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GENEALOGICAL
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MEMORIAL HISTORY
OF THE
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HER PEOPLE IN THE
MAKING OF A COMMONWEALTH AND THE
FOUNDING OF A NATION
COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
FRANCIS BAZLEY LEE
VOLUME IV
ILLUSTRATED
NEW ^ORK
LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1910
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
This surname is very aiieicnt.
CKDSCV and is derived from two Eng-
lish words. Cross and By (bury,
burgh or borough, meaning the town of the
cross. We find the name from the very begin-
ning of the use of surnames in England. In
1204 Ode de Crossehy was constable of Titch-
all, Yorkshire, and as early as 1220 we find
Snuon de Crosseby in Lancashire. The name
Simon has continueil in freijuent use among his
descendants to the present day, and he is un-
doubtedly progenitor of the American family.
"The coat-of-arms of the Crosbys is per chev-
ron sable and argent three goats pass, counter-
charged."
( I I Simon Crosby, immigrant ancestor of
Henry Barrett Crosby, of Paterson. Xew Jer-
sey, was born in England, in 1608. He was a
husbandman. He embarked from London for
Xew England in yiay. 1635, in the ship "Susan
and Ellen," Edward Payne, master. He was
twenty-six years of age, his wife, Ann, twenty-
five, and their son, Thomas ( later Rev. Thomas ) ,
eight months old, Simon Crosby and family
landed at P)OSton and settled at Cambridge, then
known as Cambridge I-'arms, where he became
a proprietor in November, 1635, was admit-
ted a freeman March 3, 1636. antl November 7,
of same year was elected a selectman and
served as such again in 1638, which fact proved
he w-as a man who possessed strong endow-
ments of personal character. He had several
grants of land in Cambridge, and is called a
yeoman in the deeds. His house stood at the
corner of Brattle street and lirattle s(|uare, and
later became known as the P>rattle place, hav-
ing passed into the hands of Rev. William
Brattle. Simon Crosby died in 1639, at the
early age of thirty. His widow, left with her
three small children, married, in 1646, Rev.
William Thompson, of Braintree, but was again
left a widow a few years later, and died Octo-
ber 8. 1675. Mr. Thompson was the first min-
ister of the church at Braintree : he w-as a grad-
uate of O.xford and a man of distinction. He
prepared his son William, and his stepson
Tiiomas Crosby for college, and they both enter-
ed_ Harvard and graduated in the class of 1653.
Ciiildren of Simon and .\nn Crosby: Thomas,
born in England, 1634; Simon, born .Xugust,
ir)37, both in Cambridge: and jose[>h, l^'ebru-
ary, 1639.
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(II) Rev. Thomas Cro.sby. .son of Simon
Crosby, was born in England, i')34, and was
undoubtedly named after his grandfather, as
was the custom in those days, or for his ma-
ternal grandfather. When he graduated from
Harvard in if)53, like most of the graduates he
became a clergyman. He succeeded Rev. John
Mayo, of Harwich, Massachusetts ( now Brain-
tree), who was called to settle over the Second
Church at Boston. This necessitated Rev.
Thomas Crosby settling at Harwich, where he
went in 1655. then unmarried. His salary was
only five pounds per annum. His ministry
terminated at Harwich and Eastham in 1670,
for what cause is not stated. He was, however,
in good repute throughout the colony. He was
an e.xcellent religious teacher, of excellent char-
acter, and after his pastorate ended took up a
business career and became a successful man
of affairs. He removed to Boston, where he
died December, 1702. Nearly all Ijy the name
of Crosby in Cape Cod are his descendants.
His widow, Sarah, married (second) John
.Miller, whose wife, Margaret Winslow, had
died in Boston. Rev. Thomas Crosby married.
about 1662, Sarah . Children, all born
at Harwich, Massachusetts: i. Thomas, dea-
con, born April 7, 1663: died 1731. 2. Simon,
born July 3, 1665 : died January 19, 1718 : mar-
ried, .August 27. 1691, Mary Xickerson, 3.
Sarah, born March 24, 1667. 4. Joseph, men-
tioned below. 5. John, born December 4. 1(170:
died May 25. 1714. (>■ Thomas, twin with
John, died I-'ebruary, 1(171. 7. William, l)orn
March. 1673; married, .April 2f>. 1711, Mercy
Hinckley. 8. Ebenezer, born March 2i^. i()75-
9-10-1 1. Mercy, Increase and .Ann, tri])lets, born
.April 15, 1(178. 12. Eleazer, born March 30.
1680.
(HI) Joseph, son of Rev. Thomas Crosby
(named for his uncle, Joseph Crosby), was
born at Harwich, Massachusetts, January 27,
1669: died at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, May
,30.
After his marriage to MehitabU
.Miller they removed t(j Yarmouth, where he
bcLame a proprietor. In the summer of 1712
he was among the many who were assigned
lands, this being from a decision made Eebru-
ary, 171 1, of the proprietors of the common
lands agreeing that one-third of the undivided
tracts be laid out to the undivided proprietors
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according tu their interests therein fur planting
lots, and one-third nu)re for wootl lots. ( )t
the whole number of three thousand one hun-
dred and eighteen shares Joseph Crosby had
twenty-six and a half, which was a inaxinuini.
He became a ])lanter or yeoman. He was a
member in full communion of the First Church
there. He and his wife were buried in the First
church burial-ground at Yarmouth. He married,
February i6, 1692-Q3, Alehitable Miller, daugh-
ter of John Aliller. Child, Theii])hilus. men-
tioned below.
( l\ ) Theophilus, son of Joseph Crosby,
was born at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Decem-
ber 31, 1(193. Like his father, he became a
planter, and followed fishing, as was the cus-
tom in those days. He inherited much of his
father's property and lands. In the fire before
C)ctober, 1827, ninety-three volumes of Barn-
stable county records of deeds were destroyed,
only one volume being saved, and many of the
deeds prior to 1700 were destroyed, making it
difficult to trace the Crosby pro])erties in and
arountl Yarmouth. In one reconl the writer
finds Theophilus Crosby a cordwainer, but
whether he followed this trade is not known.
He married, February 14, 1722-23, Thankful
Winslow, of Harwich, Massachusetts. Chil-
dren: Simon, born 1724; William, 1726; Eben-
ezer, 1728: Judah, 1730; Lsaac. 1731 ; Richard,
1732; Mehitable, 1734: Sarah, 173(1: Miller,
mentioned Lielow.
(V) Miller, son of Theophilus Crosby, was
born at Harwich, Massachusetts (llrewster),
1738. He was named after his grandmother.
Mehitable (Miller) Crosby. Fie was reared
after Puritan ideas, gaining his education dur-
ing the winter months, and like most of the
Crosbys was during his earlier days engaged
(luring the summer months in fishing or coast-
wise trade, which he later followed. He gained
a competency for those times, and at his death
left his widow in comfortable circumstances.
In 1793, when she was fifty-five years of age,
shortly after the death of her husband, she im-
migrated with her family to Drattleboro, \'er-
mont, from the "Cajje." "She used to say it
was to keep her boys from going to sea, as she
lost her son Jose|)h by drowning at sea." She
had every inducement to go to IJrattleboro, as
her twin brother. Isaac Crosby, had been set-
tled there for several years on a large farm and
doing well. He purchased for his sister an ad-
joining farm of forty acres (she had the money
to pay for it ), where she and her family settled,
the homesteads being not far apart. She was a
most capable and energetic woman, able to take
u|) the cares and burdens of the new home.
Here she spent her life, and with the aid of her
three sons, who lived at home during their
early manhood days, made the place yiekl a
handsome living. She was an active woman up
to within a few years of her death ; she died of
olii age while sitting in her chair, at the age of
ninety-two. She followed the precepts of the
Holy Word, and trained her children in the
paths of righteousness, and it is said she was a
tnember of the Brattleboro church. Miller
Crosby married. I7(x), Rebecca Crosby, born
1744, died November 9, 1836, daughter of Ele-
azer Jr. and Lydia (Crosby), the former of
whom was a grandson of Rev. Thomas Cros-
by. Children: i. Tabitha, born January 14,
1771 ; married Edward Ripley : moved to Deer-
field, Massachusetts, where she died. 2. Joseph,
born October 12, 1772; lost at sea. 3. Rebecca,
bi.rn May 30, 1775: married her cousin, Isaac
: lived at Durmston, Vermont. 4. Wat-
son, born November 7, 1776; mentioned below.
5, Keziah, born April 13, 1779; marrietl Rich-
ard (Jrosby, her cousin ; moving to Derby, Can-
ada : she was noted as a singer. 6. Isaac, born
March 22. 1781 ; married Lucy Barrett; moved
to Jamestown, New York. 7. Elkanah, born
April 15. 1785; died September 17, 1831 : mar-
ried, 1807. F'lavia Harris; moved to Catskill,
New York: children: Emery, born July 15,
1808: William Harris February 5, 181O; Suel,
July 22, 1812; Anna, June 25, 1815 ; Alary, July
17. 1818; Ann Eliza, May 14, 1821 ; Elizabeth,
A]iril 30, 1824; Roswell, August 30, 1827.
(\1) Watson, son of Miller Crosb}', was
bnrn at Harwich, Massachusetts. November 7,
177(1; died at Brattleboro, Vermont. At the
age of seventeen years he accompanied his
widowed mother and brothers and sisters to
Ihattleboro. \'ermont. where they settletl, clear-
ing the land. Watson, being the eldest son.
much of the responsibility of the settling of
the pioneer hcinie devolved on him. With the
assistance of his most capable and energetic
mother the new home was established, land
cleared and crops planted. Here in this \'er-
mont town he spent his life. In early man-
hood he learned the trade of shoemaker which,
WMtli farming, he followed the greater part of
his life. At the death of his mother in 183(1
the farm came to Watson. CJwing to his hav-
ing endorsed a note for a neighbor and which
when due he had to assume, he lost his entire
projierty, and removed to the village of West
P.rattleboro, where he settled with his family
on a small farm in the near neighborhood of
the grandparents of President Rutherford B.
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Hayes, having purchased the fanii from sav-
ings laid by. Here he thrived and prospered,
raised a large family, pursued farming on a
small scale, and followed his trade of shoe-
maker. I le died here at the advanced age of
eighty-three years. He was the soul of honor
in all his transactions, and was known for his
wit and as a joker. While of medium build
he was much of an athlete, and it is said to the
age of seventy years could jump over the back
of an ordinary chair. He and his wife. Desiah.
were consistent and faithful members of the
Brattleboro Congregational Church. He was
an old line \\ big and influential in his com-
munity. He married, at Hawley, Massachu-
setts, November 28. 1804, Desiah Bangs, born
at Hawley, December 9. 1785. daughter of
Deacon Joseph Bangs. Children: i. Olive,
born August 29. 1805 : died July 10, 1892 ; mar-
ried, February 6, 1830, John Stearns Robinson,
born March i, 1804, died Xovember 23. i860:
children: i. John Stearns, born October 5.
1831. died January 17, 1834: ii. .^nn Frances,
born Xovember 5, 1834, died July 8. i8ijo,
married, Se])tember 15, 1858, James Hervey
Gridley : iii. Charles Edwin, born Xovember
23, 1836, died Xovember 27, 1883, married.
September, 1868, Elizabeth ( Francisco ) Rogers
(widow), children: a. \\'illiam, born Septem-
ber, 1869, died January 12, 1896. b. Frances
O., February 14, 1871, married, June 2(k 1895.
William Rufus Kennedy, and has one child.
Frances Gridley Kennedy, born Xovember 16.
1897, c. Harry, January 17, 183 1 ; iv. Abigail
Olive, born August 31, 1839. died September
23, 1841 : V. Mary Olivia, born May 25, 1842,
died March 10. 1845 • ^''- Elizabeth Perry, born
March 11, 1845, died June 26. 1851. 2. Ruth
Hall, born May 10, 1807; died May 30, 1885:
married, January 21, 1830, Charles Russell
Miller, born March 14, 1807, died .\ugust 4.
1866; children: i. Charles Crosby, born Jime
23, 1831. married, March 23, 1859. Margaret
Ann Trimble, children : a. Clara Eliza, born
Xovember 20, i8r)0, b. .\da Ruth. June 7. 1862,
c. Lizzie .S])ayth, August 30. 1867, d. Florence
Trimble, May 13. 1871. e. Margaret Ann, I-'eb-
ruary 6, 1873, f. Charles Russell Jr.. October
3. 1874; ii^ Rebecca, born Xovember 8, 1833.
died April 12, 1845: iii. Sarah Bangs, born
April I, 1837, married, I'ebruary 1 [, 1863, Jo-
siah E. ^^orehouse, children: a. Julia Miller,
born .April 12, 1864, died July 16, 1864, b,
Alice Ruth. .August 19, 1866, died March 29.
1867. c. Laura Crosby, June 2, 1869. died De-
cember 20. 1871 ; iv. Julia Hayes, born .Sep-
tember 23. 1839, married, January 2. i860.
Oscar W. \ allette, children: a. Jennie Maria,
born December 24, 1865, b. Sarah Miller, Oc-
tober 4, i8f)7. c. James, March 9. 1877. 3.
.Miranda, born .Vjiril 11, iScxj; died March 9,
1845. 4. .Abigail Cobb, born .April 16, 181 1;
died .March 24. 1897; niarried. .Xovember 5,
1837, Dr. .Arms Dickerman I'ulnam, born Jan-
uary II, 1816; children: i. Julius Kidder, born
.August 19, 1 840, died February 17. 1845 ; ii. I ler-
bcrt Dickerman, born December 21, 1843, *1''^<1
.March 25, 1864: iii. Jo.sc])h IJangs Crosby,
born December 28, 1846. died March 24, 1879.
5. Joseph Bangs, born .Ajn-il 13. 1813: died
October i, 1865; married, January 31-, 1845,
.Alniira S. Robinson. (). Ilenr)- Barrett, born
.April 13, 181 5 ; mentioned below. 7. Jeremiah
Mayo, born February 8. 1817; f'i^^l ^I<''.v I'J.
1865: moved from Brattleboro, Vermont, to
Xorwalk, Oliio ; engaged in hartlware business ;
married, September 15, 1840. Laura .Ann Hol-
land, born Alay 27, 1819; children: i. Henry
Watson, born .August 26. 1841 'died in L'nion
army. .May 28. 1854. was killed at the battle of
Resaca. Georgia: ii. Howard H.. born .ALarch
21, 1846, died .August 7. 1846: iii. Laura Mi-
randa, born Alarch 19, 1848, died September
15, 1887, married, June 25, 1879, Walter E.
Terhune, children : a. Maria C, born Mav
30, 1880, died October i, 1880, b. Louise C,
born Alay 10, 1883: iv. Charles Mayo, born
Aiarch 5, 1851 ; v. .Abby I'rances, born July 4,
1853. married. October 13, 1880. William J.
Walding. children : a. Florence, born Se])tem-
ber 12, 1881, b. (lenevieve. born October 19,
1886: vi. F"rederick Bangs, born January 28,
1858. at Xorwalk, Ohio, attended Xorwalk
iniblic school until twelve years of age. then
moved to Toledo, ( )hio, and attended school
there, finishing in the grammar grade, after
which he attended Eastman's Business Col-
lege. PYnighkeepsie. Xew York, he then work-
ed in a drug store, afterwards was traveling
salesman for a wholesale hardware concern in
Toledo for ten years, and since then has travel-
ed for the Toledo Metal Wheel Company,
makers of children's vehicles, serving as secre-
tary of this concern, niarried, at .Xiles, Michi-
gan, .April 30, 1895, .Angeline llolley, born in
.Xiles. .Se])tember 21, 1863, daughter of Joseph
Sweetman and Harriet (Holley) Bacon, the
former a lawyer, children: Laura Holley,
born May 5, 1899, Frederick Bacon, born .April
8. 1903. 8. Charles Howard, born March 28,
1819: married, Xovember 8, 1849. Mary L.TLart :
child. Ida .Aline, born October 6. 1853. married
(first) George Warren Allen. January 12. 1873.
children: Warren Crosbv .Allen, born Julv 21,
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1877; .Maud Pauline, born March 29, 1881, Ida
Aline married (second) Lowell Goodwin, De-
cember 24, 1897. 9. Frances Hayes, born I'eb-
ruary 5, 1824: died September 12, 1864: mar-
ried, April 2',, 1854, Stanf(jrd Russell Clark.
10. Daughter, born February 20, 1826; died
February 23, 1826.
(VII ) Henry r.arrett, son of Watson Cros-
by, was Ijurn at Brattleboro, X'ermont, .Xpril
13, 1815. His early years were spent on the
paternal farm at Brattleboro, gaining a meagre
education. At the age of ten years he began
to earn his living by working for a neighboring
farmer-. Deacon Russell Hayes, grandfather of
President Rutherford B. Hayes. When he
was twelve years old the family removed to
Springfield, Massachusetts, and he obtained
employment in a cotton factory at Chicopee
Falls, where he remained two years. He then
entered the establishment of Ames Bros, at
Springfield, with the intention of learning the
paper making trade, but owing to the introduc-
tion of machinery was soon thrown <iut of
work. This caused him to return temporarily
to farming. He went to W'oonsocket Falls.
Rhode Island, and served a six months a]ipren-
ticeship in a machine shop, subsequently being
employed for eight months by a loom manu-
facturer in the same village. His next em-
ployment was as a workman on flyers for
spinning frames in a machine shop at Chicopee
Falls, where he remained a year. In June,
1834, he revisited his home at P.rattleboro.
whither the family had returned. Having de-
voted his entire boyhood to self-sup]iorting
labor, naturally he had not enjoyed much op-
portunity for learning. He now entered the
Brattleboro Academy, but the necessity of earn-
ing his living did not admit of any prolonged
contiiuiance there. At the end of six months
he set forth to again engage in remmierativc
<-mi)Ioyment. Before leaving home he made
an agreement w^ith his father to |iay him two
hundred and t\vent\- dollars for the unexiiired
term of his minority, giving his note for that
amount, and this obligation he discharged with
interest in due time. C)btaining work at Ware,
Massachusetts, in the machine shops of the
Hani])shire Manufacturing Company, he be-
came one of the contractors for the construction
of flyers for that company's new cotton mill.
In 1836 lie made a trip to Central New York,
of which the principal incident was a danger-
ous illness that left him almost stripped of
financial resources. .After his recoverv he was
in charge of the cnnstruction of machinerv at
Poughkeepsie, New York, initil the panic of
Through the influence of George Lawton,
under whom he had worked in the machine
shoj) at Ware, Mr. Crosby was induced to come
to Paterson, New Jersey, and apply for em-
plcjyment to Samuel Colt, who at that time was
embarking in the manufacture of revolving
guns and pistols under his celebrated patent.
He arrived in Paterson, April 23. 1837, and on
the 26th of that month began work for Mr.
Colt in the old gun mill. In this connection
he took the contract of making certain portions
of the lock work for guns. But though the
enter])rise looked bright at the start, he was
(lonnied to ilisap])ointnient and (_ince more he
was obliged to look for a field for his unre-
warded energies. Flis only compensation from
the Colt Company was a number of guns,
which he finally sold, and with the proceeds
engaged in the grocery trade, and in May,
1843, opened his store on Main street. From
the first he rigidly excluded lii|Uors from his
merchandise. He enjoyed substantial success
and rapidly advanced to a position of recog-
nized prominence in the mercantile community
of Paterson. At the end of two years his in-
creasing trade obliged him to remove to more
cnmnio(lious quarters, and in 1855 he opened
his fine store on Main street. From that time
until his retirement from active life, a period
of more than thirty years. Mr. Crosby's estab-
lishment transacted a volume of business not
equalled by that of any other mercantile con-
cern in Paterson or Passaic counties, and was
alsci known as one of the foremost of its kind
in the state of New Jersey. In 1867 he ad-
mitted his son, J. Henry Crosby, into partner-
ship, untler the firm name of H. B. Cro.sby &
Son. He withdrew from the active manage-
ment. .\pril 2, 1888, when the firm of Crosby,
.■\ckernian & Van Gieson was organized.
Mr. Crosby is the father of the splendid
system of public parks in Paterson, resulting
from his individual eft'orts, and he has a rec-
ord of long and honorable service as president
of the board of park commissioners. He was
also one of the founders of the lieautiful Cedar
Pawn cemetery, and since 1876 has been presi-
<knt <jf the Cemetery Association. He has
lieen conspicuously connected for many years
with the First National Bank and the Pater-
son Savings Institution, of which he was vice-
president for a number of years, and was one
of the principal organizers of the Paterson
Board of Trade. He was also a member of the
I'roduce Exchange of New York City and
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Chamber of Commerce of New N'ork. ^Ir.
Crosby took a leading part in the organization
of the First liaptist Church, of which he has
been a member since its dedication over forty
years ago. In his pohtical affiUations he has
always been a staunch Republican. He was
one of the delegates from New Jersey to the
famous Chicago convention which nominated
Abraham Lincoln to the presidency.
He married (first) at Paterson, hebruary
27, 1840, Pauline Fairfield Hathorn, born at
Smithville, New Jersey, September 3. i82i,died
at Paterson, New Jersey, January 23, 1872,
daughter of Thomas W. and .\nna ( Hinch-
man ) Hathorn, also granddaughter of General
John Hathorn. of Washington's staft', also
member of second and fourth congresses. Chil-
dren : I. Josephine Amelia, born January 8,
1842: died December 31, 1896; married, June
14, 1865, Samuel Coit Alorgan Allen ; children:
i. Pauline Crosby, born August 14, 1866, mar-
ried. October 10, 1888, Alexantler Murray,
and had .Mexander, born July 13, 1889, class
of 1912, Yale; ii. Maud Josephine, born April
22, 1870; iii. Henry Crosby, born March 13.
1872 (see Allen sketch) : iv. Samuel Morgan.
born October 5. 1874. married, April. 1899.
Catherine Orr, and had Samuel Coit Morgan
and Margaret Brewster ; he is engaged at min-
ing in San Juan district. Colorado; v. Elisha
]\Iorgan. deceased. 2. John Henry, born Sep-
tember 23, 1844; see following sketch. 3.
Aimie Louise, born July 14, 1847 ; married.
February 9, 1870, Isaac Newton Jr.. born
Geneva. Switzerland. October 17. 1847; chil-
dren; i. Josephine Crosby, born September 28.
1871 ; ii. George Hewett. born June 24. 1873;
iii. Walter Russell, burn .Vjiril 2, 1875; '^'■
Henry Crosby, born June 29. 1877; v. Sannu-l
Allen, born May 19. 1882. died May 20. 18X2.
4. Isabella Stewart, born July 4. 185 1 ; died
April 2, 1887. Pauline Fairfield (liathorn)
Crosby died January 23, 1872. He married
(second) at Pri'lgejjort. Connecticut. Decem-
ber 6. 1875, Harriet Eliza Rogers, born Janu-
ary 8, 1839. daughter of Xoah and Catherine
Rebecca (Clark) Rogers, of Cornwall. Con-
necticut. Noah Rogers was a farmer and a
public-spirited citizen. Harriet Fliza (Rogers)
Crosby was a descendant of the Rev. John
Rogers and other Puritan ancestors on her
father's side and from prominent Huguenot
stock on her mother's side. Children of sec-
ond marriage; 5. Henry I'arrett Jr.. born
September 8. 1876; an architect at Pater-
son. New Jersey; married. August iS. i<)04.
Mabel Marion, Ixirii July 10, 1880. daughter
of Charles and Marion (Kemp) iJarniorc. 6.
I'lorence Lyon, born January 17, 1879.
(VIll) John Henry Crosby, eldest son of
Henry liarrett and Pauline l-'airfield ( Hathorn )
Crosby, was born at Paterson, New Jersey,
September 23. 1844. When a young boy he
first attended the jirivate school kcjjt by Polly
lIoi)kins on IJroadway, near the present P.ap-
tist church, and later Elizabeth Cox's school
nearby, sup])lemented by a sliort course in
Master Hopper's school on Park street. His
first public school was the old red school in
Hamilton a\enue, then Division street, going
from there to what was the east ward higli
school, which was destroyed by the recent big
fire. At the age of sixteen years he began the
study of bookkeeping with \\'illiam I'N'ans for
a year. subsec|uently entering the grammar
school of the New York L'niversity, where he
remained one year ; later he was two years in
the preparatory school of Russell's Military
Academy at New Haven. Deciding on a mer-
cantile life he returned to I\aterson and enter-
ed his father's employ as clerk and bookkeeper,
remaining in this position until 1867. when he
was admitted a partner under the firm name
of H. B. Cro.sby & Son. It was a large, pros-
perous wholesale grocery business. ])atronized
by the first families of Pater.son. .\\)v'\\ 2.
1 888. the senic)r member withdrew from the
firm, and a new firm of Crosby, Ackerman &
\ an Gieson was founded. In 1893 Mr. Cros-
by disposed of his interests to the new firm and
retired from active business. Mr. Crosby be-
came bookkeeper for the Passaic Ice Company,
severing his connection with that firm on Jan-
uary I, 1900. He is now engaged in S])ecial
accounting work, as an expert, for many of
the firms of Paterson and nearby towns. In
1870 Mr. Crosby purchased his present resi-
dence on l'>roadway. He and his family attend
the Protestant F.piscopal Church of the Holy
Communion, of Paterson. of which his family
are all members. In political preferment Mr.
Cro.sby is a Republican of the staunch type.
He is a member of the New York Produce
Exchange. He was for many years a member
of Eagle Hook and Ladder Company. No. i.
Paterson Fire Department, then know'u as the
"kid glove" company. Fraternall\' Mr. Crosby
has been prominent in the Masonic order. He
was made a member of Jopy)a Lodge. No. 29.
I'ree and .Accepted Masons. November i. 1871 ;
was exalted in Cataract Chapter. No. 10, Royal
.\rch Masons, at Paterson ; was a charter mem-
ber of Adelphi Chapter. No. 33. and served
that body as excellent king; secured his Cryptic
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STATE OI< X]<:\\' JERSEY.
degrees in Terry Council, Xo. 6, Royal and
Select Master^: joined St. Umer Comniandery,
Xo. 13, Knights Templar, where he served as
warder ; this body is now known as Melita
C oniniandery. No. 13, Knights Teniplar ; he
received his Scottish Rite degrees in Adoniram
Lodge, Paterson, and thirty-second degrees in
Jersey City Consistory, Jersey City; received
his shrine degrees in AJecca Temple of New
\ork City in 1884. lie became a member of
New York Lodge, Xo. 1, jjenevolent and Pro-
tective Urder of Elks, in 1878. He was made
a member i_if l-'abaola Lodge, No. 57, Knights
of P_\thias. In December, 1879, he was a
charter member of Lafayette Council, No. 545,
and gave the name to the lodge.
He married, September 5, 1866, Mary Har-
riet, born March 24, 1846, daughter of Joseph
Tucker and Electa Alontella (Vanderhoven )
Crowell. Children: i. Henry Crovvell, born
July 26, 1867. 2. Lillian. September 25, 1869.
3. Joseph -Addison, June 4, 1874.
The .\brams family of New
ABRAAIS Jersey, or as the name was orig-
inally spelled, Abrahams, comes
from good old English stock, of county North-
ampton, England, where the original emigrant
ancestor was born, and from whence he came
to this country with his wife, Janet, about
1750. He died September 13, 1765, aged si.xty-
nine years six months eighteen days, and his
wife died April 3. 1747, aged forty-three years.
Of their children, a daughter, Elizabeth, mar-
ried Enoch D. Thomas, and died in 1762, and
their son, Charles, died in 1760, aged about
forty years.
It is unfortunate that the jmucity of records
as yet brought to light are insufficient to enable
us to trace with exactness all of the descend-
ants of James Abrams, especially as more than
one member of bis family rose to distinction
ill the early days and later. There seems to be,
however, little doubt but that he is the ancestc >r
of the line at present under consideration, and
whose earliest known ancestor, Cornelius, is
referred to below.
( I ) Cornelius .Kbrams. whose father, it is
said, served with distinction in the revolution-
ary war, was himself a soldier in the Mexican
and civil wars, in both of which he served with
distinction. For the greater part of his life
he was one of the largest breeders of blooded
and race horses in the state of Xew Jersey.
He married Louisa, daughter of Dr. Hend-
ricks, of Xew Jersey; children: Jacob; Cor-
nelius ; Julia ; Alice ; Matilda ; John W., now
living at Trenton.
(H) Jacob, son of Cornelius and Louisa
( I:lendricks ) Abrams, w^as born at Freehold,
Monmouth county. New Jersey, January 24,
1824, and died there, February 4, 1903. For
thirty-three years he was the hotel proprietor
at Red Lion. He was a Republican, and for
many years was one of the board of chosen
freehoklers in Millstone township. He mar-
ried (first) Achsah R., daughter of Robert
and Alay ( Mandy) James, of Monmouth coun-
t}', a descendant of one of the oldest families
in that portion of the state, whose emigrant
ancestor, William James, son of Thomas, was
called "loving friend and brother" by Roger
Williams. He was one of the original pur-
chasers of the Monmouth lands from the In-
dians, and in December, 1667, .sold his share to
William Reape. He lived and died in Ports-
mouth, Rhode Island, and his son, Richard,
the first of the name to settle in Monmouth
county, is recorded there in 1690 as witness to
a deed. His grandson, Robert, was great-
grandfather of Achsah R. (James) Abrams.
who was educated at the Freehold Seminary
and buried at Riverside, New Jersey. Chil-
dren of Jacob and .\chsah R. (James) Abrams:
Albert, died in infancy: Mary A., married
Richard Lippincott ; Douglass T., who con-
ducts the hotel at Retl Lion, formerly owned
by his father; lieorge R., referred to below.
Jacob Abrams married (second) Jane Burke,
who bore him one child, Elmer.
( HI ) George R., child of Jacob and Achsah
R. (James) .'\brams, was born in Freehold,
New Jersey, January 2, 1864. He was edu-
cated in the select scliO(_>l of John G. Herbert,
at \'iiicentown, Burlington county, and as a
young man engaged in the poultry and pro-
duce business, in which he has been success-
fully engaged ever since. Beginning on a small
scale he has added to his farm land until now
he possesses one of the finest and most pro-
ductive farms in the county. He is a director
in the Safe Deposit and Trust Company at
Mount Holly, and a vestryman of the Protest-
ant Episcopal Church in Mncentown. In poli-
tics he is a Republican, and for a numlier of
years he has been the representative of South-
ampton township on the board of education.
He is a member of Central Lodge, No. 44, F.
rnd A. M., of \'incent()wn, of wdiich he is a
past master; a member of Lodge No. 848,
Elks, of Mount Holly, and of the Junior C)rder
of American Mechanics. .September 24, iSgo,
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George Robbins Abraiiis iiiariied Martha T..
daughter of Alfred J. Reynolds, of Alount
Holly. Children : Cordelia Reynolds, born
June 28, 1892; Achsali Rue, January i, 1897.
The paternal ancestors of the
CHANCE subject of this sketch were
among the early English settlers
in Xew Castle county, on the Delaware, now
the state of Delaware, near the line of Penn-
sylvania, of which province the the three coun-
ties now composing the state of Delaware were
territories during the colonial period.
(1 ) Captain John Chance, grandfather of
the subject of this sketch, was a son of Spen-
cer Chance, of near Marcus Hook. He went
to sea in early life, and becoming captain of
a merchant vessel trading between Philadel-
phia and the West Indies and foreign ]3orts,
followed the sea the greater part of his life,
making his home in the city of Philadelphia.
He married Mary Morgan, of a prominent
Xew Castle family, for whom the town of
Morgans, on the line of Pennsylvania, is named,
and they had three sons, John, Jeremiah and
Robert Chambers Chance, all of whom are
deceased.
( H ) Robert Chambers, son of Captain John
and Mary (Morgan) Chance, was born in
I'hilaclelphia, February 25, 1821, and when a
child was taken by his parents to Cumberland
county, Xew Jersey, where he was reared and
educated. .-Xs a young man he taught school
for a time in Leesburg, Cumberland county,
Xew Jersey, and also spent a few years as a
clerk in a mercantile establishment. In 1847 he
engaged in the wholesale spice business, and in
connection therewith soon after engaged in the
manufacture of ketchup, being the first to en-
gage in the wholesale manufacture of tomato
ketchup in this country. To this he later add-
ed the preparation of pickles, and dropping
the spice business devoted his whole ^energy
and capital to the ketchup and pickle business,
building up a large business in which his sons
joined him as they arrived at mature years,
and since his death have continued to con<luct
under the firm name of R. C. Chance's Sons,
with factory at Delanco, and later removed to
Mount Holly, Xew Jersey; also factory, ware-
rooms and offices in Philadelphia.
Robert Chambers Chance died in Philadel-
phia in 1892. He married Elizabeth Corson,
born in Philadelphia, in 1825, died there, 1903,
daughter of Jose])h and Rebecca f Williams)
Cor.son, of a family long prominent in Phila-
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ilelphia and adjoining counties. They had ten
children, three of whom died in infancy. Tiie
ih.ree eldest sons, Robert Chambers Chance Jr.,
.\lbert and W'ilmer Chance, became associated
with their father in the pickle business, and
now comjiose the firm of R. C. Chance's Sons.
G. Carow Chance, now deceased, was a dentist
in Philadelphia, and lUirton K. Chance, M. D.,
the youngest son, is a iiractising jjhysician in
that city. The surviving daughters are Eliza-
beth G., and Emily E., married Dr. Claud
Southwell.
fill) W'ilmer Chance, third surviving scm
of Robert C. and Elizabeth (Corson) Chance,
was born in Philadelphia, in i860, and was
educated in the schools of that city, .\fter his
graduation at Pierce's Business College he
entered into business with his father, and has
since been actively engaged in the manufacture
of |)ickles, ketchup, mustard, and importers and
packers of olives, as a member of the firm of
R. C. Chance's Sons, having principal charge
of the manufacturing business. J'roin 1885
until 1891 the principal factory was located at
Delanco, Xew Jersey, but in the latter year the
firm erected at Mount Holly a factory and
warerooms with an aggregate floor space of
nearly twenty-five thousand square feet, and
since that time the manufacturing part of the
business has been located there, under the
supervision of \\"ilmer Chance, who has since
made his home in Mount Holly, of which town
he is one of the most active, enterjjrising and
public-sj)irited business men. In politics he is
a Republican. He married, Xovember 5, 1885,
Ida Eleanor Eames, born in Philadelphia, a
daughter of Sebert Lafayette and Hannah .Ann
(Thompson) Eames, the latter born in Phila-
delphia. Mr. Eames came to Philadelphia
from Sagus, Massachusetts. Mrs. Chance is a
descendant in the eighth generation of Thomas
Flames, who was born in England in 1618. and
was one of the early Puritan settlers in Massa-
chusetts. He married (first) in England, Mar-
f:aret : (second), after his emigration,
Mary Plandford. and had children: Joh.n,
Mary, Thomas, Samuel. Margaret. Xathaniel,
Margaret. Sarah and l.ydia. His descendants
have been prominently identified with public
affairs for over two centuries, many of them
filling high and honorable positions in prov-
incial, state and national affairs.
(The Karnes Line).
(T) John Eames, son of Thomas atul Mar-
garet, born in 1642, died 1727, married (first)
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Alary Adams, ( second ) Elizabeth Eames, and
had three sons and seven daughters.
(II) John Eames (2), born in 1O87, mar-
ried in 1712, Joanna Buckingliam, and had
children: Elizabeth, Robert, John, Joanna,
Thomas, William, .\aron, Priscilla, Benjamin,
Abigail, and another Priscilla.
(III) .\aron. son of John (2) and Joanna
(Buckingham) Eames, was born in 1724, and
by his wife, .\nn, had children : Robert, Aaron,
Thomas and Adams Eames.
(IV) Robert, eldest son of Aaron and x-\nn
Eames, was born in Rutherford, Massachu-
setts, in 1749, graduated at Harvard University,
and located at Sagus, Massachusetts, where he
was engaged in the manufacturing business.
He was the inventor of a machine. The fam-
ily was possessed of considerable inventive
genius and patented several useful inventions.
Nathan Eames, a nephew of Robert, invented
the first platform elevator used in America.
(V) Robert (2), son of Robert ( i ) Eames,
was born in Sagus, Massachusetts, February
14, 1776. He mai-ried, October 3, 1812, Mar-
tha Hall, born March 17, 1783, died March
4, 1824, daughter of Moses Hall, born 1750,
and his wife, Martha Spencer, born 1753, died
1792; granddaughter of John Hall, born 1720;
great-grantldaughter of John Hall, of Concord,
Massachusetts ( 1(190-1746), and his wife, Eliz-
abeth Walker ; great-great-granddaughter of
John Hall, born in Medford, Massachusetts,
December 12, 1667, died 1720, and his wife,
Jane, born 1667, died December 12, 1712; and
great-great-great-granddaughter of John Hall,
born in England, 1637, died in Medford, Massa-
chusetts, October 18, 1701. Robert and Mar-
tha (Hall) Eames had nine children, the young-
est of whom, Sebert Lafayette Eames, was
father of Mrs. Wilmer Chance. He was born
in Sagus, Massachusetts, 1821, and married
Hannah Ann Thompson, born in Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania, February 2, 1824, died in Phila-
delphia, in 1890.
Wilmer and Ida Eleanor (Eames) Chance
have three children. Their eldest son, Wilmer
Russell Chance, born in Delanco, New Jersey,
received his early education at the schools of
Mount Holly, and is now a student at the Ran-
dolph-Macon Academy, Front Royal, Virginia.
The second son, Robert Chambers Chance ( 3d) ,
born at Mount Holly, January 3, 1892, attend-
ed the public schools of his native town and
the Brainerd School and is now a student at
Wennonah (New Jersey) Military Academy.
The yoimgest son, Albert Chance, was born at
Mount Holly, .\ugust 12, 1902.
Michael Newbould, as he spelt
NEWBOLD his name, the founder of the
Newbold family in America,
was born in the parish of Handsworth, York,
England, July i, 1623, and died in Burlington
county, New Jersey, in 1692. Of his circum-
stances we know little more than that at the
tmie of his death there was owing to him a
considerable sum of money which he had been
unable to collect, and that he was probably not
a Ouaker, as all of his children were baptized
in the parish church, the eldest at Handsworth,
several of the other at Eckington, and the two
youngest at Sheffield Park Gate, he having
removed to the last named place in 1664, where
he held the Park Lane farm as a tenant of the
carl of Shaftsbury. On January 28, 1677-8,
he bought from the proprietors of West Jer-
sey, one-eighth of three-ninetieths of a share
of the province, and between that date and
-September 13, 1 68 1, he came over with his
wife and nine of his eleven children. His son,
John, had previously come over in the ship
"Shield," in 1678, the time of his father's orig-
inal purchase, but he evidently returned to
England, as at the date of Michael Newbold's
will both he and his brother, Samuel, were
there. September 13, 1681, Michael Newbold.
then in Burlington, had surveyed for him
about four hundred acres, seven miles to the
southeast of that town, a mile from the pres-
ent village of Columbus, and two and a half
miles from Jobstown. In 1685 he took up an-
other tract of four hundred and fifty acres at
Oneonickon, wdiich is now bisected by the road
running from Mount Holly to Freehold. This
latter property he bequeathed to one of his
sons, and it has continued in the uninterrupted
ownership and occupancy of the Newbold fam-
ily for over two centuries. Michael Newbold's
life in the new world was essentially that of a
yeoman or gentleman farmer. He evinced no
special concern in the political happenings of
his time, and little inclination for the holding
of public office. This was probably owing to
the fact that he was no longer a young man
when he emigrated. He was, however, elected
overseer of highways for the township of
Mansfield, June 5, 1690. When he died about
two years later, his estate was valued at i~'/2
14s. 3d., an unusual degree of wealth for that
period. The maiden name of his wife, Ann, is
unknown. Children: i, .Ann, married James
Nutt. 2. Alice, married Eliakim Higgins. 3.
Samuel. 4. John. 5. Lettice, married John
Woolston. 6. Mary, married Jodia, or Jedia,
Higgins. 7. Margaret, married Daniel Wills
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(see W'ills). 8. Joshua, died in 1708, or 1709:
married Hannah . 9. Mich.ael. referred
to below. 10. James, died in 1697: married
EHzabeth I'owcll. 11. Thomas, died about
1696 ; probably unmarried.
(II) Michael (J). son of Michael (i) and
Ann Xewbold, was born in county York, Eng-
land, and baptized at Eckington. October t,.
1667. He died in Burlington county, Xew
Jersey. December i, 1721. When his father
died he became possessed of the Oneonickon
property, which has remained in the hands of
his descendants ever since. For a number of
years after coming of age he served on the
traverse jury, and August 8, 1698. took his
place on the bench as one of the justices for
Burlington county. March 14, 1721, the at-
torney-general of West Jersey declined to con-
firm his election as constable for the township
of Springfield, on the ground that he was "one
of his Majestye's Justices of the peace of this
court and also one of the officers of the militia."
His last api)earance on the bench was June 13.
1 72 1. January i, 1697, he was elected town-
ship clerk, and he appears at one time to have
been township assessor. He became an exten-
sive landholder in various sections of the prov-
ince, and at the time of his death was not only
one of the most influential men of his day in
Burlington county, but was also one of the
largest landed proprietors in New Jersey. Like
his father and brothers, he was a member of
the Church of England, and one of the organ-
izers of St. Ann's, afterwards St. Mary's
Church; Burlington. He married, February
24, 1697. Rachel, daughter of John and Ann
Clea_\ton, of Shrewsbury. Monmouth county.
Xew Jersey, who was born June 16, 1677. and
died shortly after April 17, 1712. Children:
1. Ann, born February 19, 1698-9; died Xo-
vember 20, 1729; married \\'illiam Biddle.
2. Sarah, born September 29, 1700; married
Thomas Boude. 3. Thomas, referretl to below.
4. Margaret, born July 9, 1704; married James
Bowne ; her daughter, Rachel Bowne, was
grandmother of Hon. Carrett Dorset Wall, and
great-grandmother of 1 Ion. James Walter Wall,
both of them L'nited States senators from Xew
Jersey. (See Wall in index). 5. Michael, re-
ferred to below. 6. John. 7. I'arzillai. born
Xovember 13. 1710: died July 15. 1757: mar-
ried, 1734, Sarah, daughter of Enoch and
Sarah (Roberts) Core, who died October 17,
1784: his grandson, James Simpson Xewbold.
married Sarah Robeson Logan, great-great-
granddaughter of the celebrated statesman,
James Logan, mayor of I'hiladel])hia. chief
justice, and president of the provincial council
of Pennsylvania.
f III ) Thomas, son of Michael (2) and Rachel
( Cleayton ) Xewbold, was born in Si)ringfield
townslii]). Burlington coimty. Xew Jersey, Feb-
ruary 26. 1701-2, and died there, in September.
1741. He inherited from his father the home-
stead farm, where he livecl for some years, but
in 1737 he built a substantial brick house on
the south side of the road. He held various
town offices, such as overseer of the highways,
town commissioner, etc., and, like his father,
was an extensive operator in real estate. He
seems to have been a man of considerable
wealth, and though not a Quaker, lie was a
trustee of the Chesterfield monthly meeting,
and his children, their mother being a Ouaker-
ess, were accounted brithright Friends. Ho
married. May 25, 1724. Edith, daughter of
Marmaduke and Ann (Pole) Coate, who was
born in Somersetshire. England. Xovember 12,
1705, and after her husband's death married
(second), 1747, as his second wife. Daniel,
son of Jacob and Amy (Whitehead) Doughty
( see Doughty in index). Children: Michael:
Mary'; Caleb, referred to below : Hannah ; Will-
iam, referred to below.
( I\') Caleb, son of Thomas and Edith (Coate)
Xewbold, was born in Springfield township.
Burlington county. Xew Jersey. March 27,
1 73 1 -2, and died there in March, 1786. He
lived on an island, in the Delaware river,
below Bordentown, formerly known as Biddle's
Island, it having belonged to an ancestor of the
Philadelphia Biddies, and subsequently named
from Caleb, Newbold's Island. He married,
in 1754, or 1755, Sarah, daughter of Samuel
and Lydia (Stokes) Haines (see Haines).
Children: i. Achsah, born January 17. 1756:
died Xovember 8, 1770: unmarried. 2. Daniel,
leferred to below. 3. Lydia. born December
10, 1760: married John, son of Thomas and
Mary (Scholey) P.lack. Her son, John Black
Jr., married his first cousin, Sarah, daughter
of Daniel and Rachel (Xewbold) Xewbold.
referred to below. 4. Caleb, born Xovember
2, 1763; died Xovember 17, 1853; married
Sarah Lawrence. 5. Edith, born .Vugust 31.
1766; married Thomas Howard. 6. Sarah,
born March 22. 1769; married. May, 1791,
William, son of Samuel and Abigail ( Burling )
Bowne (.see Bowne in index). 7. Samuel,
born October 18, 1771 : married Mary, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Susanna (Xewbold) Hough
( for maternal ancestry see below, under Mich-
ael (3), son of Michael (2) and Rachel ( Cleay-
ton ) Xewbold). 8. Thomas, born September
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
28, 1773; married Catharine LeRoy, of the
distinguished New York family of that name.
His son, Herman LeRoy Newbold, married
Mary Edwards Ogden ; his son, Thomas
Haines Newbold, married Mary Elizabeth
RMiinelander, and his daughter, Hannah Cor-
nell Xewbold, married William Henry Alorris,
a grandson of Lewis Morris, .Signer of the
Declaration of Indejjendence. y. Hannah,
born April 8, 1775, died March 8, 1781. 10.
Marv, referred to below. 11. Hannah, Ijorn
June 2^1, 1782; married John 15. Lawrence.
( \" ) Daniel, son of Caleb and Sarah
(Haines) Newbold, was born on Xewbold's
Island, July 4, 1757. and died near ;\lount
Holly, Burlington county, New Jersey, Febru-
ary 4, 1815. He lived near Mount Holly, was
a justice of the peace, and for a number of
years, beginning in 1788, a member of the
New Jersey assembly. He married his second
cousin, daughter of John and Mary (Cole)
Newbold; (for ancestry see below). Chil-
dren: I. Charles D. 2. Caleb, referred to
below. 3. .\nn, married John L. Stratton,
M. D. 4. Sarah, married John (2), son of
John (I) and Lydia (Xewbold) Black,
referred to above. 5. Rachel, married Benja-
min Gilbert Whitall. 0. Lvdia, married Sam-
uel Whitall.
(\'I) Caleb (2), son of Daniel and Rachel
(Newbold) Newbold, was born near Mount
Holly, New Jersey, December 26, 1782, and
died in Philadelphia, I'ennsylvania, January
10, 1852. He removed to Philadelphia when a
young man and became extensively engaged in
business as a merchant and importer, trading
chiefly with Calcutta. (Jne of his sons,
Thomas Ross Newbold, was a lawyer, stock
broker, journalist, at one time editor of the
Philadelphia Nortli American, and father of
Lieutenant-colonel Charles Newbold, L'. S. .A.. ;
another son, Charles Newbold, was the Phila-
delphia cotton commission merchant ; a daugh-
ter, Mary Ross Newbold, is referred to below.
( \'II ) Mary Ross, daughter of Caleb (2)
Newbold, married William \\'elsh, of Phila-
delphia ; ( see Welsh ).
(V) Mary, daughter of Caleb (i) and
Sarah (Llaines) Newbold, was born on New-
bold's Island, New Jersey, September 29, 1779.
She married, in 1802, Anthony, son of An-
thony and Ann (Newbold) Taylor; for whose
paternal ancestry and his descendants see
Taylor and Newbold sketch ajipended and for
whose maternal ancestry see below, under
Michael (3) and Susanna (Scholey) Xewbold.
( I\ ) William, son of Thomas and Edith
( Coate ) Newbold, was born in Springfield
township, Burlington county. New Jersey,
November 10, 1736, and died in Chesterfield
township, same county, August 7, 1793. He
built a brick house which was still standing
in 1869, not far from his father's residence,
w here he spent the remainder of his life. Dur-
ing the Revolution, although a Quaker, he
sujjported the cause of the colonies, and a
CL^mmittee of the Chesterfield Monthly Meet-
ing waited upon him and several other recal-
citrants, including his son, Barzillai Newbold,
and his cousin, Joseph Newbold. This com-
mittee reported Alarch 6, 1777, that he seemed
to "justify" his conduct in "being concerned in
military service," antl another committee fail-
ing "by further Christian labor to bring them
tci a just sense of their transgressions," they
were disowned May i, 1777. William New-
bold was the Burlington county representative
in the New Jersey council, the equivalent of
the state senate of to-day, 1784-86, and 1789-90.
In 1775 he was a member of the Burlington
county committee of safety, and for thirteen
years a member of the board of chosen free-
holders. He married, in 1757, Susanna,
daughter of John and Margaret ( Wood )
Stevenson; (see Stevenson). Children: i.
P.razillai, born 1759; died February, 1813;
married, September (), 1788, Euphemia Reatl-
ing. 2. Thomas, referred to below. 3.
Michael. 4. Charles, born May 26, 1764; died
March 15, 1835; married Hope Sands. 5.
Edith, born June 30, 1766; died April 16.
1842; married Joseph M. Lawrie ; her daugh-
ter Beulah married Cleayton (2), son of Clay-
ton (i) and Mary (Foster) Newbold, referred
to below. 6. William, referred to below. 7.
John, born March 17, 1772, died June 6, 1841 :
married Elizabeth, daughter of John and
.\ciisah ( P.lack ) Lawrie. His son, William
Lawrie Xewbold, was father of Rev. William
.Allibone Newbold, and grandfather of the
present Prof, William Romaine Newbold, of
the L'niversity of Pennsylvania. His daugh-
ter Margaret married John, son of John and
C'harlotte (Xewbold) Wistar, a nephew of
the distinguished physician. Dr. Caspar Wis-
tar, and a grandson of Cleayton and Mary
(Foster) Newbold, referred to below. 8.
Susan, born 1774. died 1829: married Thomas
Clayton.
( \' ) Thomas, son of ^\'illiam and Susanna
( Stevenson ) Newbold, was born in Sjiring-
field township, Burlington county. New Jer-
sey, February 8, 1760, and died there Decem-
ber 18, 1823. He attained the largest measure
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of (lisliiictiun iif any member of the XewbuUl
family up to liis time. He served in the New
Jersey assembly in 1797. and again 1820-1S22.
Between these two ])eriods of service he rep-
resented his district in congress for three
terms, from ( 'ctober 26. 1S07. to March 3.
1S13. He was disowned by h'riends for voting
in favor of a measure authorizing sujjplies for
the army at the beginning of the war of 181 2.
He married (first) I'ebruary iq, 1789. Mary,
daughter of .Vnthony and .Ann (Xewbold)
Taylor: (see Taylor, and also maternal, ances-
try see below). He married ( second), in 1816,
Ann. daughter of .Anthony and .Ann ( Xew-
bold) Taylor, the sister to his first wife. Chil-
dren, ten by first marriage: i. Edith. 2.
Anthony. 3. William. 4. Michael, referred
to below. 5. Samuel. 6. Thomas J., born
1803, died 1875; married Rebecca Shinn. 7.
Ann Taylor, born 1799. died 1838: married,
April 12. 1820, as first wife, William, son of
William and Hope (French) Black: her
daughter Mar)' married Hon. John Clement,
of Haddonfield. 8. Sarah, born January 27,
1802, (lied 1823: married, as first wife, John
Adams. 9. Susan. 10. Mary, born 181 1, died
February, 1885: married (first) Anthony, son
of Anthony and Mary (Xewbold) Taylor:
(second) Samuel Hyatt, of Delaware : (third),
as second wife, John Adams, widower of her
sister Sarah, and (fourth) as second wife,
\\'illiam Black, widower of her sister. .Ann
Taylor. 11. William .Augustus, born 1S18:
married Louisa Tobes. 12. Child, name
unknown.
(VI) Alichael. son of Thomas and Mar\'
(Taylor) Xewbold, was born in Bordentown,
New Jersey, in 1794, and died in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1875. ^^^ ^^'^^ educated in
private schools and sjient his life as a gentle-
man of leisure, his father liaving bei|ueathe(l
him a most amjile fortune, a jiart of which con-
sisted in the "'island situated in Delaware
river within the jurisdiction of the state of
Pennsylvania, called League Island, and 'the
lot of land I ]jurchased on the Pennsylvania
shore of .Adam .Seckle."" He also inherited
the [jlantation which his grandfather had
bequeathed to liis father. The League Island
jjroperty Michael Xewbold sold for .$40,000.
He married, in 182 1, Esther Lowndes, ("hil-
dren : i. Joseph Lowndes. 2. Martha
Lowndes. 3. Mary M. 4. Caroline. One of
these three daughters married William Whar-
ton I lollingsworth. of the distinguished Phila-
delphia family of that name. 5. Thomas, mar-
ried .Sarah D. Irvine. 6. .\le.\ander E. 7.
Josiah L. 8. Helen, referred to below.
(\II) Helen, daughter of .Michael and
Esther ( Lowndes) .Xewbold, was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 23. 1836, and
is now living umnarried at 260 .South Twenty-
first street, Philadelphia.
(\') William (2), son of Williaiu ( i) and
Susanna (Stevenson) Xewbold, was born in
C hesterfield township, Burlington county, Xew
Jersey, .April 6, 1770, and died in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, .August 11, 1841. Between 1791
and 1795, shortly after reaching his majority,
he removed to Philadel[)hia, where he engaged
in business with his voungest brother John,
at do .Xortli Water street, as a commission
merchant. Shortly afterwards the brothers
associated with themselves William Mont-
gomery, the tirm name becoming Montgomery
& Xewbolds. This ])artnershi]) was dissolved
about 1806, and William .Xewbold went to
Delaware, where he built a cotton mill near
.Xewark, the machinery being im])orted from
England. The mill, after being finished and
ei|uipped and in running order, was destroyed
by tire two days after the ex])iration of the
insurance policy, whereby great loss was
entailed. Mr. Xewbold subsetiuently returned
to Philadelphia and resided there, on Eleventh
street, until his death. I le married. Xovember
15, 1794, .Mary, daughter of John and .Abigail
(Gilbert) Smith, who died .\])ril 9. 1816. For
this marriage, she nt)t being a Ouaker, he was
disowned by Friends. Children: 1. John
Smith, born 1795. died 1815. unmarried. 2.
Sarah, horn 171)7. fl'"-''! 1816, unmarried. 3.
Su-~an. born 1799, died 1859. unmarried. 4.
.\bby .\nn, born 1801 : married .Abraham L.
Coxe. -M. D., and her daughter Isabel married
P!dward Patterson, related to the Philadelphia
family of that name, and judge of the supreme
court of Xew York, 5. Mary 15.. born 1804,
died 1859: m:u"ried John Singer, and became
grandmother of the distinguishetl artist, John
Singer Sargent. 6. William Henry, referred
to below. 7. Richard ,*-lmith, born December
27, 1808: died January 18, 1883: married Ellen
da Costa, of the Island of St. Croix, Danish
\\'est Indies, and became father of the jjresent
John da Costa .Xewbold. of Philadeljjhia : of
Mrs. (Jeorge Dickson, whose husband was
chairman of the Government Bank of Bengal,
India: of Mrs. Walter Howard Cooke, of
Xorristown, Pennsylvania: and of Mrs. Ferdi-
nand LaMotte, of Wilmington, Delaware. 8.
Ennna, born 181 1 : married I'rancis DeHaes
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Janvier, of the well known Delaware family
of that name, and became mother of the cele-
brated author. Thomas A. Janvier.
( \T ) William Henry, son of William and
Mary (Smith) Kewbold, was born in Newark,
Delaware, in 1807, and died in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1862. No member of the
Newbold line in that city has been better
known or more highly respected. He estab-
lished the brokerage firm of William H. New-
bold's Son & Company, which was for many
years one of the leading anil most conservative
of the financial houses of Philadelphia. From
1850 to 1855 he was a vestryman of Christ
Church, and he was one of the founders of
the former parish of St. Philip's, and of the
church at Jenkintown. The latter church he
built for the most part himself. He married,
in 1830, Calebina, daughter of Caleb and
Maria (Graelif) Emlen ; (see Emlen). Chil-
dren; I. John Smith, referred to below. 2.
Maria Emlen, born 1833, died July 16, 1906;
unmarried. 3. Arthur Emlen, born 1834, died
1851, unmarried. 4. Emma, referred to below.
5. Katharine, born January 13, 1845; married,
April 28, 1864, Alfred, son of Henry John and
Anna Margaretta (Pancoast) Boiler, formerly
of Philadelphia, now of East Orange, New
Jersey, his mother being of the distinguished
Pancoast family of New Jersey; children:
Mrs. \\'illiam Birdsall, William Newbold
Boiler, Alfred Pancoast Boiler, Richard Emlen
Boiler, and Mrs. Joseph M. Stanford. 6.
Mary Littell, born February 22, 1847; died
November 7, 1870: unmarried. 7. William
Henry, born December 31, 1850: married
Roberta Grey.
(\'n) John Smith, son of William Henry
and Calebina (Emlen) Newbold, was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1831,
and died there in 1887. He was educated in
the public schools, became one of the wealth-
iest bankers in the city, and was noted for the
amounts wdiich he bestowed in charity. He
married Anna Buckley. Children: I. Clement
Buckley, born July 25, 1857. 2. .Arthur
Emlen. born August 5, 1859; married Rita,
daughter of Fitz Eugene and Catharine
( Dallas ) Dixon. 3. Ellen G., died in infancy.
4. Emily B., referred to below. 5. Penrose B.,
born November i, i8(')8; died 1869. 6. Anna
B., born Januarv 3. 1S71. 7. John Smith, born
October 2, 1874.
(Vni) Emily Buckley, daughter of John
Smith and Anna ( Buckley ) Newbold, was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 13,
1865. She married, .April 29, 1891, William
J. Taylor, M. D., of Philadelphia, a member
of the distinguished southern family of that
name. Children: i. Phoebe E. Taylor, born
Alarch 3, 1892; died March 19, 1894. 2.
Clement Newbold Taylor, born September 13,
1893. 3. Marian Taylor, born March 9, 1895.
4. William J. Taylor Jr., born July 3, 1896.
5. Francis, born April 23, 1903.
(VH) Emma, daughter of William Henry
and Calebina ( Emlen ) Newbold, was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1839. She mar-
ried Richard S. Brock, of Philadelphia, and is
now living at 2032 Spruce street, Philadelphia.
(HI) Michael (3), son of Michael (2} and
Rachel ( Cleayton ) Newbold, was born in
Springfield township. Burlington county. New
Jersey, October 8, 1706, and died in Chester-
field township, Burlington county, in 1763.
When his father's estate was divided he
received the tract which his father had pur-
chased of Nicholas Brown in 1704, and liere
in 1736 he erected a large brick house, still
standing (1910), about a mile from the resi-
dence of his brother Thomas. During his life
he made considerable real estate purchases,
including a tract in Kensington, Philadelphia
county, and at his death, left much property,
real and personal, the latter alone aniDunting
to the almost unprece<lented sum for that
period of :^6353. He held numerous local ofifices,
including chosen freeholder, collector and sur-
veyor of highways. He was not a birthright
Friend, but was identified with the Quakers,
being at one time trustee of the Springfield
Monthly Meeting, and a representative to the
Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia. He married
( first ) Susanna, daughter of John and Frances
{ Taylor ) Scholey, ( see Scholey and Taylor ) ;
married ( second) Esther, daughter of Samuel
and Esther (Overton) Wilson, and widow of
Henry Coates. Children, all by first marriage :
I. John, referred to below. 2. Ann, referred
to "below. 3. Cleayton, referred to below. 4.
Rebecca. 5. Mary. 6. l\Iichael. 7. Joseph,
born November 18, 1745: died April 7, 1790:
he was a man of unusual prominence and abil-
ity : besides holding numerous local ofifices,
such as overseer of roads, township collector,
commissioner of appeals and chosen free-
holder, he was a member of the General
Assembly of New Jersey which met October 3,
1775, and was appointed a member of the
committee "to prepare an estimate of the
expense necessary to put this colony in a
posture of defense at this present time." He
was also a member of the Provincial Congress
which met at New Brunswick, January 31,
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1776, and of tlie Genera! Assembly wliich met
a*^ Princeton, August 27, 1776. W'itli liis
cousin, \\Tlliam Xewbokl. he was disowned
by Frientls as mentioned above, for his advo-
cacy of armed resistance. He was unmarried,
but left the bulk of his property to his two
adopted sons, Charles and John Xewbuld. 8.
Samuel, died in 1705: married Mary .
9 Susanna, referred to below.
(I\') John, son of Michael and .Susanna
(Scholey) Xewbold. was born in Chesterfield
township, Piurlington county, .\ew Jersey.
February 18, 1730-1, and died there in No-
vember. 1769. He lived on the farm given
to him by his father, on the road leading from
Ceorgetown to Bordentown, New Jersey. He
was surveyor of highways for several years.
and also township collector. He married.
June 3, i/S^. Mary, daughter of Samuel and
Mary ( Lippincott ) Cole; (see Cole). Chil-
dren: I. Rachel, referred to below. 2.
Alartha, married Reeve. 3. Ann. mar-
ried CMfley. 4. Samuel, married ]\Iarv,
daughter of John and Mary (Raper) Hos-
kins, and sister to .Abigail Hoskins. who mar-
ried Prof. John Griscom, of Burlington,
reputed to be the finest American scholar of
his day. (See Griscom in index).
(V) Rachel, daughter of John and Mary
(Cole) Newbcld, was born in Liurlington
county. New Jersey, February 2(), 1759, and
died near Mount Holly, New Jersey, March 9,
1824. She married her second cousin, Dan-
iel, son of Caleb and Sarah ( Haines) Newbold,
referred to above.
(I\ ) Ann. daughter of Michael (3) and
Susanna ( .Scholey ) Newbold. was born in
Chesterfield township, Burlington county. New
Jersey, July 2, 1733, and died January 26,
181 1. .She married, after her father's death
in 1763, Anthony Taylor, (see Taylor).
(IV) Cleayton. son of Micliael (3) and
Susanna (Scholey) Newbold, was born in
( hesterfield townshiji. Burlington county. New
Jersev, .\ugusi 7, 1737, and died at "Clover-
dale," Burlington county, Sei:)tember 7, 1712.
He inherited from his father the tract of land
now known as "Cloverdale." and upon it he
erected in 1764 a brick house very much like
those built b\' his father and uncles, and there
spent his life. Besides holding local offices in
his county he served a term in the New Jersey
legislature in 1784. He married. October 25,
1759. Mary. Ijorn February 12, 1740-41, died
March 31, 1809, daughter of William and
Hannah ( Core) Foster. Children: i. Charlotte,
married John, brother to the eminent i'hiladel-
phia physician. Dr. Casper \^'istar, previously
mentiiined. Of her ten children, John mar-
ried Margaret, daughter of John and Elizaijeth
(Lawrie) Newbold, referred to above; .Mary,
married Isaac Davis, and became grandmother
of Mrs. Charles Wheeler, the mother of .Mrs.
Richard McCall I'dliott and of the Countess
I'apjjenheim ; while other children are repre-
sented to-day by Caleb Cresson W'istar. and
Dillwyn W'istar. both of (jermantown. 2. Will-
iam, married Hannah Watson; and of his
eight children, i. Cleayton, married Susan
Hough, tlaughter of Josejjh and Ann (Hough)
Trotter, and granddaughter of Samuel and
Susanna (.Newbold) Hc^ugh, her great-grand-
mother being Susanna, daughter of Alichael
("3) and Susanna (.Scholey) .Newbold, referred
to belijw ; and ii. William Foster, married Eliz-
abeth, sister to the celebrated Philadeljihia
[)hysician. Dr. Jose])h Pancoast. and a descend-
ant of the Stockton family of New Jersey. 3.
George, married (first) Mary Emlen, (sec-
ond) Anne Mickle Fox: removed about 1797
to New York City, where he obtained ])romi-
nence in the business world and became presi-
dent of the Bank C)f .\merica, and an official
in many other financial and charitable institu-
tions. 4. Cleayton. married, 181 3, Beulah,
daughter of Joseph' M. and Edith (Newbold)
Lawrie, referred to above; his daughter Edith
Uiarried Josejjh Hough, son of Joseph and Ann
(Hough) Trotter, and granddaughter of Sus-
anna, daughter of Michael (3) and Susanna
( Sciioley ) Newbold, referred to below. 5.
Elizabeth. 6. Susan. 7. Rebecca. 8-12.
Names unknown.
( 1 \' I Susanna, daughter of Michael (3 ) and
Susamia (Scholey) Newbold, was born in
Chesterfield township, Burlington county, New
Jersey, February 3, i74()-5o, and died August
22, 1 81 5. She married .'^amuel Hough. Chil-
dren: I. Mary Hough, married .Samuel, son
of Caleb and Sarah (Haines) Newbold,
referred to above. 2. Susan Hough, married
Nathan Trotter. 3. .\nn Hough, married
Jose()h, brother to Nathan Trotter; and two of
her children, Susan Hough Trotter, who mar-
ried Cleayton Newbold, and Joseph Hough
Trotter, who married Edith Newbold, are
referred to above. 4. Joseph Hough. 5.
Charlotte I lough.
(Tlio Haines Line).
(HI) S.auiuel. son of William and .^arah
(Paine) Haines (see Haines in index), was
born in 1705. He married, in 1734, Lydia,
daughter of Thomas and Deliverance (Hor-
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STATE OI" NEW JERSEY.
ner) Stokes: f see Stokes). Children: Jacob,
married, 1765, I'.atlisheba Burrougb : Sarah
referred to below: Samuel, married (first)
Elizabeth Riizby, ( second ) Mary Stevenson :
Thomas, married Elizabeth Mullen.
(IV) Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Eydia
(Stokes) Haines, married, in 1754 or 1755,
Caleb, son of Thomas and Edith ( Coate )
Haines, referred to above.
•The Welsh Line).
William Welsh, of Philadelphia, married
Mary Ross, daughter of Caleb, son of Daniel
and Rachel (Xevvbold) Newbold. Children:
John: Elizabeth Ross; and P'dith Newbold,
referred to below: William; 5-7. Names
unknown.
(H) Elizabeth Ross, daughter of William
ami Mary Ross (Newbold) Welsh, was born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, C)ctober 6,
1836. She married, in I'hiladelphia, June 4.
1861, Charles William Cushman, son of
Bezaleel and Emma Motley ( de Longueville )
Cushman, of Portland, Maine, wdio was born
July 25, 1831, came to Philadelphia when he
was nineteen years old and for the past half
century has been a prominent merchant and
expert accountant in that city. His home is
at Rosemont, Montgomery county, Pennsyl-
vania. Children: Emma de Longueville Cush-
man ; William Ross Cushman ; Edith Newbold
Cushman.
(H) Edith Newbold, daughter of William
and Mary Ross (Newbold) W'elsh. was born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in January.
1855. She married, April 15, 1880. William
Drayton, of Philadelphia. Children: William,
M. D., born Jaiuiary 27, 18S1 : Newbold, De-
cember 14, 1883; Harry C, April 3. 1887;
John Welsh, .\pril 29, i8'<)4.
(The Stevenson Line).
Thomas Stevenson, the founder of this fam-
ily, was born in London, England, in 161 5, and
died in Newtown, Long Island, shortly before
July 7, 1668. He was the descendant of a
family whose ancestor, for services rendered
to William the Conqueror at the battle of
Hastings, was rewarded by a grant of land in
Scotland, south of ( "dasgow, where the present
town of Steventon n(jw is. Thomas Steven-
son landed in \'irginia about 1643, and
removed shortly afterwards to Long Island,
where he served under Captain John Lnder-
hill against the Indians. lie then settled in
Southold. Long Islanil, with the colony from
Connecticut, brciught thither by Captain
L'nderhill and later removed to Newtown,
lie married. August 15, 1645. Maria ( Bullock )
Bernard, widow of William Bernarri, of West-
chester county, New York. Children: John,
died about 1670, unmarried: Thomas, referred
ti ' below ; Edward, born about i'>50, died Sej)-
tcmber 12, 1700, married Charity Eield: Sarah,
married Patrick Hires, or Harris.
(II) Thomas, son of Thomas and Maria
( Bullock-Bernard ) Stevenson, was born prob-
ably about 1648, and died in 1734. He inher-
ited a part of his father's plantation in New-
town, where he lived and died. He held in
succession the various offices that are within
the province of a small town. From 1676 to
1678 he was overseer, the equivalent of mayor,
of Newtown, and the last year also served as
constable. March 3. 1684. he and his brother
Edward were among the commissioners "to
look out for a place of settlement next to the
Dutch." October 20, 1685, 'i^ ^^'^^ commis-
sioned justice of the peace of Queens county,
and in the succeeding year was one of the
granters to whom the new charter of New-
town was given. May 16. 1706. he was a
member of the boundary dispute commission,
and in 1713 he was a member of the committee
to defend Newtown in its land suits. In relig-
ion Thomas Stevenson was first a Congrega-
tionalist, but after his second marriage became
affiliated with the Society of Friends, and
about this period began to buy land partly in
Monmouth county. East Jersey, but mostly in
Burlington county, W'est Jersey. To this land
four of his sons removed. His other children
remained on Long Island. He married (first),
b'ebruarv. i''>72. Elizabeth, only daughter of
Captain William Lawrence, by his first wife,
whose name is unknown. Her stepmother.
Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith, of
Mishaguakt, Long Island, married (second")
after (^"aptain Lawrence's death. Sir Philip
Carteret, first governor of Fast Jersey, and
Elizabethtown, New Jersey was named in her
honor. After her second husband's death her
stepmother married Colonel Richard Townley.
of Elizabethtown. Thomas Stevenson married
(second) Ann, wdio is believed to have been
a Field. Children, four by first marriage: i.
Thomas, born about 1674; died about 1719;
married Sarah (Jenings) Pennington, eldest
daughter of ( iovernor Samuel Jenings, of
West Jersey. 2. William, born in 1676, died in
1724; married .\nn Jening, sister to wife of
his brother Thomas. 3. John, referred to
below. 4. Elizabeth, died unmarried, Novem-
ber 2J. 1703. 5. Nathaniel, born about 1683.
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<lied in 1736; married Mary Roci<liill. (k Dan-
iel, born i(x)2. died 1754; married lilizaheth
Willett. 7. Stephen, died about 1 73 1 ; married
Jane Clement. 8. Susanna, born July 12, 1(^)94,
died March 23, 1723; married Thomas F.etts.
9 Ann, died May 19, 1724; married. Xovem-
ber 10, 1715, Samuel Thorne.
(Ill) John, son of Thomas ami Elizabeth
(Lawrence) Stevenson was born in Newtown,
Long Lsland, about 1678, and died in Hunter-
don county. Xew Jersey, in 1744. About i6()9
he removed to Nottingham township, Burling-
ton county. Xew Jersey, where he remained till
the death of his first wife. He then removed
to a plantation in Hunterdon county, on the
west side of the road from Ouakertown to
Ringoes, two miles south of the former vil-
lage. He became one of the founders of the
first Friends' Meeting in Xew Jersey, north
of the Falls of the Delaware, known as the
Bethlehem, Kingwood, or Ouakertown.
Monthly Meeting. In December, 1739, he was
appointed justice of the quorum for Hunter-
don county. He married (first) in May, 1706,
Mercy, daughter of Governor Samuel Jenings,
and sister to the wives of his brothers William
and Thomas. He married (second) in Xo-
vember, 1724. .Margaret, daughter of William
and Mary Wood, of Leiscestershire, England,
who emigrated to Burlington in 1677 in the
"flie-boat'' P^Iartha. She was born in Burling-
ton county, December 26, 1693. Chilrlren by
first marriage six: I. Thomas, born about
1707; married Sarah Whitehead. 2. John,
married. .April, 1739, Martha Walton. 3.
Samuel, died about 1792: married Elizabeth
. 4. .\nn. born about 171 1, died Sep-
tenil)er 24, 1742: married Daniel, son of Jacob
and Amy (Whitehead) Doughty: ('see
Doughty in inde.x). 3. .Abigail, married, June
or July, 1742. Peter .Smoak. 6. Mercy, born
about 1719 or 1720; married. 1744, Benjamin
Williams. 7. William, born February I,
1730: died .August 30, 1807: married Mary
Bunting. 8. Susanna, referred to lielow. 9.
Mary, died unmarried, July 11, 1818.
(I\') Susanna, daughter of John and Mar-
garet I Wood ) Stevenson, was born in Hun-
terdon county, Xew Jersey, in I73''>. She mar-
ried, in .Ajjril. 1757. William, son of Thomas
and Eflith ( Coate ) Xewbold. referred to
above.
(The Taylor Line).
Samuel Taylor, the founder of this family,
was born in the parish of Dore, county Derby,
England, and died in Chesterfield township,
I'lUrlington county, in 1723. He emigrated to
this country as a young man in the "tlie boat"
.Martha, which arrived at Burlington, Xew
Jersey, in i(>/~. lie was one of the jiroprietors
of West Jersey, owning one thirty-second of a
share in the province which had been conveyed
to him by his brother William Taylor, of
Dore, county Derby, lingland, who had pur-
chased the ])roi)erty from George llutcheson.
Samuel Taylor having lost his deed to this
property. Hutcheson reconveyed it to him in
1681. and Samuel had a part of it surveyed
for him in Chesterfield township, where he
settled, married and died. He married, in the
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, at the house of
William lilack. whose wife .Alice (nee) Tay-
lor, was probably his sister, 2 mo. 14, 1686,
Susanna, daughter of .\Iarmaduke Horsnian.
ot White Hill and Chesterfield. Children: i.
Samuel, married 9 mo. 29. 1716. .Ann Folkes.
2. Mary, married 2 mo. 12, 1722, Robert Field ;
her grandson, Robert Field, married Abigail,
daughter of Richard and .Annis (Boudinot)
Stockton, whose father was a Signer of the
Declaration of Independence; her grand-
daughter Maria married Richard .Stockton,
son of the Signer, and father of Hon. Com-
modore Robert Field Stockton, of the Cnited
States navy and senate. 3. John. 4. Sus-
anna. 5. Sarah, married, May or Jime. 1728.
Josejih Rockhill. 6. Frances, referred to
below. 7. George. 8. William. 9. Robert,
referred to below.
( II ) I'rances. daughter of Samuel and Sus-
anna iHorsman) Taylor, married (first)
Joseph, son of George and Hannah Xicholson,
of Burlington county, and (second) John, son
of John and Isabel Scholey, (see Scholey).
(II) Robert, son of Samuel and .Susanna
( Horsnian ) Taylor, was born in Chesterfield
township. Burlington county. Xew Jersey, and
died there between December 30, 1735, and
I'ebruary 2~. 1738, the dates of the execution
and proving of his will. He was the executor
of his father's will and inlierited a large jior-
tion of the homestead tract, which remained
in the possession of his descendants until (|uite
'ccently. This tract of five hundred acres was
the historic Brookdale I'arm. He married,
in May, 1728, Sarah Woodward, who probably
(lied before him, as she is not mentioned nor
provided for in his will. Children: .Anthony,
referred to below: Isaac: Robert; .Mary.
(HI) .Anthony, son of Robert and Sarah
(Woodward) Taylor, was born at Brookdale
Farm, Burlington county, Xew Jersey, and
(lied there in January or I'ebruary, 1783. He
fell heir to lirookdale at his father's death.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
and all of his children were born there. In
his own will he bec|ueathes the property to
his son Michael. He was an ardent patriot
during the revolution, and rendered material
service to the cause of national liberty and
independence. He married his first cousin
maternal, Anne, daughter of Michael and Sus-
anna (Scholey) Newbold : (see Michael New-
bold (HI), above, and for whose maternal
ancestry see Scholey). Children: Robert;
Michael ; Anthony, referred to below : Alary,
referred to below : Sarah : .-\nn, referred to
below.
(I\'l -\ntli(.>ny (2), son of Anthony (I)
and Ann ( Xewbold ) Taylor, was born at
Brookdale Farm, Chesterfield township, Bur-
lington county, Xew Jersey, in 1772, and died
at "Sunbury," Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1837. In accordance with the direc-
tions given in his father's will, he was kept at
school until after he was fifteen years of age,
and was then apprenticed to John Thompson,
a prominent merchant of Philadelphia, to be
trained for a mercantile and business career.
Here he remained until he became of age,
when he formed a partnership with Thomas
Newbold, who later became also his brother-
in-law ; and under the firm name of Taylor &
Newbold they engaged in an extensive trade
with the East Indies. In 1810 he retired from
active business and settled at Sunbury, his
beautiful country seat in Bristol township,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, which had been
for several years before this his summer resi-
dence. He subsequently purchased several
other large tracts of land in the lower part
of Bucks county, and at the time of his death
was the largest landholder in the county. He
married, in 1802, Mary, daughter of Caleb and
Sarah (Haines) Newbold; (see Caleb New-
bold (l\"l above). Children: Robert and
Anthony, referred to below; Sarah, married
Dr. Allen ; William ; Edward Lawrence ;
Michael; Caleb Newbold, referred to belc:iw ;
Mary Ann ; Thomas ; Emma L. ; Franklin,
referred to below.
(\') Dr. Robert, son of Anthony and Mary
( Newbold ) Taylor, was born in Philadeljihia,
I'ennsylvania, July 11, 1803, and died at "Sun-
bury," Bristol townshi]), Bucks county, Penn-
.sylvania, in .\ugust, 1872. On reaching man-
hood he settled in Philadelphia, afterwards
removing to Burlington county. New Jersev,
and late in life returned to Sunbury, where he
died at the age of sixty-nine years, and was
buried in the churchyard of St. James the Less,
Philadelphia, the resting place of many of his
relatives. He married Elizabeth .\sh, daugh-
ter of Benjamin Jones of Philadelphia, who
was born in 1 81 3, and died at "Sunbury," Jan-
uary 29, 1893, aged eighty years. She was a
great-granddaughter of John, son of Edward .
Jones, of Merion, Philadelphia county, one of
the prominent colonial land owners, who mar-
ried, 9 mo. 12, 1717, Mary, daughter of Jacob
and Amy ( \Vhitehead ) Doughty; (see
Doughty in index). Children of Dr. Robert
and Elizabeth Ash (Jones) Taylor: Benjamin
J(_ines and Anthony, referred to below; Rob-
ert, born May, 1839, died young; Alice Jones,
referred to below; F'anny, born 184S. died
1846.
( \T ) Benjamin Jones, son of Dr. Robert
and Elizabetli Ash (Jones) Taylor, was born
in Burlington county, New Jersey, and is now
living at 1729 Spruce street, Philadelphia,
having his summer home at "Sunbury." He
was educated at the Friends' Select School and
the Protestant Episcopal Academy, both of
Philadelphia, and after leaving them received
a thorough business training and for eight
years he followed mercantile pursuits in Phila-
delphia. During the civil war he served for
three months in 1863 in the (jrey Reserves,
and was present during the shelling of (Carlisle
by General Fitz Hugh Lee, on July i, of that
year. He also saw military service in Tennes-
see and Mississippi as volunteer aide on the
staffs of different commanders. After retiring
from mercantile pursuits he made his home at
"Sunbury," the old family place in Bristol
township, and devoted much of his time to the
transaction of financial business, acting as
agent for others and assisting in the care and
management of the large estates blonging to
the family. Fie has been for many years
director of the Farmer's National Bank of
Bristol, and when Pierson Mitchell died in
1894, Mr. Taylor was elected to succeed him
as i)resident, representing the third generation
I if the family, the others being his grandfather,
Anthony Taylor (2), and his uncle, Caleb
Newbold Taylor, who served in that capacity.
Air. Taylor has inlierited many of the business
oualities of his ancestors on both sides of the
hfiuse, and is interested in almost all of the
Icical business enterprises. He and his sister,
.Mice Jones Taylor, referred to below, are the
owners of the ancestral house. "Sunbury," a
plantation of four hundred acres, which they
are the fourth generation to possess, and which
lias now been in uninterrupted occupancy by
the family for over a century. Mr. Taylor is
a member of Flenry Clay Beatty Post, G. A. R.,
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])atriotic associations.
(\'I) Captain Anthony, son of Dr. Robert
and Elizabeth Ash (Jones) Taylor, was born
in Burlington county, New Jersey, October 11,
1837, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
May 21, 1894. During the civil war he ren-
dered most distinguished services to the Union
cause, and in 1893 received from congress the
United States medal of honor "for signal acts
of bravery, and meritorious service." This
medal correponds to the X'ictoria cross, so
famous in English military annals, and is the
most highly prized and distinguished honor
obtainable in the service. Mr. Taylor enlisted
-August 8, 1862, in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania
Cavalry, as a private; was promoted sergeant,
October 30, 1862; first sergeant, March i,
1863; first lieutenant of Company .\, ]\lay 8,
1863; captain, June I, 1865, having had com-
mand of the company as lieutenant command-
ing, almost from the date of his commission
as first lieutenant. Prior to 1865 he served
under Brigadier-General W. S. Rosencranz in
the Army of the Cumberland, and participated
in the battles of Antietam, Stone River, Chick-
amauga and many other engagements. From
June I, 1865, to the close of the war, he served
on the staff of (jeneral William J. Palmer, as
aide-de-camp, and was honorably mustered out
June 21, 1865. He married, February 21,
1871, Caroline Fletcher, daughter of Lawrence
and Mary (Winder) Johnson. Children: Mary
Lawrence, married Bromley Wharton ; Eliza-
beth Elmslie, married Houston Dunn.
(\'I) Alice Jones, daughter of Dr. Robert
and Elizabeth Ash (Jones J Taylor, was born in
Philadei])hia, Pennsylvania. }tlay 4, 1847, and
is now living unmarried, with her brother,
Benjamin Jones Taylor, at 1729 Spruce street
and at "Sunbury," Bristol township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania.
(V) Anthony (3), son of Anthony (2) and
Mary (Newbold) Taylor, was born at "Sun-
bury," Bristol township, Bucks county. I'enn-
sylvania, December 21, 1804, and died in Bur-
lington county. New Jersey, July 13. 1833.
He married, about 1831, Mary, daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Taylor) Newbold, who
after her husband's death, married (second)
Samuel Hyatt, of Delaware. She was her hus-
band's first cousin. (See Thomas Newbold
(V), above, and for her maternal ancestry sec
Slary Taylor (I\ ), above and below). No
children.
(\ ) Caleb Newbold, son of Anthony (2)
and Mary ( Newbold) Taylor, was born at "Sun-
Iniry," Bristol township, Bucks county, Penn-
sylvania, July 27, 1814. For over fifty years
he was one of the most prominent men in
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and was the ac-
knowledged leader first of the W hig and after-
wards of the Rei)ublican party in that section
of the state. He represented his party in the
state and national conventions almost continu-
ously after reaching his majority, and was the
candidate of his district for congress four sepa-
rate times, being elected twice. In 1866 he
was elected to the fortieth congress as the
Republican representative from Pennsylvania,
and in 1868 to the forty-first congress. He
took his seat April 13, 1870, after successfully
contesting the election of John R. Reading,
and served until March 3, 1871. He was also
one of the most prominent business men in the
county, and amassed a large estate, owning at
one time three thousand acres of land in Bucks
county. He succeeded his father as president
of the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks coun-
ty. He died unmarried.
(V) Franklin, son of .Vnthony (2) and Mary
(Newbold) Taylor, was born at "Sunbury,"
Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
December i, 1822, and is now living at Ger-
mantown, Pennsylvania, being the last sur-
viving member of his generation. After re-
ceiving his early education in the common
schools in F^hiladel])hia. he entered Princeton
University, from which he graduated in 1840,
receiving later his M. A. degree. He is now
( 1910) one of the oldest living graduates of
the University. For many years Mr. Taylor
was one of the prominent lawyers of the Phila-
delphia bar. He married, in 1857, Emily Wins-
low, who died in 1904. Children: Edward,
married Lydia Sharpless ; Frederick, married
Louise Spooner; Mary C, married C. M. Clark.
(IV) Mary, daughter of x\nthony (i) and
Ann (Newbold) Taylor, died July 21, 1811.
She married, February 19. 1789. as first wife,
Thomas, son of William and Susanna (Ste-
venson) Newbold (see Newbold and Steven-
son above ) .
fl\') Ann. daughter of .Anthony (i) and
Ann (Newbold) 'faylor, died June 11, 1861.
She married, in 1816, as second wife, Thomas,
son of William and Susanna (Stevenson) New-
bold, the widower of her sister, Mary, referred
to above.
(The Kmlen I.,ine).
George Emlen, the founder of the family of
his name in America, was born in the town of
Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire, England. lie
was apprenticed to a vintner in London, and
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his parents having (heel when he was still
young, he was left to the care of an aunt who
was a Presbyterian. This aunt being very
much displeased at his becoming a 1^'riend.
George Emlen was obliged to provide for him-
self, and consequently he determined to emi-
grate to America, which he did some time be-
fore 1685. He married (fir.st), November \2.
1685, Eleanor, daughter of Nathaniel Allen,
whose father, a man vi very considerable note,
was one oi the three men named by Will-
iam Penn to lay out the city of Philadelphia.
He married (second), June 5, 1694, Hannah,
daughter of William and Ann ( Kirke ) Garrett,
who came from Leicestershire, England, in
1684. settled in Darby. Pennsylvania, and after-
wards removed to Philadelphia. Children by
second marriage, the three by first marriage
having all died in infancy: I. George, referred
to below. 2. Samuel, born April 15. if^qj :
married. 'December 2, 1731, Rachel Hudson.
3 Caleb, burn June i), 1(199: died unmarried.
4. Joshua. Ixirn April 14, 1701 ; married ( first )
Mary (Holton) Hudson, (second) Deborah
Powell. 5. Hannah, born February 3, 1703-4:
died unmarried. 6. Ann, born May 19. 1705;
married, June 15, 1732, William Miller. 7.
Mary, born January I, 1708-9: married, 1828.
John Arniitt. 8. Sarah, born March 19, 1709-
10: married, May 25, 1738, James Cresson.
(H) ( k'orge (2), son of George ( 1 ) and
Hannah ((iarrett) Emlen, was born in Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, July 7, 1(103, and died
in October, 1754. In the family memorial
written by his brothers, Samuel and Joshua, it
is said of him that "he was a man of very good
repute for sobriety, diligence, industry & care."
and that "being the oldest son became as a ten-
der blather to his Pirotbers & sisters." He was
prominent in the Society of Friends, was a
brewer by occupation, and acquired consider-
able wealth. (Jctober 6, 1730, he was elected
a member of the common council of Philadel-
phia, was one of the founders of the famous
Library Company of America, and was in
many other ways a prominent figure and factor
in the hai)penings (if his day and the unfolding
of his city's history. He married, April 24,
1717, Mary, daughter of Robert and Susanna
Heath, who is said to have died June 2, 1777.
"For many years," her brothers-in-law wrote
of her, she was "a minister amongst Friends."
Children: i. ("leorge, referred to below. 2.
Hannah, born June i, 1722; dierl January 30,
1777; married, March 24, 1740, William, son
of (ames Logan, the distinguished statesman
of colonial days, mayor of Philadelphia, chief
justice and governor of Pennsylvania, etc. 3.
Joseph, born July i, 1728; died young.
(HI) (jeorge (3), son of George (2) and
Alary ( Heath ) Emlen, was born in Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1718, and died
January 3, 1776. He succeeded his father in
the brewing business, and inherited the home-
stead house on Chestnut street, above Fifth,
opposite the State House, or Inde])en(lence
I-Iall. He also erected a country seat in White-
marsh valley, above (.'hestnut street, now known
as the Emlen House, which in the fall of 1777
was for a time occupied by General Washing-
ton. George Emlen was one of the signers of
the non-importation agreement of October 25,
1765. He married, October 25, 1740, Ann,
(laughter of Joseph and Margaret ( Satter-
thwaite ) Reckless, of Chesterfield, Ihudington
county, New Jersey, who is said to have been
a great-granddaughter of John Reckless, sheritT
of Nottinghamshire, mentioned in the journal
of (_ieorge Fox. She was born about 1720,
and died February 4, 1816. Children: I.
(^Tcorge, born April 25, 1 741-2 ; died November
2T,. 1812: married, February I, 1775, Sarah
Fishbourne. 2. Caleb, referred to below. 3.
Mary, born December 19, 1746: died Septem-
ber 19, 1820; married David Beveridge. 4.
Joseph, born December 28, 1748. 5. Margaret,
"born .April 15, 1750; died Alay 4, 1822: mar-
ried, Alay 2T„ 1771, Samuel Howell Jr. 6.
Samuel, born August 25, 1767. 7. James, born
June 2(1, 17(10; died October 3, 1798; married,
April 23, 1783, Phebe Peirce. 8. Ann, died
March 21, or 22, 1815: married, (Jctober 9,
1788, Warner Mifllin. '
(lA'i Caleb, son of George (3) and Ann
(Reckless) Emlen, was born in Philadelphia,
F'ennsylvania, December 15, 1744. He was
one of the Quaker leaders whose arrest was
contemplated by the sujireme executive council
of Philadelphia just before the arrival of Gen-
eral Howe's army in the city, because of his
supposed tory proclivities, based upon his op-
position to armed resistance. He married, Feb-
ruary 25, 1773, Alary, daughter of Jeremiah and
Mary (Head ) Warder. Children : Mary, mar-
ried Thomas (jreaves ; Anne, married Charles
Pleasants : Caleb, referred to below. 4-9. Names
unknown.
( \' ) Caleb (2), son of Caleb ( i ) and Alary
(Warder) Emlen, was born in Philadelphia.
He luarried Maria Graeff. Children : Alary,
married Dr. Squire Littell : Calebina, referred
to below.
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(\'I) Calebina. daiiglitcr i)f Calel) (21 ami
Alaria (Ciraeff) Enilen, died in l'hiladeli)liia,
Pennsylvania, in August, 1872, and is buried in
the churchyard of St. James the Less, on the
Nicetown road, at the Falls of the Schuylkill.
She married, in 1830. William Henry, son of
William and Mary (Smith) Xewbold (see
Xewbold abtive. )
(Tlie Scholey l.,ine».
The Sclioley family from Yorkshire, Eng-
land, were among the earliest settlers of Penn-
sylvania and New Jersey. They were noted as
prosperous and influential citizens, large land-
owners, and active in business and religious
affairs. Thomas Scholey came to Burlington
in the "tlie boat" Martha in 1677, and Robert
Scholey arrived in the following year, 1678.
in the ship "Shield." They settled first at
Crewcorne, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, but
later removed to Burlington county, Xew Jer-
sey. John Scholey, a near relative, if not a
brother of Robert and Thomas, and the found-
er of the branch at present under consideration,
came from Aughton, parish of Aston, county
York, England, about 1680, and settled in
Chesterfield township, Burlington county. New
Jersey, with hij wife and children. He died
there between Alarch 2y, 1695, and April 7,
1696, the dates of the execution and proving
of his will in which he names his wife, Isabel,
and sons, John and Thomas.
(U) John (2), son of John (i ) and Isabel
Scholey, was born probably in England, and
died between 1734 and 1739. He married
(first) in the Burlington monthly meeting, 1697,
Rebecca IJennett; (second) Frances (Tavlor)
Nicholson, widow of Joseph Nicholson, of Bur-
lington county, and daughter of Samuel ( i )
and Susanr.a ( Horsman ) Taylor (see Taylor
above). Children: i. Susanna, referred to
below. 2. John, born November 22, 1714-15;
died about 1757 : married, 1743, Rachel Wright.
3. Thomas, born December 5, 1 7 18 ; died young
4. Mary, born Decenil)cr 24, 1720; married
(first) Jonathan Barton; (second) Thomas
Black: (third) Samuel Wright. 5. Isabel,
born February 28. 1721-2 ; married. 1750. Jacob
Ridgway. 6. Samuel, Ixirn May 25, 1723. 7.
Rebecca, born .August 5, 1725; married, 1747,
Joseph Wright. 8. Sarah, born June 6, 1727;
married, 1752, Joseph Horner. 9. John, born
August 3, 1729: married. 1750, Mary Wright.
10. Ann. married. 1725, Thomas Scattergood.
(Ill) Susanna, daughter of John (2) and
Frances (Taylor-Nicholson) Scholey. was born
in r.urlington county. New Jersey, December
24, 171 1. She marrie<l, .April 15, 1730, Mich-
ael (2), son of Michael ( i ) and Rachel ( Cleay-
tiiu) Newbolcl (see .Vewhold alxjvc ).
Criie Cole Line).
Samuel Cole and his wife, Elizabeth, found-
ers of this family in West Jersey, emigrated
from Cole's Hill, county Hertford, England,
and landed on the Jersey shore a little above
Philadelphia. He was a haberdasher and hat-
ter by trade. He located first on five hundred
acres of land on the north side of the mouth
of Cooper's Creek, fronting the Delaware river :
later he sold this land and removed to Peni-
saukin, settling near William Matlock and
Timothy Hancock, and named his place New
( )rcliard. He took a prominent jjart in tlie
])olitical troubles of the province, especially in
the settlement of the boundary line between
the counties of Burlington and Gloucester, in
which he was particularly interested because
l;is land lay on the stream of water and on
both sides of the highway where the trouble
existed. He was a member of the West Jer-
sey legislature. 1683-85. Shortly after this he
returned to England to arrange some business
matters, and on his return fell sick at the
islanfl of Barbadoes and died there. Letters
of administration on his estate were granted
tc his widow, Elizabefli, March 25, i(x)3. She
subsequently married (second) (Griffith Mor-
gan. Children ; Samuel, referred to below ;
Mary, married James Wild.
(H) Samuel (2), .son of Samuel (i) and
Elizabeth Cole, died at New Orchard, Water-
ford township, Cdoucester county. New Jer-
sey, betw'een November 25, 1728. and Decem-
ber 12, 1728, the dates of the execution of his
will and the appraising of his personal estate.
His will was proved December 18, following.
He was sheriff of Gloucester county in 1710,
1 71 3 and 1724. He married Mary, daughter
of Thomas and Mary (Elton) Kendall, whose
father had come to West Jersey as a bricklaver
in the employ of the proprietor. Dr. Daniel
W'ills. In 1697 he Ijiiilt the first corn mill in
(Iloucester. Children: i. Samuel, referred to
below. 2. Thomas, married Flannah Stokes.
3. Joseph, married Mary Wood. 4. Kendall,
married Ann, daughter of William Jr. and
Elizabeth (Stockton) Budd ("see those families
in index). 5. William. 6. Elizabeth, married
(first) Jacob Burcham. (second) T'.enjamin
Cooper. 7. Mary, married Edward Tonkin. 8.
Susanna, married William (3). son of William
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(2) and Elizabeth (Stockton) Budd, brother
to his brother-in-law Kendall's wife. Q. Rachel,
married Enoch Roberts. lo. Jane.
(Ill) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) and
Mary ( Kendall ) Cole, married in the Evesham
monthly meeting, 1731, Mary, daughter of
Samuel and Hope (Wills) ijppincott (see
Eippincott and \\'ills in index). Children:
Martha, married. 17O2, as second wife, Uavid
Davis; Mary, referred to below.
(I\') Mary, daughter of Samuel and Mary
(Lippincott) Cole, died in 1789, or 1790. She
married, June 3, 175'^, John, son of Michael
(3) and Susanna ( Sclioley ) Newbold (see
Newbold and Scholev above).
Although the Gibby family of New
GIBBY Jersey did not come to this coun-
try until after its formation as an
independent nation, they have already won for
themselves an enviable distinction and repu-
tation in the legal and political lives of the
people of their adoption. They deservedly
rank to-day among the representative families
of Northern New Jersey.
( I ) John (iibby, founder of this family in
America, was one of the "Emmet rebels" of
1798, and emigrated to .\merica from Ireland
in 1826. He was a block cutter and engraver.
He married Mary Dunla]). Children : Will-
iam, referred to below ; Margaret, married
Joseph Barrett, of Hamilton, Ohio: Sarah,
married Barry, of Paterson, New Jer-
sey : Eliza, married Alerrick ; John :
Caroline, married Abraham Marsh; Robert
Dunlap.
(Hi William, son of John and Mary (Dun-
lap) Gibby, was born April 7, 1818, in Man-
chester, England, and died in Rahway, New-
Jersey, April 8, 1888. He was brought to this
country by his father in 1826, and after leav-
ing school learned the trade of wood engrav-
ing. Later he went into the real estate busi-
ness. From 1864 to 1874 he was a lay judge
of Union county, and he was one of the organ-
izers of the Free School in Rahway. He was
a Democrat in politics, president of the board
of education, a town trustee, and a councilman
for many years. He married, July 12, 1838.
Frances, daughter of Samuel McKinley, who
emigrated with his two brothers, Alexander
and James, from Ireland. She was born Feb-
ruary 3, 1807, and died November 25. 1892.
Children: i. William James, see forward. 2.
Mary Jane, born November 20. 1840; married
Henrv Newton Spenser ; children : Alexander
G., Henry Lyman, Francis I. and William
Lines Spenser. 3. .Alexander, born February
5. 1845; died April 7, 1868. 4. Isabella, born
1846; died 1848. 5. Isabella, born 1848; mar-
ried Cornelius Boice ; died ; child : Helen Rae
Boice. 6. Robert Dunlap, referred to below.
7. Sarah Frances, born October 10, 1851 : died
in 1893. 8. Independence, born July 4, 1854;
living at 230 North Pleasant street, Jackson,
Michigan.
( HI ) William James, son of William Gibby,
was born April 11, 1839, and died March 31,
1887. He was one of the most prominent men
in Alercer county in his day, having removed
to Princeton early in life. He was educated
in the schools of Rahway, where he was born,
and at the State Normal School at Trenton.
After graduating he accepted the position of
principal of the public schools of Princeton,
and settled there. On May 8, 1868, he was ap-
pointed county superintendent of public in-
structi(.>n for the county of Mercer, and held
that position until his death. While teaching
school he stu<lied law with Leroy H. Ander-
son Esq., of Princeton and Trenton, and was
admitted to practice at the November term,
1873, and as counsellor at November term,
1878. He practiced in Princeton. He was
I)roininently identified with tlie politics and
public life of Mercer county, and served as
mayor of the borough of Princeton two terms.
He was always a Democrat. He married,
November 8, 1866, Helen Day, bcjrn January
20, 1839, now living in Newark, daughter of
John S. Budd (see Budd). Children: i.
William Dwight, referred to below. 2. Leroy
.\nderson, born April 12, 1870; lives in Sum-
mit, New Jersey ; married Nellie Hayes ; one
son, Ralph Hayes. 3. Herbert Budd, born
September ih, 1871 ; a physician and surgeon
in W dkes-l'>arrc, Pennsylvania : married Emma
Bodmer ; children: Helen and Herbert. 4.
Helen Day, bc.rn July 24. 1873. 5- Walter
I'ercival, born January 21. 1875: a special
agent for Lehigh \'alley Coal Company at New
"^I'ork : married Jessie Ross, of West Pittston :
children: Percival Ross and Rosalie. 6. Ed-
gar Marsh, born November 12, 1877; a furni-
ture merchant in New York City ; married
Janet G. B>rown, of New York ; child, Isabel.
7. Harold James, born July 18, 1882; a physi-
cian and surgeon of Pittston, Pennsylvania.
( IV) William Dwight, eldest child of Will-
iam James and Helen Day ( Budd ) Gibby, was
born in Princeton, New Jersey, April 11, 1868.
He prepared for college in the public schools
of Princeton and the Princeton Preparatory
School, and graduated from the College of
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New fersey. now I'riiicetun rnivi-r^ity. in the
class of 1890. He then read hiw in the office
of Judge W'iUiam M. Fanning, at Trenton,
and afterwards in that of (iuild & Funi. in
Newark, and was a(hnitted to the New Jersey
bar as attorney in November. 1803. 'i"'' "^^
counsellor in I'"ebruary. 1897. ."^ince that time
he has been practicing in Newark, and has
made a well deserved reputation for ability
and worth in his profession, I le is a Democrat
in politics. In 1891 he was tax assessor in
Princeton, for four \ears he held the same
office in Summit, New Jersey, and for three
years was a member of the Summit Board of
Health. He is a member of Trinity Presby-
terian Church of South Orange, and vice-
president of its board of trustees. He is a
luember of the Lawyers' Club of Newark.
Mr. Gibby married, December 3, 1903, in
Buffalo. Xcw "S'ork, Carolyn Maude, born Oc-
tober 14, 1877, daughter of Albert G. and Ada
F. (W'eller) Foote, whose children are: i.
Mally, married Alfred Griggs, and has one
child, Harold. 2. Carolyn Maude, referred to
above. 3. Charles, married Mae Wheeler, and
has Charles Norman. 4. Frances. Children of
\\'illiam Dwight and Carolyn Maude ( F"oote I
Gibby: Carolyn Maude, born March 11, 1905:
ICdith F"lorence, July 19, ic>07 : William Foote,
Se])tember 19, 1909.
(The Budd Line).
(H) Thomas ( 2 ). fourth son of Rev. Thomas
Budd (q. v.), died after September 9, 1697,
when he wTote his will. He held many imjxir-
tant trusts in the province of New Jersey, was
one of the most prominent men among the first
generation of the proprietors of West Jersey,
and until 1690, when he removed to Philadel-
phia, was a merchant in Burlington. He mar-
ried Susana , and had four children.
mentioned in his will : John, referred to below ;
Thomas; Mary; Rose.
(HI) John, child of Tlionias {2) and Sus-
ana Budd, who made his will when he was
"very old." March 20. 1749, it being ]jroved
September d following, removed from Bur-
hngton to Hunterdon ctjunty. New Jersey,
where he became progenitor of the Morris
county branch of the family. He married
Sarah , who survived him until about
1760, and married (second), after his death.
John Scott, of Hanover. Children: i. John,
M. D., removed to Charleston, South Carolina.
2. Thomas, died unmarried; surgeon in Cnited
States navy, and blown up in the "Randol]3h."
during her engagement with a I'ritish frigate.
3. William, returned to England. 4. Berne,
referred to below. 5. Susan, married
Stewart, whose children became the founders
of .'-itewartsville, .New Jersey. (>. Catharine,
removed to Charleston, South Carolina, and
married (iilchrist.
(I\ ) Berne, son of John and Sarah Budd.
married and had children: John, referred to
below; William; David; Sarah.
( \' ) John (3 ), son of Berne Budd. of I hni-
ttrdon county, was a physician of some note in
Hunterdon and Morris counties. He married
(first) Mary, daughter of Moses L,um ; (sec-
ond) Widow Betsey Cobert. Children, the
last two by .second luarriage : 1. Dortee Berne,
M. D., of New York; married Catharine Rey-
nolds. 2. John S., referred to below. 3. \'in-
cent \ .. married ( first ) Nancy Ward, ( sec-
ond ) Jane Hancock. 4. Joanna \aste, mar-
ried (first) Parrott Reynolds, (second) Noble
Barry. 5. Caroline. 6. Mary, married John
Meeker. 7. Phei;e, married ( first ) Edwin Tryam.
S. Susan .Amanda, married .\mbrose Bruen.
9. Jane C, married Israel Dickerson. 10. Eliza,
married Stewart Marsh, M. D. 11. Sarah,
married George Severn.
( \'I ) John (4), son of John (3) and Mary
( Fum) Budd, was born in Hunterdon county.
New Jersey, and removed to Chatham, Morris
county, where he died. He married Charlotte,
daughter of .\aron M. \\'ard. (Children: John
C.. married Bridget, or .Ann. Warren : Thomas
D.. of -St. Louis. Missouri; Nancy .\. ; .Syl-
vester I., married Elizabeth Crane; Stephen;
Caroline E. ; Helen Day, referred to below ;
Ludlow Day ; George S. ; Mary E. ; Frank M.
(\'1I) Helen Day, daughter of John and
Charlotte ( Ward ) B>udd, was born in Chatham,
Morris county. New Jersey, January 20, 1839,
and is now living at ^^7 Central avenue, New-
ark. She married William James Gibby ((|.
v.), of Princeton.
The name Dodd, or Dod, is trace-
Df^DD able to the twelfth centiUT in the
reign of Henry II.. and ajipears to
have been used first in the west of England on
the border of Wales, being an ancient family
going back to the crusades. Arms: .Argent
on a fes.se gules, between two cotises wary.
-Sable three crescents or. Crest : .\ serpent
vcr issuing from and piercing a garb or. Motto:
"In copia coutus" ( \\'ary in ]ilenty).
( I ) Daniel Dodd. immigrant ancestor of
C harles Edgar Dodd. late of Orange. New-
Jersey, was born in England. He emigrated
to .America, coming to Boston about 1640. He
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later appears with his wife. ^lary, at Rranford,
Connecticut. lie died about i6W>, and his wife
died AIa_v 26, 1O57, both being Iniried at Bran-
ford. Their children, being left orphans, all
removed to Newark, New Jersey, except Anna
and Stephen, who settled at Guilford, Con-
necticut. After the death of Daniel Dodd his
sons, being all minors, petitioned the court
that Richard Lawrence and Lawrence Ward
might be their guardians and liave atlministra-
tion in trust granted to them in their behalf.
He married Alary . Cliildren: Mary,
born about 164(1 : .\nna : Daniel, born about
1650; Ebenezer. born December 11. 1(151, died
i()75 : Daughter, born Alarch 29, i(j53; Ste-
]>hen. born February i('), 1655, died October.
i(j<ji : Samuel, mentioned below.
( 1 1 ) Samuel, son of Daniel and .Mary Dodd.
was born at Branford, Connecticut. May 2,
1657
lie came with his brothers and sister,
Alary, to Newark, New Jersey, his father hav-
ing dieil at liranford when he was nine years
old, and his mother died when he was three
weeks old. At a town meeting February 3,
1678-79, then twenty-two years old, he was
admitted a planter, and received his division
of home lots adjoining his brother, Daniel. He
received a grant of twenty-five acres the same
year laid out already on Watsesson (Bloom-
field) and that part of swamp laid out to him
by the surveyor contained twenty-five acres.
His lands were subsequently confirmed to him
by patent from the jiroprietors. He was chosen
constable in 1701-02. He died about 1714.
and his will is dated ]'\'bruary 3, 171 2-1 3. and
proved 1714. He married Alartha .
Children : Samuel, menticined below ; Jona-
than ; Mary, born ibf^S, died May 25, 1755;
Martha; Rebecca, born 1703. died May 14,
1745; Susanna; Hannah.
(HI) Samuel (2), son of Samuel ( i ') and
Martha Dodd. was born at I'loomfield, New
Jersey, m 1695, died April id, 1773, buried in
the old r)range cemetery. Fie was lieutenant
of militia, and assessor of the town in 1740.
He was a housewright by trade, and had a
saw mill on Seccind river. Among items of
his accounts is a charge "for twelve days work
at framing." He married, abont 1730, Alary,
daughter of Samuel Pierson, who was son of
Thomas Pierson, of Newark. Children: Alar-
tha, born Alay 20, 1731 ; Alary, December 26.
1732; Hannah, December 18, 1734; Samuel,
mentioned below; .Aaron, born January 13.
T738; Rebekah. February 5, 1740; Ket'urah.
July 2(1. 1741; Jemima, Alarch 25. 1747.
(I\') SanuKJ (3), son of .Samuel (2) and
Alary (Pierson) Dodd, was born at Bloom-
field, New Jersey, January 11, i73(>, died July,
17^5. of smallpiox. He married (first) Eliza-
beth, daughter of James Hinman. Children:
1. Jonas, born 1762; died August 20, 1770. 2.
Naomi, born 1764: died May 24, 176(3. 3.
\biathar, born 17(16; died August 20, 1818.
.Samuel Dodd married (second) Sarah Bald-
win, who died October 14, 1819, Children:
.[. Elizabeth, born 1768; died August 20, 1770.
5. Elizabeth, born 1774; died June 13, i7c;o.
(). Samuel, born September 20, 1776; died
January 21, 181 5. 7. Abner, mentioned below.
8. Patty. 9. Naomi, born Febrnary 6, 1785;
died February 18, 1850. 10. Lucy.
(V) Abner, son of Samuel (3) and Sarah
( r>aldwin ) Dodd, was born at Watsesson (now
I'ldiimfield ), New Jersey, Alay 6, 1779, dieil in
Bloiimfield, January 17, 1833. He was reared
t<j the life of a farmer, and folio wetl this
throughout his active career in connection with
his business life. The farm and homestead,
now owned by John AI. Dodd, has been in
possession of the Dodd family over two hun-
dred years. He had a stone cjuarry situated
on the Bloonififcld road going to Newark, and
this was very productive, he furnishing much
of this product for building purposes. His
homestead was situated near the Bloomfield
pike on Watsessing avenue, and the farm con-
tained about thirty acres. The Erie railroad
cut the farm in two. He was major of a com-
pany from Bloomfield in the war of 1812,
going to Sandy Hook. He was a member of
tJie Presbyterian church and a Whig in politics,
lie married (first), January 26. 1800, Betsey
Canfield, a descendant of Ebenezer Canfield,
wdio with other Branford settlers at Newark
in i6(56 signed the "Fundamental Agreement."
Betsey ( Canfield ) Dodd was a most capable
woman. Chiklren : I. Eliza, born 1801 ; mar-
ried John Harrington. 2. Abner, mentioned
below. 3. John AI., born 1806; married (first),
1829, Sarah Ann Conklin ; (second) Deborah
Jane Bennett. 4. Ann, born Alarch 14. 1807.
.Vbner Dodd married ( second ) Charlotte W'al-
ter. Children: 5. Sarah, married Henry Rob-
inson. 6. Charlotte. 7. A-Iary.
( \'I ) Abner (2), son of .Abner (i) and
Betsey (Canfield) Dodd. was born at Bloom-
field, New Jersey, in the old Dodd homestead,
October 30, 1803, died at Orange, New Jersey,
May 30. 1885. He was brought up in the
family homestead, acquiring the usual common
school education of a farmer's son at that
period. He early learned the trade of saddler,
and subsequently removed to NewaEk, where
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he soon establi>lied himself as a manufacturer
of saddles, trunks and leather work with suc-
cess. In 1837, the year known as the great
financial panic, he and the entire business world
suffered that depression which caused not only
the loss of business but fortunes. From this
Mr. Dodd never recovered. He was afterward
in the emjiloy cijri. X. I'eters. a manufacturer
of trunks in Xewark, following this for many
years. He was a highly respected citizen, and
an ardent churchman, being connected for some
years with the old Third Presbyterian Church
of Xewark, leaving that to join the South
Baptist Church. He was an early Whig and
later a Republican in politics. He married.
April 6, 1829. .Ann Lindsey Harrison. l)orn
October 30, 1809, died March 10, 1884, daugh-
ter of Isaac T-Iarrison, who was a descendant
of Sergeant Richard Harrison, one of the
original settlers of Xewark. (-"hildren : i.
Henrietta Carter, born January 23, 1830: died
August 17, 1870; married, .April 15, 1843, Reu-
ben Frederick J-farford, of Portland, .Maine:
children: i. Helen Fidelia, born July 23, 1846,
married John G. Gaynor, child. May: ii. Henri-
etta Cornelia, born March 15, 1850, died Au-
gust 17, 1870; iii. Kate Alto, born May 8.
1852, died March 21, 1868; iv. Frederick H.,
born July 4, 1855, died March 2, 1868 ; v. Mary
Caroline, born May 24, 1857, died July 28,
1875; vi. Anna Loverine, born September i.
1862, married Silas W. AUiro, children: Har-
ford and (ierald. 2. Mary Caroline, born Feb-
ruary II, 1831 : died April 10, 1857; married
John P. Tracy ; child, Edward. 3. .Abby Eliza-
beth, born Xovember 17, 1833; married, No-
vember 13, 1849. John W. Stryker; children:
i. Mary .Adelaide, born .August 25. 1830; ii.
.Abner Dodd, born January 31, 1832 ; iii. Harry,
born .August 7. 1839 ; iv. flerbert .A., born Alay
18, 1866; v. Clara Louise, born August 28,
1869; vi. Howard, born August 4, 1871. 4.
Julia Adelaide, born .August 22, 1836; married
(first), October 8, 1862, Charles Edwin Aymar.
5. Charles Edgar, mentioned below. 6. George
\\'hittield, born -April 9, 1841 : married, No-
vember, 1887, Emma .Amelia Mangold : chil-
dren : i. Margaret Christina, born .August 5,
1888: ii. Minnie Gertrude, born February. 1892,
died .August 28. 189''): iii. Lillian Evangeline,
bom November 3, 1894. 7. .Anna Cornelia.
born November 11. 1847: died October 21,.
1874.
(ATI) Charles Edgar, son of Abner '(2)
and .Ann Lindsey (Plarrison) Dodd. was born
at Newark, New Jersey, November 6, 1838. on
what was then Oak street, now Lafayette
street. I lis educational trainin'g was received
in the best private schools of his native town
up to about eighteen years of age. when he was
apprenticed to his uncle, John M. Dodd, to
learn the trade of mason. After two years of
his apprenticeshij). iiaving mastered every de-
tail of his trade, he removed to (Jrange, .\e\v
Jcr>ey. in 1 838, and at once started in business
vn his own account. The following year, 1859,
he signed a contract with James liogardus to
go to Cuba, where he was engaged in erecting
a sugar storehouse o|)posite Havana, where
he was under contract for eight months. ( )n
his return to his native land he remained in
.New York City until the Ijreaking out of the
civil war, when he enlisted in the fall of 1861
and was assigned to a position in the C|uarter-
master's department, and accompanied the ex-
pedition to Port Royal under Dupont and .Sher-
man. He remained at Hilton Head until the
Inllowing year, and soon after his return he
entered as a private in Company D, Twenty-
second Regiment New York State Militia. Dur-
ing (k'neral Early's invasion of Pennsylvania
in 1863 he was with his regiment at the front
and was stationed at Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
and his regiment was engaged in the action
at Carlisle and Sporting Hill, and before the
expiration of its term of service was ordered
back to New A'ork to assist in quelling the
draft riots. Mr. Dodd remained in active serv-
ice with his regiment until 1863. He subse-
(luently removed to Charleston, Illinois, where
he settled for a year, working at his trade, but
then returned via Atlanta and Savannah. .After
spending a few months at his trade in New
A'ork City, he removed to Orange, New Jer-
se_\-. in 1867. and established himself in busi-
ness as a mason and builder with Frederick
W. Morris, under the firm name of Dodd &
Morris, the partners being associated together
ii|) tn 1880, when Mr. Dodd bought his jiart-
ner's interests. From that time until his de-
cease, Mr. Dodd continued the business in his
own name and achieved a rejMitation as a
builder second to none in the ( )ranges. The
large contracts which had been awarded him
embraced some of the largest and finest struc-
tures in this section, and will remain as lasting
mouinnents of his skill as a master builder and
of the confidence reposed in him by his pat-
rons. (Jne of the finest and most conspicuous
as well as most expensive residences built by
him is what was formerly known as the Peddie
(now the Edison ) residence in Llewellyn Park.
The David E. Green residence in die park, the
Dr. Sew-ard residence on Main street, the Cush-
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ing residence on Munn avenue. East Orange,
and the beautiful Free Public Library on Main
street, Orange, were all constructed by him.
also many residences at the "Summit."
As a citizen Air. Dodd was a representative
of the two oldest families in Esse.x county,
both his father and mother descending from
the original settlers by the names of Dodd and
Harrison, and for probity and honor he main-
tained that rejmtation which for more than
two hundred years has characterized the fam-
il)-. Air. Dodd was a professeil nieml)er of the
L^roome Street Presbyterian Church of New
York City, but during the major part of his
life attended th.e h'irst Presbyterian Church at
Orange, lie was decidedly an ardent sup-
porter of the Republican party. In 1872 he
was elected to the common council of Orange,
and for three years was chairman of the com-
mittee on fire department. He advocated and
brought about the reorganization of the de-
partment from a volunteer to a regular duty
one. He became repeatedly prominent as chair-
man of the committee appointed to devise and
promote the adoption of a public water supply
system, and when the present system was first
launched he became by appointment its super-
intendent and organized the department as it
later existed. He was for a number of years
manager of the Music Hall of Orange, and was
successful in this office. He was a member of
Cnion Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at
Orange, and was exalted in Orange Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, at Orange. He was a
member of the New England Society of Orange,
being prominent in this organization. He was
a member of L'zal Dodd Post, Grand Army of
tlie Republic.
Mr. Dodd married (first), October 19, 1864,
Josephine Irwin, of New York City, died May
7, 1872. He married (second), September 22,
1873, Helen Sturtevant, born January 29, 1852.
at Brooklyn, daughter of David and Margaret
(Rockefeller) Sturtevant, of Brooklyn, the
former of whom was engaged in the hay and
grain business. Children of first wife: Anna
Marian, born August 29, 1867, died January
7, 1893; Josephine, born June 10, i8(X), died
September 19, 1870.
The family of Alden are of Eng-
ALDEN lish extraction and have been
traced back to about the year
1300, during the reign of Edward I. No known
effort has been made to go beyond this. There
seems to have been three ways of spelling the
name — Alden, Aldon and C)lden, and the first
would appear to be correct as the record is
made clearer, although the descendants of Gov-
ernor ()lden, of New Jersey, claim their fam-
ily an entirely distinct one. The Alden coat-
of-arms, which is on record, was given to
"John Alden," of Hertfordshire, England, a
member of the "Middle Temple," and inter-
])reted denotes respectability, civil service and
some military renown.
The American branch of the family appear
to have had very little desire to parade their
English ancestry, being satisfied to start with
the Pilgrim, John, who came over to this coun-
try in the "Mayflower" at the age of twenty-
one years, and died in Duxbury, Massachu-
setts, at the age of eighty-seven years. He
came from Hertfordshire, England. In 1621
he married I'riscilla Mullins, or Molines, and
his courtship has been romantically portrayed
in a creation of the poet Longfellow. The
family of Alden in this country as well as in
England have not produced a numerous prog-
eny; of all the families of the Pilgrims, its
representatives are the least numerous, but a
noted characteristic is their longevity ; during
the first six generations two lived to be a hun-
dred years and over ; thirteen ninety years ;
fifty-four eighty years ; and one hundred, sev-
enty years and over. A similarity in names
through all the lines and a remarkable similar-
ity in features has been noted. "Pilgrim John"
moved to Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 1624,
and built, but rebuilt in 1653, and that house,
one of the four oldest in New England, stands
at the ]iresent time ( 1910) and is occupied by
his descendant, John .Mden (8). Every year
the Aldens and their connections make a pil-
grimage to the old house as their "Mecca."
Among the Alden descendants were Presi-
dents John Adams and John Ouincy Adams,
Henry \\'adsworth Longfellow, Alden Brad-
ford (who were Aldens on the female side),
Henry Mills, editor of Harpers' Magazine.
about 1870 ; Rear-Admiral James Alden, LInited
States Navy ; Timothy Alden, inventor of the
t\])e-setting machine ; William Livingston Al-
den, consul general at Rome ; Joseph Alden,
president of Jefferson College ; Mrs. Isabella
M. Alden (Pansy), and many others who have
been more or less interested in the building up
of this country. The majority, however, have
been of a literary or mercantile turn of mind.
The line of descent from Pilgrim John .\lden
is as follows: Joseph, Isaac, John, Jonathan,
Jonathan (2), James, James \\'eeks, James
Gamble Alden.
Captain James Alden, grandfather of James
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Gamble Aldcn, was born in New York l ity,
February 9, 1772, died in Newark, New Jer-
sy, March 20, 1862. He moved to Newark in
181 5. He was the owner of two scliooners,
one of which, the "Northern Liberties," he
built on the Passaic river, altogether of Jersey
timber, and by Jersey workmen. It w^as a
memorable occasion, even the military turning
cut at the launching, as it was the first large
vessel built at Newark. The vessels plied be-
tween Newark and Albany, New York. Cap-
tain Alden also owned a lumber yard on the
river bank. He w'as a religious man, attending
the Methodist church; was a Whig in politics;
always charitable, highly respected, and con-
sidered in afifiuent circumstances for the time.
He married, December 8, 1800, .Ann Weeks,
born April 18, 1778, died January 30, 1849
Children: i. James Weeks, see forward. 2.
Thomas C, married Mary Thompson ; chil-
dren : Fannie, wife of a Mr. ^\'hite, of New-
ark: Minnie, unmarried; Mary, wife of Sum-
ner M. Gilman, of Newark, 3. Joseph L. (colo-
nel I . married Rebecca Lang, the survivor of
their children being Herbert C. .\ldcn. mechan-
ical engineer. New York City. 4. Matilda, mar-
ried \\'illiam Silvey, of Newark ; children : .\nn
Eliza Plume, of Orange, New Jersey: James
Alden Silvey, of New "S'ork City. 5. Sarah, mar-
ried (first) John Mackenzie; (second) Thomas
.\lden Hornsey.
James Weeks Alden, father of James Gam-
ble .\l(len. was born in New York City, May 4,
1815, died in Newark, New Jersey, .\pril 22,
1893. His parents moved to Newark the year
of his birth. He was ariprenticed ( as was the
custom) to a coach maker. He served his time,
but in the panic of 1837 was compelled to go
into some other line of business. Being a great
lover of music and having studied it for some
years, he took it up as a profession. He had
a fine bass voice, and being a nian of ability in
this line soon became prominent. He sang
in grand opera and helped to form the Llar-
monic and Mendelssohn singing societies of
New York ; was a chorister in several churches,
and a member of the celebrated vocal quar-
tette known as the "Four Jims," a quartette
which gave the people of Newark many pleas-
ant evenings, and old citizens still recollect it.
Tt was composed of Jim .\lden. Jim Gamble,
Jim Carter and Jim Ross, all gentlemen of
highly respected connections.
Mr. .Mden was an Odd Fellow and a Free
Mason, a christian gentleman, with liberal views,
a Republican in politics, and at one time a
member of the crack company known as the
"Jersey I Hues." During the civil war he ^ent
one son to the army who served three years.
During the draft riots in New York City, Mr.
.Mden volunteered and was accepted as a spe-
cial officer to patrol the streets, no easy or safe
matter at the time. He was found dead in bed
from heart failure at the residence of his son
in Newark, at the age of seventy-eight, yet he
did not look to be older than si.xty. He left
many friends, and his funeral at night, in the
Church of the Redeemer, was a memorable
event. The services were partly Masonic. His
father's stone mansion on Belleville avenue
was an old landmark, said to have been the
oldest house in Newark when torn dow'n ; it
antedated the revolution. Mr. Alden married,
(Jctober 26, 1836, .\nna Margaret Williams, in
New York City. She died October 22, 1859.
She W'as a daughter of Aaron Lane and Mar-
garet (Ellsworth) Williams, granddaughter of
Aaron Lane Williams, and great-granddaugh-
ter of Jonathan Williams, who served through
the revolutionary war in the Second Regiment,
Esse.x county. New Jersey. Margaret ( Ells-
worth ) Williams was a daughter of John Ells-
worth Jr., and granddaughter of John Ells-
worth. John Ellsworth Jr. served in the revo-
lutionary war in a New York regiment, Cap-
tain \'an Zant, Colonel Lasher. Children of
Mr. and ]\Irs. Alden: i. I'rederic Cox, of New
"S'ork City ; married Emma Brooks, of New-
burg, New York. 2. Emily Louisa, married
Captain James P. Thompson, of Christiana,
Denmark ; both deceased. 3. James Gamble,
see forward,
James Gamble Alden was born on Com-
merce street, Newark, New Jersey. July 18.
1844. He was named for Jameg Gamble, one
of the celebrated "Four Jims." He was sent
to a private instructor for several years, and
when the family moved to New Y'ork City at-
tended public school. No. 12, from which he
graduated to the New York Academy, now
the College of the City of New York. .Vfter
leaving college he entered the hardware trade
and remained until 1870, when he entered the
employ of the Star Fire Insurance Company
of New York City, .'\fter eight years he left
to become assistant secretary of the Northern
Insurance Company of New York, of Water-
town, New York, the "Little Hartford of
.•\merica," from whence so many public men
have come. After six years service there he
returned to New York 'City to accept the
American superintendency of the Standard Fire
Office of London, England, a $5,000,000 cor-
poration. He remained with the latter con-
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cern until its w itlnlrawal frijiii tlie L'liited
States on account of disastrous losses in France
and Russia, when he became general agent of
tlie old Jrving Insurance Company of New
^'ork, and worked that company's business up
to the satisfaction of the stockholders. He
then took up the general fire insurance broker-
age businesss. and has since continued in that
branch <<{ the business, having an experience
cif over fnrtv vears m tilling jjositions fruni
office boy to manager, including field man and
adjuster of losses. Mr. .\lden has ahva\-s been
a stamich Re])ublican ; was fur -everal year--
chairman of the tenth ward committee, and a
member of the count}' e.xecutive committee.
He has been a member of the grand jury, is
well known, and has hosts of friends. He is
a member of the Masonic fraternity, the ( )rder
of Elks, th.e In/proved Order of Red Men, the
Republican Club, the Thirteen Club, and sev-
eral other local clubs. He attends the Cni-
versalist church. During the latter part nf the
civil war he enlisted in a New ^'llrk regiment,
was sent to cam;), but as the war ended shortly
after he saw no active service and was dis-
charged. He volunteered and served in New
\ork in the draft riots of 1864. In 1874 he
enlisted in the Twenty-sectmd Regiment, .Na-
tional Guard, State of New York, the insur-
ance regiment, and served seven years, and
while a member went through both "Orange
Riots." With the exception of a few years
residence in Xew York and in traveling, he
was a lifelong resident of Newark: for some
years past he has had a summer place in West
Summit, New Jersey, but dis])osed of it in
1908.
Mr, .\lden married, March 2, \S(\^. in New-
ark, Mary \'iva Nelson, a cultivated woman,
and an exceptional wife and mother. She was
born in Belfast, Ireland, March i, 1847, and
came to this country with her parents when
two years of age. She was the daughter of
W'illiam and Jane ( Parker ) Nelson, who were
the parents of other children, namely: Robert,
a machinist, Elizabeth, New Jersey : Elizabeth
Hall, widow of Charles Hall, of Newark :
.A.nnie, wife of Charles Douglass, of Kansas
City, Missouri: Emma, deceased wife of Frank
Sipp, also deceased. Mrs. Nelson was related
to the Parkers and Martins of Central New
\ork: she was an old school Presbyterian and
a most estimable woman. William Nelson,
father of Mrs. ,\lden, was bcrn 1808, died
i8c)c); he was an old time blacksmith wdien it
required skill; was at one time foreman c.f
Rogers locomotive works at Paterson, .New
Jersey, in the blacksmith department. At the
outbreak of the civil war he joined the Fifth
Regiment of New Jersey, Company E, Cap-
tain Gould, and participated to the end of the
war, having a most enviable record. He was
wnunded several times, and when discharged
was awarded the highest bounty given any
private soldier. In the battle of Gettysburg
but five men of his company were able to re-
sivind to roll call after the fight. He fought
m the battles of Williamsburg, Second Bull Run,
Warrington Junction, Malvern Hill, Fredericks-
burg (first and second), Gettysburg, York-
town, .Seven Pines, seven days before Rich-
mond — in all. twenty-six battles, great and
small. He was an Episcopalian by faith. Chil-
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Alden: i. Emily Louisa,
born June 2. 1868; unmarried; etlucated in
grammar and high schools of Newark ; resides
at home. 2, Eleanor Nelson, born May 9,
1876; educated at grammar schools and State
Normal School, Trenton, New Jersey ; now
teaching in Rutherford, New Jersey. 3. Mary
Marguerite, born November 20, 1882; edu-
cated at grammar school and State Normal
.Schiiol ; now teaching school in Newark. 4.
James Weeks, born July 17, 1880, in Water-
tnwn. Xew York; educated in grammar schools
and Stevens Technical Institute, Hoboken, New
Jersey: graduated as mechanical engineer: is
now wdth the Public Service Corporation ; mar-
ried Ida liallantine, uf P.ernardsville, New Jer-
se''
John Wesley Wade, the first mem-
WADE her of this family of whom wc
have definite information, married
Maria Patten, daughter of John Dunlap,of Lan-
caster county, Pennsylvania, who was of Scotch-
Irish descent. Children: I. Elizabeth Jane,
married Francis Herbert Ware, of Bridgeton ;
children: Francis X'ernon W'are. M. D., Carl
Nash Ware, Esfp, the latter miw dead, Leon
Ware, Mabel Langley Ware, Lulu ^\'are and
F'rederick \\'are. 2. John Wallace, referred to
below. 3. Ella Lucelia, married Albert Charles-
worth, of Millville, New Jersey, concerning
whose ancestry and descendants see index. 4.
foseph Houston, married Effie D. Wallen : chil-
dren: Newton Benjamin, a civil engineer of
Millville. New Jersey: Hazel and Miriam. 5.
lienjamin Lincoln, married Elizabeth Madden;
children: Emily and Clearfield Park. 6. I,ulu
Rachel, married FVovie Flannegan ; children :
Ethel Flannegan, .Mice Flannegan, Nina Flan-
negan and Paul Flannegan.
(II) Dr. John Wallace, son of John Wes-
STATI-: OF XKW II'IRSF.V
I.?';
ley and Maria Patten ( Diinlap ) Wade, was
born in Lancaster county, I'ennsylvania, De-
cember 9, 1855. and is now living in Millville.
New Jersey, where he has been successfully
j)racticing medicine for many years. He is
president of the Milhille .Medical Society;
president of the .Milhille Hoard of Healtli :
censor of the Cumberlanil C'ounty .Medical
Society: member of the Tri-county Medical
Society, Xew Jersey State Medical Society,
Xew Jersey State Sanitary .\ss(jciation, .A.mer-
ican Medical .\ssociation, .American Public
Health .Association. .American .Vssociation for
the .Advancement of Science, .American Health
League, .American Tuberculosis Society, .Amer-
ican Reformed Spelling .Association. The Physi-
cians National P>oard of Regents. .American
Civic Association, and of the National Geo-
graphic Society of Washington, D. C. He is also
a member of the Medico-chirurgical College of
Philadelphia: a graduate of the Philadelphia
University of Aledicine and Surgery. 1876 ; of
the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
1884: and holds a diploma from the Philadel-
phia Lying-in Charity Hospital : the I'ennsyl-
vania Hospital. AlcClellan's School of .Anatomy
and Surgery, Shoemaker's Hospital for Skin
Diseases; life member J. M. C. .Alumni .Asso-
ciation, etc.
He married. June 20. 1880. .Amy Pieebe.
daughter of Arthur and Mary .Ann (Hamp-
shire ) W'escott, who was born in Columbia,
Atlantic county, Xew Jersey. May 20, 1852.
Dr. Wade and wife are members of the First
Presbyterian Church. Millville. Xew Jersey.
r>ubbert Cijsbertsz, the
WAX PLARCOM founder of the \an
rUarcom family in
America, was born in Holland, in 1600, or
1 601. .At the time of his emigration he was
married and had three sons, and was living in
the village of Blaricum. near Xaarden, in the
Goeylant, a district in the southeast part of
the province of Xortli Holland. .April 15,
1634, the Patroon Kiliaen van Rennsalaer matle
a contnict with him. according to the term of
w^hich Lubbert (iijsbertsz was to come over to
the patroon's new colony of Rennsalaerwyck
and settle himself and his family there as the
wagon maker or wheelwright of the colony,
and in return the juUroon was to give him the
fourth farm which he surveyed and laid out in
his western manor. Lubbert embarked for
the new world with his wife and three sons on
''de Eendracht." wdiich sailed from the Texel
in the beginning of May, 1634, and arrived at
Rennsalaerswyck about two months later, as
Lubbert's accounts with the colony begin July
]5. \<>^4. I'rom that date they continue steadily
until the year 1647, wdien, or perha])s a little
later, he remcned to Xew .Amsterdam, where
he remained several years. December 5. 1654,
he and his sons, (iijsbert and Jan, and his son-
in-law. Hendrick Jansen van Schalckwyck. re-
ceived their patents for the land "between
Gemoenepaen and the Kil van Kol," with the
other firiginal patentees of the town of I'er-
gen, Lubbert being granted fifty morgens and
each of his sons and his son-in-law granted
twenty-five morgens. it is noteworthy that
Lubbert's tract was the only fifty morgen tract
among the patentees, each of the others getting
only twenty-five apiece. Lubbert Gijsbertsz left
thiis tract or the greater part of it to his oldest
son, Ciijsbertsz. who in turn left it to his only
son, Lubbert. This son dying without issue,
it passed into the hands of his sisters, .Annetje
and (iijsbertje. who in 1729 and 1730 deeded
it to Charles Dorland, son of the latter and
great-grandson of the original jjatentee. Lub-
bert Gijsbertsz married in Holland, about 1620,
Divertigen Cornells. Children, the first three
born in Holland, the others in Rennsalaers-
wyck: I. Gijsbert, born 1623. or 1624: mar-
ried, in Xew .Amsterdam, February 24, 1655.
Lijsbet Thomas, an Englishwoman fri)m Lon-
don. 2. Theus, born about 1628: married in
Xew .Amsterdam, October 10. 1655. Trijntje
Jans : removed to Alidwout. and later to Pirook-
lyn, and became one of the ancestors of the
Th)s. Tice or Tise family. 3. Jan. referred to
below. 4. Gerrit. 5. Hans. 6. Trijntje. mar-
ried in Xew .Amsterdam, December 4. 1652.
llendrick Jansen van .Schalckwyck. 7. Lijsbet.
married Dirck Evertsen. 8. Eveitje. 9. Di-
vertje.
(H) Jan Lubbertse, son of Lubbert C,[j>-
bertsz and Divertigen Cornells, was born in
Holland, about 1632. He is sometimes known
in the old records as Jan Captijn, that is, Jan
"the Ca|)tain," so that it is probable that he
served at one time in the colonial soldiery. .An
additional circumstance rendering this more
probable is the fact that the Ijcrgen patents
were most of them rewards to soldiers for
military services: further corroboration is his
signature, "Jan Captijn." to the petition of the
Gomoenpa farmers in 1658 to the director-
general, for permission to return to their bou-
weries fr(;m which they had been driven by
the Indians. Jan r,ubbertse was brought over
to Rennsalaerswyck by his father when he
was only eighteen months old. He went with
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liim to Xew Ani^tenlani, where he probably
served his term of military service, and where
he received the appointment of clerk in the
office of the secretary of the colony, Septem-
ber 8, 1654. Four years later, August 13, 1658,
he was licensed "to teach reading, writing and
cyphering" in the town; and in 1663 he was
one of the commissioners appointed to fortify
Bergen Hill and Town. He married in New
Amsterdam, June 7, 1659, Magdaleentje Jans
Theuniss van X'oorsthuijsen. Children: i.
Marijtje, baptized December 29, 1660: prob-
ably died young. 2. Marijtje. baptized Decem-
ber 30, 1661 ; married, March 14, 1680, Hend-
rick Hoppe. 3. Pieter, baptized May 6, 1665;
married (first), June 22, 1683, Elizabeth Sy-
mens van L^jtlniijsen : ( second) Jacomina Cor-
nelise, (third) November 14, 1719, Antje Mei-
jiers, widow of Sanuiel Leedt. 4. Johannes,
bajitized November 3, 16(17 ; married, July
16, 1693, Metje Jans Syniensen. 5. Divertje,
baptized January 31, 1670; married, .April 22,
1689, Wouter Willemse. 6. Catharijn, bap-
tized June 2, 1672; died young. 7. Cathrijntje,
baptized October 10, 1675; married, July 12,
1696, Abel Reddenhars. 8. Lubbert. baptized
March 12, 1677; married Eugeltje Hendricks.
9. Willem, baptized .April 7, 1679. 10. Gijsbert,
referred to below. 11. Hester, baptized May
31, 1684; married August 2"], 1707, I^ouwrens
Barents.
(HI) Gijsbert Janse, son of Jan Lubbertse
and Magdaleentje Jans, was baptized in Ber-
gen, May 21, 1682. Shortly after his first
marriage he ap]5ears to have removed from
Bergen to the vicinity of Hackensack, where
he was admitted as a church member in 171 5.
He married (first) in Bergen, January 16,
1706, Magdalcna Lacomba ; (second), about
1 72 1, .Kntje Christie. Children, four by the
first marriage, seven by the second: t. Jan,
referred to below. 2. Marijtje, baptized April
17. 1715: married, Novemljer 24, 1732, Con-
ladus Bos. 3, Antoni, baptized April 12, 1719:
married, December fi, 1745, Marijtje Reyersen.
4. Stijntje, probably a child of Gijsbert and his
first wife. 5. Willem. baptized August 27.
1721 ; married Frena Cammegaren. 6. Hend-
rick, baptized January 20, 1723; married, June
15, 1749, Elizabeth Kouwenhoven (see index).
7. Elena, baptized July 19, 1724; married, May
3, 1748, Jacob Ferdon. 8. Jacobus, baptized
December 17, 1727: married Lammetje \^an
Giesen. 9. .Xntje, married probably Johannes
E. Vreeland.
(IV) Jan, son of Gijsbert Janse and Elena
(Lacomba) Van Blarcom, was baptized in
Hackensack, New Jersey, February 25, 1710.
the witnesses or sponsors being his uncle Pieter
and his wife. Pie appears to have removed
shortly after the birth of his eldest child from
Hackensack, to the neighburhood of Acc|uack-
enonck (now Passaic). He married October
13, 1738, Vroutjen Kip. Children: Hendrick ;
Hendrick, referred to below ; Anthony, married
.•\nnatje Kool ; John, married Catharine Van
Ry|:)en ; Nicasie, married Catharine Post.
(V) Hendrick, son of Jan and Vrouwtjen
( Kip ) Van Blarcom, was baptized in Hack-
ensack, May 18, 1740, and lived in Acf|uack-
enonck. He enlisted during the revolutionary
war and served as captain of the Second Regi-
ment, Essex County Militia. He married (first)
November 20, 1763, Annatje Van Winkel,
(second), July 15, 1784. Elizabeth Zabriskie.
Children, four by first marriage, one by sec-
ond marriage, and two by either first or sec-
ond wife: I. Johannes, referred to below. 2.
Abraham, baptized September 14, 1767: mar-
ried probably either Jane Meyers or Belitje
Westervelt. 3. Vrouwtje, born May 20, 1774;
married John C. Vreeland. 4. Maria, born
December 5, 1776; married probably either
John Booth or Jacobus Sickels. 5. Annatje,
born July I, 1786: married possibly Cornelius
Wortendyk. 6. Henry. 7. Catharine.
( \ I ) Johannes, son of Hendrick and Anna-
tje (\''an Winkel) Van Blarcom, was born in
Acquackenonck, New Jersey, September 10,
1765, and died near Paterson, New Jersey,
December 27, 1853. He married, September
2, 1787, Antje, born August 12, 1768, died
October 22, 1853, daughter of Brant and Char-
ity (Spear) Jacobus. Children, all born in
the borough of Paterson: i. Brant, referred
to below. 2. Hannah, born January 5, 1791 :
married Anthony A. Jacobus, or Garrabrant
\'an Riper. 3. James, born March 20, 1793.
4. Charity, "Garretse" or "Gerritje," born No-
vember 16, 1795; died August 18, 1840; mar-
ried Henry Yereance. 5. Mary, born May 31,
1798; married Henry P. Doremus. 6. Hend-
rick, born January 26, 1801 ; died March 4,
1841 ; married Mary Kessler. 7. Antje, born
November 8, 1804. 8. Susan, born June 9,
1807, married \\'illiam Doremus. 9. Catharine,
born April 23, 1810.
(VII) Brandt, son of Johannes and .\ntje
(Jacobus) Van Blarcom, was born in Pater-
son, New Jersey, August 20, 1788, and died
there, June 3, 1865. He was a very prudent
and successful business man and added ma-
terially to the property he inherited from his
father. He was also a man of widely spread
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influence, and enjoyed the pleasant distinctinn
of having heen appointed the first mayor cl tlic
city of Paterson, before the city had duly elect-
ed its first official for that post. He married
April 6, 1817, Gitty. daughter of Jacob and
Jane (\'an Winkel ) \'an Riper, of Ruther-
ford (formerly Roiling Springs, New Jersey),
and connected with nearly all the old families
of that region. Children, all born in P;iier-
son : I. Jacob Van Riper, born April 21, iQiS.
2. John B., referred to below. ,v Henry, born
CVtober 2, 1821 ; died young. 4. Jane, born
July 7, 1823: died in infancy. 5. Jane, born
January 23, 1825. 6. Ann, born February 23,
1827; died June 17, 1901. 7. James, born
May I, 1829. 8. Henry, referred to below. 9.
Elsie Maria, born July 19, 1833. 10. Charity.
born October 23, 1835. 11. Ciarrabrant, born
July 20, 1839: died February 17, 1910.
(■ Vnil John B..son of Brandt and Gitty ( \'an
Riper) \'an Rlarcom, was born in Paterson.
Xew Jersey, January 14, 1820. and died ther^,
A]iril 4. or 22, 1898. He married, about 1838,
Aletta Hogencamp, who died May 20, 1894.
Cliildren : Brandt, born January 2, 1840: Mar-
garet .Ann, born April 21, 1842, died April 4,
1893; Jane, born January 22, 1844; RIaria,
born January 30, 1846, died August 12, 1847
fX'HI) Henry, son of Brandt and Gitty
(Van Riper) \'an Blarcom, was born in Pater-
son, Xew Jersey, April 11, 1831. and died
there June 5, 1869. He was given a practical
education, and afterwards entered upon the
study of medicine under the preceptorship of
Dr. Watson, of New York City. He also took
a thorough course in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of New York, now the medical
department of Columbia University, and re-
ceived his M. D. degree in 1855. Later he
served one and a half years as interne in the
New York Hospital, and then settled for prac-
tice in Paterson, New Jersey, where he was
one of the most prominent physicians of the
city until the time of his death. He was an
attendant of the Dutch Reformed church, an
active member of the Passaic County Medical
Society, and was a member of the local chajjter
of the F. and .\. M. of Paterson. He married,
Alay 22, i860, Caroline M., daughter of (leorge
and Maria (Lydecker) Green, of New York
City, who on her mother's side possesses an
ancient Dutch lineage as old as her husband's.
Children: George Green, referred to below;
Gertrude Thurston.
(IX) George Green, son of Dr. Henry and
Caroline M. (Green) Van Blarcom, was born
in Paterson, New Jersey, November 15, 1861,
and died there, unmarried, .March 9, 1906. He
graduated from Columbia University, and
after spending two years studying medicine
with Dr. Robert Weir, of New York, entered
the College of I'hysicians and Surgeons. He
was a member of the Holland Society of New
^'ork. which comments thus in its year book
for 1906, upon Dr. (jreen's death: "In the
midst of his work he fell a victim to sclerosis
of the motor tract of the left side of the brain,
and became gradually a helpless invalid — a sad
change from active manhood to the inert burden
of a wheeled chair. With all this he was
patient and almost invarial)ly cheerful, his
mind being unimpaired and events of the day
being appreciatively discussed. For years, and
in all sorts of weather, he and his chair were
familiar sights to those whose paths went near
213 Hamilton avenue, in Paterson, New Jer-
sev, where he lived with his mother and sister.''
( HI) .\lbert .Stevense, son of
\'OORHIS Steven Coerte \'an Voorhees
((|.v. ), emigrated with his
father in 1660 and resided at first in Flatlands,
where his name is found on the assessment
roll of 1683. In 1686 he obtained a patent
for a large tract of land, on the west side of
the Hackensack river, between Kinderkamack
and Hackensack, to which he removed and
where the major part of his descendants still
dwell. He was one of the organizers of the
First Dutch Church of Hackensack, and he
and Hendrick Jorise Brinckerhoff were among
the first elders chosen. He married (first)
Barentje Willemse ; (second) Ajiril 24, 1681,
Tilletje Reiniers. daughter of Reinier Wizzel-
penning and Jannetje Snediker; (third)
Helena \'an der Shure. Children: i. Cornelia
Albertse, baptized October 14. 1681 ; married,
April 17, 1703. Juriaen Lubbertse W'estervelt.
2 Stephen Albertse, baptized October 28,
1683, died in infancy. 3. Stephen Albertse
(2d), baptized April 12, 1685; married, Octo-
ber 10. 1707, Jannetje Aljie, or Alyea. 4.
Jannetje .Albertse: married, October 4, 1712.
Gerret Abramse .\ckerman. 5. William
Albertse, born 1694, died July 19, 1745; mar-
ried (first), April 19. 1718, Sussana Faroe,
(second) January 6, 1728, Maria \'an Gelden.
6. Margrietje Albertse. born 1695; married.
.\pril I, 1716, Peter Aljie, or Alyea. 7. Lucas
.Albertse, baptized February 26, 1(199: mar-
ried, July 30, 1726. .Annatie Kip. 8. Jacobus.
born 1700; married, August 5, 1732, Jannetje
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Ackernian. 1;. Rachel Albcrtse, baptized
(Jctober (1, 1702; married (jellyn or Julian
Ackernian. lo-ii. Albert Albertse and Petrus
Albertse. both referred to below. 12. Isaac
Albertse, baptized August i, 1708; married.
October 6, 1730. L'rseltje Romeyn. 13.
Femmetje .Mbertse ; married Jacob Vander-
beeck. 14. W'illemptje Albertse, married
(first) Cornells Hougaert, (second) Johanis
Slodt. 15. Jan Albertse, married, March 18,
1721, Elizaljeth \'an ( )rden.
(I\A Albert Albertse, son of Albert
Stevense van \'oorhees, was born in Flatlands,
Long Island, where he was baptized July 27,
1704. lie married, May 24, 1735, Cornelia
\ an Gieson. Chililren: i. Lena, l^aptized
May g, 1737; married, February, 1753, Chris-
topher Zabriskie. 2. Sarah, baptized Novem-
ber 19, 173S: married, November, 175C1, Jacob
Bogert. 3. .Vlbert, baptized .September 3,
1741, died in infancy. 4. Christina, baptized
December 18, 1743: married, July 31, 17^)2,
Nicholas lirinckerjioff. 5. Albert, liaptized
August 28, 174^), died in infancy. 6. Magrietje,
baptized October 28, 1750. 7. Albert, referred
to below. 8. Petrus, baptized 1762.
( V ) Albert, son of Albert Albertse and
Cornelia ( Van Gieson ) van \'oorhees, was
bai)tized in Hackensack, June 24, 1759, and his
will dated January 22. 1818, was proved I'^eb-
ruary 18, 1822. He lived at New Barbadoes,
Bergen county. New Jersey. His descendants
spell the name N'oorhis. July 22, 1778, he
married Rachel I Io])per. Children: I.Albert,
baptized July 2, 1779: married, January i,
1814, Margaret Dennison. 2. Cornelis, born
October 7, 1781, married .Mbert, Demarest.
3. John, l)(.]rn .September 3, 1786, died unmar-
ried. 4. llendrick, born November 13, 1788,
died lumiarried. 5. Elizabeth, born about
1790, married Jacob Terbune. 6. Lena, born
August 27, 1793; married John van Soun. 7.
Rachel, burn Se])tember 30, 1795, died in
infancy. 8. Rachel ( 2d ), born August 6, 1798,
died unmarried. 9. ( larret, born April 3. 1800,
died unmarried. 10. .\ndrew Hopper, referred
to below .
( \'I ) .Andrew Hopper \'oorhis, son of
Albert and Rachel (Hopper) van Voorhees,
was born at New Barbadoes, C)ctober I, 1802.
He was a farmer at Maywood, New lersey,
a member of the Dutch Reformed church,
superintendent of the Sunday School, and in
politics a Democrat. He married, March 23,
1826, Maria Saloma Schoonmaker. who died
March 5, 1847. Children: Euphemia, referred
to below ; Elizabeth : Jnhn H., of Mavwood,
New Jersey, born March 4, 1836, married.
November 2}, 1858, Anna Maria Demorest.
(\TI) Euphemia, daughter of Andrew
Hop])er and Maria Saloma (Schoonmaker)
\'oorhis, was born at Maywood, New Jersey,
April 29, 1827, and died in January, 1897.
She married, August 15, 1824, in Maywood,
New Jersey, Thomas, son of George and Sarah
(Van Beuren) Voorhis, whose ancestry fol-
lows :
{IV) Petrus Albertse, .son of Albert
Stevense Van Voorhees, was born in Flatlands,
November 3, 1706. He lived near Hackensack,
and married, May 25, 1734, Geesjean Romeyn,
who was baptized in 1719. Children: i.
Lena, bajitizeil May 26, 1735, died in infancy.
2. Daniel, ba])tized December 18, 1737; mar-
ried, August 1 , 1 762, Maria Tallman ; during the
revolution he was a hotel proprietor at Hack-
ensack, and after that removed first to Louis
ville, Kentucky, ami then t(j (Jhio. 3. Lena,
baptized October 14, 1739: married, Novem-
ber 28, 1756, Albert lianta. 4. .\lbert P.,
referred to below. 5. Johanis, baptized Octo-
ber 19, 1755. 6. Peter, baptized Oct(.iber 14,
1762; married (first) Elizabeth Demarest,
(second) Mrs. Ann Smith.
(V) Albert P., son of Petrus Albert.se and
Geesjean ( Romeyn ) van \'oorhees, was bap-
tized at Hackensack. November 2~, 1743.
He was a revolutionar_\- soldier, serving as
a private in the Bergen count) militia. He
lived at ."-Xrcola, or Red Mills, Bergen coun-
ty, and his descendants write their name
\'oorhis. He niarrietl Mary Doremus. Chil-
dren : I. Mary, born December 17, 1770;
married Henry \'an Emburgh. 2. Peter A.,
born July 29, 1773, died June I, 1860; mar-
ried ( first ) Gitty Berdan, ( second ) Catherine
Berdan, (third) Hannah Bush. 3. John A.,
born June 6, 1775, died June i, i860: married,
Mav I, 1802, Rachel Hop])er. 4. Anna, born
November 22. 1780, died 1867; married
Andrew, son of Peter and .Anna (Doremus)
Hopper: (see Hopjier). 5. Ellen, married
Lewis Conklin. 6. Keziah, born May 4, 1784,
married Albert Brinckerholif. 7. Mary, born
May 4. 17S3. married John Hopper. 8. Albert,
born August 14. 1788, died in infancy. 9.
George, referred to below.
( \ I ) George \'oorhis, son of Albert P.,
and Mary (Dotemus) van X'oorhees, was born
al .\rcola, or Red Mills, February 17, 1791,
and died October 2. 187 1. He was a farmer
at Maywood, New Jersev. '■erved in the war of
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1812, and was a ineinlK-r cif the Dutcli
Keformed church. 1 le inarrieti. May 15. 1813.
Sarali van liciiren, of New ^'ork, who was
born September 7. 1793, and (bed March 22,
1876. Children: i. Mary, born December
18. 181 5, (bed Alarcli 24, 1850, unmarried.
2. Albert ISeekman, born November 24. 1817;
iviarried. January 27. 1842, Mary Schuyler,
and has Cornelia Schuyler, married CyiUhis
DeW'itt: Ceorge, and William. 3. Tbt)mas.
referred to below.
( \ II ) Tiiomas. son of (ieorge and Sarah
(van Beuren) \'oorhis. was born at .\rcola,
or Red }ilills. New Jersey. May 2, 1822, and
died December 14, 1871. He was educated
in the district schools of Bergen county and by
private tutors, and was then sent to a school
in New York city. Me then taught school
himself for some time and subsequently set
up in business for himself as a wholesale
grocer, at the same time running a steamboat
from New York to Norfolk, \irginia. He
was fond of books and reading, and had a
good deal of literary talent which he exercised
by writing poetry. He was also an excellent
mathematician and a good civil engineer. In
politics he was a Democrat, and held offices
which bestowed on him the title of Esc|uire.
He was a deacon and su])erintendent of the
Sunday school in the Dutcli Reformed church.
He married, .\ugust 15. 1844. in Maywood,
New Jersey, Euphemia, daughter of Andrew
Ilojiper and Maria Saloma ( Schoonmaker )
\'oorhis, referred to above. Children: i.
Cieorge Henry, born October 17, 1845; mar-
ried Eleanor Sprigg: one child Evelyn, born
December 9. 1875, married Joseph T. White,
and has Mary Eleanor White, born May 25,
igo2. 2. Mary Elizabeth, born April 8, 1849;
married (first) .\bram C. W'ortendyke, (sec-
ond) William W. Hopper. 3. Charles Van
Buren. born June 4, 1854, married, March,
1882. Grace J. W'hitmore : no children. 4-5.
Emily and Thomas, both referred to below.
(\"1H) Emily, daughter of Thomas and
Eu|)hemia ( N'oorhis ) \'oorhis, was born at
Areola, or Red Mills, New Jersey, .August 18.
1856, and is now living at 220 W est .Anderson
street, Hackensack. She married Samuel H.,
only son of Samuel and Sarah (McL'ridc)
^\'alker. whose only daughter. Helen married
Edgar Baylis. and has Etta and Edgar Baylis.
Samuel H. Walker was born in New \'ork
City, June 14, 1852, and after being educated
in the public schools and in the Poughkeepsie
r.usiness College went into the fruit business,
in which he continued for one year, after
which he formed bi> conneciiou with II. P..
(. laflin, which has continued ever since. He is
a member of the !•". and .A. M., of the Royal
.Arcanum and of the National I'nion, and in
],olitics is a Re])ublican. Children: Elizabetli
W'ortendyke y\'alker. born .August 7. iSSo,
married James A. van \'alen ; Everett \ ., born
August 6, 1883.
(\'III) Thomas, son of Thomas and
Euphemia (X'oorhis) X'oorhis, was born at
Red Mills or Areola, Bergen county. New Jer-
sey. December 27, 1864, and is now living at
Red Bank, Monmouth county .New Jersey.
I'or his early education he was sent to the
pid)lic schools, and then put into the hands of
[irivate tutors. He then secured a position as
inspector and time-keeper in the silk mills at
W'ortendyke. New Jersey, which he gave uj)
in order to accept a position with the East
River National liank of New- A'ork City.
This was in 1885, and Mr. X'oorhis remained
here until 1891, when he became bookkeeper
of the North River National Bank of New
\ ork, w hich he gave up nine years later in
order to become assistant cashier of the Sec-
ond National Bank of Red Bank, of which in
1909 he was made cashier. In politics Mr.
\ oorhis is a Republican. He is a member of
the Royal .Arcanum, the .\ncient Order of
Cnited Workmen, and of the Royal Associa-
tion. He is also a director in the A'oung
Alan's Christian .Association of Red Bank, and
junior warden of Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church of the same place. He married, in
Hackensack. April 18, 1888, Alary Peck,
daughter of .Albert Grow and Josephine
(Cisco) Bates, who was born in Hackensack.
New Jersey, September 10. 1868. Her father
was born in Westford, X'ermont, Alarch 26.
1838, and her mother in New York City, Sep-
tember 15, 1844, and died May 2. 1886. Their
children, two born in Hohokus the remainder
in Hackensack: i. Irene May, born Novem-
ber 21. 1862: ii. .Arthur Martin, born .Novem-
ber 20, 1864, married; iii. Mary Peck, referred
to above ; iv. Frederick van Riper, born March
5, 1873. served in Second New Jersey X'oluu-
teers during the war with Spain; v. William
Ellis Lewis, born September 12, 1873; vi. .Ade-
laide Hazelton, born June 9, 1878; vii. Char-
lotte Cjrow, born Februarv 2J.. 1882; viii.
Helen Hall, born April 6, 1886.' Children of
Thomas and Mary I'eck (Bates) X'oorhis:
I Thomas Mortimer, born July 7, 1889, died
October 16, i8go. 2. Harold van lUiren. born
January 3, 1894. 3. George Bates. October
16. 1897.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Wluii the city of Pater-
WILLIAMSON son first began to
assume a standing of
importance as a commercial and industrial
center something like three quarters of a cen-
tury ago, the trade guilds of the mother coun-
try were drawn upon to a very considerable
extent to furnish artisans and skilled work-
men for the many and divers factories which
then were being established there one after
another in rapid succession. At that time there
was comparatively little of what properly may
be called skilled labor in this region, and it
appears that the successful operation of nearly
all manufacturing establishments and the
demands of trade required that much of the
work done should be performed by workmen
brought here from foreign countries, chiefly
from England, Scotland, France and Germany,
with a less number from other lands.
(I) John Williamson, of Lancashire, Eng-
land, was a carpet weaver by trade, a skilled
workman in his special line, and was one of
the experienced wage-workers who came to
America to take his place among the high-
class artisans employed in the Paterson fac-
tories. The year in which he came to this
country is not definitely known, but it is
known that he was a guild worker of skill in
carpet weaving, hence he was a valuable acqui-
sition to the rapidly increasing colony of
superior workmen in the city in which he set-
tled, f(M- he was not only a carpet weaver but
understood the construction and operation of
such machines and appliances as then were in
use in his special line of work : but machines
for making carpets were then quite scarce,
and he was more particularly a hand work-
man. Outside of the factory his life appears
to have been (|uiet, and he does not seem to
have taken any special part in public ail'airs.
He lived in Paterson until his death in 1871,
and raised to maturity a good family of chil-
dren, five sons and three daughters. He mar-
ried Eliza Mellison; children: Joseph,
Thomas, Charles, George, Martha, Theodore,
Clara, and Dora Williamson.
( II) Joseph, son of John and Eliza (Melli-
son) ^\'illiamson. was born in Paterson, New
Jersey, December 3. 1852, and was sent to
school until he was between nine and ten years
old. Then he was taken out of school and put
to work in the silk mill of which Stephen Van
Winkle was proprietor, and for the ne.xt fif-
teen years he worked there, beginning by doing
such small tasks as a child less than ten years
old could perform, but in the course of a few
years he became a thoroughly practical work-
man. In 1874 he went to Philadelphia, Penn-
S3'lvania, and for the ne.xt about two years
was employed by the Whitney Sewing
Machine Company, then returned to Paterson,
and began business on his own account as a
vendor of signs, and soon afterward started
a small stationery store in the city. This busi-
ness he began in a very limited way and with
only thirty-five dollars as his starting capital,
and that borrowed money. Rut the substan-
tial results subsec|uently achieved indicates
something of the capacity of Mr. Williamson
as a man of business, for from first to last
he has been the "architect of his own fortune,"
and has succeeded in building up a financial
fabric of substantial proportions. He is a
member of Pater.son-Orange Lodge, F. and
A. M., and of Lodge No. 60, B. P. O. E., both
of Paterson. Mr. Williamson married Kather-
ine. daughter of Michael O'Brien, of Paterson.
and has three children — Frederick D., May
and Jane Williamson.
The Moon family long resident
MOON in and about Bristol, England.
were among the early converts to
the principles of the Society of Friends. John
Moone, (as the name is universally spelled
cm the early English and American records),
was married at a Friends' Meeting in Bristol,
June 17, 1666, to Sarah Snead, and on the
records of that meeting are recorded the births
of four of their children — Joseph, Sarah, John
and Elizabeth, the last on April 22, 1676.
The names of others of the family also appear
on the records of Bristol Meeting at these and
succeeding dates. John Moon came to Pliila-
delphia with his wife and children about 1682,
and was a member of Philadelphia Monthly
Meeting, a justice of the peace, judge of the
coin-t of quarter sessions, and a member of the
provincial assembly. He moved later to Ded-
ford township, Gloucester county. New Jer-
sey, where he died leaving a will dated Octo-
ber 8, 171 5, which mentions his home farm on
Mantoes creek: children: Joseph (absent out
of the province), John, Elizabeth Gibson,
Thomas, Edward and Charles.
( I ) James Moone, the first .A.merican ances-
tor of the subject of this sketch, came to
P'ennsylvania frc>m Bristol, England, at about
the same date that John Moone first above
mentioned appears in Philadelphia, and located
near the falls of the Delaware, in Bucks
county. He had married at Bristol, England,
about 1663, Joan Burgess, and was accom-
STATE OF NEW jERSI-A'
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paiiied to America by several ehililrcn of
nearly adult age. When he purchased a tract
of land in Falls township in 1695, his son,
James Moone Jr., was named as one of the
i;rantees, the title to vest in him when he
arrived at the age of twenty-one years.
John Moone, of Philadelphia, was a brother
.)f James of Bucks. They were both wit-
nesses to the will of Joseph Siddal, of P.ucks
county, which was probated in Philadelphia,
May 5, 1704.
James Moone was actively associated with
the affairs of Bucks county, his name fre-
(;uently appearing on the early records of the
courts of that county after 1685 as a meniber
of grand and petit juries, and as serving in
various capacities by appointment of the court.
up to the time of his decease in September,
1713. Joan Burgess, wife of James Moone,
received a legacy from her parents or other
relatives in England in 1695, and obtained a
certificate from the Bucks county court on
December 11, 1695. to enable her to receive
it, the court entry of which is as follov.'s: "A
Certificate of Joan, the wife of James Moone
being alive Signed in Court shee being then
there present." She survived her husband
over a quarter of a century, dying December,
1739, in her ninetieth year, at the home of
her son Roger, the old home plantation in
Falls, the title of which had been transferred
from James Jr. to his father and by the latter
to Roger in 1706. Children of James and Joan
(Burges) -VIoone: Sarah, Jasper, James,
Roger. Jonas and Mary. Jasper, the eldest,
located in Xew Jersey, and died in Ikirlington
county, letters of administration being granted
to his widow, Susannah, April 29, 1726; the
records of that county show that he was resi-
dent there as early as 1704. James, Roger and
Jonas Moon remained in Bucks county, and
have left descendants. James was deputy
sheriff of the county in 1714.
(II) Roger, son of James and Joan (Bur-
ges) Moon, was born in England, in or about
the year 1679. He received, as above stated,
a deed from his parents in 1706 for the planta-
tion of 125 acres in Falls township, about one
and a half miles from the pre.sent borough of
Morrisville. where he spent his whole adult
life, dying there February 16, 1759. He was
a consistent member of I'alls ^lonthly Meet-
ing of Friends, and took little part in public
afifairs. His descendants take pride in the fact
that he lived for seventy years in one place,
and "had never discharged a gim or quarrelled
with any man." Roger Moon married (first),
CJctober 23, 1708, -Ann X'utt. like himself a
native of England, and had by her seven chil-
dren — James, John, l^lizabeth, Roger. Isaac,
William and Ann. John died in 1732, at the
age of 15, and Isaac in 1748, at the age of 24.
James, the eldest son, located in Middletown,
and was the pioneer of the family in the nur-
sery business still extensively carried on by
his descendants in Fall. Lower Makefield and
Middletown townships. Roger Moon mar-
ried (second), in April, 1734, Elizabeth,
daughter of Reese and Mary Price, and of
Welsh ancestry. They had seven children:
John, Mary, Sarah, Timothy, Samuel, Jasper
and Hannah. Samuel was a chair maker, and
resided in Fallsington until his death, July 5,
1813, at the age of "JJ years. Jas])er was a
soldier in the Bucks county batallion com-
manded by Colonel John Keller, in the com-
pany of Captain Robert Patterson, and saw
considerable active service in the revolutionary
war.
(Ill) John, eldest son of Roger Moon, by
his second wife, Elizabeth Price, was born on
the old homestead in b'alls township, February
28, 1734-5, and died in the same township,
January 6, 1788. No record appearing of his
purchase of real estate, it is presumed that he
continued to reside on the homestead in Falls
until his death. I^etters of administration
were granted on his estate to his widow Mar-
garet, his brother Samuel being one of her
sureties. His wife Margaret was not a mem-
ber of the Society of F"riends, and at a monthly
meeting held at Falls, May 6, 1761, "John
Moon having some time since went out in his
marriage with a woman that was not of our
society notwithstanding he was precautioned,"
a committee is appointed to prepare a testi-
mony against him. This committee produced
their "testimony" July I, 1761, w'hen it was
read, approved and signed, and John Nutt was
appointed to deliver a copy thereof to the
said John Moon and acc|uaint him w^ith his
right of appeal. He appears to have made no
effort to retain his membership, and at the
meeting on August 5, 1761, it appearing that
he had not yet been served w'ith a copy of the
"testimony." Friend Nutt is desired to deliver
it to him before the next meeting. Nothing
more appears on the record in reference to
him, and he was probably disowned from
membership witluiut any protest on his part.
The maiden name of his wife Margaret has
not been ascertained. He was probably a
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STATE OF XEW JERSEY.
soldier in the revolution, as well as his brother
Jasper, Init the incomplete rolls make no men-
tion thereof. Neither is there record of distri-
bution of his estate or other means of ascer-
taining who his children were, other than his
si^n \\ illiam, whose date of birth appears in his
own family Bible. It is thought that Elizabeth,
the wife of Joachim Richards, of P'alls town-
shi]), who died in 1845, at the age of ~-/ years,
was a daughter.
(IV) William, son of J(.)hn and Margaret
Moon, was born in brails township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, October 16. 1776. This
date, together with that of the births of his
nine children, were entered by himself in a
family Bible still in possession of his grand-
cliildren. From the same source we learn that
Ills wife's name was Margaret, but her maiden
name is unknown to her descendants. By
deed dated Se]jtember 26, 1825, William Moon
purchased of William Wharton and Ann his
wife, Henry Richards and Jane his wife, Will-
i;mi Richards of Philadelphia an<l Ann his
wife, and John Richards of Xorthern Liber-
ties, a small lot in Falls township, of which
J(.yachim Richards had died seized in 181 2,
leaving the above-named Ann, Henry, \\ illiam
and John as his only children and heirs. The
])roperty had been purchased by Joachim
Richards of the estate of Robert Kirkbride in
1806. Here William Aloon resided until his
death, I'^ebruary 21, 1843, '" ^^'^'^ sixty-ninth
year of his age. He died intestate, and letters
of administration were granted on his estate
to his sons Mahlon and Joachim R. Moon. By
deed dated March 31, 184b, Mahlon Moon and
Eliza Ann, his wife ; John Jones and Catharine
his wife: .\aron L. Moon and Maria B. his
wife; Paul Tri_ith and Elizabeth his wife:
Joachim R. Moon and Sarah Ann his wife;
Benjamin C. Tatum, and Mary his wife;
James C. Mo<_in and Elizabeth his wife; and
John Moon, heirs and representatives of Will-
iam Moon deceased, conveyed the above-
mentioned lot to William Bowers.
Children of William and ?ilargaret, as
sliown by the above-mentioned P>ible record :
Mahlon, born March 2},, 1802; Catharine, P'eb-
ruary 2"], 1804: \\'illiam, June 15, 1806; Aaron
L.. February 10, 1809: Elizabeth, August 30,
181 1 ; Joachim R., October 17, 1813; Mary,
March 12. 18111: James Kimmons, July 30,
1818; and John ;\loon, July 4, 1821. All of
these e.xcept William lived to mature age, as
shown by the above deetl.
(\") .-Varon Lipjnncott, second surviving
son and fourth child of William and Margaret
Moon, was born in Falls township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1809. He
received a gcjod education, and adopting the
profession of teacher in early life he became
an eminent instructor of youth. The greater
part of his life was spent in Burlington
county. New Jersey. He married, in 1842,
Maria Braddock Osborne, daughter of Abra-
ham and Catharine (Snyder) Osborne of Bur-
lington county, New Jersey, and had five chil-
dren, two of whom (lied in infancy, those who
survived being William, who died in 1879;
Reuben O. Moon.
(\I) Hon. Reuben O. Moon, second son
and third child of Aaron Lippincott and Maria
( Osborne ) Moon, was born in Burlington
county. New Jerse}-. July 22, 1847. He was
educated luider the supervision of his father,
one of the leading teachers in the state of New
Jersey, and afterwards graduated at a well
known Philadelphia college in the year 1875.
After his graduation he filled the chair of liter-
ature and expression in his alma mater for a
few years, during which time he was widely
known in the literary and educational woild
as a lecturer and instructor on educational
topics. At the death of the President of the
college in 1880, he succeeded to the chair
[jreviously filled by him, which he held until
Ik was admitted to the bar in 1884, when he
began the practice of the law in the city of
Philadelphia. His rise in this profession was
rapid. His previous scholastic training, his
imtiring industry and his recognized oratorical
abilities, contributed materially to his speedy
advancement at the bar. He was associated
with many notable cases, both in the civil and
criminal courts. He became counsel for many
large interests, and soon took his place as one
of the leaders of the Philadelphia bar. He was
admitted to the supreme court in 1886, and to
the United States courts in 1889.
In 1903 he was elected to the Fifty-eighth
Congress from the Fourth District of Pennsyl-
vania, comprising an important section of Phil-
adelphia, and was subse(|uently elected to the
Fifty-ninth, Si.xtieth and Sixty-first Con-
gresses and is at the present writing a candi-
date for re-election.
Soon after Mr. Moon's entrance into Con-
gress, his legal and forensic abilities were
recognized by conspicuous committee appoint-
ments. One of the acute subjects of legisla-
tion, which had been before Congress for a
number of years, was the codification and
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STATE OF XF.W II.USl'A'
1325
revision of the laws of the I'liited States. Xo
revision had been made for nearly forty years,
and the condition of the l'"ederal statutes was
deplorable. Much legislation had been enacted
to meet the ra])idly increasing expansion of
the Federal jurisdiction, much of which had
been experimental Many imjiortant statutes
thus enacted had been declared unconstitu-
tional, and the overlaiijiing and confusion of
multifarious laws which were contained in
ponderous volumes of Congressitjnal enact-
ments, commingled with general and tempor-
ary laws, had resulted in such complexity and
confusion as to make it almost impossible for
the Federal judges and i)ractitioners at the bar
to know definitely what the exact condition of
the law was.
Mr. Moon was made chairman of the com-
mittee on the revision of the laws, of the
House of Rc])resentatives, charged with the
responsibility of revising and codifying the
Federal statutes and of reconciling the con-
tradictions, supplying the omissions and
amending the imperfections of the original
text and with power to propose and embody
in his revision changes in the existing law.
This monumental work involved a high degree
of legal learning, technical skill and patient
el^'ort. .-\ cons]Mcuous portion of this important
work has already been accomplished by the
enactment of the revision of the criminal laws
of the United States, known as the new penal
code, which was passed at the Sixtieth Con-
gress and went into operation January ist.
1910.
Mr. Moon's masterly achievement in secur-
ing the enactment of this law', his lucid and
scholarly exposition of the history and develop-
ment of the Federal criminal law of the coun-
try, won him great renow^n, and he at once
took his place as one of the leading legal
authorities in the American Congress. This
work has received the commendation of the
bar of the country, and .Mr. Moon was tendered
a notable recejition and banquet by the bench
and bar of his own city in recognition of his
distinguished services in this work. This com-
mittee, of which Mr. Moon is house chairman,
has reported and has upon the calendar in
Congress another part of this great task,
involving the re-organization of the Federal
judiciary, in which many important reforms
are recommended. Pfis report upon this sec-
ond department of the revision has attracted
great attention from the jurists and lawyers
of the country, and has been received with uni-
versal appreciation, and is recognized as a
scholarly contributinn to the legal literatiux'
of the land.
Mr. .Moon is n\><> a prominent member of
the committee on the judiciary of the House
of Rejiresentatives, and is the author of the
Moon Injunction I'.ill, which has been adopted
by 1 'resident Taft as an administration meas-
ure and made one of the dominant features of
the l're>ident's new ])olicy of reform.
lie has, in addition to this, intrmhiced a
great number of bills seeking to perfect the
imperfect T'ederal legal machinery that is
everywhere recognized as necessary to meet
the rapidly growing requirements of the Fed-
eral Courts. It has been said of Mr. Moon by
eminent authority that he has initiated more
cipustructive legal legislation than any man in
Congress for half a century.
-Mr. Aloon is a |)rominent and poi)ular club
man, a leading member of the Lawyer's Club;
a former president of the prominent up-town
Columbia Club : member of the Cnion League
and Penn Clubs: of the Historical Society of
Lennsylvania. and of a number of other
])atriotic. social, professional and philanthrojiic
organizations.
lie married, February 25. liijf). Mary A..
daughter of Ca])tain Wright I'redmore, of
liarnegat, Xevv Jersey, and his wife, Elizabeth
Piodine. Mr. and Mrs. Moon have two chil-
dren: Harold I'redmore Moon and Mabel .M.
Moon.
Harold I'redmore Moon was born June 14,
1877. He received his elementary education
at the Eastburn .-\cademy, Philadelphia, and
entering the University of Penns)lvania grad-
uated in 1898. He studied law in the office
of his father, Hon. R. O. Moon, and attended
the law school of the University, and was
admitted to the Philadeljihia bar March 18,
1901. He has since been in active practice
of his jirofession in !'hiladel])hia. He was
assistant city solicitor of Philadelphia from
1902 to iyo6. He is a member of the Union
League, and of the Yacht and other social and
athletic organizations of the city. He married,
December 2, 1908, .-Xttaresta Barclay de Silver,
daughter of Robert P. and Fannie (King)
de Silver, and they have one son, Harold Pred-
more Moon, born September 23, 1909.
.Mabel M. Moon, daughter of Hon. and Mrs.
Reuben O. Moon, was married, .n IQ03, to Mr.
Clarence A. Musselman, of Philadelphia, a
prominent and well known publisher, and a
business man of eminent standing in the com-
mimity. They have one daughter. May Moon
Musselman. horn December 18, 1906.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
(II) Pieter, son of Jan
STRYCKER Strycker (q. v.) and Lam-
bertje Seubcring, was born
in Flatbush, Lung Island, November I, 1653,
and died June 11, 1741. He was one of the
patentees of the town of Flatbush named in
the Dongan patent of November 12, 1085.
November 2, 1683, he was commission-ed as
high sheriff of King's county. He took the
oath of allegiance as a "native" in Flatbush in
1687, and December 2-j, 1689, we lind him a
captain of foot militia. His Flatbush resi-
dence, torn down about forty years ago, was
a stately building uf Holland brick in the
quaint Dutch style, with the letters "1*. S.
1696" over the doorway. The property on
which his house stood has never passed out
of the family, and is to-day occupied by one
of his descendants, (larret Stryker. June i.
1 7 10, Pieter Strycker bought of the three
brothers — Aert. Matthew and David Aertson,
of Brookland, Kings county, New York — the
four thousand acres on the Millstone river.
Somerset county. New Jersey, which they had
received by patent, January 9, 1702, from the
proprietors of East Jersey. He does not seem
ever to have lived on this property, but his
two sons, Jacob and Barent, and his four
grandsons, the sons of his son Jan, removed
from Flatbush and settled there. The deed
for this property is still in existence, and in
the possession of one of his descendants. May
29, 1681, Pieter Strycker married Annetje
Barends, who died June 17, 1717. Children:
I. Lammetje, born March 20. 1682, died
young. 2. I.ammetje (2d), born February 16,
1683, clied young. 3. Jan, referred to below.
4. Barent, born September 3, 1686, died
young. 5. Jacob, of the Raritan, born August
24, 1688; married Annetje Vanderbeeck. 6.
Barent, of the Raritan, born September 14,
1690, died June, 1758, married Libertje Hage-
man. 7. Hendrik, born December 3, 1692,
died young. 8. Pieter, of Flatbush, born Feb-
ruary 12, 1698, died December 24, 1766; mar-
ried Jannetje Martense Arrianse. 9. Hen-
drick, of Flatbush and Brooklyn, born Febru-
ary 18, 1699. 10. Lammetje f3d), born De-
cember 21, 1700: married (first) Johannes
Lott, ('second) Christiaens I-upardus.
(Ill) Jan, son of Pieter and Annetje
(Barends) Strycker, was born in Flatbush.
August 6, 1684, and died August 17, 1770.
He was one of the sachems of the Tammany
Society. In 171 5 he was a member of Captain
Dominicus \'ander \'eer's company of Kings
county militia. He resided in Flatbush, and
apparently had considerable landed property
there. Jan Pieterse Strycker married (first),
1705, Margrietje, daughter of Johannes
Schenck, of Bushwick, Long Island, who died
in 1721. Children: I. Pieter, of the Raritan,
born September 14, 1705; married Antje
Deremer. 2. Johannes, of the Raritan, born
February 12, 1707; married Cornelia Duryea.
3. Annetje, born December 20, 1708 ; married
Roelof Cowenhoven, of New Jersey. 4. Mad-
alena, born December 19, 1710; married Aert
Middagh, of Brooklyn. 5. Magreta, born May
24, 1 71 3, died young. 6. Abraham, referred
tt' below. 7. Lammetje, born February 11,
1716: marrieil (ierret Stoothoff. and Jan .\ni-
erman. 8. Jacobus, of the Raritan, born Sep-
tember 29, 1718; married Geestje Duryee and
Jannetje . 9. Margrita, born December,
1719: married Jacobus Cornell. February 17,
1723, Jan Pielerse Strycker married (second)
Sarah, baptized June 2, 1678, died August
17, 1770, daughter of Michael Hansen Ber-
gen Femmetje, daughter of Teunis Nyssen
(Denyse). Children: 10. Mighiel, of Flat-
bush, born March 4, 1723; married Hannah
Stryker. 11. Femmetje, born June 19, 1725;
married Jacobus Vander Veer. 12. Barent,
burn Xovember 13, 1728. 13. Sara, June 15,
( IV ) Abraham, son of Jan Pieterse and
Margrietje (Schenck) Strycker, of Flatbush,
was born there, August 4, 1715, and died in
Hillsborough township, Somerset county. New
Jersey, April 4, 1777. His will mentions one
son, John, referred to below.
(V) John, or Johannes, son of Abraham
Strycker, was born in Somerset county. New
Jersey, October 18, 1747, and died November
29, 1776. He served as a captain during the
revolutionary war, and was killed in battle.
Both he and his wife were members of the
Reformed Church at Harlingen, New Jersey.
He married Maria Veghte, who after his death
married Thomas Skilliman, and lived at Ring-
old. Children: Peter; Garret, referred to
below : John ; Abraham.
(\T) (_;arret, son of Johannes and Maria
(\'eghte) Stryker, was born at Millstone, New
Jersey, and baptized there, August 27, 1769.
He died in Alay, 1825. After he reached man-
hood he removed from Phillipsburg, New Jer-
sey, and lived one-half mile above the old
Easton toll bridge over the Delaware river, on
the old Geassearr homestead. He was drowned
while fishing in the Delaware river, and was
buried in the old St. John's (Lutheran) grave-
yard at Easton. He married Jane, daughter
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of George and Jane Geassearr. Children: John.
born Xovemher 10, 1792, died May 23, 1840.
married (first) Alary Sickman, (second) EHz-
aljeth Seager : .Maria, referred to below.
(\TI) Alaria, only daughter of John and
Jane (Geassearr) Stryker, was born August
II, 1 81 3, in the old Geassearr homestead, and
died January 21, 1882. She married Hugh
Ferguson, born 1810, died January, 1849. They
had a large family.
(\TII) Hugh Anna, daughter of Hugh
and Maria ( Stryker ) Ferguson, was born in
I'hillipsburg, Xew Jersey, October 4, 1849,
and married George S. Andrews, of Asbury,
New Jersey, born August 27, 1848. He was
a drummer boy in a New Jersey regiment
throughout the civil war. Children : Isadora
Andrews, referred to below, and two who died
in infancy.
( IX I Isadora Andrews, daughter of George
S. and Hugh Anna (Ferguson) Andrews, was
born in Asbury, New Jersey, March 22, 1868,
and married George E. Barker; child, Ray-
mond, born January 29, 1890.
The Kester family is of Dutch
KESTER origin. The first forms of the
surname appears to have been
Koester and Coester, which appear in records
during the early part of the eighteenth century.
Previous to that, owing to the common prac-
tice among the early Dutch settlers of using
patronymics instead of surnames, the history
of the family is involved in some obscuritv.
According to records at present obtainable, the
line of the family at present under considera-
tion appears to be as follows :
(I) Peter Kester, first member of the fam-
ily of whom we have definite information, died
intestate in Hunterdon county. New Jersey,
before June 22, 1759, when letters of admin-
i;rtration on his estate were granted to his
widow. He lived at Amwell. and was prob-
ably a brother of Hermanns Kester, who was
born in 1703, and lived in Kingwood. Peter
Kester married (license issued December 24.
1733) Ann Coar.
(II) Peter (2). son of Peter (i) Kester, or
son of Hermanns Kester, removed from Hun-
terdon county, to Chesterfield township, Bur-
lington county. New Jersey, where he died be-
tween June 3 and 24, 1822, the dates of the
executing and proving of his will. He mar-
ried ( license granted December 4. 1773) Theo-
dosia Hickman, of Burlington county. Chil-
dren : Sarah, married Jesse Gilbert : Nancy,
married Robert HoUoway: Isaac, referred to
below ; Pearson.
(III) Isaac, son of Peter (2) and Tlieo-
dosia (Hickman) Kester, was born in Bur-
hngton county. New Jersey, and died there,
'ihe name of his wife is unknown. Children:
I Peter, married Martha Arnold; children:
Robert ; Edwin Stevens ; Mary ; Clara, living
in Bordentown, Xew Jersey. 2. Isaac, married
Mary Garvin; children: Perry; Kate; h'rank
N., born in Philadel])hia, 1851, is car distribu-
tor of Philadelphia & Reading railroad at Read-
ing terminal, married Mrs, Ida Perrine. 3. P~rank,
married Esther Cooley ; one child, I'rank (2).
4. John, referred to below. 5. Jane .Amanda,
married Joseph, son of Hosea Willard and
Mary Payne (Snead) Beldon (q, v.). 6. Mary,
married Samuel White. 7. Eliza, married
William ^^'ar^er.
(IV) John, son of Isaac Kester, was born
ill Burlington county. New Jersey, and d.ied
in Bordentown, same county. He established
and during his long life conducted the old
I'.ordentown Hotel, which during the days of
the Camden & .Aniboy railroad was an impor-
tant hostelry and a favorite and well patron-
ized resort of travellers. He married (first)
Mary .\rnold, sister to the wife of his brother,
Peter: (second) Catharine Snowhill. Chil-
dren, four by first marriage : i. \Villiam .Arnold,
referred to below. 2. Edwin Stevens, died un-
married. 3. Kate, married John Bate; one
child, John. 4. .Annie, married Gordon ;
one child, Edward. 5. Frances, married Camille
Bar|uet : children : Camille Baquet, Louise
Kester Bac|uet, Lillian Esquire Baquet. The
liafjuets have their summer residence on the
old Snowhill homestead in Spotswood, New
Jersey. 6. Mary Virginia, married (first)
Robert Perrine; (second) \V. J. Lovell, editor
and pro])rietor of the Morristown (New Jer-
sey) Chronicle , children, two by first marriage :
Percy Bishoj) Perrine ; Stanley Kester Per-
rine, who married Louise Foster, and has
Richard Perrine, and Stewart Kester Perrine.
( \' ) William .Arnold, son of John and Alary
(.Arnold) Kester, was born in Bordentown,
New Jersey, in 1829, and died there, Alarch i,
1891. .After receiving his education in the B>ord-
entown schools he learned the trade of brick
mason, but when gold was discovered in Cali-
fornia in 1849 he contracted the gold fever and
in 1853 went to the diggings. His journey
brought him little besides experience and afl-
venture, and after a short absence from home
he returned and entered the employ of the
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statp: of new jersey.
Caniden & Amboy railroad as a trainman.
Later he was appointed baggage master of the
lower station in Bordentown, and this position
he held until death. He was a Democrat in
politics, and a communicant of the Pr<ites-
t;int Ejiiscopal Church. Me married, in i8f>7,
Amanda \'irginia Savannah, daughter of Au-
gustus and Alary JNIathelin, who was born in
1827, in the (iarden House, llonaparte Park,
I'.ordentown, New Jersey. Her father, Au-
gustus Mathelin. was a native of France, who
came tn this country with Prince Joseph Bona-
parte, brother (.)f Emperor Napoleon I. of
France, as head gardener of Bonaparte Park,
the famous American home of the Prince.
Child : William Mathelin.
( \ I ) William Mathelin, son of William
.Arnold and Amanda \'irginia Savannah ( Math-
elin ) Ivester, was born in Bordentown, New
Jersey, September 16, i8f)8. After receiving
his early education in the Bordentcjwn schools,
he graduated from the .State Model School at
Trenton, after which he entered the Philadel-
])hia Dental College, from which he received
his degree in 1888. In 1889 he returned to
Bordentown. wdiere he has ever since been en-
gaged in the active practice of his profession,
having his home in the old family homestead.
Dr. Kester is an exceedingly capable and suc-
cessful practitioner. He is a Democrat in poli-
tics, and a communicant of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. He is past master of Mount
Moriah Lodge, No. 28, F. and A. M., of New
Jersey, a member of Mount Moriah Chapter,
No. 20, R. A. M.; of Ivanhoe Commandery,
No. II, K. T. : past grand master of Lotlge
No. 46, L (J. (J. F. ; a member of (Jlympia
Lodge, No. ^^, Knights of Pythias; and of
Bordentown Chapter, Ancient Urder L'nited
Workmen. He married, in January, 1898.
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Martha ( Dav-
enport ) Lesk, of Trenton, New Jersey. Chil-
dren : Florence Mcrion, born in Bordentown,
New Jersey, July 8, K^oj ; Amanda Emily,
born March is, 1910.
This old Dutch name is numer-
H.'\RIX(i ously represented in New Jer-
sey, especially in Bergen county,
and southern New York, and has various
spellings, although the one here used is the
most usual. It is found at Hoorn, in Holland,
as early as 1573. when Jan Haring took a posi-
tion upon a narrow place in the dike and held
at bay a large body of Spaniards, while his
companions made a safe retreat ; he then jump-
ed into the sea and esca]:)ed l)y swimming.
Later, in a sea fight, he boarded the Spanish
war shi]) "Inquisitor," and hauled down its
colors. He was immediately set upon hv those
on the vessel and killed.
( I ) The first from whom a direct line can
be traced to the American family was Pieter
Jansen Haring, who was horn in 1610, at -Xieu-
cnlniysen, and settled at Hoorn.
( 11 ) Jan P^ietersen, son of Pieter J. Haring,
was born December 26, i'')33. at Hoorn. and in
1660 came to America. Two years later he
married the widow Margaretta Cozine, who
was born in 1(134, this being the first marriage
performed in the Dutch Church on the Bowery
in New .Amsterdam, the site of the ]iresent St.
Mark's Church at Second avenue and Elev-
enth street. Lie purchased a farm of one hun-
dred acres which extended from the Bowery
Lane to Bedford street and from Waverly
place to Bleeker street, and on this he lived
and died, and it was owned by his descendants
for more than a century. Children : Peter ;
Cozfne ; Cornelius ; Abraham ; Brechie ; Vron-
tie and Marretje. He died before 1683, and in
1680 his widow and all of her children re-
moved to Ta]jpan, in wdiat is now New York.
The widow mai ried (third) F'ebruary 2, i()85,
Daniel de Clark. All settled on the Tappan
Patent, the first four in what is now Harring-
ton township, Bergen county. New Jersey.
This town was named for the family, in 1775.
(HI) Cozine Johns, son c)f Jan Pietersen
and Margaretta Haring, resided on the Tap-
pan Patent, and married Margaretta Garretts
Blauveldt.
(lA'j John Cozines, son of Cozine J. and
Margaretta G. (Blauvelt) Haring. resided in
the home of his fathers, and married Aeltje
\^an Dolsen.
( \' ) Garret Johns, son of John C. and
.Aeltje ( A'an Dolsen) Haring, resided in the
neighborhood of his nativity and married C'or-
nclia Lent.
( \'I ) Daniel A. 1 hiring, son of Garret Johns
Haring, married Brackie Ferdon, of Glou-
cester, New Jersey.
fVII) Abraham D., son of Daniel A. and
Brackie (Ferdon) Haring, was born about
1779, at Nanuet, now in Rockland county, New-
York, where he lived and engaged in farming.
He was a member of the Dutch Reformed
Church, and was a soldier in the war of 1812.
Lie was a Democrat in politics, and an active
and useful citizen. He was buried in the
cemetery at Nanuet. Children : Williain,
Bridget, Ann, Elizabeth, Daniel A., Sally,
Maria and Caroline.
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(\TII) Daniel A., second sun of Abraham
D. Uaring, was born September 6, 1808, at
Nanuet, and resided there wliere he engaged
in farming, and owned and operated a grist
and saw mill. He was a member of the Dutch
Reformed Church, and a Democrat. He mar-
ried, June 12, 1830, Sally Ann Eckerson, born
September g, 1810, at .Xanuet. Children: Abra-
ham, born ilarch 12, 1832, died July 11, 1821,
and Thomas Eckerson, mentioned below.
(IX) Thomas Eckerson, son of Daniel A.
and Sally Ann (Eckerson) Haring, was born
August 30, 1839, at Xanuet, in 1843 removed
tC) Xew York City with his ])arents, and re-
ceived his education in the public schools of
that city. His business life began as a clerk
in the dry-goods store of C. H. Hedden, at
305 Hudson street, Xew York City, at the age
of fifteen. He subsequently learned the trade
of ornamental plastering, antl this provided
him occupation until 1862, when he engaged
in the trucking business in Xew York City.
in which he is still occupied with success. In
1890 he took up his residence at W'estvvood,
where he has a pleasant home and is an active
member of the community. He is a director of
the Hoard of Trade of Westwood, is a Demo-
crat in politics, and with his family is connect-
ed with the Methodist Episcopal Church of
their home town. He married, Xovember 28,
1867. at 127 Perry street, Xew York City,
Margaretta Bogert, a native of New York City,
born in 1846, daughter of David J. and Maria
(Ackerson) Bogert of that city. Mr. Bogert
was a truckman and had children : Margaretta,
John, Mary Ellen, Martha Ann, Sarah and
Emma. Children of Thomas E. Haring and
wife: I. Charles E., born October 16, 1868:
is engaged in hardware business in Westwood :
married, Xovember 2, 1892, Serena, liorn June
17, 1873, daughter of John and Kate ( Myers)
Carlock ; children: Roger, born July 2, 1906;
Walter, December 18, 1907, 2. Warren T..
born .-Xugust 28, 1870; engaged in trucking
business; married, November 9, 1899, FJniina
(now deceased), born August 21, 1869, daugh-
ter of Daniel and Sarah (Zabriskie) Christie;
children: Alice May, born May 9, 1900; Mabel
E., June 26, 1906. 3. Ella 1!., born Xovember
30, 1876, resides at home; unmarried.
Prior to 1630 Fort Orange
BEEKMAN (or Beaverwyck as sometimes
called), was wholly a trading
station of the Dutch West India Com|)any to
exchange such goods as the Indians of the
"I'ive Xations'' wanted for their beaver skins
iii— 3:
and (ithcr |n-ltv. Thi^ trade in the skins of
wild animals was the most profitable of any
than carried on between .America and Europe.
In the year 1623 the Dutch obtained from the
Mohavi'k Indians the grant of an extensive
tract of land, cm the west side of the Hudson
river, in vicinity of what is now Albany City.
They erected a new and strongly constructed
fort on the banks of the river, within wliat are
now the limits of that city. Their old fort on
an island in the river was abandoned.
The Maquas, or Mohawk, Indians occupied
four towns, close together, and near the Mo-
hawk river, about one hundred and ten miles
west from what is now Albany City. The
Oneidas had one large town near what is now
Oneida Lake, about two hundred and fifty
miles northwest from Albany City. The Onon-
dagoes had one town on a hill, thirty-six miles
southwest from the Oneida town. The Cayugas
had three towns, within one mile of each other,
some si.xty odd miles southwest of the Onon-
dagoes. The great Seneca tribe had four towns,
seventy odd miles northwest from the Cayugas.
The Mohawks, as the nearest neighbors, were
the first to begin trading with the Dutch. The
Mohawk river afforded them an easy route to
paddle down their canoe.s, loaded with beaver
and other skins. They soon realized the ad-
vantage of firearms over the bow and arrow,
also steel knives and hatchets over their stone
clubs and flint knives. They soon learned the
use of guns.
The Dutch secured the lasting friendship
and alliance of the Mohawks by their honest
and truthful dealings with them, according to
their standard of judgment. Between 1630
and 1660 a Dutchman named .Vrent Van Curler,
or \'an Corlear, obtained a remarkable influ-
ence with, and control over, these fierce Mo-
hawks. He was remembered for generations
in their traditions. To express their warm
friendship for the Dutch they called them by
his name, "Corlear." The friendship and loyal-
ty of the Mohawks to the Dutch was never
shaken, although the French in Canada made
constant efforts to gain them over, and carry
the beaver trade to Montreal. The French
claimed the eastern part of what is now the
state of X'^ew York, as far south as Saratoga,
and the whole of the western part. If they
had gained over the "Five Xations"' the history
of Canada and Xew York might have been
altogether different. The Mohawks were bitter
and implacable enemies to the French ; and by
their watchfulness o\er the other four nations,
defeated several attempts of Jesuit priests to
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STATE OF NEW TERSEY.
lead away the Senecas and Cayugas into an
alliance with tlie Canadian government. After
the English obtained control of New York in
1674, the Schuylers and other Dutchmen con-
tmued to hold all the prominent offices in Al-
bany county. The Indians, when they met the
English governors at Albany, could see no differ-
ence. The same Dutchmen acted as interpreters
for them, and they saw their old friends appar-
ently in control. They therefore addressed the
English governor as "Corlear," the same as
thicy had di;>ue in previous years, when the
Dutch controlled.
The first effort to establish a jiermanent
settlement at Albany was in 1630. V'an Rens-
selaer the Patroon, as called, had obtained the
ownership of an extensive territory on both
sides of the upper part of the Hudson river.
The first colonists came over from Holland in
1630, and settled on tiie west side of the Hud-
son river, in the vicinity of what is now AI-
banv Citv. but then named "Rensselaerwyck."
Van Rensselaer was a man accustomed to deal
with large enterprises. Tie knew this great
territory was worthless unless occupied by an
intelligent, industrious and moral population.
The first company of settlers who came over
from the Netherlands in 1630 were a picked
body of men and women, chosen not only for
their knowledge of different trade or occupa-
tions, but because of their good reputations
and respectable antecedents. The Dutch firmly
believed that children inherited the traits of
their parents, or ancestors, and would, in time,
develope same virtues or vices. The \'an
Schaicks, Wendells, pjleeckers, Schuylers, Cuy-
lers and other Dutchmen wdio settled at Al-
bany in 1630, have demonstrated whether their
descendants, now living in America, have justi-
fied tliis opinion or belief. The second com-
pany of settlers to occupy \'an Rennselaer's
lands came over from Holland in 1638. These
men and women were selected to make the sec-
ond settlement on the east side of the Hudson
river, in wdiat is now Rensselaer county. This
locality was called "Schotac," or "Schodack
Landing," and was situated about eight miles
south of what is now Albany City, but on the
opposite side of the river.
Maarten Reeckman, as his name was spelled
in the Dutch language, was one of these set-
tlers. He was a young man, and a blacksmith
by trade. A man understanding this trade was
indispensable in a new settlement renidte from
all sources of supply. Schodack Landing had
been chosen for this new settlement, because a
fine stream of water which flowed into the
Hudson river was near this location. It was
called Schodack creek, and it afforded water
power for a grist and saw mill. Such mills
were of great importance, not only to furnish
timber for dwellings, but to grind their wheat
and corn, so that they could have bread to eat.
\ an Rensselaer erected, at his own expense,
grist and saw mills on Schodack creek at an
early date. This mill is named in the will of
Killian \'an Rensselaer, executed June 11,
1718, proved May 10, 1720. (See New York
Historical Collections, 1893, labeled "Abstract
of Wills," vol. 2 (1708-1728), pp. 216-219).
He leaves this mill on Scliodack creek to his
son, Jacob. He also devises to same son "fif-
teen hundred acres of woodland" on or near
Schodack creek, and "between bounds of Jo-
hannes Beekman" (as the name is spelled) and
Moss Van Buren, "with right to cut saw logs
and timber for said mill." Johannes Beekman,
as tiie name is spelled in \'an Rensselaer's will,
was eldest son of Maarten Beeckman, the first
settler, and doubtless occupied same lanils which
had been leased to his father, who had died in
1676, leaving a widow named Susannah Jans
surviving, and three sons and five daughters.
The first Dutch church, on east side of the
upper part of Hudson river, had been erected
at Schodack Landing. It stood at or near the
locality now called the "Old Burying Ground."
Maarten Beeckman was buried in the old grave-
yard, but tombstones in those days could not
be procured, so his grave cannot now be fi.xed.
This church at Schodack Landing was first
legally incorporated under the laws of the
state of New York in 1788, by the name of
"The Minister, Elders and Deacons of the Re-
fi irmed I'rotestant Dutch Church of Schotack."
The name of John H. Beeckman, as spelletl in
the records, is named at this date as one of
the elders. He was probably a grandson of the
Johannes Beekman, named in above will, and
residing on same property. In 1810 the location
of this church was changed to a place called
IMutzeskill, about two and a half miles from
the river, where it still remains. The early
records of this church, if in existence, would
furnish considerable information about the first
settlers.
Maarten Beeckman, the progenitor of the
.Albany Beekmans, as the name was generally
s[ielled in the English language, died in the
latter part of the year 1676. His widow, Sus-
annah Jans, on June 21, 1677, makes applica-
tiiin to the Albany courts and represents that
she is the widow of Maarten Beeckman, and
has eight children, three sons and five daugh-
STATE OF XEW JERSEY.
I. IV
ters. The sons were Johannes. Marten and
Hendrick. Joliannes married, in 1680. Machtel.
daughter of Jacob Jansen Schermerhoorn and
Jannetje Egmont, his wife. He had two sons
and three daughters by this wife. Johannes,
his first born son, was baptized in .-Mbany
Dutch Church. January 27, 1684. He married,
January 15. 1714, Hester, daugliter of Jeroni-
nius \Vendell. His second son, Jacob, was
baptized August 12, 1685; married, December
17, 1714. Deborah, daughter of Hendrick Han-
sen and Deborah \'an Dam, his wife. Machtel
Schermerhoorn, first wife of Johannes Beek-
man, died in 1690. He married (second), Oc-
tober 22, 1692, Eva, daughter of Jan V'inhageli,
or \"inliagen, for this name is spelled both
ways in early records of the Albany Dutch
Church. Hy this second wife he had three sons
and four daughters, making twelve children in
all. His first son, by second wife, was named
Johannes Hanse, baptized May 20, 1694; mar-
ried (first), July 6, 1729, Sarah Cuyler : mar-
ried (second), December 10, 1748, Deborah
\'an Schaick. His second son was I\Iartin,
baptized August 8, 1(195; married October 28,
1721, Gertrude Msscher. His third son was
Henry, bajjtized March 30. 1707 ; married .\nne-
tje Swits, and died December 2, 1755. Johannes
Beekman, father of above named five sons,
died at Albany, September 27, 1732, leaving a
will probated December 2, 1733, and now on
record in the surrogate's office of New York
City. (See Abstract of Wills, vol 3 (1730-
1744). p. 112, also labeled "Collections of New
York Historical Society for year 1894"). He
names in this will all of his twelve children.
His widow, Eva, is named as sole executrix.
She survived her husband some twenty-two
years. It will be noticed that testator had a
son by first wife named "Johannes," and also
a son by his second wife named "Johannes
Hanse," unless this is especially noticed it is
likely to make confusion in the genealogy.
This Johannes Beekman, father of twelve
children, is the same person named in Killian
\ an Rensselaer's will, made in year 17 18. as
the occupant or owner of lands near "Scho-
dack Creek," as hereinbefore mentioned. The
will of his eldest son, Johannes, is recorded in
same volume as his father's, on page 384 of
■"Abstract of AVills," vol. 3 (1730-1744). He
died ten years after his father.
Martin, second son of the emigrant, seems
to have engaged when quite young in some
occupation in Xew York City. He is named
first in connection with .-\lbany. in May of that
most eventful year. 1689. in the history of
England. In this \ear the Stadtliolder of the
Xetherland Republic became the first constitu-
tional king of Great Britain, to the great de-
light and satisfaction of the Hollanders then
residing in the province of New York. They
hailed this as "poetical" if not "providential"
justice, that the Duke of York, or later James
II., who had stole New York from the Neth-
erlanders in 1664, should now lose his throne
and kingdom to the "head" of the Hollanders,
their much loved prince of Orange. In May.
1689, Martin Beeckman, as his name is spelled,
is mentioned as one of the volunteers going up
from New York City to Albany with a com-
pany of soldiers, to help defend that town
against a threatened attack by the French and
Indians from Canada. The terrible midnight
massacre of the men and women of Sche-
nectady had occurred only three months previ-
ous. Martin Beeckman had doubtless known
personally many of these Dutch people who
had been slaughtered in their beds. Sixty
human beings had been killed and thirty others
carried away to Canada as prisoners. Martin
Beeckman's mother, brothers and sisters re-
sided at or near Albany. It was only natural
that he should have been concerned for their
safety after the terrible slaughter of the people
of Schenectady. Family ties were strong among
the Netherlanders, although outwardly thev
seemed so stolid and undemonstrative. Among
no people were children so strongly attached to
their parents. (See O. Callagban's Doc. His.
New York, vol. 2, p. 216). Martin Beeckman
is here named among the soldiers going up to
Albany in May, 1689 He seems to have re-
turned to New York City when his term of
service expired. The following record from
.\lbany Dutch Church was published in "1904
Year Book of Holland .Society of New York,"
on ])age 25: "Marten 15eekman. a young man
of New York City, and Neellje Slingerlandt. a
young lady of Albany, were married Septem-
ber 20th, 1692." There were seven children by
this marriage, all daughters, whose names are
given in Holgate's ".American Genealogies," in
his account of the Beekman family.
Hendrick Beekman, the remaining son of
the first settler, is named amt^ng the forty citi-
zens and residents of Albany City, in the year
1689. They give their reasons why they can-
not recognize the government established in
New York City under Jacob Leisler. They
repudiate all right on part of the people resid-
ing in that part of the province of New York
to establish a government over the people in
Albany county. They also give other reasons
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
for declining to recognize the Leisler govern-
ment until they have definite information that
Jacob Leisler has been appointed governor of
Xew York, or authorized to act as such, by
King William and Oueen Mary, for whom
th.ey profess the warmest loyalty. (See O.
C'allaghan's Doc. His. of New York, vol. 2, pp.
III-12). Hendrick Beekman married Annetje,
daughter of Pieter (Juakenbosch ( or Ouack-
enboss ) and Martje. his wife. They came
from a i)lace called "()estgcest." in Holland,
to America, when their first born S(_)n, Reynier,
was an infant. ( See "(.k-nealogy of Quacken-
bush or Quackenbos family of Albany, New
York"). Hendrick P>eekman and .\nnitje, his
wife, seems to have resided with his mother
at Schodack Landing for a year or two after
his marriage. His first born was a son named
Martin for the pioneer settler. He was born
in 1685, and no doubt bajjtizetl in the D\itch
Church at Schodack Landing. The old Dutch
settlers were very careful to have their children
baptized. The early records of this church
have never been published. Hendrick Beekman,
with his wife and child took up a residence
in the town of Albany, in the beginning of the
year 1G86, anil continued to reside there until
the end of that century. Between the first of
March, 1 68(1, and first of January, i6<)8, he
had three daughters and two sons baptized in
the Albany Dutch Church, the daughters bap-
tized are named Susannah, Lydia and Martje.
(See "1904 Year Book of the New York City
Holland Society"). His second son, named
Hendrick, was baptized June 5, 1692. He died
unmarried on the farm in Somerset county.
New Jersey, March 19. 1769. After coming
to New Jersey he lived with his father until
his tleath in 1735. After this he lived with
his brother, Martin, and after his death with
Martin's children. He left a will which was
duly proved and is now recorded in the office
of the secretary of state at Trenton, New Jer-
sey, in book K, of wills, page 148, etc. He
bequeathes and devises all his property equally,
between the five children of his deceased
brother, Martin. They are named in this will
in the order of their ages, as Elizabeth, Hend-
rick, Samuel, Annitje and John.
Peter, third and youngest son of Hendrick
Beekman, was named for his maternal grand-
father, I^ieter Ouackenboss. He was baptized
in the .Albany Dutch Church. July 25, 1697.
Jacob Bogart and Lysbeth Qnackelbosch, as
their names are spelled, were sponsors. (See
"1904 Year P.ook of New York City Holland
Society," p. 75). Peter Beekman died on his
farm ui .Somerset county. New Jersey, in latter
end of April, 1773. He left a will, now on record
;:t Trenton, in book L, of wills, pages 4<)-50.
He names his wife, Grietje, and three daugh-
ters with their husbands, viz.: Lantje, wife
of Fernandus (iulick : Amortje, wife of Peter
Peterson; and Neeltje, wife of Bernardus \'an
Zandt. He had no sons.
Ryert Schermerhoorn, of .Albany county.
New York, purchased in the summer of the
year 17 10, of Octavo Coenraats, a merchant of
New York City, a tract of two hundred and
fifty acres, on the south side of Raritan river,
in .Somerset county, New Jersey. Prior to
this purchase his younger brother, named Lucas
Schermerhoorn, had also bought lands on the
Raritan river, and taken up his residence on or
near the same. As has already been stated,
Hendrick Beekman's brother, Johannes had
married for his first wife, Machtel Schermer-
hoeirn, a sister of above two brothers. Ryert
and Lucas .Schermerhotirn would naturally
recommentl to their relatives and friends in
Albany or Schenectady the purchase of lands
in and about where they had became owners.
I think Hendrick Beekman was induced to pur-
chase the lot next on the west to Schermer-
hoorn's through his recommendation, for in
November of the same year Hendrick Beek-
man received a deed for two hundred and fifty
acres on south side of Raritan river from
(.'oenraats. It lay ne.xt to Schermerhoorn's
lot, according to the general description con-
tained in the deed. This deed to Hendrick
Beekman was in existence as late as the year
1876, when the writer secured an exact copy of
the same, which he still has in possession. This
deed is dated November 13, 17 10, it sets out
first that the proprietors of East Jersey, by
their deed under seal of said province, dated
October 20, 1693, conve\'ed to Peter Sonmans,
Esq., a tract of land in Somerset county, New
Jersey, between the Millstone river and south
branch of the Raritan, then follows a descrip-
tion of twenty-three thousand acres, by chains
and links. This description is like that pub-
lished in Rev. E. T. Corwin's book, "Historical
Discourse c>n Centennial of Millstone Dutch
Church in 1866," page 17-18. The descrijjtion
is taken from a deed belonging to Peter A.
Voorhees, of "Six Mill Run," New Jersey.
The map which accompanies this little, but
very useful book, shows clearly all the lands
which the proprietors of New Jersey had con-
veyed away on west side of the Millstone and
south side of the Raritan rivers, ])rior to 1693.
This conveyance to Sonmans included all their
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remaining lands between the south branch of
the Raritan and the .Millstone rivers, in Som-
erset county. After the description of the
twenty-three tliousand acres conveyed to Son-
mans, this fleed to ilendrick ISeekman. as his
name is spelled tiierein. next sets out that T'eter
Sonmans, by deed dated January 27. 1706,
conveyed to Octavo Coenraats, merchaiU of
New York City, in fee simple, one thousand
acres of land, being that part of the twenty-
three thousand acres which lies between the
two thousand acres which had been first con-
veyed to Thomas Cooper, one of the original
twelve proprietors of New Jersey, and a tract
conveyeil to Thomas Hooper, at the junction
of the north and south branches of Raritan
river. In this year, 1706, when the deed to
Coenracts was executed, one Jan Van Teunis-
sen is named as owner of the Cooper tract.
This thousand acres is further described as
bounded on the south by other lands of Son-
mans, and on the north by the Raritan river,
along which he had a frontage of about fifty
chains, although in the deed to Sonmans it is
<lescribed as about "forty-five chains." Coen-
raats seems to have divided up this thousand
acres into four tracts of two hundred and fifty
acres, each having a frontage on south side of
Raritan river. Next this deed set out the re-
ceipt of eighty-two pounds of New York
money from Hendrick ISeekman in full pay-
ment for two liundred and fifty acres of land
hereby conveyed to him by said Coenraats.
Ihis two hundred and fifty acres is first de-
scribed by chains and links, and then by a
general description, as bounded on east side
by lands of Ryer Schermerhoorn, west bv
other lands of said Coenraats, south bv lands
of Peter Sonmans. and north by Raritan river.
Then follovv general covenants of clear title,
peaceable possession, etc., to said Hendrick
Beekman, his heirs and assigns forever, "he
paying therefore yearly, if demanded, forever,
to said Octavo Coenraats, one pepper corn, in
lieu of all rents and services whatsoever."
Coenraats signs and seals this deed on the
right-hand side, and Abraham Gouverneur
Esq. and Isaac Gouverneur sign as witnesses
on the left. There is no acknowledgement or
anything of that nature on this deed, until ten
years later. Then, under date of October 24.
1720, is following endorsement certified to
above signature of David Jamison, who de-
scribes himself as "Chief Justice of the Prov-
ince of East Jersey :" "That .\braham Gouver-
neur, Gentleman, of the city of New York,
personally ai)])eare<l before me, who on his
corporal oath did divulge that within men-
tioned Octavo Coenraats sealed and executed
the within conveyance as his voluntary act and
deed, anfl that deponent and Isaac Gouverneur,
of New York City, merchant, did at same time
subscribe their names, as witnesses thereunto.
Witness my hand, date abovesaid, sworn and
>ubscribed before me. David Jamison."
.\Ithough this seems intended as a form of
acknowledgement, and no doubt Jamison ex-
acted a fee. for he was a "canny Scot," this
deed was never recorded in any public office
of New Jersey. It remained in possession of
the descendants of Hendrick Beekman at the
homestead on the Raritan river. It was in
existence in the year 1876, when the writer had
a copy made. There was also a written agree-
ment, dated September 20, 1735, between Alar-
tin r.eekman. described therein as "eldest son
of Hendrick Beekman," deceased, and his
brother, Peter Beekman. This agreement was
evidently drawn by a lawyer, for it is full of
legal phrases and repetitions, and the co[)y made
Covers nine pages of modern legal cap paper.
The lawyer has evidently charged by the folio.
It first sets out that said Alartin and Peter
Beekman, with their brother Hendrick Beek-
man, have hitherto possessed, used and culti-
vated together, the five hundred acres on the
Raritan river, which their father, Hendrick
Beekman. had owned : that they now propose to
divide it up, allotting to each their proper share :
that two hundred acres on the south or rear
end of the farm is to be set off to Peter, while
Martin is to have the remaining three hundred
acres, which has a frontage on Raritan river.
It is then stipulated that if certain lands con-
tiguous, on the south side to Peter's two hun-
dred acres, can be purchased and conveyed to
Peter, he will deed back one hundred acres of
the two hundred so set off from the homestead.
This would give Martin, who also represented
I'.is bachelor brother, Hendrick, four hundred
acres, or e.^:actly two hundred for each of the
three brothers. This [property lay along the
Raritan. adjacent to the public highway, which
has long been known as "Beekman's Lane,"
in the county of Somerset. Now, when did
Ilendrick Beekman. the father, get the second
tract of two hundred and fifty acres, which
made up the five hundred acres, which his sons
divided in the year 1735? The acknowledge-
ment on the deed from Coenraats to Hendrick
Beekman was taken ten years after his pur-
chase, or in 1720. It was also taken in New
York City, where Gouverneur, a resident of
that city, makes oath of its due execution.
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Now it would appear that some other legal
business was transacted at that time, and ad-
vantage was taken to have this form of ac-
knowledgement endorsed on this deed, so it
might be recorded, although this was never
done. Ryer Schernierhoorn. a resident of
Schenectady, Albany county. New York, pur-
chased in the summer of l/io the first tract,
which Coenracts conveyed of his thousand
acres on Raritan river. This tract was the
first one on the east side, and next to what
had been the Thomas Cooper tract of two
thousand acres, on Raritan river. At that time
one Jan Teunissen owned it. In Noveml:)er of
same year, Hendrick Beekman purchased the
next tract, adjacent to Schermerhoorns. Ryer
01 Ryert Schernierhoorn made his will April
6, 1717. It was proved April 9, 1726, and is
now on record in surrogate's office of New
York City, in liber 10 of wills, page 171. (See
"Collections of New York Historical Society
for year 1803," labeled vol. 2, Abstract of Wills
(1708-1728) ]jp. 335-6). He devises to his
daughter, Janneke, wife of Volkert Symonsen,
one-half of his lands on Raritan river, in Som-
erset county, New Jersey, and to the three
children of his deceased daughter, Catalina,
late wife of John \Vemp, the other half of said
tract. These grandchildren are named in this
will as Myndert. Ryert, and ,-\riantie Wemp.
Their father, John Wemp, I think, was a son
of Myndert Wemp, who was killed and scal|)ed
by the Indians at that terrible massacre of the
people of Schenectady, in February, 1689.
The attack was made at midnight, when all the
people were sound asleep in their beds. Sixty
men, women and children were slaughtered.
John Wemp, then a boy, was taken oif to
Canada with some thirty others as prisoners.
This devise to his daughter and three grand-
children was subject to the use of said lands
by his brother, Lucas Schermerhoorn, who had
settled somewhere along the Raritan river,
for the term of six years ; who also is bec|ueath-
ed "all the cattle, belonging to the testator on
said lands in Somerset county." The writer,
in year 1879, received some curious informa-
tion from Rev. James Riker, the well-known
historian, whose "History of Harlem" is a
monument to his patient, conscientious and
thorough work. This letter from Air. Riker
is dated at Waverly, New York, September 13,
1879, and is still in writer's possession. Among
other matters Mr. Riker writes: "Now I was
aware that a great number of the early settlers
on the Raritan were from Albany and vicinity.
Among them I noticed the name of Lucas
Schermerhoorn. I had in my possession some
old Schermerhoorn papers, obtained through
my wife, and I was tempted to re-examine
them ; when singularly enough I found two
deeds relating to lands on the Raritan river
and embracing the very farm which your an-
cestor, Samuel Beekman, held there, as it now
turns out. It appears that in 1693 Peter Son-
mans purchased of the proprietors twenty-
three thousand acres of land on the south side
of the river Raritan, and west of the Millstone.
In 1706 Sonmans conveyed to Octavo Coen-
raats one thousand acres off of the north end
of his said tract, next the Raritan river, and
having Jan Teunissen ( before Thomas Cooper )
on the east, and Daniel Hooper on the west.
That Coenraats sold in 17 10 to Ryer Schermer-
hiiorn. of .\lbany county ( and brother to Lucas,
aforesaid ), two hundred and fifty acres, a part
of said one thousand, lying next to Jan Teunis-
sen, north to the Raritan river, and west to
Coenraat's other lands. That in 1720 Volkert
Syinonsen and Janneke, his wife (one of the
daughters of Ryer Schermerhoorn), sold to
Johannes Beeckman Jr., of Albany, one-half of
tins two hundred and fifty acre tract (not de-
fining which half). This Johannes Beeck-
man's mother was a sister of Ryer Schermer-
hoorn, and named Machtel. Ryer was there-
fore an uncle on his mother's side, while Hend-
rick Beekman was his uncle on his father's
side. Johannes Ileeckman Jr. was therefore a
cousin to Martin, Hendrick and Peter, the
three sons of Hendrick Beeckman. This is as
far as my deeds go, but one thing is to be ob-
served. This last deed to Johannes Beeckman
Jr., duly executed (not recorded), certainly
remained with the deed to Ryer Schermer-
hoorn, or among his papers. I notice the seal
is ofif. It would argue that this deed was
never delivered. I think the conclusion irresist-
ible, that about this time, Hendrick Beeckman
bougiit the land on the Raritan river from the
heirs of Ryer Schermerhoorn."
I have quoted Mr. Riker's reasoning in full.
He did not know that Hendrick Beekman had
bought the lot next to Schermerhoorn on the
west, in latter ])art of 1710. In his description
of Schermerhoorn's tract, Coenraats's lands
are named as on west side, which shows that
Hendrick Beekman purchased his tract after
Schermerhoorn, for Ryer Schermerhoorn is
named as owner of the east tract in deed to
Hendrick Beekman. His reasoning, however,
shows when Hendrick Beekman got the sec-
ond tract, and so made up the five hundred
acres which his suns divided in 1735.
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Lucas Schermerhoorn, the brother, had a
right of "six years possession" after Ryer"s
death. There is httle doubt hut wiiat liend-
rick Beeknian assumed the obhgatiuii t>f his
nephew. Johannes Beecknian Jr.. of Albany,
who had a deed for one-half of this two hun-
dred and fifty acres from \'olkert Symonsen
and wife, who were devisees under the will of
Kyer Schermerhoorn. Tlie three W'cni]) chil-
dren were entitled to the other half, and no
doubt deeded this to Hendrick Reekman. so
he became owner of the five liundreil acres,
oi two of Coenraats' tracts.
Marten Beekman, eldest son of Hendrick
Beekman and Annitje Ouackenboss, his wife,
married June 21. 1724, Elizabeth (born 1700,
died November 27, 1760), daughter of Samuel
Waldron and Xeeltje Bloodgood. his wife, of
Harlem. New York, and died on his farm in
Somerset county. Xew Jersey, October 2j,
1757, intestate. He left five children surviving:
I. Elizabeth, born August 30, 1725; married
Frances Brazier, of Raritan Landing; died
November g, 1810; buried by her husband, in
Episcopal churchyard at Xew Brunswick, Xew
Jersey. 2. Hendrick, born March 24, 1727;
married f'hoebe P)loomfield ; died intestate on
his farm. January 26, 1796, leaving eight chil-
dren who are named with some of their de-
scendants in the "New York Gen, and Biogh.
Record," 1897. pp. 52-55. Also same publi-
cation for year 1899, pp. 83-84. 3. Samuel^
born November 26, 1729; married, December
5, 1765, Elizabeth (born January 29, 1744.
died .April 7. 1806). daughter of Samuel Wald-
ron and .Annake Delamater, his wife, of New-
town. Long Island. Ann Delamater was a
daughter of Johannes Delamater, of Harlem.
New York, whose will was proved March 24,
1743. (See Abstract of Wills, vol. 3, p. 424.
"Collections of New York His. Society," for
1894). Samuel Beekman died on his farm in
Somerset county. New Jersey, October 19,
1808. He left a will now on record in surro-
gate's office of Somerset county. New Jersey.
4. Annitje, born June 28, 1734; married, No-
vember 12, 1766, Johannes Waldron; died Sep-
tember 5. 1795, leaving one daughter surviving.
5. John, born November 5. 1741 ; married, July
30, 1769, .Arriantje, daughter of Cornelius
Tunison, whose will is recorded at Trenton.
New Jersey, in book 34, of wills, p. 341. He
names three of John Reekman"s and his daugh-
ter's children in this will. John Beeknian died
March 19, 1789, leaving a will now recorded
at Trenton. New Jersey, in book 30. of wills.
]). 22^. etc. Genealogy of children and descend-
ants of John Beeknian for several generations
is published in ".Xew York Genealogical and
Biography Record." year 1897. PP- i5t>-'59-
.\lso .see same ])ublication for year 1902,
p. 45. Cornelius Beekman. a resident of
iack.sonville, Oregon, and a well known citizen
there during latter part of nineteenth century,
is a lineal descendant oi above Jcjhn Beekman.
Several of his descendants also resided during
same time in City of I'atli. New York, and in
Steuben county, same state.
Samuel Beekman, eldest son of Samuel
Beekman and Elizabeth Waldron, above
named, was born on the farm along Raritan
river, in Somerset county. New Jersey, Sep-
tember 21. I7C)6, and died on his farm near
Harlingen, same comity, March 4, 1750;
buried in old graveyard of Harlingen. where
many of his descendants are interred. He was
an active member of the Harlingen Dutch
Church, serving as deacon and elder. He was
chairman of the building committee which
erected the church edifice in 1804, at what is
now Flarlingen village. He married Helena
( born on Ten Broeck farm, near Harlingen,
January 26, 1768, died on same farm, where
she had always lived, February 15, 1855),
youngest child of Cornelius Ten Broeck and
Margaret Louw his wife. (See genealogy of
this branch of Ten Broecks in "(Genealogical
and Biographical Record of New York," for
year 1888, pp. 69-77, by Cornelius H. Van
Caasbeek. of Kingston. New York). Samuel
Beekman served many years as captain of a
cavalry company, which the young farmers
in that part of Somerset county had organized.
I: was for this reason he was called "Captain"
during all latter years of his life. He also
served several years as collector of taxes, and
in other township and county offices.
.Samuel Beekman and Helena Ten Broeck,
his wife, had nine children, viz. : four sons
and five daughters. .All of them grew up,
married and had children, except their young-
est daughter, who died young. For full
account of their eight children together with
some of their descendants who reside in the
state of Illinois, (.see vol. xvi, of "The New
York (]Ienealogical and Biographical Record,"
pp. 133-137. entitled "Record of a Branch of
Beekman Family in New Jersey, New York
and Illinois." I The eight children of Samuel
Beekman antl Helena Ten linx-ck his wife were
all born in the first brick house erected in
this part of Somerset county. Cornelius Ten
Broeck owned a farm of four hundred and
twenty-seven acres which had been purchased
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by his father, Jacob Ten Broeck, of Kingston,
New York. Cornelius Ten Broeck had clay
dug on this farm, and the brick burned by two
(ierman or French brick makers. John Scott
a mason, did all the mason work in years 1764-
5, when dwelling was completed. The dwell-
ing is yet standing, (1910). All of Samuel
Beekman's children were born in this house.
His third son was born April 10, 1801, and
was named by his mother for her eldest
brother, Jacob Ten Broeck, who was born
February 12, 1750, and March 7 following
was baptized at dwelling of Simon \''an Arts-
dalen, in Somerset county. New Jersey, by
Rev. John Leight, a clergyman of the Dutch
Church. The Dutch language was used at
that time, and after the ceremony was over,
the dominie and all present were invited to a
good dinner at the home of the parents. Jacob
I'en Broeck grew up a very strong, active man.
and very obedient to his parents. He was
twenty-si.x years old and engaged to be mar-
ried to a girl named Ten Eyck, who was all
his parents could wish for a wife. In the
summer of 1776 he went out with the Jersey
militia, and was stationed with this company
at Paulus Hook, as the region about what is
now Jersey City was then called. Here, Sep-
tember 18 or 19, 1776, he was seized with
some kind of burning or malignant fever. At
this time the American army had been defeated
on Long Island, and New York City was in
the occupation of the British army. The sick
in the camp at I'aulus Hook cou'd 110 longer
be sent over the Hudson river to the hospitals
there. The upper bay was black with the
British men-of-war and transport ships. The
detachment at Paulus Hook was in great dan-
ger of an attack by an overwhelming force.
Cut off from all communication with the main
army under Cen. Washington, the nfficers did
not know what to do. L'nder'such disjiiriting
circumstances and suffering from a burning
fever. Jacob Ten Broeck was granted leave
of absence to go home. Unable to walk, he
obtained a horse and rode from Paulus Hook
to his home near Harlingen. He reached his
father's house September 21 in a pitable con-
dition. A physician was at once called in and
everything possible done to save his life.
Fever, exposure and neglect had done its work.
Two weeks after reaching home, on October
5, 1776, he died. His parents never recovered
from the loss of their first born son. The
reverses suffered liy the .\merican army at
this period added to their sorrow and gloom.
It seemed to them that his life had been use-
lessly sacrificed in the morn of his manhood. 1
Helena, his youngest sister, was then eight
years old, and was deeply atTected by his death
and the heart breaking grief of her parents.
When eighty years of age she spoke of it as
the most unhappy period of her life. Soon
after his death, the British army, in all their
g!or}', with bands of music, passed through
Princeton, within three miles of her home, in
hot pursuit of (jen, Washington and the rem-
nant of his ragged troops. In memory of this
brother, she named her third son Jacob Ten
Broeck Beekman. He was born April 10,
1801. in the brick farm house erected by her
father on his farm near Harlingen in years
1764-5. This house is still standing and in
use. He died at Middletown village, Mon-
mouth county, April 2T,. 1875. A picture of
this last house with a brief history of same
can be seen in the "Historical and Biographical
Atlas of the New Jersey Coast." pp. 1 13-14;
also a good likeness of Air. Beekman, from a
photograph taken when he was sixty-five years
old, is shown on [jage 117 of same publication.
He married, h\'bruary 12. 1833, Ann (born
February 22. 1801, died May 18. 1876). daugh-
ter of George Crawford and Eleanor Schanck,
his second wife. A complete genealogy of this
Crawford family is given in the "Scott Family
of Shrewsljurv," pji. 17-25, bv Rev. .•\. C.
Cole.
Jacob T. 1j. Beekman graduated at Union
College, Schenectady; entered Theological
Seminary at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and
was licensed as a minister of Reformed Dutch
church in 1826. He was called the same year
as pastor of the Dutch church then located in
what was the old township of Middletown,
Monmouth county, but afterwards taken off
t ■ form what is now Holmdel township. Here
he served ten years, content, as he once
remarked to his friend Rev. Garret C. Schenck,
with "stipends sufficient to pay the board of
hnnself and his horse." He also did consider-
able missionary service through Monmouth
county, which then included the county of
Ocean. He rode about on horseback, preach-
ing in school houses and sometimes in barns.
In 1836 he severed his connections with the
llolmdei Dutch church and took up his perma-
nent residence in the village of Middletown,
where he resided the rest of his life. The
first Baptist church in what is now the state
of New Jersey had been organized in this
])lacc. The population of English descent were
strong believers in baptism by immersion.
Even in the coldest winters they would cut
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lioles through the ice of tlie nearest mill pond
1(1 baptize their converts. The Dutch church
at Ilolmdel, then called the Middletown Dutch
Church, was five miles distant by the public
road from Middletown village. With the good
will of four or five farmers of Dutch descent,
named Hendrickson. Luyster and Couwen-
hoven, residing on farms over a mile west
from Middletown \illage, it was resolved to
purchase a lot and erect a church in this vil-
lage. Many people ridiculed the idea of build-
ing a church when there was no congregation
to fill it or support a minister : others said,
"the people here are all ISaptists and they will
not attend a church where ])eopIe are sprinkled
with a few drops of water." L'ndisturbed by
the clamors, Mr. Ileekman went on. A lot
was bought and a church was built. He gave
freely of his time, labor and means. He even
borrow'ed $500 on his individual note, to pay
some of the final indebtedness. When the edi-
fice was completed, Mr. P>eekman gave public
notice that he would preach every .Sunday, and
invited the people to attend, assuring all of
a welcome. Attracted more by curiosity than
piety, a large number of people attended, for
there was nothing to pay. Not only on that
Sunday but for nearly three years following,
he preached without any salary or other per-
(;uisites. In that time he had gathered a con-
gregation able and willing to supjiort an
unmarried man as pastor. Mr. r.eekman
secured a young and single man named Craw-
ford to serve as their first regularly installed
pastor at a stated salary. During the three
years Mr. Reekman preached, he had the care
of conducting a farm and other business. In
the year 1837 he lost an infant daughter.
Three years before, his first born, a son.
named Edwin, died. The graves of those two
children, with headstones giving their names
and dates of death, may be seen to-day in the
yard behind this church. They were among
the first interments in this burying-ground
^Ir. Pieekman's funeral was held in this church.
and was the only thing he ever received fm-
bis sacrifices and services. It was, however.
now too small to seat the crowd of people who
turned out to pay their last respects to the
n;eniory of "Dominie lleekman/' as he was
generally called.
Mr. Heekman, later in life, jireached many
years at Port Washington, as Oceanic was
then called. He also preached at one time for
a church in New York City and elsewhere.
He never refused to jjreach the funerals of
the colored ]jeople when requested.
George Crawford I'>cckman was his third
son, anil named for his maternal grandfather.
He was born July 2, 1839, in same dwelling
where his mother was born and had always
resided at west end of Middletown village.
This house was accidentally burned flown in
1892. At age of fifteen he entered the freshman
class of Princeton College, and graduated in
class of 1859, receiving the degrees of A. B.
and A. M. in course. He entered his name
as a student of law in the ofiice of Joel Parker,
of Freehold, Monmouth county. His first
vote was cast the same year for the three
Douglas electors on the ])residential ticket,
erasing the other four electors. The leading
politicians of three parties had made this
ticket without regard to principle or patriot-
ism. He erased its four electors who repre-
sented the ultra-southern pro-slavery Democ-
racy and the "Know Nothing" party, as
called. He did this without knowing or even
considering that a majority of the New Jersey
Democrats would vote the same way. He was
therefore surprised when he found that these
three electors were the only ones chosen. The
good sense and instinct of the masses was
clearly demonstrated in this unexpected result.
Soon after, when South Carolina passed her
act of secession, he wrote an article for the
Republican paper at Freehold, now known as
the Monmouth Inquirer. The article was
signed ".A Jackson Democrat," and expressed
his views as to what would be the result if they
were permitted to dissolve the Union peace-
ably, as then advocated by Horace Greeley, in
the Tribune. This article attracted consider-
able attention, and evoked a savage criticism
from James S, Yard, editor and owner of the
Monmouth Democrat. He assumed the article
was u ritten by a "Truculent .Abolitionist."
Mr. lieekman was licensed by the supreme
court of New Jersey in 1863 as an attorney at
law, and three years later as a counsellor.
Joel Parker was elected governor of New Jer-
sev in 1863: debarred from practice of law,
lie kindl}- permitted Mr. I'.eekman to use his law
office and library at Freehold during his term.
The first three or four years of a young law-
yer's practice is generally discouraging. Peo-
]5le fear to trust a lawyer without experience.
The many reverses sustained by the I'nion
armies and the enlistment of so many of the
citizens of New Jersey greatly aflfected law
business, .\fter the war ended, the demoraliza-
tion of camp life and war caused a great
increase of civil and criminal business. The
su()reme court justice whose circuit included
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Monmouth, Aliddlesex and Ocean counties,
could not find time to try all the cases in the
common pleas and orphan's courts of Mon-
mouth county. The apjieals and other business
had accumulated for two years. In the winter
of 18(19 the Jersey legislature passed an act
authorizing the appointment of a "law judge"
for JMonmouth county, with an annual salary
of $i,Soo. The act prohibited the incumbent
from jjractice of law during his term. Mr.
Beekman was the first judge to occupy this
position in Monmouth county. In absence of
the supreme court justice the law judge pre-
sided over the inferior court of common pleas,
the court of general quarter sessions of the
peace and the orphan's court. The first two
years he was fully occupied in the trials of
the accumulated cases and such new business
as came in, the third year he had only the new
business, and this did not occupy the courts
over two m(.)nths of continuous time during
the year. At tlie last court over which he pre-
sided only thirteen indictments were found by
the grand jury. The defendants all plead
guilty, as the records of the court in the clerk's
ofiice of ^lonmouth county will show. As he
was debarred from practice of law and had no
other business, he spent considerable of his
time in searching the old records of Mon-
mouth county in the clerk's office. He found
considerable information, showing where the
first settlers in Monmouth came from, how
the early courts were constituted and who
were the judges, etc. ; also the disputes between
the Scotch and English settlers, and other facts
of interest. Some of these researches he gave
to James S. Yard, who published them from
week to week in his news])aper. This was
purely a labor of love as Mr. Beekman received
no compensation and expected none. At a
later date Mr. Yard had these articles, with
others written by Hon. Edwin Salter, and
some comjMled by himself, bound together in
books, entitled "(3ld Times in Old Monmouth,"
and ]3ut on the market at five dollars per copy.
In making these researches in the clerk's
office, he came across the name of Mordecai
Lincoln as a resident of Monmouth county
between 1707 and 1718. He married Hannah,
only daughter of Richard Salter and Sarah
Bowne, his wife. Sarah Bowne was one of
the three daughters of Captain John Bowne
and Lydia Holmes, his wife. Slie was born
November 27, i6()(j. John Bowne was one of
the leading men who procured the Monmouth
patent from Richard Nicholls in 1665, and
was one of the leading men in the settlement
of Middletown and Shrewsbury. Hannah
Salter, wife of Mordecai Lincoln, had a
brother named Richard Salter, who was chief
justice of the supreme court of New Jersey
between 1750 and his death. Mordecai Lin-
coln, with his family, removed in 1718 from
Monmouth county over into what was then
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, at a place
some sixty odd miles west of Philadelphia.
He had a son named John, who removed to
Rockingham county, Virginia. One of John's
sons migrated over into Kentucky where Abra-
ham Lincoln was born.
During the three years Mr. Beekman served
as judge he tried many civil and criminal
cases as the court records in the clerk's office
will show. Only a few were carried to the
higher courts for review. None of these were
reversed or even modified, but were all
affirmed. Becoining weary of the idleness
and restraints of this office, Mr. Beekman
resigned it in the winter of 1873. His explana-
tion to the lawyers and their remarks at the
last court over which he presided were pub-
lished in full in the Monmouth Democrat of
that week. If any one has any curiosity about
this matter, the files of that paper for the
year 1873, in the Monmouth clerk's office, will
fully gratify them.
He at once resumed the [practice of law at
Freehold. The first important case in which
he was employed was the famous Allaire will
case, which had been in litigation in New York
many years. LInder the management of an
able Chicago lawyer it had been brought over
into New Jersey, as the lands lay in Monmouth
and Ocean counties. George C. Ludlow, after-
wards governor of New Jersey, and Courtland
Parker, a celebrated Newark lawyer, were
the lawyers for the last wife and her child.
' )wing to an indispensable call on the Chicago
h'.wyer, he was obliged to leave the burden of
making reply to above named lawyers and it
fell on Mr. Beekman. The jury found a ver-
dict for his client, but it was afterwards set
aside by the supreme court and they never got
another. The next important case, extending
through four years, in which the whole man-
agement devolved upon him, was against a
defaulting tax collector of Freehold township,
Monmouth county. He was a man who had
been active in the Republican party for many
years, had held township offices and served
also as one of the inspectors of the New Jersey
states prison under the Republican party. He
also had four or five brothers residing in
Monmouth. Some were men of influence in
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the Republican party, and otlicrs in the Dem-
ocratic party. One of these brothers had
served as keeper of the Sandy Hook Hghthouse
some fifteen or twenty consecutive years inulcr
the Repubhcan party. Another brother named
Austin, had held coimty offices under the Dem-
ocratic party, who had alsosent him to the New
Jersey legislature, where he served one term as
s])eaker of the house. He also had two or
three other brothers who were (|uite prominent
and influential, some in the church and snme
in business.
George \\\ Patterson, prior to the close of
the civil war, had been an active worker in the
Republican party. After serving one or two
terms as inspector of the criminals in the
Xew Jersey state prison, he was refused
reappointment. He then came over to the
Democratic party and was elected in the
spring of 1871 tax collector of Freehokler
township, iMonmouth county. He gave eight
men, chiefly farmers advanced in years, as
securities on his bond. They signed through
good will, and at his request without compen-
sation. The next year he was again elected,
and again for the third time in the spring of
1873. Some new men went on his bonds, and
some of the old sureties continued to sign
in each of these three years.
He had sometime prior to first election
engaged in the hotel business at Freehold. A
man named \\'ade Johnson, who had kept a
livery stable at Freehold many years and
accumulated a capital of about $8,000, was
persuaded by Patterson to become his partner
and buy the Union Hotel at Freehold. This
was an old and first-class hotel prior to their
purchase. As Johnson put in most of the
capital his name headed the firm as Johnson
& Patterson. Patterson was a liberal land-
lord and popular with the politicians and boys.
In April, 1874, LaFayette Conover, a friendly
creditor of Patterson, filed a petition in the
United States court at Trenton, Xew Jersey,
to adjudge him a bankrupt. Patterson soon
after filed a list of his individual indebtedness.
It amounted to 824,000. Among his creditors
named were Stewart Brown, of Freehold ; Bill
Warrick, of Hightstown ; and a man named
Reynolds, of Newark: all three money lenders,
or "bonus men,'' as popularly called. The
amount owing to these three men amoinited to
about Si 0.000, showing that Patter.son had been
paying excessive sums for their loans. Pat-
terson's assets were only a few worthless
notes. \\'ade Johnson lost all his ca])ital in the
bankruptcy of his [)artner and soon after died
a poor man.
.-\bout this time the township committee of
h'reehold discovered tliat there was a shortage
of nearly Sio.ooo in the ta.xes and school money
collected in the year 1873. Three of his old
sureties and four new ones signed Patterson's
bond as collector for the year 1873. They
were all men advanced in years, who signed
at Patterson's reiiuest, and through good will.
At this time there was no sus])icion of any
embezzlement during the first two years, Pat-
terson had collected on the duplicate of taxes
and school money in year 1873 nearly $40,000.
In the spring of 1874 the township committee
found a shortage of nearly Sio.ooo, or one-
fourth of the whole amount collected. The
sureties were men sujjposed to be worth no less
than $5,000 and not over $20,000. Patterson
kept no books and his accounts were greatly
tangled. He seemed to retain his influence
over these sureties, and they were induced to
believe that they could escape their liability
as bondsmen and that no jury would find a
verdict against them. They were all old resi-
dents, and largely connected by blood or inter-
marriage with other prominent farmers of
Freehold township. The township committee
were compelled to direct a suit at law against
them. Mr. Beekman instituted the suit against
George \V. Patterson and his seven sureties
then living on the bond signed by them in
March, 1873, '" the supreme court of New
Jersey. They shrewdly employed two of the
leading lawyers of the county to defend them,
one was Charles Ilaight, a leader of the Demo-
cratic party, and the other William \'reden-
burgh, a leading man in the Republican party.
The suit was instituted in June, 1874, and w-as
not ended until 1878, or four years later. In
that time six of the sureties on the different
bonds were dead. Knowing that the numerous
defendants and their relatives had considerable
irfluence and that many of the men who made
[)olitics a business, sympathized with Patter-
son. Mr. Beekman ajjplied to the supreme
court for a struck jury to try this cause. This
application was granted and twenty-four of
the most intelligent and upright men answered
to their names in January term of 1875, when
the case came on for trial. Twelve of these
men were sworn as jurors, each side having
their usual number of challenges. The trial
lasted nine days. Mr. lieekman was counsel
for the township, while Air. Ilaight and Air.
\redenburgh represented the defendants.
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STATE ()F NEW JERSEY.
George \A'. Patterson was the first witness
called for the defendants. The jury retired
at 2 o'clock p. ni. nf January 23. 1875, and
returned at 6 o'clock the same afternoon,
rendering a verdict for the township of Free-
hold against George W. Patterson and his
bondsmen of 1873 for $9,223.59. The De-
fendant's counsel, Mr. \'redenburgh. had
excepted to some evidence offered Ijy ])laintift
during the trial, as to a certain amount of
school money received by Patterson and not
accounted for; that this money was received
in 1872, and was chargeable against the laonds-
men of that year. As no charge had been
made and not even any suspicions entertained
that Patterson had embezzled any money dur-
ing the first two years, this objection was over-
ruled by the court, and exception taken by
counsel of defendants. On rule to show cause,
obtained by Mr. Vredenburgh, evidence was
taken which clearly established the fact that
this money was taken in 1872, and the bonds-
men of that year were liable. Lender tliis state
of facts the supreme court set aside the verdict
and granted a new trial. This objection of the
defendant, and tlie new trial, directed close
attention to his accounts in years 1871 and
1872. It was discovered that Patterson had
pilfered over $1,400 of tax money in 1871, and
over $2,000 in 1872. (")n March 4, 1876, two
suits were instituted on bonds of 1871 and
1872. The supreme court justice, on his own
motion, referreil all these suits to Joseph D.
Redle, who had served as a supreme court
justice and as governor of New Jersey. He
heard evidence and counsel on both sides and
made his report April 27, 1877, on the three
cases. He reported ,$1,404.59 embezzled by
Patterson in 1871 for which his bondsmen of
that year were liable, with interest from June
13, 1874. He reported $2,226.93 taken in 1872,
and $9,460.96 embezzled by the collector in
1873, for which the respective bondsmen of
these years were liable, with interest from
June 13, 1874. Exceptions were filed by the
<lefen(lants to these reports which made a jury
trial necessary and comjuilsory. The bonds-
men on the two bonds of 1871 and 1872 would
never have been sued but for the discovery
made and brought to light on the trial of the
1873 bondsmen by their own lawyers. Now
the same lawyers are fighting to relieve them
from their liability. Not willing to go before
the ordinary jurors called by tlie sheriff', on
account of the number and infiuence of somanv
defeuilants and their numerous relatives and
friends, Mr. LJeekman again applied for struck
juries in all three cases. These jurors was
struck at Mr. E. W. Scudder's residence in the
city of Trenton, on September 6, 1877, at 7:30
o'clock p. m. C'ne hundred and forty- four
men were selected from residents in Monmouth
ct'unty by the justice. The respective counsel
could each strike oft' any twelve persons out of
the forty-eight, leaving twenty-four for each
case to be returned by the sheriff'. As three
cases were to be tried, forty-eight men selected
in each case by the justice and reduced by the
lawyers to twenty-four men, made it neces-
sary for the sheriff' of Monmouth county to
summon seventy-two men. The three trials
came on at the courthouse in Freehold, Octo-
ber 2, 1877. The same lawyers appeared for
defendants in each cause. These juries were
impannelled in due order, beginning with the
bondsmen of 1871, and ending with bondsmen
of 1873. The verdicts confirmed the reports of
the referee, J. D. Bedle, except a little more
interest had become due. If the bondsmen of
1873 had made no fight, the smaller defalca-
tions of 1871 and 1872 would never have been
discovered, and the bondsmen in those years
would have escaped all trouble. Hugh Alana-
han. William B. Sutphin. David C, Dancer,
C hristopher Probasco, Adam Marcellus and
Richard Davis were among the bondsmen -of
George W. Patterson who died while this liti-
gation was ])ending, and prior to any payments
b) them to the township. The death of Wade
Johnson, and all these men, followed directly
on the heels of Patterson's bankruptcy. Alto-
gether, of twelve men who signed as bondsmen
f(^r Patterson during those three years, only six
survived, who were young in years and better
able to stand the trouble. It was a hard and
bitter fight, but it established a precedent, that
sureties on official bonds must be held respon-
sible, in spite of sympathy. In no other way
could innocent taxpayers be protected.
Another case tried during those years and
finally adjudicated in the New Jersey supreme
court, is reported in loth \'room, of the Law
Reports of the State, page 22, etc., entitled
Stewart Brown vs. Mcintosh. The court here
decides that illegal interest or bonus money on
loans can be recovered back from the Shylock,
or note shaver. Mr. Beekman obtained this
decision for his client, Mcintosh, after litiga-
tion lasting some three years. It made the
statute law clear, and had the effect of break-
ing up or crip]iling the open and notorious way,
this usury business had been carried on in New-
Jersey.
The case of Thomas Stout against estate of
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] k'lii V Seabrook, deceased, was another case
u liich apjjears in the Xew Jersey Law Reports,
in which Mr. Beekman represented the widow,
who was executrix under tlie will of her hus-
band. She knew nothing uf her husband's busi-
ness, which he had carried on at Keyport, in
Monmouth county. The plaintilT"s brother-in-
law. Walling, had been a partner of .Seabrook
at one time, and later his clerk up to his death.
Stout's son had also been a clerk in his store.
These two men, close relatives of Stout, knew
all about his business, while the widow was
wholly ignorant of it. An ini])ortant account
book which Seabrook kept was missing and
could not be found by the executrix, while,
strange as it may appear, the plaintiff had a
copy of it made by his son, while clerk. Stout
employed J. D. Bedle, who had been governor
of Xew Jersey and a supreme court justice, also
other able lawyers. The widow and executrix
placed the whole matter in Mr. Beekman's
hands, saying she knew nothing about the busi-
ness, and he must do the best he could. I f the
claim was just, she wanted to pay it, but if
wrong, she wanted to reject it. It seemed
suspicious to her, but whatever the courts of
New Jersey adjudged, she was willing to abide
by. She was a remarkably intelligent woman,
and a public speaker on church and temperance
work. She left, however, the whole case in
her lawyer's hands, and seemed wholly uncon-
cerned as to the result. She never came near
him during the progress of the case, or made
any in([uiry as to how he was getting along
with it. After the final decision of the last
court, she wrote a very touching letter, saying
that she had placed implicit trust in Providence,
and at no time had worried as to the result.
Mrs. Teresa AX'alling Seabrook was a well-
known woman, and highly respected tiirough-
out Monmouth county.
One of the hardest and most bitterly contest-
ed cases in which he was ever engaged, was
that brought by John W. (iaskell, a school
teacher, at Englishtown, in Monmouth county,
against Rev. Charles Everitt, a Presbyterian
minister. Rev. Percy Perinchief. a Methodist
preacher, Charles S. Tunis, (jarrct R. Conover,
Luther \'. Dey and William (1. Conover, de-
fendants, who resided at or near Englishtown.
Manalapan township, Monmouth county. The
suit was for libel, and 815,000 damages were
claimed for the injury to (iaskell's feelings
and reputation. F"or some reasons, consider-
able iiolitical feeling was aroused, and a num-
ber of pri>minent politicians sided with (jaskell.
Mr. Beekman tried hard to get a struck jury.
but for some unaccountable reason, which he
could not discover, his application was denied.
The community about luiglishtown was "all
agog" and greatly excited over this trial. Mark
.Sooy, a ])rominent lawyer of Mount Holly, was
associated with Mr. Beekman. The defendants,
outside of the two clergymen were respectable
farmers and business men residing at or near
Englishtown, all were men with families and
children. They had preferred charges against
Gaskell in writing to the school trustees of the
Englishtown school, asking for his removal as
teacher because of his bad character for chastity
and because of his introducing a book or novel,
called the "Last Days of Pompeii," which de-
scribed some of the vices and licentious customs
of the people of that city. He had, as was proved,
read this book to girls between twelve and
sixteen, pupils of his school, and also recom-
mended others to buy and read it. This last
charge was not denied. John Laird, a promi-
nent leader of the Democratic party, sided
with (iaskell, and his influence with school
trustees prevented action adverse to the teacher.
They then, as a committee representing the
parents of the children, appealed to Rev. Sam-
uel Lockwood, county superintendent of
schools. Fie was also a Democrat, and had no
other income except that derived from this
office. He also refused to remove Gaskell. This
case came on at Freehold in May, 1889. The
general panel of jurors, as selected by the
sheriff, were men having little sympathy for or
association with clergymen. They knew little
about the curriculum prescribed in the public
schools, and were objectable for other reasons
known to defendants' lawyers. The wonder
increased why a struck jury had been denied
iu such a case. The fuiestion involved recjuired
educated and intelligent men. The jurors im-
pannelled were better qualified to decide how
horses, cattle and hogs should be raised, than
the duties of school teacher and what books
girls should study in our public schools. Sev-
eral of the defendants had daughters who at-
tended this school, and who had read the "Last
Days of Pompeii," under (Jaskell's directions,
as was proved and not denied. One of the
jurors on this ])anel had served a term in states
prison from Middlesex county, as was dis-
covered after trial was over. The defendants
proved by several witnesses that Gaskell's gen-
eral character for chastity was bad at Eng-
lishtown. A number of witnesses from Eaton-
town swore his character for chastity was bad
when he was teaching school there. The jurors,
however, sympathized with Gaskell, as a man
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after their own hearts, who hail been greatly
damaged by those "bad ministers and dissolute
parents"' and adjudged he had been damaged
"two thousand dollars." The court, however,
cut this amount down to $i,ooo.
Mr. Beekman. during the forty years of
practice at Freehold, tried many other civil and
criminal cases, some of which attracted great
public interest and involved important interests.
The New Jersey Law and Ecjuity Reports
show some of these cases, but the great major-
ity were never carrietl out of the county courts
of Monmouth. The court minutes in county
clerk's office will show these cases and results.
In 1876 Mr. Beekman was sent as a delegate
by the convention of Democrats held at Tren-
ton, to the ]M-esidential convention of the na-
tional Democratic party held at St. Louis.
Joel Parker, who had twice served as governor
of New Jersey, was thought to have a good
chance for the nomination of vice-president
if a western man was nominated for president.
The convention was strongly in favor of Mr.
Parker, and would send only men, as delegates,
who were sincere. All the men selected, pro-
fessed fidelity for I'arker, but afterwards, as
it turned out, did so only to receive the posi-
tion. At heart they were for ^Iv. Tilden, of
New York, and even in communcation with his
agents. This was the first presidential conven-
tion Mr. Beekman had ever attended, and he
supposed the proceedings would be conducted
with fairness and dignity. Instead of any fair-
ness, or expression of the honest sentiments of
the delegates, it was a gathering of men from
every part of the Lnited States wholly unac-
quainted, and so scattered about the city of St.
Louis, that they cauld not get ac(|uainted or
exchange views. In the three or four days
fixed for the meeting, the men of New York
City, Chicago, Baltimore and other great cities
had formed their plans and made all arrange-
ments for the nomination of Mr. Tilden.
Hendricks, of Indiana, was the real man who
shoukl have been nominated. I le was the
logical candidate and would have been elected,
for the west held the balance of political power.
Nor would the Republican party have dared
to count him out. Yet so well had the friends
of Tilden controlled all avenues of news, that
not a single jiaper in St. Louis would publish
anything in Hendrick's interest. So with other
sources of influence, or deliberation by the con-
vention itself, it was all cut and dried to nomi-
nate Tilden. There was no consideration, de-
liberation, or exchange of views, by the mass
of delegates in the convention. If Hendricks
had been nominated the vice-presidency would
have, beyond any doubt, failed on Joel Parker.
There was no other eastern man with his war
record ; and, m fact, no eastern man was a
c;mdidate. Many of the delegates from Jersey
who had professed such friendship for Parker
now ridiculed his aspirations and would not
1-iSten to the nomination of Hendricks, or any
other western man. The vote of New Jersey
cast firmly for Hendricks at the beginning,
would have, in all probability, changed the re-
sult. Parker never had the ghost of a chance
for the nomination as president. The Repub-
lican party had for years nominated western
men, knowing that the political power lay there
and not in the eastern states. The Democratic
party could have nominated a western man
like Hendricks, and then Joel Parker, in all
probability, would have been nominated as
vice-president. This ticket would have been
elected, and the Rei)ublican politicians would
never dared to count them out. This want of
all deliberation, the stifling of discussion, and
unfair management, changed Mr. Beekman's
opinions on the subject of "Democracy." Then
and there, on the west side of the Mississippi
river, and in the centre of the United States,
he resolvetl never to take part in another Dem-
ocratic convention in the county or state under
party call. All his former ideas of Democracy
were revolutionized and upset.
In 1878 Holmes W. Murphy was a candidate
for the nomination of state senator by the Dem-
ocratic county convention. He had held the
profitable office of count}- clerk for two terms
of five years each, and also had been clerk of
the board of chosen freeholders of Monmouth
county for many years. The nominations of
the Democratic party for county offices had
been equivalent to their election ever since
Ocean county had been set oiT in 1850. The
majority of the Democrats in the county
range<l from one thousand to two thousand, or
anywhere between. The county clerk's office
was the most profitable office, and supposed
to be w'orth some $20,000 yearly. At all events
Mr. Murphy had become a rich man from this
office. At this time there was a bitter feeling
in the shore townships, which now had the
greater population, against the continued mo-
nopolization, by a ring of politicians at Free-
hold, of all the profitable and honorable offices.
This feeling was an old one, and there was
good reason for it, ^ir. ^lurphy, especially,
had held one of the most profitable offices for
a decade and now asked for an office of high
honor. George W. Patterson had become a
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resident of Asbiiry Park, and come up with a
lot of his friends from Ocean and other shore
townsliips. Perceiving the then bitter feeling
against the "Freehold ring," as it was called,
he was proposed as a candidate, in the midst
of intense excitement. "Down with the Free-
hold ring" was the cry. In the midst of it the
vote was taken. "Anything to beat the Free-
hold ring," and George W . Patterson received
a majority of the votes and was declared the
regular nominee of the Democratic party of
Monmouth county for the honorable office of
state senator. Mr. Beekman has taken no part
or any action in the conventions of the Demo-
crats since his trip to St. Louis. He had then
j.ublicly declared he was no longer a party man
of either party, but an uidependent voter. Mr.
George \V. Patterson's nomination excited
great wonder and perplexity. The Republican
convention was called to meet at Freehold.
October 12, 1878, or about three weeks before
the election. Many of the old Democrats, all
native born Monmouth county men. were dis-
gusted with the nomination of a former Re-
publican and an official who had let his friends
and sureties suffer for his defalcations. They
arranged to hold a meeting in the grand jury
room at Freehold on the same day the Repub-
lican convention met. At eleven o'clock a. m.
many old whiteheaded men, who had been
Democrats all their lives, gathered from all
over the county in the grand jury room. Men
who bore honorable names and who were re-
spected by all who knew them. The names of
many of these men were printed in the Free-
hold newspapers of that week. The conven-
tion was opened with prayer by the venerable
Kev. Garret C. Schenck, on unprecedented
things in political conventions of Monmouth
county. After organization, on motion of Ed-
ward Ilartshorne, a committee of seven were
appointed to draft resolutions ex])ressing the
views of the conventions. Mr. lleekman was
named as chairman of this committee, and
drew the resolutions, which after due delibera-
tion were reported and unanimously adopted :
1st. In substance, they strongly condemned
the meddling with or control of government
and legislation by railroad and other corjjcjra-
tions as destruction to justice, the interests and
rights of the people.
2nd. They demanded a system of taxation
which would fall e(|ually on all property,
whether owned by corporations or by the in-
dividual.
3rd. Payment of fixed salaries to all public
officers, instead of fees, which shnuld go into
the public treasury.
4th. Abolishment of all sinacures and im-
necessary offices.
5th. Repeal of act directing the pulilicatiun
of the session laws in the newspa])ers at annual
cost to the state of Xew Jersey of some seventy
thousand dollars.
6th. Simplification of our judicial system,
so that justice could not be delayed or juggled.
/th. Amendment of the bribery laws, so
that either the bribe giver or bribe taker could
be convicted and punished.
8th. Sale of lands by the sheriff advertised
in one newspaijer. nearest to the premises, and
by a general description, so that the poor
debtors could be saved from this outrageous
newspaper graft.
The committee appointed to select candi-
dates reported Chillian Robbins, a lifelong Re-
publican and an able lawyer, for state senator ;
William Segoine, a land surveyor, for county
clerk : and N'anderveer Dubois, a farmer, for
sheriff. The two named last were lifelong
Democrats. Both conventions were well satis-
fied with these candidates, but Mr. Robbins
was undecided, and wished to consult some of
his party friends like ex-Governor Newell,
who was present in the Republican convention.
This took time and it was getting along in the
afternoon before Mr. Robbins decided not to
accept. The nomination was then oft'ered to
two other Republicans in turn — ]\lr. William
\'redenburgh and John J. Ely, who also de-
clined. The majority of the (lelegates in both
conventions were from the shore townships and
obliged to leave on the last train, which went
out at 4:30 o'clock p. m. If no nominations
were agreed on it would be impossible to get
the Independent Democrats together in an-
other convention before election day, now only
three weeks off, nor was it likely that another
Republican convention would assemble. The
great majority of the men in the Independent
convention had been lifelong Democrats, and
belonged to families which had resided for
many generations in Monmouth countv. They
felt a ]iride in the good name and welfare of
their ccnmty. They knew that ^lonmouth had
been represented in the senate, or "council." as
it was called jirior to the new constitution of
1844, by many of their most honored citizens.
C"ol. Nathaniel Scudder, of revolutionary fame,
was their first senator. He had been followed
by such men as Col. ,\sher Holmes, James
.Schureman. Daniel Holmes, \\'illiam L. Day-
ton, Judge Vredenburgh, and others.
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Their anxiety, lest no action should be taken,
increased as the hour of adjournment drew
near. The intense feeling and excitement in
the crowded grand jury room could almost be
felt like a hot fire. At this moment. Gen.
Haight sprang to his feet and in a brief but
fiery speech exclaimed. "My allegiance to the
Democratic ]iarty stops at the jail door. 1
nominate George C. Beekman for senator,
George Sickles for clerk and Charles Allen
for sheriff." Wild shouts and cheers greeted
this speech, and the nominations were con-
firmed without a dissenting voice. Before Mr.
PJeekman could speak or be heard, a motion to
adjourn sine die was put and carried. The
majority of the delegates from shore townships
hurried away to the de|iut to catch the last
train. None of the candidates had been con-
sulted or even knew of this action. Sickles
was a Republican, y\llen a Democrat. Neither
of them had been in Freehold that day, or had
the least intimation that they would be nomi-
nated. In the meantime the news of these nomi-
nations had been carried to the Republican
convention, which adopted the same ticket, al-
though some twenty odd votes were cast against
Mr. Beekman for senator, by delegates from
Shrewsbury township. Sickles and Allen re-
sided many miles away from Freehold, and
could not be heard from, until next da\'.
Both conventions adjourned without knowing
whether the men nominated would accept. The
whole responsibility rested on Mr. Beekman.
If he refused the two conventions could not be
convened again in time for election. He fully
realized the trouble, abuse, and hostility of the
corrupt and ignorant elements of the party,
which had ruled Monmouth county a whole
generation. He was a jiartner of Holmes W.
Murphy in the law business, under firm name
of Beekman & Alurphy. This jiartnership was
formed in January of 1874, and had been in
existence ever since. Mr. Murphy was a strong
party Democrat, but had been defeated for the
nomination of senator by Patterson. Mr.
Murphy had been previously greatly favored
by the Democratic party. They had given him
the office of county clerk twice. It was the
most ]M-ofitable ofifice in the county. He had
also been clerk of the board of chosen free-
holders of Monmouth for manv years. It was
the strong feeling against the monopoly ot
public ofifice by the same man which precipitated
the nomination of Patterson.
After the two conventions adjourned and
the majority of the delegates had taken the train
for home, a general mass meeting of the jieo-
ple in I'reehold was held in Shinn's Hall. Mr.
I'eekman was invited to address this meeting.
He did so in a brief speech which was pub-
lished as part of the campaign literature. Al-
though fairly nominated by the Republican
convention, the majority of the Re]niblican
townships, like Shrewsbury, Eatontown, etc.,
where they have large majorities, cast their
vote for the Democratic candidate, who had
been a party worker in their ranks the greater
part of his life. Money was freely used to
purchase votes against Mr. Beekman. Even
in Freehold township, where he resided, he
detected a saloon-keeper voting an ignorant
foreigner who could hardly speak English, and
l)aying him two dollars. Mr. Beekman made
comi)laint to a justice of the peace, and had
the saloon-keeper arrested, and bound over to
next grand jury. This action to some extent
checked the purchase of votes, but did not en-
tirely stop it. The saloon-keeper was indicted
for bribery. He plead "not guilty." He was
defended by Charles Haight ami Hon. John
S. ;\ppk'gate. The evidence showed that this
vi)ter did not receive the money until after he
had voted. 1 le did not know who he voted
for. After depositing his ballot in the box, he
went over to the saloon and received two dollars
from the proprietor. The judge charged the
jury "that as the money was not paid until
after the man had voted, it was not bribery,
under the laws of New Jersey." The political
friends of the saloon-keeper had publicly
threatened, that if he was convicted and sent
to prison, they would expose to the public the
corporations and men who had furnished the
corruption fund. Nevertheless, in spite of
their sinister influences, Mr. Beekman was
elected by a majority of over five hundred. For
the first time since the year 1850, the regular
nominee of the Democratic party in Monmouth
ci>nntv was defeated. The senate journal of
New jersey and other legislative documents
for years 1 870^-80-8 1 show that he faithfully
carried out to the best of his ability the plat-
furm of the convention.
He was invited by representatives of both
parties to take part in their caucus, but he re-
fused to enter either. Mr. Garret Hobart, who
served as senator from Passaic county and
was afterwards elected vice-president of the
United States, wrote to some of his Repub-
lican friends in Monmouth county some years
after Senator Beekman's term had expired,
that no one during his term could have deter-
mined by his votes what party he belonged to.
In the year 1879, ^'"* were introduced in the
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Jersey legislature to give the justices of the
supreme court and secretary of state a fixed
yearly salary instead of fees. This was the
Ijeginuing of that legislation whicli finally did
away with the fee system in New Jersey. It
was opposed bitterly, and nearly twenty years
passed before it could be extended to all the
state andi county offices. There is now no
great fortunes in any of the clerical positions to
tempt men to desperate efforts. The fight,
however, was hard and bitter. Mr. Reekman
was obliged to draw himself all the reform
bills he introduced. He had no one to help or
advise him. The first year he got through an
amendment to the bribery act, allowing one of
the parties to the crime to testify against the
other, and if he told the truth granting him
immunity. He also introduced a bill to repeal
the act requiring the session laws to be publish-
ed in the newsjiapers of the state, at an annual
e.xpense of some .'^70.ooo to the taxpayers. It
amounted to about one thousand dollars yearly
to everv newspaper favored by the statesmen
or politicians of Xew Jersey None of these
newspapers were inclined to criticise the men
in power, who handed out this "graft" to them.
Mr. Beekman made a speech on the subject in
the senate, but only one newspaper in the state
published it. This was a paper published at
Elizabeth City, by a Mr. Eeonard. .\11 the rest
passed it over in "silent contempt." .\ com-
mittee of five newspaper men or editors were
kept constantly at Trenton, during session of
the legislature. Mr. T'abcock, editor, I think,
of the Frcdonian, a paper published at New
Brunswick, was one of the leaders of this
committee. .\ senator could hardly turn around
in his chair but what he would find one of these
editors behind him. They had no kind words
for the senator from Monmouth. This bill
passed the senate because such men as Senators
\'ail, Hobart, John C. Schenck, of Somerset
county, and some others, knew it was right.
The editors, however, understood it should be
killed in the house, as was done each of the
three years. Mr. ( )viatt. a native of Ohio, had
removed to Monmouth county a few years
previous, and taken up his residence there.
He had been elected to the assembly from a
di.strict embracing Freehold and adjacent town-
ships, as regular nominee of the Republican
party. He was also pledged to support of the
])latform of the Independent convention. He
w'as a young man. and had no e.xperience in
legislation, and was a comparative stranger
to the Trenton politicians. He was, however,
bright of intellect, and r|uick to learn. Such
iii— }3
bills as Senator lieekman got thrtjugh the upper
house, he earnestly supported in the lower
house. He was the only friend in this branch.
I'y dilatory tactics, such as holding in com-
mittee, amendments, recommitting, etc., they
contrived to hold back several of these from
a final vote. ( )n one occasion Mr. Oviatt was
so worked up and excited that he almost broke
down. He, however, by his energy and perse-
verance made a good deal of trouble for the
crafty managers in the lower house. The next
year this yc)ung and almost unknown man in
the state was elected speaker of the house, to
the great surprise of his constituents. This
removed him from all activity on the floor of
the house. The Monmouth senator had no one
to push such bills, as he got through in the
house. Mr. Eodine, senator from Gloucester
county, had warmly supjiorted the bill to
abolish newspaper graft in printing the session
laws in 1879. The next year .Senator Beek-
man asked him to introduce this same bill in
the senate, and also try and get the Republican
caucus to take it up as a party measure. This
he did, but was unable to get the caucus to
adopt it. Senator .Sewell, of Camden, a promi-
nent ofificer of the Pennsylvania railroad, op-
]>osed it, as he wished to retain the favor and
support of the newspapers. It. however, pass-
ed the senate, only to be slaughtered in the
house. The third year, Mr. Beekman intro-
duced it only to meet the same fate. The
people of the state, however, had began to take
notice of this gigantic graft. A few years
later Mr. \'oorhees, senator from Union coun-
ty, procured its repeal, .\nother bill Senator
I'eekman introduced, to repeal act requir-
ing slieritt"s sales of land to be published in
two newspapers, and expense of the printing
paid out of the property of the debtor, who is
sold out. These sales are advertised by a long
description of the land, by chains and links,
such as no man would do in making a sale of
his own lands. This compulsory payment was
taken from a poor wretch, so poor that he could
not pay his debts. The [)rinting fees of two
papers will average about ten dollars each, or
twenty in all. There is nothing right or just
about it. The man is so poor and broken that
he cannot cry out against this graft. Figure
up what this has amounted to in New Jersey,
(inring the last twenty years. This bill also
passed the senate, only to be held back in the
assembly. Mr. Beekman also introduced sev-
eral bill's, concerning his own county, which
became laws, such as the act creating the
"Township of Neptune." The act to ap-
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propriate Sio.ooo towanl erecting a monu-
ment on the liattlefield of Monmouth. Tliis
also passed. It was the first monument erect-
ed in New Jersey to honor the memory of our
revolutionary fathers. He also voted for the
law. giving justices jurisdiction of civil suits to
amount of $200. .Also the law forbidding suits
on bonds in law suits, when mortgage given
to secure the same, was being foreclosed in the
court of chancery. He also drew and intro-
duced a bill cutting down costs of the fore-
closure of mortgages one-half, when the amount
due did not exceed five hundred dollars. Garret
Hobart, senator from Passaic county, came to
him and said, "\i you will fix the amount at
$3CX3, I will help you get it through." Knowing
that he would have great difficulty alone, and
thinking that "half a loaf was better than noth-
ing," he agreed, and it became a law of the
state. The chancellor, however, decided later
that the taxed costs of foreclosure should also
be deducted, which cut it down to less than
two hundred dollars. Senator Beekman drew
and got through the law relieving the mort-
gage debtor to the counties for school money,
etc., from paying tax on this indebtedness as
had formerly been the case.
In 1880 Air. Hobart was president of the
senate, and he appointed Mr. Beekman chair-
man of the joint committee of the two houses
on state library. He carefully examined the
books and found it was almost wholly a law-
library and used principally by the Trenton
lawyers and judges. He drew a report recom-
mending the purchase of standard works use-
ful to other professions and occupations, also
the collection of all local histories, pamjihlets,
etc., relating to any part of New Jersey. This
report was agreed to and signed by the other
members. ( See "Report of Joint Committee
on State Library for year 1880." among the
legislative documents ).
Mr. Oviatfs term ended in year 1880. The
Democratic leaders were anxious to get this
district back. Without knowledge of Senator
Beekman they induced his partner in the law
business. Holmes W. Murphy, t<j accept the
nomination for the assembly on the regular
Democratic ticket. Mr. Murphy had always
been a staunch party man, and was indebted to
that party for the fortune he had accumulated
while county clerk for two terms. The only
salary for member of the senate or lower
house was $500 a year. Mr. Murphy had no
experience in legislation, and as one of the
minoritv party could not expect to accomplish
anything. What inclined him to take this office
Mr. Beekman could never understand. It made
it very awkward and unjilcasant for him as
senator. It took both partners away to Tren-
ton as members of the two houses, and closed
to business their law office at Freehold. It
also brought their law firm, Beekm^i & IMur-
phy, in the limelight of party abuse and malice.
Holmes W. Murphy was the same man Patter-
son had defeated for the nomination of senator
in the regular Democratic convention of Mon-
mouth county two years previous. Then the
une.x].iected had happened, the regular nominee
had been defeated, something which was re-
garded as an impossibility. The law partner
of Mr. Murphy had been elected on a stump
ticket. The partisans of Patterson were not
only chagrined, but bitterly hostile over their
disappointment. Now they saw the same can-
didate whom they had turned down, nomi-
ated by the Democratic party and elected to the
New Jersey legislature. Neither did the Re-
publicans like the result. The same district
which Mr. Oviatt had represented for two
years is now represented by a regular party
Democrat. As a partner of Senator Beekman
in law business, it made them doubt his inde-
pendence. Yet the whole thing had been
iilanned by the shrewd Democratic politicians,
to make trouble and perplexity. Mr. Murphy
had no experience in legislation, and his party
was in a hopeless minority. Why he accepted
this office, worth only five hundred dollars
) early, was difficult to understand. Mr. Beek-
man's term as senator ended in 1882. Mr.
Murphy served in the lower house one
term. In 1882 the partnership of Beek-
r.ian & Murphy was amicably dissolved, after
an existence of eight years. From this
time until he removed from Freehold to Red
Bank, in 1903, Mr. Beekman conducted the
law business alone. For forty years he prac-
ticed law at the county seat of Monmouth
and during this time, as the court records will
show, he never sued any one on his own ac-
count. If his clients failed to pay, he let the
claim go. During those years he contributed
ti> the Monmouth Democrat and Monmouth
Inquirer, then the only newspapers published
in Freehold, many articles on political ques-
tions, some tales founded on local tradition,
and also facts relating to the early history of
Monmouth county. These last he gathered
from the old records in the county clerk's
olfice and from old documents and papers which
had been treasured up in some of the old fam-
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ilies of the county. James S. \'ar(l, owner aiul
editor of the Moninoiitli Democrat, inchuled
part of these contributions in the book com-
])iled and published by him entitled "Old Times
in Old Monmouth." Mr. Maxey Applegate,
owner and editor of the Monmouth Inqnircr.zX.
one time, talked of putting these contributions to
his paper in book form, but has never carried it
out. This work was purely a "labour of love."
Mr. Beekman never asked or expected any
compensation. The Inquirer, however, has
ever since been sent to him through the mails
as a free gift for the rest of his life. At a
later date the Freehold Transcript, a third
newspaper, was established at Freehold. A series
of articles on some of the "Early Hollanders"
who settled in Monmouth county was publish-
ed in the weekly issues of this paper, and ex-
tending through some two years. The owner
anil editor of the Transcript also issued one
himdred and twenty-five copies in book form,
for which he charged five dollars per copy. He
generously turned over one-half of these re-
ceipts to the compiler. This was the only
pecuniary reward ^Ir. Beekman ever received
for his literary efiforts.
Mr. Beekman married, at Freehold, Novem-
ber 6, 1877, Laura B. Alston, a descendant of
the .\lstons who resided at or near Wood-
bridge, ^liddlesex coimty, Xew Jersey, prior
to the revolutionary w'ar. During the war or
after one of this same family resided on Staten
Island. His son, David Alston, with his wife
and two sons, removed from Staten Island, by
way of Tottenville, over to New Jersey, in
1815. He took up his residence at Spotswood.
Here he remained several years, having two
more sons and three daughters born at this
last place. From here he removed to Julius-
town, Burlington county, Xew Jersey, wdiere
he lived the remainder of his life. One of his
sons, Abraham D. Alston, married, in 1830-
Caroline Bareford, and had ten children — five
sons and five daughters. His fourth daughter,
Laura B., was born March 2, 185J, and mar-
ried Mr. Beekman, as above stated. Three
sons — Alston, Jacob Ten Broeck and Edwin
Laurens, — and one daughter, named .Anne
Crawford, have been born. The last died Decem-
ber 16, IQ02, at Freehold, was buried in Beek-
man plot, at Fairview cemeter\'. The eldest
son married Matilda, daughter of John (^raig.
and is engaged in practice of law at Red Bank.
The second son, Jacob Ten Broeck, resides
with his parents. The third and youngest son,
Edw-in Laurens, resides on Beekman's farm, at
village of Middletown, which he manages and
farms. This farm has been in the familv over
a century, and is generally considered one of
the most productive in that vicinity. The rail-
roads from Xew York to Red Bank pass over
the north end of it. Mr. Beekman is a member
of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 16, A. F. and .A.
M., at Freehold, Xew Jersey. He served four
years as worshipful master, and is now the
oldest living past master of this lodge.
Mr. Beekman removed from Freehold to
Red B)ank in the year 1903, taking up his per-
manent residence at Xo. 54 Shrewsbury ave-
nue, on the banks of the Shrewsbury river.
Here he has since resided. .Vlthough within
a stone's throw of the Red Bank depot, where
the numerous trains to and from Xew York
City, take on and let off there ntunerous passen-
gers, also close to the trolley cars, which run
south and north, his home and grounds are as
secluded and Cjuiet as if on an isolated farm.
Situated on a high bank, above the gentle flow
of the Shrewsbury river, and where the tides
rise anil fall, with many cedar, spruce and
other shade trees, his home is whollv free from
the wild rush and roar of American business
life, the strenuous and non-ending pursuit of
the "Almighty dollar." Since 1903 he has
wholly abandoned the practice of law. Instead
of wrangling before stupid juries and weary
judges, settling the cjuarrels and troubles of
other men and women, and trying to reconcile
the laws made by legislators ignorant of laws
already made by over one hundred legislatures
of the same stripe, he reclines under the trees
of this home by the river side, with none to
molest him with their complaints and quarrels
— at peace with the world and himself.
(VII) Lawrence Freeland
FREELAXD (Vreeland), son of Law-
rence \'ree!and (q. v.), w-as
born at Sacaucas, Hudson county, Xew Jersey,
September 25, 1842. His educational training
was gained in the common schools of his native
town up to the age of seventeen years. At the
age of twelve years his father died, and on the
completion of his schooling he went to New
York City, where he served an apprenticeship
in general woodwork and carpentering with
Decker & Mandeville, located on East Twenty-
second street. He remained with this firm as
a journeyman carpenter until tlie breaking out
of the civil war, when he enlisted in Company
B, Tenth Regiment New York \'olunteer In-
fantry. April 19, 1861, when the historic Fort
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Sumter was fired on. He wa-S mustered into
the United States service April 2j. 1861. and
embarked with his regiment for Fortress Mon-
roe, where he was assigned to detaclied service
at (jeneral Benjamin F'. Butler's headquarters
(provost marshal duty), remaining there, under
Major (ienerals Wood and John A. Di.x until
April 27. 18(13, when he was honorably dis-
charged from the service. While stationed
there Mr. Freeland was under fire of the rebel
gunboat "Merrimac," when that vessel en-
gaged the Union fleet and fought the "Moni-
tor." On his discharge he returned to New
York City, resuming his trade with Mandeville
&' Sigler] East Twenty-third street, working
for two years as a journeyman carpenter, sub-
sequently going to Newark, New Jersey, for a
short time. He was offered a position as superin-
tendent of the Mandeville & Sigler plant and
returned to them, remaining in their employ
until 1889, when he entered the employ of the
Batavia and New York Wood Working Com-
pany, whose eastern office is in the present
Flatiron building at Twenty-third street and
J! roadway. Air. Freeland rejiresented them in
New York City and vicinity. The plant of the
company is at Batavia, New York, and they
are manufacturers of every description of in-
terior finish. Mr. Freeland is in charge of the
New York office and serves in the capacity of
contracting agent and estimating manager. He
is a Methodist in religion, and a Republican in
politics. He is a member of John A. Dix Post,
No. 135, Grand Army of the Republic, De-
partment of New York, served as commander
of E. D. Morgan Post, No. 307, and is a mem-
ber of the Tenth New York Regimental Asso-
ciation, which he served as president one year
and as secretary three years.
Mr. Freeland married. May 8, i8')4, Mrs.
Sophia Catherine { Berry ) Perrine, widow of
Richard Van Riper Perrine. She was born at
Pompton, New Jersey, November 2},. 1842,
tlaughter of John Piatt and Eliza (\'an Ness)
Berry. Children: I. Frank, born April 8,
1866, died same day. 2. Lillie May, born June
30, i8r)7; married, June 30, 1886, Arthur Mel-
ville Thompkins ; children : Grace Melville,
born April 8, 1887; Harold, born October 12,
1888, died April 15, 1889: Dorothy, born De-
cember 9, 1901. 3. Bessie J., born June 16,
1874; married, November 21, 1900, Archibald
Stanton Stafford ; children : Lester, born Oc-
tober 14, 1901, died June 6, 1902: Clinton
Lawrence, born May lo, 1904; Ethel Millicent.
born January 30, 1906.
Alvin Pike Thacher, the first
THACHER member of this family of
whom we have definite infor-
mation, was the son of Asa Thacher, of New
York state. He married Jane Salisbury.
(II) William FYanklin, son of Alvin Pike
and Jane (Salisbury) Thacher, was born in
Genessee county. New York, in 1844, and died
at his summer home. Seaside Park, Ocean
county. New Jersey, July 24, 1908. He re-
ceived his early education in the common
schools of Genessee county and graduated from
the high school in 1862. In the following Au-
gust, being then only eighteen years of age, he
enlisted at Erie. Penu.s}dvania, in the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, and served
with the Army of Potomac in all of its battles
including Gettysburg. In a skirmish near Mal-
vern Hill. July 28. 1864. Sergeant Thacher was
struck in the shoulder by a minie ball while
trying to save the life of Lieutenant Caughey,
of his own company, who had been wounded.
As a result, Mr. Thacher's arm had to be am-
putated, and after his convalescence he served
during the remainder of the war in the com-
missary department. During his convalescence
Mr. Thacher had taken a course in a business
college in Philadelphia, and at the close of the
war he went to Alillville, New Jersey, where
his father owned a large farm. He remained
for a short time, and then became a teacher in
the Bridgeton Academy, liridgeton. New Jer-
sey. Later he entered the employ of R. D.
Wood & Company as bookkeeper, and in 1872
located in Burlington, New Jersey, where he
formed a partnership with John McNeal for
carrying on a general fmrndry business. In
1S74 he settled finally in Florence. New Jer-
sey, where he spent the remainder of his life.
He was general manager of the Florence Iron
Works for thirty-four years, and held that
position when he died. He was also the sole
owner of the Florence Thread Works, which
he had himself established. In additiiin to
these Mr. Thacher had many other interests
of a varied character, being connected with
several mining enterprises, land improvement
plans and oyster farms, besides owning large
real estate interests in Philadelphia and else-
where. He was for thirty years president of
the Florence Building and Loan Association,
which he had organized himself. He was a
Prohibitionist in politics, and a deacon in the
Baptist church in Florence, and for many
years superintendent of its Sunday school.
This Sunday school was organized by Mr.
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Thaclier and liis wife in 1871, ,-in<I from it
grew tlie present H<nirishing Baptist congrega-
tion of which his widow is now the onlv sur-
vivor of the original charter members. Mr.
Thaclier built the church and gave liberally
of both his time and means, not only in its sup-
port, but also in the furtherance of any plans
for the benefit of the town in which his meiuorv
is warmly cherished. He married in 1867,
Ella, daughter of George and Ellen (Kincaid)
Hoover, of Philadelphia (see Hoover). Chil-
dren: George and Frank William, both re-
ferred to below ; Nella, born in Philadeljihia.
educated at Miss Wright's school, and a grad-
uate of P)ryn Mawr College.
(HI) George, son of William Franklin and
Ella (Hoover) Thacher. was born in Millville.
Cumberland county, New Jersey, in 1868.
After receiving his early education in the Penn
Charter School in Philadeljjhia, he studied at
Johns Hopkins L'niversity, Paltimore. .Mary-
land, and graduated from the Hahnemann
Medical College, and then set up for himself
in the general practice of his profession in
Philadelphia where he is now. He married
Clara \\'ilkins, of Philadelphia. Child : John
Wilkins.
(HI) Frank William, son of William Frank-
lin and Ella ( Hoover ) Thacher, was born in
Florence. fUirlington county. New Jersey. He
received his early education at the Penn Char-
ter School in Philadelphia, and then graduated
from Haverford College. He is now secretary
and treasurer of the Florence Thread W'orks,
Florence. New Jersey, of which his mother is
the president. He married. June 3, 1909,
Catharine \\'allace, daughter of Morris Levin,
of Beverly. Burlington county. New Jersey.
(The Hoover Line).
The family of Hoover, or Huber. as the
name w-as originally spelt, is of German-Swiss
origin, and has long been prominent in New-
Jersey and Pennsylvania, especially in Picdford
and Somerset cinuities of the latter state, from
colonial times.
( F) George Huber, or Hoover, the founder
of the family, was born near Basle. Switzer-
land, in 1752, and came to America with his
parents and only one brother, Ulrich, shortly
before the revolution. He settled in "S'ork.
Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood, and
at the outbreak of the revolution had become
sufficiently prosperous to loan the colonies
£2200. which according to tradition was repaid
him after the close of the war in continental
notes that were later repudiated. He married
(first) a Miss Shearer; (second) Catharine
Miller, of York, Pennsylvania: (third) a
woman whose name is unknown. His first
wife and si.x of the eight children she bore
him died within six weeks of each other, ])rob-
ably during one of the smallpox epidemics of
the eighteenth century. The names of the two
surviving children are unknown, t'hildren of
the second luarriage : Margaret: Mary; Eve;
Catharine: Jacob, referred to below; George;
Saiuuel ; Jonas ; Two children, died in infancy.
( H ) Jacob, son of George and Catharine
(Miller) Hoover, was born in York. Pennsyl-
vania, and died in Philadeljjhia. 'i'he name of
his wife is unknown. Children: Jacob; Mau-
rice ; George, referred to below ; Rachel ; Mar-
garet ; Maria.
(IH) George, son of Jacob Hoover, was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 181 2,
and died in 1867. He married Ellen Kincaid;
of Philadel|ihia. born in 1821. died in C)ctober,
1888.
(I\') Ellen, daughter of George and Ellen
(Kincaid) Hoover, was born in Millville. Cum-
berland county. New Jersey, in 1830. After
receiving her education in the cfjuimon and
high schools of Millville. she began teaching
when only fifteen years of age. All her life
she has been engaged in church and temper-
ance work, and was for a time before the
public as a singer. Sunday school work has
also foimd in her an ardent worker, and in
these lines of work and especially in the special
\Y. C. T. U. work, is she best and most widely
known. For fifteen years Mrs. Thacher has
been president of the Ihirlington county, W. C.
T. U., and is still at the head of the county
organization. I'or thirteen years she has been
national superintendent of the Department of
W^ork among Soldiers and Sailors, a most im-
portant department of W'. C. T. U. work.
Herself the wife of a veteran of the civil war
who carried an empty sleeve, she has a partic-
ular interest in the soldiers and sailors not only
of her own country but of the world. For the
past six years she has been world's superin-
tendent of the same deiiartment. and in per-
formance of her duties has visited European
coimtries and the West Indies, and has crossed
again and again the United States. She is an
earnest worker in the cause of temperance
along all the lines of W. C. T. U. effort, and
an entertaining, convincing public speaker. Her
time is fully occupied in the work to which she
has devoted her life and talents. She was one
(jf the original organizers of both the State and
National Congress of Mothers, of which she
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is vice-president of the New Jersey branch,
as well as chairman of the house economies de-
partment of domestic science. Eor twenty-one
years she has been engaged in settlement work-
in Florence, which she has organized and car-
ried on with marked success. She married, in
1867, William Franklin, son of Alvin Pike and
Jane (Salisbury) Thacher ; (see Thacher
above).
The descendant vi a
KATTERMANN long line of those Ger-
man burghers who fi)r
centuries were the pride and the mainstay of
the city of Frankenberg, Saxony, part of the
German Empire. Emil G. Kattermann, of
Dover, New Jersey, would have been untrue
to the grand inheritance of character and abil-
ity which he derived from them, had he done
less than win the well deserved success and
honor which he now enjoys.
His parents, August and Ernestine ( Schuh-
mann ) Kattermann, lived for many years in
Frankenberg, Saxony, where they now enjoy
the fruits of well won honor and competence.
The father was born there April 4. 1837, and
has spent his life in the manufacture of silks,
owning and operating a mill and for over a
quarter of a century, and was one of the coun-
cilmen of his town. His mother was born in
Doebeln. Sa.xony, September 12, 1839; and his
grandfather, August Kattermann Sr., started
life as a weaver. Children of August and Ern-
estina (Schuhmann) Kattermann: i. Fred-
erick August, now a silk manufacturer in Pat-
erson, New Jersey. 2. Frederick Paul, now in
business with his brother, Emil G., in Dover.
3. Emil G., referred to below. 4. Gotthard,
now a silk manufacturer in Passaic. 5. George,
studied dentistry in L'niversity of Pennsylvania,
graduated D. D. S., and is now practicing in
Frankenberg. 6. Martha. 7. Clara.
Emil (J., son of August and Ernestina
(Schuhmann) Kattermann, was born in Frank-
enberg. Saxony, July 11, 1869. In 1889 became
to America and went to Dover, New Jersey,
where he remained about six months and then
removed to New York, where he remained
six months longer, and in 1890 started in busi-
ness for himself in Paterson, New Jersey,
known as the Swiss Knitting Company. After
about five years he had built himself up by
energy and perseverance a very successful IdusI-
ness. and then removed to Dover, New Jersey,
where in 1899 he formed a co-partnership with
his brother, P>ederick Paul, under the name of
the Swiss Knitting Company, E. G. Katter-
mann & Co., proprietors, manufacturers of
Swiss ribbed underwear. Here in Dover, the
brothers employe over one hundred hands, and
manufacturing the finest qualities of silk, wool,
lisle thread, cotton, silkmixed, vests, tights, and
combination suits, for which they have a mar-
ket all over the United States, and which is
now taxing their annual output of more than
.$200,000 worth of goods a year.
Mr. Kattermann in his short sojourn in
Dover has risen to be one of the most promi-
nent and influential citizens of the town, and
holds many positions of trust and responsibil-
ity in its financial, business, and civic worlds,
lie has been a director in the Dover Trust
Company, and since 1898 an alderman of the
city and chairman of that board's license com-
mission, as well as a member of other com-
mittees. In the social life of the community
his genial disposition, warm hearty consid-
erateness and other sterling qualities, have
won him a host of friends, especially among
the German residents of the town. He is the
leader of the German Singing Society of
Dover, which he organized about ten years
ago, and he is also a member of the F. and A.
M. of Dover, and of the Independent (5rder
of Odd Fellows. June 19. 1895, Mr. Katter-
mann married Blanche, daughter of David and
Rachael (Williams) Jenkins. Her father was
for forty years the agent of the Crane Iron
Company, and was associated with the iron
interests which centered in Dover from their
early days until his death. Children of Emil
G. and Blanche ('Jenkins) Kattermann : Her-
mann, born April 4, 1896; Emil David, April
6, 1898; August Paul, August 16, 1900;
George, June, 1906.
Charles Steiner, the first mem-
STEINER her of the family of whom we
have definite information, mar-
ried Elizabeth Alexander. Children: i. Sarah,
married Joseph Roy, and has Artie, Daisy,
Frederick and Morrie. 2. Charles, married
Louise Ross, and has Charles, Edward and
Louise. 3. James Frederick, referred to below.
4, Edward, lives Carteret, New Jersey. 5. Jo-
seph, lives Chicago, Illinois.
(II) James Frederick, son of Charles and
Elizabeth (Alexander) Steiner, was born in
East Newark, November 7, 1848, and is now
living in Newark. He received his early edu-
cation in the public schools, and then found
employment in the boiler factory of Perkins
and Burnett, where he remained three years.
He then went into the marketing business with
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Stephen Burr, and the two of them condncted
a fish store in the market for fort_v-five years.
They were most successful, and twelve years
ago, when the partnership was dissolved, Mr.
Steiner determined to continue it by himself,
which he has done ever since. lie is a Repub-
lican, and a member of the Fairmouut Baptist
Church. His secret society is the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, and his club the
Joel Parker Association. February 26, 1875,
Mr. Steiner married, in East Newark, Eliza-
beth Fountain, daughter of Tliomas and Sarah
(Fountain) Peirce, who was born in Newark,
August II, 1843, ^nd whose brothers and sis-
ters are Sarah M., Elizabeth, George. James
and Caroline Peirce. Children of James Fred-
erick and Elizabeth Fountain (Peirce) Steiner:
John: Sarah, married .Albert Bannister, of
Newark : Gussie Aretta ; Frederick, married
Hester Blanche : Ella, married Thomas Cox ;
May; Laura : William.
It is not necessary that the man
MOUNT who achieves success be made
of sterner stufi" than his fellow-
man, but there are certain indispensable char-
acteristics that contribute to the [prosperity of
the individual : these are energy, enterprise,
determination, and the ability to recognize and
improve opportunities. These qualities are
cardinal elements in the character of Mr.
Mount, and accompanied him in his progress
to the position he now occupies, that of promi-
nence and affluence.
(I) James Mount is the first member of the
branch of the family here under consideration
of whom w-e have definite information. So
far all attempts to discover his parentage have
failed, although it is undoubtedly certain that
he is a descendant of George Mount, of Mid-
dletown. who came to this country before 1669.
Mr. Samuel II. Sheib, of Nashville, Tennessee,
conjectures that James Mount is the son of
John, grandson of Thomas and Mary, great-
grandson of Richard (2), great-great-grandson
of Richard ( i ) and Rebecca, great-great-great-
grandson of George Mount, of ^liddletown.
Mr. James R. Mount, of Brooklyn, New York,
another autliority says: "I have thirt\' records
of James Mount. Out of the thirty there
seems to be but two possible James to connect
with Dr. Elmer E. Mount's James, as follows:
James, son of James and Patience Mount, of
Shrewsbury, New Jersey ; James, son of
George and Hester Mount, of New York, born
January 6, 1808.'" James Mount married. May
29, 1832, Beulah Fort.
(ID Joseph Fort, son of James and I'eulah
(Fort) Mount, was born in Burlington. New
Jersey, in 1836. He ac(|uired an excellent edu-
cation. He learned the trade of a shoemaker
and worked at this until the breaking out of
the civil war. He enlisted in the New Jersey
fi>rces and rose to the rank of lieutenant. His
military record was in every way creditable
and reflected the fullest honor upon his gal-
lantry and patriotism. He married Elizabeth
Carpenter \'andegriff, born in I.urlington. New
Jerse>-. 1842, died in December. 1908. Joseph
I'ort Mount died at the Soldiers' tlome in Mil-
waukee, Wisconsin, in 1900, aged sixty-five
years. Children: i. Laura Virginia, married
Charles Price: children: Inez, Charles and
Elizabeth Price. 2. Mary Sabina, married
Willis M. Ridgway : children: Edward and
Myra Ridgway. 3. Elmer Ellsworth, referred
to below. 4. Edward .Ashby. deceased. 5. (leorge
Washington, fi. William Henry, married Fan-
nie Warner; children: Edward, Helen, de-
ceased, and Paul Mount. 7. Edward, deceased.
(HI) Elmer Ellsworth, first son and third
child of Joseph Fort and Elizabeth Carpenter
( \'andegriff ) Mount, was born in Burlington.
New Jersey, October 24, 1861. He attended
the public schools of his native city, and after
completing his studies there he matriculated
at tlie College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia,
from which institution he was graduated in
1884, and subsequently the veterinarj- depart-
ment of the University of Pennsylvania, from
which he received the degree of \'eterinary Sur-
geon in 1894. His uncle, John \'andegriff, was
the proprietor of a drug store in Burlington,
and in i8g6 Elmer E. Mount entered his em-
ploy in the capacity of clerk, serving in that
capacity until 1895, when he established a drug
store on his own account, known as the "Broad
Street Pharmacy," of which he is still the
owner and proprietor. The success he has ac-
quired in this undertaking has been directly
due to his own efforts, and his integrity being
of the highest order he has won the esteem and
thorough confidence of all with whom he has
held relations. He is an ardent Republican in
politics, and is at all times ready to take an
active part in the campaign work of his party,
and his popularity is such that he carries his
elections successfully even when his party
ticket goes down to defeat. In 1888 he was
elected city tax collector and succeeded him-
self in that ofiice in 1889, being the only Re-
publican elected at that time. In 1891 he was
elected township assessor for a three years
term. He is an active member of the Burling-
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
ton fire department, and ex-prcsident of the
Young America Fire Company, of which he
was secretary for ten years. He is a member
and a past officer in the leatHng beneficent and
fraternal orders : Junior Order United Amer-
ican Mechanics ; Phoenix Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows ; Knights of Pythias :
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Dr.
Mount is a man of public enterprise, courage
and conviction, and in every way has contrib-
uted his full share toward the progress and
welfare of his native city, in which he takes a
pardonable pride anil a keen interest.
Dr. Mount married, April 15, 1885, Helena
Adams, daughter of Casper K. and Adelaide
(Borden) Adams, of Burlington, New Jersey.
They have one daughter, Natalie Baymore,
born in Burlington, New Jersey, in June, 1889.
The Sterner family is of Ger-
STERXER man origin, many representa-
tives of the family emigrating
to Pennsylvania between the years 1727 and
177(>, and locatmg in the counties of Philadel-
phia, Bucks, (,'hester and Lancaster.
( I ) John Sterner was the son of a (jerman
emigrant of the same name who located in
Lancaster cnunty, Pennsylvania, prior to the
organization of York county, where we find
the son located in early manhood, and where
he spent his remaining days.
( II ) Henry, son of John, above named, was
born in York county, Pennsylvania, near the
Maryland line, and spent his whole life in that
section. He was a farmer and miller, owning
and ojjerating a flour and grist mill in Shrews-
bury township until shortly prior to his death.
He had three sons: John, Joseph and Henry ;
and a daughter Rachel.
(III) John (2), eldest son of Henry Sterner,
above named, was born in Shrewsbury town-
ship, York county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, and
died there in 1 90 1. He owned a large farm in
that township which he operated up to the
time of his death. He was active in local
aft'airs, and an elder oi the Lutheran church.
He married Leah Tyson, born in Windsor
to\vnshi]i, York county, Pennsylvania, in 1829,
of Holland descent, and of a family pronfinent
in Pennsylvania since the founding t)f German-
town, the first (ierman colony in Pennsylvania,
in which her ancestors participated. She still
survives, and now resides with her daughter
and son-in-law. Dr. R. A. and Mrs. Lucy
(Sterner) Hildebrandt, at Cjlen Rock, Penn-
sylvania. John and Leah (Tyson) Sterner
liad five cliililren who stirviveil the vears of
childhood. Albert Sterner, the eldest son, is
a farmer in Shrewsbury township, York coun-
ty, I'ennsylvania ; Melinda, the eldest daugh-
ter, is the wife of John Stark, of Glen Rock,
Pennsylvania ; Jacob, the third son, is deceased ;
Lucy, the youngest child, is wife of Dr. R. A.
Hildebrandt. of Glen Rock.
(I\') John Henry, second son and third
child of John (2) and Leah (Tyson) Sterner,
was born at Bonnerville. Shrewsbury township.
York county. Pennsylvania. March 3, 1861,
and obtained his early education in the public
schools of that tov^'uship. At an early age he
secured a position in the drug store of S. M.
Gable, at York, Pennsylvania, where he spent
two years apprenticeship to the drug business,
and then went to I'hiladelphia and. securing
a position in the drug establishment of Dr.
William A. Brown, entered himself as a stu-
dent at the F'hiladelphia College of Pharmacy,
from which he graduated in 1884. Soon after
liis graduation he opened a drug store in Phila-
delphia, which he successfully conducted for fif-
teen years. In 1 901 he removed to Mount Holly,
New Jersey, to take charge of a drug store for
Dr. Prichett. and at the end of six months pur-
chased the business and has since conducted
the store there on his own account. Dr. Sterner
has taken an active interest in the affairs of
Mount Holly from the time of his location
there, and given earnest support to her local
institutions. He is a director of the Lumber-
ton Water Company, secretary of the Mount
Holly Board of Trade, and a trustee and chair-
man of the local fire company. In politics he
is an ardent Republican, and religiously is asso-
ciated with the Dutch Reformed Church. He
is a member of Damascus Lodge, Independent
C)rder of Odd Fellows, of Philadelphia, and of
Mount Holly Lodge, Patriotic Sons of Amer-
ica. Dr. Sterner married, in 1887, Annie S.
Bieber, of Littletown, "S'ork county, Pennsyl-
vania, daughter of William T. and Charlotte
( Rohtcr ) Bieber, the former a native of ( ier-
many, where his father died from wounds re-
ceived while serving in the German army. Dr.
John [I. anil .\nnie S. (Bieber) Sterner had
four children. John Sterner Jr., the eldest,
born in Philadelphia, is now employed in the
shoe factory at Lumberton, New Jersey. Ralph
Sterner, the second son, born in Philatlelphia,
August 17. 1891. is still a student at Mount
Hollv high school. Charles Sterner, the third
son. born in Philadelphia, January 20. 1895, is
also a student at Alount Holly high school.
Alice, the only daughter, died at the age of two
vears.
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1353
Major John R. Beam, lawyer, and
JJEAM for nearly thirty year> one of the
leading members of the I'assaic
county bar, was born in Paterson, New Icr-
scy. December 19, 1850, died in that city July
4,1903.
His early literary education was ac(|uire'l in
public schools later he was a student in the
academic department of Xew York L'niversity.
and subsequently at Brown University, Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, where he comiileted the
classical course and graduated with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts in 1872. Deciding upon
the profession of law for his life work, he
matriculated at Columbia Law School, the law
department of Columbia l'niversity, made the
course of that institution, and graduated with
the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1874. He
then returned to Paterson and soon afterward
read law with Henry A. Williams, a senior
member of the Paterson bar, a lawyer of wide
celebrity, a prominent figure for many years
in Xew Jersey politics, and a man of large
nifluence in professional and business circles,
in the capacity of clerk. In the meantime he
continued his law studies, and in 1877 was
admitted to practice in the courts of Xew Jer-
sey. Shortly afterward he became profession-
ally associated with William Penningt<Mi, of
Paterson, and was his managing assistant until
the formation of the partnership which com-
prised Judge Barkalow, Mr. Pennington and
Mr. Beam, under the firm name of Barkalow,
Pennington & Beam. This relation was main-
tained for several years, when Judge Barkalow
withdrew, and the style of the firm was
changed to Peimington & Beam, as afterward
known for many years in professional circles
in Passaic county and in fact throughout the
state. The practice of the firm was wholly
in the civil courts and very largely in the chan-
cery and probate courts, having the manage-
ment of many trusts and large estates. This
partnership was continued until the death of
Air. Beam. In speaking of the qualities of
Mr. Beam as a lawyer one of his professional
associates who knew him well said that: "He
was recognized as one of the leading memliers
of the city and county bar, a man of marked
ability and character and an honor to his pro-
fession." He was a careful and methodical
lawyer, a safe counsellor, and a man of the
highest integrity. He never sought to promote
litigation, but rather to prevent it, but he did
I'ot shrink from the arduous work of the trial
courts in the interests of his clients, and in
the trial of contested cases he always proved
a very formidable antagonist.' Besides being a
successful lawyer, Mr. Beam was an astute
business man, capable and honest, and possess-
ing excellent judgment respecting the ([uality
and character of investments. For many years
he took an earnest interest in military affairs.
He was one of the original members of the
old Paterson Light Cuard, organized in 1888,
enlisting as private and advancing through
several grades of ])romotion to color sergeant,
second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain,
major, and finally lieutenant-colonel of a regi-
ment of the Xational Guard State of Xew
Jersey, and served on the governor's stafif. He
resigned his commission on account of failing
health and against the expressed wishes of his
fellow officers. He was reared under the influ-
ence of the Baptist church ; for several years,
during the latter part of his life, he served as
treasurer of the board of trustees of the Bap-
tist church, and for ten years was superintend-
ent of the Sunday school. Socially Mr. Beam
was most companionable and interesting, and
he is remembered as having been a man of
remarkably attractive personality.
Major Beam married, July 24, 1879, Carrie
Swinburne, daughter of John and Sarah A.
( Svv'inburne ) Cooke. John Cooke was the
founder of the Cook Locomotive Works and
assisted in the construction of the first locomo-
tive made in Paterson. Children of Mr. and
Mrs. Beam: i. Edward, a graduate of Brown
University, class of 1903. 2. John, a graduate
of Princeton L'niversity, class of 1909. 3.
William, a student of Princeton L'niversity.
(For preceding generation see p. 171).
(HI) Jacob (V) Wal-
\AX W IXKLE ingse \an Winkle, eldest
son of Jacob (2) and
Catharine M. I X'reeland) Van Winkle, was
born in Aquackanonk. and was baptized June
13, 1674. in the church at that place. He w-as
reared on his father's estate and succeeded to
its ownership. He became an extensive oper-
ator in real estate and in making loans on
farms and town property. His name appears
frequently in the records of leases and deeds,
and he was elected a deacon of the .\cquack-
anonk church in 1704 and again in 1711. Dur-
ing his time the English language practically
superseded the Dutch in both preaching and
teaching, and names were generallv spelled
and jironounced in English. He marrie(l, Oc-
tober 30, i(y)~. Geertruutt I'.richers, who was
baptized June 13, 1674, in .Mliany. Xo births
or baptisms of their children are found, but
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
his will shows the names of six : John, Jacob,
Katrey, Sarah, Wyncheonsje and Margaret.
His will was made June 13, 1750. His will
was not recorded, but the first sheet of it is
now in possession of his descendants. There
is no record of the death of himself, or his
wife, but he was dead in 1753. No record is
found of the birth or baptism of his son, and it
is not certain that Geertruutt was his mother,
since the time of her death is not known and
it is possible that his father had a second wife.
( l\ ) John Jacob, only son of Jacob W'al-
ingse \ an \\ inkle, was probably born about
1724, in Hackensack. where he lived on the
place now familiarly kn(_>wn as the Santiago
place m Rutherford. In conjunction with his
father he purchased large tracts of land in
llergen county and by inheritance became its
sole owner. The Hackensack Dutch Church
records show that he was married October 25.
1747, to Evaetjen Kipp, a native resident of
Hackensack. The bajitism of their first two
children is entered on the Hackensack Dutch
Church records and of seven others on the Ac-
quackanonk Church records. In all these the
father's name apjiears as Johannes Van Winkle
and the mother's as Eva Kipp, except in the bap-
tism of the fourth, where the father's name
is Johannes J. Van Winkle. They are: Jacob,
baptized March 26, 1749; Willemyntie ; Isaac,
died young; Geertje; Catrina ; Antje, died
young ; Isaac and Eva. Numerous records
show that John Jacob Van Winkle made the
final division of the estate of liis grandfather,
and was himself an extensive real estate holder.
His original will is on file at Trenton and is
recorded in the Bergen covmty wills. It was
dated March 17. 180S, proved August 20 fol-
lowing. It devises property to his grandsons
Isaac and Jacob, sons of his son Jacob, and
disposes of .1 large amount of property.
The following records of the fifth, sixth,
seventh, eighth and ninth generations are col-
lated from the leaves of the Bible in possession
of Rev. Edward Van Winkle, rector of St.
Clement's Church, New York City, and from
information as to their respective families fur-
nished by the member of the eight generations
now living.
( \' ) Jacob (4), fourth son of John Jacob
and Rva ( Ki]ip ) \'an Winkle, was born March
12, 1748, bapti?ed March 26, 1749, in the Hack-
ensack Church, died August 4, 1834. He prob-
ably passed his life in his native place. No
entry of his marriage appears in the Dutch
Church of New York. Bergen, Acquackanonk
or Second River, but it probably occurred in
1771. He married Hannah Van Nostrand,
born December 18, 1753, died February 14,
1829. Their children were : Jacob Jr., born
October 17, 1774, died February 28, 1838;
Jane, March 0, 1782; death not recorded;
Isaac, April 30, 1786, died September 3, 1831 ;
Henry V. N., July 12, 1796; death not recored.
(VI) Jacob (5), eldest son of Jacob (4)
and Hannah (Van Nostrand) V^an Winkle,
was born October 17, 1774, died February 28,
1838. He married, March 17, 1813, Ann
Kingsland. who died March 20, 1839. Chil-
dren: John, born January 25, 1814, died Oc-
tober 29, 1814; Edward Henry, July 13, 1815;
Jane Leonie, September 21-25, 1819, died Oc-
tober 6, 1819; xA.rrabella, June 25, 1822, died
25-28, 1822: Isaac, July 22. 1S24, died Janu-
ary 24, 1882.
(VII) Edward Henry, second son of Jacob
(5) and Ann (Kingsland) Van Winkle, was
born July 13, 1815, died December, 1894. He
graduated as M. D. from College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York, in 1836. He mar-
ried, August 25, 1841, Catherine Anna Stan-
ford, who died June 17, 1848. Children: i.
Edward Henry, born August 26, 1842 ; grad-
uated from Columbia College, A. B., A. M. ;
General Theological Seminary, 1865 : rector
of St. Clement's Church. New York City ; mar-
ried Matilda Barnes Cantine ; children : i.
Catherine Stanford, born February 9, 1879,
died March i, 1884; ii. Howard Elanendorf,
January 5, 1886; iii. Edward Hasbrogne, De-
cember 9, 1898. Edward Henry Van Winkle
died August 29, 1909. 2. John Stanford, Feb-
ruary 23, 1844. 3. Isaac, January 13, 1846;
graduate of Columbia College, A. B., A. M.,
1861 ; rector of St. Stephen's Protestant Epis-
copal Church, Paris, France, appointed 1870;
married, October 14, 1875, Margaret Kemble
Lente, born February 9, 1855 : children : i.
F^dward Kingsland, born October 17, 1877;
married. May 19, igob. Louisa Hoyt Scott,
born C)ctober 2, 1877, daughter of John Fred
and Emily Augusta ( Willis) Scott : child, Mar-
garet Kemble Van \Vinkle. born F"ebruary 24,
1907: ii. Anna, October I, 1879; iii. Frederick
Lente, February 28, 1882; iv. Katherine, Sep-
tember 14, 1885; V. Gertrude Bayard, January
24, 1889. 4. Catherine Anna, April 17, 1848,
died July 6, 1858.
(\TI) Isaac, youngest son of Jacob ( 5 ) and
Ann (Kingsland) Van Winkle, was born July
22, 1824, died January 24, 1882. He graduated
from Columbia College, A. B. and A. M., 1848.
He married, June 2, 1852, Emma Armstrong,
born March 4, 1826, died January 2, 1885.
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Children: I. Edward Kingsland, born July 3.
1853. died January 2, 1859. 2. Matthew Arm-
strong. November 7, 1856: married. December
II, 1S78, Helen Holmes Crane; children: i.
Kingsland, born December 5, 1879, graduated
A. B., University of North Carolina. Chapel
Hill. 1902: ii. Walton. January 6, 1882, grad-
uated A. B., Cornell University, 1907; iii.
Cortland, February 2^. 1887. 3. Elizabeth
Armstrong, August 5, 1859.
(\in) John Stanford, second son of Ed-
ward Henry and Catherine Anna (Stanford)
\'an Winkle, was born February 23, 1844.
He married, January 23. 1886, Louise Graham
Davis. Children: i. William Frederick, burn
October > i88fi. 2. Marie Louise. Tune 14,
1888.
(VHI) Eli?abeth Armstrong, youngest child
of Isaac and Emma (Armstrong) \'an Winkle,
was lx)rn August 5, 1859. She married, .Sep-
tember 15, 1880. Samuel Thomas ITubbard Jr.,
born August 18, 1853, and resides in Yonkers,
New York. Children: i, \\'illiam Hustace,
born September 2, 1881 ; graduated A. B. from
Harvard, 1903. 2. Samuel Thomas. July 7,
1884, graduated A. B. from Harvard, 1907.
3. Elizabeth W W.. October 31, 1883: grad-
uated A. B. from \'assar, 1907. 4. ^^argaret.
.\pril 13, 1890.
(\') Simeon (2), prob-
\'AN WINKLE ably son of Simeon (i)
\'an \\'inkle, the revolu-
tionary soldier, was a native of Richfield, Pas-
saic county, where he lived and died. He mar-
ried Betsey Garrabrant, and had children :
Jacob. Abraham. Isaac, Warren, John Daniel,
l;"llen, Jane and Alary.
(VF) Isaac, third son of Simeon (2) and
Betsey (Garrabrant") Van Winkle, was born
in Richfield, and was a mason and builder. He
married Margaret Lebaugh, and their children
were : Moses DeWitt, Eliza, Sarah, Cornelius
and Mary Frances.
(\TI)' Moses DeWitt, eldest child of Isaac
and Margaret (Lebaugh) \'an Winkle, was
born 1838. in Richfield, where he attended the
ciimmon school, and early learned the art of
piano-making with Charles J. Holden in New
York. For a period of thirty-five years he was
employed b)' the Peloubet Organ Company,
and subsequently engaged in business at Bloom-
field as a manufacturer of organs, in which he
was successful. He retired from active busi-
ness in 1893 and has since resided quietU' at
Bloomfield, where he is a well-known and re-
spected citizen. He is a Republican in political
I)rincipal, but has never aspired to office, and
contents himself with the ordinary duties of
tlie citizen. He married (first) Elizabeth Mc-
Keon ; (second) Frances D., daughter of Joel
Hubbard, whose wife was a Treadwell. There
are two children of the first marriage: Clar-
ence E. and Isaac D. The elder married Millie
Daniel and has a son, Donald.
f\ll) Isaac D., second son of Moses D.
and Elizabeth (McKeon) \'an Winkle, mar-
ried Lois Corliss.
Whether the William Thorn,
THORN who is the founder of the fam-
ily in Long Island and New Jer-
sey is the \\'illiam Thorn, of Devonshire, who
became a freeman of Lynn, Massachusetts, in
1638, is still a question in dispute and accord-
ing to the latest and best authority on the sub-
ject, there is no likelihood of the questiiMi ever
being settled.
( I) William Thorn, the founder of the fam-
ily now being considered, was one of the orig-
inal patentees of the town of Flushing, in 1643.
and in the following year was granted a planta-
tion lot in Gravesend. In 1637 he is one of the
proprietors of the town of Jamaica, Long
Island, which had been purchased from the
Indians the preceding year. In 1673 he and
his children are mentioned in the census of
Hempstead, Long Island. By his wife Sarah,
he had five children : William, born April 7,
1632, married Winifred Kay; John, referred
to below; Joseph, born 1647, died 1727, mar-
ried Mary Bowne (see Rowe) ; Samuel, 1630
to 1732, married Susanna ; Susanna,
married John Lackerson, of Flushing.
(II) John, second child and son of Will-
iam and Sarah Thorn, was born in 1643. died
in 1709. He lived in Connecticut, where Alay
12, 1664, he was made a freeman. March,
1664, he married Mary, daughter of Nicholas
and Sarah Parcell. Children : John, referred
to below ; Hannah, married Richard Cornell,
and had fifteen children; William, died 1742,
married, 170S, Meribah A. Allen, and had
eight children; Josejjh, married Martha Jo-
anna Bowne ; Mercy, married William Fowler ;
Elizabeth, married Mr. Schurman ; Sarah, mar-
ried Joshua Cornell, and had four children.
(III) John, eldest child and son of John
and Mary (Parcell) Thorn, died in 1737, set-
tled at Crosswicks, Burlington countv. New
Jersey, where .\ugust 26, 1717, he bought one
hundred and eight-one acres of land. He was
a farmer, a carpenter, a man of prominence,
and held various public offices. By his wife
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Catharine, who died in 1766, he had twelve
■children : John, died without issue. May 8,
1759; Mary, (Hed without issue; Elizabeth,
diecl without issue ; Deborah, married Mr. Sini-
nions, and had one child ; Joseph, referred to
below ; Samuel, married Hannah Clay ; Ben-
jamin, died without issue; Catharine, married
Francis King; Sarah, born 1719, died June
30, 181 1, married David Wright; Thomas, died
without issue in 1765; Rebecca, married Mr.
Simmons ; 1 lannah, married Caleb Slireve Jr.
( R ) Joseph, fifth child and second son of
John and Catharine Thorn, died in 1774, was
a yeoman and a weaver, and May. 1723, mar-
ried Sarah, born .April 1702. daughter of
Thomas and Elizabeth Foulke. Children :
Elizalicth, born May 3, 1724: Jose|)h, born
April 19, 1727, died Alay g, 1759; John, born
IMay 4, 1730. died .August 22, 1807. married
Diadamia Ivins; Thomas, referred to below:
Michael, born December 2, 1736. died unmar-
ried.
(\^) Thomas, fourth child and third son of
Joseph and Sarah (Foulke) Thorn, was born
July 21. 1733. and died February 25, 1801.
Both he and his wife are buried in Borden-
town. In 1739 he was married at Fallsing-
ton. r>ucks county, Pennsylvania, where his
wife's acknowledgment for marrying out of
meeting was accepted May 2. 1759, to Susanna,
who died September 7. 1806. daughter of Will-
iam and Ann (Stevenson) Biles. Children:
I. Joseph, born February 12. 1761. died Sep-
tember 28, 1822: married (first) Rhoda Moon,
(second) Ann Beck. 2. Benjamin, born Janu-
ary 3, 1763. died Jtme 13. 1846, married Lucy,
daughter of Joseph and Susanna Rogers, and
widow of Mr. Taylor, had twin sons, cme of
whom, Benjamin, married Sarah, daughter of
Thomas and Alary West, and had seven chil-
dren, the second of whom, the eldest daughter,
married Josiah Dunn Pancoast (q. v.). 3.
Ann. born May 4. 1764. 4. William Biles,
born March 26. 1766. died November 17. 1706 ;
married Elizabeth TTutchins. 3. (!^eorge. re-
ferred to below. 6. Langhorn. born March 8.
i7'.9. 7. Sarah, born ( )ctober 9, 1772, died
January 2, 1774. 8. Enoch, born January 6.
1775. died February 12. 1806; married Cath-
arine Nagle. 9. Thomas. Jr.. born February
17. 1782, died August 18, 1806, married Anna
I'alkenburg.
(\'I) (jeorge, fifth child and fourth son of
Thomas and Susanna ( Biles ) Thorn, was born
at Crosswicks. Burlington county. .August 29,
1767, and died there (October 7. 1843. He set-
tled upon a part of the farm belonging to his
father, where he lived imtil the death of his
wife. Some time after this lie lost his eyesight,
gave up farming, and made his home with his
s(in Edward on the farm adjoining his own.
April 9. 1800, George Thorn married Mary,
born November 10, 1773, died November 17,
1832. daughter of Benjamin and Tabitha Field,
of Chesterfield township, liurlington county.
Children : Barton Field, born December 27.
1801. died July 27, 1825, unmarried: Edward,
I ef erred to below.
(\ II) Edward, second and youngest child,
the only one to marry, of George and Mary
(Field ) Thorn, was born at Crosswicks, March
12. 1806, and died there March 23, 1880. He
settled on the farm adjoining his father near
Crosswicks, where he lived until i8f')0, wdien
he removed to the village of Crosswicks, wdiere
his wife died, his son Barton Field taking pos-
session of the homestead farm. Edward died
at the home of his daughter, on a farm near
by the homestead. November 19. 1829. Ed-
ward Thorn married Mary, born June 24.
1807. died Se])tember 13, 1872, daugliter of
David and Hannah ( Middleton ) Hendrickson,
of Crosswicks. Children: Harriet Flendrick-
son, born June 16, 1831, married Joseph S.
Middleton: Barton Field, referred to below.
(Vni) Barton Field, only son of Edward
and Mary (Hendrickson) Thorn, was bom
near Crosswicks, March i, 1834, and died
there May 9, 1904. He was educated at the
Westtown boarding school and Haverford Col-
lege, and then returned to his father's farm,
wdiere he had large farming and real estate
interests, besides being a large real estate
owner in Philadelphia. For a time he special-
ized on apple growing and cider making. Dur-
ing the civil war he was most active in filling
up the quota for the army. He was a Repub-
lican, served as township clerk and committee-
man and for years was collector of the county.
From 1874 to 1876 he was state senator. He
was a Friend, and treasurer of the meeting
and held the trust fund. September 30. 1868,
T'.arton Field Thorn married Anna J., born
August 24, 1840, died February 24, 1909,
daughter of George Lawrence and Mary W.
(Carman) Duer, her father being a prominent
physician of Crosswicks. Children : Laura
Middleton. born June 30, 1871. died .August
4, 1880: Clara Duer, born March 12. 1873;
George Barton, referred to below : Helen Mid-
dleton. born .August 17. 1879. died September
29. 1890.
(IX) George Barton, only son of Barton
Field and Anna I. (Duer) Thorn, was born at
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i:j<sey,
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Crosswicks, Burlington county, Xovetnber 30,
1877, and is now living at that place. He was
educated at the W'esttown boarding school, at
Chester, Pennsylvania, and left school in order
to take charge of his father's interests, and he
now devotes his whole time to attending to
the large interests, left by his father. For
four years he was the treasurer of the New
Jersey State Home for Feeble Minded Women,
and on 'he board of managers. He is a Friend.
He is a member of the grange, and its purchas-
ing agent. He is unmarried, and he and his
sister live at the old homestead in the village
of Crosswicks.
Henry Simmons White left an
W'lHTF indelible impression on the public
life of Jersey City and of his
section of the state. No citizen of the com-
munity was ever more respected, and no man
ever more fully enjoyed the confidence of the
people or more richly deserved the esteem in
wdiich he was held. In his lifetime the people
of his state recognizing his merit, rejoiced in
his advancement and in the honors to which
he attained, and since his death they have
cherished his memory, which remains as a
blessed benediction to all who knew him. Hon-
orable in business, loyal in citizenship, charit-
able in thought, kindly in action, true to every
trust confided to his care, his life was the high-
est type of Christian manhood. He was one
of the distinguished lawyers of the New Jer-
sey bar who lives in the memories of his con-
temporaries, encircled with the halo of a gra-
cious presence, charming personality, profound
legal wisdom, and in the quiet dignity of an
idea follower of his calling. He was for many
years in active practice at the bar of Jersey
City, and comparatively few men endeared
themselves to so great an extent to their pro-
fessional associates and to those with whom
they come in contact in the discharge of jjublic
duties. While practicing at Jersey ("ity Mr.
White maintained his residence at Red Bank,
w hich was the place of his nativity.
-Mr. White was of English ancestry, and his
family was for many generations associated
with the history of New Jersey. His great-
great-great-grandfather Thomas White, great-
great-grandfather I'eter Wiiite and great-
grandfather Thomas White were well-known
and jirosijerous farmers in Shrewsbury town-
ship, ?kIonniouth county. His grandfatb.cr,
Esek White, was liberally educated in New
York City, and was there engaged in business,
also managing his homestead farm. In relig-
ious faith he was a l-'riend, .and in politics a
\\'hig. He married Ann Besonet, of a prom-
inent French family. Children: Henry 1!.,
Esek T., Isaac ]'. and Caroline.
Isaac P. White, son of Esek and Ann ( Bes-
onet ) White, was born in Shrewsbury town-
ship, Monmouth county, April 7, 1804. ami
died at Jersey City, January 2-j, 1876. In early
life he was employed for some time as a clerk
in the store of Corlies & Allen at Shrewsiniry,
and subsequently removed to Brooklyn, wdiere
he became one of the organizers of the firm
of Lippincott & White, carrying on a whole-
sale grocery business. On withdrawing from
that enterprise he became a member of the
firm of Wooley & White, lumber dealers of
Red Bank, establishing the first lumber yard
in tliis portion of New Jersey. The enter])rise
proved profitable from the beginning, and they
built up a large trade. In 1873 -^^r. White re-
moved to Jersey City, where he lived in re-
tirement until his death, which occurred in
1876, when he was in his seventy-second year.
His political support in early life was given
the \Vhig party, and later he joined the Repub-
lican party, of which he was a staunch advo-
cate, taking an active interest in politics and
other public matters. He was reared in the
faith of the society of PTiends, but as his
wife was a Presbyterian he attended that
church and aided to establish the church of
that denomination at Red Bank. He was an
ensign or third lieutenant in the New York
militia man}' 3ears, and his commission is still
in the possession of the family of his son.
Fraternally he was connected with the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, as one of its
valued members. His wife, wdio bore the
maiden name of Adaline Simmons, was a
daughter of Abraham Simmons, and was born
at Phelps. Ontario county. New Y'ork, August
2fc, 1817, her death occurring at Red Bank,
May 7, 1884. They had three children: Henry
S. : Theodore .S., wdio died July 28, 1865 : and
James S., who died .April 14, i860.
Henry Simmons White, son of Isaac P. and
.Adaline ( Simmons) White, was born in Red
Bank, New Jersey, July 13, 1844. He acquired
his preliminary education in the public schools,
and under private tutors at home prepared for
college. Subsequently he inirsued a course in
the College of Physicians and .Surgeons of
New ^'ork City, and was graduated in 1864,
but did not immerliately receive his diploma,
as he had not reached the ref|uired age of
twenty-one years. .After his graduation he
^'.•as appointed assistant surgeon in the United
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
States army (hiriii!^- the last year of the civil
war, and retained that position until honorably
diseharged in July, 1865, hostilities having
ceased. Returning to the north, he spent some
time in the Woman's Hosjiital and in the old
New York flospital of New York City, and in
llie spring of 1866 obtained his degree of Doc-
tor of Medicine. In his native city he im-
mediately entered u])on the practice of his
I)rofession and remained for about two years
there, but in 1868 returned to New York and
entered the law department of Columbia Col-
lege, for he had decided that the field of juris-
prudence would oif'er him broader opportuni-
ties, and that the profession would be more
congenial than that of medicine. He had previ-
ously read law in the office of William Allen
Lewis, of Jersey City, and in 1870 he was
graduated from Columbia and the same year
was admitted to the New York bar. In 1872
ht was admitted to the bar of New Jersey and
as counselor at law in November, 1875. On
the 1st of February, 1873, in partnership with
John A. lUair, he opened an office in Jersey
City, and the firm continued practice until
February, 1878, when the partnership was dis-
solved, owing to Mr. Blair's appointment as a
member of the judiciary. Mr. White then
engaged in practice alone and soon gainerl a
large clientele. Between 1884 and 1890 he
also had an office in New York City. He was
retained as counsel or advocate in connection
with many important litigated interests. One
of the most notable of these was the suit be-
tween the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
lailroad and the Hudson River Tunnel Rail-
way Company. Mr. White represented the
latter comi)any, which had organized to the
purpose of constructing a tunnel under the
Hudson river between New York and Jersey
City. The former company held that accord-
ing to the provisions of the general railroad
law no company could be legally organized for
the construction of such a tunnel, and further
tiiat they could exercise no right of eminent
domain. After a hard fight and long and
tedious litigation lasting several years and pass-
ing through the court of appeals and lastly
the L'nited States court, Mr. White's clients re-
ceiving the decision of each, the work of con-
structing the tunnel was allowed to proceed,
but after two thousand feet had been con-
structed, financial difficulties forced a suspen-
sion of the work, and the project, though a bold
and novel one, yet entirely practicable, was
never completed. Subsec|uently the property
was sold to a syndicate of English capitalists.
Mr. White being continued by them as coiinsel
lor the company.
While he gained a position as an eminent
jurist, it wa^ probably in his home life that the
strongest characteristics of Mr. White showed
forth. He was companionable, genial, and
thoroughly devoted to his family, and held
friendship inviolable. In 1878 he married
Miss Annie Hull McLean, daughter of ex-
Judge A. C. McLean, of h'reehold, and they
liad one daughter, Margaretta. Socially Mr.
White was connected with the Masonic Lodge
of Red Bank, and was a prominent representa-
tive of Arrowsmith Post, No. 61, G. A. R.,
which he served as commander, and was com-
mander of the department of New Jersey in
iSo.S-'jf)- He was deeply interested in the
order, and was widely known among the wear-
ers of the blue in the state. In 1884 he took
up his abode in Red Bank, where he had previ-
ously built a fine residence, and from that time
forward was an active factor in promoting
thi'se interests which were for the benefit and
ui)building of the city. The private school on
T.eroy ;)lace, know^n as the Shrewsbury Acad-
emy, was owned by him It was intended that
a stock company should build this, and it was
begun with this understanding, but the project
fell tlu"ough and the work was then carried
forwarf! to completion through the unaided
efforts of Mr. White, wdio was ever a firm
f'riend of the cause of education. The only
club to which he ever belonged was the LInion
League Club of New Jersey, but he and his
wife were prominently connected with the
Presbyferian church of Red Bank. For many
years he served as a member and president of
its board of trustees.
In politics he was a stalwart Republican
from the time of his majority. He labored for
the interests of Lincoln in the campaigns of
i8fio and 1864. even th(iugh he had not attain-
ed the right of franchise, and from that time
until his death never failed to give his support
to the leading candidates of the party in whose
principles he so firmly believed. In 1878 he
was appointed assistant collector of the port
of New York, which position he occupied for
many years, and later was appointed LInited
States district attorney, and administrated the
affairs of that office with vigor and ability, until
August, 1894, wdien he was succeeded by a Dem-
ocrat. In addition to his manifold public and
private interests already mentioned, he was a
ilirector of the Hudson Countv National Bank.
STATE OF NKW IKRSKV
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vice-president of the Navesink National Bank,
and president of the Red Bank Board of Trade
(hiring the period of its existence.
rienrv Simmons White passed away Sep-
tember 30, igoi, after a three weeks' iUness
of typhoid fever, and thus eniled a most up-
right and useful career. Politically and pro-
fessionally his name was a synonym for un-
compromising integrity. In his private and
social life he manifested the same engaging
qualities which made him popular in public
circles. Charitable and kindly, he gave liber-
ally of his time and means, yet always unosten-
tatiously, to those whom he could aid in period
of distress or need. He is held in grateful
remembrance by many, while his friends and
family cherish his spotless record as a price-
less heritage.
The earliest known home of the
I'lTXEY Pitney family is the very small
village and parish of Pitney,
lying between Langport and Somcrton, near to
the historic battlefield of Sedgemoor, in coun-
ty Somerset, England, and from the family
settler here and giving its name to the village
comes the branch which removed to London
and from which the founder of the family in
America descended.
(I) James Pitney, who is said to have been
a manufacturer of buttons on London Bridge,
which, as the old prints of it show, was lined
with shops on both sides of the roadway, emi-
grated to America some time before 1722. He
settled first at Xew Brunswick, New Jersey,
and later between Liberty Corner and Basking
Ridge. Somerset county. New Jersey, where
he followed the occupation of a farmer. His
wife's name is unknown, but the supposition
is that it was Smythe, and that she was a cou-
sin of General \Villiam Alexander, known as
Lord Sterling. Children: Benjamin, referred
to below ; Jonathan, had a son Shubel, who
married, December 31, 1756, Charity Stiles;
James, referred to below: John, married Janu-
ary 2, 1755, Sarah Leonard.
(H) Benjamin, eldest son of James Pitney,
was born near Liberty Corner, Somerset coun-
ty, New Jersey. He married, November 28,
1751, Abigail, daughter of Ebenczer and Abi-
gail (Alden) Byram, and widow of Daniel
Thompson. .Vmong their children was Sarah,
referred to below.
(HL) Sarah, daughter of lienjamin and
Abigail f Byram-Thompson ) Pitney, was born
in MendJiam township, Morris county. New
Jersey, July 15, 1764. She married Alahlon,
son of James and Desire (Thompson) Pitney.
(II) James (2), son of James (i) Pitney,
was born near Liberty Corner, Somerset coun-
ty. New Jersey, 1722. With his brothers, Ben-
jamin and Jonathan, he settled in Mendham
township, Morris county, where they owned
L':rge farms near to one another. He married,
November 28, 1751. Desire, daughter (if Jo-
seph and Lydia Thompson, of Mendham. Chil-
dren : James, married, December 4, 1780, Eliz-
abeth Carmichael ; Josejjh Thompson, born
1754, died 1777, surgeon in the revolution;
Samuel, born 1757 : MahlcMi, referred to below :
Aaron, born 1763. physician, ancestor of Sen-
ator Kean.
(HI) Mahlon, son of James and Desire
( Thompson ) Pitney, was born in Mend-
ham township, Morris county. New Jersey,
September 18, 1759. He was a soldier in
tlie revolutionary war. He married his cousin
Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail
( Byram-Thompson ) Pitney, aforementioned.
Children: i. Joseph Thompson, born Novem-
ber 18, 1786, died August 8, 1855; he was a
practicing physician and surgeon, and lived
and practiced at Auburn, New York. 2. Aaron,
born .August 12, 1793; was a physician and
surgeon. 3. Mahlon, referred to below. 4.
Samuel, born December 30, 1797; married a
Crater. 5. Elizabeth, married a Mr. Beers, of
Mt. \'ernon, C)hio.
(IV) Mahlon (2), son of Mahlon (i) and
Sarah 1 Pitney) Pitney, was born in Mendham
township, Morris county. New Jersey, .\ugust
7. 179s. He married Lucetta Cooper, whose
father was a soldier in the revolutionary war.
and whose mother was a Thompson and a first
cousin of the children of James (2 ) and Desire
( Thompson ) Pitney. Children : Henry Cooper,
referred to below ; also three daughters.
( \') Henry Cooper, son of Mahlon ( 2 ) and
Lucetta (Cooper) Pitney, was born in Mend-
ham township, ?^torris county, New Jersey.
January 19, 1827, and is now living in ATorris-
town. New Jersey. His birthplace was the
ancestral farm which has come to him by
direct descent from his great-grandfather,
James Pitney. For his early education he was at
first put luuler the charge of private tutors
in his father's home, and was afterwards sent
to the school of Ezra Fairchild in Mendham,
later in Plainfield, New Jersey, wdiere he was
a schoolmate of the celebrated Presbyterian
tlivine, Theodore Cuyler, and of the famous
lawver, William Fullerton. When he attain-
ed the age of fifteen he was taken from school
on account of his delicate health and kei)t at
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home on his father's farm until he was nine-
teen years old. In 1846 he entered the junior
class of Princeton College, where he took his
-'V. B. degree in the regular course, with the
class of 1848, receiving later his A. M. degree,
iind in 1801 having conferred upon him his
LL. D. degree. After graduation he at once
began the study of law at Morristown with
Hon. Ira C. W'hiteheacl, ex-judge of the su-
preme court of New Jersey, and was admitted
to the Xew Jersey bar as attorney in 185 1 and
as counsellor in 1854. He then opened his
oftice in Morristown and practiced law there
until April. 1889, when he was appointed vice-
chancellor of New Jersey, an office which he
held continuously until his resignation, April
8, 1907. The amount of legal and judicial
work done by \'ice-Chancellor Pitney was
enough to have required the best energies of
most men for their entire time, but not only
was he able to accomplish this but he was also
able to <!o mar.) other things which were worth
while. He was one of the first ten advisory
masters in chancery appointed by the late Chan-
cellor liunyon in pursuance of a statue passed
for that purpose. \'ice-Chancellor Pitney car-
ried to the oftice many (|ualifications for the
proper performance of the duties of his im-
portant i-tosition. His long experience in the
trials of causes enabled him to sift and analyse
the testimony of witnesses and to group to-
gether the salient points in the case. His pro-
found knowledge of legal princijiles especially
f.tted him to apply those principles to the work
at hand ; while his alertness of mind forecast
the end of an argument from its very begin-
ning, and his keen perception of the difference
between minute shades of right and* wrong
and his ability to recognize and estimate at
their proper value distinctions within differ-
ences gave him a remarkable power ,>f logical
discrimination which resulted in the famous
e(,uitableness of his decisions. He was suc-
ceeded by \'ice-Chancellor Howell.
About 1865 X'ice-Chancellor Pitney was one
of the organizers of the present National Iron
Bank, became at that time a director and one
of its largest stockholders, and since 1896 has
been its president. In 1870. in company with a
number of associates, he bought the aqueduct
projjerty of Morristown with all its rights,
and provided that city with an abundant sup-
ply nf pure spring water. About 1870 he as-
sisted in starting the Morris County Savings
Bank, and fnini the beginning has been one
of its managers. He was for many years a
member of the boarcl of trustees of the First
Presbyterian Church of Morristown, and in
that capacity engaged in many enterprises
which occupied considerable of his time. He
still, however, had opportunity for literary
work and was withal an omnivorous reader.
At present he says his principal occupation is
farming the old Pitney farm at Mendham,
which he inherited from his father. When
\ ice-Chancellor Pitney was about to retire at
the age of eighty years, the bench and bar of
New Jersey gave a dinner in his honor on his
birthday, January 19, 1907, at the Waldorf-
Astoria, and at this dinner Chancellor William
J. Magie presided, and among the guests in-
cluded were Hon. Alton B. Parker, Hon. John
M. Dillon, Hon. Hampton L. Carson, Hon.
John L. Cadwalader, and others, all of whom
united heartily in their public expression of
esteem fi ii the veteran vice-chancellor.
\'ice-Qiancellor Pitney marrietl Sarah Louisa,
daughter of Oliver Halsted, of New York, a
jerseyman by birth, belonging to the old Eliz-
abeth branch of the family and a cousin of
Caleb C)gden Halsted, whose wife, Caroline
I.ouise Pitney, was a daughter of Dr. Aaron
Pitney, a niece of Mahlon Pitney, referred to
abt^'e, and grandmother of Senator John Kean,
01 New Jersey, a brc_ither of Hamilton Fish
Kean. Children: i. Sarah Halstead; mar-
ried, October 12. 1875, Finley A. Johnson. .'.
Henry Cooper, referred to below. 3. Mahlon,
a sketch of whom follows this. 4. John Oliver,
see forward. 5. Catherine James, born April
5, 1862; marrierl George Richstein Van Dusen.
attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 6.
Mary Brayton, born May 5, 1866. 7. Frederick
Vernon, born April 20, 1869; married, June,
1906, Elizabeth Chadwell, daughter of the late
Rev. (leorge Harris Chadwell, D. D., former
rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Morris-
town, New Jersey.
(VI) Henry Cooper (2), son of Vice-
Chancellor Henry Cooper Pitney, was born
at Morristown. New Jersey. August 6, 1856,
and is now living in that town. For his
early education he was sent to private schools
anfl to the Morris Academy, at which latter
])lace he prepared for college, and entered
Princeton University in September. 1874, as
a sophomore, and graduated with the class of
1877. He then studied law in his father's
oftice and was admitted to the New Jersey bar
as attorney in June, 1880, and as counsellor
in February, 1884, after which he opened an
office in Morristown and has ever since en-
gaged there in the practice of his profession.
He is a Republican in politics. With regard
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tc matters of local importance, he has been
very much interested in the Morristown Free
Public Library, of which he is a director and
since 1904 has been the secretary. He is a
member of the First I'resbyterian C'hurch in
Morristown. He married, June 17, i8qi,
Laura G. P., daughter of .\ndrew L and Julia
A. (Henry) Wood, who was born in Brook-
lyi , New York, in July, 1864.
(VI) Mahlon Pitney, son of \'ice-Chan-
cellor Henry Cooper Pitney, was born in
Morristown, New Jersey, February 5, 1858.
He was prepared for college in classical schools
of the city, after which he matriculated in the
freshman class of Princeton L'niversity in 1875.
On the completion of the four years course he
was graduated in the class of 1879 with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. The degree of
Master of Arts was conferred upon him by
his alma mater in 1882. He studied law under
the direction of his distinguished father, and
in 1882 was admitted to the Xew Jersey bar
as an attorney at law. while three years later
he was licensed to practice as a counsellor at
law. In 1882 he opened an office for the prac-
tice of law in Dover, Xew Jersey, contiiuiing
until 1S89. when he returned to Morristown
and soon gained a large clientage and enviable
reputation. He has since been connected with
most of the important litigation that has been
heard in the courts here, and has given evi-
dence of his splendid power before court or
jury. He is a clear, forcible speaker and logical
reasoner. and his trial of a cause always shows
a thorough familiarity with the law concerned
therewith. In politics Mr. Pitney has long
been active, and he is a recognized leader of
the Reijublican party in his section of the state
He was temporary chairman of the Republican
slate convention which nominated John \\'.
Griggs for governor in 1893. ^"^1 '" behalf of
b.is party has done much effective work. In
1894 he was honored with the nomination for
re|)resentative in congress for the F'ourth Con-
gressional District, composed of Morris, Hun-
terdon. Warren and Sussex counties. The
district was supposed to be and had formerly
been strongly Democratic, and the o|)position
renominated Hon. Johnston Cornish, who then
occujiied the position, but the election returns
showed that Mr. Pitney had won by a plurality
01 fourteen hundred and seven votes. In i8()6 he
was again nominated, and although the Demo-
crats felt confident that their candidate. Augus-
tus W. Cutler, would carry the district. .Mr. I'it-
ney was again elected : with an increased major-
ity of 2977 votes. His course in Congress
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won him not only tiie commendation of his
home district, but also of many of the ablest
members of the house. During his first term
he was ai)pointed a member of the committee
on appr(5priations, and did effective service on
behalf of the people by opposing extravagant
and useless ajjpropriations. In the cani])aign
of 1896 he made a vigorous canvass and took
an uncompromising stand in favor of sound
money, as defined in the party platform. He
is a forcible, earnest and convincing speaker,
and is no less accomplished as a writer, his
jien productions having the literary finish of
the scholar as well as the eloquence of the
orator. His public service is most commend-
able, for with him the public good is ever be-
fore party, and the general welfare before
personal aggrandizement.
Mr. Pitney married, in 1891. Florence T.
Shelton. They hold membershi]) in the First
Presbsterian Church, and sustain high social
lelations. ]\Ir. Pitney is a Mason. Among
his fellow citizens, although he has won high
honors at their hands, he is an unassuming
man, free from ostentation, which character-
istic makes him very popular.
( \T ) John. Oliver Halsted Pitney, son of
ex-\ ice-Chancellor Henry Cooper Pitney, was
born in Morristown, Xew Jersey, April 14,
18(10. He receivefl his [ireparatory education
in the private schools of ^lorristown, and after-
ward entered Princeton University, from which
which he was graduated in the class of 1881.
with degree of Bachelor of .\rts. that of Mas-
ter of .\rts being conferred upon him by the
same institution in 1884. Choosing the law as
his profession, he pursued a course of study
in the same under the prece])torship of his
father in Morristown, and was admitted to the
bar of Xew Jersey in June, 1884, as an attor-
ney, and in 1887 as a counsellor. Immediate-
ly after his admission to the bar he establish-
ed himself in the practice of his profession at
Xewark. where he has since remained. F"or
the first two years he was in partnership with
I'jederick H. 'Fuse, later was similarly asso-
ciated with John R. Hardin, and subsec|uently
.A. F. .Skinner was admitted as a partner, since
wliich time they have conducted business under
the style of Pitney, I lardin & Skinner, being
one of the best known law firms in the state of
New Jersey, with an extensive clientage, the
business increasing in voluhie and importance
with each succeeding year. From the very
outset of his professional career Mr. Pitnev
exhibited a predilectit)n for the profession in
which he has won so honorable a place. He
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has been actively identified with many impor-
tant cases, and his services are in great de-
mand by corporations and private individuals
who desire the best obtainable talent. He is a
man of rare legal attainments, courteous, digni-
fied, and honest, and his great force of char-
acter and unerring grasp of fundatmental prin-
ciples make him a powerful advocate.
Mr. Pitney is a director of the Mutual Bene-
fit Life Insurance Company, the National New-
ark Banking Company, and the American In-
surance Company. He is a member of the
First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, in
which place he makes his home, and where he
has gained the esteem and confidence of his
fellow townsmen by the active interest he mani-
fests in all measures tending toward the prog-
ress and welfare of the community. He is a
staunch adherent of the princi])les of Repub-
licanism, but has never sought or held public
office. He is a prominent and active member
of the Essex Club, Cniversity Club, New York
Club, New York Yacht Club, Morristown Golf
Club, and the Morristown Club, leading social
organizations.
Mr. Pitney married, January 15, 1890, Rob-
erta A., daughter of Robert F. and Annie E.
Ballantine. Children : John B., born Decem-
ber 12. 1892; Robert H., June 4, 1907.
This name suggests the
FLANDERS Flemish origin of one who
settled in England during
the time the English were assuming surnames.
This family was established in Massachusetts
early in the colonial period. It is the general
belief that the Sali.sbury settler mentioned
below was the ancestor in common of all who
bear the name in New England.
(I) Stephen Flanders and his wife Jane
emigrated from England and settled in Salis-
bury, Massachusetts, sometime between tlie
years 1640 and 1646. He was admitted a
townsman in February, 1650, but there is no
record of his admission as a freeman. His
will was made April 4, 1684, and he died June
27 that year. His wife died November ig,
1683. Children: Stephen, Mary, Philip, Sarah,
Naomi and John.
(II) Stephen (2), eldest child of Stephen
and Jane Flanders, was born in Salisbury,
Massachusetts, March 8, 1646. and died Octo-
ber 6, 1744, at the advanced age of ninety-
eight years. December 28, 1670, he married
Abigail, born February 11, 1653, daughter of
Thomas and Mary Carter, of Salisbury. Ste-
phen Carter resided in Salisbury. Children :
Thomas (died in infancy), Stephen, Thomas,
Daniel, Joseph, Philip (died young), Sarah.
Philip, James, Jeremiah and Abigail.
(HI ) Joseph, fifth son and child of Stephen
and Abigail ( Carter ) Flanders, was born
March 28, 1677, and tlied December 29, 1730.
He was three times married, but the maiden
surnames of two of his wives cannot be ascer-
tained. The christian name of his first wife,
who died in 1702, was Esther. That of his
second wife, whom he married in 1703, was
Hannah; she died May 5, 1714. On October
3, 1716, he married (third) Mary Thompson.
By his first union there was one daughter, ,\nn.
Children of his second marriage: Ezekiel,
Joseph, Nehemiah and Ebenezer. Those of
his third marriage were : Phineas, Mary, Jere-
miah and Moses.
(IV) Nehemiah, third child and son of Jo-
seph and Hannah Flanders, was born Febru-
ary 18, 1709. In February, 1733, he married
Sarah Hackett. Children: Jarvis, Hezekiah,
David, Nehemiah, (Jlive and Levi.
( \' ) Levi, yotmgest child of Nehemiah and
Sarah ( Hackett ) Flanders, was born Febru-
ary 26, 1754. The place and date of his death
is unknown to the writer, nor is there any
available record of his marriage, but it is
known that he had one son whose name was
Caleb.
( \ I ) Caleb, son of Levi Flanders, resided
in Danbury, New Hampshire. He married
Mehitable .Searles. Children : William. John
( died young) , Lorenzo, I liram, Charles, Frank.
Samuel, (ieorge. John, Frances, Dorothy,
Nancy and Daniel W.
(VH) Charles, fifth son of Caleb and Me-
hitable ( Searles ) Flanders, was born in Dan-
bury, in the northwest corner of Merrimack
county. New Hampshire, and adjoining Sulli-
van and Grafton counties, about 1804. (In the
Dartmouth Alumni Catalogue we find from
this section of New Hampshire contemporane-
ous members of the Flanders family: Walter
Powers Flanders (1806-83), lawyer, A. B.,
1831 : Thomas Flanders ( "1791-1867), M. D..
1832: Jonathan Leavitt Flanders, M. D., 1841,
removed to Bridgeport, Illinois: Benjamin F.
Flanders, born January 26, 1816, Bristol, New
Hampshire, A. B., 1857, as of class of 1842,
went to New Orleans 1843, where he was a
school teacher, schocil superintendent, editor
and lawyer. He was a representative from
Louisiana in the United States Congress. 1863 ;
governor of Louisiana, 1867: mayor of New
Orleans. 1870-72 : assistant treasurer of United
States in New Orleans, 1873-85, died in New
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
KV'3
Orleans, March 13. 1896). Charles Flanders
married about 1820, Lucretia Kingsbury, of
Keene, New Hampshire, a descendant of Jo-
seph Kingsbury, the Dedhani immigrant, 1628,
and a son Henry was born in Sullivan county.
New Hampshire, February 13, 1826. who became
a lawyer under tuition from his father and went
to I'hiladeli)hia before 1850. He was educated at
Kimball Academy, New Hamjjshire, and New-
bury Seminary, \'erniont, studied law with his
father, and in 1850 removed to I'hiladelphia.
Pennsylvania, where he became noted as a
lawyer and author of law books. He was
given the honorary degree of A. M. by Dart-
mouth College in 1856. As the Flanders of
southwestern New Hampshire were migrating
and included professional men. we place Al-
fred Flanders (q. v.) as reasonably a member
of this family and a brother of Henry, the
I'hiiadelphia lawyer, in the absence of infor-
mation or evidence to the contrary.
(VIH) Alfred, an elder son of Charles and
Lucretia (Kingsbury) Flanders, was born in
Sullivan county. New Hampshire, probably
about 1823. As his father was a lawyer, he
undfnibtedly gave all his sons a good education
and instructed them in law. He was head
bookkeeper in the Kensington National Bank,
Philadel|)liia, Pennsylvania; took up the prac-
tice of law and carried on its practice in Bever-
ly, Mount Holly and Burlington, Burlington
county. New Jersey, and in Camden, New-
Jersey. He was city solicitor of Burlington at
the time of his death, and held the position for
several years. He was a prominent member
of the Methodist church, and had charge of
the music of the church in liurlington. He
married Mary Rothw^ell Davidson, of Phila-
delphia. Penn.s}lvania. Children: i. Marv D..
married Henry S. Prickett, of Philadelphia.
2. Howard, was a lawyer in Burlington, and
succeeded his father as city solicitor of tUir-
lington. and held the office up to the time of
his own death : married Carrie Lowden. 3.
Charles 'S'erkes i(|. v. ). .Alfred Flanders, died
in Burlington. New Jersey. J 888. Two chil-
dren died in infanc}'.
nX) Charles Yerkes. second son and third
child of Alfred and Mary Rothwell (David-
son) Flanders, was born in Philadelphia. Penn-
sylvania. Se]itember 22. 1863. He was a pupil
in the public schools of Philadelphia, and when
sixteen years of age he engaged in a wholesale
business in the employ of 11. C. Piddle & Com-
pany, of Philadelphia, and remained with this
firm two years. In 1881 he became connected
with the ^lorris Tasker & Company Wrought
Iron and Boiler Tube Company, and remained
with this company from i88i to 1897, gaining
promotion from office boy to salesman, in 1897
he was made eastern representative of the .St.
Louis Car Company, with headquarters in New
York City. He resigned this position in 1900
to assume the management of the L'nited and
Globe Rubber Comj)an\-. with offices at 26
Broadway, New York City, retaining his home
in Burlington, New^ Jersey. He served the
city of Burlington as commissioner of appeals
for three years; as mayor 1900-1903, holding
the office three years and nine months. His
certificate of election as mayor is signed by
the governor of the state, the only city in the
state to be honored by the law in this manner.
His fraternal affiliations include membership
in Burlington Lodge, No. 32, F. and A. M., he
being initiated June 10, 1890; February 24,
i8yi. he was advanced in Boudant Royal Arch
Chapter. No. 3, Burlington, and May 15, 1891.
he was received into Heleva Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Burlington, and from
there he was progressed to Crescent Temple.
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Trenton, of
which he was made a trustee. His ne.xt step in
Masonry was to the Scottish Rite, through the
Trenton Consistory, and took the thirty-second
degree. He became past grand mogul of the
Tall Cedars of Lebanon, of Mount Holly. He
affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, through membership in the
lodge at Burlington. His church affiliations
is with the Protestant Episcopal Church, he
being a communicant of St. Mary's Church,
and served many years as leader of the choir.
Mr. Flanders married. January 22, 1889, Emma
M., daughter of C. Henry and Rebecca (Pip-
pett) Belden, of Burlington. New Jersey. Their
only child. Margarite Belden, was born Octo-
ber 30, 1890, and educated at private schools
and St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, New Jer.sey.
The Conklin familv of New
CONKLIN Jersey is an off-shoot of the
Easthampton, Long Island,
family, which has played so prominent a part
in the history of the province and state of
New York, and the founder of the latter was
among the earliest settlers of Salem. Massa-
chusetts.
(I) Ananias Conklin. or Conkleync. and his
brother John, are both of them spoken of in
the old New England records, .\nanias w^as
made a freeman at Salem. Massachusetts. Mav
18, 1642, and had three children baptized there.
In 1650 he removed to Easthampton. Long
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Inland, and his Ijrother Jiilin to Southold, Long
Island, where an old gravestone notes "Here
lyeth body of Capt. John Conkelyne, born Not-
tinghamshire, England, and died Southold,
Long Island, April 6, 1694, aged 64 years."
He was apparently unmarried. Ananias Conk-
lin had four more children mentioned at East-
h;impton in November, 1657. His wife's name
is unknown. Children: Lewis, baptized Salem,
April 30, i(->43: Jacob, baj)tized Alay 18, 1649;
Elizabeth, baptized May 18, 1649; Jeremiah,
referred to below; Cornelius; I'.enjamin, died
1709, married Hannah Alulfnrd; Hester, mar-
ried George Miller.
( 11 ) Jeremiah, son of .\nanias Cimklin, was
born in 1634, and died March 14, 1712. In
1(158 he married Mary, ilaughter of Lion and
Alary Gardiner, who sailed from Holland, June
10, 1635, to London, and thence to Saybrook,
New England. She was born August 30, 1638,
and died June 15, 1727, and her father gave
his name to (^Jardiner's Island. Children;
Jeremiah, married Jane Parsons ; Cornelius ;
L'avid, died 1737 or 1738; Lewis, referred to
below; Ananias, married Martha Strctton, or
Stratton ; Mary, married Thomas Mulford.
(HI) Lewis, .son of Jeremiah and Mary
(Gartliner) Conklin, married. Children: Lewis,
referred to below; Elizabeth, .Vjiril _'i, 1700;
Esther, September 3, 1704; Mary, April 11,
1708; Mercy, May i, 1710: Isaac, January 25,
1713; Zerviah, January 8, 1716; Cineus, Oc-
tober 19, 1718; Abigail, .\pril 16, 1721, mar-
ried Nathaniel Baker.
( IV ) Lewis ( 2 ). son of Lewis ( i ) Conklin,
was baptized in Easthamton, January 18, 1701 ;
and married October 22. 1724, Elizabeth Mul-
ford.
{\') Lewis Conklin, of .Spring Valley, Ber-
gen county. New Jersey, whom so far a.s we
can tell from records at present known, was
grandson or great-grandson of Lewis and Eliz-
abeth (Mulford) Conklin. He marrierl Ellen
\'an ( )rder, and was a farmer. Children ■
Lewis L.. referred to below ; Albert ; Peter.
( \ I ) Lewis L.. son of Lewis and Ellen
( \'an ( )rder ) Conklin, was born in 1813, and
died June 1 1, 1879. He married Susan, claugh-
ter of William and Ellen \'an Blarcom. who
was born .August 26, 1819, and died February
5, 1903. She had no brothers, and only one
sister. Martha. Children : Edward Lewis, re-
ferred to below : Alary, married ^^'illiam D.
Van Nostrand ; Walter; John L., referred to
below ; Emma ( irinnell. living in Pasadena,
California; ludsnn. a clerg^Miian in Trenton,
New Jcrsev, married Elizabeth : Frank,
postmaster at Paterson, New Jersey, married
Susan Close; children, Frank, Judson, Susan,
Anna.
( \'ll ) Edward Lewis, son of Lewis L. and
Susan ( \'an Blarcom) Conklin, was born in
f'aterson. New Jersey, January 12, 1841. After
being educated in the public schools he enter-
ed his father's grocery store as a clerk, and
after spending S(.ime time there he learned the
sash and blind trade in the factory c>f William
King, in Newark, where he remained until
the outbreak of the civil war. After the war
was over he became superintendent and man-
ager for Air. King, and in 1873 entered into
partnership with him. In 1889 the partnership
was dissolved, and Air. Cc)tiklin conducted the
business alone until 1889, when he was ap-
pointed postmaster. After serving as post-
master until 1894, he was elected county audi-
tor of Esse.x county, and has held that position
ever since. In politics Air. Conklin is a Re-
publican, and he is one of the staunchest and
most prominent men of his party in the county.
For eight years, from 1874 to 1882, he was one
of the chosen freeholders of Newark, and
from 1874 until 1880 he was treasurer of the
fvepublican county committee.
April 28. 1861, Air. Conklin enlisted as pri-
vate in Company G, Second New Jersey \'oI-
unteers, and was discharged holding the rank
of sergeant. July 12, 1864. his regiment at that
time forming part of Kearny's brigade. Army
of the Potomac. His service and actions are
as follows: Bull Run, July 21, 1861 ; West
Point, May 7, i8(>2 ; Golden Farm, June 26.
1862; Gaine's Farm. June 2'. 1862; Charles
City Cross Roads. June 30. 1862; Malvern
Hill. July I. 1862; Alanassas, August 27. 1862;
Chantilly. September i. 1862 ; Cram]iton's Pass,
Se])tember 14. 1862; .Antietam, September 17,
1862; F"redericksburg, December 13-14, 1862;
Second I-'redericksburg, Alay 3, 1863; Salem
Heights, Alay 3-4, 1863; Gettysburg, Penn-
sylvania, July 2-T,. 1863; Fairfield, I'eimsyl-
vania. July 5, 1863; Williamsport, Alaryland,
July 6, 1863; F"ranktown, Alaryland, July 12,
1863; Rapjiahannock Station, Virginia. Octo-
ber 12. 1863; Second Rappahannock Station,
Mrginia, November 7, 18(13; Aline Run, \'ir-
ginia, November 30, 1863 ; battle of the Wilder-
ness. Alay 3-7, 1864; Si)Ottsylvania. A'irginia,
Alay 8-10, 1864; Spottsylvania Court Hmise.
Alay 12-16. 1864; North and South Anna
River. May 24, 1864; Hanover Court House.
Alay 29, 1864; Tolopotomy Creek, Alay 30-31,
1864; Cold Harbor, June 1-3, 1864.
In religious conviction Air. Conklin is a
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rYesb\terian. He is a member uf Eureka
Chapter, Xo. 139, P". and A. M., of Union
Chapter, R. A. M., and a member of Friend-
ship Lodge, Independent Order of C)dd Pel-
lows. His clubs are the Re]niblican Indian
League, the Eighth Ward Rejjublican Club of
Newark, and Lincoln Post, Xo. 11, Grand
Army of the Republic, of which he is past com-
mander. He has been a director in the Frank-
lin Savings Institution, since its organization.
November 25, 1865, Mr. Conklin married, in
East Orange, Leonora K. King, who was bom
in October, 1845. Children: 1. Louis W.,
born June 4, 1867: married Caroline W.
Shepard ; child, Joseph W., lives at Loyalton,
California. 2. Edward Dodd, referred to
below. 3. Leroy, born December 2, 1871 ;
married Margaret Isherwood : one child, Clif-
ford: lives in New Jersey. 4. Herbert King,
referred to below.
(MI) John L., son of Lewis L. and Susan
(\'an niarcom ) Conklin. was born in Pater-
son, New Jersey, January 6. 1848. After re-
ceiving his early education in the public schiools
lie took the course in Bryant & Stratton's Busi-
ness College, and entering the post-office at
Paterson as a clerk he became assistant post-
master and remained in that position tmtil
187^1, when he was appointed postmaster, a
position which he held for twelve years. P'or
the next three years he served as county
assessor, and in i')o6 he was ap]5ointed col-
lector of Passaic county. He has always been
a staunch Republican, .and a inember of the
Republican county committee, of which he was
treasurer for six years and chairman for twelve
years. In June. 1864. he enlisted in Company
B, Thirty-seventh Regiment Xew Jersey \'ol-
unteers, and received his honorable discharge
in the following October. He is a memtjer of
Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 88, past chancellor of
I'abiola Commandery. No. 57, Knights of
Pythias, and a member of Lodge No. 60,
r>enevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He
is a member of the First Baptist Church of
Paterson. He married, in Paterson, Isabella
A., daughter of Cornelius and Margaret Post,
who was born in Paterson. May 2(). 1850, and
died Novembers, 1901. Children: John W.,
born February 26, 1872, married Kate Powers;
Joseph M.. born June 2, 1878, married July
16, 1904, Emma .Abildgoard ; child. Joseph \'an
Blarcom. born May 16, 1905.
(\'III ) Edward Dodd, son of Edward Lewis
and Leonora K. (King) Conklin, was born in
Newark, Xew Jersey, September 23. 1869, and
after being educated in the public schools grad-
uated from the high .school in 1885. He then
became a clerk of the William King Company,
of which his father was one of the i)artners,
and when his father became postmaster of
Xewark, P^dward Dodd, became assistant post-
master, a position which he held from 1 891 to
1895. In Xovember, 1895, he entered the em-
ploy of the Whitehead & Hoag Company, and
at the present time is general superintendent
of that corporation. .He is a Republican, and
secretary of the board of trustees of the Pres-
byterian Church in Newark. He is a member
of Madison Lodge, No. 92, F, and .'\. AL, and
president of the Young Glen's Christian x-\sso-
ciation of Madison, New Jersey, where he has
n:ade his home. October 20, 1892, Mr. Conk-
lin married .Anna Matilda, daughter of Benja-
min Franklin and Sarah Matilda ( P'agles)
Crane, who was born July 4, i8'^)7. Children:
[■Idward Herbert, born December 26, 1895;
Leonora PVancis, August 18. i<>oi : .\nna
Louise. June 27, 1906.
( \ III ) Herbert King, son of Pldward Lewis
and Leonora K. (King) Conklin, was born
June 20, 1875, in Xewark, New Jersey, and is
now living in that city. After attending the
Xewark grammar and high schools he gradu-
ated from the Newark Academy, and then
took the course in the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Boston. He then entered
the employ of the architects, Plowell & Stokes,
with whom he remained until 1900, when he
started in business for himself. He is a Repub-
lican in politics, and a Presbyterian in relig-
ious conviction. He is a member of Madison
Chapter. No. 93, F. and .\. M.. of the .Amer-
ican Institute of .Architects, the New Jersey
Club, and the Technology clubs of Boston and
New York. .April 17, 1903, he married .Alice
Florence ^lunsick, who was born in Xewark,
April 17, 1876. Children: Marjorie Lester,
born August 11, 1905; Alice P'lorence, Sep-
tember 13, 1908.
Cortlandt Parker, sixth child of
P.ARKER James and Penelope (liutler)
Parker, was born in the old
mansion of the Parker family in Perth .Amboy,
June 27, 1818. He received his early educa-
tion in Perth .Amboy, with ])rivate instruction
in the elements of Latin and (jreek, and in
1832 entered Rutgers College, where he was
graduated with first honors and as valedictor-
ian of his class, in 1836, at the age of eighteen.
.Among his classmates were Joseph P. P>rad-
ley, afterward justice of the L'uited States
.Suiireme Court ; P'rederick T. PVclinghuysen.
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who became attorne3--general of New Jersey,
United States Senator, and Secretary of State
unvler President Arthur; WiUiam A. Newell,
elected governor of New Jersey and later a]3-
pointed governor of Washington Territory ;
Henry VValdron, for many years a member of
Congress from Michigan; fames C. \'an Dyke
who served as L'nited States District Attorney
for Pennsylvania ; George W. Coakley, emi-
nent as professor of mathematics in New York
University, and others who in after life en-
joyed prominence in professional, ministerial,
and business pursuits.
Soon after leaving college, young Parker
entered the office of Hon. Theodore Freling-
luiysen, of Newark, as a law student, and upon
Mr. Frelinghuysen's retirement from practice
to become chancelhir of the New York Uni-
versity he continued his professional studies
i-.nder Anizi Armstrong. He was admitted to
the bar as an attorney in September, 1839, and
as a counsellor three years later, and began
his legal career in Newark in association with
two of his classmates, Joseph P. Bradley and
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen. From that time
throughout his life he continued in Newark
without any interruption, as a practicing law-
yer. At the time of his death he was the old-
est as well as the most distinguished active
representative of the bar of New Jersey ; two
of his sons, Hon. Richaril Wayne Parker and
Uortland l*arker Jr., being connected with him
in professional business.
The son of one of the most notable leaders
of political opinion in the state of New Jersey
during the first half of the nineteenth century,
and thrown from youth into association with
many of the foremost characters of the day,
as well as in friendly rivalry with other young
men of aspiration and ability, he entered upon
active life with high personal ideals. The
earnest spirit which thus marked the beginning
of his career was conspicuous through its en-
tire progress, and it is in the character of the
high-minded unselfish citizen of pre-eminent
attainments, influence and unselfishness, that
Mr. Parker is chiefly to be estimated.
In his political affiliations, both from the
early influences by which he was surrounded
and from his studies and reflections upon the
principles of government, he followed the
course pursued by his father. The latter had
in youth espoused the doctrines of Hamilton
and the other great Federalist fathers of the
constitution, expressed at that earlv day in the
tenets of the Federalist party and later main-
tained by the Whigs, and based upon the funda-
mental ideas of the supremacy of the national
government and inviolability of the National
I nion, encouragement to manufactures, a pro-
tective tariff, and the subordination of local or
schismatic preferences or tendencies in the
interest of a solid Union and a broad develop-
ment.
The first presidential vote of Cortlandt
Parker was cast in the memorable campaign
of 1810, when General William H. Harrison,
the candidate of the Whig party, was elected ;
and in this contest he took part with enthu-
siasm, delivering political speeches and writing
communications to the press upon the issues
involved. In the ne.xt camjjaign ( 1844), when
Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen were
the Whig nominees for president and vice-
president, he was also very active. He was
the author of the campaign "Life of Freling-
huysen," which still remains the best bio-
graphical character sketch of that statesman.
The commanding cjuestion at that time was
concerning the proposed admission of Texas
a' a state, and the consequent enlargement of
the slave-holding area. With a deep convic-
tion of the error and danger of such a course,
and a clear foresight of the future, he opposed
it in speeches and articles. Clay and Freling-
huysen were, however, defeated, Texas was
admitted, and all the national perils which con-
servative thinkers had apprehended, came in
steady and terrible development. The slave
[lower, supreme and despotic, increased its
exactions, repealed the Missouri Compromise,
passed the Fugitive Slave Law, and ended by
denying the right of freedom to Kansas. The
Whig party, weak, disrupted, and no longer
existing for any definite policy, met death in
the election of 1852.
In all this succession of events Mr. Parker
was an advocate of the programme which
|iresently became the basis of the new Repub-
lican party, and he was one of the founders
of that organization in New Jersey. He was
chairman of the ratification meeting held in
Newark upon the nomination of Abraham Lin-
coln in i860, and from that day until the sur-
render of Lee at Appomattox he was one of
tiie most pronounced and steadfast supporters
of the whole policy of preservation of the
Union and suppression of the rebellion. After
the Emancipation Proclamation he took the
advanced ground that the only logical end of
that measure was the concession of the ballot
to the freemen, as otherwise state law in the
south would inaugurate a contract system
which a few j-ears would lead to the practical
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rc-establishmeiit of slavery, lie presided at
the state convention which first proposed tiiat
doctrine in New Jersey, delivering an address
that was circulated as a campaign document
in the ensuing election. I'pon the original sub-
mission to the Xew Jersey legislature of the
proposed fourteenth amendment to the L'nited
States constitution, it was voted down by the
Democrats in that body, an action which, in
the opinion of the leaders on both sides, settled
the matter so far as Xew Jersey was concern-
ed. But Mr. Parker took a different view "of
the legal aspects of the subject, maintaining
that the amendment might be submitted again
and again until adopted. This legal view of
the question carried such weight that Mr.
Parker's party confidently entered upon the
ne.xt electoral contest on the issue thus defined,
secured the necessary majority in the legisla-
ture, and duly ratified the amendment.
In his subsequent career, thrcnighout all the
changing conditions of political discussion and
public events, Mr. Parker maintained the same
active and patriotic interest, frei|uently ad-
dressing his fellow-citizens on questions of the
day, exercising a valuable influence by his
counsels when sought by those in responsible
position, and contributing to the press many
papers distinguished for dignity and solidity of
treatment and argument.
As a man continuously and iiitimatelv identi-
fied for sixty-five years with the politics and
policies of his state and the nation considered
in their more elevated aspects, and sustaining
a reputation of the first order for ability, ac-
complishments, and character, Mr. Parker oc-
cupied a uni(|ue personal position, probably
seldom paralleled in the history of the countr}^
With the single exception of a local office in
his county, which, moreover, was strictly in the
line of his profession as a lawyer, he was never
a political office holder : but on the other hand
he uniformly declined repeated tenders of high
and honorable stations, both state and national.
In 1857 he was appointed by Governor Newell
prosecutor of the pleas of Essex comity, and
for a period of ten years continued to serve
in that capacity. In the same year as that of
his appointment as prosecutor, his name was
brought before the state legislature for the
position of chancellor: later a Republican con-
vention nominated him for congress, after he
had announced that even if nominated he would
dechne : President Grant re(|uested liim to ac-
cept a judgeship in the court for settling the
Alabama claims : President Hayes ofTered him
the ministry to Russia : President .Arthur ten-
dered him that to X'ienna^but all these digni-
ties were declined. In his earlier career he
was on two occasions proposed for attorney-
general of Xew Jersey, when that honor was
one not uninviting from his professional point
of view, but, owing probably as much to his
reputation for independence of political influ-
ences and considerations as to any other cir-
cumstances, he was not apjiointed. He was
many times voted ff)r in the legislature as a
candidate for the l'nited .States .Senate.
.•\.side from the strict sphere of politics, he
served in several honorary positions, notably
as a commissioner to settle the disputed bound-
ary lines between Xew Jersey and Delaware,
and as a reviser of the laws of New Jersey in
conjunction with Chief-Justice Beasley and
Justice Depue. In the disputed presidential
election of 1876 he w-as sent by President
( irant to witness the counting of the ballots
in Louisiana, an<l was complimented for his
fairness by opponents.
"It was largely due to Parker's opinion,
]>itted agains: that of other eminent lawyers,
that the state r'[)arian rights were safeguarded
;ind dedicated to the school fimd at the time
•.ailroad interests were seeking to gobble the
l;.arbor frontage without jjayment. He was a
leading author of the general railroad law. He
was responsible for bringing into the supreme
court the question of the constitutionality of
electing assemblymen by districts, in which the
court sustained his view, stopped gerrymander-
ing, and reinstated the system of electing by
counties. He was senior counsel and manager
of the cause of the Republican senators who
were upheld by the supreme court in the
famous deadlock case, resulting from the "rump
senate' fight in i8q_|."
As an orator, Mr. Parker enjoyed a rep;ita-
tion for force, scholarship, and the particular
type of eloquence appealing to the intelligence
of men, which well accords with the dignity
and strength manifested in his public career,
his writings, and his well-known individual
characteristics. In his personality he is remark-
able for a physical constitution of great vital-
ity, nurtured throughout life by a vigorous
but orderly regimen ; possessed of a command-
nig figure, and even to the end of his life as
erect as in youth : with a distinction of manners
and address and a nature of warm sensibilities
and strong attachments and sympathies.
Mr. Parker's published writings on topics
of current or general interest include the fol-
low ing, among many other papers and ad-
dresses: "The Moral ( iuilt of the ReI:)ellion,"
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"Philip Kearny, Soldier and Patriot," "(Jur
Triumphs and Our Duties," "New Jersey ; Her
I'resent and ]''uture," "Abraham Lincoln,"
"The C)pen Bible, or Tolerant Christianity,"
"Alexander Hamilton and William Paterson,"
"The Three Successful Generals of the Army
of the Potomac: McClellan, Meade and Grant."
"Justice Joseph P. Bradley," antl "Sir Mat-
thew Hale: The Lawyer's Best Exemplar."
He held at one time the honorable position
of president of the American Bar Association.
Like his father and grandfather, he was active-
ly identified \\ ith the I^xitcstant Episcojial
Church, and was a lay delegate to many dio-
cesan conventions, which in their deliberations
were largely guided by his parliamentary
knowledge. He received the degree of LL. D.
from Rutgers College and Princeton L'niver-
sity, both in the same year.
In December, 1905, a complimentary bani|uet
aild reception was tendered to him at the Wal-
dorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City by the
bench and bar of New Jersey, in testimony of
the honor and affection in which he was held
as the oldest, most distinguished, and most
esteemed member of the legal profession in
his state, addresses being delivered by eminent
judges, lawyers, and public men of New Jer-
sey and other states. L'pon this occasion a
testimonial signed by many former students
in his law office, was presented to him. He
lived in Newark, with a summer residence in
Perth Amboy, his boyhood home. He married.
September 15, 1857, Elizabeth Wolcott Stites,
daughter of Richard Wayne and Elizabeth
(Cooke) Stites. of Morristown, New Jersey.
The Rodines of New York. New
BODlXh. Jersey, and indeed of America,
have their origin in the family
of le Boudin or de Baudain, and the antiquity
of the surname is attested by the French char-
ters of the twelfth century, the family having
settled in Cambray, France, originally a dis-
trict in the Low Countries, as early as 1 126. In
France the family has borne an honorable ]iart
in war and peace, and has given to the world
many noted characters, among them Jean Bodin.
the famous political thinker and philosophical
reasoner. and, if Machiavelli be excepted, the
father of political science. C)thers of the name
who accjuired distinction were Gas]iard de
Bodin de lioisrenarce, captain of the Grena-
diers of Guieiine, Chevalier de st Louis and
brevet-major of France ; and also Jean Francis
Bodin, the historian, his son Felix Bodin, the
author, and Dr. Pierre Joseph Francois Bodin,
the famous deputy for the Department Loire,
who voted for the deportation of Louis XVL
( I ) Jean Bodine, of the Cambray family, is
said to have removed to Medis, in the province
of Saintonge, France, where his son was born.
He was doubtless a Huguenot, and left the
country of his nativit}' to find an as_\lum in
other lands, making it is thought a short stay
in Holland as well as in England before com-
ing to New York, where he arrived before
November 3, 1677. He settled on Staten Island
before 168O, and died there during the latter
part of 1^194. Of his wife or children nothing
more is known than that he had a son Jean,
referred to below.
( II ) Jean ( 2), son of Jean ( i ) Bodine, was.
according to a traditiim universal in the family,
born in France, May 9. 1643, and died in New
Jersey some time after March, 1736. Witli
Lis second wife. Esther, her parents and her
brother, he was naturalized in London, Eng-
land, March 21, 1682. and for a short period
he resided at Rye in Sussex, where at least
two of his children were born. Emigrating to
the new world, we find him living on Staten
Island when his father died; but his attention
being attracted to the undulating fertile land
of Middlesex county. New Jersey, he pur-
chased. May 12. 1701. eighty acres of land in
E'.ast Jersey, opposite Staten Island, at Charles
Neck. He married (first) January 11, 1680,
Maria, daughter of Jean Crocheron, one of the
emigres to Staten Island; (second) Esther,
daughter of Francois and Jeanne Susanne Bri-
d(in. Children, five by each wife: Isaac, Jacob.
Ptter. .Abraham, \'incent, Marianna, John,
Eleazer, Esther, Francis (referred to below).
( III ) Francis, son of Jean an<l Esther ( Bri-
don ) Bo(linc. was born probably in England,
and dieil some time after March, 1736. Lentil
1726 he was a resident of Staten Island, in
which year, being charged w'ith some offence
against the king, he "came into Court, and.
rather tlian contend with the King, confessed
judgment and submitted to a fine." He mar-
ried Maria, daughter of James and Mary
(.Mulliner) Dey, of Staten Island, and had
probably other children than those given. Chil-
dren : Francis, referred to below; John, and
X'incent.
(1\') Francis (2), son of Francis (i ) and
Maria (Dey) liodine, was born on Staten
Island, from which place he crossed into New
Jersey and settled at Cranbury, on the border
of Middlesex county, l>efore 1745. November
I, 1775. he had some thirty acres of land sur-
veyed in Tran(|uilit}- swamp, on Wading river.
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Little Egg llarljiir township, LUirlingtini cuun-
ty. and as late as 1820 this land was in posses-
sion of his children. He was a farmer by occu-
pation, an l':])isco])alian by religious convic-
tion, and the founder of the Hodine families
of I'hiladi-lphia and southern Xew jersey. The
name of his first wife is not known. January
29, 1756, he married (second) Rachel Wilson.
Chilclren: Joel, born 1742, died May, 1819,
married Mary Corlies : Francis, born 1744, died
Septeiuber 27, 1822, married Mary Rose ; John,
referred to below.
( \' ) John, sun of I'rancis liodine Jr., was
born at Cranbury, Middlesex county. New Jer-
sey, in 1746, and died at Wading river, Little
Egg Harbor township, Burlington county. New
Jersey, March 26, 1826. Early in life he re-
uioved to r.urlington county and became the
proprietor of the inn at Wading river, which
he conducted for forty years. He was also a
prosperous farmer and a considerable land
holder. During the revolutionary struggle he
was an ardent |)atriot. serving through the en-
tire war and rising from private to captain.
He married (first) about 1773, Mary Round-
tree: (second), September 16, 1790, Ann Tay-
lor, who survived him. Children, five by the
first wife: I. Charles, born 1775, died i8(So:
married Margaret Wright. 2. John, referred
tc below, 3. Francis, born 1778, died TJeceni-
ber 6, 1862: married Elizabeth Throp, and
^Margaret Amos. 4. Susan, born March 2"].
1781, died April 15, 1876; married Barzillai
\\Viglit. 5. Stacy, born October 21, 1783, died
June 26, 1867; married Elizabeth Rudd. 6.
Mary, died August 21, 1859; married John
Moncrief. 7. Joel, born December 14, 1794,
died May 22, 1879: married Sarah Gale, and
Phebe .\. Forman. 8. Sarah, born June 17,
1797, died A])ril 6, i8fi6 : married Joseph Allen.
9. Abigail, married Henry Hudson. 10. Budd
Sterling, Ijorn September, 1801, died October
20, 1868: married Jane Ann Newell. 11. Jesse.
Lorn 1804. died February 23. 1879: married
Grace (Mathis) Coulte. 12. Lucy Ann. mar-
ried John I'"isher. 13. Wilson, died July 20.
1856: married Rebecca Barnard. 14. Sanuiel
Tucker, born July 29, 1810, died .November 26.
1879; married Isabel Sheppard Nixon, and
Louise Miiliken. 15. Daniel James, born June
26. 181 1, died F'ebruar)- 13. 1888: married
Charlotte Bullen.
(\'I) John (2), son of Captain John II)
and Mary (Roundtree) Bodine, was born at
A\'ading river. Little Egg Ilarlwr townshi]),
Burliugtou cor;nty. Xew Jersey, Januarv 17,
1776. and died May 2, 1S48. By occupation
he was a farmer and teamster, and in politico
a \\ liig. In religion he was a ^Methodist, and
received a license to ])reacli. March 28, 1799,
he married Mary, daughter of John Fort, of
New Hanover, born January 8, 1780, died No
vember 8, 1853. ISoth husband and wife are
buried at Mount cemetery. Mount Holly. Chil-
dren: I. Eliza, born March 24, 1800, died Au-
gust 25, 1890; married Benajah Antrani. 2.
John W'esley, born November 16, 1801, died
March 28, 1802. 3. Charles, born January 2.(1,
1803, died January 25, 1878: married Rebecca
Croshan. 4. ?klargaretta Fort, born March 12.
1805. died F'ebruary 28. 1852; uiunarried. 5.
.Andrew Darius, born February 20, 1807. 6.
J(.hn Fort, born Jinie 3, 1809, died Septem-
ber 29, 1872; married Alary Ann Imlay. 7.
Mary Heisler, born September 22, 1812, died
August 8, 1856; unmarried. 8. Barton Mof-
fard, born October 20, 181 5. 9. George Wash-
ington, referred to below.
(\II) George Washington, son of Rev.
John (2) and Mary (Fort) Bodine, was born
in Burlington county, Xew Jersey, February
17, 1820, and died Octol)er 10, 1853. in I'hila-
delphia, Pennsylvania. He married (first)
Ann Fowler, (second) Elizabeth H. Fowler.
Children: Jesse I'owler, referred to below:
Susanna Rebecca, born October 2. 1844: John
Pierson. January 10. 1847: Cieorge Washing-
ton. Xovember 14, 1853.
(\ IH) Jesse Fowler, son of George Wash-
ington and Elizabeth H. (F'owler) Bodine, was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Septem-
ber 14, 1842, and is now living in that city.
For his early education he went to the public
school, and then learned the trade of painting
and paper-hanging, in which he has been en-
gaged for over fifty years. Starting at first
in .Salem, New Jersey, where he learned his
trade, in 18(1)9 he went into business for him-
self, and after a prosperous and successful
career of twenty years he removed in 1889 to
Philadelphia, where he has remained ever
since. In politics he is a Prohibitionist, and in
religious conviction a Baptist, having been
licensed to preach by that deni)mination. and
having been a deacon for over thirty years.
.•\t the outbreak of the civil war he enrolled
in the Twelfth New Jersey Regiment of \'ol-
unteers. but owing to sickness he was not
sworn in, but made a member of the home
guard of Salem, .New Jersey. Later he enlist-
ed in Company I>. the One Hundred and Nintv-
second Pennsylvania Regiment, and received
his honoralile discharge. He has been a mem-
ber of the ( )dd Fellows, of the Knights of
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Pythias, of the ^American Mechanics and of
the Sons of Temperance. May i, 1865, he
married, in Salem, New Jersey, Ehza L., daugh-
ter of William and Eliza L. Barnast, who was
born in that town in 1846. Children: I. Will-
iam liarnast, born November 17, 1866, died
aged six months. 2. Benjamin Franklin, born
February 19, 1868; married. May 8, 1889;
no children. 3. Harry Evans, referred to below.
4. Charles M., born October 2, 1874; married
Nettie Pollock; one child, Newton Barnast,
born June 15, 1902. 5. Albert J., twin with
Charles M. ; married Eannie Block : children :
Charles A., Maxwell. Ellen, Jesse Fowler, John
B. and Benjamin Franklin. 6. Elizabeth Fowler,
born January 28, 1882.
( IX ) Harry Evans, son of Jesse Fowler
and Elizabeth L. (Barnast) Bodine, was born
in Salem, New Jersey, August 30, 1870, and
is now living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
For his early education he went to the public
schools of Salem, and when he reached four-
teen years of age he entered the office of the
Qui Vivi, a periodical published in Jersey City,
where he learned the printer's trade. He re-
mained here for about two years, and then
returned to Salem, where he finished learning
his trade in the office of the Salem Suiibcaiii,
which at that time was edited by Roljcrt Qumn.
After four years in the latter position Mr.
Bodine became connected with the N. W. Ayer
advertising agency in Philadelphia, and in
1892, with a friend by the name of Reynolds,
he set up in business for himself, establishing
the United States Fashion and Sample Book
Company. Starting in a small way and with a
very limited capital in offices at 107 South
Second street, the business increased and pros-
pered to such an extent that in 1902 it was
incorporated under the Pennsylvania law under
the title of The United States Fashion and
Sample Book Company, with offices at 208
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, where they have
a large establishment, of which Mr. Bodine is
president, ?>. F. Berkheim, vice-president,
Charles S. Kinsey, secretary, and Harry Kates,
treasurer. Their business is that of publishers
of men's fashions, and with offices at 218 and
220 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, printers,
binders and lithographers. They have also
offices and studios at 1269 Broadway, New
York City, near Thirty-second street, and a
capital of §200,000. Mr. Bodine has been a
member of the council of Merchantville, New
Jersey, for eight years, a director of the First
National Bank of Merchantville, and a mem-
ber and official of the Bankinsr and Loan .Asso-
ciation of Merchantville. He is a member of
Harmony Lodge, No. 52, F. and A. M., of
Philadelphia, and of Columbia Chapter, No. 91,
R. A. M., of Philadelphia, besides being a
member of Mary Commandery, No. 37, Knights
lemplar, of Philadelphia, and of the Con-
sistory. In politics he is a Republican, and in
religious conviction a Baptist.
July 23, 1890, Mr. Bodine married Mary
Emma, daughter of Charles Coles, of Woods-
town, New Jersey, whose father at one time
was county clerk and also sheriff of Salem
county. Children of Harry Evans and Mary
Emma (Coles) Bodine: Hazel Lippincott,
born January 2/, 1891 ; Alice McAllister, Oc-
tober 24, 1893; Helen Elizabeth, November
27, 1897; Harry Evans Jr., June 15, 1901. All
of the children have attended the public schools.
Hazel Lippincott is a graduate of Bucknell Col-
lege, and -Alice McAllister has been a student
at the National School of Industrial .Art.
\\^illiani Charles-
CHARLESWORTH worth, the founder
of this family in
.\merica, died at a very advanced age in 1849.
He was a wealthy merchant and ship owner of
England, having an e.xtensive trade with the
West Indies and the American colonies in the
days when it was the common practice for the
great merchants to spend a good part of their
time sailing from place to place in order to
give their business as much as possible of their
• •wn supervision in the actual disposing and
procuring of their cargoes. This method of
transacting business not only enriched the
.\merican colonies and the Ignited States in
its early days with many of its greatest mer-
chants, who liberally educated by their ex-
tended business travels, became enchanted with
the prospects and opportunities afforded by a
settlement in the new world, but it also in the
j)resent instance was the moving cause of Mr.
Charlesworth's emigration. He came over to
this country finally shortly after the close of the
revolution, and made his home in Cumberland
county, taking out his naturalization papers
and making himself an .American citizen. He
purchased large tracts of land in and around
the region where Alillville is now situated, and
in the Maurice river found a good harbor and
landing place for his ships. When the war
of 1812 broke out this choice of wharfage
proved unfortunate for Mr. Charlesworth, for
the British, sending an expedition up the river,
discovered a number of his vessels which they
promptly destroyed, thus inflicting upon their
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owner a good deal of loss and damage. This
loss, however, was not sufficient to cripple
him, and he soon recovered from the embar-
rassment caused by it, and at the time of his
death left his son, James Madison Charles-
worth, a goodly inheritance, known for over
lialf a century as the Charlesworth estate.
(II) James Aladison, son of William
Charlesworth, was born in Millville, Cumber-
land county. Xew Jersey, April 5, 1817, and
died there November 19, 1907. He married,
March i. 1844. Elizabeth J. Johnson. Chil-
dren: Ruth: John E. : Olive; John Francis:
James Albert, referred to below: Eugene;
George Parker.
(III) James Albert, son of James Madison
and Elizabeth J. (Johnson) Charlesworth,
was born on his father's farm near Millville,
Cumberland county. New Jersey, .April 24,
1853. He spent the early part of his life on his
father's farm, and then after several changes
of place went to Bridgeton, Cumberland
county. New Jersey, and obtained employment
in the Cumberland Glass Works Manufactur-
ing Company. Owing to his previous experi-
ence in this work in Baltimore and Cum-
berland, Maryland ; Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania : ( ilassboro. New Jersey, and Brook-
lyn, New York, Mr. Charlesworth found
his last position both lucrative and pleasant.
He married, January 31, 1876. Ella Lucretia,
daughter of John Wesley and Maria Patten
(Dunlap) Wade; (see Wade in index). Chil-
dren : Irving Eugene, referred to below ;
Grace Elnora ; Dora Ruth ; Raymond Wade ;
Ruella: Elizabeth: John Wade; Leslie Robert.
(I\') Irving Eugene, son of James Albert
and Ella Lucretia (Wade) Charlesworth, was
born in Baltimore. Maryland. October 29,
1876, and is now living in Bridgeton, Cumber-
land county. New Jersey. For his early educa-
tion he was sent to the W'est Jersey Academy
at Bridgeton, graduating from that institution
in 1900. Two years later he took up the study
of medicine and received his M. D. degree
from the Medico-Chirurgical College of Phila-
delphia in 1906. Dr. Charlesworth at once be-
gan the general practice of his profession in
Bridgeton, and has been engaged in that ever
since, rising to a foremost position among the
members of his profession in the county. He is
county physician for Cumberland county, and
also the county's medico-legal adviser, as well
as a member of the staff of the Bridgeton Hos-
pital, being es])ccially interested in surgery. He
i'- a member of the New Jersey State Medical
Societv, the Cuml>erland Countv Medical .Soci-
ety, the Tri-county Medical Society, anil the
.American Medical .Association. He is an inde-
pendent Republican in jjolitics. and a member
of the I'rcsbyterian Church of l'>ridgeton. He is
also a member of the Bridgeton .Athletic Asso-
ciation, an Odd P'ellow, and a member of the
legislative committee of tlie Cumberland
Coiuity Medical Society. While he was at the
medical college in Philadelphia he was the
president of his class, vice-jiresident of the
College Y. M. C. A., and a member of the Phi
Rho Sigma fraternity. He married, June 26,
looi. Elizabeth Williams, daughter of .Albert
-S. and Sarah (Woodruff) Lambert, and grand-
daughter of Judge Woodruff'. Children : Lang-
don Lambert, born May 17, 1902 ; Rena Moore,
born May 14, 1904 ; Horace Hamilton, born
September zy, 1906; Irving Eugene (2), born
January i, 1909.
Robert Williams, the first of
WILLI.AMS the line here under consid-
eration of whom we have
definite information, was a resident of New-
ark, New Jersey. He married Sarah E. Cut-
ler, of Morristown, New Jersey. Children:
.Aaron, Charles, George, Henry R.. see for-
ward, and Mary.
(II) Henry R.. son of Robert and Sarah E.
(Cutler) Williams, was born in Newark, New
Jersey, October 3, 1843, died there June 22,
1901. He was a jeweler by trade, which line
of work he followed throughout his active
career. He was a member of the Sixth Pres-
byterian Church of Newark, of which he was
for many years an elder and superintendent
of the Sunday school. He married Lucy Jane
Taylor, born June 2, 1845, died January 26,
1901. Children: i. J, Harry. 2. Irving Wil-
bur, see forward. 3. Elwood Murray, mar-
ried Stella E. Gorgas and has two children :
Evelyn and Stella ; they resided in Philadel-
phia. 4. Howard C, married Edith M. Zim-
mermann ; children : Dorothy, born September
23, 1903, and Lucy. October 15. 1907. S-
Sarah Lucy, married .Artlnir M. Clark, of
Newark.
(III) Irving Wilbur, second son of Henry
R.. and Lucy Jane (Taylor) Williams, was
born in Newark, New Jersey, December 27,
1868, He was educated in the public and high
schools of Newark. He entered the employ
of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com-
pany as clerk Scjitember 24. 1883. and has
steadily risen to his ])resent jiosition of man-
ager of the premium accoimt clepartment. He
attends the First Presbvterian Church of
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Madison, and is a Republican in jjolitics. He
i= a past master of Lodge No. 93, Free and
Accepted Ma.'-ons, of Madison, and is a mem-
ber of Madison Chapter. Royal Arcanum, and
of Granite Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Newark. He is a member of the
Clinton Hill Building and Loan Association
of Newark, and of the Madison Building and
Loan Asociation of Madison. He is a member
of the Aladison Golf Club, Madison Athletic
Association and of the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association. He married. June 23, 1892,
Nellie Eliza, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey,
June 17, 1 87 1, daughter of Henry Ellis and
Ella Elizabeth (Carter) Ogden (see Ogden).
Children: Miriam, born September 5, 1894:
Ogden, January 2, i8()S; Irving Wilbur Jr.,
March 28, 1900.
Among that splendid band of
ELLIOTT Scotch-Irish emigrants who
were driven over to this coun-
try by the landlord and the famine, in the early
I)art of the nineteenth century, there is per-
haps no better or nobler e.xample than the
Flliott family at present under consideration.
The founder of the family, the grandfather of
it;, present representative, came to .America,
about 1820 or 1830, and set U]) in business in
Philadelphia, wliere he ran a foundry in con-
nection with a second one which he established
in Easton. Pennsylvania. By his wife, who
was a Sigmond. a descendant of one of the
old Pennsylvania Dutch families, whom he
brought with him, he had among other chil-
dren, a son .Alexander, referred to below.
( I ) Alexander Elliott, born in Ireland,
came to this country with his parents wlien he
was nine years old. After receiving a common
school education in Philadelphia he succeeded
to his father's iron foundries, and extended
the business over into northern New Jersey.
He married Louisa Wallace, born in Easton,
Pennsylvania, and now living in Jersey City,
where her husband died. .Among their chil-
dren was Leonard, referred to laelow.
( II ) Leonard, son of Ale.xander and Louisa
(Wallace) Elliott, was born in Dover, New
Jersey, October 2, 1861. and is now living
in that town. For his early education he was
sent to the public schools of Dover, and he
worked for a time about the mines which his
father owned and worked. Here he learned
how, and after awhile procured employment in
setting up and installing mining machinery.
In 1881 he went to Tucson, Arizona, where he
was employed as a superintendent of a copper
mine. Returning to Dover shortly afterward.
l;e went to Passaic, New Jersey, and engaged
once more in his old business of installing
mining machinery. Procuring a position as
traveling salesman for the A. A. Griffing Iron
Company of Jersey City, he remained with
tliem for nineteen years from 1886 to 1905.
Previous to this, from 1883 to July 15. 1885.
he was at Atlantic City and Midvale. In Octo-
ber, 1905, he became a partner in the R. C.
15artley Company, where he remained for the
next two and one-half years, manufacturing
and installing steam heating plants. May i,
1908, he sold out his interest in this firm, and
since then has been doing business for himself
in Dover ; not only installing, but selling and
contracting for both steam and hot water
heaters. ^Ir. Elliott has made a most pros-
])crous and successful business career, and his
reputation for good work has become so well
known that he is always in demand, and he
has installed heating plants in many large pub-
lic buildings and private residences. Among
these should be mentioned the East Side public
school of Dover, the residence of Mr. E. L.
Dickerson, the Livingston Bank of Dover, and
the Dover Alliance office. With his pleasing
personality and great ability, Mr. Elliott has
won for himself the confidence and trust of
every one in the community, and although
he is a Democrat, and the town was carried
fi>r President Taft by six hundred votes, Mr.
Elliott in the fall of 1908 was elected to the
Dover council, being the only Democrat to
hold position in the town, by a majority of
seventy-eight. He has always been active in
the Democratic interests of his locality, and
for quite awhile was chairman of the district
committee, which appointed him a member of
the Democratic county committee. In the
Dover city council he has taken an active and
a prominent i)Osition. being chairman of the
fire and lamps committee, the finance commit-
tee, and the license committee.
The old Munson homestead in wdiich he and
his wife reside, is one of the finest in the town,
situated on the south side of Munson Hill,
and built on the property which has come
down to his wife from her great-grandfather
Mahlon Ogden Munson. Mr. Elliott has for
manv vears been a communicant and vestry-
man of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church
in Dover. He is a member of the Masonic
order, the Elks, and the Royal .Arcanum. Jan-
uary 5, 1892, Mr. Elliott married Stella
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Eugenia, youngest child of Maiilon Ogden
and I'hcbe Ann (Cole) Munson ; (see Mun-
son). Children: Marjoric F^ ; Leonard M.
The Monson or Munson fani-
Ml'XSOX ily of England have a recog-
nized history in the English
peerage, extending over five centuries, and
according to Burke, John Monson "living in
1378 and denominated of F^ast or Market-
Rasen, County Lincoln" a contein|)orary of
Richard II, Chaucer and W'ickliffe, was the
lineal ancestor of the English titled line, and
it is believed also of the founder of the family
in this country.
(I) I'homas Munson. the founder of the
American family, was .born about 1612, and
died May 7, 1685. The first record of him
is in 1637 as a resident of Hartford. Connecti-
cut, twenty-five years old, when he performed
service in the Pequot war. Flis house lot com-
prising tw'o and a half acres was on the east side
of the present High street, beside the head of
Walnut. This lot he sold to Nathaniel Kellogg
about 1640. and in F'ebruary that year he had
quit the Hartford plantation and cast in his
lot with the Ouinnipiac, and his name is sixth
in the list of forty-eight signatures to the
F'undamental Agreement. Here he became
one of the most prominent men in the colony
both in civic offices and in military services, as
well as in the provincial assemblies. By pro-
fession he was a carpenter, and his house in
New Haven was what is now Temple street.
between Wall and Grove. As an officer in
King Philip's war an<l as a commissary in
treating with the Indians. Thomas Munson
is said to have outranked his associates. His
wife Johanna was born about 1610, and fli-'d
December 13, 1678. Children: F^lizabeth.
married. October, 1664 (first) Timothy, son of
Lieutenant Thomas Cooper, of Si)ringfielil ;
(second) Richard Higinbotham : Samuel, re-
ferred to below; Hannah, baptized June 11,
1648, diet! November 30, i(>()S- married Joseph.
son of William Tuttle.
(II) Samuel, son of Thomas and Johanna
(Munson), baptized in the First Church of
New Haven, .August 7. 1643, -''"'l '''^'1 '" ^^^^'
same place between January 10 and March 2,
1693. I^^ ^^'^s a shoemaker and tanner, and
a Congregationalist. and resided at Xew
Haven and Wallingford. In 1^)67 he was
made a freeman, and the following year given
a seat in the meetinghouse. In 1670 the town
granted him a new plantation, and he removed
to the then newly settled village of Walling-
ford, where he remained for sometime, where
meetings for worshij) were held alternately
in his house and in that of Lieutenant Merri-
man, which adjoined his cnvn. In 1673 he
was chosen selectman, and about a month later,
dnmimer. When King Philip's war liroke out
he became an ensign in the Wallingford train
band. He was also the colony's agent at the
general court in Hartford. .April 12, 1679,
he was chosen to serve as the first school-
master of the town, and from that time until
bis death he filled a.continual line of important,
civic, religious and military positions.
October 2(). i()(>5. he married Martha,
daughter of William and .Alice (Pritchard)
I'-radley. Children: i. Martha, born May 6,
1677, '^'^'^ April 24, 1728; married Thomas
I'lcock. 2. Samuel, referred to below. 3.
James, born March 12, 1670, died September
28. 1746; married Mary Wilcox. 4. John,
born January 28. 1672. died 1752; married
Sarah Cooper. 5. Theophilus, born September
1. 1675. died November 28. 1747; married
Esther Mix. 6. Joseph, born November 6,
1677, (lied October 30, 1725; married Mar-
gery Hitchcock. 7. Stephen, born December
T, 1679, died 1768: married (first) Lydia Bas-
sett, ( second ) Widow Hollingsworth. 8.
Caleb, born November 19, 1682, died August
■23. 1765; married (first) Elizabeth Hermon,
(second) Hannah Porter. 9. Joshua, born
F^ebruary 7, 1684, died December 9, 171 1;
married Catherine Street. 10. Israel, iDorn
March 6. 1686. died about June 18, 1697.
(HI) Samuel (2). son of Samuel (O and
.Martha ( Bradley) Munson, was born in Wal-
lingford. l-'ebruary 28, if)C)8, and died there
November 23, 1741. He lived at Wallingford
all his life, where he was one of the most
prominent men of the town, being for many
vears treasurer, auditor, lister and town clerk.
i)esi(les holding many other offices of civic and
ecclesiastical importance. He married (first)
Martha . who died January 7, 1707.
(second) March 10, 1708, Mary, daughter of
Deacon Eliasaph Preston, born April 25. 1674,
died November 28, 1755. and widow of Keeler
Merriman. Children: (Eight by first mar-
riage): I. Solomon, referred to below. 2.
.Samuel, born .August 25. 1691, died aljout 1710.
3. Mario, born F'ebruary 15. 1603, died July i,
1739: married John Hitchcock Jr. 4. \\'illiam,
born October 13. iC)95. died July 21, 1773;
married Phebe Merriman. 6. F2unice, born
Se])tember 13. 1700, died November 29,
1793: married Stephen Hart. 7. Obedience,
liorn October 13, 1702. 8. Catharine, born
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June 3, 1704. y. Taniar, born December 3,
1707: married James Hotchkiss. 10. Lemuel,
born February 5, 1709. 11. Merriman, born
November 30, 1710, died September 9, 1782;
married (first) Esther Jolinson ; (second)
Widow Thankful Peck. 12. Mamre, born
December 16, 1712; married Joseph Ives. 13.
Lent, liorn November i(), 1714, died November
19, 1771 ; married Mary Cooly.
( I\ ) Solomon, eldest child of Samuel ( 2 )
and Martha Munson, was born at Welling-
lord, February 18, 1689, a«id died at Morris-
town. Xcw Jersey, his will being proved April
13, 1773. Seven months after his marriage
he received from his father as a tribute of
"parental love and respect" six acres on the
west side of Misery road, and forty acres on
the east side. About 1740 Solomon removed
to Morristown, New Jersey, and his name
ap])ears with that of his wife on the list of
church members under date August 13, 1742.
July 3, 1754. he became a ruling member
of the Hanover Church, and he last met
with the session May 27, 1765. June
28. 1714, he married Mary Moss, of \\'al-
lingford, liurn July, i''>94, and after her
death, Tarnia , who died at Morristown,
January 17, 1779, aged seventy-seven years.
Children, ])robably all by his first wife: I.
Martha, born September 14, 1713; married
Uzal Barker, of Branford, Connecticut. 2.
Samuel, September 15, 1717; married (first)
Elizabeth Potter, (second) Mary Allen,
(third) Widow Sarah Pruden. 3. Eliasaph,
born November 17, 17 19, died February I,
1743. 4. Moses, married and lived at Morris-
town. 3. Solomon Jr., born 1724, died Febru-
ary 8, 1803, referred to below. 6. Waitstill.
born 1730, died February 26, 1777: married
Mary \\^ade. 7. Stephen, born 1733, died No-
vember 8, 1803; married (first) Letitia Lud-
1am, (second) Kezia . 8. Caleb, born
1733, died February 23, 181 3: married Sus-
anna Ltidlam.
( \' I Solomcn (2). fifth child and third son
of .Solomon ( I I and Mary (Moss) Munson,
was born in Hanover county, in 1724 or 1723,
and died in Morristown, New Jersey, Febru-
ary 8, 1803. He and his first wife, on May
14, 1733, were recorded as "halfway members
of the First Presbyterian Church." "All of his
five children," says S. M. Munson, of San
Francisco, his great-grandson, "served their
country during the revolutionary war." Of the
claims of three of these we have record evi-
dence. The register of the First Church, Mor-
ristown, entitles Solomon, captain. October
if>, 1730, Solomon Munson married Mary,
died 1820, aged ninety-eight years, daughter of
P.enjamin Pierson. Children : Martha, bap-
tized May 14, 1733: Abraham, born May 5,
1734, died November 17, 1797, married Abi-
gail Allen; Sarah, baptized May 3, 1754; Uzal,
born Decembei 11, 1754, died March 26, 1826,
u'arried Mary Eddy; Joshua, born November
22. 1737, died November 15, 1826, married
Ruth Wood; b'zekiel, referred to below;
Josiah, baptized November 21, 1765, married
(first) Rachel HoUoway, (second) Ruth
Hathaway, (third) Miriam Young; Gabriel,
baptized May 24, 1767.
(\'II) Ezekiel, sixth child and fourth son
of Solomon (2) and Martha (Pierson) Mun-
son, was born in Morristown, New Jersey.
March 27, 1762, and died September 2, 1828.
He was an iron worker, and a Presbyterian,
and lived at M(.)rristown and in Dover, New
Jersey. In the revolutionary records his name
appears on the muster n_>ll of the Eastern
Battalion as private, and the history of Mor-
ris County says he worked for several years in
the old forge of John Jackson, and afterwards
purchased a farm near Benjamin Lanipson"s
which is now occupied by his grandson, Mali-
Ion (3. Munsiin. January 31, 1788, he mar-
ried Rhoda, born in Morris Plains, New Jer-
sey, October 22, 1766, died November 16.
1827, daughter of Thomas Stiles of Morris-
town. Children : Thomas Stiles, born No-
vember 29, 1788, died October 7, 1794; Mary,
born January 13, 1 79 1, died August 30, 1862,
married Charles Hurd ; Louis, born April 7.
1794, died October 31, 1794; Elizabeth, born
February 14, 1796, died March 12, 1846, mar-
ried Ira Pruden; Mahlon, referred to below.
(\'1I) Mahion, youngest child of Ezekiel
and Rhoda (Stiles) Munson, was born De-
cember ic;, 1798, and died January 27, 1881.
He was a distiller, a farmer, a Democrat, and
a member of St. John's Protestant Episcopal
Church in Do\er, where he lived all his life.
He was born in one of the iron works houses
along the canal, his father being then engaged
in the \\'orks. When a boy he labored at
heading nails in the old New York factory.
Later, he engaged with Jacob Losey in carting
iron from the works to Elizabethport. whence
it was shipped by water to various parts of the
country. Later his father purchased a farm on
which his son lived, while the son took one
in the adjoining neighborhood. His lifelong
residence in Dover acc|uainted Mr. ^Tunson
with the historv of that section, and his recol-
lections of old-time events were of a vevv
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ciitcrtaiiiing cliaracter. lie icincnibfrinl wlifii
there was no more tlian half a dozen houses in
th.e place, ami his father plowed the ground for
Mr. Losey, where the business part of Dover
is now located. We may add that it was his
liberality in donating lots, which was iiisirn-
niental in covering Munson's Hill with build-
ings. In politics he was a lifelong Democrat,
and being a man of prominence could have
commanded almost any position m that poitiin
of the country, but he refused prominent offi-
cial positions which were oiYered to him. His
sterling character and kindness won for In'm
the high esteem of all the old residents of -he
vicinity and of all these who came tcj know
liiin later in life. The poor always found in
him a liberal friend. He was a firm supporter
of the cause of religion, and gave of his means
to churches of all denominations. He was one
of the first members of St. John's Church in
Dover, and for a number of years before his
death he held the position of warden. June 8,
1822, ]\Iahlon Munson married Eunice Par
sons, of Millbrook, New Jersey, where she was
born, 1796. .She died November 29, 1871.
Children, all born in Dover : Harriet, born
June 17, 1824, married Edwin Tuttle ; Robert
P., born April 17, died November 17, 182'');
Mahlon Ogden, referred to below; Charles
Hurd, born November 17, 1830, married Mar-
garet Shaw; Rhoda E., born March 11. 183.',,
died October 3, 1869, married Charles M.
Tunis; Sarah Emmeline. born April 13. 1835,
married Martin \'. B. Searing of Newark ;
Mary Esther, born August 8, 1837, died I'eb-
ruary 23, 1858, married Nelson Young; Rob-
ert Henry, born June 3, 1840. died October 2,
1867, married So])hia Bryant.
f Vni ) Mahlon Ogden, third child and sec-
end son of Mahlon and Eunice (Parsons)
Munson, was born in Dover, New Jersey.
August 18, 1828. He is a merchant, a farmer.
a Methodist, and a Democrat, and lives ?f
Dover. By his father's will he received th."
homestead farm and the land adjoining which
lie on the northeast side of Chrystal street, in
Dover, that were not otherwise disposed ct,
besides being given the lot on which "Sover-
eigns' store" stands. For eight years he was
clerk for Randolph township. The ancestral
homestead in which he lives is a beautiful
place in the city limits. October 18, 185J,
Mahlon Ogden Munson married Phebe .Ann.
born in Dover, February 19, 1823. daughter
of Thomas and Mary Coe. Children, all bom
in Dover : Thomas Sidney, born December
31, 1855, deputy sheriff, keeper of Morristown
jail, l)ein<icrat. I'mtestant l'4)isco|)al, lives in
.Morristown; Mary Esther, born May 15, i8(h),
I'rotestant E|)isco])al, lives in Dover; Stella
Eugenia, referred to below.
( INj Stella Eugenia, youngest child of
.Mahlon Ogden and Phebe Ann (Coe) Mun
son, was born in Dover, New Jersey, Octobc:r
24. 1864, anrl married, January 5, 1892, Leon-
ard, son of Alexander Elliott, then of Jeisey
City, now of Dover; (see Elliott).
Of the numerous families In
JONE.S the name of Jones that have
made South Jersey their ho::ie,
there is perhaps none more w-orthy of mention
p.mong the lepresentative families than tlie
cue from which has sprung John .\quila Jones
of Mount Holly. Not only is the fairiily
linked by intermarriage with all that is worthy
and best in the history of the state, but the
family themselves have nobly carried on tlie
traditions and reputations which they had iii-
herited, and have added much to the glorv not
cnly of their name but also of the community
in which they dwell.
{!) Aquila Jones, the founder of the .\'ew
Jersey branch of the family, came into Evans
township, Burlington county, in the early jjart
of the nineteenth century. His family was one
of long establishment in Delaware, where they
had made for themselves, a name for integrity
and worth extending over many generatiens.
He married Elizabeth Cole, of Burlington
county, the descendants of one of the oldest
of the English colonists on the Delaware.
whose name has for nearly three hundred
\ears been honorably linked with the history
of South Jersey. .Among the children of this
marriage was Joseph Aquila, referred to
below.
( H ) Joseph Aquila. son of .\quila and \LViz-
abeth (Cole) Jones, was born in Evans town-
ship, Burlington county. New Jersey, .August
25- 1837. He was a farmer, and married
Sarah, born Novemlier 7, 1840. died May 9,
1883. daughter of William and Elizabeth Cow-
perthwaite. of Medford, a descendant of
the celebrated Hugh Covvperthwaite, who
settled in New Jersey from Flushing, Eong
Island, betw^een 1680 and 1690. and whose
descendants have been among the most
prominent in the early history of New
Jersey and Philadel])hia. Children of Joseph
.Aciuila and Sarah (Cowperthwaite) Jones:
Elizabeth, born March 27. 1865. died Decem-
ber 14, 1867; Martha, born March 18. 1866,
'died October 24, 1897; -^'ary B., born Octo-
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ber 7. iJ^/O, married Charles Waltmi ; William
Cowperthwaite, born October 17, 1875, now
in the coal business at llurlington, and is a
Mason ; Daniel lUidd, born (.)ctober 15, 187O,
living on the old homestead at Vincentown,
and also a Mason; Joseph \V., born August 15,
1S82, engaged in farming and produce busi-
ness with his brother John Aquila, and a mem-
ber of the Elks of Mount Holly: and John
Aquila, referred to below.
(Ill) John Aquila, third child and eldest
son of Joseph Aquila and Sarah (Cowperth-
waite) Jones, was born in Mount Laurel, New
Jersey, June 23, 1867, and is now living at
Mount Holly, New Jersey. I'^or his early
schooling he was sent to the public schools, and.
then to Philadelphia, where he completed his
education. He then engaged in farming in
Turlington county, where to-day he and his
brother, Joseph W. are operating seven hun-
dred acres of land, two huntlred acres of which
they are employing in the special cultivation of
potatoes. They have purchased the old Bisben
farm, and are among the largest of the pro-
duce dealers and farmers in that part of the
state, supplying not only the Philadelphia
market but also many other large firms in var-
ious parts of the country. Mr. Jones is a
member of the Society of Friends, and also
of the Order of Elks of Ivlount Holly. Feb-
ruary 10. 1892, Mr. Jones married Anna D.,
daughter of Charles and Mary Andrews. Her
family is one of the oldest in Burlington
county, and also has for generations been one
of the most prominent. Their children are :
Mary, born February 3, 1 805 ; Charles, Janu-
ary 23, 1898; and Martha, November 16,
1899. '"
The history of the famil)'
CUM M IXC, treated here has been for
many generations prom-
ii'ently identified with the history of the Scot-
tish home. From 1777 to 1826 \\'illiam Cum-
ming, father and son, were almost continuously
either baillies or treasurers of the historic old
town of Kilmarnock, Scotland, while Robert,
the son of William Cumming Jr., held one of
the same offices from i83() to 184(1, and in
1847 was made the ])rovost of the town. This
Robert was the father of the founder of the
family in this country, and by his wife, Helen,
cousin to Sir Peter Halkett, baronet, had
seven children, one of whom was Robert, see
forward.
(I) Robert Cumming. born in Kilmarnock,
Scotland, July 21, t8_|2, died in Newark, New-
Jersey, May 25, 1908, and his remains are
interred in Mount Pleasant cemetery. After
receiving his early education in the Kilmar-
nock Acaden^.y, he went to London at about
the age of eighteen and became a clerk in the
branch office there of the Royal Bank of Scot-
land. When he had become prolicient and
proved his w^orth, he was sent to the Glasgow
(^iffice of the same bank, and later returned
luime and became the manager of the Kilmar-
nock branch, and was one of the founders of
the penny savings banks there. He was en-
gaged in the banking business up to the time
he came to this country. Some time after
assuming the managership of the Kilmarnock
branch he was offered a position with the
Clark Thread Company. In 1880 he emigrated
to the United States, and settling in Newark,
New Jersey, became one of their chief men
and eventually one of the partners, taking an
active part in the management of the business.
About 1893 he retired from active business,
although he did not relinquish work altogether,
and continued to act as director in the x^meri-
can Wood Fire Proofing Company, the Ameri-
can Creosoting Company, and the Marshall
Linen Thread Com])any of K^earney, New
Jerse}'. He was also very actively interested
in the old Newark, Harrison and Kearney
Horse Car Company. Mr. Cumming was a
member and a deacon in the North Reformed
C hurch in Newark, and a member of the Essex
Club and the . Lawyers' Club of New York.
He never took out naturalization papers in the
I'nited States, believing that his oath of alle-
giance to the Queen (he having been a volun-
teer before coming to this country) prevented
his swearing to a new allegiance. Robert Cum-
ming married, August 4, 1870, in Paisley,
.\\rshire, Scotland, Elizabeth, daughter of
James and Elizabeth (Clark) Millar. Her
mother was the sister of George A. Clark,
wdio was later the senior partner in the Clark
Thread Comjiany. Children: i. Robert Will-
iam, referred to below. 2. Elizabeth Clark
Millar, born June 21, 1873: married Thomas
Greenlees Jr., and is now living in Paisley,
Scotland : children : Thomas, Robert Cumming
and Elizabeth Aiken Greenlees. 3. James Mil-
lar, referred to below. 4. John Clark, born
Ajiril 5. 1878; married Isabelle Miller: child,
Gertrude : they are now living in Stockdale,
Texas.
( H ) Robert William, eldest child of Robert
and Elizabeth (Aiken) (Millar) Cumming,
was born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland,
May I, 1 87 1, and is now living in Newark.
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New Jersey. Beinc; hroiiglit over to this coun-
try by his father wlicii he was about nine years
of age, he entered Stevens Institute of lecli-
iiology at Hoboken, New Jersey, and gradu-
ated from that institution in 1892. He is a
Republican in ])olitics. and one of the charter
n)einl)ers oi the i''.s>cx Trunp. in which he
held membership for eight years. He is a
meml)er of the Essex Club, Morris County
C.olf e'lub. .\tlantic Yacht Club. Automobile
Clul) and the Royal Clyde Yacht Club of Scot-
land, lie and his family attend the North
Reformed Church of Newark. He married
in Newark. New Jersey, .\pril 12, 1S93, ^^^Y
Cartv.-right. born in Newark. September 20,
1871, youngest child of I'eter Hood and Isa-
bella ( Einen ) Ballantine. of Newark. Chil-
ilren : I. Isabella Einen, born May 30, 1896.
2. Mary Cartwright. January 8, 1898. 3. Eliz-
abeth Aiken, twin with Mary Cartwright. 4.
llelen llalkeit, April 11. 1901. 5. Robert
William Jr., May 21, 1905.
(II) James Millar, third child and second
son of Robert and Elizabeth Aiken (Millar)
Cumming, was born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire,
Scotland. March 28. 1876. He was about five
years old when his father brought him to this
country, and his education was accjuired in the
Newark Academy, from which institution he
graduated in 1894. He is a Republican in his
political belief. He holds membership in the
Essex Troop, and when the Spanish-American
war broke out in 1898 he volunteered to go
with his troop, but was not engaged in active
service. He is a member of the Essex Club
and the Essex County Country Club. He and
his wife are communicants of St. James
Protestant Episcopal Church in Newark. He
married in Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church in Hoboken, New Jersey, June 4,
1898, Julia Stevens, born in Hoboken, New
Jersey, March. 1877, third child and second
daughter of Edward I^arke Custis and Mary
Picton ( Stevens-Carnett) Lewis. Children:
I. Robert, born in Newark, July 5, 1900. 2.
Edward Parke Custis Eewis, born in .Newark,
June 29, 1905.
An ancient authority on the
PARKE origin and derivation of nur
English f)atronymics (1594)
says: "If a man had three sonnes, the one
dwelling at the Townsend. the other at ye
Woods, and the thyrde at the Parke, they all
took their surnames from theire dwellings
and left their anncient surnames: which
errour hath overthrowen and brought into
oblyvion man\e annciente houses in this realm
of l^ngland." The "'Patronymica ISritan-
nica," I ondon. i8f)0, gives us the several
sources frc)m which the Park and Parke sur-
names are derived: "Park, from a residence
near a i)ark. .At-Park and A-Parke." "Parke,
may be a derivative of I'eter, and intermediate
between that and I'erkins; or. local, either
from one of the places Pare in Normandy,
situated respectively near Diepjie and Hernay,
or from a residence near soiue English park,
like De la Parke of the H. R.," etc.
I'he Parke family of the branch under con-
sideration here, comes of the English family
of the same name, and doubtless had its origin
in the source mentioned in the preceding para-
grajih. The earliest known ancestor of this
particular family was a native of Philadel-
phia, hence was at least one generation re-
moved from his ancestor, and there is room
for the belief that still earlier generations
of the family dwelt in this country, although
no record of them can be found in any of the
genealogical references now extant.
(I) Edwin Parke, with whom this narrative
begins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
in 1807, and spent the earlier years of his life
in that city, attending the [niblic schools : but
when still a boy he removed thence to Paterson
and there learned the trade of loom building,
which he followed as an occupation so long as
he lived. He died in 1872, being then sixty-
five years old, and having been an industrious
and reasonably successful mechanic. At one
time he held the office of alderman, and it is
known that he was a man of gO(jd understand-
ing and a faithful ]3ublic servant. He married
Anna, daughter of .\bram Serven. She bore
him four children, of whom two, Howard B.,
of Boston. Massachusetts, and Dr. Henry
Parke of Paterson. are now living.
(II) Dr. Henry Parke, son of Edwin and
.Anna Parke, was born in Monsey, New "^'ork,
Jidy 9. 1852, and ac(|uired his early education
in |)ublic schools in Paterson. He was edu-
cated for the profession of medicine at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons. New
York City, now the medical department of
Columl)ia Cniversity, and was graduated from
that institution with the degree of M. I), in
1882. He at once began active general prac-
tice in I'aterson, and soon came to be recog-
nized as one of the leading yoimg men of his
])rofession in that city; and in later years Dr.
Parke has lost nothing of his early prestige
and now enjoys a large and successful practice.
In connection with professional employments.
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ht has served in various capacities, and at one
time was a member of the medical staff of St.
Joseph's Hospital, I'aterson. He is a mem-
ber of the Passaic County Medical Society and
also of Ivanhoe Lodge, F. and A. M. Dr.
Parke never married.
Jacob Osborn, the first mem-
OSIKJRX bcr of this family of whoin we
have definite information, was
born in 1715, and died February i, 1808. His
sister Amy married Jacob Beers ; his sisterBet-
sey married David Dayton : another sister mar-
ried Daniel (iray. He marrie_d, about 1779,
Elizalieth Douglas, born October 11, 1763. died
January 25, 1831. Children: i. Samuel, born
A])ril 5, 1780; died November i, 1831 ; mar-
ried December 20, 1804, Maria Sheppard. 2.
Jacob, referred to below. 3. Lewis, born
August 14, 1783, died August 6, 1812; un-
married.
( n ) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (i) and Flliz-
abeth (Doxiglas) Osborn, was born in Han-
over, Alorris county. New Jersey, April 25,
1781, and died in Newark, New Jersey, May 7,
1870. He married Patience Andruss, born
December 31, 1784, died March 26, 1867.
Children: i. Harvey H., born April 6, 1808;
married Mary A. Case. 2. Sarepta T., born
March 31, 1812; married Thomas C. Mande-
ville. 3. Nancy K., born in April, 1814: mar-
ried Jacob Jacobus. 4. Charles S., married
Mary A. Hammond. 5. Sarah A., married
Samuel Pool. 6. William S., referred to
below. 7. Jacob, died young. 8. Abigail E.,
unmarried. 9. George, born July 8, 1828, died
December 22, 1905 ; married Mary A. Merrill.
Also three children who died in infancy.
(HI) William S., son of Jacob (2) and
Patience (Andruss) Osborn, was bom Sep-
tember 19, 1820, and died in 1897. He mar-
ried (first) Mary A., born May 25, 1819, died
in 1868, daughter of Amaziah and Dorcas
Dinger. Her father was born July 18, 1791,
and died February 25. i860; her mother was
born October 16, 1796, and died September 17,
185 1. He married (second) Carrie Hathaway.
Children, all by first marriage : Harriet E.,
born April 15, 1841, married Richard Horn;
William S. (2). referred to below ; Mary, born
May 28, 1846, married William Griffith;
Jacob, born February 6, 1848, married Mary
(Condit) Burns; Emma, born April 7, 1850,
died January 31, 1857; Catharine M.. born
August 2^, 1854, died October ^, 1895.
('IV) William S. (2), son of William S.
(i) and Mary ( Dinger j Osborne, was born
January 10, 1844, and died September 17,
1907. Ide married Elthea Frazee, born 1847,
died in 1883. Children: Harry V., referred
to below; Frederica, born and died in 1874;
Gertrude, born August 5, 1876, died Septem-
ber 16, 1899, unmarried.
(V) Harry V., son of William S. (2) and
Elthea (Frazee) Osborne, was born in New-
ark, New Jersey, August 29, 1872, and is an
attorney and counsellor at law of New Jersey,
practicing in Newark. He studied law in
Trenton in the office of the late Judge Robert
S. Woodruff, and was admitted as an attorney
in November, 1895, and as a counsellor in Feb-
ruary, 1900. In 1896 he moved from Trenton
to Newark, to take up the practice of law
there. In addition to his law practice he has
been a student of socialogical and charitable
problems, and is one of the directory of the
Newark Bureau of Associated Charities and
counsel for that body. He is the attorney for
the adjustment bureau of the Newark Credit
Men's Association, which is one of the affili-
ated branches of the National Credit Men's
Association, probably the largest mercantile
organiation in the country. The first public
office he ever held was that of state senator
from Essex county. He entered the campaign
for the Democratic nomination as an indepen-
dent candidate, and won over two others, one
of whi^m was an independent, and the other
the regular Democratic organization candidate.
He was elected over Everett Colby, Republi-
can, his predecessor in office, by a plurality of
684 in a year when the Republican majority
for William H. Taft for president in Essex
county was 23,496. He married, June 27,
1907, Elizabeth G. Bremner. John Bremner,
born February 14, 1909.
Jan Sneden and his brother
SNEDEN Claes, founders of the family
of this name in America, are
descended from a family resident for many
years in Amsterdam. Jan, his wife and two
children, and his brother Claes, came to New
Amsterdam in December, 1657, in the ship
"St. Jean Baptiste." Claes settled in New
Amsterdam, and Jan removed to Haarlaem in
1660, where he occupied for a time the house
and bouwerie of Morris Pieterson, until he
secured an allotment of his own. In 1662
both he and his wife died, and the magistrates
sold his property at public vendue, the house
and lands with the growing grain being
bought by Jacc|ues Coussean for 135 guilders,
and the household goods going to various per-
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
1379
sons for a total of 189 guilders. After the
settlement of the estate there remained to be
divided between the orphans 42 guilders, and
P.hilip Casier and Lubbert (ierritscn were
appointed their guardians. Jan Sneden mar-
ried, in Amsterdam, Grietje Jans. Children:
Carsten, referred to below ; (Jrictjc. married,
August 13, 1663, Jean Guenon, of l'"lnshing,
the ancestor of the Genung family.
(II) Carsten Jansen, son of Jan and
Grietje (Jans) Sneden, was apprenticed Janu-
ary 15, 1668, to Daniel Tourneur, for one year,
and at the expiration of that term he was to
have given him 300 guilders and "a pair of
shoes and stockings."
(III) John, son of Cartsen Jansen Sneden,
married, and among his children was a son
Robert, referred to below.
( I\') Robert, son of John Sneden, married
Mary , who is said to have been born in
1709 and to have died in 1810, thus living to
be more than a century old. Children: i.
Dennis, born November 13, 1735. died Janu-
ary 13, 1824; was a Tory and removed to
Nova Scotia as a United Empire Loyalist in
1784. 2. James. 3. John, referred to below.
4. Samuel. 5. William.
(V) John, son of Robert and Mary Sneden,
was born in 1738, and died April i, 1822.
According to family tradition it was John
Sneden who piloted Major Andre and his cap-
tors from Tarrytown to Sneden's Landing
cii route for Tappan. The desk which Gen.
Washington used at Tappan when signing
Major Andre's death warrant is now in the pos-
session of John Sneden"s great-grandson, Mr.
George \'irginius Sneden, referred to below.
He married (first) a Miss Dobbs, and (sec-
ond), Margaret Riker. Children, the first eight
by Margaret Riker: i. George Washington,
born April 15, 1781 ; married December 21,
1805, Rachel Bogert. 2. Elizabeth, born Alay
10, 1783; married, January 10, 1803, Leon B.
Rice. 3. Richard, born November 23, 1783;
married Elizabeth Wood. 4. Mary, born July
18, 1787; married, December 13, 1802, Ste-
phen Hagens. 5. Robert, born November 16,
1788; married Jane C. . 6. Rachel,
born December 18, 1790; married, November
9, 181 1, Benjamin Gravestyne. 7. Abraham,
born December 7, 1792. 8. \\'illiam, born Sep-
tember 15, 1795. 9. John, referred to below.
10. Lawrence, married Lea.
(VI) John (2), son of John (i) Sneden,
was born at Sneden's Landing, Rockland
county. New York, August 10, 1770, and died
there September 18, 1829. He married, b'eb-
ruary 28, 1796, Phebe, daughter of John H.
(2) and Anna (Onderdonk) Gesner, who was
born March 15, 1779, and died July 14, 1857.
Her ancestry it is said has been traced back
to William HI. of Holland. Children: Sam-
uel, referred to below ; Eliza, married Peter
Westervelt ; Lawrence, married Nancy Taul-
man ; .Ann, married John W'aldron ; John (3) ;
William : Nicholas : Enieline, married
Smith; Juliet, twin with I'.meline, married
John Lawrence.
(VII) Samuel, son of John (2) and Phebe
(Gesner) Sneden, was born at Piermont,
Rockland county. New Yt)rk, in 1797, and died
.\pril 28, 1847. J^Ie was a boat builder. He
was the inventor of the center-board for sail-
ing vessels, and at least one steamboat was
built by him at his shipyard at Piermont-on-
Hudson, early in the nineteenth century. He
married, December 19, 1821, Maria, daughter
of Samuel Gerritsen and Heijltje (Remsen)
\'erbryck, who was born June 17. 1798. (See
\ erhryck). Children: i. Phebe Ann, born Oc-
tober 5, 1822, died December 26, 18(16 : married
James J. Walsh. 2. Sanniel (lerritsen, born Oc-
tober 29, 1824, died May 7, 1829. 3. Susanna,
born December 5. 1826, died in 1905: married
Jacob Brandt. 4. William S., referred to below.
5. Samuel Gerritsen, born February 10, 1831,
died August 14, 1840. 6. John Lawrence, born
September 15, 1833, died August 17, 1834. 7.
Mary Helen, born April 23, 1837. died Feb-
ruary 27, 1838.
( \'III ) William S., son of Samuel and Maria
(Verbryck) Sneden, was born in Piermont,
Rockland county. New York, January 2, 1829,
and died in Red Bank, Monmouth county.
New Jersey, April 14, 1905. He was a civil
engineer and spent most of his life in con-
structing and managing railroads, being con-
nected in an engineering or operating capacity
with the New York & Erie, the Northern
Central, the Fredericksburg & Gordonville,
the Ohio & Mississippi, the Northern Railroad
of New Jersey, the Raritan & Delaware Bay
Railroad, the New York, Boston & Montreal
Railroad, the New Jersey Southern, the New
York & Long Branch, the Jacksonville, St.
Augustine & Halifax River Railroad, Jack-
sonville, Tampa &- Key West Railroad, the
Central Railroad of New Jersey, and several
local electric railway lines. He entered upon
railroad work in a clerical and engineering ca-
pacity in the early days of the New York and
l'''ie railroad, and in 1849 became assistant
engineer of the Daujihin &• Sustiuehanna rail-
road. In 1852 he went to St. Louis as a mem-
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ber of the engineering party which made the
first survey for the Ohio& Mississippi railroad,
and for three years he was chief engineer of
the Fredericksburg & Gordonville railroad in
N'irginia. From 1857 to i860 he was chief
engineer of the Northern Railroad of New
Jersey, and for six years principal assistant
engineer and superintendent of the Raritan &
Delaware Jiay railmad, since changed to the
New Jersey Southern. Thus he was continu-
ously associated with railroad construction and
the o[)eration of different lines which have
proved im])ortant highways for commerce and
travel, and have led to the development and
settlement of many sections of the country.
I''or a short time in 1874 he was receiver for
the New Jersey Southern railroad, following
which he acted as general manager fur the
bondholders' trustees, who operated the road
until 1880. Mr. Sneden's princi]ial work, as
considered from a local standpoint, was in the
projectif.in and location of the New York and
Long liranch railroad, constructed by the New
Jersey Central ; this subsequently opened up
the Jersey coast to settlement and business
enterprises as nothing else has done, proving a
foundatiiin upon which has been raised the
superstructure of its present prosperity and
prt)gress.
Mr. Sneden, while water commissioner of
Red liank, engineered and had charge of the
erection of the reservoir and water works of
that town. He was a Democrat in politics, and
a member of the Dutch Reformed Church
at Piermont, New York, and attended the
Presbyterian Church while residing at Red
Rank, New Jersey. He married, in Harris-
burg, I'ennsylvania, October 21, 1850, Mary
Elizabeth, daughter of Hiram Henry and
Mary (Hochlander) Hetzel, who was born in
Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, March 21.
1831, and died in Red Bank, New Jersey, June
23, 1904. (See Hetzel). Children: i. Will-
iam Louis, born January 6, 1854, died De-
cember 25, 1897; unmarried. 2. George Vir-
ginius, referred to below. 3. Annie May, born
May 18, 1862, died Augiist 22, 1904; married
Edward Delafield Smith, Junior. 4. Riviere
Hetzel, born September 5, 1866, died July 3,
1896; married, September 25, 1894, Anna
Grant Hubbard ; one child, Doris Riviere,
born August 14, 1896. 5. Mary Hetzel, born
January 2, 1871, died April 6, 1909: unmar-
ried.
(IX) George \"irginius, son of William S.
and Alary Elizabeth ( 1 letzel ) Sneden, was born
at I'Tedericksburg, N'irginia, January 26, i85().
and is now living at Red Bank, New Jersey.
For his early education he attended the Red
Bank Academy, the Red Bank high school
and the Freehold Institute; and after taking a
special course in civil engineering at Lehigh
L'niversity he became leveler in the engineer-
ing corps in the construction of the New York
& Long Branch railroad, and since then has
been successively clerk and draughtsman in the
machine shops of the New Jersey Southern
railroad, then clerk in the passenger depart-
ment, clerk in the office of the auditor and
cashier, and clerk in the office of the general
manager, all of the same railroad, clerk and
nperator for the division freight agent of the
Central Railroad of New Jersey, and finally
chief clerk and assistant to the superintendent
of the New York & Long Branch Railroad.
Mr. Sneden is a Republican in politics, and
was a member of the board of conunissioners
for the town of Red I'.ank under the original
charter. He is past master of Mystic lirother-
hood Lodge, No. 21, V. and A. M., of New
Jersey; past high priest of Lliram Chapter,
No. I, Royal Arch Masons; member of Cor-
son Commandery, No. 15, Knights Templar;
past regent of Red Bank Council, No. 984,
Royal Arcanum; and past master workman of
Shrewsbury Lodge, No. 40, A. O. U. W. He
is a charter member of the Monmouth Boat
Club, and an exempt fireman of the Navesink
Hook and Ladder Company. He and his wife
attend the Presbyterian church. He married,
in Red Bank, New Jersey, October 26, 1881,
Eleanor Antonides, daughter of Charles and
Emeline (Antonides) Curtis, who was born in
Holmdel, Monmouth county. New Jersey, July
9, 1862. Her father is a retired second ser-
geant of Company G, Twenty-ninth Regiment
New Jersey Volunteers. Children of Charles
and Emeline (Antonides) Curtis: Thomas
Adams, M. D., deceased; Eleanor Antonides,
referred to above; William Henry, deceased.
(The Verbi-yck Line).
Bernardus Verbryck, the first member of
this family of whom we have definite informa-
tion, settled on the Raritan, in Somerset
county, New Jersey. He is said to have been
the son of Samuel and Ida (Barends) Garret-
sen of Gravesend, Long Lsland. Children :
Samuel, referred to below; Johannes; Wil-
helmus.
(H) The Rev. Samuel, son of Bernardus
Verbryck, was born in Somerset county. New
Jersey, A]3ril 30, 1 72 1, and died at Clarks-
town, Rockland county, New York, January
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31, 1784. He started to learn the trade of
wheelwright, but gave it up in order to study
for the ministry under Dominie Goctschius.
By permission of the Classis of Amsterdam
he was examined and ordained by the Coetus
in this country, which speaks highly of his
scholarly attainments and excellent life, and
these tributes are sustained by all that tradition
has handed down of his ministerial record.
The Coetus and Conferentie troubles ran high
during the first twenty years of his ministry,
and the American revolution came and went
during its last nine years. So his whole period
at Tappan was one of intense excitement.
From the first he was with the majority of his
people on the side of the Coetus. Tn 1761 he
sought to obtain from the government a char-
ter for an academy, and also opposed fi.xed
forms of prayer and festival days. On account
of these things some of his ministerial brethren
asked the Classis of Amsterdam to discipline
him for contumacy. They especially com-
plained that if he should get the charter for
an academy, it would only tend to increase the
same kind of ministers. But the dominie per-
sisted, and he was prominent as an agent in
bringing about the restored peace of the
church. It was he who secured from the gov-
ernor of New Jersey the original charter for
Queens (now Rutgers) College, bearing date
March 20, 1770. He was one of the original
trustees of the college, and did everything in
his power to promote the education of young
men, particularly their education for the min-
istry. He seems in all this to have been far,
in advance even of most ministers of his time.
His zeal was so great as to give offense to some
of his people at Tappan, so that they refused
to pay their share of his salary. His good
judgment, however, carried him through the
excitement, and brought him success, "^'et it
was providentially ordered that his life should
be a disturbed life to the end. Scarcely had
the church controversy been adju.sted when the
Revolution broke out. The historic identifi-
cation of Tappan, its roads and hills, its
homes, and even its old church with the inci-
dents of the war. are historical. Dominie \"er-
bryck was a genuine patriot, and as such was
one of the sufferers in the struggle of the
country for independence, .\fter having been
annoyed during his first twenty years by the
opposition of Dominie Muzelius, and in the
last of these twenty years by the springing up
of a schismatic organization among his [)eople,
he was destined to have his church life and
work still further disturbed l)y the war, and
his church edifice itself used as a court room
and a prison. It is even said that at one time
he was himself taken prisoner and confined
in the llackensack jail. Through all these
trials, however, he seems to have born himself
with exemplary patience, and to have left be-
hind him at his death the memory of a godly
life and of an eminently practical and use-
ful ministry. The compiler of this sketch of
him has been through life intimately acquaint-
ed with his descendants from his own children
down through their children and children's
children. Especially is the memory very
precious of his honored son, Samuel G. Ver-
bryck, who during the greater part of half a
century down to 1835 led the Dutch singing
in the Tappan churcli. All the dominie's chil-
dren are mentioned in his will. The remains
of himself and his wife are interred at Tappan.
They lie in the graveyard on the west side of
the road. The spots are still marked by the
original stones. He married, in llackensack,
April 7, 1730, Susanna, daughter of Hendrick
and .Ariaentje (Westervelt ) \'an der Linde,
who was born April 19. 1723. and died .Vugust
16, 1807. Children: Ariaentje, l^rn July 18,
i%i : Bernardus, born March i, iq|53, married
Alaria Beem ; Hendrick Van der Linde, born
January 4, 1755, married .\ntje Jansen : Jan-
netje, born October 19, 1759; Roelof, born
February 25, 1766, married Maria Haring;
Samuel Gerritsen, referred to below.
(HI) Samuel Gerritsen, son of Rev. Sam-
uel and Susanna (Van der Linde) Verbryck,
died in Tappan, Rockland county. New York,
October 3, 1849. When the revolutionary war
broke out. Rev. Samuel Verbryck removed to
Clarkstown. then known as New Hempstead.
His son Hendrick was married and resided
in a house that stood on the present site of Mr.
S. Conklin's store, and his second son, Samuel
G., lived there with him. On the occasion of
a parade there under Major Blauvelt, who
lived where Cornelius Van .Antwerp now re-
sides, volunteers for guard duty at Paterson
were requested. Several volunteered, but not
one of them appeared at the time and place
appointed. Samuel G. \'erbryck, then only
sixteen years of age. and another boy named
.•\bram Martling. offered themselves for this
duty, were accepted, received arm and rations,
and walked to Paterson, where they remained
on duty during two weeks. Subsequently
Samuel G.. with his brother Bernardus, went
to Pulavly to labor on their grandparents'
farm. Three days after their arri\al they
were made i)risouers by the "regulars" and
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taken to New York, where they were placed in
the "Debtor's jail." They were olTered their
liberty on condition of taking the oath of alle-
giance to Great Britain, but these terms Sam-
uel G. refused, and he was kept in prison thir-
teen months. In this time he became greatly
emaciated, and so ill that he was not expected
to live. His second cousin, a Mr. De Bevoise,
learning of his condition, asked and received
permission to remove him to his home on
Long Island. When taken there he was so ill
that he was not aware of his removal, but by
careful nursing he recovered, and afterward
carried on Mr. De Bevoise's farm till he was
exchanged, after being three years and three
months a prisoner. He returned to his home,
but soon enlisted in the American army and
was appointed an ofhcer in the Hackensack
comjiany, under Captain Ward. \Vhile a
prisoner on Long Island he became engaged to
a young lady named Heylitje Remsen. She
sold her interest on some property in Long
Island, sewed her money in her clothing and
joined her intended husband at Pulavly where
they were married. They remained here a year
on the Van de Linde farm, and then, on the
death of his grandmother, removed to Tappan,
where, in November, 1783, they purchased of
the LTnited States government a confiscated
farm. On this farm he resided until his death,
October 3d, 1849. He represented Rockland
county in the state legislature for more than
twenty years, and was, during more than half
a century chorister and sexton of the old
Dutch church at Tappan. He married, in
August, 1781, Heylitje Remsen. Children:
Susanna, born August 4, 1782, married Garret
Edwards; Angenietje, born October 14, 1785;
Samuel, born September 30, 1787; Remsen,
born September 4, 1789, married Elizabeth
Oerveelen ; Jannetje, born February 7, 1792,
married Richard Ellsworth; Femmetje, born
March 13, 1795; Maria, referred to below;
John, born July 19, 1801 ; James, April 25,
1805.
(IV) Maria, daughter of Samuel Gerritsen
and Heylitje (Remsen) Verbryck, was born
at Tappan, Rockland county, New York, June
17, 179S. She married, December 19, 1821,
Samuel, son of John and Pliebe ((resner)
Sneden, referred to above.
(The Hetzel Line).
Rev. Heinrich Iletzel, the founder of this
family in America, landed in Philadelphia in
1730, being probably brought over to this
country as a child, but whether by his parents
iir with the household of some other family
is uncertain. According to Kneschike's "Lex-
icon of German Nobility" he was sprung from
an Irish Jacobite family which fled to Ger-
many after the battle of the Boyne, July 11,
1690. He married Jeanne Riviere.
(II) John, son of Rev. Heinrich and Jeanne
(Riviere) Hetzel, was born in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1760.
.'\bout the time of his marriage he removed to
E.xeter, Berks county, Pennsylvania. He
married, September 14, 1799, Mary, daughter
of John and Barbara (Rothermal) Pool or
Puhl, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who
was born March 20, 1778. Children: Joanna,
born September 19, 1800; Hiram Henry and
Abner Riviere, both referred to below; Ros-
anna, born March 22, 1805 ; Mary Barbara,
twin with Rosanna : John Newton, born No-
vember 25, 1806; Cassandanna, born July 12,
1808, died unmarried ; Cyrus, born March 18,
1810; Selima, born July 12, 1812. died May i,
i8()3, married General Edward C. Williams;
Milton, born July 27, 1814; Cyrus, born
August 27, 1815 ; Paulina, born July 8, 1817;
Calvin, born October 29, 1818.
(HI ) Hiram Llenry, son of John and Mary
(Pool) Hetzel, was born in Earl township,
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, February 7,
1802, and died in Dauphin county, Pennsyl-
vania, February 23, 1849. H^ married, in
Middle Paxton township, Dauphin county,
Pennsvlvania, July 8, 1823, Mary, born March
20, 1806, died September 8, 1863, daughter of
George and Anne Catharine (Geiger) Hoch-
lander. Children: I. Riviere (jcorge, born
April 20. 1826, died March 26, 1890; married,
December 21, 1848, Mary A. Simmons. 2.
John, born February 3, 1828, died April 12,
1870; married Ann Mackwalder. 3. Mary
Elizabeth, referred to below. 4. Ellen Louisa,
born April 11, 1833; died September 9, 1840.
5. Hiram Hughes, born May i, 1836; still liv-
ing; married, March 25, i860, Amelia (iieist.
6. Cassandanna, born July 22, 1838; still liv-
ing; married (first), November 26, 1857,
Charles Rhoads, who died September 28,
1879; he was second lieutenant in the 173d
regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers ; after the
war held several government positions and was
in charge of Fort Hayes and Fort Dodge, in
Kansas, and Fort Sill, in Indian Territory ;
Cassandanna married (second), March 28,
1882, Rev. Benjamin Hengst, who died No-
vember 13, 1907.
(IV) Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Hiram
Henry and Mary (Ilochlander) Hetzel, was
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born in Middle Paxton township, Dauphin
county, Pennsylvania. March 21, 1831, and
died in Red P)ank, Monmouth county, New
Jersey, June 2^. 1904. She married, October
21, 1850, William, son of Samuel and Maria
(Verbryck) Sneden. referred to above.
(Ill) Abner Riviere, son of John and Mary
(Pool) Hetzcl, was born in Earl townshiji,
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. October 6,
1803. and died in 1848. He was educated at
West Point, where he graduated in the early
1820's and rapidly rose in his profession, that
of military engineering, and attained the rank
of major. He designed and superintended
the construction of the Delaware breakwater.
In 1840 he was chief assistant to General
Thomas S. Jessup. then quartermaster-general
of the United States army, and was sent to
Mexico, where he had charge of the quarter-
master's department in that country during the
war of 1 845- 1 848. At the close of hostilities
he came back to the United States, and while
on his way to Washington died of cholera at
Louisville. Kentucky. He married Margaret
Selden. The late Xewton Hetzel Davies, of
Harrisburg. Pennsylvania, and Major Frank
Davies, of the United States army, were his
nephews.
The Tomson (or Tliomp-
THOMPSON son. as the name is now
spelt), is one of the early
families in this country, and its founder un-
doubtedly came to Elizabethtown from New
England, where at an early date there were
several Thomas Thompsons of record, al-
though so far as the writer has been able to
discover there is no evidence for the state-
ment of Hatfield and Howell that the ancestor
of the line at present under consideration was
in Lynn, Massachusetts, in if>39. and from
there went to New London in 1642.
(I) Thomas Tomson was at East Hampton,
Long Island, in 1649, where he resided on the
west side of the street near Robert Bond and
the two Mul fords. He was one of the eighty
Elizabethtown associates, and took the oath of
allegiance in I'ebruary, 1665. In 1672 he was
one of the Elizabethtown deputies in the pro-
vincial legislature, and the year following,
when the 1 )utch reconquered the province, he
took the oath of allegiance to the States-Gen-
eral. He was active in opposing the arbitrary
measures of Governor Carteret, and with his
son Hur, Stephen Osborn, Robert and Peter
IMorse, Nathaniel Tuttle. and John Wilson, the
wheelwright, he accompanied William Meeker
in his raid on Pardon's house, and fur his
patriotism sufifered quite a little. In his will
dated November 20, 1675, proved September
9, 1676, he names his children but not his wife,
whose name is said to have been .Mary. Chil-
dren : I. Moses, living in Elizal)cthtown, 1701,
and dead before 1710; twice married; second
wife, Abiah Roberts of Newark. 2. Hur, died
between 1689 and iUj4; married Mary •.
3. Alary, married John, son of James Hinds
(or Haines) Sr., and their daughter married
as early as 1700, Isaac Whitehead Jr. 4.
Aaron, referred to below. 5. Hannah. 6.
Elizabeth, born about 1675, died November
13, 1747; married (first) Benjamin Meeker;
probably (second) Samuel Miller.
(II) Aaron, son of Thomas Tomson, was
born on Long Island, between 1650 and 1660,
and died in Elizabethtown in 1695. He mar-
ried, about 1690, Hannah, daughter of John
Brown, and widow of Joseph Riggs, of Mil-
ford and Newark. In 1697 Samuel Miller was
made the guardian of his children. These
were : Thomas, ancestor of the Morristown
branch ; Joseph, referred to below ; Aaron,
died before 1647; Hannah.
(HI) Joseph, son of Aaron and Hannah
(Brown) Riggs Tomson, died in July, 1749,
in Mendham, whither he had removed from
Elizabethtown in 1739. His wife Lydia died
December 24. 1749, and between the death of
their parents five of their children and three
of their grandchildren died of the same epi-
demic of "lung fever." Children: i. Phebe,
born August, 1718, died April, 1749. 2. Ste-
phen, born June 13, 1720, died July, 1750;
married. 3. Hannah, born December 3, 1721,
died April, 1749. 4. Mary, born November
27, 1723, died April, 1799. 5. .-Varon, borp
December 7. 1725, died April, 1749. 6. Daniel,
referred to below. 7. Desire, born November
4. 1731, died July, 1777; married James Pit-
ney. 8. Rachel, born March 10. 1734, died
April, 1749. 9. David, born October 4, 1737,
died December 28, 1824; married (first)
Rachel Bonnell ; (second) Hannah Cary.
(IV) Daniel, sixth child and third son of
Joseph and Lydia Tomson, was born in Eliz-
abethtown, December 7, 1727, and died in
April, 1749. He married Abagail. daughter
of Ebenezer and Mary (Haywood) Byram,
who after his death married (second) Benja-
min Pitney. Child: Daniel, referred to below.
(V) Daniel (2) Thompson, only son of
Daniel (i) and Abagail (Byram) Tomson,
was born in Mendham. in 1749. and died there
in 1834. He and his sons were tanners and
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shoemakers. He married Penelope Carnes
(or Cairnes), who died about 1820. Children :
I. Joseph, died unmarried, at about eighty
years of age. 2. Nancy (or Penelope), mar-
ried Schenck. 3. Abigail, died single.
4. Calvin, born in Mendham, New Jersey; he
bought a farm at Tuckerman's Plains, where
he built a tannery, and where he and his wife
died ; he married Nellie Byram ; two children,
one of whom, William, married Rebecca
\'(iorhees. 5. Luther, referred to below, fi.
Sarah. 7. Daniel.
(VI) Luther, eldest son of Daniel and Abi-
gail (Byram) Thompson, was born in Mend-
ham, New Jersey, March 18, 1781, and died
there May 11, 1875. I" '^o? li^ married
Rhuhama Chidister. Children: i. Lewis A.,
born 1809; lives at Kendallville, Indiana:
married, February 25, 1832, Jane Mase, and
one of his sons, D. Headley Thompson, vol-
unteered during the civil war, was shot in thtt
hip at the battle of \\'illiamsburg, captured
and imprisoned in Libby ])rison and at I'elle
Isle and Salisbury, and died in Trenton from
the effect of his wounds and treatment. 2.
John Byram, born 181 1 ; married Susan Bras-
tow. 3. Emily, born 1814; married Aaron
Losey. 4. .Albert. 5. Rebecca Ann, born 1821.
6. Calvin, referred to below. 7. Joseph, re-
moved to New York City.
(\'II) Calvin, sixth child and fourth son of
Luther and Rhuhama (Chidister) Thompson,
lived in Mendham and Basking Ridge, Somer-
set county. New Jersey. He married Margaret
Voorhees. Children: Lewis A. (referred to
below); Joseph W. ; Anna; Katharine;
Rtihama ; l""annie E.. who died .April 7, 1890.
(VIII) Lewis A., only son of Calvin and
Margaret (Voorhees) Tiionipson, was born
in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and is now liv-
ing in Somerville. He was educated in the
Basking Ridge schools, and for five or six
years taught school in Bernardsville. In 1877
he removed to Somerville, where he estab-
lished an extensive millinery and fancy goods
business which he conducted most successfully
until 1894. In 1880 he was elected sheriff of
Somerset county for a term of three years.
In 1883 and 1884 he was president of the
board of commissioners of Somerville, and in
1884 he was elected on the Republican ticket
as state senator for Somerset county to the
New Jersey legislature. He was re-elected in
1887 and again in 1893, ''"d served until 1896,
in which year he was chosen president of the
senate. It is a fact significant of the estima-
tion in which Mr. Thompson is held by the
community that the pluralities by which he
was re-elected show each time a remarkable
increase over the previous elections, the plur-
ality being 89 in 1884, 4S0 in 1887, and 893 in
1893-
Mr. Thompson was one of the most import-
ant, influential and aggressive members of the
senate, active in all legislation, and serving on
almost all of the important committees. In
1885 he was chairman of the committee on
election, and a member of the committees on
claims and pensions, on treasurer's account
and on the Reform School for Pioys. In the
following year he was the chairman of the
two last mentioned committees, and a member
of the committee on railroads and canals, on
miscellaneous business, and on printing. In
1887, besides continuing his chairmanship of
the committees on treasurer's account and the
Reform School for Boys, he served as chair-
man of the committees on riparian rights and
printing: and besides retaining his member-
ship on the committees on railroads and canals
and miscellaneous business, he served as a
member of the committee on public ground
and buildings. In 1888 he was chairman of
the committees on corporations, on treasurer's
account, and on printing, and was a member
of the ciimmittees on railroads and canals, on
miscellaneous business, and on engrossed bills ;
while in 1889 he served in addition on a com-
mittee on lunatic asylvmis. During his second
period of service in 1894 to 1896 he served as
chairman of the committees on corporation, on
unfinished business, and on the state prison,
and as a member of the committees on finance,
on agriculture and the Agricultural College,
on treasurer's accounts, and on commerce and
navigation. In 189ft '1^ served as president of
the senate, where he discharged the duties of
the office with signal ability and marked im-
partiality. He resigned on March 6 to accept
the position of clerk in chancery, to which he
had just been nominated by the Governor and
unanimously confirmetl by the senate.
Mr. Thompson's policy was one of modera-
tion and he sought the ]iassage of measures
which contributed rather to the general wel-
fare than to sectional or party profit, and his
bokl independence and aggression lech him to
direct his best efforts to substitute for tem-
porary party gain the best permanent public
good. Of a pleasing personal appearance, he
possesses a genial smiling nature, he is popular
even with his political o])ponents, and has been
most successful in business, and is one of the
largest real estate owners in Somerville.
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December 29. 1869, Mr. Tlmmiiscin married
Sarah, daiiglitt-r of Heiijaiiiin I)iiiiham, of
Millington, who died October 11, i<S83. Chil-
dren: I. May, married Charles Roberts. 2.
Bertha, married Edwin L. Decker ; children :
Lewis T. and Mary P. Mr. Thompson mar-
ried f second) February 20. 1905, Alice G.,
daughter of Alexander C. and .Mbina T. An-
derson ; her father is now clerk of Somerset
county.
1 he Newark family ot Jack-
J.VCKSON son here under consideration
is of English Puritan stock
which settled in the North of Ireland about
1641. The name ap])ears among the Anglo-
Norman and English families of the time of
Henry II.. and is found in the south of Ire-
land as early as 1 100. Those coming from
Ireland to America are included under the
title of Scotch-Irish, a name of American
origin designating the Protestant emigrants
from Ireland, mostly Presbyterians who were
driven to this country by the stringent laws
repressing manufactures in Irelancl. enacted
after the accession of \\'illiam and Mary. In
Ireland the family was first in Londonderry,
in which county, near Giant's Causeway, there
is a place called Jackson Hall : and a little later
in Armagh. In the old cathedral there are still
memorials of the family and their armorial
bearings. The Jacksons of Forkhill, county
Armagh, had for their motto, "Malo mori
quam foedari" ( Better to die than to be a
traitor).
(I) James Jackson, the first of the family
in America came from Forkhill, County
Armagh, early in the eighteenth century,
accompanied probably by his wife and his
brother \\'illiam Jackson. Family tradition
says that he paid seventy guineas passage
money. .After a sojourn in New York or
vicinity during which the name of William
Jackson ap])ears in the records of the Fir.st
Presbyterian Church, they removed to Orange
county. New York. The records of the town
of Goshen show that in 1721 they united with
twenty-two others in a grant of property to
the town for a church, school house, minister's
house and cemetery. James Jackson appears
to have signed, at New Marlboro, L'lster
county. New York, the revolutionary pledge
agreeing to abide by the acts of the Continental
Congress, in 1777. There is still in the family
a Bible printed at Edinburgh with the inscrip-
tion. "I, James Jackson. Senior, do give this
Bible to my grandson Peter Jackson as his
real jjrojjcrty. the 27th day of .September,
1779." His children were: i. James, 1718-
r795, referred to below. 2. \Villiani. born
1720. 3. John. 1722. 4. Anna, 1724: married
John Armstrong. 3. Nancy, 1726; married
Andrew Miller. 6. Alexander, born 1728,
died 1818: married Martha Drake; their son,
Rev. Abel Jackson, was pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of liloomfield. New Jer-
sey.
(II) James (2), eldest son of James (i)
Jackson, was born in 1718, and died in 1795.
He was one of the early settlers of New Wind-
sor. Orange county. New York. A street
there is named Jackson avenue for him. He
owned vessels (sloops) engaged in Hudson
river trans])ortation, and was given the cour-
tesy title of commodore. Edgar's "History of
Orange County" says, "The Jacksons are cap-
tains of their own sloops." By his first wife,
Agnes , he had children: I. William,
born 1745, died 1806; served in the revolution
as a captain, first under Clinton, and was pro-
moted to major ; he married Mary Booth. 2.
James, born 1747, died 1825; also served in
the revolution: married (first) Bun-
sen; (second) Elizabeth McCoft. 3. Sarah,
born 1754; married James Lattie. He married
(second), Maria, daughter of Peter and Anna
Berry Roome. of Pompton Plains, and had
children. 4. Agnes, born 1775, died 1851 ; mar-
ried Hartman Post in 1792; thirteen children.
5. Peter, born 1777, died 1859; see below. He
married (third) Margaret Burnett.
(III) Peter, youngest son of James (2)
Jackson, by his second wife, Maria Roome,
was born at Pompton Plains, New Jersey, at
the home of his grandfather, Peter Roome,
December 13. 1777, and died in Newark, Feb-
ruary 25, 1859. Until the death of his mother
in 1781. he lived with his parents at New
Windsor, New York, but was then taken with
his sister Agnes to Pompton Plains and
brought up by their aunts, Hester ( Roome)
Acton and Deborah ( Roome) Spear, neither
of them having children of their own. He
subsequently entered the store of Cjeneral
William Colfax, who had been ca])tain of
Washington's life guard, and, settling at
Pompton Plains at the close of the war. had
married Hetty Schuyler, a cousin of .\driana
Schuyler \'an dcr Linde. who was mother of
Peter Jackson's future wife. Later, Peter
Jackson of)ened a store for himself at a place
in Pompton Plains, still known as Jackson's
Corner. Marrying in 1802. he shortly after-
wards moved with his wife to .Xcquackanonck
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(now Passaic), where he built a store adjoin-
ing his own wharf, and follovving in the same
line of business as his father and half brothers,
he despatched his vessels to Albany, New
York, Virginia, Georgia and the West Indies,
supplying the country aroiuid as far as New-
burgh and Pliiladelphia with lumber, southern
products and general merchandise. He was
appointed postmaster of Acquackanonck by
President Madison in 1812, holding the office
until 1838. In 1839 he removed with his wife
and youngest daughter and son to Newark,
where his son John P. and two of his daugh-
ters were already settled. Me continued attend-
ing to business in Newark until his sudden
death on the train between Newark and Jersey
City, in 1859.
May 16, 1802, Peter Jackson married Hes-
ter Van der Linde Brinckerhoff, daughter of
Adriana Van der Linde, whose father, Dom-
inie Benjamin Van der Linde, was the first
minister of the Dutch Reformed Church to be
ordained in America, and Adrian W. Brinck-
erlioff, whose father. Col. John Brinckerhoff,
of Fishkill, was a friend of Washington, and
his home built in 1738, one of "Washington's
Headquarters." The wife of Col. Brincker-
hoff was Elizabeth Schuyler, great-grand-
daughter of Philip Pieterse Schuyler, the first
Dutch Governor of Albany. Mrs. Jackson
celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of
her birt'i at Newark. January 30, 1882, at the
home of her daughter Julia (Mrs. .Algernon .S.
Hubbell), surrounded by children, grandchil-
dren and great-grandchildren, and one great-
great-granddaughter. She retained her facul-
ties till her death in her one hundred and sec-
ond year, March 20, 1883. Both Peter Jackson
and his wife were members of the South Park
I'resbyterian Church of Newark.
Children of Peter and Hester \'an der Linde
(Brinckerhoff) Jackson: I. James, born May
4, 1803, died December 15, 1882; for years
engaged in business with his father ; he mar-
ried Mary Stagg, of New York: their son.
Abrani .Stagg, was a well-known lawyer of
Jersey City. 2. John P., referred to below.
3. Maria, married Henry \'an Winkle, of New
York. 4. Eliza, married Amzi .Armstrong, a
lawyer of Newark. 5. Julia Ann, married
Algernon S. Hubbell, a prominent Newark
lawyer ; children : George Wolcott, married
Cora Churchhill, of Greenwich, Connecticut:
Julia, married Rev. Charles Treat, D. D. :
Eliza, lives in Newark : John Jackson, a law-
yer in Newark. 6. Jane, married Rev. Samuel
W. Fisher, D. D., a Presbyterian minister, and
president of Hamilton College ; children : Hon.
William Fisher, of Cincinnati; George; Rev.
Samuel Jackson, D. D., Presbyterian minister
and president of the Presbyterian Board of
I'reedmen at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Eliza.
7. William, referred to below.
(1\') John P., second son of Peter and
Hester (Van der Linde) l>rinckerhof¥ Jack-
son, was born at Acquackanonck, now Passaic,
June 8, 1805, and died at Newark, December
10, 1861. He graduated at Princeton College
with first honors in the class of 1823, and im-
mediately entered upon the study of law at
the old Litchfield Law School, under Judges
Tappan, Reeve and Gould, and subse(|uently
in the office of Hon. Theodore I-'relinghuysen,
in Newark. He was admitted to practice at
the bar in 1827, forming a partnership at first
with .Vshbel W. Corey, and afterwards with his
brother-in-law, Amzi Armstrong, with whom
he was also for a time associated as editors of
the Newark Daily Adzrrtiscr. In 1831 he
was elected to the New Jersey assembly, and
in 1832, being rc-electetl, was chosen speaker.
He was connected from its organization with
the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation
Company; in 1832 he was appointed secretary,
in 1836 a director, and in 1849 vice-president
and superintendent. In 1839 he was appointed
clerk of the county of Esse.x, filling the office
until 1849.
"Up to this time he hatl been prominently
identified with the political movements of the
state, e.xerting for some time a controlling in-
fiuence in shaping and directing the policy of
the old Whig party." .After 1850 the railroad
largely absorbed his time and energies, and
with such success that the prosperity of the
road was credited mainly to him, both in its
internal management and in its protection from
what might liave been ruinous competition
with the Camden & Amboy Railroad Company.
His knowledge and experience as a lawyer
enabled him often to act the part of senior
counsel for the railroad. In the elections of
1859 he took the stump in advocacy of the
election of Governor Olden. He was a popu-
lar and able public speaker, a man of fine ad-
dress, courteous in his demeanor. For a quar-
ter of a century he was prominently identified
with every leading state enterprise. He was
especially active in those of a benevolent na-
ture, and was a man of deeply earnest chris-
tian character. He was at first connected with
the First Presbyterian Church of Newark, but
united in the organization of the South Park
Church, of which he was a trustee and the
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superintendent of tlic Sabbath school, which
he had organized prior to the founding of the
church in Chesbrook street station of the Xew
Jersey railroad."
John I'. Jackson married Elizabeth llniiting-
ton Wolcott, daughter of Hon. Frederick W'ol-
cott, of Litchfield, Connecticut, son of Oliver
Wolcott, governor of Connecticut and a signer
of the declaration of Independence, and grand-
son of Mayor General Roger Wolcott, also a
colonial governor of Connecticut. Her mother,
Detzy Huntington, belonged to the celebrated
Huntington family of Norwich. Connecticut,
and was daughter of Lieut. -Col. Joshua Hunt-
ington, and granddaughter of Gen. Jabez Hunt-
ington, of the revolutionary war. Their chil-
dren were: i. Laura Wolcott, married (first)
Matthew Trotter, of Albany ; children : Henry
Wolcott, and Elizabeth \\'olcott, who died in
childhood; married (second) Charles Henry
Parker, of Boston ; children : i. ( jertrude ; ii.
Harriet Wolcott : iii. Samuel Dunn ; iv. Charles
Henry Jr. : she died December 28. 1900. 2.
Mary Elizabeth, married T. Charlton Henry.
of Philadelphia : children : Rev. Alexander,
D. D. ; Charles Wolcott ; James Bayard ; John
Jackson and Elizabeth Wolcott. 3. Julia Hunt-
ington, resided in Newark ; died .\pril 8, 1905.
4. I'rederick Wolcott, referred to below. 5.
Joseph Cooke, referred to below. 6. John
Peter Jr., referred to below. 7. Hannah Wol-
cott, resided in Newark, died August 24, 1904.
8. Huntington Wolcott, referred to below. 9.
Charles Henry, died in infancy. 10. Henry
Griswold, died in infancy. 11. Schuyler
Brinckerhofif, referred to below.
(\') William, third son and youngest child
of Peter and Hester \'an der Linde (Brincker-
hoff) Jackson, was born at Accjuackanonck,
December 15. 1817, and died at Belleville, New
Jersey, in ^lay, 1902. Fie was engaged in
mercantile pursuits in Newark, and for a time
was connected with the New Jersey Railroad
and Transportation Company. He was a di-
rector of the Fireman's Insurance Company.
He spent many years in Europe in travel and
educating his children. He married (first)
Helen, daughter of Rodney Wilbur; (second)
Elizabeth P.rinckerhofif McXulty, of Norwich,
who died in 1902. By his first wife he had
children: i. Alary Louise, died in infancy. 2.
Helen Wilbur, married ^\'illiam Gififord. of
New-ark, died in Portland, (Jregon, in 1881.
3 William P.rinckerhofF, a resident of Florida ;
children: Helen and William. I'y his second
wife he had children : 4. Edward \\'oolsey.
born October 13, 1861 : educated at Geneva
and Heidelberg; returning to .\nierica, lived
in Belleville, New' Jersey. He was elected to
the New Jersey assembly in 1890 and 1891 ;
was one of the original members of the Essex
county ])ark ccMnmission in 1893; was elected
surrogate of Esse.x county in 1894, serving till
1899; an original member of the Essex Troop ;
member of the Essex Club, af the New- Jersey
Historical Society, etc. He married, October
15, 1902, I'rancis Lockwood Caselwlt, daugh-
ter of George T. and Mary F. (Lockwood)
Casebolt. Their only child. W'oolsey Alarvin,
was born I-'ebruary 7, 1910. He resides in
Newark. 5. Percy, born May 21, 1863; edu-
cated in ( ieneva and Heidelberg ; graduated
from Yale University in 1885, and from Co-
lumbia Law School in 1887. He resided with
l;is parents in Belleville till their death, prac-
ticing law in New York, but taking an active
[lart in local New Jersey politics, and at one
time was Democratic congressional candidate
for his district. He was an original mem-
ber of the Esse.x Troop, and is a member of
tlie University Club, Lawyers' Club, etc. He
has resided in New York, since 1903. He
married, November 4, 1910, Alice Seymour
Day. daughter of John Calvin Day.
I \ 1 ) Frederick Wolcott, fourth child and
eldest son of John P. and Elizabeth Hunting-
ton (Wolcott) Jackson, was born in Newark,
August 24, 1833, and died there June 14. 1904.
He attended the schools of Miss Tunis and
Messrs. Baldwin, Shepherd and Hedges. After
a few years in the mercantile house of Wolcott
& Slade, in New York City, of which his uncle,
I'rederick H. Wolcott, was senior partner, he
s[>ent parts of the college years of 1852-53 at
Yale College, j^iu-suing an elective course. In
1892 Yale University conferred upon him the
Master of Arts degree, and the class of 1852
elected him an honorary member. Upon leaving
college he entered the store of Morwood & Co.,
in New York City, from which he w-as pro-
moted to a position in the allieil house of Mor-
wood Iiros. in Liver])ool. In 1855, the firm
of Morwood Bros, having failed, after six
months spent in European travel, he returned
home and was appointetl secretary of the New
Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company.
Profiting by association with his father, and by
his own ability and fidelity, he quickly master-
ed the details of railroad management, and
upon the death of his father, December 10,
1861. he was chosen by the directors to succeed
him as general superintendent, a position of
|)eculiar importance during the civil war, ow'ing
to the transportation of troops. In 1867, when
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the L'nited Railroads of Xew Jersey was organ-
i/-ed. he became general superintendent of the
combined lines, continuing in the same position
when the lease to the Pennsylvania Railroad
was made. In 1899, at his own suggestion, the
position of resident manager was created for
him, which he lield until his retirement in 1903.
at the age of seventy. He was widely known
as an efficient railvva}' e.xecutive throughout the
entire country. In all matters relating to New
Jersey and to New York harb(3r, his counsel
was especially valued and usually followed by
the management of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
while his fairness, geniality and tact made
many friends for the road both among the
traveling public and municipalities through
which it passed. I'rior to the lease to the
I'ennsylvania Railr(5ad, he re])resented the old
New Jersey Railroad, and later the United
Companies, in all their important conferences
with other roads. Contemporaneously with
his Pennsylvania Railroad service, Mr. Jack-
son was successively director, vice-president
and president of the L^nited Railroads, and was
a director or the jiresident of most of their sub-
sidiary lines in New Jersey. For more than
fifty )'ears he was a faithful member of the
South Park Presbyterian Church, having re-
moved from the First Presbyterian Church
upon the organization of the new church in
1853. f'or many years he was a teacher in
and treasurer of the Sabbath school, and for
thirty-two years an elder. For over thirty
years he served as treasurer of the German
Theological School at Bloomfield. He was also
a trustee of Princeton Theological Seminary,
a manager of the American Bible Society, and
a manager and for some time president of the
Essex County Bible Society. He gave faith-
fully of his time and counsel to all these organ-
izations. In his personal life he was without
obtruding, an earnest devoted christian, faith-
ful to the prayer meeting, regular in the main-
tenance of family worship, and of spotless
purity and integrity of life, which gave abund-
ant witness to the reality and depth of his con-
victions. The example of his life was most
prized by those who came nearest to him.
Mr. Jackson took a patriotic interest in his
state, and was for a numl.)er of years a trustee
of the New Jersey Historical .Society, and in-
fluential in the retention of its valuable col-
lections in Newark. In 1884 he was elected
an honorary member of the New Jersey Soci-
ety of the Cincinnati, and on July 4, 1888. he
was admitted as a hereditary member as repre-
sentative of his great-grandfather, Lieutenant-
Colonel Joshua Huntington. In 1899 he was
elected treasurer general of the General Soci-
ety. A lifelong Republican, he never took an
especially active part in politics or sought
political preferment, but he was acquainted
with most of the men prominent in Washing-
ton from the beginning of the civil war. In
1896 he was appointed a member of the board
of visitors to the l'nited States Naval Acad-
emy by President Cleveland. Fle was ap-
pointed a delegate to the I'an Presbyterian
Council in 1884, 1892 and 1896, attending the
meeting held in Belfast in 1884 and in Glasgow
in 1896. In 1859 he became a director of the
Newark City National Bank, and continued
with the National Newark Banking Company,
with which it was merged, in the same capacity.
He was a member of the Union League Club
of New York almost from its organization,
and in later years was a member of the Cham-
ber of Commerce of New York.
He married, October 12, 1859, Nannie J.
Nye, born August 5, 1835, died March 10.
1905, younger daughter of Captain Ezra (i|. v.
below) and Nancy Fessenden Nye. Their
children are: Philip Nye. John Brinckerhoff,
William Fessenden, Frederick Wolcott Jr., and
Charles Huntington, all referred to below :
Flizalieth Wolcott, born January 23, 1872, re-
sides at the family homestead in Newark ; Nina
Fessenden and Oliver Wolcott, both referred
to below ; and Martha Nye, born November 7,
1878, married Lewis Stewart, of Trenton. Oc-
tober 12, T907, and has one daughter. Fran-
cesca, born December 17, 1908.
Captain Ezra Nye, mentioned above, was
born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, November
3, 1798, and died at Clinton Place, Newark,
April 17, 1866. He was descended from Ben-
jamin Nye and Nathaniel Fish, who came
from England in i('>35 on the ship "Abigail" to
Linn, now Saugns, Alassachusetts. He w-ent
to sea at eleven years of age on a small coast-
ing vessel owned and commanded by Captain
Levi GifTord, of Sandwich. He rose rapidly,
and before he was twenty-one commanded
his own vessel, the "Amethyst." At twenty-
five he commanded a packet ship and was well-
known as an able navigator. He came into
especial prominence when in the cliyiper ship
"Independence" he sailed from .Southampton
til Xew York in fourteen days and less than
two hours, the shortest passage across the
.Atlantic that had ever been made in a sailing
vessel. Later he commanded the "Henry
Clay," and then took command of the S. S.
"Pacific." of the Collins I^ine. the first .Amer-
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ican line of steamers between New York and
Liverpool. Jn this vessel he crossed the At-
lantic in less than ten days. In 1853 he was
honored by Queen \'ictoria for the rescue, in a
severe storm, of the crew of the British barque
"Jesse Stephens." on December 4, 1852. He
retired from the sea in 1855, but continued
actively interested in mercantile and marine
institutions, and during the civil war gave his
services to the government as an e.xaminer of
men and vessels for the I'nited States navy.
In 1859 he made a trip to the Pacific far the
purpose of establishing an ocean tug line
through the Straits of Magellan, but the dila-
toriness of Chili and the coming on of the civil
war interfered, lie was interested in grain
business in Brooklyn, where he owned a grain
elevator and stores. He was a member of the
L'nion League Club and the Chamber of Com-
merce of Xew York. In 1840 Captain Xye
bought a farm in Clinton township, now within
the limits of Newark, and made this his resi-
dence during the remainder of his life. In
1826 he married Nancy PVecman Fessenden.
of Sandwich, Massachusetts. Their children
were: William Fessenden, born 1827, died
1863; ]\Iartha Fessenden, born 1829, died
1899. married Joseph Hurburt Patten, a lawyer
of Newport; Joseph, died in infancy; Nannie
J., married Frederick W'olcott Jackson, of
Newark.
(\TI) Joseph Cooke, fifth child and second
son of John P. and Elizabeth ( W'olcott ) Jack-
son, was born at Newark, August 5, 1835, an<l
resides now in New York City. He was edu-
cated at a private military school and at Phil-
lips Academy, Andover. graduated from Yale
College in 1857, and studied in New York Uni-
versity Law School in 1858, teaching for a
year at the Newark Academy. He graduated
from Harvard Law School in i860. He served
from the beginning to the end of the civil war,
from private to lieutenant-colonel of volun-
teers ; he was brevetted colonel for gallant and
meritorious conduct at the battle of Fredericks-
burg, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-
general for faithful and meritorious conduct
during the war. I le was appointed by Gov.
McClellan, commissioner of I'nited States
naval credits, and succeeded in having 1900
naval enlistments credited to the c|uota of
troops from .New Jersey, saving the state
nearly a million dollars. He entered u])on the
practice of law in New York City, and in 1870
was made assistant district attorney for the
southern district. He was a member of the
South Park Presbyterian Church from its
organization till he went to live in New York,
and suijerintendent for a time of the mis-
sion Sabbath school. He married Katherine
P'erkins Day, daughter of Day, of Hart-
ford, Connecticut. Children: i. Joseph Cooke
Jr., graduated Yale, 1887; married Mabel
Coodsell, of East Orange; one son, Hamilton.
2 John Day, graduated ^'ale Cniversitv 1890;
was engaged in journalism in Washington,
and then became proprietor and managing edi-
ttjr of the New Haven Register; he married
Rose Marie Herrick, of Indiana, in 1909. 3.
Katherine Seymour, married Percy (Joodsell,
in 1909. 4. Elizabeth Ihmtington Wolcott,
married • Martin, in hjck;.
(\I1I) John Peter, si.xth child and third
son of John and Elizabeth Huntington (Wol-
cott) Jackson, was born in Newark, l-'ebru-
ary 6, 1837, and died there December 17, 1880.
.After a preliminary education at the school of
Nathan Hedges, he entered I'rinceton College
as a sophomore in 1853, graduating with first
honors in 1856. In 1857 he entered the Cam-
bridge Law School, and on graduation won
a prize for a treatise on "Abandonment by the
Law of Insurance." In 1859 he delivered the
Master's Oration at Princeton. On his return
to Newark he began the practice of law, and
was until a year before his death the partner
of Senator J. Henry Stone. He was a member
of the New Jersey assembly during 1862 and
1863, in the latter year receiving the compli-
nientary nomination of the Republican mem-
bers for speaker. He was city counsel for
Newark from 1866 to 1870. In 1878 he was
before the convention of the Republicans as
a candidate for congress, but not receiving the
nomination, threw himself earnestly into the
campaign, working for the success of the nomi-
nee of this party. M the time of his death he
was a member of the special commission ap-
pointed by Governor McClellan to frame a
general tax law. He had also recently been
elected a member of the Newark Republican
Association. He was a trustee of the New-
ark Academy, secretary of the New Jersey
Colonization Society, an active member of the
Historical Society, and connected with other
organizations. The prominence of his posi-
tion at the bar of New Jersey is amply attested
by the jiroceedings of the Esse.x county bar
immediately following his death, recording the
words of appreciation and affection of many
of its members. One of the members who had
s])ent three years as a student in his office said,
"1 cannot recall a single instance in which my
high appreciation of Mr. Jackson's character
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morally and in every other respect was in one
degree blemished. On the contrary, his life
in that office, amid the perplexities and annoy-
ances that will come to a busy practitioner,
was to me a guide and incentive, and a clue
how to successfully, as far as in me lay, guide
the life I had to lead." He applied to Mr.
Jackson. Sir Philip Sidney's definition of a
gentleman, "one who hath high thoughts in a
heart of courtesy." A college classmate, on
the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary:
"As he was our first honor man in a large
class, it goes without saying that his mind
was one of unusual ])owers. To be sure, it was
n(jt without labor that he maintained his pre-
eminence, but it was not without real ability,
too." "Though he never gave to frolic the
time that was due to study, no man was ever
more ready for mirth than he. He easily won
friends, and never lost one. He was a 'good
fellow' among us, as well as our leading
scholar, and we all loved him and we all re-
spected him." "His character had always been
free from any vice, and his moral tone had
been pure and high from his childhood." In
his senior year he made a christian profession,
and was from then till his death a member of
the South Park Presbyterian Church, and for
many years a teacher in the Sabbath school.
John Peter Jackson married, October 20,
1868, Clara Gregory, of Jersey City. Children:
I. Elsie Gregory, married, in 1903, Deming
Jarvis. of California. 2. Laura Wolcott, mar-
ried, in 1909, Hon. Mr. Edgren, Swedish secre-
tary of legation at Washington ; one child, born
1910. 3. Eliot Gregory, born 1872; studied in
Princeton ; in business in San Francisco. 4.
John Peter (3d), graduated at Naval Acad-
emy at Annapolis ; saw service in the Spanish-
y\merican war ; still in the navy. 5. Hunting-
ton Wolcott, graduated from J'rinceton Uni-
versity ; has been in banking and other business
in New York, Washington and Baltimore ;
married, in 1909, a daughter of Admiral Con-
verse, and lives near Baltimore : has one rlaugh-
ter, born 19 10.
( IX ) Huntington Wolcott. eighth chil<l and
fourth son of John P. and Elizal)eth ( Wolcott )
Jackson, was born in Newark, January 28,
1841, and died there January 3, 1901. He
graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, entering Princeton College in
1S59. He was suspended fr(_im College with
others in his junior year for refusing to take
down the American flag from the tower of
Nassau Hall, which he and other students had
put there. However, he was granted his de-
gree in 1863, while he was serving in the army.
He entered the army as lieutenant September
(1, 1862 : was present at the battle of Antietam,
September 16-17, ^"d received especial men-
tion lor gallantry and good conduct. Shortly
after he was promoted to first lieutenant, and
was assigned as aide-de-camp to General John
Newton, commanding the Third Division,
Sixth. Corps, Army of the Potomac, with
whom he remained till the close of the war.
To his bravery on numerous occasions the
records of the war department bear witness.
He was brevetted successively captain, major
and lieutenant-colonel. He was badly wound-
ed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, but re-
joined the staff of Newton in time to take part
in Sherman's c>perations which led to the cap-
ture of Atlanta. In the fall of 1864 he entered
Harvard Law School, leaving in 1865; after a
year of travel abroad, he began in 1867 the
jiractice of law in Chicago. In 1868 he form-
ed a partnershij) with David B. Lyman, which
continued until 1895. His partner says of
him: "He took a deep interest in public af-
fairs, but never became a politician. He accept-
ed once the office of town supervisor in order
to fight corruption which had become a dis-
grace to that part of the city where he lived."
"His ability and integrity gave him position as
a lawyer and standing with the Ijench. It
brought him a large clientage and that success
which he deserved." "He was a loyal member
of the Presbyterian Church." "His religious
views never led him into narrowness." By
the will of his friend John Crerar he became
together with Norman Williams, an executor
and trustee of the Crerar estate and the sec-
ond president of Crerar Library. He was a
member of the Loyal Legion, and of various
of the clubs and organizations of Chicago.
JX) Schuyler Brinckerhofif, eleventh child
and seventh son of John Peter and Elizabeth
Huntington (Wolcott) Jackson, was born in
Newark, New Jersey, June 16, 1849, and is
now living in that city. He was educated at
the Newark Academy, from which he gradu-
ated in 18(15: at the Phillips Exeter Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 1866;
at Yale L'niversity, graduating in 1871 ; and at
Columbia University I^aw School, graduating
in 1872. He was admitted to the New Jersey
bar as attorney and solicitor in chancery at the
November term, 1874, and as counsellor in
1878. Since then he has been appointed mas-
ter and examiner in chancery, special master
in chancery, and New Jersey supreme court
commissioner. He has always practiced in
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i.Wi
New Jersey. From 1879 to 1880 he was one
of the aldermen of the city of Newark, in 1878
a member of the New Jersey legislature, and
in 1879 speaker of the house of assembly. He
is a member of the Yale Alumni .Association,
the Esse.x Club, the Fortnightly Club, and the
FTistorical Society of .\"ew Jersey. He is a
member and an elder of the South Park Pres-
byterian Church in Newark, and a director in
the Fidelity Trust Company of Newark, New
Jersey. February 27. 1889, he married, at
San Francisco, California, Angela, daughter
of Andrew B. and Kate K. Forbes, whose
children were : Stanle_\-, Cleveland, Morence,
Katharine (now deceased ) and .Angela. Mr.
T'orbes was a prominent capitalist and business
man of San Francisco, at one time represent-
ing the Pacific Alail steamship line, and after-
wards the Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York.
(XI) Philip Nye, eldest child of Frederick
Wolcott and Nannie Jane (Nye) Jackson, was
born Scjitember I, i860, in Newark, New Jer-
sey, where he is now living. He w'as educated
at the Newark .Academy, from which he grad-
uated in 1877; at Princeton University, from
which he graduated in 1881 ; and at the Col-
umbia University Law School. July 18, 1882,
he became assistant secretary of the Newark
Electric Light and Power Company, wdiich
position he held until 1896, when he was ad-
vanced through the position of treasurer to
that of vice-president. The corporation was
then merged into the People's Light and Power
Company, of wdiich he became president, and
when in 1900 the change to the United Electric
( bmpany of New Jersey was effected, he be-
came one of the vice-presidents of the last
named corjioration, which position he held
until 1903, when he resigned. Mr. Jackson is
a Republican, but has never been especially
active in politics. He is one of the trustees
of the New Jersey Historical Society, a mem-
ber of the Wasliington .Association, of the
Cliosophic Society of Princeton, of the Colo-
nial Club, of the New A"ork Chamber of Com-
merce, of the University Club of New York,
of the Union League Club of New York, of
the Society of the Cincinnati, of the Garfield
Club of Newark, of the Somerset County
Country Club, one of the managers of the
American Bible Society, a trustee of the Ger-
man Theological School, and a trustee of the
Third Presbyterian Church of Newark. He
is also a director in the Fireman's Insurance
Company, and of the I'nited Railroad Com-
pany. November 5, 1884, Piiilii) Nye Jack-
son married, in Gcrmantdwh, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. .Margaret, youngest child of
Edwin .A. and t'amilla (Ihrie) .Atlee, whose
children were: .Albert; Lily, married Lind-
ley Haines, of Philadelpiiia ; Edwin Ihrie, mar-
ried Emily Potter; and .Margaret, born March
20, 1863, married Philip Nye Jackson. Chil-
dren of Philip Nye and Margaret (.Atlee)
Jackson: i. .Nannie Nye, born August 11.
1885; married \A'ashington Lewis, son of Ed-
win Augustus and Emily Contee (Lewis) Ste-
vens (see Stevens). 2. Edith Atlce, born
October 6, 1886; married Thatcher Magoun
.\dams Jr.; one child, Thatcher Magoun 13d),
born February 24, 1907, died March 3, 1907.
3 Frederick \\'olcott, born February 20, 1888.
4. Alargaret .Atlee. November 11. 1890. 5.
] hilip 'kye Jr., Alay 15, 1898. 6. .Schuyler
i'rinckerhoti', .August 18, 1900.
(XII) John I'rinckerhoff, second child of
Frederick W'olcott and Nannie (Nye) Jack-
son, was born in Newark, August 19, 1862,
and is at present LInited States minister to
Cuba, and resides in Havana. He was edu-
cated at the Newark Academy, graduating in
1879, and at the United States Naval .Academy
at .Annapolis, Alaryland, from 1879 'o 1883.
During the next two years he was attached to
tile European S<|uadron, during the first year
occupying the position of junior aide to .Ad-
miral Baldwin, the commander-in-chief, and
was offered the position by .Admiral English
the following year. Returning to .Annapolis
for his final examinations, he was commission-
e<l ensign July i, 1885. After a course at the
Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island, he
was stationed at the Naval Ordnance Proving
Grounds at .Annapolis. He resigned from the
navy June 30, i88fi. and went to New York,
where he entered the office of Robinson, Bright,
Biddle & Ward, and at the same time attended
lectures at the Law School of New A^ork Uni-
versity, making a specialty of admiralty law.
He was admitted to the New Abrk bar, Feb-
ruary 14, 1889. .After a period spent in Euro-
pean travel w'ith his wife he was appointed
second secretary of the legation at Berlin by
President Harrison, December 30, 1890. In
1894, on the urgent recommendation of .Am-
bassador Runyon, he was appointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland, first secretary of embassy, and
after .Ambassador Runyon's death he was for
several months acting ambassador, and was at
various times charge d'affaires. He continued
to hold the first secretaryship during the entire
term of office of President McKinlcy. In 1903
President Roosevelt appointed hiiu minister to
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
(jreece, Roumania and Servia, to which short-
ly afterward Bulgaria was added. L'pon his
recommendation, Roumania and Bulgaria were
created a separate mission, and in 1905 he was
reapi)ointed to Greece and Servia, to which
Montenegro was added, having for the first
time an American diplomatic representative.
In 1907 he was appointed minister to Persia,
and in December, 1909, to Cuba, where he took
up his duties in March, 1910. He is a member
of the L'liion League Club, the ITniversity
Club, the Army and \avy Club of New York,
the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia, and the
Royal Yacht Club of Kiel. In 1896 he re-
ceived the honorary degree of Master of Arts
from Princeton College. He united in 1876
with the South Park Presbyterian Church, but
is now a member of the Episcopal Church..
April 26, 1886, John Brinckerhofif Jackson
married Florence A. Baird, daughter of Mat-
thew Baird, of Philadelphia, long connected
Vijith the Baldwin locomotive works. They
have had one child, Florence, born in April,
1887, who lived only six weeks.
(Xni) William Fessenden. third child of
Frederick Wolcott and Nannie (Nye) Jack-
son, was born in Newark, November 22, 1864.
and lives at the family homestead, 656 High
street. He was educated at Miss Stanley's
school ; in Newark Academy, graduating in
1881 : and at Princeton College, where he grad-
uated with honors in the class of 1885. He
entered the banking house of Brown, Shipley
& Co. immediately upon graduation, but later
became connected with enterprises in Newark,
and is still interested in the l^'airlie & Wilson
Coal Company. He was an original member
of the Essex Troop, and was urgently in favor
of the troop volunteering as a v\d:ole for serv-
ice in the Spanish-American war. This not
being accomplished, he went to the front on
his own responsibility, hoping for appointment
on the field, but instead found opportunity for
good service in nursing the sick soldiers at
Santiago and Montauk Point. He is a mem-
ber of the University Club of New '\'ork and
of others, and has spent considerable time in
travel abroad and in this country. He is a
member of the South Park Presbyterian
Church.
(XIY) Frederick Wolcott Jr., fourth child
and son of Frederick Wolcott and Nannie Jane
(Nye) Jackson, was born in Newark, New
Jersey, June i, 1867, and now lives at Glen
Ridge, New Jersey. He studied at Miss Stan-
ley's private school, graduated from the New-
ark Academy in 1883, and from the John C.
( ireen School of Science at Princeton Uni-
versity, standing first in his class and receiving
the degree of C. E. in 1887: and the Ph. B.
degree from Columbia University the follow-
ing year. He graduated from the Theological
Seminary at I'rinceton in 1891. From 1892
to 1894 he was a missionary of the Presby-
terian Church at Chefoo, China. In 1894-95
he attended Bellevue Hospital Medical College,
in New York City. In 1895 he was assistant
at the Old Stone Church in Cleveland, Ohio,
and was pastor of the Scotch Presbyterian
Church of Jersey City, from 1896 to 1900.
I'Vom 1900 to 1906 he was engaged in home
missionary work in Plot Springs, North Caro-
lina. During the latter part of 1906 and 1907
he resided in Germany with his family, study-
ing in Jena L'niversity, and also traveled in
Greece and Italy. In 1908 he became English
professor in the German Theological School of
Newark at Bloomfield, New Jersey. His chair
includes the teaching of psychology, logic, Eng-
lish and American literature, rhetoric, and also
astronomy and geology.
June 27, 1894, Rev. Frederick Wolcott Jack-
son was married, in Savannah, Georgia, to
Louise Gindrat. daughter of Thomas Clay and
Eli;?abeth Wondbridge (Screven) Arnold.
Children: i. Elizabeth Screven, born Septem-
ber 12, 1895. 2. Frederick Huntington W'ol-
cott, Se]5tember 25, 1897. 3. Louise Arnold,
May 27, 1902. 4. Nannie Nye, September 9,
1904.
(XV) Charles Huntington, fifth child of
Frederick Wolcott and Nannie (Nye) Jack-
son, was born at the Nye farm, Clinton town-
-ship (now within the city limits of Newark),
November 29, 18(19. He now lives at Greeley,
Colorado. He was educated at Miss Stan-
ley's school ; the Newark Academy, graduating
in 1886; at Princeton College, graduating in
1890: and at the Columbia Law School, gradu-
ating in 1893. He was admitted to the New
Jersey bar in 1895, ^"d admitted as a coun-
sellor in 1901. He practiced law in Newark
and Jersey City, being for some time connected
with the firm of Bedle, Magie & Bedle. From
1903 to 1907 he was connected with the Mutual
Benefit Life Insurance Company. Since 1908
he has resided in Colorado and is now estab-
lishing himself in Greeley.
(XYI) Nina Fessenden, seventh child and
second daughter of Frederick Wolcott and
Nannie Jane (Nye) Jackson, was born in
Newark, New Jersey, June 11, 1874, and is
now living in that city. April 19, 1900, she
married Neilson, son of Gustavus Neilson and
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Margaret (Hall) Abeel, of Xewark. ( See
Abed).
(XVII) Oliver Wolcott, the eighth child
and sixth .son of Frederick Wolcott and Nan-
nie Jane (Nye) Jackson, wa.s born in Xewark.
New Jer.sey. September 9. 1876, and is now
living in that city. He was educated at the
Newark Academy, graduating in 1894, and
at I'rinceton University, from which he re-
ceived his B. A. degree in 1898. He then took
a position with the banking firm of C. C. Cuy-
ler, Morgan & Company, and in 1902 started
in the real estate business for himself. Mr.
Jackson is a Republican, but not especially
active in politics. His clubs are the Jersey
Auto Club, the Deal Golf Club, the I'rinceton
Club of New York, and the Colonial Club of
I'rinceton. He is a member of the South
I'ark Presbyterian Church in Newark. He
is a director in the Manhattan and Essex Auto-
mobile E.xpress Company. April 6, 1904,
Oliver Wolcott Jackson was married, in Trin-
ity Church, Newark, to Adele Prendergast,
daughter of and F"rances ( Mackin )
Carpenter. Children: i. Frances .\dele. born
January 5, 1906. 2. Loraine Wolcott, Decem-
ber 31, 1907.
The Christopher White family
WHITE of New Jersey is descended from
an ancient house of county Cum-
berland, England, where Thomas White, father
of the founder of the family, lived and became
converted to the principles of George Fox.
Soon after this Thomas White removed to
London, and in 1664 he was taken from the
Bull and Mouth meeting in that city and haled
before the magistrate. He told Alderman
Brown, before whom he was accused, that he
thought that he, the alderman, had filled up
the measure of his wickedness; and the in-
censed official struck him in the face, kicked
liim and sent him to Newgate jjrison.
( I ) Christopher, son of Thomas White, was
born in Cumrew, county Cumberland, Eng-
land, and died in Salem county. New Jersey,
between the middle of September and the end
of December, 1693. Like his father, he also
suffered much violence and persecution in Lon-
don on account of his religious opinions : and
it is probably that for this reason he concluded
to emigrate to America. Accordingly, having
purchased from John Fenwick, before the
latter left England, about one thousand acres
of land, he set sail in the ship "Kent," firegory
and Marlowe, masters, and arrived in the Del-
aware on .August 23, 1677. By trade he was
"i-35
a carpenter, and he soon became an active and
a useful citizen in Fenwick's colony, taking up
his land at .\lloways Creek. In 1(168 he mar-
ried (first) Elizabeth (Wyatt) Leath, daugh-
ter of John Wyatt, of Yorkshire, who died
about 1671, leaving a daughter Elizaljeth, born
in .Shadwell, near London, in i()()(j. He mar-
ried (second) early in i('>74, Esther, widow of
John Biddle, who survived him and died in
1698, Children, by second marriage: Esther,
married Israel Harrison ; Josiah. referred to
below ; Joseph, born 11 mo. 5, 1678.
(II) Josiah, son of Christopher and Esther
( ) Biddle White, was born 7 mo. 3,
1675, in London, and died in Alloways Creek
in 1713. He became the owner of his father's
real estate in New Jersey, and married, in 1698,
Hannah Powell. Children : Christopher, born
6 mo. 23, 1699, died young: Josiah, referred to
below: Hannah, born 1710.
(HI) Josiah (2), son of Josiah ( i ) and
Hannah (Powell) White, was born in Allo-
ways Creek, Salem county, New Jersey, 6 mo.
21, 1705, and died in Evesham, Burlington
county, ^lay 12, 1780. In 1698 the owners
of the meadows and low land lying on .Allo-
ways Creek had obtained a law from the West
Jersey legislature enabling them to dam the
creek, buy a sluiceway and drain the lands
lying above the present Hancock's bridge. In
1723 Josiah White made a contract to erect a
dam and sluiceway, and gave a guarantee that
it would stand one year, the forfeiture being
liis pay for the job. The meadow owner above
the dam found that the project was causing
them a loss in more ways than one. The dam
broke before the expiration of the year, and
tradition says that it was cut on the night be-
fore the year expired. Josiah White, having
lost his pay for the erection of the dam, was
obliged to sell his whole Salem county property
to pay his obligation. When this was done,
having five hundred pounds left and no family,
he removed to Evesham, near the present Mt.
Holly, and purchased land at the head waters
of Rancocus creek, where he built a fulling
mill in which he manufactured cloth for the
greater part of the remainder of his life.
Josiah White was a minister in the Society
of Friends, and was recommended as such in
1743. On the same day the celebrated John
\\'oolman was also recommended by the" Mt.
Holly monthly meeting. Josiah had the happy
faculty of putting what he desired to say into
brief pithy sentences. He had also iiibibed
the Homeric idea that there were plants and
herbs growing for the cure of every disease.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
and he was known far and wide as the "herb
doctor," not only using no other medicine in
his own family, but being frequently sent for
to minister to the ailments of his neighbors.
He was a man of clear and comprehensive
judgment, and the great qualities with which
he was endowed have been transmitted in a
remarkable degree to his descendants of the
third and fourth generations, as their lives and
their undertakings for the public good fully
demonstrate. He was the intimate friend of
Benjamin Eranklin, and also of his son, Gov-
ernor William Franklin, whose country seat
was near Mt. Holly.
Josiah White married, lo mo. i, 1774, at
Evesham monthly meeting, Rebecca, daugh-
ter of Josiah and Rebecca Foster, a descendant
of the I'.orden family, after which Bordentown
is named. She was born 10 mo. I, 1702, and
died December 6, 1771. Children: i. Amy,
born 5 mo. 13, 1737, died at age of thirteen
months. 2. Hannah, born 11 mo. 28, 1739;
married (first) Thomas Prior; (second) Dan-
iel Drinker. 3. Josiah, born 4 mo. 24, 1742,
died aged two years. 4. Rebecca, born 3 mo.
15, 1745; mariied Redman. 5. John,
referred to below. 6. Josiah, born 8 mo. 20,
1750-
(IV) John, son of Josiah (2) and Rebecca
(Foster) White, was born in Evesham, 7 mo.
9, 1747, and died in Mt. Holly, August 21,
1785. June 7, 1775, he married Rebecca,
daughter of Jeremiah and Hannah (Bonnell)
liaines (see Flaines). Children: i. Josiah,
born April 18, 1776, died May 19, 1776. 2.
John, born April 2, 1777, died August 13, 1798.
3. Christopher, born September 17, 1779, died
September, 1796. 4. Josiah, referred to below.
5. Hannah, born February 3, 1783, died Sep-
tember 13, 1785. 6. Joseph, referred to below.
(V) Josiah, son of John and Rebecca
(Haines) White, was born in Mt. Holly, April
3. 1781, and died in Philadelphia, November
14, 1850. He was the pioneer in introducing
the Schuylkill water for the use of the inhabit-
ants of Philadelphia ; and he was also one of
the first projectors of the Schuylkill canal and
of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.
This last he commenced and completed nearly
all together by his own individual exertions,
so as to enable the different coal companies
then (organizing in the anthracite coal region
to have a Philadelphia market. He was much
interested in the subject of education, espe-
cially in diffusion among the lower classes of
the people, in a way to make them self-reliant
and self-supporting: and he often contributed
hberally for this purpose, in particular be-
queathing funds for the establishment of two
labor manual schools, one in Indiana and the
other in Iowa, which should give special prom-
inence to the religious and moral training of
their pupils. Shortly after his death a man
who knew him well, wrote, "I know of no
man to whom the citizens of Philadelphia are
so much indebted for substantial benefits they
have so long enjoyed, as they are to Josiah
White." In 1805 Josiah White married (first)
Catharine Ridgway, of Burlington county,
who died shortly afterward, leaving no issue.
He married (second) September 6, 1810, Eliz-
abeth, daughter of Solomon and Hannah White
of Philadelphia. Children by second marriage :
1. Hannah, born May 29, 181 1 ; married Rich-
ard Richardson, of New Castle county, Dela-
ware, son of Ashton and Mary Richardson.
2. John Christopher, born September 22, 1812,
died May 9, 1822. 3. Solomon, born October
16, 1813, died February 20, 1832. 4. Josiah,
born January 23, 1815, died February i, 1820.
5 Rebecca, born December 15, 1816; unmar-
ried.
( V ) Josei)h. yoimgest child of John and Re-
becca ( Haines) White, was born in Mt. Holly,
New Jersey, December 28, 1785, and died May
25, 1827. Like his elder brother Josiah, he
inherited from his ancestors that great energy
of character and cast of mind which made
them pioneers in new and important improve-
ments for the benefit of mankind. Had his
life been extended to the allotted three score
years and ten, he had the ability and energy,
as is abundantly proven, by the following ex-
tract from the account of his life written by
his son Barclay, referred to below, to have
risen as high or even higher on the pinnacle
of fame in the history of his country as his
elder brother.
In 181 1 he left Philadelphia, intending to
travel on horseback to St. Louis and other
places in the west and south to extend the
business of his firm and collect the debts due
it. This firm, long known as White & Lippin-
cott, of III Market street, Philadelphia, had
1)cen founded in 1808, when he and Samuel
Lippincott had purchased the hardware stock
of the former's brother, Josiah White. Stop-
ping at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Joseph
White met, by accident, Elisha Hunt, who
with his brother Caleb, were merchants of the
I)lace. The Hunts made Mr. White a proposi-
tion that if he would give up his journey and
assist them in building and freighting a keel-
boat, Caleb Hunt would join him on his St.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
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Louis trip. Joseph White a<;reccl, and in 1812
lie and Caleb, with a crew of French Canadian
boatmen, started from Brownsville for St.
Louis. The trip was successful and they
brought the boat back as far as Smithland, at
the mouth of the Cumlierland river, where a
few friends left it and journeyed on horseback
to Shepardsville, Kentucky, where they sepa-
rated, Joseph White going on to Louisville,
Frankfort. Lexington, and then to Knoxville,
Tennessee, where he formed the acquaintance
of the governor. After this he travelled
through X'irginia and Maryland, and returned
to Philadel]>hia about the end of 1812. On his
return he and Elisha Hunt organized a stock
company to construct steamboats for carrying
passengers and freight between Pittsburg and
New Orleans. They engaged the services of
Daniel French, who owned a steamboat patent,
and was operating one of his vessels on the
Delaware between Camden and Philadelphia.
Shops were erected at Brownsville, Pennsyl-
\ania, the steamboat "Enterprise" was con-
structed at a cost of about $15,000, and in
181 3 went on her initial voyage to New Or-
leans, under the command of Captain Henry
Shreve. Reaching the latter place, the vessel
was seized by the state marshal at the instance
of Fulton and ex-Chancellor Livingston, for
coming within the limits of Louisiana, as they
had a charter from the legislature of that state
granting them the exclusive privilege of run-
ning steamboats on all the state's waters. Cap-
tain Shreve gave security for trial, and the
vessel returned home with a full cargo of
freight and passengers. On her next voyage
General Jackson impressed her into the service
of the L'nited States, and she only made three
round trips between Pittsburg and New Or-
leans before the end of the war of 1812. On
her fourth voyage the crew abandoned her at
Shippen"s port, below the falls of the Ohio,
and she there sank. Fulton and Livingston
obtained judgment against the company in the
state courts, but on appeal the Federal courts
reversed the decision and declared the naviga-
tion of the Mississippi open to all. The steam-
boat company, having had ill fortune with
their second boat "Despatch," became discour-
aged and dissolved, and Himt and White then
i turned their Brownsville shops into a manu-
factory for tools needed in constructing steam
machinery. The importance of their venture
lies in the fact that they initiated the move-
ment which enrled in turning over the control
of all interstate navigable waters to the Fed-
' •era! government,
t
December 18, 1807, Josejjh White married
Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Doughty and Eliz-
abeth (.Schooley) Smith (see Smith j. Chil-
dren: I. Jc>hn Josiah, referred to below. 2.
Daniel Smith, married Rebecca L. Shreve. 3.
Elizabeth, married Joshua Lippincott. 4. Sarah
S., died unmarried. 5. Lloward, died unmar-
ried. 6. Barclay, referred to below. 7. Anna
Maria, married J. Gibbon Hunt, M. D.
(\T) John Josiah, eldest ciiild of Josiah
and Rebecca (Smith) White, was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1808,
and died in the same city in the year 1878. He
was a lawyer by profession, and conducted an
active and distinguished practice in Philadel-
phia until; when only about forty-five years
of age, he became convinced that the "testi-
mony" which Friends hold against the taking
of an oath, prevented him from conscientiously
continuing in active court practice. He there-
upon gave up all his practice excepting the con-
veyancing part, which he continued thereafter.
He became a distinguished minister with the
Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends
shortly after this time, and so continued during
the remainder of his life. He was a great stu-
dent and deep reader, and his was looked upon
as one of the best historically informed minds
in the city of Philadelphia during the latter
part of his life. He was an eminent Greek
and Sanscrit scholar, and spoke the German,
French, Spanish and Italian languages with
considerable fluency and read their literature
in the original. He had also a very decided
mechanical turn of mind, and originated sev-
eral inventions for which he took out patents.
One of these, taken out years before the in-
vention of the modern bicycle, was for a two-
wheeled vehicle to carry one person and be
propelled by pedals in a somewhat similar
manner to the bicycle afterward invented, ex-
cept that the wdieels were placed side by side,
instead of one ahead of the other. He con-
structed one of these bicycles with wheels
twelve feet in height, but finding in actual prac-
tice the machine very difficult to steer, de])end-
ing entirely upon brakes applied to one side
and then the other, he abandoned the idea.
On loth mo. 2nd, 1834. he married .Mary
Kirkbride Shoemaker, daughter of Dr. Nathan
and Frances Maria (Kirkbride) Shoemaker
< see Shoemaker line), anfl their children were:
I. Frances Maria, married Nathan H. Sharpless,
who becnmc a distinguished member of the Phil-
adelphia bar. 2. Josiah, referred to below. 3. Re-
becca .'^mith, married T. Elwood l^)artram. of
Lansdownc, I'ennsylvania. 4. John Shoemaker,
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
died unmarried at the age of twenty-eight. Chil-
dren by his second marriage with Abigail Weav-
er: Dr. Joseph Weaver White, a dentist of f'hil-
adelphia, and Samuel Jennings White, who mar-
ried Amanda Seal, and who became the chief
chemist of the United Gas Imi)rovement Com-
pany, before his death at the early age of thirty-
five years, leaving two children — Maurice and
Arthur.
( \TI ) Josiah, son of John Josiah and Mary
Kirkbride (Shoemaker) White, was born in
I'hiladclphia. l^ennsylvania, March 13, 1841. He
received an excellent education at the Friends'
Central School, I'ifteenth and Race streets,
Philadel])hia, under /\aron Ivins (who was its
great principal for (jver half of the nineteenth
century ) , graduating in the same class with
(.'lenient .\. CSriscom, Isaac H. Clothier. Dilhvyn
Parrish and Dr. James Tyson, who were his
particular school friends.
On October 2d. i8fi2, he was married with
]\Iary Kirby Allen, daughter of Joshua and
Margaret ( Dilks ) .Allen (see Allen line), of
Haddonfield, Camden county, Xew Jersey, who
had als(_i graduated as a member of the same
class with himself in l'"riends' Central School in
Philadeli)hia. Having taken up agriculture, he
purchased a farm in llurlington county, opposite
the Mount near Pembertnn. Xew Jersey, where
were li(jrn his first two children, John Josiah.
referred to below, and Elizabeth, who married
Isaac H. Dixon, of Baltimore. He subsequently
removed to Dent(.)n, Caroline county, on the
"Eastern Shore" nf Maryland, where he was
tlie pioneer in the idea ( suice successfully en-
larged further south) of raising early vege-
tables and small berries in a more southern
climate, for supplying the northern markets.
He was successful in this enterprise, but after
a few years, sections further south in the Caro-
linas, Georgia, and afterward Florida, were
able to supply this produce much earlier, and
consequently procure the early [jrices. He
then turned for a market for the berry-and-
vegetable-growing industry, which had sprung
up on the Easttrn Peninsula of Maryland an<l
Virginia, to the canning industry, and in 1872
constructed, with a parttier, Charles A. Dun-
ning, the first canning house ever built on the
Eastern Shore, where now there are many
hundreds. This canning house, wdiich has been
in continual oper.Ttion ever since (thirty-four
years) was three hundred feet long, three
stories high, and employed two hundred and
fifty men and women. It was regarded as a
wonderfully bold and venturesome enterprise.
The community was exceedingly poor and the
new industry was a great blessing. There was
no bank within twenty miles, and the brass
checks given out for fruit delivered and for
the piece work, by which a large number of
tlie eni|)loyees were paid in the factory, pass-
ed for currency in the community until at the
end of each month they were sent in by the
merchants and cashed by checks on the distant
bank. It was with great difficulty that farmers
were then persuaded to plant three and four
acres in tomatoes. Wheat was the principal
product and yielded about fifteen dollars per
acre. In the same communit}' at the present
time, farmers plant from twenty-five to one
hundred acres in tomatoes, and even at the
present lower prices and higher wages net
fifty dollars per acre from the tomatoes sup-
])lied to the canning houses. The industry
thus introduced by Mr. White thirty-four years
ago has now made the county the richest on
the whole Peninsula, instead of by far the
piiorest, as it was originally. Disastrous fail-
ures of firms, to which big sales of canned
goods had been made, swept away the young
canning firm's limited capital, however, some
years later, and ^Ir. \\'hite returned with his
famil_\- to the neighborhood of Philadelphia,
and three years later came back to the state
( Xew Jersey) where he had first started farm-
ing and where his ancestors had lived during
two centuries. He purchased, in 1888. in At-
lantic City, The Luray. a three-story one-hun-
clred-room boarding house, on the west side of
Kentucky avenue, two hundred and fifty feet
from the beach. The season in Atlantic City
at that time coiumenced July ist and ended
Se|)tember ist, and the first season's business
did not jiay the running expenses of the house,
not to speak of taxes, interest on mortgages,
fire insurance, and other fi.xed charges. In-
stead of despairing, however, Mr. White and
his wife, with a sjjlendid courage and per-
sistence, borrowed a('ditional ca])ital. added a
story to The "Luray," and with the increased
caiiacity thus produced managed to just about
come out even the second year. The next
year he opened his house for Lincoln's birth-
day in February, and started in to help create
the "S])ring Season," which has contributed
such a famous portion of Atlantic City's popu-
larity. At that time no one thought of com-
ing to Atlantic City until summer, and the task
of creating a new season was indeed pioneer
work. The following fall The Luray remained
open througliout the entire winter and from
that date Atlantic City commenced its at first
slow struggle, since crowned with such marked
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
1397
success, to become an all-the-year-around re-
sort. The gain was gradual, and at first the
experiment was very expensive, a loss of be-
tween five and ten thousand dollars resulting
from the fir^t winter's business. Gradually
this changed, however, and the pioneers, to
whose enterprise and courage the resort is
indebted for its great success, gradually turn-
ed the point between loss and profit, and the
winter and spring .seasons, which they had
instituted, became, if anything, more popular
and profitable than the summer season had
been before.
In 1892 the propert}- extending from The
Euray out to the ocean was acquired, and the
house again enlarged, and in 1895 •*^I'"- ^Vhite
constructed the New Luray. having a capacity
of four hundred and fifty guests, and which,
until it was burned in the great fire of iqo2.
originating nearly a block away, was one of
the most popular and successful of .\tlantic
City's famous hostelries.
Mr. White's second son. Allen Kirb}-. after
he graduated from Swarthmore College in
1894. became associated with his father in
business under the firm name of Josiah White
& Son, and with his professional training as a
mechanical engineer and his natural aptitude
• for machinery, was a very important element,
contributing to the success of the enterprise.
In 1901 Mr. White's eldest son, John Josiah.
a member of the Philadelphia bar. purchased
the lot of ground then occupied by the Sisters
of The Sacred Heart, an old French Catholic
order, and upon which the Marlborough now
stands. A corporation, the Marlborough House
Company, was then formed, with Josiah White
(the father) as president, and his three sons,
John Tosiah, Allen Kirby (both above men-
tioned ) and Charles D. (who was then also
;)racticing law in Philadelphia ) as vice-presi-
dent, treasurer, and secretary, respectively,
and who between them were and have con-
tinued to be the owners of all the company's
stock. The lot of ground was transferred to
this corporation by John Josiah White ( next
hereafter mentioned), who also entered into a
contract to construct the Marlborough Mouse
tiiereon. The ground was subject to certain re-
strictions, one of which was that no building
other than dwelling house could ever be erected
I thereon. It was supposed that this restriction
I had been abandoned and that every one interest-
ed therein was satisfied to have The Marlbor-
ough constructed, as proposed. The foundation
; stage, however, had hardly been comjjleted when
I injunction proceedings were commenced by the
owner of a neighboring ])ro])crty to prevent
the construction of the building. .Application
was made before Vice-Chancellor (now Justice
of the .Su])reme Court) .\lfred Reed, on the
last day of the term before the summer vaca-
tion, for a restraining order to stop construc-
tion until the final hearing of the case. \'ice-
t hancellor Reed had during the entire winter
been ])erformingnot only his own judicial duties
but also taking care of those of a sick brother
\ ice-Chancellor, and he had arranged to spend
his vacation in Europe, and expected to sail
two days later. .After the argument for and
against the restraining order had been com-
pleted, the \'ice-Chancellor, upon his own mo-
tion and without any a])plication to that effect
having been made, announced tiiat. "as it ap-
pears to me that irrepar:d)le damage would
result from the delay which a restraining order
would occasion should the injunction be re-
fused upon final hearing." he would delay his
pro]josed vacation for two weeks in order that
both sides might take their testimony before a
master and be prepared for final hearing be-
fore him at the end of ten days. This was
done, the case was argued, with the testimony
all in, and a decree refusing the injunction
was the result. Appeal to the court of errors
Vv-as made, but because of the crowded dockets
of that court it was evident that argument
could not take place for nearly a year. Under
these circumstances, delay being disastrous, the
construction of The Marlborough was proceed-
ed with, and the house was actually completed,
opened, and occupied by between five and six
hundred guests when the case came up to be
argued before the court of errors. Fortunately
the opinion of Vice-Chancellor Reed was
affirmed by the court of errors, and conse-
(|uently it did not become necessary to tear
down The Marlborough, which even then and
before the construction of The lilenbeim, was
probably the most advanced resort house in
.America. Had the first application for a re-
straining order been granted, the consequent
loss from a \ear or more of delay would
have resulted in financial disaster to the
vounger Mr. White, in which case The Marl-
liorough would never have been completed
and The filenheim would not have been built.
The ultimate, artistic and financial success of
the Marlhorough-IUenheim. therefore, is clear-
ly attributable, and by all of the Whites, father
and sons, is heartily attributed, to the conscien-
tiousness and high sense of judicial duty of
this Xew Jersey judge (\'ice-Chancellor Reed),
who recognizing that in this instance tardy jus-
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ticc would probably be injustice, sacrificed his
own comfort and much needed rest to his high
sense of the duties incumlient upon his posi-
tion.
In the fall of 1905 the ground on the oppo-
site side of Ohio avenue from The Marlbor-
ough was purchased and The Blenheim, at
that time the largest reinfcirced-concrete-con-
struction building which had been attempted,
was erected, and connecting by bridges across
Ohio avenue with The Marlborough, forms with
it The Marlborough-Blenheim, now recognized
as the most complete resort house in the world.
Reinforced concrete was in its infant stages
wdien The Blenheim was built, and people in
general looked upon as particularly hazardous
the proposition to construct with this material
so large and high a building as The Blenheim,
with its twelve stories. A careless mi.xture of
a single barrow of concrete, whereby it did not
receive its proper share of cement, or careless-
ness in placing reinforcing bars, would in all
probability result in the whole structure fall-
ing down when the wooden forms, within
which the concrete v\'as poured, were removed.
Every one knew that if the building stood up
all right two weeks after these forms were
removed, its strength would double and treble
each year during the next five years, but other
disasters had taught those who knew, that a
little carelessness would cause complete ruin
before the building was entirely completed. It
was probably this thought which prom[)ted
the latter part of the statement made to John
J. White, who had most to do with the con-
struction part of the enterprise, by Thomas A.
Edison, the famous inventor and expert,
who, when the reinforced concrete work
had just been completed and the wooden
forms had been entirely removed, after making
a thorough inspection of the entire job, said to
Mr. White: "\\'ell, it is the coming construc-
tion for all great buildings ; it won't bend, it
won"t break, and you could not burn it if you
tried; but. young man, you have some ncrz'e."
In advertising the opening of The Marlbor-
ough-Blenheim, the first part of Mr. Edison's
sentence was during the entire year a promi-
nent feature over his name in the newspaper
cuts of the house, but the portion of the sen-
tence referring to Mr. White's nerve was some-
how overlooked and did not appear in these
advertisements.
Children of Josiah White and Mary Kirby
(Allen) White: i. John Josiah, referred to
above and hereafter. 2. Elizabeth, married Isaac
H. Dixon, of Baltimore. 3. Mary K., died five
years old. 4. Frances M. (unmarried). 5. .Mien
Kirby, referred to below. 6. Charles Doughty,
leferred to below. 7. Gertrude Allen, married
John L. Coppage, of Los Angeles, California.
(\'III) John Josiah, eldest son of Josiah
and Mary Kirby (Allen) White, was born
near Pemberton, Burlington county, New Jer-
se)', August 16, 1863. When five years of
age his father's family moved to the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, Denton, Caroline county,
and his early education was received in the
excellent public schools at that place until in
1880 he entered Swarthmore College, where
he remained two years, completing the fresh-
man and sophomore classes. He then entered
the Law Department of The University of
Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in
1884, and after waiting three months to become
of age, was admitted to the Philadelphia bar
and to the bar of Delaware county, Pennsyl-
vania, in the fall of that year, where he con-
tinued in general active practice until 1901.
He then purchased the tract of land upon
whicii The Marlborough House was built, and
upon its completion entered into partnership
with his father and brothers, Allen K. and
Charles D. White, in the management thereof
u.nder the firm name of Josiah White & Sons,
since incorporation under the name of Josiah
White & Sons Company, of which company
he is first vice-president, and one of the four
directors, his father being president, and his
two brothers, respectively, second vice-presi-
dent and treasurer, and third vice-president
and secretary.
On February 18, 1890, he married Laura
Carolene, daughter of John Wesley Harris
and Carolene Delacroix Harris, the latter
being a grandniece of the celebrated French
painter, Eugene Delacroix, and a granddaugh-
ter of Joseph Delacroix, refugee from Paris
in the time of the French revolution, whose
property had been confiscated or destroyed
and who with his family immigrated to Phil-
adelphia, where he became a distinguished pro-
fessor of languages. They have one child,
Elizabeth, born June 3rd, 1891.
(IX) Elizabeth (White) Dixon, daughter
of Josiah and Mary Kirby (Allen) White,
married Isaac H. Dixon, of Baltimore, Mary-
land. They have eight children: William T.,
Frances, Mary Allen and Elizabeth (twins),
Katharine, Gertrude Allen, Deborah and Isaac
II. Jr.
(X) Allen Kirby White, son of Josiah and
Mary Kirby (Allen) White, was born near
Denton, Maryland, December 14, 1872. He
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iccciveil his early education in the j)ubhc
schools of Caroline county. .Maryhuul, and
then went to Swarthmore College, from which
he graduated in the class of 1894. lie then
went into business with his father in Atlantic
City in the firu'- of Josiah White & Son, as
proprietors and managers of The Luray, which
firm was upon the construction of The Marl-
borough (the extensive machinery plant of
which and of the Blenheim he designed and
constructed) subsequently enlarged by the ad-
mission of his two brothers, John Josiah and
Charles Doughty, and became Josiah White &
Sons, subsequently incorporated, as at jiresent,
into Josiah \\"hite & Sons Company, of which
company Allen Kirby White is second-vice-
president, treasurer, and one of the four di-
rectors.
Allen Kirby White, on October 15, 1896,
married Emma Chambers, daughter of Thomas
Seal Cliambers and Albina Hayes, of Union-
ville, Chester county, Pennsylvania : and has
four children: John Josiah, Carolien, Mary
Allen and Dorothy.
( XI ) Charles Doughty White, third son of Jo-
siah and Mary Kirby C^llen) White, was born
July 7, 1873, near Denton, Caroline county,
.Maryland, where he received his earlyeducation
in the public schools, and afterward entered
Swarthmore College, where he continued
tiirough the freshman and sophomore years,
after which he entered The University of Penn-
sylvania Law Department, from which he grad-
uated in the class of 189''). He was then admitted
to practice at the Philadelphia bar and the bar
of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where he
continued in active practice until 1902, when
he went to .Atlantic City and became a member
01 the firm of Josiah \Vhite & Sons, afterward
incorporated under its present name of Josiah
White & Sons Company, of which company
he is third vice-president and secretary, and
one of the four directors. He married Mar-
garet Jean I'isher. of Brooklyn, New York. He
has fi)ur children : Bertha, Esther. Josiah and
Fisher.
(XII) Gertrude Allen White, <laughter of
Josiah and Mary Kirby (Allen) White, was
born near Denton, Maryland. She married
John L. Coppage, of Los Angeles, California,
snd has two children : Frances M. and Ed-
ward.
(The Haines Line).
The Haines family is of Saxon origin, and
is found in many of the counties of England.
In New Jersey there are at least two distinct
branches — one the descendants of the Haynes
who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay in the
"Cjriffin," in 1633, one of whose descendants
became governor of Massachusetts, and an-
other the founder of the East Jersey branch of
the family in Elizabethtown ; and the secofid
coming from county Northami)ton, England,
and being the founder of the celebrated West
Jersey branch.
(I) Richard Haines, founder of the West
Jersey branch of the family, left the parish of
"lynhoe of ye Hill," Northamptonshire, h'.ng-
land. with his wife and children, sailed from
the Downes in the ship "Amity," Richard Dia-
mond, master, April 23, 1682. The voyage
was long and tedious, and the father sickened
and died, and after his death Joseph, the fifth
son, was born in midocean. John, the eldest
son, had come to .America two years previous-
ly, and was living in a cave in Haines' bank,
below Lumberton, New Jersey, on the south
branch of the Rancocus creek. The family
landed in Burlington in the fall of 1682, and
tlie widow Haines married, in 1685, at Thomas
Gardiner's house in Burlington, Henry Birch-
am Neshaminy, of Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania. Children: i. John, died 1728 ; married
(first) Esther Borton ; (second) Hannah
Wood. 2. Richard, died 1746; married Mary
Carlysle : according to tradition of Lenni
Lenape Indian lineage. 3. William, referred
to below. 4. Thomas, born 1674, died 1748:
married Elizabeth, sister to Francis .Austin,
the emigrant. 5. Mary. 6. Joseph, born 1682,
died September 12, 1763: married (first) Doro-
thy : I second) Elizabeth Thomas, who
died November 24, 1796, aged exactly one him-
dred years.
(H") William, third child of Richard and
Alargaret Haines, was born in 1672, and died
in 1754. He located one hundred acres of
land near Nancutting's old ])lantation, in 1689,
and land in Northampton township, Burling-
ton county, in 1712. In 1689 he also purchased
one hundred acres of Samuel Jennings, and in
1693 another hundred acres of Elias and John
Burling, and still another hundred acres in
16)8 of Chrisloi)her Wetherill. In 1695 he
married. Sarah, daughter of John Paine, of
Wellingborough township, Burlington county.
Children: i. Jacob, born i')99; married Han-
nah Stokes. 2. Margaret, born 1701 ; married
Brown. 3. Nathan, born 1703, died
175 1 ; married Sarah, daughter of Francis and
Mary (Borton) .Austin. 4. Samuel, born 1705;
married Lydia Stokes. 5. Nathaniel, born
1707. died 1788: married Mary Harvey. 6.
Jeremiah, referred to below.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
(Ill) Jeremiah, youngest son of William
and Sarah (Pame) Haines, was born in North-
ampton township, Burlington county, in 1713.
and died about 1774. In 1736 he married Han-
nah, daughter of Robert I'.onnell. Children:
I. Robert, born 10 mo. 17, 1741 ; married
Rachel, daughter of William and Sarah ( Stock-
ton ) Jones Venicome. 2. Sarah, born 4 mo.
25. 1737: married Isaac Hilliard. 3. William,
born I mo. 29, 1739; married Mary Eastblack.
4. Rebecca, referred to below. 5. Frances,
born 8 mo. 10. 1746; married John Hilliard.
6. Hannah, born I mo. 16, 1749; married Sam-
uel Woolston. 7. Jeremiah, born 7 mo. 14,
1751-.
( I\' ) Rebecca, daughtei of Jeremiali and
Hannah ( Rcnnell ) Haines, was born in North-
ampton township, Burlington county. New
Jersey, 7 mo. 27, 1744, and died at Mt. Holly,
March 22. 1826. June 7. 1775, she married
John, son of Josiah and Rebecca (Foster)
White ((|. V.) (see White line above).
(The Smith Line).
Thanks to the preservation of the old
"Buggs" or "Trekle" Bible brought over by
one of the Smitli brothers who came to Amer-
ica over two centuries ago, we have accurate
information regarding the family in England.
The line is traceable to William Smith, a
farmer or yeoman, who resided in the parish
of Bramham, West Riding, of Yorkshire, in
the sixteenth century.
( I ) Richard, son of William Smith, iif
Bramham. was baptized in the jjarish church
there May 13. 1593. and was buried in the
[wrish churchyard November 19. 1647. He
was a contemporary of the hero of the Eliza-
bethan period and of the first two Stuart
reigns, and he lived in "a substantial mansion"
near Bramham, which was found by William
Dillwyn (a descendant, about 1800) still in
the possession of a branch of their descendants.
The then owners told W. D, that "it was built
by Richard Smith, the first in the Elizabethan
or Jacobean period in architecture." Richard
Smith marrieil about 1620, and among his chil-
dren was Richard, referred to below.
(ID Richard (2), son of Richard (i), of
Bramham, was baptized October 13, 1626. and
died January 26, 1688. He was educated for
the law. but his father dying about the time
he came of age, he was thrown ujion his own
resources. He was one of the earliest of the
converts to the creed of George Fox, and in
1650. while W'illiam Penn was hardly more
than a babv, Smith wrote a tract called "A
Christian Directory," in which he clearly
demonstrated the Friends' doctrine of the Holy
Spirit. In 1655, when Miles Halhead and
Thomas Salthouse were arrested for holding
meetings cont'ary to law. Smith was one of
the leading Friends who entered security for
them. February 9, 1660, he was arrested, and
with five hundred others was imprisoned in
^'ork Castle. Later in the same year he wrote
his famons "Letter to a Priest of the Church
of England." About four months after his
death, his widow was committed to York Castle
for refusal to pay tithes, and two years later
she and her youngest son, the others having
already emigrated to America, were assessed
IZT, 17 shillings, which the officials appropriated
out of her property. February 23, 1653, Rich-
ard Smith married Anne, daughter of \\'illiam
Yeates, of Alborongh. Children: i. Hannah,
emigrated tn America. 2. Mary, died in in-
fancy. 3. John, born March 2~, 1637, died
1699; emigrated to America in the "Kent." 4,
Sarah, died in infancy. 3. Deborah, emigrated
to America in if)9i. 6. Benjamin, died in
England. 7. Elkanah, died in infancy. 8.
Daniel, born Jainiary 14, i6')3, died August
4, 1742: emigiated to America in 1691 ; mar-
ried Mary Alurfin. 9. Joseph, born March
4 1(367, clicd 1730, emigrated to America in
1691 ; married Catharine Lynch. 10. Emanuel,
born 1669 or 1670, died 1720; emigrated to
.America in 169 1 ; married Mary Willis. 11.
Samuel, referred to below. 12. Richard, bom
April 23, 1674. died 1730; married Anne Mar-
shall.
(Ill) Samuel, son of Richard and Ann
( ^'eates ) Smith, was born May I, 1672, at
Bramham, and died April 18, 1718, in Burling-
ton, New Jersey. In 1694 he followed his
brothers to the new world, where he became
an active member of society and was recog-
nized by his neighbors as possessing the qualities
of leadership. He was chosen to represent
Burlington in the assembly, and in the year
i7i(') his colleague was his brother Daniel. He
engaged in both agricultural and mercantile
pursuits and acquired considerable wealth for
that early jieriod, Joseph Sansom. in his "Mean-
while," written in 1728, says of him that he
was "much respected in his public capacity as
a man of jirinciple and conduct, was of a mild
and benevolent disposition, rather inclined to
retirement, yet no stranger either to the duties
oi' the pleasures of society." The "History of
New Jersey." of which his grandson and name-
sake Samuel Smith was the author, says, "In
1718 died Samuel Smith, one of the members
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of assembly for Burlington ; he had sought
happiness in the (|uiets of obscurity, but being
against his inclination, called to this and other
publick stations, he jiassed thro' them with a
clear reputation: In private life he was in-
offensive, benevolent, steady and res])ected."
Samuel Smith married ( first ) Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Edmond Lovett, a prominent citizen of
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and a member of
the provincial assembly from that county. He
married (second) Dorothy Gyles. Children,
all by first marriage: i. Richard, referred to
below. 2. Samuel, died umnarried. 3. Mary,
born June 15, 1701, married Joseph .\oble.
(IV) Riciiard. eldest child of Samuel and
Elizabeth (Lovett) Smith, was born in P.ur-
liiigt(^n, July 5. iC)99, and died at Perth .-\mboy,
November 9. 1751. He was extensively en-
gaged in conmierce with the West Indies, and
cwned a good deal of vessel jjroperty, his
ships in fact being built under his own sujier-
vision, and his sons making fre(|uent voyages
in them as super cargoes. He acc|uired large
wealth, and of him it has been said, "Richard
Smith appears to have combined, in an unusual
degree the virtues of energy and business abil-
ity with gentleness and tenderness of heart.
His hospitality was largely exercised toward
travelling Friends, as extant letters from such
men as Isaac Norris and others amply testi-
fied.'' Like his father, one of his uncles and
a cousin, he represented Rurlington county in
the provincial assembly, his period of service
reaching nearly twenty years. In 1720 he built
his town house in Burlington, the property
occupying an entire block between ]\Iain and
tW'O cross streets. His country seat, known
as "(jreen Hill," originally belonged to the
famous Samuel Jenings, one of the most noted
characters in tlie early colonial history of New
Jersey. Pie died while attending the assembly,
and the body was brought to Burlington for
interment, being met on the road by a pro-
cession of his fellow citizens desirous of show-
ing their respect to his memory. The Pciin-
syh'unia Gazette thus refers to him : "Last
week died Richard Smith. Esq., of Burlington,
N. J., and was buried in Friends' burial-ground
in that city ; in whom the characters of a gen-
erous, good-natured, hospitable man, true pa-
triot and good Christian, were so truly blended
that he lived beloved and esteemed by all who
knew him, and his death is lamented as a
public loss by the people of that province."
-August 20, 1719, Richard Smith married .Abi-
gail, daughter of Thomas Ra])er. the descend-
ant of a famous Yorkshire family, one of
whose members was lord mayor of London.
Her father was one of the early emigrants
to West Jersey, and at one time a member of
the colonial assembly. Children: 1-2-3. Sam-
uel, John and William Lovett. are referred to
l)clow. 4. Richard, born March 22, 1735, died
i<So3; delegate to first Continental congress
from .\'ew Jersey, and of the first legislative
council, and state treasurer; he married Eliz-
abeth, (laughter of Dr. John Rodman.
( \' ) Samuel, eldest child of Richard and
Abigail ( Raper ) Smith, was born December
13, 1720, and died in i77<'). 1 le was a noted char-
acter in New Jersey affairs, served both in the
council and assembly, and was otherwise offi-
cially identified with the province. He is best
known, however, by reason of his "Plistory
of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New Jer-
sey, from its settlement to 1 72 1," published
in 1735. November, 1741, he married Jane,
daughter of Josejih Kirkbride, of Bucks coun-
t}, Pennsylvania. Children: Joseph, .Abigail,
Richard, Sarah.
( \' ) John, son of Richard and Abigail
I Raper) Smith, was born March 20, 1722, and
died March 2(^, 1771. He became a merchant
in Philadelphia, and jjrospered exceedingly.
He was chiefly instrumental in the organiza-
tion in 174^ of the Philadelphia Contribution-
ship, one of the first fire insurance companies
in .America. In 1755 he co-0])erated in the
founflation of the Pennsylvania Hospital. He
was a trustee of the Library Comjiany of Phil-
adelphia, and of the .American Philosophical
Society. In 1750-51 he was a member of the
Pennsylvania assembly, and he held other
official public governmental positions. He
married Hannah, daughter of James Logan,
the confidential friend and secretary of Will-
iam Penn, and later mayor of Philadelphia
and a chief justice and governor of the jirov-
ince. Children: Sarah Logan. James. Han-
nah. Hannah again, John, and John again.
(\') William Lovett, third son of Richard
and Abigail (Raper) Smith, was born Sep-
tember 19. 172C), and died December 14, 1794.
-September 15, 1749, he married Mary, daugh-
ter of Daniel and Ann (Stevenson) Doughty,
granddaughter of Jacob and .Amy (White-
head ) Doughty, great-granddaughter of Elias
Doughty, and great-great-granddaughter of
Rev. Francis Doughty, the famous New Eng-
land, Long Island, and Maryland minister.
Children: i. William Lovett. 2. Daniel Dough-
ty, referred to below. 3. Samuel. 4. .Ann. 5.
Elizabeth. 6. .\bigail. 7. Mary. 8. Lovett.
(\'I) Daniel Dt)ughty, second son of Will-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
iam Lovett and Mary (Doughty) Smith, was
born in BurHngton county, New Jersey. He
married Elizabeth Schooley. great-granddaugh-
ter of Samuel Jennings, the first governor of
West Jersey, .\mong their children was Re-
becca, referred to below.
(VII) Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Dough-
ty and Elizabeth (Schooley) Smith, was born
March 29, 1787, and died January 3, 1865.
December 17, 1807, she married Joseph, son
of John and Rebecca (Haines) White, of Mt.
Holly ( q. V.) (see White line above).
(Tlie Shoemaker Line*).
From r.esse's "SufTerings of the People Call-
ed Quakers,'" published in London in 1753, it
appears that William Ames and George Rolf,
who were ministers of the Society of Friends,
in 1657 visited Cresheim, a village in the Pala-
tinate, on the right bank of the Rhine, not far
from Worms. It is now known as Kriegsheim,
and of the little band of converts to their
preaching, George and Peter Schumacher were
prominent members. In 1663 the latter were
fined because of joining an assembly for wor-
ship "from George Shoemaker bedding worth
seven rix-dollars and from Peter Shoemaker
goods worth two guilders," and in 1664, for
refusing to bear arms, "George Shoemaker,
]iewter and brass worth three guilders and a
half, and Peter Shoemaker two sheets worth
two guilders." "In 1666 the aforesaid George
Shoemaker and Peter Shoemaker, together
with John Hendricks and Christopher Moret,
had each of them a cow taken away for fines,
for their religious meetings, which four cows
were worth fifty rix-dollars, though the fines
amounted to Init sixty guilders from them all."
Hearing of their persecutions, William Penn
in 1677 visited Kriegsheim, and the following
is quoted from his letter regarding this visit:
"Worms 25th of the 6th Month 1G77.
" * '■'■' * which being done, and refresh-
ed ourselves, wc returned that night l)y the
Rhine to Worms, from whence we the next
morning, ( being the First Day of the Week )
walked on foot to Crisheim, which is about six
1-^nglish miles from Worms. We had a good
^Meeting from the Tenth until the Third Hour,
and the Lord's Power sweetly opened to many
of the inhabitants of the town that were at the
meeting ; yea, the Vaught or Chief Officer him-
self stood at the door behind the barn, where
he could hear, and not be seen ; who went to
*"The Slioemaker Family," by Tliomas H. Slioe-
maker. publislied by J. B. Lippincott Company. Phil-
adelpliia, 1893.
the Priest and told him, that it was his work,
if we were Hereticks, to discover us to be such,
but fur his part, he had heard nothing but what
was good, and he would not meddle with us.
In the evening we had a more retired Meeting
of the Friends only, very weighty and tender;
yea the power rose in an high operation among
tbem, and great was the love of God that rose
in our hearts at the meeting to visit them ; and
there is a lovely, sweet and true sense among
them. We were greatly comforted in them,
and they were greatly comforted in us. Poor
hearts, a little handful surrounded with great
and mighty countries of darkness ; 'tis the
Lord's Great Goodness and Mercy to them,
that they do so finely keep natural in the seed
i)f life. They were most of them gathered by
dear William Ames."
A few years later, when Penn founded the
Province of Pennsylvania he extended an in-
vitation to these Germans to join him in the
wilderness, where at least religious toleration
would be theirs. They gladly accepted, and
formed the Frankfort Company, which secured
5350 acres of land about si.x miles north of
Philadelphia, where they located. The first
who came arrived in 1683, under the lead of
Francis Daniel Pastorius, and included in the
number were Jacob Schumacher, who it is
sui)])osed was a brother of George and Peter,
hcth of whom afterward came over and joined
him; Peter, in the "Frances and Dorothy,"
from London, Richard Bridgeman, com-
mander, in 1685, with five children ; and George
in the ship "Jefferies," Thomas Arnold, master,
from London, in 1688. with his wife and seven
children, although he himself died upon the
voyage. The widow and her seven children,
however, after first landing at Chester, came
and settled on what their English neighbors
subsequently called German Town (now (_ier-
mantown, comprising the northern part of
Philadelphia ) , where the sons George Jr. and
Isaac, and their two uncles, Jacob and Peter,
were jirominent and useful members of the ,
little band of Germans comjirising about eighty
male members who had accepted Penn's invita-
tion. In 1708, according to Benjamin Frank-
lin's editions of the Laws, printed in 1742,
page no, there was passed by the Pennsyl-
vania legislature the following Act:
"An Act for the better enabling of divers
inhabitants of the Province of Pennsylvania,
tci hold and enjoy lands, tenements, and planta-
tions in the same Province."
The first preamble to the act states that
under the Royal Charter all persons not spe-
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cially forbidden can settle in the Province and
hold lands, etc. ; but, as appears below these
arose for some reason the question as to
whether this prerogative was enjoyed by these
Germans ; hence the act was s]jecially passed
for their benefit. The second jjrcamble is, —
".\nd Whereas divers of the Protestant or
Reformed Religion, who were inhabitants of
High and Low Germany, about five-and-twen-
ty years ago, (out of a desire to come under
the power and protection of the Crown of
England, and partake of the advantages pro-
posed for the Encouragement of tlie adven-
turers to settle this new Colony) imbraced the
Invitations they had from the lVo])rietary, to
transport themselves and estates here: and
since they came, did contribute the utmost of
their Power to enlarge this part of the Eng-
lish Empire, and always behaved themselves
as dutiful and peaceful subjects, and several
of them have made and subscribed the Decla-
rations and Test by Law appointed, instead of
the Oaths of Supremacy : And the rest are
ready and willing to do it when rei|uired or
admitted so to do.
"i'','ow, for as much as the value of lands in
this Province being generally but the effects
of the peoples labour, their plantations are
deemed by our laws, but as chattels to pay
debts, and as strangers have been rendered
capable to hold what they purchased as fully
and freely as if they had been natural-born
subjects to this Province; but since the repeal
of the late laws made (after the example of
other governments) for encouragement of the
peopling and settling of tiTis colony, some
doubts and questions have arised whether the
said Germans are capable to hold what they
purchased as aforesaid ; for removing of which
doubt, be it enacted, etc., etc.. That Francis
Daniel Pastorius. Peter, Jacob, George, and
Isaac Shoemaker, etc., (there being seventy-
three others j and every of them, who shall
within six months after the first day of Sep-
tember 1709, at some Court of Quarter-Ses-
sions of the Peace for the said County of
Philadelphia, etc., make and subscribe the
Declarations and Professions of h'aith allow-
ed to those that cannot swear instead of the
Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, or shall
otherwise C|uality themselves as the Court shall
require."
The act goes on to state that it shall enable
them to be capable of holding lands, etc., with
all the advantages that would accrue to them,
the same as if thev were "free and natural
born Subjects of this Province."' Thus did
our ancestors by a special act become citizens
of the Province of Pennsylvania.
Isaac Shoemaker married .Sarah Hendricks,
daughter of (ierhard Hendricks. Their son
Penjamin and their grandson Samuel were
successively mayors of Philadelphia, and their
granddaughter was the wife of William Rawle,
of that city. Their son Ijenjamin was also
in the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania,
1743, and their grandson Samuel also sat in
the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania.
Isaac's eldest brother, (jeorge, became ac-
quainted, on the voyage from London, with
Sarah Wain, daughter of Richard Wain, who
had receiv'ed a deed from William Penn for
600 acres of land in Cheltenham township, on
the Ouesenonoming creek, now called Tacony,
and 12 mo. 14, 1694, George Shoemaker and
Sarah Wain were married at the home of Rich-
Wain, which was then fre(|uently used as a
Friends' Meeting House.
George and Sarah (Wain) Shoemaker had
a son Isaac, who married Dorothy Leech,
daughter of Toby Leech, and their son Isaac
married Ann Roberts in 1761.
Isaac and Ann (Roberts) Shoemaker had
a son, Thomas Shoemaker Jr., who was born
at Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, Montgomery
county, June 24, 1762, and September 8, 1785,
he married Mary, daughter of Benjamin and
Alary ( Comley ) Shoemaker, his second cousin,
who was a sister to Jane Shoemaker, who
married .\nthony Hallowcll, who were the
parents of Benjamin Hallowell.
Thomas and Mary Shoemaker settled at
Shoemakertown (now called "Ogontz"), where
he was a justice of the jieace and conveyancer.
They had three children : Ann. married Bar-
tholomew Mather, in 1808: Martha, who mar-
ried Hugh Foulke, in 1826 (whose children
were Thomas Shoemaker I'^oulke, many years
superintendent of Swarthmore College, and
Hugh Foulke) ; and Nathan Shoemaker, born
September 4, 1788, who graduated in the medical
department of the University of Pennsylvania,
and commenced the practice of medicine at
Frankfort. Soon afterward he married Fran-
ces Maria, eldest daughter of Joseph Kirkbride
and then removed to Bridesburg, where he
l)uilt a house opposite that of his father-in-law.
In a few years he removed to Philadelphia,
at No. 210 Chestnut street, above Eighth, in
which house John J. White married his eldest
daughter. Alary Kirkbride .Shoemaker (see
\\'hite line). Dr. Nathan .Shoemaker had a
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ver}- extensive practice, and was an active
member of the Society of Friends and an ap-
proved minister.
(The Kirkbride Line).
In the town of Kirkbride. twelve miles west
of Carlisle, Cumberland, lingland, there lived
about the middle of the seventeenth century
Matthew Kirkbride and JNIagdelen, his wife,
who are supposed to have been of Scottish de-
scent. In 1652 they united with the Society of
Friends, and between 1659 and 1668 were born
their five children — John, Joseph (hereafter
mentioned), born November 7, 1662, Matthew,
Sarah and Thomas.
When William Penn invited P'riends to leave
the scene of religious ]5ersecution, among the
men of Cumberland who entered largely into
the enter])rise was Joseph, a ynuth of nine-
teen, son of Matthew Kirkbride. He took
passage in a vessel, "I'lritish I'actor," and ar-
rived in the Delaware 7 mo. 19, 1682. .\fter
remaining for a time in Pennsburg be settled
in West Jersey, or New Cesarea, as it was then
called. During his stay in Pennsylvania he be-
came acquainted with Phebe Blackshaw, daugh-
ter of Randall Blackshaw. who lived at Fals-
ingtnn. and was the owner of a large tract of
land in that vicinity. Joseph Kirkbride and
Phebe Blackshaw were married according to
the Order of Friends I hkj. 14, i(iS8. and set-
tled at or near Falsington. I'liebe died in a
few years, leaving several young children. Jo-
seph Kirkbride married ( second ) Sarah Stacy,
daughter of Mahlon Stacy, who came to Amer-
ica from Hads worth, England, in 1678, when
Sarah was but two years old. Jilahlon Stacv
owned a large tract of land in New lersey and
settled on a ])art of it, now known as South
Trenton, and became a j^rominent man m tiie
affairs of that Province.
Joseph Kirkbride and Sarah Stacy were mar-
lied October 17, 1702, but Sarah died .Sep-
tember 28, 1703. aged 29 years, leaving their
cue child, Mahlcm Kirkbride (hereafter men-
tioned), who was born .'September 13. 1703,
and died November [7, 177(1.
Joseph Kirkbride married (third) Mary
^'ardley, widow, Se])tember 17, 1704. They
had si.x children, making the chihlren of Jo-
se])h thirteen in all. He was an educated
man, active in business, and of much impor-
tance in the community, befng fre(|uently sent
as a member to the .\ssembly. Proud, in his
history, says of him: "He maintained a rank
of eminence and esteem through industry and
a virtuous life." He wa^ a minister among
I'Viends, and after the death of his second wife
went on a religious visit to England, returning
in 1704. He died at the age of seventy-five,
leaving nearly 14.000 acres of land in Staten
Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, besides
a farm to each of his three sons, Joseph, John
and Mahlon, and three negroes to John.
Mahlon Kirkbride was brought up under the
care of his mother's sisters, and when twenty-
one married Mary Sacher, September 12, 1724,
daughter of John and Mary Sacher, and settled
on his farm in Lower Makefield. Mary Sacher
was born July 15, 1704. In 1730 he built in
Lower Makefield a noble stone house, which
stood in good order until taken down in 1853
by his great grandson Mahlon Kirkbride to
give place to a more modern structure. He
had twelve children, the eldest oi whom, Stacy,
is hereafter mentioned, and the third, from
the last of whom, Jonathan, was the ancestor
of the late Dr. Joseph Kirkbride of Phdadel-
]'hia. It was while Mahlon Kirkbride was in
the .\ssembly that the Indians ravaged Tulpe-
liocken. and the people of Reading becoming
])anic-stricken because Friends in the Assem-
1)ly refused to vote appropriations to carry on
war with the Indians, the populace threatened
to i)ull down I'^riends' houses. Kirkbride,
Iloge, Dicks and Pennock thereupon resigned
their seats as Friends upon the insistence of
the ministry at home.
Stacey (or Stacy) Kirkbride, was born May
29, 1725, and in 1753 was married, at Wood-
bridge Meeting, according to the order of
Friends, to Franc^ Smith, who died September
2, 1770, age thirty-nine years, and was. buried
at Falsington. Stacey Kirkbride died March
(>. 1789, age si.xtv-four years, and was buried
at Haverford. They left four chilldren : the
youngest, Joseph, born March 31, 1761, is the
one hereafter mentioned. Stacy Kirkbride
being a Quaker, could not consistently take any
active part in the Revolutionary war, and con-
seciuently fell under the suspicion of both
parties. Whichever side iiappencd to be in
possession of the country seized u]ion what-
ever goods, animals, or grain of his that they
could get hold of, and upon one occasion he
was arrested by the American troops and sent
tr> Philadelphia charged with being a spy
Fverv effort was made to establish bis inno-
cence and procure his release, but the papers
were not forwarded to headquarters, and his
health began to fail under the confinement.
In the midst of this perplexity his sister Sarah,
learning that General Washington was to pass
through the citv, determined to make a bold
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effort to accunipli.sh his release. Armed witli
sufficient jjroofs of her brother's entire inno-
cence of the charge, she went to the hotel on
I-'ront street where Washington was stopi)ing,
but to her chagrin was denied admittance be-
cause he was dining with some officers, nor
would the sentry at the door carry any papers
to him. The opportunity, however, was too
precious to be lost, and the brave sister seeing
an open window^ at the rear of the second story
where the company were assembled, seized a
handy ladder, and making an unceremonious
entrance among them in this novel style, earn-
estly pleaded her cause, dem^^nstrated the in-
justice of the charge, and left armed with an
order from General Washington for the instant
release of her brother, as w-ell as being most
courteously escorted down the stairs she had
been forbidden to ascend.
Joseph Kirkbride, only son of .'^tacy and
Frances Kirkbride, was born March 51. 1761.
and married, about the year 1788, Mary I'aul,
daughter of Jcjhn and ^lary Paul. They lived
at Princeton, Xew Jersey, for a while, and
then removed to Occuquan, \'irginia. Subse-
(juently, however, they returned to Pennsyl-
vania and settled at Chalkley Hall, about three
miles from Bridcsburg, which village Joseph
Kirkbride planned out and named after his
family, leaving off, however, the first syllable
for euphony. Their eldest daughter was Fran-
ces Maria, who married Dr. Xathan Shoe-
maker of Cheltenham, in 181 1, at I'^rankfort
Meeting. (See Shoemaker line ). Tlie young
couple settled at Frankfort, an<l here was born
their eldest daughter ;\lary Kirkbride, who
married John J. White (see White line).
The youngest daughter of Joseph and Mary
( Paul) Kirkbride was Eliza P. Guerney, who,
writing in her diary of her elder sister ( Fran-
cis Maria, who married Dr. Shoemaker as
above mentioned) says: "After a short time
the little family removed to a house which Dr.
Shoemaker had built near the homestead, with
a pretty lawn sloping down to the Delaware. 1
I'.ave often heard my grandmother describe the
delight and awe with which she watched the
approach of a sudden storm over the river. She
had a fine feeling for all the beauty and sub-
limit}' of nature, and her language when de-
scribing this grew unconsciously poetic and elo-
quent. Among her reminiscences was one of
Lafayette's visit to America, when he was
entertained for a night at "Point no Point" by
her father, who occupied Chalkley Hall at that
place; also the pressure of their two cream
colored horses into service to assist six others
of the same color to draw the coach in which
the Honored Ciuest of the Nation was paraded
through the streets of Philadel])hia."
The marriage of Mary Kirkbride to John J.
White took jjlace in October, i8;?4, at the
.S])ruce Street Meeting House in Philadelphia,
and was the first marriage ever solemnized in
that meetinghouse.
(The rioughl.v Liiuv).
The Kev. I'lancis Doughty, who married the
si.'^ter of Hon. W illiam Stone ( III ), Proprietary
(iovernorof .Maryland, was born about 1605.
lie was vicar of -Sadbury, Gloucester county,
I'^nghuid, but was dismissed for contempt of
his .Sacred .Majesty, having spoken of him in
prayer as "Charles, by common election, and
general consent. King of England."
He is reported to have come to Massachu-
setts in 1639, and was the first minister settled
at Cohannet. now Taunton. .At that place,
differing from Mr. Hook, a "controversie"'
arose between them wdiich ended in Doughty
being forced to go away with his wife and chi'-
dren. They sought refuge in the island of
.Ni|uebueck, now Rhode Island. Here he re-
solved, with certain of his friends, to remove
to the Dutch territory in order to enjoy free-
(li im of conscience, being undone in worldly
resources, though he was a man of estate w hen
he came to the country. Upon application the
authorities at Fort Amsterdam on the island
of Manhattan, in New- Netherland, on March
28, 1642, gave and granted to Francis Doughty
and associate 666ft Dutch acres of land or
tliereabouts, comprehended within four right
lines each 2000 Dutch perches long. This settle-
ment was at Mespat ( Newtown ), Long Island,
.New York. In 1643 ^lespat was depopidated
on account of Indian hostilities. In 1647 Mr.
Doughty acce]3ted a call from the people of
IHushing, Long Island, and settled there at a
salary of 600 guelders, but in certain of his
discourses, commenting on the conduct of the
government, he so aroused the indignation of
t aptain John Underhili, who declared that Mr.
I.^oughty did preach against the present rulers,
who were his masters, that he ordered the
church doors shut against the minister, and he
was denied access to the pulpit. Mr. Doughty
requested leave to depart the country, which
was obtained, and he took his departure for the
English N'irginias in 1648 or 1649. His brew-
ery or farm on Flushing l>ay he had previously
conferred on his daughter Mary at her mar-
riage in 1645 with that "distinguished Doctor
of both laws," .Adrian \'an Der Donk.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Elias Doughty, son and second child of Rev.
Francis Doughty, Hved at Flushing, Queens
county. New York, in 1666. He was a justice
of the peace, and received various grants of
land at Fhishing, Hemstead. and Cow Bay,
Long Island. He and his wife Sarah were the
]iarents of eight children, who intermarried
with the families of 1 'aimer, Hinchman, Jack-
son, Taylor, Whitehead, Hicks and ethers, of
Long Island, New York.
lacob Doughty, fourth child of Elias and
Sarah, about 1713 removed to Hunterdon
county. New Jersey, from which county he
was a member of the legislature. He died at
J'iethlehem about 1737. His wife "Amme" died
about 1742. They had fourteen children — two
sons and twelve daughters.
Daniel Doughty, sixth child of Jacob and
Amy, was born 10 mo. 17,1703. He married
Anne Stevenson, granddaughter of Samuel
Jennings, governor of New Jersey. He was
justice of the peace and a member of the pro-
vincial assembly in 1750. In 1750 he purchased
the farm known as "Sharon," from Charles
Reed, secretary of the province, and this he
gave with his name to his grandson Daniel
Doughty Smith, who married Elizabeth Scho-
ley, and their eldest daughter Rebecca Smith
married Joseph White (see White line above ).
(THE ALLEN LINE).
From Austin's "One Hundred and Sixty
Allied Families" we learn that George Allen,
who came from Weymouth, England, to New
England, 3 mo. 1635, was thought to have
been the son of Ralph Allen, of Thurcaston,
Leicester county, England. However that may
be, we find that in 1636 he was living at Lynn,
Massachtisetts, in 1637, at Sandwich, and in
1641, at Plymouth, wdiere he was buried May
3, 1648. His first wife was Catharine Collins,
and his second wife H. S. Smith. Aside from
other proofs from which the above was pro-
cured, there is an interesting record of New
Bedford, Massachusetts (which was formerly
part of Rhode Island), in the shape of the
manuscript of one Elisha Leonard, who col-
lected from the town records of Dartmouth
and other New England towns much data as
to early settlers, parts of which he put into
genealogical tables. This collection was
esteemed of such value by the city of New
Bedford that it was purchased from his estate
at a cost of several thousand dollars, and is
now on record in their Public Library. In ♦his
there appears the following genealogical ttible
of the Allen familv :
(!) George Allen, died 1648, married wife
Catharine Collins. He married a second time,
second wife H. S. Smith. Children: George,
wife Hannah; Matthew, married Mary Kirby,
1637 ; Ralph, married Esther Swift ( line drawn
through this name) ; William, married Pris-
cilla Brown. 1650 ; Francis married
Barlow, 7, 20, 1662; Henry, went to Melford,
Conn. ; Samuel ; James, moved to Tisberry ;
Richard Boune and Ralph Allen, overseers of
(ienrge Allen's will, 1648. Was in Lynn m
1036, and went to Sandwich ne.xt year, where
he was in Plymouth 1^41 to 1642. He was of
the church in Sandwich as early as 1642, and
is recorded with Ralph Allen. There are vari-
ous indications that he was an old man at his
death. His name is not mentioned in the list
of those between sixteen and sixty years of
age in 1643 "able to bear arms." Bowden
says he was an Anabaptist. In 1655, among
thcjse fined for "tumultuous proceedings in
Meeting," were Ralph Sr. and Ralph Jr. I am
inclined to think the latter was the son of
George. Bowden, in his "History of Quakers,"
says that Ralph was among the first to join the
sect, and six brothers and sisters also, all of
the family of George. There is also in the
genealogical register (vol. 25, p. 144) a sketch
of the family of Ralph Allen, of Newport, in
1037. He married Esther Swift, daughter of
Mistress Joan Swift, of Sandwich. Their first
child, Zebediah, was born January 3, 1646.
The older Ral]ih is cited as of Boston in 1659,
where he was imprisoned for being a Quaker."
He had nine children, namely: Ralph (here-
after mentioned) ; Samuel; George, born 1619,
died 1693, twice married: William, born 1627,
died 1705. married Priscilla Brown, 1649;
Matthew, born 1(^29, died 1695, married Sarah
Kirby in 1657; Henry, died 1690, married
Sarah Black; Francis, died 1698, married Mary
Barlow; James, born 1637, died 1714, whose
wife's first name was Elizabeth ; Gideon, died
1693, whose wife's name was Sarah.
( II ) Ralph Allen, son of George Allen, born
in 1615. died 1698; married Esther Swift,
tlaughter of William and Jean Swift, of Sand-
wich. They had fifteen children, namely:
Ralph. John, Increase, Zacharriah, Joseph
(hereafter mentioned), Jedehiah, Josiah,
F^sther, Ebenezer, Experience, Mary, F'atience,
Ephraim, Benjamin and Philip.
( III ) Josepii Allen, son of Ralph and Esther
( Swift) Allen, died about the year 1704, at
Freehold, New Jersey. He was a wheelwright
by trade. Pie was married in July, 1662, his
wife's first name being Sarah, and they had
STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
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cliililre'ii : Benjamin, Tristraii, Ralph, Daniel,
Reuben; Abigail, born 4. i, 1663, married Ed-
ward Cottell, of Edgerton, Martha's Vineyard;
Rose, born 10, i, 1665, married Nathaniel
Howland ; Jcjscph, born March 4, 1668, mar-
ried Rachael Tenetray, May 17, 1721 ; John,
born July 15, i66y; Philip, July 3, 1671 ; Will-
iam, August 10, 1673; Josias; Sarah, married
Jeremiah Dibel, May 24, 1711; and Hannah.
([\") Benjamin Allen, son of Joseph Allen,
disposed of his possessions in Freehold about
the year 1710, and moved to Evesham, where
he ac(|uired a beaver-dam farm. He left a son,
Benjamin Allen (hereafter mentioned).
( V) Benjamin .Mien (2), son of Benjamin
Allen (i), died in 1752, in the township of
Evesham, county of Burlington, in the western
division of the province of New Jersey, after
having married, in 1749, Rebecca Sherwin,
who died in 1753, and who was his second
wife. He left children: Benjamin, who left
a daughter Mary, who married David Fisher ;
Abraham (hereafter mentioned) ; Agnes, who
married Barker, and Sarah.
( \'I) .\brahani Allen, born about 1735, mar-
ried, December 31, 1754, Gartru Toy, who was
born in 1735. and died in 1772, and whose
parents are understood to have emigrated from
llolland. His children were: Sarah, Benja-
min, .Mary, Abraham Jr. (hereafter mention-
ed), William and Samuel, by his first wife,
and two children by his second wife. Martha.
(\'n) Abraham Allen Jr., son of Abraham
Allen and Gartru (Toy) Allen, born i mo. 22,
1761. died 6 mo. 3, 1791, married, 10 mo. 28,
1782, Sarah Pitman, who was born in 1 761. Their
children were: Gertrude, born i mo. 3, 1790,
died 12 mo. 26, 1884: Nathan (hereafter men-
tioned), and Mary, born 8 mo. 24, 1783, and
died 5 mo. 28, 1865. This Abraham Allen
made a book, bound in calfskin with the hair
on the outside (which is now in the possession
of his great-granddaughter, Mary Kirbv
(Allen) White, in the year 1789, and in this
book, which ap]iears to have been at first an
account book, there are entered the names and
dates of birth, marriages and deaths, evidently
made at the time of the various occurrences
themselves, of the members of the family from
that time onward for a number of years. This
book in the annals of the family is called the
"Calf Book," because of its binding. Mary
Kirby (Allen) White states that this book
came to her from the Kirby branch of the
family, who received it from the Aliens.
f\'HI) Nathan Allen, son of .Abraham and
Sarah (Pitman) Allen, as appears in an entry
in the "Calf Book," by Abraham Allen, the
father, was born the Tenth day of Twelfth
month, 1785, and the Tenth day of the moon's
age. and, as shown, by an entry in the same book,
married Elizabeth Cattell, March 2nd, 1807.
( .^ee Cattell line ). Their children were Sarah,
born I mo. 17, 1808, died in 1896. married
Charles Lippincott, and Joshua (hereafter
luentioned).
(IX) Joshua .Allen, son of Nathan and Eliz-
abeth (Cattell) Allen, was born 4 mo. 26, 1809,
died in 1843; in 1836 he married Margaret
Dilks, who was born in 1808, and died in 1886.
Their children were: .Xathan, born 1836;
-Abraham, born 1837; Joshua, born 1839; Eliz-
alieth, born 1840, married Benjamin Stafford,
and died in 1877; Mary Kirby (hereafter men-
tioned), and Joseph I., born 1843, '^'''^^1 '89 — .
(X) Mary Kirby Allen, daughter of Joshua
and Margaret (Dilks) Allen, was born near
Haddonfield, New Jersey, i mo. 28, 1841. Her
father, Joshua Allen, became a member of the
Methodist church when he married Alargaret
Dilks, who was a Alethodist.
It is a tradition of the family that until
Joshua Allen became a Methodist, the .Allen
family from Ralph Allen down, had all been
members of the Society of Friends, and Joshua
Allen gave his daughter, Mary Kirby Allen,
in charge of his aunt, Gertrude Allen, in order
that she might be reared as a Friend. On Oc-
tcber 2nd, 1862, she married Josiah White (see
White line).
(The Cattell Line).
(I) Jonas Cattle, born prior to 1700, mar-
ried Mary Peirce about 17 14, and Alary Engel
about 1727; died 1731. Children: James Cat-
tle, William Cattle (under 21 in 1731), Jonas
("attle, Hannah Cattle (under 21 in 1731 ).
The minutes of Burlington monthly meeting
for 1 71 3 show that a man named Jonas Cat-
tell produced a certificate from Shrewsbury
monthly meeting in East Jersey before said
meeting. The minutes of the same meeting
and same year show that a Jonas Cattell and
Mary Peirce ])assed meeting for marriage.
The minutes of the same meeting the follow-
ing year show that a Jonas Cattell and Mary
IVirce [jassed meeting the second time for
marriage. The minutes of Haddonfield month-
ly meeting for 1727 show a Jonas Cattell with
a certificate from Burlington Mo. meeting as
to his "Clearness on Marriage and Conversa-
tion." and a Mary Engel passed meeting for
marriage. The minutes of same meeting for
same year show that a Jonas Cattell. with
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
certificate from Burlington AIo. meeting, and
Mary Engel, passed meeting a second time.
The records of wills for Gloucester Co. for
1 73 1 show the will of a Jonas Cattell, of Dep-
ford Tp. Gloucester Co., N. J. dated Feb. ( 10)
23, 1730 (31), and proved April 13. 173 1,
which named wife Mary, sons James, William
and Jonas, and daughter llannah. James and
John Dilks were witnesses.
Haddonfield monthly meeting was in vicinity
of Depford Tp. and both in Gloucester Co.
which adjoins Burlington county. Search re-
veals no other records of a Jonas Cattell who
could be other than the one above mentioned,
who lived at above named places and at those
times, and to whom any of abtive records could
refer.
AH above records probably refer to the same
Jonas Cattell because of: i. Similarity of
name. 2. Identity of locality. 3. Sequence of
dates. 4. Identity of name of wife. 5. Lack
of any inconsistent records or other people of
same name. It is therefore concluded as prob-
able that prior to 1713 one Jonas Cattell lived
at Shrewsbury, East New Jersey, and in 1713
removed to some place within the precincts of
lUirlington county. That in 17 14 he married
Mary Peirce, which would fix the date of his
birth as ]irior to 1700. That this wife died
prior to 1727. That he moved to Depford
tCAvnship, Gloucester county, prior to 1727,
and in that year married one Mary Engel.
1 hat his children ijy either his first or second
wife, probably all by furnier, since he died
four years after his sec(.)nd marriage, where
James, William, Jonas and Hannah, and that
he died at Depfonl township in 171 3, his sec-
ond wife surviving him.
(11) Jonas (2), son of Jonas (i) Cattle,
born (somewhere about 171(1), married Mary
Pratt (c. c. 1740) and Sarah Stevenson, a
widow, c. c. 1750: died 1776; was of Depford
township, Gloucester county, New Jersey. Chil-
dren : Mary, married Heritage : James,
Uriah, David, Sarah, Nathan, Jonas, William,
Hannah, Amy, Amos, Martha.
The will of Jonas Cattell ( i ), who died in
1 83 1, named as a son one Jonas Cattell. The
records of New Jersey marriage licenses of
I, 10, 1740, show that one Jonas Cattell and
Mary Pratt were granted a license to marry.
The same records for 1750, July 10, show
a license to Jonas Cattell, of Gloucester coim-
ty, and Sarah Stevenson, of Gloucester county.
The wills records for (Gloucester county for
1748 siiov,' a Sarah .Stevenson, of Depford
township, Gloucester county, made adminis-
tratrix of estate of her husband, John Steven-
son, deceased. The same records for 1776
show the will of one Jonas Cattell, of Depford
township, Gloucester county. New Jersey, dated
5, 30. 1774, proved 6. i, 1776, which names
wife Sarah, and children Mary Heritage,
James. L'riah, David, Sarah, Nathan, Jonas,
William, Hannah, Amy, Amos and Martha.
No records were found of any other Jonas
(^attell to whom any of above records could
possibly refer. Above records are judged to
all refer to the same man, because : i. Identity
of name. 2. Indentity of locality. 3. Sequence
of dates. 4. Lack of any inconsistent data. It
IS therefore concluded as probable that Jonas
Cattell ( II ) named in will of first of that name,
C(.;ntinued to live at Depford township all his
life. That he was born somewhere near 17 16,
since his first marriage was in 1740. That he
married twice, (first) Mary Pratt, in 1740, and
(second) Sarah Stevenson, a widow, in 1750.
That he died in 1776 at Depford townsliip,
leaving wife .'^arah and twelve children, one
named Jonas.
(Ill) Jonas (3), son of Jonas (2) Cattell,
of Depforfl township, Gloucester county. New
Jerse}-, born (c. c. 1755) ; married Sarah Clem-
ent II, 3, 1780, and Amy Peirce, 1796; died
II, 12, 1849. Children by first wife: Eliza-
beth, born 8, 10, 1782, married Nathan Allen,
3, 2, 1807: later William .Nash, died. Hannah,
married W'all : Rebecca, married
Chew ; Jonas.
Record of will of Jonas Cattell { II ) shows
he was of Depford township, died about 1776,
and had son Jonas Cattell.
Records of Christ Church, Philadeli)hia,
1780, November 3, show one Jonas Cattell was
there and then married to one Sarah Clement.
Records of Gloucester county marriages, vol.
I. p. 3, show marriage between Jonas Cattell
and Amy Peirce, I, 21. 1706, before Justice of
F'eace John Sparks.
Records of Gloucester county. Deeds, lib.
M. M., p. 299, shows a deed dated June 11,
1824, from one Jonas Cattell, of Depford
township, and Amy. his wife, to David, L'riah,
John Cattell, David, and all other descendants
of Jonas Cattell, dec'd, "father of said Jonas
Cattell the Grantor," of one-(|uarter acre of
land for a graveyard.
Records of wills for Gloucester county, lib.
E, p. 83, show will of one Jonas Cattell, of
Depford township, dated August 18, 1823,
proved November 12, 1849, which names chil-
dren Elizabeth Nash, Hannah \\'all, Rebecca
Chew, and Jonas Cattell.
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Records of no other person of name of Jonas
CattcU living at Depford township was found
It; wliom above records could [lossibly be ap-
])lied. Above records are judged to refer all
to same person because: i. Xanie Jonas Cat-
tell. 2. Place of residence Depford townshij).
3. Dates fit naturally into each other. 4. No
inconsistent data discovered. It is therefore
concluded as probable that Jonas Cattell (111)
of Depford, was son of Jonas Cattell (II) of
same place, whose will was quoted. That he
was born about 1755. at Dejjford. and was son
of Sarah Stevenson, second wife of Jonas Cat-
tell (II). That he married twice (first) Sarah
element, in 1780, and later Amy Feirce, in
1796. That he died a very old man after US49,
at Depford township, near Iladdonfield.
(IV) Elizabeth, daughter of Jonas (3) Cat-
tell, of Depford township, Gloucester county,
.\'ew Jersey, born 8, 10, 1782: married Xathan
.\llen 3, 2, 1807, and William Xash. Children :
Sarah Allen, born 1803; Joshua, born 1809.
(See records in "Calf Hook").
Will of Jonas Cattell, made in 1823. makes
gift to his daughter Elizabeth Nash. Alary
Kirby White (nee Allen) writes in a letter in
my possession, of her grandmother Elizabeth
Cattell, later Allen, and then Nash as follows :
"Elizabeth Cattell, born August 10, 1782,
died about 1880, aged I think about 98 years:
married March 2, 1807, never having employ-
ed a doctor while I knew her until her last
sickness ; she had medical works and read
them, raising and using herbs when ailing; as I
recollect her she was much like me in size,
brisk and hale, until after a fall from the
effects of which she died in Haddonfield, N. J.,
al the residence of her daughter, .Sarah Lippin-
cott, now deceased. My grandfather, Xathan
Allen, died on their farm near Woodbury.
Xevv Jersey, his widow, my grandmother, Eliz-
abeth Cattell, marrying an Englishman by
name of W'illiam, I think, Xash, very much
against the wishes of the Allen family, a differ-
ence not healed for many years, and finally
through the influence of the aforesaid Xash.
"In connection with my grandmother I
should mention my great-grandfather, Jonas
Cattell, who was in a way a character well
known in the vicinity of Woodbury in the
earlier days, being employed on account of his
swiftness of foot and great endurance, in
carr}-ing messages to places as distant as lUir-
lington and Trenton in one day during the
Revolutionary War. his honest and trustworthy
character and knowledge of the woofls and
paths making him altogether reliable in such
iii — '^
cases. In a booklet published and edited by a
hunting club of that jjcriod and s'ection he was
said 'to be so swift as to outrun the hounds.'
{\ have the book somewhere). He lived to be
one hundred and five years of age. I recollect
perfectly his hale, fiorid complexion, he was
then a very olil man, 1 a child of not over four
years of age."
This shows the Elizabeth Xash named in
above will to be the one who married Xathan
Alien, and mother of Joshua Allen and grand-
mother of Mary Kirby White (nee Allen).
(V) Joshua Allen, Elizabeth Cattell (4)
Jonas (3), Jonas (2), Jonas (i). (See report
on .-Mien family main Stem.)
(The Clark Line).
(I) On 9 mo. 13, 1687, William Clark was
married to Alary Heritage, daughter of Rich-
crd Heritage, of Sutton, Xew darden. (Had-
donfield marriages, vol. i. p. i). The will of
William Clark was proved .September 19, 1733,
in (Gloucester county, and showed that he left
surviving him his wife Alary, and sons Will-
iam, John, Joseph, Benjamin, Richard and
Thomas, and daughters Sarah and Alary (W'ill
Book, Gloucester county, file 1732).
(II) The minutes of Haddonfield monthly
meeting of 3 mo. 11, 1727, show that on that
date William Clark Jr. and Phillis Ward made
their second declaration in meeting of their
intention to marry. The will of .\aron Ward,
of Gloucester county, dated .\pril 29, 1749. is
witnessed by Phillis Clark.
(III) On June 15, 1773, the will of William
Clark, the elder, of (jloucester township, dated
.Xovember 2, 1769, was proved. It shows that
he left sons Joe! and William, three children of
a deceased son Cornelius, and daughter Deb-
orah Champion, and three daughters. Esther,
Abigail and Lydia. (See West Jersey Wills,
liber xvi, p. 71 J.
(I\') \Villiam Clark Jr. and .'Susannah .-\t-
more received a license to marry, on Alarch
28. 1763 (.Xew Jersey Alarriage Licenses).
The minutes of Haddonfield monthly meeting
of 5 mo. 14, 1764. show that William Clark,
son of William Clark, was dealt with for
marrying out of meeting, and the minutes of
I laddonfield monthly meeting of i mo. 14, 1765.
show that William Clark Jr. was disowned for
the above cause. On Alarch 5. 1784, letters
of administration on the estate of William
Clark, deceased, were granted to Caleb At-
more. and at Alarch term, 1787, in the orphans'
court of Gloucester county, Xew Jersev, the
administrator applied for admission to sell real
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
estate of William Clark, deceased, who had
died intestate, leaving children, five of whom
were minors. At the same term the petition
of Susanna Clark, widow of \Villiam Clark,
and nK)ther of Sarah. Thomas, Rehecca, Lydia
and j<inathan Clark, infants under fourteen
years uf s.ge. was presented praying that Caleb
Atmc)re be appointed their guardian. A deed
from Susannah, widow of William Clark, late
of Dcptford township, Gloucester county. New
Jersey, and Caleb .Vtmore, administrator of
the estate of said \\,'illiam Clark, dated August
22, 1/1)2, conveyed certain real estate to ISen-
jamin Clark (see Gloucester County Deeds,
liber A, iii. p. 442). The will of Thomas At-
more, of Newtcn township. Gloucester county,
dated December 7, 1773, proved January 24,
1775, bec|ueaths legacies to his daughter Sus-
annah Clark and to her daughters, Abigail,
Margaret, Mary and Edith. (West Jersey
Wills, liber xvii. p. 193).
(\') On August 31 1786, at 01<1 Swedes
Church, Philadelphia, Margaret Clark, daugh-
ter of William and Susannah Clark, was mar-
ried to James Dilks. The will of Caleb At-
more, of Philadelphia, dated October 9, 1793,
proved September 16, 1794 (see Philadel]ihia
Wills, liber x, p. 114), provides for his sister,
Susannah Clark, and her children, Abigail,
Margaret Dilks, Alary Leonard, Sarah Thomas,
Rebecca, Lydia and Jonathan Clark.
(VI) Margaret Dilks, daughter of James
Dilks and Margaret (Clark) Dilks, was born
in 1S08, married Joshua Allen, in 1836. .She
died in 1886. Her children were : Nathan, Abra-
ham, Joshua, Elizabeth. Mary Kirby (above
mentioned) and Joseph 1.
(The Heritage Line).
Joseph Heritage was the son of Richard
Heritage and Mary Heritage, and was born
2 mo. 24, 1675, at a place called Sutton under
Prales, in (jloucestershire, in Old England.
He came over with his parents in about the
ninth year of his age. and settled in West Jer-
sey (records of Haddonfield Meeting, Births
and Deaths, page 26). This Joseph Heritage
is probably a brother of the Mary Heritage
who married William Clark 9 mo. 13, 1687.
Richard Heritage, of New Garden, departed
this life on the i6th day of Sixth month, 1702.
( Records oi Haddonfield Meeting, Book of
Alarriage Certificates, page 104). He is prob-
ably the Richard Heritage whose wife was
Mary Heritage, and who were the parents of
Joseph Heritage above mentioned, and the
Mary Heritage who married William Clark.
On September i, 1702, John Heritage, son and
heir-at-law of Richard Heritage, late of Sut-
ton, New Garden, deceased, was granted letters
of administration on the estate of said Rich-
ard Heritage (Gloucester County Wills, file
1683-1708).
(The C_'ol]in.s Line).
( I ) Francis Collins was born in Oxford-
shire, England, in 1^133, his ])arents being Ed-
ward and Mary Clement Collins. In 1663 he
lived at Ratcliff Cross, parish of Stepney, coun-
ty of Middlesex. He was a bricklayer. He
married Sarah Mahan, of Stepney, at Bull
and Mouth meeting, in 1663. In 1667 he re-
ceived from William Penn a deed for 4-7 of
I -20th part of the province of West Jersey.
He had children in 1675 named Priscilla, Eliz-
abeth and Joseph. He came to America in
1678 and settled in Newton township, Glou-
cester county. West Jersey, but later removed
to Xorthampt(.:'n township, l^urlington county,
where he died in 1720. In 1683 he was a mem-
ber of the governor's council and of the West
Jersey assembly. From 1684 to 1686 he was
judge of the supreme court of West Jersey,
and in i7o() was a member of the council of
proprietors. (See Clement's "Early Settlers of
Newton Township").
(II) Joseph Collins, son of Francis (spell-
ed bT'rancis) Collins and Sarah Mayham, was
of Burlington county. New Jersey, and in 1698,
he married Catharine Huddlestone, formerly
of Rhode Island, then of East Jersey. They
|iassed the Chesterfield monthly meeting of
P'riends in that year. In i6g6 Joseph received
five hundred acres of ground in Burlington
county from his father, Francis, upon the event
of the second marriage of his father. A com-
mittee of the Society of Friends met to see
that Francis made proper conveyance of his
pro])ert\' to his first wife's children before
they would allow him to pass meeting for his
second marriage. Later, in his will, Francis
cuts all these children off with one shilling
apiece, and gives all the rest of his estate to
his second wife.
(III) Rebecca Collins w^as a daughter of
Joseph Collins and Catherine Huddleston, of
Burlington county. New Jersey. Her husband
was Samuel Clement, who in 1735 received
conveyance from her father, Joseph Collins,
of 297 acres of ground in Newtown township,
Gloucester county, which plantation was part
of a five hundred acre conveyance received by
her father, Joseph Collins, from his father,
Francis Collins, who received a larger tract
in 1 716 from \\'illiam Penn.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
141 1
(IV) Jacob Clement, son of Samuel Clem-
ent and Rebecca (Collins) Clement, married
Jlannali .-Mbertson.
(\') Sarah Clement, daughter of Jacob
Clement and Hannah .Mbertson. married Jonas
Cattell ( III ). I See Cattell line ).
The Abeel family is of Dutch ex-
ABEEL traction and belongs to the group
of the early pioneers of Fort
C'range. now .Mban}-, Xew York, whence they
dispersed to various places in that state and
in Xew Jersey.
(I) Stoefel or Christopjier Janse Abeel was
a master carpenter in Heverwyck. Xew .\mster-
dam. from 1653 to February 3, 1655. .At this
time he is recorded as being about thirty-two
years old so that he was born probably about
1621 or 1623. December 4, 1678, "appeared
before Adrian \'an Elpenden, Xotary Public
resident in Xew .Albany. .Stoefell Jansen .Abeel
and Xeeltje Jansen. joined in matrimony, being
both in good health. They leave all estate to
the survivor for life and then to their children.
-Magdalen, aged seventeen. Maria, aged, four-
teen, Johanes, aged eleven, and Elizabeth aged
seven. The said Magdalen is already married
and has had given to her one bed and fifty
whole Beavers. They exclude the Lords Or-
phan ^Masters from all management, and do
not desire them to meddle with the govern-
ment of the children. The survivor and their
brothers in law Cornells X'ander Pool, and
•Adrain Gerrits Popendorf are made overseers."
This will was proved October 14. 1681. His
wife was Xeeltje Janse Croon.
( II ) Johannes or John Stoeffels Abeel. third
child and only son of Stoefel or Christopher
Janse and Xeeltje Janse (Croon) Abeel, was
born about 1667. He was a merchant, lived in
New York for a number of years, during which
tune he married; returned about 1696 to Al-
bany, of which town he became the mayor for
the years 1694-95 and also for the years 1709-
10. June 26, 1710, he wrote his will which
was proved in Xew York, March 31. 1714. In
ir he leaves "to my eldest son Christopher £15
by right of primogeniture." He becpieaths all
his real and personal estate to his wife for
life or widowhood "on condition that she shall
maintain and educate the children, and they
are to be taught to read and write and some
lawful trade whereby to get their living hon-
estly. And when they are come of age or are
married my wife is to give them such a ])or-
tion as she thinks fit." After his wife's death
all goes to the children. His executors were
his wife, and his friends (ierardus Ik'ekman,
Evert Duyckinck, Invert Bancker and Myndert
.*>chu\ler. His gravestone, dug up some years
ago near the Second Dutch Church in .Albany,
has the following inscri])tion : "Here lies the
body of John .Abeel who departed this life ye
2Sth day of Jan'y 1711, and in the 44th year of
his age Dient begin van wel televen, (jingh der,
weer den Hemel waert, L'yt den Hemel was
gegevcn, Storf maar verliet de.Aert."
.April 10, 1694. he married Catalina Schuy-
ler, who bore him six children: i. Xeeltje.
ba])tized in Albany, .April 14, i'')95. 2. Chris-
toffel, baptized in New York, December 16,
1696. 3. Catalina, baptized in New York, Oc-
tober 23, 1698. 4. Neeltje. baptized in Albany.
March 30. 1701. 5. Jannetje, baptized in Al-
bany. June (), 1703. (). David, referred to
below.
I HI) David, youngest child of John an<l
Catalina (Schuyler) Abeel, was baptized in
Albany. .April 29. 1705. He entered into his
father's business in New York, to which he
finally succeeded, becoming in 1750, when the
firm name was changed from Abeel & Kier-
stede to Abeel & Company, the senior part-
ner. February 4, 1726. he married Maria,
sister of Gerardus Duyckinck, the executor of
whose will he became in 1756. From this
union there was at least one son, lames, re-
ferred to below.
(I\') Colonel James, son of David and
-Maria (Duyckinck) -Abeel, was born May 12.
1731, died -April 23, 1825. He served in the
revolutionary war as a deputy quartermaster-
general, and at the close of hostilities retired
to his estates near Lake George, New A'ork.
.March or Alay 30, 1762, Colonel James -Abeel
married ( jertrude, only daughter of John Xeil-
son, -M. D.. of Xew Brunswick, born between
1740 and 1750, died July 16, 1799. Children:
I. David, born January 13, 1763; married,
May 10. 1789. Jane Hassert, and had two
children: i. Mary .Ann, born 1791. died -\pril
29. 1864; married Dowd Ditmars Williamson
and had one child: ii. David, born June 12,
1S04, died .September 4. 1846; was the first
missionary to China of the Dutch Reformed
church, whither he went in 1829 as chaplain
in the employ of the .Seamen's Friend Society,
his addresses in London led to the formation
of the undenominational society for promoting
female education in the east, in 1834; founder
of the .Amoy mission in 1844, and publisher
of several works on the east and its problems.
2. Joanna, born September 13. 1764, died De-
cember 22. 1804: married. Xovember 23, 1783.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Major Leonard Bleecker. and had six chil-
dren: James, George Washington, Gertrude,
married Edward Kemeys, EHzabeth, Leonard
and Edward. 3. John Neilson, referred to
below.
(V) The Rev. John Xeilson, third child and
youngest son of Colonel James and Gertrude
(Neilson) Abeel, was born in 1768, died Janu-
ary 19, 1812. He was a clergA'man in the
Collegiate Dutch church in New York. Janu-
ary 29, 1794, he nu'rried Alary Stille, born Sep-
tember -'7, 1773. (lied June 13, 1826, who bore
him one child : ( iustavus, referred to below.
(\'I ) The Rev. Gustavus, imly child nt the
Rev. John Xeilson and Mary (Stille) .Abeel,
was born June 6, 1801, died September 4. 1887.
1 le manied, July 2ft, 1827, Mary Yan Nest,
Imrn .\pril k), 1807, died in Alay, 1884. One
ot their children was (iustavus Xeilsun, re-
ferretl to below.
(VJl) (iustavus Xeilson, son of the Rev.
(nistavus and ALTry ( \'an Xest) .Vbeel, was
born in Geneva, Xew York, in 1839. In 1 85 1,
liis father removed with his family to New-
ark, New Jersey, where he had been called to
minister to the Second Dutch Reformed
Church. Young (iustavus X. entered Rutgers
College, from which he graduated in 1859.
Soon after he began studying law in the office
of the Hon. Frederick Theodore Frelingluiy-
sen, and in June, 1862, he was admitted to the
New Jersey bar. (October 7, i8fi2, he was com-
missioned second lieutenant in Company D,
First Regiment of Xew Jersey \'olunteers
(three year men); August 30, 1863, he was
promoted to tirst lieutenant. Company B, same
regiment, and in November following was ap-
pointed major in the Thirty-fourth Regiment.
Ivlarch 13, iS()5, he was promoted to the brevet
rank of lieutenant colonel, and about this time
resigned from the service. On his return home
he began the practice of law, and for several
years he was the partner of the Hon. Theo-
dore Runyon, of Newark. In 1874 he was ap-
pointed prosecutor of the pleas for Essex
county, and was reappointed to the same office
in 1877. On the expiration of his term in
1882, he was again reappointed by the gov-
ernor, but the senate failing to confirm he was
ciintinued in this office by Judge Depue until
the appointment of his successor in 1883. Be-
fore the last year of his service as jjrosecutor
had expired Colonel Abeel's health had so
completely failed that he was obliged to re-
tire frcan active dut\' and although he at one
time rallied so much as to jiropose to resume
liis jiractice, he found himself unable to do so.
and finally died of apoplexy, January 4, 1884.
A full meeting of the bar of Essex county was
held a few days after his death, and many
tioquent tributes were paid to his memory.
Judge Ludlow McCarter said, concerning
him: "As a lawyer he was great. Of the
prosecutors of this state he bv common con-
sent stood at the head. .\s an advocate he was
the \ery impersonation of force and power.
As a soldier in the field he was brave, and
many times faced death without flinching. As
a man he was honest, generous and noble, the
tiuest I if friends the most honorable of foes."
I he lion. Cortlandt Barker, in a note ad-
dresse<l to the meeting, which he was unable
ti> attend, says among other things: "Poor
.''Jieel, may he rest in peace. I see that the
]'ul)lie prints do justice to his character. He
was no C(.i])yist : nor did he truckle one whit to
any one. What he wished he wished and went
fi^ir it. \\ hat he thought he thought and was
apt to sa_\' it. In a certain direction of ability
he had few etfuals. Those whom he oppe^sed
had ti-' look out. He asked no cpiarter and
gave little." The following are the resolutions
adopted on the occasion: "Resolved, That in
the sudden death of Col. Liustavus N. Abeel
the IJar loses one of its ablest and most experi-
enced members ; an acute observer of men, in-
stinctively able to detect sham, endowed with
a mind distinguished for its quickness of
apprehension and fertility of resource, dis-
])la}ing great tact and skill in the examination
of witnesses, powerful and convincing in argu-
ment, fearless and independent in the per-
formance of duty, he filled the responsible
office of Prosecutor of the Pleas of Essex
county for eleven years with credit to himself
and safety to the community, and in that most
ini])ortant position his zeal in the exposure and
punishment of crime was only equalled by the
care with which he sought to discriminate ac-
cused innocence from guilt. 1 lis mind was full
of indivi<luality, and native strength, and hail
his health been restored to him, a career in
which he would have had few peers lay before
him. He served with distinction in the war of
the L'nion and ruse by successive steps to an
honorable rank in the service. His nature was
genial and kindly; his friendship was close antl
enduring ; he was a gallant soldier, a warm-
hearted gentleman, and and upright man ; and
we, members of the Bar of Essex county, join
in tendering our sincere and heartfelt sym-
pathies to his laniily from whom he has been
So suddenly snatched by the hand of an over-
ruling and wise providence."
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R_v his marriage with Margaret llall, the
I Ion. (Jiistavus Xeilson Abeel had three chil-
dren: I. EHzabeth, married John R. Brinlev
and had five children: Alargaret, John, Ayliffe,
Anne and Elizabeth. 2. Caldwell Hall, died
unmarried as a young man. 3. Xeilson,, re-
ferred to below.
(\'III) Neilson, youngest child of Colonel
(ju,stavus Xeilson and Alargaret (Hall) Abeel,
was born in Xevvark, Xew Jersey, August 22,
1872, died in that city, May 18, 1907. He re-
ceived his early education in the Xewark public
schools ; during his early manhood was em-
ployed in the Celluloid Conijiany in Xew York
City. Deciding, however, to take uj) the law as
a profession, he entered the Xew York Law
School and after his graduation in 1898 was
admitted to the Xew Jersey bar. In 1900 he
was appointed assistant city attorney for Xew-
ark under a Democratic mayor and held this
office for three years. L'p to his death he was
an ardent worker for and a zealous upholder
of the Democratic party, and his dearest wish
was to see purer politics and a higher ideal for
his party. He was a communicant of Trinitv
Church, Xewark, and also a member of the
Holland Society of Xew York.
April 19, 1900, he married in Xewark, Xina
Fessenden. seventh child and second daugliter
of Frederick W'olcott and Xannie Jane ( Nye)
Jackson, born June 11, 1874 (see Jackson, \'),
who survives him and has borne him four chil-
dren : I. Xancy F"essenden, born March 11,
1901. 2. Xeilson Jr., October 29, 1902. 3.
Elizabeth Wolcott, August 23, 1904. 4. Mar-
garet Hall, February 3, iQOfi.
Ireland has furnished several
BARRETT notable men of the name of
Barrett, sons of immigrants
who came to the Cnited States during the first
half of the nineteenth century. George Carter
Barrett (1838-1906) associate justice of the
New York supreme court, and his uncle.
George C. Barrett, the successful Xew York
lawyer; and Lawrence Barrett (1S38-91 ). tlie
tragedian and contemporary of Edwin Booth
and E. L. Davcn])ort, and author of the lives
of Edwin Forrest and Charlotte Cushman —
these are examples of the genius inherent in
the family.
(I) John Barrett was born in county C'ork.
Ireland, in 1834. He married, in 1859, Mary
D. Lee, born in 1837, in county Limerick, Ire-
land. He came to the L'nited States with his
wife in i8fio, and found employment in the
shops of the Camden & .Amboy railroad at
Bordentown, Xew Jersey, and about 1886 was
transferred to the company shops in Xewark,
Xew Jersey, where he met his death by acci-
dental drowning in the Passaic river in 1889.
He was an industrious man, and brought up
his family with his own high ])rinciples as to
the honor attaching to honest labor. John and
Mary D. (Lee) Itarrett were the parents of
fourteen children; two died in infancy, and
eight still survive: i. Timothy J., of whom
further. 2. John, born in Bordentown, Xew
Jerse\', 1873; is engaged in dredging along the
Delaware river. 3. Thomas J., of whom fur-
ther. 4. James, born in Bordentown, Xew
Jersey ; was a steam engineer until 1908, and
i; now engaged in the theatrical profession
with his elder brother. 5-6. Lizzie and Bess,
reside in Philadelphia, Peimsylvania. 7. Mar-
garet, lives in Bordentown ; is widow of (ieorge
Sullivan, who was a jilumber. 8. 1 lannah, re-
sides in Florence, Xew Jersey. The family
were brought up in the Roman Catholic church.
(II) Timothy J., son of John and Mary D.
(Lee) Barrett, was born in Ikirdentown, Xew
Jersey, in 1869. He was advertising solicitor
foi the Sunday Advertiser of Trenton, and
while so engaged, became interested in ama-
teur theatricals, and soon became a profes-
sional. He made his first professional appear-
ance in the vaurleville team of "McMaiuis and
King," Mr. Barrett, taking the part of Mc-
Manus, continued to use that name. He mar-
ried Edith Chappelle, of the vaudeville team
of the Chappelle Sisters, and the couple are
now playing under the name of McManus and
Chappelle. In 1909 they appeared before the
late King Edward and the (Jueen Mother in
the private theatre at Piuckingham Palace. Mr.
Barrett wrote and staged the "Watermelon
Girls" and the "Pullman Porter Girls." He
and his wife both held well established places
in the profession, and are great favtirites with
the amusemerit loving public.
( II ) Thomas Joseph, third son of John and
Mary D. (Lee) Barrett, was born in P>orden-
t(.iwn, Xew Jersey, Xovembcr 15, 1875. He
was educated in the ])arochial school of the
Roman Catholic church at Bordentown, and
when old enough foimd his first employment
as an apprentice to the maciiinist's tratle in
the shops of the Riverview Iron Works, where
he remained four years. lie then went to
Trenton, Xew Jersey, where he was engaged
with William Shap for about a year. He ne.xt
superintended the luitting in of steampipes in
the Linoleum Building, and had charge of
pijiing the new building erected for the large
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Urewing Conii)any established in Trenton, His
next application of his engineering and me-
chanical skill was the improvement of the
roads of New, Jersey under the direction of
the state government. He began at the founda-
tion by running a steel roller, and from that
to the charge of the stone crusher. His next
engagement was as foreman of the men em-
ployed in macadamizing the state roads, and he
held this position for twelve years, and during
th.is time owned and operated the Keeler Stone
Quarry in company with a ]iartner. The ex-
cellent roads in and about the state capital and
far into the surrounding country are monu-
ments to his thorough workmanship and di-
rection. In igo6 he sought a less strenuous
profession and became proprietor of the Roeb-
ling Inn at Roebling, New Jersey. He put the
business on an excellent money-making basis,
and sold it out May 20, igo8, and took charge
of the Florence Hotel, which he remodeled
and refitted, improving the entire property,
w hich has been a wa\-side hostelry for genera-
t'ons. and after exi)ending more than $20,000
made it one of the most attractive and best
ec|uipi)ed hotels (if the state outside of the ex-
clusive class of idtra-stylish patrons. He main-
tains the old fashioned hospitality, where com-
fort and good fellowship exists between the
host and guests, and between one guest and
another without regard to class distinction.
Mr. Barrett is now engaged in the contracting
business in Bordentown, New Jersey, and
Greensboro, Maryland. Mr. Barrett is a Re-
publican in politics, and a good Catholic in
every sense of the word, and the political faith,
combined with the religious faith, make him
an ideal innkeeper and host to the traveling
jiulilic. where automobile tourists over the
splendid roads that he helped to build find
special accommodation and leave with reluc-
tance so genial a host.
He married. November 28. 1905, Anna,
daughter of Captain John and Ellen (Sweeny)
Herron, of Bordentown, New Jersey. She
was graduated at St. Mary's Convent, Borden-
tiwn. New Jersey, and is the mother of two
children : Rose Roebling, the first child born
in the new town of Roebling, New Jersey, in
October, 1906; as a babe she took three prizes
at the baby show at Trenton : and Thomas,
born at Roebling, in ( )ctober, igo".
The Brower family belongs
BROWER among the old Dutch colonists
of New Amsterdam, from
whence the descendants of the original emi-
grant ancestors have dispersed throughout
many of the states of the Union, especially into
New Jersey, where the family has n(jt onlv be-
come numerous but has also played a most
important ])art in the history of its various
Dutch settlements,
( I ) Adam lirouwer Berckhoven, born at
Cologne, came to this country about 1642 and
settled at New Amsterdam, where he lived in
the house Iniilt on the lot of Hendrick Jansen.
in 1656 he had removed to Long Island. He
died in 1733. Among his children were : Jacob,
married Anna, daughter of Domini Bogardus
and Anneke Vans ; Adam, referred to below.
(II) .\dam, si.in of .\dam I'rouwer Berck-
hoven. removed from Long Island to Mon-
mouth county. New Jersey, and settled in the
vicinity of h^armingdale, where he died in 1769.
Among his children was Sybrant. referred to
below.
(HI) Sybrant, son of Adam I'.rouwer, was
born in 1683, and married Sarah \N'ebber. i\Iay
22. 1706. Children: Jacob, Arnatt, .Vbram,
Cornelia. Sybrant Jr., Janett, Picter, Annetje.
(I\') Jacob, eldest child of Sybrant and
Sarah (\\'ebber) Brower, was born in Mon-
mouth county, May 7, 1707. and married, No-
vember 2, 1724, Lea Studhard. Children : Jonas,
Ji hn. referred to below.
(\") John, son of Jacob and Lea (Stud-
hard) lirower, was bom in 1733, and married,
December 25, 1757, Katharine \'erway. Chil-
dien: Elias, referred to below; Mary.
( \ I ) Elias, only son of John and Kath-
arine (N'erway) Brower, was born in Mon-
mouth ciiunty, in 17O0, and married Elizabeth
I'almer. Children: Isaac I., referred to below ;
Katharine, died young.
( \'II ) Isaac I., only son of ELlias and Eliza-
beth (Palmer) Brower, was born Jime 10,
1781. He was a miller. June 5. 1804. he
married Schicha Van Brunt. Chiklren: I,
Elias 1. Jr. : Schicha ; Joseph : Ann ; Catharme ;
Henry : Elizabeth : lienjamin : ( iilbert \'an
I'runt. referred to below.
(VIII) Gilbert \'an Brunt, youngest child
of Isaac I. and Schicha ( \'an Brunt) Brower,
was born at Marlboro, February 2, 1816, and
died at Point Pleasant, in 1854. He was a
farmer. He married (first) Ann Maria Hes-
keth. who died in August. 1850. Children:
William H. ; Charles W., referred to below ;
Amelia ; Christina ; Sarah. Gilbert \'an Brunt
Brower married (second) Amelia Hesketh ;
children : Alonzo ; Dewitt Clinton.
( IN ) Charles W., second child and son of
Gilbert \'an Brunt and Anna Maria (Hes-
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ki-th ) Rrower. was l)(.)rn in Maiibdro. New
[ersev, Janiiar)- 12, 1H40, and died June 12,
190(1. in Farmingdale, Xew Jersey. .\s a boy
he attended the common schools of Monmouth
county, but his education was mostly the result
of his efforts and perseverance. .\t the out-
break of the civil war he enlisted in the I-'ourth
Xew Jersey Heavy Artillery, in which he
served as quartermaster-sertjeant for three
years and nine months, beint; in the battles of
Cold Harbor and Andersonville. and on the
frontier when General Lee surrendered at
.Appomattox Court House. .At the close of
tlie war he returned home and after a year
went into the butchering business in Eaton-
town, Xew Jersey. In 1870 he established the
American House in Farmingdale, which be ran
for forty years with great success, at the same
time managing a farm a little way outside of
the town. He was also very much interested
in manv financial organizations in which he
was a large stockholder and director. .Among
tliese was the Farmingdale Improvement Com-
pany, for the manufacture of pianos and car-
riages, of which he was vice-president and
treasurer, and also the Monmoutli County Fair
.Association, then of Freehold, and later of
Asbury Park, of which he was one of the di-
iector~. In politics Mr. llrower was a Re-
jniblican, and very active in the interests of
liis party, and although he steadfastly declined
to hold an\- office he was widely known as one
of the party leaders all over the county. For
many years he served as a member of the
b'armingdale school board. He was a member
of the Independent C)rder of Odd Fellows of
I-reehold, and a charter member of Squankum
'I ribe. Xo. iq. Improved Order of Red Men.
of Farmingdale, and a past sachem of one of
the oldest tribes in the state. He was also an
officer in Conover Post. Grand .Army of the
Republic, Freehold. In his younger days he
was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church.
Charles W. Brower married Martha E., daugh-
Uv of lacob Young, of Ocean county, Xew
Jcr>ey. Children: I. William Isaac, born
1872 : now station agent for Pennsylvania rail-
road at Farmingdale ; married Frances Kesth,
of Brooklyn, Xew York. 2. Charles Chauncey,
referred to below. 3. (ieorge Patterson, born
in Farmingdale. 1882 ; now in the hotel busi-
ness there, with his brother Charles Chauncey.
(X) Charles Chauncey. second child and
son of Charles W. and Martha E. ( Young )
Brower, was born in Farmingdale, Xew Jer-
sey, in 1876. .After receiving hi.- early educa-
ticMi in the schools of l-'armingilaie he went to
tiie high school at breehold and to the i-ree-
h.old Military .Academy, after which he gradu-
ated from the business college in Trenton, Xew
Jersey. hOr seven years he was engaged in
the mercantile business in I-'armingdale. in the
emjjloy of Jacob Lutz. This ]josition he left
\v order to go into the hotel business in Lake-
wood. Xew Jersey, where he had charge of a
hotel at the time of his father's la.st illness
and death. .After this event the American
House, established and run by his father, was
st)ld, and Air. lirower removed for a short
time to Philadelphia, but in .March, 1907, re-
turned to Farmingdale, where he established
the Brower House, which he has ever since
conducted most successfully and satisfactorily
with the aid of his brother, George Patterson.
In addition to this hotel he still continued to
manage and operate the farm which his father
had also carried on. He has now purchased
the South Orange Hotel and will locate there
soon. In politics Mr. Brower is a Republican.
He is a past sachem of S(]uankum Tribe, Xo.
19, Improved Order of Red Men of Farming-
dale, and was that tribe's representative to the
grand council in 1909, and he is chief of rec-
ords of the organization.
TheButterworth fam-
Bl'TTFR\\ORTIi ily of Xew Jersey has
always had a reputa-
tion for honesty and integrity and those quali-
ties of sterling value which have made Xew'
Tersey the most highly respected, and the
strongest intellectually and morally of any
state in the Union. The family has intermar-
ried with almost every family that has a his-
tory in the state, but unfortunately the records
that have come to light so far are insufficient
to reduce the family genealogy to a coherent
whole, and the most that can be done w'ith any
degree of certainty is to trace individual lines
back for several generations.
I i ) The earliest known ancestor, John But-
lerworth, married Rachael Eayre, a descend-
ant of one of the most prtMiiinent families of
Burlington county, whose ancestry includes
such names as Moore, Stokes, Fenimore and
Lippincott. .Among his children was Joseph,
referred to below.
(II) Joseph, son of John and Rachael
(Eayre) Butterworth, was born February 19,
1798. He lived in Pemberton township, and
n;arried Esther, daughter of Jarvis and Eliza-
beth ( Rogers) Stokes, born January 22. 1791.
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Her great-grandparents were Thomas ami
i\lary ( ['.ernard ) Stokes, who came to this
country anumg the earliest of the old (Hiaker
settlers. Among their children was Mordecai
Stokes, referred to helow.
(Til) Mordecai .Stokes, son of Joseph and
Esther ( Stokes ) liutterworth, was born in
Pemberton township, Jiurlington county. New
Jersey, September 8, 1831, and died February
4, I go I. For his early education he was sent
to the ])iiblic schools of lUirlington cotmty,
after leaving which he conducted a general
store in Wrightstown. Then for a number of
3 ears he was a farmer in Pemberton. In 1877
lie came to Mount Holly and engaged in the
hotel business. Three years later he sold out
and went back to farming, which he continued
until 1891;, when he returned to Mount Holly
and took charge of the same hotel that he had
I previously conducted, until the time fif his
death. He was a member of the Society of
Friends; a director in the Farmers' National
Bank, of Mount Holly, and for one term col-
lector for I'lurlington county. He married,
October 10, 1831, Reliecca Childs Lippincott.
Cliildren : i. P'ranklin Lippincott, born De-
cember 29, 1852; married ]\fary S. Pudd : one
child, Cliarlotte, born .\pril 12, 1S8.V 2. John
Henry, born b^bruary ii), 1834: married
Camilla Lawlei.
Jervis 1!., born June 24,
1855, '^I'c' ^ame year. 4. (lertrude, born .Au-
gust 29. 1857: married J. W. Ewan : Esther 11..
now Mrs. S. ( )rlan<l : J. lulgar, married
Alcott: Ruth Pretz, of P.rooklyn ; e;"arl S. 3.
Mordecai Stokes, born September 13, 1831^
died in infancy, (k Howard Lijipincott, twin
of Mordecai Stokes, died in infancy. 7. Eliz-
abeth b~sther, biirn March 2, i8fto: married
George 1. liowne, a descendant of the cele-
brated Inhn Powne, of Flushing: children:
Arthur b., (i. Herald, Elizabeth B. 8. Mor-
decai Stokes, born April 25, 1862, unmarried,
g. Rebecca Ella, referred to below. 10. Will-
iam Lisco, born August 3, 1871, died in in-
fancy. Rebecca Childs ( Lippincott ) Putter-
worth dieil January 17, igo9.
( 1\') Rebecca F.lla, ninth child of Mordecai
Stokes and Rebecca Childs (Lippincott) Biit-
terworth. was born in Pemberton, New Jerse}',
September 2J. 1869, and is now living in Mount
Pfolly. She married (first) Joseph Powell Jr..
who died January 31, 1002. Married (second)
W'illiam D. ALarren. Children of first mar-
riage: Joseph Jr., died in infancy: P>eatrice
Putterworth, died in iiifancv. Child of second
marriage: William D. Jr., Ijorn .\pril 4, 1907,
died in infancy.
(IV) Captain Jonathan, son of
C( )NDIT Samuel Condit (c|. v. ), was born
in West Orange or Pleasant
\ alley, New Jersey, October 18, 1736. He
settled on the farm of his father, where he
followed his chosen occupation of farming,
and died there August 29, 1823. He was a
ca|itaiii in the re\-olution, serving in Colonel
Philip \'an Cortland's Second Essex County
Regiment, attached to Heard's upper brigade.
He was a conscientious churchgoer, and in his
old age being poor and having no vehicle but
an ox cart, he and his wife rode regularly to
tlie church in that : not caring to show it, he
would stop as he entered the village, hitch his
cattle to a tree, and thence walk to the house
of (iod. He was on a committee by vote of the
parish of the First Church, December 22, 1784,
to call upon and settle with the managers
l)_\' i)a)'ing over to them money subscribed
t(5 the building of the "C)range" sloop, a
boat running from Newark to New York
in the interest of revenue of the parish. He
married, 1758, Jemima Condit, born 1736,
(laughter of John Condit. Children: I.Isaac,
born July ig, 1759, died February 25, 1829.
2. .Simon, born ( )ctober 18, 1761, died January
3, i83g. 3. Ruth, born May 18, 1764, dietl
September 12, 1840. ^. Jeptha, born 1768,
died 1820. 3. Jonathan, born April 5, 1769,
mentioned below. 6. Electa, born October 21,
1 77 1, died September 10, 1776. 7. Phebe, born
April 28, 1774, died September 4, 1776.
( \' ) Jonathan (2), son of Captain Jona-
than ( I ) Comlit, was born on the old landed
h.omestead in West Orange X'alley, April 3,
1769. In later years he removed some distance
back into the mountain, wdiere he settled on
a farm of fifty acres situated on what is now
Laurel avenue. Here he died November 30,
1834. He erected a stone house on Mt. Pleas-
.'lUt avenue, with road running between this
and his son .Moses's homestead. He cultivated
the land and erected a shop where he set up a
turning lathe for the turning of tool handles
of dogwood. His power w'as furnished by
water irom the nearby brook. He maintained
this shop for a number of years. He was of
the straightforward and upright type of man,
industrious and conscientious, a member of
the First Presbyterian Church. .\t his house
were held joint meetings of the society, and he
was a devoted member of his church. He mar-
ried .Abigail Baldwin, born September g, 1771,
died January 17, 1843, daughter of Benjamin
Baldwin. Children: i. Moses, born .August
17, 1794. mentioned beliiw. 2. P.enjamin,
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born February 24. iji/i. dicil Doccinhfr 14.
1855. 3. Liicinda, born .Marcb 5, IJ^/J. 'lied
July 29, 1866. 4. William, born April 11,
1801. died June 13. 1859. 5. John, born De-
cember 1 8, 1803. died I'"ebruary 28, 1 8 10. 6.
Morris 7... born March 12, 1807, died Decem-
ber 19, 1866. 7. Maria, born January 14,
1809. 8. Abigail 11, born March 18. 1812,
died April 14, 185 1. 9. Emeline. l)orn Febru-
ary 28, 1 81 4.
(\T) Moses, son of Jonathan (2) Condit.
was born on the old Condit homestead. Ml.
Pleasant avenue. West Orange, Xew Jersey,
-August 17, 1794- He attended the district
nearby school during the winter terms, work-
ing on the farm at other times. 1 le continued
on his father's farm until after his marriage,
and before his father's death was deeded the
house and six acres of land. Here he spent
liis life. He raised the common crojjs. cut and
sold large quantities of lumber from his own
land, and bought other tracts which he cut and
sold. He was successful with his orchard,
growing large quantities of peaches, his son
Albert conducting the growing and selling of
this fruit. He raised Canfield and Harrison
species of apples, converting these into cider
at a profit. As a speculator in cattle he made
much money, buying his cattle in Sussex and
Orange counties and driving them to West
(Grange, slaughtered them during the winter
months in his barn, in the old-fashioned way.
His farm situated on the present Pleasant
N'aliey way comprised at his death one hundred
and eight acres. He was progressive and up-
to-date, and had everything to beautify and
improve his farm. Few farmers believe in
the more improved ideas of agriculture than
Mr. Condit. and he was always active in the
affairs of the farm. He served in the war
of 1812, going to Sandy Hook with his regi-
ment, the service being mostly guard duty.
He led an upright useful life, and devoted
deeply to his home and family, wluch he taught
the habits of industry and frugality. He had
dee]) religious convictions, and early joined the
Methodist church at \'erona, but later joined
the St. Cloud Presbyterian Church by letter
at the formation of the society and was elected
an elfler of this church. He was an oldtime
Whig in his belief and practice, but later affili-
ated with the Democratic party. He became
interested in education, was a trustee of the
school in his district, and for a number (jf
years boarded teachers at his home. He mar-
ried. May 27, 1819. Maria Corby, born .\o-
veniber 30. 1797. died November I. 1874.
daughter of William Corby.- Children: I.
Jesse W., born .August 14, 1S20, died March
19, 1872: married, November 26, 1856, Sarah
.\. .Soper : children: i. William .Adrian, born
January 2\, 185S: ii. h'rank M. .N., born June
29, i860; iii. Emma S., born Se])tember 29,
1861 : iv. Jessie Mabel, born .May 23, 1864; v.
(inice .\nn. born June 29. 1866: vi. and vii.
I-"dna .M. and Minnie (i.. twins, Ijorn June 29,
1870, died .August, 1870. 2. Albert born March
I, 1823. mentioned below. 3. Martha .Almira,
born March 12. 1826, married, October I, 1851,
.Adam Wilson Nevins: children: i. Ella .A.,
Ixirn July 9, 1852: ii. Mary Olive, born June
2^. 1854, married J. I-Vancis Conklin ; iii. Carrie
E.. born July 8. 1858, married Joseph H.
Conklin; iv. \\ilson Condit. born January 14,
i860. 4. Theodore !•".. born December 18.
1828, married, T'ebruary, 1858, Elizabeth
Sayre : children : i. William, born December
14, 1858. died I])ecember 6. 1859; ii. Sarah E..
born August 15, i860; iii. John T., born May
16, 1862; iv. Lowell E., born May 14, 1864;
v. Robert R., born July 7. 1866: vi. Mary O.
born June 3, 1868. 3. Ilannah Caroline, born
March 24, 1831, married, .\pril. iSfii. Isaac
.Newton Canfield : children : i. .Anna .Augusta,
born -April 2^^. 1862: ii. .Mary Emma, born
June 24, 1864, died December. 1874. 6. Jona-
than Emmons, born .August 2j. 1833, died Sep-
tember 9, 1849. 7. Moses Edgar, born Feb-
ruary 23, 1836. married, December 11, 1867,
.\nna R. Bond; children: i. Harry, born April
16, 1871, died -April 30, 1872 : ii. Carrie Nevins,
born September 3, 1873. 8. Alary, born March
28, 18.44: married. 1886, .Andrew J. \'an Ness.
( \'II ) .Albert, son of Moses Condit, was
born at West Orange, on the homestead farm
on Condit Lane, situated on the road to \'er-
ona, March i, 1823. He was brought up on
his father's farm, ac(|uiring the usual common
school education of a farmer's son at that
period. Fie was progressive in his studies,
and a sjilendid farmer. I'rom the age of fif-
teen to twenty-seven he contiiuied with his
father in the affairs of the farm. He became
progressive in his ideas of agriculture and be-
lieved in tlie improved methods. He became
greatly attracted to the raising of fruit, par-
ticularly ])eaches, and became a pioneer in the
section. He let out large orchards on the
mountain side and devoted for a time his whole
interest to this industry. His fruit brought
the first premium at all the New York City
fairs, and it was due to his expert cultivation
tliat greatly enriched his father's estate and
netted a handsome vearlv income. .After the
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rige of twenty-seven years, owing to a decline
in the peach growth which was prevalent in
the valley at that time, he came to East (Drange
and entered into the grocery business, remain-
ing for a short time. This did not prove suc-
cessful and the business was closed up. He
then became clerk for the Francis Grocery at
Newark, remaining three years, when he re-
tnrneil to the West Orange Valley and bought
the Al)ner Xeeves farm of thirty acres, now
situated on Alt. Pleasant avenue, on the road
to Livingston. He was successful in the rais-
ing of the common crops and fruit growing.
He entered extensively into the cattle business
( i860), making e.xtended trips through north-
ern Jersey and Sussex county. Orange, and
rppcr |)art of Morris counties, where he bought
cattle, selling them to dealers and driving them
to West Orange, where he slaughtered them on
his farm in his own slaughter house. He con-
trnued in this business on the home farm until
1884, when his sons, Orlando E. and William
E., established themselves in the wholesale
meat business at East Orange. He then retired
from active work, continuing at farming dur-
ing the latter jjart of his life. He died at West
Orange, at his home, August 4, 1899. Mr.
Condit was of a quiet, retiring disposition,
amiable and democratic in his makeup. He
v/as strictly upright and honorable in all his
dealings, and socially possessed a host of
friends. He was philanthropical, helping others
in a quiet way. He attended the St. Cloud
I'resbyterian Church. He was a sterling Dem-
ocrat, and adhered to his party principles. He
was tax collector, a number of years, council-
man of the town of West Orange, and be-
lieved in advanced ideas in town affairs. He
was one of the pioneers in macadamized roads.
He married, Xovember 28, 1849, Rachel Cath-
arine Williams, born November 2^. 1825, died
December 27, 190<). daughter of Jonathan
Squier and I'hebe (Terry) Williams. Jona-
than S. Williams was a farmer and hat manu-
facture! . Children : Orlando Emmons, born
March 20, 1853, mentioned below ; x-Mice Carey,
born August 2;^, 1857 ; William Elmer, March
b. 1 861 : Bertha Catherine, July 24, 1865.
(Vni) Orlando Emmons, son of Albert
C<indit, was born in the east part of Orange,
Xew Jersey, March 20, 1853. ^^ '"i early age
he removed with his parents to the ancestral
house in the West Orange \'alley, where his
educational training began in the nearby dis-
trict school. At the age of thirteen years he
daily attended the Misses Robinson's private
school at CJrange, which stood where the pres-
ent Boys' Club now stands on Main street.
During the summer m<jnths he assisted his
father at home. He took a course in the
1 Iryant & Stratton Commercial School at New-
ark, from which he graduated in the spring of
1871. As a youth he assisted his father in the
cattle business, driving cattle from the nearby
ti.wns to West C)range, where they were
slaughtered in his father's slaughter house on
tlie homestead farm. Gaining the experience
in this business, he later became his father's
salesman and was successful from the start,
n^uch of his father's product being sold in the
('ranges, Montclair and nearby towns. He
continued with his father up to 1884, when
Air. Condit Sr. retired from the business, and
bis sons, (Jrlando E. and William E., the latter
having gained a thorough knowledge of the
business, having also been associated with his
father, opened the beef and packing plant of
(-'. E. & W. E. Condit, at East Orange, near
South Clinton street, June 9, 1884. They
iK-.ndled the Hammond products from the start,
he being the pioneer beef merchant, and later
became the G. H. Hammond Company, and
finally merging into the National Packing Com-
pany. The Condit firm have continued to
handle the products of these concerns, doing a
large commission business, supplying the re-
tail dealers in the surrounding and local trade.
The firm supply westward to Morristown,
south to Milburn, north to \'erona, Caldwell,
Alontclair, and east to Newark and vicinity,
selling also packing houses in New York City.
The plant, situated between Clinton and Hal-
sted streets, has a refrigerator 30 by 75, cap-
able of storing one hundred thousand pounds
of beef and fresh products, also packed meats.
Mr. Condit had charge of the plant and inside
business, and W. E. Condit attended to the out-
side and financial end, buying and collecting.
July 17, 1909, the brothers disposed of the
biisiness to ^he National Packing Company.
Mr. Condit owns a beautiful resi<lence on
S<.)Uth Clinton street, which he erected in De-
cember, 1890. He anil his family are members
of the Brick Presbyterian Church. He has
served on the board of trustees and as chair-
man of [iroperty committee and chairman of
building committee of the church, and is at
present one of the ruling elders of the society.
He is a member of the Sons of the .American
Revolution, the Ro}'al Arcanum. Longfellow
Council, No. bjS- ^t East Orange. He mar-
ried, October i(>, 1878, Elizabeth Rhoda Mul-
ford, born December 25, 1854, daughter of
Timothy Whitfield and Phebe Louise (Bald-
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wiiii Multord. Cliildreii : i. 1 Iclcn Louise,
born December 12, 1879, married, *■ lctoi)er if).
1003. Fred Rutherford Hood; children: i.
Elizabeth Multord, born September 15, 1905;
ii Alan Condit, born August 16, 1907 ; iii.
Fred Rutherford Jr.. born November 6, 1908.
2. Albert Emmons, born February 26. 1882,
married, December 15, 1909, Anna Lindsley,
born December 15, 1879, daujjhter of John
Nicol and lilla (Stetson) Lindsley. 3. Timo-
thy Mulford. born March 25. 1884.
The name Closson. like those
CLOSSON of Clawson, Clauson, Classon.
Claessen, etc., had its origin in
the Dutch custom of attaching "sen" to the
father's given name, to form the surname of
the child: thus the sons of "Claus." the Dutch
fotm of Nicholas, were named "Claussen," or
more commonly Classen or Claessen, until the
family had been resident in America for a few
generations, when it became closely associated
with the English, adopted the custom of their
neighbors and retained a permanent surname
instead of changing with each generation. Two
or three branches of the Classon or Clauson
family became residents of Pennsylvania dur-
ing colonial times, all probably descended from
the early Dutch emigrants to New Netherlands.
Jan Classen was one of the earliest Dutch
settlers on the Delaware, residing in or near
Burlington Island in 1676, and the following
year obtained a grant of land on the Nashaniiny
in Bucks county in the present limits of Bristol
township, and received permission from the
court at L'pland to settle thereon. This land,
about five hundred and thirty acres, was con-
firmed by William Penn in 1684 to Jan or John
Clauson, and descended to his children, all of
whom, however, according to the Dutch cus-
tom, took the name of Johnson.
Christian Classon, of "Tiaominck" (Tacony),
purchased in 1685 "a parcel of Meadow
(iround. being in the swamp adjoining the land
belonging to the township of Tiacominck, join-
ing to the River Delaware." Christian died
about 17CW. and his widow, ^[argaret, married
Thomas Jones. Christian and Margaret Cla.s-
son had eleven children.
fl) Captain (ierrabrant Claessen, of New
.\msterdam. became the head of another branch
ot the Closson family, whose descendants be-
came residents of Philadelphia and its vicinity.
He obtained a grant of land in liergen county.
New Jersey, of Phili]) Carteret, and died there
in 1708, leaving a widow, Mary, who died in
1714, and children: Cornelius; William, see
forward; .Xicholas ; Herbert; Xeiltje. wife of
|ohn Jurian; Meyfie, wife of Dirck \'an Lout:
Mary, wife of (Jeret \ on Wagoner, and Peter.
( 11 ) William Clawson, sup])0sed to be a son
of Captain Cerrabrant Claessen, settled at Pis-
calaway. Middlesex county. .\ew Jersey, where
he purchased land as early as 1683, and died in
1724. He left a widow, .Mary, and children:
Cornelius, who died in Piscataway in 1758, left
iliildren: Cornelius, William, Zachariah and
several daughters; Benjamin ; Josias ; ^\'illiam ;
John; Gerrabrant : Josci)h; Thomas, see for-
ward; Mary, married Drake: Hannah,
who was immarried in 1723.
I HI) Thomas Closson, son of William and
Mary Clawson, die<l in Piscataway in 1 761,
leaving children: Brant. William; Richard,
who died in Buckingham, Bucks county. Penn-
sylvania, in 1754, leaving a widow. .Mice ; John,
sec forward; Josias; lirant: Mary; Elizabeth:
Hannah, and Sarah.
( 1\' ) John, son of Thomas Closson, at the
time of his death. December 6. 1756, was a
tenant on land belonging to Thomas Watson,
of Buckingham, lying just over the line of
Buckingham township, Bucks comity, Penn-
sylvania, in the townshij) of Warwick. A
John Clawson, of Pennsylvania, aged thirty-
two years, occupation cordwainer, on June 27,
1746, joined Captain Trent's com|)any. recruit-
ed for the expedition against Canada, and with
that company went into winter quarters at Al-
bany, New York, in the winter of 1746-47, and
was discharged October 31. 1747, "the intend-
ed expedition against Canada having been aban-
doned.'' This was without doubt the John
Closson who died in Warwick township, Penn-
sylvania, as both he and his .son, William, of
Wrightstown, were by occujjation "cordwain-
ers." Letters of administration were granted
on his estate to his widow, Sarah Closson, Jan-
uary 14, 1757, with John Wilkinson and Joseph
Fackett. of Wriglitstown, as sureties. In her
account of the estate, filed March 15. 1758, she
i> allowed a credit "for victualling, cloathing
and schooling two children, from December 6,
1756, to the date of her settlement; and for
payment of a bond and interest to Richard
Furman, amounting to thirty-seven ])Ounds,
nineteen shillings, one jjer.ce." This Richard
Furman was the fatlier of .Sarah Closson and
belonged to the family of Furmans who had
been long settled on Long Island and were
prominently identifie<l with the affairs of the
English settlement in and near Newtown. Long
Island. The children of John and Sarah ( Fur-
man 1 Closson: William, who died in 1784,
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married. October 23, 176(1. Rachel Stout, and
had children: Stout, Isaac and Thomas; John,
see forward.
( \ ) John (2). son of John ( I ) and Sarah
( l'\irman ) I'los^on, was born about 1738. His
name appears on the tax list of Warwick
t> wiiship in 1759, and soon after this date he
married and settled on fifty acres of land in
riunistead township. Bucks county, where he
continued to reside during" the remainder of
his life. He attained a great age and was
buried at Red Hill Church in Tinicum town-
sliiji. The name of his wife has not been pre-
served but his children were: I. Elizabeth,
born 1762: died May 15. 1847; niarried, April
14. 1784, Isaiah Warner, a member of the
Warner family of Wrightstown. and a descend-
ant of William Warner, of Blockley, Philadel-
phia. 2. John, see forward. 3. Rebecca, died un-
marrietl. 4. Barbara, married Benjamin Clark.
5. Martha, married (iirst) Jonathan Harker.
(second) Jonathan Keller. 6. Sarah, married
(first) Samuel Shaw, (second) John Stover.
7. Alary, married Andrew IVice. 8. Amelia,
married Jacob Housel. 9. Thomas. married, Sep-
tember S. i/^b. Elizabeth, daughter of David
Navlor. of Amwell. 10. William, was a mer-
chant in Solebury township, 1797-1805; mar-
ried. Xovember 19, 1794. Sarah, daughter of
George ^Vall. Es<|., member of the supreme
executive council of Pennsylvania ; sheriff of
Bucks county, and an incunilient of a mnnber
of other public offices; William and Sarah
(Wall ) Closson had nine children, among theni
being George Wall Closson, treasin^er of Bucks
county. 1842-44. II. Prudence, married. Janu-
ary 25, 1799, George Wall, fourth of this
name, a son of Colonel (.ieorge \\ all. mentioned
above. 12. Isaac, married Anna Maria Niece,
had eight children, the youngest. Isaac, of Car-
vers\'ille. being born in i8i(.>. 13. James, died
.March 30. 1815; marrietl Mary Tomlinson.
.mil hail: Joseph, Isaiah and Elizabeth.
I \'! ) Jnjui ( 3). eldest son and seconil child
nf bihr. (2) L'liisson. of Plumstead, was b")rn
a1)Miit 1 7' 14. and was reared on his father's
I arm ir. Bucks county. Pennsylvania. He was
a farmer in Plumstead and Tinicum townships,
and died in January. 1815. He married, about
1789. Elizabeth Cpdegrave, who died at the
home <if her daughter, Sydonia Emerick, in
^^^7- ^'i'-' "'IS t'le daughter of Edward and
Sarah (.Mitchell) L'pdegrave, of Plumstead,
whii trace 1 their ancestry through the found-
ers of (iermantown to Herman Op de (jraeff,
one of the formulators of the Mennonite creed
at Dordrecht, (jermany, in 1632. Children of
John and Elizabeth (Updegrave) Closson: i.
-Amos, born November 29, 1790; died October
2C), 1865, at Carversville ; married, 1811, Mary
Davison, of Plumstead, and had nine children,
most of whom removed to Illinois, wdiere they
became prominent business men. 2. Sarah,
married Thomas Pickering. 3. Lavinia, mar-
ried Washington \'an Dusen. 4. Sydonia, mar-
ried ( first ) Samuel Emerick, of Solebury, ( sec-
end) Jose[ih .Anderson, of Buckingham, Bucks
county. 5. Mary, married Robert Roberts, and
removed to Illinois. 6. Jidia Ann, married
Peter Case, of near Doylestown. and her de-
scendants still reside there. 7. Susanna, mar-
ried. May 4. 1833. Phineas Hellyer, of Buck-
iugham, and died the following year. 8. Eliza-
beth, married Hoover. 9. Levi, mar-
lied Mary Cox; resided near Doylestown many
years, then removed to Chicago, where he and
his sons became prominent in business life. 10.
Jiilui. see forward.
( V 1 1 ) John ( 4 ) , youngest child of John ( 3 )
and Elizabeth ( L'pdegrave ) Closson. was born
in I'lumstead township. He married Mary,
daughter of John and Barbara ( Libhardt )
Loucks, and granddaughter of Henry and Bar-
bara (Heaney ) Loucks, of Bucks county, later
of York county. Pennsylvania. The Loucks.
I leaneys and Libhardts were among the earli-
est German settlers, held a number of offices
of public trust and responsibility, and were
closely identified with the growth and imjirove-
ment of the sections in which they lived.
(VIII) Captain James Plarwood, son of
John (4) and Mary (Loucks) Closson, mar-
ried Josephine, daughter of Joseph and Han-
nah (Foster) Banes, and descended through
her mother from se\'eral of the early Colonial
families of Philadelphia, among them being
that of Buzby, the American progenitor of
which, John Busby, brought a certificate to the
Philadelphia Friends Meeting dated 2 mo. 4.
1682. On the paternal side she was descended
from one of the oldest families in Lancashire,
England, representatives of which were among
the earliest purchasers of land from \\'illiam
Penn in his province of Pennsylvania.
(IX) Dr. James Harwood Closson, son of
Captain James Harwood and Josephine
(Banes) Closscm. was born in Philadel]:)hia,
Pennsylvania, November 27, 1861. He was
educated in public and private schools in his
native city, supplementing this by a special
course at Lafayette College, Easton. Pennsyl-
vania. He took up the study of medicine at
the Hahnemann Medical College, from which
he was graduated in i88(j, and locating in
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Germantown began his prtjfessional work in
which he has since that time been actively
engaged, having an extensive practice and
standing high in Iiis profession. lie is asso-
ciated with the following nanieil organizations:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania; ( lenea-
logical Society of Pennsylvania ; Colonial Soci-
ety ; Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revo-
lution ; Xethcrland Society ; Pennsylvania Ger-
man Society ; Sons of I)elaware ; American
Psychological Society; American Institute of
Homeopathy; Homeopathic Medical Society
of the State of Pennsylvania; Homeopathic
Medical Society of the County of Philadel-
phia; Germantown Medical Club; has been
president of the last two societies and served
as secretary of the Homeopathic Medical Soci-
ety of Pennsylvania ; associate member of
George C. Meade Post, No. 1, Grand Army
of the Republic ; member of the Loyal Legion ;
Pennsylvania Forestry Association; Lafayette
College Alumni Association ; Zeta Psi Frater-
nity ; Union Lodge, No. 121, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons; Germantown Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons; liellfield Country Club; Ger-
mantown Cricket Club ; United Service Club ;
.Site and Relic Society of Pennsylvania; Re-
publican Club of New York City. Dr. Clos-
son married, October 22, 1891, Mary Eliza-
beth, daughter of Samuel Wilson and Mary
Elizabeth (Bancroft) Bell. On her mother's
side she is descended from Thomas Bradbury,
one of the original proprietors of the town of
Salisbury. Massachusetts. Among her other
ancestors are the F'osters and liuzbys men-
tioned above, and Walter de Stirkland (.Strick-
land), who lived in the reign of King John, of
England. Dr. Closson and his wife have chil-
dren ; Josephine Banes, born September 12,
1893; James Harwood Jr., June 18, 1896;
Mary Bancroft, December 29, 1898
The common ancestor of the
WIKOFF Wyckoff or Wikoff family in
America was Picter Claesz,
son of Claes Cornellissen, who was brought
from Holland to New Nethcrland by his
father when he was nine years old. He settled
in Flatlands, where he cultivated the bouwerie
of Director-general Peter Stuyvesant in 1655,
and where in 1653 and i(^^6 he had purchased
for himself quite a large ])lanlati(in. He was
magistrate of I<"latlands most of the time from
1655 to 1664, and a representative to the Mid-
wout (now Flatbush) convention, which chose
delegates to go t6 Holland and lay before the
States General the distressed state of the coun-
try. 1 le was also one of the patentees of h'lat-
lands named in the charters oi'i6b/ and 1686.
Shortly after the cession of New Netherland
to the h'.nglish in 1664, he adopted the surname
of Wyckoff, or Wyk-hof, which literally
means "the court of refuge," or the "refugee's
home" and would indicate that his father came
over to escape persecution. In tlie course of
time this name has come to be spelt by its
owners in various different ways, as Wyckoff,
among the Somerset county, New Jersey, and
the Long Island branches ; Wykoff-, among the
Monmouth coimty, New Jersey branches ; also
Wicoff, Wikoff, Wickoff and Wycough.
Pieter Claes Wyckoff married, about 1649,
Grietje, daughter of Hendrick \'an Ness.
Children: 1. Annetje, baptized November 27.
16^0; married Roelof Martensen Schenck. 2.
Mayken, baptized October 17, 1753; married
Willem Willemse, of Gravesend, and became
ancestress of the New York and New liruns-
wick Williamsons. 3. Geertje, married March
17, 1678, Christofel Janse Romeyn. 4. Claes,
or Nicholas, married Sara Pieterse Monfoort,
ancestor of the Pennsylvania and Hunterdon
county, New Jersey, branches. 5. Cornells,
died in i7of); married October 13, 1678, Ger-
trude Symonse Van Aartdalen, ancestor of
the Long Island and Middlesex county. New
Jersey, branches. 6. Hendrick, died Decem-
ber 6, 1744; married (first) Geertje ;
(second), Helena ; no children; adopted
his great-ne])hew, Johannes Willemse, of
Gravesend, who, ado]ning the name Wyck-
off, became the ancestor of the Newtown,
Long Island, branch. 7. (iarret, referred to
below. 8. Alartin, married (first) F'emmetje
.■\ukes \'an Nuyse; (second). May 27, 1683,
Hannah \\'i!lemse, of Flatlands; i)robably
(third), Jannetje . 9. Pieter, married
Willemptje Schenck. 10. Jan, born February
t6. 1665; married Neeltje Willemse van Kou-
wenlioven. 11. Margrietje, married Matthias
-Adamse Brouwer. 12. \\'i!lemptje.
(II) Garret Pieterse, son of I'ieter Claess
and Grietje Hendricksen (Van Ness) Wyck-
off', died between October 8, 1704, and July 12,
1707. He took the oath of allegiance in 1687,
and is on the assessment roll of Flatlands in
ifr)3. In 1699 he was one of the five who
purchased one thousand acres of land at Marl-
boro, Monmouth county. New Jersey. He
married, about 1691, Catharine, daughter of
Johannes and Adriaentje (Blcick) Nevius
(see iXevius). Children; i. Pieter G.. died
March 7, 1731 ; married May 23, 1723, Rensie
Martinse Schenck. 2. Gretje, married Ctx^rt
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van Voorhees. 3. Adrianna, married John
Van Nuyse. 4. Antje, born September i,
1693; married Minne Lucasse van Voorhees.
5. JNIaryke, married Roelof Terhune. 6.
Jonica. 7. Garret, referred to below.
(III) Garret G., son of Garret and Catha-
rine (Nevius) WyckofY, was born in Flat-
lands, Long Island, March 5, 1703, and died in
Monmouth county. New Jersey, November j,
1770. He left Flatlands and settled in New
Jersey on the land bought by his father, and in
1731 was a member of the Dutch Church in
Freehold. Remarried (first) Aeltje Gerretse,
born October 13, 1705, died February 19,
1740-1 ; (second) Aeltje Lef¥erts. Children,
six by first marriage: i. Garret, born October
31, 1730; married Patience Williamson. 2.
Samuel, referred to below. 3. Peter, baptized
March 31, 1734: married Alice Longstreet ;
was guide to General Washington at the battle
of Monmouth. 4. Catharine, married Benja-
min Conover. 5. Ida, married David Conover.
6. Alice, married Jacob Van Derveer. 7.
Auke, baptized December 4. 1748: died 1820;
married Sarah Schenck ; was lieutenant-colo-
nel during the revolution.
(IV) Samuel, son of Garret G. and Aeltje
(Gerretse) Wykofif, was baptized October 19,
1732. He settled near Allentown, Monmouth
county. New Jersey, was one of the charter
members of tiie Allentown Presbyterian
Church, and for many years one of its ruling
elders. He married Gertrude Shipman. Chil-
dren : Garret, born 1762; Jacob, referred
to below; Samuel, removed to Middletown,
Ohio. Olive, married John Hen<lrickson, of
Upper Freehold ; Catharine, married W'illiam
Croxon ; Mary, married Thomas Sexton.
(V) Jacob, son of Samuel and Gertrude
(Shipman) Wykofif, was born in Allent(.iwn,
New Jersey, Alarch 29, 1765. Fie married
Alice, born December 15, 1772, daughter of
William and Ann Green. Children: i. Will-
iam, died about 1870, married . 2.
Ann, died in 1831 ; married Daniel Denise, of
I'reehold township. 3. Samuel. 4. Henry, re-
ferred to below. 5. (jarret, removed to Knox
county, Illinois, near Galesburg. 6. Jacob. 7.
Gertrude, born April 9, 1809; died June 7.
1841 ; married December 20, 1838, John Hal-
lowell. 8. John, born about 1807: living in
1885 near Galesburg, Illinois. 9. Joshua Ben-
nett, died unmarried, about 1855. 10. Eze-
kiel, removed to Knox county. Illinois.
( VI ) Henry, son of Jacob and Alice ( Green )
Wykoff, was born ^August 25, 1802. In 1810
his father removed to a farm in Freehold
township, about two miles from the court-
house, on the old Colts road. Soon after his
marriage Henry Wikoff settled on a neighbor-
ing farm of one hundred and thirty acres
which he had bought in 1830. He married.
January 13, 183 1, Emeline, daughter of
Elisha and Rachel W'est, who was born near
Long Branch. New Jersey, August 20. 1810,
and died April 10, 1872. Children: I. Will-
iam Henry, referred to below. 2. John W.,
born May 2^. 1835 ; died September 17, if
lb S.. born December 12, 1837; died
August 2-. 1838. 4. Charles Edward, born
November 19, 1843: married November 29,
1864, Sarah Ann Forman.
(VII) William Henry, son of Henry and
Emeline ( West ) Wikot¥, was born on the
old Colts Neck road, in Freehold township,
Alonmouth county. New Jersey, July 21, 1833,
and is now living at 60 East Main street. Free-
hold, New Jersey. He married in December,
1857, Margaretta, daughter of Garret P. Con-
over, of Matawan. Children: Henry Con-
over and I'rederick Dayton, both referred to
below.
(VIII) Henry Conover, son of William
Henry and Margaretta (Conover) Wikoft",
was born in Freehold, New Jersey, October 4,
1858, and is now living at Asbury Park, New
Jersey. For his early education he was sent
to the public schools of Freehold, after which
he tixik a two years' course in the Freehold
Institute. He then took to farming, working
for his father for a short time and then start-
ing in for himself. In 1902 he gave up farm-
ing and went to Asbury Park, where he set up
in business, keeping a hay and grain and gen-
eral feed store, which he has conducted with
marked success ever since. He is a Republi-
can in politics, but disclaims all title to being
a politician. He is also a deacon in the Dutch
Reformed Church of Asbury Park. He mar-
ried, in Freehold, in February, 1882, Ella C,
daughter of John B. and Mary Ann (Smock)
Conover. who was born in Freehold July 19,
i860. Children : Edgar E.. born in June,
i88g; Frederick Conover. born in September,
1894.
(VIII) Frederick Dayton, son of William
Henry and Margaretta (Conover) WikolT,
was born in Freehold, September 27, 1863, and
is now living at Red Bank, New Jersey. After
receiving his early education in the public,
schools of Freehold he attended the Freehold
Institute and the Greenwood Institute at Mat-
awan, and then took a position as clerk in a
drug store, which he kept for five years, re-
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signing it to take a similar iK)sitioii in Asbury
Park. He then came to Red J lank, where he
continued in the drug business until 1903.
when he gave it up owing to the state of his
health, and started in the hay, grain and coal
business, which he is now conducting most
successfully. He is a charter member of the
Red Hank lodges of the Royal Arcanmn and
of the A. O. U. W., and treasurer of the
Red Bank B. of T. He is also a member of
the Ice Boat Club, and of the Monmouth
County Historical Society, and a trustee of
the Presbyterian Church in Red Bank. He
married, in Red Bank, January 21, 1885,
Laura M., daughter of Thomas F. and Eliz-
abeth (Wilbur) Morford, who was born June
23, 1862. Children: Mabel Thomas, born
March 22, 1888. married Horace Van Dorn
Jr.; William Henry, born March 7, 1893.
Children of Thomas F. and Elizabeth (Wil-
bur) ]\Iorford: Jennie, Catherine, Laura M.,
(referred to above), Henry.
The Downing family of Amer-
Dr)\\"XIXG ica are, so far as is known, the
descendants of the children of
Henry and Jane ( Clotworthy ) Downing, and
grandchildren of Emanuel Downing, who mar-
ried Lucy, sister of Governor John W'inthrop.
of Massachusetts, and the father of Sir George
Downing, Knight, who married Frances How-
ell, played such an important part in the polit-
ical history of his time and country, and in
honor of whom the famous Downing street,
London, has been named.
Emanuel Downing is the descendant (if the
old Plantagenet race of English kings. His
fatiier Calybut married Elizabeth Wingfield,
widow of Edward Morrison, whose mother
\vas Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Cecil and
sister to William Cecil, Lord Burleigh. Her
great-great-grandfather. Sir Robert \Vingfield.
Knight, married Elizabeth Cousell, whose
father. Sir Robert Cousell, Knight, w'as the
third husband of Elizabeth Fitz Alan, who
had married ( first ) William de Montacute,
son and heir of William, Earl of Salisbury,
and (second) Thomas de Mowbray, Earl Mar-
shal and Duke of Norfolk, Knight of the Gar-
ter, and ancestor of the present dukes of that
duchy. Her father, Richard Fitz .Alan. Earl
of .Arundel, had married Elizabeth de liohun.
and her grandfather, Richard I'ilz .Alan Sr..
Earl of .Arundel, had married Eleanor Planta-
genet, daughter of Henry. Earl of Lancaster,
and Blanche, daughter of Robert Comte d" Ar-
tois, and widow of Henry, king of Xavarre.
Henry of Lancaster was the brother of Ed-
ward I. of luigland and the son of Henry HI.
of England, and F.leanor de I'.erenger, daugh-
ter of Raymond de Bcrenger, Comte de Prov-
ence.
.Adam, son of Henry and Jane ( Clotworthy)
Downing, married Margaret JackstMi, and
from him is descended the branch after whom
Downingtown, Pennsylvania, is named, h'rom
the other three sons of 1 lenry Downing — John,
George and Daniel — are descended the New
England and New Jersey families,
(1) Daniel B. Downing, who was a grand-
son of George, son of Henry and Jane (Clot-
worthy) Downing, was born in 1748, and died
February 24, 1S28. I le married Margaret
, born 1751, died February 8, 1802.
.Among their children was Elias Madison, re-
ferred to below.
( 11 ) Elias Madison, son of Daniel B. and
Margaret Downing, was born in 1782. He
married Polly (or Mary) Chace, born Decem-
ber 5, 1784, died in 1856. Among his chil-
dren was John Chace, referred to below.
(HI) John Chace, .son of Elias Aladison
and Polly ( Chace ) Downing, w'as born in Jan-
uary, 1808, and died in 1846. He married,
m 1830, Joanna, daughter of David and Phebe
( Tillou ) Beach (see Beach). Children: i.
Charlotte Augusta, died in infanc}'. 2. Emma
Louise, born Alay 2, 1833: married, June 2,
1S59, William Robinson, born June 10, 1831,
sc.;n of John and Jane ( Robinson) .Ailing: chil-
dren: John D., born Se])tember 16, i860;
Jane R.. December 8, 1861, died September 22,
i8()3: \\'illiam Robinson Jr., born July 13^
1S63, died January 13. tSW); Afadison, born
Xcvember i, 1867. 3. Joanna Beach, married
Sylvester S. Battin : cliildren : John B. Battin.
married Jennie C. O'Gorman. and has Joanna
Dow ning Battin and Mary .Adams Battin : Syl-
\ ester Battin Jr., married, and has Elizabeth
Downing I'.attin and Ruth Battin; Jessie Bat-
tin, born uS^yt. died 1871 : Clara P>attin, born
1865. died 18S0. 4. Jolin, Chace Jr., referred
to below. 5. .Madison, born January 2. 1840,
died .April 3. 1878, unmarried.
(]\') John Chace (2), son of John Chace
I i) and Joanna (Beach) Downing, was born
m Xew York City, June 13, 1887, and died
in Xewark, Xew Jersey, December 29. 1900.
He received his education in the famous pri-
\ ate school of Dr. I ledges, of Xewark, and of
Mr. Labaugh, at 1 lackettstown. and then enter-
ed on his life work as a manufacturing jeweler
with the firm of Downing & Field. In politics
In. was a Republican, and throughout his long
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life he was a consistent and faithful member
of the South Park i'resbyterian Church of
Newark, on the board of trustees of which he
served for many years as treasurer and presi-
dent. He was also for a long time an active
member of the Jewelers' Club. He married
Josephine R. Cook, of New Orleans. Chil-
dren : Jessie Battin : Elizabeth Cook ; Alice
Marianne, married Robert IVigardus Parker,
and has Robert I'logard.us Jr.; Paul Cook, re-
ferred to below.
( \' ) Paul Cook, son of John Chace (2 ) and
Jo.sephine R. (Cook) Downing, was born in
Newark, New Jersey, January 25, 1878, and is
now living in that city. After attending the
Newark Academy for a number of years, he
finished his education in the Hartman Naylor
Academy at Summit, New Jersey; and then,
obtaining a position with the Fidelity Trust
Company of Newark, by his ability and perse-
verance he worked himself up steadily until
he reached his present ]:)osition of assistant
secretary and assistant treasurer. He is a
member of the Union Club of Newark, and a
I'rotestant Episcopalian. September 22, 1904,
he married in Great Harrington, Massachu-
setts, Sarah Dodge Peters, of that town, who
was born December 31, 1877; children, Lucy
Peters, born September i, 1005; Paul Cook
Jr., June 14, 1910.
(Tlie Beach Line).
Thomas Beach, generally believed to have
Ix-en a son of John Beach, of Devonshire, Eng-
land, and who is known to have been a brother
of Richard Beach, is found at New Haven as
early as 1654, when he took the oath of allegi-
ance. He moved to Milford in 1638. and died
in 1662. He married Sarah Piatt, of Milford,
who after his death married (second) Miles
Merwin. Children; Sarah, married Samuel
Lyon, of Newark; John; Alary; Samuel;
Zopher, referred to below.
( II ) Zopher, son of Thomas and Sarah
(Piatt) Beach, was born at Milford, Connecti-
cut, May 27, 1662. He settled at Newark, and
his house is believed to have been on what is
n<.>w Clinton avenue, a short di'-tance wesi of
Lnicoln Park. He was town assessor, towns-
man, and on a committee "to provide a man to
be siu"veyi)r general." He married Martha
, who survived him. Children ; E]ie-
netus. referred to below ; Samuel ; Josiah, mar-
ried Anna Day ; Zojiher, married Jane Davis.
I HI) Epenetus, son of Zopher and Martha
P>each, was born at Newark, about August,
1696, and died at Newark, Jime 14, 1750. being
buried in the old burying-ground on Broad
street. He was town collector and surveyor
of highways. He married (first) Mary ,
born February 28, 1696, died December 13,
1736; (second) Phebe, widow of Mr. Kinney,
whose son by her first husband, Thomas Kin-
ney, of Morris county, was in 1777 made
guardian of the daughter of his half brother
Epenetus Beach Jr. Children, eight by first
marriage: i. Ezekiel. 2. Haimah, married
Caleb Baldwin. 3. Joseph, referred to below.
4. Sarah, married Abraham Canfield. 5. Rachel,
married Elijah Crane, of Newark. 6. Alary,
married a Air. Low. 7. Tabitha. 8. Elisha,
married (first) Sarah ; (second) Si-
bella ( Newton ) Force. 9. Epenetus, married
(first) , (second) Hannah
.■\yres. 10. I^hebe. 11. Jabez. married Anne
Ayres.
(I\') Captain Joseph, son of Epenetus and
Alary Beach, was born at Newark, about 1720,
and died February 17, 1765. He removed to
Alendham, where he spent the remainder of
his life, being appointed one of the justices of
the peace for Alorris county in Alarch, 1759,
and being supposed to have fought in the
French and Indian war. .\fter his death his
widow and seven surviving children returned
to Newark, where she dietl. He married
Eunice, daughter of Nathaniel and Alary
(Crane) Baldwin, who was born at Newark,
about 1720, and died December 25, 1787. Chil-
dren ; I. Elias, referred to below. 2. Abner,
died unmarried, aged seventeen years. 3.
Eunice, died unmarried, in her sixteenth year.
4. Rachel, died in her fourteenth year. 5.
Joseph, married Catherine Ogden. 6. Nathan-
iel, born October 15. 1754, died May 4, 1808,
married Sarah ; served in the revolu-
tionary war as private in Captain Abraham
Lyon's company, Second Essex County Regi-
ment, and afterwards was colonel of the Third
Regiment New Jersey militia. 7. Hannah,
died unmarried. 8. Samuel. 9. Matthias. 10.
Alar\'. 1 1. Sarah.
( \' ) Elias, son of Captain Joseph and Eunice
( Baldwin) Beach, was born at Alendham, New
Jersey, about 1750. He lived at Newark, and
was a soldier in the revolutionary war. A
letter from his son-in-law. Rev. Stephen Hays,
dated .\pril 4. 1862, says of him: "Air. Elias
r.each, the father of my wife, suffered much
in the revolutionary war, was taken prisoner
and confined a long time in the sugar house
in New York, where his feet were frozen, and
he li:ist in consequence, most of his toes * * *
He was much respected for his many amiable
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<|iialilies. and the late Judge f'eniiington, father
of the late Speaker I'ennington, who was with
him through tlie revohitionary war, said he
'loved him hke a brother.'" lie married jo-
anna, daughter of Joseph and Joanna (Crane )
Camp, who was born about 1759. and (Hed at
Newark, February 6, 1832, in her seventy-third
year. Chiklren: i. David, referred to below.
2 Caleb, died luly 10. 1853. married Isabella
Xeal. 3. Ephraim, died August 13, 183", mar-
ried Mary i'ierson. 4. Eunice, married in 1805,
Lewis Shippen. 5. Phebe. married, 1804, Jo-
seph iledden. 6. Rachel, died .October 14.
i860, married Rev. -Stephen Hays. 7. Mary,
died October i, 1824, in her twenty-eighth
year : married Xicholas E. Dullaghar. 8. Eliz-
abeth.
(\I) Da\id. son of Elias and Joanna
(Cam])) Heach. was born at Newark. July 12.
1780. and died there May 30, 1S30. He mar-
ried Phebe Tillou. born at Orange. June 3.
1770. died in Newark. November 30, 1832.
Children : i. Elias, born November 21, or De-
cember I. 1805, died November 5, 1851. 2.
Mary .\nn. born .August 5, 1807, died June
2"]. 1815, unmarried. 3. Joanna, referred to
below. 4. Phebe, married, 1832, F. H. Smith.
5. .Sarah, married, 1832, H. G. Johnson. 7.
.Albert. 8. David. 9. Marv .Ann. married.
1 84 1, E. A. Baldwin.
(\ 11) Joanna, daughter of David and Phebe
(Tillou) Beach, was born in Newark, De-
cember 26, i8oq, and died in 1842. In 1830
she married John Chace. son of Elias Madison
and Polly (Chace) Downing.
Britton, son of Montillion
WOOLLEA' Woolley. is the first member
of this family of whom we
have definite information. His father is prob-
ably the Alontillion Woolley who died intestate
in Alonmouth county, and he himself was born
i-i Long Branch, where he was a blacksmith,
painter, sea captain and teamster. He married
Ann Wood. Children: Alatthias : Montillion
W .. referred to below: Britton: .Ann: Mar-
garet: ^^'illiam H. ; Mary; Alartha : Deborah,
f II) Alontillion W., son of Britton and .Ann
(Wood) Woolley, was born in Long Branch,
Monmouth County. New Jersey. July 10. 18 10.
and died there in March 1880 He was a car-
jienter and farmer. He married (first) Cor-
nelia, daughter of Alichael and Hannah
(Throckmorton) Maps, who died in 1851 :
(second) Lydia C. Emery. Children, eight
by each marriage: Alatthias. referred to
below; Hannah E. : Alarv A.: Lavinia : Will-
iam I"..: Margaret V..\ Jame> R. ; Cornelia;
John Lewis: Francis: George; Jnhn; Willis;
Lewis E. ; Harriet: .Alfred.
(Ill) Matthias, son of Montillion W. and
Cornelia I .Maps) Woolley, was born in Long
hranch, Monmouth county. New Jersey. De-
cember 10. 1837, and is now^ living there. He
received his education in the Long I.ranch
public schools and in the Charlotteville Semi-
nary, the latter of which he attended for one
season, and then began teaching school in
-Monmouth county, which he conlinuetl to do
until 1864. when he went as clerk into a store
at Oakhurst. Alonmouth county. Here he re-
mained for one year, and came to Long Branch
and started in for himself in the mercantile
career wdiich he so successfully followed until
1877. when he received from Postmaster-gen-
eral Jewell the appointment of postmaster of
Long Branch, which he held for the succeed-
ing eight years until 1885. when he w'ent into
the real estate and insurance business with
C. D. Warner, the firm name being C. D. War-
ner & Company. The partnership was dis-
solved in 1894. In politics Air. Woolley is
a Republican, and besides his service as post-
master he was sheriff of Alonmouth county
from 1893 to 1896. Since that time he has
been engaged in the insurance business for
hmisclf. Mr. Woolley was drafted during the
civil war, but was exempted from service.
He is a past grand master of Lodge No. "/y,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a
member of the Knights of Pythias. He is a
member of the board of trustees of the Simp-
-on Alemorial Alethodist Episcopal Church in
Long Hranch. He married (first) in Long
I '.ranch. December 6, 1859. Hannah, born Sep-
tember 22. 1837. died -August 12. 1904. daugh-
ter of .Anthony and Tenty .Ann (White)
Truax ( see Trua-x in inde.x). He married (sec-
ond) Harriet Emma Dilentash. Children, all
by first marriage: I. Cornelia W., born Janu-
ary I. 1862 : married James Stewart : one child.
James .Stewart Jr., married Mabel Lawrence.
2. .Anthony Truax. referred to below. 3. -Alida
W., born -April 8. 1871 : married John H. Davis,
whom see in index.
I 1\") Anthony Truax. son of Matthias and
Hannah (Truax) Woolley. was born at Oak-
hurst, New Jersey. Alarch 27, 1863. and is now
living at Long Branch. .After receiving his
early education in the public schools he attend-
ed the Eastman Business College at Pough-
keepsie, Xew' A"ork, from which he graduated
in 1881, when he returned to Long Branch
and began clerking for the Long Branch Bank-
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ing Company, with wliuni he remained until
18^3, when lie re^i.ijned in order to take his
father's place ni the lirm of C. D. Warner &
Com]iany, real estate and insurance brokers.
In i8i;6, when his father retired from the office
of sheriff, the two organized the insurance
firm of AI. \Voolley & Son. Mr. ^\'oolley is
a l^epublican in politics, and was a memlier of
the board of education of Long Branch for six-
teen years. In 1897 he was apixiinted postmaster
of the cit\-, was reappointetl by President
Roosevelt in 1902 and igofa, and by I'resident
Taft in 1910. He is also secretary and treas-
urer of the Xew Jersey Mortgage and Trust
Compaiu'. which he helped to organize, fie is
a memljer of tlie Royal Arcanum and of the
Junior .A. O. L'. M., and he has just joined
Abacus Lodge, F. and A. M., of Xew Jersey.
For fifteen years he has been steward of
the Simjison Memorial Methodist Episcopal
Church of Long Branch. He married, in As-
bury I'ark. October 12, 1887, Caroline N.,
born in Xew York City, March 6, 1684, daugh-
ter of Daniel D., and Sarah E. (Watson)
Davis. Children: i. \\'alter M.. born F'eb-
riiary 14, 1889. 2. Edgar D. 3. Marian C.
4. Mildred. 5. Frances H. 6. Anthony Truax.
Children of Daniel D. and Sarah E. (Watson)
Davis: I. Ella, died aged twelve years. 2.
Caroline X., referred to above. 3. Walter W.,
now dead; married at .Asbury I'ark, Theresa
Martin; one child. Eleanor. 4. Charles 1!.,
married Harriet R. Weir.
The Sommer family of Xew-
SOMMER ark comes from that stalwart
German stock which has given
so much in previous centuries towards the
making up of the strong foundations which
he at the root of Xew Jersey civilization.
( 1 ) Cieorge Sommer, founder of the family
in this country, came from Cermany to Cin-
cinnati. Ohio, and then removed later on to
Newark, Xew Jersey. Among his children
was Henry, referred to below.
( II ) Henrv. son of Ceorge Sommer, was
born in Cincinnati. Ohio, and came with his
parents to Xewark, where he is now living.
He married Mary, daughter of Franz and
Rosalie Haefeli (see Haefeli I). Children:
Frank Henry, referred to below; Raymond,
deceased, married and had one child, Raymond
Jr. ; George David, married Josephine Bol-
linger.
(Ill) Frank Henry, eldest child of Henry
and Mary (Haefeli) Sommer, was born in
Newark. New Jersey, September 3, 1872, and
is now living in that city. For his early edu-
cation he was sent to the public schools of
Xewark, and after graduating he went to the
Metropolis Law .School, from which he grad-
uated, in 1893. He tli^" went to the law de-
partment of the Xew York Lniversity, and
after completing his course there received his
LL. D. degree, in 1899. He was admitted to
the Xew Jersey bar as attorney in the Xo-
vember term of the supreme court, i8(-)3, and as
counsellor in the February term of 1897. He
has been eyer since engaged in the general
])racticc of his profession and in the active
u]3holdiiig of the advancement oi his polit-
ical party, which is the Republican. At first
lu went in partnership with Edwin G. Adams
and later became a member of the firm of
Guild. Lum & Sommer, which later on became
the firm of Sommer, Colby & Wiiiting. In ad-
ditiiin to his law practice, wherein he has iK.it
I inly been successful but has become well
known and deservedly as one of the acute
legal minds of Xewark, Mr. Sommer has
served his party in a number of important
municipal and county positions, among which
should be mentioned his term as a member of
the board of education of the city of Newark,
and his term from 1905 to 1908 as sheriff of
Esse.v county. In this latter position Mr.
Sommer showed himself to the best advantage
and proved one of the ablest of the many able
men who have held that position. Mr. Som-
mer is not a member of many clubs, but he is
an enthusiastic member of three of Xewark's
most exclusive and popular ones, namely ;
Essex County Country Club, Lawyers' Club
of Newark and the Roseville Athletic Club.
Mr. Sommer married, Xovember 24, 1897,
ill Brooklyn, Xew York, Kate Whitehead,
daughter of Edward and Hannah ( Throck-
morton ) Royce. Children: Florence Cath-
erine, George Raymond, Frank Henry Jr.
(The Haefeli Line).
The Haefeli family of Xewark came over to
this country about the same time as the Som-
mers family, with which it is so intimately
connected, and although its nationality is dif-
ferent, yet it belongs to the same group of Teu-
tonic settlers who have formed the greatest
bulwark of this country's foundation char-
acteristics.
( I ) b'ranz Haefeli, founder of the family
in America, came from Switzerland and set-
tled in Newark, Xew Jersey. By his wife
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Rosalie he had tlirt'C cliilclreii : .Albert, re-
ferred to beknv ; Elizabeth ; Mary, married
I leiiry Sonimer (see Soinnier. 111).
( II ) Albert, only son of Franz and Rosalie
llaefeli. was born in Xewark, New Jersey, lie
attended the Green street Gennan sehool. and
later graduated from the Washington street
school. At age of fourteen he entered the eni-
]:lny of the .State Banking Q>inpany. later
merged into the Union National, with which
he remained and advanced steadily up to the
position of assistant cashier. l-"(.)r a long tiiue
he was secretary and treasurer of the \\ ee-
(|uahic Land & Improvement Comjuuiy, of
which shortly before his death he was elected
v'ce-prcsident. He was also treasurer of the
Weequahic Building & Loan .Association, a
member of the Arion Singing Society for
many years, and one of the organizers of the
Kindling Wood Bowling Club. He died July
25. KJOQ. at the age of forty-four, on the
birthda\- of his one vear old son. .\lbert h'ranz.
David Smith, the first member
SMITH of this family of whom we have
definite information, lived in
\'ernon, Connecticut, and was a revolutionary
soldier. He was a farmer, and owned a very
large tract of land in that locality. He mar-
ried Olive, daughter of Deacon Benjamin and
Elizabeth (Lyman) Talcott, of Bolton, Con-
necticut ; (see Talcott). Children: i. Aurora,
born May 25, 1792; died April 22, 1830: un-
married. 2. Olive, born September i. 1798:
died March 29, 1831 ; unmarried. 3. Warren,
born July 27, 1800; died in January. 1870;
married Mary Goodrich ; lived in Chicopee.
Massachusetts : no children. 4. David Tal-
cott. referred to below. 5. Mary, born June
16. 1807; married Horace Taylor: im children.
6. Daniel, born September 9. 1810. 7. Zolva.
born June i. 1813; married McHall.
(H) David Talcott. son of David and Olive
(Talcott) Smith, was born in A^ernon. Con-
necticut, July 2Ti. 1804. and died there July
25. 1855. He was a farmer, a Democrat, and
attended the church at Vernon Centre. He
married (first) May 27. 1828. Mary, daughter
of Colonel McLean, who built the first w(X)len
mill at Rockville. Connecticut, who died Au-
gust 8, 1831. He married (second) in 183!.
Alargaret T.. daughter of Colonel Thompson,
of East Windsor (now Melrose) Connecticut,
who died in 1852. Children, two by first mar-
riage: I'rances : George: James Harper, re-
ferred to below ; Warren.
(HI) James Harper, son of Davicl Talcott
and .Margaret T. ( Tiiom])son ) .Smith, was
I)orn at A'ernon, Connecticut, .^eiiteniber 27,
1834. and is now living at Somerville. New
Jersey. When he was nine years old lie went
to Ellington Centre to live, and three years
later began working on a farm. After one
year of this labor he entered the woolen mills
at Rockville, Connecticut, and later those at
Warehouse I'oint. in the latter of which he
remained until he became su])erintendent. His
ability was such and so recognized that while
he received many offers to take charge of
various plants that had been only partially
successful, in order to put them on a paying
and prosperous basis. During the civil war he
was at Newark. New Jersey, working for
Henry ( lardner. where he had charge of two
mills. He then removed t(i Raritan, where
there was a small mill in opcratiori emploving
about thirty hands, and here his executive
and business ability made itself so plainly man-
ifest that he eventually developed the plant
into two large mills which at the time of his-
retirement employed thirteen hun<lred hands.
In these mills Mr. Smith became part owner.
and the business management nf the mills
was turned over to his son^ whose early
death put an end to what promised to be a
very brilliant career. Mr. Smith is a very
public spirited man. and very energetic and
broadminded. He is independent in politics,
and a communicant of .St. John's Protestant
Episcopal Church in Somerville. He married,
in i860. Mary E.. daughter of Lemuel At-
water. of Wallingford, Connecticut. Child :
Henry .\twater.
(The Talcott Line I.
The Talcot or Talcott family came ijriginally
from county Warwick. England, and John
Talcott. the earliest known ancestor of the
family in America, and a descendant of the
Warwickshire Talcots, was living in Col-
chester, county Essex, England, as early as
1558. when his arms are recorded in a visita-
tion of county Esse.x. He died in Colchester
about .November. iTioT). He married (first)
Wells, and (second) Alarie Pullen,
who survived him and died in Colchester, June
19. i<:)25. Children, three by first marriage : I.
Jolni referred tt) below. 2. Robert, died 1641 ;
married Joanna Drane ; became an alderman
and justice of the jjeace in Colchester. 3. A
daughter, married Barnard : children :
John and Mary Barnard. 4. Thomas, married
Margaret Biggs, of county Sufi'olk : tcxik
orders and became rector of the i)arishes of St.
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Alary and Mile End, Colchester, and chaplain
to the Earl Marshal of England. 5. Grace,
married, after 1606, John Death. 6. Joanna,
married, after 1606. Knewstable. 7.
Marie, married, after 1606, Marshall.
8. Erne, married, before i6ofi, Thomas Adler.
I). Ji>hn, who lived for a time with his half-
liruther John, and later went to Madrid, Spain,
where he became a prominent merchant.
( 11 ) John (2), son of John ( i ) and
( Wells ) Talcott, was born probably in Colches-
ter, county Essex, F.nglanii. previous to 1558,
and died in 1 Iraintree, about fourteen miles from
Colchester, early in 1604. lie married .\nne,
danghterof Wiliiam Skinner. Children : [.John,
referred to below. 2. Rachel living unmarried in
i(;23. 3. Anne. 4. .Mary, possibly married I'agot
Eggleston, in England, and emigrated with
him to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630,
and was mother of James and Samuel Eggles-
ton. 5. Grace, living and unmarried in 1623.
6. Sarah, living and unmarried in 1623.
(Ill) John (3), son of John (2) Talcott,
was born in Braintree, county Esse.x, England,
and died in Hartford, Connecticut, in March,
1660. By the death of his father in 1604 he
was left a minor and only son. He emigrated
to America with the company of the Rev. Mr.
Hooker, in the ship "Lion," Captain Mason
master, which sailed from England, June 22,
and arrived at Boston, September 16, 1632.
He settled first in New Town (now Cam-
bridge) where he was admitted freeman No-
vember 6, 1632. May 14, 1634, he was one of
the rei)resentatives of the general court, having
the previous February been chosen also select-
man of Newtown. He became the "fifth
greatest proprietor of houses and lands" in
Newtown, owning four houses in the west end
and keeping in repair thirty-six rods of public
fence. When Rev. Mr. Hooker removed Iiis
company to the Connecticut river, John Tal-
cott sold his Newtown possessions and re-
moved to Hartford, Iiaving previously sent
there a carpenter who built him a house which
was the first house built in Elartford, and was
on the ground where later the North Church
was erected. Here he took an active part in
the afl:'airs of the town, and was for many
years its representative in the general court,
and it was owing to him that the colony en-
gaged in the Pequot war. He was also one of
the chief magistrates of the colony until his
death. He married Dorothy, daughter prob-
alilv of Mark Est], and Frances (Cutter")
Mott, of Braintree, county Essex, England :
(see Mott). Children: i. Marv, died about
1(155 ; married, June 28, 1649, I^'-'V- John Rus-
sell. 2. John, died July 2J,. \()8H; married
(first) Octiiber 29, 1650, Helena Wakeman ;
(second) November 9. 1676, Mary Cook, 3.
Samuel, referred to below.
(IV) Captain Samuel, son of ]ohn (3) and
Dorothy (Mott) Talcott, was born probably
in New Town (now Cambridge) Massachu-
setts, about i')34, and died in Wethersfield,
Connecticut, November 10, 1(191. He gradu-
ated from Harvard College in 1658, and was
made freeman of Connecticut in 1662. His
father settled him on land he had bought in
Wethersfield, and here from 1(169 to 1684 he
was commissioner, and from 1(370 to 1684
dejiuty to the general court, of which he was
the secretary during the October session of
1684 in the absence of Colonel Allyn. Mav 16,
1676, he was appointed one of the standing
committee who had charge of all affairs aris-
ing between sessions of the court. The fol-
lowing year he was chosen lieutenant of the
train band, and two years later lieutenant of
the troop. ( )ctober 16, 1681, he was elected
captain of the Hartford county troop. FVom
1683 until his death, except during the admin-
istration of Andros, he was assistant. He was
also one of the original proprietors of Glas-
tenbury, and was the scholar of the family.
From him and his brother John Talcott are
descended all persons of the name in America.
He married (first) Hannah, daughter of Eli-
zur and Mary ( I'ynchon ) I lolyoke ; ( see Floly-
okc) ; (second) August 6, 1679, Mary ,
who survived him and died January 5, 1710-
ir. Children: i. Samuel, born 1662; died
April 28, 1698 : married Mary Ellery prob-
abl}'. 2. John, born 1663; died young. 3.
Hannah, born i(i(j5 ; died July 27,, 1741 ; mar-
ried, November 25, 1686, Alajor John Chester,
of Wethersfield. 4. Elizur, born July 31, 16(39:
married Sarah . 5. Joseph, born Feb-
ruary 20, i(')7i : died November 3, 1732; mar-
ried, April 5, 1701. Sarah Deming. 6. Benja-
min, referred to below. 7. Rachel, born April
2, 1676; died November 22, 1702; married,
Marcli 21, 1700, Peter Bulkley ; no children.
8. Nathanael, born January 28, 1678; died
January 30, 1758: married, March 18, 1703,
Elizabeth F'attin.
(V) Deacon Benjamin, son of Captain
Samuel and Hannah (Holyoke) Talcott, w'as
born in Wethersfield, Connecticut. March i,
1674, and died in Glastenbury, Connecticut,
November 12, 1727. He settled in Glasten-
bury, where he built his house in 1699, on the
farm given ti> him by his father's will. It
STATE OF NEW |I:KSI':\'.
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was a large wooden structure situated on the
main street of the town, was well fortified,
and was used as a place of refuge during the
frequent attacks of the Indians. The bullet
marks on it could be distinctly seen until its
removal in 1854. The property is still owned
(1910) by some of his descendants. He mar-
ried. January 5, iC)99, Sarah, daughter of
John and Sarah ((Soodrichi jlollister: (see
llollister). She died in childbed. October 15,
1715. and he married (second) the "wife" re-
ferred to in his will. Children, all by first
marriage: I. Sarah, born October 30, 1699;
died July 15, 1743: married, November 28.
1 71 7, Jonathan Hale. 2. Benjamin, referred
to below. 3. John, born December 17, 1704:
died August 25, 1745: married. 173 1. Lucy
Hurnham. 4. Hannah, born October 16. 1706;
died February 6, 1790 ; married. January 30,
1729. Benjamin Hale. 5. Samuel, born Feb-
ruary 12. 1708: died September 26, 1768:
married, October 5, 1732, Hannah Aloseley. 6.
Idizur. born December 31. 1709: died Novem-
ber 24. 1797; married. December 31. 1730,
Ruth Wright. 7. Mehitable, born July 17,
1713; died April 20, 1781 ; married Hezekiah
\\'right. 8. Abigail, born October 10: died
October 28, 1715.
(\'r) Benjamin (2) son of Deacon Benja-
min (I) and Sarah (Hollister) Talcott, was
born in Cdastenbury, Connecticut, June 27,
1702, and died in Bolton, Connecticut. March
9, 1785. He was a farmer, and lived on land
in Bolton which he had inherited from his
father. He married (first) August 26. 1724,
Esther, daughter of John and Mindwell ( Pom-
eroy) Lyman, of Northampton. Massachu-
setts, who was born l-'ebruary 15. 1698. He
married (second) Deborah Gillett. Children,
five by first marriage: i. Benjamin, referred
to below. 2. Joseph, born January 31. 1728;
died June 10. 1789; married January 9. 1753,
Eunice Lyman. 3. Caleb, born August 1 1 ,
1730; died young. 4. Caleb (2d), born 1732;
died in April, 1802: married. March 27, 1759.
Martha Parsons. 5. Esther, born July 24,
1736; died May 23, 1808. 6. Lucy, married
Benjamin Wells. 7. Sarah, married John
Carver. 8. Seth, born December 26, 1742;
died 1826; married. April 21, 1763, Anna
White, g. John, married Sarah Stimsou. 10.
Phebe. married Hezekiah Wells. 11. .Anna,
married Elkanah Porter. 12. Deborah.
(XTL) Deacon Benjamin (3) son of Benja-
min (2) and Esther (Lyman I Talcott, was
born in Bolton. Connecticut, June 10. 1725,
and died there, on land inherited by his father.
April 18. iSii. llcm.'irried. March 15. 1753,
Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Smith) Lyman, of Coventry, Connecticut,
who was born May 10, 1730, and died Sep-
tember 3, 1810. Children: i. Benjamin, born
May 9, 1754: died ]'"ebruary i. 1829; married,
October 31. 1782, Jerusha Olmstcad. 2. Eli-
jah, born June 22, 1755: died February 8,
1820: married. November 17. 1779, Rebecca
Olmstead. 3. Samuel, born April 7. 1757;
died May 26. 1813; married. .September 8,
1791, Sarah Smith. 4. Phineas. born Decem-
ber 14. 1758; died December 17, 1835; mar-
ried. November 26, 1789, Hannah Kellogg. 5
Elizabeth, born December 6, 1760; died 1846;
married Theophilus Griswold. 6. Daniel, born
July 29, 1762; died November 10. 1807; mar-
ried (first) Betsey Keeney ; (second) Abigail
Holt. 7. Jacob, born February 9. 1766; died
November 27. 1835 ; married. October 21,
1795. Anna Carpenter. 8. Rachel, twin with
Jacob; died September 24, 1805; married. De-
cember 3, 1788, Samuel Howard. 9. Olive,
referred to below. 10. Esther, born May 7,
1770; died February 17, 1813; married Alex-
ander Keeney. 11. Alvan, born November 2,
1773; died November 22, 1835; married, No-
vember 8, 1797, Philamela Root.
(\'ni) Olive, daughter of Deacon Benja-
min (3) and Elizabeth (Lyman) Talcott. was
born in Bolton. Connecticut, January 20. 1768,
and died at \'ernon. Connecticut. May 19,
1829: she married David Smtih, ((|. v.).
(The Mott Linei.
Thomas ]\Iott. of Braintree. county Essex,
England, was the owner of Sheme Hall. Lex-
enden hundreds, and of other real estate in
1599. He married Alice Mead.
(H) Mark, son and heir of Thomas and
Alice (Mead) Alott, was born in Braintree,
county Essex, England, Aj^ril 23. 1549, and
was buried there 1 'ecember 14, 1637. He
married Frances Gutter, w'ho was buried in
Braintree. P'ebruary 27,. 1615. Children: I.
PVances. married Francis Forward, of Hart-
ford. England. 2. Thomas, married a daugh-
ter of John Bend. 3. Andrian. liaptized March
29, 1758; married (first) Jane Wade (second)
Catharine Kempc. 4. Mark, married Nancy
Tichburne; took orders and received D. D.
degree. 5. John, married .Alice Harrington,
f). lames. 7. I])orotliy. referred to below. 8.
Sarah, married (first) Robert Tenborough,
(second) Sir John Henley. 9. Dorcas.
(Ill I Dorothy, daughter of Mark and
l'r:mces (^(hitter) Mott was born in Braintree,
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STATK OF NEW JERSEY.
county Essex, England, and dietl in Hartford.
Connecticut, after September 22, 1669. She
married John Talcott (q. v.).
(Till- Holyoke Lino).
Edward llolyoke, of 'I'annvortb.. county Suf-
foli<, England, resided in Lynn. Massachusetts,
as early as 1630, and was admitted freeman
tliere in I'l^S. He removed to Springfield,
Massachusetts, and after remaining there for a
while returned to England and died at Rum-
sey. where he owned a large estate. May 4,
1660. lie married, June 18, 1(112, Prudence,
daughter of Rev. John Stocktiin, of .Mchester
and Kingholt. Children: 1. Edward, dieil
December t,o. 1I131, aged thirteen years. 2.
John, died i(>35. 3. Elizur, referred to below.
4. John, died April 24, 1 64 1. Elizabeth, mar-
ried (ieorge Kcyser. 6, Ann, married, (.)cto-
l)er 17. I'u.S, riioiuas I'utnam. 7. .Mar_\-, mar-
ried, h'ebruary 10, 1(147. Jnhn Tuttle. 8. Sus-
anna, married, September 12, i()5fi, Michael
Martin, g. Sarah, married Andrews.
(II) Elizur, son of Edward and Prudence
(Stockton) Holyoke, was born in Tamworth,
county Suffolk, England, and died in Sjiring-
field, Massachusetts, February 6, UiyU. lie
was a ]jrominent man in the Massachusetts
colony, and held various offices of trust under
the government. He married (first) May 20,
1640, Mary, daughter of Hon. W'illiam I'vnch-
on, one of the original settlers of the Massa-
chusetts Piay colony, a ])atentee und^r the
charter of Charles I.. March 4, 1620, and the
same year chosen assistant magistrate by the
general court of the colony in London. He
emigrated in 1630, settled in Ro.xbury, was
later chosen treasurer of the company, and be-
came one of the original settlers of S|)ringfield,
Massachusetts, returned to t^ngland in 1652,
and died at his country seat at \Vraisburgh on
the Thames, in ( )ctober, i6(i2. He was twice
married, and by his first wife, wdio died before
he left England, he had among others Mary,
died October 2(1. 1(157, as referred to above.
Elizur Holyoke married (second)
Stebbins, widow of John Maynard, and also
of Robert Day, of Hartford. Children, all by
first marriage: 1. John, born August 2/. i()4i,
died October 8, 1(341. 2. John, born August
5. 1642: died February ('>, 1712. 3. Hannah,
referred to below. 4. Daughter, bcirii dead.
May 21, 1646. 3. Samuel, born June 9, i(')47;
died October 31, 1676. 6. Edward, born Au-
gust 8, 1649: died June 16, 1708. 7. Pllizur,
born October 13, 1651 ; died August 1 1, 171 1 ;
luarried, January 2. 1(178, Mary, tlaughter of
Jacob Eliot. 8. .Mary, born November 14,
i()S('i: died piK- 14. idjS: married Tames Rus-
sell
( 111 ) Hannah, daughter of Hon. Pllizur and
Mary ( Pynchon ) Holyoke, was born in .Spring-
field, Massachusetts, June 9, i()44, and died in
\\ ethersfield, Connecticut, I'ebruary 2, 1678.
She married .Xovember 7. idhi. Captain Sam-
uel Talcott (i|. V. )
(Tlie HoUister Line),
J he Hullister family of P.ristol, pjigland, is
a^ old as the reign of Plenry \'III. Jolm Hol-
hster, a descendant of this family, was born
in (ilastonhury. England, in i()i2, and settled
iri W'ethersfield, Connecticut, in i(.)42. and was
admitted freeman May 10, 1643, at Weymouth,
Alassachusetts, In the latter colony he was
representative to the general cnurt the same
year. He returned later to W'ethersfield. where
PiC held the office of representative to the gen-
lal court of the Connecticut colony from 1655
until his death in A])ril. ifi65, and wdiere he
became engaged in a church controversy with
Ptv. John Russell, which resulted in the re-
moval of the latter to Hadley. He married
J< ann:i, daughter of Robert Treat Sr., wdio
died in i(«')4. Children: i. John, referred
tci below. 2. Stephen, married (first) Abigail
'I'reat, ( second ) Elizabeth, widow of Jonathan
Reynolds. 3. Thomas, married (first) Eliza-
l)eth Latimer, (second) Elizabeth Williams. 4.
Joseph, died .\ugust 29, 1674. 5. Lazarus,
born 1(15(1: died in September, 1709. 6. Mary,
married Jnhn Wells. 7. Sarah, died December
8, 1(191 ; married (first) Rev. Hope Atherton,
of Hartford, (second) Timothy Raker. 8.
F^lizabeth. married Samuel Wells.
( II ) John (2). son of John ( i ) and Joanna
( Treat ) Hollister, was born in Wethersfield,
between 1642 and id-H, and died in (daston-
bury, Connecticut, November 24, 171 1. He
married, November 20, 16(17, Sarah, daughter
(if William and Sarah (Marvin) (Goodrich,
who died in 1700. Children: i. John, born
-August q, 1669: died December 13, 174! ; mar-
ried .\bia, daughter of Lieutenant Thomas
Hollister. 2. Thomas, born January 14, 1672;
died October 12, 1 741 ; married Dorothy Hill.
3 Joseph, born July 8, 1(174: ''''?^1 '" JwIY'
174(1: married (first) .Ann : (second)
Sarah . 4. Sarah, referred to below.
5. Elizabeth, born March 30, 1678; died in
childhood. 6. David, born November 21, 1681 ;
died December 2j, 1753: married Charity
STATI'. OF NEW |1•:KSF,^•.
i.i;ii
. 7. Ephraim ( lrc<.'ii. 8. Cliark'S. Imrii
July 29. 16S6. 9. Elizalietli. niarricd Dr. Jo-
seph Steel.
(Ill) Sarah, daughter of John ami Sarah
((lOO(lrich) Ilolli.ster. was bopii in Wcthcrs-
field, Connecticut, October 25, iCtjCt. and died
in ("ilastonhurv, Connecticut, October 13, 1715.
She married January 3. 1(198, Deacon llenja-
niin Talcott (n. v. I.
In his ".Xnnals of Xewtown,"
l\ll\h^i\ James Riker says. "The Rikcrs
were originally a Cjerman family,
located at a very remote period in lower Sax-
ony, where they enjoyed a state of allodial
independence, at that day regarded as consti-
tuting nobility. They there ])ossessed the
estate or manor of Rycken. from which they
tiiok their name, then written von Rycken.
indicating its territorial derivation." This
would favor the proposed etymology of the
name as from the German "Reich." meaning
"kingdom." or "realm :" but in the Dxitch
forms of the name we do not find as we
should the Dutch "van" corres]5onding to the
French "de" and the English "of." but the
Dutch "de," an entirely different prefix corre-
sponding to the English "the;" as in Holland,
the name assumes the various forms of de
Rycke. de Ryk, de Riecke. etc.. which would
support the other proposed derivation as from
the same root as the German "Reiche," mean-
ing the "rich."
One of the lords of the above mentioned
manor and a valiant knight was Hans von
Ryken. who with his cousin Melchior. the
latter a native of Holland, particij^ated in the
first crusade in 1096. heading a band of 800
crusaders in the army of Walter the Penni-
less. In this ill-fated expedition Hans per-
i>lied. but his cousin lived to return home.
From this period also, if not actually in com-
memoration of this event, comes the coat-of-
arms. which has generally been adopted by
the Riker families in this coimtry. namelv :
".Azure, a white rose between three si.x pointed
stars, or : Crest : a white rose between two
horns ; Motto : Honor virtutis jiraemium
("Honor is valor's reward"). In addition to
this coat, several others have at different
times been granted to different members of the
family.
Another famous member of the faiuilv. who
is generally believed to be great-grandfather
of the founder of the branch in tliis country,
was Jacob Simonsz de Ryk. a "man of noble
blood, who held a position of considerable
wealth and imjMirtance in .\mst.erdam. where
for more tlian two centuries his ancest(jrs had
occupied places of public trust and honor.
When the Duke of .\lva. the ferocious emis-
sary of Kin.g rhili]) 11. of Spain, began his
bloody rejirisals for the uprising of the Nether-
landish nobles, a number of Frisians left I-'ries-
land and (ironingen. the greater part of them
joining Count Hendrik van ISrederode at
.Amsterdam. .Several of these, in .August.
1367. were captured, imprisoned and executed,
and the remainder took to the sea. harassing
Sj)anish commerce and the coasts of Hollan(l,
which it ke[)t up for the next four or five
years, more or less sup])orted by William the
Silent. I'rince of Orange, who finally a]i])ointe(l
as their leader the Count de la Alarck. who
initiated the long struggle for independence
kriown as the "Revolt of the Netherlands."
by the ca]iture of liriel. A]iril i. 1372. This
band of adventurers received the name of
\\ ater-Ciuezen. or Sea Beggars, by which they
have ever since been known. One of the cap-
tains who took part in the ca])ture of PSriel
was Jacob Simonsze de Ryk. and immediately
after, with .Nicolaas Bernard and Eloy Rudam.
he was despatched to England to spread the
news of the conquest among the exiles and to
re(|uest assistance in men and money. In this
he was successful, but as he had entered an
English harbor contrary to the royal decrees,
his ships were seized and he himself was
brought before the Queen, where he made so
successful a defense that Her Majesty told
him sim])ly. "not to cause any disturbance in
her realm, and to depart immediately for
home." Consequently, a few days later. De
Ryk set sail with his three shi]js and more
than five hundred auxiliaries. Off the head-
land of Dover he fell in with a party of fugi-
tives from the town of Flushing, which had
just succeeded in expelling their Sjianish gar-
rison and were in need of aid in order to pre-
serve their new and hardly won liberty.
.Assembling a council of war. De Ryk and his
Companions determined to change their destin-
ation from Briel to h^lushing. where they
arrived .April 10. 1372. just in time to prevent
the city's falling again into the hands of the
S])aniards and to hold the town until fresh
reinforcements made the indeiiendence of the
place certain. Leaving t'"lushing. De Ryk went
to Zuyderhof)f. where he was informed that
the S])aniards were at Zandyk. intending to
atteni])t retaking the town of A'eer. .Attack-
ing and defeating these forces. De Ryk now
rendered such important services in rescuing
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
I lie city tliat he was appointed as a reward
for his efforts, Admiral of Veer, and in this
capacity rendered invaluable aid to the cause
of his country's freedom. Being captured dur-
ing the unsuccessful expedition upon the city
of Tholen, he was one of five prisoners of war
for whose ransom William of C)range held
as hostage the Sjianish general Alondragon,
whose forces were defeated before Middle-
burg.
( I ) The earliest representative of the family
in this country, and the founder of the branch
in which we are interested, was Gysbert or
Guisbert Rycken, who is said to have come
to Xew Amsterdam from Holland in 1630,
in one of the earliest of the vessels of the
West India Company, and to have received
extensive grants of land in different places,
the most extensive being at Xewton, Long
I'-land, which is said to have been a mile square
and to have included the island now bearing
his name. \'ery little is known concerning
h.ini, and the records which mention his name
are few and scanty. March 31, 1639, he
entered into an agreement with Jan Jacobsen
respecting the use of a farm and some cattle,
the record of which is preserved in the regis-
ter of the provincial secretary of New Amster-
dam ( vol. i. !>. <)0). and three months later this
contract became the subject of court proceed-
ings which were finally referred to arbitrators
to settle. Me died leaving a son Abraham
and one daughter. In the old Riker burying-
ground at. Xewton, Long Island, is a monu-
ment bearing the following inscription: "'The
grave of Abraham Riker, son of Abraham and
Margaret Riker; born 1655, died .-\ugust 20,
1746. in the gist year of his age: and in mem-
ory of his grandsire, ( iuisbert Riker, a native
of Holland, who came to America in 1630,
obtained a patent for land at the Bowerv bear-
ing date 1^32." Around this monument are
grouped the graves of generation after gener-
ation of the Rikers. and the inscriptions on
the tombstones form a very interesting chap-
ter of the family history.
( II ) .\braham, only son of record of Gys-
bert Rycken. was born in ihiq. and died in
1689. Me seems to have accompanied his
father from Holland, and about six vears
after the latter had received his patent for his
Newton land, to have obtained a grant from
the West India Comjiany of a tract of land
adjoining for himself, wliich he had patented
to him two years afterwards by Governor
Kieft. The grant to his father was in 1632.
that to liini>elf in i'i3S. and his patent is dated
.August 8, 1640, signed by William Kieft.
director-generall. F"ebruary 26, 1654, he re-
ceived the ground brief of a farm which
tiu'ned out afterwards to be incluiled in the
grant that had been previously made to the
Uutcli Church in New .A.msterdam for an
"Arnien liouwerie." June 3, 1655, Rev. Dr.
Johamies Megapolensis. the Dutch miifister at
Xew Amsterdam, and Johannes de Peyster,
deacon and schepen of the city, appeared
before the council and stated in behalf of the
board of overseers of the poor, "that said
board had some time ago bought for the behalf
and best of the poor a certain bouwery situate
on the other side of Hellgate, and that the
Hon<irable Director (general Petrus Stuyves-
ant had given to the board a piece of land near
the said bouwerie. which annex they intended
in time to turn into a new plantation or bou-
werie. when God's blessing had increased their
stock of cattle." They had discovered, how-
ever, that "this piece of land or a part of it
had afterwards been given to one .\braham
Rycken, but as the said Abraham R}'cken is a
poor man who has no more than he can earn
with his hands, they are neither able nor will-
ing to disturb him : yet they have cause to
remonstrate, because the said .Abraham
Kycken closed up and fenced in a public road,
whicli had been in use as such for many years,
to the great prejudice and disadvantage of the
said bouwerie of the poor. They request there-
fore most respectfully, that the said Abraham
Rycken be directed and ordered to remove
the ])Osts and rails or palisades erected by him
and to make the road and then leave it as it
had been formerly and long before he came
there. They give also to understand, that the
small island obliciuely opjiosite the said Poor
Farm, comiuonly called Iluelicken, or Borger
Jorissen Island, would be very suitable, useful
and profitable to their board for the pastur-
ing of their ])igs and cattle, and requested
tlierefore that if it had not been given to
others it might he given and granted to the
board for the benefit of the poor." To this
petition the council re])lied "that a committee
shall be appointed to proceed and inspect the
road closed up by Abraham Rycken: as to the
island, it had been granted away a long time
ago." The island referred to w'as Hewlett's
or Suyster's Island, called "Huelicken,"
because ac<|uired by "huewelyck," or marriage.
To the above incidents may be traced the
origin of the name "Poor Bowery," by which
the old Riker plantation at Newtown has been
known for centiunes. .\ugust i<), 16(14, Gover-
STATR OF XKW II'.RSKY.
i4.?3
nor Peter Stu\ \f>aiU patented tn Abraham
Kxcken the wliole of his Loii}^ Island property,
which included not only what he had procured
tor himself, but also Riker's Island and the
other tracts of his father (iyshcrt Ryken. and
three years later, after the surrender to the
English, Governor Xicolls, December 24, UM^J,
confirmed the patent.
In 1642, in company with Jan ricterseii,
from .Amsterdam, .Abraham Rycken obtained
a patent to a house and lot "ne.xt door to Mas-
ter Heyl." at v\hat is now the northwest cor-
ner of liridge and Broad streets, .\pril 4,
1642, I'ietersen and Rycken sold this land to
Michel I'iciu.et, a [-"renchman from Rouen.
Xormandy. wIkj in turn leased it August 28,
1643. to Teiniis t'raie. November 20, 1642,
Pietersen and .Abraham Rycken procured
patent for another lot C(-)ntaining fifteen rods
near Fort Amsterdam, which was apparently
sold to Mighiel Panllusseu, as May 6, if^H.S.
.Abraham Rycken obtained a judgment in his
favor from the court in an action he had
brought against that person for the price of
the land. February 4, 1646, he obtained a
third patent for "a lot on the Graft on Man-
hattan Island, ne.xt to Adriaen \'incent and
Laurens Petersen and heretofore occupied by
P'eter the Italian." This man was Pietro
Alberts, and the tract extended along the east-
erly side of the ditch that ran down the middle
of the present Broad street and gave it its
name of Heere Graft, in remembrance of the
street in old .Amsterdam bearing the same
name. The Broad street frontage of the two
Ic'ts owned by .Adriaen \ incent and .Abraham
Rycken was about two hundred feet, and
extended from the north corner of the present
South William street to a narrow crossroad,
later known as Prinse street, and which some-
what widened e.vists to-day as an easterly
extension of ISeaver street. January 29, 165 1.
.Al)raham Rycken sold one half of his lot to
Jochem Beeckman, a shoemaker; and on the
c-ther lialf, upon wdiich as early as 1647 he had
built a house, he seems to have lived himself,
or rather to have kejit the property as his town
house and the centre of his trading operations,
spending at least ])art of his time after i()55
en liis farm on Long Island. Previous to this
date the latter property had been occu])ied by
William Hutchinson, who held it under a lease
<!ated July 2, K)4,S-
In 1656, .Abraham Rycken made a voyage
to the Delaware in hojjes that he might be
able to procure there the skins which the West
India Company's laws forbade him dealing
in ill .\ew Am-teniam. Ascending the river
in canoes, the boat in which he and his com-
panions were was stranded near the falls of
the river and had to be unloaded before it
could be gotten again afloat. Bidding his boat-
men encamp on the banks of the river until
hi.s return, .\braham Rycken visited I'orl
Casimir, near .\'ew Castle, \vhere he learned
that his efforts to obtain peltries would prove
almriive. He then returned to .\'ew .Amster-
dam, and some time afterwards he took up
his i)ermanent residence on his farm at the
poor Bower)-. In Dominie Hendrik Selyn's
list of the members of the Dutch Cliurch in
Xew York in i68fi, .Abraham is noted as one
of the five families living on the ".Arms Bou-
werie," and in \'alentine's list of the owners
of houses and lots in Xew .Amsterdam in 1674
the residents of that part of the Heers Graft
on which his house had stood, instead of read-
ir;g .\driaen \'incent, Simcjn I'elle, .Abraham
R)-cken and Jochem Beeckman, reads .Adriaen
N'incent. Johannes de Peyster, John X'incent,
.Anna N'incent, Claes Lock, William Bogardus,
Dirck Clajen, Margaret Backer and Jochem
I'-eeckman, showing not only that the property
liad changed hands, both Felle and Rycken
liaving sold out, but also that the city was
rapidly being built u]), the two lists showing
the difference between 1655 and twenty years
later. Xovember 25, 1683, Governor DongaiJ
gave Xewtown a patent of the land granted to
the inhabitants in 1652 by Stuyvesant, and in
the list of 107 patentees named .Abraham
Ricke is the twenty-second. His will is dated
March 9, 1688, and the inventory of his per-
sonal estate .Ai)ril 3, 1689. They are recordcfl
ill Jamaica deeds liber .\, p. 36,
.Abraham Rycken married (jrietje or Mar-
garet Hendrikse, daughter of Hendrik Har-
niensen, whom James Riker in his ".Annals of
.Xewtown" sa\s may be regarded "as the first
white man that turned a furrow in that sec-
tion of the township." llarmensen died pos-
sibly in the Indian massacre of 1643, and two
years later his widow Tryon Her.xer married
Jeuriaen Fradell, a native of .Moravia, .\bra-
hani and (jrietje (Hendrikse) Rycken had
children: I. Ryck, changed his name to Lent,
became ancestor of the family of that name,
removed, to Westchester county, Xew York,
and was one of the original jiatentees of the
famous Ryck's patent, 2. Jacobus, born 1640,
(lied in infancy. 3. Jacobus, born i64.3- joined
his lirother Ryck in procuring Ryck's patent,
but in 1713 sold his interest to his nejihew
I lerculo Lent, lived at l'])per Yonkers, and
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died witliuut issue. 4. llendrick, horn 1646.
died young. 5. Marytje, born 1649. married
Sibout H. Krankheyt. (x Jan, referred to
later. 7. Aletta. liorn 1(153. niarried Jan Har-
niense. 8. Abraiiam, born 1035, tlicd August
20, I74''>: married Grietje Janse van lUiyten-
huysen. g. Hendrick. born iW)2. joined his
brothers I\)ck and Jacolnis, and changed liis
name to Lent.
(Ill) Jan. sixth child and fifth son of
Abraham and (h-ietje Ilendrikje ( Harmensen)
Rycken, was born in 1I151. Me was more or
less of a roving character. In 1680 his name
api^ears on a "list of those in l~lushing who
paid on the minister's salary." ( )n this list he
signs his name Jan Rycker, which is the first
known occurrence of the name's being spelt
with the final "r." October 24, 1691, he mar-
ried Sara, daughter of Jan Schouten and Sara
Janseu. and widow of I'aulus Faulussen Van-
(lerbeck. Faulus \'anderbeck Sr. was a man
of some consequence in the colony and among
the earlier settlers, obtaining his first land
patent Alay 12, 1646. He was fourth husband
of Marytje Tomas, whose first husband was
Adam Brouwer, her second. Jactjb X'erdon.
and her third. Willem Ariaensen Bennet, by
all of whom she had had children. Jan
Rycker and Sara Schouten had four children
liaptized in the Dutch Church in New York :
Abraham, referred to below: Helena, or Lena,
baptized March 24, i'>j6, married Jan Dool-
hagen ; Elizabeth, Se]itember 22, 1697; Eliza-
beth (2il), Ijaptized December 25. 1698.
(]\ ) Abraham, eldest child of Jan Rycker
and Sara Schouten, was baptized in the l])utch
Church in New York, February 13, 1695. -'^t
this time his parents ap]iear to have been living
on Staten Island, where Abraham himself
seems to have lived until some time after his
marriage, since his three oldest children were
baptized and recorded in the Staten Island
register. In 1728 he removed into what is now
Essex county. New Jersey, and he and his wife
were receivetl into the Dutch Church at Sec(jnd
River, where the two youngest of his chiMren
were baiitized. By his wife. Anneke Oliver,
Abraham Rycker (or, as his name is more
often spelt in the records, Rycke ) had five
children: h'emmetje. baptized August 17.
171S, married August 12, 1740, in Second
River Dutch Reformed Church, Abraham
Steegcr : Abraham Rycker, baptized January
15. 1721, niarried Marytje Rex; Isaac Riker.
referred to below : 1 lenricns. born November
II, 1731. baptized February 6. 1732: and
Matia. born May 14. 1734.
( \ ) Isaac, third child and second son of
Abraham and Anneke (Oliver) Rycker, was
burn February 8. 1728. and baptized at Staten
Island, April 28 same year. As is the case
with his father, the date and place of his death
i s unkn(_i\\ n : tradition asserts that he lived to
a good old age. and that he was an old man
when he married his third wife. January 29,
1 75 1, when he married his first wife, Annetje
I'.gberse, he was living at the Ganegat or
Florseneck: his wife came from Acijuackonock,
the present Passaic. He acciuired a farm of
180 acres of land at X'erona, at the head of
X'erona Lake, on I\'eknian's brook, extemling
along both sides of the turnpike. The ]3roperty
descended to his two sons by Annetje Egberse,
and a part of it still remains in the hands of
tlie elder son's descendants. The first son,
Feter, born August 27. 175 1, died /Vugust 2,
i8o(). niarried Martha Corby, who survived
him twenty-six years and twenty-six days,
dying August 28, 1832, and buried beside her
liusbantl in the cemetery of the Mrst Presby-
terian church at Caldwell. Isaac, second son
of Isaac and .\nnetje (Egberse) Riker, mar-
ried December 19, 17(35, Susanna, daughter of
Samuel and Maria ( Vanderhoef ) Pier, and his
descendants are still living near Caldwell.
The youngest child of Isaac and Annetje Riker
was Maria who niarried .Abraham Brooks.
With this last named son-in-law Isaac Riker
seems to have had considerable trouble, as
the court records contain a number of refer-
ences to suits between them, and there are also
records of mortgages which Isaac was obliged
to ])lace upon his Verona Lake property, pos-
sibly in order to meet the expenses of this
litigation. Some time after liis first wife's
death. Isaac Riker niarried a second time, but
the date of the marriage and the name of his
second wife is unknown. According to family
tradition she was called "The Frenchwoman."
and there is perha]is some reason to suppose
that she was one of the Personettes. She bore
her husband no children, and after her death
he married (third) a wife whose name is lost,
and thev had chililren : i. Abraham, whose
descendants are still living around Caldwell. 2.
Catharine, born February 28, 178 1, died April
28, 1862: married (first) a Piers, (second)
Richard Oliver. 3. Jacob, of whom nothing
iiKire seems to be known. 4. Samuel, referred
to bel(iw. Isaac Riker probably died a few
vears after the birth of his youngest son.
since in 1797 his son Isaac mortgaged the
portion of his father's farm that he had inher-
ited, and it is known that the children of the
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tliiril marriage were linui.ylit up in tiie fami-
lies of friends and relatives.
(\'I ) Samuel, youngest child uf Isaac Kiker
1)\' his third wife, was horn in 1784. and died
August 24. 1849. I lis early life was passed
in the liome of Mr. (iould. who owned the
farm adjoining that which his father had left
to his children b\- his first wife. Like his
father he was a farmer, and spent his life on
liis farm at West lUoonifield. now Montclair.
He married Dorcas, daughter of Ilenry Isaacse
Jacobus. Children: 1. ICliza Riker. born .\"o-
\ember. 1808. died .August 4, i84(): married.
Xovember 26. 1852. John Wesley Hancock.
2 Stephen Riker, born February 8, 181 1, died
July II. 18:3. 3. Ste]ihen Riker (2). referred
to below. 4. George Riker, born in West
liloomfield. ^March 25. 1818. died ^Farch 20.
1904: married. September 17, 1843. Eliza B.
Silvey : children : i. Charles i'rederick. born
May 21. 1847. died October 5. US37 : ii. (ieorge
.\lbert, born Jul}' 21, 1830. died March 31,
1883. unmarried: iii. William Francis, born
Xovember 7, 1852. still living, married .\'o-
\ ember 6. 1872. 5lary E. Moore, and has four
children: iv. .Annie Isabella, born Xovember 4.
1836. still living, unmarried: v. James Linden,
Xovember 4. 1856, still living, married Sc])-
tember 24, 1902, Mary E. Burnett. 3. William
Riker, referred to below. 6. Edwin Riker.
born December 8, 1826, died October i. 1901 :
married. May 28. 1831, Matilda Tappan. and
had four children, three girls, all married, and
one now dead, and a boy, Herbert Morton,
born September 8, 1864, died .\pril 11, 1869.
( \'H ) Stephen, third child and eldest son
of .Samuel and Dorcas (Jacobus) Riker, was
born at West Bloomfiekl, May 2. 181 3. and
died in Xewark. .May 14. 1888. He married.
Xovember 6. 1839. Harriet Helen Kniffin :
children: i. .Anna Louisa Riker, born Xovem-
ber 28. 1840. (lied Xovember 4, 1870, unmar-
ried. 2. Samuel McDonough Riker, born
April 13. 1842. died Xovember 6, 1898; mar-
ried. October 8, 1867. .Anna .Augusta Jacobus:
one child. Joseph. 3. William l-'ortunatus
Riker. referred to later. 4. Harriet Riker. born
April 30. 1846, died Xovember 16. i8(>S: mar-
ried Frederick Williard Curtis Crane (See
Crane). 5. \alentine Riker. referred to later.
6. Emma Euphemia Riker, born October 23.
1851, still living: married June, 1871, David
Hall Chase. 7. George Oscar Riker, born Feb-
ruary 13, 1854, died .August i. 1833.
( \'HI ) William I^ortunatus. second child and
son of Stephen and Harriet Helen (Knififin)
Riker, was born at I'leasant X'allev. ('range
county, .Xcw \'ork. He received his early
education in the public and high schools of
I'leasant X'alley and .Xewark. Learning the
])rinting trade, he set u]) in business for him-
self as a job ])rinter and continued this tmtil
the outbreak of the civil war, when he enlisted
and served first in the Twenty-si.xth Xew Jer-
sey Regiment under Colonel Morrison, and
afterwards in the Thirty-seventh Regiment
Xew Jersey \ Ohmteers, as captain of Com-
I)an\- E, Colonel Grubb commanding. After
the war Mr. Riker removed to Xew York
state, but remained there only a short while,
returning in 1S66 to Xewark and entering the
employ of Robotham & Greacen, manufactur-
ers of harness ornaments. Here he remained
imtil his death, becoming in 1880 a member of
the firm, and in 1896 sole jiroprietor. Mr.
Riker's politics were Re])ublican ; and his clubs
were the Xorth End club and the West End
club. September 30. iSC)8, he married Julia
Bertram, daughter of Thomas Bertram Har-
rison, of Xew York City; children: i. William
Harrison Riker, born July 8, 1869: at present
agent of Prudential Insurance Company in
I'aterson, Xew Jersey ; married, .May 13, 1898,
.Atma Margaret Pokorney : children ; \\ illiam
Fortunatus, Donald Ikrtrani. Marjorie and
Helen. 2. Mary .Adelaide Riker, born .August
20. 1871, still living; married, June 24. 1908,
A'ance William Waterman, M. D., of \'er-
gennes, N'ermont. 3. Lewis Bertram Riker,
b( rn Ajiril 18. 1873, died September 24. 1877.
4. Julia Ethel Riker, born January 20, 1876;
lives unmarried, in Xewark. 3. Samuel Mc-
Donough Riker, referred to below. 6. Helen
Jr>se])hine Riker, born .April 30, 1884. still liv-
ing ; married Richard \\'atkins Foard (see
Foard). Mr. Riker died July 6, 1909.
(IX) Samuel AlcDonough. third son and
fifth child of William Fortunatus and Julia
I'lertram (Harrison) Riker, was born in Xew-
aik. March 26. 1879. For his early education
he attended the public and high schools of that
city and after graduation took a position as
clerk in the firm of Walter (Ireacen & Com-
pany, manufacturers of harness, jewelry and
ornaments. This was then and is now the
name of the old firm of Robotham & Greacen,
of which his father was proprietor ; and with
this firm Samuel McDonough Riker has con-
tinued ever since, becoming in u)(,-)j a member.
(October 28. 1903, he married Mignonette de la
l-'orce. daughter of James Langdon and
Frances Cook (Force) Marvin; children:
Monro Riker. born December 11, 1904: and
Barbara Riker. January 22. 1908.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
(VIU) \'ak-iitinf, third sun and fifth cliild
•of Stephen and Harriet Helen ( Kniffin ) Riker,
was born in Newark, February 14, 1848, from
which circumstance is derived his name.
After s^raduating from tlie pubhc and liigh
schools of Newark he entered the insurance
business and is now assistant secretary of the
I'rudential Insurance Company. His present
address is 336 I'ark avenue. East Urange.
November id, 1870, he married (first) Fannie
Francis Freeman, who died after bearing him
two children: i. Richard Leslie Riker, born
January 13, 1874: at present assistant cashier
of the I'rudential Insurance Company of New-
ark ; he is a retired commissioned officer in the
first battalion. Naval Reserves : he married
Mabel W., daughter of William and Rachel
Amelia ( Roberts ) Dixon. 2. Alice Freeman
Riker, married Walter E. Scarborough ; chil-
dren Duncan and Gerald. June 16, 1886, Valen-
tine Riker married (second) .Annie C). I'^rcund :
children: Margueretha H., Dorothy. Adelaide,
Harold. Ralph, Marion and Constance.
(\'I1 ) William, fifth child and s<in of Sam-
uel and Dorcas (Jacobus) Riker, was born
June Kj, 1822, at West ISloomfield, and died,
the patriarch of his branch of the family, at
his home, 639 Clinton avenue, Newark, De-
cember 2~ , 1897. He received a common
school educatiijn in Bloomfield, and when he
reached fifteen years of age, according to the
usual custom of that day, he was apprenticed
1(1 the firm of Taylor, Lialdwin iS: Company, not
only one of the earliest of the jewelry manu-
facturing firms of the city, but also the firm
ti I whom belongs the credit of first winning
extended fame for Newark handiwork in that
line of business. In 1837, when William
Riker began his ap])renticeship. the firm con-
.-.isted of John Taylor, Isaac liaklwin, and
I lorace E. P>aldwin, and it was the largest
and most important of the six then existing
firms. About eight years later Taylor dropped
out nf the firm, which then became Baldwin &
Company, and about the same time William
Riker. then a little more than twenty-one years
of age, set u]) in the jewelry business for him-
self, in .September, 184'), on Green street.
Some time afterwards William Riker took as
liis i^artner George H. Tay, and under the firm
name of Riker iS: Tay continued the business
until his partner was seized with the gold
fever and went to California among the early
' fcrty-niners." Horace Goble now took the
])lace of ( ieorge H. Tay, and the firm name
became Riker & ( ioble until about 1869 or
1870, when the Ijusiness removed to its present
location at 42-4') Court street, and Goble
resigning, William Riker again became sole
owner and manager. Several years later he
took his son William Riker Jr. into partnership
with him, and retiring from business in 1891,
left the firm to the control and management
of his two eldest sons, William and Joseph
Marsh Riker, who then changed the name of
the firm to the present firm of Riker Brothers.
At first, owing to a prejudice against home
products, jewelry made in this country met
with slight encouragement, and almost all the
large jewelry firms of Newark were obliged
to maintain tififices in New York, Philadelphia,
and the western cities where their goods could
be sold as the products of London or Paris.
Much as the jewelers resented this, it took
time, patience and courage to educate the
p/ublic into a proper appreciation of American
manufactures; and to the firm of Riker &
Goble is due the credit of being the first to
give up their New York office and salesroom,
at 3 Alaiden Lane, and of arranging to tran-
sact all of their business from their Newark
factory itself. For a number of years William
Riker lived with his family on Mulberry street,
Newark; but in 1857 he purchased a farm-
house property of twenty-one acres on the
newly laid out Clinton avenue, which was at
that time just becoming one of the popular
residential sections of the city, and here built
the house in which he spent the last forty years
of his life and in which his youngest son was
born. Mr. Riker was never a very robust man,
and for several years before his death was
confiiied more or less to his home, his last
illness being of about four weeks duration.
For many years he had been a member of the
First Presbyterian Church of Newark, and
Rev. Davi<l R. Frazer, D. D., pastor of that
church, officiated at the funeral, which was at
the house, the interment being in Mount Pleas-
ant cemetery, the pall-bearers being I>;aac
Champenois, Edward Kanouse, Joseph Grover
W ard, Samuel Streit, -Samuel Baldwin, Icha-
bod Dawson, William V. Snvder and Charles
S. Stockton, M. D. November 22, 1848, Will-
iam Riker married Sarah M. Hunter, who bore
him five sons: William, Joseph Marsh, Cort-
landt. Chandler White and Adrian, all of
whom are referred to below.
(\'III) William (2), eldest son of William
and Sarah H. (Hunter) Riker, was born in
Newark, January 14, 1850. and is now living
with his family at 1 1 1 Cleveland street.
Orange. For his early education he was sent
to private schools and later to the Newark
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Academy, after graduating from which he
entered into his father's factnr_v, where he
learned the jewelry trade, and later Ijecame
his father's ])artner, and in i8yi, when his
father retired, formed with his hrother Joseph
Marsh Riker the firm of Riker Brothers, of
which he is senior memher. Mr. Riker has
always been an active and enthusiastic Rejiub-
lican, and in 1893 received the appointment of
register of deeds for Essex county, a jjosition
he held for five years and relin(|uished in
order to acce])t the clerkship of the supreme
court of Xew' Jersey, to which he was appoint-
ed in 1897. He is a member of all the Alasonic
bodies, as well as of the Essex County Coun-
try Chib and of the Orange Club. In 1896 he
was elected a life member of the Xew Jersey
Historical Society. June 18, 1885, William
Riker Jr. married Jane Augusta, daughter and
child of Prosper F. Shaw, who has borne him
four children: Elsie Shaw Riker, born Sep-
tember 21, 1886; Eleanor Hunter Riker, De-
cember 31, ]888: Edith Catharine Riker, Jan-
uary 8, 1890; and Robert Johnson Riker, \'o-
vember 7, 1891.
(\'ni) Joseph Marsh, second son and child
of William and Sarah M. (Hunter) Riker.
was born in Newark, January 8. 1852. After
being educated in private schools he went to
work in his father's jewelry manufacturing
establishment, of which, on his father's retire-
ment in 1 89 1, he became junior partner. In
1902 he was elected president of the Aler-
chant's National Bank, of which his father at
the time of his death was one of the directors.
He is a Republican, but has held no office, and
he is a member of the Essex Club. May 18,
1881, Mr. Riker married Sara Ellen, eldest
daugliter of Samuel and Martha ( Smith )
Streit : children: i. Sara Streit Riker, born
February 6, 1882, married Andrew \'an Blar-
com, Esq., of 863 South Twelfth street, New-
ark, and has one child, Andrew-. 2. .Marian
Berrien Riker, born .Vpril 6, 1884: married
Franklin Conklin Jr., of 57 Johnson avenue,
\\ averly. 3. Joseph Marsh Riker Jr., born
January i8. 1889. 4. Marguerite Streit Riker,
born October_2i, 1891.
(X'lII) Cortlandt, third child and son of
William and Sarah M. (Hunter) Riker. was
born in Newark, February 20, 1854, .\fler
obtaining his eflucation at the public schools
and the Newark Academy, he went like his
brothers into his father's jewelry factory,
where he continued until his father's retire-
ment in 1 89 1, when he became treasurer of
the Rapid Transit Railroad Company, which
position he held until the consolidati(jn of the
.\ewark street railways in 1893. i" ^')Oi he
became one of the directors of the I'laintield
Street Railroad Comjiany, which runs between
Elizabeth and IMainheld. He is a member of
the Cnion ( lub ui .Xewark, and is unmar-
ried.
|\'1I1) Chandler White, fourth cliild and
son of \\ illiam and .Sarah Al. ( Hunter ) Riker.
was born in Newark, December 3, 1855, and
now lives w'ith his family at 422 Mount I'ros-
]iect avenue, in the same city. After receiving
lii> primary education at private schools he
(.nlered the Newark .Academy, where he was
]'repared for college, and (jn his graduation
there entered Princeton L'niversity, where he
leceived his degree in 1876. He then went to
Germany, where he undertook the mathemati-
cal course at the Polytechnic Institute of Han-
over, and attended courses of lectures on
astronomy ami Roman law at the University
of Berlin. Returning after this to this coun-
try, he entered the law school of Columbia
Cniversity, wdiere he graduated in 187c), being
admitteil to the bar as attorney that same year
and as counsellor in 1882. Being an active and
enthusiastic Re]niblican, Chandler White Riker
was a])i)ointcd in 1879 as counsel for Clinton
township. Newark, a position which he held
until 1902. V\'hile holding this office Mr.
Riker also acted as the counsel for two rail-
rciad companies, and for five years served as
county counsel for Essex. In 1898 he was
appointed prosecuting attorney for his county
and continued to act as such until 1903. In
1904-05 he was city counsel for Newark, and
(luring the same years acted as president of
the equal ta.x commission. In addition to this
he has been counsel for twenty-one municipal-
ities and corporations, among them being the
Merchants' National Bank and the Irvington
.National Bank. In 1895 he was offered, but
('eclined, the judgeshij) of the circuit court.
He is a member of Trinity Protestant Epis-
cr.pal Church, and belongs to the Essex Club,
the Somerset County Club, the York Harbor
Club, the Maine Country Chdi and the L'niver-
sity Club of Newark. October 15, 1891, Mr.
Riker married Mary Blair, youngest daugh.ter
of William \'. and Laura Adelaide (Blair)
Snyder ; children : dertrude Riker, born Feb-
ruary 14. 1895; Margaretta, November 28,
i8'>7: PVances, July 11, 1901; and William
Chandler Riker, October 17, 1904,
(\'III) .Adrian, youngest son of William
and Sarah M. (Himter) Riker, was born in
( linton townshij), Essex county. New Jersey.
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STATE OF NE\\' JERSEY.
August Id. 1858. lie attended the schools of
Newark, Newark Academy, and then entered
Princeton University, graduating in the class
of 1879. Having determined to adopt the law
as his profession, he became a student at the
Columbia Law School, from which he was
grailuated in 18S1, being admitteil that >ame
year tn the bar uf Xew \'iirk. lie was ad-
mitted to the bar of Xew Jersey as an attorney
in June, 1883, and was made a counselor-at-
l.'iw in June, 1887. Since his admission he has
been in successful practice in Newark, being
a memlier of the law hrm uf Riker iS: Riker,
his partner being his elder brother, Chandler
W bite Kiker. .Adrian Riker became master
iri chancery in 1884. He attained success in
h.is chosen career almost from the beginning,
and is recognized at the present time as one
of the ablest practiticincrs at the Essex county
bar, enjoying a large and influential clientile.
He has been connected with important litiga-
tion as counsel, acquitting himself with a skill
that has added greatly to his reputation. He
is convincing in argument, and is noted for
the care with which he guards his clients'
affairs. He is general counsel to a number of
the leading tirms and cor]3tirations of lisse.x
county, rendering therein efficient service. He
casts his vote with the Republican party, being
an active factor in their cam])ajgns. He was a
member of the state assembly in 1888-89, and
his record in that body proved creditable in
every way. .\s a citizen he is thoroughly iden-
tified with every movement wdiich has for its
object the welfare of the community. He
belongs to a number of clubs and organiza-
tions, in all uf which he is popular and influen-
tial. He married, December 2, 1891, Louise
C, daughter of Ichabod W. ami Mary L.
Dawson, of Newark, New Jersev.
(For ancesti-y see Chri.stopher Wliite 1).
( \T ) r.arclay, youngest son of
WHITE Jose])h ( q. v.) and Reljecca
( Smith ) White, was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, A])ril, 1821. He
was a prominent Republican of Burlington
county. New Jersey, and during the adminis-
tration of President Lllysses S. Grant he was
appointed superintendent of Indian Affairs
for the state of Nebraska. He removed to
Omaha, that state, which was for many years
liis home, ISarclay White married (first) Re-
becca Merritt, daughter of Restore Lamb, of
Burlington county. Lie married (second) Beu-
lah Sansom, daughter of James Shreve, who
was born near Jobstown, Burlington county,
New Jersey, in 1S15, her father being a pros-
perous farmer of that locality. Children, the
last three by second marriage: I. Howard, of
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. 2. Joseph J., of
Xew Lisbon, New Jersey. 3. George Foster,
president of Lansdowne and Darby Saving
bund and Trust Company, Lansdowne, Penn-
sylvania. 4. Barclay Jr., died at age twenty-
seven, in 1875. 5. Daniel Smith, referred to
below. '). Elizabeth, died in infancy. 7.
James, dieil in infancy.
(\''1I) Daniel Smith, onl_\' surviving child
of Barclay and I'.eulah Sansum (Shreve)
White, was b(jrn on a farm near Pine Lane
Station. Burlington county. New Jersey, De-
cember 5. 1853. He attended the ]niblic
schools of the ttmnship and the private school
of Caleb Llollowell, until reaching the age of
sixteen, when he entered Swarthmore College,
He did ncjt finish his full college course as he
intendetl, for his father's appointment to be
superintendent of Indians Affairs for Ne-
braska necessitated his removal there with his
family. They located in Omaha, where Dan-
iel secured an appointment in the Indian
Aft'airs office, where he remained three years.
He retired from the Indian office to become
receiving teller of the First National Bank of
Omaha. He resigned this position when later
he secured an appointment as Indian trader to
the Winnebag(.> Indians, on their Nebraska
reservations. For seven years Mr. WHiite re-
sided in Sheldon and northwestern Iowa. In
1886 he returned east and located in Atlantic
City, New Jersey, where he purchased an
interest in the Hotel Traymore, in company
with W. W. Green and G. E. Knight, this
association continuing until 1896, when Mr.
White became sole proprietor. In 1900 the
Hotel Traymore Company was formed, with
Mr. White as president. Extensive additions
were planned and carried through until now
( 1910) the Traymore, in adilition to being one
of the best of Atlantic City's famous hostel-
ries, is also one of the largest and handsomest.
These twenty years have witnessed the great
growth of Atlantic City as a summer and
winter resort, and Mr. W'hite has expanded
and prospered accordingly. The Traymore
has been enlarged to a capacity of si.x hundred
guests, and from a hotel accommodating in the
winter perhaps an average of forty, now has
an established business of two huntlred daily
all through the winter. Mr. White is an ideal
hoiel man, and the Traymore and Daniel S.
\\'hite are known from ocean to ocean.
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Friends, and of tlie Republican jjarty. In Kjod
he was appointed to till a vacancy in the city
council. His services in that bndy were so
well appreciatetl that at tlie fall t-kction of that
year he was elected for a full term of three
years. For the past two years he has been
chairman of the council's committee on finance.
His business interests are not confined to the
Traymore. He is vice-president of the < iuar-
antee Trust Company of Atlantic City, vice-
president of the Eastern Fire Insurance Com-
pany, treasurer of the Country Clul), director
of the \\'est Jersey Title Company, and of
the Sterling Realty Company. He is actively
interested in these substantial institutions, and
a valuable official. Besides giving his time to
Atlantic City in council service, he is a member
of the Business Men's League, the Hotel
Men's Association, director of the City Board
of Publicity, and chairman of the building
committee of the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation. There is no department of public,
official, or business life of Atlantic City that
has not in ^ir. White an interested friend. He
is successful in his private business, and uses
the same careful judgment and keen business
sagacity in the conduct of jiublic business and
in his official duties for the corporations he
serves.
Daniel Smith W hitc married, in June, 1S79,
Serena Bremer, born in June. 1X54, daughter
of Walter \\'. and Hannah C. (Caley) Green,
of Xewtown Square, Pennsylvania. .Mr. and
Mrs. White have no cliildren.
William K. \'an Note, the
\'.-\X NOTE first member of the family
of whom we have definite
information, lived near Farmingdale, Xew Jer-
sey. He was a farmer by profession. He
married Lydia Taylor. Children : Grandin ;
Hannah: Catherine; Calvin (iriswold. referred
to below ; James ^L ; Thomas.
(II) Calvin Griswold, son of William K.
and Lydia (Taylor) \^an Note, was born in
New Jersey, November 22, 1841, and died No-
vember 15, 1907. After obtaining his early
education at a public school he enlisted in the
47tli Regiment of Brooklyn. When discharged
from service he learned the car])enter's trade,
and started with his brother in a general
store. He then went to New York City for a
time, and later returned to Long l^ranch. Xew
Jersej', where he became a coal and wood
dealer. Mr. Van Note was a Democrat, a
member of Long Ijranch Lodge. Xo. 78, 1".
and .\. M., and a director of the Citizens'
Xational ISank. a trustee of the First Presby-
terian Church cif Long liranch. He married
Ruhanna Cam])field, daughter of Abraham
(jarrison and Sarah .\nn (Smith) Xeafie: (see
Xeafie). C.'hildrcn : 1. luigene Monroe, mar-
ried Helen r.artlctt : child, I'.artk'lt M. 2.
Clarence ( Irandin, referred tn below. 3.
Charles Sewall, died three years ohl.
(HI I Clarence (irandin. son of Calvin Gris-
wold and Ruhanna Cam])field (Xeafie) Van
Xote, was born at I'^armingdale, New Jersey,
December 3, 1H73. .\fter receiving his early-
education in the Long iSranch high school he
graduated from the Xew York Law School in
1895. having read law with the firm of C.
Ewing Patterson iK: \'an Xote. He was ad-
mitted to the bar as attorney in June, 1895.
^Ir. Van Note then entered into general jjrac-
tice. in which he has since attained prominence
and success. He has held the responsible pub-
lic offices of city solicitor and member of the
to\\'n commission. He is a member of .Abacus
Lodge, No. 182. F. and .\. ^L ; of Standard
Chapter Xo. .^5. R. .A. M., Corson Command-
ery. No. 15, K. T., and of Long Branch Lodge
Xo. 742, r,. P. O. E. In politics Air. Van
Note is allied to the Democratic party. He is
a member of the Protestant Episcopal church,
an.l at one time filled the offices of treasurer
and vestryman. He married, at Long Branch,
New Jersey, September 29, 1897, Amelie, only
daughter of Adolph and Bertha (Walzer)
Stempel. Children: Clarence Grandin Jr.,
born June 2, 1901 : Stempel. born February 10,
1905.'
(Tin- Xt-afie Lille).
(HI) Lee Cornelis, son of Johannes and
.-Vriaentje (Blyck) Xevius ((|. v.), was bap-
tized January 19, i6()i, at "The Ferry,"
Brooklyn, and died ncit earlier than 1707, the
vear of his youngest clnld's birth. Of educa-
tio!i in the modern sense of the word, he had
none, for he could not write his name. On a
list called "The X'aluation of Breuckelen,"
made September 2(). 1683. the assessable prop-
erty of "Cornelis Neafie" is thus noted: "I
poll /t8: 3 cnws £15. 1 do. 2 yrs. £2 10 s.
I do. I yr. £i los. — £t,/. .About 1685 he re-
moved with his family to Staten Islan<l, where
he resided imtil his death. "Cornelitis Xe-
pheus" has his name attached to a petition to
King William HI. He married, .\pril 15,
1683. .Agatha Joris. daughter of Joris Jacobs
and Trientye (Klaessen) liouman. who was
baptized in Brooklyn, June 12. 1661. Chil-
dren: Johamies, ba|)tized February 17, 1684,
died 16S6-1688: Joris, born abcnit 1686, mar-
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STATE 01< NEW JERSEY.
rieil Willcmptye I'.arkclve: Johannes, referrcil
to below: Arientye, Ijorn 1690, married, 1709,
Gerrit Kroesen ; Tryntje, born 1692-1098;
Marytje, baptized June 20, 1700; Sara, born
1702-1703: Cornelis, baptized October 22,
1707.^
( I\') Johannes, son of Cornehs and Agatha
Joris (llunman) Neafie, was born on Staten
Island, aljout 16S8, and died not earlier than
May I, 1743. He resided on Staten Island
until 1720 and then removed to Slotterdam,
Bergen county, New Jersey, where he lived
about twenty-three years. He then sold out
and removed probably to New Brunswick,
New Jersey, though possibly to The Ponds,
now Oakland, Bergen county, near Pompton.
While at Slotterdam he attended church at
Acquackanonck, Essex county, just across the
Passaic, and now the first Reformed Church
at Passaic. He was the progenitor of that
branch of the family of Nevius spelling their
name "Neafie," "Nafie," "Nafy," etc. Johan-
ness married, at Bergen, now Jersey City
Heights, October 9, 1710, Antje Gerretse,
daughter of Gerrit Gerreysen Jr., and Neesje
(Pieterse) Van Wagenen, both of Holland.
Antje Gerretse Van Wagenen was baptized at
New York City, November 13, 1689. His
father, Gerret (lerretson \'an Wagenen Jr.,
was born in Hollanil in 1658, and died at I'.er-
gen, New Jersey, October 9, 1732. Children
of Johannes and Antje: i. Cornelis, baptized
October 23, 171 1 : married 1732-1740, ,
died not earlier than 1746. 2. Thomas, re-
ferred to below. 3. Eaje, born about 1715,
died after 1747. 4. Johannes. 5. Leeja, born
1720; married, June 11, 1742, Petrus M.
Nevins, her second cousin. 6. Gerret, referred
to below. 7. Neesje. born 1723; married, Oc-
tober 2, 1741, Derek, son of Derek Hartman
\'reeland, who was born November 16, 1715:
children : Johanna Vreeland, Derrick Vree-
huid, Feytje X'reeland, Metje X'reelanrl,
Zeeja Garret \ reeland, Catrina N'reelancl. 8.
Pieter, baptized December 13, 1724: mar-
ried (perhaps) Ariantie. 9. Joris, born about
1726, at Slotterdam; married Hannah Bowu-
man, probably second cousin. 9. Elizabeth,
born October 7, 1728. 10. Jacobus, born June
14. 1731 : married, about 1753. Egieof Aaghtje,
(laughter of Peter and Metje (Nevins) Metz-
laer, his first cousin; children: Antje, Petrus
Maria, Johannes, Maria ; possibly others.
(V) Thomas, son of Johannes and Antje
Gerretse (Van Wagenen) Neafie, was born
about 1722, and died about 1758. He resided
at Minisink, New York, in which vicinity he is
thought to have been killed by Indians. He
married, before 1751, Rebecca .Schoonhoven,
or Krom. Children: Rebecca, bajjtized 175 1 ;
Helena, baptized 1753.
(VI) Gerret, son of Johannes and Antje
Gerretse ( \'an Wagenen) Neafie, was baptized
at Port Richmond, New York, July 14, 1713.
He was admitted as a member of the Acquack-
anonck Dutch Church, April 18, 1742. Sep-
tember 20, 1742, he and his wife conveyetl to
Jacob Gerretse for £170 a "lot at Slotterdam,
in precincts of Saddle River, containing no
acres." Gerret resided with his family at New
Brunswick from 1747 to 1751, and then re-
turned to Bergen county, settling at "the
Ponds." He married, in 1737, at Acquackan-
onck, Catalyntje, daughter of Jan and Fietjc
(Haring) \Vestervelt, who was born at Tap-
pan, New York, March 29, 1721, and died not
earlier than 1798. Children: i, Antje, born
about 1738, died after 1747. 2. Cornells, born
about 1740; murdered by his own negro-slaves
about 1781-1782; married Aeltje, daughter
of Derrick Van Geeson ; children: Catelyntje,
Helena and Marretje. 3. John, referred to
below. 4. Margaret, supposed daughter of
Gerrit, born about 1744. 5. Fietje, born about
1746, baptized January 11, 1747; married
(first) Johannes Adrian Post; (second) at
Acquackanonck, Abraham Ven Giesen ; chil-
(lien: Marrietje, .\drian, Catalyntje, Gerrit,
Cornelis, Elizabeth, Roelif and one other. 6.
Annettie, Ijaptized December 8, 1751.
(VII) John, son of Gerret and Catalyntje
(Westervelt) Neafie, was born at "The
Ponds," now Oakland, Bergen County, New
Jersey, about 1742, and died at Montgomery,
Orange county, New York, October 26, 1816.
He resided at "The Ponds" and at Camp Garn
until about 179'), when he removed to New
York City, where he resided at 46 and 83
Reed street, and in Jay street. He next re-
moved to Montgomery, Orange county. New
York, in 1803-1804, and remained there until
his death. Two letters (published by Nelson,
Van Houten p. 28) dated June 28-29, 1814,
show that he owned slaves "\\'illiam Cisco and
Jane his wife and one child," whom he was
willing to hire out for a term of years for $275
cash, or note with interest. John Neafie was a
soldier of the revolution, a scout and a spy.
He was probably the John Neif, who enlisted
May 5, 1778, in the New York Line, Second
Regiment, 6th Company, Colonel Phillip Van
Cortlandt, for nine months, and was discharged
in August I, 1778. He was again mustered in
.September, 1778, ami discharged November
STATE OF NF.W |I-:RSF.\
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19, 1778. His great-graiKl(Iaus(litcr, wriliiignf
his military record, says: "He belonged to no
regiment, but was a member of a separate
company who served in the Debatable Ground
in Rockland co.. New Jersey." He was, how-
ever, one who helped "hold the fort" in Cen-
tral Park on the arrival of the British. John
Neafie married (first) Catherine, daughter of
Peter and Elizabeth (Van Voorhecs) Post,
who was born about 1750, and died November
29, 181 1. He married (second) September 6,
1812, Martha, widow of Joseph Hunt, who
(lied about 1843. Children by first marriage:
I. (larret. referred to below. 2. Elizabeth,
born May 5, 1774, died 1824: married Andries
Smith ; children : Aurie, Catherine, Gitty,
Elizabeth, Garret, John, Flemis, Peter, Corne-
lius, Henry and James Smith. 3. John, born
I'\'bruary 24, 1779, died May 8, 1869; married,
about 1800, Esther Stivers, who died May 21,
1864; children : Catherine, Hannah, Carohne,
Racliel, Elsey, daughter name unknown, John
Andrew Jackson, Elizabeth Phebe. 4. Peter,
born February 18, 1781, died September 27,
1856; married (first) August 15, 1802, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Richard and Hannah (Pier-
son) Dey, who was born July 11, 1782, and
died August 7, or 8, 1805; (second) Margaret
McEwen, born March 5, 1800, died December
3, 1859. Child by first marriage: John Pier-
son. Children by second marriage : Catharine
Ann, Elizabeth, Augustus, Caroline, James,
Edward, Caroline, Newton Theodore Freling-
huysen. 5. Cornelius, born July 14, 1791, died
at Walden, November 11, 1854; married, Sep-
tember 16, 1818, Rhoda Lyon, born at Morris-
town, November 20, 1789; children: Rebecca
Lyon, Eliza Maria, Sarah Jane, Henry Post,
Julia Huyck, Alfred, Sarah Jane.
(VHI) Garret, son of John and Catherine
(Post) Neafie, was born in Bergen county,
New Jersey, about 1771, and died at Richaney,
Long Island, in August, 1805. He kept a
grocery and inn in New York City, at 99
Reed street, and at 74 Vesey street. His name
appears in the city directories from 1796 to
1805, with the exception of the year 1802,
when we learn from a deed of that year that he
was in Branklin township, Bergen county.
The inventory of his estate filed September 2,
1805, New York City, amounted to $6,048.15
for personal property alone, and names among
his property a negro woman Phebe, valued
at $125.00; one row boat, one "pethanger,"
"Peggy's Delight," and another named "Yel-
low Bird." Garret Neifie was a lessee of the
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\\"eeliankc-n ;ind Bull's ferries, and ran boats
to and about New York. He was drowned by
the upsetting of a "pethanger" (probably the
"Peggy's Delight") named in the inventory.
His body was never recovereil. fiarret Neafie
married, about I7<)i, Margaret, daughter of
.Abraham and Leah Garrison, who was born
July 18, 1775, and died February 19, 1865.
She married (second) Jacob David Harring,
born November 8, 1786, died February 13,
1865, and had six children by him. Children
of Garret and Margaret (Garrison) Neafie: i.
John Garret, born in Bergen county, March
25, 1792, died January 19, 1836; married,
about March, 18 12, Alargaret Garrabrandt,
born June, 1792. 2. .Abraham, born 1794. died
1795- 3- Abraham (2d), born and died 1796.
4. Margaret, born in New York City, Septem-
ber 23, 1800, died March 21, 1875; married,
January 22, 1818, Abraham X'alentine Hunt,
born July 23, 1796, in Nyack ; children: Gar-
ret Neafie Hunt, James Smith Hunt, John
Garrison Hunt, Jacob Harring Hunt, Henri-
etta Leah Ann Hunt, William Henry Hunt.
and Abraham D. Hunt. 5. Abraham Garri-
son, referred to below.
(IX) Abraham Garrison, son of Garret and
Margaret (Garrison) Neafie, was born in New
York City, April 25, 1804, and died not earlier
than 1845. Fie was a prominent man in Mon-
mouth county. New Jersey, and was sheriff
from 1834-1841. He married, December 29,
1825, Sarah Ann Smith, born August 31, 1809,
died November 21, 1880. Children: i. Peter
.Smith, born February 6, 1829, died March 4,
1862; married, February 13, 1849, Deborah A.
Little ; children : John, Frank, jVIary. 2. Mar-
garet, born April 20, 183 1, living in 1900;
married Marshall Allen ; children, said to be
five. 3. Caroline, born March 9, 1833, died
August 26, i860; lived at Toms River; mar-
ried John B. Cowdrick. 4. (iarret, born June
I, 1835, died February 24, 1840. 5. John, born
May 16, 1837, died March 4, 1885; married,
December 28, 1857, Kate, daughter of Johnson
and Sarah H. Taylor. 6. Jackson Hendrick-
son, born February 16, 1840, living in 1900;
married, August 27, 1859, Harriet Johnson;
children: Caroline, Marshall Allen. 7. Mary
Conover, born 1842, died 1850. 8. Ruhama
Campfield, referred to below.
( X ) Ruhama, daughter of Abraham Ciarri-
s(in and Sarah .\nn (Smith) Neafie, was born
at I'armingdale. New Jersey, I\\>x\\ 28, 1845,
and died in 1879. She married Calvin Gris-
wuld \an Note I c|. v.).
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
(II) Jacob lacobse, sec-
VAN WINKLE ond son of Jacob Wal-
lingen Van Winkle, (q.
v.). member of general court, 1640, and Tryn-
tje (Jacobs) Van Winkle, was baptized Octo-
ber 16, 1650, in New Netherland, and settled
in Bergen county. New Jersey, becoming the
founder of prolific branches of the family
there. He married (first) December 15, 1675,
Widow Aeltje Daniels, who died June 2,
1692; (second) March 26, 1695, Grietje Hen-
dricks Hollings, who died September 20, 1732,
having survived her husband nearly eight
years. He died November 20, 1724. In the
records of his marriage he is described as
Jacob Jacobse van Winckel. Children of first
wife: I. Jacob, born September 19, 1676. 2.
Margrietje, October 22, 1678. 3. Daniel, July
28, 1681. 4. Johannis, June 25, 1686. 5.
Simeon, January 22, 1689. 6. Son, died in
infancy. Children of second wife: 7. Hen-
drick, see forward. 8. Tryntje, January 14,
1697. 9. Tennis, died in infancy. 10. Samuel,
January 5, 1705.
(HI) Hendrick, seventh son of Jacob
Jacobse Van Winkle, eldest child of his sec-
ond wife, was born January 20, 1696, in Ber-
gen county. New Jersey. Children: i. Jacob,
see forward. 2. Josejih, died in infancy. 3.
Daniel, born January i, 1735; one of the dea-
cons of the first Dutch church in New Jersey
chartered by the Crown and incorporated
under the name of The Ministry, Elders and
Deacons, December 20, 1771 ; he died De-
cember 19, 1823; married Aeltje Van Riper.
4. Hendrick, January 23, 1736, died Decem-
ber 19, 1827; married (first) Jannetje Broaer;
(second) Sarah Speer. 5. Johannis, May 9,
1739. 6. Joseph, June 4, 1741, died August 4,
1809; married Jenneke Vreeland, widow of
Henry Newkirk, May 26, 1798.
(IV) Jacob (2), eldest child of Hendrick
Van Winkle, was a first lieutenant in Captain
Nicausa Terhune's company of Bergen county
militia. 1775-78. He died December 17, 1778.
He married, April 8, 1753, Rachel, eldest
daughter of Abraham and Lea (de Marris)
Canimagear, who had no sons ; she died Sep-
tember 18, 1772. Children: i. Daniel, see
forward. 2. Abraham, married, September 6,
1780, Antje Clemdenny ; died November 24,
1823. 3. Catrintje, June I, 1763, died when
twenty years old. 4. Joseph, died in seventh
year. 5. Lea, died in second year.
(V) Daniel, eldest child of Jacob and Ra-
chel ( Canimagear ) Van Winkle, was born
July 21, 1758, died June 13, 1830. He mar-
ried, October 26, 1802, Antje, daughter of
Johannis Winne, who died August 25, 1843.
Children: i. Cornelius, born August 6, 1783;
married, Augi:st 16, 1807, Margrietje Van
Riper; died August 4, 1852. 2. Aeltje, April
II, 1786: married (first) March 29, 1807, John
Mandeville, who died March 28, 1815; mar-
ried (second) November 29, 1828, Stephen
Vreeland. 3. Jacob D., see forward. 4. Ra-
chel, January 25, 1791, died when thirty years
old; unmarried. 5. John, died in his seventh
year. 6. Daniel, died in his twentieth year.
(VI) Jacob D., second son of Daniel and
Antje (Winne) Van Wrinkle, was born Oc-
tober 28, 1788, died September 6, 1864. He
married, December 31, 1812, Antje Vreeland.
He was one of the founders of the town of
Bergen, New Jersey. Children: i. Rachel,
died when two years old. 2. Jacob, see for-
ward. 3. Michael, born March 27, 1817;
married, October, 1838, Ann Robinson. 4.
Ann W., March 7, 1820; married, April 25,
1839, Peter Sip. 3. Daniel, June 2"], 1822;
married, June 2.2, 1847, Efiie Newkirk. 6.
Getty, October 15, 1823.
(\TI) Jacob (3), eldest son of Jacob D.
and Antje (Vreeland) Van Winkle, was born
October 6, 1815, died April 5, 1894. He mar-
ried, November 6, 1834, Maria Sip, born Feb-
ruary 26, 1814, died September 21, 1882,
daughter of Colonel Garret Sip, who served in
the war of 1812. Children: I. Elizabeth Ann,
born October 4, 1835; married, November 6,
1855, Lewis A. Brigham; died September 20,
1881. 2. Peter S., March 16, 1837; married,
December 26, 1861, Catherine, daughter of
George Vreeland ; died August 28, 1907 ;
child, George V., born September 19, 1864,
died in third year. 3. Daniel, October 3, 1839;
married' (first) December 12, 1861, Emma L.,
daughter of W'illiam J. B. Smith; (second)
October 12, 1880, Emma L. Earle, daughter
of Thomas Earle; children of first wife: i.
Florence, born September 28, 1862; ii. Grace,
born April 10, 1864, died in infancy; iii. Jes-
sie, born May 4. 1865 ; iv. Clara, born January
5, 1867, died in infancy; v. Clara, born Janu-
ary 5, 1867, died in infancy; vi. Mary, born
January 7, 1871, died in infancy; vii. Helen
M.. born December 30. 1871 : viii. Alfred L.,
born October 27, 1873, died in twenty-first
year ; children of second wife : ix. Thomas
Earle, born October 2, 1882 ; x. Frank Has-
brouck, born December 7, 1889. 4. Garrit S.,
died in second year. 5. Alargaret Jane, March
24, 1844. die<l in twenty-si.xth year, unmar-
ried. 6. Edward, see forward. 7. W^illiam C,
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September 13, 1S55. died June 7. 1S73. in
eighteenth year.
(\'III) Edward, fourth sou of jaeoh and
Maria (Sip) \'an Winkle, was born I'ebruary
2. 1846. died January 12. 1882. He was edu-
cated in the public schools : served in the civil
war in Company G. Thirty-seventh Regiment
of Xew York : afterwards became a member
of the New York Stock Exchange. He mar-
ried, September 24, 1868, Mary Jane Wandle,
born January 15, 1847. daughter of Jasper
Wandle, who was a member of the New Jer-
sey general assembly, iS/2-jt,. Children: i.
Joseph, born and died 1872. 2. Jasper, born
1874, died in his fourth year. 3. Edward, see
forward.
(IX) Edw-ard (2), only surviving child of
Edward ( i ) and Mary Jane ( \\'andle ) Van
Winkle, was born April 24, 1878, in Jersey
Citv. He received his primary education in
the public schools of his native city, after
which he was a student at Stevens School and
then the Stevens Institute of Technology, at
Hoboken. He pursued a special course at
Columbia University, New York, and was
admitted to the patent bar in 1902. After com-
pleting his course at Columbia in the early
spring of 1900 he took up the practical appli-
cation of his chosen profession as a hel[)er and
subsec|uently as a mechanic in the construction
department of the Otis Elevator Company.
His aptitude for his chosen line of work and
mechanical ingenuity displayed in the perform-
ance of same led to his advancement to the
draughting department and thence to the sur-
veying department of the elevator company.
Subsequently he was promoted to the estimat-
ing engineering department and held a respon-
sible position on the engineering staff until
May I, 1902. In the same month he assumed
entire charge of the estimating department of
the Marine Engine and Machine Company,
and occupied that position until January i,
1903. He then resigned and opened an office
as a consulting patent engineer and started to
bnild up an independent practice. Early his
attention was attracted by an ingenious coin-
counting and wrapping machine, with the pos-
sibilities of which he was much impressed, and
for nine months he devoted himself entirely to
the perfection of the invention, superintending
the construction of tools, dies and gauges nec-
essary for the manufacture of the machine.
He makes a specialty of patent causes, and the
perfecting of inventions, both in the electrical
and mechanical arts. He is active in the engi-
neering profession, and is retained by many
well known companies as their consulting pat-
ent engineer, namely : The i^imiilex Manu-
facturing Company. Wells Fargo Express
Company, and Rhinelander Real Instate Com-
pany. He is a director in the following cor-
])orations : Eonstlale Novelty Company, Se-
curity Automatic Signal Company, also its
president, Theta Delta Chi Press, also its
president, and Twentieth Century Window
Company. Mr. \'an Winkle is a member of
the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and was edi-
tor of The Shield, the official <|uarterly of that
organization, for two years, 1907-08; the Hol-
land Society of New York ; the University
Club of Hudson County. New Jersey, of
which he was one of the founders and was
secretary for seven years and a member of
the board of governors : Columbia University
Club; Engineers' Club of New York: full
member of the American Society of Mechani-
cal Engineers, in which he is an active mem-
ber of the house committee and chairman of
committee on National History Exhibit on the
occasion of the Hudson-I-'ulton celebration in
1909; full member of the American Society of
Civil Engineers ; Canadian Society of Civil
Engineers ; the Engineering Society of Colum-
bia University. While in college he was man-
ager of the Lacrosse team at Columbia Uni-
versity, winning his place on the team and the
varsity "C." He took quite a prominent place
in other branches of athletics.
Mr. \'an Winkle married. .August 15, 1900,
Sama Le Roy Batdorf, daughter of John
William Batdorf. She was born June 24,
1879. and is the mother of a daughter, Sama
Gertrude, born July 30, 1904.
Thomas Jeft'erson \'an
\'AN WINKLE Winkle, the first mem-
ber of this family of
whom we have definite information, lived in
Brooklyn, New York. He married Eleanor
Underbill. Children: i. William Alexander.
2. George Washington, referred to below. 3.
Thomas Jeft'erson (2). 4. Samuel E. 5. Eliz-
abeth, married Lu[3ton ; two sons —
Henry, conductor on Erie railroad, living in
Jersey City, New Jersey: and Mervin, engi-
neer on Pennsylvania railroad, living in Jer-
sey City. 6. Eleanor. 7. Caroline, married
Wygant.
(II) George Washington, son of Thomas
Jeft'erson and Eleanor ( Underbill ) \'an Win-
kle, was born in lirooklyn. New York, about
1812. and died there at his home on St.
Mark's Place, May 11, 1880. He was edu-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
cated in the Itrooklyn public schouls. and then
learned the carpenter's trade in a shop that
stood on the present Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn.
Having served his apprenticeship he became a
journeyman carpenter for several years, and
in the early 30's formed a partnership with his
brother-in-law, James E. (later Major-Gen-
eral) Underbill, for manufacturing oil cloths,
the factory being located at the corner of the
present Vanderbilt avenue and Ijoyden street.
The firm was very successful for some time,
but the plant having been destroyed by fire,
Mr. \'an AVinkle became superintendent of
J. iK: S. Engle's Naval Store in Williamsljurg,
where he remained until 1SG2, when owing to
the blockading of the southern ports the busi-
ness was al)andoned. In 1863 he removed to
Plummer, Venango county, Pennsylvania,
where he became superintendent of the Hum-
bolt petroleum works. Three years later he
retired from active business and returned to
Brooklyn. In early life he was a Democrat,
but later became a Republican, and an ardent
admirer of Abraham Lincoln. He was a mem-
ber of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brook-
lyn, and an Odd Fellow. He married, in
Brooklyn, in August, 1836, Leah Suydam,
born in June, 1816, died April 10, 1885. Chil-
dren; I. Eleanor, born May 19, 1837; died
November 13, 1848. 2. Cieorge Washington
(2), referred to below. 3. James, born Feb-
ruary 22. 1843; niarried (first) Septemljer 25,
1866, Ella M. Templeton ; (second) June 21,
1900, ; children, by first marriage:
Louis, born July 10, 1869, married, June, 1909,
Anna Doty ; and Nellie, born September 9,
1871, married June 28, 1900, Alfred G. Bishop,
child, Alfreda L. Bishop, born December i,
1904. 4. Eliza Hinckle, born October 28,
1845 ' died August 14, 1875. 5- \Villiam A.,
born April 2~, 1848; died January 28. 1889. 6.
Samuel, born September 29, 1850; married
July 3, 1880, Elvina Loretta Charron ; chil-
dren: i. Leah May, born April 2, 1881, mar-
ried December 22. 1900, Henry Marsland
Frecker ; children: Henry Marsland Frecker,
born March 9, 1904, and Margorie Estelle,
born June 14, 1907. ii. Cyril, born June 5,
1883. iii. Elsie Elmira, born August 9, 1880 ;
married March 16, 1904, John Stone Berry,
of Cincinnati, Ohio; child, John Stone Berry
(2), born March 2^, 1907. iv. Lester Hubert,
born November 5, 1890; died May 3. 1897. v.
Eva Estelle, born December 10, 1893.
(HL) George Washington (2), son of
George Washington (i) and Leah (Suydam)
Van Winkle, was born in Brooklyn, New
York, March 9, 1840. He was educated in
Brooklyn jniblic school No. 9, and at fifteen
years of age, owing to ill health, left school
and entered the office of J. & S. Engle, distill-
ers, as clerk. Shortly afterwards he was
transferred to the distilling department, where
he remained three years. In 1861 he removed
to Plummer, Pennsylvania, where he became
engaged with James Faulkner in building the
oil plant of the Humbolt oil works, and later
became purchasing agent of this firm. In
i8f)fi he went to Oleopolis, Pennsylvania, to
build the plant of the Solar oil works, of which
he became business manager. In 1870 he
became manager of the refining works of
Easterlee & Davis, of Titusville, Pennsylva-
nia, and when the Acme Oil Company pur-
chased this firm in 1876, Mr. Van Winkle was
retained in the same position by them. When
this company came under the control of the
Standard Oil Company, Mr. Van Winkle was
transferred in March, 1877, to L'.altimore,
Maryland, as manager of the Camden Oil
Company, and the following May was retrans-
ferred to iiayonne. New Jersey, as manager of
the refining plant there. In 1895, owing to
impaired health, lie retired from active busi-
ness. He was for many years a director of
Bayonne Building Association, No. 2. He is
a Republican in politics, and has been a dele-
gate to many of the party conventions. He is
an associate member of the Bayonne Fire De-
partment, since October, 1883; a member of
Oil Creek Lodge, No. 303, F. and A. M.,
Titusville, Pennsylvania ; and a member of
Bayonne Council, No. 695, Royal Arcanum,
and of the Neighborhood Club of Bayonne.
He was for a long time trustee, secretary and
treasurer of the First Presbyterian Church of
I'.ayonne, and is now a member of the Fifth
Street Reformed Church. He erected his beau-
tiful residence on the corner of West Fifth
street and Newman avenue, Bayonne, in 1894.
He married, in Brooklyn, New York, March
9, 1868. Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Michael
and Elizabeth (Miller) Soth, a German family
that came to America in the first half of the
nineteenth century. She was born March 22,
1844. Children: I. George Edward, born
January 9, 1869; married, June 14, 1894, Ada
Bettes ; children : Dorothy, born November
9, 1896; Irma, May 25, 1900; George Wash-
ington, March 9, 1902. 2. Minnie May, born
November 4, 1871 ; married March 15, 1899,
John Moore Coward ; children : John Morti-
mer Coward, born January i, 1900; Miriam
\'a 1 \\'inkle Cinvard, July 14, 1907.
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STATE OF NEW |i:i^SEV
'■445
Amzi D(i(ld. LL. I)., tlic first vicc-
DODD chancellor of Xcw Jersey, ami since
1882 president of the Ahitual Life
Insurance Company of Newark, was born in
what is now the township of JNfontclair, then
part of the township of Blooinfield, Essex
county, New Jersey, March 2. 1823, second
son of Dr. Joseph Smith Dodd and Maria
Grover, and a lineal descendant of Daniel Dod,
an English Puritan, who emigrated to Amer-
ica ahout 1646, and in company with other
immigrants helped to form a settlement at
Sagus — now known as the city of Lynn — a
thriving seaport on Massachusetts Bay. This
early American progenitor died prior to 1665,
leaving four sons, all in their minority, the eld-
est of whom was named Daniel, after his
father. While yet under age he joined the
colony of Rev. Abraham Pierson, who foimd-
ed the town of Newark, in 1666, and to him
a home lot was assigned in the neighborhood
of what was for so many years known as the
"Stone Bridge." He was a good mathematic-
ian, a surveyor by profession, and 1692 a mem-
ber of the colonial general assembly. His son
John, his grandson John, and his great-grand-
son John, were all in a direct line ancestors
of Dr. Joseph Smith Dodd, father of Amzi
Dodd, and in their times were all men of mark.
Dr. Dodd was born in Bloomfield, New Jer-
sey, January 10, 1791, was graduated from
Princeton College in 1813, and commenced the
practice of medicine in his native place in
i8irt. He was a skillful physician, and a man
widely esteemed and respected. He was elect-
ed to the state senate in 1842. and was largelv
instrumental in establishing the State Lunatic
Asylum. He died September 5. 1847.
Amzi Dodd was carefully educated at home
and at the Bloomfield Academy, and in 1839
was so well advanced in his studies that he
foimd no difficulty in securing admission to the
sophomore class in the College of New Jersey,
his father's alma mater. In 1841 he was grad-
uated with the highest honors, being chosen
to deliver the Latin salutatory at the com-
mencement in September that year. Among
his classmates who have risen to distinction
may be mentioned Rev. Theodore Cuyler. the
eminent Brooklyn divine: Rev. Dr. Duffield.
of Princeton L'niversity ; ( ieneral Francis P.
Blair, late of Missouri : John T. Ni.xon, United
States district judge; Edward W'. Scudder, of
the New Jersey supreme court ; Rev. Dr. Pot-
ter, of Ohio; Prof. A. Alexander Hodge ; Hon.
Craig I'iddle ; and others in legal and minis-
terial life.
During the ensuing four years after leaving
c(jllege. Mr. Dodd was engaged in teaching.
])rincipally in X'irginia, but intending to be-
come a lawyer, read law diligently and gave
his vacations to acquiring a practical insight
into its intricacies by service in the office of
Miller & W'helkley, prominent lawyers at
Morrislown, .\ew Jersey. In January, 1848,
he was licensed as an attorney and admitted
to the New Jersey bar. and afterward Ijecame
associated in business with 1 Ion. I'Vederick T.
Frelinghuysen. then an eminent practitioner
at the bar, and later secretary of state of the
United States. In 1850 Mr. Dodd severed this
connection to devote himself to the duties of
the office of clerk of the common council of
Newark. For three years he held this position,
maintaining his own law offices, and attending
to such practice as came his way. This finally
grew to such volume that he resigned his office,
the more fully to devote himself to professional
work. Early connection with corporation and
fiduciary affairs letl him largely into legal de-
partments calling for judicial rather than
forensic powers. Although occasionally tak-
ing part in litigated cases in court, he was far
less inclined to jury trials than to arguments
to the bench, in which his intellect and also
liis temperament found more congenial exer-
cise.
]\Ir. Dodd early develo])ed ability as a public
speaker. His first efifort of importance was a
Fourth of July oration delivered in the First
Presbyterian Church in Newark in 1851. "His
panegyric upon Washington fell from the
tongue deep into every heart, and for many a
day the young orator's name was on everv lip."
Later eft'orts about this time were a literary
address at the commencement at Princeton
College, and a discourse before the Essex
County Bible Society, of which he was presi-
dent. Opposed to the extension of slavery
into the territories, he was one of that resolute
little band of anti-slavery men who raised their
voices in loud protest against the movement
in its favor, and as a Freesoiler he aided in the
formation of the Rejiublican party and became
an active champion of its [principles. In 1856
he was selecte<l to lea<l the fight in Essex and
Hudson counties, being chosen as the Repub-
lican nominee for congress. In this campaign,
as well as in that of i860, which resulted in
the election of President Lincoln, he won new
laurels as an orator. In 1863 he was elected
by the Rei)ublicans of Essex county to the
New Jersey legislature, but declined a second
term. l'>rilli;uU. logical and powerful as an
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
orator, he might, had he so willed, have
achieved forensic distinction equal to that of
his most gifted contemporaries. There was
that in his nature, however, which inclined him
to the role of counsellor rather than to that of
advocate : and while graceful yielding to the
calls made upon him to deliver lectures before
lyceums and institutions of learning, and to
greet his old classmates at Princeton in an
anniversary oration, he gradually relinquished
his public oratorical efforts, the more com-
pletely to devote himself to the demands of
professional work. In 1871, when the busi-
ness of the court of chancery became so press-
ing that Chancellor Zabriskie w'as obliged to
ask for the appointment of a vice-chancellor,
Mr. Dodd was selected for the position. In the
delicate and inijjortant work thus assigned to
him he was engaged continuously until 1875,
when he resigned. In 1872 he was nominated
by Governor Parker and confirnied by the
senate as one of the special justices of the
court of errors and appeals, the highest judicial
tribunal in the state. In 1878, towards the
close of his term as justice of the court, the
governor. General George B. McClellan, wrote
him a flattering recognition of his services,
accompanied by so earnest a suggestion that
he accept re-appointment, that Judge Dodd
returned an affirmation reply, whereupon Ciov-
crnor AlcClellan made the appointment, send-
ing with his commission a most complimentary
letter.
In 1 88 1 Judge Dodd was again called to
serve the state as vice-chancellor, taking the
office at the request of Chancellor Runyon ;
but in the following year he resigned this posi-
tion and also his seat upon the bench of the
court of errors and appeals, being moved to
do so by the pressure brought to bear upon him
to accept the presidency of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company of Newark, a corporation
with wdiich he had been officially connected as
mathematician for nearly twenty years. In
this (jffice he succeeded his friend, Lewis C.
Grover, who had resigned. In 1875 Judge
Dodd was appointed a member of the New
Jersey P>oard of Ri]jarian Commissioners by
Governor Bedle, and held that position until
.April, [887. In 1876 the supreme court of the
state appointed him one of the managers' of
the New Jersey Soldiers' Home. In this serv-
ice — a gratuitous one — he has continued with
zeal and scrupulous fidelity in tlie interests of
these veteran wards of the state. It is a note-
worthy circumstance that, though of pro-
nounced Republican political views, the several
public offices he has held have been by appoint-
ments received from Democratic atlministra-
tions, and, it is to be added, unsolicited on his
part.
Judge Dodd's ojjinions as an equity judge
are to be found in the New Jersey Reports,
volume 22-34, inclusive ; and as a member of
the court of errors and appeals, the court of
last resort for the review of the supreme chan-
cery, and inferior courts, his opinions being in
vtilumes 36-42, inclusive. They are regarded
by lawyers as possessing superior merit and
belonging to the best class of judicial produc-
tions. Some of them have become authorita-
tive cases in important c|uestions. One of the
most notable is that of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company vs. National Railway Company,
decided in 1873, and recorded in volume 7,
C. E. Gr., 441. The decree of Vice-Chancellor
Dodd in this case was supported by a train of
argument so clear and conclusive that no ap-
peal was taken, though great property interests
as well as public cjuestions of great imj^ortance
were involved. The result of the injunction
issued against the defendant prohibiting the
construction of the proposed road was the
passage soon after of the general railroad law
of the state, in pursuance of the suggestions
in the opinion that such a law was the neces-
sary means for obtaining what the judicial
tribunals under existing laws could not assume
to supply.
In 1874 he received the degree of LL. D.
from his alma mater. Judge Dodd's active
and useful life has been absolutely free from
sensational attempts to arrest public attention
and singularly devoid of ostentation, yet no
man in the state is better known, more highly
respected, or more popular. His entire career
has been marked by uprightness and sincerity
of purpose : devotion to duty and zeal in the
public interest have signalized every step of
liis advance.
Judge Dodd married, in 1852, Jane Frame,
daughter of William Frame, of P>loomfield.
He resided in Newark until the summer of
i860, when he removed to his present home in
Bloomfield. His domestic life has been de-
lightful, and the social position of his family
has been second to none. Of his nine chil-
dren of the marriage three daughters and three
sons are living. The eldest, Julia, is wife of
Rev. H. B. Frissell, D. D., principal of the
Hampton (X^irginia) Normal and Agricultural
Institute, the able successor of General Arm-
strong, its famous founder. One of his daugh-
ters, Caroline, is wife of Leonard Richards, a
STATE OF NEW lERSEV.
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New York mtTcliaiit. and llu- third, unmarried,
resides with licr parents. One of the son.s,
WilHam S. Dodd. is a lawyer. Anotlier, Ed-
ward W'helpley Dodd. is in business. The
third, Joseph Smith Dodd. is a practicinj^ phy-
sician.
Lawrence W'alfel. father of John
W'OLEE George Wolfe, was a native of
Walkers Shrunn, Byron, Bavaria,
Germany. He was a prosperous farmer and
weaver by trade. Mis farm of considerable
area was situated on the mountain side, anil he
depended largely on the cultivation of the
crops, the raising of sheep, cattle and horses,
and during the w-inter months did weaving of
cloth. Walkers Shrunn is a prosperous farm-
ing district, surrounded by mountains, many
ol the farms being on the side of the moun-
tains. His homestead was of stone, situated
on the outskirts of the village, and is now in
an excellent state of preservation. He and his
wife were members of the Lutheran church.
Lawrence Wolfe and his first wife had twelve
children ; one of his sons was murdered by
mistake, having been waylaid while going with
grist to the mili. He married 1 second ) Mar-
garet Wimmcr and among their children were
Lawrence. Margaret, and John George, men-
tioned below.
(II) John George Walfel (Wolfe), son of
I .awrence Walfel, w-as born at Walkers Shrunn,
Ilyron, Bavaria. Germany, August 28, 1814,
died at Roseland, July to, 1889. His educa-
tion was gained in the schools of his native
village up to thirteen \'ears of a.ge. at which
time he received confirmation in the Lutheran
church in the same parish. He worked for his
father and nearby farmers, and during the
winter months was engaged at cloth weaving
in the home. At the age of twenty-one he
entered the army, serving three years, as was
the custom. After his army service he resumed
farming. He had a share of his father's estate,
Ijoth real and personal. In 1843 he emigrated
to the L^nitcd States, coming with his wife.
He began work for William H. McCreary,
dealer in beef tallow, remaining for a time.
About 1850 he removed to Pleasantdale (West
Orange townshi]/). where he bought a portion
of the old Simeon Williams farm, comprising
twenty-five acres. This farm compared favor-
ably with the best in the section, and with the
assistance of his sons it was made to yield a
handsome yearly income. He was the old
time farmer, sold butter and fruit, kept a team
of oxen, and did much work in carrying for
the nei.ghlmrhooil. lie was a just and upright
man in all his dealings, almost to a fault, in-
du>trious and frugal, ])ossessed a (|uiet nature,
and had many friends, lie was a member of
the Pleasant Dale Presbyterian Church, with
his wife, lie was a l\e|)ublican in politics. He
married, about 1 846, Margaret Bommer, born
March 26, 181 5, died at I'leasantdale. Janu-
ary 6, igoo. She and her husband are buried
in the Pleasantdale burial-grcjund. Children:
I. George, born May 29, 1847, mentioned
below. 2. Frederick Washington, born Feb-
ruary 22, 1849; married, July 4, 1880. Mary
Werner. 3. John Freeman, born October 8,
1851 ; marricil. May 13, 1880, Caroline Sipple ;
children: i. Nettie Margaret, born March 14,
1881 ; married. October 8, 1902, Eugene
Straub; children: X'era, born July i, 1903;
Etta Caroline, born .August 28, 1905 ; Alice,
born January, 1907: ii. Lillian Elizabeth, born
January 13, 1883; married, \\,x\\ 17, 1904,
"Charles Beam : children : I'Veeman Charles,
born July 28. 1905, and Everett John, born De-
cember 9, 1907 ; iii. Etta Annie, born Febru-
ary 9, 1885; iv. Arthur, born March 9, 1888;
married. July 4, 1905, Mary Hahn ; child. \'io-
let, born February 18, 1907. 4. Margaret, born
July 29, 1854; married George IrL Noll.
(HI) George, son of John George Walfel
(Wolfe), was born in New York City, May
29, 1847. •■^t '^'"'S ^?s o^ three years he moved
with his parents to Laurel avenue. West
C'range, New Jersey, now Pleasantdale. He
attended the nearby district school until twelve
years of a.ge. assisting his father on the farm
in the meantime. He early began to learn the
trade of shoemaking with Robert Baxter, who
lived on the crest of First Mountain, and fin-
ished his trade at eighteen with Daniel Conk-
lin. He followed his trade for twenty-five
years, working for Wilbur De Camp, and later
with John Sigler, at Roseland. He also worked
for Charles Graft and John Freeman, manu-
facturers at Newark. He later worked for
his former employers. De Camp & .Sigler and
Clark Anderson, of Caldwell, all prominent
makers in their time. Mr. Wolfe retired from
his trade about twenty-five years ago and en-
.gaged in farming on his father's homestead
farm, having ])urchase(l a jiart from his father
and the remainder from his heirs. He has
about twenty-one acres of the best tillage and
is successful in raising the common crops. He
is a member t)f the Roseland Methodist church,
and is a Democrat in jiolitics. He married,
March 6, 1867, Esther .\nn Williams, born at
Roseland (Livingston township), March 4,
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
1847, daughter of Levi and Phelje Ann (Kent)
Williams. Levi Williams was a farmer at
Roseland. Children: I. Levi Aaron, boni
July I, 1868: married Ella Georgie Brown;
children : i. Esther Ellen, born August 27,
1891 ; ii. Margaret Phebe, born June 21, 1893;
iii. Almira, born April 27, 1895 ; iv. Dora
Grace, born April 21, 1897, died November
23, 1897 • V. Mabel. 2. John George, born l-'eb-
ruary 15, 1870: married Dora Sidell ; children:
John George Jr., Dora and William. 3. Fred-
erick Jeptha, born August 26, 1872, mentioned
below. 4. Margaret Phebe, bom August 11,
1877, died aged seven weeks. 5. William Mar-
tin, born September 17, 1878: married, ALarch
22, 18)9, Alabel Adams Waite ; children: i.
William Raymond, born December 14, 1899,
died I-'eljruary 25, 1900; ii. Mina. born Janu-
ary I, 1901, died same day: iii. Thelma May,
born Decemjjer 3. 1904.
(IV) Frederick Jeptha, son of George
Wolfe, was born on the old Abner Williams
homestead. Laurel avenue, W'est Orange. New
Jersey, .August 26, 1872. When an infant he
removed with his parents to Roseland, New
Jersey (Centerville), where he early attended
the public school, continuing up to the age of
sixteen years, assisting his father on the farm.
Later for two years he worked on different
farms in the nearby neighborhood. He sub-
sequently came to iLast ( )range and served an
apprenticeship with ( ieorge H. Tucker at the
trade of carpenter, continuing until he was of
age. He then entered the employ of John
Eerryman as a journeyman, remaining in his
employ seven years. In 1900 he formed a
partnership, with Clark \'. Jilson in the con-
ti acting business and general building, with
head(|uarters at Main street. West Orange.
The business after a year was removed to
Oakland avenue, where they remained three
years subseciuently buying property at 268-
370 X'alley Road, to more commodious quar-
ters. ,\pril II, 1906, a company was formed
under Xew Jersey state law, and at this time
Thijmas A. Douglass was admitted into the
company, the firm name being Wolfe, Jilson
& Douglass Company — Mr. Douglass, presi-
dent; Mr. Jilson, vice-president; Mr. Wolfe,
secretary and treasurer, each being a director
of the corporation. The firm is engaged in
general contracting and Imilding, with main
offices on \'alley Road, branch office at Maple-
wood, and planning department at Milburn.
The firm has filled many notable contracts
among which are the residences of Charles H.
Tracy at Llewellan Park; F. M. I^ondon on
Harrison street. East Orange; Dr. Henry Mat-
thews, Hillside avenue ; residences in Roose-
velt Park, .Maplewood, and many in and around
the (Jranges. They contracted and built forty-
one residences in Maplewood for Edward C.
Balcli, a number for T. P>. Ackerson in Roose-
velt Park, and has also erected residences for
six-culation. Mr. Wolfe is a member of the
.Master Builders' Association of the C)ranges,
director of the First National Bank of West
Orange, and is on the investment board of this
institution. He is a member of Union Lodge,
No. II, F. and .A. AL, Orange. He was for-
merly a member of Sterling Lodge, No. 236,
f. O. O. F., Newark, served a term as noble
grand, and sat in the (Irand Lodge of Odd
T'elUnvs. A few years ago he transferred
his membership to Lafayette Lodge, No. 12,
( )range. With Mrs. Wolfe he attends the
Methndist church. He is a Republican in poli-
tics, having served his party as delegate, and as
councilman of the town of XN'est C)range at
present time (1910).
He married, at Orange, New Jersey, March
21, 181)4, ^Minnie Freeman, born March 12,
1867, daughter of Samuel Morris and Elma
(Lyon) Freeman, of Orange. Samuel M.
F'reeman was a shoemaker. Children: i.
I'Vederick Augustus, born July 7, 1895. 2.
Elmer Freeman, born i\Tay 2t^. 1897, died C)c-
tober 2, 1897. 3. Walter Edwin, born August
13, 1898, died I'ebruary 21, 1900. 4. Charles,
born h'ebruary 27, 1900, died March 2, 1900.
5. Hazel Minnie, born October 8, 1902. 6.
F'lorence Eva. born July 29, 1904. 7. Albert
Lewis, born November 17, 1905.
Daniel Trotter, the first mem-
TROTTER lier of this family of whom
we have definite information,
was the father of two sons who married sis-
ters : I. Joseph, referred to below. 2. Nathan,
born 1787, died 1853; married, October 28,
1813, Susan, daughter of Samuel and Susanna
(Newbold) Hough,- who was born March 13,
1785, and died July 31. 18^)7.
(H) Joseph, son of Daniel Trotter, was
born in 1783, and died in 1833. He married,
November 16, 1809, .\nn, daughter of Samuel
and Susanna (Newbold) Hough, who was
born .\pril 3, 1787, and died February 29,
i860. Her mother was a daughter of Michael
and Susanna (Scholey) Newbold; (see New-
bold and Scholey in inde.x). Children: i.
Susan H.. born 1810, died 1835; married.
December 3. 1833, Cleayton. son of William
anil Hannah (\V'atson) Newbold. 2. Samuel
STATE OF \'EW II'.RSI^V
1440
II., l)orii 1812. 3. Joseph II.. Ijorii 1814; mar-
ried, Iiine, 1852, Editli, daughter of Cleayton
and Ilculah (Lawrie) Newbold. 4. Thomas
H., born 1815. 5. Anna H., born 1821 ; mar-
ried Newbold, son of John B. and Hannah
(Newbold) Lawrence. 6. Newbold Hough,
referred to below. 7. Mary H., born 1831,
died May 25, 1909: unmarried.
(IH) Newbold Hough, son of Joseph and
Ann (llongh) Trotter, was born in Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, in 1827, and died there
February 21, 1899. He wa.s educated in the
private schools of I'hiladeljihia and then
entered Haverford College, where he remained
until he graduated. On finishing his college
education he took up the trade of engineer and
machinist, and became proficient, and later
conducted a business in Philadelphia, but gave
it up and started in the hardware business on
Market street, which he continued for a num-
ber of years but gave up that to engage in the
calling which he followed till his death, — art.
He had from his early boyhood been an admirer
of art, and all his spare time was engaged in
drawing, and when he did decide to engage in
that line it did not take long under the direc-
tion of a master to bring himself to a position
where he soon came forth as one of the leaders
in this country as an animal painter, and at the
time of his death, there was none in this coun-
try who could eclipse his works, and many of
the leading homes in this country have in their
collection of paintings the result of his handi-
work. He was a man beloved by everyone
brought in contact with him, and at the time
of his death hundreds mourned his loss. He
was a member of most of the art clubs of
Philadelphia, and was one of the founders of
The Philadelphia Art Club. At the time of
the threatenecl invasion of the rebels into Penn-
sylvania, Mr. Trotter enlisted in a company
from Germantown to protect that country, but
did not see service. He lost his birthright in
the Society of Friends for this act. He mar-
ried, in 1856, Annie Morrison, daughter of
Mordecai Lewis and Elizabeth (Poultney)
Dawson, a descendant of the early Welsh set-
tlers of Pennsylvania. Her father was one
of the leaders of Philadelphia in his day, and
president of the board of trustees of the Phila-
delphia Hospital, and a member of the board
of managers of Girard College. Children:
Mordecai Dawson Trotter, died in infancy:
Spencer Trotter, referred to below : Elizabeth
Dawson Trotter, died young.
(IV) Spencer, son of New-bold Hough and
Annie Morrison (Dawson) Trotter, was born
in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, h'cbruary 8,
i860. He graduated in me<licine from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, and resided for some
time at Media, Pennsylvania, lie practiced his
profession for a time, and relinquished it to
accept a professorship of biology and natural
history in Swarthmorc College. He resides
in Philadelphia, lecturing daily at his college.
He married June 19, 1889, Laura Lee, born
June 13, 1862: child: .Spencer Lee, born Au-
gust 10, 1890.
Nathan Barnert, a resident
BARNERT of I'aterson, New Jersey,
whose eflforts have aided
materially in the development, upbuilding and
substantial progress of that city, is a native
of the city of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia,
born September 20, 1838, son of Meyer and
Ida (Newfelt) Barnert. His parents emi-
grated from their native land to the United
States in 1849, settling first in New York
City, from whence they removed to Paterson,
New Jersey, about 1861. Meyer Barnert died
July 10, 1881, aged seventy-four years, and
his wife died October 28, 1890. They were
the parents of six children, of whom three
survive — Nathan, see forward, Morris and
Boas.
Nathan Barnert was ten years of age when
his parents removed to Paterson, New Jersey.
His educational advantages were obtained in
the schools of Prussia and New York City.
In early life he worked at the tailoring trade,
in which his father was engaged, but tlie busi-
ness was not extensive enough for both to
engage in it, so the boy determined to make
his own way in the world. Coming to the
United States at the period of the great Cali-
fornia gold fever, his mind was naturally fas-
cinated by the accounts of fabulous wealth
earned in the mines. Accordingly, in 1850, he
left home and went to California, but his
experiences in the gold fields were not suc-
cessful. Later he obtained mercantile employ-
ment in San Francisco, serving in the capacity
of clerk in various places for several years.
Me also visited the I lawaiian Islands and made
a trip to the gold regions on the FVaser river,
thus accjuiring a knowledge of that section of
the country, if not gaining a fortune as he had
cxj)ccted. In 1856 he returned to New- York,
and seeking a favorable opportunity lo invest
his savings, he selected the city of Paterson,
New Jersey, and there opened a merchant
tailoring establishment in co-partnership w-ith
Marks Cohen, and later was associated in the
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same line of business with Solomon JMendel-
son. During the civil war he was entrusted
with large contracts to furnish clothing for the
United States armies. In 1878 he retired from
mercantile business in order to devote his
attention to his extensive real estate interests.
Meantime he applied a part of his capital to
the creation of a new manufacturing industry
in Paterson, organizing, with Robert A. Haley
and William C. Martin, the Annandale Screen
Plate Company, which furnished supplies to
paper mills, and from which he retired in
1893. Mr. Barnert has been one of the most
potent contributors of his generation to the
promotion of the material interests of the city
of Paterson. He was one of the first in that
city to undertake the erection of great modern
mill buildings as a speculative project, relying
exclusively for returns upon their probable
occupancy by manufacturing tenants. The
first of the structures built by him was the
Uarnert Mill at the corner of Railroad avenue.
Grand street and Dale avenue, completed in
18S2, and he is also the owner of the Fulton
Mill. About 1870-71 Mr. Barnert was ap-
pointed by the board of aldermen to examine
the accounts of the city's finances and taxes,
and as a result the city prosecuted a number of
officials, who finally were sent to State prison.
In 1876 and again in 1879 Mr. Barnert was
elected on the Democratic ticket to represent
the sixth ward in the board of aldermen ; in
1883 and again in 1889 he was nominated and
elected to the ofiice of mayor of Paterson, and
so faithfully did he perform the duties of the
latter office that he was again named by his
party as a candidate in the years 1885 and
1891, but failed of election. The congregation
B'nai Jeshurun are indebted to Mr. Barnert
for their splendid temple, for the valuable land
upon which it stands, and for other very sub-
stantial benefits. The temple was completed
and dedicated in 1893, appropriately receiving
the name of the Nathan Barnert Memorial.
He is one of the most prominent members in
Paterson of a number of leading fraternal
societies including the Independent Order of
B"nai Brith, Free and Accepted Masons,
Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of
Odd I'^llows, and is president of the Hebrew
Temple, Hebrew F'ree School. He is a liberal
supporter of the Miriam Barnert Dispensary
Association, an institution which he founded in
memoriam of his deceased wife. Thus it will
be seen that Mr. Barnert's life has been an
active one, and that his enterprises have been
such as have added to the general wealth and
welfare of the city. His work has been widely
extended, and he exerts a great influence on
the atTairs of his adopted city.
Mr. Barnert married, in New York City,
September 2, 1863, Miriam, daughter of Henry
L. and Jane (Chapman) Phillips. Their two
children died young. Mrs. Barnert died March
31, 1901, aged sixty-four years.
Philip Case, the first member of
CASE this family of whom we have defi-
nite information, was born in Plun-
terdon county, New Jersey, February 9, 1771,
and died Jime 12, 1824. He was a grandson
of Johan Philip Kaese, who emigrated from
Germany to Mine Brook, Hunterdon county,
about 1738. He himself lived near Cherry
Hill, Hunterdon county, until his wife died,
when he removed to Somerset county, residing
first on a farm on the Raritan river near Som-
erville, and later at Bedminster. He married
Helena Cole, born November 21, 1772, died
November 28, 1810.
( II) Peter, son of Philip and Helena (Cole)
Case, was born in Hunterdon county, New
Jersey, October 27, 1810. He was taken by
his father into Somerset county, where he
became a court officer, a member of the Dutch
Reformed Church, and in politics a Demo-
crat until the outbreak of the civil war, and
after that a Republican. During the war he
was an officer in the Somerville Home Guard,
a local military company. He married, No-
vember 20, 1834, at Somerville, New Jersey,
Mary Ann, daughter of John and Catharine
(Van Arsdale) Herder. Children: Catharine
Maria, died unmarried; Elizabeth: John;
Philip, referred to below ; Abraham.
(III) Philip, son of Peter and Mary Ann
(Herder) Case, was born in Somerville, New
Jersey, May 7, 1849. ^^^ 's a drygoods mer-
chant, a member of the Dutch Reformed
Church, and a Republican. At one time he
was president of the Somerville Board of
Trade. He married, September 12, 1872, at
Prospect Plains, Amanda Van Doren, daugh-
ter of John and Sophia (Van Doren) Edwards,
who was born at Prospect Plains, New Jersey,
June 7, 1830. Her father. John Edwards, was
born in Wales, and coming to this country as
a boy became the first commission merchant of
New York City. Children : Cliilrord Philip
Case, married Jeannette AIcAlpin Benedict ;
Clarence Edwards Case ; Albert Edwards
Case, married Mary B. Pool ; Mabel Herder
Case ; Helen Lloyd Case.
(IV) Clarence Edwards, son of Philip and
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Amanda Van Doren ( Edwards) Case, was
born in Jersey City, New Jersey, September
24, 1877. Me prepared for college at the I'at-
erson Classical School and Rutgers J Prepara-
tory .School, and graduated from Rutgers Col-
lege at the head of his class in 1900. He grad-
uated from the New York Law School with
the degree of LL. B. in 1902, and later re-
ceived from Rutgers College his A. M. degree.
He then entered the law office of Alvah A.
Clark, Esq., of Sonierville, and was admitted
to the New Jersey bar as attorney in 1903.
In 1906 he became junior partner of the firm
of Clark & Case, and this partnership with his
old instructor continued until Mr. Case was
raised to the Sonierville county bench. Judge
Case has been the right hand man of Senator
Frelinghuysen, and championed his cause in
the last two senatorial campaigns. In 1910
he became clerk of the judiciary committee of
the New Jersey senate, of which Mr. Freling-
huysen was chairman, and was appointed by
Governor Fort, county judge of Somerset
county for the term of five years beginning
April 1st, being the youngest judge in the
state. He is a Republican in politics, and an
e.x-member of the Consistory of the Dutch
Reformed Church of Sonierville. He is a
member of Solomon Lodge No. 46, F. and A.
M.; Keystone Chapter No. 25, R. A. M.;
Lodge of the Castle, No. 82, Knights of Py-
thias ; and Somerville Lodge, No. 1068, B. P.
O. E. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa,
of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, and of the Phi
Delta Phi fraternity of the New York Law
School. He is unmarried.
(II)Hendrick, second son of
HOPPER Andries (q. v.) and Griete
(Hendricks) Hoppe, was born
in New Amsterdam, New Netherlands, in
1656, removed to Bergen, East Jersey, with his
parents in 1680, was married March 14. 1680,
in the Dutch church in New Netherlands, to
Maria Johns Van Barkuni (or Maria Jans,
as the name is written in the marriage record)
March 14, 1680. They removed to Hackcn-
sack. North Bergen, in 1687. Children: i.
Andrew, 1681 ; married, July, 1707, Abigail
Ackernian ; three daughters. 2. Johannes, born
1682 : married, July. 1707, Rachel Terhune. 3.
William, born 1684: 4. Catherine, 1685. 5.
Garret. 1696. 6. Gertrude, 1699. 7. Lea.
(HI) Garret, fourth son and fifth child of
Hendrick and Maria Johns (Van Barkuni)
Hoppe, was born in Hackensack, Bergen
county. New Jersey, in 1696. He was an elder
in the Dutch Reformed C'hurcli in Hackensack
in 1758. He married, about I7,v'^-
( IV) Jacob, son of Garret llo])])e, was born
in Hackensack, New Jersey, about 1740. He
died there in 1813. He was a deacon in Hack-
ensack church on the (Ireen, of which his
father was an elder, in 1763, having held the
office of church master. He was a rich man
and owned several slaves whose names are
enrolled on the church records as members by
baptism Joe, Jim and .^usan, being bajitized in
1800. Jacob Ho]>])e married Cornelia Acker-
man, September 22, 1750. Children: i. Cath-
erine, born November 6, 1752. 2. Cornelius,
April 30, 1758. 3. Gerret, November 9, 1760.
4. Elizabeth, May 2, 1767; baptized in church
at Schraalenburgh, May 24, 1767. 5. Hen-
drick, born November 19; bajjtized December
10, 1769. 6. Johannes, born November 27,
1774: and probably .Abraham, born between
the birthdays of Gerret and Elizabeth.
(V) Abraham, ]>robabIy son of Jacob and
Cornelia (Ackernian) Hopper, was born in
Schraalburgh, New Jersey, about 1762. He
married Leah Bogart. about 1785, and we find
records of the birth of two children : Jacob,
July 21, 1788. 2. John (q. v.).
(\'I) John A., second son of Abraham and
Leah ( Bogart ) Hopper, was born in Kinder-
amack, near Etna, I'ergen county, New Jer-
sey, December 7, 1793. He was brought up
on his father's farm, on which was located a
saw mill on Sadie river, and this mill occupied
much of the time of the two sons when not
employed on the farm. He married, and it is
probable that one of his sons was Garret
(q. v.).
(VII) Garret, probably son of John Hop-
per, was born on his father's farm about 1809.
He continued to live on the farm and to attend
the sawing of lumber at the saw mill. He
married Maria Voorhees ; children : James ;
Maria : name not known ; Abraham G. (q. v.).
(VIII) Abraham Garret, yoiuigest son of
Garret and Maria (V'oorhees) Hopper, was
bcrn at Kimlcramack, Xew Jersey. He was
what was known at the time as a county
butcher, raising and fattening stock on his
farm and killing it from time to time, peddling
it throughout the country side from his wagon
on certain days and thus keeping the farmers
supi)lied with fresh meat. Later in life he re-
moved to Hackensack, where he carried on
the business of livery stable keeper, and finally
at Ridgewood, where he carried on a hotel
business at the old Ridgewood Hotel, where
he continued to reside and care for the wants
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of the traveling public up to the time of his
death. lie married Margaret, daughter of
John and Sophia ( TJogart ) Blauvelt. Sophia
Bogart was a daughter of John Bogart, who
kept the "Old Hook Tavern" near Westwood,
Bergen county, New Jersey, at the time of the
revolutionary war, and where he entertained
the officers of the American army stationed in
the county at the time Washington had his
headquarters at Morristown. Abraham Garret
and Margaret (Blauvelt) Hopper had children
born to them in Bergen county. New Jersey :
I. Garret V., 1854, married Eliza J., daughter
of Garret Hopper, of Cherry Lane ; children :
Harry B., Everett G., and LeRoy Hopper. 2.
Sophie, born i860, married John A. Bogart
Jr. ; first child, Margery. 3. John Blauvelt
"(q. v.).
(IX ) John Blauvelt, youngest child of Abra-
ham Garret and Margaret ( Blauvelt) Hopper,
was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Novem-
ber 2~. i8()i). He received his school training
in the Ridgewood public schools and at Lati-
mer's Business College, Paterson, New Jersey,
and when he reached his majority he entered
the employ of L E. Hutton, lumber dealer, in
Ridgewood, and served this concern seven
years, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the
business of buying and selling lumber and
builders' material. In 1896 he became a part-
ner in the lumber firm of Nickerson Hopper
Lumber Company at Ridgewood, and contin-
ued as a partner in tlie firm for eight years,
when he withdrew to engage in the fire insur-
ance business, and established at Ridgewood a
general agency for fire insurance which he has
continued with excellent results since 1903.
He was made clerk of the village of Ridge-
wood in 1899, and has been since continued in
that position by annual re-elections. He affili-
ates with the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows and with the Royal Arcanum, being a
member of each of the lodges of these frater-
nal organizations in Ridgewood. He married,
December 14, 1892, Ida, daughter of Benjamin
and Margaret (Campbell) Cole, and grand-
daughter of Abram Campbell. Their son,
Ronald I:k. was born October 13, 1894, he
being in the tenth generation from Andries
and Grietje (Hendricks) Hoppe, the immi-
grant ancestor of all the Hopper families of
New fersev.
( \'l ) Peter C. Hopper was
ST/\NSBURY born in Hopperstown, near
Hohocus, liergen county,
Xew Jersey, where he was brought up on a
farm, and after his son Cornelius P. came of
age they settled on a larger farm in the north-
ern part of the city of Paterson, where they
carried on farming industries successively.
Children of Peter C. and (Odell) Hop-
per, born Hopperstown, New Jersey: i. Cor-
nelius P. 2. Jonathan P. (q. v.) 3. Albert P.,
married Jane, daughter of Francis Ryerson ;
children: Peter; Eliza J., married William
II. Levell ; Albert: Catharine, married a Mr.
Mcintosh; Francis; possibly others. Peter C.
Hopper died in Paterson, Passaic county, New
Jersey.
( \T ) Cornelius P., eldest child of Peter C.
and ( Odell ) Hopper, was born in Hop-
pertown. New Jersey, November I, 1790. and
died in Paterson, New Jersey, October 24,
18^19. He was brought up on his father's farm
in Hopperstown, and when he came to his
majority joined his father in the purchase of a
large tract of land now in the northern limits
of the city of Paterson, which they cultivated
with great success and profit. He married,
June 20, 1819, Leah, daughter of Francis Ryer-
son. Children, born in Pacerson, New Jersey:
I- Eliza J., July 7, 1823; married John Bow-
man, died November 3, 1904. 2. Peter C.
July 22, 1825; married (first) Mary Taylor;
(second) . 3. Rachel (q. v.).
4. Cornelius C, February 15, 1831 ; married
Del|)ha Thompson, died May 16, 1890. 5.
George W., October 28, 1833; never married,
f). Jonathan C, March 28, 1836. 7. Joseph C,
March 26, 1838 ; was a soldier in the civil war ;
subsequently settled in Helena, Montana, where
he died unmarried. 8. Albert C, May 28,
iS^o, married Mary Burhans. He died and
his widow was living at Haledon avenue, Pat-
erscin, in 1909.
(\'II) Rachel, second daughter and third
thild of Cornelius P. and (Odell) Hop-
per, was born in Paterson, New Jersey, Octo-
lier 3, 1828. She married. May 22, 1850, John
Grossman Stansbury, born December 13, 1825,
died June 18, 1886. -By this marriage she be-
came the mother of six children, born in Jer-
sey City. New Jersey, where her husband was
for twentv-five years, and in 1873 removed to
Paterson, New Jersey, where her husband died
June 18, 1886, and where she was still living
in her home 239 North Seventh street, in 1909.
The order of birth of her children Is as fol-
lows : I. Sarah Eliza Stansbury. July 13. 1851,
died young. 2. Susanna .Stan.sbury, February
17, 1853; married Arthur Hastings. 3-4. John
and Cornelius Stansbury (twins), April 4,
1833, l'"t'i ''.''■'"s '" infancy. 3. John Edgar
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Stansbury, March 26, 185(1. died young. 6.
Charles Edgar Stansbury, AJay 10, 1857; mar-
ried Mary F. \"an Iderstine ; children : ICthel
S. Stansbury, December 5, 1892; Russell and
Charles .Stansbury ( twins). May i, i8(;4; 1 lazel
Stansbury, March 18, i8gi;; JMiltun .Stansliury,
June 24, lyoi.
(The St.itisljur.v Line).
( I) Joshua .Stansbur\ was an early settler
at Scotch I'lains, Union county, Xew Jersey,
where he was the patentee of a large tract of
land.
(II) Joshua (2), son of Josiah (i) Stans-
bury, was born in Scotch I'lains, New Jersey,
in 1750. He married Isabella De Camp, of
Milton, New Jersey, and they settled in Flush-
ing, Long Island, New York.
(Hi) Isaac, son of Joshua (2) and Isabella
(De Camp) Stansbury. was born in Flushing,
Long Island, October 9, 1780. He married
Sarah Rogers.
( I\') John Crossnian ( t|. v. above), sou of
Isaac and Sarah (Rogers) Stansbury, was
born December 13, 1825. He married. May
22, 1850, Rachel, daughter of Cornelius P. and
^ (Odell) Hopper ( q. v.).
(For preceding generations see Albert Albertse
Terhune).
(\II) Abram, third son of
TERHL'.XE Martin (q. v.) and Catherine
( Ackerman ) Terhune, was
born in Hackensack, Bergen county. New Jer-
sey. He married a Miss Demorest and had a
son, Albert Demorest, see forward.
(\'HI) Albert Demorest, probably eldest
child of Abram and (Demorest)
Terhune, was born in Hackensack, Bergen
county, New Jersey. He was brought up and
educated in his native town, and took up the
business of photographer in Ridgewood. in
which he prospered and retired with a compe-
tence. He married Sarah Jane, daughter of
Jacob Demorest and Maria Jane ( Bogart) \"an
Lmburgh; children, born in Ridgewood, Ber-
gen county : I. Hervey, see forward. 2. Wes-
ley Van Emburgh, October 6, 1876, w^as edu-
cated in the public schools of his native town,
and on reaching his majority engaged in the
\\oolen business in New York City, and enter-
ed the firm of Duval, Cone & Terhune. and be-
gan the business in the same line in which he
had served as clerk. He retired from the firm
in 1907, and in that year established the wool
commission house of Terhune. Xearing& Com-
pany, w'ith offices at No. 79 Fifth avenue. New
"\ ork City. lie was vice-jire.sident of the
Ridgewood Commercial Com])any. He mar-
ried. Se])tember 6, 1906, Caroline, daughter of
James E. and IClizaljcth (Weeland ) Halsey,
and they made their home in lirookKn. New
^ork.
(IX) Hervey, eldest son of Albert Demo-
rest and Sarah Jane (\'an Emburgh) Terhune,
was born in Ridgewoixl, ISergen county, New
Jersey, February, 1873. He received his edu-
cational training in the ])ublic schools of Riilgc-
wood, and on reaching manhood engaged in
tlie undertaking business in his native town and
conducted the same from 1894 to 1904. Then,
in conjunction with his brother and others, he
established the Ridgewood Commercial Com-
pany, organized and incorporated for the pur-
pose of selling wagons and farming imple-
ments and similar manufactured products.
Casper T. Zabriskie was made president, Wes-
ley \'an Emburgh Terhune, vice-president,
Edwin C. Bennett, secretar)-. and Hervey Ter-
hune, treasurer and general manager of the
corporation. He married, October 11, 1900,
Amy, daughter of Casper T. and Adeline
( Ackerman ) Zabriskie ; children, born in
Ridgewood, Bergen county. New Jersey: Don-
ald Zabriskie, March 17, 1902; Robert Demo-
rest, March 24, 1903; Francis Hervey, Febru-
ary 5, 1905 ; Norman Bogert, December 28, 1906.
Michael Davis, the first member
D.W IS of the family of whom we have
definite information, was born in
1833. and died in C)range, New Jersey, .\ugust
4, 190S. He w'as a prominent resident of
Orange, where he held the official positions of
alderman, freeholder, and finally police jus-
tice. Mr. Davis was a Roman Catholic, and
a distinguished and prominent member of St.
John's Church. He married (first) Susan
( iallagh°r, (second) Mary Rooney, who was
born in Monaghan, Monaghan county, Ireland,
in 1834. and died in Orange, New Jersey, De-
cember 17, 1909. She came to this country
v.hen eighteen years of age, settling in Orange
and made it her home uiuil her death. She
married (first) Charles Mcl'hail, who died
about 1869, and had two children — Elizabeth
and .Mar}'. Several years after the death of
l.er first husband she married JMr. Davis. She
is survived by twenty-two grandchildren. Chil-
dren of Michael Davis (three by first mar-
riage) : I. John L., formerly an alderman of
( )range, .Xew Jersey. 2. .Michael E.. resides
in Orange. 3. Richard, resides at Newburg,
Xew ^'ork. 4. Susan, married James .A. Clark.
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5. Annie, married Daniel A. Dugan, of Orange,
New Jersey. 6. Thonias A., see below. 7.
Francis, deceased. 8. Ella, deceased.
(II) Thomas A., son of Michael and Mary
( Rooney ) Davis, was born at Orange, New
Jersey, January 14, 1871. He received his
early education at the ])reparatory school of
St. Jt)hn's at Orange, and later at the College
of St. J^'rancis Navier, at New York City, and
th.cn attended the Metreipolis ( later the Uni-
versity) Law School. He read law with \'ice-
Chancellor Stevens, and with Edward i\I. Colie
and Supreme Court Justice Swayze. lie was
admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney
in June, 1895, and as counsellor in June, 1898.
In 1895 he entered into a legal partnership with
John L. Blake and William Read Howe, of
C)range. In May, 1908, after thirteen years
of successful arnl lucrative practice, Mr. Davis
had the honor of being appointed by Governor
Fort, county judge of Essex county. That
Judge Davis's ability is widely esteemed and
generally respected, is clearly shown by the
number of prominent and responsible public
positions which he has successfully tilled. He
was city counsel for Orange for seven years.
He has been an able member of the city council
of Orange for three years ; and for the past
five years has been village counsel for South
Orange ; he is counsel for the Orange National
Bank, the Half Dime Savings Bank, and for
the Mutual Trust Company of Orange. In
June, 1901), Set(_in Hall College conferred on
him the degree of LL. D. Judge Davis has
many active social interests, and is as promi-
nent in private as in public life. He is a mem-
ber of the New Jersey State Bar Association,
the Lawyers' Club of Esse.x County, the Essex
County Country Club, the New England Soci-
ety, and the Ne^v Jersey Historical Society,
and is a member of the Order of the Knights
of Columbus. In religion Judge Davis is a
Ri)nian Catholic, and an active and influential
member of St. John's Church.
He married, in Orange, November 25, 1896,
Mary Adele, daughter of Henry and Margaret
(Cox) Jacobs, who was one of six children.
Children: 1. Emily Lauris, born C'ctober 8,
i8g8. 2. Thomas .\. jr., May 10, 1902. 3
William Howe, March 8, 1904. 4. Theodore,
A]>ril 25, 190(1. 5. Norma. April 2^. 1906. 0.
Noeline, December 20, 1909.
\\'illiam Adgate Lord, a successful
L( )RD and po]ndar lawyer of Orange,
serving in the capacity of city coun-
sel of Orange, was born in [ersev Citv, New
Jersey, October 7, 1870. On the paternal side
he is descended from William the Con(|ueror,
Henry I., Henry II., John, Henry III., and Ed-
ward I., kings of England; from Sir Gilbert
dc Clare, third earl of Gloucester; and from
Ralph and Hugh Stafford, first and second
earls of StaiTord. Fie is also descended from
Ralph de Nevill, first earl of Westmoreland ;
from Sir Thomas Dacre, sixth lord of Dacre ;
from Sir Richard Fienes ; and from Sir
Thomas Fienes, eighth Lord Dacre.
( I ) Rev. Benjamin Lord, D. D., was the
first of the name of whom we have record.
Among his children was Joseph.
(II) Joseph, son of Rev. Benjamin Lord,
D. D., married, and among his children was a
son Joseph.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) Lord,
married, and among his children was a son
Joshua A. Joseph Lord served as major.
( I\' ) Joshua A., son of Joseph (2) Lord,
resided in Canaan Four Corners, New York.
He married, and among his children was a
son Charles Douglass.
( \ ) Charles Douglass, son of Joshua A.
L<jrd. was born in Canaan Four Corners, New
\ ork, 1828, clied in 1898. He was for many
years engaged in the insurance business. He
married Lucy Ann, born in 1830, died in 1903,
daughter of Joel Wood Fay and granddaugh-
ter of Joel Fay. Children : Nellie Montague
and William Adgate (see forward).
( \ I ) \\'illiam Adgate, son of Charles Doug-
lass and Lucy Ann (Fay) Lord, has resided
in Orange, New Jersey, since he was ten years
of age. He attended private schools and was
graduated from the Orange iiigh school in
1889, having completed the usual three years'
cciurse in two years. He immediately entered
the newspaper profession, writing for the
Orange Journal, the Orange Ez'cning Mail, the
Newark Sunday Standard, the Newark Daily
Ad^'crtiscr, the Newark Times, the New York
Sun, the Newark Ez'cning Ncii's, and the New
York Times, successively. He read law in the
office of Charles B. Storrs, Escj.. and was ad-
mitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in
February, 1899, and as counsellor in Febru-
ary, 1902. In June, 1899, he engaged in the
general practice of his profession in Orange,
with an office in the National Bank buildingv
As a Republican. Mr. Lord has been most
energetic and has won for himself an enviable
place of prominence in his party, and by his
abilities and many pleasing qualities has gained
as his reward from the people among whom
he dwells many offices of public trust and con-
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1455
fidence. I le was appointed clerk of the ( )ran5;;c
district court at the time it was established,
April I. i8g6, and served until June, 1899.
when he engaged in the active ])ractice of law.
From lyoi to 1903 he was the rejjresentative
of his party and of Essex county in the Xew
Jersey general assembly, and in 1904 was
chosen by the city of Orange as its city counsel,
in which capacity he is now serving. While a
member of the assembly he served on the im-
portant committees on revision of laws and
militia. He is vice-chairman of the Essex
County Republican Committee.
Mr. Lord, is an enthusiastic militiaman, lie
became a private in Gattling Gun Company A,
National Guard New Jersey, April 27, 1895,
and at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish-
American war was second lieutenant of Com-
pany 1 1 , Second Regiment, having been elect-
ed to that office March i, 1898. He served
in the same capacity during the war, when his
regiment became the Second New Jersey Vol-
unteer Infantry, stationed during most of the
time at Jacksonville, Florida. He became first
lieutenant in Company H, Fifth Infantry, Na-
tional Guard New Jersey, in 1903, and the
same year was made captain. He resigned in
1904, but was again elected captain of his old
comjiany in 1909. Mr. Lord is a firm believer
in the benefits of secret societies and fraternal
organizations. He is a past archon of Orange
Conclave, No. 475, Improved Order of Hepta-
sophs ; past commander of Colonel Emerson
H. Liscum Camp, No. 94. Spanish- American
War \'eterans : past commander of New Jer-
sey Spanish-.American War \'eterans ; mem-
ber of New- York Commandery of the Mili-
tary and Naval Order of the Spanish-.Ameri-
can War; judge advocate of the New Jersey
Commandery of the Military and Naval Order
of Foreign Wars ; a member of the Seventh
Army Corps X'eteran Association ; of Orange
Lodge, No. 135, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks: Corinthian Lodge, No. 55,
Free and Accepted Masons ; Orange Chapter,
No. 23, Royal .\rch Masons ; Jersey Com-
mandery, No. 19, Knights Tem])lar; Salaam
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine ; the New England Society : the
Law-yers' Club of Essex County ; the McKin-
ley and Roosevelt Club of the Oranges ; the
L'nion League Club of the Oranges, of wdiich
he is president: the Orange High .School
.•\lumni .\ss(iciation, the Rei)ublican Indian
League : the Xew Jersey .Automobile ami Motor
Club, and the .American .Automobile .Associa-
ti<iii. .Mr. Lor<l is a member of the First Pres-
byterian Church of ( )range.
.Mr. Lord married, in luiglewood. New Jer-
sey, .AjM-il 15, i</)3, .Sarah llorner. born in
Philadelphia, t'ennsylvania, January 21, 1875,
daughter of William 1 ienry 1 larrison and Alar-
tlia (Fyfe) Roberts, of 'l'hila(leli)hia. Lhil-
dien : 1. W'illiaiii .\dgaie Jr.. born l'\-l)ruary
15, 1904. 2. Mar_\' Roberts, .August 5, 1905.
3 Genevieve h'ay, Sejitember 21, 1906. 4.
.*-^arah, February 15, 1908.
.Althoiigli the Preston family
PRE.ST( ).\ in this country belongs among
the earliest of the colonists,
there is an unfortunate lack of record concern-
ing the earlier generations, and the references
are too scattered as yet for a detailed genealogy
of the family to be constructed. In New Jersey
the earliest mentioned of the name is William
Preston, of Alonmouth county, who in ij(X)
soFl land to Thomas Parker, both grantor and
grantee living at that time in h'reehold. There
is little doubt that this William Preston is the
ancestor of the founder of the line at present
under consideration, but there seems to be no
record as yet come to light which will deter-
mine who his ancestors were.
( 1 ) Samuel I'reston, born in the Dey neigh-
borhood, Monmouth county, about 1775, lived
at Manalapan. He was ajiparently twice mar-
ried : (first) June 19, 1803, by Daniel Stout,
of (joodluck, to Anna Clayton, and (second)
to Rachael . Children: Samuel Jr.,
referred to below : William : Curlis, or Corlies ;
Joseph : Katharine.
(II) Samuel Jr., son of .Samuel Preston,
of Manalai)an, was born there about 1807, and
died in 1847. After receiving a common school
education he learned the trade of carpenter,
at which he worked all of his life. He was a
Democrat, and although he objected to and did
not hold office, he was nevertheless one of the
staunch supporters of his party. He married
Lucy Ann Dey, born about 181 1, and died in
March, 1882. Children : .Allison Ely, referred
to below: Jacob, now dead; Hannah, born
about 1S41, now living in Freehold, New Jer-
sey, married .Mulford Longstreet, who is de-
ceased.
(Ill ) .Allison l'"ly, child of Samuel and Lucy
.Ann ( Dey ) Preston, w'as born in Manalapan,
Monmouth county. New Jersey, 1835. .After
receiving a common school education he learn-
ed the trade of mason and builder, at which
he worked stcadil}- until 1903. when he retired
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
frcmi activf 1)iisiness. Coniinij to Freeliold in
1850, he j~ct up in his trade as mason and
builder ami \ery soon began to do a thriving
business. His industry and application and
the reputation which he rapidly built up for
honest, integrity and good work, soon gave
hini a foremost place among the men of his
business and in the community, and he was
called upon for the stone work of many of the
most imjiortant buildings in that part of the
country. Eight years after his arrival at Free-
hold he built the magnificent residence in which
he now lives, anil in 1877, when the Monmouth
Battle Monuinent Association was formed, he
was selected to build the foundation base of
tl;at monument, which stands alike as a me-
morial not only to the historic event which it
commemorates but also the honesty, integrity
and worth of the man who built the foundation.
Like his father, "Mr. Preston has always been
a staunch Democrat and has done good work
for his party, although he has preferred not
to receive or to hold office. He is a member
of the Independent ( )rder oi Odd h'ellows
and of the Knights of Pythias in Freehold. In
1S36, Allison Ely Preston married (first) Han-
nah Van Cleef, and on her death, without issue,
he married (second) Julia, daughter of Ben-
jamin Denise, by whom he had children, all
born in Freehold. 1. Francis, a file setter, in
Brookhn, .\e\v York; is married, and has
George and William. 2. Charles, a mason and
builder, living at Red Bank. New Jersey: mar-
ried and has one child Russell. 3. John, also
a mason, living at Red Pank. and unmarried.
4. William, died at the age of twenty years.
Nathaniel harrand, the first
FARRAND member of the family of
whom we have definite in-
formation, is recorded as being in Milford,
Connecticut, in 1645. So far as is known he
had three children: Nathaniel Jr., referred to
below ; Hannah, married, 1674, Thomas Thorn-
ton, of Hartford: Elizabeth, married, 1676,
WaUer Smith, of Milford.
(11) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (i),
was born about 1650 or 1660. He lived in Mil-
ford, and left tliree sons of record : Nathaniel,
bi.>rn May 15, 1679 : Samuel, referred to below :
Daniel, born July 2, 1683.
(HI) Samuel, son of Nathaniel (2) I-^ar-
rand, and "stepson" of Joseph and Dorcas
Wheeler, was Ijorn in Milfortl, about April,
1681, and died in Newark, New Jersey, Sep-
tember 16, 1750. In 171 1 he purchased from
John Medlis, for £85 current money of New
"\'ork, one-half ui the house-lot of Samuel
Plum. In 1739 he was one of the judges of
the ]ileas and justices of thetiuoroum for Essex
county, and in the following year was appoint-
eil one of the judges of the Esse.x county
courts. He married Hannah , who died
( 'Ctober ]8, 1748, in her sixty-third year. F'rom
the confusion in the use of the terms "son-in-
law" and "stepson," it has been conjectured
th.at she was Hannah Wheeler, daughter of Jo-
seph and Dorcas. Children: i. Daniel, born 1726,
ilied March 7, 1764. married Margaret ,
will I afterwards married Elijah Hedden. 2.
Samuel, died 1760 or I7C>3. 3. Moses, referred
til below. 4. Ebenezer, born about 1700, died
January 22, 1777. 5. Nathaniel, married Mary
. 6. Jose])h, died August 8. 1760, aged
forty-one years: married and left issue. 7.
Sarah. 8. Phebe. 9. Elizabeth. 10. Hannah.
(I\') Moses, son of Samuel and Hannah
Farranil, was born in Newark, New Jersey,
about 1728, and died in Bloomfield, September
19, 1803, aged seventy-seven years. He mar-
ried ( first ) Ann , who died January 19,
1785, in her fifty-seventh year, and (second)
Dorcas, daughter of Obediah and Dorcas
Pruen, who was born August 28, 1741, and
died in 1821. Children: Samuel, died Sep-
tember lO, 1758, aged four years one month;
.\I)igail, married Joseph Davis ; Phebe, married
Dr. Mead ; Samuel, referred to below ; Joseph.
( \' ) .Samuel, son of Moses and Ann Far-
rand, was born July 25, 1759, and died De-
cember 26, 1826. His wife Sarah (possibly
his second wife) died July 18, 1844, aged sev-
enty-four years si.x months nineteen days. They
are both buried in Bloomfield. Children :
Charles, referred to below; Moses; Joseph;
Hernion ; Samuel; Sarah Ann; Moses An-
druss, died August 6, 1793, aged one year six
months nineteen days.
(\'l) Charles, son of Samuel and Sarah
Farrand. was born in Bkiomfield, New Jer-
sey, in July 1799, and died in June, 1874. He
married .Anna, daught;er of Henry D. Farrand,
who was born in Morris county, New Jersey,
in 1823. and died in 1901. Her father's mother
was Rhoda Farrand. Children : Charles H. ;
Stanford; Herbert C. : William S. ; Ida J.;
Walter D. ; Edward C. ; Anna B. ; Dudley, re-
ferred to below.
(\'II) Dudley, son of Charles and Anna
( Farrand ) Farrand, was born in Bloomfield,
Essex county. New Jersey, February 21, 1869,
and is now living in Newark, New Jersey.
After attending the public schools of Bloom-
field he [irejiared for college in the Newark
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Academy, and tlien entered I'rincetoii L'niver-
sity, which he left witliout completiii^t,' the
course. While attenditit,' school he worked
during the summer months of 1885 and 1886
with the hardware firm of Peter llayden, of
Xewark, an<l in 1887 accepted a clerkship with
the Xewark Electric Light and Power Com-
jKiny. which was succee<led by various corpora-
tions and is now the Public Service Corpora-
tion of Xew Jersey, of which he is the general
manager. Since then he has been engaged in
the business of electrical engineering, and in
his twenty-four years of service he has filled
every position in the electrical department,
besides acting as consulting engineer for a
number of large electrical plants, and he has
gained for himself a high re]5utation as one of
the best electrical engineers and experts in this
part of the country. He is a member of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers and
of the .American Society of Mechanical Engi-
neers. He is also a past president of the Na-
tional Electric Light Association, and has occu-
pied all the various offices in that organization,
having been a member of the executive com-
mittee foi' twelve years. He also belongs t(.i
several important local organizations, includ-
ing the Engineers Club of New York, the
Essex Club of Newark, the Essex County
Country Club, the Rumson Country Club of
Rumson. New Jer.sey, and Red P.ank Yacht
Club. For six years he served as a member
of the First (Essex) Troop, National Guard
of Xew Jersey, retiring in 1898. In politics
he is a Republican, and from religious convic-
tion a member of the South Park Presbyterian
Church. Air. Farrand married, in 1899, J^"^'
Champenois. Children : Dudley Champenois,
died in infancy ; Louise, died at age of two and
one-half years; Laura Jean, born 1007.
The family is said to be
FITZ-GERALD of Italian origin — a
branch of the Gherar-
dini, a very ancient family of Tuscany. The
founder of the English branch seems to have
been Gerald of Windsor. He came to Eng-
land from Normandy in the time of Edward
the Confessor, and held high posts and large
estates. About a century after the Norman
conquest a descendant, Alaurice Fitz-Gerald,
was one of the princijial leaders in the invasion
of Ireland, received large grants of land and
founded the Irish branch of the family, of
which the Duke of Leinster is the head.
The etymology of the patronymic is simply
the old Norman "fitz" (fils, .son) plus the
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name of the progenitor. Gerald, e. g: Mau-
rice Fitz (son of) (leraid.
.\rnis: Ermine, a saltire gules. Supjiorters :
Two griffins, collared and chained or. Crest;
.\ boar gules. bri>tled and armed or. For ( IKii :
■.\ --econd crest. .\ castle with two towers. Issu-
;ini iiut I if the sinister tower a knight in armor,
holding in his dexter h.-md a key, all proper.
(I) John I'"itz-(!erald, of Kel!s-the-Four-
Castles, county Kilkenny, or of Tralee, countv
Kerry, Ireland (the location is not entirely
clear. One account fixes it at Kells, near the
town of Callan, and another places it at Tra-
lee ; it is possible, however, that both mav be
correct, and that John migrated from one to
the other). He was a near relative of the
then Knight of Gl_\'n. He married Margaret
Clare. Children: i. John, married a lady of
the Casses, and went to the south of Ireland.
2. Anastasia, married Major .Saxe. or Sykes, of
the British army, came with him to New York
during the revolutionary war, and was never
afterward heard from. 3. Marv, married
Gabriel Vass, in spite of the opposition of her
family, who were greatly scandalized thereby,
considering that she had lowered herself by
the connection ; she was mother of Alexander
Vass, who came to New York, where he lived
with his daughter (Eleanor Vass Garrison)
till the time of his death. 4. William, men-
tioned below. 5. James.
(II) William Fitz-Gerald, second son of
John Fitz-Gerald, was born in Ireland, in 1729.
and died in C)range county. New York, 1813.
aged 84. He became involved in the political
troubles of the times, was several times prose-
cuted for his connection therewith, and.
although he escaped conviction through the
influence of powerful friends, (particularly
one Mr. Flood, a wealthy and influential gen-
tleman of the neighborhood, who had a great
friendship for him ) he thought it wise, in
order to avoid further annoyance, to leave the
country for a time. He accordingly came to
.'\merica with the intention of returning in a
year or two, after the trouble had blown over.
It fell out quite otherwise, however, for he
married Hannah Driscoll and settled on a
large farm in the township of Warwick,
Orange county. New York. He was promi-
nent in the affairs of his town and held town
office between 1765 and 1775. His homestead
was in Dutch Hollow, near the township line
of Warwick."
'History of Jlonroe, in "Historv of Orange County
New York," by K. M. Kutlenber & I^. H. Olark, pub
ISSl. bv Evarts & Peck.
1458
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Excerpts from letters written by John Fitz-
Gerald (son of Charles Fitz-Gerald, of Mon-
roe, Orange county, New York, to A. O. Fitz-
Gerald :
x.Iay 10, 1908.
"You jsay that William Fitz-Geralil, tlie first of tlie
family, came to this country about 1760. I am
under the impression tiiat he was here earlier. . .
He became an extensive landholder in this section.
Some six hundred acres wliich he once owned are
still in the family and occupied by me. The last
resting place of the older Fitz-Gerald is on this
property. . . Our great-grandfather was born in
the town of Tralee, county Kerrj', connected with
the Leinster family of Fitz-Geralds. . . As a
matter of hi.story I may tell you that in his first
attempt to emigrate lo this country he. in company
witli .lames, his brother, was captured by an Eng-
ILsli vessel and taken back. The brother died in
Dublin Castle, but William escaped."
"I find that our
Sterling Iron Works
Townshends, and as
nace at that place,
remembrance of the
doubt about his assi
Sterling and that it
1st. Lieut, in a mi
place. This Compa
Regt. and he and Ph
left of the company
isink."
Jan. 30, 1909.
great-grandfather was at the
in 1751 in partnership with the
sisted in building the first fur-
which can yet be seen as a
olden times. . . There is no
sting in building the furnace at
was built in 1751. . . He was
litary conipany raised in that
ny belonged to Col. Hathron's
ilip Burrowes were all that was
after Brandt's massacre at Min-
Williani Fitz-Gerald served his country in
the revolutionary war, in the Florida and
Warwick regiment, under command of Colo-
nel John Hathorn. Sterling Military Com-
pany, 1776: Captain, Jacob Norman; Lieu-
tenants, Solomon L'inch, William Fitz-Gerald;
Ensign, Elisha Dennett. 1777: Captain,
Henry Townshend : Lieutenants, William Fitz-
Gerald, Elisha Bennett ; Ensign, Joseph Conk-
ling. February 19, 1778: Captain, Henry
Townshend ; Lieutenants, Solomon Finck,
William Fitz-Gerald ; Ensign, ElijahFenton."
William Fitz-Gerald married Hannah Dris-
coll and had issue: i. Mary, married Jessie
Smith, and was grandmother of Dr. David
Smith, of Irvington, New Jersey, and Joseph
Smith. 2. Bridget, married three times ; John^
Cooney, Richard Youmans and John A, Bel-
cher. 3. Kate, married three times : James
Green, William Miles and Bartholomew Lott.
By William Miles she had issue : William
Miles, Jr. By Bartholomew Lott she had
issue : John, David, Eleanor and Susannah.
4. John, mentioned below. 5. William, born
March 28, 1780; married Rebecca Jackson
(born February 22. 1 781) and had issue: (i)
="New York in the Revolution," by Berthold Fer-
now, pub. 1887; vol. i, p. 292.
Joseph. (2) John. (3) Charles, born Decem-
ber 15. 1811, in Warwick, Monroe township,
Orange county, New York; died August 14,
18Q7. Commissioned captain in 91st Regiment
Infantry, New York State Guard, December
17, 1842. Married (May 24, 1837) Sarah Gal-
loway (born March 16, 181 1; died September
30, 1899) daughter of Thomas Galloway and
Ruth Alapes, and had issue : a. Genette, born
March 17, 1S38, died May 19, 18S3, married
O. C. Holbert ; b. John, mentioned below ; c.
Peter, born April 26, 1848, married (1870)
Marietta Mills; d. William; c. Amanda; f.
Sarah.
John Fitz-Gerald (mentioned above) was
born C^ctober 12. 1839. He owns and occupies
( 1910) six hundred acres of the farm which
was owned and occupied by his great-grand-
father, William Fitz-Gerald, the founder of
the family in America. He married, (first)
Harriet Potter; (second) Mary Neely. Issue
of John Fitz-Gerald and Mary Neely: a. Re-
becca, born December 2, 1876; b. Ruth, born
January 17, 1879, married (August 5, 1903)
Jacob A. Mittnacht Jr. (born November 14,
1879) son of Jacob A. Mittnacht, and had
issue: Florence Ruth, born July 12, 1906; c.
Arthur, born June 11, 1886, married (August
15, 1908) Cornelia Breen (born September 16,
1886) of Paterson, New Jersey.
6. James, died August 23, 1854; married
Sarah Galloway, (born October 16, 1787; died
April 18, 1830) daughter of James Galloway
and Ann Smith, and had issue: (i) Galloway,
born February 28, 1812; was first sergeant in
Captain Morris' company, and was killed at
capture of City of Mexico. (2) Rebecca, born
November 27, 1814. (3) Katherine, born June
3, 1817. (4) Ann, born May 29, 1822. (5)
Edward, born November 5, 1824.
James Fitz-Gerald (II. -6), as well as his
nephew Charles ( II-5 (3 ) ), took a wife named
Sarah Galloway.
(Ill) John Fitz-Gerald, fourth child and
oldest son of William and Hannah (Driscoll)
Fitz-Gerald, was born at ^Varwick, Orange
county, New York, October 28, 1774, and died
at Boston, A'lassachusetts, September 28, 1861.
He was a Whig in politics, and belonged to
the early military company in Warwick. He
married (July 26, 1795) Mary Newbury (born
October 17, 1772, died September 11, 1857)
daughter of John and Jemimah (Benedict)
Newbury, and grand-daughter of the Rev.
■ Benedict, the Baptist minister at War-
wick. Issue of John Fitz-Gerald and Mary
Newbury :
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1. William Newbury, burn April 18, ijyO,
died July 5, 1848; married Phoebe Drummond
and had issue: (i) Philander, actor and play-
wright. (2) Theodore. (3) William N.,
author, editor, proprietor of the Hub, New
York City ; captain in army during civil war.
(41 Theophilus, major in army during civil
war. 2Sth Regiment. New York V'olunteers.
(51 Nelson. (6) Pauline, (jj Kate.
2. Pauliife. born June 2^, 1798, died March
18, 1829; married James Gray, and had issue:
William, who settled in Portland, ]\Iaine, and
was a member of the city council.
3. David Alaurice. born September 6, 1800,
died at Newark, New Jersey, September 28,
1854; married (October 23, 1823) Louise
Lyon (born January 8. 1806, died at Newark,
New Jersey, December 7, 1857) and had
issue: (i) Edwin, born September 13, 1824,
died November 24, 1844. (2) Lysander, born
September 9, 1826; married (February 20,
1850) Louise Francis, who died April 8. 1853.
(3) James, born June 29. 1828. died Septem-
ber 8, 1828. (4) John, born April 4. 183 1,
died September 29, 1831. (5) A\'illiam Henry,
born November 2, 1S33, died March i, 1835.
(6) Daniel Price, born January 10, 1836;
married (January 10, 1859) Susan Beardsley
(born September 8, 1838), and had issue: a.
Frederick Lyon, born October 30. 1859, died
July 26. i860; (b) Frank Hanlon, born De-
cember 9, 1861, died August 8, 1862; (c) Dan-
iel Price Jr. (7) Mary Louise, born October
27, 1837, died October 14, 1862. (8) Teresa
Amanda, born April 17. 1840. died March 9.
1852. (9) Phebe Elizabeth, born May 2,
1843. died June 25. 1870; married William
Beardsley. (10) David Edwin. ^L D.. born
December 22. 1847: married (March 3, 1880)
^lary A. Wilkinson (born September 8, 1853).
David Edwin Fitz-Gerald is a practicing phy-
sician in Philadelphia. They had issue : (a)
Gerald Lysander. born August 6. 1882.
4. Sidney Smith, born in Orange county.
New Y'ork, May 29, 1802; died February 12,
i860, at Conklingtown. Orange county. New
York; married (April 21. 1825) Hannah Conk-
ling (born at Conklingtown. April 7. 1801.
died at Elizabeth. New Jersey. July 18. 1874)
dai'.ghter of Benjamin Conkling and Mehita-
ble (7ireene, at her father's house in Conkling-
town. the Rev. Dr. Esra Fisk, of Goshen,
officiating, and had issue: (i) Harriet Jane,
born February 23, 1826, at Chester, Orange
county. New York, died October 27. 1885. at
Elizabeth. New Jersey. (2) James Harvey
(i) born ^L^rch 11, 1828. at Chester, died
.Wigust 4. 1832. at Conklmgtown. (3) Ed-
ward Maurice, born Sejitember 11, 1830. at
Chester, died July 7, 1896, at Binghamton,
New Y'ork, where he was a practicing lawyer;
married (May 21, 1866) Mary Elizabeth H'ow-
ell, daughter of Edmund Howell and Nancy
Pell of Plooming (Irove. Orange county. (4)
Louise, born September 11, 1830, at Chester,
died May 27, 1904, New York City. (5)
James Harvey (2), born Alay 29, 1833, at
Conklingtown, died May 14, 1872, at Bound
Br'xjk, New Jersey; married (Alay 25, 1859)
Ca'-oline Ford, daughter of Samuel Tichenor
and Charlotte Mcdonald, at Clinton Place,
near Newark. New Jersey, and had issue: (a)
Sidney S., born August 5, i860; (b) Fannie,
born June 7, 1863: (c) Clarence, born October
5, 1865, married and had issue: Caroline and
Madeline; (d) Harvey H., born September 25,
1867; (e) Bertha, born April 20, 1869; (f)
Irving S., born May 14, 1870. (6) Mary
Emily, born October 25, 1835. at Chester. (7)
Pauline, born January 22. 1838. at Chester,
died July 18. 1874, at Elizabeth, New Jersey.
(8) Henry, born August 22. 1841. at Conkling-
town. (9) David Conkling. born July 4, 1843,
at Conklingtown ; married, at Washington-
ville. New York. (October 28. 1878) Virginia,
daughter of Fletcher Beekman Brooks and
Elizabeth Welling, the Rev. Dr. Beaumont
officiating, and had issue: (a) Sidney. (10)
Hannah Elizabeth, born Afay 17. 1846. at Ches-
ter, died October 30. 1884. at Elizabeth. New
Jersey.
5. Albert, born April 2. 1804. died Alav 14.
1885: married (November 23, 1826) Eveline
Hovt (born June 11, 1805; died October 26,
1883) and had issue: (i) William Oscar,
born December 25. 1827. died Alay 2. 1897;
married (August 5. 1856) Ann AL Babbett
(died August. 1898) and had issue: two chil-
dren, both of whom died in infancy. (2) John,
born February 2. 1830; married (November
19, i80) Ellen AL Ouve ; issue: (a) Harry
A., born November ~i 8^ 1858; (bV Ella A..
born June 22. 1859; (c) Eva. born ATarch 18.
i860. (3) Helen, born Alarch 13, 1832, died
January 19. 1866; married (June 21. 1850)
Afoses H. Turner and had issue: (a) Eliza-
beth, died at six ^-ears of age; (b) Charles C,
born December 6. 1863. died July 25, 1903.
(4) Alary H., born June 24, 1834. (5) James
B., born ATarch 24. 1837. married (December
20. i860) Elvira W. "Stratton. (died August
10. 1895). and had issue: (a) Lavinia A.,
born December 28. 1861. died November 4.
1863; (b) Alberta, born 1864, died October
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29, 1865: (c) James W., born June 21, 1869,
married (June 10, 1891), Lillian Bacon. (6)
Amanda, born July 21, 1839, died August 18,
1867; married (July 21, 1862) B. F. Saylor,
and had issue: (a) Frances A., died in in-
fancy; (b) Mary Helen, died in infancy. (7)
Albert Jr., born March 7, 1842: married (No-
vember 19, 1866) Sallie Cloud (born July 14,
1841 ) and had issue: (a) Mary H., born June
50. 1869: (b) J. H. M., born April 7, 1871 ;
"(c) Ella v.. born March 10, 1874; (d) Albert
C, born March 9, 1877; (e) William ()., born
May 13, 1880. (8) Henry, born April 2. 1848,
died August 28, 1869.
6. Joshua, born May 20, 1806, died January
2, 1856; married Catharine Ann Boylan (born
1809, died 1863) daughter of Aaron and Phoebe
(Breese) Boylan and had issue: (i) Julius
Curtis, attorney and counsellor at law, master
in chancery, and member of state legislature ;
married Julia Sweezy, and had issue. Married
(second) Marion , and had issue: (a)
Nellie, by first wife; (b) E'elva, by second
wife; (c) Ivy, by second wife.
(2) William Henry, born October 8, 1839;
drowned June 14, 1853.
(3) Catharine Ann; married (October 31,
1866) the Rev. Thomas Edward Gordon, and
had issue: (a) Edward Fitz-Gerald, born
February 22, 1868 ; married Katherin Schultz.
(b) Ikrald, born September 7, 1870; A. B.
Lafayette College, 1895 • ''^- ^^- Columbia Uni-
versity, 1903 ; A. B. Harvard University, 1904.
(c) Clarence, born September 6, 1873; A. B.
Harvard, 1908 or 1909. (d) Jay Vincent, born
1876. (e) Eliza Anna, born 1879; married
(1903) James Christ (A. B. and A. M. Dick-
enson College) and had issue: (f) Vivian
Boylan.
(4) John James, born May 16, 1845; mar-
ried (September 14, 1871 ) Elizabeth Blymyer,
of Lewistown, Pa., and had issue: (a) George
Blvmyer, born September 13. 1872, at Lewis-
town; married (April 18, 1906) Elsie Rey-
nolds Home, of Bedford, Pa. (b) Margue-
rite, born March 12, 1877; married (May 19,
1905) Henry F. Griffith, at Allegheny. Pa. ;
died March, 1909; two children.
(5) Phoebe Mariah, born March 4, 1848.
died August 31. 1852.
(6) Gerald, born April i. 1850.
7. James Benedict, born April fi. 1808. died
January, 1835 ; married Rachel Pierson.
8. Martha, born September 13, 1810; mar-
ried John Babcock, and removed to Boston.
Massachusetts. Issue: (i) James, married;
issue Millard Filmore. (2) William Henr^•.
entered army from Boston, Massachusetts, and
was killed during civil war. (3) Lysander. (4)
b'rank. ( 5 ) Kate, married Jenkins. (6)
Pauline, married Moulton.
1). J<ihn Driscoll, born b^ebruary 16, 1813,
died April 10, 1892; mentioned below.
ID. Horatio Nelson, born March 6, 1816;
married Susan Bruce, nee Toms, and had
issue: (I) Horatio Nelson; (2) Charles, mar-
ried ; (3) Frank, married ; (4)
Linda, married Huston Craig.
(IV) John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald, seventh
son of John and Mary (Newbury) Fitz-Ger-
ald, was born at Warwick, Orange county.
New York, February 16, 181 3, and died at
Newark, New Jersey, April 10, 1892. He
came to Newark in 1828, where he learned the
hatting trade with \\'illiam Rankin. After
following his trade for a time he entered the
employ of D. Price & Fitz-Gerald, manufac-
turers of varnishes. David Maurice Fitz-
Gerald, wht) was a partner, was his brother.
After a time he was admitted to partnership.
In 1854 David M. died and John D. remained
in jiartnership with Mr. Price until he (Mr.
Price) retired in 1867, when he continued the
business under his own name. Mr. Fitz-
Gerald later admitted his son, Aaron Ogden
Mtz-(j;erald, to partnership, and the firm name
was changed to Fitz-Gerald & Company. He
continued the active head of the business until
his death in 1892. He was one of the original
members of the Central Methodist Episcopal
Church, and served on the official board. In
politics he was formerly a Whig, but became a
Renublican on the organization of that party.
He was a member of the Masonic fraternity.
John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald married (October
8, 1834) Osee Melinda Boylan (born at Ber-
nardsville, formerly Vealtown, New Jersey.
February 15, 1813, died at Newark. New Jer-
sey, November 17. 1905) daughter of Aaron
I'loylan and Phoebe Breese. (See Boylan).
Osee Melinda (Boylan) Fitz-Gerald was an
accomplished linguist, and took a prominent
part in the social, religious and charitable
activities of Newark. She was president of
the Women's National Holiness Association,
and for forty years on Friday afternoon con-
ducted Holiness meetings in her home, which
was then thrown open to the public. During
the summer months the meetings were held in
the cottage at Alt. Tabor, New Jersey, the
camp meeting ground of the Newark Confer-
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
During the regular camii meeting, Mrs. Fitz-
Gerald held cottage Holiness meetings thrice
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daily in the hour just prior to the preaching
services. The Women's MoHness Camp
Meeting, under her leadership, was held during
the week previous to or following the regular
camp meeting. Mrs. Fitz-Gerald was one of
the original members of the Women's and
Children's Hospital, and a manager of the
Newark Female Charitable Society, and of
the Home for Aged Women. Next to her
work in connection with the Holiness move-
ment in the Methodist Church, Mrs. Fitz-
Gerald's best energies were given in support
of "The Society to Provide and Maintain a
Home for the Friendless," in Newark, New
Jersey, of which she was the founder, and of
whose board of managers she was president
until the time of her death.
John Driscoll and Osee Meliiida ( Uoylan )
Fitz-Gerald had issue:
1. Melinda Doylan, born July z-j. 1835, died
January 4, 1895; spinster. For many years
she was secretary of the board of managers of
the Home for the Friendless m Newark, New
Jersey.
2. James Newbury Fitz-Gerald. D. D.. LL.
D., born July 2j. 1837. died April 4. 1907. at
Hong Kong, China. He was admitted to the
practice of law in New Jersey, and was com-
missioned master of chancery in November,
1858; ordained deacon in Methodist Episcopal
Church, March, 1864; ordained elder March,
1866; appointed recording secretary of the
Missionary Society 1880: elected bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, 1888: for the
ten years prior to his death he was president
of the Ocean Grove Association. He married
(January 14. 1864) Mary Eliza .Annin (born
February 7, 1841, died July 5, 1909), daughter
of Jonathan Annin, M. D., and Eleanor
Tooker Mead, the Rev. (jeorge Hughes, uncle
of the bride, officiating. Issue: (I) Eleanor
Annin, born January 8, 1866, died C^ctober 23,
1869. (2) Paul, born December 17. 1868: edu-
cated at Hackettstown Seminarv, Syracuse
University (A. B. 1891 ; A. M. 1894) and Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons. Columbia
University, in the City of New York, (M. D.
1894) ; admitted to the practice of medicine in
New Jersey, and is (1910) assistant medical
director of the Prudential Insurance Com-
pany. He is a member of the Essex County
Medical Society, Syracuse Chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa, New York Chapter Sons of the
Revolution, and St. John's Eodge, No. i, F.
and A. M. He married (June 10, 1896) Grace
Bently Dashiell (born May 10, 1870) daughter
of the Rev. Robert Laurenson Da.shiell, D. t)..
and Mary l.inc Manly. Issue: (a) James .New-
bury, born July 30, 1897: (b)'Eloisc Dashiell,
hern May 26. 1899; (c) .Alice llanly. born
l-'ebruary 16, 1902.
(3) Grace, born .\\w'\\ 4. 1872: married
(June 21, 1900) at .Newark, New Jersey,
Charles Thomas Orr (born January 19, 1869)
of Webb City, Mo. Issue: (a) Raymond
Fitz-Gerald, born August 31, igoi ; (b) Esther
Louise, born December 31, 1902; (c) Charles
Thomas, Jr.. born May 5, 1904; (d) James
P'itz-Gerald. born July 19, 1903.
(4) Cornelia, born March 21, 1874, died
March 2, 1907, at Penang, S. S.
(5) Raymond, born February 22, 1880, mar-
ried (June 7, 1909) Mary Wilson.
(6) Bessie Grant, born Feliruary 22, 1884.
3. Kirke Boylan born March 23, 1842; un-
married. He was educated at the Newark
high school, Newark .\cademy and Princeton
College ; studied law in the offices of his uncles,
David K. and James H. Boylan, and was ad-
mitted to practice 1866; commissioned master
in chancery in 1867; captain Company D, ist
Regiment, New Jersey Rifle Corps of Militia
of New Jersey.
4. Aaron Ogden. Imrn September 14, 1845,
mentioned below ( \' ) .
( \' ) Aaron Ogden, youngest son of John
Driscoll and Osee Melinda (Boylan) Fitz-
Gerald, was born at Newark, New Jersey, in
the home of his father, at Broad and Fair
(now Lafayette) street, Septemlier 14, 1845.
He received his education in the grammar and
high schools of Newark and by [irivate tutors,
after which he entered his father's varnish
works to learn the business. He was later
admitted to partnership with his father under
the firm name of Fitz-Gerald & Company,
which continued to be the firm name until
1893, one year after the death of the senior
Fitz-(^erald, when the business was incorpo-
rated under the name of The Fitz-Gerald
Company, Mr. Fitz-(jerald president and
treasurer, Charles S. H. Fitz-Gerald vice-pres-
ident, and Dr. Paul l''itz-tierald secretary.
-Among the interests with which Mr. Fitz-
Gerald has been identified are the following :
Member of the Sons of the Revolution, New
York Chapter: New Jersey Historical Society;
trustee of the .Association to Provide and
Maintain a Home for the Friendless, and Sec-
retary of the board : trustee of the Central
Methodist ICjjiscopal Church; the Newark .Art
Club ; non-commissioned officer Company A,
1st Regiment New Jersey Rifle Corps, James
Peckwell, colonel, and John lirintzinghoffer.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
cai)tain. Mr. Fitz-Gerald is a member of
Kane Lodge, No. 55, F. and A. M.; Union
Chapter, No. 7, R. A. M.; Kane Council, No.
2, R. and S. M.; Damascus Commandery, No.
5, Jvnights Templar; and Salaam Temple, A.
A. O. N. M. S.
Aaron Ogden PTtz-Gerald married ( May 20,
1869) Harriet Minerva Haines, daughter of
Ch.arles Stuart Haines and Mary Pierson Scud-
der, the Rev. James Newbury Fitz-Gerald
officiating. (See Haines). Issue:
1. John Driscoll, born May 2, 1873; men-
tioned below (VI).
2. Charles Stuart Haines, born June 27,
1875 ; married (April 20. 1898) Mabel, daugh-
ter of Charles and Letitia Wilson. Issue:
( I ) .\aron Ogden ( 2nd ) , born September
10, 1899. (2) Charles, married (August 3,
1907) Martha, daughter of Van B. and Ada-
line H. ( Prall) Lowe.
3. Osee Clare, born August 12, 1877, died
April 12, 1878.
4. Aaron Boylan, born ]\Iarch 6, 1879. He
was educated at the Newark high school, Rut-
gers College, and Columbia College ; entered
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church ; ordained deacon 1905 ; in 1906 and
1907 he accompanied his uncle. Bishop Fitz-
Gerald, on a missionary visitation to India and
China, and was with the Bishop when he died
in Hong Kong; ordained elder in 1908; mar-
ried (October 22. TQOi ) Mary Davison (born
June 17, 1868: died September 7, 1906)
daughter of John and Helena R. (Missler)
Davison. Issue : ( i ) Estelle, born January
I, 1903. Alarried (second) (December 25,
1007) Florence Young, daughter of the Rev.
Eggerton Ryerson and Elizabeth (Bingham)
Young, of Ontario, Canada. Issue : (2)
Aaron Boylan (2nd) born March 21. 1909.
3. IMary Estelle, born January 18. 1884;
married (November 2, 1904) Henry Warner
Riddle Jr. (born September 4, 1880) son of
Henry Warner and Emily (Robinson) Riddle,
of Ravenna, Ohio, in the Central M. E.
Church at Newark, New Jersey, Bishop Fitz-
Gerald and Dr. W. H. Morgan officiating.
Issue: (i) Harriet, born August 12, 1905.
(2) Ma.xwell. born July 29, 1907. (3) Eleanor,
born September 24. 1908.
( \T ) John Driscoll ( 2nd ) A. B., Ph. D., son
of Aaron Ogden and Harriet Minerva ( Haines)
Fitz-Gerald, was born May 2, 1873, ^^ New-
ark, New Jersey, and was educated in the
grammar and high schools of that city and
Columbia LIniversity of New York City.
After graduating at Columbia in 1895, he
studied in the University of Leipzig, Berlin,
Pans and Madrid; Eleve titulaire (Paris) in
1897: Eleve iliplome (Paris) in 1902: Doctor
of Philosophy (Columbia) 1906; Department
of Romance Languages and Literatures, Co-
lumbia, 1898-1909; Department of Romance
Languages, University of Illinois, 1909. In
addition to numerous research articles in vari-
ous philological journals, and "Rambles in
Spain," he has published critical editions of
"La Y'ida de Santo Domingo de Silos," by
Gonzalo de Berceo ; "La Cuaderna Via;" the
"Novelas" of Lope de Vega, etc. In recogni-
tion of his researches the Spanish Royal Acad-
emv elected him unanimously a corresponding
member — the only title it can confer upon a
foreigner. He is also a member of the His-
panic Society of America. Besides these soci-
eties, he is a member of the following: Sons
of the Revolution; Societe Amicale Gaston
Paris; Gesellschaft fuer Romanische Littera-
tur ; Modern Language .Association of Amer-
ica ; secretary and treasurer Columbia Chapter
Phi Beta Kappa 1905-10.
He married (May 16, 1900) Leora Almita,
daughter of William Whitfield and Cordelia
.Ann (^Vest) Hartpence, of Newark, New Jer-
sey (See Hartpence). Issue: (i) Nesta,
born Newark, New Jersey, January 29, 1904.
(2) ("ierald Hartpence, born Newark, New
Jersey, December 4, 1905.
(The Boylan Line).
It was abijut 1732 that several families came
to Long Hill ( Bernard. New Jersey) to settle,
among whom was Aaron Boylan. He later
settled at Liberty Corner. This was also called
-Annin's Corner, from the Annin family who
settled there, and later Boylan's Corner.
( I) .\aron Boylan, of Liberty Corner, Som-
erset county. New Jersey, was of those Scotch-
Irish who settled in Derry, Londonderry, etc.,
in New Hampshire, and in Cherry Valley, New
^ ork! He married Catherine Parkinson, and
bv her had three sons: i. James Boylan (men-
tion later as IT). 2. John (born 1746, died
1793, at Bernard, New Jersey). 3. .Aaron
(born 1749, died 1824).
John Boylan and Aaron Boylan served in
the revolutionary war in the company of Cap-
tain John Parker. First Battalion from Somer-
set couutv, and also in the state troops and in
the Continental army." John Boylan was a
man of substance, and in 1788 was one of the
^For military service of John and Aaron Boylan,
see "OtBcers and Men of New Jersey in Revolution-
ary War," by W. S. Stryker.
STATE OF NEW Il<.RSi:\-
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Somerset county judges. Mc carried on an ex-
tensive mercantile business, having, besides
his I'luckamin store, stores at Liberty Corner
and \'eaito\vn. and operating at the same time
a large granary and an extensive potash manu-
factory.'
(II) James Boylan, M. D., was Ixirn Au-
gust 14. 1743 (old style), and died May 19,
1823. He lived at Vealtown, now Bernards-
ville, 1777. "At two O'clock Lord Sterling
wrote from Basking Ridge to Gen. Lincoln,
'I have ordered Dr. Barnet and Dr. Boylan at
Ploylan's Tavern to care for any wounded men
you may send there.' '"'
.-Vccording to the records in the (iffice of the
Adjutant General of New Jersey, James Boy-
lan. M. D., served as a private, minute-man. in
the Somerset county. New Jersey militia : also
as a private in Captain Jacob Ten Eyck's com-
pany. First Battalion. Somerset county. New
Jersey militia; promoted corporal thereof dur-
ing the revolutionary war."
"Lord Sterling and Capt. John Parker were
the origmal proprietors of the soil in this vicin-
ity." * * * (ionsiderable of this tract was
subsec|uently bought by Dr. James Boylan. an
old and distinguished physician, who practiced
many years in the place during the early part
of the present century ( 1800). He had a num-
ber of sons and one daughter, Catherine, who
died in 1863, leaving her property to ]\LTrgaret
Cole, wife of Charles Ouimby.
Dr. Boylan was a freeholder of the county
of Somerset in 1790. He married Anna Dun-
lop, who was born January 17, 1746 (old
style), and died January 9. 1831. Dr. James
Boylan and his wife were buried in the grave-
yard of the Presbyterian church at Basking
Ridge. Anna Dunlop was the daughter of the
Rev. Samuel Dunlop and his wife, Elizabeth
Guest, of Cherry \'alley. Elizabeth Guest is
said to have been torn in Colraine, Ireland.
Rev. Samuel Dunlop,' father of Anna (Dun-
lop) Boylan, migrated from Londonderry, New
Hampshire, in 1741, with a party of Scotch-
Irish who brought hither to Cherry Valley.
New V'ork, their scanty goods and settled.
Samuel Dunlop was a graduate of Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin. Ireland, and was a gentleman
learned in classics, as well as in modern litera-
•"Story of an Old Farm." by Andrew D. MfUiik.
pp. 1G3, 384. .581. 582.
^hid. p. 410.
*"Hi.storv of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties."
by J. p. SneU, (Evarts & Peck, publishers) pp. 741,
750.
'"Centennial Celebration at Cherrv Valley. Otsego,
New York, .luly 4. 1840." in addresses by William W.
Campl)ell and Governor William H. Seward, p. 10.
Also "History of Clierry Valley from 1740 to 1898, by
John Sawyer," pp. 3-5, 15, 25.
ture. It is told that when .Mr. Dunlop left
Ireland he was engaged to a charming young
lady conditionally on his returning to claim
her as his wife within seven years. When the
time was nearly up he made the long journey
fidiii Cheri-y \'alley. New York, to Ireland to
bring her to his frontier home. His fiancee
had, however, given up all ho])c of ever hear-
ing from him again and was to be married on
the da}' following his arrival. She, however,
welcomed him with open arms, married him,
and with him sought a new home in the west-
ern wilds. It is said she was a native of Col-
raine, Ireland, in the extreme north.
.■\fter the name of its founder. Cherry \'al-
ley had originally been called "Lindesays
Bush," a name doubtless too homely to suit the
refined ideas of the Rev. Mr. Dunlop, for in
the year following his arrival it was, at his
suggestion, rechristened "Cherry \'alley," the
new name being derived from the fact that
wild cherries were abundant in the valley. The
reputation of the Rev. Mr. Dunlop's primitive
but thorough school had, however, extended
and a number of the leading settlers along the
Mohawk .were accustomed to send their sons
to him for instruction. They lived with him
and formed a little boarding school.
The Rev. Samuel Dunlop and his wile were
sufferers in the Cherry \"alley massacre under
Brant and Butler. His homestead was on the
road to the west leading to Springfield, at the
foot of "Livingston's Glen," where in later
years Mrs. A. B. Cox owned. The home of
this venerable and beloved minister of the
settlement was attacked. His life was spared
tlirough the influence of Little Aaron, an In-
dian chief, who had attended Mr. Wheelock's
school in Lelianon. Mrs. Dunlop was killed
and mutilated in his [presence. He was taken
]irisoner but was not retained. With a daugh-
ter he went to New Jersey, where he died the
following year, 1779 (the massacre having oc-
curred November n, 1778), having never re-
coveied from the efl'ccts of the awful scenes
tlirough which he passed at the massacre, forty-
eight having been killed, sixteen of whom were
the soldiers. .\ talilet to his memory was recent-
1\' ])laced in the Presbyterian church at C'herry
\ alley. There is also a monument, erected a
few years ago by the public, in the village
churchyard.
Dr. James Boylan' and Anna Dunlop had
issue: i. Samuel (born I/68). 2. Robert
(born 1769). 3. John (born 1771, died 1843).
4. .Aaron (born 1774. died 1838). mentioned
below as HI. 5. Henry (born 1775. died 1782).
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6. Catherine (born 1778, died 1863). 7. James
(burn 1778). 8. Joseph (born 1780). 9. Ben-
jamin (born 1782), married Elizabeth Alward,
and had issne: (i) Ann; (2) Sarah; (3)
Jnhn; (4) \\'ilham ; (5) James. 10. Jacob
(born 1789).
(Ill) Aaron lioylan, son of Dr. James and
Anna (Dimlop) Roylan, was born January ti,
1774, at Liberty Corner, Somerset county, New
Jersey, died December 21, 1858, at Newark,
New Jersey, and was buried in Mount Pleasant
Cemetery. He studied law at Elizabeth, New
Jersey, in the office of Aaron Ogden, who was
later a justice of the supreme court ( New
Jersey), governor of the state, and United
States senat(.>r. In tlie September term of
1797, at Trenton, Aaron Boylan was admitted
to the bar. He practiced in Somerset county
until 1825, when he removed to Newark, where
he continued his practice. His three sons
(Aaron Ogden, David Kirkpatrick and James
Karris ) were also admitted to the bar and
practiced in Newark.
Aaron Ijoylan married (June 20, i8o(i)
Phoebe Creese (burn .\ugust 25, 1783, died
April 23. 1862), daughter of Stephen Breese
and Nancy Baily. Tliey hatl issue: i. James
Harris (burn 1807, died 1820). 2. Catherine
Ann (born 1809, died 1863), married Joshua
Fitz-Gerald (see P'itz-Gerald ). 3. Aaron C)g-
den (burn 1810, dieil 1840), married Eveline
Evans. 4. Osee Melinda (born 1813, died
1905), married John Driscoll Fitz-(jerald (see
Fitz-Cierald ). 5. David Kirkpatrick (born
1814, <licd 1881 ), married .Amelia Turner. 6.
Eliza Sloan (born 1818. died 19a'')), married
Jacob Skinkle. 7. Maria Brownlee (born 182 1,
died 1897), married George H. Doremus. 8.
James Harris (born 1823, died 1884), n.iarried
Hester Ann Baldwin.
(The H.-^ine.s Line).
( 1 ) James Haines (born 1^172. died Septem-
ber (t, 1732). of Bridge Hampton, and Sarah,
his wife (born 1667, died December 21. 1721 ),
had. among other children, a son, Deacon
James Haines, of Bridge Hampton (born 1702,
died December 2-1-, 1779).
( II ) Dcacun James Hajjies and Martha, his
\\ife. (burn 1705, died Nuvember 29, 1787)
had, among utlier children, a son. Elder James
Elaines (born October 6, 1734, died February
22, 1807. at Roxbury, New Jersey).
( III ) Elder James Haines married ( Decem-
ber 30, 175(1) Mary Halsey (l)orn March 8,
1735, died Decemlier 2, 181 5, at Roxbury, New
Jersey), and had issue, among other children.
a son Jared Haines (burn November 7, 1766,
died May 24, 1832, at Newark, New Jersey).
( I\' ) Jared Haines removed with his family
tu Morris county. New Jersey in 1783, and
married ( December 22, 1790) Huldah Howell
(born January 13, 1767, died Octi.iber 22. i8io,
at Chester, New Jersey ), and had issue, among
other children, a son Judge Stephen Rogers
Haines (born October 2/. ijn^. at Chester,
New Jersey, died February 13, 1869. at New-
ark, New Jersey).
( \" ) Judge Stephen Rogers Haines married
(January 10, 1814) Minerva Topping (born
September 24, 1793, died September 22, 1833),
flaughter of Abigail Topping and Mehittable
Howell. They had issue, among other chil-
dren, a son Deacon Charles Stuart Haines
(born December 3, 1816, at Chester, New Jer-
sey, died August 29, 1898, at Newark, New
Jersey).
( \ I ) Charles Stuart Haines was prominent-
Iv identified with the commercial, financial,
charitable and religious interests of Newark,
as wholesale flour merchant, bank director,
president of the Nevv'ark Fire Insurance Com-
pany, treasurer of the board of trustees of
The Association to Provide and Maintain a
Home for the FViendless, deacon of the Third
I'resbyterian Church, etc.
He married (March 3, 1847) Mary Pier-
son Scudder (born July 24, 1826, at Spring-
field, New Jersey, died July 18, 1896), daugh-
ter of Benjamin Scudder and Betsy Denman.
They had issue: (I) Harriet Minerva (born
December 20, 1847. at Newark, New Jersey),
who married ( Alay 20, 1869) Aaron Ogden
I'itz-Gerald (see Fitz-Gerald). (2) Itla Estelle
(born December 26, 183 1, at Newark, New
Jersey), who married ( Alay 20. 1880) Caleb
Lafayette Woodruff. (3) .Mary Frances (born
May 26, 1855, died March 3. 1837).
(The Hartpence Line).
( I ) John I'enz (or Pence), of W'urtemberg
and Mecklenburg, married a daughter of Eber
Flart and had issue.
( II ) Eber Hart Pence, born in Wurtemberg,
March 4, 1735. He was named for his mother's
father. Asa young man he came to the United
Slates and settled with old friends of the fam-
ily, who, because of his likeness to his own
father, called him John, leading him to call
liimself John Eberhart Pence, or John Eber
Hartpence. In his will he styles himself "John
Eberhart Pence, of the township of Kingwood,
in the Countv of Himterdon. .State of New
lersev." lb.' married Hannah Kitchen (born
STATE OF NEW iKRSEY.
146:
Septeiiil)cr 20. 1742. in Huiitt-nloii county,
New Jersey), and had issue: I. James Jlart-
pcnce, married, before 1794, Catherine Ihay,
danghter of James liray. James Hart])ence
and Catherine Bray had issue: A — James
Ilartpence, who married, about 1822, Lucinda
Riggs. They had issue : ( a ) Rev. Alanson
IIart]5Cnce, who married Martha Morton, sister
of ex-\'ice-President I.evi P. Morton. 2.
Thomas Hartpence. _v John Eber Hartpence,
mentioned below as 111.
( 111 ) John Eber Hart|Knce was twice mar-
ried. By his first wife. Miss llrink. he had
issue: i. James. 2. Elijah. 3. John Eber,
mentioned below as I\'. 4. Robert.
( I\') John Eber Hartpence married .\nn
Runyan, and had issue ten children, of whom
the oldest was -a son.
( \ ) Emmanuel Hartpence. who marrieil
Eliza .\nn Thorp, and had issue eight children,
of whom the oldest was a son.
( \'I ) William Whitfield Ilartpence (born
Se]:)tember 23. 1844, at Quakertown, Hunter-
don county. Xew Jersey, died January 2, 1881,
at Newark. Xew Jersey), who married (June
I. 1870) Cordelia Ann West (born April 17,
1846, at Stanhope, Sussex county. New Jer-
sey), daughter of Morris S. West and Mar-
garet McMullen. and had issue: i. Leora Al-
mita (born November 4, 1872, at Newark,
New Jersey), married (May 16, 1900) John
Driscoll P^itz-Gerald (see Fitz-Gerald ). 2. .W-
bert \\'hitfield (born June 13, 1876, died Janu-
ary 10. 1877). 3. Carrie Margaretta (born
September 25. 1877. died November 14. 1881).
Ananias Conkline arrived at
CONKLIN Salem. Massachusetts, in 1638,
with John Conklin, and while
there is no authentic proof of relationship,
they were probably brothers. They came from
Nottingham. England, a.s the records of that
town in the parish church. St. Peter's, record
John Conkline. Here they undoubtedly learn-
ed the tra<le of glass maker, for on coming to
Salem they were recorded as giassmen. .\nanias
was made freeman at Salem. May 18. 1862.
He was granted one acre for a house lot, June
25, 1638, and the town also at the same time
granted him the ten acre jjlot on which was
built the glasshouse s])oken of m the records
of January 11. 1639. and this is the origin
of the glasshouse field, from which in later
years have been taken at various times many
pieces of slag and window glass, now pre-
served and accepted as proof that not only
were the glass works a reality, but they con-
tinued in actual operation a number of years.
John Conkline was associated with his brother,
and there is sufficient evidence from his tomb-
st(,)ne at Soulhold. Eong Island, where he set-
tled, that thc'se supi)osed brothers came from
.Nottinghamshire, England. John died .Xjiril
(■> I'xj4. aged sixty-four. Tliere is no ques-
tion that they were associated as glass makers,
as were Lawrence Southwick and Obadiah
llolnies, the Conkhnes being the prime factors
in the industry. However, the business was
n<_it a success financially, though doubtless a
gain historically, they being credited as having
the first glass making industry in the Cnited
States if not in .\merica. In 1645 they peti-
tioned the general court at Boston to be freed
from their associates in business, and in 1650
was the advent of the coming of John and
.Ananias to Southold, and ten years after the
foundation of that town the records show
property holdings. They were in Salem as
Ir.te as March 30, i(>49. and the First Church
there in 1639 records .Ananias Conkline as one
of its members, and about the same time Susan
Conklines name was added to the roll. Thus
it would appear that she was his wife, as the
church records show that a son Lewis was bap-
tized there April 30, 1643. Jacob, May 18,
1649, and Elizabeth, May 18, 1649.
.\nanias Conkline removed to East Hani])-
ton, Long Island, in iC)50. while John went to
.^outhold. and they had land interests together
there. .Ananias did not tarry long at Southold,
as the new settlement at East Hainpton had
begun to grow and he saw opportunities ahead
for him. He was first recorded at East Hamp-
ton, July 5. i''>53. when he was given two
grants of land between grants of Thomas ()s-
born and William Hedges, and another grant
was given him in May. 1655, also another in
July, and he had with others the meadow at
north side of Hook Pond. The last grant was
-April I. 1656. and soon after his death oc-
curred. There were children of .Ananias men-
tioned at East Ham])ton : Jeremiah. Cornelius.
I'.enjamin : a daughter, wife of George Miller;
and Hester, si.x and a half years old when her
father died. If .Ananias was not a widower at
his death, his wife must have soon followed.
Jeremiah, the eldest son, w-as administrator.
.Ananias Conkline married Susan . Chil-
dren : I. Jeremiah, born 1634. died March
14. 1 71 2: became a large landowner and prom-
inent in the afi^airs of the town ami county;
married. 1658. .Mary (iardiner. born .August
30, 1638. died June 15. 1727. daughter of Lion
Gardiner, one of the first settlers of Connecli-
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cut, an-1 afterwards lord of Gardiner's Island;
children: i. Jeremiah, married, June 29. 1718,
Jane Parsons ; ii. Cornelius ; iii. David ; iv.
Lewis, ancestor of Roscoe Conklin, died Octo-
ber 2, 1716: V. Ananias, married Martha Stret-
ton : vi. Mary, married Thomas Mulford. 2.
Cornelius, see forward. 3. Benjamin, die?
1709; married Hannah Mulford; children:
John, Eliakim, Benjamin and Ananias. 4.
Lewis, baptized April 30, if'H,?- 5: Jacob, bap-
tized May 18, 1649. _d Elizabeth, baptized
May 18, 1649. 7. Hester, born about 1650.
(II) Cornelius, son of Ananias Conkline,
was undoubtedly born at Nottingham, Eng-
land, about 1636, and came with the family to
America, settling at Salem, and later at East
Liampton, Long Island. There has been some
dispute regarding Cornelius Conkline, as some
w'riters state that he died at Salem. If such
was the case he may have returned and settled
there. The records of East Hampton show
that Cornelius Conkline lived at this latter
piace, and undoubtedly owned land near his
father. The name Cornelius has continued as
a family name for several generations. Cor-
nelius Conkline, Jeremiah Mulford and Elias
Mulford were witnesses to the will of Robert
Daiton, April 14, 1712. He married
, and had children: i. Cornelius, born
about 1690 : married, March 16, 1715, iJeborah
Mulford ; children : i. Esther, baptized Octo-
ber 23, 1715: married, January 20. 1739-40.
Jonathan Mulford; ii. Mary, baptized May 25,
1718; iii. Jane, baptized September 18. 1720;
married. December 25, 1739, Thomas Osborn ;
W. Deborah, baptized April 28, 1723; v. Cor-
nelius, ba]itized February 26, 1726; vi. Eliza-
beth, baptized July 6, 1728-29; vii. Mulford,
baptized May 14, 1731-32; viii. Nathan, bap-
tized September 28, 1735. 2. William, see for-
ward.
(III) William, son of Cornelius Conkline,
was born at Easthampton, Long Island, about
1692, died at Basking Ridge, New Jersey,
1760. After his marriage to Ruth Hedges,
in 1718, he removed to Basking Ridge, New
Jersey, where he was one of the first settlers.
He is named in the deeds as a yeoman or
farmer. He made his will November 29, 1760,
which was proved March 18, 1761. His wife
survived him several years. He died shortly
after making his will, which states "indisposed
in body." His daughter Ruth is first men-
tioned in the will, and is given all the house-
hold goods after the death of her mother. Mr.
Conklin possessed a number of tracts of land
in and ar(iunrl Bernard. New Tersev. He mar-
ried, November 26, 1718, Ruth Hedges. Chil-
dren, and dates of baptisms: I. William, Au-
gust 30, 1 7 19. 2. Stephen, see forward. 3.
Mary, January 11, 1724. 4. Abraham, June
12. 1726. 5. Ruth, December 8, 1727. 6. Isaac,
February 2j, 1731-32. 7. Jacob. August 11,
1734. 8. Abigail, January 2;^, 1736. 9. Thomas,
C'ctober 14, 1739.
( IV) Stephen, son of William Conklin, was
baptized at Easthampton, Long Island, Sep-
tember 3, 1 72 1, died at Basking Ridge, New
Jersey, September 8, 1791. He was a farmer,
and moved to Basking Ridge Centre after De-
cember, 1753. He was an enterprising, inde-
]iendent citizen. He was given ten shillings
in his father's will, being the third named
among the children. He was a member of the
First Presbyterian Church at Morristown,
which was under King's charter, becajne a
communicant Jidy 7, 1755, and was later a
trustee. He married, about 1746, Deborah
Dimon, born 1725, died August 23, 1774. She
was said to have been a most capable, ener-
getic person, filled with "glory of the Lord,"
and a devoted member of the church. Chil-
dren : I. Climena, baptized 1748; married
Jcsiah, son of Elisha Ayres, of Basking Ridge,
New Jersey ; child, Stephen Ayres, the cele-
brated itinerant Dr. Ayres, so eminently suc-
cessful in curing cholera in Montreal in 1832.
2. William, see forward. 3. Stephen, baptized
1751 ; joined First Church of Morristown;
died there August 29. 1788; married (first)
I\Iay 2. 1776, Abigail Mitchell, who died April
26. 1777. aged thirty-five ; ( second) Alay 7, 1778,
Rachel, born November 28, 1758. died June 18.
1793. daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Mitch-
ell) Lindsley; she married (second) Francis
McCarthy, and had a daughter Charity, mar-
ried ^^'illiam B. Johnston. 4. Ruth, born at
Suffolk, Long Island, December 22, 1753, died
( .ctober 21, 1797; married, January 27, 1779,
Stephen Whittaker; children: i. Jonathan,
married Mary Bailey; ii. Mary, married Moses
Hall; iii. Deborah, married William Roy Jr.;
iv. Ste]ihen. married Mary Hall ; v. Ruth, mar-
ried (first) Ephraim Alallory ; (second) Jacob
Vanderentice ; vi. Isaac, married Achsah Cush-
man ; vii. Moses Hall ; viii. Anna, married
Jonathan A. Hall. 5. Mary, baptized Septem-
ber 17. 1758, died 1838; married, February 18,
1778, John Runyon ; children: i. Stephen; ii.
Richard ; iii. John ; iv. Elias ; v. Betsey, mar-
ried Joseph ]\IcLain ; vi. Debby, married James
McLain ; vii. Polly, married Vance;
viii. Anna. 6. Isaac, baptized August 30, 1761,
died September 12, 1791 ; married, August 24,
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1784, Comfort Pitney; cliililrcn : i. Sarah,
born November 25, 1784; married S. Baker;
ii. Jonathan Dimon, born July 7, 1787; mar-
ried Sally Nevell. 7. John, baptized November
(), 1763; married, December 3, 1784, Elizabeth
Mills; children: i. Deborah, born April 21,
1785; ii. Sarah Roberts. ]\Iay 18, 1787; iii.
John J.. September 6. 1789. died March 25,
1870. 8. Abraham, baptized September 29.
1765; married, February 11, 1789, Jemima
Lindsley; children: i. Anna, born Jnne 25.
1790, died 1830; ii. ^Vlaria, born January 14,
1792; iii. Deborah, born March 6. 1795; iv.
Richard: v. Eliza; vi. Zeba, born 1802; vii.
foseph L. ; viii. William; ix. Willimina : .x.
John Runyon. 9. Deborah, born April 17.
1769; married, March 18, 1790, John Seward.
(\') W'illiam, son of Stephen Conklin. was
baptized at Easthampton, Long Island, 1749.
died at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, February
14. 1803. He resided at P.asking Ridge the
greater part of his life, and became a noted
tanner and currier, which trade he carried on
in connection with farming. His lanyards and
shop were situated near his liomestead. He
was a justice of the peace many years and was
known as "Squire Conklin." He was consid-
ered well-to-do for those times, owning con-
siderable property at Basking Ridge. He and
his wife were devoted members of the First
Presbyterian church, where he was an elder.
I\Ir. Conklin died in a fit, in his bark-house,
I'^ebruary 14, 1803. He married Rebecca,
born May 10, 1754, daughter of Jonathan
Whittaker, of Mine Brook, New Jersey. Chil-
dren : I. Phebe, born September 29, 1779, died
1785. 2. Stephen, see forward. 3. Jonathan,
born October 28. 1783. died September, 1803;
married .\pha Colie ; child, I\Iary, born Febru-
ary 9, 1803 ; married, December 31, 1848, John
Faulks. 4. Mary, born October 7, 1785; mar-
ried, May 6, 1809, John Littell, born November
28, 1779, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Cald-
well ) Littell ; children : i. \\'illiam ; ii. Mary,
married Jonathan \'alentine ; iii. W'illiam, mar-
ried Mehitable Bonnell ; iv. Eliza, married
James K. Harris ; v. Harriet, married John
T. Wilcox ; vi. Susan, married Charles \\'hit-
tnker ; vii. John, married Deborah Hall ; viii.
Luther; ix. Huldah Rebecca ; x. John Thomas.
5. William, born August 23, 1787; married
(first) Keturah Green; (second) Cornelia
(Goltra) Sturgis, widow of Elias Sturgis, and
daughter of Thomas Goltra ; children : Will-
iam, Mary E., James Alonzo. Stephen, John
L., Sarah .-Xugusta. 6. Joseph, born Novem-
ber 28, 1789; married Viletta Hampton, of
Woodbridge, New Jersey. 7. Isaac, born Jan-
uary 24, 1792; was a farmer and shoe manu-
facturer ; married Sarah Hall, daughter of
Richard Hall; children: i. Elisha W., married
Margaret Hiltcr; ii. .Mary Elizabeth; iii. Emily
11.; iv. Oscar. 8. .Xathaniel, born March 5,
1794; married Emily Halsey, daughter of
Daniel Graw and Milicent (Halsey) Fitch;
cliildren : Emily Halsey, Charles Fitch, Mary
Littell, married Robert Evans ; Rebecca Mili-
cent, Nathaniel Whittaker. 9. Sarah, born Oc-
tober 2. 1796; married James S. Rose: child,
James Augustus, married Caroline Drake.
(VI) Stephen, eldest son of William Conk-
lin, was born at Basking Ridge, New Jersey,
P'ebruary 3, 1782, died at Somerville, New
Jersey, November 3. 1849. He was brought
up on his father's farm, acquiring the usual
common school education of a farmer's son at
that period. He resided on the homestead at
Basking Ridge, and was an elder of the Pres-
byterian church. He later removed to Som-
erville, where the remainder of his days were
spent. He married (first) January. 1807,
Sally, daughter of Elias Coriell, of Long Hill,
Xew Jersey. Child: i. Sarah, born De-
cember 15, 1808, died February 23, 1842;
married Thomas Layton ; child, Theodore
Layton. He married (second) August 15,
1809, Catherine, daughter of W^illet Tailor.
Children: 2. W'illet Tailor, born October
(1. 1810; married, December 21, 1836, Eme-
line. daughter of Daniel Heath; children:
William Wilson, Catherine Jane, Daniel
Heath, John Tailor. Stafford Wilson, Stephen,
Ransford Wells, Frederick Heath. 3. Jane,
born August 15, 1815 ; married John Littell;
children : Margaret Suydam, Catherine Eliza-
beth, Mary, Samuel, Sarah Jane. 4. William,
born April 11, 1818; married Mary, daughter
of Charles Toms, of .Somerville, New Jersey;
children : Harriet and Albert. 5. John Tailor,
born January 25. 1 82 1 ; married Elizabeth Hig-
gins ; children : Nathaniel, Ansel Munroe, Ger-
trude Tailor, Charles Griffin, Bogart Tailor,
George Tunison. 6. Nathaniel, see forward.
7. Mary Elizabeth, born August 13, 18 — .
(VII) Rev. Nathaniel Conklin, son of .Ste-
phen Conklin, was born at Basking Ridge,
New Jersey, October 20, 1823, died at Madi-
son, New Jersey, August 17, 1892. He attended
the schools of his native place and prepared
for college at Somerville, New Jersey. He
entered Rutgers College. New Brunswick, New
Jersey, and after graduation studied for the
ministry at the Theological Seminary at New
Brunswick. After the completion of his
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course his first charge was at the Reformed
Churcl) at Long Branch, New Jersey. Three
years later he became pastor of the Reformed
Church at Alontville, New Jersey, and while
there was instrumental in organizing the Re-
formed Church at Boonton, New Jersey. In
1870 he took the pastorate, of the Presbyterian
Church at New Vernon, New Jersey, remain-
ing there until 1883, when he retired from
active service. He was always earnestly inter-
ested in home and foreign missions, and during
his active career exerted an influence for good
which is still felt and recognized. He was a
Republican in politics, and at the time of the
civil war made a number of speeches in favor
of the Union cause and aided actively in send-
ing supplies to the wounded soldiers. He mar-
ried (first) October 24, 1848, Elizabeth John-
son Woodruff", born in Newark, New Jersey,
July 31, 1828, died April i, 1872, daughter of
Archibald and Catherine (Johnson) Woodruif",
the former of whom was a merchant of New-
ark. Children: i. Katharine Johnson, born
March 21, 1850, died January 13, 1890; mar-
ried, December 22, 1884, Almon Baxter Mer-
win. 2, John Woodruff, born December 30,
185 1, died .Septemljcr 12, 1909; missionary to
India; married, September 16, 1880, Elizabeth
Lindsley; children: i. Elizabetli Woodruff,
burn h'ebruary 6, 1883; ii. Archibald Lindsley,
August 28, 1886; iii. Robert Heath Lindsley,
March 27. 1891 ; iv. Sherman Lindsley, June
26. 1894. 3. Archibald Woodruff', see forward.
4. Mary Jane, born October 18. 1856. 5. Will-
iam r.ogart, born April 30, 1859; married,
June 25, 1902, Sarah llogate Grolf, born Au-
gust 5, 1868, daughter of William Gaskell and
Christine Rammille (Hogate) Groff; children:
i. Edward Groff. born September 6, 1904; ii.
William Groff, November 9, 1905. 6. Dr. Ed-
ward Dore Griffin, born May 27, 1862; mar-
ried. May 20, 1891. Helen Ford; child, Alys
Ford, born November 29, 1892. 7. Martha
Heath, born November 18, 1864, died October
7, 1882. 8. Anna Clark, born October 2, 1867.
9. Vernon Shields, born September 15. 1S70.
He married (second) March 17, 1880, Jennie
M. Drinkwater, born April 14, 1841, daughter
of Captain Levi Drinkwater.
(VHI) Archibald \\"oodruff, .son of Rev.
Nathaniel Conklin, was bom at Montville,
Morris county. New Jersey, April 2, 1854. He
began study at the village school of Montville,
and afterward attended the Morris Academy
at Morristown, New Jersey. He began his
business career as clerk in Newark City Na-
tional Bank, Newark, New Jersey, in 1869.
and continued with them until 1891, having
advanced to the position of receiving teller.
He then, at the request of the German Na-
tional liank of Newark, became cashier of that
institution. In 1902 the German National
Bank, by change of name, became the Union
National Bank of Newark, and the Second
National Bank and State Banking Company of
Newark were merged with it. It is the largest
national bank in the state of New Jersey, and
Mr. Conklin has remained as cashier of the
enlarged institution. He is a member of the
Paik Presbyterian Church of Newark, and
serves in the office of elder; member of Board
of Trade, the Royal Arcanum and Wednesday
Club, of Newark. He has always cast his
vote for the candidates of the Republican party,
but has never sought or held puljlic office.
Towards the latter part of the
BOOTH eighteenth century there was a
large immigration into the newly
born nation of the L'nited States, com-
posed in the main of enterprising, progressive
middle-class Englishmen, who saw in the new
world the opportunity of establishing for them-
selves an independence and prosperity denied
them at home ; and to these later comers should
be given full cre<lit for their share in the pro-
motion and establishing of the stability and
supremacy of this country in the commercial
and industrial world, even as they are almost
always given it for what they have done for
England. Among these industrial pioneers
was the ancestor of the branch of the Booth
family at present under consideration.
( I ) Richard Booth, founder of the family,
was born in England, and was by trade a block
printer. He came over to this country as a
young man and for some time followed his
trade on this side of the Atlantic. For a time
he lived in Hudson, Columbia county. New
York, but about 1830 removed to Nutley,
Essex county. New Jersey, where he built the
[iresent hotel, now known by the name of
"Military Hall." He lived to be over three
score years of age, and wjs one of the pillars
of the Dutch Reformed church in his commu-
nity. His wife. Sybil (Burns) Booth, who
came like her husband from England, bore liini
four children: i. Jackson, married Mary .Vnn
. 2. Roger. 3. Sarah, 4. Enoch,
referred to below.
(II) Enoch, son of Richard and Sybil
(liurns) liooth, was born in Hudson, New
"^ork. November 17, 1827, died in Franklin
township, Essex county. New Jersey, August
STATE OF NEW |l'i<Sl'.V
U(^)
10, 1879. lie was a boss wnok-ii mill spinner
and a millwriylit. His military service lit-gan
with twelve months as a private in the Thirty-
ninth Regiment of New Jersey X'olunteers,
after which he was promoted to the rank of
corporal, and later he joined the state militia
as a lieutenant. After this he went to Xutlcy
and took charge of the hotel and conducted
that until his death. Enoch Booth married,
July 3. 1855, Mary Magdalen, born February
16. 1828, and still living, the eldest child of
Richard and Elizabeth (Snyiler) Stager.
Richard Stager, her father, born I'ebruary 13,
1801, died December 8. i860, belonged to one
of the old colonial Dutch families who came
into New Jersey by way of New Amsterdam.
Long Island and Staten Island. Elizabeth
(Snyder) Stager, her mother, born August
28, 1808, died January 6. 1898: she was left
a widow at forty with three daughters. She
was well known throughout • the community
as "a good Christian woman, most generous
to the poor." The three daughters of Richard
and Elizabeth (Snyder) Stager, were: i.
Mary Magdalen, referred to above. 2. Bar-
bara Ann, born November 11, 1837, married,
April 12, 1857, \\'illiam C. Hough. 3. Rachel
Elizabeth, born January i, 1845. Jied Decem-
ber 9, 1905; married, June 28, 1865, Calvin
Rutan, and has two children : Howard, born
June 24. 18(^)6, and Estella. July 5, 1868. The
children of Enoch and Mary Alagdalen
(Stager) Booth are: i. Barbara, born
August 17, 1856, married Stephen Sargent, of
Belleville, and has one son Roy. 2. Richard
\\'illiam, who is referred to below. 3. Joseph
M., a carpenter, living on Centre street. New-
ark, born .April i, 1863. who married Maria
Curran and has one daughter Mary, born May
30, 1891. 4. Horace Newton, referred to
below.
(IH) Richard William, the second child
and eldest son of Enoch and Mary Magdalen
(Stager) Booth, was born in .Nutley. Essex
county. New Jersey. .August 13. 1858, and is
now living at Centre street, Nutlcy, New Jer-
sey. After receiving a public school education.
he took a position at the age of twelve in a
woolen mill where he remained for two years,
and then went on a farm. In 1876 he became
a clerk in a grocery store, where he remained
until 1892, when he set up for himself, run-
ning a general store in Nutley. which he con-
tinued to do until 1900. At this date he was
elected to the office of county collector, which
he has held ever since; previous to this he had
served as township clerk for two years, as
town cc<mmiliccniau fur tivc years, and for
three of the last li.id been chairman of the
township committer. 1 le had also been elected
freeholder for two terms. Air. Booth is at
present the senior member of the board of
education. l'"or eighteen years he held the
chairmanship of its most important committee,
that having charge of the school buildings and
property. He also served several years as
district clerk. Largely through his practical
judgment and foresight the school facilities
of Nutley have had a remarkable growth and
improvement. Air. Booth's long service and
the progressive ideas he has urged have made
his influence very .strongly felt in all that per-
tains to the advancement of the public schools
of his native town. In politics he is a Repub-
lican. He is a member of Nutley Lodge, Free
and Accepted Alasons, No. 167, and belongs
to the Republican and the Indian League clubs.
His family attends the Alethodist Episct'|)al
church in Nutley. For the last twenty-three
years he has been a charter member of the
Franklin Building and Loan Association.
Richard William Booth was married in
Brooklyn, Long Island. .April 2, 1885, to
Elizabeth, born CVtober 13, 1869, eldest child
of Leonard and Sarah AI. (Hinckle) Rusby.
Her fatlier was born September 13, 1844. died
July 3, 1901. Her mother, born .April 9. 1844,
and still living, is the daughter of James (ireen
and Anna Eliza ( Holmes ) Hinckle, and the
granddaughter of George and Mary (Sinner)
Hinckle. Her grandfather was one of four
children who emigrated to this country from
Holland. George and Alary (.Sinner) Hinckle
had fifteen children. James Green and .Anna
Eliza (Holmes) Hinckle had three children:
Sarah M., referred to above, James A., who
married Mary .Allen, and Frank M., who mar-
rierl Afinnie Cadmus and had two children:
lidgar Alorrell and Margaret Lois. The chil-
dren of Leonard and Sarah AI. (Hinckle)
Rusby are : Elizabeth, referred to above ;
Bertha, born April 3, 1873 : Frank Leonard,
July 10. 1875 : Oscar Bruen, December 4, 1880.
The children of Richard William and Eliza-
beth (Rusby) Booth are: I. Bronson Phil-
hower. born June 9, 1886. 2. Mollie Red-
mond, July 2, 1889. 3. Dudley Hoyt, October
15, 1890. 4. Leonard Rusby, October 20, 1891.
5. Dorothy Irene, Alay 20, 1893. 6. Richard
William Jr.. .-August 6, iSy/t. 7. Elizabeth,
Sei)tember 6, 1897.
(Ill) Horace Newton, youngest child of
Enoch and Alary Magdalen (Stager) I'ooth,
was born in Nutlev, Esse.x county. New [er-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
sey, June 2, 1866, and is now living in ihat
town. After receiving his education in the
public schools, he learned the trade of plumb-
ing, and then became clerk in a general store.
Then he went into partnership with his brother,
Richard William, in the grocery business, and
later sold out his interest, becoming the
engineer in the state penitentiary, which posi-
tion he held for eight years. In February,
190S, he was elected to the office of chief of
police of Nutley, which position he now holds.
Mr. Booth IS a Republican, but other than his
present one has held no political office. lie
is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and of the
Order L'nited American Mechanics. Horace
Newton Booth married, March 23, 1891, Eliz-
abeth, eldest child of John and Sarah Frances
(Van Cleef) Speer. Her father was born
September 12, 1839, and is now living in Mont-
clair. Her mother was born in Orange, New
York. December 24, 1847. Her two sisters
are : Leah, born in 1876, married Howard
Hamkiu. and has one child, John Franklin,
born October, 1908 ; and (Gertrude, born in
1882, married J: Willis I'ingree. and has one
child, Eunice, born iu July. 1908. Elizabeth
Speer was born June 26, 1871;. The children
of Horace Newton and Elizabeth (Speer)
Booth are: i. Frances Newton, born January
18, 1892. 2. Nancy, January 3, 1894.
The Egner family, of which
EGNER rVederick William Egner, a rep-
resentative citizen of Newark,
New Jersey, is a member, is an old and highly
respected one, their record being that of well-
spent lives characterized by honesty, integrity
and faithfulness in every duty devolving upon
them. Frederick W. Egner was born in
Orange, New Jersey. August 6, 1870, son of
John Frederick and Elizabeth (Graah)
Egner.
Frederick ^V. Egner attended the public
schools of Orange, acquiring there a practical
education which qualified him for a life of
usefulness and activity. At the age of four-
teen he began his active business career by
entering the service of the Half Dime Savings
Bank of Orange, incorporated May i, 1870,
located in the new National Bank building.
During his seven years connection with this
institution he performeil his duties in a highly
creditable and efficient manner that won for
him the commendation of those in authority,
and he was advanced from time to time to
positions of greater trust and responsibility.
In 1891 he accepted the position of assistant
bookkeeper in the safe deposit department of
the Fidelity Trust Company of Newark, and
M.x months later was transferred to the bank-
ing department of the institution as assistant
teller, receiving the appointment of paying
teller at the expiration of another si.x months,
these rapid promotions being due to his own
exertions and by the exercise of prudence,
foresight and intelligence, and he served in
the latter capacity for five years. On January
i<;, 1899, Mr. McCarter was elected president
of the company, and Mr. Egner was chosen
secretary and treasurer, filling the offices for
a period of ten years, during which time there
was great development in the affairs of the
institution, he being an active factor in the
same. In 1909 he was chosen for a more
responsible position, that of third vice-presi-
dent, an office then newly created, wherein he
has a wide scope for the exercise of his talents
and executive ability, and in this responsible
position he is making his influence felt and is
proving himself a power in the workings of the
institution. - Being a man of sterling honesty
and incorruptible integrity, progressive but
never aggressive, wisdom, tact and foresight
characterizing all his acts, he has been chosen
to serve as a director of the Union County
Trust Company of Elizabeth, and the Essex
County Trust Company of East Orange. He
i.- a member of the Newark Board of Trade,
the Essex Club. Essex Countv Country Club,
Ealtusrol Golf Club, Forest Hill Field Club,
and the Salmagundi and Lotos clubs, of New
York City. He finds lus recreation from busi-
ness cares in outdoor sports, in all of which
he takes a keen interest and derives therefrom
not only pleasure but profit.
Mr. Egner married (first) in November,
1S93, Florence G. Carter, who died in July,
1905. He married (second) in December,
1907, Elizabeth Wigton, of Phillipsburg,
Pennsylvania. Children of first wife: J.
Edmund, Harold F. and Horace F. Egner.
(For ancestry see Albert Saboriski 1).
(II) Christian A., son of
ZABRISKIE Albert Saboriski, was born
in Old Hackensack, New
Jersey, July 3, ifr>4. He married, ?^Iay 28,
1715, Lea Hendrickse Hoppe. They moved
to Lower Paramus and built upon the Wessels
homestead at Dunker Hook, (meaning dark
corner). Children: I. Albert, born Septem-
ber 2, 1716, settled the Acrigg place, Paramus ;
married Altje Ackerman. 2. Hendricks, born
May 22, 171 8, settled the Board place. Lower
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Faraimis ; married (first) Xccsje \'an Horn,
(second ) Maria Herring. 3. Jacob, born Jan-
uary 22, 1721, died young. 4. Jacob, born Jan-
uary 10, 1725, mentioned below. 5. Andries,
born January 15, 1729; settled upon the Wes-
sels homesteatl, Lower I'aramus; married
Elizabctli Ackerman.
(Ill) Jacob, fourth child of Christian .\.
Zabriskie, was born in Lower I'aramus, New
Jersey, January 10, 1725. Me moved to
Areola, at the "Old Red JMill," and was an
intense ])atriot, his determined spirit gaining
for him the name of "King Jacob." He mar-
ried Lena .\ckerman, and they had three chil-
dren born at the Red Mill, now Areola, New
Jersey: i. ! iarrit. September 23, 1750, mar-
ried Martha Mills; lived at Passaic. 2. Lea,
July 29, 1752, married Isaac Sloat; lived at
Sloatsburgli, Rockland county, New York. 3.
Christian J., 1754. mentioned below.
(1\') Christian J., son of Jacob Zabriskie,
was born in Areola, New Jersey, 1754. He
married Maria Terhune and lived in the
Thomas \'. B. Zabriskie jjlace, Lower Para-
mus ; children follows: 1. Jacob, mentioned
below. 2. Trentje, married R. Paulison; lived
at Hackensack. 3. Maria, born .April 15. 1771,
nianiLil Jacob Brevort, lived at Areola. 4.
Catrina, .\pri! 30, 1775. died unmarried. 5.
Eleanor, .Vugust 10, 1777. (>. Cornelius, March
25, 1784.
I \ ) Jacob, son of Christian J. Zabriskie,
was born at Lower Paramus, Bergen county.
New Jersey. He lived on the Thomas \'. B.
Zabriskie place. Lower Paramus, New Jersey.
He married Elizabeth Terhune and five chil-
dren were born of the marriage: i. Christian,
January 6, 1798, married Hannah Demorest.
2. Steven, married Jane \'an Buskirk. 3. Guil-
liani, February 13, 1804, mentioned below. 4.
Margaret, married Henry \'an Blarcom. 5.
Maria, married Gerret Brevoort.
(\ I) Guilliam, son of Jacob Zabriskie, was
born in Lower Paramus, New Jersey, Febru-
ary 13. 1804, died February 12, 1874. He was
a farmer. He married on November 18, 1826.
Caroline Zabriskie, born Jime 3. 1809, died
May 12. 1877. He had several children, but
only three arrived at maturity, the larger num-
ber dying very young. The children who grew
up were: i, .Albert G., born June 9, 1829,
mentioned bek)w. 2. Jacob G., August 18,
1833, married Sarah Halstead. 3. Peter G.,
December 24. 1836, married Mary (iarretson.
(VH) Albert G., son of Guilliam Zabriskie.
was born in Lower Paramus, New Jersey,
June 9, 1829. He was born and lived on the
I'aramus road, in the old homestead. He mar-
ried Jane Maria llalstead, October 30, 1849,
and they had twn cliildren : i. C'arrie, mar-
ried ,\brani Smith. 2. John IL, mentioned
below.
(\ 111) John II.. son of Albert G. Zabriskie,
mairie'l Harriet \ an llurii and had two chil-
dren: I. Marion S., born July, 1879, married
Everett Law Zabriskie. 2. Nellie I!., born
June 4. 1882.
(\'ll) Peter G., son of Guilliam Zabriskie,
was born at Paranuis, New Jersey, December
24, 1836, in the homestead on the Paramus
load, where he continued to make his iKJine
after his marriage. He learned the trade of
carpenter and builder in early life, and worked
as a journeyman for several years, when he
became a master builder and contractor as well
as carpenter, taking up the entire busines.s
proposition in 1861. He became successful, as
is shown by the various buildings, public and
private, that are the product of his skill, not
only in Ridgewood but in the surrounding
ccaintr}-. The prosperity and attractiveness of
Ridgewood is largely due to his taste and skill
as an architect and builder, as well as a
progressive, enterprising citizen in civic
affairs. He was a member of the Bergen
county tax board, 1900-05, and in the latter
year was made a member and chairman of the
board of taxation under the state laws, and he
has held the office continuously since his
appointment. He was also made vice-presi-
dent of the board of directors of the First
National Bank of Ridgewood, having held the
office since 1900. He was also made a director
of the Ridgewood Trust Company; vice-presi-
dent of the Ridgewood Building & Loan
Association, and he holds important financial
relations with other trusts and estates. His
advice and opinion on investments are sought
by those looking for an honest opinion dis-
interestedly given, and his care of trust funds
is as safe as honesty and fidelity combined can
make it sure. He is an able supporter of wise
legislation in the interest of his native town
and county, and when he goes before any leg-
islative committee he carries with him
sufficient rejnitation and representative weight
to generally secure favorable consideration for
such measures as he advocates. Mr. Zabriskie
married Mary, daughter of John Garretsoii
and their two children were born at Paramus,
New Jersey: i, Minnie, January 6, 1864, mar-
ried Lewis Nearing, of Philadelphia. Pennsyl-
vania, September 19, 1882, and their six chil-
dren were born in Alorris Run, Pennsylvania :
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Scott Xearing, August 6, 1883: JMary Near-
ing, June 5, 1886; Dorothy Nearing, May 4,
1888; Guy Nearing, January 22, i8go; Beatrice
Nearing. January 17, 1792; Max Nearing,
September 25, 1895. 2. Aland, born March 9,
18S0, married Hugh Otis. They have no
issue.
(For ancestry -see Albert Saboriski 1).
(V'l) Cornelius (., third
ZAI'.RISKIE son of Jacob II. (q". v.) and
Lena J. (Hopper) Zabris-
kie, was born in Paramus, New Jersey, Octo-
ber 3. 1803. He married Jane Hopper, and by
this marriage had eight children born at Para-
mus : I. Jolin H. 2. Jacob C. 3. Abram V. B.
4, William C 5. Henry Lewis, born July 3,
183D, died August (), 1852. 6. Cornelius C,
died August 11, 1848. 7. Jane Ann, born Feb-
ruar}' 17, 1844. 8. Curnelius ( ieorge N., of
whom further.
(\T1) Cornelius George N., eighth child of
Cornelius J. and Jane (Hopper) Zabriskie,
was born at Paramus, New Jersey, November
3. 1848. He learned the trade of painter and
decorator, and made that vocation his life
work. After working as a journeyman for a
number of years and thoroughly mastering
his trade, he assumed full responsibility and
became a master painter and still conducts a
most successful business, and is much sought
after by the residents of the village in which
he resides because of his superior knowledge
of his trade and exceptional workmanship.
He has spent his life in and about his native
town and is res]3ected by those who know him.
He was married, (October 21, 1868, to Edo-
line Ackerman, daughter of Garret D. and
Eliza ( ) Ackerman, born October
27, 1847, 'I't-'^l November 24, 1904. Cornelius
(ieorge N. and Edoline (Ackerman) Zabriskie
had three children, born at Ridgewood, New
Jersey: i. Walter C.,' born Septenilier 21,
1869. 2. John E., born April 26, 1871. 3.
Arthur G., born ( )ctober 2, 1874.
(VJH) Walter C. Zabriskie, the first child
of C. G. N. and Edoline (.Vckerman) Zabris-
kie, still resides at Ridgewood. He received
his early educatiim at the schools of the vil-
lage, and later graduated from the Paterson
Business College. After graduating he con-
nected himself with a New York business
house, and later took up the profession of an
architect, and is well and favorably known as
such at this time, and many evidences of his
success in that line are to be seen about the
village of Ridgewood and surrounding coun-
t_\'. He has always taken an active interest
in the religious and political life of the town
and county, and represents his political party
in the county committee. He is a member of
several clubs and civic organizations of Ridge-
wood, also of the L'nion League Club of
Hackensack, New Jersey, and Hamilton Club
of Paterson, New Jersey. Mr. Zabriskie was
married, January 21, 1891, to Nellie E., daugh-
ter of Jose]jh E. and Sarah Ann (Cox)
1 leaven, and their two children were born at
Ridgewood, New Jersey: i. Addie E., born
August 13, 1892. 2. Florence M., born Janu-
ary 6, 1895,
John E. Zabriskie, second son of Cornelius
George N. Zabriskie, married Ida, daughter
of Abram S. and .Sarah 11. (W^anamaker)
/'abriskie, and have three children: i. Vera
\\'., born Se])tember 8, iSgf^. 2. Mildred, born
Jidy 5, i8q8. 3. Lester C, born April i,
1903-
Arthin- G. Zabriskie. thirtl son of Cornelius
(ieorge N. Zabriskie, married Carrie A.
Lacour, and have three children: i. Ramond,
born April 19, 1904. 2. Emma, born October
16. 190(1, 3. Eleanor, liorn October 4, 1908.
(For ance.stry see Albert Saboriski 1 ..
(\TI) Peter G., third son
ZABRISKIh: of Guilliam (q. v.) and
Caroline (Zabriskie) Za-
briskie, was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey,
December 24, 183'), in the homestead on
the Parannis road, where he continued to make
his home after his marriage. He learned the
trade of carpenter and builder in early life,
and worked as a journeyman for several years
when he became a master builder and con-
tractor as well as carpenter, taking up the
entire business proposition in 1861. and he
became successful, as is shown by the various
buildings public and private that are the
l)roduct of his skill not only in Ridgewood but
in the surrounding country. The prosperity
and attractiveness of Ridgewood is largely
due to his taste and skill as an architect and
builder, as well as a progressive and enterpris-
ing citizen in civic affairs. He was a member
of the Bergen county tax board 190005, and
in i()05 he was made a member and chairman
of the board of taxation imder the state laws,
and has held the office continuously since his
appointment. He was also made vice-presi-
dent of the board of directors of the First
National Bank of Ridgewood, having held tlie
office since 1900. He was also made a director
of the Ridgewood Trust Company: vice-presi-
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dtnt of the Kidgewood lluilding and Loan
Association, and he holds important financial
relations with other trusts and estates. His
advice and opinion on investments arc sought
by those looking for an honest ojnnion dis-
interestedly given, and his care of trust funds
is as safe as honesty and fidelit\- comhined can
make secure. He is an able supporter of wise
legislation in the interest of his native town
and county, and when he goes before any leg-
islative committee he carries with him sui^cient
reputation and representative weight to gen-
erally secure favorable consideration for such
nieasures as he advocates. Mr. Zabriskie mar-
ried Mary (iarretson, and their two children
were born in Ridgewood, New Jersey: I.
Minnie. January 6, 1864; married Lewis
Xearing, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sep-
tember 19, 1882, and their six children were
born in Philadelphia : Scott Nearing, August
6. 1883: Mary Xearing, June 5, 1886; Doro-
thy Nearing, May 4, 1888; Guy Xearing. Jan-
uary 22, 1890; Beatrice Xearing, January 17,
1892, and Max Xearing, September 25, 1895.
2. Maud, married Hugh (_)tis ; they have no
issue.
( \' ) Henry Brevoort, third
ZABRISKIE son of Jacob C. and Maria
(Brevoort) Zabriskie, was
born in Schraalenburgh, New Jersey, Decem-
ber 5, 1808, and baptized in the Schraalen-
burgh Church, December 26, 1808. He mar-
ried, and had children, born in Hackensack,
Xew Jersey, as follows: Henry H. (q. v.);
Jacob ; Fannie, died unmarried ; Lizzie, mar-
ried Spiers Cummings ; Helen.
(\T) Henry H., eldest child of Henry
Brevoort Zabriskie. was born in Hackensack,
New Jersey. He was brought up in his native
town, where he attended the public schools
and engaged in mercantile business. He mar-
ried Helen M. Stevenson, a native of Xew
\ork City, and their three children were born
ill Hackensack. Bergen county. New Jersey:
Grace Isabel, died unmarried: Xellie May,
died unmarried: Henry Brevoort (q.v. )
(VII) Henry Brevoort. youngest child of
Henry H. and Helen Zabriskie, was born in
Hackensack, Bergen county, Xew Jersey,
August II, 1881. He was baptized in the i)ub-
lic schools of Hackensack. and became inter-
ested in the advertising business, first as a
solicitor, and in 1906 as manager of the adver-
tising department of the publishing house of
Hooper & Brothers. Chatham .Sc|uare, New
York City.
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Chrisliaan \'aii Miet, the
\'.\X \'LIET first member of this family
of whom we have definite
information, was a farmer. He is said to have
been a great-grandson of (iarret \'an \'liet.
one of the founders of the \'an \'lu-t. \"an
\'leet and Van Fleet family in .\merica,
through his son Arny and his grandson Peter,
both residents of Xew York. He married
Rachel Huff.
(II) Stewart, son of Christiaan and Rachel
(Huff) Van \"liet. was a cadet at the United
Slates Military Academy. West Point, from
July I. 1836. to Jul}' I. 1840, and for the fol-
lowing three years, 1840 to 1843, second lieu-
tenant of the Third .\rtillery : first lieutenant,
1843 to 1847; captain, 1847 to 1853: chief
quartermaster. 1861 to 1862; brevet major-
general. United States \'olunteers, March 13,
1865; lieutenant-colonel in Quartermaster's
Department; General, July 29, 1866. Mus-
tered out of the \'olunteers, September i, 1866.
Chief Quartermaster, Division of the .\tlantic.
1869 to 1872; colonel on staff of Assistant
Quartermaster-General June 6, 1872: retired,
January 22, 1881. He married Sarah J.
Brown, daughter of Alajor Brown, U. S. A.
Children : i. Frederick Christiaan. referred to
below. 2. Robert Campbell, born 1847; mar-
ried Harriet Stephens : children : Stew^art ;
Saiita: Robert Camjibell and Marguerite. He
is major. United States army.
(HI ) Dr. Frederick Christiaan, son of Gen-
eral Stewart and Sarah J. (Brown) Van Vliet,
was born in Fort Brown. Texas. November 30,
1853, and is now living in Shrewsbury, New
Jersey. For his early education he attended
the common schools in various places where
his father was stationed. He then studied
medicine and took two courses in Columbia
University. Washington, D. C. and later grad-
uated from the University of Vermont in 1876.
Since then he has been engaged in the private
practise of medicine and surgery in Washing-
ton. D. C. and since 1884 in Shrewsbury. He
is now retired. He is an independent in poli-
tics, and for many years has been a vestryman
of Christ Churcli. Shrewsbury. He is a mem-
ber of the .Aztec Club, of the Metropolitan
Club of Washington, and of the Holland Soci-
ety of Xew York. He married, in Shrews-
bury. October 13, 1884, Emma AX'indsor.
daughter of Rev. Benjamin and Emma (Wind-
sor) Franklin of Philadelphia. Children: i.
Frederick Christiaan (2d), born .August 4,
1886. 2. John Huff. June 16. 1889. 3. Ben-
jamin I'Vanklin, July 16, 1891. 4. Charles
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Windsor, March 8, 1893. Children of Rev.
Benjamin and Emma (Windsor) Franklin: i.
Caroline C. 2. Annie. 3. Charlotte. 4. Emma
Windsor, referred to above. 5. Marian. 6.
Flelen May.
This ancient surname is, nnmer-
CLARK ically speaking and otherwise, one
of the most prominent ]jatro-
nymics in America. Several of the name are
lecorded among the founders of New Eng-
land, notably Richard Clarke, who landed in
I'lyniuuth, Massachusetts, from the "May-
Rower," in 1620, and consequently there are in
.America many distinct families bearing the
name between whom there is apparently not
the slightest semblance of kinship. The family
mentioned in this article was founded by Lieu-
tenant William Clarke, one of the most highly
respected and public-spirited immigrants to
seek a home on this side of the ocean.
(I) Lieutenant William Clarke, born in
Dorsetshire, England, in 1609, sailed from
Plymouth, ]\Larch 30, 1630, in the "Mary and
John," and with Roger Clapp, Rev. ]\Ir. War-
nam and several prominent men who were his
fellow passengers, was one of the 'founders of
Dorchester, Massachusetts. He served as a
selectman in Dorchester from 1646-50, and
during his residence there of nearly thirty
years took a prominent part in the political and
religious affairs of the town antl the establish-
ment of free public education. In 1655 he was
associated with Nicholas ('lap, of Dorchester,
and Moses Paine and George pjelcher, of
Braintree, in constructing a higlnvay from the
last-named town to Roxbury. ' Being desirous
of following Rev. Eleazer Mather to Northamp-
ton, Massachusetts, he, with other residents of
Dorchester, petitioned the general court in
1653 for permission to settle in the "new coun-
try," as it was called, and he removed thither
in 1659. The journey through the wilderness
was necessarily long ami tedious. His wife
rode on horseback with two baskets, called
"panniers," slung across the horse, carrying a
child in each and a third in her lap, her hus-
band, then fifty years old, proceeding on foot.
.Arriving at his destination, he settled upon a
grant of twelve acres of land, lying on the west
side of what is now Elm street, and bordering
on Mill river. Plere he erected a log house
which served as a habitation for his family
until 1681, when it was burned, and an histor-
ical account of this catastroiihe reads as follows :
"Jack, a negro servant of Samuel Wolcott, of
Wethersfield, set fire to the house of Lieu-
tenant William Clarke, by taking a brand of
tire from the hearth and swinging it up and
d.own, for to find victuals, and was sentenced
t'l be taken from the bar to the place whence
he came, and there to be hanged by the neck
til! he be dead, and then to be taken down and
burned to ashes in the fire. He confessed that
he did it, and did it in carelessness and the law
had its course." The new house erected in
i68r, remained staniling until 1826. This
dwelling stood in the immediate vicinity of
Smith College. Lieutenant William Clarke
was one of the most influential among the
founilers of Northampton, and in addition to
being one of the seven pillars of the church,
he was twenty times chosen a member of the
board of selectmen, was for ten years regularly
chosen one of the commissioners to end small
cases, was the first deputy to the general court
from Northampton and thirteen times re-elect-
ed U) that body, and was the first citizen of
that town authorized to solemnize marriages.
For twenty-si.x years he acted as an associate
justice of the county court, and was fre(|uently
appointed by the court to settle grievances
with the Indians, and several times chosen a
commissioner to determine disputed boundary
lines. He assisted in building the first sawmill,
also the first gristmill, was a leading spirit in
the business life of the town as well as in its
public affairs, and acquired a large amount of
real estate, which he divided among his sons
priijr to his death. In iC^ii he organized the
first military comjiany in the town, and having
received a lieutenant's commission he served
as such in King Phillip's war and other Indian
outbreaks. The "History of Northampton"
states that he was dignified, self-confident and
resourceful : that he bore a more conspicuous
part in the early history of the town than any
other citizen of his day, and continued as a
leader until old age compelled him to give place
to vounger, but scarcely better, men. He died
at Northampton, July 19, i6go, aged eighty-
one years, and in 1884 his descendants erected
a handsome monumenit beside the ancient stone
which had marked his resting i:>lace for nearly
two hundred years. Lieutenant William Clarke
was twice married, Sarah, his first wife (maid-
en surname unknown), died in Northampton,
September 6, 1675. November 15, 1676. he
married (second) Sarah, widow of Thomas
Cooper, who was killed by the Indians at the
burning of Springfield in 1673. Children, all
of his first union, and born in Di.irchester :
Sarah, born in 1638, died young; Jonathan,
born 1639: Nathaniel, 1642; Experience, 1643;
STATE OF NEW IKKSKV.
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Increase, 1646; Rebecca. 1648: j(.)hn, 1651 :
Samuel. 1653; W'illiam, 1656; Sarah. 1659.
(II) Nathaniel, second son and third child
of Lieutenant W'illiam and Sarah Clarke, was
born in Dorchester. November 27, 1642. He
resided in Northampton, acquired prominence
in public afl'airs, and served as a lieutenant in
the local militia. The records of Northamp-
ton, available to the writer, fail to mention the
name of Lieutenant Nathaniel Clarke's wife,
nor do they give the names of all of his chil-
dren.
( III I Nathaniel, son of Lieutenant Nathan-
iel Clarke, was born in Northampton, in April.
1(193: died in Lebanon. Connecticut, Mav 20.
'ijyj. He settled in Lebanon on land acquired
from the Indians by his uncle. Captain Will-
i:un Clarke, who was a party in what was
known as the "Clarke and Dewey Purchase,"
comprising a large tract in the northerly part
of the town. Nathaniel Clarke married Han-
nah Kellogg, born in Hatfield, Massachusetts,
September 11. 1699, daughter of Samuel and
Hannah (Dickinson) Kellogg, the former of
whom was born in Hadley, Massachusetts.
Ajjril II, 1639. Hannah Kellogg was a de-
scendant in the fifth generation of Phillippe
Kellogg (i), of Braintree, England, through
Martin (2), Samuel (3), the immigrant, and
Samuel (4). She survived her husband, and
was residing at Lebanon in 1747, when she
sold land to her brother, Samuel. Children of
Nathaniel and Hannah (Kellogg) Clarke: i.
Nathaniel, born in Lebanon. .August 16, 1720:
married Martha Witt. November 5, 1740. 2.
Ashael. born Alarch 11. 1721-22. 3. Silas, June
20, 1724; died April if>, 1809. 4. Hannah,
born November 2j, 172"/ ; married Joseph Mc-
Call, December 24. 1749. 5. , born July
29, 1729. 6. Lois, born September 10, 1731.
7. Ruth. April 10. 1734; died March 9. 1826.
8. Amos, born April 25. 1736: died young.
(IV) Jared. fourth son and fifth child of
Nathaniel and Hannah (Kellogg) Clarke, was
born in Lebanon, July 15, 1729; died there,
September 11, 1775. He was one of the most
prominent citizens of Lebanon in his day :
reared a large family, many of whom likewise
attained prominence, and his children inter-
married with families of the highest respect-
ability. Se])tember 12, 1752. Jared Clarke
married Mollie Abel, born in Lebanon. Febru-
ary 24, 1736. daughter of Daniel and Sarah
(Crane) ■ Abel, granddaughter of Caleb and
Abigail (Sliiman) Abel, and great-granddaugh-
ter of Sergeant Caleb and Margaret (Post)
Abel. .Among the earlv settlers in Norwich.
Connecticut, were Caleb, Benjamin and Joshua
-Vbel. presumably brothers, and Jo.shua was
probably the father of Sergeant Caleb. Ser-
geant Caleb .Abel was chosen constable in 1684,
townsman in 1689. ai)i)ointed to keep a tavern
in if>94. and enrolled with his military title in
1704. He died .August 7, 1731, in the eighty-
fifth year of his life. In July, i(£(), he married
.Margaret, daughter of John Post, and she bore
him eleven children. She died in 1700, and he
married (second) Mary, widow of Stephen
Loonier. Three of his sons — Samuel, Caleb
and Joshua — married sisters — Elizabeth. Abi-
gail and Rebecca Sluman. Children of Jared
and Mollie (.Abel) Clarke: i. Philotha,' baj)-
ti.-?ed December 12, 1756: married Ezekiel Kel-
1838. 2. Jared. born April 9. 1758.
October 11. 1761 ; married Darius
4. Simon, September 11, 1763: died
1846: married (first) Rebecca l'.
(second ) Jerusha Chapin ; died .April
ley : flied
3 Mary.
W'arren.
April 28,
F'eabodv :
28, 1846.
.Ambrose.
June
.Abel, November 24. 1765. 6.
18, 1769. 7. Cyrenas. twm
with .Ambrose. 9. Solomon, born June 17.
1775: died 1814. Mrs. Moilie Clarke survived
her husband and married (second) her cousin.
Zebulon Metcalf. who died .April 26, 1802, and
she died in 1814. (N. B. — After 1750 the ma-
jorit\- of this family dropped the final "e" from
tlieir name ).
( \' ) Abel, third son and fifth child of Jared
and Mollie (.Abel) Clarke, was born in Leb-
anon, and baptized November 24. 1765: died
in Litchfield. Connecticut, March 2. 1842. He
settled in Litchfield when a young man and be-
came a very prosperous farmer. He married
Lois Smith, and the only one of his children
known to the writer is Samuel, an account of
whom follows.
(VI) Samuel Clark, son of .Abel and Lf)is
(Smith) Clark, was born in Litchfield, Con-
necticut. April I. 1810, where he was
brought up on a farm and given a good
education in the superior public schools of
his native town. He left Litchfield before
he attained his majority and went to west-
ern New York, living for a time in Roch-
ester, and going thence to Pennsylvania.
In 1S35 he returned east and settled in
Lelianoii. Himterdon county. New Jersev,
where he married Sarah, daughter of James
and .Margaret (Hoffman) Ramsey. She was
born in Lebanon, New Jersey, 1818. Her
father came from the north of Ireland when a
young man. He was of Scotch descent and the
Ramsey's belonged to the Covenanters who
fled to the north of Ireland and fomidetl the
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STATE UF NEW JERSEY.
sterling Scotch-Irisli race which so largely
peopled Teiinsylvania and New Jersey. He
married in Lebanon, New Jersey, Margaret
Hoffman, who was a descendant from Martin
Hoffman, who came from IToUand in 1<>S7'
married Emerentje de Witt, settled first at
Esopus on the Hudson river and became the
progenitor of noted men in American history,
including: Eieekman Ver Planck Hoffman
(1 789- 1 834), an officer in the United States
navy, the war of 1812; Charles Fenno Hoff-
man ( 1 806- 1 884), lawyer, editor and author:
Charles iM'ederick Huffman (1830-1897), and
his brother, Eugene Augustus Hoffman ( 1829-
1902), lawyer, figures in the history of the
Protestant Episcopal church in New Jersey
and New York as clergymen, authors and ben-
efactors: ( Davitl ) Murray Hoffman (1791-
1878), the eminent jurist, churchman, and
author; Jolin Thompson Hoffman (1828-
188S), governor of New York, mayor of New
York City; Ogden Hoffman (1704- 1856),
naval officer, lawyer, state legislator, represen-
tative in the United States congress, attorney-
general of New York and United States dis-
trict attorney for southern district of New
York; \^'ickham Hoffman (1821-1900), sol-
dier and (Ii]5lomatist. Samuel Clark made his
home in Lebanon, where he became an active
man of aft'airs, and a leader in mercantile and
civic life, conducting an extensive business
from 1838 to 1848, and holding offices of honor
and trust in the township, of wdiich he was a
chosen freeholder. In 1848 he removed to
New tiermantown in the same county, where
he conducted a large and popular hotel up to
1868, when he retired from the cares of active
business life and he enjoyed thirty-five years
of freedom from care except the management
of his private estate. He died in New Ger-
mantown, Hunterdon county. New Jersey,
Ma}', 1903, his wife having been spared to
him up to April, 1901, when she died at the
age of eighty-three years. Children of Samuel
and Sarah (Ramsey) Clark were: i. Austin,
died in 1898. 2. Alvah Augustus, see forward.
3. George, who was living in Lebanon, New
Jersey, 1909. 4. Margaretta, married George
F. Martens, a lawyer in New York City ; died
in !893. 5- Ophelia, married Dr. Robli, of
Brooklyn. New York; died 1898. 6. John,
who in 1909 was living in Califon, Nev^' Jer-
sey. 7. Charles, in 1909 a resident of Cali-
fornia.
(VII ) Alvah Augustus, second son of Sam-
uel and Sarah ( Ramsey ) Clark, was born in
LebaiKin. Hunterdon county. New lersev, Sep-
tember 13, 1840. He was prepared for college by
the Rev. Dr. Blauvelt.of Lamington, Somerset
county. New Jersey, but for want of funds
to carry him thnjugh college, he commenced
the study of law in the office and under the
instruction of John C. I-laff'erty, of New (jer-
mantown, and he was admitted to practice as
an attorney-at-law in 1864 and he began prac-
tice in New Germantown. In 1867 he was
admitted to practice as a councillor and re-
moved to Somerville, Somerset county, where
he established himself in the general practice
of law. and he met with unusual and immediate
success. His popularity as a lawyer extended
beyond the limits of Somerset county and his
activity in the Democratic party made him a
candidate for representative in congress in
187(^^1, and he was elected to represent his dis-
trict in the forty-fifth congress, and in 187S
was re-elected to the forty-sixth congress,
serving in the lower house of the United
States congress, 1877-81. As a member of the
committee on military affairs, he advocated and
secured reforms in the signal service of great
benefit to the farming community. He served
for a short time as a member of the sinking
fund commission of the state of New Jersey,,
but resigned, as it interfered with his pro-
fessional duties, especially with a large corpo-
ration practice. Mr. Clark married, June 9,
1864, Anna M., daughter of John B. and
Catharine ( Longstreet ) Vanderbeek, of Lam-
ington, New Jersey. Children, born in Somer-
ville, New Jersey: i. Katherine, born October
2/. 1867; married Hon. C. A. Reed, of Plain-
field. 2. Madeline, F'ebruary 14, 1873. 3.
Eugene, July 2, 1875.
The name of Bailey was repre-
IjAILEY sented by several immigrants in
the early settlement of Massa-
chusetts Bay, all of whom left a very large
progeny, which has become scattered through-
out the country and has been identified with
the moral, intellectual and material develop-
ment of all sections. It has been conspicuously
engaged in scientific research, and with all
forces that make for human progress. The
name is probably of ancient Scotch origin, but
came to America from England, and besides
the form used above is frequently found in the
early records spelled Baley and Bayley. These
are found on both sides of the Atlantic. The
family most nimierously represented is that
descended from Richard Bailey, who was born
about 1619, and is said to have come from
Yorkshire, England. According to Coffin's
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STATE OF NEW
■.Rsr.v.
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"History of Xewhurv, .Massaclnisefts." he
came from Southamjnon in the ship "Bevis,"
a vessel of one hundred and fifty tons, com-
manded by Robert Batten, and was then aged
fifteen years. According to Savage, lie arrived
in 1638, and other authorities place it at 1635.
He settled in Rowley, Massachusetts, and was
a man of recognized piety and influence in the
community. He was one of the company that
set u]) the first clock mill in this country, at
Rowley, where he died in l-'ehruary, 1648,
being buried on the i6th of that month. His
wife, Edna Holstead, survived him, and after
his death was married September 15, 1649, to
Ezekiel Northend, of Rowley, Tt is probable
that the persons mentioned in the following
article were descended from this Richard
Bailev. He left an only son. Deacon Joseph,
born about 1635, who settled on the Merrimac
river, in the north part of Rowley, near the
Newbury line, in what is now Grobeland,
^Massachusetts. He was a leading man of
Bradford, where he was selectman twenty-
three years, between 1685 and 1710, and was
deacon of the church from 1682 until his death,
October 11, 1712, He married .\bigail Trum-
bull, who survived him and died in Bradford,
November 17, 1735. Children: Abigail, Rich-
ard, Ann, Elizabeth, Joseph, Edna, Deacon
John and Sarah.
Another immigrant who left many descend-
ants was John Bailey, a resident of .Salisbury,
Massachusetts, where he came from Chippen-
ham, in \\'i!tshire, England, sailing in the ship
"Angel Gabriel," which left England in April,
1635. He was cast away at Pema(|uid (now
Bristol, Maine), in the great storm of August
15, 1635. He was not accompanied by his
wife, and his son John was the only one of
his children to come to this country. He was a
weaver by trade, and was living in Salisbury in
1640. removing thence in the spring of 1631 to
Newbury, where he died November 2 that
year, being called "old John Bailey." It is
probable that his wife was not living when he
came to America, and that he accompanied his
son, who cared for him in his old age. He
bequeathed his homestead in Salisbury to the
son John, and in his will mentions also a son
Robert and two daughters then living in Eng-
land. In his will he mentions "my brother
John Emery Jr., of Newbury, overseer," from
wliich it is presumed that his wife was an
Emery.
John (2), eldest son of John (l) Bailey, was
born in England, in 1630, and was a weaver in
early life. After settling in New England he
Ijecame a liK'-bandiiian. and. reuiained in Salis-
bury until 1(143, when lie removed to New-
bury and there ])assed the remainder of his
life. He was a selectman in i6(')4, and a free-
man in iddq, and died March, i6gi. He mar-
ried, about 1640, Eleanor Emery, who re-
mained a widow until her death, which occurred
previous to .Sejitember 23, 1700, when adminis-
tration was granted u])on her estate. In 1669-
70 she was engaged in the practice of mid-
wifery. Children: Rebecca, John, Sarah,
Joseph, James Joshua (died young), Isaac,
Joshua. Rachel and Judith.
The third immigrant was Thomas Bailey,
who came from England before 1640, settled
in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he was
admitted a freeman May 13 that year, and was
a town officer in 1645. He died in 1681. The
name of his wife is unknown. His will, made
Mav 23, proved October 10, 1681, and men-
tions children: John, Thomas and Esther,
wife of John King. He also had children:
Christian, Samuel, Mary and Sarah, .-\nother
immigrant was James Bailey, born in England,
about 161 2, who came to New England with
the early settlers sent out by the Massachu-
setts Bay Company, and is found among the
followers of "Air. Ezekiel Rogers," who estab-
lished a plantation in the town of Rowdey,
Massachusetts, September 14. 1639. He mar-
ried Lydia Emery, who lived to a great age,
and died at Rowley, April 29, 1704, twenty-
eight years after the death of her husband,
who was born in Rowley, August 10, 1*^77.
Of their nine children, only two sons. John
and Jonathan, married and reared children.
The records of Boston, Massachusetts, show
that Benjamin, son of Matthew and Lukey
Bailey, was born there I'ebruary 8, 1803. Tt
is possible that he was the father of the next
mentioned.
George H. Bailey was born December 16,
1828. in Boston, and settled in Jersey City,
where he married Hannah Maria Ryder, a
native of this city. He is now employed in
the government service in the engineer's de-
partment, in Washington, D. C.
Calvin Weston, son of George H. and Han-
nah M. (Ryder) Bailey, was born January 20,
1861, in Newark, and was educated in the
Newark Academy. .At the age of fifteen years
he became a clerk in the office of the .American
Insurance Company at Newark, and his faith-
ful attention to his duties and his capability
were amply testified by the fact that he rose
through various grades to the position of
assistant secretary in 1 906, and was made sec-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
retary of tlie company in 1909. He makes his
home in East Orange, New Jersey, where he is
a deacon of the Congregational church. In
political sentiment he is a faithful Republican.
He married. May i, 1895, in Newark, Sara
Armour, of Marshall, Michigan, born Febru-
ary 16, 1864, daughter of John and Lillias
( Cochrane ) Armour, both natives of Scotland.
Mr. Armour was employed for many years at
the Adrian boiler works in Adrian, Michigan,
whence he removed to Chicago and is living
retired. Mr. and Mrs. Railev are the parents of a
snn, Kenneth Weston, horn February 28, 1906.
Christian lirown (or Braun, as
IIRCJW'X his name was then spelt), emi-
grated to America in August,
1729. He married Angenisa Catharine
(II) John Adam, son of Christian and
Angenisa Catharine Braun, was born in
Macungie. Northampton county, Pennsylva-
nia, May 18, 1738, and died there March 4,
1806. He married Julianna Catharine .
(HI) John Adam (2), son of John Adam
( I ) and Julianna Catharine Braun, was born
in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, April
20, 1777, and died October 31, 1853. He was
the first in this line to spell his name Brown.
He married Margaret Spait.
(IV) Paul, son of John Adam (2) and
Margaret (Spait) Brown, was born in North-
ampton county, Pennsylvania, February 24.
1807, and died in North Whitehall township,
same county, August 11, 1877. Fie was for
many years a school director in North White-
hall township, where he operated a large iron
mine. He married Maria, daughter of John
Peter and Elizabeth (Deshler) Wotering or
Woodring, who was born in August, 1809, and
died January 27, 1883. (See Wotering).
(V) Dr. Louis Richard Brown, son of Paul
and Maria (Woodring) Brown, was born in
North Whitehall township, Northampton
county, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1839; and
since 1868 has been practicing medicine in
Elizabeth, New Jersey. He married, in July,
1864, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Robert
Charlton and Rebecca ( Broome ) Kid ; (see
Kid). Children: Louise Mary, died Novem-
ber 14, 1890; Sidney Paul, died June 8, 1891 ;
Stanley Robert, married Minnie Constance
Keppler ; Alice Eugenia ; Belle Broome, mar-
ried David Higgins Townley.
(The Woteri
Line).
Nicolaus Wotering, the founder of this fam-
ily, was born in Lorraine, France, in April,
1745. Fie emigrated to America in 1767, and
was a private in Captain George Drine's com-
pany of the First Battalion, Northampton
county, Pennsylvania, militia in 1778. He mar-
ried, May 9, 1769, Margaret, daughter of Henri
Frantz, who was born in Lorraine, May 8,
1745, and died in Northampton county, Penn-
sylvania, June 29, 1823. Her father, Henri
Frantz, brought her with him to America in
1747. He was killed by the Indians in 1764,
and his daughter Margaret was carried off by
them four years before, in 1760. The story is
that while she was cleaning a copper kettle in
the Mahoning creek, with an armed man sit-
ting in ambush near by guarding her, an In-
dian snatched her up, and holding her in such
a way that for her guardian to fire would im-
peril her life, carried her off and placing her
on a horse, took her over "a big water," prob-
ably the Lehigh river, near Weissport, and
travelling towards Stroudsburg, turned into
the famous hunting grounds through the Dela-
ware Water Gap. Seven years later she found
her way home again. She became noted far
and wide for her knowledge of herbs and sim-
ples, which she had acquired from the Indians,
and her services in curing the sick were in
great demand.
(HI) John Peter, son of Nicolaus and Mar-
garet (Frantz) Wotering, was born in North-
ampton coimty, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1776,
and died there February 23, 1833. He mar-
ried Elizabeth, daughter of John Adam Desh-
ler, whose stone house, built in 1760, near Cop-
ley creek, is still standing. It was known as
Deshler's fort, and the people within a radius
of four or five miles were accustomed to flock
there for protection whenever threatened by
the Indians. During the Indian troubles of
1763 soldiers were quartered there, and Desh-
ler furnished provisions for the provincial
troops during the French and Indian war from
1756 to 1758.
(HI) Maria Woodring, daughter of John
Peter and Elizabeth (Deshler) Wotering, was
bom in Northainpton 'county, Pennsylvania, in
August, 1809, and died January zj, 1883. She
married Paul, son of John Adam and Margaret
(Spait) Brown, referred to above.
(The Kid Line).
Rr.bert Kid. the founder of the family, was
born in .Scone, near Edinburg, Scotland,
August 7, 1760, and died in Burlington, New
Jersey, .August 17, 1836. lie emigrated to
America about 1791 and settled in Philadel-
phia, wdiere he was a Master Mason of the
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STATE OF NEW |I•:RSI■;^•
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Grand Loflge of Pennsylvania. He married
Sarah Charlton, whose mother was of nohle
birth, and who was born in Diililin. Ireland,
December 22, 1778.
(II) Robert Charlton, son of Robert and
Sarah (Charlton) Kid, was born in Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, February 21, 1802, and
died there in 1884. He married Rebecca,
daughter of William and Mary (Welles)
Broome, who was born in Philadeljihia, Penn-
sylvania, in 1807, and died in 1847. ller
father was born in England and came to
America in 1798, and her mother, born in Eng-
land, about 1765, died in 1854.
(III) Alary Elizabeth, daughter of Robert
Charlton and Rebecca (Broome) Kid, was
born in Amherst. Massachusetts. She mar-
ried in July, 1864, Louis Richard, son of Paul
and Maria (Woodring) Brown, referred to
above.
The Danser family of New
D.AXSER Jersey, and the \\'eart family
of Pennsylvania, have had no
more glorious representative than the late
James Wesley Danser. of Freehold, who
worthily ranks among the foremost of the
representative men of his section of the state,
not only in personal worth and integrity, but
also in what he has done for his fellowmen.
Peter H. Danser, his father, born at Wind-
sor, New Jersey, and educated in the common
schools, began life as a farmer, and continued
so until his death. Most of his life was spent
in Clarksburg, New Jersey, where he met and
married Mary McKnight. his first wife, and
the mother of his children. His second wife
and widow, who survives him, is now living
at Hightstown, as does also his only sur-
viving son, Frank C. .\mong his other chil-
dren, all now deatl, was James Wesley, who is
referred to below.
James Wesley, son of Peter H. and Mary
(McKnight) Danser, was born in Millstone
township. New Jersey, February 2, 1862, and
died in Freehold, April 10, IQ09. He was
educated at -the Peddie Institute in Hights-
town, and started in the wholesale lumber busi-
ness when he was a young man, and was
engaged in that business with more than good
success until the time of his death. lie dealt
almost exclusively in telegraph and telephone
poles and piling. In his religious faitii he was
a Presbyterian, and in politics a Republican.
He was prominent in the councils of his party,
and was regarded as one of its strongest men,
but he ran for office only once, at which time.
in i8(/), he was candidate for the office of
sheriff. He was defeated, however, by the
Democratic candidate, 1 louston I'ields. For
the last nine years of his life he was post-
master at h'rcehold, to which position he was
ajipointed in April, 1900. Mr. Danser was a
past master in Olive Branch Lodge, F. and
A. M., of Freehold, and was also a thirty-
second degree Mason. He was a member of
Keith Council, Royal ^Arcanum, of Freehold,
and of I'reehold Lodge, Ancient Order of
Cnited Workmen. He was also a member of
the Trenton Lodge. No. 105. I'enevolent and
Protective Order of Elks. When he died he
was mourned by the whole community, and
the town closed all of its stores and other
j'laces of business upon the day of the funeral.
The services were conducted by Rev. Arthur
\\'. Remington, assisted by Rev. H. E. Thomp-
son, and were held at his late home on West
Main street, the interment being made in
Maplewood Cemetery. At the grave Olive
1 'ranch Lodge, No. 16, F. and A. M., of Free-
hold, conducted the full ritual of the Masonic
ceremony. -The pallbearers were : County
Clerk Joseph AIcDermott ; Surrogate David S.
Crater, Oscar Robinson, Charles IT. Butcher,
Jacob O. Burt, and Frederick D. Bennett.
In C)ctober, 1884, James Wesley Danser
married Lillie, daughter of Charles I). W'eart,
of Yardley, Pennsylvania, who survives him.
Their children are: i. Elizabeth Weart. born
1887 ; graduated in 1907 from Walnut Lane
School. 2. Harold Wesley Weart. born 1899,
a student in Boston School of Technology. 3.
Stanley A., born 1897. 4. Mabel, died in infancy
Rutger Hendrickse, the
HENDRICKSON first member of this
family of whom W'e
have definite information, is said to have
been descended through a younger branch of
the family from that staunch old medieval
knight and Crusader, the Baron Henry of
Nyddeck. He married, at Cologne, Germany,
in 1470, Gennetjc Beeckman. Children:
Barent, referred to below ; also two daughters.
(II) Barent Rutgerse. son of Rutger and
Gennetje (Beeckman) Hendrickse, married in
1524. Neeltje Evertse. Children: Lambert,
see below, and three died in infancy.*
( HI) Lambert Barentse, son of Barent
Rutgerse and Xeeltje (Evertse) Hendricksen,
engaged in a seafaring life, became a famous
admiral in the Dutch navy, and was a trusted
•In dilTeic-nt generations the family appears as
Hendricks, as well as Hendrlckson.
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STATK OF NEW JERSEY.
frieiul of William the Silent. In Motley's
"llisturv of the United Xetheiiands" he is
called "I'retty Lambert." lie married a
(laughter of Alanuel y Xadal, a woman of
S])ani.sh extraction, whose father was an offi-
cer in the army of the Duke of Alva. Chil-
dren: Cornells, referred to below; Daniel,
lived at Scrool, Holland, and was the father
of Cerrit, who came to America in the shiji
"St. lean I'.aptiste," in Alay. i6(>i : also three
daughters.
(IV) Cornelis, son of Lambert Llarentse
Hendricks, was born at Utrecht, in 1572. He
became a navigator, and is said to have been
the first white man to set foot on the soil of
Pennsylvania and West Jersey. He discov-
ered the Knritan and Schuylkill rivers, and
explored the Delaware to its falls at the pres-
ent site of Trenton. During the latter part of
1614 he explored the coast of New Jersey in
the ship "C)nrest," the first vessel built in New
Amsterdam, by Captain Adriaen Ulock,
when his own ship the "Tiger" was lost. He
married Sonnetje Rutgers. Child: Daniel,
referred to below.
( V ) Daniel, son of Cornelis Lambertse and
Sonnetje (Rutgers) Hendricksen, was born
in Utrech.t, March 4, 1605. He married Emma
Van Cuelder. Seven children, names unknown
except Hendrick., referred to below.
(VI) Hendrick, son of Daniel and Emma
(Van Guelder) Hendricks, was born in 1636,
some time before October 9, 1738. He
removed first to Irland in Westphalia, but
after his marriage emigrated to New Nether-
land in the ship "Rosetta," in March, 1663,
and the following year served as a soldier
inider Director general I'eter Stuyvesant. He
married Jane Luitgirt. Children: i. Hen-
drick, died before ()ctober 9, 173S: married
Helena, daughter of Jaccjues Cortelyou, and
widow of Clacs \ an llrunt, and also of Denyse
Teunisse. 2-3. W'illem and Daniel, both
referred to belnw. Probably others.
(V'll) Willem, son of Hendrick and Jane
(Luitgirt) Hendricks, was born in Flatbush,
Long Island, where he took the oath of alle-
giance as a "native" in 1687, and died in what
is now Ilolmdel township, Alonmouth county.
New Jersey, in .\pril or May, 171 1. The first
reference to him in the New Jersey records
i'. the mention of him as one of those who
broke u;) the court of Covernor Morris, at
Aliddletown village, ;\larch 25, 1701. He
married \Villem])tje, daughter of (juysbert
Thyssen and Jannetje Adriaense (Lamberson)
Lanen \'an Pelt, who was baptized at Flat-
bush, Long Island, September 16, 1(177. Chil-
dren: I. Guysbert, referred to below. 2.
Geesye, married, about 1715, Matthias Pieter-
sen. 3. Hans, born about 1700: died ^larch
25, 1789; married Sarah Mosier. 4. Jannetje,
married Christopher \\^almsley. 5. Hendrick,
born November 11, 1706; died July 28, 1783;
married abi:)Ut 1728, .\ltje Couwenhoven. 6.
Daniel.
(\'III) Guysbert, son of Willem and
\\illeniptje (Lanen \'an Pelt) Hendricks, died
in March or April, 1777. He settled near
Yardville, then Nottingham township, Burl-
ington county, New Jersey, and helped to
organize the first F'resbyterian church in Allen-
town, Monmouth county. He married, about
1728, Elizabeth, daughter of Johannes and
Annetje (Ten Eyck ) Polhemus, who was bap-
tized August 13, 1710. Children: i. William,
married in February or March, 17(18, Rachel
Longstreet. 2. John, married, November 14,
1763, Anna Cox. 3. Daniel, born about 1737;
married Ann Stewart. 4. Tobias, born July
21, 1740; died Alay 23, 181 1; married, in
March or April, 1762, Rebecca Coward. 5.
Cornelius, married, in February, 1767, Mary
Thorn. 6. Jacob, referred to below. 7. David.
(IX) Jacob, son of Guysbert and Elizabeth
(Polhemus) Hendrickson, was born in Not-
tnigham township, Burlington county. New
Jersey, in 1744, and died in Upper F""reehold
township, Monmouth county. New Jersey, Au-
gust 15, 1810. He married, in May, 1771, Eliz-
abeth Mount, who died July 24, 1832. Chil-
dren: Michael, referred to below; Daniel;
Jacob: Forman ; Mary; Hannah: Elizabeth.
(X) Michael, son of Jacob and Elizabeth
(Mount) Hendrickson, was born in Imlays-
town, about 1776, and died there July 11,
iSii. He married Sarah Horsfull, who died
.\ugust 4, 1854, aged seventy-one years. Chil-
dren: Richard; Charles; Elizabeth: Michael;
Jac( li, referred to below.
(XI) Jacob, son of Michael and Sarah
(Horsfull) Hendrickson, was born in Imlays-
town, Monmouth county, X'ew Jersey, July
||^ 1806, and died at New Egypt, same county,
June 22, i860, .\fter he left school he learned
the trade of carriage making, at which he work-
ed until after his marriage. He then spent a
short while at Wrightstown, Burlington coun-
t}'. and from there went to New Egv'pt, where
he spent the rest of his life. He married, Au-
gust II, 1831, Mary Matason, daughter of
Samuel S. and Sarah (Matason) Davis, of
Wrightstown, who was born February 7, 181 5,
and died November 19, 1891. Her father.
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huvn in Xew llanovcr luunship. lUniington
county, Xew Jersey, retired after aciiuiring a
competency and lived in Pemberton. where he
(lied at the age of eighty-six years. I ler
mother was born in Delaware, and died several
years after her hnsband at al)out the same age.
Children: i. Sarah l-'-lizahetli. l)(.)rn Febrnary
II, 1833.: died .\pril 14. iS'k). j. .Sarah Davis,
born March 13, iS34;n(iw living at ! 'emberton.
New Jersey. 3. William, born October 8,
1835: now living in San I'rancisco, California.
4. Marietta, born May 11, 183S; died in 1907.
5. Charles Elvin, referred to below. 6. Jacol)
Conover, born January 12, 1845.
(Xll) Charles Flvin, son of Jacob and
Mary Matason (Davis) flendrickson, was
born in Xew Egypt. Monmouth county, Xew
Jersey, January 8, 1843. He received his early
education in the ]jublic schools of Plumstead
township and Xew Egypt, and prepared for
college under the tutorship of Mr. Th<_imas C.
fiarrison and at the Xew Egypt Academy.
Then after one term at Union College. Sche-
nectady, he entered Princeton University, and
received his 15. A. degree m 1863, and his AI.
A. degree in 1866. After acting for a while
as principal of Pemberton Academy, he began
the study of law with Abrab.am Browning Est].,
of Camden. Xew Jersey, and later with Garret
S. Cannon Esq.. of P>ordentowii, being admit-
ted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in iSr/i,
and as counsellor in 1869. In the first men-
tioned year he opened his office in Mount i lolly.
and has continued the general practice of his
profession there ever since. He served for
twenty-one years as prosecutor of the pleas
for Burlington county, and in March, 1896.
he was appointed by Governor Griggs judge
of the court of errors and appeals. In 1901
he was appointed by Governor \'oorhees judge
of the supreme court of Xew Jersey. In poli-
tics Mr. Hendrickson is a Democrat, and has
been very influential in his party. He served
as a delegate to the national convention of
1868 in Xew York City, and his influence ))ro-
cured the support of Xew Jersey for Governor
Parker. He has been a director in the Mount
Holly Xational Bank many years, and is coun-
sel for the bank. He was also a director oi
the Camden & Burlington railroad, trustee of
the Pennington Seminary, and of Dickinson
College. He has travelled extensively both at
home and abroad. He is a member of the
board of stewards of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Mount Holly, has been for man>'
years superintendent of the Sunday school,
and in 1876 was lay delegate from Xew Jer-
sey to the CJeneral Conference of the Meth-
odists in Baltimore. 1 le is a member of Lodge
.\o. 14, 1'". and .\. M.. of .Mount llollv. and of
Mount Nolly Lodge. Xo. k,. 1. ( ). ( )'. 1'. He
is also a member of the .Xew Jersey liar .Asso-
ciation and of the Monmouth County Histor-
ical Society. He married. January 12, 1872,
.Sarah Wood, daughter of \ an Xess and .Maria
(.Mlaire) Xo.xon, of Red Bank, who was born
in Delaware county. .\e\v N'ork, September 3,
1852. ller father was born in r8io, and died
iii Xovember. 1873; and her mother was liorn
in .August. 1814. and died in June, 1886. Chil-
dren: I, Charles Elvin, born December 21.
1872. 2. Maria Cytendyle, February 9, 1874.
3. George Davis, Jime 25. 1878. 4. James
Allaire. Alay 3, 1884. Children of \'an Xess and
Maria (.Allaire) Xoxon : Sarah Wood, re-
ferred to above; \'an Xess (2), married Mary
Bull, of Maryland.
(\'II) Hendrick, son of Daniel and Jane
( Luitgirt ) Hendricks, was born in I'latlands.
LfiUg Island, in 1673, and died in what is now
Ilolmdel township, Monmouth county, Xew
Jersey, in January, 1728. lie came to Mon-
mouth county in 1693. and purchased those
farms just west of Middletown, which are now
owned by the heirs of the late Hon. William
Henry Hendrickson, referred to below. He
served on the Alonmouth county grand jury
in March, 1699. and the following year, when
the new judges appointed by Governor An-
drew Hamilton took their seats for the first
time, he was appointed to serve again. Refus-
ing to do this and also refusing to acknowledge
the authorit}' of these judges, he was fined
iio; but the surrender of the Proprietary gov-
ernment to the Crown in 1702 brought him
again to the fiont, and he was constable of
Middletown township in 1704 and 1705, and
in 1707 was appointed high sherift' of the coun-
ty by Queen .Anne, being the first HolhuKler
to hold that office. In 1709 he and his brother
William and their wives were among the organ-
izers of the Dutch Church of Middletown, and
a few years later he was an elder. He was
also at one time captain of the militia of Mid-
dletown township. He married, according to
one account. Evertse Giberson or (iibbon.son,
and according to another account. Catharine,
daughter of Jan Janse \'an Dyke and Teuntje
Thyse Laen \'an Pelt. Children: 1. (ieesye.
born October 9, 1696 : died September 20. 1747 ;
married. 1714. Koelof Janse Schenck. 2.
Teuntje. baptized .April 9. 1699 ; married, 1715.
fonathan. son of Obadiah and .Alice (.Ashton)
Holmes. 3. Hendrick. born 1700: died Feb-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
ruary 21, 1753 : married, 1725, Neeltje Schenck.
4. John, born about 1702; married, about 1734,
Annetje Couwenhoven. 5. Mayke, married
Guysbert Van Mater. 6. Tryntje, married
Henry Dusenbury. 7. William, baptized No-
vember 6, 1709; married, about 1731, Maria
Langstraat. 8. Annetje, baptized December
30, 171 1 ; married, 1732, William Couwen-
hoven. (J. Francyntje, married, 1731, Teunis
Denyse. 10. Jannetje, married (first) Ruliph
Couwenhoven: (second) 1747, Peter Schanck.
II. Daniel, referred to below.
(VIII) Daniel, .son of Hendrick and Evertse
(Giberson) or Catharine (Van Dyke) Hend-
rickson, was born on the homestead at "Hol-
land," Ilolmdel township, Monmouth county,
New Jersey, January 5, 1723, and died there
June 24, 17S8. He was a quiet prosperous
farmer, and so active in church work that he
was known as "Dominie Dan I." He was
highly educated, and somewhat of a musician
and an artist. A portrait of him, painted by
himself, is now in possession of the family
of the late Hon. William Henry Hendrickson,
referred to bclcw. He married, December 22,
1743, Catharine, daughter of Cornelius and
Margaretta (Schenck) Couwenhoven, who
was born June 2, 1720, and died May 5, 1810.
Children: i. Daniel D., born October 29,
1744; died November 23, 1836; married Eliz-
abeth Stevenson. 2. Cornelius, born August
28, 1747; died October 10, 1802; married,
March 24, 1784, Lydia, daughter of Cornelius
and Margaretta (Lamberson) Vanderbilt, and
aunt of the distinguished Commodore Vander-
bilt. 3. Catharine, born August 8, 1753: died
March i, 1835: unmarried. 4. Hendrick, re-
ferred to below. 5. W'illiam. baptized Novem-
ber 21, 1761 ; died young.
(IX) Hendrick, son of Daniel and Cath-
arine (Couwenhoven) Hendrickson, was born
June 12, 1758, and died December i, 1840, and
is buried on the old Hendrickson homestead
where he was born, lived and died. He mar-
ried, May 13, 1 78 1, Francinke, daughter of
Cornelius R., and Jane (Denise) Covenhoven,
will) was born November 18, 1763, and died
March 26, 1845. Children: i. Catharine, bap-
tized March 14, 1782: married May 23, 1803,
Garret Lane, of Piscataway. 2. William Henry,
referred to below. 3. Jane, born March 6,
1792; died August 5, 1875: married, March
23, 1808, Garret D., son of Denise and Anne
(Schenck) Henrickson.
(X) William Henry (i), son of Hendrick
and Francinke (Covenhoven) Hendrickson,
was born in the old Hendrickson homestead
January 28, 1787, and died there February 9,
1831. He married, January 12, 1812, Elea-
nor, daughter of Charles and Anne (Hendrick-
son) Du Bois, who was born August 19, 1792,
and died September 25, 1879. Her mother was
daughter of Daniel and Eleanor (Van Mater)
Hendrickson, granddaughter of John and
Annetje (Couwenhoven) Hendrickson, and
great-granddaughter of Hendrick Hendricks,
referred to above. Children: I. William
Henry (2), referred to below. 2. Sarah Ann,
born April 14, 1816; died February 20, 1843;
married, October 21, 1834, Rev. Garret C.
Schanck. 3. Charles Du Bois, born April 21,
1818; died October 31, 1834. 4. Francinke,
born August 18, 1822, died April 29, 1854;
married, March 4, 1840, George W. Cox. 5.
Mary, born October i, 1825: died in August,
1898; married December 25, 1856, Henry Cor-
lies.
(XI) Hon. William Henry (2), son of Will-
iam Henry (i) and Eleanor (Du Bois) Hend-
rick.son, was born on the old homestead, June
3, 1 81 3, and died there .August 2, 1898. He
was educated at the grammar school of Rut-
gers College, which he left in his sophomore
year owing to the death of his father. He
then gave his attention largely to agricultural
pursuits and met with marked success. As an
appreciation of his sterling characteristics the
peciple of Monmouth county have chosen him
three different times to represent them in the
state senate — from 1858 to 1 86 1, from 1872
to 1875, and from 1875 to 1878. During his
legislative career he was a member of the
finance, printing and education committees, and
during the first term chairman of the last
named committee. His election in 1872 was
without opposition, and his service in the
senate was a credit to himself and an honor to
Ills constituency. He was a presidential elector
twice, and for fifteen years was a member of
the Ijoard of freeholders of Monmouth coun-
ty. He was also a member of the Geological
Survey of Monmouth co'unty, president of the
Middletown & Keyport Steamboat Company,
and also of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank
of Matawan. He married (first) February 28,
1839, Elizabeth E., daughter of Nimrod Wood-
ward of Cream Ridge, who was born in 1818,
and died December 13, 1865; (second), June
24. 1868, Rebecca C. Fields, daughter of James
and (Hopping) Patterson. Children,
two by first marriage: Henry; Elizabeth;
William Henry; and James P., all referred to
below.
(XII) Henry, son of William Henry and
STATE OF NEW II'.RSEY.
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Elizabeth E. (Woodward) Ilendrickson, was
bcirn in Middletown. Monmouth county, New-
Jersey, May 16, 1855. and is now hving at
Asbury Park, New Jersey. For his early edu-
cation he was sent to the public school at Eaton-
town. New- Jersey, and after three years there
entered the Freehold Institute, where he took
a four years course under Mr. A. G. Chambers,
lie then went to work on his father's farm,
where he remained until the death of the latter,
after which he started out for himself on a
farm of one hundred and fifty-five acres, which
he managed successfully for many years. Sev-
eral years ago he retired from active life, and
letting his farm out on shares, w-ent to Asbury
I 'ark to live. He is a Democrat in politics, and
a member of the board of registration of
Holmdel. He attends the Dutch Reformed
Church. He married, in New York City, Jan-
uary 6, 1900. Helen B.. daughter of Thomas
and Jane (Robinson) Henderson, who was
born in Middletown. Monmouth county. New
Jersey. .August 2. 1871. Child: XN'altrude
Helen, born July 12, 1905.
(Nil) Elizabeth, daughter of William Henry
and Elizabeth E. (Woodward) Hendrickson,
w-as born in Aliddletow-n, New Jersey, in 1863.
She married, June 16, 1886, \Villiam H., son
of James S. and Anna (Hojjping) Barron, of
Hanover, Burlington county, New Jersey.
Child: Madeleine Hendrickson (Barron),
born September 21, 1889. Children of James
.S. and Anna (Hopping) Barron: William II.,
referred to above; Henry; Randall P.
(Nil) \\"illiam Henry (2), son of William
Henry (i) and Rebecca Fields (Patterson)
Hendrickson, was born at Middletown, New
Jersey, May 13, 1869, and is now living at
Red Bank, New Jersey. After attending the
public schools he entered the Freehold Insti-
tute, from which he graduated in 1887, and
went to the Stuart & Hammond Business Col-
lege in Trenton. Then, after spending one
year in the office of the county clerk in Free-
hold, he took a position in the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Matawan, where he re-
mained for nine years, until he went to Red
Bank in 1899 to take a position in the Mer-
cantile Co-operative Bank, which he retained
until 1902, when he became a partner in the
L.ake Marion Ice Company. Mr. Hendrickson
is a Democrat in politics, and w-as chairman of
the Monmouth county Democratic committee
in 1908. He is a member of the I. C). O. F.,
the Matawan Club, the Knickerbocker C'lub of
New York, the Monmouth County Historical
Society, the Holland Society of New York and
the Monmouth Boat Club. He married, in
Philadelphia, April 12, 1898. Louisa V., only
daughter of Henry S. and Christiana (Sharjj)
Bush, who was born August 3, 1871. Child:
William Henry (3), born .August 28, 1899.
( Nil ) James P., son of William Henry ( i)
and Rebecca C. Fields (Patterson) Hendrick-
son. was born in Middletown, New Jersey,
April 20, 1874. After taking the three years
course in the Freehold Institute he went to
the Stuart & Hammond Business College in
Trenton for one year, and then returning home,
working on his father's farm until 1901, when
he started in for himself in the business as
producer and distributor. He is a Democrat
in politics, and a member of the Holland Soci-
ety of New York and of the Monmouth Boat
Club. He married. October 26, 1895, Eva C.,
daughter of Benjamin S. and Margaret (Gor-
ley ) Payne, of Sag Harbor. Long Island, who
vvas born September lo. 1878. Children: Henry
Gorlev : Frank S. : Eva : Bertha ; Margaret.
Marmadukc Hunt, the first mem-
HL'NT bei of this family of w-hom we
have definite information, w-as
born about 1731, and died in Middlesex coun-
ty , New Jersey. November 16, 1814, aged sev-
enty-nine years. It is said that he is a de-
scendant of the Hunt family of Hunt's Point,
Westchester county. New '^'ork, but the first
official record that we have of him is his mar-
riage according to the Quaker ceremony, at
the home of his father-in-law in Rahway, and
he may have been a son cif the old Quaker
.Solomon Hunt, of Rahway, who married Cath-
arine Bishop in that place in 1729. He mar-
ried. July 17. 1761. Elizabeth, daughter of
.Samuel and Mary (Shotwell) Marsh of Rah-
way. Children, as given by Rahway and
Plainfield monthly meeting: i. Abigail, born
November 23. 1765; died April 29. 1837; mar-
ried Isaac, son of Jonathan and Jane (Walms-
ley) Sayre (see Sayre). 2. Gilbert, born May
10, 1767; died October 12, 1776. 3. James,
referred to below-. 4. Samuel, born December
23, 1770; died November 6, 1789.
(11) James, son of Marmaduke and Eliza-
beth (^larsh) Hunt, was born in Middlesex
county. New Jersey, September 3, 1768, and
died there December 18, 1853. He w-as a gentle-
man farmer and large land owner in the coun-
ty, his home farm consisting of a plantation
of one thousand acres. In religion he was a
birthright Quaker of the orthodox school. For
some reason, however, not known to-day. both
he and his wife are buried not in the Friends'
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
ground Init in the Railway Presbyterian ceme-
tery, lie married, at Westfield. New Jersey,
June 24, 1792, Sarah, born in Railway, Sep-
tember i"] , 1769, died there November 16,
1852, daughter of Ezra and Jane (Freeman)
Sayre (see Sayre). Children, all born at Rail-
way: I. Samuel I., born April 18, 1703. tlied
18S7; married, October 18, 1821, Elizabeth
\'ail, of New York. 2. Jane, born October 28,
1794; marrietl Peter Noe, of New ^'ork. 3.
Betsy, born Jul}- 11. 1796; married Andrew
Clark, of New \'ork, who died September 8,
1830. 4. Nathan, born August 9, 1798; died
June 3, 1833. 5. Mary, born September 2,
1800: died December 3, 1893; married, August
3, 1823, Benjamin Shotwell, of New Jersey.
6. Noah Sayre, born March 4, 1803: died 1884.
7. Esther, born February 26, 1805; married,
June 18, 1827, James Earrle, of New Jersey.
8. Harriet, born April 27. 1807; died May i,
1896: married, March 5, 1833, Henry A. Corey,
of New Jersey. 9. (iilbert S., born April 14,
1809. 10. Sarah, born December 28. 181 1 ;
died January 21, i88(); married John S. Wood-
ward Esq., who was born in New York City,
June 2"]. 1814, and died May 18, 1890. 11.
Isaac Laing, referred to below.
(HI) Isaac Laing, son of James and Sarah
(Sayre) Hunt, was born in Railway, New
Jersey, October 8. 1S14, and died there No-
vember 2},, 18S3. He was a hardware manu-
facturer, and had his shop in Newark and his
salesrooms in New York City. He was noted
for his musical ability, and for many years
sang in the church choirs of Elizabeth. He
married (first) June I'l, 1842. Caroline Grif-
fiths, of New York; (second) July i, 1858,
Caroline Remsen. daughter of Joseph Walker
and Harriet (Shotwell) .\llen. Children, by
second marriage: i. Samuel I., born February
22. 1859. 2. \\'illiani Allen, .August 20, i8()0.
3. Isaac Laing (2), referred to below. 4. Car-
oline Woodward, born July 20, 1866; married
Jackson Jaques. 5. b^ederick Mortimer, born
May 1 8," 1872. Children of Joseph Walker
and Harriet (Shotwell) .Mien: Joseph Ed-
ward; J(J^eIlh Walker (2); Miriam; Mary;
Julia ; Catliarine ; Caroline Remsen, referred to
above.
( 1\") Isaac Laing (2), son of Isaac Laing
(i ) and Caroline Remsen (Allen) Hunt, was
born in Middlesex county, New Jersey, Feb-
ruary 3, 1862, and is now living at Rahway.
New Jersey. After receiving his early educa-
tion in the public schools he began reading
law with Hon. Benjamin .\. \'ail, and was ad-
mitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in
November, 1884. After his admission to the
bar he entered the law ofifice of Vail & Ward,
with whom he remained until 1892, wdien he
opened an office for himself in Rahway and
has since that time been engaged in the general
practice of his profession. From 1891 to 1894
lie acted as one of the town councilmen of
Rahway, and during 1891 and 1892 he served
on the water board of the town. He was one
of the organizers and is a charter member of
the Ilderan Outing Club of Rahway, and also
a member of the Rahway Club. He married,
in Newark, May 2"], 1900, Mary Estelle, daugh-
ter of Robert and Caroline ( Dixon ) WooiUand.
who was born October 8, 1876. No children.
(The Sayre Line).
William Sayre, the first member of this fam-
ily of whom we have definite information lived
in the parish of Podington, in the hundred of
Willey, county Bedford, England, where he
died 1111564. He married Alice Squyre. Chil-
dren: I. Thomas, married Margery .
2. Alice, married Robert West ; children : John
and George West. 3. Agnes, married William
Makernes ; child William Makernes Jr. 4.
William ( 2 ), referred to below.
( II) William (2), son of William (1 ) and
.■\lice ( Sqyre ) Sayre. died before 1581. He
married Elizabeth . Children : William ;
Robert; Thomas; Francis, referred to below.
( III ) b'rancis, son of William (2) and Eliz-
abeth Sayre, died intestate in 1645. He lived
ai Leighton Buzzard, a market town on the
river Ouse, on the borders of Buckingham-
shire, forty-one miles from London and about
thirt}- miles south of Hinwich, the ancient
home of the Sayres. He was a mercer or
"silkman" by trade. He married, November
15. 1 591, Elizabeth Atkins^ who survived him.
Children: ' i. Francis, baptized May 14, 1592.
2. Elizabeth, baptized April 28, 1594; married,
November 27, 1625, Francis Wells. 3. Will-
iam, baptized September 13, 1595: died Ajiril
9. 1598. 4. Thomas, referred to below. 5.
.\lice, baptized September 3, 1598. 6. John,
baptized .August 10, 1600. 7. William, bap-
tized September 19, 1602. 8. .Abel, baptized
September 26, 1604. 9. Daniel, baptized Octo-
ber 23, 1605. 10. Rebecca, baptized April 10,
1608. II. Job, baptized January 13, 1610-11 ;
emigrant to Massachusetts, and after removing
to Southam])ton, Long Island, apparently dis-
ajjpears. 12. Sara, baptized October 4, 1612;
died February 2, 1612-13. 13. Tobias, baptized
STATE OF NEW |ERSi:V
1485
December 15, I'>13; married I'Vanccs ;
cliildrjn. burn at Dunstable: .Mar_\-, Martha
and Haiiiiah.
( l\' ) Thomas, son of Francis and EHzal)cth
( Atkins ) Sayrc. was born in Leighton. wiicrc
he was baptized July 20. 1597. He died in
Southampton. Long Island, in 1670. He lived
at Leighton Buzzard until he was about forty
years old. and then emigrated with his family
t(i America and settled in Lynn. ^Lissachu-
setts, about 1638. and two years later removed
tc Southampton with the company of Rev.
Abraham Pierson. His dwelling is still stand-
ing on the main street of Southampton. The
name of his wife is unknown. Children: i.
Francis, died about December, i()73 : married
Sarah Wheeler. 2. Daniel, died in 1707 or
1708: married (first) Hannah, daughter of
(Christopher and Frances Foster: (second)
Sarah . 3. Joseph, referred to below.
4 Job, died A])ril 1, 1694; married (first)
October 27, 1670, Sarah , who died Oc-
tober 29, 1684; (second) June 18. 16S5. ILan-
nah Raynor, widow of Arthur Howell. 5.
Damaris, married before 1647, David Atwater.
one of the original settlers of Xew Haven,
who was born in 1CM3. and died October 5,
1692. 6. Mary, married, before 1669, Benja-
min Price, one of the Elizabethtown Asso-
ciates. 7. Hannah, under eighteen in 1669. 8.
A daughter, married Edmund Howell (unless
Thomas Sayre had married (second) Eleanor.
widow of Edward and mother of Edmund
Howell).
(\' ) Joseph, son of Thomas Sayre, was born
probably in Bedfordshire, England, and died
in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in December,
1695. He became one of the Elizabethtown
Associates in 1665. signed the petition to the
governor in 1667, and took the oath of allegi-
ance to the Dutch, .September 11, 1673. He
was a tanner and farmer. He married Mar-
February (1. 1737: married-
Price, of
tha . Chililren :
married Hannah
Thomas, died 171 3,
: Daniel, referred to
below ; Ephraim : Sarah.
(\'l) Daniel, son of Josc])h and Martha
Sayre, was a farmer in Elizabethtown. He
died in 1722 or 1723. He married Elizabeth
. Children: i. Daniel, born in No-
vember, 1702; died 1760: married Elizabeth
Lyon. 2. Ephraim, married, June i, 1737,
Elizabeth Lynesson. 3. John, married (first)
Esther Stilwell ; (second) Rachel, daughter of
Jean Le Chevalier, and widow of Francis
Fiowes, of Philadelphia. 4. Ebenezer, died in
1765; married Mary . 5. Jonathan, re-
-Maryland. 7. Sarah. 8. Elizabeth. 9. Han-
nah, married Morris.
(\ 11) Jonathan, son of Daniel and iiliza-
beth Sayre, lived in l-'lizabethtown. New Jer-
sey, where he died between October 15 and
November i. 17(12. lie married Jane W'alms-
ley- Children: i. l'>,ra, referred to laelow.
2. Moses, married (first) .Agnes : and
(second), October 26. 1777, Hnldah .Skinner.
3 Sarah. 4. .Abner, died in .April, 1807 : mar-
ried (first) Sarah ; (second) Joanna
Meeker. 5. Cornelius. 6. Abigail, born in
'75.3 • married, I'ebruary 21. 1770. Daniel Rob-
inson, of W'estfield, New Jersey. 7. Frederick.
8. I-'rank. 9. Hannah. 10. Isaac, born in 1762;
died January 22, 1842 : married .Abigail, daugh-
ter of -Marmaduke and Elizabeth (Marsh)
hunt, referred to above. 11. Lydia.
(\'HI) Ezra, son of Jonathan and Jane
( W'almsley ) Sayre, was born in Elizabethtown,
in 1739, and died in Rah way. New Jersey, Au-
gust 24, 1775. He married. December 5, I7()8,
Jane, daughter of Joseph hVeeman, who after
liis death married. December, 1780. John Will-
iams, who died in 1798. Children: i. Sarah,
referred to Ix'low. 2. Noah, born September
20, 1771 : died October 11, 1848; married
E.sther Crane. 3. Elizabeth, born July 30,
1773; married. December 8, 1810, Jonathan
Rowland. 4. Jennet, born November 23. 1775 ;
died November 30. 1852: married, October 27.
1782, John Connor Jr.
(IN) Sarah, daughter of Ezra and Jane
(P^reeman) .Sayre, was born in Rahway, New
Jersey, September ij , ij(»). and died there
November 16, 1852. She married, at West-
field, June 24, 1792, James, son of Marmaduke
and Elizabeth (Marsh) Hunt, referred to
above.
ferred to below. 6. Jose])h.
1 7 19: died
\\'illiam Daniel Nolan, an active
.VOL.AN factor in the business circles of
Somerville. well known for his
eiiterprising and jjrogressive methods, is a na-
tive of Pleasant Clrove, Morris county, New
Jersey, born November 8, 1880, son of George
and Mary B. (Fisher) Nolan, who were mar-
ried at Pleasant Grove. New Jersey, June 20,
1878, and who were the parents of one other
chikl, (ieorge Ray. born December 3, 1887.
George Nolan served in the ca])acity of fore-
man in a woolen mill; he was a Republican in
I)olitics, and acted as sergeant and second lieu-
tenant with the Third Connecticut Regiment,
.Nineteenth .Army Corps, during the civil war.
Ills wife, Alarv B. (Fisher) Nolan, born
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March 19, 1861, is a daughter of Daniel and
Rachel ( Taylor ) Fisher, and granddaughter of
John and Keziah (Leigh) Fisher. Daniel
Fisher, born in Alt. Lebanon, New Jersey, was
a farmer by occupation, a Republican in poli-
tics and a Methodist in religion ; he was the
father of two children John, Mary B.. afore-
mentioned as the wife of (jeorge "N'olan.
William Daniel Nolan attended the [niljlic
schools of Raritan and Somerville, and subse-
quently was a student at Packard's Business
College, New York. In 1896 he entered the
employ of the Central Railroad of New Jersey,
and continued until 1900, when he became con-
nected with the firm of Jameson & Frelinghuy-
sen, of New York, with whom he remained one
year, after which he entered the employ of
Samuels, Cornwall & Stevens, insurance bro-
kers, serving them until 1907, when he became
a member of the firm of Nolan & Swinton,
with offices at No. i Liberty street. New York
City, and No. 12 West Main street, Somerville,
New Jersey, engaged in the insurance business.
He is a man of excellent executive ability,
enterprise and energy, and has the happy fac-
ulty of making friends of those with whom he
is thrown in business contact. His political
affiliations are with the Republican party, and
he is connected with the Ejjiscopal church. He
is a member of the Patriotic Order Sons of
America, Lodge No. iofi8. Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, of Somerville, Bach-
elor Club of Somerville, and the Somerville
Athletic Club. Mr. Nolan is unmarried.
The Todd family is of Scotch an-
TODD cestry, coming from the north of
Ireland before the revolution with
other Scotchmen to make their homes in the
fertile valleys of Pennsylvania.
( I ) John Todd, sometimes called John Neat-
by Tood, was a lawyer in Philadelphia. Ac-
cording to the census of 1790 he was living on
North street, between Market and Race streets,
Philadelphia, and had in his family one son
under sixteen and three females. There was
also a John Todd of Philadelphia mentioned as
head of a family, having a son over sixteen,
another under that age, and three females.
Whether they were related is not known.
James Todd, son of the lawyer, was head of
family, clerk at the bank, and lived on Chest-
nut street, between Delaware and Sixth streets.
Children of John Todd : James and John,
both mentioned below.
( II ) John Todd ( 2 ) , son of John ( i ) Todd,
was also an attornev at law. He married, in
1790, Dolly Payne, born May 20, 1768, while
her mother was visiting in North Carolina,
daughter of John and Mary (Coles) Payne,
of Hanover county, Virginia. Her parents
were Quakers, joining the Society of Friends
after their marriage; they set free their slaves
and moved to Pennsylvania when Dolly was
about eleven years old. She was educated in
Philadelphia. In 1791, after her father died,
her mother took boarders; in 1793 the mother
left Philadelphia to live with her daughter,
Mrs. George Steptoe Washington, afterwards
with her other daughters. Her choice of a
husband, we are told, met with the full ap-
proval of her parents, and was commended to
them by his high character, which had already
won for him the love, respect and confidence
of his friends. Pie was a young lawyer, tall,
handsome in face and figure, of manly bearing,
inde])endent in means, and well established in
liis profession, and had given every promise of
future eminence at the bar. Her great joy and
hajipiness from her marriage was of but three
brief years duration, and she was then to know
the first sorrows of her life, and in nobly bear-
ing them her own heart was to be softened,
refined, purified and chastened by affliction.
She had two sons — John Payne Todd, born
February 29, 1792, and William Temple Todd,
born 1793. \\ hen the yellow fever epidemic
broke out in I hiladelphia in 1793, Todd re-
moved his wife and son Payne to a place of
safety, and returned to the city bravely to con-
sole, encourage and sustain the sick and dying.
He attended the deathbeds of both father and
mother, victims of the plague, and with a truly
Christian fortitude, yielding not to the solicita-
tions of his devoted wife, remained at his post
of self-imposed and self-sacrificing duty, faith-
ful unto death, answering her protests by say-
ing : "Let what may befall me, these duties
must be done, and after that I will never leave
you again." He returned to her when the
epidemic subsided, and thgn followed a tearful
and heart-breaking scene. The young wife
threw herself into his arms, but he bore with
lum all unconscious the seeds of the dread
disease, and died October 24, 1793, while, she
the adored, having taken the fever, lay at the
[piiint of death for three terrible weeks and
recovered only to find herself bereft of hus-
band and infant. No words of eloquence are
needed to do honor to the husband's memory
and to prove that he was every way worthy
of his noble wife, and richly endowed with
the manly qualities which win and keep a true
woman's heart. His character speaks in the
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details of liis life and death, and the language
of his will is his eulogy, which may well be
quoted: "I give and devise my estate real and
personal to the dear wife of my bosom, and
first and only woman ujion whom my all and
only affections were placed, Dolly Payne Todd
* * * trusting that, as she has proved an
amiable and affectionate wife to her John, she
may prove an aft'ectionate mother to my little
Payne and the sweet babe unborn. "Sly last
prayer is may she educate him in the ways of
honesty, though he may he obliged to beg his
bread, remembering that will be better to him
than a name and riches." His widow married
(second) James Madison, who afterwards be-
came president of the United States, and she
became Dolly Madison, perhaps the most fam-
ous American beauty of her day, the most
distinguished of the wives of American presi-
dents.
(II) James, son of John (i) Todd, was
born in Philadelphia, about 1775. He married
Alice, daughter of Samuel Poultney, who was
a well-known loyalist during the revolution.
Among his children was John Xeatby, men-
tioned below.
(III) John Neatby Todd, son of James
Todd, was born in Philadelphia, about 1789.
He was a purser in the United States navy.
In religion he was a Quaker. He married
Julia Parsons. Children, the first four born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the others in Cam-
bridge, ]\Iassachusetts: i. Julia Parsons, born
1820; married G. H. Scott, admiral. United
States navy. 2. Samuel, born 1822. 3. John,
born 1824. 4. Benjamin Parsons, born 1826:
attorney at law. New 'S'ork City ; married Mary
E. Parsons, daughter of C. S. Parsons, of New
York City. 5. James Madison, born 1835. 6.
William Ro.gers, mentioned below. 7. Henry
Davis, born 1838; United States navy; mar-
ried Flora Johnson, daughter of Chancillor
Johnson, of Annajiolis, Maryland.
( I\' ) \\'illiam Rogers, son of John Neatby
Todd, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
June 15, 1837. He attended the public schools
of Cambridge and of Brooklyn, New York.
He is president of the Quincy Mining Com-
pany. In politics he is a Republican, but has
never held or sought public office. He is a
membe'- of the Episcopal church. Fie married
(first) at Brooklyn, October 2, 1866, Margaret
L. Owens, who was born October 2, 1848. He
married (second) at Brooklyn. June 14. 1S93,
Emily M. Thomas. Children: ji)hn ].. born
1874: William Parsons, born 1877: James
Madison, born 1882.
James Davis, the first member of
D.W IS this family of whom we have defi-
nite inform;ition, was a farmer.
When he was twelve years old he was brought
from the state of Maryland to Port Monmouth,
Moniuoutli county. New Jersey, where he
established himself, and in addition to his
agricultural work interested hiiuself in the
fisheries industry. He was a \\ big and later
a ReiJublican in ])olitics, and served on both
the town committee and as a school trustee.
He married Mary Elenor Roop. Children: i.
James. 2. Elizabeth .Ann. 3. John Harrison,
referred to below. 4. Daniel Roo]). 5. Mary
Elenor. 6. George Washington. 7. Hannah
Maria. 8. Jacob Manchester, y. Maryland
\'irginia. 10. Charles Wilson.
( II ) John Harrison, son of James and Mary
Elenor Davis, was born at Port Monmouth,
Monmouth county. New Jersey, August 22,
1844, and died at Long Branch, Monmouth
county. New Jersey, January 12, 1905. After
leaving school he entered the employ of the
Raritan & Delaware Bay Railroad Company,
now a part of the Central Railroad of New
Jersey. He advanced to the position of engi-
neer, remaining with the railroad company
until May 1904. when he retired to engage in
tlie coal and hardware business at Long Branch,
New Jersey. He was a Republican in politics,
but held no public office. He was a trustee of
the Simpson Memorial Methodist Church at
Long Branch, New Jersey. He married, at
Port Monmouth. New Jersey, December 31,
1868, Anna Wilhelmina, daughter of Daniel
anil Elizabeth Roop, who was born at Port
Monmouth. New Jersey, April 10, 1852, and
is now living at I-ong P)ranch, New Jersey.
Children: I. John Harrison (2), referred to
below. 2. Anna Wilhelmina, born .-\pril i,
1875. 3. Bainbridge Jones, born Alay 28,
1878: married Florence Farley. Children of
Daniel and Elizabeth Roop: i. Rebecca, mar-
ried Theodore Francis. 2. Anna Wilhelmina,
referred to above. 3. Daniel Jacob.
( III ) John Harrison (2), son of John Har-
rison ( I ) and .\nna Wilhelmina ( Roop) Davis,
was born at Manchester (Lakehurst), Ocean
county. New Jersey, July 9, 1873, a"*' 's now
living at Long Branch, New Jersey. He re-
ceived his education in the public schools of
Long Branch, and graduated from the high
school in June. 1892, and then entered on his
(iro.-.perous and successful career in the bank-
ing business. His first position was that of
clerk in the First National Bank, of Long
Branch. New Jersey, which position he secured
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and held fnnii June 24, 1891, until December
31, 1898, when he became one of the organ-
izers of the Citizens' National Bank of Long
Branch, New Jersey,' which opened for busi-
ness March 8. 1899. In this latter institution
Air. Davis took the post of bookkeeper and
served as such until 1904, when he was ap-
pointed assistant cashier, a position which he
held for four years, until he was appointed
cashier in 1908. Mr. Davis is a Republican in
politics, and since 1904 has served as city
treasurer of Long Branch. He is a member of
Abacus Lodge, No. 182, F. and A. M., of Long
Branch; Standard Chapter, No. 35, R. A. M. :
Royal Arcanum, Loyal Association, Improved
Order of Heptasophs, and Long Branch Lodge,
No. 742, B. I'. O. E. He is also a trustee of the
Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church
at Long ISranch. He married in h'reehokl, New
Jersey, October 16, 1895, Alida, daughter of
Matthias and Hannah (Truax) W'oolley, who
was born April 8, 187 1 ( see W'oolley in index ).
No. children.
The Sutphen family may just-
SUTPHEN ly lay claim to considerable
antiquity, representatives hav-
ing come to this country at an early date, and
th.eir careers have been closely and honorably
ioentiiied with the aiTairs of this country. Its
representatives are now numerous and through
many generations have been prominent along
various lines of honorable business endeavor.
( I ) Dirck Sutphen, immigrant ancestor,
born in Holland, landed m America in 1651,
settling at New Utrecht, Long Island. He
married Elizabeth Jans Jacobson, and among
their children was (iuisbert, see forward. He
died 1707.
(II) Ciuisbert. son of Dirck and Elizabeth
Jans (Jacobson) Sutphen, was born in 1693,
at New Utrecht, Long Islaml, where he spent
the greater part of his life, removing from
thence to Monmouth county. New Jersey. He
died August 18, 1763. He inarried Gertrude
Van Pelt, also of New L'trecht, a descentlant
of a well-known family of that section of the
country. Among their children was Guisbert
( see forward ).
(III) Guisbert (2), son of Guisbert (i)
Suti^hen, was born at Alonmouth, August 28,
1720. and died in liedniinster. November 16,
1796. He married Areantie \'an Pelt, Novem-
ber 18, 1743; she died May 31, 1788.
(IV) I'eter, son of Guisbert (2) and Are-
antie ( \"an Pelt) Suti)hen, was born August
i;, 17(>2, at Bedniinster tuwnship, Somerset
county. New Jersey, where he spent his life,
taking an active part in all that pertained to
the welfare of the community in which he re-
sided. He married Catherine, daughter of
Stephen Hunt, and among their children was
Peter, see forward. He died February 4, 1839;
his wife Catherine Hunt died May i, 1831.
( \' ) Peter ( 2 ), son of Peter ( i ) and Cath-
erine (Flunt) Sutphen, was born in Bedminster
t(-\vnship, Somerset county. New Jersey, De-
cember 5, 1800, died January 30, 1875. He
was a prominent farmer and man of afTairs,
active and influential in the advancement and
development of the section in which his life
vvas spent. He married Sarah Smith, August
24, 1834: children: Dr. Joseph, a resident of
Newark. .New Jersey; Artliur Peter, see for-
ward.
(V'l) Arthur Peter, son of Peter (2) and
Sarah ( Smith ) Sutphen, was born in Bed-
minster township, Somerset county. New Jer-
se)', October 3, 1841. He attended the public
school of his native place for about eight years,
acquiring a practical education which qualified
him for the duties of life. Later he removed
tr Somerville, where he has since resided, and
where he has been actively engaged in the
insurance business. He has been honored by
his townspeople, having been elected to serve
in positions of trust and responsibility, serv-
ing in the capacity of justice of peace for twen-
ty-seven years and clerk of the board of free-
holders for thirty-two years, discharging the
duties pertaining thereto to the entire satisfac-
tion iif all concerned. He is also filling the
ofifice of secretary of the Board of Agriculture
and of the Citizens' FJuilding and Loan Asso-
ciation. He attends the First Dutch Reformed
Lhurch, and casts his vote for the candidates
of the Democratic party. He was secretary of
the Somerset Bible Society seventeen years.
He has been pension attoriiey for twenty years.
He holds membership in Lodge No. 82, Knights
of Pythias. Mr. Sutphen married, December
5, 1865, Hannah \"., daughter of Samuel and
Jane (Rue) Potter. Children: Mary, born
.April 20, 1868; (jertrude, died in infancy;
William R., born February 4, 1871 ; Jennie,
I-'ebruary 22. 1874: Sadie, August 8. 1876;
Samuel, September 2j. 1881.
John Smith, son of Martin and
SMITH Charity Smith, was born in Con-
necticut in 1768, and came to
New Jersey at the age of twenty-one and work-
ed at his trade, that of a fuller. Family tradi-
tion says that his ancestors were all of them
STATE OF NKW |I-:RSE^■.
M'S')
coopers. Me married Jane Merlatt. Chililreti :
liannah : J olni, i\- ferred to below ; I 'cU-r ; J anc ;
George; Henry; Rebecca.
(II) Jobn (2), son of John ( i ) and Jane
(Merlatt) Smith, was born in Readinglon,
Hunterdon county, New Jersey, about 1815.
He attended the common schools of his local-
ity, and then learned the trade of cooper, .-\fter
his marriage he settled down on a farm, which
he managed in addition to his coojierage busi-
ness. He was a Democrat in politics, and a
member of the Dutch Reformed Church at
Readington. He married Rachel .\., daughter
of ]larman Lane, Sejjtember 15, 1836, orig-
inally Laen, or Eanen. and a descendant of old
Tennis Lanen \'an Pelt, of Amsterdam. Chil-
dren : Abraham Lane; AJary J.; Sarah A.;
Harriet : John S. ; David J., referred to below,
( HI ) David J., son of John (2) and Rachel
A. (Lane) Smith, was born in Readington,
New Jersey, March 17, 1853, ^'^^1 '*" t^'^^ living
at Raritan. New Jersey, After receiving his
education in the ]niblic schools he began when
fifteen years old to work on the farm of John
Moreliead, He remained here one year, and
then went to help his brother, for whom he
worked for two years. He then learnt the
trade of mason and set up for himself a^; a
builder and contractor in New York, Brook-
lyn and I-'lushing, Long Lsland. He has built
many notable buildings, among them being the
Beardsley residence at h'latbush. Long Island,
the Flemington National Itank, J. E. r.road-
head's residence at Flemington, J. H. Smith's
residence at Somerville, the Somerville woolen
mills, the Jackson building at Plainfield, the
First National Bank of Somerville, and many
business offices for the Central Railroad of
New Jersey and other corporations. His most
notable feat was the buikling for J. B. Duke
at Raritan, a stone barn one hundred and fifty
feet long by fifty feet wide in twenty-nine days,
when he was obliged to send fifteen miles into
the mountains and away from the railroads
for his stone he needed. In 1903, after build-
ing and superintending the masonry contracts
for a number of other outbuildings for Afr.
Duke. Air. Smith accejited the position of sup-
erintendent of Mr. Duke's large estate of seven-
teen hundred acres, which is one of the most
beautiful properties in New Jersey, and cni-
])loys about four hundred persons to take care
of it. Mr. Smith has therefore, as lie says,
"little time for politics," but he always votes
the Re])ublican ticket. He is a member of the
Dutch Reformed Church. He married, No-
vember 28, 1875, Mary, daughter of Jacob R.
ruiil .\l;iry ( Ivlmonds ) Sheets. Child: Jacob
R., referred to below.
(I\') Jacob R., son of David J. and Mary
( Sheets) Smith, was born in .Stanton, Hunter-
don county. .New Jersey, .Vugust 27, 1877, and
i- now living in .Somerville, New Jersey. I""or
hi.-, early education he was sent to the Som-
eiville public schools, and afterwards served
an a])prenticeship with his father in the con-
tracting and building trade, lie then became
one of the subcontractors for the subway sys-
tem of .New York City, and this occupied his
time and energies for five years. He then went
to Somerville, New Jersey, and entered mto
partnershiji with Mr. Barras, and since then
the firm of Barras iJt Smith, which still does a
most prosperous and successful business, has
become well known through the numerous im-
portant buildings they have constructed. .Mr.
Smith is regarded as a man of fine judgment
and business ability, but is quiet and reserved.
He is a Republican in politics, and a member
of the Dutch Reformed Church of Stanton.
He is a member of Solomon Lodge, No. 4O,
F. and A. M., and of Lodge, No. 1068, B. P.
O. E. He married, June. 12, iQoi, Rose,
daughter of Hugh Johnson.
\\ illiam Jerome Davis, a member
D.WIS of the New Jersey bar and a rep-
resentative citizen of Harrison, in
that state, is descended from two of New Jer-
sey's oldest and most honored families, Davis
and Sandford. One of the earliest members
of the Davis family of New Jersey was Jacobie
Davis, a'ho resided in Asbury, Hunterdon
county, where his son .A.aron was born Octo-
ber 2^. 1775. Jacobie Davis was great-great-
grandfather of William Jerome Davis. His
son, Aaron Davis, the great-grandfather of
William J. Davis, was a cousin of William
Davis, who in 1771 was the owner of all the
territory where the village of .Arlington, Kear-
ney township, Hudson county, now stands.
.Aaron Davis, married, July 10, 1796, Afolly
( Alary ) Williamson, ilaughter of Captain
Williamson, an extensive slave holder: she was
born July 15. 1776. Children of .Aaron and
Alary (Williamson) Davis: Rebecca, Eliza,
Rebecca (2(1), Alark W., Harriet, Charles R..
and John and John .A. Davis.
.Aaron Davis resided in Hope, Warren coun-
ty. New Jersey, where his death occurred July
27, 1830. in his si.xty-fourth year. His son.
Alark W. Davis, grandfather of William J.
Davis, was born in Ilojie township, Warren
county. Alarch 4, 1804, and he made that his
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residence until he removed to Harrison town-
ship, Hudson county, where he purchased a
large farm and entered into the cattle business,
also conducting a hotel which was a noted
stopping place for Western drivers. He mar-
ried, February 9, 1826, Ann Reed, of the same
township, by whom he had three children — •
Irene M., who became Mrs. George W. Cross ;
Hiram W., of whom presently ; and Jerome B.
Davis. Through Joseph Davis, who was born
in 1716, and other issue of Caleb Davis, who
married Ruth Bruen, daughter of Joseph
Bruen, the Davis family of to-day is able to
trace its lineage through the Bruens to some of
the best, noblest and even royal blood of ancient
Elngland and France. This line is so interest-
ing in itself as to warrant presenting here.
Beginning with Cedric, who invaded Eng-
land in 495 and died 534, the descent runs as
follows. Creoda, Cyneric, Ceawlin, Cuthwine,
Ciitha, Ceowald, Cenred, Inglid, who died in
718: Eoppa, Eafa, Eathmund, Egbert, Ethel-
wulf, who died in 857: and Alfred the Great,
King of England, who was born in 849 and
died in 901. Alfred's daughter Elfrida was
married to Baldwiji H., the Bald, who was de-
scended in a direct line from Pepin the Old,
of France, born about 560 and died in 639.
Pepin was the father of Begga. born in 638,
who had Pepin le Gros, born about 650 and
died in 714. Pepin le Gros's famous son,
Charles Martel, born about 690 and died in
741, was the father of Pepin the Short, born
about 715 and died in September, 768, and
grandfather of the great monarch, Charle-
magne, who was born April 2, 742, and died
January 28, 814. Charlemagne's son, Louis
le Debonnaire, born in 778 and died June 20,
840, was the father of Charles H. the Bald,
who was born in 823 and died in October, 877.
The latter's daughter, Judith, became the wife
of Baldwin 1.. who died in 877, and the mother
of Baldwin II. the Bald, who, as noted, mar-
ried Alfred the Great's daughter, Elfrida.
Arnolf I., the Old, son of Baldwin II. and
Elfrida, was born before 874 and died March
27, 964. becoming the father of Baldwin III.,
who died January 17, 961, the latter's son,
Arnolf II. the Young, son of Baldwin III.,
dying March 30, 989, left a son. Eialdwin I\'.,
known as Pulchra Barba (Comely Beard), who
d'ed May 10, 1036. Comely Beard's son, Bald-
win \ .. who died September I, 1067, had a
daughter Matilda, who married William the
Con(|ueror. born November 2, 1033, and died
September g. 10S7. Their daughter Adela be-
came the wife of Stephen de Blois, who was
born in 1081 and died in iioi, and their son,
William de Blois, adopted his wife's name, de
Sulli, his daughter, Margaret de Sulli, marry-
ing Henry de Eu, who was born before 1084
and died July 12, 1140. The last named couple
had a son, John de Eu, born before 1120 and
died 1 170, whose son, Henry de Eu, was born
before 1150 and died in 1183. Alix, daughter
of Henry de Eu, married Ralph de E.xodun,
who was born before 1172, and died in 1219.
Their daughter, Matilde, married Humphrey
de Bohun, who died September 24, 1275, and
whose daughter, Alice, became wife of Ralph
dc Tony. Alice, daughter of Ralph de Tony,
was born in 1285 and died in 1325. She mar-
ried (iuy de Beauchamp, who was born in 1272
and died August 12, 1315. They had a daugh-
ter, Maud de Beauchamp, who married Geof-
frey de Say, born in 1305 and died June 26,
1356. Idonea de Say, daughter of Geoffrey
de Say, married Sir John de Clinton, who was
born in 1323 and died in 1397, their daughter,
Margaret Clinton, marrying Sir Baldwin de
Montfort. wdio died about 138(1, leaving a son.
Sir William wlio died December 31, 1453.
Robert de Montfort, son of Sir William de
Montfort, had a daughter, Katherine de Mont-
fort, who married George Booth, who died in
1483, and their son. Sir William Booth, died
November 9, 15 19. Jane Booth, daughter of
Sir William Booth, married Thomas Holford,
who died September 24, 1569. and had a daugh-
ter. Dorothy Holford, who married John
Bruyn, who was born in 1510 and died jMaj
14, 1587, leaving a son, John Bruyn or Bruen,
who was born in 1560 and died January 18,
1625. Obadiah Bruen, son of the second John
I'ruen, was born in 1606 and had a son. John
p.ruen. born in 1646, whose son, Joseph Bruen,
born in 1667, was the father of Ruth Bruen,
wife of Caleb Davis.
It is through his mother, Emma L. (San-
ford ) Davis, that W' illiam Jerome Davis is a
direct descendant from Captain William Sand-
ford, founder of the New Jersey branch of the
family of Sandford. The family bearing the
name in different forms as Sontford, Sonforde,
Sanford or Sandford, came to England with
William the Conqueror, and the name of its
founder occurs in every known copy of the
"Battle Abbey Roll." The estate was confis-
cated by Parliament and the representatives
of the family came to America. Captain Sand-
ford came from Barbadoes, West Indies, in
the seventeenth century and on July 4, i(i88.
located in Union, New Jersey, settling on a
purchase estimated to contain five thousand
STATE OF NEW TKRSEV,
1491
three hundreil and eight acres of uphiml and
ten thousand acres of meadow. He had enough
influence to give the name of Xew llarbadiK'S
to the township in which Ilackensack. the
capital of the county, is situated. He lived
in Xewark in 1675, and was a member of the
Newark council in 168 1 and 1684. He must
have owned considerable ])roperty and have
erected a number of buildings at East Newark,
now a part of Newark itself, for in 1680 his
place was known as "Santfort, an English vil-
lage opposite Milfort." Captain Sandford
came to this country in the interest of Stephen
Kingsland, who owned large possessions in
New Jersey. B}' his will, dated March 14,
1685. Kingsland gave one-third of his lands
in New Jersey, consisting of about three thous-
and four hundred and two acres, to his nejihew,
Isaac Kingsland, the other two-thirds going
to his children — John, Nathaniel, Isabella, wife
of Henry Harding; Caroline, wife of John
Barroe Jr. ; ;\Iary, wife of William W'alley ;
and Esther, wife of Henry Applethwaite.
It will thus be seen that Captain Sandford,
in addition to his own extended properties,
had important interests to look after in acting
for the Kingslands. By Isaac Kingsland's will,
dated January I, 1697-9, Ednumd Kingsland,
his oldest son, received one-third of his planta-
tion, about one thousand one hundred and
thirty-four acres, part of which tract was sold
by Edmund Kingsland, to Arent Schuyler,
April 20, 1710 for £330. By will dated July
29, 1741, proved July 26. 1742, Edmund Kings-
land gave to his son. William Kingsland. three
hundred acres next adjoining Schuyler's tract,
and also-one-third of the meadow and one-
third of the cedar swamp. His son, Edmund
Roger Kingsland, received the remainder of
his realty. This latter devise was burdened
with the payment of certain legacies, and in
case they were not paid within one year, then
the property devised should go to his son, Isaac
Kingsland, with the same burdens. The devisee
refused to accept, and on September 10. 1743,
Isaac Kingsland accepted the devise, and by
his will, dated March 3, 1776. and proved Au-
gust 23, 1783, gave to his son. Abraham Kings-
land, one-half of all his lands and divided the
remainder among his other children. Isaac, Jo-
seph, diaries, .Aaron. Sarah and Rachel Kings-
land. John Kingsland. by will dated .August
18, 1763, proved August 10, 1768. gave the
north half of his lands to his .son, Richard
Kingsland. The other half was divided among
his children. Elizabeth, Hester, wife of Peter
r.utlcr: h'.dmund, and hi> grandson, John, son
of Isaac Kingsland.
Captain Sandford m;irried, March 27, 1677,
Sarah Wharton, "on board the pink 'Susan.' in
the river Surinam." 1 le left all of his property
to his widow Sarah. His children were Nede-
mia, Elizabeth, (Irace, Katherine, William and
Peregrine Sandford. I!y her will, dated June
8, 1708, ])roved June 23. 1719, she gave to her
daughter Katherine, wife of Johannis \'an Em-
burgh, three hundred acres of woodland and
one hundred acres of meadow; and to Eliza-
beth, wife of James Davis, three hundred
acres of land. To her son. Major William
Sandford. she gave the farm of three hundred
acres, with the meadow, for life, then to his
son, William Sandford, in fee. He also re-
ceived the residue of her lands. Major Will-
iam Sandford married, February i, i6r)6, Sarah
Smith. They had several children, among
them being Michael Sandford, who married
Mary Dey. Another son, David Sandford,
who was interred in the Belleville graveyard,
llelleville. New Jersey, was the grandfather
of William J. Davis, on the maternal side.
By will dated February 24, 1732, and proved
April 16, 1733, William Sandford (2d), gave
to his son, Richard Sandford, one-half of the
C edar Swamp, and the other half to his daugh-
ters, Frances, Jennie and Anne Sandford.
This XN'illiam Sandford (2d) was baptized in
November, 1(396, and died in 1730. By will
dated February 22, 1749, William Sandford
(3d) gave to his only son, William Sandford,
all his lands, consisting of three hundred acres
rough land, and one hundred and fifty acres
(if meadow. This was the farm mentioned in
his grandmother's will, and in all probability
lavs where East Newark now is. Peregrine
Sandford, son of Major William Sandford, by
will dated November 6, 1 740, proved June 14,
1730, gave his lands to his children, Enoch,
'\Villiam. Jane, Aggie and Elizabeth Sandford.
It is interesting also to note in this connec-
tion that a part of the Sandford tract, luiques-
tionably the farm and meadow mentioned in
Sarah Sandford's w^ill, was purchased by Colo-
nel Peter Schuyler, and thenceforth called
Petersborough. By his will, dated March 21,
1761, proved May 28, 1762, Schuyler gave this
land to his only child. Catharine Schuyler, wife
of .Archibald Kennedy. Earl of Casselis. Ken-
ned v and his wife conveyed to James Duane.
Tune 13. 1763, the farm on New Barbadoes
Neck (Petersborough) and two tracts near
Secaucus. between the line of Bergen lots and
My-'
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
rinliornc's creek and Cronikill, as well as Colt>
nel Schuyler's interest in the "commons" in
trust t(ir themselves. Duane reconveyed to
them and to the survivor, June 15, 1765. The
earl outlived his wife, and by will dated June
IS' i7''5' l^ft his ].)roperty in America to his
sons, John and Rcjhert Kennedy. The inter-
est of John Kennedy passed to Robert Ken-
nedy, and the latter in 1803 sold the tract
where East Newark now is to William Halsey,
a lawyer of Newark, now without a living rep-
resentative of his name. It was then a part
of what was known as "Kennedy's P'arm." In
1804 the name was changed to "Lodi," now
Harrison. Halsey laid out a part of his jiur-
chase into ninety building lots of at least one
acre each. Arent Schuyler, by will dated Decem-
ber 17, 1724, proved July 6 1732, gave his lands
on New IJarbadoes Neck to his son, John Schuy-
ler, who left them to his s(.)n, Arent Schuyler,
from whom they have descended to his grand-
children, Arent, Jacob R. Schuyler and others.
Hiram W. Davis, son of Mark W. and Ann
(Read) Davis, and father of William Jerome
Davis, was liorn I''ebruary q. 1829, in Hope
township, Warren county, New Jersey, wdiere
his early boyhood was spent, and died in Har-
rison, August 22. 1876. In 183Q. when he
was ten years old, he removed with his parents
to Hudson count}- and there continued at
school until his father constructed a plant for
diving and wrecking, when the son joined with
him in an effort to recover the lost steamer
"Lexington," in which they were partially suc-
cessful. On tlie completion of this enterprise
young Davis resumed his studies for a time,
ill the meantime assisting his father in various
I'ndertakings and finding his time and atten-
tion greatly occupied with interests of a gen-
eral character. The elder Davis had invested
much of his surplus earnings in real estate,
al! of which was eventually inherited liy the
son, who became a man of aft'airs, the care
of this estate absorbing his time and preclud-
ing the conducting of other operations, aside
from the purchase and sale of real estate, in
which field he gained distinction as a success-
ful promoter.
In 1873 Mr. Davis disposed of much of his
land holdings to the East Newark Land Com-
pany, reserving certain holdings in East New-
ark, and three acres in Harrison, now the fam-
ily residence and formerly occupied by his
widow and children. On the first named tract
is erected the Davis Memorial Church, in
which Mr. Davis manifested much interest antl
to which he made liberal contributions. He
was a member of the old Whig party, later
becoming a Republican, his ultimate allegiance
being to the jirinciples of Democracy. He was
an active worker in the field of politics, and he
lield the office of freeholder for successive
terms during important periods. The county
of Hudson is indebted to him for many valu-
able services. He was inlluential in obtaining
a free bridge between his own and Esse.x coun-
ties, and he was also a member of the building
committee for the erection of the Hudson
ci'Unty penitentiary, taking an earnest and
].rominent part in the prosecution and comple-
tii.m of the work. He was one of the incor-
porators of the East Newark Gas Light Com-
pany, and active in other public enterprises
that called for both executive ability and public
spirit. He possessed a genial nature, was
benevolent without ostentation, and enjoyed
the esteem and confidence of the community
throughout his life. He married, November
25, 1851, Emma L. Samlford, daughter of
David Sandford, of Hudson county. Tiieir
children are : Mark W. ; Mary Celeste ; Annie
E., wife of George L. Blake; William Jerome,
cif whom presently; Mary Celeste (2d) ; Irene
M.. wife of Theodore Cuyler : Noe ; and Emma
C, wife of Eddie Pahner.
William Jerome Davis was born November
9, 1858, in Harrison, New Jersey, wdiere he
still resides, although his interests extend far
beyond the boundaries of his native place. He
was educated in the Hackettstown Seminary,
afterward entering Yale College, of which he
was a graduate. ."Xfter the completion of his
studies, he entered the law office of Hon. Will-
iam Tirinkerhofi' as a student, and was admit-
ted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney in
1884, since which time he has practiced con-
tinuously in Harrison and Jersey City. He
has [jroved successful as a lawyer, and might
liave won high rank in that profession, so de-
cided was his ability, but his business interests
have branched out until to-day he is promi-
nently identified in banking circles and has
large interests m North Jeisey. He was a di-
rector in and connected with several of the
tiollev lines of Essex and Hudson counties,
and is counsel for a number of manufacturing
corporations. Ele is i.iresident of the Martin
Act Commissioners of the towns of Harrison
and Kearney, and he is also a member of the
Sinking Fund Commissioners, and is one of
the commissioners appointed by Governor
\'oorhees to consider the advantage of consoli-
dating all the towns and cities in Hudson coun-
ty into one large municijtality.
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I'.RSEV
1493
lie has accomplished praiseworthy work in
hi.- county as ])ari< comniissiuner, being instru-
mental in having the public jsark act passed in
the legislatiu'e, enabling Hudson comity to
secure parks the same as Essex comity. After
a hard contest the bill was passed with a ref-
erendum clause, which was carried by a large
majority of tlie jK-oplc. The act was taken into
court, and the court of errors and appeals of
New Jersey sustained it. Mr. Davis was ap-
pointed on the board of commissioners by Hon.
Jolin A. Blair, and when the body organized
he w-as chosen as vice-president of the board
?.nd later its president, which position he has
since occupied. Under his progressive and
able efforts and w-ith the co-operation of the
other members of the board, the system of
Hudson county parks is being pushed as rapid-
ly as possible, -and it is safe to say will in the
end not be excelled by any other similar system
in the country. Air. Davis has also been a])-
pointed by Governor Fort to recommend to
tlie legislature of Xew Jersey a method of tax-
ing trust companies and bank stocks of tlie
state.
He was one of the organizers of the West
Hudson County Trust Company, which met
with marked success in its operations, and of
which institution he is now president. He
was president of the East Newark Gas Light
Company and the Hudson Electric Light Com-
pany, before these two corporations were
merged into the Public Service Corporation,
and he is now counsel for several building and
loan associations. He holds membership in
the Union League Club and the Harrison and
Kearney Campaign Clubs. He has been de-
scribed by a biographer as "a type of citizen
that helps a comnnmity : he takes part in local,
state and national jiolitical affairs for no other
reason than that he enjoys getting into the
fight for what he thinks is best for the people.
Notwithstanding his political activity, Mr.
Davis has never sought an elective office, but.
on the other hand, has brushed aside the earn-
est solicitations of his friends who have sought
to have him run for public office." Mr. Davis
has attended the last five Republican national
conventions as delegate or alternate. During
national campaigns he has been at the head of
the organization in \\'est Hudson countv.
.Abraham Soverel (or .Sover-
SO\'EREL hill, as he wrote it), progeni-
tor of the Xew Jersey family
by that name, was according to family tradi-
tion of Welsh extraction and born Jidy 15,
171(1. lie emigrated from England in 173O
ti' .\'e\v Jersey with an ex])loring and mining
comp;my. It is stated that he came from a
mining family in Fngland, doubtless having
leai'ned thai trade while in his native land.
Some time |)rt-vious to liis emigrating to this
coimtr)-, co])per mining was being developed
in the Dodcltown district of the Oranges and
other near localities in Xew Jersey. On the
John Dodd farm on .Second river, in the rear
of the spot where in later years tlie chapel
building stood, a shaft was sunk. The same com-
pany with which .Soverhill was connected also
operated mines at Hellville and he was inter-
ested with the company, .-\fter considerable
money had been exjiended in the development
and operating of the mines, the project proved
a poor investment, as the company in England
reserved all rights and held the major share of
the profits, leaving only a small margin to
those actually engaged in the work, conse-
quently these mines were abandoned by those
in charge, among 
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