  of 
Hammond,  St.  Lawrence  county.  It  had  so 
happened  that  the  Klocks  and  the  Nellises  had 
intermarried  for  several  generations,  and  for 
this  reason  one  of  the  sons  resulting  from  the 
marriage  was  christened  Nellis.  He  married 
Lovina,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  William  Ottman, 
who  had  charge  of  a  Lutheran  church  at  Black 
Lake,  St.  Lawrence  county,  and  under  the 
supervision  of  his  father-in-law  took  a  course 
in  theology  and  finally  was  ordained  as  a  min- 


ister by  the  Franckean  Synod.  He  held 
charges  at  Avoca,  Sharon,  Knox,  Orleans  and 
Louisburg  in  this  state  and  at  Kent,  Illinois. 
In  his  later  years,  being  hindered  from  pulpit 
work  by  an  affection  of  the  throat,  he  pub- 
lished a  local  newspaper  and  still  later  became 
a  fruit  farmer  in  Illinois.  He  was  born  in 
1831,  died  in  1911. 

Jay  E.,  eldest  son  of  Nellis  Klock,  was  born 
at  Hammond,  New  York,  February  14,  1864. 
Both  his  father  and  mother  had  had  experi- 
ence as  school  teachers,  and  as  there  was  no 
compulsory  school  attendance  law  in  those 
days,  he  had  scarcely  any  experience  in  pub- 
lic schools  until  i88i,when  he  began  attend- 
ing the  Albany  Academy,  but  did  not  remain 
to  graduate.  In  1885  Mr.  Klock  secured  a 
position  on  i\\&  Albany  Evening  Journal,  fiWmg 
successively  the  positions  of  proofreader,  re- 
porter and  telegraph  editor.  Two  years  later 
he  bought  the  Ogdensburg  Signal,  the  local 
paper  which  his  father  was  then  conducting, 
the  latter  at  that  time  believing  that  he  could 
resume  his  ministerial  work,  which  expecta- 
tion was  realized  for  some  years  thereafter. 
Something  over  a  year  later  Mr.  Klock  sold 
the  Signal  and  returned  to  the  staff  of  the 
Albany  Journal  in  the  capacity  of  editorial 
writer  and  reporter  of  the  state  senate.  He 
remained  there  until  1889,  when  he  purchased 
a  controlling  interest  in  the  Daily  Times,  a 
paper  of  political  independence  in  Little  Falls, 
New  York.  In  1891  he  purchased  the  Kings- 
ton Daily  Freeman,  the  Republican  official 
paper  of  Ulster  county,  and  has  remained  in 
control  of  that  property  to  the  present  time. 
Mr.  Klock  belongs  to  the  Masonic  order,  being 
a  Shriner;  also  to  the  Elks  and  the  Royal 
Arcanum.  In  August,  191 1,  Mr.  Klock  mar- 
ried Louise  M.  Rice,  of  New  York  City. 


Frederick  Carl  Gross  was  bom  in 
GROSS     Saxony,   Germany,   in    1778,   and 

lived  and  died  in  his  native  land. 
Among  his  children  was  Carl,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(II)  Carl,  son  of  Frederick  Carl  Gross,  was 
born  in  Saxony,  Germany,  February  8,  181 1, 
died  in  1881,  aged  seventy  years,  in  Tarry- 
town,  New  York.  He  married  Florentina  Po- 
lenski,  born  in  1812,  in  Schniedemiihle,  Posen- 
Poland,  Prussia,  Germany.  Her  father  was  a 
paper  manufacturer.    They  came  to  this  coun- 


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try  in  the  ship  "Columbia"  in  1853.  Children, 
born  in  Germany:  i.  August  Frederick,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Charles,  married  Christiasa 
Eylers.  3.  Clara,  married  George  Sisson.  4. 
Laura,  married  John  Codnor.  5.  Frederick 
William,  married  Aline  Kroeger,  and  had 
Maria  Laura  and  Frederick  Henry.  6.  Ade- 
laide, died  unmarried.  7.  Florentina,  died 
unmarried. 

(HI)  August  Frederick,  son  of  Carl  Gross, 
was  born  in  Rodnock,  Prussia,  Germany,  April 
6,  183s,  died  August  25,  1898.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  his  native  land,  and  learned  the  trade 
of  shoemaker.  He  came  to  this  country  when 
a  young  man  and  engaged  in  business  at  Tar- 
rytown,  Westchester  county.  New  York,  as  a 
dealer  in  meats  and  provisions,  continuing 
successfully  to  the  end  of  'his  life.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Republican.  In  religion  he  was  a 
Presbyterian,  a  faithful  and  prominent  mem- 
ber of  the  church.  He  married,  in  Tarrytown, 
in  1855,  Amy  Maria  Bing,  born  in  Frischborn, 
Hesse-Darmstadt,  Germany,  August  24,  1830, 
daughter  of  Valentine  and  Kunigunda  (Eif- 
fert)  Bing.  Her  father  died  at  the  age  of 
fifty-eight;  her  mother  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
two.  Children:  i.  August  John,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Catherine,  born  1858 ;  married  Wil- 
liam M.  Horton.  3.  Henry,  born  i860;  mar- 
ried Mary  Deeley.  4.  Louis,  born  1863; 
married  Sadie  Lidabock.  5.  Charles,  born 
1865 ;  married  Josephine  Dann  and  Carrie 
Taylor.  6.  John,  born  1867;  married  Jennie 
Kidney.  7.  Frederick,  born  1870;  married 
Jennie  Boyd  and  Elizabeth  Benz.  8.  Rudolph, 
born  Dece'mber,  1872,  died  May  28,  1875.  9. 
Elizabeth,  born  May  2,  1874,  died  in  1875.  10. 
David,  born  May  3,  1878 ;  married  Mae  Quinn. 

(IV)  August  John,  son  of  August  Frederick 
Gross,  was  born  in  Tarrytown,  Westchester 
county.  New  York,  August  19,  1856.  He  at- 
tended the  public  schools  of  his  native  town 
until  he  was  fifteen  years  old,  graduating  with 
honors.  He  then  became  an  apprentice  in  the 
employ  of  his  uncle,  Charles  Gross,  in  the 
meat  and  provision  business  in  New  York 
City,  and  continued  there  for  three  years.  He 
then  engaged  in  business  in  Nyack  as  a  dealer 
in  meats  and  provisions,  and  the  business  has 
continued  prosperously  at  the  same  place  to 
the  present  time.  In  politics  Mr.  Gross  is  a 
Republican.  In  1882  he  was  town  clerk  of 
the  town  of  Orangetown,  New  York.  For 
several  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  board 


of  health  of  Nyack,  New  York.  In  Novem- 
ber, 1909,  he  was  elected  sheriff  of  Rockland 
county  for  three  years,  and  on  November  4, 
1913,  was  elected  superintendent  of  poor  with 
a  plurality  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight 
over  his  Democratic  opponent,  Mr.  Spring- 
stead.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Republican 
Club  of  New  York.  He  has  been  active  in 
the  volunteer  fire  department.  He  was  the 
first  foreman  of  the  Jackson  Hose  Company, 
and  from  1889  to  1893  was  chief  of  the  Nyack 
Fire  Department.  He  is  a  member  also  of 
Oneko  Lodge,  No.  122,  and  of  Rockland 
Encampment,  No.  37,  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows;  of  Nyack  Tribe,  No.  209, 
Improved  Order  of  Red  Men;  Nyack  Coun- 
cil, No.  1256,  Royal  Arcanum;  Grant  Lodge, 
No.  385,  Knights  of  Pythias ;  Lodge  No.  877, 
Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  of 
Haverstraw.  He  has  been  district  deputy  of 
the  Odd  Fellows,  Red  Men  and  Rockland  En- 
campment. He  is  a  member  of  the  German 
Presbyterian  Church. 

He  married  (first)  December  13,  1881,  at 
the  Presbyterian  Parish  House  in  Nyack, 
Elizabeth  Schnieder,  born  in  Nyack,  New 
York,  August  4.  1859,  died  May  10,  1882, 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  Annie  Elizabeth  (Hop- 
ple) Schnieder.  Her  father  was  born  October 
10,  1826,  died  April  15,  1888;  her  mother  was 
born  March  21,  1831,  died  January  11,  1879. 
Her  parents  came  from  Germany  to  this  coun- 
try in  185 1,  and  located  at  Nyack.  She  had 
sisters  Catherine  and  Mary  Emma  Schneider, 
and  one  brother,  Charles  Conrad  Schneider. 
Mr.  Gross  married  (second)  December  13, 
1883.  Mary  Emma  Schnieder,  born  December 
22,  1866,  in  Nyack,  sister  of  his  first  wife. 
Children  by  second  wife:  i.  Henry,  born 
1884;  married  Edith  Gage  and  had  Henry 
Herbert  and  Helen  Elizabeth.  2.  August 
Frederick,  born  October  23,  1885  ;  married  Ida 
Jones.  3.  Lulu  May,  born  December  22,  1887: 
married  Edward  J.  Gilhuley  and  had  Edward 
Jr.  4.  Catherine,  born  February  11,  1890; 
married  Lovell  Brown  and  had  Marion  and 
Lillian.  5.  Amy,  born  March  15.  1891  ;  mar- 
ried Everett  Peterson  and  had  Grace.  6. 
Charles,  born  March  16,  1893.  7.  Clarence, 
bom  March  14,  1895.  8.  Lillie,  twin  of  Clar- 
ence, died  in  April,  1895.  9.  Arthur  Sidney, 
born  September  16,  1897.  10.  Lucilla  May, 
born  July  23,  1899.  11.  Edna,  bom  January 
8,  1901. 


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This  name  was  originally  El- 
ELMORE     mer,  and  it  was  not  until  the 

family  had  been  established  in 
America  a  century  or  so,  that  it  was  given  its 
present  form.  During  the  tyrannical  reign  of 
Charles  I.  of  England,  thousands  of  pious  and 
weahhy  persons  left  their  homes  in  Great 
Britain,  to  make  new  homes  in  the  wilderness 
of  the  New  World.  Among  those  who  came 
to  New  England  was  Edward  Elmer,  first  of 
the  family  line  traced.  He  was  born  about 
1610,  in  Braintree,  Essex  county,  England. 
He  sailed  from  London  in  the  sailing  vessel, 
"Lion,"  Captain  Mason,  master,  June  22,  1632, 
and  arrived  in  America,  or  rather  Massachu- 
setts, September  16,  1632.  He  settled  at 
Newton,  now  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  and 
there  remained  for  several  years.  In  1636  he 
was  one  of  a  company  who  went  with  Rev. 
Thomas  Hooker  through  the  wilderness  to  the 
Connecticut  river,  and  settled  at  Hartford, 
and  he  was  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of 
the  town.  He  was  killed  by  Indians  during 
King  Philip's  war  at  Pedunk,  now  South 
Windsor,  in  June,  1676,  being  too  old  to  resist 
the  savages  with  that  vigor  that  had  once  been 

his.    He  married  Mary ,  probably  after 

reaching  America.  Children:  i.  John,  born  in 
1645,  died  December  24,  1711.  2.  Samuel, 
baptized  March  21,  1647,  died  in  April,  1691. 
3.  Elizabeth,  born  July  15,  1649.  4.  Edward, 
of  whom  further.  5.  Joseph,  born  in  1656, 
died  in  infancy.  6.  Mary,  born  in  1658.  7. 
Sarah,  born  in  1664. 

(II)  Edward,  son  of  Edward  and  Mary 
Elmer,  was  born  October  31,  1654,  and  died 

in  1725.     He  married  Rebecca  .     They 

were  both  members  of  the  Centre  Church  of 
Hartford.  They  had  nine  children,  among 
whom  was  Hezekiah. 

(III)  Hezekiah,  son  of  Edward  and  Re- 
becca Elmer,  was  born  in  Hartford  in  June, 
1686.  He  was  a  soldier  in  Captain  Kellog's 
company  in  1724,  and  was  the  owner  of  Elmer 

Island.     He  married  Marian .    Among 

their  children  was  Samuel. 

(IV)  Samuel,  son  of  Hezekiah  and  Marian 
Elmer,  was  born  on  Elmore  Island.  He  lived 
to  be  a  very  old  man,  married  and  had  a  nu- 
merous family,  among  whom  was  Gad. 

(V)  Gad,  son  of  Samuel  Elmer,  was  born 
during  the  first  quarter  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury, at  the  ancestral  home  in  Hartford.     He 


married  and  among  his  children  was  Job  G., 
of  whom  further. 

(VI)  Job  G.,  son  of  Gad  Elmore,  was  born 
in  Connecticut  in  1783,  and  died  January  12, 
i860,  at  Highland,  New  York.  He  came  from 
Connecticut  when  a  young  man  and  located  in 
the  town  of  Lloyd.  After  his  marriage  he  was 
given  a  farm  by  his  father-in-law  of  eighty 
acres  in  the  town  of  Lloyd,  and  he  followed 
farming  as  an  occupation  the  rest  of  his  life. 
He  was  prominently  identified  with  all  of  the 
public  interests  of  the  town,  and  was  a  man 
who  was  highly  respected  and  greatly  esteemed 
by  his  fellow  citizens,  who  referred  many 
questions  in  dispute  to  his  judgment,  all  parties 
being  assured  that  they  would  receive  strict 
justice.  He  was  identified  with  the  Whig 
party  and  served  his  party  in  the  assembly 
two  terms  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  his 
constituents  and  with  distinction  to  himself. 
Like  his  wife,  he  was  a  devout  follower  of  John 
Wesley,  and  ardently  supported  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  of  his  community.  He 
married  Phoebe  Du  Bois,  June  13,  1812,  who 
was  born  in  the  town  of  Lloyd,  December 
II.  1793,  and  died  July  6,  1879,  in  Highland, 
New  York.  She  was  a  daughter  of  one  of  the 
wealthiest  and  most  prominent  families  of  that 
section,  and  was  both  a  beauty  and  a  belle  in 
her  day.  Children:  i.  Andrew  J.,  of  whom 
further.  2.  James  H.,  born  September,  1815. 
3.  Mary  Eliza,  born  August  24,  1817.  4. 
Eleanor  E.,  born  September  16,  1819.  5. 
Eliza  Ann,  born  October  9,  1820.  6.  Julia  C, 
born  December  12,  1823.  7.  Du  Bois  T.,  born 
February  25,  1827.  8.  Alden  E.,  born  May 
30,  1828.  9.  John  E.,  born  July  30,  1833.  10. 
Marietta,  born  September  12,  1834. 

(VII)  Andrew  J.,  son  of  Job  and  Phoebe 
(Du  Bois)  Elmore,  was  born  May  8,  1814,  in 
the  old  stone  house  in  Highland,  New  York, 
which  is  still  standing  and  is  two  hundred  and 
fifty  years  old.  At  the  age  of  seven  he  had 
read  through  the  Bible.  He  was  highly  edu- 
cated, and  was  prominently  known  as  an  edu- 
cator before  he  went  West.  He  moved  to 
Wisconsin  while  yet  a  young  man,  and  at 
Madison  established  a  school  for  boys,  which 
later  became  one  of  the  famous  institutions  of 
the  state,  after  which  others  were  modeled. 
He  was  on  the  state  board  of  charities  for 
years,  giving  his  services  without  remunera- 
tion. His  ideas  were  not  only  adopted  by  the 
state  of  Wisconsin,  but  other  states,   finding 


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them  both  good  and  feasible,  also  incorporated 
them  into  their  laws  for  the  government  of 
charity  boards. 


The  Winnes  of  Albany  and  its 
WINNE  neighborhood  are  Dutch  in  ori- 
gin, the  founders  of  the  family 
in  this  country  having  come  from  the  Nether- 
lands at  an  early  date.  Major  Winne  was  one 
of  five  brothers,  who  after  arriving  on  these 
shores  settled  northeast  of  Troy,  most  of  them 
in  the  township  of  Brunswick.  The  deriva- 
tion of  the  name  is  somewhat  uncertain.  It 
is  found  in  Dutch  records  under  the  forms  of 
Win,  Wyn,  Winne,  Wynne,  Wind,  Winde,  and 
Wynge  or  Winge.  All  these  words,  while 
having  a  similarity  of  meaning,  have  various 
significations.  The  name  in  its  present  form 
is  also  known  in  England,  where  it  has  a 
probable  Saxon  origin,  and  in  Ireland  and 
Scotland,  and  the  Isle  of  Man,  where  it  is 
usually  a  translation  from  some  Gaelic  name 
such  as  Maoilgaothe.  In  New  York  the  name 
has  in  the  case  of  one  or  two  branches  of  the 
family  been  transformed  to  Winnie.  The 
Wing  family  had  its  origin  in  Belgium,  the 
older  form  of  the  name  being  Wynge.  God- 
friedus  Wynge  was  born  at  Liege,  in  Belgium, 
and  was  a  learned  man  and  a  preacher.  He 
went  to  Endie  and  was  in  Denmark  in  1553. 
Peter  Winne,  the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the 
Albany  family  of  the  name,  was  borne  in  the 
city  of  Ghent,  in  Flanders.  He  married  Ta- 
matjie  Adams,  born  in  the  city  of  Leauwaer- 
den,  in  Vrieslandt.  They  came  to  America 
and  settled  at  Bethlehem,  near  Albany,  New 
York,  July  6,  1684.  Peter  owned  considerable 
farm  property,  saw  mills,  and  timber  lands. 
He  and  his  wife  made  a  joint  will,  dated  1677, 
of  which  the  following  is  a  synopsis :  "Winne, 
Pieter,  of  New  Albany,  born  in  the  city  of 
Ghent,  Flanders,  and  wife  Jannettie  Adams, 
born  in  the  city  of  Leuwaerden,  Friesland. 
Son  by  the  first  wife  Archie  Jans,  vizt. 
Pieter,  other  children  mentioned,  but  not 
by  name.  Real  and  personal  estate.  The 
survivor  to  be  executor.  Witnesses,  Jan 
Verbruck,  Mr.  Cornelis  Van  Dyck,  and  Adri- 
aen  van  Ilpendam.  Notary  public.  Albany 
Co.  Records,  Notarial  papers  II,  p.  11."  Their 
children  were  :  Pieter  Peterse,  Adams,  Lavinus, 
Frans,  Alete,  Killian,  Thomas  Lyntie.  Marten, 
Jacobus,  Eva,  Daniel,  and  Rachel.  Most  of 
these  children  were  born  in  Holland,  probably 


all.  Thus  Lavinus  came  to  America  with  his 
father  when  he  was  thirty-seven  years  of  age, 
having  been  born  in  Ghent  in  1647.  He  mar- 
ried in  Holland  (first)  Teuntje  Martense, 
(second)  Williamje  Viele  Schermerhorn.  His 
children  were  eight:  Benjamin,  Killian,  Pieter 
or  Petrus,  Marten,  Bata,  Maria,  Sara  and 
Bluyan.  His  children  have  descendants  in 
New  York,  as  have  his  brothers.  Though 
the  links  between  the  family  of  the  immigrant 
Peter  Winne,  who  served  in  the  revolutionary 
army,  and  other  Winnes  of  New  York,  are  not 
apparent  in  America,  it  is  pretty  clear  that 
they  are  all  of  the  same  Dutch  stock,  sprung 
from  the  same  neighborhood  in  Flanders  and 
Holland.  This  is  the  strong  tradition,  though 
the  details  of  connection  have  not  yet  been  re- 
vealed. 

(I)  Lamont  Winne.  immigrant  ancestor  in 
America  of  the  Winne  family,  was  born  prob- 
ably in  or  near  the  city  of  Ghent,  Flanders, 
and  came  to  this  country  in  the  middle  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  He  was  contemporary 
with  and  belonged  to  the  same  generation  of 
the  Winne  stock,  as  the  children  of  Lavinus 
Winne,  son  of  Peter  and  Tamatjie  (Adams) 
Winne,  the  branch  to  which  they  belonged  have 
become  associated  with  American  civic  rights 
two  generations  before.  Lamont  Winne  was 
a  farmer  and  landowner  in  the  old  country, 
and  he  became  such  when  he  settled  in  Amer- 
ica, coming  into  possession  of  an  estate  in  the 
neighborhood  of  Shandaken,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  which  remains  with  his  descend- 
ants to  this  day. 

(II)  Cornelius,  son  of  Lamont  Winne,  was 
born  about  1765.  He  was  a  farmer  and  re- 
sided most  of  his  adult  life  on  the  farm  which 
had  been  in  the  possession  of  his  father. 

(III)  Christian,  son  of  Cornelius  Winne, 
was  born  about  1787,  and  died  in  his  eightieth 
year.  He  served  in  the  war  of  1812.  He  was 
a  farmer,  and  was  the  proprietor  of  more  than 
a  thousand  acres  of  land  in  the  town  of  Shan- 
daken, Ulster  county.  New  York,  having  added 
considerably  to  that  which  he  had  inherited 
from  his  predecessors.  He  had  besides  large 
interests  combining  with  the  intensive  culti- 
vation of  part  of  his  land  according  to  the 
latest  scientific  requirements  of  the  time,  busi- 
ness engagements  of  various  kinds.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Democrat,  following  carefully  the 
fortunes  of  the  party  in  the  country,  and  pro- 
claiming  himself    no    idle    acceptor    of    party 


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platitudes,  but  a  firm  adherent  of  the  active 
principles  upon  which  its  political  policy  was 
based.  Withal  he  took  no  conspicuously  active 
part  in  the  public  engagements  of  the  party, 
finding  his  time  too  absorbingly  occupied  by 
the  demands  of  his  property  and  business.  In 
religion  he  was  an  adherent  of  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church.  Christian  Winne  married 
Anna  Longyear.  Children:  i.  Cornelius  C. 
2.  Davis,  born  in  July,  1818.  3.  William.  4. 
Benjamin  J.,  mentioned  below.  5.  Henry. 
6.  Jemima.  7.  Eliza.  8.  Sarah.  9.  Christian 
J.     10.  Calvin. 

(IVj  Benjamin  J.,  son  of  Christian  and 
Anna  (Longyear)  Winne,  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Shandaken,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
December  29,  1826,  died  in  his  native  place 
October  26,  1894.  He  received  his  education 
in  the  district  schools  of  Shandaken,  in  which 
locality  he  engaged  for  a  number  of  years  in 
the  lumber  business.  Disposing  of  his  inter- 
ests in  this  undertaking  he  migrated  in  the 
direction  of  the  western  states,  locating  finally 
near  Grass  Lake,  Michigan,  where  he  invested 
in  a  large  tract  of  land.  After  working  at  the 
development  of  this  property  for  about  a  year, 
he  met  an  opportunity  of  exchanging  his  newly 
acquired  property  at  a  good  advance.  He  at 
once  took  advantage  of  the  occasion  offered, 
and  returned  to  Ulster  county,  where  he  finally 
purchased  a  hotel  at  Shoken.  He  found  this 
investment  a  fairly  good  one,  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  he  played  the  part  of  "mine  host" 
to  the  country  around.  At  the  end  of  that 
time,  desiring  a  change,  he  sold  his  hotel  and 
bought  a  farm  at  The  Corner,  in  Shandaken 
township,  comprising  between  three  hundred 
and  four  hundred  acres,  and  on  this  property 
engaged  in  lumbering  and  farming. 

In  1870  B.  J.  Winne  was  elected  superinten- 
dent of  the  poor  of  Ulster  county  for  a  term  of 
three  years.  He  consequently  removed  with 
his  family  to  New  Paltz,  and  so  ably  and 
efficiently  did  he  discharge  the  duties  of  his 
office  that  at  the  end  of  his  term  he  was  re- 
elected. After  serving  his  second  term  he  re- 
moved to  Kingston  and  there  built  the  Eagle 
Hotel,  which  he  and  his  son,  James  S.,  con- 
ducted in  partnership  for  a  period  of  three 
years.  It  was  then  leased  to  James  S.  and 
Alonzo  E.  Winne,  the  latter  the  son  of  Davis 
Winne,  and  nephew  of  Benjamin  J.  Winne. 
Mr.  Winne  then  retired  from  active  business 
life,  passing  the  remainder  of  his  days  in  the 


enjoyment  of  the  competence  gathered  to- 
gether by  his  many  years  of  labor.  He  was 
interested  in  various  business  enterprises,  and 
at  the  time  of  his  death  was  serving  as  director 
of  the  Kingston  National  Bank  and  the  Ulster 
County  Savings  Institution,  of  which  latter  he 
was  one  of  the  re-organizers  at  the  time  of  its 
financial  trouble.  He  lived  to  a  good  age  and 
was  sincerely  mourned  by  his  family  and 
friends  as  an  upright  citizen,  a  loving  father, 
and  a  man  of  genuine  worth.  He  was  not 
what  is  usually  described  as  a  churchman,  but 
he  was  liberal  in  his  donations  to  church  work, 
as  to  every  other  proper  form  of  charity,  and 
at  the  time  of  his  death  he  left  a  generous  sum 
to  the  church  of  his  choice.  He  was  a  Republi- 
can in  his  political  views,  and  was  fraternally 
affiliated  with  Kingston  Lodge,  No.  10,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons.  His  remains  rest  in 
the  Wiltwyck  Rural  Cemetery.  He  married, 
in  1849,  Sarah  J.,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Jane 
Simpson,  who  came  to  America  from  Edin- 
burgh, Scotland,  in  1815.  Children:  Levan 
S.,  mentioned  below  ;  James  S.,  who  was  asso- 
ciated in  the  management  of  the  Eagle  Hotel 
at  Kingston,  first  with  his  father  and  after- 
wards with  his  cousin,  Alonzo  E.  Winne ;  Og- 
den  F. ;  Ella  H.,  who  married  T.  B.  D.  Freer. 
(V)  Levan  S.,  son  of  Benjamin  J.  and  Sarah 
J.  (Simpson)  Winne,  was  bom  in  the  town 
of  Shandaken,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
March  23,  1850.  He  was  educated  at  the 
Kingston  Academy,  and  after  leaving  it,  was 
for  the  following  nine  years  clerk  in  the  hard- 
ware establishment  of  Sahler  &  Reynolds. 
The  hardware  firm  of  Winne  &  Winchell  was 
then  formed,  and  in  1878  Mr.  Winne  pur- 
chased Mr.  Winchell's  interest  and  took  in  his 
brother,  Ogden  F.,  as  partner.  The  firm  is 
now  L.  S.  Winne  &  Company,  and  doing  an 
extensive  business  throughout  the  neighbor- 
hood as  wholesale  and  retail  dealers  in  hard- 
ware. Levan  S.  Winne  is  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  order,  belongs  to  the  Kingston  Club 
and  the  Kingston  Fire  Department.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  trus- 
tee of  the  Wiltwyck  Cemetery  Association,  and 
of  the  Kingston  Savings  Bank.  He  married, 
in  1876,  Fannie  H.,  daughter  of  Jacob  and 
Mary  Hammond  Krom,  the  father  being  a 
farmer  of  Shoken,  Ulster  county.  There  has 
been  one  son,  Benjamin  J.  Winne,  who  mar- 
ried Marguerite  Moore,  of  Kingston,  Ulster 
county.    New   York. 


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The  name  Barmann  is  Ger- 
BARMANN     man  and  is  an  Americanized 

form  of  Barmann,  which 
name  has  been  borne  by  a  number  of  dis- 
tinguished families  in  the  Fatherland.  The 
arms  of  one  family  in  Germany  bearing  the 
name  in  the  form  of  Bermann  is  thus  herald- 
ically  described :  D'or  a  une  bande  de  gu. ; 
ace.  de  deux  ours  de  sa.  The  name  is  what 
is  described  as  occupational  in  character,  hav- 
ing in  its  original  signification  a  suggestion 
of  the  first  bearer's  capacity  as  a  keeper  or 
tender  of  bears.  This  class  of  names  is  num- 
erous in  Germany,  such  names  as  Schneider 
and  the  like  belonging  to  this  class.  Names  of 
the  ancestral  or  patronymical  character  are 
not  relatively  numerous  in  Germanic  lands, 
as  may  be  indicated  by  the  paucity  of  names 
ending  in  sohn.  The  ancestral  types  of  sur- 
names are  more  numerous  in  lands  subject  to 
Celtic  influence  at  the  time  of  the  establish- 
ment of  surnames,  and  these  as  a  rule  bear 
prefixes  like  "O"  (descendant),  "Mac"  (son), 
"Ap"  (son),  as  well  as  affixes  like  son  and 
sen.  Barmann  (Berman  or  Barman)  does  not 
belong  to  this  class,  but  is  a  good  example  of 
the  type  of  Teutonic  surname  borne  by  a  large 
section  of  the  population  in  the  Fatherland. 
It  is  also  suggestive  of  romance  in  the  pastime 
or  trade  of  the  original  bearer  who  may  have 
been  a  mighty  hunter  and  tamer  of  bears  in 
the  pioneer  days  when  Germany  was  renewing 
its  lusty  youth. 

(I)  Jacob  Barmann,  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  Barmann  family,  came  to  America  in  1857 
from  Bavaria,  Germany,  and  settled  in  Rond- 
out,  Ulster  county,  New  York.  His  trade  or 
occupation  dealt  with  the  manufacture  of 
shoes,  and  he  continued  in  this  occupation 
when  once  permanently  resident  in  this 
country.  He  gradually  built  up  an  excellent 
business.  He  married  in  Contwig  Zweibriic- 
ken,  Bavaria,  Barbara  Lang,  who  died  in  185 1, 
a  period  of  about  forty-two  years  before  her 
husband  who  survived  her  till  1893,  in  which 
year  he  died  at  Rondout,  New  York. 

(II)  Peter,  son  of  Jacob  and  Barbara 
(Lang)  Barmann,  was  born  in  Rhein  Pfalz, 
Germany,  February  5,  1844,  and  died  July  20, 
1908.  He  emigrated  with  his  father  to  this 
country  in  1857  and  obtained  his  education 
partly  in  the  schools  of  his  native  place,  and 
partly  at  Rondout,  New  York,  and  at  Pough- 
keepsie.  New  York,  where  he  attended  East- 


man's Business  College.  Early  in  life  he  be- 
came associated  with  his  uncle,  B.  Schwall- 
bach,  who  conducted  a  brewery,  and  learned 
the  brewing  business.  In  1881  on  the  death 
of  his  uncle  he  established  a  brewing  business 
of  his  own  on  the  site  of  what  is  now  the 
present  Peter  Barmann  Brewing  Company, 
one  of  the  largest  establishments  of  its  kind 
along  the  Hudson.  Mr.  Barmann  owed  his 
position  in  life  entirely  to  his  own  exertions, 
he  having  started  out  with  no  assistance  and 
no  capital  except  his  strong  will  and  determin- 
ation to  succeed.  He  built  up  unaided  the 
prosperity  of  himself  and  his  family  and  hon- 
orably sustained  the  reputation  of  his  ancestors 
for  integrity,  fairness  and  straight  forward 
dealing  in  business  matters.  Mr.  Barmann 
was  an  exempt  fireman  and  was  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Rondout  Social  Mannerchor, 
and  for  years  was  identified  with  the  Board 
of  Health  of  Kingston.  He  was  held  in  high 
respect  by  members  of  the  community  in  which 
he  moved,  and  the  city  of  Kingston  named 
Barman  avenue  in  his  honor.  Mr.  Barmann 
married  in  Rondout,  New  York,  in  1873,  Susie 
Bender,  who  was  born  at  Rhein  Pfalz, 
Bavaria.  Children :  Peter,  mentioned  below ; 
Belchazzar,  married  Margaret  Schrowaug, 
one  daughter,  Margaret  Julia;  Catherine,  who 
married  Mr.  Dickson,  of  Kingston;  Lillie; 
Susan,  who  married  Mr.  Sweeney,  a  member 
of  the  ancient  family  of  O'Suinhe,  a  branch 
of  the  royal  O'Neils,  ancient  Kings  of  Ulster, 
has  one  daughter,  Susannah ;  Charles.  Daniel 
Bender,  father  of  Mrs.  Peter  Barmann,  was 
born  in  Rhein  Pfalz,  Bavaria,  and  came  to 
this  country  with  his  son,  Daniel,  Peter  Bar- 
mann, and  Mr.  Barmann's  father  and  brother, 
Carl,  settling  in  Rondout,  New  York.  Daniel 
Bender  Sr.  was  a  mason  by  trade  and  worked 
in  the  brewery.  He  married  Catherine 
Schawlbach  in  Contwig  Zweibriicken,  Bavaria. 
(Ill)  Peter  (2),  son  of  Peter  (i)  and 
Susie  (Bender)  Barmann,  was  born  at  Kings- 
ton, Ulster  county.  New  York,  February  2, 
1875.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
and  at  Spencer's  Academy,  leaving  this  latter 
institution  to  enter  Spencer's  Business  College, 
at  Kingston.  When  he  left  the  academy  he 
was  associated  for  a  time  with  his  father,  ac- 
quiring a  practical  knowledge  of  the  intricacies 
of  the  brewing  business.  Then  to  round  off 
what  he  had  learned  with  all  that  science  had 
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father,  on  a  course  at  the  National  Brewers" 
Academy  in  New  York  City,  a  course  that  has 
since  been  of  considerable  use  to  him  in  the 
promotion  of  the  large  undertaking  which  his 
father  had  founded.  After  graduating  from 
the  National  Brewers'  Academy  he  became 
brewmaster  and  he  continued  to  act  in  this 
capacity  until  the  date  of  his  father's  death. 
He  then  assumed  the  management  of  the  entire 
establishment  and  has  since  conducted  it  with 
marked  success,  the  growth  in  its  prosperity 
and  size  having  been  continuous. 

Mr.  Barmann  takes  considerable  interest  in 
the  public  questions  of  the  day  particularly  in 
so  far  as  they  relate  to  the  interests  of  the 
brewing  industry,  but  he  has  not  held  and  has 
not  sought  to  hold  any  public  position.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Central  Hook  and  Ladder 
Company  of  Kingston;  Exempt  Firemen's  As- 
sociation; Elks,  Moose  and  Auto  clubs  of 
Kingston.  He  married,  in  1900,  Edna,  born 
January  18,  1877,  daughter  of  Henry  Bloss, 
of  Rondout,  New  York.  Children:  Henry  P., 
born  July  21,  1901 ;  Sanche,  born  November 
8,  1902;  Edna,  born  February  26,  1906,  died 
December  18,  191 1,  aged  six  years;  Doris,  born 
May  26,  1910. 


The    name    of    Howell    is    of 
HOWELL     Welsh  origin,  and  is  found  in 

connection  with  the  early  his- 
tory of  that  principality.  It  has  been  identified 
with  the  history  of  the  state  of  New  York 
from  a  very  early  period  in  the  settlement  of 
Long  Island.  Many  of  the  name  have  pro- 
ceeded thence  to  remote  localities  in  the  state, 
and  it  has  been  connected  with  pioneering  in 
various  sections,  not  only  of  this  state,  but  of 
other  states  in  the  Union.  From  the  records 
obtained  from  the  parish  register  of  Marsh 
Gibbon,  Buckinghamshire,  England,  and  else- 
where, have  been  secured  the  following  facts 
concerning  the   family. 

(I)  William  Howell,  of  Wedon,  county  of 
Bucks,  England,  died  in  1557.  His  first  wife, 
Maude,  left  two  sons,  and  his  second  wife, 
Anne  (Hampton)  Howell,  was  the  mother  of 
a  son  Henry.  He  also  had  children  named: 
Jacob,  Rachel,  Isabelle,  Jane,  Cecil,  Agnes, 
Annie  Joane  and  Alice,  but  it  cannot  be  de- 
termined which  wife  was  the  mother  of  these. 
His  will,  made  November  30,  1557,  provided 
that  his  body  should  be  buried  in  the  church 
at  Wigman.     He  left  a  legacy  to  the  poor  of 


Aylesbury,  Whitechurch  and  Marsh  Gibbon, 
and  for  the  bells  of  Hardwick  Church ;  to  his 
wife  he  gave  lands  at  Watton  and  Hamme  for 
life,  and  to  his  son  John  land  at  Marsh  Gibbon, 
which  was  to  go  to  his  son  Henry  if  John  left 
no  issue,  and  to  son  Jacob  if  Henry  left  no  is- 
sue. In  1536  he  purchased  the  manor  of  West- 
bury  at  Marsh  Gibbon,  in  Buckinghamshire, 
England,  with  a  stone  house  which  is  still 
standing,  though  there  are  evidences  that  it 
was  once  much  larger  and  a  portion  taken 
down.     It  is  almost  covered  with  ivy. 

(II)  Henry  Howell,  son  of  William  Howell 
and  his  second  wife,  Anne  (Hampton)  Howell, 
inherited  the  paternal  estate.  He  was  buried 
July  20,  1625,  and  his  wife,  Frances,  July  2, 
1630,  at  Marsh  Gibbon.  He  had  sons:  Ed- 
ward, mentioned  below,  and  Thomas,  baptized 
January  14,  1590. 

(HI)  Edward  Howell,  son  of  Henry  and 
Frances  Howell,  was  baptized  July  20,  1584, 
at  Marsh  Gibbon,  and  in  1639  sold  out  his 
large  estate  in  Bucks  county,  including  the 
manor  of  Westbury.  In  that  year  he  removed 
with  his  family  to  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  made  a  freeman,  March  13, 
1640.  He  had  a  grant  of  five  hundred  acres 
of  land  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  and  was  one 
of  the  nine  owners  of  a  sloop  which  trans- 
ported several  families  from  Lynn  to  South- 
ampton, Long  Island,  about  July,  1640.  He 
was  a  leader  of  the  company  which  arranged 
for  this  settlement,  and  wrote  the  compact  or 
agreement  to  that  end,  and  the  laws  which 
were  established  by  the  first  settlers  in  South- 
ampton. He  became  the  owner  of  a  large 
estate  there ;  was  a  magistrate  and  a  member 
of  the  legislature  at  Hartford,  the  early 
colonists  on  Long  Island  acknowledging  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  Connecticut  colony.  He 
had  three  adjoining  house  lots,  abutting  on 
Job's  Lane  in  Southampton,  and  on  one  of 
these  he  built  his  house  in  1648.  By  reason 
of  his  owning  three  shares  in  the  colony,  he 
was  entitled  to  three  thousand  acres  of  land. 
His  first  wife,  Frances,  bore  him  children: 
Henry,  baptized  December  20,  1618;  Mar- 
garet, November  24,  1622;  John,  mentioned 
below;  Edward,  September,  1626;  Margery, 
June  I,  1628;  Richard,  1629.  His  second  wife, 
Eleanor,  was  the  mother  of  Arthur,  born  1632, 
and  Edmund. 

(IV)  Major  John  Howell,  second  son  of 
Edward   and    Frances    Howell,   was    baptized 


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November  24,  1622,  at  Marsh  Gibbon,  and 
died  November  3,  1696,  in  Southampton.  He 
was  one  of  the  most  distinguished  and  active 
citizens  of  that  colony,  in  which  he  filled  num- 
erous official  positions,  being  foremost  in 
managing  its  relations  with  New  England  and 
the  colonial  government  of  New  York.  His 
wife  bore  the  name  of  Susannah,  and  they 
had  children,  born  as  follows :  John,  Novem- 
ber 28,  1648;  Edward,  March  2,  1650;  Mat- 
thew, November  8,  1651 ;  Abraham,  January 
22,  1654;  Ephraim,  January  i,  1656;  Sus- 
annah, July  15,  1658;  Hannah,  October  28, 
1660;  Theophilus,  December  18,  1662; 
Nathaniel,  mentioned  below ;  Prudence,  De- 
cember 27,  1666;  Abigail,  July  5,  1670. 

(V)  Nathaniel  Howell,  seventh  son  of 
Major  John  and  Susannah  Howell,  was  born 
August  29,  1664,  in  Southampton,  where  he 
resided  and  died  in  1725-26.  His  wife  bore 
the  name  of  Hannah,  and  they  had  children: 
Mehitable,  wife  of  John  Cook;  Martha; 
Nehemiah;  Nathaniel,  mentioned  below;  Sus- 
annah ;  Eunice. 

(VI)  Nathaniel  (2)  Howell,  son  of 
Nathaniel  ( i )  and  Hannah  Howell,  was  born 
about  the  close  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and 
resided  in  Southampton  in  1748,  when  he  dis- 
posed of  his  homestead  there  and  removed. 
The  family  seems  to  have  returned  to  South- 
ampton in  the  troublous  times  of  the  revolu- 
tion. His  sons,  Nathaniel  and  Edward,  were 
enrolled  as  minute-men  in  the  First  Regiment 
of  Suffolk  county  militia,  the  former  being 
second  lieutenant.  Their  names  also  appear 
in  a  list  probably  embracing  those  who  marched 
with  Colonel  Smith  to  the  battle  of  Long 
Island,  August  27,  1776.  Among  the  names 
in  a  list  of  men  who  were  compelled  to  sub- 
mit to  the  Royal  government  in  October,  1776, 
appear  those  of  Edward  Howell  and  Paul 
Howell.  The  four  sons  of  Nathaniel  (2) 
Howell  settled  in  Orange  county,  and  Paul 
and  Silas  appear  as  signers  of  the  revolution- 
ary pledge  there,  on  the  Monroe  list.  The 
former  was  known  as  Colonel  Paul  Howell. 
Nathaniel  Howell  married  Esther  Johnes, 
born  January  12,  1718,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Hannah  (Foster)  Johnes.  They  are 
known  to  have  had  four  sons :  Nathaniel,  born 
November,  1742,  died  February  4,  1809,  mar- 
ried Ruth  Topping;  Edward,  mentioned  be- 
low; Paul,  born  1751,  died  September  26, 
1807,   married   Susanna   Knight;   Silas,   born 


1753,    died    May    20,    1832,    married    Hannah 
Friend. 

(VII)  Edward  (2)  Howell,  second  son  of 
Nathaniel  (2)  and  Esther  (Johnes)  Howell, 
was  born  in  August,  1745,  in  Southampton, 
and  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  as  previ- 
ously related.  Among  the  reminiscences  re- 
lated by  his  wife  are  those  telling  how  British 
soldiers  entered  houses  in  Southampton  and 
helped  themselves  to  whatever  suited  their 
fancy.  About  1779  he  joined  his  brothers  in 
Orange  county.  He  had  sufficient  means  to 
purchase  and  stock  a  good  farm  in  the  town 
of  Goshen,  but  his  title  was  defective,  and  a 
few  years  later  the  creditors  of  its  former 
owner  seized  and  sold  the  farm.  He  received 
some  assistance  from  his  brothers,  but  never 
fully  recovered  from  his  misfortune.  On  May 
I,  1791,  he  bought  another  farm  near  Van 
Burenville,  in  the  town  of  W'allkill.  The  deed, 
still  preserved,  shows  that  this  farm,  consist- 
ing of  about  two  hundred  acres,  was  purchased 
from  William  Floyd,  of  Suffolk  county.  Long 
Island,  for  one  hundred  and  sixty  pounds. 
On  this  Edward  Howell  lived  until  his  death, 
August  29,  1809.  He  married  Clementina  Al- 
bertson,  of  Southampton,  who  died  in  1822, 
and  both  were  buried  in  the  cemetery  at 
Middletown,  New  York.  They  had  children : 
William  A.,  born  December  23,  1781,  died 
August  28,  181 1,  married  Elizabeth  Calander; 
Caleb,  January  27,  1784,  died  February  5, 
1857,  married  Lucy  Pelton ;  Benajah,  March 
25,  1787,  died  June,  1794;  Josiah,  mentioned 
below. 

(VIII)  Josiah  Howell,  youngest  son  of  Ed- 
ward (2)  and  Clementina  (Albertson)  Howell, 
was  born  December  i,  1789,  in  the  town  of 
Goshen,  New  York,  died  of  typhoid  fever,  No- 
vember 2,  1833.  He  succeeded  to  the  owner- 
ship of  the  paternal  homestead  in  the  town  of 
Wallkill,  was  a  successful  farmer,  and  served 
as  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812,  being  a  sergeant 
in  Captain  John  Dunning's  militia  company. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  First  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Middletown.  in  which  he 
was  for  many  years  a  ruling  elder.  He  mar- 
ried Zillah  Genung,  born  1790,  died  1856, 
daughter  of  Ichabod  and  Mary  (Pierson) 
Genung,  of  the  town  of  Wallkill,  formerly  of 
Morristown,  New  Jersey.  Both  are  buried  in 
Hillside  cemetery,  Middletown.  Children: 
Mary  Ann,  born  April  16,  1813,  married  Dr. 
John  N.  Taylor,  and  died  1868,  without  issue; 


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William,  December  24,  1815,  married  Cather- 
ine Woodward  Shaw,  and  died  in  1889,  with- 
out issue,  he  was,  however,  a  generous  bene- 
fcvCtor  to  his  brother's  sons;  Charity,  August 
24,  1818,  died  1864,  unmarried;  Abraham 
Pierson,  mentioned  below;  Phebe,  September 
3,  1828,  died  1882. 

(IX)  Abraham  Pierson  Howell,  second  son 
of  Josiah  and  Zillah  (Genung)  Howell,  was 
born  May  27,  1821,  on  the  paternal  homestead, 
and  grew  to  manhood  there.  For  two  or  more 
years  he  taught  public  school  in  that  vicinity, 
after  which  he  purchased  a  farm  about  one 
mile  northeast  of  Middletown.  He  improved 
and  lived  upon  this  until  1882,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Middletown,  and  resided  with  his 
brother  William  at  No.  26  Grove  street,  where 
he  died  of  the  infirmities  of  old  age,  Decem- 
ber 25,  1904.  He  enjoyed  a  high  reputation 
for  integrity  in  the  community,  and  for  nearly 
forty  years  was  a  ruling  elder  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Middletown.  He  mar- 
ried, December  23,  1851,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Joshua  and  Sarah  Smith,  of  the  town  of 
Goshen,  born  November  30,  1828,  died  June 
7,  191 1.  Her  body  rests  beside  that  of  her 
husband  in  Hillside  cemetery.  Children:  i. 
Mary  Pierson,  born  January  15,  1853;  widow 
of  Howard  S.  Conklin,  resides  in  Middletown; 
has  two  children :  Jane,  bom  1878,  William 
H.,  born  1880,  married  Clara  I3enson,  de- 
ceased; child:  William  H.  2.  Josiah  Albert- 
son,  mentioned  below.  3.  William  Edward, 
mentioned  below.  4.  John  Taylor,  mentioned 
below.  5.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  May  2,  1867, 
died  May,  1878. 

(X)  Josiah  Albertson  Howell,  eldest  son  of 
Abraham  Pierson  and  Hannah  (Smith)  How- 
ell, was  born  December  6,  1854.  His  early  life 
was  spent  on  the  paternal  homestead  and  his 
education  obtained  in  the  local  school  and 
Wallkill  Academy.  He  graduated  from  East- 
man's Business  College  in  1873,  ^"d  the  same 
year  began  his  business  career  as  bookkeeper 
for  Babcock,  Fuller  &  Company,  manufac- 
turers of  hats,  in  Middletown,  New  York.  He 
subsequently  became  their  buyer,  remaining 
with  the  firm  and  its  successors  for  ten  years. 
In  1884,  after  serving  as  a  bookkeeper  in  the 
Middletown  National  Bank  for  a  short  time, 
he  entered  the  finn  of  Houston,  Webster  & 
Company,  wholesale  and  retail  dealers  in  grain 
and  other  products,  in  which  business  he  has 
since  been  engaged  as  a  wholesale  dealer.   The 


firm  changed  to  Howell  &  Webster,  and  in 
March,  1908,  to  the  name  of  J.  A.  Howell. 
Mr.  Howell  has  served  two  terms  in  the  board 
of  education  of  Middletown,  and  has  been 
an  elder  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
since  1903.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  is  interested  in  civic  affairs  of  his  town. 
He  married  (first)  May  19,  1881,  Helen  King, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  King,  of 
Middletown.  She  died  June  15,  1898,  leaving 
two  children:  i.  Laura,  born  August  11,  1886; 
now  a  teacher  of  domestic  science  in  Water- 
bury,  Connecticut.  2.  Mary  Anna,  born  June 
20,  1890;  now  a  student  in  the  School  of  Phil- 
anthropy, New  York.  On  October  i,  1902, 
Mr.  Howell  married  (second)  Charlotte  Hunt- 
ington Webster,  daughter  of  David  H.  and 
Anna  Elisabeth  (Royce)  Webster,  of  Middle- 
town. 

(X)  William  Edward  Howell,  second  son  of 
Abraham  Pierson  and  Hannah  (Smith)  How- 
ell, was  born  June  2t^,  1859.  He  attended  the 
local  public  school  at  first,  but  was  afterward 
sent  to  Dr.  Warren's  private  school  in  Middle- 
town,  and  later  to  Wallkill  Academy.  He 
graduated  from  Eastman's  Business  College 
in  1877,  and  the  same  year  obtained  a  position 
in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Middletown. 
In  1878  he  went  to  New  York  City,  where  he 
entered  the  banking  house  of  Kountze 
Brothers,  remaining  there  for  nine  years.     In 

1888  he  removed  to  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  engaged  in  manufacturing  boxes.   In 

1889  he  became  a  charter  member  of  the  J.  E. 
Mergott  Company,  manufacturers  of  brass 
novelties,  and  has  since  been  the  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  that  company.  He  was  made  a 
Mason  in  Cosmus  Lodge,  No.  106,  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  1904,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trade  of  Newark.  He  attends  the 
Reformed  Church,  and  in  politics  is  a  Repub- 
lican. Mr.  Howell  was  married  April  27, 
1892,  to  Mabel  Herrick,  born  May  i,  1869, 
daughter  of  Charles  Cladius  and  Julia  Anna 
(Peck)  Herrick,  of  Newark.  Children: 
Katherine  Herrick,  born  March  15,  1897: 
Mabel  Louise,  November,  1898;  Julia,  April 
I,  1900. 

(X)  Dr.  John  Taylor  Howell,  third  son  of 
Abraham  Pierson  and  Hannah  (Smith)  How- 
ell, was  born  April  23,  1862,  and  was  named 
for  Dr.  John  N.  Taylor,  of  Middletown.  He 
attended  the  local  public  and  private  schools 
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Wallkill  Academy.  He  began  the  study  of 
medicine  under  the  preceptorship  of  Dr.  T.  D. 
Mills,  of  Middletown,  in  August,  1881.  In 
October,  1882,  he  matriculated  at  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  (Columbia  Uni- 
versity), New  York,  and  was  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1885.  He  afterward  received  an 
appointment  to  the  second  surgical  division  of 
Bellevue  Hospital,  and  became  a  house  sur- 
geon, July  I,  1886.  On  February  2,  1887,  Dr. 
Howell  settled  in  Newburgh,  locating  his  office 
in  the  house  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Grand 
and  South  streets,  where  he  has  since  resided 
and  practiced  his  profession,  specializing  sur- 
gery. In  May  of  that  year  he  was  appointed 
to  the  visiting  staff  of  St.  Luke's  Hospital, 
which  position  he  has  continued  to  fill  dur;ng 
the  growth  and  development  of  the  hospital 
to  its  present  size  and  importance.  Dr.  Howell 
was  also  one  of  the  original  members  of  the 
visiting  staff  of  the  Newburgh  Tuberculosis 
Sanitorium,  and  is  a  consulting  surgeon  to  the 
Highland  Hospital,  Matteawan,  New  York. 
He  is  a  careful  student  and  has  contributed  a 
number  of  original  papers  to  various  medical 
societies  and  journals.  He  is  the  author  of 
the  medical  sketch  in  Headley's  "History  of 
Orange  County,"  and  compiled  the  important 
chronological  list,  with  data,  concerning  all 
the  physicians  who  have  practiced  in  Orange 
county  since  1728.  He  is  ex-president  of  the 
Orange  County  and  Newburgh  Bay  Medical 
societies,  a  member  of  the  First  District  and 
the  State  Medical  societies,  the  American 
Medical  Association,  and  the  Society  of  Alum- 
ni of  Bellevue  Hospital.  In  politics  Dr.  How- 
ell is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  and  a 
ruling  elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
and  is  interested  in  various  civic  and  phil- 
anthropic movements  in  the  community  in 
which  he  resides. 

Dr.  Howell  married.  May  15,  1889,  Sarah 
Townsend  Steele,  born  in  Newburgh,  New 
York,  January  16,  1864,  daughter  of  Robert 
and  Mary  Townsend  (Houston)  Steele.  The 
latter  married  W.  C.  Anthony  after  the  death 
of  Robert  Steele  in  1865.  Children  of  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Howell:  Mary  Townsend,  born  July  16, 
1890,  married  Rev.  Frederick  B.  Limerick, 
child:  Sarah  Townsend,  born  December  16, 
1913;  John  Taylor  Jr.,  October  26,  1891,  stu- 
dent at  Union  College;  Josephine  Clifton,  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1894. 


Like  a  large  proportion  of 
VAN  CLIEF     the   Dutch   names   in   New 

York,  the  surname  or  fam- 
ily name  of  Van  Clief  is  derived  from  the 
name  of  a  place.  The  ancestor  who  originally 
bore  the  surname  came  from  Clief  near  the 
Netherlands  borderland,  and  thus  came  into 
possession  of  the  name  of  that  locality,  with 
the  prefix  "van,"  meaning  in  Dutch  "from," 
attached  to  it.  This  was  according  to  the  old 
Norman  fashion,  the  Normans,  especially 
among  the  higher  families,  taking  their  sur- 
names from  some  territorial  designation  and 
prefixing  "de,"  meaning  in  French  "of"  or 
"from,"  to  indicate  that  they  came  from  the 
place  indicated  or  had  had  some  previous  con- 
nection with  it.  Among  the  Dutch  it  was  also 
customary  to  use  the  patronymical  method  in 
the  establishment  of  surnames;  that  is,  they 
derived  their  surnames  or  hereditary  family 
names  from  the  personal  name  of  an  ancestor, 
attaching  the  suffix  "sen."  meaning  "son,"  or 
some  other  prefix  or  suffix  indicating  descent. 
The  classic  examples,  indicating  the  patrony- 
mical method,  are  the  Irish  or  Gaelic  sur- 
names, carrying  the  prefixes  "O"  (descendant 
or  grandson),  and  "Mac"  (son).  Van  Clief 
may  thus  be  said  to  be  derived  in  Dutch,  after 
the  Norman  fashion,  from  a  territorial  designa- 
tion. The  name  has  many  other  forms  in  the 
early  Dutch  records  of  New  York,  as  Van 
Clyf,  Van  Clyff,  Van  Clyft,  Vander  Clyft, 
Vander  Cleef,  Vander  Cleeft,  and  Vander 
Cleft.  The  name  was  known  in  New  Amster- 
dam during  the  Dutch  occupation,  and  has  all 
along  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
business  interests  and  general  development  of 
the  State  of  New  York  down  to  the  present 
time. 

(I)  Jan  Van  Cleef,  the  immigrant  ancestor 
of  the  Van  Cleef,  Van  Cleft  or  Van  Clief  fam- 
ily in  America,  was  born  in  the  Netherlands 
in  1628.  He  came  to  New  Amsterdam  in  1653, 
and  was  a  farmer  at  Gravesend  on  Long 
Island  in  1656.  He  is  the  first  in  the  records 
to  appear  with  the  surname.  He  was  already 
prominent  in  New  Amsterdam  at  the  time  the 
Dutch  government  prevailed.  In  1659  he  re- 
sided at  New  Utrecht  in  the  same  vicinity,  and 
was  in  Bushwick  in  1664.  He  received  a  deed, 
December  23,  1662,  from  Albert  Albertse 
(Terhune),  of  twenty- four  morgens  of  land 
in  New  Utrecht,  which  he  sold  in  1669.  He 
is  known  to  have  purchased  a  pasture  lot  in 


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887 


New  Utrecht,  December  27,  1677,  and  owned 
lots  Nos.  6,  7,  13  and  14,  at  Yellow  Hook 
(Bay  Ridge).  In  1677  he  was  a  member  of 
the  New  Utrecht  Church ;  was  constable  of 
that  town  in  1678,  and  took  the  oath  of  alle- 
giance to  the  English  government  in  1687.  He 
signed  documents  which  are  still  in  existence 
with  a  mark.  He  was  probably  married  before 
coming  to  New  York,  as  the  records  of  the 
Dutch  Church  show  that  his  son,  Dirck,  had  a 
child  baptized  in  1668.  He  married  (second) 
before  March  10,  1681,  Engelte,  daughter  of 
Louwerens  Pieterse.  His  descendants  are 
numerous  in  New  York  and  the  adjoining 
territory  at  the  present  time.  Children : 
Caterine,  baptized  October  23,  1681  ;  Benja- 
min, November  25,  1683,  settled  in  New  Jer- 
sey ;  Joseph,  settled  in  New  Jersey ;  Angelica ; 
Ceytie,  baptized  May  13,  1688;  Isbrant,  or 
Isebrant,  of  whom  further ;  Nelke ;  Cornelius, 
resided  in  New  Utrecht ;  Rebecca.  Probably 
several  of  these  children  were  of  the  first  mar- 
riage. 

(H)  Isbrant  or  Isebrant  (also  spelled  in  the 
records  Ysebrant  and  Eyzebrand)  Van  Cleef, 
son  of  Jan  Van  Cleef,  resided  in  early  life  in 
New  Utrecht,  where  he  was  grand  juror  in 
1699.  He  was  undoubtedly  a  child  of  the  first 
marriage  since  he  must  have  been  of  age  in 
1699.  For  some  time  he  resided  upon  or  in 
the  vicinity  of  Staten  Island,  where  he  was 
witness  to  the  baptism  of  a  child.  July  26,  1711, 
and  ultimately  settled  in  Monmouth  county. 
New  Jersey.  The  record  of  all  his  children 
has  not  been  found.  He  married,  in  Graves- 
end,  Jannetie  Aertse  Vander  Bilt,  baptized 
September  17,  1682,  in  New  Utrecht,  grand- 
daughter of  Jan  Aertsen  Vander  Bilt,  immi- 
grant ancestor  of  all  bearing  that  name  in  New 
York.  Jan  Aertsen  Vander  Bilt  ("from  the 
Bilt")  came  from  the  village  or  Bilt  (Bilt 
meaning  "hill"),  in  the  province  of  Utrecht, 
Holland,  as  early  as  1650,  to  New  Amsterdam. 
He  married  (first)  in  New  Amsterdam,  Febru- 
ary 6,  1650,  Anneken  Hendricks,  from  Ber- 
gen; (second)  Deber  Cornells;  (third)  De- 
cember 16,  1681,  Magdalena  Hanse,  widow  of 
Hendrick  Jansen  Spier,  of  Bergen,  New  Jer- 
sey. He  resided  at  New  Amsterdam,  Flat- 
bush,  and  lastly  at  Bergen,  where  he  owned 
lands  in  1694,  and  died  February  2,  1705. 
Aris,  son  of  Jan  Aertsen  Vander  Bilt,  born 
about  1651,  died  after  171 1.  He  married,  Oc- 
tober 6,   1677,  Hillegonde  Remsen,  daughter 


of  Rem  Janse  Vanderbeek.  Their  children, 
found  in  the  records,  are:  Marretje,  baptized 
January  25,  1716,  in  New  York;  Benjamin, 
April  19,  1717,  at  Port  Richmond,  Staten 
Island;  Janneke,  March  8,  1720,  in  Freehold, 
and  another  of  the  name  Benjamin,  January 
7,  1724,  in  Freehold.  It  is  probable  that  the 
first  Benjamin  died  during  infancy. 

(HI)  Cornelius  Van  Clief,  undoubtedly  a 
son  of  Isbrant  or  Isebrant  Van  Cleef,  was 
born  about  1710,  and  resided  on  Staten  Island, 
where  he  married  Sara  Marschall. 

(IV)  Jan,  or  John,  son  of  Cornelius  and 
Sara  (Marschall)  Van  Clief,  was  baptized 
April  26,  1736,  in  the  Dutch  Church  of  Port 
Richmond,  Staten  Island,  and  settled  about  the 
time  of  his  majority  in  the  Minnisink  district, 
which  included  parts  of  the  present  Orange 
county,  New  York,  and  of  New  Jersey.  He 
had  five  sons  and  one  daughter.  The  daughter, 
whose  name  has  not  been  preserved,  married 
an  Ives.  The  sons  were:  i.  John.  2.  Corne- 
lius. 3.  Jesse,  of  whom  further.  4.  Joseph, 
born  at  Minnisink,  where  he  lived,  and  died 
in  1814;  he  married  Elizabeth  Dunning,  and 
had  two  sons  and  four  daughters :  Hector, 
Lewis,  Ann  Eliza,  Sarah  Jane,  Katura,  and 
another.    5.  Benjamin,  twin  brother  of  Joseph. 

(V)  Jesse,  third  son  of  Jan,  or  John,  Van 
Clief,  was  born  at  Minnisink.  He  was  a  ship 
blacksmith,  employed  in  the  construction  of 
several  famous  warships,  among  which  was 
the  "Constitution."  While  working  upon  this 
vessel  he  broke  his  leg  and  in  order  that  the 
completion  of  the  vessel  might  not  be  delayed 
he  allowed  himself  to  be  transported  from 
Staten  Island  to  the  Brooklyn  Navy  Yard  on 
a  couch,  after  which  he  superintended  the  rig- 
ging of  the  vessel  in  his  invalid  condition. 
Afterwards  he  fought  in  the  War  of  1812, 
in  which  he  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  his 
hearing.  He  married  Margaret  Moore,  and 
had  ten  children.  Among  them  was  Benjamin, 
who  died  on  Staten  Island,  as  the  result  of  a 
wound  received  in  the  war  with  Mexico.  An- 
other son  was  John  H.  Van  Clief,  who  became 
one  of  the  best  known  citizens  on  Staten 
Island.  His  father  died  when  John  H.  was 
but  ten  years  old,  and  being  thrown  upon  his 
own  resources,  he  worked  in  the  daytime,  and 
attended  night  school  at  Tompkinsville.  He 
established  a  lumber  business  in  Port  Rich- 
mond. He  repeatedly  represented  the  town 
of  Northfield  on  the  board  of  supervisors,  and 


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held  other  positions  of  trust.  His  son,  John 
H.  Van  Chef  Jr.,  served  as  county  clerk  for 
one  term.  Another  son,  Wilham  S.  Van  Clief, 
carried  on  the  business  which  his  father  es- 
tablished, and  became  one  of  the  island's 
prominent  citizens. 

(VI)  Jacob,  son  of  Jesse  Van  Clief,  was 
probably  born  near  Minnisink.  There  is  very 
little  on  record  concerning  him,  though  it  is 
presumed  that  his  infancy  and  youth  were 
spent  in  much  the  same  way  and  under  the 
same  influences  as  those  of  his  brothers  and 
sisters.  He  married,  but  there  is  no  record  of 
the  name  of  his  wife.  He  lived  in  New  York 
City. 

(VH)  John  Henry,  son  of  Jacob  Van  Clief, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  December  i6, 
1812,  at  his  father's  home  in  Catherine  street. 
He  married  Jannette  Vreeland,  born  at  Clif- 
ton, Staten  Island,  June  25,  1814.  Children: 
Elizabeth,  born  in  1837,  married  Erasmus 
Sterling;  Georgine,  born  in  1838,  married 
Nicholas  Davis ;  Julia,  born  in  1840,  married 
Jacob  A.  Janin;  John  Henry,  born  in  1844, 
married  Helen  Harrison;  Adeline,  born  in 
1850,  married  Granville  W.  Nichols;  Eloise, 
born  in  1852,  married  Edward  D.  Schoon- 
maker;  William  Sterling,  of  whom  further. 

(Vni)  William  Sterling,  youngest  son  of 
John  Henry  and  Jannette  (Vreeland)  Van 
Clief,  was  born  at  Stapleton,  Staten  Island, 
May  24,  1859.  At  the  age  of  six  years  he  re- 
ceived private  tuition  from  Professor  Holden 
in  Stapleton,  Staten  Island,  and  later  was  en- 
tered in  Dr.  Edward  Majer's  private  school  in 
West  New  Brighton,  where  he  remained  until 
he  was  prepared  for  entering  the  New  York 
University.  He  remained  at  the  university 
until  1878,  when  he  left  on  account  of  ill 
health.  He  then  entered  the  employ  of  his 
father's  lumber  and  timber  business,  and 
gradually  worked  his  way  up  until  he  became 
the  sole  owner  of  tlie  plant.  By  close  applica- 
tion and  hard  work  he  has  built  up  a  large 
business  and  established  three  branches  on 
Staten  Island.  The  branches  are  at  Port  Rich- 
mond, West  Brighton  and  Pleasant  Plains. 
His  sons  are  now  connected  with  him  and  he 
is  the  active  head.  William  Sterling  Van 
Clief  is  a  director  in  the  Port  Richmond  Na- 
tional Bank.  He  is  a  Democrat,  and  was  ap- 
pointed commissioner  of  agriculture  in  191 1 
to  serve  one  term.  He  is  president  of  the 
Staten    Island    Chamber    of    Commerce,    and 


president  also  of  the  South  Shore  Amusement 
Company.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Staten 
Island  Club,  the  Richmond  County  Country 
Club,  and  the  Atlantic  Yacht  Club.  In  religion 
he  belongs  to  the  Dutch  Reformed  church, 
and  attends  its  worship. 

He  married,  at  Buffalo,  New  York,  June 
27,  1883,  Adelaide  Cornelia,  born  December 
27,  1859,  daughter  of  John  Charles  and  Mary 
(De  Cie)  Carroll.  The  children  of  John 
Charles  and  Mary  (De  Cie)  Carroll  were: 
James,  Samuel,  William,  Adelaide  Cornelia, 
mentioned  above.  The  children  of  William 
Sterling  and  Adelaide  Cornelia  (Carroll)  Van 
Clief  are :  William  Carroll,  born  December  16, 
1885;  Anna  Clara,  May  25,  1887;  Cortlandt, 
November  15,  1888;  Ray  Allen,  July  26,  1889. 


This  is  an  old  German  name 
HELMLE     and  has  been  represented  in  the 

United  States  by  several  gen- 
erations of  honored  citizens,  who  have  ex- 
emplified the  prominent  traits  of  their  race, 
industry  and  thrift,  combined  with  an  intelli- 
gent interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  community 
where  they  lived.  Members  of  the  family 
described  below  have  been  held  in  high  esteem 
wherever  they  have  located,  and  have  been 
honored  by  their  fellow  citizens  as  desirable 
participants  in  social,  religious  and  civil  affairs. 
They  have  succeeded  in  various  walks  of  life 
and  have  given  close  attention  to  any  under- 
taking in  which  they  have  engaged. 

(I)  Joseph  Helmle  (or  Helble,  as  the  name 
was  occasionally  spelled)  was  born  in  Ober- 
heim,  "Black  Forest,"  Germany,  in  May,  1784, 
and  died  in  1857,  ^^  the  age  of  seventy-three 
years.  His  wife.  Rose  Anna  Helmle,  was 
born  in  Oberheim,  in  1782,  and  died  in  1869, 
at  the  age  of  eighty-seven  years.  Their  chil- 
dren were :  Mary,  Joseph,  Edward,  Gerhardt, 
and  William,  of  whom  further. 

(II)  William,  son  of  Joseph  and  Rose  Anna 
Helmle,  was  born  in  Oberheim,  April  15,  1829, 
and  died  in  Utah.  He  attended  the  schools 
of  his  native  country  until  he  was  fourteen 
years  of  age,  and  two  years  later  accompanied 
his  brothers  to  America.  They  landed  in  New 
York  and  he  proceeded  to  Marietta,  Ohio, 
where  he  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter,  which 
he  followed  there  for  several  years.  He  be- 
came expert  in  this  line  and  took  building  con- 
tracts on  his  own  account.  The  family  re- 
sided at  Paris,  Kentucky,  for  a  time,  and  spent 


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several  years  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  After  his 
wife's  death  Mr.  Helmle  went  west  and,  as 
before  mentioned,  his  death  occurred  in  Utah. 
He  was  an  earnest  and  devout  member  of  the 
German  Lutheran  church.  He  was  married, 
in  185 1,  to  Anna  Maria  Peters,  who  was  born 
in  Duerkheim,  Germany,  October  3,  1833,  and 
died  September  14,  1883,  daughter  of  Jolui 
Phihp  and  Anna  Maria  Peters,  the  former 
born  in  1794,  died  in  1857,  and  the  latter  born 
in  1797,  died  in  1865.  Children,  as  follows, 
were  born  to  William  and  Anna  Maria 
(Peters)  Helmle:  i.  William  Henry,  born 
May  28,  1852,  in  Marietta,  Ohio,  died  De- 
cember 31,  1897;  on  July  26,  1876,  he  married 
Mary  Ellen  Reilly,  and  they  had  children : 
Lillian,  Camilla  and  Rosa.  2.  Rosa  Anna,  born 
October  8,  1854,  in  Marietta;  married,  April 
19,  1877,  William  Henry  Needham,  and  they 
had  one  child,  George  Paul,  born  January  18, 
1878.  3.  EHzabeth,  born  January  7,  1857,  in 
Davenport,  Iowa,  died  at  the  age  of  one  year. 
4.  George  B.,  of  whom  further.  5.  Elizabeth 
Mary,  born  May  9,  1861,  in  Paris,  Kentucky; 
on  October  4,  1881,  she  married  Alexander 
Robert  Black,  and  they  had  children :  Mabel 
Hawthorn,  Carl  and  Malcolm.  6.  Anna 
Maria,  born  November  i,  1863,  in  Cincinnati, 
died  at  the  age  of  three  weeks.  7.  Joseph 
Philip,  born  December  10,  1864,  in  Cincinnati, 
died  December  21,  1902.  8.  Frank  John,  born 
March  5,  1869,  at  Harmer  (now  West  Mariet- 
ta), Ohio. 

(HI)  George  Bernard,  second  son  of  Wil- 
liam and  Anna  Maria  (Peters)  Helmle,  born 
February  25,  1859,  at  Marietta,  Ohio,  received 
his  elementary  education  in  the  public  schools, 
graduating  from  the  high  school  there.  He 
then  entered  St.  Lawrence  University,  of  Can- 
ton, New  York,  and  graduated  therefrom  with 
the  class  of  1885,  receiving  the  degree  of  A.  B. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  printer  in  the  office 
of  the  Marietta  (Ohio)  Register,  after  which 
he  removed  to  Brooklyn  and  for  several  years 
was  connected  with  the  Times  of  that  city.  In 
1891  he  became  proprietor  of  the  Nyack  Eve- 
ning Journal,  the  Rockland  County  Journal, 
and  the  Suffern  Recorder.  On  Jyly  i,  1913, 
he  sold  his  interest  in  all  these  papers.  He  is 
one  of  the  most  enterprising  and  successful 
business  men  of  Nyack,  where  he  has  various 
interests,  and  he  has  taken  a  prominent  part 
in  the  upbuilding  and  improvement  of  the 
community,  where  he  is  recognized  as  a  repre- 


sentative citizen,  devoted  to  the  best  interests 
of  the  public.  Mr.  Helmle  is  a  Republican 
in  political  belief  and  for  more  than  twelve 
years  has  held  the  office  of  postmaster  of 
Nyack.  He  is  past  master  of  Rockland  Lodge, 
No.  732,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Business  Men's  Club, 
of  Nyack,  the  St.  Lawrence  Club,  of  New 
York,  and  the  Beta  Theta  Phi  fraternity.  He 
was  president  of  the  Nyack  Board  of  Trade, 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Nyack  Land 
and  Improvement  Company,  treasurer  of  the 
Nyack  Choral  Society,  stockholder  and  treasur- 
er of  the  Grand  View  Development  Company 
and  director  of  the  Nyack  Building  &  Loan 
Association.  Mr.  Helmle  was  married,  Oc- 
tober 6,  1886,  to  Alice  Barnes  Pettibone,  born 
at  Ogdensburg,  St.  Lawrence  county,  New 
York,  July  27,  1862,  daughter  of  Roswell  G. 
and  Delia  (Barnes)  Pettibone.  Mr.  Pettibone 
was  a  school  teacher  by  occupation  and  for 
over  twenty  years  served  as  postmaster  of  Og- 
densburg. He  and  his  wife  had  four  children: 
Roswell  B.,  John,  Clara  and  Alice  B.  No  chil- 
dren have  been  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Helmle. 


The  various  spellings,  Weiant, 
WTIANT     Weyant,  Wiant,  Wygant,  Wey- 

gant,  Wygand,  Wiegand,  Wei- 
gand,  Wigand,  Weygand,  Weygandt,  Wei- 
gandt,  are  all  of  them  merely  different  forms 
of  the  one  surname,  borne  by  the  common 
ancestor  of  the  family,  the  Rev.  George  Her- 
man Weygandt,  who  was  for  many  years  the 
Lutheran  minister  at  Neider  Saulheim,  Hes- 
sen,  Germany.  He  is  supposed  to  have  been 
a  lineal  descendant  of  Bishop  John  Wigand, 
who  was  born  at  Mansfield,  Upper  Saxony, 
in  1523,  and  died  at  Koenigsburg,  in  1578, 
having  been  a  graduate  of  Wittenburg,  master 
of  St.  Lawrence  school,  Nuremburg,  the  first 
professor  of  divinity  in  the  University  of  Jena, 
later  professor  of  divinity  at  Koenigsburg  and 
a  voluminous  and  powerful  controversial 
writer  on  the  Protestant  side.  The  Rev.  George 
Herman  Weygandt  had  among  other  children : 
Michael,  referred  to  below;  Herman,  died  in 

1684,  married  Ann  ,  ancestors  of  the 

Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey  branches. 

(II)  Michael  Weigand,  son  of  the  Rev. 
George  Herman  Weygandt,  was  born  in 
Neider  Saulheim,  Hessen,  Germany,  in  1656, 
and  died  in  Newburgh,  Orange  county,  New 
York,  in  1723.    He  emigrated  to  America  with 


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other  Palatinate  families  in  the  company  of 
the  Rev.  Joshua  Kochwethal,  who  had  been  his 
pastor  since  his  youth.  The  record  of  his 
emigration,  dated  December  8,  1708,  reads: 
"Michael  Weigand,  husbandman,  aged  52; 
Anna  Catharina  Weigandin,  his  wife,  aged  54; 
Anna  Marie  Weigandin,  child,  aged  13 ;  Tobias 
Weigand,  child,  aged  7;  George  Weigand, 
child,  aged  5."  The  homestead  on  which  he 
settled,  in  what  is  now  Newburgh,  Orange 
county.  New  York,  and  the  second  house  he 
built  for  himself,  became  later  the  famous 
"Hasbrock  House"  and  "Washington  Head- 
quarters." Children,  so  far  as  known:  Anna 
Maria,  born  1695;  Tobias,  referred  to  below; 
George,  born  in  1703,  died  between  January 
12,  1763,  and  October  7,  1778,  married  Jane 

(HI)  Tobias  Weygand,  son  of  Michael  and 
Anna  Catharina  Weigand,  was  born  near  the 
town  of  Worms,  Germany,  in  1701.  In  1724 
he  and  his  brother  George  are  recorded  on 
the  tax  rolls  of  Newburgh  precinct  in  place 
of  their  father.  In  1738  the  two  brothers  en- 
rolled in  Captain  Thomas  Ellison's  company, 
of  Colonel  Chambers'  Ulster  County  Regiment. 
Tobias  Weygand  was  also  a  prominent  mem- 
ber of  the  Lutheran  Congregation  at  New- 
burgh, and  took  a  leading  part  in  the  building 
of  the  little  square  chapel.  His  wife's  name  is 
unknown.  Children:  Tobias  (2),  referred  to 
below;  Martin,  born  about  1730,  died  in  1792, 
married  Susan  Albertson;  John,  referred  to 
below;  Berger;  Matthew,  born  in  1743,  died 
in  1831 ;  Simon. 

(IV)  Tobias   (2)   Weygant,  son  of  Tobias 

( 1 )  Weygand,  was  born  in  Newburgh,  Orange 
county,  New  York.  He  was  a  signer  of  the 
revolutionary  pledge,  and  a  soldier  in  the 
Woodbury  Clove  Company  during  the  revolu- 
tion. He  married,  it  is  believed,  a  daughter 
of  Thomas  Smith  Jr.,  of  Smith's  or  Wood- 
bury Clove,  Cornwall  precinct,  Orange  county. 
New  York.  Children:  John,  referred  to  be- 
low ;  Hannah ;  Sarah. 

(V)  Sergeant  John  Weyant,  son  of  Tobias 

(2)  and (Smith)  Weygant,  was  bom  in 

Cornwall  precinct,  Orange  county.  New  York, 
January  9,  1750,  and  died  in  Highland  Mills, 
Orange  county,  January  27,  1830.  In  1774  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Woodbury  Clove  Mili- 
tary Company  and  served  during  the  revolu- 
tion. He  married,  February  26,  1778,  Eliza- 
beth,    daughter     of     Captain     Francis     and 


Elizabeth  (Smith)  Smith,  who  was  born  Au- 
gust 20,  1758,  and  died  August  20,  1840.  (See 
Smith  IV.)  Children:  Francis,  born  Novem- 
ber 9,  1780,  died  in  1832,  married  Rachel  Earl; 
James,  born  February  10,  1783,  died  April  12, 
1863,  married  in  1805,  Ann  Secor;  John  C, 
referred  to  below ;  Tobias,  born  in  1800,  died 
in  1895;  Elizabeth;  Temperance;  Jane. 

(VI)  John  C,  son  of  Sergeant  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Smith)  Weyant,  was  born  in  High- 
land Mills,  Orange  county.  New  York,  in  1794, 
and  died  there  in  1874.  He  married,  in  1814, 
Mary,  daughter  of  James  and  Martha  (Gould) 
Hazard,  who  was  born  December  5,  1795,  and 
died  February  26,  1885.  Children:  i.  Clarissa, 
born  in  1815,  died  in  1887;  married,  February 
8,  1839,  Abram,  son  of  George  and  Catharine 
(Waldron)  Weiant,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Martha,  born  in  1817,  died  in  1890;  married, 
April  13,  1840,  Charles  T.  Ford,  of  Highland 
Mills.  3.  Elizabeth,  referred  to  below.  4. 
Rachel,  born  in  1822,  living  in  1897;  married 
Van  Rensselaer  McKelvey.  5.  William  Henry, 
born  in  1824,  died  in  1877;  married  (first) 
February  23,  1848,  Sarah  Bush,  and  (second) 
Adeline .  6.  Benjamin,  born  in  1826,  liv- 
ing in  1897;  married  (first)  Cornelia  Sneeden. 

and   (second)    Mary  .     7.  Jane,  born  in 

1828,  died  in  1832.  8.  James  W.,  born  in 
1831,  living  in  1897;  married  (first)  Mary 
Birdsall,  and  (second)  her  sister,  Emily  Bird- 
sail.  9.  Harriet,  married  Alfred  Cooper.  10. 
Francis,  married  Effie  Gurnee. 

(VII)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  C.  and 
Mary  (Hazard)  Weyant.  was  born  in  High- 
land Mills,  Orange  county.  New  York,  in  1819. 
She  married.  February  12,  1840,  her  third 
cousin,  George  B.,  son  of  George  and  Catharine 
(Waldron)  Weiant,  referred  to  below. 

(IV)  John  Weiant,  son  of  Tobias  (i)  Wey- 
gand, was  born  in  Newburgh,  Orange  county, 
New  York,  in  1740,  and  died  in  Rockland 
county.  New  York,  December  15,  1804.  When 
a  young  man  he  removed  to  Smith's  Clove,  in 
the  same  county.  He  was  a  signer  of  the 
revolutionary  pledge  and  served  during  the 
revolution.  For  the  greater  part  of  his  life 
he  lived  at  Monroe,  Orange  county,  New 
York,  but  removed  to  Rockland  county,  sev- 
eral years  before  his  death.  He  married 
(first)  August  24,  1764,  Hannah  Rider  (or 
Reeder)  and  it  is  believed  he  married  (sec- 
ond)    Devries.  Children,  by  first  mar- 
riage:   John;    Andrew;    George,    referred    to 


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below;  Tobias,  married  Jerusha  Smith  (see 
Smith  IV). 

(V)  George,  son  of  John  and  Hannah 
(Rider)  Weiant,  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Monroe,  Orange  county.  New  York,  in  1773, 
and  died  in  Rockland  county.  New  York,  in 
1855.  Shortly  before  or  after  his  marriage, 
he  opened  a  general  country  store  not  far  from 
the  present  village  of  Haverstraw,  and  later  he 
became  much  interested  in  real  estate.  He 
married,  February  10,  1796,  Catharine,  daugh- 
ter of  Jacob  and  Catharine  (Lamb)  Waldron, 
who  was  born  July  20,  1777.  (See  Waldron 
line.)  Children:  Jacob,  born  in  1797,  died 
in  1852,  married  Maria  Stout ;  Rachel,  born 
in  1799,  died  in  1884,  married  George  L.  Link- 
letter;  Catharine,  born  in  1801,  living  in  1897, 
married  John  De  la  Montanye  ;  Margaret,  born 
in  1803,  died  in  1885,  married  David  Van 
Buskirk;  William,  born  in  1806,  died  in  1819; 
Thomas  W.,  born  in  1808,  died  in  1825,  un- 
married; Wesley  J.,  born  September  21,  1811, 
died  in  1886,  married  Catharine  Rose  ;  Hannah, 
born  in  1815,  living  in  1897,  married  James 
Knowlton;  Martha  A.,  born  in  1817,  died  in 
1896,  married,  October  22,  1839,  John  M.  Pol- 
hemus;  Abram,  born  in  1819,  died  in  1880, 
married  Clarissa,  daughter  of  John  C.  and 
Mary  (Hazard)  Weyant,  referred  to  above; 
George  Banghart,  referred  to  below. 

(VI)  George  Banghart,  son  of  George  and 
Catharine  (Waldron)  Weiant,  was  born  in 
Rockland  county,  New  York,  in  1819,  and  died 
in  Haverstraw,  Rockland  county.  New  York, 
in  1901.  He  was  a  farmer,  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  a  -member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church.  He  married,  February  12,  1840, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  C.  and  Mary 
(Hazard)  Weyant,  who  was  born  in  Highland 
Mills,  Orange  county.  New  York,  and  is  re- 
ferred to  above.  Child :  Edward  Banghart, 
referred  to  below. 

(VII)  Edward  Banghart,  son  of  George 
Banghart  and  Elizabeth  (Weyant)  Weiant, 
was  born  in  Haverstraw,  Rockland  county. 
New  York,   September  29,   1843,  and  is  now 

.  living  at  Stony  Point,  in  that  county.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Haverstraw,  and,  after  graduating  with  his 
class,  learned  the  trade  of  painter,  in  which 
business  he  remained  until  his  father's  death, 
when  he  inherited  the  farm  and  engaged  in 
agriculture  on  the  old  homestead  known  as 
the  "Meadow  Farm."    He  is  a  Republican  in 


politics.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war,  he 
enlisted  in  Company  F,  Ninety-fifth  Regirnent 
New  York  State  Volunteers,  and  served  from 
1861  to  1862,  when  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged. He  then  re-enlisted  in  Company  B, 
Sixty-fifth  Regiment  New  York  State  Volun- 
teers, and  served  until  September,  1863.  He 
took  part  in  one  of  the  leading  engagements  of 
his  regiments  and  was  discharged  for  disabil- 
ities on  the  march  to  Gettysburg.  He  re-en- 
listed, April,  1864,  and  served  to  the  close  of 
the  war.  In  his  last  enlistment  he  was  made 
second  lieutenant.  He  is  a  member  of  Edward 
Pye  Post,  No.  179,  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public, and  of  Washington  Camp,  No.  32,  of 
the  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church 
at  Stony  Point. 

He  married,  at  Haverstraw,  January  29, 
1868,  Margaret  L.,  daughter  of  Stephen  and 
Nancy  (Lascell)  Stevens,  of  Tompkins  Cove, 
Rockland  county,  New  York,  who  was  born 
there.  May  27,  1847.  Her  father  was  a  car- 
penter and  was  twice  married,  his  second  wife 
being  Mary  Ann  Sutton.  By  his  first  wife  he 
had  three  children,  and  by  his  second  wife  six. 
Children  of  Edward  Banghart  and  Margaret 
L.  (Stevens)  Weiant:  Elizabeth,  born  Janu- 
ary 21,  1869;  Eva,  born  May  2,  1871 ;  Violet- 
ta,  born  August  24,  1873  ;  Gerald  Edward,  born 
April  10,  1888. 

(The  Smith  Line.) 
Richard  Smith  Sr.,  the  founder  of  this  fam- 
ily, known  from  the  traditional  nickname  of 
its  founder,  "The  Bull  Rider,"  as  the  "Bull 
Smith"  family,  was  the  famous  patentee  of 
Smithtown,  Long  Island.  He  is  sometimes, 
but  erroneously,  confused  with  Richard  Smith 
Jr.,  of  Rhode  Island,  who  died  without  issue, 
leaving  a  widow  Esther,  in  the  same  year  that 
Richard  did.  Richard  "Bull"  Smith  was  living 
in  Southampton,  Long  Island,  as  early  as  Oc- 
tober 26,  1643,  his  home  being  on  the  west  side 
of  the  main  street  and  next  north  of  the  road 
running  to  the  beach  and  town  pond.  He  was 
a  man  of  means  and  high  social  position,  and 
one  of  the  few  who  bore  the  title  of  "Mr.," 
or  "Gentleman."  He  was  of  a  very  imperious 
nature,  and,  on  December  3,  1656,  "for  his 
unreverend  carriage  toward  the  magistrate 
contrary  to  the  order,"  was  "adjusted  to  bee 
bannished  out  of  the  town."  He  then  went 
to  Setauket,  where  he  soon  became  a  leader 


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and  afterwards  purchased  the  tract,  now 
Smithtown,  of  which  he  became  sole  owner 
after  a  long  and  persistent  struggle.  He  died 
in  Smithtown,  March  7,  1691-2.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Folger,  of  Boston,  who  survived 
him  and  died  in  1708.  Children :  Jonathan, 
died  about  1718,  married  Sarah  Brewster; 
Richard,  born  about  1647,  died  in  1720,  mar- 
ried, June  20,  1670,  Hannah  Tooker ;  Job,  re- 
ferred to  below ;  Adam,  died  in  1720,  married 
Elizabeth  Brown;  Samuel,  born  in  1654.  died 
April  2,  1717,  married  Hannah  Longbotham ; 
Daniel,  died  before  1715,  married  (first)  Ruth 
Tooker,  and  (second)  Mary  Holton ;  Obadiah, 
died  in  1680,  unmarried ;  Elizabeth,  married 
(first)  William  Lawrence,  of  Flushing  (sec- 
ond) in  1681,  Philip  Carteret,  governor  of 
East  Jersey,  and  (third)  Colonel  Richard 
Townley,  of  Elizabethtown  ;  Deborah,  married, 
in  1680,  Major  William  Lawrence,  a  stepson 
of  her  sister  Elizabeth. 

(H)  Job,  son  of  "Mr."  Richard  and  Sarah 
(Folger)  Smith,  died  about  1719.  He  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah 
(Brewster)  Thompson,  of  Setauket,  Long 
Island.  Her  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Jona- 
than Brewster,  and  granddaughter  of  Elder 
William  Brewster,  of  the  "Mayflower."  Her 
paternal  grandfather  was  the  Rev.  William 
Thompson,  born  in  1597,  graduate  of  Brase- 
nose  College,  Oxford,  January  28,  1619.  He 
emigrated  to  York,  Maine,  in  1634,  to  Dor- 
chester, Massachusetts,  in  1636,  was  ordained 
first  priest  of  Braintree  (or  Mount  Wollaston) 
Massachusetts,  in  1639,  and  a  missionary  to 
Virginia  in  1642.  Children  of  Job  and  Eliza- 
beth (Thompson)  Smith:  Job,  born  March  9, 
1679,  died  in  1740,  married.  January  16,  1712, 
Dorothy  Woodhull ;  Richard,  nicknamed  "St. 
Richard,"  died  about  1757,  married  Elizabeth 
Brush  ;  Timothy,  married  Patience  Thompson  ; 
Aaron,  married  Serviah  Sands ;  James,  re- 
ferred to  below ;  Joseph,  married  Mary  Aid- 
rich  ;  Elizabeth,  said  to  have  been  the  second 
wife  of  Rev.  Daniel  Taylor,  the  first  minister 
of  Smithtown  and  afterwards  pastor  of  the 
"Mountain  Society,"  or  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Orange,  New  Jersey. 

(HI)  James,  son  of  Job  and  Elizabeth 
(Thompson)  Smith,  was  born  in  Smithtown, 
Long  Island,  and  settled  in  Moriches.  In  1722 
he  secured  a  patent  for  two  thousand  acres 
of  land  in  the  annulled  "Captain  Evans 
grant,"  in  Ulster  county,  New  York,  but  there 


is  no  record  of  his  ever  being  there.  In  172a 
he  married  Jerusha,  daughter  of  Jonathan  (2) 
and  Mary  Topping,  of  Southampton,  Long 
Island,  granddaughter  of  Captain  Elnathan 
and  Mary  Topping,  of  Sagg,  Long  Island,  and 
great-granddaughter  of  Thomas  Topping,  of 
Milford,  Southampton.  Children:  Matthew, 
born  September  3,  1721.  married  Ann  Howell; 
Ezekiel ;  Zebulon  ;  Austin  ;  Nathaniel ;  Francis, 
referred  to  below ;  Eunice ;  Keturah  ;  Tem- 
perance; Jeremiah. 

(IV)  Captain  Francis  Smith,  son  of  James 
and  Jerusha  (Topping)  Smith,  was  born  in 
Moriches,  Long  Island.  January  4,  1733,  and 
died  in  Woodbury  Clove,  Orange  county,  New 
York,  May  11,  1785.  He  married  (first) 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Smith  (2),  of 
Orange  county,  New  York.  Her  grandparents 
were  Thomas  ( i )  and  Mary  Smith  ;  her  grand- 
father, Gershom,  son  of  Lieutenant  Jonathan 
Rock  Smith,  of  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  and 
grandson  of  John  Rock  Smith,  of  Stamford, 
Connecticut.  Children,  so  far  as  known:  i. 
Elizabeth,  married  Sergeant  John  W^eygant^ 
son  of  Tobias  (2)  Weygant  (see  Weygant  V). 
2.  Jerusha.  married  Tobias,  son  of  John  and 
Hannah  (Rider)  Weiant  (see  Weiant  IV). 

(The  Waldron  Line.) 
Resolved  Waldron,  the  founder  of  this 
family,  was  born  May  10,  1610,  died  in  1690. 
He  was  the  most  noted,  as  well  as  one  of  the 
most  intelligent,  of  the  settlers  in  Haarlem, 
New  York.  He  emigrated  with  his  family  to 
New  Netherland  in  1654,  was  received  with 
his  brother  Joseph  and  their  wives  in  the 
Dutch  church,  at  New  Amsterdam,  and  bought 
a  lot  on  Broadway,  near  \\'all  street.  He  was 
admitted  a  burgher  May  3,  1657,  and  May  25, 
1658,  he  was  appointed  deputy  schoutfiscael. 
He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  English, 
in  October,  1664,  and  retired  to  private  life  in 
Haarlem,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  five 
patentees.  He  married  (first)  before  1647, 
Rebecca  Hendricks,  and  (second)  May  10, 
1654,  Tanneke  Nagel.  Children,  three  by  first 
wife:  I.  William,  born  February  10,  1647,  liv- 
ing in  1 7 10;  married,  February  10,  1671,  En- 
geltje  Stoutenburgh.  2.  Rebecca,  born  in 
1649;  married  (first)  August  27,  1670.  Jan 
Nagel,  and  (second)  May  15,  1690,  Jan  Dyck- 
man.  3.  Aeltje,  born  in  165 1  ;  married.  Au- 
gust 27,  1670,  Captain  Johannes  Vermilyea. 
4    Barent,  born  in   1655  ;  married,  September 


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25,  1687,  Jannetje  Meynderts.  5.  Ruth,  bap- 
tized May  10,  1657;  married  (first)  August 
II,  1678,  John  Delameter,  and  (second)  Sep- 
tember 15,  1703,  Hendrick  Bogert.  6.  Cor- 
nelia, baptized  February  20,  1659;  married, 
June  8,  1685,  Peter  van  Oblenis.  7.  Johannes, 
referred  to  below.  8.  Samuel,  born  April  10, 
1670,  died  in  1737;  married,  March  5,  1692, 
Neetje  Bloodgood. 

( 11)  Johannes,  son  of  Resolved  and  Tanneke 
(Nagel)  Waldron,  was  born  at  Haarlem,  New 
York,  September  12,  1665,  and  died  in  1753, 
having  survived  his  wife  and  all  his  children 
except  his  son  Resolved.  He  married,  April 
25,  1690,  Anna,  daughter  of  Captain  Jan  van 
Dalsen.  Children :  Anneken,  baptized  Febru- 
ary 22,  1 69 1,  died  young;  Annetje,  baptized 
April  17,  1692,  married,  June  11,  1714,  John 
Delameter;  Margaret,  baptized  October  22, 
1693,  married,  October  25,  1716,  Adolph 
Myer;  Cornelia,  born  March  14,  1696,  married, 
December  26,  1722,  Ryck  Lent;  Johannes,  bap- 
tized May  22,  1698,  died  December  10,  1724, 
married,  December  10,  1719,  Elizabeth  Ben- 
son ;  Resolved,  referred  to  below ;  Samuel, 
born  about  1705,  died  in  1752,  married,  in 
1725,  Engeltje  Myer. 

(HI)  Resolved  (2),  son  of  Johannes  and 
Anna  (van  Dalsen)  Waldron,  was  born  May 
6,  1702,  and  died  January  10,  1761.  He  mar- 
ried. May  9,  1729,  Matje  Quackenbush.  Chil- 
dren:  Mary,  born  in  1730,  married  Abraham 
H.  Lent;  John,  baptized  May  28,  1732,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Lamb ;  Anna,  born  in  1733,  mar- 
ried Johannes  Springsteen ;  Catherine,  born  in 
1735,  married  Alexander  Bulen ;  Adrian  (or 
Edward),  born  May  8,  1736,  married,  January 
6,  1773,  Hannah  Allison;  Jacob,  referred  to 
below  ;  Elizabeth,  born  in  1740,  married  Patrick 
Hine. 

(IV)  Jacob,  son  of  Resolved  (2)  and  Matje 
( Quackenbush  )  Waldron,  was  born  February 
16,  1737,  and  died  February  17,  1805.  He 
married,  February  6,  1765,  Catharine  Lamb. 
Children:  Jacob,  born  August  6,  1766,  died 
September  3,  1787,  unmarried;  Resolved, 
born  February  19,  1768,  died  young;  Abra- 
ham, born  March  14,  1769,  died  May  19,  1815, 
married,  April  6,  1791,  Maria  De  Ronda ; 
Rachel,  born  November  i,  1772,  died  October 
10,  1795,  married  John  Blauvelt ;  Resolved, 
born  July  8,  1775,  died  June  17,  1856,  unmar- 
ried ;  Catharine,  referred  to  below ;  Margaret, 


born  December  4,  1781,  died  in  1872,  unmar- 
ried;   Hannah,   born   July    10,    1785,   married 

Blanchard. 

(V)  Catharine,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Cath- 
arine (Lamb)  Waldron,  was  born  July  20, 
1777,  and  died  March  25,  1851.  She  married, 
February  10,  1796,  George,  son  of  John  and 
Hannah  (Rider)   Weiant  (see  Weiant  V.). 


Richard    B.    Overbagh,    or 

OVERBAGH  Overbaugh,  as  it  was  orig- 
inally written,  comes  from 
a  long  line  of  distinguished  Knickerbocker 
ancestry,  the  first  of  whom  settled  in  this  coun- 
try sixty-five  years  before  the  beginning  of 
the  revolutionary  war.  Johan  Pieter  Over- 
baugh and  his  wife,  Maria  (Thomies)  Over- 
baugh, came  from  the  Palatinate  in  1710,  and 
settled  at  "The  West  Camp"  on  the  Hudson 
river,  where  other  countrymen  and  co-religion- 
ists had  preceded  them  by  a  few  days.  He 
assisted  in  founding  a  Lutheran  church, 
probably  a  few  months  after  landing  and  es- 
tablishing himself  and  family.  Among  his 
children  was  Johannes  Jury,  of  whom  further. 

(H)  Johannes  Jury,  son  of  Johan  Pieter 
and  Maria  (Thomies)  Overbaugh,  was  born 
July  18,  1722.  He  married  Catrina  Spaan, 
like  himself  a  descendant  of  an  emigrant  from 
the  Palatinate.  Among  their  children  was 
Abraham,  of  whom  further. 

(HI)  Abraham,  son  of  Johannes  Jury  and 
Catrina  (Spaan)  Overbaugh,  was  born  De- 
cember 24,  1753.  He  was  one  of  the  prosper- 
ous men  in  the  community  in  which  he  lived, 
and  ranked  as  its  progressive  citizen.  He  was 
a  devout  member  of  the  Lutheran  church,  aid- 
ing it  in  every  way.  Among  his  children  was 
Peter  A.,  of  whom  further. 

(IV)  Rev.  Peter  A.  Overbaugh,  son  of 
Abraham  Overbaugh,  was  born  October  17, 
1779,  in  Saugerties,  Ulster  county.  New  York, 
and  died  February  20,  1842,  in  the  place  of 
his  birth.  He  married,  October  30,  1805, 
Maria  Van  Leuven,  born  December  16,  1783. 
He  was  a  minister  and  preached  the  gospel 
from  1809  to  1837,  at  Flatbush,  Ulster  county. 
New  York.  He  helped  found  the  Reformed 
church  at  Flatbush,  and  served  it  faithfully  as 
its  pastor  until  his  failing  health  forbade  his 
doing  so  any  longer.  He  was  an  earnest,  sin- 
cere man,  a  fervent  and  consistent  Christian, 
and  was  greatly  beloved  by  his  fellow  citizens 


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as  well  as  his  congregation.     Among  his  chil- 
dren was  John  Van  Leuven,  of  whom  further. 

(V)  Major  John  Van  Leuven  Overbaugh, 
son  of  Rev.  Peter  A.  and  Maria  (Van  Leuven) 
Overbaugh,  was  born  October  26,  1806,  and 
died  October,  1853.  He  married,  January  26, 
1824,  Caroline  Verplanck,  born  March  7,  1807, 
whose  forefather  came  from  Holland  and  set- 
tled in  New  Amsterdam,  as  New  York  state 
was  called  at  that  time.  Major  Overbaugh 
was  one  of  the  most  influential  men  of  his 
county  and  section  at  that  time.  He  was  one 
of  the  founders  and  first  president  of  the 
Bank  of  Ulster,  Ulster  county,  now  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Saugerties.  He  was  a  Whig 
and  represented  that  party  in  the  state  assem- 
bly in  1830.  He  was  supervisor  of  his  town 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  United  States 
loan  commissioner.  He  was  a  prominent  Odd 
Fellow,  and  was  strongly  identified  with  every 
temperance  movement  in  that  part  of  the  state. 
He  became  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church,  in  1828,  at  Flatbush,  and  remained  a 
consistent  member  until  his  death.  Children : 
I.  Maria  Van  Leuven,  born  May  10,  1825, 
married  General  Theodore  B.  Gates.  2. 
Elena  Verplanck,  born  April  8,  1827,  married 
Elijah  Du  Bois.  3.  Rachel  Annie,  born  Janu- 
ary 3,  1830,  married  Charles  Field,  of  Sauger- 
ties.   4.  Peter  Titus,  of  whom  further. 

(VI)  Peter  Titus  Overbagh,  son  of  Major 
John  Van  Leuven  and  Caroline  (Verplanck) 
Overbaugh,  was  born  September  i,  1832,  died 
May  18,  1871,  in  Saugerties.  He  married, 
December  16,  1858,  Caroline  Goldsboro  Cald- 
well, born  January  14,  1839.  He  was  a  brick 
manufacturer  and  served  in  the  civil  war  as 
paymaster  and  was  well  known  and  respected. 
Children:  i.  John  Van  Leuven,  born  Decem- 
ber 22,  i860.  2.  Richard  Brindley,  of  whom 
further.  3.  Verplanck,  born  December  16, 
1863.  4.  Rebecca  Caldwell,  born  September 
22,  1865,  died  December  3,  1908;  married  J. 
C.  MacKenzie.  5.  Paul  T.  C,  born  October 
I,  1867,  died  in  infancy.  6.  Pierre  Arthur, 
born  November  28,  1868,  died  November, 
191 1 ;  married  Anna  Coone.  7.  Caroline  Ver- 
planck, born  September  23,  1870;  married 
Robert  Newbegin. 

(VH)  Richard  Brindley,  son  of  Peter  Titus 
and  Caroline  G.  (Caldwell)  Overbagh.  was 
born  in  Saugerties,  Ulster  county.  New  York, 
September  21,  1862.  He  attended  the  Sau- 
gerties Academy,  and  also  took  a  two-years' 


course  of  study  in  the  Brooklyn  schools.  At 
the  age  of  fifteen  he  began  work  as  an  ofifice 
boy  with  J.  B.  Sheffield  &  Son,  paper  manu- 
facturers, of  Saugerties,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained twelve  years,  and  was  head  book- 
keeper for  the  firm  during  the  greater  part  of 
that  time.  In  1890  he  purchased  the  N.  C. 
Bohr  boot  and  shoe  business,  which  he  ran 
successfully  eight  years.  Three  years  previous 
to  this  business  deal  he  and  Mr.  Simmons 
bought  the  coal  and  lumber  interest  of  Van 
Etten  &  Burhans,  and  ran  it  until  1901,  when 
they  dissolved  partnership,  Mr.  Simmons  tak- 
ing the  Tannersville  branch,  which  they  had 
established,  and  Mr.  Overbagh  taking  the 
Saugerties  branch,  now  known  as  the  Sauger- 
ties Coal  and  Lumber  Company.  He  is  one 
of  the  leading  business  men  of  Saugerties, 
progressive,  up  to  date  in  his  methods,  effi- 
cient, capable  and  courteous  to  his  patrons. 
He  was  president  of  the  Saugerties  board  of 
education,  and  is  still  a  member ;  is  a  member 
of  the  sewer  commission,  and  is  treasurer  and 
junior  warden  of  Trinity  Episcopal  Church 
of  Saugerties. 

He  married,  September  18,  1884,  Isabel  Fre- 
ligh,  daughter  of  J.  Austin  Freligh,  born  Jan- 
uary 22,  1857.  Mr.  Freligh  is  a  well-known 
citizen  of  Saugerties  and  is  connected  with 
the  Saugerties  Savings  Bank.  Children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Overbagh:  i.  Gertrude,  bom 
August  4,  1885  :  married  Frank  E.  Fuller.  2. 
Richard,  born  September  10,  1887.  3.  Isabel, 
born  November  11,  1889.  4.  William  Hoyt, 
born  February  24,  1891.  5.  John  Caldwell, 
twin  of  William  Hoyt,  born  February  24,  1891. 


The    Dederick    family    were 
DEDERICK     among  the  early  Dutch  col- 
onists   of    America,    coming 
from  Holland  and  settling  in  what  is  now  New 
York  state. 

(I)  James  W.  Dederick,  the  first  member  of 
the  family  of  whom  we  have  definite  informa- 
tion, was  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Cats- 
kill,  New  York,  and  died  at  West  Camp,  New 
York,  in  i860.  He  cleared  and  cultivated  a 
farm  at  West  Camp,  later  in  life  engaged  in 
boating  on  the  Hudson  river,  and  was  after- 
wards in  the  employ  of  the  D.  &  H.  Company. 
He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  was  a 
member   of    the    Dutch    Reformed   church    at 


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Catskill,  New  York.  He  married  a  Miss  Saxe, 
of  Palenville,  New  York.  Among  his  children 
was  Peter  Z.,  referred  to  below. 

(H)  Peter  Z.,  son  of  James  W.  Dederick, 
was  born  in  Catskill,  New  York,  in  1821,  died 
in  Kingston,  New  York,  in  July,  1885.  He 
was  a  farmer,  carpenter  and  contractor,  and 
his  entire  life  was  spent  in  Greene  county,  New 
York,  with  the  exception  of  the  last  two  years, 
during  which  he  resided  with  his  son  in  King- 
ston. He  was  a  successful  business  man  of 
the  strictest  integrity.  He  was  a  Democrat 
in  politics,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of 
Temperance  and  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church  in  Catskill.  He  married  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  Abram  Wrightmeyer,  of  Catskill. 
Among  his  children  was  Addison  E.,  referred 
to  below. 

(  HI)  Addison  E.,  son  of  Peter  Z.  and  Sarah 
(Wrightmeyer)  Dederick,  was  born  in  Cats- 
kill,  New  York,  May  20,  1850,  and  is  now 
living  in  Kingston,  New  York.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools,  and 
then  learned  the  trade  of  a  carpenter  and 
builder.  In  1887  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  Mr.  Longyear  in  that  business  which 
continued  until  1895.  He  then  engaged  alone 
in  the  same  business,  in  which  he  still  con- 
tinues, and  has  constructed  many  of  the  most 
prominent  residences,  churches  and  public 
buildings  in  Kingston  and  the  vicinity.  He 
was  employed  by  the  city  of  New  York  as  an 
appraiser  of  land  and  buildings  in  connection 
with  the  New  York  water  system,  and  is  also 
a  general  appraiser  in  the  fire  insurance  busi- 
ness. He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics  and  served 
for  five  years  as  alderman  from  the  second 
ward  in  Kingston,  and  also  served  as  assessor 
during  the  administration  of  Mayor  Brinnier. 
He  is  a  member  of  Rondout  Lodge,  No.  343, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Kingston  Chap- 
ter, Rondout  Commandery,  and  Cyprus  Tem- 
ple, of  Albany,  New  York.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  of  which 
he  has  been  district  deputy  and  the  Benevolent 
Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  New  York  State  Automobile  Associa- 
tion, and  of  the  Kingston  Automobile  Club, 
and  of  the  Kingston  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Reformed  Church  of 
the  Comforter  in  Kingston,  of  which  he  has 
been  both  a  deacon  and  elder,  and  also  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday  school.  He  married. 
May  7,  1872,  Anna  B.,  daughter  of  John  and 


Eliza  Knight.  Children:  Frederick  R.,  born 
June  20,  1876;  William  E.,  born  December  6, 
1878;  Addie,  born  February  6,  1881,  married 
Frank  Barnum;  Howard  A.,  born  August  12, 
1883;  Elbert  H.,  born  December  19,  1887; 
Peter,  born  October  24,  1890;  EHzabeth  M., 
born  October  14,  1894. 


Alexander  Denniston,  the 
DENNISTON  founder  of  the  family  in 
this  country,  was  born  in 
Ireland,  died  in  Little  Britain,  Orange  county, 
New  York.  He  served  under  St.  Ruth  in 
Athlone  in  1691,  and  in  173 1  emigrated  from 
county  Longford,  Ireland,  in  the  ship  "George 
and  Annie"  in  the  same  company  with  Charles 
Clinton  and  John  Young,  and  landed  at  Cape 
Cod,  Massachusetts.  He  remained  at  Cape 
Cod  only  a  short  time,  and  then  removed  to 
New  Windsor  township,  Orange  county.  New 
York,  and  settled  at  Little  Britain,  about  one 
mile  south  of  the  Little  Britain  church  and 
adjoining  "Stonefield."  The  farm  is  still  oc- 
cupied by  one  of  his  descendants.  He  married 
(first)  Elizabeth  Beattie,  who  died  1730,  and 
married  (second)  Frances  Little.  Children,  all 
by  second  marrige :  James,  referred  to  below ; 
George,  died  in  1804;  Esther;  Elizabeth; 
Mary;  Alexander,  born  1740,  died  September 
15,  1817;  William,  born  1741,  died  September 
2,  1825;  John,  born  December  16,  1750,  died 
January  7,  1836;  Catherine;  Charles,  died 
1808. 

(II)  James,  son  of  Alexander  and  Frances 
(Little)  Denniston,  was  born  in  Little  Britain, 
Orange  county,  New  York,  February  23,  1733, 
died  there  March  15,  1806.  He  served  in  the 
Ulster  county  militia  during  the  revolutionary 
war.  He  married  (first)  October  14,  1760, 
Jane  Crawford,  and  (second)  October  13, 
1773,  Rachel  Falls.  Children,  all  by  first  mar- 
riage :  Agnes,  married  Gilbert  Roberts ;  Eliza- 
beth, married  Charles  Bull;  Alexander,  died 
unmarried;  Abraham;  James  (2),  referred  to 
below. 

(III)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  and  Jane 
(Crawford)  Denniston,  was  born  in  Little 
Britain,  Orange  county.  New  York,  in  1767, 
died  there  July  9,  1825.  He  married,  Febru- 
ary 18,  1794,  Prudence,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Scott)  Morrison,  who  died  May 
14,  1862.  Children:  i.  Eliza,  born  1796,  died 
October  13,  1836;  married,  June  10,  1816,  John 
Brooks.      2.  Robert,    referred    to    below.      3. 


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Jane,  born  1802,  died  November  28,  1858; 
married,  January  2-j,  1829,  James  D.  Bull.  4. 
Caroline,  born  1809,  died  April  7,  1876;  mar- 
ried, October  9,  1834,  Dr.  Albert  Thompson. 
5.  Charlotte,  born  1810,  died  December  17, 
1867;  married,  September  19,  1837,  Matthew 
Scott. 

(IV)  The  Hon.  Robert  Denniston,  son  of 
James  (2)  and  Prudence  (Morrison)  Dennis- 
ton,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Blooming  Grove, 
Orange  county.  New  York,  October  15,  1800, 
died  there  December  2,  1867.  In  his  day  he 
was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the 
county  and  state.  He  graduated  from  Union 
College  at  the  head  of  his  class  and  was  a  class- 
mate of  William  H.  Seward.  He  then  taught ' 
school  for  a  time  and  then  settled  on  his  farm 
in  New  Windsor  township.  He  was  appointed 
justice  of  the  peace  of  the  town  of  New  Wind- 
sor by  Governor  Marcy,  and  was  also  judge 
of  the  court  of  common  pleas  for  Orange 
county.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  state 
assembly  in  1835-39-40,  and  in  1840  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  senate  of  the  state 
of  New  York  for  a  term  of  seven  years,  and 
was  appointed  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
canals.  He  was  also  judge  of  the  court  of 
errors.  In  1859  he  was  elected  comptroller 
of  the  state  of  New  York  and  served  in  that 
ofifice  for  two  years,  and  on  the  expiration  of 
his  term  retired  to  his  farm,  where  he  lived 
until  his  death.  In  1824  he  built  the  house  on 
this  estate,  in  which  all  of  his  children  were 
born  and  which  is  now  occupied  by  his  son. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Highland 
National  Bank  of  Newburgh,  and  was  for 
many  years  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors 
of  that  institution.  He  married  (first)  Sep- 
tember 24,  1823,  Julianna  Howell,  who  died 
February  21,  1825,  and  (second)  June  16. 
1831,  Mary,  daughter  of  William  Scott,  of 
Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey,  who  died  Febru- 
ary 2,  1898.  Children,  all  by  second  marriage : 
I.  William  Scott,  born  1832,  died  July  22, 
1862;  graduated  from  Yale  University  in  the 
class  of  1850;  served  as  a  volunteer  surgeon 
in  the  United  States  army  during  the  civil 
war.  2.  Julianna  Howell,  born  March  i,  1834, 
died  April  12,  1878;  married,  June  i,  1861, 
Edward  Stevens,  of  Buffalo,  New  York ;  chil- 
dren ;  John,  died  in  Spokane,  Washington,  in 
1890;  Catherine  Gushing,  married  Frank  B. 
Phillips,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  child,  Gush- 
ing Phillips.     3.  James  Otis,  born  December 


4,  1835 ;  was  captain  of  Company  G,  One 
Hundred  and  Twenty-fourth  New  York  Vol- 
unteers in  the  civil  war;  now  a  Presbyterian 
clergyman,  living  in  Washingtonville,  Orange 
county.  New  York;  married,  June  3,  1869, 
Margaret  Crosby;  child,  Mary.  4.  Robert, 
died  in  Oakland,  California,  in  October,  1864; 
served  as  paymaster's  clerk  in  the  United 
States  navy.  5.  Henry  M.,  born  June  13, 
1840;  now  living  on  the  old  homestead  in 
Orange  county;  was  educated  by  private 
tutors  at  home  and  graduated  from  Yale  Uni- 
versity in  the  class  of  1862  ;  was  appointed  pay- 
master in  the  United  States  navy  by  President 
Lincoln,  and  was  retired  with  the  rank  of 
rear-admiral  on  reaching  the  age  limit,  June 
16,  1902;  married,  January  21,  1869,  Emma  J. 
Dusenberry;  child,  Robert,  now  a  physician  in 
Dobbs  Ferry,  New  York,  married  Sarita 
White ;  children :  Robert,  Mary,  Henry  Scott. 
6.  Augustus,  referred  to  below.  7.  Mary  Scott, 
married  Waher  R.  Marsh,  of  New  York  City; 
child,  Antoinette,  married  Willard  C.  Reid, 
child,  Edward  M.  Reid.  8.  Caroline  M.,  un- 
married. 9.  Jane  Crawford,  married  Robert 
Emmet  Deyo,  of  New  York  City;  children: 
Cornelia ;  Julianna,  married  Rev.  John  Brown- 
lee  Voorhees,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut ;  Mar- 
garet;  Evelina.  10.  Abbey  L.,  unmarried.  11. 
Agnes,  died  in  1868. 

(V)  Augustus,  son  of  the  Hon.  Robert  and 
Mary  (Scott)  Denniston,  was  born  in  New 
Windsor  township.  Orange  county,  New  York, 
May  25,  1842,  and  is  now  living  in  Washing- 
tonville, Orange  county,  New  York.  He  was 
educated  at  home  by  private  tutors.  He 
learned  to  manage  his  father's  estate,  and  dur- 
ing his  father's  administration  was  clerk  in  the 
state  comptroller's  office.  In  June,  1862,  he 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Morgan,  on  recom- 
mendation of  Colonel  Ellis,  as  quartermaster 
of  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fourth  Regi- 
ment New  York  Volunteers,  and  in  September, 
1862,  went  to  the  front  with  his  regiment.  He 
was  taken  ill  a  few  months  later,  and  was  con- 
fined in  the  hospital  for  several  weeks ;  finding 
his  health  greatly  impaired,  he  resigned  from 
the  service  and  returned  to  Orange  county. 
In  1873-74  he  was  a  member  of  the  assembly 
of  the  state  of  New  York.  In  1877  he  was 
elected  first  vice-president  of  the  Orange  Coun- 
ty Agricultural  Society,  and  two  years  later, 
on  the  death  of  its  president.  Rev.  L.  L.  Com- 
fort, he  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  the 


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897 


society  and  still  holds  that  office.  He  was  ap- 
pointed cattle  commissioner  by  Governor  Cor- 
nell, and  state  fair  commissioner  by  Governor 
Odell  for  five  years.  In  1873  he  was  elected  a 
director  of  the  Highland  National  Bank  of 
Newburgh,  and  was  for  seven  years  president 
of  the  bank.  He  is  a  director  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Washingtonville.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  York  State  Agricultural  So- 
ciety, and  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics ;  a  member  of 
the  Presbyterian  church. 


The  founder  of  this  family  in 
FLAKE     America    was    John    Livingston 

Flake,  who  came  from  Holland  in 
colonial  days  and  settled  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  was  for  some  time  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile pursuits. 

(II)  John  Livingston  (2)  Flake,  son  of  John 
Livingston  ( i )  Flake,  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  and  died  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-two 
years.  He  married  Amy  Osborn,  who  became 
the  mother  of  two  children:  Maria,  who  be- 
came the  wife  of  Abram  Vrendenburg,  of  New 
York  City ;  and  John  Livingston,  further  men- 
tioned below.  After  the  death  of  her  husband. 
Amy  (Osborn)  Flake  married  John  King 
Vanderbilt,  and  had  two  children :  Sarah  Liv- 
ingston Vanderbilt,  who  married  Eder  Vree- 
land,  of  Staten  Island;  and  Mary  Osborn 
Vanderbilt,  who  became  the  wife  of  Cornelius 
Simonson,  of  Staten  Island. 

(III)  John  Livingston  (3)  Flake,  only  son 
of  John  Livingston  (2)  and  Amy  (Osborn) 
Flake,  was  born  February  14,  1806,  in  New 
York  City,  where  he  grew  to  manhood,  re- 
ceiving his  education  in  the  public  schools.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-three  years  he  removed  to 
Staten  Island  and  made  his  home  with  his 
stepfather,  John  King  Vanderbilt,  who  had 
purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  adjacent  to  the 
present  South  Beach.  Mr.  Flake  purchased 
the  property  and  there  continued  to  reside  un- 
til his  death,  May  15,  1877.  He  married  Mary 
Ann  Simonson,  born  October  17,  1812,  died 
March  18,  1867,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and 
Jane  (Corson)  Simonson,  both  representatives 
of  old  Staten  Island  families.  Children:  i. 
Jeremiah  Simonson,  further  mentioned  below. 
2.  Jane  Simonson,  married  Daniel  Pelton ;  no 
issue.  3.  Amy  Osborn,  born  February  16, 
1836 ;  never  married.  4.  Kate  Fleetwood,  born 
December  16,  1837,  died  September  28,  1894; 


married  George  W.  Vreeland;  children:  Eu- 
gene, Harry  Livingston,  and  Frank  Osborn; 
both  parents  and  children  are  all  deceased.  5. 
Sara  Maria,  born  June  15,  1840;  married 
George  F.  Ockershausen,  who  died  March  30, 
1899;  no  issue.  6.  Mary  Louise,  born  July  14, 
1844,  died  unmarried,  November  11,  1897.  7. 
Margaret  King,  born  May  26,  1846,  died  June 
7,  1890.  8.  Josephine,  died  in  childhood.  9. 
Evelyn  Forest,  born  January  2,  1855 ;  married 
October  18,  1879,  Raymond  Farrar  Brown; 
children :  i.  Ethel  Clare,  married,  September 
12,  1906,  Godfrey  C.  White,  of  Mulbarton, 
England,  ii.  Raymond  Farrar,  Jr.,  married, 
May  6,  1908,  Lillian  Simons;  two  children. 

(IV)  Jeremiah  Simonson  Flake,  eldest  child 
of  John  Livingston  (3)  and  Mary  Ann  (Si- 
monson) Flake,  was  born  August  23,  183 1,  on 
the  family  homestead  at  Clifton,  Staten  Island. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  adjacent  to  his 
home,  and  his  active  life  was  passed  on  the 
homestead  at  Clifton,  formerly  known  as 
Camp  Scott,  where  he  died,  March  12,  1865. 
He  married,  December  i,  1858,  in  St.  Mary's 
Church,  West  New  Brighton,  Mary  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  William  and  Phebe  (Hotchkin- 
son)  Cubberley. 

(V)  William  Livingston  Flake,  only  son  of 
Jeremiah  Simonson  and  Mary  Elizabeth  ( Cub- 
berley) Flake,  was  also  born  on  the  homestead 
farm,  September  14,  i860.  He  acquired  a 
good  practical  education,  and  at  the  age  of 
twenty  years  entered  the  employ  of  Jesup  & 
Lamont,  bankers  and  brokers.  Wall  street, 
New  York  City.  He  subsequently  engaged  in 
business  on  his  own  account  as  a  member  of 
the  New  York  Petroleum  Exchange,  now 
known  as  the  Consolidated  Stock  Exchange. 
More  recently  he  has  been  successfully  occu- 
pied with  real  estate  and  insurance  business  in 
the  borough  of  Richmond.  Mr.  Flake  is  a  di- 
rector in  the  Stapleton  National  Bank ;  the 
Edgewater  Co-operative  Savings  and  Building 
Loan  Association,  and  the  Richmond  Insur- 
ance Company  of  Staten  Island.  He  is  affili- 
ated with  various  Masonic  bodies — Tompkins 
Lodge,  No.  471,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
of  Stapleton,  in  which  he  is  a  trustee; 
Tyrian  Chapter,  No.  219,  Royal  Arch  Ma- 
sons, of  New  Brighton ;  Empire  Command- 
ery.  No.  66,  Knights  Templar,  and  also 
Mecca  Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order  of  the 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  married,  Oc- 
tober 20,  1881,  at  St.  Andrew's  Church,  Leah 


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Stoutenborough,  born  August  23,  i860,  daugh- 
ter of  Edmund  Stoutenborough  and  Lucretia 
(Stephens)  Crocheron ;  her  rehgious  affilia- 
tions are  with  the  church  before  named.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Lottie  Crocheron,  born  December  16, 
1884;  married,  September  23,  1909,  at  St. 
Andrew's  Church,  Richmond,  by  Rev.  Arch- 
deacon Charles  S.  Burch,  Elmer  D.  Gilder- 
sleeve  Jr.,  of  Poughkeepsie ;  children:  i.  Elmer 
D.  Gildersleeve  (3d),  born  October  8,  1911; 
ii.  William  Livingston  Flake  Gildersleeve,  born 
June  10,  1913;  both  at  Poughkeepsie.  2.  Wil- 
liam Livingston,  further  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  William  Livingston  (2)  Flake,  only 
son  of  William  Livingston  (i)  and  Leah 
Stoutenborough  (Crocheron)  Flake,  was  born 
March  17,  1887,  in  Richmond,  Staten  Island. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
place  and  Stapleton,  finishing  in  the  high  school 
at  Port  Richmond.  On  leaving  school  he  en- 
tered the  employ  of  the  American  Woolen 
Company,  New  York  City.  He  then  took  a 
clerical  position  with  the  Continental  Fire  In- 
surance Company,  with  which  he  remained  six 
years,  gaining  merited  promotion.  He  then 
resigned,  in  order  to  join  his  father  in  the  real 
estate  and  insurance  business  in  Stapleton,  and 
is  now  actively  engaged  as  manager,  and  is  a 
strong  factor  in  the  growth  and  development 
of  an  already  prosperous  business.  He  is  a 
member  of  Tompkins  Lodge,  No.  471,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons ;  New  Dorp  Council,  No. 
1219,  Royal  Arcanum;  and  Richmond  Engine 
Company,  No.  i.  He  married,  October  8, 
191 2,  at  Dongan  Hills,  Gwendolin  Agnes 
Rusch,  born  in  New  York  City,  December  9, 
1891,  daughter  of  Ernest  and  Anna  Rusch. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Flake  reside  at  18  Marion 
avenue,   Stapleton  Heights,  Stapleton. 


The  origin  of  this  name  is 
JERNEGAN     somewliat   in   doubt,   but   it 

came  to  this  country  from 
England.  According  to  the  family  tradition, 
the  immigrant  was  impressed  on  a  British 
man-of-war  before  the  American  revolution, 
and  it  is  presumable  that  he  found  opportunity 
to  escape  this  unwilling  service  by  reaching  the 
American  shore.  The  fact  that  he  was  im- 
pressed in  the  British  navy  would  indicate  that 
he  was  accustomed  to  seafaring  life,  and  this 
is  further  indicated  by  the  fact  that  he  settled 
among  the  whalers  and  fishermen  of  Nan- 
tucket, Massachusetts. 


(I)  Thomas  Jernegan  was  probably  born 
before  1750,  and  first  appears  in  the  records  of 
Edgartown,  Nantucket,  Massachusetts,  Janu- 
ary 17,  1771,  when  he  was  married  to  Huldah 
Coffin.  She  was  born  January  18,  1751,  the 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Norton) 
Coffin,  who  were  married  September  i,  1743. 
Her  father  was  descended  from  Tristram  Cof- 
fin, a  pioneer  owner  of  Nantucket,  who  was 
himself  of  the  fourth  generation  from  Tris- 
tram Coffin  who  lived  in  Brickston,  county 
Devon,  England,  and  was  a  descendant  of  Sir 
Richard  Coffin.  The  family  was  originally 
from  Normandy  (France),  and  was  active  for 
many  centuries  in  England  before  coming  to 
this  country.  Children:  Leonard,  mentioned 
below ;  David,  born  about  1775,  baptized  June 
24,  1781  ;  Thomas,  born  June  13,  1782,  baptized 
August  25,  1782;  Elizabeth,  baptized  May  i, 
1791,  at  the  First  Church  in  Edgartown. 

(II)  Leonard,  son  of  Thomas  and  Huldah 
(Coffin)  Jernegan,  was  born  about  1773,  and 
was  baptized  November  6,  1785,  at  the  First 
Church  in  Edgartown,  in  which  town  he  made 
his  home.  He  sailed  from  Nantucket  on  a 
whaling  voyage  to  the  Pacific  Ocean,  and  after 
a  successful  voyage,  the  vessel  was  wrecked 
ofif  Cape  Hatteras  on  its  return  and  he  was 
drowned.  He  married,  January  22,  1807,  Eliz- 
abeth (Betsey)  Pease,  born  1778-79,  baptized 
January  16,  1791,  at  the  age  of  twelve  years, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Hepsibah  (Shaw) 
Pease.  Children:  Elizabeth,  Charles  Pease, 
mentioned  below,  and  Leonard,  all  baptized 
July  20,  1817,  at  the  First  Church  in  Edgar- 
town ;  and  Thomas,  baptized  November  19, 
1820,  in  the  same  church. 

(III)  Charles  Pease,  eldest  son  of  Leonard 
and  Elizabeth  (Pease)  Jernegan,  was  born 
June  II.  1811,  and  baptized  July  20,  1817,  at 
the  First  Church  in  Edgartown.  He  received 
a  meagre  education  in  his  native  place,  and 
very  early  in  life  went  to  New  Bedford,  Mass- 
achusetts, where  he  was  employed  in  a  book- 
binding establishment.  Later  he  turned  his 
attention  to  watchmaking  and  jewelry  repair- 
ing, and  after  a  short  sojourn  in  New  York 
City  settled  at  Saugerties,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  in  1838.  For  some  time  he  conducted 
a  watchmaking  and  jewelry  business  and  sub- 
sequently a  daguerreotype  gallery.  With  the 
advent  of  photography  he  perfected  himself 
in  that  art,  and  while  conducting  business  as 
a  photographer,  pursued  the  study  of  medi- 


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cine.  Having  received  a  license  to  practice, 
he  began  in  1858-59,  and  thus  continued  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  at  Saugerties,  in 
November,  1874.  He  was  among  the  organ- 
izers of  the  Republican  party  in  his  section, 
and  was  chairman  of  the  first  town  caucus 
held  in  Saugerties.  He  was  also  identified 
with  the  Masonic  fraternity.  In  June,  1840, 
he  married  Anna  Eliza  Flowers,  born  March 
25,  1820,  in  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  died 
June  17,  1907,  in  Saugerties,  the  daughter  of 
Benjamin  C.  Flowers,  merchant  tailor  of  that 
town.  Children  :  Edward,  mentioned  below  ; 
Charles  Leonard,  born  October  8,  1852,  died 
in  July,  1 861. 

(IV)  Edward,  only  surviving  son  of 
Charles  P.  and  Anna  E.  (Flowers)  Jernegan, 
was  born  April  3,  1841,  in  Saugerties,  receiv- 
ing his  education  in  its  public  schools  and 
Degoliah  Academy.  On  the  completion  of  his 
studies  he  became  his  father's  assistant  in  pho- 
tography, and  in  1855-56  served  an  appren- 
ticeship with  William  Hull,  proprietor  of  the 
Saugerties  Telegraph,  in  the  printer's  art. 
This  occupied  his  energies,  and  in  1877  he 
founded  the  Saugerties  Daily  Post.  Seven 
years  later  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Ar- 
thur L.  Hale  in  conducting  the  publication 
of  the  paper,  who  in  1892  sold  his  share  of 
the  business  to  Irwin  Ronk.  In  1896  Mr. 
Jernegan  disposed  of  his  interest  to  James 
Wood,  of  Kingston,  and  in  1897  became  busi- 
ness manager  of  the  Saugerties  Weekly  Tele- 
graph. At  the  same  time  he  established  the 
Saugerties  Daily  Telegraph,  and  in  1901  this 
establishment  absorbed  his  former  property, 
the  Daily  Post.  Mr.  Jernegan  is  now  busi- 
ness manager,  director  and  treasurer  of  the 
Saugerties  Telegraph  Printing  and  Publishing 
Company,  publishers  of  the  Saugerties  Daily 
Post  and  the  Saugerties  Weekly  Telegraph. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Masonic  frater- 
nity, being  a  past  master  of  Ulster  Lodsre,  No. 
193,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Sauger- 
ties, and  is  a  past  grand  of  Confidence  Lodge, 
No  51,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
which  he  joined  in  1865  ;  and  he  is  the  only 
surviving  charter  member  of  Thomas  Wildey 
Encampment,  No.  39,  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  of  which  he  is  past  chief  patri- 
arch. In  religion,  Mr.  Jernegan  is  affiliated  with 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  It  was  in  1868 
that  the  Dwight  Laflin  Guard,  a  military  organ- 
ization, was  established  with  Dwight  Laflin  as 


captain,  W.  J.  Lackey,  first  lieutenant,  and  Ed- 
ward Jernegan,  second  lieutenant.  By  promo- 
tion the  last  named  became  captain  in  1873,  re- 
signing his  commission  five  years  later.  This 
company  was  attached  to  the  Twentieth  Regi- 
ment, New  York  State  Militia,  as  Company  A, 
under  Colonel  Van  Rensselaer. 

Mr.  Jernegan  married,  June  25,  1867,  Cath- 
erine Post,  born  April  3,  1844,  daughter  of 
Peter  Post,  of  Saugerties,  and  a  descendant 
of  Lieutenant  Peter  Post,  of  tlie  First  Ulster 
Regiment,  who  was  captured  by  Tories  and 
Indians  during  the  revolutionary  war,  and  sent 
to  Canada,  whence  he  escaped  and  returned  to 
his  home.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jernegan  have  lost 
two  children  in  infancy,  and  none  survive. 


The  first  mention  of 
WOODWORTH  the  name  Woodworth  in 
this  country  is  found  in 
the  records  of  the  town  of  Scituate,  Massachu- 
setts. It  is  believed  that  the  original  form  of 
the  name  was  Woodward  and  that  through 
some  process  of  evolution  it  became  Wood- 
worth.  This  belief  is  strengthened  by  the  fact 
that  in  Kent,  England,  the  original  home  of 
the  immigrant,  Walter  Woodworth,  there 
were  at  the  time  of  his  coming  over  no  Wood- 
worths  but  a  number  of  Woodwards.  His 
descendants  in  this  country  have  spelled  the 
name  variously  Woodworth,  Woodward. 
Woodard  and  Woodart. 

Walter  Woodworth,  above  mentioned,  was 
taxed  in  Scituate,  Massachusetts,  in  1633,  and 
again  in  1635,  when  he  was  assigned  the  third 
lot  on  Kent  street,  at  the  corner  of  Meeting- 
house lane,  where  he  built  his  house.  In  the 
same  year  he  appears  to  have  owned  other 
lands,  notably  a  tract  on  the  First  Herring 
brook,  where  afterwards  stood  the  residence 
of  Samuel  Woodworth,  the  poet,  also  another 
tract  on  Walnut  Tree  Hill,  then  called  Walter 
Woodworth's  Hill.  On  March  2,  1641,  he  was 
admitted  as  a  freeman,  and  June  4,  1645,  he 
was  appointed  surveyor  of  highways,  and 
again  in  1646  and  1656.  His  name  occurs 
often  on  the  town  records  as  juror,  witness 
and  in  the  performance  of  other  duties.  In 
1654  he  was  a  member  of  tlie  First  Church. 
In  1666  he  purchased  sixty  acres  in  Wey- 
mouth. His  will  was  made  November  26, 
1685,  and  proved  March  2,  1686.  The  inven- 
tory of  his  estate  amounted  to  355  pounds,  10 
shillings. 


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(I)  Nathan  Woodworth,  a  descendant  of 
Walter  Woodworth,  born  August  29,  1719,  a 
farmer  of  Goshen,  Connecticut,  married  Amy 
Avery,  of  Bozrah,  Connecticut,  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  several  children,  among  whom 
was  Walter,  of  whom  further. 

(II)  Walter  Woodworth,  son  of  Nathan 
and  Amy  (Avery)  Woodworth,  born  March 
iS>  1785,  was  a  school  teacher  during  the  ac- 
tive years  of  his  life,  for  which  vocation  he 
was  thoroughly  qualified,  having  a  good,  prac- 
tical education,  and  also  possessing  the  other 
requisite  qualifications  for  success  in  that  line. 
He  married  Mary  Sage,  born  at  Cromwell, 
Connecticut,  October  6,  1787.  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  six  children :  Frances  M.,  born 
December  27,  1809,  died  May  8,  1858;  Nathan 
Sage,  born  1811,  died  in  1817;  William  Wal- 
ter, of  whom  further;  Martha  V.,  born  De- 
cember 26,  1815;  married,  1833,  Frederick  L. 
Brace,  died  July  4,  1870;  James  W.,  born  Jan- 
uary 14,  1822;  Mary  Sage,  born  August  4, 
1828,  married  (first)  January  19,  1864,  Har- 
rison Garfield,  who  died  in  1886,  married 
(second)   October,  1888,  Hiram  E.  Daniel. 

(HI)  Rev.  Dr.  William  Walter  Woodworth, 
son  of  Walter  and  Mary  (Sage)  Woodworth, 
was  born  at  Cromwell,  Connecticut,  October 
16,  1813,  died  June  14,  1890,  at  Berlin.  Con- 
necticut. After  completing  his  studies  in  the 
common  schools  of  his  native  town,  he  ma- 
triculated at  Yale  College,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  the  class  of  1838,  and  then  pur- 
sued a  course  in  Andover  Theological  Sem- 
inary, from  which  he  graduated  in  the  class 
of  1840.  Subsequently  he  received  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  Iowa  College.  He 
became  a  minister  of  the  Congregational 
church,  and  being  a  man  of  Christian  spirit, 
fervor  and  zeal  he  wielded  a  powerful  influ- 
ence for  good  in  the  churches  where  he  min- 
istered, his  sermons  being  noted  for  piety, 
forcefulness  and  clearness,  and  in  his  daily 
walk  he  set  an  example  well  worthy  of  emu- 
lation. He  was  pastor  of  dhurches  in  Berlin. 
Connecticut ;  First  Congregational  Church  in 
Waterbury,  Connecticut ;  in  Mansfield,  Ohio ; 
Painesville,  Ohio ;  Belchertown,  Massachu- 
setts ;  Grinnell,  Iowa,  returning  in  1876  to 
Berlin,  Connecticut,  where  his  last  days  were 
spent.  He  married  (first)  October.  1842, 
Lucy  Atwater,  who  died  July  4,  1844,  leaving 
an  only  child,  William  Atwater,  of  whom 
further.     She  was  a  daughter  of  Dr.  William 


and  Harriet  (Pomeroy)  Atwater,  of  West- 
field,  Massachusetts.  Dr.  Atwater,  who  was 
an  alumnus  of  Yale,  1807,  was  a  son  of  Rev. 
Noah  Atwater,  an  alumnus  of  Yale,  1774,  who 
was  a  descendant  of  David  Atwater,  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut. 
Harriet  (Pomeroy)  Atwater  descended  from 
Medad  Pomeroy,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of 
Northampton,  Massachusetts,  from  John 
Webster,  governor  of  Connecticut,  and  from 
the  Lymans,  Phelps  and  Sheldons,  of  North- 
ampton. Rev.  Dr.  Woodworth  married 
(second)  Sarah  Goodrich,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Dr.  Charles  A.  Goodrich,  descended  from  Rev. 
Charles  Chauncey,  president  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege, who  bore  him  several  dhildren,  died 
March  11,  1858.  He  married  (third)  Lydia 
A.  Sessions,  who  bore  him  several  children, 
died  February,  1912. 

(IV)  William  Atwater  Woodworth,  son  of 
Rev.  Dr.  William  Walter  and  Lucy  (Atwater) 
Woodworth,  was  born  at  Berlin,  Connecticut, 
July  3,  1844.  He  acquired  his  literary  educa- 
tion in  the  high  schools  of  Waterbury,  Con- 
necticut, Mansfield,  Ohio,  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  Yale  Col- 
lege, from  which  he  graduated  in  1865,  after 
which  he  pursued  a  course  of  study  in  Yale 
Law  School  and  Albany  Law  School,  gradu- 
ating from  the  latter-named  institution  in 
1866.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
New  York  in  May,  1866.  He  began 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Mt.  Vernon. 
New  York,  in  1869,  continuing  alone  until 
1 87 1,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with  C. 
H.  Ostrander ;  in  1874  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  C.  H.  Roosevelt:  in  1875  with  William 
Burke  Cochran,  which  connection  continued 
until  1880,  and  from  that  year  until  1904  he 
practiced  alone  in  White  Plains,  New  York, 
then  formed  a  partnership  with  Humphrey  J. 
Lynch  and  Austin  K.  Griffin,  which  was  in 
effect  for  two  years,  and  from  that  time  to  the 
present  (1914)  has  practiced  alone  in  White 
Plains.  He  has  been  counsel  for  the  village 
of  Wiite  Plains  and  Mount  Vernon,  and  for 
many  years  counsel  for  the  N.  Y.,  N.  H.  & 
H.  R.  R.  Co.  in  matters  relating  to  its  ex- 
tensions and  improvements  in  Westchester 
county ;  his  practice  has  been  principally  in 
the  line  of  real  property  law.  From  1909  to 
1913  he  was  librarian  of  the  supreme  court 
law  library  at  White  Plains.  He  is  a  Presby- 
terian   in    religion    and    holds    membership   in 


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the  Westchester  County  Bar  Association,  New 
York  State  Bar  Association,  Westchester 
County  Historical  Society,  White  Plains  Club, 
Yale  Club  of  New  York,  and  Graduates  Club 
of  New  Haven. 

Mr.  Woodworth  married,  December  28, 
1 87 1,  at  White  Plains,  New  York,  Ehzabeth 
K.  Willis,  born  at  Hightstown,  New  Jersey, 
April  20,  1845,  died  March  6,  1909.  daughter 
of  Oliver  R.  Willis,  Ph.D.,  Princeton;  school 
teacher,  private  military  schools  at  Hights- 
town and  Freehold,  New  Jersey,  and  Alex- 
ander Institute,  White  Plains,  New  York; 
author  of  some  school  books  on  botany  and 
history;  editor  of  posthumous  edition  of 
Wood's  botany ;  he  died  April  27,  1902 ;  was 
the  father  of  two  other  children :  lanthe  and 
Emily.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Woodworth  had  one 
child.  Amy  Atwater,  born  July  27,  1875  ;  edu- 
cated at  Miss  Sewall's  Seminary,  Freehold, 
New  Jersey,  Smith  College,  Art  Students' 
League,  and  School  of  Applied  Design ;  mar- 
ried, June  8,  191 1,  Fred.  E.  Barber;  children: 
Frank  and  Elizabeth,  twins,  born  April  10, 
1912. 


This  name  is  known  in  Hol- 
WALDRON     land  and  in  various  parts  of 

the  British  Isles.  It  appears 
to  be  of  Teutonic  origin  and  was  borne  by  a 
Baron  Waldron,  who  figured  in  both  English 
and  Flemish  history  during  the  fourteenth 
century. 

(I)  Resolvert  (or  Resolved)  Waldron,  the 
immigrant  ancestor  of  the  well  -  known 
American  branch  of  the  family  bearing  this 
surname,  was  a  native  of  Holland,  being  born 
at  Leyden,  May  10,  1610.  He  is  described  by 
some  historians  as  possessing  the  titular  dig- 
nity of  baron,  but  there  is  no  conclusive  evi- 
dence on  this  point.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Haarlem,  New  York,  having  emi- 
grated with  his  family  to  New  Netherlands 
late  in  1654.  Received  with  his  brother  Jo- 
seph, and  the  wives  of  both  of  them,  into  the 
fellowship  of  the  church  of  New  Amsterdam, 
the  first  care  was  to  secure  a  home,  and  on 
April  3,  ensuing,  the  brothers  bought  a  house 
and  lot  on  Broadway,  near  what  is  now  Wall 
street.  Both  entered  the  public  service,  Re- 
solved being  made  an  overseer  of  workmen. 
On  April  17,  1657.  he  applied  for  a  burgher 
right  and  under  May  3  occurs  this  entry: 
"Resolved  Waldron  being  admitted  a  burgher 


hath  on  this  day  taken  the  oath  of  fidelity," 
his  salary  being  increased  soon  after.  Found 
to  be  efficient,  the  director  and  council  in  1658 
appointed  him  a  deputy  to  the  attorney- 
general,  De  Sille,  the  burgomasters  being  or- 
dered to  recognize  him  as  a  deputy  sheriff. 
In  1657  he  was  sent  with  Augustine  Heerman 
to  Maryland  to  vindicate  the  Dutch  title  on 
the  Delaware.  On  the  accession  of  the  Eng- 
lish, W^aldron  took  the  oath  of  allegiance, 
October,  1664,  but  retired  to  private  life  at 
Haarlem  with  the  disappointment  of  one 
whose  interests  and  sympathies  were  with  the 
former  government.  He  died  in  1690,  and 
his  inventory,  taken  that  year,  embraced  lands, 
slaves,  farmstock,  etc.  He  married  (first) 
Rebecca  Hendricks,  by  whom  he  had  three 
children;  and  (second)  May  10,  1654,  Tan- 
nake  Nagel  (to  \vhom  some  genealogists  give 
the  title  of  Lady),  by  whom  he  had  five  chil- 
dren. Children :  William,  born  in  Amster- 
dam, Holland,  February  10,  1647,  died  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1671  ;  Rebecca,  born  in  Amsterdam, 
1649;  Aeltie,  born  in  Amsterdam,  1651 ; 
Barent,  born  in  New  Amsterdam,  1655 ;  Ruth, 
baptized  May  10,  1657;  Cornelia,  born  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1659;  Johannes,  mentioned  below; 
Samuel,  born  in  Haarlem,  1670,  died  1737. 

(II)  Johannes,  son  of  Resolved  and  Tan- 
nake  ( Nagel )  Waldron,  was  born  in  Haarlem, 
New  York,  September  12,  1665,  and  died  in 
1753.  During  a  great  part  of  his  life  he  lived 
close  under  Jochem  Pieter's  Hill  (now  Thirty- 
third  street,  between  Eighth  and  Ninth  ave- 
nues), and  he  was  usually  called  Johannes 
Waldron  of  the  Hill.  He  survived  his  wife 
and  all  his  children,  except  his  son  Resolved. 
He  married,  April  25,  1690,  Anna,  daughter 
of  Captain  Jan  Van  Dalsen.  Children:  An- 
neken,  born  February  22,  1691.  died  young; 
Annetie,  born  April  17,  1692;  Margaret,  born 
October  22,  1693;  Cornelia,  born  March  4, 
1696;  Johannes,  May  22,  1698.  died  Decem- 
ber 10,  1724;  Resolved,  mentioned  below; 
Samuel,  born  1705,  died  1752. 

(HI)  Resolved  (2),  son  of  Johannes  and 
Anna  (Van  Dalsen)  Waldron,  was  born  May 
6,  1702,  and  died  January  10,  1761.  He  re- 
moved to  Hackensack,  joining  the  church  there 
in  1731.  In  1751  he  bought  a  farm  of  one 
hundred  and  thirty-five  acres  in  Floris  Falls, 
at  Haverstraw,  where  he  settled.  As  he  was 
in  poor  health  at  the  time,  he  made  his  will, 
December  22,  1756,  and  it  was  proved  June  i. 


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1 761.  He  married  Mattie  Quackenbosh  and 
had  children:  Mary,  born  1730;  John,  or 
Johannes,  born  1732;  Anna,  1733;  Catherine, 
1735;  Adrian,  or  Edward,  mentioned  below; 
Jacob,  February  10,  1737,  died  February  17, 
1805  ;  Elizabeth,   1740,  married  Patrick  Hine. 

(IV)  Adrian  (or  Edward),  second  son  of 
Resolved  (2)  and  Mattie  (Quackenbosh) 
Waldron,  was  born  May  5,  1736,  and  lived  at 
Haverstraw.  He  married  Hannah  Allison, 
January  6,  1773,  and  had  seven  children.  The 
children  were:  John,  born  July  18,  1774,  mar- 
ried Anna  Gardner,  September  3,  1798,  and 
had  twelve  children;  Edward,  born  July  15, 
1779,  married  Annie  Secor,  and  had  ten  chil- 
dren ;  Resolved,  or  Resolvert,  born  July  29, 
1781,  married  Ehzabeth  Ten  Eyck,  and  had 
nine  children  ;  Joseph,  mentioned  below  ;  Eliza- 
beth, married  David  Babcock ;  Deborah,  mar- 
ried Anthony  Call ;  and  Martha,  married  James 
Du  Boice. 

(V)  Josep^h,  fourth  son  of  Adrian  and  Han- 
nah (Allison)  Waldron,  was  born  about  the 
year  1783.  As  a  young  man  he  was  in  the 
war  of  1812.  He  married  Katherine  Demarest 
and  had  nine  children.  The  children  were : 
James,  mentioned  below ;  Martha,  born  May 
10,  1819,  married  William  Jackson,  April  19, 
1849,  and  had  one  child  that  died  March  7, 
1883 ;  Michael,  who  married  Mary  Lumain ; 
John,  who  married  a  lady  whose  baptismal 
name  was  Emily,  but  whose  maiden  surname 
is  not  known;  William,  born  about  1824; 
Sarah,  born  about  1825,  married  a  Mr.  De- 
groot ;  Margaret,  who  married  John  Teed, 
February  29,  1846,  and  had  six  children ;  Eliza- 
beth, who  married  Abraham  Bulson  and  had 
one  child  ;  and  Deborah,  who  married  a  Mr. 
Marshall  and  had  one  child. 

(VI)  James,  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and 
Katherine  (Demarest)  Waldron,  was  born 
May  10,  1817,  and  died  May  17,  1867.  He 
was  by  occupation  a  blacksmith,  though  he 
had  interests  of  various  kinds  which  engaged 
part  of  his  attention.  He  was  a  Presbyterian 
in  religion  and  a  Republican  in  politics.  He 
married,  January  i,  1838,  Sarah  Babcock, 
born  May  10,  1819,  daughter  of  John  and 
Rachel  (Call)  Babcock,  of  Haverstraw.  She 
died  October  4,  1902.  The  children  were: 
Jackson,  born  February  15,  1839,  married 
May  E.  Jones,  August  15,  1866,  and  had  five 
children ;  Charles,  mentioned  below ;  Char- 
lotte,  born   October  8,    1842,   married   a   Mr. 


Ballard;  Matthew,  born  December  10,  1843, 
married  Charlotte  Louise  Smith,  April  8, 
1869,  and  had  three  children;  Sophia,  born 
February  15,  1845,  married  a  Mr.  Mackey, 
December  24,  1862;  James,  born  Januar}'  15, 
1847,  married  Olivia  Springstead ;  Edward, 
April  17,  1849,  married  Elmira  Springstead; 
Henry,  November  5,  1850;  Madison,  January 
29,  1853,  married  Levina  Peck;  Sarah,  No- 
vember 12,  1854,  died  young;  Elias,  July  13, 
1857;  Martha,  March  13,  1861,  married  Isaac 
M.  Bradbury;  Elizabeth,  May  26,  1863;  Theo- 
dore, May  28,  1865. 

(VII)  Charles,  second  son  of  James  and 
Sarah  (Babcock)  Waldron,  was  born  in  Hav- 
erstraw, December  31,  1840.  He  attended  the 
public  school  in  Haverstraw,  and  after  gradu- 
ation went  into  the  brick  manufacturing  busi- 
ness, in  which  he  remained  for  a  number  of 
years.  In  1868,  however,  he  branched  into 
a  new  line,  having  to  his  credit  a  number  of 
inventions  in  the  machinery  of  the  industry 
in  which  he  was  engaged.  In  that  year  he 
began  to  manufacture  new  types  of  machines 
for  the  manufacture  of  bricks,  and  is  still 
engaged  in  that  business  up  to  the  present, 
owning  a  large  plant,  consisting  of  foundry, 
factory,  etc.,  at  Grassy  Point.  He  enlisted 
in  Company  B,  Ninety-fifth  Regiment,  New 
York  Volunteers,  November,  1861,  as  a  pri- 
vate, and  was  discharged  in  1864,  at  Yellow 
House,  by  expiration  of  service.  He  was  in 
many  of  the  battles  of  the  civil  war.  He  is 
a  Republican  in  politics,  but  has  held  no  office. 
He  is  a  member  of  Stony  Point  Lodge,  No. 
313,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  Edward  Pye 
Post,  No.  179,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
and  is  quartermaster  of  the  post.  He  is  a 
Presbyterian  in  religion  and  belongs  to  the 
Haverstraw  Club.  He  married  (first)  Fran- 
ces M.  Treadway,  born  September  26,  1843, 
and  died  April  22,  1871.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Catherine  Amelia  Treadway,  born  Sep- 
tember 7,  1849,  died  February  13,  1904.  Both 
of  them  were  daughters  of  John  Duesenbury 
Treadway  and  his  wife,  Rachel  A.  Ver  Valen, 
born  July  25,  1822.  John  Duesenbury  Tread- 
way's  children  were:  Frances  M.,  Abraham. 
Catherine  Amelia,  Ella,  Ida,  John  Duesenbury 
and  Bertin.  The  children  of  Charles  Waldron 
are:  i.  Frank  Rogers,  born  December  4,  1869, 
died  September  15,  1871.  2.  Frances  Au- 
gusta, married  Charles  A.  Taylor.  3.  Florence 
Ver  Valen,  April  8,  1873.     4.  Estella  Amelia. 


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July  17,  1874,  died  March  2,  1884.  5.  Emma 
Roberta.  October  17,  1875,  ^i^d  August  10, 
1876.  6.  Ida  Marion,  July  2,  1878,  died 
July  24,  1878.  7.  Lillie  May,  December  26, 
1879,  died  September  16,  1880. 


This  surname  is  derived  from 
MARTINE     the   personal   name,   rendered 

illustrious  by  St.  Martin,  one 
of  the  apostles  of  the  Gauls.  Many  places  in 
Normandy  were  dedicated  to  him,  and  from 
one  of  these  sprang  the  great  family  that  went 
to  England  at  the  Conquest  under  the  name 
of  De  Sancto  Martino.  Both  as  a  personal  des- 
ignation and  as  a  surname  it  is  very  widely 
spread  in  all  the  countries  of  western  Europe. 
At  Paris  it  is  among  the  very  commonest  of 
all  family  names.  Its  derivatives  are  Martins, 
Martinson,  Martineau,  Martinelli,  Martinez, 
Martinin  and  so  on.  The  name  of  the  saint 
was  probably  derived  from  the  Latin  word, 
Martius,  meaning  warlike.  The  name  is  very 
well  known  in  Ireland  and  Scotland,  the  an- 
cient forms  in  Gaelic  being  O'Martain,  Mac- 
Mairtin,  O  Maoil  Martain  and  MacGiolla 
Mairtin  or  Gilmartin.  this  last  name  being 
borne  by  a  group  of  families  descended  from 
Fearcar,  brother  of  Aodh  Ornaighe,  who  is 
No.  97  on  the  pedigree  of  the  O'Neils,  Princes 
of  Tyrone.  O'Hart  says :  "In  the  days  when 
the  various  Irish  septs,  if  they  had  no  com- 
mon enemy  to  oppose,  were  engaged  in  fight- 
ing among  themselves,  the  Martins  and  OTla- 
herties  were  thus  amusing  themselves.  The 
O'Flaherties  advanced  against  the  Martins 
with  such  force  that  the  utter  extirpation  of 
the  latter  family  must  have  followed  upon 
their  defeat.  The  fateful  encounter  of  the 
opposing  parties  took  place  on  a  Good  Friday : 
and  after  a  fearful  struggle  the  Martins 
proved  victorious  and  were  enabled  to  return 
home  safely  for  the  celebration  of  Easter.  In 
grateful  commemoration  of  this  signal  victory 
and  deliverance  from  the  'bloodie  O'Flaher- 
ties' they  (the  Martins)  adopted  thencefor- 
ward for  the  family  arms  a  Calvary  Cross, 
etc.,  with  the  motto:  Auxiliuiu  ineum  a  Do- 
mine."  There  are  families  in  America  bear- 
ing the  name  of  Martine  or  Martin  of  Ger- 
man, English,  Irish,  Dutch.  Scotch  and  French 
origin.  The  commonest  forms  of  the  name 
are  Martine,  Martin  and  Martyn,  but  the 
origin  is  the  same  in  every  case. 


(I)  John  Martin,  the  immigrant  ancestor 
in  America  of  the  Martine  family  here  dealt 
with,  was  born  probably  in  1633,  died  March 
21,  1714,  at  Swansea,  Massachusetts.  He  is 
thought  to  have  come  from  Swansea,  in 
Wales,  with  the  Rev.  John  Myles  in  1665,  and 
it  has  been  believed  by  many  of  the  family 
that  he  was  one  of  the  original  members  of 
the  church  in  Wales.  John  Martin  was,  how- 
ever, not  a  member  of  the  church  at  that  time, 
although  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
town  of  Swansea,  Massachusetts.  Not  much 
is  known  of  him.  It  appears  by  his  will  that 
in  addition  to  the  tilling  and  management  of 
his  farm  he,  like  most  of  the  early  planters 
of  New  England,  had  learned  a  trade  and  that 
he  was  a  weaver.  On  June  5,  1671,  the  gen- 
eral court  of  Plymouth  Colony  appointed  him 
constable  for  Swansea.  On  June  3,  1673,  he 
was  appointed  surveyor  of  highways,  and  on 
June  3,  1685,  he  was  again  appointed  surveyor 
of  highways.  These  appear  to  have  been  all 
the  public  offices  he  ever  filled.  He  married, 
April  26,  1671,  Johanna,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Esten,  of  North  Providence.  Children:  Je- 
mima, born  May  29,  1672;  Melatiah,  April 
31,  1673;  John,  March  15,  1674;  Ephraim, 
mentioned  "below ;  Ann,  November  14,  1678 ; 
Manasseh,  February  2,  1681  ;  Johanna,  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1683;  Ebenezer,  February  18,  1684; 
Judieth,  November  13,  1686. 

(II)  Ephraim,  second  son  of  John  and 
Johanna  (Esten)  Martin,  was  born  at  Swan- 
sea, Massachusetts,  February  7,  1676,  died  at 
Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  June  25,  1734.  He 
settled  on  a  farm  in  Rehoboth  and  lived  in  a 
home  standing  a  little  distance  from  the  bury- 
ing ground.  He  married,  October  18,  1699, 
Thankful,  daughter  of  Samuel  Bullock,  Sr., 
born  June  27,  1681,  died  July  22,  1762.  aunt 
to  Colonel  William  Bullock,  and  great-aunt  to 
Captain  Samuel  Kent  and  Calvin  Bullock,  of 
Rehoboth.  Children:  Edward,  mentioned  be- 
low: Thankful,  born  May  18,  1702;  Ephraim. 
April  19,  1704;  Deliverance,  September  3, 
1706;  Experience.  1707;  Hopestill,  January 
16,  1710:  Judith,  March  28,  1714;  Seth,  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1716;  Lydia,  March  28,  1718;  Ben- 
jamin ;  Elizabeth. 

(HI)  Edward,  eldest  son  of  Ephraim  and 
Thankful  (Bullock)  Martin,  was  born  at  Re- 
hoboth, Massachusetts,  October  22,  1700,  died 
al  the  same  place,  June  2,  1745,  after  a  long 
illness.     He  lived  in  his  native  town,  on  the 


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south  side  of  the  way  west  of  Clearron  Brook. 
He  married  (first)  Rebekah,  daughter  of 
Jathniel  and  Sarah  (Smith)  Peck,  of  Reho- 
both,  born  October  lo,  1700,  baptized  May 
25,  1701,  and  died  April  14,  1731.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  January  19,  1732,  Martha 
Washburn,  of  Bridgewater,  died  June  19, 
1770,  aged  about  seventy-eight  years.  Chil- 
dren: Mary,  born  September  14,  1723;  Hope- 
still,  May  8,  1725  ;  Silvanus,  mentioned  below ; 
Rebekah,   December  21,    1729;  Lois,   August 

21,  1733- 

(IV)  Captain  Silvanus  Martin,  son  of  Ed- 
ward and  Rebekah  (Peck)  Martin,  was  born 
at  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  July  i,  1727,  died 
there  August  13,  1782.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Baptist  church  in  Swansea,  of  which 
Elder  Wood  had  the  care.  Soon  after  the 
colonies  declared  themselves  independent  he 
was  appointed  under  authority  from  the  Mass- 
achusetts Colony  to  the  command  of  a  mili- 
tia company,  was  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and 
a  member  of  the  committee  of  safety.  He 
was  also  a  selectman  in  the  town  of  Rehoboth. 
He  commanded  a  company  in  the  expedition 
of  General  Spencer  against  the  British  in 
Rhode  Island  and  in  a  spirited  act  he  drove 
the  British  ships,  commanded  by  Captain  Wal- 
lace from  Bristol  harbor.  He  married,  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1746,  Martha,  eldest  daughter  of 
Colonel  Philip  and  Martha  (Salisbury) 
Wheeler,  bom  at  Rehoboth,  November  i, 
1727.  Children:  Edward,  born  December  7, 
1746;  Silvanus,  mentioned  below;  Hopestill, 
December  19,  1750:  Valentine,  January  29, 
1753;  Simeon,  October  20,  1754;  Philip,  June 
II,  1756;  Joseph,  May  19,  1758;  Martha, 
January  28,  1761  ;  Cyrus,  October  21,  1763; 
Wheeler,  August  16,  1765  ;  Calvin,  September 
14,  1767;  Sarepta,  March  30,  1769;  Elhanan, 
y\ugust  3,  1771. 

(V)  Lieutenant  Silvanus  (2)  Martin, 
son  of  Captain  Silvanus  (i)  and  Martha 
(Wheeler)  Martin,  was  born  at  Rehoboth, 
Massachusetts,  March  19,  1748,  died  Novem- 
ber 25,  1818.  He  settled  at  first  in  East  Wind- 
sor, Connecticut.  He  was  a  lieutenant  in  the 
state  troops  of  Rhode  Island  in  1776  and 
afterwards  received  a  captain's  commission. 
He  removed  from  East  Windsor  to  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island,  where  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  town  council  in  the  years  1795- 
96-97-98,  and  a  representative  to  the  general 
assembly   for  the  years    1790  and   1791.     He 


settled  in  the  town  and  entered  into  trade,  and 
from  close  application  to  business  acquired  a 
competency  for  himself  and  family  in  his  de- 
clining years.  He  married,  November  6,  1774, 
Amey,  born  February  20,  1749,  died  February 
8,  1833,  daughter  of  Colonel  William  and 
Susan  (Dexter)  Brown,  of  Providence.  Chil- 
dren :  Nabby,  born  November  2,  1775 ;  Wil- 
liam Brown,  mentioned  below ;  John,  March 
31,  1778;  Joseph,  December  10,  1779;  Ans- 
tris,  April  13,  1781 ;  Henry,  October  12,  1782; 
Amy,  May  i,  1784;  Stephen,  January  12, 
1786;  Susanna,  August  6,  1788;  Henry,  June 
14,  1792. 

(VI)  William  Brown  Martine,  eldest  son 
of  Lieutenant  Silvanus  (2)  and  Amey 
(Brown)  Martin,  was  born  February  13, 
1777,  in  East  Windsor,  died  July  8,  1833. 
He  grew  up  in  Providence  and  located  on 
Long  Island  and  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of 
1812.  It  was  probably  he  who  adopted  the 
spelling  of  the  name  Martine,  as  it  has  since 
been  used  by  his  descendants.  He  married 
Sally  Thurber,  born  December  28,  1781,  in 
Providence,  daughter  of  Samuel  (3)  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Wilson)  Thurber,  granddaughter  of 
Samuel  (2)  and  Hopestill  (Martin)  Thurber, 
Samuel  (2)  being  a  son  of  Samuel  (i)  and 
Rachel  (  Wheeler)  Thurber.  Samuel  ( i)  was  a 
son  of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Bliss)  Thurber, 
of  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts.  Three  children 
are  recorded  before  his  removal  from  Rhode 
Island,  viz. :  Ann,  William  B.,  Rebekah  C. 

(VII)  Silas  Reynolds,  son  of  William 
Brown  and  Sally  ( Thurber)  Martine,  was 
born  about  1805  on  Long  Island,  died  at  Mid- 
dletown.  Orange  county.  New  York,  in  1865. 
He  went  from  Long  Island  to  Orange  county 
and  settled  in  Middletown,  engaging  in  the 
foundry  business,  the  firm's  name  being  Mar- 
tme,  Mackey  &  Company.  He  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  Grace  Episcopal  Church  of 
Middletown,  and  vestryman  for  many  years. 
He  was  also  prominently  identified  with  vil- 
lage affairs,  and  was  a  Mason  of  prominence. 
He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Timothy  and 
Juliet  (Wright)  Brewster,  born  at  Wood- 
bridge,  New  Jersey,  in  1812,  died  August  19, 
iqo3,  at  Newburgh.  Children:  Sarah  E., 
Mary  E.,  Henry  Brewster,  mentioned  below. 

(Vni)  Henry  Brewster,  son  of  Silas  Rey- 
nolds and  Mary  (Brewster)  Martine,  was 
born  at  Middletown,  Orange  county.  New 
York,  July  26,  1856.     He  was  educated  at  the 


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Newburgh  public  schools,  and  in  1874  entered 
the  National  Bank  of  Newburgh  as  clerk, 
where  he  has  remained  ever  since.  In  1902 
he  was  made  cashier,  a  position  he  holds  at 
the  present  time.  He  is  a  member  of  the  City 
and  Powellton  clubs,  and  a  member  and  ves- 
tryman of  St.  George's  Episcopal  Church  of 
Newburgh. 


The   family  name  of   Came- 
CAMERON     ron  is  believed  to  have  been 

derived  from  the  Gaelic  and 
\\'elsh  "Cam,"  meaning  crooked  or  winding, 
combined  with  the  word  "sron,"  meaning  a 
nose — therefore,  a  crooked  or  hooked  nose, 
which  was  doubtless  a  characteristic  of  those 
who  were  first  given  the  name. 

(I)  Sir  John  Cameron,  the  first  of  this 
branch  of  the  Cameron  family  to  make  his 
home  in  America,  came  as  a  regimental  officer 
in  the  forties  or  fifties  of  the  eighteen  century. 
It  was  either  he,  or  his  son  John,  who  won 
distinction  for  bravery  at  the  battle  of  Quebec 
under  General  Wolfe,  and  as  a  reward  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  the  land  upon  which  the  city 
of  Rochester  now  stands.  It  was  also  one 
of  these  two  who  remained  loyal  to  the  British 
crown  during  the  revolution.  Sir  John  Came- 
ron had  three  sons :  John,  see  forward ;  Alex- 
ander, who  settled  in  Canada,  and  some  of 
whose  descendants  are  the  Camerons  of  Wis- 
consin;  Donald,  whose  line  is  as  follows:  (I) 
Donald  Cameron,  shared  the  fortunes  of  the 
unhappy  Charles  Edward,  whose  star  sunk  on 
the  field  of  Culloden.  He  was  a  participant  in 
that  eventful  battle,  and  having  escaped  the 
carnage  made  his  way  to  America,  arriving 
about  1745-46.  He  afterward  fought  under 
the  gallant  Wolfe  upon  the  Heights  of  Abra- 
ham, and  during  the  war  with  France  was  in 
continuous  service.  (II)  Simon,  son  of  Don- 
ald Cameron,  was  an  early  associate  in  the 
revolution,  and  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
June  I,  1778,  his  brother  John  signing  the 
same  day.  (Ill)  Charles,  son  of  Simon 
Cameron,  married  Martha  Pfoutz,  and  raised 
a  large  and  distinguished  family.  (IV)  Gen- 
eral Simon  Cameron,  son  of  Charles  and 
Martha  (Pfoutz)  Cameron,  is  so  well  known 
as  a  soldier,  statesman  and  writer,  that  more 
extended  mention  of  him  here  is  unnecessary. 
(V)  James  Donald,  son  of  General  Simon 
Cameron,  has  achieved  distinction  as  a  states- 
man and  financier.      (V)    William  Brua,  an- 


other son  of  General  Simon  Cameron,  died 
while  yet  in  his  thirties,  yet  had  also  won  dis- 
tinction in  military  affairs. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  Sir  John  (i)  Came- 
ron, made  his  home  at  Esopus,  now  Kingston, 
New  York.  During  the  revolutionary  war  the 
British  burned  the  village  of  Esopus,  and 
when  the  house  of  Mr.  Cameron  was  de- 
stroyed the  deed  and  titles  for  the  land  which 
had  been  granted  at  Rochester  were  also  de- 
stroyed. John  Cameron  had  children :  Angus ; 
Alexander,  see  forward;  John. 

(HI)  Alexander,  son  of  John  (2)  Cameron, 
had  children:  Lucretia,  born  April  17,  1809; 
Twins,  April  3,  181 1,  one  of  whom  died  the 
same  day,  the  other  died  April  15,  181 1  ;  De- 
witt  Clinton,  March  17,  1813;  John  W.,  Oc- 
tober 12,  1816;  Morris  B.,  December  12,  1818; 
Ananias  M.,  February  13,  1821 ;  Sarah  Jane, 
April  22,  1823;  James  Green,  November  i, 
1825,  died  December  27,  1850;  William  For- 
syth, see  forward ;  Edward  M.,  September  29, 
1829. 

(IV)  William  Forsyth,  son  of  Alexander 
Cameron,  was  born  at  Hockabart  Hill,  near 
Walkill,  New  York,  October  29,  1826,  died  in 
1889.  His  occupation  was  that  of  lumberman. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  and  in  relig- 
ious belief  a  Methodist.  He  married  Hannah 
Catherine  Gillespie  and  had  children :  Dewitt 
Clinton,  married  Mary  Rydell ;  Daniel  Gilles- 
pie, see  forward  ;  William  F. 

(V)  Daniel  Gillespie,  son  of  William  For- 
syth and  Hannah  Catherine  (Gillespie)  Came- 
ron, was  born  January  29,  1856,  and  is  now 
living  in  Newburgh,  New  York.  He  is  en- 
gaged in  business  as  a  lumber  merchant.  In 
political  opinions  he  was  formerly  a  Democrat, 
but  is  now  an  Independent  Republican,  and  has 
served  two  terms  as  councilman  from  the  third 
ward  of  the  city  of  Newburgh.  Mr.  Cameron 
married,  August  2,  1882,  Ada  Dudley,  born 
September  27,  1853,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Harriet  (Demott)  (Homas)  Bingham.  The 
former  was  born  September  19,  1817,  died 
December  7,  1890;  his  wife  was  born  Octo- 
ber 19,  1817,  died  July  31.  1871.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Cameron  have  had  one  child:  Kenneth  Miller, 
see  forward. 

(VI)  Kenneth  Miller,  only  child  of  Daniel 
Gillespie  and  Ada  Dudley  (Bingham)  Came- 
ron, was  born  in  Newburgh,  New  York,  Au- 
gust 6,  1883,  and  is  now  living  in  New  Wind- 
sor, New  York.    From  1891  to  1896  he  was  a 


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student  at  Siglar's  Preparatory  School  in  New- 
burgh,  New  York,  and  he  was  one  year  in 
the  Newburgh  Free  Academy,  1897-98.  In 
the  fall  of  1898  he  entered  Trinity  School  in 
New  York  City,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1901.  He  then  entered  the  employ  of  his 
father  in  the  lumber  and  building  material 
business  in  Newburgh,  which  had  been  estab- 
lished by  his  father  in  1866,  and  in  which  he 
still  continues.  He  is  a  Republican  in  political 
affiliation,  and  a  Presbyterian  in  religious  be- 
lief. He  is  a  member  of  the  following  organi- 
zations :  Alumni  Association  of  Trinity  School, 
New  York;  National  Geographic  Society; 
New  Windsor  Golf  Club ;  Storm  King  Golf 
Club;  Lake  Placid  Club;  Newburgh  City 
Club;  Newburgh  Gun  Club. 

Mr.  Cameron  married  in  St.  Thomas  Epis- 
copal Church,  New  Windsor,  New  York,  June 
I,  1909,  Charlotte  Louise,  born  in  New  Wind- 
sor, August  29,  1885,  daughter  of  Frederick 
William  and  Georgiana  (Havemeyer)  Senff. 
Children:  Susan  Louise,  born  November  13, 
1910;  Jean,  November  22,  1912. 


Owing  to  the  fact  that  this  name 
DIVINE     begins  with  "D,''  and  is  usually 

known  in  the  form  of  Devine,  it 
is  supposed  by  many  to  be  French  in  origin. 
In  so  far  as  the  name  is  French  it  is  a  rare 
one.  Lower's  "Patronymica  Britannica,"  de- 
clares that  in  cases  where  the  name  is  French 
in  origin  it  is  probably  a  French  local  name 
like  Divers,  the  "D"  of  "De"  coalescing.  This 
British  authority  states  that  the  name  is  com- 
mon in  the  United  Kingdom,  and  that  there 
it  is  Gaelic  in  origin,  being  an  anglicised  form 
derived  from  the  old  Milesian  hereditary  name 
of  O'Duibhne  or  O'Divne  ("O"  meaning  de- 
scendant, and  Divne  being  the  personal  name, 
the  meaning  being:  the  descendant  of 
Divne"),  Duibhne  or  Divne  being  the  name 
of  one  of  Ossian's  warrior  heroes,  claimed 
as  a  remote  ancestor  by  the  Campbells  of  Ire- 
land and  Scotland,  and  particularly  by  the 
Duke  of  Argyle.  chief  of  the  Scottish  branch 
of  the  clan.  This  is  the  view  also  taken  by 
O'Hart's  "Pedigr'ees"  (Vol.  i,  p.  403),  where 
the  family  of  O'Devine  is  shown  to  be  a  branch 
of  the  O'Harts,  princes  of  Tara.  Daimhin  or 
Devine,  ancestor  of  the  family,  ranks  as  num- 
ber ninety-two  on  the  pedigree  stem  of  both 
families,  and  he  had  a  brother  named  Nad- 
sluagh,  who  was  an  ancestor  of  MacMahon, 


prince  of  Monaghan,  to  which  family  Field- 
marshal  MacMahon,  president  of  France,  be- 
longed, and  another  brother  named  Cormac,. 
who  was  the  ancestor  of  MacUidhir,  anglicised 
MacGwyre  and  Maguire,  princes  of  Ferma- 
nagh, from  1264,  having  displaced  and  sup- 
planted the  Devine  family,  who  possessed  the 
title  and  territory  to  that  time,  and  who  in 
1427  were  chiefs  and  lords  of  Tirkennedy,  and 
lords  of  Fermanagh,  officially  recognized.  The 
family  held  high  station,  and  bore  arms  herald- 
ically  described  as :  A  lion  passant  guardant 
or,  which  showed  them  to  be  of  the  highest 
and  bluest  blood  of  the  Gaidheilhacht.  In  the 
vicissitudes  of  war  several  branches  of  the 
family  lost  their  property  and  wealth  in  part, 
but  never  their  high  courage  and  distinction. 
It  is  somewhat  difficult  to  distinguish  between 
the  surnames  Divine  and  Devine,  as  to  when 
they  are  French  and  when  Gaelic  in  origin, 
but  it  is  clear  that  in  either  case  they  are  names 
of  distinction,  which  may  excite  the  liveliest 
feelings  of  pride  in  those  who  are  their  heirs. 

(I)  Joseph  Divine,  the  ancestor  of  the 
family  in  America,  was  of  French  Huguenot 
descent.  He  lived  in  the  town  of  Plattekill, 
Ulster  county.  New  York.  He  served  in  the 
French  and  Indian  wars,  having  enlisted  un- 
der the  crown,  and  was  at  the  battle  of  Quebec. 
He  was  exempt  by  age,  however,  at  the  time 
of  the  revolution.  With  his  son  James,  he 
settled,  in  1795.  in  what  is  now  Sullivan 
county.  He  died  in  1802  and  his  wife  Mary 
in  1824. 

(II)  James,  son  of  Joseph  Divine,  was  born 
June  14,  1 78 1,  died  February  i,  1846.  He 
came  from  Connecticut  to  Sullivan  county 
with  his  father,  and  located  near  the  present 
village  of  Divine's  Corners,  and  began  clear- 
ing the  farm  upon  which  he  spent  the  balance 
of  his  life.  He  was  active  and  influential  in 
public  affairs,  occupying  for  thirty  years  the 
then  important  position  of  justice  of  the  peace. 
He  was  broad  and  liberal  in  his  views  and  a 
firm  believer  in  practical  Christianity.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Whig,  and  followed  the  for- 
tunes of  the  party  with  his  interest  and  sup- 
port. He  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  pio- 
neers in  that  part  of  the  country,  being  largely 
a  partaker  in  its  development,  and  in  the 
work  of  preparing  it  in  its  preliminary  stages 
for  the  edifice  of  industry  and  commerce  which 
has  since  been  erected  over  that  wide  region. 
He  married  Mehitable  Hall,  born  January  15, 


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1789,  died  March  14,  1866.  Mrs.  Mehitable 
(Hall)  Divine  came  from  Connecticut,  a 
woman  of  ability  and  marked  character,  a 
leader  and  able  speaker  in  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  an  earnest  worker  in  the  anti- 
slavery  cause,  who  was  greatly  rejoiced  to  see 
slavery  blotted  out.  Children :  Mary,  who 
married  Alexander  Elmore  ;  Joseph  ;  Lewis  ; 
David;  Sallie,  who  married  Richard  Gard- 
ner; John  H.,  mentioned  below;  Hulda,  who 
married  Andrew  Clements  ;  Bradley ;  James ; 
and,  Richard. 

(HI)  John  H.,  son  of  James  and  Mehitable 
(Hall)  Divine,  was  born  at  Fallsburgh,  Sul- 
livan county,  New  York,  September  14,  1814, 
and  died  October  5,  1895,  at  Ellenville,  Ulster 
county,  New  York.  In  his  youth  he  attended 
the  district  schools  of  the  town  of  Fallsburgh, 
but  he  obtained  most  of  his  education  by  a 
wide  range  of  private  reading  and  observa- 
tion, through  which  he  fitted  himself  for  the 
work  of  teaching.  He  was  a  school  teacher 
in  Sullivan  county  and  in  Ohio  when  a  young 
man,  and  he  attained  to  a  very  considerable 
amount  of  success  in  his  work.  He  recalled 
with  pardonable  pride  in  his  later  days  that 
the  efficiency  of  his  work  in  the  tutorial  line 
was  generally  recognized  by  those  who  bene- 
fited from  his  work,  as  well  as  by  those  who 
had  the  supervision  of  it,  and  he  was  the  first 
school  teacher  in  Sullivan  county  to  receive 
what  was  then  considered  the  high  stipend  of 
twenty  dollars  a  month  for  work  as  a  teacher. 
In  the  year  1866  he  became  interested  in  the 
business  of  merchandising  in  Ellenville,  the 
firm  name  being  Decker  &  Divine,  and  in  the 
year  1873  he  organized  the  firm  of  Divine, 
Dubois,  Parker  &  Company  at  Livingston 
Manor.  He  was  one  of  the  original  incorpo- 
rators of  the  Union  National  Bank  of  Monti- 
cello,  New  York,  and  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Ellenville,  and  for  many  years  was  a 
director  in  both  institutions.  He  was  also 
active  in  organizing  the  Ellenville  Savings 
Bank  and  for  years  was  one  of  its  trustees. 
He  showed  an  energetic  and  practical  loyalty 
during  the  war  of  the  rebellion,  and  rendered 
valuable  assistance  by  encouraging  enlistments 
and  assisting  families  of  the  soldiers.  He 
married,  in  1839,  Maria,  born  in  1818,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Childs,  a  prominent  merchant 
of  Sullivan  county.  Mrs.  Divine  died  No- 
vember 13,  1850.  Children:  Dwight,  men- 
tioned below,  and  James,  who  died  when  about 


twenty-two  years  of  age,  August  10,  1870. 
(IV)  Dwight,  elder  son  of  John  H.  and 
Maria  (Childs)  Divine,  was  born  at  Divine's 
Corners,  Sullivan  county.  New  York,  March 
18,  1841.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
common  schools  and  at  Monticello  Academy, 
Monticello,  New  York,  growing  up  on  his 
father's  property.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  war 
of  the  rebellion  he  enlisted  as  private  in  the 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-third  Regiment  of 
New  York  Volunteers,  and  was  commissioned 
second  lieutenant.  Company  C,  September  i, 
1862,  and  first  lieutenant.  Company  F,  April 
17,  1863.    He  was  promoted  to  captain  July  24, 

1865,  and  in  June,  1866,  brevet  major.  He 
served  with  his  regiment  in  the  defense  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  until  early  in  1863,  when 
his  command  was  sent  to  the  front,  where  it 
remained  in  active  service  until  the  close  of 
the  war.  During  that  time  the  regiment  was 
transferred  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  and 
assigned  to  Hooker's  Twentieth  Army  Corps, 
Army  of  the  Cumberland,  and  took  part  in 
the  engagements  at  Lookout  Mountain,  Mis- 
sionary Ridge,  and  the  continuous  battle  of 
Chattanooga  to  Atlanta,  and  afterwards  partici- 
pated in  Sherman's  march  to  the  sea,  and  was 
constantly  with  his  regiment  till  Johnson's 
surrender.  In  General  Hooker's  farewell  ad- 
dress in  front  of  the  Astor  House  in  New 
York  City,  he  said  he  could  truthfully  say  of 
the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-third  Regiment 
what  could  be  said  of  few  fighting  regiments — 
"the  Johnnies  never  saw  their  backs."  The 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-third  was  mustered 
out  July,  1865,  at  New  York  City.  When  the 
war  was  over  Mr.  Divine  engaged  in  business 
again,  and  in  1866,  along  with  John  H.  Divine, 
John  H.  Decker,  N.  C.  Clark,  and  G.  B.  Childs, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Decker  &  Divine.  Mr. 
Divine  then  became  managing  partner  with 
Decker  &  Divine  in  a  general  mercantile  busi- 
ness in  Ellenville,  and  later  became  largely 
interested  in  the  Ulster  Knife  Company,  ulti- 
mately becoming  its  sole  owner.  He  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Ellenville  Savings  Bank,  and  was 
for  twenty  years  chairman  of  the  Ellenville 
Water   Works.      He  married,    November    13, 

1866,  Millicent  J.,  born  February  7,  1842, 
daughter  of  Cornelius  Hatch,  of  Monticello, 
New  York.  Children :  Alice,  who  is  a  prac- 
tising physician  at  Ellenville ;  C.  Dwight,  men- 
tioned below :  Jennie,  married  Chester  Young, 
of    Napanoch,    New    York,    has    one    child, 


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Chandler  Young;  John  H.,  born  in  September, 
1881  ;  attended  Ellenville  High  School,  Penn- 
sylvania Military  Academy,  Chester,  Pennsyl- 
vania, Cascadilla  Academy,  and  is  a  graduate 
with  degree  of  M.E.  from  Cornell  University; 
now  a  partner  of  Dwight  Divine  &  Sons, 
Ulster  Knife  Works;  is  a  member  of  Lodge 
No.  582,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  Wawar- 
sing  Chapter,  No.  246,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 
and  Scoresby  Hose  Company,  married  Helen 
Taylor,  and  has  one  son,  Dwight. 

(V)  C.  Dwight,  son  of  Dwight  and  Millicent 
J.  (Hatch)  Divine,  was  born  at  Ellenville, 
Ulster  county,  New  York,  January  i,  1873. 
He  was  educated  at  Ellenville  High  School 
and  Phillip's  Academy,  Andover,  Massachu- 
setts, and  on  the  completion  of  his  studies  in 
1892  became  associated  with  his  father  as  as- 
sistant clerk,  and  in  1898  was  made  a  partner, 
as  was  also  his  brother,  John  H.,  a  few  years 
later,  under  the  firm  name  and  title  of  Dwight 
Divine  &  Sons.  He  married,  June  26,  1900, 
Jessie  B.,  daughter  of  James  W.  Donaldson, 
who  married  Mary  Battershall,  and  who  for 
many  years  was  a  prominent  merchant  of  El- 
lenville, and  is  now  retired.  Mr.  Divine  is  a 
director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Ellen- 
ville, and  is  a  trustee  of  the  Ellenville  Savings 
Bank.  He  was  for  ten  years  a  member  of 
the  board  of  education  and  was  for  five  years 
its  president.  He  is  a  member  of  Wawarsing 
Lodge,  No.  582,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
Wawarsing  Chapter,  No.  246,  Royal  Arch 
Masons;  Rondout  Commandery,  Rondout, 
New  York;  Mecca  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine, 
New  York  City;  is  secretary  of  the  Masonic 
Building  Association,  Ellenville,  New  York, 
and  for  the  past  twenty  years  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  Scoresby  Hose  Company,  Ellenville. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Ellenville  Board  of 
Trade  and  one  of  its  organizers.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican  and  is  prominently  identi- 
fied with  the  interests  of  the  party.  In  re- 
ligion he  is  affiliated  with  the  First  Reformed 
Church. 


Many  of  the  early  settlers 
LYDECKER    of    New    Amsterdam,    now 

New  York,  had  no  sur- 
names, and  surnames  were  adopted  by  their 
descendants  in  the  second  and  third  genera- 
tions. The  significance  of  the  name  Lydecker 
is  "slate  roofer,"  probably  adopted  from  the 
occupation     of     a    member    of     the     family. 


The  name  was  very  common  in  the  early  rec- 
ords of  southern  New  York  and  northern  New 
Jersey,  where  the  family  has  borne  an  honor- 
able part  in  various  walks  of  life. 

(I)  Ryck  Lydecker,  the  earliest  known  an- 
cestor of  the  family  described  below,  was  one 
of  the  first  settlers  of  Bushwick,  in  1661, 
where  he  received  a  grant  of  land  in  1660. 
He  served  as  a  magistrate  of  the  town  in 
1662-63-65,  and  the  town  records  also  show 
that  on  June  14,  1663,  he  was  appointed  cap- 
tain of  the  militia.  The  muster  roll,  including 
the  officers,  contained  forty  names,  and  the 
company  was  divided  into  four  parts,  ten  men 
being  assigned  to  each  watch,  on  duty  at  night 
to  guard  against  an  attack  of  the  Indians.  On 
Tune  22d  of  the  same  year,  Director-General 
Stuyvesant  visited  the  village  and  ordered  the 
cutting  and  setting  of  palisades  to  fortify  the 
place.  Ryck,  Jr.,  son  of  Ryck  Lydecker,  prob- 
ably settled  in  Hackensack,  where  his  descend- 
ants are  numerous.  Ryck  Lydecker  married 
Claeve  Voormere  and  their  children  were: 
Garret,  Ryck,  Cornells  and  Abraham.  The 
father  died  before  November  28,  1666. 

(II)  Garret,  son  of  Ryck  and  Claeve  (Voor- 
mere) Lydecker,  born  in  1650,  owned  lands  in 
Bushwick  in  1667.  He  married  Weyngen 
Terhuyn,  and  they  had  children,  among  whom 
was  Garret,  of  whom  further. 

(III)  Garret  (2),  son  of  Garret  (i)  and 
Weyngen  (Terhuyn)  Lydecker,  was  born  and 
baptized  in  Tappan.  By  his  wife  Maria  he 
had  children,  among  whom  was  Albert,  of 
whom  further. 

(IV)  Albert,  son  of  Garret  (2)  and  Maria 
Lydecker,  married  Maria  Nagel,  born  October 
18,  baptized  October  31,  1762,  and  they  had 
children,  among  whom  was  Abraham,  of  whom 
further. 

(V)  Abraham,  son  of  Albert  and  Maria 
(Nagel)  Lydecker,  was  born  February  6,  1768. 
died  March  8,  1837.  He  married  Rebecca 
Tallman,  born  June  5,  1770.  died  May  21, 
1847.  Their  children  were:  Albert,  born  Sep- 
tember II,  baptized  October  2,  1791  ;  Isaac 
Smith,  of  whom  further. 

(VI)  Isaac  Smith,  second  son  of  Abraham 
and  Rebecca  (Tallman)  Lydecker,  was  born 
January  15.  1794,  in  Clarksville,  New  York, 
baptized  February  2.  of  the  same  year,  and 
died  March  5,  1881,  aged  eighty-seven  years, 
one  month  and  eleven  days.  Before  his  mar- 
riage he  removed  to  Nyack.    He  was  a  farmer 


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by  occupation,  and  in  politics  was  a  Whig  and 
later  a  Republican.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Reformed  Dutch  Protestant  Church  in 
Nyack.  He  was  drafted  as  a  soldier  to  serve 
in  the  war  of  18 12,  but  did  not  go  into  active 
service,  as  the  war  soon  ended.  He  could 
have  had  a  land  grant  from  the  government, 
but  never  put  in  an  application  for  it  on  ac- 
count of  his  patriotism.  He  married  Rachel 
Ann,  born  October  26,  1795,  died  August  12, 
1879,  daughter  of  Tunis  and  Maria  Smith. 
Tunis  Smith  was  born  July  8,  1772,  died  May 
9,  1846.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Maria  Smith,  was  born  September  14,  1775, 
died  July  13,  1842,  daughter  of  Cornelius  and 
Susan  (Mabie)  Smith,  granddaughter  of  John 
and  Susan  (Pake)  Mabie,  and  great-grand- 
daughter of  John  and  Susan  (Bertangue) 
Mabie.  Of  the  ancestry  of  Tunis  Smith  we 
give  the  following  information :  Lambert 
Arianse  Smith,  a  native  of  Thuyl,  province 
of  Gilderland,  Holland,  married  Maertye  Ger- 
rits,  in  1682,  and  among  their  children  bap- 
tized in  New  York  is  Gerrit,  born  in  1685, 
who  married  Breechie  Haring.  Gerrit  and 
Breechie  (Haring)  Smith  had  a  son  Petrus, 
baptized'  at  Tappan  in  1716,  supposed  to  be 
identical  with  the  Peter  Smith  who  married 
Aneti  Blauvelt  and  had  a  son  Isaac.  Isaac 
Smith  married  Rachel  Blauvelt  and  their  son 
Tunis  married  Maria  Smith,  as  before  men- 
tioned. Mr.  Lydecker  and  his  wife  had  three 
children :  James  Isaac,  of  whom  further ;  De- 
witt  and  Maria. 

(VII)  James  Isaac,  senior  son  of  Isaac 
Smith  and  Rachel  Ann  (Smith)  Lydecker, 
was  born  in  Nyack,  New  York.  In  his  youth 
he  worked  at  hauling  freight  and  lumber  on 
the  Hudson  river  from  Albany  to  New  York. 
Later  he  took  up  farming  and  became  the 
owner  of  several  farms,  which  he  operated 
until  a  few  years  before  his  death,  then  retired 
from  active  life  and  resided  in  Nyack.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Reformed  church  at 
Clarkstown,  and  of  Oneka  Lodge,  No.  122, 
Independent  Order  Odd  Fellows.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Republican.  He  served  several  years 
as  postmaster  at  West  Nyack.  He  married 
Ann,  second  daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Sophia 
(Demarest)  Haring,  of  Middletown,  Rock- 
land county.  New  York  (see  Haring  VII.). 
Their  children  were:  Edwin,  of  whom  fur- 
ther; Isaac  Smith,  born  July  19,  1845;  Cor- 
nelius Haring,  February  2,  1848 ;  George  De- 


witt,  October  26,  1850;  Rachel  Ann,  May  15, 
1857,  died  January  12,  1913;  John  Jacob,  May 
12,  1858;  Sophia  Ann,  October  25,  1861 ; 
Mary  Serena,  January  15,  1865. 

(VIII)  Edwin,  eldest  child  of  James  Isaac 
and  Ann  (Haring)  Lydecker,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 3,  1842,  in  Clarksville,  now  West 
Nyack,  Rockland  county,  New  York.  He  be- 
gan his  education  in  local  schools  before  the 
free  school  system  had  been  established,  then 
entered  the  common  school  at  Clarksville, 
New  York,  He  spent  one  year  in  Blauvelt 
public  school,  and  for  two  years  attended  pub- 
lic school  in  Harrington,  New  Jersey.  In 
1861  he  entered  Rutherford  Academy  in 
Nyack,  from  which  he  graduated  with  honors 
in  1863.  In  boyhood  he  worked  on  his  father's 
farm,  in  1858  entering  into  partnership  with 
him  in  opening  a  general  store  at  Clarksville, 
which  they  conducted  until  1870.  In  1873 
he  accepted  a  position  as  clerk  in  the  auditing 
department  of  the  custom  house,  where  he 
remained  until  1890,  then  spent  two  years  on 
the  home  farm.  In  1892  he  and  his  brother 
Cornelius  H.  became  associated  in  the  grocery 
business  on  Main  street  in  Nyack,  under  the 
name  of  Lydecker  Brothers  Company,  which 
firm  is  still  in  existence.  They  have  estab- 
lished themselves  in  the  good  will  and  esteem 
of  the  community  and  have  a  large  and  lucra- 
tive patronage.  Both  are  gentlemen  of  busi- 
ness ability  and  numbered  among  the  sub- 
stantial and  representative  citizens  of  Nyack. 
Mr.  Lydecker  represents  a  family  that  is  old 
and  honored  in  southern  New  York  and  whose 
members  have  always  represented  the  best  in- 
terests of  the  community.  During  the  civil 
war  he  sent  a  substitute  who  served  three 
years.  He  has  always  been  a  Republican  in 
political  views  and  served  several  years  as 
school  trustee  in  Orangeburgh.  New  York, 
also  four  years  (1902-06)  as  supervisor  of 
the  town  of  Orangetown,  Rockland  county. 
New  York.  He  is  a  member  of  Haverstraw 
Lodge,  No.  877,  Benevolent  Protective  Order 
Elks,  and  of  the  Nyack  Business  Men's  Club. 
He  was  formerly  a  member  of  the  Reformed 
church  of  Tappan,  and  now  belongs  to  the 
First  Reformed  Church  of  Nyack. 

He  married,  September  30,  1871,  Margaret 
Ann,  daughter  of  Gilbert  David  and  Maria 
(Mabie)  Blauvelt,  the  ceremony  taking  place 
at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents  in  Orange- 
ville,  where  she  was  born  May  8,   1844,  her 


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father  being  a  farmer  by  occupation.  Mr. 
Blauvelt  and  wife  had  two  children,  Ellen 
Jane  and  Margaret  Ann.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lydecker  one  child  has  been  born,  Wallace 
Blauvelt,  December  27,  1877.  After  complet- 
ing the  course  in  the  public  school  at  Orange- 
ville  he  entered  Siegler's  Preparatory  School, 
where  he  remained  three  years.  In  1897  he 
entered  Princeton  University,  graduating  in 
1901  with  degree  of  A.B.  He  then  attended 
the  New  York  Law  School  two  years,  and  in 
October,  1903,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the 
supreme  court  general  term  in  Brooklyn.  He 
is  now  a  practicing  attorney  in  Nyack.  He 
is  unmarried. 


This  name  seems  to  be  of  Eng- 
BEDELL     lish    origin,   and    often   appears 

in  the  form  Beedle,  Bedle, 
Beadle,  Beetle  and  Bettel.  Among  the  earliest 
in  this  country  was  Robert,  son  of  Robert 
Beedle,  born  about  1642,  who  appears  in  New- 
bury, Massachusetts,  in  1667,  and  took  the  oath 
of  allegiance  there  in  1678,  being  then  thirty- 
six  years  old.  The  Bedells  of  Long  Island 
were  allied  with  the  Quakers.  Daniel  Bedell 
appears  in  Hempstead  in  1667,  Matthew  in 
1673,  Robert  in  1674,  and  Benjamin  in  1675. 
The  first  postoffice  was  established  in  1802 
with  Abraham  Bedell  as  postmaster.  Frag- 
mentary references  to  the  name  appear  very 
frequently  in  that  town.  Branches  of  the 
family  settled  on  Staten  Island,  and  members 
of  the  New  England  family  of  that  name 
were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Elizabeth, 
New  Jersey.  Jeremiah  Bedell  was  a  fence- 
viewer  at  Hempstead  in  1718,  surveyor  of 
highways  in  1730,  and  churchwarden  in  1757. 
His  son,  Jeremiah  Bedell,  had  a  lot  near  the 
churchyard  in  Hempstead  in  1763,  and  died 
January  21,  1788.  His  wife  Mary  died  Au- 
gust I,  1791.  They  had  children:  Jeremiah, 
Gilbert,  Joseph,  Jemima  and  Sylvester.  The 
last  named  had  children :  William,  Adam, 
John,  Benjamin  and  Sylvia.  The  oldest  son, 
born  in  1771,  resided  in  Coxsackie,  New 
York,  and  it  is  possible  that  the  Haverstraw 
family  was  descended  from  him.  At  any  rate, 
little  can  be  discovered  concerning  this  family 
now.  Tradition  traces  the  family  to  Long 
Island,  whence  one  settled  in  New  Jersey, 
migrating  thence  to  Rockland  county,  New 
York.  It  is  uncertain  whether  the  name  was 
Samuel    or    Stephen.      His    known    children 


were:  William,  Jesse,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Ed- 
ward Miller,  and  Ann,  wife  of  Aaron  Jaycox. 

(I)  William  Bedell  was  born  November  13, 
1826,  in  Nyack,  New  York,  died  September 
27,  1858,  in  Haverstraw,  New  York,  in  his 
thirty-second  year.  He  attended  the  district 
schools  until  about  fifteen  years  of  age,  and 
then  turned  his  attention  to  mercantile  busi- 
ness, which  filled  his  time  during  his  life.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  and 
while  a  Democrat  in  principle  paid  little  at- 
tention to  political  movements.  He  married, 
in  Nyack,  November  25.  1846,  Matilda  Camp- 
bell, of  Clarkstown,  Rockland  county,  New 
York,  born  April  22,  1826,  died  May  30,  1900. 
Children:  Alonzo,  mentioned  below;  Edward, 
born  1851;  Melissa,  1852;  John,  Caroline, 
Mary. 

(II)  Alonzo,  eldest  child  of  William  and 
Matilda  (Campbell)  Bedell,  was  born  Octo- 
ber 21,  1848,  in  Nyack,  New  York.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  district  schools  and 
Haverstraw  Mountain  Institute.  At  the  age 
of  fifteen  years,  on  July  4.  1863,  he  enlisted 
in  the  Seventeenth  Regiment,  New  York  Vol- 
unteers, and  before  the  close  of  that  year  was 
honorably  discharged  from  the'  service. 
Thereupon  he  became  an  apprentice  to  a  tin- 
smith, and  after  three  years  completed  the 
trade.  Following  this  he  became  associated 
with  the  mercantile  business  of  his  stepfather, 
and  thus  continued  until  1892,  when  in  part- 
nership with  his  brother  he  purchased  the  con- 
trol of  the  business.  This  they  conducted 
thirteen  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time 
Alonzo  Bedell  sold  his  interest  to  his  partner. 
In  1903  he  was  elected  grand  keeper  of  rec- 
ords and  seal  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  of  the 
state  of  New  York,  and  this  office  has  taken 
his  entire  time  down  to  the  present,  with  the 
exception  of  the  first  two  years,  when  he  was 
enabled  to  give  part  of  his  time  to  his  private 
business.  He  became  a  member  of  the  order, 
August  18,  1874.  in  Ivanhoe  Lodge.  No.  117, 
Peekskill,  New  York.  Through  his  instru- 
mentality, lona  Lodge.  No.  128,  was  instituted 
at  Haverstraw,  December  7,  of  the  same  year, 
and  he  became  its  first  chancellor  commander, 
and  was  its  representative  at  the  Grand  Lodge 
in  Brooklyn  in  July  following.  Since  that 
time  he  has  been  a  constant  and  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Grand  Lodge ;  was  deputy  chancel- 
lor five  years ;  served  as  a  member  of  the  cre- 
dentials  committee   in    1877,   and    in    1885-86 


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was  its  chairman.  He  was  grand  master  at 
arms  in  1883-84,  and  for  five  years,  commenc- 
ing with  July,  1888,  was  chairman  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  finance  committee.  He  was 
unanimously  elected  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  in 
1893,  grand  prelate;  in  1894,  grand  vice- 
chancellor;  and  in  1895,  grand  chancellor.  In 
July,  1899,  he  was  unanimously  chosen  as  one 
of  the  supreme  representatives  from  New  York 
state,  serving  from  January  i,  1900,  to  Decem- 
ber 31,  1903.  In  April,  of  the  last  named 
year,  he  was  appointed  grand  keeper  of  rec- 
ords and  seal,  to  fill  a  vacancy  caused  by  death, 
and  since  July  of  that  year  has  been  continu- 
ously elected  to  that  position.  Since  Febru- 
ary, 1905,  he  has  also  been  keeper  of  records 
and  seal  of  his  home  lodge.  He  is  also  a 
charter  member  of  Salaam  Temple,  No.  145, 
D.  O.  K.  K.,  which  is  an  organization  com- 
posed entirely  of  Pythians.  In  August,  191 1, 
at  his  home  lodge  he  was  presented  with  an 
elaborate  veteran's  Pythian  jewel,  on  behalf 
of  the  seventeenth  district  of  New  York,  com- 
prising Rockland  county.  Mr.  Bedell  is  a 
member  of  Edward  Pye  Post,  No.  179,  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  of  New  York.  From 
1870  to  1884  he  was  treasurer  of  the  village, 
and  from  1882  to  1893  a  member  of  the  board 
of  education.  He  was  president  of  the  village 
of  Haverstraw  in  1899-1900  and  1911-12. 
Throughout  his  adult  life,  Mr.  Bedell  has 
affiliated  in  politics  with  the  Republican  party, 
and  now  belongs  to  its  progressive  wing.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  of 
Haverstraw,  and  is  universally  esteemed, 
where  known,  for  his  upright  and  manly  char- 
acter. 

He  married  (first)  November  18.  1869, 
Agnes  Smith,  of  Haverstraw,  daughter  of 
Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Robertson)  Smith.  He 
married  (second)  August  17,  1892,  Ida  M. 
Bliss,  of  Clyde,  New  York,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam and  Almira  (Spaulding)  Bliss.  He  mar- 
ried (third)  February  18,  1903,  Mary  J.  Bur- 
nard,  of  Haverstraw.  daughter  of  James  and 
Rebecca  (Herring)  Bennett.  There  was  one 
child  of  the  first  marriage:  W.  Herbert  Bedell, 
■born  June  2,  1878.  Children  of  second  mar- 
riage:" William  BHss,  born  June  14,  1894; 
Walter  Richie,  April  11,  1896. 


The    Emmet    family    has    been 

EMMET     prominently      associated      with 

New  York  City  since  the  year 


1804,  and  with  Westchester  county  for  over 
fifty  years.  The  name  of  Emmet,  though  it 
has  long  been  associated  in  Ireland  and 
America  with  movements  embodying  the  na- 
tional aspirations  of  the  Irish  people,  is  itself 
English  in  origin.  Its  various  forms  both  in 
England  and  Ireland  have  been  Emmet, 
Emott,  Emmott,  Emett,  and  so  on.  It  has 
been  used  as  a  surname  in  England  for  cen- 
turies. The  records  of  Oxford  show  that  in 
one  of  the  colleges  of  that  university  Henry 
Emmet  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Music,  in  the  time  of  Henry  II.  Burke,  in  his 
"Landed  Gentry,"  claims  that  people  bearing 
the  name  of  Emmett  and  Emot  have  been 
landholders  in  Lancashire  since  the  days  of 
William  the  Conqueror,  and  the  name,  vari- 
ously spelt,  is  not  infrequently  found  at  the 
present  day  in  that  portion  of  England,  as 
well  as  in  the  adjoining  county  of  Yorkshire. 
Burke  states :  "Of  this  family,  established  in 
England  at  the  Conquest,  the  first  on  record 
is  Robert  de  Emot,  who  held  lands  in  Colne, 
e  Ed.  II,  as  per  inquisition ;  he  built  the  man- 
sion of  Emot  and  died  1310."  There  is  a 
tradition  in  the  family  that  the  first  settlers 
of  the  name  in  Ireland  crossed  over  with 
Cromwell  and  came  from  county  Kent,  Eng- 
land. Yet  positive  proof  has  been  obtained 
to  show  that  while  there  were  several  of  the 
name  in  Cromwell's  army,  settlement  had  been 
made  in  the  country  by  individuals  bearing 
the  name  prior  to  Cromwell's  invasion.  But 
it  has  been  impossible  hitherto  to  connect  any 
Irish  branch  with  any  English  source,  and 
in  fact  the  relationship  between  the  diiiferent 
families  in  Ireland  has  been  equally  difficuh 
to  trace.  Investigation  seems  to  show  that  all 
those  bearing  the  name,  who  during  the  seven- 
teenth century  were  living  in  county  Kent, 
Surrey  and  London,  were  all  closely  con- 
nected, and  from  some  of  these  families 
the  Irish  settlers  came.  In  O'Hart's  "Irish 
Pedigrees"  it  is  stated  that  an  individual  of 
the  name  was  naturalized  in  Ireland  between 
1689  and  1701,  and  that  he  was  a  Huguenot 
descendant  from  Holland.  The  arms  of  the 
family  are  described  heraldically :  Per  pale 
asure  and  sable;  a  fesse  engrailed,  ermine, 
between  three  bull's  heads  cabossed,  or;  and 
the  crest  "out  of  a  ducal  coronet,  or,  a  bull 
salient,  ppr." 

(I)    Christopher   Emmet,   ancestor    in    Ire- 
land   of    the    Emmet    family,    was    born    at 


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Tipperary,  Ireland,  in  1700,  and  died  in 
the  same  county.  He  was  a  physician 
and  surgeon  and  had  a  large  practice  at 
the  time  of  his  death.  He  probably  prac- 
ticed surgery  chiefly  and  did  not  take  the  de- 
gree of  medicine,  which  would  explain  why 
he  had  never  styled  himself  "Dr.,"  and  in 
fact  nothing  more  than  "Christopher  Emett, 
Gentn.,"  as  his  signature  appears  upon  sev- 
eral documents.  He  married  February  9, 
1727,  Rebecca,  only  daughter  of  Thomas  Tem- 
ple, Esq.,  and  granddaughter  of  Sir  Purbeck 
Temple,  Bart.  Her  father  resided  for  the 
greater  portion  of  his  life  in  America,  as  did 
his  son  Robert,  and  his  grandsons  Robert  and 
John  Temple.  They  married  in  New  England, 
and  their  descendants  became  afterwards 
more  closely  related  to  the  Emmet  family. 
Children:  Thomas,  born  1727,  died  of  small- 
pox June  27,  1758,  married  Grace  Russell; 
Robert,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Robert,  son  of  Christopher  and  Re- 
becca (Temple)  Emmet,  was  born  in  Tippe- 
rary, Ireland,  November  29,  1729.  He  became  a 
noted  physician.  He  received  his  degree  of 
medicine  from  the  University  of  Montpelier, 
France,  about  1750,  and  began  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  Cork.  Ireland.  In  1753 
Dr.  Emmet  wrote  a  medical  work  on  some 
diseases  of  women,  which  was  originally  pub- 
lished in  Latin  and  was  afterwards  translated 
in  French,  with  two  editions  printed  in  Paris. 
Shortly  after  his  marriage  he  was  advised 
by  Earl  Temple,  then  the  Marquis  of  Buck- 
ingham, who  had  become  Viceroy  of  Ireland, 
to  settle  in  Dublin,  and  was  then  appointed 
"state  physician."  Later,  growing  more  and 
more  in  sympathy  with  the  aspirations  of 
those  who  desired  the  freedom  of  Ireland,  he 
resigned  his  office  and  drew  away  from 
"castle"  influences.  He  was  a  man  of  varied 
gifts  and  the  highest  principle,  and  is  immor- 
talized in  a  remarkable  passage  in  the  last 
speech  of  his  patriot  son  Robert,  spoken  at 
the  trial  preceding  his  execution:  "If  the 
spirits  of  the  illustrious  dead  participate  in 
the  concerns  and  cares  of  those  who  were 
dear  to  them  in  this  transitory  life,  O  ever 
dear  and  venerable  shade  of  my  departed 
father,  look  down  with  scrutiny  upon  the  con- 
duct of  your  suffering  son,  and  see  if  I  have 
ever  for  a  moment  deviated  from  those  princi- 
ples of  morality  and  patriotism,  which  it  was 
your  care  to  instil  into  my  youthful  mind,  and 


for  which  I  am  now  to  ofifer  up  my  life."  He 
married  at  Cork,  November  16,  1760,  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  James  and  Catherine 
(Power)  Mason,  of  Ballydowney,  county 
Kerry,  thus  allying  himself  with  the  leading 
O'Hara,  MacLaughlin,  Blennerhassett.  and 
Conway  families.  There  were  seventeen 
children  born  to  this  union,  but  only  four 
lived  beyond  childhood.  They  were:  i.  Chris- 
topher Temple,  born  1761  ;  called  to  the  bar, 
1781 ;  appointed  one  of  His  Majesty's  coun- 
sel, 1787,  and  died,  1789,  after  a  brilliant  ca- 
reer; married  Anne  Western  Temple.  2. 
Mary  Anne,  born  1773;  married  Robert 
Holmes.  3.  Thomas  Addis,  mentioned  below. 
4.  Robert,  the  celebrated  patriot  and  "rebel." 
called  the  "Patron  Saint  of  Irish  Liberty," 
born  March  4,  1778,  executed  September  20, 
1803,  for  participating  in  the  uprising  of  the 
people  in  Dublin  in  1803,  in  his  twenty-fifth 
year.  The  life  of  Robert  Emmet  has  been 
written  by  several  distinguished  authors,  and 
has  been  made  the  theme  of  countless  speeches 
and  dissertations.  Few  names  in  Ireland's 
long  history  have  become  so  embalmed  in  the 
tender  memory  of  the  Irish  people.  His 
youth,  his  brilliant  gifts,  his  self-sacrificing 
courage,  the  dignity  of  his  bearing  in  the  face 
of  death,  his  passionate  devotion  to  the  wel- 
fare of  Ireland,  his  romantic  attachment  to 
Sarah  Curran,  the  pathetic  blighting  of  a  ca- 
reer full  of  promises,  have  all  combined  to 
write  his  name  indelibly  in  history. 

(Ill)  Thomas  Addis,  son  of  Robert  and 
Elizabeth  (  Mason  )  Emmet,  was  born  in  Dub- 
li'n,  Ireland,  April  24,  1764,  and  died  at  New 
York,  November  15.  1827.  He  was  educated 
in  Dublin,  and  graduated  from  Trinity  Col- 
lege. He  studied  medicine  in  Edinburgh  and 
obtained  his  degree  in  1784  with  unusual  hon- 
ors. On  leaving  Edinburgh  he  went  to  Lon- 
don, where  he  entered  Guy's  Hospital  as  a 
resident  physician  and  served  the  usual  course 
in  that  institution.  He  then  proceeded  to  the 
continent  for  an  exhaustive  tour,  accompanied 
by  an  intimate  friend.  Mr.  Knox,  from  the 
north  of  Ireland,  and  a  son  of  Lord  North- 
land. On  his  return  to  Dublin  he  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  and  at  once  received 
the  appointment  as  state  physician,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  his  father,  Mr.  Robert  Emmet.  He 
had  already  entered  on  a  practice  which  prom- 
ised to  be  brilliant,  but  on  the  sudden  death 
of  his  brother  Temple,  his  father  urged  him 


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to  adopt  the  law.  He  at  once  acceded  to  his 
father's  wishes,  and  within  a  short  period 
quahfied  himself  for  the  bar.  Becoming  a 
leader  of  the  Society  of  the  United  Irish- 
men, he  was  apprehended  by  the  British 
authorities  and  confined  in  Kilmainham 
jail,  Dublin,  and  in  Fort  George,  Scotland, 
for  nearly  four  years,  being  liberated  and 
exiled  from  his  native  land  after  the 
treaty  of  Amiens.  After  his  liberation  he 
went  first  to  Paris,  and  in  1804  came  to 
America  and  settled  in  New  York,  in  which 
city  he  practiced  law  for  the  rest  of  his  life. 
In  1812  he  was  appointed  attorney-general  of 
the  state.  He  was  retained  in  many  of  the 
important  cases  tried  in  New  York  City,  and 
also  often  appeared  before  the  supreme  court 
of  the  United  States.  He  was  one  of  the 
counsel  opposed  to  Webster  in  the  great  case 
of  Gibbons  vs.  Ogden.  His  argument  in  this 
case  attracted  wide  attention  and  won  encom- 
iums from  Webster  himself.  He  once  sued 
Chancellor  Livingston  on  behalf  of  a  client 
who  claimed  that  he  had  been  unlawfully  im- 
prisoned by  the  chancellor's  order,  but  in  that 
suit  he  was  defeated,  the  court  for  the  cor- 
rection of  errors  deciding  that  a  judge  is  not 
liable  for  a  mistake  in  judgment.  The  early 
New  York  Reports  show  him  to  have  been 
engaged  in  a  very  extensive  law  practice,  in- 
volving all  manner  of  questions,  from  those 
of  constitutional  and  international  law  to  those 
of  libel.  He  was  the  counsel  of  Governor 
Lewis  in  his  libel  case  against  the  editor  of 
the  American  Citizen.  Emmet  was  known  for 
his  courtesy  while  at  the  bar,  never  indulging 
in  any  vituperative  epithets  or  abusing  his 
opponents,  but  his  gentlemanly  instincts  did 
not  prevent  him  from  using  to  the  utmost  all 
his  ingenuity  on  behalf  of  his  client.  Many 
interesting  anecdotes  are  told  illustrating  his 
natural  and  legal  cleverness.  He  died  from 
apoplexy,  the  stroke  of  which  came  on  him 
in  the  court  room  in  New  York  City,  while 
engaged  in  the  trial  of  a  case.  Although  not 
buried  there,  he  had  a  commemorative  shaft 
in  St.  Paul's  churchyard  on  lower  Broadway, 
New  York  City.  Before  his  death  he  pub- 
lished "Pieces  of  Irish  History."  He  married, 
January  11,  1791.  Jane,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
John  and  Mary  (Colville)  Patten.  Children: 
iElizabeth,  married  William  LeRoy ;  Thomas 
Addis,  Jr.;  John  Patten;  William  Colville; 
and  Robert,  mentioned  below. 


(IV)  Robert,  son  of  Thomas  Addis  and 
Jane  (Patten)  Emmet,  was  born  at  Dublin, 
Ireland,  September  8,  1792,  and  died  at  New 
Rochelle,  New  York,  September  15,  1873.  It 
was  not  known  where  he  was  prepared  for 
college,  but  he  was  a  student  of  Columbia, 
and  graduated  about  18 10.  He  was  brought 
to  this  country  in  his  boyhood  by  his  father. 
He  adopted  the  legal  profession,  was  held  in 
high  regard  by  the  members  of  the  bar,  and 
became  a  justice  of  the  superior  court.  He 
was  more  especially  distinguished  for  his  ac- 
tive efforts  on  behalf  of  his  native  land,  and 
was  conspicuously  trusted  and  esteemed  by 
the  representative  men  of  the  Irish  race  resi- 
dent in  New  York  City.  In  1848,  when  an 
insurrection  was  contemplated  in  Ireland,  he 
cordially  co-operated  with  his  countrymen, 
and  was  one  of  the  directory  formed  for  the 
purpose  of  sending  material  aid  to  the  Irish 
patriots.  He  was  an  impassioned  speaker.  At 
the  great  meeting  at  the  Tabernacle,  June  6, 
1848,  he  delivered  an  address  in  which  he 
said:  "If  Ireland  cannot  achieve  her  independ- 
ence without  bloodshed,  let  it  be  with  blood. 
I  know  something  of  the  horrors  of  civil  war 
in  Ireland,  but  if  it  must  come.  I  am  not  now 
too  old,  and  I  shall  be  found  in  the  ranks  of 
the  people  of  my  native  island."  He  married, 
January,  1817.  Rosina,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Adam  Hubley.  a  very  active  and  distinguished 
officer  during  the  revolution.  Children : 
Thomas  Addis,  born  June  4,  1818,  died  Janu- 
ary 12,  1880,  unmarried;  Robert,  born  Sep- 
tember 20,  1819;  Richard  S.,  mentioned  be- 
low ;  Christopher  Temple ;  Lydia  Hubley ; 
William  Jenkins ;  Edward  Fitzgerald ;  and 
John  Patten. 

(V)  Richard  Stockton,  son  of  Robert  and 
Rosina  (Hubley)  Emmet,  was  born  February 
22,  1821,  died  at  New  Rochelle,  New  York, 
November  3,  1902.  He  was  a  lawyer  of 
prominence  and  standing,  but  never  sought 
nor  held  political  office.  During  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  he  resided  at  New  Rochelle, 
Westchester  county,  New  York.  He  married. 
September  9,  1868.  Katharine,  daughter  of 
Colonel  Robert  Emmet  and  Catherine  M. 
(James)  Temple.  Children  :  William  Temple, 
mentioned  below :  Richard  Stockton,  Jr..  born 
March  10,  1871,  married  June  6,  1894.  Mary, 
daughter  of  Harwood  Vernon  Olyphant,  law- 
yer ;  Katherine  Temple,  March  9,  1873 ; 
married  Martin  J.  Keogh ;  Elizabeth  LeRoy, 


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December  22,  1874;  Grenville  Temple,  August 
2,  1877,  and  Eleanor  Temple,  January  17, 
1880. 

(VI)  William  Temple,  eldest  son  of  Rich- 
ard Stockton  and  Katharine  (Temple)  Em- 
met, was  born  at  New  Rochelle,  New  York, 
July  18,  1869.  He  was  educated  at  St.  Paul's 
School,  Concord,  and  at  Columbia  College, 
studying  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  Keogh,  and 
practicing  law  first  at  New  Rochelle  and  later 
at  New  York.  He  married,  June  16,  1896, 
Cornelia  Booraean,  daughter  of  Augustus 
Zabriskie.  His  children  are :  Richard  Stock- 
ton, born  April  4,  1897,  at  New  Rochelle,  New 
York;  Katherine  Temple,  New  York  City, 
October  8,  1899;  and  William  Temple,  Jr., 
New  York  City,  January  19,  1907. 

Mr.  Emmet  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at 
Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  in  1891,  and  prac- 
ticed three  years  in  Westchester  county,  pre- 
vious to  coming  to  New  York.  His  law  office 
in  New  York  City  is  at  52  Wall  street.  He 
was  village  trustee  of  New  Rochelle  for  two 
years,  1891  and  1892.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  constitutional  convention  of  1893,  repre- 
senting Westchester  county.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  education  in  New  York 
City  in  1898,  and  is  now  the  state  superin- 
tendent of  insurance  of  New  York  state,  hav- 
ing been  appointed  to  that  office  in  19 12  by 
Governor  Dix.  Mr.  Emmet  was  a  delegate 
to  the  last  three  national  conventions,  and  is 
a  Democrat  in  politics.  He  was  brought  up 
as  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Metropolitan, 
Players  and  Down  Town  clubs ;  the  Bar  Asso- 
ciation and  County  Lawyers'  Association.  He 
resides  now  in  Albany,  and  at  his  country 
place,  "Ten  Hills,"  at  South  Salem,  Westches- 
ter county.  New  York. 

(VI)  Grenville  Temple,  youngest  son  of 
Richard  Stockton  and  Katharine  (Temple) 
Emmet,  was  born  at  New  Rochelle,  New 
York,  August  2,  1877.  He  was  graduated 
from  Harvard  University  in  1898,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1901.  He  belongs  to 
the  University  and  City  clubs.  He  married, 
at  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  September  18,  1905, 
Pauline  Anne,  daughter  of  Paul  Dudley  and 
Annie  (Borup)  Ferguson,  born  February  15, 
1879.  Children:  Pauline  Ann  Temple,  born 
■in  New  York  City,  October  28,  1906:  and 
Grenville  Temple,  New  York  City,  March  31, 
1907. 


(VI)  Of  the  other  children  of  Richard 
Stockton  and  Katharine  (Temple)  Emmet, 
Richard  Stockton  Emmet  Jr.,  the  second  son 
died  in  Albany  in  February,  1897,  while  repre- 
senting Westchester  county  in  the  legislature 
of  New  York  state.  Katharine  Emmet 
Keogh,  the  wife  of  Justice  Martin  J.  Keogh, 
of  the  New  York  supreme  court,  resides  in 
New  Rochelle,  and  is  the  mother  of  a  large 
family  of  children,  of  whom  the  eldest  is 
Richard  Emmet  Keogh.  Elizabeth  LeRoy 
Emmet  is  the  wife  of  Nicholas  Biddle,  Esq., 
and  resides  in  New  York  City  during  the 
winter  and  for  the  balance  of  the  year  at 
South  Salem,  Westchester  county.  New  York. 
Her  children  are  Nicholas  Biddle,  Jr.,  and 
Temple  Biddle.  Eleanor  Temple  Emmet  is 
the  wife  of  John  Willard  Lapsley,  Esq.,  and 
resides  in  New  York  City,  and  at  Katonah, 
Westchester  county.  New  York. 

The  family  of  Emmet,  of  which  only  the 
Westchester  county  branch  has  been  men- 
tioned above  in  connection  with  this  history 
of  the  Hudson  Valley,  has  grown  to  be  a  large 
one  in  America.  It  embraces  a  number  of  men 
and  women  who  have  attained  distinction  in 
the  arts  and  sciences.  It  is  to-day  an  Amer- 
ican family  in  every  sense  of  the  word,  the 
Emmet  family  having  ceased  to  exist  in  Ire- 
land. 


John  Waller,  of  Monticello, 
WALLER  New  York,  comes  of  an  hon- 
orable revolutionary  ancestry. 
His  grandfather,  George  Waller,  was  a  native 
of  England,  where  he  was  impressed  into  the 
British  army  and  brought  to  this  country.  His 
sympathies  were  with  the  patriots,  and  he  de- 
serted and  joined  the  American  army,  with 
which  he  fought  to  the  end  of  the  war,  rising 
to  the  rank  of  orderly  sergeant.  He  was  a 
close  friend  of  Uzal  Knapp,  the  last  of  Wash- 
ington's bodyguard,  and  whose  remains  rest 
in  the  Washington  Headquarters  grounds  at 
Newburgh.  After  the  war  George  Waller 
made  farming  his  occupation.  He  married 
Margaret  Coleman,  and  their  children  were : 
Catherine.  Charlotte,  Deborah,  Elizabeth, 
Sarah,  Elnathan,  John  and  George,  the  two 
last  named  being  twins. 

(II)  John  Waller,  son  of  George  and  Mar- 
garet (Coleman)  Waller,  was  born  near  New- 
burgh, New  York,  April  17,  1802.  He  was  a 
wagonmaker  by  occupation.     He  was  a  Whig 


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in  politics  until  the  Republican  party  arose, 
and  to  which  he  was  ardently  attached  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  married,  in  1824, 
Charlotte  Marston,  born  September  22,  1808, 
daughter  of  Joshua  and  Elizabeth  (Clapp) 
Marston.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  Oc- 
tober 20,  1824;  married,  1840,  Harrison  Pond. 
2.  John  Waller,  Jr.,  of  whom  further.  3. 
Margaret,  born  September  5,  1828 ;  married, 
1847,  Dillon  Bristol.  4.  Augusta,  born  May 
28,  1841  ;  married,  1867,  David  Lounsbury.  5. 
Frances,  born  April  28,  1843  I  married,  1868, 
Isaac  Lounsbury.  6.  William,  born  Septem- 
ber 10,  1848;  married,  1878,  in  New  York, 
Jennie  Kelley. 

(HI)  John  Waller,  Jr.,  second  child  and 
eldest  son  of  John  and  Charlotte  (Marston) 
Waller,  was  born  near  Newburgh,  New  York. 
October  8,  1826.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  in  Wurtsboro  and  Monticello,  and  his 
studious  habits  enabled  him  to  acquire  an  am- 
ple education,  well  fitting  him  for  a  journal- 
istic career  in  after  life.  In  his  youth  he 
worked  on  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  canal,  first 
as  a  driver;  next  as  a  bowman  and  captain; 
and  then  as  mail  carrier.  He  left  this  employ- 
ment to  learn  the  printer's  trade  in  the  office 
of  the  Sullivan  Whig,  at  Bloomingburgh,  and 
in  a  few  years  became  foreman.  He  was  editor 
and  proprietor  of  the  Sullivan  County  Repub- 
lican from  1856  until  1906,  when  the  plant 
was  removed  to  Monticello  and  the  name  of 
the  paper  was  changed.  Mr.  Waller  was 
widely  known  as  an  enterprising  and  able 
journalist,  and  his  paper  enjoyed  a  liberal 
patronage.  His  newspaper  duties  were  inter- 
mitted for  a  time  during  the  civil  war  by  his 
enlistment  as  captain  of  Company  H,  Twenty- 
eighth  Regiment,  New  York  Volunteers ;  he 
was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Cedar  Mountain, 
and  took  part  in  that  of  Winchester,  and  was 
promoted  to  major  by  Governor  Morgan.  As 
a  Whig,  he  served  as  postmaster  of  Bloomin- 
burgh  under  President  Taylor.  He  connected 
himself  with  the  Republican  party  at  its  or- 
ganization in  1856,  and  in  the  campaign  of 
that  year  gave  vigorous  support  through  his 
newspaper  to  General  John  C.  Fremont.  Un- 
der the  administrations  of  Presidents  Lincoln, 
Grant  and  Harrison  he  was  postmaster  at 
Monticello.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  church,  in  which  he  has  served  as 
warden  and  vestryman  for  nearly  forty  years. 
He  is  a  comrade  in  the  Grand  Army  of  the 


Republic,  and  has  served  for  several  terms  as 
commander  of  the  local  post  of  that  order. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows. 

Major  Waller  was  married,  in  the  Episcopal 
church,  Monticello,  June  20,  1867,  to  Alice 
Lossing  Quinlan,  born  in  Monticello,  Febru- 
ary 22,  1848.  She  is  a  daughter  of  James  E, 
and  Amanda  (Baker)  Quinlan.  Her  father 
was  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Republican 
Watchman,  and  author  of  "History  of  Sulli- 
van County."  Children  of  Major  and  Mrs. 
Waller,  all  born  in  Monticello:  George  Eld- 
ridge  Waller,  born  March  23,  1869,  married 
in  Monticello,  May  4,  1892,  to  Leonora 
Pitcher;  Edward  Waller,  born  May  28,  1871 ; 
John  Hammond  Waller,  June  i,  1874;  Edith 
Amanda  Waller,  November  13,  1878.  Now 
in  his  eighty-eighth  year,  Major  Waller, 
though  laboring  under  some  physical  disad- 
vantages incident  to  a  venerable  age,  enjoys 
an  unclouded  intellect,  and  takes  enjoyment 
not  only  in  recollections  of  a  busy  and  useful 
life,  but  in  watching  the  course  of  present-day 
events. 


This  name  is  undoubtedly  of 
BETTS  English  origin,  and  appears  very 
early  in  New  England.  One  im- 
migrant settled  in  Guilford,  Connecticut,  and 
has  left  a  very  numerous  progeny,  some  of 
whom  have  attained  distinction.  The  ancestor 
of  the  line  herein  traced  was  for  a  brief  time 
in  Massachusetts,  but  settled  in  the  middle  of 
the  seventeenth  century  on  Long  Island.  His 
descendants  are  found  in  various  sections  of 
New  York  and  other  portions  of  the  United 
States. 

(I)  Captain  Richard  Betts,  born  in  1613, 
came  from  England,  and  appears  to  have  re- 
sided for  a  time  in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts. 
It  is  said  that  he  was  in  Newtown  or  Cam- 
bridge, but  no  mention  of  him  is  found  in  the 
history  of  that  town.  He  was  in  Ipswich  in 
1648,  and  about  1650  settled  at  Newtown, 
Long  Island.  He  was  one  of  the  patentees  of 
that  town,  and  a  prominent  man  in  what  was 
then  called  Yorkshire,  embracing  all  of  Long 
Island  and  Staten  Island,  and  a  part  of  what 
is  now  Westchester  county,  New  York.  He 
owned  a  large  tract  of  land  at  English  Kills, 
a  part  of  which  has  remained  in  the  hands  of 
his  descendants  until  a  very  recent  period.  For 
many  years  he  was  a  magistrate  and  at  times 


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a  member  of  the  court  of  assizes,  which  oc- 
casionally sat  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  provincial  assembly  which 
gathered  at  Hempstead  in  1665,  and  was  com- 
missioned as  high  sheriff  of  Yorkshire,  Octo- 
ber 30,  1678,  and  continued  to  fill  that  office 
until  1681.  He  died  at  Newtown,  November 
18,  1713.  It  is  said  of  him  that  he  dug  his 
own  grave.  His  wife's  name  was  Joanna,  and 
they  had  children :  Richard,  mentioned  below ; 
Thomas ;  Joanna,  married  John  Scudder ; 
Mary,  married  Joseph  Swezey ;  Martha,  mar- 
ried Philip  Ketcham;  Elizabeth,  married  Jo- 
seph Sackett;  Sarah,  married  Edward  Hunt. 

(H)  Richard  (2),  eldest  son  of  Captain 
Richard  (i)  and  Joanna  Betts,  owned  lands 
in  1680,  and  settled  on  the  south  bounds  of 
Newtown,  his  farm  including  a  part  of  what 
is  now  Cypress  Hills  Cemetery.  Here  he  died 
November  4,  171 1,  leaving  a  widow  Sarah, 
who  survived  him  many  years.  Children : 
Richard;  Robert,  mentioned  below;  Thomas, 
Sarah,  Elizabeth,  Joanna,  Abigail,  Mary. 

(HI)  Robert,  second  son  of  Richard  (2) 
and  Sarah  Betts,  lived  in  the  vicinity  of  New- 
town. He  married  and  had  a  son  Augustine, 
mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Augustine,  son  of  Robert  Betts,  re- 
sided in  the  neighborhood  of  Newtown,  and 
died  at  Albany,  May  23,  1813.  He  married 
Keziah  Wiggins,  who  died  March  12,  181 1. 
They  had  two  sons :  Robert  and  Richard,  men- 
tioned below,  and  a  daughter  Mellicent. 

(V)  Robert  (2),  son  of  Augustine  and 
Keziah  (Wiggins)  Betts,  resided  in  early  life 
in  Huntington,  Long  Island,  and  was  later  a 
resident  of  New  York  City.  At  the  time  of 
his  death  he  resided  with  a  granddaughter, 
Phebe  Betts  Ryan.  He  married  Anna  Bloom, 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  Oliver  Betts, 
mentioned  below. 

(V)  Richard,  son  of  Augustine  and  Keziah 
(Wiggins)  Betts,  was  born  July  16,  1756,  and 
died  November  13,  1840.  He  was  a  school 
teacher  in  early  life,  and  for  about  thirty  years 
justice  of  the  peace  in  Broadalbin,  Fulton 
county.  New  York,  of  which  town  he  was  one 
of  the  pioneer  settlers.  He  married  Abigail 
Scidmore,  born  June  20,  1769,  died  July  27, 
1846.  They  were  the  parents  of  Abigail  Betts, 
wife  of  Oliver  Betts,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Oliver,  son  of  Robert  (2)  and  Anna 
(Bloom)  Betts,  was  born  June,  1800,  and  died 
July  28,   1873.     Early  in  life  he  operated  a 


sloop  between  New  York  and  Philadelphia, 
and  after  leaving  the  sea,  engaged  in  farming. 
He  was  a  Baptist  in  religion,  and  a  Democrat 
in  politics.  He  married,  about  1830,  Abigail 
Betts,  born  July  27,  1809,  died  April  10,  1892, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Abigail  (Scidmore) 
Betts,  above  mentioned.  Children:  Isaiah, 
mentioned  below ;  Jonathan  A. ;  Phebe  M., 
wife  of  Charles  Earle. 

(VII)  Isaiah,  eldest  child  of  Oliver  and 
Abigail  (Betts)  Betts,  was  born  October  24, 
183 1,  in  Broadalbin,  Fulton  county,  New  York, 
died  November,  1901.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
dealer  in  all  kinds  of  live  stock  and  agricultural 
implements,  and  an  active  citizen  of  the  town, 
acting  with  the  Democratic  party  in  politics. 
He  was  frequently  a  delegate  to  state  and 
other  conventions,  and  served  as  assessor  of 
his  town.  He  was  an  attendant  and  trustee 
of  the  Providence  Baptist  Church;  president 
of  the  Broadalbin  Creamery  Company,  and 
a  director  of  the  Fulton  &  Montgomery 
County  Insurance  Company.  He  married, 
November,  1851,  Margaret  Ann  Hoes,  born 
March  12,  1832,  daughter  of  Stephen  H.  and 
Lydia  M.  (Paddleford)  Hoes  (see  Hoes 
VII.).  Children:  James  Albert,  mentioned 
below;  Annie  Mary,  born  August,  1866,  now 
deceased;  Mattie  Fuller,  February  22,  1869, 
deceased. 

(VIII)  James  Albert,  only  son  of  Isaiah 
and  Margaret  Ann  (Hoes)  Betts,  was  born 
March  18,  1853,  in  Broadalbin,  and  attended 
the  district  school  at  Mills  Corners,  in  Fulton 
county,  and  Whiteside  Corners,  Saratoga 
county,  New  York.  He  attended  the  Broad- 
albin graded  school  and  was  subsequently 
graduated  from  the  New  York  State  Normal 
School  at  Albany,  in  June,  1875.  Having  pre- 
pared for  the  legal  profession,  he  was  admit- 
ted to  practice  as  a  lawyer  in  November,  1880. 
While  pursuing  his  education,  he  taught  the 
district  school  at  Whiteside  Corners,  Saratoga 
county,  in  the  winters  of  1871-72,  1872-73  and 
1873-74,  and  was  later  principal,  with  seven 
assistants,  of  Public  School  No.  11,  Kingston, 
New  York,  for  a  period  of  two  years,  begin- 
ning with  September,  1875.  He  was  a  law 
student  and  managing  clerk  for  Schoonmaker 
&  Linson,  of  Kingston,  from  1877  to  1880. 
Having  been  admitted  in  November  of  the 
latter  year,  he  engaged  in  practice  at  Kingston, 
continuing  until  January  i,  1899.  Since  Jan- 
uary I,   1913,  he  has  been  senior  member  of 


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the  firm  of  Betts  &  Cahill,  with  a  large  general 
practice  at  Kingston.  Mr.  Betts  has  met  with 
a  gratifying  success  in  his  chosen  profession, 
and  is  now  president  of  the  Kingston  Savings 
Bank,  and  a  director  of  the  National  Ulster 
County  Bank,  of  Kingston.  Like  his  ances- 
tors, he  has  affiliated  in  politics  with  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  He  was  first  secretary  of  the 
New  York  State  Civil  Service  Commission  in 
1883  and  1884,  and  resigned  in  order  to  de- 
vote his  time  to  his  law  practice.  He  was 
elected  five  times  a  member  of  the  Kingston 
board  of  education,  beginning  with  1885,  and 
resigned  in  1898.  For  two  years  he  was 
president  of  the  board.  In  1890-91  he  was 
clerk  of  the  Ulster  county  board  of  super- 
visors, and  in  1892  was  elected  surrogate  of 
Ulster  county,  serving  the  full  term  of  six 
years,  beginning  January  i,  1893.  He  was 
elected  a  justice  of  the  supreme  court  for  the 
third  judicial  district  in  1898,  and  served  a 
term  of  fourteen  years,  beginning  January  i, 
1899.  He  declined  a  renomination,  and  re- 
turned to  the  practice  of  his  profession,  Janu- 
ary I,  1913.  He  has  been  manager  of  the 
Kingston  City  Hospital  since  its  incorporation, 
a  period  of  over  twenty  years ;  was  long  its 
vice-president,  and  is  now  president.  He  is 
affiliated  with  the  three  principal  fraternal 
orders.  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons.  Mr.  Betts  is  a  member  of  the  King- 
ston Club  of  Kingston,  and  the  National  Dem- 
ocratic Club  of  Fifth  avenue,  New  York  City. 
He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Albany  Avenue  Baptist 
Church  of  Kingston,  of  which  his  son  is  also 
a  regular  attendant. 

He  married  (first)  October  16,  1884,  at 
Kingston,  Frances  M.  Hill,  born  May  29,  1861, 
in  that  town,  died  June  15,  1905,  daughter  of 
William  D.  and  Mary  J.  (Saulpaugh)  Hill. 
Her  father  was  a  merchant,  hotelkeeper,  and 
speculator  of  Kingston.  He  married  (second) 
November  5,  1908,  in  Kingston,  Olivia  M. 
Matthews,  born  August  7,  1852,  in  the  town 
of  Olive,  Ulster  county.  New  York,  daughter 
of  Egbert  R.  and  Sarah  E.  (North)  Mat- 
thews. Her  father  was  a  merchant  and  town 
assessor  in  Olive.  Both  of  these  ladies  were 
descended  from  Major  Andrew  Hill,  a  soldier 
of  the  revolution.  The  present  Mrs.  Betts  is 
a  member  of  St.  James  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Kingston.  There  is  one  child  of 
the  first  marriage :  James  Hill  Betts,  born  Jan- 


uary 27,  1899,  now  a  student  of  the  Kingston 
schools. 

(The  Hoes  Line.) 
In  the  early  Dutch  records  of  this  state,  this 
name  is  written  Goes,  but  was  pronounced 
by  the  Dutch  according  to  the  present  spelling 
and  the  English  pronunciation.  There  are 
many  descendants  of  this  family  still  in 
the  neighborhood  of  Albany  and  they  have 
spread  out  thence  over  the  state. 

(I)  Jan  Tyssen  Goes  was  undoubtedly  a 
native  of  Holland,  and  was  an  early  resident 
of  Beverwyck,  now  Albany.  Among  his 
descendants  was  Mary  Hoes,  mother  of 
Martin  Van  Buren.  He  married  (first) 
Breechje  Maryns,  widow  of  Claes  Cor- 
neliessen  Van  Voorhout,  and  (second)  Styntje 
Janse  Van  Hoesen,  daughter  of  Jan  Franssen 
Van  Hoesen.  They  had  children :  Matthys, 
mentioned  below;  Dirck,  Jan,  Anna,  Tenntje, 
Judith,  Mayke,  and  Jacobus,  baptized  May  i, 
1687. 

(II)  Matthys  Hoes,  eldest  child  of  Jan 
Tyssen  Goes,  married  Cornelia  Tenis  Van 
Deusen,  and  they  had  children,  baptized  at 
Albany:  Jan,  August  7,  1687;  Matheuis 
March  9,  1690;  Johannes,  mentioned  below; 
Breechje,  January  20,  1695 ;  Dirck,  May  2, 
1697;  Lena,  January  7,  1700. 

(III)  Johannes,  third  son  of  Matthys  and 
Cornelia  T.  (Van  Deusen)  Hoes,  was  bap- 
tized May  8,  1692,  at  Albany,  and  had  a  wife, 
Jannetje.  They  had  children  baptized  at 
Kinderhook :  Derick,  mentioned  below ;  Lauw- 
rens.  May  11,  1728;  Lucas,  May  16,  1731 ; 
Elizabeth,  October  3,  1736. 

(IV)  Derick,  son  of  Johannes  and  Jannetje 
Hoes,  was  baptized  January  6,  1724,  at  Kind- 
erhook, and  died  1773.  His  wife  bore  the 
name  of  Christina. 

(V)  John  Derick,  son  of  Derick  and  Chris- 
tina Hoes,  was  born  May  25,  1753,  and  died 
January  25,  1789.  He  married  Maria  Quack- 
enbush,  born  January  26,  1753,  died  December 
5>  1832. 

(VI)  Derick  (2),  son  of  John  Derick  and 
Maria  (Quackenbush)  Hoes,  died  October  17, 
1851.  He  married,  March  17,  1800,  Anna 
Hunt,  who  died  September  17,  1827. 

(VII)  Stephen  Hunt,  son  of  Derick  (2)  and 
Anna  (Hunt)  Hoes,  was  born  June  27,  1806, 
died  July  i,  1863.  He  married  Lydia  M. 
Paddleford,  born  February  13,  1813,  and  they 
were  the  parents  of  Margaret  Ann  Hoes,  who 


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became  the  wife  of  Isaiah  Betts,  of  Broadal- 
bin.  New  York  (see  Betts  VII). 


Edward  B.  Codwise,  a  civil 
CODWISE     engineer  by  profession,  and  a 

highly  esteemed  resident  of 
Kingston,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  where  he 
has  resided  for  many  years,  traces  his  ancestry 
on  the  paternal  side  to  Jan  Koenraet  Codweis, 
also  spelled  John  Conrad,  who  was  in  this 
country  prior  to  1708,  a  native  of  (probably) 
Manheim,  who  married  Margaret  Elizabeth 
Stillwagen,  and  among  their  children  was 
Christopher,  of  whom  further.  The  name  in 
old  documents  and  records  is  spelled  Codwys, 
Codweis  and  Codwies. 

(II)  Christopher  Codwise,  son  of  Jan 
Koenraet  and  Margaret  Elizabeth  (Still- 
wagen) Codweis,  served  as  adjutant  in  Kings 
County  Militia  in  1722,  field  officer  in  1728, 
and  county  judge  of  Kings  county  in  1738-42. 
He  married  a  Miss  Beekman,  and  among  their 
children  was  George,  of  whom  further. 

(III)  George  Codwise,  son  of  Christopher 

and  (Beekman)   Codwise,  was  a  soldier 

in  the  revolutionary  army,  a  member  of  the 
Third  New  York  Regiment  from  1778  to  1781. 
He  married,  July  19,  1760,  Anna  Maria  Ranst, 
born  in  1740,  died  in  1805.  Among  their  chil- 
dren was  Christopher,  of  whom  further. 

(IV)  Christopher  (2)  Codwise,  son  of 
George  and  Anna  Maria  (Ranst)  Codwise, 
was  born  September  19,  1767,  died  May  4, 
1849.  He  married,  in  1786,  in  Santa  Cruz, 
Danish  West  Indies.  Elizabeth  Rogers,  born 
in  1771,  died  in  1864.  Among  their  children 
was  Elisha  Rogers,  of  whom  further. 

(V)  Elisha  Rogers  Codwise,  son  of  Christo- 
pher (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Rogers)  Codwise, 
was  born  July  29,  1815,  died  July  i,  1872.  He 
married,  June  21,  1848,  Harriet  Matilda  Spen- 
cer Salter,  born  December  17,  1820,  died  July 
18,  1883,  and  among  their  children  was  Ed- 
ward B.,  of  whom  further.  Mrs.  Codwise  was 
a  descendant  of  Richard  Salter,  who  came 
from  England  in  1664,  arriving  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts.  Later  he  settled  in  Middle- 
town,  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  and 
there  married  Sarah  Bowne,  born  November 
27,  1669,  died  in  1720.  Their  son,  Ebenezer, 
married  Rebecca  Stillwell.  Their  son,  Man- 
assa,  born  1720.  died  1799,  married,  June  6, 
1763.  Catherine  Wright.     Their  son,  Thomas, 


born  .November  4,  1764,  died  April  6,  1853, 
married,  as  his  third  wife,  July  18,  1812,  Susan 
Henrietta  Williamson,  born  in  1777,  died  July 
19,  1866,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  Har- 
riet Matilda  Spencer,  aforementioned  as  the 
wife  of  Elisha  R.  Codwise. 

(VI)  Edward  B.  Codwise,  son  of  Elisha 
Rogers  and  Harriet  Matilda  Spencer  (Salter) 
Codwise,  was  born  May  9,  1849.  He  gradu- 
ated from  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  in  1865  and 
spent  the  two  following  years  in  L'Institution 
Davaux,  Amiens,  France.  He  was  an  as- 
sistant engineer  in  the  employ  of  the  Erie 
Railroad,  1868-69;  New  Jersey  Southern 
Railroad  Company,  1869-70;  principal  as- 
sistant engineer  Wallkill  Valley  Railroad, 
1870-72 ;  resident  engineer  Callas  Lima  & 
Oroya  Railroad,  Peru,  1872-73 ;  principal  as- 
sistant engineer  New  Jersey  Southern  Rail- 
road, 1874-76;  assistant  engineer  Erie  Rail- 
road, 1876-77;  assistant  engineer  New  York 
Elevated  Railroad,  1879;  principal  assistant 
Wallkill  \'alley  Extension,  1880-81  ;  resident 
engineer  West  Shore  Railroad,  1881-84 :  chief 
engineer  Ulster  and  Delaware  Railroad  and 
Delaware  and  Otsego  Railroad,  1884  to  1902 
and  1902  to  1910;  city  engineer.  City  of  Kings- 
ton, 1910  to  date;  civil  and  consulting  en- 
gineer, office  Kingston,  New  York.  He  mar- 
ried, March  28,  1872,  Emma  Snyder,  born 
March  28,  1848  (see  Snyder  VI),  and  their 
children  are:  i.  Harriette  Frances,  born  Janu- 
ary 24.  1874;  married,  October  27,  1897,  Rich- 
ard Henry  Edmondson ;  children:  Helen 
Louise,  born  October  23,  1898;  Gladys  Chas- 
tain,  born  May  22,  igoo;  Harriette  Codwise, 
born  July  16,  1905 ;  Richard  Edward,  born 
April  20,  1910.  2.  Henry  Rogers,  born  March 
13,  1877;  married,  July  8,  1903,  Marie  Eliza- 
beth Anderson  ;  children  :  Edward  Bertie,  born 
June  9,  1906;  Rie  Elizabeth,  born  July  2-j, 
1909.  3.  George  Wallace,  born  September  29, 
1887;  married,  January  13,  1913,  Ann  Has- 
brouck. 

(The  Snyder  Line.) 

(I)  Jacob  Schneider,  the  ancestor  of  the 
line  here  under  consideration,  a  resident  of 
Hackenburgh  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Rhine 
in  the  Lower  Palatinate,  near  the  city  of  Cob- 
lenz,  where  the  Moselle  flows  into  the  Rhine, 
accompanied  by  his  wife,  Anna  Barbarah.  and 
his  son  Christopher,  reached  New  York  in 
June,  1710,  and  his  second  son,  Johann  Hen- 
rich,  was  born  September  26,  17 15. 


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(II)  Christopher  Schneider,  son  of  Jacob 
and  Anna  Barbarah  Schneider,  married  Su- 
sanna Michel;  children:  Johannes,  baptized  in 
the  Reformed  Church,  Rhinebeck,  November 

1,  1731;  Maria,  baptized  in  same  church,  Au- 
gust 7,  1737;  Jacob,  of  whom  further. 

(III)  Jacob  Schneider,  son  of  Christopher 
and  Susanna  (Michel)  Schneider,  was  born 
in  1726.  He  moved  to  Rosendale,  Ulster 
county,  New  York,  in  1755.  Children:  i. 
Christopher,  born  February  24,  1756.  died  July 
3,  1842 ;  he  served  in  the  Third  Regiment, 
Ulster  County  Militia,  during  the  revolution; 
married,  November  3,  1785,  Deborah  Low, 
born  January  24,  1766,  died  March  7,  1824, 
and  they  had  one  son,  Jacob  Low  Snyder, 
born  September  8,  1788,  died  December  23, 
1834;  married.  May  18,  1809,  Catherine  Has- 
brouck,  born  September  12,  1791,  died  Novem- 
ber 2,  1842,  and  their  sixth  child  was  Sarah, 
born  June  23,  1821,  died  September  29,  1876. 

2.  Andrew,  of  whom  further. 

(IV)  Dr.  Andrew  Snyder,  son  of  Jacob 
Schneider,  was  born  May  i,  1762,  died  about 
1834.  He  obtained  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine.  He  married  Lydia  Schoonmaker, 
born  August  19,  1776,  daughter  of  Captain 
Frederick  Schoonmaker,  of  the  revolutionary 
army.  His  first  son  was  Jacob  A.,  of  whom 
further. 

(V)  Jacob  A.  Snyder,  son  of  Dr.  Andrew 
Snyder,  married  Sarah  Schoonmaker,  and 
their  third  son  was  William  Henry,  of  whom 
further. 

(VI)  William  Henry  Snyder,  son  of  Jacob 
A.  Snyder,  was  born  December  5,  1816,  died 
May  15,  1893.  He  married,  March  8,  1838, 
Sarah,  born  June  23,  182 1,  died  September  29, 
1876,  daughter  of  Jacob  Low  Snyder,  afore- 
mentioned in  generation  HI.  Their  eldest 
daughter,  Emma,  born  March  28,  1848,  mar- 
ried Edward  B.  Codwise  (see  Codwise  VI). 


Ebenezer  Kilby,  the  first  of  the 
KILBY     name  of  whom  we  have  definite 

information,  resided  late  in  life 
at  New  Paltz,  Ulster  county,  New  York. 
Tradition  states  that  he  was  a  Green  Mountain 
Boy,  and  came  from  Vermont  to  New  York. 
The  meagre  records  of  the  state  of  Vermont 
do  not  afford  any  information  regarding  him. 
It  is  presumable  that  he  was  descended  from 
a    family   now   known    in    Connecticut.      The 


name  of  his  wife  is  not  preserved,  and  only 
one  of  his  children  is  known. 

(II)  James  Pardee  Kilby,  son  of  Ebenezer 
Kilby,  was  born  July  13,  1804,  at  New  Paltz, 
and  married,  April  25,  1829,  Jane  Dean,  born 
July  17,  1809,  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York. 
Children:  Mary  Malvina,  born  July  27,  1830; 
Martha  Jane,  January  30,  1832;  Marvin  R., 
September  25,  1833 ;  Andrew  Du  Bois,  men- 
tioned below;  Julia  Ann,  September  22,  1838; 
Sarah  Elizabeth,  January  6,  1841 ;  Ebenezer, 
October  21,  1842;  James  Addison,  August  21, 
1847 ;  Amelia  Haight,  August  4,   1850. 

(III)  Andrew  Du  Bois  Kilby,  son  of  James 
Pardee  and  Jane  (Dean)  Kilby,  was  born 
September  5,  1835,  in  New  York  City,  and 
died  November  20,  1862.  He  married,  No- 
vember 8,  1856,  Emeline  Maria  Wattles,  born 
May  10,  1841,  in  Bedford,  New  York,  died  at 
Battle  Creek,  Michigan,  June  18,  1862,  daugh- 
ter of  Erastus  Root  and  Maria  A.  (Collier) 
Wattles,  of  that  town  (see  Wattles  VI).  He 
was  educated  in  the  grammar  schools  of  his 
native  city,  where  he  became  a  commission 
merchant  at  Washington  Market,  and  subse- 
quently engaged  in  business  at  Battle  Creek, 
Michigan.  He  was  a  Methodist  in  religious 
faith,  and  an  exemplary  and  useful  citizen. 
They  were  the  parents  of  two  sons :  James 
Pardee,  mentioned  below,  and  George  Wattles, 
born  June  i,  1861,  died  in  1871. 

(IV)  James  Pardee  (2)  Kilby,  only  surviv- 
ing child  of  Andrew  Du  Bois  and  Emeline 
Maria  (Wattles)  Kilby,  was  born  October  12, 
1858,  at  Battle  Creek,  Michigan.  He  grew  up 
in  New  York  and  Brooklyn,  attending  the 
West  Fifty-second  street  and  No.  9  grammar 
schools  of  the  former  city,  and  No.  15  gram- 
mar and  high  schools  of  Brooklyn.  He  also 
received  some  private  instruction.  He  began 
his  business  career  in  the  office  of  the  Morrow 
Shoe  Manufacturing  Company,  and  was  later 
in  the  office  of  Arthur  S.  Tompkins,  an  at- 
torney of  Nyack,  at  present  a  supreme  court 
judge  of  the  state  of  New  York.  He  was  sub- 
sequently chief  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  surro- 
gate of  Rockland  county,  and  has  since  been 
engaged  in  the  real  estate  and  insurance  busi- 
ness at  Nyack.  He  has  taken  an  active  inter- 
est in  public  affairs,  acting  with  the  Republi- 
can party,  and  was  five  terms  chairman  of  its 
county  committee.  He  also  represented  the 
Twentieth  Congressional  District  in  the  Re- 
publican   State    Committee,    and   was    super- 


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visor  of  census  in  1910,  representing  Orange, 
Rockland  and  Sullivan  counties;  delegate  to 
the  Republican  National  Convention,  held  at 
Chicago,  1912;  a  commissioner  of  the  Cats- 
kill  Aqueduct;  served  two  terms  as  president 
of  the  village  of  Nyack,  New  York.  He  is 
a  stockholder  of  the  Nyack  National  Bank. 
Mr.  Kilby  is  active  in  fraternal  orders,  being 
a  member  of  Rockland  Lodge,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  No.  723,  and  Rockland 
Chapter,  No.  204,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  of 
Nyack.  He  is  a  member  of  Nyack  Tribe,  No. 
209,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men;  Court 
Tappan  Zee,  American  Foresters ;  of  the 
Nyack  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias;  Nyack 
Branch  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation ;  and  also  of  Mazeppa  Engine  Company 
of  Nyack,  being  now  an  exempt  fireman  of 
the  Nyack,  New  York,  Department;  of  St. 
Andrew's  Guild;  and  Haverstraw  Lodge,  No. 
877,  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He 
is  associated  with  numerous  clubs,  including 
the  Nyack  Business  Men's  Club;  Houvenkopf 
Golf  Club;  Brookside  Game  Protective  Asso- 
ciation; Tappan  Zee  Yacht  Club;  Nyack  Boat 
Club;  American  Historical  Scenic  Preserva- 
tion Society;  and  the  Hudson  Fulton  Asso- 
ciation. With  his  family  he  is  affiliated  with 
the  Episcopal  Church  of  Nyack,  of  which  he 
is  junior  warden. 

He  married  (first)  September  23,  1883,  at 
Nyack,  New  York,  Kitty  Post,  born  October 
23,  i860,  daughter  of  Peter  F.  Post  and  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  (Lydecker)  Post,  of  Nyack, 
New  York ;  a  daughter,  Ethel  Jay,  was  born 
November  8,  1886.  He  married  (second) 
July  21,  1897,  at  Lyons,  New  York,  Edith 
Margaret  Van  Etten,  born  March  i,  1868,  in 
Lyons,  Michigan,  daughter  of  Henry  Van  Et- 
ten,  a  prominent  merchant  of  that  place,  and 
his' wife,  Corneha  Isadore  (Hoffman)  Van 
Etten.  Mr.  Van  Etten  is  a  grower  and  dis- 
tiller of  peppermint  oil  for  the  market.  His 
children  are:  Cora  E.,  Clarence  J.,  Edith  Mar- 
garet, Evelyn  Joyce,  Rena  Isadore.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Kilby  have  children:  John  Van  Etten, 
born  April  30,  1898;  Henry  Pardee,  Novem- 
ber 18,  1899;  James  Douglas,  June  5,  1901 ; 
William  Du  Vail,  September  28,  1903. 
(The  Wattles  Line.) 
The  earliest  mention  of  this  name  in  New 
England  records  is  that  of  Richard  Wattles, 
who  was  in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  from  1648 
to  1663.   He  disappeared  at  that  time,  and  has 


is  descended  from  John  MacWattles,  a  High- 
land Scotchman,  who  located  at  Norwich 
Landing  in  Connecticut,  in  1652  or  1653.  The 
vital  records  of  the  town  of  Norwich  for  the 
next  one  hundred  years  succeeding  that  time 
make  no  mention  of  the  name  in  either  form. 
Wattles  or  MacWattles.  It  is  evident,  how- 
ever, that  the  family  was  planted  in  that  local- 
ity. 

never  been  found  in  any  other  record.  There 
is  a  tradition  that  the  family  mentioned  below 

(I)  William  Wattles,  born  about  1674,  ap- 
pears in  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  where  he  died 
August  II,  1737,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three 
years.  His  wife,  Abigail,  born  1676,  died 
November  21,  1744.  William  Wattles  was 
constable  of  Lebanon  in  1709.  Two  children 
are  recorded  in  that  town :  William,  mentioned 
below;  Mary,  born  March  11,  1709. 

(II)  William  (2)  Wattles,  son  of  William 
(i)  and  Abigail  Wattles,  was  born  November 
21,  1706,  in  Lebanon.  He  married.  May  29, 
1735,  Abigail  Denison,  born  1714,  eighth 
daughter  and  thirteenth  child  of  Robert  and 
Joanna  (Stanton)  Denison,  of  Montville, 
Connecticut,  granddaughter  of  John  B.  and 
Phebe  (Lay)  Denison,  and  great-granddaugh- 
ter of  Captain  George  and  Ann  (Borodel) 
Denison,  immigrant  ancestors  of  a  large  and 
prominent  family.  Children:  Abigail,  born 
March  20,  I73"6;  Ann,  March  20,  1738;  Wil- 
liam, December  19,  1739;  Belcher,  November 
3,  1743;  Mary,  October  14,  1745,  married 
Daniel  Hyde,  of  Lebanon;  Sarah,  February 
26,  1747;  Andrew,  August  2,  1749;  Sluman, 
mentioned  below;  Denison,  July  12,  1754; 
Daniel,  November  5,  1755,  married  Ann  Otis, 
of  Colchester. 

(III)  Sluman  Wattles,  son  of  William  (2) 
Wattles,  was  born  in  1752.  At  the  age  of 
thirty-two  years  he  was  employed  to  survey 
lands  in  what  was  known  as  the  Livingston 
Patent,  in  South  Central  New  York,  and 
selected  for  himself  lands  in  what  is  now  the 
town  of  Franklin.  Delaware  county.  New 
York,  in  Bartlett  Hollow,  and  erected  thereon 
a  log  cabin,  thatched  and  roofed  with  elm 
bark.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  moved  his 
family  from  Lebanon,  traveling  through  the 
wilderness,  and  on  arriving  on  the  site  of 
Bloomville,  at  the  head  of  the  Delaware  River, 
he  accepted  the  invitation  of  Alexander 
Harper,  afterward  a  conspicuous  citizen  of 
Delaware  county,  to  remain  with  him  through 


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the  winter.  Early  in  the  spring  of  1785  he 
occupied  his  cabin  in  Franklin,  being  the  first 
settler  in  that  town.  He  was  a  very  active  and 
useful  citizen  of  the  section,  and  was  for  many 
years  a  magistrate  for  the  western  part  of  the 
county,  which  he  was  instrumental  in  form- 
ing. He  was  appointed  one  of  the  three  com- 
missioners to  construct  the  first  county  build- 
ings, and  in  1800  served  as  assemblyman.  He 
was  among  the  charter  members  organized  for 
the  construction  of  the  Catskill  Turnpike. 
Having  sold  his  lands  in  1800,  he  started  with 
his  family  for  the  West,  but  his  wife  and  one 
son  contracted  smallpox,  and  died  at  a  point 
two  miles  east  of  Unadilla,  New  York.  The 
site  of  their  graves  is  now  unknown.  Their 
deaths  changed  the  plans  of  Mr.  Wattles,  and 
he  remained  in  that  vicinity,  accumulating  con- 
siderable property,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Union  Churchyard  at  East  Sidney,  New  York. 
His  first  wife's  maiden  name  was  McCall,  and 
she  was  undoubtedly  a  member  of  the  McCall 
family  which  was  numerously  represented  in 
Norwich.  He  married  a  second  wife  and  had 
eight  children. 

(IV)  Sluman  (2)  Wattles,  son  of  Sluman 
(i)  Wattles,  was  born  1777-78,  and  was  a 
tanner  and  farmer.  In  1834  he  bought  fifty 
acres  of  land  in  the  town  of  Roxbury,  Dela- 
ware county.  New  York,  and  in  the  following 
year,  eighty-six  acres  more.  He  died  August 
17,  1855,  and  was  buried  at  East  Sidney.  He 
married,  in  1799,  Patty  Bartlett,  born  July  23, 
1778,  in  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  died  1842-43, 
in  Delaware  county,  daughter  of  Judah  and 
Luna  Bartlett  (see  Bartlett  VII).  "Children: 
Otis  Bartlett,  born  August  13,  1802,  died  1875, 
near  Athens,  Tennessee ;  Erastus  Root,  men- 
tioned below ;  Mercy,  May  27,  1809,  married 
(first)  Abner  Coles,  (second)  Daniel  Coe,  and 
died  1847;  Luna  Ann,  January  3,  181 1,  mar- 
ried (first)  Newell  P.  Andrus,  (second)  Justin 
Morse. 

(V)  Erastus  Root  Wattles,  second  son  of 
Sluman  (2)  and  Patty  (Bartlett)  Wattles, 
was  born  May  13,  1807,  at  Sidney,  New  York, 
and  died  February  2,  1876,  in  Battle  Creek, 
Michigan.  He  removed  to  Bedford,  Michigan, 
near  Battle  Creek,  in  1836,  and  was  a  farmer. 
He  married  (first)  June  9,  1833,  at  Victor, 
New  York,  Maria  A.  Collier,  born  June  13, 
1814,  in  Pownal,  Vermont,  died  at  Battle 
Creek,  July  8,  1853,  daughter  of  Stephen  and 
Abigail    (Phelps)    Collier,    who    removed   to 


Calhoon  county,  Michigan,  from  Victor,  in 
1837.  He  married  (second)  Clarissa,  widow 
of  Joel  Stone,  daughter  of  Colonel  William 
Aaron  and  Betsey  (Wattles)  Dewey,  grand- 
child of  Sluman  (i)  Wattles.  She  died  in 
February,  1886,  at  the  residence  of  her  brother, 
William  Dewey,  near  Sidney  Center,  New 
York.  Children  by  first  wife:  Caroline  L., 
born  September  5,  1835,  in  Roxbury,  New 
York,  resides  at  Battle  Creek,  unmarried; 
Henry  Edgar,  October  29,  1838,  in  Bedford, 
Michigan,  is  a  fruit  grower  at  Fennville, 
Michigan;  Emeline  Maria,  mentioned  below; 
Victory  C.,  January  3,  1843,  was  a  soldier  of 
the  Civil  War,  and  is  a  hardware  merchant 
and  a  dealer  in  implements  and  machinery  at 
Battle  Creek;  Jannett,  died  at  the  age  of  two 
years;  Adaline  J.,  June  12,  1849,  died  1892, 
unmarried.  Child  of  second  wife:  May,  born 
1859,  married  at  Bay  City,  Michigan,  her  third 
cousin,  Earl  N.  Wattles,  and  left  no  issue. 

(VI)  Emeline  Maria,  second  daughter  of 
Erastus  Root  and  Maria  A.  (Collier)  Wattles, 
was  born  May  10,  1841,  and  died  June  18, 
1862,  at  Battle  Creek.  She  married,  Novem- 
ber 8,  1856,  Andrew  Du  Bois  Kilby,  of  New 
York  City  (see  Kilby  III). 

(The  Bartlett  Line.) 

The  name  of  Bartlett  is  an  old  one  in  New 
England,  where  there  were  several  immigrants 
bearing  the  name,  which  is  found  under  a 
variety  of  spellings.  There  were  two  bearing 
the  name  of  Robert,  each  of  whom  has  left 
a  large  and  widely  disseminated  progeny.  In 
Marblehead,  Massachusetts,  Lawrence  Bart- 
lett, a  mariner,  was  married,  in  December, 
1639.  He  also  was  the  ancestor  of  a  large 
family.  Joseph  Bartlett  was  an  early  settler 
of  New  Town,  or  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
and  his  descendants  are  numerous  in  that  vicin- 
ity. Representatives  of  the  name  have  oc- 
cupied positions  of  distinction  not  only  in  New 
England,  but  in  many  of  the  central  and  west- 
ern states.  Richard  Bartlett,  born  about  1575, 
in  England,  settled  in  Newbury,  Massachu- 
setts, before  1637,  and  many  homes  in  New 
England  are  peopled  by  his  descendants. 

(I)  Robert  Bartlett,  a  native  of  England, 
and  a  cooper  by  trade,  came  to  America  in  the 
ship  "Anne"  in  1623.  He  settled  in  Plymouth, 
Massachusetts,  was  admitted  a  freeman  in 
1633,  and  served  as  a  town  officer  and  juror. 
His  will,  proved  October  29,   1676,  left  his 


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whole  estate  to  his  wife.  He  married,  in  1628, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Richard  Warren,  the  Pil- 
grim. Warren  came  in  the  "Mayflower"  and 
was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  famous  compact. 
He  settled  at  Plymouth  and  had  a  large  share 
in  the  trials  and  troubles  of  the  early  days. 
Warren's  wife  and  children  came  in  the  ship 
"Anne"  in  1623  also.  In  the  division  of  cattle 
in  1627,  Warren  had  shares  for  himself,  wife 
Elizabeth,  children  Nathaniel,  Joseph,  Mary, 
Anna,  Sarah,  Elizabeth  and  Abigail.  He  died 
before  1628,  and  his  wife  October  2,  1673, 
aged  about  ninety.  The  marriage  portion  was 
confirmed  to  Robert  Bartlett,  March  7,  1636. 
Children  of  Robert  Bartlett:  Rebecca,  mar- 
ried, December  30,  1649,  William  Barlow; 
Benjamin,  mentioned  below ;  Joseph,  born 
1639;  Mary,  married  (first)  September  10, 
1661,  Richard  Foster,  (second)  Jonathan 
Morey;  Sarah,  married,  December  23,  1666, 
Samuel  Rider,  of  Plymouth;  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried, December  26,  1661,  Anthony  Sprague; 
Lydia,  born  June  8,  1647,  married,  December 
25,  1668,  John  Ivey. 

(H)  Benjamin  Bartlett,  eldest  son  of  Robert 
and  Mary  (Warren)  Bartlett,  was  born  in 
1638  in  Plymouth,  and  was  a  prominent  citi- 
zen of  Duxbury,  where  he  served  as  constable 
in  1662;  collector  of  excise  in  1664;  selectman 
in  1666  and  many  years  afterward;  deputy  to 
the  general  court,  1685,  and  chairman,  1690-91. 
He  died  in  Duxbury,  October  21,  1691.  He 
married  (first)  in  Duxbury,  in  1656,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Love  and  Sarah  (Collier)  Brews- 
ter, born  1632,  granddaughter  of  Elder  Wil- 
liam Brewster,  the  Pilgrim,  who  came  to  Ply- 
mouth in  the  "Mayflower."  He  married 
(second)  in  1678,  Cecilia,  whose  surname  is 
unknown.  Children:  Benjamin,  resided  at 
North  Hill,  married  Ruth  Pabodie :  Ichabod, 
mentioned  below;  Ebenezer,  died  before  1712; 
Rebecca,  married  William  Bradford,  and  re- 
sided in  Kingston,  Massachusetts ;  Sarah,  mar- 
ried her  cousin,  Robert  Bartlett. 

(HI)  Ichabod  Bartlett,  third  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Sarah  (Brewster)  Bartlett,  was 
born  in  Duxbury,  and  died  there  about  1716. 
He  inherited  his  father's  lands  in  the  town  of 
Middleborough,  and  removed  from  Marshfield 
to  Duxbury  in  1710.  He  married  (first)  at 
Marshfield,  December  28,  1699,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  (Stow)  Water- 
man, of  Marshfield.  She  was  born  at  Marsh- 
field, in  1679,  died  there  October,  1708.     He 


married  (second)  November  14,  1709,  Desire, 
daughter  of  Seth  Arnold,  of  Lebanon,  Con- 
necticut, born  in  Marshfield.  Children  of  first 
marriage  :  Ichabod  ;  Josiah,  mentioned  below  : 
Nathaniel,  born  1703;  Joseph,  1706;  Eliza- 
beth, 1708.  and  Mercy.  Children  of  second 
marriage:  Sarah,  born  1710,  married  Cornelius 
Drew ;  Seth. 

(IV)  Josiah  Bartlett,  second  son  of  Ichabod 
and  Elizabeth  (  Waterman)  Bartlett,  was  born 
1701  in  Marshfield,  and  settled  in  Lebanon, 
Connecticut,  where  he  died  March  16,  1782. 
He  married  Mercy  Chandler,  of  an  old  Dux- 
bury family.  She  died  February  7,  1781.  Chil- 
dren :  Ichabod,  mentioned  below ;  Betty,  born 
January  28,  1725 ;  Nathaniel,  November  27, 
1727;  John,  August  15,  1730;  Chandler,  Janu- 
ary 22,  1733;  Cyrus,  January  14,  1739;  Mercy, 
May  4,  1740;  Molly,  1743. 

(V)  Ichabod  (2)  Bartlett,  eldest  child  of 
Josiah  and  Mercy  (Chandler)  Bartlett,  was 
born  October  20,  1723,  in  Lebanon,  and  had  a 
wife  named  Desire.  Children :  Lydia,  born 
May  6,  1748:  Desire,  April  24,  1750;  Judah 
mentioned  below;  John,  September  24,  1754; 
Hannah,  May  24,  1757;  Molly,  April  4,  1760; 
Lucy,  December  19,  1763:  Seth,  June  18,  1766. 

('VI)  Judah  Bartlett,  eldest  son  of  Ichabod 
(2)  and  Desire  Bartlett,  was  born  June  15, 
1752,  in  Lebanon,  and  resided  in  that  town. 
He  was  married  twice,  his  second  wife  bear- 
ing the  name  of  Luna. 

(VII)  Patty,  daughter  of  Judah  and  Luna 
Bartlett,  was  born  July  23,  1778,  in  Lebanon, 
and  died  about  1842-43  in  Delaware  county. 
New  York,  while  the  wife  of  Sluman  (2) 
Wattles  (see  Wattles  IV). 


The   name   of  Webster  is   a 
WEBSTER     highly  honored  one  in  Ameri- 
can   annals,     and    has    been 
borne  by   many  individuals   in  the   past,   and 
many  bear  it  at  the  present  time.    There  were 
two  immigrants  named  John  Webster  at  a  very 
early  period  in  the  settlement  of  the  New  Eng- 
land colonies,  and  a  third  named  Thomas,  who 
settled  in  Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  and  was 
the  ancestor  of  the  immortal  Daniel  Webster. 
(I)   John  Webster,  one  of  the  original  set- 
tlers of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  magistrate 
of  the  colony  from  1639  to  1659,  deputy  gov- 
ernor in  1655,  and  governor  in  1656.     During 
the  next  three  years  he  was  first  magistrate  of 


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the  colony,  or  republic,  as  his  descendant, 
Noah  Webster,  calls  it.  On  account  of  a  con- 
troversy with  the  minister  of  Hartford,  the 
settlement  at  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  was 
planned,  and  John  Webster  headed  the  list  of 
fifty-nine  signers  who  agreed  to  locate  there. 
His  son  Robert  was  another  signer.  Governor 
Webster  located  at  Northampton,  Massachu- 
setts, and  fell  sick  soon  afterward,  but  re- 
covered and  became  one  of  the  judges  asso- 
ciated with  John  Pynchon  and  Samuel  Chapin. 
His  home  was  on  the  east  side  of  the  highway, 
near  the  late  residence  of  George  Wyllys,  in 
Hartford.  He  died  April  5,  1685,  and  was 
buried  at  Hadley.  His  will  was  dated  June 
25,  1659.  He  gave  to  his  wife  Agnes  the  use 
of  his  estate  at  Hartford  during  her  life,  and 
he  also  bequeathed  property  to  his  four  sons. 
Children :  Robert,  mentioned  below ;  Mary, 
married  Hunt,  who  died  in  1659;  Mat- 
thew, settled  in  Farmington ;  William,  whose 
wife  was  tried  for  witchcraft  in  1684-85,  mar- 
ried, 1671,  Mary  Reeves,  and  resided  at  Had- 
ley ;  Thomas,  married  Abigail  Alexander ; 
Anne,  settled  at  Northfield,  Massachusetts, 
married  John  Marsh,  of  Hadley. 

(H)  Robert,  son  of  Governor  John  and 
Agnes  Webster,  supposed  to  have  been  the 
eldest  son,  as  he  was  administrator  of  his 
father's  estate  and  received  the  largest  por- 
tion, was  probably  born  in  England.  He  was 
among  the  original  settlers  of  Middletown, 
Connecticut,  being  recorder  on  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  settlement  there  in  165 1,  and  four 
of  his  children  were  born  there.  In  1660  he 
returned  to  Hartford,  having  represented 
Middletown  in  the  general  court  in  1658-59. 
He  was  among  the  signers  of  the  agreement 
to  remove  to  Hadley,  but  either  did  not  go,  or 
very  soon  returned  to  Hartford.  His  will  was 
dated  May  20,  1676,  and  he  died  before  the 
close  of  that  year.  He  married  Susanna 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Alice  (Gaylord) 
Treat,  who  survived  him  and  made  her  will 
January  23,  1698.  She  probably  lived  some 
years  after  this,  as  the  inventory  of  her  estate 
was  dated  November  17,  1705.  Children: 
John,  died  1694;  Jonathan,  mentioned  below; 
Samuel,  died  1734;  Robert,  married  Hannah 
Beckley  and  died  in  1744;  Joseph,  died  1750; 
William,  died  1722;  Susanna,  married  John 
Graves,  of  Hartford ;  Mary,  married  Thomas 
King;  Eliza,  married  John  Seymour;  Sarah, 
married Mygatt. 


(HI)  Jonathan,  second  son  of  Robert  and 
Susanna  (Treat)  Webster,  was  born  January 
9,  1657,  in  Middletown,  and  died  at  Glaston- 
bury, Connecticut,  in  1735.  He  received  a 
grant  of  seventy  acres  in  Glastonbury,  valued 
at  thirty-five  pounds,  in  1713,  and  in  1723, 
ninety  acres  and  eighty  rods,  valued  at  seven- 
ty-five pounds,  eight  shillings.  He  probably 
settled  in  Glastonbury  as  early  as  1713.  He 
married  (first)  May  11,  1681,  Dorcas,  daugh- 
ter of  Stephen  Hopkins,  of  Hartford,  and 
granddaughter  of  John  Hopkins,  one  of  the 
first  settlers  of  that  colony.  She  died  in  1694, 
and  he  married  (second)  January  2,  1696, 
Mary  Judd,  supposed  to  have  been  a  daughter 
of  Thomas  Judd,  of  Farmington.  Children 
of  first  wife:  Jonathan,  mentioned  below; 
Susannah,  born  April  25,  1686;  Mary,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1688;  Mehitable,  March  8,  1691 ; 
Stephen,  September  i,  1693.  Child  of  second 
wife:  Benjamin,  born  August  9,  1698,  settled 
in  Litchfield,  Connecticut. 

(IV)  Jonathan  (2),  eldest  child  of  Jonathan 
( i)  and  Dorcas  (Hopkins)  Webster,  was  born 
March  18,  1682,  in  Hartford,  and  died  about 
1758,  in  Glastonbury.  He  was  a  taxpayer  in 
1713  and  among  the  proprietors  of  that  town. 
April  25,  1757,  when  his  holdings  were  valued 
at  eleven  pounds  and  four  shillings.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1704,  Esther  Judd.  Children:  Jona- 
than, mentioned  below;  Ezekiel,  settled  at 
East  Hartford;  Stephen;  Esther,  Jemima; 
Mehitable;  Dorcas;  Sarah;  Mary;  David. 

(V)  Jonathan  (3),  eldest  child  of  Jonathan 
(2)  and  Esther  (Judd)  Webster,  was  born 
about  1705,  in  Glastonbury,  and  received  land 
there  from  his  father,  in  1737.  He  may  have 
been  the  Jonathan  referred  to  in  the  list  of 
proprietors  of  the  town,  made  1757.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1730,  Mabel  Bissell,  of  Hartford, 
Connecticut,  and  had  sons :  Jonathan,  men- 
tioned below ;  Joshua. 

(VI)  Jonathan  (4),  son  of  Jonathan  (3) 
and  Mabel  (Bissell)  Webster,  was  a  revolu- 
tionary soldier  in  1777.  His  brother,  Joshua 
Webster,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Connecticut 
line,  enlisting  for  three  years  in  the  revolu- 
tionary service.  According  to  family  tradition 
the  next  mentioned  was  a  son  of  either  Jona- 
than or  Joshua  Webster. 

(VII)  Grove  Webster  was  born  in  Glaston- 
bury, Connecticut,  whence  he  removed  when 
a  young  man  to  Delaware  county.  New  York. 
There  he  owned  a  farm  of  four  hundred  and 


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eighty  acres,  one  of  the  finest  in  the  county, 
and  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-four  years,  at 
Delhi,  New  York.  He  was  esteemed  among 
the  pioneers  of  the  community.  He  married 
Polly  Adams  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
four  sons  and  five  daughters.  The  sons  were: 
Samuel  Adams,  mentioned  below ;  Smith ; 
John  G.,  a  farmer  of  Delaware  county.  New 
York;  and  Stephen  Adams,  who  was  a  mer- 
chant in  New  York  City. 

(VHI)  Samuel  Adams,  eldest  son  of  Grove 
and  Polly  (Adams)  Webster,  was  born  in 
1812,  on  his  father's  farm  at  Rose's  Brook, 
Delaware  county,  and  died  in  New  York  City, 
in  1885.  He  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  afterwards  en- 
gaged in  teaching  in  the  vicinity.  In  1847  he 
went  to  New  York  City,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  wholesale  grocery  and  liquor  trade.  Be- 
cause of  ill  health,  he  disposed  of  this  business 
at  the  age  of  forty-two  years,  and  removed 
to  Esopus,  New  York.  Here  he  conducted  a 
hotel,  and  subsequently  followed  the  same  line 
of  business  in  Highland  and  Kingston,  New 
York.  He  retired  in  1880  and  spent  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life  in  New  York  City,  where 
he  died,  as  previously  noted.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  John  Hancock  Lodge,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  of  New  York  City,  and 
politically  sustained  the  Democratic  party.  He 
married  Fanny  Barber,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
twenty-nine  years.  They  were  the  parents  of 
three  children  :  Ellen.  Grove,  mentioned  below  : 
and  Harvey. 

(IX)  Grove  (2),  senior  son  of  Samuel  A. 
and  Fanny  (Barber)  Webster,  was  born  May 
12.  1844,  in  Delhi,  New  York.  He  was  but 
three  years  of  age  when  his  parents  removed 
to  New  York  City,  and  there  he  had  good  ed- 
ucational opportunities.  In  1861,  he  went  to 
Kingston,  New  York,  and  for  two  years  was 
employed  in  the  postoffice.  In  1863,  when  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Rondout  was  organ- 
ized, he  was  there  employed  as  a  clerk,  and 
continued  seventeen  years  with  the  bank,  fill- 
ing various  positions,  and  was  teller  at  the 
time  of  his  resignation.  From  1880  to  1891, 
he  engaged  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  hard- 
ware business  at  Rondout,  and  in  the  latter 
year  founded  a  livery  establishment,  which  he 
i?  still  conducting,  and  also  maintains  a  similar 
business  at  Tannersville,  New  York,  with  a 
partner,  under  the  style  of  Schruyver  & 
Webster.    Mr.  Webster  is  a  general  accountant 


and  special  examiner  of  the  Rondout  Savings 
Bank,  an  organization  of  the  city  of  Kingston. 
In  1871  he  was  appointed  city  treasurer,  and 
served  seventeen  years.  In  1903  he  was 
elected  sheriff  of  Ulster  county  on  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket,  and  served  three  years.  He  is 
active  in  the  Masonic  order,  being  a  charter 
member  of  Rondout  Commandery,  No.  52. 
Knights  Templar,  in  which  he  has  been  record- 
er for  the  last  forty-two  years,  or  since  its 
organization  in  1871.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  Mecca  Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  of  New  York 
City. 

He  married,  February  20,  1867,  Alice  A. 
Powley,  born  June  20,  1844,  in  Nyack,  New 
York,  daughter  of  Francis  Powley,  for  many 
years  superintendent  of  Knickerbocker  Ice 
Company,  at  Kingston.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Webster 
have  three  children  living:  i.  Martha,  wife 
of  Frank  S.  Snyder,  of  Poughkeepsie,  New 
York ;  has  two  children :  Alice  P.  and  Charles 
Webster.  2.  Grove  Jr.,  born  in  May,  1873, 
married  Mary  F.  Luft,  and  has  two  children : 
Grove  H.  and  Frederick  E.  3.  Helen  L.,  a 
teacher  in  Ulster  Academy,  Kingston. 


The  King  family  has  been  prom- 
KING  inently  before  the  American  people 
for  generation  after  generation, 
each  step  in  the  series  contributing  a  share  in 
public  life  which  has  made  the  name  known  in 
every  state  until  it  has  come  to  be  regarded  as 
one  of  those  indelibly  written  in  the  historj'  of 
this  country.  The  King  family  arms  are : 
Sable,  a  lion  rampant  guardant  ermine, 
between  three  crosses  patee  fitchee  at  the  foot, 
or.  Crest :  A  lion's  gamb  erased  and  erect, 
sable,  grasping  a  cross  patee  fitchee,  or. 
Motto:     Recte  ct  siiaviter. 

(I)  John  King  was  the  progenitor  of  the 
family  in  America.  He  settled  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  in  the  seventeenth  century.  Al- 
though not  clearly  proved,  he  came  from  the 
county  of  Kent,  England,  according  to  the 
most  reliable  report,  and  he  married  Mary 
Stowell.  Children:  i.  Richard,  see  forward. 
2.  Mary,  born  June  8,  1719.  3.  Sarah,  born 
February  27,  1720.  4.  William,  baptized  June 
27,  1725;  a  sea  captain.  5.  David,  baptized 
August  21.  1726.  6.  Rebecca,  baptized  No- 
vember 10,  1728.  7.  Josiah,  baptized  April 
4,  1 73 1.  8.  Martha,  baptized  September  2, 
1733.     9.   Katharine,  baptized  May  23,    1736. 


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Also  most  probably :  10.  David,  a  merchant  in 
Saco.     II.  Josiah. 

(II)  Captain  Richard  King,  son  of  John 
and  Mary  (Stowell)  King,  was  born  at  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  in  1718,  and  died  at  Duns- 
tan  Landing,  Scarborough,  Maine,  March  27, 
1775-  Oi  his  early  life  there  are  no  records. 
In  1740  he  was  settled  in  Watertown,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  prosperous  business  as  a  trader 
factor  for  Ebenezer  Thornton. 

Before  removing  from  Boston  to  Scarbor- 
ough, he  had  become  one  of  the  enterprising 
citizens  of  the  former  place.  When  the  mili- 
tary expedition,  under  Sir  William  Pepperell, 
was  organized  against  Cape  Breton,  in  1745, 
Governor  Shirley  appointed  him  commissary 
of  subsistence,  carrying  with  the  position  the 
rank  of  captain.  He  was  then  only  twenty- 
eight  years  old,  and  was  active  in  the  work  of 
raising  the  troops.  He  went  with  the  expedi- 
tion and  participated  in  the  capture  of  Louis- 
burg.  When  he  returned,  he  sold  out  his  busi- 
ness at  Watertown,  and  in  1748  removed  to 
Dunstan's  Landing,  near  Scarborough,  Maine, 
which  was  then  included  in  the  Massachusetts 
colony.  After  he  was  a  resident  of  Maine, 
he  became  one  of  the  largest  landowners  in  the 
colony,  and  was  also  a  leading  ship-owner  in 
the  merchant  marine  service.  Unfortunately, 
a  great  deal  of  his  property  and  papers  were 
burned  by  a  mob  which  broke  into  his  house, 
and  this  has  curtailed  much  biographical  in- 
formation that  might  now  be  known  and 
written  about  this  family.  We  know,  how- 
ever, that  he  was  a  man  of  great  ability,  cul- 
tivated in  his  tastes,  and  possessed  an  unusual 
force  of  character ;  leading  a  life  which 
brought  him  success  and  influence.  He  not 
only  manufactured  lumber,  but  conducted  a 
large  store  and  owned  about  three  thousand 
acres  of  good  land.  His  education  had  placed 
him  in  a  position  to  be  able  to  render  services 
as  a  lawyer,  in  drawing  up  documents,  and  he 
also  served  as  a  magistrate.  He  was  familiar 
with  the  classics,  and  devoted  to  his  family,  as 
one  may  judge  from  his  writings  which  have 
been  preserved.  At  Dunstan's  Landing  he 
erected  for  himself  a  handsome  house,  said 
to  have  been  the  principal  residence  there.  He 
was  buried  on  his  property,  and  the  place,  be- 
cause of  its  historic  interest,  was  placed  re- 
cently in  the  care  of  the  Maine  Historical  So- 
ciety, and  a  commemorative  monument  erected 
to  his  memory. 


Richard  King  married  (first)  November  20, 
1753,  Isabella,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  Samuel 
and  Tabitha  (Banks)  Bragdon,  of  York, 
Maine,  who  was  born  April  8,  1731,  and  died 
October  19,  1759;  by  whom  he  had  three  chil- 
dren. He  married  (second)  January  31,  1762, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Isabella  (Brag- 
don) Blake,  of  York,  Maine,  who  was  born 
October  8,  1736,  and  died  May  25,  1816,  a 
cousin  of  his  first  wife;  by  whom  he  had  six 
children.  His  children  by  both  marriages 
were:  i.  Rufus,  see  forward.  2.  Mary,  born 
November  2,  1756;  died  March  30,  1824;  mar- 
ried Dr.  Robert  Southgate,  who  died  Novem- 
ber 2,  1833,  in  his  ninety-second  year.  3. 
Paulina,  born  March  i,  1759;  married  Dr. 
Aaron  Porter,  May  3,  1777.  4.  Richard,  born 
December  22,  1762;  married  Hannah  Larra- 
bee.  5.  Isabella,  born  in  1764 ;  died  September 
12,  1770.  6.  Dorcas,  born  May  20,  1766;  mar- 
ried Joseph  Leland.  7.  William,  born  Febru- 
ary 9,  1768;  died  June  17,  1852;  resided  in 
Bath,  Maine,  where  he  was  collector  of  the 
port  and  was  United  States  Commissioner  for 
adjustment  of  Spanish  claims.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Maine  legislature ;  first  governor 
of  the  state  of  Maine,  1820-21  ;  was  twenty- 
eight  years  trustee  of  Bowdoin  College ;  his 
statue  is  in  the  capitol  at  Washington,  repre- 
senting the  state  of  Maine ;  married  Ann  Nes- 
beth  Frazier.  8.  Elizabeth,  born  January  7, 
1770;  married  Benjamin  James  Porter.  9. 
Cyrus,  born  September  6,  1772;  died  April 
25,  1817:  graduated  from  Columbia  College 
in  1794:  was  secretary  to  his  brother,  Rufus, 
on  his  mission  abroad ;  lawyer  at  Saco,  Maine ; 
congressman  1813  to  1817;  married  Hannah 
Storer. 

(HI)  Rufus  King,  son  of  Richard  and  Isa- 
bella (Bragdon)  King,  was  born  at  Scarbor- 
ough, Maine,  March  24,  1755;  died  at  New 
York  City,  April  29,  1827,  and  was  buried  in 
Grace  churchyard,  Jamaica,  Long  Island, 
where  his  grave  may  still  be  seen.  He  en- 
tered Harvard  College  in  1773,  and  graduated 
with  distinction  in  1777.  He  selected  the  legal 
profession,  and  studied  at  Newburyport  under 
Theophilus  Parsons,  who  was  already  an 
eminent  lawyer  and  afterwards  chief  justice 
of  Massachusetts.  When  he  came  of  age,  the 
conflict  with  Great  Britain  was  about  to  begin, 
and  being  an  ardent  patriot  he  abandoned  his 
law  studies  in  order  to  join  the  troops  going 
to  assistance  of  General  Sullivan  in  his  attempt 


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to  retake  Rhode  Island.  He  served  as  major 
on  the  staff  of  General  Glover.  When  he  re- 
ceived his  discharge,  he  resumed  his  studies, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  bar  in 
1780.  He  continued  to  practice  until  public 
office  required  his  attention.  When  twenty- 
eight  years  of  age,  in  1783,  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts, 
from  Newburyport,  and  the  next  year  was 
chosen  a  delegate  to  the  Continental  congress, 
and  took  his  seat  December  6,  1784.  He  was 
deeply  interested  in  this  political  work,  and 
having  command  of  oratory,  made  himself  an 
effective  member,  so  much  so  that  he  was  an- 
nually elected  until  the  federal  constitution 
was  operative.  In  this  connection  he  identi- 
fied himself  with  the  cause  of  anti-slavery,  and 
was  recognized  as  one  of  the  most  ardent  ad- 
vocates. 

Thomas  Jefferson  had  introduced  a  resolu- 
tion in  1784,  proposing  that  slavery  should 
cease  to  exist  in  the  northwest  territory  after 
the  year  1800;  but  this  measure  failed  of  adop- 
tion, so  in  1785,  Mr.  King  submitted  the 
proposition  that  there  should  be  "neither  slav- 
ery nor  involuntary  servitude  in  the  states 
described  in  the  resolution  of  Congress  in 
April,  1784,  other  than  in  punishment  of 
crime,  whereof  the  party  shall  have  been  per- 
sonally guilty ;  that  this  resolve  shall  be  made 
an  article  of  compact  and  remain  a  funda- 
mental principle  of  the  Constitution  between 
the  original  states  and  each  of  the  states  named 
in  the  said  resolve."  This  proposition  was 
not  then  acted  upon  ;  but  two  years  later  it  was 
incorporated  in  the  celebrated  ordinance  of 
1787,  prohibiting  slavery  in  the  northwest  ter- 
ritory, which  was  moved  by  Mr.  King's 
colleague,  Nathan  Dane.  The  latter  measure 
contained  a  fugitive  slave  proviso  which  was 
not  incorporated  in  the  original  resolution.  It 
will  thus  be  seen  that  Mr.  King  was  the  first 
to  take  real  and  substantial  action  to  restrict 
slavery  in  the  United  States. 

Mr.  King  was  a  representative  in  the  fed- 
eral constitutional  convention  of  1787,  which 
sat  at  Philadelphia,  and  he  then  bore  a  con- 
spicuous part  in  its  transactions.  He  was 
made  one  of  the  committee  on  style  which 
prepared  the  original  draft  of  the  Constitu- 
tion, and  when  the  Massachusetts  convention 
was  held  in  1788,  to  consider  the  ratification 
of  that  instrument,  his  advice,  backed  by  his 


eloquence,  contributed  decisively  to  bring  about 
the  favorable  result. 

It  was  at  this  period  of  his  life,  namely  in 
1789,  that  he  removed  to  New  York  City,  and 
was  that  year  chosen  a  member  of  the  state 
legislature,  and  immediately  chosen,  with 
General  Philip  Schuyler,  one  of  the  first  two 
to  represent  New  York  State  in  the  United 
States  Senate.  As  he  entertained  practically 
the  same  pronounced  views  as  his  intimate 
friends,  Alexander  Hamilton  and  John  Jay, 
he  was  allied  with  the  Federalist  party,  and 
was  a  defender  of  the  famous  Jay  treaty  \yith 
England,  not  only  when  addressing  the  senate, 
but  in  contributions  he  sent  to  the  press.  He 
was  re-elected  in  1795,  but  resigned  the  next 
year  in  order  to  accept  the  post  of  minister 
plenipotentiary  to  Great  Britain,  by  appoint- 
ment of  President  Washington.  He  held  this 
office  through  President  Adams'  administra- 
tion and  through  three  years  of  President 
Jefferson's,  and  in  1803  resigned  to  be  able 
to  return  to  his  home.  In  1803  Williams  and 
Dartmouth  colleges  accorded  him  the  degree 
of  LL.D.,  and  Harvard  College  in  1806.  In 
this  same  year  he  became  a  trustee  of  Colum- 
bia College,  remaining  such  until  1824. 

For  the  several  succeeding  years,  he  lived 
in  retirement  as  far  as  public  life  was  con- 
cerned, and  in  November,  1805,  bought  prop- 
erty at  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  to  which  estate 
he  removed  his  family  in  May,  1806.  he  en- 
joyed this  life  exceedingly,  finding  great 
pleasure  in  agricultural  pursuits,  in  promotion 
of  which  he  imported  herds  of  blooded  cattle 
from  England,  wherewith  he  stocked  his  farm, 
and  in  King  Park  at  Jamaica  may  be  seen  the 
mammoth  oak  which  it  is  said  is  the  resultant 
of  the  acorn  which  he  planted. 

When  the  second  war  with  Great  Britain 
opened,  he  could  not  resist  the  impulse  to 
throw  his  intellectual  qualities  into  the  patriotic 
cause,  and  was  elected  senator  for  the  third 
time,  in  1813.  From  that  time  until  his  death, 
he  never  relinquished  his  hold  on  the  activi- 
ties of  political  life.  He  was  the  nominee  for 
the  office  of  governor  of  New  York,  but  suf- 
fered defeat;  and  in  1816  was  the  candidate 
of  his  party  for  the  presidency.  James  Mon- 
roe was  his  political  opponent  and  was  nom- 
inated. In  1820,  he  was  elected  senator  a 
fourth  time,  and  when  the  bill  for  the  admis- 
sion of  Missouri  to  statehood  with  slavery 
was   discussed,  he  made  one  of   the  greatest 


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speeches  of  his  life  against  the  proposition,  us- 
ing these  memorable  words :  "I  have  yet  to 
learn  that  one  man  can  make  a  slave  of  another. 
If  one  man  cannot  do  so,  no  number  of  indi- 
viduals can  do  so.  And  I  hold  that  all  laws 
or  compacts  imposing  any  such  condition  upon 
any  human  being  are  absolutely  void,  because 
contrary  to  the  law  of  nature,  which  is  the  law 
of  God,  by  which  He  makes  His  way  known 
to  man  and  which  is  paramount  to  all  human 
contracts."  Yet,  while  so  active  to  bring  about 
abolition,  no  measure  of  his  ever  advocated, 
nor  was  his  voice  raised  to  overthrow  state 
laws,  for  he  was  pronouncedly  in  favor  of 
respecting  the  rights  of  the  integral  parts  of 
the  government,  and  he  worked  simply  along 
the  lines  to  bring  freedom  to  slaves  by  a  form 
of  gradual  emancipation.  In  furtherance  of 
his  carefully  conceived  plans  he  introduced  a 
resolution  at  Washington,  February  18,  1825, 
as  follows: 

"Resolved  by  the  Senate  of  the  United  States  in 
America,  That  as  soon  as  the  portion  of  the  existing 
funded  debt  of  the  United  States,  for  the  payment 
of  which  the  public  land  of  the  United  States  is 
pledged,  shall  have  been  paid  off,  then,  and  thence- 
forth, the  whole  of  the  public  land  of  the  United 
States,  with  the  net  proceeds  of  all  future  sales 
thereof,  shall  constitute  and  form  a  fund,  which  is 
hereby  appropriated,  and  the  faith  of  the  United 
States  is  pledged  that  the  said  fund  shall  be  invio- 
lably applied  to  aid  the  emancipation  of  such  slaves, 
within  any  of  the  United  States,  and  to  aid  in  the 
removal  of  such  slaves,  and  the  removal  of  such 
free  persons  of  color,  in  any  of  the  said  states,  as 
by  the  laws  of  the  states,  respectively,  may  be  al- 
lowed to  be  emancipated,  or  removed  to  any  terri- 
tory or  country  without  the  limits  of  the  United 
States  of  .A.merica." 

Although  Strongly  inclined  to  retire  from  all 
political  position,  he  was  prevailed  upon  by 
President  John  O.  Adams,  in  1825,  to  resume 
the  position  of  United  States  Minister  to  Great 
Britain.  His  health  did  not  qualify  him  to 
continue  in  this  office  for  more  than  a  year, 
and  he  felt  it  was  better  to  resign,  hence  he 
retired  to  his  estate  at  Jainaica,  dividing  his 
time  between  his  comfortable  home  there  and 
life  in  New  York  City.  Throughout  his  long 
and  eminent  career,  he  never  departed  from 
his  earlier  views  regarding  the  political  faith 
of  the  Federalists.  History  records  him  as  a 
statesman  holding  broad  views  and  giving  his 
influence  for  whatsoever  he  believed  was  right 
and  best,  regardless  of  political  lines. 

Hon.  Rufus  King  married,  at  New  York 
City,  March  30,  1786,  Mary  Alsop,  only  child 


of  Hon.  John  and  Mary  (Frogat)  Alsop,  of 
New  York  City  and  Newtown,  Long  Island. 
She  was  born  October  17,  1769,  and  died  June 
6,  1819.  By  all  who  knew  her,  she  was  re- 
garded as  a  most  estimable  woman,  remark- 
able for  personal  beauty,  and  well  educated. 
She  belonged  to  a  family  of  more  than  ordi- 
nary prominence  (see  Alsop).  Children:  i. 
John  Alsop,  born  at  New  York  City,  January 
3,  1788;  died  at  Jamaica,  New  York,  July  7, 
1867 ;  was  educated  abroad,  principally  at  Har- 
row School  in  England,  and  in  Paris;  on  re- 
turn to  New  York  studied  law  and  was  ad- 
mitted ;  was  lieutenant  in  cavalry  in  the  United 
States  army,  during  war  of  1812;  removed 
to  Jamaica,  Long  Island;  assemblyman  in 
1810,  afterward  in  the  state  senate;  accom- 
panied his  father  in  1825  to  the  Court  of  St. 
James,  as  secretary  of  the  United  States  Lega- 
tion;  congressman  in  1849;  delegate  to  the 
convention  in  1855  at  Syracuse  on  organizing 
the  Republican  party  in  New  York  State ;  nom- 
inated for  governor  in  1856,  and  was  elected; 
was  delegate  to  the  peace  convention  in  1861 ; 
married,  January  3,  1810,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Cornelius  and  Elizabeth  (Elmendorf)  Ray, 
who  was  born  September  17,  1790,  died  Au- 
gust 7,  1873.  Issue:  i.  Mary,  born  October 
29,  1810,  died  March  18,  1894;  married,  No- 
vember 16,  1836,  Phineas  Miller  Nightingale, 
of  Cumberland  Island,  Georgia,  ii.  Charles 
Ray,  born  March  16,  1813,  died  April  5,  1901 ; 
married  (first)  December  12,  1839,  Hannah 
Fisher;  married  (second)  October  i.  1872, 
Nancy  Fisher,  iii.  Elizabeth  Ray,  born  August 
17,  1815,  died  March  14,  1900;  married,  Au- 
gust 22,  1833,  General  Henry  Van  Rensselaer, 
iv.  John  Alsop,  born  at  Jamaica,  Long  Island, 
June  14,  1817,  died  November  21,  1900;  mar- 
ried, New  York  City,  February  21,  1839,  Mary 
Golden  Rhinelander.  v.  Caroline,  born  June 
I,  1820,  died  October  29,  1900;  married,  Sep- 
tember 7,  1843,  James  Gore  King  Jr.  vi. 
Richard,  born  July  18,  1822,  died  November 
21,  1891 ;  married,  December  12,  1839,  Eliza- 
beth Lewis,  vii.  Cornelia,  born  March  31, 
1824,  died  November  27,  1897.  viii.  Ellen, 
died  young.  2.  Charles,  born  at  New  York 
City,  March  16,  1789;  died  at  Frascati,  Italy, 
September  27,  1867;  educated  at  Harrow, 
England,  and  at  Paris ;  banker  in  the  house 
of  Archibald  Gracie,  in  New  York,  of  which 
he  became  a  partner;  served  in  war  of  1812; 
member    of    the    legislature;    established    the 


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newspaper,  American,  in  1819,  of  which  he 
was  sole  proprietor  twenty  years;  retired  to 
his  country  home,  "Cherry  Lawn,"  Elizabeth, 
New  Jersey;  elected  president  of  Columbia 
College,  1849,  serving  until  June,  1864;  mar- 
ried (first)  March  16,  1810,  Eliza,  daughter 
of  Archibald  and  Esther  (Rogers)  Gracie,  by 
whom  he  had  eight  children;  married  (sec- 
ond) October  20,  1826,  Henrietta  Liston, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Alice  (Haliburton) 
Low ;  by  whom  six  children.  Issue :  i.  Eliza 
Gracie,  born  December  18,  1810,  died  in  1883; 
married  Rev.  Charles  Henry  Halsey.  ii. 
Esther  Rogers,  born  July  26,  1812,  died  May 
15,  1898;  married  Major  James  G.  Martin, 
iii.  Rufus,  born  at  New  York  City,  January 

26,  1814,  died  October  13,  1876;  married 
(first)  1836,  Ellen  Eliot,  of  Albany,  married 
(second)  1843,  Susan  Eliot.  iv.  William 
Gracie,  born  October  4,  1816,  died  in  1882 ; 
married  Adeline  McKee.  v.  Charles,  born 
October  6,  1817;  probably  lost  at  sea.  vi. 
Alice  Consett,  born  April  16,  1819,  died  May 

27,  1861 ;  married  Rev.  Andrew  Bell  Pater- 
son,  vii.  Archibald  Gracie,  born  February  20, 
i82'i,  died  August  i,  1823.  viii.  Emily  Sophia, 
born  January  12,  1823,  died  April  4,  1853; 
married  Stephen  Van  Rensselaer  Paterson.  ix. 
Anne  Johnstone,  born  August  9,  1827,  died 
October  4,  1891.  x.  Cornelius  Low,  born 
April  5,  1829,  died  April  21,  1893;  married 
(first)  Julia  Lawrence;  married  (second) 
Janet  de  Kay.  xi.  Henrietta  Low,  born  Janu- 
ary 17,  1833.  xii.  Gertrude  Wallace,  born 
September  24,  1836;  married  Eugene  Schuy- 
ler, xiii.  Mary  Alsop,  born  April  28,  1839; 
married,  at  Paris,  France,  Henry  Wadding- 
ton,  xiv.  Augustus  Fleming,  born  July  26, 
1841,  died  August  11,  1862.  3.  Caroline,  born 
May  3,  1790;  died  in  September,  1793.  4. 
James  Gore,  see  forward.  5.  Henry,  born 
July  I,  1792:  died  September  3,  1792.  6.  Ed- 
ward, born  March  13,  1795;  died  at  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  February  6,  1836;  lawyer:  member 
of  Ohio  legislature,  speaker  two  terms ;  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  Gov.  Thomas  Worth- 
ington,  of  Ohio.  Issue:  i.  Rufus,  a  lawyer  of 
Cincinnati.  ii.  Thomas  Worthington.  7. 
Frederick  Gore,  born  February  6,  1802 :  died. 
New  York  City,  April  24,  1829:  graduated 
from  Harvard.  1821  ;  Columbia,  1824:  physi- 
cian ;  married  Emily,  daughter  of  Wright 
Post,  M.D.     No  issue. 

(IV)  James  Gore  King,  son  of  Hon.  Rufus 


and  Mary  (Alsop)  King,  was  born  at  the 
residence  of  his  grandfather,  Hon.  John  Al- 
sop, No.  38  Smith  street  (No.  62  William 
street).  New  York  City,  May  8,  1791,  and 
died  at  Weehawken,  New  Jersey,  October  3, 
1853.  He  was  taken  to  England  when  five 
years  old,  at  the  time  his  father  went  there 
as  United  States  Minister  to  the  Court  of  St. 
James,  and  consequently  was  educated  there ; 
later  studying  the  French  language  at  Paris ; 
but  when  twelve  years  old,  in  1803,  was  sent 
back  to  America  to  complete  his  studies.  Here 
he  was  tutored  for  college  by  Rev.  Dr.  Gard- 
ner, and  entered  Harvard,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  the  class  of  1810.  He  then  stu- 
died law  under  Peter  Van  Schaick,  of  Kinder- 
hook,  New  York,  a  distinguished  jurist,  and 
completed  his  legal  education  at  the  Law 
School  in  Litchfield,  Connecticut.  Influenced 
by  his  father-in-law,  Archibald  Gracie,  he  de- 
cided not  to  practice  law,  nor  was  it  opportune 
to  embark  in  business  on  account  of  the  war 
with  Great  Britain.  In  1814  a  force  being 
required  to  defend  New  York  City,  he  was 
appointed  assistant  adjutant-general,  under 
Major-General  Ebenezer  Stevens,  and  served 
until  the  close  of  the  war.  Peace  being  re- 
stored, he  established  a  commission  house  in 
New  York  City  in  181 5,  with  his  father-in-law 
and  Mr.  Walker,  of  Petersburg,  Virginia,  un- 
der the  firm  style  of  James  G.  King  &  Com- 
pany :  but  at  the  end  of  three  years  he  dis- 
continued and  removed  to  Liverpool,  England, 
where  he  organized  King  &  Gracie  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Archibald  Gracie.  which  firm 
successfully  weathered  the  panics  of  1822, 
1823  and  1824,  meeting  all  obligations.  While 
there  John  Jacob  Astor  offered  him  the  presi- 
dency of  the  American  Fur  Company,  which 
proposition,  however  advantageous,  he  de- 
clined, and  in  1824  returned  to  New  York. 
He  then  entered  the  firm  of  Prime,  Ward. 
Sands,  King  &  Company  as  a  partner,  and 
eventually  the  firm  became  James  G.  King  & 
Sons.  He  achieved  great  success  and  was  es- 
teemed as  a  leading  citizen  of  the  metropolis, 
for  his  influence  had  been  firmly  established. 
He  became  interested  in  the  project  of  the 
New  York  &  Erie  railroad  in  1835,  and  con- 
sented to  accept  the  presidency,  yet  declined 
to  receive  salary.  The  imdertaking  was  re- 
garded as  something  unlikely  to  meet  with 
financial  returns,  for  the  test  of  a  passenger 
railway  had  not  been  made  for  more  than  two 


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or  three  years,  and  was  in  an  experimental 
stage.  Mr.  King  grew  enthusiastic,  however, 
and  devoted  his  energy  to  progress  the  under- 
taking by  causing  surveys  to  be  made  and 
let  contracts  for  a  portion  along  the  Delaware 
river.  In  1836  the  legislature  granted  the 
company  the  state's  credit  for  three  million 
dollars,  believing  in  his  ability  to  do  as  he  said. 
In  the  great  panic  of  1837,  he  was  an  im- 
portant figure  in  restoring  stability  to  the  en- 
tire country,  taking  the  necessary  steps  to 
relieve  the  situation.  He  resisted  the  idea  of 
suspending  specie  payments  as  long  as  pos- 
sible; but  when  unavoidable,  he  advised  co- 
operation with  the  banks  in  their  policy,  and 
at  a  great  gathering  of  merchants  he  moved 
that  all  bills  and  notes  of  the  banks  be  received 
as  usual,  which  resolution  was  adopted.  In 
the  fall  of  that  year  he  went  to  London  and 
negotiated  with  the  Bank  of  England  so  suc- 
cessfully as  to  convince  that  time-honored  in- 
stitution of  the  great  importance  of  strength- 
ening American  credit,  with  the  result  that  a 
large  sum  in  gold  was  confided  to  his  house 
on  the  strength  of  his  personal  credit,  and  the 
moral  effect  produced  thereby  led  to  the  resto- 
ration of  confidence  and  the  resumption  of 
specie  payments  in  the  United  States. 

While  he  never  entered  political  life,  except 
for  a  short  period,  and  could  not  be  pressed 
to  accept  preferment,  still,  he  served  during 
the  sessions  of  1849-51,  taking  his  seat  in 
the  house  of  representatives  as  a  member  of 
the  thirty-first  congress,  on  Monday,  Decem- 
ber 4,  1849,  as  congressman  from  the  fifth 
New  Jersey  district.  In  this  capacity  he  vig- 
orously opposed  the  repeal  of  the  Missouri 
Compromise  and  Fugitive  Slave  Law.  When 
Millard  Fillmore  became  president,  he  urged 
Mr.  King  to  accept  the  portfolio  of  the  United 
State  Treasury ;  but  the  latter  appealed  to  him 
to  allow  him  to  remain  in  private  life. 

He  was  outspoken  in  his  conviction  that 
every  man  should  take  an  active  part  in  the 
conduct  of  public  affairs.  In  this  way  he  held 
himself  ever  ready  to  co-operate  and  combine 
with  other  gentlemen  in  all  movements  to  pro- 
mote healthy  trade  and  commerce.  In  1817 
he  was  elected  to  the  chamber  of  commerce, 
and  was  its  vice-president  from  1841  to  1845, 
then  its  president  from  1845  to  1848.  So 
highly  did  this  body  regard  his  attainments 
that  on  his  death  it  paid  tribute  in  the  words : 
"That  the  chamber  have  no  higher  example 


than  the  character  and  career  of  their  late 
associate  to  point  out  to  the  admiration  and 
imitation  of  rising  members  of  the  mercantile 
community."  Mr.  King  was  named  executor 
under  the  will  of  John  Jacob  Astor,  and  by  the 
same  created  a  trustee  of  the  public  library 
(Astor)  thereby  provided  in  New  York  City. 
He  did  not  serve  as  executor,  however,  as  not 
being  a  citizen  of  New  York,  he  had  to  give 
a  bond  for  twice  the  amount  of  the  personal 
property  of  the  deceased.  Mr.  W.  B.  Astor 
at  once  oft'ered  to  give  the  required  bonds 
himself,  but  Mr.  King  absolutely  declined.  He 
removed  to  Weehawken  Heights,  New  Jersey, 
in  1832,  and  improved  his  country  estate  of  no 
mean  magnificence,  which  he  named  "High- 
wood,"  and  it  was  there  that  he  died. 

James  Gore  King  married,  February  4,  1813, 
Sarah  Rogers  Gracie.  She  was  born  Decem- 
ber 14,  1791,  died  at  Weehawken,  November  3, 
1878,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Archibald  and 
Esther  (Rogers)  Gracie.  Children:  i.  Caro- 
line, born  November  10,  1813,  died  in  1863; 
married.  May  8,  1837,  Denning  Duer,  son  of 
Judge  William  A.  Duer  (the  great-grandson 
of  William  Alexender,  i.  e..  Lord  Stirling), 
Issue :  i.  Sarah  Gracie  Duer.  ii.  Edward 
Alexander  Duer,  married  Anna  Van  Buren, 
granddaughter  of  President  Martin  Van 
Buren.  iii.  James  Gore  King  Duer,  married 
Elizabeth  Meads,  daughter  of  Orlando  Meads, 
lawyer,  of  Albany,  New  York.  iv.  Rufus 
King  Duer,  lieutenant-commander  U.  S.  N. ; 
died  at  sea.  v.  Amy  H.  Duer.  vi.  William 
Alexander  Duer,  married  Ellin  Travers. 
daughter  of  William  Travers.  vii.  Denning 
Duer,  married  Louise  Suydam,  daughter  of 
Henry  Suydam.  2.  Sarah  Gracie,  born  Au- 
gust 8,  1815,  died  October  4,  1815.  3.  Har- 
riet, born  June  2,  1817,  died  June  19,  1838; 
married.  May  19,  1836,  George  Wilkes,  M.D. 
Issue :  i.  Grace  Wilkes.  ii.  Harriet  King 
Wilkes.  4.  James  Gore,  born  at  Liverpool, 
England,  May  3,  1819,  died  June  11,  1867; 
graduate  of  Harvard  ;  made  justice  of  supreme 
court  by  Governor  Hunt ;  married,  September 
7,  1843,  Caroline  King  (his  cousin),  daughter 
of  Hon.  John  Alsop  King  and  Mary  Ray. 
Issue:  i.  James  Gore.  ii.  John  Alsop;  mar- 
ried, October  15,  1874,  Elizabeth  W.  Tomp- 
kins, iii.  Mary  Ray;  married,  November  21, 
1871,  B.  Franklin  Lee.  iv.  Harriet,  v.  Caro- 
line. 5.  Archibald  Gracie,  born  at  Everton, 
England,  July  11,  1821,  died  at  "Highwood," 


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Weehawken,  New  Jersey,  March  21,  1897; 
graduate  of  Harvard;  married,  May  8,  1845, 
Elizabeth  Denning  Duer,  daughter  of  William 
Alexander  Duer.  Issue:  i.  Maria  Denning, 
married,  October  4,  1871,  John  King  Van 
Rensselaer,  ii.  Sarah  Gracie,  married,  De- 
cember I,  1875,  Frederic  Bronson.  iii.  Fred- 
erick Gore,  married,  December  5,  1877,  Jessie 
Arklay.  6.  Henry  Myers,  born  at  Versailles, 
France,  September  15,  1824,  died  August  9, 
1825.  7.  Mary,  born  June  30,  1826,  died  at 
Ocean  Beach,  New  Jersey,  in  July,  1890; 
married,  November  12,  1856,  Edgar  H.  Rich- 
ards. Issue:  i.  Edgar  Richards,  ii.  James 
Gore  King  Richards,  married,  January  21, 
1891,  Alice  Haliburton  King.  iii.  Frederick 
Gore  King  Richards,  iv.  Gracie  King  Rich- 
ards, married,  October  26,  1897,  Emily  Blight 
Parke,  daughter  of  General  John  G.  Parke, 
U.  S.  A.  8.  Frederica  Gore,  born  July  2, 
1829;  married,  November  19,  1857,  John 
Chandler  Bancroft  Davis.  No  issue.  9.  Ed- 
ward, see  forward.  10.  Alsop,  born  March 
31,  1835,  died  July  26,  1836.  11.  Fanny,  born 
July  8,  1836,  died  December  20,  1905;  mar- 
ried, November  15,  1859,  James  Latimer  Mc- 
Lane,  son  of  Louis  and  Katharine  (Milligan) 
McLane.  Issue:  i.  Katharine  Milligan  Mc- 
Lane,  married,  November  5,  1890,  William  H. 
L.  Lee.  ii.  James  Gore  King  McLane,  died 
December  i,  1867.  iii.  Allan  McLane,  mar- 
ried, April  22,  1890,  Augusta,  daughter  of 
Henry  James,  iv.  Robert  Milligan  McLane, 
died  May  30,  1904.  v.  Fanny  King  McLane. 
vi.  Ethel  King  McLane,  died  young,  vii. 
Frederica  Gore  McLane,  married  John  A. 
Tompkins,  M.D.  viii.  James  Latimer  Mc- 
Lane, died  young. 

(V)  Edward  King,  son  of  James  Gore  and 
Sarah  Rogers  (Gracie)  King,  was  born  at 
"Highwood,"  Weehawken,  New  Jersey,  July 
30,  1833,  and  died  at  No.  i  University  place, 
New  York  City,  November  18,  1908.  He  re- 
ceived his  primary  education  at  the  grammar 
school  of  Columbia  College,  which  was  then 
located  in  Murray  street.  Professor  Anthon 
being  the  president  at  the  time,  and  Abram  S. 
Hewitt  one  of  the  instructors.  He  then  at- 
tended a  French  school  in  New  York  City, 
which  was  conducted  by  two  brothers  of  the 
name  of  Peugnet,  once  officers  under  Napo- 
leon. He  accompanied  his  parents  to  Europe 
in  1847,  then  fourteen  years  old,  and  was 
placed  in  a  school  at  Meiningen,  Saxony.   Here 


he  became  a  German  linguist.  When  he  re- 
turned to  the  United  States,  in  1849,  he  en- 
tered Harvard,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
household  of  Professor  Louis  Agassiz,  while 
there.  He  graduated  in  1853,  ^"^  thereafter 
passed  some  months  at  West  Point,  taking  les- 
sons in  engineering  under  Professor  Mahan. 
He  began  his  career  as  a  banker  in  1854,  in 
the  well-known  house  of  James  G.  King's 
Sons,  shortly  becoming  a  partner.  In  1861 
he  withdrew  from  the  firm  and  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange,  and 
engaged  in  banking  first  on  his  own  account, 
and  later  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  James 
Robb,  King  &  Company.  He  was  president 
of  the  exchange  in  1872,  and  the  next  year  was 
chosen  president  of  the  Union  Trust  Company 
of  New  York  City,  a  position  which  he  filled 
for  thirty-five  years  until  his  death  in  1908. 
He  was  a  governor  of  the  New  York  Hospital, 
and  was  much  interested  in  its  progress ;  vice- 
president  of  the  New  York  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce;  a  trustee  of  the  New  York  Society 
Library ;  trustee  and  treasurer  of  the  New 
York  Public  Library;  president  of  the  St. 
Nicholas  Society,  1896-7,  and  president  of  the 
Harvard  Club  of  New  York,  1890-95. 

Edward  King  married,  at  Edinburgh,  Scot- 
land, October  20,  1858,  Isabella  Ramsay  Coch- 
rane, daughter  of  Rupert  James  and  Isabella 
Macomb  (Clarke)  Cochrane.  She  was  born 
September  8,  1838,  and  died  at  "Highwood," 
Weehawken,  New  Jersey,  March  i.  1873.  By 
this  marriage  there  were  six  children.  He 
married  (second)  at  the  Church  of  the  Holy 
Communion,  New  York  City,  May  26,  1885, 
Elizabeth  Fisher,  daughter  of  William  and 
Julia  (Palmer)  Fisher,  who  was  born  Octo- 
ber I,  1847,  and  resides  in  New  York  City  and 
at  Tokeneke  Park,  Rowayton,  Connecticut; 
by  whom  one  child.  Children:  i.  Isabella 
Clarke,  born  at  "Highwood,"  Weehawken, 
New  Jersey,  October  13,  1839,  resides  at 
Dobbs  Ferry,  New  York.  2.  Edward  Ram- 
say, born  August  14,  1861,  died  at  New  York 
City,  September  20,  1863.  3.  Alice  Bayard, 
born  at   College   Point,   Long  Island,   August 

14,  1864;  married,  at  New  York  City,  October 

15,  1 89 1,  Herman  LeRoy  Edgar,  son  of  Wil- 
liam and  Eliza  Lucile  (Rhinelander)  Edgar. 
Issue:  i.  William  Edgar,  born  at  New  York 
City,  March  8,  1894.  4.  James  Gore,  born  at 
New  York  City,  June  6,  1868;  lawyer,  resid- 
ing in  New  York  City;  married  there,  April 


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22,  1896,  Sarah  Elizabeth  Erving,  who  was 
born  at  New  York  City,  May  4,  1870,  and  was 
the  daughter  of  John  Erving  (see  Erving) 
find  Corneha  Van  Rensselaer  (see  Van  Rens- 
selaer). Issue:  i.  James  Gore,  born  May 
25,  1898.  ii.  Eleanor  Erving,  born  Novem- 
ber 29,  1900.  iii.  Edward  Ramsay,  born  May 
20,  1905,  died  October  21,  1907.  iv.  Corneha 
Van  Rensselaer,  born  February  7,  191 1;  all 
born  in  New  York  City.  5.  Elizabeth  Gracie, 
born  July  30,  1870,  on  Staten  Island;  married, 
at  New  York  City,  April  20,  1908,  Alpheus 
Sumner  Hardy,  son  of  Alpheus  Holmes 
Hardy,  of  New  York  City,  who  was  born 
October  6,  1864,  at  Bombay,  India.  Issue:  i. 
Isabella  Ramsay  Hardy,  born  at  New  York 
City,  June  23,  1912.  6.  Rupert  Cochrane,  see 
forward.  7.  Edward,  born  at  New  York  City, 
September  27,  1886;  architect,  practicing  in 
New  York ;  married,  at  New  York  City,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1912,  Mary  Gillett,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Charles  R.  and  Katharine  (Van  Kirk) 
Gillett.  Issue:  Edward,  born  at  New  York, 
November  24,  1913. 

( VI )  Rupert  Cochrane  King,  son  of  Ed- 
ward and  Isabella  Ramsay  (Cochrane)  King, 
was  born  at  "Highwood,"  Weehawken,  New 
Jersey,  February  24,  1873,  and  resides  at  New 
Canaan,  Connecticut.  He  was  a  graduate  of 
Harvard  University,  class  of  '94,  and  was 
formerly  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Ladd, 
Wood  &  King,  but  is  now  president  of  the 
Central  Garage  Company,  of  New  Canaan, 
Connecticut.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New 
York  Stock  Exchange  from  1899  to  1907 ;  is 
a  life  member  of  the  St.  Nicholas  Society,  and 
a  member  of  the  University  and  Harvard 
clubs,  all  of  New  York.  Rupert  Cochrane 
Kin?  married,  at  the  Cathedral  of  All  Saints, 
in  Albany,  New  York,  Rt.  Rev.  William  Cros- 
well  Doane  officiating,  June  6,  1901,  Grace 
Parker  Marvin.  She  was  born  at  Albany, 
April  7,  1872,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Gen- 
eral Selden  Erastus  Marvin  and  Katharine 
Langdon  Parker  (see  Marvin).  Children:  i. 
Katharine  Langdon.  born  in  New  York,  May 
23,  1902,  died  at  New  Canaan,  Connecticut, 
January  11,  1907.  2.  Rupert  Cochrane,  born 
at  New  Canaan,  Connecticut,  July  29.  1908. 
3.  Dorothy  Wentworth.  born  at  New  Canaan, 
August  31,  1912. 

(The  Marvin  Line.) 

The  Marvin  family  is  of  English  descent, 
residing  in  the  county  of  Essex,  England,  for 


a  century  and  a  half  before  coming  to  America, 
and  a  hundred  years  previous  to  that  located 
in  Ipswich,  Suffolk  county.  Authentic  rec- 
ords trace  to  Roger  Marvin,  of  St.  Stephen's 
parish,  Ipswich,  who  was  born  as  early  as 
1430.  The  original  form  of  the  name  was 
Merwyn,  but  it  is  spelled  in  several  different 
ways.  The  Marvin  family  arms  are  as  fol- 
lows :  Sable,  three  lions  passant,  guardant,  per 
pale  or  and  argent.  Crest :  A  squirrel  sejant, 
proper,  cracking  a  nut  or.  A  plain  collar  of 
the  last,  charged  with  three  torteaux.  Motto: 
De  dieu  tout. 

(I)  The  American  ancestor  was  Reinold 
Marvin,  his  Christian  name  spelled  also  Regi- 
nold,  Reignold,  Reynold,  Reinald  and  Renald 
in  the  Connecticut  records.  He  was  the  son  of 
Edward  and  Margaret  Marvin;  was  baptized 
in  St.  Mary's  Church,  Great  Bentley,  Essex, 
England,  June  7,  1593,  died  at  Lyme,  Connec- 
ticut, in  1662.  He  appeared  at  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, in  the  records  of  1638,  but  might 
have  been  there  some  time  earlier.  He  mar- 
ried, probably  in  161 7,  Marie,  who  died  pre- 
vious to  her  husband. 

(II)  Lieutenant  Reinold  Marvin  was  bap- 
tized December  20,  163 1,  and  died  at  Lyme, 
August  4,  1676.  He  owned  much  land  and 
became  the  richest  person  of  the  place;  be- 
came a  freeman  of  Saybrook,  May  20,  1658; 
represented  Lyme  in  the  general  court,  1670, 
and  from  1672  until  death;  appointed  sergeant 
of  train  band  at  Saybrook,  October  3,  1661, 
and  was  promoted  to  a  lieutenancy;  married, 
about  1662,  Sarah,  daughter  of  George  and 
Sarah  Clark,  who  was  baptized  at  Milford, 
Connecticut,  February  18,  1643-44,  and  died 
at  Lyme,  February  i,  1715-16. 

(III)  Captain  Reinold  Marvin  was  born  at 
Lyme.  Connecticut,  in  1669,  and  died  there, 
October  18,  1737.  He  was  captain  of  the  train 
band  of  Lyme,  May  8,  1718;  first  townsman, 
1707;  constable,  1694;  collector  of  rates,  1713- 
14;  grand  juryman,  1714-35  ;  sealer  of  weights, 
1715;  lister,  1729;  moderator,  1721  ;  repre- 
sented Lyme  in  general  court,  171 1  to  1728; 
married,  about  1696.  Phebe.  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant Thomas  and  Mary  (DeWolf)  Lee,  who 
was  born  at  Lyme,  August  14,  1677,  and  died 
there.  October  27.  1707. 

(IV)  Deacon  Reinold  Marvin  was  born  at 
Lyme,  Connecticut,  January,  1698-9,  died 
there,  February  24,  1761.  He  was  chosen 
deacon  of  the  Lyme  church,  January,   1741 ; 


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had  been  chosen  lieutenant  of  train  band  in 
October,  1730;  admitted  freeman,  September 
14,  1731 ;  sealer  of  weights,  1729;  town  treas- 
urer, December,  1734;  grand  juryman,  1736; 
surveyor,  1738;  lister,  1739;  married,  Decem- 
ber 23,  1725,  his  cousin,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
John  Marvin  and  widow  of  John  Lay. 

(V)  Captain  Daniel  Marvin  was  born  at 
Lyme,  Connecticut,  January  2,  1730-31,  died 
there,  December  30,  1776.  He  was  ensign  of 
first  train  band,  October  i,  1767;  lieutenant, 
May,  1771 ;  captain,  May,  1772;  selectman, 
1773-75  ;  married,  October  14,  1762,  Mehitable 
Selden,  who  was  baptized  at  Lyme,  December 
4,  1743,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Captain  Sam- 
uel and  Deborah  (Dudley)  Selden,  of  Lyme, 
Connecticut. 

(VI)  Selden  Marvin  was  born  at  Lyme, 
Connecticut,  November  24,  1773,  died  at  Dry- 
den,  Tompkins  county,  New  York,  September, 
1832,  to  which  latter  place  he  had  removed 
about  1808,  and  there  cleared  a  farm  in  the 
forest  wild ;  was  school  trustee,  an  active 
Federalist  and  participated  in  the  conduct  of 
the  Methodist  church.  He  married,  in  1798, 
Charlotte,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sibyl 
(Stowe)  Pratt,  of  Saybrook,  Connecticut,  who 
was  born  about  1779,  and  died  in  1816.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Richard  Pratt,  mentioned  below.  2. 
\\'illiam,  was  governor  of  Florida,  1865-1866; 
died  at  his  residence  at  Skaneateles,  New 
York ;  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  was 
Harriet  Foote,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter, 
Harriet  Foote  Marvin,  married  General  Lud- 
ington,  U.  S.  A. 

( VH)  Hon.  Richard  Pratt  Marvin  was  born 
at  Fairfield,  Herkimer  county,  New  York,  De- 
cember 23,  1803,  died  at  Jamestown,  Chautau- 
qua county.  New  York,  January  11,  1892.  He 
worked  first  on  his  father's  farm,  but  being 
studious  became  a  teacher,  and  later  qualified 
as  a  lawyer  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Mark  H. 
Sibley,  of  Canandaigua,  New  York ;  was  ad- 
mitted in  1829;  elected  assemblyman  in  1835; 
elected  congressman  in  1836  and  1838;  in 
1846,  delegate  to  convention  to  amend  state 
constitution;  justice  of  superior  court,  1847, 
serving  over  twenty-four  years,  and  for  two 
years  as  justice  of  court  of  appeals.  He  mar- 
ried, September  8,  1834,  Isabella,  daughter  of 
David  and  Jane  (McHarg)  Newland,  of  Al- 
bany, who  was  born  there,  August  3,  181 1, 
died  at  Jamestown,  New  York,  February  12, 
1872. 


(VIII)  General  Selden  Erastus  Marvin  was 
born  at  Jamestown,  New  York,  August  20, 
1835,  died  in  New  York  City,  January  19, 
1899.  He  was  educated  at  Jamestown,  and 
later  at  New  Haven,  Connecticut ;  in  his  youth 
was  made  quartermaster  of  the  Sixty-eighth 
Regiment,  National  Guard,  and  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  civil  war  tendered  his  services  to 
the  government;  was  commissioned  adjutant 
of  the  One  Hundred  and  Twelfth  New  York 
Volunteers,  July  21,  1862,  serving  through  the 
Peninsula  and  Charlestown  campaigns,  until 
August  27,  1863,  when  he  was  appointed  ad- 
ditional paymaster  of  the  United  States  Volun- 
teers, and  assigned  to  the  Army  of  the  Poto- 
mac; resigned  December  27,  1864,  to  become 
paymaster-general  of  the  state  of  New  York 
on  the  staff  of  Governor  Reuben  E.  Fenton, 
and  January  i,  1867,  was  appointed  adjutant- 
general.  During  his  service  he  disbursed  some 
twenty-seven  million  dollars,  and  in  his  last 
military  capacity  inaugurated  many  practical 
reforms.  He  then  engaged  in  banking  in  New 
York  City,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Mor- 
gan, Keene  &  Marvin,  until  1873,  when  it 
dissolved,  and  on  January  i,  1874,  he  went  to 
Troy  to  represent  Erastus  Coming's  interests 
in  the  large  iron  and  steel  business  carried  on 
by  John  A.  Griswold  &  Company.  When  it 
organized,  on  March  i,  1875,  ^s  the  Albany  & 
Rensselaer  Iron  and  Steel  Company,  he  was 
chosen  secretary  and  treasurer.  On  June  i, 
1891,  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Hudson 
River  Telephone  Company,  succeeding  to  the 
presidency  of  the  Albany  District  Telegraph 
Company,  in  1893.  He  was  also  president  of 
Albany  Savings  Bank.  Always  active  in  re- 
ligious affairs,  he  was  made  treasurer  of  the 
Albany  Episcopal  diocese,  and  also  of  the 
board  of  missions ;  was  vestryman  of  St. 
Peter's  Church  and  member  of  the  Chapter 
of  the  Cathedral  of  All  Saints,  at  Albany,  and 
Governor  Levi  P.  Morton  appointed  him  a 
member  of  the  state  board  of  charities,  March 
27,  1895. 

General  Marvin  married,  September  24. 
1868,  Katharine  Langdon,  daughter  of  Judge 
Amasa  Junius  and  Harriet  (Langdon)  Parker. 
Children:  1.  Colonel  Selden  Erastus,  born  at 
Albany,  New  York,  December  i,  1869.  2. 
Grace  Parker,  born  at  Albany,  April  7,  1872 ; 
married,  at  Albany,  June  6,  1901,  Rupert 
Cochrane  King.  3.  Langdon  Parker,  born  at 
Albany,  September  16,  1876;  lawyer  in  New 


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York  City.  4.  Edmund  Roberts,  born  at  Al- 
bany, August  10,  1878.  5.  Richard  Pratt,  born 
August  18,  1882,  died  September  6,  1883.  6. 
Katharine  Langdon,  born  August  6,  1889; 
married,  January  6,  19 12,  Hancock  Griffin; 
issue:  Hancock,  August  21,  1912. 

(The  Alsop  Line.) 

The  Alsop  family  is  of  English  descent.  At 
the  time  of  the  Conquest,  1066,  it  settled  in 
county  Derby,  and  continued  there  for  twenty 
generations.  Of  this  family  was  Hugh  de 
Alsop,  who  made  a  pilgrimage  to  the  Holy 
Land  with  the  crusade  under  King  Richard  I., 
and  by  reason  of  his  efficient  service  in  the 
conquest  of  Acre  was  knighted.  The  Alsop 
arms  are :  Sable,  three  plovers  sable  rising  ar- 
gent, legged  and  beaked  gules.  Crest :  A  plover 
with  wings  expanded  or,  beaked  and  legged 
gules  holding  in  the  beak  a  gold  ear  of  wheat 
of  the  first.     Motto:  Festina  Icnte. 

Richard  Alsop  was  the  progenitor  of  this 
family  in  America,  and  settled  at  Newtown, 
Long  Island.  He  was  induced  to  come  here 
by  his  uncle,  Thomas  Wandell,  who  made  him 
his  heir.  Wandell  was  said  to  have  been  a 
major  in  Cromwell's  army,  and  following  a 
dispute  fled  to  Holland,  thence  to  this  coun- 
try, and  bought  land  on  Newtown  creek  in 
1659,  where  he  married  the  widow  of  William 
Herrick ;  but  had  no  issue.  On  his  death,  in 
1691,  Richard  Aslop  inherited  this  property, 
and  resided  there  until  he  died  in  October, 
1718,  aged  about  fifty-eight  years.  His  wife, 
Hannah,  died  August  23,  1757,  aged  ninety- 
one  years. 

Their  son,  John  Alsop,  was  born  about  1693 
or  1697,  and  died  November  22,  1794,  and 
was  a  lawyer  at  New  Windsor,  Orange 
county,  New  York,  later  of  New  York  City, 
where  he  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1749. 
He  married,  December,  1718,  Abigail  Sackett. 

Their  son,  John  Alsop,  Jr.,  was  born  about 
173 1,  and  became  a  New  York  merchant,  in 
partnership  with  his  only  brother,  Richard, 
until  1757,  when  the  latter  removed  to  Mid- 
dletown,  Connecticut,  and  John  continued 
alone.  He  helped  to  found  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  in  1767,  and  was  the  person  chosen 
to  read  the  acknowledgment  of  the  merchants 
of  the  resolution  adopted  by  the  assembly 
thanking  them  for  their  faithful  observance 
of  the  Non-importation  Agreement.  He  was 
appointed  one  of  the  committee  of  inspection, 


in  1770,  named  to  enforce  the  agreement 
which  was  one  of  the  movements  leading  to 
the  war  of  independence.  John  Alsop  was 
the  first  of  fifty-one  members  to  be  named  on 
the  committee  of  correspondence  when  the 
news  of  the  Boston  Port  Bill  was  received  in 
New  York,  May,  1774,  and  in  that  summer  he 
was  elected  a  delegate  to  the  first  continental 
congress.  He  was  one  of  the  committee  of 
one  hundred  chosen  in  May,  1775,  to  take 
charge  of  the  government  until  a  convention 
could  be  assembled,  and  the  next  year  was 
sent  to  congress.  When,  after  the  war,  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  was  reorganized,  the 
merchants  chose  him  its  president  for  the  year 
1784,  but  he  declined  re-election  in  1785,  and 
retired  from  business  pursuit.  For  many 
years  he  was  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  Church; 
an  incorporator  and  president  of  the  Society 
of  the  New  York  Hospital,  1770-1784.  He 
married,  June  8,  1766,  Mary  Frogat,  who  died 
April  14,  1772,  when  only  twenty-eight  years 
old ;  by  whom  an  only  child,  Mary,  who  mar- 
ried Hon.  Rufus  King,  March  30,  1786  (see 
King). 


The    family    name    of    Olcott 
OLCOTT     has  been  variously  written  both 

here  and  abroad,  Olcott,  Alcott, 
Olcot,  Alcot.Alcock,  Alcocks,  Allcocks,  Allcox, 
Alcox  and  Alcocke.  This  does  not  seem  acci- 
dental or  blundering  in  signing  the  name,  but 
the  actual  manner  of  spelling  adopted  by  vari- 
ous branches  of  what  was  once  a  single  fam- 
ily. The  termination  "cox"  or  "cock"  signifies 
"little"  or  "son  of,"  and  if  the  original  form 
of  name  so  terminated  the  significance  would 
be  a  shortening  of  Albertson  or  Alfredson, 
that  is,  son  of  Albert  or  Alfred. 

That  the  family  known  as  Alcott  prefers 
so  to  spell  the  name,  is  merely  a  matter  of 
choice  of  an  individual,  but  as  a  matter  of 
fact  the  name  of  the  progenitor  in  America 
was  written  "Olcott,"  although  on  early 
maps  of  Hartford  the  clerk  wrote  it  with  the 
letter  "A."  It  is  spelled  "Olcott"  upon  the 
memorial  shaft  erected  to  the  "First  Settlers" 
there.  Nathaniel  Goodwin,  before  writing 
about  the  family,  in  1874,  looked  into  this 
particular  matter  while  in  London,  and  found 
that  whereas  records  contemporaneous  with 
Thomas  Olcott,  the  American  progenitor,  con- 
tained such  names  as  Alcott  and  Alcocks,  he 


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discovered  none  written  Olcott.  It  is  barely 
possible  that  Thomas  Olcott,  of  Hartford, 
learning  that  there  was  at  that  time  an  emi- 
grant named  Thomas  Alcock  or  Alcott,  living 
at  Boston,  changed  the  spelling  to  avoid  con- 
fusion. William  Arthur,  the  expert  on  name 
formation,  declares  that  the  first  syllable  is 
synonymous  with  "Hal"  or  "Al,"  the  nick- 
name for  Henry,  and  that  the  name  means 
little  Harry  or  Henry,  bestowed  upon  the  son. 

The  Olcott  arms:  Gules  and  azure  per  sal- 
tire  argent,  with  ten  billets  of  the  first  (gules) 
surmounted  at  the  fesse  point  by  a  lion's  head 
erased.  On  a  chief  of  the  third  (argent)  be- 
tween eight  stars  sable,  two,  two,  two,  two, 
three  fleurs  de  lis.  Crest:  A  cock  armed  and 
wattled  gules.  Motto:  Vigilate  (be  watchful). 
Note :  The  fleurs  de  lis  and  the  lion's  head  arc 
outlined  in  sable. 

One  of  the  more  prominent  progenitors  of 
the  Olcott  family  was  Dr.  John  Alcock,  who 
was  born  at  Beverly,  Yorkshire,  during  the 
reign  of  Henry  VH.  He  completed  his  edu- 
cation at  Cambridge  and  took  there  the  degree 
of  LL.D.  He  was  also  dean  of  W'estminster, 
bishop  of  Rochester  and  Worcester,  and  in 
1446  he  succeeded  Morton  in  the  see  of  Ely. 
In  1462  he  was  made  master  of  the  rolls,  and 
in  1470  a  privy  councillor  and  ambassador  to 
the  court  of  Castile.  He  was  also  lord  presi- 
dent of  Wales,  and  in  1472  he  was  made  lord 
chancellor  by  Henry  VII.  In  i486  he  founded 
a  school  at  Kingston-upon-Hull,  and  in  1496 
he  founded  Jesus  College  at  Cambridge.  He 
died  October  i,  1500,  and  was  buried  at  Ely 
Cathedral,  built  by  himself. 

(I)  Thomas  Olcott,  the  progenitor  of  the 
line  herein  traced,  came  from  England,  but 
it  is  not  known  from  what  portion  he  emi- 
grated, nor  has  it  been  ascertained  just  when 
he  landed,  but  there  is  every  reliable  reason 
to  state  that  he  was  one  of  that  "goodly  com- 
pany" of  men,  women  and  children,  who  in 
June,  1635,  left  Newtown  (Cambridge)  and 
other  seaboard  settlements  of  Massachusetts 
to  establish  a  new  colony  on  "the  delightful 
banks"  of  the  Connecticut  river.  Thomas  Ol- 
cott and  the  others  traveled  westward  through 
an  absolute  wilderness,  fraught  with  all  the 
dangers  of  wild  beast  and  savage  red  men. 
not  to  mention  the  pressing  necessities  of  food 
and  shelter.  On  reaching  the  Chicopee  river, 
they  followed  it  to  the  mouth,  and  then  the 
course  of  the  Connecticut  conducted  them,  and 


in  the  autumn  they  built  their  homes  at  Sucki- 
age,  now  Hartford. 

He  first  located  on  a  lot  on  the  east  side  of 
the  Public  Square,  later  known  as  State  House 
Square,  the  site  being  that  chosen  for  the 
well-known  hostelry,  the  American  Hotel.  He 
afterwards  purchased  the  lot  assigned  to  Ed- 
ward Hopkins  in  the  original  distribution  of 
the  land  among  the  first  settlers.  The  lot 
comprised  the  entire  square  fronting  on  Main 
street,  and  was  bounded  by  Pearl,  Trumbull 
and  Asylum  streets.  He  erected  his  dwelling 
on  the  southeast  corner.  It  remained  in  the 
family  through  several  generations,  and  was 
known  afterwards  as  the  Nevens  House,  be- 
cause it  was  acquired  by  Robert  Nevens,  and 
in  1824  it  was  demolished  to  make  room  for 
the  large  block  known  as  Union  Hall.  When 
Thomas  Olcott  died,  this  property  was  ap- 
praised at  only  sixty  pounds,  whereas  it  in- 
creased to  a  valuation  of  $125,000,  by  1850, 
and  more  than  doubled  in  the  next  twenty-five 
years  as  a  land  value.  Behind  the  house  he 
excavated  a  well,  and  this  was  in  use  two  hun- 
dred years  after. 

Thomas  Olcott  had  been  brought  up  as  a 
merchant  in  Europe,  and  was  qualified  by 
training  to  engage  in  almost  any  enterprise  re- 
quiring business  tact  and  perseverance.  With 
Edward  Hopkins,  Richard  Lord  and  William 
Whiting,  he  engaged  in  trade,  giving  especial 
attention  to  furs  of  the  wild  animals,  for 
which  Connecticut  forests  afforded  advantages 
equal  to  any  other  state  at  that  time.  He  en- 
gaged in  trade  between  Hartford  and  Virginia, 
making  many  ocean  trips,  the  chief  articles 
being  skins,  tobacco  and  provisions. 

He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  colony, 
May  20,  1658,  on  being  admitted  as  freeman, 
according  to  the  form  prescribed  by  the  gen- 
eral court.  April  6,  1640.  In  the  same  year 
he  was  a  constable  at  his  home  town.  An  ac- 
count of  his  activities  has  been  preserved  in 
"A  short  Abstract  out  of  the  Register,  and 
record  of  Passages  betwixt  the  New  Nether- 
lands and  the  English  Nation,"  one  event,  that 
occurring  on  April  25,  1640,  reading:  "The 
Constable  of  Hartford  came  upon  the  Dutch 
land,  with  ten  armed  men,  when  the  Dutch 
were  plowing,  and  smote  their  horses  with 
sticks  so  that  the  latter  were  frightened  and 
broke  their  geares  in  sunder,  and  that  notwith- 
standing a  formal  protest  made  to  Mr.  Hop- 
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to  hinder  them  in  the  possession  and  cultiva- 
tion of  their  land,  yea  with  blows  and  strokes 
even  to  the  shedding  of  blood,  as  can  be  jus- 
tified." 

Among  the  documents  signed  by  Thomas 
Olcott  at  about  this  period  is  this  particular 
one :  "This  Bill  Byndeth  me  Thomas  Olcott, 
of  Hartford,  in  New  England,  to  pay  or  cause 
to  be  paid  unto  Mr.  Jacob  Hayes,  of  Mana- 
tors,  the  sum  of  six  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  sixty  pounds  of  good  Virginiah  Tobac- 
cko,  such  as  Dutchmen  do  take,  sometime  in 
December  next,  in  some  convenient  places 
either  at  Nansemond  or  Newberts  News,  and 
in  witness  whereof  I  have  set  my  hand,  (the 
said  Thomas  Olcott  is  to  allowe  halfe  the 
casck,  and  said  Jacob  Hayes  is  to  pay  for  the 
other  half)  this  19th  day  of  July,  1650.  Wit- 
ness :  Richard  Lord,  Bray  Rosseter,  Vera 
Copia:  Pr:  John  Cullick." 

Thomas  Olcott  married  Abigail  Porter.  She 
was  hardly  less  capable  than  he  in  the  man- 
agement of  property,  for  following  his  death 
she  carried  along  his  business,  buying,  leasing 
and  selling  lands,  loaning  money  on  security 
and  making  contracts.  She  died  at  Hartford, 
Connecticut,  May  26,  1693,  aged  seventy-eight 
years,  and  was  buried  beside  her  husband  and 
sons  in  the  public  burying  ground  in  the  rear 
of  the  Centre  Congregational  Church,  at  that 
place.  May  29,  1693.  Children:  i.  Thomas, 
see  forward.  2.  Samuel,  see  forward.  3. 
John,  baptized  February  3,  1649;  resided  in 
Hartford;  died  in  1712;  married,  about  1695, 
Mary  (Blackleach)  Welles,  widow  of  Thomas 
Welles,  and  daughter  of  John  Blackleach,  Jr. ; 
she  died  after  1728.  4.  Elizabeth,  baptized 
December  7,  1643,  "^i^d  after  February  7, 
1678;  married,  after  February  7,  1674,  Tim- 
othey  Hyde,  of  Hartford.    5.  Hannah. 

Thomas  Olcott  died  in  1654,  aged  about 
forty-five  years,  while  at  or  on  a  voyage  to 
Virginia.  He  made  his  will,  November  20, 
1653,  witnessed  by  Henry  Hardeye  and  Eliz- 
abeth Roberts,  and  mong  the  items  of  his 
lengthy  document  is  this :  "Unto  my  dear  and 
loving  wife  I  give  unto  her  the  sum  of  twenty- 
eight  pounds  per  year  during  her  life,  to  be 
made  fair  unto  her  out  of  my  estate,  partly 
out  of  what  rents  and  yearly  annualties  are 
coming  to  me,  and  partly  so  much  of  my  es- 
tate to  be  put  to  it  as  will  procure  so  much 
to  be  assured  to  her  during  her  life ;  the  whole 
remainder  of  my  estate,  except  twenty  pounds, 


I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  children."  John 
Tallcott,  Edward  Stebbins  and  Richard  Lord 
subscribed  to  the  inventory  of  his  estate, 
which  enumerated  a  great  number  of  posses- 
sions such  as  "3  cushens,"  "the  bedd,  with  all 
the  furniture,  pounds  8,"  "i  cubbert,"  "3 
hoggs,  valued  at  3  pounds,"  "snuffers,  warm- 
ing-pann  2  pewter  boales,  a  payre  cobirons, 
a  flocke  bedd,  some  lanthorns,  2  payre  of  bel- 
lowes"  and  the  like.  He  also  owned  other 
tracts  in  Hartford  and  Wethersfield,  which 
were  inherited  by  his  sons.  He  left  personal 
property  to  the  value  of  $7,400.  He  was 
among  the  earliest  settlers  of  Hartford.  He 
was  also  so  prominent  and  energetic  a  man 
that  due  to  him  largely  was  the  founding  of 
the  commerce  and  growth  of  trade  in  Con- 
necticut. 

(H)  Thomas  (2)  Olcott,  son  of  Thomas 
(i)  and  Abigail  (Porter)  Olcott,  was  born 
at  Hartford,  Connecticut,  about  1637,  but  not 
later,  as  he  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  May, 
1658,  and  he  died  between  February  16,  1719, 
and  February  21,  1722.  He  had  been  specific- 
ally favored  by  Iiis  father,  for  in  that  parent's 
will  it  was  directed  that  "I  give  and  bequeath 
unto  my  eldest  son  Thomas  two  equal  parts 
of  the  estate  so  divided,  and  unto  each  of  the 
rest  of  my  said  children  one  equal  part  of 
the  estate  so  divided ;  my  mind  and  will  is 
that  each  of  their  parts  and  portions  shall  be 
due  unto  them  and  payable  unto  them  at  the 
age  of  twenty-one  years,  or  day  of  their  mar- 
riage, which  shall  first  happen."  By  agreement 
of  July  8,  1699,  arrived  at  for  the  final  divi- 
sion in  settling  the  estate  of  his  father  and 
mother,  he  was  given  "all  that  Messuage, 
Tennement  or  Dwelling  House  wherein  the 
said  Thomas  Olcott  now  dwelleth.  Situate  in 
Hartford  afores'd  Sometime  belonging  to  Jo- 
seph Fitch,  with  the  Land,  Ortchard,  yards, 
gardens  and  Appurtenances  thereof."  He 
also  received  lands  on  the  east  side  of  the 
river  and  in  the  town  of  Wethersfield.  His 
home  was  in  Hartford.  In  1668  he  was 
chosen  a  constable,  and  in  1680-81-82  one  of 
the  "List  of  Rate  Makers."  He  lived  to  an 
advanced  age,  and  died  some  time  subsequent 
to  February  21,  1722,  as  discoverable  from 
various  town  records.  ;.  e.,  a  deed  of  land 
from  him  to  his  son,  Thomas,  dated  February 

14.  1719- 

Thomas  Olcott  married  Mary .     She 

survived  her  husband,  and  died  at  Windsor, 


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Connecticut,  May  3,  1721.  Children:  i.  Abi- 
gail, died  March  14,  1688,  while  on  a  visit 
to  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  2.  Mary.  3. 
Thomas.  4.  Samuel,  died  May  10,  1693.  5. 
John,  died  May  25,  1685,  having  adventurous- 
ly gone  out  too  far  into  the  river  with  a  com- 
rade named  Nathaniel  Reeve,  who  also  was 
drowned.     6.  Timothy,  born  in  1677. 

(II)  Samuel  Olcott,  son  of  Thomas  (i)  and 
Abigail  ( Porter)  Olcott,  was  born  at  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  about  1643,  ^"^d  died  be- 
tween March  13  and  April  3,  1704.  He  was 
made  a  freeman  at  a  general  session  of  the 
general  assembly  held  in  Alay,  1664.  His 
name  appears  in  a  "List  of  the  freemen  of 
Hartford  on  the  North  side  of  the  River, 
Taken  October  13th,  1669."  He  was  chosen 
one  of  the  chimney  viewers  for  the  town  in 
1663  and  1665  ;  in  1680  was  made  constable, 
and  in  1694  one  of  the  townsmen.  Among 
the  various  parcels  of  land  he  owned  were 
these:  "One  Parcel  of  Land  which  he  Bought 
of  Wm.  Williams  of  Hartford  with  a  mes- 
suage or  Tenement  standing  thereon  Containe- 
ing  by  estimation  Six  Acres  more  or  less. 
Abutting  on  the  highway  east  on  John  Cloughs 
land  South  on  John  Stedman  &  Robert  Sand- 
fords  land  west  &  on  Robert  Sanford  &  John 
Purchases  children  land  North."  Also,  "One 
Parcel  more  of  wood  land  which  he  bought 
of  Wm.  Williams  lying  In  ye  little  oxpasture 
which  land  was  formerly  Wm.  Haydens  & 
containes  by  estimation  Six  Acres  (be  it  more 
or  less)  &  abutts  on  a  high  way  lying  North 
and  South ;  west,  &  one  ye  cowe  pasture  east, 
&  on  Wm.  Butlers  land  South."  The  date  of 
his  death  is  unknown,  but  referring  to  both 
will  and  inventory,  it  must  have  occurred  be- 
tween March  13  and  April  3,  1704,  nor  has 
anyone  been  able  to  define  the  date  of  his 
wife's  death. 

Samuel  Olcott  married,  before  July  15, 
1673,  Sarah,  daughter  of  George  Stocking,  an 
early  resident  of  Hartford,  who  made  a  be- 
quest of  ten  pounds  "to  my  daughter  Sarah 
Olcott  the  wife  of  Samuel  Olcott."    Children: 

I.  Sarah,  married Williams.    2.  Mary, 

married,  before  September  16,  1688,  Jonathan 
Bigelow ;  was  admitted  to  full  communion  in 
the  First  Church  of  Hartford,  September  16, 
1688:  buried  March  7,  1697;  issue:  Abigail 
Bigelow,  baptized  November  2,  1690;  Daniel 
Bigelow,  baptized  March  26,  1693 ;  Samuel 
Bigelow.  baptized  March  31,  1695.    3.  Thomas, 


see  forward.  4.  Elizabeth,  married.  May  20, 
^7*^3,  Jonathan  Ashley.  5.  George,  married 
Sarah  Bunce. 

(III)  Thomas  (3)  Olcott,  son  of  Samuel 
and  Sarah  (Stocking)  Olcott,  was  born  at 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  about  1670.  The  near- 
est definite  record  to  show  his  birth  is  derived 
from  an  affidavit  regarding  the  will  of  his 
father-in-law.  Bartholomew  Barnard,  dated 
April  15,  1698,  stating  the  age  of  Thomas  Ol- 
cott then  to  be  "28  years  or  ther  Aboute,"  on 
file  among  the  Hartford  probate  records.  Wills 
B.,  1648-1740.  He  died  in  the  latter  part  of 
1712.  as  his  will,  dated  December  i,  1712,  was 
probated  December  15th. 

Thomas  Olcott  married,  November  13, 
1695,  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  Allyn,  one  of 
the  assistants,  officiating,  Hannah  Barnard. 
She  was  baptized  March  20,  1670,  died  July 
15'  1755-  ^"d  was  the  daughter  of  Bartholo- 
mew Barnard.  Her  father,  by  his  will  of 
March  9,  1691,  probated  April  15,  1698,  gave 
to  her  his  "house  and  lott  commonly  called 
Kelors  lot."  which  property  was  therein 
bounded  "southeasterly  on  Maynard  Days 
Land  Northerly  on  land  of  Joseph  Olcott 
Westerly  on  a  highway  called  the  back  lane," 
and  she,  as  a  widow,  conveyed  it  by  deed, 
May  4,  1743,  to  "my  Son  Jonathan  Olcott  of 
Hartford  afores'd,"  "for  Supporting  me  in 
my  Age."  Children:  i.  Jonathan,  born  at 
Hartford,  baptized  December  29,  1695  (N.  S., 
January  5,  1696)  ;  married  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Collyer;  he  died  July  25,  1753;  she 
died  April  13.  1776.  2.  Thomas,  baptized  Au- 
gust 15,  1697;  married  Elizabeth  Turner,  sis- 
ter of  Stephen  Turner;  he  died  in  1786.  3. 
Mary,  baptized  April  23,  1699;  in  the  admin- 
istration account  of  her  father's  estate  are 
charges  "for  keeping  &  doctoring  of  Mary," 
also  "to  Mr.  Mather  for  Mary  &  extraor- 
dinary charges  Layd  outt  on  ye  pooer  sick 
child  for  Nine  Mounths  sickness."  4.  Josiah, 
born  February  23,  1701,  baptized  March  7, 
1703,  died  before  his  father.  5.  Joseph,  see 
forward. 

(IV)  Joseph  Olcott,  son  of  Thomas  (3) 
and  Hannah  ( Barnard )  Olcott.  was  born  at 
Hartford.  Connecticut,  where  he  was  baptized 
March  23.  1707,  and  died  January  6,  1770. 
Sergeant  John  Barnard,  of  Hartford,  in  his 
will,  made  May  30,  1732,  probated  February 
12,  1735,  after  providing  for  his  wife,  Sarah, 
gave  his  nephew.  Jonathan  Olcott,  the  north- 


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west  corner  of  his  home  lot,  and  his  nephew, 
Joseph  Olcott,  the  remainder  of  his  property, 
which  home  lot  was  bounded  on  north  and 
east  by  Main  street;  west  by  Back  Lane  (later 
known  as  Trumbull  street),  and  thereupon 
Joseph  Olcott  resided  until  1762,  having  pre- 
viously sold  portions  thereof  to  Samuel  Tal- 
cott  and  others.  On  March  15,  1763,  Joseph 
Olcott  sold  to  William  Stanley  all  his  "Interst 
Right  Share  and  part"  in  "the  old  Grist  mill 
and  appurtenances  thereunto  Belonging  Stand- 
ing and  being  on  the  Riverlet  near  the  Great 
Bridge  in  Hartford  and  Said  Right  is  one  half 
of  the  Right  of  Bartholomew  Barnard  former- 
ly of  said  Hartford  Dec'd,  which  Said  Half 
Descended  to  John  Barnard  of  said  Hartford 
Late  Dec'd  and  by  the  said  John  was  con- 
veyed to  the  Said  Joseph  Olcott."  His  wife, 
Eunice  (Collyer)  Olcott,  became  the  owner 
of  twenty-one  acres  of  land  "over  the  brick- 
hill  bridge,"  which  in  some  documents  is  de- 
scribed as  being  on  the  south  side  of  the  North 
Road  leading  to  the  West  Division.  Upon 
this  property  he  and  his  wife  resided  the  latter 
part  of  their  lives. 

Joseph  Olcott  married,  after  September  27, 
1730,  Eunice,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Humphreys)  Collyer.  She  was  born  Sep- 
tember 15,  1709,  died  December  21,  1788; 
buried  December  23,  at  Hartford.  Eunice 
Collyer  "owned  the  Covenant"  in  the  First 
Church  of  Hartford,  September  27,  1730. 
Children:  i.  Joseph,  baptized  March  18,  1733, 
died  at  Hartford,  March  29,  1823:  resided 
there  with  his  family;  married,  in  1758.  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Daniel  Marsh;  she  died  at 
the  home  of  her  son,  Jared,  in  Watertown, 
New  York,  December,  1815.  Issue:  i.  Jared, 
born  July  22,  1759,  baptized  September  30th. 
ii.  Mabel,  born  April  5,  1761.  iii.  Elizabeth, 
born  January,  1763,  baptized  January  i6th. 
iv.  Irena,  born  December,  1764.  v.  Cathe- 
rine, born  January,  1767,  baptized  January 
4th.  vi.  Ann,  born  in  1769.  vii.  Joseph,  born 
December,  1770.  viii.  Rhoda,  born  March, 
1773.  ix.  Chloe,  born  March,  1775,  died  Au- 
gust, 1777.  X.  Chloe,  born  April,  1778.  xi. 
Gurdon,  born  1779,  died  at  Detroit,  1816.  xii. 
Helen,  born  January,  1782.  xiii.  Lucretia, 
born  January  29,  1784.  2.  Eunice,  baptized 
October  3,  1736,  died  March  23,  1807;  mar- 
ried, November  26,  1761,  Jonathan  Goodwin. 
He  was  baptized  March  17,  1734,  died  Sep- 
tember  2,    181 1,    son    of    Ozias    and    Martha 


(Williamson)  Goodwin,  of  Hartford.  In 
1783  Jonathan  Goodwin  purchased  and  made 
his  permanent  home  on  a  tract  of  eight  and 
one-half  acres  on  the  north  side  of  the  Albany 
Road,  nearly  opposite  his  father-in-law's 
house;  was  much  concerned  in  military  affairs 
and  was  corporal  of  the  train  band.  Issue :  i. 
Eunice  Goodwin,  baptized  July  25,  1762,  died, 
unmarried,  October  18,  1825.  ii.  Jerusha 
Goodwin,  born  October  10,  1767,  baptized 
November  ist;  died,  unmarried,  in  1854.  iii. 
James,  born  December  27,  1777,  died  Septem- 
ber 13,  1844;  married,  March  3,  1799,  Eunice 
Roberts,  of  \\'indsor,  Connecticut,  leaving 
Jonathan.  James  and  Eunice  Goodwin.  3. 
John,  baptized  December  13,  1741,  died,  un- 
married. May  I,  1791.  4.  Nathaniel,  see  for- 
ward. 5.  Timothy,  died  in  New  York  City, 
unmarried.  6.  William,  born  in  1745,  bap- 
tized November  3,  1751,  died  November  13, 
1798,  aged  fifty-three  years;  married  Abigail 
Cowles  of  East  Hartford ;  she  died  February 

15.  1779- 

(V)  Nathaniel  Olcott,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Eunice  (Collyer)  Olcott,  was  born  at  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  where  he  was  baptized 
March  11,  1744,  and  died  at  his  home  in  Gen- 
eva, Cayuga  county.  New  York,  in  1807.  He 
remained  in  the  place  of  his  nativity  until 
1788,  when  he  removed  to  Hartland.  Litchfield 
county,  Connecticut,  and  after  a  residence  of 
several  years  went  to  Milton,  now  Geneva, 
Cayuga  county.  New  York,  in  January,  1801. 
Nathaniel  Olcott  married  Catharine  Holden. 
She  died  in  Kingston,  Canada,  in  1830,  at  the 
home  of  her  son,  Benjamin.  Children:  i.  Na- 
thaniel, see  forward.  2.  Benjamin,  born  at 
Hartford,  died  at  Kingston,  Canada,  1846, 
aeed  seventy-two  years ;  married,  in  1803,  at 
Kingston,  Canada,  Harriet  Montmeliar,  who 
died  there  in  1821.  Issue:  i.  Catharine,  died 
young,  ii.  Leonora,  married  John  Collar,  of 
Kingston,  iii.  Eliza,  married  Thomas  Bent- 
ley,  of  Toronto,  Canada,  iv.  Mary.  v.  James, 
married  a  Miss  Sheer.  3.  Catharine,  married 
(first)  Joseph  Sheldon,  of  Granville,  Massa- 
chusetts; married  (second)  Caleb  Palmer.  Is- 
sue by  first  marriage :  i.  Henry  Olcott  Sheldon, 
born  September  15,  1799;  an  esteemed  Metho- 
dist clergyman ;  married  Ruth  Bradley,  ii. 
Maria  Sheldon,  born  May  3,  1802,  died  De- 
cember 12,  1858;  married  Dr.  Leverett  Brad- 
ley, of  Jersey  City.  iii.  Erastus,  born  Octo- 
ber,   1808,    died    January    30,    1852;    married 


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Angeline  y\dams.  4.  Mary,  married  Samuel 
Knapp.  5.  Henry,  died  in  New  York  City. 
6.  George,  died  at  Greenwich,  Connecticut, 
while  en  route  to  New  York  City.  7.  Timothy, 
drowned  in  Cayuga  Lake,  New  York.  8. 
Sarah,  died  at  Hartford,  September,  1785, 
aged  two  years. 

(VI)  Nathaniel  Olcott,  son  of  Nathaniel 
and  Catharine  (Holden)  Olcott,  was  born  at 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  February  24,  1774, 
died  at  his  home  in  New  York  City,  August 
31,  1856.  He  removed  from  Hartford  to  New 
York  when  a  young  man  on  account  of  the 
increased  opportunities  to  make  a  fortune,  and 
as  a  merchant  succeeded  in  this  endeavor,  for 
when  he  died  he  was  a  man  of  standing  in 
the  metropolis  and  commanded  the  respect  of 
the  residents  of  the  community.  Nathaniel 
Olcott  married,  at  Fishkill,  New  York,  June 

1,  1799,  Ann  Wyckofif,  of  that  place,  born 
February  24,  1776,  died  in  New  York  City, 
October  26,  1838,  aged  sixty-two  years,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Maria  (Van  Nostrand) 
Wyckot?.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born  March  10, 
1800;  married,  April  21,  1825,  Stephen  Van 
Brunt,  who  died  October  15,  1827.  Issue:  i. 
Cornelius  Van  Brunt,  born  April  29,  1826, 
died  July   17,   1827.     ii.  Stephen  Van   Brunt. 

2.  Henry  Wyckoff,  see  forward.  3.  Catha- 
rine Elizabeth,  born  April  8,  1804,  died  Au- 
gust 10,  1864:  married.  May  18.  1825,  John 
S.  Heyer,  of  New  York  City.  Issue:  i.  Cor- 
nelia Whitney  Heyer,  married  Rev.  Paschal 
W.  Strong,  of  Belleville,  New  Jersey,  by 
whom :  Katharine  Heyer  Strong,  born  August 
18,  1852 ;  Elizabeth  Gier  Strong,  born  Septem- 
ber 10,  1854;  Cornelia  Whitney  Strong,  born 
February  26,  i860;  Charlotte  Suydam  Strong, 
born  August  22,  1864,  died  September  17, 
1864:  Mason  Romeyn  Strong,  born  May  24, 
1867,  architect.  New  York  City.  4.  Sophia 
Wyckoff,  born  in  New  York  City,  March  20, 
1806.  died  there.  August  13,  1877:  married, 
in  New  York  City,  May  20,  1835,  John  I. 
Brower,  of  New  York  City,  who  was  "born  at 
Walden,  New  York,  January  7.  1804,  died  at 
New  York  City,  October  8,  1878.  and  was  the 
son  of  John  Brower.  Issue :  i.  Cornelia  Lev- 
erich  Brower,  born  at  New  York  City,  Sep- 
tember 5,  1837,  died  at  Chepota,  Kansas,  No- 
vember 22,  1877;  married.  New  York  City, 
November  2,  1869,  Charles  Henry  McCreery. 
ii.  John  Brower,  born  at  New  York  City.  Sep- 
tember 8,  1839,  died  at  Orange,  New  Jersey, 


December  18,  1900;  married,  New  York  City, 
April    18,    1866.    Sarah   Louisa    Beckley.      iii. 
Catharine  Heyer  Brower,  born  at  New  York 
City,  September  20,  1841,  residing,  in  19 13,  at 
No.    17    East    Seventy-seventh    street,    New 
York ;   married.   New   York   City,   October  4, 
1888,  William  Wheeler  Smith,  who  died  April 
5,    1908.      iv.  Henry   Wyckoff    Brower.   born 
at    New   York    City,    April    2,    1844,    died   at 
Brooklyn,  New  York.  June  16,  1880;  married, 
Hopewell,   New  York,  June  23,    1869,   Diana 
Horton.     v.  William  Leverich  Brower,  born 
at  New  York  City,  August  5.   1846;  unmar- 
ried; residing,  in  1913,  at  No.  17  East  Seventy- 
seventh  street,  New  York.     5.  Julia  Wattles, 
born  June  8,  1808,  died  October  2.  1871 ;  mar- 
ried,   April   21,    1830,   Abraham    Suydam,    of 
New  York  City.     Issue:  i.  Henry  Olcott  Suy- 
dam, born  January  16,   1831,  died  August  5, 
1857.       ii.  Julia     Margaretta     Suydam.    born 
November  7,    1832,   died   July  20,    1835.     iii. 
Anna    Olcott    Suydam.    born    June    12,    1834, 
died   April    12,    1835.      iv.  Elizabeth    Rapelye 
Suydam,   born   July   23,    1836;   married.   July 
15,  1866,  Leffert  R.  Cornell,    v.  James  Strong 
Suydam,  born  March   19,   1838,  died  August 
2.  1839.     vi.  Anna  Olcott  Suydam,  born  July 
15,    1840;    married,    January    16,    1866,    John 
Wall.     vii.  Abraham  Suydam,  born  April  10, 
1842,  died  December  13,  1862.    viii.  Nathaniel 
Olcott  Suydam.  born  August   12.   1844;  mar- 
ried,   March   8,    1868,    Annie    E.    Appel.      ix. 
Edward  Suydam,  born  July  i,  1847;  married, 
October  24,  1871,  Elizabeth  Miles,     x.  Julius 
Suydam,  born  September  29,  1849,  died  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1857.     xi.  Frederick  Suydam,  born 
April  18,  1852.     6.  Albert  Wyckoff,  born  Au- 
gust  5,    1812,   died   June   24.    1839.      7.  John 
Nathaniel,    born    at    Greenwich,    Connecticut, 
February   16,   18 15,  died  at   New  York  City, 
March   18,   1887 ;  merchant  and  importer,  re- 
sided at  No.  1 1 1  West  Thirteenth  street ;  mar- 
ried.   New    York    City,    September   20,    1843, 
Euphemia  Helen  Knox,  who  was  born  there, 
August  3,    1819.   died  at   New  Canaan,   Con- 
necticut, June  7,   1909,  and  was  the  daughter 
of  Rev.  John  Knox,  D.D.,  and  his  wife,  Eu- 
phemia   Prevost    (Mason)    Knox.      Rev.    Dr. 
John    Knox    was    born    at    Fairfield.    Adams 
county.  Pennsylvania,  June  17,   1790,  died  at 
New   York   City,   January  8,    1858;   married, 
New    York    City.    May    11,    1818,    Euphemia 
Prevost   Mason,   who   was   born   there,   April 
13,   1794-  and  died  there,  July  6.    1855.     All 


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their  children  were  born  in  New  York  City. 
Issue:  i.  Euphemia  Mason,  born  July  29, 
1844;  unmarried;  residing  in  New  York.  ii. 
John  Knox,  born  July  21,  1846,  died  in  New 
York,  July  22,  1846.  iii.  Cornelia  Heyer, 
born  August  14,  1847,  died  in  New  York, 
March  30,  1874;  married,  New  York  City, 
October  10,  1871,  Frederic  Gregory  Mather, 
now  a  resident  of  Stamford,  Connecticut,  iv. 
Neilson,  born  July  12,  1849;  now  residing  at 
New  Canaan,  Connecticut;  married,  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  October  6,  1874,  Mary  Barker,  v. 
Helen  Knox,  born  September  3,  185 1,  died  in 
New  York,  March  8,  1878.  vi.  Ebenezer 
Erskine,  born  March  11,  1854;  president  of 
Hudson  River  Day  Line ;  married.  New  York 
City,  October  16,  1884,  Katharine  Lawrence 
Van  Santvoord.  vii.  Jacob  Van  Vechten, 
born  May  17,  1856;  attorney  at  No.  27  Cedar 
street;  married,  New  York  City,  April  19, 
1882,  Laura  Isabel  Hoffman.  viii.  Anna 
Wyckoff,  born  June  11,  1859;  unmarried,  re- 
siding in  New  York.  ix.  William  Morrow 
Knox,  born  August  27,  1862;  ex-judge  and 
ex-district-attorney;  married,  New  York,  De- 
cember 6,  1888,  Jessie  Augusta  Baldwin. 

(VII)  Henry  Wyckoff  Olcott,  son  of  Na- 
thaniel and  Ann  (Wyckoff)  Olcott,  was  born 
March  27,  1802,  and  died  at  Orange,  New 
Jersey.  He  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
his  native  place,  and  after  removing  to  New 
York  City,  where  he  lived  some  time,  went  to 
Montclair,  New  Jersey,  in  i860.  In  1864  he 
removed  to  East  Orange;  in  1865  to  Orange, 
where  he  resided  until  he  died.  While  in  the 
metropolis,  he  was  first  in  the  publishing  busi- 
ness, then  in  the  jewelry  business  on  Maiden 
Lane,  afterwards  in  the  grain  business  on 
Broad  street,  New  York.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  University  Place  Church,  and  a  Re- 
publican in  politics.  Henry  Wyckoff  Olcott 
married,  at  New  York  City,  October  19,  1831, 
Emily  Steel,  of  New  York  City.  She  died"  at 
Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey,  July  21,  1856. 
Children:  i.  Henry  Steel,  see  forward.  2. 
Isabella  Buloid,  born  at  New  York  City,  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1835,  died  at  Orange,  New  Jersey; 
married,  New  Rochelle,  New  York,  May, 
i860,  William  Hinckley  Mitchell,  of  New 
York  City.  Issue:  i.  Henry  Wyckoff  Mit- 
chell, born  February  22,  1861.  ii.  Mary 
Stuart  Mitchell,  born  July  15,  1863.  iii.  Louise 
Dupree  Mitchell,  born  December  28,  1865.  iv. 
William  Hinckley  Mitchell,  born  July  27,  1868. 


v  Arthur  Houlton  Mitchell,  born  October  19, 
187 1.  vi.  Robert  Emmet  Mitchell,  born 
March  22,  1874.  3.  Anna  Wyckoff,  born 
June  24,  1838,  died  at  Elizabethtown,  New 
Jersey,  November  20,  1854.  4.  Emily,  bom 
in  New  York  City,  November  17,  1842,  died 
in  East  Orange,  New  Jersey;  unmarried.  5. 
Emmet  Robinson,  see  forward.  6.  George 
Potts,  born  at  New  York  City,  June  16,  1850; 
living  in  East  Orange,  New  Jersey;  married, 
at  East  Orange,  September  6,  1871,  Ella  Kate 
Condit,  born  at  East  Orange,  September  10, 
1850,  daughter  of  Calvin  H.  and  Hannah 
(Munn)  Condit.  Issue:  i.  Isabel  Buloid,  born 
July  25,  1872.  ii.  Jessie  Munn,  born  July  25, 
1874.  iii.  Ethel  Lynn.  iv.  George  Potts,  v. 
Emmet  Robinson,     vi.  Marjorie. 

(VIII)  Henry  Steel  Olcott,  son  of  Henry 
Wyckoff  and  Emily  (Steel)  Olcott,  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  August  2,  1832,  died  at 
Adyar,  India,  February  17,  1907.  He  studied 
law,  and  having  been  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1866  opened  his  office  at  No.  71  Broadway, 
New  York  City.  He  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Lincoln  a  special  commissioner  of  the 
war  and  navy  departments  to  prevent  the  per- 
petration of  frauds  upon  the  government,  and 
consequently  saved  the  United  States  many 
millions  of  dollars.  In  recognition  of  services 
during  the  civil  war,  he  was  breveted  colonel. 
He  was  a  founder  of  the  Theosophical  So- 
ciety, in  1874,  and  made  its  first  president.  He 
left  this  country  to  establish  that  organization 
in  India,  in  1877,  and  he  remained  in  that 
country,  excepting  for  three  trips  to  visit  his 
home  here,  until  his  death.  He  relinguished 
the  world  and  every  emolument  in  order  to 
propagate  correct  ideas  regarding  ancient 
philosophy  and  there  are  records  with  authen- 
tic proofs  thereof,  setting  forth  the  benefits  of 
his  work  while  in  India.  There  is  absolutely 
vo  reason  or  right  to  dispute  these  matters 
which  are  verified  by  persons  who  were 
present  or  most  intimately  concerned,  and  he 
was  treated  in  India  as  a  sort  of  demi-god, 
and  received  the  unique  honor  of  the  sacred 
thread  of  the  Brahman  caste  for  his  service 
in  Hindu  philosophy.  For  many  years  he  was 
interested  in  collecting  his  family  history  and 
compiled  the  material  published  by  Joel  Mun- 
sell,  of  Albany,  in  1874,  under  the  title,  "De- 
scendants of  Thomas  Olcott,"  his  work  being 
a  revision  of  the  production  of  a  pamphlet  of 
that  title,  printed  in  1845  by  Nathaniel  Good- 


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win.  This  article  therefore  contains  the  ad- 
ditional matter  of  the  past  forty  years,  during 
which  time  much  transpired. 

Colonel  Henry  Steel  Olcott  married,  in 
Trinity  Church,  at  New  Rochelle,  New  York, 
April  26,  i860,  Mary  Epplee  Morgan,  born 
at  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  November  30,  1837, 
and  is  living  in  New  York.  Her  parents  were 
Rev.  Dr.  Richard  Umsted  Morgan,  D.D., 
LL.D.,  rector  of  Trinity  Church,  New  Ro- 
chelle, born  January  5,  1800,  died  in  1883,  and 
Sarah  (Markley)  Morgan,  born  at  Norris- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  February  12,  1800,  died 
at  New  Rochelle,  October  17,  1859.  Trinity 
Church,  New  Rochelle,  was  erected  through 
the  efforts  of  Rev.  Dr.  Richard  U.  Morgan. 
Children  of  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Olcott:  i.  Rich- 
ard Morgan,  see  forward.  2.  William  Top- 
ping, born  at  New  York  City,  June  11,  1862; 
graduate  of  Hopkins  Grammar  School  at  New 
Haven,  Connecticut;  resides  in  New  York 
City.  3.  Henry  Steel,  born  in  New  York 
City,  March  20,  1864,  died  there,  July  29, 
1864,  buried  at  New  Rochelle.  4.  Bessie,  bom 
in  New  York  City,  June  21,  1868,  died  at 
Weston-super-Mare,  England,  February,  1870, 
and  is  buried  there. 

(IX)  Richard  Morgan  Olcott,  son  of  Colonel 
Henry  Steel  and  Mary  Epplee  (Morgan)  Ol- 
cott, was  bom  at  his  grandfather's  residence  in 
New  Rochelle,  Westchester  county,  New  York, 
January  20,  1861.  He  was  brought  by  his 
parents  to  New  York  City  shortly  after  his 
birth.  His  education  in  this  country  was  sup- 
plemented by  courses  of  study  in  Germany 
and  England,  and  he  returned  to  this  country 
in  1871.  At  various  times  he  has  been  asso- 
ciated with  a  number  of  large  corporations 
and  has  been  a  director  and  president  of  the 
Olcott  Coal  and  Iron  Company,  Coal  River 
Lumber  and  Coal  Company,  Orinoco  Steam- 
ship Company,  National  Cellular  Steel  Com- 
pany and  the  Kanawha  Central  Railway 
Company.  His  metropolitan  office  is  in  the 
Liberty  Tower  Building,  No.  55  Liberty  street. 
He  has  traveled  extensively,  not  only  in  his 
own  country,  but  in  Europe  and  South 
America.  He  was  made  the  recipient  by  King 
Oscar  of  Sweden  of  the  decoration  Knight 
of  the  Royal  Order  of  Wasa,  in  1903,  and  that 
of  the  Bust  of  Bolivar,  a  Venezuelan  order, 
February  13,  1898.  Mr.  Olcott  is  a  Repub- 
lican, and  he  attends  the  Episcopal  church. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Manhattan  Club,  Met- 


ropolitan Club  of  Washington,  D.  C,  New 
York  Athletic  Club,  Atlantic  Yacht  Club  and 
Republican  Club,  also  one  of  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution. 

Richard  Morgan  Olcott  married,  at  New 
York  City,  June  i,  1892,  Rev.  Dr.  Van  de 
Water  officiating,  Alice  Marie  Handley,  born 
in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  October  23,  1867. 
Child :  Jacob  Van  Vechten,  2d,  born  in  New 
York  City,  October  10,  1905. 

(VIII)  Emmet  Robinson  Olcott,  son  of 
Henry  W^ckoff  and  Emily  (Steel)  Olcott,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  October  12,  1846,  died 
at  New  York  City,  January  12,  1908.  He. 
served  with  distinction  in  the  civil  war  as  an 
ensign  in  the  navy,  enlisting  at  the  age  of 
sixteen  years,  and  was  present  on  the  "Min- 
nesota" at  the  battle  between  the  "Monitor" 
and  "Merrimac"  at  Hampton  Roads.  After 
the  cessation  of  hostilities,  when  he  was  about 
twenty  years  of  age,  he  studied  law  with  Judge 
Brewster  in  Philadelphia,  and  later  repre- 
sented the  New  York  Tribune  as  a  war 
correspondent  in  the  Franco-Prussian  war, 
and  was  at  one  time  ordered  to  be  shot  as  a 
spy,  but  proved  his  non-combatant  status  and 
thus  escaped  that  fate.  He  was  a  graduate 
of  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and 
after  his  duties  in  the  Franco-Prussian  war 
ended,  pursued  a  course  of  study  in  law  at  the 
Berlin  University,  at  one  time  in  the  company 
of  Charles  McLean.  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  New  York  State,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  New  York  State  in  1875.  In  the 
following  year  he  formed  the  firm  of  Olcott, 
Mestre  &  Gonzalez,  and  confined  himself 
largely  to  international  practice,  also  repre- 
senting the  comptroller  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  and  influencing  much  of  the  present 
inheritance  law  of  the  state  of  New  York. 
Upon  the  American  occupation  of  Cuba,  Mr. 
Olcott  was  retained  by  General  Leonard  Wood 
to  draw  up  a  railway  law  for  the  Republic 
of  Cuba,  which  code  is  now  used,  and  his 
knowledge  of  South  America  and  Spanish  law 
proved  of  great  value  to  him,  together  with 
his  ability  to  speak  five  foreign  languages.  He 
was  a  man  of  erudition  and  a  scholarly  lawyer, 
a  Republican  in  politics,  and  a  member  of  the 
Bar  Association,  and  Lafayette  Post,  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic. 

Emmet  Robinson  Olcott  married,  at  Rox- 
bury,  Massachusetts,  July  12,  1875,  Mary 
Gardner   Clapp,   born  at   Boston,    Massachu- 


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setts,  July  8,  1852,  daughter  of  Joshua  Gard- 
ner and  Lucy  Anna  (Green)  Clapp.  Chil- 
dren: Lucy  May,  born  May  i,  1877;  Herman 

Parker,  see  forward ; ,  born  May  30,  1881. 

(IX)  Herman  Parker  Olcott,  son  of  Emmet 
Robinson  and  Mary  Gardner  (Clapp)  Olcott, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  January  i,  1879, 
and  resides  in  that  city  at  the  Yale  Club.  He 
received  his  early  education  at  the  Barnard 
School  in  New  York,  and  was  prepared  for 
college  at  the  Middletown  High  School  at 
Middletown,  Connecticut,  and  the  Betts 
Academy  at  Stamford.  He  entered  Yale 
University,  where  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Fraternity,  and  played 
center  and  guard  on  the  University  football 
team,  and  graduated  in  the  class  of  1901.  In 
1904  he  made  a  tour  of  the  world,  and  enjoyed 
experience  in  big  game  shooting.  He  was  an 
assistant  instructor  at  the  United  States  Naval 
Academy,  Annapolis,  in  1904-05,  also  attended 
the  University  of  North  Carolina,  studied  law, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  was  depart- 
mental head  of  the  Title  Guarantee  &  Trust 
Company  in  1905-06-07-08.  At  present  he  is 
a  partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Humiston  &  Ol- 
cott, at  No.  55  Liberty  street,  New  York  City. 
Mr.  Olcott  belongs  to  the  Progressive  party, 
and  is  an  Episcopalian.  He  has  contributed 
articles  on  athletics  to  both  magazines  and 
newspapers.  He  belongs  to  the  Baltusrol 
Golf,  and  Yale  University  clubs. 


Rev.  Cornells  Van 
VAN  SANTVOORD     Santvoord  was  the 

progenitor  of  this 
old  Dutch  family  in  America.  He  was  bap- 
tized in  St.  Peter's  Church,  Leyden,  August 
2,  1686.  Before  coming  to  this  country,  he 
was  educated  in  the  University  of  Leyden, 
where  his  sister  was  living  in  the  year  1752, 
and  was  trained  as  a  Dutch  dominie  before 
crossing  the  ocean.  He  was  the  fifth  minister 
of  the  Reformed  Protestant  Dutch  Church  in 
Staten  Island,  whither  he  had  gone  after  land- 
ing, and  settled  there  for  a  time;  but  in  1742 
he  was  called  to  the  church  of  similar  denom- 
ination in  Schenectady.  New  York.  That  he 
was  an  accomplished  scholar  and  a  divine  be- 
yond the  ordinary  is  undoubted,  for  he  could 
preach  equally  well  in  the  English,  French 
and  Dutch  languages,  and  was  commonly 
known  in  the  colony  as  Dominie  Van   Sant- 


voord. Why  he  preferred  to  remove  to  Sche- 
nectady is  unknown,  but  the  latter  place  had 
a  larger  population  for  after  Van  Corlaer  had 
conceived  the  idea  of  acquiring  the  trade  in 
pelts  with  the  Indians  before  they  could  bring 
the  skins  to  Albany  for  barter  with  the  settlers 
of  Beverwyck,  the  place  grew  rapidly,  whereas 
those  who  went  to  Staten  Island  engaged  in 
farming. 

Rev.  Cornells  Van  Santvoord  married, 
while  residing  on  Staten  Island,  Anna,  daugh- 
ter of  Johannes  Staats,  of  that  place,  a  family 
of  importance  equal  to  his  own  among  the 
burghers  of  the  settlement.  It  was  there  that 
all  their  children  were  born.  Shortly  after 
his  removal  to  Schenectady  she  died,  and  he 
married  (second)  August  19,  1745,  Elisabeth 
Toll.  She  was  born  January  19  (according 
to  the  family  Bible  record),  and  was  baptized 
January  14,  1721,  according  to  the  Dutch 
church  record.  It  would  seem  that  these  dates 
should  be  reversed.  Her  death  occurred  Oc- 
tober 14,  1746.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Daniel  and  Grietje  (Bratt)  Toll.  Captain 
Toll  was  the  son  of  Carel  Hansen  Toll,  who 
settled  at  Hoffman's  Ferry  along  the  Mohawk, 
on  land  bought  from  Hendrick  Cuyler,  along 
the  north  side  of  that  stream,  and  he  married 
Lysbet  Rinckhout,  of  Albany.  Captain  Toll 
was  born  in  July  and  baptized  August  11,  1691, 
at  Albany's  Dutch  Church.  He  was  the  fore- 
most among  those  barbarously  massacred  by 
a  savage  band  of  Indians  less  than  a  half  a  mile 
to  the  north  of  the  Beukendaal  Creek,  July 
18,  1748,  a  rivulet  running  through  his  farm, 
and  a  spot  frequently  visited  by  persons  fond 
of  historical  scenes.  Here  one  may  see  a  por- 
tion of  the  original  house  and  some  ancient 
Dutch  furniture  not  equalled  for  quaintness  in 
the  metropolis,  but  which  his  descendant  can- 
not be  tempted  to  sell.  His  branding-iron  is 
also  pointed  out  as  a  valued  relic  now  ap- 
proaching three  centuries  old.  When  Dominie 
Van  Santvoord  made  his  will,  signed  on  March 
6,  1747,  his  wife  Elisabeth  was  deceased,  and 
she  left  no  issue.  He  died  at  Schenectady, 
New  York,  January  6,  1752,  and  his  will  was 
probated  November  24,  1752.  In  it  he  men- 
tioned his  children  Cornells,  Staats,  Zeger, 
Jacoba  and  Anne.  Dominie  Van  Santvoord 
preached  his  last  sermon  from  the  text  of 
Luke  ii.  13  and  14,  and  one  week  later,  it 
being  New  Year's  Day  on  that  occasion,  he 
ascended  the  pulpit,  but  being  too  weak  to 


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preach,  concluded  his  last  service  with  prayer 
and  the  customary  New  Year's  blessing,  and 
six  days  later,  or  January  6,  1752,  expired. 
He  was  buried  beneath  the  church,  as  was  the 
custom  of  the  Dutch  in  those  days. 

Children:  1.  Cornelis,  removed  to  Albany, 
about  1747,  having  been  born  on  Staten  Island 
and  followed  his  father  to  Schenectady;  mar- 
ried, December  31,  1747,  Ariaantje,  daughter 
of  Anthony  Bratt ;  resided  on  the  northwest 
corner  of  Broadway  and  Steuben  street,  in 
Albany,  site  of  the  old  Delavan  House,  a  fam- 
ous hostelry  of  the  capitol  city,  later  occupied 
by  the  New  York  Central  railroad's  station. 
Issue  (baptismal  dates)  :  Cornelis,  December 
31,  1749;  Rebecca,  January  5,  1752;  Antje, 
April  22,  1754;  Anthony,  October  16,  1757; 
Willempje,  November  19,  1758 ;  Antony,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1 761.  All  these  children  were  bap- 
tized at  Albany,  New  York.  2.  Staats,  a  gun- 
smith by  occupation;  settled  at  Albany,  on  re- 
moval from  Schenectady,  about  1747 ;  mar- 
ried, December  31,  1747,  Willempje,  daughter 
of  Anthony  Bratt,  and  also  his  sister-in-law. 
Issue,  all  baptized  at  Albany:  Antje,  May  28, 
1749;  Rebecca,  January  6,  1751 ;  Anthony, 
February  2,  1752;  Rebecca,  March  24,  1754; 
Cornelis,  May  22,  1757;  Teunis,  born  March 
10,  1760.  3.  Zeger,  see  forward.  4.  Jacoba. 
5.  Geertje,  married  Ryk  Vanderbilt,  on  the 
Raritan.     6.  Anne. 

(II)  Zeger  Van  Santvoord,  son  of  Dominie 
Cornelis  Van  Santvoord  and  his  wife,  Anna 
(Staats)  Van  Santvoord,  was  born  on  Staten 
Island,  New  York,  October  12,  1733,  and  died 
at  Schenectady,  April  18,  1813,  aged  seventy- 
nine  years,  six  months  and  six  days.  He  re- 
sided all  his  life  in  Schenectady,  where  he 
married,  April  18,  1756,  Catalyntje,  or  Cath- 
lyn,  daughter  of  Elias  Post  and  his  wife, 
Maria  (Van  Eps)  Post.  She  was  born  at 
Schenectady,  June  3,  1733,  and  died  June  17, 
1810,  aged  seventy-one  years  and  fourteen 
days.  Elias  Post  was  the  son  of  Cornelis  and 
Catalina  (Pootman)  Post,  of  New  York  City, 
who  were  married  December  11,  1704;  Elias 
Post  was  born  in  New  York,  January  3,  1708 ; 
married,  November  7,  1730,  Maria,  daughter 
of  Jan  Baptist  Van  Eps ;  was  a  gunsmith  of 
Schenectady,  where,  in  1760,  he  owned  a  house 
on  the  south  side  of  State  street,  eighty  feet 
east  of  Washington  street.  They  had  a  child, 
Cornelis  Zeger  (Cornelius),  see  forward. 

(III)  Cornelis  Zeger  Van  Santvoord,  son 


of  Zeger  and  Catalyntje  (Post)  Van  Sant- 
voord, was  born  in  Schenectady,  New  York, 
where  he  was  baptized  in  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church,  May  29,  1757,  and  died  March  12, 
1845.  Cornelis  Z.  Van  Santvoord  married 
Eva,  daughter  of  Major  Abraham  Swits,  of 
Schenectady,  and  his  third  wife,  Margaret 
Delamont  (or  De  la  Mont)  Swits.  Major 
Swits  was  the  son  of  Jacob  and  Helena  (De 
Witt)  Swits ;  was  born  at  Schenectady,  Octo- 
ber I,  1730,  died  August  17,  1814;  was  a  rev- 
olutionary soldier;  owned  a  house  and  lot  on 
the  north  corner  of  Maiden  Lane  and  State 
street;  married,  November  22,  1760,  Mar- 
grieta,  daughter  of  Jan  and  Eva  (Brouwer) 
Delamont,  who  was  born  January  26  (Feb- 
ruary 7,  New  Style),  1735,  and  died  December 
23,  1 8 10.  Eva  Swits,  wife  of  Cornelis  Z.  Van 
Santvoord,  was  born  July  24,  1761,  and  died 
June  8,  1835.  Children:  i.  Zeger,  born  June 
21,  1783,  died  November  28,  1824;  married 
Elisabeth  League.  2.  Abraham,  see  forward. 
3.  Elias,  born  June  23,  1786.  4.  Margrietje, 
born  April  3,  1788.  5.  Staats,  born  March  15, 
1790;  minister  of  Reformed  Dutch  Church; 
married  Margaret  Van  Hisling.  6.  Mar- 
garieta.  born  October  30,  1791,  died  December 
30,  1859.  7.  Catlyna,  born  July  6,  1793;  mar- 
ried William  Dow.  8.  Catharina,  born  No- 
vember I,  1795,  died  June  28,  1854.  9.  Jo- 
hannes Post,  born  March  2,  1798,  died  August 
3,  1802.  10.  Annetje,  born  August  3,  1800, 
died  July  26,  1802.  11.  Annetje,  born  Decem- 
ber 13,  1803,  died  January  10,  i860;  married 
Richard  Wilson. 

(IV)  Abraham  Van  Santvoord,  son  of 
Cornelis  Zeger  and  Eva  (Swits)  Van  Sant- 
voord, was  born  in  Schenectady.  New  York, 
where  he  was  baptized,  December  26,  1784, 
and  died  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  August 
12,  1858.  In  1798,  when  fourteen  years  old,  he 
went  to  Utica,  New  York,  where  he  was  taken 
into  the  household  of  his  uncle,  John  Post,  as 
one  of  that  family.  Eventually,  he  became  his 
uncle's  successor  in  business.  After  the  first 
year,  Mr.  Post  sent  Abraham  to  Schenectady 
to  superintend  the  forwarding  of  goods,  and 
in  this  way,  while  still  young,  the  youth  be- 
came familiar  with  the  handling  of  traffic.  He 
returned  to  Utica  in  1806,  where  he  adver- 
tised, September  2^  :  "The  subscriber  informs 
the  public  that  he  has  commenced  the  storage 
and  forwarding  business  to  and  from  Sche- 
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of  the  western  country,  for  which  purpose  he 
has  taken  one  of  the  large  and  convenient 
stores  of  Mr.  John  Post  on  the  dock  in  Utica. 
He  has  made  arrangements  with  Mr.  Eri  (Uri) 
Lusher  for  conveying  by  water  between  this 
place  and  Schenectada,  and  with  Mr.  David 
Boyd  between  Schenectada  and  Albany."  Two 
years  later,  he  took  for  his  store  the  old  stand 
of  Bryan  Johnson,  near  the  corner  of  Genesee 
and  Whitesboro,  whence  he  afterwards  moved 
to  the  east  side  of  Genesee,  below  Bagg's,  and 
in  April,  1816,  back  again  to  the  west  side,  to 
the  new  brick  store  next  to  J.  C.  Devereux. 
The  storehouse  he  at  first  occupied  was 
originally  above  the  bridge,  but  near  it.  It 
was  afterwards  moved  up  the  stream  to  the 
foot  of  Division  street,  and  nearly  on  the  last- 
named  site,  Mr.  Van  Santvoord,  in  company 
with  Mr.  Lusher  and  others,  erected,  toward 
the  close  of  the  War  of  1812,  a  brick  ware- 
house. 

About  this  period,  Eri  Lusher  &  Company 
were  running  a  weekly  line  of  boats  from 
Schenectady  for  Cayuga,  Seneca  Falls  and 
Oswego,  and  by  means  of  wagons  also,  which 
were  kept  in  constant  readiness,  they  were 
enabled  to  "transport  from  Albany  to  any  part 
of  the  western  country,  either  by  land  or  water, 
whatever  property  might  be  directed  to  their 
care."  Parties  living  at  a  distance  from  the 
water  communication  were  assured  that  their 
goods  would  be  delivered  at  any  place  they 
might  designate.  They  also  advertised  stage 
boats  to  run  between  Utica  and  Schenectady 
for  the  accommodation  of  passengers,  which, 
leaving  Utica  twice  a  week,  at  five  o'clock  in 
the  morning,  were  to  arrive  at  Schenectady 
the  following  morning  in  time  for  breakfast, 
and  thence  the  passengers  were  conveyed  in 
stage  or  carriage  to  Albany. 

During  the  War  of  181 2,  Mr.  Van  Sant- 
voord held  the  office  of  sub-contractor  for  the 
supply  of  provisions  for  the  soldiers,  and  also 
acted  as  the  government's  storekeeper.  Short- 
ly afterward,  he  was  interested  with  Peter 
Smith  and  William  Soulden  in  the  manufac- 
turing of  glass  at  Peterboro,  and  acted  as  agent 
for  the  company  in  the  sale  of  glass.  This 
project  proved  unsuccessful,  and  resulted  in 
the  failure  of  Messrs.  Soulden  &  Smith,  as 
well  as  of  Mr.  Van  Santvoord.  His  affairs 
with  the  government  had  also  proved  em- 
barrassing, for  his  returns  were  slow  and  rare 
in  coming  in,  so  that  he  depended  largely  on 


the  bank,  and  spent  much  money  upon  payment 
of  interest.  He  had  been  a  trustee  of  the 
village  some  years,  and  its  president  in  1815-16. 

The  forwarding  firm  known  as  Abraham ' 
Van  Santvoord  &  Company  was  dissolved  De- 
cember 17,  1818.  It  had  consisted  of  Eri 
Lusher,  Jonathan  Walton  and  John  I.  De 
Graff,  of  Schenectady,  and  Abraham  Van 
Santvoord,  John  Baggs  and  Henry  Camp,  of 
Utica.  Leaving  his  warehouse  in  the  care  of 
Mr.  Camp  and  Mr.  Baggs,  he  returned  to 
Schenectady  to  engage  anew  in  forwarding. 
Thence,  he  went  to  Dunkirk,  and  after  a  short 
residence,  and  a  still  shorter  sojourn  at  Ro- 
chester, he  moved  to  New  York  City.  There 
he  became  concerned  in  the  other  side  of  the 
business,  steamboating.  He  finally  was  so  suc- 
cessful that  he  won  the  confidence  of  the  people 
of  Jersey  City,  and  they  elected  him  their 
mayor.  He  was  much  admired  for  his  pleas- 
ing face  and  form,  his  social  excellence  and 
his  jovial  humor,  as  well  as  his  uniform  up- 
rightness of  conduct.  Though  he  lacked  a 
systematic  skill  in  the  keeping  of  his  books, 
merchants  regarded  him  as  a  leader  in  his  field. 
They  held  him  in  esteem  for  his  wonderful 
enterprise  and  unreproachable  honesty. 

Abraham  Van  Santvoord  married,  at  Utica, 
December  24,  1812,  Sarah  Hitchcock,  sister 
of  Dr.  Marcus  Hitchcock,  and  she  lived  to  a 
very  old  age.  She  died  July  27,  1878.  Her 
parents  were  Eliakim  and  Loroly  (Hull) 
Hitchcock.  Children:  i.  Alfred,  see  forward. 
2.  Abraham.  3.  Cornelius,  practiced  law  in 
New  York  City. 

(V)  Commodore  Alfred  Van  Santvoord,  son 
of  Abraham  and  Sarah  (Hitchcock)  Van 
Santvoord,  was  born  at  Utica,  New  York,  Jan- 
uary 23.  1819,  and  died  July  20,  1901,  of  old 
age  while  aboard  his  steam  yacht  the  "Cler- 
mont," at  anchorage  of  the  Atlantic  Yacht 
Club,  off  Sea  Gate,  his  family  being  aboard 
the  vessel  at  the  time.  After  obtaining  a  very 
good  common  school  education,  he  began 
working  for  his  father  who  was  then  engaged 
in  the  transportation  business.  In  a  short 
time  he  was  allowed  an  interest  in  it,  and  he 
saw  it  grow  from  insignificance  into  one  of 
the  largest  in  the  country.  At  that  time,  not 
so  long  after  the  opening  of  the  Erie  canal, 
the  firm  owned  boats  running  both  on  the 
canal  and  the  length  of  the  Hudson  river,  and 
although  there  was  the  severest  sort  of  com- 
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traffic  of  the  Hudson,  the  Van  Santvoord  in- 
terests remained  the  strongest,  largely  due  to 
the  Commodore's  sagacity  and  his  wonderful 
executive  ability  to  perceive  conditions  aright 
and  carry  them  through  advantageously.  Not 
only  vv^as  he  concerned  in  the  passenger  ser- 
vice, but  at  times  built  and  ran  some  of  the 
largest  freight-towing  boats  of  their  kind. 
During  the  Civil  War  he  chartered  a  number 
of  boats  to  the  government,  and  his  boat,  the 
"River  Queen,"  became  celebrated  historically 
as  the  place  of  meeting  of  Abraham  Lincoln 
and  Alexander  H.  Stephens,  the  vice-president 
of  the  Confederacy,  when  they  held  a  confer- 
ence near  Fortress  Monroe. 

Commodore  Van  Santvoord  and  the  late 
William  H.  Vanderbilt  were  close  personal 
friends,  due  no  doubt  to  their  interests  in  com- 
mon in  the  most  important  field  of  transporta- 
tion in  the  United  States  in  their  day,  and  in 
each  line  they  were  leaders.  They  knew  the 
importance  of  harmonizing,  for  they  were  not 
infrequently  associated  in  various  large  busi- 
ness enterprises.  He  resisted  many  importuni- 
ties to  enter  the  field  of  politics,  but  preferred 
to  realize  his  ambition  in  making  a  business 
success.  The  fact  that  he  acquired  wealth 
shows  that  he  had  keen  business  insight,  and 
that  his  word  was  ever  held  good  evidences 
that  success  came  by  perseverance  alone,  un- 
aided by  chincanery  of  any  sort. 

He  was  a  man  of  domestic  tastes.  His 
rarest  enjoyment  was  obtained  in  the  company 
of  members  of  his  own  household  and  intimate 
friends,  of  which  he  had  not  a  few  life  long 
associates.  He  was  especially  fond  of  the  com- 
pany of  children,  and  being  of  genial  disposi- 
tion himself,  he  kept  himself  nearly  as  youth- 
ful in  his  friendliness.  Although  he  possessed 
many  fine  paintings  and  rare  books  at  his 
home,  No.  38  West  Thirty-ninth  street,  he 
was  in  no  sense  a  collector.  His  kindly  dis- 
position was  proverbial,  never  varying,  nor 
did  charity  fall  short  of  being  his  leading  char- 
acteristic. He  was  a  valued  contributor  to 
the  support  of  the  American  Museum  of 
Natural  History  and  the  Metropolitan  Museum 
of  Art. 

He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Lin- 
coln Safe  Deposit  Company  and  of  the  Lincoln 
National  Bank.  Until  the  winter  of  1901,  he 
was  the  vice-president  of  each  of  these  insti- 
tutions, standing  highest  in  the  country,  but 
resigned   in   pursuance   of   his   plan   to   retire 


gradually  from  business  life  before  cares 
pressed  too  heavily  and  while  he  was  still  able 
to  give  tlie  attention  he  thought  was  expected 
from  him.  He  was  one  of  the  most  influential 
among  the  directors  of  the  Delaware  &  Hud- 
son Railroad  Company,  of  the  Harlem  road, 
the  Albany  &  Susquehanna,  the  Delaware, 
Lackawanna  &  Western,  the  Catskill,  and  the 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  railroads.  He 
built  the  Catskill  Mountain  line,  which  took 
passengers  from  the  pier  on  the  Hudson  river 
to  the  foot  of  the  mountains,  where  an  inclined 
road  completed  the  ascent. 

It  was  as  the  owner  and  president  of  the 
Hudson  River  Day  Line  that  Commodore  Van 
Santvoord  was  most  prominently  known  in 
financial  circles  and  to  the  traveling  public  all 
over  the  country.  This  was  a  line  of  the  finest 
steamboats  in  the  world  plying  by  daylight 
between  Albany  and  New  York  City,  one  ves- 
sel making  the  trip  each  way  daily,  excepting 
Sundays.  He  not  only  kept  it  abreast  of  all 
improvements  brought  about  by  science,  but 
superseded  boats  of  his  own  line  which  were 
thought  excellent  at  what  seemed  a  long  time 
before  they  had  outlived  usefulness,  for  his 
method  was  to  have  everything  the  best  pos- 
sible, and  when  a  boat  had  been  running  a 
dozen  years  he  grew  anxious  to  oversee  the 
construction  of  a  new,  larger  and  superior  one 
to  replace  it.  Not  only  commodious  to  the 
extent  of  carrying  four  thousand,  clean  and 
artistically  furnished,  the  product  of  skilled 
naval  architects,  they  also  were  capable  of 
running  on  record  time  for  boats  of  their  size 
on  inland  waters.  As  a  consequence  of  having 
engines  more  powerful  than  their  schedule  re- 
quired, they  were  able  to  make  trips  as 
tabulated  despite  disadvantages  of  wind  and 
tide,  and  his  proudest  boast  was  that  his  line 
had  "never  lost  a  boat  nor  a  passenger,  nor  so 
much  as  injured  a  passenger."  Those  familiar 
with  the  "Robert  Fulton"  and  "Washington 
Irving,"  after  traveling  in  America  and  abroad, 
can  understand  it  is  a  simple  statement  of  fact 
rather  than  boast  fulness,  to  place  them  as  be- 
yond the  peers  of  any  steamboats  engaged  in 
passenger  traffic. 

As  he  delighted  in  the  vessels  of  his  com- 
pany, so  he  also  enjoyed  sailing  as  his  recrea- 
tion, and  he  was  a  most  enthusiastic  yachts- 
man. His  private  vessel,  the  "Clermont,"  was 
an  excellent  type  of  what  a  gentleman's  yacht 
should  be,  and  its  owner  was  known  every- 


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where  he  traveled  as  Commodore  Van  Sant- 
voord.  It  was  175  feet  long,  and  could  accom- 
modate a  dozen  persons  as  comfortably  as 
though  living  in  city  homes.  He  belonged  to 
the  Seawanhaka  Corinthian  Yacht,  the  At- 
lantic, the  American  and  the  New  York  Yacht 
clubs,  as  also  to  the  Union  League,  the  Century 
and  St.  Nicholas  clubs.  He  was  made  a  mem- 
ber of  the  State  Commission  for  the  Improve- 
ment of  the  Hudson  River,  and  gave  admirable 
advice  in  this  capacity,  for  the  good  of  the 
enormous  traffic  of  that  river. 

Commodore  Alfred  Van  Santvoord  married, 
at  Albany,  New  York,  January  22,  1852,  Anna 
Margaret  Townsend.  She  was  born  in  that 
city,  November  30,  1826,  died  at  New  York 
City.  December  5,  1890,  and  was  the  daughter 
of  Absalom  Townsend  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth 
(Lansing)  Townsend.  The  Townsend  and 
Lansing  ancestry  of  Mrs.  Van  Santvoord  are 
of  interest,  for  they  lead  into  several  prominent 
families. 

Henry  Townsend  came  from  Norwich, 
county  of  Norfolk,  England,  with  his  two 
brothers,  Richard  and  John,  about  1638,  and 
after  residing  a  time  on  Manhattan  Island,  re- 
moved to  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island.  There  he 
acquired  property  and  constructed  a  mill ;  was 
a  strong  adherent  of  the  Quakers,  removed 
for  a  time  to  Rhode  Island,  because  of  relig- 
ious persecutions,  and  married  Anne,  daughter 
of  Robert  Coles. 

Their  son,  Henry  Townsend,  resided  at 
Oyster  Bay,  and  owned  part  of  the  mill  started 
by  his  father  ;  died  before  1703  ;  married  Debo- 
rah, daughter  of  Captain  John  Underbill,  a 
Long  Island  landowner.  Their  son,  Henry, 
operated  the  mill  at  Oyster  Bay,  and  died  in 
1709;  married  Eliphal.  daughter  of  his  aunt, 
Mary  Townsend.  and  John  Wright.  Their 
son,  Henry,  was  born  at  Oyster  Bay,  but  re- 
moved to  Orange  county.  New  York,  and  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Titus.  His  brother,  Peter 
Townsend,  engaged  in  the  iron  industry  at 
Chester,  New  York,  known  as  the  Stirling  Iron 
Works,  where  he  manufactured  the  mammoth 
iron  chain  which  was  extended  across  the  Hud- 
son river  at  West  Point,  in  1778.  to  prevent 
the  British  warships  from  ascending  further 
during  the  revolution.  Their  son,  Absalom 
Townsend,  was  born  July  11.  1753.  died  De- 
cember 13,  1841,  and  married  Helena  De  Kay. 
Their   son,   Absalom   Townsend   Jr.,   married 


Elizabeth   Lansing,    who   was   the   mother   of 
Mrs.  Alfred  Van  Santvoord. 

Elizabeth  Lansing  was  born  at  Albany,  New  • 
York,  December  i,  1794,  and  died  at  Florence, 
Italy,  December  28,  1873.  Her  parents  were 
Jacob  Jacobse  Lansing,  who  was  born  at  Al- 
bany, August  19,  1753;  resided  at  the  north- 
east corner  of  Broadway  and  Quackenbush 
street;  died  there,  in  1794;  married,  January 
21,  1790,  Anna  Quackenbush.  The  parents 
of  Jacob  J.  Lansing  were  Colonel  Jacob  Lans- 
ing Jr.,  born  July  12,  1714,  died  January  18, 
1791,  who  married,  November  6,  1742,  Marytje 
Egberts,  baptized  February  21,  1714,  died 
March  9,  1771,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Eg- 
bertse  and  Annetje  Visscher.  Colonel  Jacob 
Lansing  Jr.  was  a  revolutionary  officer  and 
commanded  a  regiment  at  Stillwater  in  the 
Burgoyne  campaign,  and  as  captain  was  in  the 
fort  at  Schoharie,  New  York,  when  attacked 
by  Sir  John  Johnson  and  Indians  under 
Brandt.  He  was  the  son  of  Jacob  Gerritse 
Lansing,  born  at  Albany,  June  6,  1681,  died 
there,  December  6,  1767,  who  married,  about 
1710,  Helena  Glen,  baptized  November  21, 
1683,  daughter  of  Jacob  Sanderse  Glen,  a 
trader  of  Albany,  who  died  October  2,  1685, 
and  Catharina  (Van  Witbeck)  Glen.  Jacob 
Gerritse  Lansing's  parents  were  Gerrit  Lans- 
ing, son  of  Gerrit  Frederick  Lansing,  who  was 
born  in  Hassel,  near  Swoll,  in  the  Province  of 
Overyssel,  Netherland,  who  married  Elsje, 
daughter  of  Wouter  Van  Wythorst,  and  came 
to  America  about  1650,  settling  at  Rensselaer- 
wyck,  the  site  of  the  city  of  Albany. 

Mrs.  Alfred  Van  Santvoord's  grandmother, 
Anna  Quackenbush,  who  married  Jacob  Jacob- 
se Lansing,  was  born  at  Albany,  January  30, 
1765  or  1767.  died  1852,  and  was  the  daughter 
of  Colonel  Henry  Quackenbush,  born  August 
17,  1737,  died  February  4,  1813,  who  married, 
April  27,  1764,  Margarita  Oothout.  Colonel 
Quackenbush  was  the  son  of  Pieter  Quacken- 
bush. baptized  June  9.  1706.  who  married,  De- 
cember 27,  1733.  Annatje  Oothout,  born  De- 
cember 15.  1703,  died  January  30,  1757. 
Colonel  Quackenbush  was  a  provincial  officer 
in  the  British  army  under  Lords  Amherst  and 
Abercrombie  during  their  engagements  in  the 
northern  part  of  New  York  state,  notably  at 
Fort  Ticonderoga.  He  was  conspicuous  at  the 
attack  on  Crown  Point,  and  was  in  the  same 
mess  with  Lord  Howe,  being  close  to  him  wlien 
he  fell  in  the  morning  of  the  attack  at  Trout 


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Brook,  a  short  distance  south  of  Ticonderoga. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  Albany  Committee  of 
Safety  during  the  revolution,  and  was  wounded 
when  in  command  of  his  regiment  in  the  last 
attack  of  the  American  troops  led  by  General 
^■\rnold  against  the  British  at  old  Saratoga. 
He  commanded  the  guard  of  two  hundred 
Americans  who  brought  General  Burgoyne  to 
Albany  following  the  latter's  surrender  at 
Bemis  Heights  on  October  17,  1777,  to  be  con- 
fined in  the  house  of  General  Philip  Schuyler, 
and  from  the  general  he  received  an  autograph 
letter  thanking  him  for  his  courteous  treatment 
v;hile  a  prisoner  in  his  care. 

Commodore  Alfred  and  Anna  Margaret 
-(Townsend)  Van  Santvoord  had  the  follow- 
ing children  :  i.  Elizabeth,  born  at  Albany,  New 
York,  died  there,  July  5,  1854.  2.  Charles 
Townsend,  born  at  Albany,  New  York,  March 
16,  1854;  was  manager  of  the  Hudson  River 
Day  Line  for  his  father,  and  died  at  New 
York  City,  July  5,  1895.  3.  Katharine  Law- 
rence, born  at  Albany,  New  York,  October  6, 
1855  :  married,  at  New  York,  October  16,  1884, 
Eben  Erskine  Olcott.  He  was  born  in  New 
Y'ork  City,  March  11,  1854,  and  is  the  son  of 
John  Nathaniel  and  Euphemia  Helen  (Knox) 
Olcott.  He  graduated  from  the  College  of 
the  City  of  New  York  and  School  of  Mines, 
in  1874;  became  a  mining  engineer,  and  in 
this  field  traveled  extensively:  for  some  time 
was  associated  with  the  Hudson  River  Day 
Line  and  is  now  the  president  of  that  com- 
pany. Issue :  Alfred  Van  Santvoord  Olcott, 
born  at  New  York.  February  26.  1886;  Eben 
Erskine  Olcott  Jr.,  born  at  Inwood,  New  York, 
January  29,  1887,  died  there.  February  25, 
1887;  Charles  Townsend  Olcott,  born  at  New 
York,  March  28,  1890:  Mason  Olcott,  born 
at  Cornwall,  New  York,  July  21,  1893;  Kath- 
arine Lawrence  Olcott,  iDorn  at  New  York, 
June  10,  1896.  4.  Sarah,  born  at  Albany, 
New  York,  April  25,  1858;  married  at  New 
York  City,  November  19,  1885.  Rev.  Wilton 
Merle  Smith,  minister  of  the  Central  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  that  city.  5.  Anna  Town- 
send,  born  at  Albany.  New  York,  Mav  25, 
1861. 


Members  of  this  family  were 
DEPEW     living     in     Normandy,     France, 

early  in  the  sixteenth  century, 
and  although  many  of  those  who  came  to 
America    were    refugees    driven    from    their 


native  country  because  of  religious  persecu- 
tions, yet  some  of  them  continued  in  the 
Catholic  faith. 

This  family  of  which  Francois  was  the 
father  in  the  New  World  was  a  junior  branch 
of  a  house  which  was  reputed  by  many  and 
prominent  genealogists  to  be  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  and  ancient  of  that  land  of 
mighty  deeds,  the  province  of  Dauphine, 
France,  and  of  which  Raphael  duPuy  was  the 
founder.  He  himself  was  a  member  of  a 
prominent  Roman  family  and  was  grand 
chamberlain  and  commanding  general  of  the 
cavalry  of  the  Roman  Empire  under  Em- 
peror Conrad  in  1033.  Appointed  governor 
of  conquered  territory  which  later  was  known 
as  the  provinces  of  Lanquedoc  and  Dauphine, 
he  took  up  his  residence  at  Montbrun  in  Dau- 
phine which  for  centuries  was  the  abode  of  the 
duPuy-Montbrun  family.  From  him  has 
descended  a  family,  as  quoted  by  H.  Teetor, 
the  most  illustrious  and  numerous  beneath  a 
kingly  line,  and  which  has  given  birth  to 
scholars,  statesmen,  warriors  and  churchmen 
who  were  foremost  in  their  day. 

Prior  to  1661  the  ancestor  of  the  family 
described  below  came  to  New  Amsterdam, 
and  Nicholas  Dupuis,  supposed  to  be  his 
brother,  shortly  afterward  followed  him. 
Mention  of  the  families  of  both  may  be  found 
in  the  old  records  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church,  of  which  they  became  members.  The 
fact  that  they  joined  this  church  would  indi- 
cate that  they  had  been  Protestants  before 
leaving  their  native  land  and  belonged  to  the 
Huguenots  who  were  ready  to  give  up  every- 
thing for  the  sake  of  religious  freedom.  The 
name  has  been  variously  spelled  dePuy,  du- 
Puy. Dupuis  and  DePew. 

(I)  Francois  Dupuis,  believed  to  be  the 
younger  brother  of  Nicholas  Dupuis,  was  the 
first  of  his  family  to  locate  in  New  Amster- 
dam, and  it  is  thought  he  first  went  to  Hol- 
land. In  his  marriage  bond  he  describes  him- 
self as  from  Calais  and  his  bride  from  Am- 
sterdam. The  earliest  record  of  him  shows 
him  as  one  of  the  twenty-three  first  inhabitants 
of  Boswyck,  modernly  pronounced  Bushwick, 
and  now  a  component  part  of  Brooklyn.  At 
this  time  he  signed  a  petition,  dated  March  14, 
1661,  asking  for  the  privileges  usually  desired 
by  a  newlv  incorporated  village.  He  was  then 
unmarried  and  was  doubtless  preparing  a. 
home  for  his  prospective  bride.     In  1663  his 


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name  is  enrolled  as  a  member  of  a  company 
of  militia  with  Ryck  Lydeker  as  its  captain, 
this  company  being  probably  organized  for 
the  purpose  of  protection  against  the  Indians. 
It  is  uncertain  how  long  he  lived  at  Bushwick, 
as  Willem  is  his  only  child  known  to  have  been 
born  there,  although  there  may  have  been 
others.  He  may  have  resided  in  New  York 
for  a  time,  although  this  is  uncertain.  During 
the  years  1671-77  the  baptism  of  three  of  his 
children  is  recorded  in  the  New  York  Re- 
formed Church.  In  1677  it  is  claimed  that  he 
and  his  wife  became  members  of  the  church 
at  Flatbush,  where  their  next  two  children 
were  baptized  in  1679  and  1681  respectively. 
He  had  a  grant  of  about  eighty  acres  of  land 
on  the  south  side  of  the  Fresh  Kill  on  Staten 
Island,  bearing  date  December  21,  1680,  and 
on  April  4,  1685,  received  another  grant  on 
the  island,  at  Smoking  Point.  In  1686  Fran- 
cois Dupuis  had  his  son  Nicholas  baptized  in 
New  York,  and  the  following  year  is  men- 
tioned as  a  resident  of  Rockland,  then  a  part 
of  Orange  county,  where  on  September  26  he 
signed  the  oath  of  allegiance,  with  other  in- 
habitants of  the  recently  established  settle- 
ments of  Haverstraw  and  Orangetown.  Three 
of  his  children  married  and  settled  in  Rock- 
land county,  but  he  had  crossed  the  river  be- 
fore the  census  of  Orange  in  1702  and  located 
in  Westchester  county,  where  others  of  his 
children  had  made  their  homes.  His  young- 
est child,  Mary,  was  baptized  in  New  York, 
where  her  mother  is  mentioned  as  Annie  Els- 
ten,  who  must  have  been  his  second  wife.  On 
April  I,  1702,  he  and  his  daughter  Maria  are 
named  as  sponsors  or  godparents  at  the  bap- 
tism of  his  granddaughter,  Grietje  Quorry,  in 
the  Sleepy  Hollow  Church,  and  a  few  years 
later  both  he  and  this  daughter  are  recorded 
as  members  of  the  church,  having  residence 
on  the  patent  of  Captain  DeKay  and  Ryck 
Abrahamsen  Lent,  a  grandson  of  the  latter 
having  previously  married  Maria.  It  is  sup- 
posed he  paid  close  attention  to  the  cultiva- 
tion of  his  land  and  his  private  affairs,  as  his 
name  appears  so  seldom  in  public  records,  but 
through  careful  research  among  the  records 
of  the  Reformed  churches  at  New  York,  Tap- 
pan,  Tarrytown  and  Cortlandt,  enough  scraps 
of  information  have  been  found  to  piece  to- 
gether the  record  of  his  descendants  which  1.= 
given  below.  On  August  26,  1661,  the  banns 
of  his  coming  marriage  were  published  in  the 


records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  of 
New  Amsterdam,  as  follows:  "Francoys  Du- 
puis, young  man  of  Cales,  France,  and  Geertje 
Willems,  young  woman  of  Amsterdam." 
They  were  married  just  one  month  later,  in 
Breuckelen,  their  marriage  being  the  fifth  of 
record  in  the  Dutch  church  there,  as  follows : 
"26  September,  1661,  Francois  Dupuis  and 
Geertje  Willems,  with  certificate  from  Manhat- 
tans." It  is  believed  by  eminent  authority  that 
Geertje  Willems  was  a  daughter  of  Willem 
Jacobse  Van  Boerum,  of  Flatbush,  who  came 
with  his  family  in  1649,  from  Amsterdam, 
Holland,  given  in  the  register  of  the  banns  as 
the  birthplace  of  Geertje. 

Children  as  follows  were  born  to  Francois 
Dupuis:  Willem,  of  whom  further;  Jannetje 
(Jane),  who  married  Kellem  Quorry  or  Ma- 
Korry;  Grietje  (Margaret),  baptized  in  New 
York,  October  i,  1671,  became  the  wife  of 
Jan  Ward,  of  Haverstraw;  Jean  (John),  bap- 
tized in  New  York,  May  20,  1674,  married 
Jannetje  Wiltse,  widow  of  Myndert  Hend- 
reickse  (Hogencamp)  ;  a  child  (not  named), 
whose  baptismal  entry  was  made  at  New  York, 
February  14,  1677,  and  who  may  have  been 
Maria,  who  was  sponsor  with  her  father  in 
1702,  about  which  time  she  married  Abraham 
Hendrickse  Lent,  of  Tarrytown ;  Sara,  bap- 
tized at  Flatbush,  February  23,  1679,  married 
Herman  Hendrickse  Blauvelt ;  Geertje  (Ger- 
trude), baptized  at  Flatbush,  September  18, 
1681,  of  whom  no  further  record  is  to  be 
found;  Nicholaes,  baptized  in  New  York,  Oc- 
tober 17,  1686,  whose  wife's  name  was  Bar- 
bara; Mary,  baptized  in  New  York  City, 
March  3,  1689,  the  record  of  the  parents  being 
"Francois  Puy  and  Annie  Elsten,"  no  further 
record  being  given  of  either  mother  or  child. 

(II)  Willem.  probably  the  eldest  child  of 
Francois  and  Geertje  (Willems)  Dupuis,  was 
born  at  Bushwick,  and  was  among  the  pioneers 
of  the  locality  made  famous  as  the  birthplace 
of  the  illustrious  Senator  Depew.  It  would 
seem  that  he  had  made  camp  on  the  point  of 
land  called  by  the  Indians  Meanagh  or  Mern- 
ach,  and  afterwards  named  Verplanck's  Point, 
when  the  settlement  had  hardly  begun,  being 
then  unmarried.  He  was  at  Mernach  as  early 
as  1688,  and  probably  strayed  over  from 
Haverstraw,  where  his  father  had  located  a 
year  or  two  previous  and  where  his  brother 
John  continued  to  live  for  several  years  after- 
ward.    He  there  made  a  home  for  his  future 


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bride,  a  maiden  born  on  the  island  of  Barba- 
does,  and  doubtless  of  English  parentage, 
shown  on  the  records  as  "Lysbeth  Weyt." 
which  in  English  would  be  Elizabeth  White. 
She  was  living  a  little  further  down  the  river 
at  a  place  bearing  the  Indian  name  of  Kight- 
wanck,  near  the  mouth  of  the  Croton  river, 
which  stream  also  bore  the  name  of  the  locali- 
ty. Record  of  the  banns  was  posted  on  the 
register  of  the  Dutch  Church  of  New  York, 
the  nearest  one  to  their  home,  which  church 
issued  a  certificate  permitting  \\'illiam  to  marry 
at  the  home  of  the  bride.  The  record  is  as 
follows:  "loth  August,  1688,  Willem  Dupuy, 
j.m.  Van  Boswyck,  en  Lysbeth  Weyt,  j.m.  van 
de  Barbadoes,  d'Eerste  wonende  op  Mernach, 
en  twede  tot  Kichtewang."  This  marriage 
was  probably  celebrated  in  primitive  style  at 
Kichtewang  during  the  following  month,  per- 
haps the  first  marriage  in  the  Manor  of  Cort- 
landt,  and  spoken  of  as  the  forerunner  of  an 
event  that  made  Peekskill  renowned  as  the 
home  of  a  great  and  popular  orator  in  a  later 
generation  of  the  family. 

William  Dupuis  had  children  as  follows : 
Sara,  married  Willem  Dill,  Theil  or  Teil; 
Abigael,  became  the  wife  of  Pieter  Consje; 
Thomas,  married  Cornelia  Lendel ;  Anna,  bap- 
tized at  Tarrytown,  August  2,  1698;  Fran- 
cois, baptized  at  Tarrytown.  August  20,  1700, 
married  Maritje  Van  Thesel ;  Petrus,  of  whom 
further.  The  father's  name  was  usually  spelled 
Dupuy. 

(Ill)  Petrus  (or  Peter)  Depew,  youngest 
child  of  Willem  and  Elizabeth  (White)  Du- 
puis, was  born  in  1703  at  Verplanck's  Point, 
where  his  father  had  settled  in  1686,  and  was 
baptized  March  28  of  the  same  year  at  Tarry- 
town. Although  his  education  was  doubtless 
very  limited,  considering  his  surroundings,  it 
is  certain  that  he  was  proficient  in  the  simple 
arts  of  at  least  reading  and  writing.  This  and 
other  miscellaneous  knowledge  he  and  his 
tather  and  their  descendants  received  from  the 
former's  grandfather,  who,  together  with  his 
brother  Nicholas,  were  members  of  a  wealthy, 
well  cultured,  and  of  one  of  the  most  ancient 
and  distinguished  families  of  Dauphine,  from 
which  province,  owing  to  the  high  position  of 
their  family  at  the  court  of  France,  they  re- 
moved to  Paris,  where  they  resided  until  they 
were  compelled  to  flee  for  their  lives,  holding 
their    religion   more    sacred   than   wealth    and 


position.  As  Petrus  was  a  younger  son  of  the 
family,   he  was  obliged  to   shift   for  himself.  j 

With  a  few  savings,  together  with  his  portion  I 

of  the  family  wealth,  he  began  to  search  the 
country  for  a  home  and  a  bride.  He  was  not 
successful  on  the  Tarrytown  side  of  the  river, 
it  appears,  as  we  find  him  residing  on  a  farm 
of  approximately  two  hundred  and  seventeen 
rich,  broad,  sloping  acres  situated  on  the  Hack- 
ensack  creek,  directly  west  of  Orangeburg  in 
the  region  known  as  old  Tappan.  The  time 
of  his  arrival  at  Schreclaw,  as  the  immediate 
vicinity  of  his  place  of  residence  was  called, 
is  not  known,  but  in  1729  we  find  he  was  re- 
siding there.  He  took  up  the  occupation  of 
farming  and  developed  his  sons  into  three  ex- 
ceedingly thrifty,  strong,  tall,  broad-shoul- 
dered, muscular  men.  No  record  is  found  of 
his  death  or  place  of  burial.  Certain  it  is  that 
he  lived  long  enough  to  see  the  quiet,  peaceful 
hamlet  wherein  he  lived  turned  into  one  of  the 
most  ravaged  and  untenable  regions  created 
by  the  great  revolution.  Here  were  the  raids 
of  the  cowboys  and  of  the  British  outposts 
most  numerous  and  unsparing.  In  fact,  during 
one  raid,  while  busy  in  his  grist  mill,  he  was 
surprised  by  a  party  of  Tories  and  barely  es- 
caped capture  by  climbing  into  and  secreting 
himself  in  the  chimney  of  the  mill,  while  below 
the  raiders  searched  high  and  low  for  him 
without  success,  and  had  to  content  themselves 
by  making  oflf  with  his  cattle,  which,  as  Petrus 
was  thrifty,  was  considerable.  As  things 
grew  warmer,  and  the  raids  more  frequent, 
Petrus  every  night  slept  outside  for  fear  of 
being  caught  in  some  nocturnal  visit  of  the 
Tories,  and  just  before  going  to  sleep  he  put 
his  ear  to  the  ground  to  see  if  any  bodies 
of  troops  were  abroad.  Here  also  was  a  body 
of  patriots  under  Colonel  Baylor  surprised 
by  the  British  at  night  and  massacred  to  a 
man.  At  last  things  became  so  unbearable 
that  they  were  forced  to  move  to  Dutchess 
for  safety.  The  marriage  records  at  Tappan 
between  1719  and  1750  are  lost.  Sometime 
before  1729  he  married  Elizabeth  Blauvelt, 
baptized  April  11,  1705,  at  Tappan,  daughter 
of  Abram  and  Grietye  (Minne)  Blauvelt. 
The  Tappan  records  show  the  baptisms  of 
three  of  his  children:  Abram,  mentioned  be- 
low; Petrus,  of  further  mention  hereinafter, 
and  Isaac,  born  March  25,  1740.  There  were 
probably  other  children,  and  there  is  evidence 
that  some  of  these  settled  in  Dutchess  county. 


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where  some  of  their  descendants  were  en- 
rolled for  service  in  the  revolution. 

(IV)  Abram,  eldest  known  child  of  Peter 
and  Elizabeth  (Blauvelt)  Depew,  was  born 
January  6,  1729,  and  baptized  at  Tappan 
Church  on  the  19th  of  the  same  month.  His 
education  was  plain,  but  sufficient,  consisting 
doubtless  of  nothing  more  than  his  being  able 
to  read  and  write.  During  his  youth  he  lived 
on  his  father's  farm,  where  he  mastered  the 
occupation  of  farming  and  also  that  of  a 
blacksmith.  It  seems  that  he  was  very  thrifty, 
as  we  find  him  purchasing  a  farm  situated  in 
vicinity  of  Tappan  in  a  locality  known  as 
Kakiat.  In  the  revolution  he  served  under 
Wayne  and  was  at  the  battle  of  Stony  Point. 
After  the  war  he  settled  down  on  his  farm, 
again  devoting  himself  to  domestic  affairs, 
and  in  1788  he  sold  all  or  part  of  his  one-third 
share  of  the  farm  which  he  inherited  from  his 
father,  to  his  brother  Petrus.  By  his  will  at 
his  death  he  left  a  farm  to  each  of  his  sons, 
each  of  whom  was  self-supporting,  and  to 
his  daughter  he  bequeathed  the  sum  of  eighty- 
seven  dollars,  as  he  believed  that  only  the 
sons  should  become  heirs  to  the  real  estate. 
He  married  Rachel  Blauvelt,  and  they  had 
children  as  follows:  Petrus,  born  March  12, 
1753,  baptized  April  8,  married  Sarah  Eck- 
ersen;  Elizabeth,  December  10,  1755,  bap- 
tized December  28  at  Clarkstown,  married 
Abram  Garrison;  John,  1757-58,  had  wife 
Hannah,  and  son  John  Augustus;  Cornelius, 
mentioned  below. 

(\')  Cornelius,  third  son  of  Abram  and 
Rachel  (Blauvelt)  Depew,  was  born  July  27, 
baptized  August  15,  1761,  at  Clarkstown.  As 
his  portion  of  his  father's  estate,  he  received 
a  homestead  farm  in  the  vicinity  of  what  is 
now  New  City,  upon  which  he  lived.  He  was 
in  the  same  regiment  with  his  father  in  the 
revolutionary  army,  but  did  not  participate 
in  the  battle  of  Stony  Point,  being  too  young 
at  that  time,  but  he  was  one  of  those  who 
formed  the  escort  of  the  British  prisoners 
who  were  taken  to  the  old  English  church  at 
Spring  Valley  for  temporary  confinement. 
His  estate  was  divided  among  his  children. 
He  married  Annaetje  Garretse.  Children: 
Abraham,  mentioned  below;  Garret,  born 
July  12,  1783,  baptized  at  Clarkstown;  Anna 
01  Hannah,  born  January  2,  1787,  married 
John  Howard ;  John. 

(VI)    Abraham,   eldest   child   of    Cornelius 


and  Annaetje  (Garretse)  Depew,  was  born 
August  19,  1780,  on  the  paternal  homestead 
at  New  City,  and  baptized  December  24  of 
the  same  year  at  Clarkstown.  He  engaged  in 
agriculture,  and,  like  others  of  his  section  in 
that  day,  acted  with  the  Democratic  party.  He 
married  Phebe  Coquelette.  Children:  Mary 
Ann,  married  Samuel  Paul;  Cornelius,  died 
without  issue;  Peter  Coquelette,  mentioned 
below. 

(VII)  Peter  Coquelette,  junior  son  of 
Abraham  and  Phebe  (Coquelette)  Depew, 
was  born  May  16,  18 13,  on  the  homestead  at 
New  City,  where  he  resided  through  life  and 
was  a  very  prominent  citizen  of  the  town,  fill- 
ing various  positions  of  trust  and  responsi- 
bility. He  married,  October  30,  1839,  at 
Clarkstown,  Catherine  Maria  Demarest  (now 
deceased),  born  August  3,  1820,  at  Clarks- 
town, daughter  of  Abraham  C.  and  Elizabeth 
(Brown)  Demarest  of  that  town,  who  were 
the  parents  of  thirteen  children:  i.  Catherine 
Maria.  2.  Elizabeth  Ann,  now  dead,  married 
Smith  Lydecker.  3.  Elmira,  now  dead,  wife 
of  James  Work  4.  Abraham,  now  dead.  5. 
Cornehus,  now  dead.  6,  Jacob  Edgar.  7. 
John,  now  dead.  8.  Theodore,  now  dead.  9. 
Caroline,  died  in  infancy.  10.  Sarah,  died 
1912.  II.  Margaret,  died  in  infancy.  12  and 
13,  died  in  infancy,  unnamed.  Children  of 
Peter  C.  and  Catherine  M.  Depew :  Demarest, 
died  young;  Charles,  died  young;  Caroline, 
married  Hercules  Gedney  and  had  two  chil- 
dren, Catherine  and  Julia;  Cornelius,  men- 
tioned below. 

(VIII)  Cornelius,  son  of  Peter  Coque- 
lette and  Catherine  M.  (Demarest)  Depew, 
was  born  March  6,  1856,  in  Nyack,  and  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
that  city.  In  1876  he  began  an  apprenticeship 
to  learn  the  carpenter's  trade  with  Watson  De 
Baun  and  has  continued  in  that  line  ever 
since.  In  the  course  of  his  experience  he  has 
constructed  many  dwellings  and  other  build- 
ings in  and  around  Nyack.  He  has  always 
taken  an  active  interest  in  the  life  of  the 
community  and  has  filled  numerous  respon- 
sible positions,  including  service  on  the  board 
of  education.  He  is  president  of  the  Chris- 
tian Endeavor  Union,  of  the  Excelsior  Club 
and  the  Central  Engine  Company,  No.  6.  of 
Central  Nyack.  His  family  is  associated  with 
the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  of  that  town,  in 
whose  labors  and  interests  he  is  active.     Like 


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his  ancestors  he  adheres  to  the  Democratic 
party  in  pubhc  concerns.  He  married,  May 
30,  1885,  at  Bayonne,  New  Jersey,  Mary  Eliz- 
abeth Berry,  born  July  27,  1862,  in  Jersey 
City,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Berry,  who  was 
a  prominent  citizen  of  Bayonne ;  was  chief 
of  the  Bayonne  Fire  Department,  a  member 
of  the  board  of  education  and  supervisor  of 
taxes  of  Bayonne.  Late  in  life  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  exempt  firemen.  He  engaged  in 
business  as  a  builder  and  contractor,  in  which 
he  succeeded  his  father.  He  served  as  com- 
missioner of  appeals  and  was  twice  elected  to 
the  assembly  as  a  representative  of  Hudson 
county,  in  1892  and  1893.  He  was  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  militia  in  which  he  was 
much  interested,  having  served  as  captain  of 
the  Berry  Guard  which  he  organized.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Art  Club, 
the  Republican  Association  and  the  Third 
Ward  Republican  Club  of  Bayonne.  He  was 
actively  identified  with  the  Masonic  fraternity, 
being  affiliated  with  Bayonne  Lodge,  No.  99; 
was  also  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows;  of  the  Bayonne  Rowing 
Association;  Council  No.  695,  Royal  Arca- 
num, and  Bayonne  Council,  No.  187,  Im- 
proved Order  of  Red  Men.  He  married  Ehz- 
abeth  Thompson,  born  in  1840,  daughter  of 
Archibald  and  Ellen  (Roy)  Thompson,  and 
they  had  children:  Ebenezer,  now  dead; 
Archibald  Roy,  now  dead;  Mary  Elizabeth, 
Ellen  Theresa  and  Althea  Carlotte,  now  dead. 
The  eldest  daughter  became  the  wife  of  Cor- 
nelius Depew,  as  above  noted. 

Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Depew:  i.  Car- 
lotta  Berry,  born  April  11,  1886;  attended  the 
Nyack  High  School ;  later  became  a  graduate 
nurse  by  pursuing  a  course  at  Millbank  Ave- 
nue Hospital,  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  where 
she  graduated  in  October,  1910.  2.  Kathryn 
Emelia,  July  27,  1890;  graduated  at  the 
Nyack  Grammar  School;  married  Wilson 
Everett  Garrabrant.  and  resides  at  Nyack, 
New  York.  Their  children  are:  Bertram 
Depew,  Elizabeth,  Mildred  E.,  and  Ralph.  3. 
Elizabeth  Thompson,  October  2,  1895,  died 
at  Sparkill,  August  2,  1899.  4.  Mary  Elea- 
nor, July  9,  1899,  is  a  student  at  the  Nyack 
High  School. 

(IV)   Petrus  DePew,  second 

DE  PEW     son  of   Petrus    (or   Peter)    (q. 

v.)    and    Elizabeth    (Blauvelt) 


Depew,  was  born  December  17, 1732,  as  shown 
by  the  records  of  the  church  at  Tappan,  and 
was  baptized  there  December  24th.  He  was 
married  at  Tappan  to  Annetje  Van  Dolson, 
born  April  23,  1733,  died  August  13,  1805,  and 
they  had  children  as  follows  :  Petrus,  born  Feb- 
ruary 2,  1759,  baptized  February  nth  of  that 
year,  died  November  6,  1839,  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution  from  Dutchess  county  and 
married  Rachel  Pake;  John,  born  in  1761 ; 
Bridget,  August  28,  1764,  died  July  13,  1843; 
Tunis  Van  Dolson,  of  whom  further. 

(V)  Tunis  Van  Dolson,  son  of  Petrus  and 
Annetje  (Van  Dolson)  DePew,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 21,  baptized  at  Clarkstown,  March  13, 
1768,  died  September  30,  1834.  He  was 
prominent  in  the  shipping  trade  as  early  as 
1798,  and  was  the  possessor  of  Nyack's  first 
dock.  He  married,  April  7,  1792,  Willempje 
Bogart,  born  January  30,  1776,  died  Decem- 
ber 4,  1857.  Three  children  were  born  of  this 
union :  Anne,  November  19,  1793,  married 
Michael  Tallman,  died  October  5,  1851  ;  Cor- 
nelia, July  2,  1800,  married  Abram  P.  Smith, 
died  July  28,  1895 ;  Petrus,  of  whom  further. 

(VI)  Petrus  (2),  junior  son  of  Tunis  \'an 
Dolson  and  Willempje  (Bogart)  DePew,  was 
born  April  26,  baptized  May  7,  1807,  at  Tap- 
pan,  and  died  May  17,  1873.  He  was  the 
head  of  a  movement  to  secure  railroad  facili- 
ties for  Nyack,  and  his  influence  and  activity 
promoted  largely  the  growth  and  prosperity 
of  that  place.  He  inarried  at  Nyack,  June  11, 
1831,  Ann  Tallman,  born  February  19,  1811, 
died  February  24,  1869.  They  were  the  pa- 
rents of  two  children :  Tunis  Van  Dolson, 
of  whom  further,  and  Elsie,  born  April  25, 
1841,  died  June  12,  1907.  The  latter  married 
(first)  October  8,  1864,  Frank  G.  Has- 
brouck;  (second)  October  7,  1869,  William 
G.  Stevenson. 

(VII)  Tunis  Van  Dolson  (2),  only  son  of 
Petrus  (2)  and  Ann  (Tallman)  DePew,  was 
born  April  15,  1832,  died  March  18,  1896.  He 
lived  in  Nyack,  Rockland  county,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  business  as  a  florist.  He  cut 
up  his  farm  into  building  lots  and  endeavored 
in  every  way  to  make  Nyack  the  home  of  many 
industries ;  and  it  will  be  noted  that  in  the 
neighborhood  of  1880  the  largest  part  of  the 
industries  of  the  town  were  established  on  the 
DePew  farm.  In  religious  views  he  was  a 
Presbyterian,  and  in  politics  he  was  a  Demo- 
crat.    He  was  one  of  the  most  esteemed  citi- 


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zens  of  Nyack,  where  he  had  a  large  circle  of 
friends  and  acquaintances.  He  was  married 
at  Blauveltville,  New  York,  May  25,  1852,  to 
Catherine  Ann,  daughter  of  Barney  N.  and 
Maria  (Blauvelt)  Huyler,  a  native  of  Blauvelt. 
Mr.  Huyler  was  a  florist  by  occupation,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church,  and  a 
Democrat  in  political  belief.  He  and  his  wife 
had  children  as  follows:  Sarah,  John  Jacob, 
Catherine  Ann,  Eveline.  Catherine  Ann  Huy- 
ler was  born  at  Blauveltville,  February  7, 
1830.  Four  children  were  born  to  Tunis  Van 
Dolson  DePew  and  wife:  i.  Anna,  born  July 
5,  1854;  married,  October  11,  1878,  Ira  J. 
Blauvelt,  and  they  became  parents  of  two  chil- 
dren, Florence  and  Marjorie.  2.  Florence, 
born  June  14,  1859,  died  January  19,  1884; 
married  George  Frederick  Wilcoxson,  June  13, 
1883.  3.  Tunis,  born  April  13,  1865;  unmar- 
ried. 4.  Peter,  twin  of  Tunis,  of  whom  further. 
(VHI)  Peter,  son  of  Tunis  Van  Dolson  (2) 
and  Catherine  Ann  (Huyler)  DePew,  was 
born  in  Nyack,  April  13,  1865,  and  received 
his  education  in  local  schools.  In  early  life 
he  and  his  twin  brother  Tunis  became  inter- 
ested in  their  father's  business,  which  they 
inherited,  and  they  still  conduct  their  industry 
at  the  old  homestead  on  the  old  DePew  farm. 
The  business  was  in  a  healthy  and  prosperous 
condition  at  the  time  they  took  charge  and 
they  have  enlarged  it  from  time  to  time,  having 
an  extensive  and  lucrative  patronage.  Both 
are  men  of  business  ability  and  acumen  and 
stand  well  in  business  circles.  Mr.  DePew 
takes  a  commendable  interest  in  local  affairs 
and  stands  ready  to  advance  the  interests  of 
any  movement  calculated  to  benefit  the  com- 
munity. In  political  views  he  is  a  Democrat. 
He  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Re- 
formed Dutch  church  at  Nyack.  Mr.  DePew 
was  married  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 3,  1887,  to  Catherine  Hadden  Boyce, 
a  native  of  the  Bronx,  New  York  City,  daugh- 
ter of  Alexander  and  Elizabeth  Theresa 
(Howell)  Boyce,  the  former  a  broker  of  that 
city.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Boyce  have  three  chil- 
dren :  Emma,  Georgiana  and  Catherine  Had- 
den. Children  of  Peter  and  Catherine  Had- 
den (Boyce)  Depew  are:  Pierre  Howell,  born 
February  8,  1889;  Maud  Elizabeth,  August  5, 
1890;  Ralph  Huyler,  July  14,  1892;  Florence 
Beckett,  October  4,  1894,  died  May  24,  1906; 
Tunis  Eugene,  July  18,  1898. 


This  is  a  Dutch  name,  origin- 
BROWER  ally  spelled  Brouwer,  and  sig- 
nifying brewer.  It  was  mani- 
festly adopted  as  a  surname  because  of  the 
occupation  of  its  bearer,  in  the  early  days 
when  the  Netherlanders  adopted  surnames. 
It  is  found  in  the  early  records  of  New  Am- 
sterdam, now  New  York,  and  has  been  iden- 
tified for  many  generations  with  the  history 
of  that  city. 

(I)  Adam  Brouwer,  sometimes  with  the 
added  name  Berckhoven,  or  Kerckhoven, 
came  from  Cologne  in  1642,  and  resided  first 
in  New  Amsterdam.  He  obtained  a  patent 
to  a  lot  there,  February  7,  1647,  and  in  that 
year  he  sold  a  house  and  lot,  which  was  pre- 
sumably the  same  property.  This  was  on  the 
north  side  of  Beaver  street,  east  of  Broadway. 
About  that  time  he  removed  to  Brooklyn^ 
where  he  continued  to  reside  until  his  death, 
about  1698.  He  occupied  the  old  mill  in 
Brooklyn;  was  on  the  assessment  roll  there 
in  1675  and  1683;  a  member  of  the  Brooklyn 
Reformed  Dutch  church  in  1677,  and  his  name 
appears  in  the  census  of  1698.  He  married, 
May  19,  1645,  in  New  Amsterdam,  Magda- 
lena  Verdon,  sometimes  written  Fardon  and 
Ferdon.  Children:  Peter;  Jacob;  Aelje; 
Mathys,  born  1649;  William,  1651;  Maria, 
1653;  Helena,  baptized  October  31,  i66o; 
Adam,  1662;  Abraham;  Sophia;  Ann;  Sarah; 
Nicholas,  Daniel,  1678;  Rachel. 

(II)  Jacob  Brouwer,  second  son  of  Adam 
and  Magdalena  (Verdon)  Brouwer,  was  on 
the  assessment  list  of  Brooklyn  in  1676;  was 
living  there  in  1687,  and  appeared  in  the  cen- 
sus of  1698.  He  married,  June  2^9,  1682,  An- 
netje,  daughter  of  William  and  Wyntie  (Sy- 
brants)  Bogardus,  granddaughter  of  Rev. 
Evardus  Bogardus,  second  pastor  of  the 
Dutch  church  of  New  York.  Children :  Jacob, 
mentioned  below;  William,  baptized  May  8, 
1687;  Evardus,  December  8,  1689;  Sybrant, 
died  before  1737 ;  Elizabeth,  baptized  Novem- 
ber 15,  1694;  Adam,  March  29,  1696;  Hille- 
gonte,  December  27,  1697;  Wyntie,  March  8, 
1701  ;  Magdalena,  March  8,  1704;  Nicholas. 

(III)  Jacob  (2)  Brouwer,  eldest  son  of 
J;.cob  (i)  and  Annetje  (Bogardus)  Brouwer, 
was  baptized  November  30,  1684,  and  passed 
his  early  life  in  Brooklyn,  removing  before 
1712  to  New  York  City,  where  he  continued 
to  reside.  He  married,  October  i,  1709,  Pie- 
ternelle,  daughter  of  Jan  De  La  Montague  and 


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Annetje  Josephs  Waldron,  baptized  April  7, 
1686,  in  New  York.  Children:  Jacob,  bap- 
tized September  24,  1710,  in  Brooklyn;  Jo- 
hannes, mentioned  below ;  Abraham,  Febru- 
ary 6,  1717;  Antie,  died  young;  Adam,  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1722;  Antje,  March  20,  1726;  Cor- 
nelius, who  resided  in  Dutchess  county.  All 
except  the  first  were  baptized  in  New  York 
City. 

(IV)  Johannes  Brower,  second  son  of 
Jacob  (2)  and  Pieternelle  (De  La  Montagne) 
Brouwer,  was  baptized  March  19,  1712,  in 
New  York  City,  and  made  his  home  in  that 
city.  He  married,  Octobec  19,  1734,  Susan- 
nah, daughter  of  Paulus  Druljet.  Children: 
Susannah,  baptized  September  5,  1735;  An- 
netje, February  8,  1738;  Jacob,  March  26, 
1740;  Antje,  November  7,  1742;  Nelletje, 
born  June  9,  1745 ;  Johannes,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(V)  Johannes  (2),  or  John  Brower,  young- 
est child  of  Johannes  (i)  and  Susannah 
(Druljet)  Brower,  was  born  December  2, 
1747,  in  New  York  City,  and  continued  to 
make  his  home  there  through  life,  dying  April 
13,  1823.  He  married,  March  22,  1769,  Cath- 
arine Duryee,  baptized  August  3,  1748,  in 
New  York,  daughter  of  Johannes  and  Neeltje 
(Kouwenhoven)  Duryee.  Children:  Hannah, 
baptized  in  New  York,  January  28,  1770,  died 
young;  Jane,  November  3,  1771 ;  John,  men- 
tioned below;  Peter,  March  12,  1775;  Catha- 
rine, June  9,  1776;  Hannah,  born  October  17, 
1785;  Maria,  March  26,  1793;  Jacob  Vreden- 
burgh,  February  25,  1796. 

(VI)  John  Brower,  son  of  Johannes  (2) 
or  John  and  Catharine  (Duryee)  Brower,  was 
baptized  October  i,  1773,  in  New  York  City, 
and  was  a  merchant  in  New  York  City,  hav- 
ing a  store  on  the  old  corporation  dock,  oppo- 
site Washington  Market.  His  health  becom- 
ing impaired,  he  removed  to  Walden,  New 
York,  a  few  years  before  his  death,  which 
occurred  there,  November  i,  1804.  He  mar- 
ried, December  15,  1796,  Magdalen  Duryee. 
Children:  John,  born  December  8,  1797,  died 
July  5,  1798;  CorneHa  Leverich,  August  29, 
1799,  died  1821  ;  Catharine  Ann,  May  20, 
1802,  died  1803;  John  I.,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  John  I.  Brower,  only  surviving  son 
of  John  and  Magdalen  (Duryee)  Brower,  was 
born  January  7,  1804,  in  Walden,  New  York, 
and  died  in  New  York  City,  October  8,  1878. 
About  1826  he  engaged  in  the  wholesale  hard- 


ware trade,  and  thus  continued  until  his 
death.  He  was  a  member  m  full  communion 
of  the  Collegiate  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  of 
New  York,  serving  on  its  principal  commit- 
tees, including  the  finance  committee.  For 
twenty-five  years  preceding  his  death,  he  was 
treasurer  of  the  general  synod  of  the  Re- 
formed Dutch  church,  a  very  responsible  po- 
sition. He  took  little  interest  in  political 
affairs,  and  held  no  public  office.  He  married, 
May  20,  1835,  Sophia  Wyckoff  Olcott,  born 
March  20,  1806,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and 
Ann  (Wyckoff)  Olcott,  of  New  York  (see 
Olcott  VI.).  Children:  Cornelia  Leverich, 
born  September  5,  1837,  married,  November 
2,  1869,  Charles  H.  McCreery,  died  Novem- 
ber 22,  1877;  John,  September  8,  1839,  mar- 
ried, April  18,  1866,  Sarah  Louisa  Beckley, 
and  died  December  18,  1900;  Catherine 
Heyer,  September  20,  1841,  married,  October 
4,  1888,  William  Wheeler  Smith;  Henry 
Wyckoff,  April  2,  1844,  married,  June  23, 
1869,  Diana  Horton,  and  died  June  16,  1880; 
William  Leverich,  mentioned  below. 

(VIII)  William  Leverich  Brower,  youngest 
child  of  John  I.  and  Sophia  Wyckoff  (Olcott) 
Brower,  was  born  August  5,  1846,  in  New 
York  City,  and  was  educated  in  private 
schools  of  his  native  city.  At  an  early  age 
he  determined  upon  a  business  career,  and 
after  graduation  entered  the  wholesale  drug 
house  of  Schieffelin  Brothers  &  Company.  He 
has  continued  with  this  concern  down  to  the 
present  time,  and  is  now  its  vice-president. 
He  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  many  pro- 
gressive movements,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Hudson-Fulton  celebration  commission  in 
1909.  An  independent  Democrat,  he  has  never 
aspired  to  or  accepted  any  official  station. 
With  an  active  interest  in  historical  subjects, 
he  has  been  long  associated  with  the  Holland 
Society  of  New  York,  of  which  he  became 
president  in  1913.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  St.  Nicholas  Society,  and  of  the  City  and 
Reform  clubs  of  New  York.  Mr.  Brower's 
most  active  interest  has  been  for  many  years 
in  connection  with  the  Collegiate  Reformed 
Dutch  Church  of  New  York,  worshipping  at 
the  Middle  Collegiate  Church,  Second  avenue 
and  Seventh  street,  has  long  been  an  elder, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  consistory  of  the  Col- 
legiate Church,  serving  on  its  most  important 
committees,  including  the  finance  committee, 
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has  been  superintendent  of  the  Middle  Church 
Sunday  school.  He  was  received  in  full  com- 
munion, February  2,  1870;  was  installed  as  a 
deacon  in  1873,  and  continued  to  serve  in  that 
capacity  until  1897,  when  he  became  an  elder. 
Both  his  paternal  and  maternal  ancestors  have 
been  connected  for  many  generations  with  the 
Reformed  Dutch  church,  and  he  is  very  fa- 
miliar with  its  history  and  usages.  Through 
its  existence,  his  family  in  the  paternal  line 
has  been  identified  with  the  Collegiate  Church. 
When  the  church  at  Lafayette  place  and 
Fourth  street  was  taken  down,  Mr.  Brower 
was  one  of  those  who  were  firm  in  the  belief 
that  the  Collegiate  Church  should  continue  to 
maintain  a  church  and  place  of  worship  in  that 
section  of  the  city  and  minister  to  the  spiritual 
welfare  of  all  who  could  there  be  reached, 
and  in  the  new  Middle  Church  at  Second  ave- 
nue and  Seventh  street  he  has  earnestly  ap- 
plied himself  to  the  work  there  conducted. 
In  this  church  no  pew  rentals  are  charged,  the 
seats  being  free  to  all,  and  the  edifice  is  kept 
open  daily  "so  as  to  afford  any  persons  who 
might  be  religiously  and  devoutly  disposed  op- 
portunity for  rest,  meditation  and  prayer." 
Through  the  generosity  of  Mr.  Brower,  the 
Collegiate  Church  has  received  several  valu- 
able gifts,  including  a  communion  service  for 
the  sick ;  mural  tablets  in  the  Middle  Church 
in  memory  of  Peter  Minuit,  the  Kranken- 
bezoekers,  Sebastian  Jansen  Krol,  Jan  Huyck, 
the  Rev.  Jonas  Michaelius ;  four  tablets  erect- 
ed in  the  Middle  Church,  memorials  to  those 
who  perished  in  the  "General  Slocum"  dis- 
aster. 


The  surname  of  Hopkins  was 
HOPKINS     spelled   Hopkyns    in   England 

in  the  sixteenth  century  and 
earlier.  It  is  an  ancient  English  family  of 
Oxfordshire,  where  in  1567  John  Hopkyns 
was  a  civic  officer  in  Coventry.  From  the  strong 
resemblance  of  the  armorial  bearings  of  the 
Wyckhams  of  SwelclifTe,  county  Oxford,  and 
those  of  the  Hopkins  family  of  Oving,  it  is 
conjectured  by  Burke  that  in  early  times  some 
bond  of  connection  existed  between  the  two 
families.  In  confirmation  of  this  conjecture 
there  is  found  in  Sibford  Gower  in  Swelclifife 
parish  a  small  estate  which  is  charged  with  a 
quitrent  of  a  hundred  pence  that  tradition  has 
assigned  to  the  late  owners  as  the  nineteenth 


John  Hopkins  who  had  successfully  and  line- 
ally inherited  it  without  intervention  of  any 
other  Christian  name  than  John.  As  this 
estate  joins  immediately  to  Warwickshire,  it 
may  fairly  be  assumed  that  the  family  of 
Hopkins  in  Coventry  and  Swelclifife  derive 
from  a  common  ancestor.  A  branch  of  the 
family  is  found  in  the  north  of  Ireland.  There 
were  three  distinct  families  early  in  this  coun- 
try, from  all  of  which  have  descended  prom- 
inent citizens.  The  name  is  found  upon  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  and  in  connec- 
tion with  many  other  historical  events  con- 
nected with  the  development  of  the  United 
States. 

(I)  William  Hopkins  was  born  in  Chesel- 
bourne,  England,  and  married  Joanna  Arnold, 
also  a  native  of  Cheselbourne,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Alice  (Gully)  Arnold,  the  last 
named  baptized  November  30,  1577,  at  Chesel- 
bourne. 

(II)  Thomas  Hopkins,  son  of  William  and 
Joanna  (Arnold)  Hopkins,  was  born  April  7, 
1 61 6,  in  Cheselbourne,  and  died  in  October, 
1684,  at  the  settlement  known  as  Littleworth, 
in  the  present  town  of  Oyster  Bay,  Long 
Island.  He  is  found  of  record  in  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  as  early  as  July  27,  1640,  when 
he  was  one  of  the  thirty-nine  signers  to  an 
agreement  for  a  form  of  government.  In 
1652  and  1659-60,  he  was  commissioner;  in 
1655-56-57,  and  1672,  he  was  deputy  to  the 
general  court,  and  was  a  member  of  the  town 
council  from  1657  to  1672-.  On  account  of 
the  Indian  troubles  he  removed,  about  1676, 
to  Long  Island,  and  settled  at  Oyster  Bay. 
He  married,  in  Providence,  in  1648,  Elizabeth 
Arnold,  born  in  Nottinghamshire,  England, 
daughter  of  William  Arnold.  Two  sons,  Wil- 
liam and  Thomas,  remained  in  Rhode  Island; 
a  third  son  is  mentioned  below. 

(III)  Joseph  Hopkins,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  (Arnold)  Hopkins,  was  born  about 
1650  in  Rhode  Island,  and  died  there  in  1674, 
before  his  father's  removal  to  Long  Island. 
The  family  name  of  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  has 
not  been  discovered.  She  married  (second) 
Richard  Kirby,  after  her  removal  with  her 
father-in-law  to  Long  Island.  Children  :  Icha- 
bod  and  Ann.  The  latter  became  the  wife  of 
Thomas  Kirby. 

(IV)  Ichabod  Hopkins,  only  son  of  Joseph 
and  Elizabeth  Hopkins,  was  born  about  1670, 
in  Providence,  and  died  January  25,  1731,  at 


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Musketa  Cove,  Oyster  Bay.  He  married, 
about  1691,  Sarah  Coles,  born  at  Glen  Cove, 
Long  Island,  died  December  15,  1725,  at  Oys- 
ter Bay,  daughter  of  Daniel  Coles,  whose  wife, 
a  Groton,  bore  an  Indian  name,  Maha-Shalal- 
Hasbaz. 

(V)  Daniel  Hopkins,  son  of  Ichabod  and 
Sarah  (Coles)  Hopkins,  was  born  1695,  in 
Oyster  Bay,  and  died  there  before  June  10, 
1766.  He  married  (first)  Martha  Weeks, 
who  survived  but  a  short  time,  and  married 
(second)  Amy  Weeks,  born  at  Oyster  Bay, 
died  there  February  10,  1775,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Hannah  (Ruddock)  Weeks.  They 
had  children :  William,  Thomas,  Martha,  Han- 
nah, Dinah,  Amey,  Abigail,  Sarah,  Temper- 
ance, Elizabeth,  Ann,  Mary. 

(VT)  William  (2)  Hopkins,  eldest  child  of 
Daniel  and  Amey  (Weeks)  Hopkins,  was  born 
at  Oyster  Bay,  and  died  there  June  i,  1803. 
The  family  by  this  time  had  become  well  es- 
tablished at  Oyster  Bay,  and  he  there  passed 
his  life  in  comfortable  circumstances.  He  mar- 
ried Rachel  Coles,  a  native  of  Oyster  Bay, 
who  died  before  1769,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Temperance  (Albertson)  Coles.  They  had 
children:  Daniel,  Phebe,  Esther,  Rachel,  John, 
Amelia. 

(VII)  Daniel  (2)  Hopkins,  son  of  William 
(2)  and  Rachel  (Coles)  Hopkins,  was  born 
at  Oyster  Bay,  where  he  passed  his  life.  He 
married,  at  Hempstead,  February  25,  1776, 
Susannah  Ellison,  a  native  of  that  place, 
daughter  of  Timothy  and  Mary  Ellison. 

(VIII)  Daniel  (3)  Hopkins,  son  of  Daniel 

(2)  and  Susannah  (Ellison)  Hopkins,  was 
born  in  1785,  at  Oyster  Bay,  passed  a  portion 
of  his  life  there,  and  subsequently  resided  in 
New  York  City,  where  he  died  October  10, 
1833.  He  was  a  man  of  considerable  means, 
and  wielded  a  useful  influence  in  the  commun- 
ity. He  married  Phebe  Gardiner,  born  Sep- 
tember 6,  1789,  at  Westbury,  Long  Island, 
daughter  of  Noah  and  Sarah  (Wright) 
Gardiner.  They  had  children:  Edwin,  Sarah, 
John  Milton. 

(IX)  John  Milton  Hopkins,  son  of  Daniel 

(3)  and  Phebe  (Gardiner)  Hopkins,  was  born 
in  1816,  at  Oyster  Bay,  and  died  in  October, 
1901,  in  New  York  City.  His  first  business 
connection  was  with  the  Mechanics  Bank  of 
New  York,  soon  gaining  promotion  to  the 
position  of  paying  teller.  He  subsequently 
engaged  in  the  banking  business  on  his  own 


account,  and  later  was  for  many  years  the 
head  of  the  financial  department  of  A.  T.  Ste- 
wart &  Company,  continuing  with  the  estate 
of  that  merchant  prince  until  his  retirement 
from  activity,  in  1890.  While  earnestly  in 
favor  of  the  avowed  principles  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  he  paid  little  attention  to  public 
afifairs.  He  married,  October  8,  1850,  Au- 
gusta Du  Blois  Haven,  daughter  of  John  Ap- 
pleton  and  Sarah  Sherbourne  (Langdon) 
Haven,  of  New  York  (see  Haven  VI).  They 
were  the  parents  of  eight  children. 

(X)  Eustis  Langdon  Hopkins,  son  of  John 
Milton  and  Augusta  Du  Blois  (Haven)  Hop- 
kins, was  born  November  8,  1863,  in  New 
York  City,  and  attended  the  Wilson  and  Kel- 
logg grammar  school  located  at  Forty-fifth 
street  and  Fifth  avenue,  in  that  city.  He 
traces  line  on  his  father's  side  to  William 
Hopkins  of  Cheselbourne,  England,  whose 
son  Thomas  came  to  this  country  early  in  the 
seventeenth  century  and  settled  at  Oyster  Bay, 
and  on  his  mother's  side  through  the  Apple- 
ton,  Langdon,  Sherburne  and  Haven  families 
back  many  generations  in  a  direct  descent  to 
Thomas  Dudley,  one  of  the  most  noted  of 
the  Colonial  governors  who  was  born  in 
Northamptonshire,  England,  in  1536,  and  who 
came  to  this  country  in  1630.  His  grandfather 
in  the  seventh  generation,  John  Rogers,  was 
president  of  Harvard  College  when  he  died  in 
1723.  His  grandfather  in  the  fifth  generation 
was  Hon.  Woodbury  Langdon,  who  was  a 
delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  1779 
and  1780:  counsellor  from  1781  to  1784; 
president  of  the  New  Hampshire  senate  in 
1784;  judge  of  the  supreme  court  in  1782-83 
and  also  1786  to  1791.  John  Langdon,  Wood- 
bury's brother,  also  rendered  most  distin- 
guished services  to  his  country ;  was  a  dele- 
gate to  the  Continental  Congress  in  1777  and 
while  speaker  of  the  New  Hampshire  as- 
sembly gave  all  his  money ;  pledged  his  plate 
and  subscribed  the  proceeds  of  seventy  hogs- 
heads of  tobacco  for  the  purpose  of  equipping 
the  brigade  with  which  General  John  Stark 
subsequently  defeated  the  Hessians.  He  saw 
active  military  service,  being  present  at  Still- 
water and  Saratoga.  He  was  repeatedly  a 
member  of  the  New  Hampshire  legislature 
and  its  speaker;  was  elected  again  to  con- 
gress in  1783  and  was  delegate  to  the  Conven- 
tion which  framed  the  National  Constitution 
in  1787,  and  in  1789  was  sent  to  the  United 


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States  Senate  of  which  he  was  chosen  presid- 
ing officer  and  in  that  capacity  notified  Gen- 
eral Washington  of  his  election  as  President 
of  the  United  States.  President  Jefferson 
offered  him  the  post  of  Secretary  of  the  Navy, 
which  he  declined.  From  1805  to  1812  with 
the  exception  of  one  year  he  was  governor  of 
New  Hampshire  and  in  1812  was  offered  the 
vice-presidency,  which  he  declined.  E.  L. 
Hopkin's  grandmother  in  the  fourth  genera- 
tion was  Nancy  Eustis,  sister  to  William 
Eustis,  who  was  several  times  governor  of 
Massachusetts,  Minister  to  the  Hague  and 
Secretary  of  War  in  the  War  of  1812.  His 
grandfather,  Henry  Sherburne  Langdon,  in 
the  fourth  generation  was  invited  by  Presi- 
dent Washington  to  become  his  private  secre- 
tary, but  declined  on  account  of  his  youth. 

Eustis  L.  Hopkins  commenced  his  business 
career  with  the  firm  of  Joy,  Langdon  &  Com- 
pany, wholesale  drygoods  commission  dealers, 
of  New  York,  later  becoming  a  partner  in  that 
house  and  so  remaining  until  this  well  known 
firm  retired  from  business  in  1909.  He  then 
became  associated  with  Bliss,  Fabyan  &  Com- 
pany in  the  same  line  of  business.  Mr.  Hop- 
kins is  active  in  various  financial  institutions, 
being  president  and  director  of  the  Hyde 
Realty  Company,  and  also  of  the  Central 
Syndicate  Building  Company ;  a  director  of 
the  German  American  Insurance  Company, 
and  of  the  German  Alliance  Insurance  Com- 
pany. He  is  a  member  of  the  New  York 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  of  the  New  England 
Society  in  New  York,  and  severaj  clubs,  in- 
cluding the  Merchants,  New  York  Yacht, 
Larchmont  Yacht,  Piping  Rock  Country,  and 
Scarsdale  Country.  His  home  is  at  Larch- 
mont, New  York,  of  which  village  he  has  been 
four  terms  president. 

He  married,  in  New  York,  October  15, 
1890,  Elizabeth  Stockwell,  born  in  that  city, 
daughter  of  Levi  S.  and  Jane  R.  (Howe) 
Stockwell,  the  latter  a  daughter  of  Elias  Howe 
Jr.,  inventor  of  the  sewing  machine.  Mrs. 
Hopkins  is  a  member  of  the  Colony  Club,  and 
Colonial  Dames  of  New  York.  Elias  Howe 
was  born  in  Spencer,  Massachusetts,  July  9, 
1819,  and  died  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  Oc- 
tober 3,  1867.  His  struggle  in  perfecting  the 
sewing  machine,  and  in  overcoming  the  en- 
croachments of  those  who  sought  to  enrich 
themselves  out  of  his  invention,  is  a  matter 
of   history.     He   was  a   son   of   Elias   Howe, 


born  at  Howes  Mills,  in  Spencer,  a  son  of 
Elijah  (2)  Howe,  born  in  Spencer,  1768,  son 
of  Elijah  (i)  Howe,  born  in  Southbridge, 
Massachusetts,  December  7,  173 1,  son  of 
Jezaniah  Howe,  born  May  30,  1704,  in  Marl- 
borough, Massachusetts,  son  of  John  Howe, 
born  in  Marlborough,  1682,  whose  father  was 
Isaac  Howe,  born  there  1648,  son  of  John 
Howe,  of  Warwickshire,  England.  The  last 
named  was  a  son  of  John  (2)  Howe,  of  War- 
wickshire, and  grandson  of  John  (i)  Howe, 
of  Hodinhull,  England.  John  (3)  Howe  was 
in  Sudbury,  Massachusetts,  as  early  as  1639, 
and  filled  various  offices  in  that  town.  He 
was  among  the  grantees  of  the  town  of  Marl- 
borough, Massachusetts,  planting  his  first  log 
cabin  near  the  Indian  planting  field,  not  far 
from  the  Springfield  Meeting  House.  For 
many  years  this  spot  was  the  home  of  the 
Howes,  and  here  he  kept  a  tavern  and  enjoyed 
the  good  will  of  the  Aborigines,  who  frequent- 
ly referred  their  disputes  to  him. 

(The  Haven  Line.) 

By  many  descendants  this  name  is  now 
written  Havens.  It  is  quite  a  numerous  fam- 
ily, very  early  planted  in  New  England,  and 
conspicuous  in  the  development  of  various 
points  of  that  section.  It  has  spread  to  west- 
ern states,  and  is  now  found  in  every  section 
of  the  Union.  Wherever  found,  its  repre- 
sentatives are  found  to  be  stanch  supporters 
of  social  and  moral  progress,  and  among  the 
upholders   of   every   uplifting  influence. 

(I)  Richard  Haven  is  supposed  to  have 
been  a  native  of  the  west  of  England,  and 
it  is  probable  that  he  came  to  this  country  in 
1640.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  some 
inducements  were  offered  to  him  to  settle  in 
Boston,  where  he  remained  a  short  time,  but 
he  was  not  satisfied  with  the  conditions  there, 
and  removed  to  Lynn.  Massachusetts,  prob- 
ably about  1644.  His  first  child  recorded  was 
born  in  Lynn  early  in  the  following  year.  His 
farm  was  near  Flax  Pond.  He  was  a  sergeant 
of  the  militia,  and  it  was  voted  in  1692  that 
Sergeant  Haven  and  seven  others  named 
should  sit  in  the  pulpit.  His  will,  made  May 
21,  1701,  was  proved  June  14,  1703,  indicating 
that  his  death  occurred  in  the  latter  year.  His 
wife,  Susannah,  died  February  7,  1682.  Chil- 
dren :  Hannah,  born  February  22,  1645  ;  Mary, 
March  12,  1647;  Joseph,  February  2,  1649; 
Richard,  May  25,  165 1 ;  Susannah,  April  24, 


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1653 ;  Sarah,  June  4,  1655 ;  John,  mentioned 
below;  Martha,  February  16,  1658;  Samuel, 
in  May,  1660;  Jonathan,  January  18,  1662; 
Nathaniel,  June  30,  1664;  Moses,  May  zo, 
1667. 

(II)  John  Haven,  third  son  of  Richard  and 
Susannah  Haven,  was  a  joiner  by  trade,  and 
was  among  the  first  settlers  of  what  is  now 
Framingham,  Massachusetts.  With  his 
brother  Nathaniel,  he  leased  five  hundred 
acres  at  Park's  Corner,  March  23,  1694.  They 
had  occupied  these  lands  as  early  as  1690,  and 
John  Haven's  name  appears  on  the  petition  for 
the  erection  of  the  town  of  Framingham, 
March  3,  1693.  This  town  was  not  chartered 
until  1700,  and  at  the  first  town  meeting  in 
that  year,  he  was  chosen  surveyor  of  high- 
ways. At  the  following  meeting  he  was  made 
a  member  of  a  committee  to  discourse  with 
the  lawyers  about  the  dispute  over  boundary 
with  the  town  of  Sherborn.  He  was  an 
original  member  of  Rev.  Mr.  Swift's  church, 
organized  October  8,  1701.  In  the  previous 
May  he  had  served  on  a  committee  to  inquire 
into  the  qualifications  of  Mr.  Swift,  and  give 
him  a  call.  In  1702  he  was  on  a  committee 
to  seat  the  meeting  house,  and  was  also  select- 
man and  representative  to  the  general  court, 
and  representative  in  the  following  year.  In 
May,  1704,  the  town  voted  to  pay  his  at- 
tendance except  on  Sundays.  His  widow  was 
appointed  to  administer  his  estate,  April  2, 
1705,  and  the  property  was  found  to  include 
one  hundred  and  sixty  pounds  in  real  estate, 
and  two  hundred  and  twenty-six  pounds  per- 
sonal property.  He  married,  in  Lynn,  October 
3,  1682,  Hannah  Hichen,  probably  the  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  Hichen,  who  has  other  children 
recorded  in  Lynn.  She  married  (second) 
July  I,  1712,  John  How.  Children :  John,  born 
June  8,  1683,  in  Lynn;  Elkanah,  resided  in 
Framingham ;  Mary,  married  Nathaniel  John- 
son, of  Sherborn ;  Nathan,  resided  in  Fram- 
ingham, near  the  Hollis  line;  Joseph,  men- 
tioned below;  Hannah,  born  1700,  married 
Benjamin  Burnett,  of  Harwick,  and  lived  in 
Hopkinton. 

(III)  Joseph  Haven,  fourth  son  of  John 
and  Hannah  (Hichen)  Haven,  was  born  in 
1698,  and  settled  in  Framingham,  where  he 
was  an  influential  citizen.  He  was  on  a  com- 
mittee to  defend  titles  and  suit  in  1726;  sur- 
veyor of  highways  in  1732;  selectman  in  1733, 
and  on  a  committee  to  defend  the  claim  of 


Rev.  Swift.  With  his  wife,  he  joined  the 
church,  June  9,  1723,  and  was  a  justice  of  the 
peace  as  early  as  1756.  He  died  February 
■27,  1776,  and  his  will  liberated  a  slave,  and 
also  provided  for  the  manufacture  of  forty 
plain  gold  rings  inscribed  with  his  name,  so 
that  one  might  be  presented  to  each  of  his 
grandchildren.  He  married,  November  30, 
1721,  his  cousin,  Mehitable,  daughter  of  Moses 
and  Mary  Haven,  born  January  30,  1702,  died 
January  28,  1780.  Children:  Mehitable,  born 
September  29,  1722;  Anne,  April  i,  1725; 
Samuel,  mentioned  below ;  Mary,  April  14, 
1730;  Martha,  February  19,  1733;  John,  June 

2,  1735;  Sybillah,  July  18,  1738;  Deborah,  De- 
cember II,  1740;  Sarah,  about  1742,  married 
Joseph  Bixby,  and  died  in  Sharon,  Massachu- 
setts. 

(IV)  Rev.  Samuel  Haven,  D.D.,  eldest  son 
of  Joseph  and  Mehitable  (Haven)  Haven, 
was  born  August  4,  1727,  in  Framingham,  and 
was  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1749. 
He  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  South  Parish 
at  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  May  6,  1752, 
and  continued  his  parishional  labors  for  a 
period  of  fifty-one  years,  retiring  in  1803  on 
account  of  his  age.  He  received  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  the  University 
of  Edinburgh  in  1772,  and  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege conferred  the  same  honor  upon  him  in 
1773.  He  was  very  eminent  as  a  clergyman, 
highly  successful  in  his  labors,  and  died  March 

3,  1806.  He  married  (first)  in  January,  1753, 
Mehitable,  daughter  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Apple- 
ton,  D.D.,  of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  and 
his  wife,  Margaret  (Gibbs)  Appleton,  born 
December  6,  1728,  in  Cambridge,  died  Sep- 
tember 9,  1777.  He  married  (second)  June 
2,  1778,  Margaret,  widow  of  Captain  William 
Marshall,  of  Portsmouth,  born  1745-46,  died 
March  4,  1806,  surviving  her  husband  but  one 
day.  Children  of  first  marriage :  Samuel,  bom 
August  4,  1754;  Joseph,  December  11,  1757; 
Margaret,  August  24,  1759;  Mehitable,  May 
27.  1761  ;  Nathaniel  Appleton,  July  19,  1762; 
Elizabeth,  July  2,  1764:  John,  mentioned  be- 
low; Henry,  June  30.  1768;  William,  July  30, 
1770.  In  addition  to  these,  there  were  two 
that  died  in  infancy.  Children  of  second  mar- 
riage: Joshua,  born  April  2,  1779:  George, 
March,  1781  ;  Thomas,  March  2.  1783;  Mehi- 
table, April  24,  178.S  ;  Charles  Chauncey,  Au- 
gust, 1787;  Mary,  August  7,  1789. 

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Samuel,  D.D.,  and  Mehitable  (Appleton) 
Haven,  was  born  April  8,  1766,  in  Portsmouth, 
and  was  many  years  a  merchant  in  that  city. 
He  married,  in  1791,  Ann  Woodward,  of 
Portsmouth.  Children:  John  Appleton,  men- 
tioned below;  Eliza  Wentworth,  born  1794, 
married  her  cousin,  Nathaniel  Appleton 
Haven;  Adeline,  1795,  married,  in  1830, 
Charles  Augustus  Cheever,  a  noted  physician 
of  Portsmouth;  Mary  Ann,  1798,  was  the  first 
wife  of  Dr.  Cheever,  whom  she  married  in 
1823;  Alfred  Woodward,  1801,  was  an  at- 
torney of  Portsmouth;  Elvira,  1802,  married, 
in  1837,  Dan  R.  Rogers,  a  merchant  of  Ports- 
mouth; Joseph  Woodward,  was  a  merchant  in 
New  York  City;  Augusta,  born  1805,  died 
1826;  Susan  Woods,  1807,  married,  in  1833, 
William  Emerson,  an  attorney  of  New  York- 
City;  George  WalHs. 

(VI)  John  Appleton  Haven,  eldest  child 
of  John  (2)  and  Ann  (Woodward)  Haven, 
was  born  1792,  in  Portsmouth,  and  graduated 
at  Harvard  College  in  18 13.  He  was  for  many 
years  a  successful  merchant  in  New  York 
City.  He  married,  in  1818,  Sarah  Sherburne 
Langdon,  born  May  20,  1802,  daughter  of 
Henry  Sherburne  and  Nancy  (Eustis)  Lang- 
don, of  Portsmouth,  twin  of  Woodbury  Lang- 
don, who  became  a  leading  merchant  and  ship- 
master of  Portsmouth  (see  Langdon  V). 
Children:  Ann  Langdon,  John,  Langdon 
Henry,  Caroline  Eustis,  Augusta  Du  Blois, 
Sarah  Langdon,  Ann  Mary,  John  Appleton, 
Ellen  Eustis,  Olivia  Hamilton,  Grace  Du 
Blois,  Frances  Langdon. 

(The  Langdon  Line.) 
According  to  genealogists  who  have  devoted 
special  research  to  the  subject  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Langdons,  whose  ancestor  was  Tobias 
Langdon,  of  Portsmouth,  are  descended  from 
the  Langdon  family  of  Keverel  in  Cornwall, 
England,  near  St.  Germans.  The  antiquity 
of  this  house  is  indisputable,  its  name  at  the 
conquest  having  been  the  Cornish  one  of  Liz- 
ard. Arms :  Argent,  a  chevron  cotised 
between  three  dogs'  heads,  erased  barways 
sable,  muzzled  of  the  field.  Crest:  On  a 
mount  vert  a  lizard  of  the  last,  gorged  with 
two  bars  or.  The  two  lines  traced  in  the  suc- 
ceeding pages  came  down  from  Hon.  Wood- 
bury Langdon  (1738- 1805,  great-grandson  of 
Tobias  the  ancestor),  who  was  a  member  of 
the  continental  congress  and  of  the  executive 


council  of  New  Hampshire,  and  subsequently 
justice  of  the  superior  court  of  that  state.  He 
was  a  brother  of  the  still  more  distinguished 
Hon.  John  Langdon  (1739-1819),  who  also 
was  a  conspicuous  promoter  of  American  in- 
dependence, and  at  various  times  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  continental  congress,  member  and 
speaker  of  the  New  Hampshire  legislature, 
delegate  to  the  federal  constitutional  conven- 
tion, governor  of  New  Hampshire,  member 
of  the  United  States  Senate,  and  first  presi- 
dent of  that  body.  Others  of  the  Langdon 
family  in  the  lines  here  considered  have  been 
actively  identified  with  public  aft'airs,  and  in- 
deed this  family  has  always  been  one  of  pe- 
culiar civic  prominence  and  usefulness.  It  is 
equally  distinguished  for  its  social  standing 
and  connections,  its  collaterals  including  many 
of  the  most  important  and  interesting  old 
colonial  families. 

(I)  Tobias  Langdon,  the  ancestor,  came 
from  England  and  settled  in  Portsmouth,  New 
Hampshire.  He  died  there  June  27.  1664.  He 
married.  June  10,  1656,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Henry  and  Rebecca  (Gibbons)  Sherburne. 
She  was  born  August  4,  1638.  It  is  supposed 
that  she  was  a  descendant  of  Richard  Sher- 
burne, of  "Stonyhurst,"  who  with  others  of 
the  nobility  and  gentry  was  called  upon  in  the 
year  1543  to  furnish  his  quota  of  arms  and 
men  against  the  Scotch,  was  knighted  May 
II,  1544.  and  married  Maud,  daughter  of  Sir 
Richard  Bold,  Knight  of  Bold  in  the  time  of 
Henry  VIII.,  by  his  wife  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Sir  Thomas  Buller,  knight  of  Bewsey. 
Elizabeth  Sherburne's  father.  Henry  Sher- 
burne, the  emigrant,  born  1612,  died  1681, 
came  in  the  "James,"  June  12,  1632,  settled  in 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  and  married, 
November  13,  1637,  Rebecca,  died  January 
3,  1667,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Ambrose  Gib- 
bons, gentleman,  deputy-governor  of  the 
province  of  New  Hampshire.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lang-don  had  four  children,  of  whom  one  was 
Tobias,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Captain  Tobias  (2)  Langdon,  son  of 
Tobias  (i)  and  EHzabeth  (Sherburne)  Lang- 
don, was  born  in  1660  According  to  the 
"Provincial  Papers  of  New  Hampshire,"  vol. 
II.,  he  was  ensign,  1689-90;  lieutenant,  Sep- 
tpfii'ier  20,  1692;  captain,  September  29,  1696, 
and  justice  of  the  peace,  August  25,  1699.  He 
was  in  active  service  on  the  frontier  during 
Queen   Anne's   war.     He   died   February   20, 


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1725.  He  married,  1686,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Richard  and  Martha  (Allen)  Hubbard.  Rich- 
ard Hubbard,  father  of  Mary  Hubbard,  died 
June  26,  1719.  His  wife,  Martha  Allen,  died 
October  4,  1718,  was  the  daughter  of  William 
and  Ann  (Goodale)  Allen.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Langdon  had  eight  children,  of  whom  the 
youngest  was  John,  mentioned  below. 

(HI)  John  Langdon,  son  of  Captain  Tobias 
(2)  and  Mary  (Hubbard)  Langdon,  was  born 
May  28,  1707,  died  February  27,  1780.  He 
married  Mary  Hall,  of  Exeter,  daughter  of 
Josiah  and  Mary  (Woodbury)  Hall.  Mary 
Hall  died  April  11,  1759.  Her  father,  Josiah 
Hall,  married  Mary  Woodbury,  who  was  born 
August  23,  1689;  he  was  son  of  Captain 
Kingsley  Hall,  born  1652,  died  1736,  who  was 
captain  of  the  train  band,  councillor,  1698,  and 
judge  of  the  supreme  court,  1699;  married, 
September  25,  1670,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Dudley;  he  was  son  of  Ralph  Hall, 
born  1619,  died  March,  1701,  who  settled  in 
Dover,  1650,  removed  to  Exeter,  1664,  was 
lieutenant,    1666,    and    representative    to    the 

general  court,   1680;  married  Mary  ;  he 

was  son  of  John  Hall,  from  Dover,  England, 
who  with  his  children  came  to  America.  Mary 
Woodbury,  wife  of  Josiah  Hall,  was  daughter 
of  Nicholas  Woodbury,  born  July,  1657,  mar- 
ried, June  4,  1684,  Mary  EHott ;  he  was  son 
of  Nicholas  Woodbury,  born  1616,  died  May 
19,  1686,  married  Ann  Palsgrave.  Elizabeth 
Dudley,  wife  of  Captain  Kingsley  Hall,  was 
daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Dudley,  born  1606, 
died  February  10,  1684,  who  came  to  America 
with  his  father  and  married  as  his  third  wife 

Elizabeth    ;    he    was    son    of    Governor 

Thomas  Dudley,  born  in  Northamptonshire, 
England,  1576,  died  July  21,  1653,  who  came 
to  America  in  1630,  served  as  deputy-gov- 
ernor and  governor  of  Massachusetts,  and 
married  Dorothy  Yorke,  born  1582,  died  De- 
cember 27,  1643.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Langdon  had 
six  children,  among  whom  were  ^^'oodbury, 
mentioned  below ;  John,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Hon.  Woodbury  Langdon,  second 
child  and  eldest  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Hall) 
Langdon,  was  born  in  1738,  died  January  13, 
1805.  Excepting  his  brother,  Hon.  John 
Langdon,  he  was  the  most  distinguished  mem- 
ber of  this  family.  He  received  a  good  educa- 
tion for  his  time,  and  previous  to  the  revolu- 
tion acquired  large  wealth  in  mercantile  and 
shipping  enterprises.     In  April,  1774,  he  was 


appointed  a  delegate  from  New  Hampshire, 
to  the  first  continental  congress.  A  consider- 
able portion  of  his  property  was  in  England, 
and  owing  to  the  threatening  situation  of 
aiifairs  it  was  necessary  for  him  to  make  a 
visit  to  that  country  to  protect  his  interests. 
Upon  his  return  in  1777  he  was  detained  for 
a  time  in  New  York  as  a  prisoner-at-large. 
In  his  political  attitude,  however,  he  was  not 
in  sympathy  with  the  radical  element.  In 
April,  1779,  he  was  again  elected  a  delegate 
from  New  Hampshire  to  congress,  and  he  was 
le-elected  in  1780,  serving  until  January  12, 
1781.  Although  subsequently  twice  re-elected, 
and  on  a  third  occasion  appointed  to  fill  a 
vacancy,  he  declined  further  service  in  that 
body.  From  June,  1782,  to  June,  1783,  he 
was  one  of  the  justices  of  the  superior  court 
of  New  Hampshire,  a  position  in  which  he 
also  served  from  1786  to  1791.  By  appoint- 
ment from  President  Washington  he  acted  as 
one  of  three  commissioners  to  settle  the  revolu- 
tionary accounts  between  the  United  States 
and  the  several  states,  and  he  was  at  various 
times  a  councillor  and  member  of  both 
branches  of  the  state  legislature,  on  several 
occasions  being  president  pro  tempore  of  the 
New  Hampshire  senate.  He  declined  num- 
erous appointments  to  office,  including  one 
(1785)  as  brigadier-general  of  militia.  He 
built  a  splendid  residence  in  Portsmouth, 
spending  upon  it  thirty  thousand  in  gold. 
Judge  Langdon  "was  a  man  of  singular  per- 
sonal beauty  and  exquisite  charm  of  manner — 
family  characteristics.  He  is  also  described 
as  open  and  frank,  but  independent,  bold,  keen 
and  sarcastic  *  *  *  He  had  a  strong,  dis- 
criminating mind  and  great  promptness  and 
decision  of  character." 

He  married,  in  Portsmouth,  New  Hamp- 
shire, March  18,  1765,  Sarah  Sherburne,  who 
died  February  7,  1827,  daughter  of  Henry 
and  Sarah  (Warner)  Sherburne.  They  had 
ten  children,  among  whom  were  Henry 
Sherburne,  further  mentioned  below,  and 
Walter.  Henry  Sherburne,  3d,  was  born 
April  4,  1709,  died  March  30,  1767;  he  was 
representative  in  the  New  Hampshire  assem- 
bly many  years,  also  serving  as  speaker,  com- 
missioner to  the  congress  which  met  at  Albany, 
New  York,  in  1754,  councillor,  judge  of  the 
inferior  court;  married,  October  21,  1740, 
Sarah  Warner,  born  March  16,  1721,  died 
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burne,  2d,  born  February  i6,  1684,  died  De- 
cember 29,  1757;  he  was  councillor  and  chief 
justice;  married  Dorothy  Wentworth,  born 
June  2j,  1680,  died  January  3,  1754.  He  was 
son  of  Captain  Samuel  Sherburne,  born  Au- 
gust 4,  1638,  died  August  4,  1691  ;  married, 
December  15,  1668,  Love  Hutchins,  born 
1645,  died  1739.  He  was  son  of  Henry  and 
Rebecca  (Gibbons)  Sherburne.  Sarah 
vVarner,  wife  of  Henry  Sherburne,  3d,  was 
daughter  of  Daniel  Warner,  born  May  20, 
1699,  died  1778,  married,  December  15,  1720, 
Sarah  Hill.  He  was  son  of  Philemon  Warner, 
born  August  i,  1665,  died  May  6.  1741  ;  mar- 
ried, April  27,  1690,  Abigail  Tuttle,  born  Oc- 
tober 7,  1673,  died  September  30,  1756.  Doro- 
thy Wentworth,  wife  of  Henry  Sherburne,  2d, 
was  daughter  of  Samuel  Wentworth,  born 
1640,  died  March  25,  1690;  married  1664, 
Mary  Benning.  He  was  son  of  Elder  Wil- 
liam Wentworth,  died  March  15,  1696;  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Kenny.  Love  Hutchins,  wife 
of  Samuel  Sherburne,  was  daughter  of  John 
Hutchins,  born  1604,  died  1674.  Sarah  Hill, 
wife  of  Daniel  Warner,  was  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel Hill,  born  March  31,  1659-60;  married 
Sarah  Nutter.  He  was  son  of  Valentine  Hill, 
died  1662;  married  Mary  Eaton,  daughter  of 
Governor  Theophilus  Eaton ;  Governor  Eaton 
was  born  in  1590,  died  January  7,  1657;  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Morton,  who  died  in  1659.  Abigail 
Tuttle,  wife  of  Philemon  Warner,  was  daugh- 
ter of  Simon  Tuttle,  died  January,  1692;  mar- 
ried Sarah  Cogswell.  Sarah  Nutter,  wife  of 
Nathaniel  Hill,  was  daughter  of  Anthony 
Nutter,  born  in  1630,  died  February  19,  1696; 
m.arried  Sarah  Langstafif.  He  was  son  of 
Hatevill  Nutter,  born  1603. 

(IV)  Hon.  John  Langdon,  third  child  and 
second  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Hall)  Lang- 
don, was  born  in  Portsmouth,  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  December,  1739,  died  there  Septem- 
ber 18,  1819.  Engaging  in  trade  in  his  native 
place,  he  became  a  successful  merchant.  Early 
in  the  troubles  with  England  he  participated 
actively  in  the  patriotic  cause.  He  was  elec- 
ted a  delegate  to  the  continental  congress  in 
1775,  but  resigned  to  become  navy  agent.  "In 
1777,  while  he  was  speaker  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire assembly,  when  means  were  wanted  to 
support  a  regiment,  Langdon  gave  all  his 
money,  pledged  his  plate,  and  subscribed  the 
proceeds  of  seventy  hogsheads  of  tobacco  for 
the  purpose  of  equiping  the  brigade  with  which 


General  John  Stark  subsequently  defeated  the 
Hessians  at  Bennington."  He  himself  saw 
active  military  service,  being  present  at  Still- 
water and  Saratoga,  and  in  the  operations  in 
Rhode  Island.  He  was  repeatedly  a  member 
of  the  New  Hampshire  legislature  and  its 
speaker,  was  elected  again  to  congress  in  1783, 
was  delegated  to  the  convention  which  framed 
the  national  constitution  in  1787,  became  gov- 
ernor of  New  Hampshire  in  March,  1788, 
and  in  1789  was  sent  to  the  United  States 
senate,  of  which  he  was  chosen  presiding  offi- 
cer, and  in  that  capacity  he  notified  General 
Washington  of  his  election  as  president  of  the 
United  States.  President  Jefferson,  on  tak- 
ing office  in  1801,  offered  him  the  post  of  sec- 
retary of  the  navy,  which  he  declined.  From 
1805  to  1812,  with  the  exception  of  one  year, 
he  was  governor  of  New  Hampshire;  and  in 
1812  he  was  nominated  for  vice-president  by 
the  dominant  party,  but  declined  on  account 
of  his  advanced  age. 

(V)  Henry  Sherburne  Langdon,  son  of  the 
Hon.  Woodbury  and  Sarah  (Sherburne) 
Lang;don,  was  baptized  March  11,  1766.  He 
was  invited  by  George  Washington  to  become 
his  private  secretary,  but  declined  in  defer- 
ence to  his  father,  who  thought  him  too  young 
te  leave  home.  He  married.  May  8,  1792,  in 
Portsmouth,  Nancy  Eustis,  born  April  i,  1771, 
died  March  23,  1818,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
(2)  and  Elizabeth  (Hill)  Eustis  (see  Eustis 
IV).  Among  their  children  were  twins, 
Woodbury  and  Sarah  Sherburne.  The  latter 
became  the  wife  of  John  Appleton  Haven,  of 
Portsmouth  (see  Haven  VI). 

(The  Eustis  Line.) 
(I)  Benjamin  Eustis,  founder  of  this  fam- 
ily, appears  in  Rumney  Marsh  (now  Chelsea), 
Massachusetts,  as  early  as  1659,  and  was  on 
the  tax  list  there  in  1674.  He  was  apparently 
a  modest  and  retiring  citizen,  as  he  does  not 
figure  in  the  records.  He  died  there,  Novem- 
ber 27,  1694,  and  his  estate  was  administered 
m  that  year.  Its  inventory  showed  personal 
property  to  the  value  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty-four  pounds,  and  real  estate  one  hundred 
and  ten  pounds.  His  wife  Sarah,  born  1639, 
died  June  12,  1713,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four 
years.  Their  gravestones  are  in  Charlestown. 
Children  :  John,  born  December  8,  1659  ;  Wil- 
liam, mentioned  below;  Joseph,  November  20, 
1662;  Joshua,  July  11,  1664;  Benjamin,  May 


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17,  1666;  David,  May  31,  1670;  Jonathan, 
1675;  Elizabeth,  July  14,  1678;  Mary,  May 
4,  1682;  Sarah,  married,  September  28,  1699, 
John  Barrett. 

(II)  William  Eustis,  second  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Sarah  Eustis,  was  born  February 
25,  1661,  and  died  February  10,  1737.  He 
married,  October  29,  1688,  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Giles)  Cutler,  born 
November  23,  1666,  died  June  28,  1748.  Chil- 
dren: Benjamin,  mentioned  below;  William, 
born  April  11,  1692;  Sarah,  May  7,  1694; 
Mary,  August  4,  1696;  Ruth,  February  2, 
1698;  Hannah.  May  23,  1699;  Joseph,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1701  ;  Thomas,  November  16,  1703; 
Samuel,  January  2,  1707;  Nathaniel,  December 
16,  1708. 

(III)  Benjamin  (2)  Eustis,  eldest  child  of 
William  and  Sarah  (Cutler)  Eustis,  was  born 
February  20,  1690,  and  died  about  1761.  His 
will  made  January  9  of  that  year,  left  property 
to  sons  George  and  Benjamin.  He  married, 
March  4,  1714,  Katherine,  daughter  of  George 
and  Katherine  (Nicholson)  Ingersol,  born 
1692,  baptized  May  12,  1696.  Children:  Ben- 
jamin, born  December  19,  1714,  died  in  1719; 
George,  April  24,  1718;  Benjamin,  mentioned 
below. 

(IV)  Benjamin  (3)  Eustis,  youngest  son 
of  Benjamin  (2)  and  Katherine  (Ingersol) 
Eustis,  was  born  April  16,  1720,  and  died 
May^  4,  1804.  His  body  was  deposited  in 
Copp's  Hill  Burying  Ground,  in  Boston.  He 
was  a  housewright  by  occupation,  and  was  a 
lieutenant  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artil- 
lery Company  of  Boston,  in  1763.  He  mar- 
ried. May  II,  1749,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Abraham  and  Prudence  (Hancock)  Hill,  born 
1728.  She  died  May  30,  1775,  at  the  age  of 
forty-seven  years.  He  probably  married 
(second)  June  7,  1781,  a  widow,  Elizabeth 
Brown.  Children:  Benjamin,  died  young; 
Benjamin,  born  September  4,  175 1;  William, 
June  10,  1753;  George,  February  8,  1755; 
Abraham,  April  26,  1757  ;  Jacob,  July  24,  1759 ; 
Katherine,  March  18,  1761  ;  Nathaniel,  No- 
vember 4,  1762;  Elizabeth,  died  young;  Eliza- 
beth, May  20,  1766;  Prudence,  March  26, 
1769;  Nancy,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Nancy  Eustis,  youngest  child  of  Ben- 
jamin (3)  and  Elizabeth  (Hill)  Eustis,  was 
born  April  4,  1771,  and  was  married,  May  8, 
1792,  to  Henry  Sherburne  Langdon,  of  Ports- 
mouth, New  Hampshire  (see  Langdon  V). 


The  hereditary  family  name 
STEWART  of  Stewart  and  Stuart  be- 
longs to  the  class  of  what  are 
known  as  occupational  surnames,  but  unlike 
most  occupational  surnames  it  is  aristocratic 
in  its  origin  and  in  its  associations.  A  chief 
ancestor  of  the  family  was  Core,  reigning 
monarch  of  Mononia,  who  figures  as  number 
eighty-nine  on  the  stem  of  the  celebrated  Line 
of  Heber,  and  who  was  married  to  Mong 
Fionn.  daughter  of  Feredach  Fionn  (also 
called  Fionn  Cormac),  King  of  the  Picts. 
Main  Leamhna,  one  of  the  sons  of  the  mar- 
riage, remained  in  Scotland  with  his  grand- 
father, Feredach  Fionn,  who  gave  him  land 
to  inhabit,  called  Leamhain  (anglicised  Len- 
nox), which  his  posterity  enjoyed  ever  since 
with  the  appellation  of  Mor  Mhaor  Leamhna, 
i.  e.  "Great  Steward  of  Lennox ;"  and  at  length 
became  kings  of  Scotland,  and  later  of  Eng- 
land. This  term  Steward  was  the  origin  of 
the  surnames  Stewart  and  Stuart.  The  de- 
scendants of  the  family  formed  a  clan,  which 
through  its  younger  branches  became  very 
numerous,  and  like  other  clans  had  its  dis- 
tinguishing crest,  badge,  (a  thistle),  and  a 
tartan.  It  is  scattered  widely  in  England.  Ire- 
land, Scotland,  Canada,  the  United  States, 
and  throughout  the  British  Empire. 

The  pedigree  of  the  family,  according  to 
ancient  Gaelic  manuscripts,  runs  as  follows, 
after  branching  off  from  the  Line  of  Heber 
89.  Core,  reigning  monarch  of  Munster.  90. 
Main  Leamhna,  his  son.  91.  Donal,  his  son 
92.  Muredach,  his  son.  93.  Alen  (or  Alan) 
the  elder,  first  "Great  Steward  of  Lennox,' 
his  son,  a  quo  Stewart.  94.  Alen,  the  younger 
his  son.  95.  Amhailgadh  (Awley),  the  elder 
his  son.  96.  Awley,  the  younger,  his  son.  97 
Walter,  his  son.  98.  Donagh  or  Doncan  or 
Duncan,  his  son.  "At  this  point,"  relates  the 
Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,  "the  old  Gaelic 
copy  of  the  genealogy  of  this  royal  family  is 
defective,  some  leaves  being  either  torn  or 
worn  out  with  time,  wherein  the  pedigree  (in 
all  likelihood)  was  traced  down  to  the  line  of 
the  writing  of  the  book  some  hundreds  of 
years  past ;  and  no  other  copy  extant  to  sup- 
ply it.  I  am  therefore  necessitated  to  follow 
the  Scottish  writers  where  they  begin  to  take 
notice  of  this  noble  and  princely  family  in  the 
person  of  Bianco,  who  was  lineally  descended 
from  the  above,  named  Donogh  or  Doncan, 
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the  chief  nobihty  of  Scotland,  and  near  kins- 
man to  the  good  king  Duncan,  who  was  mur- 
dered by  the  usurper  MacBeth,  as  were  this 
Bianco  and  all  his  children  except  his  son 
Fleance." 

The  great-grandson  of  Bianco,  who  was 
lineally  descended  from  Duncan,  was  Alen 
Stewart,  who  went  to  the  Holy  Land  with 
Godfrey  of  Boloign,  and  Robert,  Duke  of  Nor- 
mandy, A.  D.,  1099,  where  he  served  with 
much  valor  in  the  effort  to  recover  Jerusalem. 
The  grandson  of  Alan  Stewart  was  Walter 
Stewart,  who  was  in  the  great  battle  of  Largys 
fought  against  the  Danes,  A.  D.,  1263.  John, 
the  grandson  of  Walter,  was  lord  high  steward 
of  Scotland  and  was  one  of  the  six  governors 
of  the  kingdom  during  the  controversy  between 
Robert  Bruce  and  John  Balioll  for  the  crown, 
A.  D.  1292.  Walter,  his  son,  also  lord  high 
steward  of  Scotland,  married  Margery,  only 
daughter  of  Robert  Bruce,  King  of  Scotland, 
on  whom  the  crown  was  entailed  by  Parlia- 
ment upon  the  default  of  male  issue  of  the 
said  Robert  Bruce's  only  son,  David,  which 
happened  accordingly.  Robert  Stewart,  their 
son,  was  A.  D.  1370  under  the  name  of  "Rob- 
ert the  Second"  crowned  King  of  Scotland. 
John  Stewart  was  his  natural  son,  who 
changed  his  name  and  was  crowned  King  of 
Scotland  under  the  title  of  Robert  the  Third. 
James  the  First,  King  of  Scotland,  his  son, 
was  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years  imprisoned 
\n  the  Tower  of  London,  and  remained  there 
a  prisoner  for  about  nineteen  years.  He  was 
murdered  by  the  English  in  1437  when  his  son, 
James  the  Second,  was  only  six  years  old. 
Mary  Stewart  or  Stuart,  Queen  of  Scots, 
daughter  of  James  the  Fifth  of  Scotland,  was 
proclaimed  queen,  A.  D.  1542',  and  beheaded 
by  Queen  Elizabeth  in  1587,  and  her  son, 
James  became  king  of  England.  Like  many 
of  the  leading  Scotch  families  the  Stewarts 
have  been  attributed  a  Norman  origin,  but 
their  Gaelic  extraction  is  unimpeachable. 

The  first  and  principal  seat  of  the  Stewarts 
was  in  Renfrewshire,  but  branches  of  them 
went  into  the  Western  Highlands  and  Perth- 
shire, and  acquiring  lands  there  became  found- 
ers of  distinct  families  of  the  same  name.  Of 
these  the  principal  ones  were  the  Stewarts  of 
Lome  and  the  Stuarts  of  Althole,  from  one 
or  the  other  of  which  all  the  remainder  have 
been  derived.  The  Stewarts  of  Lome  were 
descended  from  a  son  of  John  Stewart,  the  last 


Lord  of  Lome.  From  this  family  sprang  the 
Stewarts  of  Appin,  who  with  Althole  branches 
were  considered  in  the  Highlands  as  forming 
the  clan  Stewart.  The  badge  of  the  Stewarts 
was  the  Oak.  The  reason  the  first  of  the  race 
was  called  Stewart  or  Stuart  was  because  he 
was  Lord  High  Stuart  of  Scotland  to  King 
Robert  the  Bruce. 

(I)  Robert  Stewart,  the  ancestor  of  the  hne 
here  under  consideration,  was  born  in  Appin, 
Scotland,  and  there  his  death  occurred.  He 
married  Jessie  Duncanson,  and  among  his 
children  was  Andrew,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Andrew  Stewart,  son  of  Robert  and 
Jessie  (Duncanson)  Stewart,  was  born  in 
Campbelton,  Scotland,  in  1715,  died  there. 
May  22,  1790.  He  married  Barbara  Mac- 
Vicker,  born  in  1715,  died  February  29,  1799. 
Children:  i.  John,  referred  to  below.  2.  Alex- 
ander, who  was  chaplain  of  the  Forty-second 
Regiment  of  Highlanders,  and  was  stationed 
at  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  where  he  bade  fare- 
well to  his  troops,  January  i,  1785;  after  the 
revolution  he  was  the  minister  at  Kellean, 
buried  at  Cletch ;  his  son  Robert  was  a  lieu- 
tenant in  the  Twenty-eighth  Regiment  of  Foot 
at  the  battle  of  Waterloo,  1815;  he  won  a 
medal  for  bravery,  and  Mrs.  Robert  S.  Gatter, 
his  descendant,  has  in  her  possession  cuff 
buttons  made  of  buttons  from  the  coat  he 
wore  at  the  battle ;  his  brother  James  was  also 
at  the  battle,  serving  as  lieutenant,  and  after- 
wards was  governor-genera!  at  Perth.  3. 
Mary,   settled   in    New   Brunswick.     4.    Ann, 

married Kennedy,  of  Scotland.     5.  Kate, 

married  John  Kelly,  of  Scotland.  6.  Andrew, 
resided  on  farm  at  Peninvie ;  his  descendants 
emigrated  to  this  country.  7.  Robert,  served 
as  quarter-master,  and  his  sons  all  led  a  mili- 
tary life.  8.  David,  major-general  of  Garth, 
governor  of  St.  Lucia  island,  and  author  of 
"Sketches  of  the  Highlanders."  They  were 
called  Park  Stewarts. 

(HI)  John  Stewart,  son  of  Andrew  and 
Barbara  (MacVicker)  Stewart,  was  born  in 
Campbelton,  Scotland,  in  1754,  died  there  in 
April,  1806,  killed  by  a  kick  from  his  horse. 
He  married  Marrion  MacGill,  daughter  of 
Archibald  MacGill,  who  died  in  1814,  and  his 
wife,  Jean  (Smillie)  MacGill,  who  died  in 
1786,  who  were  the  parents  of  five  other  chil- 
dren: I.  Margaret,  married  John  Galbraith ; 
died  in  Bowmanville,  Ontario,  Canada,  and 
left  many  descendants  there.     2.  Janet,  mar- 


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ried  Archie  MacMillan ;  they  died  in  Port 
Hope,  Ontario,  Canada,  leaving  many  de- 
scendants there.  3.  Elizabeth,  married  David 
Stewart,  of  Runneharen,  and  many  of  their 
descendants  reside  in  the  United  States  and 
Canada.  4.  Neil.  5.  Roger;  both  the  latter 
have  descendants  in  United  States  and  Can- 
ada. The  seat  of  the  Guill,  Gill  or  Mac- 
Gill  family  is  in  Hightonshire  and  Hadding- 
tonshire; they  are  a  border  clan,  not  a  High- 
land one,  that  is  on  the  border  between  Eng- 
land and  Scotland.  Marrion  (MacGill)  Ste- 
wart died  in  1838.  Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Stewart:  i.  Barbara  Mc Vicar,  married  John 
Macmichael;  died  December  31,  1863.  2.  Jean 
McVicar,  married  Archie  Wallace ;  died  De- 
cember 23,  1874,  in  New  York  state.  3.  Nancy, 
rfiarried  Archie  MacAUum;  died  December, 
1836.  4.  Elizabeth,  married  Gilbert  MacPhail ; 
died  November  2,  1865,  in  Buffalo,  New  York. 
5.  Andrew,  married  Margaret  Stewart;  died 
December  22,  1844;  buried  in  Old  Town 
Cemetery;  settled  in  Newburgh,  New  York, 
1830.  6.  Mary,  never  married ;  died  January 
13,  1873.  7.  Archibald,  referred  to  below.  8. 
Marrion,  married  John  MacKinley.  9.  Alex- 
ander, married  Catherine  MacGill,  his  cousin, 
daughter  of  Roger  and  Kate  (MacGachey) 
MacGill ;  she  died  March  4,  1895,  aged  ninety- 
two  years,  buried  in  Bowmanville ;  he  emi- 
grated to  the  United  States  and  settled  first 
in  Newburgh,  New  York,  and  later  removed 
to  Bowmanville,  Ontario,  Canada ;  he  died  Oc- 
tober 23,  1877,  aged  eighty-one  years.  10. 
Walter  C,  married  Dr.  John  Smith,  of  Dairy, 
Scotland;  she  died  August  5,  1836,  in  Dairy, 
Scotland;  he  died  February  16,  1854.  11. 
John,  born  April  22,  1800,  died  March  3,  1895, 
at  Hadley,  Lapier  county,  Michigan;  married 
Jennat  Cook,  born  January  22,  1804,  at  South 
Canfin,  Scotland;  died  September  24,  1891, 
at  Lapier  county,  Michigan ;  they  had  eight 
children  and  many  grandchildren,  who  resided 
in  Michigan  and  Canada.  12.  Robert.  13. 
Neil,  drowned  in  the  Mediterranean  sea.  14. 
Barbara,  died  in  infancy.  15.  Jean,  died  in 
infancy. 

(IV)  Archibald  Stewart,  son  of  John  and 
Marrion  (MacGill)  Stewart,  was  born  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Peninvie,  near  Campbelton, 
Argyleshire,  Scotland,  July  26,  1794,  died  in 
Newburgh,  New  York,  August  24,  1881.  buried 
in  St.  George's  Cemetery.  He  spent  his  early 
life  on  the  farm,  and  then  studied  navigation, 


and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years  was  bound 
as  an  apprentice  for  three  years  on  the  brig, 
"Lord  Blen  Tyre,"  sailing  between  Greenock, 
Scotland,  and  the  West  Indies.  After  serving 
his  apprenticeship  he  became  a  master  mariner, 
and  made  his  home  in  Greenock,  and  for 
nearly  fifty  years  was  in  command  of  differ- 
ent vessels  sailing  from  that  port  to  all  parts 
of  the  world.  He  had  an  adventurous  life  and 
was  shipwrecked  several  times.  Once  on 
Governor's  Reef,  Bay  of  Honduras ;  vessel 
lost,  all  hands  saved,  lived  on  turtle  eggs, 
taken  to  Belecse,  France.  His  next  voyage 
was  on  "Earl  of  Buckinghamshire"  for  Bom- 
bay, that  being  the  first  ship  from  the  Clyde 
to  the  East  Indies.  They  were  nearly  lost  at 
Newfoundland,  where  they  encountered  ice 
for  twenty  days.  On  the  17th  of  March  (St. 
Patrick's  Day)  the  people  cut  a  passage 
through  the  ice  and  the  brig  was  hauled  to 
the  dock.  Again  on  the  banks  of  Newfound- 
land a  hurricane  carried  away  one  man  and 
all  the  small  boats,  also  most  of  the  rigging. 
The  captain's  son,  Archibald,  was  found  in 
the  cabin  hanging  on  a  hook  in  the  ceiling  to 
keep  from  drowning.  They  had  been  without 
food  for  three  days ;  they  were  then  rescued 
by  Captain  Hebron,  of  the  barque,  "Ceylon.'' 
who  saw  their  distress  signals  and  took 
them  to  Quebec,  October  2,  1845.  I"  April 
1853,  he  embarked  in  the  ship,  "Adrian,"  for 
America,  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  daugh- 
ter Mary  and  settled  in  Newburgh,  New 
York,  where  he  remained  until  his  death. 

He  married,  in  Scotland,  January  23,  1826, 
Margaret  Leitch,  born  in  Tarbart,  Scotland, 
in  August,  1797,  died  in  Newburgh,  New 
York,  December  26,  1883,  daughter  of  Lach- 
lan  and  Mary  (Barr)  Leitch,  who  were  the 
parents  of  six  other  children,  namely:  i.  Isa- 
bella, died  November  9,  1885,  at  Benton  Har- 
bor,   Michigan ;   married   Joseph    MacDonald. 

2.   Nancy,  married  Ferguson ;  lived  and 

died  in  Newburgh.  3.  Sarah,  married  Arthur 
Lang,  of  Paisley,  Scotland.  4.  Catherine,  mar- 
ried Neil  McNeil,  who  died  July  15,  1856,  in 
Newburgh,  New  York.  5.  Hugh.  6.  John, 
married  Ann  Spooner  Cox,  of  West  Indies, 
born  1795,  died  July  7,  i860;  he  died  Janu- 
ary 5,  1856,  both  buried  in  St.  George's  Ceme- 
tery, Newburgh.  Mary  (Barr)  Leitch  died 
in  New  York  City,  November  12,  1838;  she 
was  the  daughter  of  Duncan  Barr,  born  in 
Kilmichael,  and  his  wife,  Mary   (Campbell) 


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Barr,  a  sister  of  Margaret  Campbell,  the 
mother  of  Thomas  Campbell,  the  Scotch  poet, 
who  died  in  1843  and  is  buried  in  Poet's 
Corner,  Westminster  Abbey.  Children  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Stewart:  i.  John,  born  December 
9,  1827,  died  in  Greenock,  January  25,  1832. 
2.  Lachlan,  referred  to  below.  3.  Archibald, 
born  April  20,  1833,  lost  at  sea  in  the  Irish 
Channel,  January  25,  1846.  4.  Mary  B.,  born 
in  Greenock,  October  23,  1836,  died  in  New- 
burgh,  New  York,  July  7,  191 1  ;  married,  Sep- 
tember I,  1858,  Jesse  Merritt;  two  children: 
Margaret  B.,  wife  of  Isaac  B.  Lozier,  and 
Charlotte  A.,  wife  of  Arthur  M.   Barnes. 

(V)  Lachlan  Stewart,  son  of  Archibald  and 
Margaret  (Leitch)  Stewart,  was  born  in 
Greenock,  Scotland,  November  19,  1830,  died 
in  Newburgh,  New  York,  June  22,  1899,  buried 
at  St.  George's  Cemetery.  He  received  his 
early  education  in  his  native  town,  and  in 
1842  emigrated  to  the  United  States  and  set- 
tled in  Newburgh,  New  York,  living  with  his 
mother's  brother,  John  Leitch,  who  on  De- 
cember 3,  1841,  purchased  what  is  now  the 
Van  Duzer  property.  He  followed  his  trade 
as  a  carpenter  and  builder,  returning  after  a 
time  to  Scotland,  and  in  1848  again  settled  in 
Newburgh,  where  he  followed  his  trade  for 
two  years,  then  removed  to  Virginia,  and  after 
one  year  returned  to  Newburgh  and  purchased 
a  schooner  in  which  he  followed  the  coast- 
wise trade  from  Newburgh  to  Albany,  to  New 
London,  Connecticut,  Long  Island,  and  other 
points.  In  1862  he  sold  his  vessel  and  be- 
came foreman  and  manager  for  Homer  Rams- 
dell  &  Company  in  Newburgh,  remaining  in 
that  position  for  seven  years,  when  he  resigned 
and  engaged  in  ship  building  at  Newburgh, 
and  later  formed  a  partnership  with  Thomas 
G.  Sayre  in  the  lumber  business,  in  which  he 
continued  until  1882  when  he  disposed  of  his 
interests  to  his  son,  Samuel  L.  He  then  pur- 
chased a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
near  Newburgh,  New  York,  now  well  known 
as  "Brookside  Farms,"  which  he  conducted 
with  much  success  as  a  dairy  farm  until  his 
death.  He  was  a  Methodist  in  religion,  and 
prominent  in  church  and  charitable  work.  He 
was  a  Prohibitionist  in  politics. 

He  married,  April  7,  1853,  Julia  Ann  Lyon, 
born  in  Succasunna,  New  Jersey,  December 
6,  1834,  daughter  of  Samuel  Allen  and  Perme- 
lia  Howell  (Cramer)  Lyon  (see  Lyon  V). 
At  the  age  of  eleven  years  her  parents  came  to 


Newburgh,  and  the  girl  was  sent  to  the  pri- 
vate school  of  Miss  Galatian.  In  1858  she 
joined  the  Trinity  Methodist  Church,  and  she 
was  a  member  of  that  congregation  for  more 
than  half  a  century.  Mrs.  Stewart  was  de- 
scended from  a  family  that  had  part  in  the 
early  history  of  this  country,  her  maternal 
grandfather.  Captain  Samuel  Allen,  having 
participated  in  the  battles  of  Princeton,  Tren- 
ton and  Springfield,  during  the  revolutionary 
^var,  and  his  ancestors  included  Captain  Na- 
thaniel Bonnell,  born  in  Elizabeth,  New  Jer- 
sey, 1696,  died  November  18,  1763,  son  of 
Nathaniel  Bonnell,  born  in  Elizabeth,  1670, 
died  there,  September  4,  1736,  son  of  Nathan- 
iel Bonnell,  born  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut, 
1640,  died  in  Elizabeth,  1696,  one  of  the  asso- 
ciators  of  that  town,  who  was  son  of  William 
Bonnell,  born  in  England,  1610.  Another  an- 
cestor was  Isaac  Whitehead,  whose  daughter, 
Susanna,  born  August  5,  1650,  married  Na- 
thaniel Bonnell.  Another  ancestor  was  Rev. 
Abraham  Pierson,  born  in  Yorkshire,  Eng- 
land, died  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  August  9, 
1678.  zA.!!  of  these  ancestors  belonged  to  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  which  organiza- 
tion settled  in  East  Hampton,  Long  Island, 
and  later  Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey.  Mrs. 
Stewart,  who  for  many  years  was  a  member 
of  the  Newburgh  branch  of  the  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union,  and  a  member 
of  Grace  Church  branch  of  the  Woman's 
Foreign  Missionary  Society,  died  in  New- 
burgh, New  York,  May  12,  1913,  buried  in 
St.  George's  Cemetery.  Children  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Stewart:  i.  Julia,  deceased.  2.  Archi- 
bald, deceased.  3.  Anne  S.,  deceased.  4. 
Samuel  Lachlan,  born  August  26,  i860,  now 
living  at  "Brookside  Farms ;"  president  of  the 
Newburgh  Lumber  Company ;  member  of  the 
New  York  State  Dairymen's  League,  the 
Certified  Milk  Dealers'  Association  of  Amer- 
ica, of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  St.  Luke's 
Hospital,  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  in  New- 
burgh, of  the  National  Grange,  charter  mem- 
ber of  Brookside  Grange,  No.  936,  member 
of  New  York  State  Sons  of  American  Revolu- 
tion, Robert  Burns  Society,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks,  Newburgh  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and 
St.  John's  Methodist  Episcopal  Church ;  mar- 
ried, October  24,  1883,  Ida  Case,  daughter  of 


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James  and  Mary  (Duey)  Case,  granddaughter 
of  Elizur  and  Lydia  (Phelps)  Case,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Micah  and  Catherine  Case, 
Micah  Case  having  served  in  the  revolution- 
ary war.  5.  Mary  Amelia,  born  May  20, 
1863;  married  Robert  Smith  Gatter,  referred 
to  below.  6.  Charles  W.,  deceased.  7.  Mar- 
garet J.,  deceased.  8.  Jessie  Eunice,  born  Au- 
gust 6,  1869,  now  living  in  Morristown,  New 
Jersey;  married,  December  8,  1891,  Lewis 
Tooker  Hutton,  son  of  Andrew  Hutton  and 
Joan  (Tooker)  Hutton;  children:  Andrew 
Stewart,  born  November  24,  1898;  Lewis 
Tooker  Jr.,  born  December  29,  1905.  9.  Alice 
E.,  deceased.  10.  John  W.,  deceased.  11. 
Thomas  Wesley,  born  October  17,  1874,  now 
living  in  Newburgh ;  president  of  the  Brook- 
side  Ice  Company;  married,  March  27,  1900, 
Annie  Maharay,  daughter  of  Samuel  Maharay 
and  Louise  (Revil)  Maharay;  child,  Thomas 
Archibald,  born  February  27,   1902. 

The  family  of  which  Robert  Smith  Gatter, 
above  mentioned,  is  a  descendant,  is  of  French 
origin,  the  name  being  originally  spelled  Ga- 
tier. 

(I)  The  first  ancestor  of  the  line  here  under 
consideration  was  Samuel  Gatter,  whose  death 
occurred  in  Boston.  He  married  Deborah 
Garrison,  daughter  of and  Phebe  (Pauld- 
ing) Garrison.  She  died  at  Garrison,  New 
York,  in  1792. 

(H)  John  Gatter,  son  of  Samuel  Gatter, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  February  i,  1791, 
died  there,  February  18,  i860.  Married  Mary 
Burns,  born  February  i,  1801,  in  New  York 
City,  died  there,  June  11,  1880.  Children: 
I.  Mary,  born  May  26,  1818:  married  Augus- 
tus Conover.  2.  Elizabeth  D..  born  July  11, 
1820;  married  Charles  E.  Risley.  3.  Emily 
E.,  born  April  21,  1822;  married,  April  21, 
1854,  Zebediah  Dewey.  4.  John  Garrison,  re- 
ferred to  below.  5.  George  Washington,  born 
April  13,  1827 ;  married  Elizabeth  Mathews. 
6.  Charles  Edwin,  born  June  ly.  183 1  ;  mar- 
ried, September  27,  1852,  Sarah  McCord.  7. 
Robert  Smith,  born  September  21,  1834;  re- 
siding in  Vermont.  8.  Selina  Adelaide,  born 
October  26,  1843;  married  Arthur  Ranney, 
living  in  Poultney,  Vermont. 

(HI)  John  Garrison  Gatter,  son  of  John 
Gatter,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  May  22, 
1824,  died  June  6,  1895,  buried  in  Evergreen 
Cemetery,  Brooklyn.  He  married,  May  13, 
1850,  Esther  Ann  Davis,  daughter  of  Richard 


and  Mary  G.  (Beebe)  Davis,  who  were  mar- 
ried December  25,  1824,  and  whose  children 
we£e2J.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  September  19, 
1825 ;  married,  June  8,  1844,  John  K.  Oakley. 
2.  William,  born  1826.  3.  William  James, 
born  December  30,  1828;  married  Susan  Os- 
borne. 4.  Esther  Ann,  born  in  Oyster  Bay, 
Long  Island,  February  25,  183 1,  married  John 
G.  Gatter,  above  mentioned.  5.  Richard  R., 
born  February  11,  1834,  died  August  26,  1854. 
6.  John  Wright,  born  February  10,  1836;  mar- 
ried, January  10,  1858,  Clarinda  B.  Lewis. 
7  Hannah  Bethia,  born  November  6,  1839, 
died  December  25,  1865.  8.  Jerusha  Grant, 
born  October  19,  1841,  died  June,  1855.  9. 
George  Washington,  born  April  19,  1844.  10. 
Susan  Lucretia,  born  September  2,  1846:  mar- 
ried Charles  Clark.  Richard  Davis,  the  father 
of  these  children,  was  born  March  17,  1801, 
in  Oyster  Bay,  died  September  30,  1846,  and 
his  wife,  Mary  G.  (Beebe)  Davis,  was  born 
May  31,  1804,  in  Greenport,  Long  Island, 
died  March  31,  1858,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Beebe,  of  New  London,  Connecticut,  and  his 
wife,  Bethia  (Conkling)  Beebe,  the  latter 
named  born  in  Greenport,  Long  Island,  died 
in  East  Marion,  Long  Island,  1859,  and  a 
granddaughter  of  Amon  Beebe  and  Annie 
(Arnold)  Beebe.  Richard  Davis  was  a  son 
of  William  Davis,  born  February  20,  1763, 
died  December  24,  185 1,  and  Hannah 
(Wright)  Davis,  born  1765,  died  January  4, 
1838,  whom  he  married,  February  26,  1791, 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  the  following 
named  children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  July  4, 
1795,  died  February  22,  1876;  married,  June 
5,   1818,  Richard  Smith.     2.  Wright,  married 

Sarah  Smith.    3.  William,  married  Grace . 

4  Rebecca,  married  John  Smith.  5.  Richard, 
aforementioned.  6.  Susan.  7.  Daniel  Wright, 
half-brother.  William  Davis  was  a  son  of 
William  Davis,  born  in  England,  1725,  died 
in  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island,  1821;  married 
Jerusha  Tappan,  born  1745.  died  August  28, 
1808,  and  their  children  were:  i.  John,  born 
June  20,  1762.  2.  William,  aforementioned. 
3.  Mary,  born  September  14,  1767,  died  Sep- 
tember 29,  1806.  4.  A  son,  born  February 
8,  1770,  died  February  8,  1770.  5.  Susanna, 
born  March  16,  1771.  6.  Amy,  born  January 
8,  1774.  7.  James,  born  May  11,  1776.  8. 
Keturah,  born  December  29,  1778.  9.  Eliza- 
beth, born  October  17,  1780,  died  January  3, 
1806.      ID.    Phebe,   born   December    12,    1783. 


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II.  Jerusha,  born  June  7,  1786,  died  January 
8,  1824.  William  Davis  was  a  son  of  Joel 
and  Sarah  (Dodge)  Davis.  Among  the  chil- 
dren of  John  G.  and  Esther  Ann  (Davis) 
Gatter  was  Robert  Smith,  referred  to  below. 
(IV)  Robert  Smith  Gatter,  son  of  John 
Garrison  and  Esther  Ann  (Davis)  Gatter, 
was  born  in  Staten  Island,  New  York,  April 
7,  1865.  He  was  a  manufacturing  jeweler 
and  diamond  merchant  in  New  York  City. 
He  married,  September  19,  1889,  Mary  Ame- 
lia, daughter  of  Lachlan  and  Julia  A.  (Lyon) 
Stewart  (see  Stewart  V).  Child,  Lachlan 
Stewart,  born  November  26,  1890;  educated 
at  Newburgh  Academy,  and  Princeton  Uni- 
versity, from  which  he  graduated  in  the  class 
of  1912,  now  a  civil  engineer. 

(The  Lyon  Line.) 
(I)  Henry  Lyon,  the  founder  of  the  family 
in  this  country,  was  born  in  Scotland,  died  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  1703.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  family  of  Lyon  of  Glen  Lyon, 
Perthshire,  Scotland,  and  emigrated  to  Amer- 
ica in  1648  with  his  brothers,  Thomas  and 
Richard.  The  three  brothers  had  been  soldiers 
in  Cromwell's  army,  and  were  on  guard  before 
the  Banqueting  House  at  Whitehall,  January 
31,  1648,  when  Charles  the  First  was  executed. 
Immediately  afterwards  they  fled  to  America, 
and  Henry  settled  first  in  Milford,  Connecti- 
cut, where  he  is  first  on  record,  February  24, 
1642,  when  he  was  admitted  to  the  church. 
On  his  marriage  in  1652  he  was  granted  a 
house  lot  in  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  and  on 
May  28,  1654,  he  was  dismissed  from  the 
Fairfield  Church  to  the  Milford  Church.  In 
1666  he  settled  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  as 
one  of  the  founders  with  the  Milford  colon- 
ists. He  was  the  first  treasurer  of  Newark, 
166B-73,  and  first  keeper  of  the  ordinary.  In 
1673-74  he  removed  to  Elizabethtown,  where 
he  owned  large  tracts  of  land  and  was  a  mer- 
chant of  extensive  interests.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  general  assembly,  November  5, 
1675  ;  was  appointed  justice  of  the  peace,  Au- 
gust II.  1681  ;  was  made  judge  of  small  causes, 
February  4,  1681  ;  a  member  of  the  governor's 
council,  February  28,  1681  ;  commissioner.  De- 
cember, 1683;  representative  in  council  of  the 
governor,  November  26,  1684.  Among  his 
lands  was  one  hundred  acres  of  upland,  since 
known  as  "Lyon's  Farms."    He  removed  from 


Elizabethtown  to  Newark  in  1696,  and  re- 
mained there  until  his  death. 

He  married  (first)  in  1652,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  William  Bateman,  of  Fairfield, 
Connecticut,    and     (second)     1669-70,    Mary 

.       Children,    eight    by    first    marriage : 

Thomas,  referred  to  below ;  Mary,  born  1654- 
55;  Samuel,  born  1655-56,  married  (first) 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Zopher  and  Sarah  (Piatt) 
Beach,  and  (second)  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Mary  (Harrison)  Pierson ;  Jo- 
seph, born  1658-59;  Nathaniel,  born  1663-64; 
John,  born  1665-66;  Benjamin,  born  in  New- 
ark, 1668;  Ebenezer,  born  in  Newark,  1670; 
Mary,  born  in  Elizabethtown,  1690-91 ;  Dor- 
cas, born  in  Elizabethtown,   1692-93. 

(II)  Thomas  Lyon,  son  of  Henry  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Bateman)  Lyon,  was  born  in  Fairfield, 
Connecticut,  in  1652-53.  He  removed  to  New 
Jersey  with  his  father.    He  married  Elizabeth 

,  and  among  his  children  was  Thomas, 

referred  to  below. 

(III)  Thomas  (2)  Lyon,  son  of  Thomas 
(i)    and    Elizabeth    Lyon,    married    Hannah 

,  and  among  his  children  was  Thomas, 

referred  to  below. 

(IV)  Thomas  (3)  Lyon,  son  of  Thomas 
(2)  and  Hannah  Lyon,  married  Temperance 
Baldwin;    children:    Moses,    married    Esther 

,  born  1758,  died  December  28,   1843; 

Stephen,  born  1754,  died  November  5,  1845, 
and  his  wife,  Nancy  (Bedford)  Lyon,  born 
1759,  died  February  4,  1821  ;  Enos,  born  Jan- 
uary 4,  1761,  died  September  23,  1830,  mar- 
ried Naomi  Jones,  born  May  15,  1767,  died 
September  6,  1845,  lived  at  Jones  Point.  Rock- 
land county.  New  York;  Elijah,  born  March 
17,  1763,  died  February  24,  1828.  and  his  wife, 
Phebe,  born  1765,  died  February  i,  1822; 
John,  referred  to  below. 

(V)  John  Lvon,  son  of  Thomas  (3)  and 
Temperance  (Baldwin)  Lyon,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 13,  1765,  died  May  10,  1813,  in  Jeflfer- 
son  Village,  now  Maplewood.  New  Jersey. 
He  married.  March  4,  1802.  Elizabeth  Medlas 
Allen,  born  November  4,  1780,  died  December 
IQ,  1854,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hannah 
(Beach)  Allen.  Samuel  Allen,  born  Novem- 
ber 27,  1751,  died  December  15,  1828;  married, 
July  4.  177Q.  Hannah  Beach,  born  October  29, 
1761,  died  March,  1852.  Samuel  Allen  served 
during  the  revolutionary  war  in  a  Morris 
county  regiment  as  ensign,  artificer  and  cap- 
tain, and  took  part  in  the  battles  of  Princeton, 


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Trenton  and  Springfield.  Samuel  Allen  was 
a  son  of  Aaron  Allen,  born  in  Hanover,  New 
Jersey,  died  1766;  married,  March  28,  1750, 
at  South  Hanover,  New  Jersey,  Abigail  Bon- 
nel,  born  November  17,  1735,  died  June  10, 
1824.  Aaron  Allen  was  a  son  of  Jacob  Allen, 
born  1702,  died  March  29,  1779;  married,  as 

his  second  wife.   Naomi  ,   died  March 

9,  1784,  aged  seventy  years.  Jacob  Allen  was 
a  son  of  Ralph  Allen,  died  1698;  married 
Esther  Swift,  died  1691.  Ralph  Allen  was 
a  son  of  George  Allen,  died  1648;  married 
Catherine ,  born  1605,  died  1656.  Chil- 
dren of  John  and  Elizabeth  M.  (Allen)  Lyon: 
I.  Samuel  Allen,  referred  to  below.  2.  Sarah 
Bonnel,  born  July  2y ,  1805,  died  September 
7,  1823;  married  Aaron  Tompkins,  drowned 
at  Newark,  September  9,  1843,  forty-two 
years  old,  son  of  Zibe  and  Louise  Tompkins. 
3.  Dr.  Isaac  Watts,  born  July  12.  1807;  mar- 
ried Julia  Parcels.  4.  Charlotte  Sayre.  born 
September  9,  1811,  died  November  27,  1831  ; 
married  Zibe  Tompkins,  son  of  Zibe  and 
Louise  Tompkins. 

(VI)  Samuel  Allen  Lyon,  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  M.  (Allen)  Lyon,  was  born  in  Jef- 
ferson Village,  New  Jersey,  May  5,  1803,  died 
April  7,  1848,  in  Newburgh,  New  York, 
buried  in  St.  George's  Cemetery.  He  removed 
from  New  Jersey  to  Newburgh,  May  i,  1845 
He  married,  January  i,  1829,  Permelia  How- 
ell Cramer,  born  February  14,  1810.  at  Schoo- 
ley's  Mountain,  New  Jersey,  died  in  New- 
burgh, New  York,  June  4,  i860,  daughter  of 
Abraham,  born  December  25,  1779,  buried  in 
Mt.  Olive,  Hackettstown,  New  Jersey,  and 
Rachel  (Moors)  Cramer,  born  March  26. 
1781.  and  granddaughter  of  Morris  or  Mor- 
ritz  and  Experience  ( Harris )  Cramer,  who 
came  to  New  York  in  1710  with  the  second 
Palatine  emigration.  Abraham  and  Rachel 
Cramer,  married  June  9,  1802.  were  the  pa- 
rents of  eleven  children,  namely:  i.  Archibald, 
born  July  23,  1803,  died  May  7,  1883,  married 
Margaret  Stephens.  2.  Mary  Ann,  born  De- 
cember 15.  1804,  died  May  22.  1876;  married 
Ezra  S.  Gardner,  October  17,  1831.  3.  Eliza- 
beth, born  June  27,  1806;  married  Jacob  Lau- 
merson.  4.  William  Moors,  born  October  18. 
1807,  died  May  2,  1884:  married  Harriet 
Brown.  5.  Jane  C,  born  May  6.  181 1,  died 
May  7,  1895 :  married  Jacob  Smith.  6.  Per- 
melia Howell,  aforementioned.  7.  Clarissa 
R.,   born    April    15,    1813:    married    John    L. 


Schuyler.  8.  Abraham,  Jr.,  born  February 
28,  1815,  died  August  28,  1895;  married  Mary 
Taylor.  9.  Nelson,  born  April  7,  1817,  died 
January  15,  1899;  married  Catherine  Ann  Yet- 
man.  10.  i\Iarinda,  born  July  27,  1819,  died 
February  8,  1821.  11.  Lewis  Putnam,  born 
December  3,  1826.  died  April,  1894;  married 
Charity  Manderville.  Children  of  Air.  and 
Mrs.  Lyon:   i.  John  Wesley,  born  August  3, 

1830,  died  December  13,  1890;  he  conducted 
an  undertaking  business  in  New  York ;  mar- 
ried, August  8,  1850,  Hannah  Compton.  2. 
Rev.    Charles    Wesley,    born    November    15. 

183 1,  died  December  20,  1900;  was  a  minister 
of  the  New  York  East  Conference  of  the 
Methodist  church;  married,  May  9,  i860, 
Eunice  Smith.  3.  Julia  Ann,  born  December 
6,  1834,  died  May  12,  1913;  married  Lachlan 
Stewart  (see  Stewart  V).  4.  William  Henry, 
born  July  14,  1841,  died  January  30,  1900; 
was  a  jeweler,  conducting  "business  on  Water 
street,  Newburgh ;  married,  September  4. 
1867,  Alice  Penoyer.  5.  James  Nelson,  born 
February  5,  1844,  died  February  18,  1848. 


The  family  name  of  Dix  bears  the 
DIX  same  significance  as  the  name  Dicks 
or  Dickens,  the  final  letter  "s"  being 
the  contraction  of  "son."  meaning  the  son  of 
Dick,  or  of  Richard.  Dick,  the  famihar  ab- 
breviation of  Richard,  is  thought  to  be  de- 
rived from  the  Dutch  word  "dyck,"  or  "dijck." 
a  bank  or  dyke,  mound  or  ditch  of  earth,  sand 
or  stones  reinforced,  thrown  up  to  prevent 
low  land  in  Holland  from  being  inundated  by 
the  sea  or  river.  The  reason  for  including 
the  meaning  "ditch"  in  connection  with  mound 
is  because  in  the  act  of  creating  a  barrier,  or 
in  diking,  a  ditch  is  created  at  the  self-same 
time ;  but  the  intention  being  to  create  a  wall 
of  earth,  chief  thought  is  therefore  directed 
to  that  significance  of  the  word.  Based  ac- 
cordingly on  this  idea  of  the  name's  deri- 
vation, the  conclusion  cannot  be  otherwise 
than  that  this  family,  before  coming  to  Amer- 
ica, dwelt  near  a  dyke  in  Holland,  in  the  low- 
lands as  they  are  called,  undoubtedly  along 
the  coast. 

The  same  family  name  is  found  in  the  spell- 
ings Dix,  Dikx,  Diks,  Dicks.  Dyck,  Dyk,  Dijck 
and  Dyke,  in  this  and  other  countries,  and 
some  families  in  America  show  that  they  came 
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employing  the  prefix  "van"  or  "von,"  as  in  the 
family  name  Van  Dyke. 

The  Dix  coat-of-arms.  of  the  Amsterdam 
family  is  as  follows :  D'azur  a  trois  tetes  et 
cols  de  cygne  d'argent,  accompagne  de  deux 
roses  d'or  en  fiancs.  The  arms  of  the  Harlem 
line  is  as  follows :  D'or  a  la  fasce  d'azur,  ac- 
compagne de  trois  corneilles  de  sable,  souvent 
ecarteie  de  gules  au  chevron,  accompagne  en 
chef  de  deux  etoiles  et  en  pointe  d'un  croissant 
tourne,  let  tout  d'or.  Crest :  Une  corneille  de 
sable  entre  un  vol  d'or  et  d'azur.  The  signifi- 
cance of  the  above  description  is  this :  Upon 
a  blue  field  (shield),  three  heads  and  collars 
of  a  swan  in  silver,  between  two  golden  roses 
at  the  sides.  Crest :  A  black  crow  between 
two  wings  conjoined  of  gold  and  blue. 

Four  distinct  branches  of  the  Dix  family 
were  started  in  America  in  early  times.  These 
were  the  lines  instituted  by  Leonard  Dix,  of 
Wethersfield,  Connecticut ;  Anthony  Dix,  of 
Plymouth,  Massachusetts ;  Edward  Dix  ,  of 
Watertown,  Massachusetts,  and  the  Dix  fam- 
ily of  Accomac  county  in  Virginia,  It  is  not 
known  that  anybody  has  succeeded  in  reliably 
demonstrating  the  relationship.  Undoubtedly 
they  were  connected  in  a  generation  or  two 
just  previous  to  any  one  of  them  coming  to 
this  country. 

(I)  Anthony  Dix  was  the  progenitor  of  this 
particular  family  line  in  America.  He  set  sail 
in  the  good  ship  "Ann,"  and  landed  at  Ply- 
mouth, Massachusetts,  in  1623.  He  was  ad- 
mitted as  a  freeholder  in  that  town  in  163 1. 
He  followed  the  calling  of  a  sea  captain,  and 
had  thrilling  experiences  which  would  have 
made  entertaining  reading  if  he  had  kept  a 
diary  of  his  adventures,  such  as  his  chase  and 
capture  by  Bull,  the  famous  pirate,  in  1632. 
In  the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  moved  from 
Plymouth  to  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and  was 
drowned  in  a  wreck  off  Cape  Cod,  December 
15,  1636.    His  wife  was  named  Tabitha. 

(II)  Ralph  Dix,  son  of  Anthony  and  Ta- 
bitha Dix,  was  born  at  either  Plymouth  or 
Salem ;  but  became  one  of  the  early  settlers 
of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts.  At  a  time  when 
nearly  every  inhabitant  of  the  little  village 
owned  his  smack  and  was  a  fisherman,  he  also 
followed  that  calling.  He  removed  to  Read- 
ing, Massachusetts,  in  1662,  where  he  died, 
September  24,  1688.  His  wife  was  named 
Esther.     Children :  John,  see  forward ;  Sam- 


uel, born  in  1661 ;  Stephen,  born  in  1664,  died 
1672;  Stephen,  born  in  1672;  Sarah. 

(HI)  John  Dix,  son  of  Ralph  and  Esther 
Dix,  was  born  at  Ipswich,  Massachusetts, 
March  12,  1658,  and  died  at  Reading,  Massa- 
chusetts, May  12,  1745.  He  removed  from 
Ipswich  to  Reading  with  his  father  when  three 
years  old,  and  being  the  oldest  child,  inherited 
the  homestead  at  the  latter  place,  where  he 
continued  to  reside  throughout  his  life.  John 
Dix    married    (first)    June    30,    1692,    Lydia 

;  by  whom  he  had  five  children,  and  she 

died  June  9,  1699.  He  married  (second)  in 
May,  1700,  Anna,  widow  of  Joseph  Fitch ; 
by  whom  he  had  six  children.  Children :  John, 
born  and  died  in  1693;  Lydia,  born  and  died 
in  1693;  Lydia,  born  in  1695,  died  in  1709; 
Sarah,  born  in  1697;  Elizabeth,  born  in  1699; 
Anna,  born  in  1702;  Samuel,  born  in  1705; 
Mary,  born  in  1708;  Jonathan,  see  forward; 
James,  born  in  1712;  Edson,  born  in  1715. 

(IV)  Jonathan  Dix,  son  of  John  and  Anna 
(Fitch)  Dix,  was  born  at  Reading,  Massachu- 
setts, April  II,  1710,  and  died  at  the  residence 
of  his  son,  in  Boscawen,  New  Hampshire,  De- 
cember 24,  1804.  He  was  on  record  as  a 
member  of  the  Congregational  church  for 
more  than  seventy-five  years.  Although  born 
at  Reading,  Massachusetts,  before  removing 
to  Boscawen  he  lived  some  time  at  Littleton, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  followed  the  calling 
of  a  tanner.  Jonathan  Dix  married  (first) 
June  28,  1739,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Rev.  Benja- 
min Shattuck,  of  Littleton,  Massachusetts,  and 
Martha  (Sherman)  Shattuck,  first  cousin  of 
Roger  Sherman.  She  died  there,  September 
30,  1775,  aged  fifty-five  years,  nine  months 
and  seventeen  days.  He  married  (second) 
March  17,  1779,  Miriam  Leland  (or  Knee- 
land),  of  Harvard,  Massachusetts,  who  died 
there  about  1829,  aged  nearly  ninety  years. 
He  had  thirteen  children  by  the  two  marriages. 

(V)  Timothy  Dix,  son  of  Jonathan  and 
Sarah  (Shattuck)  Dix,  was  born  at  Boscawen, 
New  Hampshire,  December  7,  1743,  and  died 
in  1824.  He  settled  at  Boscawen,  where  he 
was  postmaster  for  many  years ;  but  removed 
to  Pembroke,  New  Hampshire,  where  he  died, 
June  27,  1824.  Timothy  Dix  married  (first) 
August  13,  1769,  Rachel  Burbank,  of  Concord, 
New  Hampshire,  who  died  April  13,  1793;  by 
whom   two   children.      He   married    (second) 

Mrs.  Brown,  of  Boscawen ;  no  issue. 

He  married   (third)   Mrs.  Eliza  Cunningham, 


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of  Pembroke,  New  Hampshire ;  no  issue. 
Children :  Timothy,  see  forward ;  Josiah 
Brown,  died  in  youth. 

(VI)  Colonel  Timothy  (2)  Dix,  son  of 
Timothy  (i)  and  Rachel  (Burbank)  Dix,  was 
born  at  Boscawen,  New  Hampshire,  August 
16,  1770,  and  died  at  French  Mills,  Canada 
East,  November  14,  1813.  He  was  a  select- 
man, and  member  of  the  New  Hampshire  leg- 
islature, 1801-04.  As  a  citizen  he  was  regarded 
as  one  of  the  most  enterprising  of  that  place. 
He  was  a  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Fourteenth 
Regiment  of  United  States  infantry,  and  died 
of  fever  on  the  Canadian  frontier  while 
fighting  in  the  war  of  1812.  Colonel  Timothy 
Dix  married  (first)  March  20,  1792,  Abigail 
Wilkins,  and  she  died  December  3,  1808.  Her 
father  was  a  captain  in  the  provincial  service, 
and  was  killed  at  Quebec  during  General 
Montgomery's  campaign.  By  this  marriage  he 
had  nine  children.     He  married  (second)  July 

3,  1809,  Lucy  Dix  Hartwell,  his  cousin,  by 
whom  he  had  three  children.  Children:  i. 
Abigail  Wilkins,  born  November  19,  1792,  died 
May  9,  1852;  married,  October  i,  1818,  Gen- 
eral Moody  A.  Pillsbury,  of  Boscawen.  2. 
Rachel  Burbank,  born  April  18,  1794,  died  at 
Malta,  Italy,  January  15,  1827;  married.  De- 
cember 4,  1821,  Rev.  Daniel  Temple,  of  Read- 
ing, Massachusetts ;  were  missionaries  at 
Malta,  whither  they  sailed  from  America  on 
January  2,  1822.  3.  Timothy  Fuller  Shattuck, 
born  February  11,  1796,  died  October  16,  1806. 

4.  John  Adams,  see  forward.  5.  Sophia  Wil- 
kins. born  May  i,  1800,  died  at  Portland, 
Maine,  January  26,  1865 ;  married,  December 
25,  1828,  Joshua  C.  Plummer,  of  Boscawen, 
New  Hampshire.  6.  Marion  Means,  born 
April  17, 1802,  died  at  Brookline,  Massachusetts, 
July,  i860;  married,  December  15,  1825,  John 
W.  Sullivan.  7.  Lucy  Jane,  born  April  8,  1804, 
died  at  Bradford,  Pennsylvania,  February  9, 
1858;  married  (first)  May  31,  1826,  Philip 
H.  Webster,  of  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  a  mer- 
chant at  Danbury,  who  died  December  7, 
1830;  married  (second)  June  30,  1837.  Col- 
onel Leavitt  C.  Little,  formerly  of  Boscawen, 
but  later  of  Bradford,  Pennsylvania.  8. 
Louisa  Frances,  born  July  22,  1806;  married 
(first)  November  25,  1852,  General  Moody  A. 
Pillsbury,  of  Boscawen;  married  (second) 
December  29,  187 1,  Rev.  Edward  Buxton,  of 
Webster,  New  Hampshire.  9.  Martha  Sher- 
man, born  October  16.  1808.  died  January  11, 


1809.  10.  Lieutenant  Roger  Sherman,  born 
June  7,  18 10,  died  at  Hillsborough,  Pennsyl- 
vania, January  7,  1849;  breveted  lieutenant- 
colonel  for  gallantry  at  the  battle  of  Buena 
Vista;  married,  July  7,  1835,  Mrs.  Mary  Bean 
Johnson.  11.  Timothy  Brown,  born  January 
21,  1812,  died  February,  1881  ;  married,  De- 
cember, 1847,  Caroline  L.  Gibbs ;  by  whom: 
Florence,  Evelyn,  Roger  Sherman,  born  De- 
cember 10,  1861.  12.  Catherine  Hartwell,  born 
May  19,  1813;  married,  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
Hon.  John  A.  Bolles,  LL.D.,  of  Boston. 

(VII)  Governor  John  Adams  Dix,  son  of 
Colonel  Timothy  (2)  and  Abigail  (Wilkins) 
Dix,  was  born  at  Boscawen,  New  Hampshire, 
July  24, 1798.  and  died  in  New  York  City,  April 
21,  1879.  \\'hen  ten  years  of  age  he  was  placed 
under  the  tuition  of  Rev.  Dr.  Wood,  an  expert 
in  training  the  youth  of  New  Hampshire  in 
classical  studies.  The  next  year  he  was  sent 
to  the  Salisbury  Academy,  of  which  the  emi- 
nent topographical  United  States  engineer, 
Colonel  Long,  was  preceptor.  In  1810  he  was 
a  student  at  Exeter  Academy,  during  the  presi- 
dency of  Rev.  Dr.  Abbott.  In  181 1  his  father 
sent  him  to  college  in  Montreal,  the  better  to 
acquire  French,  and  there  he  remained  until 
July  of  1812,  when  all  Americans  were  or- 
dered to  leave  Canada,  hence  he  studied  with 
tutors  in  Boston. 

He  was  first  commissioned  in  the  army  as  a 
cadet,  December,  1812,  and  ordered  to  report 
to  his  father,  who  was  engaged  in  raising  the 
Fourteenth  Regiment  of  Infantry  in  Maryland, 
and  in  1813  was  made  an  ensign.  During  the 
war  of  1812  he  participated  in  the  engage- 
ments on  the  Canadian  frontier.  Afterwards, 
he  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  Washington,  D.  C.  He  was  sent  as  a  spe- 
cial messenger  to  the  court  of  Denmark,  in 
1826,  and  remained  a  time  abroad.  His  resig- 
nation from  the  army  occurred  in  1828,  and 
thereupon  he  practiced  law  at  Cooperstown, 
New  York. 

He  was  appointed  adjutant-general  of  New 
"S'ork  state  in  1830,  and  was  chosen  secretaiy 
of  state  in  1833.  At  this  time  he  was  promin- 
ently identified  with  the  famous  "Albany  Re- 
gency,'* then  the  controlling  power  of  Democ- 
racy in  the  country.  He  was  elected  to  the 
Assembly  in  1841,  and  in  1845  "^^'^s  made 
United  States  Senator  to  fill  the  vacancy  cre- 
ated when  Hon.  Silas  Wright  resigned  to  be 
governor  of  New  York.    He  served  as  senator 


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until  1849.  President  Buchanan  made  him 
secretary  of  the  United  States  Treasury  in 
1861.  There  were  at  this  time  two  revenue 
cutters  at  New  Orleans,  and  he  ordered  them 
tc  proceed  to  New  York,  but  the  captain  of 
one  refused  to  obey,  and  Dix  telegraphed  to 
place  him  under  arrest,  treating  him  as  a 
mutineer  if  he  resisted.  To  the  order  Dix 
added  the  message:  "If  anyone  attempts  to 
haul  down  the  American  flag,  shoot  him  on  the 
spot." 

When  the  civil  war  broke  out,  he  was  chosen 
president  of  the  Union  Defence  Committee, 
and  organized  no  less  than  seventeen  regi- 
ments. He  was  commissioned  a  major-general 
of  Volunteers,  New  York  State  Militia,  and  on 
May  8,  1861,  major-general  of  United  States 
Volunteers.  He  was  placed  in  command  of 
the  department  of  Maryland,  and  it  was  due  to 
the  active  measures  taken  by  him  that  Mary- 
land was  saved  to  the  Union.  On  May  31, 
1862,  he  was  transferred  to  Fortress  Monroe, 
having  command  of  the  Seventh  Army  Corps. 
On  the  question  of  slavery,  he  was  the  expo- 
nent of  the  views  of  the  Free-Soil  section  of 
the  Democratic  party  in  New  York,  and  had 
been  the  candidate  for  governor  in  1848,  but 
was  defeated  then. 

In  1853  he  was  made  assistant  treasurer  of 
the  United  States  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
from  which  office  he  shortly  resigned.  In 
i860  appointed  postmaster  at  New  York.  In 
1863  he  was  stationed  in  New  York  City,  and 
was  the  military  commander  during  the  riots 
which  ensued  upon  the  president's  order  for 
the  draft.  During  1864-65  he  commanded  the 
Department  of  the  East.  In  September,  1866, 
he  was  appointed  United  States  minister  to 
France,  which  post  he  resigned  in  1868.  He 
was  elected  governor  of  New  York  in  1872, 
and  displayed  a  decisive  intellect  in  his  admin- 
istration. He  was  the  author  of  several  works, 
among  them  "Resources  of  the  City  of  New 
York,"  1827  ;  "Decisions  of  the  Superintendent 
of  Common  Schools  of  New  York  and  Laws 
Relating  to  Common  Schools,"  1837,  having 
served  as  superintendent  at  that  period  of  his 
life:  "A  Winter  in  Madeira,"  185 1;  "A  Sum- 
mer in  Spain  and  Florence,"  1855,  ^"^  two 
volumes  of  "Speeches." 

Governor  John  Adams  Dix  married,  at  St, 
John's  Chapel,  New  York,  on  May  29, 
1826,  Catharine  Warne  Morgan,  the  adopted 
daughter  of  John  J.  Morgan,  of  New  York 


City,  a  former  member  of  congress.  She  died 
at  New  York.  Children:  i.  Morgan,  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Baldwin,  born  in  Cooperstown,  New 
York,  November  28,  1829,  died  in  New  York 
City,  January  31,  1852.  3.  John  Wilkins,  born 
in  Albany,  New  York,  December  3,  1832,  died 
in  New  York  City,  April  21,  1877.  4.  Eliza- 
beth Morgan,  born  in  Albany,  New  York,  May 
7,  1835  ;  married,  in  New  York  City,  April  11, 
i860,  Charles  F.  Blake;  died  March,  1900.  5. 
Charles  Temple,  born  in  Albany,  New  York, 
February  25,  1838,  died  at  Rome,  Italy,  March 
II,  1872  ;  married,  at  London,  England,  March 
9,  1868,  Camilla  Ottalie  Watson.  6.  Catharine 
Morgan,  born  at  Madeira,  January  14,  1843; 
married,  at  Paris,  France,  April  16,  1868, 
Thomas  Walsh.  7.  Anna  Maria,  born  at  East- 
hampton.  Long  Island,  New  York,  July  9, 
1847,  died  there,  July  14,  1847. 

(VIII)  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  Dix,  son  of  Gov- 
ernor John  Adams  Dix  and  Catharine  (Mor- 
gan) Dix,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  No- 
vember I,  1827,  and  died  on  the  evening  of 
April  29,  1908,  at  Trinity  Church  Rectory,  No. 
27  West  Twenty-fifth  street.  New  York  City, 
where  he  had  lived  since  1872.  He  received 
his  education  at  Albany,  New  York,_  where 
he  resided  until  1842,  and  then  entering  Co- 
lumbia College,  in  1845,  was  graduated  there- 
from in  1848.  In  1849  he  entered  the  General 
Theological  Seminary,  and  was  graduated 
from  that  institution  in  1852.  In  this  same 
year  he  was  ordained  deacon,  by  Bishop  Chase 
of  New  Hampshire,  in  St .  John's  Chapel, 
Trinity  parish,  and  in  1853  he  was  advanced 
to  the  priesthood  by  Bishop  Alonzo  Potter,  of 
Pennsylvania,  in  St.  Mark's  Church,  Phila- 
delphia, of  which  church  he  was  assistant  min- 
ister until  April,  1854,  when  he  resigned  and 
spent  a  year  abroad  in  study  and  travel. 

While  in  Philadelphia,  in  1853,  Dr.  Dix  was 
elected  an  assistant  minister  of  Trinity  parish, 
but  felt  it  his  duty  to  decline.  He  was  again 
elected  by  the  vestry  in  1855,  and  accepted, 
commencing  his  duties,  September  2,  1855,  as 
assistant  minister,  and  was  assigned  to  St. 
Paul's  Chapel.  He  was  elected  assistant  rec- 
tor of  Trinity  parish  in  1859,  and  was  made 
rector  in  1862.  During  his  rectorship,  the 
parish  experienced  a  wonderful  growth.  When 
he  took  charge  there  were,  including  that  at 
Trinity  Church,  only  four  congregations  in 
Trinity  parish ;  before  his  death  six  others  had 
been  added. 


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Dr.  Dix  was  elected  to  represent  the  diocese 
as  deputy  to  the  general  convention  from  1877 
until  his  death ;  was  present  at  eight  convoca- 
tions thereof,  and  was  made  president  of  the 
house  of  deputies  at  five  successive  meetings, 
declining  re-election  at  last  only  because  his 
health  compelled  him  to  do  so,  in  the  face  of 
universal  urging  to  attempt  to  serve.  He  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  standing  committee 
of  the  diocese,  in  1864,  and  became  its  presi- 
dent in  1868,  serving  in  this  office  until  the 
end  of  his  life,  and  through  his  whole  rector- 
ship he  was  a  member  ex-officio,  or  by  election, 
of  the  governing  boards  of  very  many  of  the 
most  important  organizations,  religious,  char- 
itable and  educational,  of  the  church  and  of 
the  city  as  well.  He  received  the  degree  of 
S.T.D.,  from  Columbia  College,  in  1863;  of 
D.C.L.,  from  the  University  of  the  South,  in 
1885;  of  D.D.,  from  Princeton,  in  1896,  and 
of  D.D.,  from  Oxford,  in  1900,  and  from 
Harvard,  in  1902. 

He  was  a  forceful  preacher,  and  excellent 
as  an  executive.  His  sermons  showed  the  man 
of  education  and  intellect,  and  not  only  did 
he  accept  offers  to  be  the  orator  on  many  oc- 
casions of  importance,  but  was  equally  happy 
as  an  author.  Among  his  published  works  are  : 
"Commentary  on  the  Epistle  to  the  Romans," 
1864;  "Exposition  of  the  Epistles  to  the  Gala- 
tians  and  Colossians,"  1865  ;  "Lectures  on  the 
Pantheistic  Idea  of  an  Impersonal-Substance 
Deity,"  1865;  "Lectures  on  the  Two  Estates," 
1872  ;  "The  Sacramental  System,"  1893  ;  "His- 
tory of  the  Parish  of  Trinity  Church,"  1899 ; 
"Essay  on  Christian  Art" ;  and  "Sermons  Doc- 
trinal and  Practical,"  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  1878. 

He  influenced,  as  few  others  have  done,  the 
life  of  the  whole  church.  Great  as  was  the 
place  which  he  held  as  preacher,  scholar,  theo- 
logian, administrator,  he  was  greatest  of  all 
as  the  parish  priest,  the  wise,  spiritual  director, 
the  faithful  and  loving  guide  of  souls,  and  it 
is  those  who  knew  him  in  this  relation  who 
loved  him  the  most  deeply.  Varied  and  un- 
usual as  were  his  gifts  and  accomplishments, 
there  was  about  him  a  simplicity  of  goodness 
which  was  his  chief  and  his  rarest  charm, 
which  endeared  him  forever  to  those  who  real- 
ly knew  him,  and  which  made  him  able  to  help 
others  as  those  only  can  who  themselves  walk 
close  with  God.    ' 

At  the  Sailors'  Snug  Harbor,  of  which  in- 
stitution   Dr.    Dix    was    ex-ofificio    a    trustee 


throughout  his  rectorship  of  forty-six  years, 
the  trustees  have  erected,  as  a  memorial  to 
him,  from  designs  drawn  by  Mr.  Thomas 
Nash,  a  beautiful  little  chapel  in  the  hospital 
for  the  use  of  the  patients  confined  there. 

A  memorial  service  was  observed  in  Trinity- 
Church  on  All  Saints'  Day,  in  1908,  on  which 
occasion  Bishop  William  Croswell  Doane,  of 
the  Albany  diocese,  preached  the  memorial 
sermon,  taking  for  his  text :  "Let  us  now  praise 
famous  men."  He  took  the  opportunity  then 
to  say: 

The  basis  of  Dr.  Dix's  nature,  on  which  he  built 
up  the  superstructure  of  his  personality,  was  of 
direct  descent.  He  is  one  of  the  many  illustrations 
of  the  way  in  which  blood  will  tell.  Courage,  and 
love  of  country,  and  power  of  command,  and  states- 
manship, and  the  high-bred  courtesy  that  makes  and 
marks  a  gentleman  on  the  one  side ;  and  on  the 
other,  refinement  and  sensitiveness,  and  delicacy,  and 
gentleness;  both  strains  having  in  them  the  conse- 
cration of  earnest  religious  belief  and  life.  His 
career  was  one  of  quiet,  steady,  advance  to  the 
highest  attainable  power  and  position  of  the  priestly 
office.  To  those  who  labor  under  the  mistaken  idea 
that  the  episcopate  is  the  goal  of  every  clergyman's 
ambition,  it  is  enough  to  say  that  had  he  wanted 
it,  it  was  more  than  once  within  his  reach;  but  to 
us  who  know  better  it  is  plain  that  this  man.  in  the 
two  high  offices  which  he  filled — rector  of  this  great 
parish,  and  as  president — perpetual  president  he 
might  have  been,  and  pre-eminent  president  he  was 
— of  the  House  of  Deputies — he  reached  the  highest 
attainment  of  distinction  open  to  any  clergjman  of 
this  church. 

Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  married,  at  New  York, 
June  3,  1874,  Emily  Woolsey  Soutter,  of  Nor- 
folk, Virginia,  daughter  of  James  T.  and 
Agnes  Gordon  (Knox)  Soutter.  She  was  born 
at  Astoria,  New  York,  on  March  28,  1852. 
Children:  Catharine  Morgan,  born  May  7, 
1879,  at  New  York  City ;  John  Adams,  see 
forward ;  Emily  Margaret  Gordon,  born  Jan- 
uary 29.  1885,  at  New  York  City. 

(IX)  John  Adams  (2)  Dix.  son  of  Rev.  Dr. 
Morgan  Dix  and  Emily  Woolsey  (Soutter) 
Dix,  was  born  at  No.  27  West  Twenty-fifth 
street,  New  York  City,  October  5,  1880,  and 
resides  in  that  city.  He  received  his  primary 
education  at  the  Cutler  School  in  New  York, 
afterwards  at  Groton  School.  Groton,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  then  entered  Harvard  Univer- 
sity, and  was  graduated  therefrom  in  June, 
1902,  with  the  degree  of  A.B.  Since  leaving 
college  he  has  been  continuously  in  Wall  street 
as  a  broker,  beginning  as  a  clerk  in  the  office 
of  Messrs.  J.  P.  Morgan  &  Company,  then 
with    A.    Iselin    &    Company,   and    later   with 


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Hartshorne,  Bof^ert  &  Battcllc.  He  bfiuo-ht  a 
seat  on  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange,  De- 
cember 5,  Kjoj,  and  was  connected  with  Blake 
Brotl;ers  until  May  i,  19 12,  wlicn  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  Henry  McC.  Bangs,  form- 
ing tl'e  brokerage  firm  of  Eiix  &  Bangs,  at  Xo. 
55  Wall  street/ 

Mr.  Dix  was  a  trooper  for  five  years  in 
Troop  2,  Squadron  A,  National  Gnard,  New 
York,  from  1902-7;  second  lieutenant  eighth 
district,  coast  artillery  corps,  Twenty-niiith 
Company,  National  Ciuard,  New  York,  from 
February  27,  1912,  to  March,  1913.  He  is  a 
vestryman  of  Trinity  Episcopal  Church  in 
New  York.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  and 
New  York  Stock  Exchange  Lu!icheon  clubs, 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Society  of  the 
War  of  1S12,  New  York  Historical  Society 
and  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 

John  Adams  Dix  married,  at  Grace  Church, 
in  New  York  City,  Ociober  10,  iqio,  Sophie 
W'itherspoon  Townsend.  She  was  born  at  No. 
36  East  Thirty-sixth  street.  New  York  City, 
February  5,  1SS9,  and  was  the  daughter  of 
Howard  and- Sophie  W'itherspoon  (Dickey) 
Townsend.  Howard  Townsend  was  the  son 
of  Dr.  Howard  Tovynsend,  born  in  Albany, 
New  York,  Novem.ber  22,  1823,  died  there, 
January  16,  1S67,  who  married,  in  the  Manor 
House,  .A.lbany,  February  2,  185,3,  Justine  Wan 
Rensselaer,  born  in  Albany,  September  18. 
1828,  died  in  New  York  City,  April  6,  1912; 
he  was  born  in  .-Vlbany,  August  2^.  185S.  He 
married,  in  New  York  City,  April  7,  188S, 
Sophie  Witherspoon  Dickey,  daughter  of 
Charles  Denston  and  ^^ary  (Witherspoon) 
Dickey,  who  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Jan- 
uary 9,  1S64,  and  died  at  Saranac  Lake,  New 
York,  January  20,  1892. 

See  Townsend,  \"an  Rensselaer  and  Dickey 
families. 


This  name  is  distinc- 
VANDER  REEK     tively   Dutch   in    form, 

and  appears  with  many 
spellings  in  the  Dutch  records  of  early  New 
York,  such  as  \'an  der  Beek,  \'an  der  Becck, 
Vander  Beck  and  \'ander  Beecke,  Vander 
Beek,Vander  Beeck,  V  dr  Beek.  and  v.  d.  Beek. 
The  records  shov.-  that  the  original  immigrant 
to  New  York  came  from  Bremen, Genr.any.  but 
it  is  presumable  that  he  v.as  of  Dutch  parent- 
age, since  the  name  still  exist-  in  Holland,  v.-hile 
it  cannot  be  found  in  ("iermanv.   Paulus  \'ander 


Beck  may  ha^  e  been  born  in  Bremen,  of  Dutch 
I<arcnls,  or  he  may  have  sailed  from  that  port 
on  his  first  joiu'ney  to  this  country.  He  was 
the  ancestor  of  the  large  family  now  in  the 
United  States  and  especially  in  New  York  and 
New  Icrsey,  and  wrote  his  name  Poulus  Van- 
der bck. 

(Ij  Paulus  (Poulus)  Vander  Beek  came 
to  America  aljout  1643,  '1"'^  "^'cd  at  his  home 
on  Long  Island  in  16S0.  He  resided  in  Brook- 
lyn in  1O55,  and  in  1660  was  engaged  in  the 
butchering  business  in  New  Amsterdam.     In 

1661  he  was  farming  on  Long  Island  and  in 

1662  was  ferrymaster.  He  purchased  planta- 
tion lot  No.  17  at  Gravescnd,  the  deed  bear- 
ing date  October  24,  iOj^-  and  appears  on  the 
assessment  roll  of  Brooklyn  in  1675,  and 
among  patentees  in  1677.  He  sold  one-half 
of  the  farm  at  Gowanus,  August  6,  1679,  for 
three  thousand  guilders.  His  farm  was  sub- 
sequently in  possession  of  the  Bergen  family 
down  to  a  comparatively  recent  date.  He  mar- 
ried, Ortnhor  o  Tft.j^  iri  New  Amsterd.-irn, 
Maria  Thomas  (or  Baddie),  a  widow  who  had 
previously  had  two  husbands,  Thomas  Farden 
and  William  Adrianse  Bennett.  Children: 
Coenradus,  mentioned  below ;  Aeltie,  born 
May  30,  1649;  Paulus,  November  17,  1650; 
Hester,  December  15,  1652;  Isaac,  Novem.ber 
6,  1656;  Catlierine. 

(II)  Coenradus,  eldest  son  of  Paulus  and 
Maria  \'ander  Beek,  was  baptized  September 
I,  1647,  at  Gowanus,  where  he  resided,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Brooklyn  Dutch  Church 
in  1677.  He  was  on  the  assessment  list  of  that 
town  in  1675-7(1.  but  within  a  few  years  re- 
m.oved  to  New  York,  where  he  was  a  measurer 
in  1699.  Ele  probably  died  in  the  latter  part 
of  the  year  i7o8_  as  his  will,  made  July  17, 
1706,  was  proved  January  9,  170^).  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Elsie  Janse.  and  (second")  October 
20,  1702,  a  widow,  Catherine  Cook.  Children: 
Anna  Margaret;  Paulus,  John  Maria,  baptized 
May  10,  1679;  .\braham,  April  i,  ifvSz;  Isaac, 
June  3,  16B5 ;  Jacob,  died  young;  Coenradus, 
November  5,  1693;  ]Maria,  May  10,  iijqo; 
Jacob.  The  last  named  may  have  been  a  child 
of  the  second  wife, 

(III)  Paulus  (2),  eldest  son  of  Coenradus 
and  Elsie  (Janse)  Vander  Beck,  was  born 
about  1674-75.  in  New  York,  and  resided  there 
in  early  life.  Before  1708  he  settled  at  Hack- 
ensack,  New  Jersey,  where  he  received  a  deed 
of  land  from  John  Berdan  in  1709.     He  and 


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Mr.  Vander  Beek  was  affiliated  with  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church  and  was  idcutihed  in  politics 
with  the  Kpublican  parly  from  the  time  of  its 
organization,  about  the  time  of  his  I'lajority. 
He  married,  fJctobcr  4.  i865,  Louisa  Mc>.Iunn, 
daughter  of  Dr.  John  Blake  and  Eleanor  ( Dol- 
son)  McMunn,  of  Port  Jervis,  New  York. 
The  latter  was  a  daughter  of  Theopliilus  Dol- 
son  and  his  wife,  Liana  Austin,  whose  father 
was  Eusebious  Austin,  a  prominent  pliysician 
and  surgeon  under  General  Washington  at 
Valley  Eorge  in  177S  (see  Austin  IV).  Chil- 
dren of  Francis  I.  V'ander  Beek  were:  P'rancis 
L  and  Eleanor  Mc.Munn.  t  The  latter,  born 
May  16,  1874,  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  Dorwin  Le 
Roy  Culver  and  is  tl;e  mother  of  two  children: 
Dorwin  Le  Roy  and  Francis  Vander  Beek.'l 

(IX)  Francis  Isaac  (2).  only  son  of  Francis 
Isaac  (i)  and  Louisa  (McAIunn)  Vander 
Beek,  was  born  February  12,  1870.  in  Jersey 
City,  New  Jersey.  He  continued  from  the  age 
of  six  to  twelve  years  under  the  instruction  of 
a  private  school.  F'ollowing  this  he  was  for 
two  years  a  student  at  the  Hasbrouck  Insti- 
tute, after  .which  he  studied  four  years  at 
Steven's  Institute  in  Hoboken.  Having  ar- 
rived at  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  he  entered 
the  employ  of  his  fatlier's  firm  in  the  lumber 
business  in  Jersey  City,  which  had  been  estab- 
lished by  his  grandfather  in  1846.  After 
seven  years  of  faithful  service  he  was  admitted 
to  a  partnership  and  thus  continued  until  the 
dissolution  of  the  original  firm  of  \'ander  Beek 
&  Sons,  March  i,  1904.  At  this  time  he  re- 
tired from  active  connection  with  the  business, 
although  he  is  now  one  of  the  directors  of  the 
corporation  bearing  the  old  name.  He  is  now 
president- of  the  Dielectric  Company  of  Amer- 
ica, whose  factory  is  located  at  Belleville.  New 
Jersey,  and  produces  insidated  wires  and 
cables.  Since  1S93  he  has  resided  in  Glen 
Spey,  town  of  Lumberland,  Sullivan  county. 
New  York,  of  which  town  he  was  elected  town 
superintendent  in  1009  and  again  in  1911. 
Politically  he  is  a  Republican,  and  with  his 
family  is  affiliated  with  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Automobile 
Club  of  America  and  of  the  Holland  Society 
of  New  York,  and  is  affiliated  with  Jersey  City 
Lodge,  No.  74,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  Enterprise  Chapter.  No.  2.  Royal  Arch 
Masons,  of  Jersey  City. 

He  married,  .\pril  19,  189.3.  in  Jersey  City. 
Rebecca    Elsey    Mackenzie,   born  January    i, 


1871.  in  Jersey  City,  daughter  of  George  Ross 
and  Rebecca  (Elsey)  Mackenzie,  of  that  city. 
Rebecca  Elsey,  wife  of  George  Ross  Macken- 
zie, was  born  September  12,  1827,  in  Wads- 
worth.  Surrey.  England,  and  was  married  May 
31.  1S47,  in  New  York  City,  at  the  Floating 
Chapel,  foot  of  Dey  street,  to  Mr.  Mackenzie. 
They  had  cliiklren :  John  Ross,  born  February 
3,  1848,  in  Jersey  City,  died  at  sea  in  1S89 ; 
Grace,  December  30.  1S49,  married,  October 
3,  1876,  John  Ewing;  James  Stone,  April  6, 
1852,  died  August  31,  1907;  Alexander,  May 
8.  18^4;  George  Ross,  May  2^  18^6.  died  lune 
28,  1857:  Hugh  Ross,  April  9.  185S;  Edward 
Easton,  May  24.  iS(m:  Margaret  Ross,  August 
26.  1862,  married  Charles  Elkin ;  Jessie,  July 
19,  1864,  married  Peter  Alexander;  Isabella, 
October  25,  1866,  married  B.  P.  Craig;  Simon 
Ross,  September  10,  1868,  died  December  10, 
1875 ;  Rebecca  Elsey,  above  mentioned  as  the 
wife  of  Francis  Isaac  Vander  Beek.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  \'andcr  Beek  have  two  sons:  Francis 
Isaac  (3).  born  January  22,  1807;  Gordon 
Mackenzie,  February  7,  1904. 

(The  Austin  Line.) 

There  were  several  immigrants  of  this  name 
who  left  a  numerous  progeny,  and  the  name 
is  now  plentifully  scattered  over  the  United 
States.  It  appears  in  many  forms  in  the  Eng- 
lish and  early  New  England  records,  such  as 
Asten,  Astin,  Astine.  Asting,  Aston,  Austen, 
Auston,  Austone  and  Oston.  The  form  here 
used  is  now  practically  in  universal  use  in  this 
country.  Some  of  the  immigrants  settled  in 
Connecticut  and  others  in  ^lassachusetts. 

(I)  Captain  Anthony  Austin  was  born  about 
1636.  probably  in  England,  and  was  a  resident- 
of  Rowley,  Massachusetts,  as  early  as  1660. 
He  was  made  a  freeman  there  in  1668,  and  re- 
moved to  Sutfield,  Connecticut,  early  in  1678, 
dying  there  August  20,  1708.  The  town  com- 
mittee of  Sul'neld  .granted  him  fifty  acres  on 
Feather  street  in  July,  1674,  and  five  years 
later  he  received  forty  acres  on  account  of 
each  of  his  sons.  Richard  and  Anthony,  who 
were  then  minors.  He  served  as  selectman  of 
Suffield;  was  town  clerk  in  16S1-S2-S3,  1(^86-87 
and  1089  :  commissioner  in  1688,  and  exercised 
considerable  influence  in  both  church  and  state. 
He  married,  in  Rowley,  October-  1.9,  1664, 
Esther  Huggins.  who  died  March  7,  1097.  in 
Suffield.  His  first  three  cliildren  were  born  in 
Rowley,  the  others  in  Suffield,  namely:  Rich- 


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ard,  September  20,  J66y,  Anthony,  Decenilicr 
7,  1668;  John,  December  22.  1671  ;  Nathaniel, 
mentioned  below;  Elizabeth,  died  young;  Eliz- 
abeth,April  20, 16S4;  Esther,  January  1 1,  :c>S6. 
(11)  Nathaniel,  fourth  son  of  Captain  An- 
thony and  Esther  (Hu.i^gins)  Austin,  was  born 
May  20,  1678,  in  Sutifield,  and  died  there  De- 
cember 12,  1760.  In  his  day  agriculture  was 
almost  the  only  industry  in  Sufiicld  and  prob- 
ably engaged  his  time.  He  married,  in  Janu- 
ary, 1702,  Abigail  Elovey,  who  died  January 
9,  1764.  Cliildren :  Nathaniel,  born  May  2^, 
1703;  Thomas,  September  4,  1705;  Racfiel, 
February  13,  1708;  Miriam,  February  21, 
1710;  Aaron,  died  young;  Abigail.  June  13, 
1714;  Aaron,  mentioned  below;  Daniel.  April 
28,  1720;  Samuel,  July  24.  1722;  Hannah,  June 

5.  i/^S- 

(HI)  Aaron,  fourth  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
Abigail  (Hovey)  Austin,  was  born  January  25, 
1716,  in  Suffield,  where  he  passed  his  life.  He 
married,  November  28,  1744,  a  wiilow,  Eliza- 
beth Kent.  Children:  Aaron,  born  August  27, 
1745:  Samuel,  CV-tuber  28.  IJJ":  Ser«"ni'is, 
June  II,  1750;  Nathaniel.  November  28,  1752; 
Eusebeus,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Eusebeus,  youngest  child  of  Aaron 
and  Elizabeth  (Kent)  Austin,  was  born  April 
28,  1758,  in  Suffield,  and  was  a  soldier  of  the 
revolutionary  war.  At  the  age  of  nineteen 
years  he  abandoned  his  medical  studies  to  en- 
list in  the  service  of  his  country,  becoming  a 
member  of  the  Connecticut  regiment  and 
served  at  West  Point  and  Morristown.  A  let- 
ter, written  by  him  March  15,  1821,  says: 
"You  may  now  discover  I  write  but  bad.  the 
trembling  of  my  hand,  contracted  by  the  marsh 
fever  I  suffered  in  1776  at  Old  Ticondaroga, 
of  fever  and  ague" —  etc.  After  the  war 
closed  he  settled  in  Orange  county.  New  York, 
died  at  Middletown.  January  20,  1S34,  and  was 
buried  in  Pine  Hill  cemetery  at  Dolsontown. 
He  married  Abigail  Wood,  of  Goshen,  New 
York  born  January  11,  1763,  died  ^vlarcli  27, 
1811. 

(V)  Liana,  daughter  of  Eusebeus  and  .Abi- 
gail (Wooii)  Austin,  was  born  October  iS, 
1786,  in  Orange  county.  New  York.  She  he- 
came  the  wife  of  Theophilus  Dolson.  and  they 
were  the  parents  of  Eleanor  Dolson.  who  be- 
came the  wife  of  Dr.  John  Blake  McMunn. 
Their  daughter,  Louisa  McMunn,- became  the 
wife  of  Francis  Isaac  Vander  Beek,  of  Jersey 
City  (see  Vander  Beek  VIII). 


(VI)      Paulus     (41 

VANDER  BEEK  Vander  Beek,  fourtli 
son  of  Paulus  (3J  1  q 
V.)  and  Sara  (Berdan)  Vander  Beek,  v.ri> 
baptized  February  28,  1779,  at  Hackensack, 
and  li\ed  in  that  town.  He  married  and 
among  his  children  was  John  Paul. 

(VH)  John  Paul,  son  of  Paulus  (4)  Wan- 
der Beck,  was  born  May  19,  1S17,  in  Hackeu- 
sack,  and  died  July  11,  1895.  He  was  a  painter 
and  decorator,  doing  a  large  business  in 
Schraalcnburg  and  surrounding  villages,  and 
accumulated  a  valuable  property..  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church,  am! 
politically  a  Republican.  The  name  of  his  tir.-t 
wife  is  unknown.  He  married  (second)  No- 
vember 4,  1840,  Maria  Westervelt,  born  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1S23,  died  November  15,  1895, 
daughter  of  Johannis  and  Rachel  Westervelt. 
There  was  one  child  of  the  tirst  wife,  Ebenita. 
Children  of  second  wife:  George  Westervelt, 
John  Westervelt,  Anna  C,  William  Bogert. 
Henrv  Westervelt 

(Vnn  Willinm  Bogert,  third  £c:i  cf  Jch:; 
Paul  and  Maria  (Westervelt)  \'ander  Beek. 
was  born  July  14.  1850,  in  Schraalcnburg,  and 
died  April  2,  1907.  He  learned  from  his 
father  the  trade  of  painter  and  decorator,  and 
engaged  in  business  in  New  York  City,  being 
identified  with  many  large  contracts  and  enter- 
prises in  the  buiMing  trade  in  and  about  the 
metropolis.  He  maintained  membership  in  the 
Dutch  Reformed  church,  and  sustained  Repub- 
lican policies  in  public  affairs.  He  married. 
December  27,  1882,  in  Schraalcnburg,  Sarah 
Elizabeth  Blauvelt,  born  June  3,  1856.  in  that 
town,  daughter  of  David  Daniel  and  Elizabeth 
(Quackenbush)  Blauvelt.  David  Daniel  Blau- 
velt was  born  November  17.  1819.  and  mar- 
ried, October  i5.  1841.  Elizabeth  Quacken- 
bush,born  May  18, 1823.  They  were  the  parents 
of:  Ellen  Maria,  William  ^^lyers,  Sarah  Eliz- 
abeth, David,  Adele,  Cornelia,  John  and  James 
Blauvelt.  William  B.  Vander  Beek  and  wife 
had  children:  Bessie  Blauvelt.  born  March  2, 
1884;  Louis  David,  mentioned  below;  Zyles 
WesterveU.  November  i.  1889;  Wilbur  Blau- 
velt, December  7,  1800. 

(IX)  Louis  David,  eldest  son  of  William 
Bogert  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Blauvelt)  X'an- 
der  Beek.  was  born  December  15,  1886,  in  New 
York  City,  and  was  six  years  of  age  when  sent 
to  a  local  public  school,  having  previously  re- 
ceived  private   instruction.     Subsequently  he 


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attended  the  public  schools  in  Orange,  New 
Jersey.  He  secured  a  position  with  the  firm  of 
Stanley  &  Patterson,  electrical  engineers  and 
dealers  in  general  electrical  supplies  in  New 
York  City,  continuing  with  this  firm  three 
years.  During  this  time  he  became  an  elec- 
trical expert,  and  resigned  his  position  to  take 
employment  with  R.  B.  Corey  &  Company,  of 
Cortlandt  street.  New  York,  engaged  in  a  simi- 
lar line  of  business.  This  establishment  con- 
ducts a  very  extensive  trade  throughout  this 
and  other  countries,  and  Mr.  Vander  Beek 
holds  a  responsible  position  in  the  establish- 
ment. He  is  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church,  and  in  politics  a  Republican.  He  mar- 
ried, October  15,  1912,  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  Cecelia  Celino  Shanks,  born  March  29, 
1897,  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana.  She  is  a 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  Her 
father,  Louis  Rupert  Shanks,  was  born  June 
23,  1857,  in  Plangament  parish,  Louisiana.  His 
first  wife,  Katherine  Keeley,  died  October  4, 
1899,  and  he  married  (second)  April  16,  1901, 
Nona  Marshall,  born  June  25,  1875.  Mr. 
Shanks  is  connected  with  the  electrical  busi- 
ness. 


The  surname  Warren  is  said 
WARREN     to  be  derived  from  Garenne  or 

Varenne,  a  small  river  in  the 
old  county  of  Calais  or  Caux  in  Normandy, 
France,  which  gave  its  name  to  the  neighbor- 
ing commune,  and  is  only  a  few  miles  from 
Dieppe.  There  is  at  present  a  village  called 
Garenne  in  the  same  district,  and  it  is  here 
that  the  origin  of  the  family  has  been  fixed 
by  historians.  On  the  west  side  of  the  river 
Garenne  was  the  ancient  baronial  seat  of  the 
De  Warennes  and  some  of  the  ruins  were 
standing  in  the  year  1832.  The  surname  has 
assumed  different  forms  from  time  to  time — 
Gareyn,  Wareyn,  Waryn,  Warin,  Warynge, 
Waryng,  and  Warren.  The  ancestors  of  a 
great  many  of  the  Warrens  was  William  de 
Warenne,  who  went  to  England  with  William 
the  Conqueror,  and  was  related  to  him  both 
by  marriage  and  descent.  He  had  a  consider- 
able command  at  the  battle  of  Hastings,  and 
on  account  of  his  valor  and  fidelity  obtained 
immense  grants  of  land  from  the  Conqueror. 
He  had  lands  in  Shropshire,  Essex,  Sufifolk, 
Oxford,  Hants,  Cambridgeshire,  Buckingham- 
shire,    Huntington,     Bedfordshire,     Norfolk, 


Lincoln,  and  Yorkshire,  amounting  in  all,  ac- 
cording to  Hume,  to  three  hundred  lordships. 
He  became  the  first  earl  of  Warren  and  Sur- 
rey. His  wife,  Gundreda,  daughter  of  William 
L,  and  a  descendant  of  Charlemagne,  died 
May  27,  1085,  and  was  buried  in  the  chapter 
house  of  the  priory  of  Lewes,  county  Sussex. 
Her  tombstone  is  still  in  existence.  The  earl 
died  June  24,  1088,  and  his  epitaph  has  been 
preserved,  though  the  gravestone  is  lost  or 
destroyed.  In  1845  the  coffers  containing  the 
bones  of  the  earl  and  countess  were  disinterred 
and  are  now  in  the  church  of  St.  John  the 
Baptist,  Southover.  The  history  of  the  War- 
ren family  has  been  written,  and  is  exceeded  in 
interest  and  antiquity  by  none  in  England. 

Gundreda  married  William  de  Warenne  L, 
a  kinsman  of  her  father,  who  was  in  command 
at  the  battle  of  Hastings.  As  a  reward  of  his 
valor  he  was  made  earl  of  William  and  granted 
a  large  estate  in  lands.  He  selected  a  site  for 
his  castle  on  an  eminence  near  the  village  of 
Lewes  in  Sussex.  He  erected  a  cluniac  priory 
or  convent  in  the  town  of  Lewes,  and  he  and 
his  wife  were  buried  in  the  priory,  side  by 
side,  and  in  1845,  when  laborers  were  excavat- 
ing through  the  site  for  the  purpose  of  build- 
ing a  railroad  their  remains  were  discovered 
each  enclosed  in  a  leaden  box,  or  coffin,  and 
surrounded  with  rock  pebbles  of  a  small  size. 
On  one  of  these  boxes  was  the  name  William, 
and  on  the  other  the  name  Gundreda,  both 
perfectly  legible  though  they  had  remained 
buried  for  more  than  eight  centuries,  for  the 
earl  died  in  1088,  and  the  countess  in  1085. 

(I)  John  Warren,  the  immigrant  ancestor 
of  the  "Warren  family,  was  born  in  England, 
May  I,  1585,  and  was  forty-five  years  of  age 
when  he  came  to  New  England  in  1630.  He 
settled  at  Watertown,  Massachusetts,  and  was 
admitted  freeman,  May  18,  1631.  He  was 
selectman  from  1636  to  1640;  in  1635  he  and 
Abraham  Brown  were  appointed  to  lay  out  all 
highways  and  to  see  that  they  were  repaired. 
His  homestead  of  twelve  acres  in  1642  was 
bounded  west  by  the  highway,  east  by  Wil- 
liam Hammond's  lot,  north  by  John  Biscoe's 
land,  and  south  by  that  of  Isaac  Stern.  He 
owned  several  other  lots,  aggregating  abou/ 
one  hundred  and  seventy-five  acres.  He  mar- 
ried a  woman  whose  baptismal  name  was  Mar  • 
garet  but  whose  maiden  surname  remains  un- 
known. She  died  November  6,  1662,  while  he 
died  December  13,  1667.    His  will,  dated  N'^- 


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vember  30,  and  proved  December  17,  the  same 
year,  mentioned  the  following  children,  all  pre- 
sumably born  in  England :  John,  born  about 
1624,  admitted  freeman.  May  18,  1645  ;  Mary, 
married,  October  30,  1642,  John  Bigelow,  the 
first  marriage  appearing  in  the  town  records 
at  Watertown ;  Daniel,  mentioned  below ; 
Elizabeth,  one  of  the  bewitched  persons  men- 
tioned by  Cotton  Mathers,  married,  about  1654. 
Sergeant  James  Knapp,  one  of  the  original 
proprietors  of  Gordon. 

(II)  Daniel  Warren,  son  of  John  and  Mar- 
garet Warren,  was  presumably  born  in  Eng- 
land in  1628.  He  fought  in  King  Phillip's 
war,  and  was  in  the  memorable  swamp  fight 
when  King  Phillip  was  killed.  He  married, 
December  10,  1650,  Mary  Brown,  who  died 
February  13,  1715.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born 
November  29,  1651,  died  May  12,  1734;  mar- 
ried (first)  May  29,  1668,  John  Child;  mar- 
ried (second)  April  13,  1677,  Nathaniel  Fiske. 
2.  Daniel  Jr.,  born  October  6,  1653;  admitted 
freeman,  April  18,  1690,  selectman,  1682,  serv- 
ing to  1698  ;  representative,  1701  ;  married,  De- 
cember 19,  1678,  Elizabeth  Whitney.  3.  Han- 
nah, married,  September  24,  1675,  David 
Mead.  4.  Elizabeth,  married.  December  6, 
1681,  Jonathan  Tainter.  5.  Sarah,  born  July 
4,  1658.  6.  Susanna,  born  December  26,  1663, 
died  1678.  7.  John,  born  March  5,  1665 ;  mar- 
ried Mary  Brown.  8.  Joshua,  mentioned  be- 
low. 9.  Grace,  born  March  17,  1671  ;  married, 
January  20,  1 690,  Joseph  Morse  Jr. 

(III)  Joshua  Warren,  son  of  Daniel  and 
Mary  (Brown)  Warren,  was  born  July  4, 
1668,  and  died  January  30,  1760.  There  is 
very  little  in  the  records  regarding  the  events 
of  his  life.  He  married,  about  1696,  Rebecca 
Church,  who  died  April  i,  1757.  Children: 
I.  Lydia,  born  November  3,  1696:  married  a 
Southworth  and  died  before  her  father  leaving 
sons,  Thomas  and  Stephen.  2.  Joshua,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Nathaniel,  born  May  25, 
1700;  married,  November  .^o,  1725.  Susan  Cut- 
ting, and  had  Nathaniel,  Zachariah,  Thaddeus 
and  Lydia.  4.  Rebecca,  married  a  Hathaway, 
and  had  one  child  Rebecca,  who  married  a 
Sibble.  5.  Mary,  married,  April  3,  1729,  a 
Tucker.  6.  Elizabeth,  born  June  19,  1704: 
married,  in  1726,  Peter  Gibbins,  of  Boston. 
7.  Abigail,  born  December  20,  1705  ;  married 
a  How.  8.  Susanna,  baptized  February  2, 
1706;  married,  January  14,  1729,  Bezaleel 
Flagg.  9.  Hannah,  born  June  2,  1708 ;  married, 


February  13,  1730,  Uriah  Rice,  of  Westbor- 
ough.  10.  Prudence,  born  December  5,  1709; 
married  a  Hardy.  11.  Daniel,  born  July  28, 
1713.     12.  Phineas,  born  June  21,  1718. 

(IV)  Joshua  (2)  Warren,  son  of  Joshua 
(i)  and  Rebecca  (Church)  Warren,  was  born 
at  Watertown,  Massachusetts,  June  4,  1698. 
He  married,  April  9,  1724,  Elizabeth  Harris. 
Children :  Moses,  mentioned  below ;  Joshua, 
born  October  12,  1726;  Benjamin,  December 
20,  1728;  Lydia,  baptized  November  24,  1728; 
Elijah,  July  31,  1731 ;  Elizabeth,  February  4, 
1733;  Elijah,  January  23,  1734,  died  young; 
Elijah,  July  2,  1737;  Noah,  November  4,  1739. 

(V)  Captain  Moses  Warren,  eldest  son  of 
Joshua  (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Harris)  Warren, 
was  born  at  Watertown,  Massachusetts,  Janu- 
ary 19,  1725.  He  was  an  active  figure  in  some 
of  the  events  in  the  neighborhood  of  Lyme 
that  preceded  the  breaking  out  of  hostilities 
between  this  country  and  England.  He  be- 
longed to  the  militia  and  rose  through  the 
several  grades  to  the  position  of  captain,  by 
which  title  he  was  generally  known  among 
his  neighbors.  He  married,  in  1750,  Judith 
Bailey. 

(VI)  Moses  (2)  Warren,  the  third  child 
and  only  son  of  Captain  Moses  ( i )  and  Judith 
(Bailey)  Warren,  born  at  Lyme,  New  Lon- 
don county,  Connecticut,  September  5,  1762. 
Married  Mehitable  Raymond.  1784.  Was  one 
of  the  surveyors  sent  by  "The  Connecticut 
Land  Co."  to  survey  New  Connecticut  or  The 
Western  Reserve  in  Ohio.  He  assisted  in  lay- 
ing out  the  city  of  Cleveland  in  1796.  Euclid 
avenue  was  named  by  him  in  honor  of  the 
famous  mathematician  whose  problems  with 
kindred  studies  formed  his  special  delight. 
Warren,  the  county  seat  of  Trumbull  county, 
Ohio,  was  named  for  him,  and  New  Lyme, 
Ashtabula  county,  for  his  birthplace.  He  was 
author  and  publisher  of  the  first  complete  map 
of  the  State  of  Connecticut  (Hartford,  1820) 
from  the  actual  survey  of  Moses  Warren  and 
George  Gillett.  He  was  United  States  princi- 
pal assessor  in  1815,  member  of  the  constitu- 
tional convention  in  1818,  commissioner  for 
rectifying  the  boundary  line  between  Massa- 
chusetts and  Connecticut  in  1823.  state  repre- 
sentative in  1827,  judge  of  probate  and  presi- 
dential elector  at  the  election  of  John  Quincy 
Adams  in  1825.  and  Andrew  Jackson  in  1829. 

(VII)  Moses  Harris  Warren,  son  of  Moses 
(2)   and  Mehitable  (Raymond)   Warren,  was 


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born  in  Lyme,  Connecticut,  June  6,  1796.  He 
was  apprenticed  to  the  trade  of  wool  dyer  and 
manufacturer  of  woolens,  and  carried  on  that 
business  several  years  in  his  father's  mills, 
afterward  followed  carpentry  and  surveying. 
Later  was  town  clerk  and  recorder  of  deeds, 
justice  of  peace  and  probate  judge  many 
years.  Moses,  ist,  2nd  and  3rd  all  lived  and 
died  in  the  same  house.  A  large  old  fashioned 
family  mansion  now  standing  in  East  Lyme, 
although  it  is  believed  to  have  been  erected  in 
1691.     He  married  Mary  Fitch  Miner. 

(VHI)  Moses  (3)  Warren,  son  of  Moses 
Harris  and  Mary  Fitch  ( Miner)  Warren,  was 
born  October  26,  1826.  His  education  was 
received  at  the  common  schools  in  winter  and 
in  the  fields  in  summer.  Eaily  in  life  he  as- 
sisted his  father  in  building  operations.  In 
1849,  struck  by  the  California  gold  fever,  he 
took  out  a  life  insurance  policy  which  he  pre- 
dicated for  a  share  in  the  ninety-two  ton 
schooner  "Alfred"  with  twenty-eight  other 
stockholders  who  formed  the  crew.  They 
went  around  Cape  Horn  reaching  San  Fran- 
cisco after  a  voyage  of  seven  months  and  there 
they  sold  the  vessel  and  cargo,  which  yielded  a 
small  profit  above  expenses.  Mr.  Warren  en- 
gaged in  mining  for  a  short  time  but  later  de- 
voted his  energies  to  the  manufacture  of  lum- 
ber, had  large  saw  mills,  laid  out  and  built 
almost  the  entire  town  of  Georgetown,  Eldor- 
ado county.  Two  disastrous  fires,  where  in- 
surance was  unknown,  left  him  in  1856  with 
only  debts  for  assets.  He  remained  three 
years  in  California  until  every  obligation  was 
met,  returning  east  in  1859. 

Shortly  after  his  return  he  was  married  at 
Davenport,  Delaware  county,  New  York,  to 
Flora  F.,  eldest  daughter  of  Dr.  John  White- 
side. Their  only  child,  John,  was  born  July 
6,  i860.  The  mother  died  in  1863  and  the 
child  in  1866.  In  1861  he  entered  into  busi- 
ness relations  with  the  firm  of  D.  Appleton, 
book  publishers  in  New  York  City,  and  from 
that  time  continued  the  sale  of  books  in  the 
northwest  with  an  office  at  80  Dearborn  street, 
Chicago,  until  the  great  fire  in  1871.  After- 
ward he  was  located  at  103  State  street  where 
he  was  successful  in  the  publishing  business, 
as  well  as  the  sale  by  subscription  of  many 
books  of  eastern  houses.  Among  his  own  pro- 
ductions were  "Sheahan's  Historical  Atlas," 
"Hill's  Manual  of  Social  and  Business  Forms," 


"Treasures  of  Science  and  Literature,"  "Fam- 
ily Memorial,"  and  others. 

In  1869  he  married  (second)  Julia  P.,  only 
daughter  of  Dr.  Loren  S.  Allen,  of  Rockland, 
Illinois.  Their  children  surviving  are  Claire 
Louise,  wife  of  Rev.  William  A.  Atkinson, 
of  Detroit,  Michigan;  Moses  Allen,  residing 
at  I  West  Thirtieth  street.  New  York  City. 

In  April,  1879,  Mr.  Warren  was  stricken 
with  a  fatal  disease  and  obliged  to  relinquish 
all  business  cares.  In  January  of  1880 
he  was  ordered  by  his  physicians  to  take  a 
long  sea  voyage  in  warm  waters  in  a  sailing 
vessel.  He  left  New  York  in  the  fast  sailing 
ship  "Itonus"  for  Australia,  from  which  no 
word  came  until  she  landed  in  Sydney  after 
one  hundred  and  nine  days.  He  returned  via 
San  Francisco,  reaching  Chicago  in  October 
and  lived  just  one  year,  until  October  9,  1881. 

(IX)  Moses  Allen  Warren,  son  of  Moses 
(3)  and  Julia  P.  (Allen)  Warren,  was  born 
in  Chicago,  Illinois,  November  i,  1876.  He 
was  thus  the  fifth  to  receive  the  name  Moses 
in  a  line  that  began  with  an  officer  who  served 
faithfully  during  the  revolutionary  war.  He 
attended  Lake  Forest  Academy  and  Yale 
University,  graduating  in  the  class  of  1899, 
afterward  the  New  York  Law  School,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  the  class  of  1901.  He 
was  admitted  as  a  member  of  the  New  York 
bar  the  same  year  as  his  graduation  from  the 
Law  School.  He  is  a  member  of  the  law  firm 
of  Thompson,  Warren  &  Pelgram,  52  \^'all 
street,  New  York  City.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Association  and  the 
Calumet,  Yale  and  Squadron  A.  clubs. 


In  the  days  when  surnames  or 
YOUNG  patronymics  were  first  establish- 
ed, a  large  class,  referring  to  the 
shape,  age,  size,  capacity,  shade  of  complex- 
ion, peculiarity  of  character  or  physique,  came 
into  use.  A  glance  over  the  old  records  show 
appellations  that  had  been  applied  as  descrip- 
tive of  every  variety  of  personal  characteristic 
from  infancy  to  old  age.  It  is  to  this  class  that 
the  term  "Young"  belongs,  applied  probably 
in  the  original  case  as  a  sobriquet  to  some  one 
actually  young  in  years  or  young  in  appear- 
ance, and  handed  down  as  a  heritage  to  his 
descendants.  To  the  same  class  belong  such 
surnames  as  Lusty,  Strong,  Long,  Short, 
High,  Low.  Little,  and  so  on.  In  many  cases 
the  name  "Young"  probably  arose   from  the 


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fact  of  there  being  two  persons  in  the  same 
locality  with  the  same  Christian  or  personal 
name,  perhaps  father  and  son,  one  being  called 
"The  Old,"  and  the  other  called  "The  Young," 
the  name  being  retained  through  life,  and  in 
the  next  and  succeeding  generations  becoming 
a  fixture  without  reference  to  the  original 
signification.  Expressions  such  as  "the  Young 
family"  are  sometimes  used,  but  there  is  no 
family  embracing  all  of  the  name  since  it  is 
clear  that  diflferent  families  of  Youngs  have 
sprung  from  different  ancestors,  there  being 
in  America  many  of  the  name  owning  distinct 
Dutch,  English,  Irish,  Scotch  and  German 
origins.  The  name  is  well  known  in  the  British 
Isles,  being  similar  in  origin  with  the  classical 
Meander,  Juvenal,  etc.  Among  the  Normans 
the  name  took  the  forms  of  Juvenis,  Le  Ju- 
vene,  and  Le  Jeune,  and  as  such  was  one  of 
the  most  common  of  French  family  names. 

(I)  William  Young  lived  in  Connecticut  in 
the  second  half  of  the  eighteenth  century.  He 
was  a  farmer,  engaging  also  to  some  extent  in 
business  pursuits.  He  owned  a  t^eet  of  vessels 
and  engaged  in  commerce  between  England 
and  the  colony  of  New  York,  and  when  the 
revolutionary  war  broke  out  he  remained  loyal 
to  Great  Britain,  and  as  a  result  his  vessels 
were  captured,  and  as  he  was  a  Tory  they  were 
confiscated  by  the  Continental  forces  and  he 
was  completely  ruined.  After  the  war  was 
over  he  decided  to  start  over  again  and  so  he 
left  New  England  and  moved  over  into 
Orange  county,  New  York,  near  the  Pennsyl- 
vania border,  where  he  devoted  himself  to 
farming. 

(II)  Isaac,  son  of  William  Young,  was  born 
about  1793.  He  also  was  a  farmer  by  occupa- 
tion, engaged  both  in  cultivating  his  property 
in  land  and  rearing  live  stock.  He  is  stated 
to  have  been  a  man  of  excellent  judgment  and 
great  force  of  character,  and  apart  from  his 
agricultural  pursuits,  was  also  in  the  habit  of 
drawing  contracts  and  deeds,  and  acting  as  the 
adviser  and  business  confidant  of  many  of  his 
friends.  He  married  Sarah  Robbins,  a  native 
of  Orange  county,  New  York. 

(III)  Coe  F.,  son  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  (Rob- 
bins)  Young,  was  born  at  Mount  Hope. 
Orange  county.  New  York,  October  12,  1823. 
His  early  education  was  obtained  at  the  dis- 
trict schools  of  his  locality  and  was  completed 
at  the  Kingston  (New  York)  Academy  and 
the  seminary  at  Amenia,  Dutchess  county.  New 


York.  When  only  thirteen  years  of  age  he  , 
began  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  life 
by  driving  on  the  tow  path  of  the  Delaware  i 
and  Hudson  Canal  Company,  as  so  many  of  ] 
the  prominent  and  successful  men  of  that  ; 
region  had  done.  Before  he  attained  his  ma- 
jority he  served  as  clerk  in  the  store  of  Thomas 
William  Cornell  &  Company,  at  Eddyville, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  and  subsequently 
with  their  successor,  Martin  J.  Merchant. 
Soon  after  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  Canal 
Company  began  enlarging  the  canal,  and  the 
construction  of  the  Erie  railway  was  under- 
taken, with  the  ambition  of  youth  and  the  en- 
ergy and  business  sagacity  that  characterized 
his  life,  he  resolved  to  profit  by  the  opening 
trade  and  removed  to  Barryville,  New  York, 
where  in  connection  with  Calvin  P.  Fuller  he 
established  a  store,  the  firm  doing  business 
under  the  name  and  style  of  Fuller  &  Young. 
In  the  spring  of  1852  he  bought  of  Major 
Cornell  a  half  interest  in  the  canal  freight  line 
between  New  York  and  northeastern  Penn- 
sylvania. The  firm  of  Thomas  Cornell  & 
Company  was  organized,  and  Mr.  Young  re- 
moved to  Honesdale,  Pennsylvania,  where  he 
resided  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  After 
five  years  he  became,  by  purchase,  the  sole  pro- 
prietor of  the  line,  and  operated  it  for  seven 
years  longer.  At  that  time  the  transportation 
facilities  of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  Canal 
Company  included  only  the  canal  and  gravity 
railroad,  and  the  mines  of  the  company  were 
only  being  moderately  worked.  On  January 
I,  1864,  at  the  solicitation  of  George  Talbot 
Olyphant,  president  of  the  company,  and 
Thomas  Dickson,  general  superintendent,  Mr. 
Young  entered  the  service  of  that  company  as 
superintendent  of  the  canal  department.  In 
1865  the  Rondout  &  Weehawken  department 
was  placed  under  his  supervision.  In  the  year 
1869  Mr.  Olyphant  resigned  as  president  of 
the  company  and  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  Dick- 
son. Mr.  Young  was  then  made  general  super- 
intendent, and  after  three  years  became  gen- 
eral manager,  a  position  in  which  he  served 
until  the  death  of  Mr.  Dickson,  July.  1884, 
when  he  was  elected  vice-president  and  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  company,  Robert  Olyphant 
being  then  president.  This  executive  position 
was  occupied  by  him  until  October  i,  1885, 
when  he  resigned  and  Le  Grand  B.  Cannon 
was  made  vice-president  and  his  son,  Horace 
Gedney  Young,  general  manager.     Besides  his 


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connection  with  the  affairs  of  the  Delaware  & 
Hudson  Canal  Company,  Mr.  Young  main- 
tained a  very  intimate  relation  to  the  general 
development  and  improvement  of  the  locality 
in  which  he  made  his  home.  In  1863  he  pur- 
chased nearly  ten  thousand  acres  of  land  a 
few  miles  north  of  Honesdale,  including  the 
tannery  property  at  Tannery  Falls.  In  course 
of  time  he  became  president  of  the  Albany 
&  Susquehanna  railroad,  having  succeeded 
James  H.  Ramsay,  and  also  vice-president  of 
the  Cherry  Valley  &  Susquehanna  railroad 
and  of  the  Schenectady  «&;  Duanesburg  road, 
both  under  lease  to  the  Delaware  &  Hudson 
Canal  Company.  He  was  president  of  the 
Honesdale  National  Bank  for  several  years. 
Mr.  Young  was  a  man  of  sturdy  conviction, 
and  high  principle,  positive  in  his  nature,  of 
rare  executive  ability,  and  sterling  integrity. 
It  is  not  improper  to  say  that  the  rapid  develop- 
ment and  successful  manipulation  of  the  affairs 
of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  Canal  Company 
was  due  to  his  broad  and  comprehensive  man- 
agement, and  is  the  result  of  his  conscientious 
and  intelligent  performance  of  the  official 
duties  of  the  various  positions  which  he  suc- 
cessively occupied.  During  his  management 
the  productive  coal  capacity  of  the  company 
increased  from  eight  hundred  thousand  tons 
to  four  and  a  half  million  tons,  and  the  rail- 
way appendages  of  the  company  were  all 
added.  By  close  and  attentive  reading  and 
study  he  acquired  an  education  far  in  advance 
of  what  his  school  advantages  afforded,  and 
became  a  thoroughly  self-educated  man.  He 
entertained  liberal  views  on  religious  subjects, 
but  supported  with  a  free  hand  the  schools, 
churches,  and  other  elevating  institutions  of 
his  day,  and  was  held  in  general  respect  by  a 
large  circle  of  friends. 

Mr.  Young  married,  January  17,  1849,  Mary 
A.,  daughter  of  Peter  Cornell,  of  Rondout, 
New  York.  Children:  Cornelia  Alice,  mar- 
ried George  W.  Barnes,  of  Colorado ;  Horace 
Gedney,  mentioned  below ;  Edwin,  mentioned 
below ;  Mary  Augusta,  who  married  Joseph  B. 
Dickson,  of  New  York,  youngest  son  of  the 
late  President  Dickson. 

(IV)  Horace  Gedney,  son  of  Coe  F.  and 
Mary  A.  (Cornell)  Young,  was  born  at  Hones- 
dale, Wayne  county,  Pennsylvania,  January 
25.  1854.  He  was  educated  at  the  Cornwall 
School  at  Cornwall,  New  York,  and  he  also 
attended  school  at  Stockbridge,  Massachusetts, 


and  the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute, 
Troy,  New  York,  and  was  graduated  as  a  civil 
engineer  in  1877.  He  entered  railway  service 
in  1879  as  assistant  to  the  general  manager 
of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  Canal  Company, 
and  remained  in  that  capacity  until  July,  1883, 
when  he  became  assistant  general  manager.  He 
became  general  manager.  May  i,  1885,  and  re- 
mained as  such  until  June,  1886,  when  he  be- 
came assistant  president  and  general  manager, 
and  on  January  i,  1888,  second  vice-president, 
resigning  in  July,  1903.  At  the  time  of  his 
appointment  to  the  position  of  general  man- 
ager the  Honesdale  Citizen  saia. 

While  there  is  a  cordial  recognition  of  the  new 
official's  experience  and  proved  ability  as  amply  vin- 
dicating this  appointment,  it  is  not  without  a  certain 
element  of  unexpectedness  due  to  the  contrast  in 
years  between  the  appointee  and  his  predecessor. 
To  compare  a  civil  with  a  military  career,  it  is  much 
like  the  selection  of  the  youthful  Bonaparte  to  com- 
mand the  army  of  Italy;  and  it  is  not  too  much  to 
predict  that  a  further  parallel  will  be  found  in  suc- 
cessful results.  The  new  general  manager  was  born 
in  Honesdale  and  after  due  preparation  for  college 
he  entered  the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute  at 
Troy,  New  York.  There  he  received  a  thorough 
scientific  course  and  was  graduated  with  honor.  In 
1879  he  entered  the  Delaware  and  Hudson  service 
as  assistant  to  the  general  manager.  Here  bring- 
ing to  the  task  the  scientific  acquirements  gained  at 
the  Polytechnic  and  with  the  valuable  counsel  of  the 
general  manager  in  their  application  to  the  work  in 
hand  he  rapidly  mastered  the  complicated  details  of 
railroad  and  canal  operation.  In  July,  1882,  he  was 
promoted  to  the  position  of  assistant  general  mana- 
ger and  took  in  special  charge  the  northern  railroad 
department.  This  embraced  the  Albany  and  Susque- 
hanna Railroad,  the  New  Jersey  and  Canada,  the 
Rensselaer  and  Saratoga,  the  Duanesburg  and 
Schenectady,  the  Utica,  Clinton  and  Binghamton,  and 
the  Cherry  Valley  Branch,  with  upward  of  six 
hundred  miles  of  track;  and  of  these  roads  he  was 
practical  superintendent.  In  this  position  he  proved 
himself  a  thoroughly  practical  railroad  manager  of 
unusual  energ>-,  judgment,  and  administrative  ability. 
His  success  in  the  direction  of  this  department  was 
fully  appreciated  by  the  Delaware  and  Hudson  di- 
rectory, and  the  most  conclusive  proof  of  the  prac- 
tical recognition  of  his  merits  is  seen  in  his  appoint- 
ment to  the  position  so  long  and  so  ably  filled  by  his 
father.  This  confidence  in  his  ability  rests  on  a 
solid  basis  and  is  the  brilliant  career  on  which  he 
has  entered  and  in  which  he  has  the  best  wishes  of 
hosts  of  friends. 

Mr.  Young  was  president  of  the  Albany 
Trust  Company  from  1905  to  1908,  and  chair- 
man of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  same  from 
July  I,  1908.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  a  member  of  the  Bibliophile  Society  of 
Boston.  He  belongs  to  the  Fort  Orange,  Al- 
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clubs ;  the  University  and  Grolier  clubs  in  New 
York  City. 

He  married  at  Albany,  New  York,  October 
12,  1881,  Cornelia  L.,  daughter  of  Oscar  L. 
Hascy,  a  retired  and  wealthy  lumber  merchant 
of  Albany.  Mr.  Hascy  is  a  man  of  prominence 
in  the  capitol  city,  a  member  of  the  Fort 
Orange  Club  there,  and  prominent  in  the  up- 
building of  All  Saints  Cathedral.  Children: 
Clarence  Hascy,  and  Cornelia  Alice,  married 
Francis  Bailey  Vanderhoef,  of  New  York. 

(IV)  Edwin,  son  of  Coe  F.  and  Mary  A. 
(Cornell)  Young,  was  born  at  Honesdale, 
Wayne  county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1856.  He 
was  graduated  from  Yale  University,  in  the 
class  of  1877,  and  attended  the  Columbia  Col- 
lege Law  School,  and  the  University  of  Berlin, 
being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1880  and  becom- 
ing the  attorney  of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson 
Canal  Company  two  years  later.  He  resided 
at  Albany,  New  York.  In  April,  1893,  he  was 
thrown  from  his  horse  while  riding  in  the  park 
and  sustained  injuries  from  which  he  never 
recovered,  and  as  a  result  of  which  he  died 
three  days  after  the  accident.  He  married,  in 
1883,  Mary  Cornell,  daughter  of  Commodore 
Peter  Cornell,  of  New  York  City,  the  owner 
of  a  steamship  line  on  the  Hudson  river,  run- 
ning a  line  of  boats  between  New  York  and 
Troy,  called  the  Citizens  Line.  This  line  was 
subsequently  sold  and  is  now  a  part  of  the 
Hudson  Navigation  Company.  Children:  Isa- 
bell  Cornell  and  Mary  Amelia. 

(  V)  Clarence  Hascy,  son  of  Horace  Gedney 
and  Cornelia  L.  (Hascy)  Young,  was  born 
September  15,  1882.  He  was  named  after  a 
son  of  Mr.  Oscar  L.  Hascy,  who  died  as  a 
young  man.  He  attended  school  at  the  Albany 
Academy  at  Albany,  New  York,  and  finished 
preparation  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School 
at  Concord,  New  Hampshire.  He  was  gradu- 
ated from  Yale  College  with  the  class  of  1905. 
He  went  to  New  York  in  the  fall  of  1905  and 
took  a  position  with  the  banking  house  of 
Joseph  Walker  &  Sons,  No.  20  Broad  street. 
He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  New  York 
Stock  Exchange,  September  24,  1908,  and  on 
January  i,  1909,  he  became  a  partner  in 
the  above  mentioned  firm.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Yale  Club,  Riding  Club,  Republican 
Club,  Apawamis  Club  of  New  York,  the  Fort 
Orange  Club  of  Albany  and  the  Psi  Upsilon 
fraternity. 


(II)  Johannes  de  Peyster, 
DE  PEYSTER  son  of  Jean  or  Johannes 
(q.  v.)  and  Cornelia 
(Lubbertse)  de  Peyster,  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  September  21,  1666,  where  he  died 
in  about  1719.  He  received  a  liberal  educa- 
tion, and  at  an  early  age  became  influential  in 
the  civic,  business  and  military  affairs  of  the 
city  and  province.  He  held  many  important 
positions,  serving  as  assessor  in  1692-93,  as- 
sistant alderman  in  1694-96,  and  mayor  in 
1698-99,  fining  all  of  these  posts  with  distinc- 
tion. He  also  served  in  the  provincial  legisla- 
ture in  1698-99,  and  was  a  member  of  several 
important  committees.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  New  York  City  Cavalry  under  the  com- 
mand of  his  brother.  Colonel  Abraham  de 
Peyster.  Mr.  de  Peyster  acquired  much  prop- 
erty and  was  noted  for  his  hospitality,  his  home 
being  the  centre  of  the  culture  and  learning  of 
the  province.  He  was  described  by  contempor- 
aries as  the  handsomest  man  of  his  time.  In 
1710  he  made  a  trip  to  Holland,  visiting  rela- 
tives in  various  portions  of  that  country.  On 
October  8,  1688,  he  was  married  at  Albany, 
New  York,  to  Anna,  daughter  of  Gerret  and 
Elizabeth  (Dirckse)  Bancker,  born  March  21, 
1670.  Her  father  came  to  New  Amsterdam 
before  1655,  founding  the  family  in  that  city. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  de  Peyster  had  twelve  children : 
I.  John,  born  July  24,  1689,  died  young.  2. 
Gerard,  born  January  19,  1691,  died  young.  3. 
Elizabeth,  born  September  23,  1692;  married 
(first)  Dr.  Jacobus  Beekman,  (second)  Abra- 
ham Boelen.  4.  Johannes,  born  January  10. 
1694;  removed  to  Albany  where  he  became  a 
prominent  citizen  serving  as  city  recorder, 
mayor,  member  of  legislature,  and  commis- 
sioner of  Indian  affairs,  also  serving  in  the 
army ;  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Captain 
Myndert  David  Schuyler,  and  had  four  chil- 
dren: Anne,  Rachel,  Myndert  Schuyler  (first), 
and  Myndert  Schuyler  (second).  5.  Cornelia, 
born  December  12,  1693;  married  (first)  Mat- 
thew Clarkson,  (second)  Gilbert  Tenant.  6. 
Gerardus,  born  October  7,  1697;  married 
(first)  Mary  Octave,  (second)  M.  Oakes,  hav- 
ing two  children :  John  and  Anna.  7.  Anna, 
born  January  21,  1700;  married  (first)  John 
Van  tarling,  (second)  Henry  Ellis.  8.  Wil- 
liam, born  October  15,  1701,  died  young.  9. 
Abraham,  born  February  27,  1704,  died  young. 
10.  Maria,  born  January  18,  1706;  married 
(first)  Gerardus  (or  Gerret)  Bancker,  of  Al- 


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bany,  (second)  Joseph  Ogden.  ii.  William, 
mentioned  further.  12.  Catherine,  baptized 
July  22,  171 1 ;  married  Hendrick  Rutgers. 

(III)  William,  son  of  Johannes  and  Anna 
(Bancker)  de  Peyster,  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  May  4,  1709,  and  died  in  Albany  about 
1783.  He  was  educated  at  private  school  in 
New  York  City,  and  at  an  early  age  entered 
mercantile  business  in  which  he  acquired  great 
wealth.  When  the  city  was  occupied  by  the 
British  he  served  as  assistant  alderman,  and 
in  1776  went  to  Albany.  His  portrait,  painted 
by  Copley,  is  now  in  the  possession  of  one  of 
his  descendants,  Mr.  Henry  de  Peyster.  He 
married,  May  5,  1730,  Margaret  Roosevelt, 
baptized  in  New  York,  May  8,  1709.  She  was 
a  daughter  of  Johannes  and  Heiltje  (Sjoertz) 
Roosevelt ;  her  portrait  was  lost  in  the  fire  that 
consumed  the  residence  of  James  de  Peyster 
at  Bloomington,  New  York.  Children:  i. 
John,  born  April  26,  1731,  died  1807;  married 
Elizabeth  Haring  and  had  three  children : 
Margaret,  who  married  her  cousin,  Gerard  de 
Peyster,  Elizabeth,  and  John  J.  2.  Heylte, 
baptized  January  17,  1733.  3.  William,  born 
February  10,  1735;  married  (first)  Elizabeth 
Bresier  Brogan,  (second)  Christina  Daly;  was 
captain  in  the  Continental  army  during  the 
revolutionary  war.  4.  Gerardus,  born  Febru- 
ary 25,  1737;  married  Elizabeth  Rutgers.  5. 
Nicholas,  mentioned  further.  6.  Abraham, 
born  November  i,  1742;  was  an  American 
officer  during  the  revolution ;  married  Christina 
Baldwin,  of  New  Jersey.  7.  James  W.,  born 
February  23,  1745,  died  in  1812;  married  his 
cousin,  Anna,  daughter  of  Gerardus  de  Pey- 
ster. 8.  Anna,  baptized  June  8,  1747.  9.  Mar- 
garitje,  baptized  October  4,  1749.  10.  Mar- 
garita, baptized  November  3,  1751. 

(IV)  Nicholas,  son  of  William  and  Mar- 
garet (Roosevelt)  de  Peyster,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  March  6,  1740,  and  was  bap- 
tized on  March  16  of  the  same  year.  He  in- 
herited a  large  fortune  and  was  for  many 
years  one  of  the  most  influential  citizens  of 
New  York.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Dutch 
church  and  a  liberal  contributor  to  its  chari- 
ties. He  married  (first)  December  23,  1762, 
at  the  Dutch  church  in  New  York,  Jane  Jan- 
sen,  a  native  of  the  city.  Children,  baptized 
in  the  Dutch  church:  i.  Joris  (George),  men- 
tioned further.  2.  William,  born  September 
22,  1765;  lived  for  many  years  in  Florida 
where  he  died  unmarried.    3.  Sara,  born  Sep- 


tember 14,  1768.  4.  Margaritha,  born  Octo- 
ber 8,  1769.  Mr.  de  Peyster  married  (second) 
prior  to  1773,  Frances  de  Kay.  Children,  bap- 
tized in  the  Dutch  church:  5.  William,  born 
August  8,  1773.  6.  Nicholas,  born  October 
15,  1775-  7-  Jane,  born  September,  1784;  mar- 
ried Richard  D.  Arden. 

(V)  George,  son  of  Nicholas  and  Jane 
(Jansen)  de  Peyster,  was  born  May  16,  1764. 
He  was  educated  in  New  York  and  became 
one  of  its  leading  citizens.  He  married  Lydia 
Anne  Jackson,  of  Long  Island.  Children : 
Nicholas,  mentioned  further;  Frances;  Mary, 
married  Samuel  T.  Gary;  Georgiana,  married 
William  Dumont ;  Jane. 

(VI)  Nicholas  (2),  son  of  George  and 
Lydia  Anne  (Jackson)  de  Peyster,  born  Au- 
gust 16,  1825,  died  February  12,  1889,  in  New 
York  City,  being  one  of  the  few  descendants 
in  the  male  line  of  the  family  left  on  Manhat- 
tan Island.  He  was  born  at  the  country  seat 
of  the  family  on  the  Hudson  river,  and  his 
education  was  acquired  entirely  under  private 
tutorship.  He  inherited  a  valuable  property 
which  by  his  careful  management  and  subse- 
quent enterprise  was  greatly  increased.  Upon 
the  discovery  of  gold  in  California,  Mr.  de 
Peyster  was  filled  with  the  spirit  of  adventure 
and  went  west,  meeting  with  great  good  for- 
tune in  the  new  fields.  He  purchased  a  mag- 
nificent farm  and  country  seat  at  San  Mateo, 
just  outside  of  the  new  city  of  San  Francisco, 
and  stocked  the  farm  with  a  fine  selection  of 
blooded  animals.  Here  he  remained  for  some 
nine  or  ten  years,  when  he  sold  his  property 
on  the  Pacific  slope  and  returned  to  New  York 
City,  which  he  made  his  home  thereafter.  He, 
however,  traveled  extensively  in  Europe  dur- 
ing the  remaining  years  of  his  life,  making  his 
first  trip  shortly  after  his  return  from  the 
west,  when  he  spent  four  years  abroad,  mainly 
in  London  and  Paris.  He  was  a  liberal  patron 
of  literature  and  art,  possessing  many  historic 
and  valuable  paintings ;  among  these  being  a 
Rubens,  a  Vanderlyn,  a  Sir  David  Wilkie,  and 
the  masterpiece,  the  Hemicycle  at  Rome. 
While  abroad  Mr.  de  Peyster  made  the  ac- 
quaintance of  many  persons  of  distinction  by 
whom  he  was  entertained  at  their  various 
homes,  and  became  a  well  known  figure  in 
most  of  the  European  capitals.  He  was  a  good 
sportsman  and  a  delightful  companion. 

Returning  to  America  in  1862,  he  remained 
about  a  year  in  New  York,  when  he  again  went 


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abroad,  where  he  continued  for  about  eight 
years.  In  1870  he  returned  to  New  York,  and 
in  the  following  year  was  married  to  Miss 
Marianna  Moore,  of  Astoria,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Stewart  Moore.  The  Moore  family,  one 
of  the  oldest  in  the  country,  was  related  to 
the  Barclay  and  other  families  of  distinction, 
and  gave  to  the  Episcopal  church  a  theological 
seminary.  Clement  C.  Moore,  son  of  Bishop 
Moore,  and  one  of  the  most  distinguished 
members  of  the  family,  was  the  author  of  the 
well-known  verses,  '"Twas  the  Night  Before 
Christmas,"  beside  many  other  writings  al- 
most equally  celebrated. 

Immediately  after  his  marriage  Mr.  de  Pey- 
ster  took  his  bride  abroad  and  re-visited  his 
European  haunts.  They  toured  nearly  every 
part  of  the  continent,  and  returning  finally  to 
New  York,  took  up  their  residence  at  the  fam- 
ily home.  No.  23  West  Fifteenth  street.  Here 
Mr.  de  Peyster  followed  a  purely  domestic 
life  until  his  death  in  1889,  renouncing  his 
travels  and  his  clubs  and  devoting  himself  en- 
tirely to  his  family.  The  last  few  years  of  his 
life  were  marred  by  impaired  health,,  but 
cheered  by  the  loving  ministrations  of  his 
wife  and  only  son.  He  was  interred  at  Green- 
wood Cemetery  in  the  last  resting  place  of  his 
distinguished  forefathers.  Before  his  mar- 
riage he  was  a  well  known  clubman,  belong- 
ing to  the  Racquet  and  Tennis,  the  Century, 
the  New  York,  and  the  American  Yacht  clubs, 
and  to  the  St.  Nicholas  Society.  He  possessed 
marked  artistic  talent  and  literary  taste. 

(VII)  William  Moore  Dongan  de  Peyster, 
son  of  Nicholas  (2)  and  Marianna  (Moore) 
de  Peyster,  was  born  at  Astoria,  Long  Island, 
June  24,  1873,  being  the  only  child  born  to  his 
parents.  He  received  his  name  in  honor  of 
his  maternal  grandfather  and  a  celebrated  an- 
cestor in  the  paternal  line,  Governor  Thomas 
Dongan,  who  came  to  New  York  in  1682,  being 
appointed  governor  of  the  province  by  King 
James  II.  Mr.  de  Peyster  was  educated  in 
New  York  City,  becoming  an  excellent  athlete 
at  school  and  later  delighting  to  ride  to  the 
hounds.  He  is  a  life  member  of  the  New 
York  Historical  Society,  and  a  generous  con- 
tributor to  the  support  of  the  American  Mu- 
seum of  Natural  History,  taking  a  deep  inter- 
est in  historical  and  educational  matters.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Union  and  Baltusro! 
Golf  clubs,  and  belongs  to  the  St.  Nicholas 
Society  and  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars. 


On  January  7,  1913,  after  being  received 
into  the  Catholic  church,  Mr.  de  Peyster  was 
married  to  Aimee  Coudert,  widow  of  Baron 
Brennig  and  daughter  of  Charles  Coudert. 
Her  uncle,  Hon.  Frederic  R.  Coudert,  was 
known  as  one  of  the  ablest  lawyers  in  the 
country,  and  possessed  an  international  repu- 
tation by  reason  of  his  able  handling  of  the 
fisheries  dispute  between  nations,  brought 
about  by  the  illegal  taking  of  seal  within  the 
statutory  limits. 


(IV)  Captain  William  Sage,  sec- 
SAGE  ond  son  of  Amos  (q.  v.)  and  Re- 
becca (Wilcox)  Sage,  was  born 
1748,  baptized  June  i,  1749,  in  Cromwell,  and 
died  there  November  8,  1833.  He  was  a  revolu- 
tionary soldier,  serving  at  Bunker  Hill,  and 
was  made  ensign,  November  11,  1781.  in  the 
second  company  of  the  Twenty-third  Regi- 
ment. After  the  war  he  became  captain  of  a 
militia  company.  He  built  what  was  known 
as  the  "Footit  House,''  and  had  a  very  hand- 
some mansion  in  Cromwell.  He  married 
(first)  Bathsheba  Hollister,  who  died  April 
17,  1792,  and  married  (second)  March  21, 
1793,  Abigail  (Eells-Stow)  White,  widow  of 
William  White  at  the  time  of  her  marriage, 
and  daughter  of  John  and  Abiah  (W'aterman) 
Eells,  born  about  1750.  Her  first  husband  was 
Jonathan  Stow.  Children  of  first  wife:  Wil- 
liam, of  whom  further;  Betsey,  born  1767; 
Josiah,  1770;  George,  1772;  Roswell,  died 
young;  Sally,  1780;  Levi,  1782;  Roswell,  1784; 
Clarissa,  1785;  Isaac,  1786;  Nathan,  1788;  Or- 
rin,  January  17,  1791.  There  were  two  chil- 
dren of  the  second  marriage:  Sophy,  born 
1794;  Susan,  March  28,  1796. 

(V)  William  (2)  Sage,  eldest  son  of  Cap- 
tain William  (i)  and  Bathsheba  (Hollister) 
Sage,  was  born  1768  in  Cromwell,  and  resided 
m  Middletown.  He  married  Elizabeth  Cook, 
of  Middletown,  and  had  children :  William, 
born  1789;  Henry  W.,  1791 ;  Eliza,  1793,  mar- 
ried a  Winship;  Charles,  of  whom  further; 
James,  1797;  Hiram,  1799;  Sarah,  1801  ; 
Abigail,  married  a  Lee. 

(VI)  Charles  Sage,  third  son  of  William 
(2)  and  Elizabeth  (Cook)  Sage,  was  born 
1793,  in  Middletown,  and  resided  in  early  life 
in  Bristol,  Connecticut,  whence  he  removed 
to  Ithaca,  New  York,  in  1827.  In  1838  he 
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killed  by  hostile  Indians.  He  married  Sally 
Williams,  whose  brothers,  Timothy  S.  and 
Josiah  B.  Williams,  became  prominent  in 
Ithaca,  both  serving  in  the  state  senate.  Chil- 
dren :  Henry  Williams,  of  whom  further ;  Julia 
A.,  born  1815;  Elizabeth  C,  1817;  Lucy  A., 
1819;  Caroline  B.,  died  young;  Caroline  B., 
1823;  Charles  G.,  1825. 

(VII)  Henry  Williams  Sage,  eldest  child  of 
Charles  and  Sally  (Williams)  Sage,  was  born 
January  31,  1814,  in  Middletown,  Connecti- 
cut. He  had  been  a  student  at  an  academy  in 
Bristol,  when  the  family  removed  to  Ithaca. 
In  1830  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  at 
Ithaca  with  Dr.  Austin  Church,  but  ill  health 
compelled  him  to  abandon  this  within  a  year. 
In  1832  he  started  on  a  commercial  career,  be- 
ginning as  a  clerk  in  the  mercantile  business 
of  his  uncles,  Timothy  S.  and  Josiah  B.  Wil- 
liams. Here  his  genius  for  business  affairs 
was  rapidly  developed  and  in  five  years  he  be- 
came owner  of  the  business,  and  for  the  suc- 
ceeding twenty  years  was  among  the  most 
active  business  men  in  Ithaca.  In  1847  he 
was  sent  to  the  state  legislature  by  the  county 
of  Tompkins.  In  1854  he  found  new  fields  of 
investment,  and  following  this  built  up  a  large 
lumber  manufactory  on  Lake  Simcoe  in 
Canada,  and  finding  this  line  of  industry  profit- 
able, within  a  few  years  he  joined  John  Mc- 
Graw  in  the  construction  of  another  mill  at 
Wenona  (now  West  Bay  City),  Michigan,  and 
this  mill  was  the  largest  at  that  time  in  the 
world.  Mr.  Sage  prosecuted  everything  that 
he  commenced  with  much  vigor  and  sound 
judgment,  and  as  a  means  of  maintaining  his 
saw  mill  he  became  one  of  the  largest  land- 
holders in  the  state  of  Michigan.  In  1857  he 
removed  his  home  from  Ithaca  to  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  returning  in  1880  to  the  former 
place.  While  in  Brooklyn  he  was  among  the 
active  members  of  Plymouth  Church,  and  one 
of  its  trustees  for  nearly  twenty  years.  Very 
early  in  life  he  became  a  warm  friend  of  Ezra 
Cornell,  whose  efforts  in  the  establishment  of 
Cornell  University  were  warmly  seconded  by 
Mr.  Sage,  who  became  one  of  its  early  trus- 
tees. At  the  first  commencement  of  the  uni- 
versity Mr.  Sage  oft'ered  to  erect  a  college  for 
women,  and  this  proposal  was  accepted  by  the 
trustees  two  years  later,  the  conditions  iDeing 
that  "Cornell  University  shall  provide  and 
forever  maintain  facilities  for  the  education  of 


women  as  broadly  as  for  men."  This  college, 
known  as  Sage  College,  and  a  chapel  near  it, 
were  erected  by  Mr.  Sage  and  presented  to 
the  University.  After  the  death  of  Ezra 
Cornell,  Mr.  Sage  was  elected  president  of  the 
board  and  continued  to  hold  that  position  for 
many  years.  In  the  management  of  its  landed 
property  and  the  establishment  of  solid  founda- 
tions, he  was  among  the  most  potent.  His 
efforts  were  also  expended  in  other  directions 
for  the  elevation  of  man.  He  endowed  the 
Lyman  Beecher  Lectureship  on  Preaching  at 
Yale  College,  and  established  this  feature  in 
perpetuity.  In  1884  he  built  and  presented  to 
West  Bay  City,  Michigan,  a  public  library  at 
a  cost  of  fifty  thousand  dollars.  Mr.  Sage 
partook  largely  of  the  old  Puritan  character- 
istics (but  was  devoid  of  some  of  the  offensive 
elements  of  the  early  American  immigrants). 
While  earnest  and  zealous  in  support  of  his 
religious  principles,  he  was  without  bigotry, 
charitable  to  those  of  different  opinion  or  be- 
lief, and  while  stern  in  his  sense  of  duty 
toward  others,  was  far  less  exacting  as  to  that 
of  others  toward  him.  No  labor  or  personal 
sacrifice,  no  financial  expenditure,  was  too 
great  for  those  who  possessed  his  friendship 
and  confidence.  His  early  life  was  marked 
by  hardship  and  severe  labor,  and  the  habits 
of  application  and  discipline  thus  engendered 
remained  with  him  through  life,  and  made  him 
an  example  of  executive  efficiency.  His  feel- 
ing for  others  who  were  oppressed  by  adversity 
was  always  warm  and  sympathetic,  and  with 
a  clear  head  and  vigorous  constitution  he  was 
always  ready  to  perform  his  duties  in  life. 
While  practical  as  a  business  man,  he  never 
forgot  the  sentiments  which  ennoble  mankind. 
He  possessed  a  rare  appreciation  of  humor, 
was  ever  genial  and  good  natured.  With  a 
taste  for  literature,  science,  and  art,  he  en- 
deavored to  cultivate  these  ennobling  influences 
among  his  fellows.  Wherever  he  established 
an  industry,  churches  and  schoolhouses  im- 
mediately followed,  and  while  he  was  very  suc- 
cessful as  a  business  man,  this  prosperity  did 
not  harden  his  nature  or  lead  him  to  forget 
the  finer  sentiments  and  social  duties  of  man- 
kind. 

He  married,  September  i,  1840,  Susan  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  William  Linn,  of  Ithaca,  and 
granddaughter  of  Rev.  William  Linn,  who  was 
a  contemporary  of  Washington,  Chaplain  of 
Congress,  and  for  many  years  pastor  of  the 


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Dutch  Church  in  New  York.  They  had  sons : 
Dean,  and  WilHam  H.,  mentioned  below. 

(VIII)  Dean  Sage,  son  of  Henry  Williams 
and  Susan  Elizabeth  (Linn)  Sage,  was  born 
at  Ithaca,  New  York,  June  6,  1841,  and  died 
at  a  private  fishing  camp  on  the  Restigouche 
river,  which  forms  the  boundary  between  New 
Brunswick  and  Quebec,  Canada,  on  June  27, 
1902.  His  early  education  at  Ithaca  and 
Brooklyn  had  prepared  him  to  enter  college, 
as  had  been  his  intention,  but  instead  he  passed 
directly  to  the  course  of  the  Albany  Law 
School  of  Union  University,  and  when  gradu- 
ated was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York 
State.  He  decided,  instead  of  practicing,  to 
turn  his  attention  to  the  expansion  of  the  busi- 
ness of  Henry  W.  Sage  &  Company,  which 
owned  timber  tracts  and  had  its  main  office  in 
the  Albany  Lumber  District.  As  a  conse- 
quence he  removed  to  Albany  with  his  family, 
and  bought  a  place  in  the  outskirts,  named 
Menands.  He  was  fond  of  such  outdoor 
sports  as  riding,  hunting  and  fishing,  and  col- 
lected books  on  angling.  He  privately  issued 
a  catalogue  of  his  rarities  in  the  book  world, 
including  among  the  list  his  special  Waltonian 
collection,  and  another  specialty  was  his 
Charles  Lamb  collection,  in  both  of  which  he 
took  great  pride.  To  those  friends  who  ap- 
preciated rarities  he  found  pleasure  in  show- 
ing his  greatest  treasures.  He  wrote  and  pub- 
lished "The  Restigouche  and  Its  Salmon-fish- 
ing," a  sumptuous  volume,  issued  at  Edin- 
burgh, Scotland,  in  1888,  the  edition  consist- 
ing of  only  one  hundred  and  five  copies.  In 
1902,  the  year  of  his  death,  The  Macmillan 
Company  published  his  work  entitled  "Salmon 
and  Trout,"  which  was  illustrated  under  his 
supervision,  and  had  been  compiled  to  join  the 
Caspar  Whitney  series.  Mr.  Sage  was  a  man 
of  frank  and  generous  disposition,  impulsive 
and  courageous  in  action,  and  his  life  abounded 
in  deeds  of  human  kindness.  Humor  was  the 
salt  of  his  life.  One  of  the  traits  which  his 
invincible  modesty  concealed  from  the  many 
was  a  genuine  poetic  gift,  in  consonance  with 
his  love  of  wild  nature.  He  joined  the  Grolier 
Club  in  1887.     He  was  a  Republican. 

Dean  Sage  married,  at  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  June  13,  1865,  Sarah  Augusta  Manning. 
She  was  born  at  Brooklyn,  July  24,  1841,  and 
was  the  daughter  of  Richard  Henry  and  Sarah 
Porter  (Swan)  Manning.  Mrs.  Sage  resides 
in  Menands,  Albany  county,  New  York.  Rich- 


ard Henry,  Manning  was  born  at  Ipswich. 
Massachusetts,  February  i,  1809,  died  at 
Brooklyn,  November  2,  1887;  married,  at 
Calais,  Maine,  November  7,  1840,  Sarah 
Porter  Swan,  who  was  born  at  Winslow, 
Maine,  February  5,  1816,  and  died  at  Santa 
Cruz,  West  Indies,  December  21,  1841. 

(IX)  Susan  Linn  Sage,  daughter  of  Dean 
and  Sarah  Augusta  (Manning)  Sage,  was  born 
at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  October  i,  1866,  and 
resides  at  No.  98  Western  avenue,  Albany, 
New  York.  She  married,  at  "Hillside," 
Menands,  Albany,  June  2,  1891,  James  Feni- 
more  Cooper.  He  was  born  at  Albany,  June 
15,  1858,  and  was  the  son  of  Paul  Fenimore 
Cooper,  son  of  James  Fenimore  Cooper,  the 
famed  American  novelist,  and  Mary  Fuller 
(Barrows)  Cooper.  He  received  his  prepara- 
tory education  at  the  Albany  Boys'  Academy, 
and  studied  for  his  profession  at  the  Albany 
Law  School  of  Union  University.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  State,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  well-known  law  firm  of 
Tracey,  Cooper  &  Townsend,  at  No.  25  North 
Pearl  street,  Albany.  He  is  a  Republican,  and 
attends  the  Episcopal  church.  Mr.  Cooper  is 
connected  with  several  institutions  of  public 
character,  such  as  being  a  trustee  of  the  Al- 
bany Savings  Bank,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Fort  Orange  and  Country  clubs  of  Albany. 
The  family  name  is  properly  written  Fenimore- 
Cooper,  by  enactment  of  the  New  York  Legis- 
lature, April,  1826,  following  the  marriage  of 
William  Cooper  and  Elizabeth  Fenimore.  Chil- 
dren, all  born  at  Albany,  New  York :  James 
Fenimore-Cooper,  born  March  10,  ■  1892; 
Henry  Sage  Fenimore-Cooper,  March  9,  1895  ; 
Paul  Fenimore-Cooper,  May  5,  1899;  Linn 
Fenimore-Cooper,  May  5,  1899. 

(IX)  Hon.  Henry  Manning  Sage,  son  of 
Dean  and  Sarah  Augusta  (Manning)  Sage, 
was  born  at  Menands,  Albany  county.  New 
York,  May  18,  1868.  He  received  his  primary 
education  first  at  the  Adelphi  Academy  in 
Brooklyn,  afterward  at  the  Albany  Academy, 
and  then  entered  Yale  University  (where  he 
was  a  member  of  the  D.  K.  E.  and  Skull  and 
Bones  societies),  and  graduated  therefrom  in 
1890.  He  entered  the  office  of  Henry  W.  Sage 
&  Company,  lumber  merchants  in  the  Albany 
Lumber  District,  the  firm  established  by  his 
grandfather,  and  at  present  is  the  president  of 
the  Sage  Land  Improvement  Company,  with 
office  at  No.  23  State  street,  Albany.    He  was 


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town  auditor  of  Colonic,  the  district  in  which 
he  resides,  for  several  years;  was  elected  to 
the  Assembly  in  1898,  serving  one  year,  after 
which  he  was  state  senator  in  191 1,  1912,  1913, 
serving  on  the  cities  and  conservation  commit- 
tees. He  is  a  staunch  Republican,  and  fre- 
quently addresses  assemblages  in  behalf  of  the 
party  platform,  while  his  service  in  the  senate 
is  regarded  as  both  active  and  clean.  He  at- 
tends the  Episcopal  church,  and  belongs  to  the 
Fort  Orange  and  Country  clubs  of  Albany. 
His  residence  is  "Fernbrook,"  Menands,  Al- 
bany county,  New  York. 

Hon.  Henry  Manning  Sage  married  (first) 
at  Albany,  New  York,  October  29,  1895,  Annie 
Wheeler  Ward.  She  was  born  at  New  York 
City,  September  29,  1875,  and  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Samuel  Baldwin  Ward,  a  prominent 
surgeon  of  Albany,  who  was  born  at  New 
York  City,  June  8,  1842,  son  of  Lebbeus  Bald- 
win and  Abby  Dwight  (Partridge)  Ward.  Dr. 
Samuel  B.  Ward  married  Nina  Wheeler,  who 
was  born  at  New  York  City,  and  died  at  Al- 
bany, October  19,  1883.  The  children  born  to 
Henry  M.  Sage  by  this  marriage  were :  Anne 
Erskine,  born  at  Albany,  January  27,  1897 ; 
Katharine  Linn,  born  at  Menands,  New  York, 
June  25,  1898.  Hon.  Henry  M.  Sage  married 
(second)  by  Rev.  James  G.  K.  McClure,  Al- 
bany, May  II,  191 1,  Cornelia  McClure  Cogs- 
well. She  was  born  at  Albany,  September 
16,  1880,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Ledyard 
and  Cornelia  (McClure)  Cogswell.  Ledyard 
Cogswell  was  born  at  Albany,  February  10, 
1852;  became  the  vice-president  of  the  New 
York  State  National  Bank  in  January,  1885, 
and  its  president  in  October,  1900.  His  father 
was  Dr.  Mason  Fitch  Cogswell,  son  of  Dr. 
Mason  Fitch  Cogswell  and  Mary  Austin  Led- 
yard, who  was  born  at  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
November  10,  1809,  died  at  Albany,  January 
21,  1865;  married,  at  Albany,  September  13, 
1847,  Lydia  Bradford,  who  was  born  at  Al- 
bany, and  died  there,  June  30,  1872.  Ledyard 
Cogswell  married,  at  Albany,  March  25,  1875, 
Cornelia  McClure,  who  was  born  at  Albany, 
October  24,  1855,  died  there,  October  4,  1908, 
daughter  of  Archibald  and  Susan  Tracy 
(Rice)  McClure. 

(IX)  Sarah  Porter  Sage,  daughter  of  Dean 
and  Sarah  Augusta  (Manning)  Sage,  was  born 
at  her  parents'  home  in  Menands,  Albany 
county,  New  York,  June  8,  1874,  and  resides 
at   No.    105   East   Seventy-third   street.   New 


York  City.  She  married,  at  "Hillside," 
Menands,  June  18,  1903,  Edwin  Olaf  Holter. 
He  was  born  at  Helena,  Montana,  April  23, 
1871,  son  of  A.  M.  and  Mary  P.  (Soberg) 
Holter,  and  is  a  lawyer,  practicing  in  New 
York  City.  Children :  Sarah  Manning,  born 
at  New  York  City,  July  11,  1904;  Ehzabeth 
Sage,  born  at  New  York  City,  January  7, 
1906;  Edwin  Olaf,  born  at  New  York  City, 
February  8,  1908;  Mary  Frances,  born  at  Mt. 
Kisco,  New  York,  September  11,  191 1. 

(IX)  Dean  (2)  Sage,  son  of  Dean  (i)  and 
Sarah  Augusta  (Manning)  Sage,  was  born  in 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  December  13,  1875,  and 
resides  at  Bernardsville,  New  Jersey.  He  re- 
ceived his  primary  education  at  the  Albany 
Academy,  his  parents  having  removed  from 
Brooklyn  to  Albany,  after  which  he  entered 
Yale  University,  graduating  A.B.,  in  1897.  He 
studied  for  his  profession  at  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  from  which  he  was  graduated,  LL.  B., 
in  1900;  but  a  year  previous  to  his  graduation 
he  had  been  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York 
State.  He  was  associated  with  the  firm  of 
Simpson,  Thacher  &  Barnum.  In  1904  he  be- 
came the  head  of  the  firm  of  Sage,  Kerr  & 
Gray,  located  at  No.  49  Wall  street,  in  New 
York  City,  which  became  Zabriskie,  Murray, 
Sage  &  Kerr,  in  1907.  He  was  appointed 
deputy  district-attorney,  under  Hon.  William 
Travers  Jerome,  in  1902.  He  is  a  Republican, 
and  attends  the  Episcopal  church.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  University,  Midday,  Racquet 
and  Tennis,  Brook  and  Yale  clubs.  Dean 
Sage  Jr.  married,  at  Albany,  New  York,  June 
9,  1900,  Anna  Parker.  She  was  born  at  Al- 
bany, April  23,  1876,  and  was  the  daughter 
of  General  Amasa  J.  Parker  Jr.  and  his  wife, 
Cornelia  Kane  (Strong)  Parker.  General 
Parker  was  born  in  Delhi,  Delaware  county. 
New  York,  May  6,  1843  ;  Union  College,  1863  ; 
admitted  to  the  bar,  1864;  elected  brigadier- 
general,  commanding  the  Third  Brigade,  Na- 
tional Guard,  New  York,  in  1886;  assembly- 
man, 1882;  senator,  1886  and  1887;  married, 
in  1868,  Cornelia  Kane  Strong,  of  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  who  died  at  Albany,  De- 
cember 17,  1883.  General  Parker  was  the  son 
of  Judge  Amasa  Junius  Parker,  who  was  born 
at  Sharon,  Litchfield  county,  Connecticut, 
June  2,  1807,  died  at  Albany,  May  13,  1890; 
married,  in  1834,  Harriet  Langdon  Roberts,  of 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire.  Judge  Parker 
was  the  son  of  Rev.  Daniel  Parker,  a  Congre- 


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gational  minister,  at  Watertown,  Connecticut. 
Children :  Cornelia,  born  at  Albany,  New 
York,  April  7,  1901  ;  Sarah,  at  New  York  City. 
April  21,  1902;  Dean  (3),  at  Bernardsville, 
New  Jersey,  July  11,  1908. 

(IX)  Ehzabeth  Manning  Sage,  daughter  of 
Dean  and  Sarah  Augusta  (Manning)  Sage, 
was  born  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  March  27, 
1878,  and  resides  at  Hartford,  Connecticut. 
She  was  educated  at  Farmington,  Connecticut, 
and  married,  at  Albany,  New  York,  October 
19,  1899,  Walter  Lippincott  Goodwin.  He 
was  born  at  New  York  City,  September  3, 
1875,  and  was  the  son  of  James  J.  and  Jose- 
phine Sarah  (Lippincott)  Goodwin.  Children: 
Walter  Lippincott  Goodwin,  born  at  New 
York  City,  March  12,  1902;  Henry  Sage  Good- 
win, born  at  New  York  City,  October  14,  1904; 
Grenville  Goodwin,  born  at  Southampton, 
Long  Island,  July  20,  1907;  John  Blair  Linn 
Goodwin,  born  at  New  York,  February  25, 
1912. 

(VIII)  William  Henry  Sage,  son  of  Henry 
WilHams  and  Susan  Elizabeth  (Linn)  Sage, 
was  born  at  Ithaca,  New  York,  January  9, 
1844,  and  resides  at  Menands,  Albany  county. 
New  York.  He  entered  Yale  University, 
after  his  preparatory  education,  and  graduated 
in  the  class  of  1865.  Thereafter  he  became 
associated  with  his  father  and  brother  as  a 
lumber  manufacturer  and  merchant,  under 
the  firm  name  of  H.  W.  Sage  &  Company, 
with  large  mills  at  Bay  City,  Michigan,  and 
at  Belle  Ewart,  Ontario,  Canada,  and  dis- 
tributing yards  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  and  in  the 
Lumber  District,  at  Albany.  In  those  days 
Albany  was  noted  as  a  wholesale  lumber  mart, 
equalling  any  other  in  the  United  States,  be- 
cause of  its  location  for  convenience  in  ship- 
ping by  the  Hudson  river  and  numerous  rail 
lines,  together  with  the  facilities  afforded  by 
the  Erie  and  Champlain  canals  for  transport- 
ing lumber  from  the  western  forests  and  from 
Canada.  The  firm  owned  enormous  tracts  of 
land  and  leased  others,  from  which  they  cut 
the  timber.  About  1890  the  firm  discontinued 
the  lumber  business,  and  in  1893  organized 
The  Sage  Land  and  Improvement  Company, 
and  devoted  their  energies  to  the  acquisition  of 
timber  lands  in  the  south  and  west,  with  the 
main  office  in  Albany.  Having  lived  in  Ithaca 
and  Brooklyn  many  years,  Mr.  Sage  finally 
brought  his  family  to  Albany,  and  chose 
Menands,  a  suburb,  for  his  residence.     He  is 


a  member  of  the  Fort  Orange  and   Country 
clubs  of  Albany. 

William  H.  Sage  married  (first)  at  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  May  20,  1869,  Jennie 
Gregg  Curtin.  She  was  born  at  Bellefonte, 
Pennsylvania,  January  17,  1845,  ^"^  died  at 
New  York  City,  November  22,  1893.  Her 
father  was  Andrew  Gregg  Curtin,  who  was  the 
war  governor  of  Pennsylvania  for  two  terms, 
and  officiated  as  United  States  Ambassador  to 
Russia.  Hon.  Andrew  G.  Curtin  married 
Catherine  Irvine  Wilson.  By  this  marriage 
Mr.  Sage  had  four  children.  William  H.  Sage 
married  (second)  at  New  York  City,  April 
9,  1898,  Isabel  ^^'hitney.  She  was  born  at 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  March  21,  1856,  and 
was  the  daughter  of  George  H.  Whitney  and 
his  wife,  Priscilla  Alden  (Gallup)  Whitney. 
By  this  marriage  Mr.  Sage  had  one  child.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Katharine  Curtin,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Henry  Williams,  mentioned  below.  3.  An- 
drew Gregg  Curtin,  born  at  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  June  3,  1873;  unmarried;  residing  in 
New  York  City.  4.  De  Witt  Linn,  born  at 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  February  3,  1875,  died 
at  Albany,  New  York,  January  i,  1901.  5. 
William  Henry,  born  at  Albany,  New  York, 
September  21,  1900,  died  there,  October  28, 
1900. 

(IX)  Katharine  Curtin  Sage,  daughter  ol 
William  Henry  and  Jennie  Gregg  (Curtin) 
Sage,  was  born  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  July 
2,  1870,  and  resides  at  Syracuse,  New  York. 
She  married,  at  Ithaca,  New  York,  October 
22,  1895,  Ernest  Ingersoll  White.  He  was 
born  at  Syracuse,  October  3,  1869,  and  was  the 
son  of  Horace  Keep  and  Marian  (Strong) 
White,  of  Syracuse.  Ernest  1.  White's  brother. 
Hon.  Horace  K.  White,  was  governor  of  New 
York  State,  having  previously  been  state  sen- 
ator and  lieutenant-governor.  Children  :  Jane 
Sage  White,  born  at  Syracuse,  New  York, 
April  29,  1897;  Marian  Strong  White,  born  at 
Syracuse,  August  4,  1898;  Katharine  Curtin 
White,  born  at  Eastern  Point,  Connecticut,  Au- 
gust 12,  1904. 

(IX)  Henry  Williams  Sage,  son  of  William 
Henry  and  Jennie  Gregg  (Curtin)  Sage,  was 
born  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  April  7.  1872. 
He  resides  at  Menands,  Albany  county.  New 
York,  and  is  associated  with  The  Sage  Land 
and  Improvement  Company,  at  No.  33  State 
street,  Albany.  He  married,  at  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  May  10,  1899,  Marjorie  Howard 


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Lowrie.  She  was  born  at  Allegheny  City, 
Pennsylvania,  September  26,  1875,  and  was  the 
daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Thompson  Lowrie, 
of  Philadelphia,  and  Elizabeth  Dickson,  his 
wife.  Children :  Marjorie  Lowrie,  born  at 
Menands,  New  York,  March  24,  1900;  Henry 
Williams,  born  at  Menands,  New  York,  June 
19,  1903 ;  De  Witt  Linn,  born  at  Narragansett 
Pier,  Rhode  Island,  August  16,  1906. 


The  Millard  family  is  said  to 
MILLARD  have  been  originally  Hugue- 
nots who  were  exiled  from 
France  and  settled  in  the  west  of  England. 
The  first  member  of  the  family  of  whom  we 
have  any  definite  information  was  a  Mr.  Mil- 
lard who  was  a  dyer  in  Trowbridge,  Wiltshire. 
England.  His  wife's  name  is'  unknown.  Chil- 
dren: John,  referred  to. below:  William,  en- 
gaged in  agricultural  engine  works ;  James, 
who  was  a  master-mechanic  on  the  Great 
Western  railroad  in  England  ;  Jacob  ;  Thomas, 
who  lived  in  London,  England ;  Sarah ; 
Eliza. 

(II)  John  Millard  was  born  January  T.J, 
1807,  in  Trowbridge,  Wiltshire,  England,  and 
was  killed  in  an  accident  with  a  runaway  horse 
in  the  city  of  London  in  1871.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  schools  of  his  native  town  and 
then  engaged  in  the  dyeing  business  with  his 
father,  afterward  in  the  bakery  and  whole- 
sale grocery  business  for  a  number  of  years, 
and  in  i860  removed  to  London,  where  he 
lived  until  his  death.  He  married  Jane  Doel, 
who  died  in  1838.  Children:  James,  referred 
to  below ;  Sarah,  born  in  1835,  died  in  Troy, 
New  York,  married  Isaiah  Smalley. 

(HI)  James,  son  of  John  and  Jane  (Doel) 
Millard,  was  born  in  Trowbridge,  Wiltshire, 
England,  December  4,  1833,  and  is  now  liv- 
ing in  Kingston,  Ulster  county.  New  York. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools  in  England,  and  in  1857  emigrated 
to  America,  landing  at  New  York  City,  and 
worked  in  various  sections  of  the  country  until 
January  i,  1859,  when  he  settled  in  Kingston 
and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Baldwin 
Foundry  where  he  remained  until  1865.  In 
that  year  he  opened  a  machine  shop  on  the 
Wilbur  road  in  Kingston,  and  in  the  following 
year,  owing  to  the  increase  in  his  business, 
established  a  foundry  and  machine  shop  on 
Broadway,  where  the  business  is  still  con- 
ducted,  and   has   developed   to   large   propor- 


tions. It  was  incorporated  in  1910  under  the 
title  of  the  James  Millard  &  Son  Company,  of 
which  he  is  still  the  president.  He  has  resided 
for  many  years  in  a  handsome  residence  on 
Albany  avenue  in  Kingston.  He  is  an  elder 
in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  in  Kingston, 
of  which  he  is  the  oldest  living  member,  having 
joined  it  in  1865.  He  married,  in  i860,  Leah 
Maria,  daughter  of  Andrew  P.  and  Sarah 
Minderson  (Wynkoop)  Roosa,  who  was  born 
June  23,  1830,  and  died  in  1900  (see  Wyn- 
koop VI).  Children:  i.  Sarah  J.  2.  Minnie 
M.  3.  John  R..  educated  at  the  Kingston 
Academy,  graduated  from  Cornell  University 
in  the  class  of  1888,  and  now  associated  in 
business  with  his  father  as  vice-president  of 
the  James  Millard  &  Son  Company  in  Kings- 
ton, married  Jennie  K.  Dart ;  children :  Kath- 
erine  D.,  James  W.,  Leah,  died  in  infancy. 

(The  Wynkoop  Line.) 

Cornelius  Wynkoop,  the  founder  of  this 
family,  died  about  1676.  The  earliest  record 
of  him  in  America  is  February  5,  1655,  at 
Rensselaerwyck,  where  he  bought  some  goods 
at  a  public  sale.  He  apparently  lived  at  Rens- 
selaerwyck until  1664.  when  he  settled  in 
Esopus  with  his  family.  In  April,  1669,  he 
was  appointed  a  commissary  at  Kingston  and 
held  the  office  until  1671.  June  10,  1672,  he 
was  appointed  one  of  the  two  new  commis- 
sioners and  served  until  August  14,  1674.  He 
was  also  schepen  of  Hurley  during  the  re-oc- 
cupation of  the  province  by  the  Dutch.  He 
married  Maria,  daughter  of  Jan  Langedyck, 
who  died  about  1679.  Children:  Johannes, 
referred  to  below ;  Maria,  married  Moses  Du- 
puis;  Evert,  born  March  24,  1665,  died  July 
31,  1746,  married  (first)  August  26,  1688, 
Gertrude  Elmendorf,  and  (second)  Antje 
Kiersted;  Gerret.  married  Hilletje  Fokker; 
Nicholas,  baptized  October  15,  1668,  living  in 
1676;  Catherine,  baptized  June  18,  1671,  liv- 
ing in  1679;  Benjamin,  baptized  April  18, 
1675,  living  in  1737,  married  October  21,  1697, 
Femmetje  van  der  Heul. 

(II)  Major  Johannes  Wynkoop,  son  of 
Cornelius  and  Maria  Janse  (Langedyck)  Wyn- 
koop, was  born  in  Rensselaerwyck,  and  died 
in  Kingston,  between  1730  and  1733.  He  was 
magistrate  of  the  town  court  of  Kingston  at 
various  times  from  1691  to  1712,  and  in  1728 
in  a  "list  of  commanding  officers,  as  well  mili- 
tary as  civil"  he  is  referred  to  as  major.     He 


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married  (first)  July  i6,  1687,  Judith,  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  Jansen  Bloctgoed  and  Lysbet 
Jans  of  Fkishing,  New  York;  he  married 
(second)  June  6,  1696,  CorneHa,  daughter  of 
Major  Dirck  Wesselsze  and  Christina  Cornei- 
isze  (Van  Beuren)  Ten  Broeck.  Children 
(three  by  first  marriage):  i.  Cornelis,  bap- 
tized June  4,  1688,  died  about  1747 ;  married, 
December  14,  171 1,  Hendrika  Newkirk.  2. 
Elizabeth,  born  in  1690,  died  February  12, 
1761;  married,  January  17,  1712,  Jac  Ten 
Broeck.  3.  Maria,  baptized  April  23,  1693; 
married,  January  14,  1715.  Thomas  Beeck- 
man.  4.  Christina,  baptized  March  28,  1697; 
married,  May  12,  1723,  Johannes  E.  Delamat- 
er.  5.  Dirck,  referred  to  below.  6.  Catherine, 
baptized  January  19,  1701,  died  young.  7. 
Johannes  (2),  born  October  7,  1702,  died  Au- 
gust 8,  1791 ;  married  December  19,  1728, 
Maria  Bogardus.  8.  Lydia,  baptized  Febru- 
ary 21,  1 7 14,  died  young. 

(III)  Dirck,  son  of  Major  Johannes  and 
Cornelia  (Ten  Broeck)  Wynkoop,  was  born 
November  i,  1698,  at  Kingston,  was  baptized 
there  November  6,  1698,  and  died  March  30, 
1773.  He  settled  in  Hurley,  April  20,  1732. 
He  married  in  Kingston,  July  3,  1725,  Ger- 
trude, daughter  of  Cornelis  Kool'.  Children: 
Catherine,  born  May  20,  1726,  died  September 
24,  1746,  unmarried;  June,  born  May  21,  1728, 
died  October  4,  1740;  Cornelia,  born  June  30, 
1730,  died  December  24,  1731 ;  Cornelia,  born 
May  10,  1732,  married,  December  21,  1752, 
Martin  Ten  Eyck ;  Cornelius  D.,  referred  to 
below;  Johannes,  born  January  30,  1736,  mar- 
ried, January  5,  1792,  Margaret  Jansen;  Dirck 
D.,  born  February  23,  1738.  married  (first) 
November  15,  1765,  Sarah  Eltinge,  and  (sec- 
ond) Anna  Eltinge;  Ephraim,  born  March  10, 
1740,  died  June  26,  1740;  Hendrikus,  born  Oc- 
tober 18,  1741,  died  February  6,  1746;  Jane, 
born  May  11,  1744,  married,  January  27,  "1778, 
Cornelius  Jansen;  Catherine,  born  October  16, 
1747,  died  January  3,  1797,  married,  Novem- 
ber 2,  1784,  Martin  Persen. 

(IV)  Colonel  Cornelius  D.  Wynkoop,  son 
of  Dirck  and  Gertrude  (Kool)  Wynkoop,  was 
born  in  Hurley,  Ulster  county.  New  York, 
March  5,  1734,  and  died  there  in  November, 
1792.  He  served  in  the  revolution  and  rose 
to  the  rank  of  colonel.  He  married  (first) 
May  28,  1762,  Lea,  daughter  of  Cornelius  and 
Margaretta  (Hooghteyling)  Du  Bois,  of  New 
Paltz,  who  was  baptized  May  2,  1742.  He  mar- 


ried (second)  January  2,  1778,  Anna,  daugh- 
ter of  Harmen  and  Margaret  (Douw)  Ganse- 
voort,  who  died  in  Albany,  New  York,  a,ged 
forty-nine  years,  ten  months  and  three  days. 
Children:  (two  by  first  marriage)  :  Dirck  C, 
referred  to  below ;  Lea,  born  April  9,  1766, 
died  June  20,  1829,  married  Dr.  Abraham  Ten 
Eyck  De  Witt ;  Gertrude,  born  December  26, 
1781,  died  in  infancy;  Herman  Gansevoort, 
born  December  16,  1785,  died  March  3,  1854; 
Gertrude  Magdalen,  baptized  November  29, 
1788. 

(V)  Dirck  C,  son  of  Colonel  Cornelius  D. 
and  Lea  (Du  Bois)  Wynkoop,  was  born  in 
Hurley,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  April  4, 
1763,  died  October  5,  1838.  He  married,  No- 
vember 19,  1795,  Elizabeth  Sparling.  Chil- 
dren: Sarah,  baptized  June  20.  1796,  died  in 
infancy;  Cornelius,  baptized  September  20, 
1798,  married  March  20,  1828,  Harriet  Sparl- 
ing; Gerretje  Annetje,  baptized  June  19,  1801 ; 
Sarah  Minderson,  referred  to  below ;  Eleanor, 
born  March  14,  1807,  married  Christopher 
Newkirk ;  Lea  De  Witt,  born  February  5.  181 1, 
married  Captain  Henry  Harbeck  Buckbee; 
George,  born  July  23,  1814,  married  (first) 
April  14,  1839,  Eleanor  Sala  Davis,  and  (sec- 
ond) February  6.  1847,  Sarah  Catherine  Du- 
mond;  Derrick  (Dirck)  C.  (2),  born  April 
15,  1817,  married  (first)  January  3,  1838, 
Celinda  Crispell,  and  (second)  Elizabeth 
Hotchkiss. 

(VI)  Sarah  Minderson,  daughter  of  Dirck 
C.  and  Elizabeth  (Sparling)  Wynkoop,  was 
born  in  Hurley.  Ulster  county.  New  York, 
May  7,  1804,  and  died  in  Kingston,  New  York, 
in  1871.  She  married  Andrew  P.  Roosa.  Chil- 
dren :  Catherine  Johnson,  born  April  4,  1823 ; 
child,  baptized  about  1826;  Leah  Maria,  mar- 
ried James  Millard,  referred  to  above ;  Dirck, 
born  January  29,  1832. 


Benjamin  Carr,  the  first  member 
CARR  of  this  family  of  whom  we  have 
any  definite  information,  was  born 
in  London,  England,  August  18,  1592,  and  died 
there.  He  married  in  London,  September  2, 
1613,  Martha  Hardington.  Children:  Robert, 
referred  to  below ;  Caleb,  born  December  9, 
1616,  died  December  17,  1695,  married  (first) 
Mercy  Vaughan,  and  (second)  Mrs.  Sarah 
(Clarke)  Pinner;  Richard,  born  January  5, 
1621,  died  May  17,  1689;  Andrew,  born  De- 
cember 5,  1622. 


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(II)  Robert,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Martha 
(Hardington)  Carr.  was  born  in  London,  Eng- 
land, October  4,  1614,  died  in  1681.  With  his 
brother  Caleb,  who  later  became  governor  of 
Rhode  Island,  he  emigrated  to  America  in  the 
ship  "Elizabeth  Anna,"  May  9,  1635,  and 
b.nded  at  Narrangansett  Bay.  He  became  a 
freeman  of  Portsmouth,  February  21,  1639, 
and  of  Newport,  March  16,  1641.  His  wife's 
name  is  unknown.  Children :  Caleb,  referred 
to  below ;  Elizabeth,  died  December  8,  1697, 
married  (first)  about  1670.  James  Brown,  and 
(second)  Samuel  Gardiner;  Mary,  married 
(first)  John  Hicks,  and  (second)  Ralph  Earl: 
Robert  (2),  died  in  1703,  married  Elizabeth 
Lawton;  Esek,  died  in  1744,  married  Susannah 

;    Margaret,    married,    November    27, 

1670,  Richard  Hartshorne,  of  New  Jersey. 

(III)  Caleb,  son  of  Robert  Carr,  was  born 
in  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  and  died  there  in 
1690.  He  married  Phillip,  daughter  of  Deputy- 
Governor  John  and  Ann  (Almy)  Greene,  of 
Rhode  Island,  who  was  born  at  Warwick, 
Rhode  Island,  October  7,  1658.  She  married 
(second)  Charles  Dickinson,  of  Jamestown, 
Rhode  Island.  Children :  Robert,  born  Janu- 
ary 2,  1678,  died  young;  Caleb  (2),  referred 
to  below;  William,  born  October  16,  1681, 
married,  February  8,  1708,  Abigail  Barker; 
Robert,  born  June  7,  1683,  died  October  12, 
1722,  married,  October  21,  1708,  Hannah 
Hale;  Job,  born  in  1685,  died  January  23, 
175^,  married  Mehitabel  Sherman;  Mary, 
married  Benjamin  Peckham ;  Phillip,  born  De- 
cember 8,  1688,  married,  April  20,  1709,  Ed- 
ward Boss. 

(IV)  Caleb  (2).  son  of  Caleb  (i)  and 
Phillip  (Greene)  Carr,  was  born  in  James- 
town, Rhode  Island,  March  26,  1679,  died  in 
West  Greenwich,  Rhode  Island,  about  1750. 
He  married  (first)  in  Jamestown,  April  30, 
1701,  Joanna,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Mary 
(Thurston)  Slocum,  who  was  born  in  James- 
town, January  2,  1680,  and  died  December  30, 
1708.  The  marriage  was  performed  by  her 
father,  who  was  speaker  of  the  Rhode  Island 
house  of  deputies  and  moderator,  councilman 
and  warden.  He  married  (second)  in  1712, 
Mary  .  Children  (five  by  first  mar- 
riage) :  Caleb  (3),  born  NovemlDer  6,  1702, 
died  in  1769,  married  Susannah  ;  Jo- 
seph, referred  to  below ;  Patience,  born  about 
1705,  married,  September  27,  1724,  Joseph 
Slocum;    Mary,    born    about    1707;    William, 


born  December  26,  1708,  married,  April  19,. 
1732,    Elizabeth    Cory;   Benajah,   born    about 

1713,   married  Louisa  ;  Charles,  born 

about  1715,  married,  November  18,  1735,  Han- 
nah Hopkins. 

(V)  Joseph,  son  of  Caleb  (2)  and  Joanna 
(Slocum)  Carr,  was  born  in  Jamestown^ 
Rhode  Island,  about  1704,  died  after  Febru- 
ary 15, 1765,  in  West  Greenwich,  Rhode  Island. 
He    married,    in    West    Greenwich,    June    21  ^ 

1741,    Percilla  .     Children:    Susannah, 

born  June  19,  1742,  married  (first)  June  5,. 
1768,  Ichabod  Foster,  and  (second)  February 
I,  1770,  Spink  Tarbox;  John,  born  September 
27,  1744,  married,  April  7,  1768,  Rosanna 
Straight;  Job,  born  May  5,  1748,  died  about 
1772,  unmarried;  Ruth,  born  August  10,  1750; 
Patience,  born  in  1752;  Slocum,  born  May  5, 
1754;  Joseph  (2),  referred  to  below. 

'(VI)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  and 
Percilla  Carr,  was  born  in  West  Greenwich, 
Rhode  Island,  April  3,  1757,  died  in  Saratoga 
county.  New  York,  March  15,  1848.  He  mar- 
ried Rebecca  Vaughan.  Children:  John,  re- 
ferred to  below;  Slocum;  Joseph  (3),  died 
in  Michigan ;  \\'illiam. 

(VII)  John,  son  of  Joseph  (2)  and  Rebecca 
(Vaughan)  Carr,  was  born  in  Saratoga  county, 
New  York,  and  died  in  Painted  Post,  Steuben 
county.  New  York.  His  wife's  name  is  un- 
known. Children :  Fourteen,  of  whom  the 
youngest  was  Vincent  W.,  referred  to  below. 

(VIII)  Vincent  W.,  son  of  John  Carr,  was 
born  in  Chemung  county,  New  York,  in  1816, 
and  died  in  Kingston,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years.  He 
received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  when  thirteen 
years  of  age  removed  to  Washingtonville, 
Orange  county.  New  York,  where  he  learned 
the  trade  of  a  furniture  painter  and  chair- 
maker  in  the  employ  of  Moore  &  Owen,  re- 
maining with  that  firm  until  1845,  when  he 
settled  in  Kingston,  New  York,  where  he  fol- 
lowed his  trade  until  his  death.  He  was  a 
Methodist  in  religion,  and  an  earnest  advocate 
of  the  cause  of  temperance.  He  married  Har- 
riet K.  Wood,  of  Pine  Bush,  Orange  county. 
New  York.  Children:  Two,  died  young;  Al- 
bert, referred  to  below  ;  John  ;  Charles  :  Emma, 
marr-ed  Charles  E.  Moore,  of  Brockton,  Mass- 
achusetts ;  Caroline,  married  Alvah  Fiero,  of 
Rhinebeck,  New  York. 

(IX)  Albert,  son  of  Vincent  W.  and  Har- 


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riet  K.  (Wood)  Carr,  was  born  in  Washing- 
tonville,  Orange  county,  New  York,  December 
7,  1840,  and  is  now  (1913)  living  in  Kingston, 
Ulster  county.  New  York.  He  removed  from 
Washingtonville  to  Kingston  with  his  parents 
when  five  years  of  age  and  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  the  latter  town,  until  he  was 
fourteen  years  of  age,  after  which  he  engaged 
in  various  occupations  until  the  outbreak  of 
the  civil  war,  when  in  1861  he  enlisted  at  the 
first  call  for  troops,  in  the  Twentieth  Regi- 
ment, New  York  Volunteers,  and  in  1862  re- 
enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Twentieth 
Regiment,  New  York  Volunteer  Infantry, 
served  throughout  the  war,  and  was  mustered 
out  of  the  service  in  January,  1865.  During 
his  military  career  he  enlisted  as  private,  was 
promoted  sergeant-major,  then  second  lieuten- 
ant, without  muster;  then  promoted  to  first 
lieutenant  of  Company  H,  One  Hundred  and 
Twentieth  Regiment,  New  York  Volunteers, 
and  was  in  action  from  Fredericksburg  to 
Petersburg,  including  Chancellorsville,  Gettys- 
burg, Wilderness  and  a  succession  of  battles 
to  Petersburg ;  was  wounded  at  Gettysburg. 
He  returned  to  Kingston,  and  in  1867  entered 
the  employ  of  Ridenour  &  Sleight,  furniture 
dealers  and  undertakers,  remaining  with  that 
fim:  until  1886,  when  he  engaged  in  the  un- 
dertaking business  with  his  son,  Harry  P. 
Carr,  continuing  until  1897,  in  which  year 
Harry  P.  Carr  disposed  of  his  interest  in  the 
business  to  his  brother  Arthur,  and  the  fiiTn 
became  A.  Carr  &  Son,  which  still  continues. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  was  for 
six  years  coroner  of  Ulster  county.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Free  and  Accepted  Masons; 
the  Knights  of  Pythias ;  the  Independent  Or- 
der of  Odd  Fellows  ;  the  Benevolent  Protective 
Order  Elks,  and  is  also  a  prominent  member 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  He  mar- 
ried, August  21,  1862,  Sarah  E.,  daughter  of 
Peter  and  Susan  (Davis)  Folant,  of  Kingston, 
New  York.  Children:  i.  Harry  P.  2.  Har- 
riette,  married  W.  W.  Fredenburg,  of  King- 
ston. T,.  Arthur,  married  Ida  Brower;  chil- 
dren :  Reynolds  B.,  Frederick  Scott,  Vincent 
Albert.  4.  Mabel,  married  O.  M.  Kennedy, 
of  Kingston.  Children:  Dorothy  C.  (Ken- 
nedy), Ruth  (Kennedy). 


John  Flint  Whitney,  the  first 

WHITNEY     member    of    this    family    of 

whom   we   have  any   definite 


information,  was  born  in  Massachusetts,  and 
died  in  Ulster  county,  New  York.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools,  and 
then  learned  the  trade  of  a  wood-worker  and 
conducted  a  sash,  door  and  blind  manufactory 
at  Dana,  Massachusetts,  until  1852,  when  he 
removed  to  Ulster  county.  New  York,  and 
engaged  in  the  same  business,  and  later  estab- 
lished the  first  fruit-basket  manufactory  in 
America,  which  he  developed  to  large  propor- 
tions. He  married,  in  183 1,  Sophia,  daughter 
of  Joshua  Bulkley,  of  Colchester,  Connecticut. 
Among  his  children  was  Oliver  Bulkley,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(II)  Oliver  Bulkley,  son  of  John  Flint  and 
Sophia  (Bulkley)  Whitney,  was  born  in  Dana, 
Massachusetts,  March  19,  1844,  ^^^  "iied  in 
Marlboro,  Ulster  county,  New  York,  August 
20,  1904.  He  received  his  early  education  in 
the  public  schools,  and  then  worked  with  his 
father  in  his  fruit-basket  factory  until  the  out- 
break of  the  civil  war,  when  being  still  too 
young  to  enlist,  he  joined  Bank's  fleet  as  an 
assistant  clerk  and  was  detailed  as  issuing 
clerk  in  the  commissary  department  of  General 
Grover's  command  at  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana, 
and  later  served  in  the  New  Orleans  campaign, 
and  the  Red  River  expedition,  and  took  part 
in  the  siege  of  Vicksburg  and  the  capture  of 
Port  Hudson,  at  which  place  he  was  taken 
ill  and  invalided  home,  and  honorably  dis- 
charged from  the  service.  He  then  resumed 
his  work  with  his  father,  continuing  until 
1876,  when  the  factory  was  destroyed  by  fire, 
and  he  removed  to  Marlboro,  and  established 
a  new  factory,  which  was  rapidly  developed  to 
a  large  business,  and  later  was  incorporated  in 
partnership  with  N.  H.  DuBois  under  the 
name  of  the  Whitney  Basket  Company,  and 
in  which  he  continued  until  his  death.  He 
was  also  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Coliimbus 
Trust  Company,  Newburgh,  New  York,  and 
held  the  office  of  vice-president.  He  was 
a  Republican  in  politics,  and  held  several 
of  the  local  public  offices.  He  was  a  Presby- 
terian in  religion.  He  married,  February  28, 
1867,  Julia  F.,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  H.  and 
Julia  (Ferris)  DuBois,  who  was  born  May  22, 
1849,  and  is  now  living  in  Marlboro.  New 
York,  and  for  whose  ancestry  see  Dubois 
sketch  appended.  Children:  i.  Nellis  F..  born 
May  9,  1868;  married,  June  23,  1888,  James 
A.  Young,  died  December  15,  1889  ;  child,  Julia 
Ruth,  born  November  28,  1889.  married  W.  L. 


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Wardell,  July  29,  1908;  children:  Laurence 
Y.,  born  October  18,  1910;  John,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 2.  William  B.,  born  September  24,  187 1 ; 
married,  November  18,  1892,  Josephine  Eng- 
lish ;  children :  William  R.,  born  September 
25,  1893;  James  F.,  April  25,  1895;  Marie  E., 
January  10,  1897;  Allan  J.,  born  March  i, 
1899.  3.  Grace,  born  April  13,  1875;  married, 
July  16,  1901,  Edwin  Lockwood;  child,  Julia 
W.,  born  July  20,  1906.  4.  Minnie,  born  Au- 
gust 21,  1877;  married,  August  2,  1899, 
Charles  Lockwood ;  children :  Harold  W.,  born 
April  24,  1900;  Dorothy,  born  July  23,  1901 ; 
J.  Ralph,  born  January  6,  1908 ;  Grace  E.,  born 
February  17,  1909.  5.  Nathaniel  DuBois, 
born  July  2,  1880;  married,  September  21, 
1904,  Cora  Vredenburg;  children:  Cora  Vir- 
ginia, born  October  28,  1907 ;  John  B.,  born 
February  2,  1909;  Florence  F.,  born  March 
16,  1912. 

(The  DuBois  Line.) 

The  DuBois  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  of 
the  noble  houses  of  Cotention,  in  the  duchy  of 
Normandy,  the  heraldic  records  in  Paris  be- 
ginning with  Geoffroi  du  Bois,  a  knight  ban- 
neret, and  a  companion  of  Duke  William  in 
the  conquest  of  England  in  1066. 

(I)  Chretien  Du  Bois,  the  first  member  of 
the  branch  of  the  family  under  consideration 
of  whom  we  have  definite  information,  was  a 
Huguenot  gentleman  of  the  family  of  DuBois, 
seigneurs  de  Beau-fermez  et  de  Brouse,  and 
owned  an  estate  at  Wicres,  in  La  Bassee,  near 
Lille,  in  French  Flanders,  now  Artois.  Among 
his  children  were:  i.  Louis,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Jacques,  baptized  June  18,  1622,  died  in 
1676;  married,  April  25,  1663,  Pieronne  Ben- 
tyn;  emigrated  to  Esopus,  New  York,  in 
1675.  3.  Albert,  baptized  November  13,  1625. 
4.  Francoise,  married,  April  20,  1649,  Pierre 
Biljouw.    5.  Anne. 

(H)  Louis,  son  of  le  sieur  Chretien  Du 
Bois,  was  born  at  Wicres,  October  27,  1627, 
and.  died  in  Kingston,  New  York,  in  June, 
1696.  He  emigrated  first  to  Mannheim  in  the 
Palatinate,  where  he  married  and  two  of  his 
sons  were  born,  and  April  27,  1660,  came  with 
his  family  in  the  ship  "Gilded  Otter"  to  New 
Netherland.  He  and  his  father-in-law  were 
granted  by  patent  considerable  tracts  of  land 
in  Hurley,  where  they  both  lived  until  their 
removal  to  New  Paltz.  June  7,  1663,  his  wife 
and  three  sons  were  captured  with  others  by 
the    Indians    and    held    prisoners    for    three 


months,  and  the  campaign  to  rescue  the  cap- 
tives resulted  in  the  purchase  by  the  Huguenot 
settlers  of  the  Walkill  Valley  from  the  Indians, 
which  purchase  was  patented  to  them  by  Gov- 
ernor Edmund  Andros,  September  29,  1677. 
Here  during  the  following  spring  they  founded 
"Le  nouveau  Palatinat"'  or  New  Paltz.  In 
1686  Louis  Du  Bois  and  his  wife  removed 
from  New  Pahz  to  Kingston.  He  married  in 
the  French  church  in  Mannheim,  October  10, 
1655,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Mathew  and 
Madeline  (Jorisse)  Blanchan,  who  died  in 
Kingston,  New  York,  in  1706.  Children:  i. 
Abraham,  born  December  26,  1657,  died  Oc- 
tober 7,  1731;  married,  March  6,  1681,  Mar- 
garet Deyo.  2.  Isaac,  born  in  1659,  died  June 
28,  1690;  married,  in  June,  1683,  Maria  Has- 
brouck.  3.  Jacob,  baptized  October  9,  1681, 
died  in  1745 ;  married,  March  8,  1689,  Lysbeth 
Vermoye.  4.  Sarah,  baptized  September  14, 
1664;  married,  December  12,  1682,  Joost  Janz, 
of  Marbletown.  5.  David,  baptized  March 
13,  1667;  married,  March  8,  1689,  Cornelia 
Vermoye.  6.  Solomon,  referred  to  below.  7. 
Rebecca,  baptized  June  18,  1671,  died  young. 

8.  Ragel.  baptized  in  April,  1675,  died  young. 

9.  Louis,  referred  to  below.  10.  Martin,  born 
January  3,  1679;  married,  January  17,  1697, 
Sara  Matthyssen. 

(HI)  Solomon,  son  of  Louis  and  Catherine 
(Blanchan)  DuBois,  was  born  at  Hurley  in 
1670,  died  in  1759.  He  married  in  1692, 
Tryntje  Gerritsen,  daughter  of  Gerrit  Focken 
and  Jacomyntje  Sleght.  Children:  i.  Isaac, 
born  September  27,  1691 ;  married,  April  6, 
1714,  Rachel,  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Mar- 
garet (Deyo)  DuBois.  2.  Jacomyntje,  born 
in  1693;  married,  April  23,  1715,  Barent,  son 
of  Isaac  and  Maria  (Hasbrouck)  DuBois.  3. 
Benjamin,  born  May  16,  1697;  married  Ca- 
trina  Zuyland.  4.  Sarah,  born  January  i, 
1700;  married,  November  17,  1720,  Simon 
Jacobse  van  Wagenen.  5.  Catryn,  born  Oc- 
tober 18,  1702,  died  in  infancy.  6.  Cornelius, 
referred  to  below.  7.  Magdalena,  born  April 
15,  1705,  died  young.  8.  Catherine,  married, 
December  9,  1722,  Petrus  Matheus.   9.  Louise. 

10.  Deborah,  died  young.  11.  Hendricus, 
born  December  31,  1710;  married,  April  15, 
1733,  Jannetje  Hotaling.  12.  Magdelena,  born 
December  20,  1713;  married.  May  6,  1734, 
Josiah  Elting. 

(IV)  Cornelius,  son  of  Solomon  and 
Tryntje    (Gerritsen)    Du  Bois,   died  in  New 


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Paltz  in  1798.  He  married,  April  7,  1729, 
Anna  Margaret  Hooghteling.  Children:  I. 
Tryntje,  baptized  March  29,  1730;  married, 
January  27,  1762,  Martin  Du  Bois.  2.  Jan- 
netje,  baptized  in  1732;  married  James  Has- 
brouck.  3.  Wilhelmus,  baptized  March  31, 
1734.  4.  Josia,  baptized  October  21,  1736.  5. 
Rachel,  referred  to  below.  6.  Lea,  baptized 
May  2,  1742;  married  Andries  Bevier,  of  Wa- 
warsing.  7.  Sara,  baptized  October  4,  1747; 
married  Jacob  Hasbrouck,  of  Marbletown.  8. 
Cornells,  baptized  July  8,  1750;  married  Ger- 
trude Bruyn. 

(V)  Rachel,  daughter  of  Cornelius  and 
Anna  Margaret  (Hooghteling)  DuBois,  was 
baptized  at  New  Paltz  and  died  in  that  part 
of  Newburgh  which  became  the  precinct  of 
New  Marlborough,  November  22,  1767.  She 
married,  January  2,  1757,  Colonel  Lewis,  son 
of  Nathaniel  and  Gertrude  ( Bruyn j  Du  Bois, 
referred  to  below. 

(HI)  Louis  (2),  son  of  Louis  (i)  and 
Catherine  (Blanchan)  DuBois,  was  born  in 
Hurley,  New  York,  in  1677.  He  married,  at 
Kingston,  January  19,  1701,  Rachel,  daughter 
of  Abraham  and  Maria  (Deyo)  Hasbrouck. 
Children:  i.  Maria,  born  December  i,  1701, 
died  in  infancy.  2.  Nathaniel,  referred  to  be- 
low. 3.  Mary,  born  March  24,  1706;  married, 
December  6,  1728,  Johannes  Hardenburgh,  of 
Rosendale.  4.  Jonas,  born  June  20,  1708.  5. 
Jonathan,  born  December  31,  1710,  died  be- 
tween 1746  and  1749;  married,  December  25, 

1732,  Elizabeth  Le  Fevre.  6.  Catrina,  born 
October  31,  1715;  married,  January  25,  1734, 
Wessel  Broadhead.  7.  Louis,  born  in  1717; 
married  Charity  Andrevelt. 

(IV)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Louis  (2)  and 
Rachel  (Hasbrouck)  Du  Bois,  was  born  June 
6,  1703,  died  in  Blooming  Grove,  now  Salis- 
bury Mills,  Orange  county.  New  York.  He 
married  (first)  May  17,  1726,  Gertrude, 
daughter  of  Jacobus  and  Tryntje  (Schoon- 
maker)  Bruyn,  who  was  baptized  February 
18,  1709.    He  married  (second)  September  23, 

1733,  Susanna  Cole,  of  Salisbury  Mills, 
Orange  county.  New  York.  Children:  i. 
Lewis,  referred  to  below.  2.  Zachariah,  a 
major  in  the  revolutionary  war,  captured  by 
the  British  at  Fort  Montgomery.  3.  Jonas. 
4.  Rachel,  married  Andries  Le  Fevre.  5. 
Hester,  married  Colonel  Jesse  Woodhull.  6. 
A  daughter. 


(V)  Colonel  Lewis  Du  Bois,  son  of  Nathan- 
iel and  Gertrude  (Bruyn)  Du  Bois,  was  born 
in  Blooming  Grove,  Orange  county,'  New 
York,  in  1728,  and  was  baptized  in  the  Bethle- 
hem Church  at  Goshen,  New  York.  He  died 
at  his  homestead  about  half  a  mile  north  of 
the  village  of  Marlborough,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  October  29,  1802.  While  still  a 
young  man  he  removed  to  the  town  of  Marl- 
borough where  he  settled  on  land  bequeathed 
to  him  by  his  father  in  1763.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  important  and  influential  men  of  his 
day  and  an  extended  biography  of  his  life  and 
public  services  by  Mr.  R.  Emmet  Deyo  was 
read  before  the  Historical  Society  of  New- 
burgh, February  8,  1906,  and  published  in 
the  society's  "Historical  Papers,"  Number  13. 
During  the  revolution  he  rose  to  the  rank  of 
colonel  of  the  Fifth  New  York  Continental 
Regiment.  He  married  (first)  January  2, 
1757,  Rachel,  daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Anna 
Margaret  (Hooghteling)  Du  Bois,  his  second 
cousin,  referred  to  above.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) April  10,  1770,  Rachel  Jansen.  Children: 
Nathaniel,  Louis,  referred  to  below;  Wilhel- 
mus, Margaret,  Mary,  Rachel. 

(VI)  Louis,  son  of  Colonel  Lewis  and 
Rachel  (DuBois)  Du  Bois,  was  born  in  Marl- 
borough, Ulster  county,  New  York,  and  died 
there  in  183 1.  He  married  Anna  Hull,  of 
Marlborough,  who  was  born  about  1787,  died 
in  1865,  and  had  issue  twelve  children,  among 
whom  was  Nathaniel  H..  referred  to  below. 

(VII)  Nathaniel  H.,  son  of  Louis  and  Anna 
(Hull)  Du  Bois,  was  born  in  Marlborough, 
Ulster  county.  New  York,  and  died  in  Marl- 
borough. He  received  his  early  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  in 
the  Kingston  Academy  and  the  Academy  at 
Newburgh,  New  York,  and  then  entered  busi- 
ness as  a  clerk  in  Newburgh,  and  later  for 
two  years  in  New  York  City,  and  after  the 
death  of  his  father  in  183 1  assisted  in  the  ad- 
ministration of  the  estate  until  it  was  divided 
among  the  heirs  in  1842,  receiving  as  his  por- 
tion one  hundred  acres  of  land  which  he  de- 
veloped and  sold  in  1854.  In  1857  he  removed 
to  Kansas,  where  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate 
business  until  i860,  when  he  returned  to  New 
York  state  and  from  1863  to  1865  was  em- 
ployed in  the  United  States  internal  revenue 
service  as  assistant  assessor  for  the  townships 
of  Plattekill  and  Marlborough.  In  1876  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  his  son-in-law,  O. 


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B.  Whitney,  under  the  title  of  the  "Whitney- 
Basket  Company,"  in  Kingston,  and  in  1893 
became  interested  in  the  Columbus  Trust  Com- 
pany of  Newburgh,  of  which  he  was  elected 
vice-president.  He  was  a  Whig  in  politics, 
and  was  a  candidate  for  the  legislature  in  1852 
and  defeated  of  election  by  only  seventeen 
votes,  but  became  a  member  of  the  Republican 
party  when  he  voted  for  John  C.  Fremont  in 
1856.  From  1840  to  1880  he  was  clerk  of  the 
board  of  elections.  A  few  years  before  his 
death  Nathaniel  H.  Du  Bois  presented  the 
Presbyterian  church  of  Marlborough  with  a 
town  clock  as  a  Du  Bois  memorial.  He  also 
left  $1,000  in  trust,  the  interest  thereon  to  be 
used  for  the  keeping  up  of  Riverside  Ceme- 
tery. The  land  of  this  cemetery  was  given  by 
Major  Lewis  Du  Bois  and  also  land  for  the 
Presbyterian  parsonage.  He  married  (first) 
December  15,  1845,  Julia,  daughter  of  Solo- 
mon Ferris,  of  New  Paltz,  who  died  July  12, 
1849.  f^s  married  (second)  April  7,  1864, 
Margaret  (Whitehead)  Pitts,  daughter  of 
John  Whitehead,   of   Newburgh,   New   York, 

and   widow   of  Pitts,   who  was  born 

June  6,  1824,  died  June  21,  1874.  Children, 
both  by  first  marriage :  Solomon  Ferris,  born 
October  28,  1846,  died  April  12,  1847  ;  Julia  F., 
born  May  22,  1849,  married  Oliver  Bulkley 
Whitney  (see  Whitney  H). 


This   name,   like   multitudes   of 

TAPPEN.  others,  is  derived  from  a  place, 
in  this  instance  the  derivation 
being  the  town  of  Tappan,  in  Holland.  It  was 
very  early  brought  to  America,  and  the  state 
of  New  York  owes  many  of  its  good  citizens 
to  this  family. 

(I)  Jurian  Teuniss  Tappen  and  his  wife, 
Areentje  Jacobse,  of  Wybrecht,  were  residents 
of  Fort  Orange  (Albany")  in  1662. 

(H)  Christoffel,  son  of  Jurian  Teuniss  and 
Areentje  (Jacobse)  Tappen,  was  born  in  Al- 
bany, and  settled  in  Kingston,  New  York, 
where  he  married,  April  21,  1714,  Cornelia 
Vas,  a  native  of  Holland. 

(IH)  Petrus,  son  of  Christoffel  and  Cor- 
nelia (Vas)  Tappen,  was  baptized  January  29, 
1716,  in  Kingston.  He  was  married  there,  July 
2,  1736,  to  Traatjen  Wynkoop,  a  native  of  that 
town.  They  had  children :  Christofifel,  died 
young;  Peter,  September  10,  1738,  died  young; 
Cornelius,  August  10,  1740,  died  young;  Chris- 


toffel,    mentioned   below;    Cornelius,    Novem- 
ber 25,  1744;  Petrus,  June  21,  1748. 

(IV)  Christopher  (Christofifel),  fourth  son 
of  Petrus  and  Traatjen  (Wynkoop)  Tappen, 
was  born  June  13,  baptized  June  17,  1742,  in 
Kingston,  where  he  died  August  30,  1826.  He 
was  a  soldier  of  the  revolution.  He  married, 
May  9,  1761,  in  Kingston,  Annatje  Wynkoop, 
baptized  November  11,  1744,  in  Kingston, 
daughter  of  Tobias  and  Lea  (Leg)  Wynkoop. 
At  the  time  of  the  burning  of  Kingston  Chris- 
topher Tappen  was  away  from  home,  but  his 
wife  gathered  up  his  records  and  papers  which 
she  carried  to  Old  Hurley  and  thus  preserved. 
He  served  as  a  magistrate  and  represented 
Ulster  county  in  the  first,  third  and  fourth  pro- 
vincial congresses,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
state  assembly  from  1788  to  1790.  He  was 
elected  senator  in  1797,  and  for  many  years 
was  deputy  clerk  of  Ulster  county  under 
George  Clinton,  and  in  1812  was  appointed 
clerk,  which  position  he  filled  until  his  resig- 
nation in  1821.  He  held  the  rank  of  major 
in  the  revolutionary  army.  Children,  recorded 
in  Kingston:  Maria,  baptized  June  17,  1762; 
Cornelia,  died  young;  Petrus,  November  4, 
1764;  Cornelia,  March  6,  1770;  George,  men- 
tioned below;  Catherine  and  Annatye  (twins), 
August  28,  1774;  John,  for  many  years  editor 
of  The  Plebian;  Christopher,  for  many  years 
district-attorney  of  Ulster  county. 

(V)  George,  second  son  of  Christopher  and 
Annatje  (Wynkoop)  Tappen,  was  baptized 
April  13,  1772,  in  Kingston,  where  he  resided. 
He  was  a  surveyor  by  occupation  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church.  He  mar- 
ried Ann  Kiersted,  in  1795.  She  was  de- 
scended from  a  very  old  Dutch  family  founded 
in  New  Amsterdam  by  Rolofif  Kiersted  and 
his  wife,  Eyecke  Roosa.  Their  son,  Johannes 
Kiersted,  married  Arrentje  Tappen,  and  they 
were  the  parents  of  Rolofif  Kiersted.  who  mar- 
ried Ann  Vezeng.  Their  son,  Christopher 
Kiersted,  married  Leah  Du  Bois,  and  they 
were  the  parents  of  Dr.  Luke  Kiersted.  The 
latter  married  Eliza  Smedes,  and  they  were  the 
parents  of  Ann,  wife  of  George  Tappen.  Chil- 
dren, baptized  in  the  Kingston  church :  Luke, 
May  17,  1796:  Richard  Wynkoop,  mentioned 
below  :  Eliza  Catherine,  June  29,  1800;  Robert, 
December  6,  1802;  Sarah  Henrietta  (or  Har- 
riette),  July  27,  1805;  Georgiana,  January  31, 
1808;  Cornelia  and  Harriet  not  recorded  in 
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(VI)  Richard  Wynkoop,  second  son  of 
George  and  Ann  (Kiersted)  Tappen,  was  born 
January  22,  1798,  baptized  February  25,  fol- 
lowing, in  Kingston,  where  he  spent  his  life, 
and  where  he  was  a  merchant  and  served  as 
justice  of  the  peace.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church  and  acted  politi- 
cally with  the  Democratic  party.  He  married, 
September  8,  1857,  Maria  Burhans,  born  Oc- 
tober 23,  183 1,  in  Kingston.  She  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  Burhans,  a  descendant  of  an 
old  Dutch  family  founded  by  Jacob  Burhans, 
whose  son,  Jan,  married  Helena  Traphagen, 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  Samuel  Burhans, 
whose  wife  was  Jenneke  Brink,  and  whose  son, 
Yan  Burhans,  married  Catherine  Whittaker. 
Their  son,  Cornelius  Burhans,  married  Maria 
Ten  Broe'ck,  and  they  were  the  parents  _  of 
Edward  Burhans,  whose  wife  was  Garritje 
Van  Keuren.  The  latter  was  a  daughter  of 
Levi  Van  Keuren  and  his  wife,  Maria  De 
Witt,  a  granddaughter  of  Abraham  and  Gar- 
ritje (Nieukerk)  Van  Keuren.  Maria,  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  and  Garritje  (Van  Keuren) 
Burhans,  became  the  wife  of  Richard  W.  Tap- 
pen,  as  above  noted.  Children:  i.  Richard, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Florence  Nightingale, 
born  February  20,  1862,  died  six  years  old.  3. 
Charles,  November  2,  1864,  married  Char- 
lotte A.  Wilson;  is  treasurer  of  the  Kingston 
Savings  Bank,  and  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Teller  &  Tappen. 

(VH)  Richard,  son  of  Richard  Wynkoop 
and  Maria  (Burhans)  Tappen,  was  born  April 
27,  1859,  at  Kingston,  where  he  grew  to  man- 
hood. He  graduated  from  Kingston  Academy 
in  1877.  after  which  he  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Kingston  National  Bank.  In  1879  he 
engaged  in  the  bluestone  business  in  New 
York  City,  and  subsequently  became  associated 
with  F.  L.  Rogers,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Rogers  &  Tappen,  continuing  the  stone  busi- 
ness until  1901,  when  it  was  sold  to  the  Hud- 
son River  Blue  Stone  Company.  Mr.  Tappen 
was  associated  with  this  company  for  a  tirne, 
but  is  now  in  the  masons'  building  material 
business.  With  his  family  he  is  affiliated  with 
the  First  Dutch  Church  of  Kingston,  New 
York.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Kingston  Club 
and  the  Holland  Society  of  New  York;  also 
of  Kingston  Lodge,  No.  10,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  and  Mount  Horeb  Chapter,  No.  75, 
Royal  Arch  Masons.  He  married,  January  10, 
189s,   at   Kingston,   Clara  Van   Dusen,   born 


February  25,  1864,  at  Kingston,  senior  daugh- 
ter of  Columbus  and  Harriet  J.  (Terry)  Van 
Dusen,  of  that  town,  where  Mr.  Van  Dusen 
was  a  druggist.  His  children  are :  Clara, 
Frank  Montague,  Eleanor,  Ralph  Terry.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Tappen  have  a  daughter,  Florence 
Eleanor,  born  February  22,  185^,  at  Kingston. 
Columbus  Van  Dusen  is  a  son  of  Jacob  Lan- 
sing and  Nancy  Stone  (Clark)  Van  Dusen, 
grandson  of  Jacob  and  Elsie  (Lansing)  Van 
Dusen.  His  wife  is  a  daughter  of  David  and 
Sally  (Reekie)  Terry,  a  granddaughter  of  An- 
drew and  Submit  (Maccraney)  Reekie. 


The  meagre  records  of 
VAN  NAME     Staten  Island  do  not  afford 

a  complete  account  of  the 
ancestry  of  this  family  of  Van  Name.  It  is 
unquestionably  descended  from  the  old  family 
of  that  name  originally  located  in  New  York 
and  Kingston,  and  later  on  Staten  Island.  The 
early  generations  are  described  elsewhere  in 
this  work. 

(I)  Joshua  Van  Name  was  born  at  Rich- 
mond Terrace  on  Staten  Island,  about  1760, 
and  died  about  1786.  He  married  Maria  Bush, 
probably  also  of  Richmond  Terrace,  and 
among  their  children  was  David,  mentioned 
below. 

(II)  David,  son  of  Joshua  and  Maria 
(Bush)  Van  Name,  was  born  about  1784,  He 
married  (first)  Sarah  Ann  Van  Pelt,  born 
about  1790,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
Ann  Van  Pelt.  Samuel  Van  Pelt  was  prob- 
ably the  son  of  Jan  and  Jane  (Adams)  Van 
Pelt,  born  May  zo,  1750.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Elizabeth  Ricard.  There  are  five  chil- 
dren known  of  the  first  marriage:  David,  Ala- 
thea,  Peter,  Jacob,  Joshua.  The  second  wife 
was  the  mother  of  Elizabeth  Van  Name,  who 
married  Frank  Boose. 

(III)  David  (2),  son  of  David  (i)  Van 
Name,  was  born  about  18 15  at  Mariners  Har- 
bor, Staten  Island,  and  was  engaged  in  the 
oyster  business.  He  was  a  Baptist  in  religious 
faith ;  in  early  life  a  Whig,  and  among  the 
supporters  of  the  Republican  party  after  its 
organization.  He  married  Rachel  de  Hart. 
Children:  David  H.,  Ella,  Joshua  Van  Pelt, 
Clarence,  Elizabeth. 

(IV)  David  H.,  eldest  son  of  David  (2) 
and  Rachel  (de  Hart)  Van  Name,  was  born 
about  1840,  and  like  his  father,  engaged  in  the 
oyster  business,  and  had  the  same  religious 


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and  political  affiliations.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth Ann  Lissenden,  and  they  had  children: 
Elodora,  Edgar,  Merton,  David  H.,  John  Lis- 
senden, William  Lissenden,  and  Lizzie  May. 
The  Lissenden  family  was  of  English  origin, 
and  Mrs.  Van  Name  was  a  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Lissenden,  shipbuilder  at  Elm  Park, 
Staten  Island,  after  whom  she  named  one  of 
her  sons. 

(V)  David  H.  (2),  third  son  of  David  H. 
(i)  and  Elizabeth  Ann  (Lissenden)  Van 
Name,  was  born  January  27,  1867,  at  Mariners 
Harbor,  Staten  Island,  and  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  near  his  home.  He 
prepared  for  the  practice  of  law,  but  has  given 
his  attention  chiefly  to  banking  and  the  coal 
and  warehouse  business.  He  resides  at  Flush- 
ing, Long  Island  ;  is  a  member  of  the  Mariners 
Harbor  Baptist  Church,  Staten  Island,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  Bayside  Yacht  Club  of  Bay- 
side,  Long  Island,  the  Men's  Club  of  the  Re- 
formed Dutch  church,  Flushing,  Long  Island, 
and  of  the  New  York  Mercantile  Exchange. 
Politically  he  has  always  been  a  Republican. 
He  married,  August  8,  1892,  at  Ocean  Grove, 
New  Jersey,  Sadie  Ocena  Snyder,  born  June 
18,  1868,  at  Saugerties,  Ulster  county.  New 
York,  daughter  of  William  J.  and  Emily 
(Houghtaling)  Snyder.  The  children  of  Wil- 
liam J.  Snyder  are :  John  Alfred,  Frank  Wat- 
son, Sadie  O.,  Rhodella,  Emily  Alberta.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Van  Name  have  a  son,  Carl  Snyder, 
born  February  19,  1894,  at  Mariners  Harbor; 
now  a  student  in  school  of  architecture  at 
Columbia  University. 


This  old  Dutch  name  was  orig- 
HOKERK  inally  Hooghkerk,  signifying 
High  Church,  and  was  pre- 
sumably assumed  as  a  surname  by  one  who 
resided  near,  or  had  something  to  do,  with 
the  society  using  a  high  church.  It  appears 
quite  early  in  the  United  States  and  was  first 
found  at  Albany  in  1686,  since  which  time 
descendants  of  the  name  in  later  generations 
changed  it  to  Hokerk,  and  have  been  numerous 
in  that  vicinity  down  to  recent  times. 

(I)  Luykas  (Lucas)  Van  Hooghkerk  was 
married  (first)  at  Albany,  February  10,  1686, 
to  Henderickje  Janse,  and  (second)  Novem- 
ber 23,  1692,  to  Judick  Marselis.  She  was 
buried  August  19,  1734,  and  was  survived 
nearly  seven  years  by  her  husband,  who  was 


buried  at  Albany,  March  13,  1741.  Children: 
Anneken,  baptized  January  23,  1687;  Maria, 
1698,  died  young;  Hendricke,  August  20, 
1693  ;  Annetje,  December  4,  1695  ;  Maria,  July 
10,  1698;  Elizabeth,  May  11,  1701 ;  Johannes, 
January  30,  1704;  Sarah,  September  9,  1705; 
Rachel,  March  9,  1709;  Lucas,  mentioned  be- 
low. He  was  a  freeholder  of  the  first  ward 
of  Albany,  in  1720,  and  the  mayor  was  in- 
structed at  a  meeting  of  the  council,  April  30, 
1728,  to  execute  a  lease  to  Lucas  Hooghkerk 
for  a  period  of  fifty  years,  of  two  acres  on 
Gallo  Hill,  to  be  used  for  a  "brick  kiln  and 
plain,"  at  a  rental  of  twelve  shillings  per  year. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  council,   November   15, 

1733,  the  proper  officer  was  directed  to  pro- 
ceed against  those  owing  the  city,  which  in- 
cluded a  debt  of  one  pound,  two  shillings,  and 
six  pence,  owed  by  Lucas  Hooghkerk. 

(II)  Lucas  (2),  youngest  child  of  Lucas 
(i)  and  Judick  (Marselis)  Hooghkerk,  was 
baptized  April  20,  1712,  in  Albany,  and  suc- 
ceeded his  father  in  the  operation  of  the  brick 
kiln.  He  was  a  freeholder  in  1742,  and  was 
buried  June  9,  1756.     He  married,  August  11, 

1734,  Rebecca  Fonda,  baptized  February  21, 
1714,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Alida  (Lansing) 
Fonda,  of  Albany.  Children:  Lucas,  died  in 
twenty-second  year;  Ida,  baptized  March  2, 
1737;  Judickje,  December  31,  1738;  Abraham 
and  Jacob,  twins,  1741,  died  young;  Alida, 
March  14,  1742;  Abraham,  mentioned  below; 
Johannes,  July  12,  1747;  Jacob,  January  7, 
1750. 

(HI)  Abraham  Hokerk,  fourth  son  of  Lucas 
(2)  and  Rebecca  (Fonda)  Hooghkerk,  was 
born  October  16,  baptized  October  19,  1744,  in 
Albany,  and  apparently  passed  his  life  in  that 
city.  He  married,  October  18,  1767,  Antje 
Hilton,  probably  the  Annatie  Hilton,  baptized 
February  26,  1744,  daughter  of  Jacobus  and 
Judith  (Marten)  Hilton.  Children:  Rebecca, 
born  July  26,  1768;  Jacobus,  October  21,  1770; 
Lucas,  August  7,  1773;  Maria,  November  27, 
1776;  Abraham,  mentioned  below;  Wilhelm, 
February  22,  1785. 

(IV)  Abraham  (2),  third  son  of  Abraham 
(i)  and  Antje  (Hilton)  Hokerk,  was  born 
October  18,  1781,  in  Albany,  where  he  resided. 
No  record  of  his  marriage  appears,  but  family 
records  show  that  he  was  the  father  of  Philip 
Hokerk. 

(V)  Philip,  son  of  Abraham  Hokerk,  bom 
about  1803,  was  married  in  Albany,  April  4, 


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1824,  to  Catherine  Bennett,  and  they  had  chil- 
dren :  Elvira,  George,  and  Oliver  De  Forest. 

(VI)  Oliver  De  Forest,  son  of  Philip  and 
Catherine  (Bennett)  Hokerk,  was  born  in 
1839,  and  died  August  14,  1865.  Very  early  in 
life  he  was  obliged  to  maintain  himself.  He 
enlisted,  in  1861,  in  Company  A,  Forty-sixth 
Regiment,  New  York  Volunteers,  served  two 
years,  and  was  honorably  discharged.  In  1864 
he  re-enlisted  as  a  substitute  and  was  shot  in 
the  knee  during  battle.  Through  the  careless- 
ness of  a  surgeon,  his  wound,  which  was  heal- 
ing, was  inoculated  with  poison,  after  which 
gangrene  set  in  and  caused  his  death.  In  1863 
he  was  employed  upon  a  farm  at  East  One- 
onta,  and  went  thence  to  his  death  in  his  coun- 
try's service.  He  married,  September  5,  1863, 
Martha  C.  Estabrook,  born  March  26,  1845, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Rosanna  (Wier)  Es- 
tabrook.   They  had  only  one  child. 

(VII)  Frank  Oliver,  only  child  of  Oliver 
De  Forest  and  Martha  C.  (Estabrook)  Ho- 
kerk, was  born  August  14,  1864,  at  East  One- 
onta,  Otsego  county.  New  York,  and  was  one 
year  and  one  day  old  at  the  time  of  his  father's 
death.  He  attended  district  schools,  the  Bing- 
hampton  High  School,  and  De  Lancey  Divin- 
ity School,  of  Buffalo,  New  York.  For  two 
years,  beginning  with  1880,  he  taught  school, 
and  from  1883  to  1898  was  successively  tele- 
graph operator,  station  agent,  and  assistant  dis- 
patcher on  Delaware  &  Hudson  and  Erie  rail- 
roads at  various  points.  From  1898  to  1908 
he  was  in  the  railway  mail  service,  traveling 
routes  between  Syracuse  and  New  York  City, 
and  Rochester  and  Syracuse.  On  October  8, 
1908,  he  was  ordained  as  a  minister  of  the 
Universalist  church  at  Richfield  Springs.  New 
York,  and  continued  in  charge  of  a  parish 
there  until  1913,  when  he  removed  to  Glovers- 
ville,  New  York.  Mr.  Hokerk  has  taken  an 
interest  in  social  affairs  about  him,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Oneactah  Tribe,  No.  104,  of 
Union,  New  York,  Improved  Order  of  Red 
Men :  of  Richfield  Springs  Lodge,  No.  482, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Richfield 
Springs ;  and  Glove  City  Lodge,  No.  53,  Order 
of  United  American  Mechanics,  at  Glovers- 
ville. 

He  married,  January  22,  1890,  in  Union, 
Broome  county,  New  York,  Myrtle  Edith, 
born  July  7,  1868,  in  Maine.  Broome  county, 
daughter  of  Morgan  and  Josephine  L.  (John- 
son)   Heath.     Morgan   Heath  was   a  veteran 


of  the  civil  war,  a  manufacturer  of  farming 
implements  at  Union.  Broome  county,  New 
York,  and  died  November  23,  1910;  Mrs.  Ho- 
kerk was  his  only  child.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ho- 
kerk had  two  children :  Lynde  De  Forest,  bom 
December  19,  1891,  in  Union,  Broome  county, 
and  Dorothy,  February  2"],  1897,  in  Union, 
same  county,  died  in  infancy.  The  son  is  a 
member  of  the  class  of  1915  in  the  electrical 
engineering  department  at  Union  College, 
Schenectady,  and  plays  center  in  the  university 
football  team. 


Descended    from    forebears    who 

MOTT  arrived  in  this  country  in  its  early 
settlement.  Mr.  Hopper  Striker 
Mott,  in  his  name  and  person,  unites  three 
important  families  of  New  York,  and  while 
those  whose  names  he  bears  "came  over" — 
Hoppe  in  1652,  Strycker  in  1651,  and  Mott  in 
1642  —  yet  through  his  great-grandmother, 
Anne  Mott,  the  Coles  line  outranks  them  all  in 
date,  Robert  Coles  having  reached  New  Eng- 
land with  Governor  Winthrop  in  1630. 
Through  his  mother  he  descends  from  David 
Piertse  Schuyler,  a  family  which  reached  New 
Netherland  in  1653. 

Originally  of  French  origin,  as  is  shown  by 
mural  tablets  in  the  cathedral  on  the  Isle  of 
Jersey,  the  family  removed  to  England,  settling 
in  Essex  county,  where  it  held  lands  as  early 
as  1375.  The  crest  and  arms  which  are  used 
by  the  Motts  in  America  were  granted  in  161 5 
and  are :  Arms :  Sable,  a  crescent  argent. 
Crest :  An  estoile  of  eight  points  argent. 
Motto:  Spectemur  agendo. 

From  this  Essex  house  came  Adam  Mott, 
the  founder  of  the  New  York  family,  and 
somewhat  earlier  ( 1635)  there  arrived  at  Bos- 
ton from  Cambridge,  an  adjoining  county,  his 
cousin  of  the  same  name.  These  have  been 
confused  by  genealogists,  but  that  they  were 
distinct  individuals  is  conclusively  shown  by 
New  England  and  New  York  records,  where, 
although  each  had  two  wives,  their  names  and 
tb.ose  of  the  children  are  dift'erent. 

Settling  in  New  Amsterdam,  the  first  notice 
of  the  New  York  Mott  appears  in  the  Albany 
records,  where  he  is  entered  as  a  witness  in 
court  in  1644  ^'id  again  in  1645.  He  became  a 
Dutch  citizen  and  was  granted  by  the  govern- 
ment 25  morgens  (50  acres)  of  land  lying  on 
the  west  side  of  Newtown  creek  in  1646,  and 
was  married  in  the  established  church  at  the 


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capitol,  July  23,  1647,  to  Jane  Hulet,  of  Buck- 
ingham, England. 

About  1655,  Adam  Mott,  of  Essex,  became 
the  first  Adam  Mott  of  Hempstead,  Long  Is- 
land. In  Book  A,  the  oldest  extant  annals  of 
the  town,  he  appears  as  one  of  the  five  towns- 
m.en  chosen  March  17,  1657.  One  of  his  de- 
scendants now  occupies  the  homestead  built 
by  a  son  in  1715  at  Mott's  Point,  Hempstead 
Harbor.  Mott  became  an  important  factor  in 
the  new  settlement,  and  as  a  "proprietor"  was 
a  large  landowner  at  Cow  (Great)  Neck, 
Rockaway,  Merrock  Neck  and  Hungry  Har- 
bor, among  other  places.  He  lived  somewhere 
on  the  line  of  fence  which  partitioned  off  Cow 
Neck  for  common  pasturage  between  the  pres- 
ent villages  of  Manhasset  and  Roslyn.  Con- 
stantly through  the  records  he  is  mentioned 
either  in  actions  at  law,  in  conveyances,  in 
town  matters,  or  in  an  official  capacity.  On 
February  24,  1663,  as  a  deputy  from  Hemp- 
stead on  behalf  of  the  English,  Mott  signed 
the  agreement  between  Captain  John  Scott 
and  Governor  Stuyvesant,  looking  to  friendly 
intercourse  between  the  nationalities.  On  the 
assumption  of  authority  by  the  English  usurp- 
ers. Governor  Richard  Nicolls  appointed  him, 
April  22,  1665,  lieutenant  of  the  town  militia, 
and  in  1684  he  was  one  of  the  delegation  which 
"went  to  York"  and  procured  a  new  patent 
from  Governor  Dongan. 

For  a  second  wife,  Mott  married,  in  1667, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Richbell,  original 
patentee  of  Mamaroneck,  in  Westchester 
county,  probably  by  a  previous  husband 
whose  name  was  Redman.  By  these  unions 
he  had  a  large  family.  He  was  not  a  Friend, 
as  so  many  of  his  descendants  became,  but 
seems  to  have  been  a  Presbyterian,  although 
his  son  Joseph  was  a  vestryman  of  St. 
George's,  Hempstead,  from  1708  to  171 1,  and 
was  a  petitioner  for  its  charter  June  27,  1735. 
Adam  Mott  died  about  April  5.  1690.  His 
will,  dated  March  12,  1681-82,  of  record  in 
New  York  county,  devises  much  land  and  ar- 
ranges for  the  division  of  his  "four  proprie- 
torships" in  the  undivided  lands  of  Hemp- 
stead, half  to  each  family  of  children. 

One  of  the  sons  of  Joseph  Mott  was  Jacob 
Mott,  1714-1805.  He  married  Abigail,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Jackson,  and  was  the  father  of 
thirteen  children.  He  resided  at  Cow  (Great) 
Neck  and  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island ;  was  cap- 
tain of  Queens  county  militia,  was  an  associa- 


tor,  and  cast  his  vote  November  7,  1775,  for 
deputies  to  the  provincial  congress.  His 
fourth  child,  Isaac  Mott,  1743- 1780,  enlisted 
in  the  Second  Regiment  of  the  Line,  for  nine 
months  on  May  5,  1778;  was  exchanged  Janu- 
ary 22  and  discharged  February  15,  1779.  His 
death  at  the  age  of  thirty-seven  was  caused 
by  exposure  in  service.  He  married,  1765, 
Anne,  daughter  of  Joseph  Coles,  of  Long 
Island.  She  was  the  Anne  Mott  who  minis- 
tered to  the  wants  of  the  American  prisoners 
in  the  Sugar  House  in  New  York  City.  The 
family  is  still  in  possession  of  the  tablecloth 
given  to  her  in  gratitude  by  those  she  cared 
for.  She  died  July  16,  1840,  at  the  age  of 
ninety-two,  and  was  buried  from  the  Mott 
homestead  in  Bloomingdale. 

Jordan  Mott,  one  of  their  sons,  was  born 
al  Hempstead  Harbor,  in  1768,  died  1840;  was 
a  merchant  in  New  York,  the  first  treasurer 
of  St.  Stephen's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
and  an  original  stockholder  in  the  Mechanics' 
Bank.  He  married  Lavinia  Striker  (known 
thereafter  as  Winifred  Mott),  daughter  of 
James  and  Mary  (Hopper)  Striker,  of  Strik- 
er's Bay,  September  24,  i8ot,  and  had  seven 
sons,  one  of  whom,  M.  Hopper  Mott,  181 5- 
1864,  married,  1850,  Ruth  Ann  Schuyler 
(daughter  of  John  Jacobse  Schuyler).  He  re- 
sided at  Bloomingdale,  New  York  City,  was  a 
merchant  and  banker,  captain  of  militia,  presi- 
dent of  the  St.  Nicholas  Insurance  Company, 
director  of  Knickerbocker  Bank,  and  a  founder, 
director  and  secretary  of  the  Broadway  Sav- 
ings Bank.  He  became  the  father  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  biography  and  of  Alexander  Ho- 
sack  Mott. 

Andries  Hoppe,  or  Hoppen,  with  his  wife, 
Geertje  Hendricks,  came  from  Holland  in 
1652.  In  1653  he  was  a  burgher  of  New  Am- 
sterdam, and  died  in  1659.  His  widow  became 
the  owner  of  Bronk's  Land.  Records  of  the 
Dutch  Church  show  her  marriage  in  1660  to 
Dirck  Gerritsen  Van  Tricht.  Mathew  Adol- 
phus  Hopper,  the  youngest  child  and  third 
son  of  the  pioneer,  was  born  in  1658,  and  mar- 
ried Anna  Paulus,  daughter  of  Jurck  Paulus. 
He  it  was  who  settled  in  Bloomingdale,  and 
to  this  branch  Mr.  Hopper  Striker  Mott  be- 
longs. John  Hopper,  the  elder,  Mr.  Mott's 
great-great-great-grandfather,  inherited  the 
famous  Hopper  farm  on  the  upper  west  side 
of  the  island,  which  extended  from  near  Sixth 
avenue  to  the  Hudson  river.     He  resided  in 


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New  York  City;  was  collector  for  the  Out- 
ward Bowery  Division,  1733-1735 ;  constable, 
1735;  served  in  Captain  Gerard  Stuyvesant's 
company,  1738,  and  as  lieutenant  in  General 
Harmer's  expedition  against  the  Indians.  Upon 
his  death  in  1779  the  farm  was  divided  by  his 
will  among  his  children,  for  each  of  whom  he 
had  erected  a  house. 

His  son  John,  known  as  John  Hopper  the 
younger,  1734-1819,  served  as  lieutenant  in 
Colonel  Brewerton's  regiment  of  the  Outward, 
1776  (loyalist)  ;  private,  1777- 1779,  fourth 
company.  Fourth  Regiment,  American  troops; 
re-enlisted,  1780;  ensign,  1780,  Second  Regi- 
ment, Continental  troops,  Jersey  line.  The 
mansion  which  John  Hopper  the  elder  built  for 
this  son  was  constructed  in  1752,  on  the  banks 
of  the  Hudson,  at  Fifty-third  street,  and  be- 
came the  home  of  General  Garret  Hopper 
Striker  and  his  descendants,  and  was  only  de- 
molished in  December,  1895.  The  Mott  home- 
stead erected  for  his  granddaughter,  Winifred 
Mott,  in  1796,  stood  at  Mott's  Point,  at  the 
foot  of  West  Fifty-fourth  street,  a  landmark 
of  old  New  York  until  November,  1895,  when 
it  was  razed  to  allow  of  the  extension  of  that 
street.  The  house  of  Yellis  Hopper  was 
erected  on  Fifty-first  street,  between  Broad- 
way and  Eighth  avenue,  on  the  north  side  of 
Hopper's  Lane,  which  led  to  the  river.  The 
homestead  built  for  Andrew  Hopper  was  lo- 
cated on  the  present  side  of  the  American 
Horse  Exchange,  at  Broadway  and  Fiftieth 
street,  and  that  for  Matthew  at  the  outlet  of 
the  Great  Kill,  Forty-fourth  street  and  the 
river.  The  burial  plot  of  the  family  occupied 
a  part  of  this  farm  near  Fiftieth  street  and 
Ninth  avenue.  Mrs.  Greatorex,  in  her  book, 
"From  the  Battery  to  Bloomingdale,"  and  Val- 
entine's Manuals  for  1851,  1861  and  1870, 
enter  fully  into  details  regarding  this  property. 
That  portion  of  the  old  farm  willed  to  John 
Hopper,  the  younger,  as  well  as  the  portions 
deeded  to  him  by  his  brother  Matthew,  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1782,  and  by  Yellis,  April  4,  1787, 
and  the  Wessell  Hopper  inheritance,  was  set 
apart  in  an  action  of  partition  in  the  courts 
by  a  decree  dated  January  10,  1865,  to  the 
Strikers  and  Motts. 

In  January,  1643,  Jan  and  Jacobus  Gerritsen 
Strycker  received  from  the  States  General  of 
Holland  a  grant  of  land  in  New  Amsterdam. 
Jacobus  Gerritsen  Strycker  came  over  in  1651 
from   the   village    of    Ruinen,    in   the   United 


Provinces,  and  was  the  founder  of  the  family 
in  America.  He  was  a  great  burgher  of  New 
Amsterdam;  schepen,  1655,  1658,  1660,  1662, 
1663;  appointed  orphan  master,  March  18, 
1664;  alderman,  1663;  schout  fiscal  of  the 
Dutch  towns  on  Long  Island,  August  18,  1673; 
delegate  to  the  New  Orange  convention,  1674. 
He  was  a  "limner,"  farmer  and  trader.  His 
portrait,  painted  on  a  wooden  panel  by  him- 
self in  1655,  and  a  chair  which  he  brought 
from  Holland,  are  yet  preserved  by  his  de- 
scendants. His  brother  Jan,  who  came  in 
1654,  was  a  leader  of  the  Dutch  colony  on 
I.ong  Island.  His  remains  lie  in  the  yard  on 
the  site  of  the  original  Dutch  church,  which 
he  helped  to  organize  and  build  by  government 
authority.  The  present  church  stands  at  the 
corner  of  Flatbush  avenue  and  Church  lane, 
in  Flatbush. 

The  descendants  of  these  brothers  are  nu- 
merous on  Long  Island,  and  in  New  Jersey. 
Gerrit  Striker,  the  great-great-grandson  of 
Jacobus,  the  magistrate,  settled  at  Blooming- 
dale,  on  New  York  Island,  at  a  place  he  called 
Striker's  Bay,  in  1764.  James  Striker,  his 
only  child,  1755-1831,  served  as  ensign.  Second 
Regiment,  "Delancy's  Loyalists,"  and  in  the 
Light  Horse  Troop,  Second  Battalion,  Somer- 
set (New  Jersey)  militia,  American  army,  in 
the  revolution.  He  married  (first)  1780,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Johannes  Hopper.  Their  only 
son,  General  Garrit  Hopper  Striker,  was  a 
captain  in  the  war  of  1812,  to  whom  a  tablet 
is  erected  on  Fayerweather  Hall,  Columbia 
University,  and  his  daughter,  Lavinia  (Wini- 
fred) became,  through  her  marriage  with 
Jordan  Mott,  the  grandmother  of  Mr.  Hop- 
per Striker  Mott. 

Mr.  Mott,  son  of  Matavus  Hopper  and 
Ruth  Ann  (Schuyler)  Mott,  manager  of 
estates  which  have  descended  in  the  family 
since  1714,  historian  and  antiquary,  eighth 
in  generation  from  Robert  Coles  (1630), 
Adam  Mott  (1642),  Jacobus  Strycker  (1651), 
Andries  Hoppe  (1652);  David  Pieterse 
Schuyler  (1653),  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
April  19,  1854,  and  educated  at  Peekskill 
Military  Academy  (1869),  Charlier  Institute 
(1872),  Columbia  College  (1877),  and  term 
at  Columbia  Law  School.  His  specialty  in 
literary  work  is  New  York  City  history.  He 
is  the  author  of  an  octavo  volume,  with  il- 
lustrations and  maps,  entitled  "The  New  York 
of  Yesterday — Bloomingdale,"  and  is  a  con- 


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tributor  of  historical,  biographical  and  genea- 
logical articles  to  both  magazines  and  news- 
papers. He  is  trustee  and  treasurer  of  the 
New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  So- 
ciety, and  editor  of  its  quarterly,  The  Record. 
He  is  co-editor  of  the  "Historic  Guide  of  the 
City  of  New  York,"  treasurer  of  Blooming- 
dale  Reformed  Church ;  member  of  Society  of 
Older  Graduates;  on  Committee  on  Historic 
Traces,  City  History  Club;  historian  of  Ye 
olde  Settlers  of  ye  West  Side,  and  member 
of  the  New  York  Historical  and  Hohand  so- 
cieties, Metropolitan  and  Union  League  clubs, 
Psi  Upsilon  fraternity  and  West  End  Asso- 
ciation. He  is  eligible  to  most  of  the  lineage 
and  patriotic  societies  and  resides  at  No.  288 
West  End  avenue,  New  York  City,  and  has 
a  country  place,  "Hawkswood,"  at  Newbury- 
port,  Massachusetts.  Mr.  Mott  married,  m 
New  York  City,  April  19,  1875,  May  Lenox, 
daughter  of  Edwin  S.  Lenox,  and  had  two 
children,  viz :  Hopper  Lenox  Mott ;  Clarence 
Schuyler  Mott  (deceased). 


The  meaning  of  the  family 
TUCKER  name  of  Tucker  would  lead 
us  to  believe  the  accepted 
proposition  that  those  names  ending  in  "r" 
or  particularly  "er"  are  derived  from  the  oc- 
cupation followed  by  the  person  who  original- 
ly embraced  the  name  as  his  designation,  and 
accordingly  Tucker  signifies  the  old-time  call- 
ing of  a  fuller,  practically  a  clothdresser, 
for  the  word  "tuck"  means  a  fold  of  cloth. 
Others  would  have  us  believe,  mainly  because 
of  the  sound  in  pronouncing  it,  that  Tucker 
was  once  identified  with  the  ancient  "Teucer," 
which  was  the  name  of  the  first  king  of  Troy, 
to  be  found  in  the  writings  of  Virgil.  There 
was  a  man  Tyrker  on  the  voyage  with  Leif, 
the  Icelandic  or  Norse  explorer,  said  to  have 
approached  Narragansett  Bay  in  the  year 
1,000;  but  even  if  there  were,  nothing  is  to 
be  gained,  for  no  authentic  record  connects 
the  family  in  America  with  him  or  his  people, 
and  records,  to  be  of  any  purpose,  should  be 
authentic,  or  at  the  least  have  the  best  reason 
to  continue  to  find  expression  in  the  pages  of 
a  reputable  work.  However,  the  form  of 
spelling  "Looker"  may  be  considered  an 
equivalent  of  Tucker,  and  Tuckerman  is  a 
compounded  form  of  the  same  family  name. 
The  Tucker  family  arms  are  as  follows : 
Barry  wavy  of  ten,  argent  and  azure ;  on  a 


chevron  embattled  and  counterbattled  or, 
between  three  seahorses  naiant  of  the  first, 
five  guttees — de  poix.  Crest :  A  lion's  gamb, 
erased  and  erect,  gules,  charged  with  three 
billets  in  pale  or,  holding  in  the  foot  a  battle- 
axe  azure,  handle  or.  Motto:  Nil  desperan- 
dum. 

If  one  were  intent  upon  a  study  of  the  fam- 
ily when  it  existed  in  England,  considerable 
information  may  be  unearthed.  It  would  lead 
to  the  counties  of  Cornwall  and  Devon.  John 
Tucker  would  be  found  as  of  South  Tavistock, 
county  Devon,  six  generations  previous  to  the 
departure  of  the  "Mayflower"  for  New  Eng- 
land. He  married  the  widow  of  Trecareth, 
and  they  had  a  son  named  Stephen,  of  Lame;-- 
tin,  near  Tavistock,  who  established  two  dis- 
tinct lines,  first  by  marrying  the  daughter  and 
heir  of  Foxcomb,  of  Trenchard,  and  secondly, 
by  his  later  marriage  to  the  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Barlow,  viz.,  Nicholas  Tucker  by  the 
former,  and  John  Tucker  by  the  latter.  That 
is  according  to  the  visitation  of  Heralds,  A. 
D.  1573.  In  the  visitation  of  Kent,  taken  by 
John  Philpott,  one  finds  Willielmus  Tucker, 
of  Thornley,  county  Devon,  Arms,  1079;  mar- 
ried Josea,  daughter  of  William  Ashe,  of 
Devon ;  by  whom :  George,  Thomas,  John, 
Josea  and  Maria. 

John  Tucker  came  to  England  and  fought 
at  the  battle  of  Hastings,  October  14,  1066, 
under  William  the  Conqueror.  He  seized  the 
estates  of  all  who  fought  against  him,  and  con- 
firmed the  use  of  heraldic  symbols.  John 
Tucker  was  granted  a  coat-of-arms  in  1079  by 
William  the  Conqueror,  and  was  assigned  the 
estate  of  South  Tavistock,  county  Devonshire. 
As  above,  he  married  the  relict  of  "Trecareth," 
and  their  son,  Stephen  Tucker,  in  mo,  re- 
ceived from  King  Henry  I.  a  permit  to  wear 
his  hat  or  bonnet  in  his  presence. 

(I)  Robert  Tucker,  of  England,  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Weymouth,  Massachusetts,  about 
1635.  It  is  believed  that  he  emigrated  to  this 
country  with  a  certain  association  from  Wey- 
mouth in  England,  with  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hull, 
and  gave  that  name  to  Wessagusset.  After- 
wards he  removed  to  Gloucester,  where  he  held 
the  office  of  recorder,  and  most  likely  several 
of  his  children  were  born  there.  He  returned 
to  Weymouth  and  held  several  important 
offices  in  that  town.  He  removed  to  Milton, 
Massachusetts,  about  the  period  of  its  in- 
corporation,  1662,  and  purchased  several  ad- 


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joining  lots  on  Brush  Hill,  of  widow  Farns- 
worth,    Elder    Henry    Withington    and    Mrs. 
Fenno,  containing  in  all  about  117  acres.    The 
tract  bordered   on   lands  that  his  son,  James 
Tucker,   had   purchased   some   time   previous. 
The   Withington   purchase   consisted   of   fifty- 
acres,  and  he  paid  $500  for  it.     He  was  town 
clerk   of   Milton   several  years,   and   the   first 
records  made  in  that  town  are  in  his  writing. 
The  answer  of  the  general  court  to  the  peti- 
tion for  incorporation,  dated  May  7,  1662,  is 
signed    "Robert    Tucker,    Recorder."      For    a 
number  of  terms  he  represented  his  town  in 
the  legislature.     As  a  church  member,  he  was 
unusually  active,  and  was  on  the  most  intimate 
terms   with   his   pastor.   Rev.    Peter   Thacher. 
One  of  the  earliest  and  most  peculiar  of  the 
town  records  mentioning  him,  reads:     "At  a 
Quarter  Court  holden  in  Boston  the  2nd  day 
of  the  4th  month,   1640,   Robert  Tucker   for 
upbraiding  James   Brittan  as  a  witness,  call- 
ing him  a  liar,  and  saying  he  could  prove  him 
so,    was    fined   20   shillings,    and   enjoined    to 
acknowledge  the  wrong  he  had  done  Brittan." 
It  seems  that  Tucker  probably  had  some  good 
reason  for  speaking  of  Brittan  as  he  did,  for 
he  was  publicly  whipped  in  March,  1639,  for 
some  misdemeanor,  and  was  hanged  in  March, 
1644,   for  adultery.     Robert   Tucker  married 
Elizabeth  Allen,  and  he  died  March  11,  1682. 
Children:    i.    Sarah,    born    March    17,    1639; 
married,  August   i,    1660,   Peter  Warren;  is- 
sue: John  Warren,  born  September  8,   1661  ; 
Joseph   Warren,    February    19,    1663 ;    Benja- 
min Warren,  July  25,   1665;  Elizabeth  War- 
ren,  January   4,    1668 ;    Robert   Warren,    De- 
cember 25,  1670;  Ebenezer  Warren,  February 
II,    1673.     2.   James,   born    1640,   died    1718; 
married    Rebecca,    daughter   of    Thomas    and 
Sarah  Tolman,  of  Dorchester  ;  issue  :  Rebecca, 
born  November  i,   1673;  Experience,  August 
19,    1676;   James,   April    10,    1680;   Elizabeth, 
December  18,  1681 ;  Ebenezer,  May  20,  1682; 
Sarah,  September  14,  1684.     3.  Joseph,  born 
1643;    probably    killed     in    the    great     Nar- 
ragansett    fight;    issue:    Robert,    born    April 
5,    1678;    Joseph,    January    11,    1679;    John, 
July  28,  1682.     4.  Elizabeth,  born  1644;  mar- 
ried Ebenezer  Clapp.      5.  Benjamin,  born  at 
Weymouth,     Massachusetts,     1646;     married 
Ann,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Mary   (Eliot) 
Payson,   of   Dorchester,   and   settled   in   Rox- 
bury.     Mary  Eliot  was  a  sister  of  Rev.  John 
Eliot,  the  famous  apostle  to  the  Indians,  who 


translated  the  Bible  into  their  tongue.  With 
others  he  founded  the  town  of  Spencer,  Massa- 
chusetts, paying  the  Indians  £15  English  for 
this  tract  of  eight  miles  square,  now  includ- 
ing Leicester,  Massachusetts.  Issue:  Benja- 
min, born  March  8,  1670;  Ann,  February  26, 
1673;  Jonathan,  May  14,  1675;  Ephraim,  Au- 
gust 16,  1677;  Eben,  October  10,  1679;  Mary, 
August  7,  1682;  Edward,  August  8,  1684;  Jo- 
seph, November  2,  1686;  Elizabeth,  Decem- 
ber 20,  1688;  Sarah,  November  2,  1696;  Ann, 
January  7,  1699.  6.  Ephraim,  see  forward. 
7.  Manasseh,  born  1654;  died  April  9,  1743; 
freeman,  1678;  deacon;  married,  December 
29,  1676,  Waitstill,  daughter  of  Roger  and 
Mary  (Joslyn)  Sumner.  Issue:  Ebenezer, 
born  December  22,  1682 ;  Manasseh,  Decem- 
ber 22,  1684;  Samuel,  March  15,  1687;  Mary, 
March  25,  1693  ;  Waitstill,  June  5,  1695 ;  Ja- 
zaniah,  July  19,   1698:  Benjamin,  August  18, 

1705;    Elizabeth.     8.    Rebecca,    married   • 

Fenno.     9.   Mary,  married   Samuel  Jones. 

(11)  Ephraim,  son  of  Robert  and  Eliza- 
beth (Allen)  Tucker,  was  born  in  1652, 
probably  at  Weymouth,  Massachusetts.  He 
became  a  freeman  in  1678,  and  was  chosen  a 
deacon  July  31,  1698.  For  many  years  he 
was  the  town  clerk  and  selectman,  and  with 
his  mother  administered  on  the  estate  of  his 
father.  Ephraim  Tucker  married,  September 
27,  1688,  Hannah  Gulliver,  who  belonged  to 
the  family  from  which  Dean  Swift  received 
the  suggestion  of  writing  his  famous  book, 
"Gulliver's  Travels."  It  is  related  that  when 
Captain  Lemuel  Gulliver  returned  to  Ireland  in 
1723,  he  narrated  the  experiences  of  his  sea 
voyage,  describing  the  frogs  he  had  beheld 
as  reaching  up  to  his  knee  and  had  musical 
voices  similar  to  the  twang  of  a  guitar,  while 
mosquitoes  had  bills  as  long  as  darning-needles. 
Children:  i.  Ephraim,  see  forward.  2. 
Stephen,  born  April  8,  1691  ;  married,  August 
30,  1716,  Hannah  Belcher,  of  Milton,  Massa- 
chusetts. 3.  Lydia,  born  October  4,  1693  ;  died 
May  12,  1765  ;  married  Nehemiah  Clapp.  4. 
Hannah,  born  October  5,  1695  ;  married.  May 
13,   1 721,  John  Pitcher. 

(Ill)  Ephraim  (2),  son  of  Ephraim  (i) 
and  Hannah  (Gulliver)  Tucker,  was  born  at 
Milton,  Massachusetts,  October  10,  1689,  and 
died  January  26,  1774.  For  several  years  he 
taught  school  at  that  place,  where  he  was  one 
of  the  selectmen  for  a  long  time,  and  for  sev- 
eral years  represented  the  town  in  the  legisla- 


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ture.  In  1729  he  refused  to  serve  after  being 
twice  chosen.  In  1718  he  bought  twenty-eight 
acres  of  land  from  his  father  for  $500,  lying 
in  Milton,  west  of  the  road  running  over 
Brush  Hill.  He  sold  his  residence  April  4, 
1745,  to  James  Smith,  for  $3,500,  and  moved 
with  his  family  to  Mortlake,  or  Pomfret,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  purchased  170  acres  of 
John  and  Nathaniel  Daniels  for  $9,750.  In 
1744  he  received  a  lieutenant's  commission 
from  Governor  William  Shirley,  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts colony.  In  1747,  in  company  with 
John  Gilbert,  husband  of  his  eldest  daughter 
Esther,  he  purchased  234  acres  of  land  from 
Samuel  Prime,  in  Mortlake,  for  $7,750. 
Ephraim  Tucker  married,  October  22,  1719, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Deacon  Roger  Sumner, 
who  was  born  May  2,  1689,  and  died  June  22, 
1759.  Children:  i.  Esther,  born  October  12, 
1720;  married,  February  19,  1742,  John  Gil- 
bert. 2.  Ephraim,  born  April  5,  baptized 
April  8,  1722;  died  February  28,  1806;  mar- 
ried Lydia  Bottom  Williams.  3.  Mary,  born 
February  20,  1724,  baptized  February  2t„  at 
Milton ;  married  islahum  Cady.  4.  Hannah, 
born  April  18,  baptized  April  24,  1726;  mar- 
ried Samuel  Burnall.  5.  Miriam,  born  April 
18,  1728 ;  married  Absalom  Roberts.  6.  Cath- 
erine, born  May  28,  baptized  May  30,  173 1; 
died  November  23,  1793.  7.  Stephen,  see 
forward.  8.  Abijah,  born  June  i,  1735;  re- 
sided at  Pittsford,  Vermont.  9.  Daniel,  born 
July  22,  1737;  died  August  5,  1737.  10.  Ly- 
dia, born  July  19,  1739,  baptized  July  22;  died 
November  12,  1740.  11.  Jedediah,  born  July 
26,  1740,  baptized  July  27.  12.  John  Pitcher, 
born  September  7,  baptized  September  12, 
1742;  died  in  1801.  13.  Gershom,  born  Jan- 
uary 3,  1744;  died  September  17,  1769. 

(IV)  Stephen,  son  of  Ephraim  (2)  and 
Mary  (Sumner)  Tucker,  was  born  in  Milton, 
Massachusetts,  November  25,  1732,  and  died 
November  8,  1808.  He  owned  a  farm  of 
between  two  and  three  hundred  acres  in 
Woodstock,  Connecticut,  a  portion  of  which 
was  afterward  acquired  by  his  nephew, 
Luther,  son  of  Ephraim.  He  married  Lois, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Jabez  Lyon,  of  Wood- 
stock; she  was  born  June  i,  1737,  and  died 
August  I,  1795.  Children:  i.  Lydia,  born 
July  29,  1 751;  died  at  Woodstock;  married, 
December  15,  1791,  Samuel  Jones.  2.  Ase- 
nath,  born  December  2,  1758;  died  at  Darien, 
New    York;    married    Daniel     Roberts.       3. 


Sophia,  born  March  16,  1760;  died  at  Bran- 
don, Vermont,  May,  1802;  married  Samuel 
Burnell.  4.  Stephen,  see  forward.  5.  Mary, 
or  Molly,  born  April  19,  1763;  died  at  Bran- 
don, Vermont,  September  i,  1835;  married 
Jonathan  Dodge.  6.  Daniel,  died  in  infancy. 
7.  Urania,  born  December  2,  1764;  died  in 
Lyme,  New  Hampshire,  January  6,  1848;  mar- 
ried James  Beale.  8.  Huldah,  born  April  2, 
1768;  lived  at  Cornish,  New  York;  married 
Seth  Deming.  9.  Lois,  born  October  20,  1769 ; 
resided  at  Lyme,  New  Hampshire;  married 
Abner  Hovey.  10.  Penuel,  born  October  2, 
1773 ;  resided  at  Pompey  and  Preble,  New 
York;  married  Sylvia  Abbott.  11.  Hannah, 
born  May  10,  1775;  resided  at  Brandon,  Ver- 
mont, and  later  at  Burlington;  married,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1791,  Arba  Green.  12.  Esther,  born 
June  13,  1776;  died  at  Cazenovia,  New  York; 
married  Samuel  Morris. 

(V)  Captain  Stephen  (2)  Tucker,  son  of 
Stephen  (i)  and  Lois  (Lyon)  Tucker,  was 
born  September  20,  1761,  probably  at  Wood- 
stock, Connecticut,  and  died  in  Weston,  New 
York,  about  1820.  He  removed  to  Brandon, 
Vermont,  after  his  marriage  in  1791,  and  later 
in  Lower  Canada,  afterwards  to  Weston,  New 
York.  Stephen  Tucker  married,  July  3,  1791, 
Olive,  daughter  of  Charles  Green;  she  died 
May,  1802.  Children:  i.  Sophia,  born  March 
13,  1792  ;  married  Morris  Graves,  of  that  place, 
who  died  there,  December  12,  1835.  2. 
Charles,  born  1794;  died  in  service  of  the 
United  States  army,  at  Lewiston,  New  York. 
3.  Sallie,  born  December  3,  1795;  died  in 
Brandenberg,  Kentucky,  1852.  4.  Stephen, 
born  June  i,  1798;  died  July  31,  1884;  mar- 
ried Lucy  Cheney.  5.  Olive,  born  1800;  died 
at  Bowmanville,  Ontario.  6.  Luther,  see 
forward. 

(VI)  Luther,  son  of  Stephen  (2)  and  Olive 
(Green)  Tucker,  was  born  at  Brandon,  Ver- 
mont, May  7,  1802,  and  died  at  Albany,  New 
York,  January  26,  1873.  The  death  of  his 
mother  in  May,  1802,  which  followed  almost 
immediately  after  his  birth,  broke  up  the  fam- 
ily circle,  and  his  father,  with  the  older  chil- 
dren, shortly  afterward  joined  the  tide  of 
migration.  Consequently,  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen, he  was  placed  with  Timothy  C.  Strong, 
of  Middlebury,  Vermont,  in  1815,  to  learn 
the  printing  business.  In  1817  Mr.  Strong 
removed  to  Palmyra,  New  York,  taking  his 
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year,  he  removed  to  Rochester,  New  York, 
where  he  established  The  Rochester  Daily  Ad- 
vertiser, which  was  the  first  daily  newspaper 
west  of  Albany,  established  October  27,  1826, 
and  later  its  name  was  changed  to  The  Union 
and  Advertiser.  On  January  i,  1831,  he  es- 
tablished at  Rochester  The  Genesee  Farmer, 
a  weekly,  which  periodical  was  the  ancestor 
of  The  Cultivator  and  Country  Gentleman, 
which  was  likewise  a  weekly.  Later  on  he 
bought  The  Cultivator,  which  was  started  in 
1834  by  Jesse  Buel,  hence,  when  Mr.  Buel 
died,  in  1839,  Mr.  Tucker  consolidated  The 
Genesee  Farmer  with  it,  adopting  the  name 
of  broader  scope.  In  1840  he  removed  to  Al- 
bany, where,  on  January  i,  1853,  he  established 
The  Country  Gentleman.  He  continued  the 
publication  of  Thi  Cultivator  as  a  monthly 
until  1866,  when  it  united  with  The  Country 
Gentleman  and  no  change  took  place  since  the 
start,  January  i,  1831,  excepting  the  death 
of  the  founder  and  the  accession,  one  by  one, 
of  his  two  sons  and  two  grandsons.  Since 
i860  The  Cultivator  and  Country  Gentleman 
was  published  by  the  firm  of  Luther  Tucker 
&  Sons,  of  Albany,  until  its  sale  to  the  Curtis 
Publishing  Company,  of  Philadelphia,  July 
I,  191 1,  the  proprietors  of  a  number  of  the 
oldest  periodicals  in  the  country,  who  desired 
to  acquire  this  one  because  it  was  the  oldest  in 
its  particular  field.  It  was  more  commonly 
known  by  its  leading  title.  The  Country 
Gentleman,  and  had  a  circulation  through- 
out the  world  covering  several  generations  in 
families.  This  journal  is  the  oldest  and  is 
admittedly  the  leading  agricultural  periodical 
of  any  class  in  the  United  States.  It  was 
due  to  the  sagacity  of  its  founder  and  the 
ability  of  its  editors  that  it  took  and  held  so 
pronounced  a  position  among  periodicals  of 
this  country.  The  office  was  for  a  very  long 
time  in  the  building  at  the  northeast  corner 
of  Broadway  and  Hudson  avenue,  the  site  of 
the  celebrated  Colonial  Convention  of  1754, 
when  Benjamin  Franklin  and  delegates  from 
several  colonies  met  to  form  a  "union  against 
a  common  foe."  Mr.  Tucker  was  a  man  of 
genial  character,  domestic  in  his  habits,  and 
he  possessed  a  peculiar  form  of  humor  which 
made  many  friends  for  him  in  his  dealings. 
He  was  both  methodical  and  precise,  and  al- 
ways expected  the  same  honesty  in  treatment 
that  he  meted  to  others.  He  was  buried  in 
the  Albany  Rural  Cemetery. 


Luther  Tucker  married  (first)  at  Ro- 
chester, Windsor  county,  Vermont,  November 
19,  1827,  Naomi  Sparhawk.  She  was  born 
at  that  place,  October  19,  1807,  and  died  at 
Rochester,  New  York,  August  4,  1832,  a  vic- 
tim of  the  great  cholera  plague  of  that  year 
which  swept  the  whole  state.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Deacon  Ebenezer  and  Azuba 
(Jefferson)  Sparhawk.  Luther  Tucker  mar- 
ried (second)  the  sister  of  his  former  wife, 
Mary  Sparhawk,  October  14,  1833;  she  died 
at  Albany,  New  York,  March  8,  1844,  of  con- 
sumption. He  married  (third)  at  Auburn, 
New  York,  June  8,  1846,  Margaret  Lucinda 
Smith  Burr;  she  died  at  Albany,  New  York, 
August  26,  1893.  By  the  first  marriage  he 
had  two  children,  by  the  second,  four;  and 
by  the  third,  two  children.  Children :  i. 
Charles  Henry,  born  at  Rochester,  New  York, 
December  i,  1828;  died  there,  August  9,  1832. 

2.  Julia  Naomi,  born  at  Rochester,  January 
16,  1832;  died  at  Albany,  December  12,  1881. 
By  second  marriage:  i.  Luther  Henry,  see 
forward.  2.  Mary  Louise,  born  at  Rochester, 
New  York,  November  15,  1836,  died  May  18, 
1912;  married  at  Albany,  New  York,  May  8, 
1855,  John  Stuart  Porter.  He  was  born 
April  15,  1828,  died  July  19,  1905,  son  of 
Henry  Chester  and  Sarah  Cleveland  (Dodge) 
Porter.  Issue:  i.  Luther  Henry  Porter,  born 
October  17,  1857;  married,  at  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  December  22,  188 1,  Elizabeth  Bonar 
Griffen,  daughter  of  Jacob  Jay  and  Emmeline 
Matilda  (Geer)  Griffen.  ii.  William  Stuart 
Porter,  born  July  19,  1859;  married,  May  7, 
1880,  Florence  Nightingale  Kline,  of  Brook- 
lyn, New  York.  iii.  Norman  White  Porter, 
born  October  17,  1861 ;  married,  at  Albany, 
April  z6,  1883,  Esther  Elizabeth  Reid,  daugh- 
ter of  Alexander  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Mc- 
Gouskey)  Reid.  iv.  Edith  Porter,  born  Sep- 
tember 5,  1867.  V.  Lilli'an  Porter,  born  Sep- 
tember 5',  1867;  died  August  11,  1868.  vi. 
Mary  Louise  Porter,  born  January  7,  and  died 
September  9,  1869.  vii.  Clara  Porter,  born 
December  17,  1873.  viii.  Julia  Tucker  Porter, 
born  August  21,  1875;  died  August  29,  1877. 

3.  Martha  Ellen,  born  at  Albany,  New  York, 
January  19,  1842;  died  there,  August  17, 
1843.  4-  Frances  Laura,  born  at  Albany,  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1844;  died  there,  November  23,  1845. 
By  third  marriage:  i.  Gilbert  Milligan,  born 
at  Albany,  August  26,  1847;  residing  at  Al- 
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Gentleman;  married  there,  June  7,  1877, 
Sarah  Edwards  Miller,  born  at  Glenham,  New 
York,  November  19,  1847,  daughter  of  Rev. 
William  Augustus  and  Sarah  Woodbridge 
(Herrick)  Miller.  Issue:  Margaret  Cleve- 
land, born  at  Albany,  May  8,  1878;  Gilbert 
Milligan,  born  at  Albany,  November  3,  1880. 
2.  Dr.  Willis  Gaylord,  born  at  Albany,  Oc- 
tober 31,  1849;  physician  and  expert  chemist, 
residing  at  Albany,  and  professor  of  Albany 
Medical  College  of  Union  University;  mar- 
ried, at  Albany,  September  17,  1879,  May 
Newman,  born  at  Albany,  October  24,  1852, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  Elizabeth 
(Page)  Newman.  Issue:  Willis  Gaylord, 
born  at  Albany,  January  20,  1881 ;  Grace 
Witherbee,  February  28,  1883;  Mary  Page, 
March  15,  1885. 

(VII)  Luther  Henry,  son  of  Luther  and 
Mary  (Sparhawk)  Tucker,  was  born  at  Ro- 
chester, New  York,  October  19,  1834,  and  died 
at  his  residence.  No.  174  Washington  avenue, 
Albany,  February  23,  1897.  After  complet- 
ing his  preparatory  studies  he  entered  Yale 
University,  where  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  fraternity,  and  from  which 
institution  he  was  graduated  in  1855.  Soon 
afterwards  he  associated  himself  with  his 
father  in  his  publication  of  The  Country 
Gentleman  at  Albany,  and  when  the  latter 
died,  he  became  the  editor.  This  position  he 
held  until  his  death.  Under  his  management 
the  paper  increased  continuously  in  circula- 
tion, while  maintaining  its  high  standards. 
He  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  Peter's  Church 
for  many  years.  He  married,  at  St.  George's 
Manor,  Setauket,  Long  Island,  New  York, 
November  28,  1865,  Cornelia  Strong  Vail, 
born  at  Islip,  Long  Island,  March  26,  1844, 
daughter  of  Harvey  Wentworth  and  Anne 
(Udall)  Vail.  Children,  born  at  Albany,  New 
York:  i.  Luther  Henry,  born  September  9, 
1869 ;  educated  at  Albany  Academy  ;  graduated 
Yale,  class  of  1891 ;  post-graduate  course  in 
English,  1892-93,  for  degree  of  M.A. ;  entered 
ofifice  of  The  Country  Gentleman,  of  which 
he  was  editor  and  part  owner  until  its  sale 
to  Curtis  Publishing  Company,  in  191 1 ;  vestry- 
man of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Albany;  Republi- 
can; member  of  Fort  Orange  and  Albany 
Country  clubs ;  of  Yale  Club,  New  York ;  trus- 
tee of  Albany  Savings  Bank;  residence  No.  174 
Washington  avenue,  Albany.  He  married,  at 
Hudson,  New  York,  March  28,  1894,  Florence 


Barnard,  born  at  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan, 
December  31,  1870,  died  at  Albany,  March  7, 
1910,  daughter  of  Dr.  Stephen  Paddock  and 
Martha  Taylor  (Mellen)  Barnard.  Issue: 
Katharine  Barnard,  born  at  Albany,  August 
24,  189s ;  Cornelia,  born  at  Loudonville,  New 
York,  July  21,  1897;  Mary  Louise,  born  at 
Albany,  November  25,  1900;  Prudence  Carll, 
born  at  Brussels,  Belgium,  November  14, 
1907.  He  married  (second)  at  New  York 
City,  April  29,  191 1,  Helen  Fowler  Avery, 
born  at  Galesville,  Wisconsin,  May  24,  1879, 
daughter  of  Henry  Newell  Avery,  M.D.  2. 
Cornelia  Lucinda,  born  September  6,  1871 ; 
unmarried ;  died  at  Albany,  June  20,  1900.  3. 
Wentworth,  born  July  13,  1878;  attended 
Union  University,  class  of  1899;  unmarried; 
removed  to  New  York  City,  where  he  is  en- 
gaged in  business.  He  is  captain  in  Twelfth 
Regiment,  National  Guard.  4.  Carll,  see 
forward. 

(VIII)  Carll,  son  of  Luther  Henry  and 
Cornelia  Strong  (Vail)  Tucker,  was  born  at 
No.  174  Washington  avenue,  Albany,  New 
York,  October  14,  1881,  and  resides  in  New 
York  City.  He  first  attended  the  Albany 
Academy,  and  then  went  to  St.  Paul's  School, 
Concord,  New  Hampshire;  following  this  he 
went  to  Yale  University,  from  which  col- 
lege he  graduated  in  1904.  He  is  the  treasurer 
of  the  Maxwell  Motor  Company,  Inc.,  manu- 
facturers of  automobiles,  with  main  office  at 
No.  1790  Broadway,  New  York  City.  He  is 
a  Republican,  and  attends  the  Episcopal 
church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Yale  Club  of 
New  York  City,  and  the  Rumson  Country 
Club,  of  Rumson,  New  Jersey.  He  married, 
at  Albany,  New  York,  February  27,  1908, 
Marcia  Myers  Brady,  born  at  Albany,  July 
21,  1884,  daughter  of  Anthony  Nicholas 
Brady  and  his  wife,  Marcia  Anne  Myers.  Mr. 
A.  N.  Brady  was  born  at  Lille,  France,  Au- 
gust 22,  1843,  and  died  at  London,  England, 
July  22,  1913.  He  married,  at  Bennington, 
Vermont,  July  22,  1869,  Marcia  Anne  Myers, 
born  there,  July  10,  1849.  Children  of  Mr. 
Tucker:  Luther  Tucker,  born  at  New  York 
City,  June  20,  1909;  Nicholas  Brady  Tucker, 
born  at  West  End,  New  Jersey,  July  11,  1910. 

This   is   one  of  the  oldest   of 

MARTIN     surnames  and  is  found  widely 

spread  throughout  the  various 

countries  of  western  Europe.     Its  origin  is 


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personal,  and  it  is  said  to  be  derived  from  St. 
Martin,  the  Apostle  to  the  Gauls,  to  whom 
many  places  in  Normandy  have  been  dedicated. 
The  name  of  the  saint  was  perhaps  traceable 
to  the  Latin  "martins,"  meaning  warlike.  The 
surname  is  greatly  in  evidence  in  Ireland  and 
Scotland,  but  its  origin  in  Gaelic  countries  is 
usually  different  from  that  in  England  and 
on  the  continent;  the  Gaelic  or  Milesian  de- 
rivation being  from  the  personal  name  Giolla 
Marthain,  meaning  "the  servant  or  votary  or 
devoted  of  St.  Martin,  'Marthain'  being  the 
Gaelic  for  'life,'  "  used  as  a  personal  name. 
This  Giolla  Marthain  was  the  ancestor  of  the 
Irish  family  of  Martin,  from  whom  so  many 
of  the  Martins  of  America  are  descended.  He 
was  a  twelfth-century  warrior  and  commander 
of  gallow-glasses,  his  descendants  bearing  his 
name  with  the  prefix  Mac  or  O.  He  is  num- 
bered as  one  hundred  and  third  on  the  pedigree 
of  the  Martins,  who  are  set  forth  in  "O'Hart's 
Pedigrees"  as  a  branch  of  the  O'Neils,  Mon- 
archs  of  Ireland,  Princes  of  Ulster,  and  Earls 
of  Tyrone.  Their  nearest  common  ancestor 
was  the  father  of  Fearcar,  brother  of  Aodh 
Ornaighe,  who  is  numbered  ninety-seventh  of 
the  pedigree  of  the  O'Neils. 

The  name  Martin  appears  in  some  of  the 
earliest  English  records  and  is  found  on  the 
Roll  of  Battle  Abbey,  in  1066.  Derivatives 
of  the  name  are  Martins,  Martinson,  Mar- 
tineau,  Martinelli,  Martinez,  and  Martini.  An 
English  member  of  the  family,  William  Mar- 
tin, in  the  early  part  of  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury assisted  the  Puritans  in  preparing  for 
their  voyage  to  Plymouth  Rock,  but  it  does 
not  appear  that  he  himself,  who  was  probably 
of  London,  came  to  this  country.  Captain 
John  Martin  of  Plymouth  sailed  round  the 
world  with  Sir  Francis  Drake ;  and  among 
the  passengers  on  the  "Mayflower"  in  1620 
was  a  Christopher  Martin.  Others  of  the  same 
name  came  to  this  country  in  almost  every 
company  for  several  years,  settling  in  various 
parts  of  Massachusetts,  Connecticut,  Virginia, 
and  other  colonies.  John,  William,  and  Sam- 
uel seem  to  have  been  favorite  Christian  names 
in  these  families. 

(I)  William  Martin,  or  William  Seaborn 
Martin,  as  he  was  familiarly  known,  was  the 
immigrant  ancestor  of  that  branch  of  the  Mar- 
tin family  in  America  which  is  at  present  under 
consideration.  There  is  a  tradition  to  the 
effect    that    his    father    emigrated    from    Ply- 


mouth, England,  and  that  the  son  was  born 
during  the  voyage  as  the  name  implies.  There 
is  also  another  tradition  that  the  family  was 
Irish,  hailing  from  the  country  of  the  Mile- 
sian Martins,  and  then  from  Dublin,  and  that 
the  first  American  ancestor  settled  at  Doug- 
las, Massachusetts.  There  was  a  Samuel 
Martin,  of  Wethersfield,  who  married  a  widow, 
Phoebe  Brace  or  Bracey,  daughter  of  William 
Bisby,  a  merchant  of  London,  and  came  to  this 
country  with  his  wife  and  her  child  by  a  former 
husband,  in  about  1650.  It  is  thought  by  some 
authorities  that  possibly  these  were  the  parents 
of  William  Seaborn  Martin,  born  at  sea,  and 
named  by  his  mother  William,  in  honor  of 
her  father,  and  Seaborn,  from  the  circum- 
stances of  his  birth.  As  Wethersfield  furnished 
many  inhabitants  for  Stratford,  Connecticut, 
this  supposition  might  account  for  the  fact 
that  we  first  hear  of  William  Seaborn  Martin 
as  a  resident  of  Stratford.  On  August  30, 
1685,  he  removed  from  that  place  to  Wood- 
bury, Connecticut,  where  he  and  his  wife  were 
admitted  to  the  First  Church.  The  records 
contain  only  meagre  details  in  regard  to  his 
life,  but  we  find  his  marriage  recorded  and 
the  names  of  some  of  his  children,  there 
probably  having  been  others  who  have  not  been 
mentioned.  One  authority  states  specifically 
that  he  was  the  father  of  Isaac  Martin,  who 
was  first  of  Douglas,  and  afterwards  of  Cole- 
rain,  Massachusetts,  and  who  in  his  turn  was 
the  father  of  another  Isaac,  a  soldier  of  the 
revolutionary  war.  There  is  little,  however, 
that  can  be  known  of  William  Seaborn  Martin 
beyond  the  references  made  in  the  records  as 
to  his  acts  and  migrations ;  and  his  origin  and 
family  relations  must  remain  as  yet  largely  a 
matter  of  conjecture.  After  removing  to 
Woodbury  he  resided  there  for  the  remainder 
of  his  life,  occupied  with  the  usual  work  of 
a  pioneer  which  required  a  practical  knowledge 
of  many  crafts  and  trades.  He  died  July  4, 
1715,  and  was  interred  in  the  centre  of  the 
old  burying  ground  at  Woodbury.  On  July 
25,  1685,  he  was  married  to  Abigail  Curtiss, 
born  October  17,  1671,  died  January  4,  1735, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  Curtiss,  of  Stratford. 
Children :  Joseph,  Samuel,  mentioned  below ; 
Caleb,  Phoebe. 

(II)  Samuel  Martin,  son  of  \\'illiam  Sea- 
born and  Abigail  (Curtiss)  Martin,  was  born 
and  baptized  in  March,  1693.  He  married, 
January  15,  1716,  Annis,  baptized  September, 


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1697,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth 
(Lamb)  Hinman,  who  were  married  July  12, 
1684;  granddaughter  of  Sergeant  Edward 
Hinman,  who  came  from  England  and  located 
in  Stamford  prior  to  1650,  residing  in  Strat- 
ford in  1 65 1,  where  he  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Francis  Stiles,  of  Windsor,  and 
died  in  Stratford,  November  26,  1681.  Chil- 
dren: Mary,  Eunice,  William,  Samuel,  David, 
Jonas,  Elisha,  Nathan,  mentioned  below; 
Annis,  Patience  and  Concurrence,  triplets ; 
Timothy,  Daniel,  Deliverance. 

(HI)  Nathan  Martin,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Annis  (Hinman)  Martin,  was  born  July  30, 
1734,  and  died  in  1794  at  Woodbury,  Connecti- 
cut. He  married  Ellen  Bradley.  Children : 
Samuel,  Truman,  Nathan,  Ellen,  Sybil,  Jason, 
Phineas,  Thaddeus,  Bradley,  mentioned  below ; 
Wait. 

(IV)  Bradley  Martin,  son  of  Nathan  and 
Ellen  (Bradley)  Martin,  was  born  May  6, 
1782,  at  Woodbury,  Connecticut,  and  died 
April  23,  1825,  at  Avon,  New  York.  He  mar- 
ried Harriet  B.  Hull,  born  at  Salisbury,  Con- 
necticut, November  20,  1785,  died  October  26, 
1862.  Children :  Eliza,  born  at  Avon,  July 
9,  1807,  died  February  23,  1829,  wife  of  Al- 
fred B.  Field,  of  Canandaigua,  New  York; 
Henry  Hull,  mentioned  below ;  Harriet  E., 
born  April  6,  1817,  died  October  16,  1883,  at 
Salem,  New  York,  married,  June  20,  1849, 
James  S.  Polhemus,  of  Astoria,  New  York ; 
Jane  Ann,  born  November  9,  1819,  died  March 

I,  1885,  at  Salem,  New  York,  married  August 

II,  1 841,  Anthony  Blanchard,  of  Albany,  New 
York. 

(V)  Henry  Hull  Martin,  only  son  of  Brad- 
ley and  Harriet  B.  (Hull)  Martin,  was  born 
November  27,  1809,  at  Avon,  Genesee  county. 
New  York,  and  died  at  his  home.  No.  152 
State  street,  Albany,  New  York,  March  20, 
1886.  After  his  preliminary  studies  he  en- 
tered Union  College  at  Schenectady,  New 
York,  and  at  the  conclusion  of  the  educational 
course  studied  law  in  an  office  in  Albany, 
being  admitted  to  the  bar.  For  a  time  he  was 
private  secretary  to  Governor  Throop.  He 
continued  to  practice  law  until  1854,  when  he 
decided  to  enter  the  banking  world,  making 
a  wise  decision,  for  eventually  he  became  very 
successful.  The  Albany  City  Savings  Institu- 
tion was  incorporated  March  29,  1850,  begin- 
ning business  at  No.  47  State  street ;  Hon. 
Erastus   Corning,   mayor  of  Albany,   was   its 


first  president,  and  the  board  of  trustees  was 
composed  of  the  representative  men  of  the 
city.  Although  Mr.  Martin  was  then  only 
forty  years  of  age  he  was  sought  to  take  a 
place  on  the  board  upon  organization.  This 
did  not  yield  the  direct  activity  he  desired  in 
order  to  be  in  touch  with  the  financial  world 
and  learn  the  ways  of  banking,  so  he  awaited 
the  favorable  opportunity.  When  Watts 
Sherman,  who  was  the  first  cashier  of  the  Al- 
bany City  National  Bank  which  was  organized 
April  30,  1834,  resigned,  the  post  was  offered 
to  Mr.  Martin.  He  accepted,  and  continued 
to  fill  the  office  until  his  resignation  in  De- 
cember, 1870,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  Amos 
P.  Palmer. 

In  1846  he  was  elected  a  director  of  the  Al- 
bany Insurance  Company,  incorporated  March 
8,  1811,  by  a  number  of  influential  men;  and 
he  was  also  chosen  a  director  on  the  board 
of  the  Mutual  Insurance  Company,  organized 
in  1836.  The  Albany  Gaslight  Company,  one 
of  the  largest  and  most  important  corporations 
in  the  city,  was  incorporated  March  27,  1841, 
at  the  time  of  the  introduction  of  gas;  and 
while  the  business  was  yet  in  its  infancy  Mr. 
Martin  was  elected  president.  In  1866  he  was 
appointed  by  the  mayor  one  of  the  Albany 
City  Water  Commissioners,  and  continued- to 
hold  the  office  until  1879.  He  was  a  trustee 
of  the  Albany  Steam  Trap  Company,  organ- 
ized in  1871  by  General  Frederick  Townsend, 
a  relative,  and  Hon.  James  H.  Blessing,  who 
later  became  mayor  of  the  city  and  inventor 
of  the  first  practical  device  for  returning  the 
water  of  condensation,  under  pressure,  back 
to  the  boiler.  Mr.  Martin  perceived  the  merit 
of  the  struggling  enterprise  and  backed  it  until 
it  finally  grew  to  an  enormous  extent,  and  be- 
came owner  of  more  than  twenty-five  patents 
connected  with  the  process. 

The  Albany  Savings  Bank  had  been  in- 
corporated March  25,  1820,  General  Stephen 
Van  Rensselaer  being  its  first  president ;  this 
was  the  largest  and  most  influential  of  all  the 
savings  banks  in  the  city.  Mr.  Martin  was 
made  its  treasurer  in  1874,  and  subsequently 
its  vice-president.  Harmon  Pumpelly,  its 
president,  resigning  on  account  of  his  advanced 
age,  Mr.  Martin  was  elected  president  on  May 
17,  1882,  at  which  time  the  post  of  vice-presi- 
dent was  assumed  by  Mr.  Martin's  relative. 
General  Rufus  H.  King,  who  was  succeeded 
in  his  post  of  second  vice-president  by  Marcus 


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T.  Hun,  who  became  president  in  191 1.  The 
institution  prospered  greatly  throughout  the 
entire  time  that  Mr.  Martin  was  at  its  head, 
and  he  became  regarded  as  one  of  the  ablest 
bankers  in  the  state  of   New  York. 

On  October  8,  1835,  Mr.  Martin  was  mar- 
ried at  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Albany, 
New  York,  by  Dr.  Campbell,  to  Anne  Town- 
send,  who  was  born  in  Albany,  April  11,  1814, 
and  died  there  March  4,  1866.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Isaiah  and  Hannah  (Townsend) 
Townsend,  her  parents  having  been  cousins 
(see  Townsend  family).  Children:  i.  Henry 
Townsend,  born  in  Albany,  January  2,  1837, 
and  died  at  his  residence.  No.  152  State  street, 
in  that  city.  May  16,  1904.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Albany  Boys'  Academy  and  Union  Col- 
lege. He  employed  his  legal  knowledge  main- 
ly, however,  in  the  care  of  the  property  left 
him  by  his  father,  his  general  practice  being 
discontinued  after  his  father's  death  in  1886. 
He  was  part  owner  of  the  extensive  Globe 
Hotel  property  on  the  southwest  corner  of 
State  and  Pearl  streets,  of  which  his  brother 
Bradley  also  owned  part;  and  in  one  of  the 
buildings  connected  with  the  property  he  had 
private  offices  where  he  was  accustomed  to 
meet  his  friends,  the  entire  property  having 
been  subsequently  sold,  in  1912,  to  a  hotel 
syndicate.  Mr.  Martin  was  a  staunch  Re- 
publican, was  a  prominent  member  of  St. 
Peter's  Episcopal  Church,  serving  also  as  trus- 
tee of  the  Albany  Savings  Bank  and  on  a  num- 
ber of  boards.  He  was  married  at  Albany 
to  Lydia  Lush,  a  native  of  that  city,  born 
May  20,  1845,  died  there  at  No.  152  State 
street.  May  2,  1903.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Stephen  and  Augusta  (Gansevoort)  Lush. 
Children,  all  born  in  Albany:  i.  Henry  Hull, 
died  in  infancy,  ii.  William  Lush,  born  July 
5,  1873;  unmarried,  and  resides  in  Albany, 
iii.  Alice  Townsend,  born  December  5,  1875  ; 
married  at  Albany,  November  10,  1897, 
Colonel  Benjamin  Brandreth  McAlpin,  born 
in  New  York  City,  October  4,  1871,  son  of 
General  Edwin  Augustus  and  Annie  (Brand- 
reth) McAlpin.  Children:  Benjamin  Brand- 
reth, born  New  York  City,  December  3,  1898; 
Donald  Martin,  born  New  York,  January  24, 
1901 ;  Townsend  Martin,  born  New  York,  Oc- 
tober 5,  1903.  iv.  Helen,  born  September  21, 
1877;  married,  at  Albany,  January  7,  1899, 
Edward  Murphy,  born  in  Troy,  New  York, 
April  13,  1870,  son  of  Senator  Edward  and 


Julia  (Delehanty)  Murphy.  One  child, 
Helen,  v.  Henry  Townsend,  born  October  16, 
1879;  married  at  Albany,  October  26,  1904, 
Eva  Hart,  born  in  Albany,  November  13,  1885, 
daughter  of  George  W.  and  Susan  A.  (Brown) 
Hart.  One  child,  Henry  Townsend,  born  in 
Albany,  December  26,  1912,  and  died  same 
day.  vi.  Mabel,  born  January  21,  188 1 ;  mar- 
ried, at  Albany,  Frank  Earle  Seeley.  2.  Anna 
Lawrence,  born  in  Albany,  September  3,  1838, 
died  at  Washington,  D.  C,  April  16,  1905. 
She  was  married  at  Albany,  June  19,  1862, 
to  General  William  Beatty  Rochester,  born 
at  Angelica,  New  York,  February  15,  1826, 
died  at  Washington,  D.  C,  November  11, 
1909,  son  of  William  Beatty  and  Amanda 
(Hopkins)  Rochester.  His  father,  William 
Beatty  Rochester,  was  born  at  Hagerstown, 
Maryland,  January  29,  1789,  and  was  the  son 
of  Nathaniel  Rochester,  born  in  Cople  Parish, 
Westmoreland  county,  Virginia,  February  21, 
1752,  who  married,  April  20,  1788,  Sophia 
Beatty,  born  January  25,  1768,  daughter  of 
Colonel  William  Beatty,  of  Frederick,  Mary- 
land. Nathaniel  Rochester  first  visited  the 
Genesee  country  of  western  New  York  in  the 
year  1800,  purchasing  land,  in  1802,  at  what 
was  then  called  Falls  Town,  for  $17.50  per 
acre,  and  founding  there  the  city  of  Rochester 
named  in  his  honor.  Children  of  General  and 
Mrs.  Rochester:  Annie  Townsend,  born  Feb- 
ruary II,  1864,  now  unmarried;  Major  Wil- 
liam Beatty,  United  States  Army,  born  March 
23,  1866,  now  unmarried;  Henry  Martin,  born 
June  II,  1869,  now  unmarried;  Alice  Davies, 
born  April  29,  1875,  married,  January  7,  1902, 
Captain  Charles  Wendell  Fenton,  United 
States  Army.  3.  Harriet  Byron,  born  in  Al- 
bany, January  i,  1840,  died  there  January  29, 
1844.  4.  Bradley,  mentioned  below.  5.  Alice, 
born  January  12,  1848,  at  No.  152  State  street, 
Albany,  died  in  New  York  City,  April  24, 
1905.  She  was  married  at  Albany,  April  22, 
1869,  to  Julian  Tappan  Davies,  a  native  of 
New  York  City,  born  September  25,  1845,  son 
of  Henry  Ebenezer  and  Rebecca  Waldo  (Tap- 
pan)  Davies  (see  Davies  family).  Children: 
Julian  Townsend,  born  New  York  City,  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1870,  and  there  married,  November 
22,  1894,  Marie  Rose  de  Garmendia;  Alice 
Martin,  born  New  York  City,  February  21, 
1871,  and  died  there  February  14,  1884;  Helen, 
born  in  Fishkill,  New  York,  June  27,  1872, 
died    at    New    York,     September     i,     1877; 


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Thomas  Alfred,  born  at  Narrangansett  Pier, 
Rhode  Island,  July  16,  1873,  and  died  at  New 
York,  August  27,  1877;  Ethel,  born  in  New 
York  City,  March  19,  1876,  married,  at  New- 
port, Rhode  Island,  August  9,  1902,  Archi- 
bald Gourlay  Thacher  (see  Thacher  family)  ; 
Frederick  Martin,  born  in  New  York  City, 
September  12,  1877,  married  in  Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania,  April  27,  1882,  Emily  O'Neil; 
Cornelia  Sherman,  born  in  New  York  City, 
October  21,  1882,  as  yet  unmarried.  6.  Fred- 
erick Townsend,  mentioned  below.  7.  Howard 
Townsend,  born  at  No.  152  State  street,  Al- 
bany, February  28,  1853.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Albany  Boys'  Academy,  and  having 
graduated  there  entered  Cornell  University, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1875.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church,  a  Re- 
publican, and  a  member  of  the  Union  Club. 
On  February  22,  1895,  Mr.  Martin  was  mar- 
ried at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  to  Camilla  Thomp- 
son, who  was  born  in  that  city,  September  15, 
1870,  and  is  the  daughter  of  William  B.  and 
Camilla   S.    Thompson. 

(VI)  Bradley  Martin,  son  of  Henry  Hull 
and  Anna  (Townsend)  Martin,  was  born  at 
No.  152  State  street,  Albany,  New  York,  on 
December  18,  1841,  and  died  at  his  residence. 
No.  5  Chesterfield  Gardens,  London,  Eng- 
land, February  5.  1913.  His  earliest  school- 
ing was  received  at  the  Albany  Boys'  Academy, 
across  the  Capitol  Park  from  the  family  resi- 
dence; he  then  entered  Union  College  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1863.  Desiring 
to  participate  in  the  activities  of  the  Civil 
war  which  was  then  at  its  height,  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  first  lieutenant  in  the  Ninety-third 
Regiment,  National  Guard,  New  York;  and 
later  on  was  advanced  to  the  rank  of  colonel, 
serving  on  the  staff  of  Governor  Reuben  E. 
Fenton.  At  the  close  of  the  war,  having  de- 
voted himself  to  the  study  of  law,  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar ;  he  then  went  into  business, 
in  partnership  with  his  friend,  the  late  James 
D.  Wasson.  He  relinquished  this  association 
later  on  in  favor  of  his  elder  brother,  Henry. 

In  the  year  1869  Mr.  Martin  was  married  in 
New  York  to  Cornelia  Sherman,  of  Buffalo, 
whom  he  met  for  the  first  time  while  he  was 
acting  as  best  man  at  the  wedding  of  Colonel 
Elliott  F.  Shepard ;  her  father,  Isaac  H.  Sher- 
man, of  Buffalo,  was  a  man  of  considerable 
wealth  and  prominence  in  that  city.  Several 
years  after  their  marriage  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mar- 


tin began  to  entertain  on  the  large  scale  which 
made  them  famous  both  here  and  abroad,  their 
elaborate  dinner  dances  and  fancy  balls  being 
without  rival.  Their  celebrated  masquerade 
ball  on  the  night  of  March  10,  1897,  taxed 
the  accommodations  of  the  Waldorf,  and  in 
richness  and  display  has  been  unequalled  in 
the  social  world.  The  guests  were  arrayed  in 
the  royal  garb  of  various  ages,  each  costume 
being  a  marvel  of  splendor,  and  the  display 
of  rare  jewels  and  rich  fabrics  has  probably 
never  been  surpassed  at  any  time.  Three 
hundred  lackeys,  also  in  costume,  were  in 
waiting  upon  the  occasion. 

In  1881  Mr.  Martin  leased  from  Lady  Sea- 
field  an  immense  estate  in  Scotland,  consist- 
ing of  about  sixty-five  thousand  acres  on 
Loch  Ness,  in  the  northern  part  of  the  country. 
It  was  situated  some  fifteen  miles  from  In- 
verness, and  extended  nineteen  miles  along 
the  loch.  The  estate  embraced  a  deer  forest 
of  about  twenty-eight  thousand  acres  in  extent 
which  was  ranked  among  the  ten  best  preserves 
on  the  island.  A  prohibition  was  placed  upon 
killing  more  than  seventy-five  deer  during  the 
hunting  season ;  and  it  is  recorded  that  one 
year  the  game  killed  on  the  preserves  by  Mr. 
Martin  and  his  guests  included  seventy  stags, 
two  thousand  and  eighty  pheasants,  and  twelve 
hundred  grouse,  the  greatest  bag  in  the 
country.  Although  hardly  more  than  a  shoot- 
ing box  when  he  leased  the  estate,  Balmacaan 
was  converted  by  Mr.  Martin  into  one  of  the 
most  comfortable  country  seats  in  the  British 
Isles.  The  dwelling  house,  three  stories  high 
and  completely  covered  with  ivy,  was  a  cen- 
tury and  a  half  old,  built  of  bluestone,  and 
protected  from  the  high  winds  by  the  deer 
forest.  It  was  a  most  delightful  spot,  and 
here  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Martin  were  accustomed 
to  repair  during  the  month  of  August  with 
their  invited  guests,  who  usually  remained  a 
fortnight  at  a  time,  yielding  their  places  to 
others,  so  that  host  and  hostess  were  con- 
stantly engaged  in  entertaining.  Their  posi- 
tion in  English  society  was  secured  by  the 
marriage  of  their  daughter  to  the  Earl  of 
Craven,  and  their  acquaintance  extended 
among  the  nobility  of  Europe,  the  Grand  Duke 
Michael  of  Russia  having  partaken  one  autumn 
of  the  hospitality  of  Balmacaan. 

Despite  the  luxury  of  their  establishment, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Martin  were  kindly  and  un- 
pretentious   in    their    manners,    winning    for 


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themselves  hosts  of  friends  and  possessing 
the  esteem  and  affection  of  their  tenants.  Mr. 
Martin,  who  was  a  man  of  keen  business 
acumen,  was  nevertheless  most  charitably  in- 
clined, and  in  a  quiet  way  did  much  for  the 
relief  of  poverty  and  distress;  his  nature 
seemed  to  have  been  totally  unspoiled  by  his 
immense  wealth.  After  his  long  residence 
abroad,  broken  only  by  occasional  visits  to 
this  country,  he  returned  to  New  York  in  the 
spring  of  1912  for  a  flying  visit  that  proved 
to  be  his  last.  A  cold  which  developed  into 
pneumonia  seized  upon  him  shortly  after  this 
final  trip  to  America;  and  after  an  illness  of 
so  brief  a  duration  that  there  was  scarcely 
time  to  cable  his  brothers  of  its  serious  nature, 
its  termination  proved  fatal.  His  body  was 
brought  to  this  country  in  April,  1913,  and 
interred  with  final  honors  in  the  family  vault. 
Mr.  Martin  had  never  renounced  his  citizen- 
ship despite  his  long  sojourns  abroad,  and  he 
retained  his  pew  in  Grace  Episcopal  Church 
to  the  end.  He  was  a  member  of  tlie  Union, 
Knickerbocker,  Metropolitan,  Racquet,  Tennis, 
and  other  New  York  clubs ;  and  of  the  Marl- 
borough and  St.  James  of  London. 

Mrs.  Martin,  who  was  as  has  been  stated, 
a  Miss  Cornelia  Sherman,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 27,  1845,  in  Buffalo,  the  daughter  of  Isaac 
Sherman  of  that  city,  her  mother  having  been 
a  Miss  Witherell.  By  their  marriage  which 
occurred  in  New  York  City  on  January  26, 
1869,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Martin  were  the  parents 
of  four  children:  i.  Sherman,  born  in  New 
York  City,  December  12,  1869,  died  there  De- 
cember 21,  1894.  2.  Anne  Townsend,  bom 
at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  July  10,  1871,  died 
at  Sharon  Springs,  New  York,  August  20, 
1872.  3.  Bradley,  mentioned  below.  4. 
Cornelia,  born  in  New  York  City,  September 
22,  1876;  married,  in  New  York,  April  18, 
1893,  the  Earl  of  Craven. 

(VII)  Bradley  (2)  Martin,  son  of  Bradley 
(i)  and  Cornelia  (Sherman)  Martin,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  July  6,  1873,  and  now 
resides  at  No.  6  East  Eighty-seventh  street. 
New  York  City.  Accompanying  his  parents 
abroad,  he  received  his  education  at  Christ 
Church  College,  Oxford,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1894, 
receiving  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1897.  Tak- 
ing up  the  study  of  law  he  received  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  at  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1897 ; 
after  which  he  interested  himself  actively  in 


the  banking  world  and  continued  his  residence 
in  this  country.  He  became  treasurer  of  the 
Van  Norden  Trust  Company,  serving  from 
December,  1909,  until  February,  1910,  also 
becoming  its  vice-president,  and  was  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Madison  Trust  Company.  From 
February,  1910,  until  August,  191 1,  he  was 
president  of  the  Nineteenth  Ward  Bank;  from 
February,  1910,  until  October,  191 1,  he  was 
vice-president  of  the  Lenox  Safe  Deposit 
Company  and  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Estates; 
and  from  October,  191 1,  until  April,  191 2, 
president  of  the  latter.  He  fs  vice-president 
of  the  Security  Bank  of  New  York,  trustee  of 
the  Bureau  of  Municipal  Research,  vice-presi- 
dent of  National  Highways  Protective  Society, 
trustee  of  St.  Mark's  Hospital,  director  of  the 
Hudson  Trust  Company,  and  closely  associ- 
ated with  other  large  corporations  and  enter- 
prises. He  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Embassy  Association,  and  since  the  year  1900 
has  been  manager  of  the  family  estates. 

Mr.  Martin  is  a  Republican,  and  is  an  at- 
tendant of  the  Episcopal  church.  He  is  an 
author  of  distinction  and  has  contributed  a 
number  of  economic  articles  to  the  Nineteenth 
Century.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union,  Man- 
hattan, Metropolitan,  Knickerbocker,  Univer- 
sity, Racquet  and  Tennis,  and  Aero  clubs, 
and  of  the  Downtown  Association  of  New 
York ;  of  the  National  Geographic  Society,  the 
American  Museum  of  Natural  History,  the 
Zoological  Society,  Pilgrims,  Meadowbrook, 
and  Piping  Rock ;  also  of  the  Travelers,  Baga- 
telle, and  Automobile  clubs  of  Paris;  and  of 
the  St.  James,  Ranelagh,  Bachelors,  and 
Hurlingham,  of  London. 

On  November  2,  1904,  Mr.  Martin  was  mar- 
ried at  Beaufort  Castle,  Beauly,  Scotland,  to 
Helen  Margaretten  Phipps,  who  was  born  in 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  July  3,  1873 ;  she 
is  the  youngest  daughter  of  Henry  and  Annie 
(Shafer)  Phipps.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Martin  had 
three  children :  Henry  Bradley,  born  in  New 
York  City,  March  27,  1906;  Howard  Town- 
send,  born  in  New  York  City,  December  27, 
1907 ;  David  Bradley,  born  at  Southampton, 
Long  Island,  August  14,  1910,  where  he  died 
the  following  day. 

(VI)  Frederick  Townsend  Martin,  son  of 
Henry  Hull  and  Anna  (Townsend)  Martin, 
was  born  at  No.  152  State  street,  Albany,  New 
York,  December  6,  1849,  and  is  now  a  resi- 
dent of  New  York  City.     His  early  education 


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was  received  at  the  Albany  Boys'  Academy, 
the  alma  mater  of  many  prominent  men  of 
New  York  state  and  city,  and  an  institution 
established  for  more  than  a  hundred  years. 
After  the  completion  of  his  studies  here,  Mr. 
Martin  entered  Union  College,  Schenectady, 
finishing  his  education  abroad  in  Germany  and 
France,  where  he  became  an  excellent  linguist, 
meeting  persons  of  eminence  in  diplomatic  cir- 
cles and  preparing  the  way  for  subsequent 
travels  and  responsibilities.  Returning  home, 
he  entered  the  Albany  Law  School  at  Union 
University,  pursuing  his  legal  studies  for  some 
time  afterward  in  the  offices  of  the  late  Judge 
Samuel  Hand  of  the  court  of  appeals,  one 
of  the  ablest  jurists  in  Albany  at  that  time. 
Upon  attaining  his  majority,  Mr.  Martin  was 
admitted  to  practice  at  the  bar  of  New  York 
state. 

Fired  with  patriotic  zeal  at  the  close  of  the 
civil  war,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Zouave 
Cadets,  a  company  of  the  Tenth  Regiment, 
National  Guard,  State  of  New  York,  composed 
of  young  men  of  the  best  families  of  Albany. 
He  rose  to  a  lieutenancy,  was  chosen  captain, 
major,  and  finally  lieutenant-colonel,  termin- 
ating his  military  career  as  colonel  on  Major- 
General  Carr's  staflf,  and  receiving  his  dis- 
charge after  having  served  eleven  years  in  the 
national  guard. 

Mr.  Martin's  travels  have  been  very  exten- 
sive and  he  has  crossed  the  ocean  many  times, 
completely  circling  the  globe  and  making  the 
acquaintance  of  many  royal  personages  and 
people  of  distinction.  He  has  had  audience 
with  three  popes,  Pius  IX.,  Leo  XHL  and  Pius 
X.  Indeed,  the  first  trip  which  he  made  abroad 
was  a  most  eventful  one ;  sailing  on  the  steam- 
ship "Russia,"  one  of  the  earliest  of  the 
Cunard  vessels,  he  arrived  in  London  just  in 
time  to  witness  the  entry  into  that  city  of 
the  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Edinburgh  after  the 
duke's  recent  marriage  to  the  only  daughter 
of  the  Emperor  of  Russia.  A  few  weeks  later 
he  was  present  at  the  funeral  of  Napoleon  the 
Third  at  Chislehurst. 

Mr.  Martin  has  devoted  much  of  his  time  to 
literature  and  has  written  a  number  of  books 
which  have  been  most  favorably  received  both 
at  home  and  abroad.  He  has  been  a  frequent 
contributor  also  of  lengthy  and  important  ar- 
ticles to  the  high-class  periodicals  of  the  day, 
touching  upon  various  subjects  of  weight  in 
the  social  and  political  life  of  the  time.  Among 


his  pubhshed  works  are:  "The  Passing  of  the 
Idle  Rich,"  191 1;  the  "Reminiscences  of  My 
Life,"  1912;  "Snobs,  Past  and  Present,"  and 
"Things  I  Remember,"  published  by  Eveligh 
Nash,  1913.  Mr.  Martin  has  also  given  close 
attention  to  investments  and  has  won  for  him- 
self a  leading  position  among  capitalists;  and 
as  a  philanthropist  his  benevolent  works  have 
been  many  and  far-reaching  in  their  results. 
He  has  taken  a  very  active  interest  in  the 
movement  against  tuberculosis,  and  has  in- 
deed been  deeply  concerned  in  medical  research 
in  every  direction.  As  a  trustee  of  the  New 
York  Throat,  Nose  and  Lung  Hospital,  his 
opportunities  for  good  have  been  great  and 
his  influence  very  widely  felt.  He  has  also 
been  very  prominent  as  a  director  of  the  Met- 
ropolitan Trust  Company  of  New  York. 

With  all  of  these  matters  of  import  en- 
gaging his  attention,  Mr.  Martin  yet  finds  time 
for  social  enjoyment,  few  being  more  prom- 
inent in  the  leading  circles  of  the  metropolis 
than  he  has  become  since  taking  up  his  resi- 
dence here.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Aero  and 
many  other  clubs,  a  life  member  of  the  Knick- 
erbocker, also  a  member  of  the  Union,  Metro- 
politan, of  New  York;  St.  James,  Marlbor- 
ough, Bachelors,  Wellington,  Touring  and  Au- 
tomobile clubs  of  London ;  and  in  France  is  a 
member  of  the  Travelers,  Automobile,  Polo, 
and  Country  clubs.  Mr.  Martin  has  passed 
much  of  his  time  as  a  visitor  at  Balmacaan,  his 
brother's  magnificent  estate  in  Scotland ;  while 
in  this  country  he  makes  his  home  at  the  Hotel 
Plaza,  New  York  City. 


This  name  is  of  Dutch  origin,  and 
TICE     in  the  early  records  of  New  York 

appears  in  many  forms,  such  as  Tys, 
Tysz,  Thys,  Thysen,  Thyssen.  There  seem  to 
have  been  two  persons  called  Claes  Thyssen  in 
New  York  City,  each  having  a  child  baptized 
there  in  1654.  Garret  Thyssen  had  a  child 
baptized  in  New  York  in  1665,  and  Anthony 
in  1682.  There  was  a  Jan  Thyssen  Buys  in 
New  York  in  1684.  It  is  possible  that  the  child 
baptized  in  that  year  was  his  first  born  in 
America.  He  may  have  been  the  father  of 
the  next  mentioned,  who  was  probably  born  in 
Holland. 

Jan  Tys  (John  Tyse)  settled  near  Spring 
Brook,  in  what  is  now  the  town  of  Deer  Park, 
Orange  county.  New  York,  about  1690,  along 
with  the   Gumaers  and  other  Huguenot  pio- 


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neers  of  that  district.  Later  he  moved  farther 
up  the  Neversink  river,  locating  in  what  is 
now  SulHvan  county,  New  York,  and  disap- 
pears from  the  records  at  what  is  now  Port 
Jervis.  The  failure  of  New  York  authorities 
to  preserve  vital  statistics,  and  the  wild  char- 
acter of  the  country  on  the  Upper  Neversink 
for  a  century  or  more,  make  impossible  the 
discovery  of  a  continuous  line  of  descendants. 
(I)  The  first  of  whom  any  knowledge  can 
be  now  obtained  was  John  Tice,  who  is  said 
to  have  been  a  native  of  Phillipsport,  Sullivan 
county,  New  York,  and  must  have  been  born 
about  1800.  He  conducted  a  large  general 
store  at  Phillipsport  for  many  years,  and  also 
engaged  in  farming.  He  was  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  church.  He  married 
Huldah  Gumaer,  who  was  undoubtedly  a  de- 
scendant of  the  old  family  of  that  name  at 
Port  Jervis.  He  had  children:  Alfred;  Wick- 
ham,  born  December  2,  1831 ;  Margaret,  born 
January  13,  1834,  wife  of  Gouverneur  Nick- 
erson ;  Helen,  born  August  19,  1843,  "ow  Mrs. 
Wesley  Holmes. 

(H)  Alfred,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Huldah 
(Gumaer)  Tice,  was  born  October  19,  1829, 
at  Phillipsport,  died  in  Ellenville,  New  York, 
February  5,  1908.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  place,  and  soon 
after  arriving  at  manhood  located  in  Ellen- 
ville, where  he  conducted  a  photographic  busi- 
ness until  1881.  In  that  year  he  removed  to 
Corry,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  continued  in 
the  same  line,  and  in  1896  returned  to  Ellen- 
ville, where  he  lived  in  retirement  until  his 
death.  He  was  an  upright,  conscientious  citi- 
zen, respected  by  all,  a  member  of  the  Metho- 
dist church,  and  of  Wawarsing  Lodge,  No. 
582,  of  the  Masonic  fraternity.  He  married 
Irene  Miller,  born  April  7,  1825,  died  Sep- 
tember 14,  1910.  They  had  sons :  James  W., 
John  A.  and  Perry  S. 

(Ill)  John  Arthur,  second  son  of  Alfred 
and  Irene  (Miller)  Tice,  was  born  June  29, 
1859,  in  Ellenville.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  that  village,  and  Wyoming 
Academy,  at  Kingston,  Pennsylvania.  After 
the  completion  of  his  studies,  he  became  em- 
ployed as  a  clerk  in  one  of  the  leading  boot 
and  shoe  stores  of  Ellenville,  and  continued 
three  years  in  that  connection,  after  which,  in 
1883,  he  took  the  position  of  clerk  in  the  El- 
lenville Savings  Bank.  His  faithfulness  and 
efficiency  gained  promotion  in  that  institution, 


with  which  he  has  continued  until  the  present 
time,  becoming  secretary  in  1906.  He  has 
been  active  in  promoting  the  interests  of  the 
village ;  was  for  many  years  a  member  of 
Scoresby  Hose  Club,  of  which  he  has  been 
sixteen  years  president.  Politically  he  acts 
with  the  Republicans,  and  is  considered  one 
of  the  most  influential  and  trustworthy  men 
of  Ellenville.  He  affiliates  with  the  Masonic 
fraternity,  being  a  member  of  the  same  lodge 
with  which  his  father  was  associated;  of  Wa- 
warsing Chapter,  No.  246,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 
of  Ellenville,  and  Rondout  Commandery,  No. 
52,  Knights  Templar,  of  Rondout,  New  York. 
He  married,  October  30,  1895,  Harriet  I. 
Hoar,  born  June  10,  i860,  daughter  of  George 
and  Harriet  (Mason)  Hoar,  of  Ellenville 
(see  Hoar).  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tice  are  the  pa- 
rents of  Roger  Du  Bois  Tice,  born  July  24, 
1903. 


The  surname  Hoar  is  supposed  to 
HOAR     have    some    connection    with    the 

word  hoard,  which  is  also  used  as 
a  family  name.  The  name  is  well  known  in 
America  and  has  appeared  in  its  annals  from 
the  earliest  times,  and  no  more  popular  or 
truly  meritorious  family  name  comes  to  mind 
in  writing  of  the  many  family  circles  of  Mass- 
achusetts, to  which  United  States  Senator 
George  F.  Hoar  belonged.  His  ancestors  from 
the  early  day  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  were 
men  of  great  courage  and  activity.  One  writer 
says :  "They  were  in  advance  of  the  times 
in  which  they  lived  and  were  leaders  to  a 
higher  and  better  sphere,  both  in  a  social  and 
political  sense."  The  earliest  of  the  male  an- 
cestors of  the  family  in  this  country  was  John 
Hoar,  one  of  the  three  brothers  who  are  said 
to  have  come  with  their  mother  and  sisters 
from  Gloucestershire,  England.  The  husband 
and  father  is  believed  to  have  been  sherifif  of 
Gloucester  and  died  before  his  family  came 
to  America.  Thus  the  family  has  been  dis- 
tinguished both  in  this  country  and  the  land 
of  its  origin.  Gloucestershire  would  appear 
to  be  the  seat  of  the  family  in  England,  though 
the  name  is  also  known  in  the  south  of  Eng- 
land. Leonard  Hoar,  who  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  family  of  the  name  in  this 
country,  married  Bridget  Lisle,  daughter  of 
John  Lord  Lisle,  who  was  president  of  the 
high  court  of  justice  in  England,  under  Crom- 
well, and  drew  the  indictment  and  sentence  of 


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Charles  I.  So  it  is  clear  the  family  moved 
in  circles  where  there  was  considerable  polit- 
ical activity.  Several  families  of  the  name 
in  England  are  described  as  having  the  right 
to  bear  arms ;  and  the  members  of  the  family 
who  have  been  distinguished  as  lawyers,  states- 
men, and  clergymen,  have  been  numerous,  both 
in  this  country  and  in  the  United  Kingdom. 
(I)  John  B.  Hoar  was  born  at  Bronkton, 
in  the  county  of  Kent,  England,  about  1790, 
died  at  Ellenville,  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
when  about  eighty  years  of  age.  He  be- 
longed to  a  family  that  had  long  been  seated 
in  the  southern  part  of  England,  and  it  is 
not  impossible  that  this  family  and  the  older 
American  Massachusetts  family  of  the  same 
name  may  have  been  branches  of  the  same 
parent  stem.  John  B.  Hoar  came  to  this 
country  with  his  family,  consisting  of  his 
wife,  eight  sons,  and  two  daughters,  and 
settled  at  Point  Benjamin,  Ulster  county. 
His  occupation  in  England  was  that  of  a 
baker,  but  he  did  not  continue  at  that  work 
when  he  came  to  this  country.  He  worked 
for  many  years  for  the  D.  &  H.  Canal  Com- 
pany, and  later  for  the  Ellenville  Glass  Com- 
pany. 

(H)  George,  son  of  John  B.  Hoar,  was 
born  at  Bronkton,  county  Kent,  England. 
May  20,  1825,  died  December  21,  1900,  at 
Ellenville,  New  York.  He  came  to  this  coun- 
try with  his  parents  and  brothers  and  sisters 
when  he  was  about  nine  years  of  age,  on 
the  saiHng  vessel  "Montreal."  He  attended 
the  district  schools  of  Ellenville,  and  early 
in  life  he  went  to  Alligerville,  New  York,  and 
worked  alongside  of  his  brother-in-law  in  his 
shipyard.  Later,  in  company  with  one  of  his 
brothers,  he  went  to  Hawley,  Pennsylvania, 
where  both  of  them  engaged  in  boat  building 
and  repairing.  This  continued  for  some  time, 
when  finally  the  two  brothers  separated  and 
George  Hoar  came  to  Ellenville.  In  that 
town  he  purchased  a  boatyard  and  drydock 
where  he  built  boats  for  the  Albany  and 
Honesdale  line,  the  Merchants'  and  Tanners' 
line,  and  the  D.  &  H.  Canal  Company.  In 
course  of  time  his  concern  attained  consider- 
able proportions ;  he  executed  a  great  deal  of 
work  in  the  repairing  line,  and  his  general 
business  in  both  directions  along  the  Hudson 
was  very  great.  When  the  D.  and  H.  canal 
was  abandoned  he  built  a  plant  for  the  manu- 
facture of  sand  from  ground  granite,  to  be 


employed  in  the  manufacture  of  glass,  and  in 
this  business  he  continued  till  his  death. 
Throughout  his  busy  life  he  engaged  in  many 
and  various  ventures,  all  of  which  showed 
his  unusual  practical  ability  and  his  business 
skill.  His  ship  and  boatyard  was  long  an 
interesting  object  from  the  river,  and  the 
amount  of  work  executed  in  it  gave  it  always 
an  appearance  of  a  great  hive  of  industry. 
Mr.  Hoar  was  well  able  to  adapt  himself  to 
changing  business  conditions,  and  when  it 
became  necessary  for  him  to  engage  in  a  new 
line  of  industry  his  varied  experience  in  vari- 
ous capacities  from  youth  to  age  served  him 
in  good  stead.  He  was  the  organizer,  leader 
and  a  member  of  the  first  Ellenville  brass 
band.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Reformed 
church  and  in  politics  was  a  Republican.  In 
the  course  of  his  adult  life  he  held  various 
public  positions  of  prominence,  was  trustee 
of  the  village,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  education.  He  was  always  greatly 
interested  in  the  public  afifairs  and  progress 
of  Ellenville,  and  was  regarded  as  one  of 
its  pioneers  during  the  period  of  its  more  im- 
portant development.  From  the  time  of  his 
settlement  in  the  neighborhood  he  was  a 
highly  respected  member  of  the  community, 
and  had  a  large  circle  of  acquaintances.  He 
married  Harriet  Mason.  Children :  Alice  A., 
married  U.  E.  Terwilliger;  Mary  E.,  married 

A.  P.  Dubois;  William  A.,  mentioned  below; 
Sarah  C,  unmarried ;  Amelia  F.,  married  C. 

B.  N.  Hull ;  Harriet  I.,  married  John  A.  Tice. 
( HI )  William  A.,  son  of  George  and  Har- 
riet (Mason)  Hoar,  was  bom  at  Alligerville, 
New  York,  June  3,  1853.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  Ellenville,  Ulster 
county,  and  at  the  Fort  Edward  Institute,  at 
Fort  Edward,  New  York,  where  he  took  a 
business  course.  He  soon  became  connected 
with  the  Ellenville  Glass  Works,  and  later 
was  made  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Ellenville.  In  the  year  1881  he  resigned 
this  position,  and  a  partnership  was  formed 
under  the  firm  name  of  Moore  &  Hoar,  man- 
ufacturers of  clothing,  and  jobbers  in  dry 
goods,  hosiery,  notions,  and  lines  kept  in 
country  stores.  On  Mr.  Moore's  death  his 
son  succeeded  him  and  the  business  is  still 
conducted  by  Mr.  Hoar  and  Mr.  Moore's  son, 
under  the  firm  style  and  title  of  Moore  & 
Hoar.  The  firm  does  a  very  extensive  busi- 
ness in  Ellenville,  and  the  surrounding  coun- 


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try,  and  uses  the  most  approved  modern  busi- 
ness methods  in  so  far  as  the  village  and 
country  gives  scope  for  them.  Mr.  Hoar  is 
a  Republican  in  politics,  though  he  has  never 
held  any  public  position,  his  business  requir- 
ing the  greater  part  of  his  time  and  attention. 
He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Ellenville  Savings  Bank, 
and  his  business  interests  have  other  ramifica- 
tions. He  married  Mira,  daughter  of  Jona- 
than and  Elizabeth  (Wilbur)  Terwilliger,  of 
Ellenville,  New  York. 


(V)  Daniel  Van  Etten, 
VAN  ETTEN  son  of  Johannes  (q.  v.) 
and  Rachel  (Williams- 
Decker)  Van  Etten,  was  born  about  1786, 
and  resided  in  the  town  of  Delaware.  His 
wife's  name  was  Katherine,  and  they  had 
children :  Dorothy,  Jane,  Rachel,  Samuel  D., 
John  L.,  Oliver  P.,  Cornelius,  Phoebe  and 
Cornelia. 

(VI)  Cornelius,  fourth  son  of  Daniel  and 
Katherine  Van  Etten,  was  born  about  1825, 
in  Milford,  Pennsylvania,  and  in  early  life 
engaged  in  farming.  He  was  superintendent 
of  construction  on  the  Lake  Shore  &  Michi- 
gan Southern  Railroad,  and  after  its  comple- 
tion he  became  a  roadmaster  on  the  line,  with 
headquarters  at  Angola,  New  York,  where 
he  died  about  1871.  He  married  (first)  No- 
vember 3,  1847,  Elizabeth  Cunion,  who  was 
the  mother  of  two  sons :  Charles  C.  and 
Edgar  Lemont.  By  a  second  marriage  there 
were  sons:  Horton  B.,  Pardon  B.,  Ernest. 

(VH)  Edgar  Lemont,  second  son  of  Cor- 
nelius and  Elizabeth  (Cunion)  Van  Etten, 
was  born  September  23,  1855,  and  engaged  in 
farming  in  the  town  of  Conashaugh,  Pike 
county,  Pennsylvania.  Subsequently  he  be- 
came bookkeeper  for  the  Orange  County 
Flint  Glass  Works  in  Port  Jervis,  New  York, 
and  later  engaged  in  the  coal  and  grain  busi- 
ness in  the  same  town,  which  business  he  dis- 
posed of  to  take  the  position  of  auditor  of 
the  Jamestown  &  Lake  Erie  Railroad  at 
Jamestown,  New  York.  Later  he  was  made 
adjuster  of  claims  for  the  Metropolitan  Street 
Railroad,  at  the  time  of  the  disintegration  fol- 
lowing the  different  receiverships  of  the  vari- 
ous companies  making  up  the  Metropolitan 
system,  cast  his  future  with  the  Third  Ave- 
nue Railroad.  After  fifteen  years  of  contin- 
uous service,  he  tired  of  city  life  and  began 
to  long  again  for  the  woods  and  fields  of  his 


boyhood.  He  retired  to  a  farm  at  Freehold, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  now  lives.  He  is  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  while  residing  in 
Port  Jervis  filled  several  municipal  offices. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows  Lodge  at  Port  Jervis,  and  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church.  He  married,  in 
1873,  Olive  Augusta  Rutan,  born  January  12, 
1853,  daughter  of  Jose  and  Katherine 
(Smith)  Rutan,  natives,  respectively,  of 
Buffalo,  New  York,  and  Dingman's  Ferry, 
Pennsylvania.  They  are  the  parents  of  two 
children:  Bertha,  born  January  17,  1879,  wife 
of  Charles  Wood,  of  Milford,  Pennsylvania; 
and  Charles  Rutan,  mentioned  below. 

(VIII)  Charles  Rutan,  only  son  of  Edgar 
Lemont  and  Olive  Augusta  (Rutan)  Van 
Etten,  was  born  October  6,  1875,  in  Conash- 
augh, Pennsylvania.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  at  Port  Jervis,  New  York,  and 
was  first  employed  in  a  saw  mill  and  lumber 
yard  at  Salamanca,  New  York,  subsequently 
in  the  office  of  the  auditor  of  tlie  Jamestown 
&  Lake  Erie  Railway  Company,  and  was  pro- 
moted to  the  position  of  auditor.  The  follow- 
ing year  he  was  made  general  manager  of 
the  company,  where  he  continued  three  years 
and  resigned  to  become  general  manager  of 
the  Wiscasset  &  Quebec  Railroad  Company 
in  Maine.  The  executive  capacity  of  Mr. 
Van  Etten  had  by  this  time  become  known 
and  he  was  next  engaged  as  general  manager 
of  the  transportation  and  property  interests 
at  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey,  that  were  then 
controlled  by  the  Holland  Trust  Company  of 
New  York  City.  After  serving  three  years 
at  Atlantic  City  he  accepted  the  position  of 
traffic  manager  and  general  freight  agent  of 
the  Brooklyn  Rapid  Transit  Company,  and 
resigned  this  position  to  engage  in  the  con- 
tracting business.  He  reconstructed  the 
Brighton  Beach  Railroad  between  Brighton 
Beach  and  Brooklyn  under  traffic,  changing 
it  from  a  surface  road  to  a  road  that  was 
elevated  for  a  part  of  the  distance  and  put 
under  ground  for  the  balance  of  the  way.  He 
was  subsequently  engaged  in  the  promotion 
and  construction  of  interurban  electric  lines 
in  South  Carolina.  The  panic  of  1907  caused 
the  failure  of  this  enterprise  and  Mr.  Van 
Etten  entered  into  a  contract  for  the  disposal 
of  refuse  with  the  borough  of  Brooklyn  in 
1908,  and  also  made  a  similar  contract  with 
the  city  of  Boston  in  1912  and  in  1913  took 


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a  contract  for  the  disposal  of  all  of  the  refuse 
of  the  borouglis  of  Manhattan,  Brooklyn  and 
the  Bronx,  of  the  city  of  New  York.  He  is 
still  at  the  head  of  the  Borough  Development 
Company  of  New  York  and  the  Boston  De- 
velopment and  Sanitary  Company  of  Boston 
Mr.  Van  Etten  is  a  member  of  Brooklyn 
Lodge,  No.  22,  Benevolent  Protective  Order 
Elks ;  the  Montauk  Club,  and  the  Jamaica  Bay 
Yacht  Club.  He  married,  in  April,  1896,  Anna 
Stainer  Hawkins,  of  Port  Jervis,  New  York, 
youngest  of  the  three  children  of  John  and 
Ella  (Whitney)  Hawkins.  The  two  elder  are 
John  Whitney  and  Carrie.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Van  Etten  have  two  sons:  Howard  Hawkins 
and  Charles  Richard. 


This  name  is  manifestly  of 
VAN  VLIET     Dutch   origin,   but   appears 

to  have  been  of  recent  im- 
portation to  this  country.  It  is  not  found  in 
the  early  aimals  of  the  state  of  New  York,  but 
appears  about  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth 
century  in  the  Hudson  river  valley. 

(I)  William  Graff  Van  Vliet  hved  at  Leeds, 
in  the  town  of  Catskill,  Greene  county,  New 
York.     He  married  Elizabeth  Elting. 

(II)  Isaac  Newton  Van  Vliet,  son  of  Wil- 
liam Graff  and  Elizabeth  (Elting)  Van  Vliet, 
was  born  October  14,  1834,  in  Leeds,  New 
York,  died  in  New  York  City,  April  21,  1899. 
He  was  educated  in  his  native  town  and  in 
Albany,  New  York,  and  resided  in  early  life 
in  the  latter  place.     He  later  removed  to  New 


York  City.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church,  and  in  politics  a  Democrat. 
He  married,  in  Catskill,  New  York,  July  16, 
1861,  Louise  Cornwall,  born  September  23, 
1838,  in  Catskill,  daughter  of  Amos  and  Eliza- 
beth Gardiner  (Hand)  Cornwall.  Children: 
Dense  Mairs,  mentioned  below;  Elizabeth 
Austin,  born  March  15,  1865,  in  New  York 
City. 

(Ill)  Dense  Mairs  Van  Vliet,  only  son  of 
Isaac  N.  and  Louise  (Cornwall)  Van  VHet, 
was  born  December  25,  1862,  in  New  York 
City,  and  was  named  by  his  father  for  a  very 
intimate  friend,  named  Van  Deusen,  who  was 
familiarly  called  Dense  by  his  intimates.  The 
son  grew  up  in  his  native  city,  attending  pri- 
vate schools,  and  was  subsequently  a  student 
in  a  high  school  at  San  Francisco,  California. 
He  is  now  engaged  in  grain  and  cotton  com- 
mission brokerage,  with  offices  in  the  Cotton 
Exchange,  New  York  City.  He  served  seven 
years  as  a  private  in  the  Seventh  "Regiment, 
National  Guard,  State  of  New  York.  His 
present  residence  is  at  Plainfield,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  is  a  member  of  the  Crescent  Avenue 
Presbyterian  Church.  While  independent  of 
party  dictation  in. political  matters,  his  lean- 
ings are  toward  the  Democratic  party.  He 
married,  in  Plainfield,  January  19,  18S8,  Char- 
lotte Groendyke,  daughter  of  David  Nevius 
and  Aletta  Jane  (Hegeman)  Groendyke.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Plainfield ;  Ruth  Gray,  January 
29,  18S9;  Janet  Cornwall,  May  11,  1894;  Bar- 
bara Hegeman,  January  29,  1898. 


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