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"Long  after  Fort  Sumter  shall  have  crumbled  away, 
brightly  will  stand  forth  the  example  of  Anderson  as 
that  of  a  soldier  true  to  his  standard,  and  of  an  Ameri- 
can true  to  his  country." 


Historic  Homes  and  institutions 


Genealogical  and  Family  History 


NEW  YORK 


WILLIAM  S.  PELLETREAU,  A.M. 

Mfiiiber  of  Loiik  Island   Historical   Society;  Aiulior  of  "Old  New  York   Ho 
••Early  Long  Island  Wills,"  ■' Records  ot  Soutlianipton,   Lont;  Island,' 
••  History  of  Sniitlitown.   Long  Island,"  etc.,  etc. 


"//   /,s-  a  thing  of  no  small  iinpdrlain-r  Id  possess  llic  relics  of  our  ain-rstors.  Ii 
practice  the  same  sacred  riles,  and  to  he  hurled  hy  their  side." — Cicero, 


ILLUSTRATED 


VOLUME    I 


THE  LEWIS  PUBLISHING  COMPANY 

NEW   YORK  CHICAGO 

1907 


2  1118109 

3  CONTENTS 

CHAPTER  I. 
T 1 1 K   Discovery    1 

I                                          (MIAPTKH  II. 
X,  The    Settlement    7 

^\ 
P                                           ClIAPTKH   III. 
The  Dutch  Governors   18 

!  CHAPTER  IV. 


^^-^' 
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TiiK  Topography  of  the  Early  City 27 

CHAPTER  V. 
The  First  New  York  Directory 37 


CHAPTER  VI. 

The  First  Letters  I'Rom  New  Netherland 52 


CHAPTER  VII. 
Fort   Amsterdam    62 

CHAPTER  VIII. 
The  Dutch  Church    75 


NTRODUCTION 


The  nriinbcr  of  l)i)oks,  reiating  to  the  history  of  New  York, 
which  have  been  written  in  recent  years,  l)y  no  means  exhaust 
the  suljject.  To  do  st)  would  i-etfaire  a  series  of  vohunes  hirger 
tlian  tlie  encyclopaedias,  and  far  more  numerous.  Some  of  the 
most  valuable  works  are  monographs  upon  i)articular  sub- 
jects, admirably  written  and  carefully  prepared,  and  in  some 
cases  lasting  memorials  to  the  names  of  the  authors.  The  great 
characteristic  of  the  city  has  ItcMi  its  constant  change.  In  con- 
versation with  r.ri  aged  man  he  informed  us  that  he  had  seen 
houses  built  in  the  days  of  Peter  Stuyvesaut,  and  within  his 
recollection  evei-y  house  scmtli  of  Wall  street  had  been  destroyed 
or  rebuilt.  The  same  may  be  said  of  families.  (Jf  the  "Knick- 
erbocker" names  found  in  the  list  made  by  Dominie  Selyns, 
scarcely  a  tithe  remains,  and  c'ln  be  found  in  our  present  city 
directories.  Their  descendants  however  still  remain  in  collateral 
branches  and  are  proud  of  their  "Knickerbocker"  descent, 
though  no  longer  bearing  the  ani'ient  immes.  The  most  i)rom- 
inent  descendants  of  the  Bayards  are  not  Bayards,  and  the 
wealthiest  and  most  distinguished  descendants  of  the  famous 
Governor  of  New  Anjsterdam,  are  not  Stuyvesants.  If  within 
the  limits  of  these  volumes  any  new  facts  have  been  given,  or  if 
anything  can  l)e  found  which  would  otherwise  have  been  lost, 
the  olgect  of  the  author  will  be  fully  satisfied.  It  has  been 
our  desire  to  embrace  as  many  families  as  possible  who  have 
been  connected  with  the  advancement  of  the  city,  whether  they 
are  of  the  ancient  race,  or  newer  arrivals.     On  the  other  hand, 


INTRODUCTION 

the  ancient  families  fill  a  laiger  space,  and  genealogy  has  been 
made  a  conspicuous  feature.  It  will  doubtless  be  noticed  that 
some  of  the  most  prominent  families  are  "conspicuous  by  their 
absence,"  Imt  their  history  has  so  often  been  written,  that  it 
wcmM  be  imjiossible  to  make  any  valuable  addition. 

AViLLIAM   S.   PeLLETREAU. 

Southampton,  Tj.   I. 


Genealogical  and  Family  History. 


CHAPTER  I. 

THE  DISCOVERY. 

The  discovery  of  America  is  the  bouudary  between  the  Mid- 
dle Ages  and  modern  history.  A  numerous  train  of  adventurers 
followed  the  track  that  the  great  Columbus  had  shown,  and  for 
a  while  the  governments  of  Spain  and  Portugal  were  the  rulers 
of  all  that  was  known  as  the  Western  World.  The  Pope,  in  the 
p)lenitude  of  his  tlien  existing  jiower,  assimied  tlie  authority  to 
divide  between  these  two  nations  all  lands  not  yet  discovered, 
and  greed  for  gold,  which  was  the  insiiiring  spirit  of  their  ad- 
venture, soon  led  to  the  conquest  of  those  lands  which  abound- 
ed with  precious  metals  and  promised  boundless  wealth  to  the 
conquerors  in  return  for  their  exposure  and  toil.  But  the  true 
nature  of  the  newly  discovered  lands  was  not  known  till  long 
years  after.  To  the  early  Spani'^h  voyagers,  America  was  but 
a  distant  portion  of  the  Indies,  and  the  name  of  Indians,  which 
was  given  to  the  inhabitants,  took  its  origin  from  this  error, 
which  though  long  since  exploded,  is  still  perpetuated  in  memory 
by  the  name  which  is  likely  to  endui-e  when  the  last  relic  of  abor- 
iginal life  has  vanished  from  the  continent. 

When  at  last  it  dawned  u]ion  the  minds  of  Europeans  that 
America  was  indeed  a  continent  which  interposed  between  them 
and  the  Indies,  it  then  became  the  object  of  search  to  find  a  ])ass- 
age  through  or  around  the  new  found  lands,  which  should  be  a 


2  GEXEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

shorter  route  to  that  tai'  distant  hind.  It  was  for  this  purpose 
that  every  l)a\"  and  river  ahing-  the  Athmtic  coast  was  carefully 
explored  in  tlie  vain  hope  that  some  one  of  them  might  be  the 
anxiously  souglit  for  passage  to  the  far-off  South  Sea,  across 
wliich  their  vessels  might  sail  to  what  was  then  the  synonym  of 
wealtli,  the  Indies. 

The  power  of  Spain  and  Portugal  precluded  all  attemjjts  on 
the  parts  of  the  northern  nations  to  make  discoveries  in  South 
Amei-ica,  or  to  tlie  south  of  Florida,  the  story  of  whose  discov- 
ery by  the  lieroic  adventurer,  in  his  vain  quest  for  the  fountain 
of  youth,  seems  a  fragment  from  the  realm  of  fable.  But  expe- 
ditions from  France  and  England  soon  found  their  way  to  the 
northern  coasts  of  the  Xew  World,  and,  in  1524,  Giovanno  da 
^^erazzano,  a  Florentine  navigating  in  the  service  of  Francis  II 
of  France,  made  a  voyage  along  the  eastern  coast  of  what  are 
now  the  southern  and  middle  states  of  the  Union,  and,  from  the 
account  which  he  gave,  it  was  long  believed  that  he  was  the  first 
to  enter  the  harbor  of  Xew  York.  The  researches  of  modern  his- 
torians have  done  much  to  thiow  doubt  upon  the  claims  of  dis- 
covery attril)nted  to  him.  It  is  certain  that  no  results  followed 
his  discoveries,  no  colonies  were  planted,  and  for  long  years  his 
voyage  seems  to  have  been  forgotten.  In  the  year  1497  Sel^as- 
tian  Cabot,  a  navigator  in  the  service  of  England,  sailed  along 
the  American  coast  from  the  oSth  to  the  58th  parallel.  This  was 
the  origin  to  the  English  claim  which  was  destined  in  after  years 
to  be  sustained  Ijy  the  strong  arm  of  military  and  naval  power, 
the  benefits  ot  which  we  as  a  nation  now  enjoy. 

It  remains  to  state  tlie  circumstances,  under  which  the  Dutch 
became  the  founders  of  the  first  settlement  of  the  territory  now 
com])rising  the  state  of  Xew  York.  An  association  of  merchants 
was  established  in  Holland,  having  for  its  object  the  long  cher- 
ished  scheme  of  finding  a   route  to  China.      The  Comi)any   of 


GEXEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  3 

Foreign  Countries  had,  in  the  year  1594,  equipped  three  vessels 
to  make  the  search.  After  a  long  and  tedious  voyage  they  re- 
turned without  success.  In  1595  seven  more  vessels  tried  the 
same  experiment,  but  with  no  better  success.  The  next  year  the 
Council  of  Amsterdam  undertook  the  enterprise,  and  sent  two 
vessels  on  the  hopeless  search.  One  of  these  was  shipwrecked 
on  the  stormy  coast  of  Nova  ZenibUi,  and  its  pilot,  the  famous 
Barentz,  found  a  watery  grave,  while  the  other  returned,  driven 
back  as  it  were  by  the  Spirit  of  the  Storms  that  seemed  to  guard 
the  entrance  to  the  Eastern  World. 

A  sudden  change  in  the  direction  of  these  attempts  was  soon 
after  made  by  an  unlooked  for  circumstance.  One  Cornelius 
Houtman,  "a  shrewd  Hollander,"  being  in  Portugal,  took  occa- 
sion to  gain  all  the  information  he  could  from  the  navigators  of 
that  country  respecting  the  Indies,  and  especially  concerning 
the  newly  discovered  route  around  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope.  Be- 
ing looked  upon  with  sus]jicion,  he  was  arrested  and  fined.  As 
the  paAnnent  of  the  fine  was  beyond  his  means,  he  wrote  to  sev- 
eral merchants  in  Amsterdam,  narrating  the  circumstances,  and 
proposing  that  if  they  would  pay  the  fine,  he,  in  return,  would 
communicate  to  them  the  iuformation  he  had  gained.  This  of- 
fer was  accejited.  and  in  1595,  a  fleet  of  four  vessels  sailed  from 
the  Texei,  under  the  connnand  of  Houtman  and  others,  bound 
on  the  southern  route  to  the  Indies.  At  the  expiration  of  two 
years  and  four  months  they  returned  with  their  object  accom- 
])lished.  and  richly  laden  with  the  ])]-oducts  of  that  far-off  land. 
The  success  of  this  enterprise  led  to  the  formation  of  other  com- 
panies, and  the  rivahy  between  them  was  so  great  that  in  1602 
it  was  rendered  necessary  to  unite  them  all.  and  hence  the  origin 
of  the  great  Dutch  Kast  India  Corii])any,  which  in  after  years 
astonished  all  Europi-  with  its  extensive  power  and  dominion. 


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GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 


lu  the  meaiiwliile  a  company  had  been  formed  in  London 
for  the  purpose  of  exjiloring  the  Arctic  for  a  new  route  to 
China.  To  accomplisli  this  they  phmned  three  expeditions — 
one  to  the  north,  one  to  the  northeast  and  the  third  to  the  north- 
west. To  condnet  these  ex])editions  they  employed  Henry  Hud- 
son, "a  man  about  whom  we  have  all  of  us  heard  so  much  and 


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The  Half  Moon. 

know  SO  little,"  but  who  has  left  a  name  as  enduring  as  any  on 
the  rolls  of  fame.  In  the  employ  of  this  company  he  made  two 
voyages,  both  of  which  were  unsuccessful,  and  thej'  declined  to 
take  any  further  risk,  and  refused  to  equip  the  expedition  for  a 
third  voyage.  Hudson  then  went  to  Holland,  and  after  some  ef- 
fort enlisted  their  sympatliies  in  favor  of  his  scheme.  The  Am- 
sterdam Directors  finally  succeeded  in  getting  a  majority  of 
votes  in  its  favor,  and  they  fitted  out  a  small  vessel  called  the 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  5 

"Half  Moon,"  and  gave  the  command  to  Hudson,  the  whole  of 
whose  life,  as  known  to  us,  is  embraced  in  the  short  period  from 
April  19,  1607,  to  June  21,  1611.  The  terms  upoii  which  he  made 
the  voyage,  so  famous  in  its  results,  show  too  plainly  not  only 
the  economical  shrewdness  of  the  Directors,  but  his  own  neces- 
sities as  well.  For  his  outfit  and  for  the  support  of  his  wife  and 
children  he  was  to  receive  a  sum  equivalent  to  $320.  If  he  did 
not  live  to  return  his  wife  was  to  have  $80,  while,  if  he  was  suc- 
cessful, the  Directors  were  "to  reward  him  in  their  discretion." 
Thus  started  by  the  Dutch  East  India  Company  he  sailed  from 
the  Texel  on  May  6,  1609,  with  a  crew  of  twenty  men  who  were 
partly  English  and  partly  Dutch.  After  a  long  and  tedious  voy- 
age he  arrived  upon  our  shores,  and  on  the  12th  of  September 
entered  the  Bay  of  Xew  York,  as  a  new  discoverer. 

"His  bark  the  only  ship, 
Where  a  thousand  now  are  seen." 

On  the  next  day  he  commenced  his  sail  up  the  river  that 
bears  his  name.  The  sailing  up  the  river  was  mostly  drifting 
with  the  tide  and  anchoring  when  it  ebbed.  The  first  day  it 
seems  as  if  eleven  and  a  half  miles  were  sailed,  and  the  first  an- 
chorage was  nearly  opposite  Spuyten  Duyvil  creek.  From  that 
place  was  visible  a  high  point  of  land  "bearing  north  by  east," 
and  about  five  leagues  distant.  This  is  supposed  to  be  the 
Hoek  mountain,  above  Nyack.  This  was  called  by  the  Dutch, 
in  later  years,  Verdrietig  Hoek,  or  Tedious  Point,  perhaps  from 
the  length  of  time  that  it  took  to  pass  it  unless  the  wind  was 
very  favorable.  The  English  called  it  "Point  Xo  Point,"  from 
the  fact  that  when  once  reached  its  character  as  a  point  of  land 
at  once  vanished  and  it  ai'jpeared  as  a  long  mountain.  On  the 
14th  the  wind  was  favorable,  and  they  sailed  some  thirty-six 
miles.  ])assing  the  Pallisades  and  reaching  the  Highlands.  Xo 
wonder  the  historian  of  the  voyage  (Robert  Juet,  the  mate)  re- 


C  GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  I H STORY 

marks,  *"Tlie  land  grew  very  high  and  mouutainons."    Beyond 
these  they  sa^y  hiffh  mountains  that  "hiy  from  the  river."  and 
denotes  their  view  of  tlie  "Blue  Mountains,"  now  called  the 
I'atskills.    From  this  they  drifted  up  to  wliere  the  city  of  llud- 
soii  was  in  after  years,  and  here  the  river  grew  narrower,  with 
shoals  and  small  islands  of  meadow,  as  they  are  today.    At  this 
})oi]it  the  great  navigat(;r  saw  that  liis  voyage  was  a  failure,  so 
far  as  its  avowed  object  was  concerned.    He  found  himself  in  a 
river,  and  not,  as  he  had  hoped,  in  a  strait  wliich  oi)ened  to  the 
Paciiic.     His  return  down  the  river,  his  ((uarrels  with  the  na- 
tives, his  noticing  the  productions  of  the  country,  the  "great 
store  of  goodly  oaks,  and  walnut  trees  and  chestnut  trees,  yew 
trees  and  trees  of  sweet  wood,"  their  difficulty  in  sailing  through 
the  Highlands,  "liecause  the  highland  hath  many  points  and  a 
narrow  clianuel  and  hath  many  eddy  winds"  (as  many  shippers 
of  sloops  and  schooners  found  to  their  sorrow  in  later  years)  ; 
the  sangiiinai'y  encountei-  Avith  the  Indians,  in  which  some  were 
slain,  and  their  reaching  the  harbor  which  they  had  left,  about 
the  first  of  Octobei- — all  this  is  not  a  twice-told  but  a  ten-times 
told  tale.    On  October  4th  they  bid  farewell  to  their  discoveries 
and  sailed  straight  for  England,  "without  seeing  any  land  l)y 
the  way,"  and  on  the  7th  of  November  the  small  Init  ever  fam- 
ous "Half  Moon"  airived  at  Dartmouth. 

In  the  next  year,  while  upon  another  voyage  of  discovery. 
Hudson  was  set  adrift  in  an  open  boat  I)y  his  mutinous  crew, 
and  never  heard  from  afterwards.  Xo  man  can  ever  see  his 
grave,  bnt  Hudson's  Bay,  Hudson's  Straits  and  Hudson's  Ri\-er 
are  the  monumeiits  which  will  keep  his  name  in  everlasting  re- 
membrance. 


CHAPTER]!. 
THE  SETTLEMENT. 

AVhou  Heiii-y  Hudson  returned  to  Holland,  he  Ijruuglit  with 
hini  no  news  of  a  newly  discovered  passage  to  India  or  China; 
l)ut  he  did  ijring  an  account  of  a  newly  discovered  land  wliich 
promised  great  rewards  to  the  trader  and  adventurer.  Many 
things  lead  us  to  lielieve  that  almost  immediately  vessels  owned 
by  ]irivate  individuals  sailed  for  this  new  land  of  promise, 
where  they  could  l)e  free  from  any  interference  on  the  part  of 
Spanish  oi'  Portuguese.  Of  these  private  voyages  we  know  but 
little,  and  who  were  the  connnanders  and  who  they  were  that 
sailed  with  them,  are  as  unknown  as  the  brave  men  who  lived 
before  Agamemnon's  time. 

A  gleam  of  light  uj  on  what  was  i)rol)ably  the  tirst  attemi)t 
at  settlement  has  lieen  discovered  in  recent  years.  Among  the 
many  religious  -ects  that  arose  in  the  early  \vavt  of  the  seven- 
teenth century  Avas  one  caUed  the  Labadists.  They  jn'ofessed 
a  sort  of  mysticism,  "regulating  their  lives  by  the  divine  light 
of  the  inner  man.  and  seeking  to  bi'ing  together  all  the  elect  of 
riod  separate  from  tlie  world  into  one  visible  church  which  as 
they  said,  'like  a  city  set  u])on  a  hill,  could  not  be  hid.'  "  In 
doctiine  they  held  the  tenets  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church, 
but  tliey  also  maintained  other  o])inions,  and  adopted  practices 
not  recognized  by  tlie  authority  of  that  chur<'h.  Its  founder, 
Jean  de  Labadie,  was  liorn  near  Bordeaux,  in  KilO,  of  a  good 
family,  and  was  an  enthusiast,  believing  himself  to  be  inspired  by 
(r';d  and  chosen  by  him  to  luiild  u)i  his  church  on  earth.  Orig- 
inallv  a  desuit.  edurated  in   the  college  of  that  order,  and  or- 


S  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

dained  a  priest,  he  developed  great  powers  of  eloquence  and  at- 
tained high  honors.  He  became  distinguished  for  his  zeal,  and 
insisted  upon  the  necessity  of  reading  the  Holy  Scrijjtnres,  and 
caused  a  large  number  of  copies  of  the  New  Testament  in  the 
French  language  to  be  sold.  It  is  not  strange  that  his  views  in 
regard  to  the  Jesuits  should  have  undergone  a  change.  He  aft- 
erwards became  connected  with  the  Jansenists,  to  whom  the 
Jesuits  were  bitter  enemies ;  in  1650  he  totally  abjured  the  Cath- 
olic religion  and  was  ordained  a  Protestant  minister,  and  his 
followers  took  the  name  of  Labadists,  and  were  very  numerous. 
He  afterwards  went  to  Denmark  in  order  to  enjoy  full  religious 
toleration,  and  died  there  in  167-1-,  "satisfied  that  his  mission  on 
earth  was  accomplished  and  the  church  established."  His  fol- 
lowers seem  to  have  resembled  the  Quakers  more  than  any  other 
sect. 

In  1679  Jaspar  Dankars  and  Peter  Sluyter,  two  of  the 
Labadists,  came  to  America  and  made  an  extended  tour.  Land- 
ing in  New  York,  they  labored  to  make  converts,  and  among 
them  was  Ej^hraim  Hermans,  the  oldest  son  of  Augustine  Her- 
mans, famous  in  the  early  history  of  our  city.  The  journal  kept 
by  the  two  Labadists  has  been  translated  by  Hon.  Henry  C.  Mur- 
phy, to  whom  all  readers  of  history  owe  a  debt  of  gratitude,  and 
has  been  published  by  the  Long  Island  Historical  Society.  In 
this  journal  occurs  the  following  interesting  statement: 

"While  in  their  company  we  conversed  with  the  first  male 
born  of  Europeans  in  New  Netherland,  named  Jean  Vigiie.  His 
parents  were  from  Valenciennes  and  he  was  now  about  sixty- 
five  years  of  age.  He  was  a  brewer,  and  a  neighbor  of  our  old 
people. ' ' 

According  to  this,  Jean  Vigne  must  have  been  born  in  1614, 
which  is  the  very  earliest  period  conn)atible  with  the  sojourn  of 
any  Hollanders  upon  the  island  of  Manhattan.     In  later  years 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  9 

Jean  Vigno  was  a  man  of  distinction,  and  the  owner  of  a  large 
tract  of  land  on  the  nortli  side  of  AVall  street.  In  1655  he  was 
one  of  the  schepens  of  New  Amsterdam,  and  belonged  to  the 
class  of  great  hnrghers.  He  died  without  issue  in  1691.  Pi'e- 
vious  to  the  discovery  of  this  journal,  the  credit  of  being  the 
first  white  child  born  in  New  Netherland  was  given  to  Sarah  de 
Kapaljie,  wlio  was  born  June  9,  1()25.  If  the  statement  is  true, 
and  there  «eems  no  reason  to  doubt  it,  Jean  Vigne  was  the  first 
child  born  of  European  parentage  in  the  United  States,  north  of 
Virginia.  The  com])any  of  which  his  ])arents  were  a  part  must 
have  been  among  the  very  first  to  avail  themselves  of  the  infor- 
mation brought  home  by  Hudson,  and  sailed  witli  the  intention 
of  making  a  settlement.  Vessels  for  trading  purposes  only  had, 
however,  sailed  for  this  region  before,  their  principal  object  be- 
ing to  procure  furs,  witli  which  the  land  abounded,  and  which 
could  be  obtained  from  the  natives,  in  exchange  for  articles  of 
trifling  value.  In  1612  a  ship  was  fitted  out  by  Henry  Chris- 
tiansen and  Adriaen  Block,  and  although  they  sailed  in  the 
same  vessel,  they  made  one  Ryser  the  captain.  Their  voyage 
was  successful,  and  they  returned  with  a  cargo  of  peltries,  and 
bringing  with  them  two  of  the  natives,  sons  of  cliiefs.  They 
then  fitted  out  two  shii)s,  named  the  "Fortune"  and  the 
"Tiger,"  the  former  under  the  connnand  of  Christiansen,  while 
Adriaen  Block  was  cai)tain  of  the  latter.  They  are  supposed  to 
have  sailed  early  in  KJK).  Ujion  arriving  on  the  American  shore 
Christiansen  formed  the  idea  of  establishing  a  trading  post  to 
which  the  Indians  could  bring  the  skins  for  a  market.  Acting 
upon  this,  he  made  a  landing  and  erected  several  small  houses, 
roofed  with  bark.  Such  were  the  first  habitations  of  civilized 
men  ui)on  the  island  of  Manhattan.  It  is  a  inatter  of  interest  to 
know  the  exact  location  of  these  few  houses,  and  it  is  believed 
that  the  ])uilding  No.  ?y^)  Broadway  marks  the  spot.  In  the  mean- 


10  GENEALOGICAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

wliiU'.  Adi-iaeii  P^lock  liad  cit'ici-  returned  to  Holland  or  had  gone 
witli  his  s]ii)i  on  a  fnrtlier  voyage  of  diseoA^ery. 

Wliile  Christiansen  Avas  enga.oed  in  making  his  new  settle- 
ment, an  English  armed  vessel  sailed  into  the  harl)or.  It  was  the 
only  one  left  of  tlii'ee  which  had  l)een  sent  to  attack  tlie  French 
settlements  in  the  Bay  of  Fnndy.  The  cajitain  of  this  ship 
promptly  asserted  the  claim  of  England,  and  tlie  new  settler 
had  the  choice  of  seeing  liis  settlement  destroyed  or  of  paying  a 
sniall  tribute  in  recognition  of  the  English  claim.  Under  the 
cii-cumstances  the  latter  was  chosen,  and  the  English  captain 
returned  home,  comforted  hy  the  thought  that  he  had  main- 
tained his  conntrv's  claim.  Christiansen  then  went  up  the  river, 
and  erected  at  what  is  now  Albany,  a  fort,  which  was  the  first 
fortification  built  in  the  territory  embraced  in  the  Empire  State. 
Tt  was  u])on  an  island  in  the  river,  and  he  named  it  Fort  Nassau. 

A\'hile  his  ])artner  was  engaged  in  building  this  fort,  Adriaen 
Rlock.  with  the  "Tiger,"  was  hing  at  anchor  in  Xew  York  bay. 
The  shi])  took  fire  and  was  entirely  destroyed.  He  immediately 
undei'took  the  difficult  task  of  building  a  new  vessel,  and  in  the 
S])ring  of  l(n4  he  comi)leted  a  ship  of  sixteen  tons  burden,  thir- 
ty-eight feet  keel,  forty-four  and  a  half  feet  "over  all,"  and 
eleven  and  a  half  feet  beam.  To  that  little  vessel,  in  which  very 
few  would  now  he  willing  to  risk  an  Atlantic  voyage,  he  gave 
the  name  of  "Oiirust"  or  "Restless."  With  this  he  began 
new  explorations.  Sailing  u])  the  East  river,  he  was  fortunate 
enoush  to  esca]ie  the  dangers  of  Hell  Gate,  and  entered  Long- 
Island  Sound  as  the  first  discoverer.  He  coasted  the  northern 
shoi-e.  entei-ed  the  harbor  of  Xew  Haven,  which  the  Dutch 
called  in  after  years  "  Hodenlierg,"  or  "Red  Hill."  sailed  up  the 
Connectii  nt,  which,  in  contradistinction  to  the  salt  waters  of 
the  Hudson,  he  named  the  "Fi-esh  Water  river."  Returning  to 
the  Sound  and  advancing  to  the  east,  he  discovered  the  island 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  H 

that  still  bears  his  nnnic.  and  was  the  tirst  to  estal)lish  the  fact 
that  Long  Island  was  an  island  in  reality,  and  not  a  ]iart  of  the 
main  land.  Continuing  to  advance,  lie  coasted  the  New  England 
shore  as  far  as  Salem.  Upon  his  return,  when  near  Cape  (^d, 
he  fell  in  with  the  ship  of  Christiansen,  who,  by  a  strange  fate 
had  been  killed  by  one  of  the  Indians  whom  he  had  taken  to 
Holland,  and  his  shiii  was  returning  home  under  the  command 
of  one  Cornelius  Hendricksen,  whom  some  have  supposed  to 
he  the  son  of  the  unfortunate  settler.  Here  they  exchanged 
vessels.  Cornelius  Hendi'icksen  Avas  directed  to  proceed  with 
the  "Kestless"  to  make  further  discoveries,  while  Block,  with 
the  other  vessel,  sailed  for  Amsterdam  to  report  the  result  of 
his  adventures,  hie  never  returned  to  the  scene  of  his  discover- 
ies, or  visited  the  regions  he  had  ex]ilored.  He  entered  the 
service  of  the  "Northern  Company"  which  was  chartered  in 
1()14,  and  in  1624  he  was  made  commander  of  a  fieet  of  whaling 
shi]is,  and  this  is  the  last  we  know  of  Adriaen  Block.  One  of  the 
results  of  his  voyage  was  the  making  of  what  is  known  as  the 
"Figurative  ^Fa]),"  ujion  which  Long  Island  ^a])]:)ears  for  the 
first  time  as  se]iarated  form  the  main  land,  and  its  insular  posi- 
tion became  fully  known. 

Another  result  was  the  granting  of  a  charter  to  a  company 
of  men,  consisting  of  Gerrit  Jacobz  "Witssen,  ex-burgomaster  of 
Amsterdam,  and  the  owners  of  the  ship  "Little  Fox,"  "whereof 
Jan  de  Witts  was  skipper,"  and  the  owners  of  the  two  ships 
"Tiger"  and  "Fortune,"  and  the  owners  of  the  ship  "called 
the  Nightingale,"  and  giving  them  as  a  company  the  exclusive 
right  to  trade  lietween  the  foi'tieth  and  forty-tifth  jiarallels  for 
four  voyages  to  be  made  within  three  years,  and  to  begin  Jan- 
uary 1,  ](il5,  and  all  other  jiersons  were  strictly  forbidden, 
under  ])enalty  of  confiscation  of  their  vessel  and  a  heavy  fine. 
In   this  charter,  dated   October  IL  l(il4,  a]>|)ears   for  the  first 


12  GENEALOGICAL  AXD  EAMILI'  HISTORY 

time  the  name  "New  Netherland,"  and  in  the  same  month 
and  year  the  name  "Xew  England"  was  given  by  the  Elnglish 
to  the  adjoining  regions. 

When  the  tliree  years  expii-ed,  otiier  merchants  claimed 
the  privilege  of  trading  with  the  new  lands,  each  company  de- 
siring the  exclnsive  right.  The  original  Xew  Xetherland  Com- 
pany, liowever,  continned  to  exist,  and  was  actively  engaged  in 
trading.  In  Febrnary,  1620,  they  addressed  a  petition  to 
Maurice,  Prince  of  Orange,  the  Stadtholder  of  the  Eepnblic  of 
the  X'etherlands.  Their  object  was  to  establish  a  permanent 
colony.  It  was  rejiresented  that  "a  certain  English  preacher, 
well  versed  in  the  Dutch  language,"  was  ready  to  found  the 
new  colony,  and  four  hundred  families  were  ready  to  go  with 
him.  This  preacher  was  the  famous  John  Robinson,  and  the 
families  were  English  KSe|)aratists.  This  was  very  naturally 
considered  the  "golden  ()])i)ortunity"  for  founding  a  colony. 
The  directors  of  the  Company  were  willing  to  furnish  free  trans- 
portation and  sup]jly  them  with  cattle.  Had  this  proposal  been 
embraced,  New  Xetherland  would  have  received  the  finest  class 
of  settlers  that  ever  landed  on  American  soil.  This  project 
was  not  favored  by  the  government,  the  principal  reason  being 
that  as  all  the  territory  was  claimed  by  England,  it  was  un- 
advisable  to  colonize  it  with  English  settlers,  even  if  they  had 
adopted  Holland  as  a  dwelling  i)lace. 

There  is  no  better  opportunity  than  this  to  relate  briefly 
the  history  of  the  two  great  com])anies  which,  established  in 
Holland,  played  so  important  a  j^art  in  founding  the  colony  of 
which  our  state  is  the  successor.  Holland  had  been  for  long 
years  the  great  field  of  battle  l)etween  Protestantism  and  Koman- 
ism,  and  in  this  strife,  after  a  sanguinary  struggle,  the  former 
conquered.  The  "Twelve  Years'  Truce,"  made  in  1609,  ren- 
dered the  States  of  Holland  free  forever  fi-om  the  yoke  of  Spain 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  13 

and  Romanism.  Even  during  the  long  war,  Dutch  couunerce 
had  vastly  increased.  Their  shi]is  sailed  to  every  coast.  The 
merchants  who  rescued  Cornelius  Houtman  from  imprison- 
ment in  Portugal  by  paying  the  fine  levied  upon  him,  in  return 
for  the  valuable  information  which  he  furnished,  formed  them- 
selves into  a  company  and  added  others  to  their  number,  and 
the  association  was  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  "C*om- 
•pany  of  Distant  Lands."  In  1598  they  sent  a  fleet  of  eight  ves- 
sels, equally  ])rcpared  for  trade  or  war,  which  sailed  for  the 
Indian  ocean  and  retui'ued  lichly  laden  with  the  i^roducts  of 
the  eastern  woild.  In  l(i(!()  another  fleet  of  six  vessels  went  to 
the  East  Indies  and  defeated  the  Portuguese  in  a  naval  battle. 
Many  expeditions  followed  in  rapid  succession,  and  two  of  them 
even  ventured  on  the  long  and  dangerous  voyage  through  the 
Straits  of  Magellan  and  across  the  Pacific;  but  most  of  them 
took  the  safer  route  around  the  Ca]ie  of  Good  Ho]ie.  I-^very 
effort  was  made  by  Spain  to  destroy  the  shi])s  and  bi'eak  up 
the  trade,  nut  without  success.  One  result  of  this  ])rofitablo 
trade  was  the  competition  between  the  various  companies  of 
merchants.  The  voyages  were  long  and  dangerous,  their  vessels 
had  to  encounter  the  enemies  of  the  republic,  and  the  ]irofits 
were  greatlv  reduced.  The  only  remedy  for  that  was  consol- 
idation, and  they  were  all  united  in  a  single  national  organiza- 
tion under  the  name  of  the  "General  East  India  Company," 
which  received  its  charter  in  1602.  Its  capital  Avas  the  immense 
sum  (for  those  times)  of  (),oOO,00()  florins,  or  $2,600,000.  The 
comimny  had  tlie  ]n'ivilege  of  making  treaties  with  the  bar- 
barous ])owers  in  the  East  Indies,  and  could  carry  on  war  and 
make  conquest  of  territories  and  erect  fortifications  for  the  ])iir- 
pose  of  holding  and  defending  them.  The  objects  of  this  com- 
pnny  were  carried  out  with  the  utmost  skill  and  vigor.  During 
the  same  year  a  fleet  of  fourteen  ships  were  fitted  out  and  were 


14  GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

so  successful  that  iu  four  years  a  dividend  of  seventy-five  per 
cent  was  declared.  Witliin  seven  years  forty  vessels,  employing 
Rye  thousand  men,  were  sent  to  tlie  eastern  seas,  and  the  re- 
ceipts reached  the  enormous  sum  of  $12,000,000.  Xo  enterinise 
had  ever  heen  crowned  witli  such  well  merited  success.  As 
curious  items  to  show  the  profits  of  the  trade  we  may  mention 
that  pepi)er,  wliicli  cost  eleven  cents  a  i)ound,  was  sold  for 
thirty-two  cents;  cloves  costini>-  twelve  and  a  half  cents  sold  for 
$1.2(',  while  mace  ))ought  for  sixteen  cents,  was  sold  for  $2.40. 
It  was  while  this  company  was  in  power  that  Henry  Hudson 
sailed  on  his  famous  voyage. 

In  1597  the  Dutch  merchants  were  each  separately  granted 
the  privilege  of  foniiing  a  company  for  the  purpose  of  trade 
with  the  West  Indies.  Their  companies  were  united  iu  one. 
On  a  plat  of  ground  granted  by  the  city  in  Amsterdam  a  ware- 
liouse  was  erected,  and  such  was  the  origin  of  the  "West  India 
Company,  so  famous  and  powerful  in  later  years.  Its  begin- 
ning was  not  so  glorious,  nor  the  first  results  so  prosperous  as 
its  great  rival.  An  expedition  sent  to  Brazil  met  a  worse  enemy 
than  Spain  or  Portugal,  in  the  form  of  the  yellow  fever,  of 
which  more  than  a  thousand  men  perished,  and  the  design  was 
abandoned,  and  its  failure  caused  great  delay  in  the  formal 
establislmient  of  the  company. 

The  real  founder  of  the  West  India  Company  was  William 
Csselinx,  a  native  of  Antwerp,  but  a  resident  in  Holland.  Every 
argument  and  every  means  that  could  be  used  by  a  man  who 
was  intent  upon  one  great  object  was  used  by  him.  Although  he 
nad  many  able  supporters,  he  had  more  than  as  many  able  oppo- 
nents. The  jealousy  of  different  cities  had  no  small  influence, 
and  it  was  not  until  June  3,  1621,  that  its  charter  was  duly 
signed  and  sealed.  By  this  charter  the  States  General  author- 
ized the  formation  of  a  national  societv  of  merchants,  and  to 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  EAMILY  HISTORY  15 

enable  tlieiu  to  cany  out  their  purpose  a  capital  of  seven  million 
of  florins  (or  $2,800,000)  was  to  be  subscribed,  and  four-ninths 
of  this  was  to  be  held  in  shares  by  persons  in  Amsterdam.  For 
the  space  of  twenty-four  years,  after  July  1,  IGi'l,  it  was  tu 
have  the  exclusive  privilege  of  sending  ships  for  trading  pur- 
poses to  the  countries  of  America  and  Africa  that  bordered  on 
the  Atlantic  ocean,  while  the  remainder  of  the  globe  was  as- 
signed to  the  East  India  Company.  They  had  the  same  privi- 
leges of  making  treaties  and  alliances  with  princes  and  powers, 
and  to  erect  forts  in  friendly  and  conquered  territories,  and 
the  Directors  could  appoint  governors  and  other  officers  and 
levy  troops  and  lit  out  fleets.  The  Grovernor-General  was  to  be 
appointed  and  commissioned  by  the  States  General.  In  case  of 
actual  hostilities,  the  general  government  was  to  provide 
twenty  ships,  while  the  Company  was  to  man  them  and  furnish 
all  supplies,  and  also  to  furnish  an  equal  number  of  vessels. 
One  of  the  most  important  items  was,  that  the  Company  had  the 
privilege  of  exporting  home  manufactures,  and  of  importing 
the  products  of  the  countries  along  the  Atlantic  free  of  duties 
for  eight  years.  They  were  to  "promote  the  populating  of  fer- 
tile and  uninhabited  regions."  The  capital  required  was  not 
readily  subscribed,  but  in  1G22  all  vessels  except  those  of  the 
Company  were  forbidden  to  procure  cargoes  of  salt  in  the  West 
Indies,  and  six  months  later  the  entire  capital  was  procured. 
On  December  21,  1623,  the  first  fleet  was  dispatched.  It 
consisted  of  twenty-six  vessels.  The  New  Netherland  Com- 
pany was  entirely  superseded,  but  New  Netherland  was  not 
the  main  object  of  this  enterjjrise.  The  fleet  proceeded  to  Brazil, 
and  San  Salvador  was  captured,  but  lost  the  next  year.  In  l()2(i 
vast  treasures,  which  were  about  to  be  sent  to  Spain,  were 
taken,  and  sugar  alone,  to  the  value  of  $148,000,  was  a  part  of 


16  GENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

the  spoils.  The  climax  of  prosperity  was  in  1628,  when  the 
Spanish  silver  fleet  was  eaptnred,  and  the  prize  was  $4,600,000, 
while  other  ))rizes  amonnted  to  $1,600,000.  A  dividend  of  fifty 
]ier  cent  was  declared  in  1629,  and  another  of  twenty-five  per 
cent  in  1680.  After  that  the  Company  declined;  finally,  bnr- 
dened  with  debt,  it  was  dissolved  in  1674,  and  a  new  West 
India  C'ompany  was  organized  in  1675,  and  continued  its  opera- 
tions in  a  feeble  manner  for  a  long  period.  At  length,  as  a 
result  of  the  French  Eevolution,  the  two  famous  companies 
were  swept  out  of  existence  in  1800. 

The  establishment  of  the  West  India  Com2)any  furnished 
the  first  liasis  for  a  regular  form  of  government  for  New  Xeth- 
erland.  A  small  colony  existed  on  Manhattan  island,  another 
on  the  upper  Hudson,  and  another  on  the  Delaware.  The  first 
director  for  all  of  them  was  Captain  May,  whose  term  expired 
in  1624,  and  he  was  succeeded  by  William  Verhulst,  but  his 
care  seems  to  have  been  confined  to  the  Delaware  Colony.  Dur- 
ing his  term  an  ex])edition  was  sent  with  especial  view  to  col- 
onization. Four  ships  conveyed  one  hundred  head  of  cattle 
and  six  families  of  forty-five  persons,  which  were  landed  on 
^fanhattan  island.  The  first  real  governor  was  Peter  ]\Iinuit, 
who  had  the  title  of  Director-General,  and  arrived  in  May,  1626, 
and  with  him  the  regular  history  of  New  Netherland  begins. 
It  is  strange  that  the  veracious  Diedrich  Knickerbocker,  whose 
"History"  has  provoked  so  many  smiles  and  an  equal  amount 
of  frowns  while  narrating  at  length  the  career  of  "Walter  the 
Doubter,"  "William  the  Testy,"  and  "Peter  the  Headstrong," 
tells  us  nothing  of  Peter  ]\[inuit,  who  preceded  them  all. 

In  1628,  the  States  General  granted  a  seal  for  New  Nether- 
land, representing  a  shield  bearing  a  beaver  i)ro])er,  over  which 
was  a  count's  coronet,  and  around  the  whole  were  the  words, 
"Sio-illum  Novi  Belgii." 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  17 

The  seal  of  New  Amsterdam,  with  its  crosses  solitaire,  is 
also  here  given. 


CHAPTER  III. 
THE  DUTCH  GOVERNORS. 

It  is  unfortunate  that  the  history  of  the  first  few  years  of 
New  Nether  I  and  is  involved  in  obscurity.  Of  the  administra- 
tion of  May  and  Verhnlst  we  know  but  little.  With  the  arrival 
of  Herr  Director  Peter  Minuit,  the  real  history  begins.  With 
him  came  his  council,  consisting  of  five  members — Peter  Bj^velt, 
Jacob  Elbertsen  Wisinck,  John  Jansen  Brower,  Simon  Dirck- 
sen  Pos  and  Re^^lert  Harmensen.  Their  duties  were  to  advise 
th.»  Director  upon  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  government  of 
the  colony,  with  a  special  eye  to  the  advancement  of  the  in- 
terests of  the  West  India  Company.  They  were  also  a  court 
for  the  trial  of  offenses,  but  the  ])unislniient  was  limited  to  a 
fine.  Cai)ital  cases  were  to  be  referred  to  the  government  in 
Holland.  These  councillors  were  termed  schepens.  The  other 
officers  were  a  secretary  (Isaac  de  Rasieres),  and  a  sellout 
fiscal,  who  combined  the  duties  of  sheriff  and  district  attorney. 
The  first  to  hold  this  position  was  John  Lampe. 

Peter  Minuit  is  said  to  have  come  from  Wesel,  a  town  of 
Rhenish  Prussia,  near  the  borders  of  Holland,  which  had  been 
a  city  of  refuge,  and  thousands  of  Protestants  had  fled  thither 
to  escape  ])ersecution.  He  was  a  deacon  of  the  Dutch  Church. 
The  ship  in  which  he  came  to  the  New  World  was  the  "Sea 
Mew,"  and  the  first  of  his  administration  was  to  purchase 
the  island  from  the  aboriginal  owners  for  the  sum  of  sixty 
guilders,  or  twenty-four  dollars.  This  was  paid  not  in  money, 
but  in  articles  of  trifling  value  and  cost  to  the  buyer,  but  dear 
to  the  hearts  and  of  great  value  to  the  sellers.     A  ship  named 


GENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


19 


the  "Arms  of  Amsterdam"  arrived  ou  July  27,  1626,  and  sailed 
on  a  return  voyage  on  the  23d  of  September,  carrying  the  news 
of  the  purchase,  and  the  following  hotter  comnnuiicated  the  news 
to  the  States  General : 

"High  Mighty  Sirs. 

"There   arrived   yestrdy   the    shi])    the    Arms    of   Amster- 


Peter  Stuyvesant. 


dam,  which  sailed  from  New  Xetlnland  out  of  the  ^lauritius 
Eiver,  on  Sei)teml)er  28;  they  rei)ort  that  our  people  there  are 
of  good  eonrage  and  live  peaceably.  Their  women  also,  have 
borne  children  there.  They  have  bought  the  island  Manhattes 
from  the  wild  men  for  the  value  of  sixty  guilders,  is  13000  mor- 
gens  in  extent.  They  sowed  all  their  grain  the  middle  of  May. 
and  harvested  it  the  middle  of  August.  Thereof  being  samples 
of  summer  grain,  such  as  wheat,  rye.  Barley,  oats,  buckwheat, 
canary  seed,  small  beans  and  flax.  The  cargo  of  the  aforesaid 
shi])  is  17246  Beaver  skins,  178T:,  otter  skins,  675  otter  skins,  48 
mink  skins,  36  wild  cat  (lynx)  skins,  33  minks,  34  rat  skins. 
Manv  logs  of  oak  ami  nut  wood.    Ilerewith  l»e  ve  High  ^Mighty 


'20  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Sirs,   Commended  to   the  Almighty's    grace.     In    Amsterdam 
Nov.  5,  1626." 

From  the  letter  of  Dominie  Jonas  ]\Iii'haelius  we  learn  that 
Governor  Minnit  was  one  of  the  elders  of  the  chnrdi.  One  of 
the  most  important  acts  of  his  administration  was  the  granting 
to  Killian  Van  Bensselaer  an  immense  tract  of  land,  twenty 
miles  -wide,  on  each  side  of  the  Hndson  river,  and  known  as 
the  manor  of  Bensselaerwyck. 

One  of  tlie  results  of  early  enterprise  was  an  undertaking 
by  the  Walloon  shipbuilders,  to  build  a  vessel.  Timljer  of  the 
largest  size  was  close  at  hand,  and  in  1630  they  launched  a  ship, 
larger  than  any  built  in  the  Fatherland.  According  to  some 
authorities  this  was  of  twelve  hundred  tons  burden,  but  others 
place  it  as  of  eight  hundred  tons.  This  ship  received  the  name 
of  "New  Netherland."  Tliis  was  the  second  vessel  built  on 
Manhattan  Island,  the  ship  "Restless,"  built  by  Adriaen  Block, 
being  the  first.  The  thirty  houses  already  built  was  greatly  in- 
creased in  numbers,  and  in  1628  the  inhabitants  numbered  two 
hundred  and  seventy.  The  fewness  of  these  is  in  strange  con- 
trast to  the  four  thousand  people  already  settled  on  James 
river,  in  Virginia,  under  the  English  government. 

Wliatever  was  done  in  the  infant  colony,  the  rights  of  the 
West  India  Company  were  held  supreme.  To  advance  their 
interests  was  the  first  duty  of  all  officers,  and  the  company  did 
very  little  in  return  to  protect  or  defend.  It  was  ])robably 
because  Director  Minnit  was  more  careful  to  advance  the  in- 
terests of  the  colony  than  the  company  that  led  to  his  recall, 
and  in  1632  he,  in  company  with  the  schout  fiscal,  Lampe,  em- 
iiarked  for  Holland,  and  a  new  man  reigned  in  his  stead.  He 
was  afterward  the  projector  of  a  colony  on  Delaware  river,  and 
established  Fort  Christiana,  and  is  said  to  have  died  there  in 
1641. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  21 

The  next  director,  or  governor,  was  Walter  Van  T wilier, 
immortalized  in  the  veracious  history  of  Diedrich  Knicker- 
bocker as  "Walter  the  Doubter."  He  had  been  sent  as  early 
as  1629  to  select  the  site  for  the  patroonship  of  his  relative  Van 
Kensselaer,  and  it  is  supposed  that  it  was  through  his  influence 
that  Minuit  was  recalled.  It  was  not  till  a  year  after  the  de- 
parture of  the  latter  that  Van  Twiller  arrived  to  take  the 
directorship,  in  the  ship  "Salt  Mountain,"  in  April,  1633.  With 
him  came  a  force  of  one  hundred  and  four  soldiers.  His  council 
were  men  afterwards  prominent  in  the  settlement — Captain 
John  Jansen  Hesse,  Martin  Gerritsen,  Andrew  Hudde  and 
Jacques  Bentyn.  The  secretary  was  John  Van  Remund.  At 
this  time  appears  Cornelius  Van  Tienhoven,  who  was  made 
"Book  Keeper  of  Wages,"  and  later  i)layed  an  imi)ortant  part 
in  the  annals  of  the  city.  Shortly  after  came  Captain  David 
Pietrsz  de  Vries,  who  wrote  a  book,  published  in  1655,  giving 
a  very  interesting  account  of  the  Dutch  settlements  in  the  New 
World. 

But  a  far  more  important  event  occurred  when,  in  April, 
1633,  there  arrived  in  the  harbor  an  English  ship  named 
"William,"  which  had  been  sent  liy  a  company  of  London  mer- 
chants to  carry  on  a  trade  in  furs  upon  the  Hudson's  river. 
This  w^as  the  first  actual  attempt  to  enforce  the  claim  of  Eng- 
land to  all  that  region.  With  this  ship  came  one  Jacob  Elheus, 
who  might  be  termed  a  renegade  Dutchman,  who  had  entered 
the  English  service,  having  for  misdemeanors  been  dismissed 
from  the  employ  of  the  West  India  Company.  The  captain  of 
this  ship,  repudiating  all  title  of  the  Dutch  government,  ad- 
vanced up  the  river  to  Fort  Orange,  and  began  to  trade  with 
the  Indians.  After  some  delay.  Van  Twiller  sent  a  few  small 
vessels  with  a  com])any  of  soldiers,  who  soon  compelled  the 
English  captain  with  his  ship  to  return  to  ^lanhattan,  where 


22  GEXEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

they  were  made  to  give  up  the  store  of  furs  which  they  had 
collected,  and  were  sent  back  to  England,  where  the  captain 
related  his  grievances,  which  only  added  to  the  claims  against 
Holland,  to  be  enforced  at  a  later  day.  About  this  time  began 
a  contest  with  the  English  colonies  in  New  England,  the  details 
of  which  would  fill  a  volume.  Sufficient  to  sa}",  the  Dutch 
claimed  the  region  on  the  Connecticut  river,  and  the  English 
conquered  and  held  it.  During  the  administration  the  fort, 
which  had  so  long  been  building,  was  completed  in  1635. 

It  may  be  mentioned  here  that  in  the  same  ship  with  Van 
Twiller  came  Reverend  Everardus  Bogardus,  the  noted  min- 
ister of  the  Dutch  church.  Under  the  direction  of  Van  Twiller, 
several  large  boweries,  or  farms,  were  laid  out,  and  the  cultiva- 
tion of  tobacco  was  greatly  favored.  In  connection  with  this 
apijear  the  names  of  George  Holmes  and  Thomas  Hall,  very 
prominent  in  after  times. 

Trade  had  vastly  increased.  While  in  1633  there  were 
exported  8,800  beaver  skins  and  1,383  otter  skins,  valued  at 
91,375  florins,  or  $36,550,  in  1635  were  exported  11,891  beavers 
and  1,413  otters,  valued  at  $53,770. 

Director  Van  Twiller  seems  to  have  been  a  man  of  violent 
temper,  addicted  to  drunkenness,  and  engaged  in  frequent 
quarrels  with  the  minister,  Bogardus,  as  well  as  others.  But  he 
greatly  increased  the  extent  of  cultivated  lands  and  during  his 
term  many  important  villages  were  founded,  especially  on  Long 
Island.  In  September,  1637,  he  was  recalled.  As  to  his  "un- 
utterable ponderings, "  behold,  are  they  not  written  in  tliL' 
pages  of  the  veracious  Knickerbocker !  He  remained  in  the 
colony  for  many  years,  devoting  himself  to  the  advancement 
of  his  own  interests,  in  which  he  was  successful.  He  after- 
wards returned  to  Holland,  and  died  there  in  1657. 

On   ^lareh   28,    1638,   came   his    successor,     Willem    Kieft, 


V 

GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  23 

better  known  to  some  by  the  title  bestowed  upon  liini  by  the 
veracious  Knickerbocker  as  "William  the  Testy."  He  came 
in  the  shi])  "Haering, "  of  two  hundred  and  eighty  tons  and 
mounting  twenty  cannon,  which  signalled  his  approach.  His 
principal  recommendation  appears  to  have  been  a  reputation 
as  a  person  of  determination  and  activity.  In  other  particulars 
liis  reputation  was  not  above  reproach.  His  power  was  prac- 
tically absolute.  Instead  of  a  council,  he  had  only  one  associate 
and  advisor,  in  the  person  of  Johannes  De  La  Montague,  a 
physician,  and  a  Protestant  refugee  from  France.  In  this 
"council,"  if  it  could  be  called  such,  the  director  had  two  votes 
and  He  La  Montague  had  one.  The  office  of  provincial  was 
filled  by  Cornelius  Van  Tienhoven,  who  was  formerly  "Koop- 
man,"  or  commissary  and  chief  bookkeeper.  The  schout  tiscal. 
or  executive  officer,  was  Ulrich  Leopold,  who  was  soon  re](laced 
by  Cornelius  Van  der  Huygens. 

Governor  Kieft  found  Fort  Amsterdam  dilapidated,  the 
public  buildings  out  of  re|>air,  the  windmills  out  of  order,  and 
the  eomiiany's  boweries  untenanted.  The  greatest  disorder 
prevailed.  Hlicit  trading  with  the  Indians  was  ])racticed,  the 
•soldiers  were  insu))ordinate,  and  everything  was  in  such  a  con- 
dition as  to  require  a  strong  hand.  To  the  West  India  Com- 
pany, Xew  Xetherland  was  one  of  the  most  insignificant  of  their 
possessions,  and  little  attention  was  ])aid  to  its  wants  or  reijuire- 
ments.  In  1(5.38  special  orders  were  sent  to  the  Directors  to  make 
liberal  arrangements  with  new  settlers  in  the  mutter  of  a-.-  piir- 
ing  land.  The  I'esult  was  that  new  settlers  arrived  in  -.^reat 
numbers,  not  only  from  Europe,  but  from  Virginia  and  Xew 
England,  thus  introducing  an  English  element,  which  ultimately 
absorbed  or  excelled  all  the  rest,  and  under  Kieft  a  period  of 
]iros]ierity  was  insured.  It  was  during  his  administration  that 
a  comparjv  of  English   settlers  from   Lynn,   Massachusetts,  at- 


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GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY 


tempted  to  form  a  settlement  at  what  is  now  Port  Washington, 
in  the  toWn  of  Oyster  Bay.  Being  driven  off,  they  retired  to  the 
east  end  of  Long  IsUmd  and  there  founded  the  town  of  South- 
ampton, the  first  English  town  on  the  island. 


AN   AN'CIENT   DUTCH   HOUSE   IN    PEARL   STREET. 

I'.UILT    1626,   REBUILT   1697,   DEMOLISHED   182S. 

(/'Yom  tlic  Xtii'  York  Mirror.  /M^i^ 


During  Kieft's  term  of  office  there  was  great  trouble  witli 
the  Indians,  with  frightful  reprisals  on  either  side,  and  the  out- 
lying settlements  were  almost  entirely  destroyed,  but  a  peace 
was  finally  arranged.  Hostilities,  however,  were  soon  recom- 
menced, and  only  ended  after  a  fearful  struggle.  At  the  end, 
it  is  stated,  that  not  over  one  hundred  white  men  remained  on 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  25 

the  island  of  Manhattan — some  had  gone  to  Fort  Orange 
(Albany),  and  many  had  retnrned  to  Holland.  All  the  settle- 
ments on  the  west  side  of  the  river  had  been  destroyed,  and  the 
Westchester  region  abandoned.  In  1(i95  a  more  lasting  peace 
was  declared,  and  the  colon}'  was  once  more  in  a  prosperous 
condition. 

On  the  11th  of  ]May,  KUT,  the  disastrous  administration  of 
William  Kieft  came  to  an  end.  It  was  remarked  by  one  of  the 
historians  of  the  time  that  in  the  early  part  of  his  term  "one- 
fonrth  part  of  New  Amsterdam  consisted  of  grog  sho])s,  or 
houses  where  nothing  is  to  be  got  but  tobacco  and  beer."  In 
1()47,  Governor  Kieft  sailed  for  Holland  on  board  the  ship 
' '  Princess. ' '  Among  the  passengers  was  the  Eeverend  Evarar- 
dus  Bogardus,  whose  quarrel  with  Von  Twiller  had  been  con- 
tinued with  even  more  animosity.  The  ship  was  lost,  and  all  on 
board  perished. 

His  successor,  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  was  the  greatest  and 
the  last  of  the  Dutch  governors,  and  perhaps  Diedrich  Knicker- 
bocker alludes  to  his  most  prominent  characteristic  when  he 
terms  him  "Peter  the  Headsti'ong. "  The  colony  was  ])rosper- 
ous,  but  the  inevitable  contest  with  England  had  begun,  with 
the  constant  encroachments  of  the  settlers  of  New  England,  who 
had  extended  their  settlements  as  far  as  Greenwich,  C'onnecti- 
cut,  and  were  still  advancing.  The  name  of  one  part  of  the 
region  is  a  lesson  in  history  and  geograi^hy.  To  the  Dutch,  com- 
ing from  the  west,  it  was  known  as  the  "Oost  Dorp,"  or  East 
Village,  while  to  the  English,  advancing  from  the  east,  it  was 
the  "Westchester." 

The  whole  career  of  Stuyvesant  was  a  scene  of  constant 
activity,  at  one  time  endeavoring  to  negotiate  with  the  English 
at  Boston,  at  another  prosecuting  a  vigorous  cami)aigii  against 
the  Swedes  on  the  Delaware.  There  were  also  troubles  at  home, 
for  a  band  of  disappointed  spirits  were  endeavoring  to  stir  up 
commotion,  with  a  view  of  conijiletely  overturning  the  authority 


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GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


of  tlie  governor  and  the  ])ower  of  the  West  India  Company  as 
well.  He  fully  I'eallzed  the  danger  of  an  English  conquest,  the 
story  of  which  will  be  told  in  another  chai^ter.  With  this  con- 
quest, which  occurred  in  1664,  the  official  career  of  Stuyvesant 
came  to  an  end.  Ketiring  to  his  bowery,  or  estate,  which  was 
then  a  long  distance  from  the  city,  he  died  in  the  early  part  of 
167:^,  and  was  buried  in  a  vault  on  his  own  ground,  and  in  the 
church  he  had  erected.  lT]ion  the  vault  in  the  new  St.  Mark's 
church,  is  a  stone  bearing  the  inscription: 

IN    THIS    VAI'LT    LIES    BURIED 

PETRUS    STUYVESANT, 

LATE   CAPTAIN    GENEK.\L   AND   GOVERNOR   IN    CHIEF   OF   AMSTERDAM,   IN 

NEW    NETHEKLAND,   .\ND   NOW    CALLED   NEW   YORK,   AND   THE 

DUTCH    WEST   INDIA  ISLANDS.      DIED  A.    D.    167Vi.'. 

AGED  80  YEARS. 

His  descendants  are  numerous,  and  his  name  is  honored 
in  the  citv  he  ruled  so  long  and  so  well. 


Dutch   Church   at  Flatbush. 


CHAPTER  IV. 
THE  TOPOGRAPHY  OF  THE  EARLY  CITY. 

Of  the  few  views  wliieli  we  possess  of  the  Island  Manhattan, 
all  agree  niion  one  points — tliat  is  was  a  hilly  etnintry,  and  mostly 
covered  with  woods.  We  can  only  give  a  brief  description  as 
derived  from  notices  given  in  ancient  deeds,  and  the  description 
of  early  travelers. 

'J'he  island  at  its  lower  end  terminated  in  a  i)()int  whicli  to 
the  early  settlers  was  known  as  Schrnyer's  Hook,  or  Shuntei's 
Point.  The  extreme  end  was  a  very  short  way  below  the  ])resent 
State  street,  and  seems  to  have  been  a  rocky  point  known  as 
"Capskie,"  or  Little  Cape,  a  name  afterward  changed  to 
Copse.  The  original  name  of  State  street  was  Copse  street, 
and  changed  to  its  ijresent  name  after  the  Revolntion.  The 
lots  on  the  original  Pearl  sti'eet  Avere  mentioned  as  bonnded 
north  ]iy  the  Pep.rl  street,  and  soutli  towards  tlie  water.  The 
lots  sonth  of  Penrl  stre?t.  on  the  west  side  of  what  is  now  White- 
hall street,  are  spoken  of  in  old  deeds  as  bonnded  east  to  the 
water.  "What  w;is  known  in  later  years  as  "Whitehall  Slip  ex- 
tended north  as  far  as  Penrl  street,  bnt  this  in  later  years  vras 
filled  in.  When  Washington  left  the  city  at  the  close  of  the 
Revolntion.  after  bidding  adieu  to  his  officers  in  the  fann)ns 
meeting  at  Frannces'  Tavern,  he  embarked  at  Whitehall  Sli;). 
which  tlien  l)egan  at  F]-ont  street.  The  original  water  front  to 
the  east  was  the  ])]'esent  sonth  line  of  Pearl  street.  Along  th? 
water  side  was  a  narrow  sandy  beach,  whicli  was  boixlered  on  tlu> 
north  by  the  n])land.  This  sandy  beach  was  called  the  "Strand." 
On  the  west  side  of  the  point,  the  last  lot  on  Pearl  street  is  de- 


28  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

scribed  as  bounded  on  tlie  west  "partly  by  the  Strand,  and 
partly  by  the  Governor's  Garden."  The  Strand  at  that  place  is 
the  present  State  street.  The  extreme  southwest  portion  of 
the  fort  was  very  near  the  water's  edge.  Extending-  to  the 
north,  the  shore  line  tended  to  the  west,  and  formed  the  south 
line  of  what  was  originally  called  Marckvelt  street,  and  now 
Batterj^  place,  which  met  the  river  shore.  The  water  line  then 
followed  the  })resent  Greenwich  street,  where  there  was  another 
sandy  beach  liable  to  be  washed  away  by  very  high  tides,  to 
prevent  which  the  owners  of  the  lots  used  to  erect  low  stone 
walls.  In  the  vicinity  of  Trinity  Church  the  river  shore  was  a 
high,  steep  bank,  as  shown  by  the  height  of  the  stone  wall  which 
sepai'ates  Trinity  Church  yard  (which  retains  its  original  level) 
from  Greenwich  street  and  Rector  street.  On  both  sides  of  this 
ancient  churchyard  the  land  has  been  graded  to  the  street  level. 

To  the  east  of  Broadway  was  a  high  hill,  now  mostly  leveled, 
but  the  steep  grade  of  what  was  anciently  "  Flattenbarrack 
street,"  now  Exchange  })lace,  shows  to  some  extent  what  it  once 
was. 

The  Strand  along  the  East  river  extended  to  AVall  street, 
and  beyond  this  was  a  long  stretch  of  low  meadow  land,  which 
was  known  as  the  "Smith's  Valey."  The  latter  word  was 
shortened  into  "Vly,"  and  later  corrupted  into  "Fly."  The 
market  at  the  foot  of  Maiden  Lane  was  originally  named  the 
Vly  ^Market,  but  in  its  corrupted  form,  was  called  the  "Fly 
Market,"  and  its  true  name  was  utterly  forgotten. 

A  person  standing  at  the  corner  of  Fulton  and  Beekman 
streets  will  see  to  the  east  or  north  a  slight  elevation  of  land. 
This  is  all  that  remains  of  wliat  was  once  known  as  "the  Hill 
by  William  Beekman 's"  long  since  leveled,  and  its  material 
used  to  fill  u})  the  water  lots,  for  it  is,  ])erliai)s,  needless  to  state 
that  all  the  land  1)etween  Pearl  street  and  the  river  is  "made 


..  ^ 


GENEALOGICAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  I'lSTCIW  31 

land."  Tliis  hill  was  ilw  north  honiidary  of  the  Siuit'.i's  \'ly. 
and  in  later  years,  Pearl  street  from  Beeknian  street  to  the 
Bowery  land  was  called  "the  highway  that  lead-;  freni  the 
Smith's  AHy  toward  the  Fresli  water." 

What  is  now  Broad  street  was  a  low  jnece  of  land  tliroi'ah 
which  a  canal  was  dng  which  extended  nearly  to  Wall  street. 
On  each  side  was  a  narrow  street,  and.  the  canal  l)eino-  tilled 
11]),  made  a  street  to  some  extent  meriting-  its  ju-esent  name. 

At  the  junction  of  John  and  William  streets  was  another 
elevation  of  ground,  known  as  (lolden  Tlill.  and  like  many 
others  long  since  leveled.  l)ut  the  name  continued  till  Revolu- 
tionary days. 

The  lower  i)art  of  Maiden  Lane  ran  through  a  marshy 
region  which  vras  a  ]  art  of  the  Smith's  Vly,  and  tanners 
had  their  tan  vats  there;  hut  tlie  statement  made  hy  some  tliat 
a  stream  ran  down  this  street  rests  on  no  sufficient  autliority. 

One  of  the  prin.cipal  features  of  the  landscajie  at  that  time 
was  a  small  jjond.  or  more  properly,  two  small  ponds  connected 
hy  a  marsh,  and  known  as  the  Fresh  Water  and  Collect  Fond. 
Centre  street  runs  thrcmgh  it.  and  Ann  street  (now  Lafayette 
street)  was  on  its  western  side.  To  the  west  of  this  a  small 
stream  ran  through  the  ]n'esent  Canal  street,  which  at  Broad- 
way was  crossed  hy  a  stone  hridge.  not  made,  however,  till  a 
much  later  i:eriod.  This  stream  ran  through  a  tract  of  low  land 
known  as  Lis])enard's  meadows. 

Near  the  joesent  corner  of  Mott  street  and  the  Bowery 
was  a  sjuaug  of  very  i)ure  water,  in  great  demand  for  "tea 
water."  and  sold  from  house  to  house  for  that  i)urpose  !iy  per- 
sons who  made  it  a  business.  From  this  ]ilace  a  rivulet  or  small 
l)rook  ran  east  throuah  the  low  land,  and  emjjtied  into  the  East 
river  at  what  is  now  James  Slip.  This  brook  was  for  long 
vears  the  reci:>gni7,ed  lioundarv  between  Citv  and  ('oimtry.  The 


32  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

little  bridge  that  ci'ossed  it  was  known  as  the  "Kissing  bridge," 
and  gentlemen  escorting  ladies  across  it  were  supposed  to  be 
entitled  to  certain  ]n'ivileges,  of  which  they  doubtless  availed 
themselves.  This  stream  was  the  boundary  between  the  Mont- 
gomerie  ward  and  the  Out  ward,  which  embraced  all  the  rest  of 
Manhattan  Island.  In  1794  this  stream  had  been  so  completely 
filled  up,  that  its  original  place  was  unknown,  and  a  new  boun- 
dary between  the  Avards  was  established.  This  stream  ran 
through  a  tract  of  very  low  land  known  as  "AVolfert  Webber's 
meadows."  It  extended  nearly  to  Cherry  street,  but  was  sep- 
arated from  it  and  from  the  river  shore  by  a  high  bank  sloping 
down  to  the  meadow  and  about  two  hundred  and  fifty  feet  wide. 

jVll  authorities  agree  that  the  island  was  a  wooded  region. 
When  the  first  ships  were  built  in  the  early  city,  there  was  no 
lack  of  timber  ready  to  hand.  A  person  going  from  the  city 
(then  below  AVal!  street)  to  Stuyvesant's  Bowery,  was  said  to  be 
obliged  to  travel  a  lonely  road,  for  nearly  two  miles,  through 
the  woods.  A  farm  in  the  vicinity  of  Tenth  street  was  described 
as  extending  from  the  Hudson's  .  river  "300  rods  into  the 
woods,"  and  other  farms  are  described  in  like  manner. 

Quite  a  large  brook  had  its  rise  near  Eighth  avenue  and 
Thirty-fourth  street,  and  winding  its  devious  way  emptied  into 
the  North  river  at  Forty-ninth  street.  This  was  called  the  Great 
Kill,  or  brook,  and  was  the  largest  stream  on  the  lower  part 
of  the  island.  Another  stream,  or  brook,  had  its  fountain  head 
near  the  junction  of  Sixth  avenue  and  Twenty-third  street,  and 
miming  southward  crossed  Fourteenth  street  and  ran  diagonally 
across  the  blocks,  entered  Fifth  avenue  at  Ninth  street,  and  ran 
down  the  middle  of  the  avenue  to  Washington  Square.  It  ran 
across  the  S(|uare,  crossing  Fourth  street  a  few  feet  east  of 
Macdougal  street,  and  ran  to  Alinnetta  Lane,  and  finally  joined 
the  I'iver  at  Charlton  street.     This  stream  was  known  as  the 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  35 

Alinnetta  bi-ook,  and  is  noted  as  being  the  boundary  of  large 
and  important  traets  of  land.  For  instance,  it  separated  the 
Harring  faiin  on  tlie  east  from  the  land  of  Sir  Peter  Warren 
on  the  west.  This  stream  has  been  tilled  np,  and  all  trace  has 
disappeared  long  years  ago,  but  its  underground  springs  are 
sometimes  found  to  plague  the  contractors  engaged  in  the  erec- 
tion of  large  imildings. 

When  Granunercy  Park  was  laid  out  it  was  low  land,  "cov- 
ei'ed  with  cat-tails,"  and  other  niarsliy  ])lants. 

What  is  noAv  Astor  Place  is  a  part  of  a  road  which  is  very 
frecjuently  mentioned  in  old  deeds  as  "tlie  road  which  leads 
from  the  Bowery  lane,  ovei'  the  Sand  Hills,  to  Greenwich." 
These  sand  hills  are  at  the  Junction  of  University  Place  and 
Waverly  Place.  They  are  composed  of  fine  sand,  and  probably 
blown  into  the  hills  by  the  winds.  Like  other  elevations,  they 
have  long  since  been  leveled. 

Stone  street,  east  of  Broad,  was  in  the  eai'liest  times  known 
as  the  "Hoogh  straat."  or  High  street,  and  takes  its  name 
from  the  fact  that  it  was  laid  out  on  a  high  bank  which  at  that 
point  overlooked  the  Strand. 

The  eastern  part  of  the  De  Lancy  farm  and  the  farm  of  the 
Stuyvesant  family  was  a  large  tract  of  low  land,  a  i)art  of  which 
was  called  the  "meadow  of  the  King's  farm."  In  the  middle  of 
this  large  tract  of  meadow,  at  Fourth  street,  was  a  small  tract 
of  upland  much  higher  than  the  meadows  surrounding  it,  and 
called.  "Manhattan  Island."  a  name  that  continued  for  uuniy 
years,  but  the  memor\'  of  it  has  almost  entirely  passed  from  the 
l)]-esent  generation. 

On  the  south  side  of  the  Beekman  farm  was  a  swamp  or 
a  Kreupel  boscli,  as  the  Hutch  termed  it.  This  was  purchased 
by  Jacobus  Eoosevelt  and  others,  and  divided  into  lots.  On 
account   of  the   water,   tanneries   were  built   here,  and   the  lo- 


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30  GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  IHSTOBY 

eality  to  this  time  has  been  the  headquarters,  and  is  still  known 
as  "The  Swamji."    Jacob  street  runs  through  it. 

The  Dutch  word  "Kreupel  boseh"  was  defined  as  "a  piece 
of  low  land  beset  with  small  trees."  The  word  was  corrupted 
into  Cripple  bush,  rind  is  frequently  found  in  old  deeds  as  mean- 
ing a  swamp.  The  Dutch  word  "Kill"  means  a  brook,  and  its 
diminutive  is  "Killitie, "  or  little  brook,  both  frequently  found. 

On  the  Bayard  farm,  in  the  vicinity  of  Broome  street,  was 
a  very  high  hill,  sometimes  called  Bayard's  Mount,  but  oftener 
Bunker  Hill.  The  gi-ading  of  the  streets  has  long  since  caused 
it  to  disappear. 


CHAPTER  V. 
THE  FIRST  NEW  YORK  DIRECTORY. 

All  descendants  of  the  Holland  settlers  owe  a  iiarticnlar 
delit  of  gi-atitude  to  Rev.  Henriens  Selyns,  who  was  minister 
of  the  Dnteh  ehureh  from  1682  to  1701.  In  1686,  for  convenient 
I'eferenee,  he  made  a  eonijvlete  list  of  the  members  of  his  ehureli 
and  the  streets  on  which  they  lived.  Tliis  list  has  fortunately 
been  ])reserved,  and  was  printed  in  one  of  the  early  volumes  of 
the  "Collections  of  the  Xew  York  Historical  Society."  This 
list  gives  the  names  of  the  church  members,  also  the  names  of 
their  wiAcs  a.nd  husbands.  It  ha]i])ened  in  many  cases  that 
husljands  Avero  church  members,  while  the  wives  were  not,  and 
ric'  rfrsa.  The  list  is  especially  A'aluable,  as  it  furnishes  the 
nnmes  of  the  wife's  father,  given  in  Dutch  style.  For  exami)le, 
the  wife  of  Paulus  Turck  was  Aeltie  Barents,  that  is,  Aeltie, 
daughter  of  Barents.  In  many  cases  the  maiden  name  of  the 
wife  is  given,  as  the  wife  of  Francis  Rombout  wlas  Helena 
Teller. 

The  "Beurs  Straat"  in  this  directory  is  the  only  place 
where  that  name  is  given.  It  is  probably  White  Hall,  south  of 
Pearl  street.  The  house  of  Cornelius  Steenwyck  stood  on  the 
south  eornei-  of  Whitehall  and  Bridge  street. 

"Koninck  Straat"  ai)pears  nowhere  else  than  on  this  list. 
It  is  Exchange  Place,  east  of  Broad  street,  and  was  originally 
called  Tuyn  street,  or  (larden  street.  After  the  Dutch  church 
was  built  u]>nn  it,  the  name  of  Church  street  was  sometimes 
gi\-en.  'I'he  name  of  King  street  Avas  in  later  days  given  to  what 
is  now  Pine  street,  l)ut  that  street  was  not  opened  till  1691. 


38 


aEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  IIISTOBY 


.Maix'kvc'lt  ^tiaat  is  now  i)artly  obliterated  Ijy  the  Produce 
Exchange.  The  eastern  ])art  of  it  stilJ  remains  of  its  original 
width.  With  the  exception  of  Pearl  street  (Avest  of  Broadway) 
this  is  tile  only  ancient  street  which  lias  not  been  widened. 

'J' he  list  appears  to  have  been  made  with  the  greatest  care, 
but  it  is  possible  that  some  errors  have  been  made  as  to  the 
names  of  the  wiAcs.  An  important  instance  is  given  in  the 
case  of  the  noted  Petnis  Stuyvesant,  whose  wife  was  Judith 
Bayard. 

When  this  list  was  inade  there  wei'e  no  houses  on  the  north 
side  of  AVall  street,  or  the  "Cingle."  as  it  was  then  generally 
called.  But  along  the  Smith's  Vl> ,  or  the  jn-esent  Pearl  street, 
there  were  houses  on  the  north  (or  west)  side  as  far  as  Maiden 
Lane  and  beyond.  At  the  time  this  list  was  made  the  houses 
south  of  the  ancient  Pearl  street  faced  the  water,  and  Whitehall 
Sli])  was  not  filled  in,  but  exteiuled  to  o])posite  Pearl  street. 
For  this  reason  the  famous  dacol)  I^eisler  is  mentioned  as  liv- 
ing "along  the  Strand." 

Bkeede  W^eg.      (Broadway.) 


Albert  Barents, 
Paulus  Turck, 
Abraham  Kermer, 
Coenrad  Ten  Eyck, 
Gerrit  Jansen  Eoos, 
Tobias  Stoutenburg, 
Elias  Post, 
Jurian  Blanck, 
Johannes  Van  Gelder, 
Peter  Willemse  Room, 
W"i  1 1  em  Vanderschuren, 
Cornells  Cregier, 
Christian  Petersen, 
Hendrick  Obee, 


wife  Ariaentie. 
wife  Aeltie  Barents, 
wife  ]\raria  Turck. 
wife  Annetje  Daniels, 
wife  Tryntje  Arents. 
wife  Annetje  Van  Hillegoru. 
wife  Maretje  Cornells, 
wife  Hester  Vanderbeeck. 
wife  Janneken  ^NTontenack. 
wife  Hester  Van  (ielder. 
wife  Grietje  Plettenburg. 
wife  Annetje  Berdings. 
wife  Tryntje  Cornells, 
wife  Aeltje  Claas. 


GEXEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


39 


Evert  Aertsen, 
William  Aertsen, 
Olphert  Seiiert, 
Abraham  Mathysen, 
Gerrit  Gerritsen, 
Seuert  (Jlpliertsen, 
Amieken  Mauritz, 

Walter  Hyers, 

De  Heei'  Francois  Rombont, 

Isaac  Steplienseu, 

Lucas  Andriesen, 

Martin  Gerrit  Van  Triclit, 

Balthazar  Bayard, 

Peter  Bayard, 

Rachel  Kierstede, 

Jan  Peek, 

Gybert  Van  Imlmrgh, 

Thomas  Hoeken, 

Jan  Stephensen, 


wife  Marretje  Herscli. 

wife  Styntie  Xagel. 

wife  Margaretta  Kloppers. 

wife  Helena  Pieterse. 

wife  Elizabeth  Cornelis. 

wife  Ytie  Roelofse. 

widow     of  Dominie     Willielmns 

Van  Xieuwenhuysen. 
wife  Trynt.je  Bickers, 
wife  Helena  Teller, 
wife  Margareta  Van  Veen, 
wife  Aefie  Lanrense. 
wife  Maria  Vandergrift. 
wife  Maretje  Lockermans. 
wife  Blandina  Kierstede. 

wife  EJizabeth  Van  Tmbnrgh. 

wife  Trynt.je  Adolph. 
wife  Elizalieth  Lucas. 


P)ErRS  Straat.      (AA'irrrEHALL  Street. 


wife  Margarete  Pieters. 
wife  Christina  Wessels. 
wife  Hillegard  Theumis. 
wife  Sarah  Bedhj. 
wife  Susanna  De  Forrest. 


Fredrick  Ai'entse, 

Jacob  Teller, 

Jacob  De  Kay, 

Class  Berger, 

Pieter  De  Riemer, 

Isaac  De  Riemer, 

Juffrow  Margaret  De  Riemer,  widow     of     De     Heer     Cornelis 

Steenwyck. 
Andries  Gi'evenraedt,  wife  Anna  Van  Brug. 

Parel  Straat. 
(Pearl  Street  west  of  Wliitehal!  Street.) 
Jan  Willemsen,  wife  Klizalieth  Fredrick. 

Martin  Cregier, 


40 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


Tryntje  Cregier, 
Philip  Smil.h, 
Gei'iit  Hardenburg, 
Sara  Hardenberg, 
Isaac  Grevenraedt, 
Heudrick  Jillison  Meyert, 
Andries  Breesteed, 
Aeltje  Schepmoes, 
Susanna  Marsnryn, 
Peter  Le  Grand, 
Jan  Schouten, 
Elizabeth  Schouten, 
Dirck  Teuuisen, 
Warner  Wessels, 
Nicolaes  Blanck, 
Justus  AVilvelt, 
Victor  Bicker, 
Tryntje  Claes, 
Pietr  Jacobsen  ^Marius, 
Peter  CVirnelisen, 
Thomas  Laurensen, 
Cornells  Van  Langevelt, 
Andries  Claesen, 


widow  of  Stoffel  Hoogiand. 
wife  ^fargaretta  Blanck. 
wife  Jae]ih.ie  Sehepmoes. 

wife  ]\Iarritje  .Jans, 
wife  Elije  Rosenvelt. 
wife  Annetje  Van  Borsuni. 
widow  of  Jan  Evert  Keteltas. 
widow  of  (JIaas  Berding. 
wife  Jannehen  de  Windel. 
wife  Sara  Jans. 

wife  Catalina  Frans. 
wife  Elizal)eth  Cornelis. 

wife  Catherina   Ijlanck. 
wife  Claerje  Blanck. 
widow  of  Jurian  Blanck. 
wife    Marretje  Beech, 
wife  Adeltje  Willimse. 
wife  Marretje  Jans, 
wife  iNIaria  Groenlant. 
wife  Trvntie  Michiels. 


Lang  Stkant. 

(Aloug  the  Strand,  north  side  of  Pearl   Street,  east  of 
Whitehall.) 


Willem  Dervall, 
Jacob  Leydsler  (Leisler), 
Susanna  Leydsler  (Leisler), 
Daniel  Veenvos, 
Eebecca  Fredrick, 
Nichalas  Vandergrift, 
Eachel  Vandergrift, 
Lucas  Kierstede,^ 
Elizabeth  Grevenraedt, 


wife  Eebecca  Delaval. 
wife  Els.je  Thymens. 

wife  Christian  \"ander«rift. 


wife  Celetje  Jans. 

widow  of  Dom.  Sanuiel  Drisius. 


GENEALOGICAL  AXI)  FAMILY  IllSTOHY 


41 


Peter  Delanoy, 

Catharina  Bedlo, 

Fredrick  Cfysl)ert!^e  Vaiulen- 

berg, 
John  Smit, 
Henriette  Wessels, 
Maria  Wessels, 
Benjamin  Blanck, 
Jacobus  Kip, 
Nicholas  Janseu  Backer, 
Thomas  Crundall, 
Albert  Bosch, 

Cornells  Jansen  Van  Hooru, 
Olfert  Kreeftberg, 
Vroutje  Cornells, 
Peter  Jansen  Messier, 
Coenrad  Ten  Eyck,  Jr., 
Tobias  Ten  Eyck, 
Benjamin  Hegeman. 
Hermanns  Berger, 
Engeltie  Mans, 
Johanes  Berger, 
Lncas  Tienhoven, 
Cornells  Verdnyn, 
Albert  Klock, 
Martin  Klock, 
Cleesje  Barentse, 
Catharina  Lienwensen, 
Johanes  Van  Brngh, 
Jacobus  De  Plai'dt, 
John  Robertson, 
Carsten  Leursen, 
Zacharias  Laurensen, 
Aliraham  Lubberts, 
Annatje  Van  Borsum, 
Pieter  Vandergrief, 
Robert  Sinclair, 


wife  Eliznlu'tli  De  Potter 


wife  ^laria  Lubberts. 

wife  Janettie  Van  Tienhoven. 

widow  of  A I  lard  Anthony. 

wife  Judith  Edsall. 
wife  Hendrickje  Wessels. 
wife  Marentje  Wessels. 
wife  Deborah  De  Meyer, 
wife  Elsjie  Blanck. 
wife  Anna  Maria  Jans, 
wife  Hillegond  Cornells. 

wife  ]\lan-itje  Willemse. 
vrife  Belitje  Hercks. 
wife  Elizabeth  Hegeman. 


widow  of  Berger  dorisse. 

wife  Tryntje  Berdings. 
wife  Sara  Hendrick. 
wife  Ti'intje  Abrahams, 
wife  Elizalteth  Abrahams, 
widow  of  Thomas  Lienwensen. 

wife  Catharina  Roeloffse. 

wife  Cornelia  Beeck. 

wife  Margaretta  Hendrichkse. 

wife  Geartje  (^)uick. 

wife  Aeltje  Gysberts. 

widow  of  Egbert  Van  Borsum. 
wife     of  Janneken  Van  Borsum. 
wife    ]^laria  Duvckinck. 


42 


GEXEALOdlCAL  AND  FAMILY  llISfOliY 


l.AXG  De  AVai,. 
iW'all  Street,  Soutli  Side.) 


Guy^sbert  Elbertsle, 
Xeeultje  Gysbertsle, 
Adrian  Dirsckseu, 
John  Cavalier, 
Johauues  Jauseu, 
Jacob  Petersen, 
Bernardns  Hassing, 
Jan  Otters, 

Xceltje  Van  Thuyl, 
Rntgert  Parker, 
Gerrit  Cornelis  \"an  Westveen, 
Trseltje  Dnytman, 
Casparus  Hardenbrook, 
Harmanns  Van  Borsnm, 
Jan  Pieter  Slot, 
]^eendert  De  Graww, 
Evert  Hendric'kse. 


wife  AVillenitje  C'laes. 

wife  Elizabeth  Jans, 
wife  Heyltje  Delachair. 
wife  Anna  Maiia  Van  Giesen. 
wife  Marritje  Pieters. 
wife  Neltje  \'an  C'owenlioven. 
wife  Gertruid    Jans    Van    Grav- 
enswaert. 

wife  Sophie  Claes. 

wife  "Wyntje  Stouteuburgh. 

widow  Metjie  Hardenbrook.  . 

wife  AVybrng  Hendrickse. 
wife  Claertje  Dominicus. 
Avife  Gerritje  (|)nick. 
wife  Metjie  Hardenbrook. 


XiEWK  Stkaat.     (X"ew  Street.) 


Isaac  Abrahanisen, 
Daniel  Waldron, 
Vincent  De  La  Moutange, 
Hendrick  Gerritsen, 
Johanes  Van  Gelder, 
Heymau  Koning, 
Melje  Davids, 
Jan  Willemse  Koonie, 
J)aniel  Pietersen, 
Arent  Fredricksen, 
Jnriaen  Xagel, 
A\'illeni  Peers, 


wife  Janneken  Jans, 
wife  Sarah  Putgers. 
wife  Adriaentje  Jans, 
wife  Maritje  Waldron. 
wife  Aefje  Poos, 
wife  Marritje  Andries. 
widow  of  Abraham  Kernier. 
wife  Maria  Bastiaens. 
wife  Annetje  Ackerman. 
wife  Sara  Thennis. 
wife  Jannetje  Pliillipsen. 
wife  Gnetje  Kierse. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  11 1  STORY  43 

Bevek   Straat.     (Beaver   Street.) 

Jacob  Kolve, 

Jacob  Van  Sann,  Avife  Jaimekeu  Lucas. 

Jacob  Plieuix,  wife  Anna  Van  Vleek. 

Jan  Evedse,  wife  Engeltje  Hercks. 

Henclrick  Bosch,  wife  Engeltje  Dircksen. 

Nicholaes  Depn.  wife  ('atalina  De  Vos. 
Jacob  De  Koninck, 
Henricns  Selyns, 

Hendrick  Boelen,  wife  Annekeii  Coert.  ' 

Conielis  Van  der  C'nyl,  wife  Elizal)etli  Arents. 

Laurens  C'olevelt,  wife  Sarah  "Waldron. 

Aln-aliam  Delanoy,  wife  Cornelia  Tol. 

Marckvelt  Sthaa'I'.     (Markettield  Street.) 

Jan  Adanisen  Metselaer,  wife  Geei'tje  Dircksen. 

Herman  De  Graw,  wife  Styntie  A^an  Steenbergen. 

Dirck  Jansen  De  Groot,  wife  Bachel  Phillipse. 

Peter  Meyer,  wife  Baetje  Jans. 

Arent  Leendertse  De  Granw,  wife  Maria  Hendrickas. 

Browwers  Straat. 
(Stone  Street,  west  of  Broad.) 

De  Heer  Frederick  Phillipse, 
Johanna  Van  Swaaenbnrg, 

Joris  Brugerston,  wifi'  Aniui  J^lanck. 

Jeremias  Tothill,  wife  Janneken  De  Kay. 

Isaac  De  Forrest,  wife  Elizabeth  Vanders})iegel. 

Sara  Phillipse,  widow  of  Isaac  De  Forrest. 

Jan  Dircksen,  wife   P.aetje  Kip. 

De  Heer  Stephanns  Van  Coxi- 

landt,  wife  Gertruid  Schuyler. 

Jacolnis  Van  Cortlandt, 

De  Heer  Anthony  Brockholst,  wife  Susanua  Schrick. 
Eip  Van  Dam,  wife  Sarah  A^an  der  S])iegel. 

Johanes  Vanderspiegel, 
Pieter  Jansen,  wife  Ariaent.je  Gerritseu. 


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GEXEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


Brvc  Straat.     (Bridge  Street.; 


Otto  Gerritseu, 
Jeremias  Jansen, 
^Fetje  Clrevenraldt, 
Al)raliani  Kip, 
Abraham  Jansen, 
^laria  Abrahams, 
]\Ir.  Hartman  ^Vessels, 
Andiies  Meyert. 
Jan  Dervall, 


wife  Engeltie  Pieters. 
wife  C'atliarina  Rappailjie. 
widow  of  Antliony  Jansen. 

wife  Tryntie  Kip. 

wife  Elizabeth  Jans  Cannon, 
wife  Vronetje  Van  Vorst. 
wife  Catliarina  Van  Cortlandt. 


Heeeex  Geacht,  west  zyde 
(Broad  Street,  west  side.) 

Carel  Lodowiek, 

Johannes  Provoost, 

Brandt  Schnyler, 

Mr.  Hans  Kierstide, 

Evert  Arensten, 

Isaac  Arensten, 

Jaeolnis  Verhnlst, 

Pieter  Abrahanise  Van  Dnui 

sen, 
Helena  Fiellart. 
Thomas  Kooek, 


wife  Cornelia  Van  Cortlandt. 
wife  Janneken   Lockermans. 


wife  ^Fai'ia  Bennet. 
wife  Hester  AVeblier: 


wife  Havmentje  Dneksen. 
wife  Aefje  Boelen. 
wife  (*atliarina  Hng. 


widow  of  Pieter  Van  Xaerden. 


Direk  Ten  Eyck. 

Dr.  Johannes  Kerbbyl, 

^largaretta  Hagen, 

Aechje  Jane, 

Tryntje  Pieters, 

Hendriek  Jans  Van  Tnnrden,    wife  Sarah  Thomas. 

Boele  Raelofse,  wife  Bayhen  Arentse. 

Cornelius  Quick,  wife  Maria  Van  Hooghten. 

Thennis  De  Kay,  wife  Helena  Van  Brngh. 

Lodiwick  Post,  wife  Agmetje  Bonen. 

Gerrit  T^eydekker,  wife  Xeeltje  Van  der  Cnyl. 

Hendriek  Kermer,  wife  Annetje  Thomas. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


45 


Jan  Jansen  Moll, 
Jacob  Boelen, 
Dirck  Fransen, 
Wybrant  Abraliamse, 
Hermanus  Wessells, 
Joliaiines  Kip, 
Styntie  Paulus, 
Isaac  Van  Vleck, 
Jan  Corsen, 
liutgert  Willemsen, 
Joris  Walgraef, 


wife  Engeltie  Pieters. 
wife  C'atharina  Clerk, 
wife  Urseltje  Schepmoes. 
wife  E]izal)eth  Jacobsen. 
wife  C.  ^lagdalena  Dumsteede. 
wife  Catliai'ina  Kierstede. 
widow  of  Paulus  Jurrisou. 
wife  CVitalina  Delanoy. 
wife  Mietje  Tlieunis. 
wife  Gysbertje  Alauritz. 
wife  ^Magdaleentje  Kutgers. 


Heeken  Geacht,  oost  zyde. 
(Broad  Street,  East  Side.) 


Hendrick  Arentse, 
Hendriek  Reniers, 
Frans  Claessen, 
AVolfert  Wel^ber, 
Albertus  Ringo, 
Jan.  De  La  Montague, 
Simon  Breesteede, 
Catharina  Kreigers, 

Leendert  De  Kleyn, 
Joris  Jansen, 
Huyg  Barentse  De  Kleyn, 
Pieter  Stoutenburg, 
Willem  Waldron, 
Jillis  Provost, 
David  Provoost, 
Jonathan  Provoost, 
Jan  Willemse  Nering, 
Gresje  Tdens, 
Jacob  Mauritzen, 
Willem  Bogardus, 
Claes  Leet, 


Silla 


wife  C'atharina  Hardenln-ook 
wife  Anna  Thyssen. 
wife  Marritje  Cornells, 
wife  Anna  Wailis. 
wife  Jannettie  Eingo. 
wife  Annetje  Waldron. 
wife  Jannetje  Van  Laer. 
widow     of     Nicasius     De 

(Sills). 
wife  Magdalena  AVolsum. 
wife  Magdalena  Pieters. 
wife  ^favken  ^lartels. 


wife  P]ngeltse  Stoutenburg. 
wife  Maria  Bon. 
wife  Grietje  Jillis. 
wife  Catharina  A'anderveen. 
wife  Catharine  de  Meyert. 
widow  of  Pieter  Nuys. 
wife  Gretje  Van  der  (Jrift. 
wife  Walburg  de  Silla   (Sills). 
wife  Kniertje  Hendricks. 


ifi  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Johannes  de  Peyster,  wife  Cornelia  Lubbei-t.>e. 

Panlus  Scliriek,  wife  Maria  de  Peyster. 

Jan  Vincent,  wife  Annetje  Jans. 

Arent  Isaacsen,  wife  Elizabeth  Stevens. 

HooGH  Straat. 

(High  Street  [Stone  Street],  east  of  Broad  Street.) 

Rynard  Willemsen,  wife  Snsanna  A  rents. 

Tryntje  Arents, 

Gurtrnid  Reyniers, 

Adolph  Pietersen  De  Groot,  wife  Afje  Dircksen. 

Anietje  De  Groot, 

Maria  De  Groot, 

Mr.  Evert  Keteltas,  wife   Hillegard  -Joris. 

John  Lillie,  wife  Anna  Plardenhrook. 

Johannes  Hardenbrook, 

Jacob  Abrahamse  Santvoort,  wife  Magdalena  Van  Vleck. 

Laurens  Holt,  wife  Jilletje  Laurens. 

Jan  Cooley,  wife  Janneken  Van  Dyck. 

Elizabeth  Cooley, 

Berent  Coert,  wife  f'hi'istina  ^Vessels. 

Gurtruyd  Barents,  widow  of  Jan  Hyben. 

Barent  Hyben,  wife  Sarah  Pannes. 

De  Heer  Nicholas  de  Meyert,  wife  Lydia  Vnu  Dyck. 

Elizal)etli  de  Meyert, 

Guelliani  De  Honneur,  wife  Christina  Steentjens. 

Claes  Janse  Stavast,  wife  Aefje  Gerritsen. 

Evert  Wessels,  wife  Jannetje  Stavast. 

Lawrens  Wessels,  wife  Aefje  Jans. 

Johannes  Hoagland,  wife  Anneken  Dnycking. 

Frans  Goderus,  wife  Rebecca  Idens. 

Jan  Janse  Van  Langendyck,  wife  Griet.je  We-sels. 

Jan  Harberdink,  wife  ^tfayhen  Barents. 

Gerrit  Duycking,  wife  Maria  Abeel. 

David  Jochemsen,  wife  Christina  Coppoens. 

Elias  de  AVindel   (Wendell),  wife  Anna  Tebbelaer. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  47 

Jan  Breestede,  wife  ^rari'iet.jc  Aiidries. 

Hendrick  Wessels  Ten 

Broeck,  wife  Jannetjie  Breestede. 

Geertruid  Breestede, 

De  Heer  Nicolas  Bayard,  wife  Judith  Verlctli. 

Francijia  Hermans, 

Evert  Dnyeking,  wnfe  Hendrickjc  Simons. 

Willem  Bleek,  wife  CStie  Duyeking. 

Anthony  De  Mill,  wife  Elizalteth  Van  der  Liphorst. 

Pieter  De  Mill, 
Sarah  De  Mill, 
De  Heer  Aliraham  De  Peys-  wife  Cathai'ina  De  Peyster. 

ter, 

DiACONIES   HuYS. 

(Deacon's  House  for  the  Poor.) 

Willem   Janse  Roome,  wife  ^larritje  Jans. 

Ke^^er  Stoffelsen,  wife  (leertje  Jans. 

Cregera  Jolis,  wife  Jannetje  Heudiicks. 

Albert  Cuynen,  wife  Tryntje  Jans. 

Elizabetli  Jacobs,  widow  of  Jacob  .Moiis. 

Pieter  El)el,  wife  Clara  El)el. 

(Note:    The  Deacon's  House  ajipears  to  have  been  on  the  north 
side  of  Beaver  street,  a  little  west  of  Broad  street.) 

Slyck  Str.\at. 

(^Fuddy   Sti-eet.     Afterwards  Mill   Street,  now  South   William 

Street.) 

Jan  Hendricks  V"an  Baunnel,  wife  Annetje  Abi'ahams. 
Jan  Kreeck,  wife  Geertruid  De  Haes. 

Emmerentje  Laurens,  widow  of  Hendrick  Oosterhaven. 

Leendert  Oosterhaven, 

Princen  Straat. 

(Princes  Street,  now  Beaver  Street,  east  of  Broad  Street.) 

Jan  Langstraten,  wife  Marritje  Jans. 

Jan  Janse  Van  Quistkout,         wife  Albertie  dans. 


4S 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


Hendrick  De  Foreest, 
Bareut  Flaesbeek, 
Jan  De  Foreest, 
Jan   Pietersen, 
Xicolaes  Jansen, 
William  Moore, 
Ambrosius   De  Warran, 
Thomas  De  Meer, 


wife  Fennntje  Flae.sl)eek. 
wife  Alarritje  Hendricks, 
wife  Susanna  Verletts. 
wife  Metje  Pieters. 
wife  Janneken  Kiersen. 
wife  Annetje  Jans, 
wife  Ariantje  Thomas, 
wife  Susanna  De  Nis;rin. 


KoNiNCK  Straat. 
(King  Street.  Exchange  Place,  east  of  Broad.) 

wife  Elsje  Berger. 

wife  Neeltje  Van  Cowenhoven. 

wife  Stynte  Jans. 

widow  of  Bruin  Hage. 


Jan  Si])kens, 
Cornelius  Pluvier, 
Frederick  Hendricksen, 
Geesje  Schurmans, 
Elizabeth  Schurmans, 
Jacob  Fransen, 


wife  Magdalena  Jacobs. 


(Smith  Street. 

C*ornelia  Toos, 
Jan  Vinge, 


Assuernes  Hendricks, 
Thyman  Jansen, 
Jan  ^Nleyert, 
Pieter  Jansen, 
Jan.  Jansen  Van  Flemburg, 
Laurens  Hendrickse. 
Hendricke  Van  Borsum, 
Jannetje  Cornells, 
Thymen  Van  Borsum, 
AVyd   Timnier    (Wood  Tim- 

mer), 
Oristje  Langendyck, 


Smit  Straat. 
William  Street,  south  of  Maiden  Lane.) 

widow  of  Elias  Provoost. 

wife  Wieske  Huy]ikens.   {He  icas 

the  first  child  horn  mi  Maitliattan 

Island.) 

wife  Neeltje  Jans. 

wife  Hester  Pluvier. 

wife  Anna  Van  Vorst. 

wife  Elizabeth  Van  Hoogten. 

wife  Willemyntie  De  Kleyn. 

wife  ^Farritje  Jans. 

wife  ^larritje  Cornells. 


wife  Grietjie  Focken. 


widow  of  Dirck  Dev. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


49 


Frans  Corueliseu, 
Jan  Pietersen  Bosch, 
William  Biiyell   (Boyle), 
David  Provoost, 
Tryntje  Eeymers, 
Jau  Pieterseu, 


wife  Jaiiettje  Dey. 

wife  Janettjie  Barents. 

wife  Janettje  Frans. 

wife  Tryntje  Lanrens. 

widow  of  Meynardt  Barentsen. 

wife  ]\[arritjie  Pietersen. 


Smits  Vallye. 


Smith's  Val 


IVar 


Elizabeth  Lnbberts. 
Jan  Jansen  Van  Langendyek 
Pieter  Jansen  Van  Langen- 
dyek, 
Herman  Jansen, 
Albert  Wantenaer, 
Hilletje  Pieters, 
Johannes  Clopper, 
^Margarata  Vermeulen, 

Adriaeutie  Van  de  Water, 
Abraham  Moll, 
Fytie  Sipkens, 
Wilhelmus  De  ^Nleyert. 
Jacob  De  Mill. 
Dirck  Yanderclitf, 
Joost  Carelse, 
Will  em  Hillacher, 
dement  Ellswaert, 
Wilhelmns  Beekman, 
Johannes  Beekman, 
Jacob  Swart, 


Street,  north  of  Wall  Street.) 
widow  of  Dirck  Fhivt. 


wife  Breehje  Ellswaert. 
wife  Tryntje  Hadders. 
widow  of  Cornells  Clojiper. 


widow     of 
Water. 


Hendricks     Van     de 


wife  Jacomyntie  Van  Dorlebeek. 

wife  of  Eoeloff. 

wife  C'atharina  Bayard. 

wife  Sarah  Joasten. 

wife  Geesje  Hendrickse. 

wife  Styntie  Jans. 

wife  Tryntje  Baelen. 

wife  Anna  Maria  Englebert. 

wife  Catharina  De  Boog. 

wife  Aeltje  Thomas. 

wife  Tryntje  Jacobse. 


BrYTEN  De  Land  Pookt. 
(Beyond  the  Land  (Jate,  on  Broadway,  north  of  Wall  Street.) 
Thenuis  Dev,  wife  Annake  Schouten. 


50 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


0\EE  Het   Versch   Water. 

(Beyond  the  Fresh  Water.    A  small  pond  called  Kolck,  at  what 
is  now  corner  of  Centre  and  Leonard  Streets.    The  peo- 
ple beyond  that  all  lived  on  farms,  or  boweries.) 


A^'olfert  Webber, 

Dirck  Cornellisen, 
xlrie  Corneliseu, 
Franciscus   Bastianse, 
Solomon  Pieters, 
Anthony  Saileyren, 
Franeais  Vanderhoof, 
Daniel  De  Clerck, 
Cozyn  Gerritsen, 
Jan.  Thommasen, 
Peter  Jansen, 
Jacob  Kip, 
Maria  Kip. 
Jnffrow  Judith  Tsendorn, 


wife  Geertruyd     Hassing     (near 

Cherry  Street), 
wife  Neeltje  Cornelissen. 
wife  Rebacea  Idens. 
wife  Barbara  Emanuel, 
wife  Marritje  Anthony, 
wife  Jasyntie  Thomas, 
wife  Wyntie  De  Uries. 
wife  Grietje  Cozyns. 
wife  Yrowtje  Gerrittse. 
wife  Apolonia  Cornelis. 
wife  Marritje  Jacobs, 
wife  ?ilaria  De  la  ^fontaffne. 


widow    of    Lord    Pieter    Stuyve- 
sant. 
Nicolaes  Willem   Stuyvesant,  wife  Klizalieth  Slechtenhorst. 
Gysbert  Servaes,  wife  Alaritje  Jacobs. 

Abraham  Van  de  Woestyne, 
Catalyntje  Van  de  Wooes- 

t>me, 
Abel  Blootgoet   (Bloodgood),  wife  Ida  Adriaense. 


Pieter  Jacol)son. 

Jan  de  Groot, 

Jacob  de  Groot, 

Jillis  Mandeville, 

Grietje  Mandeville, 

Egbert  Facksen, 

Johannes  Thomasen, 

Johannes  Van   Covenlioven, 

Sara  Frans. 

(Xote:     The  widow  of  the  former  (lovernor  Peter  Stuyvesant 


wife   Reltje  Anaense. 
wife  Afargarietje  Gerritse. 
wife  Grietje  Jans, 
wife  Elsje  Hendricks. 

wife  Elsje  Lucas, 
wife  Aefje  Jacobs. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  51 

lived  on  her  liusbaud's  bowery,  on  Bowery  Lane,  north  of 
Eighth  Street.  kSolomon  Pieters,  a  free  negro,  owned  thirty 
acres  where  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel  stands.  Jillis  Mande- 
ville  owned  a  farm  south  of  Twenty-first  Street  and  Eighth 
Avenue.  Jacob  Kip  lived  on  the  "Kips  Bay  Farms,"  on 
East  river.  '\\'olfert  Webber  owned  a  large  tract  of  mead- 
ows near  Roosevelt  Street.) 

Aen  De  Geoote  Kill. 

(By  the  Big  Creek.) 

(The  Groote  Kill  was  a  brook  which  emptied  into  the  Hudson 
river  at  Forty-ninth  Street.) 

Conradus  Vanderbeek,  wife  Elsje  Jans. 

Claes  Emanuel s  and 
Jan  de  Vries,  negroes. 

Arme  Bowery.     (Poor  Farm.) 

Arnaut  AVebber,  wife  Jaunekeii  Conielis. 

Hendrick  Martense,  wife  ]\Iargareta  ]^leyrink. 
Abraham  Eycking, 

Herck  Tiebout.  wife  Wyntie  Tennis. 

Tennis  Cornelisen.  wife  Annetje  Claes. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

THE  FIRST  LETTERS  FROM  XEW  XETHERLAXD. 

AVitliin  a  few  years  tliere  was  discoveved  a  letter,  written 
))y  Dominie  .lonas  Micbaelins.  wliich,  so  far  as  known,  is  the 
first  letter  written  from  New  Netlierland,  and  is  tlie  most  ini- 
l)ortant  docnment  eonneeted  witli  onr  early  history.  It  shows 
the  condition  of  the  new  settlement,  confirms  the  fact  that  Peter 
jNIinnit  was  then  director,  and  shows  the  various  ditificulties 
nnder  which  tlie  writer,  in  his  ministerial  ('a])acity,  was  laboring. 
It  was  doubtless  the  story  of  all  new  settlements — a  story  of 
jn'ivation  and  much  trouble.  U))  to  the  time  when  this  letter 
was  discovered.  Rev.  Everardns  P)Ogardus  had  always  been  sup- 
posed to  be  the  first  ministei-  in  New  Amsterdam.  The  original 
letter  is  now  among'  the  priceless  collection  of  the  Lenox  Li- 
brary, and  the  copy  is  from  a  translation  recently  made  at  the 
sugg-estion  of  the  authorities  of  the  Dutch  church. 

"De  Vrede  Christi.     (The  Peace  of  Christ  to  You.) 
"Reverend  Sir.     Well  beloved  brother  in  Christ.     Kind  friend. 

"The  favorable  o])portnnity,  which  now  presents  itself  of 
writing  to  your  Reverence,  I  cannot  let  pass  without  embracing 
it,  according  to  my  i^romise.  And  I  first  unburden  myself  in 
this  conmumication  of  a  sorrowful  circumstance.  It  pleased  the 
Lord,  seven  weeks  after  we  ar)'ived  in  this  country  to  take  from 
me  ray  good  partner,  who  was  to  me  for  more  than  sixteen  years, 
a  virtuous,  faithful  and  altogether  amiable  yoke  felloAv;  and  I 
now  find  myself  with  three  children,  very  much  discommoded, 
without  her  society  and  assistance.  P)ut  what  have  T  to  say? 
The  Lord  Himself  has  done  this  against  whom  no  one  can  op- 
pose liimself.  And  why  should  I  wish  to,  knowing  that  all  things 
must  work  together  for  good  to  them  that  love  God.  I  hope 
therefore  to  1)ear  my  cross  ])atiently  and  by  the  grace  and  liel]) 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  53 

of  the  Lord,  not  to  let  tlie  courage  fail  me  ^Ylliell  in  my  duties 
here  I  so  especially  need. 

"The  voyage  was  long,  namely  from  the  l:l4tli  of  January 
till  the  7th  of  April,  when  we  first  set  foot  upon  land.  Of  storm 
and  tempest  which  fell  hard  upon  the  good  wife  and  children, 
though  tliey  bore  it  better  as  regards  sea  sickness  and  fear  than 
I  had  expected;  we  had  no  lack,  particularly  in  the  vicinity  of 
the  Bermudas,  and  the  rough  coasts  of  this  country.  Uur  fare 
in  the  ship  was  very  poor  and  scanty,  so  that  my  blessed  wife 
and  childreu,  not  eating  with  us  in  the  cabin,  on  account  of  the 
little  rooms  in  it,  had  a  worse  lot  than  the  sailors  themselves; 
and  that  by  reason  of  a  wicked  cook,  who  annoyed  them  in  every 
way:  but  especially  l)y  reason  of  the  captain  himself,  who  al- 
though I  frequently  ('om])lained  of  it  in  the  most  courteous  man- 
ner, did  not  concern  himself  in  the  least  about  correcting  the 
rascal;  nor  did  he  even  when  they  were  all  sick,  give  them  any- 
thing which  could  do  them  any  good,  although  there  was  enough 
in  the  ship;  as  he  himself  knew  very  well  where  to  find  it  in 
order  out  of  meal  times,  to  fill  his  own  stomach.  All  the  relief 
which  he  gave  us,  consisted  merely  in  liberal  promises,  with  a 
drunken  head,  upon  which  nothing  followed  when  he  was  sober, 
but  a  sour  face,  and  he  raved  at  the  officers  and  kept  himself 
constantly  to  the  wine,  both  at  sea  and  especially  here  while 
lying  in  the  [Hudson]  river;  so  that  he  navigated  the  ship  daily 
with  a  wet  sail  and  an  em])ty  head,  seldom  coming  ashore  to  the 
Council  and  never  to  Divine  service.  We  bore  all  with  silence 
on  board  the  ship,  but  it  grieves  me,  when  I  think  of  it,  on  ac- 
count of  my  wife,  the  more  because  she  was  in  such  a  i)hysical 
state  as  she  was;  believing  herself  to  be  in  a  delicate  condition, 
and  the  time  so  short  which  she  had  yet  to  live.  On  my  first 
voyage  I  roamed  about  with  him  a  great  deal,  even  lodged  in  the 
same  hut.  but  never  knew  that  he  was  such  a  brute  and  drunk- 
ard. But  he  was  then  under  the  direction  of  Mi-.  Lam,  and  now 
he  had  the  chief  connnand  himself.  I  have  also  written  to  Mr. 
Godyn  about  it,  considering  it  necessary  that  it  should  be  known. 

"Our  coming  here  was  agreeable  to  all,  and  I  hope,  by  the 
gi'ace  of  the  Lonl.  that  my  service  will  not  be  unfruitful.  The 
peojile,  for  the  most  jiart,  are  rather  rough  and  unrestrained, 
but  1  find  in  most  all  of  them  both  love  and  respect  towards  me; 
two  things  with  which  hitherto  the  Lord  has  ever^nvhere  gi'ac- 
iously  blessed  niv  labors,  and  wliicli  in  our  calling,  as  your 
Eevereuce  well  knows  and  finds,  are  especially  desirable  in  order 
to  make  [our  ministry]   fruitful. 


64  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

"From  the  begiiniing  we  established  a  form  of  a  church 
and  as  Brother  Bastian  Crol  very  seldom  comes  down  from 
Fort  Orange,  because  the  directorship  of  that  fort  and  the  trade 
there  is  committed  to  him,  it  has  been  thought  best  to  choose 
two  elders  for  my  assistance  and  for  the  projier  consideration 
of  all  such  ecclesiastical  matters  as  might  occur,  intending  the 
coming  year,  if  the  Lord  permits,  to  let  one  of  them  retire  and  to 
choose  another  in  his  i)lace  from  a  double  number  tii'st  lawfully 
proposed  to  the  (Congregation.  One  of  these  whom  we  have 
now  chosen  is  the  Honorable  Director  himself,  and  the  other  is 
the  store  keeiier  of  the  Oompany,  Jan  Huyghen,  his  brother  in 
law,  ])ersons  of  very  good  character,  as  far  as  I  have  been  able 
to  learn,  having  both  been  foi'merly  in  office  in  the  church,  one 
as  deacon,  and  the  other  as  elder  in  the  Dutch  and  French 
churches  respectively  at   Wesel. 

"At  the  first  administration  of  the  Lords  Supper  which 
was  ol)served,  not  without  great  joy  and  comfort  to  many,  we 
had  fully  fifty  connuunicants.  Walloons  and  Dutch,  of  whom  a 
portion  made  their  first  confession  of  faith  before  us,  and  others 
exhibited  their  church  certificates.  Others  had  forgotten  to 
bring  their  certificates  with  them,  not  thinking  that  a  church 
would  be  formed  and  established  here,  and  some  who  brought 
them  had  lost  them  unfortunately  in  a  general  conflagration, 
but  they  were  admitted  upon  the  satisfactory  testimony  of 
others,  to  whom  they  were  known,  and  also  ui^on  their  daily 
good  deportment,  since  we  cannot  observe  strictly  all  the  usm! 
formalities  in  making  a  beginning  under  such  circumstances. 

"We  administer  the  Holy  Sacrement  of  the  Lord,  once 
in  four  months,  ]n'ovisionally  until  a  larger  number  of  pecile 
shall  otherwise  recpiire.  The  Walloons  and  French  have  no 
service  on  Sundays,  otherwise  than  in  the  Dutch  language,  for 
those  who  understand  no  Dutch  are  very  few.  A  portion  of  the 
Walloons  are  going  back  to  the  Fatherland,  either  because  their 
years  here  are  expired,  or  else  because  some  are  not  very  serv- 
iceable to  the  Oom])any.  Some  of  them  live  far  away  and  could 
not  well  come  in  time  of  heavy  rain  and  storm,  so  that  it  is  not 
advisable  to  appoint  any  special  service  in  French  for  so  small 
a  number,  and  that  upon  an  uncertainty.  Nevertheless  the 
Tvord's  Supper  was  administered  to  them  in  the  P^rench  lan- 
guage and  according  to  the  French  mode  with  a  discourse  pre- 
ceding, which  I  had  before  me  in  writing,  as  I  could  not  trust 
myself  extem])oraneously.  If  in  this  and  in  other  matters  your 
Reverence  and  the  Honorable  Brethren  of  the  (*onsistorv  who 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  55 

have  special  superintendence  over  us  here,  deem  it  necessary  to 
administer  to  ns  any  correction,  instruction  or  good  advice,  it 
will  be  agreeable  to  us  and  we  will  thank  your  Reverence  there- 
for, since  we  must  have  no  other  object  than  the  glory  of  6rod 
in  the  Iniilding  up  of  His  kingdom  and  the  salvation  of  many 
souls.  I  keep  myself  as  far  as  practicable  within  the  pale  of 
my  calling;  wherein  I  find  myself  sufficiently  occupied.  And 
although  our  small  consistory  embraces  at  the  most,  when 
Brother  (h'ol  is  down  here,  not  more  than  four  ])ersons,  all  of 
wliom,  myself  alone  excepted,  have  also  public  business  to  attend 
to,  I  still  hope  to  sejiarate  carefully  the  ecclesiastical  from  the 
civil  matters,  which  occur,  so  that  each  one  will  be  occupied  with 
his  own  subject.  And  though  many  things  are  of  a  mixed  kind, 
and  political  and  ecclesiastical  i^ersons  can  greatly  assist  each 
other,  nevertheless  the  matters  and  offices  belonging  to  each 
other  must  not  be  mixed  but  kei»t  se])arate,  in  order  to  prevent 
all  confusions  and  disorder.  As  the  council  of  this  |)lace  consists 
of  good  people,  who  are  however,  for  the  most  ])art  simple  and 
have  little  experience  in  public  affairs,  I  slionld  have  little  ob- 
jection to  serve  them  in  any  serious  or  dul)ious  affair  with  good 
advice,  provided  I  considered  myself  callable,  and  my  advice 
should  be  asked,  in  which  case  I  supjjose  that  I  would  not  do 
amiss  or  be  suspected  by  anyone  of  being  a  meddler,  or  l)usy 
body. 

"In  my  opinion  it  is  very  expedient  that  the  Honorable 
Directors  of  this  place  should  furnish  plain  and  precise  instruc- 
tions to  their  Governors,  that  they  may  distinctly  know  how 
to  conduct  themselves,  in  all  possible  public  difficulties  and 
events;  and  also  that  T  should  have  all  such  Acta  Synodolia,  as 
are  adopted  in  the  Synods  of  Holland,  both  the  special  ones 
relating  to  this  region  and  those  which  are  ])rovincial  and  na- 
tional, in  relation  to  ecclesiastical  ])oints  of  difficulty,  or  at  least 
such  of  them  as  in  the  judgment  of  the  Honorable  Brethren,  at 
Amsterdam,  would  be  most  likely  to  be  of  service  to  us  here.  In 
the  mean  time  I  hope  matters  will  go  well  here,  if  only  on  both 
sides  we  do  our  best  in  all  sincerity  and  honest  zeal,  whereto  I 
have  from  the  first  entii'ely  devoted  myself  and  wherein  I  have 
also  hitherto  by  the  grace  of  God,  had  no  just  cause  to  complain 
of  any  one.  And  any  dubious  matters  of  importance  happen 
to  me,  and  esjiecially  if  they  will  admit  of  any  delay,  I  shall  be 
guided  by  the  good  and  prudent  advice  of  the  Honorable 
Brethren  to  whom  I  have  already  wholly  commended  myself. 
"As  to   the  natives   of  this  countrv  I  find   them  entirelv 


56  GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

savage  aiul  wild,  stvangers  to  all  (leceuey,  yea,  uncivil  and  .stuiii<l 
as  garden  ix)les,  proficient  in  all  wickedness  and  godlessness ; 
devilish  men  who  serve  nobody  bnt  the  devil,  that  is  the  s})irit 
which  in  their  language  they  call  Menetto,  nnder  which  title 
they  compreliend  everything  tliat  is  subtle  and  crafty  and  be- 
yond human  skill  ami  power.  Tliey  have  so  much  witch  craft, 
divination,  savageiy  and  wicked  tricks,  that  they  cannot  be 
held  in  by  any  ])ands  or  locks.  They  are  as  thievish  and  treach- 
erous as  they  are  tall,  and  in  cruelty  they  are  altogether  in- 
hu]]ian,  more  than  barbarous,  far  exceeding  the  Africans.  I 
have  written  concerning  these  things  to  several  persons  else- 
where not  doubting  that  Brother  Crol  will  have  written  to  your 
Reverence  and  to  the  Honorable  Directors;  as  also  of  the  base 
treachery,  and  the  murders  whicli  the  ^Lohicans  at  the  upper 
I)a]-t  of  this  rivei',  iuid  {ilanned  against  Fort  Orange,  but  by  the 
gracious  interference  of  the  Lord  for  our  good,  who  when  it 
l)leases  Him,  knows  how  to  ]iour  unexpectedly,  natural  imjuilses 
into  these  unnatural  men,  in  order  to  ]>revent  them,  they  did  not 
succeed.  How  these  peoi)le  can  best  be  led  to  the  true  knowledge 
of  God,  and  of  the  Mediator,  C'hi'ist,  is  hard  to  say.  I  cannot 
myself  wonder  enough,  who  it  is  that  has  im])osed  so  nuicli  u^ion 
your  Reverence  and  many  others  in  the  Fatherland,  concerning 
the  docility  of  these  jieople,  and  their  good  nature  the  proper 
princi])les  of  religion  and  the  remains  of  the  law  of  nature 
which  should  be  among  them;  in  whom  I  have  as  yet  been  able 
ro  discover  hardly  a  single  good  point,  except  that  they  do  not 
speak  so  jeeringly  and  so  scoffiugly  of  the  god  like  and  glorious 
majest}"  of  their  creator,  as  the  Africans  dare  to  do.  But  it  is 
because  they  have  no  certain  knowledge  of  Him,  or  scarcely  any. 
If  we  speak  to  them  of  God  it  ap])ears  to  them  like  a  dream,  and 
we  are  compelled  to  s])eak  of  Him,  not  under  the  name  of  Men- 
etto,  whom  they  know  ;ind  serve,  for  that  would  be  blasphemy, 
but  of  one  great,  yea,  most  high  Sackiema,  by  which  name  they, 
living  without  a  king,  call  him  who  has  the  command  over  sev- 
eral hundred  among  them,  and  who  by  our  own  people  are 
called  8ackemaker's;  and  as  the  people  listen  some  will  begin  to 
mutter  and  shake  their  heads  as  if  it  were  a  silly  fable  and  others 
in  order  to  ex]U'ess  regard  and  friendship  for  such  a  pro])osi- 
tion  will  say,  orifJi,  that  is  good.  Now  by  what  means  are  we  to 
make  a  salutory  breach  for  the  salvation  of  this  peojile?  I  take 
the  liberty  on  this  point  of  enlarging  to  your  Reverence. 

"Their  language.  Avhich  is  the  first  thing  to  be  enii)loyed 
with   them,  methinks  it  entirely  peculiar,     llany  of  our  com- 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY  -".7 

inon  people  call  it  an  easy  language  which  is  soon  learned,  but 
I  am  of  a  contrary  opinion.  For  those  who  can  understand  their 
words  to  some  extent,  and  re])eat  them,  fail  greatly  in  the  pro- 
nunciation, and  speak  a  broken  language  like  the  h\nguage  of 
Ashdocd.  For  these  people  have  difficult  aspirates  and  many 
guttural  letters,  which  are  formed  more  in  the  throat  than  by  the 
mouth,  teeth  and  li])S,  to  which  our  people  are  not  accustomed, 
and  making  a  bold  stroke  at  which  they  imagine  that  they  have 
accomplished  something  wonderful.  It  is  true  one  can  learn 
as  nmch  as  is  sufficient  for  the  purpose  of  trading,  but  this  oc- 
curs almost  as  nuu'h  by  signs  with  the  thumb  and  fingers  as  by 
speaking,  but  this  cannot  l)e  done  in  religious  matters.  It  also 
seems  to  us  that  they  rather  design  to  conceal  their  language 
from  us.  than  to  jiroperly  communicate  it,  except  in  things  which 
hap]ien  in  daily  trade,  saying  that  it  is  sufficient  for  us  to  under- 
stand them  in  that,  and  then  they  speak  only  half  sentences, 
shortened  woi'ds  and  frequently  call  out  a  dozen  tilings,  and 
even  more,  and  all  things  which  have  only  a  rude  reseml:)lance  to 
each  other,  thev  frecjuently  call  by  the  same  name.  In  truth  it 
is  a  made  up  childish  language,  so  that  even  those  who  can  best 
of  all  speak  with  the  savages  and  get  along  well  in  trade,  are 
nevertheless  wholly  in  the  dark,  and  bewildered  when  they  hear 
the  savages  talking  among  themselves. 

■'It  would  be  well  then  to  leave  the  })arents  as  they  are 
and  begin  with  the  children  who  are  still  young.  So  be  it.  But 
they  ought  in  youth  to  be  separated  from  their  parents,  yea,  from 
their  whole  nation.  For  without  this  they  would  forthwith  be 
as  mucli  accustomed  as  their  ])a]'ents  to  heathenish  tricks  and 
deviltries,  which  are  kneaded  naturally  in  their  hearts  liy  them- 
selves through  a  just  judgment  of  God ;  so  that  having  once  by 
liabit,  obtained  deep  root,  they  would  with  great  difficulty  be 
emancipated  thei-efrom.  But  this  separation  is  hard  to  effect, 
foi'  the  parents  have  a  sti-ong  affection  for  their  children  and 
are  very  loth  to  part  with  them;  and  when  they  are  separated 
from  tliera  as  we  have  already  had  |)roof,  the  parents  are  never 
contented,  but  take  them  awav  stealthily,  or  induce  them  to  run 
away.  Nevertheless  although  it  would  be  attended  with  some 
expense,  we  ought,  by  means  of  presents  and  promises,  to  obtain 
the  children  Avith  the  gratitude  and  consent  of  the  parents,  in 
order  to  place  them  under  the  instruction  of  some  experienced 
and  godly  schoohnasler,  Avhere  they  may  be  instructed  not  only 
to  speak,  read  and  write  in  our  language,  but  also  es]iecially  in 
the  fundamentals  of  our  C'hristian  religion,  and  where  besides 


58  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

thoy  will  see  nothing  bnt  the  good  example  of  virtnous  living; 
])nt  they  must  sometimes  speak  their  native  tongue  among  them- 
selves, in  order  not  to  forget  it,  as  being  evidently  a  ])rincipal 
means  of  spreading  the  knowledge  of  religion  through  the  whole 
nation.  In  tlie  mean  time  we  should  not  forget  to  beseech  the 
Lord,  with  ardent  and  continual  prayers  for  His  blessing,  who 
can  make  things  which  are  unseen  suddenly  and  opportunely  to 
apjiear,  who  gives  life  to  the  dead,  calls  that  which  is  not  as 
though  it  were,  and  being  rich  in  mercy  has  i)ity  on  whom  he 
will,  as  he  has  compassionated  us  to  be  his  people  when  before 
we  Avere  not  com|>assionated  and  were  not  his  people,  and  has 
washed  us  clean,  sanctified  us  and  justified  us  when  we  were 
covered  with  all  mannei-  of  corruption,  calling  us  to  the  blessed 
knowledge  of  His  son,  and  from  the  power  of  darkness  to  His 
marvelous  light.  And  this  T  regard  so  much  the  more  necessary 
as  the  wrath  and  curse  of  God  resting  u]ion  this  miserable  peo- 
|)le  is  found  to  be  the  heavier.  Perchance  God  may  to  that  end 
have  mercy  upon  them,  that  the  fullnes  of  the  heathen  may 
be  gradually  brought  in,  and  the  salvation  of  our  God  may  be 
here  also  seen  among  these  wild  and  savage  men.  I  hope  to 
keep  a  watchful  eye  over  these  people,  and  to  learn  as  much 
of  their  language  as  will  be  ])racticable,  and  to  seek  better  op- 
pnt-funities  for  their  instruction  than  hitherto  it  h^s  been  pos- 
-\h]o  to  find. 

".\s  to  what  concenis  mvself  anil  my  household,  1  find  my- 
self by  the  loss  of  inv  good  and  helpful  ])artner,  very  much 
i^indred  ;mu1  di-tiessrd,  foi'  my  two  little  daughters  are  yet 
small ;  mnid  servants  are  not  here  to  be  had,  at  least  none  whom 
tlipv  advise  me  to  t-^ke,  and  the  Angola  slaves  are  thievish,  lazy 
and  useless  fvash.  The  voung  man  whom  I  took  with  me  T  dis- 
clrn-aed  after  Whitsuntide,  for  the  reason  that  I  could  not 
employ  him  out  of  doors,  at  any  working  of  the  land,  and  in- 
doi-r-'  he  was  a  luirden  to  me  instead  of  an  assistance.  He  is 
now  e'se  where  at  service  among  the  farmers. 

"The  lu'omise  which  the  Honorable  Directors  of  the  C'om- 
pany  had  made  me  of  some  acres  of  surveyed  lands  for  me  to 
m-ike  mvself  a  liomp.  instead  of  a  free  table  which  otherwise 
belonsed  to  me,  is  void  and  useless.  Fov  their  Honors  well 
knew  that  there  avp  va  horses,  cows  or  laborers  to  be  obtained 
here  for  monev.  Kvervone  is  short  in  these  particulars  and 
wi^nts  more.  T  sh'mid  not  nnnd  the  expense  if  the  opi)ovtunity 
only  (  ffered.  for  the  sdse  of  our  own  comfort.  Althou2h  there 
;;re  no  i;rofit  in   it,   (the  Honorable   Directors  nevertheless   re- 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY  59 

maining  indelited  to  ine  for  as  much  as  the  vakie  of  a  free  tal)le) 
for  refreshment  of  butter,  milk,  etc.,  cannot  be  here  obtained, 
Though  some  is  indeed  sold  at  a  very  high  price,  for  tliose  who 
bring  it  m  or  bespeak  it  are  jealous  of  each  other.  So  I  shall 
he  compelled  to  ];ass  through  the  winter  without  butter  and 
otlier  neces.^aries  which  the  ships  do  not  bring  with  them  to  be 
sold  here.  The  rations  which  are  given  out  and  charged  foi' 
high  enough,  are  all  hard,  stale  food,  as  they  are  used  to  on 
board  ship,  and  frequently  not  very  good,  and  even  so,  one  can- 
not obtain  as  much  as  he  desires.  I  began  to  get  considerable 
stiength  hy  the  grace  of  the  Lord,  but  in  consequence  of  this 
hard  food  of  beans  and  gray  ])eas  which  are  hard  enough, 
barley,  stock  fish,  p^c..  without  much  change,  1  cannot  fully  re- 
cu]ierate  as  1  otherwise  would.  The  summer  yields  something, 
but  what  of  that  foi'  an.y  one  who  has  no  strength  I  The  savages 
also  bring  some  thing,-,  Imt  one  who  has  no  wares,  such  as 
knives,  beads  and  the  like,  or  seewan  (wampum)  cannot  come 
to  any  terras  with  them.  Though  the  peo]3le  trade  such  things 
for  proper  wares,  I  know  not  whether  it  is  permitted  by  the  laws 
of  the  Company.  I  Irn'e  now  oixlered  from  Holland  most  all 
necessaries.  Imt  ex])ect  to  pass  through  the  winter  with  hard 
and  scanty  food. 

"The  country  yields  many  good  things  for  the  supi)ort  of 
life,  but  they  are  all  too  unfit  and  wild  to  be  gathered.  Better 
regulations  should  be  established,  as,  doubtless,  will  gi-adually 
be  the  case,  so  that  people  who  have  the  knowledge  and  im])le- 
ments  for  seeking  out  all  kinrls  of  things  in  their  season  shall 
secure  and  gather  then).  In  the  mean  while,  I  wish  the  Honorable 
Directors  to  be  courteously  entpiired  of  how  T  can  have  the  op- 
j)ortunity  to  possess  a  portion  of  laud,  and  at  my  own  exi)ense 
to  sujiport  myself  upon  it.  For  as  long  as  there  is  no  more 
accomodations  to  be  obtained  here  from  the  country  peoi)le,  1 
shall  be  compelled  to  order  everything  from  the  Fatherland  at 
great  ex^Dense  and  with  much  risk  and  trouble,  or  else  live  here 
u]>on  these  poor  and  hard  rations  alone,  which  would  badly  suit 
me  and  my  children.  We  want  ten  or  twelve  farmers  with 
horses,  cows  and  laborers  in  ])roportion,  to  furnish  us  Avith  bread 
and  fresh  butter,  milk  and  cheese.  There  are  convenient  places 
which  can  be  easily  protected,  and  very  suitable,  which  can  be 
bought  from  the  savages  for  trifling  toys,  or  could  be  occu])ied 
without  risk,  because  we  have  more  than  enough  shores  which 
have  never  been  cleared  but  have  always  been  reserved  for  that 
purpose.    The  business  of  furs  is  dull  on  account  of  a  new  war 


60  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

of  the  Maeeliibaeys  (Mohawks)  against  the  Mohicans,  at  the 
upper  end  of  this  river.  There  have  occurred  cruel  murders  on 
both  sides.  The  Mohicans  have  fled  and  tlieir  lands  are  unoc- 
cui)ied  and  are  very  fertile  and  pleasant.  It  grieves  us  that 
there  are  no  people,  and  that  there  is  any  regulation  of  the 
Honorable  Directors  to  occupy  the  same.  They  fell  much  wood 
here  to  carry  to  the  Fatherland,  but  the  vessels  are  too  few 
to  take  much  of  it.  They  are  making  a  wind  mill  to  saw  the  wood 
and  we  also  have  a  grist  mill.  They  bake  brick  here  but  it  is 
very  poor.  There  is  good  material  for  burning  lime,  namely, 
oyster  shells,  in  large  cpiantities.  The  burning  of  potash  has 
not  succeeded,  the  master  and  his  laborers  are  all  greatly  dis- 
appointed. AVe  are  busy  now  in  building  a  fort  of  good  quarry 
stone  which  is  to  be  found  not  far  from  here  in  abundance. 
May  the  Lord  only  build  and  watch  over  our  walls.  There  is 
good  opportimity  for  making  salt,  for  there  are  convenient 
places,  tbe  water  is  salt  enough  and  there  is  no  want  of  heat 
in  summer.  Besides,  as  to  the  water,  both  of  the  sea  and  rivers, 
they  yield  all  kinds  of  fish,  and  as  to  the  land,  it  abounds,  in  all 
kinds  of  game,  wild  and  in  the  groves,  with  vegetaliles,  fruits, 
roots,  herbs  and  plants,  both  for  eating  and  medicinal  purposes, 
and  with  wonderful  cures  can  be  effected,  which  it  would  take 
too  long  to  tell,  nor  could  I  do  justice  to  the  tale.  Your  Rev- 
erence has  already  obtained  some  knowledge  thereof  and  will 
be  able  to  obtain  from  others  further  information.  The  country 
is  good  and  pleasant,  the  climate  is  healthy  notwithstanding  the 
sudden  changes  of  cold  and  heat.  The  sun  is  very  warm,  the 
winter  is  strong  and  se'\'ere  and  continues  fully  as  long  as  in 
our  country.  The  best  remedy  is  not  to  spare  the  wood,  of  which 
there  is  enough,  and  to  cover  one's  self  with  rough  skins,  which 
can  be  easily  obtained. 

"The  harvest,  God  l)e  praised  is  in  the  barn,  and  is  hirger 
than  ever  before.  There  had  been  more  work  ]n;t  on  it  than  be- 
fore. The  ground  is  fertile  enough  to  reward  labor,  but  they 
must  clear  it  well,  and  till  it  just  as  our  lands  require.  Until 
now  there  has  been  distress  because  many  people  were  not  very 
industrious,  and  also  did  not  obtain  proper  sustenance  for  want 
of  In-ead  and  other  necessaries.  But  affairs  are  beginning  to 
put  on  a  better  appearance,  if  only  the  Directors  will  send  out 
good  laborers  and  exercise  all  care  that  they  be  maintained  as 
well  as  possible  with  what  this  country  produces.  I  had  in-om- 
ised  to  write  to  the  Honorable  Brethren,  Rudolphus  Petri, 
Joh'uies    Sylvius    and    Domine    C'!appen))urg,    who    with    your 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  61 

Reverence  are  charged  with  the  superintendence  of  these  re- 
gions. Will  your  Reverence  be  pleased  to  give  my  friendly  and 
kind  regards.  Will  you  also  give  my  sincere  respects  to  the 
Rev.  Domine  Triglandius,  and  to  all  the  brethren  of  the  Con- 
sistory. And  esi)ecially  do  not  forget  my  hearty  salutation  to 
the  beloved  wife  and  brother  in  law  of  your  Reverence.  Pleartily 
commending  your  Reverence  and  all  of  you  to  Almighty  God. 

"From  the  Island  of  Manhatan  in  New  Netherland  this  11th 
day  of  August  Anno  Kii'S  by  me  youi-  Reverence's  very  obedient 
servant  in  Christ. 

"J0N.\S   MlCHAELIUS.'^ 


CHAPTER  VII. 

FORT  AMSTERT)A:\r. 

When  (ioveiiiiir  Alinuit  eaiiie  to  Xew  Xetlierland  there  eanie 
with  him  a  iiiilitary  engineer  named  Kryn  Fredericke,  and  under 
his  direction  preparations  were  made  for  erecting  a  fort.  It 
was  located  npon  the  point  of  land  which  commanded  the  en- 
trance to  l)oth  rivers.  Concerning  the  location  of  this  fortifica- 
tion, there  is  no  doubt  oi-  uncertainty,  for  it  stood  until  the  Revo- 
lution. The  walls  were  originally  of  earth,  and  faced  with  sods. 
In  1628  it  was  still  unfinished,  and  thou  the  walls  were  fortified 
by  masonry  woik  of  stone.  It  included  an  ample  space  for 
bui'dings,  among  which  were  a  warehouse  for  storing  the  Com- 
pany's goods,  a  horse  mill,  a  house  for  the  Governor,  a  Secre- 
tary's office,  and  still  later  a  church.  At  each  of  the  four  corners 
of  tlie  fort  was  a  strong  bastion,  and  the  exact  location  of  each 
may  be  here  yiven.  The  southwest  bastion  was  very  near  the 
river  side,  and  at  the  present  junction  of  Bridge  and  State 
streets.  The  northeast  liastion  was  at  the  corner  of  Whitehall 
street.  The  southeast  bastion  was  on  the  line  of  Bridge  street, 
but  some  ways  west  of  Whitehall.  The  northwest  bastion  was 
.'*o)ue  ways  from  the  river  side,  and  was  nearly  opposite  the 
corner  of  Broadway,  the  exti'eme  |)oint  lieing  a  little  farther 
west,  but  not  half  w^ay  to  Greenwich  street.  Between  these 
bastions  on  the  east  and  south  sides  were  spaces  of  land  used 
as  gardens.  The  lots  which  fronted  on  Pearl  street  were  l)ounded 
north  by  the  Governor's  garden,  which  was  a  part  of  the  Fort 
grounds,  but  the  line  was  not  straight.  The  westernmost  lot  on 
Pearl  street  was  described  as  bounded  on  the  west  "partly  by 


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63 


the  strand  and  })artly  l)y  the  (lovernor's  garden."  Tlie  fort,  as 
regards  size,  seems  to  have  remained  nnchanged.  and  from  a 
survey  made  in  1788  it  seems  that  the  entire  ph)t  of  ground, 
or  the  fort  premises,  was  about  395  feet  on  Whitehall  street, 
or  the  east  side,  the  south  line  was  about  425  feet.  On  the  west 
it  was  about  4()0  feet,  and  about  344  feet  on  the  north.  In  l(i4i' 
a  new  church,  the  second  in  the  city,  was  built  by  (Jovernor 
Kieft.     It  was  a  l)uildino'  of  considerable  size,  and  shows  very 


,T^^ 


Fort   Amsterdam. 

cons])ieuously  in  all  of  the  many  views  given  of  Xew  Amster- 
dam. All  of  the  ]»ul)li<'  business  of  the  Colony  was  done,  or 
supposed  to  be  done,  in  the  fort,  and  all  decrees  and  patents  for 
land  are  described  as  ''done  at  Fort  Amsterdam."  and  in  later 
years,  under  Englisli  rule,  as  "done  at  Fort  James." 

The  first  accurate  descri])tion  of  this  fortification,  is  found 
in  the  Journal  of  the  T.abadists.  who  came  here  in_  l(i7!>.  They 
state:  "Tlie  church  lieing  in  the  fort,  we  h-id  an  opportunity 
to  look  through  the  lattci-.  It  is  not  large,  it  has  four  points,  or 
batteries;  it  has  no  moat  outside.  Init  is  enclosed  with  a  double 


64  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

row  of  palisades.  It  is  built  fi'om  tlie  foundation  with  quarry 
stone,  the  parapet  is  of  earth.  It  is  well  provided  with  cannon, 
for  the  most  part  of  iron,  though  tliei'e  were  some  small  brass 
pieces,  all  bearing  the  mark  or  arms  of  the  Netherlands.  The 
garrison  is  small.  There  is  a  well  of  tine  water,  dug  in  the  fort 
by  the  English.  Contrary  to  the  opinion  of  the  Dutch,  who  sup- 
posed the  fort  was  built  upon  a  rock,  there  is  indeed  some  in- 


Governor  Andross. 


dication  of  stone  there,  for  along  the  edge  of  the  water  below 
the  foi't  there  is  a  very  large  rock  extending  apparently  under 
the  fort,  which  is  built  u])on  the  point  formed  l)y  the  two  rivers. 
It  has  only  one  gate,  and  that  is  on  the  land  side,  opening  upon 
a  broad  idain  or  street  called  the  Broadway.  Over  this  gate  are 
the  arms  of  the  Duke  of  York.  During  the  time  of  the  Dutch 
there  were  two  gates,  namely,  another  on  the  water  side,  but 
tlie  English  have  closed  it  and  made  a  battery  there  with  a  false 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY  65 

gate.  Tu.  front  of  the  church  is  inscribed  the  name  of  Governor 
Kieft,  wlio  caused  tlie  same  to  l)e  built  in  1642.  It  has  a  sliingled 
roof,  and  upon  the  gal)le  towards  tlie  water  there  is  a  small 
wooden  tower,  with  a  bell  in  it,  but  no  clock.  There  is  a  sun 
dial  on  three  sides.  The  front  of  the  fort  stretclies  east  and 
west,  and  conse(|uently  the  sides  run  north  and  south." 

The  condition  of  the  fort  and  the  other  fortifications  of  the 
city  in  1(588  is  very  ])lainly  given  in  a  report  made  by  order  of 
Governor  Sir  Edmund  Andross,  who  ap])ointed  Francis  Xicliol- 
son,  (V)lonel  Nicholas  Bayard,  William  Beeckman,  Stephen  Van 
Cortlandt,  Matthew  Plowman  and  Gabriel  Minveill  to  make  a 
careful  survey  of  the  same.  Un  November  15th  they  reported 
that  they  had  taken  "two  carpenters,  a  mason  and  a  glazier," 
and  report : 

"The  fence  al)out  the  Fort,  the  Posts  rotten,  several  ])annels 
fallen  dowm,  and  to  replace  the  same  would  retjuire  150  jjosts, 
300  clap  boards,  25  nails.  100  rails,  and  the  whole  cost  with  work- 
manship would  be  £10,  13s,  5d.  There  were  formerly  about  the 
Fort,  stockadoes  of  about  9  feet  high  and  10  feet  from  the  walls 
but  none  now.  To  make  it  u))  again  would  require  1800  short 
stockadoes,  2400  of  12  foot  long,  the  thinnest  edge  6  inches,  at 
12d  each,  making  a  cost  of  £120.  Upon  the  Flag  mount  there 
are  (i  brass  guns  demiculverins,  with  new  carriages.  The  stone 
wall  aliout  the  Fort  was  in  an  inditferent  good  condition.  The 
Flagg  staff  was  rotten  and  a  new  one  would  cost  £5.  Ujion  the 
wall  curtain  were  two  lirass  seekers,  and  another  brass  cannon. 
Two  brass  mortars,  one  JV^  inches,  and  the  other  8%.  The 
whole  Platform  was  rotten,  and  would  need  1400  feet  of  three 
inch  plank,  and  30  sleepers,  each  20  feet  long.  The  wall  of  the 
old  Battery,  hangs  over  and  needs  buttresses.  The  old  well 
having  fallen  in  there  wants  a  new  one  which  will  cost  £25." 

This  clearly  indicates  that  there  had  been  a  well  there  in 
Dutch  times.  Fpon  the  magazine  uKumt  were  six  demiculverins. 
New  platforms  were  needed  which  would  re(pure  1150  feet  of 
plank.     T'i»on  the  iron  mount    were    four    seekers.      Fpon    the 


66  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

merry  moiiiit  (the  iioi-thwest  bastion)  were  four  seekers  and  two 
lirass  c'ulverins.  The  breastworks  u})on  the  wall  were  most  part 
(juite  out  of  repair.  Out  of  the  fort,  under  the  flag  mount  (the 
southwest  l)astion)  near  the  water  side,  there  were  five  denii- 
culverins.  The  "Great  House,"  and  all  the  other  l:)uildings 
were  greatly  out  of  repairs.  In  short,  according  to  this  report, 
everytiiing  was  out  of  order,  and  required  great  and  extensive 
repairs. 

The  report  goes  on  to  describe  the  conditions  of  the  other 
fortificntions  of  the  city.  Before  the  Town  fiall  (at  Coenties 
Slip)  was  a  hali'  moon  battery,  most  ruined  and  washed  away 
by  the  sea.  r])on  this  were  three  demi-culverins,  and  three  rot- 
ten carriages,  fit  for  nothing.  A  stone  wall  had  l)een  built  along 
the  water  side,  fi-oui  there  to  another  half-moon  l)attery  by  Bur- 
gers Path  (Old  Slip),  but  it  was  washed  away,  and  the  half- 
moon  was  ruined  and  beaten  down  by  the  water.  "There  were 
four  seekers  and  one  minion,"  but  no  carriages.  From  this 
])lace  to  the  water  gate  (foot  of  AVall  street)  a  stone  wall  had 
also  been  built,  but  had  been  washed  down  l)y  the  water.  "But 
there  are  new  lots  laid  out  before  theiu  to  low  water  mark,  for 
people  to  build  upon,  which  will  be  wharf ed  out  by  the  several 
o^'uers  of  said  lots."  These  "half-moon  batteries"  were  luiilt 
upon  a  low,  artificial  embankment,  ujjou  which  was  a  platform 
of  planks,  and  on  this  the  guns  rested.  There  were  three  of 
these  batteries, ---one  at  Coentie.^  Slip,  in  front  of  the  old  City 
Hall,  one  at  ( )ld  Sli]),  aud  the  third  at  the  water  gate,  at  the  foot 
of  Wall  street.  The  i-e})ort  next  ])roceeds  to  state  the  condition 
of  tlie  wall,  or  fortification,  along  the  north  side  of  Wall  strcH't. 
and  from  which  the  street  derives  its  name: 

"The  Curtain  from  the  Water  (late  to  the  Artillery  Mount 
was  formerly  chnil)le  stocknrloed,  and  a  ditch  with  l)reast  works 
within  of  salt  sod,  and  now  all  down.     The  ground  is  laid  out  in 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  «7 

lots,  some  built,  some  a  building  and  layd  out  to  build  upon. 
The  Artillery  ^Nlount  has  no  guns,  the  walls  indifferent  good, 
the  sod  work  out  of  re])air,  as  also  the  Ditch  and  Stoekadoes 
ruined.    A  sm;il!  old  house  in  ye  middle  of  ye  mount." 

The  artillery  mount  mentioned,  a[>pears  to  have  been  aI)out 
halfway  between  I\'arl  street  :nid  IJroadwaN'.  In  the  ma])  of  the 
city,  ealled  the  "Duke's  Plan,"  made  in  1()()4,  five  of  these  artil- 
lery mounts  ;)re  noted — one  between  Pearl  and  William  streets, 
another  ])etAveen  A\'illiam  and  Nassau  streets,  a  third  at  Nassau 
street,  and  the  foui-th  at  the  "Land  Gate"  at  Broadway.  There 
was  another  west  of  Broadway.    The  report  proceeds : 

"The  Curtine  from  ye  .Vrtillery  Mount  to  ye  land  gate 
mount,  formerly  double  stockadoed,  with  a  ditch  and  Itreast 
works,  now  all  gone.  The  mount  by  the  land  gate,  ye  stone  wall 
to  the  north  west  post,  ruined,  ye  breast  (u-  sod  work  also,  ye 
ground  laid  out  to  build  u])on." 

Grant  Thorburn  in  one  of  liis  works  states  tliat  when  some 
excavations  were  l)eing  made  at  the  north  coi'ner  of  AVall 
street  and  Broadway,  the  remains  of  a  very  large  red  cedar  })ost 
was  discovered.  A  ^■ery  old  man  who  was  present  said  that  it 
was  the  original  post  of  the  land  gate,  in  yenrs  long  gone  by.  The 
re])ort  then  says : 

"The  land  gate  ready  to  fall  down.  The  curtine  from  ye 
town  gate  to  ye  Locust  Trees,  formerly  stockadoed  with  a  ditch 
and  brea'-t  woi'ks.  now  gone.  The  King's  Garden  by  ye  Locust 
trees,  all  ruined.  The  Pa^ty  Mount  formerly  stockadoed,  about 
now  falling  down.  There  are  2  seekers,  one  old  carriage,  all 
rotten." 

The  "Locust  Trees"  stood  near  the  river  shore,  at  the  foot 
of  Thames  street.  The  "Pasty  Mcnmt"  was  the  half-moon  bat- 
tery, so  frequently  mentioned  ;'.s  the  "Oyster  Pasty."  This 
stood  at  the  foot  of  Oyster  Pasty  lane  (now  Lxchange  Place, 
west   of  Broadwav).      This   is   mentioned   in   some  histories  as 


68  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

having  been  Imilt  in  the  time  of  Jacob   Leisler,  bnt  from  the 

above  must  have  been  built  long  before.     There  seems  to  have 

been  originally  a  line  of  stockades  along  the  shore,  but  is  not 

mentioned  in  the  report.     The  report  adds: 

"The  Curtine  from  the  Pasty  Mount  to  ye  point  of  ye 
Merry  Mount  of  Fort  James  (the  north  west  bastion)  was  all 
Stockadoed  and  breast  work  but  none  now." 

Such  was  the  condition  of  the  fort  aiul  tlie  fortifications 
as  they  were  in  the  time  of  (rovernor  Andross.  It  is  needless 
to  say  that  after  the  Knglish  conquest  the  name  of  the  fort  was 
changed  to  Fort  James,  in  honor  of  His  Royal  Highness 
James,  Duke  of  York  and  Albany,  the  Proprietor  of  the  Prov- 
ince; but  during  the  brief  time  after  its  capture  by  the  Dutch 
it  was  named  "Fort  Orange."  Fp  to  the  time  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, it  received  in  succession  the  names  of  the  rulers  of  Fng- 
land,  and  was  known  as  Fort  William,  Fort  Ann,  and  Fort 
George. 

After  the  Revolution  it  was  fully  recognized  that  tlie  fort 
was  utterly  useless  for  the  purposes  of  defense.  By  an  Act  of 
Legislature,  March  29,  1784,  it  had  been  ])laced  under  the  con- 
trol of  the  governor.  In  I78S  a  careful  survey  was  made  of  the 
fort  and  the  adjoining  land.  After  some  consultation  with  the 
city  authorities,  an  act  was  passed,  March  16,  1790,  reserving 
to  the  People  of  the  State  all  that  part  of  Fort  George  "begin- 
ning at  a  stake  standing  on  the  easterly  side  of  the  Broadway 
continued  at  a  })lace  which  is  86  feet  distant  on  a  course  south 
37  degrees  4-5  minutes  east  from  the  southeast  corner  of  the 
dwelling  house  of  Captain  Archibald  Kennedy  (No.  1  Broad- 
way), and  running  llienee  easterly  to  the  northeast  corner  of 
the  old  seci'etary's  office  on  Whitehall  street,  thence  southerly 
along  the  west  side  of  Whitehall  street  to  the  ground  of  Cap- 
tain Thomas  Randall,  then  westerlv  along  the  north  side  of  his 


GENEALOGICAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY  71 

gTonnd.  and  along-  the  rear  of  the  lots  which  fi'ont  on  Pearl 
street,  as  far  as  they  extend,  then  north  57  degrees  and  45 
niinntes  west,  nntil  a  conrse  north  32  degrees  15  minntes  east 
will  strike  the  place  of  heginning,  and  thence  north  oL'  degrees 
15  niinntes  enst  to  tlu^  iih'ce  of  heginning."  All  the  re- 
mainder of  the  fort  and  lands  adjoining  helonging  to  the  State, 
wliieh  inclnded  the  battery,  were  granted  to  the  city  for  the  ])nr- 
]50se  of  erecting  Iniildings  and  work-  of  defense,  hnt  witliont 
|)Owcr  to  sell. 

U|.'on  the  lan.d  reserved  to  the  State,  a  conmiittee  consist- 
ing of  (lerard  Bancker,  Richard  A'arick  and  John  Watts  were 
to  ei'ect  "  a  pro])er  honse"  for  the  nse  of  the  government,  to  he 
applied  to  the  tem])0]'ary  nse  and  accommodation  of  the  Presi- 
dent of  tlie  Ignited  States,  dnring  snch  time  as  Congress  shall 
hold  their  sessions  in  the  city,  and  the  snm  of  eiglit  thonsand 
])onnd.s  ($12. 000)  was  ai>]'ro]!riated  for  that  |)nr])ose.  The  city 
was  to  canse  the  fort  to  he  demolished,  and  to  erect  a  new  Inilk- 
head  "fvom  the  end  of  the  hnlkhead  late'y  erected  hy  then.i." 
and  continne  the  same  to  the  sonthwest  l)astion  of  the  battery. 
This  meant  to  fill  in  the  river  to  the  line  of  Greenwich  street. 
Tlie  west  line  of  the  i)art  reserved  is  the  east  line  of  State 
sti-eet,  which  was  then  o]5ened  to  Pearl  street. 

When  the  fort  was  destroyed  and  tlu'  land  leveled,  many 
relics  were  fonnd.  There  were  three  hnrial  vanlts  nnder  the 
chapel,  or  old  Dntch  Chni-ch.  Tn  one  was  the  remains  of  the 
wife  of  Goveinor  Hnnter.  who  died  Angnst  8,  171(>.  Anotlier 
contained  f(nir  (n-  live  coffins,  among  them  that  of  Lord  Bella- 
mont.  who  died  in  1701.  The  third  contained  only  a  few  liones. 
There  was  also  foimd  a  stone  with  a  Dntdi  insci-i])tion  : 

"Tn  the  year  of  onr  [.oi-d  1042  William  b'ieft.  Director 
General,  caused  the  congregation  to  l)nild  this  chnrcli." 


72  GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY 

This  stone  was  placed  in  the  Garden  Street  Dutch  Church, 
and  remained  till  the  cliurcli  was  destroyed  in  the  great  tire 
of  1885. 

Tlie  new  building  was  called  "The  Government  House," 
but  was  never  occupied  by  the  President.  Before  it  was  com- 
l>leted  the  seat  of  national  government  was  removed  to  Phila- 
delphia. The  governor  of  the  State  occupied  it  for  some  years, 
and  it  was  afterwards  used  as  a  custom  house. 

In  1808  Bridge  street  was  extended  to  State  street,  and  this 
left  a  narrow  strip  of  land  on  the  south  side  of  the  street,  which 
was  sold  by  the  Governor,  Daniel  i).  Tomi)kins,  to  the  owners  of 
tlio  lots  which  fronted  on  Pearl  street.  The  lots  so  sold  were 
short,  and  as  the  line  was  not  straight,  they  were  of  different 
lengths.  The  remainder  of  the  tract  was  conveyed  to  the  City 
of  New  York  hy  the  State;  the  (lovernment  House  was  de- 
stroyed; the  land  was  divided  into  lots,  and  sold  at  auction  on 
Tuesday,  June  16,  1815.  Upon  the  north  side,  fronting  Bowling 
Green,  seven  elegant  residences  were  erected,  and,  being  oc- 
cuiiied  by  wealtliy  citizens,  it  was  called  "(^Juality  Row,"  and 
was  a  fashionable  part  of  the  city.  About  forty  years  ago  these 
elegant  houses  were  abandoned  as  residences,  and  almost  all  of 
them  were  used  at  steamship  offices.  In  1899  the  entire  block 
was  i)urehased  by  the  United  States  for  a  new  (*ustom  House, 
and  the  work  of  demolishing  the  buildings  liegan  in  Felu'uary, 
1900.  When  Whitehall  street  was  widened  in  1852,  the  greater 
part  of  Lot  1  was  taken. 


Rev.   Everanliis  Bogardus. 


C'HAPTER  YIU. 
THK  DrTClI  cnrHcii. 

( )t'  all  the  institutions  ol'  tlie  city,  tlie  Dutcli  Reformed 
clinrcli  ranks  as  tlie  oldest,  and  from  the  time  of  its  beginning 
to  the  present  day.  its  usefulness  and  importance  lias  constantly 
increased. 

At  an  early  period  of  the  Reformation,  the  Protestants  were 
divided  into  two  l^odies — the  Lutheran,  and  the  Reformed.  The 
latter  Ijecame  dominant  in  the  Netherlands,  and  maintained  their 
religious  liberties  only  after  a  long  and  bloody  sti'uggle  against 
the  mighty  ])Ower  of  S])aiii.  So  cahnnitous  was  their  condition 
before  the  eighty  years  war,  that  they  gave  themselves  the  name 
of  "The  Church  under  the  Cross."  In  156(5  the  deputies  of  the 
clnirches  met  in  Antwer]i  and  adopted  the  Belgic  confession, 
which  continues  to  this  day  to  be  one  of  the  doctrinal  standards 
of  the  Reformed  <'lnn\'h  in  Holland.  Abou.t  the  same  time  the 
Heidelberg  catechism,  which  hnd  l)ccn  issued  in  the  Clerman 
language  in  ^'^ih].  Avas  translated  into  Dutch  and  widely  cii'cu- 
lated  in  the  Xetherland^.  Various  doctrinal  differences  had 
arisen  among  the  Reformed,  and  in  KilS  was  convened  the 
famous  Synod  of  Dort,  to  which  all  the  Reformed  churches  of 
p]uro])e  were  invited  to  send  delegates  (except  Anliolt),  and  they 
all  did  so;  but  the  delegates  chosen  by  the  French  churches  were 
forbidden  by  the  King  to  attend.  The  Belgic  confession  and  the 
Heidelberg  catechism  were  i-evised,  as  well  as  the  Rules  of 
Church  Government.  The  chui-ch  in  Holland,  thus  fully  orga- 
nized, became  distinguished  foi-  learning,  soundness  in  the  faith, 
and  i)ractical  godliness.     Holland  became  the  connuon  refuge  of 


76  GEXEALOCilCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

all  the  persecuted  believers  in  Europe.  The  Huguenots  from 
France,  the  Waldenses  from  Italy,  the  C'ovenauters  and  Puritans 
from  England — all  found  a  safe  refuge  on  her  hospitable  shore. 

The  early  settlers  in  New  Xetherland  brought  with  them 
the  Bible  and  the  C'ateehism,  and  two  church  officers  who  were 
called  the  K rniil.-Jx'Z'iel'ci s  or  V/ichcnf idosfi'rs  (consolers  of  the 
sick).  It  was  also  their  duty  in  the  al)sence  of  a  minister,  to 
gather  the  people  together  and  read  to  them  select  passages 
of  the  Scripture,  suitably  arranged  for  instruction  and  comfort. 
The  iirst  men  to  hold  this  position,  a'ike  necessary  and  lionor- 
al)le,  were  Jansen  Krai  and  dan  Huyck. 

When  the  Hev.  donas  Michaelius  arrived  in  1628,  he  for- 
mally organized  a  church,  which  is  pi-obably  the  oldest  Prot- 
estant church  (HI  this  continent.  The  first  thing  was  to  appoint 
two  elders  for  the  assistance  of  the  minister,  and  these  were  the 
directors,  Peter  Minuit  and  his  brotlicr-in-law,  dan  Huygiien, 
who  was  the  store-keeper  of  the  West  India  Company.  At  the 
tir^t  administration  of  the  Lord's  Supjier  there  were  iifty  com- 
municants— AValloons  and  Dutch,  who  foruied  the  great  majority 
of  the  small  po])ulation.  .\t  an  early  (hite  branch  churches  were 
established  in  various  parts  of  the  colony — at  All)any  (then 
called  Fort  ()i'an,2e),  in  1(Ui2;  at  Flatbusli,  on  Long  Island,  in 
165-I-;  and  in  Urooklxn.  in  liifin.  ( )thci-s  were  established  in  the 
settlements  on  the  tlutlson  and  Mohawk  rivers,  and  in  New 
Jersey  and  l^ennsylvania.  In  1771  th.e  number  had  reached 
seventy. 

At  the  time  of  the  English  conquest  in  1()()4.  one  of  the 
Articles  of  Capitulation  was: 

"The  Dutch  here  shall  enjoy  the  liberty  of  their  consciences 
and  divine  worship  and  Church  disci})line. "  The  first  religious 
services,  which  took  |)lace  after  the  arrival  of  Dominie  Michael- 
ins,  were  lield  in  a  large  up])er  rooift  of  the  mill,  which  had  been 


GENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  77 

erected  in  the  fort,  lu  the  8i)ring'  of  Kioo,  the  iirst  church  was 
erected,  which  was  a  plain  wooden  1:)uilding.  The  site  of  this 
church  is  now  Number  33  Pearl  street,  and  the  Oude  Kirk  or 
old  church  is  frequently  mentioned.  When  a  new  eliurch  was 
erected  in  the  foi-t,  the  ohl  church  and  lot  were  sold  to  Jacob 
Wolfertsen  Van  Cowenhuven,  who  sold  it  to  Isaac  De  Forrest, 
September  1,  1656.  In  1667,  a  Patent  of  Confirmation  was 
granted  hy  Governor  Nicolls  to  Isaac  De  Forrest.  His  widow 
sold  it  to  Allard  Anthony.  "A  certain  lot  of  ground  with  a 
house  thereupon,  theji  coimnonly  called  the  Oude  Kirk,  or  Old 
Church,  being  on  the  Strand  towards  the  East  Kiver.  Bounded 
north  by  the  street  called  the  Bridge  street,  west  l)y  tlie  house 
and  ground  of  the  heirs  of  Cornelius  Van  Tienhoven,  south  by 
the  Strand  or  Water  side,  and  east  by  the  house  and  ground  of 
Jan  Hendriekse  De   Bruyn." 

This  document  is  dated  -June  ."JO,  KiSi*.  The  price  paid  was 
10,200  guilders. 

This  primitive  church  building  was  described  by  a  historian 
of  the  time  as  more  like  a  barn  than  a  liouse  of  worship,  and 
an  invidious  comparison  was  made  between  it  and  the  more  ele- 
gant edifices  erected  in  the  towns  of  Puritan  New  England. 
Other  reasons  made  it  vei'y  desiia.ble  to  have  a  new  church,  and 
the  story  of  its  origin  is  told  in  amusing  style.  On  one  occasion 
a  wedding  festival  was  given  by  Dominie  Bogardus  in  honor  of 
the  marriage  of  his  daughter  to  the  surgeon,  Hans  Kierstede. 
"The  Director  (William  Kieft)  thought  this  a  good  time  for  his 
pur})ose,  and  set  to  woi-k  after  the  fourth  or  fifth  drink,  and  he 
himself,  setting  a  liberal  examjjle,  let  the  wedding  gi^ests  sign 
whatever  they  were  disposeel  to  give  toward  the  church.  Each 
then  with  a  light  head  subscribed  away  at  a  handsome  rate,  one 
competing  with  the  other,  and  although  some  lieai'tily  repi'tited 
it  when  their  senses  came  back,  they  were  oMiged  to  ]>ay;  noth- 
ing could  avail  against  it." 

This  new  chui'ch  was  erected  in  the  fort,  and  it  is  very 
conspicuous  in  all  the  early  \■ie^vs  of  the  city.     It  was  seventv 


78  GENEALOiilCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

feet  long',  fifty-two  feet  wide,  and  sixteen  feet  high,  with  a 
peaked  roof.  ( )n  the  sonth  end  was  a  higli  tower,  and  in  it  hnng 
a  hell,  on  which  was  cast  the  Latin  inscription,  "Duleior  E. 
Nostris  tinuitihns  resonat  aer.  P.  1  lemony  me  fecit,  1(374." 
(The  air  resonnds  sweeter  from  cmr  ringing.  P.  Heniony  made 
me.)  It  was  called  The  C'hnrch  in  the  Fort,  Imt  was  officially 
St.  Nicholas  clmrch.  In  front  was  a  stone  tahlet  with  the  in- 
scri]ition : 

"an.  DOM   MUeXLll 

W.    KIEVT   DIK.   GEN.    HEFT  DE   GEMENTE 

DESE    TE.AIPEL    DOEN    BOWEN  " 

(A.  I).  Ki-I-L*.  W.  Kieft,  lieing  Director  General,  has  eansed 
the  congregation  to  Imild  this  temple.) 

This  chnrch  is  plainly  visihle  in.  a  drawing  made  hy  Laurens 
Hermans  Block,  as  seen  from  the  ship  Lydia  in  1650.  A  much 
plainer  view  is  given  in  a  drawing  accompanying  the  manuscript 
Journal  of  the  Lahadists  (which  is  elsewhere  mentioned),  and 
made  in  KIT!'. 

In  a  vault  under  this  church  Lord  Bellemont,  one  of  the 
royal  go\'ernors,  was  huried,  and  the  wife  of  Governor  Hunter. 

In  1()87  this  chni-ch  had  hecome  too  snuiU  for  the  increasing 
numher  of  the  worshipers,  and  a  lot  ^^'as  purchased  on  the  north 
side  of  what  in  ancient  I  hitch  times  was  called  Tuyn 
Straat,  or  (iarden  street,  and  now  Exchange  Place, 
east  of  Broad  street.  This  lot  was  hounded  on  the 
north  hy  tlu^  orchard  of  the  widow  of  Dominie 
Drissius,  who  had  owned  a  large  tract  of  what  in  old  times 
was  the  "Sheej)  Pasture,"  on  hotli  sides  of  Broad  street.  The 
new  structure  was  huilt  of  hrick,  with  a  steejile  and  a  large 
s(p.iare  foundation,  and  over  the  vestihule  was  a  room  for  meet- 
ings of  the  consistory.  It  is  claimed  to  have  heen  the  finest 
chnrch  e:lifice  in  the  (Mtlonies,  and  was  dedicated  in  IGOo.     The 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


Tit 


windows  were  l()iii>-  and  narrow,  and  fitted  with  small  panes  of 
glass  set  in  lead,  on  wliit'li  were  the  eoats-of-anns  of  the  principal 
l)arishioners.     The  hell,  pnlpit  and  furnitnre  of  the  old  chnrcli 


First  Dutch  Church  in  Garden  Street. 


were  transferred  here,  and  many  escutcheons  of  leading-  fam- 
ilies himg  against  the  walls.  The  peo]ile  contributed  silverware 
and  money,  which  was  se?!t  to  Amsterdam  and  made  into  a  com- 
munion set  and  a  large  baptismal  basin.    The  first  church  oriiau 


80  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

in  Xew  York  •mounded  within  these  walls,  for  in  17l2()  Cxovernor 
Burnet  brought  one  over  and  ])resented  it  to  the  eonsistory. 

Tlie  friendly  connection  and  relations  with  Engiisli  congre- 
gations is  shown  l)v  the  fact  tliat  L'ev.  AVilliam  Vesey,  the  first 
I'ector  of  Trinity  cluirch,  was  inducted  into  that  office  in  this 
Iniilding,  that  church  not  being  yet  completed,  and,  at  the  recjuest 
of  the  English  governor,  two  ministers  from  the  Dutcli  church 
assisted  at  the  service.  It  was  in  the  churchyard  adjoining  that 
the  famous  but  ill  fated  Jacob  T^eisler  was  buried,  when  his  re- 
mains were  removed  from  their  original  burying  place  where 
they  were  laid  after  his  execution.  Tn  1766  the  church  was  en- 
larged and  re])aired.  Tn  1807  it  was  taken  down,  and  a  more 
connnodious  edifice  erected  on  its  site,  and  remained  till  its  de- 
struction in  the  great  fire  of  1835.  The  congregation  then  di- 
vided into  two  ))arts.  One  built  a  church  on  ^NFurray  street, 
where  they  Avorshi]ied  for  many  years,  and  then  built  a  new 
edifice  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Fiftli  avenue  and  Twenty-first 
street.  Some  years  later  they  removed  to  a  new  building  on 
the  southeast  corner  of  Thirty-fourth  street  and  Park  avenue, 
where  they  still  remain,  and  retain  the  name  of  tlie  "Old  South 
C^hureh."  The  other  ]iart  built  a  church  on  the  soutli  corner 
of  AVasliington  Place  and  Washington  Square.  This  was  after- 
wards sold  to  the  Asbury  Methodist  Ejiiscopal  church.  The  old 
congregation  became  scattered,  and  no  longer  exists. 

Tn  1729  the  consistory  ])nrc]iased  a  large  lot  on  the  east  side 
of  Nassau  street,  including  the  entire  front  between  Tjiliertv  and 
Cedar  streets,  or  as  they  were  then  cal'ed.  Crown  and  Little 
Queen  streets.  This  naturally  became  known  as  the  "New 
Dutch  Chui'ch."  and  lemained  till  recent  years. 

In  the  early  days  all  church  services  were  conducted  in  the 
Dutch  language,  luit  a  new  generation  had  sjirnng  up,  to  wliom 
English  was  a  mother  tongue.     Tn  response  to  the  request  of  a 


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83 


large  number  of  those  who  worshiped  in  this  place,  the  use  of 
the  latter  language  was  introduced.  The  first  sermon  in  English 
was  pi'eached  in  April,  1764,  by  Rev.  Dr.  Laidlee. 

During  the  Hevolution  the  British  trooi)S  used  this  sacred 
edifice  as  a  prison,  and  also  as  a  riding  school.  The  entire  in- 
terior was  destroyed,  leaving  only  the  bare  walls.  After  the 
Revolution  it  was  restored  and  refurnished  and  services  were 
resumed,  and  it  was  kept  in  constant  use  until  1844,  a  ])eriod  of 


Second  Dutch  Church  in  Garden   Street. 

one  hundred  and  fifteen  years.     From  1845  to  1875  it  was  oc- 
cupied as  a  i)ostoffice.     On    the   corner    of   Nassau   and   Cedar 

streets  is  a  l)ronze  tablet  bearing  the  inscription: 

iikrf:  stood  the  middle  dutch  church  erected  17:29, 

made  a  milftary  prison  1776. 

restored  17!*() 

occurrED  bv  u.  s.  p.  o.  1845-75. 

TAKEN    DOWN    1882. 

In  17()9  another  church  was  built,  on  the  northwest  corner 


84  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

of  Fnlton  and  William  streets.  Tliis  was  tlie  first  one  erected 
exclusively  for  English  services.  It  was  first  opened  for  wor- 
slii]>  on  Tlmrsday,  ^fay  25,  1769.  At  that  time  New  York  was 
empliatically  an  FiUglish  city,  and  the  use  of  the  Dutch  language 
was  the  exception  ratlier  than  the  rule.  This  church  remained 
until  1875,  when  it  was  taken  down.  Prom  the  time  of  its  build- 
ing it  took  the  name  of  the  "North  Dutch  Church,"  while  the 
one  on  Nassau  street  became  known  as  the  "Middle  Dutch 
Church."  The  first  stone  of  the  new  church  was  laid  July  2, 
17')7,  by  ^Ir.  Jacobus  Eoosevelt,  the  senior  elder.  The  walls 
were  ready  to  receive  the  roof  June  17,  1768.  During  the  Revo- 
lution the  Briti.sh  also  took  possession  of  this  church,  removed 
the  furniture,  and  turned  the  place  into  a  hospital  and  prison. 
It  is  said  that  the  pulpit  was  taken  to  England  and  was  used 
there  in  a  parish  church.  After  the  war  the  building  was  re- 
stored and  opened  for  worshij).  In  this  church  the  Pulton  street 
prayer  meeting,  which  has  a  world  wide  reputation,  was  first 
organized. 

In  1889  a  fourth  church  was  Iniilt  on  the  northwest  corner 
of  Lafayette  Place  and  Pourth  street.  At  that  time  this  was 
considered  very  far  l^^  town.  It  was  built  of  granite,  and  in 
front  had  eight  beautiful  Ionic  columns,  each  a  uKuiolith.  In 
form  it  resembled  the  Temple  of  Erectheus,  at  Athens.  There 
was  a  beautiful  pulpit  of  statuary  marble.  In  1887  it  was  taken 
down.  It  was  proposed  to  remove  the  beautiful  columns  and 
erect  them  in  C'entral  Park,  but  the  ])roject  failed,  and  they 
were  thrown  down  and  broken  in  pieces  to  facilitate  their  re- 
moval. In  the  place  of  this  a  new  church  was  built  on  Second 
avenue  and  Seventh  street.  This  still  stands,  and  is  the  only 
instance  in  which  a  church  has  1)een  moved  "down  town." 

The  beautiful  ]\larl)le  Church  on  the  northwest  corner  of 
Piftli  avenue  and  Twenty-ninth  street  was  opened  for  worship 


North  Dutch   Church. 


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87 


ill  1854.     In  tlie  court  yard  stands  the  Ijell  wliieli  was  cast  in 
Amstei'dani  in  1795  for  the  old  North  church  on  Fulton  street. 

The  church  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  avenue  and  Forty-eighth 
street,  was  dedicated  in  1872.  In  the  tower  hangs  tlie  old  his- 
toric hell,  cast  in  Amsterdam  in  1731,  and  presented  to  the 
church  hy  ( Vjlonel  .\l)raliani  De  Peyster,  and  hung  for  many 
years  in  the  tower  of  the  old  ^[iddle  Dutch  church  on  Nassau 
street.  At  the  time  of  the  Txevolution  it  was  taken  down  and 
secreted,  l)ut  was  replaced  after  the  evi'cuatioii. 


The  new  ^Middle  Dutch  church  on  Second  avenue  near 
Seventh  street,  mav  be  truly  called  a  ^lemorial  church.  The 
large  rose  window  is  in  memory  of  a  long  line  of  deceased  min- 
isters. Three  beautiful  mural  taoiets  ]3erpetuate  the  memory 
of  the  foundei's  of  the  church  in  this  city.  The  persons  thus 
memorialized,  are  Peter  Minuit.  the  director  general;  Sebastian 
Jansen  Krol,  and  Jan  PTuyck — the  first  church  officers  in  1()2G, 
and  Jonas  ^lichaelius,  the  first  minister,  in  1(528. 

The  prosperity  of  the  Dutch  church  in  financial  affairs  is 
based  upon  a  rich  gift  made  in  early  times.  A  tract  of  land 
called  the  Shoemaker  Pasture  was  owned  l)y  five  i)ersons,  one 
of  whom  was  Jan  Har])endinck.     This  tract  was  bounded  west 


88  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

by  Broadway,  north  l\v  the  rear  line  of  the  lots  on  the  north 
side  of  Fnlton  street,  east  by  a  line  one  hnndred  feet  east  of 
AVilliam  street,  and  south  by  Maiden  Lane.  In  1723  Jan  Har- 
pendinck  left  his  share  to  the  Dutch  church,  which  still  retains 
a  large  jiortion  of  it  which  is  of  a  constantly  increasing  value. 
Among  the  relics  i)reserved  in  the  church  at  Second  avenue  and 
Seventh  sti-eet.  are  the  coat-of-arnis  of  Jan  Harpendinck.  This 
hung  for  many  years  above  the  ])ulpit  in  the  old  North  church, 
whicli  stood  on  a  part  of  the  land  bequeathed  by  him.  We  may 
add  here  as  an  historical  fact,  that  the  tii-st  Jewish  synagogue 
in  New  York  was  in  a  house  on  ^Fill  street  (now  South  AVilliam 
street),  owned  by  Jan  Harpendinck.  in  1(599. 

Among-  the  early  ministers  of  the  Dutch  church,  the  most 
famous  was  the  Reverend  Everardus  Bogardus,  who  came  over 
from  Holland  in  1633  with  Walter  Von  Twiller,  who  succeeded 
Peter  Minuit  as  director  general.  He  was  a  man  of  education 
and  intellect  as  well  as  one  of  a  very  determined  and  inde- 
pendent character.  As  he  held  his  trust  directly  from  the  di- 
rectors of  the  West  India  Company,  he  was  not  dependent  upon 
the  good  graces  of  the  governor,  and  when  he  dilfered  with  him, 
did  not  hesitate  to  express  his  o]nnions  oi»enly  and  vigorously. 
He  does  not  seem  to  have  lieen  adverse  to  good  fellowship  and 
good  cheer.  Director  Von  Twiller 's  inca]iacity  was  a  matter  of 
general  comment,  and  the  dominie  was  not  inclined  to  refrain 
from  speaking  his  mind.  He  is  once  stated  to  have  sent  Von 
Twiller  a  message,  denouncing  him  as  "a  child  of  the  devil," 
and  threatened  him  with  such  a  shake  from  the  pulpit  on  the 
following  Sunday  as  "would  make  them  both  shudder."  What 
effect  it  had  upon  the  former  individual,  we  have  no  means  of 
knowing,  but  it  had  very  little  effect  ui)on  the  latter,  and  the 
ffuarrel  continued.  He  was  e(|ually  bold  in  o])])osing  Director 
William  l\ieft.  who  succeeded  Von  Twiller,  and  freely  exin'essed 


Dutch    Church,    Second    Avenue,    Near    Seventh    Street. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY 


'.'1 


himself  against  the  abuses  of  the  government,  and  his  eovetous- 
ness  and  many  excesses,  and  esi)eeially  for  bringing  on  the  ter- 
ril)le  Indian  war  wbicli  nearly  extingnishcd  the  settlement.  In 
retnrn,  the  directdr  charged  the  dominie  with  drnnkenness  and 
v:ith  dislionoring  the  inil])it  by  his  passionate  behavior,  and 
stated  tli'it  his  ^-eiinon.s  were  nothing  l)nt  the  "rattling  of  old 
wives'   stories  drawn   ont  fi'cnn   a  distaff,"  and  that  he  was  a 


Dutch   Church,  Lafayette  Place. 


seditions  man  wlio  strove  to  excite  the  people  against  him  as 
governor.  The  dominie  loudly  denonnced  him  from  the  i^nlpit, 
and  the  governor  in  revenge  caused  drums  to  be  beat,  and  even 
cannon  to  l)e  discharged,  and  he  also  encouraged  the  soldiers 
to  indulge  in  noisy  amusements  during  the  time  of  service. 

One  of  the  most  important  events  in  the  life  of  Dominie 
Bogardus  was  his  marriage  to  the  famous  Annetje  (or  Anneke) 
Jans,  the  widow  of  Koeloff  Janscii,  who  had  been  one  of  the  su- 


92  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

l)evintendents  of  the  great  ^Vfanor  of  Rensselaerwyek.  In  IGoG 
Roelotf  Jansen  ol)tained  a  "ground  brief,"  or  grant  of  a  bow- 
ery, or  farm,  which  in  later  years  was  destined  to  become  a  bone 
of  contention  between  the  heirs  of  Anneke  Jans  and  Trinity 
cluircli.     Koeloff  died  in  1().'>S.  leaving  tive  chiklren,  and  within 

AN    HISTORIC   CHURCH 


I  HIS  CHURCH  WASSVIUTBY  THE  CONCREGATIOW 
OF  THE  REFORMED-PRO TE S XAN T  BUT C H  CHTJROH  IN" 
THES^lTT0F5rEW^0RKF0R.EMGLISH  SERtriCE  TTHDERTHE 
iNSPECTIOlT    OFACOMMXTTE  OF 

Elders  deacons 

petermarschaur  ysaac  e.oseuelt 

peter  lott  adrian"  banckex 

COB-N^BOGERT  andre-w&arschalk 

fHEODORTJSVAlT  WCS:       ^ABRET    ABEEL 

AWDREV7 BRIESTED  Itl^ CAaP£NTERA"ND  PROIECIOR. 
lOHN    STAGG   MASTER    ^ASON  AND'At.EXBATES 

^    THE  FIRST  Stone  "WAS  LAID  Iuly  2   \y6y  Bt 

M^IacOBUS  ROSEUELT  Sen  ELDER 

The  Wails  euilt  to  receixje  the  roof  iiine  \y  iJuZ 

These  pillars  reared  Iune  2|  17^8 
The  fikst^ngiishMinistek  for  the  dttcch 
congreoatioit  the  red  archibald  laidlie  17^4 

PEACE  BE-WITHEN.THIS    SACRED    PALACE 
_^  And  HOLY     GIFTS    ATTO  HE AUENLTGRAC.E 

Tobias  VAN  ZAND  1 'clerk;  gaizl  fecit 


FAC-SIMILE    OF   THE    METALLIC   PLATE 

Tablet  in  North  Dutch  Church. 

a  year  slie  married  the  minister.  The  marriage  contract  still 
exists,  l)y  which  she  settled  one  thonsand  guilders  of  the  estate 
of  her  former  husband  ni)on  his  children,  and  they  both  agreed 
to  bring  them  u\)  decently,  i)r(>v!(le  them  with  food  and  clothing, 
keep  them  at  school,  and  let  them  learn  reading,  writing  and  a 
good  trade.    This  contract  was  witnessed  by  Director  Kieft,  the 


GENEALOdlCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  9::5 

Councillor  de  la  Montague,  and  Cornelius  Von  Tienlioven,  tlie 
most  distinguished  men  in  the  colony. 

The  fate  of  Dominie  Everardus  IJogardus  was  melancholy. 
In  1()47  he  sailed  for  Holland  in  the  ship  "Princess,"  and  with 
him  also  sailed  his  old  enemy,  Director  Kieft.  The  vessel  ^Yas 
wrecked  on  the  coast  of  Wales,  and  all  on  board  jierished.  His 
wife,  Anneke  Jans,  survived  him  many  years,  and  died  in  Albany 
in  l(^(io,  and  she  was  buried  in  the  yard  of  the  old  Dutch  church 
in  Hudson  street  in  that  city.  She  left  in  all  eight  children — 
Jan,  Jonas,  William,  Cornelius,  Pieter,  Sara,  wife  of  Dr.  Hans 
Kierstede;  Catrina,  who  married  Johanes  Pietersen  Von 
Brugh ;  and  Fytie.  The  house  where  she  and  her  husband  lived 
in  New  York  is  now  No.  23  Whitehall  street,  and  a  bronze  tal)let 
commemorates  the  fact. 

The  portrait  of  Rev.  Everardus  Bogardus,  here  presented, 
is  taken  from  an  ancient  painting  on  glass.  In  recent  years  it 
was  in  yiossession  of  Mr.  CMiristo))her  Tap])en,  of  Brooklyn,  one 
of  his  descendants.  Several  photographs  were  made  by  Mr. 
Abraham  Bogardus,  a  celebi'ated  artist.  One  of  these  was  pre- 
sented to  the  Reformed  Dutch  church  in  New  York,  and  from 
that  the  engraving  was  made.  The  following  is  the  list  of  min- 
isters down  to  1812 : 

Jonas  ^lichaelius.  .  .  .1628-1633  AVilhelmus  Van  Viewen- 

Everardus  Bogardus. 1633-1647        Imysen 1()71-1()82 

Johannes  Backarns.  .1647-1()49  Henricus    Selyns.  ...  1682-1 701 

Johannes  ^legapolen-  (hialterus  Du  Bois.  .  1699-1751 

sis  1649-1669     Henricus   Boel 1713-1754 

Samuel  Drissius 1652-1673  Johannes  Ritzema  ..  .1744-1784 

Samuel   Megapolen-..  Lambertus  De  Ronde. 1751-1 784 

sis 1664-1668 


y-t  GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Archibald   Laidlie.  .  .17M4-1779  Gerardus  Arense  ... 

John  Henry  Living-.  Kuy})ers 1789-1833 

ston 1770-1812  John  Xeilson  Abeel.  .1795-1812 

AVilliani   Linn 1785-1805     John  Sclmrinan 1809-1812 


Coat  of  Arms  of  John   Harpending. 


B  A  YAK  I)  FAMILY. 

The  ancestry  of  this  family,  so  famous  in  tlie  history  of 
Xew  York,  can  be  traced  hack  to  a  very  femote  anti(|nity.  Those 
who  take  an  interest  in  anticjuarian  investigations  have  traced 
its  origin  to  the  Province  of  Dauphine,  now  the  department  of 
the  Isere  in  the  southeastern  part  of  France;  about  six  miles 
from  Grenolile  the  ruins  of  the  Chateau  Bayard,  crowning  a 
hill  which  commands  one  of  the  noblest  prospects  in  that  roman- 
tic region,  marks  what  is  regarded  as  the  cradle  of  the  race. 
They  were  distinguished  from  the  earliest  times  for  courage 
in  war  and  fidelity  to  their  sovereign.  A  Segiieur  de  Bayard, 
then  the  head  of  the  house,  was  slain  at  the  battle  of  Poitiers 
in  the  vain  attempt  to  prevent  the  capture  of  King  John  the 
Good  by  the  English.  His  son  fell  in  coml)at  with  the  same 
enemy  at  Aginconrt,  and  his  grandson  at  ]\[ontlliery.  The  second 
in  descent  from  this  last  has  furnished  to  posterity  an  illusti'ious 
exa]n])]e  of  the  ])erfect  knight  "without  fear  and  without  re- 
])roach,"  the  famous  Chevalier  Bayard,  the  Captain  of  Charles 
VIII,  Louis  XII  and  Francis  I,  the  latter  of  whom  would  re- 
ceive tlie  honor  of  knightlu^od  from  no  hand  but  his.  In  1505 
he,  single-handed,  ke]it  the  bridge  of  the  Garigiiano  against 
the  Si^aniards,  and  saved  the  whole  French  ai'niy.  In  the  wars 
between  Francis  and  the  Enrporer  C^harles  V,  he  was  the  most 
trusted  French  leader,  and  fell  while  conducting  the  retreat  at 
the  passage  of  the  Sesia,  A])ril  P>n,  1524.  He  left  no  heirs  and 
his  rank  and  estates  descended  to  the  next  of  kin,  but  fame 
will  keej)  his  honored  name  in  rememln-ance  down  to  the  latest 
ages. 


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GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


The  family  name  Du  Teirail  was  ni?rgefl  in  tlie  territorial 
name  Bayard. 

Nicholas  Bayard,  the  ancestor  of  the  Amei'ican  family,  was 
descended  from  an  uncle  of  the  t'lievalit'r.  wiio  went  to  Lan- 
guedoc,  embraced  the  Protestan*^  faitli  ami  became  a  minister. 


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Like  thonsands  of  others  he  tied  to  England  to  escape  Eoman 
(•atholic  {lersecution,  was  jjastor  of  Xorwich  and  was  connected 
with  the  chnrches  of  "The  Olive."  He  was  ])astor  at  Antwerp, 
1591,  and  at  Ziericksee,  15!)4-l(ii;),  at  which  place  he  died  in 
1617.  He  married  Blandina  Conde.  Their  son.  Lazare  Bayard, 
was  also  a  minister  and  was  assistant  to  his  father  at  Zierick- 
see in  1601.     He  was  adopted   hy   the  chnrches,  and  was   sent 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  97 

to  Leyden  for  his  education.  He  belonged  to  the  chnrch  of 
"The  Olive,"  and  visited  several  churches.  He  was  at  Breda 
during  the  siege,  1607,  was  at  Amsterdam  in  1632,  returned  to 
Breda  in  1637,  and  died  there  in  1643.  He  married  Judith  De 
Vos,  at  Ziericksee,  and  had  children:  Judith,  baptized  Xo- 
vember  16,  1608;  and  Samuel,  baptized  at  Breda,  September, 
1609.  Judith  married  Peter  Stuyvesant,  at  Amsterdam  in 
1646.  Samuel  married  Anna,  sister  of  Peter  Stuyvesant,  and 
had  three  sons:  Belthazar,  Petrus  and  Nicholas,  born  1644, 
who  came  with  their  widowed  mother  and  her  brother-in-hiw. 
Governor  Peter  Stuyvesant,  to  New  Amsterdam,  May  11,  1647, 
and  from  these  all  of  the  name  in  this  country  are  descended. 

Balthazar  Bayard  married  Maritje  Lockermans.  His  will, 
dated  ^farch  4,  1699,  mentions  his  wife  Maria  and  children. 
Ariantie  ver  Planck;  Anna  Maria,  wife  of  Augustus  Jay; 
Jacobus,  Gouvert  and  Judy.  This  will  was  ]iroved  Feliruary  19, 
1706. 

Petrus  Bayard  became  a  convert  to  the  doctrines  of  the 
Labadists,  of  whom  an  account  may  be  found  in  another  portion 
of  this  work.  He  went  to  Maryland  and  was  ]n-ominent  in  the 
Labadist  eomnranity.  His  descendants  are  famous,  and  among 
these  may  be  mentioned  Hon.  Thomas  F.  Bayard,  United  States 
senator  from  Delaware,  1869-1880.  Petrus  Bayard  in  his  old 
age  withdrew  from  the  community  and  returned  to  New  York, 
where  he  died  in  1699.  His  wife,  Blandina  (Kierstede)  Bayard, 
was  a  noted  woman,  and  understood  the  Indian  language  so 
well  that  she  was  frecpiently  employed  as  interpreter.  Her 
residence  was  on  the  north  side  of  what  is  now  Exchange  ])lace. 
New  York,  a  little  east  of  Broadway.  She  died  in  1711,  and 
her  will  mentions  her  three  children,  Samuel,  Sarah,  married 
Al)raham  Gaasbeack  Chambers;  and  Petrus.  Her  son  Petrus 
died  before  his  mother,  about  1710.     He  married  Rachel   Van 

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98  GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY 

Boel,  and  left  a   son  Petrns   (;>).     From   Samnel    Bayard,  Wve 
oldest  brother,  are  descended  the   Bayards  of  Delawai'e. 

Petrns  Bayard  (8)  was  a  merchant  in  Essex  connty.  New 
Jersey,  and  died  thei-e  in  17-I-.").  His  mother,  Rachel  Bayard, 
had  married  Henry  Wileman.  He  left  no  children,  bnt  men- 
tions his  wife  Eve,  and  his  ste])-brothers  and  sisters:  Sanniel. 
John,  Helena,  wife  of  John  Dn  Bois;  and  Elizalieth,  all  children 
of  Henry  ^^'ileman. 

Nicholas  liayard.  brother  of  Balthazar,  married  Jndith 
Verlet,  May  1^:5,  l(i(i(i.  The  will  of  Nicholas  Bayard,  dated  :\lay 
0,  1707,  and  ])i'oved  Ajn'il  19,  1711,  s])eaks  of  him  as  ))eing-  "in 
indifferent  good  health."  and  leaves  his  estate  to  his  son,  Sanmcl 
Bayard,   and  his   wife   Jndith. 

Sanmel  Bayard,  l)ai)tized  Sei)tember  o,  1()69,  married  ]\[ar- 
garet.  dangiiter  of  Stephen   ^''an    Cortlandt,   who   gave  to  his 
daughter  and  her  husband  a  house  and  lot  on  the  east  side  of 
Broad  street,  next  south  of  the  house  and  lot  given  to  his  daugh- 
ter who   married   Stephen   De    Lancey,   better   known   in    later 
years   as   the   famous   Fraunces   Tavern.      In   his   will,   proved 
January  80,  174(i  he  leaves  to  his  son,  Stephen   P)ayard,  "tho: 
house  and  lot  where  he  now  liN'es,"  "bounded  north  by   Duck 
street,  west  by  Abraham  De  Peyster,  east  by  the  lunise  and  lot 
of  Andries  Teller,  and  south  by  the  dock  and  wharf."     This  is 
now   No.    80    Pearl    street.      To    the   children    of   his   deceased 
daughter,  Judith.,  avIio  married  Richard  Van  Dam,  he  left  "a 
lionse  and  lot,  bimnded  north  l)y  Duke  street,  and  east  by  Burgers 
Path,"  now  the  southeast  corner  of  Stone  street  and  Hanover 
s(|uare.     To  his  daughter  Gertrude,  who  married  Peter  Kem- 
ble.  he  left  pi-oi)erty  in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey.     He  left 
to  his  son  Nicholas  bis  house  and  lot  on  Broad  street.     To  his 
oldest  son  Samuel  lie  left  "my  house  and  lot  where  I  now  live; 
extending  from  Duke  street  to   Princess  street."     This  was  a 


Nicholas   Baj-ard. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         lul 

large  lot  on  the  north  side  of  Stone  street,  east  of  the  narrow 
lane  called  "Jews  Alley,"  and  extending  to  Beaver  street. 
South  William  street  was  extended  through  this  lot  in  1826.  He 
also  left  him  "a  garden  on  the  north  side  of  Princess  street." 
To  his  daughter  Margaret,  who  married  James  Van  Home,  he 
left  "two  houses  and  lots,  extending  from  Dock  street  to  Duke 

street,  bought  of  Jacobus  De  Kay."     This  is  now  No. 

Pearl  street.  He  left  to  his  daughter,  Anna  Bayard,  two  houses 
and  lots  on  the  north  side  of  Wall  street. 

The  son,  8te])hen  Bayard,  lived  in  Bergen  county,  New 
Jersey,  and  died  there,  in  1757.  In  his  will  he  directs  "my  Bod}' 
to  be  privati?ly  interred,  and  none  but  my  relations  to  be  in- 
vited, and  none  more  remote  than  Cousins  German."  He  left 
children,  William,  Margaret  and  Robert.  To  his  son  William  he 
left  his  farm  at  Hoboken,  and  to  Eol)ert  he  left  his  "farm  at 
Weehawken   with   the  ferry." 

Samuel  Bayard,  the  eldest  son,  married  Catharine  Van 
Home.  He  died  in  1784.  His  will  states  that  ''whereas  )uy 
son  Peter  hath  behaved  himself  in  a  very  undutiful  and  disor- 
derly manner,  I  be(|ueath  to  him  5  shillings  in  full  of  all  claims." 
He  left  to  his  wife  the  use  of  his  estate,  and  after  her  death  to 
the  children  of  Sanuiel  Breeze  and  wife,  namely,  Samuel  B., 
and  Susan  B.,  and  to  the  children  of  William  ^lalcom  and  wife 
Sarah,  viz:  Samuel  B.  and  Catharine  B. 

Nicholas  Bayard,  son  of  Samuel  and  ^largaret  Van  Cort- 
landt  Bayard,  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Eynders,  daughter  of 
Barent  Rynders  and  Hester  Leisler,  his  wife,  daughter  of  the 
famous  but  ill  fated  Jacob  Leisler.  By  this  marriage  there 
were  three  children:  Hester,  married  John  Van  Cortlandt; 
Judith,  wife  of  Jeremiah  Van  Rensselaer;  and  Nicholas.  He 
married  (second)  ^largarita  Van  Beverhout,  and  had  three  chil- 
dren:   Elizabeth.  Ann  and  Stephen.    He  left  to  his  son  Stephen 


102         GENEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

sixty  lots  on  the  Bayard  farm.  To  each  of  his  daugliters  lie 
left  thirty  lots,  and  the  remainder  to  his  son  Xicholas,  "inehid- 
ing  my  dwelling  lionsc  and  lot  on  the  sonth  side  of  AVall  street 
(now  Xos.  37,  39,  41)  and  Itoth  of  my  sngar  houses,  and  a  lot 
on  the  north  side  of  Wall  street."  ^Nlai'garita  Bayard  died  in 
1770. 

Xicholas  Bayard  (called  the  alderman),  the  oldest  son  of 
the  a1>ove  family,  died  in  1802.  He  married  Catharine,  daugh- 
ter of  Peter  Van  Brngh  Livingston.  He  left  all  his  estate  to 
C'ornelius  C  Roosevelt,  and  to  his  brother,  Steidien  X.  Bayard, 
of  Schenectady,  in  trust  for  his  daughters  Mary,  wife  of 
William  Houstoun;  Elizabeth,  wife  of  John  H.  Mackintosh; 
Margaret  Sarah,  wife  of  Gerard  Rutgers;  Catharine,  wife  of 
Charles  Johnson;  and  Anna  Ijivingston,  who  afterwards  mar- 
ried Xicholas  S.  Bayard,  in  ISOO.  and  died  in  1802.  The  great 
desire  of  the  testator  ai)i:ears  to  h-ive  been  to  keep  the  prop- 
erty entirely  out  of  the  hands  of  their  husl)ands.  ^Irs.  C^atharine 
Bayard  died  Xovember  2,  1775,  aged  thirty-two.  Stephen  X. 
Bayard,  the  brother  mentioned,  died  in  Xew  York,  in  1832, 
leaving  all  his  estate  to  his  wife  Mary. 

Mary  Bayard,  daughter  of  Xicholas,  married  Honorable 
AVilliam  Houstoun,  June  10,  1786.  She  died  August  7,  1806, 
leaving  two  children:  ]\[aria  and  Elizabeth.  Of  these  Afaria 
Houstoun  married  James  Madison,  and  had  one  child,  John 
H.  ^Madison,  who  married  Sarah  Dunnett,  and  had  two  daugh- 
ters— Maria,  who  married  Colonel  Hancock;  and  Douglas.  Eliz- 
abeth Houstoun  was  the  second  wife  of  General  Duncan  T^a- 
mont  Clinch.  She  left  no  children.  Houstoun  street  in  Xew 
^'ork  was  named  in  honor  of  this  family. 

Anna  Livingston  Bayard,  daughter  of  Xicholas,  married 
Xicholas   S.   Bavard,  and  had   one  child,   Xicholas   S.    Bavard. 


John   H.   Mackiniubli. 


Eliza    (Bayard)   Mackintosh. 


GENEALOaiCAL  AND  F  AMI  LA'  HISTOh'Y  1"5 

Jr.,  who  was  three  times  married  and  left  many  cliildreii  resid- 
ing in  Georgia. 

Eliza  Bayard,  daughter  of  Xicliolas,  married  John  IIous- 
toim  ]\raekintosb,  a  son  of  (Jeorge  Mackintosh,  whose  father, 
John  Mohr  Mackintosh,  came  to  (xeorgia  from  Scotland  with 
Oglethorjie;  George  ]\Iackintosh  married  Ann,  danghter  of  Sir 
Patrick  Houstonn,  and  sister  of  Hon.  William  jlonstomi.  dohn 
H.  Mackintosh  was  a  graduate  of  Oxford,  and  married  P^liza 
Bayard,  April  oO,  1792.  He  died  in  183(i.  His  wife  survived 
him  and  died  in  1848.  Their  children  were:  John  H.,  Jr.,  mar- 
ried Mary  Higbee.  George  S.,  married  Enphemia  Hamilton. 
Catherine  A.,  wife  of  Henry  R.  Sadler.  Elizabeth  Bayard,  mar- 
ried  General   Duncan   Lamont    Clinch.      Their   children   were: 

1.  Eliza  Bayard,  married  (Jeneral  Robert  Anderson,  of  national 
fame.  2.  John  H.  ^[.  3.  Mary  Lamont.  4.  Duncan  Lament. 
5.  Catlierine  Maria,  married  Barnwell  Haywood,  of  Charleston. 
South  Carolina.  Her  son,  Duncan  Clinch  Barnwell,  is  now 
governor  of  that  state,     (i.  Henry.     7.  Xicliolas.    8.  George  AV. 

General  Robert  Anderson,  whose  name  and  fame  are  an 
imperishable  portion  of  the  history  of  our  country,  was  the  son 
of  Lieutenant  Colonel  Richard  Clougli  Anderson  and  Sarah 
Marshall,  his  second  wife,  who  was  a  cousin  of  Chief  Justice 
Marshall.  His  first  wife  was  Ann  Clark,  of  the  same  family  as 
Captain  Clark,  the  noted  exjilorer. 

General  Anderson  was  born  June  14,  1805.  He  married 
Eliza  Bayard  Clinch,  in  New  York  City,  March  26,  1842,  the 
bride  being  given  in  marriage  by  General  Winfield  Scott.  The 
children  of  this  marriage  are:  1.  Duncan  Lamont,  died  young 

2.  Eliza  Mackintosh  Clinch.  3.  ^iaria  Latham.  4.  So])hie  Clinch. 
5.  Robert.  Cf  these  children  Robert,  the  youngest,  died  at  the 
age  of  twenty.  He  was  the  (Uily  English  siieaking  boy  at  the 
College  Rollin.  France,  and  took  the  highest  luize  for  French. 


l<»r.         (iKXEALOaiCAL  AXl)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

At  the  coinpetitive  exaniniatii)n  at  the  Sorhomie,  he  took  the 
highest   i)rizt'. 

Mrs.  (xeneral  .ViuU'rson  died  Fel)niaiy  l^o,  l^Oo.  Xo  lietter 
account  of  tlie  life  of  Cxeneral  Kolu'i't  Anderson  from  his  l)irth 
to  his  lionored  lirave  can  he  given  than  tliat  rend  at  West  Point, 
on  the  centennial  of  liis  hirtli,  and  wliicli  is  liere  added. 

^lajor  (ieneral  Hohert  Anderson  was  l)orn  at  "Soldiers' 
Ketreat"  near  Louisville.  Kentucky  (seat  of  his  father.  Col. 
Richard  C'lough  Anderson,  Kevolutionaiy  War),  dune  14,  1S05 

Cadet  at  Military  Academy,  July  1,  ISi^l.  to  July  1,  1825, 
when  lie  was  graduated  and  ])romoted  in  tin'  Army  to  Brevet 
2nd  Lieut.,  2nd  Artillery,  July  1,  lS2r),  to  2nd  Lieut..  I^.rd  Artil- 
lery. 1.S25. 

Served  as  Private  Seeretai'y  to  his  hrother,  Richard  Clough 
Anderson,  Jr.,  1st  V.  S.  ALnister  Plenipotentiary  and  Envoy 
Extraordinary  to  the  Repul)lic  of  Colomlua.  1S25  to  1826. 

In  garrison  at  Fort  Monroe,  Virginia,  182(i  to  1828. 

While  at  Fortress  Monroe  he  eajitured  the  French  pirate 
Tardi. 

On  Ordnance  duty  March  6,  1828,  to  :\Iay  9,  1882. 

As  Colonel  on  Staff  and  Insi)ector  (Jeneral  of  Illinois  Vol- 
unteers May  !»  to  October  11,  1882,  in  the  Campaign  against  the 
Sac  Indians  under   I)lack   Hawk. 

( )n  ( )rdnance  duty  December  6,  1834,  to  May  5,  1835,  and 
in  garrison  at  Fort  Constitution,  N.  H.,  1835. 

At  the  Military  Academy  1835  to  1837.  As  Asst.  Instructor 
of  Artillery  Seiitemher   10,  to  December   1,   1885. 

As  histructor  of  Artillery  from  December  1,  1885,  to  No- 
vember (i,   1887. 

In  the  Florida  Wai-  against  the  Seminole  Indians  1837  to 
1888. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY  107 

Brevetted  C'aptaiii  April  2,  1838,  for  gallantry  and  snc- 
cessfnl  conduct  of  the  war  against  the  Florida  Indians. 

In  the  Cherokee  Nation  as  Aide-de-C-amp  to  Major  General 
Scott  May  9  to  July  7,  1838. 

Brevet  C'aptam  on  Staff  and  Assistant  Adjutant  (Jeneral 
July  7,  1838,  to  Novemlier  30,  1841. 

Assistant  Adjutant  (Jeneral  Eastern  l)ei)artinent  .Iul\-  7. 
1838,  to  July,   1841. 

In  garrison,  Foi't  Aloultrie.  S.  C,  1845  to  184(5. 

At  Fort  Marion,  Florida,   184(5. 

At  Fort  Brooke,  Florida,  184(5  to  1847. 

In  the  war  witli  Mexico  1847,  heing  engaged  in  the  Siege 
of  Vera  Cruz  March  9  to  29,  1847. 

At  Battle  of  Cerro  Gordo  April  14  and  18,  1847. 

Skirmish   of  Amazo(|ue   ]\Iay   14,    1847. 

Battle  of  Molino  del  Key  Septenil)er  8,  1847,  where  he 
was  severely  wounded,  being  the  first  to  enter  the  Mill. 

Author  of  the  "C*onii)lete  System  of  Instruction  for  Siege. 
Garrison,  Seacoast  and  Marine  Artillery,"  which  was  adopted 
for  the  Service  in  1849. 

In  garrison  at  Fort  l*re])le,  Maine,  1850  to  1853. 

Bill  ]iassed  in  tlie  Senate  to  found  a  "Soldiers'  Retreat" 
or  Home.  Bill  ])assed,  as  the  "Bill  of  Robert  Anderson  to 
found  a  Home  for  Old  Soldiers,"  1851. 

Governor  of  Harrodslmrg  Branch,  Military  Asylum,  Ken- 
tucky, June  n,  1853.  to  November  1,  1854. 

Member  of  Board  for  the  .Vrmament  of  Foi'titications  1854 
to  1855. 

Major  1st  Artillery  October  5,  1857. 

Arranged  Program  of  Instruction  for  the  Artillery  School 
for  Practice  at  Fort  Monroe,  Va.,  1859  to  18()(). 


1(18         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  IIISTOHY 

In  eomiiiaiid  of  the  Defenses  of  L'liarlestou  Harbor  1860 
to  1861. 

Served  dnring  tlie  Kel)ellion  of  the  Seceding  States  1861 
to  1866.  as  foUows:  In  the  Defense  of  Fort  Snmter,  S.  C. 
(to  which  he  transferred  the  Garrison  of  Fort  ]Monltrie),  Decem- 
ber 26,  18(50,  to  April  14,  1861. 

In  command  of  Department  of  Kentucky  May  28  to  August 
15,  18()]. 

In  the  Department  of  the  Cumberh\nd  August  15  to  Octo- 
ber 8,  1861. 

In  waiting  Orders  1861  to  1863. 

In  command  at  Fort  Adams,  R.  I.,  Augmst  19  to  October 
27,  1863,  and  at  New  York  City  on  the  Staff  of  the  General 
Commanding,  Department  of  the  East. 

Retired  from  Active  Service  October  29,  1863,  "for  dis- 
ability resulting  from  loug  and  faithful  service  and  wounds 
and  disease  contracted  in  the  line  of  duty." 

In  the  Department  of  the  East  October  27,  1863,  to  January 
22,  1869. 

Brevetted  ^Major  General  U.  S.  Army  February  3,  1865, 
for  gallant  and  meritorious  Service  in  the  Harbor  of  Charleston, 
S.  C.,  in  the  Defense  of  Fort  Sumter. 

Sent  by  President  Lincoln  to  Reraise  the  same  Flag  over 
Fort  Sumter,  April  14-,  1865,  which,  had  been  saluted  with  all 
honors  when  the  Fort  was  evacuated  in  1861. 

Proposer  and  Organizer  of  the  Alumni  of  West  Point,  1869. 

First  Meeting  held  at  College  of  Xew  York. 

Died  at  Nice,  France,  October  27,  1871 ;  aged  66  years. 

The  "Guerriere"  sent  o\'er  for  his  body.  Received  with 
Military  Honors  at  Fortress  ]\[onroe,  and  buried  at  West  Point 
Cemeterv. 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  IIlSTOliY  1"0 

(leneroiis  as  brave 

Affection,  kindness,  the  Small   Offices 

Of  love  and  duty,  were  to  him  as  needful 

As  his  daily  bread. 

Eliza  Mackintosh  (Minch  Anderson  married  James  Mars- 
land  Lawton,  Jiily  8,  ISSi;.  He  died  February  20,  1895.  Mrs. 
Ijawton  has  held  many  social  |)Ositions  of  imi)ortance.  She  was 
chairman  of  a  ladies'  committee  of  the  New  York  Historical 
Society,  and  through  this  instrumentality  a  large  sum  was 
raised  to  advance  the  interests  of  the  Society.  She  is  vice- 
])resident  of  the  Niobrara  League  for  Eeligious  work  among 
the  Indians.  She  was  first  directress  of  the  Society  of  the 
Daughters  of  Holland,  but  lias  resigned  from  that  ])osition. 
She  was  founder  and  first  ju'esident  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
Cincinnati.  For  many  years  she  has  been  the  able  and  efificieut 
secretary  of  the  Huguenot  Society,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Colonial  Dames,  of  the  Genealogical  Society,  and 
directress   of   the   Women's   ^Municipal    League. 

Stephen  Bayard,  son  of  Samuel  and  Marg-aret  \"an  Cort- 
landt  Bayard,  was  l)ai)tized  May  ol,  1700,  and  died  in  1757.  He 
married  Alida,  daughter  of  Colonel  Samuel  Vetch  whose  wife 
^Margaret  was  a  daughter  of  Robert  Livingston,  the  first  Lord  of 
the  Manor.  Ste]ihen  Bayard  was  mayor  in  1744;  member  of 
council  1746-7.  He  was  married  March  12,  1725.  His  second 
wife  was  Eve  Schuyler.  He  had  many  children,  but  onl^'  three 
survived  him.  William,  Margaret  and  Robert.  Robert  was 
known  as  ]\fayor  Robert  Bayard.  He  married  Rebecca,  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  Charles  Apth()i'])e,  of  Boston.  She  died  Februai\v 
22,  177L  aged  twenty-five. 

William  Bayard  was  born  June  1,  1727.  Tn  1761  he  was 
member  of  connnittee  of  c()rres])ondence,  member  df  clinmbev 
of  commerce.     From  17()1  to  1768  he  was  member  of  assembly. 


llu         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

and  was  one  of  the  contribntors  to  tlie  society  lil)rary  in  1761 
Dnring  the  Revolution  he  adhered  to  the  Royal  e«nse,  and  his 
pioi)erty  was  confiscated.  He  went  to  England  and  died  at 
Southampton,  180-1-. 

He  married,  June  13,  1750,  Catherine,  daughter  of  John 
M.  Evers.     The  children  who  survived  him  were:  John  Bayard. 

lieutenant-colonel    in    British   army.      Alida,   wife   of  

Johnson.    Catherine,  wife  of Roberts.     Samuel  \\'tch. 

William.     Robert.     ^lary.   afterwards   Lady  Arnold. 

William  Bayard,  Jr.,  was  a  }>rominent  merchant  and  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Le  Roy  Bayard  c^'  Co.  He  was  director  of 
Banks  of  Amercia,  president  of  Savings  Bank  at  its  beginning 
in  1819.  President  of  Chamber  of  Connnerce,  governor  of  New 
York  Hosi)ital,  trustee  of  Sailors'  Snug  Harbor,  chaiiman  of 
Greek  Committee,  niember  of  New  York  Society  Library  and 
of  St.  John's  Society,  and  one  of  the  owners  of  Tontine  Coffee 
House.  He  lived  at  -to  Wall  street,  but  died  at  his  residence 
in  State  sfveet,  September  18,  182(5.  He  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Cornell,  October  4,  1783.  His  children  were : 
Susan,  wife  of  Woolsey  Rogers.  Catherine,  first  wife  of  Dun- 
can P.  Campbell.  ]\[aria,  second  wife  of  Duncan  P.  Campbell. 
William,  married  Catherine  Hannnond,  no  issue.  Justine,  wife 
of  Josejih  Blackwell.  Roliert.  Harriet,  wife  of  Stephen  Van 
Rensselaer. 

Of  these  children,  Rol)ert  Bayard  was  the  last  of  the  name 
in  New  York.  He  resided  for  a  time  in  LeRoy,  New  York, 
but  returned  to  the  city  where  he  died  February  4,  1878.  in  his 
eighty-first  year.  He  married  Elizabeth,  only  child  of  James 
and  Ruth  (Hunter)  McEvers.  Her  mother  married  ^\y.  .McEvers 
at  a  very  early  age.  Being  seized  with  a  fatal  consmnption, 
she  went  to  Europe  with  her  hus])and,  died  in  Rome,  and  was 
buried  in  the  same  cemetery  where  rest  the  remains  of  the  i)oet 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  II IS  TO HY 


111 


Keats,  and  at  the  foot  of  the  pyramid  of  Chains  C'estins.  Kohert 
Bayard  left  three  children:  William,  horn  Fel)ruary  Ki,  18:^1, 
died  May  25,  1842,  without  issue.  Rath  Hunter,  horn  .June  22, 
1822.  married  Alexander  Spers  Brown.  Klisc  Justine.  l)orn 
August  16,  182o,  married  Fulton  Cutting,  whose  sons,  William 
Bayard  Cutting  and  Robert  Fulton  Cutting,  are  well  known 
citizens. 


Residence    of    William    Bayart 


The  residence  of  William  Bayard  was  situated  in  tliat  ]tor- 
tion  of  New  York  known  as  the  village  of  Greenwich.  Here 
he  had  a  fine  tract  of  three  acres,  fronting  the  river.  This  lie 
purchased  licfore  1770.  After  the  Revolution  it  was  contiscatcd 
and  sold  to  Dr.  Charles  ^r(d\niglit.  It  was  i)roh;!hly  purchased 
from  him  by  William  Bayard,  dr..  and  it  was  his  country  seat. 
It  was  in   this   liouse  that   Alexander    Hamilton   died   after  his 


112         GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY 

fatal  duel  with  Aaron  Burr.  In  1833  the  heirs  of  William 
Bayard,  Jr.,  sold  the  house  and  land  to  Francis  B.  Cutting 
for  a])out  $50,000.  In  Ai)ril,  1835,  it  was  divided  into  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  lots  and  sold  at  auction  for  $225,000. 
Streets  were  extended  through  it  and  the  place  where  the  Man- 
sion stood  is  now  82  -lane  street.  A  New  York  newsj^aper  of 
1775  contains  the  following  notice. 

"Last  Sunday  week,  (June  10,  1775)  the  House  of  Will- 
iam Bayard,  Esc].  at  Greenwick,  was  struck  by  Lightning,  which 
occasioned  considerable  damage.  In  several  apartments  large 
Pier  glasses  were  broken,  and  a  quantity  of  silver  ])late  con- 
tained in  a  chest  was  pierced  and  otherwise  affected  without 
doing  the  least  injiry  to   the  chest." 

SCHIEFFELIN  FAMILY. 

The  family  of  Schieffelin  can  be  traced  back  to  the  thir- 
teenth century,  w^hen  it  had  large  proi)erties  in  Germany,  and 
founded  a  chapel  in  Nordlingen,  at  a  place  called  the  Wine 
^Market,  in  the  year  12(59.  There  "was  a  branch  of  the  family 
existing  in  Switzerland  in  the  middle  of  the  fifteenth  century, 
and  it  has  been  claimed,  seemingly  with  little  authority,  that 
the  Swiss  was  the  elder  liranch.  However  this  may  be,  Conrad, 
the  son  of  Franz  Schieffelin,  of  Nordlingen  and  Nuremburg 
(for  in  11:76  the  latter  ke])t  u]>  i-esidences  in  both  jilaces),  mi- 
grated to  the  canton  of  Geneva,  Switzerland,  and,  in  considera- 
tion of  his  near  relative,  the  Lord  Syndic  Besancon  Huges,  he 
was  admitted  to  citizenship  February  14,  1518,  gratis,  and  be- 
came possessed  of  the  Fief  de  la  Moliere,  July  6.  1527.  He 
left  descendants  |)ron.iinent  in  the  cantonal  affairs  of  Switzer- 
land for  several  generations.  In  154;)  Hans  Leonard  Schieffelin, 
second  ne])hew  of  Coni-ad.  l)eing  the  son  of  his  brother,  Hans 
Leonard,  also  moved  from  Germany  to  Switzerland,  making 
Freil)nrg  his  residence.     .\   ])ictnre  iiaintvd   in   15.38  is  still  ex- 


Lieut.   Jacob    Schieffelin.  Mrs,    Hannah    (Lawrence)    Schieffelin. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  UlSTOUY         li:. 

tant,  rei)resenting  the  elder  Haus  Leonard  Scliietfelin  and  his 
two  sons  worshiping  the  Paschal  Lamb,  which  is  also  the 
crest  of  the  family  in  this  conutry.  The  tirst  of  the  family  to 
visit  America  was  .lacob  Schietfelin,  of  Weilheim  an  der  Teclv, 
in  German}'.  He  came  in  1732.  Tlie  family  had  a  dwelling  in 
Weilheim,  and  a  seat  in  the  country,  with  the  perpetual  right 
vested  in  the  family  of  sending  the  eldest  son  to  the  college. 
Jacob  Schieffelin  died  1749,  and  in  the  same  year  his  son,  also 
named  Jacob,  came  over  to  Philadelphia  and  settled  in  this 
country,  bringing  with  him  his  family  Bible,  printed  in  1560, 
which  is  still  in  possession  of  the  family. 

Jacob  Schieffelin  (2d)  was  born  in  1732.  He  remained 
in  Germany  till  1749,  when  he  came  to  America,  and  reached 
Philadelphia  on  the  same  day  that  his  father  died.  He  mar- 
ried, September  16,  1756,  Kegina  Margaretta  Kraften 
Uitschaurin.  Their  children  were:  Jacob,  born  August  24, 
1757;  Melchoir,  born  August  16,  1759;  Jonathan,  born  July 
16,  1762 ;  and  Thomas.  The  father  of  this  family  was  a  merchant 
in  Philadelphia,  but  was  also  engaged  in  business  in  Montreal. 
He  died  in  Philadelphia  in  1769. 

Jacob  Schieft'elin,  (3d),  the  oldest  son,  married,  August 
13,  1780,  Hannah,  oldest  daughter  of  John  and  Ann  (Burling) 
Lawrence.  He  died  at  his  residence  in  New  York,  April  16, 
1835.  His  wife  survived  him,  dying  October  3,  1838.  Their 
children  were:  1.  Edward  Lawrence,  born  September  13,  178 — , 
died  at  Lyme,  Connecticut,  October  5,  1850.  He  married, 
January  1,  1802,  Susan  Anna,  daughter  of  Alexander  Stewart, 
and  had  one  child,  Edward  Anna,  wlio  married,  in  1830,  Frank 
Nicoll  Sill,  who  died  1848.  She  then  married  Dr.  John  Noyes, 
who  died  1854.  After  his  death  she  married  Captain  S.  Chad- 
wick,  of  Lyme,  Connecticut,  and  died,  leaving  no  issue.  2. 
Henry   Hamilton,   born   June    20,   1783.     (See  post.)     3.  Anna 


116         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Maria,  horn  April  11,  1788,  married,  April  4,  1808,  Benjamin 
Ferris.  4.  Effingham,  horn  Fehruary  17,  171)1.  He  married, 
September  9,  1813,  Mary,  daughter  of  Casjier  Samler,  and  died 
at  East  Chester,  Jnly  14,  ISiJo,  leaving  a  son  Edgar.  5.  Jacob, 
born  Ai)ril  20,  1793.  <).  Jolin  Lawrence,  horn  February  25, 
179H;  married,  August  19,  1844,  Alathilde  Therese  Bowen,  and 
died  at  New  Haven,  A])i'il  22.  1866,  leaving  one  cliild,  ]\Iary 
T.,  wife  of  Henry  I.  Sayers,  of  New  York.  7.  Riehard  Lawrence, 
born  November  9,  1801. 

Henrv    Hamilton    Schieffelin,    second    son    of    Jacob    and 


Schieffelin  Coat  of  Arms. 

Hannah  (Lawrence)  Schieffelin,  married,  Ai)ril  19,  1*^06,  ^[aria 
Theresa,  daughter  of  Dr.  Samuel  Bradhurst,  who  died  May  22, 
1872.  Their  children  were:  1.  Mary  Theresa,  boi-n  January 
14,  1807,  married  in  1827,  William  N.  Clark.  2.  Henry  Maun- 
sell,  ])orn  August  7,  1808.  He  married,  in  1835,  Sarah  Louisa, 
daughter  of  David  Wagstaff;  no  issue  by  this  marriage.  He 
married  second,  June  14,  1859,  Sarah  M.  Kendall,  of  Maine.  He 
died  at  Alexandria,  Egypt,  July  23,  1890.  Their  children  were: 
Fanny,  born  September  16,  1860,  (who  married,  October  12, 
1881,  Ernest  Howard  Crosby,  and  has  two  children,  Margaret 
Eleanor,  born  Ai)ril   25,   1884,  and  Maunsell   Schieffelin.   born 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY  117 

February  14,  1887),  and  Marj-  Bradhurst,  l)orn  July  18,  18(i2, 
died  unmarried.    3.  Samuel  Bradhurst,  born  February  1*4,  1811. 
4.  James  Lawrence,  born  in  1813.    5.  Philip,  born  in  1815,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Townley  Haines.     He  died 
about   1889,    leaving   one   child,    ^laria    Theresa,    whi»   married 
Rev.   William  T.   Sabine.     6.  Sidney  Augustus,   horn   in   1818, 
resided  at  Geneva;  married  Harriet  Schuyler,  and  died  in  1894, 
leaving  two  sons  and  three  daughters.     7.  Julia,  born  in  1821  ; 
married    in    1840,    Clement    Remington.      She   died   Septeml)er 
15,  1871.     8.  Bradhurst,  who  was  twice  married,  and  had  two 
children,  Laura  Gr.  (who  married  in  1875,  David  Barton  Cush- 
ing),  and  Emily.     9.  Eugene,  born  in  1827,  an  artist  of  distinc- 
tion.    He  married  Catharine,  daughter  of  Valentine  G.   Hall. 
Jacob  Schieffelin,  fourth  son  of  Jacob  and  Hannah  (Ijaw- 
rence)    Schieffelin,    removed    to    Tioga    county,    Pennsylvania, 
about  1830.     He  married  Elizabeth  Chapman,  and  died  Decem- 
ber 27,  1880.     His  widow  died  January  27,  1881,  aged  eighty- 
four.     Tlieii- children  were:     1.  Clinton,  horn  Febi'uary  16,  1823. 
2.  Alfred,  born  September  23,  1827.    ."!.  Elizabeth,  born  May  23, 
1829.    4.  Laura,  born  Sei)tember  2,  1831,  married  O.  B.  Lowell, 
died  Septemlier  18,  1866.     5.  Cornelia,  born  February  4,  1834. 
6.   Jacob  B.,  born   March   25,   died   July   7,    1836.     7.   Edward 
Girard    (his    twin   brother),   l)orn    ^larcli   25,    18;i().      8.   Jacob. 
Jr.,  l)orn  Ajiril  18,  1838.     He  married,  February  1,  186(i,  Emily 
T.   Ryan    (born  July  23,   1843),   and   had   four  children:    Lila 
Gertrude,  born  Noveml)er  11,   1868;   Edward  Effingham,   born 
Septeml)er  21,  1872;  Thomas  Lawrence,  born  July  31,  1874,  and 
Jay  Hoyt,  born  April  22,   1876.     9.   Hannah   Lawrence,  born 
March  6,  1840. 

Clinton  Lawrence  Schieffelin,  the  oldest  son  of  the  above 
family,  settled  in  Oregon.  In  1880  he  i-emoved  to  East  Los  An- 
geles, California,  where  lie  died,  April  15,  1884.     He  had  wife 


lis         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  IIISTOBY 

Jane,  and  cliildren,  Lafayette,  died  3'oimg;  Edward  L.,  born 
October  8,  1847,  the  discoverer  of  the  mines  at  Tombstone, 
Arizona;  Albert  Engene,  l)orn  Angnst  27,  1849;  Jane  Elizabeth, 
born  September  2,  1851 ;  Effingham  L.,  born  November  5,  1857 ; 
Charlotte,  born  November  27,  1859,  married  Edward  Dnnham; 
Kichard  Charles,  born  April  2(3,  1862;  Jacob,  died  young; 
Theodore,  born  October  (i,  18(57,  died  Se})tember  17,  1881 ;  Jay 
L.,  born  July  11,  1870. 

Richard  Lawrence  Schieffelin,  youngest  son  of  Jacob  and 
Hannah  (Lawrence)  Schieffelin,  married,  August  3,  1833,  Mar- 
garet Helen,  daughter  of  Captain  George  Knox  McKay,  United 
States  Artillery.  He  died  November  21,  1889.  Their  children 
were:  1.  Sarah  Sophia,  born  June  22,  1834,  married,  January 
30,  1858,  Rev.  Cuthbert  (.'ollingwood  Barclay,  Rector  of  All 
Saints  Church,  New  York  (who  died  February  7,  1863).  She 
died  without  issue,  March  5,  1886.  2.  George  Richard,  born 
July  27,  1836.  (See  post.)  3.  Helen  Margaret,  l)orn  May  7, 
1841,  married,  June  21,  18()9,  AVilliam  Irving  (Iraham,  and  has 
two  children,  Helen  M.  and  Julia  Irving.  'Sir.  Graham  died 
August  21,  1871.  His  widow  married,  April  7,  1875,  Alexander 
Robei't  Chisolm,  and  had  one  son,  Richard  Schieffelin  Chisolm. 

George  Richard  SchielTelin,  the  only  son  of  Richard  Law- 
rence and  Margaret  Helen  (McKay)  Schieffelin,  married.  May 
19,  1866,  Julia  Matilda,  daughter  of  Honorable  Isaac  C.  Dela- 
]>laine.  Their  children  are:  1.  Julia  Florence,  married.  December 
4,  1888,  Josepli  Brnce  Ismay,  of  Liverpool,  now  president  of  the 
International  Mercantile  Marine  Company.  Their  children:  ^^lar- 
garet  Bruce,  Thomas  Bruce,  Evehoi  Constance  and  George 
Bruce.  2.  Mai'garet  Helen,  married,  December  10,  1890,  Henry 
Gratf  Trevor.  Their  children:  George  Schieffelin,  Margaret 
Estelle,  Louisa  Stephanie,  Henry  Graff  and  Helen  Lispenard 
Stewart.      3.    Matilda    Constance,   man-ied,   January    13,    1900, 


Richard    Lawrence    Schieffelin. 


George  R.  Sehieffelin. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  IIISTOHY  \-rA 

Charles  Bower  Tsinay.  4.  Sarali  Dorothy.  5.  George  Richard 
Delaplaine.  He  married,  Ai)ril  5,  1904,  Louisa,  daughter  of 
Charles  Scrilmer.     Tliey  have  ojie  child,  George  McKay. 

•  Sacol)  Scliieft'eUn  (."id)  at  the  age  of  seventeen  aeconii)anied 
his  fatlier  to  Alontreal,  and  remained  there  for  awhile  in  a 
mercantile  house.  Shortly  after  he  went  to  Detroit  and  engaged 
in  business.  At  the  conunencement  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion he  received  a  commission  as  first  lieutenant  in  a  company 
raised  in  Detroit,  and  was  ))art  of  an  exjiedition  organized  by 
Governor  Henry  Hamilton  for  the  })urpose  of  ])roceeding  down 
the  valley  of  the  Mississi])])i  to  attack  New  Orleans,  then  under 
Spanish  conti-ol,  England  being  at  that  time  at  war  with  Spain. 
The  ex]iedition  reached  and  caiitured  Fort  St.  Vincent  (now 
Vincenues,  Indiana).  After  holding  this  ])lace  for  some  time, 
they  were  in  turn  attacked  and  defeated  by  a  force  organized 
in  Virginia,  and  led  by  Colonel  George  Rogei-s  Clark.  The  en- 
tire garrison  was  ca]itured,  including  Governor  Hamilton  and 
Lieutenant  Schieffelin.  and  were  taken  as  jjrisoners  of  war  to 
Williamsburg,  X^irginia.  The  greater  i)art  were  i-eleased  on 
parole,  but  Lieutenant  Schieftelin,  with  sonu^  others,  refusing. 
were  i)laced  in  close  continement.  He,  with  a  fellow  offii-er,  nnm- 
aged  to  escai^e,  and  reached  Cliesa])eake  Bay.  Finding  an  ojien 
boat  they  reached  the  sea  and  were  i)icked  u]»  by  a  \-essel  As 
they  spoke  the  French  language  fluently,  they  had  no  difticult)' 
in  ])assing  themselves  olf  for  shipwrecked  French  sailors,  and 
were  landed  in  New  York.  Lieutenant  Schieft'elin  at  once  called 
upon  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  the  conunauder  of  the  I5i-itish  forces, 
who  was  then  residing  at  No.  1  Broadway,  and  narrated  hi.s 
adventures  and  stated  his  ])osition.  General  Clinton  relieved 
his  immediate  wants  by  iiaying  him  one  hundred  guineas,  and 
also  reapjiointed  him  as  an  officer  in  a  regiment  called  "Amer- 
ican Royalists,"  which  he  was  then  organizing.     In  this,  as  in 


124         GEXEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

many  other  cases,  Venus  baffled  the  jilans  of  Mars.    The  young 
lieutenant  had  fallen  in  love  with  Hannah  Lawrence,  the  daugh- 
ter of  a   prominent  Quaker  merchant,   wlio,  true   to   the   prin- 
ciples of  her  sect,  refused  to  marry  unless  he  resigned  from 
the  army.    This  he  promptly  did,  and  they  were  married  by  the 
chaplain  of  the  fort,  and  the  marriage  was  registered  in  Trin- 
ity Church.     This  was  also  contrary  to  Quaker  discipline,  and 
the  young  l)ride  was  i)romiitly  "read  out"  of  the  Friends  Aleet- 
ing,  but  between  the  ])arents  of  the  bride  and  the  new  son-in- 
law  there  was  ever  the  kindest  of  feelings.     Almost    immedi- 
ately after  the  marriage,  the  young  couple  embarked  on  board 
a  small  sailing  vessel  bound  for  Quebec,  and  a  full  account  of 
the  temi)estuous  voyage  of  several  weeks  is  very  graphically 
narrated  in  a  journal  kejit  by  the  young  wife,  and  which  is  one 
of  the  treasured  heirlooms  of  her  descendants.     From  Quebec 
they  went  to  Niagara  and  Detroit,  a  long  and  tedious  as  well  as 
dangerous  journey  of  two  months,  which  can  now  be  made  in 
twelve  hours.     He  was  ai)iiointed  secretary  of  the  Province  of 
Detroit,  and  also  engaged  in  business  and  purchased  several 
tracts  of  land  which  may  be  seen  on  old  maps  of  that  city.    He 
also   ]mrchased   from   the   Indians   a   large   tract,    seven   miles 
square,   ojiposite   Detroit.      The  deed,    with   the   marks   of   the 
Indian  vSachems,  is  still  ])reserved,  but  as  the  grant  was  never 
confirmed   by  the   British   government   it  failed   to   be   of  any 
benefit  to   the  purchaser  or  his  descendants.    After  remaining 
there  some  years  he  returned  to  Montreal,  where  he  engaged 
in  business  as  an  auctioneer,  and  remained  until  1794,  when  he 
return,ed  to  New  York,  and  with  his  bi'other-in-law,  John  B. 
r.,awrence,  founded  the  firm  of  Scliiefl'elin  l^-  (*(nn]>any,  which 
still   exists  in  well  merited  ]n'os])erity.     On  February  1,  1797, 
he  leased  from  William  Walton  the  famous  Walton  mansion  at 
No.  W'Hi  Peai'l  street.     This  was  on.e  of  the  finest  houses  in  the 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  EAMILY  HISTORY  1^5 

city,  and  the  annual  rent  was  "£400  New  York  Currency,"  or 
$1,000.  There  was  a  clause  in  the  lease  which  provides  that 
"if  the  said  William  should  be  married  and  desire  the  use  of 
the  house"  the  lease  should  cease.  This  contingency  evidently 
occurred,  for  Mr.  Schieffelin  relinquished  i)Ossession.  He  then 
leased  from  the  heirs  of  Dr.  Gerard  William  Beeckman  the 
house  on  the  up})er  corner  of  Pearl  street  and  Sloat  Lane  (now 
Hanover  street),  and  liere  liis  youngest  child,  Richard  Law- 
rence Schieffelin,  was  horn  in  180L  While  living  in  this  house 
he  had  as  a  near  neighbor  the  famous  General  Moreau,  their 
ecjual  altility  to  converse  in  the  French  language  being  a  bond 
of  union  between  them.  ^h'.  Schieffelin  purchased  for  a  coun- 
try seat  a  large  tract  of  land  on  the  Hudson  river  and  extend- 
ing east  to  the  old  Post  road.  His  house  stood  in  the  middle 
of  the  l)lock,  lietween  what  is  now  Amsterdam  and  Eleventh 
avenues,  and  at  14ord  and  142nd  streets.  The  eastern  part  of  tlie 
tract  he  sold  to  General  Alexander  Hamilton,  a  name  famous 
in  our  nation's  history,  and  ui)on  it  was  erected  the  noted 
Hamilton  Grange,  which  still  stands,  an  interesting  relic  of  the 
past.  The  negotiations  for  the  sale  and  purchase,  in  the  hand- 
writing of  Hamilton,  are  still  ])reserved,  and  a  foe  simili^  is  here 
given.  In  1801)  Mr.  Schieffelin,  with  his  brothers-in-law,  .lolin 
B.  Lawrence  and  Thomas  Buckley,  i)urchased  several  tracts 
and  laid  out  the  village  of  Manhattanville.  A  ma])  was  made, 
but  that  was  comi)letely  superseded  by  the  general  map  oi  the 
city.  Of  the  oiiginal  sti'eets  only  two  (Lawrence  and  ^lan- 
hattan  streets)  yet  remain.  Schieft'elin  street,  with  the  others. 
have  disappeared.  To  his  country  seat  at  143d  street.  ^Ir. 
Schieft'elin  gave  the  name  of  "Rocca  Hall."  During  the  latter 
part  of  his  life  he  lived  at  Xo.  107  East  Broadway,  and  he 
died  there  April  19,  1835,  leaving  wh«t  was  then  considered  a 
large  fortune.    His  remains  rest  in  a  vault  at  St.  ]\Iary's  I'hurch. 


126         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

which  he  founded  in  1823,  the  church  edifice,  which  is  situated 
on  Lawrence  street,  liaving  been  erected  in  1832. 

His  son,  Henry  Hamilton  Schiet^elin,  was  a  man  who  had 
a  knowledge  of  almost  every  science  and  art,  and  was  also  a 
linguist  of  distinguished  ability.  He  seems  to  have  been  one 
who,  if  he  had  concentrated  his  abilities  and  mental  power  upon 
one  object,  would  have  made  his  name  famous.  He  graduated 
from  C'oluml)ia  College  in  1802,  made  an  extended  tour  in  Eu- 
rop.e,  and  was  present  at  the  coronation  of  the  Emi)eror  Napo- 
leon. He  studied  law,  but  soon  abandoned  the  profession  for 
mercantile  imrsuits.  The  i)lace  of  business  of  the  firm,  estab- 
lished by  his  father  and  continued  by  him,  was  on  John  street, 
opposite  Cliff  street,  and  the  buildings  yet  remain.  He  died 
about  1865.     His  youngest  son,  Eugene,  died  in  August,  190(5. 

Richard  Lawrence  Schieffelin,  the  youngest  child  of  Jacob, 
graduated  from  Columliia  College  in  1818,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  deatli  was  the  sole  survivor  of  his  class.  He  studied  law 
with  his  l)rother-in-law,  Benjamin  Ferris,  who  was  a  noted 
lawyer  in  his  time.  They  formed  a  partnerslii]i,  from  which 
Mr.  Schieffelin  retired  in  1843.  In  1815  he  was  president  of 
the  Board  of  Aldermen.  He  was  esjieeially  interested  in  the 
state  militia  and  held  a  commission  as  Brigadier-General.  He 
was  connected  with  many  organizations  of  a  business  and  char- 
itable nature.  For  many  years  he  was  Senior  Wai"den  of  St. 
Mary's  Churcli,  and  was  for  sixty-six  years  a  representative  in 
the  Diocesan  (\)nvention,  and  was  one  of  the  vestrymen  of  St. 
Thomas  Church.  He  possessed  great  literary  ability,  and  was 
a  frecjuent  contributor  to  newsjiapers  upon  the  current  cpies- 
tions  and  topics  of  the  day.  His  country  seat  was  at  what  is 
now  92nd  street,  on  tlie  Hudson  river.  This  region  was  at  that 
time  as  much  "countrv"  as  can  be  found  now  one  hundred 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         12\) 

]in]es  from  New   York.     His  city  residence  was   No.   18  East 
22nd  street,  and  lie  died  there  November  21,  1889. 

George  Richard  Schieffelin,  only  son  of  Richard  Lawrence, 
gradnated  from  CVilnmbia  (V)llege  in  the  class  of  1855.  He 
studied  law  with  Augustus  Schell,  a  noted  lawyer  and  i)oli- 
tician,  and  at  one  time  Collector  of  the  Port  of  New  York.  He 
remained  in  this  office  three  years,  and  since  then  has  been 
engaged  in  legal  practice  on  his  own  account.  He  is  one  of 
the  original  members  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  Society  of  War  of  1812,  Corres]ionding  Secre- 
tary of  the  New  Y'ork  Historical  Society,  ^lember  of  the  Colo- 
nial Order,  Senior  Warden  of  St.  Mary's  Church,  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  Parochial  Fund  of  the  New  Y'ork  Diocese. 

Mr.  Schieffelin  may  be  said  to  lie  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  village  of  the  "New  Southampton,"  Long  Island.  In  18s;(> 
he  went  there  with  William  H.  Schieffelin  and  Colonel  Siebert, 
having  very  little  ])revious  knowledge  of  the  jilace  now  so  popu- 
lar. He  was  so  favorably  impressed  with  the  locality  that  he 
and  his  friends  ])urchased  land  and  erected  large  and  elegant 
mansions  the  same  year.  Mr.  Schieffelin  still  makes  this  his 
summer  residence,  and  is  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Village 
Improvement  Society,  of  which  he  has  been  ])resident,  then  a 
vestryman  of  St.  Andrew's  Dune  Church,  ])resident  of  the 
Southampton  Club,  and  one  of  the  best  known  as  well  as  useful 
memliers  of  the  city  colony. 

To  one  of  the  members  of  this  honored  family  a  more  than 
passing  notice  should  be  given.  Edward  Lawrence  Scliieffelin 
was  one  of  the  most  venturesome  of  men,  and  a  most  determined 
explorer.  He  was  one  of  the  first  com]'.any  to  ascend  and  ex- 
plore the  Y'ukon  river,  in  Alaska.  While  in  Arizona  he  started 
on  a  i^rospecting  journey  in  search  of  gold.  The  country  was 
swarming  with  hostile  Indians,  and  his  departure  was  accom- 


18U         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

pauied  "with  tlie  t'oiiifurting  assurance  of  his  comrades  lel't 
behind,  that  he  would  "fiud  his  touibstoue, "  hut  notliing  more. 
His  search,  however,  was  rewarded  i)y  the  discovery  of  the 
richest  mines  in  the  country,  to  which,  in  recollection  of  the  fate 
jjredicted,  he  named  "Tombstone,"  a  name  now  famous.  He 
was  a  })erfect  s})ecimen  of  physical  manhood,  six  feet  four  inches 
in  height,  and  with  long  locks  that  tiowed  upon  his  shoulders. 
He  died  some  years  ago,  but  the  fame  of  his  discovery  still 
remains. 

The  Arms  of  the  Schieffelin  family  are  thus  described : 

Tierce  per  fess  sable  and  or,  on  three  piles,  two  conjoined 
with  one  between  transposed  inveeted. 

Counter  charged  as  many  cross  crosslets  of  the  tirst. 

Crest,  a  holy  lamb  passant,  crowned  with  a  glory,  bearing 
cross  staff  and  pennon  proper. 

Motto.    Per  tideni  et  constantiam. 

Sanmel  Bradhurst  Schieft'elin,  son  of  Henry  Hamilton 
Schieffelin,  was  born  February  24,  1811.  He  married,  in  1835, 
Lucretia  Hazzard.  Their  children  were:  William  Henry,  born 
1835.  Alice  Holmes,  born  1838,  married,  in  1858,  Eussell  Steb- 
bins.  ^lary  Theresa  Bradhurst,  born  1840,  married,  1863,  Gen- 
eral Charles  Cleveland  Dodge. 

Sanmel  Bradhurst  Schieft'elin  was  the  author  of  several 
well  known  works:  "Foundations  of  History,"  an  illustrated 
volume  on  the  early  history  of  the  world,  also  "Alilk  for  Babes," 
and  other  catechisms  and  religious  manuals. 

William  Henry  Sehietfelin  married,  1863,  Mary,  daughter 
of  Hon.  John  Jay,  a  representative  of  a  most  honored  and 
distinguished  family.  Their  children  are:  Eleanor  eJay,  Will- 
iam Jay,  Samuel  Bradhurst,  John  Jay  and  Geoffrey.  The 
three  last  died  in  early  years. 

AVilliam  Jay  Schiett'elin  was  born  in   18()(),  married,  Feb- 


FOL'R   GEXERATIONS. 


WILLIAM  JAV   SCmCFFELIN.  SAMLEL  B.   SClIIEFf ELIX. 

WILLIAM  JAV  SCHIEFFELI.V,  JR.  WILLIAM   H.   SCHIEFFELIX. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         133 

ruary  5,  1891,  Maria  Louisa,  daughter  of  Colonel  Elliot  F.  and 
Margaret  (Vanderl)ilt)  Shepard.  Their  children  are:  William 
Jay,  Jr.,  Margaret  Louise,  Mary  Jay,  John  Jay,  Louise  Van- 
uerl>ilt.  Bayard,  Elliott  and  Barbara. 

Eleanor  Jay  Schiett'elin  married  Theodore  Munger  Taft 
in  1903. 

In  1794  New  York  City  was  not  yet  a  place  to  boast  of. 
On  all  the  east  side,  which  was  the  most  thickly  settled  portion, 
there  was  but  one  store  built  of  brick;  this  was  on  the  corner 
of  Front  street  and  Gouverneur  Lane.  The  City  Hotel  in 
Broadway  was  in  i)rocess  of  erection  on  the  spot  where  had 
stood  the  mansion  of  James  De  Lancey,  who  had  been  lieutenant- 
governor  in  Colonial  days,  and  where  the  Boreel  building  stood, 
which  has  t)een  taken  down  recently.  In  the  same  year  the 
noble  steeple  was  being  added  to  St.  Paul's  Church,  which  had 
been  erected  in  1765.  South  street  did  not  then  exist,  and  al- 
most all  the  shipping  lay  at  the  docks  on  the  East  river  between 
the  Battery  and  Peck  Slip,  for  the  North  river  front  was  con- 
sidered too  much  exposed.  The  whole  number  of  vessels  tliat 
cleared  the  port  during  that  year  was  2,389.  There  were  fevr 
houses  north  of  Grand  street. 

In  1798  the  yellow  fever  carried  off  2,760  victims,  and  the 
])opulation  of  the  city  was  reduced  to  15,300  persons.  The  place 
of  business  of  Jacob  Schieffelin  and  his  father-in-law,  John 
Lawrence,  was  at  195  Pearl  street,  nearly  opposite  the  Fiy 
market  at  the  foot  of  Maiden  Lane.  Of  the  two  ])artners  Jacob 
Schieffelin  was  the  more  prominent,  for  he  had  seen  more  of 
the  world.  He  engaged  in  the  shipping  business,  and  his  first 
venture  in  1795  cleared  him  what  was  then  a  fortune  of  ^|;25,000. 
Sul)setpient  events,  well  known  to  history,  made  slii|)ping  a 
precarious  Imsiness,  and  Mr.  Schieffelin  went  on  with  the  drug 
business,  in  his  own  name,  which  has  continued  without  inter- 


134 


GEXEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


ruption  until   the  iiresent  tinio,  and   it>  centeiinial   annivei'sary 
was  duly  eeleln-ated  in  1S94. 

In  1800  the  population  of  the  city  was  about  60,000,  and  the 
cost  of  city  government  was  $130,000.  Stages,  the  only  means  of 
eonmiunit'ation,  ran  to  Albany,  Boston  and  Pliiladeli)liia.  To 
send  a  letter  for  any  distance  less  than  forty  miles  cost  eight 
cents,  and  for  any  distance  over  five  hundred  miles  the  postage 
was  twenty-five  cents.  In  politics  Jefferson  and  Aaron  Burr 
were  the  most  ]ii-ominent.     Five  years  later,  the  business  having 


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DRUGS  and  MEDICINES  frotn  Europe,  and  (old  as  ufual.  Whclefale  >tnd  Reti).  on  the  lo.cfl  term?  to,  C 
cafl),  cooju/y  produce,  of  credit,  by 

JACOB    SCniEFFELIN, 

\Vh>  hnth  purthascd  hu  Parlntr'i  Sftart  in  the  mui  Slcn. 

rapidly  increased,  Jacob  Schieffelin  took  as  a  partnci-  his  son, 
Henry  Hamilton  Schieffelin.  under  the  firm  name  of  Jacoli 
Scliieffelin  &  Son.  The  business  became  very  heavy  for  those 
days.  They  had  several  buildings  filled  with  drugs  and  other 
goods,  besides  the  one  they  occu])ied  at  193  Pearl  street.  The 
newsjiapers  of  the  time  showed  that  they  advertised  exten- 
sively. Their  business  was  not  confined  to  drugs,  and  they  also 
offered  for  sale  "Muscovado  Sugars,"  coffee,  cotton,  and  among 
other  tilings  apjieared  "300  l)arrels  of  gim  ])owder,  400  casks 
of  brimstone  and  100  barrels  dou])le  refined  salt  petre."  These 
were  very  large  (|uantities  in  those  days. 


GENEALOiUCAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY  135 

Tn  1807  came  tlie  greatest  wonder  of  the  age.  Tlie  steam- 
boat "Clermont"  made  her  iirst  ti'i]),  and  after  that  it  was 
])ossible  to  he  al)le  to  start  for  Albany  on  ^fonday  and  he  back 
on  Friday,  which  seemed  little  short  of  a  miracle.  The  com- 
merce of  the  United  States  had  mnch  to  contend  witli.  England, 
with  its  orders  in  conncil,  France  with  her  Berlin  decrees, 
and  the  I'ii'ates  of  the  Mediterranean,  all  contended  to  cri])i)l6 
the  hnsiness,  and  last  of  all  came  the  war  of  1812.  From  all 
of  these  the  firm  of  Schioffelin  &  Son  suffered  damage,  two  of 
tlieir  ships  having  lieen  seized  hy  order  of  Na]^oleon  and  an- 
other l)y  the  Englisli.  For  the  former  tliey  recovered  iT^lO.OOO 
and  that  was  all.  Fn  1811  the  senior  ]oartner  retired,  and  the 
business,  rapidly  increasing,  was  carried  on  by  Henry  H. 
Schieffelin  and  his  hrothers,  Efifingham  and  Jacol)  H.,  uiider  the 
name  of  H.  H.  Schieffelin  &  romi)any.  Under  this  name  it  con- 
tinned  until  1849.  After  the  war  of  1812  the  business  of  the 
country  rapidly  increased.  In  1814  the  revenue  was  $4,415,000. 
The  next  year  it  had  risen  to  $37,695,625. 

In  1816  ocean  steamships  ran  to  England.  The  era  of 
cheap  daily  newspjajiei's  soon  came.  In  the  great  panic  of  1837 
only  the  strongest  Inisiness  houses  survived,  and  among  these 
was  that  of  H.  H.  Schieffelin  &  Company.  The  building  of  the 
Erie  canal  in  1825  rendered  the  "Western  Country"  tributary 
to  New  York.  The  business  of  the  firm  had  outgrown  its  ])lace, 
and  the  firm  removed  to  Alaiden  Lane.  Theii-  (|uarters  there 
proved  too  small,  and  in  1841  the  firm  was  established  at  104-106 
.John  street.  It  had  not  only  withstood  the  ])anic,  but  the  Inisi- 
ness had  materially  increased.  In  1848  it  absorlied  the  exten- 
sive business  of  Hoadley  Phelps  &  Compiany  and  i)ui'chased 
their  entire  stock,  in  1849  Henry  II.  Schieffelin  I'etireil  from 
business,  having  l)een  foi-  forty  years  a  ]iartner.  and  for  thirty- 
five  vears  the  head   of  the  firm,      lie  was   rhe   first   vice-presi- 


136         GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY 

dent  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1825-30,  and  was  president 
in  1861.  The  business  was  continued  nnder  most  favorable 
circumstances  by  his  four  sons,  Sanuiel  Bradlmrst,  Sidney 
Augustus,  James  Lawrence  and  Bradlmrst  Schieffelin,  and 
under  the  name  of  ScliieiTelin  Brothers  tV:  C'omiiany  continued 
for  sixteen  years. 

Facilities  for  rapid  comnmnication  had  so  increased  that 
it  was  no  longer  necessary  for  customers  from  distant  parts 
to  make  their  semi-annual  visits  to  New  York;  they  could  send 
their  orders  by  mail  or  telegraph  with  assurance  of  quick  re- 
turns. The  year  18ti5  completed  the  firm's  existence  under  the 
name  of  Schieffelin  Brothers  &  Company.  Of  these  Samuel 
B.  Schieft'elin  had  the  chief  direction  of  alfairs,  and  to  his 
energy  its  success  had  been  largely  due.  Advantage  had  been 
taken  of  all  the  improved  facilities  of  modern  times,  and  the 
effort  was  soon  a])parent.  In  1853  Aslier  B.  Kandolph,  and  in 
1855  John  I).  Dix  became  members  of  the  firm.  In  1854  the 
increase  of  the  business  rendered  removal  again  necessary,  and 
a  iai'ge  structure,  to  afford  ample  acconnuodation,  was  erected 
at  170-172  William  street,  at  the  corner  of  Beekman.  It  is 
of  In'ick,  six  stories  in  height,  with  basement,  siib  cellar  and  fire 
proof  vaults.  ri)on  removal  to  this  edifice,  a  department  ex- 
clusively for  druggists'  sundries,  shop  ware  tfc^c.  was  organized, 
and  the  subsequent  growth  of  the  business  has  abundantly 
justified  this  step,  which  the  finn  was  the  first  to  take.  In  1859 
William  H.  Schieffelin  (son  of  Samuel  ?>.),  William  A.  (Jellatly 
and  Jose])li  H.  Westerfield  were  adnutted  to  ])artnershi]). 

An  instance  of  the  enterinise  and  intelligence  of  this  firm 
is  shown  l)y  tlie  ja-omptness  with  which  it  emlu'aced  the  opi)ortn- 
nity  of  establishing  a  new  line.  When  i)etroleum  was  discovered 
an  office  was  at  once  established  at  Titusville,  Pennsylvania, 
and   the   firm   was   the   first   to   bring   petroleum   to    New   York 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY  I'iT 

as  au  article  of  cDininerce.  Like  most  other  business  finiis, 
this  also  siifi'ered  from  tlie  outbreak  of  the  Civil  \\i\\\  but  new- 
avenues  of  trade  were  ((uiekly  opened,  which  more  than  com- 
])ensated  for  the  losses  sustained.  hi  1S(;2  William  Henry 
Seliieffelin,  son  of  Samuel  B.  Schieffelin,  went  to  the  front  with 
tke  Seventh  Kegiment  and  afterwards  l)e('anie  major  in  the 
First  New  York  Mounted  Ritles,  taking-  part  in  the  Peninsular 
cami^aign.  In  1H()5  the  four  brothers  retired  and  tlu'  style  be- 
came William  H.  Schieffelin  &  Coni])any,  the  partners  being 
William  H.  Schieffelin,  William  A.  Gellatly,  Joseph  H.  Wester- 
tield  and  William  X.  Clark,  the  last  being  a  grandson  of  Henry 
H.  Schieffein.  and  in  turn  has  l)een  succeeded  by  his  son,  Henry 
Schieffelin  Clark.  In  1875  the  firm  purchased  and  absorbed 
the  business  of  A.  B.  Sands  &  Company.  In  1880  William  S. 
Mersereai;  and  William  L.  Brower  became  partners,  and  in 
1890  William  Jay  Schieffelin  and  Henry  Schieffelin  Clark  were 
admitted  to  ])artnershi]i.  The  former,  in  1887,  graduated  in 
chemistry  at  the  School  of  ]\Iines,  Columbia  College,  and  con- 
tinued the  study  of  this  science  under  Professor  Baeyer  at  the 
University  of  ^Munich,  where  in  1889  he  received  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  PhiIoso])liy. 

In  1882,  for  the  proper  manufacture  of  its  chemical  and 
])harmaceutieal  ])repai'ations,  the  firm  erected  one  of  the  best 
api)ointed  laboratories  in  the  country  with  apparatus  and  ma- 
chinery, some  of  which  is  the  invention  of  members  of  the  firm. 
This  firm  introduced  to  physicians  the  German  synthetic 
remedies  and  phenacetine,  salol,  sulfonal  and  aristol. 

In  1898  three  members  of  the  firm  served  as  officers  in  the 
S])anish  war.  Schuyler  Schieffelin,  in  the  staff  of  General 
Greene,  taking  ]^art  in  the  capture  of  Manila:  William  Jay 
Schietl'elin,  on  the  staff  of  General  Hains,  taking  ]tart  in  the 
capture  of  Guayama,  Porto  Rico;  and  H.  Schieffelin  Clai-k  who 


13n         CiEXEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  IIISTOBY 

served  as  lieutenant-eolone!  of  the  Two  Hundred  and  Third 
Xew  York  Infantry.  In  1!»();!  the  Inisiness  was  incorporated 
witli  ^^'illianl  X.  ('lark  as  jn-esident.  In  1906  he  retired  and 
was  succeeded  l)y  AVilliam  Jay  Schieffelin. 

Thus  the  business  as  orig-inally  established  by  Effingham 
Lawrence  in  1781.  Init  i)urchased  by  Jaeoli  Schieffelin  in  179-4, 
and  carried  on  liy  him  at  first  in  limited  ([uarters  on  Pearl 
street,  after  many  changes  in  personal,  yet  always  under  the 
name  of  Schieffelin,  and  always  with  members  descended  in  a 
direct  line  from  the  founder,  still  exists  after  more  than  a 
century,  with  greater  facilities  for  its  work,  and  with  a  well 
established  reputation  for  honesty  and  enter^jrise. 

BOdART— DE  BOST  FAMILIES. 

The  name  of  Bogart  is  connected  with  our  earliest  history. 
]n  its  Latinized  form  of  "Bogardus"  it  was  the  name  of  one 
of  the  first  and  most  famous  of  the  ministers  of  the  Dutch 
church  in  New  Amsterdam.  In  its  original  form  it  has  been 
from  great  antitpiity  very  common  in  Holland. 

Jan  Bogart,  called  Jan  Lowwe  (a  contraction  of  Lowens), 
was  the  Amercian  ancestor.  He  was  a  native  of  Sclioender- 
waert,  and  a  son  of  Louens  C'ornelisen  Bog-art.  With 
his  wife,  Cornelia  Everts,  he  sailed  from  Amsterdam,  April 
Ki,  1  ()()."),  in  the  shi])  "Brindled  Cow."  Their  first  ])lace 
of  residence  in  the  new  world  was  at  Bedford,  Long 
Lsland,  but  they  afterwards  removed  to  Harlem.  They  had 
among  other  children  a  son  Claas  (Nicholas).  He  married 
(first)  Beelt.ie  Van  Schaich,  June  28,  1695;  (second)  Margaret 
Conselyea,  widow  of  John  \''an  Tilbury,  February  23,  1707.  She 
died  September  20,  1742.  By  the  first  marriage  there  wei'e 
four  children,  and  nine  by  the  second.  The  second  child  by 
■  he  first  marriage  was  Cornelis   Bogart,  baptized  .January  14, 


GEXEALUGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY  13lt 

1700.  He  married  Cornelia  \"an  Dnyn,  daughter  of  Cornelis 
Van  Dnyn,  May  1,  1720.  He  died  A])ril  19,  1793,  leaving  seven 
children.  Cornells  Bogart  was  a  citizen  of  re]nite  and  respect- 
ability. His  residence  for  long  years  was  the  northwest  corner 
of  Broadway  and  Lil>erty  street,  which  descended  to  his  heirs. 

Xicliolas  (".  Bogart,  youngest  child  of  CorneJis  Bogart. 
l>orn  in  17o4,  died  in  1793.  He  married  Anne,  daughter  of 
Myndert  Schuyler,  a  rei;resentative  of  an  ancient  and  honored 
family,  and  at  one  time  mayor  of  Albany.  Her  mother  was 
Elizabeth  Wessels,  of  an  equally  ancient  race.  They  were  mar- 
ried November  6,  1766.  By  this  marriage  there  were  two  chil- 
dren:  Captain  Cornelius  Bogart,  born  1768,  died  unmarried 
in  1821;  and  Rev.  David  Schuyler  Bogart,  liorn  in  1770. 

Nicholas  C.  Bogart  was  a  shipping  merchant  and  had  ex- 
tensive business  with  foreign  ]iorts.  He  inherited  from  his 
father  the  ancestral  homestead  at  Broadway  and  Liberty  street. 
His  widow  died  at  Southami)ton,  Long  Island,  while  on  a  visit 
to  her  son,  who  was  then  the  ])astor  of  the  church  in  that  village. 
His  son  Cornelius  was  a  captain  of  an  artillery  comjiany  in  his 
early  manhood,  and  made  his  home  with  his  brother  the  great- 
er part  of  his  life.  He  was  known  as  a  gentleman  of  good 
attainments,  and  very  pleasing  and  courteous  in  his  manners. 

Rev.  David  Schuyler  Bogart,  son  of  Nicholas  C.  Bogart. 
was  born  in  New  York,  January  12,  1770.  He  entei'ed  Columbia 
College  at  an  early  age  and  graduated  in  1790.  He  was  a 
zealous  and  indefatigable  student,  and  received  the  highest 
honors.  His  researches  in  the  various  dei)artments  of  science 
and  literature  seemed  to  be  stimulated  and  invigoi-ated,  not  so 
much  by  the  ordinary  ambition  of  treasuring  up  the  ample 
stores  of  knowledge,  as  l)v  a  remarkable  and  untiring  concen- 
tration of  his  faculties  to  the  sim])le  discovery  and  ac(]uisition 
of   truth.      "While    distinguished    for   his   attainments   in    other 


14n         GENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


brandies  of  leaniing-,  his  greatest  eiiiployinent  consisted  in  in- 
vestigating the  doctrines  of  C'hi-istian  faitli.  He  became  an 
expert  Greek  sehohir,  and  tlie  New  Testament  in  the  original 
was  as  familiar  to  him  as  the  transhition. 

Immediately  after  his  gradnation  he  commenced  tlie  study 
of  t]ieoh)gy  witli  IJcv.  Dr.  Livingston,  an<l  was  licensed  to  ])reach 
by  the  synod  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  ("Imivh.     His  tirst  sermon 


Rji 


'^. 


■^c^U  S,  Bojx^r-^^-   ti^^^<^  B'f^ 


was  preached  in  the  Xoi'th  Dutch  Church  in  New  York,  October 
14,  171)2,  from  the  text  "Say  ye  to  the  righteous  that  it  shall 
be  well  with  him."  He  subseciuently  i)reached  in  the  other 
ehurelies  of  that  denomination.  During  tlie  first  four  years  of 
nis  ministry,  he  jtreached  in  other  cities  and  in  many  country 
churches,  with  general  and  increasing  popularity.  Tn  the  fall 
of  17i)5  he  received  a  call  to  the  Presbyterian  church  in  South- 
amjitoii.  Long  Tshmd.  The  congregation  was  divided,  and  much 
dissention  existed  in  relation  to  the  "llall'wav  Covenant"  which 


GEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         Ul 

had  caiised  the  resignation  of  the  former  })astor,  Kev.  Mr. 
Daggett.  The  call  was  accepted,  and  on  May  20,  1796,  he  re- 
moved with  his  family  to  Soiithami)ton.  Before  many  months 
had  elapsed,  he  received  a  call  from  the  First  Preshyterian 
C'hnrch  in  Albany,  and  went  there  in  Jannary.  IT!)".  After 
})reaching  for  several  months,  his  health  l)ecame  impaired,  and 
having  I'eceived  a  second  call  to  Sonthampton,  he  retnrned 
and  was  ordained  as  minister  of  that  church  in  the  fall  of  1798. 
A  revival  of  religion  followed,  and  the  number  of  communicants 
was  doubled  in  three  months,  and  for  sixteen  years  he  labored 
there  with  success. 

In  1813  he  received  a  call  to  the  Reformed  Dutch  Churches 
at  Success,  and  Oyster  Bay,  on  Long  Island.  Accei)ting  this 
invitation,  he  went  to  the  new  tield  of  labor.  The  two  churches 
were  fourteen  miles  apart,  and  he  i)reaclied  to  each  alternately 
for  thirteen  years.  This  ardous  duty  ca;ised  his  resignation, 
and  he  returned  to  Xew  York  in  1826,  and  preached  there  and 
in  various  places.  su{)plying  vacancies.  Infirmities  graduall>' 
increased  upon  him,  and  he  died  on  Wednesday  morning.  July 
10,  1839.  He  left  behind  him  the  well  earned  reputation  of  an 
eloquent,  faithful  and  successful  minister  of  the  gos]iel.  His 
reward  is  on  high.  His  vast  fund  of  information  made  him 
ready  for  any  occasion.  It  is  characteristic  of  the  man.  tint 
he  frequently  went  into  his  pulpit  without  any  idea  what  his 
sermon  was  to  he  imtil  he  o])ened  the  Bible  and  selected  a  text. 
This  was  told  us  by  an  aged  man  in  Southamiiton  to  whom  Mi'. 
Bogart  made  the  statement. 

Rev.  David  S.  Bogart  married,  April  29.  1792.  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Jonas  Piatt,  of  Sraithtown,  Long  Island.  Her 
mother  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Richard  Smith,  the  ])atentec' 
and  founder  of  Smithtcnvn.  Their  children  were:  Ann.  born 
:\[ay  25.   1794,  died   1834;   Elizabeth,  born  Decemlier  8,   1795, 


142         GEXEALOaiCAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

died  May  12,  1879;  David  Schuyler,  bom  1798,  died  1849;  Will- 
iam Henry,  born  1800,  died  numarried,  1839;  Eugene,  born 
April,  180;),  died  1847;  Alwyn,  born  December  8,  1805,  died 
February  7,  1860;  Alexander  .1.,  born  April,  1808,  died  1870; 
Orlando  M.,  born  December,  1810. 

Ann  Bogart,  the  oldest  child,  married  Charles  De  Bost.  of 
Lyons,  France,  in  1817.  Their  children  were:  1.  Charles,  born 
Aug-ust  5,  1826,  died  May  25,  1895.  He  married  Margaret  A. 
Williams,  June  1,  1859,  and  had  children:  Charles,  born  ^rarch 
17,  1860;  Estelle,  born  December  4,  1862,  married  Joseph  Dowd, 
January  7,  1903;  and  Helen  X.,  born  July  19,  1866.  2.  David 
Schuyler,  died  unmarried,  aged  thirty-three.  3.  Augustus 
Brunei,  born  March  16,  1830,  died  in  Los  Angeles,  California, 
:\[arch  10,  1905.  He  married  Mary  Ludlow  Walker,  March  1(5. 
1859,  and  had  four  children:  Leon  Depeyre,  born  February  1, 
1860;  ]\Iarie  Louise,  born  February  12,  1861;  Alwyn  Bogart, 
born  October  8,  1863;  and  Richard  Walker,  born  May  6,  1866. 
4.  Leon  Depeyre,  born  September  24,  1832,  died  February  11. 
1898.  He  mari-ied  T^ouise  Ludlam,  daughter  of  Silas  and  Eliz- 
abeth Clem  Ludlam,  December  8,  1862.  Their  children  are 
Augi;stus  Brunei,  l)oni  Se])temlier  20,  1864,  died  May  28.  1905; 
William  Ludlam,  born  Aj)ril  24,  bS70;  Lcmis  Leon,  !)orn  August 
6,  1872;  and  Anita  Ludlam,  tiorn  December  31,  1877,  died  July 
30,  1901.  5.  Marie  Louise,  married  Bufus  Sanger,  and  hail 
six  children. 

William  L.  De  Bost  married  Clarice  r^ndlaui,  Xovember 
4.  1897.  She  was  l)()rn  June  (i,  1872,  and  was  daughter  of  George 
P.  and  Annie  Kennedy  [^udlam.  They  had  two  children:  Clar- 
isse  Spencer  De  Bost,  born  April  12.  1899;  and  Anita  Ludlam 
De  Bost,  bora  Ai)ril  24,  1903.  The  Ludlam  family  are  descend- 
ed fioiii  Williaiii,   Luitlaii!   who  was  an  earlv  settler  in  South- 


GENEALOaiCAL  AXL)  FAMILY  lllSlOiiY  143 

ampton,  Long  Island.  His  will,  dated  1664,  is  the  first  record- 
ed in  the  New  York  surrogate's  office. 

At  a  very  earij'  age  the  children  of  Charles  De  Bost  were 
])laeed  nnder  the  care  of  their  grandfather,  Rev.  David  S. 
Bogart.  They  were  sent  to  Southampton,  Long  Island,  which 
was  then  a  qniet  country  village,  were  brought  \\\)  in  reputal)l(' 
families  and  enjoyed  the  advantages  of  an  excellent  Academic 
education.  They  were  a  part  of  the  village  life  and  a  vei'\' 
active  part;  and  in  all  fun,  frolic  and  mischief  as  well,  the  "De 
Bost  boys"  were  first  and  foremost.  Excellent  and  well  be- 
haved scholars,  ready  and  willing  to  earn  an  honest  dollar  by 
]iel])ing  the  farmers  in  the  harvest  field,  and  equally  ready  and 
capable  of  "manning  oars"  in  a  whale  boat,  they  wei'e  the  life 
of  the  village.  The  money  thus  earned  was  generally  invested 
in  powder  and  shot,  for  out  of  school  hours  they  were  inde- 
fatigable sportsmen,  and  many  a  wild  duck  and  wild  goose  were 
the  trophies  of  their  unerring  aim. 

After  their  school  days  were  ended,  and  they  returni'd  to 
the  city  to  enter  upon  the  practical  duties  of  life,  every  sum- 
mer found  them  returning  like  swallows  to  their  old  nesting- 
place,  and  none  were  more  popular  than  they.  Leon  Depeyre 
De  Bost  was  in  reality  the  fomider  of  the  "Xew  Southampton." 
It  was  his  influence  and  extended  acquaintance  that  brought  men 
of  wealth  to  the  place,  and  he  lived  to  see  it  transformed 
from  one  of  the  most  ((uiet  of  country  villages  to  a  famous  and 
fashionable   resort. 

PHILIPSE— GUUVEENEUR   FAMILIES. 

Among  the  families  who  settled  in  Xew  Amsterdam  none 
was  more  famous  than  the  one  founded  by  Frederick  Flypsen, 
and  from  the  day  vrhen  he  arrived  friendless  and  ol)scure. 
to  the  time  when  his  descendant  embarked  on  boai'd  the  l:>ritisli 


144 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 


fleet  after  tlie  Revolution,  to  leave  the  country  and  never  to 
return,  tlie  family  was  identified  with  the  highest  offices  in  the 
C'olony,  and  its  members  were  distinguished  not  only  for  wealth 
but  for  a])ility.  Vrederiek  or  Frederick  Fly))sen  was  according 
to  one  account  a  native  of  Bolswaert  in  Friesland,  where  he 
was  born  in  1626.  There  is  evidence  that  his  ancestry  were 
among  the  n()l)ilitv  of  Bohemia,  but  a  claim  to  a  higher  nobilitv 


IrebemkJ^htlipsfEs  5rr 


than  kings  can  bestow  is  found  in  the  fact  that  they  were  among 
the  friends  and  supijorters  of  the  Reformed  Religion  and  ad- 
herents of  tlie  renowned  John  Huss  and  Jerome  of  Prague,  and 
shared  in  enduring  the  i)ersecutions  wliicli  liave  made  their 
names  illustrious  as  chamiiions  of  religious  freedom. 

From  their  adherence  to  the  cause  of  the  Reformation  the 
family  were  comiielled  to  flee  from  Bohemia  and  they  found, 
as  did  thousands  of  others,  a  refuge  of  jieace  and  security   in 


(iENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY   /I  I  STORY         U5 

Holland.  A  uuimiscrijit  statement  written  l»y  Julm  Jay  and 
wortliy  of  tlie  resjiect  dn(>  to  anything'  emanating  from  the 
lionored  cliief  jnstice  is  antlioi-ity  fov  the  statement  that  the 
fonnder  of  this  family  was  liorn  in  ]>oheniia.  His  mother,  be- 
ing a  wi(h)W,  was  ('omjtelled  to  flee  with  hei-  cliildi-en  to  TToUand 
with  wh'it  little  ]:)ro])erty  they  eonld  save  from  the  wreck  of 
tlieir  estate,  and  tliis  little,  not  i)ermitting  lier  to  ])rovide  for 
her  son  Fi'ederiek,  slie  honml  him  to  a  ear]ienter  and  he  heeame 
an  excellent  workman.  The  tradition  of  the  family  is  that  he 
came  to  Xew  Amsterdam  with  Peter  Stnyvesant,  and  if  this 
be  true  he  must  have  arrived  in  1647.  The  surest  proof  of  the 
nohijity  of  ancestry  is  the  fact  that  although  he  came  to  this 
country  witlnnit  any  of  the  ad\'antages  of  fortune  he  was  re- 
cognized as  the  social  equal  of  the  highest  dignitaries  of  the 
Colony,  and  the  favor  and  assistance  lie  received  from  them 
were  doubtless  the  means  which  in  the  end  made  him  the  richest 
man  of  his  day. 

Among  the  early  settlers  was  Adol})h  Hardenbrook,  who 
came  from  Holland  and  settled  in  Bergen.  Among  other  chil- 
dren he  had  a  daughter  INfai'garet,  who  married  Pieter  Eudolp- 
hus  De  Vries,  a  mercliant  of  Xew  Amsterdam,  in  1659.  They 
had  one  daughter  who  was  bai)tized  with  the  name  of  ^Faria, 
October  o,  1660.  Pieter  Rudol])hus  He  \"ries  died  in  1661,  leav- 
ing a  considerable  estate  which  descended  to  his  widow  and 
child.  Tn  October,  1(562,  bans  of  man-iage  l)etween  Fi'ederiek 
Philipse  and  Margaret  Hardenbrook  were  pul)lished.  By  an 
antenuptial  agreement  Frederick  Phili])se  agreed  to  ado])t  tlu- 
child  and  leave  her  one-h.alf  of  his  estate  unless  he  had  children 
of  his  own,  in  which  case  he  would  give  her  an  eipial  share  with 
them.  Although  her  name  at  baptism  is  given  as  ^[aria,  it  is 
possible  that  her  name  may  have  been  changed  at  the  time  of 


146         GENEALOGICAL  AXD  EAMILY  HISTORY 

adoption,  at  all  events  it  is  certain  tliat  she  ever  hore  the  name 
of  Eva  Philipse  and  is  thns  named  in  her  adopted  father's  will. 

By  his  marriage  Frederick  Phili])se  became  entitled  to  a 
commnnity  of  property  with  his  wife,  bnt  she  did  not  relinqnish 
the  sole  management  of  her  estate,  for  which  she  seemed  well 
fitted  by  nature.  On  the  contrary  she  conducted  tlie  business 
of  lier  late  husliand,  and  fretjuently  made  voyages  to  Holland 
in  her  own  shi])s  and  acting  as  her  own  super  cargo. 

AVlien  the  two  Labadist  missionaries  came  to  New  York  in 
1679,  they  stated  that  they  sailed  "In  the  small  Flute  ship 
called  the  Charles,  of  which  Thomas  Singleton  was  master, 
but  the  superior  authority  over  botli  ship  and  cargo  was  in 
Margaret  Flii)se,  who  was  the  owner  of  both,  and  with  whom 
we  agreed  for  our  passage  from  Amsterdam  to  New  York  in 
New  Netherlands,  at  seventy-five  Guilders  for  each  person." 
By  his  own  exertions  and  liis  wife's  energy  and  thrift  Fred- 
erick Philipse  soon  liecame  one  of  the  richest  men  of  the  Colony. 
In  1679  his  property  was  valued  at  80,000  guilders,  the  highest 
amount  owned  by  any  one  person,  and  that  was  small  in  compari- 
son to  the  wealth  he  afterward  accumulated.  After  the  death  of 
his  wife,  whicli  occurred  in  1690,  his  business  enterprises  became 
still  more  extended.  He  was  one  of  the  most  extensive  tra- 
ders with  the  Five  Nations  of  Indians  at  Albany,  sent  shi|)S 
both  to  the  East  and  West  Indies,  imported  slaves  from  Africa, 
and  his  enemies  did  not  hesitate  to  charge  him  with  increasing 
his  gains  by  dealings  with  the  i)irates  at  Madagascar. 

In  official  and  ]wlitical  offices  he  was  no  less  prominent 
than  in  his  connnercial  affairs,  and  by  his  intimate  connections 
witli  the  governors  he  obtained  advantages  not  enjoyed  by 
othei's.  He  was  member  of  council  with  all  the  governors  from 
Edmond  Andross  to  the  Earl  of  Bellemont,  a  period  of  twenty 
vears.    "Wliile  at  first  he  resisted  the  authority  of  Jacob  Leisler, 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         U7 

he  afterwards  recognized  him  as  governor  dc  facto.  He  was 
in  high  favor  witli  Governor  Slaughter  and  his  successor,  (iov- 
ernor  Fletcher,  by  whose  favor  he  and  his  son  Adoli)hus  olitained 
large  grants  of  land.  In  1698  he  resigned  his  seat  in  the  council, 
giving  as  a  reason  his  advanced  age,  Init  possibly  to  escape  re- 
moval, which  seemed  probable  upon  tlie  accession  of  Earl  Belle- 
mont  as  governor. 

In  1()92  Mr.  Phili]jse  married  Catherine,  daughter  of  Oloff 
Stevense  Van  Cortlandt,  (the  ancestor  of  a  famous  family)  and 
widow  of  John  Dervall.  There  were  no  children  by  the  second 
marriage.  The  notice  of  his  death  is  thus  recorded  liy  his  widow 
in  the  family  Bible.  "Anno  1702.  the  6th  of  November,  Satur- 
day night  at  10  o'clock  my  husband  Frederick  Philipse  died  and 
lies  Iraried  in  the  Church  Yard  in  the  Manor  named  Philijis- 
burgh."  Thus  passed  away  a  man  who  was  during  his  long 
Hfe  one  of  the  most  prominent  personages  of  his  time.  He 
had  five  children:  Eva,  the  adopted  daughter,  married  Jacobus 
Van  Cortlandt.  Philij),  born  in  1663,  and  baptized  Marcli  18, 
1669.  Adol])li,  baptized  November  15,  1665.  Anatje  (oi"  Anna), 
baptized  November  27,  16(>7,  married  Phili})  French.  Humbert, 
who  died  in  infancy. 

Philip  Philipse,  the  eldest  son,  was  a  youth  of  delicate 
constitution,  and  was  sent  by  his  father  to  Barbadoes  to  look 
after  a  plantation.  While  there  he  married,  in  1697,  ^laria 
Sparks,  daughter  of  the  governor  of  the  island.  His  wife  died 
soon  after  the  birth  of  their  only  child  Frederick,  October  17, 
1698.    Her  husband  did  not  long  survive,  but  died  in  1700. 

The  ancestor  of  this  family  was  the  first  of  the  settlers 
from  Holland  to  adopt  a  family  name.  According  to  Dutch 
usage  his  son.  Pliili|)  would  be  known  as  "Philip  Frederick- 
sen,"  and  his  son  Frederick  in  turn  would  be  "Frederick  Philip- 
sen,"  and  so  on.     It  shows  the  intelligence  of  the  founder  of 


14b         UEXEALOLilCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

the  family  tliat  he  accepted  the  new  order  of  things,  and  not  tlie 
least,  was  to  establish  Philipse  as  a  family  name.  In  his 
native  hind  lie  was  Vredrick  the  son  of  Flyj),  or  Philip.  The 
name  of  Frederick  Philipse  mnst  ever  be  connected  with  the 
great  [Manor  of  Philipsbnrgh,  one  of  the  most  important  por- 
tions of  the  Province  of  New  York.  This  ])rincipality  consisted 
originially  of  three  parts.  The  first  extended  from  Harlem 
river  along  the  Hudson  to  a  point  above  \'()nkers,  and  was 
patented  l)y  (iovernor  XicoUs  to  Hugh  O'Xeil,  (October  8, 
1666,  and  by  various  deeds  became  finally  vested  in  Frederick 
Pliilil)se.  The  remainder,  which  is  by  far  the  hirgest  part,  was 
purchased  from  the  Indians  by  authority  of  later  governors 
and  confirmed  by  a  ijatent  from  Governor  Dougan,  granted 
December  '2'.],  1684,  and  another  in  1687.  Of  this  part  one-half 
had  been  granted  to  his  son.  Philip  Philipse,  but  as  he  died  be- 
fore his  father,  the  whole  fell  to  Frederick  Philipse.  All  of 
these  various  imrchases  were  confirmed  in  one  ])atent  granted 
by  Governor   Benjamin  Fletcher,  dune  12,   Ki^.'!. 

The  whole  Manor  extended  north  to  a  i)oint  two  miles 
from  the  mouth  of  Croton  river,  and  was  bounded  Ity  a  vacant 
piece  of  land  which  lay  to  the  south  of  the  Manor  of  Cortlandt, 
and  which  was  afterwards  known  as  "the  West  Patent  of 
North  Castle."  This  north  line  ran  in  a  diagonal  line  to  the 
head  of  Bronx  river.  The  eastern  boundary  was  the  said  river. 
The  whole  [Manor  was  about  eighteen  miles  long,  with  an  av- 
erage l)readth  of  four  or  five  miles.  When  Lord  Cnrnbury 
became  governor,  and  was  anxious  to  throw  discredit  upon  his 
predecessor,  he  mentioned  this  i^atent  as  being  "Twenty  miles 
S(piare, "  a  grossly  exaggerated  statement,  for  which  there  was 
no  excuse. 

The  original  will  of  Frederick  Philijjse  is  now  in  the  i>os- 
session  of  his  descendants.    In  it  he  bequeaths  his  m)u1  "into  ye 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  EAMILY  HISTORY         U9 

merciful  hands  of  ye  Infinate  God,"  and  directs  liis  body  to  be 
buried  "at  my  Burial  Place  at  ye  Ui)per  ]\Iills."  This  is  the 
famous  Sleepy  Hollow  Cemetery  at  Tarrytown.  His  son  Philip 
being  dead,  his  heir-at-law  was  his  grandson,  Frederick  Philipse, 
to  whom  he  left  the  south  part  of  his  Manor,  and  the  greater 
part  of  his  estate.  This  included  his  residence  in  Xew  York, 
which  was  the  north  corner  of  Stone  street  and  Broadway,  and 
lots  on  Broad  street.  Also  two  houses  and  lots  No.  65-67  Stone 
street  "near  ye  Old  Stadt  House,"  also  Kings  Bridge  with  the 
land  adjoining.  The  personal  property  of  negroes  and  cattle 
with  ships  and  other  things  was  very  large.  To  his  son  Adolph 
he  left  the  north  part  of  the  Manor,  (which  eventually,  upon  his 
dying  intestate,  reverted  to  his  nephew  Frederick)  also  a  house 
and  lot  on  Stone  street  east  of  his  own.  Also  the  house  and  lot 
No.  62  Pearl  sti'eet,  in  which  Adolj^h  Philipse  lived  and  died. 
Also  a  house  and  lot  on  the  south  corner  of  Stone  street  and 
Broadway,  and  a  store  house  and  lot  fronting  on  Broad  street 
and  extending  to  Xew  street.  In  addition  to  this  he  had  four- 
teen slaves,  and  a  half  of  the  cattle  and  horses  and  one-half 
of  the  rest  of  personal  estate  and  "a  large  boat  called  ye  Unity." 
To  his  daughter,  Eva  Van  Cortlandt,  he  left  a  house  and  lot 
at  the  corner  of  Coenties  Sli])  and  Pearl  street,  and  extending 
to  the  river,  also  a  lot  on  Xew  street,  also  one-fourth  of  personal 
projierty.  To  his  daughter  Anatje.  wife  of  Phili])  French,  he 
left  a  house  and  lot  whei'e  they  lived,  (this  is  next  east  of  the 
famous  Fraunces  Tavern,  Pearl  street)  and  a  warehouse 
and  a  lot  on  Xew  street,  also  an  estate  in  Bergen  county,  Xew 
Jersey,  and  a  large  amount  of  land  in  Ulster  county,  and  a 
house  and  lot  on  Broadway,  afU'r  his  wife's  decease.  For  his 
wife  he  had  made  libei'al  provision,  at  the  time  of  their  marriage, 
and  she  also  had  the  use  of  his  dwelling  house,  and  another  on 
Broadway  and  fifty  pounds  a  year. 


150         GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY 

Adolph  Philipse  died  unmarried  and  intestate  in  January, 
1719.  and  all  of  his  estate  went  to  his  elder  lirother's  son  Fred- 
erick, as  heir-at-law.  He  was  not  only  a  wealthy  iiierchant,  hut 
held  high  official  jjosition,  l)eing  a  niemljer  of  council  from  1704 
to  1721.  In  1718  he  was  one  of  the  commissioners  to  settle  the 
houndary  between  New  York  and  ( V:)nnecticut.  He  was  for 
many  years  memlier  of  assembly.  Sevei-al  times  he  was  elected 
speaker  and  held  that  position  continuously  from  1739  to  1745. 
John  Jay  said  of  him.  "He  was  a  man  of  superior  talent, 
well  educated,  sedate,  liii>hly  respected  and  popular.  Except 
that  he  was  ])enui-ious,  I  have  heard  nothing  to  his  disad- 
vantage." His  portrait  is  among  the  family  relics  in  pos- 
session of  the  Philipse  family,  and  among  the  accounts  of  Joseph 
Eeade,  the  administrator  of  his  estate,  is  the  following  item, 
"Jan.  25,   1749  To  the   Picture  of  Mr.  Adolph  Philipse,  £6." 

Frederick  I'hilipse  the  new  ]>ord  of  the  >Janor,  was  born 
in  Barbadoes.  in  1698,  and  when  four  years  of  age  came  to 
New  York.  He  entered  u})on  life  with  all  the  advantages  that 
wealth  and  high  position  could  bestow,  and  he  soon  became  one 
of  the  most  distingaiished  citizens  of  the  Province.  For  long 
years  he  was  member  of  assembly,  and  speaker  from  1721  to 
1728.  In  173']  he  was  baron  of  the  exclie(pier,  and  he  held  the 
office  of  third  judge  of  the  su])reme  court  till  the  time  of  his 
death,  and  as  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Pliilipsburgli  he  held  the 
highest  rank  among  the  landed  gentry  of  the  i)eriod.  He  mar- 
ried Johanna,  youngest  daughter  of  Governor  Anthony  Brock- 
halst,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  five  children.  Frederick, 
bom  in  New  Yoi-k.  Philip.  l)a])tized  1727.  Susannah,  born  Sep- 
tember 27,  1727.  Mai-y.  born  July  5,  17.')(t.  Mai'garet,  died  in 
lier  seventeenth  year. 

Mrs.  Johanna  Philipse  was  killed  hy  a  fall  fi-om  Iict-  car- 
I'iage  on  the  Highland  estate,  and  her  hushand  died  duly  2(), 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  IIISTORY         \r>l 

1751,  at  the  age  of  tift\-tliree,  and  like  his  fatlier.  was  Iniried 
at  the  old  Dutch  Chui-cli  of  Tai-rytown  on  his  Manor  of  Phili])s- 
hurgh,  which  his  father  had  huilt.  The  newsi)apers  of  the  time 
mention  him  as  "a  gentleman  eonsi)icuous  for  an  ahniKhmt 
fortune,  lint  it  was  not  his  wealth  that  estal)lished  his  merit, 
))ut  his  indulgence  aiid  tenderness  to  his  tenants,  his  moi'e  tlian 
parent  affection  for  his  children,  and  his  incessant  liherality 
to  the  indigent,  these  ])roeured  him  more  unfeigned  regard  than 
t-an  be  purchased  with  opulence  or  gained  by  interest." 

In  addition  to  his  gi-cat  Manor  of  Philiiisburgh  lu^  in- 
herited from  his  imcle,  Adolph  Philipse,  a  very  large  estate 
called  the  Highland  Patent,  which  includes  almost  the  whole 
of  Putnam  County.  This  was  imrchased  from  the  Indians  Ijy 
Adol]»li  Phili|)se.  and  a  patent  was  granted  by  Govei-nor  Ben- 
jamin Fletcher,  June  17.  1(J!)7. 

In  his  will  Frederick  l'liili])se  left  to  his  eldest  son.  Fred- 
erick, all  the  Afano]-  of  Pliili])sburgli  and  the  bridge  called  Kings- 
bi-idge  "with  the  tolls."  also  the  houses  and  lots  No.  6o-()5  Stone 
street,  and  the  family  mansion  at  the  corner  of  Broadway.  To 
his  wife  he  left  an  annuity  of  Um,  and  he  left  £400  for  build- 
ing an  I^]nscoi)al  cliuicli  a.t  Yonkers,  and  a  farm  near  by  "as 
a  (rlebc  for  said  chui-ch."  To  his  daughter  Susannah,  who  mar- 
ried Colonel  Beverley  Kobinson.  he  left  a  dwelling  house  next 
to  his  own.  To  his  daughter  ^lary,  who  man-ied  Colonel  Roger 
Morris,  he  left  the  house  and  lot  on  the  south  corner  of  Bi'oad- 
way  and  Stone  street.  To  his  son  Philip  he  left  "my  dwelling 
house  where  my  uncle  Adolph  Philipse  lived  and  dyed  in,"  at 
No.  62  Pearl  street.  To  his  youngest  daughter  Margaret  was 
left  a  house  and  lot  now  No.  21  Broadway.  The  great  estate, 
known  as  the  Highland  Patent,  was  left  to  his  son  Philip  and 
his  three  daughters.  Upon  the  death  of  the  youngest  daughter. 
Margaret,  her  share  went  to  the  rest.     To  each  of  his  younger 


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children  lie  left  i;:^()<)(),  anil  each  oi"  the  uniiiarried  daughters 
was  to  have  "as  good  an  outsett  in  ch)thing,  plate  and  kitchen 
and  household  fui'nitnre  as  my  eldest  daughter  Susannah  has 
received  from  nie." 

Frederick   Philipse,   the  eldest   son,  was   the  last    Lord   of 
the  Manor  of  I'hili|ishui'gh.     He  was  a  man  of  (juiet  manners 


Mary   Philipse. 


and  indisjjosed  to  exertion.  He  was  colonel  of  the  militia  and 
member  of  the  Provincial  Assembly.  At  the  time  of  the  Revoh;- 
tion  he  adhered  to  the  Royal  canse,  but  was  not  hostile  to  the  new 
government,  and  was  jiermitted  to  live  in  (juiet  neutrality  in 
Connecticut.  In  an  evil  hour  he  was  induced  to  go  to  Xew 
York,  then  occupied  by  the  British,  and  very  im))rudently 
neglected  all  warnings  to  return.  After  the  war  his  vast  estate 
was  confiscated,  and  sold  in  small  farms  to  the  former  tenants 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  IIISTOHV  15;3 

who  thus  became  landlords,  and  lie  liimself  banished  from  his 
native  land,  where  his  ancestors  had  been  so  distingnished,  went 
to  England  and  died  at  Chester,  Ai)ril  iJO,  ]7S5,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-five  years.  A  marble  tablet  in  the  Cathedral  bears  witness 
to  his  many  virtues.  In  the  great  painting  by  Benjamin  West. 
"Britania  receiving  the  Loyalist  Exiles,"  the  ])ortrait  of  Fred- 
erick Philipse  holds  a  i)rominent  position.  His  descendants 
are  still  living  in  England. 


Frederick  Philipse,  Last  Lord  of  tlie  ;Maiior. 

Philip  Philii)se,  who  with  his  sisters  inherited  the  High- 
land Patent,  was  born  in  1727.  He  married  ^largaret,  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  Marston,  and  their  children  wei-e:  Adoljih,  born 
August  17.  1745.  Frederick,  born  May  :].  175.").  Xathaniel. 
born  August  5,  1756.  The  father  of  this  family  died  at  an  early 
age,  May  9,  1768,  and  was  buried  in  the  vault  of  Xathaniel 
Marston  in  Trinity  Church.  His  widow  man-ied  Hev.  John 
Ogilvie,  D.  D.,  assistant  minister  of  Trinity  Clunx'h,  April  15. 


154         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

]7()0.     He  died  Xovemlier  26,  1774.     She  .survived  him  mauy 
years  and  died  February  11,  3807. 

Nathaniel  Philipse,  the  yonng'est  son,  was  a  graduate  of 
King's  College,  1773.  On  August  28,  1776,  he  received  a  com- 
mission as  ensign,  signed  by  Sir  William  Howe,  in  the  Seven- 
teenth Regiment.  He  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Germantown, 
October  4,  1777.  As  he  left  no  will  liis  share  of  the  estate 
went  to  his  oldest  brother  Adoljih,  who  died  June  2,  1785,  un- 
married, leaving  his  estate  to  his  brother  Frederick  during 
his  life  and  then  to  his  daughter  Mary.  The  Highland  Patent 
was  divided  in  1754,  and  after  the  Revolution  the  shares  of 
Susannah  Robinson  and  her  sister,  Mary  Morris,  were  con- 
fiscated and  sold  and  the  shares  of  the  children  of  Philip  alone 
remained  of  the  vast  estate  once  owned  by  the  Philipse  family. 

Frederick  Phili]ise,  the  only  surviving  child,  married  his 
cousin,  Mary  ]\[arston,  daughter  of  Xathaniel  ^farston  and 
Anna,  daughter  of  Jacobus  Van  Cortlandt.  She  had  one  sister. 
I-^rances,  who  married  Rev.  Charles  Mongan,  afterwards  War- 
burton,  Bishoi)  of  Limerick.  By  this  marriage  there  was  one 
child,  ]\Iary  Philipse,  born  October  14,  1779.  Her  mother  died, 
and  Ml'.  Philipse  married  ^laria  Kemble,  who  left  no  children. 
Mary  Philijise  married  Sanniel  Gouverneur,  about  1801,  and 
bei-  lather  died  ^lay  ;>,  1829,  leaving  his  daughter  his  sole  heir. 
Her  children  were  Frederick  Philipse,  born  duly  5,  1804. 
Adol])hus  Xathaniel,  born  September  29,  1805.  Samuel  M.  W.. 
who  died  unmarried,  187(i.  ^largaret  Philii^se,  married  Will- 
iam Moore.   Mary  Marston.    (See  sketch  of  (louverneur  family.) 

I^y  act  of  legislature  A])ril  7,  1830,  the  name  of  Freder- 
ick P.  (lOuverneur  was  changed  to  Frederick  Philipse.  He  mar- 
ried C^atherine  Wadswortb  Post,  and  died  October  2(i,  1874. 
having  two  dauglitevs  Catherine  Wadswoi'th  Philipse  and  ^lar- 


FREDERICK      PHILIPSE 

(l604  —   1674) 


GEXEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         l:." 

g'aret  Gouverneiir  Pliilipse   the   sole   snvvivors   of  the   aucient 
name. 

Among'  the  relies  of  the  past  are  portraits  of  Ahraham 
Gouverneiir  and  his  wife  Mary,  daugliter  of  the  famous  and  ill 
fated  Jacob  Leisler.  Nathaniel  Marston  and  his  wife  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  and  Elizalieth  Crooke.  Mary  Philijjse,  as 
she  was  in  the  hlooni  of  her  early  beauty.  Her  sister  Margaret 
in  girlhood.  Adolph  Philipse,  Pliili})  Philipse  and  Mrs.  Mar- 
garet Ogilvie.  Ju  the  New  York  Historical  Society  are  por- 
traits, not  positively  identified,  but  believed  to  be  Frederick 
Philipse,  the  second  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Philipsburgh,  and 
his  son  Frederick,  the  Last  Lord,  who  died  in  exile  and  Sus- 
annah, wife  of  Colonel  Beverly  Robinson.  The  small  portrait 
given  in  this  sketch  of  the  Last  Lord  of  the  Manor  is  from  a 
photograph  of  a  i)ortrait  owned  by  his  descendants  in  England. 
The  silver  communion  service  presented  to  the  church  at  Tarry- 
town  by  its  founder,  Frederick  Philipse,  still  remains  an  in- 
teresting relic  of  the  past. 

GOUVERXEUR  FAMIJA'. 

The  name  of  this  family,  2)lainly  of  French  origin,  denotes 
the  military  commander  of  a  town  or  fortress.  The  ancestor 
of  the  family  is  Nicholas  Pierre  Gouverneur,  a  native  of  France 
and  probably  from  the  town  of  Jonaye  in  Brittany.  He  had 
served  as  Captain  of  Horse  under  Henry  of  Navarre,  and  after 
the  death  of  the  great  leader  of  the  Huguenots  he  sought  re- 
fuge in  Delft,  Flanders  and  afterwards  in  Amsterdam.  While 
in  Delft  he  received  from  the  Prince  of  Orange  a  grant  of  arms 
which,  from  the  peculiar  charges,  sliowed  that  he  had  distin- 
guished himself  in  the  defense  of  some  fortified  town  or  castle. 
There  is  strong  evidence  to  show  that  lie  married  a  sister  of 
Abraham  Cuyler,  of  Amsterdam,  a  well-to-do  merchant,  whose 


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son  Heiidrick  came  to  Albany  in  1664,  and  in  1675  gave  a  power 
of  attorney  to  his  brother  Keinier  in  Amsterdam  to  receive 
some  property  from  Peter  Nicholas  (Tcuvernenr  who  seems  to 
have  been  the  execntor  of  his  brotlier-in-hiw,  Abraham  Cuyler. 
This  Peter  Xicliolas  Gonvernenr  was  tlie  father  of  Nicholas 
Pierre,  the  American  ancestor,  who  was  l)orn  abont  1685.  In 
KioO  he  went   to  the   Island  of  Curacoa,   in  the  interest  of  his 


■rOLU/ZRWOaR. 


maternal  grandfather,  who  had  a  business  established  on  the 
island  and  both  the  Gonvernenrs  and  the  Cuylers  kept  np  a 
connection  with  the  island  till  after  the  Revolntion.  In  the 
sjjring  of  1663  Mr.  (xonverneur  came  to  New  Amsterdam,  and 
became  connected  with  the  Dutch  Church,  July  9,  1663.  In 
August,  1664,  he  appears  in  Albany  as  attorney  for  Cornelius 
Steenwyck.  In  1670  he  married  ^lacliteldt  De  Reimer,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Greverait)  De  Reimer.  After  the 
death  of  Isaac  De  Reimer,  his  widow  married  Elbert  Elbertsen, 


GENEALOmCAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  HISTORY  ]5t^ 

and  after  his  decease  she  married  Hev.  Samuel  Drissius.  Both 
she  and  her  hrother,  Isaac  (Jreverait,  were  eliildri'ii  of  Metje 
Jans,  whose  sister,  Tryntie,  was  the  mother  of  thi'  famous 
Anneke  Jans.  Their  motlier  was  living  in  Bridge  street  in  KiSli; 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Drissins  hy  her  will,  proved  Januai'y  '17).  KiHIJ  left 
property  to  her  grandsons,  Al)raliam  and  Isaac  (icnivernenr, 
and  in  1675  Rev.  Samnel  Drissins  conveyed  some  land  to 
Nicholas  Gonvernenr,  his  "ste])  son  in  law."  Nicholas  <Ji)uver- 
neur  died  in  the  sjjring  of  1682,  and  his  widow  married  Jasjier 
Nissejiot,  Septeml)er  14,  1685.  They  had  a  daughter  Elizahetli, 
who  married  Samuel  Farmer,  and  had  two  sons,  Sanniel  and 
Jasper.  The  latter  had  In-  a  first  marriage  two  sons,  Peter  and 
Jasper.  He  married  for  his  second  wife  Maria  (or  ^lai'y), 
daughter  of  Abraham  Gonvernenr  and  his  wife  Mary  ^lilbourn, 
wlio  was  the  daughter  of  the  famous  but  ill  fated  Jacob  Leisler. 

Tlie  old  Gonvernenr  family  Bible  says  "Tn  the  year  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ,  1721,  on  the  27  of  Seiitember  on  Wednesday 
at  11  o'cloc,  in  the  evening,  died  ye  mother,  aged  77  years,  8 
months  and  9  days,  and  was  buried  in  Our  Church."  This 
refers  to  ^lachteldt,  the  widow  of  Nicholas  Gonvernenr,  then  the 
wife  of  Jasper  Nissepot.  The  children  of  Nicholas  Gonvernenr 
were  Abraham  and  Isaac. 

Abraham  Gonvernenr  received  his  earliest  education  in 
Holland,  where  he  had  gone  with  his  mother,  1nit  after  his  re- 
turn he  was  a  scholar  in  the  school  of  the  Dutch  church,  the 
schoolmaster  being  Jac(jb  (Joelet.  Tn  1687  he  was  clerk  in  the 
otfice  of  the  secretary  of  the  colony,  and  in  1688  was  town  clerk 
of  New  York.  AVhen  Jaeol)  Leisler  assumed  power  in  1689  he 
formed  a  Council  of  Safety,  and  made  young  (bniverneur  its 
clerk.  After  the  downfall  of  Leisler,  Abraham  Gouverneuf 
was  one  of  the  six  (besides  Leisler  and  his  son-in-law,  .lacob 
Milbonrue)  who  were  sentenced  to  be  executed.   By  the  favor  of 


160         GEXEALOaiCAL  ASD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

tlie  new  governor,  the  six  in;"lnding  (xDnveiiieur,  were  rei)rievecl. 
Xotwitlistanding-  lie  with  the  othei-s  liad  given  his  parole  not 
to  leave  the  Province,  he  resolved  to  escape.  He  took  passage 
in  a  vessel  honnd  for  Boston.  The  vessel  was  wi-ecked  off  Nan- 
tucket, and  all  l»nt  {iouvernenr  ]ierished.  Reaching  shore  he 
procured  a  boat  and  finally  arrived  in  Boston,  and  wrote  to 
his  parents,  under  date  of  October  12,  l(i92,  announcing  the 
loss  of  all  his  eai'thly  ])ossessions,  inchiding  liis  clothing.  He 
then  sailed  for  London  and  arrived  in  1()9;>,  where  h'^  was  joined 
by  Jacob  Leisler,  Jr.,  who  had  escaped  to  Holland.  It  was 
three  years  befoi'e  they  could  obtain  a  hearing  from  the  govern- 
ment, but  eventually  the  attainder  of  Leisler  was  reversed,  his 
estate  restored  to  his  family,  and  his  com])anions  in  the  as- 
sumed government  were  freed  from  danger.  The  tardy 
atonement  alas,  could  not  restore  the  lives  of  Leisler  and  ^lil- 
boume,  who  had  been  most  barbarously  executed.  Young 
Gouverneur  thus  went  to  his  relatives  in  Holland,  and  returned 
to  Xew  York  in  l(i9S,  and  was  made  a  freeman  of  the  city.  In 
1699  he  was  a  Member  of  the  Assembly,  and  was  the  ablest  of 
the  Leislerian  party.  In  1701  he  was  speaker,  and  the  same  year 
was  made  recorder  of  Xew  York  and  served  with  great  ability- 
until  1705.  In  1702  he  was  one  of  the  commissioners  to  settle 
the  accounts  of  Robert  Livingston.  He  became  the  owner  of 
large  tracts  of  land  in  Harlem  and  in  Kings  county.  From 
1705  to  1712  he  resided  in  "Brookland, "  and  was  one  of  the 
board  of  ruling  elders  of  the  classis. 

Mr.  Gouverneur  married,  May  16.  1699,  ]\[aria,  daughter 
of  Jacob  and  Elsie  Leisler,  and  widow  of  Jacob  ^lilliourne. 
Their  children  were:  1.  Jacoba,  l)orn  1701,  died  without  issue, 
17S1.  2.  Elizal)eth.  l)orn  1701.  died  1751.  8.  .Jacob,  born  1710, 
died  young.  4.  ]\Iaria,  l)orn  1712.  She  married  Henry  Meyers. 
Jr.,  and  had  one  son,  who  died  in  infancy.     Her  husband  died 


GEXEALOiUCAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  HISTORY         101 

in  1740,  and  she  married  Jasper  Farmer,  who  died  in  June, 
1758.  She  survived  liini  many  years,  and  died  in  August,  1790, 
and  was  the  last  ])erson  in  New  York  buried  after  the  ancient 
Dutch  custojn,  an  account  of  wliich  is  given  in  tliis  work.  5. 
Nicholas,  wlio  was  made  freeman  in  1728.  He  married  Ger- 
trude, daughter  of  Barent  and  Hester  Eeynolds  (his  cousin). 
He  died  March  20,  \1?>'^.  His  widow  married  David  William 
Frovoost.  Nicholas  Gouverneur  left  an  only  son,  Aliraham, 
horn  in  1730.  He  was  a  farmer  and  miller  in  Bergen,  New 
Jersey,  and  died  unmarried  ahout  1770.  In  addition  to  the 
ahove  named  children,  there  were  several  who  died  in  infancy, 
and  the  elder  line  of  the  family  is  extinct. 

Isaac  Gouverneur,  son  of  Abraham,  was  born  in  the  Cingle 
(now  Wall  street)  near  the  Koenings  Valy  (now  Pearl  street), 
in  1673.  He  went  with  his  mother  to  Holland  and  returned  in 
1682.  Like  his  brother,  he  studied  in  the  school  of  the  Dutch 
Church  under  Jacob  Goelet.  In  1698  he  was  made  freeman 
and  licensed  as  merchant  and  trader.  In  1700  he  was  ensign 
in  the  company  of  Captain  Lewis,  in  Colonel  Abraham  De 
Peyster's  regiment.  He  was  the  owner  of  much  property  in 
Harlem  and  in  New  York,  and  also  on  the  Island  of  Curacoa. 

Isaac  Gouverneui'  married,  June  24.  1704.  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Samuel  Staats.  Their  children  were:  Johanna,  wife  of 
Cornelius  Low,  Jr.,  ^Nlagdalena,  married  John  Hall.  ^largaret. 
died  unmarried  in  1758.  Alida,  wife  of  Judge  John  I'ldughton. 
Nicholas,  born  August  7,  1713,  died  September  15,  17S6.  Sarah. 
born  October  14,  1714,  married  Hon.  Lewis  ]^rorris.  of  ^torris- 
ania,  November  3,  1746.  She  died  January  14,  178(i.  Gertrude, 
wife  of  David  Ogden.  Sanmel,  born  February  24.  1720.  died 
September  12.  1798.  Isaac,  born  October  3.  1721,  dieil  without 
issue,  September  24,  1794. 

Nicholas  Gouverneur,  born  August   7,   1713,  entered   very 

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162         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

early  into  husinoss  life,  and  was  execntor  of  his  uncle,  Al)raliam 
Gouvernenr.  Aliout  1710  he  went  to  Curacoa  and  remained 
there  till  1752.  In  1771  he  was  commissioner  of  the  loan  office. 
During  the  Revolution  he  sympathized  with  the  Loyalists,  and 
lived  in  retirement  on  a  small  farm  at  Mount  Pleasant  on  the 
west  bank  of  the  Passaic  river  near  Newark,  and  died  there 
in  1787.  He  married  (first)  Maria,  daughter  of  Herman  and 
^laria  (Van  Dam)  Weelen.  (Second)  Sarah,  daughter  of  John 
and  Maria  (Cuyler)  Crieger.  (Third)  ^[ary,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and  ]\[ary  (Troup)  Johnson.  The  children  of  Nicholas 
Gouvernenr,  all  by  his  first  marriage,  were:  Johanna.  Ger- 
trude, born  1744,  married  Captain  Anthon}''  A.  Entgers.  After 
his  death  she  married  Dr.  William  Burnet.  Herman,  born  1746, 
died  1774.     Isaac. 

Herman  Gou^■erneur  married  his  cousin  Mary,  daughter 
of  Hon.  John  Broughton.  They  had  two  children:  Mary,  who 
died  mimarried.  Alida,  born  1772,  who  married  her  cousin, 
Isaac  (louverneur,  in  1794.  After  the  death  of  Herman  Gouver- 
nenr, his  widow  married  Gilbert  Robertson,  British  Consul. 

Samuel  Gouvernenr,  son  of  Isaac,  born  Fel)ruary  21,  1720, 
married  Experience  Johnson,  1748.  Their  children  were  Isaac, 
born  1749,  died  1800.  ^Margaret,  married  Lewis  Ogden.  Nicho- 
las, born  1753,  died  1802.  Mary,  wife  of  Rev.  t'zal  Ogden.  An- 
thony, born  1757,  died  1795.  Catherine,  wife  of  Charles  Ogden. 
Gertrude,  wife  of  Peter  Kemble.  Rebecca,  wife  of  Caiitain 
Thomas  Bibby.  Sarah,  married  Major  Samuel  Reading.  Sam- 
uel, born  1771,  died  1847.     Joseph. 

Nicholas  Gouvernenr,  son  of  Samuel,  ])orn  175."),  married 
Hester,  daughter  of  Lawrence  and  Hannah  (Asi)inwall)  Kort- 
right,  February  25,  1790.  (Her  sister  Eliza  married  President 
Janu^s  ^lonroe,  Fel)ruary  16,  178(5).  She  was  born  1770,  and 
died  1842.     Their  children  were:  Emilv,  wife  of  Robert  Tillot- 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         16:3 

sen.  Isaac.  Samuel  Lawrence,  born  1795,  died  1866.  Nicholas, 
died  without  issue.  Louisa  A.,  wife  of  Daniel  J.  Ver  Planck. 
Maria  C,  wife  of  General  Thomas  Cadwalader. 

Samuel  Lawrence  Gouverneur,  born  1795,  married,  1820, 
Maria,  youngest  daughter  of  President  James  ^fonroe.  She 
died  in  1851,  and  he  then  married  ]\[ary  Lee.  His  children  by 
first  wife  were:  James  Monroe,  who  died  childless.  Elizabeth 
K.,  married  (first)  Dr.  Heniy  L.  Heishell ;  (second)  James  M. 
Bibby;  (third)  Colonel  G.  D.  Sparrier.  She  had  among  other 
children  a  son,  James  ^lonroe  TTeishell,  who  has  son,  Monroe 
Fairfax,  now  living  in  Washington,  and  has  taken  the  name  of 
Gouverneur,  and  is  the  only  man  of  the  name  now  living.  Samuel 
Lawrence  Gouverneur  was  for  some  years  postmaster  of  New 
York.  At  his  residence,  at  the  corner  of  Prince  and  Marion 
street,  President  James  Monroe  died. 

Samuel  Gouverneur,  son  of  Samuel,  son  of  Isaac,  born  1771, 
died  January  28,  1847,  aged  seventy-six  years.  He  married 
Mary,  only  child  of  Frederick  Philipse,  of  Putnam  county,  New 
York,  June  18,  1801.  She  survived  her  husband  a  year  and 
died  December  4,  1848.  A  ]iortion  of  the  ancestral  estate  still 
remains  in  the  family.  Their  children  were:  Frederick,  born 
July  5,  1804,  died  October  26,  1874.  By  act  of  legislature  he 
took  the  name  of  Frederick  Philipse.  Adolphus  Nathaniel, 
born  Sei)tem])er  29,  1805.  Samuel  ^longan  AVarburton,  born 
Septemlier  9,  1807,  died  unmarried  December  18,  1876.  Mar- 
garet Philii>se,  l)orn  June  10,  1809,  married  William  ^Moore, 
and  died  January  11,  1892.  leaving  no  children.  Mary  Marston, 
born  August  2,  1811,  died  unmarried  June  25,  1893. 

Frederick  (Gouverneur)  Philijise,  the  eldest  son,  married 
Catharine  Wadsworth  Post,  July  1,  1857.  She  was  born  Janu- 
ary 11,  1827,  died  June  18,  1869.  Their  children  are:  ]\Iary 
Philipse,  born  ^May  4,  1858,  died  January  6,  1862.     Frederick 


lU         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Philip.se,  boru  January  9,  1860,  died  Marcli  5,  1860.  Catlierine 
Wadswortli,  born  September  18,  1861.  Margaret  Oonvernenr 
Pliilipse,  born  June  27,  1864.  A  portion  of  the  original  estate 
in  Pntnam  county   is   still    in   possession   of   the   family. 

Adolphus  Xathaniel  (louvernenr,  was  educated  at  Colnmbia 
College,  graduating  in  1833.  He  married  Elizabeth,  widow  of 
Adolphus  Gill.  He  died  January  28,  1853,  leaving  one  daugh- 
ter Mary  Phili])se,  who  married  John  H.  Iselin.  After  liis  de- 
cease she  married  Doctor  Francis  Le  Roy  Satterlee.  The  chil- 
dren of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Iselin  are:  John  Henry  Gouverneur,  Mary 
Ethel,  wife  of  Frederick  Goodridge,  Warburton  Gouverneur, 
and  Margaret  Marston.  John  H.  G.  Iselin  married  Caroline 
Lydia  Goodridge,  May  21,  1899.  Warburton  Gouverneur  Iselin 
took  the  name  of  Warburton  (Jouverneur.  He  died  unmarried 
December  28,  1906. 

About  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century  Nicholas  and 
Isaac  Gouverneur  purchased  from  the  Walton  family  a  wide 
lot  on  the  north  side  of  Water  street.  They  also  purchased  a 
water  lot  of  equal  width,  extending  to  the  river.  Through  that 
lot  was  laid  out  the  street  called  (rouverneur's  Lane.  Upon 
a  part  of  that  lot,  then  No.  27  Front  street,  was  the  house  of 
Isaac  Gouverneur,  and  op]iosite  at  No.  26  was  his  store.  In 
later  years  he  ])urcliased  a  lot  on  the  west  corner  of  Pearl  street 
and  "Sloat  Lane,"  (now  Hanover  street),  and  made  it  his 
residence.  His  grandson,  Isaac  Gouverneur,  the  third,  built 
a  more  elegant  residence  upon  the  same  site.  After  the  Revolu- 
tion Nicholas  Gouverneur  ])urchased  a  great  many  lots  on  the 
De  Lancy  farms  which  had  been  confiscated.  Through  these 
lots  Gouverneur  street  was  laid  out  in  1798.  Large  tracts  of 
land  in  the  western  ]iart  of  the  state  were  also  purchased  and 
u])on  them  is  the  town  of  Gouvermnir.  (Jouverneur  Hosi)ital. 
an  institution  which  has  done  so  mucli  to  relieve  human  suffer- 


Waiijiirron  Goiiverneiir. 


GENEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY  167 

ing,  also  i>eriietnates  tlie  name,  wliich  although  extinct  as  re- 
gards the  family,  still  has  an  honored  and  honorable  memory. 

Among  the  descendants  of  this  family  one  deserves  a 
special  mentioii.  Hon.  Le^Yis  ^Morris,  of  ^lorrisania,  married 
one  of  the  daughters  of  Dr.  Samuel  Staats,  and  had  a  large 
family  of  children.  Her  sister  Sarah  married  Isaac  (rouverneur, 
and  among  other  children  had  a  daughter  Sarah,  who  became 
the  second  wife  of  Hon.  Lewis  Morris,  being  the  niece  of  his 
former  wife.  This  marriage  excited  the  seltish  wrath  of  his 
children,  and  to  this  he  makes  pointed  allusion  in  his  will.  The 
(Hily  child  by  his  second  mni'riage  was  Gouverneur  ^lorris.  "a 
name  famed  in  his  country's  annals." 

roT^OXEL  K()(H^R  ^lOKRlS  AXD  HIS  HOME. 

Colonel  Eoger  ^Morris,  whose  residence,  l)etter  known  in  late 
years  as  the  "Jumel  ^lansion,"  is  the  last  I'elic  on  Manhattan 
Island  of  Colonial  homes,  was  a  descendant  of  Cadigan,  of  Phil- 
ip Horddw,  a  ]»owerful  AVelsh  chieftain  in  high  favor  with  the 
Duke  of  Argyle  and  Ear!  of  Pembroke.  Plis  father,  Roger  ^lor- 
ris,  married  Alary,  daughter  of  Si\-  Peter  Jackson,  a  Turkey 
merchant  of  London.  He  died  .hnuiary  IM,  174S.  His  third  son 
was  Colonel  Roger  Alorris,  born  January  2S,  1727,  entered  the 
army  and  rose  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel.  He  was  en- 
gaged and  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Monongahela,  in  which 
(xenei'al  Braddock  was  killed.  Aftoi-  the  war  he  settled  in  Xew 
"^^nk.  and  was  a  member  of  the  Council  till  the  time  of  the  Rev- 
olution. On  Jnnnary  P>,  17r)S.  he  mari'ied  the  famous  beauty, 
.Mar)-  Miilip-e.  (hniulitcr  of  Erederick  Philijise,  the  Lord  of  the 
Manor  of  Philipsbnrgh,  the  marriage  being  ceU'brated  in  gi'eat 
state  at  the  Manor  House  at  Vonkers.  It  was  about  this  time 
that  he  pui'chased  lands  at  Ilarlejn  and  erected  the  mansion 
which  still  remains. 


IGS         OEXEALOGICAL  AXL)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

During  the  war  both  Colonel  Morris  and  his  brother-in-law, 
Colono!  Beverly  IJoliliisoii.  wei-e  offit^ers  in  the  British  army  and 
took  an  active  part  in  the  ett'orts  to  subdue  the  colonies.  When 
the  revolution  was  ended,  CV)h)nel  ^lorris  and  his  wife  were 
among  those  included  in  the  bill  of  attainder,  their  property  was 
confiscated,  and  themselves  banished  from  the  country.  They 
went  to  Enelaiid  and  resided  at  Cliester.  Tn  the  cathedral  of  that 
city  is  a  tablet  with  the  folloAving  inscription: 

Xear  this  spot  are  deposited  the  remains  of 

(V)l.  Roger  ^lorris, 

Formerly  of  TTis  ]\rajesty's  47th  Begiment  of  Foot, 

Who  de])arted  this  Life  on  the  lotli  day  of  September,  1794,  in 

the  fiSth  vear  of  his  Age. 

And  of 

INTary  jloi'ris 

Edict  of  the  same, 

AVho  (le})arted  this  Fife  on  the  F'-^th  day  of  July,  1825,  in  the 

71st  year  of  her  age. 

<'olonel  Alorris  left  cliildren :  Joana,  wife  of  Thomas  Fow- 
])er  Hindis;  Amherst,  who  died  unmarried,  in  1S02;  ^laria  and 
Heiiry  Gage. 

TIenry  Ciage  ^NFoi'ris  A^as  l)orn  in  New  York.  1770,  and  at- 
tained the  rank  of  rear  admiral  in  the  British  navy.  In  1805  he 
married  a  daughter  of  Eev.  F.  Orjien.  Their  children  were: 
Rev.  Francis  Orpen  ^Forris.  rector  of  Burholme.  Yorkshire; 
Henry  Gage  Morris,  an  officer  in  the  navy;  Frederick  Philijise 
^Nforris,  barrister  of  Lincoln  Tun;  Beverly  Robinson  ^[orris,  ]\r. 
D.,  of  Xottingham;  Rev.  Adolph  Philipse  ^lorris,  of  Leeds;  and 
Charles  D'I'rban  ^Eorris. 

Professor  Charles  D'Frban  ^lorris  was  born  at  Chermouth, 
Dorset,  Febrnai'y  17.  1827.  He  was  educated  at  Oxford,  and  ob- 
tained the  degree  of  B.  A  in  1849;  and  in  1852  was  Master  of 
Arts  and  Fellow  of  Oriel.    He  came  to  America  in  1853,  and  was 


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aEXEALOaiCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 


made  rector  of  Trinity  Scliool,  and  was  afterwards  master  of  a 
school  at  Moliegan.  Westohestei'  county,  and  later  was  professor 
in  the  University  of  Xew  York.  In  ISTH  he  was  chosen  professor 
of  Latin  and  (ireek  in  Joluis  ?iOpkins  Tniversity,  lialtimore,  and 
remained  in  that  position  till  the  tinu'  of  his  (U'atli,  wliicli  oc- 
curred February  7,  188(),  and  was  huricd  in  St.  Paul's  chui-ch- 
vard.    He  married  Jane  We1)h  Shaw,  dnuiihtcr  of  Oliver  Sliaw, 


of  P]-ovidence.  Ehode  Island,  hut  left  no  children.  He  was  the 
only  descendant  of  Colonel  "Roger  ^Morris,  who  lived  in  this  conn- 
try.  Professo)'  Morris  was  the  author  of  a  Tjatin  Grammar  of 
Attic  Greek.  In  these  works  he  expounded  his  own  iieculiar 
views  in  regard  to  the  study  of  these  languases. 

The  city  residence  of  Colonel  Koger  Morris  and  his  wife 
was  the  south  corner  of  ^Vhitehall  and  Stone  streets.  This  was 
given  to  ^Frs.  Morris  hv  her  father.  Frederick  Philipse.  About 
the  time  when  he  niirried  Mar\    Philii)se,  Colonel  Morris  pur- 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         171 

chased  a  tract  of  land  at  Harlem  and  on  it  he  erected  the  man- 
sion which  now  remains,  the  last  relic  of  the  elegant  homestead 
of  Colonial  days.  This  tract  was  bounded  east  by  Harlem  river, 
and  west  by  the  Kingsbridge  road,  or  Albany  Post  road,  and  it 
extended  from  what  is  now  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-ninth  street 
to  One  linndred  and  Seventy-fifth  street.  The  mansion  stood  at 
the  south  end  of  the  tract.  The  whole  was  sold  by  the  connnis- 
sioners  of  forfeitures  to  John  Berrian  and  Isaac  Ledyard,  July 
9.  1784.  The  price  was  £2,L'50  or  $5,625.  It  was  sim])ly  described 
as  containing-  one  hundi-ed  and  fifteen  acres. 

William  Kenyon  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  adjoining, 
which  extended  to  the  Hudson  river,  and  sold  the  whole  to  Leon- 
ard Parkinson  in  ]79f)  for  £3.0(j(),  and  he  sold  it  to  Stephen  Ju- 
mel,  April  28.  1810,  for  $10,000.  Since  then  this  famous  place 
has  been  kno^\Ti  as  the  "Juniel  Mansion,"  and  the  "Jumel 
Farm."  Stephen  Jumel  was  a  wealthy  merchant  from  France, 
and  married  Filiza  Brt)wn,  April  9,  1804.  By  this  marriage  he 
was  joined  to  a  Avomnn  whose  ]ti-ide,  ambition  and  determination 
have  seldom  found  their  e(|nal.  It  is  with  her  name  rather  than 
her  husband's  that  it  has  l)een  famed  in  modern  times.  Under 
her  directions  the  house  was  furnished  most  magnificently,  and 
it  became  one  of  the  centers  of  social  life. 

During  his  lifetime  Stephen  Jumel  by  various  deeds  settled 
the  pro]jei-ty  u|)on  his  wife,  and  she  l)ecame  the  sole  owner.  The 
death  of  Air,  Jumel  wa<  under  peculiar  circumstances.  One  day 
he  went  cait  riding  in  an  ojien  wagon,  sitting  upon  a  stool  made 
from  a  "Windsor  cliair  with  the  back  sawed  off.  The  di-iver  was 
inex]ierienced.  and  b\  accident  Air.  Jumel  was  thrown  out.  strik- 
ing heavi!\  upon  his  breast.  He  wa^  conveyed  to  his  liDuie,  and 
several  physicians  were  called,  who,  according  to  the  custom  in 
those  days,  {u-oceeded  to  bleed  him.  He  lingered  for  ten  or 
twelve  davs,  and  died  Mav  22.  18;j2.     His  heirs-at-law  were  a 


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(iEXEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  HISTORY 


brotluM-  and  sistei'  residing  in  France.  Stei)lien  Jumel  had  been 
dead  scarcely  a  >ear  when  a  new  actor  a])j)eared  upon  the  scene 
in  the  form  of  Aaron  Bun-,  Es(|..  "Attorney  and  C'onnseUor  at 
Law."  who  e^'i(h-ntly  with  an  eye  to  tlie  fortnne  of  ]\Iadame  Ju- 
mel, conmie'jced  a  matrimonial  suit  for  heart  and  hand.  With 
that  jtersnasive  ]iower  which  had  made  him  victor  in  so  many 


r{i)g>M'    .Morris   [Mansion    (.Jumel    Mansion). 

love  affairs,  he  gained  a  half-hearted  consent,  and  with  an  assur- 
ance so  chai'acteristic  of  the  man,  he  informed  her  of  his  inten- 
tion to  1)e  married  on  a  certain  day.  On  that  day  he  appeared, 
l)ringing  with  him  Rev.  David  Schuyler  Bogart,  and  the  widow 
was  mai'ried  in  spite  of  herself.  Burr  soon  found  tliat  he  liad 
met  his  match  in  more  senses  than  one.  and  that  there  was  a 
temper  and  will  oiiposed  to  him  that  were  more  than  eipuil  to  liis 
own.     This  ill  stai'red  union  was  not  of  long  continuance.     A 


GEXEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         l.'i 

si'-ee'ly  sei)ai atii)ii  was  followcil  by  a  suit  fi>i'  divorce,  ciun- 
iiu-nced  hy  the  wife,  but  never  i)r()se('uted.  ^ladanie  Juuiel  lived 
iii  the  iirv.ision  in  state  and  grandenr  for  nearly  foi-ty  years,  and 
died  at  an  advanced  age.  July  1(1,  ISfi.").  Slie  left  two  nephews 
and  two  nieces  who  were  her  heirs-at-law,  who  sold  all  their 
rii.',hl  and  tit'e  in  the  estate  to  Nelson  ('ha<e.  July  2i»,  l<S(i5.  Then 
turned  a  seiie-;  ef  lawsuits  that  lasted  for  twenty  years,  and 
"The  Juiiie!  case''  i  ■-  famous  in  the  law  courts. 

.Mary  Juniel  C  hase.  tlie  wife  of  Xelson  (drise,  liad  hy  a  for- 
mer husband,  a  chihh  Eliza  Jumel  Pei'y,  and  by  her  second  hns- 
l)and.  a  child,  ^Villiam  Tuiili-  ("hn-e.  Tliese  childreii  were  lirought 
up  in  t'le  family  of  }ila(hnne  dumel,  as  her  intt'nded  heirs  by 
adoption,  and  they  were  with  Nelson  Chase,  the  defendants  in  the 
various  law  snits.  It  was  first  alleged  that  ^Madame  Jumel  left  a 
will,  by  which  she  becjueathed  almost  all  her  estate  to  various  lie- 
nevolent  societies.  This  was  set  aside  by  the  courts.  The  most 
important  suit  was  commenced  by  one  (ieoi-ge  ^V.  Bowen,  who 
claimed  to  lie  an  illegitimate  son  of  ?^!adame  Jumel.  This  suit 
v.-ent  to  the  snin-enie  cnui't  of  the  I'nited  States,  and  his  claim 
wa.r;  di-nii-scd.  It  is  <;\\.\  that  "it  is  a  wise  child  that  knows  iis 
own  father."  but  here  wis  one  that  evidently  did  not  know  his 
own  mother.  After  long  years  the  c'aims  of  Nelson  Chase  vrere 
fuly  confirmed,  and  the  entire  jirojierty  was  sold  in  a  partition 
suit  to  various  parties.  Fortunately  the  i)roi)erty  had  been  con- 
stantly increasing  in  value,  and  v\liat  Stephen  Jumel  had  pur- 
chased for  $10,000,  Avas  sold  for  neai'ly  half  a  million.  Scnne  tinr^ 
aftt  r  the  mansion  with  a  little  land  surrounding,  was  sold  to  the 
A\ife  of  (reneral  Ferdinand  P.  Earl,  and  during  her  ownei-shi]) 
it  retained  nnich  of  the  glory  of  the  i)ast.  It  has  been  lately  pur- 
chased by  the  city  cf  New  York,  and  is  undei'  the  direi-tion  of 
]tatriot!c  societies.  The  portrait  of  ('o'onel  Roger  Morris  is 
from  a  jiainting  by  Copley.    The  ]ioitrait  of  his  wife,  Mr<.  Mary 


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GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 


(Philipse)  ^Morris,  was  |)ainte(l  by  Benjamin  West,  and  both 
are  in  the  possession  of  lier  descendants  in  England.  The  por- 
trait of  Mrs.  ^forris  was  made  at  a  time  when  age  and  care  and 


UnEl^ 


Fa  /^ai 


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trouble  had  destroyed  the  beauty  for  which  she  was  once  so 
famous.  The  portrait  of  her  in  youthful  beauty  is  now  in  pos- 
session of  the  Gouverneur  family,  an  engraving  of  which  ap- 
])e;irs  in  tlic  sketch  of  the  Philipse  family. 


DuBois  Coat  of  Arms 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  UlSTORY  175 

A  little  north  of  the  Juuiel  iiiausion  was  a  large  rock,  upon 
which  Fitz  Greene  Halleck  wrote  liis  famous  poem,  "Marco 
Bozzaris." 

DL:  13U1S  FAALILY. 

Ill  tlie  middle  ages  the  plainest  lines  of  distinction  were 
marked  between  the  iiohilit}'  and  the  common  people.  There 
were,  in  fact,  but  three  classes — the  clergy,  the  nobility  and  the 
peasantry.  In  France  the  Roturiers,  or  counuon  people,  were 
not  allowed  the  use  of  surnames,  which  in  after  times  they  re- 
ceived from  their  occupation,  or  peculiar  circumstances  charac- 
terizing the  person,  or  causes  existing  other  than  those  which 
designate  the  possession  of  office  or  the  holding  of  land.  It  was 
in  the  eleventh  century  that  surnames  were  first  assumed  as  a 
distinctive  mark  of  nobility,  and  if  a  French  surname  can  be 
traced  back  to  that  period  it  is  indisputable  evidence  that  the 
family  entitled  to  it  was  at  that  time  a  noble  one.  Such  was  the 
name  Du  Bois,  which  a[)pears  as  early  as  106(J.  It  was  ancient 
both  in  Artois  and  Normandy  before  William  the  Conqueror  left 
France  for  the  conquest  of  Fngland.  In  the  heraldic  records 
preserved  in  the  royal  library  of  Paris,  P'rance,  it  is  ex[)ressly 
stated  that  the  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  of  the  noble  families 
of  Cotentin,  in  Xormandy. 

The  genealogy  seems  to  begin  with  Geofl'roi  Du  Bois,  who 
was  a  Knight  Banneret  under  William  the  Conqueror,  whom  he 
accompanied  to  the  coiKpiest  of  England,  1066.  A  list  of  seven- 
teen descendants  is  given,  all  of  whom  are  designated  as  seig- 
neurs and  chevaliers.  Such  is  the  early  history  of  this  dis- 
tinguished family. 

The  direct  ancestor  of  the  American  branch  was  Chretien 
(or  Christian)  Du  Bois.  of  Wickers,  in  the  Department  of  Artois. 
in  FlanderS;  afterwards  a  part  of  France.     He  was  the  iiareiit 


170         (lEXEALOaiCAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  IIISTOEY 

I't'  two  <()ns :  .Ia('i|r.e<.  l)oni  Ki^.")  and  Louis,  lioni  ( )('tober  '27, 
l(i-l(i.  They  helouijtd  to  tiie  rac^  called  Walloons,  a  peojile  who 
lived  on  tlie  honiidary  hetwetn  Fran<'e  and  Belgium,  and  who 
suft'ere;^  gr*  ntly  in  the  wnrs  wli'cli  almost  ])er])etually  raged  in 
th'it  ))r.vt  cf  Kuiojie.  It  was  to  escape  these  constant  and  con- 
tinue 1  tr(ui1iles  tliat  the  A^'alloons  came  to  America,  and  to 
escape  fiom  religious  ])er«ecution  was  tlie  i)rincipal  cause  that 
led  them  to  alianoo'!  their  native  land.  Their  language  was  the 
ancient  French  dialect  of  Picardy.  which  differed  in  many  par- 
ticulai's  from  the  language  of  Southern  France,  containing  more 
cf  the  (Jallic  and  le-s  of  the  Latin  huiguage.  They  were  a  brave 
and  hardy  race,  fully  confii-miug  the  statement  of  Julius  Caesar, 
'"Of  all  the  (Jau.ls.  the  bravest  are  the  Belgians."  From  these 
two  brothel  s  are  descended  the  various  families  of  this  honored 
name  which  are  scattered  far  and  wide  throughout  our  In'oad 
land. 

.Jacques  Du  Bois,  the  elder  of  the  two  brothers,  emigrated 
to  America  in  ](i75,  settling  on  the  Esopus,  Ulster  county,  New 
York.  He  did  not  h)ng  survive  his  coming  to  the  new  world,  for 
he  died  tlie  foliowing  year,  leaving  a  widow,  Pieronue  (Bentyea) 
Lu  Bois.  whom  he  married  in  Leyden,  April,  16(S3,  and  who 
afteiwards  manned  John  lieterse.  He  also  left  three  sons: 
dactjues  (^^}lose  name  was  afterward  changed  to  Jacobus),  born 
in  Leyden,  March,  l(i(io;  John,  baptized  July,  Kill;  Pierre  (or 
Peter),  baptized  March  17,  3674,  and  was  an  infant  at  the  time 
of  his  father's  death. 

Louis  Du  I'ois,  the  younuer  of  the  two  brothers,  removed 
to  Manheim,  (lei'mmy,  and  there  married  Cathaiine  Blanshan 
(  Blancon),  October  Id,  Ki.").").  He  emigrated  to  this  country  with 
his  wife  and  three  yiumg  children  in  KiliO.  They  landed  in  New 
Amsterdam,  but  did  not  long  remain  there,  lie  sought  for  a 
hoine  in  the  vast  wilderness  in  the  Esopus  country,  or  the  u]iper 


UENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  177 

Hudson.  Tliis  derived  its  name  from  tlie  Esopns  kill,  or  creek, 
wliicli  empties  into  the  Hudson  at  Kondout,  the  ])ort  or  liarl)or 
of  Kingston.  His  tirst  home  apjiears  to  liave  lieen  at  Hurley, 
three  miles  from  Kingston,  and  heie  he  built  a  store  and  traded 
with  the  Indians  and  the  jieople  of  the  new  settlement.  In  the 
Indian  raid  of  1663.  Hurley  was  almost  entirely  destroyed,  and 
auKUig  the  ('ai)tives  taken  wei'e  tlie  wife  and  thi-ee  children  of 
l.ouis  Du  P>ois.  the  fiitlier  Ix  ing  absent  at  the  time.  The  rescue 
of  .Mrs.  Pu  !>ois.  as  she  was  about  to  be  jHit  to  death  by  her  bar- 
barous caiitors,  is  among  the  most  thrilling  scenes  of  our  early 
lii-toi'y.  Th)-ee  years  later  lj(mis  Du  Bois  and  a  com])any  asso- 
ciated with  him  purchased  from  the  Indian.s  a  large  tract  of  land 
in  ristei-  county.  Tt  extended  ten  miles  along  the  Hudson  river, 
and  liack  into  the  country  a  still  greater  distance.  Tt  included 
the  whole  oi-  a  lai'ge  ])art  of  the  present  towns  of  New  Paltz. 
I\osendale,  Esopus.  !>loyd.  and  Highland.  The  ])rice  was  paid 
in  articles  common  enough  to  the  white  men,  but  highly  prized 
l)y  the  Indians.  Among  them  were  forty  kettles,  forty  axes  and 
sixty  knives.  The  sale  was  contirmed  by  a  patent  granted  l)y 
(lovernor  Edmund  Andi-oss  September  29,  1677.  Among  others 
i's-ocinted  with  Linii-^  Du.  I'ois  in  the  i)ui'chase  were  his  sons 
Abraham  and  Isaac,  and  the  ance-^tor  of  the  honorable  family 
of  Hasbi-ouck,  and  the  name  continues  there  down  to  the  present 
time. 

The  Frencli  Bil)!e  of  the  Huguenots  was  their  companion, 
and  from  its  teachings  they  never  wandered.  Throughout  his 
life  Eouis  Du  Bois  was  the  head,  heart  and  soul  of  the  new 
colony.  Ten  years  latei-  he  reuu)ved  to  Kingston,  where  many 
of  his  French  fi-iends  still  resided,  and  there  he  ])urchased  a 
house  and  home  lot  of  Derrick  Schaeiunoes,  and  sptnit  the  last 
declining  days  of  his  life.  His  will,  dated  KiSii,  was  proved 
dune  2."i,  l(i;»i).  and  he  probably  dieil  the  same  UKiutli  and  year, 


178         GENEALOdlCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTOliY 

and  no  doiil)!  lies  l)ni-ie(l  in  the  ground  of  the  Dutch  church  at 
Kingston,  hut  no  tombstone  marks  liis  last  resting  place.  The 
children  of  Louis  and  Catherine  Du  Bois  were:  1.  Abraliam, 
born  in  Manheim,  (iermany,  died  ()ctol)er  7,  17ol,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-four.  He  was  the  last  survivor  of  the  twelve  paten- 
tees of  New  Paltz.  He  married  ^largaret  Deyo,  and  their  chil- 
dren were:  Abraham,  baptized  1()85 ;  Leah,  1687,  married  Kolliff 
Elting;  Rachel.  1689;  Catherine,  1693;  Benjamin:  Margaret; 
and  Mary,  who  married  Philip  Ferrie,  and  to  her  he  left  a 
large  tract  of  land  in  Pennsylvania.  A  i)lain  tombstone  at 
New  Paltz  bears  this  l)rief  inscription:  "1731  Octolier  7,  A.  D. 
— Bois,  survivor  of  12  patentees."  2.  Isaac,  born  in  ^lanheim, 
married  at  Kingston,  1683,  ^larie  Hasl)rouck,  and  his  children 
were:  David,  born  1684,  married  Mary  Lefevre;  Benjamin,  born 
1687;  Philip,  born  1690.  Isaac  Du  Bois  was  also  one  of  the 
twelve  patentees  of  New  Paltz,  and  died  there  June  28,  1690,  at 
the  early  age  of  thirty-one.  3.  Jacob,  the  first  of  the  race  born 
in  America.  In  the  church  l)ook  at  Kingston  is  the  entry  of  his 
baptism:  "October  9,  1661,  vadder  van  dit  kint,  Louis  Du  Bois, 
modder  Catteray,  Blancou,  kint,  Jacob,  Getruggen,  Antony 
Crefel,  Madd  aleen  Joonse."  (Presented  for  baptism  October 
9,  16(il,  by  the  father  Louis  Du  Bois  and  the  mother  Catherine 
]jlancon,  a  child  Jacob;  Witnesses,  Antony  Crefel.  Maddaleen 
Joonse).  Jacob  settled  at  Hurley,  on  a  farm  belonging  to  his 
father.  He  married  Geritie  Gerretsen,  daughter  of  Gerrit 
Cornellisen,  who  was  the  son  of  Cornells  Van  Xewkirk.  They 
were  the  i^arents  of  eleven  children:  ^lagdaleen,  Barent,  Lewis, 
Gerrittie,  Sarah,  Isaac,  Gerritt,  Catherine,  Eebecca,  Neeltye  and 
Johanes.  Four  of  the  daughters  died  young.  ( )f  the  sons.  Barent 
and  Lewis  emigrated  to  Xew  Jersey.  Sarah  married  Conrad 
Elmendorff.  Isaac  had  a  son  Gerritt,  born  1704,  went  to  Xew 
Jersey,  but  returned  to  Hurley;  he  had  three  children:  Gerttie, 


GENEALOGICAL  AXf)  FAMILY  HISTORY         171^ 

Conrad  and  Toljias,  who  lias  many  descendants.  Catherine  mar- 
ried Petms  Smedes.  Johanes  (or  John)  had  seven  ehiklren: 
Jacob,  Cornelins,  Petrus,  Abraham,  John  and  two  danghtei's. 
Jacob  Dn  Bois,  the  ancestor  of  the  family,  died  Jnne,  174-5.  aged 
eighty-fonr.  4.  Sarah,  married  Joose  Jansen.  5.  David,  mar- 
ried Cornelia  Varnage,  1689.  He  was  living  in  17o],  and  his 
descendants  are  living  in  Rochester,  Ulster  county.  New  York. 
6.  Solomon,  mentioned  hereafter.  7.  Rebecca,  lujrn  ](i71,  died 
yoimg.  8.  Rachel,  born  l(i75,  died  young.  9.  Louis,  born  1(377, 
married  Rachel  Hasbrouck,  1701,  and  from  them  are  descended 
families  in  Broome  and  Tioga  counties.  New  York,  and  in  Penn- 
sylvania. 10.  Matthew,  born  1679,  married  Sarah  Matthysen, 
and  had  a  son  Lewis,  who  was  living  in  Kingston,  New  York. 
1706. 

Solomon  l)u  Bois,  sixth  child  of  Louis  and  Catherine  Du 
Bois,  was  born  al)0ut  1671.  He  lived  at  New  Paltz.  though  not 
within  the  patent.  He  had  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, at  a  })lace  called  in  his  will  "Pocki  Quia,"  i^robably  now 
Perkiomen,  Montgomery  county.  He  also  owned  the  northern 
part  of  the  Loveridge  Patent,  at  Catskill,  and  a  tract  of  three 
thousand  acres  in  the  Wallkill  Valley.  In  1692  he  married 
Trintie  Gerritsen,  a  sister  of  the  wife  of  his  In-other  Jacob, 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  eight  children:  Jacomyntie,  liorn 
1693,  married  her  cousin,  Barent  Du  Bois,  son  of  Jacob  Du 
Bois,  1715;  Isaac,  settled  at  Perkiomen,  Pennsylvania:  Ben- 
jamin, mentioned  hereafter;  Sarah,  wife  of  Simon  \i\\\  \Yag- 
anen;  Helena,  wife  of  Josiah  Elting;  Catharine,  wife  of  Peter 
Low;  Cornelius;  Hendricus  (or  Henry),  married  Jauittie 
Hooghtaliug,  of  Kingston.  He  died  Feln-uary,  1759.  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety. 

Benjamin  Du  Bois.  second  son  of  Solomon  and  Trintie 
Du  Bois.  settled  at  Catskill.  Xew  Y'ork.     He  married  Catharine 


Ifso         GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY   HISTORY 

Suylaiit.  Their  cliildren  were:  1.  Sara,  haptizeil  -laiuiary  11. 
lil'l'I.  married  Christian  Overhangh,  Api-il  4,  174."1.  "_*.  Soh)- 
iiion,  l)a])tized  Feliruary  2o,  1724,  married  Margaret  Sammans, 
Se])temher  27,  1749.  He  died  l)efore  July  4,  17(50.  'A.  Huy- 
bartus,  l)ai)tised  ()c'tol)er  10,  1725.  married  Cornelia  llallen- 
beck.  He  died  early  in  1809.  His  wife  died  Angiist  25,  1795, 
at  tlie  age  of  sixty-six.  4.  Cornelius,  baptized  Xoveml)er  12, 
1727,  l)ut  iii-obal)ly  born  before  Sei^tember  14,  1727.  He  mai-- 
ried  Catharine  ^^anderllOol,  Xoveml)er  12.  1751.  He  died  June 
5,  1803.  5.  Isaac,  born  dune  1,  1731,  died  February  23,  1795. 
He  married  Lena  Sannnans,  ]\Iay  28,  1752,  and  their  cliildren 
were:  1.  Lena  Cathalynti'e,  baptized  April  23,  175.3,  married 
Abrani  Fonda,  of  Catskill.  2.  Achie  (or  Agnes),  l)aptiz(^d  .\pril 
11,  1757,  married  dacol)ns  Bogardus.  3.  dt)lin  (or  dohaniu's). 
born  March  25,  1760.  4.  Joel,  born  ^lay  25.  17<)2,  died  April 
29,  1844. 

John  Du  Rois,  son  of  Lsaac  and  ].,ena  (Sannnans)  Du  Bois, 
married  (first)  Jauuettie  (or  Jane)  Dies,  in  1780.  She  died 
May  15,  1794,  aged  thirty-four  years,  four  months,  fourteen 
days.  Her  mother  was  generally  known  as  "Lady  Jane  Die.-'," 
and  of  her  a  more  extended  notice  will  l)e  given.  He  married 
(second)  Catharine  Bronk,  of  Coxachie,  September  26,  1795. 
She  died  Angust  3,  1796,  aged  thirty-three  years,  four  montlis, 
eight  day*.  His  third  wife  was  Gitty,  daugliter  of  Cornelius 
Du  Bois,  whom  he  married  February  12,  1797.  She  died  Oct- 
ober 16,  1814,  aged  fifty-two  years,  ten  months,  seven  days. 
He  married  a  fourth  time,  Trieutje  (or  Catharine),  daughter 
of  Hnybartus  Du  Bois,  June  29,  1816.  She  died  August  24. 
1839,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five  years,  ten  montlis.  three  days. 
The  children  of  John  Du  Bois  and  Jannettie  ((roelet)  Dies 
were:      Fsaac,   born    Dt'cemlK-r  13,   1780,   died   August   23,   1850. 


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John  Dies,  born  ^lareh  20,  ITH-t,  died  .June  ."1,  \^A').  James, 
born  March  17,  17S8.     -Jenette,  born  -Inne  17,  17in. 

It  is  rather  a  I'cinarkahle  circunistaiicc  that  ('atharine 
Du  Bois,  danghter  of  Hnyh.irtiis,  was  hoi-ii  in  the  house  wliere 
she  died,  at  the  time  wlieii  her  t'athei-  was  living  in  it.  and 
wliicli  he  hiter  exchangt'd  with  his  brother  Isaac.  Catharine 
was  married  twice  bcfoi'e  she  niai'ried  her  own  (■on>in,  John, 
son  of  her  nncle,  Isaac,  and  John  liad  been  mai'ricd  three  times 
before  he  married  his  consin,  (.'atliarine,  who  l)y  her  third  mar- 
riage returned  to  tlie  liome  where  slie  was  horn  and  resunu^d 
her  maiden  name,  and  lived  lia})i)ily  witli  her  hist  husband  for 
twenty-three  years  l)efore  she  died  in  ls;-)9. 

John  Dn  Bois,  sou  of  Isaac  and  Lena  (Sanunans)  Du  Ijois, 
was  l)orn  ^laix-h  2o,  ]7()0,  died  1841.  He  was  no  ordinary  man. 
His  extensive  estate  on  tlie  Catskill  was  ahnost  a  principaUty, 
and  although  his  acts  and  his  life  were  principally  contined 
within  the  limits  of  his  estate,  yet  they  were  so  marketl  that 
tliey  left  an  impression  n]ion  the  memories  of  his  posterity  to 
the  third  generation.  His  indomitable  will  and  courage  made 
him  an  acknowledged  leader  in  the  conunnnity,  as  well  as  the 
ruler  of  his  own  familx'.  His  opinions  and  acts  were  always 
respected,  because  they  wei-e  founded  on  wisdom  and  justictv 
He  was  stern  in  demeanor  and  unconiiii'omising,  so  that  lii> 
will  and  word  in  his  faniilx'  and  o\-er  all  his  possessions  wer'' 
supreme,  and  none  ever  ventured   to  (pU'stion   oi-  dispute. 

His  residence  at  the  Point  was  like  an  old  time  haronia! 
hall.  His  jiersonal  a])])earance  and  habits  were  well  in  keep- 
ing. In  stature  he  was  over  si.\  feet  in  height,  well  propor- 
tioned and  strongly  built,  and  of  a  very  impressive  ami  com- 
manding ajjiiearance.  In  costunu',  he  wore  to  the  last  the  small 
clothes,  the  knee  breeches  with  great  siKcr  buekles.  tight  stock- 
ings and  low  shoes — in  short,  the  garb  of  a  gentlenu\n  of  those 


182         GEXEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

clays,  so  conspicuou.sly  i)reseuted  in  the  engraviug  of  the  Sion- 
ing  of  tlie  Declaration  of  Independence.  He  appears  as  a  prom- 
inent character  in  AFrs.  Ann  8.  Stephens'  famous  novel  of 
"Mary  Derwent."  ^Irs.  Stephens  spent  some  time  in  the  Dn 
Bois  home.  Everything  that  conld  be  needed  was  jn'oduced  on 
his  estate,  orchards  and  gardens,  as  well  as  fertile  tields.  while 
in  the  river  and  creeks  were  fish  in  jilenty,  and  wild  game  in 
those  days  was  abnndaut.  They  tanned  their  own  leather, 
raised  their  own  wool  and  flax,  and  spun  and  wove  their  own 
cloth.  "When  he  died  he  left  l>eliind  him  the  reputation  of  a 
gentleman  of  the  old  school,  and  an  honest  and  worthy  man. 

John  Dn  Bois  married  Jane  Dies,  who  was  a  danghtei-  of 
John  Dies  and  Jannettie  Goelet,  the  only  child  to  Jacob  Goelet, 
whose  name  was  anglicised  into  James  Groelet.  Jacob  Goelet 
was  thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  Dutch  language,  and  was 
ap])ointed  ''sworn  translator"  of  that  language,  and  translated 
many  Dutch  wills  into  English.  In  1770  Jane  Dies  sold  the 
house  and  lot  where  her  father  had  lived  on  Broadway,  New 
York.  In  this  deed  she  speaks  of  herself  as  "only  child  and 
heiress  at  law  of  Jacob  Goelet,  late  of  New  York,  merchant." 
This  house  and  lot  is  Xo.  27  Broadway,  and  is  ))art  of  th;^ 
Stevens  House. 

John  Dies  Du  Bois,  second  son  of  John  and  Janette  Du 
Bois,  was  born  ]\Iarch  20,  178-1,  died  June  3,  1845.  His  life 
was  passed  on  the  ancestral  heritage  at  Catskill,  devoted  en- 
tirely to  his  farm.  He  married  Rebecca  Overbaugh,  February 
15,  1807.  She  was  born  October,  1786,  and  died  March,  18(i9. 
Their  children  were:  Lewis,  born  1809,  died  May  23,  187(i; 
Philo,  born  :\[arch  31,  1812;  Ann  Jennette,  born  June  29,  1814. 
married  Peter  Whitaker;  William,  born  June  6,  1816,  died  Oct- 
ober 9,  1834;  James  Goelet,  born  July  2,  1818;  Addison,  born 
.lanuarv  24,  1821;  Frederick  Nelson,  born  October  5,  1829. 


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Frederick  Nelson  J)u  Bois,  a  rei)resentative  citizen  and 
leading  niannfactnrer  of  the  borough  of  Manhattan,  a  man 
well  endowed  with  rare  intellectual  attainments,  keen  discrim- 
ination and  business  ability  of  a  high  order,  which,  together 
Avith  his  mechanical  skill  and  ingenuity,  have  made  him  a  lead- 
ing factor  in  industrial  circles,  was  born  on  the  old  Du  Bois 
homestead  at  Catskill,  Greene  county,  New  York,  October 
5,  1829. 

Mr.  Du  Bois  received  his  educational  training  in  the  schools 
at  C^atskill.  He  remained  under  the  i)arental  roof  till  the  age 
of  sixteen,  when  he  went  to  Buffalo,  New  York,  and  learned 
the  trade  of  a  silvei'smith  with  his  brother  Philo.  After  thor- 
oughly acquiring  a  knowledge  of  business,  in  1854  he  went  to 
Chicago  with  the  necessary  tools  and  machinery,  and  started 
the  manufacture  of  silverware,  the  tirst  in  that  city.  He  i)ur- 
sued  it  with  moderate  success  until  18G2,  in  which  year  the 
Rebellion  broke  out,  and  this  so  damaged  his  business  as  to 
cause  him  to  abandon  it.  Having  previously  invented  ma- 
chinery for  crushing  gold  ores,  he  decided  to  try  the  chances 
of  gold  mining.  In  1862  he  proceeded  with  his  wife  and  two 
children  to  the  gold  mines  of  Colorado,  settling  at  Black  Hawk, 
Giliun  county,  in  the  Rocky  Mountains.  Here  he  prosecuted 
work  on  some  gold  mines  which  he  and  his  partner  had  pre- 
viously acquired,  but  finding  them  unproductive,  he  turned  his 
attention  to  other  business,  including  the  sui)erintending  of  the 
mines  of  the  Burroughs  Gold  Alining  Company  (a  New  York- 
organization)  until  the  fall  of  1865,  when  he  went  to  New  York 
and  organized  a  stock  company  known  as  the  CVilorado  Ore 
lieducing  Works,  his  three  brothers,  of  the  firm  of  -J.  G.  Du 
Bois  and  Company,  lieing  the  principal  stockholders. 

Mr.  Du  Bois  constructed  the  works  of  the  new  company  at 
Black   Hawk,   Colorado,   at   an   expense   of  $65,000,   and   after 


1N4         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  II I  STORY 

ojieratiiii;'  tlR-ni  for  iK'arl_\'  a  y^'ar  and  rt'acliiiii;'  a  jioint  wIrtc 
tlioy  were  paying-  a  profit,  tlie>'  wei'e  nnfortmiately  destroyed 
by  an  aceidental  fire,  residting'  in  a  total  loss  withont  insuranee. 
and  as  no  insnranee  could  l)e  obtained  in  Colorado  at  tliat  time., 
it  was  deeided  not  to  i-ebnild.  Mr.  Dn  f>ois  was  the  originator 
of  tlie  plan  of  ])ureliasing-  the  gold  ores  of  the  Colorado  mines, 
and  extracting  the  gold  by  improved  scientific  methods,  a  i)lan 
which  lias  since  been  universally  adojjfed. 

After  the  destruction  of  his  fine  and  nuicli  cherished  re- 
duction works,  Air.  Du  Bois  returned  to  New  York,  in  1868,  and 
associated  in  business  with  his  brothers,  d.  (I.  Du  Bois  and 
Company,  adding  to  that  fii'in  his  skill  and  ingenuity.  The 
business  of  J.  (I.  Du  Bois  and  Company  was  the  manufacture 
of  sash,  doors  and  blinds,  established  in  1844,  by  his  oldest 
brotlier  Lewis,  who  had  been  in  the  imilding  business  in  Xew 
York  since  1836. 

After  the  return  of  Mr.  Du  Bois  from  Colorado,  the  firm 
of  J.  (t.  Du  Bois  and  Company  added  to  their  business  the 
manufacture  of  lead  ])ipe,  and  Mr.  Du  Bois  took  especial  chai-ge 
of  that  branch  of  the  business.  It  was  while  conducting  the 
liusiness  of  manufacturing  lead  pijie  that  Mr.  Du  Bois  made  the 
valuable  invention  of  the  "  Du  Bois  Seandess  Drawn  Lead 
Tra]),"  now  used  by  jilumbers  in  all  civilized  conntrics.  in 
January,  1877,  ]\lr.  Du  Bois  engaged  on  liis  own  account  in  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  his  patent  i)luml)ers'  traps,  at  the 
factory  of  .1.  (!.  Du  Bois  and  Company,  512  AVest  Thirtieth 
street,  and  since  that  time  has  had  the  valuable  assistance  and 
association  with  him  in  the  l)usiness,  of  his  son  in-law.  ?»lr. 
F.  W.  Blau\'elt.  At  the  same  time  he  oi-gjanized  his  business 
into  a  stock  conii)any  under  the  name  of  The  Du  l^)ois  ]\[anu- 
facturing  Com])any  of  Xew  York,  for  the  i)ni-pose  of  handling 
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manufacture  of  the  trajis  in  London.  England,  ami  another 
at  Berlin,  in  Germany.  At  the  expiration  of  the  jtatcnt,  tlu- 
company  having  suh^crx'ed   its   pnr])Ose,  was  dissolved. 

Tn  1884  Mr.  Dn  IJois  erected  the  spacions  six-story  hiick 
building-  at  Ninth  ax'enne  and  Twenty-tifth  street,  whii-h  he 
e(iuit)ped  witli  special  machinery  of  his  own  invention  and  de- 
sigfii,  for  the  manufacture  of  his  jiatented  Plumhei-s'  Seamless 
Wrought  Lead  Trap.  In  addition  to  the  numei-nus  features 
and  accessories  for  manufacturing  purjioses,  the  building  con- 
tains large  show  and  ware  rooms,  in  wliich  are  kept  a  larg;'  and 
varied  assortment  of  plumbers'  materials  and  sniiplies.  A 
large  suite  of  ofifices  are  located  on  the  second  tioor,  where  a 
skilled  corps  of  stenograpliers  and  clerks  are  em])li>yed.  This 
establishment  furnishes  employment  for  a  large  number  of 
skilled  operatives  and  salesmen,  and  is  not  only  one  of  the  lead- 
ing concerns  of  its  kind  in  tlie  city,  Imt  stands  out  uni(|ue  from 
all  others,  owing  to  the  fact  that  its  foimder  is  the  sole  proprie- 
tor and  owner,  and  to  his  skill  and  enterprise  alone  is  due  the 
success  the  house  has  attained,  and  it  can  be  correctly  stated 
that  the  name  of  Frederick  X.  Du  Bois  is  everywhere  regarded 
in  business  circles  as  a  synonym  for  honesty  and  straightfor- 
ward business  methods. 

In  addition  to  his  many  connnercial  duties.  Mr.  Du  IJois 
takes  an  active  interest  in  all  such  enterjirises  as  have  for  their 
object  the  social  and  moral  welfare  of  the  neiglil)orhood  where- 
in he  resides.  In  1S!)1  Mi'.  Du  I'xiis  ac(|uired  the  family  home- 
stead at  C'atskill,  Greene  county,  Xew  York,  and  lias  made  ex- 
tensive improvements  to  the  projierty.  having  I'estored  the  old 
family  mansion  to  its  present  condition  in  1*»()4.  In  1S!)S  he 
erected  a  connnodious  aiul  nio(h'rn  house  on  the  ancesti'al  farm 
at  Gatskill,  in  which  he  resides  during  the  sunnner  months. 
The  location  is  one  of  the  finest  in  the  Hudson  river  valley,  as 


186  (lEXEAIJXJlCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

well  as  of  great  historic  interest,  the  first  ancestors  of  the 
family  having  heen  among  the  first  settlers  of  that  part  of  the 
country.  Mr.  Dn  Bois,  having  always  cherished  the  place  of 
his  early  associations  of  life,  has  estahlished  his  citizenship 
at  C*atskill,  and  has  contributed  of  his  time  and  substance 
towards  advancing  the  material  as  well  as  the  social  and  moral 
interests  of  the  town.  In  1903  he  donated  $25,000  towards  the 
erection  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  building  at 
Catskill,  and  in  many  ways  has  contributed  of  his  substance  for 
the  betterment  of  the  community.  He  is  a  member  of  the  board 
of  directors  of  the  Catskill  Electric  Railway  Comjiany,  at  Cats- 
kill. 

Frederick  Nelson  Du  Bois  married,  at  Buifalo,  New  York, 
September  1,  1851,  Helen  A.  Riley,  born  at  Toronto,  Canada, 
August  1,  1828,  and  of  this  marriage  were  born  two  children: 
].  James  Frederick,  November  27,  1852,  died  December  22, 
1863.  2.  Alice,  born  April  11,  1856,  married  Frank  AY.  Blau- 
velt,  and  has  three  children:  Evelyn,  born  November  3,  1878, 
married  Calvin  Alfred  Littlefield,  January  24,  1906;  Frederick 
I)u  Bois,  born  June  24,  1884;  and  Madaline  Allaire,  bora  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1892.  Frederick  N.  Du  Bois  and  his  wife  are  active 
members  of  the  North  Presbyterian  church  at  Washington 
Heights,  of  which  Mr.  Du  Bois  has  served  as  trustee,  and  is 
]tresident  of  the  board. 

GOELET  FAMILY. 

One  branch  of  the  Goelet  family  is  so  closely  connected 
with  the  Du  Bois  family  that  an  extended  notice  is  retiuired, 
es])ecial]y  as  no  com])lete  account  of  this  particular  branch  has 
yet  a])])eared  in  ])rint.  The  Goelets  are  of  French  Huguenot 
origin,  their  ancestors  living  at  La  Rochelle,  but  fied  to  Holland 
to  escape  ])ersecution,  the  records  of  Amsterdam  showing  thai 


Young  Men  s  CKristian  Association  Building,  Catskill,  New  York 

Erected  by  F.  N.  DuBois 


(jEXEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FAMILY   lllSTOllY  187 

tliey  were  liviiiii-  in  tliat  city  in  KIi'l.  Francis  (ioclct.  a  ynniiiicr 
son  of  tile  family,  came  to  Xpw  Xetlierlaml  in  KiTli.  hrinying 
witli  liini  his  son.  .h!col)ns  (Joelet.  then  a  lad  ahnnt  t(Mi  years  of 
ag'e.  The  fatlier  returned  to  Holland  on  liu>ini'>s.  hut  tlie  ves- 
sel in  whieh  he  saik>d  was  nevei'  heard  fi-:»m  afterwards,  arid 
he  donlitless  ])erislied  in  tlie  sea.  Jaeol)ns  (ioelet,  tlins  left  an 
orjihan.  was  l)rnn,nlit  np  hy  Frederick  Philipse,  tlie  famous  mei'- 
chant  of  Xew  Amsterdam.  Tie  married  Jannettie  f'oesar,  who 
was  also  of  a  Huguenot  family,  and  at  his  death  in  17.")1,  left 
a  family  of  six  children. 

One  of  the  sons,  .lohaimes  (or  John)  (inelnt.  married  in 
1718,  Jannettie,  daughter  of  John  Cannon,  a  merchant  of  Xew 
York,  who  was  also  of  French  Protestant  descent.  John  Goelet 
died  in  1753,  leaving  a  family  of  seven  children.  Of  these,  Peter 
Goelet,  the  fourth  son,  was  lioi'n  in  1737,  and  hecame  a  ])ros- 
perous  merchant  in  New  York.  His  ])lace  of  husiness  was  on 
Hanover  Square.  Tn  those  days  wliat  is  now  Hanover  Scinare 
was  occu|)ied  hy  a  ti'iangular  hlock  of  several  houses  and  lots 
which  were  hounded  on  the  south  hy  Pearl  street,  west  hv 
"Burgers  Path,"  now  William  street;  north  hy  a  narrow  stre'4 
called  Van  Bruggens  street,  or  Van  Brugli  street;  and  termi- 
nating in  a  i)oint  on  the  east.  The  store  of  Peter  Goelet  was 
next  to  Pearl  street,  and  was  where  the  elevated  railroad  stairs 
now  stand,  and  was  known  hy  the  sign  of  the  "Golden  Key." 
His  name  very  fre(|uently  appears  as  a  man  of  wealth  and 
importance,  and  in  1755  he  mai-ried  Elizabeth  Ratse,  the  daugh- 
ter of  a  wealthy  merchant.  His  son,  Peter  P.  Goelet,  not  only 
inherited  considerable  ])roi)erty,  hut  lai"gely  increased  it.  and  it 
is  owing  to  his  ability  and  foresight  that  his  descendants,  tin' 
])resent  family  of  (lOelet,  have  obtained  tlu'ir  wealth  and  con- 
se(]uent  im))ortance. 

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1.^.^          (iEXKALOaiCAL  AS  I)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

this  .sketch  are  descended  from  .lac()l)us,  or  Jacob  (Joelet,  who 
was  a  son  of  the  first  Jacobus  Goelet,  and  l)rother  of  Johannes 
(or  .John)  Goelet,  the  ancestor  of  the  other  branch  of  the  fam- 
\\y.  Jacobns  (ioelet  was  born  al)ont  !()!>(),  and  became  a  wealthy 
merchant  and  pi-omincnt  man.  On  ]\lay  11,  171(i,  he  married 
Catherine  Boele.  Of  several  children,  the  only  one  who  sur- 
vived was  Jannettie  (or  Jane),  who  was  l)aptised  Xoveml)ei- 
23,  1720. 

Among  other  jiositions  held  hy  Jacol)  Goelet  was  that  of 
"Sworn  Interjn-eter  of  tlie  Dutch  Lang-uage."  The  descendants 
of  the  ancient  Dutch  families  continued  to  write  their  wills  in 
that  language  down  to  a  comparatively  late  date,  and  the  rec- 
ords of  them  in  the  New  York  Surrogate's  office  are  certified 
as  translated  1)y  Jacob  Goelet.  The  residence  of  Jacob  Goelet 
in  New  York  was  the  south  corner  of  Broadway  and  ^Morris 
street,  which  was  anciently  called  "Beaver  Lane."  Here  there 
were  formerly  three  or  four  small  houses  and  lots,  all  of  which, 
including  the  house  of  Jacob  (Joelet,  were  torn  down  long  years 
ago,  and  the  hotel,  known  as  the  "Stevens  House,"  now  stands 
in  their  place. 

Jannettie  (or  Jan'e  Goelet,  as  she  was  afterwards  called) 
married  John  Dies,  July  28,  1743.  Of  John  Dies  but  little  is 
]iositively  known.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  ship  cajitain,  and 
traded  with  the  West  Indies.  He  is  also  said  to  have  l)een  a 
major  in  the  British  army,  and  deserted  from  it  and  fled  to 
("atskill  as  a  remote  and  safe  retreat  from  the  pursuei's.  All 
that  is  known  with  certainty  is  that  his  father-in-law,  Jacob 
Goelet,  was  at  one  time  a  merchant  in  Catskill,  and  probably 
John  Dies  went  with  him,  and  turned  out  to  be  an  extravagant 
man,  lacking  in  jirudence,  and  was  chai'ged  with  still  worse 
faults.  Jacol)  (Joelet  in  his  will  dated  July  9,  1768,  leaves  his 
]!ro]:erty  to  his  daughter,  but  takes  sjiecial  care  to  place  it  in 


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the  liauds  dt"  trustees,  to  prevent  its  coiniiiii-  into  the  hands  of 
his  son-in-Unv,  John  Dies,  "of  whose  prudence  1  have  uo  o]jin- 
ion."  Jaco):)  Goelet  probably  died  soon  after,  but  the  date  is 
not  known.  V \nn\  tlie  property  at  C'atskill,  .John  Dies  erected 
a  mansion  that  was  long  famous,  and  was  an  elegant  and  ex- 
pensive specimen  of  Colonial  architecture.  It  was  erected  in 
1763,  and  was  built  of  sandstone,  with  corners  of  freestone. 
It  had  laige  wide  halls  extending  from  back  to  front,  tine  stair- 
cases, deep  wide  fireplaces,  large  and  square  rooms  with  very 
high  ceilings,  and  presented  a  very  striking  contrast  to  the  low 
Dutch  houses  in  the  vicinity.  It  stood  on  a  tract  of  about  five 
acres,  bounded  east  by  the  highway,  now  known  as  Main  street, 
and  on  the  south  and  west  by  Catskill  creek.  Its  exact  location 
was  about  a  hundred  feet  north  of  the  foot  of  Green  street. 
The  immense  chimney  of  a  tile  making  establishment  now  stands 
on  its  site.  It  was  very  near  the  side  of  the  creek.  After  the 
death  of  Jane  Dies,  this  elegant  mansion  became  sadly  neg- 
lected, but  could  not  fall  into  decay.  It  was  occupied  as  a  tene- 
ment, later  as  a  school,  and  as  a  private  dwelling.  While  it 
was  a  tenement  it  was  occupied  by  the  family  of  Thurlow  "Weed, 
once  so  prominent  in  the  political  affairs  of  the  State,  whose 
father,  Joel  Weed,  was  a  village  cartman  in  Catskill.  In  its 
early  days  it  was  i)opularly  known  as  "Dies'  Folly,"  and  in 
later  years  was  known  liy  the  irreverent  title  of  the  "Stone 
Jug."  It  was  torn  down  in  1897,  having  stood  for  one  hundred 
and  lliirty-four  years.  Its  massive  walls  required  the  use  of 
dj'namite  to  destroy  them.  It  was  a  tradition  that  in  a  small 
room  in  the  attic  next  to  a  chimney,  John  Dies  was  concealed 
by  his  wife,  when  British  soldiers  were  in  the  vicinity. 

Jane  Dies,  or  as  she  was  miiversally  known,  "Madame 
Dies,"  was  a  lady  of  superior  mind,  and  greatly  esteemed  by  all 
who  knew  her.     Her  tombstone,  which  is   now   standing  in  a 


(iEXEALOaiCAL  AM)  FAMllA    lilsroHY  I'.'l 

private  burying  grouiid   on   the    Du    Bois   estate,   hears   the   in- 
scription : 

In  nieniury  of  .Iniic    l)ii's,  wife  of  .luhn   Dies, 

AVlio  departed  tliis  life  the  5th  of  March. 

1799,  aged  7S  years. 

See  here  slie  rests  free  from  all  care 

The  world  no  more  to  mind 

Bnt  mounts  up  to  her  Saviour  deai' 

Hei'  sui-e  and    faitliful   Friend. 

Tn  Till'  PdcLct,  a  newsjtaper  ])rin(:ed  hy  Mackay  Croswell, 
in  the  numl)er  dated  Alarch  9.  1799,  apjiears  tlie  following 
notice:  "Died  on  Tuesday  last,  (March  5th),  Mrs.  dane  I>ies 
of  this  town,  aged  seventy-eiglit  years.  Her  virtues,  piety,  l)e- 
nevolence  and  cliarity  have  heen  equalled  by  very  few." 

The  date  of  her  husl)and's  death  is  unknown,  Init  it  was  be- 
fore 1773.  Their  children  were:  1.  Matthew,  I)orn  ^^fay  13, 
1744.  2.  Catharine,  boi'n  Februai'y  -Jfi,  174(i.  (She  mai-ried 
John  H.  Du  Bois,  July  17.  1S04.  For  lier  descendants  see 
sketcli  of  Du  Bois  family.)  ."..  dacoh  (Joelet,  horn  February  19, 
1748,  died  in  Canada.  4.  daiie,  horn  Se])temher  I'S,  1759  (mar- 
ried Jolm  J.  Du  Bois,  son  of  Isaac  Du  Bois,  17S()).  5.  John, 
born  September  14.  17(il  (died  unmarried  at  (iilhoa.  alxmt 
1835). 

Afatthew  Dies  man-ied  Fve.  daughter  of  doliamu^s  \'an 
Ijoan  and  Jeannette  \'an  \'(ilkenherg.  They  had  children:  John. 
(who  lived  at  Gilljoa  and  died  unmarried,  aged  ninety-six  )  ;  dane, 
born  AFarch  19,  17n8.  died  .\ugust  -J!*,  1840,  (she  married.  Feb- 
ruary '2'.->,  1791.  Isaac  \'an  Loan,  captain  and  owner  of  the  pas- 
senger sloo])  "  Delawai'e")  ;  Rebecca;  Lydi:i :  .Matthew,  horn 
Api-il  29,  1778  (died  in  Canada^;  Christini.  hoiii  SeptemluT  1. 
1784,  (married  Benjamin  Faiming.  and  died  at  (iilhoa,  .\ugust. 
1816);  Jacol),  born  .March  27.  1792,  (died  in  Claryville.  Sullivan 


fl. 


GENEALOGICAL  AXI)  FAMILY  HISTORY         193 

15,  1835,  Anna  Hoy.  Their  children  were:  Mary,  Benjaniiu, 
Nelson,  "Walter  Dies,  John  Tnttle,  Harriet  Clark,  and  Sarah 
EHzal)eth.  The  two  last  are  now  livini--  in  Catskill,  and  have 
many  interesting  relics  of  the  family.  Dr.  Xelson  Fanning  was 
a  surgeon  in  the  Union  army,  and  a  very  prominent  })hysician 
in  Catskill. 

AinJAUAM  \)V  HO  IS.      ■  i 

Ahralunu  Du  IJois  is  a  worthy  representative  of  one  of  the 
(ildi'st  JIngnenot  families  who  wei-e  among  the  first  settlers  of 
the  Hudson  Kiver  Valley.  He  was  horn  at  the  family  homestead 
in  Harrington  township,  Bergen  county,  Xew  Jersey,  Jan- 
uary "20,  ]8o5,  son  of  Henry  Du  Bois.  The  ancestors  of  the 
latter  were  also  among  the  early  settlers  of  the  lower  Hudson 
Valley,  Powles  Hoek,  or  Powles  Ferry,  which  took  its  name 
after  the  family,  and  was  located  at  or  near  where  the  Jersey 
City  ferries  aie  now  situated;  it  was  the  princi]ial  landing  on 
the  New  Jersey  sliore  for  the  hoatmen  and  ferries  coming  from 
New  York. 

Henry  Du  i^ois,  horn  June  17,  I'^d.'!,  at  Tlster  Landing,  Ilar- 
lington  township.  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  was  left  depend- 
ent u})on  his  own  efforts.  His  educational  privilges  heing  lim- 
ited, he  was  compelled  to  take  u])  such  em])loyment  as  could  he 
secured,  and  took  \\\)  hoating,  which  at  that  time  was  one  of  the 
leading  industries  along  the  Hudson.  By  industr\-  and  perse- 
verance he  improved  his  opportunities  and  increased  his  capital. 
Ahout  1840  he  removed  to  New  ^^)rk  city,  and  hei-e  hecame 
engaged  in  the  dock  hnilding  trade.  In  this  nndeitaking  lie  met 
with  good  success,  and  in  1845  associated  himself  with  Isaac 
Hendrix,  under  the  firm  name  of  Du  Bois  iS:  Hendrix,  who  soon 
Itecanie  well  and  fa\'oral)ly  known  as  the  leading  pioneer  dock 
huilders  of  New  York  city,  the  firm's  name  of  Dn  I'ois  ^'  Hen- 


194         (iEXEALlXilCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  Hlt^TORl 

drix  being  e\'erywheie  regarded  as  syiionyiuous  with  honest 
business  methods.  The  firm  successfully  continued  until  1878, 
when  Air.  l)u  Bois  ictired  from  active  business  pursuits. 

in  addition  to  the  many  duties  devolving  upon  him  in  their 
dock  building  business,  Mr.  Du  Bois  was  interested  in  other 
enterprises  in  New  York  city.  He  was  for  some  time  a  member 
of  the  board  of  directors  of  tlie  St.  Nicholas  Fire  Insurance 
Company,  and  the  Knickerbocker  Bank,  corner  Fourteenth 
street  and  Eighth  avenue.  Mr.  Du  Bois  was  a  man  possessed 
of  even  and  kind  disposition  and  good  temperament.  He  was 
a  stanch  supporter  of  the  ProhiI)ition  i)arty.  His  moderate  and 
abstemious  habits  were  no  doubt  conducive  to  his  years  of 
longevity.  He  passed  away  July  t,  1887,  mourned  by  a  large 
circle  of  friends. 

Henry  Du  Bois  was  married  in  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey, 
to  Catherine  Powles,  born  November  12,  1807,  died  October  8, 
1878,  a  descendant  of  an  old  Colonial  family.  Of  this  marriage 
were  born  a  family  of  ten  children,  as  follows:  t.  Jacob,  who 
married  and  resided  in  New  York  city,  died  there  aged  seventy 
years.  2.  John,  who  married  and  resided  in  New  York  city. 
3.  Rachel,  who  married  Captain  Fdward  Skinner.  4.  Abraham, 
who  died,  aged  one  year.  5.  Abraham  (I'd),  of  this  review. 
6.  Charles,  who  married  and  resided  in  Brooklyn.  7.  Sarah 
Ellen,  who  died  in  early  childhood.  8.  James,  who  married  and 
resides  in  Brooki^ii.  f).  Isaac  Ilendrix,  who  died  in  early  child- 
hood. 10.  Henry  I].,  of  whom  a  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
work.  The  mothei-  of  this  family.  Catherine  ( I'owles)  Du  Bois, 
})assed  away  October  S,  1878.  She  was  a  most  estimable  lady  of 
the  old  school  type,  and,  like  her  husband,  had  a  wide  circle  of 
friends,  many  of  whom  lost  i)i  her  a  generous  benefactor  at  the 
time  of  her  death. 

Abraham   Du  Bois,  fourth  sou  and  tifth  child  of  ilenrv  and 


GEXEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  IllSlORY         195 

Cathci-hie  (Powles)  Dii  Bois,  was  l)oni  at  tlie  family  homestead 
ill    Ilarriiigtou   township,  Bergeu   county.    New    .Jersey,    Jan- 
nary  20,  18.'55.     After  having  attended  the  schools  of  the  Ninth 
ward  in  Xew  York  city,  and  upon  reaching  the  age  of  sixteen,  he 
liesan  to  learn  the  hookhinding  trade  with  the  Harper  Brothers 
of  New  York.     Tlie  work  proving  too  confining  for  his  liealth, 
lie  decided  to  take  uj)  outdoor  work,  and  engaged  in  the  dock- 
huilding  trade  with  his  father.    In  lSo7,  soon  after  liis  marriage, 
lie   removed   to   Sus(|uehanna   county.   Pennsylvania,   wliere   he 
resided  for  over  nine  years.     In  18(57  he  returned  to  New  York 
city,  liaving  lionght  an  interest  in  the  firm  of  Du  Bois  ct  Hen- 
drix.     He  has  since  heen  actively  connected  and  identified  with 
the  firm  in  all  its  various  undertakings,  namely:  building  docks 
and  bridges,  and  in  its  dredging  contracts,  the  latter  being  their 
chief  line  of  enteri)rise  at  the  present  time.     By  his  skill  and 
])ractical  judgment,  Mr.  Du  Bois  has  done  much  for  the  success 
and  advancement  of  the  firm,  which  for  some  time  was  known  as 
Henry  Du  Bois  tS:  Sons.    Noveml)er  25,  1898,  the  interests  of  the 
firm  were  incorporated  under  the  title  of  Henry  Du  Bois'  Sons 
Company,   with   Abraham    Du   Bois,   president   and   treasurer; 
Henry  X.  Du  Bois,  general  manager  and  civil   engineer;  and 
Edwin  AY.  Du  Bois.  vice-])resident  and  secretary. 

Abraham  Du  Bois  married,  at  Elizabethi)ort,  New  Jersey, 
May  7.  1857.  Alary  B.  Abnitgoinery,  liorn  September  25.  1836, 
daughter  of  John  and  Elvira  (Horton)  AlontgomerA'.  Of  this 
marriage  were  born  six  children:  1.  Elvira,  born  April  25,  1858, 
died  Novem))tr  25.  1877.  2.  IK'ai}-  N.,  born  in  Susiiuehanna 
county.  Pennsylvania.  January  27,  18(5(1;  came  with  his  parents 
upon  their  removal  to  New  York  city,  and  here  attended  the 
public  school,  and  for  two  vears  attended  the  College  of  the 
City  of  New  York.  AVlien  seventeen  years  of  age  he  took  up  the 
practical  duties  of  life  in  the  employ  of  Henry  Du  Bois  &  Sous, 


196         GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

and  has  since  l)t'en  connected  with  the  finn  and  their  successors 
in  various  capacities.  Since  the  incorporation  of  tlie  firm  of 
Henry  Du  Bois'  Sons  &:  C'ompany  in  1898,  he  has  acted  as 
genei'a!  manager  and  chief  engineer.  He  is  a  member  of  Lodge 
Xo.  7o(),  Free  and  Accepted  ^fasons,  of  Brooklyn,  and  the  Be- 
nevolent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  Lodge  Xo.  22,  of  Brook- 
lyn. He  married,  October  IG,  1888,  Irene  ^lackey,  Ijorn  May  22, 
18()4.  daughter  of  William  J.  and  Ella  (King)  :\rackey.  Of  this 
marriage  were  boi'u  four  children:  Edna,  born  August  4,  1889; 
Irene,  born  September  23,  1890;  Henry  X.,  Jr.,  born  Decem- 
ber 25, 1893 ;  and  Agnes  :\Iiriam,  born  August  29,  189(i.  3.  Abra- 
ham, died  in  infancy.  4.  John,  died  in  infancy.  5.  Mary,  died 
in  infancy.  6.  Elliott  C,  born  July  30,  1878,  a  graduate  of  the 
Polytechnic  Institute  of  Brooklyn.  He  married,  January  23, 
1906,  Jessie  Miller  Van  Wicklen,  born  Xovember  5,  1876,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Y.  and  Henrietta  K.  (Miller)  A'an  Wicklen.  ]\[rs. 
Du  Bois  died  August  15,  1903. 

EDWIX  AV.  DT^  BOIS. 

Edwin  W.  Du  Bois,  vice-president  and  secretary  of  the, 
Henry  Du  Bois  Sons'  Oomjjany.  was  born  in  X"ew  Yoi'k  city, 
July  18,  1868.  son  of  Charles  and  Emily  A.  (Wells)  Du  Bois, 
and  grandson  of  Henry  and  Catherine  (Powles)  Du  Bois. 

Charles  Du  Bois  (father)  was  born  in  Flarrington  townslii]), 
Bergen  county,  Xew  Jersey,  April  1(5.  18;]7,  died  February  17. 
lf)()L  He  received  his  educational  training  in  the  sclu)ols  of 
Xew  York  city,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  entered  a  publisliing 
lu)use  in  the  city  of  Xew  York,  serving  in  a  clerical  capacity  for 
some  time.  Ca]>tain  Du  l>ois  connnanded  the  steamer  "Austin," 
one  of  the  jMoneer  Hudson  river  tow  boats.  In  1872,  after  hav- 
ing pursued  various  occu])ati(ms  foi'  a  numbei'  of  years,  he  be- 
came associated  with  his  father  and  others  under  the  stvle  of 


GEXEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  IllSTOHY  l'J7 

Henry  Dii  Bois  &  8ons,  the  firm  having  purchased  tlie  interests 
of  Tsaae  Hendrix.  deceased.  (1iai"les  Du  Bois  continued  his  con- 
nection with  the  firm  of  Du  Bois  &  Sons  for  several  years,  and 
then  became  connected  witli  the  firm  of  ^Torris  &  ("unnnings, 
with  whom  he  remained  in  tlie  cai)acity  of  assistant  superin- 
tendent for  a  period  of  fifteen  years.  In  1878  lie  again  returned 
to  the  employ  of  tlie  firm  with  which  his  father  was  connected, 
and  remnined  actively  engaged  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  Felj- 
ruary  17.  liXll.  at  which  time  he  was  president  and  treasurer  of 
the  comi)aiiy.  During  the  many  years  of  his  varied  and  ]irac- 
tical  career,  Mr.  Du  Boi<  acipiired  a  tliorough  kiiowk^dge  of  the 
various  detiiils  of  the  business  in  which  his  father  had  been  so 
many  yeiirs  engaged.  He  was  president  for  two  years  of  Dredge 
Owners'  Association,  a  l)ody  of  men  re])resenting  the  dredging 
companies  throughout  the  country.  Was  also  connected  with 
the  F*ratt  Oil  Company.  He  was  a  useful  and  pub]ic-si)irited 
citizen,  a:id  took  an  active  part  in  all  such  enter])rises  as  tended 
towards  the  good  and  welfare  of  the  community  in  which  he 
resided.  He  held  membership  in  the  Carrol  Park  ^fethodist 
Episco];;il  church  of  Brooklyn,  Xew  York,  and  served  as  a  mem- 
be]'  of  the  board  of  trustees  for  a  nnmbei-  of  years,  ^^r.  Du 
Bois  was  united  in  marriage  to  Emily  A.  Wells,  born  Septem- 
ber 9,  1838.  daughter  of  David  and  Sally  (Curtiss)  Wells.  Three 
children  were  the  issue  of  tliis  union:  Sarah  Frances,  born  Xo- 
vember  1().  18")7.  died  l)eceml)er  L'5,  18(!l'.  Minnie  E.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 2(),  18()4  married  A\'alter  A.  Miles,  a  resident  of  .Mt.  \'er- 
non.  Xew  York,  and  their  children  are:  Ethel  L..  Mildred  I>.  and 
AValter  Du  liois.     Edwin  W.,  see  forward. 

Mdwin  AY  Du  Bois  ac(|uired  an  excellent  English  edncatii>n 
in  the  public  sclionis  of  Brooklyn.  Xew  York,  graduating  fi-om 
the  high  school  of  the  same  borough.  Cptm  assuming  the  prac- 
tical  duties   of  life  he  at  first  engaged  in  stenographic  work. 


198         GENEALOdlCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

and  later  read  law  in  the  offices  of  Messrs.  C'hainberlaia,  Carter 
aud  Hornblower,  ot"  New  York  City.  His  next  eni])loyinent  was  as 
stenographer  in  the  office  of  Angnst  Behiiuiit  tV'  ('oni})any,  lie 
heing  the  first  to  operati'  a  typewriter  and  to  hitrodnce  modern 
business  methods  in  the  office  of  that  firm.  At  the  expiration 
of  three  months  he  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  private  secre- 
tary to  the  bite  Angnst  Behnont,  serving-  in  that  capacit>-  for  a 
pei'iod  of  four  years,  and  dnring  liis  entire  connection  with  tlie 
firm  performed  tlie  duties  assigned  liim  with  ci'edit  to  himself 
and  to  tlie  satisfaction  of  the  meml)ers  couii)i'isiiig  the  firm. 
Mr.  Du  I^ois  accei»ted  the  i)osition  of  suiierintendeiit  of  the  firm 
of  Henry  Du  Bois  &  Sons  in  1887.  serving  as  such  until  Feb- 
ruary, ll'Ol,  wlien,  njion  the  incorporation  of  the  Henry  Du  Bois 
Sons'  Com})any,  he  was  elected  to  the  position  of  vice-president 
and  secretary  for  the  corpoi-ation,  in  which  capacity  he  is  serv- 
ing at  the  })resent  time.  He  is  a  member  of  executive  board  of 
Association  for  Pi-otection  of  Commerce  of  the  Port  of  New 
York;  member  of  Royal  Arcamim  and  other  fraternal  and  civic 
organizations;  a  member  of  the  AVillink  Club  of  Flatl)ush,  and 
executive  member  of  Glen's  Club  of  Flatbnsh;  also  interested  in 
F]ati)ush  Tax  layers'  Association. 

Mr.  Du  Bois  married,  in  Brooklyn,  New  Y'ork,  Septem- 
ber oO,  1893,  Etta  M.  Beardsley,  l)orn  November  (5,  1875,  daugh- 
ter of  Frederick  T.  and  Adelaide  P.  (Clark)  Beardsley,  of  Con- 
necticut. Their  children  ai'e:  Howard,  born  Sei)tember  20, 
189-1,  died  in  infancy.  Tjester  B.,  born  A])ril  2,  1897.  Charles 
F.,  born  January  31,  1899.  Air.  Du  Bois  and  his  wife  are  charter 
members  of  the  Prospect  Parlv  Presbyterian  church  in  Brook- 
lyn. Mr.  Du  I'ois  being  president  of  board  of  trustees.  They  are 
highly  respected  in  the  community  in  wliicli  they  reside,  and 
enjoy  tlie  accpiaintance  of  a  wide  circle  of  friends  and 
ac([uaintances. 


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GEXEALOaiCAL  AM)  FAMILY  JIISTOBY  11*9 

HENRY  E.  DT  I  JOTS. 

Ileniy  E.  Dn  I'xtis,  who  was  a  prominent  and  successful 
civil  enginee!'  and  iiienihcr  of  the  old  firm  of  Henry  Du  Bois  & 
Sons,  dock  and  bridge  builders  of  New  York  city,  was  l)orn  at 
the  fam.ily  liomestead  in  West  Eleventh  street.  New  York  city, 
August  S,  1^4').  son  of  Henry  and  Catharine  (Powles)  Du  Bois, 
both  of  whom  were  descended  from  old  families  whose  ancestors 
wei'e  among:  the  eaiTy  settlers  who  took  up  lands  a.long  the  Hud- 
sou  rivei-  with  the  Hollanders  and  others  who  were  among  the 
early  colonists.  A  full  account  of  these  families  a])i>eai-s  in 
another  part  of  this  woi'k. 

Henry  E.  Du  I>ois  attended  the  schools  of  his  native  city, 
and  wIkmi  but  fourteen  years  of  age  took  up  the  practical  duties 
of  life,  beginning  to  work  with  his  father,  Henry  l')u  Bois,  who 
was  then  engaged  in  the  dock  l)uilding  business  with  the  firm  of 
Du  i)ois  &  Hendrix.  of  New  Yt)rk  city.  The  young  mechanic 
soon  displayed  an  aptitude  for  the  technical  i)art  of  the  work 
and  readil}'  mastei'cd  the  various  details  of  the  trade.  He  next 
be/nme  engaged  with  the  Mcu-ris  c^  Cumming-s  Dredging  Coni- 
l)an\'  of  New  York  city,  with  whom  he  remained  in  the  capacity 
ol  chief  engineer  until  187S.  when  the  old  firm  of  Du  Bois  & 
Hendrix  was  dissolved  and  Henry  E.  severed  his  connection  with 
the  ^Morris  &  Cummings  l'omi)any  and  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Henry  Du  I>ois  tV:  Sons,  who  were  for  some  time  engaged 
in  the  (hick  and  bridge  building  l)usiness.  Hi  1880  Henry  E. 
Dn  l>ois  was  instrumental  in  adding  the  dredging  business  to 
the  already  (  xtciisive  trade  of  Henry  Du  Bois  &  Sons,  and  by 
his  sk'ill  and  practical  business  ex|)erience  contributed  mucli  to 
the  success  of  the  enter])rise. 

He/11'y  E.  Du  l>ois  was  a  self-made  man  in  the  fullest  sense 
of  tlie  word      He  was  scrupulously   just  in  all  his  transactions, 


200         (iEXEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

and  (luiiiig  tlie  wiiole  of  liis  ;u'ti\-e  and  l)u.sy  career  liis  name 
was  everywliere  regarded  as  synonymous  with  honest  ])nsiness 
metliods.  He  was  sincere  in  all  his  associations  with  his  fellow- 
men,  and  was  everywhere  regarded  with  highest  esteem.  He 
was  ])rominent  in  the  Masonic  order  and  had  attained  to  the 
thirty-third  degree  of  tlie  craft.  He  was  a  strong  advocate  of 
the  )n'inci])les  of  the  Repnlilican  party,  and  was  his  party's  can- 
didate for  assemblyman  from  the  Tenth  ward  of  Brooklyn,  wliich 
nominally  gave  a  large  Democratic  majority,  Init  Mr.  Du  Bois' 
well  known  ])rinciiiles  and  ]')ersonal  popularity  won  him  many 
votes  and  he  came  within  two  votes  of  defeating  his  opponent. 
He  died  April  2.  ISDT,  mourned  by  a  wide  circle  of  friends. 

Henry  E.  Hu  Bois  married,  October  18,  1865,  Theresa  Low, 
born  January  3.  1845.  daughter  of  Eichard  Godfrey  and  Car- 
oline (McKown)  Low,  of  Athens.  Greene  county,  Xew  York. 
Of  this  marriage  were  born  three  children:  1.  Catherine,  born 
July  22.  186(1.  2.  Henry  E.,  born  July  20,  1868,  married  Eleanor 
T.  Cusliing.  born  October  6,  1872,  daughter  of  Henry  K.  and 
Kate  Halsey  (Hodgkiuson)  Cushing.  and  have  two  children, 
Harrold  Cushing,  born  October  27,  1896,  and  Harry  Edwin,  Jr., 
born  July  21.  1898.  3.  "William,  born  January  25,  1870.  married, 
July  20.  1890.  Amy  C.  Hannold,  born  :\[arch  25,  1874,  daughter 
of  Charles  H.  and  Harriet  M.  (Wright)  Hannold.  The  mother 
of  this  family,  Theresa  (Low)  Du  Bois  still  survives.  She  is  a 
most  estimable  lady,  possessed  of  many  excellencies  of  char- 
acter, and  is  highly  esteemed  l)y  nil  who  know  her. 

\  ARTHUR  DU  BOIS. 

Tlie  family  of  which  Arthur  Du  Bois.  of  West  Xew  Brighton, 
boi'ough  of  Richmond,  Now  York,  is  a  re]iresentative,  was  fnuud- 
ed  in  this  country  l)y  Jacques  Du  Bois,  and  the  line  of  descent 
in  the  following  generations  were  Pierre  (or  I'eter)   Du  Bois, 


GEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  Ilisronv         201 

married  Jeannette  Burliams;  Jonathan  Du  Bois.  married 
Ariantie  Oosterliout ;  Peter  Du  Bois.  married  ]\Iaria  Van 
Yooris  (Voorliees)  ;  Cornelius  Du  Bdis.  married  Sarah  Ph\tt 
Ogden;  Cornelius  Du  Bois.  married  Mary  A.  Delafield;  Eugene 
Du  Bois,  married  Anna  i\.  P>i(i()k-:  Artliin-  Dm  Bois,  man-ied 
Helen  Sturges. 

Eugene  Du  Bois.  son  of  Cornelius  and  }khuy  A.  (Delafield) 
Du  Bois,  and  fatliei-  of  Arthur  Du  Bois,  whose  name  heads  this 
sketch,  was  lioiai  at  the  family  homestead  in  (xramerey  Park. 
Xew  York  City,  Fehruary  20,  1841.  His  elementary  educational 
training  was  ac(|uired  under  ])rivate  tuition  and  at  the  Antlion 
Memorial  School,  a  noted  institution  of  learning  iu  its  day.  At 
tlie  age  of  fourteen  lie  entered  Columbia  College,  graduating 
therefrom  at  the  age  of  eighteen  with  credit.  Ppon  the  comple- 
tion of  his  studies  he  entered  his  father's  business  establishment, 
which  was  then  managed  under  the  firm  name  of  Du  Bois  & 
Vandervoort,  packers  and  wholesale  (healers  in  tobacco,  with 
offices  and  wai'erooms  at  Xo.  ?u  Water  street,  and  later  at  Xo. 
75  Front  street.  The  iirm  was  well  and  favorably  known  in  the 
tobacco  trade,  conducting  an  (»xten-ive  business  thrt)ug]umt  the 
southern  states,  hut  ujxm  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  war  the 
trade  of  the  house  was  seriously  affected,  and  the  firm  was  com- 
pelled to  li(|uidate  their  atl'airs  and  dissolve  their  Imsiness  re- 
lations, rpon  the  severance  of  his  connection  with  his  father's 
establishment.  Eugene  Du  Bois  enuaged  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness with  offices  at  Xo.  "Jo  Park  Pow.  Xew  York  City,  and  he 
continued  in  this  liiu^  of  ])ursuit  for  a  number  of  years,  gaining 
an  envia))le  re])utation  for  iidegrity  and  uprightness,  being  just 
and  conscientious  iji  the  manauement  of  all  his  affairs.  He 
labored  efficiently  in  the  promoTion  of  all  sucli  enter]nases  as 
liad  for  their  oliject  the  good  and  welfare  of  the  neighborhood 
in  which  he  resided,  and  was  an  ai'(U*nt  supporter  of  religious 


202         GEXEALOCICAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

and  (*hai'ital)l('  woik.  He  was  an  active  and  consistent  niemher 
of  the  P]piscopa!  elini'cli  at  West  New  l)iii>hton,  and  served  in 
tlie  cajiacity  of  vestryman    foi-  a   nnnilier   of  years. 

Eugene  Du  Bois  was  married  at  the  Erastns  Brooks  home- 
stead, AVest  New  Brigliton.  New  York.  Apiil  4,  1872,  to  Anna 
(Jreeideaf  Brooks,  l)orn  July  1<S,  184.1.  (hnighter  of  Erastns  and 
^[argaret  (C'rancli)  Brooks,  and  the  issue  of  this  marriage  was 
three  children,  as  follows:  Margaret.  liorn  Sei)tember  29,  1874; 
Arthur,  born  January  12,  1877,  referred  to  hereinafter;  and 
Eugene  Eloyd,  horn  .June  4.  1882,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege, and  now  a  student  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons of  New  York  City,  class  of  1905. 

Arthur  Du  Bois.  eldest  son  of  Eugene  and  Anna  (Jre;^n- 
leaf  (Brooks)  Du  Bois,  was  born  at  the  family  homestead  of  his 
maternal  grandfather.  Erastus  Brooks,  at  West  New  Brighton, 
borough  of  Biclnnond,  New  York,  January  12.  1877.  He  at- 
tended the  Staten  Island  Academy  of  New  Brighton,  grad- 
uating from  the  latter  institution  at  the  age  of  seventeen  yeaj's. 
He  then  entered  Harvard  College  and  in  1898  was  graduated 
from  that  institution  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  and 
from  the  law  department  thereof  in  the  class  of  1901.  He  estab- 
lished an  office  for  the  i)ractice  of  his  profession  in  New  York 
City,  has  gained  a  place  for  himself  among  his  professional 
brethren,  and  his  prospective  future  seems  full  of  promise  and 
assured  success.  He  is  faithful  to  the  trust  reposed  in  him  by 
his  numerous  clients,  and  his  perfect  understanding  of  all  the 
technicalities  of  law  makes  his  services  of  the  utmost  value. 

Arthur  Du  Bois  was  married  July  21.  1901,  to  Helen 
Sturges,  born  Api-il  9,  1876,  a  daughtei-  of  George  and  Mary 
(Delafield)  Sturges,  and  three  children  have  blessed  this  miion: 
John  Delafield  Du  Bois,  born  January  24.  1908;  Helen  Du  Bois, 
born  January  22,  1904.  died  June  28,  1904;  :\Iarvin  Sturges  Du 
l^ois,  born  December  5,  19()(i. 


GEXEALOiUCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY         ;^"8 

JAMES  DU  BOIS. 

James  Dn  Bois,  the  eigiith  child  and  fourth  son  of  Henry 
and  Catharine  (Powles)  Dn  Bois,  was  born  at  the  family  home- 
steach  Xo.  Till  Ilanunoud  street,  now  west  Kkn-enth  street.  New 
York  city,  Octohei-  ."!.  T^-H.  He  was  educated  in  the  school  of 
his  native  city,  and  at  the  a.ue  of  sixteen  began  the  practical 
duties  of  life.  His  first  employment  was  with  the  tirm  of  Du 
Bois  k  Hendrix.  who  were  at  that  time  the  leading  dock  builders 
of  New  York  harbor.  At  the  age  of  twenty-six  James  Du  Bois 
became  a  member  of  his  father's  firm,  Du  Bois  &  Hendrix,  and 
hiter  of  the  fii'ni  of  Du  Bois  tS:  Sons,  witli  whom  he  continued 
for  some  time,  and  then  engaged  in  business  on  his  own  account. 
At  present  James  Du  Bois  is  engaged  in  the  sewer  department 
of  tlie  l)orougli  of  Brooklyn  in  the  capacity  of  inspector.  Fra- 
ternally James  Du  Bois  is  a  member  of  the  Free  and  Acee])ted 
]\Iasons.  having  attained  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  order, 
and  also  a  member  of  the  Eoyal  Arch  Masons,  and  of  the 
Knights  of  Honor. 

Mr.  Dn  Bois  was  married  in  1864  to  Eliza  Parker,  daughter 
of  Ira  and  P^liza  Parker,  and  of  this  marriage  was  born  one 
daughter,  Lani'a  Du  Boi-^.  lioni  in  18(i5,  who  mai'ried  George  B. 
Roach,  and  of  this  union  there  was  issue.  Eliza  (Parker)  Dn 
Bois.  faithful  wife  ajid  mother,  died  in  18()0.  and  Mr.  Du  Bois 
married  (secoiidly).  in  1S7(),  ^largaret  Dates,  daughter  of  Abra- 
liam  and  Maria  Dates,  of  Fishkill  Landing.  Putnam  t-ounty.  Xew 
York.  Of  this  union  there  was  no  issue.  Mr.  Du  Bois  married 
(tliii'd)   Annie  Longman,  danghtei-  of  Samuel  Longmr.n. 

CAPTAIN  CHARLES  A.  DI'  BOIS. 

Charles  A.  Du  Bois,  a  prominent  real  estate  limkcr.  with 
commodious  offices  located  at   Xo.   17S0   Amsterdam   a\'enne.  in 


20i         GENEALOaiCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

the  city  of  New  Voi-k,  dest'endant  of  tlie  family  whose  history  is 
ht'fore  liivcii.  tiaccs  liis  lineage  from  Louis  Du  Bois,  sixth  son 
and  ninth  child  of  Louis  (2)  and  Cathei-ine  (P>lanshan)  Du  Bois. 
Louis  Du  l)(iis  \v:is  horn  in  1(177.  He  married,  January  19,  1701, 
Kaehel  Hashrouck.  daughter  of  Aliraham  and  ^Taria  (Deyo) 
Hashrouek,  tlie  former  a  patentee.     Tjouis  died  in  1717. 

Nathaniel  Du  Bois,  second  child  of  Louis  (3)  and  Rachel 
(Hashrouck)  Du  liois,  was  l)orn  :\hiy  (5,  1703,  died  :\ray  VI,  1763. 
In  1738  he  hed  the  rank  of  ca])tain.  He  married,  May  LJ,  1726, 
Gertrude  ((iertruy)  Bruyn,  daugliter  of  Jaeol)US  Bruyn. 

Major  Zachariah  Du  Bois,  tliird  cliild  of  Xathauiel  (4)  and 
(lertrude  (I'ruyn)  Du  Bois,  was  horn  Octolter  .'51,  1734,  died 
A)>ril  10.  17S.").  He  held  tlie  rank  of  major  in  the  Orange  C^ounty 
-Militia  Regiment,  which  was  under  the  connnand  of  his  hrother- 
in-law.  ( 'olo'icl  Woodiiull.  in  177(!.  under  (Jovernoi'  Clinton. 
He  served  until  1780,  was  taken  prisoner  Octoher  (!,  1777,  at 
Fort  AFor.tgomery.  His  Bihie  is  now  in  the  i^ossession  of  one  of 
his  descendants — Charles  A.  Du  Bois.  He  married,  December 
22,  1756.  Anclie  Van  Duzer. 

(Jenei'nl  Xathauiel  Du  Bois,  tenth  child  of  Major  Zachariah 
(."))  and  Anche  (Van  Duzcr)  Du  Bois,  was  horn  November  18, 
1773.  died  Atay  10,  1848.  He  married  (tirst),  March  28.  1797, 
Helen  Du  Bois,  who  died  June  5,  1810.  ^NTarried  (second)  Mar- 
garet, widow  of  Djuiiel  Lockwood.  He  had  children:  1.  Zach- 
ariah. see  forward.  2.  Petei-,  remained  unmarried.  3.  Abi-aham, 
mari-ied  LTannah  Wright.  4.  Nathaniel,  unmarried.  5.  Ellen, 
umnarried. 

Zachariah  Du  B>ois,  eldest  child  of  (lencral  Xathauiel  (6) 
and  ilclen  ( Du  Bois)  Du  Bois,  was  horn  April  10,  1798,  died 
July  26,  182S.  He  married,  December  IT),  ISKi  (1819?),  Ruth 
Dodge,  dau.ghtei'  of  -lolin  P.  I>odge,  sistei'  of  Levy  Dodge,  and 
granddaughter  of  ijcvy  Dodge,  who  was  a  lie  uteuaut  in  the  New 


GEXEALUaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  lIlsroliY         'JOr, 

Ham])sliii('  Line  in  tlie  Continental  anuy,  and  settled  in  Xew- 
Inii-g.  after  the  war.  Their  cliihli-eii  were:  1.  Xatlianiel  A., 
horn  De.-eniher  iT).  1820,  died  May  11.  1 !)()!.  -2.  Helen,  horn 
April  1^').  T^:]:2,  died  January  lM,  1S71.  ."!.  dohn  P.,  see  forward. 
4.  Hnth,  horn  May  4,  IHliC.,  died  June  2o,  18(io. 

John  P.  Du  Bois,  second  son  and  third  cliiM  of  Zadiai-iah 
(7)  and  Piitli  (Dodge)  l)n  Bois,  was  horn  January  20,  1824, 
died  Felnuai'y  ."),  1872,  at  Xewhurg,  Xew  York.  He  married, 
April  27,  1847,  Amanda  Lawn  Jackson,  at  Xorth  Ahiugdon 
Square,  Xew  \'oi'k  t  ity,  and  had  children:  1.  (reorge  C,  nu- 
marrieci,  deceased.  2.  HHa,  unmarried,  deceased.  ;'.  .John,  un- 
married. 4.  Charles  A.,  see  forward,  o.  Nathaniel  A.,  un- 
married, tleceased 

Captain  Charles  A.  Du  Bois,  tliird  son  and  tVnirth  child  of 
John  P.  (8)  and  Amanda  Lawn  (Jackson)  Du  Bois,  was  horn  in 
Xewhurg,  Xew  York,  July  ;>,  18(il.  His  education  was  acquired 
in  the  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  he  commenced  his  business 
career  in  an  office  on  \\'all  street,  Xew  York.  He  suhseiiuently 
became  a  member  of  the  Consolidated  Kxcliange,  retaining  his 
memliership  in  this  hody  until  1888,  when  lie  sold  his  seat  and 
since  that  time  has  given  his  entire  time  and  attention  to  the  real 
estate  business,  iii  which  he  has  been  most  eminently  successful. 
He  became  a  meml)er  of  Company  L,  Twenty-second  Regiment, 
Xational  Ouard  of  the  State  of  Xew  York,  and  advanced  regu- 
larly through  the  various  grades  until  he  had  attained  the  rank 
of  captain,  in  Company'  F.  He  was  rendered  a  sui)ernumerary 
officer  in  18!)().  He  is  a  consistent  memliei-  of  the  Harlem  Pres- 
I)yterian  church,  and  is  connected  in  various  ways  with  the  fol- 
lowing organizations:  AVashington  Contijiental  Society  of  For- 
eign A\'ars,  Holland  Society,  American  Scenic  and  Historic 
Pi'esei'\'ation  Society,  Hudson-Fulton  Celebration  Commission; 
Xew  Yiirk  Historical  Society.     He  is  an  officer  of  the  ( )l(l  (iuaid 


206         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Battalion  of  New  Vorl:,  and  an  execntive  officer  of  the  Twenty- 
second  Eegiment  Association,  National  Gnard,  New  York,  vice- 
president  of  Cajitain  Joel  C*ooke  Association,  and  a  member  of 
the  board  of  managers  of  the  Empire  State  Society,  Sons  of  the 
American  Kevolution. 

Captain  l)u  Bois  married,  Jnly  6,  1893,  M.  Louise  Jones, 
daughter  of  Israel  C.  and  Phel^e  ( Brush)  Jones,  the  former  a 
descendant  ol'  an  old  Connecticut  family,  and  the  latter  of  an 
old  Long  Island  family.  They  have  no  children.  Mrs.  Du  Bois 
is  a  member  of  the  Knickerbocker  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution. 

LIJAS  DU  BOIS. 

Elias  Du  Bois,  inspector  of  the  floating  department  of  the 
Erie  Eailroad  Company,  of  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  which 
company  regards  him  as  one  of  their  most  efficient  and  competent 
officials,  was  born  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  January  4,  1837. 
The  pioneer  ancestor  of  this  family  was  Louis  Du  Bois,  and 
the  representatives  of  tliis  branch  in  succeeding  generations 
were  Solomon,  Benjamin,  Isaac,  Joel,  Jeremiah.  Elias. 

Joel  Du  Bois  (grandfather)  was  a  native  of  Dutchess 
county,  New  Y'ork,  as  was  also  his  wife,  whose  mai<len  name  was 
-Maria  Romaine.  Their  son.  Jeremiah  Du  Bois  (father),  was 
l)orn  in  the  city  of  Pougiikeepsie,  New  Y^ork,  November  24,  1814, 
died  October  4,  183().  He  received  a  common  school  education, 
and  then  learned  tlie  trade  of  carpeiite)-,  which  line  of  work  he 
pursued  throughout  his  active  career.  He  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Ann  V.  Kerr,  who  bore  him  two  sons:  1.  Joel,  born 
July  10,  1835.  married  Sarah  ^"an  Benschoten,  of  Dutchess 
( i)unty.  New  York,  and  their  (hiughter.  Ehnira  Du  Bois,  became 
the  wife  of  Horace  Sague.    '1.  Elias,  Itorn  .lannary  4,  18.')7. 

Elias  Du  l>ois  was  reared  to  manhood  vear>  at  the  familv 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY         207 

liuiuestead  in  Poughkeeiisie.  His  educational  training  was  olj- 
tained  in  the  seliools  of  his  native  city,  and  at  tlie  age  of  seven- 
teen years  he  took  up  the  practical  duties  of  life.  His  first  occu- 
pation was  in  the  capacity  of  stationary  engineer  at  Pough- 
keepsie,  and  in  this  line  of  work  lie  displayed  an  aptitude  and 
thorough  knowledge  of  its  pi'actical  as  well  as  technical  features 
and  soon  became  known  as  a  competent  and  reliable  engineer. 
In  1S60  he  went  to  Buffalo,  Xew  York,  and  there  filled  the  posi- 
tion of  steamship  engineer,  and  in  1861  came  to  Xew  York  city 
and  served  in  a  similar  capacity  up  to  1867,  when  he  entered  the 
em})loy  of  the  Erie  Eailroad  Company.  He  at  first  filled  the 
position  of  engineer  on  one  of  their  tug  boats,  continuing  as 
such  until  1882,  when  he  was  promoted  to  that  of  chief  engineei 
of  the  fioating  equipment  of  the  company,  and  held  that  position 
continuously  up  to  October,  1906.  when  he  was  appointed  to  the 
position  of  inspector  of  the  floating  department.  .Mr.  Du  Bois 
is  a  man  of  sti'ict  integrity,  carefully  looks  after  the  interests 
of  liis  employers,  and  stands  high  in  the  esteem  of  his  fellow- 
men.  He  is  an  active  membei-  of  Jersey  (_'ity  Lodge,  Xo.  74^ 
Free  and  Aecei)ted  Masons,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  incor- 
porators in  1866,  and  a  member  of  Garfield  Lodge,  X'^o.  65,  Inde- 
jiendent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 

^Ir.  Du  Bois  married,  June  12,  18o(),  Kntli  Satterlee,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  two  daughters:  Julia,  born  June  lo, 
1857,  died  June  l29,  1857.  l\uth,  l)orn  January  17,  1859,  wife 
of  Ohailes  Jobes.  and  mother  i»f  one  daughter,  Emma  Jobes. 
Mrs.  Du  Bois,  who  faitlifuUy  performed  the  duties  of  wife  and 
mother,  died  January  31.  1859.  ^Ir.  Du  Bois  married  (second), 
January  'I'l.  1865.  Mary  E.  Lewis,  born  December  21,  1842, 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  A.  (l>entley)  Lewis.  Their  i-hil- 
dren  are:  Edward  E.,  born  Octol)er  6,  1865,  at  Poughkeepsie, 
X"ew  York,  married  Laura  Kearney,  born  December  12,  1871, 


208         (iEXEALOaiCAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  HISTOHY 

and  tlu'y  aic  tlic  ])  ircnts  of  one  daughter,  Laura,  l)()ru  June  li), 
IS*)."!,  ("linrlcs  A.,  Ijorn  Mardi  .''.1,  ISH?,  at  Poughkeepsie,  New 
York,  umriied  Margaret  TIall,  and  li;is  one  son,  C'lmrles  A.,  Jr., 
horn  July  12,  1S<)!).  John  L.,  l)Oi-n  May  2,  1S77,  at  Jersey  City, 
New  Jerse\',  married  Anna  ^lalvie,  widow  of  Mr.  Bh^odwort, 
and  luis  one  (hiugliter,  Edna.  Itorn  JuiU'  !),  'WMVA. 

JAirm  BEVIKK  \)V  P.(  )1S. 

Louis  Bevier  Ou  Bois.  a  retired  1)usiness  man  of  Jersey 
City.  New  Jersov,  traces  liis  ancestry  to  Louis  and  Catharine 
(Bhiu.iean)  Du  Bois,  whose  son.  Jacol)  l)u  Bois,  married  Gerrity 
((ierritzt')  (iarriston.  Among  tlieir  cliihlren  was  a  son, 
Jolmannis,  wlio  married  Juchtli  AVynkoo]),  and  their  son  C^or- 
nelius  married  Gertrude  A^an  Vechten  Van  Vleet,  and  they  in 
turn  were  tlie  jiarents  of  a  son  Derick,  grandfatlier  of  T^ouis  B. 
Du  Bois. 

Deriek  Du  Bois  (grandfather)  was  horn  at  Hurley,  Ulster 
county.  New  York,  Septemher  2,  1778,  and  was  haptized  at 
Kingston,  New  York,  Septemher  20.  1778.  He  was  married 
August  21,  180!>.  hy  the  T?ev.  John  Gosman,  to  Evalina  Van 
A'^echten  Suyland,  horn  at  Hurley,  Twister  county.  New  York, 
,)une  9.  1789.  and  hai)tized  June  28.  1789,  hy  the  Rev.  J.  G.  L. 
Doll.  They  were  tlie  parents  of  Oliver  Granville,  referred  to 
hei-einafter.  Berick  Ihi  Bois  died  at  his  home  in  Kingston, 
New  York,  Deeemher  24,  185().  He  was  survived  many  years 
l)y  his  wife,  who  ])assed  aAvay  at  Kingston,  Oetoher  14,  18()8. 

Oliver  Granville  Bu  Bois.  father  of  Louis  B.  Du  Bois,  was 
horn  at  Hurley,  Ulster  county.  New  Yc^rk,  August  2,  181(5,  and 
hai)tized  at  Kingston.  New  York.  Oetoher  .'!,  18l(),  l)y  the  Rev. 
John  (losnuin.  Fie  married  at  Marhletown,  Lister  county.  New 
York,  Fel)ruary  12,  ISiJo,  Catharine  Bevier,  ))orn  at  Marl)letown, 
New  York,  Novemher  11,  1812.     Seven  children  were  the  issue 


(iEXEALOGlCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY  209 

of  tliis  marriage,  as  follows:  Harriet  Evaline,  married  Abram 
Wood.  Louis  Bevier,  referred  to  hereinafter.  An  infant  who 
died  in  early  life,  ^[ary  Gertrude,  mai'ried  Henry  A.  ^lerritt. 
Robert  AVallaee.  niari'ied  S:irah  Dailing.  ^ifao-daline  Bevier, 
mai'ried  Fornam  Burhans.  Louisa  Jane,  died  1856.  The 
])'^rents  of  these  ciiildren  died  at  Kingston,  Xew  ^'ork,  August  29, 
1885.  and  March  L'.  LSli!)   respectively. 

Ijouis  Bevier  Du  IJois  was  l)orn  at  Junius,  a  small  village 
near  "Waterloo,  Seneca  county,  Xew  York,  Se])tember  16,  1838. 
His  early  education  was  ac(|uired  in  tlie  schools  of  the  neiglibor- 
hood.  and  this  knowledge  was  sni>i)]emented  by  a  course  of  study 
in  the  academy  at  Kingston,  which  lie  attended  u]-)  to  the  age  of 
seventeen  years.  Lie  then  took  up  the  ]n'actical  duties  of  life, 
gaining  his  first  exjjerience  in  mercantile  i)ursuits  by  entering 
the  emjiloy  of  Sampson  &  Baldwin,  iron  mercliants,  New  York 
city.  Tn  1876  he  engaged  in  Inisiuess  on  his  own  account  in  the 
manufacture  of  chains  of  various  kinds  and  deseri])tions  in 
Jerse>'  City,  Xew  Jersey,  continuing  along  this  line  and  meet- 
ing with  fair  success  u])  to  1897,  since  which  time  he  has  led  a 
retired  life,  enjoying  to  the  full  the  consciousness  of  diities  well 
and  taitlifully  ])erformed,  and  the  competence  acquired  by  means 
of  lioiiora.ble  business  methods,  p^or  a  period  of  thirty-six  years 
Mr.  Du  Bois  has  l)een  a  member  of  Bergen  Lodge.  Xo.  47.  Free 
and  .\cce])ted  Masons,  of  Jersey  City,  X"ew  Jersey. 

In  Xew  \i.n-\\  city,  August  "JO.  ISli,"'.  ^Ir.  Du  Bois  was  mar- 
ried to  Elizabeth  A.  King,  born  in  Xew  "^'ork  city,  February  18, 
1810,  daughter  of  Francis  and  Hilary  A.  King,  and  their  ciiildren 
are:  Kate  H.,  Louis  Bevier.  Jr.,  deceased.  Mary  A.,  deceased. 
H  ittie  Estelle,  deceased.  Lizzie  Bevier.  Flla  May.  married 
('onielin-^  D.  Kay  and  theii-  children  are:  ("litTord  Bevier  and 
]\:'.\niond  (Jordon  Ka\'.  Louis  !>aile>'.  married  dane  Agatha 
^h)dden  and  their  ciiildren  ai'e  F^telle  Bevier,  .lane  .\siatha  and 


210         UEXEALOUICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

T.ouis  Bevier  \h\  Bois.  Thomas  King.  Hariy  Gri'anville.  Robert 
Wallace.  Mr.  ])u  Bois  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Dutch 
Keformed  church  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey. 

EDWARD  Dr  BOIS. 

Edward  Du  Bois,  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  is  a 
well  known  and  highly  respected  citizen  of  Xew  York  city,  and 
is  a  descendant  of  an  old  Huguenot  family  whose  ancestors  were 
among  tlie  early  settlers  of  the  Hudson  River  Valley. 

p]dward  Du  Bois.  whose  name  is  at  the  head  of  this  sketch, 
was  born  at  Catskill,  (Ireene  county,  Xew  York,  March  10,  1836. 
His  parents  were  Ira  and  Mary  (Rogers)  Du  Bois,  the  latter 
l)eing  a  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Clark)  Rogers,  who 
were  among  the  early  Colonial  settlers  who  came  from  Connecti- 
cut to  Greene  and  I'lster  counties.  New  York.  The  father,  Ira 
Du  Bois,  was  a  son  of  John  Dn  Bois,  of  whose  antecedents  more 
is  written  in  this  work. 

Edward  Du  Bois  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native 
village  and  was  reared  to  the  years  of  early  manhood  under  the 
jiarental  roof.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered  the  employ  of 
Chailes  ]j.  Beach,  proprietor  of  the  Catskill  ^lountain  House,  at 
Catskill.  where  he  remain.ed  for  seven  years.  In  1861  the  young- 
clerk,  wishing  to  see  and  learn  more  of  city  life,  came  to  New 
York,  and  here  entered  the  employ  of  W.  B.  Cozzens,  remaining 
here  for  some  time.  He  next  went  to  Chicago,  Illinois,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  hotel  business,  becoming  the  pro})rietor  of 
the  Adams  House,  corner  of  Lake  and  ^lichigan  avenues.  After 
some  time  in  this  line  of  enterprise  he  again  came  east,  and  was 
engaged  as  a  commercial  traveler  for  some  time,  and  then  took 
up  the  real  estate  business  in  Xew  York  city,  in  which  line  of 
enterprise  be  has  met  with  n  well  merited  degree  of  success,  be- 
coming well  known  for  his  straightforward  and  honoral)le  Inisi- 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY         ^^^ 

ness  methods.  In  addition  to  Ills  varied  bnsiness  interests  Mr. 
Dn  Bois  lias  ])een  actively  engaged  in  local  political  affairs,  and 
is  an  active  snpporter  of  the  pi'incii)les  of  the  Eepnhlican  party. 
Fidward  Du  P.ois  was  married  in  New  York  city,  October  2, 
]8()2.  to  Anna  P)oui'kc.  danglitei'  of  Patrick  and  Mary  (Mc- 
Namara)  Bonrke.  Anna  (P»oni'ke)  Dn  Rois  died  Sei)teml)er  2."), 
1894. 

THEOPTllPrSFPAAv  iS  DP  P>()rS. 

The  active  hnsiness  career  of  the  late  The()])hilus  Francis 
Du  Pois,  a  dv\  goods  merchant  of  New  York  city  for  more  than 
three  decades,  gained  for  him  a  re])ntation  in  commercial  circles 
as  a  man  of  reliability,  integrity,  ability  and  worth.  He  was 
l>oi'n  in  the  city  of  Xew  Orleans,  .Ponisiana,  October  '1\,  PS82, 
the  only  child  of  Nicholas  and  Amanda  (Partigne)  Du  Bois,  who 
were  highly  respected  m  the  connnnnity  by  all  with  whom  they 
were  bronoht  in  contact.  Nicholas  Dn  Bois  was  a  mason  and 
bnihler  by  occnjiation,  and  a  man  of  exemplar}'  character,  fnP 
tilling  c'cb  duty  in  life  to  the  best  of  his  ability. 

Theophilus  F.  Du  Bois  was  educated  in  the  pulilic  schools 
of  his  native  city,  and  at  the  early  age  of  fourteen  he  took  up 
the  practical  duties  of  life  on  his  own  ac<'ount.  Pie  s])ent  his 
early  manhood  years  in  the  city  of  his  nativity,  and  at  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  Civil  war  enlisted  in  the  Confederate  army  in  the 
ninety  days'  service,  being  a  member  of  the  New  Orleans 
Guards,  which  organization  took  an  active  i»art  in  the  tii-st  battle 
of  Shiloli.  All'.  Du  I)ois  was  wounded  u])on  the  second  day  of 
his  engagement,  after  which  he  was  sent  to  the  hospital  and  then 
returned  liome.  .Vfter  the  surrender  of  New  Orleans  to  the 
Pnit)n  forces  he  was  given  the  privilege  of  taking  allegifUice  tt> 
his  country,  but  bis  loyalty  to  tlic  cause  of  the  Confederac)" 
})revented  him  from  so  doing,  and  be  was  held  in  captivity  for 


212         GENEALOGICAL  AXD  EAMJLY  IHSTORY 

sonic  time.  Imt  was  Hiially  paroled.  He  again  joined  the  Con- 
federate army  and  served  nntil  the  tei-inination  of  liostilities, 
having  taken  part  in  nian\'  of  tlie  princi})al  engagements  in  the 
south  during  tlie  latter  i)art  of  the  confiirt.  rpon  his  return 
liome  to  Xew  Orleans  he  engaged  in  mercantiU'  pursuits  and 
continued  the  same  until  lS(i(!,  during  whicli  time  he  nuide 
numerous  flips  to  the  city  of  Xew  York  to  ])urchase  goods  for 
the  soutliern  trade.  Pie  tlien  ojjcned  an  otiHce  in  Xew  York  city 
and  continued  in  tlie  wholesale  (lr>-  goods  trade  u]»  to  his  death, 
which  occurred  May  8,  1898. 

Mr.  Du  Bois  was  married,  l)ecenil)er  2l*,  18r)r),  in  Xew 
Orleans.  Louisiana,  to  Kvalina  reiie.  horn  January  18,  1837, 
one  of  the  two  daughters  of  John  P^leuryn  Pene.  Seven  children, 
five  sons  and  two  daughters,  were  the  issue  of  this  marriage,  as 
follows:  Alice,  died  at  the  age  of  six  years  and  ten  months. 
Henry  Pene,  a  i)rominent  art  critic  of  X^ew  York  city;  he  mar- 
ried Laura  flayne.  who  hore  him  two  children: and  Guy 

Du  Bois.  George  .loseph,  married  Blanche  Hayne,  who  hore 
him  four  children:  Hita,  X'ina.  George  and  Eobert  Du  Bois. 
Edmund  John,  married  Clara  Gildemeister,  who  bore  him  two 
children:  Klla  and  Peter  John  Du  Bois.  Lillian  Marie.  Leouee 
Francis.    Sidney  Albert,  married  Alice  Vallet. 

GEOEGE  J.  DUBOIS. 

Among  the  representative  business  men  of  the  city  of  Xew 
York  whose  zeal,  integrity  and  ability  have  brought  to  them 
large  returns  for  labor  expended  may  l)e  mentioned  the  name  of 
George  J.  Dubois,  who  was  born  in  X'^ew  Orleans,  Louisiana, 
Fel)ruary  22,  1861,  the  third  child  and  second  son  in  the  family 
of  Theo])liilus  and  Evalina  (Pene)  Duboi>^,  also  natives  of  X"ew 
Orleans. 

(ieori>e  J.    Dubois  attended   the  schools   of  his  native  citv 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         213 

until  the  age  of  twelve  years,  when  lie  came  to  Xew  York  with 
his  i)areiits  and  for  three  years  thereafter  was  a  student  in  the 
schools  of  Brooklyn.  Xew  York.  He  gained  liis  first  experience 
in  the  practical  duties  of  life  by  entering  the  employ  of  Cazade, 
Crooks  &  Eeynaud,  wholesale  wine  merchants  of  Xew  York  cit}', 
and  while  serving  in  the  capacity  of  clerk  ac(piired  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  various  details  of  the  importing  as  well  as 
the  domestic  trade  of  the  wine  business.  In  188(i,  upon  the  dis- 
solution of  the  firm  of  Cazade,  Crooks  »&  Keynaud,  Mr.  Dubois 
entered  the  employ  of  Emil  Schultze  &  Company,  remaining 
for  a  period  of  two  years,  and  at  the  expiration  of  this  time 
became  an  employe  of  F.  Arnault,  the  renowned  California  wine 
dealer,  with  whom  he  remained  about  nine  years,  and  during  all 
these  many  years  of  his  connection  with  this  particular  line  of 
business  gained  a  vast  amount  of  knowledge  which  aided  him 
materially  in  conducting  his  own  Imsiness.  Upon  the  death  of 
Mr.  Arnault,  Mr.  Dubois  succeeded  to  the  Ijusiness,  which  con- 
sisted of  a  successful  ini])orting  and  domestic  trade,  and  since 
then  to  the  present  time  (IJiO.'))  has  been  the  sole  proprietor  of 
the  same. 

.Mr.  Dubois  married.  January  '3),  lcS,S3,  IJIanclie  flague,  born 
^larcli  29,  1803,  daughter  of  .Joseph  and  Marie  (Duclos)  Hague, 
the  former  of  English  and  the  latter  of  French  extraction.  Their 
children  are:  Hita  F..  boni  July  L'7,  1884;  Xina  M..  born 
June  20.  F88(J:  (Jeorge  J..  Jr..  boi-n  April  5,  FS94;  Robert  Sidney, 
boi-n  Xovember  ."'O,  lS!t(i. 

Jl'LFS  DF  BOlS. 

Jules  Du  Dois  is  a  splendid  exam]ile  of  the  p)'ogressiveness 
and  enterprise  of  the  Freucli-Aiuericau  citizens  who  have  con- 
tributed much  to  the  (•(tnuneicia!  interests  of  Xew  York  city. 
^Ir.   1  )u  l>ois  was  boni  in  A>nieres,  a  su])urb  of  Paris,  France. 


214         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

August  14,  1863,  and  is  one  of  a  family  of  three  children  of 
Jules  and  Antoinette  (Kobert)  Du  Bois.  His  brother  Edward, 
married  Laura  Cook  and  resides  in  Brighton,  England.  The 
third  cliild  of  tliis  family,  Charles  l)n  Bois,  died  February  8, 
1895,  at  the  age  of  twenty-three  years.  The  father  died  Au- 
gust 20,  1905,  at  the  age  of  seventy-one,  at  Brighton,  England. 
The  mother  still  survives  and  resides  with  her  son  Edward  at 
Brighton,  England. 

Jules  Du  Bois  received  his  educational  training  in  the 
schools  of  Paris,  where  he  also  studied  chemistry  for  some  time, 
l^pon  attaining  his  majority  in  18S4.  he  decided  to  seek  his  for- 
tune in  the  United  States,  and  accordingly  sailed  for  New  York 
city,  landing  here  in  May  of  the  same  year.  Having  been  accus- 
tomed to  an  active  life,  he  at  once  took  up  employment,  and  has 
by  his  industry,  thrift  and  tidelity  to  duty  advanced  himself  to 
})ositions  of  res})onsil)ility  and  trust.  In  1902  he  was  instru- 
mental in  incorporating  the  Xew  York  Moulding  Manufacturing 
Company,  and  at  present  is  vice-president,  secretary  and  man- 
ager of  the  corporation.  Mr.  Du  Bois  is  a  member  of  the  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  having  l)ecome  identified  with  the  order 
in  London,  England. 

Jules  Du  Bois  married,  March  3,  1888,  Cecile  Zemp,  a 
native  of  Switzerland,  born  A])ril  2,  18(38,  daughter  of  Jean  and 
Christine  (Bienz)  Zemp.  Their  children  are:  Jules,  Jr.,  born 
July  3,  1890;  Charles  E.,  born  October  18,  1892;  and  Helene, 
l)orn  December  14,  1895.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Du  Bois  attend  St. 
John's  Episcopal  church  in  West  Hoboken,  Xew  Jersey,  where 
tliey  reside. 

GEORGE  \V.  DU  BOIS. 

The  first  of  this  In-anch  of  the  Du  Bois  family  to  come  to 
America  was  Francis  Du  Bois,  who  was  a  native  of  Switzerland, 


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GENEALOGICAL  AXD  EAMILY  HISTORY         215 

liorn  in  the  Canton  of  Xeufeliatel,  reared  and  educated  there, 
and  upon  attaining  nianliood  years  learned  the  trade  of  wateli 
making,  an  art  in  wliich  tiie  Swiss  peoi)le  have  h)ng  iK'en  re- 
nowned. 

In  1831  Francis  Du  Bois  came  to  America  and  settled  in 
New  York,  wliich  city  as  a  center  of  trade  and  commerce  alforded 
him  spl('n(li<l  ()i)[)()rtuHity  in  his  calling.  Soon  after  his  arrival 
here  he  engaged  in  business  with  his  brothei-  Frederick,  and 
finally  established  an  office  and  store  at  the  corner  of  John  and 
(jrold  str(>ets.  In  this  undertaking  the  two  brothers  met  with 
innnediate  >U('cess.  the  result  of  their  skill  and  straightfoi'wai'd 
Inisiness  methods,  and  the  name  of  Du  Bois  was  everywhere 
regarded  in  the  jewelry  trade  as  a  synonym  for  honest  business 
dealings.  In  1837  Francis  Du  Bois  purchased  a  fine  residence 
on  First  street,  l:)etween  South  Xintli  and  Tenth  streets,  in  the 
Nineteenth  ward,  Brooklyn,  and  later  ])urehased  the  i)remises 
at  the  cornei'  of  South  Ninth  and  Roebling  streets,  where  the 
family  resided  for  many  years  and  which  became  known  as  the 
Du  Bois  family  homestead,  and  here  Francis  Du  Bois  and  his 
wife  both  passed  away.  He  was  a  s])lendid  tyi)e  of  the  American 
citizen.  Born  and  reared  in  a  land  of  lil)erty,  he  always  was 
loyai  to  the  institutions  of  his  adopted  country,  lie  was  (piiet 
and  reserved  in  his  habits,  and  was  highly  respected  by  his 
neighbors  and  friends.  He  took  an  active  interest  in  the  mnterial 
growth  and  develo[)me]it  of  Willinnisbuig,  now  a  part  of  Brook- 
lyn. He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  W'illiams- 
burgh  Fire  Insurance  C'omxiany,  and  was  also  instiuniciital  in 
the  establishment  of  the  Williamsbui-g  ferries.  He  was  one  of 
the  organizers  and  founders  of  the  "Societie  (ienei'ale  Suisse." 
He  passed  away  April  9,  187f). 

Francis  Du  Bois  married  Klzii'e  Leulia.  who  bore  iiiiii  four 
children,  three  of  whom  attained  yeai's  of  niatuiit}':     Francis, 


216         GENEALOGICAL  AXIJ  EAMILY  lllSTOBY 

who  at  i)rc'seiit  resides  in  I'aris;  George  AV.,  of  this  i-eview;  and 
Lucy,  unmarried,  died  April  'i:\,  1903.  The  mother  of  the  afore- 
mentioned children  died  March  20,  1876.  Both  parents  were 
regular  attendants  (»!'  tlie  Bedford  Avenue  Reformed  Church  in 
Brooklyn. 

(leorge  W.  Du  IJois  was  horn  at  the  family  homestead  in 
Brooklyn,  ^larch  lo,  1830.  Pie  ac(iuired  his  early  mental  train- 
ing in  the  schools  of  the  Kastern  District,  Brooklyn,  and  then 
entered  the  Polytechnic  Institute,  which  he  attended  for  some 
time,  and  then  entered  his  father's  office  at  o6  Maiden  Lane, 
New  Voi-k.  Here  he  aiMpiired  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
various  details  of  the  trade,  domestic  as  well  as  the  importation 
of  fine  vSwiss  watches  and  jewelry.  He  took  an  active  interest- 
in  the  material  welfare  of  the  neighborhood,  and  for  a  number 
of  years  was  a  director  of  the  Lafayette  Fire  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  Brookl\n.  He  closely  emulated  the  policies  and  prin- 
ciples established  l)y  his  father,  and  in  every  way  proved  himself 
a  most  worthy  scion  of  a  wortliy  sire.  In  1870  he  purchased  a 
house  and  grounds  at  Elm  Place,  next  to  the  residence  of  his 
father-in-law,  Rev.  E.  S.  Porter,  both  places  now  belonging  to 
Mrs.  Du  Bois.  He  spent  the  latter  years  of  his  life  at  the  family 
homestead  in  the  Xineteenth  ward,  Brooklyn,  where  he  passed 
away,  March  14,  1887.  During  his  l)rief  and  useful  career  he 
had  traveled  considerably  both  in  the  United  States  and  in 
Euro})e,  where  he  had  a  wide  circle  of  friends.  He  was  a  chris- 
tian gentleman,  a  regular  and  staunch  supporter  of  the  Bed- 
ford Avenue  Reformed  Cliurch,  a  member  of  the  Consistory 
and  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  school.  His  untimely  death  was 
monrned  1.)y  a  large  number  of  friends  in  trade  circles  as  well 
as  in  the  neigh1)orhood  of  his  home.  At  the  time  of  his  death  it 
was  justly  said  that  he  was  an  upright  man,  a  good  citizen,  a  lov- 
ina:  husband  and  an  indulgent  father. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EA2IILY  HlSTOliY         217 

George  AV.  Du  Bois  was  married  in  Brooklyn  by  Kev.  El- 
bert Stothoff  Porter,  I).  1).,  l)eoeml)er  lU,  1874-,  to  Miss  Susan 
Kntlihoiie  Porter,  l)oi-n  Jnne  1,  1853,  daughter  of  Pev.  Elbert 
Stotliolf  and  Eliza  Kittle  (Wynkoop)  Porter.  Of  this  marriage 
were  born  three  children:  1.  Francis  Elbert,  of  whom  a  sketch 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  work.  '1.  Susan  Porter,  l)orn  Septem- 
ber 7,  1876.  3.  Lucy  Elzire,  born  June  15,  1879,  died  at  \^evay, 
Switzerland,  February  3,  1884.  The  motber  of  the  aforemen- 
tioned children  survives  her  worthy  husband  and  resides  in  TjCX- 
ington  avenue,  New  York  City.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Plen- 
drick  Hudson  Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution, also  her  daughter,  Susan  Porter  Du  Bois,  is  a  member 
of  the  same  chapter.  Mrs.  Du  Bois  is  a  consistent  member  of  the 
South  Keformed  church.  She  is  a  manager  of  the  Woman's 
Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Keformed  Chnicli  in  Amer- 
ica, and  of  the  Settlement  of  Christodora  House  at  Xo.  117 
Avenue  B,  New  York  City. 

The  armorial  bearings  of  the  ancient  house  of  Du  Bois  are 
thus  described:  Bois  (du)  de  Dunilac-Neufchatel  (An.  "Jl  Sept. 
1855).  D'azur  a  trois  fasces  d'or  (du  Bois)  ;  an  fr.-cp  d'or.  di. 
de  trois  pals  d'azur  (du  Terraux).  L'ecru  horde  d'or.  Ccp 
cour.  C. ;  un  lion  iss.  d'or  tenant  de  ses  ]jattes  une  banniere  anx 
amies  du  fr.-(p  S. :  deux  lions  d'or. 

RE^^  ELBERT  S.  P»  )RTEK,  D.  D. 

Rev.  Dr.  Elbert  S.  T^orter  was  born  in  the  town  of  HillsI)oro. 
New  Jersey,  Octolier  23,  1820.  His  early  studies  were  at  a 
select  school  at  Ovid,  Seneca  county,  New  York,  where  he  was 
sent  at  six  years  of  age,  and  at  a  school  in  the  city  of  New 
York  kept  Ity  the  father  of  the  late  distinguished  lawyer.  James 
T.  Brady.  When  lietween  eleven  and  twelve  he  went  into  a  stoi-c 
at  Millstone,  New  York,  for  one  yeai'.     Aftci'  this  be  attcndt'd 


218         GEXEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

tlie  Academy  at  Sonu'rville,  Xew  Jerspy,  where  he  spent  three 
years.  He  entered  the  soi)liomore  class  of  Princeton  College  in 
his  sixteenth  year,  and  was  graduated  three  years  later,  in  1839. 
He  studied  law  for  a  short  time,  but  did  not  seek  admission  to 
tlie  l)ar.  He  was  graduated  in  theolog^■  at  the  Theological  Sem- 
inary at  Xew  Brunswick  in  1842.  In  the  same  year  he  was 
licensed  by  the  classis  of  Xew  Brunswick,  and  in  the  following 
year  was  installed  at  Chatham,  in  Columbia  county,  Xew  York, 
as  pastor  of  a  small  missionary  congregation.  This  point  is  now 
known  as  Chatham  on  the  Harlem  railroad,  and  the  junction  of 
the  Boston  and  Albany  railroad.  At  the  date  of  Dr.  Porter's 
going  there  it  was  a  small  settlement  of  a  poor  and  to  a  con- 
siderable extent  vicious  population.  Filled  with  zeal  in  the 
ministerial  work,  he  commenced  his  labors  and  met  with  great 
success.  He  remained  seven  years  and  built  up  one  of  the  most 
fionrishing  of  the  country  churches  of  the  Reformed  denomina- 
ti:)ii.  Fie  next  accepted  a  call  to  his  present  church,  then  know;i 
as  the  F"'irst  Eeformed  Dutch  Chui'ch  in  Williamsburgh,  of  which 
he  became  the  pastor  Xovember  1,  1S41>.  and  has  now  officiated 
fur  many  years. 

The  history  of  tins  church  is  very  interesting.  Its  growth 
show-^  the  wdudei-ful  changes  which  seventy-five  years  have  pro- 
duced in  the  entire  section  now  included  in  the  city  of  Brooklyn. 
In  tlie  first  year  of  the  Inst  century.  Brooklyn  contained  only 
three  thousand  and  two  hundred  and  ninety-eight  inhabitants, 
:rid  in  l*^-']!  was  erected  into  a  cit>"  with  a  ])0])ulation  of  about 
t\v(iit\-f()ur  tlionsand.  It  then  had  but  one  l\eformed  Dutch 
chnrcli,  where.TS  now  there  are  a  numl>er  of  them.  In  the  year 
1S17  a  fei-ry  was  established  lietween  the  lOot  of  Grand  street, 
Xew  Voi-k.  and  the  foot  of  what  afterward  liecame  (Irand  street, 
Willii'in-'ungh.  Tiinr  to  that  i)eriod  the  inhabitants  crossed 
the  river  by  sail  or  paddle  boats.     The  ferry  soon  contributed 


GENEALOiilCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY  -M:t 

to  tlie  establisliment  of  a  considerable  settlement  along  the  shore 
from  (Jrnnt  to  North  Second  street,  throngh  which  ran  the  tiii'n- 
pike  to  Xewtown.  A  village  charter  was  ohtaiiicil  in  1S-J7,  when 
the  po])ulation  ammnited  to  ahoiit  fiftei^ii  hnndi'cd.  At  that  date 
the  shore  from  Wallabont  Bay  to  Xewtown  Cieek  was  dotted 
with  comfortable  farm  honses,  occnpied  by  the  old  Dntch  fami- 
lies. AVilliam^l)iirgli  became  a  city  -lannary  1,  1852,  and  it  was 
coiisolidatcil  with  IJi'ooklyii  and  [)nshwi('k  unchM-  one  charter, 
•lanuary  1.  IS."),').  At  the  date  of  tlie  consolidation  Williams- 
bnrgh  liad  a  popnlation  of  abont  lifty  thonsand,  and  IJrooklyn 
aJiout  one  hmidred  and  twenty  thonsand.  The  entire  population 
at  this  time  is  abcut  fonr  hundred  thousand. 

The  church  in  Williamslnirgh  grew  out  of  the  First  Ke- 
formed  Dntch  Churcli  of  Rushwick.  On  the  2Stli  of  September, 
1828.  the  cornerstone  of  a  church  edifice  was  laid  on  a  site  which 
is  now  on  the  corner  of  Fourth  and  South  Second  streets.  It 
was  dedicated  on  the  2rith  of  July,  1829,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Broadhead, 
of  Xew  York,  ))reacliing  the  sermon.  The  congregation  was  or- 
ganized as  a  seijarate  church  l)y  the  classis  of  Long  Island  on  the 
1st  of  X'ovember,  182!).  hnmediately  after  its  organization  the 
church  received  into  it<  service  the  Rev.  James  Demarest.  who 
for  the  tii'st  six  months  sei'ved  in  the  capacity  of  a  missionary, 
and  was  supported  in  part  by  the  Board  of  Domestic  Missions. 
( >n  the  tirst  Sabbath  of  his  labors  he  preached  to  sixteen  peo])le, 
on  the  second  to  eighteen,  and  on  the  third  to  twenty-foui'.  At 
that  date  the  building  was  remote  from  the  village,  which  was 
forming  around  and  above  the  foot  of  (Iraud  street.  Fourth 
street  was  then  but  a  fai'uu'r's  lane---rougli,  uneven  with  boul- 
ders and  studded  here  and  thei-e  witli  stumps  oi-  with  ti-ees  of  the 
oi'iginal  forest.  Flagged  sidewalks  and  pavements  as  yet  there 
were  none.  Rev.  Mr.  Demarest  labored  as  missionary  and  pas- 
tor foi-  nine  vears  and  nine  months,  when  he  resigned.    The  pas- 


220         GENEALOCICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

torate  was  next  filled  l)y  the  Key.  William  H.  Van  Doren,  who 
remained  nntil  the  sprint';  of  184!),  abont  ten  years.  In  the 
spring'  of  the  same  year  imi)ortant  improvements  of  the  ehureh 
edifice  wei'e  completed.  The  installation  of  Dr.  Porter  took 
place  on  the  third  Snnday  of  Deeemlier,  1849,  and  his  ministry 
has  l)een  the  most  noted  in  the  history  of  the  ehni'cli.  In  ]841> 
Williamsjinrgh  was  still  a  small  place.  The  streets  were  nn- 
lighted  by  niglit  save  only  when  the  moon  relieved  the  dark- 
ness. Since  then  every  one  of  the  local  institutions  has  been 
established,  sncli  as  ))anks,  markets,  libraries  and  associations 
for  pnhlic  beneficence.  The  clmrches  were  few  and  their  mem- 
bershii)  not  large. 

From  an  early  date  the  First  Church  contributed  its  mem- 
bers and  its  means  to  found  other  churches.  The  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  AVilliamsburgh  grew  out  of  it;  in  1848  twenty- 
three  members  were  dismissed  to  form  the  churcli  at  (Treen})oint ; 
in  18.")!  several  were  dismissed  to  aid  in  the  organization  of  the 
South  Bushwick  Church,  and  in  18,14  members  were  dismissed 
to  f(mnd  the  Lee  Avenue  Churcb.  For  several  years  contribu- 
tions were  made  to  the  salaries  of  the  ministei's  of  both  the  last 
named  churches.  In  1855  a  Mission  Sunday  school  was  estab- 
lished in  Ninth  street,  which  has  since  been  maintained  in  great 
vigor  and  efficiency  at  an  exi)ense  of  never  less  than  five  hundred 
dollars  per  annum.  The  church  has  repeatedly  given  its  assist- 
ance, ]>ecuniarily  and  otherwise,  in  other  practical  efforts  of 
religious  usefulness. 

In  1854  the  si)ire  of  the  church  was  })rostrated  by  a  tornado. 
Subsequently  the  edifice  was  enlarged  and  improved  at  a  cost  of 
about  five  thousand  dollars  in  all.  fn  18()0  a  contract  was  made 
for  the  purchase  of  a  new  site  for  a  new  edifice,  when  the  war 
arrested  furthei-  movements.  In  July,  1866,  the  church  on 
Fourth  street  was  sold  to  the  Central  l)ai)tist  congregation,  and 


GENEALOGICAL  AXI)  FAMILY  HISTORY         i'21 

in  SepteinlxT,  ]S(J7,  the  fouiidatioiis  of  a  new  edifice  were  coiii- 
meneed  on  the  site  purdiased  in  ISGU.  This  site  consists  of  seven 
lots,  fonr  on  Bedford  avenue  and  three  on  Clymer  street,  one 
of  the  most  select  and  liiijlily  impi'oved  neighhorhodds  of  the  city 
at  that  time.  Tlie  cornerstone  was  laid  in  July,  1868,  and  the 
completed  church  was  dedicated  in  October,  1869,  and  cost,  with 
a  chapel  adjoining,  one  hundred  and  thirty  thousand  dollars. 
The  building  is  in  the  Ht)manes(jiie  style  of  architecture,  and  is 
one  hundred  and  ten  feet  long  (exclusive  of  the  chapel)  by 
seventy  feet  wide.  The  whole  front  on  Bedford  avenue,  includ- 
ing towers,  is  eighty-two  feet.  On  the  northwest  corner  tliere 
is  a  tower  ninety-eight  feet  liigh.  and  on  the  opposite  corner 
is  a  large  turret  seventy-eight  feet  high.  The  basement  is  built 
of  Belleville  stone  and  the  walls  above  the  basement  are  faced 
up  with  Philadelphia  pressed  brick,  and  trimmed  with  Dorchest- 
er stone.  The  audience  room  is  eiglity-seven  feet  ]>y  sixty-seven 
in  the  clear.  The  windows  are  filled  witli  enriched  glass.  The 
first  floor  is  seated  with  walnut  pews  of  the  most  approved  pafc- 
tei-n.  There  are  galleries  on  three  sides  having  liandsome  0})en- 
work  fronts  made  of  walnut  and  butternut  woods.  These  are 
unlike  most  galleries  in  that  they  are  constructed  with  one  level 
floor  the  entire  width,  in  place  of  the  usual  style  with  platforms 
graded  one  above  the  other.  This  level  gallery  is  divided  into 
s]iaces  of  about  eight  by  eight  feet  each,  with  light  0{)en  1)alustar 
railings,  carpeted  the  same  as  the  first  floor,  each  space  furnished 
with  walnut  upholstered  cliairs  and  a  small  center  table,  thus 
making  the  gallery  the  most  attractive  portion  of  the  iiouse. 
These  spaces  have  been  I'ented  for  an  aggregate  sum  of  tliree 
thousand  dollars.  The  building  is  pi'ovided  with  a  new  system 
of  ventilation.  The  walls  and  ceilings  are  richly  tinted  with  deli- 
cate hues.  The  cliurch  seats  fifteen  hundi'ed  and  the  chapel  ac- 
commodates six  hundi-ed.    Three  hundred  and  twentv-five  dollars 


•-'■i2          (iEXEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

l)reminin  was  ))ai(l  for  the  choice  of  tlie  first  pew  at  the  sale  of 
them.  Taken  as  a  wliole,  this  is  one  of  the  most  elegant  and 
connnodious  edifices  of  the  kind  to  Ite  found  in  the  Tnited  States. 

During  the  day  of  dedication  three  imposing  and  largely 
attended  services  took  place  in  the  church.  Dr.  Porter  preached 
the  ])rincipal  sermon,  the  Kev.  Dr.  De  Witt  delivered  an  address 
and  the  dedication  sentences  and  jirayer.  and  Chancellor  Isaac 
Fen-is  delivered  an  affecting  and  approin-iate  address  to  the 
congregation.  There  are  now  about  foui-  hundred  memljers  and 
each  of  the  two  Sunday  scliools  has  about  two  hundred  schohirs. 

Dr.  Porter  received  his  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from 
Rutgers  College,  New  Bnuiswick,  in  1S54.  For  fourteen  years 
he  was  the  editor  of  the  "Christian  Intelligencer,"  the  organ  of 
the  reformed  denomination.  His  career  as  an  editor  was  bril- 
liant in  the  extreme,  and  when  lie  resigned  this  position  both  the 
religious  and  secular  press  united  in  an  expression  of  the  highest 
regard  for  his  character  and  talents.  Besides  his  editorial  writ- 
ings he  has  {)ulilished  in  serial  form  a  "Hisfory  of  the  Reformed 
Dutch  Clauvh  in  the  Ignited  States,"  the  "Pastor's  Guide,"  and 
other  small  volumes  and  various  occasional  sermons.  One  of 
these  latter  is  a  "Historical  Discourse,"  delivered  on  the  final 
services  in  the  old  church,  and  is  of  much  value  fiH)m  its 
historical  information.  Dr.  I'orter  was  the  president  of  the 
first  General  Synod  held  after  the  name  of  the  denomination 
was  changed  from  the  Reformed  Church  to  the  Reformed  Churcli 
of  North  America.  He  had  a  beautiful  farm  of  sixty  acres  at 
Claverack,  in  Columljia  county,  which  was  well  managed  and 
made  jU'ofitable  by  the  jicrso!!  in  charge. 

\)v.  I^)rter  had  an  equally  ])roportioned  figure  of  the  aver- 
aue  liei<4lit.  He  had  a  (juiet  plain  appearam-e,  but  his  whole 
manner  assured  you  that  he  Avas  a  man  of  l)oth  dignity  and  force 
of  character.     His  head  was  long  with  a  sharp  chin,  but  much 


GENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  IIISTOHY  223 

fullness  in  the  upper  poi'tion.  The  features  were  prominent  and 
expressive.  His  liead  and  face  proclaimed  thi-ee  distinctive 
and  strong-  (jualities  in  him.  In  the  first  phice,  he  was  a  thor- 
ouulily  conscientious  man  in  the  performance  of  every  duty  in 
life;  second,  he  was  strong  in  his  own  self-reliance;  and  third, 
his  mind  was  clear,  comprehensive  and  practical  on  all  occasions 
and  on  all  subjects,  lie  was  never  found  wanting'  in  any  place 
that  dnt_\-  called  liini  and  in  the  chni-ch  and  everywhere  he  was 
one  of  those  who  naturally  take  the  position  of  a  leader  and 
examiile  to  other  men.  In  his  conversation,  in  his  cahnness  and 
metliod,  which,  after  all,  was  not  unmixed  with  caution,  you 
obtained  a  \  ivid  insight  into  the  moral  and  physical  power  which 
was  inljorn  in  him.  He  was  not  demonstrative  or  presumptuous, 
l)ut  (piiet.  unobtrusive  and  modest.  Agreeable,  cordial  and  f i-ank 
in  his  manners,  they  were  not  of  a  kind  to  draw  any  special  atten- 
tion ui)on  him.  But  when  work  was  to  be  done,  when  cool,  prac- 
tical judgment  was  wanted,  when  a  champion  and  a  hero  were  re- 
(piired,  tlien  he  came  to  the  front  with  his  strong  neiwe,  bis  will- 
ing mind  and  hands  and  his  brn\e  and  lu)peful  heart. 

His  work  in  the  ministrx'  stands  nobly  conspicuous  in  the 
religious  record  of  his  times  for  its  fidelity  and  success.  It  has 
not  l)een  a  work  of  show  and  boastfulness,  but  one  which  will 
spe:dv  t'lrongh  all  denominational  history  for  its  usefulness  to 
the  chuich  and  the  community.  His  sermons  excelled  in  both 
leariiing  and  literary  ability.  He  wi'ote  in  an  elegant,  compact 
and  foi'cilile  -^tyle  of  coniposition.  showing  the  ready  pen  a.nd 
enlarged  and  Inilliant  mental  poweis.  Whatevci'  he  displaced 
ai)peared  in  thought  and  argument  which  were  pi'culi:u-'\-  bis 
own.  There  \\as  no  seeming  effort  and  no  disjibiN'.  but  bis  jilcas- 
ant  How  of  tender  language  and  bis  logical  and  seiisihl,"  \-ii'ws 
never  fai'ed  to  arrest  a.ll  ears. 

Kev.  HIbert  S.  Porter  served  as  chaplain  of  the  Forty-.sev- 


2-24         (iEXEALOaiCAL  AM)  FAMILY  II I  STORY 

eiitli  Regiment  of  Brooklyn.  New  York,  ^'ol^nteel•s,  under  Col- 
onel Jeremiah  ^leserole.  Kev.  Fill)ert  S.  Poi-ter  died  Febi'uai-y 
:16,  188S. 

Kev.  Elljert  S.  Porter  married,  1845,  Eliza  Kittle  Wyn- 
koo]),  daughter  of  Eev.  Peter  Sylvester  and  Margaret  (Gosman) 
Wynkoop,  and  of  this  marriage  were  born  six  cliildren:  Mar- 
garet, died  in  infancy;  ^lary  Joanna,  Sylvester  Wynkoop,  Susan 
Pathhone.  Eliza  (rosman,  and  Elhert  StothotT,  who  became  a 
minister  of  the  gospel.  The  mother  of  these  children,  Eliza 
Kittle  Wynkoop  Porter,  died  October  7,  1889. 

THE  SHIPLEY  FAMTEY  OF  ENGLAND  AND  A:\rERICA 

During  the  eleventh  century,  the  first  recorded  owner  of 
land  of  Etendone  (a  place  of  some  note  i)rior  to  the  Concjuest) 
was  Susnualo,  of  English  origin  and  founder  of  the  ancient  fam- 
ily of  Sirlai.  The  most  remote  ancestor  being  Saswalo,  Castel- 
lan of  Lisle,  Flanders,  etc.,  1000,  1039,  who  founded  the  Abbey 
of  Palempian — his  son,  Robert,  had  Roger  I,  whose  grandson 
went  to  crusade  1096  and  from  his  brother,  Hugh,  descended  the 
renowned  "Castellans  of  Lisle." 

Sasnalo  or  Sigewalo  II  was  a  witness  to  a  charter  of  Bald- 
win, Bishop  of  Tourney  1087;  appears  in  the  history  of  the 
Normans.  The  Shirley  family  bearing  the  arms  of  Ridel  descend 
from  him.  Descendants  of  Bathet  or  Baset,  duke  of  the  Loire, 
wlio  accom})anied  Ouilly  Basset  and  Normanville  in  912  have 
married  in  the  family;  also  Thomas,  sixth  Baron  of  (Jroby,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  tirst  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Baldwin  Frevile,  Lord 
of  Tamworth,  in  right  of  his  wife — he  d.  35th  of  Henry  VI; 
their  descendants  are  known  as  Ferrars  of  Tamworth,  Anne  of 
the  eleventh  generation  brought  Tamworth  Castle,  in  nuirriage 
to  Ro])ert  Shirley,  the  fourteenth  Baron  of  Ferrars,  of  Chartley, 
who  bv  the  marriage    of   John    Devereux    to    Cecil    Bourchier 


Rufus    G.    Shirley. 


GENEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  JJISTOHV         •>•!' 

brought  the  Baronies  of  Bonr  and  Loraine,  in  the  eiglit  in-evicnis 
generation. 

The  manor  is  in  Jjower  Eatington,  a  town  ahout  niid- 
way  between  the  Vale  of  Kedhorse  and  tlie  plains  of  Eve- 
sham, betwixt  the  villages  of  Hawford  and  Butlers-Marston, 
four  miles  distant  from  Stratford-on-Avon.  The  cliureh  and 
manor-house  are  l)uilt  on  the  uortheastern  hank  of  the  river 
Stour,  the  dividing  line  between  the  counties  of  Warwick  and 
Worcester  and  the  parishes  of  Eatington  and  Tredington. 

His  son  Fulcher  held  land  there;  dead  IKi!)  (Temp.  lienry 
11).  The  grandson,  Sewallis  de  Scyrle,  l^ord  of  Eatington,  living 
1192,  married  Matilda,  daughter  of  Ridel  of  Haloughton,  county 
Berb.,  living  MiVl.     (3-^  Kich.  1.)     They  had  Henry,  Lord  of 

Eatington,   1205,   married ,    and   their   son.    Sir 

Sewallis  de  Eatington,  Knt.,  living  1251  (Temp.  Henry  III), 
mari-ied  Isabel,  daughter  of  Robert  Meysnyll,  of  "Dalby  in  the 
Wttulds  in  Leicestershire."  Their  only  son.  Sir  James  de 
Eatendon,  living  1278  ((>7  Edward  1),  l)eing  Lord  of  Sirlai, 
county  Derby  (Temp.  Henry  ITI),  adopted  the  name  Shirley 
(derived  from  the  Saxon  and  signifying  a  clear  place) ;  married 
Agnes  de  Waunton. 

Their  first  son,  Sir  Bali)h  Shirley,  Knt.,  Lord  of  Eatington, 
ob.  i;>2(i,  sheriff  of  Derby  and  Xottingham  1271),  had  the  custody 
of  Salo)),  Stafford  and  Slirewsl)ury  Castle,  12i)S;  govei'uor  of 
Horston  Castle,  county  of  l)(>rby,  l.")15;  nuirried  Margaret, 
daughter  and  coheir  of  W'altei'  de  Waldershef;  constituted  in 
the  5th  of  Edward  II,  govei'nor  of  tln'  (Vistle  of  Honor,  of  High 
Peak,  in  Derbyshire;  and  their  son,  Thomas  Shii-ley,  Knt.,  !>ord 
of  I'atington,  dead  \'MV.\  (.■)5-;!()  Ldward  111),  manied  [sabell, 
daughter  of  Kalph  Bassett,  of  Drayton,  and  sister  of  the  last 
baron. 

Their  onl\'  son,  Sii-  Hugh  Sliirlc\.  Lord  of  Eatington,  !\ras- 


228         GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY 

ter  of  the  King's  Hawks,  Cliief  Warden  of  Hingliani,  Ferrers 
Park,  county  Nortliani])ton.  and  ("onstalile  of  Donnington  Castle 
1399.  slain  ex  pariv  rcf/is,  in  the  battle  of  Shrewsbury,  July  12, 
140;!;  married  Beatrice,  daughter  of  Sir  Peter  Braose.  of  AVis- 
ton,  in  Sussex,  and  tenth  in  descent  from  AVilliam  de  P)raose, 
Lord  of  tlie  Castle  of  Bramber.  lOSo-li. 

Their  son.  Ralph  Shirley,  Kiit.,  of  Katington,  married  Joan 
(Joyce),  daughter  of  Thomas  Bassett,  of  Brailesford,  county 
of  Derby,  Es(i.,  and  Alargaret  Mering,  and  ninth  in  descent 
from  Ealph  Bassett  (Temp.  Henry  I). 

Their  son,  Palph  Shirley.  l{ls(j.,  T;ord  of  Eatington,  ol).  l-l()(), 
sheriff  of  Xottinghani  and  Derliy,  mari-ied  Alargaret,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Staunton,  of  "Staunton  Harolde,"  1423,  and  twelfth 
in  descent  from  Alan  de  Lecha,  who  held  a  land  grant  before 
1141.  Their  son,  John  Shirley,  1'jS(|.,  Lord  of  Eatington,  oh. 
1486  (Temp.  Henry  VTI),  married  Elianor,  daughter  of  Lord 
Hugh  AVilloughby,  of  Aliddleton,  county  of  Warwick,  Knt. 
Their  first  son.  Sir  Paljih  Sliii'lcy,  Knt.,  of  Banneret  14.^7.  ob. 
January  6,  1516,  l)uried  in  the  chapel  of  St.  Katharine,  within 
the  abbey  church  of  (ierondon,  married,  fourth  wife,  Jane, 
eldest  daughter  of  Sir  Kobert  Sheffield,  of  Chilwell,  county  of 
Xottinghani,  Knt.  Their  only  son,  Francis  Shirley,  of  Stau.iton 
Harolde,  Esq.,  Lord  of  Eatington,  n.  January  I'd,  l.")!."),  ob.  Au- 
gust, 1570-1,  married  1585.  Dorothy,  daughter  of  his  guardian. 
Sir  John  (Jift'ord,  of  Chillington,  county  Staft'oi'd,  Knt,  (wichnv 
of  John  Congreve,  of  Streeton,  Staffordshire,  England).  They 
resided  at  Alanoi-  of  Brailesford,  Derbyshire  (Temp.  P]dward 
VI).  "Indenture  of  the  22nd  of  March,  8th  Eliz.  1566"— "the 
now  mancion  bowse  of  Francis  Shirley  of  Staunton  Harolde" — 
"it  liad  two  turrets  and  gothick  gates  at  its  entrance  impressive 
and  gloomy  in  ai)i)earance. "  Their  eldest  son,  John  Shirleyj 
Es([.,  boi-n  at  Staunton   Harolde,  15H5   (27  Henry  AJll),  "in 


GEXEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMIIA'  IIISTOHV         229 

stnu'ted  in  liis  youth"  "in  all  manner  of  good  litcratni'e.  virtue 
and  military  discipline,  hy  the  most  knowing-  and  excellent  mas- 
ters, of  his  time  in  which  he  profited  so  much,  that  he  drew  ad- 
miration, fi-oni  all  that  ever  saw  liim;  who  all  praised  him,  for 
the  sweet  candor  of  his  life  and  rar<^  acnteiiess  of  liis  wit"; 
ob.  Septeml)er  iL',  loTO,  married,  loofj,  dane,  daughter  of 
Thomas,  Lord  Lovett,  of  Astwell,  county  Northampton,  and 
thirteenth  in  descent  from  William  Lovett,  of  Rhyston. 

Tlieii'  son,  Sir  (Jeorge  Shirley,  Bart.,  Lord  of  Eatington, 
n.  April  '2'A,  l.").")<),  ob.  Apiil  '27.  1()L'2,  buried  at  Breedon,  on  the 
Hill,  county  Leicester,  mairied,  L").^?,  Frances,  daughter  of 
Henry,  Lord  Berkeley,  ob.  December  L'!l,  ITjOf). 

Tlieir  eldest  son.  Sir  Henry  Shirley,  Bart.,  Lord  of  Eating- 
ton,  n.  15SS.  ob.  Fel)ruary  8,  1632,  married,  August  1,  1651,  Lady 
Dorothy,  youngest  daughter  of  Sir  Kobert  Devereux,  second 
P^arl  of  Ks-ex.  and  "favorite  of  (,j)neen  Elizabeth  and  great- 
great-gi'anddaughter  of  the  Honorable  AValter  Devereux,  of  the 
Kings  most  noble  order  of  ye  garter,  knight  viconte  Hereford 
Lord  Ferrers  of  Thartley"  (and  T^ady  Mary,  daughter  of  Lord 
Thomas,  >hir(|nis  Doi-sett).  and  eighteenth  in  descent  from  John 
de  Ebroicis.  At  the  Lord  l)e])uties  coming  to  London,  he  sol- 
emnly caused  my  Lords'  (Walter  Devereux,  Earl  of  Essex) 
"Patent  of  Eai-I  Marshall  of  the  conntrey  of  F.  femes  (Feney) 
"to  be  red  and  published  and  imested  my  Lord  in  his  office  and 
"it  is  greatlie  to  be  thought  that  my  lord  shall  have  com'odtie 
"by  that  conntrey— but  that  I  I'eferre  to  fui'ther  trial  I  Fxitvs 
"ecta";  from  original  lettei'  in  jjossession  of  Loi'd  Bagot. 

Their  <on.  Sir  Kobert  Shirley.  I'art..  Lord  of  Eatington, 
n.  1625,  ob.  Xovember  Ki  1  ().!(),  married.  1(i4(i,  Katharine,  daugh- 
ter (d'  Sir  [lum)»hrey  Okeover.  of  ( )keover.  county  Stafford.  Esc]., 
ob.  Xovember  L'-!.  1()72.  Above  the  entrance  to  the  beautiful 
church  of  Ilolv  Trinitv  at  Staunton  Hai'old  is  a  tablet  of  white 


L>30         GEXEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

niarl)!('.  o\-er  wliicli  are  tlii'  anus  of  Shii'ley.  iiupaliiisi,'  Okcnvcr. 
with  their  crests  earved  in  stone,  and  on  either  side  a  hirge 
fignre  of  an  angel;  on  the  tablet  is  the  following  inscri^ttion : 

In  the  year  1(353 
when  all  things  Sacred  were  throughout  ye  nation 
Either  demolished  or  profaned. 
Sr.  Robert  Shirley  Barronet, 

Founded  this  church. 
Whose  singular  praise  it  is, 
to  iiaue  done  the  liest  things  in  ye  woi-st  times. 

and 
hoped  them  in  the  most  callamitous. 
The  righteous  sliall  be  had  in  everlasting  remem1)rance. 

Beneath  the  liattlements  of  the  chancel  are  also  these  words 
carved  in  lai'ge  ca])ital  letters: 

SIR  ROBERT  SHIRLEY,  BARONET,  FOUNDER  OF  THIS 
OHVROH,  ON  WHOSE  SOVL  GOD  HAVE  MERCY. 

Their  third  son,  Robert  Shirley,  mari-ied,  Oct(^l)er  l',  1()98, 
Elizabeth  Washington  (eighth  in  descent  from  John  Washing- 
ton, of  Wliittield  county  Lancaster.  He  died  at  Bath,  and  was 
buried  in  the  chui'ch  of  Staunton  Harold;  in  tlie  soutli  aisle  of 
tlie  church  of  Lower  Eatington,  in  Warwickshire,  the  ancient 
burial  [ilace  of  the  family,  the  Honorable  George  Shirley  erected 
a  monument  to  his  father's  memory,  with  the  following: 

This  monument  is  erected  to  the  Memory  of  the  Right  Hoidile 
Robert  Earl  Ferrers,  and  to  his  second  Wife  Selina.  daughter 
of  George  Finch,  of  the  City  of  London,  es(|. 

He  was  called  to  the  Houvse  of  Lords  by  King  Charles  the 
second. 

by  the  title  Baron  Fen-ers  of  Cliartley,  with  the  Precendency 
thereto  lielonging. 

l)y  Avrit  under  the  Great  Seal  of  Englaiul,  dated  the  1-l-th 
Uecem  Anno  1677. 

And  by  the  same  Right  Baron  Bovclner  and  Baron  Lovain. 

He  was  blaster  of  the  LTorse  to  X  Catherine  Queen  Dowager 
in  MMVl 

.\nd  high  Stewai'd  of  her  Household. 


CEXEALOCICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         l^31 

and  ill  Ki!'!'  sworn  of  the  Priv\-  ('ouncil  to  Kiui;-  William 
the  III 

And  in  ITll  was  one  of  the  Lords  of  Council  to  Her  Ma- 
jesty, Queen  Anne,  who  by  ])atent  dated  tlie  I'rd  of  Sepr.  1711 
advanced  him  to  tlie  dignity  of  Earl  Ferrers 
and  \^iseount  Tamworth. 
He  was  lior)i  at  tlie  time  liis  father  Sir  Koliert  was  imi)i-isoned 
in  the  Tower  by  the  Usurper  Oliver  Croniwell,  and  died  there 
not  without  suspicion  of  poison. 

He  niai-ried  to  liis  fii-st  wife  P]lizal)etli  daughter  and  heir 
of  Lawrence  Washington,  of  Garesdon,  in  the  county  of  Wilts 
Esijrc  l)y  whom  he  had  issue  ten  sons  and  seven  daughters. 

To  his  second  wife  Selina  daugliter  of  George  F'incli  of  tlie 
city  of  Lo]i(h)n  Es(|i'e  by  whom  lie  had  five  sons  and  five 
daughters. 

He  was  l)orn  Oct.  Kl-ll  and  died  the  "Joth  of  Decern.  1717 
aged  sixt\-se\'en  vears  and  lies  in  the  familv  vavlt  of  tliis 
Ohvrcji 

This  family  is  descended  by  an  heir  female  from  the  Ancient 
Family  of  Devereux.  Earls  of  Essex  and  W.  Viseovnt  of  Here- 
ford and  Lord  Ferrers  of  ('hartley  by  their  intermarriages  with 
the  second  sisters  of  the  Earl  of  Essex,  the  favorite  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  who  was  lieheaded  aliont  the  year  (16(i())  which  inter- 
nianiage  entitles  the  noble  family  to  (piarter  the  King's  Arms. 

His  daughter  (by  the  second  wife)  Lady  Mary,  born  at 
St-umton  X(tv.  '1  bp.  the  ?->\\  1701*.  mtir.  in  the  I>isho])  of  London's 
Chapel  at  Fulhani  July  M  172:*  Ohnrles  Tryon  ob.  Xov.  2S.  1768. 
she  was  bu.  at  Twickenham  where  a  plain  lii'ick  altar  tomb 
(which  covers  the  remains  of  her  mother  Selina  Countess 
Ferrers)  is  inscribed  — 

"Here  lies  the  body  of 
The  iiiyht  Honble  Lady  ]\Iary  Tryoii. 

of  Bui  wick,  in  Northam]ttonshire 

(t  (bui<j;hter  of  Rol)ert  Earl  Fei'rers. 

She  (lied  ^lay  17.  1771.  aged  (iS. 

Also  the  body  of  : 

Lieut.  General  >Vil!iaiii  Tryon 

son  of  Charles  Tryon 

of  Xortliam|)tonshire.  Es(|i-e. 

i.^'  the  above  mentioned  Lad>-  .Mai\- 


282         (jtWI'JALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  IIISTOPY 

Tjfite  (Tovenior  of  the  Pi-oviiice 

of  New  York  &  Colonel  of 

the  29tli  Regiment  of  Foote 

who  died  the  -7th  of  Jannai'v  17S8 

aged  58  years. 

( )n  tlie  sides  are  inscriptions  for  Mrs.  Margai'et,  widow  of 
Governor  Ti-you,  ob.  Fehruai-y,  1S19,  ae.  8();  and  the  daughters, 
Mary  S.,  July  26,  1791,  ae  .".O,  and  Anne,  ol).  Jnly  1(1,  1822,  ae  82. 

Thtir  tenth  son,  Laurence  Sliirley,  n.  Septenilier  26,  KiDo, 
ol).  Apiil  27,  174."'.  married  Ann  'daughter  of  "Sir  Walter 
("larges,  Bart,  of  "St.  Martins  in  the  Fields,"  county  Middle- 
sex"), ob.  ]^Iay  27.  17S2.  Their  seventh  son,  AA^illiam  Shirley, 
ob.  1780.  mari'ied  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Alexander 
Bathurst,  Bart.;  their  sou,  William  Shirley,  second,  died  in  Lou- 
don, married  Augusta,  daughter  of  Sir  George  Hastings,  of 
Suss(  X.  Theii-  son,  William  AVi'ight  Shirley,  boi'U  in  England, 
Sei)tem';er  29,  1797,  died  in  Xew  York  city.  ^Farch  8,  1865,  mar- 
ked there,  in  St.  Stephen's  Fi)i<copal  church,  August  15,  1818, 
Elizabeth  G.  Coddington.  born  December  15,  1799.  died  July  16, 
1880,  daughter  of  Closes  Coddington,  "Gentleman  of  America" 
(descendant  of  Governor  Coddington  of  Rhode  Island,  by  his 
son  John,  who  went  from  Rhode  Island  to  New  Jersey),  who 
married.  Xovember  4.  1789,  Sarah  Petty,  born  August  29,  1770, 
died  August  25, 1808,  daughter  of  l^avid  Petty  and  Ann  Garwich. 

Tlieir  son,  William  Fearclo  Shirley,  born  ^larch  4,  1833, 
died  Xovember  14,  19('8,  married,  in  Christ  P]piscopal  church, 
Apiil  14,  1864,  Caroline  Chester  Sidell.  l>orn  duly  12.  1848.  died 
Xov(nil)er  15.  190.").  Xatives  of  Xew  York  city;  married,  died 
and  buried  there. 

Their  only  son,  Rufus  George  Shii-ley,  born  at  5.")  West 
Thirty-seventh  street,  August  7,  187."),  resides  at  71  (!  ^ladison 
aveiiue,  X(  w  A'di'k  city;  baptized  and  confirmed  in  the  Episcopal 
Church.     A    lie])ublican  in  politics.     Tie  early  e\in(H'd  a  desire 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  IIISIORY         'ias 

for  knowledge  in  iiiilit:ii\'  ta.'tics.  mid  entered  tlic  .Militaiy 
Aea<lenn'  at  Peekskill  for  ti-aijiiny.  receiving  at  tlie  age  of  twelve 
a  diploma  for  skill  in  dri  I.  I.atei-  lie  became  a  student  at  Trin- 
ity School,  and  fr(!m  there  i):>-eil  on  to  the  Colnmhia  Institute, 
ac(|niring  in  eacli  proticiencv  in  otliir  studie-.  He  ti.ially  grad 
uated  in  .hnie.  l^IM,  from  the  Duiniy  School,  in  Trenton,  Xew 
Jersey.  I'.y  the  ch'sii-e  of  his  fathei'  and  tie,'  i^iHuence  of  tlu-ir 
intimate  friench  tlie  late  (lovernoi-  lioswell  W  Flowei',  he  was 
ait))ointed  a  cadet  in  the  Tiiited  States  Xava.l  Academy,  rooming 
with  Cadet  Worth  l>agley.  of  Kaleigh,  Xorth  Carolina  (uxifor- 
tnnately  the  first  naval  officer  to  lose  his  life  in  the  Spanish- 
American  war.  being  the  second  officer  in  conmnind  of  the  Cnited 
States  torpedo  boat  "Winslow."  A  shell  from  a  masked  liat- 
tery  at  Cardenas  Harboi-  exi)loded  directly  over  the  forward 
part  of  the  boat,  where  he  and  half  the  crew  were  standing,  and 
they  were  lilown  to  ]>ieces).  After  lii-^  return  to  Xew  York  city 
he  was  ai)pointed,  in  ISil,").  a  ch-rk  in.  the  home  oflice  of  the  Xew 
York  Life  Insurance  Coii!i)any.  I>eing  alert  both  mentally  and 
physicall>'.  ind.nstrious.  genial  invX  kindly  in  natu.re,  with  keen 
])ereeption,  aptne-^s  in  eniergem/ies  and  (|uiek  resentment  of  in- 
fringements, at  the  expiraticm  of  five  years  he  was  advanced 
(in  li)()l))  and  made  assistant  manager  of  the  IV/oadway  branch, 
and  ten  days  later  to  the  jtusiticn  he  now  occupies,  as  agency 
director  of  the  St.  James  b-ajch,  at  ;5Ji»  Fifth  av(  nue,  X'ew  \'ork 
city.  His  reputation  is  a.n  attractive  character,  of  wide  observa- 
tion, broad  and  libei'al  \'iews,  fi'ank  and  ei'.rnest  in  his  (t)>inions, 
and  is  gratified  with  the  satisfaction  ;ind  contiden(  e  of  the  com- 
pany. His  fond.ni'-s  foi-  tra\eling  lia>  made  hini  a  tourist  for 
considfrable  extent  in  Amrri,'a.  In  19l!l  he  went  abro;id  for  a 
sojourn  of  ten  weeks,  ])assing  through  Holland,  lu'lginm  and 
the  northern  part  of  Frni'i-e,  :;nd  csi-ccinl;.'  \-i\-idly  recalls  with, 
much  pleasure  a  private  coaching  trip  from  London  to  Chester, 


2,34         (lESEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  fllSTOHV 

up  the  valley  oi'  tlic  Tlnuip-,  tliroui;!!  inaiiN"  beautiful  estates, 
and  lieiuff  eiitei'taiued  at  Lmd  Xni'tli's  estate  at  Waxton  Al)l)ey. 
He  is  a.n  ardent  admirer  (if  nutdoor  recreation,  )»eing  a  close 
pursuer  of  lar<i,e  gauie  in  tlie  ('aiuidiau  woods,  ar.d  an  enthusi- 
astic discii)le  of  Isaak  Walton. 

He  is  vice  president  of  the  North  Lake  Fish  and  Game 
(Mul),  of  Montreal,  Canada,  and  the  Delta  Clii  Club  of  New  York, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  societies:  St.  George's  Society  of  New 
York,  Veteran  Corps  of  Artillery  (New  York),  Historical  So- 
ciety, New  England  Society,  Military  Society  of  the  War  of 
1812,  St.  Nicholas  Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution,  Society  of  Colonial  A\'ars,  Hugnenot  So- 
ciety, Metroi)olitan  ^ruseum  of  Art,  American  Museum  of  Nat- 
nral  History,  Veteran  Volnnteer  Firemen  C^ounty  of  Richmond. 
Naval  Athletic  Association,  Army  Athletic  Association,  and 
Helta  Chi  Fraternity.  He  is  a  veteran  of  the  Fourth  Division, 
First  Naval  Battalion,  Naval  ^Militia,  New  York;  first  lieutenant 
Comjiany  H,  Ninth  Regiment,  N.  G.,  N.  Y. 

Shirley  Ai-ms  :  Earl  Ferrers.  Paly  Or  and  Azure :  A  can- 
ton Ermine.  Sujiiiorters.  Dexter,  a  talbot  Ermine,  eared  Gules 
and  ducally  gorged  Or.  Sinistei  a  reindeer  Gules,  attired  and 
ducally  gorged  Or  and  charged  on  the  shoulders  with  a  horse- 
shoe Argent,  (^'est — A  Inist  of  a  Saracen  in  })rotile  and  coujied 
])roper,  wreathed  about  the  tem])'es  Or  and  Azure,  blotto — 
Honor  ^''irtutis  Praemium. 

Connecting  this  remote  ancestry  with  numerous  prominent 
persons  of  the  Colonial  and  the  War  of  the  Revolution  period 
through  the  sti'uggles  of  the  nineteenth  century  to  their  descend- 
ants, many  of  whom  are  citizens  of  the  ]iresent  New  York,  to  the 
(ii-igin,  of  Mr.  Shirley's  matei-nal  ancestors,  natives  of  Holland, 
Sweden,  France  and  England,  the  earliest  of  whom  we  have 
record  is  bv  the  first  marriage,  in  the  Dutch  church — "Egbert 


(lENEALOiUCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  HISTORY 


'1  ■■',:> 


Van  Borsniii  y.  in.  van  Amsterdam  en  Ennetje  Hendricks,  y. 
d.  mar.  Dec.  11,  KioS."  He  was  a  resident  of  Brookl>^i,  and 
in  l(i5L'  lessee  of  the  ferry  at  the  foot  of  the  ]n-esent  Fulton 
street.     The  ])assengers  were  summoned   l>\-   a   horn. 

Their  granddaughter,  Margaret  Van  Borsum,  married  Cor- 
nelius Ijow  (son  of  Pieter  Cornelisen),  who  came  from  "Hol- 
stein  or  Schvorenuvet,"  Holland,  in  "The  Faith"  in  1659.     In 


^h\Rv.V< 


1668  married  Elizal)eth  Blanshan.  daughtei-  of  Matthew  Blan- 
shan,  born  in  Xoeville,  French  Flanders,  at  Frankenthal,  four 
miles  from  Manlu'im.  lie  married  Madeline  Jorisse,  and  em- 
barked Avith  her  and  thi'ee  children  in  "The  Gilded  Otter,"  Ajiril 
27,  1660.  They  ai'rived  at  Wiltwyck  and  settled  there  Deeeni- 
l)er  '11  of  that  year.  Their  son,  Peter  Low.  mai-i'ied  August  8, 
1721,  Rachel  Roosevelt,  (hiughter  of  Nicholas  Roosevelt,  horn 
September,  1658,  died  Jul.\-  .'in,  1742.  in  Xcw  ^'ork;  married  De- 
cember 9,  1682,  Heltje  Kunst,  daughter  of  Jan  Bai-entsen  Kunst, 


'236         GENEALOGICAL  AM)  EAMILY  HISTORY 

who  married  May  KJ,  lt)()l,  Janiietje  C'ornelise,  of  Albany,  daugh- 
ter of  Cornells  Barentse  Sleglit,  from  Woerden,  a  ijroviuce  of 
South  Ilolhind,  an  eflfieient  nuin  in  offire  and  the  church.  He 
married  Tryntie  Tyssen  Bosch,  and  granddaughter  of  CUaes 
Martinzen  \'an  Roosevelt,  from  Zealand,  Holland,  a  settler  of 
New  Amsterdam  in  1()4!)  with  his  wife,  Jannetje  Sanuiels- 
Tliomas. 

An  eleventh  descendant  of  Al)raliam  Piertersen  supposedly 
from  Drenthe,  a  hamlet  of  North  Brabant,  in  the  Netherlands, 
and  his  wife.  Tryntie  ]\[elehoir  Abrahams.  In  1(577  they  were 
influenced  to  use  the  name  of  Van  Deusen.  He  was  lance  cor- 
l<oraI  of  C'omjjany  No.  '1  of  the  Burgher  Corps.  Their  grand- 
daughter, Elizabeth  Van  Deusen,  born  Fel)ruary  2,  1680,  mar- 
ried 1()7(),  Johannes  Benson,  born  February  8,  1655  (son  of 
Dii'clv  i>enson,  from  Sweden  or  Denmark),  a  resident  of  Amster- 
dam, who  married  Catalina  l^erck,  daughter  of  Samson  Berck 
and  Tiyntie  Van  Rechtersen.  They  were  residents  of  Bever- 
wyck  in  l(i54.  His  arms  are  i)ainted  on  a  window  in  the  first 
church  in  Albany.  In  1689  when  a})prehensions  existed  of  a 
French  and  Indian  invasion  fi-om  Canada  a  Committee  of 
Safety,  of  which  Lieutenant  Johannes  I>enson  was  a  member, 
directed  "that  the  people  of  Patcook  do  make  their  retreat  to 
Johannes  Bensing's  upon  occasion."  He  was  lieutenant  in 
Albany  county  in  1688,  and  captain  in  1690;  their  daughter. 
Catalyntie  Benson,  married  May  27,  1706,  Jacol)  Sammon,  son 
of  Joliannes  Thomaszen,  from  Amsterdam;  married  October  3, 
1677.  Aechtje  Jacol)s.  "Tliey  resided  at  Sa])iioniean  ((Jreen- 
wicli),  Manhattan  Island." 

.\uother  line  originating  during  the  rule  of  William  the 
Con(|Ut'i-or  was  represented  by  Resolved  Waldon,  born  161  J,  died 
1()9(),  of  English  blood  and  Dutch  training  and  by  occupation 
a  iirinter  at  Amsterdam.     He  arrived  at  ^lauliattan  al)ont  1650. 


GEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         237 

April  8.  1()54,  lie  liou^ht  a  house  on  Broadway,  near  Wall  street, 
and  married  ]\Iay  10,  1654,  Taneke  Nagel,  daughter  of  I>arent 
Xagel,  of  Groningen.  They  were  members  of  the  Dutch  cliuirli. 
inriiiential,  and  for  the  times  wealthy.  He  performed  iiiaii>' 
services,  and  Sei)tendier  80,  1659,  was  sent  with  Augustus  Her- 
mans as  ambassadors  to  vindicate  the  Dutch  titU^  on  the  Dela- 
ware. 

Theii-  son,  Johannes  Waldon,  mari'icd  A]iril  25,  1690,  Anna, 
daughter  of  C'a})tain  Jan  Van  Dalsen,  and  su}).  Anna  Roosevelt. 
They  resided  under  Jochem  Pieters  Hills,  lH8rd  street,  between 
Eight  and  Ninth  avenues.  Their  daughter,  Aniietie  Waldron, 
married  June  11,  1714.  John  Delamater.  Their  son,  Samtiel  Wal- 
dron,  married  ^larch  5,  1()92,  ^leltje,  daughter  of  Captain  Fran- 
cis Bloodgood,  "Chief  Military  Officer  of  Flushing,  Heemstede. 
Kustdorp  and  Midd!eburgli.  Privy  Cotmcillor  to  the  (lov- 
ernoi-  foi-  the  surrender  of  the  Colony  to  the  English  in 
1675."  Their  son,  Benjamin  AYaldron,  married  Se])tember  19. 
1786.  Flizabetli  Saminon.  and  they  were  the  parents  of  Catalina 
Waldron,  married  Octolier  i!,  1756,  Samuel  Delamater,  born  Oct- 
ober 3,  1725,  great  grandsoii  of  CMaude  le  ^laistre,  an  exile  from 
Richelxiurgli,  in  Artois.  France,  born  about  1620,  died  before 
the  Dongan  Patent;  married  A]iril  24,  1()52,  at  Lovertwars  street. 
Amsterdam,  Holland,  Hester  Du  Bois,  born  in  Canterlmry,  Fug 
land,  and  daughter  of  Pierre  Du  Bois,  a  refugee  to  America  with 
the  Huguenots  in  1685.  He  was  a  carjjenter,  and  August  22. 
1(561,  ai)i)lied  foi'  land  on  Staten  Island.  The  greater  pai't  of 
their  lives  was  spent  at  Flatbush,  Long  Island.  He  was  a  thii-  i 
cousin  to  his  wife,  being  a  great-grandchild  of  Resolved  and 
Taneke  Waldron. 

From  contemjioraneous  iieo])le  a  line  is  taken  back  by  his 
mother's  fatlier.  (*ornelius  Low  Sidell.  born  April  is,  1S(I4.  die! 
August  18.  1858,  son  of  John  Sidell,  born  1760,  died  1887.     (The 


23S         (iEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Sidells  origiuated  in  Lancaster  County,  England,  and  were  iden- 
tified in  the  early  history  of  New  Jersey  as  industrious,  perse- 
vering settlers.)  Married  Eliza])eth  Low,  l)ai)tized  August  6, 
1764,  daughter  of  Peter  Low,  born  April  30,  1727,  married  about 
1750,  Jannetje  Van  Vliet,  daughter  of  Aurie  Van  Vliet  and 
Jannetje  C'loet,  and  granddaughter  of  Frederick  Cloey,  mar- 
ried before  li\SY,\,  Francyntie  Duniont,  daughter  of  Wallerandt 
Du  Mont  Sen.  and  Grystie,  married  Marcli  1,  1834,  Eliza  Gau- 
tier,  born  1814,  died  March  27,  1892,  daughter  of  Samuel  John 
Sinclair  Gautier,  baptized  f^ebruary  13,  1785,  died  in  New  York 
city  1845,  married  1808,  Elizabeth  Fawpell,  bom  February  13, 
1783,  died  September  4,  1865,  daughter  of  John  Fawpell,  born 
August  17,  1756,  married  May  26,  1782,  Helena  Howser,  born 
May  25,  1765,  and  grandson  of  Samuel  Gautier  and  Cataline 
Delamater,  and  great-grandson  of  Louis  Andrew  Gautier,  mar- 
ried about  1753,  Elizabetli  Sebering,  born  March  18,  1733,  daugh- 
ter of  Frederick  Sebering,  of  Brooklyn,  Long  Island,  married 
l">eceniber  17.  1711.  ]\Iaria  Provoost,  baptized  April  17,  1692, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  Provoost,  born  1651,  baptized  June  29. 
1659,  married  l)eceml)er  26,  1679,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Pieter 
Coruelis  Van  der  Veen,  a  merchant,  and  ai)i)ointed  in  1658  a 
commissioner  to  treat  with  the  Indians  at  Esoinis.  He  married 
January  1,  1652,  Elsje  Tymens,  niece  of  Anneke  Jans.  They 
Avere^  prominent  in  social  life.  In  the  paper  read  before  the 
Xew  York  Historical  Society,  June  2,  1874,  by  James  W.  Gerard, 
entitled  "Old  Streets  of  New  York,"  we  quote:  "Among  tlie 
good  citizens,  Pieter  Cornelius  Van  der  Veen  and  ^frs.  Elsje, 
his  wife,  at  ehurcli  situated  in  the  fort,  undei-  the  i)reaching  of 
Dominie  Megai)olensis,  and  recalls  a  picture  of  our  i)redecessors 
in  this  devout  congregation;"  also,  "His  Excellency  De  Heer 
Directeur  General  Petrus  Stuyvesant  and  his  wife  Judith,  and 
old  Dr.  Johannes  de  la  Montagnie,  Ex  Councillor"     The  Xe\r 


GEXEAUHUCAL  AXD  FAMILY  IJISTOHY  :l>\\> 

York  Magazine  in  1790  records  "June  30.  On  Monday  last 
while  digging  out  the  foundation  of  this  fort  a  scjuare  stone  was 
found  among  the  ruins  of  a  chai)el  that  formerly  stood  there, 
with  the  following:  'Ao  Do.  :\I1)('XLTI  W  Kieft  Di.  (ir.  Heeft 
de  Gementen  dese  Temple  doen  Bouweri.'  " 

AVALTOX  FAMILY. 

This  family,  once  so  prominent  in  X'ew  York,  came  from 
Norfolk,  England.  William  Walton  was  horn  in  the  latter  i)art 
of  the  seventeenth  century,  came  to  X'ew  York  and  was  made 
freeman  in  1698.  The  same  year  he  married  Alary  Santford. 
In  1711  he  appears  as  one  of  the  subscribers  for  finishing  the 
stee])le  of  Trinity  church.  In  1712  he.  with  some  others,  owned 
the  sloop  "Swallow,"  of  which  Rene  Hett  was  master.  He  sailed 
his  o^vn  vessels  to  the  West  Indies.  His  dwelling  i)lace  was  on 
Hanover  Scpiare,  now  X"o.  130  Pearl  street,  and  was  a  wide  lot 
which  originally  belonged  to  James  Graham,  attorney  general. 
This  was  directly  opposite  the  lot  on  which  "Alistress  Kidd," 
the  widow  of  Captain  AVilliam  Kidd,  lived.  His  fortune  and  that 
of  his  sons  was  derived  from  the  preference  in  trade  given  him 
by  the  Spaniards,  who  gave  him  the  sole  lu-ivilege  of  trading 
at  St.  Augustine.  In  1738  Governor  Clarke  writes  that  he  was 
the  only  person  permitted  by  the  Spaniards  to  trade  at  that 
place,  "where  he  had  a  factor  or  agent  who  had  resided  there 
for  many  years."  He  died  on  Saturday,  May  21,  1747,  and  was 
described  as  "a  very  eminent  merchant  of  this  city."  His 
widow,  known  as  "Afadame  Walton,"  died  September  .">.  17()8, 
in  her  ninetieth  year. 

William  Walton  left  two  sons,  Jacob  and  William.  Jacob 
Walton  married  Alaria,  daughter  of  Gerard  Beekmaii  and  Mag- 
dalene Al)eel,  May  14,  172(i.  He  died  October  17.  1749.  aged 
fortv-seven,  and  left  children:     Jacob,  Thomas,  (Jerard.  Mary. 


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(IKXEALOCH'AL  AS  I)  FAMILY  HISTORY 


wife  of  Lewis  Morris;  ^[agdaleiia,  wife  of  David  Johnston; 
Catherine,  wife  of  James  Tlioni])s()n ;  William  and  Abraham.  Of 
these,  Thomas  died  a  young  man.  William  married,  ^lay  16, 
17()7,  Mary,  daughter  of  Governor  James  l)e  Lancey,  and  left 
children,  William,  James  Delaneey,  Jacob,  and  Ann,  wife  of 
Daniel  Cromelin  Xev  Planck;  the  father  died  August  18,  179(i, 
at  the  age  of  sixtv-live.     His  wife  died  Mav  Ki,  17()7.    Jacol)  Wal- 


Mrs.   William    (Beekmani    Walton. 


William   Walton. 


ton   was  an  admiral   in  the   British  navy,  and  had  a   son.   Rev. 
William  Walton. 

William  Walton  (the  brother  of  Jacol),  the  first  mentioned) 
carried  on  the  business  inherited  from  his  father,  he  and  his 
bi-nlher  btiug  the  tiiia  of  Wil  i'lm  Walton  and  C'omjjany.  In  1753 
tluy,  with  other  merchants,  made  an  agreement  "not  to  receive 
('ni)|.er  Half  Pence  otherwise  than  14  foi'  a  shilling."  They 
rddod  to  tlieii'  number  of  \'essels  and  enlarged  theii-  trade.    Hav- 


(iKXEALOaU'AL  J  XI)  F  AMI  I A    //ISTOIIV  I'll 

'n\g  ohtaiiR'd  wcaltli.  William  Walton  soon  aciiuirc;!  political 
lienors.  In  1751  lie  was  a  lUfniher  of  assenihly  and  sei'vcd  until 
17")!).  lie  joined  the  i)arty  of  (iovernor  Dc  Lancev.  and  was  the 
lecijiient  of  many  favors.  He  was  appointed  mendter  (d'  coun- 
cil, Xovemlier  14.  1758,  and  continued  till  ^larcli  22,  17()8,  a 
few  moidlis  before  his  death. 

In  17lM  William  ^Valton.  "merchant."  purchase;!  fi-om  .lohn 
Yarmouth,  "shij)wright,"  two  lots,  Xo.  i;>-14.  "fronting  the 
road  that  goes  hy  William  Beeknuurs  and  extending-  to  low  water 
mark."  The  i)rice  was  three  hundred  i)t)unils  ($75(1).  I'pon 
these  iocs  he  estahlished  a  shii*  yard,  which  was  continued 
foi'  many  years.  After  his  death  they  descended  to  his  son. 
William  Walton,  and  in  1752  he  ei"ected  upon  these  lots  (now 
Xo.  o2(i  Pearl  street)  a  house  which  was  then  the  most  elegant 
residence  in  the  city.  It  is  thus  described  by  John  Pintard,  the 
founder  of  the  X"ew  York  Historical  Society:  "A  brick  editice, 
fifty  feet  in  front,  and  three  stories  high,  built  with  Holland 
l)rick,  relieved  by  brown  stone  water  tallies  and  jambs,  with 
walls  as  substantial  as  many  modern  churches  and  standing 
•ilong  the  south  side  of  Pearl  street,  lately  called  (^)ueen  street. 
The  superb  staircase  in  the  am])le  hall,  with  mahogany  hand 
rails  and  bannisters,  l)y  age  as  dark  as  ebony,  would  iu)t  dis- 
grace a  nobleman's  iialace.  It  is  the  only  relic  of  the  kind  that 
],roI»ably  at  this  ])eriod  remains  in  the  city,  the  appearance  of 
which  affords  an  air  of  grandeur  not  to  be  seen  in  the  lighter 
staircases  of  modern  buildings."  This  house  famed  as  the  Wal- 
ton mansion,  remained  for  more  than  a  century,  and  in  it  Will- 
iam Walton  fully  maintained  his  reimtatio!!  for  elegant  hos- 
pitality. 

After  the  French  war.  which  was  gloiiousl>-  ende:l  by  tlie 
coiKiu.est  of  Canada,  the  officers  of  the  Pritisli  arm\'  returned 
lo  X(  w  ^'ork.  and  were  magnificentU'  enterlaineil  in  tli"  Walton 


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GEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 


housf.  ( '()iis[)i(Mious  was  tlic  massive  service  of  silver  plate 
wliieli  i^raced  the  tables,  alid  no  indication  of  wealth  and  ))ros- 
perity  was  wanting.  In  after  years,  when  tlie  British  govern- 
ment ])ro]iosed  to  tax  the  colonies,  ol)jection  was  made  on  ae- 
connt  of  the  com])arative  poverty  of  th.e  i)eople.  The  magnifi- 
cence of  this  entertainment  was  recalled  hy  the  officers  wiio  had 
been  ])resent.  and  was  used  as  a  counter  argument  and  it  may 


f"^^;i-|^#    Jf     M     T^f  --  W  >    sal 
^        m  t-P'  ^!       m       H       M       j£!i 


Wall  oil    Mansion. 


be  said  tliat  tliis  entertainment  was  indirectly  one  of  the  causes 
of  the  Revolution. 

William  Walton,  i-ich  in  wealth  and  honors,  died  .lul\"  11, 
1768,  in  his  sixty-third  year,  and  was  buried  in  Trinity  church- 
yard. His  wife  was  Cornelia,  daughter  of  \^y.  William  Beek- 
man.  whom  he  marri(^d  dannary  '27.  IT.'H.  Me  left  no  children. 
After  making  a  generous  pi'ovision  ft)r  his  wife,  he  left  the  bulk 
of  his  great  fortune  to  his  nejihews  and  nieces.     His  iiouse  and 


GENEALOiUCAL  AXD  FAMILY  lllS'l'OliY         2Vi 

lot,  with  Ills  stal)les  aiul  coacli  house  on  the  opposite  side  of 
tlie  street  (now  '.Vl^)  Pearl  street)  were  left  to  the  wi(h)\v  during 
lier  life,  and  then  to  his  nephew.  W'illinni  W'.dton,  foi-  life  and 
then  to  his  son  William.  To  his  wife  he  left  £1,500  in  cash,  and 
a  yearly  income  of  £700,  also  negro  servants  and  "all  the  wines 
and  family  stores  that  may  he  found  in  my  house  except  so  much 
as  may  he  recpiisite  for  my  funeral,"  from  which  we  conclude 
that  the  custom  of  dispensing  wines  and  Tuiuors  at  funerals  was 
not  neglected  in  this  case.  His  widow  survived  many  yeais. 
and  died  May  10,  17S6,  aged  seventy-eight. 

In  171)4  the  mansion  was  rented  to  Jacob  Schieffelin  at  the 
rate  of  $1,000  a  year.  The  son  of  the  nephew,  William  Walton, 
advanced  in  years.  occui)ied  it  in  1832.  In  after  years  this  mag- 
niticent  mansion  fell  into  decay  and  ruin.  The  rooms  were 
rented  foi'  shops,  and  a  cheap  class  of  ])eople  found  lodgings  in 
the  place  once  famed  for  its  elegance.  About  1S()0  it  was  torn 
down  and  tln'  present  huildings  erected  in  its  i)lace.  The  ]ior- 
traits  of  Mi-,  and  .Mrs.  Walton  descended  to  relatives,  by  whom 
they  were  evidently  treated  with  neglect.  In  1906  they  wei'e 
presented  to  the  Xew  ^'ork  llistoi-ical  Society,  and  after  being 
caiefully  lenovated,  they  now  hold  a  conspicuous  place  in  their 
\alual)le  collection.  They  are  reproduced  here  by  the  permission 
of  Ap))leton  Comiiany,  imblishers.  as  contained  in  the  volmne. 
■'Social  Life  Undei-  the  (leorges,"  by  Esther  Singk'ton,  whose 
many  W(n'ks  are  most  valuable  additions  to  .\niericaii  history. 

DF.LAFIEld)   FAMILY. 

The  De  l^a  Felds,  of  Alsace,  ai'e  claime(l  as  the  coinmoii  an- 
cestoi's  of  se\-ei-al  families  settled  in  difl'erent  parts  of  i'hirope. 
Among  others  is  the  English  De  La  Felds.  The  name  as  de- 
ciphered in  some  old  parchments  was  soniehme>  contracted  t.> 
Delfeld  or  Delafeld,  an<l  of  late  moilenii/.t'd  to  hclalield. 


24i         GEXEAlAHilCAL  AND  FAMILY  IlISTOliY 

lluhiiitus  (Ivohcrt)  De  I^a  Kcid  is  iusciihcd  ainoiiii  the 
owners  of  lands  in  the  connty  of  Lancaster  in  the  year  1()()9. 
Doiilitless  he  was  one  of  those  who  aeconipanied  the  fii'st  \Vi!!- 
iani  to  Enghnid  or  one  of  the  lu)st  of  knights  who  swai'ined  from 
tlie  nortliern  part  of  France  and  from  the  Rhine  counti'y  in 
search  of  adventure  and  hinds  in  the  new  eon(|uest.  The  de- 
scendants of  Hnl)nrtus  De  La  Feld  fionrislied  and  married  well. 
In  the  eentni'ies  that  followed  the  name  is  of  freijuent  occur- 
rence in  ancient  writings — notahlx'  in  Bnckinghamsliire  and  in 
the  innnediately  adjacent  shires. 

At  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  centTiry.  John  Delatield  was 
the  head  of  the  linckingliamshii-e  Delatields.  At  some  time  en- 
gaged in  business  in  London  he  is  often  styled  as  of  London, 
l)ut  he  was  also  a  land  owner  in  Buckinghamshire  and  in  Ox- 
fordshire. He  was  born  in  ITl'O,  died  March  9.  17(i.'',  anil  is  bniied 
))eneath  the  chancel  of  the  church  of  Aylesbury.  His  wife 
Martiia,  l)orn  March  9,  1718,  died  November  l'(i,  17(n,  daughter 
of  Jacob  and  Susannah  Dell,  lies  buried  beneath  her  i)ew  in  the 
same  chui'ch.  Over  the  south  entrance  of  the  church  a  bronze 
mural  monument,  surmounted  by  the  Delatield  Arms,  bears 
the  following  inscription: 

To  i>eri)etuate  the  memory  of 

John  Delafield 

Citizen  of  London, 

and  of 

Martha    Delafield 

his  wife 

Daughter  of  Jacob  Dell 

of  this  Town 
He  died  9  ^farcb  17(53 

Aged  48 

She  died  2(i  Xov.  1 7(il 

Aged  42. 

.lohii  and   Martha   Delatield  had  issue,  two  sons  and  three 


John    Delatit'hl. 


(lEXEALOdlCAL  AXD  FAMILY  IIISTOHY  247 

(laughters.  Two  dauglitors.  Elizalx'tli  and  Mai-y  died  unmar- 
ried. Martha  married  AVilliain  Arnold,  ol'  Slatswood,  Isle  of 
AVig'ht,  and  with  otlier  cliildreii  had  the  famous  J)r.  Thomas 
Arnold,  of  Hugljy,  and  Lydia,  who  married  Richard,  Earl  of 
Cavan. 

John  Delafield,  horn  ]\lareh  16.  174S.  of  whom  presently. 

Josej)h  Delafield,  l>orn  May  14,  174^),  died  Septemher,  1S2(); 
married,  January  4,  17!)0,  Prances,  daughter  of  Harvey  Chris- 
tian Comhe,  of  Cohhannn  Park,  County  Surrey,  and  had  issue. 
There  now  survive  descendants  of  his  in  the  female  line,  and  of 
the  name  in  the  male  line  the  following  only.  Count  William 
Joseph  Delafield,  of  Italy,  horn  Xajtles,  1855,  married  Cesaiina. 
daughter  of  Louis,  Mar(|uis  Pizzardi :    Xo  issue. 

Count  Arthur  John  Lewis  Delafield,  of  Italy,  horn  Naples, 
1856,  married  Margaret  !Marosca  Donnorso,  daughter  of  the 
Duke  di  Serracapriola,  and  has  eleven  children,  all  living;  the 
eldest  son  is  named  Huhert. 

John  Delafield,  the  eldest  son  of  John  and  Martha  Delafield. 
was  liorn  in  England,  March  Ki.  1748.  died  in  Xew  ^'ork  cit\' 
(at  X^o.  9  Pearl  street),  duly  ;>,  1824,  and  was  hurled  in  the 
Trinity  chureli  hurial  ground,  at  Hudson  street,  thence  removed 
to  the  vault  of  his  son  John  at  St.  Thomas  church,  corner  of 
Broadway  and  Houston  street,  and  in  1857  removed  to  tlie  Dela- 
field family  vaidt  at  Greenwood;  there  rest  the  remains  of  his 
wife,  all  of  his  children  and  their  wives  (with  the  cxceiition  of 
two  childi'en  who  died  in  infancy  and  of  the  eldot  son  dohn 
and  his  wife)  and  many  of  his  grandchildren. 

Mr.  Delafield  sailed  from  Europe  on  lioard  the  British  Let- 
ter of  ^larque  "Vigilant,"  Ca]»tain  Barnewcll.  ai-ri\-ed  at  Sandy 
Hook  on  Friday,  A])ril  4,  178;!,  and  with  the  captain  (who  after- 
wards settled  in  Xew  York)  landed  at  'i  o'clock  on  the  following 
morning  in  the  citv.    He  came  with  letters  of  introdiiction  to  the 


24S  (lEXEAIAHilCAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  IIISTOH)' 

liriii('i|i;il  iniialiitaiits  of  the  city  and  also  to  ri'siJt'iits  of  Phlla 
(lelpliia   and    IJoston.      Many  of  thr   lettei's   were  i^iven   liini   hy 
Bi'itish   oflicers    who    had    returned    honi^    from   tlie   war    in    the 
eohinies.    ]\Ioreo\'er,  in  the  city  were  otficei  s  whom  le,^  had  known 
in  Kn.u'land  and  who  conid  voucli  tor  his  iilentitx'. 

As  he  was  ahont  to  sail  from  England,  an  official  in  tlie 
P)iiti^h  ser\ici'  gave  Mr.  Delafield  a  mannscript  copy  of  the  text 
of  the  treaty  of  i)eace — tlie  original  had  heen  i)i'evionsly  for- 
warded to  the  American  authorities  hy  another  vessel,  hnt  the 
"Vigilant"  was  the  first  to  ari'ive.  Although  the  import  of 
the  ti'eaty  was  generally  known,  the  exact  terms  of  the  docu- 
ment wei-e  read  with  eager  interest  l)y  those  to  whom  it  was 
shown  in  New  York  and  co])ies  are  said  to  have  heen  sent  to 
other  cities. 

He  was  most  kindly  received  and  v\'as  gratified  with  an  in- 
vitation to  make  his  home,  until  he  had  found  ];,'rmanent  (juai'- 
ters,  at  the  house  of  a  gentleman,  whose  family  have  ever  since 
been  among  the  intimate  friends  of  his  descendants,  Mr.  De 
Peyster,  who,  informed  of  ^Nfr.  Delafield's  arrival,  met  him  at 
the  landing  and  took  him  to  his  house.  Mr.  Delafield  at  once 
commenced  a  career  of  great  success  as  a  merchant  and  later 
as  a  marine  underwriter.  To  tlie  annoyance  and  against  the 
remonstrance  of  his  fannly  abroad,  he  determined  to  become  a 
citizen  of  the  United  States  and  was  admitted  to  civil  rights  l)y 
an  act  of  the  legislature  ^lay  4,  1  7S4,  and  a  freeman  of  the  city 
dune  Ki,  17S4. 

From  papers  liefore  the  writei",  the  following  miinitiae  of 
his  Inisiness  life  are  selected:  June  15,  17S7,  was  one  ni'  the 
founders  and  a  director  of  the  ^lutual  Insurance  Company,  of 
New  Vork.  January  12,  1792,  ap])ointed  one  of  the  dii-ectors  of 
the  Xew  York  branch  of  the  United  States  Bank,  then  first  es- 
tablished in  Xew  York.      In  17i»4  one  of  the  foundei's  and   Hi'st 


(iEXI'JALOdlCAL  AXI)  FAMIIA'  IllSTO/iV         -^V.) 

tiustees  of  the  Tdiitine  Coffee  House.     Feluiiary   1.  ITlHi.  one 
of  the  founders  with  thirty-nine  otliers.  eacli  suhsi'rihinu'  $1<\ 
000,  and  a  director  of  the  United  Insurance  l'oni])any.     After- 
wards he  was  for  many  years  the  president  of  the  company. 

Prior  to  ITix;  Mr.  Delatield  had  retired  from  active  com- 
mercial pursuits,  and,  interestiuij,'  himself  more  ami  more  in 
marine  underwriting,  became  the  head  of  the  [)rivate  under- 
writers of  the  city.  There  was  excitement  and  risk  in  the  1)usi- 
ness  and  at  tiiiies  it  was  vei'\'  piotitahle ;  pi'est-ntly.  however, 
came  f)ad  times.  The  English  and  French  at  war  with  ea:di 
other,  each  i)reyed  u))on  American  shipping  lest  it  should  fur- 
nish provisions  and  material  to  the  adversary.  American  ves- 
sels were  almost  driven  from  the  open  seas;  Mr.  Delatield  paid 
every  loss,  hut  at  the  sacrifice  of  most  of  his  fortune  and  the 
mortgaging  of  nmch  of  his  real  estate.  At  that  time  tliei-e 
were  few  opportunities  to  invest  capital,  men  of  wealth  pur- 
chased laiuls  and  man\',  among  them  dohn  Delatield.  acquired 
great  possessions  in  real  property,  itotli  in  this  state  and  else- 
where. On  two  occasions  at  least  the  Dinner  Cluh.  a  grouj)  of 
gentlemen  who  met  to  dine  at  the  houses  of  the  memhers,  dis- 
cussed and  decided  against  the  pro])riety  of  buying  lands  on 
the  Island  of  ^lanhattan,  jilmost  all  of  which,  above  what  is  now 
Canal  street,  the  exception  chiefly  country  seats  on  the  East 
river,  was  for  sale;  farm  lands,  for  which  there  was  likely  to  be 
a  demand  by  actual  settlers,  were  deemed  a  i)etter  investment. 
It  was  believed  that  the  St.  Lawrence  river  would  become  the 
great  artery  of  trade.  On  its  banks  Mr.  Delatield  ac(|uired  the 
half  of  two  townshi])s.  Hague  and  Cambray.  both  in  llu>  state 
of  Xew  York,  and  having  faith  in  their  ultimate  great  value  he 
continued  to  hold  them,  although  mortgaged  for  many  \ears. 

Besides  lands  in  the  country  Mr.  Delatield  owned  con-idi-r- 
able  real   estate  within   the  citv   limits,   including  aini)ng  otiier 


'J50         (iENEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

parrels  a  large  luimhei-  of  lots  on  tlie  easterly  side  of  Broad 
street,  (>.\teiidiiig  from  the  East  i-'iver  and  known  as  the  Albany 
l)ier  property.  Allnding  to  this  the  New  York  Diary  newspajjer 
for  Decenil)er  15,  1796,  states  that  "Attempts  have  been  made 
to  set  on  fire  tlie  large  and  elegant  range  of  stores  l>elonging  to 
Ml-.  i)"lafield,  near  the  Exchange."  After  his  death  a  ])art 
of  this  pr()])erty  fronting  on  Water  street  remained  in  his  es- 
tate. 

(hi  Division  street  he  owned  thirty  lots  and  on  the  westerly 
side  of  Broadway,  a  sliort  distance  al>ove  Trinity  chnrch,  a 
corner  lot  on  wliicli  he  ])nrposed  to  build  a  residence  to  suit 
his  own  taste;  the  ))roject  was,  however,  abandoned,  although 
at  one  time  ])lans  were  di'awn  and  the  necessary  hardware  im- 
]3orted  from.  England. 

Tn  the  summer  of  1791  Mr.  Delafield  ])urchased  "Suns- 
wick,"  a  farm  of  about  one  hundred  and  forty  acres  on  the 
bank  of  the  East  river,  oi)i)Osite  the  easterly  end  of  Blaekwell's 
Island,  in  after  years  known  as  the  Village  of  Ravenswood,  later 
a  part  of  Astoria,  afterwards  incorporated  in  Long  Island  City 
and  now  included  in  the  city  of  New  York.  The  property  had 
formed  a  ]iart  of  the  Blackwell  estate  and  the  old  stone  mansion 
then,  and  for  many  years  after,  disjilayed  on  the  front  door, 
Imrned  deejily  in  the  wood,  the  broad  arrow,  in  ]iroof  that  tlr^ 
home  of  Colonel  Jacob  Blackwell,  of  the  Revolutionary  armv, 
liad  been  confiscated  by  the  British..  A  large  house  for  a  sum- 
mer residence  was  built  u])on  the  ]n-o])erty,  Avhich,  undt'r  tlie 
>u];ervision  of  the  architect,  ^^Fr.  Newton,  was  ready  for  occu- 
pation the  following  s])ring.  The  house  and  land  were  beauti- 
fully situated.  A  Itroad  terrace  extended  to  the  shore  of  the 
^wift  i-nnning  tunmltnous  river;  to  the  eastward  extensive 
stables  and  (luarters  for  the  outdoor  enii)loyees  and  slaves;  to 
tlie  westward  a  high  stone  wall  extended   from  near  the  house 


GENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         t.'5i 

to  the  old  IJlackwcll  Imryiiig  groniul.  After  a  few  years  grai)e 
vines,  jilinns  and  ];eai's  trailed  against  the  wall  and  almost  :'n'i- 
cealed  it;  a  long  tiower  garden  sepai'ated  the  wall  from  a  broad 
graveled  walk,  on  the  other  si<U'  of  wliich  came  tlu'  vegetable 
garden     interspersed    witli    icrennial    Howei'ing    bushes.       The 


Simswick.    Residencu    of   John    Dolafli'ki. 


grmmd,  luitnrnlly  I'i.di.  was  witli  care  and  intelligent  super- 
vision brouglit  to  a  hiyh  state  of  cultivation.  I^lants  and  seeds 
were  ini)  orted  f i  om  Euro];e  and  generally  with  good  re-^nlts. 
The  locality  ha.il  ]ireviously  been  noted  for  the  excellencv  ot  its 
ap]iles  and  ])eaches.  the  New  Town  pippin,  oiu'  of  the  best  of 


252  (;EXKAL(H1U'AL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

apitU'S,  Honrisliiiii*  there  at  its  hest;  other  Irnits  were  found  to 
do  as  well.  The  Uiwns  al)Out  the  house  were  trimmed  with  large 
sliears  made  for  the  i)ur])ose  and  rolled  with  heavy  stone  rollers, 
one  of  which  is  still  in  existence  and  in  use  on  a  tennis  ground. 
(lood  care  jirodnced  a  close  fine  sod  and  Mr.  Delafield  wrote  tliat 
he  had  a  Itit  of  the  In'ight  green  turf  of  Old  England  in  America. 
After  a  few  years  ''Sunswick"  was  esteemed  as  one  of  the 
1)est,  if  not  the  l)est,  cared  for  counti\'  seat  in  the  neighhorhood 
of  New  York.  The  fruits  and  flowers,  especially  roses,  were 
noted  for  their  jierfection.  Lahor  was  almndant  and  wages  o!' 
employees  were  so  low  as  to  seem  iiici-edible  to  us.  but  to  com- 
jiensate,  most  kinds  of  ])rovisi()ns  were  almndant  and  chea]); 
curiously  enough  those  things  which  were  cheapest  were  the 
least  esteemed  by  the  majority  of  the  inhabitants  of  New  York, 
perhaps  because  perforce  they  had  at  times  been  too  much  de- 
pendent upon  them-  -the  neighboring  waters  suitplied  in  great 
abundance  a  variety  of  fish  and  shell  fish  and  yet  the  fish  stalls, 
9xce])t  for  lobsters,  were  but  little  ]iatroni/ed.  Long  Island 
dui'ing  the  autnnm  and  spring,  swarmed  with  wild  fowl  and  great 
flocks  of  many  varieties  of  snii>e;  so  abundant  were  they,  that  it 
was  not  considered  sport  to  hunt  them.  The  writer  well  re- 
members the  surprise  of  an  old  gentleman  that  any  one  wouici 
take  the  trouble  to  shoot  snijie.  Why,  he  said,  it  is  simply 
slaughter,  not  sjiort;  in  my  boyhood  we  only  sought  for  wood- 
cock and  English  sni]ie.  (^)ueens  and  Suffolk  counties  were  full 
of  deer,  venison,  oysters,  clams,  and  soft  shell  crabs  could  be 
had  foi  almost  nothing. 

To  reach  the  city  from  "Sunswick"  the  family  would  I'ide 
oi-  drive  to  Brooklyn  and  ci'oss  by  the  fen-y,  which  landed  at 
the  foot  of  Wall  street.  When  the  tide  served  both  for  going 
and  returning,  I'ow  boats  were  often  used,  in  the  afternoon 
there  would  often  be  (piite  a  Hotilla  of  boats  belonging  to  gen- 


GEXEALOaiCAL  AXIJ  FAMILY  IIISTURY         253 

tlenien  letuniiiig  to  their  conntry  seats;  they  generally  got 
away  })roini)tly  at  3  o'ehick,  scliool  l)oys  not  quite  so  soon;  Mr. 
Delafield's  sons,  used  to  the  I'iver.  understood  tlie  tides  and 
!'a]»i;]s,  knew  how  to  take  advantage  of  tlie  eddies,  and  strong 
yonng  liands  manned  the  oars.  Washington  Irving,  whose 
father  liad  for  years  hired  from  Mi-.  Dehitield  the  old  Blaekwell 
lionse  at  "Sunswick,"  named  tlie  hoat  of  the  ho>  s  the  "En- 
deavor," and  had  to  admit  that  although  the  "Endeavor"  was 
the  last  to  start  it  was  far  from  being  the  last  to  get  home. 
Irving,  in  the  fourth  chapter  of  "Knickerbocker's  History  of 
Xew  York."  alludes  to  the  sunnner  house  of  his  boyhood  as  the 
''pleasant  coast  of  Sunswick" — Fennimore  Cooj.er  in  one  of  his 
novels  also  mentions  the  place. 

Tn  1814  "Sunswick,"  which  for  two  or  three  summers  had 
remained  unoccuined,  was  sold  to  CV)lonel  (ieorge  Gibbs  for 
>|!31,r)()().  A  letter  written  by  one  of  his  children  mentions  the 
great  interest  that  the  colonel  took  in  the  place  on  which  a  great 
deal  of  money  was  spent  in  embellishing  it  to  the  utmost.  In 
addition  to  the  fruit  ali'cady  in  cultivation,  open  air  gra])es  were 
im]iorted  fi'om  Austria,  which  were  cultivated,  as  in  Europe, 
on  stakes.  Mention  is  made  of  a])ricots.  plums  and  cherries  of 
a  ([uality  and  excellence  such  as  were  no  longer  to  be  found  in 
the  vicinity  of  Xew  ^'ork.  A  sloo)»  yacht,  the  "Laura  of  Suns- 
wick," besides  row  boats,  added  to  the  conveniences  of  communi- 
cating with  the  city.  In  1834,  after  the  death  of  Colonel  (libbs. 
the  ])roi)erty,  subdivided  into  plots  for  sul)urban  residences, 
was  sold. 

In  pel  son  Mr.  Dclatield  is  described  as  tall,  of  a  well-built 
frame,  regular  featuies,  a  straight  and  p.rominent  nose,  dark 
eyes,  his  own  hair  ])owdered  and  tied  in  a  (piciie,  and  with  a 
deep  and  singularly  pleasant  voice  (a  (piality  inherited  by  hi< 
sons),  without  any  of  the  guttural,  hesitating  tones  common  at 


254         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

that  time  and  not  unknown  now  among  Englislnnen.  In  speech 
calm  and  collected  and  if  somewhat  decided  always  courteous; 
neat  and  punctiliiius  in  his  own  dress,  he  expected  tlie  same  at- 
tention to  their  app.^arance  among  the  mem])ers  of  his  house- 
lioUl.  Airs.  William  Arnold,  of  Slatswood,  Isle  of  Wight,  his 
sister,  willing  in  17S5,  congratulating  him  on  his  recent  mar- 
riage, says:  "Von  are  the  exact  image  of  our  honored  father, 
you  have  also  his  sweetness  of  temi)er.  study  then  my  brother 
to  imitate  his  uol)le  virtues,  not  a  soul  knew  him  hut  respected 
him  and  he  has  left  a  character  heliind  which  his  children  may 
glory  in." 

dohn  l)elati?ld  nuirried  December  11,  1784,  Ann,  daughter 
and  co-heiress  of  Joseiih  and  Elizabeth  (Hazard)  Hallett. 
Joseph  and  his  sister  Lydia,  wife  of  Colonel  Jacob  Blackwell, 
were  the  t)nly  cliildi-en  of  Joseph  and  Lydia  Hallett,  Josei)h  be- 
ing the  tlJdest  male  descendant  of  William  Hallett,  of  Dorset- 
shire, England,  who  settled  on  Long  Island,  was  the  grantee  of 
the  patent  of  Hal  left's  Point,  and  at  one  time  sheriff  of  Queens 
county. 

Josei)h  Hallett,  the  father  of  :\Irs.  Delafield,  of  Xew  York 
and  Hallett's  Point,  born  January  2(i,  1781,  at  Hallett's  Point, 
died  at  his  residence  in  Pearl  street,  Xew  York  City,  August  S), 
17HJ).  His  wife,  Elizal^etli.  daughter  of  Xathaniel  and  Elizalteth 
(Drummond)  Hazard,  was  born  at  the  residence  of  her  I'.arents. 
Hanover  Square,  X"ew  York  City,  August  29,  17-13,  and  died  at 
the  residence  of  her  son-in-law,  John  Delafield,  Greenwich  street, 
Xew  Yoi'k  City.  Xovember  i»,  1S14.  She  was  buried  by  the  side 
of  her  husband  in  the  Hallett  vault  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
church.  Wall  street.  On  the  removal  of  the  church  to  Fifth 
ax'einu'  and  Twelfth  street,  theii-  remains  and  tho<e  of  many 
Halletts   and   Blackwells   were   in   1S44   transferred   to   the   new 


25i; 


(ii:XI-JAlJ)(lI('AL  AXI)  FAMILY  HISTOh'Y 


vault  of  the  I'aiiiily  in  the  ,i>i()iiii(ls  of  tliv'  iircseiit  clmrcli.     Mr. 
Hallett  was  I'oi-  iuaii>'  yr\v<  dih'  of  tiic  ti-ustccs  of  tlu'  cIiuitIi. 

Prior  to  the  Hexolutioii  Mr.  Hallett  was  one  of  the  promi- 
nent shii)})ing  nierehants  of  the  city,  trading-  witli  Great  Britain 
and  the  West  Indies,  making  large  shipments  of  tobacco  and 
having  what  is  called  a  monopoly  of  tlie  linseed  l)nsiness  with 
Ireland.  Besides  a  summer  home  at  Hal  left's  Point,  ^Ir.  Hal- 
left's  residence  was  in  Pearl  street,  near  Wall  street,  the  i)ri)p- 


Joseph    Hallett. 

erty  extending  to  the  East  river,  improved  with  stores  at  Xos. 
104  and  106  and  also  108  and  105  Front  street;  also  in  Water 
strt  et  with  a  wliarf  on  the  river.  As  was  generally  the  case  with 
the  wealthy  merchants  of  tlie  ])eriod,  he  invested  large  sums 
in  country'  ])i  0])erties.  including  among  others  extensive  tracts 
of  land  in  the  state  of  New  Voi'k,  in  Harrison  county,  \"irginin. 
adjoining  lands  of  John  Delatield.  and  in  \"erinont. 

He  was  an  ardent  patriot,  was  a  member  of  all  of  the  com- 
mittees of  safety,  1774-76,  of  the  first  three  provincial  congresses 


GENEALOaiCAL  ANT)  FAMILY  HISTORY         '257 

of  the  state  of  Xew  York,  served  ou  the  finance  committees,  and 
on  the  special  committee  of  safety  appointed  by  the  congress  to 
act  dnring-  the  recess  of  that  body.  The  important  trusts  im- 
posed npon  him  and  the  frequent  mention  of  liis  name  in  the 
l)ioceedings  of  these  Ixxlies  are  evidence  of  his  zeal  for  the 
canse.  The  committee  of  safety  of  May,  1774,  consisting  of  fifty 
one  members,  was  deemed  too  conservative,  and  eleven  mem- 
bers, including  Hal  let  t,  his  fi'iends,  Francis  Jjcwis  and  Feter  V, 
1).  Livingston,  published  an  addi'ess  to  the  peoi)le;  they  were, 
however,  not  successful  in  securing  the  election  by  the  conunit- 
tee  of  Mr.  McDougall,  their  candidate  for  the  general  Colonial 
congress. 

After  the  ])attle  of  Long  Island  a  nmuber  of  gentlemen  of 
prominence  left  the  city,  in  many  instances  of  necessity  leaving 
their  wives  and  children  in  their  comfortable  homes.  PTarsh 
measures  were  employed  by  the  British  to  induce  the  return  of 
such  absentees.  The  wife  of  Francis  Lewis,  "the  signer,"  was 
ari-ested  at  her  country  i)lace  at  Whitestone,  some  miles  above 
Hallett's  Point,  and  was  imprisoned,  only  to  be  released  by  a 
Threat  from  General  AVashington  to  retaliate  in  kind.  The  wife 
and  l)abies  of  Air.  Hallett  were  permitted  to  occui)y  their  home 
but  under  guard;  fearing  that  they  might  find  means  of  leaving 
the  city,  they,  with  several  other  New  York  ladies,  were  taken 
with  the  British  army  when  it  advanced  into  Xew  Jersey,  the 
numlier  of  such  ])risoners  increased  by  the  arrest  in  the  .lerseys 
of  the  wives  or  other  ])i'ominent  Americans.  The  house  in  wliicli 
the  helpless  ca]ttives  were  confined  was  set  on  fire,  and  tlii' 
ladies  were  only  saved  from  a  mob  of  riotous  solditTs  by  l)ritisli 
officers  who,  with  drawn  swords,  dispersed  the  miscreants.  The 
following  day  the  commander-in-chief  ordered  the  return  to 
Xew  York  of  all  of  the  ladies — they  had  throughout  l)een  treated 

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25S         GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

with  respect,  Imt  it  was  an  experience  of  great  anxiety  an;l 
terror. 

For  the  i)rotection  of  his  family  Mr.  Hallett  retnrned  to 
New  York,  at  times  occupying  his  house  in  Pearl  street,  l)ut 
making  liis  chief  residence  at  Hallett's  Point.  .lust  before  the 
evacuation  of  the  city  by  the  British,  he  removed  from  the  coun- 
try and  received  at  his  home  Colonel  Benjamin  Tallmadge.  who 
had  entered  the  city  with  his  regiment  some  hours  before  the 
advance  of  the  main  body  of  the  American  army  to  act  in  con- 
junction with  a  British  regiment  whose  departure  was  delayed, 
the  jmrpose  being  to  protect  the  persons  and  the  projierty  of 
those  who  might  be  obnoxious  to  eitlier  the  advancing  or  to  the 
retreating  forces,  it  being  feared  that  in  the  excitement  of  the 
moment  one  party  or  the  other  might  find  occasion  to  retaliate 
for  real  or  supp)osed  former  wrongs. 

After  the  war  Mr.  Hallett  again  engaged  in  business,  l)ut 
not  on  so  large  a  scale  as  formerly.  His  wife,  who  survived  him 
for  many  years,  retained  her  city  house  but  passed  the  summer 
at  Petersfield  on  ^Manhattan  Island,  a  farm  leased  from  the 
Stuyvesants  at  $1,250  per  annum.  The  locality  was  especially 
agreeable  to  Mrs.  Hallett  as  being  of  easy  access  to  Horn's 
hook,  where  her  liusband's  sister,  the  widow  of  Colonel  Jacob 
Blackwell,  had  a  country  seat. 

John  and  Ann  (Hallett)  Delafield  had  issue  thirteen  chil- 
dren, nine  sons  and  four  daughters,  some  born  in  the  city  of 
New  York,  others  at  the  country  seat  at  "Sunswick,"  all  chris- 
tened by  the  clergy  of  Trinity  church,  where  Mr.  Delafield  owned 
a  large  S(|uare  ])ew.  Two  sons  died  in  early  youth;  three  daugh- 
ters, Ann  Eliza,  Knnua  and  Caroline  Augusta  died  unmarried; 
Susan  Maria,  l)orn  February  25,  1805,  died  June  1(),  18(il  ;  mar- 
ried, October  7,  1829,  Henry  Parish,  merchant  of  New  York. 
She  had  no  children.     Seven  sons  lived  to  old  age  and  did  their 


p^lllfa 


L>60         (fEXEALOGlCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

sliai-e  in  d('V('l()i)iiii>-  the  resources  and  prosperity  of  their  native 
(^ity. 

Jolin  Delafield,  .)i-.,  ))oi'n  in  the  cit}-  of  Xew  York,  January 
22,  1786,  died  at  his  fann  "Oakhmds,"  near  (ieneva,  Seneea 
county,  New  York,  October  22,  1853,  and  was  l)ni-ied  at  (Ieneva. 
Immediately  on  being  graduated  at  Columbia  college,  1S()2,  he 
was  given  a  i>osition  in  the  commercial  firm  of  Le  Roy,  I'>ayar.l 
&  McEvens,  and,  anxious  to  see  the  world,  was  nnich  to  liis 
delight  sent  l\v  them  the  following  year  as  supercargo  of  a  \es- 
sel  loaded  with  flour  to  Lisbon.  Soon  after  he  established  him- 
self as  a  merchant  and  made  several  voyages  to  Enrope  and  the 
"West  Indies,  in  one  of  which  he  was  wrecked.  In  1807  he  loaded 
the  brig  "Fame"  on  his  own  account  with  sugar  at  Havana  tind 
sailed  for  England;  forced  by  stress  of  weather  into  Corunn:i, 
Spain,  he  was  ordered,  January  17,  1808,  to  depart  instantly,  the 
French  opening  fire  ui)on  the  harbor.  The  ship's  cal)les  were 
cut  and  he  went  to  sea  short  of  ]H'ovisions  and  the  vessel  leak- 
ing, carrying,  besides  his  own  crew,  a  jiriest  and  a  family  of 
noble  S])anisli  refugees,  who  had  come  to  his  vessel  in  the  night 
Ha])pi!y  all  arrived  in  safety  in  the  Thames. 

Settling  in  London  he  remained  there  from  1808  to  1820  as 
a  merchant  and  banker.-  During  the  war  of  1812-15  was  held  as 
a  in'isoner  on  t)aro!e;  his  l)(ninds,  throngh  the  influence  of  his 
uncle.  Joseph  Delafield.  included  the  city  of  London  and  fifteen 
miles  ai'onnd  Uxbridge,  where  he  hired  a  conntry  seat  and  in- 
dulged his  absorbing  ])assion  for  agriculture.  His  business  af- 
fairs prospered  to  a  marked  degree,  but  in  1819  came  heavy 
losses.  In  reference  to  this  ])art  of  Mr.  I^elafield's  life,  Wash- 
ington Irving  wrote  "The  Wife,"  one  of  the  chai)ters  of  the 
Sketch  Book.  Early  in  1820  Mr.  Delafield  returned  to  Xew  Yoi-k 
and  in  the  following  August  was  ap])ointe(l  cashier  of  the 
Phenix  bank,  retaining  the  office  nntil  1838,  when  he  was  elected 


GEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISrOHY         201 

l)resident  of  the  l^ank,  resigning  the  position  the  same  year  to 
accept  the  presidency  of  the  Xew  York  Banking  Company.  Din-- 
ing  all  of  this  period  he  interested  himself  in  a  small  farm  on 
the  East  river  at  Hell  Gate,  which  he  brought  to  the  highest 
state  of  cultivation.  ^Ir.  Delafield  revived  and  served  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Philharmonic  Society,  which  for  many  years  had 
]iractically  ceased  to  exist. 

In  1842  Mr.  Delafield  purchased  "Oaklands."  a  large  farm 
on  Lake  Seneca,  state  of  Xew  York,  and  devoting  the  remainder 
of  his  life  to  its  im])rovement  it  became  the  model  farm  of  the 
state  of  Xew  York.  During  his  life  he  had  occupied  many  posi- 
tions of  trust  and  of  importance,  but  nothing  pleased  him  more 
than  his  election,  in  1850,  to  the  i)residency  of  the  Xew  York 
State  Agricultural  Society. 

John  Delafield  Jr.,  was  twice  married — first  at  Ht)llington 
("hurch,  Middlesex,  England,  to  his  cousin  Mary,  born  Fel)runry 
L'2,  178(i.  died  in  London.  March  19,  1818,  and  buried  in  Pen- 
tonville  Chapel,  only  child  of  .John  and  Mary  Roberts,  of  Wbit- 
chun-li,  Buckinghamshire,  the  last  of  an  ancient  and  honorable 
family — they  had  issue  1  dolin  Delafield.  Md.  born  Englau<1. 
()ctol)er  21,  1812,  died  England,  December  12,  18(5(5;  graduate! 
C'olumbia  College,  18^50.  A  lawyer  by  i)rofession.  he  was  by 
choice  a  student  and  linguist.  Pul)lished  in  Xew  York  and 
London,  1839.  the  "Antirpiities  of  America."  He  married,  .hnie 
14,  1833,  Edith,  daughter  of  Kev.  M.  (1.  Wallace,  of  Terre  Haute. 
Indiana,  and  left  issue:  Edith  Delafield,  born  at  Columbus.  Ohio. 
March  23.  183(5.  died  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  March  2S.  18(54; 
married,  at  St.  Louis.  February  1.  1854.  Christian  Kribltcn.  of 
St.  Louis,  and  left  issue:  I5ertrain  D.  and  Edith  Wallace  Kribben. 
Wallace  Delafield.  born  at  Cincinnati.  Ohio.  May  1.  1S41),  mar 
ried.  at  St.  Louis.  Missouri,  April  23.  1874.  Lizzie  T..  daughter 
of  Richard  P.   Hanenkamp.    (Mrs.   Delafield   is   the  Regent  of 


202         (lEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  IIISTOBY 

the  Daiightei's  of  tlic  Aiiien-iaii  Hevolution  in  St.  I^onis)  and 
lias  issue,  all  honi  at  St.  Louis;  Agnes,  Edith,  Lizzie,  Kdna  and 
a  son  Walhice,  l)t)rn  May  25,  1878.  Mary  Delafield,  born  at 
Arein])]iis.  Tennessee,  July  oO,  1842,  now  deceased;  married,  at 
Duncan's  Falls.  Ohio,  October  16,  1862.  George  Sturges,  of 
Chicago,  and  left  issue.  2.  Mary  Ann,  born  at  Uxbridge.  Eng- 
land, November  6,  1818.  died  Xew  York;  married,  November  6, 
1832,  Cornelius  l)u  Bois,  merchant  of  New  York,  and  left  issue. 
]\rrs.  Du  Bois  founded  the  Nursery  and  Child's  Hospital  of  Xew 
York.  o.  Charles,  l)orn  at  AVoburn  Place,  Ijondon,  England. 
February  4,  1815,  died  at  St.  l^ouis,  Missouri,  .June  4,  1842; 
married,  August  11,  1836,  Louisa,  daughter  of  P.  Pbtter,  of 
Poughkeeiisie  and  left  issue,  an  only  son,  the  Rev.  l^r.  Walter 
Delafield.  The  town  of  Delafield  in  Wisconsin  is  iiamed  after 
him. 

John  Delafield,  Jr.,  married  (second)  Harriet  T.,  daughter 
of  Colonel  P)enjainin  Tallmadge,  and  had:  1.  Tallniadge,  born 
.Se))teml)er  1,  1829,  merchant,  married,  October  2,  1850,  Anna, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Lawrence,  and  has  issue.  2.  Clarence, 
born  ]\Iay  (i,  1831,  civil  engineer,  married.  April  f).  18(i2.  Eliza, 
daughter  of  John  Payne,  and  has  issue.  3.  ]\lary  Floyd,  l)oru 
]\[ay  11,  1834,  deceased;  married,  November  4,  1858,  Right  Rev. 
Henry  A.  Neely,  Bisho])  of  ]\[aine,  she  left  no  issue  surviving 
her. 

Major  Joseph  Delafield,  born  August  22,  1790,  died  at  his 
residence,  475  Fifth  avenue,  February  12,  1875.  He  was  grad- 
uated at  Yale  College,  1808.  Studied  law  in  the  office  of  Josiah 
Ogden  Hoifman,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  October  29,  1811,  and 
the  same  year  became  a  partner  of  Mr.  Hoffman.  ^larch  12. 
1810,  he  was  appointed  lieutenant  in  the  Fifth  Regiment  Xew 
York  State  ^Militia,  and  ca]itain  of  drafted  militia  Februai-y  4, 
1812.     Decembei'  29,  1812,  he  was  connnissioned  to  a  captaincy 


GENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         2G3 

in  Hawkin's  regiment  of  artillery  in  the  regular  army  of  the 
Ignited  States,  and  ])romoted  major  of  the  Forty-Sixth  Infantry 
Aiiril  15,  1814.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  resigned  from  tlie 
a  rmy . 

He  Avas  a])pointed  agent  for  the  Ignited  States  nnder  the 
sixth  and  seventh  articles  of  the  Treaty  of  Ghent  for  settling 
t!ie  northern  honndary  of  the  Tnited  States,  and  had  command 
of  the  parties  in  the  field,  military  and  civil,  from  dannary,  ISl'l, 
until  the  completion  of  the  work  in  182S — the  survey  extending 
Irom  the  river  St.  Regis  in  the  state  of  New  York  to  the  Lake  of 
the  AVoods.  Because  of  the  inclemency  of  the  climate  aud  the 
uatuie  of  the  couiiti'y.  much  of  which  was  inhahited  almost  ex- 
clusively by  Indians,  the  woik  of  the  conunissiou  could  only  l)e 
prosecuted  during  the  (Continuance  of  the  moderate  weather, 
hence  Air.  Oelalield  was  able  to  pass  the  winters  in  Xew  York 
and  in  Washington.  !).  (*.  The  president  of  the  United  States 
and  cDiigi-tss  formally  acknowledged  the  services  rendered  by 
Major  Delafield  in  the  dischai'ge  of  his  duties.  While  in  the 
noi-th  Al'ijor  Delafield  added  materially  to  his  cdPection  of  min- 
(^.••i|s,  which  foi'  many  years  was  esteemed  as  one  of  the  best  in 
private  hands  in  this  country.  The  collection  has  now  found  a 
l>ermanent  home  at  the  New  ^'ol■l•;  rni\-ersit>-,  to  which  it  has 
been  given  by  the  heii's  of  Major  Delafield.  In  this  connection 
Professor  Egliston,  of  Columbia  rniversity.  wrote:  "The  sci- 
ence of  mineralogy  owes  a  debt  of  gratitude  to  Major  Delafield 
which  ought  not  to  be  forgotten,  and  h.is  memory  will  be  {k'V- 
pihi:!ttd  in  the  science  which  he  loved  so  well." 

Major  Delafield  was  a  member  of  many  si-ientific  societies, 
both  foreign  and  American.  Foi-  nearly  forty  years,  1S27  to 
ISIil),  he  was  president  of  the  Lyceum  of  Natural  IIisto)-\-  of  New 
Yoi-k-,  known  during  the  latter  part  of  his  presidency  and  now 
known  as  the  New  York  Academv  of  Sciences.    He  was  a  trustee 


264         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

of  the  ColU'ue  of  riiysiciniis  and  Surgeons  and  of  other  institu- 
tions, and  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  chnrcli. 

In  1829  Major  Delafield  acquired  a  tract  of  land  of  two 
hundred  and  fifty  acres  on  the  Hudson  river,  al)out  a  mile  above 
the  Si)uyten  Duyvil  creek,  then  a  i)art  of  the  town  of  Yonkers, 
AVestchestei'  county,  now  in  th.e  Twenty-foui'th  ward  of  the  city 
of  New  York,  to  which  he  gave  the  name  of  Fnllerton.  Here  he 
had  built  a  b.u'heloi-  establishment,  some  time  later  destroyed  by 
tire,  and  discovering  limestone  on  the  i>roi)erty,  erected  a  lime 
kiln  on  a  French  ]ilan,  which  could  be  kept  in  continuous  oi)era- 
tion,  a  (juality  theretofore  unknown  in  America.  The  enter- 
])rise  for  several  years  yielded  large  returns  without  i'e(|niring 
much  of  his  })ersonal  time  or  attention. 

In  1849  Alajor  Delafield  built  a  house  in  a  beautiful  posi- 
tion, ovei'looking  the  ri\'er.  which  he  oceu])ied  dui'ing  the  sum- 
mer foi'  the  i-emainder  of  his  life,  interesting  himself  in  the  im- 
provement of  the  estate. 

Major  Delafield  married,  December  12,  1833,  Julia,  born  at 
Staatsburgh,  Se])tember  15,  1801,  died  in  Xew  'York,  June  23, 
1882,  eldest  daughter  of  Judge  Maturin  Livingston,  of  New 
Yoi'k,  and  Staatsburgh.  Dutchess  county.  New  Vork,  and  bis 
wife.  Margaret  (Lewis)  Livingston,  only  child  of  (ieneral  Alor- 
gan  Lewis,  chief  justice  and  goverrmr  of  the  state  of  New  Yoi-k, 
l)resident  of  tlie  Order  of  the  Cincinnati  and  son  of  Francis 
Lewis,  "The  Signer,"  and  his  wife,  Elizabetli  (Annesly) 
licwis. 

Major  and  Julia  Delafield  had  children:  Lewis  L.,  born 
Novemlier  ."'.,  IS."!-!-.  Julia  Livingston,  boi'u  September  10,  18.")7. 
Jose])h,  Jr.,  born  August  .1,  1839,  died  February  24,  1848. 

(Ill)  Lewis  L.  Delafield,  born  at  his  father's  I'esidence  in 
Park  I'lace,  New  York  city,  November  3,  183)4,  died  at  his  resi- 
dence, No.  24-  West  Seventeenth  street,  March  28,  1883.    He  was 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY        265 

graduated  at  t]ie  C'olnml)ia  Colleg-e,  1855,  studied  law  in  the 
office  of  his  uncle,  Alexander  Hamilton,  Jr.,  admitted  attorney 
at  law,  1857,  a  triistee  of  School  of  Mines,  Columbia  College, 
one  of  the  foimders  of  the  Bar  Association  of  New  York,  1870, 
vestryman  of  Calvary  church,  New  York,  and  of  Christ  church, 
Riverdale.  Mr.  Delafield  inherited  and  occupied,  in  summer, 
his  father's  residence  and  the  grounds  immediately  adjacent,  at 
Fieldston.  He  married.  April  23,  1862,  Emily,  daughter  of 
Frederick  Prime,  of  New  York,  and  Edgewood,  New  Rochelle, 
New  York.  By  his  second  wife,  Lydia,  daughter  of  Dr.  Robert 
Hare,  of  Philadelphia,  they  had  four  children: 

1.  Lewis  L.  Delafield,  born  New  York  city,  January  30, 
1863,  graduated  at  Columbia  College  Law  School,  1884,  and  ad- 
mitted attorney  at  law  the  same  year.  He  received  in  1906  from 
his  brother  lawyers  and  the  Republican  party  the  nomination 
for  one  of  the  justiceships  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  state  of 
New  York.  He  married,  April  25,  1885,  Charlotte  Hoffman, 
daughter  of  Leonard  J.  and  Charlotte  (Prime)  Wyeth,  and  has 
three  children:  Lewis  L..  Jr..  bom  October  27,  1886;  Charlotte, 
born  April  6,  3889;  Emily,  born  July  28,  1900. 

2.  Robert  Hare  Delafield,  born  at  Edgewood,  July  13,  1864, 
died  at  the  residence  of  his  mother,  Fieldston,  November  20, 
1906.  He  married,  at  San  Francisco,  California,  August  14, 
1889,  Aune  Shepherd,  daughter  of  George  Francis  and  Mary 
Pindell  (Hammond)  Lloyd,  of  Virginia,  and  left  issue,  Robert 
Hare,  Jr.,  born  at  San  Francisco,  California,  January  25,  1894, 
and  Mary  Hammond,  born  at  San  Francisco,  California,  April  2, 
1895. 

3.  Frederick  Prime  Delafield,  born  at  475  Fifth  avenue, 
New  York  city,  February  2,  1868.  Graduated  at  Columbia  Col- 
lege Law  School  and  admitted  attorney  at  law,  1891.  He  mar- 
ried, November  10,  1898,  Elsie,  daughter  of  Charles   G.  and 


266         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Georg-iana  (Williams)  Barber,  of  New  York,  and  has  Frederick 
Prime,  Jr.,  born  September  2.  1902,  at  Fieldston,  Riverdale,  and 
Charles  Barber,  born  Jnne  28,  1905,  at  Fieldston,  Riverdale. 

4.  Emily  Delafield,  born  New  York  city,  Sei»tember  10, 
1870,  married,  Jnne  21,  1901,  at  the  residence  of  her  mother,  at 
Fieldston,  Dr.  Kolfe  Floyd,  only  child  of  Angnstus  and  Emma 
Floyd,  of  Mastic,  Long  Island,  and  has  had  issue:  Rolfe,  Jr., 
bom  July  13,  1902.  Richard,  born  May  4,  1904,  died  February 
16,  1905.    Emily  Delafield,  born  July  31,  1905. 

(IV)  Maturin  L.  Delafield,  born  at  the  residence  of  his 
father,  104  Franklin  street.  New  York  city,  February  17,  1836. 
Was  graduated  at  Cohnnbia  College,  1856,  and  three  years  later 
received  the  degree  of  A.  M.  After  two  years'  experience  in 
the  counting  house  of  his  uncle,  Henry  Delafield,  during  which 
time  he  made  a  voyage  as  supercargo  of  the  brig  "Bohio"  to 
Porto  Rico  and  Haiti,  he  engaged  in  the  West  Indian  business 
on  his  own  account,  and  being  fortunate,  retired  in  a  few  years 
from  active  business.  Mr.  Delafield 's  chief  residence  is  at 
Fieldston  on  Hudson,  where  he  built  a  stone  house  in  1869.  He 
has  also  a  summer  home,  "Sunswyck,"  at  West  Hampton,  Long- 
Island,  New  York,  built  in  1876. 

Maturin  L.  Delafield  married,  December  1,  1868,  Mary  Cole- 
man Livingston,  only  surviving  child  of  Eugene  A.  Livingston, 
of  Clermont  on  Hudson,  by  his  first  wife,  Harriet,  daughter  of 
Edward  and  Mary  Jane  (Ross)  Coleman,  of  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania. !\lrs.  Delafield's  only  In-other,  Eugene  l^ivingston,  left 
school  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  great  Civil  war  to  enlist  in  the 
Union  army;  stricken  with  fever  in  the  camp  before  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.,  he  was  brought  to  his  father's  home  at  Clermont  to 
die.  December  31,  1861,  a  few  days  before  his  seventeenth  birth- 
day.    ]\Iaturin  L.  and  Mary  C.  Delafield  have  issue: 

1.     Maturin  L.  Delafield,  Jr.,  born  at  the  residence  of  his 


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267 


giaudfathei-,  ^lajor  .Idsepli  Delatield,  475  Fifth  avenue,  Xew 
York  city,  Sei)temher  2i),  18()9.  entered  Columbia  College,  class 
of  1893,  l)ut  withdrew  in  his  second  year  to  engage  in  business, 
III  health,  however,  obliged  him  to  abandon  the  work,  and  for 
many  years  he  has  resided  at  St.  ^loritz,  Switzerland.  He  mar- 
ried. November  21,  1898,  Lettice  Lee.  daughter  of  Charles  Ed- 
win and  Letitia  (Campbell)   Sands. 

2.    Joseph  L.  Delafield,  born  at  475  Fifth  avenue,  Xew  York 
city,  enteied  Columbia  College,  class  of  189;;,  but  withdrew  to 


Eugene  Livingston. 

enter  the  Xew  York  T./aw  School,  and  was  admitted  attorney  at 
law  in  July,  1895,  and  |)ractices  his  })rofession  in  X"ew  York  city. 
He  married,  at  the  Brick  Presl)yterian  chundi,  X"ew  York  city. 
May  5.  190^.  Alary  Kenwick  Sloane.  daughter  of  William  Milli. 
gan  and  Alary  I-^.  (Johnston)  Sloane,  of  Xew  A'ork. 

.'!.  John  Ross  Delatield,  l)oni  at  the  residence  of  his  i)arents. 
Fieldston,  Riverdale-on-Hudson,  Alay  8,  1874,  was  graduated 
at  the  (\)llege  of  Xew  Jersey,  189(i,  received  the  degi'ee  of  Alas- 
tei-  of  Ai'ts  from  Princeton  I^ni\'ersity  in  1899.  and  was  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  T^aw  School,  1899;  admitted  the  same  vear 


26S         (iEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  IIISTOHV 

to  the  lull-  of  the  state  of  Xcw  York,  and  .low  practices  his  pi-o- 
ffcssion  in  the  city  of  New  Vovk.  Mi'.  lU'hiilehl  built  himself  a 
iTsideiice  at  Fiehlston  Hill.  Kiverdaie-uii-Ihiilson.  New  York 
(  ity.  ill  li)()."),  and  has  a  residence  on  Seventy-ninth  stre.'t.  Mar- 
ried, at  Church  of  the  Heavenly  Kest,  New  York  City,  dune  U. 
1904.  \'ioletta,  daughter  of  John  d.  and  Louisa  Lawrance  (Wet- 
more)  \Viiite.  ?ilrs.  White  was  one  of  the  daughters  of  General 
rros]/ei'  ^Montgomery  Wetmore.  bom  Felirnary  14.  179S.  died 
}.iarcli  1.',  1S7(>,  organizer  and  first  colonel  of  the  Seventh  Regi- 
n.ie;it  of  X?\v  York  and  a  general  of  state  militia.  Mr.  and  ]\Irs. 
l)?:afield  have  issue:  John  White  Koss  Delalield,  born  at  the 
r.  iidence  of  ]\\<  parents  111  East  Thirty-ninth  street.  New  York 
(  ity.  May  12.  1!)()5. 

4.  dn'.ia  L.  Delalield.  burn  at  the  red(h-ii(e  of  her  parents 
rt  Field-ton.  IJiverdale-on-IIudson.  (ktuber  14,  ISTo,  married. 
at  tiie  rc.ride:ice  of  her  parents.  475  Fifth  avenue.  New  York 
City.  April  80,  1901,  Frederick  William  Longfellow  (graduated 
:  t  Harvard  Law  School  in  L'^91).  and  has  issue:  Julia  Delalield 
i,o:igfe!lov.-..  1)0!  n  at  Fiehlston,  Riverdale-nn-Hudson,  April  2S, 
19ilJ.  Frederick  Livingston  Longfellow.  Iiora  at  the  country 
seat  of  his  })aieats,  ILxiue  Bluffs.  Maine.  .August  18,  lOO.'J. 
Eliz:TlKth  Delafieid  Longfellow,  bom  at  the  residence  of  her 
])ai-ents.  '2S'2  West  Seventieth  street.  New  ^'(n•k  City,  February 
14.  1905. 

5.  Kdward  Coleman  Delafieid,  bi)rn  at  the  country  seat  of 
liis  parents.  "Suuswyidv,"  West  llampcon.  Long  Island,  July 
10,  1S77,  was  graduated  at  Princeton  Lniversity  in  1899,  and  is 
engaged  in  business  in  New  Yoi'k.  lie  resides  chiefly  at  Fields- 
Ion  Hill.  Kiverdal?-on-Hudson.  where  lie  built  himself  a  house 
in  HH)5.  Married,  at  St.  Thomas  Church.  Xcw  \'ork  City,  Ajtril 
."SO.  19(11).  Ahirgaretta  Stockton,  daughter  of  .Mercer  and  ^fary 
(Stockton)   l^x'aslev  (4'  Xt'W  Jersev.  grandchild  of  Chief  Justice 


Is 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         271 

Beasley,  of  Xew  Jersey,  and  oi'  (Teneral  liohert  Field  Stockton, 
a  descendant  of  tlie  "Signer,"  and  has  issne:  Alatni'in  Living- 
st.)n  Delafield,  ord,  l)orn  at  the  residence  of  his  grandfather, 
:\Iaturin  L.  Delafield,  475  Fifth  avenue,  .Maivli  17,  IDOl.  Mar- 
garetta  Stockton  Delafield,  born  at  the  residence  of  her  i)a rents, 
20  East  Thirty-fifth  street,  New  York  City,  November  '^,  1904. 
Edward  Coleman  Delafield,  born  at  the  residence  of  his  jiarents, 
20  East  Thirty-fifth  street.  New  York  City,  February  14,  l!)(Hi. 
().  Alary  Livingston  Delafield,  born  at  the  residence  of  her 
l)a rents  at  Fieldston,  Riverdale-on-Hndson,  November  23,  1878. 

7.  Harriet  Coleman  Delafield,  l)orn  at  the  residence  of  her 
parents  at  Fieldston,  May  7,  1880,  married,  at  the  Church  of 
the  Heavenly  Rest,  New  York  City,  April  28,  190(),  darvis  Pom- 
eroy  Carter.  Mr.  Carter  was  graduated  at  Columbia  C^ollege, 
li)02,  and  the  Columbia  Fniversity  Law  School,  1905. 

8.  Eugene  L.  Delafield,  born  at  the  country  seat  of  his 
parents,  "Sunswyck,"  West  Hampton,  Long  Island,  August  K!, 
1882,  was  graduated  at  Stevens  Institute  of  Technology,  1905, 
mechanical  engineering.  He  married,  September  2(!,  1906,  at 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  at  Tennent,  New  Jersey,  Mar- 
garett  Nevius,  only  child  of  John  T.  and  Margarett  S.  (Nevius) 
WoodhuU,  of  New  Jersey. 

Senator  James  Ross,  born  in  York  county,  Pennsylvania, 
July  12,  1762,  died  in  Allegheny  City,  Pennsylvania,  November 

27,  1847.    James  and  his  sister  Elizabeth,  wife  of 

A\'liiteford,  were  the  only  children  of  Jose[)li  and  Jane  (Gra- 
ham) Ross  who  survived  infancy.  James'  wife,  Jane  (Graham) 
Ross,  was  the  sole  survivor  of  her  family.  Mr.  Ross  served  as 
a  young  man  in  the  Revolutionary  army;  was  one  of  the  most 
])rominent  meml)ers  of  the  First  Pennsyh  ania  Constitutional 
Convention;  represented  his  native  state  in  the  I'nited  States 
seiiate  from  1794  to  1803;  for  three  terms,  in   1799,  1802  and 


J>72         (iEXEALOdlCAL  AX  J)  FAMILY  IIISTOBY 

iSd.").  a  caiididatc  of  tlic  Federal  ])ai'ty  in  Peiitisyhaiiia  i'or  the 
ol'lii'c  of  i>()\('riioi- ;  was  cliairiiian  of  the  coimnittee  named  by 
Washington  to  ('oni]iose  the  ^Vlliskey  Insnri'ection  ;  was  a  leg^al 
adviser  and  ;in  intimate  friend  of  (lenei'al   \\'asliin<>ton. 

lie  married,  .lannary  l."?,  17!*!,  Ann,  horn  at  l>edford.  Penn- 
sylvania, Jannary  1^0,  1771,  died  at  ('ornwaH,  I^ennsylvania,  Sep- 
tember 11,  ISO."),  danoiiter  of  John  Woods,  of  Bedfoi'd,  Penn- 
sylvania, a  coUjiiel  of  the  Pennsylvania  ti'oo])s  during  the  Revo- 
hition,  and  the  chief  officer  for  Bedford  county,  Pennsylvania, 
under  the  first  constitution  of  the  state.  Of  Senator  and  Ann 
Ross'  children  only  one  married,  namely,  Mary  .lane,  born  at 
I'irtsbnrg,  dune  28,  17J)7,  died  at  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  Sep- 
tejuber  27,  1825.  Married,  at  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  October 
7,  181(i,  Edward  Coleman,  of  Lancaster  and  I*hiladeli)liia,  mem- 
bei-  of  the  asseml)ly  and  of  the  senate  of  the  state  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, born  at  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  duly  4,  1792,  died  at 
Philadelphia,  June  6,  1841.  Edward  and  Mary  Jane  l\oss  Cole- 
man had  three  children: 

1.  Mary  Jane  Coleman,  born  August  2."),  1825,  died  un- 
mairied  ]\Iarch  2."!,  1847. 

2.  Anne  Ross  Coleman,  born  November  8.  1818,  died  at 
Edinburgh,  Scotland,  December  2,  1895;  married  George  Wool- 
sey  Aspinwall.     Their  children  all  died  young  and  unmarried. 

;!.  Harriet  Coleman,  born  Ju.ly  5.  1820,  died  .May  8,  1848; 
manied,  at  Philadelphia,  December  7,  1841,  Eugene  A.  Living- 
ston, of  Clermont,  Xew  York,  born  at  the  residence  of  his  grand- 
fa  tliei-.  Chancellor  Robert  R.  Livingston,  at  (Mermont,  Columbia 
county,  Xew  York,  August  1."),  181.'),  died  at  Nice,  France,  Deceni- 
bei-  22,  18P,'),  and  had  Eu'iC'ie,  and  Mary  Colenuni  Livingston, 
who  married  Matuviu  L.  Delatield,  as  uu'utioiu'd  in  the  text. 

Mr-:.  Delafie'd  and  her  children  are  the  only  descendants  of 
tlu'ii-  (iraliam.  Ross  and  Coleman  pi'ogt'uitois,  above  mentioned 


aEXEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         273 

!l(i-  t'jitlicv.  Fiiigvne  A.  Livingston,  luariicd  (second)  p]liza- 
))i'tli  IJIiodcs,  danghtcr  of  Coleman  and  Mary  Fisher,  of  Pliila- 
dclpliia.  and  had  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  of  whom  one 
(huighter  is  married,  namelx',  Katlierine  ^NlcCall  Livingston, 
mai'ried,  .luiie  L  1SS2,  William  15.  Slinhrick  (Mymer,  who  died 
May  7,  IfH),"?,  leaving  an  only  chihL  George  (Mymer,  l)orn  April 
i;{.  ISS,").  married,  April  5,  1905,  Susan,  daugliter  of  Dr.  Enssell 
Stnrges,  of  Boston,  and  lias  issue,  William  P.  S.  Clymer,  l)orn 
,.];nui:!r\   I'd,  P.IOC. 

lIeni-\-  and  William  Delafield,  twins,  liorn  at  the  country  seat 
of  their  father.  "Snnswiek,"  Long  Island,  July  19,  1792.  Will- 
iam died  unmarried  at  the  I'esidence  of  his  sister,  Mrs.  Henry 
Pa.i'ish,  New  Vork  City.  Xoxendier  :!(>,  Lsr).'!;  Henry  died  at  his 
residence.  :i()9  Fifth  aA'enue,  Feln-uary  1.1,  lS7r).  These  two 
hruthers  resemhled  each  other  so  closely  that  oidy  intimate 
friends  could  distinguish  one  from  the  other,  and  from  boyhood 
weie  inse])aral)le—  not  ln]>|)y  except  in  each  other's  company. 
Asscci.'ited  in  business  as  sliijiping  merchants  and  shi])  owners, 
nniler  the  finn  name  of  Henry  and  William  Delafield,  they  did 
busine-s  first  ^vith  Fngland,  later  with  Cliina,  South  America  and 
the  AVest  Indies,  fina'ly  restricting  their  business  almost  exclus- 
ivel>'  witli  the  West  Indies.  Henry  for  many  years  was  consul 
for  H'lyti,  during  the  reign  of  the  Empercn-  Sonlocpie,  1851  to 
1S59;  and  both  bi-others  occujjied  many  [){)sitions  of  trust.  On 
the  death  of  \\'illiani,  1S5.'),  Henry  lost  all  his  interest  in  active 
( (unmercial  l)Usine^,-^ ;  a.-^s()ciated  his  nephew,  Tallmadge  Dela- 
fit'ld,  ill  the  business,  under  the  fii'ui  name  of  Delafield  cV:  Com- 
]  any,  from  which  he  retired  May  1,  1S57.  For  some  years  he  oc- 
cupied liinisrif  as  a  directoi'  in  sevei'al  com])anics  in  which  he 
was  inlt'i'ested.  The  shippiiig  business  of  the  old  firm  was  con- 
tii'.ued  for  seveial  years  hy  TaI'madge   Delafield;  the  trust  and 


274         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

banking  affairs  were  i)laeed  by  Wv.  Delafield  in  the  hands  of  Ma- 
turin  L.  Delafield,  another  one  of  his  nephews. 

Henry  Delafield 's  country  seat,  which  he  occupied  fi'oui 
1831,  during  the  summer  months,  was  on  Manhattan  Island,  at 
what  is  now  Seventy-sixth  street.  The  estate  of  over  forty  acres 
had  been  i)urchased  l)y  Dr.  John  Baker,  an  Englishman,  and 
was  in  sight  of  "Sunswick,"  on  the  opposite  (Long  Island)  shore 
of  the  river.  As  countrymen  by  birth,  the  family  of  Dr.  Baker 
and  that  of  John  Delafield  became  intimate.  Dr.  Baker  ai)point- 
ed  ^Ir.  Delafield  the  executor  of  his  will,  and  dying  childless,  be- 
queathed, subject  to  the  life  of  his  wife,  who  died  in  1831,  his 
country  place,  first  to  Henry  Delafield,  then  in  turn  to  the  Dela- 
field Brothers  for  their  lives  and  on  their  deaths  to  become  the 
property  of  Trinity  Church  School.  A  print  of  the  residence 
may  be  found  in  Valentine's  Corporation  Manual  for  1862,  page 
1261. 

Henry  Delafield  married,  at  the  residence  of  his  l)rother. 
Major  Joseph  Delafield,  475  Fifth  avenue,  February  9,  1865, 
Mary  Parish,  born  March  6,  1838,  at  Hobart,  New  York,  died  at 
her  husband's  residence,  269  Fifth  avenue,  May  16,  1870,  eldest 
daughter  of  Judge  Ijevinus  Monson,  of  Hobart,  New  York,  and 
had  issue  an  only  child,  Mary  Frances  Henrietta  Delafield,  born 
at  her  father's  residence,  June  9,  1869,  died  at  the  same  place 
October  27,  1886. 

Dr.  Fdward  Delafield,  son  of  John  and  Ann  Dehifield,  born 
at  his  father's  residence,  35  Pearl  street.  New  York  City,  May 
17,  1794,  died  at  his  residence.  1  East  Seventeenth  street,  corner 
Fifth  avenue.  New  York  City,  February  13,  1875.  Was  grad- 
uated at  Yale  College;  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  1812,  and  at  the 
College  of  Physicians  cV-  Surgeons,  1815:  served  as  surgeon  in 
the  United  States  army — war  1814-15.  He  sailed,  August,  1817, 
in  the  "Minerva,"  Captain  Sketchley,  for  London,  where  he  be- 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY         i.^75 

came  a  favorite  pui»il  of  Sir  Astley  Cooper  and  of  Dr.  Aber- 
nethy,  and  by  tbe  advice  of  bis  preceptors  i)assed  some  time  in 
tbe  bosj)itals  at  Paris.    Returning  to  New  York  be  founded,  in 

1820,  associated  witb  Dr.  J.  Kearny  Rodgers,  tbe  New  York  Eye 
and  Ear  Infirmary,  and  was  tbe  senior  surgeon  from  1825  to 
1852.  In  1834  be  was  ai)i)ointed  one  of  tbe  attending-  pbysicians, 
and  in  1835  professor  of  ol)stetrics  and  diseases  of  women  and 
cbiklren  in  tbe  (*ollege  of  Pliysicians  and  Surgeons;  from  1834 
to  1838  pbysician  to  the  New  York  Hospital,  founded  1842,  and 
president  of  tlie  Society  for  tbe  Relief  of  Widows  and  Orpbans 
of  Medical  Men ;  first  president  of  tbe  New  York  Optbalmologi- 
cal  Society,  1865;  in  1858  was  cbosen  president  of  tbe  College  of 
Pbysicians  and  Surgeons;  in  1858  be  was  senior  consulting  pby- 
sician of  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  and  from  its  establisbment  in 
1872  senior  consulting  pbysician  of  tbe  Women's  Hospital  and 
president  of  tbe  ^ledical  Board;  from  1854  president  of  tbe 
medical  board  of  tbe  Nursery  and  Cbild's  Hospital;  at  tbe  or- 
ganization of  tbe  Roosevelt  Hosi)ital,  in  1867,  be  was  appointed 
a  meml)er  of  tbe  board  of  governors,  and  was  afterwards  cbosen 
president,  retaining  tbe  office  during  bis  life.  Dr.  Delafield's 
country  seats  were,  first  on  tbe  Floyd  estate  at  Mastic,  Long 
Island,  and  later  at  Darien,  Connecticut,  wbere  be  purchased  a 
tract  of  land  to  wbicli  be  gave  tbe  name  of  Felsenbof. 

Dr.  Edward  Delafield  was  twice  married;  first,  October  12, 

1821,  to  Elinoi-  Ebzal)et]i  Langdon  Elwyn,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Elinor  Elwyn,  of  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire.  ^Irs.  Dela- 
field w;is  tbe  only  cliild  and  heii'  of  (rovernor  Langdon,  of  New 
Hampsbire;  she  was  born  July  19,  1799,  at  Portsmouth.  New 
Hampshire,  and  died  in  the  city  of  New  York,  April  24,  is;'.4.  Dr. 
and  I^linor  Delafield  had  issue,  tbree  sons  and  three  daiiiihters, 
all  of  wboiu  (lied  umnanied  before  their  father.  Dr.  Delafield 
married   (second),  .laiiuarv   '.\\,   1S.",9,  at    tbe   residence    of    tbe 


•276         GEXEAUXnCAL  AXD  FAMILY  lUsTOIfY 

l)i-i(le's  father.  Mastic.  Loiii"'  Nhunl,  Xcw  York.  .Iiilia  Fluyd,  honi 
July  ;.  ISiiS,  ;!t  Mastic,  died  Aui>iist  IS.  1S7!».  at  licr  residence, 
'■]''elsciili(if."  Darieii,  Connecticut,  daughter  of  Colonel  Xicoll 
Floyd.  ;!ii(l  aranddangliter  of  William  Floyd,  '•the  Signer,"  of 
Mastic,  Long  Island,  and  had  issue  two  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters: 

1.  Catherine  Floyd  Delatield.  horn  Xovemher  S,  IS."!;),  uiar- 
ried.  at  the  Chui'ch  of  the  Ascension,  New  York  City,  Ai)ril  7, 
lS(io.  Kdward  Markoe  AVright,  and  has  issue:  Edward  Delafield 
Wright,  horn  January  ^o,  1S(U,  married,  August  2(i,  1SS5,  at 
Huntingdon.  Long  Island,  P^lla  Blanchard  Pratt,  daughter  of 
AYilliam  B.  and  Susie  (loddard  (Snelling)  Pratt.  Emily  Hart- 
man  Wright,  liorn  New  York  City,  April  8,  L8(i(i.  Francis  Alark- 
oe  Wright,  horn  New  York  City,  ]\larch  28,  18(58. 

■J.  Dr.  Francis  Delatield,  liorn  New  York  City,  August  8, 
18-l-L  was  graduated  at  Yale  College,  1860,  and  at  the  College  of 
Phy.sicians  and  Surgeons,  New  York  City,  L8()o;  studied  his  ])ro- 
fession  in  Paris,  Berlin  and  London;  has  filled  the  following 
among  other  offices :  Surgeon  in  the  New  York  Eye  and  Ear  In- 
firmary; ]ihysician  and  ])athologist  to  the  Poosevelt  Hospital, 
1871  ;  physician  to  Bellevue  Hos}ntal,  1874;  adjunct  professor, 
1875,  and  suliseqnently,  1882,  professor  of  pathology  and  the 
])ractice  of  medicine  in  the  New  York  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons;  consulting  iiliysician  to  Bellevue  Hospital,  1885;  and 
188(i  first  president  of  the  Association  of  American  Physicians 
and  [Pathologists.  He  has  contrihuted  to  the  science  of  medicine 
the  ''Manual  of  Physical  Diagnosis,"  1878,  and  hook  of  "Post 
Mortem  Examinations  on  Morbid  Anatomy,"  1872.  studies  in 
"Pathological  Anatomy,"  1882,  and  hand  hook  of  "  i'atholog- 
i<'al  Anatomy."  1885.  Dr.  P^'rancis  Delatield  mnrriid.  .lauuary 
17.  1870.  Katharine,  daughter  of  Colonel  Heni-y  and  Elizaheth 
Ynu  Kensselaer.  of  ()u(lensl)nrg  and  New  York  Citv.     .Mrs.  Dela- 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         '211 

field  was  a  gTanddanghter  of  Governor  .lohn  Alsop  King,  of 
New  York,  and  lias  issue : 

1.  Klizalx'tli  IJay  Delalield,  Ijorn  Xew  York  City,  Sejiteni- 
ber  15,  1872. 

2.  Julia  Floyd  Delafield,  horn  Xew  York  City,  August  2, 
1874,  married,  November  11,  189(),  at  the  church  of  the  Holy 
Comnuniion,  New  York  City,  Frederick  \"an  Schoenhoven 
Crosby,  and  has  issue. 

3.  Cornelia  Van  Renselaer  Uelatield,  born  New  York 
City,  February  22,  1876. 

4.  Edward  Henry  Delafield,  l)orn  New  York  City,  Decem- 
ber 23,  1880,  married,  October  1,  1904,  Winifred,  daughter  of 
George  Winthrop  and  Frances  (Fuller)  Folsom,  and  has  issue. 

3.  Emma  Harriot  Delaheld,  born  May  26,  1844,  resides  at 
her  country  seat  "Felsenhof,"  Darien,  Connecticut. 

4.  Augustus  Floyd  Delafield,  l)orn  January  2,  1847,  died 
at  his  country  seat  at  Noroton,  Connecticut,  July  18,  1904,  grad- 
uated at  Columl)ia  College,  18()(),  and  at  Friel)urg,  Saxony;  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  Ph.  1).  from  the  Coluinl)ia  College  School 
of  Minds,  1879.  Mr.  Delafield  married,  October  19,  187G,  Mary 
Anna,  daughter  of  George  Augustus  and  Catherine  Janet  (Ack- 
ennan)  Baker,  of  New  York  City;  he  left  no  issue. 

5.  Alice  Delafield,  born  Xew  York  City,  :\Iarcli  3,  1849, 
married,  at  the  Church  of  the  Ascension,  Xi'w  \ ovk  City,  April 
21,  1868,  Howard  Clarkscn,  son  of  William  P..  and  Adelaide 
(Livingston)  Clarkson,  and  has  issue,  all  born  in  the  city  of 
New  York: 

1.  Adelaide  Livingston  Clarkson,  l)orn  January  29,  1870, 
married,  April  11,  1898,  at  the  Church  of  the  Incarnation,  X'ew 
York  City,  CUermont  L.  Clarkson,  of  Xew  York. 

2.  Alice  Delafield  Clarkson,  born  January  9,  1872,  mar- 
rif^l,  X^ovember  9,  190(),  at  the  residence  of  her  parents,  X'^o.  58 


278         GEXEALOGICAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

West  Thirty- seventh  street,  New  York  City,  Jolm  Henry  Liv- 
ingston, of  Clermont,  New  York. 

.").  Julia  Floyd  Clarkson,  hui'u  October  "Jo,  1875,  married, 
Ain-il  28,  1897,  at  the  Church  of  the  Incarnation,  New  York  City, 
Eugene  Dexter  Hawkins,  of  New  York,  and  has  issue. 

4.  Cornelia  Livingston  (Markson,  l)orn  April  19,  1878. 

5.  Emily  Delatield  Clarkson,  ])orn  April  19,  1878,  died 
New  York  City,  Deeenilier  9,  1887. 

General  Richard  Delatield,  born  at  the  residence  of  his 
father,  25  Wall  street.  New  York  City,  September  1,  1798,  died 
at  his  residence,  1715  I  street,  Washington,  D.  C.,  November  5, 
1873;  married  twice,  first,  at  the  headquarters  of  General 
Gratiot,  Old  Point  Comfort,  Mrginia,  July  24,  1824,  to  Helen, 
daughter  of  Andrew  and (Stewart)  Summers,  of  Phil- 
adelphia. ]\h-s.  Delafield  died  November  23,  1824,  at  Fort  Jack- 
son on  the  Mississippi.  He  married  (second),  at  the  residence 
of  the  bride's  uncle.  Judge  Baldwin,  near  Alexandria  on  the 
Red  river,  June  2,  1833,  Harriet  Baldwin,  born  July  7,  1811, 
died  December  14.  1894,  at  her  residence,  1715  I  street,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  eldest  daughter  of  General  Elijah  Mormon  an:l 
H.irriet  W.  (Baldwin)  Covington,  of  Covington,  Kentucky,  and 
had  issue,  two  sons  and  six  daughters: 

1.  Henry  Delafield  born  June  22,  1834,  died  in  early  youth. 
2.  Susan  Parish  Delafield,  born  April  28,  1836,  at  Philadel])liia, 
died  at  the  family  residence,  (i  West  Eighteenth  street.  New 
Y'ork  City,  June  1,  1896.  3.  Juliet  Covington  Delafield,  l)()i-n 
September  29,  1837,  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  4.  Corne- 
lia Delafield,  born  June  30,  1839,  at  superintendent's  head- 
(|uarters.  West  Point,  New  York,  died  at  the  same  i)lace  Sep- 
tem])er  14,  1839.  5.  Emma  Delafield,  born  September  29.  1840, 
at  superintendent's  headcpiarters.  West  Point,  New  York.  (5. 
Laura  Delafield,  born  July  5,  1843,  at   superintendent's  head- 


(iENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         279 

(luarters,  West  Point,  New  York,  died  Xoveml)er  20,  1886,  at  the 
family  residence,  1715  I  street,  AVashington,  1).  C.  7.  Albert 
Delafield.  horn  Mai-ch  7,  1846,  at  Xew  Bridgton,  Staten  Island, 
was  graduated  at  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  1868,  and 
at  the  Columbia  C*ollege  Law  School,  1870;  admitted  attoruey- 
atdaw  dune  7,  1870.  lie  married,  June  14,  1882,  at  Greenport, 
Long  Island,  Julia  Delafield,  daughter  of  David  Gelston  and 
Lydia  (Smith)  Floyd,  of  Grreenport,  Long  Island.  Mr.  Floyd 
was  a  grandson  of  General  William  Floyd,  "the  Signer,"  of 
Elastic,  and  has  issue  one  child — Grace  Floyd  Delafield.  8. 
Harriet  Cecil  Delafield,  l)oni  August  9,  1849,  at  Fort  Riclmiond, 
Staten  Island,  New  York,  died  at  the  residence  of  her  mother, 
6  West  Eighteenth  street.  New  York  City,  June  7,  1882;  mar- 
ried, November  18,  1880,  at  Calvary  Church,  New  York  City, 
Edgar  J.  Shipman,  and  had  issue  an  only  child,  Richard  Dela- 
field Shipman,  born  May  17,  1882,  at  6  West  Eighteenth  street. 
New  York  City. 

Kufus  King  Delafield,  youngest  son  of  .John  and  Ann  Dela- 
field, I)()rn  at  his  father's  residence,  16  Wall  street.  New  York 
City,  November  18,  1802,  died  at  the  residence  of  his  son-in-law, 
dolm  T.  Hall,  253  Fifth  avenue,  New  York  City,  Feluiiary  (i, 
1874.  An  officer  of  the  Phenix  Bank,  1823  to  1835;  actuary  and 
secretary  of  the  Farmers'  Loan  cV'  Trust  Company,  .huic,  1835, 
to  July,  1852.  Afterward  he  occupied  himself  in  tlic  manufact- 
uve  of  hydraulic  cement,  and  was  for  many  years  ])resident  of 
the  Delafield  &  Baxter  Cement  Co.  Like  his  brothers,  he  wished 
for  a  life  in  the  country,  and,  as  soon  as  the  cares  of  Inisiness 
would  permit,  he  moved  to  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  where 
he  brought  his  country  seat  to  the  highest  state  of  cultivation. 

Mr.  Delafield  married,  November  8,  183(),  Eliza  Bard,  born 
at  Hvde  l^ark,  Dutchess  countv.  New  York,  Xovemiier  27.  1813, 


280         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  JIlSTOh'V 

died  ]\Iay  <),  i;)()2,  daiigliter  of  William  and  Catherine  (Crnger) 
Bard,  of  Jlyde  Park,  New  Voik,  and  had  issue: 

1.  Edward  Delafield,  l)()rn  Xo.  '2  College  ])lace,  Xew  York 
City,  Oc'tohei-  1.'!,  Is;')!,  died  at  his  country  seat,  Lenox,  Massa- 
chusetts, November  28,  1SS4.  Mr.  Delatield  was  a  member  of 
th-:"  New  York  Stock  Exchange,  formed  tlie  tirm  of  Delatield  & 
Fiteli,  and  after  his  father's  death  was  president  of  the  Dela- 
field  &  Baxter  Cement  Co.  Jle  married,  October  3,  1861,  Eliza- 
beth Remsen,  daughter  of  Frederick  and  Catlierine  A.  (Rem- 
seu)  Schuchardt,  l)y  whom  he  left  issue:  a.  Rufus  Delatield, 
born  at  the  residence  of  liis  grandfather,  Hufus  King  Delatield, 
New  Brighton,  New  York,  -June  5,  18()o,  married,  April  27,  1886, 
Elizabeth  Breese,  daugliter  of  Sidney  E.  and  Anna  M.  (Church) 
Morse;  no  issue,  h.  Frederick  Schuchardt  Delatield,  l)orn 
A|n"il  8,  1865,  at  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  married,  ()ct()l)er 
16,  1894,  Annie  Oakley,  daughter  of  Frederick  W.  Brooks,  and 
has  issue  one  daughter,  born  December  15,  1897. 

•2.  William  Bard  Delatield,  born  October  11,  1888,  died  un- 
married June  1,  1862. 

.'!.  Rufus  Delatield,  born  No.  2  College  place,  New  York 
City,  July  3,  1840,  died  at  Alexandria,  Virginia,  unmarried,  De- 
cember 28,  18()1.  While  a  student  at  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  New  York  City,  he  was  appointed  at  the  com- 
mencement of  the  great  Civil  war,  in  1861,  a  medical  cadet  of 
the  United  States  army,  serving  as  an  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
Sixteenth  Regiment,  New  York  State  \^olunteers.  Detailed  to 
the  general  hos])ital  at  Alexandria,  Virginia,  he  contracted 
tyi/lioid  fever  from  which  he  died  December  28,  18(51. 

4.  Heni'v  Parish  Delatield,  l)oni  No.  2  College  ])lace.  New 
York  ('ity,  July  18,  1842,  died  at  his  country  seat.  Stone  Ridge, 
rister  county,  Xew  Yoi-k,  July  1,  1904;  married  at  Grace 
Churcli,  Brooklyn,  Xovt'mbcr  13,  1883,  Elizabeth  Blake,  daugh- 


Richard    Delafleld. 


GENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  IlISTOHl  -JSS 

ter  of  Daniel  E.  and  Annie  Blake  Moran,  and  left  issue  two 
daughters:  Elizabeth  Bard  Delafield,  and  Nina  Moran  Dela- 
tield,  twins,  born  August  2,  1884. 

5.  Bertram  DeXully  Dt'lafield,  horn  Xovemher  (i,  1844, 
died  unniari'ied  July  24,  18()5. 

().  Catherine  C^ruger  Delafield.  l)()rn  21  Walker  street.  New 
York  ('it>\  -laiinary  16,  1847,  married  at  the  residence  of  her 
brother,  Edward  Delafield,  John  T.  Hall,  of  New  York  City,  and 
has  issue:  a.  Eliza  Bard  Tlall.  b.  Susan  Tonnele  Hall,  mar- 
ried Bryce  Metealf,  at  the  Church  of  the  Transtiguration,  Xew 
York  City,  Novembei'  2,  1 !)()().  c.  Katherine  Cruger  Delafield 
Hail. 

7.  Hirhard  Delafield,  l)orn  at  the  residence  of  his  father, 
Xew  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  Septemlier  (i,  1853,  married,  April 
6,  1880,  at  St.  Mary's  Chuch,  Xew  Brighton,  Staten  Island, 
Clara  Carey,  daughter  of  Frederick  G.  Foster,  and  has  no  issue. 
Resides  in  X^ew  Y^ork  City,  and  has  a  country  seat  at  Tuxedo 
Park,  X^ew  York. 

Mr.  Delafield  was  educated  in  the  Anthon  graunnar  school, 
Xew  Brighton,  Staten  Island.  Entered  a  mercantile  house  as 
clerk,  in  1878,  and  later  liecame  its  manager.  Director  s;n"e 
1890;  vice-president  189()  to  1900;  and  ])resident  since  June, 
1900,  of  the  Xational  Park  Bank  of  Xew  York;  vice-iu'esident 
and  trustee  of  the  Colonial  Trust  Co.;  trustee  American  Surety 
Co.,  Frankfort  ^larine  Accident  iSc  Plate  ({lass  Insurance  Co., 
and  Trinity  Church  Corporation;  chairman  of  board  of  direct- 
ors and  the  Mount  Morris  Bank,  Mutual  Bank,  Plaza  Bank,  a)id 
Y'orkville  Bank;  memlier  of  Clearing  House  Committee  Xew 
York  Clearing  House  Association;  President  Seaside  Home  of 
Long  Is'and. 

(lenei-al  Richard  Dilafield,  son  of  John  Delafielil.  was  l);)ni 
in  Xew  York,  September  1,  1798.     In  1818  he  graduated  from 


2.S4         (iE^EAUHiWAL  AX  I)  EAMILY  HISTORY 

"West  Point,  at  the  lu'ad  of  his  class,  with  the  grade  of  second 
lieutenant.  In  ISiM)  he  was  made  first  lieutenant,  and  captain  in 
1S"JS.  From  1<S1!)  to  LSrxS  he  was  in  charge  of  the  construction 
of  defenses  at  Hampton  Koatls.  In  1838  he  was  promoted  as 
major,  and  for  seven  years  was  superintendent  of  the  United 
States  Military  Academy  at  West  Point.  He  also  lield  the  same 
iiositioii  from  ls.')()  to  18()1.  Fi-om  184()  to  1800  he  was  superin- 
tendent of  the  defenses  of  New  York  harbor.  During  the  Cri- 
mean war  he  was  sent  to  Europe  to  study  the  modern  systems  of 
warfare,  and  made  an  elal)orate  report,  which  was  published  by 
the  United  States  government.  In  18(il  he  was  made  lieutenant- 
colonel,  and  colonel  in  18(io.  He  was  promoted  brigadier-general 
in  18(i4,  and  was  made  brevet  major-general  in  1865,  for  meri- 
torious and  distinguished  services.  In  August,  1866,  he  retired, 
his  name  having  been  on  the  roll  of  the  army  for  forty-five  years. 
He  was  also  one  of  the  regents  of  Smithsonian  Institution,  and 
in  all  the  relations  of  life  a  useful  and  honored  man.  General 
Delafield  died  in  Washington,  November  5,  1873. 

It  is  a  remarkable  fact  in  the  history  of  this  honored  family 
that  three  of  the  brothers  died  within  three  days,  and  were 
buried  at  the  same  time.  ^lajor  Joseph  Delafield,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-five;  Henry  Delafield,  aged  eighty-three;  and  Di-.  Edward 
Delafield,  at  tlie  age  of  eighty-one.  The  funeral  was  at  Trinity 
church,  Fel)ruary  16,  1875,  and  was  a  most  impressive  service. 
The  i)all  bearers  were  some  of  the  most  })rominent  residents  of 
the  city:  Kobert  .1.  Livingston,  Frederick  Prime,  James  Len- 
nox, Fi-ederick  Schuchardt,  Kobert  Mason,  Gordon  W.  Ham- 
mersley,  Eugene  A.  Livingston,  Alexander  Hamilton,  Jr.,  Henry 
(r.  Pierpont.  Uhai-les  B.  Fosdick,  Dr.  Alonzo  Clarke,  Dr.  Thom- 
as Markdc.  \)v.  Willard  C.  Pai'kcr,  Lindsey  Sabine,  Poyal 
Phelps.  Adiian  11.  Alullei-.  P.eiijamin  H.  Field,  Stewart  Rrown. 
K'obeit    Iia\.   Frederick    De   Pevstt'r,  James   W.    Beekman,  .loliii 


aEXEALOaiCAI.  AX  I)  FAMILY  IIISTOHV         285 

(".  .lay.  X.  P.  llnssack,  William  Ciillen  l>i-\aiit,  Caiiihi-idge  Liv- 
iiiLvton.  L.  P.  Xasli.  John  ( "aiiiiilx'll,  (reorge  F.  Tollman,  and  ^Ir. 
Ogden.  His  remains  woix'  laid  to  rest  in  the  family  vanlt  in 
Greenwond. 

Delatield  Anrrs.     Sable,  a  crnss  patonce  or.     Crest — a  dove 
displayed,  lioldiiio  i,i  its  l)i;d<  an  olive  lii-andi,  pi'oper. 


Uelaflehl  Arms. 


The  line  of  descent  of  tlie  family  of  ^Fr.  Matnrin  Tivino-stcni 
Del-uield  is  hei'e  given  : 

1.  Holiei't  Livingston,  first  Loi'd  of  the  Manor  of  Living- 
ston, n'ai'j  ied  Alida  SclmNler,  -Inly  !),  l()7i).  '2.  Robert  Li\-ing- 
^ton,  married  Mai-garet  Hoverden,  Xoveml)er  IL  1717.  .'!. 
dndi^e  liobert  liivingstun,  mari'ied,  December  S,  17!L',  .Margiiet 
Beekman.  4.  (Jertrnde  Livingston,  marriecL  -M.i>  IL  177!»,  (Jeii- 
eral  Aloi'gan  Lewis,  son  of  Francis  Lewis,  the  '■Sii'iie'-."  .1. 
>hirgai'i't  T-ewis,  mairied.  May  Id,  17I»>*,  dndge  Mrt  irin  Living- 


286         GENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

stun.     ().    .lulia  Livingston,  married,  December  12,  1833,  Major 
Joseph  Delafield.    7.    ]\Iaturin  L.  Delafield. 

Second  line.  1.  Robert  Livingston,  Jr.,  son  of  James 
Livingston,  and  nephew  of  Robert,  the  first  Lord  of  the  ^lanor, 
married  Margaretta  Schyler,  August  2(i,  1697.  -.  James  Liv- 
ingston, married,  ^lay  15,  1723,  ^[aria  Kierstide.  3.  Robert 
James  TJvingstou,  married  Septemlier  14,  1747,  Susanna,  daugli- 
ter  of  Judge  William  Smitli.  4.  Maturin  Livingston,  married 
^Nlay  30.  1798,  ^largaret  Lewis.  5.  .Julia  Livingston,  married, 
December  12,  1833.  ^lajor  Joseiih  Delafield.  (i.  Maturin  Liv- 
ingston Delafield. 

FLOYD  FAMILY. 

The  ancestor  of  this  family,  so  famed  in  the  history  of  the 
state  and  country,  was  Richard  Floyd,  who  came  from  Wales, 
and  was  a  resident  in  Setauket,  Long  Island,  in  1656,  and  was  one 
of  the  fifty-five  original  proi)rietors  of  Brookhaven.  He  died 
about  17('().  His  wife,  Susannah,  survived  him  and  died  in  Jan- 
uary, 17()(i.  at  the  age  of  eighty.  His  son,  Ricliard  Floyd,  was 
boi'n  May  12.  1665,  and  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Matthias  Nicoll,  the  founder  of  an  illustrious  family.  Her  broth- 
er. William  Xicoll,  was  the  first  ]iroi)rietor  of  the  great  Patent 
of  Islip,  a  part  of  which  still  remains  in  the  possession  of  his  de- 
scendants. She  was  born  May  30,  1662,  and  they  were  married 
September  10.  1686.  Ricliard  Floyd  was  prominent  in  the  af- 
fairs of  the  province,  l>eing  judge  of  the  county  court  and  colonel 
of  the  militia.  His  wife  died  Feliruary  1,  1718.  Her  husband 
survived  her,  dying  February  28,  1738.  The  children  of  this 
marriage  were:  1.  Susaniia,  born  Ahiy  25,  1688,  married  Ed- 
mund Smitli.  of  Smithtown,  and  died  April  12,  1829.  2.  Mar- 
garet, born  .\pril  25,  1690,  married  .Judge  .John  Tliomas.  3. 
Charity,  boin  A])ril   6.   1692.  mai-iied   (first)    I>enjamin  Nicoll; 


GENEALOIIICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HI  STORY         I'M 

(second)  Dr.  Samuel  Joliusoii.  She  died  1758.  4.  Kiuiice,  l)()rn 
May  16,  1694,  married  William  Stephens.  5.  Ruth,  honi  Au- 
gust 6,  1699,  married  Walter  I^ongan.  6.  Richard,  horn  Decem- 
ber 29,  1703.  died  Ai)ril  I'l,  1771.  7.  Nicoll,  born  August  27, 
1705,  died  March  H.  1755. 

Richard  Floyd,  tlie  eldest  son  of  this  family,  luari-ied  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Benjamin  Hutchinson,  June  4,  17.')0.  She  was 
born  March  28,  1709,  and  died  April  16,  1778.  Tlieir  children 
were:  1.  Richard,  born  February  26,  1781,  died  17i)2.  2.  Filiza- 
beth,  born  June  4,  1733.  3.  John,  born  December  4,  1735.  4. 
Margaret,  liorn  December  3,  1738.  5.  Benjamin,  born  Decem- 
ber 4,  1740.  6.  Gilbert,  born  April  21,  1743,  died  April  30,  1760, 
ten  days  after  graduating  from  King's  College.  7.  William 
Samuel,  born  August  16,  1745,  died  1772.  8.  Maiy,  born  Octo- 
ber 29,  1748,  married  AVilliam  Ellison.  9.  Anne,  born  March  4, 
1751,  died  unmarried. 

Richard  Floyd,  the  eldest  son  of  this  family,  was  tlie  owner 
of  a  large  estate  at  Mastic,  Long  Island.  During  the  Revolution 
he  was  a  strong  adherent  of  the  Royal  cause,  and  after  the  war 
lie  was  one  of  the  uuiny  whose  estates  were  confiscated.  He  went 
to  New  Brunswick,  and  died  at  St.  Johns  in  1792.  A  large  part 
of  liis  T-ong  Island  estate  was  sold  to  the  Roberts  family,  who  still 
remain  in  possession. 

Colonel  Benjamin  Floyd,  the  third  son,  lived  at  Setauket, 
and  died  there  December  27,  1820,  at  the  age  of  eighty.  He  mar- 
ried Ann,  daughter  of  Samuel  Coi-iiell.  She  was  jjorn  December 
25.  1745,  and  died  Mny  29,  1773).  Theii'  childi'en  were:  1.  Rich- 
ard, born  December  22,  1769.  lie  married  Anna,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Smith,  and  died  May  9,  18(!3.  2.  Gilbert,  born  July  21, 
1771.  [leurirried  (first)  Sandi  Dewick;  (second)  Sarah  Wood- 
hull;  (third)  Lydia.  widow  of  Abrahnni  \\'oodhnll.  He  died 
Julv  27.  1S32.     4.     Sniiiucl.    hoiii    Mav    19,    1773.      He    m:irried 


28S         GEXEAUXnCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

(first)  Klizahi'th  J^llisoii;  (-^i^cotid)  Augusta  \'aii  Honu'.  and 
left  v'liildreii  by  the  seeoiid  marriage. 

Xico!)  Floyd,  the  younsiest  son  of  liichai'd  Floyd  {'2),  was 
Itoi-n  August  L'7.  ITO."),  and  died  Mai-cli  .S,  IT.lo.  He  married  Ta- 
bitlia,  daugiitei'  of  Jonathan  Smith  (2),  of  Smitlitown.  Ilis  life 
was  passed  upon  the  aneestral  estate  of  Mastic.  His  wife  inher- 
ited a  large  estate  in  Smitlitown,  to  which  he  added  hy  several 
l)urcliases.  Their  children  are:  1.  Ixuth.  man-ied  (reneral 
Nathaniel  Woodhull.  '2.  William,  born  Decemhei-  17.  IT.'U.  o. 
Tahitha,  married  Daniel  Smith,  of  Smithtown.  4.  Xicoll.  5. 
Charles,  (i.  Charity,  wife  of  Hon.  Ezra  L'Hommedieu.  7. 
Mary,  wife  of  Edmund  Smith.  8.  Catharine,  wife  of  General 
Thomas  Thomas.  1).  Anna,  wife  of  Hugh  Smith,  of  East  ]\[or- 
iehes,  Long  Island.  Nieoll  Floyd,  the  father  of  this  family,  left 
his  estate  at  Alastie  to  his  sou,  (leneral  AVilliam  Floyd,  and  hi^ 
estate  in  Smitlitown  descended  to  his  son  Charles,  who  made  it 
his  home. 

General  William  Flovd,  the  oldest  sou  of  this  family,  had 
very  limited  educational  opportunities  in  his  early  days,  but 
this  was  more  than  made  up  by  his  natural  good  sense  and  strong 
mental  ability.  In  very  early  manhood  the  death  of  his  father 
made  it  necessary  for  him  to  take  charge  of  the  family  estate, 
and  he  soon  became  a  leading-  man  and  enjoyed  great  popularity. 
He  was  in  early  life  an  officer  in  the  militia,  and  rose  to  the  rank 
of  major-general.  He  was  made  a  delegate  to  the  first  Con- 
tinental Congress.  Owing  to  temporary  embarrassment,  he 
ajiplied  to  his  friend,  Cai)tain  Elias  Pelletreau,  of  Southampton, 
with  whom  he  had  many  business  dealings,  who  advanced 
to  him  the  funds  to  enable  him  to  go  to  Philadeljihia  to  attend 
llie  Congress.  Some  years  later  his  little  grandson,  David  G. 
Floyd,  stood  l)y  his  mother's  side  wliile  she  sewed  into  the 
lining  of  his  waistcoat  some  gold  pieces  and  sent  him  off  on 


GENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         2s9 

]iorsel)ack  with  a  iiegi'o  shn'c,  niounted  on  another  horse,  as  an 
escort  to  Soathampton  to  repay  the  loan,  a  journey  which  he 
accomplished  with  safety  and  success.  In  the  journals  of  1775 
the  committees  on  which  he  served,  and  his  valuable  services 
to  the  repulilic  about  to  be  established,  are  very  plainly  shown. 
Though  his  o})inion  was  very  freipieutly  called  for  and  his  sound 
judgment  fully  ap])reciated,  he  took  very  little  part  in  debate. 
One  member  of  the  congress  writes,  "Floyd,  Wisner,  Lewis  and 
.Mso]),  though  good  Dien,  never  quit  their  chairs."  He  was 
present  in  his  seat  on  the  "immortal  Fourth,"  but  he  and  the 
others  of  the  New  York  delegation  did  not  sign  the  Declaration 
of  Independence  until  the  fifteenth  of  the  month.  During  the 
whole  continuance  of  the  war  of  the  Eevolution,  he  was  placed 
in  a  very  difficult  position.  The  whole  of  Long  Island  was 
entirely  under  the  control  of  the  British,  and  the  estates  of 
])]'ominent  Whigs  were  devastated,  and  the  large  ])r()])erty  of 
General  Floyd  was  no  exception.  His  family  and  that  of  his 
brother-in-law,  Ezra  L'Hommedieu,  were  com])elled,  like  hun- 
di-eds  of  others,  to  take  refuge  in  Connecticut.  His  own  mansion 
was  occupied  liy  the  enemy,  and  the  damage  he  thus  sustained 
was  very  great. 

In  1777  he  was  chosen  state  senator,  and  on  Xovembt'i-  7 
took  his  seat  in  the  first  Constitiitional  Legislature.  On  Octo- 
ber 15  he  was  chosen  nu^mber  of  Congress,  and  was  re-a])])ointed 
October  14,  1779,  together  with  his  brother-indaw,  Ezra 
L'Hommedieu  and  lion,  .lohn  Sloss  Hobart.  Lpon  the  adoption 
of  the  Federal  Constitution  in  1788,  he  was  a  mcmltci-  of  the 
first  Congress  which  met  in  New  York,  March  -t,  17S!).  In  1800 
he  was  one  of  the  electors,  and  gave  his  vote  for  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son and  Aaron  Burr.  In  1801  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Conven- 
tion to  revise  the  State  Constitution.  After  this  he  was  for 
several  times  a  presidential  elector,  the  last  being  in  1820.     In 


290  GEXEALOaiCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

\~i\)7)  he  was  candidate  for  lieutenant-governor,  hut  was  de- 
feated l)y  Stephen  Van  Keussehier. 

In  1784  he  })urehased  an  extensive  tract  of  hmd  in  the  west- 
ern part  of  tlie  state,  and  devoted  nuieh  of  his  time  and  hihoi' 
to  an  effort  to  develop  it  and  attract  settlers  to  what  was  then 
the  "Western  Country."  For  many  years  it  was  his  custom  to 
spend  the  summer  ui)on  this  estate,  returning-  to  Elastic  in  the 
winter.  This  i)ractice  he  continued  until  the  feebleness  of  old 
age  rendered  it  impossible.  After  a  long-  and  very  useful  life, 
General  Floyd  died  at  his  residence  at  Westernville,  Uueida 
county,  August  -t,  1821,  at  the  age  of  eiglity-seven  years. 

(Jue  of  the  many  public  services  i)erformed  by  him  was  as 
a  representative  of  the  State  Kegents,  to  preside  at  a  meet- 
ing held  in  East  Hampton,  Long-  Island,  in  1784.  At  this  meet- 
ing- Clinton  Academy  was  fomided,  the  first  academy  in  Suffolk 
county.  General  Floyd  is  described  as  a  man  of  middle  height, 
of  very  deliberate  motion,  possessing-  sound  judgment,  very 
shrewd  and  cautious  in  pecuniary  matters,  sometimes  exhibited 
by  penuriousness.  Whatever  he  undertook  he  carried  out  with 
great  energTi^  and  determination.  He  was  in  no  respect  what 
could  be  called  a  l)rillant  man,  and  it  was  largely  owing  to  his 
brother-in-law,  Ezra  L'Hommedieu,  that  he  attained  liis  high 
position. 

General  Floyd  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  William 
Johues,  of  Southampton,  a  descendant  of  Edward  Jolmes,  one 
of  the  earliest  settlers.  She  died  at  Middletown,  Connecticut. 
After  her  decease  he  married  Joanna,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Strong,  of  Setauket.  She  survived  her  husband,  and  died  No- 
vember 24,  1826,  at  the  age  of  eighty.  His  children  were:  1. 
Xicoll,  who  lived  at  Elastic.  2.  Mary,  married  Colonel  Benjamin 
Talmadge,  of  Revolutionary  fame.  3.  Catharine,  wife  of  Dr. 
Sanmel  Clarkson.    4.  Anna,  married  George  Washington  Clin- 


GEXEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  TIISTOEY         291 

ton,  and  after  his  death  she  married  Al»raliain  Varick.  and  had 
three  children,  all  of  whom  died  nnmarried.  5.  Eliza,  married 
James  Piatt,  of  Utica.  George  W.  Clinton  was  the  only  son  of 
Governor  George  Clinton.  As  he  left  no  children,  the  male  line 
of  the  illnstrions  governor  became  extinct. 

Nicoll  Floyd,  the  oldest  son  of  General  Floyd,  lived  and 
died  at  Mastic.  He  married  Pliebe,  danghter  of  David  Gelston, 
Esq.  Their  children  were:  1.  William,  lived  and  died  in  Oneida 
connty.  2.  Kitty,  who  at  the  age  of  six  years  was  drowned  in  the 
Great  Sonth  Bay,  together  with  a  negro  slave  child.  3.  Augustus, 
a  distinguished  lawyer,  who  died  nnmarried,  1878.  4.  Mary,  mar- 
ried John  L.  Ireland.  5.  David  Gelston,  born  May  1,  1802,  died 
April  9,  1893.  6.  Catherine,  died  unmarried,  1854.  7.  John  G., 
born  1804,  died  1881.    8.  Julia,  married  Dr.  Edward  Delafield. 

Hon.  John  G.  Floyd  was  a  member  of  Congress,  and  very 
prominent  as  a  politician.  At  a  comi)aratively  early  age  he 
was  stricken  by  jiaralysis,  from  which  he  never  fully  recovered. 
He  married  Sarah  Kirkland,  of  Utica,  and  left  children :  Xicoll, 
a  prominent  lawyer  on  Long  Island,  married  Coraelia  Du  Bois. 
He  died  much  lamented,  1902,  leaving  several  children.  Cath- 
arine, married  AVilliam  B.  Dana,  editor  of  Hunt's  ^Eerchants' 
^lagazine.  Sarah  K.,  wife  of  Herbert  B.  Turner.  John  G., 
married  (first)  .Julia  Du  Bois;  (second)  JaiK'>'  Montgomery. 
He  died  in  bS93.  Augustus,  now  living  at  Mastic.  Richard, 
died  young. 

Hon.  David  Gelston,  one  of  the  most  |u-oniinent  citizens  of 
Long  Island,  made  his  home  at  Green] )ort,  and  was  a  shipping- 
merchant  and  owner  of  whale  ships.  In  1856  he  was  elected 
member  of  the  Legislature,  and  served  with  great  ability.  Dur- 
ing his  long  life  he  connnanded  the  resjiect  of  the  entire  com- 
munity by  reason  of  his  benevolence  and  kindly  sympathy,  and 
manv  voung  men  owed  to  him  their  bes:innino's  of  future  success. 


2.112         (iEXEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

He  })ossessed  a  keen  iutellig-enee,  and  was  well  known  as  a 
power  for  good- 
Air.  Floyd  married  Lydia,  dangliter  of  William  Smith,  of 
Elastic,  a  re])resentative  of  the  Tangier,  Smith  family,  so  noted 
in  the  history  of  Long  Island.  They  were  married  Jniy  31. 
1S45,  and  their  children  were:  Julia  Delafield,  married  Al])eri 
Delafield,  June  l-t,  1882,  and  has  one  daughter,  Grace  Floyd. 


"Brecknock   Ha!!,"   Residence  of  Hon.   David  G.  Fioyd,  Greenport,  L.  I..  Now- 
Owned   l3y  Mrs.  Aibert   Delafield. 

Lydia  Smith,  wife  of  Frederick  C\  Prentiss.  Mary  Augusta, 
died  unmarried,  187.'?.     Grace,  now  living  at  Greenport. 

Brecknock  Hall,  the  residence  of  Hon.  David  G.  Floyd,  is 
situated  at  Greenport,  and  is  one  of  the  finest  country  residences 
on  Long  Island.  It  is  now  owned  and  occu})ied  by  his  daughter, 
:\Irs.  Albert  Delafield. 

The  residence  of  General  William  Floyd  is  still  standing  in 
Westernville,  Oneida  county.  It  is  owned  by  his  graiuldaughter, 
the  widow  of  Admiral  Sicard,  United  States  Xavy.    The  line  of 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  lU STORY         293 

descent  of  General  AVilliani  Floyd  from  Kicliard  Sniitli.  the 
founder  of  Smitlitown,  is  thus  given:  1.  Richard  Smith,  the 
founder.  2.  Jonathan  Smith,  died  about  1718.  o.  Jonathan, 
second,  born  November  9,  1676,  died  1749.  He  married  Eliza- 
betli,  daughter  of  Epinetus  Ph^tt,  and  had  among  otlier  children 
a  daugliter  Tabitha,  born  Feliruary  18,  1704,  died  January  17, 
1755.  She  married  Xicoll  Floyd,  father  of  General  William 
Floyd. 

A  portrait  of  Anna  Floyd,  who  married  Hugh  Smith,  is  now 
in  possession  of  J.  C'onkling  Havens,  of  East  Moriches. 

Charles  Floyd,  lirotlier  of  General  Floyd,  lived  and  died  in 
Smitlitown.  He  nuirried  Abigail,  daughter  of  John  Thomas. 
Their  children  were:  John,  l)orn  February  2,  17()4.  died  April 
17,  1826.  Thomas.  Abigail,  wife  of  AVilliani  Post.  Gloriana, 
wife  of  William  Ho])son.  Of  these  children  John  Floyd  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  Colonel  Jesse  AVoodhull  (brother  of 
General  Nathaniel  AVoodhull),  and  had  among  other  children  a 
son,  Hon.  Charles  A.  Floyd,  county  .judge  and  member  of  Con- 
gress. For  a  more  complete  account  of  this  branch,  see  Records 
of  Smithtown. 

The  following  notice  is  from  the  "New  York  Gazette  and 
Mercury,"  May  6,  1774:  "On  Sunday,  April  21st  instant,  de- 
jiarted  this  life  at  his  house  a  few  miles  from  the  to\vn  of  Brook- 
haven,  the  Hon.  Richard  Floyd,  Es(i.,  in  the  68th  year  of  his  age 

"He  arose  early  in  the  morning  and  stepped  out  of  the  door, 
where  he  was  suddenly  taken  with  a  fit  and  dropped  down.  This 
was  instantly  perceived  by  his  family  who  got  him  into  his 
house,  where  he  exjiired  in  a  very  few  minutes  after.  He  was 
an  affectionate  husliand,  an  indulgent  ])arent,  and  a  kind  mas- 
ter; his  disposition  was  iiohle  and  generous,  easy  of  access,  his 
charity  was  extended  to  those  who  stood  in  need  of  his  aid.  and 
to  assist  the  poor  in  their  distress  he  made  one  of  the  principal 


294         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  lllSTOiir 

pleasures  of  liis  life.  He  was  a  colonel  of  the  Suffolk  Coimty 
militia  and  the  first  judge  of  tlie  Inferior  Court  of  Common 
Pleas,  wliicli  offices  he  executed  for  many  years  and  acquitted 
himself  with  honor  ami  mucli  to  tlie  satisfaction  of  the  people  of 
his  county.  His  death  is  universally  regretted  by  his  neighbors 
and  others  who  enjoyed  the  pleasure  of  his  accjuaintance.  View 
him  either  as  an  officer  or  in  private  life,  his  character  is  un- 
blemished and  trul\'  amiable.'' 

FAMILY  OF  JUDGE  WILLIAAl  SMITH. 

The  ancestor  of  this  family  made  illustrious  in  our  (A)loni;d 
history  in  the  persons  of  Chief  Justice  William  Smith  and  his 
son,  William  Smith,  the  historian,  was  William  Smith,  who 
served  in  the  army  of  the  Commonwealth  under  Cromwell.  His 
birthplace  was  iu  the  Isle  of  Fly,  (Cambridgeshire,  England,  but 
after  the  Civil  war  he  settled  at  Newport  Pagnell,  Buckingham- 
shire, where  he  died  al)out  1682,  and  was  l>uried  in  the  parish 
church  in  that  place.  His  wife,  Elizabeth  Hartley,  whom  he 
married  Se])tember  4.  Kifil,  lived  until  1710.  They  were  the 
parents  of  six:  children:  William,  James,  John,  Sanrael, 
Thomas  and  Christiana. 

William  Smith,  the  eldest  son,  was  known  as  "Port  Royal 
Smith,"  having  resided  there  for  some  time.  He  died  in  New 
York,  October  15,  1736,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four.  He  also 
bad  a  son  AVilliam,  who  married  a  daughter  of  AVilliam  Pear- 
tree,  who  was  mayor  of  New  York,  1705-07,  and  left  an  only 
son,  William  Peartree  Smith,  a  prominent  citizen,  born  1725, 
died  November  20,  1801.  His  home,  the  same  as  that  of  liis 
father,  was  the  soutliw^est  corner  of  AVall  and  Pearl  streets. 

James,  the  second  son,  remained  in  England. 

John,  the  third  son,  came  to  New  York,  where  he  married 
and  lived  manv   vears.     In  1714  he   returned  to  England  and 


(iENEALOGlCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         295 

(lit'<]  tlicrc.  He  left  a  family  in  New  Yoi-k  of  wlioni  little  is 
known. 

Sanuiel  Sniitli,  tlie  foni'tli  son,  lived  m  Port  Koyal, 
Jamaica,  and  mai-ried  and  died  there  aged  twenty-seven  years. 

Thomas  Smith,  tlie  youngest  son,  was  born  at  Newport  Pag- 
nell,  Se))teml)er  IS,  1745.  He  survived  all  of  liis  brothers  and 
sifters,  and  died  in  New  York,  Xovemher  14.  1745,  and  was 
buried  at  the  ])lantatinn  of  his  son,  Thomas  Smith,  in  Smith's 
('love,  ( )range  county,  Xew  York.  lie  mai'ried,  in  England,  May 
K!,  l()9(i,  Susanna,  the  second  dangliter  of  Thomas  and  Chris- 
tiana Odell,  of  Xoi'thtield  Meadows,  Ihickinghamshire.  Thomas 
Smitli  came  to  this  eounti'v  at  a  much  more  advanced  age  than 
his  brother.  He  sailed  from  London,  May  24,  1715,  with  his 
wife  and  three  sons,  arriving  in  New  York  on  the  17th  of  Au- 
gust. His  fortune  i)laeed  liim  at  once  among  the  sulistantial 
citizens  of  New  York.  Being  a  Presbyterian  Ins  first  effort  was 
to  collect  the  meml^ers  of  that  denomination,  and  he  lias  the 
lionor  to  be  one  of  the  founders  of  the  first  Presbyterian  cliurch 
in  New  York.  The  first  church  service  and  1)ai)tism  of  tlmt 
dtnominatiou  was  held  in  the  house  of  AVilliam  Jackson,  on  the 
north  side  of  Pearl  street,  al)out  half  way  betAveen  A^'llitehall 
and  State  streets,  in  1710.  .\s  early  as  171()  a  congregation 
with  a  resident  minister  assembled  at  the  City  Hall.  On  Janu- 
ary 5,  1717,  Hr.  John  Nicoll,  Patrick  ^NfcKniglit,  Gilbert  Living- 
ston and  Thomas  Smith,  ])urchased  from  Aliraham  De  Peyster 
and  Samuel  P)ayard  a  lot  eiglity-eight  feet  wide  on  the  north 
side  of  Wall  street,  l)etween  Broadway  and  Nassau  street,  and 
iipon  it  the  Fii-st  Presbyterian  C^hurch  was  erected.  In  1722  a 
part  of  this  congregation,  under  the  leaderslii])  of  Thomas 
Smith,  withdrew  for  a  short  time  and  called  the  famous  Jona- 
than Edwards  as  a  i)astor,  and  diiring  the  eight  months  of  his 
ministi'y  his  home  was  at  the  house  of  Thomas  Smith.  i)roba])ly 


296         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  IIISTOuT 


the  south  corner  of  Wall  street  and  Broadway.  As  old  age  ap- 
proached ^Ir.  Smith  seems  to  have  intended  returning  to  Eng- 
land.    With  this  intention  Mrs.  Smith  sailed  in  the  ship  "Re- 


becca," Captain  l>anks,  December  7,  1728,  and  landed  in  Eng- 
land, January  15,  1729.  At  London  she  was  taken  ill  and  died 
there  March  9,  1729,  in  the  fifty-second  year  of  her  age.  She 
was  buried  in  the  Church  of  St.  Botoli^h,  Aldergate.  The  chil- 
dren  of  Thomas   and   Susanna    (Odell)    Smith   were:   William 


GENEALOaiCAL  JXD  FAMILY  11 1  STORY         ->tt7 

Smith  (the  judge),  Thomas,  .John,  OcU'll,  who  died  young,  Eliz- 
abeth and  Martha.     The  two  daughters  died  iu  Enghind. 

Of  this  family  Thomas  Smith,  the  second  son,  was  the  owner 
of  a  hirge  tract  of  land  in  Orange  county,  in  Smith  Clove,  which 
took  its  name  from  him.  His  descendants  were  living  there  dur- 
ing the  Kevolution.  He  married  Hannah  Hooker,  who  may 
have  been  a  sister  of  Mehitabel  Hooker,  who  married  his  l)rotlier, 
Rev.  John  Smith. 

Rev.  dolin  Smith,  the  third  son,  was  born  ]\Iay  5,  1702,  at 
Newport  Pagnell.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Yale,  1727.  He  studied 
inedicine  and  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  He 
(■ntered  the  ministry  and  was  the  first  Presbyterian  minister 
at  Rye  and  White  Plains.  His  tombstone  in  the  latter  i)lace 
bears  a  well  merited  tribute  to  his  memory.  He  died  February 
26,  1771.  On  ^May  6,  1724,  he  married  ^lehitabel  Hooker,  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Mary  Hooker,  of  Guilford,  Connecticut.  She 
died  September  5,  1775,  aged  seventy-one.  They  had  four  sons 
and  eight  daughters,  (^ne  of  these,  Susanna,  married  Rev. 
Benjamin  Tallmadge,  and  was  the  mother  of  Colonel  Benjamin 
Tallmadge,  of  Revolutionary  fame. 

Judge  William  Smith,  tlu^  oldest  son,  was  boi'n  at  Newport 
Pagnell.  October  S,  1697,  and  died  in  Xew  York,  November  22, 
17()f).  With  his  father's  fjnnily  he  came  to  New  York,  August  17, 
1715.  He  entered  \'ale  College,  graduated  in  171!>,  and  received 
the  degree  of  Master  of  .\its  in  1722.  From  1722  to  1724  he  was 
a  tutoi'  in  the  college,  and  was  i'fterwai'ds  offered  the  presiden- 
cy, which  was  made  vacant  by  the  retirement  of  Rev.  Dr.  Cutler. 
This  offer  was  declined  and  he  adopted  the  legal  ])rofession  in 
which  he  became  famous.  On  May  20,  1724,  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bai-  and  began  pi-actice  in  New  York.  He  rose  ra])idly  to  em- 
inence, and  h'\y  cases  of  imi)ortance  came  before  the  courts  in 
which   he  was  not  retained  as  counsel.      In   1755  occurred  the 


2i)s         (iESEAUKilCAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

fanion:>  trinl  of  .Inlni  I'ctcr  Zenker,  tlio  editor  of  the  "New  York 
AVeokly  JournaK"  for  liliel.  The  fanions  Gonveriienr  Morris  de- 
clared in  later  years  that  "the  trijil  of  Zei'i>(M-  in  1755  was  the 
j>-erm  of  American  Free(h)ni."  P>ittci-  offense  taken  hy  the 
jndges,  De  Lancey  and  Pliilipse.  cansed  the  names  of  William 
Smith  and  his  collengne.  James  Alexander,  to  lie  stricken  from 
the  rolls  of  attorneys.  Zenger  was  most  ahly  defended  hy  ^[r. 
Hamilton,  a  noted  lawyer  from  Philadelphia,  and  was  acipiitted 
hy  the  jury,  a  verdict  which  was  Iniiled  with  the  greatest  en- 
thnsiasm  In-  the  ])eo])le.  In  1737  the  order  depi'iving  them  of 
their  right  to  ])ractice  was  canceled,  and  theii-  former  ]K)sition 
was  not  only  restored  hnt  with  mncli  higher  honors  and  respect. 
On  Se])temher  20.  17."-)9,  he  was  a]i])ointed  recorder  hy  "Rip 
Van  Dam.  the  acting  governor.  Tn  174S  he  was  one  of  the  incor- 
]iorators  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey  at  Princeton,  and  to  the 
end  of  his  life  he  was  an  earnest  friend  of  the  college,  and  one  of 
the  most  honored  and  influential  memhers  of  the  hoard.  In  1732 
he  with  William  Alexander  and  some  of  the  ^Nforris  family  peti- 
tioned the  assembly  to  establish  a  free  school  for  teaching  Latin, 
Greek  and  mathematics.  This  was  done,  and  a  school  was  estab- 
lished the  same  year  under  Alexander  Malcolm.  This  in  after 
years  develojied  into  Kini>s  College,  and  William  Smith  was 
foremost  among  its  founders.  Tn  177)4  William  Smith,  Philip 
Livingston,  and  a  few  others,  met  at  the  house  of  one  of  their 
numlier  and  arranged  a  ]ilan  for  a  ]inblic  library  and  collected 
£600  for  that  ])urpose.  A  charter  was  olitained  and  such  was  the 
origin  of  the  Xew  York  Society  Library.  Tn  1751  William  Smith 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Clinton  attorney-general  and  advo- 
cate-general, and  in  177)2  he  was  made  mendier  of  the  Council.  ITe 
remained  a  member  until  shortly  before  his  death,  when  he  was 
succeeded  by  his  eldest  son.  Tn  1754  he  was  one  of  the  four  rep- 
resentatives from  Xew  York  to  the  general  congress  to  prejiare 


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plans  for  the  union  of  the  Colonies.  In  17(!(l  lie  was  offered  the 
office  of  ehi(  f  jn^tL-e,  but  derlined  the  position.  In  17(i3  he  was 
made  jndge  of  the  snpi-enie  court,  and  retained  tint  office  until 
liis  death.  As  a  lawyer  he  was  one  of  the  most  graceful  and  elo- 
(luent  members  of  the  It  ir,  and  his  intlucnce  was  nnexcelleil.  Aft- 


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Mrs.  Mary    (Hett)    Smith. 

er  a  most  useful  life  .Judge  Smith  die(l  Wednesday,  Xovemher 
2."'.  17(iJ),  ami  was  buried  in  the  grave\ard  attached  to  tlu'  Pres- 
byt(Mian  clnirch  in  Wall  street.  He  left  a  will  which  was  never 
pi'obated  and  seems  to  have  been  concealed  by  one  of  his  family. 
His  residence  was  the  south  corner  of  Kxchange  jtlace  and 
Broadwav,  and  his  ^on,  I'homas  Smith,  was  liviui'-  there  at  the 


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timt'  of  the  Kevolution.  He  owned  a  very  large  tract  of  land  in 
what  is  now  Hix'khuid  county,  of  which  a  notice  is  hereafter 
given. 

Judge  Smith  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Rene  and  Blanche 
(Du  Bois)  Het,  May  11,  1727.  She  was  horn  in  New  York,  ]^lay 
24,  1710,  and  died  August  22,  1754,  and  was  buried  in  the  aisle  of 
the  old  South  Dutch  Church.  After  her  death  Judge  Smith  mar- 
ried Eliza) )C'tli.  widow  of  Colonel  p]lisha  Williams,  who  survived 
him.  There  were  no  children  by  this  marriage.  Rene  Het  lived 
at  No.  216  Pearl  street.  When  his  daughter  Mary  married  W^ill- 
iam  Smith  lie  gave  them  a  house  and  lot,  No.  179  Pearl  street. 
There  was  another  daughter,  Blanche  Het,  who  married  Cap- 
tain William  Smith,  and  had  a  daughter  Blanche,  who  married 
Jedediah  ('liai)man,  of  Orangetown,  Essex  county,  New  Jersey. 
The  children  of  Judge  William  Smith  were: 

].  William  Smith,  the  historian,  born  June  18,  1728.  2. 
Susanna.  l)orn  December  24,  1729,  married  Robert  James  Liv- 
ingston.    3.     Mary,  born  March  2(1,  17;)2,  married  John  Smith. 

4.  Sarah,  l)orn  August  3,  1733,  uuu'ried  Rev.  Abraham  Kittle. 

5.  Thomas,  born  March  11,  1734.  (i.  Elizal)eth  Blanche,  born 
December  13,  173(),  nmrried  John  Torrans,  of  Charleston,  South 
Carolina.     7.     Dr.  .James,  born  FeV)ruary  13,  1738,  died  1812.    8. 

Anne,  born  July  19,  1740,  married Bostowick.    9.  John, 

born  August  20,  1741.  10.  Catharine,  born  April  7,  1743,  mar- 
ried John  Gordon.  11.  Martha,  born  June  18,  1744,  married, 
17(i3,  Colonel  Ann  Hawkes  Hay,  of  Fishkill.  12.  Samuel,  born 
June  24,  1745,  died  umnarried  at  Charleston,  South  Carolina, 
1771.  13.  Margaret,  born  September  19,  1747,  married  Alex- 
ander Rose.    14.  Joshua  Hett,  born  May  27,  1749,  died  1818. 

William  Smith,  the  historian,  and  chief  justice  of  New  York 
and  Canada,  was  a  graduate  of  Yale,  1745,  entered  his  father's 
oflice  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1750.    There  is  not  a  chap- 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  IIISTOHY 


3<il 


tor  ill  tlie  local  history  of  his  tiuu'  in  wliieli  liis  nanu'  does  not 
appear.  In  17<i7  (lovernor  Moore  wrote  that  "William  Smitli  is 
at  the  head  of  his  profession,"  and  rerpiests  that  he  he  appoint- 


ed meniher  ofconncil  from  whicliliis  fatlier,  the  judnc  was  ahmit 
to  retire.  'J^his  was  done,  and  he  held  that  position  till  tin-  time 
of  the  Revolution.  His  jxjsition  during  the  great  struggle  is  dif- 
fienlt  to  describe.    He  seems  to  have  denied  the  right  of  rebellion 


302         GENEALOaiCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

and  >ai("^ti()iUMl  the  adxaiitam'  to  tlie  ('olonists  of  independence. 
He  took  no  active  part  citlicr  for  or  against  the  new  order  of 
things.  As  a  result  he  was  liated  by  the  Tories  and  distrusted 
by  the  friends  of  liberty.  In  1771  lie  was  reipiired  to  remove  to 
the  Maiioi'  of  Livingston  and  to  give  his  parole  to  remain  there. 
This  was  owing  to  his  answer  to  (juestions,  "that  he  does  not 
consider  liimself  discharged  from  his  oaths  of  fidelity  to  the 
Crown  of  (ire:it  Britain.'"  In  the  sumnier  of  1778  he  was  re- 
leased from  his  parole  and  directed  to  remove  to  New  York;  he 
was  commissioned  as  chief  justice  of  the  Province,  and  took  the 
oath  of  office  before  Governor  Robei-tson.  Before  that  was  done 
the  (^'olonies  had  declared  their  independence,  and  whatever 
])ower  attended  the  office  was  confined  to  that  portion  of  the 
state  still  under  British  control.  After  the  war  he  was  included 
in  the  list  of  persons  who  were  banished  and  whose  property 
was  confiscated,  and  on  December  5,  1783,  the  chief  justice  sailed 
for  England  with  his  son  William.  Mrs.  Smith  with  the  younger 
children  still  remained  in  New  York.  On  September  1,  1785,  he 
was  ai)pointed  chief  justice  of  Canada.  He  arrived  in  Quebec, 
October  23,  1786,  and  was  joined  there  by  his  wife  and  children. 
The  act  of  attainder  by  which  he  was  banished  was  cancelled  in 
17!)0,  and  he  with  some  others  was  free  to  i-eturii  to  his  native 
land.  Me  died  in  (^)uebec,  December  4,  17!)."!,  and  was  buried  in 
the  E})iscopal  church. 

Oliief  Justice  Smith  married  Janet  Livingston,  daughter  of 
James  Livingston.  Her  brother,  Robert  .lames  jjivingston,  mar- 
lied  Susanna  Smith,  sister  of  the  chief  justice,  so  there  was  a 
double  relationship.  Janet  Livingston  was  born  November  1, 
17.")().  and  died  in  (j)nebec,  November  1,  ISli),  at  the  age  of  ninety. 
They  had  ten  chiklre?i.  The  oidy  son  wlio  sui-vived  was  William 
Smith,  bom  17(>!»,  died  1S77.  lie  was  the  author  of  "Smith's 
History   of  the    Province   of   Canada."     The    oldest    daughter, 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         ^na 

Janet,  married  ] lieutenant  John  Plendleath,  (Jetol»ei-  L'l,  1771. 
Another  daughter,  Henrietta,  married  Jonathan  Sewell.  chief 
justice  of  Lower  Canada,  and  had  sixteen  children. 

The  portrait  of  Judge  William  Smith  is  from  a  iiainting  l)y 
Wollasto?!,  made  1701,  and  is  now  o\vned  by  ^latuiin  Livingston 
Delafield,  of  New  York,  a  descendant  of  the  judge.  The  portrait 
of  his  son.  Chief  Justice  William  Smith,  the  historian,  is  from  a 
miniatui'e  obtained  from  his  descendants  by  Kobert  J.  Living- 
ston. A  copy  of  it  is  in  the  New  York  Historical  Society.  The 
portrait  of  Ah's.  ^Lary  (Het)  Smith  is  from  a  painting  in  posses- 
sion of  the  family  of  Judge  Sewell,  of  Canada. 

•'Smith's  History  of  the  Province  of  New  York,"  written 
by  Chief  Justice  William  Smith,  has  given  him  a  lasting  fame. 
The  first  volume  was  published  in  Loudon,  1757.  The  second 
volume  was  published  by  the  New  York  Historical  Society, 
1826;  and  the  two  volumes  in  one  edition  by  the  same  society  in 
1829.    There  are  also  several  editions  of  the  first  volume. 

Thomas  Smith,  son  of  Judge  ^^'illiam  Smitli,  and  brother  of 
the  liistorian,  was  born  March  11,  1784.  He  was  a  graduate  of 
Yale,  and  a  prominent  lawyer  in  New  York.  He  was  a  meml>er 
of  Provincial  assembly  and  of  tlie  I'rovincial  congress.  He  mar- 
ried Klizabeth,  daughter  of  Abraham  Lynsen,  November  22, 
1758.  He  owned  much  property  in  New  York  and  at  Haver- 
straw,  and  was  the  owner  of  the  famous  "Treason  House,"  at 
the  latter  place,  where  Arnold  and  Andre  laid  their  nefarious 
plans.  He  died  at  HaN'ei'straw.  November  7,  17!>r),  leaving  a 
large  family.  One  son.  Thomas  Smith,  Jr.,  married  ^lary,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Taylor,  a  lu'ominent  merchant  of  New  York,  Decem- 
ber -I-,  1786.  Their  children  were:  John  Taylor,  Catherine  Au- 
gusta, wife  of Budd.  Thomas  Charles,  William  Eugene, 

and  Anna  ^laria. 

John  Ta^'lor  Smith  was  a  i;raduate  of    Columbia    College 


3U4  GEXEAUHilCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

nnd  editor  of  the  "Kockland  Registei-, "  tlie  first  new.spa])er  in 
Rockland  county.  New  York.  He  was  born  in  tlie  old  "Treason 
House"  at  Haverstraw.  and  died  in  ISIT),  leaving-  five  children: 
John  Ta.\  lor,  who  died  in  Xew  Jersey,  August  31,  1904,  aged 
eighty-nine.  Mary,  wife  of  Leroy  T.ittle.  Tlionias  Eugene. 
Anna  IV  ('hni'le<  Bainln-idge  Sniitli,  who  was  a  noted  hiwyer 
in  Xew  York.  He  niari'ied  MaKina.  dnnghter  of  Henry  Kettle- 
tns.  and  has  one  son,  Eugene  Kettletas  Sniitli,  now  living  in 
Swanton,  Vermont.  Charles  Bainbridge  Smith  was  the  last  of 
the  race  wh.o  held  a  ])rominent  position.  His  second  wife  was  a 
widow  Youngs  of  Calif orni;-!.  Mr.  Smith  died  in  Paris,  France, 
October  17,  l**!)o.  at  the  age  of  eighty-five,  the  last  of  his  family. 

Joshua  Hett  Smith,  the  youngest  son  of  Judge  William 
Smith,  was  born  May  "JT,  17-111.  He  married  Elizabeth  Gordon, 
of  Behidere,  South  Carolina,  1770.  She  died  January  1,  1784. 
They  had  three  children:  Joshua  G.,  Sarah,  wife  of  Thomas  Hay, 

and  Laura,  wife  of West.     He  was  living  at  the  family 

residence  at  Haverstraw  at  the  time  of  the  Revolution,  though 
the  house  ^Aas  ow7ied  bv  his  brother  Thomas.  His  troul)'es  as  the 
un.fortunate  dupe  of  Arnold  and  .\ndre  are  too  well  known  to  be 
re])e''ted  here.  Suspected  of  l)eing  the  accomjjlice  of  Arnold,  he 
was  imprisoned,  but  jiermitted  to  escajie.  He  went  to  England 
in  17S3,  and  returned  to  America  in  1801,  and  for  a  while  kept  a 
sc'iool  in  the  house  at  Haverstraw.  He  again  went  to  England, 
but  retni'ued  some  time  after  ISOS.  He  died  ()ctol)er  10,  1S18, 
and  was  buried  in  a  vault  in  the  middle  of  North  Dutch  Church. 
His  second  wife,  Ann;i  (Middleton)  Smith,  and  his  two  danali- 
ters  survived  him.  In  1808  he  published  his  noted  book.  "An 
Authentic  Xarration  of  the  Causes  AVhicli  Led  to  the  Death  of 
]\ra.ior  .\ndre."  This  l)ool<  has  been  the  subject  of  much  dis- 
cussion. 

The  famous  house  at  Haverstraw  remained  in  the  hands  of 


GENEALOaiCAL  AM)  FAMILY  IIISTOBY         3(i:. 

llie  faiuiiy  until  1831^  niid  still  stands,  an  intei'estini>'  relic  of  the 
L'olonial  times.  Judge  A\'illinni  Sniitli  was  the  owner  of  two 
shares  in  the  gieat  Patent  of  Cliees-cdck,  which  includes  tlie 
greater  part  of  the  Highland  Mountains.  The  Treason  House, 
builr  in  1752,  stands  at  the  south  end  of  Lot  7.  William  Smith, 
the  his*^orian,  had  a  house  next  west,  which  was  burned.  The 
immense  traict  owned  by  the  family  sold  for  a  ver>'  small  sum. 
On.e  of  tlie  daughters  of  Thoma--  Smith,  .Jr.,  mari-ied  William 
Denninu.  Jr.,  wtiose  fatliei'  was  a  [)rominent  merchant  in  Xew 
^'(ivk.  His  uKmument  is  in  the  northwest  corner  of  St.  Paul's 
(  hiii'cliyard.  Another  daughter  married  Plon.  John  C  Spencer, 
secretary  of  navy,  1842 

Wi!li:im  Kugene  Smith,  son  of  Thomas  Smith,  Jr.,  was  the 
father  of  Judge  William  p].  Smith,  who  kept  a  roadhouse  on 
Jerome  avenue,  Bi'onx.  for  many  years. 

FAMILV  OF  ST.  JOHX. 

This  family,  wliicli  has  man\'  Viranches  in  various  parts  of 
the  countr)-,  is  descended  from  ^latthias  St.  John,  who  with  a 
large  family  sttt'ed  at  Xorwalk.  Fairfield  county.  Connecticut, 
befoi'e  l()."i4.  The  name  on  the  eai'ly  towii  and  state  records  is 
spelled  in  difl'ei'ent  ways,  as  Senti(in  and  Saint  John,  but  after 
172.")  the  present  foi-m  of  St.  ,lolin  prevailed.  The  line  of  descent 
of  the  }»ai'ticular  branch  now  under  consideration  is  as  follows: 
1.  Matthias.  2.  :\!attliias.  :!.  Matthias.  4.  Benjamin.  5.  Mat- 
thias,    (i.  Sanniel  St.  John. 

^ilattliias  St.  Jolin.  fa.ther  of  Pienjamin.  was  one  of  twenty- 
five  men  who  purclrised  land  and  establi-^hed  the  town  of  Hidge- 
field,  Connecticut.  Sejitember  MO.  17tl8. 

Be;ijann'i  St.  John  was  a  n^sidcut  of  X'orwalk,  but  removed 
to  New  (  anaan  in  1744  with  lii<  faniil>'  (  !'  four  sons  an(_l  four 
daughters,   and   died   tliei'e   ahout   the   close   of   the   Revolution. 

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His  sons  were:  Beiijauiiu,  Caleb,  AFatthias  and  Daniel.  All  of 
these  lived  and  died  in  New  Canaan,  and  left  a  very  nnmerons 
progeny. 

?klntthias  vSt.  John,  son  of  Benjamin,  married  Jnne  28,  1758, 
Naomi  Weed,  danghter  of  Abraham  Weed.  He  died  March  20, 
1819,  aged  eighty-seven.  His  wife  died  August  27,  1780,  aged 
forty-six.     They  are  the  pai'ents  of  eleven  children:    Abraham, 


Milton  St.  John. 


Iniptized  March  2."),  17oi).  Sarah,  June  15.  17(>(i.  married  Isaac 
Keeler.  :\[atthias,  August  29,  1762.  Esther,  July  8,  1764,  die  1 
1777.  Enoch,  October  19,  1765.  Benjamin,  June  8,  1767. 
Samuel,  January  27,  1769.  Anna,  November  13.  1770,  married 
Matthew  Benedict.  John  Trobridge,  .fuly  2(),  1772.  Nathan, 
November  6,  1775.  Esther,  Marcli  15,  1777.  married  Benjamin 
Bates. 

Of  this  familv,   Samuel    St.   Jt)hn  died   Novemlier  4,   1844. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY  3ii7 

At  that  time  only  four  of  tlioui  reinaiued:  Knocl).  Benjamin, 
John  T.  and  Anna.  The  last  survivor  was  Benjamin,  who  died 
ahout  lsr)2. 

Ahi-aham  St.  John  had  chihli-en:  Polly,  wife  of  Klijah 
Weed,  of  ^liehigan;  Anna,  wife  of  Samuel  Everitt ;  and  Betsey, 
wife  of  Samuel  AVaterlmry. 

Sarah  Keidei'  had  children:  Isaac;  Esther,  wife  of  Uriah 
Eichards;  Naomi,  wife  of  Stephen  Ayres;  and  Sarah,  wife  of 
Peter  Ch'issy. 

Matthias  St.  John  had  children:  Mary,  wife  of  Xehemiah 
Benedict;  Lewis;  Sarah,  wife  of  Frederick  Seeley;  Esther,  wife 
of  Daniel  AVaring;  Betsy  Ann.  wife  of  Silas  Davenport;  and 
Jesse. 

Enoch  St.  John  died  in  1846.  His  children  were:  Enocl) 
C.  Samuel,  an.d  Hannah,  wife  of  Hanford  Davenport. 

Benjamin  St.  dolm  had  children:  Benjainin  AT.,  Ahraham 
W.,  Hauii'di  i>,,  wife  of  Tjcwls  To([net;  ^lary  X..  and  Catherine 
S.,  wife  of  Hon.  Xoah  A.  Phelps. 

Anna  Benedict  had  cliihlren:  Polly,  wife  of  Ezra  Benedict; 
Samuel:  ^^attllias  St.  John,  and  Nathan, 

dolin  T  St.  John  died  a))out  3850.  His  children  were: 
Martha,  Avil'e  of  dohn  C  Bassett;  ^Taria,  wife  of  Josei^h  E. 
Sheffield;  George;  Thomas;  Sanniel  Henry,  and  Erastus  R. 

Nathan  St.  John  had  children:  AFiles,  Milton,  Clmuncey, 
Samuel  B.  Newton. 

Esther  Bates  had  children:  Sanuiel  S.,  William  S..  (Jeorge 
I?..  Charles,  .Inliette,  Sarah  X.,  wife  of  Benj:nuin  Noyes. 

AfilttMi  St.  .John,  son  of  Nathan  and  .\nna  St.  John,  was 
hoi'u  in  Anienia,  New  "^'ork,  December  4.  ISO.").  In  ISKI  he  came 
to  New  York  and  lived  with  a  near  relative.  I'pon  arriving  at 
manhood  he  began  the  business  of  merchant  tailor,  which  he 
conduct(Ml  with  great  success.    For  many  yeai's  his  jilace  of  busi- 


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ness  was  Xo.  S4  IJioadway.  He  was  one  of  the  officers  in  the 
thirst  T'resbyterian  elinich,  in  Wall  street,  and  continued  to  bold 
office  mitil  1856,  when,  removing-  his  residence  from  Twelfth 
street,  between  Fifth  and  Sixth  avennes  to  Twenty-first  street 
between  Sixth  and  Seventh  avenues,  he  connected  himself  with 
the  Reformed  chnrch  on  Twenty-third  street,  and  was  treasurer 
of  that  chnrch  at  the  time  of  his  death.  In  politics  he  was  a 
Whig,  and  was  one  of  the  first  to  join  the  Reimblican  party. 
In  1834  he  married  Sarah  Pardee,  of  Sharon,  Connecticut. 
After  a  useful  and  intinential  life  he  died  in  New  York,  Feb- 
ruary 25,  18(37.  His  wife  died  January  25,  1867.  Mr.  St.  John 
left  children:  Catharine  W.,  ^fary  and  Anna.  Of  this  family 
the  only  one  now  living  is  Miss  Anna  St.  John,  now  residing  in 
New  York. 

HOWEIJ.  FAMILY. 

The  history  of  this  family  in  England  goes  back  to  the 
middle  ages,  and  in  this  country  it  is  inseparably  connected  Avith 
earliest  English  settlement  in  the  province  of  New  York. 

The  rese-ti-ches  of  George  R.  Howell,  whose  untimely  de- 
cease is  dee])ly  lamented  by  all  lovers  of  history,  inform  us  that 
William  Howell,  of  AVedon,  in  the  county  of  Bucks,  had  wife 
Maude,  wlio  died  and  left  two  children,  John  the  elder,  an(]  John 
the  younger.  His  second  wife  was  Anne  Hampton,  and  by  this 
marriage  had  a  son  Henry  and  several  other  children.  In  his 
will,  dated  November  3,  1557.  he  dii-ected  his  body  "to  be  buried 
in  the  parish  church  of  Wingrave  in  the  chancel  before  the  high 
altar."  He  also  left  legacies  to  the  ])oor  of  Aylesbury,  White- 
church  and  Marsh.  To  his  wife,  Anne,  he  left  the  use  of  his_ 
lands  in  Watton  and  Hamme,  and  at  her  decease  they  were  to  go 
to  his  son  Henry.  To  his  eldest  son,  John,  he  left  his  lauds  in 
Mai'sh  Gibl)on,  which  in  default  of  issue  were  to  go  to  his 
brother  Henrv. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  E  AM  I  LI'  II LS  TORY         3o;t 

William  Tloweli  died  in  lo-lT;  liis  son  Jolni  died  childless  in 
1576:  his  brother  Henry  inherited  his  lands  and  became  the 
fomider  of  the  family,  whose  record  is  liere  given.  The  parish 
register  of  Marsh  (Jibbon  states  that  Henry  Howell,  Gent.,  was 
1)nried  ''ye  twenty  day  of  July  l(i25."  His  son,  Edward  Howell, 
was  baptized  the  22d  of  July,  1589.  His  first  wife  was  Frances, 
who  died  about  July  1,  1630.     The  children  of  this  marriage 


HOWELL 

were:  1.  Henry,  baptized  December  L',  KilS,  was  buried  Au- 
gust i!9,  Ki]!).  L'.  Mai'pai'ct,  bajttized  November  L'4,  Kii'L*,  mar- 
ried Rev.  John  Moore,  of  Southold,  Long  Fsland.  '•].  .John,  liap- 
tized  November  '22.  Ki'J!-.  4.  I'^dward,  ))aptized  September,  Kii'Ci. 
5.  Margary.  baptized  June  1,  KI'JS.  (i.  l\i('liard,  liai)tized  in  1629. 
The  second  wife  of  Edward  Howell  was  Eleanor,  who  had  two 
children.  Arthur.  avIio  w;is  baptized  Ki.'VJ,  and  Edmund. 

In  163!),  Edward   Howell,  with  all  his  family,  came  to  Bos- 
ton, and  was  made  a   freeman   March  14,  l()39-4().     He  shortly 


310         GENEALOGICAL  AXD  EAMILY  JH STORY 

after  removed  to  Lynn,  where  lie  had  a  grant  of  five  hundred 
acres.  ])uring  the  winter  of  1639-40,  a  new  settlement  was  pro- 
jected on  Long  Island,  of  which  he  was  the  leader,  and  the 
''agreement"  or  terms  upon  which  the  new  colony  was  founded 
(still  in  existence  in  the  town  clerk's  office  in  Soutliami)ton)  is 
believed  to  he  in  his  hand  writing.  He  contril)uted  a  innch 
larger  amount  tlian  any  other  ])erson  towards  the  expenses 
of  founding  the  new  settlement ;  was  one  of  the  very  few  who  are 
mentioned  as  ''Mr."'  and  "Gentleman";  to  the  end  of  his  life  was 
a  luagistrate,  and  in  later  years  was  a  member  of  the  colonial 
legislature  at  Hartford.  His  useful  life  ended  in  Se^jtember, 
1()55,  and  on  October  (i.  it  was  granted  "to  Mrs.  Elliuor  Howell 
that  she  should  have  the  administration  of  all  the  goods  belong- 
ing unto  Mr.  Pidward  Howell,  deceased."  The  location  of  his 
resting  place  is  approximately  known  from  the  fact  that  his  eld- 
est son,  Major  John  Howell,  in  his  will  directs  that  his  remains 
be  buried  "by  his  father's  sepulchre,"  and  his  tombstone  bearing 
the  ancestral  arms  still  renuiins  in  the  ancient  burying  ground  in 
Southampton.  The  extent  of  his  "Proprietor  Rights"  made  Ed- 
ward Howell  a  large  land  owner,  and  his  landed  possessions  ap- 
pear to  have  been  e(iually  divided  among  his  sons,  and  th;i.-  i,y 
scendants  are  now  scattered  far  and  wide  throughout  our  broad 
land.  The  house  of  the  founder  of  Southampton  was  standing  on 
the  west  side  of  the  main  street  of  the  village  till  recent  years. 
An  elegant  mansion  l)uilt  by  Hon.  James  H.  Pierson  stands  upon 
its  site.  The  arms  of  this  illustrious  family,  as  here  given,  are 
taken  from  an  impression  of  the  seal  of  Colonel  ^Matthew  Howell 
(son  of  Major  John  Howell),  attached  to  his  will  in  the  New 
York  surrogate's  otlice.  There  can  be  little  doul)t  but  that  the 
seal  itself  had  belonged  to  Edward  Howell,  and  had  descended 
to  his  grandson,  who  was  a  Eepresentative  from  Suffolk  county 
in  the  Colonial   Legishitnre,  KiiH-^,  and  from  1()1)4  to  170(1,  in- 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         ;ni 

t'lnsive.    He  died  in  Southampton,  much  lamented,  May  11,  1706, 
and  a  massive  tomlistoaie  marks  his  last  resting  place. 

As  tlie  name  in  its  phonetic  form,  "Hoel"  (which  was  its 
pronunciation  till  veiy  recent  times),  appears  in  very  ancient 
chronicles,  we  are  led  to  the  conclusion  that  the  family  is  of  the 
ancient  British  origin,  and  antedates  hoth  the  Saxons  and  their 
Xorman  concjuerors . 

For  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  the  Howells  were  the  l)one 
and  sinew  of  the  town  of  Southampton.  They  were  the  most  ex- 
tensive landowners,  the  largest  taxpayers,  and  held  the  highest 
offices.  The  founder  of  the  Sag  Harbor  whale  fishery,  whose 
ships  in  later  years  were  found  in  every  sea,  was  Stephen 
Howell,  who  was  born  in  174-!-,  died  in  1828.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Revolution  and  took  ])art  in  the  battle  of  Long  Island.  After 
the  war  he  was  among  the  first  to  revive  the  prostrate  enterprise 
of  the  country,  and  in  1785  sent  out  the  first  whaling  vessels  on 
extended  voyages.  A  iu)ble  monument  in  (Jakland  cemetery  in 
Sag  Plarbor  marks  his  last  resting  jjlace  and  connnemorates  his 
services  as  the  fouiuler  of  a  mighty  enteriu'ise. 

At  a  very  early  date  the  Howells  sent  off  colonies  to  other 
parts  of  the  countiy.  Ldnnind  Howell,  the  yoiuigest  son  of  the 
first  settle]-,  removed  to  Xew  Jersey,  where  his  descendants  are 
yet  found.  Hezekiah  Howell,  a  grandson  of  Richard  Howell, 
with  many  of  his  family,  went  to  ( )i-ange  county  ajid  founded 
Blooming  drove.  Other  branches  also  settled  in  Xew  Jersey 
and  in  the  western  part  of  Xew  York,  aiul  wherever  they  went 
they  and  their  posterity  were  honoral)le  and  honored.  The  first 
actual  settlement  in  the  western  i)art  of  the  town  of  South- 
ampton was  made  by  Hezekiah  Howell,  who  had  a  house  and 
orchard  at  Catchaponack  before  M'.Vl.  He  soon  after  had  a 
ueig'hbor  in  the  person  of  Jonathan  Rayner,  and  their  descend- 
ants still  inherit  their  ancestriil  heritage.     Previous  to  the  date 


81-J         GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

above  given,  it  was  for  long  years  the  custom  for  the  owners  of 
tlie  meadows  to  mow  the  grass  in  tlie  summer  and  secure  it  in 
large  hay  stacks  suri'onnded  1)\-  a  fence.  Late  in  tlie  fall  they 
would  drive  their  herds  of  cattle  to  the  meadows,  and  a  few  men 
would  fodder  them  during  the  winter,  living  in  small,  temporary 
dwellings,  and  engaging  their  leisure  time  in  hunting  deer  and 
shooting  wild  fowl,  both  of  which  wei-e  abundant.  The  house 
and  orchard  of  Hezekiah  Howell  have  remained  in  the  family 
name,  though  not  in  the  direct  line  of  descent,  and  is  one  of  the 
few  instances  of  a  homestead  possessed  by  the  same  family  from 
the  original  laying  out.  ( )f  its  i-ecent  owner  we  will  now  proceed 
to  tell. 

^[oin'iMKi^  i)EVF;Ri^:rx  howell. 

The  line  of  descent  of  Mortimer  D.  Howell,  who  was  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  most  prominent  representatives  of  the  name, 
is  as  follows:  1.  Edward  Howell.  2.  Richard.  3.  Josiah.  -J-. 
Josiah.  O.John,  (i.  dolin  Mitchell.  T.Charles.  8.  Mortimer  1). 
He  was  born  at  the  ancestral  homestead  at  Catchaponack,  183(5. 
Strange  as  it  may  seem,  he  began  the  hard  life  of  a  farmer  boy 
of  the  olden  time  at  the  early  age  of  seven  years,  when  he  drove 
a  team  of  horses,  carting  cordwood  to  Flanders.  He  was  very 
small  for  his  age,  and  was  lifted  to  his  place  on  the  load,  wrapped 
in  a  blanket,  the  lines  placed  in  his  hands,  and  thus  he  drove  the 
well  trained  team,  who  knew  the  road  much  better  than  himself. 
As  he  grow  older  he  took  a  more  active  jiart  in  the  labors  of  the 
farm,  and  every  branch  of  farm  labor  he  learned  thoroughly 
from  actual  ex])erience.  T^earning  to  read  at  a  very  early  age, 
his  k)ve  of  reading  never  ceased.  In  his  boyhood  books  were 
few,  and.  as  he  afterward  said,  he  read  the  ahnanac  till  he  knew 
it  by  lieart,  and  the  same  might  be  said  of  the  other  books  at  his 
command,  often   read  by  firelight,  and   in   this  way  his  earliest 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HlSTOUY         y,y^> 

education  was  obtained.  Conii)leting  the  course  of  the  public 
schools  at  fifteen,  he  was  sent  to  Greenport,  where  educational 
advantages  were  better,  and  from  there  to  Amenia  Seminary, 
after  which  he  taught  for  three  years.  The  earh'  labors  of  his 
life  were  particularly  hard.  The  farm  being  large,  there  was  a 
great  amount  of  work  to  be  done.  There  was  no  farm  machinery, 
such  as  now  lightens  toil,  the  only  help  Ijeing  negroes,  descended 
from  the  slaves  of  colonial  days,  and  regarded  as  almost  a  part 
of  the  family,  while  to  maintain  them,  and  yet  make  the  farm 
pay,  was  a  problem  not  easy  to  solve,  though  the  estate  embraced 
three-quarters  of  Catchaponack  neck. 

In  this  manner  his  life  was  spent  until  his  twenty-fourth 
year,  when  he  went  on  a  voyage  around  Cape  Horn  to  California 
in  the  clipper  ship  "Belle  of  the  Sea."  Tliis  voyage  was  made 
to  join  his  brother,  J.  W.  Fletcher  Howell,  who  went  to  Cali- 
fornia some  years  before.  On  this  voyage,  although  he  shipped 
as  carpenter,  he  might  be  said  to  have  been  partly  passenger 
and  partly  second  mate.  He  studied  navigation,  and  in  his 
leisure  time  read  Shakespeare,  until  he  was  thoroughly  familiar 
with  all  the  works  of  that  famous  poet.  His  original  intention 
was  to  visit  his  brother  and  to  make  a  voyage  around  the  world 
by  sailing  from  San  Francisco  to  China,  but  this  was  prevented 
by  the  Civil  war.  His  stay  in  California  was  limited  to  four 
mouths.  On  their  return  voyage,  while  in  the  Bermuda  i)assage, 
they  saw  a  large  ship  hove  to  and  beyond  it  the  smoke  of  the 
rebel  pirate  "Alabama,"  which  had  made  great  havoc  with 
American  shipping.  Tt  was  not  till  forty  years  afterwards  that 
he  knew  the  reason  why  the  rebel  steamer  did  not  pursue  and 
capture  their  ship,  as  she  could  easily  have  done.  While  in 
Japan  he  read  the  autobiography  of  Captain  Semmes,  and 
learned  that  a  spar,  taken  from  the  burned  vessel,  was  being- 
rigged  on  the  "Alal)ama,"  and  the  time  thus  occupied  enablcvl 


314         GEXEALOaiCAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

the  ship  ill  whieli  .Mr.  Howells  sailed  to  escape.     On  his  return 
from  this  voyage,  on  Xoveml)er  l-t.  18(55.  he  married  Lydia  M., 
daughter  of  John    Howell,  of  (^uogue,  and  gained  by  this  an 
earnest  and  faithful  helper  of  a  lifetime.     He  then  began  the 
business  of  his  life.     Among  the  summer  visitors  to  Catchapo- 
iiaek  was  Phineas  T.  Barnum,  the  world  wide  known  showman, 
who  passed  many  seasons  at  the  old  Howell  house.     With  his 
keen  foresioht  he  advised  ]\Ir.  Howell  to  erect  a  new  and  much 
larger  iniilding.  and  advanced  the  necessary  means.    His  father 
gave  him  the  land  (the  tirst  he  ever  owned),  in  1865,  and  the 
new  hotel,  or  boarding  house,  the  largest  in  that  region,  was 
soon  finished.     Under  his  own  and  his  wife's  able  management 
the  enteri)rise  soon  liecame  a  most  successful  one,  and  in  a  few 
years  he  was  free  fi'om  debt — the  possessor  of  a  steady  and 
prosperous  business.     Peoi)le  of  a  superior  class,  among-  whom 
was  General  John  A.   Dix,  made  Westhampton  their  summer 
home,  the  Drice  of  land  rajudly    advanced,    elegant    residences 
soon  dotted  the  landsca]ie.  and  the  severe  toil  of  early  days  was 
forgotten  in  easy  circumstances.     His  winters  were  passed  in 
shooting  trips  to  the  south.     In  1897.  in  eom])auy  with  his  son, 
he  went  to  \'enezue!a.  the  AVest  Indies    and    Mexico.     In  his 
various  travels  he  had  l:)een  in  all  the  states  of  the  Union  but 
four,    fn  Xovember.  1901.  much  against  the  wishes  of  his  family, 
solicitous  concerning  his  health,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five,  he  began 
alone  a  journey  around   the  world.     As  he  himself  remarked, 
"I  have  always  desired  to  go  around  the  world  and  this  is  the 
first  time  T  have  had  a  chance,"  and  thus,  forty  years  after  his 
fii'st  intention,  his  wish  was  realizecl.     Crossing  India,  he  re- 
turned by  way  of  tht'  Suez  Canal.     While  in  Flngland,  at  Marsh- 
gibbon,  in  Buckingham- hi  re.  he  vi-^ited  the  ancient  homestead  of 
hi-   ra;'e.  owned  by   his  ancestors  three  hundred  years   before. 
He  returned  in    April.    llMli',  and   retired   from  active  l)usine<s, 


GENEALOGICAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  HISTORY  H:, 

leasing  his  hotel  and  spending  his  winters  in  New  York.  His 
health  began  to  fail,  and  on  Fel)ruary  7,  190().  he  passed  from 
the  scenes  of  life,  surrounded  and  lamented  liy  family  and 
friends,  and  leaving  an  example  (if  a  life  well  spent  and  crowned 
with  well-merited  success. 

In  person  Mr.  Howell  was  of  average  height,  very  strongly 
built,  and  cajiable  of  great  exertion,  very  pi'omjit  and  assertive 
in  manner,  never  hesitating  to  express  his  opinions  in  the  plain- 
est manner,  and  as  (me  who  knew  him  well  exjiressed  it,  "He 
was  not  a  man  to  be  easily  talked  down."  At  the  same  time  he 
had  due  regard  for  the  feelings  and  opinions  of  others,  and 
never  failed  to  show  them  all  proper  consideration  and  respect. 
Exceedingh'  characteristic  of  him  was  the  advice  he  gave  to 
his  sons,  "Be  sure  to  save  half  of  what  you  make,  l)ut  be  sure 
to  spend  the  other  half."  In  this  way  they  would  avoid  being 
extravagant  or  ])arsimi)nious.  He  was  a  lil)ei-al  giver  to  all 
jiublic  improvements,  and  charitalile  to  all  worthy  objects,  and 
his  motto  was:  "Do  as  you  would  be  done  by."  In  all  lousi- 
ness affairs  he  }!csse3sed  excellent  judgment,  upon  wliidi  Ins 
friends  relied.  But  there  is  no  one  who  would  wish  to  deny 
that  the  success  of  his  life  was  largely  owing  to  his  choice  of  a 
life  partner,  who  was  ecpial  to  all  emergencies,  and  met  all  the 
vicissitudes  of  life  with  a  s])irit  no  less  unfaltering  than  his 
own.  They  were  the  );arents  or  hve  children.  1.  ddhn  M.,  di  ■;! 
by  drowning  at  the  age  of  eight  years.  2.  Ilamitton  Pit-rson. 
born  December  27,  lS(i9,  attended  the  AVesleyan  Academy  at 
Wilbraham,  Massachusetts,  and  graduated  from  Yale  Univers- 
ity in  1891.  He  adopted  tbc  pi-ofession  of  medicine,  and  grad- 
uated from  the  College  of  l^hysicians  and  Surgeons.  18!t4.  For 
three  years  he  was  on  the  surgical  staff  in  Roosevelt  Hos])ital. 
and  is  now  a  practicing  i)hysician  in  Xew  York.  He  married 
Caroline  E.  Densnu)re,  of   Boston,  ami  has  one  son,   Hampton 


3lo         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

P.,  Jr.,  born  Oetol)er  27,  1904.  3.  Lloyd  Mortimer,  ])orii  October 
25,  1873.  After  attending  Bridge  Hampton  Commercial  In- 
stitnte  and  the  Wesleyan  Academy,  he  entered  Yale  University 
and  gradnated  in  1894;  studied  for  two  years  in  Columbia 
Law  School,  then  entered  New  York  Law  School  and  graduated 
in  1898.  For  several  years  he  was  assistant  United  States 
District  Attorney  in  Brooklyn,  and  is  now  a  i)racticing 
lawyer  at  No.  135  Broadway,  New  York.  4.  Henry  Jarvis,  born 
July  31,  1876.  After  studying  at  Williston  Seminary  and  Brook- 
lyn Polytechnic,  he  was  for  awhile  assistant  to  his  father  at 
West  Hampton.  He  then  entered  the  office  of  Ernest  Flag,  a 
]irominent  architect,  and  remained  there  several  years.  In  1903 
he  went  to  the  Island  of  Guam  and  superintended  the  erection 
of  the  large  station  of  the  Macky-Bennett  Cable  Company.  5. 
Gertrude  Halsey,  born  August  6,  1878,  was  educated  at  Walnut 
Lane  School,  Germantown,  Pennsylvania.  On  March  12,  1903. 
she  married  Duane  P.  Cobb,  a  lawyer  of  Manhattan.  They  have 
one  child,  Mortimer  Howell  Cobb,  born  October  24,  1904. 

It  remains  to  state  the  immediate  ancestry  of  this  branch 
of  the  Howell  family. 

John  Howell,  third,  known  as  "John  Howell  of  Canoe 
Place,"  from  his  having  a  house  of  entertainment  there  before 
the  Eevolution,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Daniel  Brewster, 
who  Avas  son  of  Daniel  Brewster,  son  of  Eev.  Nathaniel  Brews^ 
ter,  the  tirst  minister  in  Brookhaven.  Their  son.  Major  John 
^litchell  Howell,  was  born  Sei)tember  27,  1772,  and  died  at 
West  Hamj)ton,  March  26,  1826.  His  first  wife  was  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Halsey.  She  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-four. 
Their  children  were:  1.  John,  married  Eliza  Miller,  of  Wad- 
ing River.  He  was  at  one  time  the  owner  of  Old  Neck  at  West 
Moriches.  2.  Mary,  married  Thomas  Hewlett  of  Rockaway. 
Major   Howell    married    for    his    second    wife,    1806,    Clarissa. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  IHSTORY         317 

(langliter  of  Daniel  Fanninii',  Avliose  wife,  Jane  Fanning,  was 
a  daughter  of  Colonel  Josiali  Smith,  who  commanded  the  Suf- 
folk County  Eegiment  at  the  battle  of  Long  Island.  Their  chil- 
dren were  Charles  and  Jane.  The  former,  known  as  "Charles 
Howell  of  Catchaponaeh,"  was  born  in  1812,  died  in  1878.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Jones,  daughter  of  Shepherd  Halsey.  Their 
children  were :  J.  W.  Fletcher  Howell,  a  prominent  citizen  of 
Southampton;  ^Mortimer  D. ;  Gertrude,  wife  of  Dr.  E.  P.  Jarvis, 
for  many  years  a  practicing  physician  in  Moriches,  Tjong  Island ; 
and  CMara  Mitchell,  wife  of  Frank  Lyons. 

THO:\rAS  A.  HOWELL. 

The  American  ancestors  of  Thomas  A.  Howell,  on  the  pa- 
ternal and  maternal  sides,  were  Long  Islanders,  resident  from  an 
early  Colonial  jjeriod  in  the  town  of  Southampton,  Suffolk 
county.  New  York.  In  the  paternal  line  he  was  descended  from 
ancestors  who  emigrated  to  this  country  from  Holland,  and  in 
the  maternal  line  he  came  from  original  Welsh  stock.  The  di- 
rect line  of  descent  of  Thomas  A.  Howell  is  as  follows:  1.  Ed- 
ward Howell,  the  fininder  of  Southampton,  Long  Island.  2. 
Richard,  died  174i>.  :].  Josiah,  1675-17r)2.  4.  Josiah.  born 
1709.  5.  Captain  Josiah.  1758-1808.  6.  Hampton.  7.  Benja- 
min Huntting.    8.    Henry  B.    9.    Thomas  A.  Howell. 

Benjamin  Huntting  Howell,  grandfather  of  Thonns  A.  How- 
ell, was  l)orn  at  Belli)ort,  Long  Island,  February  7,  1811,  son  of 
Hampton  and  Elizabeth  Post  (Huntting)  Howell,  and  grandson 
on  the  maternal  side  of  Colonel  Benjamin  Huntting,  who  served 
with  credit  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  Benjamin  H.  Howell 
received  a  common  school  education,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
engaged  in  business  employment  as  a  clerk  in  a  country  store 
at  Huntington,  Long  Island.  In  this  connection  he  continued 
with  vai-ious  concerns  until  able  to  emljark  in  trade  on  his  own 


31S         GEXEALCHUCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

account.  In  ISIJli  lie  cstal)lislie(l  in  Xew  York  City,  with  Jolm 
Howell,  the  wholesale  grocery  house  of  B.  H.  &  J.  Howell.  From 
this  partnership  he  vras  obliged  by  ill  liealth  to  retire  in  1840, 
removing  in  that  year  to  Cutchogue,  Tjong  Island.  In  1843 
he  resumed  business  in  Xew  York  (*ity,  organizing  the  grocery 
tirm  of  B.  H.  Howell  &  Company,  which  he  conducted  success- 
fully until  1858.  He  then  accei)ted  the  presidency  of  the  Market 
Fire  Insurance  Com])any,  l)ut  in  1861  again  entered  mercantile 
life,  forming  a  co-partnersliip  with  his  son,  Thomas  A.,  under 
the  firm  style  of  B.  H.  Howell  &  Son.  This  firm,  devoting  its 
energies  to  the  purchase  and  sale  of  molasses  and  sugar,  was 
soon  in  the  enjoyment  of  an  extensive  ])usiness.  In  1870  other 
])artners  were  admitted  and  the  name  was  changed  to  B.  H. 
Howell,  Son  &  Company.  Sulisequently  two  other  sons  of  Mr. 
Howell.  Frederick  H.  and  Henry  B..  with  James  Howell  Post, 
were  received  as  ]iartners.  Since  the  death  of  Mr.  Howell,  which 
occurred  A];ril  16,  1900,  the  house  has  continued  without  further 
change  of  name,  retaining  the  eminent  |)osition  in  the  com- 
mercial world  of  the  metropolis  secured  for  it  by  its  founder. 
Benjamin  H.  Howell  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  original 
directors  of  the  ^Ntarket  Bank,  now  merged  in  the  Market  and 
Fulton  National  Bank.  He  was  for  many  years  a  resident  of 
the  section  of  Brooklyn  known  as  AViiliamsburg,  and  was  the 
first  president  of  tlie  Williams1)urg  Gas  C^)mpany.  He  was  at 
all  times  a  representative  and  ])ublic-spirited  citizen,  and  took 
an  active  interest  in  religious  work.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
trustees  and  ])rincipal  supporters  of  the  South  Third  Street 
Presbyterian  Church.     His  country  home  was  at  Quogue. 

Mr.  Howell  married  (first).  18;)7,  Mary  Andrews,  who  died 
August  25,  1848.  To  this  union  was  l)orn  three  children:  Fred- 
erick H.,  Thomas  A.  and  Altheia,  who  became  the  wife  of  Will- 
iam H.   Plummer,   deceased.      Mr.    Howell    married    (second), 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  IIISTOHY  :;iit 

1851,  Eiiza]K4li  Banks,  win.  died  Febniary  I'-J,  IDO'J.  To  tliis 
union  were  born  two  cliildi-cii :  Ilcnrv  !>.,  see  forward;  Eiiiiiia, 
died  in  childhood. 

Henry  B.  Howell,  son  of  Benjamin  II.  Howt'll,  and  father 
of  Thomas  A.  Howell,  was  born  in  l>r()oklyn,  IS,"),"),  died  at 
Qnogne,  Long-  Island,  Se})tember,  18i)<S,  at  the  early  age  of  forty- 
three.  His  early  life  was  si)ent  in  Brooklyn,  and  he  tlici-c  ac- 
(|nired  his  education  in  a  private  school.  He  was  still  very 
young  when  he  entered  the  business  of  his  father,  which  at  tlrit 
time  bore  the  firm  name  of  B.  H.  Howell  &  Son.  Later  the 
name  was  changed  to  its  present  form  of  B.  H.  Howell.  Son  sfc 
Company.  He  was  acti\'ely  interested  in  this  business  until 
very  shortly  liefore  his  death.  He  was  married  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  to  Mary  Blackwell,  who  bore  him  two  children: 
Thomas  A.,  see  forward.  Corinne  Blackwell,  who  l)ecame  tlie 
wife  of  Channing  P.  Wiley. 

Thomas  A.  Howell,  only  son  and  eldest  child  of  Henry  B. 
and  Mary  (Blackwell)  Howell,  was  born  at  Brooklyn,  Xew 
York,  November  9,  1878.  He  was  educated  at  the  Hotchkius 
school  in  Lakeville,  Connecticut,  and  later  attended  Yale 
University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1900. 
He  immediately  commenced  an  active  business  career  and  be- 
came a  partner  in  the  tirm  of  B.  H.  Howell,  Son  and  Company, 
of  which  he  is  an  active  member  at  the  })resent  day. 

Mr.  Howell  married,  Feln-uary  8,  1902,  Helen  Akin,  daugh- 
ter of  Albro  and  Emma  (Read)  Akin,  and  they  are  the  parents 
of  two  children:  Thomas  A.  W.,  born  l)ecend)er  12,  1902;  and 
William  H.,  born  March  6,  1905. 

FA^yllLY  OF  FMBREF. 
The  history  of  this  family  goes  back  to  the  earliest  settle- 
ment of  Flushing,  on  Long  Island,  and  there  is  reason  to  believe 


3-'n  (iEXEAIJXilCAI.  AM)  FAMILY  UISTOHY 

that  it  was  of  Freiicli  Huguenot  origin,  and  tradition  reports 
tliat  they  came  from  Xonnandy,  the  original  form  of  the  name 
being-  d'Emliree.  As  the  name  ai)]!ears  in  this  country  many 
years  before  the  Huguenot  immigration  of  KiSG,  they  were  proli- 
ably  among  the  hirge  number  of  families  who  fled  from  France  to 
Holland  to  escape  jiersecution,  and  from  thence  came  to  America 
with  the  Dutch.  Their  first  settlement  was  in  Westchester, 
from  whence  they  removed  to  Long  island.  One  of  the  earliest 
mentions  of  the  name  is  in  the  will  of  Nicholas  Parcell  or  Pears- 
all,  dated  March  10,  1689-90.  In  this  he  leaves  a  legacy  "to 
Rol)ert  Embree,  son  of  my  daughter  Sarah  Embree."  She  was 
probaltly  the  wife  of  John  Embree,  whose  name  appears  at  an 
early  date.  About  the  same  time  appears  the  name  of  Moses 
Embree (iirol)ably  a  brother  of  John)  and  these  two  seem  to  be 
the  ])rogenitors  of  the  race. 

Roliert  Embree  was  probably  the  father  of  John  Embree 
who  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Francis  Doughty.  She  was 
born  in  1703.  Her  grandfather,  Rev.  Francis  Doughty,  is  in- 
sejiarably  connected  with  the  founding  of  the  town  of  Flusiiing 
and  Xewtown.  His  sons  Elias  and  Francis  were  very  prominent 
in  our  early  annals.  Francis  Doughty  married  ^largaret,  widow 
of  Kev.  John  Moore,  of  Xewtown.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Edward 
Howell,  whose  name  must  ever  be  famous  as  the  founder  of 
Southampton,  the  first  English  town  in  the  province  of  Xew 
York,  and  the  ancestor  whose  descendants  may  be  numbered 
by  the  thousand.  Among  the  children  of  John  and  Sarah  Em- 
bree was  a  son,  John  Embree,  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Richard  Lawrence  and  Hannah  Bowne.  She  was  born  April 
15,  1720.  Their  son,  Effingham  Embree,  was  born  September 
24,  1759,  and  died  December  3,  1817.  He  married  his  cousin, 
Mai-y  Lawrence  (daughter  of  John  Lawrence  and  Ann  Burling). 
She  was  born  October  17,  1763,  and  died  September  16,  1831. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY         321 

Tliey  were  married  December  26,  1780.  In  the  early  })art  of 
the  last  pentnry,  few  men  in  New  York  were  better  known  or 
more  prominent  tliaii  " Etitingiiam  Embree,  Gentleman,"  as  his 
name  so  freqnently  occurs  in  the  records  of  those  days.  Shortly 
after  the  Revolutionary  war  he  was  appointed  by  congress  to 
bring  u])  the  standard  of  the  gold  and  silver  coin  then  in  cir- 
culation which  has  l)een  l)adly  sweatted  and  clipped  during  that 
war.  In  1817  he  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  in  what  is  now 
the  heart  of  the  city,  but  then  in  the  suburbs.  This  was  a  part 
of  the  ancient  Bayard  Farm,  and  extended  from  "^leadow 
street"  (now  Grand  street)  to  below  "Sugar  Loaf"  street  (now 
Franklin  street),  and  from  Broadway  to  the  land  of  Trinity 
Church,  so  famous  as  the  bone  of  contention  with  the  heirs  of 
Anneke  Jans.  By  the  |)urchase  of  this  tract  he  became 
one  of  the  largest  land  owners  in  the  city.  Its  value  now  is 
immense,  but  it  cost  then  but  a  few  thousand  pounds.  While 
a  resident  of  the  city  and  one  of  its  most  prominent  citizens,  his 
country'  place  was  at  Flushing,  Long  Island,  and  the  mansion 
Imilt  by  him  yet  remains  as  a  very  interesting  relic  of  the  past. 
He  was  also  the  owner  of  many  thousand  acres  of  land  in  Ken- 
tucky, Pennsylvania  and  the  northern  ))art  of  Xew  York  state. 
The  origin  of  the  name  of  Effingham  will  be  given  in  another 
l)Iace,  and  this  name  has  continued  in  the  family  for  four  genera- 
tions. 

The  children  of  Effingham  and  Mary  (Lawrence)  Embree 
were:  1.  John  Lawrence,  born  February  '11,  1783,  married  De- 
borah Lawrence,  and  had  a  son  George  W.,  liorn  in  1844.  His 
son  Frank  L.,  is  a  resident  in  Xew  York.  '1.  Effingham  L.,  born 
October  12,  17i)l,  married  Eliza  Hartman,  and  had  two  sons, 
George  and  Edward.  The  latter  lived  in  Fairtield,  Xew  Jersey, 
and  died  in  li)05.  The  former  is  now  living  in  Soutli  Carolina. 
;>.   Lawrence  Effingham,   born   .Inly   !t,    17!I4,   died    November  2, 

\ol.    1—31 


322  liESEALOClCAL  AM)  FAMILY  IllSTOin' 

1849.  He  inarricMl  Sarali  Kul)in.sou,  daughter  ol"  Walter  Frank- 
lin. July  9,  1821.  They  liad  eight  children,  all  of  whom  died  in 
iufauey,  exrei)t  Kohert  Cornell  Enihree,  l)i)rn  January  'I'l,  1824, 
in  the  old  family  mansion  at  Flushing  and  died  Sei)teml)er  14, 
1902,  in  the  same  town;  ^lary  Ann,  born  January  24,  1829,  mar- 
ried (."harles  Townsend.  of  a  famous  J^ong  Island  family,  and 
had  two  daughters.  Sarah  Franklin,  wife  of  Dr.  Kieliard  Sea- 
man, and  ^lary  Embree,  who  died  unmarried  at  an  eai'ly  age. 
4.  Jane  L.,  horn  Ai)ril  12,  1797,  married  John  Wines.  5.  Mar.y 
Ann,  I)orn  duly  l."!,  1799,  died  unmarried  in  1824.  6.  Hannah, 
born  February  19,  180G,  nuirried  Gilbert  Hieks. 

Robert  Cornell  Em]>ree  married  Pliebe  Seaman  Birdsall. 
daughter  of  James  F.  Birdsall.  July  8,  1852.  at  Xew  York  City. 
She  was  born  duly  4.  18;')(),  and  died  December  10.  1904.  Their 
children  were:  1.  Caroline,  born  June  1,  1853,  died  January 
o,  18(30.  2.  Lawrence  Eifiugham,  born  May  17,  1856.  3.  James 
Kobert,  born  May  23,  1859,  died  March  21,  1892.  He  was  a 
graduate  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Columl)ia 
University,  and  Clu^rity  and  Xew  York  Hosintals,  and  mitil 
about  a  year  before  his  death  was  actively  engaged  in  the  prac- 
tice of  liis  ijrofession.  4.  Cornelia,  born  July  1,  1861,  is  now  liv- 
ing at  Flushing.  She  married  Francis  J.J.  de  Kaismes,  April 
4,  1883,  and  lias  three  children,  Francis  Embree,  Robert  Embree 
and  Embree  de  Raismes.    5.  Edith  Franklin,  born  July  11,  1863. 

Lawrence  Effingham  Embree,  the  present  representative 
of  the  name  went  with  his  parents  to  Flushing  about  the  year 
1860  and  has  since  that  time  made  that  place  his  residence. 
His  father,  Robert  Cornell  Embree,  began  life  as  a  civil  engineer, 
and  heli)ed  to  build  the  old  Croton  reservoir  on  Fifth  avenue,  and 
was  also  associated  with  Captain  Blunt  on  the  United  States 
coast  survey.  He  afterwards  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Peter 
Augustus  day  and  Hamilton  Fish.     After  the  death  of  ]\Ir.  Jay, 


Effingham    Embree. 


GENEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  lllSTOliY         325 

and  as  Mr.  Fish  had  l^een  made  secretary  of  state,  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  Walter  Rutherford,  who  was  his  fellow  clerk, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Rutherford  and  Emhree.  This  continued 
until  the  death  of  ^Ir.  Rutherford.  He  was  counsel  foi-  many 
distinguished  men,  and  as  executor  settled  many  estates  of  great 
value. 

His  son,  Lawrence  Effingham  Emln-ee,  obtained  his  early 
education  at  the  famous  Flushing  Institute,  and  later  was  in  the 
class  of  78  in  Columbia  College,  graduated  from  the  law  school 
in  1879,  and  was  for  some  years  in  the  office  of  ]\roore.  Hand 
and  Bonney,  of  which  the  learned  genealogist,  Charles  R.  ^loore, 
was  the  head.  Tn  1888  he  joined  his  father,  their  office  being  at 
lo5  Broadway,  where  he  still  continues,  tlie  personnel  of  the 
firm  being  Finck,  Embree  iS:  Cobb.  ^Ir.  Embree  is  a  meml^er 
of  the  Association  of  the  Bar  of  the  City  of  New  York,  Xew 
York  State  Bar  Association,  Queens  County  Bar  Association, 
The  Cnion  (Uub,  New  York  Yacht  Club,  St.  Nicholas  Society^ 
Dwight  Alumni  Association  and  Oakland  Golf  Club  of  Baysidc, 
Long  Island.  In  religion  he  adheres  to  the  principles  of  his 
Quaker  ancestors,   and   in   politics   belongs   to   the  Republican 

party,  but  has  never  been  or  sought  to  be  what  is  commonly 
known  as  a  |)olitician. 

It  remains  to  add  a  short  notice  of  the  lines  of  descent 
from  prominent  families  of  the  early  days. 

WILLETT   DESCENT. 

Captain  Thomas  Willett  was  born  in  England,  Kill,  died  at 
P>ari-ington,  Alassachusetts,  August,  1674.  In  1651  he  was  a  mag- 
istrate of  Plymouth  and  was  the  first  to  inform  Governor  Peter 
Stuyvesant  of  the  coming  of  the  English  fleet  under  Richard 
Nicoll  in  1664.  After  the  surrendei'  on  June  12,  1665,  he  was  a])- 
pointed  the  first  ma\or  of  New  Y'ork.  AMien  the  Dutch  recapt- 
ured the  city,  his  ])roperty  was  confiscated,  but  was  soon  restored. 


326         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXJ)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

He  was  l)uri('(l  at  Heli()l)otli,  or  Swansea,  in  the  town  of  Seeconck, 
Massarliiisetts.  A  ])lain  tomlistone  l)ears  this  inscrijitinn  :  "l(i74. 
Here  lies  the  Body  of  ye  Honh''  Thomas  WiHett,  Y.^i[.  Wlio 
died  August  ye  4tli  in  ye  G-ith  year  of  liis  age.  Who  was  the 
First  Mayor  of  New  York  and  twice  did  sustain  ye  Pkice." 
"1669.  Here  lyeth  the  l)ody  of  the  virtuous  :\rrs.  :\Iary  Willett 
wife  to  Thomas  Willett  Esq.  Who  died  January  ye  8  ahout  ye 
(Joth  yeai'  of  her  age  Daughter  to  ye  Hon''"'  dohn  Brown  Esij." 
Thomas  Willett  married  Mary  Brown,  July  (!,  1  ()."!().  They  were 
the  parents  of  thirteen  cliildren. 

Andrew  Willett,  the  twelfth  eliild.  was  horn  Octolier  5, 
1655,  and  died  in  1712.  He  married.  May  30,  1(582,  Ann,  daugh- 
ter of  (xovernor  William  C'oddington,  of  Rhode  Ishmd,  and  had 
five  cliildren.  Of  these,  ^lary  Willett  married  .Foseiih  Carjienter, 
1711.  Their  daughter,  Phel)e  Carpenter,  niai-ried  Daniel  Willets. 
Their  son,  Jacoh  W^illets,  married  Hannah  Powell,  and  tlieir 
daughter  Phehe  W^illets,  married  Elijali  Seaman,  a  direct 
descendant  of  Ca])tain  John  Seaman.  Their  daughter.  Avis 
Seaman,  mari'ied  James  Ferris  Birdsall,  wliose  daugliter,  Phehe 
Seaman  P>irdsall,  nuirried  Rohert  Cornell  Emliree.  Mr.  Law- 
rence Effingham  P^mhree  is  therefore  a  descendant  of  the  ninth 
generation  from  the  first  mayor  of  New  York. 

Of  Jacob  Wallets  it  is  said:  He  died  at  his  homestead  in 
Islij).  He  always  wore  a  drab  cloth  suit,  long  tailed  coat,  knee 
breeches  and  buckles  on  his  shoes.  In  his  old  age  he  was  blind 
and  was  led  by  his  great-grand(hiughter  Phel)e."  (Mrs.  Robert 
C.  Embree.) 

CODDIXGTOX    LINE. 

Governor  W^illiam  Coddington  married  Ann  Brindley. 
Their  daughter  Ann,  born  July  26,  166."^,  married  Andrew 
Willett,  as  above. 


(iEXEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         327 

LAWRENCE    LINE. 

A\'illi;uii  Lawrence  married  Elizabeth,  daiigliter  of  Richard 
Smith,  the  patentee  and  founder  of  Smitlitown,  Long 
Ishind.  Tlieir  oldest  son,  Josej:)]!  Lawrence,  married  Mary, 
daugliter  of  Sir  Hicliard  Townley.  Tlieir  son,  Kiehard  Law- 
rence, married  Hannah,  (huighter  of  Samuel  Bowne.  Their 
daughter,  Elizabeth  Lawrence,  married  John  Embree.  Joseph 
Lawrence  had  also  a  daughter,  Dorothy,  who  married  Francis 
Howard,  who  on  December  8,  1731,  was  made  first  earl  of 
P^ffingluun.  Hence  the  name  Effingham,  was  assumed  by  the 
I^awrence  and  Embree  families. 

FRANKLIN   LINE. 

Thomas  Franklin  married,  at  Westbury  meeting  liouse,  Joth 
of  1st  inontli,  1703,  Mary,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Martha 
Fearsall.  Tliey  had  sons  Jolm,  Walter  and  Samuel.  They 
were  all  })rominent  merchants  in  New  York. 

John  Franklin  had  a  son,  Walter  Franklin,  born  dune  lo, 
1773.  He  married  Sarali  ^Morris,  and  had  three  children:  Sarah 
Kobinson,  Walter  and  Townsend  Fudei'liill.  Sarali  Rolnnson 
Franklin  was  born  duly  lli,  1798,  died  January  D,  18(54.  She 
married  Effingliam  Lawrence  Embree,  July  9,  \S'2\. 

Walter  Franklin  (son  of  Thomas)  was  one  of  tlie  committee 
of  one  hundred  chosen  l)y  the  freeholders,  May  23,  1775.  Being 
very  successful  he  retired  with  a  large  fortune.  He  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Daniel  Bowne.  Their  cliildren  were: 
^larie,  wife  of  (Jovernor  \)^'  Witt  ('linton;  Haniinh,  wife  of 
(ieorge  ("linton;  and  Sarah,  wife  of  dolm  L.  Norton.  Walter 
Franklin  died  June  8,  1780.  His  widow  married  Hon.  Samuel 
Osgood.  In  17S!»,  Mr.  ( )sg()od  and  Mr.  William  Duer  (who 
m:irrie(l  "Lady  Kitty,"  daughter  of  William,  Lord  Sterling, 
a    famous    general    in    the    Revolution)    were    chostMi    to    select 


32S         (lEXEALOGlCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

a  house  in  New  York  for  tlie  occupation  of  President 
'\Vasliington.  They  chose  the  house  of  AValter  Franklin  on 
Cherry  street.  Mrs.  Osgood  and  Mrs.  Duer  superintended  the 
furnishing.  A  letter  written  at  the  time  by  Sarah  Robinson,  a 
niece  of  Walter  Franklin,  states  "The  whole  of  the  first  and 
second  stories  are  papers,  and  the  floors  covered  with  the  richest 
kind  of  Turkey  and  Wilton  carpet."  It  was  one  of  the  finest 
houses  in  New  York  at  that  time. 

FAMILY  OF  SAXXAY. 

This  family  of  Iln.i;uenot  ancesti'y  is  descended  from  Kev. 
Jacques  Sanxay,  who  was  born  al)out  the  middle  of  the  seven- 
teenth century  at  or  near  Taillebourg  in  tlie  Province  of  Xain- 
tonge,  France.  He  died,  a  Huguenot  exile,  at  Pjxeter,  England, 
about  17!i.').  His  son,  Kev.  James  Sa.nxay,  was  born  at  Exeter, 
Xovember  2,  KiOO,  and  died  \\)v\\  2,  17(5S.  He  married  Anna 
Badger,  daughter  of  Rev.  Edward  Badger,  Rector  of  Bedworth, 
A^'arwickshire.  She  died  July  ."),  175S.  They  were  the  parents 
of  Jolin  Sanxay,  born  Se])tember,  174().  at  Tetcott,  Devonshire. 
P]ngland,  died  March  10,  1811.  He  was  the  first  and  only  one  to 
emigrate  to  America,  came  from  England  to  X^ew  York,  prior  to 
]77.'>,  and  was  there  married  to  Sarah  He  Voe,  by  Rev.  Dr.  In- 
glis.  rector  of  Trinity  Church,  February  14,  177').  His  wife, 
Sarah  l)e  \"()e  ( De  Vaux)  Sanxay,  born  December  S.  17.'')(),  died 
February  14,  ISOl,  belonged  to  the  De  A^aux  family  which  Hed 
from  La  Rochelle,  France,  and  went  to  Manheim,  (Jermany, 
which  was  afterward  a  ])ortion  of  France.  From  thence  he  came 
to  America  and  settled  at  Xew  Rochelle.  Their  son, 
Frederic  Sanxay.  was  born  in  Xew  York,  ( )ctobev  27, 
17!n.  and  died  there,  P^'ebruary  7,  1S75.  He  married  Mary 
27.  1701.  and  died  there,  February  7,  1875.  He  married  Mary 
A\'hippl('.  March  1.").  1818.     She  was  born  February  2,  18(H),  and 


GENEALOliWAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         S-2:> 

died  June  10,  ISi'T.  Tlieii-  son,  Theodore  Sanxay.  was  born  at 
Cincinnati.  Ohio,  Marcli  12,  1819,  and  died  December  15,  1892. 
He  married  Hetty  Ann  Perry.  May,  1842.  She  was  born  Janu- 
ary .■>,  1818,  died  ^[areh  20,  18!)().  Theii-  son.  Theodore  Freder- 
ic Sanxay.  was  born  Marcli  12,  184.").  at  Iowa  City,  Iowa. 

Theodore  Frederic  Sanxay,  the  ])re<ent  rei)resentative  of 
this  family,  received  his  early  education  at  private  schools  ami 
at  the  Cleveland  Institute,  Cleveland,  Ohio.  He  entered  Prince- 
ton Univer.sity  and  graduated  as  A.  B.  in  the  class  of  18()l-,  and 
later  received  from  the  said  university  the  degree  of  A.  M.,  and 
the  deg:ree  of  LL.  B.  from  the  Cniversity  of  Albany,  where  he 
had  been  a  law  student  in  the  same  class  with  the  late  William 
McKiuley.  He  connnenced  the  ])ractice  of  his  profession  in 
Xew  York,  and  liad  an  extended  ]iractice  for  several  years,  when 
failing  health  coni])elled  him  to  relax  his  etforts.  He  was  at 
fir.st  connected  with  the  late  Sketifington  Sanxay,  Es(i..  a  grand- 
son of  John  Sanxay,  whose  learning  and  ability  gave  him  great 
distinction  at  tlie  bar,  and  whose  eccenti'icities  are  recalled  by 
many  stories  concerning  him.  ( )iie  of  these  refers  to  a  certain 
case  where  his  oi){)onent  was  the  late  K.  W.  Stoughton,  after- 
wards Fnited  States  minister  to  Kussia.  The  latter  was  a  large 
man  of  most  distinguished  ap];earance  and  lofty  bearing,  which 
was  greatly  em]iliasized  l\v  having  long  curling  locks  of  hair 
which  stood  out  with  gi'eat  profusion  al)out  a  head,  large  and 
massi\-e.  ( )n  a  call  of  the  case  in  one  of  the  ap])ellate  courts.  Mr. 
Sanxay  announced  his  own  readiness  to  ])roceed,  but  said  that 
his  opponent,  "one  Stuffton,"  as  he  ))ronounced  the  name,  did 
iu)t  apiiear  to  lie  in  coui't. 

^Ir.  Sanxay  from  boyhood  had  been  (leei)Iy  interested  in 
jiolitics.  l)ecanie  an  ardent  He])ul4ican,  became  well  known  as  a 
camjiaign  speaker,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Xew  York  Repub- 
lican County  Committee  in  the  earlv  seventies,  when  an  attemtit 


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was  made  to  detaininanyize  the  party  by  a  reoi-ganizatioii.  Tlie 
leaderslii])  of  the  party  fell  into  the  liaiids  of  the  late  President 
Chester  A.  .Vrtliui',  then  cojiector  of  tlu'  ixii't,  hnt  experience  as 
to  the  i)ractical  side  of  politics  gave  him  no  desire  for  it  as  a 
])nrsnit.  Tlie  cliairman  of  a  eam])aign  committee,  ^Yhen  giving 
final  instrnction  as  to  what  he  desired,  said:  "I  want  to  im])ress 
it  njion  all  onr  sjjeakers,  to  sjjeak  riglit  to  tlie  jiassions  of  the 
l)e()ple. "  Ml-.  Sanxay.  with  better  judgment,  had  always  tried  to 
do  the  opposite.  lie  has  ever  been  a  Kei)nblican,  but  of  the  inde- 
jxMideiit  type,  and  lias  never  held  or  sought  political  office. 

In  religious  association,  'Sir.  Sanxay  has  ever  held  to  the 
faith  of  his  JIuguenot  ancestors.  His  direct  affiliations  have 
l)een  with  the  Presbyterians,  though  he  has  sometimes  attended 
the  Dutch  Keforined  church.  In  social  affairs  Mr.  Sanxay  is 
comu^cted  with  the  Inion  League  Club  and  the  Princeton  Uni- 
versity. He  is  a  memlier  of  the  New  Yoi'k  Historical  Society,  is 
one  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and  is  one  of  the  di- 
rectors of  the  New  York  ()i>lithalmic  Hospital. 

Jacques  Sanxay,  the  ancestor  of  this  honored  family,  was 
the  son  of  a  well-to-do  mercliant,  who  lived  at  Taillebourg 
(Xaintouge),  France,  who  belonged  to  the  Sanxay  family,  which 
was  so  actively  identified  with  the  Reformed  church  at  Saintes. 
One  of  the  most  distinguished  members  of  that  family  was 
Pierre  Sanxay,  the  ]ioet.  He  was  ])astor  of  the  church  "De  La 
l*ai'ole  de  Dieu"  at  Saintes  from  157(»  to  157(i.  He  was  also  the 
intimate  fi'iend  of  Bernard  Palissy,  the  artist,  philosoi)her  and 
mai'tyr.  and  wrote  the  introductory  verses  to  his  book,  entitled, 
"A  Receipt  Veritable." 

As  soon  as  ,Iac(|ues  Sanxay  was  old  enough,  he  was  sent  to 
Madeleine  College  at  Bordeaux,  an  institution  controlled  by  the 
Jesuits,  but  distinguished  foi'  its  training  in  the  classical  lan- 
guages.    Here  he  won  the  prize  for  ehxiuence,  and  the  Jesuits 


GEXEALOdlCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         331 

songlit  liis  father's  consent  to  bring  liini  into  their  society.  His 
father  thereui)on  withdrew  him  from  the  college  and  sent  him 
to  London,  where  he  remained  neai-ly  two  years.  His  father 
having  died,  he  retnrned  to  France  and  entered  the  Protestant 
College  at  Sanmnr,  where  he  graduated  with  degree  of  ^l.  A. 
He  became  a  minister  and  served  the  chnrch  at  St.  Jean  1) 'Angle, 
and  afterwards  at  Tonnay  Boutonne.  Xaintonge.  T'pon  the 
Revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Xantes,  he  was  ordered  to  close  his 
church  and  desist  from  preaching,  which  he  declined  to  do. 
Dragoons  were  quartered  in  his  house  and  he  was  confined  for 
six  months  in  ])rison.  and  was  released  upon  condition  of  leaving 
France.  He  therefore  went  to  England  and  became  the  pastor  of 
St.  Olave's  ("hurch,  com}josed  of  large  numbers  of  refugees,  at 
Exeter,  and  there  he  remained  until  his  death.  He  left  two  sons, 
James  and  Daniel.  Both  were  graduated  from  Oxford  and  be- 
came clergymen  of  the  Church  of  England.  James  was  rector 
of  Tetcott,  where  John,  his  son,  who  afterwards  came  to  Amer- 
ica, was  born.  The  latter  was  a  Loyalist  during  the  Revolution, 
and  went  with  his  family  to  Shelburne,  Xova  Scotia,  but  re- 
turned in  ITSii.  He  was  a  ^lason  and  one  of  the  ])etiti()ners  foi- 
a  charter  for  Trinity  Lodge.  X'o.  10,  organized  in  1795. 

The  family  arms  are  engraved  on  some  of  the  burial  monu- 
ments in  Euro])e.  but  have  not  been  used  in  the  Lnited  States. 

THE  KEXVOX  FA:\IILY. 

Of  the  families  bearing-  this  name  there  are  several  dis- 
tinct branches  who  came  to  this  country  at  dii^'erent  times,  the 
oldest  of  them  emigrating  prior  to  1657  and  settling  at  Kings- 
ton. Rhode  Island,  and  their  descendants  have  ever  since  been 
identified  with  the  history  of  that  state. 

The  first  settlers  ai)pear  to  have  been  three  brothers,  John, 
James  and  Roger  Kenyou.    John,  the  eldest,  Avas  boru  in  1657, 


332  (iESEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FaMILY  IlISTOHY 

nud  died  in  17o:2,  at  Westerly,  where  the  latter  part  of  his  life 
was  spent.  He  married  and  his  children  were:  John,  married 
Filizal»t'th  Remington;  James,  Ensel,  Joseph,  David  and  Jona- 
than. James,  the  second  l>rotlier,  died  in  Westerly,  Rhode 
Island,  in  1724.  He  and  his  wife  Ruth  were  the  parents  of 
seven  children,  as  follows:  James,  Thomas,  Ebenezer,  John, 
Peter,  Sarah  and  Rntli.  Roger,  the  third  1)rother,  died  in  Xew 
Shoreham.  By  liis  marriage  to  Mary  Hay  one  child  was  born, 
Roger,  1685. 

Samuel  Kcnyon,  prol)al)ly  a  desi-endaiit  nf  James  Kenyon, 
one  of  the  pioneer  settlers,  was  the  father  of  a  son,  Elijah,  who 
married  Peneloi)e  Perry,  a  member  of  a  family  well  known  in 
the  annals  of  our  county,  and  their  children  were:  jjcwis, 
Simeon  P.,  Beriali,  Perry,  Elijah  and  Samuel.  ( )f  these  chil- 
dren Lewis,  the  eldest,  married  Xancy  Sherman  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  eleven  children:  Al>iel,  Lucy,  Pamelia,  Elijah, 
Sarah,  Isaac,  RandoIi)h,  Mary  Ann,  Hannah,  Susan,  Charles. 
The  family  resided  at  Kenyon,  Rhode  Island.  Lewis  Kenyon 
died  in  18o9.  Simeon  Perry,  the  second  son,  bora  July  13,  1788, 
died  July  5,  18B1.  He  married  Sarah  Clarke,  who  bore  him  the 
following  children :  Simeon,  Septeml)er  2(),  1810;  Lavinia,  March 
;](),  181-1;  Halsey  X.,  March  25,  1816;  Augaista  M.,  September 
1,  1817;  James  Alfred,  September  2,  1819,  mentioned  herein- 
after; Mary  Ann,  August  1,  1821. 

James  Alfred  Kenyon,  fifth  child  of  Simeon  Perry  and 
Sarah  (Clarke)  Kenyon,  was  born  in  Clairmout,  Columbia  coun- 
ty, X'^ew  York,  September  2,  1819.  He  engaged  in  business  at 
Preston-Hollow,  Albany  county,  Xew  York.  Later  he  removed 
lo  Delaware  county,  Xew  York,  and  there  was  engaged  in  manu- 
facturing leather  up  to  1884,  after  which  date  he  I'esided  in 
Waverly,  X^ew  York,  where  his  death  occurred  July,  1895.  He 
married   (first),  April  28,  1847,  Olivia    II.  Devereux,  who  died 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  III  STORY         y.iVd 

.hiiic  !),  IS,")!);  IK)  cliildi'cii.  Married  (second),  dune  7,  18(55, 
Hutli  Adaline  Taiuiei',  and  their  cliildi'en  are:  .Vddie  Olive, 
bdrn  June  2'2,  18()(i;  (leorge  Alfred,  boi'ii  Sei)tenil)er  3,  18G8. 
died  October  18,  LS(i9;  James  Henry,  horn  July  9,  1872. 

Dr.  James  Henry  Kenyon  was  l)()rn  at  C'annonsville.  Dela- 
ware (•(.unty.  Xew  \'ork.  July  i),  1872.  His  elementary  ti'ain- 
ing'  was  a('(|uired  in  the  scliools  of  ( 'annonsville  and  Wavei'ly. 
In  1888  he  entered  the  i>re]>aratory  school  at  Lawrenceville, 
New  Jersey,  and  in  1890  Princeton  Tniversity,  graduating 
from  that  institution  in  June.  1894.  He  mati'iculated  at  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  Xew  York  Oity,  and  in 
June,  1898,  graduated  from  that  institution  with  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine.  From  -Inly,  1898,  to  July.  1902,  he  served 
as  interne  of  the  New  York  Hospital.  In  the  fall  of  1902  he 
engaged  in  the  active  i;ractice  of  his  profession  in  tlie  city  of 
Xew  York,  and  in  addition  thereto  serves  in  the  capacity  of 
assistant  surgeon  at  Trinity  Hos])ital,  and  as  assistant  surgeon 
of  the  out-]iatient  de]iartment  of  the  Xew  York  Hos]>ital  and  al 
tlie  V^anderhilt  Clini".  Dr.  Kenyon  is  a  menilier  of  the  County 
Medical  Society,  Academy  of  ]\Iedii'ine,  and  the  Society  of  the 
Alumni  of  the  Xew  York  Hospital. 

Kingstt)wn,  which  was  the  original  seat  of  this  family,  was 
erected  as  the  seventh  town,  in  the  colony  in  1()74.  Among  the 
many  interesting  relics  of  the  past,  with  which  IJhode  Island 
abounds,  is  Coronation  Kock  n])on  which  (,)ueen  Esther,  the  last 
ruler  of  the  Xarragansett  Indians,  was  crowned  in  1770.  This 
rock,  now  ])earing  a  suitable  (H)nunemorative  tablet,  stantls  on 
the  l\en>-on  fai'm  on  the  old  Peipmt  Path  in  Clarkstown. 


334         (iEXEALOdJCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

ISAAC  HENDKIX. 

Isaac  Heudrix,  whose  name  iutroduces  this  review,  be- 
longed to  a  fhiss  and  type  of  men  who  during  his  day  and  genera- 
tion were  leaders  in  the  industrial  and  commercial  affairs  of 
Xew  York  City.  Isaac  Hendrix  was  born  at  Piermont,  Kock- 
land  county,  New  York,  January  12,  1813.  His  parents  were 
Henry  and  Maria  (Onderdonk)  Hendrix,  the  latter  ))eing  a  de- 
scendant from  one  of  the  three  Onderdonk  brothers,  who  emi- 
grated from  Holland  and  settled  along  the  Hudson  river  during 
early  colonial  days  near  where  Piermont  is  now  located  in  Rock- 
land county,  Xew  York.  The  Onderdonk  ancestors,  who  were 
among  the  early  colonial  settlers  along  the  Hudson  river,  owned 
a  large  tract  of  land  which,  family  tradition  states,  was  situated 
between  Piermont  and  Xyack,  where  some  of  the  old  homes  still 
stand  in  their  original  form. 

hi  the  Onderdonk  family  record,  in  possession  of  Miss 
Emma  Hendrix,  appears  the  following  record:  L  Garret  J. 
Onderdonk,  born  October  25,  1784.  2.  Mary  Onderdonk,  born 
September  2i),  1785.  3.  Catharine,  born  December  29,  1796.  4. 
Isaac,  born  .September  21,  18U1.  5.  Fanny,  liorn  November  26, 
1805. 

Henry  Hendrix,  father  of  Isaac  Hendrix.  was  a  farmer 
by  occupation  and  was  a  worthy  representative  of  the  stui'd}' 
yeomanry  of  his  day.  He  married  Mary  Onderdonk  and  there 
were  born  to  them  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  as  follows: 
.lohn  and  Tiney  (twins),  born  June  12,  1809;  Jolm  married  and 
had  one  son  and  one  daughter,  Isaac  and  Caroline  Heudrix; 

the  latter  married Buckhout  and  now  resides  at  Xyack, 

New  York.     The  next  in  order  of  birth  was  Jane,  born  July  7, 
1815,  who  did  not  marry.     Isaac,  see  forward. 

Isaac  Hendrix  received  his  educational  training  in  the 
schools  of  the  neighborhood  as  was  the  custom  among  farmer's 


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GEXEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  IllSTOllV         3:^,5 

sons  in  those  days.  During-  liis  early  nianliood  years  lie  canie 
to  New  York  City  and,  being  possessed  of  a  strong  ambition  and 
desire  to  succeed  in  life,  applied  himself  diligently  to  whatever 
he  undertook  to  do,  and  by  perseverance  and  economy  saved 
sutificient  capital  to  engage  in  business.  In  1854  he  associated 
himself  with  Henry  Du  Bois  and  engaged  in  the  dock  building 
trade  under  the  firm  name  of  Du  Bois  &  Hendrix.  Under  the 
well  directed  el!:'orts  of  liotli  these  gentlemen  the  interests  of 
the  firm  were  rapidly  advanced,  and  they  soon  l)ec*ame  well  and 
favorably  known  as  the  leading  dock  builders  of  Xew  York 
harbor.  This  business  arrangement  was  successfully  continued 
nj)  to  1878,  and  during  this  entire  period  of  time  the  name  of 
Du  Bois  iS:  Hendrix  was  everywhere  regarded  as  a  synonym  for 
honorable  business  metliods. 

In  addition  to  his  extensive  interests  in  the  dock  building 
trade,  Mr.  Hendrix  was  extensively  interested  in  other  industrial 
and  tiuancial  enterprises  in  Xew  York  City.  He  was  foi'  many 
years  a  director  in  the  (ireenwich  Bank  on  Hudson  sti'eet,  a 
member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Xew  York  Savings  l>ank 
at  Eighth  avenue  and  Fourteenth  street ;  for  some  time  was  a 
member  of  tlie  board  of  directors  of  the  East  River  X'ational 
Bank  at  the  corner  of  Broadway  and  Great  Jones  street ;  for 
a  number  of  years  was  a  director  and  president  of  one  of  the 
Xew  York  fire  insurance  comjmnies,  whose  affairs  were  finally 
ii(|uidated  under  the  direction  of  ^fr.  Hendrix;  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  served  in  the  board  of  directors  and  was  the  vice- 
president  of  the  Twenty-third  Street  and  Christopher  Street 
Railway  Company.  During  his  broad  and  varied  experience 
with  industrial  and  financial  enter]n'ises.  Mr.  Hendrix  always 
displayed  splendid  business  ability  and  a  high  order  of  social 
qualities,  which  won  for  him  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  many 
of  the  leading  business  men  of  his  day.      He  was   freiiuently 


336         GEXEALUaiCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

called  upon  to  adiiiiuistor  estates  as  executive,  to  whicli  position 
he  was  appointed  1>>'  the  courts. 

In  his  home  liTe  Mr.  Ilendvix  fully  exemplified  the  traditions 
of  his  forefathers;  he  loved  his  home  and  family,  lie  was  gener- 
ous to  a  fault,  and  was  evei-ywhei'e  I'ecognized  as  a  good  and 
w(.rthy  citizen.  He  was  a  loving  Inisbnnd  and  an  indulgent 
fatlier,  and  at  his  (U'atli,  which  occurr^^d  September  19,  l<Si)S.  liis 
loss  was  mounu'd  ])v  many  who  knev;  him  best. 

Isaac  Hendi'ix  married,  January  21,  lS-1-1,  Sarah  M.  Stans- 
l:;ny,  boi'ii  August  4,  ISIS,  daughter  of  Jose]ih  and  ]^Iargaret 
(I'lioip)  Stanslniry,  of  Kahway.  Xew  Jersey.  Of  this  marriage 
were  l)orn  tliree  children:  Emma  and  Sarali  F.  (twins)  l)orn 
April  17,  1S47;  the  latter  died  December,  1848.  Walter,  born 
February  2.  lS(i(»,  mai-ried  Ina  ]\L  Moore,  by  whom  he  had  one 
son.  Walter  i\.  Hendrix.  born  April  18,  1883.  Walter  Hendrix 
died  July  26,  1889.  Sarah  M.  Hendrix  died  February  19,  1892; 
slie  was  an  estimable  lady  of  the  old  seliool  type  and  ])0ssessed 
of  nriiiy  excellencies  of  character  which  endeared  her  to  many 
wl.io  knew  liei'  in  life. 

1)1  XOX  FA^ITLY. 

TliM  following  interesting  detviils  of  the  ancestors  of  AVilliam 
and  Robert  AVright  Dixon  are  taken  from  researches  of  the  late 
Anne  Cutting,  who  was  the  wife  (»f  Charles  Cutting,  decea^-ed, 
who  was  Virotliei-  of  Alfred  Cutting.  The  ancestors  of  the  Dixon 
family  were  originally  Scotch,  liaving  come  to  England  in  the 
leign  of  James  1,  when  tliat  Scotch  king  became  king  of  England 
throuch  the  union  of  Scotland  and  England  by  grace  of  (,)ueen 
Elizabetli.  The  forebears  of  (ireorge  Dixon,  father  of  William 
Dixon,  were  of  the  Dicksons  of  Belcherter  and  Buhtrig  branch  of 
the  ('Ian  Dixon,  who  wei-e  lineal  descendants  of  Hervey  de  Keth, 
Fail  Marshall  of  Scotland,  who  died  1249.     'iho  P]arl  Mctrshall 


William  Dn 


Emma  C.  Dixon 


(iEXEALOaiCAL  ASD  FAMILY  HISTORY         337 

niarried  Tirargaret,  daughter  of  William  3rd,  Lord  Douglas,  and 
their  sou  Eichard  was  the  ancestor  of  Clan  Dixon.  The  Arms 
hf  the  Dicksons  of  Belcherter  and  Buhtrig  are :  Azure  three  Mul- 
lets, Argent,  on  a  Chief  Or.  as  Many  Pallets  gu.  Crest:  A  dexter 
hand  holding  a  sword  in  b^^nd  iiroi)er.  ^[otto:  Fortes  fortuna 
inrat.  The  ancestors  of  Ennn-i  Cutting,  sister  to  Alfred  and 
Charles  Cutting,  were  of  the  gentry  of  Xort1uiml)erland.  and 
wore  very  large  landowners  in  that  Earldom.  She  had  the  seal 
of  the  arms  of  the  Cutting  family,  which  is  now  in  the  possession 
of  some  member  of  the  family. 

George  Dixon,  a  luitive  of  Enaland,  married  Eleanor  Harris, 
also  a  nati^■e  of  England,  who  liore  liiin  two  children:  William, 
sei  foi'wai'd:  Elizabeth,  who  was  twice  married  and  spent  her 
entire  life  in  Yorkshire. 

William  Dixon,  a  venerable  and  eminently  respected  citizen 
of  Pleasant  Plains,  town  of  Westfield,  borough  of  Richmond, 
where  he  has  resided  for  nearly  tifty  years,  was  born  in  the  vil- 
la.oe  of  Beall.  Yorkshire.  England,  August  22,  1815.  He  received 
his  educational  traininii  in  th"  schools  of  his  native  county.  Tn 
1S30  lie  came  to  the  United  States  with  his  uncle,  John  Harris, 
who  settled  in  Xew  York  City,  where  he  was  for  many  years  en- 
gaged in  the  imiiortation  of  woolen  fabrics.  He  remained  in  the 
emii!o\  of  his  micle.  and  took  charge  of  his  books  for  a  period  of 
ten  yeai's.  when  he  engaged  in  business  on  his  own  account  in 
tlip  produce  and  commission  trade.  He  finally  opened  a  store  at 
^-[^l  We^^t  street,  Xmv  York  City,  where  he  ctmducted  the  business 
sonr?  time.  ^Fr.  Dixon  soon  won  the  trust  and  confidence  of  a 
wide  conjninnitv  of  business  men,  and  became  known  for  his 
straii;htfoiwai'dness  in  transacting  his  business  affairs.  Durini>- 
the  many  years  oi'  his  active  linsiness  ]»ursuits,  he  received  con- 
sionments  of  ])roduce  from  all  ])arts  of  Xew  Jersey  and  Dela- 
ware, where  his  name  A^as  legarded  by  his  clients  as  being  syn- 

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onymons  witli  ]ionoral)le  and  straightforward  business  methods. 
In  l'S()S  lit'  purchased  a  farm  in  the  town  of  AVestfield  from  John 
'^^'ogU)m,  where  he  took  up  his  residence,  residing  there  for  a 
numl)er  of  >'ears.  In  1885  he  retired  from  active  business  pur- 
suits and  at  present  resides  with  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Arthur 
Pasco,  at  Pleasant  Plains. 

A^'illiam  hixon  was  married  at  St.  Jolni's  Episcopal  Church. 
Brooklyn,  by  Rev.  E.  Johnson,  October  20,  1836,  to  Emma  C. 
Cutting,  liorn  October  12,  1818,  a  native  of  Suffolk  county,  Eng- 
land. She  came  to  the  United  States  at  the  age  of  seven  with  her 
parents,  who  took  \\\)  their  abode  on  Long  Island,  where  the)'  en- 
gaged at  farming.  Of  tliis  marriage  "Sir.  Dixon  had  born  to  him 
a  family  of  ten  children:  1.  Oeorge  Harris,  born  Januaiy  15, 
1S;')8.  man-icd  Jam'  AVeslern.  of  Little  AVasliington,  Xew  Jersey, 
and  had  ten  childi-en.  namely:  Charles,  William,  Ida,  Bella, 
Isaac,  (leorgianna,  Richard,  George,  Emma,  and  Frank.  George 
Hari'is  Dixon,  father  of  these  children,  died  June  10,  1880.  2. 
Emily  Cutting,  born  January  25,  18-10,  married  George  O'Brien, 
of  Xew  Brunswick,  X"ew  Jersey,  and  has  three  children:  Will- 
iam, AValter  and  John  O'Brien.  3.  Frank  Thomas,  born  March 
12.  184;5,  married  Louisa  Kissam,  and  has  nine  children  :  Eu- 
gene, Annie,  Ella,  Oliver,  Walter,  Lilie,  Frank,  George  and  one 
who  died  in  infancy.  A.  Robert  Wright,  see  forward.  5.  Will- 
iam Reynolds,  born  July  21,  1849,  married  Alice  Simonson,  no 
issue.  After  her  death  he  married  (second)  Lucinda  Simonson, 
and  has  one  child,  Emily  Dixcn.  (i.  Alice  Smith,  born  March 
21,  1852,  married  Arthur  Pasco,  of  Pleasant  Plains,  borough  of 
Richmond,  and  has  one  daughter,  Lavinia,  who  married  Edward 
Ellis,  and  has  three  children:  Aithnr.  Charles,  and  Alice  Ellis. 
7.  Isaac  Fisher,  born  June  3i),  1^54,  died  December  20,  1861.  8. 
^Morris  Bradford,  l)orn  January  20,  1857.  married  Eva  Saur, 
and  has  niiic  children:     Moriis,  Eva,  Leroy,  and  Fannie,  who 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  11 J  STORY         3?>!> 

are  yet  siii-viving.  The  otlier  five  died  in  early  life.  9.  Amelia 
Elizabeth,  born  .Inly  (i,  18()0.  nuinied  Nevada  Magill,  of  Farm- 
ingdale.  Xew  Jersey,  no  issne.  1(J.  Charles  Edward,  born 
March  6,  18(i:!.  died  Febrnary  16,  1888.  The  mother  of  the  afore- 
mentioned ehildi-eii.  Emma  V.  (Cntting)  Dixon.  <lied  Jnly  VI. 
1900.  She  was  a  most  estimable  lady  of  the  old  school  tyi)e,  and 
was  ])ossessed  of  many  excellent  qualities  of  mind  and  heart. 
Her  death  was  dee])ly  himonted  not  only  by  her  immediate  fam- 
ily, bnt  also  by  many  neighbors  and  friends. 

Robei't  Wright  Dixon,  foni'th  child  of  AYilliam  and  Emma 
C  (C'ntting)  Dixon,  i>orn  Jnly  11,  1845,  was  edncated  and  reared 
to  manhood  >ears  nnder  the  parental  roof,  and  npon  taking  np 
the  practical  dnties  of  life  became  engaged  in  the  ])rodnce  and 
commission  bnsiness  under  the  tuition  of  his  father,  and  since 
his  father's  retirement  from  the  business  has  continued  the  same 
u]t  to  the  ])re-ent  time  ^fr.  Dixon  has  in  every  way  proved 
himself  a  wortliy  scion  of  a  worthy  sire,  and  not  unlike  his  fath- 
er the  name  of  Robert  AVright  Dixon  is  everywhere  regarded  in 
commei-cial  circles  as  being  synonymous  with  honesty  and 
straisihtforward  business  methods.  He  resides  on  the  home- 
stead near  Kossville. 

Robert  Wright  Dixon  married  Emma  Nicer,  born  ^Nfarch 
16,  1849,  daughter  of  John  and  So])liia  (Karst)  Nicer,  both 
natives  of  Germany;  they  came  to  the  United  States  in  1845 
and  settled  in  the  city  of  New  York.  ]\Ir.  and  ^[rs.  Dixon  had 
three  children :  1.  Robert  Nicer,  see  forward.  2.  ^fagenta.  born 
May  30,  1870.  a  graduate  of  the  New  York  Conservatory  of 
Music,  was  the  organist  of  St.  John's  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  Rossville,  for  fifteen  years,  and  at  present  is  the  organ- 
ist of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at  Woodrow.  3.  Amelia 
S.,  born  June  26,  1872.  married  AYilliam  Wardlaw.  son  of  Rev. 
Wardlaw.  of  Rossville.  liorough  of  Richmond.    Of  this  marriage 


Uo         aEXEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

tlierc  is  no  issue.  4.  N'ioU't,  l)t)rn  Xovt'iiil»t'r  20,  1875,  died  No- 
vember 20,  1875.  5.  Warren  Freeman,  boi'n  August  4,  1881, 
died  April  21,  1883.  G.  Olga,  born  February  G,  1884,  died  Octo- 
ber 3,  1884.  ^Ir.  and  Mrs.  Dixon  are  both  consistent  members 
of  tlie  Methodist  Episc'0])al  ehureli  at  Woodrow. 

Robert  Nicer  Dixon,  eldest  child  of  Robert  Wright  and 
Enuna  (Nicer)  Dixon,  l)orn  January  10,  18G8,  received  his 
educational  training  under  private  tuition,  and  while  in 
liis  fourteentli  year  entered  his  father's  office,  where  he 
was  trained  to  the  routine  details  of  tlie  ])roduce  com- 
mission business,  remaining  thus  engaged  until  his  twenty- 
first  year,  when  he  entered  into  partnershij)  witli  his  father 
under  the  firm  name  of  R.  ^\.  Dixon  &  Son,  and  the  ar- 
rangement has  been  successfully  continued  up  to  the  present 
time  (1906),  and  the  firm  name  of  R.  W.  Dixon  &  Son  is  every- 
wliere  regarded  in  connnercial  circles  as  l)eing  synonymous  with 
honest  business  methods. 

In  addition  to  his  connnercial  interests,  Mrs.  Robert  N. 
Dixon  is  actively  identified  with  athletic,  yachting,  military  and 
fraternal  organizations.  He  is  a  memljer  of  the  New  York 
Athletic  Club,  New  York  Y^acht  Club,  Atlantic  Yacht  Club, 
S(iuadron  A,  National  Guard,  State  of  New  Y^ork,  New  York 
Zoological  Society,  Amateur  Fencers  League  of  America,  Ameri- 
can Motor  Boat  Association,  League  of  American  Sportsmen 
and  American  Art  Society.  He  is  a  member  of  Chancellor 
Walworth  Lodge,  No.  271,  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  has  attained  to 
the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  craft  in  the  Scottish  Rites,  viz: 
Lodge  of  Perfection  "4  to  14,"  the  Council  Princes  of  Jerusalem 
"15  to  16,"  Chapter  of  Rose  Croix  "17  to  18,"  and  the  Con- 
sistory of  New  Y^ork  "19  to  32."  Tn  the  York  Rites:  Triime 
Chapter,  No.  241,  R.  A.  M.;  Adelphic  Council,  No.  7,  R.  and 
S.  M.;  Palestine  Commandery,  No.  18,  Knights  Temjilar;  also 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY  341 

a  member  of  the  Masonic  Historical  Society  of  Xew  York,  Mason- 
ic Chib  of  New  York,  and  Mecca  Temple,  Ancieut  Arabic  Order 
of  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shriue.  He  married  Fannie  Spatford 
Bogardus,  no  issue.  They  have  an  adopted  daughter,  Maude 
Dixon,  born  February  7,  1891. 

JOHN  McKEON. 

John  McKeon,  for  many  years  a  worthy  and  highly  respect- 
ed citizen  of  the  borough  of  Manhattan,  city  of  New  Y'ork,  of 
which  he  was  a  native,  was  a  representative  in  the  second  genera- 
tion of  his  family  in  America,  he  tracing  his  descent  to  the  north 
of  Ireland. 

James  McKeon,  father  of  John  McKeon,  and  the  founder 
of  the  family  in  America  1799,  was  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland 
and  came  to  the  United  States  when  he  was  but  fifteen  years 
of  age.  His  sister  Anne  also  came  to  this  country  and  joined 
her  brother.  She  married  Francis  McFarland,  and  settled  in 
one  of  the  villages  west  of  Albany,  presumably  Schenectady  or 
Utica.  Ann  (McKeon)  McFarland  had  l)y  her  marriage  a  large 
family  of  sons  and  daughters.  Two  of  her  sons — William  and 
Alexander — graduated  from  college  and  took  up  the  medical 
IH'ofession.  They  settled  in  Ohio,  where  they  became  i)rominent. 
and  their  descendants  have  become  numerous  and  are  numbered 
among  the  leading  citizens  of  the  "Buckeye  State."  Francis 
McFarland,  another  son,  studied  for  the  priesthood,  was  or- 
dained, and  later  became  Bislioi)  of  Providence,  Kliode  Island. 
He  died  at  Hartford,  Oonneeticut,  and  his  mother,  Ann 
(McKeon)  McFarland,  died  at  Providence,  where  she  was  buried 
m  the  old  Catholic  cemetery. 

-James  McKeon  took  up  his  residence  in  the  city  of  New 
York,  and  after  working  for  others  for  some  years,  established 
himself  in  the  grocery  business.     The  habits  of  thrift  and  in- 


34-i         OEXEALOGICAL  AXI)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

dustry  which  he  had  brought  with  him  from  his  native  land 
were  carefully  cultivated  by  him,  and  in  addition  he  ado]jted 
the  in-actieal  business  methods  in  vogue  in  his  new  home.  The 
result  could  not  fail  of  being  a  most  successful  one.  He  amassed 
a  fortune  which  he  invested  judiciously,  partly  in  an  estate  at 
Twenty-third  street  and  Lexington  aveniie,  Xew  York  City, 
where  he  made  his  home.  During  all  the  time  of  his  residence  in 
this  county,  Mr.  McKeon  was  a  faithful  attendant  at  and  com- 
municant of  the  old  St.  Peter's  Roman  Catholic  Church,  on 
Barclay  street.  He  died  in  his  seventy -ninth  year,  at  the  home 
of  his  nephew,  Patrick  McKeon,  in  Woodrow,  Staten  Island. 
James  McKeon  married  Ann  3yrne,  who  died  quite  young, 
leaving  him  with  a  family  of  four  small  children:  1.  John,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  2.  James,  who  married  Susan  Johnson, 
and  resided  in  New  York  City.  3.  Hugh,  who  married  Jane 
Elizabeth  Stothof,  of  Long  Island,  and  resided  in  Xew  York 
City.  4.  Felix,  who  married  Ellen  Furlong,  of  Xew  York  City. 
John  McKeon,  eldest  son  of  James  and  Ann  (Byrne)  Mc- 
Keon, was  born  on  his  father's  homestead  at  Twenty-third 
street  and  Lexington  avenue,  X"ew  York  City,  June  14,  1S2"2. 
He  Avas  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  this  city,  and  his 
studious,  careful  work  achieved  results  which  were  alike  gratify- 
ing and  creditable.  Upon  leaving  school  he  entered  the  store  of 
his  father  and  assisted  him  until  he  had  attained  his  majority. 
He  then  established  himself  in  the  business  of  trucking  and 
expressing.  He  was  energetic  and  determined  in  his  business 
affairs,  ready  to  do  the  utmost  to  satisfy  the  demand  of  his 
customers,  and  while  progressive  and  ready  to  ado]it  any  method 
which  would  tend  to  the  increase  of  business,  was  not  forgetful 
of  the  old  fashioned  virtues  of  honesty,  punctuality  and  straight 
forwardness.  Under  such  management  it  was  a  natural  result^ 
and  not  a  surprising  one,  that  Mr.  McKeon  saw  his  worldly  pos- 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  EAMILY  HISTORY         343 

sessions  increase  to  a  very  satisfactory  extent.  In  1882  Mr. 
McKeon  bought  the  old  Corey  homestead,  at  Rossville,  Staten 
Island,  where  he  resided  for  some  time.  He  also  owned  a 
beautiful  home  in  Xew  York  City,  where  his  death  occurred 
on  November  25,  1885.  Mr.  McKeon  was  inventive  and  enter- 
]irising  as  a  business  man,  and  while  alive  to  the  demands  of  his 
own  business  affairs,  was  ever  ready  to  extend  a  helping  hand 
to  those  in  need  of  assistance.  This  he  did  in  the  ])ractical 
manner  of  helping  them  to  help  themselves,  and  thus  the  as- 
sistance he  rendered  was  a  benefit  to  the  community  in  general. 
He  gave  freely  of  his  time  and  money  for  charitable  and  re- 
ligious ])urposes,  and  was  a  devout  communicant  of  the  old 
Saint  Peter's  Roman  Catholic  Church  in  Barclay  street,  and 
was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  board  of  trastees.  He  was 
an  upright,  ]iublic-spirited  citizen,  a  loving  husband,  and  an 
indulgent  father.  His  kindness  and  generosity  had  won  for 
hhn  a  large  circle  of  friends,  and  his  death  left  a  gap  which 
it  was  hard  to  fill. 

He  married,  November  14,  1846,  Margaret  Quin,  l)orn  Jan- 
uary 7,  1826,  daughter  of  Michael  and  Sarah  (]\IcSherry)  Quin, 
both  natives  of  the  county  of  Armagh,  Ireland,  the  latter  of  the 
city  of  Belfast.  AFr.  and  Mrs.  Quin,  u])on  coming  to  the  Ignited 
States,  located  in  Richmond  county,  now  the  borough  of  Rich- 
mond, Staten  Island,  where  they  resided  until  their  death.  Mr. 
and  ]\Irs.  ]\[cKeon  had  four  children:  1.  Mary  Amelia,  born 
November,  1850.  died  in  infancy.  2.  Sarah,  February  7,  1856, 
married  John  Gleason,  and  has  three  children:  Edwin  S.,  born 
Se])tember  6,  1875;  Irene,  September  13,  1879,  man-ied  James 
Kemmy,  and  has  one  child:  Margaret  Claire  Kennny,  l)orn  INIay 
5,  1905;  and  Sarah  F.,  February  7,  1883.  3.  John  F.,  born  Au- 
gust 21,  1858.    4.    Joseph  I.,  of  whom  sketch  is  subjoined. 

Joseph  I.  ^fcKeon,  second  son  and  youngest  child  of  John 


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find  Margaret  (Quin)  McKeon,  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
January  4,  18(52.  His  early  education  was  obtained  in  St.  Peter's 
Parochial  School,  under  the  instructioi'  of  the  Christian  Broth- 
ers, and  he  tlu'ii  entered  the  Manhattan  College,  from  which  lie 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  and  also  obtained  the  degree 
of  A.  M.  He  entered  the  Law  School  of  Coluinl)ia  College,  grad- 
uating with  honor,  with  the  degree  of  LL.  B.,  Alay  28,  1884.  He 
was  from  the  vei-y  beginning  a  student  of  more  than  usual  ear- 
nestness and  am))ition;  eager  to  grasp  all  knowledge,  and  was 
gifted  with  a  remarkable  memory.  This,  combined  with  extraor- 
dinary oratorical  i)o\vers,  led  to  an  inniiediate  and  wonderful 
success  when  lie  commenced  his  practice  of  the  law.  Ui)on  his 
graduation  he  was  at  once  admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts  of 
the  city  of  New  York  and  in  the  Su})renie  Court  of  the  State.  His 
ability  and  brilliancy  were  immediately  recognized,  and  in  a  very 
short  time  he  was  master  of  an  exceedingly  lucrative  practice. 
Mr.  McKeon  took  an  active  interest  in  the  i)o]itical  conditions  of 
his  city  and  country.  Jle  became  a  member  of  Tanunany  Hall.  In 
1889  he  was  nominated  by  the  County  Democracy  for  the  office 
of  Civil  Justice,  but  was  defeated  by  the  regular  Tammany  can- 
didate. In  18!)li,  he  was  offered  the  nomination  for  Member  of 
Congress,  from  the  hirst  District  of  New  York,  but  declined  this 
at  the  convention,  which  thereupon  nominated  the  Hon.  John  K. 
Fellows.  In  189o,  Mr.  Keon  was  appointed  counsel  to  the  City 
Building  Cdnnnission,  and  discharged  the  duties  of  that  position 
with  great  credit  and  aliiiity.  He  was  an  active  supporter  of  the 
piinciples  of  Democracy  in  its  truest  and  purest  sense,  and  dur- 
ing the  latter  years  of  his  life  was  a  member  of  the  Tanunany 
Hall  (reneral  ( 'nnniiiltee.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Hoyal  .\r- 
canum.  of  the  Catholic  Club,  and  of  a  great  numl)er  of  social  or- 
ganizations. His  dentil  occurred  duly  !(!,  1895,  at  the  home  of 
his  ])arents  at   liossvillc,  Staten    Island.     Although    young    in 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         y4.j 

years,  IsVv.  AleKeon,  with  an  energy  and  force  of  eliai'acter  tlnit 
it  would  be  hard  to  duplicate,  had  accomplished  an  amount  (jf 
work  that  many  a  man  of  twice  his  years  would  not  be  ashamed 
to  look  back  upon.  His  mind  was  ever  at  work,  and  the  ideas 
which  emanated  from  it  were  of  such  practical  utility  to  the  com- 
munity that  the  results  were  far-reaching  and  beneficial.  He  was 
one  of  those  busy  men  who,  in  spite  of  the  immense  amount  of 
labor  devolving  on  them,  always  have  time  to  spare  wht'ii  it  is  a 
question  of  helping  those  not  so  well  equipped  to  help  them- 
selves. His  early  death  was  deeply  regretted  by  a  large  and  de- 
voted circle  of  friends. 

JAMES  KENYOX. 

James  Kenyon.  deceased,  for  many  years  actively  identified 
with  mercantile  affairs  in  the  city  of  Xew  York,  and  a  man  of 
lofty  character,  was  born  August  20,  1791,  at  the  family  mansion 
in  Beekman  street,  New  York  City,  a  son  of  William  and  Aliigail 
(Bowne)  Kenyon. 

He  was  educated  in  a  private  school  at  Dover  Plains,  Dutch- 
ess county,  New  York,  and  entered  u])on  an  active  career  in  the 
city  of  New  York,  where  he  engaged  in  a  mercantile  business 
which  he  conducted  for  some  years  with  marked  success.  He 
then  removed  to  Clinton,  Oneida  county.  New  York,  with  his  i)ar- 
ents,  and  there  resided  for  some  time.  He  subsequently  re- 
moved to  New  Brunswick,  Middle.-ex  county,  New  Jersey,  wlier>' 
he  was  for  some  year.s  engaged  in  farming.  In  iV^oo  he  removed 
to  Harlem,  New  York  City,  where  he  passed  the  remaining  yeai's 
of  his  life  in  ])leasant  retirement.  He  married  Margaret  Sickles 
Adriance,  born  October  18,  1790,  at  Harlem,  a  daughter  of  John 
and  ^Tary  (Bussing)  Adriance,  and  a  descendant  of  one  of  the 
pioneer  families  who  were  among  the  Harlem  patentees,  as  re- 
lated on  other  pages  of  this  work.    Mr.  Kenyon  died  Decembei- 


•I-k;         GEXEALOaiCAL  AXJ)  FAMILY  HISTOHY 

10,  lSo2,  having-  survived  liis  wife,  wlio  died  in  1842.  They  were 
most  estimable  Christian  ])eople,  e.\enii)hu-y  memljers  of  the 
iHitcli  lieformed  cimrcli,  and  well  known  for  their  abundant 
charities  and  yenial  li()s])italities.  'I'lieir  cliildren  were:  1. 
.lojiii.  l)orn  December  I'D.  LSI."!,  married  Harriet  Moore,  of  New 
York  (  ity;  no  issue.  L'.  Maiia.  l)orn  June  28,  1815;  did  not 
marry.     ;>.     James,  born  Api'il  20,  1817,  died  in  Michigan;  he 

married  Anna .    4.    Charles,  boru  March  19,  1819,  died  in 

eai'ly  life.  5.  Klizaljelh  Barnes,  born  January  31,  1821.  6. 
Abigail  Bowne,  boiii  Ajsiil  20,  1823,  married  I'harles  Clarke;  no 
issue.  7.  Isaac  Adriauce.  born  Marcli  22,  1825,  married  ^[ary 
Kdmund.  8.  9.  Cliarles  and  Caroline  (twins),  born  March  11, 
1827.  Charles  died  in  infancy.  Caroline  married  Erastus  Fitch 
Brown,  born  1830,  a  son  of  Professor  Erastus  Fitch  Brown,  of 
New  Haven,  Connecticut.  Their  children  were :  Margaret  Em- 
eline.  born  Novembei'  24,  1854,  married  Rev.  Jabez  Backus;  Ed- 
g-ar  Ketcham,  born  September  8,  1858,  married  Emily  Cowper- 
thwaite,  and  they  have  one  son,  ^lortimer  C,  born  November  5, 
1887. 

William  Barnes  Kenyon,  deceased,  brother  of  the  late 
James  Kenyon.  was  during  a  long  and  active  career  prominently 
identitied  with  the  merchant  marine  and  shii)ping  interests  of 
the  metro])olis,  and  was  held  in  honor  for  his  business  ability 
and  integrity,  and  his  i)ersonai  worth.  He  was  born  August  4, 
1 784,  at  the  family  mansion  in  Beekman  street,  New  York  City, 
a  son  of  William  and  Abigail  (Bowne)  Kenyon.  The  father,  son 
of  William  Kenyon.  was  a  native  of  the  city  of  Liver]K)ol,  Eng- 
land. 

William  B.  Kenyon  received  an  excellent  i)ractical  educa- 
tion in  the  schools  of  his  native  city  and  of  Burlington,  New  Jer- 
sey. Cpon  attaining  to  man's  estate  he  engaged  in  the  marine 
s!iii)iiing  trade  in  New  York  City,  which  he  successfully  prose- 


GEXEALOdlCAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  HISTORY         347 

ciited  until  IS:^,").  when  lie  removed  witli  liis  family  to  Clinton, 
Oneida  county,  Xew  York,  wlieie  he  resided  until  183fi.  In  tliat 
year  he  removed  to  Tari'ytown,  Xew  York,  remaining  there  until 
1850,  when  he  resumed  his  residence  in  Xew  York  City,  and  there 
passed  the  remaining'  years  of  his  life.  As  a  business  man  he 
made  for  himself  a  liigh  reputation,  and  liis  i)ersonal  life  was 
such  as  lU'irks  the  ideal  christian  gentleman.  With  his  family 
he  was  a  memlier  of  the  old  Dutcli  Reformed  church.  He  died 
]\Iay  27,  18(JH.  He  married  Letitia  Ida  Adriauce,  born  in  1788, 
daughtei-  of  John  and  ]\Iary  (Sickles)  Adriance,  her  father  being 
for  main  yeai's  a  school  teacher  of  high  remite  in  Harlem,  Xew 
York.  She  survived  her  husband  about  twelve  years,  dying  Seji- 
tember  2(!,  1878.  Their  children  were:  1.  Samuel  B.,  married 
Elizabeth  C.  A\'ood,  of  Harlem,  Xew  York.  2.  ^lary  A.  3. 
John  A.,  who  was  twice  mari'ied,  his  tirst  wife  being  Elizabeth 
^lildebergei',  and  his  second  wife  Maria  (xreen,  a  widow.  4.  Ed- 
ward, who  died  in  childhood.  5.  Edward  Barnes,  who  went  to 
California  in  1849,  and  died  there  in  1876,  unmarried.  6.  Mar- 
gai'et  K.  Kenyon. 

Mrs.  William  B.  Ivenyon  was  descended  from  the  noted 
Bussing  family,  one  cf  the  oldest  and  most  honored  Holland 
families  in  Harlem,  throuah  the  following  line  of  descent:  Arent 
Harmans,  who  was  one  of  the  original  ]iatentees  of  Harlem,  took 
the  name  of  Bussing.  He  was  an  extensive  land  owner,  and  his 
house,  which  stood  on  the  site  of  the  pi-eseat  One  Hundred  and 
Xineteenth  street,  near  Third  avenue,  was  standing  until  recent 
years.  He  died  in  1718,  leaving  among  other  children  a  sou,  Pe- 
ter Bussing,  who  was  tlie  father  of  Aaron  Bussing,  who  dierl  in 
1784.  His  daughter  Maiia  married  John  S.  Sickles.  They  were 
the  ]iarents  of  one  child,  ]\Iary,  who  nuirried  John  Adriance,  and 
theii-  daughter.  Letitia  Ida,  became  the  wife  of  William  B.  Ken- 
yon.    Another  daughter,  Margaret  Adriance,    married    James 


34J,         (iENEALOaiCAL  AM)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Keiiyoii,  brother  of  \\l\\ii\ni  Bowne  Kenyou.  She  died  iu  18-1-5. 
Mrs.  Letitia  Ida  Kenycin,  wife  of  Wiiliam  Bowne  Kenyon,  died 
in  lcS78,  at  the  a(haii('ed  age  of  ninety-one  years. 

JOHN  H,  LOOS. 

John  H.  Loos,  for  many  years  past  a  trnsted  and  honored 
employee  in  the  courts  of  New  York  City,  and  at  present  occupy- 
ing the  resiDonisble  position  of  court  clerk  of  the  naturaliza- 
tion office,  is  a  native  of  the  state  and  was  born  in  Rochester, 
October  30,  1847.  His  parents  were  Christopher  and  Elizabeth 
Theresa  (Pfeifer)  Loos,  bo'th.  of  whom  were  residents  of  Roches- 
ter, New  York,  in  1844.  Their  children  were:  John  H.,  to 
be  further  written  of  hereinafter;  Nicholas  J.,  of  Rochester, 
New  Y'ork;  George,  w4io  is  engaged  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness in  the  same  city;  Libbie,  who  resides  with  her  brother; 
Livina,  wife  of  Andrew  Costich,  of  Irondequoit;  Christopher, 
who  resides  at  the  i^arental  home  in  Rochester,  New  York.  The 
mother  of  these  children  died  January  25,  1875,  survived  by 
her  husband,  who  iDassed  away  June  11,  1886. 

John  H.  Loos,  eldest  child  of  Christopher  and  Elizabeth 
Theresa  (Pfeifer)  Loos,  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Rochester,  New  York,  where  he  resided  until  1873. 
In  that  year  he  located  in  New  York  City,  where  he  established 
himself  in  the  livery  business,  becoming  widely  and  favorably 
known,  and  achieving  success  to  a  gratifying  degree.  A  man 
of  excellent  business  qualifications,  his  abilities  caused  his  ap- 
];ointment  as  assistant  clerk  in  the  court  of  common  pleas,  since 
which  time  he  has  been  continuously  occupied  with  clerical  duties 
ill  vai'ious  offices  of  the  city  courts.  In  1874  he  was  api)ointed  to 
his  i)resent  ])osition,  that  of  clerk  of  the  naturalization  office, 
one  of  the  most  important  departments  of  the  imblic  service. 
Through  his  duties  he  has  l)ecome  ac(iuainted  with  many  of  the 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         UU 

priiiieipal  aiien  of  affairs  in  the  metropolis,  ijartieulariy  those 
connected  with  nmnicipal  affairs  in  an  official  capacity,  and  is 
lield  in  liigh  esteem  for  his  efficiency  as  an  officer  and  his  worth 
as  a  man.  May  o,  1873,  Mr.  Loos  was  married  to  Miss  Julia 
L.  ]\reyer,  born  October  22,  1843,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Mar- 
garet (Bussing)  Meyer,  of  New  York. 

The  Bussing  family,  of  which  ^Irs.  John  H.  Loos  is  a 
member,  is  one  of  the  oldest  Harlem  families  of  Holland  descent. 
Among  the  patentees  of  Harlem  was  Arent  Harmans,  who  took 
the  name  of  Bussing.  In  1683  he  became  the  owner  of  a  tract  of 
land  upon  which  he  built  a  house  and  barn,  the  site  being  iden- 
tifiable as  in  the  present  One  Hundred  and  Nineteenth  street, 
between  Third  and  Fourth  avenues.  In  this  house,  which  was 
standing  until  recent  years,  he  lived  the  remainder  of  his  life, 
and  here  died,  in  1718.  He  was  a  man  of  importance  in  the 
community,  a  large  landholder,  an  officer  in  the  church,  and  a 
civil  magistrate.  ]\Iay  24,  1673,  he  married  Susannah  Delama- 
ler.  His  second  wife,  whom  he  married  March  31,  1678,  was 
Eva  Lubberts,  l)y  whom  he  had  children :  Peter,  Harman,  Dirck. 
Margaret,  who  became  the  w^fe  of  Lawrence  Kortright,  Susan- 
nah. Engeltie,  Elizabeth,   Geesie,  John  and  Mary. 

Peter,  eldest  son  of  Arent  and  Eva  (Lubberts)  Bussing. 
was  born  in  1674.  He  married  Rebecca  Vermilyea,  June  7, 
1700,  and  among  their  children  was  a  son  Aaron.,  born  Decem- 
ber 27,  1703,  who  married  Maria,  daughter  of  Joliannes  Meyer, 
October  21,  1730.  Aaron  Bussing  died  in  1784,  leaving  four 
children.  Of  these  Abraham  Bussing,  the  only  son,  was  born 
December  31,  1736,  and  died  before  his  father.  He  left  two 
children:  Susan,  who  became  the  wife  of  John  Meyer;  and 
Aaron. 

Aaron  Bussing  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Samuel  Benson 
(a  representative  of  another  ancient  family),  August  18,  179L 


350         (iEXEALOaiCAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

He  died  May  22,  1835,  leaving  tliree  eliildreu:  Margaret,  wife 
of  Peter  Meyer;  Rebecca,  wife  of  Nathaniel  Jarvis;  and 
Abraham  Barker  Bussing.  Of  this  family,  Margaret  was  born 
^[areli  18,  1826,  and  died  April  25,  1886.  She  became  the  wife 
of  Peter  Meyer,  and  to  them  were  born  three  children:  Julia, 
who  married  John  H.  Loos,  Aaron  and  John  J.  Meyer.  Mrs. 
John  H.  Loos  is  thus  seen  to  l)e  of  the  seventh  generation  from 
Areiit  Ilarmans.  the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Bussing  family. 

BOGARDUS  FAMILY. 

This  family,  liaving  so  many  branches  and  so  extensively 
known,  is  descended  from  Rev.  Everardus  Bogardus,  the  minis- 
ter of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church  in  Xew  Amsterdam,  who 
came  from  Holland  in  1633  with  Governor  Wouter  Van  Twiller. 
The  church  in  which  he  preached  stood  at  what  is  now  No.  33 
Pearl  street,  and  his  residence  was  at  No.  23  Whitehall  street. 
He  married  the  widow  of  Roelotf  Jansen,  the  famous  Anneke 
Jans,  and  had  children:    Jonas,  Willem,  Cornelis  and  Peter. 

Cornells  Bogardus  had  a  son  and  grandson  of  the  name  of 
Cornelis,  and  the  latter  was  the  father  of  Louis  Bogardus,  see 
forward.  This  branch  of  the  family  was  the  one  most  deeply  in- 
terested in  the  well  known  contest  l)etween  the  heirs  of  Annake 
Jans  and  Trinity  Church. 

Louis  Bogardus  was  for  some  time  a  resident  of  Berkshire 
county,  ^lassaclmsetts,  where  he  died  about  the  year  1813.  He 
was  a  farmer  liy  oceuiiation.  By  his  miion  in  marriage  he  had  a 
family  of  two  sons  and  one  daughter.  1.  Robert  L.,  see  for- 
wai-d.  2.  Louis,  who  ]-esided  at  Castleton,  Columbia  county, 
N^ew  York.  3.  Hannah,  married  Harlow  Fenn,  of  Massachu- 
setts, and  came  to  Rossville,  l)orough  of  Richmond,  1857,  and 
died  liei-e  about  1868.  She  had  of  this  marriage  born  to  her  two 
children:     Louis  and  Jeimie  Fenn. 


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GEXEALOaiCAL  AXI)  FAMILY  HISTORY  351 

Robert  L.  Bogardus,  liorn  September  9,  1798,  died  ^lay  28, 
1840.  He  was  reared  and  educated  in  Berkshire  county,  Massa- 
chusetts where  he  also  was  engaged  in  tilling  tlie  soil  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  He  removed  witli  his  family  to  Troy,  Xew  York, 
wliere  lie  died  about  the  year  184U,  and  his  remains  were  in- 
terred in  Mount  Ida  Cemetery,  Troy,  New  York.  He  married 
Jeuet  E.  Stoddard,  born  April  17,  1802,  died  December  oO,  1S29. 
a  member  of  an  old  Xew  England  family,  and  a  daughter  of 
Samuel  Stoddard,  and  of  this  union  had  born  to  him  four  sans 
and  one  daughter,  as  follows:  1.  William  Henry,  born  May  <i, 
1820,  died  August  26,  1878;  married  and  had  sons  and  daughters. 
2.  Elizabeth  B.,  born  November  21,  1821,  died  October  26,  1861; 
married  .Varon  Anthony,  of  Troy,  Xew  I'ork.  3.  Charles,  see 
f(u-ward.  -1.  i^erry,  l)orn  October  21,  1825,  died  March  30,  1897; 
married  and  settled  in  Troy,  X^ew  York,  and  had  two  children: 
Oscar  and  Elizabeth  Bogardus.  5.  Harlow,  born  October  22, 
1827,  fought  his  way  to  the  City  of  ^Mexico  with  General  Scott; 
he  was  ii\  tlie  Tnion  army  in  the  rebellion  and  was  wounded. 
The  mother  of  tlie  afoiementioned  children,  Elizabeth  (Stod- 
dard) Bogardus,  died  in  1827-28.  Ann  (Olds)  Bogardus,  second 
wife  of  K()))ert  L.  Bogardus,  died  June  11,  1840.  Their  children : 
Abigail  P..  (Bogardus)  ^Vil(lc]•,  born  June  25,  1833;  Sally  Ann 
Bogardus.  born  September  21,  1837. 

Charles  Bogardus,  lioi'n  September  17,  182:5,  received  little 
educational  advantages  with  wliich  to  liegin  life,  having  been  left 
an  or])lian  at  the  early  age  of  live  years  and  dependent  upon 
strangers,  and  while  yet  quite  young  was  compelled  to  deinnid 
upon  his  own  etTorts  for  means  of  livelihood.  At  the  age  of  seven- 
teen he  began  to  learn  the  trade  of  iron  moulding  at  Troy.  Xew 
York,  and  after  serving  his  apprenticeship  faithfully  liis  empiity- 
ers,  Messrs.  X'^athaniel  Starbuck  cV*  Sons,  presented  him  with  ^50 
as  a  token  of  reward  for  his  fidelity  to  duty.  Mr.  Bogardus,  u[)on 


352         GENEALOGICAL  AX/)  FAMILY  HISTORY 

('om])lotin.a'  liis  trade,  tonk  uji  his  profession  as  journeyman, 
|!ursiiin<i-  the  same  at  \'aii<iiis  places  until  1856,  when  lie  came 
t(i  his  ])reseiit  h(ime  at  l\(>ssvilk'.  Here  he  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantiU'  l)usiness.  in  wliieh  line  of  enter]irise  he  met  with  im- 
mediate snceess,  and  in  1860  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
ice  cream  for  tlie  wliolesale  trade  in  connection  with  his  mercan- 
tile interests,  and  successfully  continued  in  both  lines  of  enter- 
]iris('  up  until  1900.  During  his  many  years  of  residence  at  Koss- 
\'ille.  ^Ir.  Bogardus  has  not  only  been  a  useful  and  good  citizen, 
but  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  local  affairs,  public  as 
well  as  social.  He  is  an  active  member  of  the  Woodrow  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church;  after  serving  as  one  of  the  stewards 
for  a  number  of  years,  in  1872  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees,  and  has  been  ])resident  of  the  board  for  a 
])eriod  of  about  thirty-five  years. 

^{v.  Bogardus  married,  January  10,  1849,  Jane  Androvette 
(ruyon.  l)orn  December  31,  1827,  daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Ger- 
trude (Mersei'eau)  (iuyon,  and  he  had  born  to  him  one  son, 
Charles  Bogardus,  October  26,  1849.  The  mother,  Jane  Andro- 
vette (Guyon)  Bogardus,  died  February  10,  1900.  She  was  a 
most  estimable  lady  and  possessed  many  excellent  characteris- 
tics. Like  her  husband  she  was  for  many  years  a  consistent 
member  of  the  ^lethodist  Episcopal  church  at  Woodrow.  Dur- 
ing the  active  years  of  hei"  life  she  devoted  much  of  her  time  to 
chui'ch  and  charitable  work,  her  home  liaving  been  the  recog- 
nized sto]'pini;  i)lace  for  missionaries  and  clergymen  at  all  times. 

(  hai'les  Bogardus,  Jr.,  only  son  of  Charles  and  Jane  An- 
droxctte  (Guyon)  Bogardns.  was  born  at  Troy,  New  York,  Octo- 
liei-  2().  1849.  He  received  his  educational  advantages  in  the 
schools  of  Rossville,  borough  of  Kichmond,  and  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  entered  the  collegiate  institute  at  Fort  Edward,  New 
York,  where  he  pursued  his  studies  for  a  period  of  three  years. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         :^>53 

Upon  his  return  home  he  became  associated  with  liis  father  in 
the  mercantile  and  manufacturing  business  under  the  name  of 
C.  Bogardus  and  Son.  In  1876  Mr.  Bogardus,  Jr.,  with  his 
father,  engaged  in  the  undertaking  business  in  addition  to  other 
interests,  and  has  continued  in  the  latter  up  until  the  present 
period.  Not  unlike  his  venerable  father,  he  has  taken  an  active 
interest  in  local  affairs  and  in  every  way  has  proven  himself  a 
worthy  scion  of  a  worthy  sire.  He  is  a  member  of  Woodi'ow 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  has  been  treasurer  of  the  board 
of  trustees  for  a  period  of  nearly  twenty  years. 

Charles  Bogardus,  Jr.,  married,  December  14,  1870,  Julia 
Frances  Leavitt,  born  May  12,  1853,  in  New  York  City,  daughter 
of  Captain  Aaron  and  Mary  Jane  (S]iafford)  Leavitt.  Of  this 
marriage  have  been  born  the  following  children:  1.  Augustus 
I;eavitt.  born  September  20,  1871,  deceased.  2.  Fannie  Spaf- 
ford,  born  July  14.  1873,  married  Eobert  N.  Dixon,  no  issue. 
They  have  an  adopted  daughter,  Maud  Alice  Dixon.  3.  William 
Thoniton,  born  IMay  9,  1880,  married,  July  23,  1900,  Abigail  De 
Waters,  born  June  26,  1881.  Tlieir  children :  Fanny  Spafford, 
born  July  11, 1901,  died  February  3,  1906,  and  William  Thornton, 
Jr.,  born  June  1, 1906. 

FAMILY  OF  ELY. 

This  family  in  England  dates  back  to  a  remote  antiquity. 
Its  name  belongs  to  one  of  the  most  important  cities,  and  Ely 
Cathedral  is  one  of  the  finest  and  most  famous  specimens  of 
Gotliic  architecture  to  be  found  in  any  land.  The  arms  of  this 
family,  which  were  borne  as  far  back  as  the  sixteenth  century, 
are:  Argent,  a  fesse  engrailed  between  six  fleur  de  lis.  or. 
Crest,  an  arm  erect,  vested  argent,  hand  proper,  holding  a 
fleur  de  lis  sable.     Motto,  Sciejifia  Lihcrtas  ef  ]^irfi(S. 

The  ancestor  of  the  American  branch  of  this  familv  was 


354         GENEALOGICAL  AXD  EAMILY  HISTORY 

Eicliard  Ely,  who  was  born  at  Plymouth,  Devonshire,  England, 
and  came  here  between  1660  and  1663.  He  first  settled  in 
Boston  and  later  removed  to  Lyme,  Connecticut,  and  with  this 
jilace  his  name  has  been  identified  and  he  and  many  of  his  de- 
scendants found  their  resting  place  in  honored  sei)ulchres.  His 
first  wife,  Joane,  died  in  England,  January  7,  1660.  She  is  be- 
lieved to  have  lieen  a  sister  of  John  Phipps,  Baron  Mulgrave, 
the  famous  navigator.  By  this  marriage  he  had  children :  Will- 
iam, Joseph,  Richard  and  Daniel.  His  second  wife  was  Eliz- 
abeth, widow  of  Cajitain  John  Cullich,  and  by  this  marriage  he 
had  one  son,  Samuel.  Richard  Ely  was  during  his  entire  life, 
one  of  the  most  prominent  of  the  early  settlers  of  Connecticut. 
His  estate  was  a  tract  of  3,000  acres,  and  he  and  his  sons  were 
the  owners  of  4,000  acres.  His  son  William  went  to  the  West 
Indies,  and  on  a  voyage  to  New  England  he  nearly  perished 
from  shipwreck,  and  prayers  and  thanksgiving  were  rendered 
to  Providence  by  this  truly  pious  family  for  his  safe  return. 
After  a  useful  life,  Richard  Ely  died  at  Lyme,  November  24, 
1684.  His  wife  died  November  12,  1683,  and  an  elegent  monu- 
ment, erected  by  his  descendants,  not  only  perpetuates  their 
memory,  but  shows  their  appreciation  of  their  many  virtues. 

William  Ely,  the  eldest  son,  went  first  to  the  West  Indies, 
but  afterward  joined  his  father  at  Lyme.  He  was  baptized  Octo- 
ber, 1647,  and  died  February  23,  1717.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Smith,  May  12,  1681.  She  died  Octolier  10,  1750,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-nine.  He  was  Judge  of  the  Court,  and,  like  his  father,  was 
during  his  life  a  man  of  importance  and  influence.  He  was  the 
father  of  ten  children,  of  which  Richard  was  the  third. 

Captain  Richard  Ely,  the  third  son,  was  bom  at  Lyme,  in 
1690,  died  in  1767  and  was  buried  at  East  Hartford.  He  was 
captain  of  militia,  and  a  man  of  gi'eat  usefulness  and  influence. 
He  married  Ruhama  Thompson,  in  1714.    His  second  wife  was 


GEXEALOGICAL  AXl)  FAMILY  HISTORY         355 

Margaret  Olcott,  married  in  1730.  He  was  the  father  of  thir- 
teen children,  of  whom  the  oldest  was  William  Ely. 

Captain  William  Ely  was  born  at  Lyme,  October,  1715, 
died  April  3,  1802.  In  1737  he  married  Elizabeth  Perkins,  of 
Ipswich,  Massachnsetts.  She  was  born  December  30,  1715,  died 
May  27,  1782.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  Third  Connecticut  Regi- 
ment in  the  French  war.  All  the  preceding  generations  lived 
and  died  at  Lyme,  but  in  1756  Captain  William  Ely  removed 
to  Livingston,  Xew  Jersey,  which  has  been  the  home  of  many 
of  his  descendants.  Captain  William  Ely  and  Elizabeth 
Perkins  were  the  parents  of  ten  children.  One  died  in  infancy, 
the  others  were :  William,  Elizabeth,  who  died  yoimg,  Abraham, 
Elizabeth,  born  171:5,  Lois,  Lucy,  Joseph,  Benjamin  and  Moses. 

Moses  Ely  (the  fourth  generation)  was  born  at  Livingston, 
New  Jersey,  on  Orange  Mountain,  November  18,  1756.  died  July 
]4,  1838.  He  married,  January  3,  1782,  Rebecca  Cook,  a  de- 
scendant of  Ellis  Cook,  who  was  among  the  early  settlers  of 
Southampton,  Long  Island,  and  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Re- 
becca (Smith)  Cook.  Their  children  were:  1.  Elizabeth,  bom 
August  28,  1783,  married  (first)  George  Ring;  (second)  Rev. 
John  Watson.  2.  Abraham  Halsey,  born  May  18,  1787,  married 
Emma  Samo,  1816,  and  died  June  6,  184-9.  3.  Closes,  Jr.,  born 
February  21,  1790,  married  Eliza  Coleman,  1813,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 14,  1842.  4.  Benjamin,  bom  December  3,  1792,  married 
(first)  Eliza  Bell,  1822;  (second)  Martha  W.  Higgins,  uee  Allen, 
1837.  He  died  Fel)ruary  19,  1860.  5.  Epaphras  Cook.  6.  Sarah, 
born  November  24,  1797,  married,  1816,  Abraham  Halsey,  a  de- 
scendant of  Thomas  Halsey,  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  South- 
ampton, Long  Island.  She  died  January,  1881.  7.  Smith,  boi'n 
:\ray  22.  1800.  8.  John,  born  February  20,  1803,  died  January 
31,  1894.  9.  Anna  Maria,  born  April  8,  1805,  married  Joseph 
Kitchell,  1826.  died  November  9,  1875. 


350         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Moses  Ely  took  an  active  part  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution, 
and  was  in  charge  of  wagons  and  supply  train.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Captain  Elijah  Squire's  Company,  of  West  Livingston. 
After  the  Revolution,  he  removed  to  New  York  and  purchased 
a  place  in  Duane  street,  a  little  east  of  College  Place.  He  after- 
wards returned  to  his  farm  at  Livingston  and  died  there. 

Epaphras  Cook  Ely,  was  born  on  Lombard  street  (now 
Trinity  place).  New  York,  April  15,  1795.  His  father  at  that 
time  had  a  contract  in  relation  to  building  Trinity  church,  and 
therefore  resided  in  a  house  nearby.  He  inherited  a  large  part 
of  the  family  estate  at  Livingston,  and  this  still  remains  in  pos- 
session of  his  family.  When  a  boy  he  engaged  in  the  tanning 
business  with  his  brother  Moses  in  Orange  and  Ulster  counties, 
New  York.  During  the  War  of  1812  he  served  in  his  brother's 
stead  as  a  member  of  Captain  Benjamin  Horton's  company,  in 
the  regiment  commanded  by  Lieutenant  Colonel  Michael  Smith. 
After  the  war  he  engaged  in  the  tanning  business  at  Esopus, 
New  York.  In  October,  1825,  he  removed  to  New  York  City,  and 
resided  on  Stone  sti-eet,  between  William  and  Broad  streets. 
He  afterward  lived  on  Duane  street,  between  Church  and  Chapel 
streets  (now  West  Broadway).  He  was  extensively  engaged 
with  Moses  Ring  in  the  hide  and  leather  business  on  Ferry 
street.  He  died  in  1864,  and  was  buried  by  the  side  of  his  wife 
in  the  Ely  cemetery  at  Livingston,  New  Jersey.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber and  attendant  of  the  Seventh  Presbyterian  Church,  but  later 
was  connected  with  the  Fourteenth  Street  Presbyterian  Church. 
and  afterwards  with  the  church  on  Madison  Square,  now  Dr. 
Parkhurst's. 

Mr.  Ely  married  Julia  Ann,  daughter  of  Ambrose  and  Eliza- 
beth (Mulford)  Kitchell.  She  was  born  in  1800  and  died  March, 
1864,  at  her  residence.  No.  132  West  Twenty-third  street. 
Their  children  were:     Ambrose  K.,  see  forward;   Smith,  see 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         3."  7 

forward;  William  Henry,  born  May  14,  1829,  married,  August 
30,  1864,  Maria  Josephine  Eogers;  Edwin  Augustus,  born  Au- 
gust 15,  1836;  Maria  Louise,  born  June  2,  1846,  married,  Octo- 
ber 14,  1868,  George  Burritt  Vauderpool. 

Ambrose  Kitcliell  Ely  was  born  at  Livingston,  Essex  county, 
New  Jersey,  on  the  Ely  homestead  farm,  January  31,  1823,  died 
February  6,  1907.  While  still  a  lad  his  father  gave  him  a  i)osi- 
tion  in  his  hide  and  leather  stoi'e  in  Ferry  street,  New  York, 
where  he  was  trained  to  the  business,  and  after  a  few  years' 
familiarity  w^ith  it  accepted  a  position  with  Lapham,  Corse  & 
Co.,  ]8  Ferry  street,  one  of  the  most  jn'ominent  houses  in  the 
trade,  with  whom  and  their  successors,  Tliorne,  Watson  &  Co., 
he  remained  some  fourteen  years,  having  in  the  meantime  been 
admitted  as  a  partner  in  the  firm,  and  in  1857  withdrew  to  con- 
duct the  same  line  of  business  on  his  own  account,  which  he  con- 
tinued to  do  until  1880,  when  he  relinquished  mercantile  busi- 
ness, and  from  that  time  up  to  liis  decease  confined  himself  to 
the  care  (>f  his  real  estate  and  other  interests. 

]Ton.  Smith  Ely,  a  most  distinguished  citizen  of  New  York, 
was  born  at  Kanover,  Morris  comity.  New  Jersey,  at  the  house 
of  his  grandfather,  Ambrose  Kitcliell,  A])ril  17,  1825.  He  was 
educated  for  tlie  legal  }irofession,  studying  in  the  oifice  of  Fred- 
erick De  Peyster,  a  noted  lawyer  in  his  day.  Mr.  Ely  graduated 
from  the  University  Law  School,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1846,  but  he  never  practiced,  finding  commercial  pursuits  more 
congenial  to  his  tastes.  In  the  hide  and  leather  trade  he  built 
up  a  ver\'  extensive  business.  Being  an  active  supporter  of  the 
Democratic  party  in  politics,  he  was  elected  school  trustee  in 
1856,  member  of  board  of  supervisors  from  1860  to  1870,  at 
which  time  the  oifice  was  abolished,  in  1858-59  served  in  the 
state  senate  from  the  fifth  New  York  district,  liaving  been 
elected  by  the  Democratic  party,  and  in  1873-4  lie  was  commis- 


358         GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

sioner  of  public*  instruction.  His  well  earned  reputation  caused 
him  to  be  elected  member  of  Congress,  served  two  terms,  and 
was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  expenditures  of  the  Treasury 
Department,  a  jiosition  of  great  importance.  In  ]87(i  he  was 
elected  Mayor  of  New  York  by  a  majority  of  56,000,  his  com- 
petitor being  General  Jolm  A.  Dix,  of  honored  memory.  "W^iile 
mayor  he  was  distinguished  for  his  efforts  for  wise  and  strict 
economy,  and  during  his  term  the  debt  of  the  city  was  greatly 
reduced.  In  J 895  lie  was  ap|)ointed  by  Mayor  Strong  conmiis- 
sioner  of  public  parks. 

THE    F A:\rTLY    OF    HURRY. 

Few  towns  in  England  have  a  more  interesting  history  or 
one  that  goes  back  to  a  more  distant  anti(piity  than  Great  Yar- 
mouth, situated  at  the  mouth  of  the  river  Yare,  whicli  divides 
the  counties  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk.  AVlien  the  Romans  in- 
vaded Britain,  forty-five  years  before  the  Christian  era,  the 
site  of  the  town  was  a  sand  bank  formed  at  the  entrance  of  a 
large  estuary  which  flowed  up  to  the  city  of  Norwich,  then  a 
stronghold  of  the  Britons. 

Like  all  other  walled  towns  of  that  ancient  period.  Iho 
streets,  which  were  locally  called  Rows,  were  very  narrow,  as 
was  necessary  in  order  to  find  a  place  for  the  population  within 
the  walls.  The  inhabitants  in  the  days  of  Charles  I.  were 
prompt  to  resist  the  encroachments  of  the  Crown  upon  the 
rights  of  the  people,  and  were  among  the  strongest  su^iporters 
of  the  Parliament  and  Cromwell.  In  the  seventeenth  and  eight- 
eenth centuries  there  flourished  in  the  town  of  Great  Yarmouth 
a  family  named  Hurry.  The  family  was  ancient,  for  in  the  par- 
ish register  of  1580  it  is  recorded  that  William  Hurry  married 
Agnes  Green.  In  1596  Richard  Hurry  married,  in  the  i)arish 
church,  Ann  Prymrose;  he  was  for  many  years  a  member  of 


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GENEALOGICAL  AXD  EAMILY  HISTORY 


501 


the  Corporation.  In  1597  ani)tliei-  of  the  same  name  married 
Elizabeth  Smyth,  and  1699  Anne  Hurry  married  Robert  Stew- 
ard. The  Hnrrys  were  Vice  Consuls  at  Great  Yarmouth  for 
Prussia  and  the  other  foreign  itowers.  and  jiossessed  and  ex- 
erted a  controlling-  influence  for  many  years,  finally  became  ex- 
tinct at  Great  Yarmouth  in  1843. 

The  arms  of  the  ancient  family  are  argent,  in  chief  a  lion 


rampant  gules,  and  in  base  two  mullets  voided,  azure.  Crest  a 
hari^y,  wings  ex})anded.  MotcO.  "Nee  Arrogo  nee  duhito,"  the 
original  motto,  and  which  is  still  clainu'd,  l)eing  "Sans  Taehe." 
Many  members  of  the  Hurry  family  were  l)uried  in  the  chancel 
of  the  parish  church  at  St.  Nicholas.  Great  Yarmouth,  down  to 
the  last  century,  and  this  edifice  is  remarkable  as  being  the 
largest  ])arish  churcli  in  England,  while  in  antiquity  it  goes 
back  to  1119,  having  been  commenced  with  the  Xorman  style 
of  architecture,  but  being  greativ  enlarged  from  time  to  time. 


3G2         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

The  American  branch  of  this  family  is  descended  from 
Samuel  Hurry,  who  was  the  third  child  of  John  and  Alice 
(Cross)  Hurry,  born  1747,  at  (Jreat  Yarmouth,  and  was  born 
at  Bold  street.  Liverpool.  November  24,  1778.  John  Hurry, 
father  of  the  above  John  Hurry,  was  the  third  son  of  Thomas 
and  Elizabeth  (Clifton)  Hurry,  and  was  born  at  Great  Yar- 
mouth, May  8,  1724,  married,  April  14,  174G,  Sarah  Winn.  This 
Thomas  Hurry,  father  of  the  al)ove  John  Hurry,  was  l)orn  in 
1694,  and  died  while  sojourning  at  the  Adel])hi  Hotel  in  London, 
in  1780.  He  married  Elizabeth  Clifton,  daughter  of  Gabriel 
Clifton  and  Elizal)eth,  his  wife,  daughter  of  John  Ives,  of  Great 
Yarmouth;  he  was  the  only  son  of  Thomas  Hurry,  who  was 
made  a  freeman  of  Great  Yarmouth  in  1701,  and  was  a  free- 
holder of  the  county.  The  Hurry  family  owned  no  less  than 
ten  estates  in  the  counties  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk. 

At  a  very  early  age  Samuel  Hurry,  the  founder  of  the 
American  branch  of  the  family,  evinced  a  great  desire  to  be- 
come a  resident  in  the  Enited  States,  and  in  the  spring  of  1795, 
when  but  seventeen  years  of  age,  notwithstanding  the  opposi- 
tion of  his  family,  he  sailed  in  one  of  his  father's  ships  for 
Philadelphia,  where  he  arrived  June  9th.  The  family  were 
never  fully  reconciled  to  this  step,  but  when  his  father  became 
aware  of  the  son's  unalterable  intentions  to  remain  in  the  Enit- 
ed  States,  he  placed  him  in  the  mercantile  house  of  Michlin  & 
Griffith,  with  an  entrance  fee  of  one  thousand  dollars.  To  their 
regret  he  remained  Avith  them  but  a  short  time,  having  dis- 
played business  qualitications  of  a  high  order.  By  his  ability 
and  perseverance  he  soon  controlled  a  large  European  connec- 
tion. October  1,  1798,  he  married  Eliza  Ann,  the  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  William  Whiteside,  of  Philadelphia,  who  with  his  brother, 
Peter  Whiteside,  and  Robert  Morris,  were  jointly  the  originat- 
ors of  the  American  East  Indian  trade  direct  with  the  Eastern 


John  Hurry,  Esq. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         3(J5 

Hemisphere  by  the  up-to-then  imattempted  southern  passage. 
This  new  route  to  China  led  to  a  correspondence  between  the 
British  and  American  government,  on  account  of  the  import- 
ance attached  to  so  unex]:)ected  a  venture.  This  connection  gave 
Samuel  Hurry  a  firm  position  in  the  United  States,  and  these 
advantages,  combined  with  his  natural  business  talent,  made 
his  success  extremely  rapid,  and  he  soon  took  rank  among  the 
first  American  merchants  and  shipowners  of  his  day.  He  met, 
liowever,  with  severe  losses.  One  of  his  ships  was  confiscated 
by  Napoleon  while  attempting  to  run  the  blockade  of  Co]^en- 
hagen,  but  which  was  done  against  the  orders  of  Mr.  Hurry. 
Another,  the  "John  and  Alice"  (the  largest  shij)  up  to  that 
time  launched  in  Pliiladel])hia),  was  seized  with  a  cargo  of  flour 
while  lying  in  the  port  of  Philadelphia,  under  a  decision  of  the 
American  government  that  Samuel  Hurry  was  a  British  sub- 
ject. The  ship  "Antelope"  and  cargo  at  the  same  time  was  con- 
fiscated by  the  British  government,  Mr.  Hurry  being  an  Ameri- 
can merchant.  Samuel  Hurry  was  apjiointed  and  acted  with 
great  credit  as  agent  between  the  ITnited  States  and  the  British 
shipowners  in  the  adjustment  of  claims  for  losses  in  the  war  of 
1812,  his  reputation  and  extensive  experience  rendering  him 
l)eculiarly  fitted  for  that  office.  Samuel  Hurry  was  made  an 
honorai'y  meml)er  of  Saint  George's  Society;  but  few  in  the 
society's  history  in  the  United  States  having  been  so  honored. 

Some  years  prior  to  his  death,  his  health  became  seriously 
imi)aired  by  falling  into  tlie  water  when  boarding  a  slii])  in 
New  York  harbor,  and  he  took  sea  voyages  to  Europe  and  the 
West  Indies.  In  the  latter  part  of  1819  he  sailed  for  Clreat 
Britain,  accompanied  by  his  eldest  son.  Landing  in  Ireland 
they  passed  through  that  comitry  and  arrived  at  Liverpool, 
but  his  health  and  strength  failed  so  ra^ndly  that  he  had  scarce- 
ly reached  the  home  of  his  boyhood  when  his  death  occurred, 


366         GENEALOaiCAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

January  31,  18l'0.  He  was  buried  in  the  family  vault  at  New- 
ington  Chapel.  In  1825  his  family  removed  permanently  to 
New  York,  where  they  have  since  resided,  and  with  which  they 
have  become  thoroughly  identified. 

No  sketch  of  the  life  of  Samuel  Hurry  would  be  complete 
without  a  special  mention  of  his  wife,  }klrs.  Eliza  Ann  (White- 
side) Hurry,  a  woman  of  great  force  of  character,  and  who 
was  a  meml)er  of  the  family  of  Whiteside,  of  Poulton  le  Fylde, 
in  Lancashire,  England,  where  the  family  had  long  been  in  a 
position  of  influence.  Dn  one  occasion  they  had  the  honor  of 
receiving  his  majesty  King  George  III.  at  their  seat  in  Poulton, 
and  the  silver  tankard  upon  which  was  the  family  crest  and 
used  by  His  Majesty  at  that  time  came  as  an  heirloom  into  Mrs. 
Hurry's  i^ossession.  On  her  maternal  side  Mrs.  Hurry  was  de- 
scended from  Dr.  John  Bamber,  whose  epitaph  in  Barking 
Church.  Essex,  states  that  "he  practiced  medicine  with  great 
credit  and  honor  for  many  years."  He  was  one  of  the  physi- 
cians to  Queen  Anne,  and  was  the  lord  of  three  manors  in  Es- 
sex, with  a  town  mansion  at  Mincing  Lane.  The  present  and 
late  Marquis  of  Salisbury  are  also  in  direct  descent  from  Dr. 
Bamber.  "The  Bamber  Estate"  of  ten  thousand  four  hundred 
acres  below  Lakewood,  New  Jersey,  and  which  has  been  held  by 
the  late  AVilliam  Hurry  and  his  heirs  for  nearly  fifty  years,  is 
so  named  after  Dr.  Bamber. 

Mrs.  Hurry  was  born  in  London,  "within  sound  of  Bow 
Bells,"  and  was  ))ut  two  years  old  when  her  i)arents  left  Eng- 
land and  settled  in  Philadelphia.  She  was  an  excellent  French 
scholar,  and  spoke  that  language  with  ease.  She  was  taught, 
as  was  her  sister,  Mrs.  Robert  Clinton,  to  i)lay  on  the  piano. 
This  piano  was  brought  over  as  part  of  the  household  effects 
of  Mr.  William  Whiteside,  in  1783,  and  was  claimed  to  be  the 
first  piano  brought  to  the  United  States.    Mrs.  Hurry  was  hand- 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         367 

some  and  dignified  in  person,  and  was  very  prominent  in  society 
in  Pliiladelpliia.  As  a  yonng  girl  she  was  present  at  tlie  last 
ball  given  by  Washington,  and  danced  with  the  President,  slie 
being  a  great  favorite  of  his.  She  died  in  New  York,  Angnst  8, 
1860,  at  the  age  of  seventy-nine,  surrounded  by  her  children, 
and  retaining  to  the  last  the  noble  traits  of  character  for  which 
she  had  been  so  conspicuous.  The  seven  eldest  children  of  Sam- 
uel and  Eliza  Anne  Hurry  were  born  in  Philadelphia. 

Mr.  Hurry's  town  residence  was  opposite  Independence 
Hall,  on  part  of  the  site  of  the  jjresent  Drexel  building,  his  be- 
ing one  of  the  five  residences  known  as  Nobility  Row  l)y  old 
Philadelphians,  each  residence  having  a  coach  house  in  the 
rear  of  its  garden.  His  country  seat  was  situated  a  few  miles 
out  of  Philadelpliia. 

The  children  of  Samuel  and  Eliza  Anne  Hurry  were : 

1.  John,  born  June  27,  1799,  died  without  issue  in  1825. 

2.  Alice,  born  July  29,  1800,  married  Andrew  Bishop 
Spence,  at  St.  Andrew's  Square,  Philadelphia,  February  27, 
1823;  children:  Mary  M.,  Andrew,  Alice,  and  Helen. 

3.  Samuel,  born  August  28,  1801,  was  lost  at  sea,  died  with- 
out issue. 

1:.  Eliza  Anne,  born  March  21,  1803,  married  Thomas  True- 
man  Hogg,  of  New  Jersey;  children:  Augustus,  acting  captain 
U.  S.  A.,  killed  at  Fort  Fisher;  Trueman;  Samuel  Hurry;  Ed- 
mund; Eliza  Anne;  Alice  Mary. 

5.  William  (Whiteside),  born  April  2,  1805,  married  Octo- 
ber 10,  1827,  Adeline,  daughter  of  Samuel  Hinman;  children: 
1.  William  Hurry,  Jr.,  born  Octo1)er  1,  1828,  at  New  York; 
married  November  18,  1853,  Dephme.  daughter  of  Temple  Fay, 
of  Boston;  only  child,  Edward  Temple  Hurry,  born  at  New 
York,  November  18,  1854.  He  married.  Sejttember  5,  1888. 
Catharine    Cliurchill    Campbell,   of   Nova    Scotia,   daughter   of 


368         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Captain  Arthur  Wellingtou  Cami^bell ;  liis  wife  was  a  daughter 
of  Hon.  Ezra  Churchill,  M.  P.,  of  Windsor,  of  the  family  of  the 
Dukes  of  Marlborough;  no  issue.  2.  x\nu  Eliza,  married  Gavin 
Brackenridge.  3.  Sarah,  married  William  Henry  Boss.  4. 
Caroline.  5.  Adeline,  married  Francis  Holland  Nicol  Whiting. 
6.  ^Margaret,  married  Francis  Holland  Nicol  W^hiting.  7.  Jane, 
married  William  Floyd  Livermore.  8.  Samuel,  died  in  infancy. 
9.  Alice,  married  Samuel  Colt  Selden.     10.  Frances. 

6.  Edmund  (Cobb),  born  September  17,  1807,  see  for- 
ward. 

7.  Caroline,  l)oru  April  10,  1810,  died  unmarried. 

8.  [Margaret,  born  August  16,  1813,  married  (first)  Ven- 
tura ()bregon,  consul  from  Mexico  at  New  York  and  brother  of 
the  then  Mexican  Minister  to  the  United  States;  (second)  Fran- 
cis Emanuel  Siffken;  no  issue  by  either  marriage. 

9.  James,  born  in  New  York,  January  27,  1815,  married 
August  30,  1849,  Emily,  daughter  of  William  Goelet  Bucknor. 
Her  mother  was  a  granddaughter  of  General  Von  Bulow,  of 
South  Carolina ;  children :  Emily  Bucknor,  died  unmarried ; 
William  Goelet  Bucknor,  died  in  infancy;  Gilford,  born  August 
2,  1853,  lieutenant-colonel  N.  G.  S.  of  N.  Y.;  Adelaide  Bulow, 
married  George  Henry  Kent. 

10.  Sarah,  born  March  23,  1818.  died  young. 

Of  this  family,  two  of  the  sons.  AVilliam  and  Edmund,  were 
both  architects,  distinguished  in  their  profession,  and  by  their 
ability  contributed  largely  to  the  improvement  and  advance- 
ment of  the  city.  James,  the  third  son,  was  for  many  years  a 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Hurry  &  Swan,  merchants  of  South  street, 
New  York. 

Edmund  (Cobb)  Hurry,  the  sixth  child  of  Samuel  and  Eliza 
Ann  Hurry,  was  married  at  St.  Peter's  Church,  New  York  (of 
which  he  was  vestryman,  as  was  his  father-in-law,  Judge  Flana- 


Edmund    Hurry. 
•(1807-1S75.) 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         371 

gau),  by  Kev.  Hugh  Smith,  D.  D.,  April  25,  1838,  to  Elizal)eth 
Maria,  second  daughter  of  James  Flanagan,  Esq.,  counsellor  at 
law,  and  a  justice  of  the  peace  of  New  York,  and  Elizabeth 
Myers  ]\IeKeau,  his  wife,  only  daughter  of  David  McKean,  to 
whose  memory  is  a  tablet  in  St.  I^aul's  Church,  Xew  York  city, 
a  sou  of  Kobert  ifcKean,  laird  of  the  parish  of  Kilmarnock. 
James  Flanagan  was  the  eldest  son  of  Christopher  Flanagan, 
of  Dul)liu,  who  finally  settled  in  Xew  York  in  1786.  He  was  a 
man  of  literary  ability  and  well  known  for  his  oratorical  powers 
both  iu  Dublin  and  Xew  York.  Christopher  Flanagan,  when  a 
youug  nuiu,  acted  as  captaiu's  clerk,  and  it  is  said  also  as  purs- 
er on  one  of  our  war  vessels  during  the  War  of  Independence, 
receiving  a  (juarter  grant  of  land  for  his  services.  The  children 
of  Edmund  (Cobli)  Hurry  and  Elizaljeth  ]^[aria  Hurry  were 
Edmund  Alxly;  Sophia  Flanagan,  l)orn  February  8,  1842,  mar- 
ried (first)  Samuel  Henry  Shreve,  M.  A.,  LL.  B.,  April  16,  1868; 
Randolph,  Itorn  in  Xew  York,  October  18,  1854,  married.  May 
17,  1883,  at  Trinity  Chapel,  Xew  York,  liy  the  Rev.  AVilliam 
Xairn,  ^Nlarye  Agnes  Condit;  children:  Elizabeth  ^laria  and 
Dorothy  Whiteside. 

Edmund  Alxly  Hurry.  ^I.  A.,  LL.  B.,  V.  S.  X.,  was  born  in 
Xew  York,  August  8,  183^).  He  was  married.  Xovember  17.  1868, 
by  Rev.  J.  Cotton  Smith,  D.  D.,  at  the  Church  of  the  Ascension, 
New  York,  to  Emily  Asliton,  eldest  daughter  of  William  Rhine- 
lander  Renwick  and  Eliza  Smeeds  Cros1)y,  his  wife.  Their 
children  are:  two  sons  (see  forward);  P^dith  Renwick,  l)orn 
January  15.  1870;  Bessie  Crosby,  born  ^larch  13,  187L  died  iu 
infancy;  Llelen  Schuyler.  1iorn  September  28,  1872.  nuirried 
William  V.  Draper;  issue,  John  Haggerty  Drai»er;  Mary  Cros- 
])y,  married  Walton  Chesel)orough  Peckham;  issue  May  Hurry 
Peckham;  Emily  Ashton.  married  Louis  Gross  Smith;  issue, 
Crosbv  Tuttle  Smith. 


37-2         GEXEALO(iICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Mr.  Hnrry  derived  liis  second  l)nptisinal  name  from  his 
father's  intimate  friend,  Edward  Stmt  Abdy,  Esq.,  descended 
from  Sir  Kobert  Al)dy,  of  an  ancient  Yorkshire  family,  who 
was  created  Baronet  in  1660.  When  tlie  Sonthern  States  at- 
tempted to  secede  from  the  Union  in  1861,  ^fr.  Hnrry,  who  had 
just  been  admitted  to  practice  at  the  New  York  bai',  was  ap- 
I)ointed  captain's  clei'k  to  his  nncle  by  marriage,  C'ai)tain  (after- 
wards Commodore)  Homer  C.  Bhike,  V.  S.  X.,  then  command- 
ing the  United  States  steamer  ''Entaw, "  and  held  that  position 
for  more  than  a  year,  when  lie  was  comi)elled  to  relinquish  it 
in  consequence  of  illness  incurred  in  the  line  of  duty.  As  the 
representative  of  t^aptain  Blake  he  was  present  at  the  recep- 
tion, memorable  in  the  history  of  the  country,  given  by  Presi- 
dent Lincoln  to  the  officers  of  the  IJussian  fleet.  At  this  recep- 
tion only  the  diplomatic  corps,  the  cabinet,  and  commanding  offi- 
cers of  the  army  and  navy  then  in  the  district  of  Colum])ia  wer' 
invited.  Mr.  Hurry  had  the  great  satisfaction  and  pleasure  of 
conversing  with  President  Lincoln  on  that  occasion.  "While 
Mr.  Hurry  was  on  board  the  "Eutaw"  that  vessel  was  engaged 
in  the  important  duty  of  protecting  the  supplies  for  the  North- 
ern army  at  Bermuda  Hundred,  James  River,  Virginia,  and 
was  in  the  engagement  of  Chapin's  Bluff;  in  blockading  otT 
Fort  Fisher,  and  in  preventing  the  enemy's  ram  "Albemarle" 
descending  the  Neuse  river  ui)on  the  city  of  Newberne,  Mr. 
Hurry  having  performed  picket  duty  on  the  Neuse  river  above 
that  city.  His  micle.  Captain  Blake,  was  commander  of  the 
L^nited  States  steamer  "Hatteras"  when  she  encountered  and 
was  simk  by  the  "Alabama"  in  a  yard-arm  fight  in  the  Gulf 
of  Mexico,  and  C^ajitain  Blake's  bravei-y  on  that  occasion  was 
looked  upon  by  his  counti'ymen  as  unsurpassed. 

There  are  few  families  in  New  York  who  have  a  more  dis- 
tinguished connection  than  the  Hurrvs.     Among  other  families 


GEXEALOCilCAL  AXD  FAMILY  UlSTOUY         373 

they  are  desceuded  from  are  the  Cliftous,  Ives,  A\'atts,  Bracey, 
AViim,  Cro.ss,  Coopers  (of  the  family  of  Sir  Ashley),  and  related 
by  blood  to  the  Alaurices,  Hares  of  Hurtmoneeanx,  Churchills, 
C'liutons,  Fenwieks,  from  whom  Ambassador  Waddingtou  was 
desceuded,  who  represented  France  at  the  Court  of  Saiut  James, 
Pagets,  Hershalls.  I^lilmaus,  Aldersou,  Erskiue,  preseut  Earl  of 
Alarr,  Cecils,  Huxleys,  O'Couuels,  and  Sumuers  (of  whom  the 
Archbishop  Sumuer,  who  placed  the  crown  ui)on  the  head  of 
Queen  Victoria).  The  j)resent  Lord  Salisbury  is  related  by 
blood  also  to  the  Hurry  family  of  New  York,  through  his  grand- 
father, the  late  Baron  Aldersou.  His  father,  Edmund  Hurry, 
was  the  consulting  architect  of  the  Xew  York  Crystal  Palace, 
and  his  sister,  Sophia  F.,  married  for  her  second  husband,  Alex- 
ander Macomb  Mason,  a  grandson  of  General  Alexander  Ma- 
comb; she  had  no  issue  by  either  marriage.  Alexander  Macomb 
Mason  was  secretary  to  his  uncle,  Hon.  James  Mason,  who  was 
with  Slidell  in  the  famous  "Trent"  affair.  After  the  war  he  with 
other  officers  entered  the  service  of  the  Egyptian  government, 
and  was  for  some  years  the  senior  Bey  of  Egypt.  Mr.  Hurry's 
wife,  Mrs.  Emily  (Aslitou)  Hurry,  is  a  great-granddaughter  of 
Mrs.  William  Renwick,  who,  as  Jennie  Jeffrey,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Andrew  Jeft'rey,  of  Lockmaben,  was  the  "Blue  Eyed 
Lassie"  iunnortalized  in  the  poems  of  Robert  Burns.  Mrs. 
LIurry  is  also  a  great-great-granddaughter  of  William  Floyd, 
one  of  the  two  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  for 
the  state  of  Xew  York,  whose  daughter  Catharine  married  Rev. 
Samuel  Clarkson,  M.  D.,  D.  D.,  whose  daughter  Harriet  married 
William  Bedlow  Crosby,  whose  daughter  Eliza  S.  married  Will- 
iam Rhinelander  Renwick,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Hurry.  Mrs. 
Hurry  is  in  descent  also  from  the  Rutgers,  Bedlow,  dePeyster, 
Rhinelander.  and  Roliert  families. 

Renwick   Clifton  Hurry,  eldest   son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ed- 


374         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

mund  Abdy  Hurry,  was  born  in  New  York,  September  7,  1874, 
is  a  member  of  the  Delta  Phi  fraternity  and  club,  and  a  veteran 
of  Comi^any  K,  Seventh  Eegiment;  married  at  Trinity  Church, 
Saugerties,  New  York,  May  18,  1904,  Lucy  Washington  Morss, 
only  daughter  of  Foster  B.  Morss  and  his  wife,  Lucy  Madison 
Packett,  of  Albany.  Their  son,  Kenwick  Washington  Hurry, 
born  at  Eye,  AVestchester  county,  New  York,  August  27,  1905, 
is  the  fifth  in  line  of  descent  from  Samuel  Washington,  who 
inherited  Mount  Vernon,  full  brother  of  General  George  Wash- 
ington, and  is  also  the  great-great-granduephew  of  Dolly  Madi- 
son. 

Eutgers  Ives  Hurry,  born  at  New  York,  November  17,  1883, 
married,  at  Saint  James'  Church,  New  York,  April  30,  1907, 
Aline  Virginia  Kent,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Blake 
Kent,  of  New  York,  Mr.  Kent  being  of  the  Maryland  Kents. 

The  residence  of  Mr.  Hurry  abounds  in  relics  of  past  and 
honored  generations,  and  among  them  is  a  fine  portrait  in  oil 
of  General  Wolfe,  a  relative  of  the  Hurry  family,  also  a  por- 
trait of  DeWitt  Clinton,  by  Inman,  and  which  he  inherited  from 
his  mother,  and  she  from  her  father,  being  the  only  profile  por- 
trait of  the  great  governor. 

The  late  Dr.  Atkins,  a  distant  cousin  of  the  Hurrys  through 
the  Wolfe  family,  and  who  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Panama 
Canal  Company,  had  a  pedigree  embracing  the  entire  family  of 
Hurry,  of  which  the  Great  Yarmouth  family  of  Hurry  were  the 
principal  members  for  the  last  two  hundred  years  (which  he 
referred  to  as  a  splendid  connection),  and  which  he  saved  with 
other  papers  in  an  iron  box  by  dragging  it  into  the  street  during 
the  fire  at  Colon.  Isaac  John  Greenwood,  Esq.,  of  New  York, 
has  also  collated  a  jiedigree  from  Eagman's  Eoll,  etc.,  of  the 
Hurry  descent  from  the  Lords  Eure,  afterAvards  Barons  Pit- 
ficliy.  Lords  of  the  Marches  in  Scotland.     "One  of  them.  Gen- 


GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY         375 

eral  Sir  Jolm  Hurry,  was  cavalry  general  of  the  Cromwellian 
period ;  a  man  of  marked  ability  as  a  general  of  horse,  and  who 
had  been  trained  in  the  wars  of  the  low  Countries."  He  went 
to  those  wars  from  England  with  "a  magnificent  retinue." 

Mr.  Edmund  Abdy  Hurry  is  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Union  League,  University  and  Church  Clubs  of  New  York.  He 
is  also  connected  with  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  a  life 
member  of  the  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society,  in  which 
he  has  an  active  interest,  and  was  formerly  secretary  and  trus- 
tee. He  is  also  a  life  member  of  St.  Nicholas  Society,  the  Ameri- 
can Geographical  Society  and  a  member  of  St.  George's  Society. 

During  the  trying  times  of  1862  ]\[r.  Hurry  was  volunteer 
night  nurse  to  our  wounded  and  sick  soldiers  at  the  hospital  on 
Lexington  avenue  and  Forty-ninth  street,  and  also  at  Bellevue 
Hospital.  His  colleague,  Augustus  King,  son  of  President 
Charles  King,  of  Columbia  College,  perished  in  the  line  of 
duty.  Mr.  Hurry  has  had  the  rare  distinction  of  Ijeing  present 
by  invitation  of  Black  Rod  on  the  floor  of  the  House  of  Lords, 
upon  which  occasion  he  listened  to  the  speech  of  his  relative, 
the  late  Lord  Salisbury,  then  Prime  Minister. 

Mr.  Hurry's  city  residence  is  Xo.  122  East  Thirty-ninth 
street.  His  country  seat  is  ''Clifton"  Barclay  Heights,  Sauger- 
ties  on  the  Hudson,  New  York. 

FAMH.Y   OF   BURLING. 

In  the  year  1692,  if  any  one  had  asked  the  Governor  of  the 
Province  or  the  Mayor  of  the  City  or  the  Judge  of  the  Su}u-eme 
Court:  Is  there  a  Quaker  Meeting  House  in  New  York?  the 
answer  would  be  prom])tly  made,  "None  tliat  we  know  of. 
Quakers  as  a  body  cannot  hold  real  estate.  A  Quaker  Meeting 
House  would  be  contrary  to  law.  But  there  is  a  ]irivate  dwelling 
house  on  Green  Lane  owned  bv  Edward  Burling,  and  there  the 


376         GENEALOGICAL  AXD  E  AM  I  LI'  HISTORY 

peo2)le  who  call  themselves  Friends,  but  whom  we  call  (^)iiakers, 
hold  meetings  on  what  they  call  'tirst  day,'  hut  of  course  there 
is  no  Ci)uake]-  .Meeting-  House." 

The  same  answer  would  have  l)een  given  if  they  had  been 
asked,  "Is  there  a  Jewish  Synagogue  in  New  York?"  There 
was  none  that  had  a  legal  existence,  l)ut  it  was  pretty  well  known 
that  on  "Mill  Street"  tliere  was  a  dwelling  house  owned  by  Mr. 
John  Harperdick,  but  leased  by  certain  Jews  who  used  it  as  a 
synagogue,  and  was  known  to  every  one  in  the  city  by  that  name. 
As  late  as  the  time  when  the  Methodist  Society  was  organized, 
the  (juestion  arose  as  to  how  they  could  own  and  establish  a 
church.  "Put  a  fireplace  and  a  chimney  in  your  building,"  said 
the  liberal  guardians  of  the  law,  "and  then  it  will  l)e  a  dwelling 
house,  and  not  a  church."  Such  was  the  condition  of  things  at 
that  time.  Jews,  (Quakers  and  Methodists  all  had  a  well  known 
actual  existence,  but  in  the  eye  of  the  law  they  did  not  exist 
at  all. 

Among  the  Quakers  in  New  York  at  that  early  day  no  one 
is  more  prominent  than  Edward  Burling.  He  and  his  wife  Grace 
came  from  England  about  1678.  They  were  the  parents  of 
seven  children,  three  of  whom  were  born  in  England,  and  four 
in  America,  the  following  being  their  names  and  dates  of  birth: 
Edward,  born  4th  day  of  9th  month,  1674;  Grace,  29th  of  8th, 
1676;  William,  26th  of  10th,  1678;  Rebekah,  ...  of  6th,  1681; 
Jane,  17th  of  5tli,  1684,  married  James  Mott,  1717;  Sarah,  12th 
of  3rd,  1687,  married  John  Way.  1716;  Benjamin,  6th  of  12th, 
1689-90,  died  21st  of  10th,  1707. 

It  must  be  rememliered  that  at  that  time  the  year  began 
on  the  25tli  day  of  March,  and  that  month  was  called  "the  first 
month."  February  was  the  twelfth  month.  This  is  called  "Old 
Style,"  and  continued  till  1753. 

Edward  Burling,  the  first  settler,  and  ancestor  of  this  fam- 


GEXEALOdlCAL  AM)  FAMILY  niSTOlW  377 

ily,  died  in  tlu^  (Itli  iiKnitli,  1(>!I7.  I  lis  widow,  (Jrace  IJurliiig,  sur- 
vived liim  many  vcais. 

Edward  I)urlini>-,  the  second,  horn  4tli  day  of  Htli  niontli, 
1()74  ( Xoveniber  4,  1()74),  died  in  New  \'ork  in  ."Ird  month  (May, 
1749).  lie  married  Phehe,  dau.i'liter  of  doim  Ferris  of  East 
Cliestei-,  nth  day  of  4tli  montli  (June),  1700.  Their  children 
were:  -lames,  hoi-n  Dth  (Uiy  of  ."ird  month,  1701;  .loliii,  horn  !)tli 
day  of  (ith  month,  170;5;  l*hehe,  horn  L'4th  day  of  Stli  month,  1705; 
Sarah,  born  25tli  day  of  otli  month,  1711';  Edward,  3rd  of  12tli, 
1713-14^  married  Anna  Fai'rington,  L'Oth  of  Sth,  1743;  Martha, 
born  29th  of  i)th,  1715. 

William  Burling,  son  of  Edward  (I),  had  wife  Eel)eekali, 
daughter  of  Elienezer  Spooner,  who  died  2nd  of  2ud,  1729.  He 
had  second  wife  Mary,  and  children:  Benjamin,  James,  Samuel, 
"William.   Mary,   Ebenezer,   Hannah,  Amy   and   Sarah,   wife  of 

Bloodgood.     William  Burling  died  10th  of  8th,  1743. 

His  wife  Mary  died  25tli  of  6th,  1747.  In  her  will  she  mentions 
her  sisters  Charity  Eml)ree,  and  Eleanor  Burling. 

Edward  Burling,  son  of  Edward  (2),  nuirried  Anna  Far- 
rington.  He  lived  in  New  York,  and  died  the  3rd  month,  1749, 
le'aving  children:     James,   John,    Phel)e,   wife   of  Phili})   Pell; 

Sarah,  wife  of  Benjanain  Smith;  Etlward;  Martha,  wife  of • 

Hinman,  and  Samuel.  James  Burling,  in  his  will  dated  Sep- 
tember 8,  1742,  proved  January  21, 1750,  mentions  wife  Elizabeth 
and  daughter  Abigail  Bowne. 

William  I^urling,  son  of  William  (2),  died  7th  of  4th,  1745, 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Bowne,  12th  of 
1st,  1729-30.  He  had  children:  Jereth,  born  8th  of  8th,  1732; 
Hannah,  wife  of  Anthony  Field;  Sarah,  and  Hebeckah. 

Edward  Burling,  "of  Long  Keacli,  East  Chester,"  had  son 
Edward,  1762. 

John  Burling,  son  of  P]dward   (2).  died  in   New  ^'ork.  20th 


378         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

of  7th,  1785.  He  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Thomas  Dobson, 
5th  of  5th,  1733.  He  had  son  John,  who  married  Hannah  Cor- 
nell, 9th  of  1st,  1765,  and  Mary,  wife  of Parsons.    She 

died  12th  of  4th,  1779. 

James  Burling,  who  died  before  1754,  had  wife  Elizabeth, 
and  children:  Sarah,  who  married  Caleb  Lawrence  (son  of 
Richard),  and  Edward,  who  married  Rebeekah,  daughter  of 
William  and  Martha  Van  Wyck,  12th  of  10th,  1757. 

Thomas  Burling  and  wife  Susanah  had  children:  Anne, 
born  1789;  and  Maria,  born  1791. 

Ebenezer  Burling,  of  East  CUiester,  died  1758.  He  left  wife 
and  children,  but  the  only  one  named  is  daughter  Hannah 
Vincent. 

Samuel  Burling,  of  New  York,  died  1757.    He  had  wife  Jane. 

Benjamin  Burling  of  Flushing,  son  of  William  (1),  in  his 
will  dated  September  1,  1747,  proved  October  12,  1747,  mentions 
children :  William,  Peter,  Lancaster,  Rebecca,  Seneca,  and  Anne. 
Lancaster  Burling  died  October  31,  1807,  aged  seventy-one. 

Edward  Burling,  of  East  Chester,  had  daughters  Rebecca, 
wife  of  Richard  Titus,  and  Phebe,  wife  of  Isaac  Hallock. 

John  Burling,  of  New  York,  son  of  John,  married  Hannah 
Cornell,  9th  of  1st,  1769. 

Thomas  Burling,  and  wife  Henrietta,  had  children:  Mary, 
born  9th  of  12th,  1783;  Joseph,  30th  of  8th,  1787;  Ann  and 
Thomas,  born  19tli  of  8th,  1791. 

Richard  Burling,  son  of  Edward,  married  Charity  Haviland, 
4th  of  12tli,  1776. 

Thomas  Burling,  of  New  York,  married  Sarah  Shotwell,  8th 
of  5th,  1771. 

Samuel  Burling,  of  New  York,  died  12th  of  lltb,  1757, 
"buried  in  Friends  burying  ground." 

James  Burling,  of  Flushing,  had  son  John,  1768. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         37y 

James  Burling,  of  New  York,  prol)ably  son  of  AVilliam  (1), 
died  8tli  of  1st,  1754. 

William  Burling,  of  Flushing,  had  children:  Hannah,  Sarah, 
Rebecca,  George,  AVilliani,  and  Elizabeth. 

James  Burling,  son  of  Edward  (2),  died  8th  of  1st,  1757. 
He  had  wife  Elizabeth,  and  children:  Sarah,  wife  of  Caleb 
Ijawrence,  and  Edward,  who  married  Deborah,  daughter  of 
William  and  Martha  Van  Wyek,  12th  of  10th  month  (December 
12),  1757. 

Edward  Burling,  the  ancestor  of  the  family,  came  to  New 
York  about  1()90.  On  ]May  2,  1695,  he  purchased  from  William 
Bickley  a  lot  of  land  on  Broadway,  a  little  north  of  what  is  now 
Liberty  street.  This  lot  extended  east  to  a  narrow  street  called 
Green  Lane  (now  Liberty  Place).  In  the  deed  he  is  mentioned 
as  "late  of  Hewletts  Island,  wheelwright."  On  the  rear  of  this 
lot,  and  fronting  "Green  Lane,"  he  with  one  or  two  others, 
erected  a  dwelling  house  in  1696.  This  was  used  as  the  Quaker 
meeting  house,  and  was  the  first  in  New  York. 

The  representative  of  one  of  the  branches  of  this  family  was 
Samuel  Burling,  who  lived  in  the  town  of  Harrison,  AYestchester 
county,  and  died  there  in  1821.  He  left  a  wife  Mary  and  chil- 
dren: Rebecca,  wife  of  Isaac  Barnes;  Hannah,  wife  of  Stephen 
Barnes;  Mary;  Phelie,  wife  of  Joshua  Sutton;  S.imuel,  Richard 
and  Benjamin  F. 

Of  these  children,  Benjamin  F.  Burling  was  born  8th  month, 
1st,  1787,  and  died  12th  mo.,  5th,  1850.  He  married  Hannah 
Hosier,  11th  mo.  20th,  1811.  She  was  born  4th  mo.  29th,  1791, 
and  died  3rd  mo.  17th,  1869.  Their  children  were:  Catherine 
IL,  wife  of  Isaac  Cari)enter;  Hilary  F.,  wife  of  Charles  Titus; 
Ann  L.,  wife  of  Stephen  Britt;  Susan  M.,  wife  of  Benjamin 
Weeks;  Rebecca  T.,  wife  of  Alfred  I^nderhill ;  William,  l)Orn  12th 
mo.  29th,  1824,  left  no  children;  Samuel,  born  4tli  mo.  1st,  1826; 


3s(»         GENEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  HISTORY 

John  C,  l.oni  :!i-d  luo.  4tli,  1829,  died  lltli  mo.  6tli,  1890,  no 
issue;  and  Hannah  F.,  wife  of  William  T.  Cock.  Of  this  family, 
Samuel  Burling  married  Phebe  G.  Haviland,  9th  mo.  15th,  1857. 
Their  children  were  William  Clinton  Burling,  born  March  21, 
18()1,  and  Alice  (lertrude,  wife  of  Edward  Fraser  Robinson. 

Samuel  Burling,  the  great-grandfather,  lived  in  the  town  of 
Harrison,  and  owned  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  eleven  acres  on 
the  west  side  of  Purchase  street,  and  it  was  here  that  his  son 
Benjamin  F.  Burling,  was  born,  and  upon  this  farm  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  was  passed.  The  latter  part  of  his  life  was 
|)assed  at  Upper  New  Koclielle. 

Samuel  Burling,  his  sou,  in  partnership  with  his  brother, 
John  C.  Burling,  established  a  wholesale  and  retail  grocery  busi- 
ness in  1849.  Their  place  of  business  was  the  corner  of  Gold 
and  Sands  streets,  Brooklyn.  Previous  to  this  Mr.  Samuel  Bur- 
ling had  been  connected  wnth  Hanfor  Lockwood.  In  business 
he  was  noted  for  his  exactness,  and  was  excessively  careful  in 
all  business  dealings.  His  efforts  were  successful,  and  he  made 
extensive  investments  in  real  estate.  He  remained  in  business 
until  1900,  when  they  both  retired  to  enjoy  the  results  of  their 
earliest  labors. 

William  Burling,  bis  brother,  who  lived  on  the  homestead 
at  Upper  New  Rochelle,  in  Westchester  county,  was  a  man  of 
great  integrity  and  universally  esteemed.  During  his  life  he 
was  fre(|uently  called  upon  to  arbitrate  differences  among  his 
neighbors,  and  his  opinions  were  very  jnstly  held  in  the  highest 
i-espect.  When  contined  in  his  last  sickness,  ministers  of  various 
denominations  called  upon  him  to  express  their  sympathy  and 
show  their  resi)ect.  He  died  as  he  had  lived,  a  useful  and  hon- 
ored man. 

William  Clinton  Burling  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  and  was 
educated  at  the  Adeli)hi  Academy.     At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         381 

began  business  as  a  clerk  with  Thomas  c^  Beuhain,  of  the  Xew 
York  Produce  Exchange.  In  this  capacity  he  remained  two 
years.  He  then  went  to  Europe,  and  while  in  Paris  he  made  the 
ac(|uaintance  of  the  lady  whom  he  afterwards  married.  She  was, 
like  himself,  a  resident  in  Brooklyn,  and  of  the  same  neighbor- 
hood, but  this  was  their  first  ac(]uaintance.  T^pon  his  return  from 
Europe  he  entered  into  partnershii)  with  Isaac  Adriance,  and 
conducted  a  dry  goods  establishment  on  Franklin  street,  Xew 
York.  The  partnersliip  was  ended  l)y  the  untimely  deatli  of  Mr. 
Adriance.  Upon  the  election  of  Mayor  Schieren.  in  1894,  Mr. 
Burling  accepted  a  i)Osition  in  the  De])artment  of  City  AVorks, 
and  remained  for  four  years.  Since  then  he  has  been  connected 
witli  the  real  estate  business,  and  his  office  on  Gold  street  is  near 
the  ])lace  where  his  father  began  business  in  his  early  years. 
Mr.  Burling  married  Lillie  T.,  daughter  of  -James  Raymond, 
February  22,  1887.  They  have  three  children:  William  Ray- 
mond, born  December  29,  1888;  Lillian  Aletta,  born  August  7, 
1894;  and  Alice  Gertrude,  born  June  11,  1896. 

CLIFFORD  ('()l)|)L\(rr()X  (JnoDWLX. 

The  (roodwin  family,  woi-thily  represented  in  the  present 
generation  by  Clifford  C.  Goodwin,  a  native  of  Xew  York  city, 
born  December  3,  I860,  is  directly  descended  from  the  Goodwins 
of  East  Anglia,  whose  names  a])])ear  in  the  records  of  X^orwich, 
England,  as  early  as  1238.  The  family  was  founded  in  America 
by  Ozias  Goodwin,  who  left  his  native  land  in  l(i3)2,  locating  first 
in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  from  whence  he  removed  to  Xewtown, 
now  Cambridge,  Afassachusetts,  the  same  year,  and  there  be- 
came one  of  the  leading  elders  and  a  representative  of  the  Gen- 
eral Coui't  in  1634.  Ozias  GoodAvin  an.d  his  l)rother,  William 
Goodwin.  acconij)anied  the  colony  that  removed  from  ^lassa- 
chusetts   to   Hartford,   Connecticut,   in   1635,  and   thev   became 


3S2         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

widely  known  and  highly  respected  for  the  business  acumen 
used  in  everyday  life,  and  the  public  spii'it  they  displayed  upon 
every  occasion.  They  were  followers  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers, 
a  body  of  worshipers  belonging  to  the  Church  of  England,  yet 
alienated  from  its  ritual,  who  determined  to  worship  God  and 
study  the  scriptures  according  to  their  understanding  thereof. 

The  line  of  descent  is  traced  through  Samuel  Goodwin,  great- 
grandson  of  Ozias  Goodwin,  born  168l2,  died  1712.  He  married 
Mary  Steele,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  James  and  Sarah  (Barn- 
ard) Steele,  of  Hartford.  Connecticut.  He  married  for  his 
second  wife  Laodamia  ]\rerrill,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Mary 
Merrill,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut.  The  issue  of  the  first  union 
was  Samuel  Goodwin,  1)orn  1710,  died  177(i;  he  was  a  resident  of 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  served  in  the  capacity  of  collector 
during  the  years  1737-45-17,  grand  juror  in  1743,  and  ensign  of 
the  military  company  in  1749. 

George  Goodwin,  great-grandfather  of  Clifford  C.  Goodwin, 
was  born  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  in  1757.  After  completing 
his  education  he  entered  the  office  of  Thomas  Green,  founder  of 
The  Connecticut  Courant,  and  so  faithfully  and  conscientiously 
were  his  duties  jierformed  that  in  the  year  1777  he  was  admitted 
to  a  partnershi])  in  the  business,  which  connection  continued  un- 
til his  retirement  from  active  pursuits  in  1825,  when  his  sons 
succeeded  him  in  the  business.  In  1779  he  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Mary  Edwards,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Alary  (Butler)  Ed- 
wards, of  Hartford,  Connecticut.  Their  deaths  occurred  re- 
spectively in  1844  and  1828. 

Oliver  Goodwin,  grandfather  of  Clifford  C.  Goodwin,  was 
born  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  1784.  He  was  a  prominent  and 
])ublic-siurited  citizen,  stood  high  in  the  couununity  in  which  he 
resided,  was  the  incumbent  of  several  public  offices  in  Litchfield, 
and  during  the  AVar  of  1812  served  as  ensign  in  the  company 


Jonathan   I.   Coddington. 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         385 

commanded  by  Captain  Samuel  Wangh.  He  was  granted  a  tract 
of  land  in  the  Western  Reserve,  Ohio.  Mr.  Goodwin  married,  in 
1818,  Clarissa  Leavitt,  daughter  of  David  and  Lucy  (Clark) 
Leavitt,  of  Bethlehem,  Connecticut.  Mr.  Goodwin  died  in  1855. 
Edward  Clark  Goodwin,  father  of  Clifford  C.  Goodwin,  was 
born  in  Litchtield,  Connecticut,  1825.  He  married  Matilda 
Eleanor  Coddington,  who  died  March  5,  1900.  She  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  Inslee  Coddington,  and  three  sons  were  the 
issue  of  this  union,  as  follows :  Edward  Leavitt,  born  1859,  died 
1878;  Clifford  Coddington,  born  1860,  mentioned  hereinafter; 
and  Henry  Leavitt,  born  1862,  married,  in  1889,  Mary  Bowditch 
Osborne.  Jonathan  Inslee  Coddington,  father  of  Mrs.  Goodwin, 
was  born  in  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey,  1784,  a  son  of  James  and 
Experience  (Inslee)  Coddington,  and  grandson  of  John  Cod- 
dington, of  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey,  where  his  death  occurred 
about  the  year  1758.  James  Coddington  was  born  in  Wood- 
bridge,  New  Jersey,  1754,  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  died 
in  1816.  His  wife.  Experience  (Inslee)  Coddington,  was  a 
daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Grace  (Moore)  Inslee.  Jonathan 
Inslee  Coddington  was  a  member  of  the  assembly  from  New 
York  city  in  1827,  postmaster  of  New  York  from  1886  to  1842,  a 
period  of  six  years,  and  a  presidential  elector  in  the  year  1844. 
His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  New  York  city  in  1856.  Among 
the  children  born  to  him  were  the  following:  Matilda  Eleanor, 
aforementioned  as  the  wife  of  Edward  Clark  Goodwin;  Colonel 
Clifford  (for  whom  Clift'ord  C.  Goodwin  was  named),  born  in 
New  York,  1841,  was  a  lawyer  and  broker,  a  member  of  the 
Seventh  Regiment,  an  active  participant  in  the  Civil  war,  and 
his  death  occurred  in  1892;  David  Smith,  born  1823,  was  an 
orator  of  note  and  fre(]uently  served  as  a  member  of  the  assembly 
from  New  York  city,  died  1865;  (lill)ert  Smith,  born  in  New  York 
city,  1835. 


3S6         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

Clifford  C.  Goodwin  was  a  student  at  Columbia  University, 
Washington,  D.  C,  from  which  institution  he  was  graduated. 
He  resides  at  No.  238  Fifth  avenue,  New  York,  in  the  home 
where  three  generations  of  his  family  have  been  born,  reared, 
lived  and  died.  His  summer  residence,  Edgewater,  is  located 
in  Barrytown-on-the-Hudson.  Mr.  Goodwin  is  a  prominent  mem- 
ber of  the  St.  Nicholas  and  New  York  Clubs.  He  has  recently 
established  in  Brooklyn  an  extensive  manufactory  of  drop  forg- 
ings,  at  which  a  very  large  amount  of  this  kind  of  work  is  done. 

Mr.  Jonathan  I.  Coddington  first  resided  in  1816  at  No.  62 
Beekman  street.  In  1820  he  moved  to  White  street,  where  most 
of  his  children  were  born.  In  1845  he  purchased  a  lot  and  erected 
a  mansion.  No.  238  Fifth  avenue.  The  price  of  the  lot  was 
$10,000.  The  mansion,  giving  way  to  trade,  was  torn  down  in 
1906. 

THOMAS  H.  BASKERVILLE. 

The  ancestor  of  the  family  whose  name  is  identified  with 
great  advancement  in  the  art  of  printing,  was  John  Baskerville, 
who  was  born  at  Wolverly,  Worcestershire,  England,  in  1706. 
In  his  earliest  years  he  develojied  great  skill  in  caligraphy  and 
cutting  in  stone,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  became  a  writing  mas- 
ter in  Birmingham.  In  that  city  he  had  excellent  opportunities 
of  observing  the  great  advancement  and  improvements  in  vari- 
ous manufactures,  and  he  applied  himself  to  the  art  of  japan- 
ning, which  he  cai-ried  on  with  great  success.  In  1750  he  di- 
rected his  attention  to  letter  founding,  with  the  best  results.  A 
few  years  later  he  began  the  business  of  printing,  which  made 
his  name  famous.  The  first  work  from  his  press  was  an  edition 
of  Virgil,  in  royal  quarto. 

The  University  of  Cambridge  granted  him  permission  to 
print  the  Bible  in  royal  folio,  and  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer 
in  three  diiferent  sizes.    For  this  privilege  he  paid  a  large  sum 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         3s7 

to  the  I'niversity.  lu  addition  to  this  he  printed  many  classical 
works  in  beciutiful  editions,  including  Horace,  Terrenee,  Catul- 
lus, Lucretius,  Juvenal,  Sallust,  and  Floras.  All  of  these  were 
in  royal  quai'to.  He  also  printed  V'irgil  and  others  in  small 
volumes.  In  a  word,  Baskerville  brought  printing  to  the  high- 
est degree  of  ])erfeetion,  and  his  volumes  are  eagerly  sought 
by  collectors.    He  died  in  July,  1775. 

Kichard  Baskerville,  a  descendant,  was  l)orn  in  Torcjuay, 
Devonshire,  al.)out  1800,  and  came  to  America  in  1840.  He  set- 
tled in  Brooklyn,  and  carried  on  the  business  of  manufacturing 
lishing  tackle,  in  which  he  was  very  skillful.  He  married  Han- 
nah Xunn,  and  their  only  child,  Paul  Baskerville,  was  born  in 
Dartmouth,  Devonshire.  England,  in  1829,  and  came  with  his 
parents  to  this  country.  His  principal  business  was  furnishing 
steamship  com])anies  with  breadstuffs  and  provisions,  and  iu 
this  enterprise  he  met  with  great  success.  He  married  Mary 
Joint,  of  a  Devonshire  family,  and  left  three  children  :  William, 
now  living  in  San  Francisco;  Ada,  wife  of  Thomas  De  Witt 
Scoble,  a  stock  broker,  now  living  in  Xew  Kochelle;  and  Thomas 
H.  Baskerville. 

Thomas  H.  Baskerville  was  born  at  Xo.  ll'o  Le  Koy  street, 
Xew  York,  starch  5,  1805.  In  his  early  years  he  attended  the 
public  school  in  Grove  street,  and  then  entered  the  College  of 
Xew  York.  His  course  in  this  institution  was  cut  short,  owing 
to  a  peculiar  circumstance.  One  afternoon  Professor  K.  Ogden 
Doremus,  the  famous  chemist,  was  demonstrating  a  certain 
experiment  in  tlie  art  of  which  he  was  so  profound  a  teacher. 
Young  Baskerville,  with  another  student,  resolved  to  repeat  the 
same  exjieriment  after  college  hours.  In  this  attempt  they  were 
like  the  small  boy  who  having  seen  a  magician  [)Ound  a  gold 
watch  to  pieces  in  a  mortar,  and  then  by  a  few  magic  passes  re- 
stored it  perfect,  tried  the  same  on  his  father's  watch  Avitli  the 


388         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

most  disastrous  results.  The  two  students  did  not  possess  the 
g'reat  knowledge  of  the  teacher;  either  something  was  lacking,  or 
something  was  superfluous,  the  result  lieing  an  explosion,  which 
not  only  came  near  terminating  the  earthly  career  of  the  experi- 
menters, but  destroyed  the  laboratory.  Such  an  episode  could 
not  be  overlooked,  and  young  Baskerville  was  promptly  ex- 
pelled, the  only  member  of  the  faculty  voting  for  his  i)ardon 
being  Professor  Doremus,  who  declared  that  he  was  the  only 
student  who  had  shown  intelligent  interest  in  the  subject.  Bas- 
kerville then  entered  the  Law  School  of  Columbia  University, 
and  graduated  in  the  class  of  1886.  losing  liis  father  by  death 
the  same  year.  He  at  once  became  connected  with  the  well 
known  law  firm  of  Bowers  &  Sands,  with  which  he  still  remains, 
having  charge  of  the  real  estate  department,  for  which  his 
extensive  information  on  tliat  subject  renders  him  especially 
fitted. 

Mr.  Baskerville  married,  in  1897,  Miss  Jessie  Bernd,  of 
Macon,  Georgia.  Their  present  home  is  the  marble  liouse 
erected  many  years  ago  by  Mr.  S.  Seaman,  and  sometimes  known 
as  "Seaman's  Folly,"  and  stands  on  the  old  Kingsbridge  road, 
between  214tli  and  21fith  streets,  wliere  their  desire  for  a  semi- 
rural  life  is  fully  gratified. 

GERAED  F A:\QLY. 

The  ancestors  of  this  distinguished  family  were  among  the 
multitude  compelled  to  flee  from  France  to  escape  religious  per- 
secution. They  found  a  ])lace  of  refuge  and  a  home  in  Scotland, 
wliere  Eobert  and  Elizabeth  Gerard  were  living  at  Mill  of  Car- 
nousie,  near  Banff,  in  1774.  and  at  that  place  their  son  William 
Gerard  was  born. 

In  early  manhood  he  was  a  resident  at  Giliraltar,  but  came 
to    America  before  1780  and  engaged  in  business.     The  year 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         391 

after  his  arrival  lie  married  Christina  Glass,  of  a  family  from 
Sntherlandshire.  Her  parents  were  John  Glass  and  his  wife, 
whose  family  name  was  Monroe.  Her  family  was  from  Ros- 
shire.  and  she  was  a  grandniece  of  Sir  Thomas  Hector  Monroe, 
governor  of  tlie  East  Indies,  and  a  favorite  niece  of  Dr.  Alex- 
ander A[onroe.  who  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  University 
of  Edinhnrgh.  Alexander  S.  (rhiss,  her  brother,  was  a  promi- 
nent New  York  merchant  in  the  early  part  of  the  nineteenth 
century.  Their  mother  came  to  this  country  as  a  widow  with 
a  family  of  young  cliildi'en  before  the  Revolution,  and  she  after- 
wai'd  married  Dr.  Alexander  McLean,  a  surgeon  in  the  British 
anny.  By  this  marriage  she  had  a  son.  Dr.  Hugh  Monroe 
McLean,  an  eminent  ])hysician. 

AVilliam  and  Chi-istina  Gerard  were  the  parents  of  seven 
children- -three  sons  and  four  daughters.  Of  the  daughters, 
Ann  married  Andrew  Hasil,  and  was  the  mother  of  ^Nlrs.  Schuy- 
ler Livingston.  Another  daughter,  Christina,  married  Dr.  Jere- 
miah I'isher.  a  surgeon  in  the  United  States  Army  in  1812. 

James  W.  (lerard.  the  ycnmgest  son,  was  born  in  1794.  En- 
tering college,  he  graduated  in  ISIU  In  1812  he  joined  a  com- 
I)any  organized  foi-  home  defence,  and  known  as  the  "  h'ou 
Greys."  After  the  war  he  entered  the  law  office  of  George  Grif- 
fins, who  was  one  of  the  foremost  lawyers  in  the  city.  In  181  (i 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  also  received  the  degree  of 
Master  of  Ai'ts  from  Columbia  College.  In  his  chosen  profes- 
sion he  achieved  distinction,  tie  took  a  dee]i  interest  in  all 
philanthropic  movements,  and  it  was  through  his  influence  that 
the  first  House  of  Refuge  was  established  in  Xew  York,  in  1825. 
He  wa^  also  among  the  first  to  advocate  a  uniformed  i)olice 
force,  and  did  much  to  jtromote  its  efficiency.  During  the  latter 
part  of  his  life  he  was  dev(.ted  to  the  cause  of  itopular  education, 
and  held  the  office  of  school  trustee  and  inspector,  and  made  the 


392         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

public  scliools  the  subject  of  assiduous  care.  His  useful  and 
active  life  ended  in  1S74,  and  by  his  death  the  city  and  state 
Jest  one  of  tlieir  most  useful  citizens. 

Mr.  Gerard  married  Eliza,  daughter  of  Hon.  Increase  Sum- 
ner, a  member  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  honored  of  the 
families  of  AJassachusetts.  Her  father  was  Governor  of  the 
State,  and  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  her  brother, 
General  "William  H.  Sumner,  was  aide-de-camp  to  Governor 
Strong  during  the  war  of  J 812.     Their  children  were: 

1.  A\'illiani  Sumner,  who  died  young. 

2.  Ida,  wJio  married  (first)  Frederick  Wiggin,  of  England, 
and  had  two  children:  Frederick,  who  is  now  a  practicing 
])hysician  in  Xew  York;  and  Catherine,  who  married  Hon. 
Charles  Laurence,  son  of  Lord  Laurence,  who  was  Viceroy  of 
India.  After  the  death  of  her  first  husband  Mrs.  Wiggin  mar- 
ried Sir  George-Buckley  Matthew,  of  the  British  diplomatic 
service. 

3.  Juliette  Ann,  married  Thomas  C.  T.  Buckly,  who  was  a 
law  partner  of  Mr.  Gerard.  Their  children  are  Mary  Ue  Kay, 
who  married  Lieutenant  AA'iliiam  Stark,  of  the  United  States 
Navy,  and  Julian  Gerard  Buckly,  of  Genesee,  New  York. 

4.  James  \\.  Gerard,  who  was  born  in  New  York,  and  was 
a  graduate  of  Columbia  College,  with  the  honors  of  valedic- 
torian, in  1843.  In  acknowledgment  of  his  literary  and  his- 
torical works  he  received  the  degree  of  LIj.  D.  in  1892.  In  the 
legal  profession  he  achieved  the  highest  rank,  and  was  recog- 
nized as  highest  authoritj'  on  the  law  of  real  estate  and  prop- 
erty. His  great  work,  "Titles  to  Keal  Estate  in  the  State  of 
New  York,"  is  a  standard  work  on  that  subject.  In  187G  he 
was  elected  State  Senator.  Much  of  his  time  was  devoted  to 
the  interests  of  tlie  schools,  and  he  was  one  of  the  Commission- 
ers of  Education.     His  great  historical  work.  "The  Peace  of 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         yy3 

Utrecht,"  is  a  masterly  account  of  the  conflict  l)eginning  in  ITlii, 
and  known  as  tlie  ''War  of  the  Spanisli  Succession."  lie  also 
delivered  many  lectnres  before  tlie  Xew  York  Historical  Society, 
of  which  he  is  an  honored  a)nl  us;'fnl  mi'nil)L*r,  u]>()n  vaiions 
liistorical  subjects,  and  several  of  these  were  jtrinted.  He  also 
wrote  for  "TIari'er's  iNTagazine"  a  very  carefully  i)rei)ared  and 
exhaustive  article  \\\)o\\  Anneke  .Jans,  and  tlie  claim  of  her  de- 
scendants to  the  projierty  of  Ih-inity  Cluircb. 

On  ()ctol)er  81,  1866,  Mr.  Gei-ard  mari'ied  AHss  Jenny  Angel, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Benjamin  Y.  Angel,  formerly  United  States 
Minister  to  S^^'eden.  Her  mother  was  .lulia  .lones,  daughter  of 
Ca];)tain  Horafio  Jones.  Their  children  are  James  Watson  Ger- 
ard. Sumner  Gerard  and  Julia  Munro  Gerard.  Mr.  Gerard 
died  1(S1)(),  leaving  to  liis  family  and  the  world  the  legacy  of 
an  nnsullied  re])utation,  and  his  works  will  ever  keep  his  mem- 
ory green.  Mrs.  Geiard,  who  survives,  is  a  vice-president  of 
the  Society  of  CVjlcnial  Dames,  a  jtosition  t,i  which  she  is  justly 
entitled  as  a  descendant  of  Elder  Willi:'m  i>rewster,  who  came 
over  in  tlie  "Mayflower." 

Gramercy  Park,  one  of  the  finest  residential  sections  of 
New  York,  was  founded  and  laid  out  by  Samuel  B.  Euggles  in 
]8?):2.  Among  the  first  ])ui'chasers  of  lots  was  Elihu  Townsend, 
"banker,"  vrho  on  March  25,  1844,  sold  to  James  W.  Gerard 
a  lot  thirty-three  feet  in  width,  being  a  jiart  of  lots  seventeen 
and  eighteen.  T'pon  this  lot  Mr.  Gerard  built  a  nuinsion  which 
is  said  to  have  been  the  third  brown  stone  front  erected  in  this 
city.  It  has  descended  to  his  family,  and  is  nt)w  their  residence. 
No.  17  Gramercy  Park.  Tt  is  characteristic  of  the  social  changes 
in  New  York  that  this  is  the  only  house  on  (Iramercy  I'ark  that 
is  to-chiy  owned  and  occupied  by  the  family  that  built  it. 

James  Watson  Gerard,  the  third  of  this  honored  name, 
was  born  August  28,  18()7.     His  earlv  eJucation  was  received  at 


3!t4         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

St.  Paul's  School,  Garden  City,  and  he  was  graduated  from 
Columbia  C*ollege  in  the  class  of  1890.  Entering  the  legal  i)ro- 
fession,  he  graduated  from  the  New  York  Law  School  in  the 
class  of  1892.  He  then  entered  the  h;w  office  of  Bowers  and 
Sands,  and  was  admitted  to  i)artnership  in  1899,  and  holds  an 
honored  ]>osition  among  the  members  of  the  New  York  bar. 
Jfe  is  a  member  of  the  Ihiion  University  and  New  York  Yacht 
Clubs.  In  the  Democratic  iiarty  he  has  been  for  some  years 
chairman  of  Tammany  Hall  (Vimpaign  C^ommittee. 

AVilliam  Gerard  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Marcus  Daly, 
June  11,  1901. 

FAMILY  OF  LYDIG. 

The  founder  of  the  American  family  of  this  name  was  Philip 
Lydig,  who  was  born  at  Schwab  Hall,  in  Germany,  1723.  He 
came  to  America  about  1750,  settling  first  in  Philadelphia,  where 
he  engaged  in  business  as  a  grain  merchant.  In  1760  he  re- 
moved to  New  York.  His  children  were:  Philip,  born  1745; 
Margaret;  Frans ;  and  two  daughters  whose  names  are  unknown. 

Philip  Lydig,  the  son,  came  to  New  York  in  1760,  and  was 
apprenticed  to  Peter  Grim,  a  leather  merchant  and  well  known 
citizen,  whose  daughter  he  married  in  1763.  Her  brother,  David 
Grim,  was  a  man  to  whose  knowledge  of  early  New  York  every 
historian  and  antiquarian  is  most  deeply  indebted. 

The  early  residence  of  Philip  Lydig  was  at  the  southeast 
corner  of  Perry  and  Gold  streets.  The  house  was  standing  until 
recent  times,  an  interesting  relic  of  the  past.  A  narrator  of 
the  events  of  the  past  describes  Mrs.  Lydig  as  "a  fair  faced, 
healthy,  handsome  old  lady,  with  her  plain  cap,  scrupulously 
neat  dress,  and  of  distinguished  manner,  sitting  in  the  summer 
afternoon  on  the  old  Dutch  stoop  in  front  of  her  house."  Her 
husband  was  one  of  the  leading  members  of  the  Lutheran  church, 
which  stood  in  "Skinners  street"  (now  a  part  of  Cliff  street). 


Col.    Philip    M.   Lydig 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  EAMILY  HISTORY         3!j7 

This  edifice  became  too  small  for  the  increasing  membership, 
and  in  1766  Mr.  Lydig,  with  Jacob  Grim,  jjurchased  lots  on  the 
corner  of  Frankfort  and  William  streets,  and  here  was  erected 
that  quaint  edifice  known  as  the  "Swani])  ('hurch, "  views  of 
which  are  given  in  most  histories  of  the  city.  During  the  Revo- 
lution this  church  was  attended  by  the  Hessian  soldiers,  and 
their  liberal  contributions  were  of  the  greatest  assistance  in 
maintaining  its  service.  Some  of  the  officers  of  the  Hessians 
who  died  in  the  city  were  buried  in  the  graveyard  attached  to 
the  church,  and  in  later  years  their  remains  were  discovered  as 
they  were  laid  to  rest,  "in  all  the  panojily  of  war."  When  the 
church  was  built  it  is  said  that  Mr.  Lydig,  its  principal  founder, 
went  to  Germany  and  was  successful  in  obtaining  pecuniary  as- 
sistance for  the  purpose. 

Mr.  Lydig  quietly  continued  his  business  during  the  war, 
and  supplied  the  British  army  with  bread,  and  accumulated  a 
substantial  fortune.  He  died  before  the  close  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  was  buried  in  the  church  which  he  founded.  His  widow 
survived  him  many  years.  Thev  were  the  parents  of  two  chil- 
dren, one  of  whom.  David  l^ydig,  was  in  later  years  one  of  the 
most  prominent  and  prosperous  citizens  of  New  York.  He  was 
very  truthfully  described  as  "a  man  of  good  education,  care- 
fully brought  up,  handsome  in  person,  of  good  sense  and  judg- 
ment, refined  and  courteous  in  manner."  He  was  a  leading- 
member  of  The  Club,  which  consisted  of  aljout  thirty  prominent 
citizens,  which  met  at  the  houses  of  the  members  in  succession. 
Among  the  portions  of  his  extended  estate  were  mills  situated 
at  Buttermilk  Falls.  This  ])ro])erty  he  sold  at  the  time  of  tiio 
completion  of  the  Erie  Canal,  as  he  foresaw  the  competition  of 
the  western  part  of  the  state,  and  by  this  he  saved  a  large 
amount.  In  New  York  he  was  a  director  of  the  ^lerchants' 
Bank,  which  was  incorporatctl  in  1805.    At  various  times  he  be- 


398         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

came  the  owner  of  many  pieces  of  real  estate.  At  the  beginning 
of  his  career  as  a  merchant  he  resided  at  No.  21  Peck  Slip,  living 
over  his  store,  as  was  the  custom  of  those  days.  From  thence 
he  removed  to  55  Beekman  street.  In  the  days  of  his  well  mer- 
ited prosperity  his  home  was  at  No.  225  Broadway,  being  the 
second  house  from  Barclay  street.  This  house  and  lot  he  pur- 
chased from  Jonathan  Fisk  in  1818.  The  price  was  $25,250. 
AVhen  John  Jacob  Astor  was  planning  to  erect  the  Astor  House, 
in  1831,  he  ]iurchased  the  house  and  lot  of  Mr.  Lydig  for  $32,500. 
Mr.  Lyd'g  then  ])urcliased  tlie  house  No.  34  Leight  street,  which 
was  then  an  aristocratic  neighborhood,  and  here  he  continued 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  The  newspapers  of  the  time  con- 
tained the  following  notice:  "Died,  on  Tuesday  morning.  May 
the  16,  1840,  in  the  76th  year  of  his  age,  David  Lydig,  an  old  and 
respectal)]e  merchant  of  this  city." 

We  cannot  better  conclude  this  sketch  than  by  giving  ex- 
tended extracts  from  the  diary  of  Philip  Hone,  the  "Gentleman 
Mayor"  of  New  York: 

"June  18,  1839.  I  went  out  yesterday  with  my  wife  and 
daughter  to  dine  with  my  old  friends,  the  Lydigs,  at  West  Farms, 
and  had  a  truly  delightful  day.  The  beautiful  grounds  on  Bronx 
river  are  in  fine  order,  and  such  a  profusion  of  roses  and  other 
flowers  I  have  scarcely  ever  seen.  We  had  an  excellent  dinner, 
Lydig 's  fine  old  wines,  and  abundance  of  delicious  strawl)erries, 
with  a  welcome  hearty  as  the  one  and  unstinted  as  the  other. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Livingston  with  some  of  their  family  were  of  the 
party.  Lydig  and  Suydam  (Mr.  Lydig's  father-in-law)  are  both 
in  indifferent  health,  and  the  latter  dreadfully  hipped  and  prone 
to  water  drinking.  But  our  gossiping  about  old  times,  the  good 
cheer  and  lovely  scenery  set  the  old  gentlemen  on  their  legs  for 
time  being,  and  both,  I  am  persuaded,  went  to  bed  much  better 
than  they  have  been  for  a  twelvemonth.  So  much  for  the  inno- 
cent enjo^anents  which  this  world,  bad  as  we  think  it,  affords. 

"June  16,  1840.  Another  link  is  broken  in  the  chain  of  so- 
cial relations.  Another  wai'ning  given  of  the  passing  away  of 
m^^  generation.     My  old  and  valued  friend,  David  Lydig,  died 


GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY         399 

this  morning  at  6  o'clock.  He  lias  been  in  bad  health  the  last 
two  years,  but  had  rallied  of  late,  and  appeared  to  be  gaining 
strength,  until  his  last  illness.  He  died  in  the  seventy-sixth  year 
of  his  age,  much  older  than  I,  but  an  intimate  friend  and  asso- 
ciate for  nearly  forty  years.  He  was  one  of  a  set  who,  although 
my  seniors,  were  very  intimate  companions  about  the  time  of 
my  entrance  into  society,  and  with  whom  I  continued  in  pleasant 
association  until  they  drifted  away  one  by  one,  and  now  I  am 
about  the  only  one  left.  How  many  good  dinners  I  have  eaten 
at  poor  Lydig's  expense,  and  how  many  hours  I  have  passed  in 
his  society.  He  was  a  just  man,  prudent  and  careful  in  the 
management  of  his  aifairs,  unexeeptionalile  in  his  deportment, 
with  some  old-fashioned  aristocratic  notions,  an  exceedingly 
good  liver,  fond  of  old  wine,  which,  liowever,  he  drank  in  mod- 
eration, but  less  prudent  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  other  pleasures 
of  the  table.  He  was,  in  short,  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school,  a 
race  which  is  nearly  extinct,  so,  as  the  old  ones  decay  and  die  olf , 
their  places  are  supplied  by  an  undergrowth  less  hardy,  majestic 
and  graceful." 

Mr.  Lydig  married  Catherine  Mesier,  a  member  of  one  of 
the  oldest  Dutch  families  of  New  York.  Their  only  son  was 
Philip  Mesier  Lydig,  who  in  1824  entered  into  i)artuership  with 
his  father  under  the  firm  name  of  David  Lydig  &  Son,  their 
place  of  business  being  at  160  South  street.  For  nearly  a  half 
century  he  was  connected  with  almost  everj^  bank  and  insurance 
company  in  the  city,  and  he  was  recognized  as  one  of  the  most 
prominent  business  men  of  his  time.  Among  the  various  pieces 
of  i3roperty  owned  bj^  Mr.  Lydig  were  the  famous  Lydig  Mills, 
on  the  Bronx  river.  In  1680  the  town  of  Westchester  granted 
to  William  Richardson  the  privilege  of  erecting  mills  at  this 
place.  They  afterwards  passed  into  the  hands  of  Everet  By- 
vanck,  and  were  known  for  long  years  as  "Byvanck's  Mills.'! 
His  widow  sold  them  to  William  Provoost  in  1711- — "three  grist 
mills  and  a  saw  mill."  He  sold  them  to  Stephen  De  Lancey,  and 
from  his  heirs  they  were  purchased  by  Philiji  M.  Lydig.  Through 
the  estate  of  Mr.  Lydig  the  Bronx  ran  for  nearly  a  mile,  and  it 


iuo         GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 

was  one  of  the  finest  country  residences  in  Westchester  county. 
This  tract  is  now  included  in  Bronx  Park  and  the  Zoological 
Gardens. 

Phili])  Mesier  Lydig,  the  only  son  of  David  Lydig,  married 
Katherine,  eldest  daughter  of  John  Suydam,  a  member  of  one 
of  the  oldest  Knickerbocker  families.  They  were  the  parents  of 
seven  children:  Philip,  of  whom  a  more  extended  notice  will  be 
given;  David,  who  married  Pauline  Heckscher,  and  is  now  living 
in  New  York;  Maria,  who  married  Judge  Charles  P.  Daly;  Mar- 
garet Jane,  wife  of  Carl  Otto;  has  three  children:  Philip, 
Kate  and  Emma,  wife  of  Henry  Hoyt  (who  is  now  living  at  Sag 
Harbor,  Long  Island,  having  inherited  the  estate  of  Hon. 
Charles  P.  Daly) ;  Katherine  Matilda  (who  married  Judge  John 
R.  Brady,  and  has  children :  May  M.,  wife  of  Albert  Stevens,  de- 
ceased, of  the  famous  family  of  Stevens  Point,  New  Jersey,  and 
Katherine,  who  married  Sidney  Harris,  and  has  one  child, 
Katherine  C.) ;  Rosalie,  wife  of  John  J.  Stajiles;  and  Florence, 
who  married  Frank  K.  Sturgis,  ex-president  of  the  New  York 
Stock  Exchange. 

Philip  Mesier  Lydig,  the  eldest  son  of  Philip  Mesier  and 
Catherine  (Suydam)  Lydig,  was  born  in  New  York  city,  1837. 
Graduating  from  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  1861,  he  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  his  profession,  but  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
war  changed  the  tenor  of  his  life.  Among  the  tirst  to  enlist  in 
the  service  of  his  country,  he  was  commissioned  captain  and 
aide-de-cam]i.  United  States  Volunteers,  Januarj^  9,  1862,  and 
served  on  the  statf  of  Brigadier-General  J.  G.  Parke,  command- 
ing the  Third  Brigade  in  Burnside's  expedition,  and  was  at- 
tached to  the  Third  Division,  De]>artment  of  North  Carolina. 
In  this  position  he  remained  till  July,  1862.  He  was  then  with 
the  Third  Division  of  the  Ninth  Army  Corps  of  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac  to  September  of  the  same  year,  and  was  with  General 


GEXEALOaiCAL  AX  I)  FAMILY  HISTORY         4ni 

Parke  on  the  staff  of  General  Burnside  from  Se])tenil)er  to 
November,  1862,  and  continned  nndei-  tlie  same  eounnauder  nntil 
March.  lS(i4.  On  ^fai-ch  l'^.  1S(i4,  lie  was  connnissioned  major 
and  assistant  adjntant  general,  I'nited  States  Vohmteei-s.  and 
served  on  the  staff  of  Genei-al  Bnrnside  to  Augnst,  lS(i4.  and 
on  the  staff'  of  General  Parke  to  Ai)ril,  IHt;.").  On  Angnst  1,  1S(;4. 
he  was  In-evetted  lientenant-colonel  of  Tnited  States  Volunteers 
"for  gallant  and  meritorions  services  in  the  battles  of  the 
Wilderness,  Spottsylvania  and  Bethesda  Chnreli,  and  during  the 
0])erations  before  Petersburg."  and  for  similar  services  before 
Fort  Sedgwick.  Vii'ginia,  he  was  brevetted  colonel  of  volun- 
teers, April  2,  1S65. 

His  record  during  the  war  is  a  long  and  honoral)le  list  of 
faithful  and  meritorious  services,  of  which  the  following  are 
most  conspicuous:  Burnside's  expedition  to  Hatteras  Inlet  and 
Roanoke  Island.  Xortli  Cai'olina,  January,  18()2;  cajiture  of 
Roanoke  Island,  February  7-8  (received  special  mention  for  gal- 
lantry) :  attack  on  Xewberne,  March  14  (again  mentioned  in  Gen- 
eral F^arke's  rejiorts);  atta<k  on  Camden.  April  11);  capture  of 
Fort  Macon.  Ai)ril  25;  Maryland  cam])aign.  September,  October; 
battles  of  South  ^^ountain,  Se]itenil)er  14;  Antietam,  Septem- 
ber l(i-17;  Fi-e(lericksburg,  December  11-15  (received  sjjecial 
mention  in  report  of  General  Bnrnside  for  courage  and  effi- 
ciency); Burnside's  second  cam)>aign.  January  20-24.  18()o; 
inovement  of  Xinth  Army  Corps  to  Kentucky.  March.  18()3; 
meinl)er  of  the  military  commission  to  try  Clement  C.  \"allandig- 
ham  for  treason.  May.  18(i:);  siege  of  Vicksburg,  June  17  to 
July  4;  siege  of  Jackson,  duly  li!-17;  l^ast  Tennessee  cam]>aigii. 
August  22  to  ( )('tober  17;  c;i])tnre  of  Cumberland  Gap.  Septem- 
ber 10;  Knoxville  camjiaign.  X'^ovember  4  to  December  21!.  In 
all  these  important  nu)vements  he  was  rei)eatedly  mentioned  for 
courage   and   efficiency.      Ra])idan.    Virginia.    May-June.    18()4; 

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402         GEXEALOGICAL  AXD  FAMILY  IIISTOEY 

battles  (if  the  AMIdcriiess,  May  .")-?;  Spottsylvaiiia,  May  8-11; 
S])ottsyl\-aiiia  Coiivt  House,  May  1:^-21;  Cold  Harlior,  June  1-2; 
Betliesda  Clmrch,  June  2-3 ;  siege  of  Petersburg,  June  16,  1864, 
to  April  2.  1865;  Fort  Stedman,  jNEarcli  25;  fall  of  Petersburg, 
April  2;  pursuit  of  l^ee  and  his  army.  April  3-9.  In  these  he 
was  ofte)i  mentioned  in  (?orps  re])orts  for  courage  and  faitliful 
service.  On  April  25,  1865,  he  resigned  from  the  army  and  was 
iioiiorahly  mustered  out  of  the  service.  Colonel  Lydig,  after  an 
honorable  and  useful  life,  died  in  NeAv  York.  1868. 

Colonel  F^hilij)  ]\resier  Lydi'^  married,  Octolier,  18(i5,  Paul- 
ine, daughter  of  Chailes  A.  :\U{\  (ieorgianna  Louisa  (Coster) 
Hcckshei'.     Their  ouIn'  i-iiijd  was 

IMnli]!  .Mesier  Lydig  (tlu-  third  of  the  name,  horn  on  the 
L>diu  estate  on  Bronx  river,  .Vugust  l(i,  LS()7.  He  entered 
Har>'ai(l  Lniv(>rsity.  graduating  in  LS8i).  Huring  the  war  with 
Spain  he  was  <'ommissioued  captain  1»y  I'resident  ^IcKinley,  ^iay 
17,  ISDr.  and  served  as  chief  connnissary,  artillery  brigade,  and 
as  chief  and  iturcha^ing  connnissarv  at  Honolulu,  Hawaii,  and 
was  sent,  heiore  his  resignation  took  effect,  to  France  to  make 
a  report,  for  which  he  received  the  thanks  of  the  War  Depart- 
ment.    He  resif^tied  July  1,  18f)!l. 

('aptaiu  Lydig  married,  l!)!t2,  Rita  de  Alliay  de  Acosta. 
daughter  of  Hicardo  de  Acosta  and  ^licaela  Hernandez  y  de 
Alba.  Her  father  is  a  well  known  merchant  of  Havana  and  Xew 
York,  and  ^Irs.  Lydig  is  a  descendant  of  the  de  Alba  family, 
famous  m  the  history  of  Spain. 


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