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GENEALOGICAL HISTORY
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Hudson and Bergen Counties
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NEW JERSEY
CORNELIUS BURNHAM HARVEY
EDITOR
The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing
Company, i 14 Fifth Avenue, New York
1900
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Let the young generations yet to be
Look kindly upon this.
Think how your fathers left their native land.
— Pas tori ><s.
What he was and what he is
They who ask may haply find.
— Whittier.
HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
THE FIRST SETTLERS AND THEIR ORIGIN
P T< > tin- close of i he < "\\ il War family origin and lineage re-
ceived lmt a small measure of attention in the United
Stales. Here and there, along the line of the centuries,
persons possessed of wealth and leisure had caught up and
reunited t he broken t hreads of kinship; but I he great mass of the com-
mon people considered time thus spent ms time squandered. In ac-
counting for i his ii should be remembered thai the early settlers of
the country never expected to set fool again on European soil. Hav-
ing deliberately severed all the ties thai connected them with the past,
they lived to remember only — and that with hatred — the tyranny,
despotism, hardships, and persecutions of a church and state which
had forced them from the land of their birth. Again, these pioneers
of a new civilization had little time to think of remote family ties.
With them " self preservation was the first law of nature." Bound-
less forests must be felled; lands must be cleared and tilled; crops
must be reared, harvested, and protected; the savages must be
watched, fought, and exterminated; civil government must be organ-
ized and maintained; highways, canals, churches, schools, court
houses, and jails must be constructed and paid for; villages, towns,
cities, counties, states, even a nation, must be built up; and, when,
after long years of untold hardships, all these things had been accom-
plished, then came the great revolt from, and struggle with, the
mother country for freedom and national independence.
After the republic, the War of 1812, then the war with Mexico, and,
lastly, the Civil War, the great and final struggle for national life and
perpetuity. This "building of the nation," and the wars incident
thereto, did not stimulate genealogical research. The American
Revolution arraved the descendants of the early settlers against the
descendants of their European oppressors, and the American Civil
War arrayed father against father and brother against brother. Both
of these conflicts tended to keep alive in the breasts of Americans the
animosities kindled by wrongs committed on European soil several
generations before.
HUDSON AND BERGEN COl NTIES
Bu1 the surrender a1 Appomattox soon changed all this. The new
nation had emerged triumphanl from her greal crucial stniiruh'- freed
from the curse of human slavery. Moreover, and quite ;is Important,
she had shown thai she could and would maintain t li<* integral v of the
Union. She immediately took n commanding position among the
nations of the earth, :i position which has grown stronger and more
commanding as time has rolled on, until a1 I a si the respecl of Europe
has been won. Equality breeds sociability. And now the descend-
ants of the early emigrants to America hobnob with Europeans with
as much freedom as it I hev were members of the same household.
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All this lias aroused a deep and abiding interest in family lineage,
and this interest has been greatly intensified in the last decade by
the organization of the Holland Society, the Huguenot Society, the
New England Society, the Colonial Dames, the Sons of the Revolu-
tion, the Daughters of the Revolution, and numerous societies of a
similar character. The desire among all classes of the people to
know something of their ancestry has been still further stimulated by
4 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
the Qumerous genealogical societies qow established throughoul the
1 'nioii.
1 1 is a source of deep regrel thai the early records of Northern New
Jersey are so widely scattered more so, perhaps, than those <>r any
other section of the country. The historian and genealogisl must
find them ;it Albany, New York, Goshen, Richmond, and New City
in New York State, and ;ii Trenton, Perth Amboy, Newark, Jersey
Uity, Paterson, and Hackensack in the Stale of New Jersey. Then,
again, the chirography of the early records of ihis section is peculiar,
and many of the documents and records are in a foreign language.
Thousands of grants, deeds, wills, and other documents relative to
Bergen County, all of the greatesl importance to the searcher for
knowledge, were never recorded and never even deposited in any pub-
lic record office, owing to the bitter conl roversy be1 ween the Colonies
of New York and New Jersey over the location of the boundary line
between them, a controversy which lasted more than a century
Prom the time the country began to be settled by Europeans. I am
forced to the conclusion thai he who would make a successful plotting
of the early grants of land in Northern New Jersey would need to
spend at least five years in a house-to-house hunt for the necessary
data, in trunks and chests <d the old pioneers, now hidden away and
forgotten, in the garrets of their descendants. I have prepared this
article from such data as 1 have been able to find, bul for the reasons
above stated the matter it contains must necessarily be replete with
errors and importanl omissions. Nevertheless, 1 am not without
strong hope thai it may be of some assistance to the thousands of
descendants of the sturdy men and women who settled the Counties
of Hereon and Hudson. I have prepared and inserted four maps:
No. 1, showing Bergen County as erected in L693; No. 2, showing the
greater part of the same county as re-erected in L709-10; No. 3, show-
ing Hudson County at the present time: and No. 4, showing the
greater pari of Bergen County as erected in L709-10, and, as far as
possible, the locations of the original land patents. In the text these
ire called and on map No. 1 are numbered " Sections." The outlines
of these "sections" are, of course, only approximately correct, but
they will be found useful to the reader In locating any particular set-
tler. I have also set forth t he counties Into townships, boroughs, and
other municipalities, and, lastly, I have given in tabulated form the
surname ol each of the principal settlers, his nationality, and, as far
as possible, the name and domicile of his European ancestor.
FORMATION OF BERGEN AND HUDSON C0UNTD3S
The first municipality within the limits of New Jersey was erected
by order of Director General Btuyvesanl and his council on Septem-
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ber 5, 1661, and christened "The Village of Bergen." The origin of
the name " Bergen " rests in some doubt. Some writers confidently
claim it to have been derived from " Bergen," the capital of Norway,
MAP
or
HUDSON COUNTY
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while others as confidently assert it to have been derived from Ber-
/' n op Zoom, an important town on the River Scheldt, in Holland,
eighteen miles north of Antwerp. Without expressing an opinion,
HUDSON AM> BERGEN COUNTIES
1 may say that, bo far as my investigations have extended, the evi-
dence seems to favor those who claim the name to have been derived
from ili<* IIi>]1;iii<1 town. During the seven years following tin* christ-
ening oew settlers rapidly purchased and located on lands outside of
the " Village" limits. These, with a view to more effectually pro-
tecting themselves from the savages, asked thai they mighl be an-
nexed to the main settlement. Accordingly, on the "ill of April,
1668, Governor Philip Carterel and his council, of Easl New Jersey,
granted to the settlers of Bergen (then comprising some forty fam-
ilies) a charter under the corporate mime of " The Towne ami < Corpora-
tion of Bergen." This new "Towne" comprised the present County
<»f llmlsun as far wesl as the Hackensack River. The line on the
nort li. as described in i he charter, started "a1 Mordavis meadow, lying
upon the wesl side of Hudson's River; from thence to run upon a X. W.
lyne by a Three rail fence thai is now standing to a place called
Espatin [The Hill] and from thence to a little creek [Bellman's
Creek] surrounding N. X. W. till it comes unto the river Hackensack
[Indian name for "Lowland"], containing in breadth, from tin- top of
the Hill, 1\ miles or L20 chains." During t he nexl sixteen years now
settlements sprang up north of Bergen, bul in matters of governmenl
these were termed "'out lands'" or "precincts," without any corpor-
ate ] lower whatever, and subjeel to the jurisdiction of the authorities
of t ho - Towne."
As time W'-nt on and population increased, courts became neces-
sary; and as all the colonial officials wore Englishmen, and many Eng-
lish immigrants had settled in the colony, it was hut natural that t bey
should desire the adoption of the English system of county govern-
ment. < »n the 7th of March. 1682, tin- provincial legislature passed,
and Deputy Governor Rudyard approved, an act under which New
Jersey was divided into four counties : Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, and
Monmouth. Bergen County, as then defined, contained "all the
settlements between Hudson's River and the Hackensack River, be-
ginning al Constable's Hook and so to extend to the uppermost
bounds of the Province, northward between the said rivers with the
seal of governmenl at the town of Bergen." (See Map No. l.i Essex
County comprised " all the settlements between the west side of the
Hackensack River and the parting lim- between Wbodbridge ami
Elizabethtown, and nort bward to the utmosl bounds of the Province."
r»\ this division the greater part of the present County of Bergen
fell within the limits of Essex County, where il remained until L 709-10.
This division into counties caused ureal dissatisfaction among the
people, particularly in Northern New Jersey. They complained that
the counties were too large, that the distance between their homes
ami the county seat was too long, ami that traveling such long dis-
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timers, over the worst of roads, in all sorts of weather, interfered with
their pursuits and subjected them to great expense and bodily dis-
comfort. Sheriffs found it difficult to summon and compel the at-
tendance of jurymen and witnesses. The administration of justice
and the transaction of all other public business were seriously re-
tarded. From every part of the province petitions came pouring into
the colonial assembly, sometimes accompanied by delegations of in-
dignant citizens. For several years the assembly stood out against
these numerous complaints and petitions, but in the end it was
obliged to yield, and on the 2d of January, L709-10, an act was
passed and approved directing a redivision. By the terms of this
act the boundaries of Bergen County were fixed as follows:
" Beginning at Constable's Hook, so up along the bay to Hudson's
River, to the partition point between New .Jersey and the Province
of New York; thence along the line and the line between East and
West New Jersey to the Pequannock and Passaic I livers; t hence down
the Pequannock and Passaic Rivers to the sound; and so following
the sound to Constable's Hook where it begins." iSee Map No. 2.)
In the Qorthwestern pari of the county, as above described, was
included the County of Passaic, and on the 22d <d" February, 1840,
all that pari of it lying south of the original north bounds of the
"Town and Corporation of Bergen," together with a considerable
area of territory west of the Backensack River known as New Bar-
badoes Neck, were, by legislative enactment, erected into the County
of Hudson. A pari id' this was annexed to Bergen County in 1852,
leaving the boundaries id' Bergen and Hudson Counties as they are
to-day. (See Map No. 3.)
INTRODUCTION OF TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENTS
The first division of the counties into townships was made pursuant
to two aids of the colonial assembly, one approved in September, 1G92,
and the other in October, L693. The reasons for this division were
set forth in the preamble to the second of the above mentioned acts,
as follows :
•'Whereas, several things is to be done by the inhabitants of
towns, hamlets, tribes, or divisions within each county, as chusing
of deputies, constables &c, taxing and collecting of several rates for
publiek uses and the making orders amongst themselves respectively
about swine, fences &c.
" Whereas, a great inanv settlements are not reckoned within anv
such town or division, nor the bounds of the reputed towns ascer-
tained, by means thereof the respective constables know not their
districts, and many other inconveniences arising from them, and for-
asmuch as the act made in Sept 1092, for dividing the several counties
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uritsox and i;i:i;<;i:\ counties
and townships, the time for the returns of the said divisions, being
too short and the method of dividing by county meetings inconvenient.
ThtTof'oiv 1)0 it enacted," etc.
Under the above acts Bergen County (then including the |»n-sent
Bergen and Hudson Counties) was divided into three townships:
Hackensack, Veto Barbadoes, and Bergen. Of these, Eackensack com-
prised "all the land betwixl the Hackensack River and Hudson's
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BLOCK'S '• 1 I'.i l: \ i IVI MAI'." LAID BEFORE THE BTATES-GENERAL IN 1614.
River, that extends from the corporation town hounds of Hereon to
t Ik- partition lino of i In- Province." New Barbadoes comprised " all
the land on Passaic River, above the third river, and from the mouth
of the said third river aorthwesl to the partition line of the Province,
including also all the land in Now Barbadoes neck, betwixl Hacken-
sack and Passaic rivers, and thence to the partition line of the Prov-
ince." Bergen comprised what is now thai pari of Hudson County
easl of the Hackensack River. (See Map 2.)
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The following table shows the names of the several townships
erected in Bergen County l<> date, the dales of their erection, and the
names of the townships or municipalities from which they were
erected :
NO.
NAME OF TOWNSHIP.
DATE OF ERECTION.
NAMES OF TOWNSHIPS FROM
WHICH TAKEN.
1.
1 lackensack.
October,
L693.
Original.
2.
New Barbadoes.
October,
1693.
Original.
3.
Saddle River.
1737.
New Barbadoes.
4.
Franklin.
1707.
New Barbadoes.
5.
Harrington.
dune 22.
177.",.
I lackensack and New Barbadoes.
(i.
Pompton.
February 8,
1707.
Saddle River and Franklin.
7.
Lodi.
December 1,
1825.
New Barbadoes.
8.
Washington.
January 30,
1840.
Harrington.
9.
Hohokus.
February 5,
1849.
Franklin.
10.
Union.
February 19,
1852.
Harrison in Hudson County.
11.
Midland.
March 7,
1871.
New Barbadoes.
12.
Palisades.
March 22,
1871.
1 lackensack.
13.
Englewood.
March 22,
1871.
Hackensack.
14.
Ridgefield.
March 22,
1871.
Hackensack.
1.-,.
Ridgewood.
March 30,
1870.
Franklin.
16.
17.
Boiling Springs.
Orvil.
A,>ril 17.
April 2(>.
1870.
1885.
Union.
Hohokusjand Washington.
18.
Bergen.
February 22,
1893.
Lodi.
19.
20.
Teaneck.
Overpeck,
February 10.
March 23,
1895.
1807.
Englewood and Ridgefield.
Ridgefield.
21.
Hillsdale.
March 25,
L898.
Washington.
There i^ no record of the erection of Saddle tfiver and Franklin.
They are first mentioned as townships in deeds and oilier recorded
instruments in 17.">7 and 17ti7 respectively. Prior to that they are
called "Precincts." Franklin is firsl mentioned in the county free-
holders' book -May 17, 1772
The following table shows the names of the several townships and
municipalities erected in Hudson Counts to date, the dates of their
erection, and the names of the townships and other municipalities
from which they were erected :
NAMES OF TOWNSHIPS
FROM
NO.
NAME OF TOWNSHIP.
DATE OF ERECT
WHICH TAKEN.
1.
Bergen (Tp.).
October,
1693.
Original.
2.
Jersey (City).
January 28,
1820.
Bergen.
3.
Harrison (Tp.).
February 22,
1840.
Lodi, Bergen County.
4.
Van Vorst (Tp.).
March 11,
1841.
Bergen.
5.
North Bergen (Tp.).
February 10,
1843.
Bergen.
6.
Hoboken (Tp.).
March 1,
1841.
North Bergen.
7.
Hudson (Tp.).
March 4,
1852.
Bergen.
8.
Hoboken (Citv |.
March 28,
1855.
North Bergen.
9.
Weehawken (Tp.).
March 15,
1859.
Hoboken.
10.
Bayonne (Tp.).
Febiuary 16,
1861.
Bergen.
11.
Union (Tp.).
February 28,
1861.
Bergen.
12.
West Hoboken (Town).
February 28,
1861.
Bergen.
13.
Greenville (Tp.).
March 18,
1863.
Bergen.
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NO.
NAMi ni TOWNSHIP.
DATE 01
ERECTION.
NAMI OK TOWNSHIPS FROM
WHICH TAKEN.
14.
Town of Union.
March 29,
1864.
1 iiiiin.
15.
Kearnej Town).
Maid! 1 1.
1867.
1 [arrison.
it;.
Bayonne (Citj .
March 10,
L869.
Bayonne.
17.
( ruttenberg Tp. |,
April 1.
L878.
LJnion,
18.
\\ est New York Town ).
March 21,
is; is.
I Inion,
19.
East Newark | Town).
Secaucus i Bor.).
1 s<ts
1 [arrison.
North Bergen.
20.
March L2,
1900.
< »f ilic above, ;ill of Ponipton and ;i large pari of Franklin and Sad-
dle River in Bergen County became pari of Passaic County by acl of
February 7 3 L837. (See Map 4.i Union in Bergen County was
taken from Earrison in Hudson County, February 1 ( .», L852, and Barri-
son in Hudson was taken from Lodi in Bergen County, February 22,
L840. Pari of Lodi in Bergen was annexed to Now Barbadoes in
L896. Van Vorst, Eoboken, Greenville, Hudson, and Bayonne Town-
ships in I hid soi i County have 1 icon absorbed by the remaining munici-
palities in the county. Kearney was made a " Town " March 23, L898.
West Now York absorbed the whole of Union.
BOROUGB GOVERNMENTS
The borough system of government for small communities was iirsi
introduced into Now Jersey -March 28, L789, by an act incorporating
the " Borough of Elizabeth." During the next ninety years a num-
ber of similar municipalities were erected in various pans of the
Siaio. each of which was the creation of a special act of the legisla-
ture. No genera] law on the subject was enacted until April 5,
1878, when what has since been known as "The General Borough
Act " became ;i law. It provided that the inhabitants of any town-
ship, or pari of a township, embracing an area not to exceed four
square miles, and containing a population not exceeding live thou-
sand, mighl become a body politic and corporate in fact and in law
whenever, ;n a special election n» ho called for thai purpose, it mighl
ho decided by a majority of votes of the (doctors of the proposed
borough qualified to rote ;it elections for State and township officers.
For :i period of sixteen years following the passage of this ad very
few boroughs were organized in the State, only three of them being
in Bergen County. [n the spring ol L894anac1 was passed establish-
ing an entirely new s est en i of public instruction. By i his acl i ho old
school districts were blotted out and each township erected into a
separate and distind district. All the taxpayers of each township
wore thenceforth required io assume and pay, pro rata, the debts
already incurred by the several old districts, as well as nil future
debts of the township fop school purposes. The people complained
againsl the injustice of such a law, and soughl a way to escape its
operation. By the terms of the law it was inoperative in all Lncor-
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porated boroughs, towns, villages, and cities, and accordingly a rush
was made to form boroughs, particularly in Bergen County, and had
not the legislature hastened to check tins rush by amending the
SChoo] law the whole count v would have heen carved into boroughs
in less than two years. As it was, twenty-six boroughs were created
in the county from January 2o, 1S1I4, to December IS, of the same
year. The amendment which the legislature made to the school act
provided that no borough might maintain a school separate from the
township unless there should be four hundred children within its
limits. 'Phis so effectually checked the borough movement that only
five have since been formed.
The following table shows the aames of the boroughs organized in
Bergen County to date, tic dates of t heir organization, and the town-
ships from \\ln<li they were respectively taken:
DATE OF
NO.
NAME.
FROM WHICH TOWNSHIPS TAKEN.
OROANI/ \ 1 I'iN.
1.
Rutherford
September 21, 1881.
EnlargedJune 10, '90
- Union.
2.
Ridgefield.
Mav 25,
1892.
Ridgefield.
3.
Ridgefield Park.
May 25,
1892.
Ridgefield.
4.
Tenaflj .
June 23,
1X04.
Palisades.
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East Rutherford.
March 29,
1894.
Boiling Springs.
6.
Delford.
Ma\ 7.
1891.
Midland.
7.
Creskill.
May 8,
1894.
Palisades.
s.
West wood.
May 8,
1894.
Washington.
9.
Park Ridge.
Mas 11,
1 S94.
Washington.
10.
Bergenfields.
dune 2,
1894.
Palisades and Englewood.
11.
Carlstadt.
dune L!7,
1894.
Bergen,
1L'.
Maywood.
June 29,
1894.
Midland.
13.
Riverside.
dune 29,
L894.
Midland
14.
Schraalenburgh. '
July 19,
1894.
Midland.
ir>.
Hasbrouck Heights.
duly 21,
1894.
Lodi.
16.
Woodcliff.
August 25,
1894.
Washington and Orvil.
17.
Montvale.
August 30,
1894.
W ashington and Orvil.
IS.
Glenrock.
September 12
1894.
Saddle River and Ridgewood.
19.
Little Ferry.
September 18
1894.
Lodi and New Barbadoes.
20.
Old Tappan.
October Hi,
1894.
Harrington.
21.
Allendale.
November 8,
1894.
Orvil, Hohokus, and Franklin.
22.
Bogota.
November 14,
1894.
Ridgefield.
23.
W oi>d ridge.
November 15,
1894.
Bergen.
24.
Saddle River.
November 19,
1894.
Orvil.
2.-..
Upper Saddle River.
November 20,
1894.
Orvil and Hohokus.
26.
Leoiiia.
December 5,
1X94.
Ridgefield.
27.
Undercliff.
December 5,
1894.
Ridgefield.
28.
Fairview.
December 18,
1894.
Ridgefield.
29.
Wallington.
December 31,
1894.
Saddle River.
30.
Cliffside Park.
January 15,
1895.
Ridgefield.
31.
Englewood Cliffs.
May 19,
1895.
Englewood and Palisades.
32.
North Arlington.
March 9,
1896.
Union.
33.
Eastwood.
March 26,
1896.
Washington.
34.
Garfield.
March 15,
1898.
Wallington Borough.
35.
Palisades Park.
March 22,
1899.
Ridgefield.
1 The name of Schraalenburgh Borough was changed to Dumont in 1899.
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uudsox and i.kuckn counties
EARLY SETTLERS OF HUDSON COUNTS
A greal majority of the pioneer settlers of Bergen and Hudson
Counties were emigrants from Holland, or descendants of persons
who had emigrated from thai country and settled on Manhattan
Island or Long Island. The resl were English, French, Germans,
and Scandinavians. What broughi those to the shores of America?
What led them t<» settle in New Jersey? Who were they? The
limits of this article will permit of only a brief reference to the two
principal causes which impelled them to leave their native land,—
overcrowding of population in Holland and the desire to better their
condition.
More than a century had elapsed since the Augustinian monk
UISl I i;i> \M, HOLLAND
Luther, had nailed his ninety-five theses on the church door at Wit-
tenberg. Thai act had, at last, wakened into activity all the dor-
mant forces of Christendom. During the Middle Ages all learning
and religion had been controlled by the Roman hierarchy. All that
lime the papacy had been a confederacy Tor the conservation of learn-
ing, againsl the barbarism ami ignorance of the times; and so long as
the pontiff retained the character of chief clerk of such a confederacy
his power remained irresistible, lint as su<>n as he abandoned the
idle of chief clerk in spiritual affairs, and assumed that of secular
prince, the greal revolution began. His former friends became his
( nemies. The British schoolmen led the way in the revolt, followed
by Wickliff, Ihtss. Jerome, and others. The breach kept widening,
until all the countries of Western Europe started like giants out of
their sleep at the first blast of Luther's trumpet. In Northern
ADRIAEN VAX DER DOXCK's MAP, 1656
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HUDSON AND BKIUJKN COUNTIES
Europe the besl half of the people embraced the [^formation. The
spark which the monk had kindled lighted the torch of civilization,
which was to illuminate the forests of the Hudson in America,
At no time since this terrible contest began had the Catholic mon-
archs of Europe been more persistently active and relentlessly cruel
toward the believers in the new religion than ;it the beginning of emi-
gration to New Netherland. The Id ly conflict known as "The
Thirty Years' War" was then paging with all its attendant horrors.
Nevertheless, Holland, of all the circle of nations, had guaranteed
safety to people of every religious belief, and enforced, within her own
borders at least, respecl for
civil Liberty. As a result she
had become the harbor of ref-
uge and the temporary home of
t housands of t he persecuted of
almost every country; the
Brownists from England, the
Waldenses from Italy, the
Labadists and Picards from
France, the Walloons from
Germany and Flanders, and
many other Protestant sects,
all flocked into Hollan d.
Across her borders flowed a
continual stream of refugees
and outcasts. This influx of
foreigners, augmented by the
natural increase of her own
people, caused Holland to suf-
fer seriously from overcrowd-
ing, particularly in her large
cities. A learned Hollander,
writing at thai time, said of
the situation: ''Inasmuch as
the multitude of people, not only natives but foreigners, who are
seeking a livelihood here, is very great, so that, where one stiver is
to be earned, t here are ten hands ready to seize it. .Many are obliged,
on this account, to go in search of other lands and residences, where
they can obtain a living."
In the few years preceding L623 several voyages of discovery and
adventure had been made by the Dutch to New Netherland, bu1 do
colonies had been founded. Letters from these voyagers declared thai
New Netherland was a veritable paradise -a hind "flowing with
milk and honey," traversed by numerous greal and beautiful rivers,
THE "NEW NKTHKl:l..\NI>.
THE FIRST SETTLERS
15
plentifully stocked with fish; great valleys and plains, covered with
luxuriant verdure; extensive forests, teeming with fruits, game, and
wild animals; and an exceedingly fertile and prolific soil. These and
many similar letters aroused and stimulated many of the discontented
and unemployed of Holland to emigrate to New Netherland with
i heir families in the hope of being able to earn a handsome livelihood,
strongly fancying that they could live in the New World in luxury
and ease, while in the old they would still have to earn their bread
h\ the swrjit of their brows.
In 1621 the "States-General' took steps looking toward relief
from the sit mil ion, t he gravity of which t hey now fully comprehended.
On June 3 they granted a charter to "The Dutch West India. Com-
&' fort nicutf <±A trifle r<lam <?j> <7s J/r-h.tki/is. e*<S><<*r*£*dr?iS>iA03>' <^>-
Till HIJS'I VII \\ ()K NEW AMSTERDAM, IX 1635.
pany " to organize and govern a colony in New Netherland; and in
June, L623-4, an expedition under Captain Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, of
Amsterdam, carrying thirty families, most of whom were religious
refugees, came over to New Amsterdam ami began a settlement on
the lower end of Manhattan Island. Mey, not liking the job of being-
director of the new colony, soon returned to Holland, leaving matters
for a time in charge of William Verhnlst, who was succeeded by Peter
Minuit in 1626. This first colony was not a success. The colonists
were "on the make." Aside from building a few rude bark huts
and a fort, they busied themselves dickering with the savages for
skins and furs. They tilled no ground, and for three years were non-
supporting. On the 7th of June, 1G29, the " States-General " granted
a bill of " Freedoms and Exemptions " to all such private persons as
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IIUHSOX AM) I'-KRCE.N COUNTIES
would planl any colonics in any pari of Now Netherland (except the
[sland of Manhattan), granting to them the fee simple in any land
they mighl be able to successfully improve. Special privileges were
also granted to members of the Wesi [ndia Company. Whoever of
its members should planl a colony of fifty persons should be a feudal
lord, or " Patroon," of ;i trad "sixteen miles in length, fronting on
a aavigable river and reaching eighl miles back."
As vol only exploring parties benl on trade with the savages had
traversed Bergen and Hudson Counties. No one had ventured to
" take up " any lands there. But now, under the stimulus of the bill
of " Freedoms and Exemptions," one Michael Pauw, then burgomas-
ter of Amsterdam, was impelled, for speculative purposes no doubt.
to obtain from the Director General of Now Netherland, in L630,
grants of two large tracts, one called " Hoboken Hacking" (land of
the tobacco pipe) and the other " Ahasimus." Both of these tracts
were parts of what is now Jersey City. These grants bore date, re-
spectively, July 13 and November 22, 1630. The grantee gave one
place the name of "Pavonia." Pauw failed
to comply with the conditions set forth in his
deeds and was obliged, after three years of
controversy with the West India Company,
to convey his "plantations' 1 back to that
company. Michael Paulesen, an official of
the company, was placed in charge of them
as superintendent. Tt is said he built and oc-
cupied n hut at Paulus Hook early in 1633.
If so, if was the first building of any hind
erected in either Bergen or Hudson County. Later in the same year
the company built two move houses: one at Communipaw, afterward
purchased by -Tan Evert se Bout, the other at Ahasimus (now Jersey
City, east of the Hill), afterward purchased by Cornelius Van Vorst.
Jan Evertse Bout succeeded Michael Paulesen as superintendeni of
the Pauw plantation, June 17, 1634, with headquarters at Commu-
nipaw, then the capital of Pavonia Colony. He was succeeded in
June. 1636, by Cornelius Van Vorst, with headquarters at Ahasimus,
where he kept "open house" and entertained the New Amsterdam
officials iu great style.
In 1641 one Mynderl Myndertse, of Amsterdam, (bearing the pon-
derous title of " Van der Ileer Nedderhorsl ;,") obtained a grant of all
the country behind I west of) Adder Kull i Newark Bay), and from
thence north to Tappan, including part of what is now Bergen and
I hid son Counties. Accompanied by a number of soldiers, Myndertse
occupied his purchase, established ;i < niiip, and proceeded to civilize
the Indians bv military methods. It is needless to say thai he failed.
1 LAG OK HOLLAND.
THE FIRST SETTLERS 17
He soon abandoned the perilous undertaking of founding a colony,
returned to Holland, and the title to this granl was forfeited. Early
in L638 William Kiefl became Director General of Now Netherland,
and on the first day of .May following granted to Abraham Isaacson
Planck (Verplanck) a patent tor Paulus Hook (now lower Jersey
City).
Tli ore were now t wo " plant at ions " at Bergen, those of Planck and
Van Vorst. Tarts of those, however, had been leased to, and were
then occupied by, Claes Jansen Van Purmerend, Dirck Straatmaker,
Barenl Jansen, Jan Cornelissen Buys, -Ian Evertsen Carsbon, Michael
Jansen, Jacob Stoffelsen, Aerl Teunisen Van Putten, Egberl Wouter-
sen, (iarret Dirckse Blauw, and Cornelius Ariessen. Van Putten
had also leased and located on a farm at Hoboken. All these, with
their families and servants, constituted a thriving settlement. The
existence of the settlement of Bergen was now imperiled by the acts
of Governor Kieft, whose idea of governmenl was based mainly upon
the principle thai the governor should gel all he could oul of the
«-o\( rned. His treatment of the Indians soon incited their distrust
and hatred of the whites. The savages, for the first time, began to
show symptoms of open hostility. Captain Jan Petersen de Vries, a
distinguished navigator, who was t hen engaged in the difflcull task of
trying to found a colony at Tappan, soughl every means in his power
to conciliate the [ndians, and to persuade Kiefl that his treatment of
! hem would result in bloodshed.
The crafty and selfish governor turned ;i deaf ear to all warnings
and advice and continued to goad the Indians by cruel t reatment and
harsh methods of taxation. In 1643 an Indian no donbt under
stress of greal provocation— shol and killed a member of the Van
Vorst family. This first act of murder furnished a pretext for the
whites and precipitated what is called "The .Massacre of Pavonia,"
on the nighl of February 25, L643, when Kieft, with a sergeant and
eighty soldiers, armed and equipped for slaughter, crossed the Hud-
son, landed at Communipaw, attacked the [ndians while they were
a -h-ep in t heir camp, and, wii hoiit regard to age or sex, deliberately,
and in the most horrible manner, butchered nearly a hundred of them.
Stung by this outrage upon their neighbors ami kinsmen, the northern
tribes at once took the war path, attacked the settlement, burned the
buildings, murdered the sett has, wiped the villages out of existence,
and laid waste the country round about. Those of the settlers who
were not killed outright Hod across the river to New Amsterdam. Nor
was peace restored between the savages and the whites until August,
1645, when the remaining owners and tenants of farms returned to the
site of the old village, rebuilt their homes, and started anew.
Kieft having been driven from office, Petrus Stuyvesant was made
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HUDSON AM' BERGEN COUNTIES
Director General, Julj 28, L646. Under his administration the settle-
ment ;ii Bergen \\;is revived, grew rapidly, and prospered. Between
his arrival and the year L669 tin following named persons purchased
or leased lands, though ;il! of them <li<l not become actual residents:
POPPUE'S I'l.AN OF NEW rORK ANT) ITS ENVIRONS, 1 T.'W.
I 4 ' <
Michael Pauw, Michael Paulesen, Jan Evertse Bout, Cornelius \';in
Vorst, Mynderl Myndertsen Van der Beer Nedderhorst, Abraham
[saacsen Planck (Yerplanck), Claes Jansen Van Purmerend (Cooper),
Dirk Straatmaker, Barenl Jansen, Jan Cornelissen Buys, John Evert-
THE FIRST SETTLERS
19
sen Carsbon, Michael Jansen ( Vreeland), •'Jacob Stoffelsen, Aert
Teunisen Van Putten, Egberl Woutersen,VGarre1 Dircksen Blauw,
\ Cornelius Ariesen, Jacob Jacobsen Roy, ^Francisco Van Angola
(negro), Gnilliaein Ck>rneliesen, 'Dirt Sycan, Claes Carsten Norman,
* Jacob Wallengen (Van Winkel)/ James Luby, ' Lubbert Gerritsen,
/Gysbert Lubbertsen, John Garretsen Van [mmen^homas Davison,
J Garret Petersen, Jan Oornelissen Schoenmaker, Jan Cornelissen
Crynnpn, Casper Stimets, Peter Jansen,' Hendrick Jans Van Schalck-
- \-
wyck, Nicholas Bayard, Nicholas Varlet," I Ierman Smeeman, Tielman
Van Vleeck/Douwe /Harmansen (Tallman), Claes Jansen Hacker,
. Egberl Steenhuysen, Harmen Edwards Paulus Pietersen, Allerd An
ihony/.Joiiii Vigne, Paulus Leendertsen, John Verbruggen, Balthazar
Bayard, Samuel Edsall, and Aerent Laurens.
All these persons received their deeds, or such titles as they had,
from the Dutch, through the different Director Generals.
The English captured Now Netherland from the Dutch in L664, and,
thereupon, Philip Carteret, by an appoint-
ment of the "Lords-Proprietors" of the
Province of Mast New Jersey, became its first
governor. The t it les of i he set t lers of Bergen
were confirmed by Carteret and his council
in L668. In L669, following his appointment
as governor, Carteret also granted other por-
tions of the lands in Hudson County to the
following named persons: Maryn Adrianse,
Peter Stuyvesant, (lues Petersen Cors,
Severn Laurens, Bendrick Jansen Spier, sealoi new Netherlands
Peter Jansen Slott, Barent Christianse, Mark '
Noble, Samuel Moore, Adrian Post, Guert Coerten, Frederick Phil-
lipse, Thomas Frederick de Kuyper, Guert Geretsen (Van Wagenen),
Peter Jacobsen, John Berry, Ede Cornelius Van Vorst, Hans Diedrick,
Hendrick Van Ostum, Cornelius Ruyven.
••The town and corporation of Bergen," as appears by Carteret's
charter, had an area of 1.1,500 acres. Up to the end of 1669 scarce
one-third of this area had been patented to settlers. The balance,
more than 8,000 acres, was used in common by the patentees, their
heirs, devisees, and grantees, for nearly a century before it was finally
divided and set off to those entitled to it. As is ever the case under
similar circumstances, many of the patentees and their descendants
and grantees encroached upon these common lands. ••Tom, Dick,
and Harry" pastured their cattle on them, made lavish use of the
timber, and in various other ways committed waste with impunity.
.Many patentees caused surveys to be made, presumed to "take up,"
and used divers parts of the public domain " without any warrant,
20 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
power, or authority for so doing, withoul the consenl of the majority
of the other patenl owners," so thai in the course of time ii could qoI
be known how much of these common Lands had been taken up and
appropriated. This state oi things caused greal confusion and
numerous violent disputes between the setl lers, who. in January, 1714.
petitioned Governor Hunter for ;i now charter empowering thorn, in
their corporate capacity, to convey or lease their common lands, in
fee, for one, t wo, or t hree lives or for \ ears.
Governor Hunter, in response to this petition, procured a new
charter for the town and corporation, known as ••The Queen Anno
Charter." The power given by this charter had little or no effecl in
putting a stop to encroachments upon, and disputes between, the
settlers about the common lands. Thus matters continued until
HUJ. when another effori was made by tin- settlers to proted their
rights in The common lands. An agreement was made, dated June
the Kith, of that year, providing for a survey of the common lands and
a determination of how much of the same had been lawfully taken
up, used, or claimed, and by whom. For some reason this agreemenl
was not carried out, and matters continued to grow worse until De-
cember 7, 17<>:>, when the settlers appealed to the legislature for re-
lief. That body passed ;i hill, which was approved by Governor
Franklin, appointing commissioners to survey, map, and divide the
common lands of Bergen among the persons entitled thereto. These
commissioners, seven in number, made the survey and division and
filed their report and maps on the 2d day of March, 17<i.». in the secre-
tary's office at Perth Amboy, copies of which report and maps are
also tiled in the offices of i he clerks of both Hudson and Bergen < !oun
1 ies.
In the division made by the commissioners tic- common lands were
apportioned among the patentees, hereinbefore named, and their de-
scendants, as well as among the following named persons: Michael
de .Mott. George do Mott, Gerebrand Olaesen, Joseph Waldron, Dirk
Van Yec ht en. James < lollerd, Thorn, is Brown, Amir ies Seagaerd, 1 >irk
Cadmus, Zackariah Sickels, Job Smith, Daniel Smith. Joseph Hawk
ins. John Halmeghs, Philip French, [de Cornelius Sip. Herman
Beeder, Nicholas Preyer, Sir Peter Warren, Anthony White, Michael
Abraham Van Tuyl, Walter Clendenny, John Cummings, David
Latourette, John Van I >olsen.
Several other families, namely, those of Day, de Grauw, de Groot,
Hessels, Hopper, Banta, Huysman, Van Giesen, Earle, Franzen, Mor-
tis, and Swaen, had heroine residents of the county withoul having
lands granted them. !t may therefore be safely said thai the fami-
lies above named constituted nearly all of the original settlers of
Hudson County easl of the Hackensack River. The westerly portion
THE FIRST SETTLERS
21
S. BELLIX'S RARE MAP, 1764.
22 HUDSON A\I» BERGEN COUNTIES
of the county was included in the purchase by Captain William Sand-
ford from the Parish of St. Mary's in tin- [sland of Barbadoes. Gov-
ernor ( arterel and council granted this trad to Sandford,July 4. !(»<'>>.
h contained within its boundaries an area of L5,308 acres, extending
from ili<- poinl of union of the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers about
seven miles northward along said rivers, to a spring now known as
the Boiling Springs, i r Sandford Spring, near Rutherford. This pur-
chase was made by Sandford for himself and Major Nathaniel Kings-
land, also from the [sland of Barbadoes, and the same was subse
(iu.iiiIn divided between Sandford and Kingsland. Kingsland, who
hem mi- the owner of the norl hern pari (including pari of the present
Bergen County), resided ai whal is now known as " Kingsland
Manor," south of Rutherford, in Bergen County, while Sandford, who
became the owner of the southerly part, resided ai what is now Easl
Newark, in Hudson County. Much of this large section of territory
remained vested in the respective descendants of Sandford and Kings-
land for many years after their deaths.
EARLY SETTLERS OF BERGEN COUNTY
Some of the original se1 1 lers of what is now- Bergen County were de-
scendants of those who have been mentioned as having settled Hud-
son County. 01 hers came from Manhattan Island, Long Island, New
Harlem, Yonkers, Albany, Esopus, Kingston, and other already estab-
lished settlements, while still others came direct from Europe. The
granl of section 1 to William Sandford, in L668, as before stated, ex-
tended north as far as Boiling Springs near Rutherford. 1 The
northern half of this was released to Kingsland. In L702 Elias
Boudinot, a French Huguenot, purchased a large trad from the
Kingslands, described as butting on the Passaic River, in Bergen
County. John and William Stagg, Bartholemew Feurst, Daniel
Rutan, Jacob Van Ostrand, Cornelius Vanderhoff, Herpert Gerre-
brants, John Varrick, David Provost, John Van Emburgh, Jacob
Wallings (Van Winkle), and Henry Harding acquired title to por-
tions of the trad in Bergen County, but the hulk of Kingsland's estate,
a1 his death, passed l>y his will to his near relatives, who settled on
it and retained ii for many years. In Kids Captain (afterward
Major) John Berry received from Govern r Carterel a patenl for sec-
tion 2, being all the lands between the Hackensack and Saddle I livers.
for a distance of six miles north from Sandford's purchase, or nearly
as Car as Cherry Hill, on the Now Jersey and New Fork Railroad.
Berrj settled and buill his home mansion on the southerly pari of
this tract, and on his death, most of it passed to the ownership of his
1 For sections, refi r to Hap No. 1
THE FIRST SETTLERS
23
heirs. The northerly pari he had conveyed in parcels at various times
to his son, Richard Berry, his daughter, Hannah Noel, and (Jarret
Van I Hen, Laurence Laurensen Ackernian. Rev. Guilliaem Bert-
holf, David Thomas, Thomas Nicholson, Albert Albertsen (Terhnne),
Arie Albertsen (Terhune), Claes Jansen Romeyn, Dr. John Van Em-
burgh, Hendrick Hopper, Ryck Lydecker, Juriaen Lubbertsen (Wes-
tervelt), Herman Brass, Abraham Huysman, Isaac Vreeland, Nicho-
las Devoe, Walling Jacobsen (Van Winkle), Elinor Mellinot, Folkert
Hansen (Van Nostrand), Thomas Staag, Alexander Alliare, Peter
France, Nicholas Kipp. Oorneliese Christiansen, -John Christiansen,
Charles Maclean, and Anthony Anthonys (a negro), each of whom
INDIAN TOTEMS AND TOTEMIC SIGNATURES.
settled on the portions purchased by th< m. The " Moonachie " sec-
tion he sold to Kutt Van Horn, Nicasie Kipp, and Thomas France.
The Zabriskies, Voorheeses, Brinkerhoffs, Demarests, Coopers, Van
Reipens, and Powlesses acquired interests in the trad at an early
date. In HiliS Samuel Edsall and Nicholas Varlet bought from the
native Indians section 3, comprising 1,872 acres <»f " waste land and
meadow," bounded east by the Hudson River, west by the Hacken-
sack River and Overpeck ('reek-, and south by the "Town and Cor-
poration of Bergen." The extent of this tract was two and a half
miles from north to south, aud the north boundary, beginning at
Aquepuck Creek below Fort Lee, on the Hudson, ran northwest to
the ( herpeck Creek near Leonia. Subsequently Carteret gave Edsall
and Varlet a patent of this tract. Nicholas Varlet soon after sold
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IU'DSnX A.ND BERGEN COUNTIES
his interesl in ii to Edsall, who, in L671, conveyed the northerly part
of ii to Michael Smith (a son-in-law of Major John Berry). Smith,
;ii his death, left ii to Uis son and tieir-at-law, Johannes Sm it h, who,
in 1 7( Mi, conveyed ii to - F < > 1 1 1 1 Edsall, son and heir-at-law of Samuel
Edsall, deceased, who settled <>n i) and devised ii to liis children.
In L676 Samuel Edsall, by deed of gift, transferred the westerly
pari of the remainder of the original trad to liis sons-in-law, Benja-
min Blagge, of London, and William Laurence, of Newtown, L. 1.. who
divided ii between them, Blagge taking the northerly pari and Lau-
rence the southerly part. On Blagge's death
his widow ;in<l devisee conveyed it to Wessel
Peterson, who, in L690, conveyed it to David
Danielsen, who settled on it. Laurence's pari
of it passed to his son. Thomas Laurence. He
sold half of it, said to contain 550 acres, in
17:'.o, to Matthew Brown, who. in 17:57. sold ii
to Cornelius Brinkerhoff. Joseph .Morris and
Adriaen Boagland musl have go1 the balance
of Laurence's half, as they were living on it in
1 T: lo, ami they and the Brinkerhoffs were the
first actual settlers. Brinkerhoffs purchase in-
cluded the presenl Borough of Ridgefield. The
easterly pari of the remainder of the original
tract, which fronted on the Hudson River, was,
on March L2, L686, conveyed l>v Samuel Edsall
to Jacob Milburn, who. with Jacob Lois lor, then
< rovernor of Now York, was attainted of and ex-
ecuted for high treason, in 1691. Milburn's
ostato (which by his will, executed just before
his death, he devised to his wife Mary), .\as.
by operation of the attainder, forfeited; bu1
parliament, by special act, restored the estate to his widow and sole
devisee. The widow i who a1 the time of her death was the wife of
Abraham Governeur) lefl ;i will empowering her daughter Jacoba, as
executrix, to sell her lands on the Hudson. The executrix conveyed the
lands in separate parcels to Hendrick Banta, Arie *\<' Groot, Petei
de Groot, Michael \ r reeland, William Day, John Day, Mary Edsall
(alias Mary Banks), John Edsall, and John Christiansen, who mu-
tually released each other and settled on the same. The trad be-
tween the high rocks and the Hudson River was claimed l>y John
Christ eon. of Newark, under a granl from Berkley and < Jarteret, prior
to thai of Edsall ami Varlet. This hind Christeen sold in L7C0 t«»
his daughter Naomi, wife of .John Day, and it seems to have become
BOWS AND ARROWS.
tin:
MUST SETTLERS
25
vested eventually in the same persons to whom .Mrs. Governeur's
executrix conveyed ii.
On June LO, L669, Governor Carterel patented to Major John Berry
section I, comprising a trad of 1,500 acres, lying between the llud-
sen River ami Overpeck Creek, extending one and one-half miles
Qorth from the Edsall and Varlel patent. Berry sold the north hall'
of this trad t<> George Duncan, an English merchant in New York.
•lames Duncan inherited ii from his father. Richard Hacker, John,
Samuel, and Matthew Benson, -Jacob Day, Michael Vreeland, Hen-
drick Banta, and Jacob < Jowenhoven subsequeni ly acquired and set tied
on portions of ii. The south half of it Berry conveyed to his son-in-
law, Thomas Noel, who. ai his death, devised ii to his son, Monteith
Noel, ami to his wife's son. Richard Hall. .Monteith Noel died in-
testate ami without issue. By the terms of his father's will the
lands passed to Elizabeth Patterson and .James Martin, the two in-
fant children and only Ueirs of Richard Hall, then deceased. By or-
der of the courl ii was sold in Roberl and Ann Drummond in trust
for the two Hall children. <>n April I. L726, I he trustees sold it to
.John Stevens and William Williamson, who soon after sold it to
Samuel .Moore.au Englishman from the Island of Barbadoes. Will-
iam Laurence, Cornelius
Bri nkerholT. Wa 1 l or
Briggs, Thomas de Ka \ .
am! others eventually
bough.1 parts of it.
Sections 5, '». and 8,
containing ti,770 acres
of wildland, were, in
L661, granted in one
parcel, by Carterel and
his council, to Philip
Carteret. It was de-
scribed as being seven
miles in length, north
and south, and three
miles in width from the Hudson River to Overpeck Creek. It ad-
joined Berry on the south and Bedlow on the north. Carterel
failed to settle within the prescribed time and it was again
granted, in L669, to Robert Vanquillan, of Caen, France; James
Bollen, an Englishman (then a resident of Ridley, Pennsylvania);
and Claude Yallot, id' Champagne, France. Vanquillan sold his in-
teresl to Carteret in 1(170. These gentlemen, failing to make any
settlement within six years, lost their titles by forfeiture and the tract
remained a wilderness without an owner until 1698, when it was
:^?>.t
FORT LEE, 1770.
26 HUDSON AM> BERGEN COUNTIES
granted to Mary, widow of Jacob Mil burn, who also failed to settle
it. <>n December l<>. 1702, the southerly portion of section 5, forty
chains wide and said to contain 500 acres, was granted by the pro-
prietors to .Michael I law don, a native of Ireland, bu1 then a residenl of
Now York and engaged in land speculation. On July L6, L676, llaw-
don conveyed to George Willocks, of Kenay, Scotland, and the heirs
of Andrew Johnston, deceased, of Leith, Scol land.
John Johnston, Andrew's heir-at-law, released to Willocks and
Willocks sold to George Leslie, of Barbadoes, W. I., a strip on the
south, nexi to the Berry trad, half a mile in width. Leslie, on No-
vember 5, 17:'.::. sold the southerly half, this being a quarter of a mile
in width and containing 330 acres, to .Manias Demott, of Bergen, who,
it is said, sell led on it. Carrot Lydecker, I hen a resident of New
York, acquired the title to the remainder of the Willocks and John-
ston purchase and to the remainder of section 5, one mile in width,
and containing L,000 acres. This made Lydecker's farm one and
one-quarter miles in width on the Hudson Liver and the same width
on Orei-peck ('reek. It extended northward as far as Englewood.
On Ins death, in 1754, Lydecker's lands, comprising section 5, passed
by his will to his four sons, Ryck, Abraham, Cornelius, and Garret
Lydecker, whose descendants still occupy portions of it.
John Lodts, or Loots, a native of Norwich, England, came to this
country in H'>!>4, and in the fall of 1695 married Hilletje Powless,
widow of Lubbert Lubbertsen Westervelt, Jr., of Bergen (now Jersey
City). He removed to Bergen County and purchased a large portion
of section ('», adjoining Lydecker on the south, on which he settled.
Upon his death his lands were inherited by his sons, John and Paulus
Loots; his daughters, Tryntie, wife of Henry Wierts Banta, and Gessie,
wife of Daniel Commegar. Roelofl Lubberts Westervelt, a brother
of the ti l-st husband of Loots's wife, purchased a strip north of Loots
in section 6, as did also Cornelius, Hendrick, Dirk, and Seba Banta,
i he sons of Epke Jacobs. The purchases were all made in L695. The
combined purchases of Loots, Westervelt, and the Bantas, according
to references in old deeds, must have included all of section <>, which
extended north nearly as far as Tonally. Descendants of the de
Motts, Demarests, and Komaines subsequently acquired parts of sec-
tion G.
The triangular lot, section 7, lying between the east and west
branches of Overpeck Creek, was lirst patented by the East New Jer-
sey proprietors, in 1688, to Samuel Emmett, of Boston. Without
settling it, Emmetl conveyed it, September 17. L695, to Roloff Lub-
bertsen Westervelt. The Indians disputed Westervelt's title in 1705,
and he was obliged to procure from them a release. This tract ex-
tended from the junction of the two branches of the Overpeck, at
THE FIRST SETTLERS
27
Englewood, northward to the head of the Tlena Kill Brook, a Little
south of 'Penally. The acquisition of section 7 by Westervelt gave
him one of the largest farms <>n the Hudson. lie settled on it and
his descendants si ill occupy parts of it.
Section 8, containing 2,120 acres, extending from the Hudson River
to the Tiena Kill, and one mile in width, was granted, April 27, 1688,
to Colonel Jacobus Van Cortland! , of New York, who, on April 10,
17:1s. conveyed ii to Abram de Peyster, Margaret, his wife, John
Chambers, Anna, his wife, and Peter Jay and Mary, his wife, all of
New York City. The wives of these three men were the daughters of
Van Cortlandt. Thev divided the tract, .Mrs. Chambers taking the
northerly third, .Mrs. Jay the nexl third south, and Mrs. de Peyster
the mos1 southerly third. Mrs. de Peyster's
third included the present village of Tenafly.
Mrs. Chambers devised her share to her
ni phew. Sir James Jay. who. by his father's
will, also got the initei-'s third. Sir James
devised the north third :<> his son, Peter Jay,
and the other third to his daughter, Mary
O'Kill. The north or Chambers third was
sold by the sheriff in L820 to William Van
Hook. Van Hook sold it in 1S21 to Moses
Field, who sold it to David < >. Bell, in L829.
The three farms were then divided into lots
and mapped, being known respectively as
the Bell, O'Kill, and de 1'eyster tracts. This section was settled by
the Van Buskirks, Bantas, Baldwins, Tow losses, Demarests, Wester-
velts, and other of the families already mentioned.
Section !>, adjoining No. 8 on the south, was patented by Carteret
and his council to Isaac Bedlow, a Swede, June 20. Kit;;). It was also
one mile in width, ami extended westerly from the Hudson River to
the Tiena Kill Brook. Its extent northward w;is to a point near Dem-
arest, X. J., and it contained 2,120 acres. Bedlow had an Indian deed
for this tract as early as L661. lie held it until 1728, when he sold it
to Colonel Jacobus Van Cortlandt, id' .New York. Captain John Huy-
ler, Johannes Rolofse Westervelt, Samuel Peters Demarest, Barent
Jacobs Cole, and Peter Mathews Bogert became the owners and
settlers on this section, and their descendants still occupy it.
Another section, No. 10, one mile wide, adjoining and extending
north from the Bedlow tract, was granted by Carteret, July 30, 1669,
to Baltkazer de Hart. De Hart's heirs sold it March 5, 1701, to Ber-
nard us Vervalen, Gideon Vervalen, and Rynier Vervalen. Under a
grant from the Colony of New York it was claimed by Captain Lan-
SEAL OF EAST JERSEY.
28
HUDSON AND BKlKiKX mi'XTIES
caster Symes, of London, who, prior to 1711, had sold parts of it to
Casparus Mabie, Jacob Hertie, and others. Eventually, however,
B( rnardus Vervalen, by a granl from Queen Anne in L709, and a re-
lease from Symes and Ids grantees in 1717, acquired the title to the
whole trad and conveyed portions of it to Matthew M. Bogert, Peter
M. Bogert, Cornelius Harmensen Tallman, Dowa Harmensen Tall-
man, Isaac Johns Meyer, Martin Powless, and Walter Parsells, who
settled it. The remainder of the trad descended or was conveyed to
Bernardus Vervalen's beirs, who also became settlers. Vervalen's
sons were Isaac. Daniel, John, Frederick, Abraham, Jacobus, Ber-
nardus, Gideon, and Cornelius. His daughters Alida, Cornelia, and
Hester married, respectively, Hubartus Ger-
retsen Blawvelt, Peter \'an Schuyven, and
Jacob ( Jole.
Until 1772 the Colony of New York
claimed thai this tract was within its bound-
aries and so t reated it.
The " L " shaped section. No. 1 1, adjoining
this last tract on the north, contained L,300
acres, and was also claimed to be within
Symes's patent from the New York Colony.
It remained wild and unoccupied until April
28, 1710, when Symes and his wife conveyed
it to two brothers, Barenl and Resolveri
Naugle. It was an irregular shaped tract,
extending, on the north side, from Hudson's
River to the Tiena Kill. On the west it was
narrow, bui on the east end it extended from
the de Hart tract northerly beyond iho present south boundary of
Now York. The Naugle brothers divided it between them in June,
171s. Barenl taking the north half and Resolveri the south half. The
sons of Barenl and Resolveri Naugle and their sons-in-law, Nicholas
Demarest, Arie Auryansen, Tennis Van Honten, RolofE Van Houten,
John W. Ferdon, and Roloff Stevens, together with William Ferdon,
Daniel de Clark, John Parcells, and Peter Quidore, settled this tract.
The sect ion No. L2, the next trad north of the Naugle tract, contain-
in;: 3,410 acres, extended northerly into the Colony of New York, and
was granted l>v < rovernor I )ongan, of New York, in L687, to 1 >r. ( reorge
Lockhart, a London physician. The title passed from 1 >r. Lockharl
to his half-brother, Colonel William Merritt, whose heirs sold it to
John Corbett, an English sea captain, in L703, who. at his death,
devised it to his only child, .Mary, wife of I Eenry Ludlow, of New York.
The Ludlows sold it to the following persons, who settled it : Wilhel-
GOYKRXOR THOMAS DO.NGAX.
THE FIRST SETTLERS
29
ruus and John W. Ferdon, Hendrick Geisener (Gisner), bis sons John
and Nicholas i risner, Matthias Concklin, Jacob Concklin, John 1 icy ken
(Riker), Abram Abrams Baring, Teunis Van Houten, Johannes
Hyberts Blawvelt, John J. Naugle, John Sneden, Cornelius Smith,
Jonathan Lawrence, Nicholas Aekerman, William Campbell, and
Jacob \';m Weart, who settled thai pari lying
*%&3&s within the presenl County of Bergen.
>$&â– -; . '..w^& The " Tappan patent," section L3, consisting of
■gf*i"-Z ..„ several thousand acres lying wesl of the Lock-
^^^ â– *.-.', harl patent, was purchased from the rndians
in L681 , and in Lf»8*i patented by
Governor Dongan, of New York,
to Daniel de Clark, Peter Jansen Haring,
#'â„¢*mN Coshm Haring, Carrel Steinmets, John
®gr%$Mgg^ uel*John Straatmaker, Staats de Groot,
,*V Lamberl Arianse (Smith), Arianse Lam-
berts (Smith), Cornelius La mbeife (Smith),
Hyberts Gerrits (Blawvelt), Johannes
Con its (Blawvelt), and [de Cornelius Van.
Vorst, the Indian purchasers. In 1704 it was surveyed and mapped
and a pari of it partitioned between the last named persons and their
heirs and assigns. A final division was made of the balance in 17:i0.
The persons named in the two divisions, in addition to the above
sixteen original purchasers, were .Manuel Claesen, Lewis Claeson,
Elizabeth Claeson (children of Claes Manuel, deceased), Barbara de
Croot (widow of Staats de Groot, deceased), Garret Hyberts Blawvelt,
Maritie Hvberts Blawvelt, and Dirke Hyberts Blawvelt (children of
W yen
.
J"J^Ay ~Yjc\!Y &â–
30 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
Huyberts Gerretse Blawvelt, deceased), Abram Johns Baring, Jacob
Mattyce Flearboom, Cornelius Jansen Baring, Antje Meyer, John
Barmensen T-a+httm*-- Henry Van Campen, [saac Gerrets Blawvelt,
•hw -otitis John ilc Vries i V;m-4ixx baji). Abram Jansen Baring, Ryniere
Ryserick, Laurence I ;«•<-< 1 . Daniel Blawvelt, Joseph Blawvelt, Jacob
Blawvelt, Tunis. Roeloff, and Nicholas Van Bouten, John Van Dol-
sen, John ; i ii*I Cornelius Eckerson, Jurie (Aaron) Tomassen, Gysberl
Bogert, William de Graw, John Ward, Jacob Cole, Jacobus de (Mark,
Jr.. Jeremiah Borroughs, Abram ami France Van Salee, Jacob King,
Conrad Bertie, and Mynderi Myndertsen Bogencamp. Of these, all
except the Claesens, Reed, Ward. Borroughs, and King became set-
i lers "ii portions of ii.
Early in jr>(; ( .) Oratani, the great chief of tin' [ndian tribes of the
Backensack Valley, in consideration of her ser\ ices as interpreter be-
tween his people and the whites, presented to Mrs. Sarah Kierstead,
of New York, a deed of the southerly pari of section 14. containing
2,260 acres, described as "A neck ol land between Backensack River
and Overpeck Creek, beginning at the north line thereof of Backen-
sack River ai a swale brook thai runs about twenty rods into the
w Is. thence to cross over upon a direct east ami west line to Over-
peck ("reek." The tract extended north as far as Nordhoff on the
Overpeck, and to a point above Bogota on The Backensack. Mrs.
Kierstead was the eldesl daughter of the celebrated Anneke Jans and
the wife of Dr. Hans Kierstead. at thai time New York's leading phy-
sician, with a residence on the corner of Pearl and Whitehall Streets.
Dr. Kierstead died in 1660, leaving Sarah, his widow, and eight chil-
dren. She afterward married Captain Elbert Elbertson (Stoothoff),
of Platlands, L. I., one of tin- purchasers of section 29. Upon his
death she married for her third husband Cornelius Van Borsum,
whom she also survived. She died in L693. On June 24, L669, Gov-
ernor Carterel issned a patenl to .Mrs. Kierstead containing a condi-
tion that tin grantee should settle it within three years.
On January 6, Ki7<> ( Tantaqua, Carquetiem, Wechlampaepeau,
Bamougham, Banagious, Anesaschere, ami Poughquickquaise,
sachems representing the Backensack tribes, with the consent of Gov-
ernor Philip Carteret, deeded to Laurense Andriesen Van Buskirk
and company " a parcel of land commonly called by the name of New
Backensack, hounded on Old Backensack, and from thence to a
small kill adjoining to the greal [ndian field, called 'the Indian
Castle' northward forward." <Md Backensack was the name given
to the Demaresl patents, which are mentioned later on, and the " In-
dian castle "* was a little south of Palisades Park, opposite the mouth
of Overpeck Creek. The description given in the granl covers, or was
intended to cover, sections 14. L5, and L6, and indicates thai Mrs.
THE IMKS'I SETTLERS
31
Kierstead either lost her title by failing to comply with the condition
in her dcnl or conveyed her interest in section 1 1 to Laurence Andrie-
sen and company.
During the year L669 Governor Carteret patented sections L5, L6,
17, is. and 1!». each containing 2,000 acres, as follows: section L5, to
Roberl Van Quillian; section L6, to James Bollen; section 17. to Mat-
thias Nichols; section is, to William Pardon; and section in, to Major
John Berry. Each of these five patents contained a condition that
the patentee should settle on his patent a certain number of families
within six years. The grantees failed to comply with the conditions,
and the patents were declared forfeited. Sections 14, 15, and l<;
were afterward, in L676, granted by the Indians to Laurence Andrie-
sen (Van Buskirk) and company, the "company" consisting of John
Corneliesen (Bogert), Martin Powlesen (Powles), Hendrick Joursen
(Brinkerhoff), Roloff Lubbertsen Westerfield (Westervelt), and John
Loots, or Lodts. The
patents 1 1 wo or more)
of Governor Carteret
for t be last nieiit toned
sect imis designal ed
them as " parts of New
1 1 a c ke nsa c k." 'I 1 h e
1 a n d s described ox-
tended south from the
1 lemarest patents at a
point between High-
w 1 and Tenafly am!
Were bounded west by
llackensack River and east by Overpeck Creek. Lady Elizabeth
Carteret confirmed the patents on April 10, 1682. A Large par!
of these patented lands was allotted to the patentees. Other por-
tions of them were sold to Nicholas Lozier, Peter Vandelinda, and
John, Peter, and Lawrence, the sons of Lawrence Andriesen (Van
Buskirk), the latter of whom had the largest interest in them. The
balance was sold or released by the patentees November 20, 1(586, to
Eolof Vandelinda, Albert Zabriskie, Dirk Epke (Banta), Lawrence
Lawrencen (Van Buskirk), Cornelius Christianse, and Gerret Gellis
Mandeville, who subsequently made a division between them. The
subsequenl owners ami settlers in section 14 seem to have been John
Zabriskie, Joost Zabriskie, Jacobus Hendricks Brinkerhoff, Jacob
Van Wagoner, Samuel Demarest, Wiert Epke Banta, Hendrick Epke
Banta, Garret Diedricks, Jacob Banta, Johannes Terhune, and Chris-
tiaen Zabriskie, as appears by a release which they executed June
I ROM AN <>I.I> PRINT.
32
liri»S().\ AM' BERGEN COUNTIES
19, 1 7<»:i, of ;i trad which is declared to be ;i pari of the Sarah Kier-
stead patent.
After ili«' forfeiture of the titles to sections IT, L8, ;m<l M>. James
Bollen claimed them under an alleged patenl procured by him in 1072.
Berry also claimed sectiou L8, and the subsequenl patentees of these
three tracts were finally compelled to procure releases from both Bol-
len and Berry.
David Demarest, Sr., purchased from the Indians, June 8, H*>77. (by
estimation,) aboul 5,000 acres, including sections L7, 18, 19, and 20, and
lands north of them, bu1 received patents for only sections L8 ;in<!
1 '.». I ' | ii in bis death, in L693, his lands were divided between his sons
John, Samuel, and David, Jr., his nephew, John Durie, and liis numer-
ous grandchildren. Mis granddaughters married, respectively,
Jacobus Slotl (Slote), Peter Slotl (Slote), Abram Canon, Thomas
Heyer, John Stewart, Abram Brower, James Christie, Peter Lub-
bertsen (Westervelt), Andries Jans Van Orden, Wierl bJpke i Banta),
Andries Lawrencen (Van Buskirk), Rynier Van Houten, Stephen
Albertsen Terhune, Cornelius Epke Banta, Samuel Helms, Cornelius
Van Horn, Jr., Peter Durie, Christian Debaun, Johannes Juriansen
Westervelt, Jacobus Peack, and Benjamin Van Buskirk. AH these,
except Canon, Heyer, and Stewart, settled on portions of the original
grant. Demarest's hind was sometimes known as " Schraalenburgh '
and sometimes as " Old Hackensack." Section Xo. 20 was sd i led by
Samuel Demaresl (son of David Demarest. Sr.), Jacobus Peack,
Adolph Brower, Care! Debaun, John Van Schuyven, John Durie, Cor-
nelius Jansen Haring, Cornelius Cornelissen Van Horn, John Hertie,
and Abram Davids Demarest. Some of the grants were made by
Governor Gawen Laurie and some by Peter Sonmans. representing
the Mas! New Jersey proprietors. The intermediate owner- svere
Jurie .Maris i Morris) and Ruloff and 1 [endrick Vandelinda, who, how-
ever, did nut locate on any i»t' the section, which was known as the
•• Ninth West Hook."
The tirs! attempt to settle lands wesl of the Saddle River was made
iii L681, win n a patent was issued by Governor Cart erel and his coun-
cil to Jacob Cortelyou, Hendrick Smock, Rutgerl I > sten, and others,
for 3,525 acres of section 29, adjoining the Saddle River on the east
and smith, partly on the Passaic River and partly on a brook, on the
west. This patenl was declared forfeited for non-settlement. The
second attempl was made seven years later (.March l!.~>, L687), when
section is. containing 5,320 acres, described as lying between the
Passaic and Saddle Rivers, -"beginning at the meeting of the said
rivers and running northerly along the Passaic River, its several
i urns, reduced to a straighl line, four miles and t hirty-six chains to a
white oak tree marked on four sides al the Mound 15 rook, thence from
THE FIRST SETTLERS 33
the Bound Brook north easl by a great Rod? of Stone, eighty four
chains, thence north easl along the line of the Indian purchase, one
hundred and eight chains, thence along Saddle River southwesterly
to the place where if began. Being in length, reduced to a straight
line, six miles and a half,"- -was patented by the proprietors to nine
persons, to wit: Colonel Richard Townley, of Blizabethtown, X. J.;
Captain Elbert Elbertsen (Stoothoff), of Flatlands, L. L; Jaques
(Jaiiiesi Cortelyou, of New Utrecht, L. T.: Richard Stillwell, of Staten
Island. N. V.; William Nicholls, of the City of New York; Catharine
Hoagland, of Flatlands, L. T.; Peter Jacobus Marius (Morris), of the
City of New York; and Roloff Joosten (Van Brunt) and Hendrick
Matthiesen, of New Utrecht, L. T. The survivors of these persons,
and the heirs of those deceased, partitioned the tract, May 16, 1692,
and thereafter sold it to settlers as follows: Joshua Bos (Bush),
Thomas Jurianse (Van Reipen), John Van Horn. John Post. Halmagh
Van Honten, Garret Jurianse (Van Reipen), Garrel Garretson (Van
Wagoner), Garret Garretson (Van Wagoner), Jr., John Garretson
(Van Wagoner), Voter Garretson (Van Wagoner), Dirck Barentsen,
Thomas Fredericksen, Warner Burger, Abram Van Varrick, Laurence
Toers. Peter Jaeobson Morris, David Laurencen Ackerman, Dirk Van
Zyle, Hendrick Vandelinda, Jacob Marinus, Thomas F. and Andries
F. Cadmus, and John Billfield. This section is sometimes called in
deeds " Acquackannock ' and sometimes " Slotterdam," and com-
prised the greater part of the present Township of Saddle River. The
" Rock " referred to is supposed to have been what is now Glen Rock.
A portion of section 22 (adjoining Major Berry) was patented by
Lady Elizabeth Carteret, in 1682, to Jaques (James) Laroux and An-
thony LTendricksen. The same year Lady Carteret patented to Cor-
nelius Mattys 420 acres adjoining Laroux on the north and 424 acres
to Albert Zabriskie, adjoining Mattys on the north Zabriskie seems
to have acquired the title to the Mattys and Laroux purchases, and
all the land west of himself. Laronx, and Mattys, as far as Sprout
Brook.
North of Zabriskie. in section 22. lav lands patented to Olaes Jan-
sen Romeyn, fronting east on the Hackensack and extending to
Sprout Brook. Romeyn conveyed parts of these to his sons, John.
Albert, Daniel, and Claes Romeyn, and to David Ackerman, John
Zabriskie, Peter La roe, and Henry Van Giesen, husbands of his daugh-
ters Gerrebrecht, Elizabeth, Lydia, and Sarah, respectively. Jurian
YVestorvelt, Isaac Van Ciesen, Paulus Vanderbeck, and John Berdan
each purchased farms from Romeyn, in this section, all bounding east
on the Hackensack. Section 24 comprised the Kinderkamack patents,
granted by Governor Gawen Laurie to David Demarest, Sr., his son
John, his son-in-law John Dnrie, and Peter Pranconier. The latter
34
limsoN AM> BERGEN COUNTIES
sold liis portion t<> John Demarest, who ;i few years later conveyed it
to Cornelius CI aes < !ooper. The Demarests, Duries, < 'oopers, and Van
Wagoners were the principal settlers in this section. The Indian
sachems who signed the grants in this vicinity were Mamche, Sacka-
maker, ( toorang, Rawatones, and Towackhack.
Section 21, known as die Paramus patent, containing 11,067 acres,
was boughl by Alberl Zabriskie in L662. Zabriskie's title to this
trad was no1 confirmed by grants from the proprietors during his life-
time, Inn Ins son Jacob procured a release Iron 1 Peter Sonmans, agenl
id' ili" proprietors, .May 13, L731. In 1 675 the sachems of the tribes of
Northern New Jersey became ind< bted to Allien Zabriskie for a con-
siderable sum, to secure the payment of which t hey verbally promised
to convev to Zabriskie a large trad in Rockland Countv known as
" Xarransha we." The promise to convey was not, however, followed
by the execution of a
deed from t he Indians,
and in due course of
time a new sot of
sachems sold and con-
veyed the " Xarran-
sha we '" tract to other
persons. T h e s e sa-
chems were probably
ignoranl of the prom-
ises which their pred-
ecessors had made to
Zabriskie. The latter
d e in a n d e d a fulfill-
ment of the Indian
promise and a (}<'('•]
from tin- sachems of
lands in Bergen < boun-
ty X. J., equal in area and value to the • Xarransha we *' tract On
•Iiiii« 1. 177l'. Orachanap, Metachenak, Coorang, and Memerisconqua
then sachems of the tribes of Northern New Jersey, executed to Zabris-
kie a (]ci'<\ r.ii- 2,100 acres of land in Bergen County, described as
•• bounded West by t ho Saddle River, North and Eas1 hy ("hies Jansen
konievn. and South by Alberl Zabriskie." This large tract, con-
stituting parts of 21 and 23, was known as the New Paramus patent,
bu1 is frequently referred to as " Wieremus," and sometimes as
• Paramus Highlands." Zabriskie procured mains from the proprie-
tors of this last tract, which, added t>> his previous grant, made him
one of the largesl landholders among the original settlers. One-half
of the tract last mentioned Zabriskie conveyed March 20, L708, to
HAMILTON-Bl 111: DUELING GROUND, WEEHAWKEN.
THE Flit ST SETTLERS 35
Thomas Van Buskirk, of New Hackensack, who settled <>m it, and
whose descendants still occupy portions of it. John George Achen-
bach, :i German emigrant, together wit f i persons named Baldwin,
Arkerman, and Conklin, settled on parts of it. Zabriekie's children
;iml grandchildren settled in this section us well ;is in section ~2'.\.
His sons were Jacob, John, Joost, Christian, and Henry.
Section 23, besides Zabriskie's 2,100-acre grant, included several
l>;iients granted ;it various times t<» ('hie-; Jansen Romeyn and Jacob
Zabriskie, son of Albert, who cut it n|> into farms and parceled it
out to their children. Romeyn's children have already been named.
Jacob Zabriskie's sons were Albert, Peter, Stephen, and Jacob, and
his sons-in-law were Anthony Lozier, Peter Lozier, John Ackerman,
and Sylvester Earle. These with families named Duersen, Stagg,
Eopper, Bogert, Terhune, Meyer, Van Gelder, Trapgagen, Verway,
Tibout, Conklin, Volker, Banta, Vanderbeck, Van Blarcom, and
Laroe settled in these several Paramus tracts.
Section 25, known as the "Old Hook Tract," consisting of L,300
acres, was purchased from the Indians, April 24, 1702, by Jaques
(James) La Roux and John Alyea. This tract was part of the share
of Peter Sonmans, one of the proprietors of East New Jersey. On
December 1, 1 727, Nicholas Le Sieur (Lozier) purchased a one-third
interest in it. The three owners then made a division of the trad
between them, and on June 23, of the same year, Sonmans was in-
duced to confirm the Indian granl by a den] in which the grantees
named are Jaques (James) La Roux, Peter Alyea (son of John
Alyea), Nicholas Lozier, Hendrick La Roux, and Samuel I. a Roux
( sons of Jaques (James) Laroux). The trad was settled by the last
named persons and their numerous sons and sons-in-law. Peter Van
Buskirk, Andrew Hopper, Peter Debaun, -Jacob Debaun, Richard
Cooper, Daniel Duryea, and Jacob Cough purchased parts of it.
Families named Bogert, Blawvelt, Vandelinda, Ackerman, Rutan,
Demarest, Perry, and Quackenbush also became settlers on parts of
the tract.
The southwest pari of section 28 was called " Wierimus " and fell
within a patent granted to Samuel Bayard, in 1 703. The title passed
from Bayard's heirs, by purchase, to Roloff Vandelinda, who died in
New York in 1 70S. By his will he devised these lands to liis son,
Hendrick Vandelinda. The area of land devised to Hendrick is not
given, but it was large, and by several deeds from Peter Sonmans, as
agenl of the proprietors, lie afterward acquired several other tracts
in the vicinity. His binds were, as the deeds state, bounded on the
south partly by Zabriskie and Romeyn and partly by the Musquamp-
sont Brook, a branch of the Pascack River. He sold it in parcels to
Rolof Vandelinda, Rev. Benjamin Vandelinda (pastor of Paramus
36 HUDSON A.\l> BERGEN COUNTIES
Church), Frederick Wortendyke (the first settler a1 Pascack), Cor-
nelius Baring, John and Albert Van Orden, Jacob Zabriskie, John
Bogert, Rev. Bernard Van Duersen, Jacob Arents, John Durye,
Daniel Baring, Care! Debaun, Abraham Post, David Bopper, Abram
La Roux, Abraham Van Borne, ami Rev. Samuel Verbryck (pastor
of Tappan Church). The two "dominies" conveyed parts of their
purchases to Garrel am! David Eckerson, John Forshee ( Fiseur), Gar-
re1 Baring, William Holdrum, Frederick Van Reiper,and .Michael and
John Ryer. Wes1 and north of the above Cornelius Mattys, William
Sandford Van Emburgh, John Guest, Peter and Andrew Van Buskirk,
Cornelius Epke Banta, -lames Johnston, and John Stagg secured pat-
ents from the proprietors. The locality of Arent's, Mattys's, and Van
Emburgh's purchases was called " Awashawaughs's " plantation.
Nearly all of the above purchases and settlements were made be-
tween L728 and 1732.
The lands comprising section iM, between iho Backensack River
and the Pascack River, were within thai pari of the Bonan and Baw-
don patent which was purchased by John McEvers and Lancaster
Symes, and at the division between McEvers and Symes it fell to Mc-
Evers. About L,800 acres of this lie sold to Dirk Cadmus, Garrex
Bybertsen Blawvelt, Jacob Flierboom, John Blawvelt, Abram Blaw-
velt, John Berry, Care! Debaun, Thomas Clark. Jonathan Rose, and
Colonel Cooper. Owing to the long dispute between the Colonies of
Xew York and New Jersey over the location of the boundary line be-
tween them but very few of the conveyances of lands in sections 2<'>.
27, and 28 were ever recorded, and it is therefore nexl to impossible
to locate all of the original settlers of these sections. It is known,
however, from old gravestones and other sources that, besides those
above mentioned, families named Demarest, Post. Merseles, Meyers,
Storms, Mabie, Baring, Bogert, Banta, Holdrum, Cooper, Eckerson,
Van llouten, Peack, Van Reiper, Westervelt, Bopper, Campbell,
Zabriskie, Van Emburgh, and Peterson were among the earliesl set-
tlers of section 24.
Section 30 appears to have first been settled by the Ackermans.
Garrel Ackerman bought of the proprietors 17s acres butting on the
Saddle River as early as 1712. David Ackerman and Andries Bopper
purchased large tracts adjoining Garrel on the south, while on the
north of them were the purchases of Peter Van Buskirk and John
Verway, in 1724, and William Sandford Nan Emburgh and John
Guest, in 1720.
On December 10, 1700, Peter Sonmans, styling himself "Sole
Agent, Superintendent, General Attorney, and Recorder General " of
the rest of the proprietors, conveyed to s^v+u* persons, to wit : John
Anboinean (3-24), Elias Boudinol (3-24)J Peter Franconier (7-24), Lu-
.«'
Ma p
"/
I N EW YORK I^fk ^
and other 7vmarkaMe m ] itli , ul . t f /^ uiphAl 4
Porta of !E^ a ( s ./,//^i&,^/^'.
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44
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ro
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MILITARY MAP, 177G.
38 HUDSON AND BERGEN C< HJX1 ll>
.as Kierstead i 2-24), John Barberie I 3-24), Thomas Bayaux (2-24) 2 An-
drew Fresneau (2-24), and Peter Board (2-24), a tract bel ween the Sad-
dle and Ramapo Rii ers, aft< rward known as the Ramapo patent. An
boineau, Boudinot, Barberie, Franconier, and Bayaux were French-
men. Kierstead was a Dutchman and Board was an Englishman. This
trad contained 12,500 acres and was eighl and nine-tenths miles in
length from the head of Saddle Riv< r southerly i«> iln- junction of the
Hohokus Brook with the Saddle River, from which poinl iis boundary
ran N. <>7 W. 150 chains i<> .i l^ i - < - ; 1 1 rock or stone called Paniackapuka
i in, w den Rock), thence X. G3 VV. sever and twenty-nine-fortieths
miles i«i 1 1 it- Ramapo River, thence X. 1 •"> W. 77 chains i " i he top of the
Ramapo mountains, thence along the top <>l the said mountains aboul
uine and a half miles, and thence southeasterly to the beginning. This
included all of iln- present Township of Ridgewood, nearly all of
Franklin and Hohokus Townships, and pari of Orvil. William
Bond surveyed and mapped ii in L709. The map is filed in iln- clerk's
office at I [ackensack.
On February I. 17H'. Franconier convejed his interest to Theodore
V'alleau and David Stout, who, on Augusl Hi. 17.~»l\ conveyed to Mada-
lene V r alleau, daughter <.i t> illiam Franconier. In i lie same year the
proprietors discovered, or affected to discover, thai Sonmans's con-
veyance of December L0, L709, to Auboineau and company was in-
valid, and forthwith took steps n» regain the title. On March 29,
17.".::. John and William Burnetl and Cortlandl Skinner, pursuant to
a warranl of tin- proprietors, induced Madalene Valh-an t<> execute
a release t<» the proprietors of all her interest in the original 42,000
acres, upon receipt ol a, deed from the proprietors i<> her of 900 acres
ai Campgaw. This 900 acres, located in section 30, .Mrs. Vallean
afterward sold in parcels i<» Dirk and John Tiesbots (Tiebout), dohn
Pullisfelt (Pullis), John Billfield, [saac Bogert, William Winter,
Barent Van [lorn, and llarman Xax, who settled on it. Between
LG99 and L753 several grants had been made of portions of this 12,000
acres some by the proprietors or their representatives, and some by
the grantees ot Sonmans, under the deed of December L0, 17<m.
Thomas Hart, of Enfield, Middlesex County, England, procured a pat-
'â– iii for several thousand acres in the locality called Preakness, then
in Bergen County, but now in Passaic County. By his will in L704
he devised an undivided part of this tract to his sister, Patience Ash-
field, and the other part to one Mercy Benthall.
Patience Ashfield's will, made in L708, made Joseph Heale executor
with power to sell. Thereupon Heale with Mercy Benthall and
Richard Ashfield, heir of Patience Ashfield, sold their patented lands
in parcels, the earliesl purchasers being Anthony Beem, Conrad Lyn,
M 'i.i in Lyn, Derrick Day, Peter Post, Cornelius and John Blinkerhoff.
THE FIRST SETTLERS 139
Jacob Arents, Philip Schuyler, George Ryerson, Rip Van Dam, John
de Reimer, John Berdan, ninl Cornelius Jans Doremus, who, with I he
exception of Van Dam, were the principal settlers in thai locality.
The lands were in seel ion 31.
Andrew Johnston, Edward Vaughn, William Skinner, and George
Leslie, all Scotchmen, received ;i patent for about 1,0(10 acres in the
same locality, which was sold, among others, to John Berdan, John
Boaert, Gysberl Nan Blarcom, and Abram Garretsen i Van Wagoner).
In KiO!' George Willocks and Andrew Johnston procured a patent
for several thousand acres, consisting of tracts in various localities,
west of Saddle River at Preakness, The Ponds, Paramus, etc. These
lands were mostly in section 31, and were sold, among others, to John
Laurence Ackerman, Jacobus Laurence Ackerman, Jacobus Kipp,
John Romaine, Jacob Kip]), Tennis Bennion, David Bennion, Edo
Merseles, Martin Ryerson, John Bogert, Jacob Outwater, Nicholas
Slingerland, John Le Toere, John Berdan, Samuel Van Saun, Ruloff
Romaine, George Vreeland, Stephen Camp, and Zekiel Harris.
What was, and is still, known as the Totowa section was purchased
by Anthony Brockholsl and company. On Brockholst's death it
passed to his son Henry, who sold it, among others, to David Marinas,
Gerrebrechi Van Bouten, Balmagh Van Bouten, Bastian Van
Giesen, Abram Godwin, and .Martin Ryerson, in L768. These lands
were in section 31.
George T. Ryerson procured a patent lor a considerable tract in
1748, adjoining north and east on the Preakness patent, which he sold
to persons having similar names to Trie Westervelt, John Stagg, John
Romaine (Romeyn), and others. These were in section 31.
Peter Franconier and others had sold several parcels, in the mean-
time, on the west side of Saddle River, in section 30. Garret Van Dien,
Peter Johns Van Blarcom, and Dr. John Van Emburgh had procured
from them the land between the Saddle River atid Bohokus Brook,
for some distance northward, and Major Isaac Kingsland, Peter
Johns Van Blarcom, Bendrick Bopper, and Garrel Van Dyke owned
extensive tracts west of Bohokus Brook. John and William Van
Voorhys, John Rutan, and John Berdan had procured grants and were
located at what is now Wyckoff, where later families named Van
Horn, Balstead, Ackerman, Winter, Van Blarcom, Stur, Folly, and
others located.
By reason of these many prior titles the proprietors, after they had
acquired the release from Magdalene Valleau, in 1753, found them-
selves face to face with the exceedingly difficult task of dealing with
numbers of settlers who had supposed their land titles were without
flaw. The proprietors undertook this task, getting some settlers to
take leases, — thereby admitting the title of the proprietors, — purchas-
■iO HUDSON A.\I» BERGEN COUNTIES
ing from some, and compromising with others. Many of the settlers
would make no settlement, the courts were appealed to, and ;i bitter
controversy ensued, which was do1 entirely settled until L790. In
1 707 the whole 12,000 acre trad was surveyed and mapped by < reorge
Ryerson, Jonathan Bampton, and Benjamin Morgan. The original
map, a piece of sheepskin four feel square, is in the surveyor general's
'•Hire ;ii Perth Amboy, N. J. li is badly worn, and much of the writ-
ins is obliterated therefrom by time and use. After t li«* man was
filed the lots were, from time to time, leased or sold to actual settlers.
In L789 John Stevens, James Parker, and Waller Rutherford ob-
tained a grant of 5,000 acres <>f the Ramapo patent, made up of many
tracts located in different places. The following persons purchased
from Stevens and company and from the proprietors and became set-
tlers en the Ramapo patent or on lands south of it : Albert. H. Za-
briskie, John Fell, Albert A. Terhune, Baron Steuben, Cornelius Bar-
ing, Jacob de Baun, Abraham Van Voorhis, John D. Ackerman, John
Doremus, Nicholas Bopper, David Bertholf, Benry Van Allen (the
latter at The Ponds), Abraham Larue.. loin- Christie, Benjamin Wester-
velt. dames Traphagen, Andrew Bopper, John Stevens, Andrew Van
Orden (the last two at New Foundland), .Matthias Stuart, Garret
Bopper, John Moore, dames Crouter, John Ramsey, Jacobus Van
Buskirk, John Zabriskie, < Jonrad Wannamaker, Derrick Wannamaker,
Benry Smith (the last named at New Foundland), Peter Baring,
Abram Stevens, Rolof Westervelt, Ryer Ryerson (The Ponds), Gerret
Garretson, Teunis Van Zyle, Andrew Van Allen. Edward Jeffers,
< '"rnelius de i rraw, Richard de Graw, John Neafle, Derrick Tise, Esaac
Conklin, David Simons, Daniel Rutan, Christiaen, Benry, and Peter
Wannamaker, Douglas Caines, Adolph Sivert, Solomon Peterson.
Conrad Massinger, William Jenkins, John Meyer, John Winter. John
Straat, Joseph Wood, and Peter St hit. and also families named Fitch,
Chappel, Oldis. Courter, Camp, Fountain, Folly, Fox, Osborn, Parker,
Bamper, Dater, Frederick, Youmans, Mowerson, Packer, Quacken-
biish. Bush, Vanderhoff, Van Dine, Van Bouten, Terhune, Bogert,
John Arie Ackerman, and John Labagh.
On November 11. L695, the proprietors granted to Anthony Brock-
liolst, Areiii Schuyler, and Colonel Nicholas Bayard section 32, 4,000
acres of land, on the east side of Pequannock and Passaic Pi vers, one
and a half miles wide, and running northerly from aear Little Falls,
up the Passaic River, along the Pompton River lour ami a half miles.
This was then in Bergen County, now in Passaic Both Schuyler and
Brockholst located on the tract <m the easl bank of the Pompton
Rivera little south of Pompton Lake. The purchase was made for
mining purposes, but the grantees conveyed the greatest part of it
December 17. L701, to George Ryerson, John .Meet. Samuel Berry,
THE FIRST SETTLERS
41
David Mandeville, and Bendrick Mandeville. They settled on por-
tions of it and sold oilier portions to Elias Smith, Michael Vander-
beck, Thomas Juriansen (Van Reiper), Peter Van Zyle, Gerebreeht
Gerrebrants, John Westervelt, Michael Hearty (Hartie), Casparus
Schnyler, Dirk Van Reiper, Steven Bogert, Cornelius Van Horn, (Jar-
ret Bertholf, Michael Demott, and Rolof Jacobs.
In 17(U Oliver Delancy, Henry Cuyper, Jr., and Walter Rutherford,
representing the proprietors, sold to Peter Hasenclaver what are
known as the Ringwood and Long Pond tracts, in the northwest pari
of Bergen County, containing about 12, (too acres. This is now in
Passaic County. The lands were first patented to and occupied by
Cornelius Board, James Board, Joseph Board, John Ogden, David
( >gden, Sr., David < >gden, Jr., CJzal < >gden, Samuel < i overman-, Thomas
Ward, John Morris, David Stevens, and Andrew Bell.
1 1 would require too much space to give the names of all those who
purchased or settled on the Ramapo, Pequannock, Totowa, Preakness,
and other patents of lands west of the Saddle 1 fiver. The reader will
note that nearly all the surnames given of sei tiers west of the Saddle
River are the same as of i hose sot t ling east of that river, thus indicat-
ing that the Ramapo patent ami the lands south of it were settled
principally by the descendants of t hose who set t led I he older parts of
Bergen and Hudson Counties. It, would therefore be a repetition of
names to describe in detail the numerous sub-divisions of the Ramapo
and other tracts.
LANDOWNERS AND SETTLERS
For the information of the reader and i hose who may become inter-
ested in genealogical research a lisi of the earliest and most promi-
nent landowners and sett has of Bergen and Hudson Counties is hereto
appended.
SURNAME
OF SETTLER.
LINEAGE.
NAME AND DESCENT
>F EUROPEAN ANCESTOR.
ACKERMAX
Dutch
David Ackerman
Berlikum
Holland
ACKKUSON
Dutch
Johannes Tomassen
( )ostenvelt
Holland
ADR I ANSI'.
Dutch
Maryn Adrianse
Veere
Holland
AERISON
Dutch
Cornelius Ariesen
N. Brabant
Holland
ALLEN (1)
Dutch
Pieter Van Hallen
Utrecht
Holland
ALLEN (2)
Flemish
Lorens Y;iu Hallen
Limbourg
Flanders
ALYEA
French
John Alvea
Artois
France
ANDERSON
Scotch
.John Anderson
Inverness
Scotland
ANTHONY
Dutch
Allerd Anthony
Amsterdam
Holland
ARENTS
Dutch
Johannes Arents
Vanderbilt
Holland
AURYAXSE (1)
Dutch
Jan Auryanse
New York
United States
AURYANSE (2)
Dutch
Lamhert Arianse
Gelderland
Holland
BACKER (1)
Dutch
Claes Jansen Backer
Hertogenhosli
Holland
BACKER (2)
English
Richard Backer
Barbadoes
West Indies
BACKER (3)
Dutch
Jacohus Backer
Amsterdam
Holland
rz
iiihsi i\
AND BERGEN COUNTIES
BURN \MI
LINEAGE.
KAMI ANH 1>I -il M
in 1 riauM AN ANCESTOR.
â– l FETTLER.
BANTA
Dutcb
kc Jacobs
1 [arlengen
Holland
BARENTSEN
Dutch
Dirk Barents
Amsterdam
Holland
BASTIENSEN
Dutch
Johannes Bastiansen
Aernheim
Holland
BAYARD (1)
French
Balthazar Bayard
1 >aupheney
France
BAYARD (2)
French
Nicholas Bayard
Alphen
France
BEDLOW
Sw edish
[saac Bedlow
Stockholm
• s \\ cden
BEEDER
Dutch
Herman Beder
Amsterdam
Holland
BEEM
( rerman
Alithull\ I'.ccin
Flammersvelt
Germany
BELL .1)
< rerman
Hermann l>ell
I >armstadi
Germany
BELL 2
English
William Bell
New York
1 nited States
BENSON
Sw edish
Dirck Bensingh
( rronengen
Holland
BERDAN
Dutch
Jan Baerdan
Amsterdam
Holland
BERRY
English
John Berry
Barbadoes
W est Indies
BERTHOLF
Flemish
Guillian Bertholf
Sluys
Flanders
BILFIELD
English
John Bilfield
Enfield
England
BLACKLEDGE
English
Philip Blackleach
London
England
BLAGGE
lish
Benjamin Blagg
London
England
BLANCH
English
Richard Blanch
Bristol
England
BLAWVELT
Dutch
( .ci-id I [endericksen
1 >c\ enter
Holland
BLAUW 1
Dutch
( iciTct I >ircks Blauw
Drcnthe
Holland
BLAUW 2
Dutch
Herman Jansen Blauw
' i vi mengen
Holland
BOARD
English
1 lornelius Board
/on don
England
BOGERT 1)
Dutch
< lornelius Jansen
Schueiidew oerl
Holland
BOGERT 2
Dutch
John Louwe
Schoendewoert
Holland
BOGERT ;3)
Dutch
Tunis ( i-ysbertsen
Heykoop
Holland
BOUT
Dutch
Jan Evertsen limit
BarneveH
Holland
BRAECKE
Dutch
Dirk Claesen Braecke
Amsterdam
Holland
BRIGGS
English
Walter Brig
Providence
Rhode Island
BRINKERHOFF
Dutch
[oris Dircksen
Drenthe
Holland
BROCKHOLST
Dutch
Anthony Brockholsf
Amsterdam
Holland
BR< >SS
Dutch
Hendrick Brass
Albany
New York
BROWEK J
Dutch
Peter Clementsen
I [oorn
Holland
BROWER 2
Dutch
Adam Brower
Cologne
France
BROWER 3
Danish
Jacob Eldertsan Brower
1 [olstein
Denmark
BROWN
English
Thomas Brown
London
England
BURGER
Dutch
Burger Joris
1 1 srsburg
Silesia
BUSB
Dutch
Hendrick Bosb
Leyden
Holland
BUYS
Dutch
Jan Cornelisen Buys
l>i'('St
Holland
CADM1 -
Dutch
i >irck Fredricksen
Friesland
Holland
CAMPBELL 1
English
Alexander ( 'ampbell
North Britain
England
CAMPBELL 2
- <ch
James Campbell
Aberdeen
Scotland
CAMPBELL
English
William Campbell
Isle of Man
England
CAMPBELL
Irish
William ( iampbell
1 1( land
CARSTENS
Norwegian
1 - ( !arstiaens
Sant
Norwaj
CHAMBERS
tch
John Chambers
New York
1 uited States
CARSBOON
Dutch
Jan Elbertsen ( larsboon
< relderland
Holland
CHRISTIANSE l
Danish
Christ iaen Pietersen
Holstein
1 leiiinark
CHRISTIAN :
iiish
Barenl Christianse
1 [olstein
I Denmark
CHRISTIE 1
itch
James ( 'hri-t \ u
Edinburgh
Scotland
CHRISTIE 2
Dutch
• I on ( Ihristianse
Amsterdam
Holland
CLAESEN
Dutch
Gei brand < !laesen
1 [oorn
Holland
( LARK
[rish
IL. I.mt Clark
Caven Co.
Ireland
< i. i:\dt.\ny
- itch
^ alter ( llendenny
Scotland
( OLE
Dutch
Barenl Jacobsen Kool
Amsterdam
Holland
COLLERD
lish
Jacobus < lollerd
London
England
( OMMEGAR
Dutch
I tendrick Jan- ( lommegar
Amsterdam
Holland
COOPER !
Dutch
( Ilaes Jansen
Purmerend
Holland
THE FIRST SETTLERS
43
surname
OF -1 MM R.
LINEAGE.
NAME AND DESCf \ I
o; 1.1 Itoi'KAN ANCESTOR.
COOPEB 2)
Danish
Tennis Fredericks
( Hdenburg
Denmark
CONKLIN (1)
English
Mattys Conkelin
Philipsburg
New York
CONKLIN (2)
English
John Conklj ne
Not'ghamshire
England
CONOVEK
Dutch
Jacob Wolfortsen
An sterdam
Holland
CORBETT
English
John ( lorbetf
London
England
CORNELISEN
Sw edish
Cornelius Mattys
Stockholm
Sweden
CORNELL
French
W illi.iin Cornelise
Kalhrist
France
CORS
Dutch
Claes Petersen C<>r>
Amsterdam
Holland
CORTELYOU
French
Jacques < iortelj ou
It reidit
Holland
COX
( rerman
Michael Cox
Banover
( rermany
CUMMINGS
English
John C. Cummings
Sent land
DANIELSON
Dutch
James & Jacob Danielsen
Amsterdam
Holland
DAVIDSON
Dutch
John Davidsen
Liveden
1 Eolland
DAVISON
English
Thomas Davison
1 -olldoll
England
DAVISON (2 )
[rish
William Davison
Dublin
[reland
DAY (1)
Dutch
Tunis \h\
Amsterdam
Holland
DAY 2)
English
William Day
New York
United States
De baun
Flemish
Joosl de Baen
Amsterdam
Holland
DEBOW
Dutch
llendrick De Boog
Amsterdam
I loll and
De CLARK
Dutch
Daniel de Clerq
Amsterdam
Holland
De i;i;.\\v
Dutch
Alberl Leendertsen
Amsterdam
Holland
Di GROOT (1 )
Dutch
Dirk Jansen de < i n>i>t
Ryleveli
Holland
De GROOT (2 i
Dutch
Staats Jansen de < rroof
Tricht
Holland
l»i GROOT | :'■i
Dutch
Win. Petersen de < 1-rool
Haarlem
Holland
Di HART
Dutch
Balthazar de I [aerl
I t ri.fil
Holland
De KA1
Dutch
Theunes <le Kay
Amsterdam
Holland
De KLYN
Dutch
Hugh Barents de Klyn
Buren
Holland
Di KUYPEB
1 Danish
Thomas Fred. <le Kuyper
( Udenburg
Denmark
DELAMATER
French
Claude de la Maister
Biechburg
1'" ranee
De La MONTAGNE
French
.lean de la Montagne
Saintong
France
DEMAREST
French
Da\ ill des Marets
Beauchamp
France
DEMEYB
German
X icholas (!«• Meyr
1 [amburg
Germany
De MONT
( i< in, an
Frederick Temonl
Darmstadt
( rermany
Di. MO'IT
Dutch
Mattys de Mott
Kingston
New York
Di REIMEB
French
Petrus de Beimer
Amsterdam
Holland
Di BONDE
Dutch
Jacob ih- Bonde
( lortl'd .Manor
New York
De VOE(l)
French
Frederick de Voe
Bochelle
France
De Vol. j
French
Nicholse de Voe
Walslandl
France
De VRIES (1)
Dutch
.Ian Jacobs de Vries
Vries
1 lolland
De VRIES (2)
Dutch
.Ian ( Sarretsen de Vries
Workum
Holland
Di VRIES (3 i
French
.Ian Petersen de Vries
Amsterdam
Holland
De WITT
Dutch
Dirk ( llaesen de Witt
Zunderland
Holland
DIEDRICKS
Dutch
Hans I >iedricks
Isleven
Holland
DOREMUS
Dutch
Johannes Doremus
Middleburgh
Holland
DOUGLAS
Scotch
W illiani 1 >ouglas
Leith
Scotland
DOW
Dutch
Douwe Jans
Harlengen
Holland
DOUW
Dutch
Volkert Jansen
Lenwarden
Holland
DUNCAN
English
George Duncan
Bristol
England
DURIE
French
Jan Durje
Manheim
Germany
EARLE
English
Edward Earle, Jr.
Maryland
United States
ECKERSON
Dutch
Jan Tomassen
Oostenvelt
Holland
EDSALL
Enolish
Samuel Edsall
Reading
England
EDWARDS
Welsh
Harman Edwards
New York City
New York
ELBERTSEN
Dutch
Elbert Elbertsen
Xieukerk
Holland
ELY
English
Nathaniel Ely
Hartford
Connecticut
EVERTSEN
Dutch
John Everts Bout
Barnevelt
Holland
FELL
French
S\ moil Fell
Dieppe
France
44
HUDSON AND BERGEN COU
NTIES
-i i:\ \mi
"i si 1 1 i i i:.
i i\i \(.i
NAM! \ \l> DRSCRN1
"i i i ropj \\ w< i - tor.
FELTER
• i' I man
William Velta
Hamburg
' rermany
i i i;iM»\
1 i . ni'll
Thomas \ erdon
A msterdam
Holland
FEURST
1' lemish
Barl holme w Feursl
Bruges
Flanders
FLIERB( ><»\|
Dutch
Mattys Flierboom
A 1 1 »:i n \
New York
FRAN( 1
Dutch
Frans Jacobsen
Beesi
Holland
FREDERICKSEN
Dutch
Dirk Fredericksen
Friesland
Holland
FRENCH
Englisli
Phillip French
London
England
FOUN IAIN
Freuch
< 'hard Fontej u
Brooklj it
Long Island
GARRABRAN rS
Dutcb
< rerebrand ( llaesen
1 [â– m.iii
Holland
G PRISON
Dutcb
1 \( net ( rerretsen
W ageningen
Holland
GARRETSON
Dutcb
1 i ' rerretsen
W ageningen
Holland
GARRETSON i^ \
Dutcb
W outer • rarrel sen
W orkum
Holland
GILBER rs
Dutch
Gysberl Lubberts
Hilversam
Holland
GISNER
< rerman
1 [endrick < reisener
W estchester
New York
GROOME
English
Samuel < > i me
Stepney >
London ,
land
(, II -1
Dutch
John < i lies!
l'cnii>\ Ivania
I nited States
HALMAGHS
Dutch
Peter Roloefsen
I trechl
Holland
HARDING
S\\ iss
Hans Jacobsen 1 larding
Berne
Sw itzerland
HARING
Dutch
Jan Pietersen
Hoorn
Holland
HARRIS
English
Ezekiel Harris
New England
I nited States
HART
Englisli
Thomas 1 lart
Enfield
England
II W\ KINS
English
Richard Hawkins
1 don
1 Ingland
HELMS
Dutch
1 [endrick Teimis I lellinck
Leyden
II. .Hand
HENNION
Dutcb
Nath'l Pietersen Henyon
New York
United States
HERTIE
Sw iss
I [ans Jacob Hertie
Berne
Switzerland
HESSELS
Dutdi
Peter I [essels
New Utrechi
Long Island
HOLDRI M
Dutch
William Holdrum
Amsterdam
HoUand
HOOGLAND | 1 )
Dutch
1 >iik Jansen
Maarsendeen
Holland
HOOGLAND (2)
Dutcli
tielius Adriance
Amsterdam
Holland
HOPPER
Dutcli
Andries Hoppe
Amsterdam
Holland
HOUSMAN
Dutch
1 iicii ( Jornelius Huysman
Amsterdam
Holland
HUYLER
Dutch
< !apt. John Hu\ ler
New Fork
United states
JA( OBS
Dutd,
Peter Jacobs
Beesi
Holland
JACOBUS
Dutch
Roloff Jacobus
Amsterdam
Holland
JANSEN l
Norw egian
Peter and Roloff Jansen
San<
Norway
JANSEN (2
French
Matt ice Jansen
Cologne
France
.1 INSEN
Swedish
Baranl Jansen
Stockholm
Sweden
JAY
French
Peter Jay
London
England
JEROLEMON
Dutch
John Hans Jerolemon
Albany
New York
JOOSTEN
Dutch
Rutgert Joosten
Amsterdam
1 1.. Hand
JURIAN( 1.
Dutch
Andries Juriance
Bergen op
Zoom
Holland
KIERSTED
< rermau
Kid Wblters
Magdeburg
* lermam
KINGSLAND
1 English
Nath'l & Isaac Kingsland
Barbadoes
Wesl Indies
KIPP
Dutch
1 [endrick de K \ pi
Amsterdam
Holland
KUYPER
Dutch
i laes Jansen
Purmerend
Holland
LAMATER
French
( 'laude de Lamaister
Riechbom g
France
LAROE
1 i • neb
Jaques Laroe
France
LAURENI 1. l
English
William Laurence
St. Albans
England
LAURENI 1 2
Dutch
Arenl Laurens
^ sselstein
Holland
LAURENC]
1 Danish
Serven Lorens
1 [olstein
1 Denmark
LAUREN* 1. 1
1 >; 1 1 > i — 1 1
Laurens Andriesen
Holstein
I •einiiark
LEENDERTS
Dutch
Paulus Leenderta
Amsterdam
HoUand
LOCKHART
English
_• Lockharl
London
England
LOOTS
English
John 1 t>
Norw ich
England
LOZIER
1 1 1 iich
Francois Luseur
( iiliucnil
France
THE FIRST SETTLERS
45
>1 K\ \MK
LINEAGE.
NAME AND DESCENT
OF EUROPEAN ANCESTOR.
OF SETTLER.
Dutch
LI HY
Jacoh Luby
Amsterdam
Holland
LUDLOW
English
Gabriel Ludlow
London
England
LYDECKEK
Dutch
Ryck & Gerrit Lydecker
Amsterdam
Holland
I.VN
( rerman
( lonrad and Abram Lyn
1 tarinstadt
Germany
mai'.ii:
Dutch
Casparus Meebje
Amsterdam
Holland'
MACLEAN
Scotch
Charles Maclean
Leith
Scotland
MANDEVILLE
Dutch
Gillis Jansen de Mande-
ville
( larderen
Holland
MARINUS
Flemish
Cornelius Jansen Marinus
Oostberg
Flanders
MARTIN
English
James Mart in
New York
United States
MERSELIS
Dutch
Peter Merselles
Beest
Holland
MATTYS
Swedish
Cornelius Mattice
Stockholm
Sweden
MEET (1)
English
Adam Meet
Essex
England
MEET (2)
Dutch
Pieter Jans Meet
A.mersfort
Holland
MELLINOT
Italian
Michael Mellinoi
Savoj
Itah
MERRITT
English
William Meiritt
London
England
MEYER (1)
( rerman
Adolph Meyer
Usen
( iermanv
MEYER •_'
German
Nicholas Me\ er
Hamburg
( rermany
Ml A l.i; :;
German
1 [armanus Meyer
Bremen
( rermany
MILBURN
English
Jacob Milburn
London
England
MOORE (1)
English
Francis Moore
Boston
Massachusetts
MOORE 2
English
Samuel Moore
Barbadoes
West Indies
MORGAN
Welsh
Carl Morgan
Hamburg
( iermanv
MORRIS I
English
Robert Morris
Liverpool
England
MORRIS 2
English
Richard Morris
London
England
MORRIS i
English
Anthony Morris
London
England
MORRIS | 1 i
English
Jurj Maris
N w (ii.i:
Dutch
l'.aint Naugle
( i ronengen
Holland
NEWKIRK
Dutch
( rerbrand ( ilaesen
Amsterdam
Holland
NOBLE
English
Mark Noble
New England
I 'nited States
ONDERDONK
Dutch
Adrian Yanderdunk
Breda
Holland
()l rWATER
Dutch
Frans Jacobs < >utwater
( hidewater
Holland
PAR( ELLS
Erench
Thomas Parcells
I luntington
England
PAUW
Dutch
Michael Pauw
A msterdam
Holland
PEACE
English
Johannes Peack
A msterdam
Holland
PERRY
French
.Ian Perie
Pont-le-feekes
France
PETERSEN ( 1 )
Dutch
Gerrel Petersen
Friesland
Holland
PETERSEN (2)
Dutch
Peter Rolofsen
Ltrecht
Holland
PHILLIPS
Dutch
Frederick Phillipse
Bolswaeri
Holland
PINHORNE
English
William Pinhorne
London
England
PLANCK
Dutch
Abram [saacsen Planck
Amsterdam
Holland
POST ( 1 )
Dutch
Jan Jansen Posl mail
Harlingen
Holland
POST (2)
Dutch
(apt. Adrian Post
Harlingen
Holland
POWLESS
Dutch
Pow les Pietersen
M erven
Holland
POWLESSEN
Dutch
Pow les Pietersen
Merven
Holland
POWLESSEN (2)
PRIOR
Dutch
Michael Pom les
Yeendoren
Holland
Dutch
Casparus Cornelissen
Amsterdam
Holland
PROVOST
Dutch
David Provost
Connecticut
United States
PULIS
( rerman
John Pulisfelt
Darmstadt
< rermany
QUACKENBUSH
Dutch
Petrus Quackenbos
( >ostergeest
Holland
QUIDORE
French
Petrus Quidore
Havre
France
RAMSAY
English
Samuel Ramsay
Scotland
REYSERICK
Dutch
Rynier Reyserick
Amsterdam
Holland
RIKER
Dutch
Alnam Reyken
Amsterdam
Holland
ROMAINE
Dutch
Claes Jansen Romeyn
Amsterdam
Holland
ROY
Dutch
Jacob Jacobsen Roy
Amsterdam
Holland
KIT AX
Dutch
Daniel Rutau
Esopus
New York
46
HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
SURNAME
m| 81 III. Kit.
MM \(.l
\ \Ml IND DE8CEN1
01 ii ROPI \ \ A M l 3TOR.
RYERSON
Dutch
Adrian & Martin Ryerson
Amsterdam
Holland
RUYVEN
Dutch
( lornelius 1! u\ \ en
Ruyven
Holland
SANDFORD
English
William Sandford
st Marys I
Barbadoes (
West Indies
SAUNIER
French
Paul Saimier
Normand j
France
SCHOONMAKER
Germ au
i lornelius Jans Scl -
SCHUYLER
Dutch
maker
David Pietersen and
1 [amburg
I rermany
Philip Petersen
Amsterdam
Holland
SEGER
Swedish
Andries Seagard
New Albany
New York
SCHOENMAKER
Dutcli
Jan Cornelius ( !rj anen
Aernheim
Holland
SHUART
( rerman
James Shureg
I rarmstadi
( ieiinain
SICKLES
Aiist rian
Zacharias Sickels
Vienna
A list ria
SIP
Dutch
Jan Adrianse S\ |>
Amsterdam
Holland
SIMMONS
1 Inglish
( reorge Simmons
Philadelphia
Pennsj Lvania
SIVERT
( i-erman
Adolph Shcit
I'l ll\ lies
I u! lliall\
SLINGERLAND
Dutch
Albert Slingerland
A 1 ha ns
New York
SLOTE
1 Danish
Jan Pietersen Slut t
Holstein
1 leninark
S MK KM AN
Dutch
1 Iciinaii Smeeman
The Marsh
Holland
SMITH 1
I rish
Morgan Smith
( !o. ('man
1 reland
SMITH 2
English
Matthew Smith
London
England
SMITH 3
SMITH 1
English
Dutch
Michael and John Sniii h
Lambert Arianse
Loudon
( S-elderland
England
Holland
SMOCK
Dutch
1 lendrich Mat t ice Smock
Friesland
Holland
SNEDEN
Dutch
Johannes Sneden
Amsterdam
Holland
SNYDER
( J-erman
Ahram Snyder
( rermany
SOMERINDYKE
Dutch
Neeaseus de Stille
Aernheim
Holland
SONMANS
Scotch
Pieter Sonmans
Wallingford
Scol land
SPIER
( rerman
I >irck Jansen Spier
Bremen
( rermanj
STAGG
Dutch
â– John and William Stagg
Amsterdam
Holland'
STEENHUYSEN
Dutch
Egberi Steenhusen
Soesl
Holland
STEVENSEN
Dutch
Oloff s te\ ensen
Holland
STEWART
Scotch
John Stewart
Stirling
Scot land
STILLWELL il i
Dutch
Alex. Stilluell
1 runkirk
Holland
SI ILLWELL 2)
English
Nicholas Stilwell
Stateii Lland
New York
STIMETS
Dutch
( laspar St iiuets
Zeeland
Holland
STOFFELSEN
Dutch
Jacob Stoffelsen
Zirrickzee
Holland
STOOTHOFF
Dutch
Elberl Elbertsen
New kelk
Holland
STORMS
Dutch
Dirk Sturm.
1 t rechi
Holland
STRAATMAKEB
( rerman
Dirk St raatmaker
Bremen
I ri'iiiiam
STRAUT
i rerman
1 »iik Straatmaker
Bremen
• rermany
STUYVESANT
Dutch
Pel rus St u\ v/esani
Friesland
Holland'
SI FFERN
1 rish
John Suffern
Ant rim Co.
Ireland
SWAEN
Sw edish
John Sw ;n n
St ockholm
Sweden
M( AN
1 • anish
Dirk Sycan
1 1 O I s | , • i 1 1
1 Denmark
1A I.I, .MAN
Dutch
1 >(iu we I la rmensen
Friesland
Holland
III; BOSH
( rerman
John Terbosh
1 >elmanhors<
Wesl phalia
TERHUNE
French
Albert Albertsen Terhune
1 1 tinen
Holland
TIBOUT
French
Michael dan Tiboul
Bruges
France
TISE
Dutch
Dirk Tysen
( iehlellalld
Holland
TITSORT
Dutch
John Titsorl
A msterdam
Holland
\ wdki.inda
Flemish
Joosl \'andeil\ nileii
Belle
[â– 'landers
VANDERBEEK
( rerman
PauluS Yaildellicek
1 [amburgh
I ici inan\
VANDERHOFF
Dutch
( lornelius Vandehoff
I ichhrland
Holland'
\ ANDERPOOL
Dutch
M \ ndeit ( rerritsen
Amsterdam
Holland
VAKI.KT
French
Nicholas \ a rlel
Amsterdam
Holland
\ai;i;k k
Dutch
lkii(li>l]iliiis Van \ ariuk
( relderland
Holland
THE FIRST SETTLERS
47
SURNAME
OF SETTLER.
LINEAGE.
NAMK AND DKSCKNT
OF EUROPEAK
ANCESTOR.
V A N
ALLEN (1)
Flemish
I. mens Van Ilalcn
Limbourgh
Flanders
V A X
ALLEN (2)
Dutch
1 'it ins Van llalcu
Utrechl
Holland
VAN-
BLARCOM
Dutch
Johannus Van Blarcom
Blarcom
Holland
VAX
BUSKIRK
Danish
Lourens Andriesen
rlolstein
Denmark
V A X
BUSSUM
Dutch
Cornelius and ( rerrel Van
Borsem
Emden
Holland
V A X
CAMPEN
Dutch
( iai ret Jansen
Campen
Holland
VAX
CORTLANDT
Dutcli
( )hitl Stevens Van Cort-
Wyck te dun-
lamlt
aerstede
Holland
Y A X
DAM
Dutch
Rip Van Dam
Albany
New York
VAX DINE (1)
Dutch
( icrn-ct ( lornelisse Van
Dyne
Xieu kiik
Holland
V A X
DINE (2)
Dutch
1 Mi k ( rarretsen
Tricht
Holland
Y A X
DOLSEN (1)
Dutch
rT a ii ( rarretsen Vries
Workum
Holland
V A X
DOLSEN (2)
Dutch
1 >irk Jan Van Dolsen
1 laarleni
Holland
VAN
DUSER
Dutch
Ahraiu Pietersen
1 rursen
Holland
\' A X
DYKE
Dutch
.Jan Toma sse Van 1 *\ ke
Amsterdam
I lollaud
V A X
EMBURG
Dutcli
I i j sherl Gysberts Van
[mbrooch
Amsterdam
Holland
VAX
ETTEN
Flemish
Jacob Jansen Nan Etten
Brabant
Flanders
Y A X
GELDER
Dutch
Jacobus Evei*tse Van
Gelder
( relderland
Holland
VAN
GIESEN
Dutch
l!\ uicr Bastianse
( riesen
Holland
V A X
HORN
Dutch
< !laes Jansen
1 lool II
Holland
VAN
HOUTEN
Dutch
Peter Roelfseu
Utrechl
Holland
VAN
I. MM EX
Dutch
Dirk ( rarretsen \';m
Iniiiiiu
Bextel
Holland
V A X
X Kss
Dut.-h
Hendrick Garretsen Van
Xc^
Emberlandl
Holland
VAN
Xos'li; AND
Dutch
1 [ans 1 [ansen
Zeeland
Holland
V A X
ORDEN i 1
Dutch
( 'lacs Jansen
Xacnlcn
Holland
V A X
ORDEN 2
Dutch
Dirk Jansen
Xaenlcn
Holland
VAX
OSTUM
Dutch
Hendrick Van < )stuni
Amsterdam
Holland
V A X
PUTTEN
Dutcli
Aerenl Teunesen
Putten
Holland
\' A X
REIPEN
Danish
Juriaen Tomassen
Reipen
Denmark
V A X
SALLE
Dutch
Anthonj Franzen
Saale
Holland
Y A X
SAUN
Dutch
Jacob Van Saun
Zauwen
Holland
V A X
SCHALCK-
Henry Jans Van Schalck-
WYCK
Dutch
W\ck
Schalckwyck
Holland
V A X
SCIVER
Dutch
I'eti u> Van Schuyveu
Schuyven
Holland
V A X
TUYL
Dutch
Michael Abrams Van
Tuy]
Tuyl
Holland
VAX
VALEN
Dutch
Johannes Wn idle
Amsterdam
Holland
VAX-
VECHTEN
Dutch
Tunis I Urcksen Van
Vechten
Noeg
Holland
VAX
VLECK
German
Tielman Van Vleck
Bremen
Germany
V A X
VOORHIS
Dutch
( 'ucit Albertsen
Voorhuysen
Holland
VAX
VORST
Dutch
Cornelius Nan Vorst
Gelderland
Holland
VAN
WAGENEN
Dutch
( inert ( rerretsen
Wageningen
Holland
VAN
WART(l)
Dutch
Mattice Van Waert
I trecht
Holland
VAN
WART (2)
Dutch
Tunis Jacobsen Van
Woert
Schoendewoert
Holland
VAN
WINKLE
Dutcli
Walling, Jacob and
Simon Jacobsen
Middleburg
Holland
VEDDI
Dutcli
Harman Albertsen
Vedder
Gronengen
Holland
VERBRUGGEN
Dutch
John Verbruggen
Amsterdam
Holland
is
lil'I»S('.\ AND BERGEN COUNTIES
BURN \Ml
01 SETTLER.
LINEAGE.
VERBRYCK
Dutch
\ I.KWAY
Dutch
VINGE
Flemish
VREELAND
Flemish
WALDRON
Dutch
WANNAMAKER
( rermau
WARREN
English
\\ 1 STERVELT
Dutch
WHITE
English
WILSON
Scotch
WINANS
Dutch
w i x x i •:
Flemish
WORTENDYKE
Dutch
WOUTERSON
Dutch
5TEREANSE
Dutch
ZABRISKIE
Polish
NAM] wi> DESCEM IKol'lAN \Mlsiolt.
Jansen Verbryck
[sveren
Holland
( lornelius \ ri« aj
Amsterdam
Holland
.Idliii Viuge
Bruges
Flanders
M ichael Jansen
Brockhuysen
Flanders
Resolved Waldron
A msterdam
Holland
Peter Wannamaker
Darmstadl
Germany
Peter Warren
London
England
Lubber! Lubbertsen
Meppel
Holland
Anthony White
Bosl on
Massachusetts
Peter Wilsej
Leil li
Scotland
Cornelius Wj nhard
Gronengen
1 [olland
Peter Winne
Ghent
Flanders
Nicaseus <lc St die
Aernheim
Holland
Egberl Wouterson
^ sselsl ine
Holland
A niliics Jurianse
Bergen o]>
Zoom
Holland
Albrechl Sobeiski
Zolkieu
Poland
•
Y
•-•
*S5 .
; • -
DUTCH \\ I N I > .Mill.
GENEALOGICAL
ABRAHAM OOTHOUT ZABR1SKIE belonged to one of the most. nu-
merous and eminently conspicuous families of Bergen County. In Poland
the name was " Sobieska," and Albrecht Sobieska was the first of the
family in America.
It has been claimed by many of his descendants that royal blood coursed
in Albrecht's veins, because he was a brother of John III., the lasi king
of Poland. The facts d<> qo1 sust.-iin such a claim. Albrechl Sobieska
was not a brother of the last king of Poland, -lames Sobieska (the king's
fathen and his wife. Theophila, had hut three children: Mark, John (the
king), and a daughter. Mark was killed in the battle of Batog, leaving
behind no issue; John, the king, had two sons. .lames and Alexander,
both of whom died childless, as did also the king's sister.
Albrechl Sobieska (who in America was known as Alberl Zabriskie)
was a cousin of the king of Poland. That fad, however, did not make
royal blood flow in his veins, for the crown of Poland when attained by
King John was not Inheritable. That quality had long since been forcibly
taken from it. None of John's ancestors had ever worn it, and John was
elected to wear it. Hence, there was no more inheritable quality in it
than in the Presidency of the United States. There was, however, noble
Idood in Albert's veins. His ancestors foe two centuries had been Palatine
nobles <d' Poland — famous generals who had fought long and bravely in
the cause of their country, distinguished for their virtues in peace and
for their courage in war. Albert's cousin .John, upon his merits alone,
not only became king by the voice of the people of his native country,
but he had also become one of the greatest warriors of the sixteenth cen-
tury. Albert's father was a soldier, but the son had no taste for the favor-
ite calling «>f a long line of noble and warlike ancestors. Born at Zolkiew
in Poland, in 1638, he grew up in the shadow of the church and school,
receiving a fail* education. His turn of mind was such that his father
had early hopes of seeing his son in the pulpit preaching the Reformation.
To that end he sent Alberl to a Protestant school in Holland. The strict
rules and Puritan tenets of the institution were not, how 7 ever, relished
by Albert, and he soon ran away. While roaming about from one city to
another, without occupation or funds, he was seized by the government
authorities of Prussia and pressed into the army. Watching his oppor-
tunity he escaped to Amsterdam, early in 1662, from which port he sailed
to America in the ship " Fox," reaching New York in August of that year.
For ten years he seems to have wandered among the settlements about
New York without any settled purpose in life; but in 1070 we find him
at Bergen (Jersey City), where he met, and on December 17 of that year
married. Miss Machtelt (Matilda) Van der Linden, daughter of Yost Van
der Linden, a young lady then twenty years of age and a native of the City
50 HUDSON \M> BERGEN COUNTIES
of Brussels, Belgium, whose brother, Roloff Van der Linden, was destined
later to become, like her husband, one of the largesl landowners in Bergen
County. The intiiTiage ceremony was solemnized in the hutch Reformed
Church .11 Bergen, near whal is qow "the Five Corners."
In the year of his marriage il<i7<;i Alberl made his firs! purchase from
the Backensack ;in<l Tappan Indians — a trad of L,067 acres— abutting
south on Captain John Berry's purchase, extending north one and five
eighth miles, and from the Saddle River easl to whal is known ;is Sproul
Brook. This trad was known as "Paramus" or "The Point." <>n this
In- lniili his family mansion, and spenl his life in agricultural pursuits.
.Much of ii is still occupied by his descendants, who have become numerous
in Bergen, Budson, and Passaic Counties, h bas been said thai the
!ii(li;ins captured his eldes! sun. Jacob, and refused to give him up to his
father until he should be taughl the Indian language; thai the father ac-
quiesced; thai ili" boy mastered the language, and the chiei of the tribe
thru gave the father title i<» his lands. This is probably only tradition.
At any rate, the deed recites the consideration to have been wampum
(white and black), peltries, clothing, rum, and implements of husbandry.
In L682 Alberl obtained from Lady Carterel grants of several tracts of
land adjoining his firs! purchase, principally one of 120 acres on the easl
and extending to the Backensack River. In i<'»7!> the Indians in some way
(nol stated) became indebted to Albert, and to liquidate such indebtedness
the sachems verbally agreed to convey to him 2,000 acres in Rockland
County, X. Y. This agreemeni was no1 performed until 171)2. when Alberl
agreed to take lands in New Jersey instead of Rockland County lands.
Accordingly, the sachems of the tribes deeded him 2,100 acres in Bergen
County, north of his firsl purchase, and fronting wesi <>n the Saddle River.
Albert's patents are known as the " Paramus " and " New Paramus" pat-
ent ,. Altogether Alberl must have owned more than 4,000 acres in Bergen
County. .Much of this was afterward claimed by Peter Sonmans. whose
claims to it wen- not released until 1 731-35, long after the death of Albert.
In his day he was considered a very wealthy man. lie was highly re-
speded, no1 only for his greal liberality, Lin Tor his integrity, and above
all for his fair dealings with the savages, who esteemed him highly. Be
understood their language and frequently acted a- their interpreter. In
Hi^fi he helped to organize the "Church on the Green" at Backensack,
of which he was one of the firsl members. Be took an active pari in civil
affairs and was the firsl Justice of the Peace for Upper Bergen County,
to which office he was commissioned by Governor Hamilton in L0S2. Be
died September 11, 1711. having been one of the most active and enter
prising of the pioneer settlers of his county, and his descendants are noted
for the same qualities. Mis wife survived him, dying in L725.
His children (of the second generation) were (1) Jacob A., born aboul
April li'. L679 (married Ann Alliens Terhune), and had ten children; (2)
John A.; (3) Joosl A., born in L687 (married November L2, L712, Christina
Casparus Mabie), ami had eighl children; ih Christian A., horn July •*'..
IG0G (married .M ; i \ 28, 171 I. Lea Hendricks Bopper), and had five children:
and (5) Benry, born in L696 (married Gertrude Bendricks Bopper), and
had lour children.
John A. Zabriskie, of the second generation, was horn at Backensack
aboul L682. He married Hi September 20, L706, Elizabeth Claes Romeyn,
who was horn in L683 at Graves laid. I.. I., and died near Backensack,
GENEALOGICAL
51
\. J., in 171l'. lie i2i married again December (i, 1712, Margaretta Johns
Durie. lit- succeeded to the ownership of part of Ids father's lands. In
1720 he bought el' Samuel I >es Maresi (2) ;i large farm ill what is now
Hawroth, N. •!.. some of which, until very recently, was owned by the de-
scendants of Ids eldest son Albert. Il extended from the Schraalenburgh
road west to the Hackensack River. Some of his lands were claimed by
Peter Sonmans, hut were released to Zabriskie aboul L751, by Hans Spier,
agenl of Sonmans.
John Zabriskie (2) was a farmer, but was active in township and church
ABRAHAM O. ZABRISKIE.
matters. He died in 17<><>. His second wife survived him. His children
of the third generation were four by his first wife and nine by Ins second
wife, to wit: Albert, Matilda. Nicholas. Christina, Elizabeth, John, Jacob,
Elizabeth, Peter, Joost, Rachel. Cornelius, and Christian.
Of the above named thirteen children Jacob J. Zabriskie. of the third
generation, born near Hackensack, July 27. 171s. married, in 174-">. Sarah
Varrick. a descendant of an old aristocratic family of New York. Their
issue of the fourth generation was a son, John L. Zabriskie, baptized Feb
ruary 27. 1752. He died April 24, 1782. He married December 7, 177."),
52 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTESS
Lena Lansing, <>r Albany, N. Y.. where she was born October .~i. 1 T ~» o . She
died April 26, L826.
John L. Zabriskie's widow, after his death, married (2) November 11.
I7si;. General Abraham Oothout. John L. Zabriskie (4) had issue one
son, John Lansing Zabriskie (5), who married Sarah Barrea. He was a
prominenl clergyman ;ii Greenbush, X. Y., and had issue two children of
the sixth generation: John Barrea Zabriskie (a prominenl physician a1
Flatbush, L. I.) and Abraham Ootl i Zabriskie (the subjed of this sketch).
Abraham Oothoul Zabriskie, LL.D., <»r Backensack and Jersey City, was
born in Greenbush, N. Y.. June 1<>. L807, and when four years old wenl
with his parents to .Millstone. N. J. lie received ;ni academic education
and matriculated at Nassau Hall, Princeton, in L823. becoming a member
of the junior class when only sixteen. He was graduated from thai insti-
tution in L825, read law with dames S. Green, of Princeton, and was ad-
mitted as ;ui attorney in November, 1828, and as a counselor in 1831. He
practiced in Newark two years and in Hackensack aineteen years, and in
1838 was appointed Surrogate of Bergen County and was re-appointed
in ls-l.">. serving in all ten years. He not only learned how to frame state-
ments of execution and administration, bu1 acquired a lull knowledge of
ecclesiastical law as pertaining to estates of descendants, and also evinced
a method and accuracy that distinguished his life.
In 1842 he was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas of Bergen County and
became master of the principles of criminal law. Later he often acted
as counsel in criminal and civil cases, and in cases involving land lilies.
He became familiar with the duties of a practical surveyor and also with
the proprietary history of New Jersey, and understood i-\(\\ patent in
the old "Field Book of Bergen County," and tin common hinds assigned
to each patent, lie was regarded as a formidable adversary in all cases
involving title to land, and was for several years Supreme Court Reporter
io 1855. In l>li he removed to Jersey City, and in 1850 he was elected
State Senator and served three years.
He was a member of the committee of citizens which framed the charter
of Jersey city, passed .March 18, 1851; was the author of the " Long Dock
Charter" of 1856; and from ls."i<; to 1866 was a Director of the New J< rs< \
Railroad and Transportation Company. In 1859 he was appointed by
Governor Newell Chancellor of New Jersey, bu1 the Senate refused to
confirm him, and the State, during thai memorable struggle, was without
a Chancellor for a year. In 1866 he was nominated by Governor Ward
and confirmed by the Senate as Chancellor, and began his official duties
.May 1. 1866. He performed the duties of that office with a promptness
and ability thai have never been surpassed by any of his successors. lie
took a prominenl pari in the greal railroad war as opposed to tin monopoly.
aud for an expression used in a public speech earned the sobriquel of
• Captain of the Pick-axe Guard." He was an eminent jurist, an aide and
learned lawyer, a sagacious lmsinrs> man. and officially connected with
several corporate enterprises. He traveled extensively, and while on a nip
io the Pacific slope died a1 Truckee, California, dune 27, is"::.
lie married Mi April 7. is:;*;. Sarah Augusta Pell, horn September '•'.
1810, died April ::. 1845. He married (2) January :'. 1848. Julia M. Halsey.
His children of the seventh generation were Abraham, Lansing, Sarah A..
and Augustus, of these, Abraham (8) was commissioned \djuiant of the
Ninth New .Jersey Volunteers, October 18, L861, promoted 1<> Major Feb-
ruary H>. 1862, to Lieutenant-Colonel December, L862, and subsequently to
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Colonel. Be died May 24, L864, of won nds received in the battle of Drury's
Bluff, Va. Sarah A. (8) is the wife of Franz Ernsl de Bille, a native of
Denmark, who is a1 present Danish Minister to England.
Lansing Zabriskie (8), now deceased, was a prominenl lawyer in Jersey
City, as iv ;l |si> his brother Augustus, at the presenl lime. Augustus and
Sarah have children of ihe ninth generation.
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JOHN N. ACKERMAN is a descendant in the direct line from
David Ackerman, the tirsi American ancestor of the family. Southeast
of Rotterdam, in hutch Brabant, twenty-four miles from Breda, is the
City of Bois-Le-Duc, called by the natives Eertogenbosch. It is now the
chief low n of North Brabant, ami was built and strongly fortified in the
eleventh century, though it was a place of some note much earlier, being
near the Maas River and the great highway built by the Romans in their
later coiii|i]csis in Northern Kurope. In the seventeenth century there
was much heath land to the south and west of it which has since been
reclaimed. Agriculture and manufacturing were then, as now, the main
employments of tin- people, Tilbury, the nearest city, being noted for its
extensive cloth manufactories. The « • i i \ contains the chapel and church
of St. John, built in L260 and rebuilt in i:»L2, — one of the oldest and best
preserved edifices in Northern Europe, from the city a road leads almost
direct to the renowned battlefield of Waterloo. Near Bois-Le-Duc, in
about L620, vvas born David Ackerman, the son of a farmer and the pro-
genitor of the Ackerman family in Hudson and Bergen Counties. Growing
to manhood, he married in Hill, and engaged in tilling the soil until the
stampede to the New World, caused by religious persecution and the threat
ened war with Spain and England drew him into its vortex. Being an
ardent Protestant, he could not brook the fanatical domination of Roman-
ism, and when in August. L662, the power ol the state could no longer
protect him in the exercise of his religious liberty, he. with many of his
neighbors, including the Storms. Terbosches, and others, whose descendants
Lave since become n numerous host in Bergen County, embarked with
their families on board the Dutch West India ship " Pox " (Captain .Jacob
IIuvsi. and on September 2, following, landed at New Amsterdam. David
had with him his wife and six children — t he latter aged respectively t wenty,
eighteen, sixteen, twelve, eight, and six years. It has been said " it may
be doubted whether he survived the voyage "; but there is little reason
for such doubt. Ii is tine that the emigrant list published is a list of those
who sailed from Holland ports, not of those who actually arrived at New
Amsterdam. It is likewise true That the records make no further men-
tion of either David or his wife. lint these facts furnish no ground to
doubt their arrival on our shores. The first family abode was in the
Marhvelt Stegg. In 16G8 the family nucleus was at New Harlem. Whether
David or his wife were living at the time of the removal to Harlem,
whether Elizabeth on her marriage and removal to Harlem took her
brothers with her, are at best subjects of conjecture. David may have
'lied ,ii the .Markvelt Stegg residence, or he may have removed to Harlem
and died there. However this may be. as no public records of deaths were
kept, the date of his death and that of his wife, as well as her name, are
facts which are likely never to be ascertained, except by accident. Of
ihe children. Ann was the first to break the family circle by her marriage
in 1664, and subsequent removal up the Hudson. Elizabeth followed her
example in 1668, uniting in marriage with the somewhat renowned Kier
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Walters (ancestor of the Kiersens), who, however, died two years later.
Lawrence was ;i youth of untiring energy and persevered in everything he
undertook. In 1669, being then only nineteen, he hired ;i portion of whal
was then called the Archer farm a1 Harlem, hi hill) he married Greetje
Egberts and remained at Harlem until L685, during which time two daugh-
ters were born to him. I>;i\id. the eldest son, wenl to New York, where,
in L680, be married Hellegorid Ver Planck, and remained there until L686,
during which time several children were born to him. Lodowyck, who
us. .it first, t<» have been rather a wild boy, went to Kingston, X. Y..
where, in L681, he wooed and wedded .Miss Jenneke Blaeck, by whom he
had at least two children. Alter his removal to Bergen County his wife
died and he married Hillegorid Bosch, by whom he had two children.
Abraham, the youngesi of the children, married, in 1683, at New York.
[tie Van Lear, by whom he had six children before his removal to New
Jersey, and four more in New Jersey. Lawrence and David were the first
i l i he family to remove to Bergen County in 1686. Lodowyck and Abraham
followed in 1694. They all settled on large tracts of land between the
Hackensack and Saddle Rivers, and also west of the Saddle River. The
family became very numerous both in Bergen and in what is now called
Passaic County. Numerous members of the family have been the most
active and influential in the county, and have been honored with town,
county, and State offices, others have been important factors in religious
work, and have attained eminence in various branches of learning.
Lawrence Ackerman was buried at Wyckoff or Oakland. His children
were John and dames.
John Ackerman, sou of Lawrence, married Catherine Etomaine. Both
are buried at Wyckoff or Oakland. Their children were Lawrence, Nicholas,
and dames.
Nicholas Ackerman. son of John, was born .January 24, 17!).j. died dune
1. ls:;!>. married Polly or .Maria Snyder, who was born in L801, died March
24, 1S77. Their children were John N.. born January 28, 1818; Abraham,
born August -7. 1830; and George.
John N. Ackerman, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Franklin
Township, Bergen County, N. J., January 28, 1818, and is now one of the
oldesl residents of Hackensack. He is the eldest son of Nicholas Ackerman
and Polly or Maria Snyder, a grandson of John Ackerman and Catharine
Romeyn, and a great-grandson of Lawrence Ackerman. He was educated
in the public schools of Franklin Township, lb- left home at the age of
fifteen, and for two years worked at the trade of carriage making. Since
tin n he has earned his own livelihood. When seventeen he went to New-
York <"iiy and learned the carpenter's trade, mastering <-\e\-y branch.
In L837 he returned to Hackensack, N. J., married Rachel K. Vanderbeek,
and engaged in business as a manufacturer of sash, doors, and blinds.
which In- followed with marked success until L896, a period of tifl\ nine
years. He then retired to enjoy in private life the fruits of a long and
honorable career. Mr. Ackerman has resided in Hackensack since he es-
tablished himself in business there in 1837, and from the first lias taken
.in active interesl in the growth and development of the town, and all those
public matters which appeal to the progressive spirit of a patriotic, ener-
getic citizen. Though never aspiring to office, and as a rule avoiding
political life, he was for ten years a Justice of the Peace, and in this and
other minor capacities has displayed greal ability, sound judgment, and
commendable enterprise.
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Mr. Ackerman was married, June II. 1837, in Backensack, to Rachel
Ryerson Vanderbeek, born February 7. L806, died June 26, 1891, a descend-
ant, like himself, of one of the old Holland Dutch families of Bergen
County. Their children are George J. Ackerman, born March i!7. L839, and
.Mary R. Ackerman. horn September L'T. 1845.
George J. Ackerman. oldest child of John X. and Rachel R. Ackerman,
married Julia A. Groesbeck, Decembei 24, 1863. She was born November
27, 1842, and died April 11. 1886. Thej had one child. George Groesbeck
Aekorman, horn November ii. 1.867, who married, September 27, 1803, flrne-
line Inglehart, of Watertown, X. Y.. who was horn December â– ">. 1.869. Thej
have one child. Alison Groesbeck Ackerman, born October 13, 1896.
AARCXN E. ACKERMAN, of Backensack, is of the seventh generation
from David Ackerman. the lirsi of I he family in America (see sketch on
page 53). lie was horn a I Saddle River. Bergen < 'on my, September <">. L836,
and is a sen of Peter Ackerman and Eliza Eckerson, ami a grandson of
Allien Ackerman and Eliza, his wife. This Allien served as a soldier in
the War of L812. Aaron Ackerman's maternal grandparents were Aaron
Eckerson and Matilda YVestervelt. As will he seen. Mr. Ackerman is of
Dutch extraction on both sides of the family tree.
lie was educated in the public schools of Bergen County, remaining on
his father's farm until he reached the age of seventeen. He then entered
the employ of Conklin & Post, of Schraalenburgh, as a carpenter, and con
tinned with thai well known firm lor aboul twenty-three years. (Mi (he
death ol Mr. Posl ho became a partner with Peter I.. Conklin, the senior
member of the old firm. The new firm of Conklin iV Ackerman continued
in hnsiness eighl years, or until L882, when Mr. Conklin retired after an
active life of lorn years. Mr. Ackerman succeeded to the hnsiness, which
lie siill conducts, and which is one of the oldesi of the kind in Easl Jersey,
having been in continuous existence for nearly sixty years. And under
his able and energetic managemenl ii has not only retained hut greatly
increased its old-time prestige ami usefulness. Tin- buildings and other
carpenter work which he has erected in Backensack and vicinity would,
if enumerated, make a list thai would Mil a good sized volume.
Mr. Ackerman is a man of acknowledged ability ami integrity, and both
in hnsiness and social relations has always enjoyed the respect and con-
fidence of his fellow mien. Enterprising, patriotic, and public spirited, he
has taken from the tirst a deep interesl in municipal affairs, and liberally
encourages every worthy project, lie served three years and one month
in the War of the Rebellion, becoming a second sergeant, and is a promi-
nent member of the Second Reformed Church of Hackensack.
He married Miss Abigail Wygant, and they have two daughters: Nellie,
born in 1st;:;, and Fannie, horn in 1871.
ALEXANDEB TAGGART McGILL, A.M.. LL.D., for thirteen years
Chancellor of the State of New Jersey, was born October 20, 1845, in Alle-
gheny City, Pa., where his father. Rev. Alexander T. McGill, D.D.. LL.D.,
was a professor in the Western Theological Seminary. His great-grand-
father was an Indian fighter of note in Pennsylvania, and served as a
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Continental Army under Washington at Trenton
and Princeton. The Chancellor's father was for some years a lawyer in
Georgia, but later studied theology and became professor in the Western
Theological Seminary. When the Chancellor was nine years old.
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iii 1854, ltis father accepted a professorship in Princeton Theological Semi-
nary and the family moved to New Jersey. His father held that position
until his deal h in L889.
Chancellor McGill thus spenl his early life in the midst of the best
edncational and social advantages, which he imbibed with an eagerness
characteristic of his race. While a youth he exhibited scholarly tasies,
and rapidly acquired a high standing as a thorough and painstaking
stud< in. His chief aim was to master every problem, no matter how diffi-
cult, that came to his attention. He was a keen observer, possessed of
ALEXANDER T. McGILL.
analytical powers of a high order, and won the praise and respect of both
teachers and associates. Entering Princeton College, he pursued the reg
ular course and received the degree of A.B. in 1864 and that of A.M. in
L867, and afterward his alma mater and Rutgers College of New Jersej
'•:>.li conferred upon him the honorary degre of LL.D. In June, i860, he
was graduated from the < !olumbia Law School, and thereafter continued his
legal studies with the late Hon. Kdward W. Scudder, of Trenton. He
came to 1he bar in New Jorse\ as an attorney at the November term. 1867,
and as a counselor in November, 1870.
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For ;i few months he remained in Trenton as an associate of his preceptor,
Judge Scudder, and then, in L868, moved to Jersey City, where lie after-
ward resided. Chancellor McGill soon achieved prominence as an able,
industrious, ami conscientious lawyer. From L870 to L876 he was the law
partner of the late Attorne} General Robert Gilchrist. In L374 and 1875
he was counsel lor the Ci1y ol Bayonne and also member of Assembly from
the then Firsl District of Hudson County. He was active and influential
in the Legislature, and served on the loading committees. In April, 187s.
Governor McClellan appointed him Prosecutor of the Pleas for the County
of Hudson, and in April, iss::. ho was appointed Law Judge of that county
by < rovernor Ludlow.
On Mar.h 29. L887, ho was appointed by Governor Green as Chancellor
of the State of New Jersey, and the appointmeni was unanimously con-
firmed ''\ ihi Senate on the 31s1 of the same month. His lirst term ex-
pired May 1. L894, and ho was re appointed to the office by Governor Worts,
and ;n once unanimously confirmed by the Senate without reference.
It was during his term as Chancellor thai the famous coal combine bill
was passed b\ the Legislature. When Governor Abbot i refused to sign the
bill the railroad companies in the combination contended that they were
protected by existing laws, and proceeded to act accordingly. The at-
torney genera] broughl suit againsl the Coal Trust in the Court of Chan-
cery. The Chancellor rendered t decision which not only laid down the
relations of corporations to the State with a clearness and fairness that
placed his ruling beyond ittack, bul dealt a blow to nil the monopoly com-
binat ions of the I !oal Trust class.
In the fall of L895 the Democratic party nominated the Chancellor for
Governor. In the campaign thai followed he look no part, but continued
to discharge the duties ol the office of Chancellor. The election resulted in
Ids defeal i>\ John \Y. Griggs, now United states Attorney General, by a
plurality ol 26,900.
Chancellor McGill died April 21, I! a1 his home in Jersey City. His
friends declare thai he died ;i martyr to duty. Mis office killed him. lb
was ;t scrupulously conscientious man. and thoughl of duty above every-
thing else. He would never shirk a responsibility, however much he might
sutler in fulfilling it. His learning, dignity, good judgment, and ability
long adorned the highest equity bench in the State. He was one of the
most popular jurists thai ever presided over the Courts of Errors and Ap-
peals and chancery. As a citizen, lawyer, and judge he was universally
respected am 1 esteemed.
Chancellor McGill married .Miss Olmstead, a relative of the Stevens
family, of Hoboken, who survives. He had no children. He is also sur-
vived by a brother. Dr. John I). McGill, Surgeon-General of New Jersey.
MATTHEW J. BOGERT.— The Bougaerdts were a numerous and in-
fluential family in Holland, where they filled many important military
and civic positions, and attained lasting fame in the arts, sciences, and
literature centuries before the advent of any of them in America. Guil-
liaem Bougaerl was Sellout of the City of Dordrecht in 1123. His son Adam
became first Professor of Music and Rector of the Academy at Leyden,
where he died in 1482. He is buried in St. Peter's Church in Leyden, be-
neath a stone surmounted with a copper plate on which is an inscription
setting forth his fame. Tins church was built in 1315 as a monument to
Boerhave, the great physician, and contains the remains of the most dis-
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tinguished worthies of Holland. Adam's son Jacob became firsl physician
to the City of Antwerp and afterward was Profesor of Medicine and Sur-
gery .-it Leyden for more than twenty years. Like his father he also at-
tained ili«- rectorship of the academy. He was a fluenl writer ob medical
science, <»n which he published a treatise in five parts, the manuscript of
which is now in the public library a1 Antwerp. ETarman Myndertse Bou-
gaerl came to New Amsterdam in L620, and was probably the first of the
name to locate in America. He was a medical man of long experience and
was appointed official physician to the Infani metropolis. In l<;.".4 Rev.
Everard Bogardus, a son of William Bougaert, and who wrote his name in
Latin Everardus Bougardus, came over to New Amsterdam in company
with Governor-General Wouter Von Twiller. Bogardus was the firsl regu-
lar preacher on Manhattan Esland, where he married, in H>:'»7. Ann, widow
of Roelof Jansen, of Maeslandt, Holland, the lady aboul whom, and whose
estate and Trinity Church, so much has been written and said during the
last thirty years. Dominie Bogardus rented a tobacco plantation on the
island and spenl much time and labor upon it. tobacco being a1 thai time
the principal currency of the country. In time be quarreled with Governor
Kieft because of the latter's cruelty to the New Jersey Indians. Kieft
broughl charges of immorality against him, the investigation of which was
cut short by ih»- superseding of Kieft, who was drowned off the coast of
Wales.
Joosl (Justus) Bougaert, in 1641, was appointed by Queen Christina, of
Sweden, commander of a colony on the easl side of the Delaware River
below Philadelphia. He held that position seine time on an annual salary
of 500 florins.
In M]~)'2 Tennis Gvsberl Bougaert emigrated to New Amsterdam from
Hey Koop, a little hamlet northeast of Leyden. Two years later he settled
at Brooklyn, when he married Sarah Rapelje, a daughter of one of Brook-
lyn's earliesl settlers. He was Mayor of Brooklyn for three years. His
farm fronted on the Walabochl (Wallabout). His descendants scattered
over Long Island and along the Raritan Riv -v in New Jersey.
Matthew J. Bogerl is descended from Jan Louwe Bougaerdt, a cousin of
Gysbert, above named. Jan was cradled and grew to man's estate at
Scl ndewoerdl (a word meaning liner words), a small fortified village
noted for its salmon fisheries, on a branch of the Maas River twenty miles
above Rotterdam and about two miles from Hey Koop, the former home of
his ancle Gysbert. Jan was reared a farmer, bu1 early in life struck out
for himself. Reaching manhood, he married Cornelia Evertse, the daughter
of a well ted.) neighbor, and settled down to farming in his native town.
In common with thousands id' Hollanders he seems to have caughl the
prevalent emigration fever, for, on April LG, 1663, we find him and his
family with many of his neighbors embarking at Amsterdam on the Dutch
Wesl India ship "Spotted Cow," hound for the shores of America. A
month later the stamh crafl touched the what! at New Amsterdam, where
some of the cargo of emigrants remained and others went to Brooklyn,
Staten Island, and All. any. dan. no doubt, desiring to 1m- near his uncle,
repaired to the vicinity «»l Bedford, I.. I., where he boughl a farm, and
remained there until KiT:!. He must have been possessed of some means,
as in the spring of that year he had an opportunity, of which he availed
himself, to take charge of the farm of Dr. John de la Montagne uear Harlem.
On the 1st of May, L671, he removed thither from Bedford, and thence
forward for a period of twenty years was an active participanl in the civil
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ami religious affairs <>f Harlem. Thai he prospered is evidenced by the
fad thai in L679, L691, and 1 To l he boughl lands a1 Hoorns Hook, Spuy ten
Duyvil, ;iikI on Bellega1 Sound. Ele was chosen magistrate of Harlem
in L675 and HiTti. bu1 tailed afterward in the realization of his political
aspirations, which seem to have been strong. In L695 he sold his lands at
Bedford and in I To* ; his farm lands a1 Harlem. The followins sorine
stricken in years, he and his wife removed to New Amsterdam (joining the
Dutch Church there .May l'7. L707), where they died soon after at a ripe
old age.
.Ian l.oiiwc Bougaerdl was a man of firmness and decision of character;
born to c nand. rather than to follow; hasty in his temper, but prone to
justice when cool; a man of his word, who demanded of his neighbor the
exercise of the same quality; shrewd in protecting his own interests, but
honest iii his dealings with Ins neighbor; a man of sound judgment, keen
intelligence, and possessing a large fund of general information; a stern
hut affed ionate and dutiful husband and father, and a devoted Christian, —
all qualities which, under i he i rying circumstances in which he was placed,
lined him for the trials of a frontier lite. They had nine children of the
second generation, to wit: Peter Jansen, Margaretta, Gysbert, Nicholas,
Elizabeth, Catharine, Cornelia, Janneke, and John.
Peter Jansen Bogerl (2d gen.), born at Schoondewoerdt, Holland, in
L656, married in New York, September 29, L686, Sophia, a daughter of Judge
.Matthias Flierboom, of Albany, lie. with his sister Margaretta, and his
brother Gysbert, removed to Tappan, then a pari id' Orange County, X. Y.
Gysberl and Margaretta's husband purchased large tracts of land at
Tappan, on which iln\ settled. Peter Jansen died in New York, but his
children remained at Tappan. These were of the third generation, to wit:
Cornelia, Maria, Elizabeth, Catalyntie, John P., Matthew P., Peter I'.. and
Willeiiiina.
Mai I hew I*. Bogerl (3d gen.), baptized at Hackensack in L702, married,
in L735, Margaretta Tunisens Talman, ami in January, L740, boughl of
Bernardus Van Valen U ~» u acres of woodland south of Closter and ex-
tending from the Hudson River to the Tiena Kill Brook. The westerly
part of this was soon cleared and slocked .\\\A a family mansion erected
on the easl side of the old road leading to Piermont. .Matthew P. Bogert
followed agricultural pursuits until his death in list. His children of
the fourth generation were Peter M., Sophia. < Jornelius, Maria, Matthew M.,
Maria, and Howe.
Matthew M. Bogerl ilth gen.) by will obtained and resided on pari of
i he homestead of his father at Closter until his death. He married, in 1777,
Sarah Bogert, a relative of his. who survived him. He served as a private
in the New Jersey militia in 177U. He was a. farmer and left children of
the fifth generation, to wit: Margaretta.. Sarah. Mai ia. Matthew M., Albert
M., and Sophia.
Matthew M. Bogert (5th gen.), born .November 6, 1779, died March 30,
1871, married .May «.t, L801, Willempie Haring, born March 28, 1783, died
•Inly 25, 1859. Matthew M. (5) was also a farmer and resided on the home-
stead occupied by his ancestors at Closter. His children of the sixth
generation were Sally, -lane, Margaret, Maria, and Jacob M.
•Jacob M. Bogerl (6th gen.), born at Closter. X. J., May 15, 1*]», died
March 18, 1*74, married. November 30, 1842, Maria Haring. born in 1823.
She survives him and resides in Hackensack. He was a farmer by oc-
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cupation. Their children of the seventh generation were Henry Ver Valen
(deceased), Matthew •).. Cornelia, Sarah Jane, Leah, and Huyler.
Matthew J. Bogerl (7th gen.), the subjed of tins sketch, born a1 Clost< v,
X. J., .May l. 1846, was educated in the public schools al Closter and worked
.hi his father's farm until L864, when he became a clerk in the wholesale
tore of Pangborn & Bronner in New York City. Later he became ;i book-
keeper in the hardware house of II. Carter & Bon. May 22, L873, he married
.Miss Mary A. Hopper, daughter of James G. Hopper, of Etna, X. -T. Iu
i v 7i he embarked in the business of wood-turning in Pearl Street, New
York. This lie made ;i success, and will, his partner. Abraham .1. Hopper,
now conducts an extensive business in William Street, New York, with
mills a1 Kingsfield, Me. Mr. Bogerl is an active, energetic, and thoroughly
practical business man. Though an active Republican with the exception
ol being Postmaster at Demarest, X. J., since L892, he has aever held any
really political office. He has for several years been a member of the
School Board of Harrington Township, and for twelve years has been a
Director and Treasurer of the Harrington Building and Loan Association,
which he helped to organize. He is prominent and active in religious
work. He is now an Elder and has during several vears held other offices
in th" Reformed Church at Closter, and for thirteen years has boon Super-
intended of the Sunday School of thai church. His living children of the
eight h general ion arc Jessie (married in 1900 Frederick \Y. Mai tocks, a New
York lawyer), Virgil mow associated with his father in business!, and
Clarence, who has jnst entered Princeton University-
JOHN M. BOGERT is descended from the same common ancestor as
Matthew J. Bogert, whose genealogy has been given. Peter M. Bogert,
of the fourth generation from dan Louwe Bougaerdl and son of Matthew
P. Bogerl (3d gen.), was born at Closter, April L2, 17:Ui. died there L809,
married November 22, 17.~>!t. Rachel Banta, born 1740. He was a plain
fanner and resided near Closter on part of the lands which hi> father had
bought. He also purchased other lands adjoining them. His children of
the fifth generation were Margaret, Mary Ann. Matthew p.. Seba, Sophia.
Samuel, and Margaret. His uncle, Peter Bogert, resided and was one of
the earliest settlers west of the Hackeiisack in Washington Township. He
was born in 17or> and died in L786. He was a man of wealth, a Judge of
the Bergen County Common Pleas, and held main other offices.
Seba Bogerl (5th gen.), born at Closter. March 25, 1771. died April 27,
L84G, married Sarah Blackledge, born May 20, 177<i. died December 20,
L81 1. Seba was a farmer and resided all his days at Closter. His children
of the sixth generation were Peter S., Benjamin S., Matthew S., Samuel S..
Henry S.. Jacob S., Peter S., and Rachel.
Mat i hew S. Bogerl (61 b gen.), born at < Jloster, April 9, 1 7!i!t. died < October
23, LS74, married January 31, L824, Maria Kipp, who died March 2, L833.
He married (2) November L3, L833, Margarel Christie, widow, born October
27, L794, died September is. 1874 Matthew S. Bogerl was a farmer, but
was active in township affairs. His children of the seventh generation
were Seba M. mow a Wall Sire.t broker). Eliza, Sally, Catharine, David
(a soldier in the Union army who died in the service), John M.. and Samuel
M., who served as a Union soldier and died April 5, L871.
John M. Bogerl (7), the subjeel of this sketch, was born at Closter, X. J.,
Augusl <i. L839. lb- was reared on his father's farm, where he imbibed a
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greal liking for horses, which he still entertains. His business is farming
and training horses for speed. Ee married, June 5. L858, Jane Bogert, a
daughter of Johu J. Bogert, born Augusi 26, 1839. Upon his father's death
he succeeded to the ownership of the <>I<1 homestead at Cluster, where he
now resides. They have had seven children of the eighl generation, to wit:
Margarel (died), David, dark. Morton, Emma (died), .Mabel (died), and
Elmer.
David Bogert (Sth gen.) married in 1885 and has issue tour children of
the ninth generation, and Morton h;'s one child.
GARRET A. EARING.— The City of Eoorn is located on a small arm of
t In' Zuyder Zee in 1 loll and. It is now a place of lit tie importance, but from
the beginning of the fifteenth to the seventeenth century it was a city of
considerable magnitude and trade. During the Spanish wars it was suffi
ciently so to be fortified and stubbornly defended by the Spanish under
Admiral De Bossu. It glories in being the birthplace of William Schouten,
who in Hilt) first doubled the soiiihniosi cape of South America, which he
named after his birthplace, Cape Horn. Abel Jansen Tasman, who dis-
covered Van Dieman's Land and New Zeeland, was also a native of Hoorn.
Back from the city the land is low but fertile, adapted to grazing and dairy
purposes. Manufacturing and shipbuilding were, two centuries ago. exten
sively carried on there. It was at Boom thai the great fleet of Admiral He
Ruyter was built. But the most extensive of its varied interests were its
herring fisheries, which were numerous and of great value, employing large
numbers of men.
Among tin- families residing at Hoorn were tin- Earings. The name is
mentioned on the pages of histon .is far buck us L573, and when the Dutch
weie defeated ;ii 'he battle of Diemark, in that year, it is related of one
John Earing, of Eoorn, that he stood with sword and helmet, on a narrow
part of the dyke, and singly by miracles of valor kept back a thousand
Spaniards, until his comrades had made their retreat. Then plunging into
the sea, he escaped unhurt. Not long afterward, in a sea fight, he climbed
on board the great Spanish ship "The Inquisitor" and hauled down her
flaunting colors and was fatally pierced by a bullet. Among his descend-
ants I'ieter Jansen Earing ih is said to have been a native of Newcn-
huysen in Holland, where he was born in HI in. and from whence he removed
to Eoorn. His third son. dan Pietersen Baring (2), one of a large family,
was born at Hoorn. December 26, l»i-"»::. He emigrated to America in 16G0,
and on Whitsuntide in L662 became the second husband of a young widow
named Margaretta Cozine, born in Haarlem, Holland, in 1634. This was
i he first marriage in the Dutch Church, on the farm called the Bowery,
which chinch was situated where now stands St. Mark's Church, corner
of East Eleventh Street and Second Avenue, in New York.
John Pietersen Haring purchased and resided until his death (December
7. Kis.'b on a farm of 100 acres, which extended from the Bowery Lane
westward to and beyond Bedford Street, including both sides of Broadway.
from vVaverly Place to Bleecker Street. His descendants continued for
more than a century to own portions of it. John Pietersen Haring (2) had
children of the third generation Peter, Cozine, Cornelius, Abraham, Brechie,
Vroutie. and Maretie. All of these with their mother. Margaretta Cozine,
removed to Tappan in 1080. The widow had previously (February 2. 1685)
taken a third husband in the person of Daniel de Clark, by whom she left
62 HUDSON AMi BERGEN COUNTIES
no issue. John Pietersen Haring's children all married and settled at or
near Tappan on the Tappan patent, of which I wo of (ho sous were joint pur-
chasers with de Clark, the Blawvelts, Smiths, mid others, in 1686. They
all reared large families. Peter, Cozine, Cornelius, and Abraham settled
within the limits of Harrington Township in Bergen County, N. .1.. where
their descendants are very numerous. The township received its name from
the family in 1775. Garret A. Haring, the subject of this sketch, is de-
scended in the seventh generation from John Pietersen Haring, the first
American ancestor. The line of descent is as follows: (1) John Pietersen
Haring ami Margaretta Cozine, (2) Cozine Johns Haring and Margaretta
Garrets Blawvelt, (3) John Cosines Haring and Aeltje Van Dolsen, (4) Gar-
ret -Johns Haring and Cornelia Lent. (5) Abram Garrets Haring and Eliza
beth Blawvelt, (6) Garrel Abrams Haring ami Maria Smith, ill Abram
Carrots Haring and Charity Johnson, and (8) Garrel Abrams Haring and
Lavina Van Houten.
Rev. Garret Abram Haring, for many years the beloved pastor of the
True Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh, Bergen County, is one of the
oldest ami host known clergymen in Eastern New Jersey. His great-grand-
father, Abram G. Haring, born .May 18, 1755. settled in Tappan, N. J., and
followed agricultural pursuits. By his wife. Elizabeth Blawvelt, also of
Holland descent, he had a son. Garret A. Haring, who was born March '2:1.
L781, and who was the grandfather of tin subject of this sketch. This
Garret A. Haring settled in Ramapo, Rockland County. X. V.. and spent
his active life as a farmer and mil lei-, dying December li'. L869. He married
Maria Smith and had two children: Abram G. and Hetty (Mrs. Albert J.
Terhune). Abram C. Haring was born on the homestead in Rockland
County on the Kith (if -Inly. 1803, and was also a farmer, succeeding his
father in the management and ownership of t he family estate. He married
Charity Johnson, of Ramapo, and had two sons: Rev. Garret A. and John
J. Mr. Haring died March li'. 1864, after a career which equaled in use-
fulness and prominence t ha1 of his honored father, who survived him nearly
six years.
Rev. Garret A. Haring, eldesl son of Abram G. and Charity (Johnson)
Haring, was born on the family homestead in Ramapo, Rockland County,
X. Y.. on the L8th of November, 1829. There he also spent his early life.
acquiring in the distrit t schools the rudiments of an education and follow-
ing various business pursuits. But he was not destined for a mercantile
nor an agricultural life. His lastes were scholarly; Ids inclinations were
for a profession. And with this end in view he took up the st udy of theol
ogy. Having thoroughly tilled himself for the ministry, Mr. Haring re
ceived a call ami was duly ordained pastor of the True Reformed Church
• J Schraalenburgh, Bergen County, and in that capacity has labored ever
since. Under his pastorate, which covers a generation, the church has
grown and prospered until now it is one of the largesl in that locality.
.Mr. Haring is a man of broad scholarly attainments, of noble and gener-
ous impulses, and universally esteemed and respected, not only for his
learning and culture, but also for those affectionate and sympathetic quali-
ties which make him so popular among all denominations. He has always
interested himself in the a Hairs of the community, and is an anient advocate
of every movenieiii and project which lias the welfare of the people at heart.
He is a' Democrat in politics, a friend of education, and a benevolent, patri-
otic, public spirited <it izen.
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Januan 1. L851, Mr. Haring married Miss Lavina Van Houten. They
have three daughters: Melissa, Ellen EL, and Anna Naomi.
ALBERT ZABRISKIE HARING is a lineal descendanl of Jan Pietersen
Haring, the firsl emigranl of the name (see sketch on page 61). Cornelius
Jansen Haring (2) (the third <>l' the children of Jan Pietersen Haring ill and
Margaretta Cozine), born in New Vork in 1672, married, in L693, Catalyntie,
daughter of Judge Matthew Flearboom, of Albany, X. V. Cornelius re-
moved in Tappan, N. Y.. with other members of the family, in L686, and in
1721, when the Tappan patented lands were divided, he received as
his portion a large trad in Harrington Towmship, on both sides of the
Tappan road and extending easl of thai read as far as what is now North-
vale, lie subsequently boughl of Samuel Des Maresl (2) a farm of several
hundred acres near whal is new Haworth, X. -I.. on which he erected his
family mansion and resided until his death. Much id' this farm remained in
the ownership of his descendants up to twenty years ago. His seven chil-
dren of the third generation were John c. Margaret, Sophia, Vroutie,
Daniel <'.. Cornelius < '.. and Jacob < !.
of these seven children, Ljjxmdiu.v < '. Haring (3) married, in 1710. Ken si.'
Blawvelt, and dying lefl eighl children ol the fourth generation: Caroline.
A l»ra ha m J., Cornelius < '.. Margan i. Maria. Elizabeth, John < '.. and Sophia.
A lira ha m Johns Haring i 1 1 married Elizabeth .Ma hie. He boughl and set-
tled on a large farm jusl north ol whal is now called Wes1 Norwood, in
Bergen County. This farm had formerly belonged i<» his grandfather,
Cornelius Haring (2). He left three children: John A., born in March, 175]
(died); Peter A.; and John A. (2), hern April 9, 1702. Of these Peter A.
resided on his father's farm until his death.
Peter Abrams Haring (5), hern a1 Norwood, X. J., April 16, 1754, married
Maria Blawvelt, by whom In- had two children of the sixth generation:
Elizabeth, hern January 20, 177:; (married Abraham A. Blawvelt), aud
David P.
David Peters Haring (6), hem Ma.\ 27, 1775, married Lydia Zabriskie, and
lived all his lifetime on a portion of his grandfather's farm near West
Norwood. l!is children of the seventh generation were Margarei (died),
Lavina (married John Tallman), and Peter l>.
Peter I>. Haring (7) married Betsey Bogert, and had issue of the eighth
generation David P. (married Catharine Bross), Samuel B. (married Letty
Blawvelt), Albert Z., Newton (died), Ann .Maria i married Isaac Onderdonk),
and James (married Jane Van Houten).
Allien Zabriskie Haring, the subjed of this sketch, was born near Nor
wood. X. J., December 21, 1846. He attended the common schools of
Bergen County until fourteen years of age, and then became a clerk in the
grocery business, which occupation he followed for a number of years. In
1873 he entered as a clerk tin- Hudson Countj National Bank of Jersey City,
then under the managemenl of John Armstrong, John Van Vorst, and Hon.
A. A. Hardenburgh. lie has been in the hank for twenty-nine years, has
occupied various positions in it. and for the past twelve years has been its
ravin- Teller.
He married in 1866 Jemima, the daughter of the late Senator Ralph S.
Demarest, and lias two children of the ninth generation: Chauncey and
Minnie C. The latter is married and has issue of the tenth generation,
CTarisse. horn in 1900. He has a summer residence at Demarest, X. J.
64
HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
ELMER WILSON DEMAREST is a din .1 descendant of Jean des
Marest (1), a prominent citizen and resident of Beauchamp in the Province
of Picardy, Prance. There, about L620, was born his son. David des Marest
(2), who, upon reaching manhood, espoused the Protestant faith and lied
to Holland to escape persecution, locating at Middleburgh on the Island
of Walcheron in Zeeland. Hoc on July 24, L643, David married Maria,
a daughter of Fran
q o i s S h i e r, of
Nieppe, a (own in
Hainault. The couple
resided at Middle-
b u i- g h until 1651,
when they removed
10 Manheim on the
Rhine River, in the
lower Palatinate,
then under the pro-
it ction of the Elector
Charles Lewis. At
Manheim, tin- Protes-
tants were already
being threat* nod by
the Catholic princes,
and David des
Marest, with others
of a like religious
faith, determined to
go to America for
safety. Accordingly,
early in the spring of
1663 they journeyed
down the Rhine t"
v - msterdam, w h e r e
they embark* d for
New Amsterdam on
t h o ship •■Spot ted
Cow," reaching tin
latter port on April
11;. 1 (;<;::. \)i-^ Marest
first went with his
wife aad throe sons
io Stati-n Island, where they joined the Huguenot settlement, recently
started. The following year he was elected to represent the settlement
in the provincial assembly. The savages proving troublesome, Demarest
bought and located on lands at New Harlem, then a name applied to the
upper end of .Manhattan Island. Here he prospered, acquired several
town lots, and became prominent in town affairs. In L677, a tax having
been levied on him for the supporl <>r the Dutch Church at Harlem, he
refused to pay it. claiming immunity therefrom because he was neither
:in attendant ma- a communicant of the Dutch Church. The "powers
1 hat i»i-*' sued him for Hie tax. procured judgment, and proceeded by ex-
ecution and levy to collect it. This angered Demarest and he determined
1.. leave Harlem. <>n the 8th of June, 1077. lie purchased from the Hack-
ELMEK W. DEMARES1
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ensack and Tappan Indians a large trad (estimated a1 about 6,000 acres)
of land on the fast hank of the Backensack River, extending northward
from Now Bridge. By subsequent purchase lie added an extensive tract
west of the Backensack, on which lie built two mills. He built his family
residence ;u what is now old Bridge and erected a French Church on the
easi side of the river, a little west of the Schraalenburgh road. The lands
he purchased were claimed by several white persons and by the savages.
Some of these claims w ere not extinguished until after his death. He-
died in New York <'ii\ in LC93, leaving a will by which he devised all
his lands to his two surviving sons. John and Samuel, and to his very nn
nieroiis grandchildren.
David des Mutest. Jr. (3), the second of the i migrant's sons, died in 1691,
before the decease of his father. At the time of his death he was residing
east of the Backensack on part of his father's original patent near
Schraalenburgh. Il< was horn at Manheim in the lower Palatinate in
1652, ami married, April I. 1675, Rachel, daughter of 1'ierre Crasson, a
French refugee. His occupation was that of a farmer, lie had twelve
children: David, Peter, Susanna. Rachel, Jacobus !>.. Samuel, Mary,
Daniel, Benjamin, Jacomina, Lea, and Lydia.
Jacobus Davids ']<â– <â– Marest (4), the tilth of these, baptized at New York
October '■'». 1681, mat tied (1) Lea De Groot and (2) Margaretta Cozine
Baring. Farming was his principal occupation and he held several town
ship offices. He resided in the Schraalenburgh district and left at his
death twelve children, id' whom Garret Jacobse Demarest (5), born at
Schraalenburgh, June 30, L725, died there December 17. lT'.is. married.
in 1747, Jacomina (Tunis) Helms. They resided at Schraalenburgh, where
Garrel pursued tin- calling of a farmer. His issue were fifteen children,
of whom Abraham Garrets Demarest (6) was born at Schraalenburgh
March L5, 17t;7. ami died there March is. i860. He married Margaret
Demarest. a relative, born Decembers, L 761, died May L6, L832. Abraham
was a farmer and left three children: Garret A.. John A., and James A.
John A. Demarest (7), born April 11. L798, died May 23, l^fil. married.
in L818. Jane, daughter of Peter Merseles, horn March .!. L803, died Sep-
tember 22, L888. He purchased and resided, at the lime of his death, on
lands at what is now Eastwood, X. J., where, on his death, he left two
children: Margaretta -I.. wife of Albert X. Ackerman, and Abraham J.
Demarest. lie was a cattle dealer, purchasing cattle in the west and sell-
ing them in New York, under the firm name of Demarest iV Grant, lie also
conducted an importing house of willowware, etc., in New York, and a
country grocery store on the farm at Eastwood.
Abraham .1. Demarest (8), born at Hast wood. X. J., April .".<). 1840, mar-
ried, May 18, L859, Eliza W.. daughter of Jacob G. II. Lozier, of Teaneck,
now Englewood. She was a descendant of Peter Wilson, a Scotchman, who
held the degree of Doctor of Haws, and was for some time a member of
the faculty of Columbia College, New York. Abraham J. followed farm-
ing until his father's death, when he removed to Closter, X. J., where he
conducted a meat market until L892, when ho retired from business and
is now residing at Bayonne, X. -I. Ho has had three children: Nettie
Marcelia. married Horace Roberson, a lawyer, at Bayonne; Edwin S.. died;
and Elmer Wilson, the subject of this sketch.
Elmer Wilson Demarest i«»i was horn at Eastwood, N. J., May L5, 1870.
He was educated in the public schools of Closter, X T . J., the Rutgers Pre-
paratory School. Rutgers College, and Columbia Law College, graduating
66 BTJDSON AM) BERGEN COUNTIES
from tin- Ias1 named institution as ;i Bachelor of Laws in 1802. ITe was
admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in February, L892, and
as a counselor in June, 1805, and i<> practice in the United Stales Courts
in January, 1S07. Since liis admission he lias practiced law in Bayonne
and Jersey City, and lias been successful in litigations, having conducted
a number el' importan! cases. He i^ eounsel for a number of corporations.
He inn only stands high in Ids profession, bu1 is also prominenl as a
Republican leader, having always affiliated with the Republican party.
He lias shown greal activity in lids connection. In L802 lie was a mem-
ber of the Bergen County Republican Executive Committee. He has been
a member and Vi<i President of the Hudson County Republican Coin
niiiiee from L803 to Hie presenl lime. He is also a Trustee and a member
of the Executive Committee of thai organization, in 1807 lie was elected
to the New Jersey House of Assembly, was prominently connected with
the equal taxation measure of that year, and conducted Hie fighl in the
House for Hie Voorhees Judiciary Constitutional amendments. He is
a member of the New Jersey Athletic Club of Bayonne, of the Newark
Bay Boa1 Club of Bayonne, and of the Talma (dub of Jersey City.
()n September !». L806, Mr. Demaresl married Miss Blanche Adeline
Bristow, of Bayonne, ami they have one child. Kenneth I-:. Demaresl (10),
born Au-nst M. L897.
GARRET I. DEMAREST is descended from the same common ancestor
as is Elmer Wilson Demaresl (see sketch on page 'Hi. David des Maresf,
the first American emigran! of the name, had a great-grandson, Garrel
Jacobus des Marest (5), who married Jacomyntie Tunis Helms, and had
fifteen children. One of these. John <i. Demaresl Mil. was born at Schraal-
enburarh, Januarv 23, 1771. and died there November 6, LS34. He married
Catharine Blawvelt, who died May 4, 1849, aged seventy-one years eleven
months. John G. was a farmer and had issue ten children, of whom
John J. Demaresl (7), born at Schraalenburgh, X. J., November 1. 1824,
married Elizabeth, a daughter of Weirt Banta and Margarel Demarest.
John G. Demaresl was a farmer and resided neai the North church at
Schraalenburgh. He left two children. Garrel I. ami Margaret.
Garrel I. Demarest (8), the subjeci of this sketch, was born al Schraalen-
burgh May 25, L828. He is a prominent farmer ami resides in the Borough
of Dunioni on part of the farm originally owned by his French ancestor.
All of his long line of ancestors, both paternal and maternal, have been
honored citizens of Bergen County, active and influential in local affairs
of both church and State.
.Mr. Demaresl was educated in the public schools of Schraalenburgh,
which lie attended until lie reached the age of sixteen. Since thai lime
he has devoted his energies to the condud el tin- old family homestead.
He succeeded his father on the farm, and through his integrity, industry,
and sound judgmenl has achieved marked success. Having been horn and
reared on tin- place he has always occupied and now owns, he has imbibed
the associations and traditions which have descended to him from an hon-
orable ancestry, and from the first has improved ami beautified the home
so dear to him and his family by reason of these ancestral connections.
His patriotism is attested by his service of nine months in the Civil War
as a sergeani in the Twenty second Regimenl New Jersey Volunteers, He
was for one \.;ii- ;i lie-nil n -p of the Town ('oiiiicil. is a nieiulier of the North
GENEALOGICAL 67
Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh, and enjoys the confidence and respeel
of his fellowmen.
Mi. Demaresl married Miss Catherine Demarest, a member of another
branch of the Bergen County Demarests. They have had three daughters
of the ninth generation from their original French ancestor.
DAVID DEMAREST is another of the lineal descendants of David des
Maresl and Ins wife, Maria Sohier, who came to America in L662 (see sketch
on page 64). The emigranl had a great-grandson, David Demarest, who
resided ;ii Schraalenburgh more than ;i hundred years ago. This last named
David had several children, one of whom was dames D. Deiuaresl (6), horn
at Schraalenburgh March 2, 17«i::. died there April 28, 1830. Mis wife
Rachel, born July 28, L768, died April lV,. L828. dames I), was a farmer
residing at Schraalenburgh. One of his several children was Abraham
J. Demarest (7), wlm married Rachel Blawvelt, daughter of David Blaw-
velt. Th<-\ lived at Schraalenburgh. Both of them have been dead several
years. Among their children was David Demarest.
David Demaresl (8), the subjed of this sketch, was horn at Schraal-
enburgh (now I Milium! i February 1. L832. lie owns and resides on pari
of the farm which his French ancestor owned two hundred and twenty
three years ago. This trad has passed from lather to son in an unbroken
line for more than two centuries. In a barn on the premises is a beam
which was tirst used in ,i barn on the same farm in L721. Mr. Demarest
was educated in the public schools of the county. Ai the age of seventeen
he ceased studying hooks ami took charge of the old family homestead,
which he has ever since conducted. During the War of the Rebellion he
served nine months as a private in the Twenty second Regimen! New Jersey
Volunteers, being honorably discharged at the end of his term of enlist-
ment. Mr. Demarest is regarded as one of the besl and most substantial
farmers in Bergen County, where he has speni his entire life, lie is deeply
interested iii public affairs, active and prompl in the supporl of all worthy
objects, prominently identified with the welfare of the community, and
thoroughly alive to the needs of his fellow citizens. As a member of the
North Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh he lias been influential in pro
moting various moral and intellectual movements which have contributed
materially to the general welfare.
In early life Mr. Demaresl married Christina de Kami, who died May 11.
L895. They were the parents of five children — four daughters and a son—
of t he ninth general ion.
^*
EDMUND W. KINGSLAND, President of the Provident Institution for
Savings of Jersey City and one of the ablesl and hest known financiers in
Eastern New Jersey, was horn in Jersey < 'it y on the loth of December, L839,
his parents being Edmund \V. and Sarah A. Kingsland. He is a direct
descendant in the sixth generation from Isaac Kingsland, an Englishman
from the Parish of Christ Church, on the Island of Barbadoes, W. I., and a
nephew of Major Nathaniel Kingsland, of the same place. On July 4, 1008,
one Captain William Sandford, also of Barbadoes, W. 1., purchased of the
Hackensack Indians a tract of land between the Hackonsack and Passaic
Rivers, extending "northward about seven miles." Tin's purchase was
made in the interest of Major Kingsland. On June 1, 1071. the Major con-
veyed the south half of this to Sandford and kept the north half after ex-
tinguish in.- the Indian title. By the Major's will, dated March 14, 1085,
68 Hi DSON AND r.KK«;i:.\ COUNTIES
lif gave one-third <>t' his New Jersej lands — aboul 3,402 acres — to liis
nephew Isaac, [saac's residence was a1 Kingsland Manor near Rutherford
in Bergen County. His descendants are still numerous in both Bergen ;m<l
Hudson Counties. The 1 1 ; 1 1 : i * - of his wife does nol appear.
Edmund \V. Kingsland received his early educational training under the
tutorship of the lat< William Leveretl Dickenson, and subsequently at-
tended the New York Polytechnical School, from which he was graduated
with honor in the class of L856. After completing his studies, which were
designed i<» lii him for the practical affairs of life, he accepted a clerkship in
i he wholesale in ii ion house of Lyman Cook & Co., of New York City, and re
tnained with them until 1 >«",:;. gaining a broad and accurate knowledge of
Imsimss matters as well ;is the entire confidence and resped of his em
plovers.
Iii L863 Mr. Kingsland resigned his position as clerk for Lyman Cook &
Co. ami was made general clerk of the Providenl Institution for Savings
in Jersey City. There he soon gained recognition lot- those abilities which
have ever since characterized his business life and which have long made
him a powerful factoi in local financial circles. He gradually rose by pro
motion and in L888 was elected Secretary and Treasurer, which positions
he tilled with greal energy ami satisfaction until duly i'ii. L896. when he was
elected President. In this capacity he has maintained and in a large mens
ure increased tin- prestige and substantial character of the Provident In-
stitution for Savings, making it one of the soundest and besl known fidu
ciary concerns in Eastern New .Jersey.
Mr. Kingsland is one of the leading citizens of Jersey City, where he has
spent his entire life. He is public spirited, progressive, and enterprising,
thoroughly identified with every project which promises advancement to the
community, and generously encourages those movements that have the wel
fare of the place at heart. He is a member of the [Jnion League Club of
Jersey City, a man of broad and accurate learning, and universally re-
spected ami esteemed. Iii 1^77 he married Miss Justine Bayard Blackwell,
of New York City, and of their five children two are living.
DAVID l>. BLAWVELT. — After the Demaxests and Barings, the Blaw-
velts ate the most numerous of the families that settled the northern part
of Bergen County. < >n the east hank of the River Yssel, in the Province
of Overyssel, in Holland, nestles the by no means sleepy town ol Deventer
-the birthplace of the great Gronovios and the still greater Groote, — a
town of iron foundries and carpet manufactories, famous for its " honey -
cakes," a species of gingerbread, tons of which are annually shipped to
different parts of the kingdom. The Valley of the Yssel, traversed as it is
by numerous tributaries to the river, is exceedingly fertile, and the lands
about Deventer are among the- most productive of any in Holland. Near
Deventer, in L623, was horn of well-to-do Dutch parents one Garret Hen
dricksen, who. as a youth, is said to have been possessed of a restless spirit.
In Hill he tired of agricultural pursuits, left the paternal fold, and found
Ids way to America, landing, as all emigrants in those days did, at New
Amsterdam. Two years later he married Mary, tin- eldest daughter of
I.anihert Moll, a native of Berne, who had emigrated to America a few
years earlier and was then domiciled at Bushwick, L. I. Garret Hen-
dricksen and his wife. Mary Moll, lived and died in New Amsterdam,
having had thirteen children, most of whom adopted 'he surname id' Blaw-
GENEALOGICAL 69
veil (Blue-Field), in memory, it is said, of the blue hills about Deventer.
Of Garret Bendricksen's sons, Hybert, John, Abraham, and Isaac Blawvelt
were destined to transplanl the name in Bergen County, principally in
Harrington and Washington Townships. Elyberl and John (2) joined in
the purchase of the Tappan patent, in 1686, and in L689, with others of
the family, became members of the Tappan settlement. Hybert mar-
ried, April L5, Hi7'.», Wellempie Ariense, a sister of one of his co-patentees,
and located in Harrington Township on the Tappan road, just north of
what was once known as the "Old Jug" tavern. His brother Abraham
iL'i settled on the west side of the road leading along the rim north of
the mill, late of Peter A. Demarest. Isaac and another brother settled
on a large trad on which are now the residences of John R. Herring and
others, lake the Demarests and Harings, though not to such an extent.
the Blawvelts had much to do with the administration of civil, military,
and religious affairs of Bergen County.
David l>. Blawvell is of the sixth generation in direct line from Garret
Hendricksen, the emigrant. He was born at Tappan. Bergen Countv,
November 17, lsi'.i. and is a son of David < '. Blawvell (who was born
February 1". 1 77:'. died January 30, L835, married Maria Demarest, born
April L2, 1770, died .May L3, 1843), a grandson of Cornelius Blawvell (born
January 9, L 744, died January 11. 1832), who also married a Demarest. His
father had six children — four sons and two daughters: one daughter died
in L824, aged nineteen; the other -Inly 6, L887, aged eighty-eight; dames
D. Blawvell died in L891, ai the age of ninety: Cornelius D. died aged
eightv-two: and John D. is still living a1 the age of eightv-four. Educated
in the public schools of his native county and reared amid scenes of ances-
tral associations and agricultural activity, Mr. Blawvell started, at the
early age of sixteen, to learn the trade of cabinet making, which he followed
successfully tor fourteen years, gaining in the business a wide and honor-
able reputation. Hut this was not to be his life work. The influences and
surroundings of his youth drew him back to rural pursuits, and since 1853
he has been actively engaged in farming in Schraalenburgh. When the
War of the Rebellion broke out Mr. Blawvell enlisted in the Union cause,
becoming first sergeant of Company C, 'Twenty-second Regimenl New Jersey
Volunteers. He served nine months, returned with an honorable discharge,
and resumed his labors on the farm.
In public life Mr. Blawvell has rendered valuable service to his town
and fellow citizens. He was surveyor of township roads for a number
of years, one of the Township Committee for three years, a. member of
the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders for four years, Town
Assessor tor six years, and a member of the Town Council for three years.
In each of these capacities he displayed eminent ability, sound judgment,
and greal sagacity. He has been a consistent member of the Dutch Re-
formed Church since April. L860.
Mr. Blawvelt has been married fifty-eight years, his wife's maiden name
being Elizabeth Quackenbush. They have had eight children, seven of
whom — four sons and four daughters — are living. They also have thirty-
four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Mr. Blawvelt inherited
and early developed the sturdy characteristics of his race, and, emulating
his ancestors' worthy lives, has instilled into the minds of his descendants
those qualities of head and heart which have served him so well, and which
have won for him the confidence and respect of the entire community.
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HUDSON AMI BERGEN COUNTIES
GILBERT COLLINS, a Justice of the Supreme Courl of New Jersey,
was horn in Stonington, New London County, Conn.. A.ugus1 -<i, L846, and
is a descendanl of an old English family which originally came from Kent,
England. His great-great-grandparents were Daniel Collins and Alice
Pell. His great-grandfather, Daniel Collins (1732-1819), of Stonington,
served in the Revolutionary War. and according to existing records was
First Lieutenanl in the
First Regimenl Connec
ticul line, formation of
1777. and il is also
known thai lie was in
service from 177.~>. Be
married Anne Potter.
Mis son Cilheii (1789
L865), grandfal her of I lie
present Gilbert Collins,
served several terms in
the Conneci Lcu1 Legisla-
ture. His wife was
Prudence Frink. Judge
Collins's father, Daniel
Prentice Collins (bom in
1813, died in 1862), was a
manufacturer in Ston-
ington throughout his
life; he also had busi-
ness relations in Jersey
City, and on this ac-
count his son event nally
made choice of thai city
as his field of labor and
his home. His mother.
Sarah R., was a descend
ant of the Wells family,
of ( !onnec,1 icut.
Judge Collins was
prepared for Yale Col-
lege, but the death of
his father and the in-
volved state in which
his financial affairs were
left rendered the completion of his course there impracticable. The family,
which consisted of his mother and one sister, removed to Jersey City, X. J.,
in L863, and in lsti.") he there entered the law office of Jonathan Dixon, now
a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He was admitted to the
bar as an attorney in February, L869, and as a counselor in February, \xl'2.
On January 1. L870, he became a partner of .Mr. Dixon and continued in
that relationship until thai gentleman was elevated to the bench in April.
L875. He afterward formed a partnership with Charles L. Corbin. In L88]
William II. Corbin was admitted as a member of the firm, which continued
under the style of Collins & < Sorbin till March s, L897, when Mr. ( 'oil ins was
appointed a Justice of the Supreme Courl of New Jersey, which position In-
st ill holds, having recently been assigned to the Hudson circuit.
GILBERT COLLINS.
(I
GENE LLOGICAL , I
His jury practice was the largesl in his county, and probably was not
exceeded l>.\ thai of any one in the State. He was counsel for the Hudson
County National Bank, of which be was a Director; counsel for the Now
Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company, of which ho was one of the
founders and active promoters; and local counsel for the Lehigh Valley
Railroad < !ompanj .
.lud^e Collins is. in politics, a Republican; he has been nominated by
his party for State Senator (1880) once and lor Congress twice (1S82 and
L888). For two years, from May, L884, to May, lssi;. he served as Mayor
f Jersey City, having been elected by a combination of an independent
organization of citizens with the Republicans. Foi five years previous to
L893 he served as Chairman of the Republican County Committee, when he
declined a re elect ion.
June 2, L870, he was married to Harriel Kingsbury Bush. Of their six
children, a son and two daughters survive. Their son. Walter ( 'oil ins. was
graduated with honors from Williams College, and is now practicing law in
Jersey City. -Indue Collins is .-i member of the Union League and Palma
Clubs of Jersey City, and one of the Board of Managers of the New Jersey
Society of the Sons of the Revolution.
JACOB II. HOPPER.— The Hopper family, ii is said, started in France.
They spelled the name Hoppe, and finally changed it to Hopper. Some of
them went to Holland during times oi religious persecution. It is known
thai Andries (Andrew) Hopper came to America from Amsterdam, Holland,
with a wife (and, perhaps, two or three children), as early as Hi.""):!, and lo-
cated in t he City <>f New Amsterdam. The name of his wile does not a p] tea i
in the New Jersey records. After their arrival the couple had three chil-
dren hern in them: William in L654, Hendrick in L656, and Matthew in
1658.
Of the three lasl named children William (2) married Mynen Paulus and
hud issue three children: Christina, Gertrude, and Belitie (Bridget)., all
horn in New Amsterdam. William's two brothers, Hendrick il'i and
Matthew (2), went to Bergen (Jersey City) in L680. There, on March 14, of
the same year, Hendrick (2) married .Mary Johns Van Blarkum, a daughter
of the American emigranl of thai name, and April 15, L683, Matthew (~i
married Ann Peterse, afterward called Aritje Jorckse. It does not appear
thai Hendrick and Matthew purchased lands in Bergen. They probably
lived on leased lands while there. William (2) went to Hackensack in L686,
where he joined the Hutch Church in March of thai year. His brothers
Hendrick il'i and .Matthew (2) went to Hackensack the following year.
William (2) had a child. Andrew, baptized at Hackensack in March. L686,
shortly after his arrival. Nothing more is said of William (2), and the in-
ference is that he died soon after. Hendrick (2) and Matthew (2), soon after
their arrival, each purchased from Captain John Berry a farm of between
two and three hundred acres a1 Hackensack (partly in the presold village),
and extending from the Hackensack River i<> the Saddle River. Each of
them settled and lmilt on his farm, where they remained until their deaths.
Both were farmers, hut took an active pari in town and church matters.
Mat t hew was a. deacon of the " ( Jhurch on t he ( rreen " in 1705.
Matthew's children (of the third generation) were Andrew, horn in 1684,
at Jersey City, married Elizabeth Bross; Christina, horn in 1686 (married
•John Huysman); Lea. horn in 1695 (married John Vanderhoff, of Albany);
Rachel, horn in 17(»:'» (twice married); and John, horn in 1705 (married
72 HUDSON A.\I> BERGEN COUNTIES
Elizabeth Kipp). Ml excepl Andrew were born a1 tlackensack. Hendriek's
children oi the third generation were Andrew, born in l'isi (married
Abigail A ckerman); John, born in L682 (married Rachel Terhune) : William,
born in l(iS4; Catharine, born in L685 (married Peter Garretse Van Allen,
of Rotterdam, Holland); Garret, born in L696; Gertrude, born in 1<'>!):>
(married Hendrick Alberts Zabriskie) ; and Lea (married Christian Alberts
Zabriskie).
Many of these, with their children, removed !<> Paramus ;in<l scattered
through Saddle River, Ridgewood, and Midland Townships, where their
descendants are to-day numerous. Members of the family have represented
Bergen County in both houses of 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 have become famous .-is
physicians, clergymen, lawyers, mayors of cities, publicists, mechanics,
sailors, soldiers, and agriculturists.
•Jacob II. Hopper, the subjeci of this sketch, is a lineal descendant of
Andrew Hopper, the first emigrant of the name. He is a son of John
Hopper and Elizabeth (Goetchius) Hopper, and was born at Saddle River,
in Bergen County, Augusl <i. L823. Having received a fair common school
education in the schools of his native county, he acquired while quite young
i lie trade of harness-making, which lie followed successfully at Hackensack
until 1880, when he was made superintended of the cemetery in that vil
lage. He still holds this position, having tilled it with great ability and
fidelity during the last twenty years. Mr. Hopper has also been a promi-
nent figure in public affairs. He was Town Collector of Hackensack for
three years and a Justice of the Peace for ten years, and has served as a
member of the Town Committee. For forty-nine years he has been a lead-
ing member and one of the chief supporters of the Hackensack Christian
Reformed Church. The ability, faithfulness, and integrity with which he
has discharged every trust, and the active interest he has taken in the
progress and welfare of his town and county, have won for him great re-
spect and the confidence of all who enjoy his acquaintance. He is public
spirited, enterprising, and patriotic and a liberal, progressive citizen, whose
energies have been directed toward useful and charitable ends.
lie married Lydia Bogert, a descendant of one of the old Bergen County
families, and their children are Ann Elizabeth, John Henry, and Martha
Amelia Hopper.
JOHN II. POST. — Captain Adriaen l'os! tirst came to America from
Harlengen, Holland, about 1653, as agenl or manager of Baron Van der
Cappellan's colony on Staten Island. Upon the destruction of that colony
by I lie savages early in L655, Mr. Tost (led to Bergen (Jersey City), whence,
in September following, he, with his wife, five children, two servants, and
one girl, were taken prisoners by the savages at what is known as the
second massacre at Pavonia. The family escaped by the payment of a
heavy ransom, and Tost was thereupon dispatched by the Bergen colonists
to treal with the sachems of the Hackensack tribes for a release of other
prisoners. After his return from a successful performance of this duty
he settled at Bergen and eventually became one of the most active and
influential members of the struggling colony. Having had some military
experience in Holland, the Bergen colonists appointed him Ensign of the
militia September <i. L665. <>n Mn\ L2, L6G8, he boughl from Governor
Philip Carteret lots Nos. ".."». 55, 117, l(t<>. and Hit. of the Bergen common
GENEALOGICAL 73
lands, containing in all aboul Hi.") acres. Be built and resided on lot 164,
containing fifty-five acres. <>n June in. Ib7">. fie was elected to represent
the Towd el' Bergen in the provincial assembly, where fie acquitted himself
with distinction. On duly 1!>. L672, fie was appointed Prison Keeper for
East Jersey, and was the first person to hold that position. "Captain
Post." by which official title he always went, died at Bergen in February,
li!77. His wife's name is not mentioned. Me left a large family. He was
the ancestor of all the Posts in Bergen and Hudson Counties. He resided
in the town on lot \o. Kil. His children were Adriaen. William. Elias,
Margaretta, Francis, and Gertrude. Adriaen lib became one of the paten
tecs of the Aquackanonck patent. The latter"s two sons, Adriaen and
Abraham (3), came to Bergen County in L735, and married respectively
Bendricke Ackerman and Rachel Bertie. Abraham located on the upper
Saddle River, purchasing lands of Bendrick Vandelinda.
John II. Post, the subject of this sketch, is descended in the seventh
generation from Captain Adriaen Post. His paternal grandfather, Benn
Tost, a farmer, was horn in the western pari of the county, lnit died in Se
can (Mis. where his son, Adriaen Post . the father of John II.. was horn in 1818.
Adriaen Post was a farmer in New Durham and Secaucus, and died in the
latter place March L5, L896, in his seventy-eighth year. His wife. .Mary Van
Giesen, daughter of Garrel Nan Giesen, died December, 31, L891, aged
seventy-two. Ber family was also a very early one in Hudson County.
and like the Posts was of Holland hutch descent. Mr. and Mrs. Adrian
Post had five 'hi Id ren. namely : I lenry. Leah Ann, John 1 1.. Adrian, dr., and
one who died in infancy.
John 11. Tost was born in New Durham, Hudson County, October 7, 1844,
but has spent most of his life on a part ol the old family homestead on tin
Paterson plank road in Secaucus. He received a thorough education, at-
tending the public schools of Secaucus. Union Hill, ami Bergen Point, and
a boarding school at Deckertown, X. d.. and since completing his studies has
devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. Mr. post is one of the best
fanners in Hudson County, and has been eminently successful. He has al-
ways taken a deep interest in public affairs, and. though never aspiring to
office, has served three years as a school trustee and three years as district
clerk. With these exceptions he has declined political or public prefer-
ment. In politics he is a consistent Republican, and in a quiet way has
rendered efficient service to his party. Be is a progressive, patriotic citi-
zen, honored and respected, and enjoys the confidence of the entire com-
munity.
Mr. Post was married April 6, L868, to Fredericka Huber, daughter of
Frederick Huber. of Secaucus. They have four children: Adrian. Christina,
William 1 1., and Walter.
CORNELIUS BURNHAM HARVEY.— The surname Harvey is cor-
rupted from Bervey, and is from an ancient Norman name, Herve or
Bervie. M. do Greville in his Mem. Soc. Ant. Norm.. 1644, observes: " We
sometimes call it Bervot le Hervnrie. As a family designation it appears
in the twelfth century.*' Didot, however, in his Vouvelle lii<></. Universale,
shows the name to have been adopted much earlier, when he speaks of
Bervie, Archbishop of Rheims, who, he says, died A.I). 922, and Polydore
Virgil, in his Chronicle, says - Harvey and Hervey " was Hervicus. "One
of the family," he adds. " came over to England from the Flemish coast in
the time of King Hardicanute and participated in subduing the British."'
74 HUDSON .\\h BERGEN COUNTIES
Lower (English Sur-names) maintains thai in the time of the Conquest
Harvey was Hervie, and thai in Brittany and France Hervieu retains its
I aim it i\ •«' terminal ion Herve. The same writer in liis Patronimica Bi'itannica
remarks: " Osberl de Hervei is stvled in the Register of St. Edniundsbury
the son of Hervey. Prom Hervie spring the Herveys ennobled in England
and Ireland and also (in ;ill probability, from the resemblance of the arms)
the Herves and Hervies of Aberdeenshire and other parts of Scotland."
I'.oili SiuIiIps (Regi-strum sacrum Inglicanum) and the author of Li Veues
Fastt Ecelesia Vnglicana make mention of Herve le Breton, Bishop of
Bangor, in 1092, and Ely in L109, who died A. I >. L131. Didot, in Ids
BiographU Universale, mentions a Hervie who was a noted monk in tin
eleventh century, and also of a Hervie who was abbot of Si. Ghildas dp
Rhins in Brittany in 111'.", and of Hervie, a monk famous as ;i religious
teacher, who died a. i>. L145. This writer also praises the --kill of a
celebrated French writer named Hervie Freerabras, who flourished A. I».
t550; of one Francois Cucq de Hervie, a poel and Knighl of Si. John of
Jerusalem in the sixteenth century; of William Harvey, the discoverer of
the circulation of the blood; of Daniel Hervie, a greal French Theologian,
who died in 1694; and of Gideon Harvey, a ureal English physician, born
A. I>. L625, and died A. I>. t700. Michaud in his i:i<i</!<i/>hi< I'nivcrsali
mentions a monk named Hervie as having acquired greal oratorical fame
and ho tells something of N T oel Hervey, or Hervie, who was general of the
Order of Preachers and Philosophers and died A. I). 1323. The Rotuli
Hundredorum (of Edward l.i names Hemes as having become the holders
of lands in England A. I>. li'Tii. and by Domes Day />'«»/,• Hervies are domi
riled in lielis. Suffolk, and Bucks. Oridge, in his Citizens and Rulers <â–
London, makes honorable mention of Sit- Walter Harvey, High Sheriff of
London A. I >. 1268 and Lord Mayor of thai city A. I). il'Tl': of Sir dames
Harvey, High Sheriff of London A. I). 1573 and Lord Mayor of the same
eii\ a'. I>. L581 ; and of sir Sebastian Harvey, Sheriff of London A. I>. L609
and Lord Mayor A. I>. L616. Cooper in his Ithenat Cantaorigiensis makes
mile of William Harvey, a famous divine in London in L525, and of one
Roberl Harvey, another equally noted preacher there in L570.
Camden comments on several prominenl Herveys and Hervies to wit:
••The ureal gate of i he church-yard of St. Edmonds was constructed by
ller\e\ the Sociisl in I he lime of Aiiselni 7lh. AldioU of Si. Ldnionds in the
eleventh cenl ury." Again he says: •• William de Hervie was king's a1 torney
in .lime. iiT'.i. ami pleaded a celebrated land case in London in thai year.''
lie extols the bravery id' Sir Nicholas Harvey and other aobles in the
battle of Tewkesberry in 1471. lie briefly alludes to John Harvey, the
boatman ai < 'a la is. France, in l-*'» IT: and further says: " Some of the Harveys
were merchanl adventurers at Lyme, England, in Queen Elizabeth's time.
Richard Harvey gave the pulpil a1 Lyme Church in 1613 with an inscription
on ii • Faith is by hearing.'' Rose in his Biographical I >i<-H<ui<irn stales
i ha i Richard Harvej was famous as a writer, astrologer, and antiquarian in
the sixteenth century, and thai another almosl equally noted astrologer in
London was John Harvey in the seventeenth century. Watts in his
Bibliothea Britannica mentions one Henry Ham \ as an eminent preacher
and master in chancery and John Harvey as a -real writer, who died
A. I>. L592. Chalmers in his (it mini Biographical Dictionary uotes
Gabriel Harvey, a greal English lawyer and poet, Lorn A. I ».
L546, died A. I >. 1630, and Lord John Harvey, of [cksworth, a political
writer and versifier A. I >. 1696; while Foss in his Judges of England highly
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commends the wisdom and justice of Sir Francis Harvey. Prom Collection
Tnj>. Gen. ii appears thai a Hervie was abbot of Hingham County, Salop,
A D. L236-37; thai one Thomas de Harvye was clerk of St. Nicholas Priory
at Exeter in the third year of Edward III.; that Goldstan Harvey was a
truanl at Beauchamps A. 1>. L222; that Walter Harvey and his son wen
tenants at Drayton in L222; and there were one Godeman Hervie and one
Ulrica Hervie at Thorp at the same time. At St. Leonard's Parish, Aston
Clinton. Bucks County, England, is the will of one Sylvester Baldwin
wherein the testator leaves all Ids property to Henry and Sylvester Harvye
and to the six children of Preamor Harvye A. 1). L564. Preamor Harvye
married Baldwin's daughter Avelyne. This marriage license was made
at the registry of the Bishop of London. She died in L585 and Harvey
married (2) and died June L5, L621. Walker in Ids Independency says
Adam Harvey, a silk merchant, was made a Colonel by Cromwell, and go1
the Bishop of London's house and Manor of " Pulham." Clarendon in his
Rebellion says this man was "a decayed silk man." and Buckle in his
History of Civilization refers t<> the same person.
The Harveys, two centuries after the Norman Conquest, had become
numerous in Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire. Kent, Suffolk, .Middlesex, Hert-
fordshire, ami Norfolkshire; at Beachamwell in Norfolkshire were John
Harvey, Ids son Robert, and his grandson Robert; ai Northwald Thomas
I lar\ c\ ; and at Norwich John Harvey, twice Lord Mayor of that city.
Roberl Harvey, a descendant of one of t host Norfolkshire Harveys, had
a son Robert, who was a man of note, possessing a considerable fortune,
which his eldesl son. under the laws of primogeniture, inherited to the ex-
clusion of his brothers and sisters. This eldest son had two brothers,
Samuel ami Roberl Harvey, who emigrated to America about 17.~>H. and
located in New York City, whence, after a brief stay, they went to Shrews-
bury, Monmouth County, N. I. In May. L763, they purchased a trad of 1 Til
acres in what was then Shrewsbury Township in Monmouth County. This
tract lay south id' what is now Ocean Grove. Robert's firsl wife, who came
over from England with him. died in 17<iL' and in January, L764, he married
Hannah While, who survived him. He was a farmer and iron smelter. His
children of the second generation were Jacob, Stephen. Thomas. Peter, and
Samuel, besides daughters.
Of these, Thomas Harvey (2), born in M on month < !ounty, X. J., Noam mber
IT. IT.")."., married there, January lit. 177."). Elizabeth Sutton, born then
December LO, L758. Thomas was a farmer and resided there oil a farm of
115 acres, near what is now Belmar. He died December 11, 1811, and his
wife survived until April 6, l^.'Ui. Their children of The third generation
were L\dia. Abigail. Nathan, Asher, Reuben, John, Elizabeth, charity.
Jesse, and Sarah.
Of these eleven children Reuben Harvei (3) was horn at Shrewsbury,
X. J., May 12, 1782, died at Enfield, X. V.. June 23, 1866. married, in 1806,
Lydia Bennett, born in Monmouth Countv, X. J.. Januarv !». 17S4. died at
Enfield, X Y.. May 23, 1862.
In L806 i he "Genesee Country" began to open up and emigrants, par-
ticularly from New Jersey, began To pour into the - Empire Stale.** All
of Thomas Harvey's sens caughl the emigration fever, and loading their
families and their household effects upon canvas-covered wagons or carls,
drawn by ox teams, they made a journey of more than 300 miles, occupying
several weeks. Their route lay much of the way through an unbroken wil-
derness, through which roads had to be cut as thev went. Thev subsisted
76 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
on what they could find en route, ;in<l slept in their wagons. In time they
readied n poinl half way between the Cayuga and Seneca Lakes in Tomp-
kins County, where they located <>n various tracts of wildland. These
tracts, which they purchased from the original grantees of the Stale, were
densely weeded, but exceedingly fertile. Reuben Harvey, with his wife
Lydia, was in this " caravan."' He settled on a " half section " of rich and
heavily timbered land near what is now Enfield renter, aboul eighl miles
west of Ithaca, and with the aid of his sons cleared and lei n-ed ;i large farm.
His nearest neighbor was then about five miles, and the surrounding forests
rang with the howls of wild beasts. Bears and wolves played havoc with
the | »i lis. poultry, and lambs. In the course of time his farm was denied
and became one of the finesl in the county. Alter his boys grew up he,
lor several years, followed droving, buying up sheep and cattle, principally
in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and driving them to New York City to a ready
market. He accumulated wealth and was greatly respected by his ueigh-
bors, who always gave him the prefix of "Uncle." His children of the
fourth generation were Seneca. Charlotte, Charles, Joel B., Eleazer 15. .
A slier, Cornelia, Mary A.. Elizabeth, and Reuben.
Of these Joel 15. i4) was born at Enfield Center, N. Y.. November 21, L813,
died at Howell, X. •!.. August 11. 1880, married Mi Lydia A. Wood; (2)
Susan Arzilla Buck; and (3) Elizabeth B. Hagerman. Joel 15. engaged in
farming at Enfield, X. Y.. until the winter of ls."iti, when he removed to
Howell, Monmouth County, N. J., where he continued agricultural pursuits
until his death. He was a respected citizen and a member of the Met hodist
Episcopal Church at Jerseyville, X. J., which he helped to organize. His
children of the fifth generation were Cornelius Burnham, Lucretia M.,
Huldah 15.. Samuel II.. -Mary E., Charles \\\, VVinfield S.. Euphemia II..
Joseph II. and Joel B. (twins), and Ida S.
Cornelius Burnham Harvey (5), the subject of this sketch, is tin- eldest of
these. He was born in Enfield Center, Tompkins County, X. Y., October
20, 1839, and married. March 4. L873, Mary P., daughter of Peter J. and
Sarah (Zabriskie) White, of Closter, Bergen County. He received the char
acteristic discipline of hard work on the farm throughoul the summer, with
attendance at the district schools in the winter. He was '11111111 ions, and
between 1855 and is.")!) every moment of leisure was devoted to study and
reading. Having passed the requisite examination, in L859 he received a
license in leach school from the School Board of Monmouth County. After
teaching for two terms in thai county he attended school for some lime in
New York City.
Moved by a war sermon preached by Henry Ward Beecher in Brooklyn,
early in the summer of L862 he enlisted as a private in Company I >. Four
leenili New Jersey Volunteers, and was in camp on the Monmouth battle
ground at Freehold, X. .1. Having been mustered into service in August,
1862, the regimenl was sent to Monocacy. Md., and did its fust campaign-
ing in West Virginia and Maryland. After the battle of Gettysburg ii was
attached to the Third Corps of Hie Army of the Potomac, under the com
tnand of General Sickles, a ml subsequently was attached to the Sixth Corps,
under the command of General Sedgwick and Intel- of General II. G.
Wright. Mr. Harvey served for three years, until the close of the war. lie
became one of the uon-eommissioned officers on the regimental stall', be
coming Chief Musician of the regiment.
At i he dose of t he w;ir he resumed teaching, in Bergen County, following
iliis profession for three years. In the fall of L868 he began the study of
GENEALOGICAL 77
law in the office in Jersey City of the late Hon. Roberl Gilchrist, then At-
torney-General of New Jersey, ami was admitted to practice in 1873, and as
counselor in L876, and for a time was associated with Mr. < iilchrist in pro-
fessional practice.
He thus became employed in the arduous historico-legal work of preparing
the rase for New Jersey in the famous jurisdiction and boundary suit be-
tween the State of Delaware and the State of New Jersey, begun in L872,
and not vet settled. It was essential in this case to locate and identify
the original land-grants in certain sections of New Jersey, and in this work
Mr. Harvey and others were engaged. The results of this research can be
seen by anyone fortunate enough to examine the large octavo volume
privately printed ;it Trenton in 1ST.", for the lawyers in the case, and en-
titled ••The State of the Question of Jurisdiction and EJoundary between
New Jersey and Delaware, A. D. 1ST::." To achieve accuracy in this, every
conceivable source of information was drawn upon, including the State
records .it Trenton, the records of the early Proprietors at Perth Amboy,
those ,n Albany. tog< ther with local records and original deeds, and what-
ever of use could he found in the State libraries of New Jersey, Delaware.
New York, and Pennsylvania.
While engaged in researches in this case Mr. Harvey began to take notes
with reference to the original land-grants of Bergen County, X. .1. This
labor of lov< — lot- such it necessarily is — has been prosecuted to the present
time, lie has had the record offices of New Jersey and other Stales
ransacked tor every scrap ol information ascertainable respecting the early
hi in I grants and transfers in Bergen County, has uncart lied numerous deeds
thai were never recorded, ami has engaged in the arduous labor of identify-
ing boundaries and preparing maps. The use. in the original surveys, ol' the
old manner's compass, which was not perfectly accurate, renders this work
el' identification one of the most delicate tasks imaginable. .Mr. Harvey
has also collected ami arranged in alphabetical arrangement all the mar
riaee records tor Bergen Countv known to be in record offices. In another
series of manuscript volumes he has, in alphabetical order, the inscriptions
from the tombstones in .ill the graveyards in Bergen County, N. J., and
Rockland County, N. Y.. with the single exception of that at Nyack. The
labor and expense involved in acquiring these collections would be quite
incredible to one unfamiliar with the requirements of such work. lie also
has ;i set of large manuscript volumes containing miscellaneous historical
and genealogical collections, never before used in historical works,
and which would till many printed volumes. Prom these collections,
together with all the more ordinary sources of historical information,
he is preparing a work upon the original families and land-grants in Bergen
County, which will be more exhaustive and accurate, probably, than any
thing of the kind ever attempted for a similar section of territory by his-
torical workers in this country. He has also compiled, and in 1889 pub
lished, a genealogical volume on the Origin, History, ami Genealogy of tin
Unci- Family, and has compiled the Origin and Genealogy of the Harvey
Family, not yet published.
On his mother's side Mr. Harvey is descended from Emanuel Buck, who
came from England in L634, and settled at Wethersfield, Conn. His great-
grandmother was Elizabeth Sherman, wife of James Buck, a Revolutionary
soldier, and a sister of Roger Sherman, a Signer of the Declaration of
Independence. His paternal grandmother was a descendant of Wilhelmus
Burnett, who emigrated to New York from Holland in 1660. Mrs. Harvey
78 HUDSON AMi BERGEN COUNTIES
was a studenl a1 Swarthmore College, Pa. On the paternal side she is de-
scended from Jonas White, who emigrated to America from Avon, Somer-
setshire, England, in L81 I. and became a farmer ;il " The Flatts " in Bergen
County. On her maternal side she is descended from Albert Zabriskie, the
Polander, whose family lias been traced in these pages.
.Mr. Harvey's children are Augustus Hardenburgh Harvey , born in 1880,
qow an accountant with the Mutual Life insurance Company' in New York,
and Arzilla B., born in 1.886, now ai school.
^Ir. Harvey is a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, of the
Englewood Council, Royal Arcanum, of Guilliam \'an Houten Post, No. :'>.
Grand Army of the Republic, of Jersey City, and of several oilier organi-
/.:'. I ions.
ISAAC ROM VINE, of Jersey City, is a lineal descendant of ill Klaas
Jansen Romeyn, who came from Holland to America in 1653 and eventually
sell led iii Hackensack, X. J., where his son (2) Alberi was horn in L680, and
where the iai ter's son (3) Nicholaas was horn in I >eeember, 1711. The nexl
in descent, i-li \lherl Romein, son of Nicholaas, was born in Schraalen-
burgh, N. J., February 11.1 752, and had a son (5) Roelef A., whose birth oc-
curred duly _'l. 1774. John R. Romine (6), son of Roelef A. Romein, was
horn in Bergen County, X. J., May 18, 1806, and married Ann. daughter of
John Zabriskie, of old Bergen mow Hudson) County. They were the
parents of Isaac Romaine, the subject of this sketch, who was born in
Bergen Township, Hudson County, N. J., on the 4th of May, 1&4.0. These
worthy ancestors not only took a lively interest in public and business
affairs, but transmitted to their numerous descendants in general and Mr.
Romaine in particular their sturdy Dutch characteristics and habits of
thrift, and left behind them careers which illumine the pages of history and
urace the annals of their respective communities.
Mr. Romaine attended the Columbia Distriel School until 1 s ~>l\ prepared
for college at a private school in the Township of Bergen, Hudson County,
and was graduated from Rutgers College in 1S59. Having studied law
with Hon. A. ( ). Zabriskie, subsequently Chancellor of the Stale of New
Jersey, he was admitted to the bar as an attorney in November, 1862, and as
a. counselor in November, 1865, and since i he spring of 1863 has practiced in
Jersey City, lie was Corporation Counsel of the City of Bergen from 1865
to 1867, and. becoming an Alderman in May. 1869, was President of the
Board of Alderman in 1869 and 1870, immediately preceding the consolida
i ion of Bergen ami Jersey « !ity. from 1880 to 1885 he was a member of t he
Board of Education of Jersey City. Tn 1883 he was appointed a member of
the Board of Finance and Taxation, bui was not seated on account of legal
complications until 1.885. In 1884 he was elected to the New Jersey As-
sembly, in which body he served on the Committees on Claims and Revo-
lutionary Pensions and Stationery, as well as on the Joinl Committee on
Passed Bills.
Throughout his career Mr. Romaine has been a stanch and active Re-
publican. He is a master and examiner and a special master in chancery
for New Jersey. Prior to ihe expiration of thai office by legal limitation,
duly 1, ls'.»7. he was ;i Commissioner of the Circuil Couri of the United
States for the Distriel of New Jersey. At the presenl time he is a Commis-
sioner of the District Courl of the United States for the Distrid of New
Jersey. He has been President of the Star Mutual Building and Loan As
GENEALOGICAL 7!)
soeiation of Jersey City since L886, having been one of iis founders and iis
first Vice President in L885. He is a member of the I loll and Society of New
York Crh and was its Vice-President from Hudson County, X. J., in lsiiT
;iihI L898. He is also a member of the Jersey City, Carteret, and Union
League Clubs of Jersey City, and of other important organizations.
December l".». L863, he was married to Miss Annie A., daughter of John \Y.
Morton, of Jersey City, she died February 1. L895.
VVHEELOCK HENDEE PARMLY, D.D., for forty years the beloved
pastor of the First Baptisl Church of Jersey City, X. J., \\:>s born in Brain
Vt., July 27, 1816, Ids parents being Randolph Parmly and Elizabeth
B. Murray, the former of English and die latter of Scotch descent. He
came of good New England stock. 1 1 is father was I he lirsi male child horn
in i he village of Randolph, Vi .. i he dale of his birth being January 15, 1 783,
and ai the request of the selectmen his parents, Jahial Parmly and Eunice
Hendee, named him Randolph, after the town. His mother, a niece of
Eleazer Wheelock, the founder and first President of Dartmouth College,
was born in Chester, X. II.. .May 19, 1 782, and was the daughter of Robert
Murray and Jane Ramsey. In L795 her parents moved into the State of
N'etnioni. and there both families became prominent in all public and
private a ffairs.
When four years of age Wheelock II. Parmly removed with the family
to Hancock and three years later to Middlebury. Vi.. whence they came,
seven years afterward, to New Jersey, locating at Shrewsbury, Monmouth
County. In l v :' v . after a residence of eight years in that town, they moved
to New York City.
Dr. Parmly's parents did all in their power in give him a good earlv
training, but their means were limited and he was dependent in a greal
measure upon his own efforts for his education. While residing in
Shrewsbury he prepared himself for college by teaching and performing
various other kinds of work, and at a very early age became ;i great Bible
reader, a trait which characterized his entire life. His parents, though
not members of any church, attended with their children the Episcopal
services, but young Parmly, convinced of the truth of the Baptist prin
ciples. adopted the faith and practice of that denomination, and amid con
siderable opposition, from both his family and the Episcopalian clergy, was
baptized August •">. L834, in the Shrewsbury River. And connecting himself
with Hie Baptist Church ;it Middletown, X. J. — the nearest society of that
faith to his home, — he was faithful in his attendance on worship, active in
ali departments of church work, and influential among both old and young.
In 1838 Dr. Parmly entered Columbia College in New York City and was
graduated from that institution in 1842. standing high in ids (lass and
receiving many tokens of excellence in scholarship during Ids collegiate
course. About the time he entered college he united with Hie old Amity
Street Baptisl Church in New York, of which Rev. Dr. William R. Williams
was pastor. He also formed a close friendship with Rev. Dr. Spencer II.
Cone, of Xew Fork City, which, with that of Dr. Williams, lasted until his
death. It was undoubtedly from these eminent clergymen and great
teachers that he learned many of the principles which made him so success-
fid during his career of half a century in the ministry.
< >n leaving college Dr. Parmly was confronted with the problem of de-
termining his vocation in life — a problem which all young men must
solve. He had been urged to enter the ministry bv nianv friends who
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f
m
thoughl him peculiarly fitted for thai profession; others assured him of
success in ;i mercantile career, while others still tempted him with flatter-
ing offers in various branches <>t' business; bui the guiding voice of nature
bade him preach the gospel, a labor i<> which his ••mind rather inclines."
On Augusl 1". L842, at the requesl of Dr. Williams, he preached to the peo-
ple of the Amity Streel Church, and immediately afterward made this entry
in his diary: " The subject of the ministry has occupied my mind for a long
time. It is now settled, and I hope for good."
Dr. Parmly was unanimously voted a " license to preach the gospel " by
the Amity Streel Church
on the L6th of July, 1844,
and in the following
nnnii h | August) w a s
graduated from Madi-
son Theological Semina-
ry, where lie had pur-
sued a thorough course
of study. On August •'>.
1867, Madison Univer-
sity conferred upon him
the honorary Title of
Doctor of Divinity.
Soon after graduation
he received a call To the
pastorate of the Harlem
Baptist Church of New
York City, which he was
obliged to refuse on ac-
count of impaired health
and a serious affliction
of the eyes that had de-
\ eloped d u r i n g his
course in the seminary.
A three Weeks" sea voy-
age brought him to New
( Orleans, where he began
to preach, and while
there he accepted the as-
sistant pastorate of the
Baptist Church at Clin-
ton, La., which he filled
must acceptably for two
vears, declining during
that period three calls
to become paster of churches in the North. He developed a strong friend-
ship for the negro, frequently visited them in their cabins, took a fearless
stand on the slavery question as an advocate of human rights, and after-
ward sheltered many a fugitive slave. During his residence in The South
he also acquired that habil of great hospitality which always characterized
his home.
The illness of his mother, however, compelled him to return at the end
of two years to New York <"ity. and on November 1~>. l s 47. he accepted a
call to the Baptist Church at Shelburne Falls, .Mass.. where he remained
Win > LOCK II. I'AKMI.V. D.I).
GENEALOGICAL SI
two years, and resigned, the winter climate of the Berkshire hills being too
hard for his constitution. Shortly after be accepted ihis pastorate he mar-
ried Katharine Dunbar, daughter of Rev. Duncan Dunbar, of the Mac-
dougal Streel Baptisl Church, New York City, and a lady "lovely in
character, strong in faith, wise in judgment, remarkable for patience,
prayerful, and zealous in every good work." Upon her death on July 10,
L877, he wrote in his diary: " The brightest light of my home has gone out,"
while another expressed these words and sentiments: -she added to the
sum of human iov, and were everyone to whom she performed some [ovine
service to bring a blossom to her grave, she would sleep to-night beneath a
wilderness oi flowers."
Dr. Parmly assumed the duties of pastor of the Baptist Church at Bur
lington, N. J., in .May. L850, and remained there nearly five years, during
which time the " church grew mightily."
On the 1st of September, LS54, at the age of thirty-eight, he entered upon
his labors .is pastoi of the First Baptist ('lunch of Jersey City, and ably,
honorably, and satisfactorily idled that pastorate until his death, August 1,
ism. — a period of fortj years, lacking one month. When he came to
Jersey City there was but one church of the Baptist faith in the place, and
that was mad" up <>\' the scatt< red membership of churches which had been
formed and which had proved too weak to continue their organizations.
The chinch was then known as the Union Baptist ('lunch and had 206
members. Three other rigorous Baptisl churches now exist in the city,
the beginnings of which came largely from the old church during Dr.
Parmly's pastorate. The mother church changed its name on the establish-
ment of the other churches to the First Baptist Church of Jersev City, and
now has a membership of nearly four hundred.
Dr. I'ainilx labored hard with great success, baptizing in the winter of
lsi;.~i aim ver one hundred converts. In that year he spenl four months
in Europe, and, returning with new energy, entered into his work with re-
doubled force, giving also a vast amount of his time to the general inter-
ests of the city, the suite, and the Nation. He was especially active in the
establishment of the denominational school now known as Peddie Institute
at Hightstown, X. J., contributing years of labor and large sums of money
for t hat purpose.
As a pastor Dr. Parmly certainly excelled. His people were strongly at-
tached to him, and under no circumstances would they allow him to go
in response to the successive calls which he received from other societies.
He was recognized as t he man for t he place. < >nce each year he endeavored
to visit personally every family in his congregation, and his calls upon those
who were sick were frequent. Believing in this method as he did, it
certainly added largely to his success in pastoral relations. He preached,
while in Jersey City, five thousand sermons, made addresses on public oc-
casions to an equal number, attended 844 funerals, performed L,425 mar-
riages, raised nearly $300,000 for the church and $50,000 for benevolent
purposes, received into the church over 1,000 members, and baptized more
than 1.:: >thers.
He remained as the faithful servant of that church until September. 1887,
when, at the age of seventy-one, he was unable to bear longer the burden of
the pastorate alone, and at his request the church called to his aid an assist-
ant pastor Two years later he again asked to be relieved, and by unani-
mous vote of the chinch was made its Pastor Emeritus, a position he held
until his death, which occurred August 1, 1894. He was survived by four
82 iiudsox and p,i:i;<;i:.\ cottnties
children: Duncan D. Parmly, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Thompson, Randolph
Parmly, and Christine I>. Parmly. < >ih* son. Walter, died in his youth.
His only installation as pastor of the church in Jersey City was the
singing by the congregation of Montgomery's beautiful hymn, of which the
following is a pari :
" We bid thee welcome in the name
Of Jesus, our Exalted Head;
Conic as a servant, so He came,
And we receive thee in His stead.
" Conic as a messenger of peace,
Filled with His spirit, fired with love!
Live to behold our large increase,
And die to meet us all above."'
Dr. Parmly was especially interested in the cause of Christian education,
and gave himself unreservedly to the upbuilding of Peddie Institute and
the New Jersey Baptist Education Society, becoming a member of the
latter in 1852, serving it for more than forty years as a member of its Board
of Managers, for seven years as President, and then being elected its
Honorary President, an office specially created for him. From almost the
Hist he was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Peddie Institute and
for many years one of its Education Committee. In every capacity he was
a good man, a true Christian, a benefactor, anchored in the Baptisi faith
by an intense st inly of the Scriptures, and loyal to all the trusts confided to
his care. No man had a more honored leadership in Ins church in the
State, and none was more beloved or more universally esteemed.
DUNCAN DUNBAE PARMLY, the oldest son of Rev. Wheelock II.
Parmly. was horn in Shelburne Falls. .Mass.. .May 25, 1849, and until re-
cently resided in Jersey City. lie Avas graduated from Mount Washing-
ton Collegiate Institute of New York City and at an early age entered
the office of Henry G. Marquand, banker, of New York City. Later he was
connected with the St. Louis, Iron .Mountain and Southern Railroad — now
a pari of the Missouri Pacific System, — and was one of the founders and for
many years file senior partner in the firm of Marquand & Parmly, bankers,
of New York. Owing to ill health he was compelled to give up his active
business and in L893 became the President of the Phenix National Rank ol
New York < Jity, and has since acted as the head of thai financial institution.
For i he past eighl years he has been a resident of the State of New Jersey
with his hone- at Middletown in Monmouth County.
RANDOLPH PARMLY, of New York and Jersey City, was born April 2,
L854, at Burlington, N. J., ami is the son of Rev. Wheelock II. Parmly and
Katharine (Dunbar) Parmly. He was educated at Hasbrouek Institute in
Jersey Cit.v and at the University of the city of New York, from which he
was graduated in L875. Afterward he continued his course of study in the
( 'oluniltia La w School.
Mr. Parmly was admitted to the bar of the State of New .Jersey in .June,
L878, and lias continuously practiced from that time to the present. He
is also a member of the New York bar. Having made a specialty of cor-
poration law. he has spent a good portion of his time with certain cor-
porations for whom he is counsel in t he City of New York. He is a member
of the Association ol the Bar of Jersey City and of New York, and of the
Lawyers' club and the University club of New York Citv.
GENEALOGICAL 83
.IOI1N •!. VOORHEES- Steven Coerts (or Koerts, as he wrote it), the
common ancestor of the Voorhees family in Bergen :ui<1 Hudson Counties,
emigrated to this country in April, L660, coming over on the ship " Spotted
Cow." with his wife and seven children. They came from Ruinen, in the
Province of Drenthe, Holland, and from in fronl of the little hamlel of
Hees, Dear thai locality. Hence the name was at first Van Voorhees,
•• Van " meaning "from," " Voor," meaning "near," and "Hees" (the
hamlet name) "from near" or, â– â– oxer from Hees." Steven was not the
tiisi of the family to emigrate. In February, L659, Harman Koerts had
preceded him on the shi|i " Faith," with his wife and five children. Steven
soi i led ai Flatlands, L. I., where many other Dutch emigrants had already
located. He musl have been born aboui L600. Who his firsl wife was does
not appear, bu1 she died in aboui L675, and he married (2), in 11177, Well
empie Roeloffse Leubering. IN' died aboui February, L684. lie bought,
November 29, LG60, n\' Cornelis Dircksen Hoogland, eighteen acres of corn
land, fourteen acres of woodland, twenty acres of plainland, ami ten acres
of sail meadow -in all sixty-two acres — for $3,000; and also the house
and lot lying in the village of Amersfoort, with the brewery and all the
brewing apparatus, kettle-house, and casks, with the appurtenances, which
shows thai he musl have been a brewer as well as a fanner, lie was
assessed ai Flatlands in L675, and was manager of taxes there in L683. His
name appears as one of the patentees there in 1664 and K»<»7. Me died
aboui February L6, L684. His children were Hendricke, Mergen, Coert,
Lucas, John, Albert, Aeltje, lannetje, Hendricke (2), and Abraham. Mis
son. \lheri Stevens Voorhees, and his wife. Jelletie Rynieres Wisselpen-
aick, wein i«i Hackensack in L686, joined the Dutch church there, and
boughl an extensive trad of land from .Major John Berry between the
Hackensack and Saddle Rivers.
John -I. Voorhees is a lineal descendant el the sixth generation of
Steven Coerts Van Voorhees, the emigrant. His father. Peter Voorhees,
was horn !in the "hi farm ai Flatlands, L. I., where Steven firsl settled in
1660.
Mr. Voorhees was educated in the public schools of New Utrecht, 1.. I.,
and in L863 accepted a clerkship in a. country store, where he remained
five years. After filling similar positions he obtained a position as assist-
ant bookkeeper for the New Jersey Car Spring and Rubber Company, and
ai the end of one year was promoted to head bookkeeper. Not long afterward
he was made Secretary of the company and held thai position until L885,
when he was elected Treasurer of the corporation. In lsss he was made
Genera] Manager, and a1 the present time is Presidenl of the Voorhees
Kul iher Manufacturing Company, of Jersey City, which is one of the largest
and most successful concerns of I he kind in the country, having an exten-
sive business and employing a large number of hands.
In 1885 Mr. Voorhees was appointed a member of the Board of Educa-
tion of Jersey City and served for three terms, during five successive years
of which he was President of the hoard, being annually re-elected without
opposition. As a member of the Condemnation Commission on the County
Roads in L892 he rendered most efficient services to the community at large,
and displayed that eminent ability and superior judgment which have
characterized his entire business career, lie is a member of The Hoard of
Directors and a member of the Jersey City Board of Trade, of which he
was President in 1892. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of
the Commercial Trust Company of New Jersey, of the Board of Trustees
84 HTJDSOM AMI BERGEN COUNTIES
of the Free Public Library of Jersey City, and of the Palma Club, the
Carterel Club, and the Holland Society of New Fork City.
Mr. Voorhees was married October 14, 1S74. to Annie M. Collier, of
Brooklyn, N. Y. They have had three children, and reside at ."»" Duncan
Avenue. Jersey City.
CHARLES E. VOORHIS is a descendanl in the eighth generation from
Steven Coerts Van Voorhees, Hie first American ancestor of the family in
America, whose pedigree has been written in the sketch on page 83. One
of Steven's children, Albert Stevens Voorhees (2), emigrated with bis father
to America in L660, and located with the rest of Ids family a1 Flatlands,
L. L. where he married ill Barentie Williamse, (2) Tjelletje Wizzelpenning,
and (3) Elina Vander Scheur. He was living at Flatlands as late as 1683,
as the assessment roll then shows. TTe removed with Ins family, in 1686,
to Hackensack, where he purchased from Captain John Berry a large farm
extending from the Hackensack to the Saddle River, Lie joined the church
in 1686, and subsequently became an officer in it. His children of the
third generation were Cornelia, Stephen. Stephen, Jannetje, Margrietie,
Lucas. Rachel, Feumietje, Albert, William, Peter, Isaac. Willempie, John,
and James.
Of these Lucas Alberts Voorhis(3) married, September, 2. 1 72<>. Ann Kipp.
They resided at Hackensack. Their children of the fourth generation were
Ann. Henry, Lena. Elizabeth. Margrietie, Nicholas. Catharine. Isaac, and
Jacob. Of these, Nicholas (4) married Jannetje Ackerman and had issue
Albeit N.. Ann. Lucas. Henry, and Jannetje.
Albeit N. Voorhis (5) was born in 1767. TTe was a farmer and resided
at Schraalenburgh. He married, December 10, 1791, Grietie Demurest, who
died in 1854, leaving several children of the sixth generation.
Of these children of the sixth generation Henry A. L. Voorhis f6), who
was born September 20. 1702. married Levina Blawvelt. born September 14.
171»2. and died July 15, 1872. He was a farmer- and resided near Demurest.
N. J., on part of the farm formerly belonging to John Peack. Among his
children of the seventh generation were Elizabeth. Maria. Margaret, Henry
D.. David H.. Nicholas 1L. and John.
Nicholas IT. Voorhis (7) married Caroline, daughter of Peter B. Wester-
velt, of Cresskill, N. J. He resided at Orosskill until his death.
Charles E. Voorhis (8), son of Nicholas n. and the subject of ibis sketch.
\\;is born at Cresskill, Bergen County. N. J.. September 11. 1856, and was
educated in the public schools of his native town. He left school when
seventeen years of age and began his business career in the grocery trade,
in which he remained for ten years. At the end of thai time he engaged
with the firm of Peter Henderson & Company, the famous New York City
firm of seedsmen and tlorists. Tie has continued with this house to the
present lime. TTe is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Mi- Voorhis married Ruth Richardson and bus four children: Edward,
aged thirteen; Henry, aged eleven; Raymond, aged nine: ami Clarence,
aged seven.
i ^ v
JOHN ALBERT BLAIR, Judge of the Court of Common Fleas, General
Quarter Sessions, and Orphans' Court of the County of Hudson, was born
near Blairstown, N. J., on the 8th of July, 1842, his parents being John
GENEALOGICAL
85
II. Blair and Mary (Angle) Blair. Be is the grandson of William and
Rachel (Brands) Blair, of Know lion Township, Wan-en Count v. N. J., and
descends from one of the mosl distinguished families in the State His
ancestors sprung from
ill,, noted Blair family
of Blair-Athol, Perth-
shire, Scotland, whence
they came to this conn
try in L720, settling in
Pennsylvania and Now
Jersey. Among tin-in
were two brothers, Sam-
uel and John Blair,
both of whom were edu-
cated at the Lou College
on the Neshaminy an
dor the celebrated Will-
iam Tennant. They be-
came disi inguished min-
isters of the Presby-
terian Church. The
Rev. Samuel Blair was
culled to Fagg's Manor
in < Jhester < 'ounty, Pa.,
in L739, where, in con
junction with his pas
torn! work, he con
ducted a school I hat was
among the mosl aote-
worthy of the early
Presbyterian academies.
Ilis son. also the Rev.
Samuel Blair, was pas-
tor of the Old South
< 'hurch in Boston before
the Revolul ion. He be-
came Chaplain of the
Pennsylvania Battalion
of Riflemen that part ici-
pated in the siege of Boston. The Rev. Samuel Blair, the second, was
offered the presidency of the College of Now Jersey (Princeton), but de-
clined in favor of Dr. Witherspoon. The Rev. John Blair was ordained
pastor of Big Spring, .Middle Spring, and Rocky Spring in the Cumberland
Valley in 174:!. but resigned in consequence of the frequent Indian incur-
sions on the frontier 1 L755-57) and succeeded his brother at Fagg's Manor.
In 17<>7 he became Professor of Divinity and Moral Philosophy at Prince-
ton, and was acting President of the college until the accession of Dr.
Witherspoon in 17<;!>. He died at Wallkill, in the New York Highlands,
in 1771.
While one branch of the family was devoting its energies to the work
of the ministry and the dissemination of knowledge, another w r as molding
the commerce which has since become one of the mainstays of the State
of New . Jersey. In the latter part of the eighteenth century another Samuel
JOHN ALBERT KLAIR.
86 HUDSON AM) BERGEN COUNTIES
Blair was sent by a Philadelphia linn id lake charge of the iron industry
at Oxford Furnace, in Warren County, X. -I. This Samuel Blair was the
great-great-grandfather of Judge John A. Blair and the great-grandfather
of the laic John [nsley Blair, who died December 2, L899, ai the age of
ninety-seven, after one of the mosl eventful careers in the history of Now
Jersey.
Judge John A. Blair's rudimentary education was obtained in the public
schools of his native place, and later on lie prepared for college ai the
Blairstown Presbyterian Academy. He entered the College of New Jersey
ai Princeton and was graduated from thai institution in ls<»<>. At the close
of the college term he began the study of law in the office of the Hon.
d. <;. Shipman, at Belvidere, X. d. lie was admitted to the bar as an
attorney at the June term, L869, and as a counselor at the dime term,
L872. In January, L870, he came to Jersey City, where he has ever since
resided and been engaged in his profession.
On the passage of the law creating district courts in Jersey city Hon.
Bennington F. Randolph and Mr. Blair were appointed the firs! judges
thereof by the Hon. Joseph l>. Bedle, who was at that time Governor of
the State. In .May. L885, Mr. Blair was appointed Corporation Counsel
of Jersey City, which office he held until his resignation in L889. He was
re-appointed in L894 and served in thai capacity until April 1. L898, when
he resigned to accept the appointment of Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, General Quarter Sessions, and Orphans' Court of the County id'
Hudson, to which he had been appointed by Governor Griggs just before
the latter became Attorney-General in President McKinley's Cabinet.
Judge Blair is a sound lawyer, an attractive and eloquenl speaker, a
man of tine rlassir;il acquirements, and the possessor of a large and choice
library. He is a prominent and active Republican in politics. Although
never seeking office, his name has been frequently mentioned in connection
with some of the most prominent positions in the Stale. He is a regular
ai tendant of i he First Presbyterian < Jhurch of Jersey < Jity. He is a member
of the Palma Club, was one of the organizers of the Union League Club,
and was President of the latter organization for several years.
ALBERT V. HUYLER. — Johannes (John) Huyler came to America from
Holland a 1 ton i 1 71 1. and weni to Bergen County, where he married, in L742,
Eva, daughter of Cornelius Banta. He purchased of the heirs of Colonel
Jacobus Van Cortlandi a large trad of land (several hundred acres) bei ween
Cresskill and Tenafly, extending from the Hudson River to the Tiena Kill.
where he resided until his death. His children were Cornelia, married John
Banta; Joris (George), married Maria Symonson; John, married ill Effie
Westervalt and (2) Anntje Banta; Jannetje (dead); and Wilhelmus, married
< 'hrisi ina ( !ole.
John Huyler il'i known as "Captain John," born in 174s. resided on his
father's farm above Tenafly and was in the Revolutionary War. By his
wife he had children John, Peter, and George.
Peter Huyler (3), born April s. L7S1, married Catharine Benson, and had
children Barney, Carrel. Henry, John, and George, the latter of whom
obtained 1 it le to the old homestead.
Henry Huyler ill married Margarel Voorhis and by her had three chil-
dren: Peter E., Harry, and Albert V.. the hitler of whom is the subject of
this sketch.
Albert V. Huyler (5) was born at Tenafly, X. J., and there received his
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education in the public schools. At the age of nineteen he left school and
engaged in the watch and diamond business a1 No. -1 Maiden Lane, New
Fork City, in which he has continued for the pasl fifteen years, doing
business under the style of X. II. White & Co. lb- is a public spirited and
nroeressive citizen, ami thoroughly identified with the affairs of the com-
munity.
Mr. Huyler married .Miss Virginia Connor, ami they have two children:
Cleveland C. ami Washington E. Buyler.
ALBERT IRVING DRAYTON, President and General Manager of the
Xew Jersey Title ami Abstract Company am! one of the leaders of the
younger bar of .Jersey ('it v. is the son of Henry S. Drayton, M.D., and
Alraira E. Guernsey, and a grandson of William R. ami .Mary M. (Shipman)
Drayton ami of Dr. Henry ami Martha .1. (Halsey) Guernsey. His paternal
greal grandparents were Henry ami Mary (Rood) Drayton ami Jacob and
M;h\ (Mulford) Shipman, while those on his mother's side were William
ami Elizabeth Nancy (Scofield) Guernsey and Rensselaer ami -lane Halsey.
These names represent some of the oldest families in New Jersey, many
of whose members have been prominent in the history of the colony and
State, and distinguished in both civil and military life. William Henry
Drayton, one of Mr. Drayton's ancestors, was Chief Justice and Governor
of South Carolina in L776-77 and a member of the Continental Congress in
177ST!». and another member of the family was Captain Percival Drayton,
an eminent naval commander.
Albert I. Drayton was born in Jersey City on the 14th of August, 1869.
He received his preparatory education in the various public and private
grammar schools of that city and at the Jersey city High School, and sub-
sequently entered the New York University, from which he was graduated
wit h t he class of Issn. | determining upon t he law as his profession, he was
a law student from L888 to L891, and in the meantime took a course of
lectures at the Columbia haw Scl I. He was admitted to the bar of New
Jersey as attorney in November, L891, and as a counselor February, L895,
and ever since his admission as an at torney has been actively and success-
fully engaged in the practice of law in his native city. In the many cases
in which lie has been identified in all the courts of the State he has
displayed marked ability, sound judgment, and broad ami accurate learn-
ing, and. although a young man. he has gained a leading position at the
Hudson County bar. His legal connections with imporiant real estate
matters led him finally into a close study of that subject, and as President
and General Manager of the New Jersey Title and Abstract Company of
Jersey City he is widely known and an acknowledged authority on land
titles'.
tie is also an officer in various other corporations, being President of the
Jersey City Coif Club, first Vice-President of the Alumni Association of
Gamma Chapter of Delta Phi, a member of the Delta Phi fraternity, and a
member of the Cosmos Club, of the Jersey City Chess Club, of the New
Jersey State Bar Association, of the Hudson County Bar Association, of
the Nyaek < Jountry Club, of the Deal Golf Club, of the New York University
Alumni Association, and of St. John's Episcopal Church of Jersey City.
Mr. Drayton was married on the 14th of October, 1896, to Sarah Con-
selyea Traphagen, a descendant of one of the oldest families of New Jersey.
Their children are William Pood and Grace Traphagen Drayton.
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IIIDSOX AND BERGEN COUNTIES
HENRY D. WIXTOX. for thirty years editor and proprietor of the
Bergen County Democrat, of Hackensack, N. J., is the son of EbeD Winton,
and was born on the I It h of February, 1848. He received a common school
education, .[\\(\ in L8G3, a1 the early age of fifteen, entered the office of the
Democrat, where by assiduous attention to Ids duties he soon became a
thorough practical printer. In 1870, when bu1 twenty tun years old. lie
became proprietor and
assumed the editorial
control of the Bergen
County Democrat, which
under his judicious man-
agement h a s steadily
grown in influence and
popularity, and which
now ranks among the
leading newspapers of
New Jersey.
M r. W'int on is an able
editor and business man
—a fad which is abun-
danl h shown by the sin-
cess and development of
his paper. He is one of
Hackensack's most pub
lie spirited c i t i z e n s.
deeply interested in lo-
cal affairs, and thor-
oughly identified with
everything affect ing the
community. In politics
an active and influenl ial
Democrat, he represenl
ed his Congressional dis
trict as n delegate to t he
Democrat tc Nat ional
( 'onvention at ( Jincin-
nati in 1880 and al the
convention in Chicago
in 1896, and in various
other important capaci-
ties has rendered ef-
ficient service to his party and town. He was elected Senator from Bergen
County in 1889 and served two terms, and has the record of being the only
Senator from Bergen County who has served six years in the Senate of
New Jersey.
II I \KY I). \\ IN'loN.
ABRAM QUICK GARRETSON, for aine years prosecuting attorney
..l the most populous county of the State, during five years more haw
or President Judge of the Cour-1 of Common Pleas of Hudson County, and
now an Associate Justice of the Supreme Courl ot New Jersey, is d<
scended from the old Holland stock which contributed so largely in early
colonial days to tin- stability and prosperity of the States of New York and
New Jersey. The names of his ancestors appear in the old Dutch records
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of New Jersey, the tirst of them having come over from Eolland soon after
the tirst planting of New Amsterdam. The Garretsons were among the
number who originally settled in the presenl territory of New Jersey, in
the vicinity of New York City. Later branches of the family pushed into
the western counties with the tirst pioneers. Judge Garretson's direct
ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Somerset County. He is
the son of Martin Schenck Garretson and Ann Beekman Quick and a great-
grandsou of Abraham Quick, a colonel of New Jersey militia in the Revo-
lutionary War.
Judge Garretson was horn in Franklin Township, Somerset Comity , on
the 11 th of March, L842. He was sent to school in Trenton at the age of
thirteen, and entered Rutgers College in the fall of 1859. His preparation
had been such thai he was enabled to enter the sophomore class in the
classical course a1 the age of seventeen, graduating with honors three
years Inter, in L862, and standing tirst in his class. In 1865 he received the
degree of A.M. in course. He chose the legal profession as promising
the best opportunities for a career. He also determined to select the
largest citj of his State as his field of operation. Accordingly, we find
him, almost Immediately after graduation, entering as a student the law
office of the well known Chancellor A. < >. Zabriskie, of Jersey < !ity. After
spending two years in the Chancellor's office, lie rounded out his legal
studies by a year a1 the Harvard Lav* School, in November, L865, he was
admitted to practice at the bar of New Jersey as an attorney, and at the
end of three years, in L868, and ;is soon as the law of the State permitted,
he wns admitted as a counselor, giving him the righl to practice in the
highesl courts of the State. He was afterward admitted to practice before
the United States Supreme Courl at Washington.
The young lawyer's success was not only immediate, but quite phe-
nomenal. ,-is wns shown by his appointmenl in 6'ebruary, L869, only one
year after his admission as a counselor and only four after his lirsl prac-
tice, to the responsible position of Prosecutor of Pleas for Hudson County,
an office identical in every respeel except its mime with that of the or-
dinary district attorney of other Stntes. He was appointed for a term of
live years l»\ Governor Randolph, and tilled the position so ably and with
such general satisfaction that at the end of the time he was re-appointed
for a second term by Governor Parker. He served four years of tins
second term, making n continuous service of nine years, and then resigned
to accept in L878 the appointmenl by Governor McClellan as Law or
"President" Judge of the Courl of Common Pleas of Hudson County,
lie served in this capacity for five years.
The ability and integrity displayed by Judge Garretson upon the bench
only served to great ly increase t he esteem and respect of his fellow-citizens.
Bui notwithstanding all this, he desired to return to private' practice, and
this he eventually did in L883, when his term as judge expired, he having
announced thai In- was not a candidate for re-appointment previous to the
expiration of his term.
In the same year he formed a legal partnership with James P>. Vreden-
burgh in Jersey City. In 1900 he was appointed an Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
While .Indue darretson has always been a consistent Democrat in poli-
tics, in local affairs his sympathies are fully enlisted in the welfare of
the community. He lias served ;is one of the Commissioners for the Ad-
justment of Tax Arrearages for Jersey City since 1887, when that connnis-
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sioD \v;is organized. In Jersey City an immense amount of property has
been snowed under ;i ureal burden of tax arrears which it was utterly
impossible for its owners to meet, while if they abandoned their property
the city treasury was unable to realize upon it. and it lias been the delicate
and difficull task of the commission to readjusl such old claims of the city
and fix a sum which the property owners could pay and thus put such
property on a tax-paying basis, and at the same time lilt :i burden which
could not tail to depress values and impede municipal growth and develop-
ment, claims aggregating millions of dollars ha\e been thus readjusted,
while the commission is now beginning to see the prospective end of its
labors.
Judge Garretson was a founder in L888 and is President of the New
Jersey Title and Guarantee Trust Company, the only one of its kind in
Jersey City, and is a Director in the Third National Bank. He is also
similarly interested in other directions. His name niiisl ever be linked with
the progressive development of his adopted city, where he has resided
since 1st;.").
November li'. L879, he married Josephine, daughter of Joseph and Mary
(Davis) Boker, of Philadelphia. Their children are Leland Beekman, .lose
phine Boker, and Eleanor Helen.
JAMES CHIDESTEE EGBERT, D.D., for forty-two years the be-
loved pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of West Hoboken. X. J.,
and now pastor emeritus of that society, is a lineal descendant of dames
Egbert, who was born in L695. His paternal ancestors were Germans,
coming from Saxony or Hanover to this country several generations ago.
Lewis Egbert, a member of his branch, served in the Revolutionary War.
Dr. Egbert's father, James Egbert, was the son of Enos Egbert and Sarah
Lyon, both natives of New Jersey, and was born at Elizabeth, in this State,
in L801. He learned the trade of printer in the office of the Palladium of
Liberty at Morristown, X. J., and, moving to New York, became a partner
of Mahlon Day. one of the earliest printers in thai city and for many years
the publisher of the weekly Bank Note List. Mr. Day. with his wife and
daughter, was lost at sea on the ill fated ship Antic. James Egberl suc-
ceeded to the firm's business, and for nearly fifty years conducted a large
and successful printing establishment in New York on Pearl Street, oppo-
site Frankfort. He finally retired, and died in West Hoboken, X. J., No-
vember 17. L881, having settled there about 1867. His father. Enos, was
a blacksmith and iron founder, and also a native of Elizabeth, dames
Egbert married Joanna Jones Chidester, daughter of dames and Peninah
(Guerin) Chidester, all of whom were born in New Jersey. She died in
L866.
Dr. Egberl was born in New York City on the 17th of October. L826,
and there received his education, lie attended one of the public grammar
schools and t hen taughl for four years in the same institution. Afterward
he continued his studies and also taughl in the private school of Professor
John Jason Owen, of New York, and in L848, having received a thorough
preparatory training there, entered New York University, then under the
presidency of Theodore Prelinghuysen. He was graduated with honors
in lsr>L\ receiving the degree of I»..\.. and on March 1. L889, the university
conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in recogni-
tion of his eminence as a minister and of his learning and standing as a
scholar. In 1852 Dr. Egberl began the study of theology at the Union
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Theological Seminary in New York. Be was graduated from thai institu-
tion in April, L855, and licensed to preach by (lie Third Presbytery of New
York od i he Llth of i lie same monl h.
<>n .lime L3, is.")."), he was ordained pastor of the Firsi Presbyterian
Church id' West Eoboken, N. -I.. and continued in that capacity for forty-
two consecutive years, resigning dime Id, 1 s;»7. Soon afterward he was
made pastor emeritus id' the congregation. This church was organized
dime L2, 1850, willi eighl members, and the church edifice was dedicated
dune 25, L851. For four years Rev. Charles Parker supplied the pulpit,
and through his efforts, and with the aid of Rev. William Bradford, then
editor of i he New York Evangelist, the church building was erected. Dr.
Egberl was their firsi settled pastor, and faithfully and diligently dis-
charged the duties nf the trust, gaining not only the love but the confidence
and affection of the entire community as well as of his own parishioners.
Prom a very small congregation he lmilt it up to a membership of over
-Id.) and the Sunday school in 500 scholars, with a chapel in Jersey City
of aboul 250 members. The society made a strong effort to retain him
as their active pastor, bu1 advancing years and the evident need of rest
inipelh-d him to resign, and the pastorale has since been undei Rev. Charles
Alexander Evans, a graduate of Princeton, class of L884. As pastor
emeritus, however, Dr. Egbert continues to exercise a broad and wholesome
influence in i he church.
He has twice been Moderator of the Presbytery of Jersey City, is a
member of the Associate Alumni ami of the Alumni Club of the Union
Theological Seminary, and is known throughout the Slate and in other
Presbyteries as a man of broad culture, of greal learning, and of line
intellectual attainments. Ilis sermons, many of which have been pub-
lished, bear evidence of high literary skill as well as sound logic and
doctrinal knowledge.
Dr. Egbert was married, August 1. L855. to Harriet Louise Drew, daugh
ter of George and l'hilimla Drew, of New York City. Their children are
Annie Lake Egbert, a teacher in the New York public schools; dames C.
Egbert, Jr., professor of Latin in Columbia College, New York; Rev.
George Drew Egbert, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Cornwall,
X. Y.: and Marion Dupuy Egbert, also a teacher in the New York public
schools. Two other children died in infancy.
RAYMOND I'. WORTENDYKE is descended from Cornelius Jacobse,
alias Siille (or The Silent), a farmer, who. with his brother John, came
to New Amsterdam from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1630. Shortly after their
arrival they assumed the surname of Somerendyke. Cornelius, after re-
maining a short time in New Amsterdam, bought aud located on a planta-
tion at Bushwick, L. I. From thence he removed to what is now the
Williamsburgh district of Brooklyn. In 1664 he took the oath of allegiance
to the British king, at which time he was residing on a farm of one hun-
dred acres in what was formerly the Greenwich district of Now York City.
He married (1) August 24, L692, Classic Tennis, and (2) duly 28, L695,
Tryntie Wallings Van Winkle, of Amsterdam, Holland. He died in New
York in KIT!), having had nine children of the second generation, the
eldest of whom was Jacob Corneliesen, born in 1<>44, who married, March
11, Kill, Aeltje Fredericks, an estimable Brazilian lady. Their children
were four of the third generation, to wit: Jacob, Nicholas, Frederick J.,
and Cornelius. Frederick (3d gen.), known as Frederick Jacobsen Someren-
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dyke, located on the upper west side of Manhattan Island. He and his
descendants adopted the surname of Wortendyke, while those of his broth-
ers retained thai of Somerendyke. The old Somerendyke mansion house,
built of stone, stood, ;i few years ago, on the Bloomingdale road near Wes1
Seventy fifth Street. Frederick (3d gen.) married, June LO, l Tot. Divertie
Rynearsen Quackenbush, a granddaughter of Peter Quackenbush, of
Oostergeest, Eolland. Aboul lTJi! Frederick removed to Bergen County,
\. J., where he purchased several tracts of land, the principal one of which
was nearly five hundred acres in ana al 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 the founder of Pascack settle-
ment and left a large landed estate After his death his will became the
subject of a long litigation. His children of the fourth generation were
Aeltie. Rynier, Elizabeth, Frederick F., and < 'lassie.
Frederick F. Wortendyke (4th gen.), horn in New Fork city. April 10,
L720, married April :!. 174s. Sara Peters Durie, of Pascack. By the will
of his father he obtained half of the homestead at Pascack on which he
resided, besides lands at Tappan and on the Palisades. He died about L770,
leaving issue of the fifth generation Frederick, Jannetje, Jacobus, Marya,
Elizabeth, .Judith. Peter F., Sara, Susanna. Divertie, Mensie, and John.
Of these, Frederick was taken by the British in 1 77«; and confined for
some time a prisoner in the old Sugar House in New Fork.
Peter F. Wortendyke (5th gen.), baptized August 29, 17."i4. married
.Martha Demarest. He resided at Pascack. where he was a farmer and
millet'. His children of the sixth generation were Frederick P.. Angenitie,
Peter P.. and Jacobus.
Peter P.. of the sixth generation, born .June 15, lT'.iT. died at Pascack,
January 31, 1885. He was a farmer and married, January <i. 1816, Maria
Banta, by whom he left issue of the seventh generation Peter P.. Maria.
Frederick P.. Cornelius P.. Martha, Laney, and John.
Peter I*. Wortendyke, of the seventh generation, born .June 11. L816,
died April L2, L900. He married Harriet Cumniings, a native of Spring
Valley, X. Y. He resided at Pascack and spent most of his life as a
tanner. His children of the eighth generation were Maria, Raymond P..
•John 11.. ami Charles P.. the second of whom is the subject of this sketch.
Raymond P. Wortendyke (8tb gen.), one of the prominenl members of
i he bar of .Jersey City, was born at Pascack, Bergen County, X. J., De-
cember 30, 1845 He is the youngesl son id' Peter P. a ml Harriel (Cummin gs)
\\ oiieiidyke. and inherits from a long line of ancestors on both side» the
sturdy characteristics of his race. He attended the public schools at
Pascack and Hackensack, Bergen County, and was graduated from" the
New -Jersey Stat.- Normal School at Trenton. June L5, L862. Subsequently
he taugh! school for upward of seven years, during the last three of which
he was connected with Hasbrouck Institute in Jersey City. In the
meantime he studied law in Jersey City three and one half years in the
office of Hon. Jacob R. Wortendyke. member of Congress, and for six
months with Hon. William Brinckerhoff, State Senator. He was ad-
mitted to the bar at Trenton as an attorney -June .",. L869, and as counselor
June • '>. L872, and for over thirty years has been actively and successfully
engaged in the general practice of his profession, his present office being
in .Jersey < 'ily.
Mr. Wortendyke resides in Englewood, Bergen County, where he has
served as a public school trustee for twenty years and as counselor of the
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old Public Road Board for ten years. Ee has been counsel for the Town-
ship of Englewood for many years, and is now City Attorney for the
Gitj of Kn-lrw I. During his career at the bar he has been connected
wiili a number of importanl cases in which he lias displayed marked abilil \ .
sound judgment, untiring industry, and great force of character. He is
public spirited, progressive, and patriotic, thoroughly identified with the
besl interests of the community, and holds a prominent place at the bar.
Mr. Wortendyke has been twice married, lirst on December 30, 1869,
to Caroline, daughter of Levi and VVilhelmina (Ackerman) Gurnee, of
Pascack, X. -I.. who died February 11. 1895. On September 29, L897, he
married .Mis. Aim E. II. (Demarest) Gurnee, of Backensack, daughter of
David A. Demarest, of Tenafly, Bergen County.
DAVID A. DEMAKEST was without doubt in his day one of the most
widely known and highly respected men in Borden County. He was of
ili" sixth generation from David des Marest, the French Buguenot emi-
grant, concerning whom see page 64. The line of descent was as follows:
David des .Maresi ih. the emigrant, and his wife. Maria Sohier. had four
children, one of whom was David Demarest, Jr. (2), who married Rachel
Cresson ami had twelve children, one of whom was Jacobus (3). who mar-
ried Lea de (iroot and Margrietie Cozines Baring, and had fifteen children,
one of whom iby the second wife) was Abraham I >. Demarest i 1 1. born at
old Bridge, Bergen County, September 25, L738, died uear Closter, X. .1..
•Inly 9, L824, married, in 17<;::. Margaretta Garrets Demarest. born at
Schraalenburgh, December 2, 1711. died June L3, L834. Abraham D. Dem-
arest ih resided at old Bridge for many years, when he removed to Back-
ensack and kepi the Mansion House. About ITsi he purchased a large
farm on the west side of the Schraalenburgh and Tappan road, lying on
hot 1 1 sides of i he rond to old I look. There until his death he kept a general
store of groceries, hardware, and smh wares us farmers require, lie also
kept (until L809) a tavern where the elections were held and other public
business transacted. In April. 1 7>7. he added to his farm on the south by
purchases from the Barings and Van Boms. Abraham was a man of some
note. His store and tavern were known and patronized by the people for
miles around. From L781 until L799 he held uianv town offices, including
those of Commissioner of Appeals, Townsman. Road Master, and .Justice
of the Peace. He was one of the most active members and workers in the
North Church at Schraalenburgh, in which he several times held the offices
of Deacon and Elder. His issue were David A..; Rachel, 1768; Margaret,
1 77:'. ; John, 1775 (died); and Christina. 1783.
Of these David Abraham Demarest (5), the subject of this sketch, was
born at eld Bridge, August 28, 17C4, ami died at Nyack, N. Y., February
1. L860, aged ninety-five years, five months, and three days. He married,
in 17s7. Charity Baring, daughter of Cornelius Baring, of Pascack, where
she was born duly 24, L769. She died at Schraalenburgh, January. 2!). L849,
aged about eighty years. She was a lady of sound judgment, with a kind
and cheerful disposition, who was her husband's faithful helpmeet and
companion for more than sixty years. The issue of this union was only
one child, a daughter, Margaret Demarest, born at Schraalenburgh, N. J.,
September 5. 1789.
David A. Demarest (5) was an unusually bright and active boy. Re-
alizing this, his father sent him to the best school in the village of Hacken-
sack. wlnre he acquired a fair education, including a knowledge of pen-
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manship and composition. Clerking in and purchasing stock for liis
father's store, as well as attending to Hi" wants of the tavern guests,
threw liim in contacl with all kinds and conditions of people from whom
he obtained a large fund of information which, in Unci years, be turned
to good account. When the Revolutionary struggle broke ou1 he was a lad
twelve years old, yd the father had difficulty in restraining the patriotism
of liis son sufficiently to pr< venl him from offering his services ;is a drum-
mer boy to the < '<>mi inental forces.
Thai struggle over, and having married and settled dow r n i * » business,
DAVID /V DEMAREST.
he gave liis attention qoI only to the store but to agricultural pursuits,
which were then profitable. Products <>l the farm were senl by sloop from
old Bridge, or Closter Dock, to New York. A considerable trade in pi.u
iron was carried <»n with the iron works ;ii Ramapo. Groceries were <\
changed for pig iron and the iron shipped to New York and sold ;ii a profit.
In October, 1T!M. he was one of the militia force from New Jersey, Virginia,
and Pennsylvania sent l>\ President Washington to Pittsburg to suppress
what in American history is known ;is the "Whisky Insnrrect ion." In
1796 he began to mingle in and wield influence in town affairs. From
that time to 1843 he held numerous town offices, including that of Justice
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of Hie Peace. In 1800 he superintended the construction of Ins father's
new stone dwelling istiii standing). The tavern business was abandoned
with the demolition of the old family mansion.
His daughter Margarel married, in L810, John Perry, a member of one
of the oldesl and mosl prominenl families in Rockland County, X. Y., by
whom she had issue i wo daughters, Catharine (181.1) and Charity iisi'iM.
In lsii' the quota of Bergen County drafted troops for the war with Greal
Britain rendezvoused ai Jersey City for three months. Captain Samuel
(i. Demaresl (of what is now Westwood, X. J.), who raised a company of
men for thai war, recruited pan of Ins force a1 the store of Abraham l>.
Demarest. Ii has been said thai David A. Demaresl served in the War
of L812, Ian it so his name does noi appear upon the muster rolls of the
companies thai wenl from his vicinity, commanded by Major Van Saun.
At his death in 1824 Abraham l». Demaresl gave all his lands to his
son. David A. Demarest. The latter soon after purchased several adjoining
tracts, until the whole area of his homestead farm was over 300 acres, lie
also owned a large farm west of the Hackensack River and a trad at
Ramapo. Henceforth ami until his death he was considered a wealthy
man. Bui he was one of those men whom wealth makes neither proud nor
avaricious -a most genial and hospitable man. noted I'or his liberality.
Nearly all his life ho had been a member ami liberal supporter of the
North Church at Schraalenburgh, which he helped to organize and to
which In- liberally gave. Ilis commodious mansion was always open to
the ministers of thai and sister churches. They came and went ;il (heir
pleasure, sometimes staying with their families lor weeks at a lime. Their
host's hospitality was of the good old fashioned variety, spontaneous and
hearty. Everybody was welcome bent^ath his roof. He had ureal inilm e
over his neighbors ami a happj wax of settling disputes. As a Justice
of the Pence for many years his practice was to avoid trials, if possible, and
usually he would bring the parties to an agreemenl to settle before the i rial
day came on. lie was a gentleman of " ye olden time " a sort of " Cadi " in
the community t»» whom the people wenl for advice in time of trouble
and did not go in vain. He was a lover of music, ami in lsiil organized
n band in which he played second clarinet. The minutes <d' this hand in
his handwriting show thai ii prospered for some time. He was an
entertaining conversationalist and storyteller who never lacked for lis
timers. Physically he was remarkably robust, and was never severely ill.
lie was found dead in bed one morning at the home of his daughter, :M
Xyack. X. Y.. whom he was visiting, lie lay as though he had quietly
dropped into n peaceful sleep. He was of the type of man rarely to be
met with in these days, lie saw the Revolutionary War. the War of L812,
and the .Mexican War, ami had he lived another year he would have seen
the beginning of tin- <"ivil War. The year before his death (he Northern
Railroad was completed. The company gave him a pass, but he never
used it, and died without having experienced the sensations of riding on a
moving railroad (rain.
Catharine and Charily Perry, has granddaughters, married, respectively,
Isaac and Tunis Smith, of Xyack, X. Y.. who, for many years, owned and
operated a steamboal line between New Fork and Nyack. Isaac and Tunis
Smith were descendants of Lamberl Ariaense, a native of Gilderland, Hol-
land, who came to America when a young man and settled at New Amster-
dam, where, on April 9, L682, he married Margaretta Garrets Blawvelt, a
daughter of Garrel Hendricksen Blawvelt, of Deventer, Holland. In Hist;
96 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
Lamberl and his brothers-in-law, the Blawvelts, and others purchased
the Tappan patent. Lamberl settled od pari of it a1 the "Green Bush,"
in Rockland County. His descendants sood became so numerous thai it
was accessary to distinguish one from the other, and as Lambert was a
smith by profession it became convenienl t<> designate him as Lambert
Ariaense Smidt. .Most of the family eventually dropped the Ariaense and
called themselves Smith. Lamberl Smith and Margaretta Garrets Blaw-
vell had issue, among other children, a son. Garrel Smith (2), who mar-
ried Brechie (Bridget) Peters Haring, of Tappan, and had issue, among
other children, a son. Peter G. Smith (3), who married Annetie (Hannah)
Blawvelt, ami had issue, besides other children, a son. Isaac ih. who mar-
ried Rachel Smith, and had issm- several children, anion- whom was Peter
Smith (5), who married Christina Demaresl (a sister of David A. Demarest,
above mentioned), old patrons of the steamer " Chrystenah ,; will re-
member her portrail ;it tin- head of the stairway to the uppei deck. They
had issue of tin- sixth generation: Isaac Abraham, Tunis, and David.
Isaac married Catharine Perry, and Tunis married Charity Perry, as
above stated. The issue of Catharine Perry and Captain Nam- Smith were
John, -lames, and Margarel Ann. all now deceased. The issue id' Charity
Perry and Tunis Smith were six children, all now deceased excepl David
and Sidney.
JAMES KII'P is of the tenth generation in lineal descent from Roeloff
(Ralph) de Kype, who. as the prefix "de" unmistakably indicates, was
of French origin, bu1 who resided at Amsterdam, Holland, whither he
had lied from France. His life-long calling was that of a soldier, wherein
In- exhibited bravery, energy, and capacity of tin- highest order. He at-
tained prominence as a military leader in L555, during the long and bloody
struggle between the Catholics and Protestants, in which the latter finally
triumphed. It has been said That in 1559 he returned to France and foughl
againsl the Protestants under the banner of the Duke of Anjou. Whether
he did or not is at this late date a matter of little importance. It is known
that his sons espoused tin- 1'rotestant cause. One of them is said to have
been a stockholder in the Dutch East India Company and an active pro
moter of the vx>yage of Bendrick Hudson to New York in L609. His son.
Hendrick de Kype (3d gen.), born at Amsterdam in 1578, came to America
accompanied by his son Hendrick (4th gen.). They were the firsl of the
name iii the New World. Bendrick (3d gen.), owing to ill-health, soon
returned to Holland, but his son Bendrick (4th gen.), who seems to have
been the firsl to drop the "de" from the name and who was usually
known as " Bendrick Bendricksen Kype," married and became one of the
lirst permanent settlers on Manhattan Island. Being a tailor by occupa-
tion, he was sometimes dubbed " Schneider Kype." On April 28, Hit."., he
purchased a lot 30x110 east of "The Fort" mow Bridge Street, near
Whitehall i. on which he built his family residence and shop. There, for
years, he was the principal tailor of the town. Be married Ann de Sille.
a daughter of Nicholas de Sille, of Wyck, Holland. Aboul this time Ki< ft
was Governor of New Amsterdam. Kype despised the governor and pub-
licly denounced him as "a butcher" for permitting the massacre of the
Backensack Indians at Pavonia. Kiefl summoned him to appear and
answer for his insolence, but Kype replied by messenger that he would
not appear before " a man of blood." Mrs. Kype likewise denounced Kieft
as a false judge. Upon the succession of Stuyvesant to the governorship
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Kype was made a Councilor. Later he was chosen to be one of the nine
Selectmen, because, as is said, he was one of " the mosl notable, reasonable,
honest, and respectable citizens of the city." Two years later he was made
a Burgher, but becoming dissatisfied with the management of town affairs
lie seen after sold mil and removed to Amstel, in Delaware, where he
embarked extensively in the brewing business on the west hank of the
Delaware River. The governor of Delaware soon made him a member
of the Council, and later, in 1660, appointed him Commissioner of Amstel.
About 1694 he seems to have returned to New Amsterdam and about the
same time purchased from Captain John Berry a trad of two hundred
acres of land smith of Backensack, from the Hackensack River to the
Saddle River, and including in it the present village of Lodi. lie died in
New Amsterdam about 1703. leaving children of the fifth generation < !or-
nelia. Catharine, Peter, and Nicasie (Nicholas).
Nicholas (5th gen.), born at Amstel, Del., in L668, went to Hackensack
in 1694, and married Ann Breyant, of old Bergen. The same year the
couple joined the Dutch Church at Hackensack. In L698 Nicholas, with
Thomas Fraunce and Rutgerl Van Born, of Bergen, purchased from Cap
tain Berry a large trad at Moonachie. Nicholas made other purchases
in dm- time— one of two hundred acres from Garrel Lydecker extending
from the Backensack to the Saddle River, and another large area of
•meadow land" for which, as his i\^^\ recites, he gave a "fatted calf."
Upon his death he inherited a large portion of his father's lands, and passed
as one of the mosl extensive landholders in thai section. He resided on
the Polifly road, was active in town and church affairs, and held several
responsible official positions. His eleven children of the sixth generation
were Ilenrv. Peter, Isaac. Cornelius. Jacob, Ann. Catherine. Elizabeth,
< iarret. Nicholas, and John.
Nicholas (6th gen.), born at Moonachie in L720, married in 1749 Lea Vree
land, of Bergen, lie was a farmer by occupation and resided for thirty-
five years in Lodi Township. In L755 he removed with his family to
Schraalenburgh, where he boughl a large farm lying on both sides of the
Schraalenburgh road near the present North church. The same year
lie and his wife joined the Schraalenburgh South church, of which Nicholas
was made a Deacon in 17<i<!. lb- was a man of means and greatly re-
spected by his neighbors His children of the seventh generation were
Sophia, Isaac. Catharine. Peter. John, .Maria. \nn, and Jemima.
Isaac Kipp (7th gen.) was born at Schraalenburgh, May 14. 1756, and
died there March 10. 1813. He joined the Smith Church in ITS.",, and
became one of the principal and. in fact, the most influential man in
Schraalenburgh. He owned and managed a large farm on both sides
of the road near the North Church. Though wealthy, both he and his
father Nicholas fervently espoused tin- cause of the colonists. For this
the British and Tories raided the Kipp farms and buildings, drove off the
live stock, and committed other acts of spoliation. Isaac joined the local
militia, known as the " train bands." ami served against the British during
the last years of the Revolutionary struggle. At its close he became active
in the organization and drilling of the State militia, in which he was at
first a Major and later a. < Jolonel. He was oneof the principals in the organi-
zation of the North Church Congregation, and one of the seven men chosen
by resolution of the Consistory in 1800 to build the present church edifice,
receiving for that service si\ shillings per day. He died in March, 1813,
and was buried near the church in which In.' was so long prominent. His
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children of the eighth general ion were Nicholas, I >avid, I [enry (who became
a prominent physician), Ann. Leah, Maria. Christina, Isaac and James.
David Kipp (8th gen.) was born at Schraalenburgh, January 24, 17^::.
and died May L8, L864. He was reared on his father's farm, and in L806
married Elizabeth, daughter of William de Graw, of old Tappan. David
resided and for man.\ years kept a general store at what is now Bergen-
field, on the corner of the road leading from Schraalenburgh road to the
South Church. His children of the ninth generation were Maria (married
Matthew S. Bogert), William, and Fanny (married Cornelius L. Blawvelt).
William Kipp (9th gen.) was born at Schraalenburgh, August 1!». 1812,
and died in L871. He married, November 24, LS31, Elizabeth Banta, born
in L813. William resided for many years at Old Tappan, new Harrington
Park. Although reared a farmer, he was a born politician, and for many
years was the Democratic leadei in Harrington Township, hate in life
lie removed to Closter. At his death he left living issue David, John B.,
Isaac Levina, James, and William de Graw, the lasl two named being
the subjects <d' this and the following sketch.
• lames Kipp (10th gen.) was born at old Tappan, N. J., October L5, L844,
and received his scl ling in the public schools at Tappan. At the age
of fifteen he lefl home to become a clerk in the grocery store of his brother
David, at Sparkill, N. Y. He was called home in the fall of 1862 to take
the place <d' his brothers John B. and Isaac who had joined the Union
Army in Virginia. Upon the return of his brothers dames soughl and
obtained a clerkship in the grocery house of Elbert Bailey, then at 518
Sixth Avenue, New York. After four years' service with .Mr. Bailey he
entered the office of the Lorillard Insurance Company, bu1 remained there
only three months. A more lucrative position was offered him with the
New York Rubber Clothing Company at :'>47 Broadway, which he accepted.
In duly. 1><i~. this company combined with the Goodyear Rubber Com-
pany. Mr. Kipp acquired an interest in the business and was given the
responsible position of manager, a position which he >till holds at Nos.
787-789 Broadway, New York. To manage a concern doing the great vol
nine of business which the Goodyear Rubber Company is doing demands
business tact and judgment of the highest order. These qualities Mr. Kipp
possesses in a marked degree, and his untiring energy, activity, thorough
knowledge of the business, and (lose attention to its details have marked
him for the early future as one id' the great army of successful mercantile
men in the great city, lb- is thoroughly domestic in Ids habits ami tastes,
and spends his spare time with his family, lie belongs to no city clubs,
does not dabble in politics, has never held political office. lb' "leans
toward " the hutch Reformed Church ami t he Republican party.
IP- married, February 21, L872, Rachel, a daughter of John d. and Hannah
M. Naugle. .Mrs. Kipp was born at Closter, X. J., March 25, L850. The}
have three daughters : Ada (married in L895 to Edward Livingston Gilbert,
a New Fork stock broker), Eva, and Florence, the last two both unmarried.
Florence is a recent graduate of the Comstock School of New York City,
and her sisters are graduates of tin- New York City public schools. Ada
has a daughter, Margery (11th gen.), born in L897.
WILLIAM De GRAW KIPP (10th gen.), brother of the above, was horn
at old Tappan, N. J., February 25, L848, and like his brother obtained his
education in the public schools of his native township. He left home in
1866 to take a position as clerk in the grocery store <d' Ward Carpenter,
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No. 520 Sixth Avenue, New York. Here he remained for a year and then
entered the employ of E. C. Hazard & Co., where he filled the position of
salesman for nine years, after which he embarked in the grocery business
on his own accounl at Closter, X. •). This venture being unprofitable, he
beca?ne a salesman in the house of Wrighl Gillies & Brother, New York.
He loft them in L880 to take charge of the city sales department of the well
known house of K. R. Durkee & Co., of New York, and still tills that posi-
tion. Their factory and office are at ~i'-'A Washington Street. As a sales-
man his knowledge of general merchandise and his long experience on the
i-oad and behind the counter have made him one of the most expert and
valuable men in his line of business. Ai home he is public spirited and
enterprising, favoring public education, local improvements, and athletics,
and opposing the liquor traffic and dishonesty in public office. He is an
independent Democrat in politics, but has never held political office. He
served a term in the Board of Trustees of the public school at Closter. He
was a Trustee and Treasurer of i he < !ongregat ional < 5hurch for a number of
years, and was also the prime factor in placing the railroad station at
Closter in its present local ion.
lie married in 1^71 Sarah Elizabeth, a daughter of John -T. and Hannah
M. Naugle. Sarah 1-:. Naugle was born at Closter, X. J.. March 25, L853.
They have four daughters living: Edna, born October 31, ls7.~» (married
in L899 William < '. Bouton, an employee of the Union Trust Company, of
New York); Lizzie, born in 1878; Ethel, born in L882; and Grace, born
in 1 ss 1 . Three others — two daughters and a son — died in infancy.
THE WESTERVELTS on- You Westervelts, as they once called them
selves) are another of the very prolific families of Bergen and Hudson
Counties. Should the traveler happen to journey through the Province of
Overyssel in Holland, about a mile oast of the coast of the Zuyder Zee,
on the highroad from Deventer to Groningen, he will pass through a con-
siderable town called Meppel. In the middle of the seventeenth century
this town was a mere hamlet. Thro.- miles east was the town of Zwolle,
where Thomas a Kempis for half a century resided, where he wrote his
famous book'. J a Imitation of Christ, and where he died about 1471. Easl
of Meppel the country for miles was then a desert waste of lowland.
To-day this has been bought up by humanitarian societies to secure from
beggary able bodied laborers and their families by locating them on these
lands and employing them in bringing the lands to productiveness. South
and west of Meppel were rich, green pasture lands. Near Meppel lived
William and Lubbert Lubbertsen, two sturdy brothers, tillers of the soil,
and raisers of cattle.
In April. 1(102. those two brothers joined the throng of emigrants which
was then heading from Amsterdam to America to better their condition
in life. William, with a wife and four children, and Lubbert. with a wife
and six children, readied New Amsterdam about tin' first of May, 10(12.
in the Dutch West India ship " Faith." William repaired to New Utrecht,
L. I., and Lubbert. with his wife. Gessie Roelofs Van Houten, and family,
went to Flatbush, where a considerable Dutch settlement had been col-
lected. At Flatbush. Lubbert bought a house and lot December 15, fol-
lowing his arrival, and went to farming, assisted by his boys. He soon
became an extensive and prosperous farmer, bought much land, and owned
a number of slaves. Upon his death, near the close of the century, his
sons Lubbert, Jr., Roeloff, John, and Juriaen went to Bergen County, N. J.,
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100 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
and settled. Lubbert, Jr., who married Billetje Pouwless, resided for a
time in what is now Jersey City, and then removed to the vicinity of what
is now Highwood, X. •!.. where lie died and his wife remarried. RoelofE
and .lohn (who married respectively CJrsolena Stimets and Magdalena Van
Blarcom) bought lands south of Highwood and in the vicinity of Cresskill,
X. d. The Indians disputed their titles, bu1 subsequently the sachems
signed releases. Juriaen, who married ill Gessie Bogert, (_i Antjie Banta,
and (3) Cornelia Van Voorhis, boughl and settled on lands on the Backen-
sack and Saddle Rivers. Lubbert's two daughters, Margretie and Mary,
married and settled a1 New Backensack. The descendants of these four
sons and two daughters of Lubberl Lubbertsen, intermarrying with the
Demarests, Naugles, Barings, Blawvelts, and others, became a mighty
host, and are scattered throughoul Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic Counties,
X. J., and Rockland County, X. Y.
SAMUEL WESTERVELT is of (he seventh generation from Lubberl
Lubbertsen, the tirst emigrant, and was born at Tenafly, Bergen County,
X. J., on the L6th of August, L853, being the son of David I. Westervell
and Sophia Parsels, and a grandson of John R. Westervell and Samuel
Parsels. He received his education in the Bergen County public schools.
and at the age of seventeen associated himself with the well known firm
of Lord & Taylor, of New York City, with which he has remained for twenty
eighl years, and where he now holds a responsible position. This house
is widely known as one of the leading dry goods establishments in the East,
and has few equals in tin' quality or kind of its business. As an attache
of this great establishment .Mr. Westervell has displayed the highesl
business abilities, great executive energy, and superior judgment. He
is a public spirited, patriotic and progressive citizen, and as a resident of
Tenafly, Bergen County, has taken an active interest in local public affairs.
He has served two years as President of the Board of Education and stijl
holds that office, and is also Trustee and Treasurer, as well as a member,
of the Presbyterian church of Tenafly.
Mr. Westervell married .Miss Charlotte E. Bolden, and they have four
children: Florence E., born in L880; Ralph E., born in L884; .lames B..
born in L887; and Martha B., born in L891.
THE BEBRY FAMILY.— One of tl arlicst emigrants ai Bergen was
•lohn Berry, an Englishman who came from Christ Chinch Parish in the
Island of Barbadoes. presumably with Kingsland, Sandford, Moore, and
one or two others, lie was, perhaps, one of tin- most active and energetic
of all the emigrants, and certainly the most liberal. In 1668 he bought ;ill
the hinds between the Backensack and Saddle Rivers, extending from the
Sandford patenl ;i^ far north as Cherry Hill in Bergen County. The same
year he bought three other tracts: one of L,500 acres on the Hudson River
adjoining Edsall, another of 2,000 acres at Schraalenburgh, and another of
nearly ih.it number of ma-es on the upper Saddle River. He came to be
one of the most wealthy of tin- Bergen settlers, and in a sense "ran the
towne." lb- was a member of the Governor's Council several years, at one
time acting Governor, member id' tin- ('(denial Assembly, a Justice for
Bergen County, ;i Captain and Major in the militia, and Commander of the
"Bergen Rangers" or train bands. In L670 In- boughl hind at Bergen,
where ho made his home. He gave lands for various purposes, especially
the land at Hackensack on which stands the " Church on the Green." He
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died in New York. leaving a large family of children, among whom were
John, Mary, Samuel, Richard, Francis, and Francina. .Most of these ve-
mained in Bergen Countv, where their descendants arc still numerous.
HENRY 11. BRINKERHOFF, Jr., M.D., member of the Board of Health
and one of the leading physicians of Jersey City, was born at Rocky Hill,
Somersel County, X. -I.. on the 23d of May, L865. His ancestors were
among the earliest seniors of the State, coming originally from Holland.
" Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoef, the founder of the American branch of
this family, came from the
Count v of I> r ent, r
Drenthe, in the United
Provinces, and having lived
sonic time at Flushing, a
seaporl in Zealand, arrive. 1
in t his count rv in L638. He
settled on Staten Island.
a ail entered into a conl r;ni
with Cornelius Melyn, the
owner of the island, to re-
side there; bu1 owing to t he
murder of some neighboring
planters h\ the Indians, in
L641, he obtained a release
from the contract, August
1.-,, 1641. Then he wenl to
Long Island and settled in
l'.reokh q. lie married Su
sannah Dubbels, who died
January L6, L661." The
family settled in Bergen
< 'oiinty ;if a very early day,
and is one of the oldesl and
best known in the eastern
pari of New Jersey. In H»77
Hendrick Brinckerhoef, son
of Joris Dircksen Brincker-
hoef, purchased land on
Bergen Hill, Jersey City,
and was the ancestor of I hi
family in Hudson and Ber-
gen Counties, w Idle another
son of the original emigranl .
Abraham Brinckerhoef, is the founder of the Long island branch.
i>r. Brinkerhoffs parents were Henry II. Brinkerhoff and Elizabeth Vree-
land, daughter of Michael Vreeland. granddaughter of Michael Vreeland,
Sr.. and a great-granddaughter of Johannis Vreeland, who was the son of
.Michael Vreeland, who was the son of Cornelius Vreeland, who was the
son of Michael Jansen. The Vreeland family arrived in this country in
L636 from Holland. On his father's side Dr. Brinkerhoff is a grandson of
John V. \Y. Brinkerhoff, a great grandson of Hartman Brinkerhoff, a great-
great-grandson of Hendrick Brinkerhoff, and a great-great-great-grandson
of Hartman Brinkerhoff, whose father, Cornelius Brinckerhoff, was the
IIKXHY H. BRINKERHOFF.
102 HUDSON AMi BERGEN COUNTIES
son of Hendrick, the founder of the New Jersey branch of the family.
Dr. Brinkerhoff was educated in the public scl Is. graduating from
the High School of Jersey City in L883. Subsequently he spenl half ;i
dozen years in mercantile pursuits, and then, having decided upon medi-
cine as his life work, entered Bellevue Hospital Medical Colh ge, and after
graduating began a private pra< tice which he has since continued, and in
which he lias achieved erainenl success.
lie is one of the besl known physicians in Jersey City. He is City
Physician, member of the Jersev <"ii\ Board of Health, Visiting Physician
and Associate Surgeon of St. Francis Hospital, Treasurer of the Hudson
County .Medical Society, and prominently identified with the Home for
the Homeless and the Hospital for Contagious Diseases in Jersey City.
He enlisted as a private in Company A. Fourth Regiment, X. <:. X. J.,
November '••. L886, was promoted Corporal December 13, 1887, became
Sergeanl of his company April ::. 1888, and was commissioned Second
Lieutenanl of Company C January 15, 1894, Captain duly 2, 1894. and
Major of the Fourth Regiment in 1899, which latter position he still holds.
He is a member of Woodland Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of the Hol-
land Society of New York, of the Hudson County Medical Society, of
the New Jersey State Medical Soci< ty, and of the American Medical Asso-
ciation, and is thoroughly identified with the affairs of the city and active
and influential in promoting every worthy object. He is especially gen
erous in the encouragement of those movements which have the welfare
of the community at heart.
Dr. Brinkerhoff was married on the 28th of April, 1897, to Ella Adelaide
1 Ia\ es. of Newark. X. J.
•
RYNIER J. WORTENDYKE is descended from the same ancestor as is
Kay m oml P. Wortendyke (see sketch of latter on page !>1 1. His great-great-
grandfather, Rynier F. Wortendyke (son of Frederick Wortendyke and
Divertie Quackenbush), baptized in New York March 14. 1714. married (1)
December 10, 1746, Jannetye Peters Durie, and (2) March 2, 1752, Jannetje
Smith. With his brother Frederick, the ancestor of Raymond P., he ob
tained part of the homestead farm at Pascack. Rynier spenl his days
in farming and running a mill. His children of the fifth generation were
Frederick, Peter, Jannetje, Cornelius (1), Divertie, Cornelius (2), Rynier,
John, Jacob II.. Mary. Albert, and Aeltje.
Jacob R. Wortendyke, of the fifth generation, born May ~>. 1704. died
December 18, 1858, married December 7. 1792, Elizabeth Campbell, born
October 26, 177::. died March 20, 1862. He was a farmer and resided at
Pascack. Their children of the sixth generation were Lutische, Rynier J.,
and Elizabeth. Of these. Rynier J. (6th gen.), horn Augusl 16, 17!»:'.. died
December •".. 1884, married, January 1<». 1M V . Cornelia Haring, who died
Augusl 12, 1891. The; resided at Pascack. Their children <•! the seventh
generation were Jacob R., Peter R., Garret, and Elizabeth.
Jacob II. Wortendyke (7th gen.) was born a1 Pascack, X. .1.. November 27,
1818, and died at Jersey City, November 2, 1868. He married, June 2, 1853,
Susan J. Doremus, born Augusl '.». 1826, who now resides in Jersey City.
Jacob R. Wortendyke was graduated from Rutgers College in 1839, after
which he read law in the office and became a partner of Chancellor A. O.
Zabriskie. Alter his admission to the bar he was successful in his prac-
tice and held numerous official positions in Hudson County. He organized
ilm Jersey <'it\ Water Board and served as a member of the Riparian
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Commission. In L857 he was elected to Congress from the Hudson
district and served two terms in that body. In 1.868 he was a delegate
t»> the Democratic National Convention. His children of the eighth genera-
tion were Nicholas l>.. Cornelia E., Rynier J., .Jacob (died), and Jacob R.
Rynier J. Wortendyke isth "•end, the subject of this sketch, was born in
Jersey City, N. J., August 24, L860, and has always resided there. Having
received a thorough preparatory education, he entered Rutgers College
and was graduated from thai institution with lienors in the class of L882.
lie then took up the study of law with James P>. Vredenburgh at Jersey
City, and after the usual course was admitted to the Xew Jersey bar as an
attorney in dune. L885, and as a counselor in dune. 1888. He has been
actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession
in his native city. Be is a promineni member of the Presbyterian Church,
;i public spirited and patriotic citizen, a man of broad and accurate learn-
ing, and a leading factor in the affairs of the city in which he was born,
and in which he has spent his life.
Mr. Wortendyke married Miss Carolyn M. Cooley, October 11. L893, and
their children of the ninth generation are Rynier d. Wortendyke, dr.. and
Howard B. Wortendyke. Airs. Wortendyke died September 22, 1900.
JAMES B. VREDENBURGB is of Holland descent, the respectability
of which has been strengthened by intermarriage with the Coles, Schure-
inans. Van Horns. Brinckerhoffs, and oilier id' the most promineni Holland
families.
Isaac Van Vredenburgh 1 1 1. a well-to-do citizen, resident, and burgher
of the City of Hague, in Holland, had a son who bore the somewhat
elongated name of William [saacsen Van Vredenburgh (2), who. while
yet a very young man. enlisted as a soldier in the service of the Dutch
West India Company and came t<> America in May, L658, on board the good
ship " Gilded Beaver." lie s,.enis to have done military duty in and about
Xew Amsterdam for several years, during which time, on October I'd. L664,
he married Apollonia Barents, a daughter of Barenl Jacobsen Cole (Kool),
a promineni officer of the West India Company, of Amsterdam, Holland.
He continued in the military service after his marriage, being stationed
and residing with his family, part of the time, at Fori William llendrick,
and part of the time in the new fortification at Xew Orange. In 1677 he
must have left the military service, as he then, and as late as L680, was
living with his family ai Esopus, X. Y. His children were eighi in number,
the eldest of whom was Isaac Van Vredenburgh (3), baptized in Xew York,
October 1. L665, and who married March 7, 1»>!)4, Janneken Joosten, a
daughter of Joosl Carelszen, by whom he had six children. William (4),
the second of these six. baptized in New York, October 4, 1696, died Feb-
ruary 4. 177:!, married April 22, 1717. Catharina, daughter of Patrick
Schott or Scott, of Kingston. N. Y. William's children were nine, the
fourth of whom. Petrus Benedict Vredenburgh (5), born July 30, 1721,
died duly 26, 1810, married I Margarita, daughter of Jacobus Schureman,
and (2) Elizabeth Fisher. His children by his two wives were eleven in
number. He removed to New Brunswick, X. J., in 1712. One of his sons,
Petrus Mil. baptized in Xew Brunswick. X. J., August 4, 1745, died August
24. 1823, married December 17, 1772, Margarita, daughter of John Schure-
man. This Peter was for many years a prominent merchant at Xew Bruns-
wick, where he became one of the most influential men in Middlesex
County. He was County Collector of that county for forty-one years (from
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104 BUDSOTS AXI> BERGEN COUNTIES
17m' in L823) and ;i member of the New Jersey Assembly from 1790 t<»
lT'.t.". Hi- also held many local offices, including thai <>i' Justice of the
Peace. Of his two children Petrus (7), born in New Brunswick, October
.-). 177>. removed to Somerville, X. J., where he became one of the most
prominenl physicians of the State, and where he died September L5, 1848.
Be married December 20, 1804, Maria, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Van-
derbilt) Van Dorn, who was bora April 7. 17>.*'.. and died April 2, 1855.
Petrus (7) left a large family ol children, one of whom, Peter Vredenburgh,
Jr. (8), bora ;ii Somerville, X. -I.. October .".1. 1805, entered IIui^ts College
and was graduated therefrom in 1821. He read law at Somerville and
was admitted i«» the New Jersey bar in 1829. Soon afterward he removed
to Freehold, X. J., where In- commenced the practice <>t' his profession. In
due time he was appointed Prosecutor oi the Pleas I'm- Monmouth County,
and soon after was elected to the State Legislature as a member of the
Council. Subsequently he was made an Associate Justice of the Supreme
('(Hiii df Xc\\ Jersey, which position Ik- la-Id for fourteen years from 1854.
.Many of tin- opinions which la- rendered were beautifully expressed and
are continually quoted as precedents. He married April 19, 1836, Eleanor,
daughter of Abraham and Catharine (Remsen) Brinckerhoff, bora duly l.
1815, died March 29, 1884. Judge Vredenburgh died ai Freehold, X. J.,
.Match L'4. 1873. ilis children were Peter, William II.. and James B. (9).
Of these the eldest was Major of the Fourteenth Regiment of New Jersey
Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion. He served as Inspector-General
of the Third Army Corps, mi the staff of General William II. French, and
was presenl and look part in all the battles in which his regiment wa
engaged. At the battle of Oppequan < Jreek, near Winchester, on September
19, 1864, while in command of his regiment, ho was killed while bravely
leading it in a charge.
<>n his mother's side -lames B. Vredenburgh is descended from an old
New -lersey family, the founder of whom was Joris Dircksen Brincker-
hoff, who came to America from Drenthe in the United Provinces in 1638,
settling on Staten Island and subsequently in what is now Brooklyn. His
sons subsequently sett led in Bergen and Hudson Counties.
dames B. Vredenburgh, the subject of this sketch, is of the seventh
generation from William Isaacson Van Vredenburgh, and was born ai
Freehold. X. J.,-October 1. 1844. He received his early education in Free-
hold, was graduated from Princeton University in 1st;:;, read law with
Aaron R. Throckmorton, of Freehold, and was admitted to the bar of New
dorse \ as an attorney in dune. 1866, and as ,-i counselor in June, 1869. Upon
his admission he located in Jersey City and soon came into prominence
as a lawyer of abilitv, industry, and perseverance. In 1872, when the late
Isaac W. Scudder was elected to Congress, .Mr. Vredenburgh formed a
partnership with that eminent man and thus acquired an equal share in
an extensive ami lucrative practice. This partnership continued until the
death of Hon. Isaac W. Scudder in 1881. In l 883 Mr. Vredenburgh associated
himself with Judge Abram <,}. Garretson, and the two have ever since
carried on a large and successful business, practicing in all the State
and United Si.-nes courts, the firm name being Vredenburgh & Garretson.
Mr. Vredenburgh succeeded Ids former partner, Judge Scudder, as counsel
for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and still holds that position. He
has appeared in all the important cases affecting the interests of that com-
pany and in many others of note. He served on the staff of Governor
Joseph D. Bedle with the rank of Colonel, has always taken an active
GENEALOGICAL 105
interest in public affairs, and is ;i member of the American Bar Association.
He has never soughl political preferment, yel he has discharged the duties
of the citizen with characteristic energy and is widely known as a man of
commanding influence. Be has maintained the high reputation, not only
of his father, bu1 of his ancestors, and has displayed those sterling attri-
butes and high legal qualifications which have distinguished the family
for generations.
Mr. V'redenburgh married .Miss Emily II. Van Vorst, a descendant of the
well known Van Vorst family, the founder of which was Cornells Van
Voorst, who came to this country from Holland as early as L636. Their
children are Peter, .lames. John, William. Eugene, and Eleanor.
CORNELIUS BRINKERHOFF, of Secaucus, is the son of .lames D.
and -lane (Alcorn) Brinkerhoff and a grandson of John Brinkerhoff and
Kate Bogert, and was born in West Hoboken, X. •!.. October .'11. LS59. lit'
is descended in the ninth generation from Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoef,
of the Province of Drenthe, in Holland, who left Holland and lived for a
lime in Flushing, a seaporl in New Zealand, whence he came to this conn
try in L638. Settling on Staten Island. N. Y.. he contracted with Cornelius
Melyn, the owner, to reside there; bu1 on account of the murder of some
of the planters by the Indians, in 1641, he secured a release from the con
tract and moved to Brooklyn, Long Island, lie married Susannah Dubbels,
and died January l»'». L661. Of their four children the second, Hendrick
Brinckerhoef, married Claesie, daughter of Cornelius Boomgaert, and
seii led near English Neighborhood in New Jersey. In H>77 he purchased
land on Bergen Hill, and became the founder of a numerous family in
Hudson and Bergen Counties, his children being Geertje, Margrietje, Cor-
nelius, Joris, Derrick, and Jacobus. Most of these as well as their parents
united with the Hackensack church, -lames l>. Brinkerhoff still resides
in West Hoboken, his wife having died in December, LS93.
Mr. Brinkerhoff was educated in the public schools of his native town
and spent much of his early life on the farm. Afterward he was employed
by his uncle. ( '. II. Brinkerhoff, on a tugboal in New York harbor, ami
here developed that mechanical and professional genius which he has
since displayed with so much credit and honor. Becoming an engineer
by trade, he has tilled various responsible positions, and at the present
time is superintendent of the New Jersey Trap Rock Company af Snake
Hill. X. .1. lie is also Chief Engineer of tin- Pire Department of North
Bergen Township, having been appointed to that office in August, L8 ( J8,
and having Keen a leading member of the department for about eighl
years. He is also a member of the Royal Society of Good Fellows. Mr.
Brinkerhoff inherits the sturdy mental and physical qualities of his race
a race famous for its attributes of thrift, industry, integrity, and upright-
ness of character. He has always taken a deep interest in public affairs,
has contributed materially to the growth and advancement of his county,
where his ancestors have resided for more than two centuries, and is active*
in the support of all worthy projects. His attention, however, has been
given chiefly to the duties of the different engineering positions which he
has held, and in which he has achieved marked success. He resides in
Secaucus.
September 9, 1882, Mr. Brinkerhoff married Mary Margaret Leahy.
106
HUDSON AND r.KKCKN COUNTIES
daughter of Thomas and Mary Leahy, of County Tipperary, [reland. They
have oik' daughter, Lillian May, born November L5, L883, in New Fork
City.
belongs to on<
of the inosi numerous and
members thereof having held
CORNELIUS CHRISTI1
influential families in Bergen County
numerous and important positions ol trusl and responsibility, civil and
religious, during the pasl two hundred years. Mis fust American an-
cestoi was James Christie, who emigrated to this country from Aber-
deen, Scotland. i1 is said aboul L685. bu
ih.
C(ii:\l in - CHRIS") IK.
eighl years. Bis children were Jacol
Elizabeth, James, David, and Williai
William Christie (2), the lasl named,
28, L720, died September 28, L809, ma
Demarest. Be was ;i farmer, reside
children: James, Margrietie, Magdal
Jacomina, I >avid, and Sophia.
James Christie (3), known ns " Capi
burgh, Augusl 20, 171 1, died July 3, 1
Facoi
n.
bap
rried
d at
ena,
iina. A ne
probability is thai it
w;is much later, un-
less In* was ;i boy a1
the I ime of Ids emi-
gration. Be \\<-nt to
Backensack in L703,
and from thence,
tin- same year, to
s c li r a a 1 e nburgh,
where, on the 81 h of
September, he mar-
ried M a g d a 1 e n a,
daughter of John
Demaresl (2), and be-
came the owner, by
purchase, or in right
of his wife, from the
D e m a r es1 s, of a
large farm (aboul
300 acres) just norl h
of the North ( Jhurch,
and extending from
the Tiena Kill Brook
w e s t w a r (1 to I lie
S c li r a ;i 1 e n burgh
road. His residence
was on the site re-
cently occupied hy
John H. Anderson.
< >n t his farm some <if
liis descendants have
ever since resided.
lie died in 1768, al
the advanced age of
ninety-six or ninety
ije. Lae, John, Maril ie,
tized ;it Schraalenburgh Augusl
September 20, L743, < Jatharine
Schraalenburgh, and lefl ten
Maria, Peter, John, < !ornelius,
;iin -lames.*' was born at Schraalen-
817. I Ie married Maria Mama, horn
GENEALOGICAL 107
August I, L754, died September L3, 1815. " Captain James " was a farmer
by occupation, bu1 patriotic ;in<l public spirited. Be volunteered his serv-
ices to the Continental cause in 1777, was commissioned Captain, and raised
a company of sixty-five men, with whom he served gallantly. His children
were William, John, Magdalena, .Maria. David. Peter. Eenry, and Jacomina.
David Christie (4), horn December 1. L789, died April 8, LS48, married
March 12. L814, Anna Brinkerhoff.
Cornelius Christie (5), one of their children and the subject of this sketch,
was horn in English Neighborhood mow Leonia), X. -I., December <i, 1835.
lie was graduated from Vale University in the class of 1855. After read-
ing law one year in the Harvard Law School he studied in the offices
(it Mercer Beasley, ai Trenton. N. J., and of Abraham < >. Zabriskie, at
Jersey City. No was admitted i<> the New Jersey bar in February, L860,
ami his practice since has been largely an office practice ami in con-
sultation. For many years he has served as counsel for his own township
and for the hoards of adjoining municipalities. In 1867 he was elected
to the House of Assembly in I he New Jersey Legislature, from the County
of Bergen, ami was re-elected in lsi;s. From L870 to L876 he was editor
and proprietor of the Vew Jersey Citizen, a local weekly journal. Independ-
ently Democratic, published bj him ai Hackensack. lie has been from
time to lime interested in various real estate enterprises ami in develop-
ing ami carrying them forward t<» successful issues. Among others lie
has devoted himself to the development of Leonia, the place of his life-
long residence, and was prominent in effecting its incorporation as a
borough in December, L894. lie was elected the first Mayor of the borough,
and has since held that office. By the insertion of explicit provisions in
his own deeds ami influencing others to follow his example he has been
instrumental in keeping the borough exceptionally free from nuisances
and vicious influences, and in bringing to it a peculiarly desirable popula-
tion.
THE ALLLX FAMILY of Bergen Count;? is descended from Peter Gar-
rets Van Ilalen. The name is probably derived from Eaelen or Ilaalen.
a town in Belgian Limbourg, from which place the family originally hailed.
The name has gone through several forms: Ilaelen, Ilalen, Aelen. Alen,
and Allen. Peter Van Ilalen was the sou of (ierrel Van Ilalen, of the City
of Rotterdam, in Holland, where Peter was born about L687. He came to
America in 1706 and settled in the Paramus section of Bergen County,
where, on the 11th id' August of that year, he married, at Hackensack,
Tryntie Hendricks Hopper. He purchased lauds on the west side of the
Saddle River, where he resided and reared a large family of children, whose
names were Eenry, 1707; Garret, 17))!); William, 1710; Andrew, 1712;
Maritie, 1714; Willempie, L716; Lea. 1718; Rachel, 1723; Andrew, 1725;
and John, 1727, all baptized at Hackensack. The descendants of these by
the name of Allen and Van Allen are very numerous in the western part
of Bergen Count v.
&'
THE BERTIIOLFS, who are very numerous in Bergen County, particu-
larly in the western part, are descended from (Juilliam Bertholf, who was
horn at Slavs in Flanders, and with his wife, Martina Hendricks Verwey,
came to America in 1684 and first located at Bergen in Xew Jersey, where
they joined the church, October (i. 1684, and where their son Henry was
baptized April (i, 1686. Guilliam had studied theology at Middleburgh,
108 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
Holland, and had come to Americn in the capacity of catechiser yoorleser
and schoolmaster, in these capacities he labored ;ii Bergen until L690,
when he removed to Hackensack, where the people so esteemed him thai
in L693 iIm\ smi him to Holland i<> !»<■licensed as :i minister of the Dutch
Church. The Classis of Middleburgh, Holland, ordained and licensed him,
;iikI on liis return in L694 he accepted the pastorate of the " Church on the
Green," ;ii Hackensack, where he preached until liis death. For the firsl
fifteen years of his ministry he is said to have been the only Dutch
preacher in \e\\ Jersey. During his pastorate he had the control of all the
surrounding churches, preaching a1 Tappan, Tarrytown, Staten island,
Raritan, Pompton, Belleville, and The Ponds. He was a well-read and elo
quent man, indefatigable in his work, and organized many churches. His
issue were Sarah, Maria, and Elizabeth (all born ;ii Sluys in Flanders),
and Henry, Corynus, Jacobus, Martha, and Anna, all of whom joined the
Hackensack church. Sarah married David l». Demarest, Maria married
John Bogert, Elizabeth married John Terhune and Rolof Bogert, Henry
married Mary Terhune, Corynus married Anna Ryerson, Martha married
Allien Bogert, Jacobus married Elizabeth Van Emburgh, Anna married
Abraham Varrick. Rev. Guilliam Bertholf purchased from John Berry ;i
farm ni Hackensack, extending from the Hackensack to the Saddle River,
mi which the village of Hackensack is now partly located, and there he
died, universally respected, in L724. All his children remained in Bergen
< 'on niy. over which their descendants are thickly scattered.
JAMES SHREWSBURY ERWIN, one of the leaders of the Hudson bar
and Prosecutor of the Pleas for the County of Hudson, was born in Jersey
City, September 5, 1857. lie is the son of Matthew Erwin and Caroline A.
i( Sore) Erwin and a grandson of John Erwin, a nai ive of Ireland, who came,
a1 an early dale, to New York City, where .Mai I hew was born. On his
mother's side Mr. Erwin is a grandson of William (lore, of Deal, Kent, Eng-
land, the birthplace of both William Gore and his daughter, Caroline A.
One of Mr. Erwin's maternal uncles, William Shrewsbury, was a missionary
lo Africa in L835, while another, James Shrewsbury, for whom he was
named, was a prominenl English barrister in London. John Erwin, his
paternal grandfather, was in the War of L812, being a member of a New
York company called " McQueen's Men."
Judge Erwin received his preliminary education in Public Schools Nos.
1 and .". in Jersey City. He also attended Cooper Institute, New York, and
finished Ids studies under private tutors. Having received a thorough
training, he took up the study of law in the office ol Washington B. Will-
iams, and. in February, L881, was admitted to practice as an attorney in
his native State. In February, L884, he became a counselor. Mr. Erwin
has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his
profession in Jersey City since his admission in L881, and in a large number
of importanl cases with which he has been identified he has displayed high
legal qualifications, a broad and accurate knowledge of the law, and ureal
skill and ability. He has established a reputation as a lawyer and advocate-
in 1890 Mr. Erwin represented his distrid in the General Assembly of
New Jersey, and there magnified an already high reputation. He served as
Distrid Courl Judge from January 26, L897, to February 27, 1898, when he
resigned on his acceptance of the office of Prosecutor of the Pleas of Hud-
son County. His term expires in L903. Judge Erwin is a prominent,
progressive, and public spirited citizen, a man of broad attainments, and a
GENEALOGICAL
109
member of the Union League of Jersey City, of the Minkakwa Club, of
the Royal Arcanum, of the Loyal Additional Royal Arcanum, of Bayview
Lodge, No. 146, Free and Accepted Masons, of Jersey City, and of Amity
Chapter, \<>. 31, Royal Arch Masons, of Bayonne, N. J.
November 22, L882, -Judge Erwin married Martha J. Robinson, and their
children arc Margarei •!., Martha, James R., and Hobart <!. Erwin.
WAIIXKi: W. WESTERVELT, a prominenl member of the New York
bar and a leading citizen of Woodcliff, Bergen County, N. J., is of the
seventh generation from Lubberi Lubbertsen, the emigrant (see sketch on
page 99), and was born in Spring Valley, Rockland County, N. V., on the
L3th of July, L847. Be is descended from a long line of worthy and dis-
tinguished Holland ancestors, his parents being Sylvester Westervelt and
Margarei Blauvelt, liis
grandparents dames
and Ilanna (Ten Eyck)
Westervell and Joseph
C. and Rebecca l Rem-
sen) Blauvelt, and his
great-grandparents A I
berl Westervell and
Cornelius and Bridge!
(Talman) B I a u vel t.
James Westervelt, his
grandfather, was a
private in the War of
L812. These names rep-
resent some of the
oldest and mosl promi-
• icni families in Rock-
land Count y, New
\ oik. those who have
h o i' n e them having
been conspicuous in
military, profes
and business
civil,
si o nal ,
life.
Mr.
quired
Westervelt ac-
ids educational
WARNER W\ WESTERVELT.
training at the New
York State Normal
School in A Ibany, from
which he was grad-
uated in July, L867. At
the age of twenty he
began teaching, first in
the Union Academy at
Belleville, N. Y., later
at Union Hall Academy in Jamaica, L. I., and then at the Polytechnic In-
stitute in Brooklyn, N. Y. Subsequently he taught in the Ashland Public
School at East Orange, N. J., and finally in the schools at Plainfield, N. J.
These various positions gave him a broad and valuable experience as well
as a high reputation for scholarship and ability as a teacher.
110 Hudson a.\i> r.i:i{(;i:.\ counties
Bui teaching was not to be his life work, though he had been eminently
successful, llis tastes, his ambition, and his efforts were for the law :is
;i profession. Having pursued the regular course of legal study, he w;is
admitted t«> the New York bar in May, L880, and since then has practiced
in \c\v York City with marked success, lie has built up a large and suc-
cessful clientage, and as n lawyer and advocate Ims gained a wide reputa-
tion.
Mr. Westervelt is a prominenl citizen and a member of the Reformed
Church of Pascack a1 Park Ridge, Bergen County, near where he resides,
lie is thoroughly identified with the affairs of the community. His alien
lion, however, has been devoted to his professional labors to the exclusion
of public trusts and responsibilities, which have often been urged upon
him. lie married Miss Mary A. Beach, of Orange, N. -I.. and they have six
children: Jennie II.. born in 1870; Burton B., horn in IsTl!; Mary A., horn
in L876; Margaret, born in 1878; Warner \Y.. dr.. born in L883; and
Stuart <\. horn in 1891.
ABRAHAM GARRISON DEMABEST is descended in the seventh gen-
eration from David des Marest, the French emigrant and first American
ancestor of the Demarests (see p. 64). Samuel Demaresl was horn in Ber-
gen County in L778 and removed to ••The Ponds" fin Franklin Township)
while a young man. where he settled and married Miss Maria Garretson,
a descendant of Gerret Gerrets, the Dutch emigrant and first American
progenitor of the Garretson, Garrison, and Van Wagenen families. Sam-
uel Demarest, who was a farmer, died in ls:',7. and his wife in L850. They
left several children, one of whom. Abraham Demarest. the father of
Colonel Abraham G., married Margaret Garrison, and resided at Oakland,
where their son. Colonel Abraham G., was born on the 16th of November,
1830. While the latter was st ill quite young he moved with his parents to
New York City, where he early became i mimed with the military spirit, and
at the age of twenty-two recruited a company for the now celebrated
Seventy-first Regiment, of the City of New York, then known as the
American Rifles. Organized during the "Know Nothing" movement,
this regiment was composed exclusively of American citizens.
Colonel Demarest received his first commission from Governor Horatio
Seymour in is."):;. In 1855 he was asain commissioned, by Governor Myron
II. Clark, while in ISoT he was commissioned by Governor John A. King.
In L860 he removed to Cresskill, X. d. When the civil War broke out he
recruited a company at Closter, X. J., for the Independent Battalion of the
Bergen County Brigade, and in 1862 was commissioned iis Captain by
Governor Charles S. Olden. One hundred and fifty men rendezvoused -it
Trenton under his command, becoming a part of the Twenty-second New
Jersey Volunteer Infantry. When held officers were appointed Captain
Demarest became Major, lie held this rank until January, 1st;::, when he
was commissioned Colonel. The regiment left Trenton for Washington,
September 22, L862, joined the Army of the Potomac, and thereafter partici-
pated in all the campaigns and hard fought battles ^\' t ha t army.
Colonel Demarest is a prominent member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Society of the
Army of the Potomac. After his return to civil life he removed from Cress-
kill to Tonally. X. J., where he has since engaged successfully in mercan-
t ile pursuits.
Colonel Demarest's first wife was Charity Ferdon, daughter of Henry
GENEALOGICAL
111
Ferdon and Prances Tallman. She died in October, 1872. Ee married (2)
Ellen Van Giesen, of Paterson, X. J. His issue by the firsi wife were Mar-
garetta, Maria Louis.-, and Edwin, and by the second wife Clifford, Amy
E., M;uion L.. and II. Le Roy.
WALTEB CHRISTIE is descended from the same American ancestor
as Cornelius Christie (see sketch on page 106), .lames Christie, of Aberdeen,
Scot land, the emigrant, who had ten children or more of (he second genera-
tion, one of whom, William (2), married Catharine Demaresl and by her
had ten or twelve children. One of these was "Captain .lames," and an-
other was Peter \Y. Christie (3), who married Belitie Westervelt, by whom
he had several children, one of
whom was Ralph P. Christie i 1 1.
born at Schraalenburgh, October
L2, lis::, died June L5, 1ST::, mar-
ried Catharine Westervelt, born
October 7. L787, died April 26,
is is. They resided .it Schraalen-
burgh and had three sons: Cor
nelius R. and Doweh, who were
apprenticed to the harnessmah
ing trade, and Peter, who w:is ap
prenticed to the trade of mason.
( Jornelius R. < Jhrisl ie (5) married
Annie < 'hristie. ( me of I heir chil-
dren was Walter ("hristie, the
subject of this sketch.
Walter < ?hris1 ie ((5) was born at
Schraalenburgh, near t he Soul h
Church, November 16, LS63, and
st ill resides on the old homestead
o f his paternal grandfal her.
Ralph < 'hrist ie, purchased by t he
latter March 31, L808, from Wierl
Banta. The locality is now known
as the Borough of Bergenfield, of
which Walter Christie is now the
.Mayor. For many years after his
purchase from Banta, Ralph
Christie conducted a tannery on the farm, and when his sons, Cornelius and
Doweh, reached the age of sixteen he apprenticed them to the harnessmak-
ing trade, which thev successfully followed until the breaking out of the
Civil War.
Walter Christie attended the public schools of his district, and succeeded
his father as a farmer, having inherited the homestead. Tie still conducts
the farm, and has, in addition, built up a thrifty real estate and insurance
business, lb- has also managed with great success a number of large and
important estates, for several of which he has acted as executor. In all
these connections Mr. Christie has gained an honorable standing as a man
of ability, integrity, and enterprise.
He has also been prominent and influential in public affairs, having
served for eight consecutive years as Collector of Taxes for the old Town-
ship of Palisade, which embraced the territory lying between the Hudson
WALTER CHRISTIE.
112 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
River on the cast and the Hackensack River on the wesl .in Bergen County.
In .Mardi. L897, he was circled Mayor of the Borough of Bergenfield, ami
served two years, declining a renomination in t899, and was succeeded by
Mr. Van Valkenburgh, the presenl Mayor. On the 15th of March, L900, he
was elected a member of the Board of < "li< >s< -n Freeholder's of Berg< n ''nun
i_v by the largest majority ever given any candidate for any office in Pali-
sade Township. Mr. Christie lias discharged every duly with satisfaction
and credit, no1 only to himself bu1 to all his constituents, and is widelj
respected and esteemed for those qualities which mark the successful man.
and for thai public spirit, methodical devotion, and genial good nature
which have characterized his life. He is a member of Lodge No. 3,63$,
Knights of Honor, of Tenafly, X. J., and a regular attendanl ai the Chris-
i ian Reformed < fhurch.
Mr. Christie married Maria Van SVagoner, daughter of John Van Wag-
oner, Jr., of Kinderkamack, now Etna, X. J.
JOHN W. HECK, who has been actively and successfully engaged in
the practice of law in Jersey City since ls~<i. was born in Trenton, X. .1..
July 27, L855, and when three years old (1859) came with his parents to
Jersey City, where his father took charge ol the oil works of I. & C.
Moore, located at the fool of Morris Street. His father died in LS65. On
the 1st of April, 1867, young Heck entered the office of the late Stephen
Billings Ransom, with whom he later began the study of law. He became a
clerk and student at law in the office of I.. X A. Zabriskie on September
28, L874, and at the November term of the New Jersey Supreme Courl in
L876 he was admitted to the bar.
After the dissolution of this firm Mr. Heck remained with Lansing
Zabriskie, the senior member, until L884, when Mr. Zabriskie retired from
practice. Mr. Heck then assumed charge of the business as Mr. Zabriskie's
attorney, and upon the hitter's death on March 29, L892, continued as the
attorney I'm- estates for which Mr. Zabriskie had been trustee. Mr. Heck's
practice has been largely in thai field of legal work.
In L884 Mr. Heck was elected a member of the New Jersey Assembly
from the Sixth Hudson District, and during his t< vm introduced the famous
citizens' charter, which was defeated by his Republican colleagues from
Jersey City. He also introduced and secured the passage of the firemen's
tenure of office act, removing the Jersey City Fire Departmenl from
politics, and re-introduced the bill providing for a bridge over the " Gap,"
on Washington Street, which, as in i former attempl to pass this bill, was
defeated, owing to the powerful influence broughl to bear againsl it. In
1885 Mr. I hek was renominated for member of Assembly, bu1 was defeated
by Hon. R. S. Hudspeth. Two years later, in l vv 7. a committee of the
Hudson County Bar Association, of which Mr. Heck was made a member,
was appointed to prepare a bill to provide proper indices in the office of
the register of deeds, and in connect ion with Spencer Weart, a fellow mem-
ber of the committee, Mr. Heck secured the passage of the law providing
for the well-known "block system." The work under this ad was per-
formed by the commission appointed by Judge Manning M. Knapp, of
which Mr. Heck was clerk, and completed in fourteen months. Hudson
County now has the host sei of indices to us land records thai exist in the
Stat--.
Mr. Heck was a charter member of the old Jersey City Athletic Club,
ami served in official capacities during the tirst six years of its existence,
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and in L884 was its President. Be is a member of Amity Lodge, F. and
A. .M., of Jersey City, and of several social and fraternal orders, and a
Trustee, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Bay View Cemetery Association.
Hi- was married October, L884, to .Miss Lillian Benson, of Haverstraw,
.\. Y. They have had two children.
J. HULL BROWNING, prominenl financier and railroad president, was
born at Orange, N. -J.. December 25, L841, and is the son of John Hazzard
Browning and Elizabeth Smith illnlli Browning, both natives of New
London County, Conn. His paternal ancestor, Nathaniel Browning, came
to this country from England in L645 and settled at Warwick. R. L On the
maternal side he descends from Rev. -Joseph Hull, horn in Somersetshire,
England, in L595, who settled in Weymouth, Plymouth Colony, in Ki:;."),
and in L639 was one of the founders of Barnstable, Cape Cod, Mass. The
descendants of Rev. Joseph Null were conspicuous in the Revolutionary
War and in the War of L812, Loth in the army and navy. Colonel John
Hull, grandfather of J. Hull Browning, commanded a regimenl at the
hat t le dt Stonington, ( !onn.
.Mr. Browning was broughl to New York at the age of two years, was
educated in the puhlic schools, and was graduated from the New York
Free Academy mow the College of the City of New York). He engaged
in the wholesale clothing business in New York City with two brothers
until 1883. Upon the death of Charles G. Sisson, his wife's father, he
was left as executor of his estate, and one year later (1875) succeeded him
as President of the Northern Railroad of New . Jersey, a position which
he held till July, L897, when In- sold out his interest in that corporation.
He was left, also, as executor of his father's estate and succeeded him
as Director and later became President of the Richmond County Cas Lighl
Company. He has been prominently and successfullj connected with
numerous railroad and commercial enterprises. He improved the facilities
of the Northern Railroad of N< \\ Jersey, and lmilt some of the finest
railroad depots in the country to accommodate its business.
Although a prominenl and influential Republican, Mr. Browning ban
always refused offers of nominations for puhlic office, hut he has taken a
leading part in every movement made to advance the interests of Bergen
County and of the Town of Tonally, when- he resides. He was for some time
President of the County Republican League and is Vice-President of
Chris! Hospital in Jersey City, a charity which has profited by his business
ability and generous liberality. He was a Presidential Elector on the
Republican ticket in 1892 and L896, hut with the exception of these honors,
and local responsibilities in the Borough of Tonally he has held no offices.
Tn fSTl he married Eva B. Sisson. daughter of Charles (I. Sisson, of
Jersey City, and they have one son, J. Hull Browning, Jr.
HENRY SIMMONS WHITE was horn at Red Bank, Monmouth County.
N. J., July 13, 1S14, and is of the fifth generation of his family in this
country, the founder. Thomas White, coming over from England about
two hundred years ago. His father. Isaac Pennington White, a well known
lumber merchant, who died .January 28, 1876, was the son of Esek White
and Ann Besonet, his wife, of French Huguenot extraction; a grandson
of Thomas White. Jr.; and a great-grandson of Thomas White, Sr., the
immigrant. On the maternal side Mr. White is of English and Irish an
cestry, his mother, Adaline Simmons, being a descendant of the old Sim-
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mons family of Maryland, from which State her parents, Abraham Sim
mons ;ui(] Temperance Jones, removed to Ontario County, X. Y.. where
she was born.
.Mr. White was graduated from the ( 'ollege of Physicians and Surgeons of
New Fork i. Medic; 1 1 Departmenl of Columbia University) in L86 1, but, being
under age, did no1 receive the degree of M.D. until March, L866. He was
Acting Assistanl Surgeon in the United States Armv in the War of the
.^ - ».—■-■<> >•■■>-,
Rebellion, enlisting in L864. Prom L865 to 1868 he practiced medicine ;ii
Red Bank, X. J. He then read law with Hon. William A. Lewis, of Jersey
City, was graduated from Columbia Law School, and in June, 1870, was
admitted to the bar of New York, in October, L872, he was admitted
to practice as an attorney at the bar of New Jersey, and in November,
INT."). as a counselor. Since L872 he has successfully practiced Ins pro-
fession in Jersey City. He was Assistanl Collector of Customs. Port of
New York, from 1878 to L882, delegate from New Jersey to the Repub-
lican National Convention at Chicago in L888, United States Attorney for
the District of New Jersey from 1890 to 1894, and at present is Chairman
of the Monmouth County Republican Committee. He is President of the
Red Bank Board of Trade, Vice President of the Navesink National Bank
of Red Bank, a Director in the Hudson County National Bank of .Jersey
City, and was at one time President of the Hudson Tunnel Railroad Com
pany. He is a member of the Union League of Jersey City and the Grand
Army of the Republic, of which he was Departmenl Commander in 1895
and 1896.
Mr. White was married, November 19, 1878, at Freehold, X. J., to Annie
II.. daughter of Judge Amzi C. McLean and a granddaughter on her
mother's side of John Hull, a Revolutionary soldier who was captured and
held a prisoner by the British. They have one child, Margaretta P.
CHARLES PITMAN BUCKLEY, Mayor of the Borough of Tenafly,
Bergen County, and a prominent member of the bar of New York City,
was born in W'esl Bloomfield, Essex County. X. J., on the 22d of December,
1834. His father. John Buckley, who became a resident of Bergen County
in 1845, was a native of Yorkshire, England, while his mother, Elizabeth
Van Gieson, was descended from Rynier Bastienstianse, a native of Giesen,
a village in North Brabant, who came to this country in 1660 and taught
the first school at Flatbush, P. P. also performing the duties of court
master, rung the bell, kept the church in order, and performed the duties of
precentor, attended to the burial of the dead, etc.. for a salary of 200
florins, exclusive of perquisites. He removed to Bergen, X. .P. where he
and Ids sons Garret, Isaac George, and Rynier boughl land and later pur-
chased and settled on lands north and northeast of Hackensack in Bergen
County. Isaac died in 1703 and a son. Jacob, died in 1704.
Mr. Bucklej received his education in the public schools of New York
City and Bergen County, X'. J., and subsequently took up t he study of law,
being admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court in New York City at the
October term in 1858. Entering at once upon the active practice of his
profession in Xew York, he was in partnership with William G. Wheelrighl
until 1862, and afterward with .lesse C. Smith ami John S. Woodward
under the firm names of Smith A: Woodward, Smith. Woodward X' Buckley,
and Woodward X Buckley. Since January P 1891, he has been associated
with William \Y. Buckley under the firm name of ( '. p. & \\ . \\. Buckley.
In 1873 he was appointed master in chancery by Chancellor Runyon.
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Mr. Buckley has resided in Tonally since L865. Upon the formation of
Palisade Township in L870, and thereafter for aboul ten years, he took an
active part in political matters, attending all the State and county con-
tentions, at the same time declining all nominations for office. In March,
L899, however, he became Mayor of the borough. He is n member of the
Lawyers' Club and of the New York Athletic Club, of NVw York City, and
of the Long Beach Club, of Barnegat, and the Tenafly Club, of Tonally, X. .1.
Mr. Buckley was married in New York City, in L857, to Ella Augusta Mix,
who died in 1884, leaving four children: William \Y. Buckley, a graduate
of Columbia College, Now York City; Thomas .!. Buckley, a graduate of
Stevens Institute. Hoboken, X. .1.; and two daughters.
WILLIAM JAMES TILLEY, pastor of the Protestanl Episcopal Church,
in Harrison, Hudson County, was born in Bristol, R. I., on the L6th of Sep-
tember, L815. He is the «>u of Benjamin Tilley and Susan \Y. Easterbrooks,
a grandson of Benjamin Tilley and Rachel Simmons, a great-grandson of
William Tilley and Catherine Sabine, and a greal greal grandson of Will-
iam Tilley. dr.. and Dor, as. his wife. William Tilley, Jr., was horn in
Exeter, England, aboul L685. He came to Boston, Mass.. where he mar-
ried his wife. Dorcas, in 17."><i. and subsequently went to Newport R. I., and
established himself in business. From that early colonial period until the
presenl the family has been conspicuous in civil and public affairs, and
respected in the communities in which they resided. The name Tilley is
firsl found on tin roll of the companions of William the Conqueror in
England, in L066, and since that dale it is found in every county in Eng-
land, fiance, and Holland, and in L620 in America. The coal of arms of
the Tilleys of Prance is the same as of the family of England today. The
first of the mime in America were Edward and John Tilley, who came over
in the •" Mayflower," and whose names are on the Plymouth monument.
Mr. Tilley is ;i brother of Benjamin F. Tilley. Commander in the United
States Navy, who was in command of the United Stales gunboat, "New
port," of the blockading squadron during tin- late Spanish-American War,
and who in that capacity captured numerous prizes and distinguished him-
self for bravery, patriotism, and loyalty to duly.
Rev. William dames Tilh-y was educated in the schools of his native town
and at North Yarmouth Academy, near Portland, Me. He also took a spe-
cial course of classical study under the direction of Dr. Leonard Bacon, of
Yale University, and under Dr. McClintock, and was graduated from Drew
Theological Seminary in 1871, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Divinity.
In the meantime he had spent three years in the Treasury Department at
Washington.
After graduating from Drew Theological Seminary he was successively
pastor of charges at Sand Lake. X. Y.. Dalton, Mass., Troy, N. Y., and
Brandon, \'t., in which State he remained about ten years. In 1880 he
took a special course in divinity under the direction of Bishop Bissell, of
Vermont, and entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
with which lie has ever since been actively connected. He was called to
Amherst, Mass., in 1888, and remained there about five years, being called
from there January 1, 1893, to Newark (Harrison), N. J., where he still
resides. He has built the Harrison church up to its present flourishing
condition.
Rev. Mr. Tilley has achieved notable distinction in the priesthood, and
during his twenty years with the Protestant Episcopal Church has exerted
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a wholesome influence in advancing its doctrines throughout the com-
munities in which he has held rectorships. Endowed with intellectual abil-
ity of the highesl order, he is an eloquenl speaker, forcible ;in<l convincing
in his arguments, simple and concise in diction, and beloved and esteemed
by all who know him. He 1ms also gained distinction in literature, having
contributed a Dumber of important articles to various magazines and
periodicals. His poems in the New York Independent and other journals
have been favorably received. !!<• \\;is awarded the second prize <>m <>f
four hundred competitors by judges appointed by The Great Divide for
a poem <>n Colorado, and is also the author oi n volume entitled Masters
of the Situation, which lias Keen issued in both trade and subscription
editions. Mr. Tilley married Katharine J. Travis, <d' Cohoes, Albany
Countv, X. Y.
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KDW IN MANNERS, A.M., LL.B., is the son of the late Hon. David Stout
.Manners and Deborah Philips Johnes, and was born in Jersey City, N. J.,
on the 6th of .March, L855. His father was for several terms Mayor of
Jersey City and universally esteemed and respected as one of its best ex-
ecutives and citizens. Be is a grandson of David Manners, a great-grand-
son of John Manners, and a great-great-grandson of John Manners, Sr.,
of Yorkshire, England, who was born in KITS, emigrated to America about
170)1. and married Rebecca Stout, of Middletown, X. .1., a granddaughter of
Kit-hard and Penelope Van Princess Stout, of interesting memory, and the
first in America.. John Manners, Si-., smiled at Upper Freehold, N. J., but
afterward moved to Amwell, Hunterdon County, in this State, where he
died in 177(1. The American branch is connected with the noble family of
Manners in England, which traces its distinguished lineage back to the
time of William the Conqueror, and indeed is of Norman origin.
(>n his mot hoi's side Edwin Manners is a grandson of David Johnes, a
great-grandson of David Johnes, Sr., a great-great-grandson of Stephen
Johnes, and a greal greal great-grandson of Samuel Johnes, dr., who was
the son of Samuel Johnes, Sr.. whose father. Edward Johnes, of Somerset,
England, came to Charlestown (Boston), Mass., with Governor Winthrop
in Hi-">(»; ho later was one of the founders of Southampton, Long Island,
and died there in L659. Edward married Anne, daughter of George
and Alice Griggs, natives of Dinder. The Johnes family in the United
States may be distantly related to that of Dolan Cothi, in Wales, which
traces to Godebog, King of Britain, but is directly descended from the
Johnes family of County Berks, County Salop, and London and Somerset,
England, the branches living in those counties and also in Bristol all
proceeding from the same original stock. Sir Francis Johnes was Lord
Mayor of London in L620. fid win Manners's great-grandfather, John
Schenck, was a Captain in the Revolutionary War, took an active part in
the principal battles in the Slate, ami by a well-planned ambuscade pre-
vented the British troops from overrunning Hunterdon County. His
grandfather, David Manners, who married Captain Schenck's daughter
Marv, was an officer in the War of lsii'. and won honorable mention in
several important engagements. On the maternal side Mr. Manners's
great-great-grandfather, Stephen Johnes, married Grace Fit/- Randolph,
whose brother Nathaniel gave to Princeton the land upon which Nassau
Hall is erected, and his great-grandfather, David Johnes, was a Major in
the Revolution and rendered efficient service in establishing American
independence.
Edwin Manners early displayed unusual intellectual abilities, and in pre-
paratory school and college won prizes for composition and select and
original speaking which distinguished him as a scholar. From his earliest
school days he exhibited a disposition for the world of letters. While a
student at Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, he was connected with the
(Jiiill. a school paper, and while pursuing his studies at Sing Sing-on-the-
Hudson was the editor of the Mount Pleasant Reveille, the organ of the Mount
Pleasant cadets. During his senior year at Princeton University, from
which he was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1S77, he was one of the editors
of the Nassau Literary Magazine, and on class day delivered to the dis-
tinguished class of 1S77 a characteristic presentation address. Princeton
conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts in 1880.
After leaving college Mr. Manners began the study of law with Collins
& Corbin, of Jersey City, and at the same time took a course at the Co-
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liitiiliin Law School in New York City, graduating from thai institution
with the degree of LL.B. in 1879. In November, L880, he was admitted to
the bar, and since then lie has been actively and successfully engaged in the
practice of his profession in his native city. Although interested in mu-
nicipal matters and politics, he has declined offers of political preferment.
A large portion of his time is taken up with the care and managemenl of
his own property and business affairs.
.Mr. Manners has ably assisted those who have procured for Jersey <ii.\
an improved water supply and other public improvements. Greater Jer-
sey <*it\ has also claimed Mr. Manners's attention, and received his favor-
able comment. Many advantages are to he gained in bringing the various
municipalities of Hudson County under one name and government. This
unity of developmenl in particular is much to be desired. Willi the exten-
sion of rapid transil facilities the last of apparenl excuses for delaying
consolidation has disappeared, and ii would seem a needless expense to
keep up separate charters in contiguous towns.
\s a landlord Mr. .Manners is liked by his tenants, and their praise is in
evidence of his liberality and forbearance. He is a member of the Hudson
County Bar Association, the University and Palma <'lnl>s of Jersey City,
the Princeton Club of New York City, the Sons of the American Revolution,
and other societies. Of literary aptitude, he writes occasionally for news-
papers and magazines. He is unmarried.
PETEB E. MOORE, merchant. Borough Collector, and since ls-TT Post
master of Schraalenburgh, Bergen County, X. -I.. was born in New York
Cits <»n the LSth of October. 1842. He is the son of Peter D. and Elizabeth
(Voorhis) Moore, his mother being of Holland Dutch descent. Samuel
Moore ami his wife Naomi emigrated to America from the Island of Barba
does. \Y. P. in L671-72. Barbadoes was then under the control of England,
and both Samuel and his wife were English people. They landed and
located at Boston, where their son. Francis Moore, was born about 1<>74.
Francis Moore came to New York and from thence in L69C to Bergen
County (English Neighborhood), where he married Jannetje Laurens,
daughter of Thomas Laurens, of Newtown, L. I. They eventually settled
:it English Neighborhood (near Ridgefield), in Bergen County, where some
of their descendants have ever since lived. He had several children, the
youngesl of whom was Samuel, who married Sara (Michaels) Smith, an-
other el the original settlers in Ridgefield Township. From this couple
have sprung mosl of the Moores in Bergen County.
Peter E. Moore was educated in the public schools of Bergen County,
whither his parents removed from New York Citv when he was a mere boy.
i *
He htt school at about the age of seventeen and went to work on his
father's farm, and in the active and healthful duties of an agriculturisl
continued until he was thirty. This period was one of constant usefulness.
He laid the foundation of a sturdy physique, acquired habits which insured
success, ami gained a reputation for industry, enterprise, and integrity.
P.ui farming was not destined to be his life work. In L873 he engaged in
the grocerj business in Schraalenburgh, which he has ever since followed.
building up a large ami successful trade. He has been for main years
one of the principal merchants in thai village. In )s77 he was appointed
Postmaster of Schraalenburgh, ami by successive re-appointments has con-
tinued to hold thai important position. Mr. Moore is also Collector of the
borough, having held that office since L895. He is a regular attendant al
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the Dutch Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh, and in every capacity has
distinguished himself for ability, sound common sense, enterprise, and pub-
lic spirit.
Mi. Moore married Miss Charlotte Christie, and has had five children —
i luce sons and t wo daughters.
AI'.KAM I. AURYANSEN, of Hackensack, whose career as a locomotive
engineer dates from L852, is the son of John and Elizabeth (Auryansen)
\ iiryansoii, and was horn in Closter, Bergen County, N. J., April 5, 1822.
His ti rst American ancestor was Lambert Arianse, who came from Holland
to America in M^- and became one of the original patentees of the Tappan
patent. Most of liis descendants adopted the name of Smith and are scat-
tered principally throughout Rockland County, X. Y. Lambert Arianse (or
Auryansen) married in New York, in April, 1682, Margaretta (lerrets Blaw-
vell. a_dauijhl»-r of another of the Tappan patentees, and resided in Rock-
land County. Two of his 3ons, John and Arie (Aaron), who married re-
spectively Margaretta Meyers and Cornelia Naugle, settled near Closter,
Bergen County, X. J. The subjeel of tins sketch is descended from Arie
(Aaron) Auryansen and Cornelia Naugle, who liad children John, Resolvent,
\ iiiiiiie. Garret, Ann. and Maria. Mr. Auryansen's paternal grandparents
were Daniel and Tiny (Cole) A uryansen, Daniel being a son of .John Auryan-
sen. His maternal grandparents were Garretl and Elleanor |Yan Valen)
Auryansen and liis great great grandfather Aaron Auryansen. above men-
tioned.
Mr. Auryansen received liis educational training in the public schools of
Harrington Township in Bergen County, and in hard work and study de-
veloped those traits which have marked his long and honorable career. As
a boy he exhibited unusual mechanical genius and a strong inclination for
thai line of industry, and leaving school at the age of seventeen began
to learn the trade of blacksmith. In L843 he engaged in this business for
himself and followed it with great success for eight years, leaving it in 1851
to acce] i a position as fireman on the Erie Railroad. In 1852 he was pro-
moted to locomotive engineer, and in this capacity has ever since been in
active service. He is one of the oldest and best known engineers on the
Erie system, his career on that road covering a period of forty eight years.
His profession has always been of a nature which precluded his entrance
into public and political life, yet he has from the first taken a deep interest
in local matters, and in Hackensack. where he has so long resided, he has
exerted no small influence upon the general welfare. As a member of the
Dutch Reformed Church he has been active in the support of those move-
ments which benefit a town and its people. He is a loyal, public spirited
citizen, a firm friend, and a man of unswerving integrity.
Mr. Auryansen married Cornelia Haring, whose ancestors were also early
residents of Bergen County. They have four children: John, Maria, Ellen,
and Eliza.
ROBERT LINN LAWRENCE, one of the prominent members of the
bar of Jersey City, was born in Sparta, Sussex County, N. J., October 4,
L851. He is the son of Thomas and Margaret Rembert (Taylor) Lawrence
and a great-grandson of Thomas Lawrence, of "Morrisvale," Sussex County,
who was appointed .Judge of the Sussex County Court of Common Pleas
in February, lxiil. His great great-grandfather, Lewis Morris, was one
of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and Judge of the Court
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of Admiralty from L760 i<> 1876, and the son of Lewis Morris, Sr., who was
Judge of the Courl of Admiralty in l~:;s. having jurisdiction in the Prov-
inces of New Y<>rk. New Jersey, and Connecticut. Lewis Morris, the father
of Judge Lewis Morris, Si .. Ias1 named, was < rovernor of X<-\\ Jersey, Judge
of the Courl of Common Pleas in L692, and Chief Justice of the Supreme
Courl of New York from 171.", to 17.".::.
Robert L. Lawrence thus numbers among his ancestors sonic of the
mosl distinguished men in tin- professional history of New Jersey and
New York, and at an early age developed those sterling qualities which
characterize his race. Be was graduated from Princeton College in the
class of 1873, with honors, and afterward read law with Thomas Anderson,
of Newton, N. J., being admitted to the bar of the State as an attorney in
November, 1 s 7<i. and as a counselor in June, 1885. Since L876 Mr. Lawrence
has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession
in Jersey City, where he steadily rose to prominence among the members
of the Hudson County bar. Endowed with broad intellectual qualifications,
with superior judgmenl and greal energy, he lias through his own efforts
achieved distinction as an aide industrious, and painstaking lawyer, and
is highly esteemed and respected by all who know him. He was associated
with Stewarl Rapalje in conducting tin- Criminal Laic Magazine from the
commencemenl of the work until L883 and in the preparation of thai valua-
ble and well known work entitled Rapaljt and Lawrence's Law Dictionary.
Those enterprises as well as a number of other important achievements
in ih. held of legal literature have gained for him a wide reputation in
Wei h legal and literary circles.
Mr. Lawreme was married on the L8th of December, 1893, to Lillian M.
Fisher, daughter of the hire John H. Fisher and Jeannette P. (Walters)
Fisher, of Jersey City, N. J., where they reside.
JOSEPH CHILD, Streel Commissioner of the 'hewn ,,f Kearny, N. J.,
is the son of George and Bridgel (Noon) Child, and was born in Bradford,
Yorkshire, England, on the 26th of September, 1S49. The family is an old
one in both England and America, and is descended from three brothers
who figure conspicuously in the early shipbuilding interests of the English
nation, and who received titles for their activity in both industrial and pub-
lic affairs. Mr. Child's parents wer< both born and married in England,
and spenl th< ir active lives in thai country. There he received an excelh m
private school education, and after completing his studies he engaged in the
business of brick contracting, which he followed successfully until L873,
when he came to America. Locating tirst in New York City, he soon
mastered and for some time followed the trade ol iron moulder. In
1884 he removed to Kearny, Hudson County, N. J., where he still resides.
Here he resumed his trade for a few years and then engaged in the meal
business for himself. He followed thai line with marked success until he
was obliged to abandon i1 in order to devote all his energies to the public
positions which his fellow-citizens conferred upon him.
\- a stanch and consistenl Republican Mr. Child has taken an active
interesl in the a Hairs of his adopted town, and for several years has wielded
an importanl influence in party councils and municipal matters. He has
served as Water Purveyor and Streel Commissioner of the Borough of
Kearny with greal satisfaction and still holds these positions. He is an
active member of the Exempl Fire Departmenl <d' Kearny and has held
the positions of Foreman and Assistant Foreman. He is a member of the
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Methodisi Episcopal Church, ;i prominenl member of Victory Lodge,
Knights and Ladies of the Golden Star, of Arlington, public spirited, patri-
otic, and enterprising, thoroughly interested in the affairs <>t' the com
munity, and highly respected as ;i liberal and energetic citizen. His integ-
rity of character, his faithfulness in all business relations, and the close at-
tention whirl: he has given to public duties have broughl him into more
than local prominence, and stamp him as a man of the highesl attributes.
Though born and reared in England, he is descended from ancestors who
came to America during the early history of the colonies and fought with
distinction in the Revolutionary War.
Mr. Child was married first to .Mail ha Ann Berry, daughter of William
and Sarah (Greaves) Berry, of Oldham, England. She died leaving two
children. William and Matthew, lb' married for his second wife. Eva
(Jilbert (nee Revere), daughter <>f Judge Revere, of Harrison, N. -I. She
died January -'â– '>. is!)!). For his third wife he married .Mis. Annie Eastwood.
of Kearny. X. -I.. where they reside.
PETER BENTLEY, Sn. : was one of the most illustrious members of the
bar ot the State of New Jersey, and was (peculiarly identified with Jersey
City as one of t wo or three lawyers who tirsl practiced in t hat municipality.
Mr. Bentley was the son of Christopher and Eleanor (Althouse) Bentley, of
English descenl upon his father's side. I lis mother's family was one of the
ancient Holland stocks of New Amsterdam. Their sen was born in LS05
upon a farm in the village of Half Moon. Saratoga County. X. Y.
Young Bent ley's services were required upou the farm during the sum
mer season, and he enjoyed only such educational facilities as the crude
disirict schools of that pioneer country afforded. The very excellent edu-
cation, classical as well as English, which he enjoyed during life was
wholly the result of his own application in reading and study. In L825,
after twenty years spenl upon t he farm, he came to Jersey City and entered
the employ of Yates & Mclntyre, who conducted a species of printing busi-
Hess. He remained with them for live years, and during this time de-
termined to adopt the more ambitious profession of a lawyer, which had
been his desire from early boyhood. Thus early in L830 he entered the law
office of Samuel Cassedy, whose practice extended throughout the old
County of Bergen, from Rockland County in New York to Kill von Kull.
Mr. Bentley read law assiduously, and was soon practicing with unusual
success in the justices' courts, lie gained the confidence of the old Dutch
farmers of Bergeu County, and became in a special sense their lawyer. He
was admitted to the bar of New Jersey at the May term of the Supreme
Court in L834, and in the September term of is:!!) was admitted as a coun-
selor, with the full privilege of practice in all the higher courts of the
State. But in 1s:::;. a year previous to his admission even to ordinary prac-
tice, we find him holding the office of City Clerk, or " Clerk of the Board of
Select Men of .Jersey City." as the title reads, in the rising young munici-
pality which lie had chosen as the scene of his life's work. Nothing could
bear more striking testimony than this fact to the universal confidence and
esteem which he inspired. Later on. as a full-fledged lawyer, he became
the attorney of the selectmen of Jersey City, and represented them in 1842
in the celebrated case of the selectmen against Dummer, in which he
triumphantly established the doctrine of dedication by maps.
In 1843 Mr. Bentley was elected to the office of Mayor of Jersey City.
which, as has been well said. " was not so much a matter of party success
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;is an expression <»t' confidence and good will among neighbors." During
i his same year 1 1843) was inaugurated the famous case in which Mr. Bentley
maintained the righl of .Mrs. Bell t<> lands under water, <>n the western
shore <»!' the Eludson River, which had descended to her by will and been
re-affirmed by an ad of the New Jersey Legislature. This controversy was
carried from courl i<» court, and contested in all the higher courts in the
State during the greater pari of a quarter of a. century, when .Mr. Bentley
finally triumphed, i<> I hi greal surprise of those who had prophesied failure.
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This case well illustrates the persistence which was so characteristic a
feature and such an importanl elemenl of his success in all his cases
1 hroughoul his life.
.Mi-. Bentlej also contributed largely toward the commercial upbuilding
oi Jersey City. Finding the banking facilities wholly inadequate to the
needs of the growing city, and having the lull confidence of capitalists, in
L853 he organized tin- Mechanics" and Traders' Bank and became its Presi-
dent. In this position he manifested remarkable business abilities, and to
his persona] efforts tin institution is principally indebted lor its prosperity.
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Be also became a prominent Trustee of the Providenl Institution for
Savings in Jersey City, and continued as its legal adviser until his death.
Similarly, he was Vice-Presiden1 of the Savings Bank of Jersey City, a
Director and at one time Treasurer of the <!as Company, and Treasurer of
the Jersey City and Bergen Plank Road Company. Beginning with an ex-
tensive purchase of land in L854, he was also a pioneer in the development
of real estate interests on the western slope of Bergen Hill. Here he built
the elegant mansion which still remains the home of his wife. The activity
he manifested outside the strict lines of his profession, as shown in these
various enterprises, gives us good evidence not only of his unusual business
abilities, hut of the ureal confidence which was reposed in him by shrewd
business men en every hand.
" Peter Bentley," says Jacob Wean. Esq., of Jersey City, " was one of the
active men who laid the foundations and who helped to plan our municipal
corporations, and draft our laws and charters, upon which the institutions
of this great county have been reared." Mr. Bentley also interested himself
in the cause of his fellow-citizens to prevent municipal extravagance and
unjust and wasteful tax extortion. Finding thai the accumulations of un-
paid taxes of many years had imposed burdens upon millions of dollars
worth of property which wen- absolutely unjust and unendurable to the
1 »m per t \ holders, be conceived the idea oi a com mission composed of leading
citizens which should readjust these burdens upon an equitable basis, ad
vantageous to the suffering citizens and the city treasury alike. Accord
ingly, in ls7:'». he broughl his plan before the consideration of the Legis-
lature, and had the pleasure of se< ing it enacted into law. Under its pro-
visions a com mission was appointed with Judge tiaines, an ex-< rovernor and
ex-Justice of the Supreme Court, at its head. The work accomplished by
this commission has been simply invaluable to Jersey t'ity, and has satis
factorily solved the s1 formidable problem which ever threatened the
welfare of the municipality. The accomplishment of this plan of relief
was the last ureal service which Mr. Bentley rendered to his fellow-citizens
ere he passed away, on the 26th of September, L875.
lie was a rate gentleman, peculiarly attached to his wife and children,
most gracious and hospitable in his home, sincere and earnest in his re-
ligious faith, and so honest and honorable in all the affairs of life that the
faintest breath was never raised to question his perfect integrity.
on the L3th of October, L842, Mr. Bentley was married to Miss Margaret
E. Holmes, of Jersey City, the descendant of an ancient English family.
Highly cultivated, and of the most kindly disposition, she was the devoted
companion of Mr. Bentley, and was a source of strengtli and inspiration to
him until the day of his death. She still survives him, as she does also her
son. Peter Bentley, Second, and holds their memory in reverent affection.
In addition to this sen. a sketch of whose life is also given here, they were
blessed with but one other child, a daughter.
PETER BENTLEY. Second, the only son of the subject of the previous
sketch and the heir of all his hopes, succeeded his father in the respect and
affection of the community, just as he succeeded him in his legal practice
and other business affairs. Never was a father more wrapped up in a son,
and never did a son respond more perfectly to the high ideal of his father,
lie was born in Jersey City on the 5th of December, 1845, and received
his education entirely at home and in his father's law office. As a boy he
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manifested ;i most amiable disposition, and was much given to serious
reading— the thorough investigation <>f historical questions, and peculiarly
<>!' everything concerning his father's ;i Ffairs and importanl law cases. 'I 1 lie
Rev. Van ('leek was ili<" boy's tutor, and he grounded him in a mosi
thorough education. When ;i boy, during his summer vacations and <>n
Saturdays, In- used i<> accompany his father in his office, and there <'<>]p.\
/
papers and entertain himself with various law authorities. Mis father en-
couraged him in think thai he was thus <>r greal assistance, and presently,
indeed, he was enabled in copy briefs and make citations, He, with a skill
which was of real service.
As his general education was finished, and he began i«> study law in
earnest, a room in his father's office was especially fitted up for his use.
and here he mastered the intricacies of legal hue and prepared himself for
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the examination which must precede his admission i<> the bar. It has been
said thai the hopes of the lather were completely wrapped up in the sou.
The desire of the former thai the 3'oung man should do well in the examina-
tions was so greal that, as the ordeal approached, his anxiety quite un-
nerved him, and he was obliged to absenl himself during the examination.
I n 1 his suspense his relief can be imagined when a neighbor brought him the
news of the result, remarking with a laugh, "You need not have felt
anxious, Bentley, for your son has carried off the honors, with the highest
standing in the entire class of thirty candidates who took the examination."
And such indeed was the fact. Immediately upon his son's admission to
the bar, the elder Mr. Bentley formally turned over his office to him,
placed all his affairs in his hands, ami gave him the full revenues of their
joint practice. Tims gradually the elder lawyer withdrew from active
practice, devoting his energies in other directions, until the full burden of
Ids extensive legal business was fully set t led upon his son's shoulders.
Nor was the latter in any way unworthy to take his father's [dace. lie
maintained the same relative position in the community as his father, dis-
played similar abilities and the same unimpeachable integrity, and inspired
everywhere the same widespread confidence and respect. He frequently
championed the cause of his fellow citizens, as his father had done. For
example, he was the successful counsel in proceedings whereby the unjust
water rents on vacant properly, and upon property where the water privi-
leges were not used, were set aside and made inoperative, with thus a great
saving effected to t he taxpayers. Again, at the time of his death, he was the
representative of the citizens in proceedings instituted to set aside the
whole tax levy on the ground of gross inequality in its assessment. But his
practice was most remarkable for his handling of commercial entangle-
ments and the adjustment of the affairs of greal corporate enterprises, lie
manifested greal ability in settling disputes, and thus keeping them out
of tin- courts, lie was the counsel for the Standard Oil Company, one of
the leading counsel of the Lehigh \ 'allev Railroad Company, and counsel for
the Barber Asphalt Company, of New York City, and the Provident Insti-
tution for Savings and the Consumers <ms Company, of Jersey city. He
also rendered important legal services to the Pennsylvania Railroad
< Jompany.
Mr. Bentley was a man of remarkable powers of memory. He kept the
most minute details of all of his cases in his mind, and could lay his finger
on any given fuel at any time. After his father's death he, in 1.875, formed
a legal partnership with Charles EL Hartshorne, under the firm name of
Bentley & Hartshorne. This endured until .January 1, 1886, when Mr.
Hartshorne was obliged to withdraw on account of ill health. From this
time until his own death Mr. Bentley practiced alone. This sad event oc-
curred on the 30th of April. 1888, when he was in the prime of life, and it
was considered a public calamity by the whole community. He was never
strong in constitution, yet did not himself realize this fact, and often worked
beyond his strength. He was of a refined, sensitive, and sympathetic na-
ture, benevolent and whole-hearted like his father, and as deeply attached
to his own family.
November 30, 1869, Mr. Bentley married Miss Emma Parker, of Jersey
city, daughter of Captain Robert Parker, who was the owner of Watts
Island, in Chesapeake Bay. where he died and was buried. This island has
been the old family patrimony for many generations, since its first occupa-
tion in early colonial days. Their children were Eleanor, born July 13,
12(i
nrnsiiN ami i v i : u< ; 1 :x counties
1 s 7 1 . now the wife of Warren H. I >i xon, son of Judge Dixon, of Jersey City;
Emily, born December 5, L872, now Mrs. Joseph M. Rector; Peter Bentley,
third, born February «'». L874; Richard Parker Bentley, born September 25,
1st.".: John, bom June L6. L879; Eugenie, born December 23, 1881; and
Parker, boi n June L6, L884.
PETEB BENTLEY, Third, eldesl son of Peter Bentley, Second, and Emma
(Parker) Bentley, was born in Jersey City on the 6th of February, L874.
He pursued Ins studios at Princeton College for a time and subsequently
read law with Warren Dixon. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey
PETER BENTLEY, 3d.
before the Supreme Courl November 27, is!).~i. and since then has been
actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in
Jersey City. Mr. Bentley has displayed marked legal qualifications, and
though a young man lias already gained distinction as a lawyer and advo-
cate. He is prominent l\ identified with public alia its and respected and es-
teemed hv all who know him.
THE BLACKLEDGES of Bergen County are descended from John
Blackleach, of Boston, and his second wife. Elizabeth (daughter of Ben-
jamin Herbert). One of their three children, Philip Blackledge, came, it
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is said, from Wethersfield, Conn., to New York, in 1709, and on November
20, 1710. married Willempie ' Jonwell, born in England in 1680.
Philip Blackledge removed from New York to Elizabethtown, X. J., early
in \T-->. and there remained until his death in 1761. His will was proved
and recorded at Trenton, N". J., July 11, 1761. He was a man of some means
and wrote the title " Gentleman " after Ids name. By Ids will lie gave Ids
children each five shillings and Hie balance of Ids estate, lands and monev,
folds wife absolutely. His issue were eiglri children, four baptized a1 New
York and four ai Elizabethtown, X. J.: Annatie, 1713; Philip, 1716;
Zacharias, 1718; Philip, 1720; Catharine, 1730; Jacob, 17:'.."); Sarah, 1740;
and Benjamin.
Benjamin Blackledge (2) was born ai Elizabethtown, X T . J., August 2f>,
171*'.. While slill a young man ho went on foot from Elizabethtown to
Closter and taugh! school there, the firsi one in the northern part of Ber-
gen County. Here ho married, April L'o, 1770. Cathelyntie Tallman. He
became the most prominent man in the northern part of Bergen County,
was the Mist Town Clerk of Harrington Township in 177o. a Justice of the
Peace, a Judge of the Comity Couni of Common Picas, and tilled other
township and county offices. lie was a splendid penman, of which fad
hundreds of old deeds and other documents still extant hear witness. TTe
died at Closter, November 27, 1815, and Ids wife died October 5, 1836. TTis
issue were Benjamin, 1770; Maria, 1 77*_' : Cornelius, 1774; Sarah. 1776;
Jacobus, 177!»; Peter. 1782; Henry, L784; Jacob, I7^i; and Elizabeth, 1788.
These married as follows: Benjamin, Deborah Westervell and LeaPowless;
Maria. Daniel Van Sciver; Cornelius, Rachel Tow less: Sarah, Seba P.
Bogert; Peter, Elizabeth 1). Naugle; Henry. Catharine Manning; and
Elizabeth, Cornelius Van Valen. Their descendants are slid numerous
throughout Bergen ( '< >u n t \ .
THE BLANCHES of Bergen County are descended from Richard Blanch,
a uative of Bristol, England, where he was born in 1704. He came to
America prior to 1732, and settled near Closter in Bergen County. Tn
17.".:'. he married ('lassie Van Giesen, of New York. He owned lands in
what was then called the "Closter Mountains," on the Palisades of the
Hudson, lie died September 0. 1707. TTis issue were Ann. 1734; Isaac,
17:'.0; Thomas: and Cornelia, 171.",. of these Ann married John Blawvelt,
of Tappan. Isaac married Geertje Johns Haring. Cornelia married David
Smith. All of Richard Blanch's children settled at Tappan and in the
upper part of Bergen County. The issue of Isaac Blanch were Isaac,
.Martina. Richard, Abram, Thomas. John Henry, and (lassie.
Thomas Blanch (2) was one of the most prominent men in Bergen County
in his day. He was a magistrate and held other township and county
offices. He raised and was ( 'aptaiu of a company of volunteers from Bergen
County during the Revolutionary struggle. He was born near Closter in
1710. and died June ::, 1825. He married, in 4 701, Erne Johns Mabie, of
Tappan, who was born in 1741. and died August 28, 1825. Their issue
were thirteen children: Elizabeth, 1762; Classie, 1763; Ann, 1705; Rieh-
ard, 1700; Susanna. 1769; John. 1770; Thomas, 1<74; Isaac, 1776; Eliza-
beth, 1770. and Cornelia, 1779 (twins); Effie, 1783; and Lea, 1786, and
Rachel, 1786 (twins). The descendants of these are scattered over Bergen
County, particularly the northern part.
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.MAKKIIAM E. STAPLES, of Jersey City, President of the New Jersey
State Board of Prison [nspectors, was born in New York City on the loth
of December, L850. lb- is the son <>t John Buthune Staples and Elizabeth
Douglass Young, daughter of William Young, liis paternal grandfather
being s<-th 1'. Staples. The family is an old and prominenl one in Ameri-
can history ami for generations have been influential citizens.
.Mr. Staples was edu-
cated a1 Dwighl and Bol-
brook's School in < Mint on.
X. Y., and ai Pough-
keepsie (New York) .Mili
i a r y Ens1 ii ate. After-
ward hf spciii one year
as draughtsman with -I.
A. Wood, a prominenl
architecl in Poughkei p-
sie, and three years as
draughtsman and rod-
man in the < 'i-oioii Aque
dnci Department, New
York City. For fourteen
months he was brakeman
and baggagemaster of
the Iowa division of the
Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad, and for
twenty-seven years he
has been associate d wi1 h
the Fa-it' Railroad as a>\[-
ductor, yardmaster, sta-
tion master, superinten-
dent of floating equip-
ment and lighterage, and
general agent of the New
York terminal, which re-
sponsible posii ion he qow
holds. In all those a
pacities Mr. Staples has
displayed untiring energy
and devotion to duty.
greal executive ability,
and all those qualities which win both resped and approval.
In public life he has also achieved distinction. He has been an In-
spector of the New Jersey state Prison for eighl years and Pr< sident of the
Board of Inspectors for five years, and has lour years more to serve, FTe
was appointed to this office by Governoi Abbetl and was re-appointed by
Governors YVerts and Voorhees, and has discharged its duties with uni-
versal satisfaction and approval. Mr. Staples is a prominenl member of
St. Mary's Episcopal Church of Jersey City, of the I>. McLaughlin and
Robert I >a\ is Associal ions, and of the < 'ai terel < "lab. all of Jersey < Mty. and
ot' the Commercial ami Railroad Clubs of Now York City. He is a life
MAKKIIAM E. STAPLES.
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member <>t' Jersey City Lodge, 211, B. 1'. (>. F.. and Vice-President of the
National Board of Steam Navigators.
Mr. Staples was married, in 1880, to .Miss Mary Willis, of Jersey City.
They have two children, Francis George and Mary \Y.
EDWARD EVERSON, of West Hoboken, X. J., who has boon associated
with the Delaware Coal and ('anal < 'onipany ever since 1863, was born at
Homestead, North Bergen, Hudson County. January 14, 1S40. His father.
Benjamin Everson, was born at Pompton Plains. X. J. nis mother's
maiden name was Sarah Biker. Mr. Everson is of Holland lineage, being-
descended from the Evertsens who settled in New York two centuries ago.
He received his education in the public schools of North Bergen, and ;it
the tender age of eleven began working on a farm in Bergen County.
Thrown upon his own resources at that age. he has ever since depended
upon himself. He followed farming until he had reached the age of
seventeen, when he entered upon the trade of gold beating, which he
followed for a year and a half, lie then entered the employ of Edward
Ackerman as an apprentice at the blacksmith trade, continuing in that
capacity until L862. in that year he enlisted in Company E, Eighth New
York Volunteer .Militia, tor three months, and at the expiration of his
term of enlistment was honorably discharged. He then entered the service
of the Federal Governmenl at the Brooklyn Xavv Yard, where he re-
mained for a short time, and in L863 he associated himself with the Dela-
ware Coal and Canal Company, with which he lias ever since remained.
Hiiiing his long and active service of over thirty three years in tin employ
of this corporation .Mr. Everson lias discharged every duty with singular
fidelity and great satisfaction, and from the lirst has enjoyed the respect
and confidence of both employers and associates. He is in the fullest
sense a self made man. having depended entirely upon himself since the
early age of eleven years.
.Mr. Everson is an ardent and consistent Republican, a member of the
Reformed church, and ;i member of tin [ndependenl Order of odd Fellows.
In -Inly. L863, he married Miss Ellen Gotchuns (deceased), by whom he had
three children: Edward, Jr. (deceased), Eliza Ann (deceased), and Maud
Alice, who resides with her father.
EGBERT SEYMOUR, Mayor of tin- City of Bayonne and widely known
as a merchant in thai part of Hudson County, was born in Ulster County,
X. Y.. December L5. L850, the son of dames Seymour and Sarah Ann,
daughter of David and Elenor Radiker, and grandson of (diaries and Eliza
Seymour. His boyhood was not unlike those of other country lads. He
attended the district schools, spent six months at the academy in Mont-
gomery, Orange Comity, and another six months at the academy in Xew-
bnrgh.' in the same county, in New York State, and subsequently served
as a clerk for twelve years. These advantages, however, afforded him an
opportunity to lay the foundation upon which he has built a successful
career. From a clerk he became a. merchant, and for eighteen years has
been actively and successfully engaged in the butter and cheese trade in
New York City.
Mr. Seymour is one of the foremost citizens of his adopted city, a man
nniversallv esteemed and respected, and prominent and influential in every
movement and especially in political a II airs. For two years he rendered
130 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
efficienl servic< as ;i member of the Board of School Trustees. As Mayor
of the City of Bayonne he has seised three terms. He has been instru-
mental in advancing the best interests of the community, in 1 mi Mini; up the
city, and in promoting many importanl public improvements. When his
present term expires on May i. L901, he will have filled the office for six
consecutive years, and ii is sale to say thai no man ever discharged its
duties willi more fidelity and honesty of purpose. Mr. Seymour is respected
and esteemed tor liis ability and integrity of character, and in every ca-
pacity has gained the confidence of nil who know him. He is a promineni
member of the Newark Bay Boa1 Club, <>l the Exempl Firemen of Bayonne,
of < 'ouncil Nn. 695, Royal Arcanum, and of Council No. 434, Benevolenl
and Protective Order of Elks, of Bayonne. He is also n leading member of
the Bayonne City Democratic Club and of the Rober! Davis Association of
Jersey < !ity.
Mr. Seymour married, October 22, isl.'k Marietta II. Neafie, and their
children are James II. and Everetl E. Seymour.
THE BROWEK FAMILY is another very numerous family in Bergen
County, rhey are descended from Adam Brouwer, who emigrated to
New Amsterdam from Cologne, Franco, in 1642. Three years later he
married Madalena Jacobs Ferdon, of Long Island. He was a miller, and
lived in New Amsterdam until lt>47. when lie removed to Brooklyn, where
lie joined the Dutch Church in DiTT and paid taxes from L675 to L698. His
issue were fifteen children: Peter, ' Jacobus, Aeltiej Matthew," William,'
.Mary. Magdalena', Adam, Abraham*, Sophia', Ann. Sarah.' Nicholas' Daniel.'
and Rachel.
Peter, baptized in Ui-in. married ill Pieternella Uldricks, (2) Gertrude
dans, and (3) Anne Jansen. lie tirst -resided at Flatlands, I.. I., and sub-
sequently removed to Brooklyn, where he died. I lis issue were Abram,
.John. Adolph, Magdalena, Ulrick, Adrientie, Vroutie,* Cornelia, -Jacob,
I Ians<'. and .Madeline.
Abraham, .John, and Adolph removed to Hackensack aboul 1700, where
Abraham married ill Lea Johns Demaresl and (2) Elizabeth Ackerman.
Ulrick married Hester de Vow, and -John married Ann Hendricks Mande-
ville. The descendants of Abraham, Ulrick; John, and Adolph are to-day
very numerous and scattered over the Counties of Bergen and Hudson.
THE De CLARKS are still numerous in Bergen County. Daniel de
Clerque (de Clark) emigrated to America prior t<i L676. The name of his
first wife (hies mil appear, bu1 the couple broughl two or three children
with them ami had two baptized in New York (Daniel and Abraham,
i winsi. March L3, L678. His wife died soon after, and he married (2), March
!. L685, (ieertje Cozines, a widow, by whom he had mi issue. Two of his
sons. John and Henry, were evidently married when they left Holland.
the family having sailed from Amsterdam. Both John and Henry sub-
sequently had children in New York. Another son of Daniel. Jacobus de
Clark, was born in Holland. Daniel, in L686. became one of the Tappan
patentees with the Barings, Blawvelts, Smiihs. and others, and removed
id Tappan, where, in L702, lie was made a Justice of Orange County, and
he took the census of Orangetown the same year. He was probably the
first Justice ever appointed in the county. At that time there were only
a few families huddled at Tappan, and Daniel seems id have been the
biggesl man of them all. Tic marriage of his son Jacobus to Antic Van
<;i:\i: u.ocmai.
131
Houten, September 14. lToti. is one of the earliesl in the county. Jacobus
had eighl children, all of whom reared large families and gravitated south-
ward into Bergen < Jounty.
JAMES S. NEWKIRK, Secretary and Treasurer of the Provident Insti-
tution for Savings, of Jersey City, was born in Bergen mow Jersey City)
September !». L852. His family at one time was one of the most numerous
in Hudson County, and the name is still very common. .More than a cen-
turv ago some members of the family settled in New York State, in Ulster
and Sullivan Counties, where their numerous descendants have spread
rapidly and become
prominent in the \:ir
ions walks of life.
Mattlieiis < Jornelissen,
who is said i o ha ve been
a native of Nienwkercke
iN.'w Church) in Hoi
land, emigrated to
America in about the
year L660, and after
landing and sia \ ing at
New A msterdam a short
time went to Flatbush,
I . I., where he bouglil
and located on a " Hon
werie " of about thirty
six acres of land, hutt-
ing, as ins deed de
dared, on " < Jorlears
Flais." This trad lie
sold March in. L665, to
one Aiimii Evertse, and
he removed thence lo
i ho •• Town ' of Bergen,"
in New Jersey. Here,
on December 1 1. IG70,
ho married one Anna
I,ub\ . daughter of Jacob
Luby, who had served
as a non-commissioned
officer (Sergeant i in i he
I mtch West India sen
ice, hut who had for
some years been a resi-
dent and landholder at Bergen. .Matt hens Cornelissen assumed the sur-
name of Newkirk — in honor of his birthplace, no doubt. He leased lands
ai Bergen which were afterward conveyed to his children. His occupa-
tion seems to have been that of a farmer. His wife, Anna, died December
I'll. L685, and he married in 1686 Catharine Pouwless, a daughter of
Poulus Pieterse, of Bergen. She died in April, 1764. The children of
Matthew Cornelissen Van New Kirk were twelve — live by the first wife
and seven by the second wife: Gertrude, Gerritie, Jacomina, Cornelius,
Jacob, lannetje, John, Jannetje, Peter, Gerrit, Poulus, and Cornelius.
JAMES s. XKWKIKK.
132 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
Those by the lirst wife scattered to differenl parts of 1 1 1 « - country, while
those of the second wife remained in Bergen County, inheriting all their
mother's property, which was considerable. The eleventh of these children,
(in rit New kirk iiM gen.), born ;ii Bergen November L8, L696, married
September 5, I7.".u. Catrina, daughter of Hendrick Kuyper (Cooper). She
died September 12, 1 T.~» 1 . He died April 23, L785. Their children of the
third generation were lour: Catrina, Janneke, Matthew, and Henry.
.Mm i hew (3d gen.) married Caroline, daughter of Arenl Toers. lie died
July 10. L811, leaving three children: Garrel M., Aaron, and Henry.
Garrel M. Newkirk (4th gen.), born a1 Bergen April !). L766, < 1 i « *< I August
28, L832, married Polly Ackerman. They had six children: Catharine,
Margaret, Sally, Sally, Henry, and Garret.
Garrel G. Newkirk (5th gen.), born a1 Bergen October 17. lsus. married
ill October 25, L828, Rachel, daughter of Halmigh Van Houten. She died
December l. L835. He married (2) Jane Fowler, widow of Abram Tice.
She died October 6, L849. He married (3) September <i. 1851, Eliza Ann
Beatty, daughter of George E. Beatty, born in L820. His children by three
wives were: two by lirsi wife, ten by second wife, and four by third wife.
One of these children is the subject of this sketch.
•Innies S. Newkirk (6th gen.) inherited all the sturdy characteristics
of Ids race and early displayed those intellectual finalities which have
since won for him so much distinction in the affairs of life. He was
educated in the common schools, at Columbian Academy, and at District
School No. 1 in the Town of Bergen. He commenced his business career
as clerk in the grocery store <>f Jacob Van Winkle, of Bergen Square, in
L865. Five years later, or in 1870, he entered the Provident Institution
for Savings in Jersey City, with which he has ever since been actively
identified, having filled important positions in all the departments up to
and including the offices of Secretary and Treasurer, which he now holds.
Mr. Newkirk has not. however, aspired to public or political office, hav-
ing devoted himself almost exclusively b> business affairs. For five years
he was a member of tin- Fourth Regiment, N. G. X. J. lie is a member if
the Jersey City and Union League Clubs, of the Free and Accepted Masons,
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Junior Order United
A merican Mechanics.
Mr. Newkirk's lirst wife. .Mary Elizabeth Terhune, died in l>7s. In
L881 he married Annabella Meeker Randall, and they have four children
of the sex cut h general ion.
ALBEKT Z. BOGERT, of River Edge, Bergen County, is descended from
one of the oldest families in New Jersey. His first American ancestor,
Cornelis Jansen Bogaerdt, came to America from Holland with his wife,
O.eesie Williams, a few years prior to 1661. He bought and settled on a
village ph>i in Flatbush, h. I., which he subsequently sold to one Peter
Jansen. la H'»77 he was one ■>! the patentees of the Flatbush patent. He
resided at Flatbush until his death, about L684. His children were \V\ ntio.
.John Cornelise, Classic, Roloff, Maritie, and Peter, all of whom, except
W'xntie. eventually removed <<» Hackensack, N. •!. His son dan Cornelius
(2) married Angenitie Strycker, and resided ai New Lots, I.. I., until 1694,
when he sold his farm there and with several others purchased a large
trad of land southeast of Hackensack. His numerous descendants have
spread oxer the County of Bergen, and have exerted an important and
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wholesome influence in shaping the affairs of the county, having been
prominenl in business, in the professions, and in all the walks of life,
honored and respected for those noble virtues which characterize the
I Milch, and energetic and enterprising in promoting every worthy object.
Albert X. Bogert, the subject of ihis sketch, is of the eighth generation
from Cornells Jansen Bogaerdt, the emigrant above named. His parents
were Allien -lames Bogert and Catherine A lei la Zabriskie. His grand-
parents were John and Catharine Zabriskie Bogerl and Albert G. and
Sally Annie (Winters) Zabriskie. Mr. Bogerl was horn in Spring Valley,
Bergen County, X. J., on the llth of November, L864. He received his
education in the Bergen County schools, which he left at the age of nine-
teen to assist his father on the farm, where lie remained five years. In
isss he settled permanently in River Edge and bought a half interest
with P. V. 15. Demaresl in a large coal, lumber, and grocery business. A
year later Mr. Demaresl sold his interest to John II. Banta and the busi-
ness was continued by .Messrs. Bogerl and Banta until L892, when Mr.
Banta died. Since thai time Mr. Bogerl has successfully continued it
alone.
Mr. Bogert's activity, enterprise, and influence in the community stamp
him as one of I he leading citizens, while his success in business has won
fei' him a high reputation. He is a member of the Borough Council of the
Borough of Riverside and of the Dutch Reformed Church of Schraalen-
burgh, and active in various other capacities. In March, 1900, he was
elected a member of the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders from
Midland Township.
His wife, Anna Van Wagner, who was also descended from an old
Holland Dutch family of New Jersey, died in 1892, leaving two children,
dames Gordon Bogert, born in isss, and John \Y. Bogert, born in 1891.
JOHN J. BOGERT, the miller of Earrington Park, is a descendant in
the ninth generation from Cornells Jans Bougaert, I he emigrant t see sketch
on page 132). Stephen Bogert, of Ihe seventh generation, son of Guilliam
Bogerl ami Maria Banta, was horn in IT.").",, married Sophia Alyea, and
lefi issue a son. Jacobus (James) Bogert, of the eighth generation.
Jacobus Bogerl (8) was born January 24, L788, died March (J, 1871, mar-
ried .lane Meyers, who was hern February 13, 17!M. and died May 7, 1873.
They had several children of the ninth generation, among whom were
John J., James, and Stephen.
Of these John J. (9), the eldest, married Margaret, (laughter of John R.
BlawveH and Leah Demarest. Their issue, of the tenth generation were
four children: Jane, Leah Ann. Klma, and John J., the latter being the
subject of this sketch. John J. Bogert once raised a horse which he sold
to Robert Bonner, of New York City, for |10,000.
John J. Bogert (10) was born December 6, 1846, at Harrington Park, N. J.,
where he still resides. He was educated in the Bergen County schools,
which he left at the age of eighteen to engage in the milling business and
in farming with his father. Upon his father's death in 1892 he took charge
of the entire business and has since conducted it with marked success.
During his active life he has wielded an important and wholesome influence
in all local affairs.
Mr. Bogert married Hester Jemima Ackerman, and has four children:
Eugene, Walter, Clyde A., and Mary L.
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HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
EDWIN BERKLEY YOUNG, a Leading and successful real estate and
insurance man of Union Hill, is descended from :i distinguished family
of United Empire royalists. The ¥ igs made the firsl settlemenl in
Athol, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, a1 Eas1 Lake. Some his-
torians claim they were the lirst settlers in thai county. Certain ii is they
wciii there when the country was a forest, unbroken and practically im-
penetrated by man, : 1 1 1 < 1 ou1 of the wilderness carved for themselves and
their families a home which siill remains in the possession <d' their descend
ants. Colonel Henrv Young, born in Jamaica, Long Island, in l7.">7. was
EDWIN B. YOUNG.
the second son of six children of an English gunsmith, who came there
from Nottingham ai an early age, and who founded a family which has
spread over this country and Canada. Some of his posterity still live <m
Long Island. I lenrv joined t he Bri1 ish army when a \ oung man. served with
distinction for six pears in the French and Indian wars under Generals
Amherst and A.bercronibie, and with the English participated in the battle
of Bennington and in no less than seventeen other engagements againsl
the continentals. For gallanl services at Bennington he received an en-
signcy in the " King's Royal." His title of Colonel, 1»> which he was popu-
larly known, was conferred upon him by provincial appointment. At the
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close <>t' the American Revolution he retired on half pay, and received a
grant of 3,000 acres of land for himself and ether tracts for various mem-
bers (if iiis family. His tirst residence in Canada was at Cataraqui. With
a brother officer lie set out in a canoe in 1 7s:', and selected a site at East
Lake in the Town ..I Athol. Thither he brought his family in the fall of
L7S4. lie died there in his eighty-fourth year, leaving numerous descend-
ants, many of whom became conspicuous in civil and official affairs. His
four daughters. Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Sarah, married East Lake
settlers and lived to In- d\cr eighty years of age. Of his two sens, Henry
and Daniel, the former settled on the homestead, and as a soldier in the
English army died at Kingston el' cholera during the War of 1812.
Richard Young, son of Henry, Sr.. was a farmer in At hoi, and married
Nancy Van Vlackren, now spelled Van Vlack. Their son, William Henry
Young, served in the Ontario militia during the Fenian raid, and is now a
retired farmer living in Picton, Canada, lie is a cousin of the Rev. George
Young, D.D. , President of the Methodist Episcopal Conference of Ontario,
lie married Sarah -lane Clark, daughter of Enoch Dorland ("lark- and
Namy Smith, of Ontario, who. like the Van Vlackrens, were descended
from Holland I Mitch stock. The family have long taken a leading pari in
the agricultural and military affairs of Ontario, and have always borne
high reputations tor honor and integrity.
Edwin B. Young, eldest son of William Henry Young and Sarah Jane
('lark, was born in Athol Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario,
Canada, January 4, L860. He at tended the public schools ami remained on
the homestead until he reached the age of twentv-one, when, having re-
ceived a good education, he came to New York City. His capital consisted
of three or four dollars in money, a rolmsi constitution, and indomitable
pluck and courage. For a lew months he was employed in various ca-
pacities. Becoming superintendenl of the Grove Church Cemetery a1 New
Durham, Hudson County, N. -I.. he look up his residence in the Town of
Union, and has ever since been identified with its besl interests. During
the past nine years he has also keen extensively interested in real estate in
the town, and in L896 he opened a general real estate and insurance office
at i:::'. Bergenline Avenue, which he still conducts, and to which he de-
votes his entire attention, having resigned the superintendence of the
< '.rove ( diurch < Vmetery in January, L899. In addit ion to I his he has lately
established a mercantile collection agency, the first one of the kind on
Union Hill.
Mr. Young has achieved marked success in real estate operations, and by
untiring devotion to business has won the confidence and respect of the
entire community. He is a genial, companionable, public spirited man,
deeply interested in the genera] welfare, and always ready to respond to
the demands of good citizenship. Progressive in all that the word implies,
he has he.. ii active and influential in the advancement of the town, a
liberal contributor to its growth and moral improvements, and ever alert in
increasing its useful institutions. He was Secretary of the old Literary
Society of the Town of Union, and later became one of the prime movers
in organizing the Free Reading Room and Library Association, of which he
was for many years Treasurer, and of which he was an original Director.
It mav he safely said that he was a founder and the chief organizer of
this association, which succeeded the old Literary Society. Later a special
act of the Legislature enabled the Town of Union, and other towns in the
State, to levy a tax for the support of such institutions, and this association
136 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
has since been maintained by the public :is a free library. In ;ill <>f these
movements Mr. Young was active and influential, :m<l to him is due in ;i
large degree the establishment of this institution. He is an ardenl Demo-
crat, a Justice of the Peace, and a prominenl member of various fraternal
and social organizations, including Mystic Tie Lodge, No. \--\. P. and A. M..
of New Jersey, of which he was for four years tin- Worshipful Master, He
is also a member of the Scottish Rite bodies, 32 . of Now Fork City, of
the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Masonic fraternity, and of the Royal
Arcanum. In September, L899, In- was elected Most Worthy Grand Patron
of the Order of the Eastern Star of Now Jersey, and in the spring of L900
ho was one of the organizers of the Past Masters' Association of Hudson
County, of which ho was elected the hist President.
Mi-. Young's brother, George Alfred Young, was horn May it. L869, came
to New .Jersey when seventeen, and is now head bookkeeper for (he Hudson
Trusf and Savings Institution of West Hoboken. He is a member and
Worshipful Master of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. L23, F. and A. M.
Mr. Young was married October LO, Ins:;, to Henrielta Hell, daughter of
Henry and Ellen (Westerfield) Bell, of the Town of Union. Her father was
horn near Liverpool, England, while her mother was descended from an
old Holland Dutch family. They have three sons: Edwin Henry, Ralph
Percy, and Herbert Eldred.
ROBEBT CAMPBELL DIXON, Jr., one of the leading architects of Onion
Hill and Eastern New Jersey, is of English and Scotch parentage, being the
son of Robert and Margaret (Campbell) Dixon and a grandson of Robert
Dixon. Sr., and Hannah Lawson. His maternal grandparents were John
and Isabel (Anderson) Campbell. His father was born in Nicholforest,
Cumberland, England, and Ins mother in Perthshire, Scotland. Some of
his ancestors were prominently engaged in the East India service, others
tilled important positions of trust, one branch had a representative in the
English Parliament in the person of Sir Wilfred Lawson. and others occu-
pied posts in the Church of England. The Dixon and Lawson families have
been for generations conspicuous in civil, military, governmental, and pro-
fessional affairs, contributing to their respective communities a wholesome
influence, and achieving for themselves distinction as men of learning and
ability.
Mr. Dixon was born in New York City on the loth of May. L857. He at
tended the public schools of Pough keepsie. N. Y .. until he reached the age
of about fourteen, and afterward pursued his studies in private schools, de-
veloping a naturally strong and brilliant intellect, and laying the founda-
tion for an honorable career. He completed his literary education at
Riverview Military Academy and finished with a business course graduat-
ingfrom Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie. A large part of his
early education was intended to tit him for a military career, hut he turned
his at tent ion to architecture, and in the early pari of ls7<> entered the office
of D. <V .1. .laid inc. architects, of New York < !ity, as a student. Be continued
with them a little over four years, after which he was for a brief period
in the office of -I. ( '. Cady & Co. In L883, having received important work in
competition, Mr. Dixon engaged in busim ss for himself as a practical archi-
tect, and lias ever since been devoted to his profession, achieving marked
success and a notable reputation, lie has had an office in New York City
for about fourteen years, and many important public and private buildings
have been erected from his designs. The town hall, the Palma and ( Columbia
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Club houses, public schools, many church edifices, and numerous other prin-
cipal buildings in Union Hill, N. J., have been built by him. All of these
show greal artistic taste and practical skill, and represent some of the finest
and choicest work in the country.
In political matters Mr. Dixon has been an active and influential leader
since about L884, serving frequently as delegate to local and State Demo-
cratic conventions, and being at the present time a member of the Board of
Education of Union Hill, of which he was formerly President. He is a mem-
ber and at times has served on important committees of the Columbia Club
of Boboken, and has also been a member of the Palma Club of Jersey City
for several years. He was one of the organizers of the New Jersey Society
of Architects and has held some ot its most important offices. He is also
an associate member of the American Institute of Architects, a member
of the Central Democratic Organization, a warden of Grace Episcopal
Church of Union Hill, where he resides, and a member of Columbia Lodge,
Xo. LSI, Knights of Pythias. He is a public spirited, enterprising citizen, a
man of broad and liberal culture, and is and has been prominently Identi-
fied with many of the leading charitable organizations.
.Mr. Dixon was married September 22, 1886, to Sadie Gardner Morgan,only
daughter of -lames < ;. Morgan, of Union Hill, N. J.
DAVID DEMAREST ZABRISKIE, Law Judge of the County of Ber-
gen, is a direct descendant in the eighth generation from the Polish emi-
grant, Albert Zabriskie (see sketch on page 49).
Jacob A. Zabriskie (2), eldest son of the Polish emigrant, born about
April 22. KiTT, at Pembrepoch, Bergen County, married il), September 20,
L706, Ann (daughter of Albert Alliens Terhune ami Hendricke Voorhis),
born in L678 on Long Island. He resided at Upper Paramus on part of his
father's large estate, where he died in 1 7.~»s. having had issue ten children
of the third generation: Hendricke. Sophia. Maritie, Albert A., Peter,
Jannetje, Rachel, .Matilda. Stephen, and Jacob.
Albeit A. (third generation) was baptized February 1. L708, and mar-
ried, May 8, L739, Maritie Hopper. He resided at Paramus, and had at
least two children. Ann. born 171M. and Andrew.
Andrew Zabriskie ifi, born in L746, died about L805, also resided at
Paramus, where he married Jannetje Lozier. and had issue of the fifth
generation at least three children. -John A., Christina, and Andrew.
John A. Zabriskie (5) was born at Paramus. November 11, 17(iS, and
died there. One of his children of the sixth generation was Casper .1.
Zabriskie (6), born at Paramus. April 27, 1799; died there June 4, 1849. He
married Catharine Post, who died in February, L872. They lived at Para
mus and had issue of the seventh generation: Andrew < )., Robert, Catharine
J., Mary M., Alletta P.. Sophia, and John C.
John C. Zabriskie ill. born September I'll. L822, married il) .Maria Hop-
per. (2) -lane Demurest, and (3) .Maria C. Bogert. lie resided at Paramus,
and was a farmer by occupation. His children of the eighth generation
were Andrew J., Maria J., Catharine, Emma. David !>., Ida, Simon, John,
and Alletta.
David D. Zabriskie (8) was born at Paramus. X. J., November 27, 1856,
and received his preparatory education at Erasmus Hall Academy in Flat-
bush, Long Island. He was graduated with honor from Rutgers College in
the <dass of 187!), and then entered Columbia College Paw School, from
which he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1881. He was admitted
138 HUDSON AMi BERGEN COUNTIES
t<» the New Jersey bar as an attorney al the November term of the Su
preme Court, L882, and a1 once began active practice. In June, L889, he
was admitted as a counselor. Judge Zabriskie has for many years main-
tained law offices in both Hackensack and Jersey City. Soon after enter-
ing upon his professional career he came into prominence ;is n lawyer of
unusual ability, ;m<! steadily won recognition for those eminenl legal ;hh1
judicial qualifications which lie has since displayed both a1 the bar and
on the bench. He was uniformly successful, and as an all-round advocate
and counselor achieved a high reputation.
His law practice, however, though constantly growing in volume and
importance, did no1 prevenl him from taking an active interesl in public
ami political affairs. As a Republican from boyhood he lias contributed
much in the success of the partj as well as to the government of his town
and county. In 189-J and L895 he represented his district in the State
Legislature, serving on some of the most important committees, and taking
a prominent pari in shaping legislation. In L896 and L897 lie was Count}
Counsel for th" County of Bergen, and from L894 to L89S he >\;is Chair
man of the Republican County Committee of Bergen County. In January,
L898, Governor Griggs appointed him Law -Indue of Bergen County for a
term of five years, and since April 1 of that year he has served on the
bench with conspicuous ability ami universal satisfaction.
Judge Zabriskie was married in October, L883, to Lizzie S. Suydam, of
New Brunswick, X. J. They have one daughter, Ethelind S., of the ninth
generation, and reside in Ridgewood.
ABItAM De BAUN.— The common ancestor of all tin- DeBauns in !ier
gen and Hudson Counties was Joost de Baen, a native of Brussels in
Flanders (Belgium), who came over to Now Amsterdam in L683. The
next year ho married Elizabeth Drabb and located at Bushwick, L. I., where
he was soon afterward made town clerk. In 1686 he removed to New
Utrecht, where he was elected town clerk and taugh! the village school.
This was during the controversy over Hie conduct of Governor Leisler. De
Baen entered that contest and took an active part agains! the Governor,
which caused him to lose his clerkship. He, however, continued to teach
school ami to reside at New Lrtrecht, where he took the oath of allegiance
to the English king in lo^T. Early in 1704 he sold his hinds, of which he
acquired a considerable area, and removed to Bergen County, X. •!.. where
lie joined the Kinderkamack settlement, lie died in L718 or 1719. his
children of the second generation were Matie (married, in L7Q5, David
Samuels Demarest), Christian (married Judith Samuels Demarest), Mayke,
Carrel, Christina, jacobus, am! .Maria.
Of these seven children Carrel (Charles) (2) married, in 1711. Jannetie
Peters Haring, of Tappan. He first boughl a large farm, in 171!>. on the
north side of Hardenbergh Avenue mow in Harrington Township), ex-
tendi'!!.: from the Schraalenburgh road to the Tiena Kill (including part of
w h.-i ! is now Demarest), on which for a time he resided. Shortly after 1721
he sold this farm and bought several large tracts between the Hackensack
and thi' Pascaok Livers, on one of which he settled and died. I lis issue of
the third generation were Joost, Margaret, Elizabeth, John, Jacob, Carrel,
and < liristiaen.
Carrel i.".i. born in I 7l's. married ill Bridgel Ackerman (born December
in. 17:11. died January 27, L793) and (2) Lea Van Orden. He was a farmer
by occupation, and settled in the upper part of Bergen County. His issue
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of the fourth generation were Carrel, Margaret, Abram, Jannetie, Andrew,
Sarah. I >a\ id, John, ami Isaac
Isaac de Baun (4) was born December 9, 177!), and died .June 18, 1870.
Ee was a farmer and resided nearly all his life al Mousey, X. Y. He mar-
ried June L3, 1807, Elizabeth Yeury, who died August 24, 1875. Their
children of the fifth generation were Abram, Elizabeth, Jacob, .Maria, Brid-
get, Rachel. Jane, and .John Y.
-John Y. de Baun (5) was born at Monsey, X. Y., August 22, 1S27. He
was a remarkably precocious child. Although he had hut an ordinary com-
mon school education he, by dint of an untiring perseverance and constant
application to study, qualified himself tor the ministry (which under the
circumstances was a rare achievement), and on April 17, is.")."), was licensed
to preach by the Classis of Hackensack of the True Reformed Dutch Church.
His first charge included the churches at Hempstead in Rockland County,
X. Y.. and at Ramseys in Bergen County, X. •)., where he preached alter-
nately until L860, when he took charge of the two churches al Hackensack
and English Neighborhood, X. .1. or these two churches he was the pastor
Tor twenty six years. During this time he resided al Hackensack. where he
established and was the editor of the Banner of Truth, a monthly magazine,
which is still the organ of the Tine Reformed Dutch Church. He died at
Leonia, X. J., in February L895. lie was twice married : (1) April 8, 1st'.), to
Margaret Iserman, who died about L893, ami (2) to -lane Van Houton, who
survives him. He was a thoroughly self-made man, an eloquent preacher,
and in every way worthy of his high and noble calling. His issue of the
sixth generation were Susan E., Martha A., .lames D., Abram, Edwin,
Anna. John Z., James E., and Isaac < \. of whom Abram ((>) is the subject
of this sketch.
Abram de Baun (6) was horn April 2. L856, at .Mousey, X. Y., where he
spent his childhood days. When old enough he entered Hackensack Acad-
emy, where he had the benefit of a full course of study, and then entered
the law office of A.. D. Campbell, at Hackensack, as a law student. He was
admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June, 1S77, and as a
counselor in June, L880. After his call to the bar he became a business
partner of his old tutor, with whom he remained until March, L894, when he
formed a law partnership with Milton Demurest, with whom he is still
associated in a lucratice practice.
Mr. De Baun was clerk of the Bergen County Board of Chosen Free-
holders from 1878 to L895 and for three years a member of the Backensack
Improvement Commission, during two years of which he was treasurer.
For twelve years he has been counsel for the Hackensack Mutual Building
and Loan Association. He is a Director of the Hackensack Old Ladies'
Home.
He married (1) in L878 Mary B. Christie, of Leonia. She died in Septem-
ber, 1881, and he married (2), October 2, 1884, Lydia B. Christie. He has no
children.
JAMES A. ROMEYN. — The Romeyns, Romanies, and Romains.of Bergen
Countv, claim to be of Italian lineage, which they trace to one Giacomo de
Ferentino, an Italian gentleman who settled at Bongham Manor, Norfolk-
shire, England, in the early part of the thirteenth century, and married an
English lady, Isabella de Rucham, by whom he had issue two sons, one of
whom was Peter. This Peter was sent to Rome to be educated, and on his
return took the surname of Romaeyn (Peter the Roman). He married a
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daughter of Thomas de Leicester. Many of Peter's descendants became
noted men in England. One of them, Jan Romeyn, went from England to
the low countries (Holland) and settled in Amsterdam. Be had several chil-
dren, among whom were Claes Jansen, Simeon Jansen, and Christofer .Jan-
sen. Claes and Christofer sailed from Rotterdam, Holland, to Brazil, as mem-
bers of an expedition to thai eon nt iv com n landed li\ Prince Maurice of Nas-
JAMES VAN CAMPEN ROMEYN.
san. Soon after arriving in Brazil thai country was ceded to Portugal, and
i hereupon i he i wo Romeyns sailed lor America. There is a disagreemenl as
to the dale when they arrived, bui it was probably aboul L661. They
settled first ;ii New Amersfoort, I.. I. Christofer married, in L678, Grietie
Pieters Wyckoff, and settled in Monmouth County, X. -I. Claes married
lit is said), .May 2, L680, Stymie Alberts Terhune, and in L690 went to
Hackensack, where lie !>onv,ht four Indian fields between the Saddle River
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141
and ilif Backensack River, called in his deed Wierimus, Paskack, Gemagkie,
and Marroasonek. These four tracts were north of Paramus, on the east
siil< of the Saddle River. He did not locate od these lands, 1 > 1 1 1 returned
to NVw York and located in the Greenwich district of the city, where he
died. His children, to whom he devised all his lands on his death, divided
then! into farms and mntuallv released or sold to actual settlers. (Maes
JAMES ROMEYN.
Jansen's children of the second generation were Gerrebrecht, Elizabeth,
L\ dia. Albert C, John < '.. Rachel, Sarah, and 1 >aniel.
Jan Claas Romeyn (2) married, in May, L690, Jannetie Bogert, at Hack
ensack, and resided on part of his father's lands. He was a member and
church master of the "Church on the Green'' in 1715. His issue of the
third generation were Nicholas, John. Christina, Roelof, Rachel, Isaac,
Angenetie, Christina, and Ursula.
Nicholas Romeyn (3), baptized at Hackensack in February, 1699, mar-
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pied, in lTiMi. Elizabeth Outwater, who died in L732. Be died in 17<;::. He
married (2) Rachel Vreeland, who died in L761. The issue of Nicholas
Romeyn (3) and liis t\\<> wives oi the fourth generation were Rev. Thomas
Romeyn and John Romeyn.
Rev. rhomas Romeyn ih. born a1 Pompton, X. -I.. March ~. 17l'!i. died
October 22, L794. He was graduated from the College <»!' New Jersey in
1750, studied theology, and after preaching ;i few times <m Long Island
THEODORE B. ROMEYN.
wenl to Holland, in 1 752, for ordination, and was settled ;il Jamaica, L. I.,
until 1790. He married (1) June 29, 17.~>(i. Margaretta Frelinghuysen, who
died ;ii Jamaica, December l".. 17.17. He married (2) Susanna Van Camp-
pen. He died a1 Fonda, X. Y.. ( >ctober 22, L794, and was buried there under
the pulpil of liis church. Mis issue of tin- fifth generation were seven: Rev.
Theodore F.. Rev. Thomas, Nicholas, Abraham, Rev. Broadhead, Benjamin,
and Rev. James Van < Jampen.
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143
Rev. James Van < Jampen Romeyn (5) was born ;ii Minsink, Sussex County,
X. â €¢).. November L5, L765, and died at Baekensack, June 27, 1 sin. He at-
tended Schenectady Academy in 1784, studied theology under Rev. Theo-
dore Romeyn, his uncle, was a Trustee of Rutgers College, and preached al
several places, the last in the Reformed Church of Hackensack and Schraal-
enburgh from L799 lo 1833. He married ill Susanna .Maud Van Vranken,
JAMES A. ROMEYN.
of Schenectady, and (2) Elizabeth Pell, who survived him. His issue of
the sixth generation were Susan. Harriet, Anna, Maria. Rev. James, D.D.,
Anna, Eliza, Caroline, Theodore, and Sarah.
Rev. James Konievn Mil was horn at Blooming Grove, N. J., September 30,
17!)7. and was graduated from Columbia College in L816 and from the
Theological Seminary al New Brunswick, N. J., in 1819. He declined the
Doctor of Divinity degree bestowed on him bv Columbia College. He
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preached ;it several places, \v:is pastor of the old "Church on the Green"
ai Hackensack from is:;:: to L836, and was a Trustee of Rutgers roller in
L842. Be married Joanna Bayard Rodgers, daughler of .John K. P.. Rodgers,
-Ml â–º . of Columbia College, New 5Tork. His children of the seventh gen-
eration were . James R. and Theodore li.
Rev. Theodore Bayard Romej n (7) was born ai Nassau, N. Y., October l'2,
ISl'T. He attended school ai Hackensack and other places, was graduated
from Rutgers College in L846 and from the Theological Seminary in New
Brunswick in L849, and received the degree of 1>.I>. from Rutgers College.
He preached ai Blawenburgh, N. •!., and ;it Hackensack, and was the author
of the History of the Reformed Church of the latter tillage. He married
Amelia A. Letson, who died October 22, L897. He died at Hackensack,
August 29, L885. His issue of the eighth generation were Mary L. (deceased.)
and dames A., the latter being (lie subject of this sketch.
James A. Romeyn (8) was horn in Blawenburgh, N. J.. May 15, 1853, and
received his education at Rutgers College. He studied law with Bedle,
M airhead & McGee, of Jersey City, and successfully practiced Ids pro
fession until L890. Since then he has been the editor of the Rnnin;/ Record
of Hackensack, where he resides.
Mi. Romeyn is a. man id' acknowledged ability ami untiring energy, and
has always taken an active part in public affairs. He was for eight years
a member of the Hackensack Board of Health, and for seven years (1SSS ;>.">)
served as Treasurer of the Hackensack Hospital. At the bar and in the
editorial chair he has wou distinction ami honor, aud as a citizen he is
highly respected.
In L884 Mr. Romeyn married Flora May Cochran, of Lancester, Pa., who
died in 1891. By her there were two children: Theodore B. and Katharine,
lie was married, second, in 1894, to Susie Burgess Conover, of Newark. X. J.
JOHN LANK has achieved distinction in the twofold capacity of marine
surveyor and public officer. He is a native of Shrewsbury, X. J., where
I btained his early education in the public schools. Subsequently he
pursued ;i course of study at Cooper Institute, New York.
Reared on his father's farm in Shrewsbury, he developed a strong con
slitution. and at the same time acquired those habits of thrift and industry
which mark the successful man. His studies were designed to enable him
to enter professional life, for which he was menially and physically quali-
fied, and in which he has won an honorable reputation. Entering, as a
youth, the shipyard of McCarthy & Brother, of Hoboken, he tilled success-
ively the positions of clerk, timekeeper, bookkeeper, and general manager,
and gained the respect and confidence of all with whom he came into
contact, and especially of his employers. His experience was at once
broad and practical, and included a thorough knowledge of every branch of
ship building, even to designing, carpentering and joining, calking, and
murine draughting. After a period of sixteen years in these different
capacities he withdrew to engage in business for himself as a marine sur-
veyor, a profession for which his duties had eminently fitted him. and one
in which he has achieved remarkable success. In 1888 he removed from
Jersey City to West Hoboken, X. J., where he has built, on Malone Street,
a neat and attractive home after his own plans and designs.
Mr. Lane has for many years been an active and influential leader of the
Democratic party, especially in the town where he resides, and in various
capacities has served both party and town with ability, honor, and satisfac-
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tion. In L89J he was appointed ;i member of the Wes1 Hoboken Board of
Health. 1 n L893 he \\;is elected ;i member of t he Board of School Trustees.
Since LS95 he has served as one of the Councilmen of West Hoboken, and
in 1898 and L899 was chairman of the board. He discharged the duties con-
nected with these positions with signal efficiency and fidelity. Public
spirited, energetic, and progressive, he lias always encouraged and sup-
ported every movemenl calculated to advance the general welfare of the
community. He is a prominent member of the Masonic order, of the Royal
Arcanum, and of the Foresters of America.
CORNELIUS LYDECKER.— Ryck Lydecker, the common ancestor of
the Lydecker family in Bergen County, was from Amsterdam, Holland,
but thai city was probably not his birthplace. At all events he was a
Hollander. The lime of his arrival in America does not definitely appear.
He lirst settled permanently at Bushwick, L 1.. on a granl of land ob-
tained by him in L660 or 1661. There he resided several years — perhaps
until his death, which is snid to have occurred prior to L696. lie was
magistrate of Bushwick from L682 to 1685. <>n June 2-1, L663, he was
appointed captain of a company of militia and received orders from Govern-
or Stuyvesanl to fortify the town, which he did. The records show thai his
company contained forty men. including its officers, and that this com-
pany was divided into four watches, of whom one fourth, or ten men, were
on duty every nighl to guard againsl an expected attack by the savages,
who were at the time very troublesome to the settlers. His wife's name
was Clara Vooreniere, and his issue of the second generation were Garret,
John, Ryck, Cornelius, and Abraham.
Ryck (2) married Maritie Benson and settled at Hackensack, where he
boughl a large trad of land of Captain John Berry. Garrel (2) married
Neeltie Cornelis Vandehuyl, of Holland. Mo purchased a tract of land
between Leonia and Englewood, in Bergen County, extending eastward
from Overpeck Creek to the Hudson River. This he devised to his four
sous after named, who partitioned it between i hem. it contained more than
one thousand acres. His issue of the third generation were Ryck, Eliza-
beth, < Jlara, < Jornelius, < rarret, and Abraham.
Garrel (3) married Wintie (Levina) Terhune, and resided near Englewood
on his father's homestead. His issue of the fourth generation were Neeltie,
L724; Garret, L728; Geertie, 17".l: Cornelia. 17J4; Ann, 17J<;; Elizabeth,
1738; and Albert, 1740.
Garrel i4i married Lydia Demarest. He became a man of note, and
commanded a company of Continental troops during the War for Inde-
pendence. Roth he and his wife were prominent members of the Did
South church at Schraalenburgh. His issue of the fifth generation were
Garret, IT.".::; James, L755; Levina. IToT; Margaret, 17.~>!L Garret, 1761;
James and Cornelius (twins), L764; Lydia. 1766; James, 176!); Elizabeth,
1771 ; and .Maria. 1 77-L
James (5), last above named, born in 1769. married. September 25, 1790,
Maria Day, and had issue Lydia and Garret -1. of the sixth generation.
la-ret -I. (6) was born in 17!>7 and died in 1SSI). He occupied a prominent
position in the locality then known as English Neighborhood, having
large farming interests, and 1 eing one whose advice was sought in all
leading questions of the day. He married Sarah Ryer and had issue of
the seventh generation James, John R., and Cornelius, the last of whom
is the subject of this sketch.
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Cornelius Lydecker (7) was born ;ii Englewood, X. J., on the place where
be now lives, April P>, lsi'7. Be has bi»en prominenl in public and private
affairs. In 184(1 lie entered as a clerk the dry goods store of his brother
John R. in New York, where he remained two years. In L849 he caughl
the gold fever and wenl to California via Cape Horn. Two years in the
gold " diggins " was enough for him. He returned home and soon after
entered the political field by being elected Surveyor of Highways in his
native town. Following this venture n|>. he became Township Collector in
1862, and later County Collector, which office he held for five years. In
L872 In- was elected to the State Senate on the Democratic ticket, and
was from year in year returned antil L875, when he became a candidate for
State Treasurer and Controller. For seven years thereafter he was a
member of the " Third House" in the Legislature. With William B. Dana
lie built in L871 the Palisade Mountain House, and then look a resl by
traveling for a time, finally returning to embark in the real estate business.
He married in L852 .Miss Catharine S. Van Blarcom, by whom he has had
six children of the eighth generation: Mary (wife of Oliver Drake Smith),
Sarah Ryer (wife of Stanley P. Parsons), Elizabeth, Garrel mow in a
banking house at No. is Wall Street, New York), Kate, and Cornelius,
new at Englew r ood. Mr. Lvdecker is a member of Masonic Lodge No. 114.
■.-•
CHARLES WESLEY RANDALL, of Jersey City, has been actively and
successfully engaged in the practice of architecture in Hudson County
since 18.80, or during a period of t wenty years. He was born in t he Hudson
City sect ion of Jersey City in 1856 and is the son of George W. Randall and
Sarah Hellier, both of whom are of English descent. His family originally
settled in old Hudson City in 1837, and lias ever since been active and in
fluential in important capacities.
Mr. Randall was educated primarily in Public School Xo. 1. of Hudson
City (now Jersey City), and subsequently took a course at Cooper Institute.
New York, graduating therefrom as an architect. In 1S80 he entered upon
the active practice of his profession in Hudson County, and from that
time to the present has built a large number of houses and other building,
in all of which appear evidences ot his genius. He is a man of decided
artistic talent, energetic and influential in all the affairs of lite, thoroughly
identified with the besl inn rests of the community, and one of the besi
architects and builders in the County of Hudson.
In L880 Mr. Randal] married Eleda Erickson. They have three children:
George E., Elizabeth G., and Josephine E. Randall.
JOHN 1 RATHBONE RAMSEY is one of the leading lawyers of Hack-
ensack. Bergen County. X. J., and. in November, 1895, was elected to the
office of County clerk by a majority of 961, being the first Republican ever
elected to that position in that county. He is the son of John P. Ramsey,
a farmer, and Martha Rathbone, his wife, and a descendant on his father's
side of Samuel Ramsey, a native of Scotland, who with his son. John
Kanisey. came to America in 1772, and settled a1 New Scotland. Albany
County. X. Y. The son John, born in 17-~7. married Margaret Connolly,
and settled at New Scotland, where he enlisted and served in the Conti-
nental \rmy againsl the British in !h«- war for independence.
Peter Kanisey. said to have been another son of Samuel, and to have
followed his father and brother to America, had two sons. Peter P. and
William P. Kanisey. both of whom settled in the Ramapo distrid of Bergen
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County. Peter P. married Jane Reyerson, and William I*. married Hannah
— . The inscriptions on their tombstones show the following fads: Peter
P. Ramsey, born July is, 1770, died March .*'»o, 1854; Jane Reyerson, his
wife, died January 2S, 1825. William P. Ramsey, boru December 25, 1774,
died July 19, 1863; Hannah, his wife, born January 29, 177.~>, died Augusl <>,
1849. These were the first of the uame in the county, and were undoubtedly
the ancestors of all the Ramseys in Bergen County, including the subject
of i Ins sketch. (>n his mother's side John R. Ramsey's ancestors were of
English descent.
Mr. Ramsey was born in Wyckoff, Bergen County, X. J., on the 25th of
April, 1862, and spent much of his early life — from 1872 to 1X7!> — with his
maternal grandfather, John V. Rathbone, in Parkersburg, \Y. \'a., where he
received a private school education. In 1^7'.i he returned to New Jersey
and entered the law office of the late George 11. Coffey, of Hackensack. lie
subsequently continued his law studies with the firm of Campbell & He
Baun, also of Hackensack, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an
attorney in November, 1883, and as a counselor in February, 1887. For
nearly twelve years following his admission he was actively and success
fully engaged in the practice of law in Hackensack. displaying marked
ability as a counselor and advocate, and gaining an extensive clientage.
Mr. Ramsey has always been an active, ardent, and consist cut Republican,
ami for many years has been a power in the councils of his party. He was
the Republican candidate for the office of County Clerk, of Bergen County,
in 1890, lmt was defeated by a very small majority, although In- tan ahead
of the res! of the Republican tickel by several hundred votes. In November,
1895, he was again the Republican candidate for that office and was
elected by a majority of 961, for a term of five years from November is, 1895,
being the firsl Republican ever elected County Clerk in the County of Ber-
gen, lie has discharged the duties of this office with marked ability and
satisfaction, and has displayed 'he same energy which characterized his
career at the bar. lie is .i member of Fidelity Lodge, No. 113, Free and
Accepted .Masons, of Ridges I. N. J., of Wortendyke Lodge, No. 17.~>, In-
dependent Order of odd Fellows, and of various social organizations and
clubs.
lie was married, January 26, 1898, to Mary Evelyn Th pson, of Clarks-
burg, \Y. Va. She died very suddenly April 27, 1898.
CHARLES A. HAMILTON, of Closter, Bergen County. X. J., was born
at Canaan Four Corners, Columbia County. X. V., March :!4. 1859. He is
the son of Silas P». and Emily -I. (Haight) Hamilton, a grandson of James
Hamilton and William Haight, ami a descendant of a long line of Scotch
ancestors.
.Mr. Hamilton received his education in his native Slate. He left school
at the age of seventeen and entered a railroad office, where he remained
three and a half years. He then accepted a position with the Mutual Life
Insurance Company, of New York City, and has since continued with that
well known corporation. In this latter capacity he has developed ability
in a line which requires accurate knowledge of mathematics and all
business forms, ami lm has discharged his duties with satisfaction and
earned f«,r himself the confidence of the officials of the company.
As a resident of closter. Bergen County, Mr. Hamilton has taken part
in the affairs of the community, has served as a member of the School
Board, ami is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church.
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Mr. Hamilton married Carrie L. Preston. They have two sons: Charles
EL, horn in L883, and Kenneth P., born in L885.
WILLIAM OUTIS ALLISON, of Englew I. X. •!.. is descended in the
eighth generation from Lawrence Ellison (or A-llison), :i Puritan, who
moved from Watertown, M;i^.. to Wethersfield, Conn., thence to Stain
ford, in the same State, and finally to Hempstead, Long Island, with other
emigrants who accompanied Rev. Richard Denton in Hill. These emi-
grants are supposed to have been ;i pari of the colony which came over
from England with Rob-
er1 Winthrop and Sir
Richard Saltonstall in
1630. John Ellison, son
dl' Lawrence, became one
of 1 1n- founders of I temp-
stead in KM L His son
John, a nal ive of Hemp-
stead, Mas the imme
<li;ii( founder of the fam
ily of Allisons which,
for several generations,
have lived and slept
within the limits of
Haverstraw, Rockland
( 'ounty, New York. He
was one of the company
that purchased the north
part of tin- Kakiat pal
en1 of land in Orange
County, which is now
Rockland County, in
t719, and founded the
Town of New Hemp-
stead, now Ramapo. TTe
died in 1754, after a life
of ureal usefulness and
activity. Of Ins nine
children, Joseph, the
third, was born in An
iiiist. 17'_M or 1 Ti'l'. re-
sided in Haverstraw,
and died January -.
I7!>0. lie was called
Captain Joseph Allison, and became one of the largesl landowners and
farmers in Ids section. March tO, 171-".. lie married Elizabeth, daughter
of Matthew Benson, who died December li'. 17<i7. leaving ten children.
His second wife, whom lie married May I. L769, and who died April 16,
L815, was Elsie Parsells, and she bore him eighl children.
Matthew Allison, i fie eldest of all these eighteen children, was born
in Haverstraw, and died before L795, leaving several children, among them
Hendrick Allison, who married Sarah .Marks, daughter of George .Marks.
of the same town. They moved to Manhattan Island, theme to New
WILLIAM <>. ALLISON.
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hock. X. -I.. and finally i<> Hackensack Township, Bergen County, to a point
beneath the Palisades, near wliai is now Englewood Township. They were
the grandparents of the subject of this article. William Henry Allison, son
of Hendrick and father of William <>., was born in Hackensack Township
on ili.- Kith of September, L820. In 1S4(> he married Catherine, daughter of
David and Elizabeth (Blauvelt) Jordan and granddaughter of Joseph -Jor-
dan, a French soldier, who came over with Lafav. lie and foughl for Ameri-
can independence, and who. after the Revolution, married Elsie Parsells,
and settled at Closter, on the top of the Palisades, where he died.
The maternal ancestors of William < >. Allison were among the original
1 Mi tch settlers a I Old Tappan. one ol t he earliest settlements in New Jersey,
ami have resided in Bergeu < iounty for more than two hundred years.
William < ). Allison was born in old Hackensack mow Palisade) Town-
ship, Bergen County, X. J.. March 30, L849. Prom his early boyhood he
lived much of the time in the family of William P. Dana, a prominent
resident of the Palisades, a man of forceful and exemplary character, and
a journalist of culture. The accidenl of this environmenl had an im-
portant part in his career, and he has never failed to fully acknowledge,
by word and deed, the benign influence which Mr. Dana's wife, .Mrs. Kath
arine Floyd Dana, exerted upon him. She took a deep interest in the hoy,
and his intellectual development was guided by her in a manner horn of
superior intelligence and refinemenl and by the greal strength of character
which she possessed. Finding in him the inherent traits for development,
she saw them expand into manhood, and broaden and increase in power.
Never was a friendship more liberally rewarded. His gratitude was ex-
pressed by the devotion which he accorded to her and by his adoption of
the name " < hit is *' in complimenl to a fancy of hers t hat his initials should
correspond to those of her nom de plume, " Olive A. Wadsworth."
In L868 Mr. Allison, having received an excellent training at the hands
of this childless woman, entered the office of the Financial Chronicle and
the Daily Bulletin, which were owned by Mr. Dana and John (!. Floyd.
Mrs. Dana's brother. Here he acquired a thorough and general knowledge
of the publishing business, and with this and keen business instincts he
soon developed into the best commercial reporter ever connected with the
New York press. He invented and instituted a system of thoroughness
in reports which had previously been unknown, and which few reporters
have been able to copy successfully. When he entered Mr. Dana's employ
he received $7 per week; inside of three years he had a weekly salary
of spt as a reporter. Put this rapid progress did mil satisfy his ambi-
tion. The confidence which he felt in his system of making a specialty
of a few markets and doing them thoroughly led him, on October 21, 1871,
lo issue the firsr number of the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, a small four-
page paper of extremely modest appearance when compared with other
publications already prominent in the industries to which it was de-
voted. The Reporter, however, contained more of real value to the sub
scribers than any other sheet, and its growth in circulation was remarka-
ble, while its advertising patronage, in connection with added departments
of valuable reading matter, forced numerous successive enlargments.
Put it was not until after a hard struggle of several years that Mr.
Allison saw the fulfillment of the hope which he had entertained at the
beginning of his career. His perseverance', muted with great business
tad and skill, alone brought him into prominence in a field in which he
now has no superiors and few if any equals. As a result of the policy of
150 BUDSON ANH BERGEN COUNTIES
obtaining and furnishing accurate, comprehensive, and valuable infor-
mation concerning all the markets which the paper covers and reports,
the successful growth of the business is believed to have no parallel in
commercial journalism. The Reporter soon became "'in- of the most profit
able class publications in the country, ;in<l exerts an influence in the
nudes in which it is allied such ;is uo other commercial publication has
wielded. In 1>71 he established Tin Painters Magazine, with which was
subsequently consolidated the Wall Paper Tradi Journal, and aboul the
same time he purchased Tin Druggists Circular, whirl) was started in ls.~i7.
These three publications — the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, Tin Druggists
Circular, and Tin Painters Magazine — not only continue to hold their
prestige and influence among the trades which they represent, bu1 enjoy
;i constanl ly increasing measure of sue. ess and a world-wide popularity and
reputation.
These relations have brought Mr. Allison into close personal contact
with a large clientage, have made his judgmenl and opinions much sough!
after, and have led him into enterprises outside of the publishing business.
Inheriting a tendency to operate in real estate, he has acquired from time
1«» time considerable tracts <>r land on or near the Palisades until he has
become one of the largest landowners in that section. And the eminenl
success which he has achieved as publisher, financier, and real estate
operator has won for him the respect, confidence, and admiration of all
who know him. His industry and good judgment, his commercial and
financial enterprises, and his many successful achievements, together with
his unostentatious benefactions, mark him as a man of distinction and
honor. He has gained by his own efforts an enviable place among the
foremost publishers and financiers of the day, and may well regard with
pride the career which he has carved out of surroundings shorn id' none
of the difficulties and temptations which every one encounters.
Mr. Allison was married October 22, L884, to Caroline Longstreel Hovey,
daughter of Alfred Howard Eovey and Frances Noxon, of Syracuse, X. Y.
Her parents dying when she was very young, she was adopted by tin-
late Hon. George F. Comstock and his wife, and look tin- name of Com
siock. Mis. ("onistock was a sister of .Mis. Allison's mother, and .Mr.
Comstock was a1 em- time Attorney-General of the United States and
chief Justice of the \cu York Court of Appeals. .Mrs. Allison was born
in Syracuse on dune L2, L862, received her education at Keble School in
ih.ii city and at a French school in N'euillv. near Paris, France, and resided
in Syracuse until her marriage. She died at Paris on March 31, L89G. Their
children were Katharine Floyd Allison, horn duly 1.".. L885; Frances Cor
in lia Allison, born November 23 1887; Allis Allison, born September 30,
1888, died April If. L880; William Dana Allison, born September 8, 1890,
died September 8, 1894; John Blauvell Allison, horn January L3, L893;
and Van Kleeck Allison, horn May i'::. L894. All wen- horn in Englewood,
\. â– ). .Mr. Allison married, second, .Mrs. Caroline A. Comstock, daughter of
I »;i\ id Shaw, of I Detroit, .Mich.
dolIX ENGEL, formerly Post master of Hackensack, and one of the
most popular hotel proprietors in Bergen County, was born in Prussia,
Germany, on the L6th of April, 1845. Hi-; parents, Charles Engel and
Agustia Kuehn. were both horn and married in Prussia.
Major Engel received his education .it the military school at Schloss,
Annaburg, Province of Saxony, and in I860 came to this country, arriving in
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New Vork City od tin- ltiili of October. His tirsl business here was as a
barber in New York. In L868 he removed i<» Hackensack, X. J., where he
has since resided, and where he was for some time engaged in the barber
business. Be became Postmaster of Backensack in 1888, and served one
term. Afterward he engaged in the hotel business in Backensack, in which
lie lias since continued, becoming one of the mosl popular and besl known
hotel keepers in Bergen < !ounty.
As a soldier in the Civil War .Major Engel made an enviable record. Be
enlisted, in L862, in the One Bundred and Sixty-fifth New York Volunteers
and served until the close of the war in L865, receiving an honorable dis
charge after a long and active service ai the front. In L898 he enlisted for
active service in the War with Spain, becoming .Major of the Second
Battalion, Second Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, and going into camp
with his regiment at Jacksonville, Fla. Be was mustered ou1 in November,
1808. Be is Past Commander of -lames B. McPherson Post, No. 52, G. A.
R., and also CaptaiE of Major John Engel Command, No. -"><>. Spanish War
\ r eterans. Be served twenty-seven years (1872-1899) in the National Guard
of New Jersey, rising from a private to the command of the same battalion
in which he enlisted in L872.
Major Engel is a man of ureat energy, ability, and enterprise, and
during his entire career has maintained the respect and confidence of all
who know him. Be is one of the most public spirited citizens, deeply in-
terested in the affairs of the community, and thoroughly identified with
every movement which has for its object the general welfare. Be is a mem-
ber of Lodge No. 177. independent Order of odd Fellows, of Hackensack.
of the Improved Order of Red Men. of the Hackensack Wheelmen's Club,
and of the Basbr k Beights Field Club.
on October 31, L867, he married Miss M. II. Gehrels, of Charleston. S. C.
Their children are Charles W.. George S., John A.. Augusta, Berberi 15.,
Frank I'.. Emma T. B., ami Daniel O
ALEXANDER FISHER was born in Buffalo, X Y.. on the Hth of May,
L849, his parents being John Fisher and Margaret Cortelyou. His an-
cestors came to this country from England, lie was educated in lite public
schools of Buffalo and spenl his early lite as a traveling salesman. In this
capacity he gained a wide practical experience. He is now private secre-
tary To Henry Dalley, of New Fork City.
In L892 Mr. Fisher became a resident of Closter, Bergen County, X. -I..
where he has since remained. As a citizen he is thoroughly identified with
public affairs, liberal in promoting every worthy object, and prominent
in the community. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
public spirited and progressive, patriotic and enterprising, and highly
esteemed and respected. He married Mrs. H. R. Downs (na Dn Hois).
NELSON JAMES HARRISON EDGE was born in Jersey City, N. J.,
and has long been one of the leading bankers and citizens of Hudson
County. He is a member of one of the oldest families, not only of Jersey
City, but of tin- country, his first American ancestor. Roberi Edge, em-
barking with twenty others with their families at London. September 15,
Hi:!."), in the ship " Hopewell," Thomas Babb, Master, for New England,
where they first settled. Mr. Edge's grandfather, Isaac Edge, left Brooklyn,
where hi had been residing from about 17!)7. and came to Jersey City — then
I'anlns Hook — in the year L806, when there were but three houses in the
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place: a tavern, the barracks, and a private residence. The family has
resided here ever since. In L815 iliis Isaac Edge buill a large windmill
ilhe material for which he imported) near what is dow the northeast
corner of Green and Montgomery Streets, and which at that time was
lapped by the waxes el' the riyer. The eld mill was for many years a
prominent landmark and still lives in the memories and traditions of the
(ddest inhabitants, lie married Frances Ogden, of Duffield, England,
and died -Inly 7. L851, leaving surviving him four sons: Isaac Edge, dr..
who died March Hi. 1859; Benjamin O. Edge, who died Jun< 11. L871;
George W. Edge, who died January 1, L880; and Joseph <i. Edge, who died
ISAAC EDGE, JR.
.May Hi. L883. lie also had two daughters: Alice Edge, who died Decem-
ber II. L870, and Elizabeth Edge, who died in 1887. George W. and Eliza-
beth died unmarried : the others, Isaac Hen jam in ( >.. Joseph G., and Alice.
married and left families surviving them.
Isaac Edge, Jr., father of Nelson J. II. Edge, al a very early age enlisted
in Captain Smith's company, Third Regiment, New Jersey Infantry, and
served his country in the armj during the War of L812. lie subsequently
became one of the pioneer manufacturers of Jersey <'ity and achieved a
national reputation as n pyrotechnist. Prom his establishment for many
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years went forth all the displays of fireworks which were a1 one time annu-
ally .uivcii on the Fourth of July by all the principal cities of the country.
llf was also die originator of movable pieces, the first being a representa-
tion of the battle of Vera Cruz given on Boston Common, lie died March
lo. L859, and left surviving him liis wife Margaret, who died October 27,
LS79; his son. Nelson .). II.; and his daughters, Mary Louisa and Prances
Ogden. The latter died January 5, 1885.
Nelson J. II. Edge has been a life-long resident of Jersey City, lie firsl
attended old Public School No. 1, afterward studied at Mr. Dickinson's
school in the Lyceum, and from there entered St. Francis Xaviei College in
New York City, where he finished his education. His early training was
designed to tit him lor an active business life, which he soon entered,
and in which he has achieved an honorable reputation. Upon leaving
college he entered the Mechanics* and Traders' Bank of Jersey City, now
tiie First National Bank, and from there went to the Merchants' Bank of
New York City as cashier's assistant. In L887 he assisted in the organiza-
tion of the Bank of New Amsterdam, of New York, and acted as its Cashier
until L896, when he retired from business, lie was not long permitted lo
remain idle, however, for in 1899 he was called t<> the post of Cashier of
the Hudson County National Hank of Jersey City, which he accepted, and
which he is now filling with characteristic energy, ability, and satisfaction.
Mi-. [Edge is one of the foremost bankers of Hudson County, lie is a man
prompt in the discharge of every obligation, imbued with the highest prin-
ciples of integrity, and active and influential in promoting business and
public interests. Besides discharging his duties as a financier he has taken
an active part in local public affairs, lie was one of the organizers of the
Jersey City Vn-c Public Library, and was appointed one of the original
Trustees by Mayor Cleveland in L889, being re-appointed by Mayor Wanser
in 1.893 and again by .Mayor I loos in L898, tor terms of five years each.
Since his first appointment he has filled the office of Treasurer of the
library. In L896 Mr. Edge was the candidate of the "Gold" Democrats
for Presidential Elector on the Palmer ami Buckner ticket. He served
seven years in Company F, Seventh Regiment, National Guard of the State
of New York, enlisting in L876 and acting as Paymaster the greater part
of that period. Mr. Edge is a member and President of the Palma Club of
Jersey City, a member of the Carterel ami Cosmos Clubs, ami a member
of the Lincoln Association, of the Jersey City Board of Trade, of the
Seventh Regiment Veteran Club, of the Reform ('bib of New York, and
of the Society of the War >A' L812. lie has never married.
cooK CONK" LI NO. of Rutherford, N. J., is the son of Calvin B. Conk-
ling, a native of Sag Harbor. Long Island, and a descendant of one of two
brothers who came from England in Cromwell's time and settled originally
in Salem, Mass. This ancestor married Mary Gardiner, daughter of Lyon
Gardiner, proprietor of Gardiner's Island, and moved from Salem to Long
Island. Calvin B. Conkling's wife was Harriet A. \Y. King, who was also
descended from an old New England family.
Cook Conkling was born in Ledgewood, X. J., on the 4th of November,
L858. He received his preparatory education at Schooley's Mountain Semi-
nary in Morris County, in his native State, and afterward entered Mount
Union College in Ohio, where he took an elective course, but did not grad-
uate. Aft<T leaving college he taught country school for a time, but soon
abandoned that occupation to go "upon the road" as general traveling
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agen! for a machinery house. He filled this position for seven years, in
the course of which he visited forty-three States in the Union.
In his younger days Mr. Conkling wrote for the newspapers and during
his travels in America and Canada he constantly wrote for the press. His
letters descriptive of the people and their ways and the countries ;ii large
encountered in his travels have been reprinted and favorably commented
upon, lie has probably seen us much of the United Slates as almost any
other citizen of the country, and is well known throughoul Northern New
Jersey, over which his business connections extend.
Mr. Conkling finally studied law, was admitted to the bar of his native
State, and in 1888 began the active practice of his profession with a part
tier in Rutherford, N. J., where he still resides. This association continued
until February, L893. Afterward he was engaged alone in a general bank-
ing and law business in Rutherford until dune 1. ls'.is. when he formed a
copartnership with es Mayor Luther Shafer, of Rutherford.
Mr. Conkling is a Democrat by inheritance, his ancestral lines on his
mother's shh — the Phoenixes and Kings of New Jersey — having been
prominently identified with that party. He is a public spirited citizen and
deeply interested in the affairs of his native State. For many years he has
been influential in the growth of Rutherford, and in everj capacity has
displayed characteristic enterprise.
JOHN T. HARINGPS ancestors, for many generations, have resided at
old Tappan. lie is descended in tin eighth generation from dan Pietersen
Haring, the emigranl from Hoorn, Holland, for an account of whom and
of his children, see page 61. His line of descent as far as the fourth gen-
eration is identical with those outlined on pages 61 and 63 of this work.
John Cozine Haring, of the fourth generation, horn November 24. 1693,
and his wife. Aeltie Van Dolsen, horn in April, L696, had issue of the
fifth generation eight children, of whom one was Frederick d. Haring (5).
Frederick Johns Haring (5), horn December 7. 1729, died March <i. 1807,
married (1), April 30, 1 T.~l'. Rachel Abrams Haring, born May L3, 1732, died
Angus! 27, L795. He married (2), November If. 1796, Ann de < dark (widow
of Peter Perry), horn duly 7. 1741. died September 18, L816. Frederick's
children (of the sixth generation) by Rachel Abrams Haring were ten:
Aeltie, Abram F.. Dirkie, John F.. Garrel F.. Harman, Rachel. Margaretta,
Maria, and Abram B.
John Fredericks Haring (6), horn dune 15, 17<>(>. died Augusl in 1836,
married, in November, L781, Jemima, daughter of Tunis Blawvelt, horn
November 2.",. 1 77: >. died January 27. 1859. Their issue of the seventh gen-
eration were two: Frederick d. and 'funis d.
'funis d. Haring (7) was horn at Tappan, September 17. 17>7. died there
October L8, L881, married il I, October 7. 1806, Elizabeth Perry (daughter of
Peter Perry), horn March 2.".. L784, died November L3, 1858. He married (2),
November 22, L859, Lea Demaresl (widow of John R. Blawvelt). horn Febru-
ary •".. L 785, died Augusl 6, L872. Tunis i7i by his firsl wife had issue of the
eighth generation Abram B.„ Jane, Peter P.. ami John T.. the last named of
whom is the subject of this sketch.
John T. Haring (8) was horn in Harrington Township, Bergen County,
May Pi. 1822, and received his education in the local schools. He hit
school at the age of fifteen and went to work on his father's farm, where
he has ever since remained, never having engaged in any oilier business.
He is not only one of the leading farmers of Bergen County, hut has
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also taken an active pari in public affairs, and served three years as a free-
holder and three years as Township Collector. He is a member of the
Reformed Church, a public spirited citizen, and highly respected and
esteemed.
Mr. Earing married Rachel Blawvell and has three children: Tunis J.,
of Hackensack; Richard B.; and Elizabeth P., of Sparkill, X. Y. They
reside at old Tappan, Bergen County.
MILTON T. RICHARDSON, a well known publisher of New York City
and for two terms President of the Village of Ridgewood, Bergen County
\. J., was born in VVestford, .M;iss., on the 7th of February, 1S4.'». He is the
son of Thomas Richardson and Mary Fletcher, ;i grandson of Abijah and
Elizabeth (Livingston) Richardson and of Peletiah and Sully i Woodward)
Fletcher, and a ureal grandson of Thomas and Hannah (Colburn) Richard-
son. On his father's side he is descended from Ezekiel Richardson one of
three brothers who came to this country from England in 1630. His
mother's family — the Fletchers- are equally old residents of \eu England,
her emigrant ancestor, Robert Fletcher, coming from England also in
1630. Both the Richardsons and the Fletchers as well as their collateral
ancestors bave long been prominent in the history of New England and
other Eastern States, and for generations have contributed materially to
the growth and prosperity of the communities in which they resided.
Milton T. Richardson received his education at Westford Academy in
VVestford, .Mass., and at Eastman's P.usiness College in Poughkeepsie,
N. Y. In these two institutions he laid the foundation upon which he has
built a successful career. Soon after completing his studies he engaged
in journalism and in the publishing business, and for a number of years
has been successfully connected ;is publisher of trade and class journals
.it 27 Tark Place, X< w York City. At the present time he is the publisher
of the Blacksmith and Wheelwright, the Amateur Sportsman, and Boots and
Shoes Weekly, being President and Treasurer of the corporation styled
the M. T. Richardson Company, which publishes these well known peri-
odicals. He is also the publisher of a large number of mechanical and
technical books. These publications are known throughout the country,
and represent in their respective fields the best interests of the trade and
the highest attainments of trade and class publications.
Mr. Richardson has achieved marked success as a publisher, and through
his own energy, ability, and superior judgment has brought his periodicals
to n high standard of excellence. He has also taken an active part in pub-
lic life. As a resident of Ridgewood, Bergen County, X. J., he has been
called upon to (ill important positions of trust and responsibility, being
elected, iii L892, a member of the Township Committee and later, upon the
incorporation of the village, a member of The Board of Village Trustees, to
which he was afterward re-elected and was twice chosen President of the
village. In these capacities he rendered most efficient service to the com-
munity, bringing to his duties the same energies, ability, and thoroughness
which characterize his business affairs. For a time he was a private in
Company 1, Sixteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. He is Vice-
President of the Ridgewood Building and Loan Association and President
of the Ridgewood Hall and Park Association, a member of the Ridge-
wood Club, and also a member of the Knights of Honor and of the Royal
Arcanum. lie is a member of tin- New York Press Club, of the American
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body, lie is also a member of the .Masonic order.
In 1870 .Mr. Richardson married Annie M. Rochford, by whom he had
three daughters: Annie Louise Richardson, Mildred Richardson, and Mrs.
II. Dunbar Johnston, lie married, second, in 1896, Anna J. Porter, and
they have one daughter: Irene Fletcher Richardson.
THE COLE FAMILY.— One of the earliest families to arrive in America
was Barent Jacobsen Kool mow written Cole), of Amsterdam, Holland,
an officer in the Dutch West India service, who came over to New Amster-
dam during the administration of Director-General Peter Minuit, under
whom he served for some lime with credit to himself and to his country.
Mis son. Jacob Barentseu Cole, married Maritie Simmons and located
at Kingston, X. Y., about L659. This Jacob had eight children, the youngest
of whom was Jacob, baptized at Kingston, X. Y., January 1. 1673, married
Barbara Hanse, and in L695 removed t<> and settled at Tappan, X. Y.,
where he died, leaving six children, all of whom married and settled either
in Rockland County. X. Y., or in Bergen County, X. .1. One of these,
Abraham, born in 1707. married Ann Meyer. They were the great-grand-
parents of Rev. Isaac Cole, who was for many years pastor of the Dutch
Church at Tappan, and whose son. Rev. David Cole, of Yonkers, X. Y.,
has published a History of Rockland County, X. Y., ami of the Tappan
Church.
Barent, said to he a brother of Abraham, above mentioned, bought a
large farm of the Van Valens a little south of Closter, where his descend
ants are numerous. Other branches of the family started at Eackensaek.
It may he safely said that many hundreds of the family are scattered over
Bergen and 1 1 udson < Jount ies.
THE CONKLIN FAMILY are scattered over Bergen and Hudson Coun-
ties, most, if not all, of them being descended from John Conklyne, of
Nottinghamshire, England, and his wife, Elizabeth Allseabrook (married
in 1625), who came to America in 1638 and settled at Salem. Mass., where
he and his brother, Ananias, established the lirst glass works in America.
They moved to Southold, L. L. ahoitt 1650. Prom thence .John removed
to Buntington, L. L. where he died in 1683, aged aboul eighty-three years.
His brother, Ananias, settled at Easthampton, L. I. His descendants spell
the name Conkling, of whom the late Senator Roscoe Conkling was one.
John's descendants spell the name Conklin. His grandson, Nicholas he-
came one of the purchasers of the " Kakiate" patent of many thousand
acres in Rockland County, X. Y.. and settled at Haverstraw in 1711. He
left several children, among whom were John. Edmund, Elias, William,
and Joshua. Of these. John, horn at Eastchester, N. Y., about 1700,
married. January 1, 1721). Gertrude, daughter of John de Tew, and settled
at Haverstraw. Edmund married Barbara, daughter of John Hogencamp.
Joseph Conklin, Rebecca Hyer, his wife, and Samuel Conklin and Jan
netie Hyer, his wife, settled at Haverstraw, N. Y.. in 1700. Matthias
Conklin, probably a brother of Nicholas, above mentioned, left his home
at Philips Manor in Westchester County, N. Y., early in 1710, and went to
Hackensack, where on the 27th of September of that year he married
Sophia Mabie, daughter of Casparus Mabie, the first immigrant of that
name. Matthias bought from Henry Ludlow and settled on a large farm
on the west side of the Hudson River in Bergen County, N. J., a little
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south of the present New York State line, bounded south by the Biker
farm, north by the Gesner farm, easl by the Hudson River, and wesl l>y
the "Ludlow Ditch." His sons were Jacob, Abraham, and Casparus, of
whom Jacob inherited the bulk of his father's lands. Be married Hester
Lawrence and had issue Delifrens, Parent, Maria, John, Elizabeth, David,
.•mil Jacob. Abraham, his brother, married Margaretta, daughter of Will-
iam Bell, and Ief1 ;i family of nine children, while Casparus, who married
Mynote Marl ling, Ief1 six children.
The descendants of the above spread rapidly over Rockland County,
X. Y.. and Bergen < !ounty, X. J.
WILLIAM GALBRAITH, probably the earliesl and mosl noted taxider
mist in Hudson County, was born in County Down, Ireland, of Scotch-Irish
ancestors, the name being conspicuous in Scotland before the exodus caused
bv the wiirs and political disturbances. When a young man be emigrated
in America and settled in New York City, bu1 sunn went to Long island,
and in April, L838, removed to Wes1 Hoboken, X. J., where he died in
October, 1872, in his sixt; seventh year. He was a distinguished taxider
mist, and in the constanl practice of his profession achieved considerable
fame and eminenl success. Numerous examples of his work which are still
in existence attest his remarkable skill and ability, and stamp him as one
of the leading taxidermists of his time. Coming to Wes1 Hoboken when
the countn was new and practically an unbroken forest, he found plenty
of birds and animals, many of which exisl now only in the specimens which
he preserved.
Mr. Galbraith purchased a house and two hits on the corner of Spring
and Cortlandl Streets, of Cyrus W. Browning, the founder of the Town of
West Hoboken, and during Ids active life took a prominent part in local
ah'aii-s. serving as Town Committeeman, etc. He was also a member of
the Methodisl Episcopal Church. He married, first, Jemima Payne, who
bore him four children: Elizabeth Charity (Mrs. Whittemore), of Chicago,
Charles S., of Wes1 Hoboken, and two who are deceased. His second wife,
Eliza Billings, whom he married in New York, died in Wes1 Hoboken,
leaving two children: William and John, both deceased. He married,
third, in New York <"itv. .Miss Dorothy Nixon, by whom he had seven
children, of whom one is living, nameh : Richard E., of West Hoboken.
Charles Stewart Galbraith was born on Long Island, on the 2ls1 of
September, 1831, and adopted his father's profession, which he has fol-
lowed for many years. He has traveled extensively in the interest of his
work, and resides in Wesl Hoboken.
RICHARD EDWIN GALBRAITH, eldest surviving son of William and
Dorothy (Nixon) Galbraith, was horn in West Hoboken, X. J., April IT,
1842. After completing his studies in the public schools of his native
town he associated himself with his father, and learned, and for several
years practiced, the art of a taxidermist. He was successfully identified
in a professional capacity with P. T. Barnum, the Chicago Academy of
Sciences, and the Kentucky University at Lexington, and afterward was
engaged for nineteen years in the ostrich feather business, in West Ho-
boken and New York, with E. V. Welch t V Co. and their successors. Bene,
Creighton & Co. These connections gave him a broad experience and a
valuable training in both professional and commercial affairs, and broughl
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him into prominence ;is a man of unusual ability, of greal force of character,
and of rare mental and executive attainments.
In 1SS4 Mr. Galbraith engaged in the real estate and insurance business
in WVst Hoboken, which he still follows with characteristic energy and
success. lb' lias been an extensive operator in real property in thai
section, and through his enterprise and foresight lias been instrumental
in developing several importanl tracts.
In politics he is a conservative Democrat, lb' was four years a member
and nnc year Chairman of the Town Council <>t West Eoboken, three years
RICHARD E. GALBRAITH.
Chief of Police, two years a member and one year Chairman of the West
Hoboken Board of Education, and one of tin- founders of the Hudson Trust
and Savings Institution, of which he is a Director and a member of the
Executive Committee. Do has been President of the Palisade Building
and Loan Association of West Hoboken since its organization in April,
L891. lie is a promineni member and for three years was Master of
Doric Lodge, No. si;. F. and A. M., of West Hoboken, and is a member
of Cyrus Chapter. No. 32, R. A. M., of Pilgrim Commandery, No. 16,
K. T., and of the Scottish Kite bodies in the Valley of -Jersey City, of
Mecca Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of New York, and of the
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Masonic Veterans' Association, of Brooklyn, and is Pas1 Junior Grand
Steward of the Grand Lodge of Masons of New Jersey. He is also a mem-
ber of Ellsworth Post, No. 11. G. A. R., of the Town of Union, hav-
ing enlisted in August, L862, in Company F, Twenty-firsl New Jersey
Volunteer Infantry, and serving in the Third Brigade, Second Division,
Sixili Army Corps, of the Army of the Potomac, in the Civil War. This
was the tirsi nine-months' regimenl from New Jersey in the War of the
Rebellion. Mr. Galbraith participated in both battles of Fredericksburg,
and ;ii 1I1-' second battle was captured by the enemy and confined as n
prisoner for aboul ten days. His high standing in the community, the
esteem and confidence in which he is held, and his greai popularity and
wide acquaintance are attested by the several importanl positions he
has filled, the duties oi which he has discharged with ability, integrity,
sound judgment, and faithfulness. Almost every importanl movemenl in
West Hoboken, during the lasl fifteen or twenty years, has fell the impetus
of Ids wholesome and benevolent influence.
Mr. Galbraith was married, dune 1. L8G5, to Surah Jane, daughter of
William Granger Quigley and Esther, his wile, of New York City and later
of AYosi Hoboken.
TIM': De BOW FAMILY. — Dirk de Bow, or de Boog, as ii appears on
tin- records ai Amsterdam, Holland, emigrated from thai city to America
in L649, with his four children, and settled a1 New Amsterdam, where he
died. His children were Catharine (married, September 5, L649. Wilhelmus
Beekman), Susanna (married, in L660, Arenl Everson), Frederick (married
Elizabeth Fredericks), and Garrel (married, September 1<'>. 1663, Hendricke
Paden, of San Francisco).
Garrel had issue three children: Henry, John, and Isaac. This John
was a baker in New York, and had a son, Garrel de Bow, born in New
Vork aboul L703, died aboul 17<;s. a1 Pompton Plains. X. .1.. married, May
i'::. ITl'T. Maria, daughter of Paulus Vanderbeck and Catharine Ryerson.
She was baptized February 21. 1706. Garrel settled on the lands of his
father-in-law (Vanderbeck) at Pompton, where he spent Ids days, and left
six children: Catalyna, horn in ITl's (married Simeon Van Ness); Eliza-
beth, horn in L729 (married Abraham Gould); Paulus, horn in L731; John,
horn in 17.".."; Maria, horn in 17:'." (married Samuel Berry); and Sarah,
horn in 1740 (married Philip Schuyler).
The descendants oi these children of Garrel de Bow have scattered over
Passaic County and the west side of Bergen County, were they are quite
numerous.
THE COOPEK FAMILY is still one of the more numerous families
throughoul Northern New Jersey, and particularly in Bergen County.
Claes Jansen Van Permerend emigrated to America in 1647, from Per
merend, a town near tin- Zuyder Zee. between Amsterdam and Hoorn,
Holland. His fust stopping place was Brooklyn, where In- married Pie
tartie Brackhoengie, of Gowannus. She died soon after and he removed
to Bergen, N J., where he married (2), November 11. L656, Ann. a sister
of [de V;iii Vorst. <>r January 1. 1662, he obtained a patent for a trad
of hind near Harsimus, en which In located and remained until his death.
which occurred November 20, Kiss. His widow survived him until January
1.2, L726. Two weather-beaten headstones mark their last resting places
in the cemeieiv of the old Bergen hutch Church, ('laes was an active.
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energetic man. and attained prominence in town affairs. He was some-
times known as "John Pottagie," and in later days as " Kuyper." il is
said, because he was a cooper by trade. His descendants have ever since
retained the name Kuyper, anglicized to Cooper. On April lb. L671, he
boughl from Governor Carteret 240 acres on the Hudson River, including
in it the present Village of Nyack, N. V. The same year he bought 400
acres adjoining lus first purchase on the north, and in 1678 lie bought
several traits of meadow adjoining him — in all about Ids acres of meadow.
Seme of these lands he owned in partnership with the Tallnians v All of
them,eventually passed to his sons. Hi^ issne wire Cornelius, John, (Maes,
hirls. Henry, Vroutie, Trvntie. Divertie, Pietartie. Janetie, Grietie, Marine.
Hellegond, Judith, and Cornelia — in all fifteen. One or two of these
joined in the purchase of the Tappan patent.
Cornelius went from Bergen to Tappan in L689, bul soon sold to Tall-
man. He thin removed to Schraalenburgh, where he boughl of John
Demaresl -~><> acres on the Hackensack River, near old Hook, where he
resided. He and his wife. Aeltie Bogert, of Tappan, reared a large family
of children, from whom mainly are descended the Bergen County Coopers.
RICH \KI> B. HARING is descended in the ninth generation from Jan
Pietersen Haring, the emigranl from Hoorn, Holland, and the line of de
scent is the same ns that of his father, John T. Haring (see page L54), ex-
tending it one generation further, as follows:
John T. Haring (8), born May Hi. L822, married. May 24, LS43, Rachel,
daughter of John R. Blawvelt, born August 24, 1822. He resides at Tappan,
on pari of the farm which his lirst American ancestor purchased from the
Indians. The issue of John T. Haring (8) of the ninth generation are
three: funis. I.. Richard B., and Elizabeth 1'.. of whom the second, Richard
B. (9), is the subject of this sketch.
Richard B. Haring (9) was bom in Harrington Township, Bergen
County, January 24, LS56. He acquired his education in the Bergen County
schools, which iie left at the age of eighteen to go to work on his father's
farm. He still remains on the homestead. About L886 he engaged in the
business of general auctioneer. In L897 he also established himself in the
coal business at Tappan. X. Y.. and still continues both enterprises.
lie was for four years a member of the Township Committee and for
four years served as Township Treasurer, discharging the duties of each
office with characteristic ability and devotion. For some time he has also
served as a member of t he Borough < Council. He is a member of t he Ameri-
can Legion of Honor, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the
Reformed Church. In every capacity he has maintained a high standard
for integrity, honor, and laudable ambition.
Mr. Haring married Mary < I. Banta, and has six children of the tenth gen-
eration: Lila Kay. Charles lb. Vbram Demarest, J. Eugene, D. Leroy, and
< lert rude.
JOHN JOSEPH NEVIN, Judge of tin Criminal Courts of Jersey City,
is the son of Patrick Xevin. and was born in Summit, X. -I., on the 31st of
August, 1*70. After attending private schools he entered St. Peter's
College of Jersev City and was graduated from that institution in the class
of L889, receiving in -Inly of that year the degree of Bachelor of Arts; a
year later he received the degree of Master of Arts. On leaving college
lie was offered the position of clerk to Mayor Cleveland, which he accepted,
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and wlirii Mayor Wanser succeeded Mr. Cleveland in office Mr. Nevin was
retained on accounl of his efficiency, industry, and superior qualifications.
In these capacities Judge Nevin gained a wide reputation and displayed
those broad executive abilities which have since distinguished him in both
public and private affairs. He also engaged in journalism, being the Jer-
sey City corresponded of the New York \Io?'ning Advertiser and also of the
New York Star and Daily Gotitinent during the existence of those papers.
Ho is now Judge of the Criminal Courts of Jersey City, which office he is
lilliiiL: with marked ability and universal satisfaction. In L899 he was ap-
pointed a member for Jersey City of the Hudson County Consolidation
JOHN J. NEVIN.
Commission, and he is now Secretary of thai body. Judge Nevin was mar-
ried April 30, L895, to Katharine Walsh, of Jersey <'iiy. and has two chil-
dren, Joseph and Edward.
THE De GROOT FAMILY, still numerous in Bergen and Hudson Coun-
ties, arc of Holland descent. William Pietersen de Grool came to America
in LG62, on hoard the ship '* Hope," with his wife and five children. They
were from Amsterdam, Holland. Dirck Jansen de Groot, a Dative of Ryle-
velt, in Holland, came to Now Amsterdam as a soldier in the Dutch
service, on hoard the ship "Spotted Cow," April L5, L6C0, leaving behind
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him hi-- wife, Grietie Gerrets, and two children. In April, L663, Dirck's
brother, Staats de Groot, who, the chip's register says, was a resident of
Tricht, Holland, came to America on the same ship which had brought
over his brother. Staats broughl over with him his brother's wife and
children. Staats married, in 1664, Barbara Springsteen. Dirck and his
first wife. Wybrig Jans, resided in New Amsterdam antil 1679, when they
removed i«» Flatbush, L. I., where they remained permanently. From
Flatbush several of the children removed to Hackensack in L695-96. Siaais
first settled at Brooklyn, where the assessmenl roll of KIT.") showed him
to be a taxpayer. He was of a roving disposition. In L678 he was living
in Westchester County, X. Y. lie next turned up at Bergen, X. .1.. where,
in June, L678, his second daughter was baptized. While living at Bergen,
where many id' his relatives lived, he became in L686 one of the Tappan
patentees, lie was ai New Amsterdam in Hiss, and probably never lo-
cated on his Tappan lands. He died between Kiss and 17<M. having deeded
or willed his lands to his wife Barbara, who was a daughter of Casparus
Springsteen, of Groningen, Bolland. His children were Yoost, Neltje,
Mary, and Geesie. Yoost settled a1 Tappan and his descendants spread into
Bergen County. The descendants of Dirck and William Pietersen de Grool
spread through Bergen County from Bergen and EJackensack, where they
seit led.
THE EDSALL FAMILY are still numerous in both Bergen and Hudson
Counties. The founder of the family in America was Samuel Edsall, a
native of Reading in Berkshire, England, where he was born about li;::o.
lie was a hatter by trade, and came to America early in the spring of
L655 ias is saidi. settling first ;ii New Amsterdam. There, on .May L'!>,
L655, he married Mi Jannetie Wessels, then a belle of the city, whose
mother kept a tavern in Tear! Street, celebrated for burgomasters' din
ners. In April. L657, lid-all was made a small burgher. From Xew Am-
sterdam he went id Newtown, I.. 1. In L663 he volunteered his services in
the Esopus Indian War, and was made a Sergeant. <>n October <>. HiiU.
he. with Richard Nichols, bough.1 of Governor Philip Carterel a tract called
Xipnichsen on the Kill Von Kail in Eudson County, containing about ><M>
acres. lb sent over four men to Bergen thai year to help fortify the
•• towne." In L668, with Nicholas Varlet, he boughl from the Indians I.sTl*
acres of land fronting on the Hudson River, bounded west by Overpeck
("reek, and extending northward from the town bounds of Bergen to
what is now beonia in Bergen County. After the surrender of the Dutch
to the English he took the oath of allegiance to the British king ami re-
moved from Newtown to Bergen. There he was a member of Carteret's
Council from Kills to 1672. In L668 he was appointed a commissioner to
assess and collect a tax to resist invasion, and was made treasurer of the
fund. He joined James Bollen and .John Berry in petitioning I he Dutch
government that the books and papers of Xew .Jersey be delivered to Sec-
retary Bayard. September 12, L673, and was one of the commissioners sent
by Bergen to the same government. In 1689 he removed to Xew Amster-
dam and became a partisan of Governor Leisler, a member of the Com-
mittee of Safety, and of the Court of Exchequer. Ee was caught in the
net with Leisler and put on trial for high treason, of which charge he
was honorably acquitted. In 1699 la- removed to Queens County, L. I.,
where la- was" Justice of the Peace in 1690, and where In- died. He mar-
K)4 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES
iic<l (2) Augusl 27, 1689, ;ii Flatbush, I.. I.. Janneite Stevens, widow of
Cornelius Jansen Beory, of Newtown.
His issue were Ann. L656; Judith, 1658; John, L660; Ann: Julia; and
Richard. Of these Ann married William Laurence, <>t' New York, and
Julia married Benjamin Blagge, <>i Plymouth, England. -I « >liii seiileil north
<it' liis father's farm en the Budson. Blagge ami Laurence by the deed of
Edsall became the owners of pari of liis Budson River farm, and the
remainder passed i<> the ownership of the he ilivmis. Hays, Sniiilis. and
other settlers of Bergen County. Seme of Edsall's descendants are siill
living on portions of the farm bought from the savages by their Mist
common ancestor.
THE FLIERBOOM FAMILY.— The first American ancestor of the
Elierboom and Vlierboom families was Mattys Elierboom, a Bollander,
who emigrated to America somewhere aboul 1660 and settled at New
Orange (Albany), where !n- became a man of note, rising to the dignities
and honors of ;i judge of the courts at Albany. There he reared a family
of five children: Caroline, Wellempie, Maritie, Servaes, and Jacob, and
perhaps others. About L692 the family removed to New Amsterdam,
where Wellempie married in 1693 Cornelius Eckerson. Caroline, in L6!)3,
married Cornelius Jans Baring. .Maritie married in L694 Rynier Reyserick.
Servaes, in 1697, married Gertrude Lesting. Jacob married in 1699 .Mari-
tie Peters Baring. All these, except Servaes, became residents of Bergen
County. Jacob, at the division of the Tappan patent, boughl a large farm
at what is now Rivervale, in Washington Township. He owned other
lands there. His issue were .Mary. Matthew. John, Abram, Rynier, -Inn
uetie. .lames, and Jannetie. All of these except Matthew were baptized
at Tappan. Jacob's children (a large family) located west of the Backen-
sack on lands bought of John McEvers, and their descendants are scat-
tered over Bergen County, some having taken the name of " Freeborn."
THE GARRABRANT FAMILY, the later members of which are nu
merous in the western part of Bergen and Hudson Counties, claim descent
from Gerbrand Claesen, a Dutch emigrant, who. at one time, had much
influence over the early affairs of Bergen. Claesen was from Amsterdam,
and was at Bergen probably two or three years before he married Maritie.
only daughter of Claes Pietersen <'<>s. which was Augusl 25, L674. Be
became a large property owner and held many official positions. In L6S9
he obtained permission of < rovernor Leisler to purchase a tract of land now
in Putnam County, X. V.. and. on December <i. L699, he purchased of < reorge
Willocks an extensive trad of land on the Pequanonck River, then in
Bergen < bounty.
His issue were nine children: Peter, Claes, Berpert, Cornelia, Metje,
Cornelius, Maria. Gerrebrand, and Mindert. Some of these remained at
Bergen, where their descendants still live, while others settled on their
father's lands on the Pequanonck River, whence their issue spread over
Bergen and Passaic ' bounties.
MOSES E SPRINGER, the leading undertaker of Englewood, X. J., was
horn August 5, 1 V 1'7. in New York <"ity. where he resided until 1857, when
he went to Wisconsin, where he remained two years. His education was
acquired partly in the public schools, but chiefly through his own exertions
and by those means which an ambitious youth linds amid the active employ
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165
nients of life. Thrown at an early age upon his own resources, he manfully
paved his way in the world, picked up here and there valuable bits of in-
formation, and rapidly acquired a practical experience which has served
him well throughout his career.
For aboui fifteen years, both before and after his residence in Wisconsin,
Mr. Springer was successfully engaged in business as a builder and con-
tractor. In 1859 he returned Last and settled in Englewood, X. -I., where
he si ill resides, and where he has successfully conducted an undertaking
*_ —.j.
MOSES E. SPRINGER.
business since he retired from contracting. He is now the leading under-
taker in that town, and has also been active in public affairs, having served
for three years ;is Tax Assessor. He was one of the founders of Englewood
Lodge of Good Templars and was a (barter member of Tuscan Lodge, No.
11". r\ and A. M., of Englewood, of which he is still a prominent member
and Past Master. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a
public spirited and enterprising citizen, and in all the relations of life has
displayed the attributes which mark a successful man. During the past
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eleven years he has been Secretary of the Englewood Mutual Loan and
Building Association, a position which he si ill holds.
Mr. Springer was married, in L854,to Mary A.Golding, of New York City.
Their children are Hester, Mary E., George W.. Charles \Y.. and Josephine
Burr Springer.
THE GOETSCHIUS FAMILY is also a numerous family in the western
pan of Bergen < !ounty. They are all descended from John Henry < roetschy,
who was born in the Canton of Zurich, in Switzerland, about 1695, where
he studied for the ministry in the University of Switzerland. He came to
America aboul L728, and firsl preached a1 Skippach and in the valleys of
the Delaware and Susquehanna in Pennsylvania. His son. John Henry
Goetschius, born at Liguria, Switzerland, in 17ls. studied in the University
of Zurich, and came to America with his father in Ill's. He was licensed
to preach in 1738, and preached on Lout: Island until 1740, when he came
to Hackensack, X. •). There he preached until Ills, when he took charge
of the church at Schraalenburgh, which he kepi until his death in 1771.
He was an able, eloquent, and effective preacher. His son Stephen, also a
minister, preached at Saddle River and Pascack from L814 to L837. His
father. John II. Goetschius, married. August 26, 174'.i. Rachel Zabriskie.
Both John Henry and his son Stephen reared large families, who scattered
rapidly over Bergen < Jounty.
THE GAUTIEK FAMILY, at one time numerous in Hudson County,
was a French Huguenol family who came to America after the revocation
of the Edid of Nantes by Louis XIV. By intermarriage a considerable
landed estate in Bergen, N. J., came into possession of the family. This
property, at what is now Greenville, is known as the " Gautier farm," de-
scended through om Captain Thomas Brown. Jasques Gautier, of Saint
Blancard, in the Province of Languedoc, France, is said to have been the
tirst American progenitor of the Gautiers. He settled in New Amsterdam.
and left issue two sons. Daniel and Francois, besides daughters. Daniel (2)
married, at New York, September <i. 171*',. Maria Bogert, and had eleven
children, one of whom was Andrew (3), who was horn in L720 and married
(1) in 1714 an English lady named Elizabeth Crossfield, and il'i in 1774
Elizabeth Hastier. Andrew (3) was a prominent man in New York,
and left issue four children, one of whom. Andrew i4i. horn December is.
1755, married Hi Mary Brown, of Bergen, and il'i Hannah Turner. Andrew
ill took up his residence at Greenville and left eighl children, from whom
are descended the Gautiers of Bergen and Hudson Counties.
WILLIAM MTNDRED JOHNSON is one of the most prominent lawyers
of Bergen County, X. J., ami since 1895 has represented that county in the
State Senate. He comes from distinguished families, his fatlu r being Hon.
Whitfield Schaeffer Johnson, Secretary of State of New Jersey from L861
to L866, and his mother Ellen, daughter of Enoch Green, granddaughter of
John Green, and sister <>l Hon. Henry Green, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Courl of Pennsylvania. His paternal grandparents were John Johnson and
Maria < '. Schaeffer. His paternal ureal grandfather was Captain Henry
. Johnson. ,i Quartermaster in the Continental Army. Hon. Whitfield
Schaeffer Johnson, father of the subjed of this article, was eminent in the
Stale of Xew Jersey, alike as a leading lawyer, a leader id' the Republican
party, and as a public man. lie was horn in Xew ion. Sussex Comity. No-
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veinber 14. L806, read law in Newark with Chief Justice Joseph C. Eorn-
blower, and came to the New Jersey bar in L828. For many years he was a
successful lawyer in New ten. and for seme time served as Prosecutor of the
Pleas of Sussex County. In 1^<>1 lie was appointed Secretary of State by
Governor Olden and served until 1866, and in 1867 lie was made register in
bankruptcy. He died in Trenton on the 24th of Decemb< r. 1S74; his wife's
death occurred there September 1.6, L894.
William M. Johnson was horn in Newton. Sussex County. N. J., Decem-
ber 2, L8.47, and received his preparatory education at the Newton Colle-
giate Institute and the State Model School nt Trenton. lie was graduated
from Princeton College with honor, receiving 'he degree of Bachelor of
Arts in L867. Subsequently lie also received the degree of Master of Arts
from the same institution. .Mr. Johnson read law in Trenton with the hit"
Hon. Edward W. Scudder until the I atter's appointment to the bench, and
afterward in the same city with Garrel I >. YV. Vroom, now and for several
, , mm
RESIDENCE OF WILLIAM M. JOHNSON.
years Slate Law Reporter, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey at
Trenton in June, L870, as an attorney, and in dune. 1ST:;, as a counselor,
As a member of the firm of Kingman & Johnson he successfully practiced
his profession in Trenton from L870 to December. 1S74, when he moved to
Hackensack, Bergen County, where he has since resided, becoming one of
the recognized leaders of the Bergen County bar. In connection with an
extensive legal business, and as a progressive, public spirited, and liberal
minded citizen, he has achieved a wide reputation and an honorable stand-
ing throughout the State, lb- is one of the most conspicuous figures in the
public and political life of his section. He has appeared in a large number
of very important cases, ami is universally regarded as one of t lie ablest and
most talented lawyers of the county, eminent in the profession, and re-
markably successful as an advocate and counselor. His sound judgment,
his integrity, his broad legal attainments, and his fine sense of honor as a
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111:) 11 have woe for him the confidence of no1 only his clients, biri of 1 1 n •
entire community, in ;mi unusual degree.
Ilr is ;ils<> one of the influential leaders of the Republican party in the
stale, having served on the Republican Stnte Committee in 1884, and
being a delegate to the Republican National Convention ;ii Chicago in L888.
In the autumn of L895 he was nominated and elected State Senator from
Bergen County for ;i term of three years, and so ably and satisfactorily
did he discharge the duties of that office thai in L898 he was re-elected for a
second term of three years. He has been active in proposing and shaping
legislation in the interest of the taxpayers ol both the State and his
district, and has served as Chairman of the Committees on Appropriations,
State Library, and the Judiciary and as a member of the Committees on
Boroughs and Townships and State Hospitals. In L898 and L899 he was
tin" leader of his party on the floor of the Senate. He was the first Re-
publican senator ever elected in Bergen County, and received 6,287 votes in
L895 and 6,999 in L898; these facts speak volumes for the popularity, the
confidence, and the esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens, while
his re-election by an increased vote attests the satisfaction he has rendered
in t his important trust. In L900 he was elected President of the New Jersey
Senate and became Acting Governor during the absence of Governor Voor-
hees in Europe in .May. L900, and in Augusl of the same year he was ap-
pointed by President McKinley First Assistant Post mast er-< lenera I of the
United Stales, vice Perry S. Heath resigned.
Senator Johnson has also been prominent in the local affairs and public
interests ^\' Hackensack, where he lias so long resided. He has held various
town offices, has served on the Hackensack Board of Education, and Ims
taken for many years a deep interest in the development of the public
school system. " The Johnson Public Library," costing nearly $50,000, was
erected in L900 by .Mr. Johnson, at his own expense, and presented by him
to the Town of Hackensack. Outside of the lines of his profession he has
been eminently successful in the management of a number of business in-
terests. Hi' was ime of the original organizers and founders of the Hack
ensack Bank, and has served upon its directorate continuously from its
organization to tin- present time, lie is also President of the Hackensack
Trust Company, lie is likewise a prominent member and one of the officers
of the Second Reformed Church of Hackensack. while he is also a member
of the Oritani Field <'lnl». the \'<ntli Jersey Country Club, the Hamilton
('liih. the Lawyers* Club, and the Princeton Club of New Fork. In every
capacity and relation in life Senator Johnson has exhibited consummate
ability, a broad and liberal knowledge, and a commendable public spirit
and enterprise. Privateh he is possessed of scholarly attainments, and is
universally respected for those virtues which make up the loyal friend and
lieiiesl man.
He was married October 22, L872, to Maria P.. daughter <»f William
White, of Trenton. X. .1. Their eldest son, Walter Whitfield Johnson, died
March Hi. 1891, aged sixteen. The other two, who are living, are George
White Johnson and William Kempton Johnson.
THE MEYEB FAMILY.— The first American ancestor of the Meyer
family in America was Adolph Meyer (or Mayer), a native of risen, a
parish of Bertheim in the German Province id' Westphalia, who emigrated
to New Amsterdam in LG61. His arrival was followed soon after by the
advent of his kinsmen. Andrew and .lohn Mover, brothers. Thev must
GENEALOGICAL Kit)
have been on friendly terms wit li I he Van Vorsts at Bergen, for, on Novem-
ber 5, L671, Andrew's Qiarriage to .Miss Vroutie, eldest daughter of Ede
\';iu Vorst, was dnlv solemnized in the old hutch ('lunch on the heights,
and on June L3, ItiTT. .Miss \mii Win Vorst, Vroutie's sister, was united
to John Meyer in the same church. Andrew and John both took their
wives to New Amsterdam, where they prospered and reared large families.
In 1»''.U John removed to Tappan and located near the Sparkill Brook.
John's wife, then a widow, received her share of the Tappan patent at the
division in L704. Their children, whose descendants spread southward into
Bergen County, were Catharine, [de, John, Judith, [den, Cornelius, Ann.
Elizabeth, and A adrew.
Adolph .Meyer removed to near Demaresl in Bergen County, where he
settled on a large farm purchased by him from the Demarests. His issue
spread all over Bergen County and are uumerous today.
TIM': OTJTWATEK FAMILY.— Franz Jacobsen was a native of Oude-
water, a small town on the River Yssel, between Leyden and Utrecht, Hoi
land. This town is also the birthplace "\' Vrminius, after whom the •• Re-
monstrants" were called A i ininia ns. A picture in the Stadt hnys. by Dirk
Stoop, commemorates the brutal excesses committed t here by t he Spaniards
in 1575. Jacobsen came to America prior to L657 and located at Albany.
( Mie of his sons. Thys Franz < Mil water, went from A Ibany to Tappan, X. 'S ..
in L686, where he married Geertie Lamberts .Moll (widow of John Jacobs
Harding). Mis descendants spread over Rockland County and into New
Jersey. One of them. Mr. Thomas Ouiwaier. was a noted surgeon in the
Revolutionary Army. Thomas Franz (Mil water, another son of l'Tanz
Jacobsen, the emigrant, removed to New York, where he married Neetie
Peterse. He subsequently removed to and settled in Bergen County, south
of Baekensack, where he married (2) in 17-">n Jannetie Durie, widow of
Cornelius Epke Banta. Bis children were Jacob, Thomas, John, Peter,
Elizabeth, Janneke, and Annatie, all of whom married and settled around
Hackensack, where their descendants still reside.
THE LAROE (La ROUX) FAMILY, still numerous in Bergen County,
are descended from Jaques la Roux, who was horn in l(ir>7. .Mr. Riker
in his " History of Harlem "' says of him: " From his name and affiliation
with the French refugees we conclude he was himself French, though
Vander Vin usually carefully writes his surname the first two or three
times el Roey, and finally adopts the form of El Roe. As he must have
had warrant for this, probably Jaques was of mixed blood, Spanish and
Walloon, lie is always called by Vander Vin ' Jaco," a juvenile form of
Ins name used by the Walloons. He was at New Harlem as early as 1<!7.'». a.
young man and unmarried. Probably he had then been here bu1 a short
time. In 1 < '» 7 7 he joined the I Mitch Church at New Amsterdam, but early
the next year accompanied the Demarest family to their settlement on
the upper Hackensack River. At Hackensack he married Hendricke Tennis
Belling (Helms), and by her had issue Peter, Henry, Samuel, Samuel, Abra-
ham, and John." On the decline of the French church at New Bridge,
•' which he must have helped to form." says Riker, he joined the church at
Hackensack. April .">, 1696. The same year lie. with the emigrant Lozier and
others, purchased of the Indians the "Old Hook" patent, containing 1,300
acres on the west side of the Hackensack in Washington Township. The
title to this tract was defective and was not made good until April, 1704,
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after his death. He was known ns " Siques La Roux." Upon his death
his children inherited his property, married, and reared large families, the
descendants of whom spread rapidly over Bergen County. They are still
numerous.
HENRY PUSTEE is a fine example of the German-American citizen, one
of that large class whose industry, economy, intelligence, and sturdy in-
tegrity have done so much toward the developmenl of our country, and
whose solid qualities and \aluahlr services in all departments of private
and public life have been recognized in everj portion of the republic. He is
a native of Jersey City, N. J., where he was born March LO, 1858, and where
he has ;d w ays resided. I lis
father. Valentine Puster, a
na1 ive of Bavaria, came to
America about the year
L850, and located in Jersey
< 'iiy. where his son enjoyed
the advantages ot the pub-
lic as well as the German
private schools.
While bui a youth he
made choice of the jew (dry
business as his life work:
bu1 after a short appren-
ticeship he became con-
vinced that his tastes,
abilities, and natural apti-
tudes pointed tO a very
differeni sphere of action.
Heme, with more mature
• judgment revising h i s
former decision, he resolved
to make the law his pro-
fession. In the li^hi of
subsequent events no one
can doubt that 1 his was a
most fortunate change. Mr.
Puster now entered the law
office of Hon. William I).
Daly, since Stale Senator and Congressman. For four years following he
received kindly advice and instruction from Mr. Daly, as well as from his
partner lai thai time), Mr. Wynkoop, who look a lively and warm inierest
in him, seeing his aptitude and industrious endeavors, and coached him
through all the intricacies confronting the law student. Mr. Puster also
found a warm friend in the late Hon. Bennington F. Randolph, Judge of
the Jersey City Districl Court, who did much for him while pursuing the
rugged course of the law student, and he afterward had the extreme pleas
ure of succeeding his benefactor and friend on the Districl Courl bench.
\i the close of ihis period Mr. Puster took his examination in company
with a number of i el low students from i he same building (Flemming Build-
ing), and to-day is the only living and successful lawyer of all those who
look the journey to Trenton benl on attaining the same goal. After be-
coming regularlv admitted to the bar of New Jersev, he at once entered
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upon the practice of his profession in his native city, where his courtesy,
ability, and knowledge of the law, his tireless activity, with prompt and
thorough attention to business, rapidly added to his circle of friends and
steadily built up for him an extensive and valuable practice. He is a man
of kind and generous impulses, as is evidenced by the fact that he is known
as a friend of the poorer classes, who often receive the benefit of his legal
services and advice with little remuneration or quite gratuitously.
So bright and energetic a man could scarcely fail to become a leader
in politics. He comes of Democratic stock and has always been true to
the Democratic standard, and hence enjoys the fullest confidence of his
party. As early as 1881, when but twenty-three years of age, he was elected
Alderman of his district, the Sixth, and received the cognomen of "the
School-Boy Alderman." which position he held tor two years, and labored
assiduously for his district with good effect. In L890 he was chosen As-
semblyman for the same district by a large majority over his opponent,
lion, -lames S. Erwin. The duties of this office he discharged with ability
till the Hon. Leon Abbett, having discovered his titness for the honors and
responsibilities of the bench, m April, L891, appointed him to succeed
William I*. Douglass as Judge of the First District Court of Jersey City.
As a jurist he fully met the high expectations of his friends, presiding
with marked dignity, ability, justice, and decision.
.Judge busier is u member of <ir;ini Lodge, X<». 89, K. of 1'.. of Unique
Council, R. A., and of the Order of Good Fellows; bast Grand of Lincoln
Lodge. No. 136, I. t >. o. V.. and representative to the Home for Aged
Indigent odd Fellows of New Jersey, of which institution he is a Director
and formerly President. lb- has also served several years as the repre-
sentative to the ( Ira lid Lodge of Odd bellow s of New .Jersey. He is one of
the managers of the Aged German Home, known as the Raymond Roth
Altenheim, under the management of the German Pioneer Verein, as well
as counsel for the same institution. He is also counsel for five different
building and loan associations.
On the 24th of January, L883, Judge Luster was married to Miss Julia
A. Weiiner. daughter of John < '. Wenner, for many years past a leading
business man and manufacturer of Jersey City. They are blessed with
four daughters, in whom -Judge Luster has a great and fatherly pride.
He became associated in partnership with Hon. Robert s. Hudspeth,
ex-Presiding -Judge of the Hudson County Court of Common Pleas, ami has
a suite of finely appointed offices in the Davidson Building, Jersey City.
Judge Luster is still a young man, having only reached the prime of life,
and has every prospect of a brilliant future before him.
THE FIRST OF THE MABIES in America wrote the surname Meebji.
He was Casparus (Jasper) Maine, and of French origin, though from what
particular part of France he hailed does not appear. He was a Huguenot,
and either he or his ancestor had lied from France to Amsterdam, in Hol-
land, from which city he emigrated to America about 1692 with his wife,
Elizabeth Schuerman, and three children: Christina. Sophia, and Peter.
The family went to New Harlem, where Casper bought lands of Daniel
Tournure, and where he became a considerable landholder. On September
L'!», L696, he was elected Constable of Harlem, the duties of which office he
discharged for one year. In 1700 he sold part of his farm and in 1709 the
balance, and removed to Bergen County, X. J., where in 171(1 he purchased
of Captain Lam-aster Symes a large tract on the west bank of the Hudson,
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extending westward to Closter. Here he settled, and here he died aboul
1 7i'<>. I lis children were Christina (married Joosl Alberl Zabriskie), Sophia
(married Matthew Oonklin), and Peter, all born in Holland, and Jeremia,
Abraham, Frederick, and John, baptized a1 Harlem. Of these Peter mar-
ried Catelyntie Johns Bogerl and had issue a1 lens) thirteen children, all
baptized a1 Tappan. Peter located ai old Tappan. The descendants of
his children spread over Bergen County, and many of them are siill
residents.
THE MERSELES FAMILY is still numerous in Hudson and Bergen
Counties. They trace their lineage to Pieter Marcelisen (Marcelis), a native
of the little Town of Beest, near Leerdam, in the Province of Utrecht, 1 1 « > 1
land. He lefl Amsterdam in April, L661, with his wife, four children (aged,
respectively, twelve, six. four, and tw r o years), and two servants, on the
Dutch Wesi India ship " Beaver,'" and arrived ai New Amsterdam on the
Oth of May of the same year. The ship's register shows he paid 232 florins
passage-monej for the family of eighl persons, all of which goes in show
that even then he must have been a man of considerable means, lie re-
moved in Bergen, where he settled, and where his wife died in L680, and he
followed her in L681. His issue were James, Jannekie, Pieter, Merseles,
Elizabeth, and Hillegond. These all married ami remained at Bergen.
Peter, the eldest son, died wealthy. Some of his descendants settled in
Rockland < 'ounty, X. Y.. and in t he north end of Bergen < bounty.
THE VAXDELINDA FAMILY.— Pieter Linde was a native of Belle, a
town on the road from Bruges to Ghenl in Flanders. He was a physician,
and came to America in lii.",!i with his wife, Elsie Barents. The shipping
records show that, on April is. 1639, he paid to David Pietersen de Vries
and Frederick Pietersen de Vries 140 Carolus gelders ($56) for passage for
himself and wife to New Amsterdam, where he settled and followed his
profession until the death of his wife in 1643. On July 1, of the following
year (1644), he entered into a marriage contrad with Martha Chambers, or
Ekomberts, of New Kerck, in Flanders. She was the widow of John Manje,
or Monnye. The marriage knot was tied .Inly 10, Ki44. ai New Amsterdam.
After tins marriage Vandelinde removed to Brooklyn, where he became
the owner of the patent of his wife's iirst husband. This he sold January
23, 1652, to Barenl Joosten. He owned several other pieces of property,
both ai Brooklyn and New Amsterdam, and in 1655 was tobacco inspector
of the latter city. After Linde's death his descendants assumed the name
of Van der Linde.
Ilis son. Joosl Van der Linde, removed to Bergen, \. J., in the fall of
1670, where, mi January 30, 1671, he boughl aboui 'an aires of land of
Pieter Jansen Slote between Constable's Hook and Bergen Point. Here
he resided until Ids death. His children of the third generation were
John (died in 1696), Roclof, Jannetie (married Peter Laurens Van Buskirk),
Hendricke (married I. aniens Laurens Van Buskirk), and Machtell (mar-
ried Albert Zabriskie). All of these excepl John removed to Bergen County.
Roelof resided with his father ai Bergen, where, on October 2, 1682, he
married Susanna Hendricks Brinkerhoff. lie removed i«> Hackensack in
1686, where he helped to organize and became a member of the Dutch
chinch. He became joint owner with his brothers-in-law, Laurence and
Peter Van Buskirk, in the Now Hackensack patented lands, and also
bought of the New Jersey proprietors large tracts of wild land west of the
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Pascack River in Washington and Midland Townships in Bergen County.
Mis first wife having died in L700, he married (2) Rachel Cresson, widow of
John Peters Durie, who survived him, bin by whom he had no issue. Be
was a man of wealth, and died in Now York City early in 170!>, leaving a
will daiod September »». L708, proved February L3, 170!). His issue of the
fourth generation were Peter, Benry, ('lassie, Maritie, Sophia, and Geesie.
Peter, by tin will of his father, received his father's plantation at New
Backensack, and Benry all the lauds on the Pascack and Saddle Rivers,
in the northern pari of the county. Bendrick resided at Polifly, below Hack-
ensack. The numerous descendants of Peter and Benry ill have become
scattered over a large area of territory, including Bergen and Hudson
( bounties.
GEORGE LOURIE WILEY, a well known electrical engineer and a
prominent resident of Arlington, X. •!.. was born in St. Louis. Mo., on the
li'th of May, L849. He is the son of George W. Wiley and Elmira M.
Gregg, a grandson of James Wiley, dr.. and Margarel Sutherland and of
dainos ( rregg and A.bagail Wright, and a great-grandson of -John Wiley and
.Matilda Lourie and of Joseph Wrighl and Mary Sinclair. The Sutherland s
and Louries were of royal Scotch blood ami the Greggs and Wrights on his
mother's side were members of the Society of Friends or Quakers. His
father. George W. Wiley, was a stock broker and well known in Wall
Street twenty-five years ago; he was an esteemed and prosperous citizen,
and died in Chicago in L899, having retired from business in L87S.
Mr. Wiley was graduated from the St. Louis (Mo.) City University and
afterward spent one year in a classical and technical course under a private
tutor. In L868 he became a clerk in the New York (Sold Exchange Bank,
where he remained one year. He then associated himself with the (iold
and Sleek Telegraph Company of New York, and continued with that cor-
poration for eleven years (1869-1880), serving successively as clerk, As-
sistant Superintendent, and Superintendent. In L880 the Gold ami Stock
Telegraph Company's telephone business, which was t hen under his charge,
was consolidated with that of the Bell Telephone Company of New York,
forming what is now the New York Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Mr. Wiley continued under tin- consolidation of tin- new company as Gen-
eral Superintendent for two years, resigning in L882 to become President
and General Manager of the Central Telephone Company in Mexico. Be
sailed for that country dune 22, L882, and continued with that company
in Mexico for three years, until it was put on a paying basis. In L885 he
returned to New York and became manager of the Standard Underground
("able Company, manufacturers of electrical wires and cables, with offices
in New York, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, and
factories in Oakland, Cal., Pittsburg, Pa., and Perth Amboy, X. J. He is
also President id' the New York Electric Construction Company, a Di-
rector in several important electrical enterprises, and a member of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the New York Electrical
Society.
In these various positions Mr. Wiley developed great executive ability,
and not only achieved success, but gained a reputation in electrical circles
which extends throughout the country. He also lias a wide reputation as
<in inventor and electrical expert. Though an active, energetic, and pa-
triotic citizen, lie has always avoided public or political office, having de-
voted his entire time to the important duties which have devolved upon
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him and which he has discharged with ability and satisfaction. II«' is a
Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Pas1 Regenl of the Royal Arcanum, and a member
of the Loyal Additional. He holds membership in America Lodge, No.
1304, R. A., and in Arlington Council, 1-. A. He was raised in the Presby-
terian Church and has affiliated with ihai faith. His career lias been an
active and successful one, and in both business and social relations he is
highly esteemed and respected. As a resident of Arlington, X. J., he has
contributed much t<> the growth and developmenl of that attractive
borough, and is prominently connected with many of its leading instil 1 1 -
t ions.
GEORGE L. WILEY.
On Christmas Day. December 25, ]s~:\. Mr. Wiley was married to Jo-
sephine (irilliths Polhemus, of New York, a lady well known in literary
circles. They have six children, three sons and three daughters, the eldest,
a son. being t went v-t wo vears of age.
THE PEACE FAMILY. — John Peeck (as he spelled it), the common an-
cestor of the Pake and Peak families of Bergen County, ^till quite num-
erous, was of English parentage, lmt whether he came to New Amsterdam
from Holland or England does not appear. He must have come over in
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16-19 or 1650, for his marriage t<> Maria Vlockers (widow) is recorded in
ilif New Amsterdam church records ;is of February 20, 1650. This entry,
unlike iimisi of the other entries, contains no reference to the place
of his nativity. As the name Peeck dees not appear in any of the
New York or New Jersey records prior to this, he must have been the
tirsi of the name in New Netherlands ;it least. The couple lived in New
York, where he died in 1659. His children were at least four: Ann, L651;
John, L653; Jacobus, L656; and .Maria. L658.
John Peeck married in New Fork, duly is. L683, Elizabeth, daughter of
Dr. Gysberl Van Emburgh, the American 
